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191 The Pile Up: Brain Buster 30 · Car Krush

• 0:00
  Emily BB30: Hello, hello, hello. Happy Friday
• 1:00
  Rose BB30: Yeah. I, yeah, sadly I b... You know, I'm not even gonna bluff. I believe
• 2:00
  My question from last week was what the fuck, Rose? Stop it. What the fuck are low profile t- tires good for? Ugh,
• 3:00
  Emily BB30: I just, I can't, and I just got new tires
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  Rose BB30: Maybe if it was like needed a little energy, you'd stand there with like a dead blow and just keep whacking it, you know?
• 5:00
  And, uh, then she talked about she had an STI and, um- Oh ... it had low profile tires, and she said it was really fun to drive. And then, you know, the more I thought about it, 'cause at first I was like, "I don't know if I notice that they're rough," and now that I'm noticing it, I'm like, "Oh, yeah, they are kinda rough."
• 6:00
  Rose BB30: an informed response right there. The bigger brakes, that's, uh, critical because if you've ever had an early van, you know how fucking hard it is to fit disc brakes inside of some old 14-inch wheels that had drums inside of them. The whole shape of the wheel is completely different. Old wheels for drums are a really soft dog dish inside, and you get to a steel wheel like I had to run on the front of my Econoline off of like a '90s Ranger.
• 7:00
  Emily BB30: greatest organ known. Oh. Whoa, crazy. Um, interesting. Yeah. Crazy interesting. Crazy interesting. Well, Chris said that hair is amazing and not low profile. And you know what, Chris? You're goddamn right
• 8:00
  Rose BB30: When peop- when I drove Hort's Econoline from California to Massachusetts on those, uh, bias plies that were re-popped by Kelsey Tire, but they're a Firestone, people would say, "How did they drive?" And I said, "They're, they're smooth. They're like velvet. However, when you turn, you feel like you have Life Saver gummies for tires."
• 9:00
  Also, I agree with that. I think that's true. Um, so the brakes thing and then the better handling from Jess and the better handling from Rizzo, these are all true facts. Uh, Discount Tire website said they are trendy and sporty.
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  Emily BB30: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then again, larger rim, larger brakes. Uh, they look cool. I think not. I'm gonna go ahead and say they don't. But anyway, uh, and that's one of the things, actually, what's really funny, is I'm pretty open. And hey, I don't wanna shit on people with low profile tires, um, even though I am about to.
• 11:00
  Rose BB30: That's funny. A knobby tire with a big old sidewall is gonna be pretty noisy too
• 12:00
  Rose BB30: They've ... This has been a long time coming. Emily gets her revenge. So are we gonna go to the yard and get you some 15s or some 14s from a yesteryear Honda, and then you can have a big old thick sidewall? Don't you think your car will look weird with all that sidewall?
• 13:00
  Emily BB30: It's hard to find these. I know, yeah. 80 bucks each time, and they're expensive when I do find them. If I find a used set... I mean, I haven't looked really, but it's 80 bucks to get them mounted, so. Who knows now with the price of gas, it might be, in this economy might be more.
• 14:00
  Rose BB30: Now, I asked a question about the GTO. What does that stand for? Now, I got a lot of answers, and I will say upfront, one educated me, because I don't recall that being in the things that I read about when I read about this topic, and this has been a while ago. I'm going off the top.
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  Rose BB30: P-O-N-T-I-A-C ... the correct answer to that- Uh, was really came through a lot of messages. And I'll start you off with, uh, Mopic Camry Eye, who, who does pretty frequently answer the questions. I have no idea if he listens to the show. There are so many people that I think I pretty sure are just responding to the social media videos, but not listening and
• 16:00
  I think people maybe don't even know there's a longer form show, but hey, if they don't wanna give up their time, that's fine. We'll... No, actually, no, fuck that. Listen to the show. Listen. We work hard on this. All right. Uh, Jerry, MOPAR Camera Guy, said, "Grand touring omologato, Italian for an approved homologated grand tourer
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  Gran Turismo Omologata, however that last one is spelled. He just interchanged an I where there should be an O, but it's, it, you, you read it, the sound is correct phonetically.
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  Rose BB30: Legato. Uh, yeah, so he spelled that O-B-L-I-G-A-T-O, and he said, "Which I think in Italian roughly translates to, like, sports car with a trunk Or, like, grand tourer." Um, Jess also, uh... Jess' like answer by proxy But we'll take it. Jess said, "GTO, Gran Turismo Homologata.
• 19:00
  Rose BB30: You're exactly right. Thank you for reminding me of the rules. Yeah.
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  Rose BB30: I think I just have- She's like, "Yes." I think I just wear her out being like, "Thank you," but I do mean it. I do mean it. All right, I wanna address a couple other tires. Ian Bruce, MC said, "Gas, tires, and oil from my dad."
• 21:00
  Jesse said, "Gran Turismo, homologated." A correct spelling on several of these answers, mind you. A number of people nailed homologated. Uh, Grand Touring homologated. That's 100% correct, homologated, a word that does nothing for you in the translation. And then, um, "My sister's old boyfriend," I love this, "My sister's old boyfriend had a 66 GTO back in the '80s, so we all learned about the GTO.
• 22:00
  Rose BB30: and oil. Is that- Y- y- yeah, that was the one that I didn't recall was the gas, tires, and oil. Like, when Drew fired that off, I was like, "Okay, that's a great guess."
• 23:00
  Rose BB30: Does it stand for the same thing on a Ferrari? Yeah, it stands for their homologated race cars. Now, I did ask a coworker at, uh, uh, a gathering this weekend, and, uh, he gave me a better answer. Uh, we came up with, uh, Grand Theft Octogenarian. The 80-year-old who can't stop stealing from America Yeah, maybe you've heard of him. Yeah. He lives on Pennsylvania Avenue? Yeah.
• 24:00
  You designers put it on a board. You were like, 'Yeah, this is spirited.'" Stop it
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  Killed it. This was, yeah, this was like if you had a grid up of all the faces, it'd be like the Brady Bunch. Like, they'd all be there waiting to answer. Even, even Johnny Olds with his unknown correct answer. They're just all in there. Thanks, everybody. Full house. Full house. Now let's see how you do next week.
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  Rose BB30: Is there a gray area? No, it just... I think it's a shame 'cause it held a record for a while, and then it gets beat out. You know how records are. They stand still in time, and then somebody comes and just stomps all over their nuts
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  Yeah, you could drive them a little bit. Like, they were big go-karts, basically. Yeah. And they, like, they could move on the track some, and I, like, wanted to drive. Cute.
• 28:00
  What's a T-bucket?" Like, he wasn't explaining any of it to me. Yeah. I'm just like, get... I mean, this was like Jag rear end, 15-inch wide Mickey Thompson's, black. Wow. Uh, it was a sick-ass car, and I just, uh, it- when I worked for Keith Allison, his dad, Jim, had one. Uh, but
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  This is a '70 and a half RS Camaro. Question, where does the entire front end theme come from? And then next week I'll tell you what it shares with the GTO as well. I could tell you now, but listen, we gotta get off of here. We've got things to do. It's Friday. But where does the entire front end theme for the '70 and a half RS Camaro come from?