[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Gran Touring Motor Sports Podcast Break Fix, where we’re always fixing the break into something motorsports related. The Drive-Throughs GTMs monthly news episode, and is sponsored in part by organizations like H P D E junkie.com, hooked on driving American muscle.com, collector car guide.net, project Motoring Garage style magazine, and many others.
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This is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of automotive motor. In random car. Jason News. Now let’s pull up to window number one for our showcase. Whoa. Is it that time of year already? [00:01:00] Is Tanya High? How’s that song gonna trigger, please? Not My feet and we’re like trunk or treat. Do you have your Halloween costume for your car ready yet?
You know, I wanted to go with my favorite two pieces of brown foam over the roof of the car. It’ll look like a toaster, but I’ve reused that so many times. I gotta come up with something better. What about you, Brad? What are you thinking? Halloween costume for your R 32. Paint it white and call it a marshmallow because it looks like a giant marshmallow.
No. You know what? Maybe make like a knitted white hat and put it on top so it looks like Papa Smurf. Mm, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So paint it white and then put that strip of seaweed around it so it’s a piece of sushi. I was gonna say, you’ve got the makings of a sonic. Hey. There you go. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just needed the red and white shoes. Mm-hmm. , that might work out pretty well. What about you, Tanya? How are you gonna decorate your car? I haven’t given it. No thought. Any suggestions? Probably a new paint job, right? Because you’re not happy with the color. So , which one? We’ll talk about that more later. W won.
I’m [00:02:00] fine with the color and, and it’s tdi. I, you should just little, little blue. You just nail the throttle and you just, this costume is fog. I’m just fog . Crop duster. Yes. I’m, I like it. I’m, I’m pollution . I’m making your children sick. Noxious gas . Well, she could masquerade as a clean diesel. I mean, think about that costume.
Ooh, I would, you know what I would do is I get a little license plate surround that says my other vehicle is a. Gasoline, , cause those exist, right? Well, , but in all seriousness, it is the season for trunk or treating and trick-or-treating. And if anyone’s interested in some tips or tricks or treats, cuz they haven’t quite planned out their Halloween FIV yet this year, you can hop on over to a girls guide to cars.com and find a number of articles featuring different Halloween tips and [00:03:00] tricks, how to decorate your car if you’re going to a trunk or treat how to decorate it if you’re just looking to be fun and decorate it.
But also some helpful reminders for Halloween safety as it is the time of year when lots of children can tend to get injured by other vehicles. So pedestrian safety, public safety announcement. Don’t go speeding through your neighborhood on Halloween night as you don’t know what ghouls and goblins are running around PSA in general.
Just don’t go speeding through your neighborhood like an idiot. At any time. Halloween is not exclusive. Yes, this is true. And especially that drive-through Halloween Park in Orlando, whatever the thing was we talked about like two years ago, I wanted to ask about that. Did we hear anything about all the number of casualties that happened last year?
Because I didn’t hear anything about it. I was severely disappointed. Did not hear about number of casualties, but spoiler alert is back this year. What It must have been successful then. It is all new this year. A new 30 minute thrill ride for $20. If you find [00:04:00] yourself in Orlando, if, if you drive your own car through, how is it a thrill ride?
Unless you’re going over 80? It’s not a thrill ride. It’s a slow, it’s a, the more like a bar crawl than a thrill ride. It is Florida. If you’re behind, we don’t stuff jumping out at you. That’s quite thrilling, even if you’re going two miles an hour. But if I do recall, you drive two locations and stop. So there is no moving and having people run out with chainsaws at you , cause that would be a recipe for disaster.
If our listeners out there have some awesome Halloween traditions that they do with cars, I think we should hear about it and we’ll probably be posting about it on the break Fix Facebook group. So if you wanna jump on there and give us your tips and tricks for this Halloween, I’d be sure interested to hear about it.
I’m sure my kids would be delighted to know too. So send us your pictures of your favorite car or your car dressed up or things that you do with your car, your best trunk, or treat pictures cuz I’m curious to see ’em. But you know what else also happens in October, the whole racing season is pretty much winding down.
Whoa, whoa, [00:05:00] whoa. Unless you live in a place where there is no change in the seasons. So for those of us here on the East Coast, things are really rapidly winding down is it’s getting colder and colder every day. But what else is wrapping up is the open wheel and formula one season. So why don’t we jump into that as our showcase for the first time in 27 episodes.
Let’s kick it. With Formula One, there’s only four races left. One coming up this weekend that will have happened before the drive through airs. We do not know the recap on that as of yet. Who will take first place? It’s Lewis Max for staff and wins. Favorite track, but he did not win there last year, for the first time in forever.
I heard that Mercedes was doing some changes to their front wing. Sounded like to help with turn in. So maybe he’ll stand a chance. Likely not. So can we just make predictions for this race that has already happened when this airs. I’m [00:06:00] going to say that Vertap and Wins, followed by La Cleric, followed by Vern’s teammate Sergio.
Sergio, yeah. Ccho followed by signs, followed by Hamilton. Signs is gonna crash out and end up in like last. But isn’t Coda just like Monaco? You end where you qualify unless you screw up. No, there’s plenty of passing opportunities at Coda for the back markers. Mercedes has been so far ahead of the pack, but this is a different year.
Maybe Hamilton didn’t do so well at Coda last year because just like this year he has to explain his latest jewelry investigation. Jewelry investigation. Tell us more. I think it has something to do with his nose stud and he had to leave it in place cause he was, had an infection of some sort. Hadn’t they already got on his case about wearing jewelry during the races, like earrings.
He already, you know, the nose ring and everything like that. Like they’re very much against it. I’m like, because it’s safety, we’ll use that excuse fine, whatever. I mean as long as it fits in your helmet, it doesn’t obscure your vision or whatever, it isn’t ripping into the flame [00:07:00] retardant material element.
Why do you care? But I mean, if he’s having. Take the damn thing out. I don’t know what to say. Is this like the women that go to an office environment and they’ve got a nose ring? So they got a, a piece of, uh, band-aid over it because they can’t take it out? Well, apparently he had it like soldered in, so it was like permanent stud, so he couldn’t take it out.
And so they gave him an exception and then he took it out because of the rules and then he got an infection, so he had to put it back in. And I guess that’s where like the newest debacle is. Well, he soldered it in, so he had to use a dremel to get it out. So of course he had an infection. . He had to have somebody on the team dremel it out because he couldn’t do it himself.
Can you imagine ? I don’t know like how you do that. Anyway, I, I gotta say these jewelry rules are stupid and they’re all over the place in sports. The Yankee. That has nothing to do with Formula One, obviously. But they have all kinds of weird dress code rules as well. I don’t know if they changed them recently cause I haven’t been keeping up, but they used to have one where nobody on the team could have a beard or any facial hair whatsoever.
I [00:08:00] think they allowed mustaches at some point. But yeah, and, and no jewelry, I mean, very few people were allowed to wear jewelry and stuff. It’s, I think those rules are stupid. That mustache rule is hilarious. Cause all the baseball players look like seventies porn stars and it’s, they’re terrible. Yeah. O okay.
My Piazza , I could, I can understand those rules in a sport that could have potential contact between people. Yeah. Yeah. Because that could be a source of injury. Like Yes, baseball is not a contact sport. However, players sliding into bases, there’s potential to contact somebody else. You could have an injury that way, a tear off of jewelry or scratch.
So I could get that rule the nose stud in your nose inside your helmet. If the crash is so bad that your helmet is compromised to such an extent that the nose ring becomes a problem, it doesn’t matter anymore. You’re dead. It’s a very high problem, I think. Am I missing something? Can your family recover the [00:09:00] nose stud and sell it for millions?
You know, I could understand like a rule that’s like, don’t wear rings because why would you honestly, because your hands can swell or do whatever when you’re doing physical boards like that, or a situation of, you know, I don’t know, something happening and, and your finger getting smashed in the ring, cutting off your finger or something like that.
Or same thing with a, a necklace chain, even though that should be tucked into your suit. Not a big deal, but heaven forbid it got snagged somehow on something and I don’t know, chokes you but your nose stud, I don’t know, earrings. If you had an earring, like again, if your helmet’s that far compromised, you are not giving a, an F1 about your nose ring in this picture.
He’s got his AirPods in. Does he wear them when he is racing too? Is he out there listening to like Jay-Z and Oz or wear whatever the hell lu listen to? Well, they all have an earpiece, right? Well, he is definitely not listening to the team. The, the joke is that he’s listening to music or something and not paying attention to them.
But you know, who never had to worry about any of this in his 60 plus years of racing? Mario [00:10:00] Formula One Champion 1978, Mario Andretti and he made some news in Formula One this month. He got back into the seat of a Formula one car, a modern. Formula one car, modernish. It was a pre four cylinder turbo McLaren thing.
It was, it sounded amazing. It sounded good. Yeah. What was it? A 2013? Yeah. Yeah, the 2013 McLaren. And he got to drive it around Laguna Seka. I don’t know how many laps he got from the video I watched. It’s only about five minutes. He did at least three and his first lap. That’s what I was saying. I was like, oh man, he is driving like he’s going to K-Mart or something.
And then he was, he was actually doing the right thing. He was hitting all his apexes. Mm-hmm. , he let it warm up. And by that third lap I was like, for an 82 year old, he is booking. I mean, you heard him going into the turns, downshifting, get right back on it. I was like, dude, he’s still got it. And you watched his lines and they were super clean and I was like, man, you go, that’s awesome.
We need another 80 year old driver out there competing against him. That’s called V [00:11:00] R G. You need like the League of Legends or something. International Race of Champions. Yeah, I, Iraq, . Yeah. Whoever’s still around, they need their own series. , the G series. Geriatric, I mean NASCAR got most of the senior citizen sponsors on their cars.
Anyway. Seattle, Viagra, A A R P. I mean, what’s the difference, right? The Silver Fox series. Uh, you know, we talked about this last month. You guys brought up the whole thing about Colton Herda and his super license and all that. And you know what, somebody followed up on exactly what you guys were talking about, that there were other drivers that would have been rejected under these F1 super license rules and they brought up eight of them.
The new super license rule, which this rule came into effect with Max for staffs move into super license in 2015. So he was the reason why they even instituted this rule, basically himself or a lot of people before him, not have qualified [00:12:00] for their super licenses into F1 and the eight drivers in reverse order.
Oh, it’s a Letterman list. Let’s go number eight, Alonzo real, number seven, Damon Hill. Whoa, number six, Alan Jones. Who the hell is he? Jensen button at number five. Number four, Nigel Mansel. Wow, that’s impressive. Can you imagine us missing the great Nigel Mansel number three. The Iceman Jimmy Reichen, really, because apparently he had like three days of racing or something ridiculous.
It wasn’t three, but he didn’t have very many races under his belt. Number two, this one surprises the hell outta me, Nikki. Louder really? Because essentially he bought his way through , F two, and into F1 the good old days. And then number one, Mr. Max for step and himself who brought this rule. That’s an interesting [00:13:00] list of folks.
The history books would be a lot different if this rule was in place. So that’s where I’m getting at. Why does this have to be so complicated? If you wanna buy your way in, you can afford to run on a Formula One team. No. Cause Maan is the reason why they don’t want that . He might spin, isn’t that what his, isn’t that how you pronounce it?
Maz ma Apin. I feel like this is just another barrier of entry. Exactly. Or people that don’t look like the rest of the people that are already on the F1 grid. Yeah. It’s just another barrier of entry and, and a long list of other barriers of entry to, to prevent people like women, people of color and things like that from getting access and be having an opportunity.
Americans in general. Yeah. Having an opportunity to race on, you know, open Wheels. Biggest stage. It’s kind of sad. They talk about, you know, Mario, the American F1 winner and all that, and I’m not discrediting any of his wins because they’re all legitimate, his championship and everything, but. He was a [00:14:00] naturalized American dual citizenship or whatever.
He, since what Scott Speed was the last one that really tried and that didn’t go anywhere Michael tried That didn’t go anywhere. There was always like something in the way to get an American F one driver out there and it’s like this Colton Herda thing is just, again, they’re playing these games. To your point, we don’t want the Americans here and I don’t understand why do we not have the talent?
It’s like they’re redlining. Just to circle back, to give credit to Mr. Allen Jones, in case anyone is wondering who he is. He was a one-time world champion from 1980. Australian drivers is why I don’t know him. . Okay. He’s like that guy who played one bond film, laser bean. He was awesome. And he was also from Australia.
It’s an Australia. He was a Williams driver in case anyone else wanted more fun facts. I don’t believe that a Williams car won . There used to be something back in the day. Yeah, they definitely were. Ways, oh, there still, now there’s something. . I hear that in [00:15:00] imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, so Ferari.
Trying to be Ferrari now, whatever. Their car had a little flame incident in pit lane during, I think it was Singapore Grand pre next. At least they were in pit lane. I, everyone was right there and as we were about to roll him back outta pit lane and then Bosh , whoops. Anti-climatic. And the Singapore race was actually quite interesting.
Not really. Yes, no, it’s a city cor, it’s a city track, right? Mm-hmm. . So it’s a street course, very tight. Essentially it’s follow the leader. So the position you started in was basically the position you ended in. So Sergio took the early lead right off the line and that’s where the race ended with Sergio Teco Perez coming in first, followed by two three, Ferrari finish.
There was some interesting, whoops and almost misses throughout that race. Uncharacteristic lockup by Louis, which totally shunted his chance at [00:16:00] pressuring into third place. Baffin had terrible grid position. I forget, I don’t know what penalties he got that he ended up like eighth when he started, and then obviously didn’t break back into the top three.
Cuz it’s a really hard track to pass people on and you know, that was that race. . And then we had Suzuka, which was a cluster. I watched the first couple laps and then it stopped for two hours. . Yeah, exactly. It was, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What? I had to go. I had, I had other things to do. I had grocery shopping and kid detail.
Yes. It was like a nine hour race and eight and a half of those hours was not doing anything. That’s an exaggeration. So it started, it was raining and under the glorious judgment of, I don’t know who, everyone started on inters, on intermediate tires. I was very confused by this. When I saw the lineup of the names and everyone had the inter tires next to their name, it is actively raining.
Why are you not going out on wets? And it’s not even like the radar was like, oh, well in the next five minutes it’s gonna [00:17:00] stop raining. So you know, I don’t wanna be on wets. No, no, no. It was like actively raining and going to be actively raining for like the next several hours and everybody went out on inters.
What happened partway through lock one Carlos rear end broke loose and he crashed. Then somebody else had like a, a failure and ended up red flagging the race basically on lap two. And then they sat there for like two hours, not doing anything, waiting for the rain to subside. And then when they finally decided to go back out, everybody put wets on.
It wasn’t raining. So then what happens two, three laps later, they’re all freaking coming in and switching back to enters because the whats are terrible cuz it’s not actively raining. , how many pit incidents were there? There were, there were a few, or people were like leaving the pit lane side by side and all this crazy stuff and somebody touched somebody else in the pit too.
I mean, it was, it was complete pandemonium. That’s butt slaps, right? I mean there’s, yeah, I mean there was a whole thing and, and like galey, it was whole kind of funny. See, he was so [00:18:00] pissed because when Carlos Rek, they red flagged, but they moved the recovery crane out onto the track. There was so much road spray, you could not see a single thing.
So people got very upset because the same thing happened on Suzuka a number of years ago. Jules Bianchi ended up dying because it was wet rain conditions. There was a crane out attending to another car. He ended up losing control right near the crane and he went at like however many million miles an hour into the crane and he ended up coma, blah, blah.
Months later he’s. Come to those injuries and died. They did the exact same thing. Zero visibility. There was a crane out on the track. These drivers didn’t even know. Gly was like super pissed when he came in cuz he drove right by it. However, later got like a huge penalty cuz he was speeding under red flag.
But there’s like a whole thing that like it hadn’t come through yet on like our little steering wheel that there was a red flag. So like he didn’t slow down. The whole race was a cluster. . Baffin one. LeClair came in second. Sergio came in third. La Clare ends up in third because he [00:19:00] bombed through the last corners, cutting them.
Biking line, ended up getting a five second penalty. Brilliant. Baffin was declared. Two, two-time world champion at this. . Yeah. So the, the rest of the season is kind of mod. It’s the rest of the season is now who’s gonna get second place? . So who is gonna get second place? Do we have any psychic? They’re still trying to figure out the constructor Championship as well.
Right. Comes down to Ferrari powered or not Ferrari powered. Right. I mean that’s how Formula One is right now. No, cuz Red Bulls pretty much gonna win. Who are their engines by Honda? It wasn’t, is it still Honda? Yeah. They don’t have their engines yet, right? They claim to have their, or they their own powertrain.
I can’t keep track of those people. It’s not a Ferrari or Mercedes powertrain. No, but they were No. Right. That’s where I’m all lost. No, they, they were Reno and then they switched to Honda and then I think Honda pulled out. Yeah, it’s still, it’s still Honda. Oh it is still Honda. There’s still Honda until the Motor Power Unit swap in 2026.
Oh. Which is when Audi is coming into [00:20:00] the playing field. Because unlike the whole Porsche thing, they’ve committed to build power units starting 2026 committed in so far as they’re like, we’re gonna start RA winning races within three years. They’re already throwing down the gauntlet. Something about how they’re working with the current Alpha male team.
So this goes back to the same question. Is it Audi’s chassis Alpha slash Ferrari power plant with some stickers, like what are we doing here? But you’re saying they’re gonna build their own motor so then it’s not the alpha male team, they’re just taking over. The Alpha Romeo, engineering and management and all that stuff.
They’re replacing the Alpha team. They have a 75% buyout deal with Saber, who owns Alpha. They’re supposed to be building power units now. The car that they unveiled in August already, which is ver and nice looking, very nice, is Audi. Audi rings all over it. Audi colors. It reminds me of the Decar tron thing that they made.
Yes. It’s like the same style. [00:21:00] It’s got those same Grays branding. Yeah, exactly. Branding smart. I mean, the Porsche one didn’t look like a Porsche, that’s for sure. It looked like something else with stickers on it. This, to your point, looks like what we expect from an Audi race car. Now I still harken back to the A L M S days of the R eight with the silver and the little color on their nose and all that kind of thing.
But this is their new thing for, you know, the 2020s is this, this multicolor grays and blacks and red and it definitely sticks out. It’s definitely pretty cool, but we gotta wait a couple more years. Right before they even hit the stage. They’re not gonna have cars until 24, is that right? They can’t do anything until 2026 because for now what they’ve been saying is they’re gonna supply the power unit and in.
thought there was something to the effect that they’ve got a unit that’ll be ready even later this year or next year for testing. So they’re definitely doing something with power units. I don’t think they can do anything earlier than 26 cuz they’re gonna have to be adhering to whatever the new rules are.
And then it’s T B [00:22:00] D in the future if they’re forced to share power units. So maybe there could be Williams running Audi power plants don’t know. So the bigger question is, what does this mean for Porsche? Because you know what happens wherever VW and Audi go, Porsche soon follows. So they’re gonna come and swoop in and say, that’s great, thanks for designing that car.
And then they’re gonna slap their stickers on it and claim that they made the engine and all this stuff. Uh, the way I see it is it’s a four cylinder power plant or whatever it is now. So they’re gonna go grab a two liter turbo out of an A four. Modify the hell out of it and uh, we’re gonna go to f1.
Well, the whole thing was they were gonna do their separate things, right? They wanted to have both teams out there. And then the whole Porsche Red Bull thing fizzled out. So now Porsche is basically screwed, sort of, but they’re still like, I wanna play at the party. Let me in. So they’re still dancing around in the background.
And the question now is do they still buy into another team partner with the Williams, Andrei, something happened there and they go with Andrei. I just don’t understand how Volkswagen can afford to run two [00:23:00] full teams. It doesn’t make sense. Like why wouldn’t they just do Porsche and V and Audi together, maybe run two cars on the same team instead of two Audis, just a Porsche and an Audi under the same management?
I mean, the cars aren’t gonna be that different at the end of the day. Cuz let’s face it, who’s building the chassis? Is it Audi’s chassis? Is it Delara somebody else? Right? You get into that game, which we talked about before, even when Porsche came to the table, it was whoever’s chassis with a Honda motor, with a Porsche badge on it.
And, and so it’s not, they’re not building these cars from scratch. So it’s sort of like, why field two teams of two cars? . They’re doubling down. More advertising for them I guess, but they’re competing against themselves. It’s, it’s silly. That’s what they always do. But it, I mean it’s, it’s supposed to be a team team though.
It’s shake and bake. It’s not just shake and shake . It’s not how it works. . It’s not twice bake. Shake it and then you bake it. No, it’s not. It’s not. Not bacon baked twice baked. [00:24:00] No it’s not. Bacon baked, triple baked. You know who’s sitting around going Team team. There’s no I in team, Danny, Rick, cuz he’s not on anybody’s team.
W Wall. W what A fall from, not even Grace. I don’t know what his, he had a huge misstep when he left Red Bull Rubble. Basically. Yeah, I mean, he’s your boy. Come on, it’s Danny Rick. Yeah, something’s going on. He’s just not the same driver he used to be. That kind of answers the question. Was it the car or was it him?
It’s obviously the car that cowboy hat that he’s been sporting over the last week. What is going on? Is he a rodeo dude now? Like what is he doing? That’s his shtick to be funny and lighthearted and humorous wherever he goes. And I think he just loves Texas, so he now got that cowboy handle on. He’s very much like Richard Hammond.
He is a closet American, drive’s a Mustang, goes to cars and coffee, runs over a bunch of people and yeah, that’s why he doesn’t drive enough one anymore. I thought you would be more heartbroken about this, Brad. I know there are [00:25:00] people out there that. Devastated that Danny Rick isn’t gonna be on the last
I, I, I am. I am disappointed because I think there are other drivers that deserve to go versus him. But for instance, I think Lance Stroll doesn’t deserve a place on the grid. I think Danny Rick does, but Danny Rick doesn’t have the deep pockets that Stroll does. Yeah. And his daddy doesn’t own the team. He is actually in a great spot right now that he won’t be tethered to Formula One if he turns his eyes the right way next year with G T P and LeMans and w e c do like Alonzo did, get yourself into an L M P car, get your crown somewhere else.
Right. And maybe he’s better suited to sports car and prototype racing. We shouldn’t really feel bad for Danny Re if he’s doing the right things. He’s looking for another seat in another discipline. He’s got a shit ton of money. I don’t feel bad for him. Yeah. I would totally go to Daytona and watch him race in the 24 hour at the Rolex.
A hundred percent. Yeah. Yes, I would do that. Or he could go to [00:26:00] WRC and nobody else would ever see him race again. the League of Legends. The other big news, the other person who’s leaving wishes gonna break many hearts and crush many souls. Is the one the only. Gofi Who? Gofi the goat. Hamilton’s out. No.
Latifi? No. Oh, . Gofi. Latifi. They kicked his ass out. He made a funny, oh, oh. This is what I get for not watching Drive to Survive. Yeah. He doesn’t pay attention to f1, so he doesn’t know that Latifi is called gif. He as a joke that he’s the goat at sucking
So finally Williams made a smart move and they’re kicking him to the curb. And I believe Nick DeVry, who had the most awesome job interview a couple races ago when he sat in for Alex Alban appendicitis emergency procedure and actually scored points for like first [00:27:00] time in a while for Williams. Um, I think he got the seat.
Yeah. Good job. . Good job. And he was the test driver, right? Is what you told me. Something like that. And then he was reserved, so they put him in the seat and uh, he did very well for first time actually out there competing. So he will be on a full-time seat. Awesome. Good friend. Congratulations. Meanwhile, I think there’s news from.
They have a new sponsor. What? Woo is it? Rich Energy again? Bang Energy is going
No, they’ve signed on with MoneyGram. They’re still around. Yeah. Oh, wow. I thought they went out of business like a decade ago. Like who? MoneyGram. Really? It’s a lot bigger in other countries. Like Rich Energy was, oh, because we gotta wire the money to the Nigerian print. So you still need MoneyGram. I understand because the banks won’t let you wire funds to people on the OAC list.
But MoneyGram May or Formula One teams, that’s how worth their for. No, no. You’re thinking of Force [00:28:00] India. . . Good for Haas. Good for Haas because since he might spin’s, dad pulled all his money out. They gotta get sponsorship from somewhere. Ma pin’s dad is involved in MoneyGram, and maybe it’s his backdoor.
We’re, we’re funneling money around somehow. You know, again, MoneyGram is still a thing. Seriously. MoneyGram is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. What? That’s unbelievable. But in a world of Venmo and PayPal and Insta Funds and Cash app and people still use MoneyGram, I mean, I’m, I’m hung up on this. I’m gonna be thinking about this the whole episode.
Wait, this is so MoneyGram. Okay, so this makes sense Now, MoneyGram does the, uh, money orders? No. The post office does the money orders? No, no, no. You can go into 7-Eleven and buy like a MoneyGram money order. I believe my mind is melted. There are a lot of people out there that don’t have checking accounts or can’t have checking accounts, so they do everything through money order.
And who do you get your money orders from? Money. Congratulations, TOAs. [00:29:00] They have us, but I I’ve got one more question though. When does the MoneyGram book come out? . So everybody’s picking up the the Rich Energy book. So when are we gonna get a MoneyGram book? I gotta email Elizabeth and find out. They got like a a three book deal, right?
The next three Hot sponsors. . Yeah. It’s gonna be Rich Energy, MoneyGram and aol. . There’s a trilogy. I still have an AOL CD on my desk. I’d use it as a coaster. My girls asked me the other day, what is that thing with the little yellow man on it? I’m like, it was a weird conversation. Let me tell you. These used to come in the mail, all the CD
So do the money grams come in the mail. There’s other news coming outta. And I love this quote. I guess they decided to cut Mick Schumacher finally because he cost them a fortune and he has wrecked a lot of cars that have cost us a lot of money. It was very profound. I mean, that’s a Yogi bearer quality quote right there.
Mick [00:30:00] costs a fortune. He wrecked a lot of cars that have cost us a lot of money. When you come to a fork in the road, take it . That’s exactly what makes Schumacher’s been doing. He comes to a fork in the road and he takes it and he wrecks the car, and now he costs Gene Haass a ton of money. I think the problem is he doesn’t take the fork in the road.
He’s taken straight down the middle of the fork where there’s no road straight, straight down the fork. That’s why Haass is using MoneyGram, because Gene Haass is paying his people with money orders. , , the check is in the mail. Literally it feels like the pot calling the kettle black. They have to blame somebody.
Now the Mazak has gone, felt like he was wrecking a car, not only in free practice, free practice, two qualifying, and in the race it was like every time he set foot in the car, it was either blowing up or wrecking or whatever. So it’s like really? I mean, fine. Again, you wanna find a way to cut him loose, but the question is now, Make Schumacher’s future.
And like I said last month, just like Danny, Rick, I think he should go somewhere else [00:31:00] and come back to Formula One. So at what point do we not blame the driver and start looking at the car? Mak, he bought his way in whatever, but Schumacher, he actually did really well in F two. Yeah. Didn’t he win the championship in F two before moving up to f1?
But the F two cars are totally different. They’re like Skippy cars, right? They’re all the same. They’re underpowered. I, I don’t think it’s, cuz he lacks skill though. I mean he probably drives better than most of us, but, well that’s not hard. , I mean they’re all super talented, right? Or they wouldn’t be there to some extent except for the guy that got beat by the test driver.
I mean come on. Seriously? Yeah, there’s always an exception to every rule, but for the most part like should be exceptional drivers because F1 is the pinnacle of racing, right? So it’s like you hired everybody who was number one in their school, in their class and then you put them all against each other.
Well someone’s not gonna be number one anymore. . So it’s weird cuz it’s like these are all top drivers, but then clearly there’s somebody who’s coming in for a second, third and someone who’s coming in [00:32:00] 18, 19, 20, right? Or not at all. again, I argue that there should be just like there is in wrc, F1 A and F1 B and there’s a champion and the lower half and whatever.
Because if you divide the top 10 from the bottom 10, it’s two totally different races. Okay. Put max for staffing in the host car. Can he still be number. because clearly he’s driving wise. Amazing. Right? Or the Red Bull is just so far out of the league. But if you put him in the hos car, if he can’t finish better than whatever position, then it’s like, okay, then it’s a car problem.
Right? And they don’t have the money to put into their car cuz they really didn’t this year. Like everyone else has exceeded their budget caps or just at their budget cap and like they haven’t hit it yet. So it’s like they’re intentionally not spending money. So they’re not making any improvements. And so if you ever got a shitty car, didn’t we already prove that with Hamilton?
Once they changed the Mercedes? He is, it’s like 10th place all the time. He doesn’t, can’t get outta his own way. So was it him or was it the car? So he went from goat to Gofi in one [00:33:00] season, right? Because Russell, up until the last few races was always top five finishing in a Mercedes. So how did they tune the cars different from each other?
The same team, same Mercedes cars, but one is doing worse than the other. That was a criticism that. Masin had, and his father had of the Haas team last year was that Mick was getting the better car. That’s like saying you’re getting the better go-kart at the go-kart track. I get that , I don’t know, but I feel like Formula One has always been this way since the days of Lotus where it’s like.
Cheat as much as you can until you get caught and then just kind of pull back. And so that’s why you see these huge discrepancies and they changes, but the cars are all the saved by regulation. Yeah, I think that’s bs. They can’t be, you can see that they’re not, because the Red Bulls pull away and they pull away sometimes at staggering gaps to everyone else.
And it’s like, how, how is that possible? And I mean, one could say that that was the case for the Mercedes for years and [00:34:00] years and years. Cuz it was like, you know, Hamilton’s in the lead and nobody can touch the Mercedes and now suddenly nobody can touch the Red Bulls. I mean it’s unfortunate for Mick, you hate to see it cuz of his father.
Not only is he out of the seat for ho but he is, he no longer has that Ferrari seat either. Haass has a new sponsor, but do they have any drivers for next year? So another thing that they’ve said is Gunther. It is either Gunther or Jean. I don’t know which one it was. But someone from Haas has basically, they said they’re done with rookies.
They do not want to seat drivers anymore that are rookies. They want somebody with experience in their seats. They’re, they don’t want train them. I believe Gunther said, we’re fucking down with these fucking rookies, . That sounds about right. That’s, that’s, that sounds about right. Gunther quote. That’ll be on drive to survive next season.
It’s true. So it’ll be interesting to see who they. There. Danny, Rick, Danny, Rick, , . Can I just say I’m tired of F1 and F1 fan, boys and girls saying F1 is the pinnacle of Motorsport. It’s the self-proclaimed pinnacle of motorsport. I don’t think it’s actually the pinnacle of [00:35:00] motor sport. It’s, it’s not the greatest motors sport in the history of the world.
I’m tired of people saying that. I keep saying it. Multi-class endurance racing is the pinnacle of motorsport. And to your point about they should have F1 A and F1 B, so the F1 grid is essentially multi-class racing. . That’s my point. They’re gold, silver, bronze level, right? Just like it is in sports, car racing.
Silver fox level. Just bring Mario Andretti back. They’ll be much better off for it. He can run for Haas. No problems sir. Go run for the Andretti team. For those of you that actually pay attention to Formula E. It is reportedly ditching their fan boost option for the next season. There’s Formula e . Are they replacing fan boost with checkpoints from like fours of Horizon?
No. Do it like Man, Nintendo. What was it? Rad racer. So like, yes, if you were missing the checkpoint, your car started to slowing down, but you could like still coast through that checkpoint and then like boom, the power’s back on . Do it like that. Yes. Have Elon Musk [00:36:00] get the button Turning people’s power off in one.
You know the other thing that’s going away, like I mentioned this month, is Formula W, the women’s version of Formula One is no longer gonna happen. Going back to what we were talking about, multi-class formula racing, I was always against the idea of having something separate. Why, to your point, Brad, from earlier about all these gates and the super licensing and everything we talked about, when are we gonna see the first female Formula One driver?
I didn’t think the series was ending. I thought the series was just ending early this year. Cause they ran outta money, but that’s it. They ran outta money. It’s over for the season, but it’s not necessarily that they’re not gonna get money yet for next season, right? W Series is ending their 2022 season early to focus on fundraising for the 2023 season.
So they’re trying to raise funds for next year. You know how they do that money Graham? When are we gonna start seeing Rich Energy at W Series cars? When are we gonna get our first Formula? One female driver. Apparently we’ve had one. Wait, we did, she’s from Italy [00:37:00] years ago. Really? Lela Lombardi, no woman, has raced in a world championship F1 race since Lela Lombardi’s 12th place.
Finish in the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix, which ended her brief. 17 Grand Pix spell across 1974 and 76. Still, by far the longest racing career in F1 for any female driver. You learn something new every day. Look at that. She did better than any host driver . Maybe they should look into her. Maybe Hosh should go the W series route.
Probably a good time for us to transition to more normal automotive news and get out of our showcase here and talk about Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche News really quick. And we’ve mentioned for several months now that Porsche is going public. You know they’re gonna be traded on the NASDAQ and things like that.
Their I P O is topping the tip top tip of the range. And financial advisors and investors are going crazy. 73. Billion dollar I p O. That’s huge for a car company, especially a Porsche size. So like we said before, if you’re looking to invest, you know, it might be time to jump [00:38:00] in on some of that Porsche stock, although then again, it might cost you as much as a brand new GT three.
So I, is the ticker gonna be poor ? Uh, that’s good. I like that. Meanwhile, in Lambo land, which most people recognize Lamborghini as one of the youngest hottest Italian auto manufacturers, except they got bought by the Germans like 15 years ago or so now, and most Lamborghini are just really old R eights underneath.
That being said, Lamborghini, as we’ve mentioned before, they’re opting for A G T P, that’s the former LMP one category of Lamont’s, W E C racing with their own entry. I’m excited to see what. L n p Lamborghini looks like, because traditionally they’ve run in GT classes with the Porsches and the ASINs and the Ferrari and everybody else, but we’re gonna have to wait until 2024.
I’m tired of waiting. Yeah, me too. It all seems like we gotta wait another four or five years. But what it signals to me is Lamborghini [00:39:00] is probably gonna get Porsche’s leftovers after this year because Porsche’s gotta come to the big stage first. Right. It’s all in the family. It will be a different power plant.
It’s gonna be a v. So you say to yourself, wait, didn’t Lamborghini say that they have this phased EV plan? Well, they’re saying gas V8 2024, so we’re gonna have to wait a couple more years to see what Lambo does. Meanwhile, I think somebody is a little burgundy with envy. Excuse me. Why? Because Pam block’s daughter has your cuatro with the crack paint color,
And they built it in no time flat. It must be nice to build a car in no time flat when you have a shit ton of money right in a squad of mechanics at your beck and call. I enjoyed this video. It’s in the show notes. It’s her taking her new old car, I guess you could say a not fully Hogan out Long body Audi Quattro Coop.
First generation out there. Again, I, I don’t know where they’re finding these cars cause there’s not that many of ’em to [00:40:00] begin with, but they happen to get another one. It is Tchen red, you know, they put the car together rather quickly. I’ve been following the videos and the other day they went out for a test drive for the first time.
She also went for her driver’s license and I found this video really, really entertaining. There were some pretty accurate depictions of what goes on when you drive one of these cars. . You don’t say, let’s start with the ye shall find second gear if you can’t find it. Grind it. Ye . He was just like, just skip to third.
And then you just hear the whole thing just bogged down completely. I’m like, yep. That’s what it’s like driving a five cylinder Audi. Yep. Pretty much . That’s fine. You, you just, you gotta take your time. You gotta take your time a little bit. Having owned these cars, I worked on these cars personally. You need to be as if you were driving a Bentley transition from one gear to the other.
The minute you speed shifted, everything binds up and it’s over. It’s not gonna happen because his car has one of those fancy antsy, pistol grip, super rally shifters, sequential [00:41:00] job or whatever he is got in there and it’s nothing like her street car. So I, I’m glad that they just didn’t build a replica and paint it red.
Well, I enjoyed when they turned the heat on or. Air condit something and all of a sudden, like, stuff puffed out of the ves, did you catch that ? It’s like, yeah, that happens all the time. The other one is where your, the bottom of your shoes get really, really hot when you drive in front. Yeah. I was like, oh, honey, she, what is she?
Whatever she said, she was like, oh yeah, I’m, and my like, feet got Really? It was getting really hot. I’m like, oh yeah, honey. Yeah. Your legs gonna start to burn after a while. . Yep. That tunnel gets real warm up there with it in those tunnel. Those you don’t got a problem in the wintertime in those cars. . Yeah.
I, I love how she’s like, oh, the dashboard’s all clunky and it wasn’t even bolted down. Well, it wasn’t even that one was like, it’s not even attached thought. I heard her say it like she put on the turn signal and nothing happened. I was like, well, that, no, she put the turn signal on and her lights started flashing or something.
and the headlights started blinking. That’s [00:42:00] normal . You don’t get used to that too. Are you sure it’s not? You turn the, the turn signal on and the battery voltage is, is, is fluttering and it’s causing the headlights to blink. Yeah. Yeah. This is why you use a 20 valve alternator and all sorts of other fun upgrades.
Yeah. I mean, the five cylinder world, for those that don’t know, it’s very peculiar. There’s a lot of things you gotta do. There’s a lot of things you gotta update and backdate. It’s perfectly fine. It, it is, it’s fun to see somebody spending time with these cars, with new eyes, but the things that she’s complaining about or, or really not complaining about, uh, we’re, I’m just like, yeah, that’s, that’s, you’ll get used to it.
It’s not a Subaru. It is what it. Well, it’s time that we move on to Lower Saxony. We actually have some news from both Mercedes and BMWs. So what’s up? What is up Indeed? So if anyone’s in the market for a new Mercedes-Benz, the new EV Mercedes on the E Q S platform, the 2023 suv, you can [00:43:00] hop on over to a girls guide to cars.com and get a very nice review from Sarah Lacey on this new Mercedes model.
I like it. , but I liked more when I got done reading the article where it said, Hey, check out this 2021 G L S 63. That is a nice S U v. I just don’t pay attention to those. And then when I started looking at it, this one had some wheels, some other stuff done too. It, I was like, that’s a handsome looking car.
I’d be okay with that. The new one, I’m not sure, it’s still that no grill. Grill. At least they give it a grill. I don’t really like the ones where they don’t give the cars the grills anymore. I don’t know. It must be from years of just seeing cars with grills, it’s, it’s weird. The Tesla look, I like it. Even if it’s the faux grill, the styling’s a little bit better than some of the more recent SUVs.
They’re very elongated looking and very squished. I don’t know, maybe this one is still like that, but it looks a little bit maybe rounder in the front and not so [00:44:00] much as like a squished hot dog roll. So, I don’t know. I’m not in the market for Mercedes, but if you’re in the market for an electric Mercedes, you might wanna try this one out.
The interior looks very posh, very nice. I mean, if somebody offered you a gold wing Mercedes, you wouldn’t take it. Yes, a hundred percent. You’re not in the market. You’re always in the market for an S SLS or a gtr. Come on. Now, if you’re saying that market is free, then yes, . Well, speaking of all these improvements that Mercedes is making, it’s been reported that some of the new interiors, as cool as they are, touch this, do that.
You know, we’ve heard B M W talking about you’re gonna have to pay for features, you know, and unlock them, like achievements and all this kind of thing in your car with a subscription plan, heated seats and all this. If you’ve used any of these infotainment systems that exists, everything’s integrated now, right?
It’s all into your, your dash and your radio and all that. And there’s actually sites out there that rank them. And for the longest time, like the Uconnect [00:45:00] system that Mopar and Chrysler were using was like one of the top ones cuz it was simple, it was durable, you know, this, that, and the other thing. And then you had like, you know, the Q and Volkswagen system and all this and B M W, where they didn’t want you to touch every anything, so you had to use a knob to make it all work.
That being said, Mercedes has said, you know what? You know that whole don’t make me think thing, you know, no more than two clicks. Five. Five click. To get to certain features. I don’t have time for that. Where are my physical buttons? To turn on my heated seat, to turn on my ac, to turn on my freaking radio.
And you know who agrees with me, Johnny, ive the designer of the iPod and the iPad from Apple, and he says, card manufacturers need to go back to physical buttons in the cars. And I say, amen. That’s a bold statement from somebody from Apple. Yes, because they got rid of the buttons on the iPhones, and I want mine back.
And you, and you alone . I I, I, I am alone. But I do agree with the [00:46:00] buttons in the car. So five buttons on an L C D screen, that’s about four too many. A physical button. You get that muscle memory, you can reach your arm out. You generally know where your arm is reaching to. You feel it. It’s tactile. You understand what it is.
You can move it. You don’t have to concentrate too much. I gotta be slipping through menu screens like I’m ordering at wherever, or I’m searching through Netflix on my tablet. That’s distracting while you’re driving down the road. Yeah, a hundred percent. What the heck is that? But you’re not supposed to be the one driving, the car’s supposed to be driving you, so you’re just supposed to be spending your time playing with the buttons and stuff and keeping yourself occupied.
While autopilot crashes into something. Yeah. While it crashes into something. You want to be in the utmost level of comfort when you total your car. . Well, where’s, where’s the voice activation technology? Right? I mean, if you’re gonna have five clicks to adjust your seat, because there’s no longer a button to adjust your seat.
First of all, there’s an [00:47:00] inherent problem with adjusting your seat from a menu system. Yeah. Give me a button on my seat. I reach down, I move it. Come on now. Audi figured this out in 1990. Okay. They figured out electronic moving seats with Little Joy. 1990, they had little joysticks. Yeah. Who is the car manufacturer that has the optional mandatory OnStar subscription?
Wait till you have to call OnStar. Hey OnStar. Can you move my seat back three clicks and turn up the heaters and some big person answers the phone. Excuse me, sir. It shows here that your subscription has not been renewed for that service. Would you like to enter your credit card number now? ? Yeah. Let me pull it out while I’m driving down the road at 90 miles an hour.
That would be great. Yeah. Would you like me to engage autopilot while you get your credit card out? See what happened was, the way my bank account’s set up is I need to transfer monies from my, my savings accounts to my check-ins accounts. . I’m sorry, sir. We do not accept money. Graham , if it’s good enough for host, it’s good enough for me.
Oh, what It [00:48:00] sounds like we all need to be riding around in night 2000, the night rider. So you just talk to it. Be like, kit, my butt’s cold. You’ll be like, okay. You get seats on. Michael, did you just say to open my butt hole? . . I feel like a snap comeback kit. My butt’s cold. Well, Michael, maybe you should be wearing pants.
Woo. What else is going on with Mercedes? So much to most Americans, nothing cuz they could have cared less. If anyone remembers the little smart car, the joint venture between Mercedes and Swatch, yes. The Watchman That’ss fine. That’s delightful. Who doesn’t love a nice swatch? Who doesn’t have a swatch? If you don’t have one, go get one.
You’ve been missing out. That’s the next F1 sponsor. Swatch , no Swatch is gonna sponsor Mercedes factory. Team Smart left our shores in 2019 and now they’re reinventing [00:49:00] themselves. Mercedes is joint venturing with Gilley Group. Isn’t that that movie with Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck? G , giggly . Glee.
Gilley. I don’t know how you pronounce it. Quite honestly, it’s the group in China that owns Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, ah, et cetera, et cetera. Ah, that one. Oh, those guys. Yeah. Yeah, those, those G’s Gilleys are partnering with Mercedes-Benz to offer a new improved all electric smart car, hashtag one.
Um, and much to the disappointment, it will not be coming to our shores. So the car is called the number one pronounced hashtag one. What? What? And they’ll have a hashtag two and a hashtag three. I don’t wanna live in this world anymore. I’m all done. You thought it was bad when it was with Swatch, but maybe that was a good thing.
I like the way it. It [00:50:00] looks better than the key to Soul. It looks better than the Mini Cooper. Yes, it looks better than the polo. It looks better than pretty much everything in this class, in this size. And no, it is not the goofy baby shoe of a smart car that we had before. This is a four door mini compact hatchback and it actually looks really good.
I’d be okay with this. It does. So I am a little disappointed that we’re not gonna see this, but I think just like a lot of other cars that probably should have never come to the United States, the first smart car has soured us all and the expectation is we’re gonna get this thing that looks like a P L P 50.
But no, it actually, it looks really neat. All jokes aside, I do actually like the way it looks. If you had just put this in front of somebody without the smart on the front of it, they wouldn’t know that it was a smart car. So unfortunate it’s only going to be sold for now in China and Europe. Who knows, maybe in the future cars this small really struggle in the US and they’re going full electric, so there’s not gonna be any other options for it.
And that’s [00:51:00] just another strike against it for this market, you know, where they could park that smart car inside the new grills of the B M W G T P V8 hybrid with the name that, you know, takes an hole encyclopedia to ride out. I mean, I, I could park myself in one of those grills. They look like those honeycomb hotels like they have in Asia.
Yes, in Japan. Seriously, this w is probably like the M eight. It’s gonna be bigger than every other G T P car on the road, and you’re gonna find parts of them inside of these grills. Can I just say though, all of these new hybrid air cars are fantastic. Yeah. They have me so ready for next year, and I’ve never been a big prototype guy.
I’ve always been more the, I guess the sports car side with the GTLM cars and the GTD cars. But these, I’m all in for these guys. I can’t wait to see ’em. You know what’s really cool about this? I don’t know if you guys noticed or not, but if you zoomed in on the pictures that we [00:52:00] posted with the show notes, they’ve talked about the BMW on the big stage, coming to Lamonts, Lamonts, Lamonts.
But if you look really, really closely, just over the nostril in the blue section, ia, there’s the IMSA stickers. Yeah. So there’s a high probability we’re gonna see this card next year on our shores, maybe even at Rolex. So I’m speculating there. But to have the IMSA badges on there, it’s not like us, where we collect ’em at the race and slap him on our cars.
That’s legit. Sir, are we going to Rolex? Might have to, uh, consider it to go see these bad boys. I guess they redesigned the new X five. Using who? Oh, sorry, hold on. Oh, sorry. Continue using the template of the GT Lamont’s car because, oh, I just, I don’t know what to say. It’s really bad. Who’s in charge at B M W?
Like what is this? This front is horrific, and it’s not even the grills that are bothering me. It’s what is going on with these lights? There’s like three tiers of lights or, or is that second tier even [00:53:00] lights? Is that an air duct? I can’t tell. This photo’s not great. It, it reminds me of the, the Jeep Cherokee that had the three headlights, right.
And the front, they were stacked. Mm-hmm. and mm-hmm. . I, I realized why they have to do this. It’s like trifocal, lense. Where you, you look out mm-hmm. over the top one. Mm-hmm. . And you look down because the damn thing is so tall. You need multi-tier of lights to be able to actually light up the road and not be, you know, spotting helicopters and stuff because this thing is mammoth, but you’re gonna need a step ladder to get inside of it.
It’s just so big. And that front end probably comes to my forehead. I don’t understand. They keep making these things just gigantic. So to have multiple headlights, you need something to illuminate the road. Otherwise, you’re a lighthouse. I don’t like it. I It’s ugly. It a hundred percent. It’s ugly. And this is the X eight, not the X five.
Does it really matter? Well, it does. They’re two completely different vehicles. I can tell you exactly what the X five is gonna look like. So we’re gonna put that in the Xerox machine and we’re gonna put it on shrink by [00:54:00] 25% and then you’re gonna get X five. It also says this is just a rendering based on what the Spy Photos show.
Do not ruin my hate . I hate it with you. The back end reminds me of like that Acura Z Dx or whatever. Oh yeah, yeah. Like you’re like straight but sloped kind of backend. It’s just, I don’t know, it’s, that’s like that new Volkswagen Tori Atlas thing that they chopped off the rear end. I don’t even know what they call that thing.
It’s the Atlas Cross Sport or some bullshit. I, I saw one on the road and I was like, that looks dumb. It looks like they cut the roof off. Like, why would you wanna buy that thing? And you, and then I. Can you see out of it? Can you put anything in it? Like what’s the point? Is it because it exceeds the clearance bar at the McDonald’s, so they had to chop the roof off so you could get under there?
Like, I don’t understand. Well, we should talk about Lanis. They’ve been awful quiet. And the news that’s coming out of that design house is. A new upcoming [00:55:00] biopic on Ferrari. Finally, I guess for all those Ferrari fans up there, it’s a movie or TV series about Enzo Ferrari starring the men who started House of Gucci.
None other then Adam Driver, is that Kylo Ren? Yes, that same person. Emo Doth Vader. Emo Doth Vader,
I mean, he did an OK job in House of Gucci. I was kind of surprised when they made this announcement. Obviously we hinted to this movie was coming out before, but they hadn’t said who was gonna be casted for the movie. Now they’re saying, Adam Driver is gonna play the role of Ator himself, Enzo, and I’m like, oh, I guess I could see it.
He probably wouldn’t have been my first choice, but maybe his weird Italian accent was so spot on in house Gucci then, I’m sorry. Excuse me. So, so, so let’s play. Who would you choose? Who would you choose over? Adam Driver. His name is [00:56:00] Danielo Ricardo . the Australian. Exactly. Yeah. True, true. That would be perfect.
That would be fantastic. He’s not doing anything . I’d have to think about it because Enzo, he looked old when he was young, so you need sort of like this. Kirk Douglas type to like, you know, get in there. He’s like a hundred years old. Literally. I, I’d have to think about that. Like, I don’t think there’s anybody in Hollywood that really kind of looks like Enzo, that is an, a player movie actor or whatever.
So I, I’m sure our fans are probably groaning, Steven Isk going, oh my God, I got like 10 people that I can recommend right now. Maybe we’ll post Nicholas Cage. We’ll post it in our Facebook group and see what people think. Why does it have to be somebody from Hollywood though? I’m so sick and tired. This, this is another, why can’t it be an Italian actor playing an Italian?
Oh, oh my God. Look at that idea. That is groundbreaking right there, Tanya. That that’s what that was gonna be my point. The, the barrier to entry in motor sports is nowhere [00:57:00] near the barrier of entry in Hollywood. I saw an article the other day about all these white people that play all these different kind of ethnicities and these other films and TV shows and stuff, and yeah, why not an Italian actor play an Italian?
How about that? It should be Mike, the situation. Totino. Oh my God. . Oh my God. I thought we were saying Italian actors . He’s about as Italian as you can get. David, you seen him , Jim Tan Ferrari. They could have used the guy for Ford versus Ferrari that played Zo, although he was older. Whatever. They should get Al Pacino to do it.
He plays a good Italian . Who? Sicilian. I’m sorry. . Ient of a woman, man. . But in all seriousness, there is some real news coming outta STIs this month. Yes. Very exciting. If you’re a Jeep fan out there, ducking around, make sure to duck on the new Avenger [00:58:00] Jeep that’s going to be coming out soon. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Lanis made a vehicle called the Avenger years ago. Lantis didn’t Dodge did . . Okay. Alright. Right, so we’re going back to that cause we know the Pedre. It comes with the Avenger. People have put that out of their mind. Oh, that is gone. I’m reminding them to go Google Dodge Avenger right now. 200 horsepower front wheel drive performance.
Just as fast as that Google Page loads. It will be swept through the memory banks as was in the history books. Okay. The Avenger Jeep is going to be a subcompact. The first all electric offering from Jeep is going to be smaller than a renegade. What? So you know what that means, folks? We’re not getting it here.
Piat Panda. Yep. It actually looks really freaking cool. It looks good and it, the pictures of it with like the wide body like. Trail edition or whatever it is. Yeah. In like the [00:59:00] gray look even better. I’m like, Ooh, I like that. I’m getting closer to a Fiat Panda . Yeah. I feel like the new Grand Cherokee should just be a bigger version of this, right?
Because the new one’s ugly. Yeah. Yeah. The new one’s ugly and so does the Wagoneers Hot take, oh God. The, the Craper, that Crowin forehead, that is the front end of the Wagoneers and the Grand Cherokee, and I took a picture, I posted it on social of my Grand Cherokee, wk two and a half next to the new one, and it’s like they couldn’t be any more different.
Like they should have, just like we said, when the Cherokee Nation was coming after STIs to change the name, they should have just changed the name because other than the fact that it wears a Jeep badge, it, it doesn’t work for me. But this new Avenger thing is pretty cool. It’s a sportier renegade. It looks bigger than the Renegade.
It kind of. It reminds me that it should be more like that compass that they came out with the reintroduction of that in that kind of lineage. But if you’re telling me it’s even smaller, then we’re talking like [01:00:00] Fiat 500 L size. It’s slightly smaller. You’re saying it’s a half a foot shorter than the Renegade.
Wow. That’s really small. Then it looks really proportion though. If I was a small European man, I would drive one of these. It looks great. The interior wise, they did a lot of cool things in the spirit of being an outdoorsy type of person in terms of all like the different cubbies and places you can store your gear and whatnot inside it looks pretty functional, looks pretty clean.
I like this metallic Dijon. That’s what I’m gonna call it. It’s cool. That’s a neat color. It, it kind of reminds me of like a, it’s a very eighties color, even almost like late seventies color. It’s kind of nice to see that. Yeah, it looks good on it too. Like you say all the time, Brad, there’s not enough browns and earth tones in cars anymore.
We’re getting the same old black, silver White Navy blue for a time though there was a lot of beige and gray . You could think can thank all the Teda Camrys for that. Well, we need to move on to domestic news, brought to us by american muscle.com, your source for performance, O e [01:01:00] em and replacement parts for your Chevy Ford or Mopar product.
Uh, we got our because Chips excuses again, because Blue Chips, can you believe this one? I, I actually laughed at this. Ford ran out of Blue Oval Badge. So they couldn’t ship cars. Can you imagine getting all the way through production? You don’t have any more Ford badges, so the cars are sitting around. Why aren’t they just putting a sticker up there anyway, , there’s no grill on the maee, right?
Just go on Amazon, buy yourself a $5 sticker. That’s somebody over and. Chenia is printing, and then slap it on the front of your forward f150. But seriously, there’s a lot of Fords that just say Ford like the Raptor. Why don’t, why don’t they just give all the trucks the Raptor grill? Then they don’t need a blue oval.
There’s no blue oval on a raptor on the front. At least any excuse to not sell these cars because nobody’s buying right now. Like economy’s in aos, right? Interest rates are all over the place. We’re on the brink of another recession, inflation, [01:02:00] all this stuff. I mean, I feel like they’re always making cars, hoping people will buy them.
And that goes back to something we talked about before, which is just make them when they’re ordered, especially if I get what I want, you know, if I want triple black and to your point, I want this badge, or I want this hood or that emblem, or whatever it. Bespoke is cool. I’ll wait for it. Maybe I’m in the minority.
People just, they gotta go get a car, they gotta go get a truck. Whatever’s on the lot, purple, pink, yellow or white, they’re gonna buy it. So I feel like Forge just needs to take all the badges off these recalled Broncos and put them on the forge that they can’t sell and maybe they’ll have a product that somebody actually wanna buy.
What’s wrong with the Bronco this time? Uh, the same thing that’s wrong with all of our Mark four Volkswagens, the drive shaft boots, . So the customer satisfaction program, as Ford is calling it, is recalling or asking people to bring in their Broncos purchased or built between September, 2020 and September, 2021 for the drive shaft boot because of poor materials.
By now [01:03:00] you think we would’ve come up with some sort of space age polymer that would keep CV boots from blowing up all the time, but you know, hey, whatever. We keep making ’em cheaper. So, but you know what isn’t cheap and I’m hoping that, you know, if you need one to replace one of these, you can buy this on american muscle.com because have you heard how much it costs to replace the taillights on the brand new Hummer Ev?
It’s not quite like a lotus lease where you gotta replace the entire MoCo. It’s totaled If you get a crack in the, in the claims show, right? Yeah. See it is $6,100 just in parts and probably 35 grand in labor. What ? $6,000 for a tail late. Yeah, that’s a rich people fang. Well the Humer EV is already a rich people fang.
It’s a six. So when you cheat on your wife and she comes after you with a golf club, it’s gonna cost you about 12 grand when she knocks out both your taillights. That said, do you guys remember when we talked about the towing test between the [01:04:00] Ford Lightning and the gas Silverados a couple months ago? A couple Drivethrough.
How could I forget ? It was riveting, you know, the explanation of the A T C trailers and all this kind of stuff. But the point of all that was they came to the same conclusion that we already said, which is towing is a lot more stressful on the vehicles, charging is a problem, unhitching, all that kind of stuff.
So here we go. Another test. Of the Ford Lightning against the Hummer Ev that we were just talking about, both towing toy haulers behind them, pull behind campers. What they were gonna do was leave from Boulder, Colorado and drive basically up to the top of Estes in that general area up into the mountains.
And the idea was, it’s like a s. 75 or 80 mile trip one way. And then if they got to the top and could turn around, they were gonna coast down back to the bottom because there’s an Electrify America station there. So they could recharge and then take the trailers back to their, their original starting point.
So they didn’t hit the checkpoint in [01:05:00] time. So they got a coast to the checkpoint. Red racer style Brad Racer style. Exactly. Exactly. They didn’t have enough fan boost points to it. Did the Hummer do the crab walk while towing? I would’ve liked to seen that though. Cause I think the trailer would’ve been none too happy.
It would’ve been pretty funny. Yeah. Can you imagine this crab walk feature? Like you’re sitting at a red light and the Hummer in front of you. Justin’s crab walk, . I mean, I’ve seen a lot of pickup trucks do the crab walk, but that’s because of Ben Frames, not . That’s the crab walking . I did see a video recently of the hum Ev doing the crab walk at speed now.
I think it cuts out at like 20 miles an hour or something like that. But it was kind of cool to watch it instead of doing the slowmo LeBron James with the animated crabs in the commercial, like somebody who’s actually doing it. I don’t get the 0.4 wheel steering’s been around for a while, so I’m sort of like, okay, I get that too, because that thing’s so big.
Maybe it helps the turning radius, but why crab walk? It’s like cou cabs because they can’t parallel park that thing and they live in the city. And they need a Hummer in the city. Okay. Let’s talk about crab walking because it’s [01:06:00] more interesting than this trailer thing. But the point is, if you want a parallel park, the wheels have to go completely for a particular Yes.
So you’re still moving forward at an angle. Yes. You start early, so you, you still start kind of in the same place you normally would and then you just kind of crab walk sort of back in the No, you don’t, you, you. And what would take you and I pedestrian non four Miller one drivers to, to parallel park in like two moves.
I guarantee there’s gonna be videos on social media, people trying to parallel park with crab walk on, and it’s gonna be like a thousand point back and forth trying to get nothing in there. Speaking of a thousand point back and forth, let’s tangent for a hot second right now because the other day through the neighborhood, swear to God and had I not been so flabbergasted, I should have pulled my phone out and video recorded it.
I had the unfortunate or good fortune to watch this person. I do not know how this pickup truck [01:07:00] got in this position. Okay? But it finished with literally like a 15 point turn to get back in the right direction. They were perpendicular in the road. Front was at the curb, the rear end was perpendicular with a parked car.
They literally did a 15 point turn to get the car pointed forward. And I just sat there and could do nothing. Cause my choice was to back up and do my own three point turn , do another ways. I was captivated and me mesmerized like a train wreck. And I didn’t have the wherewithal to get my phone out. They needed crab walk on this truck.
They could have scooted out from away from this other car. I don’t know how they didn’t hit the other, I think they were hitting it each time.
that’s $6,000 a taillight there. What, what I wanna know is will the Gen two Hummer EV come with a rear seat and steering wheel, like those big ladder firetrucks and you need a second driver to drive the rear [01:08:00] end of it? No, because you make a really good point because with electric motors now, what’s to say that you can’t just jump out and run around to what would be considered the back and then just start driving it forward?
What does the electric motor care, so let’s go. Honey, I need you to get in the back and drive the rear end. So you don’t even have to change directions. You just drive to one end and then you get in the other seat facing the other direction. Drive back home. Exactly. It’s like a, like a what? Like a train
Oh my god. What DHA has blast speeds trains. You know what would make it even better? You put it on a track and then you don’t have to drive it all. It just does it all for you. Then it has autopilot. Getting back to the punchline of this trailering story, there was a point, the point is the lightning got smoked again.
So I guess the point, the moral of the story is don’t plan the trailer with it. Cuz if you bought one, you probably weren’t planning a trailer with it. So it’s okay. But you can power your house. The real test that people aren’t [01:09:00] doing. How many bags of mulch fit in the back and how far can you go? That’s my girl.
That’s the real test. How much shit from Lowe’s or Home Depot can you bring home? Well, we’ve already decided with the Cadillac Black wing xt super turbo charged V8 pickup truck thing. You can’t get anything in the back of it. So that one’s out. That one’s a fail . Why aren’t they doing these tests with the equal eye hammer thrust?
I feel like that would beat the lightning too. Or me a bit more closer. Co comparison. Dude, everything beats the lightning. They camisa did the drag race. With the trailers. It got trashed. It got trashed by the gas Chevy. It gets trashed by the Hummer. Apparently it can charge itself with its own generator.
You know, all this stupid stuff. What is the point? They’re not doing themselves any favors. And what I don’t get and what I said at the beginning was with as much surface area in land mass as that F-150 Lightning. Why doesn’t it have 600 miles of range? Because then when you’re towing, if you get [01:10:00] 300, you’re doing better than the gas equivalent.
I don’t, I I don’t get it. I don’t understand. It’s massive. I saw it on the road. It’s huge. Yeah, I don’t understand. So they put like a nine volt battery in this thing to run it, but it’s still the same size as a regular F-150, I tell you. No, it’s, it’s six double a’s like a, like a Sega Gang gear. It’s a Ryobi.
You gotta take it out and charge it, put it back. This, yeah, you can buy the batteries at Home Depot. It uses the same 18 volts . I’m gonna wait for the 40 volt version of the lightning to come out, you know, and then we can talk about it again. But yeah. So speaking of electric pickup trucks, unfortunately if you’ve recently purchased a rivian, you are falling under, I guess it’s first recall, or I’m not sure if it’s his first recall or second recall.
At any rate, there is a recall due to a inappropriately torqued fastener on the control arm to the steering knuckle that could come loose. That’s not important. No. I mean, steer, I mean, it’s just [01:11:00] steering. It’s fine. There are a bunch of rivian running around down here. Uh, I, I’m finding out as I adventure out more, I saw at least four or five over the weekend.
Well, that’s like, you know, still in the 1% of the ones that they made because the number that they produce isn’t as much as I thought it was. Really? Yeah. It’s only 13,000 cars, but all of ’em are being recalled. Not a huge expense, but it’s still costly. Even if it’s a 50 cent part, multiply that out. Plus I, it’s not even, it’s not even a part.
They literally just need to torque it down. They’re saying it’s like minutes. Why do they even need to have you come in? Why don’t they just give people instructions here, climb under your car, go to this spot. Do a couple, did you just hear what you said? Yeah, I, I, I, I heard it as it was coming out of my mouth.
Okay, . At any rate, just drive through your local Rivian dealer and they, the technician will just reach under, torque it and you’re good to go. Don’t even get outta your truck . If you go back to the old days, the reusable chassis, the skateboard platform, as GM once tried to call it, you know, [01:12:00] there’s a bunch of different concepts now Volkswagen, you know, the MQ chassis and things like that.
Well, there’s an ED platform out there now that’s designed to help low volume manufacturers. I looked at this and I said, this is great. It’s the same idea as the Mercedes Sprinter concept where they will provide you the chassis. It’s ready to go drop in your battery of choice, Samsung, lg, Tesla, or otherwise, and build your car around it.
I think that’s cool, but I also think it perpetuates this entire era that we’re going through where it’s one boutique manufacturer. After the next, I think we need. Distributions of the same flavor and a car company to build the Model T of EVs and be done with this nonsense rich people things. It has to be, I mean, that’s who’s gonna buy these?
They talk about, oh, putting the body of a 3 56 on top of this EV skateboard platform. Okay, who’s gonna afford that? That build must, I don’t even wanna know how much that build costs. Yeah. Finding a 3 56 alone, if you’re starting with a real [01:13:00] one’s, gonna put you back a hundred grand. So, yeah. So I mean, these are gonna be one-off bespoke, rich people buying these.
But that goes back to the conversation of why not just take the actual car and then retrofit the EV power plant into it like they do with EV West and some of these other places. Why would you want to cut a car apart and then graft it to another chassis? To me, it seems like more work. I don’t know, because you gotta rip all that stuff out anyway.
Why not just come up with your own design? Since we’re talking about rest, Omans a scorpion has unveiled the best version of the electric AC cobra, and I would say it looks awesome, but I mean, it looks like a Cobra. Exactly. Like every other factory, five ac, Shelby, you name it, that’s out there, that’s building a COBRA kit car.
So I’m like, okay, so you put an EV in it. Great. It’s still a Cobra. It still has all the Cobra problems. I feel like it shouldn’t be called the Scorpion. That doesn’t have anything to do with snakes. It should probably be like the [01:14:00] puff adder or something like that. The asp, the Ask , it’s the garden snake.
They could have called it the Rattler. That would’ve been cool. The Rattler, the side winder Copperhead. The Anaconda, the python. The boa constrictor. Nope. Scorpion. Scorpion. Maybe There’s a snake called the Scorpion that we don’t know about. They should have called it the honey badger cuz the honey badger eat cobras.
Oh, guess what? There is a scorpion snake. What? This type of snake has a translucent skin that shows it’s red organs and interrupted by black lines. So now I want to see Scorpion’s logo and see if it incorporates the scorpion snake or if it’s a scorpion with the pink. No, that’s why the car looks the way it does.
It’s a silver with the red accents and the black. Now it makes sense. That is so deep. That’s such like an inside, inside joke. Like unless you’re a nerd like Tanya, you wouldn’t know. You go, that’s a cobra. The logo definitely is a scorpion. Scorpion bail at life. Didn’t even [01:15:00] know to look up that there’s a scorpion snake.
Let’s move on. Yeah, so never to disappoint. Speaking of people disappointing us, so Hondo would never disappoint us. And we talked a while back about the Sony vision. They were debuted it at electronics conventions for like the last two years. Well, it is finally getting a release date, so they’re partnering.
No shocker or surprise here. Sony and Honda partnering together to form a brand new company called Sony Honda Mobility. And they are saying that they will begin accepting orders for their joint venture in 2025 with deliveries taking place in 2026. They were gonna be building it stateside in a Honda factory, most likely up in Ohio.
Sony handles all the glitz and glam while Honda builds the car parts. , you lost me at mobility because when I hear that, I immediately think of. Dodge caravans that are modified for wheelchairs. Like what a terrible name for a company like. Like why [01:16:00] would you choose that? Because I don’t know why I immediately just word associate with that, but I don’t know why make another company, just sell it as a Honda by Sony or something like that or whatever, and just sell it at Honda Dealerships who’s gonna service a whole nother dealer network for a whole nother company.
And then that’s part of the thing they’re trying, I think, to say that they’re gonna do like online sales. So are they trying to go like the Tesla route where it’s like you really don’t have a place to go service it, but you’re gonna have to have a place to go service it. So are you bringing it to your local Honda dealer or is there some other special place buried in the woods to bring it?
That’s an interesting point you bring up. You’re also gonna see a shift now if dealer. Are downsizing and they’re going to this just as ordered inventory and online ordering and you see the caranas and all this kinda stuff. You know, making car buying easier and all that. This was not a paid promotion if there’s no dealer to go to.
Does this mean that there’s more opportunity for like your [01:17:00] local pet boys or a Meineke or places like that to step in and now service these vehicles as independent facilities? Or am I kind of off base? I could see where you’re going with that, but they definitely are going to need a lot of substantial training on the new technologies and everything.
I would see doing that and then having everybody go through like a certification process to work on these vehicles. And then as your shop owner, you can say, I’m certified to work on the Sony Honda, you know, whatever EV platform, bring your cars to us. Just like you see nowadays, where the European car specialist or the Italian car specialist, you could do that.
I don’t know if it would happen though, because they would charge for the classes. These mechanics, some of ’em might not be able to afford to go to the classes, so they couldn’t get certified. Johnny BG Good’s gonna be working in his garage working on somebody’s Sony or Honda and he is gonna blow it up.
Well, you know, we talked about that cobra a minute ago. You know who else is going electric? And we mentioned it before that they were hinting that they were not to be [01:18:00] outdone in the most lavish world of automobiles. Rolls Royce has introduced their new EV at the Goodwood Festival, the Specter. Ooh, any guesses how much this thing weighs?
15,000 pounds. Close. 6,559 pounds. That’s British pounds, not American, right? . That is more than my truck weighs. How many stone is that? It alleges 577 horsepower and 664 foot pounds of torque. And with all that power, zero to 60 in 4.4 seconds. It is the same color as the Jeep we just looked at. So now the metallic honey dejan that this Rolls Royce comes in, it’s the appropriate color for this.
This is gray Pon, , excuse me, gray Pon. It’s not bad looking, but it reminds me of the Bentley Continentals. , they’re bringing back the suicide doors. Lots of really interesting things going on here. But [01:19:00] who’s really gonna buy a two-door Rolls Royce Coupe that doesn’t play for the N F L or Manchester United?
The same people that bought the Ghost . The only person who’s gonna buy it is someone with $400,000 M S R P. I don’t think I like it that much. And those lights in the back that are from like a early two thousands Buick Riviera, they just don’t do it for me either. Did you notice the cool interior feature?
It has star lights. Yeah. The same feature that every Rolls Royce has. . Do they really? They’ve been doing that for a while. Yeah. I think it’s like, well, it continues the feature of stargazing through your moon nerve. So maybe it’s my eyes and I need to zoom in on the picture, but did you guys notice that it doesn’t have a brake pedal?
It only has one pedal. Oh no, you can’t see it. It’s there. You need adjust your monitor coloring , adjust your brightness full. So this is a late addition to the EV realm. Oh, but I’ve been seeing a lot of advertisements for the Cadillac Celeste. I did recently see that advertisement all over the [01:20:00] place. It’s the hand-built flagship EV from Cadillac.
What is. Bang spring on the flames. I think it looks really cool. Why? It’s, it’s like a C T S V with the back end of that old seventies Maserati. This looks like that Jaguar hearse from Harold and Maude. Like, this is heinous. What? I think it’s, are you talking about, I think it looks really cool. The freaking brake lights.
No, no, no. You know what, it’s to the D pillar, like all the way to the window. What is this? It’s a, it’s a Citroen. It’s a Citroen. It has to be, it looks so French. Like it it, yes. It’s so bizarre. Like if you told me this was a Citroen cx, I would’ve been Okay, fine. It’s weird. It’s the French blue dude. This.
ugly . I dunno what you’re talking about. It is, it is very, very French looking. Oh my goodness. It’s, it, yeah. It’s probably designed by the same person that designed whatever Citron you just described. Oh my God. [01:21:00] The blue interior. That’s like the seventies all over again, but it’s hand built in Detroit. Oh my God.
It’s built, it’s so terrible. And the back, oh my God. This side shot, like this three quarter side shot. It looks like a Jensen interceptor, like the one that was in Fast and the furious that, uh, what’s her face drove. It’s cool. No, Tanya, get in here, get in here. It it, it, it, she speechless. She loves it so much.
She speechless. It looks good. Head on from the front. What I, I don’t mind it. Head on from the front, from every angle for what Cadillac’s trying to do, but it is particularly bad from the back and the side. It really does look like a CI one cx. Oh wow. I like the look from the, the rear three quarter view.
What. Yes. Slap a V badge on it. Give it a supercharged 6.2 liter v8 and you got my attention full. It does do zero to 60 faster than that. Bentley though. [01:22:00] 3.8 guys talk about it all the time. There’s the crazy hot scale for women. I think there’s the ugly fast scale for cars. Look at it closely and tell me, this wasn’t designed by somebody from A M C.
Well, was it? Is it a m c or is it Citron? Both. They got together. A French American designed this car, . Terrible. Oh my God. Those lights alone. How? No, I’m going to sell everything I own and buy one. Yeah. For 300 grand. Ah-huh. . Yeah. And then I will live in the back of it. Thankfully. It is huge. . Important question is, does it crab luck?
It might be a feature you can add. It is bespoke. Now it’s time to turn to your favorite section. Brad lost and found where you tell us what the cheapest car sold on Briner trailer was this month. Oh, I thought I was doing the oldest brand new cars you can buy. But do we have any more of those? I mean, I thought we ran outta Dodge Darts.
That 1988 Cadillac Deville base is still for sale at Gray Chevrolet. Wow. Brand new 1988 Cadillac Deville. [01:23:00] I have another car for you. Two of them actually. This one is coming soon. A 1999 Nissan Centra. . Oh my God. You can’t make this shit up. I mean, I swear the it writes itself. Yes. Toyota of Hollywood, who has a 2.3 star rating, how much are they selling this?
1999 brand new Nissan Sentra. 13 for the cool price of 6,997. But I am skeptical of it being brand new given that it has door dings and scrapes and it looks like somebody drove it along. A pillar in a parking garage. , you all know what I’m talking about because you’ve seen that car in your neighborhood that does that.
It’s new to you and that’s why they have a 2.3 star rating. It’s new to you, but if that doesn’t tickle your fancy, I have a. Coming soon, [01:24:00] 2004 Toyota Camry XL E for $6,036 at Hanley’s Davis Nissan. That reminds me of that meme that was going around this month where, where it’s like Toyota recalls all 1990s era Camry’s because they’ve been on the road for too long.
owners need to buy something. You can get the 99 Nissan at the Toyota dealer or the 2004 Toyota at the Nissan dealer, . They might wanna do a dx, a dealer exchange. Yeah, they might wanna just go ahead and swap, but if you’ve got rich people doing rich people things, you can still buy a brand new 2005 four GT base for $450,000.
I swear that thing keeps coming down in price every month. So there’s your, uh, car buying news. We’ll just have to wait and see if Santa brings us. Nissan Centra or a T Camry, what would we be remiss if we didn’t talk about, I think Tesla LA News, right? Do we have some couple items? Ooh, I’m excited. They’ve been really [01:25:00] quiet, so Well, you know, they got that whole Twitter thing going on.
You know, I’m trying not to pay for satellites and space, all that kind of thing, but there’s some cyber truck news. Oh, Brad sold his allotment. Nope. Still got it. I’m still waiting for that bucket of chicken , Josh. I will sell it for one 100th of a Bitcoin . Oh, so there was an article saying that Elon Musk says that the cyber trucks can serve briefly as a boat , but how brief is briefly as they’re sinking, it’s considered a boat.
You remember that scene in Pirates of the Caribbean where Captain Jack Sparrow is coming into port and the boat is, it’s still a boat until it’s completely underwater. It’s a boat. So the cyber boat apparently trimbo. The cyber toy boda the cyber trout trout. Apparently Musk says the truck needs to be able to cross the channel between [01:26:00] SpaceX’s star base launch facility and South Padre Island over in southern Texas, which is a distance of about three-tenths of a mile at its shortest point.
So you’re telling me it stays a boat for a quarter mile because it’s taking on water and sinking so it, it sinks for a quarter mile and makes it to the other side and then pulls out? No, it’s apparently waterproof enough to briefly. Constantly in quotes, . Yeah. Always. Allegedly. If you’ve ever seen the door seals on like a Tesla three, you’re telling me that the saber truck is gonna go a quarter mile in the water?
You fill it with foam, you buy at Home Depot. Oh, to fill the gaps. That’s what the wood is for. So keep it afloat. Yes. I love that. It’s water. Enough. That’s not waterproof. That’s water resistant. Maybe making like your watches. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Waterproof means waterproof. I mean, yeah. So [01:27:00] these electric vehicles will get driven in the rain.
They’ll get wet. A lot of these off-road trucks and Jeeps and whatnot. Obviously you wanna be able to furn your rivers, but not really. But it’s like electricity and water. Not so good. Not so good. Like I don’t know that I wanna fully submerge it. This is how you thin the herd , the Darwin Awards. Yes, it should be the cyber truck Darwin edition.
But the truck’s not even out yet. We’re claiming, I don’t whatever T B D on this one. This is like the laser beam windshield wipers and the bulletproof glass. There’s none of it work. You can claim all this because the truck’s not out yet. It can be whatever you want. It can have wings Exactly. Fly. It can use a turbine engine.
They better be sure making claims like that before some person decide. So they’re gonna go test this theory in a lake and then bad things happen. So what have we learned from Tesla owners? Well, and you brought up a great question with the fully autonomous self-driving [01:28:00] Teslas, which they’re not. , if you GPS to some location, is it gonna just be like, oh, duck it, there’s a lake there.
I got this. You’ve put in, you said shortest, shortest route, gonna drive through this lake. So they, they’ve got the options on Google Maps. You can either walk it or you can do bike, or you can drive. Now you can boat it. No, it’s like that episode of the. Where Michael Scott blindly follows the gps and it tells him to turn right and he drives his PT Cruiser into a lake that is what is in store for cyber shark owners.
So in other Tesla news, apparently the support page on the Tesla website has saying that there is a update to Tesla vision and that they will be replacing their ultrasonic sensors with whatever this Tesla vision thing is called. So cameras. . You know what’s funny? You can’t buy or order or put a [01:29:00] deposit on a Tesla cyber truck.
Does that mean yours is not valid anymore? Oh, well, here it is. It’s, it’s buried. It’s five clicks away like a Mercedes. But what I also find is interesting is we have to visit the Tesla website. Like we’re going to a software website. We have to read the release notes to see what the software patch has brought us, whether they’re features, capabilities, or bugs.
I also understand that as they’re changing away from these ultrasonic sensors to cameras, let’s call that use quotations like they did in the Cyber boat article, the quote unquote cameras that the new cars will not have Parks assist. So Parks Assist was too complicated, but autopilot. Yeah, sure, it worked just fine.
But does that change their night vision? Uh, I hope so. I would hope that the vision updates improve its night site, which is. Very lacking and people’s judgments also very lacking. What happened this time? Well, apparently, and you know, maybe some people would be like, well, it’s [01:30:00] only three. Three people dying is still three too many, right?
I don’t know. The statistics on regular people driving at two o’clock in the morning and running over motorcyclists, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Really? Apparently there’s been three incidents in the last 51 days where a person driving Tesla in early morning hours with their autopilot activated have struck a motorcycle or motorcyclist.
They’re hard enough for us to see. That’s why motorcycles are loud. That’s why I’m also not a big fan of EV motorcycles because people don’t pay attention to motorcycles in general. That’s a bad combination there. That’s for. and I often wonder about those autopilot systems just like seeing a pedestrian.
Motorcycles aren’t that large, especially when they’re coming at you. They’re no bigger than a person. And at night we’ve seen what happens with the police cars and all that stuff still work to be done there, which is why I get annoyed when they keep claiming that they’re fully self-driving. Cuz if they’re fully self-driving, they wouldn’t be rear-ending a motorcyclist.
Yeah. No matter the time of day. [01:31:00] And the interesting thing is that some of those break tests and you’ve got these crazy people that have been like, oh, Tule is so great. They’re automatic breaking up. There’s people that have done this. I’m literally gonna like drive directly into my child. I’m gonna stand my child in the street.
Oh. I’m like drive my car at them. People have been doing this. And then I’m gonna like let the car stop. See, I didn’t hit my. it works. But then they’re like, but I wouldn’t drive the car above like a certain speed cuz you know, just in case , that’s not how something that works Fully automatedly, no. To go 60 miles an hour at your child and trust that the car is gonna stop.
I wouldn’t take that bet. You’re an idiot. And I think there’s been some tests where people have not used children, but use dummies and whatnot and then like the cameras have gotten confused where the car will be slowing down. But then it’s gotten so close to the object that it doesn’t see the object anymore and it thinks the object’s gone and it accelerates and it drives into the object because somehow it didn’t realize that it was still there.
There’s no camera on the earth that can replace [01:32:00] the human eye in terms of especially judging distance and speed and all that kind of stuff. I mean, cameras are getting smaller, they’re getting more sophisticated, but in reality it’s just way too complicated. People want the Johnny Cab, but it’s gonna take a long time before we get there, before we can really trust the technology.
And part of it is, I don’t think we can trust the technology that exists today. The technology that’s gonna make this work doesn’t exist. I don’t like it when the manufacturers are testing it on the public because then you’re stuck with a feature that doesn’t work. It sours the brand. Do it on a test card, do it on a test meal, do proper testing, but to release this to the public and then just, let’s see what happens.
You know, beta test it with in the wild? Nah, not so much. I mean that is a software. Design paradigm, if you will. Tesla, I’ve always said, is a software company, not a car manufacturer. So it doesn’t surprise me in the least that that’s the way they’re doing this. But I will say now that my expectations are fully lowered, lowered expectation, [01:33:00] we have lowered his expectations thoroughly and he’s ready to have them lowered even further.
So apparently California is going to make it harder to sell stolen, catalytic converters. How? That’s a great question. How indeed, probably by mandating the sale of electric vehicles, which don’t require catalytic converters, but don’t bump, they plan on passing legislation to prevent private individuals and recyclers from being able to purchase any used Cadillac converters from someone who is not authorized to do so.
So, uh, a repair dealer or unauthorized automobile, dismantler with proper paperwork, et cetera, et cetera. And if you aren’t authorized, then you would be fined. Okay. And then I think there’s another legislation that they’re trying to pass, which is all bookkeeping or recordkeeping, if you will, where they’re gonna try to keep tabs on your catalytic converter.
Good luck. I love how like the third or fourth paragraph in this thing says, [01:34:00] California has the highest number of catalytic converter thefts. No, they don’t. It’s people chopping ’em off and throwing ’em away and straight piping their cars. . I mean, the car culture in California is so all over the map. I mean, reading stuff like this just blows my mind sometimes.
This wouldn’t be that big of a deal if catalytic converters weren’t mandated for like that silly emissions testing. You know what? They’d also, it wouldn’t be a big deal if they were also effective. They’re very effective at making really bad smells when they go bad. I talked to somebody else in a previous episode and they reminded us that basically catalytic converters, for them to be effective, you need to be on the road for almost an hour.
So for our short little commutes of 5, 6, 12 miles, you’re not even getting the thing up to a proper operating temperature for the catalytic or inverter to be effective. So to your point, they’re spraying out all sorts of. Stuff, you know, sulfur and whatever out of there, and it’s just they don’t work. Okay.
It’s fine if you’re sitting in traffic for a [01:35:00] long time. Yes, they’re there to reduce smog and this, that, and the other thing. But again, they need to be hot. If you’re not moving the car’s, actually the exhaust gas temperatures are pretty low. So again, the catalytic converter is not effective in reality. I don’t wanna get into a whole science lesson about it.
People are probably groaning. Oh, you know what the hell you’re talking about. But the reality is there’s an effective operating temperature for everything, and a lot of these vehicles never reach it. You can steal mine. I’ll put a straight pipe in . That’s okay. But you know what else is going away? And this is a thank you moment.
Facebook doesn’t always do everything right. You know, we all have gripes, we have compliance. Yeah. We move away. We find the next best thing. I don’t know what’s replaced TikTok at this point. I’m sure there’s something else. But Facebook marketplace is going to begin banning. The sales of cars in 2023.
What? Cool. Good. I’m glad. Why? So they all going to Craigslist, . We all know what Craigslist is for. It’s not for selling cars. Facebook marketplace is a great place for a lot of [01:36:00] really good jokes. Facebook marketplace is hot trash. Like if you wanna legitimately sell a car, put it on Autotrader racing junk cars.com.
You can list and put up your pictures. I mean, when was the last time you listed a car? I never sell a cars. They just come here to die. . Okay, Daniel, didn’t you sell that Passat? How did you sell that Facebook marketplace? . Exactly. So let’s just, just scratch this entire story. . Yeah, but it was a tragic story.
Hypocrites, Ritz . I hate this tool I’ve used before. It was a terrible experience though, and I would never do it again. That’s selling a used card in general. Yeah, exactly. I I should have scrapped it rather than sell it. It’s freaking nightmare. Some cool news. You know, we talked this month to Johann Schwartz, who’s the Guinness World record holder for the longest drift in a bmw.
Eight hours over 200 miles, I believe with mid drift refueling to boot. Well, there’s another Guinness World Record. The fastest [01:37:00] lawnmower. How fast that lawnmower going? It does zero to 100 miles an hour. In 6.285 seconds. Verify, wait, wait. Hold, hold on, hold, hold, hold, hold on. Who is cutting their lawn at a hundred miles an hour?
Tim Taylor, Tim, the tool man cuts his lawn at a hundred miles an hour. I literally just watched that episode, right after she watched the Golden. Now, it didn’t say how long it takes for that thing to stop, but that’s how fast it goes. But I will say this, you watched the video. It is wicked. It sounds like Verin is driving this thing.
I mean, it sounds like a Honda Formula car. It’s epic. I gotta say that. Zero to a hundred time doesn’t mean shit. I want to see the Nurburg ring lap times. Yeah. At Pikes Peak it’s gotta do Pikes Peak and the Nurburg. . I wanna say there was a miss here because they were, I don’t know where they were. Some sort of drag [01:38:00] strip or something.
I don’t know. They should have been doing this in a field. I wanna see the lawnmower mowing the lawn? Yes. Practical test with blades hitting grass at a hundred miles an hour. Yes. What are you talking about? It has D O t slicks and launch control. This is the best lawnmower. It’s off-Roading capability is 10 out of 10.
The best lawnmower is a lawnmower that can mow the lawn. . This is not , but all jokes aside, big shout out to Jess Hawkins. She’s a stunt driver, car driver, car racer, all the above following Instagram. She was the driver of the lawnmower when they broke the record, so congratulations to her. We just put lawnmower and air quotes from now on.
Then it makes it okay, right? Tesla does it with the cyber boat, right? It’s got quote, autopilot and quote, build quality. How many quotes on the Tesla website? That’s what I [01:39:00] wanna know. It’s quote tesla unquote.com. . We talked about French cars earlier. We talked about CIS earlier, and you know, my love of certain cis, but they really do push the envelope on weird.
Like, you know, Reno does some weird stuff. Puero does some weird, weird stuff, but when you really wanna take it to the next level, you gotta go with the CI in because they’ve decided they’re gonna come out with an ev, which is made from recycled cardboard as a top speed of 68 miles an hour. Do you think this quote, briefly quote, Floats
Have you ever seen cardboard get wet? My point, . The other thing is the fire department wouldn’t have that long Wait, for the fire to like just consume It. Looks like that Cadillac we talked about earlier. No. You know what it looks like? It looks like a little Lego car. Yeah. Yeah. And I can’t hate it for that.
And now I [01:40:00] wish it was made out Legos. If this was a Lego, I would buy. Cardboard. I mean, it’s a concept car. They did something fun and quirky and completely unnecessary, but no fun and quirky. My left foot, this is ci and they did something very normal . His, the production line in 2025. I mean, I What mini did their whole quirk?
Uh, interior as well. There was the vegan Volvo. I mean, come on. They’re all, yeah, they’re all trying new stuff and that’s fine. I get it. But cardboard really, I mean maybe they’ll find a way to use the cardboard in a safe way that doesn’t disintegrate or combust very easily. Wait, did, did you say the cardboard came from Safeway?
Yeah. This is like in a safe way. Like is this like the part , what’s going on? Well, to round out just weird stuff altogether. Have you guys heard of the the deliver? No. Is that the Domino’s delivery car? It’s the yo, no, it sort of looks like a oid autotech [01:41:00] breakthrough.com uh, website I never heard of before announced that the deliver had been named Evie of the Year.
And when you look at this thing, you would think that that dude that was building the Reliant Robin DeLorean things and like Latvia made this thing. Cuz it is just, Bizarre. My interest is lost when I’ve scrolled for like five minutes here and I still don’t see a picture of it. So you have to watch the YouTube video.
I’ll screw that Click bait. What? That’s not what I was expecting. What the fuck? It’s uh, literally a delivery vehicle. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. If you go to their website, it’s literally de it’s, it looks like that, that other car, I used the term car loosely, but that other one, that’s a three wheel vehicle. Just like this that was trying to, yeah, the ope, the Italian one that’s been around since like, you know, the 19 hundreds.
So , which is a Vespa, like a cap on it? No, it was like Helio or something like that. Either way, it looks like a single seat helicopter without the prop. The best I can [01:42:00] describe it, but it’s got wheels. Again, I don’t know what this website is or whatever, but they named the deliver. The EV of the year, outdoing the Ion, EQ five and all these other vehicles that we talked about.
This year, it looks like we need to rejoin our friends from the Blue Oyster Cult. You know what? Not to disappoint, but there is not a purely floor demand. This time we’re gonna give them a little break. We’ve had some troubling past few weeks with the whole hurricane thing and being flooded out. So, you know, it’s been quiet.
We should have gotten cyber trucks to come as FEMA vehicles to help them out because we’ve realized they could be used as boats. Now, briefly, oh, if only there were any being produced, a hundred Doge. We’ll get you there. But you know, you can take the man out of Florida, but you can’t take the Florida out of the man.
So there’s still some interesting news out across the states. So back to our friends in California, maybe it’s a first, probably not, but the police over there in Whittier, California. [01:43:00] Maiden, R U I A. What? A riding under the influence arrest someone was. Riding their horse under the influence of Whippets alcohol and under California vehicle code, it states that people riding an animal on state roadways are subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle.
So wait, you’re telling me that a horse is a vehicle according to California Vehicle Code? Whenever we talk about California, I feel like I’m watching Portlandia. Oh my God. These people are just, we joke about people in Texas or in their own world. People in California are in their own world as well. This person was galloping through traffic.
They refuse to pull their horse over. So, I wanna know then, if a horse is considered a vehicle, are you allowed to lane split in traffic? While on a horse, you can always lane split if you don’t get caught. Lane splitting is legal in California. It’s the only state it is. [01:44:00] I think I’ve started to wonder if it’s legal in Maryland too, cuz I’ve been seeing more and more people do that and it’s freaking me out.
It is not. I didn’t think so. , it is not legal in Maryland, nor will it ever be. I don’t think. Good, but it shouldn’t be. It’s quite stupid. Jumping it. We’re gonna go back and forth across the coast. All right, now we’re going east coast, close to East Coast, Pennsylvania. She’s space coast. Coast to coast.
That’s her Halloween outfit. Where in the world is Carmens San Diego? Where in the world is Florida? Man? So Florida man popped up in a front of township in Pennsylvania around 2:30 PM as he was filling his car with the gas at the gas station. Got a little bit hot, decided to strip down naked while he was pumping, and then decided that the freezer box where they sell the bags of ice was an appropriate place to enter naked.
In the ice chest. He got in the ice chest, he was hot. You know when [01:45:00] guys in the wintertime, and we say this all the time, I’m freezing my balls off . He was actually doing it. He literally, I wonder if our friend of the show who is a judge now in Pennsylvania is going to try this case and if so, we’d like to get more details from said person.
Ah, no, cross back over. To Oregon, and I have a new respect for these Oregonians. And if you remember from last month, the Missouri guy, senator fella, he paddled his great pumpkin. That’s right. Guin us record. Possibly. Well little did I know that there is a giant pumpkin regatta race. No. That happens in Oregon.
And you have multiple people en carved out pumpkins. Haggling. In a race? No, in Oregon. Yeah. What is wrong? And these people dress up. It’s glorious. It’s a lemons race. It’s a pumpkins race. I’m kind of disappointed nobody had a Charlie Brown [01:46:00] costume on, but it’s fine. Little did you know Brad is here. Look for find Brad.
The pictures go, wait, wait, wait. What? I see. Oh, it’s right before Waldo in the unicorn pajamas. Yeah. too. Brad, why didn’t you film this for us? You could. You could’ve been live on site. I see that Andrew is there too, with his, uh, Randy Savage glasses. Sinking. Sinking. He must have had the same bill quality as the cyber truck.
True. He, he was briefly boating there in his pumpkin. It’s called sinking slowly. When did you go to Oregon? That’s brilliant. How do you know that? I didn’t. That was me there, but yes. So that’s fantastic. Way to go. I’d love to see that spectacle. First thing, . I would do it. I just don’t, I don’t wanna deal with the pumpkins.
Now I wanna watch. I don’t wanna be in the pumpkin. Yeah, I just wanna watch, we’ll round out these last two with a little bit of Halloween funds since it is Halloween. So New Jersey 1 0 1 0.5. Your source score. The creepiest Halloween car in New Jersey and it [01:47:00] belongs to a guy in Somerset. This thing is, so apparently there’s a dude wild running around in New Jersey.
Striking fear in eighties children’s. Nightmare land with Mike Myers and Chucky and Freddy and like all the baddies in the horror films from that era. He’s got those dummies in his Highlander rav4 or whatever that is at riding along his passengers. I guess he’s getting to the h o V lanes. He’s, he’s even dragging like a body underneath the car on the driver’s side.
He. Cicadas, cicadas. . I really like the nun in the trunk like that is, that’s, that’s sick. That’s really cool. That’s from the movie. The Conjuring the second movie. That’s creepy Af is what that is. Terrifies the hell. I I’m okay with all the other characters, but that none is freaking creepy. Yeah, you gotta, you gotta watch the Conjuring too.
[01:48:00] Yeah, I don’t, I don’t need to. I’m good. So the last one here in theme with the haunted drive-through Orlando experience, which I believe there’s even, there’s more of those have popped up. I didn’t realize that haunted car washes are a thing. . How does that even work? The video’s quite good. If you find yourself in Indiana, you can go to the Fisher’s car wash, prime car wash off I 69 at 13 8 0 1 Olivia Way.
And, uh, get possessed by some employees there as you, you know, drive through. It’s $20 per car. You get a car wash at the end. So you get haunted, but you do get your car cleaned and they’re donating 30% of those proceeds to the American Legion to support veterans. So it’s for a good cause. Basically they did like colors through the water to make it look.
I, I didn’t understand if like, so you’re, you’re wetting my car with dyed water. How’s that cleaning It . So that’s why, that’s why they have to wash it again. So what happens when you, somebody has like a code brown moment. Do they clean the inside too? They said that if it gets too scary for [01:49:00] you at any point in time you put your flashers on and everyone knows to leave you alone and you can just proceed through the car wash.
How big is this car wash? I don’t envision it being more than maybe one or two cars long. I don’t know. But I think they started it like out into the parking lot too, with some of the festivities. What I really didn’t like is in the video, and it might just have been promotional reasons, but they showed like the zombie person like banging on the glass of the car and No, you don’t touch my car.
She’s like, no, no, no. Just like you don’t touch me if I’m walking through a haunted house, you don’t touch my car as it’s driving through your haunted washer thing. It reminds me of this story. When I got kicked out of Six Flags, I was with a group of people and we went, it was the Halloween whatever Fright Fest.
We, yeah, it was Fright Fest and we were going through one of the many haunted houses that they had on site. One of the workers bumped into someone I was with, so I kind of threw ’em to the [01:50:00] ground and . I didn’t think anything of it until we got out of the exhibit. Security was waiting for us to throw me out.
Whoops. Yeah. Whoops here. So don’t touch my car and don’t touch my friends that you get the horns, you mess with the Viking, you get the horn. Well, it’s time we go behind the pit wall for our remaining motor sports news, and this month we actually have some NASCAR news. Yeah, so there was some interesting, you know, as the wheel turns drama on soap opera known as nascar, Kyle Larson pinched off Bubba Wallace.
Bubba Wallace ended up tapping the wall that tapped him into Kyle. Kyle went down toward the infield. Then all of a sudden you see Bubba’s car shooting like a missile heat seeking slams into Kyle’s car, causes like a ricochet, inadvertently hitting somebody else who had nothing to do with this whole kerfuffle thing who was basically like in points contention for something or other.
So they screwed him up and then Melba gets out of his car. They’re [01:51:00] both fine, everyone’s fine, nobody got hurt. They gets out of his car and then proceeds to calmly walk a long distance to Kyle and then begin shoving him in a very cat-like way . Kyle was having none of that. We didn’t really push back too much or anything like that.
Yeah, so Bubba was really pissed cuz he got hit. , which he didn’t get hit. He just got pinched off and, and hit the wall a little bit. Had he just kept going. He could have kept driving, but of course he claimed that, you know, hitting the wall, damaged the steering and he couldn’t steer. And so that’s why his car went like accelerated heat-seeking like Forza Yeah.
Down the track. Exactly. Mag magnets in, uh, activated and just boom into the back of Kyle and wrecked him out for good cause Kyle also could have kept going had he not been crashed out at the bottom of the infield. So that’s your NASCAR drama. Did they all forget over on w e I mean NASCAR that Robin is racing?
Well see that’s what I thought. Wasn’t a little bit, a little bit of ru rub that wall. Get some paint off, keep going. [01:52:00] Exactly right. We’re all about trade and paint. But also Bubba Wallace was handed a suspension for one race and that triggered me to go, wait, so now NASCAR’s sort of like world wrestling.
And the N F L I didn’t know drivers could get suspended. You know, obviously a couple videos and coverage from the event was covering it live, uh, as it was happening. But the first I saw, I hadn’t seen the car incident. I just seen them at the bottom of the track of him getting out. I literally thought I was watching like wwe.
I was like, wow, this is, I haven’t seen NASCAR in a while. This is different . Somebody’s gonna get a folding chair and they’re gonna start hitting each other, you know? That’s how it goes. Yeah. Brilliant. I, I hate to say NASCAR is really hard for me to watch on television. I don’t mind it live, like when you’re going with friends and you’d watch the race, it’s just the whole atmosphere.
But to watch it on tv, you, I, there’s other things I’d rather do, honestly, so I missed it all. But watching the recap, I’m like, what the heck is going on over there? I mean, that was un sportsman like, oh, a hundred percent. He deserved something. I mean, that’s not right. He, I mean, you could have [01:53:00] seriously injured somebody.
Well, you know, in the more, in the more refined in the great pon of racing. Yeah. In the more refined world of sports, car racing. We talked earlier about the BMW and its massive front grills, , allowing air into the radiators and capturing small children, animals and Porsches along the way. Cadillac isn’t waiting until 2024 or whatever.
They have already teased, shown us a release of their new Cadillac, L M D H car. They have announced they are targeting, not one, not two, but three. LM D h Cadillacs for the 2023 Lamont’s, 24 hours. I mean the field of cars is going to be massive. Three Cadillacs alone is awesome. They’ve also announced who the team members are going to be, the drivers, so they’re gonna have Sebastian Bordea, they’re gonna have Ringer, Vander, PIP Pippo, Dani Alexander [01:54:00] Sims.
They’ll all be majors on the team running those Cadillacs at 2023. I’m really excited to see them on the big stage. We just went through petite, where they sunset the D P I cars, so there is no more Cadillac prototype. This is the one that’s replacing it. They did reveal the Cadillac prototype at Petite Lamonts and that was cool to see even from afar.
I wish I was there to see it in person, but I’m really excited again for the hundredth anniversary of Lamonts. It’s gonna be awesome to see all these cars on the big stage. Cadillac needs to cancel production on the Sadique and the lyric or whatever other BS they’re making. Yeah. And sell this car. Yes.
This Cadillac looks stunning. I would drive stellar it amazing. It’s, it’s amazing. Meanwhile, in the other organization, SRO World Challenge has revealed their 2023 schedule early. There are still 14 races at seven locations in the 2023 calendar. There’s not gonna be a race at Watkins Glen next year. They put Nola and Circuit of Americas [01:55:00] in place of two other races.
The schedule plays out as Sonoma Nola, Koda, v I r, road America, Seabring and Indie Motor Speedway closing out the year. So they got rid of St. Petersburg, they got rid of Watkins Glen. Kind of changing things around. Fortunately, I don’t know that I’m gonna make V I R because I’ll be at Lamonts. So you know, if I had to pick between V I R and Lamonts and I don’t know, it’s gonna be a tough call, but there’s other exciting news coming out of SRO World Challenge and that.
That the C H R GT three is coming in 2024. They’re already testing it. They’re doing balance of power to bring the new Corvette into World Challenge to compete with the offerings from Porsche, Ferrari, BMW, and so on down the Line. S Rro World Challenge really shaping up to be a great series here in the next couple of years as they bring more cars online and we already know the new Hondas are here.
They’re bringing other vehicles and makes into touring car and things like that. There’s a really nice evolution happening. So if you’re not [01:56:00] into World Challenge, definitely check it out. And their coverage on YouTube even during the race and after is absolutely fantastic. I’m looking forward to it. I can’t wait.
And unlike Eric, I might be at the b I R race because I will not be going to LA mom that I know of as of right now. Well, we have some other racing news or as we know, there’s always our crazy Ozzy friends. They like to send it and then some. So there’s the annual Bathos 1000 and the Annual Best of Bathhurst Crash Videos comes along with that.
We have that linked in our show notes if you wanna check it out. One of our members sends it to us every year. It is a spectacle for sure. And again, the coverage of the race, V8 supercars, amazing stuff you can always go back and watch on YouTube. But the best of is a great way to get to the exciting bits of the Bath Firsts 1000.
Also coming out today on October 20th, if you’ve got H B O Max, there’s a new documentary called Fastest Woman on Earth and is telling the story of Jesse Combs, who unfortunately died in [01:57:00] 2019 trying to break the land speed record of like 512 miles an hour or something like that. This documentary was actually years in the making before her death, so, um, there’s probably gonna be a lot of interesting information on her journey and in her unfortunate passing that was sad, very sad.
I used to watch her on the extreme four by four during the, uh, the power block on Motor Trend. Well now we gotta switch to local news, upcoming local news and events brought to us by collector car guide.net, the ultimate reference for car enthusiasts. Brad, before you get into what’s coming up in November, I just wanted to do a quick recap and shout out of the Antique Auto Club of America’s Hershey National.
This was the first big get together since Covid. They did some other ones, uh, in the last couple of years, but this was my first time at the Hershey Nationals. They had to shut down the park, obviously to the public. They used every square inch of parking lots, overflow roads, grass areas for parking. It was insane.
Allegedly. I’m gonna use air quotes like from earlier [01:58:00] if you. Every row of every table, of every booth, of every corner, of every lot. It’s almost an entire marathon, 26 miles of walking. And that’s how many different vendors there are out there with all their parts. There was also an auction hosted by RM Sotheby’s and one of our, uh, friends of the show, Alan was actually selling off one of his Packards, which was pretty cool.
And we also had our sponsor appreciation and fan happy hour event. We had over 40 people turn out to that. We had some guests of the show that had been on and their episodes are still yet to air. They’re at the happy hour with us. It was a great event, it was a great time. Met a lot of new friends, old friends, and the food was awesome too.
So big shout out to the Tattered flag and Hershey for hosting us and we look forward to doing something like this again in the future. So if you’re ever interested in joining us, take a look at our calendar or give us a shout on our Facebook group to see where we’re gonna be at next. Speaking of calendar, so let’s see what’s coming up for November.
Race car swap meet at Carlisle on November the fifth. You’ll probably be seeing Mountain Man Dan there. And did you know [01:59:00] that W D C R S C A has been running a cart league race? Number four is at United Carting on November 6th, as well as the 14th annual Veterans Appreciation car and Truck. And we have the 32nd annual Hanover Street Rods toys for Todd’s Drive on November 13th.
And tons more events like this and all their details are available over@collectorcarguide.net. That’s right. And if you wanna get your event listed and promoted, be sure to hop over there as well. You can do that for free. There’s a self-service portal where you can set all that up and it’ll go on the calendar and we might read your event here on the drive-through.
It’s also a time for us to do the H P D E junkie Trackside report. Now in our area, the track season is winding down, but there are still tons, if not, I should say, hundreds of events across the country that you can still partake in, in the areas of the country where they just don’t have any seasons or change in the season.
But there is some big news. Coming to N J M P, New Jersey Motorsports Park in 2023, [02:00:00] Thunderbolt, my personal favorite, is undergoing a repaid and expansion. They’re adding what looks like four different optional configurations to Thunderbolt, some of which will cut out the famed octopus. Some add a SHA coming out of turn one in the turn one, two area of the track.
And again, they’re offering different combinations to kind of mix things up and make the racing on the Thunderbolt circuit more interesting. So I’m curious to run it the way it is. I like the configuration the way it is, but we all know that when a track is repaved, there’s a time of adjustment as it settles in, and then the lap times suddenly change.
So I guess we’re gonna have to update our leaderboard as to N J M P, PREPA and Post Repave. So looking forward to those new lap times and those new records. That said, the annual helmets off to heroes, better known to many of us around here as hath is happening again under the control of S E C A W D C R region.
And it’s gonna be held at Summit Point on November the [02:01:00] sixth. There is no fee for this event if you’re in time to register. If you are a veteran or active duty service member, this is a high performance driver’s clinic. The day is split up between exercises in the beginning and then instructed track time in the afternoon.
So the idea is to get you out there, get you comfortable, get you to wet your whistle a little bit and see if you’re interested in the world or high performance drivers’ education. So hth or helmets off to Heroes is a great way to kick that off, and it’s a great way to celebrate Veterans Day. Audi Club.
Potomac Chesapeake region returns to V I r November the fifth and sixth. As we all know here at the halls of G T M, this has been a fantastic event. Despite the variable weather at V I R. There are some of us from the club side of the house going to v I R in November. Not all of us can make it this year, but we hope to return and celebrate our fall finale with Yadi Club next year.
Yay, . So if you’re looking for something to do in early November that pretty much that event kind of closes the door on the DC area and the track season, [02:02:00] unless you continue to go south and if you are looking to go south, H O D’S Southeast region has added. Two more events to their schedule. They’re holding an event at Atlanta Motorsports Park on November the sixth, as well as a Turkey bowl reminiscent of what S E C A does at Summit Point.
They’re gonna be holding their version of the Turkey Bowl at Robling Road on November the 21st. Our guests of the show, NABI owner of Just track it down South, is going to be hosting a toys for to. Toy Drive, as well as H P D E event at Barber Motorsports Park on November the 19th and 20th. So if you’re looking for some warmer events, those are three that you should be adding to your calendar for sure.
In addition to that, I will be at the I M rrc, the International Motor Racing Research Center, up in Watkins Glen for their annual symposium. This is the first one since Covid. It will actually be held at the Watkins Glen and Media Center on November the fourth and fifth. Please stop by for a [02:03:00] chat or sign up to be on the show and will be live streaming this event on the Gran Touring Motorsports Twitch.
So that’s twitch.tv/Gran Touring motorsports. So if you wanna hear from Hall of Famers, NASCAR folks, other people in the industry, it’s a two day symposium and we’ll be live streaming All that for you guys to check out. If you can’t come up to the Glen, in case you missed out, check out the other podcast episodes that aired this month.
October was jam packed. We kicked off with a girl’s guide to cars featuring drive-through. Number 26. Guest hosts Sarah Lacey, who explains the unique perspective of car buying for ladies. Next. We devoted an entire week to late model racing with Mike Gallagher and Kobe Tims from Late Model Mafia, a guided tour of the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing with 10 time jerk track champion Lynn Paxton and E I L F M Crossover with Stephen Izzy, where we reviewed Mountain Man.
Dan’s new favorite movie Trading Paint, starring John Travolta and Shania Twain. We chatted with one of the hardest working teams in S R O World [02:04:00] Challenge, Todd Brown and Johann Schwartz from Rooster Hall Racing, and we also dove deep into Johann’s World records for longest drift and fastest laps. Along with other great paddock stories, Mark Green returns with the Boomerang crossover episode when he joins Brad and Eric to share the origin behind Cars.
Yeah, a five day a week podcast featuring inspiring automotive enthusiasts that topples over 2000 published episodes for you to catch up on. Both Brad and Eric’s interviews are also available for you to review courtesy of Mark making a three part miniseries. a bonus episode drops two days from this episode, rounding out October, where we chat with Johnny Ransom from GAA Classic Car Auctions and learn more about why you should not only attend the vehicle auction, but sell your car at one important details on their November event are also available in this episode.
If you want to learn more about pre-released and bonus episodes, be sure to check out our new Facebook group for Break Fix, where you can get exclusive early access to episodes and more as they drop. By the way, folks, this is the last [02:05:00] official drive-through for 2022. Next month will be the showcase of our holiday shopping guide, and December brings our best of episode.
We’ll catch up with all the interesting news starting again in January. Thank you to all the guests that came on the show this month. We have some really exciting episodes lined up for the rest of season three. And don’t forget, this season ends at the end of February right before the racing season kicks off.
We will be back for season four and lots more drive through news. Tons of episodes still to come. So stay tuned throughout those holiday months. Well, we don’t have any new Patreons for October. There’s some whispers, there’s some hints. There’s people saying, where can we send you money? How can we help you?
It’s always the same folks, patreon.com/gt motorsports. So if you’re getting into that season of giving, think about helping us out a little bit. You know, keeps the lights on, there are expenses to running these shows, running all the websites, all that kind of stuff. Every little bit goes a long way to help us continue to deliver quality content every week.
You know, we are on an aggressive schedule. We put [02:06:00] out what, 60 some odd episodes, uh, this year. So it’s, it’s just craziness and more great stuff to come. So we appreciate anything and everything, and thank you again to everyone that has supported us to this point. And even though we don’t have any Patreons, we do have some other shoutouts, some anniversaries.
Doug Turner and Ben Scherer are celebrating seven years with G T M while Chris Wake clocks in at four years. And Mike Ruber and Nate Burton from our Hot Hatch Volvo episode two years. And finally, Greg Bell celebrating his first anniversary as a GTM Club member. If you’d like to become a member of gtm, be sure to check out the new clubhouse website at club Do gt motorsports.org to learn more.
Special thanks to guest, host, no one. Thank you for coming on. And of course, our co-host and executive producer Tanya, thank you so much for putting together such a wonderful show. I love these drive-throughs. We are so well prepared, and it’s all thanks to you , because as Tanya. Never more prepared than when you’re not prepared.
That’s right. So remember folks, [02:07:00] for everything we talked about on this episode and more, be sure to check out the follow on article that a accompanies this on gt motorsports.org and to all the members, families and friends who support us week after week after week. As Brad likes to say, without you, none of this would be possible, but we’d still be doing it because we’re stubborn.
Yes. You could use the word We’re dumb. Yeah, we’re stubborn. Da da da.
Well, here we are in the drive through line, me and her in front of us cars, in back of us all just waiting to order. There’s a idiot, a Volvo with us. Bright son behind me. Hi Leanna. The window and scream. Hey, watch you Trying to do blind Me. My wife says Maybe we should park.
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