Back to the Future: Classic Cars Reimagined

This week we talk about what it would be like if automakers brought back classic cars with modern tech. Plus, the Nova’s back in the mega garage, but not without a few bumps in the road. All that and more on this week’s episode!

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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Happy Saturday, America. You listen Let's Talk Cars Radio on
WKQA Freedom Radio. I'm your host, Big DAVP, Hangout, Camra,
Chaos and AVB. It is a great day for a
radio show, hopefully in your guys area. Is a great
day for car show. Has always say you guys are
getting out, showing them and enjoying yourself. So White Noise
has been home for a week already. I soun I'm

(01:10):
pretty happy with everything on the car. There's some little
things I know that we're gonna need to do to
make it what I want. So I'm running into some
some issues. I told you guys that we had We're
going to do simple things to the car and then
and then and then take it out and start doing things.

(01:31):
I decided that I want to go ahead and tub
the vehicle. I think I told you guys about last week.
I thought I had a pretty set up that that
was going to happen. I'm having some issues with to
be honest with you, is the money side of things.
It's got to make a dollars and CeNSE for me
when I do work the cars, and right this second,
it doesn't make dollars or it doesn't make the sense either.

(01:52):
I know what I want to have involved and spent
into that, and it's more than what I think is.
Here's the thing I like, I told you guys, there's
certain things that I'm good at when it comes to
cars and stuff. I've never back halfed a car. I
haven't had to. Usually I've either had it done or

(02:12):
I assist it with some I've never done it myself,
so it's not something I want to take on. Like
I told told you guys, I'm not really equipped to
do it. You know, I have welders. You know I
got a big tig. I get you know, all that
stuff like that, But as far as having all the
metal stuff, I'm just not equipped to do it.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
So, man, at the moment, it's looking like that might
be the way we.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Go, right, You're right, You're absolutely right. It I don't know.
It's the look that I want to achieve with the
car is they're going to require. I had a conversation
about it this week, and for me to get the
car the stance I want lower down I was gonna do.
I want to do many tubs for me to I

(02:51):
think to get the bigger tire on it that I want,
I probably had to go full tub, which then is
just more money, which isn't a big deal, but right
the second of the money just doesn't line up for
me to do it. I got to figure out a
way to make all that happen and make it make
sense to me, because we're gonna get to the point
now that you know, I'll be by the time I
get done with it, like all of us run into
is I'll be over the value of what really I

(03:12):
think the car's worth by time I do everything I
wanted to do to it, and then I you know,
then it's I don't know that defeated the purpose of
us doing so I'll let you guys know how that
works out. I know a couple people reached out to
me and said, hey, so what are you doing? You know,
where are you guys going with it next? And uh,
I was kind of beyonest with you. I was hoping
to have it out of the garage this week and
already headed off for that work to be done. And
that hadn't happened. It's still sitting in the garage right

(03:34):
where I dumped it off the tow truck basically, So yeah,
it's that's where it's at. So I don't know, we'll
see what does happened. It's cars, man, one day, I
got to love to hate them. I'm telling you what
I said.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
One day at a time.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, one day at a time. So I just, uh,
like I said, I wanted to stall. I just want
to keep the progress going. And and I had some
plans this week, uh to get back to bad Am
because I says, the parts are sitting in the box
and I just need to make sure they fit and
that works and we can get that rolling. So I
just don't want anything to stall. So I'll keep you
guys advised. I know. I told you guys I wanted

(04:13):
care to post some pictures up, but I haven't had
the opportunity to take some good pictures of the car
I have it. Why it was work was being done,
but I want to get some good final pictures for
you guys as well. So as soon as I get
that squared away, I'll get the pictureups. You guys see
what we have going up this week. I want to
jump into some some things we got talking around the table.
It was interesting enough that what okay, there's a lot

(04:36):
of us that have I guess what Nathaniel called it,
beloved cars, right, yeah, cars that you believe are.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Iconic, fit the moment the title. Well yeah, okay, when
you when you picture it, you picture that car, Okay,
explain right, So, like I'm talking about, like, so we
were talking about how, you know, when these companies come
out with brand new cars and they kind of slab
on an older bag, an old name on it, just
to kind of you know, get sales moving and stuff.

(05:09):
I don't really agree with that approach. I think that
you know, some cars, you know, I get like reworking it,
you know, bringing it up to date. But I think
there's a problem when it comes to a whole new
car design and they just kind of throw an old
badge on it to say that, you know, so for
them to continue that lineage down.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Did you guys see the it's out there looking up
you heaving and seeing. But did you guys see the
charger that they did and they someone cut it and
took the back door off it and shorten it made
a two door.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Like, Yes, I seen that.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, it was cool. I don't know why Dodge didn't
do that, Like I get it, but we put that
name on a four door car, you know, I mean,
And it's worked out probably very well for Dodge, I'm sure,
but I would have liked them to make, you know,
sports coop model of it like that one that's made. Okay,
another miss I think truly for Dodge was dark. I

(06:01):
always thought, I know, Dart was never I don't think
Dart was ever designed to be cool, Okay, I don't
think that was their intention when they built the Dart.
Originally it was more to be like as it.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Was a cool commuter car, right, I mean, And I
feel like that's what it was back in the day.
Was like we were really trying to you know, they
really want to sell those cars, so they wanted back
right right as I'm saying, so they wanted to make,
you know, for you to have a commuter car and
still be in that price range. They kind of want.
I think they did want to make it somewhat of
a cool.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Car to be cool, though, like which I mean, I
think I think though, okay, all right, how about I
don't think they meant for the Vega to be cool.
I think the Vega was built to be was meant
to be a commuter car. Although then people started souping
them up and change the engines in them and all
that kind of stuff, you know, so then it kind

(06:47):
of became cool. I think the Dart kind of fell
into that, although didn't they did what Dodge made what
a four to forty Dart on their own, which then
in its own right, became cool. But I don't think
that was the intention. My stepmom had one when I
was a young kid. Hers was not the cool version.
Hers was the commuter version. But I always thought that
Dart was a cool car when it was hot rotted.

(07:09):
I just thought it was kind of a neat car,
and I still think it when I see him out
of car shows and they're done right. I'm like, huh,
that's that's a cool car. Now skip forward, dodged through
the Dart name on. I don't know what that thing was,
that that abomination of whatever it was they made. I mean,
they threw the name on that car and it didn't
do well and only sold it for a couple of years,
and they were like, we're doing this perfect example of

(07:30):
yeah that didn't work, and I get what you talking about.
So what brought us up was we were talking about
the prelude. It looks nothing like a prelude. If you
were a Honda prelude guy, if you grew up in
late eighties, early.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Nineties, I maybe you squinched, you squinched your eyes. Maybe
you can kind of see it. You can see it,
but yeah, it just doesn't follow kind of the lineage,
the history of what the car was. And when you know,
going back to what you were talking about, was you know,
I think they were trying to make I think truly
they every car they produced back in the day, they
were trying to have some cool factor to it. Because

(08:02):
we talked about a couple of shows ago, is that
you had the choice of putting the big block in
modifying it to which you really wanted to be. So
it could have been the really cool, bad looking car
that you wanted to be if you had the money
to spend. But nowadays, you know, they sell it as
a one whole unit, right, so they're not really worried
about it and looking at them that cool that cool factor.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
So when you guys were talking about this, I started
thinking about a car Chevy Malibu. In the sixties and seventies,
it was a muscle wee, like damn, the real read
drive vehicle. But now you go look at a hive,
they don't look anywhere.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
I know, sixties seventies I look at a Charvel if
I when I look at a Chevelle, or I look
at a Malibu of because they were kind of laying
yachts a little bit.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I don't think the intention was for that car to
be what it turned into over time, where people hot
rotted them. Maybe I'm wrong. I just don't think that
was Now. I'm not talking about like, don't get me wrong,
like everybody's gonna Golle was always a hot rod. If
you got like the stripped down like commuter looking one,
it's almost like it's like saying a Pontiac Tempests. I

(09:10):
don't think the Pontiac Tempest was designed really to be
a cool car, but if you see people hot rot
at them and because it was something different, and then
you go, oh, that's kind of cool, like I said,
that happens. I think that.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Another one is the Michiban Eclipse.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, that used to be.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Like yeah, difference right there.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, it's an suv are buddy Kyle, all right, my
buddy Kyle. And I can't remember when I said. It's
the GST they made or whatever they had. The commercial
was on what is that early two thousands what it
was for the Mischigan c Eclipse and they did this
whole it was it was genius because I still remember
obviously at worked. But I think that, uh when that

(09:51):
new eclipse came out, and I can't remember what the
I want to say, it's right in that year. I
want to say it's like maybe GS five. Maybe it's
two thousand and five eclipse that came out. Uh uh,
now's a different body style. It was the newer body style,
like so try two thousand and five, that's the older
body style that commercial was playing and I remember everybody going, man,

(10:11):
I really want one of those. I mean I really
want those.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
And so you're talking about the one that wasn't fast
and furious.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, that's a different body I was the one body
style after that. It's let me see.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's the that's two and five version. I prefer the
nineties version.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
But okay, so it's kind of like that. Yeah, it's
it's like the one the other two thousand Yeah, the
one up top. Okay, so there was there, yeah, like
two thousand and five probably, so there was. They did
this so I can't remember the exact commercial hot laid out,
but they showed that car and it was cool. And
you know, if that was what you were into. Now,
if you're an old and bustled car guy, you're a
Ford Mustang guy, Kamaro guy, stuff like that, you probably

(10:48):
don't find the Eclipse. Yeah, more like the silver one
down the bottom. But they ran that commercial and I
remember a lot of people going, man, I really want
one of those. And Kyle was one of those guys.
So uh, Kyle though, had Mischi Eclipse dreams and he
had Chevy Cavalier budget. So and that was reality. Because

(11:10):
we're all young we're like just you know, we're trying
to get everything other. I mean, like you remember at
that point, Tom, you guys were young. I remember, you
guys are still young kids, and you know, my idea
and dreams of having anything cool had went way out
the window. And I never drove a mini van. But
you know, my my muscle card days had come to
a stop for a little while, and then it became

(11:31):
dad with a GMC Jimmy. You know, but it was
it was it was being a parent with an s
u V. But so but I remember Kyle goes down
and he's like I know in his mind because he
shows me the car and I'm like, oh, it's cool.
He ended up getting the Clips, but he got the
budget model, like the it didn't have all the cool stuff.

(11:52):
I think it came with a turbo. I think if
you got the really cool one, his didn't have that.
He had the little motor, you know what I mean. Like,
but it was still cool, he d I mean, I
want to say, you put two hundred thousand miles of
that car before you really I never thought of mission.
I never thought mission Bishi eclips could go that long.
But that was just the reality and what it was.
But you go back and you go, okay. So if

(12:13):
you were that guy and the mision mission eclips and
stuff like that, that was your car. Like okay. So
back when I was younger, beginning when I went to
the military, the three thousand GT. Cool car, the Dodge Stealth,
same car. I remember people wanting that car, like everybody
like want it. And there was one kid in high
school who had one brand new. His parents bought him

(12:34):
band new off the showroom floor and it was cool.
I mean, it was just you know, and I still
think looking at it, I still think the three thousand
GT is a cool car. I think you could bring that.
I think you can bring that car back and keep it. So,
like I said when we were on before we came
on the air, we were talking about could you go
and grab like all the iconic cool cars. Now, keep

(12:55):
in mind, iconically cool is different for everybody. For everybody,
like Nathaniel and I do not agree on certain iconically
cool cars. There's a lot of cars him and I
do agree on, but there's a lot that we don't.
Cameron and I have a completely different conversation other than Nathaniel,
what we think is iconically cool. He tends to gravitate
a little bit towards some of the older stuff like
I do. Nathaniel likes old in a mix of new

(13:17):
stuff kind of. And when I say new, I mean
it's still old, but it's the newer generation of stuff.
I think the Eclipse is cool if it's done right.
Maybe because I'm a fast and furious guy. Okay, before
you all send me all the craziness, I understand how carlitically.
It's like saying politically, but carlitically, Uh, that movie was
completely wrong on every aspect of terms. They used all

(13:40):
kinds stuff. I get it, but no.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, car movies and became action movie.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well yeah, when you're doing a car out of an airplane. Now,
for a guy who's a car guy who loves cars,
snon and built and remembers every single movie based on
the car, I can't remember the character, the actor, or
the name of the movie or anything like that, but
I can tell you what car was in whatever scene,
and I go, but I don't remember what the movie is,
and then I have to literally what I like about AI. Nowadays,
I can actually type that stuff in and it usually
will tell me what the movie was. Even though I

(14:10):
can't remeber the name of the movie or the actor,
I can just remember the car and what it did
in the movie. And a lot of times you can
punch that. If you haven't used AI in that fashion,
it works and it'll tell you what movie it came
out of it. I'm like, oh, that's what it was,
So that's cool thing. But from a car guy's perspective,
I one hundred percent get everybody has a little something
different as far as the way they like. I think

(14:30):
that the general idea of bringing things back could work,
but it depends on how you go about it. But
I have to go about taking a commercial, so you
have to hold on until I tell you how I
think it will work. I'll be right back.

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Speaker 1 (17:53):
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Now back to your host Day Pull launch.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Hey guys, welcome back. So we were talking before the
first segment, could you essentially bring the beloved cars back?
And so, if I didn't make myself clear, how we
kind of came up with this idea or where the
idea of manifested from when I'm talking about beloved cars,
like so as Nathaniel I talked about, could you take

(18:24):
everything that somebody potentially thought was cool. I mean, it
doesn't matter what it is. It'd be kind of probably hard.
You'd have to almost do it.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
It'd be the limited run.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
It'd be limited like, it'd be limited production, and then
you move on to the next thing.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
And if it took off, then you try to like
mass produce you know, your own shells, but you had
to take like old shells. Just do the underbellies right,
all new, maybe update a little bit of interior, but
still keep it authentic, right, and then you do it
like a limit like maybe twenty five fifty.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
I really think that there could be a car company
that could do that. You'd have to get the okay
to get the molds for the bodies. So I was
telling a thing of the guy. And I think I've
talked about this on the show before. There was a
guy that was here locally that somehow or the story went,
and you know stories or stories, car stories, but I
mean I physically saw the car, so I know it existed,

(19:13):
got molds to the sixty nine Camaro. I don't know
how he did it, what his contacts were, how they
all pulled off, But I saw the car okay in
I think I told him than probably maybe a little
over sixty percent completion. I saw the car. It was
ready for it to be painted, to start putting paint

(19:34):
on it, but it had been pre assembled to kind
of take a look at what, you know what it
looked like. It was a sixty nine Camaro. And this
supposedly the story behind it was this guy somehow got
the molds to this or mold I don't I'm sure
there's many of them. I don't know how it is,
but he got and he was working on the licensing
deal to resell nineteen sixty nine Camaros in current like

(19:57):
configure ate like a new cust some frame underneath it
and the body set down and it'd be updated interior
and stuff like that. But it would still looked like it,
and he My understanding was he was getting new it
would be new ven numbers, so it'd actually be a
ven numbered car, and it'd be a new ven number
and it would show up as nineteen like if you
brought it up, it was gonna cover like nineteen sixty nine,

(20:18):
two thousand. I came out with what year that was,
but I want to say that was like two thousand
and eight when that was going on, two thousand and eight,
sixty nine Camaro, You know what I mean. But like
I said, I know it wasn't complete folklore story because
I saw the car. The car was being worked on
at the same place that had did our trans am
originally before we ran it. All the problems with pain

(20:39):
on it, and not that they did anything wrong. I think.
I told you guys, the car got a huge scratch
in it right after the first body work was done
on it and just killed the whole project for me.
I had to regroup for a little while. Bec it
was extremely upset. Barbecue, but the car, yeah, killed a barbecue.
But the car, the six nine Camaro, I got delivered
to his shop and I got to see it, and
you could see where they made the changes and stuff

(21:01):
like that, and then they kind of they had some
drawings of what they were going to do and how
it was going to work out. And I thought it
was a really great idea. But then it just stopped.
I never heard another thing about that project. I don't
know what happened. I don't know if it maybe just
didn't happen and come to come to fruition funding or
anything like that. Now I've heard about people getting molds
to cars, okay, and I know there's a lot of

(21:22):
stuff that goes with it, but I mean, we've all
heard about this. If you guys follow a lot of
different car forms stuff like that, there are molds out
there running around to certain bodies that people have acquired
over the years to make or maybe they've made their
own modes molds like I just saw just like two
weeks ago. Guya is selling and I don't know how
that's going to work out for him, but he has
the molds to acontash to the actual dimensions kuutashe Laborghinia.

(21:45):
I know we talked about that car a lot because
it's like a car. That's probably how I ended up
finding that that little form thing. But he took a
picture of it, and he's got the mold, and I
guess what they did is they'd made a mold off
her original body. So but this isn't that wasn't the
case of this from my understanding, what's this guy had
real Chevy molds. Don't know how way that worked out.

(22:05):
I guess I understand know how that works, but he did,
and I thought it was cool idea. So when Nathaniel
I start talking about this, could you essentially start a
car company and you remake the oldies? But the goodies
there is right this second if you go look supposedly
I've only seen pictures. I don't know. You know, you
can generate anything you want online. But there is somebody

(22:26):
who has somehow either recreate or something, has the most
of the sixty seven Mustang and they're remaking sixty seven
Mustang bodies and they're coming out of like China or
something like. I don't there's some company who obviously wouldn't
care about the restrictions of whatever, you know, whatever it
may be, that are making them, and somebody somebody picture
and there's like five or six of them already pre

(22:46):
they're in a in a crate and they've pre created
and people plan on remaking that musting and they're supposed
to there supposed to be a company that's going to
be doing that here in the States off of those bodies.
Cool ideas. So could you essentially start a car company
that you specialize in Okay, for these months, we're gonna
build this, and you could pre order one in these
months this.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Year do a different car. I don't know if we honestly,
or maybe like every three years you have a different
lineup of cars.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Okay, but.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Well you can't have too many cars in production, right.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
They probably do, maybe do like five cars, five different
cars a year, right of whatever it is. You could
dofferent something from sports compact class, whatever it is. I
don't know how that works or you know, I mean,
like I don't understand. This is just theory, and DONU
understand the logistics of how we'd put all this together.
But I could see I know a lot of people, Man,
I wish I would have had one of those, And

(23:38):
it's sometimes it's cars that I wouldn't go in any
one of those. Like there's there's people who love below
old toyotas, like the old Selica stuff, like that, you know,
I mean like the old ones and people like I
had a guy the other day, man I wish I had,
and I I kind of agree. I thought they're cool.
He's like, man, I had any seven corollas like on

(24:01):
a cool car? You know, I think they're still We
will drive back then He's like, I'd love to take
one of those and modernize it and make it cool again,
like the old body and stuff like that. And I
know a lot of you guys go, that's not my
company it it doesn't have to be your cup of tea,
pick whatever card is you have in your head and
make that the premise of this story and go, eh,
I can see how that could work, right, Because if

(24:22):
there's one of me who finds a car that's a
quirky car that you know, it's like, yeah, I can
I like to remake one of those. You have a
car too that I'm think's quirky, and you're gonna have
a car that I'm like, why that? Because it's what
you want. So if you could do that, I can
see how there could be something like that. Now, the
problem with it is everybody wants to electrify them and
we're not doing that. Let me tell you how let

(24:42):
me tell you how much electrifying is not uh as
much as what you guys thought. It was. Explain to
me why for the last what month and a half
they've been talking about all the like the renter car
companies offloading their electric fleet and replacing them back of
gasoline cars.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Right in the regulations. I'm gonna wait it just uh.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
I think we jumped, we leaved, we looked, I don't
you know, whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
I think I think a lot of it has to
do with is that they were being subsidized. So everybody
was kind of jumping on the bandwagon to be subsidized.
And then when they's subsidiy right, and once the sub
subsidize goes away, well then you know the it outweighs
the benefit of it.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
It does. And like so h Cameron to point out,
He's like, well, you guys heard that. You know, Tesla
has the Tesla Diner, And I went I think I
was like, what's a Tesla Diner? Now? I didn't know
that's what they were going to call it. I two
years ago, three years ago, we were talking about on
the air about Tesla was talking about building these charging
stations that we're going to have, like almost kind of

(25:42):
like if you guys don't want to like a wah
wah or a Bucky's and other people like a set
up like that. But they were designed to it gave
you something to kind of do, grab by, to eat whatever,
keep you busy why the car was charging, so you
didn't really realize that that time went by why it
was charging, right, But they didn't have a name for it.
Apparently the name is Tesla Diner. I think it's a
cool idea. Yeah, they just came to occupied. It's almost
like going to Wa Wall and ordering your sub and

(26:03):
you wait for them to make your sub. Like I said,
you don't know who the wa Wall is, look it up.
If you don't know what BUCkies is, look it up.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
But when I think it brings it back to like
some of the old days too, like where stopping goes
were a big thing. He had small little towns where
you little.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Five and five diners and stuff like that. Right, I
told you guys, I love old diners. I if I
see one, I feel like I got to stop at one.
I just in Cameron cameras like, yeah, he loves them.
I do. I like mom and pop old style diners. Now.
I told you about the weird experience that we had
when you were just in Jersey. Uh, at the one
that everybody there seemed like they really hate it where

(26:40):
they worked at and so it kind of killed the
place like that. It was it was It was cool because,
like I said, it was one of those old, you know,
stainless steel diners. Like I said, look them up. You
don't know what I'm talking about. Uh, you haul them
in on a trailer and you just kind of set
them up and where you want them at and they're big,
but they're pre made. I think those are the coolest
I've seen them all across America. I've I've had a

(27:02):
luxury of traveling across America many times, and every time
I see one, I don't know what it is, I
feel like I got to stop. Even if I'm not hungry,
I feel like I got to stop.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Well, I think it was cool when they do like
the old coke styles and when they were still running
the theme syrup right right right right.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, you'll find it with me. I don't know, you'll
find some of the diners still. If you find an
old diner that still makes their products with the syrup
and stuff like that. I've been two of them, uh,
within the last ten years that do it. And I
told you guys when we were in Florida, Uh, we
came across an old diner. Was I think it was
open like a ninety I think I have to look
it up. I want to say it was like forty
three or something like that, and they were still in operation.

(27:41):
And it was the best food ever. I mean, like
maybe I always say that and I'm like, was that
really hungry that dude? But I don't think I was
really hungry. It was just cool.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
It was both nostalgia.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Stalgia was way cool of it. It's like how we
got game Mars and Norfolk.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
I mean when they kind of I mean they kind
of have gone to like but they kind of do
still try to keep their old.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
If you're in Norfolk, are you want to go to
Domars if you're in Norfolk? I mean, it's still cool.
It's still they old, like the old, you know, bring
bring back kind of vibe to it.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
When eybody was, you know, roller blade into your cars,
they weren't rollerblading and that would definitely be that they
were they were.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
They were skates, but they weren't.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
On rollers, you know what I was going. But it
was more than just sonic. I mean I think In
and Out did it back in the day.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
I think, Uh, I don't know if I don't think
In and Out ever did No, No, I can tell you.
But they were, they were. They were the car hops
like like they were popular. So there's one little trail
it's still in operation, guys, but it's completely changed from
when I was a kid. There is one in Boulder City, Nevada,
is the A and W Roopier. It is still there.

(28:48):
But when I was a kid, it was still fifty styles,
you know, I mean for the n W Rooper. It
was very nostalgic, very cool. I still want to get
up that way. I try to stop in just because
I ate there a lot when I was a kid,
and it was still the old style one. Now they've
changed it and it's been modernized and kind of sad
that it has been for me, but I still remember

(29:08):
it when it was old. You remember, it wasn't sonic,
but it was something else, and it was There was
one that was here in Virginia Beach that I took
you guys to, and I can't remember what it was,
but I think it turned into a sonic. Maybe it
was still an old it was. I can't remember I
took you guys, but I try to remember what road
it was on. But you're remembering that one too. And
they were on roller states that I took you to,
and I can't remember. I want to say it turned

(29:29):
into a sonic, but I A and W was one
of the ones I went to when I was a kid. So,
like I said, I think nostalgic is great. I think
you can bring back some of the old cars and
be a great business. I think it would work out.
Tell us what you guys think. You guys got any
great old car stories? Any good like old diners? You
guys want to curious? I want to hear about it.
I got to take another quick corcial Breakwake, come back,
we got more for you. Hold type, I'm right back.

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Speaker 2 (33:34):
Hey, guys, all right, so we're talking about nostalgic stuff
before we went to commercial break. It's funny because one
of the things that we're talking about, you know, diners
and going to the diners and stuff, and how hot
rods and diners and all that used to kind of
cole Mingle Commingle. One of the things I one hundred
percent miss was talking about Commercial Break is the drive
in theaters. I I love to drive in. I don't
think I ever truly fully watched a movie start to begin,

(33:59):
you know, from start to end at a drive in theater,
but just the whole nostalgic vibe of driving. I can
tell you the last one I went to was in Vegas,
out just outside Vegas. It was up on the hill
as you head up towards Mount Charleston on the right
hand side, and I believe now that is a Walmart
parking lot, which is just like the country song. So

(34:19):
which is sad? He makes a face.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
It is sad.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
It is that that was the last one I could look.
I was young man. I didn't always do the right
things about to say. I can remember packing people in
the trunk because you used to pay for how many
people as you paid by the car load, and then
they start charging you by the person, So then we
would hide people in the trunk. I put five people
in the trunk, carver off the trunk.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
No, no, they don't ever know.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
They started to at one point, but it lasts very
short I remember them checking trunks. I can remember growing.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Up in the in the days of you know, packing
people in the trunk and just try to sneak yourself in.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
We did that, you know, no, like I said, it
was so what did you you guys did for? What
did you guys go to you to put people in
the trunk the guard in place? Yeah, that's I do.
That's you know, it's called botanical I knew that's what
I as soon as you said, I want the only
place I know that does that, And it was that.
It was that place. Sorry, botanical gardens they want great kids.

(35:14):
But no, uh, we used to do it at the
movie theater all the time. It was funny because so
here's the thing, like now as an adult, I think
about it, and I think about hiding people in the
trunk to get in the into the driving. Right. Did
they ever realize every time you saw a trunk pop up,
you know why it was popping up? But nobody ever
said anything like you're like, if you're opening the trunk
of the drive, it's because you're getting people out of it.

(35:35):
I mean like yeah, And then I don't think I
mean I didn't write next to other people and they
see you getting people out of the trunk.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
And yeah, and someone parts right next to you and
they're doing the same thing. But I think, like you know,
it depends on the type of person, right Like some
people know and don't care, and other people are just
you know, full of power and want to you know,
execute power.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Domina. Look, I'd be the first one to tell you
that there's so many situations in my life where I
know that that person was a hall monitor at school
and should not have like got the position in life
they have. Now.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
I just Karen's point on me because I was a hallmwner.
But I love that guy.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
People. I said, there's certain people you know that were
the hall monitor that should have never got power.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
I was that cool home monster was like, yeah, let's
just slide, keep on walking, all right.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
I' gonna lie. In fifth grade, I was to you
know why I was the.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
I'm gonna tell you why this because you got a
class early. People come up to you and always chew
with you when you're in the hallways that anybody you
you were that guy like you, you know, you let
things slide. You basically controlled what was going on.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
You would think that's the reason why. That's those two
of the reasons why I want to be a home mowner.
I knew everybody right, you're the home mownor I got
a class early. I also got out at lunchtime early
to go eat my lunch. I go down and grab
my lunch before everybody because I got to get a
head start on eating so you could be back out
of the lunch room, so you could be out monitoring
the hall. Last but at least fifth grade, just so
you know, I was the hall monitor for the girl's bathroom.

(36:57):
That's right. They put us right outside of you, and
you had to let the girls in and out at
like two at a time, three at a time. You
couldn't let anymore go.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
We just say bathrooms though, because they were usually right
next to each other.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Ours were there on ours was around the hallway. So
there was a hallway went down this way the girl's bathroom,
and then you went around the corner and boys bathroom
said there on the other hallway going up, and you
had to stand there and your job was to make
sure that they didn't put too many girls in the bathroom.
So guess what, you got to talk to every single
girl there was. That was my interest. I was like, yep,

(37:28):
I'll be one absolutely where do I sign me up?
Sign me up? And that was that was my interest.
I had no interest in telling people anything to do, right.
All I wanted to do was stand at the girl's
bathroom and talk to me like and I remember that.
It was a long time ago, but that was like
that was my main motivation for it. I'm like, run
in the hall, didn't care, you know, doing things you

(37:48):
weren't supposed to do. I don't care, no hall passed,
didn't care the girls bathroom and talk with tricks. I
just made friends with the security guards. I mean that friends. Yeah,
that was your guys time. You guys didn't have to
deal with it like we had it. But like I said,
I mean it's just that that's another nostalblished thing. Like
I can remember another thing. Roller skating rink was huge.

(38:12):
There's a country song about to every roller skating rink
I ever went to. There was a black trans am
at it. I mean there just was. I mean like
there's somebody was you know.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
The roller skate rink was pretty somewhat popular when they
were growing up outs, Yeah, but they weren't really car
hangouts when we were not growing up, but they were
hangouts one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Like you went to the roll skating rink and people
had souped up muscle cars whatever, and they were parked
of the roller skate rink. Why probably because that's where
all the teen girls went to. You know, during my time,
everybody when I kind of went to the roller skating
rink in a certain age group. You got a certain
age group and it stopped. But there was that certain
age from like people turning fifteen to sixteen, road skating

(38:52):
rink was still it. And then once you're sixteen you
really start driving and going place, you realized roll skate
rink was the place to go. There was that little
period and they'd probably be about fifteen or sixteen different
hot rods hanging out in the parking lot talking. I mean,
and I guess it really depends on what your town was.
Because I was I had to go to a town
for business one time. I was still pretty young, right
out of the military. Their hangout was the wind Dixie

(39:15):
parking lot. But their town was small, but there was
probably about thirty or forty cars in the wind Dixie
parking lot. Guys pickup trucks sitting in the back bed
drinking beer like you would in any Gregor once again
country song, and that was their hang out, you know
what I mean. And then there was a it was
another time I did a lot of talent was in
a lot of different towns when I was a young man,
because I told you guys that did cases and stuff
like that as an investigator, Tasty Freeze was in a

(39:37):
lot of the small towns, and Tasty Freeze was still
the hangout, which was still kind of like the car
hop set up so that everybody hung out that. So
it was just I miss a lot of that. I
missed that nostalgic side of all all things. That's the
reason why I think bringing back old cars would work,
the bringing back some places for people hang out. There's
I don't think there's really any place for kids really
to hang out anymore. I think that's kind of I.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Had totally I agree with me, Like I.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Know that there's a big there's a big problem in
our area where uh that you have a.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
People what are you messing around like takeovers and all that.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Yeah, take okay, not the takeovers where the pop ups. Okay,
so you guys have pop ups, and that's where just
people text each other and like hey, that's where we're at.
And that's where cars end up meeting, which is cool
because I've stopped and with having radio showing this car related,
I stopped. And cars are and some are good, some
are horrible.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
But I think the pop ups are a thing now
because there isn't really any designated area for people to go.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
There is, and here's the thing. So I have no
problem with the pop up if everything is going to plan.
The problem is there's always those one or two guys
that ruin it, and then before you know, there's police everywhere.
And me at this age, I'm not trying to like
deal with the police in my hot rod, you know
what I mean? Like mine know, my stuff's.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Legit, right, But you get tied up in that type
of stuff.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
You get tied up in that stuff because they want to.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Make a marker at everybody.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Which just happened to me, and I'm like, oh, I know,
we got report. You know, here's my thing. There's good
and bad when it comes to the blue right. We
all know how this works.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
We support and let's just say it's per people. It's
not even just the blue itself. It's just there's good people,
there's bad people that make good choices and bad choices.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
For this story to make sense, it does. I'm an adult.
I'm not out there doing dumb stuff. I stopped in
solely because a we have a radio show that is
all round cars. I see a huge group of cars.
I'm curious to see what's in there, so I'll roll
in and before I know it's, something stupid happens and
I'm going to mix. And now you know, I'm sitting
on the side of the road getting the riot act

(41:38):
and I want to I'm sorry, guys, I'm still pretty
mild manner. But once you start messing with me, they'll
tell you there is something that lives deep downside of
me from being younger, that still lives there that if
you push my buttons, it comes to light very quickly.
And one of them is uh being chastised for something
I didn't do on the side of the road by
somebody who's just power drunk, hungry and dry me nuts.

(42:00):
And I'm like, I didn't tell the three idiots or
whatever to go with smoke their tires out in the
street or whatever. I didn't. You know, most of us.
By the way, a lot of times when you go
to some of these pop ups or these small night
car meets and stuff like that, most of the guys
that are out there, I say, at least half are
my age, right, because we can afford the nice cars
that are out there.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
We're just trying to We're just trying to enjoy the moment.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
You're just out for the night, you know, stuff like that.
So now you get to the point where you can't
engage because you're afraid of what's gonna happen. I don't know.
Like that's why I say, if we had more places
for people to sit, they're still going to do it.
It's been going on for the history of it. I
go back to when I was a kid before I drove,
and I was watching people pull out in the street
and smoke the tires stuff like that. It's it's gonna happen.
But you don't have to villainize everybody and treat everybody

(42:46):
like they're a criminal just because it's.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Like you know, the back of the day when you
had like a bunch of drag strips too. Now like
the removal drag strips, so like you know, that's one
lass hangout for the race.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
You Know on the street said, if you don't have it,
where do you race? There's so much stuff that goes
into the history of our culture and our sport, and
we've covered a lot of it so far on the
show You Know Today, it's.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
You take all avenues away and then people have to
find other ways to one hundred place to get the
you know, the drenal.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
One of the things I like to do on a
Saturday night, honest with You is is getting an old car,
a new core whatever it is, and just bounce from
the different parking lots throughout town. And I know where
they're at, and some a lot of you guys know too.
If you're in this area, if you have if you're
in your house, you know the area. And they kind
of do. But that's the reason why they keep moving
to locations because they're kind of trying to keep the
heat away so they can sit and they can enjoy.
It's really annoying.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
The last one I went to and I won't say
where I was at, but I went to one and
we were sitting there. I pulled in. I want to
see what kind of cars? Some really nice cars, Uh,
mixed crowd close to my age, little less than me,
way less to me in age and stuff like that.
But it was a mixed bag of tricks of cars, right.
But there was a police We watched police office. They
pulled in, blacked out, and they parked basically did a

(43:56):
four corner on the around us. I've been there where
we're at, and I'm just like, really like no area,
which just kind of sitting checking out his cars. Was
nothing crazy going on there really was.

Speaker 8 (44:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
I don't know, there's the potential for it to happen,
but I think we escalate the situation right by doing that.
And once again it comes back to being nostalgic. There
really is any places for them to go hang out anymore,
so they're picking parking lots.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
I just think there needs to be a mix between
the two. I can be wrong. If you disagree with me,
send it to me. If you agree with me, send.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
It to me too.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
We can talk about it and may take another quick
course of break. When I come back, we'll finish off
the show. I'm bred back.

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Speaker 2 (47:05):
Hey, Michelle, thanks for coming in.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
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Speaker 2 (47:09):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Curtis dropped that off earlier this week.

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Speaker 2 (47:25):
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Speaker 3 (47:30):
I don't know about this, Dave.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
You gotta admit it's got a ring to it.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
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back to Let's Talk Cars Radio, your autumn motive specialists.
Now back to your host, Dave Polach.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Hey, guys, welcome back. So here's something that I told you, guys.
I play around a lot of forums and talk to
a lot of people with different subjects. How we get
most of the content to talk about the shows because
it's what everybody's talking about currently. And the last second
we were talking about, you know, as far as no
nostalgic and no places to go and stuff like that.
That was a topic this last week. That's why it's
on my brain. So people have always I have like
the craziest car stories, right Like, you know, you talk

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to any car guy, don't have to be a car guy,
and they can tell you a strange story or a
crazy car story whatever. You know. My buddy Kurt, you know,
he's been on the show livery transmission. You know, he's
got funny ones. One of the ones that he told
me that stuck with me is when the windshow wipers
and stuff stopped working. He was on a trip and
the windows started to frost up, and they're trying to

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figure out a way to defrost's window and I don't
even know they decided Kurt side to say they but
whoever was with and I think it was his cousin
was within the time Kurt jumps up on the fret.
He had an old h I think that it was
the he had a power ram, an old power ram
that they were driving. It was for their hunting truck
and they were going up hunting and he jumps up

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on the hood of the vehicle and he starts peeing
on the windshield of fall off the windheld because the
didn't have anything else warm, right, and it was working.
And is he's standing on the windshield and on the hood,
peeing on the windshield the vehicle on side. There are
only people on the road by the way. Really, you
didn't see anybody else. So it's not like it's weird.
It is weird, give me wrong. It was weird, but
it was working. It was the only thing that like,

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they tried to scrape nothing, so that was their their their,
They're fixed for it. Right here comes a highway trooper
comes around the bend as he's standing on the hood
of this thing peeing on the windshield. He didn't do it.
I think he probably was so shocked himself and thought
it was funny that like what do you do? You
just kind of right and just keep on driving, you
know what I mean, Like.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Don't really want to stop for that hole one of
those rooms.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
So it's like an Oprah moment. That is not my job,
but it's funny. Like and I've told you guys, tons
of them over the years. You know, I can think about
I told you about a girl I knew when I
was in high school and called me the middle night
and said she was having a problem with the breaks.
We take the car for a ride and I was
playing around, being dumb, and I ended up throwing the

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car on the side. It had come upot a ditch,
laid the car on the side and slid down this
dirt road on its side. Uh. Now I got a
little more than problems, right, I had a little more
problems than probably what they came to me for. But
we managed to patch it up get it back to
her house, and we did. We passed it up and
her dad didn't notice when he went to work, so
he didn't notice thattur so it was possible tonight. Nor

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you took it all right.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
Right, Like so I only looked at one side of it, right, He.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Was like, it's it's one of those things, funny stories.
I'm not justifying by any mean, you know, but they are.
They make for great That.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
One story I told you about. You know, We're at
a party and we watched someone play bumper cars all
the way down the neighborhoods nuts.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Like, yeah, freaked own. Left a party I guess they
went to. This was years ago, and there's a good
chance that they probably either they were distracted or they
had too much to drink. We're not sure which one,
but we'll go with the ladder. We're going. Yeah, they
played ping pong down the road off of cars as
they left.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Every neighbor's car. I mean, like ten to fifteen cars
just got a really good whack, right.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
But I wonder if they made it home.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
It's one of those It's one of those car stories,
you know. I mean, like I told you I took
that road trip. I was I twenty one years old
and I took a road trip. I told you, guys
in the winter time, and I stopped for like seventeen
different major traffic accidents in a snowstorm because like they
just kept on happening in front of me, and I
felt obligated to stop. And I'm not talking like little
f there are big accidents. I mean, like we all

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had no business being on that mountain. We were going
up over the mountain. There was no business beyond that mountain,
but we were snow came in. It was quick, we
were already there. I told you, My buddy Roger was
with me. We are literally the snow is coming down
so heavy on the windshield of the car. Guys that
you couldn't move it quick enough with the wind show
wipers that we had to roll the windows down, and
he is hanging out the driver's window. I'm hanging out
the driver of the passenger window, and we're looking for

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any landmarkers as we're driving, to make sure we're not
going to drive off the road because the road got
so covered with snow. Every once in a while you
could see like the yellow line. So I'm like, uh,
you're on it. No, you're off, You're off, you know
what I mean. And we drove and then we drove
like that. I'm not talking like for like five miles.
I want to say for like one hundred miles. We
drove like that because the snowstorm was just so bad.
But those collective stories of what makes things issue when

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it comes to cars, like I, you know, I love
those stories, the fact that I experienced that and that
kind of stuff happened, breaking down in the desert and
having to hike and hitch hiking, which you probably really
probably shouldn't do nowadays. It was a little different world.
But we hitchhiked. I broke down the desert. I don't
know if I ever told you guys a story, but
I broke down, and then I was in the middle
of nowhere. I mean, I'm in the desert. I was

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between Vegas and uh going up towards Mesquite, and that's
that's a long stretch. So it was either hike all
the way back int Vegas, which was too far, or
just start walking in the direction of where I was
going and my thumb out and this family picks me up.
There wasn't a whole lot of room, but they made
it work, and we got in their car and we
made it probably like seven miles down the road and
their car broke down, and I'm like, what's the chances

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of that happen?

Speaker 6 (53:16):
Now?

Speaker 3 (53:16):
You feel awkward because you feel like you caused that, right.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
But then like I you know what I felt awkward
was well, I was like I got my stuff, and
then I just started.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
Talking like well, I was like, look, I was already
I was already in this predicament.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
I'm gonna keep on going.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
I mean, it's seven miles up the road, you know,
one person putting their thumb out, it's four.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
I'm like, I'm like, I guess I'm just gonna start
you feel weird. I guess I was just gonna start walking.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
TIM really need to get to where I'm going. I
had to get to work, like I was like trying to,
like I needed my job and I didn't want to
lose my job, and I was just trying to do
everything I could to get to work, you know what
I mean. Like, and I want to say, that's one
hundred and thirty six miles was where we were going,
and like I still a while, I needed to go
buy my car. I'm never gonna believe you. My car

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broke down, and the second car got and also broke down,
like sure it did. Yeah, okay, Well.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
I think it's funny. Back in the day, is that
like that was a recommendation. Why did you just hit hitchhike?
Nowadays nobody, nobody's recommended to that.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
Nobody's fucking up the hitch.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
How many times I had it. I broke down on
that stretch of road a bunch of different times. And
I don't think I ever broke down in my actual car.
I think always broke down in a car I was
borrowing from somebody. It was like I borrowed the car
and it would break down, like I broke down. Well,
that ended up being my car for a little bit,
very short return. But it was a rabbit and that
broke down, and then pickup truck and that broke down.

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It was like everything I was like, it just kept
everything kept breaking down. And that trust me, it's like
one hundred and seventeen degrees outside in the shade on
that stretch of road, so it's always an overheat issue.
I mean, it's just it was brutal on a car.
I mean like you go down that road and cars
are broken down everywhere on that stretch road for the
long time, and there was nothing. You left Vegas and
there was nothing other than I don't think the casino

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was there yet, but there was any reservation that sold gas.
That was awfu little offering. But then you had to
go off and go up this long dirt road to
get up to that, you know what I mean. So
I was like, okay, but I think that was that
was it between that there was nothing and I said,
I broke down. That's how I found out that. I
told you guys the story that a vehicle will run
on ever Clear. It doesn't run good, but it does

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run on Everclear. It runs like junk. But it got
me to the gas. The gas gage stuck. I don't know,
like I thought I had enough gasan I would have
never attempted that trip without enough gas. That's all I
can remember from that story was it's not like I
would have gotten the car and went, let me see
if I can make it, like like I like to
do now, like everybody jokes about, like, man, you really
like to you like to let that light stand? I

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think it's funny to play everybody hates getting the car
with how long has that been on? And I'm like
a little while, and I just think it's funny. I
don't I don't know.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
I don't know why find what's the longest you've had
your gas light to stay on?

Speaker 2 (56:03):
For the camera? When we bought the camera, I got
sixty eight miles. From my understanding that I probably shouldn't
know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (56:13):
The days, like how many days.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
You had trumping back out of.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
The property and it comes on and I know it's
a good drive back out to a gas station and go, well,
I hope we make it. That happens quite a bit
out because I'm out, you know, Gods, I live out
in the country, and you know, I'm like, I don't know,
I get I don't. I don't. I'm not going to
say I get distracted or maybe not any pain. I
just don't care, and I'll send it pops on. And
I'm halfway to the property. Halfway to the property, there's
no gas stations. That's it. There's just there's nothing. And

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it's still what another fifteen miles or so, So it's
fifteen miles to get here, and like, you know, another
fifteen miles out and you know, trucks don't get great
gas miles. So it is rolling the dice for sure,
But I do it. But no, I I on that
trip between there, I we were having a party and
I had a trunk full alcohol and the car out
of gas, and I think it probably had enough maybe

(57:02):
stoolen the bob of a tank. That is probably what
made it work. I don't know. I've never went back
and tested the theory. But the only thing I think
of is I took a clear and I poured the
tank in the car fired. It spluttered and ran like crap,
but it ran and it got me to that gas station.
Gas station I'm telling telling you about. It was on
the end of your reservation and it got me there.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
Something sucks more than running out of gas in your phone,
dying so you can't find.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
A gas station. Nothing sucks worse than being young, broke
and having to pour a bottle of a clear that
you planned on drinking into the gas tank for your car.
Nothing sucks worse than that.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Just just spent your last dollar on it, literally.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Holding it, going do I drink it?

Speaker 3 (57:40):
Well? You know, I.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Was like, there was not one for my homies. It
was one for me, Like seriously, it was. It was, yeah,
I did, But I remember holding because I wasn't you know.
I mean, I was like I was a very young man,
and like boring a bottle of a clear into a
car just seemed like unholy. It's complete. I was just
like in the canow right right, it was like thoughts

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the whole way, like I said. And to this day,
I still don't know if it would run completely off
of it or if it because it still had a
little bit of fuel in the tanke and it mixed
enough to make it run. Like I said, it ran
like crack and chair ran nana really want to do.
Somebody told me that because carb rated car, that's why
it ran. If they said. If it was fuel injected
nowadays it probably wouldn't work, but carb rate. So hey,

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if you're ever in a pickle, I know that works.
I don't know if the contents of the how much
alcohol is in ever clear has changed over the years,
but it worked for me. You can give a shot.
And I know, guys, it's the end of our show.
We gotta go ahead and get out here. I can't
believe it went by that quick. Hope you guys enjoyed
the show. Hopefully you guys are enjoying your Saturday. Get
out to a car show, have some fun, spend some
time doing some things. We got a bunch of stuff

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coming up. You guys know. We're headed to Sema. We
also have the Porsche Clubs show. Key guys on the
probably next week. Started telling you what's going on with that.
Got some plans. Come out and see us out here
in the hamp Roads area. Enjoy your Sunday. It is
right around the corner. Make sure you unplug, spend some
time with your kids, play a board game with them,
fire the barbecue, whatever you gotta do. Hide your cell
phones in the cushion, but spend some time with them.

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They'll love you for it, I guarantee, and they'll talk
about it for years, all the time you spent with them.
You guys, got anything before we get out here, Enjoy
your weekend one. All right, guys, we're out here and
we'll talk to you soon