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In this auto-adventure-packed episode of To All The Cars I’ve Loved Before, hosts Christian and Doug welcome SpeedyCop (Jeff Bloch)—YouTube/TikTok sensation, retired cop, and master of turning junkyard cast-offs into rolling masterpieces. From his very first car, a 1967 Chevelle station wagon “family heirloom,” to his world-famous upside-down Camaro and amphibious helicopter race car, SpeedyCop shares the craftsmanship skills and creative spark behind each build.
Whether you’re into car restoration, classic cars, or simply love a good car story, you’ll be inspired by how an overactive imagination and a love for vintage lifestyle vehicles can transform rusting hulks into beloved cars that melt faces at every show.
What happens when creativity, mechanical genius, and a self-described "extreme case of ADHD" combine? You get Speedy Cop, the automotive artist turning junkyard scraps into viral sensations that literally stop traffic and "melt faces" across the globe.
In this captivating episode, we dive deep with Jeff Bloch, better known as SpeedyCop, who reveals the origins of his extraordinary talent for transforming discarded vehicles into jaw-dropping masterpieces. Jeff shares how his creative journey began with a family heirloom—a 1967 Chevelle station wagon with holes so large "you could literally reach inside the vehicle from outside and wave your hand around." From these humble beginnings fixing his grandmother's car with chicken wire and Bondo, Jeff developed a philosophy of "repurpose, recycle, and reuse" that would define his career.
The conversation takes us through Jeff's greatest hits: the world-famous upside-down Camaro that's still running 11 years after being built in three weeks in his driveway; the "Spirit of Lemons" street-legal airplane car made from an abandoned 1956 Cessna 310 that runs 12-second quarter miles; and the sideways Volkswagen camper that generated over 156 million views online. With each story, Jeff reveals the thinking process behind these seemingly impossible creations, giving listeners unprecedented insight into where creative ideas truly originate.
Perhaps most fascinating is Jeff's revelation that his extraordinary creativity comes without chemical enhancement—"I've never done drugs in my entire life"—but rather from what he calls a "God-given overactive imagination" coupled with his ADHD. Now retired after 27 years in law enforcement, Jeff's creative output is accelerating at his 20-acre mountaintop property in Tennessee, where he has "several lifetimes worth of projects" waiting to be built.
In this auto-adventure-packed episode of To All The Cars I’ve Loved Before, hosts Christian and Doug welcome SpeedyCop (Jeff Bloch)—YouTube/TikTok sensation, retired cop, and master of turning junkyard cast-offs into rolling masterpieces. From his very first car, a 1967 Chevelle station wagon “family heirloom,” to his world-famous upside-down Camaro and amphibious helicopter race car, SpeedyCop shares the craftsmanship skills and creative spark behind each build.
Jeff's favorite episode is "V12 Visions – Tom Yang’s Life Restoring Ferraris and Chasing Vintage Dreams" https://pod.link/1733902541/episode/fe508d92b0cc8ff001a8da00cba9286b
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Christian (00:06):
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(00:30):
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Doug (00:41):
You got it right.
Christian (00:43):
This is the first time for everything you have
found podcast, where every cartells a story, every machine has
a soul, every car has a culture.
I'm Christian at CarsLovecom myreal name no first, no last.
I'm kind of like Cher who's outwith a new book.
He's Doug at CarsLovecom.
Reach out to us, especially ifyou're an international listener
(01:05):
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We love to hear from our folksinternationally and that's one
part of the show that we want tocontinue to explore as we reach
out to different people viadifferent vectors.
So we are on Spotify, applePodcasts when else, partner?
Where else are we Get us?
Doug (01:26):
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youtube Music, youtube PodcastsUnbelievable.
Christian (01:33):
How do you get us?
You name it, we're on it.
How do you get us in all these?
Doug (01:36):
Do you just?
Christian (01:36):
kind of slide them a little.
Bitcoins breeze the palms.
Doug (01:39):
How do we do that?
How do we get there?
I can't reveal.
Christian (01:45):
Can't reveal.
Sorry, you might take my job ifI tell you no chance, no chance
, you might cut my salary.
Doug (01:49):
Let me say it, we are so well, we have a fantastic guest
today.
Christian (01:57):
Can't wait to introduce him and we're going to
revisit the theme for today.
Theme for today is where doideas come from?
Because today's guest is a bitof an engineer, artist,
performance artist.
He's a mashup of all thesedisciplines.
Really fun guy to talk to, atrue polymath, if there ever was
(02:20):
one.
But let's see a little bit morehousekeeping before we cue him
in.
Uh, do we want to talk about uhbeing ranked on that, on that
uh feed spot article?
Done anything more out of that?
I know we sort of we sort ofteased that at some point.
But getting a little traction,getting a will notice.
Doug (02:41):
Yep.
Yep Number 37 out of 90, Ibelieve.
SpeedyCop (02:46):
Out of 70.
Doug (02:47):
Even better 37 out of 70.
Right in the middle of that Topautomotive podcasts.
So thank you, Feedspot.
Christian (02:55):
Yeah, and thanks for the people who are writing
reviews for the podcast too.
That helps us out a lot, helpsspread the word and what else?
We talked about the link tree.
Again, the YouTube is beingstood up.
Doug is throwing snippets outthere.
He's really got it to kind of asuccinct, succinct, fine art of
teasing out the fun part andthe.
(03:21):
It's great the way the audiogoes and you see the words
beneath and it's a little lessthan a minute clip and we're
putting that on all of oursocial presences.
So you see us on Facebook.
Where else?
Instagram?
Definitely on YouTube, etcetera, et cetera.
Doug (03:35):
Yeah, you name it.
Yep, we're doing our wholedigital transformation, although
we started digital, so it'spretty easy.
Christian (03:43):
Yeah Well, as long as I don't turn into something
analog, we should be okay.
Here I am standing up anewsletter, I wrote it and got
it to Doug and it's sitting onthe editor's desk.
Please don't yank out the redpencil, but look for that in the
coming weeks.
Can't wait.
That's about all I got.
Do you have anything else inthe way?
A housekeeping partner can?
Doug (04:03):
we can can we dig in and yeah, no, I would just say um,
so for the newsletter we we needemails.
That's the plan to distributeit.
Um, you have several differentways.
You can send us an email right,send it to christian or myself
at lovecom or on our link treethere's's actually a um
(04:25):
subscribe button for email inthe upper right.
SpeedyCop (04:28):
So if you just want to subscribe to the list
directly.
Doug (04:32):
Go that way.
Um, really looking forward tothis.
I'm glad Christians jumping onthis, taking the ball and love
your feedback.
Christian (04:40):
Yeah, and if you really don't want to get it by
email, call me up.
I will print out the email,fold it up, put it in an
envelope and mail it to you.
We can also use carrier pigeonsif that's a little easier for
you.
But on to today's guest.
On to today's guest, doug.
You want to talk a little bitabout how he came into our orbit
(05:04):
, or how he fell, unfortunately,into our orbit.
Doug (05:06):
Sure, oh, it's not unfortunate for us, indeed,
maybe for him.
So we have Jeff Block, betterknown internet sensation YouTube
TikTok you name it as SpeedyCop and we found out about Jeff.
I'd seen some of his videos,especially the upside down
camaro that's been floatingaround for a while.
(05:28):
Uh, he goes back farther thanthat, but, um, we found out
about jeff and got connectedwith him through another good
friend of the show, andrewblackwood, who he himself, I
think um could probably take upsome room in, uh, in jeff's
garage and probably do somewelding for him and whatnot.
He's, he's on the creative sideas well.
SpeedyCop (05:49):
There he is.
Christian (05:51):
We'll introduce him.
For Christ's sake, jeff Niceand drumroll Jeff Block aka
Speedy Cop.
There he is.
How are you today?
SpeedyCop (05:59):
Good gentlemen, how are you?
Christian (06:00):
Excellent.
So happy that you're here.
So happy that you're here.
Thanks for having me.
So the weather's a littlebalmier than where Doug is,
which is much cooler than whereI am, but thank you for being in
a safe place.
He's got his posse of caninesthere with him.
He's got a great shirt thatsays I pulled me over, which
(06:24):
made me laugh out loud in reallife, which I love.
Today's theme Jeff, what do youthink?
Where do ideas come from?
How did they strike you?
When did they first tickle your?
SpeedyCop (06:37):
fancy.
How did it all start for you,Can we ask?
So that's one of the questionsI get asked the most Like I have
all these unusual vehicles thatI drive all over the country
and people always like what areyou on?
How can I get some of it?
You know what?
I mean, I've never done drugs inmy entire life.
People say, oh yeah, right, youdid this, that in high school,
never in my life Always beenkind of straight laced that way,
as I'm a Christian and I justhave never done drugs.
So I have all this creativity.
(06:57):
I don't know where it comesfrom, it's just God given.
But I have this reallyoveractive imagination.
So I can't look at thingswithout seeing how I could alter
them and make them more uniqueand personalize them and make
them more fun or what I think isfun.
And I can see mundane objectsand figure out ways to turn them
into something creative and funand cool.
And what I really like to do istake stuff that people are
(07:17):
casting off, that's beingscrapped and discarded, and
turning into something that likedrops jaws and melts faces and,
like you know, it's seen aroundthe world.
So I take it as a challenge.
Yeah.
Christian (07:27):
And that's really interesting.
Like my kids and I uh passed ajunkyard and I tried to uh been
a while since I've been in oneand I tried to explain to my
kids well, yeah, this is whereold cars go and they sit there
and then you can kind of minefor pieces.
They looked at me like I hadsix heads sitting on my shoulder
.
It makes no sense.
We're in such a throwawaysociety we don't fix anything
(07:49):
anymore.
A lot of times it's costprohibitive to do so.
So I think it's it's it's it'sI don't know.
I feel like it's this sort ofthrowback to the past to be able
to to find something new andsomething old.
SpeedyCop (08:02):
Right.
I always say repurpose, recycleand reuse.
We just take, cast off thingsand make them fun.
And you know most peoplewouldn't take a discarded
Vietnam attack helicopter thatwasn't just stripped for parts,
actually washed away in a flood,and make a race car out of it.
That was also amphibious andstreet legal.
But that's the kind of thing wedo.
Christian (08:20):
So where was the?
Doug (08:21):
talk.
Christian (08:21):
It takes a certain mind for that and determination
and before Doug gets going hereit's got to be a little wacko, I
guess Well yeah, I mean, andit's here, you put it out there,
jeff, for the whole world tosee speedy cop dot com.
You really want to read someinteresting stuff?
Go to speedy cop dot com.
Yes, there's Instagram, youtubeand all this good stuff.
But kind of kind of go back tothe source here.
(08:42):
And if you go to the home pagehere, at the end of the second
paragraph, at top of the page,it says a new speedy cop era has
begun.
Last sentence of the secondparagraph says my overactive
imagination has no shortage ofbad ideas and many new projects
are already in the works.
And I love that, because thecreative mind really never stops
(09:03):
.
It just kind of keeps going andgoing and success breeds
success.
So so I applaud you for seeingthe creative in the everyday and
having art match machinery.
I think it's beautiful.
SpeedyCop (09:16):
I'm sure my unmedicated extreme case of ADHD
has nothing to do with thiswhatsoever right.
Doug (09:21):
Well, but you do finish projects, so that's a good thing
I do Now.
Christian (09:25):
That's what makes him different from so many people.
Doug (09:28):
Including myself.
Christian (09:30):
Yeah, doug, that's such a good point.
So, jeff, has there anythingyou've left behind?
Is there anything you've got athird of the way or half the way
through and either you or yourteam kind of said I don't know
about this time, I don't knowthere are a lot of them.
SpeedyCop (09:44):
I'll get cars and I have an idea in mind for them.
I want to build something withthem, and then my plans change,
budget doesn't allow it orwhatever, and I'll get rid of
them, whatever, actually havingbuilt it.
And um, I'm seeing videos thelast few weeks of upside down
motorcycle which I had plannedout 11 years ago and didn't do
it.
And now my uh counterparts,carmageddon out in italy I think
, did one and it's gone stupid,viral and I'm like I should have
(10:06):
done it you know, next timeyou'll get there's no shortage
of bad ideas.
It's just time and money andnow'm retired, I have more time.
Still, finding the money hasbeen a challenge, but as I try
to grow my brand and stuff likethat, hopefully it will start
trickling in and I can do more.
I've got several lifetimesworth of projects here.
You guys ever come visit me inTennessee.
I'm right by the tail of thedragon in Maryville, tennessee,
and I've got a 20-acremountaintop.
(10:27):
It's absolutely beautiful.
It's private.
I've got a whole bunch ofproject cars and trucks here.
Like I said, a lifetime's worthof projects I may have to fend
the herd or bring in some help.
Doug (10:36):
Oh.
SpeedyCop (10:37):
I hear that Each and every one.
Christian (10:39):
So do you know what Cadillac Ranch is in Amarillo,
where all the Cadillacs arestuck in the ground.
Doug (10:44):
I just think that's like driving Exactly.
Christian (10:47):
Even better, driving up to your house would just be
like driving up to CadillacRanch.
So how does that work?
Is there a barn or a hangarover here where everything is?
Is there, just like everythingis in states of artistic work?
SpeedyCop (11:01):
So I've got what I call the field of dreams.
We just recently had ourdriveway paved and it's so steep
up our mountain that noteverybody could make it up, and
when I would have a trailer withcars on it, I couldn't always
make it have to get a neighborand a tractor and stuff and pull
it up.
So, um, we bit the bullet andsunk our life savings in asphalt
.
So now we've got a paveddriveway no life savings, but
that'll survive.
Um, we have a big, beautifulshop.
(11:23):
It's absolutely a dream garage,don't get me wrong.
We have a large mortgage to gowith it, but it's 60 by 100
steel building like a 21 footpiece in the center, so I have
lots of room, two post lifts anda four post lift there.
And of course the four post liftis an oversized one because the
weird stuff that I buildrequires that.
So it's extra long, extra wide,kind of 14 000 pound four post
(11:48):
lift, which is perfect to bendpack.
It's really nice.
Um, then I've got.
I call it the field of dreamsbecause right now it's literally
just a field that I cover withplastic because we had to get
all the cars off the gravelareas that were going to get
paid.
So right now they're stillsitting on this plastic in this
field and it's raining right nowso I can't pull them back off
it just yet.
But there are two airplanefuselages for future builds.
One's going to be a limousine,one's going to be basically a
drag-and-drive car.
It's another 310, like theCessna I drive now, except it's
going to be a lot faster and theone I drive now is no joke.
(12:09):
But this is going to be like asingle-digit drag-and-drive
street car.
Christian (12:13):
Where do you get the airplane fuselage?
Where do the airplane holescome from?
Facebook?
SpeedyCop (12:18):
Marketplace.
They pop up periodically andyou have to go and get them.
One of them was in Ohio and Ithink one was in Kentucky, but
both of them were a good driveaway.
And I just met a guy a coupleof days ago on a brand new
Ferrari the tail of the dragonthat said I used to own Atlanta
air salvage or whatever, andhe's got this huge fleet of like
Learjets and stuff.
I'm like, dude, I'm going toupgrade, I'm not going to use my
(12:48):
the chassis for that limoproject because I want it to be
a licensed limousine.
You know, I want to actuallymake it a commercial limousine.
So yeah, and that's been donebefore, but I want to do it my
way.
You know what I mean.
Christian (12:52):
I love it.
Well, doug, I'm speechless.
You're gonna have to take overfor a little while my mind just
bent, yeah, no, uh, did it ditto.
Doug (12:59):
I'm loving the, uh, loving the garage, the shop, yeah.
So if we go back just a littlebit, jeff, well, way back, you
were telling us in the pre-showabout your first car and what we
didn't talk about, and maybeI'll let you talk about your
first car and then I'll get intothe if you modified that or
(13:23):
where the modifications start onwhat car.
But tell us about your firstcar, how you got it, what you
remember about it.
I think it was really a familyheirloom, so to speak.
SpeedyCop (13:34):
Heirloom is a strong word for the shape that car was
in when I got it.
It was a 1967 Chevelle stationwagon.
I had no idea in high school inthe late 80s, early 90s that I
had a unicorn, because a Sevillewagon from 67 is truly a
unicorn.
You just don't see themanywhere.
And my grandmother bought itbrand new on the showroom floor
in 1967.
Three on the tree, manualtransmission, straight six I
(13:55):
think it was a 230 straight six,and she drove it off that
showroom floor.
My mom learned to drive on it,my older sister learned to drive
on it and then I my mom learnedto drive on it, my older sister
learned to drive on it and thenI was the second oldest of the
nine kids that my parents hadand I learned to drive on it.
By the time I got this car, wewere in upstate new york.
Road salt had done a job on it.
Uh, my dad didn't really washcars so road salt would eat them
up and he'd get another one.
Well, this being an heirloomstill running and driving, it
(14:17):
had holes so large you couldliterally reach inside the
vehicle from outside and waveyour hand around.
Because this, it was just gone.
So he said you can have thiscar.
It's still running and driving.
It just looks terrible.
So I put it in the barn and forfour months this is my first
automotive project I took bondoand chicken wire and did what I
had to do and covered up thosebig holes, spraddle, canned it,
you know, and it looked muchbetter than it had before but it
(14:40):
turns out you know, at that,timeons being very uncool, women
didn't want to ride nothing.
Girls in school thought it wasjust awful.
They had no desire to go on adate in that car.
I wish I still had that car.
You know how it is with yourfirst car and you get rid of it
and you wish you kept it.
And some smart people will keeptheir first car, but I'm not
that person.
Apparently, when I sold it, theengine had just died and it was
(15:10):
high mileage and rotten and inrough shape and I think it got
scrapped.
I don't really recall becausethat was a long, long time ago.
Um, but that was a fun car.
I had painted it at first blueand then red with black stripes
like racing stripes and, uh, itwas a turn.
You know, any car you couldspin the tires out the parking
lot with was all right.
So, yeah, round it up enoughand drop the, drop the clutch,
it would spin.
Yeah, and it was certainly nota ball of fire, certainly not a
race car, but it was adequatefor you know at the time.
(15:30):
Yeah, yep, good and goodmemories and um, so that it had
to be like, uh, late 80s whenyou got it, so it would have
been late 80s, right and I spent, like I said, a good four
months just filling the holesand stuff in that barn and just
trying to remodel the interior alittle bit and things like that
.
Doug (15:48):
So that means oh.
I'm sorry.
Christian (15:50):
I was just going to say that that means that for a
couple of decades this thing wason the road and drivable, and
that's pretty neat, that'spretty neat neat.
SpeedyCop (16:07):
That's pretty neat.
It was probably 91 when itfinally died.
Uh, completely so.
And then my grandmother helpedme buy a four-cylinder mustang
coupe and I loved that car.
That got me a good bit of theway into college I would say
through college.
But I changed cars like Ichanged clothes.
Doug (16:15):
So good deal yeah, no, um and um.
Go and maybe step in a littlefarther back.
Growing up were you alwaysbuilding things, whether wood,
metal.
SpeedyCop (16:31):
I absolutely did.
I always had that creative bentand that desire to kind of
engineer.
Now my grandfathers were bothgrandfather on that side was an
electrical engineer.
He retired from RCA Televisionsbut he worked for no, sorry, he
worked.
My other grandfather worked forMobile Oil.
He actually worked on theMinuteman space missiles.
(16:53):
So he was in the Navy, worldWar II and all, and he worked on
the Minuteman space missileprogram, which is really cool,
and they were both brilliant andI don't know what happened to
me, but I still have that.
Christian (17:08):
You're telling me you're descended from rocket
scientists.
Okay, fantastic, we're seeing.
We're seeing a little where itall comes from.
SpeedyCop (17:12):
But please continue.
This is fantastic, yeah, so, um, when I was little and I want
to say I was only like five myuncle was a classic car
collector and he was of themindset that it had to be 100
original.
Um, that's the only way hewould accept a classic car.
Any kind of alteration was justwrong.
You had to keep it as perfectlyoriginal as possible, um and he
never understood the things thatI do with the cars because it's
so different, but I just liketo, you know, personalize this
(17:34):
to the absolute max.
At any rate, he took me for aride in his model a rumble seat
roadster when I was like fiveyears old and I was hooked on
cars at that moment.
Now, my dad wasn't a gearheadof any kind, he didn't really
change his own oil, um.
So it's not like I grew uparound it, but I would visit my
uncle from time to time and wewould do parades and things and
he had all these cool antiquecars that I just loved.
So this model a rumble seatthat's the car where the trunk
(17:55):
opens up backwards and it's aseat a rumble seat.
Christian (17:59):
I've never seen a rumble seat.
SpeedyCop (18:00):
They called it the mother-in-law seat back then
because you'd put her back thereoutside the car.
So that car got me hooked oncars and he had a really cool
collection.
I actually have a few of hiscars now that my aunt graciously
gave to me after he passed, andamongst them I've got my
post-zombie apocalypse car.
It's a diesel Mercedes 200D.
(18:22):
Zombie apocalypse car it's adiesel mercedes 200d.
It's completely gutless, zeroto 60 in like two weeks.
But it'll run on vegetable oilor waste motor oil, you know,
after an emp or anything else.
So that's my you know you can'tkill it kind of car.
And then, uh, I've got a few ofhis other ones, including a 36
packard which is an absolutelygorgeous whoa.
It's to be restored but it's anoriginal survivor and I would
never dream of altering his cars.
He he would never want that.
(18:43):
He was very clear about it.
It's going to be pristine oncewe finish restoring it.
We've just started on it.
But beautiful old car with dualside mounts where you have the
spare tires on both fenders,looks like a Bonnie and Clyde.
Doug (18:56):
Yeah, that's what I was picturing.
Christian (18:59):
That's not out in the field, is it?
Is that in your?
SpeedyCop (19:02):
garage tucked away.
No, that's indoors.
No, I wouldn't dare Gotcha.
Doug (19:10):
So it's a true survivor too, especially coming out of
New Jersey where he lived.
South Jersey, Excellent,excellent.
Those are great stories goingall the way back to age five.
So you ended up scrapping, Ithink you told us and there's
some irony there right, youscrapped your grandmother's car
and now you buy scrapped carsand other scrapped vehicles.
SpeedyCop (19:33):
Right, sometimes we'll buy actually from the
junkyard and sometimes I'll buyfrom people who are selling them
for scrap just as project cars.
I can kind of look at anythingand see the potential in it for
something weird and different,because that's what I like.
I was at the junkyard one dayand somebody had dumped a pop-up
camper out in front of it.
That was in horrible shape, butthey just abandoned it there in
front of the place and I saidto the guys what do you want for
(19:54):
the pop-up camper?
He said, well, it's junk, butwe knock the body off of it and
we sell the frames for utilitytrailers.
We the frames for utilitytrailers.
We get like $150 for the frames.
I said, well, what I have inmind, I don't need the frame.
What if I just give you theframe back?
He said take it, just bring theframe back when you're done.
Okay, we made that a race car.
We raced it on the NASCAR trackin New Hampshire and you have
never seen faces melt like thoseNASCAR flaggers.
(20:20):
They had no idea there's 100cars.
Come on the track, startcirculating, waiting for the
green to drop, so you have afull course.
Caution.
You know 100 cars circulating.
All of a sudden the green dropsand everybody just goes.
And I pull on track in thispop-up camper.
Doug (20:31):
It looks like a pop-up camper and you only saw the two
side wheels that I had put on.
SpeedyCop (20:35):
Um, you know, just like a regular camper with a, I
had made a breakaway hitch outof like flimsy aluminum.
You could have broken it off byhand because I don't want to
spear somebody's gas tank withyou know back tongue of a
trailer.
But it looked the part itreally did and their faces
melted, their jaws dropped,their eyes popped, the flags
fell down and the next laparound, everyone had their
phones out like waving andthumbs up and all that.
It was just.
I love seeing a good face meltreaction like that.
(20:56):
We strive for that with each ofour builds and, uh, that was
one of the better ones.
You know, just just a free freecamper in the junkyard.
Go, melt some faces.
Doug (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, you don't see that every day, or
or ever.
SpeedyCop (21:09):
Right, no, that's funny Like creative.
You've got a farm truck in Asia.
Asia's a friend of mine, theguys from Street Outlaws and
they did a camper car a coupleof years ago and people tagging
me in and saying you should dothat.
Doug (21:24):
I did that in 2011 or 2012 .
SpeedyCop (21:26):
He blazed the trail down the road following my
friend's truck and then he wentstraight and I turned right in
the camper and we just werebeing silly with it.
Doug (21:32):
But we had some fun yeah, what was the uh camper mounted
to?
What was the frame chassis?
SpeedyCop (21:38):
so it was on a suzuki x90 and we had a guest driver
for that race.
He was a ride and drive, so theyhelped us pay the bills they
pay a fee and race the car withus and helps us cover our costs.
But he was trying to win therace in this pop-up camper and
we were out there just to dokind of like exhibition race,
where you're not winding it to7,000 RPMs and floating the
(22:00):
valves and so it burned a holein the in the head itself and
popped the head gasket and wespent the night fixing it,
cobbling it back together enoughto get back out there the next
day and, uh, it died.
I think we had to get pushedacross the finish line.
The whole place was cheering umit was kind of the crowd
favorite for the weekend, youknow but a little ccp x90.
They were pretty gutless and wetook that car and later raced it
(22:21):
.
Um, we put a miata engine in itlike a 180 and we raced it with
, uh, numerous themes, includingwe did a titanic, um, an
iceberg theme where the icebergand a bmw was a titanic and we
had the four big stacks.
You know, on the bmw for thesmoke stacks we had to even put
a little deck railing on thehood.
We had little like string andtoo good, we drilled into the
(22:42):
hood and we went all out with itand then the iceberg chased the
titanic around the track thatrace weekend.
We had fun with it.
So that thing wound up gettingre-bodied as a hot dog stand and
we raced it to raise money fora dog rescue right in new jersey
and raised a bunch of money fordog rescue by giving away hot
dogs all weekend takingdonations.
But that freaking hot dog standbeat two-thirds of the cars in
race because it rained so hard.
(23:03):
We got traction when theydidn't, so it finished like top
third.
It never should have happened.
You know, a little gutless X90carrying a building around was
beating all the 944s and E36s.
Doug (23:14):
Yeah, all that extra weight, that's funny.
So you actually answered one ofmy questions, which was is a
car ever done?
When do you take that car andsay this is perfect.
And maybe it's the Camaro,because I don't think the Camaro
has changed too much, but Icould be wrong weeks in 2013,
(23:45):
that summer in my driveway and Isprayed it in my yard.
I'm still driving it 11 yearslater which is absolutely insane
.
SpeedyCop (23:47):
I never dreamed it would last much more than the
race weekend if we were lucky.
And here it is.
I mean, it's a world famous car.
Jay leno drove me around in itfor his show in san francisco.
Yeah, it's been all over theplace.
I actually drove it crosscross-country.
I took it to sima a year agoand then from like the san franc
area and then drove it back toTennessee and had a blast.
It was a cold ride, no roof,but I had a great time.
(24:08):
It's just a fantasticexperience.
And you were talking aboutCadillac Ranch there in Amarillo
.
I pulled up in the upside downCamaro and there was an employee
there.
Of course, they have the gatesclosed and locked and everything
, because you park out in thestreet and then you walk in and
I said any chance we can putthis car in there by those
Cadillacs and take pictures.
And the employee said absolutely, unlock the gate, open it.
And I drove all the way andparked next to the Cadillacs and
(24:28):
of course all the othervisitors freaked out and there
were people climbing inside theCamaro and stuff and taking
photos.
It was a good time beautiful,beautiful, yeah but yeah, to
your point um, the cars havenever actually done and that
poor camaro being sprayed in theyard 11 years ago, it looks
rough.
I mean it needs a good paintstuff.
So I actually bought the paint.
I haven't painted it yet.
But I only see the flaws when Ilook at my cars.
(24:51):
Other people just see theoverall usually and just say,
okay, that's pretty cool.
Um, I see what I haven't doneyet that I intend to do and
that's part of the ADHD I guessyou know he's an artist to be
done.
Yeah, yeah.
So I still want to correct alot of things on that car and on
every other car that I've builtand, um, you know, it's kind of
a shame because that's what Isee when I look at them.
I see the flaws, the things Ihaven't guess, but yeah, they're
(25:11):
never really done.
Gotcha, gotcha.
Doug (25:21):
And I know we were talking about a lot of plans that you
have, but the Volkswagen bus andcamper right, and maybe that'll
beg the next question.
I'm always jumping ahead.
What do you think your mostpopular build has been?
Is it I?
I would guess it's the trippyhippie camper.
SpeedyCop (25:43):
But we're boss hippie hippie van is a sideways 76
Volkswagen camper mounted on an88 rabbit um, both of them low
buck.
The camper shell was 600sitting in the field and the
rabbit underneath was a 500 car.
That was already a caged racecar.
Was just really ragged out.
Um that.
One's been stupid viral.
One of the videos I put up onfacebook with that got like 156
(26:03):
million views and it's just wow,just organically, which is
insane, right?
um, that's been really popular alot.
I think the most iconic one, uh, it's got to be my airplane car
, the spirit of lemons.
Um, I've been driving it sinceearly 2013.
It's street legal.
I've driven it all over the us.
It's been in countlessmagazines, tv shows and things
like that.
Um, it's, it's kind of one ofthose builds that, um, I don't
(26:27):
know, it just gets.
It keeps on giving.
I drive it everywhere to thisday.
I just had it in florida acouple weeks ago doing a burnout
competition at the freedomfactory in bradenton and it was
melting faces, like it's donefor almost 12 years, like that's
kind of.
You know, it's sitting on an 87toyota van chassis and people
say why?
I say because a race car andlike, wait what?
Since the van had a mid-enginerear drive layout.
(26:48):
It had torsion bars in thefront, stennis truck towers
because they would be too widefor that narrow fuselage.
It had a narrow track and shortbase, so it checked every one
of my boxes.
So I went looking for an 80stoyota van to use as a basis for
this race car with a plane thatI wanted to build.
I knew in my head before Ifound the fuselage, what I
wanted to build, I looked once.
I looked all over the countryand I was willing to go from
maryland, where I lived at thetime, to nevada, to a boneyard
(27:09):
if I had to, to get a nicefuselage.
I couldn't find anythingaffordable.
Um, a single engine, wrecked,cessna, missing the front,
cowling, and I was bringing 10grand.
And I mean, I don't have deeppockets, I use whatever scrap I
can find to make stuff coolbecause we do whatever it means.
So I went to a local airfieldjust to ask and the guy said
I've got two old planes out backbehind the hangar.
(27:29):
Do you want to see them?
I said sure.
And the first one was the samestory.
It was no front engine, nocowling, anything.
And the second one was a 56Cessna 310, missing the engines,
missing the fuel tanks and thetail and everything, and it was
in rough shape.
It had been abandoned for 40years.
But it was perfect sleek,streamlined fuselage, exactly
what I was looking for.
So that's the one I bought andit was $2,000, which for me was
a lot, but it came with theinstruments which are really
(27:54):
worth more than the $2,000 Ipaid for the whole thing.
And it had the wings stillstill on it.
They just weren't in greatshape.
So I have basically 16 inchwinglets on it now that act as
front fenders and they also actas a step to get inside that
thing.
It runs a 12 second quartermile.
I've got a mustang ecoboost andnow a four cylinder um 2.3
liter ecoboost making about 330horsepower.
It weighs just under 2700 pounds, all the weights on the front
(28:16):
wheels.
I'm going to try to redesignsome things because I want to
move weight rearward, because Ihave to baby it off the line on
the quarter mile.
But to run a high 12 secondquarter mile on street tires in
an airplane sitting on a Toyotavan chassis is not too shabby
and it's a really fun street car.
Doug (28:29):
It's an accomplishment.
SpeedyCop (28:31):
Yeah, I take it down the tail of the dragon here in
Tennessee and people havetrouble keeping up with it.
You know, and I'm neveranywhere near the limit.
It's just always, like you know, well in control and you'll see
motorcycle guys griping online.
I don't want a damn airplane inmy way.
When it comes to the dragon onmy crotch rocket, they have
trouble keeping up.
Well, I used to pull offs andI'll pull off to let them go by
me.
Every single time they pull offwith me and they get out, they
(28:52):
walk up and they want to takepictures and talk about it and
stuff like that.
So kind of pointless.
They'll use the pull-offs whenthey all pull off with you.
But that thing, it really isthe gift that keeps on giving.
It's just been so much fun.
It's a parade on wheelseverywhere I go.
You get like you know I loveyour spaceship and things like
that when you drive around in itand it actually gets a really
good fuel economy, like 25 or 30on trips too shabby for an old
(29:15):
cessna that was getting scrappedyeah, well, it's very
streamlined, it is very dynamicvery aerodynamic extremely
Christian (29:24):
do you keep everything that you've done?
Do you everything that you'veever done?
Is it sitting in your?
Is it sitting in your garage?
SpeedyCop (29:33):
I so wish it was.
There's a bunch of them I'vegotten rid of over the years.
Um, I've lost a few on theracetrack, because that's part
of the risk when you're racingcars you know, yep I was
thinking that some of them Iused to for a while there I
would sell one to pay for thenext one and I've actually made
it to get.
Um.
I've got the jurassic parkexplorer back and I bought the
camaro back.
I sold the upside on camaro tomy friend that owns the lemon
series, jay lamb, and he uh, hehad kind of loaned it out to
(29:54):
everybody and their mother theywanted to use in the west coast
and it went to different showsand things in different hands.
But he was still the owner andum, we had.
We had made a deal when I soldit to him that I'd have the
first right.
I refused to buy it back so Ihounded it for years and he
finally sold it back to me.
So it's back in my stable andthat's one of those cars that I
had regretted really badlyselling after I sold it.
Um, I still want to get mywagon queen family truckster
(30:15):
from vacation back.
That was a really fun race car.
We cut the cage out, sold to afellow in new york city and um,
hopefully he'll um work me up adeal and let me get it back in
my fleet here, because thosewere a couple of the iconic cars
that I really missed, you knowyou remember the vacation.
The green ugly station wagonyeah, thank you, family
truckster yeah.
(30:36):
So we had the vintage luggage onebay back in 2014 was like 10
bucks, five bucks a piece.
Nobody once finished samsonite.
So we had everything on theroof looked just like the movie
car.
We had the dead head remembershe dies and they tie her on the
roof in the movie on the roof.
So we go to south carolinacarolina motorsports park and we
raced it for 16 hours allweekend from maryland to south
carolina race all weekend backto m.
(30:56):
Nothing moved.
She was up there the whole time.
It was a really fun car Justhideous but so ugly.
It's cool, just brilliant,iconic.
Everybody knows that car, eventhe young kids, because the
remake had that car in it.
Doug (31:10):
That's right.
That's right it did.
Christian (31:13):
They kept making those movies every few years,
and now they just play them insequence.
They're in syndications,especially around there.
Doug (31:22):
And they're still funny.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And speaking of movies, sorryto interrupt you, christian, do
it.
I did want to hit Jeff's dreamcar, which he has already.
It's in the works.
Right, it's partially there.
Tell us about Eleanor.
SpeedyCop (31:40):
So Eleanor is a 67 Mustang Fastback.
The movie gone at 60 seconds.
Now this is not an actual moviecar because I could never
afford that, but this car hasone of the 500 kits that Cinema
Vehicle Services, who made themovie cars, actually produced.
So the movie came out.
The cars were hugely popular.
All of us said, oh, I want thatcar so bad and Cinema Veh bad.
And cinema vehicles said, okay,we'll make body kits and we'll
(32:00):
sell them.
So they made 500 body kits,each one serialized, so if you
got authenticity and stuff camewith it.
So I have one of those 500 kitson this car.
So it's closer to an eleanorthan most, right?
Um, and it's a true fastbackmustang.
I got out of rochester new yorkback in wow 2004.
So I've owned that car for 20years.
That's the longest I've ownedany car.
Like I said, I changed carslike I changed clothes, but I
(32:22):
was smart enough to hang on tothat one.
I need to finish it.
The body kit's on and the caris painted.
There's a few flaws we'll haveto fix, but it's painted.
I need to do the interior, butI really want to do like road
trips and also I want to put acin it and everything, and I want
(32:42):
to be able to set the cruise at75 and drive to florida if I
feel like it.
You know what I mean.
So, yep, money's not there tofinish it.
The car just sits and waits.
It's indoors, it's insured,it's killing my friends because
they have.
They know I have a dream carjust sitting there but it's not
going anywhere?
Doug (32:55):
yep, we're doing it.
It's on the list, all right.
Christian (33:00):
So as we wind down here and guide the podcast
gently to the off-ramp here,Jeff, I have a couple last
questions for you.
The speedy cop name can youchat about that for a minute?
SpeedyCop (33:12):
Sure, so I spent 27 years as a cop.
I just retired a year ago.
I talk really fast.
Obviously I used to run reallyfast.
I can't say I do anymore.
I've got metal in both legs butI used to be able to catch
suspects that were known foralways getting away because they
were very fast on their feet.
I even ran down a track starone time in a neighborhood in
Hammond, louisiana, where Iworked, and I had never had this
happen before.
(33:32):
But as I brought him back inhandcuffs, I ran him down and
tackled him and the people wereon their porches and they were
just ragging on this poor youngman.
Like you're supposed to be atrack star.
You let that white boy catchyou.
What's wrong with you, man?
What's wrong with you?
And they were actually clappingand stuff like that, which was
pretty funny.
Um well, yeah, talk, run anddrive fast.
I've held my own with some ofthe best.
I've actually beaten a fewreally notables um on the
(33:55):
racetrack itself and I've got afew overall wins in different
series both 20 parts of lemonsand lucky dog and a couple of
national championships.
But bear in mind, those aremore volume than they are driver
skill.
So you enter enough cars andenough races, you can win those
national championships andlemons.
But we, I like to have funbehind the wheel and you know,
like I said, talk, run and drivefast.
(34:15):
That's where speed cop comesfrom.
Christian (34:25):
I dig it.
Thank you for that Lastquestion.
Uh, retirement you mentioned,so are we going to see the the
shop?
Pop these things out faster.
You're going to take a break.
What's what's in the?
SpeedyCop (34:29):
future for you.
What are these take a breakwords you're using?
I never heard them before.
Doug (34:35):
There's your answer Eight days a week.
SpeedyCop (34:38):
Yeah, I have a lot of vehicles in the works here.
Time and money has always beenthe constraint, so now I have
more time being retired themoney we're still working on
that.
It's difficult to do things ona meager budget, but we're
making it happen as my stuff, asmy brand and stuff grows.
Hopefully I'll have more incomeand more ability to do more and
get more help here to crankmore out.
(34:58):
I have multiple lifetimes worthof projects just sitting and
waiting, so one of them is theem50 from stripes.
I've got that same model, thefull armored stripes version
with.
And then I want to make aminiature of it to actually race
in like lemons.
So we're gonna do it like arussian nesting doll.
It'll carry it as an internalramp truck and then you back it
out.
You have the little one.
Race the race, the little one.
I think it'd be really cool.
(35:18):
I've got an Airstream motorhomeI want to restore.
I've got two more fuselages Onewill be a limousine and one
will be a drag car.
I just have a lot of big dreams, a lot of big plans.
Christian (35:32):
I'm going to keep working until it happens.
Well, we are so happy for you.
Yeah, Doug wanted me to mentionto everybody out there the next
time you see a plane on theroad, it is probably Speedy Cop.
So check him out on YouTube,TikTok, Instagram he's
everywhere.
Yeah, Speedycopcom, that's myfavorite speedycopcom.
(35:53):
Check him out.
Well, Jeff, it has been atremendous pleasure meeting you.
It was a blast.
Thank you for making time.
SpeedyCop (35:59):
It's an honor, Jeff.
Thank you for making time.
It's been an honor, Jets.
Christian (36:00):
I really appreciate your time yeah.
Doug (36:02):
Thank you again.
Thank you, Jeff Yep.
We'll be looking for you on theroad.
Sounds good.
SpeedyCop (36:07):
I won't be hard to miss Yep.
Doug (36:10):
And if you're ever either Pensacola, where Christian is,
or Maryland Annapolis area ifyou're heading out, let us know
we gotta go see this guy.
Christian (36:21):
There's no way.
We gotta go see the tennessee.
SpeedyCop (36:23):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I didn't realize I've also got an
800 foot zipline, because I'm abig kid.
So I saw that I saw that it'slegit, it's fast, it's fun.
It's not for everyone, it'sdefinitely scary, but um, yeah,
it's, why not.
We've got the road trip.
Okay, we're road at.
Christian (36:37):
Jeff's place, book it .
But, until then.
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Reach out to us, especially ifyou're an international listener
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We love to hear from our folksinternationally and that's one
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So we are on Spotify, applePodcasts when else, partner?
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Doug (01:26):
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You name it, we're on it.
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How do we get there?
I can't reveal.
Christian (01:45):
Can't reveal.
Sorry, you might take my job ifI tell you no chance, no chance
, you might cut my salary.
Doug (01:49):
Let me say it, we are so well, we have a fantastic guest
today.
Christian (01:57):
Can't wait to introduce him and we're going to
revisit the theme for today.
Theme for today is where doideas come from?
Because today's guest is a bitof an engineer, artist,
performance artist.
He's a mashup of all thesedisciplines.
Really fun guy to talk to, atrue polymath, if there ever was
(02:20):
one.
But let's see a little bit morehousekeeping before we cue him
in.
Uh, do we want to talk about uhbeing ranked on that, on that
uh feed spot article?
Done anything more out of that?
I know we sort of we sort ofteased that at some point.
But getting a little traction,getting a will notice.
Doug (02:41):
Yep.
Yep Number 37 out of 90, Ibelieve.
SpeedyCop (02:46):
Out of 70.
Doug (02:47):
Even better 37 out of 70.
Right in the middle of that Topautomotive podcasts.
So thank you, Feedspot.
Christian (02:55):
Yeah, and thanks for the people who are writing
reviews for the podcast too.
That helps us out a lot, helpsspread the word and what else?
We talked about the link tree.
Again, the YouTube is beingstood up.
Doug is throwing snippets outthere.
He's really got it to kind of asuccinct, succinct, fine art of
teasing out the fun part andthe.
(03:21):
It's great the way the audiogoes and you see the words
beneath and it's a little lessthan a minute clip and we're
putting that on all of oursocial presences.
So you see us on Facebook.
Where else?
Instagram?
Definitely on YouTube, etcetera, et cetera.
Doug (03:35):
Yeah, you name it.
Yep, we're doing our wholedigital transformation, although
we started digital, so it'spretty easy.
Christian (03:43):
Yeah Well, as long as I don't turn into something
analog, we should be okay.
Here I am standing up anewsletter, I wrote it and got
it to Doug and it's sitting onthe editor's desk.
Please don't yank out the redpencil, but look for that in the
coming weeks.
Can't wait.
That's about all I got.
Do you have anything else inthe way?
A housekeeping partner can?
Doug (04:03):
we can can we dig in and yeah, no, I would just say um,
so for the newsletter we we needemails.
That's the plan to distributeit.
Um, you have several differentways.
You can send us an email right,send it to christian or myself
at lovecom or on our link treethere's's actually a um
(04:25):
subscribe button for email inthe upper right.
SpeedyCop (04:28):
So if you just want to subscribe to the list
directly.
Doug (04:32):
Go that way.
Um, really looking forward tothis.
I'm glad Christians jumping onthis, taking the ball and love
your feedback.
Christian (04:40):
Yeah, and if you really don't want to get it by
email, call me up.
I will print out the email,fold it up, put it in an
envelope and mail it to you.
We can also use carrier pigeonsif that's a little easier for
you.
But on to today's guest.
On to today's guest, doug.
You want to talk a little bitabout how he came into our orbit
(05:04):
, or how he fell, unfortunately,into our orbit.
Doug (05:06):
Sure, oh, it's not unfortunate for us, indeed,
maybe for him.
So we have Jeff Block, betterknown internet sensation YouTube
TikTok you name it as SpeedyCop and we found out about Jeff.
I'd seen some of his videos,especially the upside down
camaro that's been floatingaround for a while.
(05:28):
Uh, he goes back farther thanthat, but, um, we found out
about jeff and got connectedwith him through another good
friend of the show, andrewblackwood, who he himself, I
think um could probably take upsome room in, uh, in jeff's
garage and probably do somewelding for him and whatnot.
He's, he's on the creative sideas well.
SpeedyCop (05:49):
There he is.
Christian (05:51):
We'll introduce him.
For Christ's sake, jeff Niceand drumroll Jeff Block aka
Speedy Cop.
There he is.
How are you today?
SpeedyCop (05:59):
Good gentlemen, how are you?
Christian (06:00):
Excellent.
So happy that you're here.
So happy that you're here.
Thanks for having me.
So the weather's a littlebalmier than where Doug is,
which is much cooler than whereI am, but thank you for being in
a safe place.
He's got his posse of caninesthere with him.
He's got a great shirt thatsays I pulled me over, which
(06:24):
made me laugh out loud in reallife, which I love.
Today's theme Jeff, what do youthink?
Where do ideas come from?
How did they strike you?
When did they first tickle your?
SpeedyCop (06:37):
fancy.
How did it all start for you,Can we ask?
So that's one of the questionsI get asked the most Like I have
all these unusual vehicles thatI drive all over the country
and people always like what areyou on?
How can I get some of it?
You know what?
I mean, I've never done drugs inmy entire life.
People say, oh yeah, right, youdid this, that in high school,
never in my life Always beenkind of straight laced that way,
as I'm a Christian and I justhave never done drugs.
So I have all this creativity.
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I don't know where it comesfrom, it's just God given.
But I have this reallyoveractive imagination.
So I can't look at thingswithout seeing how I could alter
them and make them more uniqueand personalize them and make
them more fun or what I think isfun.
And I can see mundane objectsand figure out ways to turn them
into something creative and funand cool.
And what I really like to do istake stuff that people are
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casting off, that's beingscrapped and discarded, and
turning into something that likedrops jaws and melts faces and,
like you know, it's seen aroundthe world.
So I take it as a challenge.
Yeah.
Christian (07:27):
And that's really interesting.
Like my kids and I uh passed ajunkyard and I tried to uh been
a while since I've been in oneand I tried to explain to my
kids well, yeah, this is whereold cars go and they sit there
and then you can kind of minefor pieces.
They looked at me like I hadsix heads sitting on my shoulder
.
It makes no sense.
We're in such a throwawaysociety we don't fix anything
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anymore.
A lot of times it's costprohibitive to do so.
So I think it's it's it's it'sI don't know.
I feel like it's this sort ofthrowback to the past to be able
to to find something new andsomething old.
SpeedyCop (08:02):
Right.
I always say repurpose, recycleand reuse.
We just take, cast off thingsand make them fun.
And you know most peoplewouldn't take a discarded
Vietnam attack helicopter thatwasn't just stripped for parts,
actually washed away in a flood,and make a race car out of it.
That was also amphibious andstreet legal.
But that's the kind of thing wedo.
Christian (08:20):
So where was the?
Doug (08:21):
talk.
Christian (08:21):
It takes a certain mind for that and determination
and before Doug gets going hereit's got to be a little wacko, I
guess Well yeah, I mean, andit's here, you put it out there,
jeff, for the whole world tosee speedy cop dot com.
You really want to read someinteresting stuff?
Go to speedy cop dot com.
Yes, there's Instagram, youtubeand all this good stuff.
But kind of kind of go back tothe source here.
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And if you go to the home pagehere, at the end of the second
paragraph, at top of the page,it says a new speedy cop era has
begun.
Last sentence of the secondparagraph says my overactive
imagination has no shortage ofbad ideas and many new projects
are already in the works.
And I love that, because thecreative mind really never stops
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.
It just kind of keeps going andgoing and success breeds
success.
So so I applaud you for seeingthe creative in the everyday and
having art match machinery.
I think it's beautiful.
SpeedyCop (09:16):
I'm sure my unmedicated extreme case of ADHD
has nothing to do with thiswhatsoever right.
Doug (09:21):
Well, but you do finish projects, so that's a good thing
I do Now.
Christian (09:25):
That's what makes him different from so many people.
Doug (09:28):
Including myself.
Christian (09:30):
Yeah, doug, that's such a good point.
So, jeff, has there anythingyou've left behind?
Is there anything you've got athird of the way or half the way
through and either you or yourteam kind of said I don't know
about this time, I don't knowthere are a lot of them.
SpeedyCop (09:44):
I'll get cars and I have an idea in mind for them.
I want to build something withthem, and then my plans change,
budget doesn't allow it orwhatever, and I'll get rid of
them, whatever, actually havingbuilt it.
And um, I'm seeing videos thelast few weeks of upside down
motorcycle which I had plannedout 11 years ago and didn't do
it.
And now my uh counterparts,carmageddon out in italy I think
, did one and it's gone stupid,viral and I'm like I should have
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done it you know, next timeyou'll get there's no shortage
of bad ideas.
It's just time and money andnow'm retired, I have more time.
Still, finding the money hasbeen a challenge, but as I try
to grow my brand and stuff likethat, hopefully it will start
trickling in and I can do more.
I've got several lifetimesworth of projects here.
You guys ever come visit me inTennessee.
I'm right by the tail of thedragon in Maryville, tennessee,
and I've got a 20-acremountaintop.
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It's absolutely beautiful.
It's private.
I've got a whole bunch ofproject cars and trucks here.
Like I said, a lifetime's worthof projects I may have to fend
the herd or bring in some help.
Doug (10:36):
Oh.
SpeedyCop (10:37):
I hear that Each and every one.
Christian (10:39):
So do you know what Cadillac Ranch is in Amarillo,
where all the Cadillacs arestuck in the ground.
Doug (10:44):
I just think that's like driving Exactly.
Christian (10:47):
Even better, driving up to your house would just be
like driving up to CadillacRanch.
So how does that work?
Is there a barn or a hangarover here where everything is?
Is there, just like everythingis in states of artistic work?
SpeedyCop (11:01):
So I've got what I call the field of dreams.
We just recently had ourdriveway paved and it's so steep
up our mountain that noteverybody could make it up, and
when I would have a trailer withcars on it, I couldn't always
make it have to get a neighborand a tractor and stuff and pull
it up.
So, um, we bit the bullet andsunk our life savings in asphalt
.
So now we've got a paveddriveway no life savings, but
that'll survive.
Um, we have a big, beautifulshop.
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It's absolutely a dream garage,don't get me wrong.
We have a large mortgage to gowith it, but it's 60 by 100
steel building like a 21 footpiece in the center, so I have
lots of room, two post lifts anda four post lift there.
And of course the four post liftis an oversized one because the
weird stuff that I buildrequires that.
So it's extra long, extra wide,kind of 14 000 pound four post
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lift, which is perfect to bendpack.
It's really nice.
Um, then I've got.
I call it the field of dreamsbecause right now it's literally
just a field that I cover withplastic because we had to get
all the cars off the gravelareas that were going to get
paid.
So right now they're stillsitting on this plastic in this
field and it's raining right nowso I can't pull them back off
it just yet.
But there are two airplanefuselages for future builds.
One's going to be a limousine,one's going to be basically a
drag-and-drive car.
It's another 310, like theCessna I drive now, except it's
going to be a lot faster and theone I drive now is no joke.
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But this is going to be like asingle-digit drag-and-drive
street car.
Christian (12:13):
Where do you get the airplane fuselage?
Where do the airplane holescome from?
Facebook?
SpeedyCop (12:18):
Marketplace.
They pop up periodically andyou have to go and get them.
One of them was in Ohio and Ithink one was in Kentucky, but
both of them were a good driveaway.
And I just met a guy a coupleof days ago on a brand new
Ferrari the tail of the dragonthat said I used to own Atlanta
air salvage or whatever, andhe's got this huge fleet of like
Learjets and stuff.
I'm like, dude, I'm going toupgrade, I'm not going to use my
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the chassis for that limoproject because I want it to be
a licensed limousine.
You know, I want to actuallymake it a commercial limousine.
So yeah, and that's been donebefore, but I want to do it my
way.
You know what I mean.
Christian (12:52):
I love it.
Well, doug, I'm speechless.
You're gonna have to take overfor a little while my mind just
bent, yeah, no, uh, did it ditto.
Doug (12:59):
I'm loving the, uh, loving the garage, the shop, yeah.
So if we go back just a littlebit, jeff, well, way back, you
were telling us in the pre-showabout your first car and what we
didn't talk about, and maybeI'll let you talk about your
first car and then I'll get intothe if you modified that or
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where the modifications start onwhat car.
But tell us about your firstcar, how you got it, what you
remember about it.
I think it was really a familyheirloom, so to speak.
SpeedyCop (13:34):
Heirloom is a strong word for the shape that car was
in when I got it.
It was a 1967 Chevelle stationwagon.
I had no idea in high school inthe late 80s, early 90s that I
had a unicorn, because a Sevillewagon from 67 is truly a
unicorn.
You just don't see themanywhere.
And my grandmother bought itbrand new on the showroom floor
in 1967.
Three on the tree, manualtransmission, straight six I
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think it was a 230 straight six,and she drove it off that
showroom floor.
My mom learned to drive on it,my older sister learned to drive
on it and then I my mom learnedto drive on it, my older sister
learned to drive on it and thenI was the second oldest of the
nine kids that my parents hadand I learned to drive on it.
By the time I got this car, wewere in upstate new york.
Road salt had done a job on it.
Uh, my dad didn't really washcars so road salt would eat them
up and he'd get another one.
Well, this being an heirloomstill running and driving, it
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had holes so large you couldliterally reach inside the
vehicle from outside and waveyour hand around.
Because this, it was just gone.
So he said you can have thiscar.
It's still running and driving.
It just looks terrible.
So I put it in the barn and forfour months this is my first
automotive project I took bondoand chicken wire and did what I
had to do and covered up thosebig holes, spraddle, canned it,
you know, and it looked muchbetter than it had before but it
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turns out you know, at that,timeons being very uncool, women
didn't want to ride nothing.
Girls in school thought it wasjust awful.
They had no desire to go on adate in that car.
I wish I still had that car.
You know how it is with yourfirst car and you get rid of it
and you wish you kept it.
And some smart people will keeptheir first car, but I'm not
that person.
Apparently, when I sold it, theengine had just died and it was
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high mileage and rotten and inrough shape and I think it got
scrapped.
I don't really recall becausethat was a long, long time ago.
Um, but that was a fun car.
I had painted it at first blueand then red with black stripes
like racing stripes and, uh, itwas a turn.
You know, any car you couldspin the tires out the parking
lot with was all right.
So, yeah, round it up enoughand drop the, drop the clutch,
it would spin.
Yeah, and it was certainly nota ball of fire, certainly not a
race car, but it was adequatefor you know at the time.
(15:30):
Yeah, yep, good and goodmemories and um, so that it had
to be like, uh, late 80s whenyou got it, so it would have
been late 80s, right and I spent, like I said, a good four
months just filling the holesand stuff in that barn and just
trying to remodel the interior alittle bit and things like that
.
Doug (15:48):
So that means oh.
I'm sorry.
Christian (15:50):
I was just going to say that that means that for a
couple of decades this thing wason the road and drivable, and
that's pretty neat, that'spretty neat neat.
SpeedyCop (16:07):
That's pretty neat.
It was probably 91 when itfinally died.
Uh, completely so.
And then my grandmother helpedme buy a four-cylinder mustang
coupe and I loved that car.
That got me a good bit of theway into college I would say
through college.
But I changed cars like Ichanged clothes.
Doug (16:15):
So good deal yeah, no, um and um.
Go and maybe step in a littlefarther back.
Growing up were you alwaysbuilding things, whether wood,
metal.
SpeedyCop (16:31):
I absolutely did.
I always had that creative bentand that desire to kind of
engineer.
Now my grandfathers were bothgrandfather on that side was an
electrical engineer.
He retired from RCA Televisionsbut he worked for no, sorry, he
worked.
My other grandfather worked forMobile Oil.
He actually worked on theMinuteman space missiles.
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So he was in the Navy, worldWar II and all, and he worked on
the Minuteman space missileprogram, which is really cool,
and they were both brilliant andI don't know what happened to
me, but I still have that.
Christian (17:08):
You're telling me you're descended from rocket
scientists.
Okay, fantastic, we're seeing.
We're seeing a little where itall comes from.
SpeedyCop (17:12):
But please continue.
This is fantastic, yeah, so, um, when I was little and I want
to say I was only like five myuncle was a classic car
collector and he was of themindset that it had to be 100
original.
Um, that's the only way hewould accept a classic car.
Any kind of alteration was justwrong.
You had to keep it as perfectlyoriginal as possible, um and he
never understood the things thatI do with the cars because it's
so different, but I just liketo, you know, personalize this
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to the absolute max.
At any rate, he took me for aride in his model a rumble seat
roadster when I was like fiveyears old and I was hooked on
cars at that moment.
Now, my dad wasn't a gearheadof any kind, he didn't really
change his own oil, um.
So it's not like I grew uparound it, but I would visit my
uncle from time to time and wewould do parades and things and
he had all these cool antiquecars that I just loved.
So this model a rumble seatthat's the car where the trunk
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opens up backwards and it's aseat a rumble seat.
Christian (17:59):
I've never seen a rumble seat.
SpeedyCop (18:00):
They called it the mother-in-law seat back then
because you'd put her back thereoutside the car.
So that car got me hooked oncars and he had a really cool
collection.
I actually have a few of hiscars now that my aunt graciously
gave to me after he passed, andamongst them I've got my
post-zombie apocalypse car.
It's a diesel Mercedes 200D.
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Zombie apocalypse car it's adiesel mercedes 200d.
It's completely gutless, zeroto 60 in like two weeks.
But it'll run on vegetable oilor waste motor oil, you know,
after an emp or anything else.
So that's my you know you can'tkill it kind of car.
And then, uh, I've got a few ofhis other ones, including a 36
packard which is an absolutelygorgeous whoa.
It's to be restored but it's anoriginal survivor and I would
never dream of altering his cars.
He he would never want that.
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He was very clear about it.
It's going to be pristine oncewe finish restoring it.
We've just started on it.
But beautiful old car with dualside mounts where you have the
spare tires on both fenders,looks like a Bonnie and Clyde.
Doug (18:56):
Yeah, that's what I was picturing.
Christian (18:59):
That's not out in the field, is it?
Is that in your?
SpeedyCop (19:02):
garage tucked away.
No, that's indoors.
No, I wouldn't dare Gotcha.
Doug (19:10):
So it's a true survivor too, especially coming out of
New Jersey where he lived.
South Jersey, Excellent,excellent.
Those are great stories goingall the way back to age five.
So you ended up scrapping, Ithink you told us and there's
some irony there right, youscrapped your grandmother's car
and now you buy scrapped carsand other scrapped vehicles.
SpeedyCop (19:33):
Right, sometimes we'll buy actually from the
junkyard and sometimes I'll buyfrom people who are selling them
for scrap just as project cars.
I can kind of look at anythingand see the potential in it for
something weird and different,because that's what I like.
I was at the junkyard one dayand somebody had dumped a pop-up
camper out in front of it.
That was in horrible shape, butthey just abandoned it there in
front of the place and I saidto the guys what do you want for
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the pop-up camper?
He said, well, it's junk, butwe knock the body off of it and
we sell the frames for utilitytrailers.
We the frames for utilitytrailers.
We get like $150 for the frames.
I said, well, what I have inmind, I don't need the frame.
What if I just give you theframe back?
He said take it, just bring theframe back when you're done.
Okay, we made that a race car.
We raced it on the NASCAR trackin New Hampshire and you have
never seen faces melt like thoseNASCAR flaggers.
(20:20):
They had no idea there's 100cars.
Come on the track, startcirculating, waiting for the
green to drop, so you have afull course.
Caution.
You know 100 cars circulating.
All of a sudden the green dropsand everybody just goes.
And I pull on track in thispop-up camper.
Doug (20:31):
It looks like a pop-up camper and you only saw the two
side wheels that I had put on.
SpeedyCop (20:35):
Um, you know, just like a regular camper with a, I
had made a breakaway hitch outof like flimsy aluminum.
You could have broken it off byhand because I don't want to
spear somebody's gas tank withyou know back tongue of a
trailer.
But it looked the part itreally did and their faces
melted, their jaws dropped,their eyes popped, the flags
fell down and the next laparound, everyone had their
phones out like waving andthumbs up and all that.
It was just.
I love seeing a good face meltreaction like that.
(20:56):
We strive for that with each ofour builds and, uh, that was
one of the better ones.
You know, just just a free freecamper in the junkyard.
Go, melt some faces.
Doug (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, you don't see that every day, or
or ever.
SpeedyCop (21:09):
Right, no, that's funny Like creative.
You've got a farm truck in Asia.
Asia's a friend of mine, theguys from Street Outlaws and
they did a camper car a coupleof years ago and people tagging
me in and saying you should dothat.
Doug (21:24):
I did that in 2011 or 2012 .
SpeedyCop (21:26):
He blazed the trail down the road following my
friend's truck and then he wentstraight and I turned right in
the camper and we just werebeing silly with it.
Doug (21:32):
But we had some fun yeah, what was the uh camper mounted
to?
What was the frame chassis?
SpeedyCop (21:38):
so it was on a suzuki x90 and we had a guest driver
for that race.
He was a ride and drive, so theyhelped us pay the bills they
pay a fee and race the car withus and helps us cover our costs.
But he was trying to win therace in this pop-up camper and
we were out there just to dokind of like exhibition race,
where you're not winding it to7,000 RPMs and floating the
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valves and so it burned a holein the in the head itself and
popped the head gasket and wespent the night fixing it,
cobbling it back together enoughto get back out there the next
day and, uh, it died.
I think we had to get pushedacross the finish line.
The whole place was cheering umit was kind of the crowd
favorite for the weekend, youknow but a little ccp x90.
They were pretty gutless and wetook that car and later raced it
(22:21):
.
Um, we put a miata engine in itlike a 180 and we raced it with
, uh, numerous themes, includingwe did a titanic, um, an
iceberg theme where the icebergand a bmw was a titanic and we
had the four big stacks.
You know, on the bmw for thesmoke stacks we had to even put
a little deck railing on thehood.
We had little like string andtoo good, we drilled into the
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hood and we went all out with itand then the iceberg chased the
titanic around the track thatrace weekend.
We had fun with it.
So that thing wound up gettingre-bodied as a hot dog stand and
we raced it to raise money fora dog rescue right in new jersey
and raised a bunch of money fordog rescue by giving away hot
dogs all weekend takingdonations.
But that freaking hot dog standbeat two-thirds of the cars in
race because it rained so hard.
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We got traction when theydidn't, so it finished like top
third.
It never should have happened.
You know, a little gutless X90carrying a building around was
beating all the 944s and E36s.
Doug (23:14):
Yeah, all that extra weight, that's funny.
So you actually answered one ofmy questions, which was is a
car ever done?
When do you take that car andsay this is perfect.
And maybe it's the Camaro,because I don't think the Camaro
has changed too much, but Icould be wrong weeks in 2013,
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that summer in my driveway and Isprayed it in my yard.
I'm still driving it 11 yearslater which is absolutely insane
.
SpeedyCop (23:47):
I never dreamed it would last much more than the
race weekend if we were lucky.
And here it is.
I mean, it's a world famous car.
Jay leno drove me around in itfor his show in san francisco.
Yeah, it's been all over theplace.
I actually drove it crosscross-country.
I took it to sima a year agoand then from like the san franc
area and then drove it back toTennessee and had a blast.
It was a cold ride, no roof,but I had a great time.
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It's just a fantasticexperience.
And you were talking aboutCadillac Ranch there in Amarillo
.
I pulled up in the upside downCamaro and there was an employee
there.
Of course, they have the gatesclosed and locked and everything
, because you park out in thestreet and then you walk in and
I said any chance we can putthis car in there by those
Cadillacs and take pictures.
And the employee said absolutely, unlock the gate, open it.
And I drove all the way andparked next to the Cadillacs and
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of course all the othervisitors freaked out and there
were people climbing inside theCamaro and stuff and taking
photos.
It was a good time beautiful,beautiful, yeah but yeah, to
your point um, the cars havenever actually done and that
poor camaro being sprayed in theyard 11 years ago, it looks
rough.
I mean it needs a good paintstuff.
So I actually bought the paint.
I haven't painted it yet.
But I only see the flaws when Ilook at my cars.
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Other people just see theoverall usually and just say,
okay, that's pretty cool.
Um, I see what I haven't doneyet that I intend to do and
that's part of the ADHD I guessyou know he's an artist to be
done.
Yeah, yeah.
So I still want to correct alot of things on that car and on
every other car that I've builtand, um, you know, it's kind of
a shame because that's what Isee when I look at them.
I see the flaws, the things Ihaven't guess, but yeah, they're
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never really done.
Gotcha, gotcha.
Doug (25:21):
And I know we were talking about a lot of plans that you
have, but the Volkswagen bus andcamper right, and maybe that'll
beg the next question.
I'm always jumping ahead.
What do you think your mostpopular build has been?
Is it I?
I would guess it's the trippyhippie camper.
SpeedyCop (25:43):
But we're boss hippie hippie van is a sideways 76
Volkswagen camper mounted on an88 rabbit um, both of them low
buck.
The camper shell was 600sitting in the field and the
rabbit underneath was a 500 car.
That was already a caged racecar.
Was just really ragged out.
Um that.
One's been stupid viral.
One of the videos I put up onfacebook with that got like 156
(26:03):
million views and it's just wow,just organically, which is
insane, right?
um, that's been really popular alot.
I think the most iconic one, uh, it's got to be my airplane car
, the spirit of lemons.
Um, I've been driving it sinceearly 2013.
It's street legal.
I've driven it all over the us.
It's been in countlessmagazines, tv shows and things
like that.
Um, it's, it's kind of one ofthose builds that, um, I don't
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know, it just gets.
It keeps on giving.
I drive it everywhere to thisday.
I just had it in florida acouple weeks ago doing a burnout
competition at the freedomfactory in bradenton and it was
melting faces, like it's donefor almost 12 years, like that's
kind of.
You know, it's sitting on an 87toyota van chassis and people
say why?
I say because a race car andlike, wait what?
Since the van had a mid-enginerear drive layout.
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It had torsion bars in thefront, stennis truck towers
because they would be too widefor that narrow fuselage.
It had a narrow track and shortbase, so it checked every one
of my boxes.
So I went looking for an 80stoyota van to use as a basis for
this race car with a plane thatI wanted to build.
I knew in my head before Ifound the fuselage, what I
wanted to build, I looked once.
I looked all over the countryand I was willing to go from
maryland, where I lived at thetime, to nevada, to a boneyard
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if I had to, to get a nicefuselage.
I couldn't find anythingaffordable.
Um, a single engine, wrecked,cessna, missing the front,
cowling, and I was bringing 10grand.
And I mean, I don't have deeppockets, I use whatever scrap I
can find to make stuff coolbecause we do whatever it means.
So I went to a local airfieldjust to ask and the guy said
I've got two old planes out backbehind the hangar.
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Do you want to see them?
I said sure.
And the first one was the samestory.
It was no front engine, nocowling, anything.
And the second one was a 56Cessna 310, missing the engines,
missing the fuel tanks and thetail and everything, and it was
in rough shape.
It had been abandoned for 40years.
But it was perfect sleek,streamlined fuselage, exactly
what I was looking for.
So that's the one I bought andit was $2,000, which for me was
a lot, but it came with theinstruments which are really
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worth more than the $2,000 Ipaid for the whole thing.
And it had the wings stillstill on it.
They just weren't in greatshape.
So I have basically 16 inchwinglets on it now that act as
front fenders and they also actas a step to get inside that
thing.
It runs a 12 second quartermile.
I've got a mustang ecoboost andnow a four cylinder um 2.3
liter ecoboost making about 330horsepower.
It weighs just under 2700 pounds, all the weights on the front
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wheels.
I'm going to try to redesignsome things because I want to
move weight rearward, because Ihave to baby it off the line on
the quarter mile.
But to run a high 12 secondquarter mile on street tires in
an airplane sitting on a Toyotavan chassis is not too shabby
and it's a really fun street car.
Doug (28:29):
It's an accomplishment.
SpeedyCop (28:31):
Yeah, I take it down the tail of the dragon here in
Tennessee and people havetrouble keeping up with it.
You know, and I'm neveranywhere near the limit.
It's just always, like you know, well in control and you'll see
motorcycle guys griping online.
I don't want a damn airplane inmy way.
When it comes to the dragon onmy crotch rocket, they have
trouble keeping up.
Well, I used to pull offs andI'll pull off to let them go by
me.
Every single time they pull offwith me and they get out, they
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walk up and they want to takepictures and talk about it and
stuff like that.
So kind of pointless.
They'll use the pull-offs whenthey all pull off with you.
But that thing, it really isthe gift that keeps on giving.
It's just been so much fun.
It's a parade on wheelseverywhere I go.
You get like you know I loveyour spaceship and things like
that when you drive around in itand it actually gets a really
good fuel economy, like 25 or 30on trips too shabby for an old
(29:15):
cessna that was getting scrappedyeah, well, it's very
streamlined, it is very dynamicvery aerodynamic extremely
Christian (29:24):
do you keep everything that you've done?
Do you everything that you'veever done?
Is it sitting in your?
Is it sitting in your garage?
SpeedyCop (29:33):
I so wish it was.
There's a bunch of them I'vegotten rid of over the years.
Um, I've lost a few on theracetrack, because that's part
of the risk when you're racingcars you know, yep I was
thinking that some of them Iused to for a while there I
would sell one to pay for thenext one and I've actually made
it to get.
Um.
I've got the jurassic parkexplorer back and I bought the
camaro back.
I sold the upside on camaro tomy friend that owns the lemon
series, jay lamb, and he uh, hehad kind of loaned it out to
(29:54):
everybody and their mother theywanted to use in the west coast
and it went to different showsand things in different hands.
But he was still the owner andum, we had.
We had made a deal when I soldit to him that I'd have the
first right.
I refused to buy it back so Ihounded it for years and he
finally sold it back to me.
So it's back in my stable andthat's one of those cars that I
had regretted really badlyselling after I sold it.
Um, I still want to get mywagon queen family truckster
(30:15):
from vacation back.
That was a really fun race car.
We cut the cage out, sold to afellow in new york city and um,
hopefully he'll um work me up adeal and let me get it back in
my fleet here, because thosewere a couple of the iconic cars
that I really missed, you knowyou remember the vacation.
The green ugly station wagonyeah, thank you, family
truckster yeah.
(30:36):
So we had the vintage luggage onebay back in 2014 was like 10
bucks, five bucks a piece.
Nobody once finished samsonite.
So we had everything on theroof looked just like the movie
car.
We had the dead head remembershe dies and they tie her on the
roof in the movie on the roof.
So we go to south carolinacarolina motorsports park and we
raced it for 16 hours allweekend from maryland to south
carolina race all weekend backto m.
(30:56):
Nothing moved.
She was up there the whole time.
It was a really fun car Justhideous but so ugly.
It's cool, just brilliant,iconic.
Everybody knows that car, eventhe young kids, because the
remake had that car in it.
Doug (31:10):
That's right.
That's right it did.
Christian (31:13):
They kept making those movies every few years,
and now they just play them insequence.
They're in syndications,especially around there.
Doug (31:22):
And they're still funny.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And speaking of movies, sorryto interrupt you, christian, do
it.
I did want to hit Jeff's dreamcar, which he has already.
It's in the works.
Right, it's partially there.
Tell us about Eleanor.
SpeedyCop (31:40):
So Eleanor is a 67 Mustang Fastback.
The movie gone at 60 seconds.
Now this is not an actual moviecar because I could never
afford that, but this car hasone of the 500 kits that Cinema
Vehicle Services, who made themovie cars, actually produced.
So the movie came out.
The cars were hugely popular.
All of us said, oh, I want thatcar so bad and Cinema Veh bad.
And cinema vehicles said, okay,we'll make body kits and we'll
(32:00):
sell them.
So they made 500 body kits,each one serialized, so if you
got authenticity and stuff camewith it.
So I have one of those 500 kitson this car.
So it's closer to an eleanorthan most, right?
Um, and it's a true fastbackmustang.
I got out of rochester new yorkback in wow 2004.
So I've owned that car for 20years.
That's the longest I've ownedany car.
Like I said, I changed carslike I changed clothes, but I
(32:22):
was smart enough to hang on tothat one.
I need to finish it.
The body kit's on and the caris painted.
There's a few flaws we'll haveto fix, but it's painted.
I need to do the interior, butI really want to do like road
trips and also I want to put acin it and everything, and I want
(32:42):
to be able to set the cruise at75 and drive to florida if I
feel like it.
You know what I mean.
So, yep, money's not there tofinish it.
The car just sits and waits.
It's indoors, it's insured,it's killing my friends because
they have.
They know I have a dream carjust sitting there but it's not
going anywhere?
Doug (32:55):
yep, we're doing it.
It's on the list, all right.
Christian (33:00):
So as we wind down here and guide the podcast
gently to the off-ramp here,Jeff, I have a couple last
questions for you.
The speedy cop name can youchat about that for a minute?
SpeedyCop (33:12):
Sure, so I spent 27 years as a cop.
I just retired a year ago.
I talk really fast.
Obviously I used to run reallyfast.
I can't say I do anymore.
I've got metal in both legs butI used to be able to catch
suspects that were known foralways getting away because they
were very fast on their feet.
I even ran down a track starone time in a neighborhood in
Hammond, louisiana, where Iworked, and I had never had this
happen before.
(33:32):
But as I brought him back inhandcuffs, I ran him down and
tackled him and the people wereon their porches and they were
just ragging on this poor youngman.
Like you're supposed to be atrack star.
You let that white boy catchyou.
What's wrong with you, man?
What's wrong with you?
And they were actually clappingand stuff like that, which was
pretty funny.
Um well, yeah, talk, run anddrive fast.
I've held my own with some ofthe best.
I've actually beaten a fewreally notables um on the
(33:55):
racetrack itself and I've got afew overall wins in different
series both 20 parts of lemonsand lucky dog and a couple of
national championships.
But bear in mind, those aremore volume than they are driver
skill.
So you enter enough cars andenough races, you can win those
national championships andlemons.
But we, I like to have funbehind the wheel and you know,
like I said, talk, run and drivefast.
(34:15):
That's where speed cop comesfrom.
Christian (34:25):
I dig it.
Thank you for that Lastquestion.
Uh, retirement you mentioned,so are we going to see the the
shop?
Pop these things out faster.
You're going to take a break.
What's what's in the?
SpeedyCop (34:29):
future for you.
What are these take a breakwords you're using?
I never heard them before.
Doug (34:35):
There's your answer Eight days a week.
SpeedyCop (34:38):
Yeah, I have a lot of vehicles in the works here.
Time and money has always beenthe constraint, so now I have
more time being retired themoney we're still working on
that.
It's difficult to do things ona meager budget, but we're
making it happen as my stuff, asmy brand and stuff grows.
Hopefully I'll have more incomeand more ability to do more and
get more help here to crankmore out.
(34:58):
I have multiple lifetimes worthof projects just sitting and
waiting, so one of them is theem50 from stripes.
I've got that same model, thefull armored stripes version
with.
And then I want to make aminiature of it to actually race
in like lemons.
So we're gonna do it like arussian nesting doll.
It'll carry it as an internalramp truck and then you back it
out.
You have the little one.
Race the race, the little one.
I think it'd be really cool.
(35:18):
I've got an Airstream motorhomeI want to restore.
I've got two more fuselages Onewill be a limousine and one
will be a drag car.
I just have a lot of big dreams, a lot of big plans.
Christian (35:32):
I'm going to keep working until it happens.
Well, we are so happy for you.
Yeah, Doug wanted me to mentionto everybody out there the next
time you see a plane on theroad, it is probably Speedy Cop.
So check him out on YouTube,TikTok, Instagram he's
everywhere.
Yeah, Speedycopcom, that's myfavorite speedycopcom.
(35:53):
Check him out.
Well, Jeff, it has been atremendous pleasure meeting you.
It was a blast.
Thank you for making time.
SpeedyCop (35:59):
It's an honor, Jeff.
Thank you for making time.
It's been an honor, Jets.
Christian (36:00):
I really appreciate your time yeah.
Doug (36:02):
Thank you again.
Thank you, Jeff Yep.
We'll be looking for you on theroad.
Sounds good.
SpeedyCop (36:07):
I won't be hard to miss Yep.
Doug (36:10):
And if you're ever either Pensacola, where Christian is,
or Maryland Annapolis area ifyou're heading out, let us know
we gotta go see this guy.
Christian (36:21):
There's no way.
We gotta go see the tennessee.
SpeedyCop (36:23):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I didn't realize I've also got an
800 foot zipline, because I'm abig kid.
So I saw that I saw that it'slegit, it's fast, it's fun.
It's not for everyone, it'sdefinitely scary, but um, yeah,
it's, why not.
We've got the road trip.
Okay, we're road at.
Christian (36:37):
Jeff's place, book it .
But, until then.
You have just heard the highrevving, low mileage, late model
heard around the world.
Authoritative podcast onautomotive nostalgia.
He is Doug at CarsLovecom.
I am Christian at CarsLovecomand he was Speedy Cop.
Check him out.
Please follow, tell a friendand let us know what you think.
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