Willie and Mike Pettiford talk racing, souped up engines, and the Cars for Christmas Crew stops by

Willie and Mike Pettiford talk racing, souped up engines, and the Cars for Christmas Crew stops by

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Garage.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Willie Bee's Garage is now open.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
What up bucking to y'all. Will the Bees Garage fired
up today? Man, it's gonna be an awesome Saturday. Yeah,
it's a little it's a little crisp out there this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Man, it is a good day for horsepower, no doubt.
We've been living some of it. Sad, sad in a
lot of ways this week because for so many people,
you know, the last the last pieces the band of
meers said goodbye this uh this weekend and or this
weekend it was you know, for so many people, what

(00:44):
fifty five sixty years they've been there, you know, serving
the racing community and just the place that everybody for
racing this town, you know, their first memories of either
being in the stands or being you know, it's so
fortunate to come out from underneath that tower and see
the crowd right there and go up to the burnout

(01:07):
box and you know, you stage on that Christmas tree,
you kind of see, you know, down that quarter mile
and the run out they have at the top of
that hill, you know, in the concrete walls. You kind
of sunk down there and you got all these eyes
on you and for a moment, you know, just for
a brief moment as that Christmas tree lights up, you
see those ambers start to you know, tumble down, you know,

(01:30):
whether you're on a break or a foot break or.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
You know some sort of digital setup and eat box.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's just such a wild ride and it is such
a memory making moment. And for everybody that's been fortunate
enough to do it, you know, they'll never forget it.
It will be one of those memories that it's addicting.
Everybody that races a car, they're fortunate because they.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Have enough money or just enough money to be able
to do it.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's using the case, right.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Or a credit card that goes up.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
What's more unfortunate is the people that you get a
ride shotgun or gonna do it once or twice and
then can't afford to have a car because they're addicted.
They just can't afford the habit. But for everybody that
has gone down that track, you know, or been at
a rock and roll car show or setting those seats,
you know, as fans of my Nationals or jet Car

(02:28):
Nationals or whatever it may be, it's unfortunate. It's sad, No, no,
window as to whether or not we're going to have
a new band a mirror, and that's I think that's
why everybody is like, you know, it's kind of the
big side and sad, like, is there hope for another track?

(02:51):
Is there hope for another quartermolet facility? For so many
people that enjoy that, you know, that style of racing.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, man, I remember my first let's see in nineteen
seventy nine Colorado drag bike Champion at Vandamir Speedway. And
I still got that trophy offense.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
If to wipe it off, it's dusty, that is funny.
But when you know that was the place Thunder Mountain,
you know, shoes sticking to the pavement after they put
the put the stuff down. That was that was the place,
and it was always well what did you turn at
band Amir? It wasn't. It wasn't Publo, not that there

(03:37):
was anything wrong with Publo, but.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
The jam it was the place.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yeah, it was a spot, you know, and it's wild.

Speaker 6 (03:45):
Man.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I filmed a lot of cool events.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
There, a lot of you know, cool memories that between
the Rock and Roll Car Show, between filming, you know,
the pilot of Grudge Rays there and a few episodes
with you know, Larry Larson and Tom Bailey and all
these big names, you know, racing each other. You know,
that's how that's how I joined that. Pinks and Pinks

(04:08):
all out the crew. They saw me abandoned mirror and
the cars we built and you know, shadows of Scottie
out aboutive performance up North and you know everything they
accomplished in two thousand and eight for that to cur
and all the cool people were along for that ride.
It was just, you know, it's a great spot to
make great memories, you know, really was and always has been,

(04:31):
and unfortunately it's gonna be a motherchuck in car a
lot a junk yard Nowntain.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, co Parts really smart on their part though. Think
about it.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
They got to move cars and parts all around the
you know, all around the country. And having an outlet
like that that has as much payment and lanes to
maneuver crash cars, cars going to this region and that
region and whatever. They'll stick them out and stick them
in lane. Had big semis come in and scoop them up.
Very efficient with how they can do it set up. Yeah, exactly,

(05:07):
got highway access go in every direction, so smart move
on their part. A lot of people don't understand why
it sold then. So the deal with band Mere was
it wasn't their property. That was really the focal point.
So for those that never put it together, Bandimir they

(05:28):
paid for their entire season with the mopark behind Nationals.
That really was their bread and butter. It's three day event,
but it really meant everything to their season. But just
you know, the crowds, the ticket sales, the sponsorship itself,
what Mopart brought, you know, and all the activities surrounding there,
the merchandising loan, magnificent sales. Right, So yeah, have such
a big event, it takes what overflow parking? Where did

(05:51):
everybody park at? Well, all those fields and all that
acres you know on the other side of the highway,
was that was overflow park Well you saw a year
after year that development get closer and closer and closer.
And in the final years they had made agreements to
allow Sporty those lots of access to park it for

(06:13):
one more year for the mahin Nationals and then what
happened that following year. That's when they said we got
a close shot because if they don't have parking, they
can't have the event. There's not enough infrastructure without that
access to those acreage for parking. As why as that
may seem. So it never was Sporty's issue. It was
where he could park the cars that was the issue.

(06:36):
And when he loses that event hard to make enough
scratch to cover everything you need at a race facility.
So it forced him to sell. And the biggest, most
efficient you know, next kind of program to plug and
play in that facility co parts So TEDA. Morrison hated it,
you know, made the vand mears a lot of money.

(06:58):
And look at it now that development is exactly where
everybody used to park their cars. There's there's homes and
houses and streets there now. So now you understand the
mechanism and.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
How it all kind of forced the issue.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's still a sad story.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Oh absolutely, Yeah, it's unfortunate. But is there going to
be another one? Uh? Anyway, big questions, hopefully they get
answered soon.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
So big week for that.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
I'm sure a lot of people you know went up
there and I don't paid homage. Yeah, yeah, kissed the
pavement one more time. I still have an oil pan.
But the first time I hung my wheels out and
I came down really hard in the oil pan. Took
a big ass hunk of pavement and tar and stuff

(07:46):
off the track, and uh, I pulled that old pan
off and was hanging up in the lift room. It's like, yeah,
that's cool, oash Bro, I used to ride. Dude, look
at some of these pictures. I'll show you in the break.
He'll come back and tell you. Anyway, look, I got
this little street car and it was funny because a

(08:07):
long time ago I became pretty good friends with Richard
Kat runs Dart. He's not so much plugged into it now,
but back when they were doing all that in block technology,
I scored an M block from him for a decent price.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
It was one of those things where some order he'd.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Got like an order for five of them or something,
so they punched them all out, and these were like
nasty blocks. Anyway, he punched them all out. The dude
he backed out of a couple of them, so I
think the guy ended up taking three, and he had
he had these two additional ones, so he dropped one
in my lap for a pretty decent price, and another

(08:44):
one of his racing buddies up on the East Coast anyway,
I had just En Block and I got some dart
heads back in the day, and my boy Jason up
at Atlas and his boy Brett Bauer. You know, there's
been honestly, they've been sitting on this engine because I've
been trying to get this little flat fin. I got
a sixty bel Air I scooped up a few years ago.
I picked it up for three grand and it was

(09:05):
sitting in the dirt. It's a pretty cool car, but
I got I got about sixty five percent, but I
got a little bit more than that done. But this
is definitely motivation to get the hustle on it because
the engine just got finished up. And you know when
you have some parts laying around the shop and you

(09:27):
start saying yourself, man, you know I got no parts
to build something kind and nasty.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
I could put this with that.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well. I've done it a couple of times and it's
always worked out kind of fun. This is one of
those times when when it did it as a combination
started coming out, I was like, ooh, I'm building a
sixty flat fin bel Air. It's just like a family
hot ride, and you obviously could go one of two routes.

(09:55):
You go new school and do a LS wopping it
and an automatic and you know, build it a certain way,
or you could go out of the old school hot
rodway but with a little bit more of a modern
punch in the face. So anyway, we got it on

(10:19):
a Dino this week and Brett it gives us an
opportunity because we would come on and I'm wanna play
this run for you posted on Instagram. Will we underscore
kfi my boy Mike Petifford to go for his services.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Who's a wheeling cat man.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
This guy can wheel with the best of them in
any any format. I just played him in the video
and he was like shut up. Just the parts, you know,
some partially around the shop man on pump gass.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
That was crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Anyway, that'd be fun, so we gotta talk. That got
a big kind of cool car show next week turned
into a food drive. I'm excited about this food drive
at the end of this week, so we'll get you
caught up. You know on how if you got a
hot ride or you know, old school and new school
modern muscle. Hell, maybe a bike. I'm just hoping it's
a scoop and I talked about this week. We're hoping
the weather because this Saturday, you know, today tomorrow, it

(11:14):
was all forecast this week, you know, the whole I
think what on Wednesday, school, Wednesday or Thursday we saw
forecasts with this weekend and it did not look pleasant.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
No, not at all.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
I think maybe Tuesday, right, yeah, and the whole time
we're like, ooh, not good for like a car day
or car show.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
I don't know about the end of this weekend, but
this week it's supposed to be worn back up again.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, well next Saturday. So on Friday, we're taking kind
of a something we used to do as far as
the food drive and kind of bringing it back, uh myself.
And Scoop has volunteered his his time as well. He's
got really cool pre printing kind of sight hustle. You
can find out more there from Scoops scoops dot com.
And he's bringing dude, he brings these stupid little fidget

(12:01):
toys and all kinds of like three D printed whatever,
and next thing, you know, you just spend countless hours
just messing with it. I don't know. I had to
give them one back the other day. I'm like, take
this thing. Back, and that's all I've been doing is
messing with this thing for two hours.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
These are all the colors I made last night.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Oh let's see see here he just hands out some
more these a little s. Check those out, Mike, I
don't know why there's anyway. Yeah, he'll give you these
little puzzles or whatever, and anyway, all kinds of custom
tags and cool replica concert tickets because you can't get
those anymore, light boxes and just kind of cool stuff.
So he's gonna bring out some of those knickknacks. We
got buttons, we're gonna.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Make got the buttons last night. Oh nice?

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, lis Set, who everybody.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Just loves know from the hand fees some Denver Reescue
mission and she'll be out and it's just gonna be
one of those things asking people to bring.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Non parisil food items. And we're gonna make it a two
day deal.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
So the first day is gonna be up at the
parking lot of Cabella's up North. The second day is
gonna be at full Bum Custom and so got shop
right if I seventy tennycent, So we'll have those guys
on tell a little bit about what what's happening out
there and sluid about you know how we can bringing
back the hand that feeds, which is gonna be a
fun couple of days. And I'm hoping hoping weather's a

(13:14):
little bit better than it is today. Preliminary reports say
seventy five and Sony cool.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
I like that. Anyway, we've got to break coming back
swinging for the fence. Man, it's gonna be fun. It's
wants to be nine KVPI.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Willy B's garage. You're back in Willyb's garage.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I mean, you gotta be real comedy to name your
podcast Dudes on Dudes.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
That's a big that's a that's a lot.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
What's it about?

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Dudes on Dudes?

Speaker 3 (13:50):
I'm afraid to ask? Are you serious?

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Football? Okay, okay, see exactly.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
All right.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
So I just shared on the Instagram. Check it out
Willie underscore KBP I. So it's fun, man, it's wild.
We got Brett Bauers on and Brett has been building
engines for kid Lord.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
This dude has built engines ever since I first came
to Colorado.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
You know, this guy had all kinds of cool shops
and and he's always been a horsepower king and had
a number of you know, really really insanely you know,
fast and stupid, you know, quick quartermolet cars, engines, platforms.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
He's been teamed up with Jason Gonzalez for you know,
I don't know, decade and a half or so, just
building some really cool combos up at Atlas and Brett.
As far as engines go, we want to well bring
you on for a couple of reasons. One a little
bit stunned that does some parts, you know I mentioned

(14:53):
a minute ago. I gave it to you guys a
couple of years ago, years ago, because I had this
vision for a car, but it shifted a little bit
when I found this the sixty bel Air.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
So it's a sixty bel Air. And here's the rub
about the car.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
So I'm building a family hot ride, and I wanted
it to be my direction to my version of kol
in this car is when I saw the car, it
was sitting on the frame and the car was in
the weeds. I bought it at an estate sale a
few miles from my house, and I picked it up

(15:28):
for three grand and to me, a sixty bel Air,
it's a flat fin car. They only made these flatfin
cars for a couple of years iconic. Look, it's an
older school, you know, hot ride, but they're big beast
and they got really cool, crazy lines, and they're just
an old school car that everybody looks at and goes, WHOA,

(15:50):
that's crazy. You know.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
They just they're that kind of car.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Right, everybody's seen a Camaro, everybody's seeing a Chevelle. You know,
a lot of people seen the Charger, but this is
one of those cars A you don't really see too often,
and B you never really see.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Out on the street.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
So my approach instead of doing an LS because I
got another hot ride, I got an LS in. So
my deal was like, all right, let's do this with
an old school but at the same time make it,
make it a little more modern. So my approach was simple,
find a you know, a nasty big block that I

(16:27):
had laying around. That's why I sent it up to Brett.
And it was basically, you know, a nasty dark block
I got from Dart, some heads and a nasty rotating assembly,
and Brett really did some magic to work some camshaft
and springs and so forth, and a little tuning and

(16:47):
I had this old F two pro charger that I
used to run in my race car, and these things
are these things are wild pros as boost applications go.
Brett is not the most common way to make boost,
but it is a pretty righteous way, right.

Speaker 8 (17:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
Yeah, we were a little bit surprised we haven't messed
with the F two stuff because a lot of our stuff,
like our big block stuff, we always end up with, uh,
you know, putting the F three, the big stuff, you know,
big one, thirty six, F three's, all that kind of stuff.
And and then we have this, you have this side
slinger F two.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
So, and I haven't F three much out too. I
got a nasty F three, yeah, supercharger. I just I'm like,
as too much. Man, I can't run that on the street.
This has got to be a street car.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, they get pretty mean and and nasty
on these big blocks when you have the when you
have you get the combo sorted out, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, And so you just can't run those F three's
on the street. But a side slinger, And what he's
talking about is, you know, you see the way you
know a lot of turbos hang off the side of
the engine. Well, superchargers do the same thing, but they
run off a big cog belt. And these superchargers are
dope looking, man, they're really as far as you know,
as far as making horsepower, it's similar. Would you say

(18:06):
it's similar to Roots STU superchargers as far as where
it makes power and maybe the curve.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
Yeah, I would think, you know, I would kind of
compare to that. They don't have the instant boost, but
they are they're connected to the cranks, so they have
a linear boost curve, you know, so they're always They're
not like a turbo where it can be h depending yeah,
depending on your exhaust gas you know what you got

(18:35):
in the compressors. And yeah, they tend to be a
little stronger as are you know than a roots will
will come on strong lower RPMs a lot, and these
tend to come on stronger in the mid middle. So yeah,
this is where mid to.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
High most of us like to drive.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Anyway.

Speaker 6 (18:58):
Yeah, everybody has a big you know, if it's an
automatic car, they have a big converter in it, and
you know, the things never run under you know, three
thousand RPMs anyway, So well.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
When you're thinking about boost. What do you think is
the best way to go nowadays for a street car?

Speaker 6 (19:14):
Ah? Well, we do everything. I mean, I got uh,
you know, we we do so much.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
It's hard.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's hard to beat this stuff, the ls A.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
And the supercharge stuff.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Now, the the ease of what the l s is
are doing, man, there's so much of that available and
you see in you know, ls ones and so forth.
So you think that more people are going that route
or do you think turbos are still the biggest player
on the market.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
Yeah, I think turbo stuff on some of the platforms
are the thing. I mean, it's because it's almost I
mean as well as long as you get the engine
management stuff right, the fuel injection stuff right, I mean
the turbo stuff that you know is unbeatable for for
power for money. Yeah. So because guys are taking stock

(20:02):
ls's and you know, going on e Bay buying turbos
and away they go, you know.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
So amazing what they can hang with.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Man.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, you know I've seen I've seen fast, fast cars
and unbelievable beaters on straight up junk yard budgets and
eBay turbos.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
Man. Uh yeah, and then they'll have us another junk yard.
You know, five three l in the in the trailer,
ready to go.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
You know, a couple of here hair dryers, and they're
off to the market, baby, off to the races, you know,
with like you know, nine grand in it. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Yeah, So that's that power.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
That's a way to go. There's no doubt if you know,
if you're looking for that constant budget battle in that
constant all right, I'm just gonna ring the hell out
of it, blow it up and then do it again.
There is Hey, there is some people who live in that, and.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
More power to them.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
My direct was a little bit different.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
So I wanted, you know, like Mike Pettiford, real man,
like a third pedal, Right.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Right, Mike, that's right, come on, I mean we'll just
be honest.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
There's something about wheeling a clutch just I mean, what
would you how.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Would you describe it?

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Mike as a driver a wheeler, as the man behind
several championships. He's in a z R one shirt, so
that that alone makes him qualify to answer this question,
why do you think now in a drag race and application,
Obviously you see the benefit of going automatic. However, for
a driver, yeah, a street car. Yeah, why is the

(21:40):
why is the clutch still I don't know. Why is
there such a perception of a certain bravado about still
driving a clutch.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
Well, there's more interaction with the car. You have to
select the gear, you have to rev match, you have
to heal, tow and all that requires a higher level
of interaction with the vehicle. You don't have to do
that with an automatic or a twin clutch. It'll just
do it for you. Set it for race mode and
it'll blip with the best of them. But you don't

(22:13):
get the satisfaction.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah. So and you as a as a guy that
you know, builds engines mostly for racing, for you know,
performance related stuff.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
You you got to have customers that are.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Like, Nope, gotta have me clutch man, because the only
way to drive them. Obviously, got a bunch of automatic
guys that are always like, hey man, I go court.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Amount of time and then the ten check it them free.
You know, I get it.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Most of my drag race cars, there are all of
my drag race cars having automatic. But I'm talking about
street cars and the guys that just like to drive
the spirited drivers out there. Well, what do you see
as far as do you have those guys that still
love the old third pedal?

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Yeah, I just finished We just finished the project where
a guy wanted a big inch motor, which isn't Now
they make engines, you know, we can get stuff up
nine hundred and fifty cubic inches, but we ended up
with building a guy a seven hundred and fifty inch
twin yeah, twin dominators, everything you could do, and he
wanted to run it on the street. He's putting it

(23:20):
in a sixty nine al Camino and it's got a
put and we're going to put a len He wants
a len coo and a clutch in it. You know,
he wants to fig in.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Big seven hundred and fifty cubic inch motor.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, how much of something like that? That's crazy?

Speaker 6 (23:39):
Yeah, it made na it makes They make a little
bit over fifteen hundred holy and they make about twelve
hundred pound feet. So you just got to watch rpm
because the stroke, the stroke's really big. So they got
a five and five and five eight stroke in them and.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Uh like or something like that.

Speaker 6 (24:04):
Well, Well you want to keep them, yeah, keep them
under seventy five hundred, you know, and then above that.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Keep it under seven thousand rpm.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
The mass, the mass that you're slinging, oh, seven fifty scary,
I mean it's scary.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
The rotator simply what's going on inside internally in that engine.
It's seven thousand rpm. Dude, you throw around bowling balls, bro,
that's gotta be yeah, indeed.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
Yeah, it's crazy. It's like it's yeah, the decks, the
deck on the motor deck, heights from the center of
the crank shaft. Those are it's almost they're almost twelve
inches and a normal like like the big block we
just finished for you, those are nine point eight inches
from the center of the crank shaft. So yeah, so

(24:53):
you add all that. You got to put all that
room in there to get all that, so.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
You have wow long, yeah, that much more room for
the combustion. That is a crazy massive man.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
I mean, and you said nine fifty You can get
a nine hundred and fifty cubic inch block.

Speaker 6 (25:12):
Yeah, yeah, they make yeah, they're all build it now.
They don't really make any from what I know, So
you have to buy so CNN blocks and other companies
and and they make big you know, big, and they
spread the boor spaces out so you can run up,
you know, can like yeah, so throwing.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Around paint cans.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah, the cylinder wall.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yeah man, that's insane.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Hey, but you know what, that's awesome. Look, but to
keep up with modern engines, these stupid little punkses, you know, yeah,
you got to keep that battle real and alive. That's
that's alder, that's the that's the next phase. Going to
these massive Cubicans engines and being like all right, I'm
your huckleberry, I got eight hundred and twelve, Like, say.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
What, but kind yeah, I always yeah, I always think
it's kind of fun to see that where you know,
you go somewhere and then all of a sudden someone
actually has something different than you know, ls or whatever,
you know.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yeah, yeah, and there's something about it.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I don't know what it is to me for especially
for old school cars, that he's doing it in a
kind of a weird car to me and El Camino
six and nine Camino, I mean.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Wow, he's got all that horsepower, all.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
That engine and El Camino.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yeah, I mean that would be so much better.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
Yeah, So why he did it is because you know,
it's pretty easy to put a big tire on al Camino,
you know, you know getting you know narrow that 're
in and you got that bed. You just cut the
bed up, put a big cub in there and yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
All done.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Uh but hey, that's gonna be a sick car. That's
gonna be stupid. But look that's what I look my car.
So I went, it's a car again. I picked up
it was in the dirt for three thousand bucks. I
did a frame off. I had to frame powder coated
everything underneath. It is all new. But when you look
at the car from the outside, everything that you can

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see from the outside of the car makes it look
like a twenty footer. It's still got certain cracks and
a fender and bubbles of rust and and you know,
some warpage where they did bondo work and it wasn't great,
And the paint's not great. It's white, but it's got
this bougie ass cool like almost like a I hate

(27:34):
to call it a pink, but it's it's close that
I could think of, like a imagine a velvet kind
of darker pink.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
And it was the it's the original interior.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
And it's dope, but yeah, slick and it's got really
nice like door you know, the door pads and and
interior and dashing.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
It's all really nice shape.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
No, no, it's it's like a crushed velvet.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, you know that. Man, it's like a
you know, a rush of tracksuit.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Man.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
It's like, uh, it's it's pretty dope. So we Uh
it's funny because I did the frame off, had the
the entire underneath straightened out, did a little bit of
gusts at work, put new body mounts and you know
all the fun stuff. The tuber control arms, upgraded the

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brakes on it so that a new uh doing. I
haven't got it yet, but we're gonna do a curry
night inch in it. And then uh gonna leave the
outside of the car where it looks a little rough,
where it looks, you know, a little beat up to
be on.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
It looks like a you.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Know, kind of a low rent hot rod. But when
you lift the hood, yeah, this engine is gonna be
in it. Behind that engine, I got a really nasty
Trimic six speed.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
I thought, Mike, you can appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, with a bunch of you know, I think Hotchkiss
Super TVs Kid on the car. It's all kinds of
suspension up grades, break up grades, a six speed, but
the teama on the outside of the car. You know,
it's one of those rides you're not gonna be afraid
to beat on a little bit. But I'm gonna mini

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tub it. And when the car is ready to dance,
well you'll see with the numbers and the power we're
gonna talk next. You'll see it. It's gonna be ready
to dance. It's gonna be Mike knows the numbers. I
feel like, uh yeah, when when duty is called upon,
you know, always gonna be ready to row, ready to roll. Uh.
So we made some big numbers out of some parts

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we had laying around the shop. I'll give you a
little Well, I got a break. Now when we get back,
I'll give you the numbers, the stats and the facts.
All right. You can check it out. Check it out
now on Instagram. Willie Underscore KBP. I just shared a video.
If you want to hear it. We'll be back with that.
It's will to be his garage. Hey, we've got a
lot coming up, big car show next week. We got
the cars for Christmas. Crew guys coming up. And somebody

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got a championship.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Uh, it's wanted to seventy nine KVP.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
I Willy B's garage fell back in Willie B's garage.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Some want to have nine KVP. I you know you guys,
I'm so guilty the same thing, y'all. Are had a
buddy come over to the house the other day, just
the neighborhood hadn't met before. Dam Steve, and he's a
retired cat. He's like, Willie, I gotta sell I gotta
sell some cars. Man, I got too many damned projects.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
And I'm like, bro, I feel you, I so feel you.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
I mean, guys, I know my boys. Scott's listening right now.
He's a big part Carson Christmas. He's like, yeah, yeah,
his wife team is always you know, he got too
many projects right right right, my boy Robert, right he
gets hit up probably, I don't know. I think it
was like he was he was buying his place and
see he's like, well, you know what, you gotta clean
up these your project cars. Uh, we look at the disease.

(30:58):
I don't know why, man.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
I resemble that remark with s seven race cars. I'm like,
you know, I'm going to a twelve step program. But
I'm off the wagon.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
I'm like that. I'm like that meme. I got American
flag on my front porch. I'm like, these colors don't run,
and neither do none of them project cars back there. However,
I found this, you know, I found this silly ass
sixty bel Air kind of an older school car but
really cool lines. They're called a flat fin car. They
an't made it for a couple of years, and it's

(31:31):
one of those hot rides you see and you go, oh,
that's wild looking because their style of back then was
just nuts, right.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
It was so crazy and everything was exaggerated.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
But everything was mechanical and steel and it was you know,
if there was someone just something about it right. And
I got enough fancy stupid hot riders. I can't drive
cause two miles back on the dirt road and every
time I do donuts, burnouts or huck him anywhere, I
feel it with back because I don't want chip the paint.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Whatever.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Dude, I got a nasty HEMI Dodgs charger seventy HEMI
Dodgs charger feel injected like O school four twins. Jimmy,
I never drive that car, and that's sad. I mean,
I drive it, but I never like drive it, you
know what I'm saying. And cars like that you want
to drive, that's why. You know what else that? Yeah,

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And everybody's like, why on earth would you put a
six speed behind an engine is powerful?

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Well, let me tell you.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Here's what I had to do. The freaking six speed
I got this manic I got. I think it's a
triple clutch. Maybe it's a huge twin. Anyway, it's the
baddest manic clutch pack set up there is, right, every
freaking internal This six speed has been gone through and
you know, upgraded, so you know, torque wise, it said

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it was capable handling fourteen hundred. So I'm right there
in that ballpark. You know, if it says it can
handle fourteen hundred, then this number that we're gonna reveal
here in a minute should be fine.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
So yeah, sure, I'm right on the look.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
That's called the edge. That's where you need to be
in life.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
That's where all the good stuff happens.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
And are you going to have subframe connections under this car?
So buckle under acceleration.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Obviously you don't know anything about the X frame car.
Here's here's what you got to know about the X
frame car. They're awful. They twist like you would not believe.
It's like a it's like a you know, fifties movie.
They're diding a twist many it's like a shoe string
like a pretzel.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
They're awful. So, yes, someone that's been a dressed. I'm
sure more to come, but yeah, a lot.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Of us been addressed.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
So yeah, you definitely need to tighten the ship. But
that's kind of what it did. And this, you know,
this engine these guys at Atlas have had for a minute. Uh.
And these guys really you just be amazed at what
they're building. We talked a minute ago about ridiculous seven
hundred and fifty keeping engines like what's up baller shot collar,

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damn and elchemate and you know, nine hundred keeping enginine.
That's insane, but that's also awesome, so you just keep
that up. However, mine was a little bit smaller, just
because you know, back a few years ago, I was
able to get this block and these heads and was
thinking about, you know, different setup to push it in.

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But that changed a little bit. But I had a
really nice sort of ground game with some of the
parts that I had and really getting into you know
the guys at Atlas and uh APR, which is you know,
kind of Brets little deal here at Lis Performance Racing Engines.
You were able to find what was it changeing camshafts.

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Like when we reveal the numbers, remember this this is
on how big of an engine?

Speaker 6 (34:49):
Yeah, so that this thing is U it's five hundred
and sixty five inches, I think is what we Okay,
what d.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
So five hundred and sixty five keep it gitches nowhere
near that seven fifty This is you know, it's yeah,
this is a little motive, a little tiny thing now
that we hear them like that. So this is this
is basically a small block for all attention and purposes. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
Uh so it's five five keepiginches.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Uh it you know it's got a good architecture to it.
Kind of proven and uh you were able to take
the black rotastingly heads, uh do a little Brett Bauer's
magic and tell everybody what you did and how you
sort of attacked it, approached it and what numbers we
ended up with.

Speaker 6 (35:39):
Well, we looked at we just kind of looked at
the package and of course I'm always on the on
the side of extreme because you know, that's that's just
what I do. And we looked at uh, looked up
the heads. We had the thing here for a while
and I was like, man, let's get this thing apart, guys,
let's take a look at it. And and so we

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didn't like some stuff about the cylinder heads, even though
there were a great head from Dart CNC style head.
But we changed valve job around and looked at valve spring.
Stuff wasn't right, you know, just things that we thought
were better for supercharged application, push rod string, just size

(36:21):
of push rods. There was some stuff that we didn't
like intake manifold stuff, and you know, then we'd go
through our list of custom lobes from this one's from COMP.
So we worked with Bullet and Comp and Ersen. It
depends on what we're doing. And COMP has a lot
of lobes, all kinds of lobes for hydraulic roller stuff.

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So that's another point. This motor's no valve adjustment, no maintenance,
no anything. So went through their lobes and figured out
a couple figured out what we needed because we dineo
and run so many of these pro charge engines. So
I kind of had a formula and yeah you want
so do you want some cam specks or do you

(37:03):
want okay.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, do you when you say you have a formula,
so you could basically hear somebody set up no blower speed,
cam shaft grind and our range of engine and you
can put something together in a cam package that you

(37:25):
feel confident would produce the just from background.

Speaker 6 (37:30):
Yeah, do it all the time. Yeah, just because it's
just you know, a formula for a while.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Engine. You know, people that build, people that build you know,
an engine once a year or something like. I don't know, man,
I just read an article or I go go you
know what. You you go to guys like Brett or
you know dudes up at Atalys and go hey, man,
help me out with this, which is you know, kind
of what they're in eavily, what they're known for, what
they do, and this is I guess proof of it.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
So yeah, we go through and it's always better to
go with the live people than hearsay on the internet.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, yeah, go with the masters.

Speaker 6 (38:11):
Yeah. And I've tested We've tested everybody's camshafts in ls's
and big chevys and and you know, over the years,
so we get you know, you end up with stuff
and then you see it go down the track and
it and it works good and and uh so you
kind of get an idea. So this but this was
a little uncharted for me because of the big Chevy

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hydraulic roller that was just you know, it's always LS
hydraulic roller, hype camshaft. So so we went through some stuff.
So we ended up with a cam that's uh, I'll
give you you know, the zero duration numbers from the
seat are three seventeen three hundred and seventeen degrees on

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the intake low and three hundred and thirty seven degrees
on the exhaust loads. So we get that we run.
We like to run like a twenty degree split between
those on a supercharge engine.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
And it has the.

Speaker 6 (39:13):
So this would have it would have about twenty or
thirty degrees of overlap. Okay, and the fifty numbers are
are about you know, you always take that number as
to that's how we we look at when the valves
actually starts to go off the seat, not just at
the bicycle a camp. So I don't want to get

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crazy technical.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
But right, so it's too.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
It's eighty three on its Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
It's all part of you know, like that formula he's
talking about. And when you combine something like that and
you take like our blower set up, there's a certain
formula for that. It's you know, crank poolly divided by
a blower polly times five point four or zero. That's
what the gear ratio is for the F two. Yeah,

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then engine max rprem and that gives you your max
blower speed. And in this case, we ran that thing
to the hill. We said, all right, what's the max
blower speed? That's where we want to be at. So
he he picked his camshaft kind of right there at
that cusp and with this little F two, what numbers?

(40:24):
Go ahead? And you could hear that, You could hear
the rip that we do.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
I just shared it on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Willie underscore KBPI on Instagram if you want to hear
the thing man and see the numbers. But for a.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Street car, this is some pump gas on the eighty five.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
But it's pump gas right on a This is gonna
be in a street car. My family hot rodder.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
It made what do you it made? Fifty eight hundred
RPMs it made seventeen nine horsepower.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
How much torque did it make?

Speaker 3 (41:02):
God?

Speaker 6 (41:03):
And it peaked torque while the torque curve is really
flat from it made over fifteen hundred pounds of torque
from forty six hundred to six thousand. So I peaked
at fifteen fifteen hundred and eighty three pounds feet of
torqu And uh and yeah we did. We did like
five tests just to just to replicate, make sure everything

(41:25):
was happy. So yeah, and it repeated, Yeah that's what.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Hey, thirty nine hundred rpm, this engine has thirteen hundred
foot pounds door. How stupid is that? It had its
saying well, twelve ninety four, but you wouldn't know the difference.
So at thirty nine one hundred rpm, I mean, come on,
tell me that behind a NAT right when six? Tell

(41:54):
me that's not going to eat you you?

Speaker 6 (41:57):
Yeah, right when you let out the clutch.

Speaker 5 (41:59):
Yeah, I have to tell your kids to put on
their seat belts more than one time.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Man, tell me that is not a fun car to drive.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Oh yeah, as.

Speaker 6 (42:09):
Far as job, yeah, we can't imagine. Yeah, we're excited.
We want to see it. We want to see how
I think that's going to be a blast.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
But yeah, man, seventeen hundred and nine horsepower, fifteen hundred
and eighty three foot pounds of torque and what really
people don't So the horsepower number is big, I mean
it goes when you look at the number. But a
lot of people don't realize how fun tork tork's the
fun yeah deal in hot riding and you know driveability.
But at thirty nine hundred, the thing makes nine hundred

(42:39):
and seventy three horsepower too at thirty nine hundred, but
you got to you got thirteen hundred over thirteen hundred
foot pounds of torque.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
Through through the whole car, sixty three hundred dor pm.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
It's still putting down fourteen hundred foot pounds of torque.
So that if you don't know what that translates to,
it is a stupid fun factor. Like that means Ugus
smoked the tires at seventy all day and just let
have a blast, laughing and giggling.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
The whole time.

Speaker 6 (43:12):
Yeah, so the picture thing still that still blows me away.
You're gonna put it behind this so look it's not.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
The smartest thing.

Speaker 6 (43:20):
Yeah, but but spent a lot of.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Time fun, spent a lot of time and effort making
sure I had a really nasty six feet and a
really nasty clutch.

Speaker 5 (43:31):
But it is the most fun. The most fun way
to do it is the way you're doing it.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
But when you have seventeen hundred horsepower and fifteen freaking
one hundred pounds of torque, can you imagine how fun
that is behind him six feet? It's just the giggle
factor is just absurdly it's all over the place.

Speaker 6 (43:51):
So it's gonna be fun something for sure. I think
it's gonna be great.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Yeah, yeah, man, that my friends, it's gonna be a
stupid hot ride. Like when that pulls into parking lots
people gonna be like, this car is ridiculous, and yeah,
that's why.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
We're doing it.

Speaker 6 (44:09):
Yeah, so that's right.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Lots of breaks, gonna be all done.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Well, this is a little bit talking about motivating factor.
It's been sitting there. I'm not touched it for a
little bit. So yeah, it's I got the body back on,
I got the mounts back in, but I was really
waiting for the ends that I got headers. I got
all the pieces I need. I just I'm in cars
for Christmas mode. But I may I may stick this

(44:36):
in my in my other lift room and start tinkering
with it when if Muma gives me permission on the nights.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
I have off of cars of Christmas.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Uh so yeah, man, it's gonna be a winter, a
winter build. But I hope to have this thing in
the car and running by, you know sometimes shortly after Christmas.
We're not going anywhere this year of Christmas, so I'll
tink run it there and you know, hopefully have some
fun with it. And I I plan.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
To have the car out next spring.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
So awesome, uh, which, yeah, it could be perfect. Itsun
be fun, but all right, Bret, So you guys do
a lot of ls's.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
We do.

Speaker 6 (45:12):
Yeah, we had two of them on We had we
had two on the week before we tested yours so
now and they were street rod ls's, So we do
a lot of that. Guys like to put them in
all kinds of street rods now so really yeah, like yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
The old school street rods or.

Speaker 6 (45:31):
Like yeah, yeah, like thirty four ford y and we
did one for guys are doing a lot of trucks
right now, like the c tens Chevy sixty seven you
know through you know, sixty nine, seventy and uh yeah,
we did a six leader for a guy recently, you know,
just you know, we did rods and pistons and some

(45:54):
stuff to make it better. And you know, those those
little six leaders will make it made five hundred eighty
horse power, you know, you know with with head yeah,
with head with our head porting and cam stuff and
you know, uh yeah. I mean they're just crazy easy
to make power, you know, and drive. You can drive
them across country.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
So what about.

Speaker 6 (46:19):
We don't get a ton of them in yet. I mean,
we're just I think there's some stuff coming around. We've
done a bunch of them and wheel dino them. We
have the Dino set up now to to uh to
flywheel dino them and the the flywheel Dinal's really good
for working because we have all we have eight wide
band sensors. We can monitor every cylinder, all the fuel flows, airflows,

(46:41):
you know. So they're they're good for developing things. And
then we got some guys we're going to start doing
some It looks like we talked to them kind of
finalize a deal on some nhr A coyote stuff, Ford stuff.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
So dude, it's amazing what those stupid tiny engines make
with a three.

Speaker 6 (46:59):
Yeah, I know it's not.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Man, they made thirteen fourteen, fifteen hundred horse power and
then it thinks nothing. It's three hundred chains for cubic inches,
like three forty seven, and the bitch is rolling. You know,
it's got no vouve.

Speaker 4 (47:13):
Train, so you can just wind them to the moon, right,
and now they're coming.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
There's flack flat plane cranks that you can put in
these stupid things and you could spin them to the moon.
And you put a b a turbo on there, or
a big leader of supercharger on there, and man, they
go take Opra.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
An American car company.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
Ah, they're sick.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Oh that's crazy, Brett, I got it, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
Oh no, I was just on the Coyote subject. I
just said. We were watching a video of a guy
and he was a turbo Coyote Ultra fast car. But
he was I think his two step was set at
eight thousand. He was launching the thing at eight thousand
and they're you know, they're shifting it at eleven thousand
or whatever. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
I know those guys up with Hope. We're racing in Detroit,
you know, NHR champs out of that stupid coyote platform
with that three lead of it. They made him, you know,
reduce the size of their there's super charging, so they're
wooping everybody's ass and I'm like, how is that possible for.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
Murdering people?

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (48:19):
Yeah, that's a good So Brett, I got a question
just to set goals. If I wanted to get a
nine hundred and fifty cubic inch motor with two thousand
horsepower normally aspirated, what would that cost me?

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Ballpark?

Speaker 6 (48:36):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (48:36):
Man, I don't have any money anyway, own your house
out right?

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (48:42):
I think you're you're in the mid one hundreds. Wow, Yeah,
I mean, I mean you can spend you know, well,
you can spend just on fuel management. You can spend
twenty grand on stuff, you know. So that's insane, it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
So hey, but these guys are great and working, you know,
working with people four people.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
As far as getting big, big, nasty numbers.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Whatever it is, you know, whether it's a little tiny
five sixty five or it's something stupid big like those
or your ls's your coyotes at list performance? Uh, Brett,
how do people were you guys lokate just outside long
mind or love one.

Speaker 6 (49:23):
Yeah, we're about just on to eighty seven, about about
two miles north of it's like Highway sixty six. I
think that goes to the interstate, the North Highway through Longmont,
and we're just about two miles north right on two
eighty seven, so right on the high right onto seven.
We're on the east side of the road.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Cool, cool man.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
You got a phone number for people that are interested
in talking to you more.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Maybe they got an engine question.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (49:50):
Yeah, the number is nine seven zero six three five
two four four zero, And usually Jason answer the phone.
And you know, one of us always is always here.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
So cool. Nine seven six three five two four four zero. Yeah,
I like that four four zero. It's four forty right there,
still shooting my mopart, remember that number.

Speaker 6 (50:15):
We got four forty. We got a four forty going
on the Dino this week, so coming.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Up there you go.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Still it was cool there, all right man. Well, hey,
Brett Faser catching up educating us a little bit. If
anybody's got, you know, questions looking for engines, builds, combinations,
camshot questions, whatever. Nine seven zero six three five two
four four zero. Hey, I'll be up.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
I'll swing up this week and grab that that engine.

Speaker 6 (50:42):
Yeah it's ready to go. Yeah. We love helping everyone.
That's all a good deal.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
So there you go. Man, Okay, stupid seventeen hundred nine horsepower.

Speaker 4 (50:49):
Come on, Mike Pettiford.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
You know that's nasty, dude, fifteen foot pounds of torque.
Shut up from timing that out to clutch. That is
a giggles. I don't care who you are. Ten o'clock.
We gotta come back, talk about a couple of things.
We got cool car show next week. Uh, we've got
cars for Christmas. Crew coming in and Mike Pettiford, we're
doing want a championship again?

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Two?

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Oh oh sorry, I'm getting a peace signed. That means
two two championships two two. I should have put a
championship championships plural. Back with that. In seconds BP I.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Willy B's Garage, GBP, you're back in Willie B's garage.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
All right, welcome to Will's garage. Uh second out man, Sorry,
flowing by hallo fun. Brett Bowers thinks to him, thinks,
guys up at that list, cool combination on that endine right,
it's gonna be so.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
Stupid fun and nine horsepower it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Dude, He's gonna awesome. Hey do Carson College.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Can we'll talk a little bit about it's coming on
next week. But as we mentioned this, that was stuff
I had laid around, and obviously, you know, to their
credit Brett and Jason, they did their little magic which
they're kind of known for.

Speaker 5 (52:16):
That would be the difference between your garage and my
garage is you put some of the stuff that's laying
around in your garage, you end up with over seventeen
hundred horse power. I put together something that's you know,
around in my garage, I get maybe ten horse power.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Fifteen coming from the guys got like eight corvettes. Aren't
you first in line for the z R one?

Speaker 5 (52:43):
I am damn I am an Nick chevro Let, Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
And you'll understand why because he just he grabbed himself
two championships, as Mike Pettiford from go for the number four.
It services two more to the jacket this year.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
Yeah, yeah, I remember, I remember what we were doing
the TV show and you said you had thirty championships
and I said, it's an old jacket.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Yeah, you know, it's funny because he man, he does
have a lot of a lot of championships and a
lot of you know, it's been his thing since what's
how long?

Speaker 4 (53:21):
How long have you been?

Speaker 5 (53:22):
Well started the company in eighty five, Go for It
started in eighty five, and I was I was driving
and racing motorcycles before then, so it's been it's been
a labor of love since then.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
You think, how many how many times have you been around?
Like if you add it every time you've been around
a track, how what's the number of times you have
a circle to racetrack in your life, in.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
Your career, gosh at high planes, Probably a million times,
I would think, you think, I mean certainly hundreds of thousands,
because I mean I was on that track when they
first built it and it's been up and running for
what fourteen years?

Speaker 3 (54:10):
Fifteen years?

Speaker 5 (54:11):
I think so yeah, I mean I could it could
be dark and I could have no lights that I
could go around that track pretty fast.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Yeah, I tend to think.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
So.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Congratulations to a couple of unbelievab championships again this year
he wins them all.

Speaker 4 (54:28):
He's that dude. He's got all the patches on all
the jackets.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
But he does man go for a services does tune
you up behind the wheel, he courage you to do so,
trying to get James Carson on from you know, Full
Blown Custom.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
It's funny because.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
I was speaking with those guys, you know, I brought
back the wide body charger him trying to get exhausted
on a few things on that maybe getting seen me
one more time as a show car. So that car
is on the forefront, but it needs things that I
don't know how to do. So I went to Full
Blown Customers like, Hey, I need exhaust on this thing.
Gotta get it done before I can do anything else
on the on the build. So I was excited about that,

(55:05):
and they were telling me about this car show they
have next week. So next week, if you're if you're
a hot rider, if you're a you know, a car club,
you gotta know what hot ride.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
Hey man, go to Full Blown Custom.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Hey, Scoop, maybe you can find that if I'll look
it up and you find the official dress. However, it's
gonna be, you know, again, part of the food drive.
So the hand that fees comes back on Friday. Scooping
myself will be in the parking lot of Cabela's up
North asking people to bring non pairs with food items.
And then on Saturday at full blown customs is gonna

(55:37):
be out there eleven to three as well, well, I
will be. I don't thin excuse coming down on Saturday.
We let him go.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
He turns into a vampire on weekends.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Uh, but on Saturday. Hey, if you're a car enthusiast,
if you are, hey, want to get your car out
one more time for oh man, winter shows up. This
is a great way to do it. Man. That address
fifty three seventy one Tennyson Street. It's really I seventy
and Tennyson, that Tennis and exit. You will go down
that make one little turn, but it's right there off

(56:07):
of I seventy, right past Federal and whatnot, so easy
to find, easy to get to.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
And again eleven to three.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
Bring a hot ride, Bring a muscar, bring a rat rod,
bring modern muscle, Bring a badass pickup truck, something diesel.
We don't care, all kinds of things kind of plugged in.
They're gonna have a couple of different things set up
for the kids, probably some face painting. I think they
were gonna set up where kids and adults can do
a little welding. Do a little MiG welding. Tig welding,

(56:34):
so that's Hey, did you get try that at linga Tech?

Speaker 3 (56:36):
I did? I did.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
What did you think of it?

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Well?

Speaker 5 (56:39):
I really liked it. It was really cool, but I
am not gonna quit my day job. The guy, the
guy was so nice. He said, no, no, you're supposed
to keep a straight line. And I'm like, okay, that's
what I was trying to do. And yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
You know the thing with tig welding, you gotta continually
do it. I found that out when I did the
Why Body, because so much of that work I did myself.
And it was a learning carry For sure. I'm not
the greatest tigwater now I've lost. I've lost a lot
of skills I had because I've just stopped tigwater. It's
not something you need. I use a MiG weld a
lot because it's just easier, quicker, and you can make

(57:16):
great Yes, Okay, that's what I tried.

Speaker 4 (57:19):
Oh that's what you tried. You can't do that, oh
damn damned to.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
All right, but it was cool. It was cool to try.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
No, no, no, it really is.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
It's a blast.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
And once you're megan tig weater is just awesome. I'm
a big enthusiast of it. I do a lot more
MiG welding. I can't tag, you know. It was at
one point a decent tig weld learned it's really on
the why body. Then it had to finish work done,
and now it's a full bow and custom getting exhaust.
So we got this car show next week, so you'll

(57:52):
be able to see that car out there, which is
gonna be really cool. Man. It's it is a stupid
cool car and it's it. It looks honestly, God don't.
I don't brag a lot about the concept or whatever,
but that car with the vision.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
You know, kind of that that I had with it.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
I never did a render, and it was on my
mind that car turned out wicked man, that chop top
on that thing, and how far move the fenders out
that the night we went too far. So there's a
certain width you can go and then you get kind
of horrish. You know, it sounds bad it called that way,
but I was raising that car up and down on
a lift at home, and I was moving those fenders

(58:31):
out and pie cutting them and I'll stick my whole
arm down in there and push the fender out a
little bit, and I would drop it back down on
these wide tires and I was like, ooh, ooh, too far,
too far, I went too far and that brought it
back just about a half inch. And you know what,
it turned out so cool. That car looks it looks
the part. And you'll see it next week. You'll if

(58:54):
you come out through a full blown Custom you'll be
able to lay your eyes on it, see the you know,
the work on the car and where it is right
now and hopefully being there it's gonna get. You know,
this exhaust is gonna be in tense, man, It's gonna
be stainless. It's gonna be it's gonna be three ins
because of the the tightness of the independent rear suspension,

(59:15):
independent front suspension. What you know, James and the guys
that full blown Customer have to kind of weave the
exhaust in and through. So it's gonna be unique, kind
of cool. Looking forward to showing you that and also
just a little bit about you know, the car show
and the you know, the full blown custom crew. If

(59:36):
you will, maybe this is James or Carson with us,
You'll be Pi who's this.

Speaker 9 (59:40):
Hey, this is James.

Speaker 4 (59:42):
We just talk about you.

Speaker 5 (59:43):
Man.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
I was like, dude, what a chunk you got? What
a I mean, it took on quite a challenge here
with the exhaust on the old wide body, but I'm
stuck there.

Speaker 9 (59:52):
Yeah, you got a whole pile of material that just
came in the other day for it's gonna be pumping.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (59:57):
Man.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
We were sitting underneath the car trying to map it
and figured out the other day and I was like, oof.
I'm like, dude, are you sure you want to handle this.
He's like, yeah, no problem, You're sure you want the
floors cut. I'm like, yeah, no problem, You're doing it.
So it's gonna be fun, man.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
I think people can be excited to.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
See that car get exhaust on it and what we
can do with it, and you know where it goes.

Speaker 9 (01:00:18):
There to hear it make some noise and yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
Hey, this this car show on Saturday. People can bring
any sort of hot ride down there. Muscle car, modern muscle,
the truck.

Speaker 9 (01:00:30):
The more the merrier, motorcycles, cars, trucks, whatever, you got
something cool you want to show it off, We'd love
to have it out there. We're just throwing a big party,
you know what I mean. Yeah, get a bunch of
car people together and have some fun and talk shop.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Yeah. Man, we're gonna make it part of the food
drive too. So if you bring non personal food items,
the Denver Rescue Mission will be out there as well
as Cabela's on Friday. So two ways you can donate.
You can bring non personal food items, you can make
my monetary donation will you know, go a long way
as well. But when you hear the set and understand,
you know, kind of the quiet of the rescue mission

(01:01:06):
this year, how many you know, scoop, you figured out
the math.

Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
How many meals a day was it? It was several thousand,
right right in the ballpark. Of five thousand meals a day.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Wow, a day through to day.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
I mean that's More's think about breakfast, lunch, dinner, several
resident you know, facilities throughout Denver and the rescue mission itself,
and the boxes of food that they donate the people
so they can keep their lights on and keep feeling
their car keep working, you know, all added up, it
equates to about five thousand meals a day. That's stupid, man,

(01:01:38):
that's insane. So obviously there's a massive need there and
it's wild because it's people in their own backyard. So
this is a way if you can to give a
little bit to help out. If you've got a company,
you know, shout out to McIntire roof and there first
company to do a little donation, you know, sort of
rally for all their guys and staff. And if you

(01:01:58):
have a construction company or a you know, an automotive
shop or a doctor's office, maybe you could take in
donations there. I think Journey Fitness is doing something this
week and I'm gonna pick it up and take it
up to you know, Cobella's on Friday. So between Friday
at Cobella's Saturdays at Full Blown Custom, we hoped to
you know, really make a dent in what the rescue

(01:02:20):
mission needs, no matter what, every little can, every little bit.
You know, we're talking this week, clean out your pantry.
You got things close to the expiration date, be a
great time to throw those in the bag and bring
them out. If you've got something you know you're not
gonna use, like some crusty ass beans you're not gonna
mess with, just throw them in the bag, man. Because
people be all about them. Yeah, h nonpairs with food items,

(01:02:45):
so be great to see you. And if you've got
a car, bring it out. The full blown customs really off.
I seventy of Tennyson.

Speaker 4 (01:02:53):
And hey do we question do we got food truck
or a source of food?

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:02:59):
I think we got two food trucks lined up right now.
And if anybody else wants to bring a food truck
out there, you know, varieties that spice. So I just
want to make sure that everybody's out their bellies full.

Speaker 6 (01:03:11):
And yeah, fun, we'll have some food and.

Speaker 9 (01:03:13):
Drinks we're giving away. We'll have to give away some raffles, uh,
you know, and hopefully get you know, maybe one more
food truck out there would be awesome. That way we
can have a few different things and it should.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
Be a good We'll do a car corn hole challenge.
We'll put a cornhole deal in between some cars.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
So all right, you bring your car.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
Yeah yeah, so you're a bad shot. You're gonna hear
somebody's car. You gotta deal with that. That have the steaks,
doesn't it? That really puts the risk in it? Up right?

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
My car?

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Funny?

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
No, just kid, but that will be fun.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
So if you got a car, you got a hot
ride or muscle cars, something modern, something old, something in between.
You got a bike you got up, Hell right, it
tries to go down there. Your weirdo a unicycle, that's
what we're looking to see it. Oh yeah electric someone
that's crazy fly Yeah, thirty miles an hour. Anyway, you're right,
that dumb ass thing down. Uh, but bring you up,

(01:04:16):
bring out your hot rides. Full blown custom really off
by seventy a Tennyson what's the official address, James, It's.

Speaker 9 (01:04:23):
Fifty three seventy one Tennyson Street and that's.

Speaker 6 (01:04:25):
We're unit six.

Speaker 9 (01:04:27):
But we hope to fill that entire building a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:04:30):
Up, massive parking lot.

Speaker 6 (01:04:32):
We got a big parking lot.

Speaker 9 (01:04:33):
You'll see some signs, you'll see some party going on.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
All the party.

Speaker 9 (01:04:37):
Yeah man, seventy one Tennyson Street.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
If you have a car club, would be a great
way to bring the entire car club down. Post up,
park it up, feel the trip, Yeah, share the love.

Speaker 9 (01:04:48):
To pop up and yeah, up a little spot.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
There's gonna be.

Speaker 9 (01:04:50):
Plenty of room for everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
All right, good times we full blown Customs. That's Saturday
eleven two. We'll be out there eleven to three you'll
probably go a little longer than that. But again, thanks
for the time, James, appreciate it. Appreciate you allowing me
to turn that into a food drive.

Speaker 9 (01:05:08):
Oh no, we're now like honestly that that makes us
feel so like it's actually made this event so much
better for us, Like somehow it feels I feel so
much better.

Speaker 6 (01:05:17):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Well, cool man. Anxious to see everybody next Saturday. Full
blowing custom fifty three seventy one Tennyson A man, you
see that engine.

Speaker 6 (01:05:27):
Oh dude, a repube.

Speaker 9 (01:05:31):
We're gonna put that here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Hey man, that bell Air. I may need to talk
to you about a mini tub job.

Speaker 9 (01:05:36):
Yeah, it's gonna need some wheels on it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Yeah, all right, brother, we'll talk soon. Take care ten
twenty two will it be his garage? We'll talk cars
to Christmas. That's in full motion. We're actually picking up
cars today. It's crazy, but you know me and the
guys already, man, we've already had some stupid ford I'll
just say it, man, Im try and set ups. Good god,

(01:06:01):
there's a there's a Chevrolet setup that we hate. There's
that three so people will know that three four to three.
There was a three to nine version. There's a three
eight three point eight liter version. Three point nine version
was their their latest run, but it started with a
three point four version. I think it was little, you know,
sidemount of B six transactional setup. Those those things suck.

(01:06:25):
So we've done more of those cars at Christmas than
just about anything. Well for whatever, the last two years,
it's really been Ford Triton season. Between those five Ford Tritons,
and they went a little bigger. They have Oh man,
they're paying the ass. Well, we just see, we've seen

(01:06:47):
a lot of them. However, to their credit, when you
get them right, they do run good.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
You know, they'll be reliable transportation for many a needy person.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
Yeah, man, we'll share some stories. Carson Christmas Style. That's
in full play. Talk that in just a minute. Quick break,
will the Bee's garage. It's on seven nine KBPI.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
Willy Bee's Garage. You back in Willybe's garage.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
Well, some guys will be his garage. Welcome to it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Hay Saturday, it's a so cooler this Saturday, kind of
the first fall.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
Weekend that we're feeling. Hey, but you know what that means.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
A big horsepower cooler, air denser air means more air,
more power, baby bear, it's all there. Go grab Why
can't burn? Burn burn?

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
That's me grabbing gears. That's a sound effects. It's awesome anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
We're a big time show. We do our own sound effects.
That's how we roll. Mike Go for It Services. Petiford
just scoots up a couple more championships. You can find
out more go the number four, Go for Its services.
He schools and tools everybody behind the wheel, whether it's
four wheels, two wheels.

Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
He's been known to.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Ride a three wheeler or two as well, but those
don't count. It's like having a It's like having what's
that Honda Ridge Line pickup truck? That's not a real
pickup truck, just like a three wheeler is not. It's
not really a motorcycle or a car. It's just something.
It's stupid in between. I'm talking them those weird you know, well,

(01:08:19):
you know how everybody's got the one are those two
wheeled trikes?

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
But I meant the dirt.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Yeah yeah, dude, I own a three wheeling death machine.
Death by running your own ass over. Those are so fun.
Best at drunk parties, more people ran over themselves with
that vehicle than any other, a t V SUV.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
That's how I got the job.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
How they were out loaded.

Speaker 4 (01:08:45):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
So look when it when it comes to cars for Christmas.
In short, a couple of guys here talk cars for
Christmas because it's you know, it started for us, that know,
a couple months ago. We've been wrenching on cars, trying
to get motivated for it. But no, seriously, we've done
a lot of big jobs already. It's funny because cars
to Christmas. We're picking some up. Shout out to the

(01:09:08):
Lway dealership group. They've ramped up given us cars here
this week. We got a few to pick up this afternoon.
But in short, if you were to smiles, we're to say,
tell me about cars to Christmas. In our eyes, the
first thing that pops into mind. It sucks. It does.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
Man, It's a god awful amount of work.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
Every you know, we started in you know, August, basically
Wednesdays and weekend we start wrenching on these cars and
start you know, dedicating some time in what a lot
of people don't realize, it takes a long time for
us to fix a car because you know, you got
everything from the wrong parts and wrong you know, trying
to match up right parts.

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
And you know you gotta do one thing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:54):
You got weight. Well, we can't add this because still
coman's got a dry all right, next time we're gonna
meet us Saturday. Oh, he got four cars to pick up.
And what's what about this whole operation? And we give
away thirty forty cars a year and it's honest to god,
it's a group of five, six, seven guys.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
It really is, man.

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
And you know they'll tell you today why they you know, Parsy,
why they do it. It's a bunch of camaraderie. It's
awesome stuff. It's to give every one of the guys,
you know, especially me. I don't know why it's such
a softy when it comes to giving these cars away.
But these people's lives get I mean, they get changed
like you would not believe. Man. And I think because
I'm probably the one that does the most betting to
talk to their friends or their family members or maybe

(01:10:34):
their extended family or them a few times and understand
their plight, the story, what they deal with on a
regular and daily basis. When you talk to a I
gave a car away to a machinist a few years back,
and this guy showed up. It's when I gave it away
to dealership. He showed up a dealership. He was getting
a ride to work. Like this guy on occasion would

(01:10:55):
be able to get a ride from work. If he
did not get a ride from work, this dude walked
three miles. Was in the morning. He started his day
walking three miles and this is every day. This dude
had missed the day of working seven years. He'd been
walking for four right, this dude showed up at a
car dealership with about an inch of duct tape wrapped
around his working bude.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
You know why because he had four kids he was
responsible for. And no joke. He would walk three miles
started day.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
I think there was like.

Speaker 4 (01:11:24):
Three point one to three point seven miles.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
That was a catch a bus that he could then
hop off of it, walk another mile change to work.
And he was a machinist. And he did it rainshine,
sunny weather, hot weather, cold weather. He did it every day,
man every day, and on Sundays was his walk to
the grocery store. He lived almost two miles from a
grocery store, so he would bundle his four kids up

(01:11:49):
and they would walk their ass to a grocery store.
He had his his parents stay in the house that
he lived in. They didn't have a car either, so
you imagine what the tote was back for all the
kids in himself on a weekly trip to a grocery store. Right.
So this guy he showed up the car leadership, he
had no idea it was getting car. And he's looking

(01:12:11):
at what he thought it was one of his coworkers
that was picking him up, and I think it's I
if our car, right, I think his boss was there
or was in on it. We told him to sit
down at the mic and he didn't speak very good English,
kind of chopping English, and he was panicked. He was
hitting the rev like rev limitar because he was nervous

(01:12:34):
he's gonna be late for work. Right. He didn't realize
he was getting a car. That hey, yeah, so he
gave a car. Dude was just overwhelmed. Couldn't believe that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
He could just got this car. And that was on
a Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
And no joke that Sunday because I called him the
next week and that Sunday he's bundling his kid up.
It snowed he's bundling his kids up. They're about to
do that walk the safe way and it was funny.

Speaker 4 (01:12:59):
Kids.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
The guy always got it, you know, we'd walk through
the safeways and he was like, I was bunking my
kids up for their walk through the safeways. And my
daughter is like, Dad that I don't understand. He's like,
what what Memore and she's she's like, I don't understand
why we got a car now. And he's still walking
to the grocery store and they didn't realize he forgot

(01:13:22):
that he had a car, you know, for a moment
he thought he had to you know, get get back
into that walking phase and was you know, doing that.
So the cars mean a ton, but it really is
the effort that makes cars for Christmas just you know
what it is. It's turned the morphed into something that

(01:13:43):
you know, there's a level of expectation. I will say
that people are just people out there to expect.

Speaker 4 (01:13:47):
Us to do cars for Christmas. That is own right,
is a story.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
But if it weren't for the heart of the people
of the crew and the guys and other people out
there too in the fold in the interim that you know,
donate cars or put the cars maail ways Leonard. If
you're listening, they're a shop that will take a car.
If you're a shop that's listening, maybe you can take
a car and help us out this year. But you know, Robert,
he's been with cars. How long you've been doing cars

(01:14:12):
for Christmas? Cause you've been at it for what how
many years? Now? We called Robert Roberto for the ladies,
just ladies letting you know Roberto, he's you know, he's.

Speaker 4 (01:14:21):
Got it that way. This would make my seventh year seventh?
Do you have a memorable giveaway in cars for Christmas?

Speaker 7 (01:14:29):
They're all memorable in their own right. Everybody's got such
a unique story.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
And Roberts the problem solver in the group. So we
all have her rolls, you know, we all have her
sort of things we do. Like when it comes to Warring,
we're like, hey, Robert, Robert Warring, this is what you do.
It's funny because we all get her hands dirty and
some regard in some fashion with all these certain things
in the cars. Roberts the you know, you got a

(01:14:57):
tight spike you need to get to or something in
their dash you got Warring, Hey, Robert, come here and
figure this out, we'll see you later. So you're you
definitely provide a certain you bring something to the table,
for sure, and we're thankful for it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:10):
Man, well, thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (01:15:13):
I have a background in low voltage and high voltage wiring,
and I'm tiny, so I fit in really small spaces
and I bend well.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
We were hanging the steeple leve in the backyard and
Robert was the short straw sort of speak, so he
had to go all the way up in the in
the very catacombs of the steeple to put some wires
in there. And we're like, just grab his feet, pull
him out. But yeah, he is you know, he's a
smaller frame, so he's easy to fit in easier, but

(01:15:43):
some of the things are still tight for any of us.
But Robert is a master at at you know, helping
come solutions and problems and what's funny, you know, sometimes
we're all off sometimes, you know, Robert he's normally a
problem solver, but sometimes he comes up with the dumbest
idea ever. Uh and and you know, maybe somebody like me,

(01:16:04):
he was like, I ain't going to work. I'm that's
that's I'm telling you, I not where well, that's not
gonna happen.

Speaker 9 (01:16:09):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
But sometimes I came up with a dumb idea.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
Uh sometimes Scott is you know over there it's like, look,
I didn't cross thread this, but I I definitely made
it worse.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
Uh, Scott, how long have you been doing? You've been
at cars for Christmas for a number of years too.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
Right, Yeah, this is a year number six for me?
Well year number six really? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:16:31):
Maybe I think he was came with you right.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
A year before me.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
This should be six. That's why I moving back to Colorado.

Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
You moved back for cars to Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
I was known this before any remke side you might
go there.

Speaker 4 (01:16:45):
So now, why did you start helping out with cars
for Christmas?

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
H younger when I was younger.

Speaker 8 (01:16:52):
Is one of those things where if I had this
it would have helped.

Speaker 4 (01:16:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
Yeah, cars unfortunately, Yeah, so oft the time are taking
for granted what they provide mobility is something that so
many people, you know, we take it for granted, and
so many people struggle.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
Like you would not believe, man.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
You know, and we've got stories, I think really sharing
with these guys the stories, because you know, there are
two sides of cars for Christmas. There was a board,
you know, in every quarter up until COVID, every quarter
you had to have a board meeting, you know, on
the board.

Speaker 4 (01:17:28):
And so when the.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Board would meet, it would talk about, all right, well
you got to handle this fundraising and we got to
do you know this, and I gotta make sure we
log them innutes and turn those in. That's just crap
you gotta do. When you have a five O one
C three, it's awful. It's still stupid. However, I set
up this five O one c three unlike a lot
of five o' one c threes. People set up five

(01:17:52):
o'h one ce threes where they can have a staff
to get paid. And those are the ones you always
have to be careful about because they'll hire a bunch
of their friends, they'll pay them an astronomical amount of
their fundraising, and only a limited number of dollars or
percent of that dollar goes to the actual like helping. Well,

(01:18:15):
nobody in my five to one see three gets paid.

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
I said that where we don't pay anybody.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
Every dime that we get as far as their fundraising goes,
goes back to cars for Christmas, you know. So the
majority of that is in NAPA receives. Man, you wouldn't
believe what we's been in NAPA. I'm their best client,
but really I'm huge for NAPA. However, you look at
some of the gives, some of the the stories. What

(01:18:42):
about cars to Christmas over the last six or eight years,
depending on whose lens you're looking through, do you have
one that's more memorable or do you have a repair
that's more memorable or something that Scott's buck crack is
kind of famous, but we won't get in that picture.
It's on on one of our Instagram pages. But it's

(01:19:04):
uh for you, it's been We do have a lot
of lasting shop is it? Is it about that? It's
about the give, is about the stories. What gets motivated
for you when you think cars of Christmas?

Speaker 8 (01:19:15):
To me, it's actually it's the group of people. Man,
we get the all work together. We're providing a good
cause or maybe changing somebody's life given.

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
Oh you definitely, we definitely changing people's It's amazing the
drastic change that occurs in people's lives.

Speaker 8 (01:19:30):
Giving them that opportunity to not take that minimum paying
job because it's only a mile away from house and
now yeah, ten miles and and maybe make a difference
and really actually be able to get out of that rut.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
Right, Remember Amanda, We gave that card to that in
Palaty last year. She was the cutest little hood rat.
She was man her attitude and energy, she was fantastic
and she was one of those people that she just
needed a way out. She realized where problems were. She
found some variety. She had found God and a lot

(01:20:03):
of peace in that and a lot of structure in
that and a lot of you know direction, And for her,
it was just all about getting She was doing ready
Timp services. She would show up to Timperrady Services and
this is a you know, smaller framed girl. She would
show up there and hustle as hard as the men would.
And that was her thing. It's like, I got to
show them that I'm worth it and I could work

(01:20:24):
just as hard as the guys. She would take jobs,
picked up trash on the side of the road right
just to try to earn the money to pay for
her weekly housing. But she was doing it on her own.
She could have been more proud. Her parents had drug
issues problems and been through rehab. She had gone through
rehab and found sobriety and.

Speaker 4 (01:20:40):
Really given her that car.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
Man, it was it was it was the biggest gift
you could have given her at that moment to have
the biggest impact on her life. And because that more
jobs became available, a regular job which meant you know, insurance,
which meant a steady paycheck. And that for so many
people is they think about that as an American dream,

(01:21:02):
you know, for so many people to be able to
take care of their housing because they you know, they
focus so hard on that. Let alone, you didn't have
money for a car. Who's got money for a car?
When every ounce, every dollar, every quarter, dime, penny you
make goes to pin in your housing. So there's a plight.
And once you're able to get a car, guess what,
you don't have to work a temporary service. You don't

(01:21:22):
have to walk to a temporary job at five am
and hope you get called. You're gonna go to a job,
you gonna put it in an application, you geta you
know McDonald's aren't eighteen bucks an hour. You gonna go
line up and do some of that. I don't care
what it is. When people have mobility and a drive
to do better, they find work. It's nutty how synonymous

(01:21:45):
hard work and good luck run hand in hand, and
it really is a factor that people find out once
they start pairing those up and cars for Christmas. Gives
the ability for a lot of these people to find
that out, and for so many people, in so many
stories and years of doing it, it's been dude, is

(01:22:08):
being cool because we've seen that change. We've seen some
of the stories. We've seen, you know, emotional stories. We've
seen people. We've seen people receive the ugliest duckling car
and be ecstatic about it. And let me tell you
that is something as because we get some ugly cars. Man,
I go lie some of the cars, Like I'm missing

(01:22:28):
Ford earlier. We've had a lot of Fords lately, right
am I if I'm am? I missed on that Ronny
Ford we've done lately.

Speaker 7 (01:22:34):
Uh this year, we've already looked at four just just
and we're kind of stuck on those four because they
keep going.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
Then we have one thing fixed on them and Ford
just be acting like a Ford.

Speaker 9 (01:22:47):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
We're like, all right, this one's ready to roll on
base six. We'll take it for a test drive. Got
to check in julight I got something weird or all
of a sudden it started leaking, you know, started leaking
from the water pump. What you know, like weird things,
because Ford is weird, but it's it's amazing when you
give somebody a nice car and I'm telling you, man

(01:23:10):
to go from nothing. I mentioned a minute ago, we've
given away some of the ugliest, some of those hideous.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
We gave away a Ford Mustang.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
Last year to a guy that had been walking for
nearly two decades. He had a bicycle in forour collins
and that's all he had for transportation. And we gave
this man like this god awful faded out and you
know what, it's a damn Ford. But I hate to
give this Ford credit. This Mustang set in my driveway

(01:23:39):
for a year and a half, two years, and I
didn't even I forgot how I got it. It was
a donation and I found the title and we're like, well,
let's look at cars this year. And I'm like, well,
let's do that Mustang. There's been sitting there for two years.
So we bring it down, put a little battery charge
on it.

Speaker 4 (01:23:54):
That's something. Bit started up, not even gonna lie.

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
It started up and ran I couldn't believe it, but
we did all kinds of you know, suspension ceiling it up,
blah blah blah. And this thing on one side had
a little faded paint, had some duct tape interior work.

Speaker 3 (01:24:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
But I would tell you this, when we put keys
in the hand and gave it to this cat up
in Fort Collins, you would have thanked this man. Dude,
he had visions of his high school Mustang dream of
you know, curls on the you know, on the debate
team that he never could date because he didn't have
a cool car.

Speaker 4 (01:24:29):
Like this man went back. It was like we gave him.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
A piece of his dignity back. And for people who
were a little bit embarrassed, for people that are introvert,
he was very much an introvert. It's hard to ask
for help, to ask for rides to do. You don't
want to walk to a bus, to walk to punk transportation,
and you know, let alone the mechanism paying for it

(01:24:57):
and all that. So it really is some then for
us in cars for Christmas, that the reward is really
watching it amplify the receiver's world in positive ways. Right,
Watch that redounding effect and the ripple effect because most oftentimes, well, Chris,

(01:25:19):
you know, this is not just one person, right, It's
not just a.

Speaker 4 (01:25:24):
Person that we're giving a car to.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
Albeit there has been some of those instances, Normally the
ripple effect and the mouths and the people that that
car becomes responsible for, it expands exponentially. There's two or
three circles or generations of people that you know that
when we.

Speaker 4 (01:25:44):
Get the car.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Hell, for that matter, we've seen families like the Brady
Bunch come together and people you know, yo, I got
eight kids, I got grandparents, and I got our parents
all live with in the same house. We don't have
a car.

Speaker 4 (01:25:56):
We seen that, Yeah, yeah, out one this year.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Well we've give him away you know vans with like
eight rows of seats in it. And we got another
one this year. So it's wild to see. Do you
have a gift that was memorable or what moment? Oh
you know what, Chris, this dude, he actually was a
receiver of a car for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
Man, his first couple of years.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
And this is what's so great.

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
His first couple of years he came out and turned
wrenches and helped out and at the time he wasn't
even that skilled in car repair.

Speaker 4 (01:26:36):
But this guy was the first dude to be okay
getting dirty.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
He's like, look, I'm just learning, I'm just figuring it out,
or here's what I know. But what I'm not afraid
to do is work. And he was one of the
first cats that would dive in and straight up get dirty.
And we're like, this kid's on the hustle. He just
came out with some friends and just decided to help out,
not being that's with all these guys. Every one of
the guys that help out cars to Christmas, similar to Chris,

(01:27:00):
either heard about it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
Were listeners and just like, hey man, I want to
do that. I want to go help.

Speaker 1 (01:27:04):
Chris just showed up like a wet dog one day
and just like, hey man, I'll do all this stuff
that you know it's just ugly.

Speaker 4 (01:27:11):
Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
It was. It was just I wanted to come out
and hang out and work on some cars, and he
would he would bum ride and he didn't have a
card and we were able to gift him a car
one year for cars.

Speaker 4 (01:27:22):
As a total surprise too.

Speaker 1 (01:27:24):
Oh god, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:27:26):
Talking about bringing a grown man to his knees almost
completally caught me off card.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27:31):
After helping him for a couple of years and dedicating
so much to his time and finding out he didn't
have a car at.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
The time, I've been doing it for ten years with
you know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
Yeah, I was able to surprise him and give him
this tahoe.

Speaker 4 (01:27:46):
And uh man, he he It was good.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
It was good because I gave it to him as
a surprise and I was like, hey, man, bring that
tahoe round.

Speaker 4 (01:27:53):
We'll got to the next winter. And it was him.

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
Yeah, well it wasn't even tall. You told me to
bring something else.

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:27:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:27:59):
I come walking in and everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
Was like walking away from you, and I was like,
that was weird.

Speaker 10 (01:28:04):
And all of a sudden you brought us all up
to talk on the radio and everything, and you were like,
which one's the best car? And I happened to say
that tahoe pulled up behind you. Yeah, and you had
told me some story about some guy getting it and everything,
and the tahoe pulled up behind you and you were like, yeah,
that's how it's your keys at me and I covered
the mic because I knew what was coming out of.

Speaker 4 (01:28:24):
My mouth next.

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
Yeah, So yeah, man, he got gifted the car just
for hard work, dedication, and you know he had a
hell of a story too. It really is some of
some of the ways we've been able to surprise, to
reward people, to gift the car, and you know they're
never get We don't give cars to many single people

(01:28:46):
for years back, there was this kid and it's wild
to think about this now, but this was the first
generation kid to graduate high school. Like that says something, right,
So when this girl graduated high school and she not
only she graduates, she's lofted, she absolutely crushed. It was
like a you know, plus plus extra credit. Like this
was a girl making an impact and she didn't have

(01:29:07):
a car, and she was she won some scholarship, but
she didn't have a way to you know, get to him.
Imagine the college kid and your parents don't fixed income.
It was just kind of a bad scenario because she
worked so hard at GRAYS and GPA and all that stuff.
She got in this you know, scholarship program, but she
didn't have a ride. We'd get to her car and then,
let me tell you, it made such an impact, such

(01:29:29):
a you know a difference. There was a car I
gave way not to many years ago, called Heybeller because
a guy up in four Collins gave me the car
and he would tow his goat around in the car
all the time. He had a back seat.

Speaker 4 (01:29:43):
It was like.

Speaker 1 (01:29:43):
A Toyota camera or something. And the cat carried a
goat with him all the time. He had a pet
goat and he had hay and straw in the back
of his freaking Toyota Camry with no back seat in it.
And he said, hey man, this thing has been carrying
me my goat around for the last couple of years.

Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
It's been a great car. We kept making this up
and runs good. I want to give it to you
for cars Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:30:03):
I'm like what we nicknamed the car Haybailer. So this
this woman in Longmont received that car and for a
few years she would take in with hay bell is still
running out love it, blah blah blah. But again it
had such a crazy impact. As some of these cars
we get when we get them, they're busted, but we would
get done with them. Hopefully for us, our goal is

(01:30:26):
to give away right and ready and righteous rides right
like we uh logo in a truck.

Speaker 4 (01:30:32):
Shout out to Gorilla Raps where we wrapped in the
truck this.

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
Weekend, says Willy b. Foundation making cars great again because
we take bitera cars and we make them great for
a family that doesn't have mobility. So it really is
something that is an amazing story. I think you're actually
gonna see some of it on TV before long the
way it's working out, which is kind of cool. But
cars to Christmas. It's Willibefoundation dot org. If you want

(01:30:57):
to find it online. If you want to nominate somebody,
you can nominate him right now. We really open at
you know, the last week in October, but you know
you can nominate. We've got to set where you can
nominate somebody now. But it's it is something that is
truly you know, it's blessed by the people who do it,
by the crew that do it, and by the number
of guys. And there's a few of them. Brian and

(01:31:18):
Tommy and Danny, Mike couldn't be here today. Even Clipp
put it even in a couple of days this year.
So there's ancillary people. Leonard and some other people shout
out the trysts and the truck lab who helps us
keep the riots rowing. But it does take a lot
of time, a lot of people, a lot of effort.

(01:31:39):
Just know, man, that as much as it takes us
an effort, that's how happy we are when we see
these cars get gifted, get given to families. And you know,
I think you guys, you got to say the best
the best part of this, right is, is probably the
get when what we look forward to. You had fun
fixing the cars, that we have a good time, But

(01:32:00):
when we give them away, when we read the stories,
that's the best.

Speaker 10 (01:32:03):
Right When when you see the look on someone's face
when you give him a card, they.

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
Had no clue they were getting. Yeah, that's priceless. You
can't you can't explain that.

Speaker 7 (01:32:13):
The families, they get it when they bring their children
and their husbands and their grandparents and they're all getting
in the mini van that we got them because they've
never been able to take a trip together family. It's
moments like that that really make it worthwhile.

Speaker 1 (01:32:31):
Yeah, man, it's it's such a cool moment too. And
you know, it gets all well, most of time, it
gets emotional. I'll give a car away a couple of times, Manu.
The story was so brutal, I'm all choked up. I'm like,
I'm like dad stuff, and I'll be like you get
in a car and stone coke killer face be like

(01:32:52):
thanks man, and I'm like, wow, I'm over here, Buckley man,
I'm here phone like a wet.

Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
Noodle and he just cool.

Speaker 1 (01:32:59):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:33:01):
I'm like that dude's hard as hell. I'm just like,
I'm all told up about it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:04):
But yeah, there is a sloth. The people that swathed,
the people that I think have have over the years
been really blessed with cards to Christmas. They're may be
a handful of them that pulled the bull over her eyes,
but Karen was is a thick well, I don't know,
she's a wise girl in that regard. But really the

(01:33:28):
gives the moments of reflection in the moments when they
drive off and they're like, I got a car and
they're like they got kids hanging out the windows like
puppies and smiles on their faces, and you know, they
get overwhelmed with having his joy and motion because in
that moment they know their freedom is back right there.

(01:33:49):
Their freedom to go about this world and challenge everyday
things is back in their control, and not in control
of public transportation where they can walk. How they're gonna
get there, and that for so many people has an
enormous impact, which is why we do it each and
every year, which is why you know we work so

(01:34:10):
hard on these cars, which is why we have great
relationships with shops and people and this team. And while
we really truly love doing cars for Christmas, and we
hope you guys enjoy receiving it and hearing some of
the stories as well. More of that to come as
we get a little closer for it time to wrap
it up on will B's garage, Mike go for it surfaces.

Speaker 4 (01:34:33):
Two championships added this year alone.

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
Add that to it. Look, he's got no more. He's
gonna have to get long coat, you know, the trench coats.
That's the kind of He's got so many patches and
championship patches like on his jacket. He's gonna have to
get like a trench coat and start wearing like a
I don't know what are the things they call the
like on a bride the He's gonna have to have
a train on his jacket for all the championship he's wearing. Now.

Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
Man, it's uh must be nice to be that good.

Speaker 5 (01:35:04):
I just told the wife we can always get a
bigger house because every year she always asked me, don't
you have enough trophies?

Speaker 1 (01:35:10):
And I'm like, no, baby, no, the trophies are flowers
for men. Uh yeah, I kind of like that, yeah, man,
and you do. It's all in a in a corvett
of sostice.

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
Both Man, Turbo, Solstice and Corvette this year.

Speaker 1 (01:35:28):
Look if you're those people he beats and a yellow Sostice,
I just feel sorry for you, because, man, somebody who
got me in a yellow Sostice I turned my man card.
I wouldn't be able to eat raw steak anymore. Oh man,
I'd have to eat fish the rest of my life.
God dang well. Congratulations. I'm glad I'm not out on
the course because he let me look a ton of
wrap things up with his garage. Go for its services,

(01:35:49):
go the number four it services. If you get tuned
up behind the wheel, he's the man to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:54):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
Shout out to the rest of the crew. Cars for Christmas,
h Chris.

Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
The Scott Roberto is the ladies knowing uh for coming
in today. We're out moving cars, moving to shuffling. It's
another weekend for us and cars. A Christmas and big
props to the Lway Group LWA Dealership Tony. A couple
cars we're picking up right now. Here's the good news
about cars that get donated. These cars, hell, there's two
of them. Were gonna drive home. Whooa for us that
never happens. That's a bonus. All right, man, Until the

(01:36:21):
next week, we'll see you. Don't forget about the food drive.
Friday is Saturday for the Hand that feeds Scoop and
I will be out on Friday of the Kapella's up
North and then at Full Blown Customs their car show
on Saturday, both eleven threes. We'll see guys then, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:36:36):
So, Willy B's garage is one to seven nine KVPI.

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
Willie Be's garage is now closed until next Saturday morning.
Email your questions for next week Willy B at KBPI
dot com. One O seven nine at KBPI, KBPI at
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