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Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. It's the TCS Car Week Wrap-Up. · That Car Show

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  Children of the Corn is what I'm getting at tonight.
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  We're fresh off of Car Week and we're coming in hot.
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  The good, the bad and really was all good, much of it very good.
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  The funny and the surreal. Car week didn't disappoint and
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  well, we never did find any roof underwear.
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  We do have a stories. Oh so many stories.
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  It's that car show. It is that car show.
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  What's up guys? How are you?
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  Still recovering hell of a car week in the very best way.
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  Yeah, the the best problem to have.
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  But yeah, I think we're all still half there because it was
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  such an amazing week. I'm already looking forward to
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  next year and I'm still, yeah, still recovering from this, but.
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  Yeah, we're not even a week out. No, no, this was my second Dan.
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  This was how many for you? Probably half as many as Lindsay
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  I reckon for maybe 5 or 6. Lindsay, I think this is the #33
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  for you. Right.
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  Which is weird because I'm only 22, but you know, don't.
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  Don't think too hard about it. There was a few years where they
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  did 2A year right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  So you rack them up more quickly?
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  Exactly. That's right.
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  That's right. So then if you skip, you don't
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  drop your numbers either. Right.
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  Yeah, well, I'm still processing it all.
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  You know, while we were at Car Week, me and my little gang, and
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  if you've never been to Car Week, you sort of end up hanging
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  out with the people that you stay with for the most part,
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  right? And obviously Dan, you were
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  there doing work stuff. But so while we crossed paths,
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  we didn't spend most of our time together.
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  So we kind of each had our own adventures and wanted to talk
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  about those a little bit today. I know we had some highlights,
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  really no low lights. I don't think it was all.
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  It was just kind of degrees of amazingness, you know, like it
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  was. Well, mate, I was sort of
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  marveling at that once we were back, you know, once we had all
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  left the Monterey area was how little we actually saw each
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  other in person. And I think that really
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  illustrates car week if you haven't been there, because we
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  all had different schedules. And so it's there's so much
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  going on. We all had different schedules
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  that even the fact that we do the podcast together, we kept,
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  you know, bumping into each other spontaneously,
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  momentarily. Yeah.
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  And it was like high 5. And hey, I'll see you on
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  Riverside on Thursday and we can catch up.
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  Yeah, I mean, that's just kind of how it is, you know, And then
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  you had all your other stuff going on, so I don't know how
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  you did it, but should we go down the list?
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  Yeah, but I didn't see you, Ryan, until maybe the part.
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  No. Did I see you on Thursday night?
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  What was the thing? I saw Thursday morning climbing
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  into a Land Rover. That's right.
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  Right, right. Well, and that's even funnier, I
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  had seen Ryan right before I saw you, and you 2 never saw it.
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  No, no. No, that that event, yeah.
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  And to clarify, that was the the Tour de Pebble, right, which is
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  this. So it's all the cars and most of
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  the cars that are on the lawn at the Concorde Elegance.
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  The drive is the 70 mile drive. No, it's it's up the Highway 1
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  I. Think.
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  This is what we did because we were along the coast.
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  It's so the formal name is the Pebble Beach Tour d'elegance and
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  it's anyone who is exhibiting a car on the lawn on Sunday and
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  wants to drive their car. And it's about an hour, hour and
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  a half round trip. And if they drive their car in
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  this rally on Thursday, than if it gets down to it during the
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  judging on Sunday and there's a tie between two cars in the
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  class or in the whatever, the cars that have participated and
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  driven and the rally get an extra point.
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  So often it's a tie breaker. Interesting.
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  Yeah. I thought it was interesting as
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  well that you were. So you were in a vintage Range
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  Rover in that group of, I'm sorry, Land Rover, rather Land
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  Rover. And that group of vintage Land
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  Rovers weren't necessarily being shown on the lawn, but they were
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  part of, I guess, the, the larger event.
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  But I think it was probably no coincidence that they ran those
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  after all the other cars. We were kind of there were, we
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  weren't, we were all thinking maybe we were towards the back,
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  but we ended up being kind of in the middle.
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  And, and the cars, they had some additional cars that didn't do
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  the tour, but all the cars that did the tour ended up they were
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  on the lawn on Sunday and I was very lucky I got to ride in.
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  It was a 1998 Defender 110 and it was the one that was used by
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  the US team in the penultimate Camel Trophy.
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  Really. So you weren't breaking down
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  because that was like jungle proof.
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  Right, it had to be right. We started in Chile and they
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  ended in Argentina for that rally.
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  But yeah, I mean, all of the cars that all of the Land Rovers
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  that participated in the tour have this tremendous over
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  landing history one way or another.
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  And they were all like preservation class, basically
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  unrestored. A lot of them were private
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  owners. But what was remarkable for me
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  was how comfortable it was. Like we all kept remarking, this
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  is delightful and you might not expect that.
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  Some of the vehicles were steam powered or made out of wood or.
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  Right. I mean.
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  It was incredible. Ended up winning it, all right.
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  But yeah. But we should backtrack because
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  I think the week at least started for me with Motor Lux.
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  And that was that was the night before.
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  And so Motor Lux, if you don't know, was put on by our friends
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  at Haggerty. So it's this social event, it's
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  this great party at the, at the is it, what do they call it the
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  The Jets? Monterey Jets.
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  Monterey, right, where we all flew in, right and, and, and
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  they transform this, this, this runway, these taxiways into the
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  event. But there's, there's also the
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  broader auctions that are going on and it's kind of like the, I
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  don't know, it's kind of like the opening bell to everything,
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  right? So it's a great event.
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  They have these food stations, drink stations.
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  You run into it is a who. If ever there was 1.
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  First who's who, Yeah. And it gets a little tougher and
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  then it goes on because it gets darker and people drink.
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  But it's, yeah, it's a, it's a fantastic event.
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  So, so we, we all came out of that going into Thursday for the
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  tour and, and, and all the other things that that, that went on.
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  But but Thursday was kind of a chill day, right, compared to
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  the days that would follow. It depends.
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  I think it depends on what your schedule was well.
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  What else did you do on Thursday?
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  Thursday I had I went to the track after the tour and then I
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  had Range Rover had a reveal. They did a one of one called the
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  Asilomar and it was a tribute to the Monterey Bay.
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  And so they revealed that Thursday evening.
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  So it was a a very Rover day for me.
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  So you're a pro though? Yeah, you've been doing this for
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  a minute and and some. Of us did you get a a fragrance?
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  I didn't, but I did end up with. Something with a with a Range
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  Rover. Yes, funny enough, I brought the
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  Asilomar home in my suitcase. Thank you for asking.
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  Well, it's, I went to the Range Rover house as they were setting
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  up earlier in the day and they had an English lady who
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  apparently the, the biggest selling or the fastest
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  trajectory in terms of products right now for fragrances are in
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  car smells. So if you forget your Christmas
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  trees or your magic, you know, lights and stuff, these are
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  curated smells for your cars. And so this lady was telling me
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  through the story. And because Range Rover
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  partnered with them, we got a free, free package of it.
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  So you basically they've curated from around the world these
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  different experiences and they put them through a diffuser,
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  which you can either hang from your wing mirror, your rearview
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  mirror, or you can plug into your your air vents.
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  Yeah. And essentially you can have
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  your car smelling. And apparently it's so popular
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  that these millionaire billionaires will ship these
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  kits to their cars around the world.
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  So all their cars smell the same.
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  So anyway, that was a Range Rover, Land Rover house thing
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  that was quite cool. It wasn't as cool as that car
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  which they were auctioning. So you couldn't you couldn't put
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  a price on it because it was a one of one.
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  They were accepting bids over the weekend and the person who
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  bid the highest was going home with it.
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  That's. Right.
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  And it was that part of the proceeds are benefiting the
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  Monterey Bay I think preservation group.
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  That's funny the sales guy didn't tell me that bit.
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  There's several names. Yeah, part of the money.
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  The money is going to that. But I thought.
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  And, yeah, I saw that. I saw on Instagram that you had
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  gotten to see the cartoon. I mean, this is how little we
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  saw each other. But I think one of the coolest
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  things about the car was the attention to detail in the seat
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  fabric and upholstery and part of the seats.
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  They had designed it to look like the crashing waves.
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  And so it had shimmering threads in the fabric and, you know,
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  kind of variegated. And it was beautiful, but it was
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  really interesting to hear about that attention to detail.
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  And then the way they had done the paint, it was sort of an
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  ombre, you know, darker blue, lighter blue to again, like
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  indicate and sort of be tribute to the waters of the Monterey
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  Bay and really unique. Did you say ombre?
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  I did. They should have called it the
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  ombre. They could.
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  They should have asked. Us What happened to that Ford
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  position? Looking for the nomenclature
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  specialist? Right.
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  I'll tell you what happened. I clicked on it today.
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  I was going to apply and it's closed.
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  So there goes that dream. Wow.
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  So congratulation to the new nomenclature expert at Ford.
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  We'd love to have you join us. That's right.
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  I can't wait to hear what you come up with.
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  Right. Oh, Asilomar is taken, just so
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  we're clear. The Asilomar.
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  Yeah. What does that mean?
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  Yeah. Oh, that's the Bay.
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  It's. The name of the Bay.
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  The name of the Bay? OK, I didn't know.
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  Yeah, Solomon Bay, I think, OK. That makes sense.
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  Yeah, it was beautiful. And it was.
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  It was all blue like with the exception of the white
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  porcelain. Part of the door cards was white
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  porcelain, but the rest of it was all different shades of
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  blue. If you want to see a video of
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  it, it's on my Instagram. OK, that's right.
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  What's your Instagram, Dan? Just in case people don't know.
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  Range Rover for hire at D9NN YP. There you go, there you go.
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  I think that night was also the Evans party.
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  Some of us made it, some of us didn't.
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  I ended up getting together for dinner with our local Denver
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  McLaren Rep, which was which was fun.
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  Had a nice meal on the harbor, which was cool.
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  Of course we went to dinner and at a pasta place on the water,
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  which seemed to didn't quite track for me, so we all ended up
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  ordering a lobster ravioli. But anyway, the Vance party here
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  was a good time and it's some some friends.
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  It was fun. We saw the Deisties.
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  If you're ever at a party you want to be with the Deisties
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  because they were really long line for pizza and I don't quite
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  know how but John convinced the guy cooking the pizzas to swap
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  the pizzas for beer. So we managed to skip the line
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  and grab 2 fresh pizzas. That's amazing.
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  Yeah, hands, hands down to John, who Yeah played the system and
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  won. Yeah, and if you don't know John
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  Dyste, he is the Porsche salesperson you want.
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  He's at Porsche Colorado Springs, and he swears he can
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  get you any car you want at sticker.
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  So I'm not kidding. Now you know and he can swap.
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  A nice what now? All right, cars, it's TS, you
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  name it. Yeah, give him a call.
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  Yeah, anyway. But Lewis?
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  Yeah, they really are. So Lewis is his son and his dad.
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  Todd was there, and Todd are here.
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  He's a cool guy. We all came to the conclusion
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  that he looks exactly like a young Roger Penske.
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  I don't know why this hadn't crossed our minds before, but it
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  is true. And I think he got a couple
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  second glances. I think you got a couple of
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  passes to different areas because they look like Roger
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  Pensky. You're the guy with a Porsche
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  963. They thought so, anyway.
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  Yeah, they thought that Todd looked like Roger Pensky.
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  Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah.
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  He got into Casa Ferrari and I think it was partly because they
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  thought he was Roger Pensky. You.
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  Guys, Roger Pensky's here and he didn't bring the 963, but it's
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  OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I didn't see him in one, but he should definitely wear a Pensky
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  hat next. Year.
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  There we go it. Doesn't already?
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  Yeah, it. Doesn't really complete the
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  illusion. Yeah, absolutely.
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  It was like one year at the Quail.
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  I don't know if you guys remember, but there was a fake
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  Brad Pitt. When was that?
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  It was about 3 years ago and there was rumours he'd bought
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  this house in Carmel and he was just finishing the filming of
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  the movie, the F1 movie, and there was a guy who looked just
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  like Brad Pitt, but it wasn't Brad Pitt walking around the
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  quail. So all these people were after
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  selfies and stuff with the fake Brad Pitt?
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  Brad Pitt, impersonator. Extraordinary.
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  It's just Dan Pilling, sorry to disappoint.
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  Yeah. Disappointing.
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  Like, I didn't know Brad Pitt was British.
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  Yeah, just go ahead. Well, the next day I think was
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  was the first sort of big event, right signature event and that's
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  the quail one. If you don't know, the quail is
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  really, I think, becoming, you know, one of the go to car week
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  things. Maybe, you know, maybe second
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  only to to Pebble at this point, But they're they're different,
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  different animals for sure. And right.
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  How do you? Describe talk about them like in
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  the same breath, in terms of like comparisons.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. How would you describe Quail
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  versus Pebble for those who haven't been to Car Week?
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  A lot of new car announcements, more modern cars, right?
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  Oil is much less classic cars. It's much more.
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  The manufacturers are there with a reveal, especially if you get
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  to go early in the morning, which is when they do, they call
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  them the press conferences and that's when they're unveiling
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  all of the new cars that then you can walk around and see
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  during the day. And there are some classics, but
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  Pebble is primarily focused on classic cars and, you know, the
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  real true collectors like examples.
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  I think one of the bigger differences is when you go to
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  quail, if you have a ticket and you get in, everything is like
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  they really roll out the red carpet in terms of the
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  experience. There's you know, 5 or 6 giant
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  tents with different themed food.
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  There are lemonade stands, ice cream stands.
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  Champagne on the way in, you know.
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  Right. Champagne on the way in.
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  It's it's inclusive. Whereas Pebble is different in
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  that way. You know, if you don't know
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  somebody or if you don't have access to a sweet or hospitality
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  or a manufacturer's, you know, tent area, people will bring in
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  like picnics on the lawn and Pebble.
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  But quail is much more, sort of like feeding you almost against
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  your will. Yeah, it's kind of the the
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  Pebble of the people, right. And it's, it's a little, Yeah,
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  it's a little more. The people who can.
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  Start the deal. Right, the rich people.
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  Right. Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah. But I think what's interesting
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  is that all of the, at least a lot of the exhibitors or
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  manufacturers, you know, Myers Banks is there, Roof is there.
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  Yeah. And they have started even
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  having like they always had water and champagne, But I know
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  last year, you know, roof had breakfast burritos if you got
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  there early enough. Myers Manx has amazing sun hats
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  that they've been known for. So it's sort of there's, it's
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  like party favors non-stop quail.
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  Speaking of roof, I saw no roof underwear, but I did get my roof
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  hat. So excellent.
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  Like nice. It was pretty police.
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  Did you go in Austin if they had any patents?
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  Well, even the hat was difficult, let me tell you,
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  because they don't just hand them out when you go up.
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  You got to sort of have a conversation and they kind of
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  hint at the hat and they grow them back and it's a big
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  production. They get out-of-the-box.
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  They they kind of punch it into shape.
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  I can't imagine what they do if they had undies but but I I
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  think it's it's. Much more awkward for everyone.
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  Yeah, it's and I still mean it. I would absolutely wear those in
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  the outside roof, But but I, I think, you know, it's kind of
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  proof of the, the accessibility right of, of the thing.
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  You can go up and you can talk to Aloise roof, right, and the
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  roof family. You can go and go up and you can
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  talk to the engineers, the people that built the cars.
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  You can get yourself a hat, right, But that's everywhere.
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  You can, you can go to go to singer and talk with our, our
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  friend Seamus, right? And he'll spend time at the end
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  and regale you with great stories, right?
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  You know, and there's all this like amazing hardware like Roof
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  and like Singer, but then there are concept cars and then
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  they're like these these newcomers, right, with this like
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  amazing stuff you've never seen before.
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  Like is it a Chentria? Is that the name of the the
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  Italian outfit that that is that?
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  The Diablo 1. Yeah, reimagines the Diablo
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  ones. Yeah, I know I'm, I'm butchering
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  that, that name. But it's just like stuff you
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  didn't even know existed till you, you know, you show up at at
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  the wheel and you can go up in these.
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  Right, so our friends from Colorado Springs had a car.
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  Yeah. Absolutely.
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  So Joe and team have built a a super off road.
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  So I think like a Dakar on steroids.
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  They built it with Ramon. Dumas, Dumas to eat it, Yes.
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  So they had, they had a stand. So I managed to catch up with
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  them and I probably just interrupted your train of
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  thought, Ryan, but no, no. And I think they're going to
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  build 10 of those and put them up for sale so we can all go in
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  on one. But there we go.
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  They're really something to behold.
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  And we can get to the Porsche party later.
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  But I do believe that they got pulled over on the way in that
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  car. So, well, look.
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  At that, they were just showing up.
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  Yeah, there's a bit more of a story to that because I caught
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  up with Joe and we were talking about the car.
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  And I said, are you going to come to the Porsche party
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  tonight? And he went, yeah.
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  And I went, you know what you should do?
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  And he's like, what I said, park that red car in front of the
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  Porsche party. You'll get so much press.
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  You'll get so much photography. And he's like, that's a good
• 19:40
  idea. So I am in an Uber coming down
• 19:44
  to the Porsche party. And as I'm coming down, I see
• 19:48
  that he's been pulled over by the cops.
• 19:50
  So now I automatically feel guilty because it was my idea
• 19:53
  that he brought the car down, but apparently Justin had a
• 19:59
  permission to pass permission to drive slip.
• 20:02
  So actually the police just wanted to have a look at it and
• 20:05
  they let him off. That's someone else I didn't see
• 20:07
  but for 5 minutes all car we got called Justin Underwood from
• 20:11
  Porsche Colorado Springs. So.
• 20:12
  I know I didn't see him at all. I mean, it's remarkable that we
• 20:16
  saw each other like a couple times each, honestly, when you
• 20:19
  think about our schedules and the number of people and the
• 20:22
  number of things that were going on.
• 20:24
  I know, I know. Well back to the quail, though,
• 20:27
  you know, it's always amazing, right?
• 20:29
  I, I, I, I've talked last year about arriving to car week and
• 20:32
  I, I'm seated in a restaurant next to James May right, right.
• 20:36
  And this year I had a similar experience where I'm at one of
• 20:39
  these many food stations at the quail and I've gotten my food
• 20:43
  and my friends are coming back, My group are coming back with,
• 20:46
  with drinks. And so it sort of saved room for
• 20:48
  them. And this, this tall, handsome
• 20:51
  man kind of comes to the table so well, can I, can I sit across
• 20:53
  from you? And I and I said sure and didn't
• 20:55
  really think much about it. And then everyone else,
• 20:57
  including John Dyston, the people who are really no come
• 20:59
  back. And like, that's, that's, that's
• 21:01
  Timo. That's Timo.
• 21:02
  He's the the president and CEO of Porsche Cars North America,
• 21:06
  right? And then I clicked and then we,
• 21:09
  you know, and had a nice conversation, super nice guy.
• 21:12
  But this is the kind of stuff that happens at at the quail and
• 21:15
  throughout car week, right? You know I amazing people.
• 21:20
  Watching. Yeah.
• 21:24
  And I said to you he was in agreement that the GT 4 was the
• 21:29
  best carpools you made. I did hear that now there must
• 21:31
  have been. There might have been something
• 21:32
  lost in translation, but it may have been 4 point OGTS.
• 21:38
  But yeah, it's I, I did overhear a couple, you know, they look
• 21:43
  like they, they were a moneyed couple.
• 21:44
  But I, I did hear a man at the quail tell his partner that this
• 21:49
  is lovely. But it's good to know that we're
• 21:51
  worth as much as everyone else here.
• 21:54
  Wow. And that's, that's a flex, yeah.
• 21:58
  There you go. Well, that.
• 22:00
  May not have been true, but. That is one of the ways that
• 22:04
  quail has been evolving. And I've heard people comment
• 22:07
  like, and I know Matt Farah related this story last year,
• 22:10
  but part of the reason that the hypercar manufacturer, supercar
• 22:15
  manufacturers, the more modern, you know, current manufacturers
• 22:20
  display there is because they, and we talked to Johnny about
• 22:23
  this a little bit too. But they are able to debut a
• 22:26
  car. And you know, I'm sure there's
• 22:29
  some technical definition, you know, fudging, but basically
• 22:33
  sell out at the quail. And you know, Matt heard a
• 22:38
  couple, like you said, Ryan, they were talking and he
• 22:41
  overheard them and I don't know which manufacturer they were at,
• 22:44
  but they were debating which colors to get.
• 22:46
  And they said, OK, well, this one's going to be this and this
• 22:48
  one's going to be this. And that is a big part of that
• 22:51
  event is the manufacturers and they bring in their clients and
• 22:55
  everybody's shopping. Yeah, and something to remember
• 22:58
  for those, for those of us who aren't shopping to maybe not
• 23:00
  take up too much time of these folks who are there and
• 23:04
  accessible because there are actually people, you know,
• 23:07
  throwing down dollars and, you know, and that does happen.
• 23:11
  And I, you know, I, I hope that we get to that point where we
• 23:14
  can do the same. But for now, it's a spectacular
• 23:17
  place to window shop. And, you know, I, I guess so.
• 23:20
  Favorites from the Quail. Dan.
• 23:24
  I liked the Golden Murray S1, which is a they're, they're very
• 23:32
  careful to say it's not the evolution of the McLaren F1, but
• 23:37
  it looks very much like the evolution of the McLaren F1.
• 23:40
  And yeah, that that car for me was the one of the show.
• 23:44
  Yeah, Yeah. Would you think that and what do
• 23:49
  you think about it right as as an evolution, because I think we
• 23:52
  all hold the F1 as up as sort of the the Holy Grail, like the the
• 23:56
  alpha and the Omega, you know, of, of, of super cars, right?
• 23:59
  And I think it is right. But it's, it's, you know, it's
• 24:02
  also been a few years. I like this new thing, but it
• 24:08
  also wasn't as pure in form as the original car right.
• 24:12
  And I think that's one of the things that that makes that car
• 24:15
  beautiful. That said, you know, you can't
• 24:19
  look the same and I thought they did a hell of a job of evolving
• 24:21
  that original shape, but that was definitely one of the stars
• 24:25
  of the show for sure. The quail is tough.
• 24:28
  If you've never been to the quail, it's it's really a it's
• 24:30
  a, it's a spoil of riches, right?
• 24:32
  There are things that I heard people talk about later that I
• 24:34
  didn't even see, right. Don't even ask me where they
• 24:36
  were because I didn't even see them, right?
• 24:40
  You know, but it's, it's, it's like the world's best, like
• 24:44
  State Fair, right? Like, you know, where you look,
• 24:46
  there's a booth or something cool.
• 24:48
  You know, it, it's just, it's overwhelming.
• 24:50
  It's overwhelming. But what were your two favorite
• 24:53
  cars? Me.
• 24:56
  Well, either of you. Yeah, in any order.
• 25:00
  I really like the the Porsche Roman Dumas one like, and I
• 25:05
  don't know what they're calling it, but I just I love the
• 25:07
  concept. I thought Edith was such an
• 25:09
  amazing story and movie, and so I like that they're honoring
• 25:14
  that and sort of extending the story.
• 25:17
  But yeah, it's interesting, Ryan, that you said there's
• 25:20
  things you didn't even see. I know because that tells you,
• 25:23
  it tells you how much is there and in a much smaller space, I
• 25:27
  think, than Pebble. But it is, it really is like an
• 25:31
  overwhelming candy store for people that are car people
• 25:35
  'cause you go and it's just like, where do you even look?
• 25:37
  For yeah, yeah, yeah, I do believe that that car will be
• 25:39
  called the Luis Rs. Perfect, SO.
• 25:41
  You so you heard it here. 1st that's interesting because they
• 25:44
  have an Instagram account that's something completely different.
• 25:49
  Sorry to to piss on your call. What are they calling it?
• 25:51
  What are they calling? It so their Instagram account is
• 25:56
  Rd. which I'm assuming stands for Roman Dumat Rd. extreme with
• 26:02
  an E so it's Rd. dot extreme so if you want to follow them.
• 26:06
  And is it extreme did you say with an X?
• 26:08
  Starting it's EXT OK REME so Rd. Proper way of spelling extreme
• 26:15
  right. Just the normal way, yeah.
• 26:17
  Yeah, yeah, What about you follow them?
• 26:21
  Yeah, it's hard to say. I so I really like the singer
• 26:24
  that was there that meant D Green Was it the was it the DLSI
• 26:28
  don't even know. It was just fantastic.
• 26:30
  I, I, I would absolutely buy a singer if I had the money.
• 26:33
  But you know, I was really, really drawn in by those
• 26:37
  echentricas, I think is what they're called these, these.
• 26:40
  So it's this Italian firm talked with a guy in charge.
• 26:43
  He said he would come on the show.
• 26:45
  So maybe that's why I like the cars so much.
• 26:48
  But you know, you start with the Diablo, right?
• 26:51
  And we've always talked about like, what's the next singer,
• 26:54
  right? And, and I've made a case for
• 26:55
  the R1O7 Mercedes SLS, right, as a as a, as a car that it's got a
• 27:00
  great foundation. The Sky's the limit.
• 27:02
  And you know, as wonderful as they were, they maybe really
• 27:05
  weren't the Super light, you know, sports cars, you know,
• 27:09
  that that the name would would lead you to believe.
• 27:11
  But a lot of potential. They're everywhere.
• 27:13
  They can be picked up cheaply. OK, Diablo is not so much but I
• 27:17
  think the Diablo is a car right? That's got a lot of room for
• 27:20
  improvement. I tried to drive a Diablo a
• 27:23
  couple months ago. You know, this, it broke along
• 27:25
  the way, right? And So what they do is they,
• 27:28
  they find the, the, I think in the words of the, the founder
• 27:31
  and CEO, the, the worst Diablos they can find.
• 27:33
  As long as the engine is good, right, the body doesn't matter
• 27:36
  so much. So as long as it's got a good
• 27:37
  engine, a good drivetrain, these cars are good candidates.
• 27:41
  Now, I don't know how many Diablos they built, but it
• 27:43
  certainly wasn't like the 964 where they were grown on, you
• 27:46
  know, trees basically. You know, I I can't imagine it
• 27:51
  was we should look this up if there's only a way we could look
• 27:54
  this up. But I'm guessing there were, you
• 27:55
  know, a few 1000 Diablos ever built, maybe like low few
• 27:59
  thousand 23000 right, which is my guess.
• 28:02
  But but but but point is they they that's it's a car that was,
• 28:06
  you know, built in kind of a rough era for car building.
• 28:10
  And of course, you know, the Diablo, I think spanned 3
• 28:12
  different owners, right. So it's a car that you know that
• 28:16
  that I think can be improved. How many, Dan?
• 28:19
  How many? I would guess, and this is only
• 28:21
  a guess, that they were built from 1990 to 2001.
• 28:25
  I would guess in total they made 2884.
• 28:29
  I would guess of which 900 regular diablos, maybe 530 VTS,
• 28:35
  maybe 465 Vt roadsters, 30 GTRS and 337 Vt 6 liters.
• 28:47
  But that's only a guess. Rough estimates, of course.
• 28:51
  Well, let me let me let me wax poetic a little bit on these
• 28:53
  things, right. I should probably learn how to
• 28:55
  pronounce the name properly. But they take the Diablo and you
• 28:59
  know, all the stuff that, you know, we quote UN quote hate
• 29:01
  about the Diablo, right? The the interiors, the switch
• 29:04
  gear and all that is, is replaced.
• 29:06
  They, they, they expose the engine in a way that it's, it's
• 29:09
  visible. They, they, they tuck the, the
• 29:11
  tailpipes up in a way it's there's an artistry there, much
• 29:13
  like singer where things are just done right.
• 29:15
  You'd be hard pressed to point at something and say, Hey, I
• 29:18
  would have done that differently.
• 29:20
  And the interiors really are, are one of the parts of the
• 29:23
  Diablo that that are ripe for improvement.
• 29:25
  And and if you look at these cars, I think it's a chentrica
• 29:29
  cars on an Instagram, maybe a dot in the middle of those two
• 29:33
  words. But you know, the switch gear,
• 29:35
  right? The the interior.
• 29:37
  It is basically like much like a singer what those cars would be
• 29:40
  if they were built today. They're just fantastic.
• 29:44
  And just again, is it is someone you know who's had a career in
• 29:47
  design. You pick up on these little
• 29:49
  things, the textures, the shapes, they look appropriate to
• 29:51
  the car, but they're also executed a level that, you know,
• 29:55
  Lamborghini of of the 90s could never have imagined.
• 29:57
  So I don't actually know how much they cost, but if the donor
• 30:01
  car is 200 and some $1000, I'm guessing the final product is
• 30:05
  not a cheap 1. So check them out.
• 30:08
  They just the thing really just just pulled me over.
• 30:12
  There was also the is it the ring brothers that did that
• 30:15
  Aston Martin? That was beautiful.
• 30:17
  That was beautiful. Now the ring brothers, you know,
• 30:19
  I think they're from Wisconsin of all places, as am I so, but
• 30:23
  they they've never really been on my radar.
• 30:25
  I think they've done more traditional sort of restomod
• 30:28
  stuff. And this thing again takes a
• 30:30
  car, probably one of the, I don't know, one of the the
• 30:33
  lesser appreciated Aston's, although prices have come up a
• 30:36
  lot over the years. This original Vantage that they
• 30:38
  built, I guess 70s through the 90s, is that what you'd say,
• 30:42
  Dan? Yeah, it was.
• 30:43
  It was a public car, wasn't it? For a while.
• 30:45
  Yeah, yeah. Or not staying esque, right?
• 30:49
  Yeah, in the best way. But, but again, they've taken
• 30:53
  this thing and completely reinvented it in a way that just
• 30:56
  really elevates. And I think that's the test for
• 30:58
  these restomods, right? Are you genuinely improving
• 31:01
  right across the board with the with the end result?
• 31:03
  Because you know, some of these aren't right, Some of these
• 31:06
  don't right. We've all seen them.
• 31:08
  I won't name names, but these were two that really stood out
• 31:10
  to me as exceptional, exceptional end products.
• 31:14
  So. Well, and I think like you're a
• 31:17
  good judge because we've all been lucky enough to see, like
• 31:20
  you said, there are, you know, a good number of companies doing
• 31:24
  that with a variety of cars and we've all been lucky enough to
• 31:26
  see several of those in person. And so you do start to compare,
• 31:30
  but it also hones your ability to sort of discern who's doing
• 31:34
  it well and who's not. So that's really, I think it
• 31:37
  says a lot that those two were your favorites.
• 31:40
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, because it is
• 31:43
  a, it's a crowded field, right? Right you.
• 31:46
  Know this, most of the time we're talking to people, right?
• 31:49
  You know, it's just we're running into friends, we're
• 31:51
  running into listeners, you know, we're meeting new people
• 31:54
  and and, and so there's, you know, there's a lot of yeah,
• 31:58
  there's very little like car sort of appreciating actually
• 32:00
  being done. Fortunately, unfortunately, but
• 32:03
  you know, these are these are cars that stood out, stood out
• 32:06
  to me. So I don't know.
• 32:09
  I think go ahead. Yeah.
• 32:10
  No, they, they do pack a lot into like not really that much
• 32:16
  space geographically. Yeah, but it takes a lot, like
• 32:21
  you said, because we're all lucky enough to know so many
• 32:23
  people at this point and, you know, enthusiasts, attendees,
• 32:27
  and we've all gotten to know people at the different
• 32:28
  manufacturers too. So like you said, to have any
• 32:32
  meaningful time with any of those people and then try and
• 32:34
  see all the cars, yeah, you would really need a couple days.
• 32:37
  Yeah, I know, I know. It's it's it's just like, just
• 32:41
  like that, but. But like, what an embarrassment
• 32:43
  of riches. No, it, it, it really is.
• 32:45
  It's just it's, it's turning into, like I said, one of the
• 32:47
  one of the must do events. Yeah, it's it's really, you
• 32:51
  know, formulating its own sort of flavor.
• 32:54
  I'm always impressed with what shows up.
• 32:55
  It's a good vibe. I mean, any, any place where
• 32:58
  they hand you a drink on the way in is a is a good place.
• 33:00
  And, you know, in my mind and, you know, it's just, it's just
• 33:05
  it's kind of a scene. It's sort of it's sort of the
• 33:07
  become the social hub. I think, you know, for for the
• 33:09
  week or, you know, a great kick off after after motor Lux, of
• 33:12
  course. Favorite food stand?
• 33:14
  What was your favorite? So they do these food stands.
• 33:16
  They do like kind of international cuisine, right.
• 33:19
  So there was French one, there's an Italian one, I heard the
• 33:23
  American 1 is pretty good. Didn't get to it, but I guess
• 33:25
  they had a mean burger. Mean slider.
• 33:27
  Where'd you guys go? Would you or did you even make
• 33:29
  it anything? Well, I think one of my
• 33:33
  favourites and I don't know, I didn't go this year, but the OR
• 33:38
  I didn't make it there, but the cotton candy, they had cotton
• 33:40
  candy and rose. Completely.
• 33:42
  There you go. And then it was just a little
• 33:44
  stand. But I think one other thing that
• 33:47
  is so unique to Quayle is the and it's not the Blue Angels.
• 33:51
  I don't know which planes it is, but it's a military jet fly
• 33:55
  over. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:57
  It's not The Who are the other ones, the red, I'm blanking, but
• 34:00
  it's like the Blue Angels and they do a fly over in the
• 34:03
  afternoon with the smoke and it's really stunning.
• 34:07
  And there's not a lot of carvings where they do that, no.
• 34:09
  No, it's also funny because the DJ knows it's coming and puts
• 34:13
  the old Top Gun music on. Yes, that's so if you, I
• 34:17
  remember the first time I was there and it happened and you're
• 34:19
  like, oh, Top Gun. Whoa, wait a minute.
• 34:23
  It's, it's just a, it's, it's a great event, you know, look
• 34:27
  forward to next year again, great to see so many people who
• 34:30
  listened to the show who came up and said hello and other things.
• 34:33
  And, and yeah, it's just, it's just a great kickoff for the
• 34:37
  week. You know, you mentioned not a
• 34:39
  lot of room maybe relative to, to Pebble, but I had a guy shut
• 34:44
  up Ryan in my group who I guess had, I'm going to say he wore a
• 34:48
  pedometer, but I don't think that's a thing anymore.
• 34:50
  He had like an Apple Watch, right?
• 34:51
  That kept track of his, his steps.
• 34:53
  And I think every day we were there, which was 5 days, I think
• 34:57
  we walked at least 6 1/2 miles each day that we were.
• 35:01
  We were you cover the. Exercise that I've had in the
• 35:03
  six months before. Yes, you end up covering so much
• 35:06
  ground and most of it on foot. Yeah, I remember last year, the
• 35:11
  first year I went, I decided it'd be a good idea to wear like
• 35:13
  nice shoes, like dress shoes. And this year I've just I've
• 35:16
  really get him, you know, myself to, you know, it's a nice clean
• 35:20
  sneakers, you know, every every day.
• 35:22
  I think that's that's the move. But anyway, so any other quail
• 35:27
  stuff of note before we move along?
• 35:31
  It's it's amazing. Yeah, it's the.
• 35:33
  It's the. Best in summary, yes.
• 35:35
  Yeah. So that that was a busy day
• 35:37
  because that was also, I don't know if either one of you got
• 35:39
  over to Radwood. We, of course we had Art
• 35:41
  Cervantes, one of the Radwood founders who's now with
• 35:43
  integrity. I got stuck in some of the
• 35:47
  famous car week traffic and did not make it, so I'm really
• 35:51
  curious to hear how it was. I was so sorry to miss it.
• 35:53
  Yeah, it was, it was cool. I found out later that it was a
• 35:55
  pop up. It wasn't like a full Radwood
• 35:57
  experience. I had gone to the Radwood event
• 36:00
  at Amelia last year in 24 and it was a huge event and, and this
• 36:04
  wasn't that. That said, it was still very,
• 36:06
  very cool. Unfortunate was kind of cool and
• 36:08
  misty that night, so it wasn't like the best for photo, you
• 36:11
  know, taking and on and all that, but it was a great event.
• 36:13
  There was some big I saw some some some big names there.
• 36:16
  I saw Camisa, I saw Ed Boley and some others.
• 36:19
  Think of a chance to cross paths with art.
• 36:21
  But how? Tall is Ed Boleyn.
• 36:24
  Did you see this? He stood next to Doug de Miro
• 36:27
  and made Doug de Miro look short.
• 36:30
  No way. Yeah.
• 36:31
  I'd never realized how tall he was.
• 36:33
  They're both tall and both much thinner than I expected them to
• 36:36
  be. So that, that, that kind of
• 36:38
  caught me off guard. But, you know, but yeah, both,
• 36:43
  both large, large gentlemen. And, you know, I don't know how
• 36:47
  they fit in some of the cars that they have driven or, or
• 36:49
  even own. I I saw Doug driving around in
• 36:52
  his Countach and I think Ed was in his.
• 36:55
  Was it his Diablo VS the Victoria's Secret car?
• 37:00
  We were all a little perplexed when we rolled up to Radwood and
• 37:03
  we see this Diablo. Of course, we've all heard of
• 37:04
  the SV, which was sort of a later Diablo when there was this
• 37:07
  car with that same font, that same script font, but it's a VS.
• 37:11
  And I think the story was that it was some sort of giveaway car
• 37:14
  or something for Victoria's Secret.
• 37:15
  Maybe they gave it to one of their models.
• 37:17
  You know, I, I don't know, I've got to do a little digging on
• 37:19
  that, but I believe that that's the car that he brought.
• 37:23
  And I think one the one, the whole thing with this, yes, you
• 37:26
  should. I mean, that's I.
• 37:27
  Mean, you know that's. Kind of peak Radwood, right?
• 37:29
  So. Well, they used to do those.
• 37:31
  It was like Victoria's Secret's version of the Neiman Marcus.
• 37:35
  Like, you know, the over the top dream Christmas gifts where
• 37:38
  they're like, there's one of these, you know, Neiman Marcus
• 37:40
  Lamborghinis. I wonder if they did that one
• 37:43
  year because they were trying to, to set, you know, they were
• 37:46
  trying to. Establish that for Victoria's.
• 37:48
  Secret too, just to guess, Just to guess.
• 37:50
  But maybe in 1998 they created 2 called the Victoria's Secret's
• 37:54
  edition. But again, it's it's just a
• 37:57
  guess, right? Like if you had to just like
• 38:00
  shot in the dark. Yeah, yeah.
• 38:03
  Was that Yeah, Because you remember they used to do those
• 38:05
  $1,000,000 bras covered in diamonds and they it was like
• 38:09
  the dream gift catalog. Or something.
• 38:11
  Yeah, yeah, apparently. Let's say maybe in the 1998 one
• 38:15
  that was an option. Wasn't there a car like covered
• 38:19
  in rhinestones or something that was driving?
• 38:20
  That was the Valkyrie. That was the Valkyrie, right?
• 38:23
  Someone had bedazzled the the Valkyrie.
• 38:27
  Because if the Valkyrie is not enough car for you, you bedazzle
• 38:30
  it, right? Yeah.
• 38:31
  Like how do we possibly top this?
• 38:33
  No, right. Hey, I mean, you know, so I
• 38:41
  think that Radwood this year and we'll talk about Concourse so
• 38:44
  Italiano, which was the next day, but that was part of
• 38:45
  something you called, it's called the paddock, which was at
• 38:49
  a place that was called Bayonet Black Horse, which is another,
• 38:52
  you know, apparently golf courses are, you know,
• 38:55
  everywhere on the Monterey Peninsula and that's where that
• 38:59
  was. But that that night was, you
• 39:01
  know, one of the only young parties that I think the three
• 39:03
  of us try never to miss. And that was the that is the
• 39:06
  aforementioned Porsche party. Why is that party so good?
• 39:10
  I love that party. I love the people I run into.
• 39:13
  The food is great, it's just a great scene.
• 39:16
  But I don't know. What's your take on the Porsche
• 39:18
  party and what makes it so great?
• 39:20
  I think it is, like you said, the food is great, the crowd is
• 39:24
  good. And it's so it has a similar
• 39:27
  feel to quail in the sense that once you're in, yeah, everything
• 39:31
  is included. Yeah.
• 39:32
  And I think the food really is delicious.
• 39:35
  It's high quality, it's unique, which is not always the case at
• 39:38
  an event like that where you're feeding a crowd.
• 39:40
  But it's it's really good. It's scallops, it's tomahawk
• 39:45
  steak. It's like, and it's free if
• 39:48
  you've got a ticket. And that's the that's what I
• 39:49
  mean. And that's that's the best part.
• 39:51
  You know, it's. Once you're in, you're in and
• 39:54
  it's a really fun crowd and it's a cool the barn location where
• 39:59
  they do it. The Barns at Cooper Molera is a
• 40:01
  really unique venue and I think plus there's an element of.
• 40:07
  You know, sort of exclusivity of like, did you get into the
• 40:09
  Porsche party? So it you know, it feels nice to
• 40:11
  get in. Without rattling off the famous
• 40:14
  faces, there were some key folks there that we were rubbing
• 40:19
  elbows with and it was just a lot of fun.
• 40:21
  But everyone was at ease. It was cool last year.
• 40:23
  I didn't see him this year, but last year we ran into.
• 40:26
  Andreas. Andreas Bruniger Yeah.
• 40:29
  GT Mr. GT himself didn't see him there this year, did you?
• 40:33
  I don't think he was saying that this year.
• 40:35
  Obviously we saw some other other folks, but yeah, great
• 40:37
  night. We actually got to catch up a
• 40:39
  little bit there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:42
  What? Did you guys get to see the 963
• 40:45
  while you were there? Yeah.
• 40:47
  Yeah, but we should probably explain that Lindsay wasn't
• 40:50
  there this year. And you know, that's not because
• 40:52
  she didn't get an invite, it's because you got a better invite.
• 40:56
  I I'm just realizing, no, you were there.
• 40:58
  See, it's hard to keep all this straight.
• 41:00
  I know well we were all there together last.
• 41:03
  Year that's. Super fun and that was I think
• 41:05
  that was the only time that we were all together last year was
• 41:11
  at the Porsche party because again, we all had such different
• 41:15
  schedules. But no, this year unexpected
• 41:18
  like last minute. I had a plan my my whole Friday
• 41:22
  changed, which I think is also very indicative of car week.
• 41:26
  If you are, you know, trying to do all these different events,
• 41:30
  you go into it thinking, OK, I know what my Wednesday looks
• 41:33
  like. I know what my Thursday looks
• 41:34
  like. Thursday night, my Friday
• 41:37
  completely changed, but in the best way.
• 41:41
  I ended up getting to attend the Haggerty House reception for the
• 41:45
  checkered flag 200 and and the there was a Ferrari group that
• 41:49
  was also there and that was really fun.
• 41:53
  Great house. And it was not far from the Land
• 41:57
  Rover House, which is where I ended up going next for a dinner
• 42:00
  with some clients, but also a lot of members of the media.
• 42:04
  There were people from Edmonds and Maxim and then some
• 42:07
  freelancers. And my new friend Scott Brady,
• 42:10
  who is the editor of Overland Journal.
• 42:13
  He's the one that drove the Defender that I wrote in on the
• 42:15
  tour. And then some of the members of
• 42:18
  the Jaguar and Land Rover PR team who have gotten to know.
• 42:22
  So I got to go have dinner at the house and, you know, hang
• 42:25
  out with all the all the all of them.
• 42:28
  And it was really fun. We should probably explain what
• 42:32
  this concept of, of, of houses is, right, Much like, I guess
• 42:37
  Harry Potter or college. There are these houses,
• 42:42
  generally mansions in the Carmel, Monterey area that are
• 42:46
  either owned or, you know, taken over for the week by OEMs, other
• 42:51
  automotive entities, insurance companies, you know, others.
• 42:56
  And it's, it's, it's where a lot of the action is.
• 42:59
  We get to where a lot of the the great parties are a lot of the
• 43:03
  media events. I got to go to.
• 43:05
  Thank you to you, Lindsay, the Haggerty house.
• 43:07
  I think the following day for a media event and, and got got to
• 43:12
  to sit in with for a really great presentation by our friend
• 43:17
  Sasha Neilu cars. It was fascinating.
• 43:20
  It was great. Got to ask questions.
• 43:22
  We got to walk through the whole design process.
• 43:24
  And yeah, it's it's just, it's I think it's a concept that's kind
• 43:27
  of unique to car week, you know, and, you know, just one of
• 43:32
  those, one of the many things that makes car week special.
• 43:35
  And I think, you know, one of the one of the nice things
• 43:37
  about, I guess being in the business, if you want to call it
• 43:39
  that, or, you know, doing a podcast or writing or whatever,
• 43:43
  as you get access to some of these things.
• 43:45
  And, and it's just, yeah, it's a, it's a pretty neat perk and,
• 43:47
  and, and kind of cool concept, so.
• 43:50
  So you had a good night, Ed Ryan.
• 43:52
  Like when you cross the Monterey County line, there is like a
• 43:54
  sorting hat, like momentarily. I was wondering who range where
• 44:00
  we were going to play in Quidditch that's.
• 44:03
  BMW because they were right next door.
• 44:05
  So that's right, they're the first tier and then they work
• 44:08
  their way up the bracket. So I hear, I hear Jaguar is an
• 44:10
  easy mark these days. But, you know, hey, what do we
• 44:14
  talk about that Jaguar that showed up at the Quail Like that
• 44:17
  was the car. That was the car that was in,
• 44:19
  you know, the buzz was all about, you know.
• 44:21
  Right. Well, and it was at Motor Lux as
• 44:23
  well. OK.
• 44:24
  And then, yeah. I'm sure, yeah, yeah, Motor Lux
• 44:27
  is where we saw it. Yeah, first.
• 44:29
  And then they had a like a design studio in downtown
• 44:32
  Monterey that they had it on display on Saturday and they had
• 44:36
  the car and they had a forum with some of the designers and
• 44:40
  you could get up close. I mean, I don't know about you
• 44:42
  guys, but it was wild to see it in person after having seen all
• 44:46
  of the print and the media and obviously all of the discussions
• 44:49
  and the buzz and the opinions to walk in and see it in person.
• 44:53
  I had a moment of like, that can't be real.
• 44:55
  Like, wait a minute. Yeah, there it is.
• 44:57
  And it's huge. Yeah.
• 44:59
  And it's what, what would you call the color?
• 45:02
  It was kind of a. Oh, it's like a brilliant, like
• 45:06
  super intense. So Ford used to have a color
• 45:10
  similar to that called moonlight Blue and it's just this very
• 45:14
  intense. It's like if you've seen the
• 45:15
  Range Rover Sport SV they. Were really that's.
• 45:20
  Very intense. Yeah.
• 45:21
  Royal blue metallic. And it was like that, but in a
• 45:24
  matte. Yeah, yeah.
• 45:26
  Like this almost, it's like almost purple.
• 45:28
  You almost can't see it. It's such an.
• 45:29
  It absorbs light, you know? Yeah, and I got to say it's not
• 45:34
  a bad looking thing. I think people just again, we've
• 45:36
  talked about this ad nauseam, but I think it's just it's just
• 45:39
  departed so much from the the design language of Jaguars as
• 45:43
  we've known it. So good on them.
• 45:45
  It was kind of like a flex right to to, you know, have that thing
• 45:48
  front and center right at these at these events.
• 45:51
  But. Well, and it was, there was
• 45:53
  something, and I don't know what the experience was for you guys.
• 45:56
  There was something about seeing it in person, and maybe it was
• 46:00
  because we've seen all the pictures.
• 46:01
  It wasn't the initial shock that we all had when it first debuted
• 46:05
  in the ads and all the media, but it was less stark or less
• 46:11
  aggressive visually in person than it was in the photos.
• 46:15
  I thought. Yeah, yeah.
• 46:16
  Yeah, you're absolutely right. Speaking of cars and Speaking of
• 46:20
  houses, I had a, a funny story. You went to the you went to all
• 46:25
  these houses? Yeah, we, we got an invitation
• 46:27
  somewhere on the week to go to the Koenigs Egg house.
• 46:30
  OK, Now, Koenigs Egg is not a, you know, a car, you know, I'm
• 46:34
  super familiar with. I appreciate them.
• 46:36
  I think they're awesome. There's always the question,
• 46:38
  Koenigs Egg versus Pagani, which, what do you got right?
• 46:41
  I've always claimed Koenigs Egg. I just, I've always liked the
• 46:43
  way they looked. Obviously, they're amazing
• 46:45
  performers. They're doing some amazing
• 46:47
  things. Christian von Koenigs Egg was
• 46:49
  making the round at Car Week. It didn't quite work up the
• 46:53
  courage to say hello to him, but somewhere along the line we got
• 46:55
  an invitation at the Koenigsegg house.
• 46:57
  OK, nice. So three of us roll up.
• 46:59
  It's my buddy Colin Seckle who you both know had a Range Rover
• 47:05
  Sport for the week and I've got thoughts on that which we can
• 47:08
  come back. He toned it down this year then.
• 47:11
  What's that he? Toned it down this year because
• 47:14
  last year he. Had that was electric Gummer.
• 47:16
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's when those were
• 47:18
  pretty new. And I think, yeah, we had people
• 47:21
  taking pictures and it was, yeah, it was, that was and it
• 47:23
  didn't fit anywhere. This was at least a slightly
• 47:25
  smaller car. Yeah, that was an enormous car
• 47:28
  for Carmel. So this was a Range Rover Sport,
• 47:31
  a nice appliance, white right from the rental condo.
• 47:34
  It was a great, you know, vehicle to shuttle around in.
• 47:36
  But so Colin was driving. Colin's a big dude.
• 47:39
  I'm not a small guy. I'm in the, the passenger seat
• 47:42
  and in the back seat we have our, our friend Brian Rudin.
• 47:44
  And, and if you listen to the show, you know, Brian, because
• 47:48
  he's got an amazing garage and he's let me drive some of his
• 47:50
  cars to write about for, for auto blog and, and to talk about
• 47:53
  here. So we, we roll up to this house
• 47:56
  and you kind of picture it. It's, it's much like the
• 47:58
  Haggerty house or one of these others where, you know, it's a,
• 48:01
  it's a driveway off a residential St. you know, kind
• 48:04
  of tree lined, but it's a house, right?
• 48:06
  It's not, you know, it's not a parking lot.
• 48:08
  There's a little driveway. And so we go in and we see two
• 48:10
  Koenigs eggs, 2 Koenigs egg cars on the left and then a couple of
• 48:14
  obvious like rental cars on the right.
• 48:16
  What was it? BMW and was like a Chevy Malibu
• 48:17
  or something. But there's really only room for
• 48:19
  those four cars, right? And we just thought it was
• 48:23
  strange. Maybe there's a shuttle we
• 48:24
  missed that we should have taken or whatever.
• 48:26
  And but it's, it's, it's, it's strangely quiet.
• 48:29
  So we roll up in this thing. And again, there's one way in,
• 48:31
  one way out. And there were three or four
• 48:34
  sort of lean young Swedish, you know, men polishing cars and
• 48:40
  just sort of, you know, I don't know, hanging out.
• 48:43
  I thought you were about to say masseuses.
• 48:45
  But they could have been masseuses.
• 48:46
  They could have. What I found was.
• 48:48
  Interesting. To find out, Dan.
• 48:51
  They were all like dressed in like, do you remember parachute
• 48:53
  pants back? They seemed to sort of have like
• 48:56
  these sort of fitted sort of, you know, suits on like
• 48:58
  parachute pants, white T-shirts. And then they all had the
• 49:00
  Koenigs egg ghost. If you know the Koenigs egg
• 49:02
  coast, it's a ghost. It's this, I think sort of this,
• 49:05
  this Air Force, Swedish Air Force derived symbol.
• 49:07
  I think the company started in a former Swedish Air Force hangar
• 49:10
  or something. All had these.
• 49:12
  So it was, I don't want to say cult like, but they were all
• 49:15
  kind of dressed the same and then all had these medallions
• 49:18
  around their necks. And so we roll up and and Konig
• 49:21
  Zegg, if you're listening, this is this is these are just
• 49:24
  observations. I very, very much want to be re
• 49:27
  invited next year. So we roll up and we're kind of
• 49:30
  thinking someone's going to come out to greet us, tell us where
• 49:32
  to park, that kind of thing. And you know, the one young
• 49:35
  Swedish fellow comes up and Colin rolls down his window and
• 49:41
  he looks in and he sees Colin and he looks at me and he sees
• 49:44
  Brian in the back seat. And he kind of, I don't know,
• 49:47
  hangs out, you know, over the, over the, the window that's
• 49:50
  down. And he looks hussy and, and he
• 49:53
  goes, hey, what's going on? And Collin says, I don't know,
• 49:56
  you tell me. And the guy from Koenigsay goes,
• 50:01
  well, what are you looking to do?
• 50:05
  And none of us really know how to reply.
• 50:08
  And it felt very illicit. You're like, hold on, what are
• 50:12
  the options? And yeah, and this conversation
• 50:19
  went back and forth a few times. It was very awkward and strange.
• 50:23
  And, and, you know, we we had on, on good authority that we
• 50:26
  were welcome to stop by any time that it was an open house,
• 50:29
  right. And, and finally, you know, it,
• 50:33
  it came out that Oh, well, well, well, the, the, IT wasn't an
• 50:38
  open house, but we were welcome to, to park and, and check out
• 50:42
  the cars if we want it. But, but, but the family, as
• 50:46
  they refer to it was all gone. They were out and about.
• 50:48
  They would be back later and we could come back later if we
• 50:50
  wanted. And, and we just decided to sort
• 50:54
  of cut our losses and slowly back.
• 50:58
  It was very Swedish Children of the Corn is what I'm getting at.
• 51:04
  Which is atypical for car week, but that's why you go.
• 51:08
  I'm wondering if that's the title for our show.
• 51:13
  Ain't no corn like Swedish corn. But it was, you know, I want to
• 51:18
  say they weren't friendly because they weren't.
• 51:19
  I think they were just genuine, genuinely perplexed, as were we.
• 51:23
  And, you know, I'm sure not many people have the, you know, have
• 51:28
  the balls to drive right up to the Koenigsegg house without
• 51:30
  invitation, which I think it's what they thought we were doing.
• 51:34
  Or I thought, you know, we were in this Range Rover.
• 51:36
  Maybe they thought we were, I don't know, the protection for
• 51:39
  the guy in the back seat. Maybe he was a wealthy guy or
• 51:42
  something. It was so they didn't want to,
• 51:44
  they didn't want to, you know, tell us no, right.
• 51:47
  You know, they didn't want to, you know, ruin some potential
• 51:50
  deal or whatever because we've discussed these deals do happen
• 51:52
  during car week. They're trying to to divine who
• 51:55
  you're protecting in the backseat.
• 51:57
  And hell, Brian could buy a Koenig sack I guess is the is
• 52:01
  the thing too. But we slowly backed out, waved
• 52:04
  goodbye awkwardly, and we never saw the Koenigsegg family again.
• 52:10
  So anyway. So and you and Colin are
• 52:13
  available as security details for Nick Harvey?
• 52:15
  That's what I'm hearing. I don't know how threatening I
• 52:18
  am anymore. You know, you guys, you know I
• 52:20
  turn 50 tomorrow, 5th. Tomorrow.
• 52:23
  Oh, oh wow. In the sky or whatever.
• 52:26
  Yeah, yeah. Well, happy early birthday.
• 52:29
  Thank you. And if you're listening the day
• 52:31
  of the show, happy birthday. Yeah, and I I think we would ask
• 52:37
  everyone should send a message on his Instagram to wish him a
• 52:39
  happy. Day I'll take it anything that
• 52:42
  will lift me from the malaise of of what's officially I think old
• 52:46
  man era is are you? Entering your very own malaise
• 52:51
  era. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 52:55
  I am the equivalent of a 7.2 liter V8 that makes 120
• 53:00
  horsepower, right. That's is that what you're
• 53:01
  saying? At least you're not an old
• 53:03
  diesel that's. A No, no, that's no one of those
• 53:06
  Oldsmobile diesels which would, which would, you know, turn off
• 53:10
  cylinder banks and, yeah, really be ineffective now.
• 53:13
  No, I I'm going into this with a smile on my face.
• 53:17
  I think you know some new ideas about how to live life right.
• 53:21
  You know, things that you know 1520 years ago were vanity are
• 53:24
  now just about staying alive. I can.
• 53:28
  Show your back, it doesn't hurt. That's right, that's right,
• 53:30
  that's right. So I I do currently have a
• 53:33
  temporary crown on a tooth. So I am entering my 50s with a
• 53:37
  temporary crown. Just yet another reminder of of
• 53:40
  age and all that comes with it. But yeah, it's, it's definitely
• 53:47
  a new chapter. I'm writing an article right now
• 53:50
  about much of what we're talking about for Autoblog and it yeah,
• 53:54
  it started as sort of, you know, I don't know, I guess an ode to,
• 53:59
  to car week and, and has sort of devolved into I don't.
• 54:04
  Know reflections on. Reflection on on aging.
• 54:08
  Yeah. Check it out, it's great.
• 54:12
  It's a really uplifting read. That's what I'm hearing it is.
• 54:14
  And also you really know how to party.
• 54:19
  Absolutely, you know, but thank God for car week, right?
• 54:22
  I mean, because, you know, it does afford us these
• 54:24
  opportunities to live a little, right?
• 54:26
  And and you know, you don't think about politics, you're not
• 54:29
  checking the news. You know, you might as well be
• 54:32
  25 while you're there, right? And you know, it's, it's, it's
• 54:36
  just an amazing, amazing week. Like it is, it is a little bit
• 54:40
  of, it's like, it's like the dream week for car enthusiasts
• 54:45
  and people that love driving. And it's like we all agree to
• 54:48
  just suspend reality and just enjoy all of the crazy stories
• 54:52
  and opportunities that come our way.
• 54:54
  And it's magical. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 54:58
  There's definitely like a there's a high right that
• 55:01
  lingers right for a couple weeks at least.
• 55:04
  And Speaking of highs, should we introduce a competition this
• 55:08
  week? And do we think I think we
• 55:10
  should. So I think we announced a couple
• 55:13
  of weeks ago that we are lucky enough to have a sponsor for the
• 55:17
  show. We've got a few lined up, but
• 55:19
  this one in particular is Sheffield Watches.
• 55:22
  We've been fans of Sheffield Watches for, you know, quite a
• 55:25
  while now and, you know, actively bought our own watches
• 55:28
  and, you know, been fans of the brand.
• 55:32
  But as part of this sponsorship, we actually get to occasionally
• 55:35
  give watches away. This would be our first watch
• 55:39
  giveaway. So in honor of our first watch
• 55:42
  giveaway, and what we thought we would do is give folks a task
• 55:45
  and the very first person to complete the task will win the
• 55:49
  watch. It will be a watch of their
• 55:52
  choice from the Sheffield website, subject to
• 55:55
  availability. So we'll make our very best to
• 55:58
  try and get that watch. If not, we'll get a second
• 56:01
  alternative. And what we thought we would do
• 56:03
  is make it quite simple this time around.
• 56:05
  And we'll repeat this at the end of the show as well, just so
• 56:07
  that if people didn't get it in this first instance, they'll
• 56:10
  hear it at the end. What we'd like you to do is
• 56:12
  follow Sheffield Watches on Instagram and follow Sheffield,
• 56:17
  sorry, follow Sheffield Watches on Instagram and follow that car
• 56:20
  show on Instagram. Then what we would like you to
• 56:23
  do, and there's only two things you need to do here, the
• 56:25
  follows. And then go to one of the
• 56:28
  Sheffield Watches posts and comment on it and say at that
• 56:32
  car show and whatever watch you would like, that will
• 56:36
  automatically then appear in our feed and the very first person
• 56:39
  who does that will win themselves a watch.
• 56:43
  So just in a recap, follow 2 accounts that car show Sheffield
• 56:47
  Watches. Go on to Sheffield Watches, look
• 56:50
  at one of the posts and comment at that car show and what watch
• 56:54
  you would like. So it's pretty simple and it's
• 56:57
  probably the easiest way you could ever win a watch.
• 56:59
  So first listener, first giveaway.
• 57:02
  Good luck to you all. That's right and we should share
• 57:05
  the Sheffield Instagram is Sheffield under score all sport
• 57:09
  under score watches. So go check it out and I think
• 57:12
  the pink. I think I saw another post about
• 57:15
  the pink GT which. Yeah, just today.
• 57:17
  Unsurprisingly, very excited about it.
• 57:19
  So yeah, that's. A pretty that's a pretty great
• 57:22
  deal though, right? I'm I'm just saying, I mean you
• 57:24
  just you just have to be a early bird gets the worm or in this
• 57:27
  this case, the Sheffield watch. So can't wait to see who wins at
• 57:31
  that and we'll have more to come too.
• 57:32
  So if you miss out on this, just stay tuned.
• 57:37
  Sorry I. No, no, thanks for yeah, yeah,
• 57:40
  because we're at 55 minutes, I'm afraid, kind of on a tear here.
• 57:45
  So I'm glad you mentioned. That we haven't even done
• 57:47
  Sunday. Yeah, have.
• 57:49
  We let's talk about Saturday because Saturday at the end, I
• 57:52
  don't know what you were up to. I was at Concorso Italiana,
• 57:55
  which I'm happy to talk about, but you, Lindsay, were with our
• 57:58
  friends at Spikes Car Radio for a live recording, which that's.
• 58:01
  Right. I was at the Concord forums, the
• 58:05
  Pebble Beach forums where they do all different types of panel
• 58:09
  discussions. They had one with all women this
• 58:12
  year. They had Land Rover did 1.
• 58:14
  Scott Brady was on the panel. And they, as they've done the
• 58:18
  last few years, the Spikes crew did a live podcast as well.
• 58:22
  And I got to go, which was really fun.
• 58:25
  And I actually had my own reserved seat, which is always
• 58:28
  special. It's always nice to see your
• 58:30
  name and lights, as it were. And this one was a little more
• 58:37
  sort of exciting and interesting and notable getting started
• 58:41
  because Spike and Jerry and Paul were misdirected by the people
• 58:46
  managing traffic. And so the show was slightly
• 58:49
  delayed. They were fashionably late.
• 58:52
  I don't know if you guys experienced this, but the the
• 58:56
  sort of traffic wardens this year were collectively like
• 59:00
  across the board less informed and no patients this year, which
• 59:04
  was shocking on both counts. Yeah, yeah, I can only imagine
• 59:10
  what they put up with. So I'll cut them a brain, but I
• 59:12
  noticed that as well. Yeah, It was sort of like even
• 59:15
  going in, you know, knowing that, like, sure, yeah, it was
• 59:20
  fascinating. But so they sent the talent
• 59:24
  going the wrong way. So the show was a little
• 59:27
  delayed, but it was especially, we know what goes into a podcast
• 59:31
  and watching Spike handle it. He was such a professional.
• 59:36
  Yeah. He had no time to get set up, so
• 59:38
  he had to get set up in front of the audience and handled it like
• 59:41
  a pro. Yeah.
• 59:42
  That's the worst. That's the worst.
• 59:44
  But it was fun because Jerry actually was there this year.
• 59:46
  So he came out and chatted with Spike for a bit and, you know,
• 59:50
  obviously everybody should go listen to the show.
• 59:53
  But he talked a bit about, you know, this sickness that we all
• 59:56
  share as car enthusiasts and all of the feelings that we ascribe
• 59:59
  to these hunks of metal and rubber and, and we're all, you
• 1:00:04
  know, in it together. And then.
• 1:00:06
  Zuckerman and Matt Farah and Johnny came out and I had seen
• 1:00:10
  Matt on my drive in. He was showing some people he
• 1:00:14
  had his new Myers Manx there and I looked over and saw the Manx
• 1:00:18
  as I was driving by and then realized Matt was standing right
• 1:00:20
  next to it. Nice.
• 1:00:22
  So, so that was fun, but yeah, it was really fun.
• 1:00:25
  They did some listener questions.
• 1:00:26
  I did some giveaways. They had some of the Morris
• 1:00:29
  Solomon's license plate brands. I want one.
• 1:00:33
  Which was really fun and he gave.
• 1:00:35
  We know a guy though, so. I know fingers crossed we can
• 1:00:38
  make something work, but he gave away one of those spikes Car
• 1:00:42
  Radio Sheffield green watches which are.
• 1:00:45
  Great. Really great.
• 1:00:47
  And yeah, it was just, you know, it's always fun to see them and
• 1:00:50
  then got to say hi to everybody at the end and excellent.
• 1:00:54
  It's such a unique car week experience, I think.
• 1:00:57
  But they just announced they're gonna be doing one at, I think
• 1:00:59
  the odd rain this year, too. Fantastic, yeah.
• 1:01:02
  Yeah, go see them there if you're there.
• 1:01:04
  Back to your point about doing a show live, it is a lot.
• 1:01:08
  I, you know, one of my past podcast lives, I did 1 at an
• 1:01:12
  event called Zufengruppa here in Denver.
• 1:01:16
  And this was up in Boulder about an hour from my house.
• 1:01:18
  I get up there and realize the power cord to our mixer was back
• 1:01:22
  at home and it was no one's fault but mine and my wife was
• 1:01:24
  kind of have to go back. So I mean, I, I know what that's
• 1:01:26
  like. And then you have to be on and
• 1:01:27
  then you're in the heat and everything else and you've got
• 1:01:29
  to, you've got to make a show. And of course they're pros.
• 1:01:32
  But you know, it's, it's, it's a unique challenge and I can't
• 1:01:39
  wait to listen. I'm sure it's amazing.
• 1:01:41
  Right. Like you would never have known
• 1:01:43
  if you weren't in the room. Yeah.
• 1:01:45
  And it was, it was really impressive to watch.
• 1:01:48
  Like they you just, you got to roll with it.
• 1:01:49
  And they did. Yeah.
• 1:01:50
  What were you doing that morning, Dan?
• 1:01:53
  I can't talk about it. OK, one of those.
• 1:01:55
  OK, well, Dan's doing big things.
• 1:01:58
  I. Love it.
• 1:01:58
  Dan was providing his own private security for someone who
• 1:02:01
  cannot be named. Yeah, I was trying to stop
• 1:02:03
  people getting into the Koenigsegg house.
• 1:02:08
  Well, you are a life young Swedish boy, aren't you?
• 1:02:10
  You guys recognize each? Other but.
• 1:02:17
  I was supposed to get to the track, but I didn't get to the
• 1:02:19
  track unfortunately and just got waylaid with work and stuff.
• 1:02:23
  So, but yeah, it was an interesting afternoon.
• 1:02:28
  I didn't get to Concorde, to Italiano, which I wanted to get
• 1:02:30
  to. Was that again that?
• 1:02:32
  Was that was fun, you know. So again, it was at this this
• 1:02:34
  new, you know, this new space, I guess they call the pattern
• 1:02:39
  where Radwood had been the night before.
• 1:02:42
  And I was really impressed with the turn out.
• 1:02:45
  I mean, if you want to see oddball Italian shit, of course
• 1:02:47
  of Italiano is the place for you.
• 1:02:49
  You know, the Maserati Mistral or however you pronounce it,
• 1:02:54
  four of them. I mean, I don't think I'd ever
• 1:02:55
  seen one, right. There were, you know, like barn
• 1:02:59
  fine, you know, Dinos, right there were obviously was there
• 1:03:03
  was there was new stuff, but there was amazing stuff.
• 1:03:05
  There were there's a whole field of Alfa Romeos, right?
• 1:03:07
  Julia's in, in GTV, GTV sixes and you know, and you name it,
• 1:03:11
  they had it. New cars, old cars.
• 1:03:13
  Dan, I know you had an AR for the week and I want to hear
• 1:03:17
  about that in time. But I mean, there was new stuff
• 1:03:19
  like that. There was old stuff, there was
• 1:03:21
  oddball stuff. I met, ran into a guy came up to
• 1:03:24
  me and said, Ryan Barkey, I know he was a listener New West from
• 1:03:28
  from Instagram. And he won the Balboni award.
• 1:03:33
  Ethan, shout out to Ethan won the the big, the big award of
• 1:03:38
  the show presented by Balboni himself, who then went on to
• 1:03:41
  sign Ethan's car. So and Diablo.
• 1:03:46
  Yeah, he had a Diablo, I think, an early Diablo black car, much
• 1:03:51
  like our buddy Brians. So they got to meet.
• 1:03:53
  It was a really fun event. I was there again with Colin and
• 1:03:57
  Brian and shout out Dino and some of our other gang who was
• 1:04:00
  there. Yeah, well, if your name is
• 1:04:03
  Dino, you better, sure as hell better show up to the concourse
• 1:04:06
  of Italiano. But yeah, but I think one of the
• 1:04:09
  most fascinating things about the show was the woman who was
• 1:04:11
  showing a car, a modern Ferrari, on the lawn while also
• 1:04:15
  simultaneously selling exotic cats and possibly crypto.
• 1:04:19
  So that was fun. And did you just take one of
• 1:04:23
  each? You're like, I'll take a cat.
• 1:04:25
  I. Couldn't afford either.
• 1:04:26
  That's the problem. So I think the cat started at 10
• 1:04:29
  or 12 and I'm not sure where the crypto started or crypto began,
• 1:04:32
  but but it was it was actually a very fun event, very cool.
• 1:04:36
  You know, you know, I wasn't sure what to expect.
• 1:04:38
  And I was pretty impressed with some of the stuff that was that
• 1:04:41
  was there. Again, you only scratch the
• 1:04:43
  surface. You start talking to people, you
• 1:04:45
  know, but it was really, it was really a fun event.
• 1:04:49
  And I also then got to the track finally that day.
• 1:04:52
  Nice. You know, Lindsay, you and I in
• 1:04:56
  a former podcast life got to actually commentate races at
• 1:05:02
  last year's Rolex Historics. Do you recall the race that that
• 1:05:06
  you called? It was, I think the.
• 1:05:08
  It was the Ken Miles Trophy class.
• 1:05:10
  Right, right. And I got to do the F1 cars of
• 1:05:12
  the 70s and 80s, which I know nothing about.
• 1:05:15
  That's right. But we somehow survived and it's
• 1:05:18
  a feather in our caps. But we didn't get to do that
• 1:05:20
  this year, either one of us. No, but that I was thinking
• 1:05:23
  about it a lot. That was like one of the most
• 1:05:26
  amazing memories I know. There are literally like 1000
• 1:05:30
  speakers projecting the voice plus, you know, Goodwood network
• 1:05:33
  and all that. So it was, I'm glad I didn't
• 1:05:36
  know all that at the time. Yeah.
• 1:05:38
  Well, that was why I didn't go to the live Spikes last year was
• 1:05:42
  because I was busy commentating the reason.
• 1:05:44
  Exactly. So, you know, but but because we
• 1:05:47
  weren't doing that this year, I got to properly spectate and I
• 1:05:49
  got to make it up to the the infamous Corkscrew, which I
• 1:05:54
  don't care what anyone says, no photographs, no video, no video
• 1:05:58
  games really expresses what A what AI?
• 1:06:04
  Guess what do you call a feature that is?
• 1:06:06
  Remarkable. Like.
• 1:06:09
  Experience. You talk about things that would
• 1:06:11
  never be built like that now, but you're so glad they exist.
• 1:06:14
  And and that was one of them because it's this the elevation
• 1:06:18
  19. What's the opposite change?
• 1:06:20
  Change is, is is shocking. It's just it's and it's blind.
• 1:06:25
  And I just, I had no real appreciation for what that thing
• 1:06:28
  was like until I saw it with my own two eyes.
• 1:06:32
  And I'm so glad I did. It's such a great track.
• 1:06:34
  You know, it's so, so well run. You know, everyone there was
• 1:06:38
  friendly. It was, you know, and racing
• 1:06:41
  tracks. That's a whole different scene,
• 1:06:42
  right? But that's that's really how Car
• 1:06:44
  Week began That in Pebble, right?
• 1:06:47
  It was that in Pebble we were. So my family has been going for
• 1:06:50
  a long time. The first year that we went was
• 1:06:52
  1997, and my dad commented at the beginning of the week this
• 1:06:56
  year, he was marveling at our first time going up and he said
• 1:07:02
  we got our hotel room and our tickets the week before.
• 1:07:05
  That would never happen. And we were saying the same
• 1:07:08
  thing. It was the vintage races and
• 1:07:09
  Pebble. It was not.
• 1:07:11
  It was not car week. Like to see the evolution of
• 1:07:14
  what it has become is really fascinating.
• 1:07:17
  Yeah. Yeah, I mean in the very best
• 1:07:19
  way. I'm sure the people that live
• 1:07:20
  there can't wait for it to be done.
• 1:07:21
  But I can also imagine the, you know, the the monies that are
• 1:07:25
  brought in and and you know, right.
• 1:07:27
  So I'm sure it's, you know, it's a give take kind of thing, like
• 1:07:30
  a lot of relationships, but but you know, it's the racing is
• 1:07:34
  great and you know, it's just, it's a great place to watch a
• 1:07:37
  race because there's so many vantage points.
• 1:07:39
  You don't have to walk quite as far as some tracks, right, in my
• 1:07:42
  experience. But then I think one of the
• 1:07:43
  highlights is walking the paddock, right and and seeing
• 1:07:46
  these amazing cars not only that are being driven on the track,
• 1:07:49
  but are also that are driven to the track.
• 1:07:51
  And and point of example is we saw this amazing red 250 GTO
• 1:07:55
  rolling up. It was our old friend Chip
• 1:07:57
  Connor behind the wheel. It took the time to say hello
• 1:07:59
  and and and, you know, share with us a little bit and and
• 1:08:03
  that's the magic of car week. That's the magic of of of going
• 1:08:06
  to the track, right. It's just you never know who
• 1:08:08
  you're going to see what you're going to run into the cars,
• 1:08:11
  famous cars you've only seen in books and there they are right,
• 1:08:14
  right, being started up. You can smell in here and it's
• 1:08:16
  just it's it's a. Well, I'm being raised.
• 1:08:19
  I mean, I think that's the crazy thing.
• 1:08:21
  Like, you know, you said like the class that I got to
• 1:08:24
  commentate last year, Jim Farley was one of the drivers like in a
• 1:08:27
  Cobra. I mean, it's just, it's like
• 1:08:29
  it's the wildest confluence of your heroes and these hero cars
• 1:08:34
  and, you know, famous people and people that are car famous and
• 1:08:38
  just regular famous. It's wild.
• 1:08:41
  Exactly the race that I commentated.
• 1:08:44
  Sorry, Dan, go ahead. You just kind of gave me a
• 1:08:46
  flashback. Yeah.
• 1:08:47
  At the quail, I met Jim Farley's son.
• 1:08:49
  Oh, you did. Oh yeah.
• 1:08:50
  Nice. I think you must be like 14 or
• 1:08:53
  15. Amazing, yeah.
• 1:08:54
  And I think you used to just random, sorry.
• 1:08:58
  No, they have the nicest family. It's.
• 1:09:00
  Also Wisconsin Do you do you? Do you see the theme here?
• 1:09:03
  We're. Fencing A thingy, yeah.
• 1:09:05
  That's that's that's right. That's right.
• 1:09:07
  Well, that night, just to move things along here a little bit,
• 1:09:10
  was the also infamous Zinger party.
• 1:09:13
  Were you all there? Were we all there?
• 1:09:15
  I can't remember. OK, Dan wasn't there.
• 1:09:18
  Lindsay, you and I were there. We actually got the catch up.
• 1:09:20
  I know how many people there. It was really, really cool.
• 1:09:24
  And it was. Amazing the people I met.
• 1:09:26
  And Matt Farah had actually emceed, they shared a
• 1:09:30
  documentary of what they've done with the car and they they did a
• 1:09:35
  tour of tracks in California, setting records at the various
• 1:09:39
  tracks and they made a documentary film.
• 1:09:41
  So it reminded me of going to see Edith with you guys last
• 1:09:45
  year. So apparently a theme for me for
• 1:09:47
  Car Week is I get to go see a documentary every year.
• 1:09:50
  I'm not sure what's going to be. Next.
• 1:09:52
  Year, it was really cool, yeah. And they even took the car
• 1:09:57
  through the drive, through it, in and out.
• 1:09:58
  Oh, I saw it. That was so so, so epic.
• 1:10:01
  Well, and I always joke, you know, like when people have
• 1:10:04
  these insane cars and they go, OK, but you'd never drive it.
• 1:10:07
  Like I always joke that if you're gonna get something like
• 1:10:10
  that, you have to just drive it as much as you can, take it to
• 1:10:12
  the market for eggs, whatever. Yeah.
• 1:10:14
  So that's my new like would you take it through the drive for it
• 1:10:17
  in and out? Has your GT4 been through the
• 1:10:19
  drive through Lindsay? Not yet, because it hasn't been
• 1:10:23
  near an in and out. Squad goals.
• 1:10:25
  Squad goals. Exactly.
• 1:10:27
  Well, Zinger famously, and we talked about this the last time
• 1:10:29
  we talked about car week had this this area 21.
• 1:10:32
  The car is called the 21 something or other.
• 1:10:35
  By the way, it's 2100 horsepower, right, which is, you
• 1:10:38
  know, that'll get you a record or two.
• 1:10:40
  But but last year they had this this amazing sort of area 51 or
• 1:10:44
  what's it every 50 themed alien UFOs, you know, and you know,
• 1:10:49
  lots of silver, you know, Lemay body suits and gyrating, you
• 1:10:54
  know, young people. And it was a blast.
• 1:10:56
  Didn't have that this year, but they did bring the Shake Shack
• 1:10:59
  burgers and fries out again at the end of the which was wildly
• 1:11:02
  appreciated. Legendary, yeah.
• 1:11:05
  So good. Yeah, they were in.
• 1:11:07
  They did gold this year, some of the women.
• 1:11:10
  Yes, yes. But it was not quite the over
• 1:11:12
  the top spectacle. I think they really focused on
• 1:11:13
  the achievements of the car and and all that and it was cool.
• 1:11:16
  Yeah. And again, I think as far as
• 1:11:18
  like value for dollar for like people that I bumped into that I
• 1:11:21
  met was introduced to for the first time or I'd, you know, met
• 1:11:24
  before that may have been the party.
• 1:11:27
  I think we picked up a few potential guests along the way.
• 1:11:30
  A couple. Commitments.
• 1:11:31
  Well, yeah. And our friend Mark from Horace
• 1:11:33
  Straps was there. Yes, Shaheen from Rivian was
• 1:11:37
  there, obviously Matt Farah. Retro Mobile.
• 1:11:41
  That I got to do, yes, that's right, we got to see Roma and
• 1:11:45
  Java from Retro Mobile. Yeah, they say they're coming
• 1:11:48
  on, so we'll see. I know.
• 1:11:50
  Look forward to it had that liquid courage and I was asking
• 1:11:53
  people left and right so it's moving on moving on.
• 1:11:57
  So the next day was Sunday, not a small day on in the car week
• 1:12:03
  calendar. So a three days start.
• 1:12:07
  Dawn Patrol. Dan, were you there for that?
• 1:12:11
  I wasn't. I caught up with Lindsay shortly
• 1:12:13
  afterwards. Didn't get a hat.
• 1:12:15
  But the interesting thing this year with the hats, yeah, was
• 1:12:18
  they have metal tags and I think they're numbered, aren't they,
• 1:12:21
  Lindsay? They are, Yep.
• 1:12:23
  So now you not only have to get a hat, but you have to get a
• 1:12:25
  good number, right? Like it's the Colorado Grand or
• 1:12:28
  the Amelia, right? That's.
• 1:12:30
  Right. Yeah, Seinfeld would probably
• 1:12:31
  not be pleased. I don't know what numbers I got.
• 1:12:35
  22 or nothing for me but right. Car numerology no yeah they have
• 1:12:40
  like authenticity they're. Amazing.
• 1:12:42
  Yeah, amazing. And that's that's, I think,
• 1:12:44
  because they're friends at Haggerty, right, That Hans is.
• 1:12:46
  Yes, Haggerty are the ones that distribute the hats and yeah,
• 1:12:50
  so. And the Donuts.
• 1:12:51
  And. The Donuts, Sorry.
• 1:12:53
  And the Donuts. And the Donuts.
• 1:12:55
  And the coffee. That's right.
• 1:12:56
  Yeah, well, I slept in, unfortunately what I miss.
• 1:13:00
  So it was beautiful and it was clear, which is really unusual.
• 1:13:03
  It was like the first year that it was clear at dawn patrol in a
• 1:13:07
  long time. The what?
• 1:13:08
  The weather the whole week was unusual because we had rain at
• 1:13:11
  the singer party, like actual rain the night before.
• 1:13:14
  But then it was clear, you know, there were stars in the sky on
• 1:13:17
  the way into dawn patrol, which was really cool.
• 1:13:19
  And I hadn't done it before and my dad and I went.
• 1:13:23
  So we got there just after 5:30. And what's interesting as you
• 1:13:26
  walk in, you kind of, you know, wind around the lodge on the
• 1:13:30
  road down and we came around the corner and the crowd was so big
• 1:13:33
  that we gasped because there were so many people there, which
• 1:13:36
  is quite a feat. And it tells you the draw of the
• 1:13:38
  hats that that many people have gotten up and gotten there by
• 1:13:42
  5:30 in the morning. And what was interesting is how
• 1:13:45
  many people cleared out once the hats were distributed to the
• 1:13:50
  crowd really thins out. But we were able to get, yeah, I
• 1:13:54
  mean, we were able to get kind of right up to the chain where
• 1:13:57
  the cars were coming through. And we mentioned the Deistys.
• 1:14:01
  John and Lewis met us and we hung out for most of the parade
• 1:14:06
  as the cars were moved onto the lawn.
• 1:14:08
  But yeah, I mean, you could up close and personal with those
• 1:14:11
  cars and to see them driving, you know, it's another like the
• 1:14:15
  tour, the Tour de Pebble where you just, it's amazing to see
• 1:14:19
  them driven. And it was really cool because
• 1:14:22
  as the Land Rovers went through, my friend Lynn Woodward was
• 1:14:25
  driving one of them. So I got to say hi to her.
• 1:14:27
  And yeah, it's, it's definitely worth the early morning for
• 1:14:31
  sure. So one of the things that struck
• 1:14:34
  me during the tour with those same cars was, yeah, now maybe
• 1:14:37
  not the Land Rovers, not the sports cars, but some of those
• 1:14:39
  like brass era cars, some of those Pierce Arrows and
• 1:14:42
  Duesenbergs and those, you know, that type of, you know, the, the
• 1:14:45
  real, you know, the bespoke, the, you know, the coach built
• 1:14:49
  cars, right? They run silently.
• 1:14:51
  It's amazing. It's amazing, like.
• 1:14:54
  Yeah, you would expect much more.
• 1:14:57
  Noise. Yeah, it's a completely
• 1:14:58
  different kind of flex. You know, that's some, you know,
• 1:15:04
  some what's what's the the book? I mean The Great Gatsby, right?
• 1:15:07
  I mean that's, you know, that's these are the cars these folks
• 1:15:09
  were driven and that was the flex right.
• 1:15:11
  Now it's, you know, crackles and pops on your BMW, whatever.
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  But back in the day, I mean that that's how cool they were,
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  right? And and yeah, they're just.
• 1:15:18
  I just was so impressed with that.
• 1:15:19
  But so. On the to getting to see, you
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  know, that's what struck me during the tour and then getting
• 1:15:26
  to see them again at dawn patrol is most people never see one of
• 1:15:30
  those cars on the road. That's it.
• 1:15:31
  That's. It and to get to see that
• 1:15:34
  collection of them all at once. And then some of them I saw
• 1:15:37
  driving twice getting to do the tour and dawn patrol.
• 1:15:41
  And you really one thing about the tour is that people camp out
• 1:15:44
  all along the route along Hwy. 1 and then at the turn out because
• 1:15:49
  it's you go out and back the same road.
• 1:15:53
  And so people know where the cars turn around.
• 1:15:55
  So they go up there and wait to see them turn.
• 1:15:58
  And if you've ever been to, you know, if people have been to
• 1:16:02
  Good Vibes, like on a Thanksgiving weekend or like a
• 1:16:06
  big day at Good Vibes, it was almost double that.
• 1:16:09
  It felt like at the turn out for the tour because people are just
• 1:16:14
  so excited. And it's like you think about
• 1:16:15
  how lucky we are to see these cars moving.
• 1:16:19
  Yeah, you. Know it's.
• 1:16:20
  It's amazing. Yeah, it really is.
• 1:16:22
  Dan, when did you enter into the picture, I guess?
• 1:16:26
  I think it was reasonable about 7:30.
• 1:16:28
  OK, so got in, managed to con someone into giving us a golf
• 1:16:35
  cart lift in. The best?
• 1:16:37
  It's always a good secret. You just can be lost, pass all
• 1:16:41
  the past, all the the Gen. pop and like, you know, like you're
• 1:16:44
  the king. It's the best.
• 1:16:46
  The way to do it. But yeah, so got to see quite a
• 1:16:49
  few of the cars, got to see the Deisties, so Lindsay and yeah,
• 1:16:53
  yeah. And then the sun came out and it
• 1:16:55
  was a beautiful day. Yeah.
• 1:16:56
  It was gorgeous. Yeah.
• 1:16:57
  Yeah. It was, it was warm when the sun
• 1:17:01
  came out, but it wasn't too warm.
• 1:17:02
  It was just kind of a perfect day.
• 1:17:04
  It was. It was absolutely.
• 1:17:05
  I mean, that setting is incomparable, right?
• 1:17:08
  Yeah. It's just, if you've never been
• 1:17:09
  there again, something that's not really captured, you know,
• 1:17:12
  in photographs, it's just it's a magical location and.
• 1:17:16
  Because there's something in the air there too.
• 1:17:18
  Like really the whole peninsula, you know?
• 1:17:21
  Smells like money. That's what's hanging in the
• 1:17:23
  air. It's that fragrance that Dan
• 1:17:26
  whipped up. Yeah, but it is you're.
• 1:17:31
  Right ode to currency. Rich people don't sweat.
• 1:17:40
  So what were some of your favourites from the Lawn guys?
• 1:17:44
  Oh man, I like the oddball stuff, you know, like the car
• 1:17:49
  that, if you want to call it that, like the, the car that
• 1:17:51
  ended up winning, like the whole thing was, was amazing.
• 1:17:54
  What was the car with the, with the with the the cow head or the
• 1:17:58
  the? Bull.
• 1:17:59
  Oh my gosh. The the horns that spanned the I
• 1:18:01
  think it was a Cadillac or something.
• 1:18:03
  It was a 48 Chrysler Town and. Country, Chrysler Town and
• 1:18:06
  Country. That's the and I don't even I
• 1:18:08
  didn't even get to take the time to investigate what that was or
• 1:18:11
  the story there, but I'm sure it's got a great one.
• 1:18:14
  There was an amazing dark green Ferrari and I don't even know,
• 1:18:18
  like you know what it was it. Only just made it on the lawn.
• 1:18:21
  Which car, really? The green Ferrari.
• 1:18:24
  OK, what so? I was in the paddock and they
• 1:18:27
  were still trying to get it started like when we parked up.
• 1:18:30
  Right, because the car has to. It was like 738.
• 1:18:33
  Oh, really? OK.
• 1:18:34
  Oh wow. Yeah, yeah, that was panicking
• 1:18:37
  about not getting on the lawn. Yeah.
• 1:18:39
  Gosh, Can you imagine getting that close and then not being
• 1:18:41
  able to get it there? Crazy.
• 1:18:44
  What about you guys? What cut your eye?
• 1:18:47
  Because I mean these cars really are the best of the best.
• 1:18:50
  I mean, these are the best most special cars in the world.
• 1:18:54
  They won't make these cars again anything like them right?
• 1:18:56
  The tech, the the craftsmanship, it just, it can't be recreated
• 1:19:00
  right? I mean, there were so many.
• 1:19:04
  I think there was. Did you guys see the class of
• 1:19:07
  Moretti's which I've never seen before?
• 1:19:08
  Those are neat. Tiny 2 door I mean they look
• 1:19:12
  like toys you know and they several of them were two-tone
• 1:19:16
  like little jewel. You know they look like living
• 1:19:19
  matchbox cars. So those were really fun.
• 1:19:23
  There was a 68 Serenissima GT Kia, which I've never seen
• 1:19:29
  anything like that. Just so many.
• 1:19:33
  I mean, there was a gorgeous Aston Martin DB2 coupe, and
• 1:19:40
  growing up in the family that I did, the Cobra class was near
• 1:19:43
  and dear to our hearts. Yeah.
• 1:19:45
  Yeah, yeah. That was really fun and the
• 1:19:48
  there's a cobra, it's called the Essex Wire Cobra and I think
• 1:19:53
  it's the winningest cobra like of all the Cobras that exist.
• 1:19:58
  And we got to meet the owner, but.
• 1:20:02
  Years ago, Tori actually found a box of memorabilia in a small
• 1:20:08
  antique store in Pennsylvania and bought it.
• 1:20:11
  And then when he got into it, it had.
• 1:20:13
  So the driver of this Essex wire cover was Ed Lother, and it was
• 1:20:17
  one of Ed Lother's racing suits and helmets, and there were log
• 1:20:21
  books for another car. But so he ended up reuniting the
• 1:20:24
  memorabilia with the different cars.
• 1:20:26
  So some of the stuff went to this Essex wire car.
• 1:20:29
  That's special. Yeah, and he'd been telling me
• 1:20:31
  the story and then we walked onto the lawn and I'm like,
• 1:20:33
  wait, I was just hearing about this.
• 1:20:35
  Yeah, yeah, that is, that's incredible.
• 1:20:37
  I'm going to the wrong antique stores, apparently.
• 1:20:39
  Right. I mean, that's, you know, it's
• 1:20:41
  like you wish rescue dogs could talk.
• 1:20:43
  I'm like, I wish this racing suit could talk.
• 1:20:45
  Like how did you end up in a tiny town in Pennsylvania
• 1:20:47
  without the car? That's incredible, yeah.
• 1:20:50
  I don't know, those are my favorites.
• 1:20:52
  Anything catch your eye? It was good to see Bruce Meyer
• 1:20:55
  with his cobra. And yes, yes, can I, can I happy
• 1:20:59
  there? Because I ran into Bruce a
• 1:21:00
  couple of times and he was so gracious.
• 1:21:02
  I think he remembered who I was. I mean, he's just such a, he's
• 1:21:06
  such a champ. What a cool guy.
• 1:21:08
  He just, what a great guy. So thank you, Bruce.
• 1:21:12
  Yeah. And.
• 1:21:13
  His cobra is gorgeous. Yes, Oh my God.
• 1:21:15
  Yes, yeah, it was a battle of the bruises, wasn't it?
• 1:21:17
  Because he had the first one and then Canipa had the last one,
• 1:21:21
  right? So they were good friends and
• 1:21:24
  competing against each other and Bruce won his class.
• 1:21:26
  So congratulations to Bruce. Yeah.
• 1:21:29
  It's fun to see the like the bookended production on display
• 1:21:34
  there. Yeah, yeah, really cool that.
• 1:21:36
  Was neat. Also, people watching was
• 1:21:38
  amazing. Like it was at the Quail, but in
• 1:21:40
  a different way. There's some people in costume,
• 1:21:43
  some people very dressed up. There's some people that, you
• 1:21:46
  know, are dressed to sort of align with the vehicle that
• 1:21:48
  they're showing, which is cool, right?
• 1:21:51
  I think it's safe to say that the Pebble commands a certain
• 1:21:55
  level of attire, right? You know, I mean, even if it's
• 1:21:58
  warm out, you know, us guys will suffer through with a jacket on
• 1:22:00
  because it's, it's right. Well, it's sort of, yeah.
• 1:22:04
  I think it's sort of a mark of respect.
• 1:22:06
  Yeah. You know that you dress up for
• 1:22:09
  that I think. Did you guys see the
• 1:22:12
  Hispanosuisa Tulip wood? Oop.
• 1:22:18
  Do we lose Dan? Yeah.
• 1:22:19
  We're going to keep talking because they don't have time to
• 1:22:20
  edit this. So Dan, hopefully you'll you'll
• 1:22:24
  rejoin us. But, well, that was the car
• 1:22:26
  that. Ghosted us.
• 1:22:27
  That was the is that enough for you car stories?
• 1:22:31
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:22:32
  So. Well, let's carry through.
• 1:22:32
  So that was the car that won it all.
• 1:22:34
  And I don't know what the story, but it was almost like built
• 1:22:36
  like a barrel. It was this wooden thing that
• 1:22:39
  kind of had a but in like a very handsome barrel, you know.
• 1:22:42
  And again, I don't. Do you know why the car was made
• 1:22:45
  of wood? I don't, no.
• 1:22:47
  And not only was it made of wood, like for people that
• 1:22:49
  haven't seen pictures, it was covered with brass, you know,
• 1:22:52
  rivets or nail heads or whatever it was.
• 1:22:55
  Sure. Yeah.
• 1:22:55
  But even the name, I mean, it was called a Tulip wood torpedo.
• 1:22:58
  Maybe that's why it was shaped the way it was.
• 1:23:01
  I'm sure there was reason for it.
• 1:23:02
  It was epic. It was amazing.
• 1:23:04
  But I, you know, I don't quite know this, this story there.
• 1:23:08
  1924 though. I mean, that's amazing.
• 1:23:10
  We got to see it driving. I can't imagine it's a
• 1:23:12
  lightweight thing, you know, but there's got to be a reason
• 1:23:16
  tonight. If only we had our our guests
• 1:23:18
  are here and his ChatGPT friend. But I I think we're probably
• 1:23:23
  getting into, you know, getting to the end of this.
• 1:23:25
  So I mean the week kind of there he is, the week kind of ends.
• 1:23:29
  With. It's OK, we're glad to have you
• 1:23:32
  back. We just decided we're going to
• 1:23:33
  move forward because I don't have time to edit this one
• 1:23:35
  tonight, Dan. So favorite cars, you know, of
• 1:23:40
  course, then just the experience that Pebble is.
• 1:23:42
  And one of the moves at Pablo, of course, is to have access to
• 1:23:48
  at least one hospitality suite. I was able to visit a couple.
• 1:23:52
  Thank you. Infinity made some new friends
• 1:23:55
  at Infinity, including their director of design.
• 1:23:57
  So thank you for spending time with me.
• 1:24:00
  And then I think the ultimate flex is to eventually make your
• 1:24:03
  way up to the deck at the Mercedes-Benz suite and Lord
• 1:24:07
  over all those beneath you. And that's how my day ended.
• 1:24:12
  I didn't get to do that last year.
• 1:24:15
  That was pretty cool. Yes, they have the best food.
• 1:24:17
  Yes, they have the most comfortable chairs.
• 1:24:19
  Yes, they have the best air conditioning and yes, you see
• 1:24:22
  the most interesting people up there.
• 1:24:23
  So that was. Well, and I think one of the
• 1:24:26
  reasons too is like that is the center suite at the lodge.
• 1:24:29
  So if you are there when they announce the winner, there's
• 1:24:32
  nothing quite like it because I mean, people are crammed in
• 1:24:36
  because it's the best view because you get to see the
• 1:24:39
  platform and then you can walk down onto the platform where the
• 1:24:41
  winning car is. Yeah, so cool.
• 1:24:45
  That said, the lodge also shares space with Ferrari and Porsche,
• 1:24:48
  neither one of which extended an invitation my way.
• 1:24:51
  I own a Porsche, so maybe next year Porsche, you'll hook the
• 1:24:55
  three of us up. That said, the big bad you know
• 1:24:59
  lounge to be in is suite is Mercedes-Benz so.
• 1:25:04
  Thank you. Yeah.
• 1:25:05
  What about you 2? How'd you end your day?
• 1:25:09
  My day ended a little bit earlier because I had to head
• 1:25:11
  back to Southern California. So it was dawn patrol, run
• 1:25:15
  around the lawn and then get out of town.
• 1:25:17
  Unfortunately, Yeah, Yeah. And Dan, you had to drive.
• 1:25:21
  I had security join me for sushi at the end of the evening,
• 1:25:27
  because how? Was your sushi?
• 1:25:29
  We had sushi along the way and I was a little underwhelmed.
• 1:25:31
  Dude. Dude talking about the same
• 1:25:33
  dinner you were at. Or maybe I will have to edit
• 1:25:40
  this out. Sorry, I thought you were with
• 1:25:42
  your other crew. Got see this is what happens
• 1:25:45
  with. Private security, yeah.
• 1:25:48
  I'm tired. I'm sorry.
• 1:25:49
  I. Think you keep it in?
• 1:25:51
  Shoot. So we had $700.00, a very, very
• 1:25:54
  average sushi. Whoa.
• 1:25:57
  There was seven or eight of us, right?
• 1:25:59
  Yeah, that's true. That's yeah, You were there.
• 1:26:02
  I was there. It was the thing that happened.
• 1:26:05
  Well, apparently I was there, but.
• 1:26:08
  Allegedly. I mean, we're not even
• 1:26:11
  mentioning half the things that we did or places we ate or
• 1:26:14
  people we saw. That's and that's the that's the
• 1:26:16
  challenge. I mean, we'd be here for 8
• 1:26:19
  hours. Truly.
• 1:26:20
  Yeah. Like, which is an amazing
• 1:26:22
  problem to have. Like it's that's car week is
• 1:26:25
  just, there's so much. Yeah.
• 1:26:27
  That's why it takes like a month to process it when you get home
• 1:26:30
  because, you know, you wake up the next day and you just go,
• 1:26:33
  what did I even do? And then you do it again.
• 1:26:37
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• 1:26:39
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