December 10, 2025 • 29 mins
The 6PM hour from Cadillac of Pasadena is pure Conway magic. Jay Leno and Tim kick things off with stories, live crowd moments, and the electric atmosphere of a grand opening packed with fans, engines, and big personalities. Automotive heavyweight Jonny Lieberman returns for back-to-back segments, breaking down Cadillac’s latest design direction, dissecting industry trends, and giving his unfiltered take on performance and engineering.Jonny’s insights hit even harder following the earlier GM and Cadillac announcements, and he brings humor, honesty, and deep automotive knowledge as only he can. The hour builds to a fun and unexpected moment as Tim celebrates the birthday of Cadillac of Pasadena’s General Manager, Ace Ofeany, right in the middle of the live broadcast.The show closes with a high-energy call-to-action, sponsor shout-outs, and the final wrap of a massive remote event packed with legends, laughs, and horsepower.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're at Cadillac Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Jay Leno is with us. I know you're a big, big,
huge car guy, but you're also a big comedy guy.
And you are going to be at Flappers Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
And I'm not that big because I'm at Flappers Friday
and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Is that something that they call you or you call them?
You try? Just tell them a spot a life stick me.
I like to I like to work.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I like to try. You know, I'm just like six.
I don't write anything down, so the moment do it.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
When I saw you at Flappers, you didn't write any
of that down.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
No, I don't have any I've never written anything down.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Wow, man, it was you did forty five minutes and
didn't skip a beat or fump for over a word
or anything.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Actually, messing on the bathroom was an hour and fifteen.
But yeah, that's close enough. Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Were you on for an hour and fifteen?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah? Yeah, it just seemed like forty five.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You know that that's great for people to f out
of town.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You know, they come into La and like Jay Leno,
I saw him on TV forever and I can see
in person.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, there used to be more of that in Hollywood.
You know, you used to have celebrities would show up
at places right and people would get excited. But you know,
everybody lives somewhere else or whatever, and it's it's funny.
I mean, I really I like me. You know, I
used to see Bob Holt in the supermarket all the
time and people would go crazy, you know, and I
think it was kind of fun. It was kind of
an innocence to it that I liked.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I saw Dick Van Dyke about two years ago in
Malibu at a supermarket and it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You know, obviously he's still alive, he's gonna be I
think he just turned one hundred, right, just turned one hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And to see him shopping for his own food at
a supermarket is awesome at ninety eight years old, Well.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Doing anything at ninety eight years old is actually impressive.
To see him walk into the market is impressive.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Do you have good jeans in your family? People live forever?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well these I get these a Target and they're actually okay.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Your mom and Dad live Forever No. Eighty one.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
My grandfather made it to one hundred.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You know, wow, that to old school.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know those they walk everywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Wait, is your your dad?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Your grandfather from Italy and Italy and they're the ones
that wanted to put the statue.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I told you that story. Yeah, that's a great story.
That's a great story. You got to tell these people
that story. It's just so Italian. My grandfather came from
from Mari, Italy.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So somebody from my show visits the town of for
Mari and he called me and said, everybody here looks
like you. I said, well that's that. They're all relatives,
you know. So he meets the mayor of for Mari,
invites the mayor of Mari, if you're ever in Los Angeles,
come to the Tonight show. So six months later he comes.
He looks like an Italian mayor, and he's got a
(02:41):
little suit that's just a little too small, the buttons
a stretch. He got a hat that's one size too
small for his head. You know. Let me then missing
he says, I come from my visit of from Mari,
who are so put out of the descendant of one
of one of a family comes to Medica, it becomes
a huge stuff like, well, I'm not really assu you.
Oh no, please, he said, we want to build a
(03:02):
statue of a you and your grandfather to put in
into town square.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And I said, well, yeah, I'm not really a statue guy,
but that's right. No, no, please please, would you just
give us permission to do it? You give permission? I said, well, yeah, okay,
sugar ahead. He goes, yes, okay. Now the basic statue
is the seventy five thousand dollars. If you want to
be on the mountain looking down, it's one hundred and
twenty five. I said, you know, I'm okay. I said,
I'm okay, just an Italian stam. It just made me laugh.
(03:31):
Oh yeah, just you know, just said old, Hey, my
wallet's gone? What happened?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Where? Where are you from in Massachusetts?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I'm from andover Massachusetts?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And do they have a statue there anyways? Or no statue?
No statue there? And you have a house back there?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah? I have a house. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Do you ever go to it?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well again, that's the purpose of a house, Yeah, certainly.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
But you're always in town every time you call us
or you come on, you're always in Allen.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well, I get back East once in a while.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, you know Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's such a funny place to grow up, you know,
because New England is very suspicious. You know, everybody's saying
like he did you go Hollywood? You know, I'll try
to watch my language here. But here's a New England compliment.
And this is a classic. I'm on Marlboro Street in Boston.
This guy goes, hey, Jay Leno, my friend met you
(04:18):
in California. He said, you're not an a hole. I said, well,
thank you. He goes, no, really no, he said that,
you know, like was the ultimately it was like the
ultimate comment said well, thank you, I appreciate it. No, no,
he meant it, well, thank you. Then I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
What. I'm sure you still have friends and family there.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That Oh yeah, every dead bee friend.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But yeah they bang on you for money.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, you know the funny thing about when you come
from a small town. I don't like to impress people,
but I feel I have to impress my stupid friends
from the eighth grade. So at one point President Obama
had give me his phone number and I had it.
I'm telling my friends, President Obama. Game is the number.
He goes, let's call him up. I'll go okay, First
of all, he's President United States. Okay, he gave me
(05:01):
this number when he wasn't president, and I'm not gonna
call him. But you don't have it, no, uh huh no,
you know.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So I said, well, let me show you. I up
my phone.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I had my finger over the number, and as he
was to say the President United States, Barack Obama, he goes, well,
let's call and now it's like three o'clock. I'm saying, okay,
so that means it's six o'clock. All right, I down
a number. I hear Brock here as president. Yeah, Jay, Leno,
what can you for you?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Jay?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I'm just saying with my friends, lose this number, Jay,
click and hands up.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That was brief.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Oh yeah, Well, you know when he was on the
Tonight Show with you, when President Obama would fly in,
the people in Los Angeles used to get pissed that
the traffic was snarled for hours. Well, every president, right,
but then they start flying him to Burbank Airport to
make the community easier.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And I used to.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Live right off of Hollywood Wate so I take my
daughter out there and see the President come by, and
it's always impressive to see that car and that movement
of that person come by you.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And it's so unusual in Los Angeles se a Cadillaco
buy with tingent windows. You know, you can't fly, you
can't see who's said, who's inside, you know they're flying.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think it's a huge compliment also that the White
House has it still has a Cadillac shuffle the president round.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well, but I have to use use American made stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Right, they wouldn't use Honda or toyot Well.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Only because it's built the United States. They can follow
it the whole process through. You know. Uh, we had
air force. We had they call it the Beast, the
Presidential limit of my garage.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh really, it is unbelievable. The doors are this stick.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Wow? How did you get that glasses that we wanted
to do a video on its? So they brought it
by and it's you can live in it for three days?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Wow? Did they stay with it when.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You know you can't get in it. You can get
up to it and you can look at it, you
can't get in it.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Did they show you under the hood?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No, can't show you under the hood.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What do you think's under there?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I'm sure it's just the same engine with a bit
more power with a superchargeres it and get out of
tricky situation. But the thing is, you could throw bombs
underneath it. It might lift the car, but it's not
going to break it. Wow, and somebody could survive in
the car for three.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Days, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It carries its own oxygen, carries its own blood, carries everything.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, I've spent three days in my car.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I don't. I think most of your career has been
in your cars.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I spent three days in the Santanita parking lot.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
That's I'm going to say.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Car. You don't gamble much, right, you don't when you
go to Vegas?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No, I'm not. You want a gambling joe? Yeah, okay,
guys walking out with me? Walking down No, guy's walking
down the street in Vegas. You know, he's almost at
the end of the strip where it's coming in from
the desert. You know, they have the sign welcome to Vegas.
And he sees a guy in a suit coming towards him. So, oh,
I don't want to play. So he crosses the street
and the guy crosses, he goes, oh, man, They crosses back,
(07:46):
and the guy crossed byke goes. You know it's inevitable.
I'm going to meet this guy, you know. So the
guy goes, look, sir, so, I know what you're thinking.
I'm a successful business. Memory look at the suit. This
is Cannali suit. This is a ten thousand dollars suit.
I'm a successful business. My wife's in the car. It
broke down outside of town. I walked through moustick in here.
I'm a successful business where I'm from. I'm just embarrassed.
(08:07):
Can you lend me one hundred dollars? And the guy goes.
He goes, look, I'll lend you one hundred dollars, but
how do I know you won't use it for gambling money?
Guy goes, oh, I got gamble.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The only pre people who don't laugh at the joke
are degenerate gambled.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You know there are there are guys out there who
gamble and guys who are I'm a player.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I'm not a gambler.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well, I'm dyslexic. So to me, I play black. Sara,
we got twenty eight, you have twenty eight, sir now
everybody else is mad, you know. Yeah, no, I know
I'm not. And you know, losing one hundred makes me
feel worse than winning a thousand makes me feel good.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Right, that's that. Then that's great. I don't have that,
but I wish I had.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Obviously you don't have one hundred either, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
The worst thing you can do is take your kid
to the racetrack and he wins.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
That's over all right, Jay Leno is.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Whether we're live at Cadillac Pasadena. Cadillac Pasaden, thirty fourth
seventy five East, Colorado Beetles, seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
JA leto joins us big car guy, bigger car guy
than I am, probably right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I would imagine. I think Columbus is a bigger car guy.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Oh that is classic, buddy. Are you still have the
very first car you bought when you came.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Down with I do my fifty five Buick?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah you own it?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, I got two payments left.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That's the car you slept in when you were.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
On I slept in that car, met my wife and
that car. Get married in the car. Yeah, I still
have it. That's classic moddy. Yeah, that's cool it and
it still runs. It's well, I've redone the thing. You know.
It's a it's fifty five Buick and I put a
modern Corvette drive train in it and a bunch of
other things. But you know what, it's so funny. Nineteen
fifty five was Buick's greatest year ever.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And in the early fifties, the Ford and everybody else
was paying everybody equal rageous there's me black and white
people that paid the name. So there's a huge, huge
migration of African Americans that came up to Detroit and
went to work at the factories because they was making
the same money as the white workers, which is more
than fair. And so consequently they bought Buicks. Well, I
(10:16):
would park my Buick and I come back and never
believe it'd be three or four older black men that
the roadmaster. And they all have a story. And one
time I had the Tuskegee Airmen visiting. One of the
airmen when he got out of World War Two, he
bought a fifty five Buick and he was almost in
tears standing next to it. Yeah, it was really, really
really pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
My mom is from Detroit, so I spent every summer
with my dad's family in Cleveland or my mom's family
in Detroit. And Detroit always got a bad rap of,
you know, being a dangerous or you know, crazy town.
But my mom, you know, in Dearborn where she was from. Man,
it's spectacular. It's a beautiful state of beautiful city.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I'll tell you great.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
One day with Dr Penske in Detroit and we're driving
around and I just happened to say to him, I
can't believe how clean this city is. I mean, it
really was clean it is. And he said to me,
and he's a pretty modest guy, he said, what, we
have a program. We give homeless people a key, and
the key opens a mailbox and then that mailbox is
gift cards or food stamping.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
He says.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
He says, all, I asked the homeless people, if you
see a piece of trash, pick it up. You don't
have to pick it up, it's not contingent. You'll still
get the mailbox and the check. And consequently you see
homeless guy's picked up up and put nobody's twisting the run.
NOAs tell me they have to, And I thought, but
would that work in la I don't know if it
would or not, you know, but it was just fast
(11:41):
because I just noticed how clean it was.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
When I remember they used to have the Grand Prix
in Detroit. I think it was one of the first
cities in the United States that had it. And it
was you know, being downtown and having the you know
the was.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It Formula one? Formula one and.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Having those cars in downtown Detroit. That's what really America
was all about. Yeah, you know, all of them built there,
and well they weren't building Formula one cause I'm built
in Well, no, I nobody all you know, major car
companies in Detroit. But my grandfather who was born in
nineteen ten and he fought in World War Two, I
(12:18):
you know, he he had this thing about you know,
when I went to college, I had a Toyota Corolla
and I drove it across country and parked it in
his in his driveway, in his yard.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And it came out the next day and it was gone.
It was down the street.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And he said, no cars other than Americans in his
in his yard.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, I can.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Understand that from that generation, you know, because you're fighting
an enemy.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
You know, it seems odd to do it today.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Though it does seem odd to do it today, I
mean one hundred and three, right.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But our most cars nowadays built all over the world,
parts from all over the world.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
The idea now is to build a world car that
meets every In the old days, you had an American car,
it didn't fit European standard, European cardgment. Now everything's pretty
much a world car. You need to sell cars all
over the world.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Let me ask you a question, Jay Leno.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
As well as we're a kind of like Pasadena, how
come we can't get Chinese electric cars imported in the
United States?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Why don't they allow them? Well, I think you will.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I just think you don't want somebody flooding the market.
I remember years ago, if you have been at Philadelphia,
you know tasty cakes.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, sure, okay, Tasty.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Cakes was the hottest selling cake in the Philadelphia areas, right,
and Hostess wanted that, so they moved in and they
flooded the market with basically losing money in every Hostess
cupcake just to drive Tasty Cake.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
At and ding dongs.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
And it was yeah, and it was exactly and it
was deemed illegal. It was made against the law. You
can't purposely set your business off to ruin another business
so you can overtake them, which I think is a
good law, and I think that's kind of the problem
what you have now is with the Chinese.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, yeah, but it is. It really is interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You know, when when I was a kid and driving
a car, the technology advanced very slowly, like when I
got into a car that my my dad owned, and
by time I bought a car, there wasn't much difference technologically.
But nowadays it moves so quickly.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, well, now you have smart cars and dumb people.
You know, the days you have smart people and just
regular cars.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But I also heard that that, you know, the Cadillac
and Ford and GM and some of these companies, they're
going to take some of the bells and whistles out
because people don't use you know, all the apps or
you know, everything that comes with the car.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Well, you know, it's a tough business because you have
for it looked like for a while, electric cars, that's it.
Everybody's going to be electric by twenty thirty, and that
was the goal. And then Trump came in. He didn't
like electric whatever, reason I might be. So now they
have to switch gears. Now in the middle, what do
we do? So now you have the hybrid, which seems
to be the way to go. You got a gas
(14:53):
engine with electric motor to health safe fuel, and that
seems I think that's going to be the standard for
a while than all electric.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All right, Jay Leno is with us.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
We have another half hour here, So come on down
thirty four seventy five East Colorado, Cadillac Pasadena, Cadillac Pasadena,
COMBA show.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty Cadillac Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I'm thirty four seventy five East Colorado. Come on out
and enjoy yourself. Here, Bellio's here, Angels here, round of applause.
Nothing for angel and nothing for Bellio and Jay Leno.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Everybody. Yes, you're gonna be at Flappers this weekend. Yeah,
I'll be there Friday and Saturday. Friday and Saturday. You
can go see Jay Friday at eight no seven.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Thirty, seven thirty thirty and Saturday at seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And who's opening for you? Me again, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I know Jimmy Brogan will be there and somebody else
believe never get asked. Yeah, you could come do it?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
A sure, I would love to see you. Go ahead, Tim,
Let's see how you do, buddy. I'm gonna I can
only do two hours.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, yeah, I got it all right, Cadillin passing the
gm ace O Feenie.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Right, Yes, it is nice to see you man. Congratulations
on there. How can you trust the car salesman name
a about that? Yeah? Right there you go, perfect day
for it. How long you've been the general manager out
here for this store?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I've been just recently this year. Okay manager, I've been
with the group for a little under two years.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
So it just opened today.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
So yeah, we've been telling out of a trailer. So
we're here and.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
We have a special gift for this man. We're giving
you the F one car.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Oh wow, yeah, can I drive out of here? You
can drive out of here with lemen. Happy birthday to Asophenie.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Happy birthday, Ce, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday Ace Opeenie,
Happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Thank you, Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That is great man. They went all out on that cake.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Yeah, sure you did, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Nothing centered and the numbers are wrong. I guess the
plates and forks will be here in a week or two.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
This is an exciting time when a dealership opens.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
It is it is a fantastic time. We're excited to
finally be done in the service community and uh, you know,
get everybody to come in here and actually drive into
a dealership that we can sell and service their cars.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
How I was a kid, that was a big deal.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
They have like free hot dogs and donuts for the kids,
and they have the whole thing, you know. But to me,
the Cadillac, Like you have to watch the TV show
mad Men. Remember he walks into the Cadillac dealership in
Manhattan and it looks like you're walking into the Vatican,
you know, good heavens, the guys, beautiful suits and ties
in the role again and you get the brochure and
the whole thing. I was really pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And now it's back. Yeah, you know that kind of
How long we were in construction here?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Over year?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yes, we were right actually on that side in the
bungalow and selling cars from there and looking at from
that date to now, it's uh, it's it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Here's the question for you, how long did it take
to build the umpire stapling from first shovel ahead of me?
How long did it take to build the m prev? No?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Three years? Three years? What do you say? One year?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Four hundred and ten days. Wow, that guy's been working
on my bathroom longer. But four hundred and ten days.
I mean, we used to be able to do stuff
in that amount of time. And don't forget that's what
that's with donkeys pulling wagons with stones in.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Them, right, you know, electrical tools.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You're right, you're talking nineteen twenty two, nineteen twenty three
when it's just.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Unbelievable and uh and only eighty four guys died.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's a little different.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
We have none of that happening here.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Any opening day sales going on, any big good deals, end.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Of the year sale sale that we have right now
going on. We've got great inventory in stock right now,
you do, and we're ready to go. We're actually a
celestic dealer as well, So that's the celestic that is
a celestic, and we're a perfer celestic dealer here in LA.
What do they start at, let's start about three eighty three,
eight nine?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, but see what you go in, it's not like
a regular The thing that's kind of cool it the
bespoke car. You go in and you designed the car.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Here's what I like.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
This is the interior.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I don't want this wood, I want carbon fiber or whatever.
And you actually work with the team and it takes
probably a two months three months to get the cut done.
But your car is built the same way the Rolls
Royce or any of those European exotic to it. I mean,
it's really pretty cool. And if you don't if you
don't have the three and eighty thousand, then you've got
other catallites and the rains that electric.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
They're just as good.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
They're just not bespoke. What you're paying for is the
individual attention. You pick your own colors and all that
kind of thing. The thing that I loved you had
a conversion, a convertible version of that Wow which Wow,
Which that really knocked me out. I hope, I hope
they go into product.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
I hope so too. It's a great looking vehicle, so
that'd be a great idea to do a convertible as well.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So if you're a salesperson here and you're working on commission,
you unload two of those babies a year and you're done.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
We don't know, they're not too many have been made yet,
but we're hoping.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So, yeah, Tim Sled the kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
What do I have to know for the test here?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
What I have to do? What I have to do
just to get by? I don't want to do anymore,
that's right?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Then just get the artful dodger. Yeah, minimum work, you know,
work smarter, not harder.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I just have to sell to a year then I
have to come in. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, then you
can fly around and get you and enjoy yourself. But
that is is this the first year for this?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
That twenty five twenty six is going to be also
twenty five and twenty six.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And how many are they going to make a year?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
We don't know that yet. It depending on how many
orders to come through.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Well, actually it's probably talking fifty a year. That would
be big because you know, this is a handmade car.
I mean it's you know, we're living in an era
now where everybody wants to have a personal touch with
stuff because so much stuff is done by machines. So
you can meet the engineers, you can meet the designers,
you can talk with them. Here's what I'd like. Oh okay,
you know, and it's a fascinating concept. I mean, they
(21:12):
did it in the thirties, you know, Murphy right down
the street here in Pasadena was the dealership for Duzenberg
and some of the right.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, and you would go in and you could.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Buy one off the floor, or you could build your
own and they would come out with the lavish leather
bound books with his bodies you can go on. And
that's really what so Leistik is trying to do with
the Cadillac. You go in and you meet people and
you build you know, the engineer signs under the hood,
you know, I get.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I love that stuff. Oh that's great. I drive a
link in Navigator from two thousand and seven. Thank you,
thanks for coming in.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Good night everybody, and escalate.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I got to get into a Cadillac because right now,
in order to turn the air conditioning on in my Navigator,
I have to hit a speed bump, and if I
his speed bump, it goes on, because if I had
another speed bomb, it goes off.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So I gotta be careful on the way to work.
I got hit one speed bump and then get to work.
True story. What is the entry level real quick for Cadillac.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You come in, you want a Cadillac, your first one?
You know, you want to spend three undred.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Eighty thousand love fifties, low fifties. Okay, all right? And
what type what kind of car is that?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
You can get a CT five, CT four or an.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Alph those are beautiful and the lyrics also lyric lyrics. Yes,
it was the CT that was the car that replaced
the Civil.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
The sedan was the Civil.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yes, yes, how about that?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Very good knowledge and I'm very proud dog.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And it's true. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yes, my dad was a big He had a my
mom had a Coop Deville and my dad had a
Civil and they loved it.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Man, I bought my dad a Cadillac, first thing I
did when I made it and show you know, I
brought my and my mother was from Scotland and she
was so embarrassed we had this. And we had the
Italian Cadillac white with the red Vulora upholstery. So my
dad would be driving down the street and when we
came to a stoplight, if people looked at the car,
my mother mentioned roll down the window.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
We're not really Cadillac people.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Our son gave us, we're driving people. Then they stopped fighting,
and then the people would take off because they'd be young,
and then my cha people would say. We would say,
I saw your dad driving down the street. He was yelling,
but there's nobody in the car.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Said no, my mom was there. She was just sitting.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
My mother was so embarrassed to driving this fancy She
would sit below the window and my father, what do
you do you? And I saw your dad just screaming
in the car.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
No, No, my mom was there. Oh it's so good.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You can't buy your parents anything, you know, they're old school.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Well, my mother's in Scotland. Is there anything fancy? Oh goddish,
what's it? Big fancy cops? The big shot.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
My dad was the same way my windows. When the
remote came out for the TV. My grandmother, my dad's mother,
was probably in her seventies and she was having trouble
with arthritis and diabetas, so she couldn't get up to
change the TV. So he bought her remote, and I
was at her house and she would still get up
and change the TV manually. So once you use the remote,
she goes cuz I'm shaking today and I don't want
(24:11):
to break a vase or a lamb by pressing it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You know, she does lasers. Oh yeah, funny, unbelievable, all.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Right, dog, Happy birthday young man forty five years old.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Feenie a so feeni pass for ah when you.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Come here to buy your car, right and thanks for
not sharing the cake.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
We really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
That's gotta go back to I gotta go back to
Ralphs and yeah, yeah, take the letters off. We are
live on KFIM six j Lenos with It's Conway Show.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
We are live at Pasadena Cadalog, Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
What a beautiful crowd.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Everybody showed up to see j Leno and Jay's gonna
be pulling out. It is nineteen fifty seven, cat and
not a minute too so.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna shout that.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Dustin King is with us, the COO of us Auto Trust.
I'm back and what a beautiful time to open, right
before the holidays.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
What a beautiful time to open, What a great reception.
Thank you everybody for coming out. It's it's been a
wonderful evening. Thank you Jay, thank you, Tim, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It's been wonderful.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And you got you say you have over one hundred
cars ready to move.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
We do.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
We have over one hundred new Cadillacs in stock ready
to go. Cadillac Pasadena. You definitely want to come down
and check us out.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Come see the.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
New facilities, the new dealership here. We've got an amazing
team willing to help you guys with your Christmas shopping.
So come on down and check us out. You get
like Pasadena, you get.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
A better deal on twenty twenty fives right now make
room for the twenty twenty six is Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Absolutely, anytime you can find a deal. I know that
the team here is pretty motivated to make make some sales,
and we've got a couple left, so you want to
get down and check out to check it out.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
That's my favorite thing. But I ever watched commercials. We're
talking to Bob from UH Crime Bomb. What's your question.
Is this a good time to.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Buy a car?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
That's the best time because right now we're we're just
having to call at the best time.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
It's amazing.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Technically, it is the best time to buy yeah, right there.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I highly recommend, you know, the new electric Cadillac, even
the base model I think is better than Tesla and
some of the other ones.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I mean, they really, they really.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
GM is a big company with lots of engineers, way
more than a lot of other companies, and when they
decide to set their mind to something. A lot of
people don't realize. General Motives invented the prius, but it
was before it's time and they just thought, let's sell
it to the Japanese, which they did. They sold the platform,
but they intended the platform. But at the time, electric
gas was still, you know, pretty cheap compared to the
(26:45):
rest of the world wide. Why would you want that?
So had they waited a little bit longer, it might
have been a different outcome. But but a lot of
it starts here. You know, we we failed to get
a lot of credit. We won World War Two, and
then we got a little lazy after that, and you know,
people I.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Started getting lazy exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I know it was some time right then.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
All right, Sharon Belli, O our producer, I wanted to
thank a bunch of people here at Cadillac Pasadena, ding
Dong with her.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yes, we want to thank everyone that came out, all
of our listeners, and Cadillac Pasadena for hosting us. I
want to think Dustin King for.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Coming out, gentlemen, I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
The race kid, Liam NOTCHAWADDI thank you so much. Bed
Oh he's on a flight to No, he's out of here.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But you know it's funny.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
That's what I met Lando and Max when they were
little kiss Oh is that right? And ten years later
their world champions making thirty million dollars? Look quick?
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Conways done in ten years?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah? I think I think he won one race.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
He got air.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Didn't you hear it?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I couldn't be burnt to the bathroom a half hour ago.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
I want to think Brian Smith, the design director GM
Advanced Design, Johnny Lieberman, Yeah, Rory Arber Harvey, Executive Vice
president President of GM Global Markets, Alana Chaer, senior features
editor of Car and Driver, and Mayor Victor Gordo, the
mayor of the City of Pasadena, Beautiful city. And also
(28:13):
want to thank Bert our engineer, Michael Krozier back at
the station, Dave Weese and his whole team, and Waco
and Matthew for social media thank you, and of course
Tim Conway.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Jani and of course Jam thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Thank you everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I know this is probably not perfect timing, but I
want to make this an annual event that we do
would be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
All right, you hear that We're on every year.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You guys, you're all coming back. Jay's coming back. We're
all back here dealership every year.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Careful what you wish for and there very nice to
see man all right place than congratulations. You'd be very
proud of this book.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Cadillac Pasadena. Come and check us out, guys.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yes, thank you, Sonny. All right, we gotta get out
of here. Thank you all for coming text us. We'll
see the mar at four pm right here on KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're at Cadillac Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Jay Leno is with us. I know you're a big, big,
huge car guy, but you're also a big comedy guy.
And you are going to be at Flappers Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
And I'm not that big because I'm at Flappers Friday
and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Is that something that they call you or you call them?
You try? Just tell them a spot a life stick me.
I like to I like to work.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I like to try. You know, I'm just like six.
I don't write anything down, so the moment do it.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
When I saw you at Flappers, you didn't write any
of that down.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
No, I don't have any I've never written anything down.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Wow, man, it was you did forty five minutes and
didn't skip a beat or fump for over a word
or anything.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Actually, messing on the bathroom was an hour and fifteen.
But yeah, that's close enough. Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Were you on for an hour and fifteen?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah? Yeah, it just seemed like forty five.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You know that that's great for people to f out
of town.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You know, they come into La and like Jay Leno,
I saw him on TV forever and I can see
in person.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, there used to be more of that in Hollywood.
You know, you used to have celebrities would show up
at places right and people would get excited. But you know,
everybody lives somewhere else or whatever, and it's it's funny.
I mean, I really I like me. You know, I
used to see Bob Holt in the supermarket all the
time and people would go crazy, you know, and I
think it was kind of fun. It was kind of
an innocence to it that I liked.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I saw Dick Van Dyke about two years ago in
Malibu at a supermarket and it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You know, obviously he's still alive, he's gonna be I
think he just turned one hundred, right, just turned one hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And to see him shopping for his own food at
a supermarket is awesome at ninety eight years old, Well.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Doing anything at ninety eight years old is actually impressive.
To see him walk into the market is impressive.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Do you have good jeans in your family? People live forever?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well these I get these a Target and they're actually okay.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Your mom and Dad live Forever No. Eighty one.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
My grandfather made it to one hundred.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You know, wow, that to old school.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know those they walk everywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Wait, is your your dad?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Your grandfather from Italy and Italy and they're the ones
that wanted to put the statue.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I told you that story. Yeah, that's a great story.
That's a great story. You got to tell these people
that story. It's just so Italian. My grandfather came from
from Mari, Italy.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So somebody from my show visits the town of for
Mari and he called me and said, everybody here looks
like you. I said, well that's that. They're all relatives,
you know. So he meets the mayor of for Mari,
invites the mayor of Mari, if you're ever in Los Angeles,
come to the Tonight show. So six months later he comes.
He looks like an Italian mayor, and he's got a
(02:41):
little suit that's just a little too small, the buttons
a stretch. He got a hat that's one size too
small for his head. You know. Let me then missing
he says, I come from my visit of from Mari,
who are so put out of the descendant of one
of one of a family comes to Medica, it becomes
a huge stuff like, well, I'm not really assu you.
Oh no, please, he said, we want to build a
(03:02):
statue of a you and your grandfather to put in
into town square.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And I said, well, yeah, I'm not really a statue guy,
but that's right. No, no, please please, would you just
give us permission to do it? You give permission? I said, well, yeah, okay,
sugar ahead. He goes, yes, okay. Now the basic statue
is the seventy five thousand dollars. If you want to
be on the mountain looking down, it's one hundred and
twenty five. I said, you know, I'm okay. I said,
I'm okay, just an Italian stam. It just made me laugh.
(03:31):
Oh yeah, just you know, just said old, Hey, my
wallet's gone? What happened?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Where? Where are you from in Massachusetts?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I'm from andover Massachusetts?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And do they have a statue there anyways? Or no statue?
No statue there? And you have a house back there?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah? I have a house. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Do you ever go to it?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well again, that's the purpose of a house, Yeah, certainly.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
But you're always in town every time you call us
or you come on, you're always in Allen.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well, I get back East once in a while.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, you know Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's such a funny place to grow up, you know,
because New England is very suspicious. You know, everybody's saying
like he did you go Hollywood? You know, I'll try
to watch my language here. But here's a New England compliment.
And this is a classic. I'm on Marlboro Street in Boston.
This guy goes, hey, Jay Leno, my friend met you
(04:18):
in California. He said, you're not an a hole. I said, well,
thank you. He goes, no, really no, he said that,
you know, like was the ultimately it was like the
ultimate comment said well, thank you, I appreciate it. No, no,
he meant it, well, thank you. Then I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
What. I'm sure you still have friends and family there.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That Oh yeah, every dead bee friend.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But yeah they bang on you for money.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, you know the funny thing about when you come
from a small town. I don't like to impress people,
but I feel I have to impress my stupid friends
from the eighth grade. So at one point President Obama
had give me his phone number and I had it.
I'm telling my friends, President Obama. Game is the number.
He goes, let's call him up. I'll go okay, First
of all, he's President United States. Okay, he gave me
(05:01):
this number when he wasn't president, and I'm not gonna
call him. But you don't have it, no, uh huh no,
you know.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So I said, well, let me show you. I up
my phone.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I had my finger over the number, and as he
was to say the President United States, Barack Obama, he goes, well,
let's call and now it's like three o'clock. I'm saying, okay,
so that means it's six o'clock. All right, I down
a number. I hear Brock here as president. Yeah, Jay, Leno,
what can you for you?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Jay?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I'm just saying with my friends, lose this number, Jay,
click and hands up.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That was brief.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Oh yeah, Well, you know when he was on the
Tonight Show with you, when President Obama would fly in,
the people in Los Angeles used to get pissed that
the traffic was snarled for hours. Well, every president, right,
but then they start flying him to Burbank Airport to
make the community easier.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And I used to.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Live right off of Hollywood Wate so I take my
daughter out there and see the President come by, and
it's always impressive to see that car and that movement
of that person come by you.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And it's so unusual in Los Angeles se a Cadillaco
buy with tingent windows. You know, you can't fly, you
can't see who's said, who's inside, you know they're flying.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think it's a huge compliment also that the White
House has it still has a Cadillac shuffle the president round.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well, but I have to use use American made stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Right, they wouldn't use Honda or toyot Well.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Only because it's built the United States. They can follow
it the whole process through. You know. Uh, we had
air force. We had they call it the Beast, the
Presidential limit of my garage.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh really, it is unbelievable. The doors are this stick.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Wow? How did you get that glasses that we wanted
to do a video on its? So they brought it
by and it's you can live in it for three days?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Wow? Did they stay with it when.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You know you can't get in it. You can get
up to it and you can look at it, you
can't get in it.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Did they show you under the hood?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No, can't show you under the hood.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What do you think's under there?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I'm sure it's just the same engine with a bit
more power with a superchargeres it and get out of
tricky situation. But the thing is, you could throw bombs
underneath it. It might lift the car, but it's not
going to break it. Wow, and somebody could survive in
the car for three.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Days, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It carries its own oxygen, carries its own blood, carries everything.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, I've spent three days in my car.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I don't. I think most of your career has been
in your cars.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I spent three days in the Santanita parking lot.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
That's I'm going to say.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Car. You don't gamble much, right, you don't when you
go to Vegas?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No, I'm not. You want a gambling joe? Yeah, okay,
guys walking out with me? Walking down No, guy's walking
down the street in Vegas. You know, he's almost at
the end of the strip where it's coming in from
the desert. You know, they have the sign welcome to Vegas.
And he sees a guy in a suit coming towards him. So, oh,
I don't want to play. So he crosses the street
and the guy crosses, he goes, oh, man, They crosses back,
(07:46):
and the guy crossed byke goes. You know it's inevitable.
I'm going to meet this guy, you know. So the
guy goes, look, sir, so, I know what you're thinking.
I'm a successful business. Memory look at the suit. This
is Cannali suit. This is a ten thousand dollars suit.
I'm a successful business. My wife's in the car. It
broke down outside of town. I walked through moustick in here.
I'm a successful business where I'm from. I'm just embarrassed.
(08:07):
Can you lend me one hundred dollars? And the guy goes.
He goes, look, I'll lend you one hundred dollars, but
how do I know you won't use it for gambling money?
Guy goes, oh, I got gamble.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The only pre people who don't laugh at the joke
are degenerate gambled.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You know there are there are guys out there who
gamble and guys who are I'm a player.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I'm not a gambler.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well, I'm dyslexic. So to me, I play black. Sara,
we got twenty eight, you have twenty eight, sir now
everybody else is mad, you know. Yeah, no, I know
I'm not. And you know, losing one hundred makes me
feel worse than winning a thousand makes me feel good.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Right, that's that. Then that's great. I don't have that,
but I wish I had.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Obviously you don't have one hundred either, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
The worst thing you can do is take your kid
to the racetrack and he wins.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
That's over all right, Jay Leno is.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Whether we're live at Cadillac Pasadena. Cadillac Pasaden, thirty fourth
seventy five East, Colorado Beetles, seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
JA leto joins us big car guy, bigger car guy
than I am, probably right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I would imagine. I think Columbus is a bigger car guy.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Oh that is classic, buddy. Are you still have the
very first car you bought when you came.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Down with I do my fifty five Buick?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah you own it?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, I got two payments left.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That's the car you slept in when you were.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
On I slept in that car, met my wife and
that car. Get married in the car. Yeah, I still
have it. That's classic moddy. Yeah, that's cool it and
it still runs. It's well, I've redone the thing. You know.
It's a it's fifty five Buick and I put a
modern Corvette drive train in it and a bunch of
other things. But you know what, it's so funny. Nineteen
fifty five was Buick's greatest year ever.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And in the early fifties, the Ford and everybody else
was paying everybody equal rageous there's me black and white
people that paid the name. So there's a huge, huge
migration of African Americans that came up to Detroit and
went to work at the factories because they was making
the same money as the white workers, which is more
than fair. And so consequently they bought Buicks. Well, I
(10:16):
would park my Buick and I come back and never
believe it'd be three or four older black men that
the roadmaster. And they all have a story. And one
time I had the Tuskegee Airmen visiting. One of the
airmen when he got out of World War Two, he
bought a fifty five Buick and he was almost in
tears standing next to it. Yeah, it was really, really
really pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
My mom is from Detroit, so I spent every summer
with my dad's family in Cleveland or my mom's family
in Detroit. And Detroit always got a bad rap of,
you know, being a dangerous or you know, crazy town.
But my mom, you know, in Dearborn where she was from. Man,
it's spectacular. It's a beautiful state of beautiful city.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I'll tell you great.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
One day with Dr Penske in Detroit and we're driving
around and I just happened to say to him, I
can't believe how clean this city is. I mean, it
really was clean it is. And he said to me,
and he's a pretty modest guy, he said, what, we
have a program. We give homeless people a key, and
the key opens a mailbox and then that mailbox is
gift cards or food stamping.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
He says.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
He says, all, I asked the homeless people, if you
see a piece of trash, pick it up. You don't
have to pick it up, it's not contingent. You'll still
get the mailbox and the check. And consequently you see
homeless guy's picked up up and put nobody's twisting the run.
NOAs tell me they have to, And I thought, but
would that work in la I don't know if it
would or not, you know, but it was just fast
(11:41):
because I just noticed how clean it was.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
When I remember they used to have the Grand Prix
in Detroit. I think it was one of the first
cities in the United States that had it. And it
was you know, being downtown and having the you know
the was.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It Formula one? Formula one and.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Having those cars in downtown Detroit. That's what really America
was all about. Yeah, you know, all of them built there,
and well they weren't building Formula one cause I'm built
in Well, no, I nobody all you know, major car
companies in Detroit. But my grandfather who was born in
nineteen ten and he fought in World War Two, I
(12:18):
you know, he he had this thing about you know,
when I went to college, I had a Toyota Corolla
and I drove it across country and parked it in
his in his driveway, in his yard.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And it came out the next day and it was gone.
It was down the street.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And he said, no cars other than Americans in his
in his yard.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, I can.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Understand that from that generation, you know, because you're fighting
an enemy.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
You know, it seems odd to do it today.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Though it does seem odd to do it today, I
mean one hundred and three, right.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But our most cars nowadays built all over the world,
parts from all over the world.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
The idea now is to build a world car that
meets every In the old days, you had an American car,
it didn't fit European standard, European cardgment. Now everything's pretty
much a world car. You need to sell cars all
over the world.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Let me ask you a question, Jay Leno.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
As well as we're a kind of like Pasadena, how
come we can't get Chinese electric cars imported in the
United States?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Why don't they allow them? Well, I think you will.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I just think you don't want somebody flooding the market.
I remember years ago, if you have been at Philadelphia,
you know tasty cakes.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, sure, okay, Tasty.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Cakes was the hottest selling cake in the Philadelphia areas, right,
and Hostess wanted that, so they moved in and they
flooded the market with basically losing money in every Hostess
cupcake just to drive Tasty Cake.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
At and ding dongs.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
And it was yeah, and it was exactly and it
was deemed illegal. It was made against the law. You
can't purposely set your business off to ruin another business
so you can overtake them, which I think is a
good law, and I think that's kind of the problem
what you have now is with the Chinese.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, yeah, but it is. It really is interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You know, when when I was a kid and driving
a car, the technology advanced very slowly, like when I
got into a car that my my dad owned, and
by time I bought a car, there wasn't much difference technologically.
But nowadays it moves so quickly.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, well, now you have smart cars and dumb people.
You know, the days you have smart people and just
regular cars.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But I also heard that that, you know, the Cadillac
and Ford and GM and some of these companies, they're
going to take some of the bells and whistles out
because people don't use you know, all the apps or
you know, everything that comes with the car.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Well, you know, it's a tough business because you have
for it looked like for a while, electric cars, that's it.
Everybody's going to be electric by twenty thirty, and that
was the goal. And then Trump came in. He didn't
like electric whatever, reason I might be. So now they
have to switch gears. Now in the middle, what do
we do? So now you have the hybrid, which seems
to be the way to go. You got a gas
(14:53):
engine with electric motor to health safe fuel, and that
seems I think that's going to be the standard for
a while than all electric.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All right, Jay Leno is with us.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
We have another half hour here, So come on down
thirty four seventy five East Colorado, Cadillac Pasadena, Cadillac Pasadena,
COMBA show.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty Cadillac Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I'm thirty four seventy five East Colorado. Come on out
and enjoy yourself. Here, Bellio's here, Angels here, round of applause.
Nothing for angel and nothing for Bellio and Jay Leno.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Everybody. Yes, you're gonna be at Flappers this weekend. Yeah,
I'll be there Friday and Saturday. Friday and Saturday. You
can go see Jay Friday at eight no seven.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Thirty, seven thirty thirty and Saturday at seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And who's opening for you? Me again, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I know Jimmy Brogan will be there and somebody else
believe never get asked. Yeah, you could come do it?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
A sure, I would love to see you. Go ahead, Tim,
Let's see how you do, buddy. I'm gonna I can
only do two hours.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, yeah, I got it all right, Cadillin passing the
gm ace O Feenie.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Right, Yes, it is nice to see you man. Congratulations
on there. How can you trust the car salesman name
a about that? Yeah? Right there you go, perfect day
for it. How long you've been the general manager out
here for this store?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I've been just recently this year. Okay manager, I've been
with the group for a little under two years.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
So it just opened today.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
So yeah, we've been telling out of a trailer. So
we're here and.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
We have a special gift for this man. We're giving
you the F one car.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Oh wow, yeah, can I drive out of here? You
can drive out of here with lemen. Happy birthday to Asophenie.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Happy birthday, Ce, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday Ace Opeenie,
Happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Thank you, Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That is great man. They went all out on that cake.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Yeah, sure you did, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Nothing centered and the numbers are wrong. I guess the
plates and forks will be here in a week or two.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
This is an exciting time when a dealership opens.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
It is it is a fantastic time. We're excited to
finally be done in the service community and uh, you know,
get everybody to come in here and actually drive into
a dealership that we can sell and service their cars.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
How I was a kid, that was a big deal.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
They have like free hot dogs and donuts for the kids,
and they have the whole thing, you know. But to me,
the Cadillac, Like you have to watch the TV show
mad Men. Remember he walks into the Cadillac dealership in
Manhattan and it looks like you're walking into the Vatican,
you know, good heavens, the guys, beautiful suits and ties
in the role again and you get the brochure and
the whole thing. I was really pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And now it's back. Yeah, you know that kind of
How long we were in construction here?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Over year?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yes, we were right actually on that side in the
bungalow and selling cars from there and looking at from
that date to now, it's uh, it's it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Here's the question for you, how long did it take
to build the umpire stapling from first shovel ahead of me?
How long did it take to build the m prev? No?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Three years? Three years? What do you say? One year?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Four hundred and ten days. Wow, that guy's been working
on my bathroom longer. But four hundred and ten days.
I mean, we used to be able to do stuff
in that amount of time. And don't forget that's what
that's with donkeys pulling wagons with stones in.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Them, right, you know, electrical tools.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You're right, you're talking nineteen twenty two, nineteen twenty three
when it's just.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Unbelievable and uh and only eighty four guys died.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's a little different.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
We have none of that happening here.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Any opening day sales going on, any big good deals, end.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Of the year sale sale that we have right now
going on. We've got great inventory in stock right now,
you do, and we're ready to go. We're actually a
celestic dealer as well, So that's the celestic that is
a celestic, and we're a perfer celestic dealer here in LA.
What do they start at, let's start about three eighty three,
eight nine?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, but see what you go in, it's not like
a regular The thing that's kind of cool it the
bespoke car. You go in and you designed the car.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Here's what I like.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
This is the interior.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I don't want this wood, I want carbon fiber or whatever.
And you actually work with the team and it takes
probably a two months three months to get the cut done.
But your car is built the same way the Rolls
Royce or any of those European exotic to it. I mean,
it's really pretty cool. And if you don't if you
don't have the three and eighty thousand, then you've got
other catallites and the rains that electric.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
They're just as good.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
They're just not bespoke. What you're paying for is the
individual attention. You pick your own colors and all that
kind of thing. The thing that I loved you had
a conversion, a convertible version of that Wow which Wow,
Which that really knocked me out. I hope, I hope
they go into product.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
I hope so too. It's a great looking vehicle, so
that'd be a great idea to do a convertible as well.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So if you're a salesperson here and you're working on commission,
you unload two of those babies a year and you're done.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
We don't know, they're not too many have been made yet,
but we're hoping.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So, yeah, Tim Sled the kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
What do I have to know for the test here?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
What I have to do? What I have to do
just to get by? I don't want to do anymore,
that's right?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Then just get the artful dodger. Yeah, minimum work, you know,
work smarter, not harder.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I just have to sell to a year then I
have to come in. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, then you
can fly around and get you and enjoy yourself. But
that is is this the first year for this?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
That twenty five twenty six is going to be also
twenty five and twenty six.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And how many are they going to make a year?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
We don't know that yet. It depending on how many
orders to come through.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Well, actually it's probably talking fifty a year. That would
be big because you know, this is a handmade car.
I mean it's you know, we're living in an era
now where everybody wants to have a personal touch with
stuff because so much stuff is done by machines. So
you can meet the engineers, you can meet the designers,
you can talk with them. Here's what I'd like. Oh okay,
you know, and it's a fascinating concept. I mean, they
(21:12):
did it in the thirties, you know, Murphy right down
the street here in Pasadena was the dealership for Duzenberg
and some of the right.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, and you would go in and you could.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Buy one off the floor, or you could build your
own and they would come out with the lavish leather
bound books with his bodies you can go on. And
that's really what so Leistik is trying to do with
the Cadillac. You go in and you meet people and
you build you know, the engineer signs under the hood,
you know, I get.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I love that stuff. Oh that's great. I drive a
link in Navigator from two thousand and seven. Thank you,
thanks for coming in.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Good night everybody, and escalate.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I got to get into a Cadillac because right now,
in order to turn the air conditioning on in my Navigator,
I have to hit a speed bump, and if I
his speed bump, it goes on, because if I had
another speed bomb, it goes off.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So I gotta be careful on the way to work.
I got hit one speed bump and then get to work.
True story. What is the entry level real quick for Cadillac.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You come in, you want a Cadillac, your first one?
You know, you want to spend three undred.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Eighty thousand love fifties, low fifties. Okay, all right? And
what type what kind of car is that?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
You can get a CT five, CT four or an.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Alph those are beautiful and the lyrics also lyric lyrics. Yes,
it was the CT that was the car that replaced
the Civil.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
The sedan was the Civil.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yes, yes, how about that?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Very good knowledge and I'm very proud dog.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And it's true. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yes, my dad was a big He had a my
mom had a Coop Deville and my dad had a
Civil and they loved it.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Man, I bought my dad a Cadillac, first thing I
did when I made it and show you know, I
brought my and my mother was from Scotland and she
was so embarrassed we had this. And we had the
Italian Cadillac white with the red Vulora upholstery. So my
dad would be driving down the street and when we
came to a stoplight, if people looked at the car,
my mother mentioned roll down the window.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
We're not really Cadillac people.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Our son gave us, we're driving people. Then they stopped fighting,
and then the people would take off because they'd be young,
and then my cha people would say. We would say,
I saw your dad driving down the street. He was yelling,
but there's nobody in the car.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Said no, my mom was there. She was just sitting.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
My mother was so embarrassed to driving this fancy She
would sit below the window and my father, what do
you do you? And I saw your dad just screaming
in the car.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
No, No, my mom was there. Oh it's so good.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You can't buy your parents anything, you know, they're old school.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Well, my mother's in Scotland. Is there anything fancy? Oh goddish,
what's it? Big fancy cops? The big shot.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
My dad was the same way my windows. When the
remote came out for the TV. My grandmother, my dad's mother,
was probably in her seventies and she was having trouble
with arthritis and diabetas, so she couldn't get up to
change the TV. So he bought her remote, and I
was at her house and she would still get up
and change the TV manually. So once you use the remote,
she goes cuz I'm shaking today and I don't want
(24:11):
to break a vase or a lamb by pressing it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You know, she does lasers. Oh yeah, funny, unbelievable, all.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Right, dog, Happy birthday young man forty five years old.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Feenie a so feeni pass for ah when you.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Come here to buy your car, right and thanks for
not sharing the cake.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
We really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
That's gotta go back to I gotta go back to
Ralphs and yeah, yeah, take the letters off. We are
live on KFIM six j Lenos with It's Conway Show.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
We are live at Pasadena Cadalog, Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
What a beautiful crowd.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Everybody showed up to see j Leno and Jay's gonna
be pulling out. It is nineteen fifty seven, cat and
not a minute too so.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna shout that.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Dustin King is with us, the COO of us Auto Trust.
I'm back and what a beautiful time to open, right
before the holidays.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
What a beautiful time to open, What a great reception.
Thank you everybody for coming out. It's it's been a
wonderful evening. Thank you Jay, thank you, Tim, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It's been wonderful.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And you got you say you have over one hundred
cars ready to move.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
We do.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
We have over one hundred new Cadillacs in stock ready
to go. Cadillac Pasadena. You definitely want to come down
and check us out.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Come see the.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
New facilities, the new dealership here. We've got an amazing
team willing to help you guys with your Christmas shopping.
So come on down and check us out. You get
like Pasadena, you get.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
A better deal on twenty twenty fives right now make
room for the twenty twenty six is Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Absolutely, anytime you can find a deal. I know that
the team here is pretty motivated to make make some sales,
and we've got a couple left, so you want to
get down and check out to check it out.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
That's my favorite thing. But I ever watched commercials. We're
talking to Bob from UH Crime Bomb. What's your question.
Is this a good time to.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Buy a car?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
That's the best time because right now we're we're just
having to call at the best time.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
It's amazing.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Technically, it is the best time to buy yeah, right there.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I highly recommend, you know, the new electric Cadillac, even
the base model I think is better than Tesla and
some of the other ones.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I mean, they really, they really.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
GM is a big company with lots of engineers, way
more than a lot of other companies, and when they
decide to set their mind to something. A lot of
people don't realize. General Motives invented the prius, but it
was before it's time and they just thought, let's sell
it to the Japanese, which they did. They sold the platform,
but they intended the platform. But at the time, electric
gas was still, you know, pretty cheap compared to the
(26:45):
rest of the world wide. Why would you want that?
So had they waited a little bit longer, it might
have been a different outcome. But but a lot of
it starts here. You know, we we failed to get
a lot of credit. We won World War Two, and
then we got a little lazy after that, and you know,
people I.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Started getting lazy exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I know it was some time right then.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
All right, Sharon Belli, O our producer, I wanted to
thank a bunch of people here at Cadillac Pasadena, ding
Dong with her.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yes, we want to thank everyone that came out, all
of our listeners, and Cadillac Pasadena for hosting us. I
want to think Dustin King for.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Coming out, gentlemen, I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
The race kid, Liam NOTCHAWADDI thank you so much. Bed
Oh he's on a flight to No, he's out of here.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But you know it's funny.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
That's what I met Lando and Max when they were
little kiss Oh is that right? And ten years later
their world champions making thirty million dollars? Look quick?
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Conways done in ten years?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah? I think I think he won one race.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
He got air.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Didn't you hear it?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I couldn't be burnt to the bathroom a half hour ago.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
I want to think Brian Smith, the design director GM
Advanced Design, Johnny Lieberman, Yeah, Rory Arber Harvey, Executive Vice
president President of GM Global Markets, Alana Chaer, senior features
editor of Car and Driver, and Mayor Victor Gordo, the
mayor of the City of Pasadena, Beautiful city. And also
(28:13):
want to thank Bert our engineer, Michael Krozier back at
the station, Dave Weese and his whole team, and Waco
and Matthew for social media thank you, and of course
Tim Conway.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Jani and of course Jam thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Thank you everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I know this is probably not perfect timing, but I
want to make this an annual event that we do
would be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
All right, you hear that We're on every year.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You guys, you're all coming back. Jay's coming back. We're
all back here dealership every year.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Careful what you wish for and there very nice to
see man all right place than congratulations. You'd be very
proud of this book.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Cadillac Pasadena. Come and check us out, guys.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yes, thank you, Sonny. All right, we gotta get out
of here. Thank you all for coming text us. We'll
see the mar at four pm right here on KFI
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