December 12, 2024 • 14 mins
One man's crappy car leads to an unfortunate choice, and some fun stories about land yachts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Many of us have thought about doing this, but we haven't.
It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm strong and getty one more so. You don't have
the falls, and neither do I and shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
But if you've ever had a really crappy car, like not,
I'm not talking about like you had a car and
it was fine, but over ten years of ownership it
became crappy. I mean it was crappy from the get go.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You got ripped off a lemon, if you.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Will, and you were quite angry who sold it to you?
Maybe you can relate to this person? Then, oh, anybody
under the car?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It was kind of a very very scary situation. Several
hours later he came back and he was very emotional.
He said, listen, if you don't give me my money
back right now, I'm going to run this car right
through the front door.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I was just really angry, upset about my money. I
kind of blacked out for a second.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
You know, I know I probably shouldn't have done it,
but I guess they just hit a breaking point.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Probably, Well that's a crazy person, is what that is.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
If it was an hour ago, you didn't have time
to find out you have a crappy car.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, I was worried about my money, and I kind
of blacked out. I expected to hear the guy yelling,
listen this thing. I found sand in the transmission, right,
you know whatever, But no, just a whacky doodle.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah and uh and you could have killed somebody obviously.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
I don't know if you saw the video of this,
but he went straight through the big pane glass windows
and into somebody's desk with that car.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's oh yeah, that's that's no good. I got ripped
off once on a car. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You remember when I flew to Boise to buy that
pickup truck. Oh yeah, that was that turned out bad? Yeah,
like four days it was on the way home, the
transmission stopped working. Oh really Yeah, and I don't know
enough about transmissions to know how you would get it,
you know, hair pinned and duct taped together to hold
up during test drive. But then it putts like as
soon as I left the guy's house.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But that's what happened. Jeez.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Sometimes I've had vehicles that ran fine until they got
warmed up when things got hot, and then things went south.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So as long as you drove the car.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
When it was cold, it seemed like it ran fine.
Things got all hot, they didn't work so well. What
time My buddy Chris and I, Hey, gladys, can you
play the hard for this? My buddy Chris and I
were going to college in Western Kansas, and we both
were I think we're nineteen years old. We're freshman in college,
and we both had like a thousand bucks and we
went to Denver to get cars. Neither one of us
(02:35):
had a car, and we had a thousand dollars. His
sister drove us to Denver and dropped us off. We
got a cheap rental car. And the only way we're
going to get back home is one or both of
us were going to buy our cars.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And we spent the weekend shopping.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
What year it was this? Nineteen eighty four?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Stand by, I mean go ahead, you can keep talking.
And I mean by standby, I mean continue.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You talking, Jose, I assume trying to figure out what
one thousand dollars would be in today's money.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Precisely, it still wasn't.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
A lot nineteen thirteen, No, nineteen eighty two, you said,
four eighty four?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The year Van Halen's nineteen four album nineteen eight charts.
It was the year after Van Halen's nineteen forty eight album.
I'm trying to type in talk at the same time
and it's going poorly.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
There you go, Jack, that would be in today's dollars
a three thousand dollars car.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, well, yeah, so that that's helpful, but you know,
so not disastrous cars, but not a not a great car.
So we each had the cash in our pocket and
we went to a whole bunch of crappy car lots
because when you're buy it, when that's your your limit,
you can't go to very nice car lots, right, I mean,
most car lots don't have a car that cheap anywhere
(03:57):
on the lot.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So we're going to what they call potlot.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's the places that are gravel, you know, and got
a puddle over there, and they got kind of like a.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Mobile home for where you go in to fill up
the paperwork. Charming. Yeah, those kind of places.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And I've bought quite a few cars at places like that,
and there's sketch af but we each bought Baja bugs,
which was very childish of us, and the only people
that thought that was cool was ten year old.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Boys.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Girls certainly didn't think so. But we each bought these
old Volkswagens on.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
The way home. Driving on the way home, similar to
your situation. His his broke down. We didn't even make
it home, like two hundred miles and his broke down.
Mine soldiered on and ran for years.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Actually, but man, you buy a car and you don't
even make it home, that makes you mad.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That will make you mad. Yeah, I'd say, all right,
hang out, go ahead, Katie.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Oh my Lemon was a brand new car, which sucked,
but I was I was working at the radio station
in San Francisco, and I had gotten it was also
a Volkswagon Jack, but it was one of those convertible ones,
so it had the little button and the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Convertible would tuck back into the trunk. Look at thet
convertible hunh Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
And I had always wanted a convertible. So I'm on
my way to the radio station. It is four o'clock
in the morning and raining, and I am on the
freeway driving through Oakland, California, and out of nowhere, the
convertible opened while I was a freeway.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh boy, in the rain, let me gets your attention.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yeah, so I closed the rain, I closed it, went
to the radio station, did my show, came home, and
then when he straight to the dealership and got rid
of that car that day.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Did you get any money back or anything like that.
I know I got the no cooling off lemon Low
whatever it is.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
See in California, they took pretty good care of me
because I had purchased the car the week before. I mean,
this was eight days of owning this thing. But I'll
never forget it. Just it just started going back and
I'm going, what the's going on here?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
That had to be a moment of am I under
attack or what did I black out?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
What is happening? So Jack for for I set my limits,
my price.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Limits here at Ebabe Motors between three thousand and thirty
one hundred dollars, and I've got several fine vehicles for you.
I got a nineteen eighty six Chevrolet Caprice Classic.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Now this is a classic, it's right there.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
In the name boy an American made car from the eighties, new.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Three thousand and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm pro American made cars now high quality. There was
a period of time in the seventies and eighties, they
were crap.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It's a nineteen eighty six, one of the best years made.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Low mileage. It just doesn't look like it. What is
the mileage on this? You gotta tell me the damn mileage?
Good lord?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What a I used to do commercials for one of
those potlights Katie Beck into my early radio days, and
I do ads every day, and all the cars were
like fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
In the ads I'm doing, and I would I'd readop.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I said, we got a nineteen seventy six, you know,
Capri Classic ice cold air conditioner for good tires.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We're letting this one go with eleven hundred dollars. Now
we got a.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Dots in to eighty Z for fourteen hundred dollars. This
one's got a stereo, leather seats, and ice cold air conditioning.
When you're advertising the air conditioning is a real luxury point.
That's that's not a good sign.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That's a sign for how good the tires are. Hey,
it's got a stereo. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Well, of course
it does. You want to have to ride around in
silence in.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
This one that's got all four seats exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Hanson Cold Air conditioning.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Hanson just informed me that eighties cars are coming back
in certain auctions. Barrett Jackson auctions. Have you ever heard
of him? I guess they're bringing back eighties cars.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, oh yeah. My son's really into a lot of
cars that that. He's like, oh, that's a cool car, Dad,
And I said, wow, really I remember that car. You
could go to that for two thousand dollars. But they
got popular for a variety of reasons, you know, the
way things just get popular.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, that whole you.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Know, life span of whether it's a band or a
car or a dance craze or whatever that it. It's
it's super hip, then it's new ish, then it's established,
then it's kind of tired, then it's old and mocked,
and then the nostalgia starts. What is that twelve there's
some sort of twelve year rulers. I can't remember, but.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, and then all of a sudden it's the hottest thing.
Definitely happens with cars.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I got a whole bunch of crappy cars I wish
I would have kept, because they'd have been they'd be
worth something now, or they certainly would be cool now.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
They were not at the time. This one takes American
made fuel. It's only nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You know, looking at cheap cars online is comical, right.
For thirty eight hundred dollars, you can get a two
thousand and five Hondae Alantra with one hundred and fifty
thousand miles, has no headlights and only three tires.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I'll tell you what I am.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I am not to the place yet in my life
where I can even like joke about that. I spent
too many years driving crappy cars, and the only thing
I ever wanted was to make enough money that I
could have a card that when I walked out in
the morning, I knew it was gonna start. I thought
that that was just my dream in life, to know
I could walk out there and be almost certain that
(09:11):
when I turned the key it would start.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Because it was luxury in your head at the time.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh definitely, because every day of is it going to
start today? And then everything that goes with if it
doesn't start, how you get to work, how you're gonna
get it somewhere, how you're gonna pay for it? Oh
my god, that's the worst.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
My mom always talks about her seventy five bug that
she had to park on a on a hill facing downhill,
and she'd have to pop the clutch to get it
rolling in order for it to start.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
No starter.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Good thing here in the Bay Area, in the Central Valley, right.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I had many motorcycles like that. I'd have to run
and then hop on the seat and pop the clutch.
Oh did you get all sweaty?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Wow? Well, what are you gonna do? I'll be back
there again soon enough. I'm sure. I was hanging out
at the strip mall wherever it was the other day
and a guy passed me rolled by and I'm not
like a car guy exactly, so I don't know. But
it was an.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Early seventies like Impalla. It was one of those cars
that's like sixty five feet long.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I mean, just a ridiculously.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Long hood end trunk Tudor. But you know, it took
like five minutes for the thing to roll by me,
and it was just magnificent.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Is that because it's just the car that I admired
when I was, you know whatever, seven years old.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, it's got to do with your age, because I
go to a lot of car shows with Sam because
he is a car guy and who loves him. And
when I was a kid, all the cars were fifties cars,
you know, fifty seven Chevy or whatever like that, because
the old guys there, that was the car that was
hot when they was in high school.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
They were in high school.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now you see the occasional one of those, but that's
not what Guineabody gathers around. They gather around the nineteen
eighty you know, Pontiac Firebird because that's the car they
had when they were in high school. It has to
do with what you had when you were high You're
not a car guy. You know who is a car guy.
Mike Canton, our executive producer Hanson joins them, just.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
You know, Joe, every kid, every high school kid, should
appreciate and enjoy ownership of a land yacht, one of
those big cars. And I had one and it was
it was actually a proud moment for me because I
bought it from a Junkyard. My nineteen seventy one Buhicles
Saber bought from a Junkyard for two hundred dollars. It
(11:26):
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
The heater had a quality heater up.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I'm adjusting for inflation, that two hundred dollars would be
two hundred and four dollars that.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I could.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I could fit six guys in that car, I'm sure.
Plus load up the trunk with a lot of beer
before basketball games. We had a great time. Heater beer awesome,
had a great time, no doubt. Someone plowed into that
car in the middle of winter on my street, and
I think I know who it was.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Troy.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
I'll hold that against.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
You for the rest of your life. Troy. Wow, damn, Troy,
this may be illegal. Last name, I'm serious about it.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Never revealed that ever, So my whole life, I've never
had a chance to call him out. Okay, I've been
wanting to do this for the past thirty years.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
If anybody else would like to level a half assization
for a decade's old incident, call us and we'll put
you on the air.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I want to call out my uncle right now.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
So then I sold the car to a guy for
two hundred dollars. He drove it for the summer. Then
I bought the car back from him that fall for
one hundred and fifty bucks, and I drove it again
for another winner.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
It was fantastic that a box on the Gondaw you
broke even all right. That is the one thing with
the cheap cars, because I've done that a few times.
You buy him for something and then you sell them
for the same amount because they've just been bought them out.
That's what they were worth.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, boy, My old buddy Scott, God rest his soul,
had this gigantic since in nineteen seventy, probably eight. I
don't know Impalla, but it was one of those giant
land yachts. It was crappy when he owned it, and old.
But you know, the old complaint used to be cars
are too small to have sex in the back seat anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well, Scott's racing and Palla.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You could have one couple in the front seat and
one in the back seat and they wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Be aware of each other.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
It was so freaking big.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
We could put so many people in that car in
the trunk, Hansen to your point, I mean, never mind.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Beer, you could you could like put one of those
the tiny houses in the trunk. It was so ginormous.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I learned to drive in our station wagon that was
like that. I don't know how I learned to drive
as a five foot two fourteen year old, but uh,
You couldn't see anything but hood. There's just hood, giant hood,
turn the giant hood everywhere I go. Those cars were
so long too. Learning to parallel park a twenty foot car,
I don't even know what that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Is makes you good?
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Who knows how many people you ran down and we're
totally unaware of Right, Maybe Old Troy was exactly as
somebody who had it coming.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
My parents bought a station wagon true story. They didn't
realize that the windows didn't roll down in the back
until when their kids got car sick, and that's how
they found out. Well, I guess that's it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Rolled down the window.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I can't b barf car
Many of us have thought about doing this, but we haven't.
It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm strong and getty one more so. You don't have
the falls, and neither do I and shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
But if you've ever had a really crappy car, like not,
I'm not talking about like you had a car and
it was fine, but over ten years of ownership it
became crappy. I mean it was crappy from the get go.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You got ripped off a lemon, if you.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Will, and you were quite angry who sold it to you?
Maybe you can relate to this person? Then, oh, anybody
under the car?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It was kind of a very very scary situation. Several
hours later he came back and he was very emotional.
He said, listen, if you don't give me my money
back right now, I'm going to run this car right
through the front door.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I was just really angry, upset about my money. I
kind of blacked out for a second.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
You know, I know I probably shouldn't have done it,
but I guess they just hit a breaking point.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Probably, Well that's a crazy person, is what that is.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
If it was an hour ago, you didn't have time
to find out you have a crappy car.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, I was worried about my money, and I kind
of blacked out. I expected to hear the guy yelling,
listen this thing. I found sand in the transmission, right,
you know whatever, But no, just a whacky doodle.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah and uh and you could have killed somebody obviously.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
I don't know if you saw the video of this,
but he went straight through the big pane glass windows
and into somebody's desk with that car.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's oh yeah, that's that's no good. I got ripped
off once on a car. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You remember when I flew to Boise to buy that
pickup truck. Oh yeah, that was that turned out bad? Yeah,
like four days it was on the way home, the
transmission stopped working. Oh really Yeah, and I don't know
enough about transmissions to know how you would get it,
you know, hair pinned and duct taped together to hold
up during test drive. But then it putts like as
soon as I left the guy's house.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But that's what happened. Jeez.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Sometimes I've had vehicles that ran fine until they got
warmed up when things got hot, and then things went south.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So as long as you drove the car.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
When it was cold, it seemed like it ran fine.
Things got all hot, they didn't work so well. What
time My buddy Chris and I, Hey, gladys, can you
play the hard for this? My buddy Chris and I
were going to college in Western Kansas, and we both
were I think we're nineteen years old. We're freshman in college,
and we both had like a thousand bucks and we
went to Denver to get cars. Neither one of us
(02:35):
had a car, and we had a thousand dollars. His
sister drove us to Denver and dropped us off. We
got a cheap rental car. And the only way we're
going to get back home is one or both of
us were going to buy our cars.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And we spent the weekend shopping.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
What year it was this? Nineteen eighty four?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Stand by, I mean go ahead, you can keep talking.
And I mean by standby, I mean continue.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You talking, Jose, I assume trying to figure out what
one thousand dollars would be in today's money.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Precisely, it still wasn't.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
A lot nineteen thirteen, No, nineteen eighty two, you said,
four eighty four?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The year Van Halen's nineteen four album nineteen eight charts.
It was the year after Van Halen's nineteen forty eight album.
I'm trying to type in talk at the same time
and it's going poorly.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
There you go, Jack, that would be in today's dollars
a three thousand dollars car.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, well, yeah, so that that's helpful, but you know,
so not disastrous cars, but not a not a great car.
So we each had the cash in our pocket and
we went to a whole bunch of crappy car lots
because when you're buy it, when that's your your limit,
you can't go to very nice car lots, right, I mean,
most car lots don't have a car that cheap anywhere
(03:57):
on the lot.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So we're going to what they call potlot.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's the places that are gravel, you know, and got
a puddle over there, and they got kind of like a.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Mobile home for where you go in to fill up
the paperwork. Charming. Yeah, those kind of places.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And I've bought quite a few cars at places like that,
and there's sketch af but we each bought Baja bugs,
which was very childish of us, and the only people
that thought that was cool was ten year old.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Boys.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Girls certainly didn't think so. But we each bought these
old Volkswagens on.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
The way home. Driving on the way home, similar to
your situation. His his broke down. We didn't even make
it home, like two hundred miles and his broke down.
Mine soldiered on and ran for years.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Actually, but man, you buy a car and you don't
even make it home, that makes you mad.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That will make you mad. Yeah, I'd say, all right,
hang out, go ahead, Katie.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Oh my Lemon was a brand new car, which sucked,
but I was I was working at the radio station
in San Francisco, and I had gotten it was also
a Volkswagon Jack, but it was one of those convertible ones,
so it had the little button and the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Convertible would tuck back into the trunk. Look at thet
convertible hunh Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
And I had always wanted a convertible. So I'm on
my way to the radio station. It is four o'clock
in the morning and raining, and I am on the
freeway driving through Oakland, California, and out of nowhere, the
convertible opened while I was a freeway.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh boy, in the rain, let me gets your attention.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yeah, so I closed the rain, I closed it, went
to the radio station, did my show, came home, and
then when he straight to the dealership and got rid
of that car that day.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Did you get any money back or anything like that.
I know I got the no cooling off lemon Low
whatever it is.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
See in California, they took pretty good care of me
because I had purchased the car the week before. I mean,
this was eight days of owning this thing. But I'll
never forget it. Just it just started going back and
I'm going, what the's going on here?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
That had to be a moment of am I under
attack or what did I black out?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
What is happening? So Jack for for I set my limits,
my price.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Limits here at Ebabe Motors between three thousand and thirty
one hundred dollars, and I've got several fine vehicles for you.
I got a nineteen eighty six Chevrolet Caprice Classic.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Now this is a classic, it's right there.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
In the name boy an American made car from the eighties, new.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Three thousand and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm pro American made cars now high quality. There was
a period of time in the seventies and eighties, they
were crap.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It's a nineteen eighty six, one of the best years made.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Low mileage. It just doesn't look like it. What is
the mileage on this? You gotta tell me the damn mileage?
Good lord?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What a I used to do commercials for one of
those potlights Katie Beck into my early radio days, and
I do ads every day, and all the cars were
like fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
In the ads I'm doing, and I would I'd readop.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I said, we got a nineteen seventy six, you know,
Capri Classic ice cold air conditioner for good tires.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We're letting this one go with eleven hundred dollars. Now
we got a.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Dots in to eighty Z for fourteen hundred dollars. This
one's got a stereo, leather seats, and ice cold air conditioning.
When you're advertising the air conditioning is a real luxury point.
That's that's not a good sign.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That's a sign for how good the tires are. Hey,
it's got a stereo. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Well, of course
it does. You want to have to ride around in
silence in.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
This one that's got all four seats exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Hanson Cold Air conditioning.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Hanson just informed me that eighties cars are coming back
in certain auctions. Barrett Jackson auctions. Have you ever heard
of him? I guess they're bringing back eighties cars.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, oh yeah. My son's really into a lot of
cars that that. He's like, oh, that's a cool car, Dad,
And I said, wow, really I remember that car. You
could go to that for two thousand dollars. But they
got popular for a variety of reasons, you know, the
way things just get popular.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, that whole you.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Know, life span of whether it's a band or a
car or a dance craze or whatever that it. It's
it's super hip, then it's new ish, then it's established,
then it's kind of tired, then it's old and mocked,
and then the nostalgia starts. What is that twelve there's
some sort of twelve year rulers. I can't remember, but.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, and then all of a sudden it's the hottest thing.
Definitely happens with cars.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I got a whole bunch of crappy cars I wish
I would have kept, because they'd have been they'd be
worth something now, or they certainly would be cool now.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
They were not at the time. This one takes American
made fuel. It's only nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You know, looking at cheap cars online is comical, right.
For thirty eight hundred dollars, you can get a two
thousand and five Hondae Alantra with one hundred and fifty
thousand miles, has no headlights and only three tires.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I'll tell you what I am.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I am not to the place yet in my life
where I can even like joke about that. I spent
too many years driving crappy cars, and the only thing
I ever wanted was to make enough money that I
could have a card that when I walked out in
the morning, I knew it was gonna start. I thought
that that was just my dream in life, to know
I could walk out there and be almost certain that
(09:11):
when I turned the key it would start.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Because it was luxury in your head at the time.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh definitely, because every day of is it going to
start today? And then everything that goes with if it
doesn't start, how you get to work, how you're gonna
get it somewhere, how you're gonna pay for it? Oh
my god, that's the worst.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
My mom always talks about her seventy five bug that
she had to park on a on a hill facing downhill,
and she'd have to pop the clutch to get it
rolling in order for it to start.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
No starter.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Good thing here in the Bay Area, in the Central Valley, right.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I had many motorcycles like that. I'd have to run
and then hop on the seat and pop the clutch.
Oh did you get all sweaty?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Wow? Well, what are you gonna do? I'll be back
there again soon enough. I'm sure. I was hanging out
at the strip mall wherever it was the other day
and a guy passed me rolled by and I'm not
like a car guy exactly, so I don't know. But
it was an.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Early seventies like Impalla. It was one of those cars
that's like sixty five feet long.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I mean, just a ridiculously.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Long hood end trunk Tudor. But you know, it took
like five minutes for the thing to roll by me,
and it was just magnificent.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Is that because it's just the car that I admired
when I was, you know whatever, seven years old.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, it's got to do with your age, because I
go to a lot of car shows with Sam because
he is a car guy and who loves him. And
when I was a kid, all the cars were fifties cars,
you know, fifty seven Chevy or whatever like that, because
the old guys there, that was the car that was
hot when they was in high school.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
They were in high school.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now you see the occasional one of those, but that's
not what Guineabody gathers around. They gather around the nineteen
eighty you know, Pontiac Firebird because that's the car they
had when they were in high school. It has to
do with what you had when you were high You're
not a car guy. You know who is a car guy.
Mike Canton, our executive producer Hanson joins them, just.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
You know, Joe, every kid, every high school kid, should
appreciate and enjoy ownership of a land yacht, one of
those big cars. And I had one and it was
it was actually a proud moment for me because I
bought it from a Junkyard. My nineteen seventy one Buhicles
Saber bought from a Junkyard for two hundred dollars. It
(11:26):
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
The heater had a quality heater up.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I'm adjusting for inflation, that two hundred dollars would be
two hundred and four dollars that.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I could.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I could fit six guys in that car, I'm sure.
Plus load up the trunk with a lot of beer
before basketball games. We had a great time. Heater beer awesome,
had a great time, no doubt. Someone plowed into that
car in the middle of winter on my street, and
I think I know who it was.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Troy.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
I'll hold that against.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
You for the rest of your life. Troy. Wow, damn, Troy,
this may be illegal. Last name, I'm serious about it.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Never revealed that ever, So my whole life, I've never
had a chance to call him out. Okay, I've been
wanting to do this for the past thirty years.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
If anybody else would like to level a half assization
for a decade's old incident, call us and we'll put
you on the air.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I want to call out my uncle right now.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
So then I sold the car to a guy for
two hundred dollars. He drove it for the summer. Then
I bought the car back from him that fall for
one hundred and fifty bucks, and I drove it again
for another winner.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
It was fantastic that a box on the Gondaw you
broke even all right. That is the one thing with
the cheap cars, because I've done that a few times.
You buy him for something and then you sell them
for the same amount because they've just been bought them out.
That's what they were worth.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, boy, My old buddy Scott, God rest his soul,
had this gigantic since in nineteen seventy, probably eight. I
don't know Impalla, but it was one of those giant
land yachts. It was crappy when he owned it, and old.
But you know, the old complaint used to be cars
are too small to have sex in the back seat anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well, Scott's racing and Palla.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You could have one couple in the front seat and
one in the back seat and they wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Be aware of each other.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
It was so freaking big.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
We could put so many people in that car in
the trunk, Hansen to your point, I mean, never mind.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Beer, you could you could like put one of those
the tiny houses in the trunk. It was so ginormous.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I learned to drive in our station wagon that was
like that. I don't know how I learned to drive
as a five foot two fourteen year old, but uh,
You couldn't see anything but hood. There's just hood, giant hood,
turn the giant hood everywhere I go. Those cars were
so long too. Learning to parallel park a twenty foot car,
I don't even know what that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Is makes you good?
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Who knows how many people you ran down and we're
totally unaware of Right, Maybe Old Troy was exactly as
somebody who had it coming.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
My parents bought a station wagon true story. They didn't
realize that the windows didn't roll down in the back
until when their kids got car sick, and that's how
they found out. Well, I guess that's it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Rolled down the window.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I can't b barf car
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