December 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Tim Conway Jr. broadcasts live from the massive Grand Opening of Cadillac of Pasadena, and the show is packed with heavy hitters. Tim kicks things off on-site before being joined by Elana Scherr, Senior Features Editor at Car & Driver, for a deep dive into Cadillac’s Blackwing performance lineup and a sneak peek at Car & Driver’s upcoming “10 Best.”From there, the guest list explodes: Dustin King, COO of US Auto Trust, stops by to talk community and Cadillac’s next chapter. Jay Leno calls in to say he’s on the way, then arrives to join Tim for classic storytelling, car culture talk, and crowd-shaking laughter. Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo drops in to welcome Cadillac officially to the city.Automotive powerhouse Jonny Lieberman brings his signature honesty and humor, while Brian Smith, GM’s Director of Advanced Design, reveals the future of Cadillac’s EV styling and design direction. Rising motorsports phenomenon Liam “The Race Kid” Nachawati shares what it’s like being the youngest talent in racing.Plus—Conway energy, live crowd moments, legendary guests, and a whole lot of horsepower highlight this special event episode from the all-new Cadillac Pasadena showroom.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp. I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app live
from Cadillacs, Passidina. Wow, what a dealership this is. I
felt embarrassed and I didn't drive up in a Cadillac.
I felt like I was betraying the brand. But we're
(00:21):
gonna be here all seven o'clock. We have a lot
of great guests and Jay Leno too, So Jay Leno's
coming by. I think he's stuck in traffic, so he'll
he'll be here any moment. But if you want to
come by, I think there's probably still room if you,
especially if you have you want to buy a Cadillac today.
(00:41):
I don't know what kind of offer or deals they're giving,
but we're at thirty four seventy five East Colorado. And
the only way I knew is I could see it
on the on the glass there and I read it backwards.
Are we at fifty seven forty three or thirty four
seventy five? Thirty four seventy five thirty four to seven
thirty four seventy five East Colorado? Will be here all day.
(01:04):
Bellio is with us, the best producer in radio Dingdong
with her. H Krozier is back at the station. Angel
Martinez is here. Everybody knows Angel Martinez the sweetest voice
in talk radio. That's what she refers to herself as.
So I don't know, it's up to you. All right,
let's talk with our very first guests. Her name is Alana. Sure,
(01:27):
is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's right?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Excellent? And you were with Car and Driver. Obviously you
probably grew up around cars mom or dad, dad or grandfather, uncles.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
You would think so, right, that would be the normal
path to get into cars, But no, it's completely the opposite.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Really, Yeah, you mean you hate cars?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No? I mean my family hates cars.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Okay, that's why they're not here.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I guess, huh, Well, they don't live in the name.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
How did you get into cars? I mean, you're working
for Car and Driver as a senior feature editor. They
don't give those dogs jobs to just anybody.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, I think I maybe just took a wrong turn
and then they didn't know how to get rid of me.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Okay, all right, I like that. I like that, even
matter the humbleness in you. And all right, let's talk
about the Cadillac. But before we do that, Everybody always
asks when's the best time of year? And I've gotten
several answers. When's the best time of year to buy
a car? Is it now before Christmas? To give somebody
a Christmas gift with the big bow on it? Is it?
Is it? You know? Spring? Summer? Like when you move
(02:28):
and you're going to sell a house. You're gonna move.
Spring is the best time to do it so you
can get the kids to new school over the summer
and you're all set for the new year. Is there
a car buying season or is it right now?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I think it really depends on what you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
How about a Cadillac.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
You should buy a Cadillac right now, today today?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, do they have any here?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I've seen one or two. I'm planning on taking the
Endurance Racer home.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I think, okay, you know that is the F one car.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
No, No, that one's the F one car.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Wait, this is the F one, the black one, and
this one's the Endurance Racing. Yeah, it's like like forty
eight hours at four hours? What's that race? Is it?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Twenty four hours of traffic on my way home?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Twenty four hours at Lamon's right?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I thought that was like a birthing thing that they
do but I don't know. All right, So you get
into cars, but at a young age, and they and
you quickly become the senior feature editor for Car and Driver.
That's huge.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah. I was actually a little bit late getting into cars.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I didn't get a driver's license until I.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Was twenty one.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Really yeah, and I grew up in Los Angeles, it's
a car city.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
But wow, that is Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I was taking the bus, which is pretty much the
opposite of a Cadillac.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But are you with bus and driver?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Bus driver? Bus and rider?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, bus and rider. Wait a minute, this lady's with
bus and rider. Can we get the lady from Car
and Driver?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Maybe she's in the car with Jay coming in.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But that's I respect that you didn't get your license
so you're twenty one. Because I have a twenty year
old and she has car insurance. It's cost me eight
thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, it's a it's a big commitment and I was
afraid of it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But then once I did get my license, I was like, oh,
I have to make up for lost time because having
a car is the best.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
What was your first car, like a like a twenty
twenty three Cadillac.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yes, that's exactly the kind of upbringing I had, that's right.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
No, it was a nineteen seventy three Plymouth Duster.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Okay, all right, old school you are old school. I
like that about you, you know, I mean just humble
and you know, not in New Age all this, you know,
kind of brams.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
All right, let's yoga I do.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, let's talk about the Cadillac. What is the higher
highest end Cadillac they offer it now?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, Ezra Dyer recently did a story driving in Detroit
in the highest end Cadillac, and he went to all
the different architectural sort of stopover points, because it is
all about glamour and elegance, that's right, and so he
(04:57):
wanted to kind of connect that with the history of Detroit, where,
you know, because the designers were looking at architecture and
they were looking to to kind of give this idea
of elegance that Cadillac has always been able to get.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Across in their cars, but they really want to be
top end.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
My dad grew up owning a Seville all the time,
and then my mom had a Kupteville, and when you know,
when my dad made it and my mom you know,
made it. They their first cars that they bought were Cadillacs. Really,
I grew up in the back seat of my dad
Seville or my mom's Coupdeville, and you know, and that was,
(05:38):
you know, a sign of making it. And I think
it still is.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, maybe there are some kids who are going to
be growing up in the back seat of a Solictique.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's right. You know. My daughter asked me. I have
a twenty year old daughter, and she asked me last week,
she said, how old were you when you had to
stop using a car seat like a baby seat? And
I what the hell? My generation, we had seat belts.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Did you just ride on the package tray in the
back of.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The slope exactly right, Yeah, I'm on the back, but
we used to ride. My mom had a Mercury station
Wagon and you know, with a wood panel on everything.
And then that was my car in high school. So
I could take nine people and luggage to the airport
in my high school car. But I remember, you know,
the jump seat in the back of that Lincoln I'm sorry,
(06:26):
Mercury wagon. I think it was called the wagon ear
We sat on the jump seat looking backwards and on
top of a thirty gallon gas tank. That was our
seat with a with an eighteen wheeler nine feet behind us,
and we're on top of a thirty gallon gas tank.
I guess they don't do that with kids anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
No, there are no no backwards facing seats and wagons anymore, right,
you know.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Brian Reagan had a great line. Brian Reagan said, the
kids that are sitting in those seats have a wildly
different vacation than everybody else. Like I wonder what those billboards.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They're always like late to know what everybody else is
talking about because I have to wait till the till
the long car passes the view.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
But Jay Leno said this last time he was on
with this last week or a week and a half ago,
and jay Leno was coming. He's on his way.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'm not Jaylenore.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But Jay Leno's driving a fifty seven Cadillac I think
over here. So he's gonna drive, We're gonna he's gonna
come right through that door, hopefully not the car all
the way through here. But he said the Cadillac over
the last five ten years has really, really doubled their
you know, their luxury and and their engines and really
have made an unbelievably quality car.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Also also performance, which I think has been very exciting
for people who like the brand, because not only are
they making some very like I said, elegant cars and
with a lot of features and new technology. You know,
they're they're going into electric cars, so people who are
interested in that technology have a Cadillac option.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Then also, the v cars are really fast.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I mean they're basically muscle cars except in the packaging
of a Cadillac.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Oh I see, okay, all right, all right, And now
when you working for Car and Driver, I know they
give you cars for a week or so when you
drive them around, that must be awesome. You know, they
have a new car every week.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's pretty fantastic. It's very easy to get spoiled.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
But I will tell you it makes parking really hard.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I used to be very good at.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Parallel parking, but now I'm never in the same car,
and I'm always.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Like, how the big is this car?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Where is how far away is the curve?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So it's really nice that the new cars at least
have camera systems and little beeps and stuff. So I
don't curb those big you know, twenty one inch wheels.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Are park is a parking assist just going to be
normal in every car in the future. She just pressed
a button in it parks itself.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think it is definitely.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I mean, there's already so many options for it, and
people do seem to really like it and appreciate it.
I know that the cameras and sensors are very very
helpful to people who are not super comfortable driving.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
See, I'm not a camera guy. When I reverse, now,
this is my camera.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, but then you get in a new car and
you do that, you can't see anything, so you sort
of have to learn to trust the camera.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And you know what, and the car that I drive
has a front end camera. I can see that. Yeah,
I'm looking.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
At that right right.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You call it a window, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Called my eyes. I can see that. I don't know
why there's a camera in front of that car. I
mean for guys that have to get like eight inches
from you know, they're parking in New York or Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Maybe it's like the you know, the kind of garage
where you have the tennis ball hanging.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
So I have that I put that in from my daughter.
There's a little tennis ball hanging there and it goes
right on her windshield and that's when she knows, you know,
she's good.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well, if she had more cameras, she wouldn't need it in.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But see, but I like that old school technology, you
know the ones. I bought one of those lasers where
it shows you it turns red when you're close enough
to the curb, and I didn't like it. I like
the tennis ball on DK. You have some curb that's right,
you know what? I miss curb feelers. I'm glad that
you brought that up because there are people in this
audience that are old enough to remember curb feelers. It was.
(10:09):
It was like a wire that came out from the
car and you could hear when you were close to
the curb.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Well measure, you can convince people to bring it back.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Cadillac should bring that back. Are they bringing back curb feelers?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I heard it's an option on the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
The lyrics rust be a unbelieable car.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Lovely.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I got to see it. Do they have one here?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I'm sure they do?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Okay, all right, Alana, sure, thank you so much for
coming out I wish you a huge success with car
and driver. I hope you're there forever. Oh, thank you,
very nice to meet you. We'll see you again. All right.
We are out here at Cadillac Pasadena. Come on by.
There's probably about one hundred people here or so. Bellio's here,
Michelle Cube is here, Angel Martinez is here, So come
(10:50):
on by. We're on YouTube and Facebook and Instagram, and
I'll tell you where we are. We're streaming live on
YouTube at Conways Show Official. We're also streaming on Facebook
at the Tim Conway Junior Show. And then the other
one is Instagram. We're on Instagram at Conway Show. So
(11:10):
if you want to watch, you can do that. You
can pop by as well. If you want to bring
your dog in a stroller. Oh I guess you could
do that. What the hell? Right, dog and a stroller.
That's great. Oh the dog's name is Cadillac. Oh well,
oh okay, excellent. But anyway, we're gonna be here seven
o'clock tonight. Jay Leno is coming by in about fifteen
(11:31):
twenty minutes, so you want to be here for that.
It's a Conway Show thirty four seventy five East, Colorado
at a Cadillac Pasadena Dig Dog with him.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You're live here at Cadillac Pasadena thirty five seven thirty
four to seventy five East Colorado. We have Alana here,
who is with a car and driver, and we have
your honor the Mayor Victor Gordo of Pasadena. Wow. Man,
(12:07):
this is unbelievable. This is really this is really your
go season. All hands on deck. I'm surprised you're even
sitting here.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Well, you know, it's always fun and a great opportunity
to come and celebrate with our local business community, and
so we have to make time for that. And I'm
I appreciate very much having been invited and thank you
for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You know, these dealerships, and this one in particular, they
are so beautiful and it sort of represents like the
design in Pasadena too. They didn't just throw this thing up.
And when you come in here to buy a car,
you feel like like you're really being treated well. I
parked out here and three guys carried me on a
loft on a gondola and brought me in here as wild.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Well I'm hoping you'll get a right in the Batman
car on the way out.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
How long you've been mayor of Pasadena.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
I've had the honor and privilege of serving this mayor
since twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay, an easy year to become mayor. COVID.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Yeah, you know, you're careful what you wish were in life.
You know, you get elected in the whole world ships down.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But you guys did something great during COVID and I
you know, there was a lot of information, a lot
of misinformation coming out about COVID, and you guys started
your own health department.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Well, we had the health department has been there for
over one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's what I meant.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Yes, we had our own health department at the time
that COVID struck, and it was very helpful.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It was great. Yeah, very helpful. And you guys helped
us out a lot. Hey, I understand Jay Leno. One second, Mayor,
I understand Jay Leno is on the phone. Is he
on the phone with us?
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You there, I'm right here.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
I'll be there in two seconds. I'm gonna literally drive
into the showroom.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yes, oh, okay, Jay Leno is coming in in his
nineteen fifty seven Cadillac. I think it's a steam.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Powered Yeah, only two payments left.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
All right, Jane Leno will be joining us here shortly. Again,
we have Alana here with car and driver and the Mayor,
Victor Gordo of the great city of Pasadena. How big
is Pasadena? How many people passing?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Is about one hundred and forty five thousand strong?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, it is great. I love coming to dinner in Pasadena.
I wish I could move to Pasadena, but I filled
that an application. They said, no, I'm not good enough
for Pasadena. But I love the restaurants. One of my
favorite places, King Taco downtown. I drive, you know before
they open a morning. Glendale would drive every night, you know,
from Burbank to King Taco. But I just love the
vibe here and from now until New Year's all hands
(14:40):
on deck.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Absolutely, you know this is Pasadena is a great city.
You know, we're very fortunate. You know what other city
in the world, in the universe can you think of
that small enough that it's manageable, but big enough to
provide a world stage.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Right, And and you directly and indirectly raise the property
values here in southern California, because they say one hundred
thousand people watch the Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade
and move out here from Michigan or Ohio or Nebraska
to live out here. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
You know, the parade in the game were intended as
tourism and drawing people out and it worked.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It Jade works and to continued joy. All right, thank
you very much. Oh no, that's for j Sorry, Jay
Leno is whethers he just pulled up in his nineteen
fifty seven Cadillac. Ladies and gentlemen from the Tonight Show.
Jay Leno, Hey, nice to see you, man, how you been.
(15:41):
This is Ilana. This is the mayor, mayor of Pasadena.
We got headphones for you there and a microphone. Funny,
I was walking out of the house today and my
daughter said, it's so great to have Leno and Conway
the comedy team back together.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yes, yes, it really is.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, it's more eighty twe but yeah, yeah, well you'll
catch up. I understand. I understand now this would be great.
What did you drive in today?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I drove a nineteen fifty seven Cadillac.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
That'sh man, that's a real car.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Dad is I'll tell you, so you drive that you
smash your head on the dashboard.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
They hose it off and sell it to somebody else's.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yes, that is great. That car is so big.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
You don't have a radio, have live acts. You have
live acts performing in the car.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's unbelievable. That is awesome. What's a mileage onto two?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Well you have around the highway.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
No, but you know that is when you realize what
else was around in fifty seven. Well, if you bought
like a Jaguar or Rolls Royce, you got a six cylinder, manual,
wine windows, possibly an automatic, but not really, a four speed,
no air conditioning, none of that.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I mean this had a V eight power windows, power brakes.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
No kid power windows. Yes, this is really.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Well, it really was the greatest car in the world
centering for that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You remember you have to be watching on on YouTube
or on video to uh to see this. But you
remember the in the old days, if you got into
an argument with another car driver, you would look at
it and go roll your window down.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Now, you just go.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
My dad used to call Cadile. My dad would say
Cadillac is the Rolls Rice of autobiles.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I go, pop Rolls.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I mean he never got it right. You don't know
that's a compliment.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
I go, no, it's not a compliment because the Rolls
Rice is another car.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But later on in the in the show, and I'll
remind you, I hope you tell the story of you
ordering your dad's car.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Well, we can do that. But I was listening to
your show. At the Idea you had an autobody guy on.
You remember the guy from.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
The body Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
And you said, now the guys that.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Put the aluminum siding on the okay, I said, you know,
if they're putting aluminum siding on your car, that's really
that's really not that's a high.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
End car, Jay, that's a high end Come on. Ye yeah,
I'm manned aluminum doors and and and you know quarter panels.
Yeah yeah, but they are luminant for some of those cars,
aren't they?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Some some is. But because the safety reasons, you usually
have to have steel. I mean you have steel dark garths.
You know that looks like a big heavy car.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Let's go look at it, but it's really not as.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Heavy as modern cars because the complete absence of any safety.
I mean there's no steel dart. You know, there's no
you don't have any of that. You don't have the
you know, the air bag and all those things add weight.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You know, that's probably a hair under four thousand pounds,
which is still alive. But a lot of cars.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
Mean you get a hell Cat one of those cars,
they're forty four hundred and forty three hundred pounds pin
so yeah, so I mean you've got pretty good performance too,
and they are wonderful cars to drive real quickly.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
We got to take a break. But the electric like
Escalade or the high end, those have to be seven,
eight nine thousand pounds.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Oh easy. Yeah, yeah, the Hummer's ten. But you've got
so much power. But you know that really is the
class leading electric vehicle. Now in the.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Last couple of years, Cadillac has really stepped to the
forefront a lot of other electric car company. He's been
producing the same thing for years and years and just
wonderful reviews. The lyric on all of those they're just
real engineer cars.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And Jay's not just saying that, but the last two years,
every time you've come on, you talked about Cadillac way
before this dealership or you know we ever worked together here. Well,
the thing I like about it.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
When I was a kid.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
It was your old man's car, you know, it like
a big They were all about luxury.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Now you've got engineering, luxury and sports. So you've got
the combination.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
You've got a car that handles, but you can take
to the near I mean Mark Royce, the president of GM.
He went two hundred and thirty three miles an hour.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Wow in the new car bad. I mean, what CEO
is allowed to even do that anymore?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But you know what's the fastest you've been in a car?
Two seventy eight Wow, unbelievable on.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
The self last, not on the road, on not on Colorado.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
All right, we got to take a break. I got
a call from John, the guy that gave us the
tour of your garage. Very nice guy, he said. He
wanted me to an autograph a picture for you to
put up in your garage. Yes, boy, I would love
to have that. We'll do it during the break.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
This this is what a non car guide looks like.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's right, and and uh and and Jay looks like
one tip. All right, we'reth here live at Cadillac Pasadena.
We've got the mayor, we've got.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Alana and Jay Leno, Alanae.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Jay Leno is with us. Thank you, thank you. We
are back together again. Conway and Leno actually probably Leno
and conwayn right, uh, Leno and con will.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
They go alphabetical for legal reasons.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, but we should we should get, you know, start
touring again. We had a lot of fun and made
a lot of money. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Yeah, well, well I didn't make any of it. Apparently
you did.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Apparently Jay Leno is with us. Also. Alana here from
carn Driver, Senior feature editor of carn Driver, and Dustin King,
the COO of US Auto Trust. Nice to see you.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Man, Hello everybody, thank you all for being here tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Thank you for coming down.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Iim you have a driven an Auto Trust.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's a nice job, the best, it is the best. Yeah.
You have been in the auto is industry for twenty
five years.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, after you started washing cars in high school.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
I was washing cars at a high school, at a
at a Chevy store actually a General Motors dealership.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So my kind of guy. Probably he probably washed my car.
I worked.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
In fact, I did Odama to recalibrations.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
That was my job at the dealership, the used car
coming up with eighty thousand miles, I do the correct
of nineteen five and then we put it back.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
On the show.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'd have my mom drive me around. So a little different.
All right, let's talk about Cadillac. I know that you're
not you're involved with the other lines.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Is.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Yeah, we we have some different brands. So our company
owns a several several different brands. Right now, obviously we're
we're all here tonight for Cadillac and celebrating the grand
opening of this fine dealership. Looks amazing, but we.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Just look great. It looks beautiful.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
It's stunning, absolutely stunning. We're all very very excited.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And and what is the the you know, the Cadillac
that sticks out. People come in and they see that
in oh, I gotta have.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
The Celestic is getting a lot of attention.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Jason driven it?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It's nice, It is nice. So it's very nice. Guy, Well,
you know it's you more safety features than your fifty seven.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Then if anything has more safety treating, a kind of
Stoga wagon has more safety features than that. But the
fun thing about Cadlloc to me is now Europeans are
to be very holy, you know, big lead sled blah
blah blah, and now they're a bit they realize American engineering.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
You know.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
That's what I like about the American auto industry. It's
all engineering people. Now, going bankrupt was the best thing
that ever happened, because you got rid of the guy.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
From Zenith and Whirlpool.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
It was selling, and now you've just got engineers at
every level. Engineers worked on luxury, engineers working on driving,
you know, and it really makes some fun. And when
they take American cars out, almost every European magazine degrees
there's no greater value than a Corvette in terms of performance.
For the money for the sales tax on a European exotic,
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you could get a brand new Corvette that's fast.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I was reading an article about the new line of Catillac,
and their new theory is the customers, not only the
customers first, but the customer's comfort is premiere. And then
you back in the technology. Before they used to create
the technology and then worry about the customer, But now
the customers first, and then they adapt the technology to
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what the customer wants and Cadillac has been knocking it out.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Oh yeah, no, they do a great job.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
They're also getting into F one Tour.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
You know, I think that's exciting because that really shows
you're an engineering company. I mean, you know, I was
never that into F one until it started showing up
on TV because it was like watching Space Shuttle stuff.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
It was so high tech.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I mean, lug nuts at fifteen hundred dollars a lug now,
you know that kind of thing where you go, well,
this is out of the realm. And the drivers would have,
you know, the tinted so you couldn't see their face,
so there wasn't the human emotion. And then when that
show came on Netflix, it really made you, like the
drivers understand the problems and frustrations, and it's fun to
see Cadillac taking make it very easily say we're the
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luxury brand, but they try to cover the whole basis
performance luxury.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
You know, you make a complete package, which is really exciting.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Dustin King is with us, the CEO of US try
Us Auto Tries, Yes, sir, and that's a huge company.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
It's a big company. Yeah. So we we have some
different brands. We've got Farri dealership, Lamborghini dealership. We've got
a Pagani brand which is really exciting as well.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
An agree, I think JA owned some of those that Rygi.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
But I've got Dustin.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Now that if you're with your you have Ferrari, but
then also Cadillac.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Who are you going to root for next year in
F one?
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Well we also have Aston Martin as well, so we've
got yeah, got the teams covered.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah. Well did you go to Vegas for the I did.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
I was at the concourse. Uh so, I went to
the concourse event. I didn't actually get to the F
one F one event. The concourse was beautiful though. They
had a tremendous amount of cars there, a lot of
a lot of it was was pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So it's what amazes me. I'm not the biggest car
guy in the world, really, I know. But what's amazing
to me how quickly you can go from the Golden
Nugget to Mandalay Bay in one of those cars. Oh
sure it was, you know, for me it takes you
an hour driving down the strip. For those guys, it
was six seconds.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
Right six there you go, yes, your honeymoon, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
The racing is pretty exciting the F one stuff. I've
been getting into it more obviously with the brands, and
we've got the F one car here at the in
the showroom, which is a real privilege. So thank you
Cadillac for bringing that out for us.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Let me ask you a question, where's the money in
F one because the prize to win that race was
I think a million dollars.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Oh boy, yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
The prize to enter is two hundred million dollars. No,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
If you have a team and you'd like to be
in it, well that's the entrance. See it goes from there.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
You know.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
I was at the Pitts in Austin and there is
so much money there. I mean, you know, I said,
let me go get something to eat, you know, and
it usually race car food. It's you know, it's old
hot dogs on the sweet you go to the Italian
booth telling you guys cooked it was the best pasta.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I ever had.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
I mean, I'm on the track and they're making it
fresh right there. They're making this song. They go to
the German one.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
There's not a piece of trash on the ground, there's
not a cocaine lying around. I mean it's it's immaculate.
It's really amazing. What a job they do with that.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, I went to Speaking of food, I went to
Mount Hood up in in Oregon and we went to
there's four different restaurants on the top of Mountain Hood
there and we tried all four from all four of
the best restaurants I've ever had my life. And I
asked the mater d I said, hey, how do you
have four tiny restaurants in this little town and they're
all great? And you know what he said to me,
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He said, rich people don't eat crap.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Right. F one racing is you must have felt bad.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
F one racing is the motor that I've ever been
to where you could have a conversation with someone that
starts with how many lobsters have you had today? Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
That's classic?
Speaker 9 (26:55):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But so so, the prize in winning the race means nothing.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
No, the prize not the problem.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
What you're selling is merchandise and it's one hundreds and million.
I mean you pay the drivers twenty million thirty one
in a year.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Really, you know.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Phil Hill was the first American World champion and he
and I were good friends, and he raced for tires
and gasoline. Literally he had to get himself to the
races he drove for Ferrari because to be asked to
drive Ferrari was.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
A huge honor.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
There there was no money. I mean you might get
a meal something, but that was about it.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
But he said, he said, one year I got free
gas and tires and he was thrilled.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
He was thrilled. Yeah. You know, they said they were
going to do a an F one race in Los Angeles,
but they were afraid of everything was going to get
ripped off.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Okay, well that would be really cool if they did.
There would be a great.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Event they could do in Pasadena. Though Pasaden is clean. Yeah,
nice hang, but the city of La I think it
is years off. I love the Vegas F one race though.
That's really cool.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
It seems to be the main event for the F
one right now. Everybody seems to love that one and
brings a lot of a train.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
And the city embraced it too. You know, they really
got behind it.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
Yeah they I think it's about three months. It occupies
the Spa.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
They spend money.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
I mean, you couldn't have in La a cold water
candy looks like the Choosholm Trail so many.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I've got the four flat tie you bang it?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
What is it? You know?
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Where am I?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
You know?
Speaker 8 (28:15):
So?
Speaker 9 (28:15):
There's so many potholes you couldn't have her. You gotta
have an off road race in La Dustin.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Thank you for coming by. Congratulations on the big dealers
jip here.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Thank everybody for coming.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Give me a business card. I would like to get
a deal from you on a car. Sure looking at
a lotus?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Absolutely, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
We're live. It's Tim Conway Junior. Jay Leno's with us,
Alana Sure, we got plenty of guests. We're here at
thirty four to seventy five East Colorado. Come on by
will Bear till seven o'clock and then we're taking the
F one car out for a spin.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Cabillac Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yes, come on by thirty four to seventy five East Colorado.
Jay Leno is with us a lot of sure as whether.
It's also a senior feature editor at carn Driver. And
we have the raised kid Liam Nacho waddi.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
Yes, yes, yay, rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
How old are you young man. I am eleven, all right,
and you're already starting racing.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
I started when I was about six years old.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Actually, what why so late? I couldn't find a car? Yeah,
but that is late late.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
The guys their kids have started at three.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
And four, is that right?
Speaker 9 (29:34):
I mean what you're looking here is the equivalent of
an Olympic athlete. This young guy is training. In ten years,
he could be world champion, that's right, quite easily.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, and he's really into it.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
And it's extremely hard work. Everybody thinks driving, Well, you're
just driving a car. How hard can that be? I mean,
the g forces that, the lightning reflexes, it's really it
takes very very special people to be able to do this,
and not many kids can do so congratulations my friend.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, well you told us the story that you were doing. Uh,
you know, some great athlete got behind the car. It
never really I.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
Did the celebrity race Toto Grand Prix, right, So it's
like Dan Gurney and selling me and Helen Hayes, you
know somebody you know, and so I got so I'm
going to get behind Dan Gurney.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Just do what Dan Gurney does.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
So I got got Dan garny bricks, I break, Okay,
I'm staying with him.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Good.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
And then he's a little bit ahead of me. Okay,
all right, I'll catch up doing that. And then he's
in my rearview.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Marria, what happened? And then he laughed, that's great. I
thought I was doing unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
But you realize everything is measured in a tenth of
a second.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Yeah, and you aren't also ran, You're like third place
because the tenth of a second could be one hundred
feet two hundred You know, Liam, what got you into racing?
Speaker 10 (30:48):
So basically I come from a family of mechanics and engineers.
My two uncle our engineers. Yeah, unfortunately my dad is
a lawyer. But okay, it does fun, it does fund
me right. So basically, it was around quarantine time twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one, and I was actually at my uncle's
apartment and he had a racing sim and I wanted
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to try it out, and I was actually pretty good.
So my uncle and my dad split a go car
fifty to fifty and said if he doesn't like it,
we'll just sell it. And my uncle said, you can
have the cost after, you know, we'll just split it and.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
You still have that go card? Is that still your
car where you moved up?
Speaker 10 (31:29):
I have moved up, but we did not keep the
go car. I think we sold it about last year
and then we went back to my local track in Denton, Texas,
and I basically just took off from their.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Raising you and how many wins do you have? How
many tournaments have you won? So they called it a tournament, Jane,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
It's not joustings. There's no tournament. You're not on a
horse for them.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
How many races if you're wait.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Well, you can't really see.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
You're not being fair because it's it's it's a learning experience,
you know. It's like when you watch a baseball you
go to high school and you watch a baseball game.
They lost the game, but boy, that kid was unbelievable.
I mean he he, you know he And that's what
that's what this is. There are people watching him even
in Europe. Now is he going to be.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
The next champion? I mean Lando, how old is land?
Don't it twenty six?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Okay? And so this is what you want. You want
to get into F one or Indie or Nascar.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
I would prefer F one I really like the Endurance Series.
I would race those, you know, Porsche Cups, supercl oh sorry,
really anything?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
What about Nascar?
Speaker 10 (32:35):
I mean I've been to a couple of NASCAR races.
I'm not greatly into it, but I look up to
a couple of people.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
All right, that's cool. Yeah, racing has become huge, and you, I imagine,
have a pretty cool simulator at home. Yes, I do,
with all the bells and whistles, yes, yes, and even
even the seat that moves.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Yeah. I have a motion simulator. The four s feedback
on the wheel. I actually have a cardial seat CARDI wow,
Carnie steer in there. Uh, three monitors a PC in
the back, so, oh.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
My god, extravagant.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's not a toy.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
It's not a toy.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I mean, it's a real tool. But eventually, you know,
you're never gonna have to go outside. You'll just raise
somebody in your simulator.
Speaker 10 (33:16):
Yeah. I have been racing some esports races, you know,
I racing.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Do they have that? They have esport racing on simulators?
Speaker 10 (33:23):
Yes they have.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I got to get into that.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
See, this is what happens when you never go outside.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
How can you tell my Mediterranean tan exactly. Look, my
tan matches your jacket.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
But the original race kid, the level of physical fitness
for an F one driver is the same as it
is for a heavyweight boxer.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Could you think you're just sitting there? But the g
forces on your neck alone. It's the same as a
fighter pilot.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
And so if you if it doesn't work out in racing,
you become a fighter. Yeah, probably, Yeah, they don't. You
want to pitch your social media and where you are
on YouTube and everything.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
So I have a YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, on all platforms.
I'm on TikTok, Liamnnchawati and I actually have my social
media manager here. So if you want to ask him
any questions.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
The race kid, what what did he say?
Speaker 10 (34:19):
Marketers my marketing firm. They have a few other clients,
so they're really good.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Well go get it.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Knock on wood. I don't thin there's any would in
this here that nothing that you have. Safe travel back
to the Dallas. Thank you, all right, very nice to
meet you. Nice to meet make you wrong with you, buddy,
I know you don't what that means, but things got
with you anywhere you go? All right? Jay Leno is
with us Zen also Alana Sure from the Car and
Drive Word Live a Colorado, Pasadena, Colorado. Come on out.
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It's camp. I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app live
from Cadillacs, Passidina. Wow, what a dealership this is. I
felt embarrassed and I didn't drive up in a Cadillac.
I felt like I was betraying the brand. But we're
(00:21):
gonna be here all seven o'clock. We have a lot
of great guests and Jay Leno too, So Jay Leno's
coming by. I think he's stuck in traffic, so he'll
he'll be here any moment. But if you want to
come by, I think there's probably still room if you,
especially if you have you want to buy a Cadillac today.
(00:41):
I don't know what kind of offer or deals they're giving,
but we're at thirty four seventy five East Colorado. And
the only way I knew is I could see it
on the on the glass there and I read it backwards.
Are we at fifty seven forty three or thirty four
seventy five? Thirty four seventy five thirty four to seven
thirty four seventy five East Colorado? Will be here all day.
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Bellio is with us, the best producer in radio Dingdong
with her. H Krozier is back at the station. Angel
Martinez is here. Everybody knows Angel Martinez the sweetest voice
in talk radio. That's what she refers to herself as.
So I don't know, it's up to you. All right,
let's talk with our very first guests. Her name is Alana. Sure,
(01:27):
is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's right?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Excellent? And you were with Car and Driver. Obviously you
probably grew up around cars mom or dad, dad or grandfather, uncles.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
You would think so, right, that would be the normal
path to get into cars, But no, it's completely the opposite.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Really, Yeah, you mean you hate cars?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No? I mean my family hates cars.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Okay, that's why they're not here.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I guess, huh, Well, they don't live in the name.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
How did you get into cars? I mean, you're working
for Car and Driver as a senior feature editor. They
don't give those dogs jobs to just anybody.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, I think I maybe just took a wrong turn
and then they didn't know how to get rid of me.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Okay, all right, I like that. I like that, even
matter the humbleness in you. And all right, let's talk
about the Cadillac. But before we do that, Everybody always
asks when's the best time of year? And I've gotten
several answers. When's the best time of year to buy
a car? Is it now before Christmas? To give somebody
a Christmas gift with the big bow on it? Is it?
Is it? You know? Spring? Summer? Like when you move
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and you're going to sell a house. You're gonna move.
Spring is the best time to do it so you
can get the kids to new school over the summer
and you're all set for the new year. Is there
a car buying season or is it right now?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I think it really depends on what you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
How about a Cadillac.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
You should buy a Cadillac right now, today today?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, do they have any here?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I've seen one or two. I'm planning on taking the
Endurance Racer home.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I think, okay, you know that is the F one car.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
No, No, that one's the F one car.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Wait, this is the F one, the black one, and
this one's the Endurance Racing. Yeah, it's like like forty
eight hours at four hours? What's that race? Is it?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Twenty four hours of traffic on my way home?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Twenty four hours at Lamon's right?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I thought that was like a birthing thing that they
do but I don't know. All right, So you get
into cars, but at a young age, and they and
you quickly become the senior feature editor for Car and Driver.
That's huge.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah. I was actually a little bit late getting into cars.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I didn't get a driver's license until I.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Was twenty one.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Really yeah, and I grew up in Los Angeles, it's
a car city.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
But wow, that is Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I was taking the bus, which is pretty much the
opposite of a Cadillac.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But are you with bus and driver?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Bus driver? Bus and rider?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, bus and rider. Wait a minute, this lady's with
bus and rider. Can we get the lady from Car
and Driver?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Maybe she's in the car with Jay coming in.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But that's I respect that you didn't get your license
so you're twenty one. Because I have a twenty year
old and she has car insurance. It's cost me eight
thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, it's a it's a big commitment and I was
afraid of it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But then once I did get my license, I was like, oh,
I have to make up for lost time because having
a car is the best.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
What was your first car, like a like a twenty
twenty three Cadillac.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yes, that's exactly the kind of upbringing I had, that's right.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
No, it was a nineteen seventy three Plymouth Duster.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Okay, all right, old school you are old school. I
like that about you, you know, I mean just humble
and you know, not in New Age all this, you know,
kind of brams.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
All right, let's yoga I do.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, let's talk about the Cadillac. What is the higher
highest end Cadillac they offer it now?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, Ezra Dyer recently did a story driving in Detroit
in the highest end Cadillac, and he went to all
the different architectural sort of stopover points, because it is
all about glamour and elegance, that's right, and so he
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wanted to kind of connect that with the history of Detroit, where,
you know, because the designers were looking at architecture and
they were looking to to kind of give this idea
of elegance that Cadillac has always been able to get.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Across in their cars, but they really want to be
top end.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
My dad grew up owning a Seville all the time,
and then my mom had a Kupteville, and when you know,
when my dad made it and my mom you know,
made it. They their first cars that they bought were Cadillacs. Really,
I grew up in the back seat of my dad
Seville or my mom's Coupdeville, and you know, and that was,
(05:38):
you know, a sign of making it. And I think
it still is.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, maybe there are some kids who are going to
be growing up in the back seat of a Solictique.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's right. You know. My daughter asked me. I have
a twenty year old daughter, and she asked me last week,
she said, how old were you when you had to
stop using a car seat like a baby seat? And
I what the hell? My generation, we had seat belts.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Did you just ride on the package tray in the
back of.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The slope exactly right, Yeah, I'm on the back, but
we used to ride. My mom had a Mercury station
Wagon and you know, with a wood panel on everything.
And then that was my car in high school. So
I could take nine people and luggage to the airport
in my high school car. But I remember, you know,
the jump seat in the back of that Lincoln I'm sorry,
(06:26):
Mercury wagon. I think it was called the wagon ear
We sat on the jump seat looking backwards and on
top of a thirty gallon gas tank. That was our
seat with a with an eighteen wheeler nine feet behind us,
and we're on top of a thirty gallon gas tank.
I guess they don't do that with kids anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
No, there are no no backwards facing seats and wagons anymore, right,
you know.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Brian Reagan had a great line. Brian Reagan said, the
kids that are sitting in those seats have a wildly
different vacation than everybody else. Like I wonder what those billboards.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They're always like late to know what everybody else is
talking about because I have to wait till the till
the long car passes the view.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
But Jay Leno said this last time he was on
with this last week or a week and a half ago,
and jay Leno was coming. He's on his way.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'm not Jaylenore.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But Jay Leno's driving a fifty seven Cadillac I think
over here. So he's gonna drive, We're gonna he's gonna
come right through that door, hopefully not the car all
the way through here. But he said the Cadillac over
the last five ten years has really, really doubled their
you know, their luxury and and their engines and really
have made an unbelievably quality car.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Also also performance, which I think has been very exciting
for people who like the brand, because not only are
they making some very like I said, elegant cars and
with a lot of features and new technology. You know,
they're they're going into electric cars, so people who are
interested in that technology have a Cadillac option.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Then also, the v cars are really fast.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I mean they're basically muscle cars except in the packaging
of a Cadillac.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Oh I see, okay, all right, all right, And now
when you working for Car and Driver, I know they
give you cars for a week or so when you
drive them around, that must be awesome. You know, they
have a new car every week.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's pretty fantastic. It's very easy to get spoiled.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
But I will tell you it makes parking really hard.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I used to be very good at.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Parallel parking, but now I'm never in the same car,
and I'm always.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Like, how the big is this car?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Where is how far away is the curve?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So it's really nice that the new cars at least
have camera systems and little beeps and stuff. So I
don't curb those big you know, twenty one inch wheels.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Are park is a parking assist just going to be
normal in every car in the future. She just pressed
a button in it parks itself.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think it is definitely.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I mean, there's already so many options for it, and
people do seem to really like it and appreciate it.
I know that the cameras and sensors are very very
helpful to people who are not super comfortable driving.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
See, I'm not a camera guy. When I reverse, now,
this is my camera.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, but then you get in a new car and
you do that, you can't see anything, so you sort
of have to learn to trust the camera.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And you know what, and the car that I drive
has a front end camera. I can see that. Yeah,
I'm looking.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
At that right right.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You call it a window, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Called my eyes. I can see that. I don't know
why there's a camera in front of that car. I
mean for guys that have to get like eight inches
from you know, they're parking in New York or Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Maybe it's like the you know, the kind of garage
where you have the tennis ball hanging.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
So I have that I put that in from my daughter.
There's a little tennis ball hanging there and it goes
right on her windshield and that's when she knows, you know,
she's good.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well, if she had more cameras, she wouldn't need it in.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But see, but I like that old school technology, you
know the ones. I bought one of those lasers where
it shows you it turns red when you're close enough
to the curb, and I didn't like it. I like
the tennis ball on DK. You have some curb that's right,
you know what? I miss curb feelers. I'm glad that
you brought that up because there are people in this
audience that are old enough to remember curb feelers. It was.
(10:09):
It was like a wire that came out from the
car and you could hear when you were close to
the curb.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Well measure, you can convince people to bring it back.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Cadillac should bring that back. Are they bringing back curb feelers?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I heard it's an option on the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
The lyrics rust be a unbelieable car.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Lovely.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I got to see it. Do they have one here?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I'm sure they do?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Okay, all right, Alana, sure, thank you so much for
coming out I wish you a huge success with car
and driver. I hope you're there forever. Oh, thank you,
very nice to meet you. We'll see you again. All right.
We are out here at Cadillac Pasadena. Come on by.
There's probably about one hundred people here or so. Bellio's here,
Michelle Cube is here, Angel Martinez is here, So come
(10:50):
on by. We're on YouTube and Facebook and Instagram, and
I'll tell you where we are. We're streaming live on
YouTube at Conways Show Official. We're also streaming on Facebook
at the Tim Conway Junior Show. And then the other
one is Instagram. We're on Instagram at Conway Show. So
(11:10):
if you want to watch, you can do that. You
can pop by as well. If you want to bring
your dog in a stroller. Oh I guess you could
do that. What the hell? Right, dog and a stroller.
That's great. Oh the dog's name is Cadillac. Oh well,
oh okay, excellent. But anyway, we're gonna be here seven
o'clock tonight. Jay Leno is coming by in about fifteen
(11:31):
twenty minutes, so you want to be here for that.
It's a Conway Show thirty four seventy five East, Colorado
at a Cadillac Pasadena Dig Dog with him.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You're live here at Cadillac Pasadena thirty five seven thirty
four to seventy five East Colorado. We have Alana here,
who is with a car and driver, and we have
your honor the Mayor Victor Gordo of Pasadena. Wow. Man,
(12:07):
this is unbelievable. This is really this is really your
go season. All hands on deck. I'm surprised you're even
sitting here.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Well, you know, it's always fun and a great opportunity
to come and celebrate with our local business community, and
so we have to make time for that. And I'm
I appreciate very much having been invited and thank you
for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You know, these dealerships, and this one in particular, they
are so beautiful and it sort of represents like the
design in Pasadena too. They didn't just throw this thing up.
And when you come in here to buy a car,
you feel like like you're really being treated well. I
parked out here and three guys carried me on a
loft on a gondola and brought me in here as wild.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Well I'm hoping you'll get a right in the Batman
car on the way out.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
How long you've been mayor of Pasadena.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
I've had the honor and privilege of serving this mayor
since twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay, an easy year to become mayor. COVID.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Yeah, you know, you're careful what you wish were in life.
You know, you get elected in the whole world ships down.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But you guys did something great during COVID and I
you know, there was a lot of information, a lot
of misinformation coming out about COVID, and you guys started
your own health department.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Well, we had the health department has been there for
over one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's what I meant.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Yes, we had our own health department at the time
that COVID struck, and it was very helpful.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It was great. Yeah, very helpful. And you guys helped
us out a lot. Hey, I understand Jay Leno. One second, Mayor,
I understand Jay Leno is on the phone. Is he
on the phone with us?
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You there, I'm right here.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
I'll be there in two seconds. I'm gonna literally drive
into the showroom.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yes, oh, okay, Jay Leno is coming in in his
nineteen fifty seven Cadillac. I think it's a steam.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Powered Yeah, only two payments left.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
All right, Jane Leno will be joining us here shortly. Again,
we have Alana here with car and driver and the Mayor,
Victor Gordo of the great city of Pasadena. How big
is Pasadena? How many people passing?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Is about one hundred and forty five thousand strong?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, it is great. I love coming to dinner in Pasadena.
I wish I could move to Pasadena, but I filled
that an application. They said, no, I'm not good enough
for Pasadena. But I love the restaurants. One of my
favorite places, King Taco downtown. I drive, you know before
they open a morning. Glendale would drive every night, you know,
from Burbank to King Taco. But I just love the
vibe here and from now until New Year's all hands
(14:40):
on deck.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Absolutely, you know this is Pasadena is a great city.
You know, we're very fortunate. You know what other city
in the world, in the universe can you think of
that small enough that it's manageable, but big enough to
provide a world stage.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Right, And and you directly and indirectly raise the property
values here in southern California, because they say one hundred
thousand people watch the Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade
and move out here from Michigan or Ohio or Nebraska
to live out here. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
You know, the parade in the game were intended as
tourism and drawing people out and it worked.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It Jade works and to continued joy. All right, thank
you very much. Oh no, that's for j Sorry, Jay
Leno is whethers he just pulled up in his nineteen
fifty seven Cadillac. Ladies and gentlemen from the Tonight Show.
Jay Leno, Hey, nice to see you, man, how you been.
(15:41):
This is Ilana. This is the mayor, mayor of Pasadena.
We got headphones for you there and a microphone. Funny,
I was walking out of the house today and my
daughter said, it's so great to have Leno and Conway
the comedy team back together.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yes, yes, it really is.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, it's more eighty twe but yeah, yeah, well you'll
catch up. I understand. I understand now this would be great.
What did you drive in today?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I drove a nineteen fifty seven Cadillac.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
That'sh man, that's a real car.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Dad is I'll tell you, so you drive that you
smash your head on the dashboard.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
They hose it off and sell it to somebody else's.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yes, that is great. That car is so big.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
You don't have a radio, have live acts. You have
live acts performing in the car.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's unbelievable. That is awesome. What's a mileage onto two?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Well you have around the highway.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
No, but you know that is when you realize what
else was around in fifty seven. Well, if you bought
like a Jaguar or Rolls Royce, you got a six cylinder, manual,
wine windows, possibly an automatic, but not really, a four speed,
no air conditioning, none of that.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I mean this had a V eight power windows, power brakes.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
No kid power windows. Yes, this is really.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Well, it really was the greatest car in the world
centering for that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You remember you have to be watching on on YouTube
or on video to uh to see this. But you
remember the in the old days, if you got into
an argument with another car driver, you would look at
it and go roll your window down.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Now, you just go.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
My dad used to call Cadile. My dad would say
Cadillac is the Rolls Rice of autobiles.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I go, pop Rolls.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I mean he never got it right. You don't know
that's a compliment.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
I go, no, it's not a compliment because the Rolls
Rice is another car.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But later on in the in the show, and I'll
remind you, I hope you tell the story of you
ordering your dad's car.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Well, we can do that. But I was listening to
your show. At the Idea you had an autobody guy on.
You remember the guy from.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
The body Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
And you said, now the guys that.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Put the aluminum siding on the okay, I said, you know,
if they're putting aluminum siding on your car, that's really
that's really not that's a high.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
End car, Jay, that's a high end Come on. Ye yeah,
I'm manned aluminum doors and and and you know quarter panels.
Yeah yeah, but they are luminant for some of those cars,
aren't they?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Some some is. But because the safety reasons, you usually
have to have steel. I mean you have steel dark garths.
You know that looks like a big heavy car.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Let's go look at it, but it's really not as.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Heavy as modern cars because the complete absence of any safety.
I mean there's no steel dart. You know, there's no
you don't have any of that. You don't have the
you know, the air bag and all those things add weight.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You know, that's probably a hair under four thousand pounds,
which is still alive. But a lot of cars.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
Mean you get a hell Cat one of those cars,
they're forty four hundred and forty three hundred pounds pin
so yeah, so I mean you've got pretty good performance too,
and they are wonderful cars to drive real quickly.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
We got to take a break. But the electric like
Escalade or the high end, those have to be seven,
eight nine thousand pounds.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Oh easy. Yeah, yeah, the Hummer's ten. But you've got
so much power. But you know that really is the
class leading electric vehicle. Now in the.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Last couple of years, Cadillac has really stepped to the
forefront a lot of other electric car company. He's been
producing the same thing for years and years and just
wonderful reviews. The lyric on all of those they're just
real engineer cars.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And Jay's not just saying that, but the last two years,
every time you've come on, you talked about Cadillac way
before this dealership or you know we ever worked together here. Well,
the thing I like about it.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
When I was a kid.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
It was your old man's car, you know, it like
a big They were all about luxury.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Now you've got engineering, luxury and sports. So you've got
the combination.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
You've got a car that handles, but you can take
to the near I mean Mark Royce, the president of GM.
He went two hundred and thirty three miles an hour.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Wow in the new car bad. I mean, what CEO
is allowed to even do that anymore?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But you know what's the fastest you've been in a car?
Two seventy eight Wow, unbelievable on.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
The self last, not on the road, on not on Colorado.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
All right, we got to take a break. I got
a call from John, the guy that gave us the
tour of your garage. Very nice guy, he said. He
wanted me to an autograph a picture for you to
put up in your garage. Yes, boy, I would love
to have that. We'll do it during the break.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
This this is what a non car guide looks like.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's right, and and uh and and Jay looks like
one tip. All right, we'reth here live at Cadillac Pasadena.
We've got the mayor, we've got.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Alana and Jay Leno, Alanae.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Jay Leno is with us. Thank you, thank you. We
are back together again. Conway and Leno actually probably Leno
and conwayn right, uh, Leno and con will.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
They go alphabetical for legal reasons.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, but we should we should get, you know, start
touring again. We had a lot of fun and made
a lot of money. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Yeah, well, well I didn't make any of it. Apparently
you did.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Apparently Jay Leno is with us. Also. Alana here from
carn Driver, Senior feature editor of carn Driver, and Dustin King,
the COO of US Auto Trust. Nice to see you.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Man, Hello everybody, thank you all for being here tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Thank you for coming down.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Iim you have a driven an Auto Trust.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's a nice job, the best, it is the best. Yeah.
You have been in the auto is industry for twenty
five years.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, after you started washing cars in high school.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
I was washing cars at a high school, at a
at a Chevy store actually a General Motors dealership.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So my kind of guy. Probably he probably washed my car.
I worked.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
In fact, I did Odama to recalibrations.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
That was my job at the dealership, the used car
coming up with eighty thousand miles, I do the correct
of nineteen five and then we put it back.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
On the show.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'd have my mom drive me around. So a little different.
All right, let's talk about Cadillac. I know that you're
not you're involved with the other lines.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Is.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Yeah, we we have some different brands. So our company
owns a several several different brands. Right now, obviously we're
we're all here tonight for Cadillac and celebrating the grand
opening of this fine dealership. Looks amazing, but we.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Just look great. It looks beautiful.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
It's stunning, absolutely stunning. We're all very very excited.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And and what is the the you know, the Cadillac
that sticks out. People come in and they see that
in oh, I gotta have.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
The Celestic is getting a lot of attention.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Jason driven it?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It's nice, It is nice. So it's very nice. Guy, Well,
you know it's you more safety features than your fifty seven.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Then if anything has more safety treating, a kind of
Stoga wagon has more safety features than that. But the
fun thing about Cadlloc to me is now Europeans are
to be very holy, you know, big lead sled blah
blah blah, and now they're a bit they realize American engineering.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
You know.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
That's what I like about the American auto industry. It's
all engineering people. Now, going bankrupt was the best thing
that ever happened, because you got rid of the guy.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
From Zenith and Whirlpool.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
It was selling, and now you've just got engineers at
every level. Engineers worked on luxury, engineers working on driving,
you know, and it really makes some fun. And when
they take American cars out, almost every European magazine degrees
there's no greater value than a Corvette in terms of performance.
For the money for the sales tax on a European exotic,
(22:55):
you could get a brand new Corvette that's fast.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I was reading an article about the new line of Catillac,
and their new theory is the customers, not only the
customers first, but the customer's comfort is premiere. And then
you back in the technology. Before they used to create
the technology and then worry about the customer, But now
the customers first, and then they adapt the technology to
(23:19):
what the customer wants and Cadillac has been knocking it out.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Oh yeah, no, they do a great job.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
They're also getting into F one Tour.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
You know, I think that's exciting because that really shows
you're an engineering company. I mean, you know, I was
never that into F one until it started showing up
on TV because it was like watching Space Shuttle stuff.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
It was so high tech.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I mean, lug nuts at fifteen hundred dollars a lug now,
you know that kind of thing where you go, well,
this is out of the realm. And the drivers would have,
you know, the tinted so you couldn't see their face,
so there wasn't the human emotion. And then when that
show came on Netflix, it really made you, like the
drivers understand the problems and frustrations, and it's fun to
see Cadillac taking make it very easily say we're the
(24:01):
luxury brand, but they try to cover the whole basis
performance luxury.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
You know, you make a complete package, which is really exciting.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Dustin King is with us, the CEO of US try
Us Auto Tries, Yes, sir, and that's a huge company.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
It's a big company. Yeah. So we we have some
different brands. We've got Farri dealership, Lamborghini dealership. We've got
a Pagani brand which is really exciting as well.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
An agree, I think JA owned some of those that Rygi.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
But I've got Dustin.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Now that if you're with your you have Ferrari, but
then also Cadillac.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Who are you going to root for next year in
F one?
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Well we also have Aston Martin as well, so we've
got yeah, got the teams covered.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah. Well did you go to Vegas for the I did.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
I was at the concourse. Uh so, I went to
the concourse event. I didn't actually get to the F
one F one event. The concourse was beautiful though. They
had a tremendous amount of cars there, a lot of
a lot of it was was pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So it's what amazes me. I'm not the biggest car
guy in the world, really, I know. But what's amazing
to me how quickly you can go from the Golden
Nugget to Mandalay Bay in one of those cars. Oh
sure it was, you know, for me it takes you
an hour driving down the strip. For those guys, it
was six seconds.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
Right six there you go, yes, your honeymoon, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
The racing is pretty exciting the F one stuff. I've
been getting into it more obviously with the brands, and
we've got the F one car here at the in
the showroom, which is a real privilege. So thank you
Cadillac for bringing that out for us.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Let me ask you a question, where's the money in
F one because the prize to win that race was
I think a million dollars.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Oh boy, yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
The prize to enter is two hundred million dollars. No,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
If you have a team and you'd like to be
in it, well that's the entrance. See it goes from there.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
You know.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
I was at the Pitts in Austin and there is
so much money there. I mean, you know, I said,
let me go get something to eat, you know, and
it usually race car food. It's you know, it's old
hot dogs on the sweet you go to the Italian
booth telling you guys cooked it was the best pasta.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I ever had.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
I mean, I'm on the track and they're making it
fresh right there. They're making this song. They go to
the German one.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
There's not a piece of trash on the ground, there's
not a cocaine lying around. I mean it's it's immaculate.
It's really amazing. What a job they do with that.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, I went to Speaking of food, I went to
Mount Hood up in in Oregon and we went to
there's four different restaurants on the top of Mountain Hood
there and we tried all four from all four of
the best restaurants I've ever had my life. And I
asked the mater d I said, hey, how do you
have four tiny restaurants in this little town and they're
all great? And you know what he said to me,
(26:37):
He said, rich people don't eat crap.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Right. F one racing is you must have felt bad.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
F one racing is the motor that I've ever been
to where you could have a conversation with someone that
starts with how many lobsters have you had today? Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
That's classic?
Speaker 9 (26:55):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But so so, the prize in winning the race means nothing.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
No, the prize not the problem.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
What you're selling is merchandise and it's one hundreds and million.
I mean you pay the drivers twenty million thirty one
in a year.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Really, you know.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Phil Hill was the first American World champion and he
and I were good friends, and he raced for tires
and gasoline. Literally he had to get himself to the
races he drove for Ferrari because to be asked to
drive Ferrari was.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
A huge honor.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
There there was no money. I mean you might get
a meal something, but that was about it.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
But he said, he said, one year I got free
gas and tires and he was thrilled.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
He was thrilled. Yeah. You know, they said they were
going to do a an F one race in Los Angeles,
but they were afraid of everything was going to get
ripped off.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Okay, well that would be really cool if they did.
There would be a great.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Event they could do in Pasadena. Though Pasaden is clean. Yeah,
nice hang, but the city of La I think it
is years off. I love the Vegas F one race though.
That's really cool.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
It seems to be the main event for the F
one right now. Everybody seems to love that one and
brings a lot of a train.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
And the city embraced it too. You know, they really
got behind it.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
Yeah they I think it's about three months. It occupies
the Spa.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
They spend money.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
I mean, you couldn't have in La a cold water
candy looks like the Choosholm Trail so many.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I've got the four flat tie you bang it?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
What is it? You know?
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Where am I?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
You know?
Speaker 8 (28:15):
So?
Speaker 9 (28:15):
There's so many potholes you couldn't have her. You gotta
have an off road race in La Dustin.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Thank you for coming by. Congratulations on the big dealers
jip here.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Thank everybody for coming.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Give me a business card. I would like to get
a deal from you on a car. Sure looking at
a lotus?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Absolutely, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
We're live. It's Tim Conway Junior. Jay Leno's with us,
Alana Sure, we got plenty of guests. We're here at
thirty four to seventy five East Colorado. Come on by
will Bear till seven o'clock and then we're taking the
F one car out for a spin.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Cabillac Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yes, come on by thirty four to seventy five East Colorado.
Jay Leno is with us a lot of sure as whether.
It's also a senior feature editor at carn Driver. And
we have the raised kid Liam Nacho waddi.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
Yes, yes, yay, rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
How old are you young man. I am eleven, all right,
and you're already starting racing.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
I started when I was about six years old.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Actually, what why so late? I couldn't find a car? Yeah,
but that is late late.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
The guys their kids have started at three.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
And four, is that right?
Speaker 9 (29:34):
I mean what you're looking here is the equivalent of
an Olympic athlete. This young guy is training. In ten years,
he could be world champion, that's right, quite easily.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, and he's really into it.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
And it's extremely hard work. Everybody thinks driving, Well, you're
just driving a car. How hard can that be? I mean,
the g forces that, the lightning reflexes, it's really it
takes very very special people to be able to do this,
and not many kids can do so congratulations my friend.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, well you told us the story that you were doing. Uh,
you know, some great athlete got behind the car. It
never really I.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
Did the celebrity race Toto Grand Prix, right, So it's
like Dan Gurney and selling me and Helen Hayes, you
know somebody you know, and so I got so I'm
going to get behind Dan Gurney.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Just do what Dan Gurney does.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
So I got got Dan garny bricks, I break, Okay,
I'm staying with him.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Good.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
And then he's a little bit ahead of me. Okay,
all right, I'll catch up doing that. And then he's
in my rearview.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Marria, what happened? And then he laughed, that's great. I
thought I was doing unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
But you realize everything is measured in a tenth of
a second.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Yeah, and you aren't also ran, You're like third place
because the tenth of a second could be one hundred
feet two hundred You know, Liam, what got you into racing?
Speaker 10 (30:48):
So basically I come from a family of mechanics and engineers.
My two uncle our engineers. Yeah, unfortunately my dad is
a lawyer. But okay, it does fun, it does fund
me right. So basically, it was around quarantine time twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one, and I was actually at my uncle's
apartment and he had a racing sim and I wanted
(31:10):
to try it out, and I was actually pretty good.
So my uncle and my dad split a go car
fifty to fifty and said if he doesn't like it,
we'll just sell it. And my uncle said, you can
have the cost after, you know, we'll just split it and.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
You still have that go card? Is that still your
car where you moved up?
Speaker 10 (31:29):
I have moved up, but we did not keep the
go car. I think we sold it about last year
and then we went back to my local track in Denton, Texas,
and I basically just took off from their.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Raising you and how many wins do you have? How
many tournaments have you won? So they called it a tournament, Jane,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
It's not joustings. There's no tournament. You're not on a
horse for them.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
How many races if you're wait.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Well, you can't really see.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
You're not being fair because it's it's it's a learning experience,
you know. It's like when you watch a baseball you
go to high school and you watch a baseball game.
They lost the game, but boy, that kid was unbelievable.
I mean he he, you know he And that's what
that's what this is. There are people watching him even
in Europe. Now is he going to be.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
The next champion? I mean Lando, how old is land?
Don't it twenty six?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Okay? And so this is what you want. You want
to get into F one or Indie or Nascar.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
I would prefer F one I really like the Endurance Series.
I would race those, you know, Porsche Cups, supercl oh sorry,
really anything?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
What about Nascar?
Speaker 10 (32:35):
I mean I've been to a couple of NASCAR races.
I'm not greatly into it, but I look up to
a couple of people.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
All right, that's cool. Yeah, racing has become huge, and you, I imagine,
have a pretty cool simulator at home. Yes, I do,
with all the bells and whistles, yes, yes, and even
even the seat that moves.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Yeah. I have a motion simulator. The four s feedback
on the wheel. I actually have a cardial seat CARDI wow,
Carnie steer in there. Uh, three monitors a PC in
the back, so, oh.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
My god, extravagant.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's not a toy.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
It's not a toy.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I mean, it's a real tool. But eventually, you know,
you're never gonna have to go outside. You'll just raise
somebody in your simulator.
Speaker 10 (33:16):
Yeah. I have been racing some esports races, you know,
I racing.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Do they have that? They have esport racing on simulators?
Speaker 10 (33:23):
Yes they have.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I got to get into that.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
See, this is what happens when you never go outside.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
How can you tell my Mediterranean tan exactly. Look, my
tan matches your jacket.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
But the original race kid, the level of physical fitness
for an F one driver is the same as it
is for a heavyweight boxer.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Could you think you're just sitting there? But the g
forces on your neck alone. It's the same as a
fighter pilot.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
And so if you if it doesn't work out in racing,
you become a fighter. Yeah, probably, Yeah, they don't. You
want to pitch your social media and where you are
on YouTube and everything.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
So I have a YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, on all platforms.
I'm on TikTok, Liamnnchawati and I actually have my social
media manager here. So if you want to ask him
any questions.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
The race kid, what what did he say?
Speaker 10 (34:19):
Marketers my marketing firm. They have a few other clients,
so they're really good.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Well go get it.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Knock on wood. I don't thin there's any would in
this here that nothing that you have. Safe travel back
to the Dallas. Thank you, all right, very nice to
meet you. Nice to meet make you wrong with you, buddy,
I know you don't what that means, but things got
with you anywhere you go? All right? Jay Leno is
with us Zen also Alana Sure from the Car and
Drive Word Live a Colorado, Pasadena, Colorado. Come on out.
(34:45):
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