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Z is for Zuffengruppe. · That Car Show

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I'm just, I'm just saying, you know, I don't want to build this
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up too much, but. That's for the finale, that's.
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Welcome to a bonus episode of that car show.
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Lindsay and I are joined by Mike Burrows and Derek Shrek of Fuel
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Fed Boulder for a preview of their upcoming German car
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gathering called Zufeng Grupa. And we actually recorded this in
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the days right before the Colorado Grand, so there's some
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anticipation in the air. And we even chased the dragon a
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little bit some orbit at the end of the show.
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I'll leave it at that, but you may find yourself craving some
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too. In any case, it's a bonus
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episode of that car show. Enjoy.
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Hey, it's that car show. It's me, Ryan Barky, along with
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Lindsay, Jess and we've got our fuel fed friends here tonight,
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Mike Burrows and Derek Shrek. And well, Mike and Derek are new
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to that car show. The old heads out there may
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recall that Mike actually joined me and Mr. Fogler back on the
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steering committee low so many years ago, back when we smoked
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cigars way more regularly and the whiskey flowed like an Old
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West saloon. But Mike and Derek were also two
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of my housemates for Car Week this year, along with Tina
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Collinseko, Colin Handler, and the rest of that legendary gang.
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I would also learn on this trip that the boys know how to
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prepare one hell of a steak dinner.
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In any case, we are recording this a few days before the three
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of us are off for yet another Colorado grand, something we're
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incredibly fortunate to be a part of, so we definitely want
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to talk about that a bit. Also, Fuel Fed Boulder has an
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event coming up that if you like Porsche's, and I think you do,
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you will not want to miss. But let's get started with Fuel
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Fed and then on to the Grand. For those who don't know what is
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Fuel Fed in a nutshell and I guess specifically talk to us
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about Fuel Fed Boulder. It all started with our pal
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Brian Hughes, didn't it? Yeah.
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So it started in 2010, so Brian in Chicago.
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So Brian Hughes was kind of a big car guy up in the North Side
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of Chicago and kind of had all the connections and growing up
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there and had been racing and driving for a long time.
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And he had started doing this event in Winnetka.
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Just really had a very specific vibe.
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And he started leaning into the idea of a classic European car
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show only and kind of went in turned into kind of a a
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membership model where he was able to raise money and kind of
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curate this event and curate kind of additional events and
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drives that kind of came off that.
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And that's where we where we met.
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We were talking earlier back in 2014, so ages ago, and it just
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started to build just really great camaraderie.
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And through this, pardon the pun, it's always terrible, but
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the vehicle of classic European cars and classic being 25 years
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and older. And so now, and if you, if
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you're old saying this, but 20 or 2001 and older cars are kind
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of the the core demographic of the event.
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So now as we Fast forward to Boulder, so I'd been in Chicago
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for a long time and worked with Brian on that event and
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volunteered going to help behind the scenes for a long time.
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I moved back to Boulder here in Colorado and immediately just
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found the car scene. I always kind of knew it was
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here with cars and lack of salt, and that's just.
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Relatively lack of salt relative.
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Relative, hey. Like our cars don't to Chicago,
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they don't just melt away underneath and.
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It's dry for the most part. For the most part, it's dry.
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We'll say there's a long driving season.
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We'll say it that. Yes, yes.
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So this is very conducive to cars and I think with within
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Boulder here, there's some some extremely passionate people,
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There's a lot of just interesting people.
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So started hosting this actually back in 2021 and we started with
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six cars. We now do 175 and there's a
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great cast of regulars, everything from like Carmen Kias
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and Triumphs to the Ferrari crew to all sorts of different
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Porsches. And there's always something or
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five things that show up that you're just like, all right,
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that's never been here before. No one's ever seen that before.
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Where did that come from? We had Alanci Estrados.
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It's just been just kind of a wild rotating marquee of things
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that kind of show up every single month now in Boulder and
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it and it's kind of become this this safe place to kind of bring
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out these things that don't normally come out and and it's
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kind of a special event in that respect.
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And we, we. You you have some shocking stuff
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that comes out. I, I, I almost want to ask you
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like the top five, but stuff that wasn't sold in the States,
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right, like Alpenes, right, European market, Lotus Elises,
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right. I mean stuff that's just you
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just won't see anywhere else. You know, these aren't
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necessarily the, the, you know, the blue chip stuff, but you
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know, even the lesser stuff is amazing.
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And then you get the into the blue chip stuff.
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You've had vintage Bugattis. Yep, and Bugattis we've had.
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Let's see here. AC like an AC Ace, unmodified,
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owned since 1962 we've had. Sterling Moss's DB4 GT that he
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raced for the Bahama series. 88 liter and eight liter.
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Bentley with Vaud and Blas coach work had some crazy stuff.
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Multiple, multiple Kundash's. Like I said, Estrados.
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We've had Pugani ratio Pagani's first designed Diablo 30th
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anniversary edition and they just like they sneak in and
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they're sitting there and no one realized like, wait a minute.
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Oh, that's the the special edition this and that.
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Yeah. But really it's it's just become
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such a great community there and kind of a connector of of people
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and long time Colorado car folk and it's just just a great time.
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I just kind of become a place where we kind of gather the, the
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last Sunday of the month, April through October and just just
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kind of hang out and see. And again, it's, it's not always
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about blue chip. It's not about the value.
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There's a lot of things that's neat, rare, interesting, right
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and unique. They're just fun.
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You, you have had, I want to keep keep this conversation
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going. I want you to brag a little bit
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more because you have had a row of F 40s, right?
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Last time you saw a row of F 40s outside of car week, you have
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had like, you know, 90 mile Volkswagen Gtis from, you know,
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1981, right? I mean, this kind of thing, it's
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just. 20 It's a 2300 miles 20. 300 miles.
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Well, in that case, forget it, Ryan.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm out.
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I'm out, you know. But I mean, this is this is any
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given Sunday, right? This is any given Sunday you can
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show. Up Sunday morning open, totally
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free event. If you have a qualifying car,
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you can park. If you don't have a qualifying
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car, you can walk in absolutely for free.
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Yeah, and to kind of it, it always takes me these these
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moments to try to think of my most magical, you know, this,
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what moments you're sitting there and hear some wild exhaust
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coming around the corner for the first time.
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Well. What haven't you had?
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Like what's what's your what's your bucket list car?
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I mean, what's? Things are really well, we're
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coming into Enzo. I'd like an Enzo.
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So as you talk about. So there's definitely like as
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you come into the the quote UN quote with 25 year an older
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window, right, there's always some kind of some things that
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start creeping in there, right. I mean, we haven't had a 288 GTO
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like that. Would that would be pretty
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amazing to see it kind of to in the Ferrari realm.
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Yeah, I mean we're starting to cross off some good Lancia.
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Oh, all right. So as a mark and mark, there's
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one mark that is very specifically missing.
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OK. And to my knowledge is Maserati,
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Yeah, we have not like we we've not there.
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There may have been 1 snuck in. I'm not gonna kill like the one
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Chrysler Maserati that may or may not have been over.
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There there was a there was a biturbo that came one OK.
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That doesn't doesn't down. Yeah, deeply at home or
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whatever. Yeah, yeah.
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Like a Bora, like I would go for like a Bora 49, but like some.
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Very correct. A MARAC, Yeah.
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Barack, I guess, yeah, yeah. 200 S or something.
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Or you know. Or I mean, we know people with
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2500 GTS floating around. Someone needs to bring it out,
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yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The 2500 GT I think would be a top choice.
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Yeah, I mean, this is kind of where you are though.
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We're talking about some some sort of esoteric stuff.
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I mean, you have had, you know, I mean just about everything.
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Have you had a McLaren F1? If not in a McLaren F1 haven't
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had a 5 like 959. So they put throw that one up
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there. We are working on that for Zoof
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and go though, so don't guarantees yet, but sneak maybe
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I'm trying to think like, yeah, what else?
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What else? Like really we haven't had like
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the Super super super car of the 90s, you know like not like a
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newer Bugatti. We've had older Bugattis.
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Yeah. No EV1.
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Ten haven't had a Veyron. I haven't had any.
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Yeah, let's, let's see what else?
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XJ220I mean those, Do we have one of those around?
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I haven't heard of one around that would be a fun one to see.
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It would and a Lamborghini lamb. The big 4 by 4 would be kind.
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Of that would the yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That's there was one at Morgan Adams, so I know that there was
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1 floating about. We've had a couple of Unimog's.
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I mean, one that was, you know, every bit of God 15 feet tall.
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It blocked the sun. I was parking cars and I looked,
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I looked up and I was like, man, wow.
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We got some cloud cover and it was just a Unimog roll.
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Yeah, Yeah, we could. We get like 300 SLS and gull
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wings. Well.
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That's yeah, I just do work like time.
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And stop by all the 356's. Yeah, yeah, like you start
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getting down into as Derek was, was saying there's, you know, a
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well known car that's a SMR DB4 GT.
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It was, you know, famously driven by Sterling Moss during
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this Bahamas speed week. And you know, it just it just
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comes by and we'll see if we'll see if the owner is in is free
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that morning. I mean, we've had Myron Vernus
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on the show. Who's known?
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He's a collector known for his oddball stuff.
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Myron Vernus unfortunately lives in Akron, OH, but we have a lot
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of those kinds of cars here, and they've shown up.
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Like what is that that alpha, that Zagato, right that that
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that wedge shaped alpha? Do you?
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Remember, that's the that's the that's dance car.
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That's the that it wasn't that wasn't a Zagato.
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That was Sprint Julietta. That was.
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Julietta Sprint. Speciola.
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That was the Sprint. Speciola.
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Yeah, the Julietta. I thought I saw Zagato SZ once
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there, but maybe? We did have, there isn't.
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Yeah, we did have an SZ. OK.
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I wasn't there that day. Like, yeah, I feel like we're
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gonna run through most of the Italian stuff.
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I'm. Derek was shilling the Zorbent.
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Well. The rest of us, we're taking in
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the They're an unusual car. I'm I'm a, I'm a pre war guy, so
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I'm I'm drooling over the stuff that's leaking all over the
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place. So.
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We'll get to that. We'll get there.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, again, you know,
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big like blower Bentleys and and all this stuff.
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It's just really, you know, I mean, we have some really good
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gatherings here. You know, I'll give a shout out
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to our our buddy Willis and cars at the wall.
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But, you know, fuel fed is, is a very specific thing and that,
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you know, to your point, it's 25 years and older generally.
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You know, obviously you and I want to talk a little bit about
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the gatekeeping, right, because you do have this 25 year and
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older rule. But some of us will sometimes
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sneak in with something a little newer if it's, you know, you
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know, a little earlier than ever.
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But what have you turned away? Oh.
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Man, what's the? I'm letting you fall on this
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grenade. Mike, this is definitely this.
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What? Which?
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Enemies in the Boulder community, have you?
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Have you made the greater Boulder community?
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Now a word from our response. And this is 100% the hardest,
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the hardest question, the hardest part.
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And I mean, as we say, it's, it is kind of a curated event to
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some extent. But it, it as we've grown, there
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was always kind of a little extra space.
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And it was when there was extra space, there's, it's really hard
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to go turn down newer things. And the newer things I'm saying
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like, oh, I think my, my, like I this is a really nice GT2Y sock.
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Like there's a spot down between the GT3Y sock.
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Sure, like you, you can't miss it, right?
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And like, so it was kind of the I'm turning away or like you
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guys can park in the overflow parking and then, you know, we'd
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have a row of like, you know, then there's the 17 Spyder, like
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right there and they're all in. Sure, whatever, paint a sample.
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Crazy thing. And that was the overflow.
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And I apologize, I don't keep up with all the newest Mark McLaren
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Mark name things. Yeah.
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Yeah. Probably some.
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Probably something with A7. Probably.
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Definitely got this old just read.
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Just turn around and read what the numbers on your printer.
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That's a McLaren. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Your HP Yeah. I remember going to the very
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first one that you put together and we should go back.
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So, yeah. So Fuel Fed Chicago, we used to
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do these amazing drives. Some of the best memories of my
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life. We used to, I used to go back,
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used to drive back to Wisconsin from Colorado to do some of
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these these drives. But you know, I've credited
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Brian and Fuel Fed for really getting me back into sports cars
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as an adult, right after having lived in Chicago for many years
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and not having had a car. So fuel fed is, is, you know, I
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mean, I, I, it's, it's been this glue, right, that has has, you
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know, bound a lot of us together.
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But when I moved to Colorado, I, I, I sort of entertained the
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idea of maybe I should start a fuel fed thing here.
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Brian didn't seem to latch on to it, but but you seem to be the
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one. And I remember when you started.
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Throwing. Brian, you.
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Know he was the right guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But, but, but, you know, that first event, I remember there
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were just a handful of cars weren't there.
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And it's grown again. So far, so much.
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Started really really small. I remember the, the second event
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now very, very good friend of mine came and pulled up in the,
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I would say the, the color wrong, but the tennis ball
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bright neon green 2002 TII that he had like literally just
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tightened the last bolt on a nut and bolt restoration.
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And I'm talking like I would have eaten off of any surface of
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this vehicle. And that thing pulled up and it
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was, you know, one of the 12 cars at the second event.
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And you're just like, OK, wait a minute.
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Like there's, there are people here like this is this is I'm on
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to this thing. And then, you know, Fast forward
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a little while later and I, because a woman lived near me
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and would always blow by me in her TR 6.
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You know, it was always like, you know, you kind of see out
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the window like, oh, there she goes again.
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There she goes. And and finally I ran into her
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in her 356 Roadster sitting at the gas station putting put two
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and two together. And I won't reveal names, but
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it's like a very influential, important person in the car
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world. And just my neighbor was just
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blowing by me and now is, you know, a huge proponent and
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always brings fun cars. So, So Ryan, I think as you were
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kind of saying, just to me, it's it's about this community that
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it brings people together. And I think it's just a a
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healthy thing to do things kind of in the real world together
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with our cars. And it's it's less about hosting
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things online and then bragging about it online.
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It's like, no, just come on to your go for a drive.
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If you take a photo, fantastic. Like what you want with it.
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Like no tags. No, like don't care about how
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many likes or tags that happen. Like it's not about that.
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It's about just coming and being part of the community.
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And you do something cool too. And just the location, right is
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is thoughtful and the location is considered.
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You're not just in a parking lot at an outlet mall, right?
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You are on Pearl St., You're in, you're in, you're in Boulder.
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But you're not, you know, you're, you're far enough away
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from like downtown where, you know, it's kind of residential.
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And you've very successfully been able to keep doing that,
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right? You know, so you're, you're
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curating something that that, you know, has, I guess has
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passed muster with the community, which is a challenge
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in and of itself, right? Which is which is cool.
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Like Boulder is a city Boulder, like the business community, all
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the businesses locally are all super supportive.
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If you're ever in Boulder, go to the Lolita's, go to Spruce
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Confections, go to A Piece of Love Chocolate Now.
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They're super happy to be there. They're super happy for the
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extra business. Yeah, Lolita sounds like the
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most scandalous mini Mart. In all of the land but.
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It is, yeah. Go get the breakfast.
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Go get the burritos. Go get the sandwiches.
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Go get the Stanley Kubrick breakfast.
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Sandwich. That's right.
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Be careful while you look right. Yeah, that's you alluded to this
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too. You know, the Colorado car scene
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I think is really unique for a, for a, you know, a metro area
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our size, Denver, Boulder, right, Colorado Springs, Fort
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Collins, whatever, Front Range. I think it's one of the the best
17:03
car scenes in the country. You have this confluence of
17:05
great roads, great cars, great people.
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A lot of those people have money, which kind of helps, you
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know, lubricate things, right? We have events like the grand,
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right? But what is it?
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I mean, what what we're very fortunate here because I think
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the caliber of cars here is second to maybe nowhere, but
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like, I don't know, LA honestly, or maybe Seattle, Lindsay, I
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don't know. It's Seattle's got some a lot of
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those. Same things I I was fortunate to
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have lived in both places. Moved here from moved here from
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LA, but did my undergrad in Seattle and used to used to
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ranch at a Porsche shop up there during the summers.
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And Seattle has a fantastic car culture.
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But I mean you can use the cars four months a year.
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Yeah, that's which is always rough.
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And and in Colorado I was, I was worried when I moved out here
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having been in, you know, the hub of, of automotive culture in
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the US is Lai mean it's as you know, Jay Leno has rightly
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pointed out, you know, that's during fifties, 60s, that was
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the hub of aerospace and engineering.
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And they always would buy interesting stuff.
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And so whatever car you wanted, it was within 60 miles of LA and
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you could drive them year round. And I was, I was a little bit
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concerned about the level of involvement with vintage cars
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moving out to Colorado and was absolutely blown away, right.
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And I think you're entirely right that Colorado second to
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Lai think has the best car culture in the in the US.
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And I think a lot of it comes down to the usability factor.
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We have the great roads, but we don't have the population
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density. So I loved living in California,
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but you go out on a Sunday, everyone's out on a Sunday, and
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you're stuck in traffic in your car, worrying about the
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temperature gauge rather than enjoying yourself.
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Whereas here, things are spread out, it's still dry, things
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don't rust, and there's enough money to support the hobby.
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And then there's just a lot of great technicians and artisans
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that have set up shop here in Colorado.
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And so if you have a car, regardless of the vintage,
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there's going to be someone that can help you with it, which is,
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you know, becoming more and more rare.
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Well, and that's a big thing. I really kind of want to lean
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into. Cars.
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Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
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Between having the mechanics, I mean all the mechanics from the
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grand are all absolute top notch and go out there.
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And as you know, if we built this community and continue to
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know folks within the, the cop echelon of Concorde stuff.
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I mean, we have multiple individuals that have 1 Pebble
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Beach, either as owners, as artisans, are regulars at our
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show. The, you know, the, the, the 57,
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the Bugatti 57 SC Atlantic, multiple people that worked on
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that car have brought cars and are and are regulars at the
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event, Multiple painters. You already mentioned Valentina.
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It's just really incredible the the talent and, and like is the
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the talent base that is here. So if you want to do something,
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it really you have that ability to to reach out and find that
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right person. And to me, just, you know,
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getting that community. Supported and and kind of be
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getting that virtuous cycle completed.
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And if something that's really special about the way that the
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classic car market is kind of moving, especially as somebody
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that really loves pre war, I get a lot of people asking whether
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or not they feel that there's going to be any interest.
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And I say that yes, there is, but it's moving away from static
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sculpture to usability. You know, now the Auburn court
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Duisenberg neat isn't just a concourse, it's 1000 mile rally.
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So you get shops like straight 8 popping up that are like, OK, we
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can make your Duesenberg reliable.
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And so now people are actually using these things.
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And it's something that Mike has done so brilliantly with Fuel
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Fed is he's getting people to bring things out of the garages.
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When we first, you know, when I first started coming to Fuel
20:58
Fed, I think I was at the second or third meet where there were
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still five of us freezing our balls off in the middle of the
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street going. We like cars.
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People would people would show up in like, I'm going to bring
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my F type. I don't want to be too flashy.
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Let's see what people are going to be bringing stuff.
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And then all of a sudden now people are like, Oh my God, I've
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got an excuse to bring out this really special thing that
21:24
otherwise is kind of living in a garage.
21:26
And it encourages people to actually use them.
21:28
And with the, the sponsorship people that Mike has put
21:31
together for the event, you know, you get, you know,
21:35
customizers and restorers and people that actually maintain
21:39
and work on these cars to show up and advertise.
21:42
And so people are more encouraged to use them.
21:44
And so I really do think that I I really do credit Mikes work
21:49
with fuel Fed with increasing the amount of just.
21:52
It's a weekend. I'm just gonna be driving
21:55
around. Look what just passed me.
21:57
Yeah. And that's a really lovely
21:59
thing. I mean, I've heard a couple of
22:01
stories parking cars at Fuel Fed of people that we're just out
22:06
for a Sunday drive gassing up and another car that knew about
22:11
Fuel Fed was getting gas and said, hey, you should come join
22:14
this event. And they had no idea and they
22:15
just followed them and it's just great.
22:18
Here's here's a good story in that front.
22:20
One time we had 3960 eights all pulled in together and they had
22:25
found two other 960 eights on the way we had.
22:32
There was five of them in one place.
22:34
And none of them were. None of them were the same
22:36
color. It was all a showroom.
22:38
It was hilarious. Wow.
22:40
I mean, how many of those are left right?
22:42
You know that's. Seven, right?
22:44
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:46
Well, I've seen like more than one.
22:49
Is it the M110 Lotus salon, like the one from the early 90s?
22:52
I've seen more than one at a time.
22:54
You know, I mean, again, how many of those are left, right?
22:57
It's just the stuff you've forgotten about, right?
23:00
The just the. But that's the coolest stuff.
23:02
I mean, you know, who cares about your new Ferrari, right?
23:04
Yeah, this. Stuff is, yeah.
23:07
I like to care. About your new Ferrari, yeah.
23:10
No whatever. Just like a.
23:12
I like the the vintage Saab and Volvo crowd who see how much
23:15
outdoor gear they can shove on their roof racks.
23:18
They're just some of my favorite people.
23:19
It's. Awesome.
23:21
Oh yeah, I will say that if if yeah, if you show up with a car
23:24
with a bike on it, you will get a premium parking spot,
23:27
guaranteed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:29
Well, shout out to our buddy Matt to Scandamaniac on on
23:34
Instagram. Who's got a beautiful is it a is
23:37
it a 2000? What's his 1800?
23:39
The green one The. 100. Yeah. 1800.
23:43
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That usually has, I don't know,
23:46
skis and everything else. Yeah, yeah.
23:49
Did that car show sticker for that matter?
23:51
Yeah, but it's the yeah, absolutely a reliable car and
23:57
skis on it. It's the.
23:59
Stickers, it sounds like, Yeah. But the way that the events
24:03
going, talking about having to unfortunately move cars into
24:07
overflow and everything else, it's only because Mike has gone
24:12
through the trouble to permit the event with the city because
24:14
they enjoy it. And it's a designated parking
24:17
space and a designated area, which is great because if you
24:20
get the safety of the cars, it's all walking traffic.
24:23
But the turning away is just a space issue.
24:25
It's not, it's not in any way to, it's not in any way to
24:28
discourage people. Coming out and breaking cars,
24:30
it's literally it's. Literally just like it's
24:33
literally just, Oh my God, at this point, you know, you have
24:35
to be strict because yeah, yeah, it's now we're at capacity,
24:39
which is a great problem to have.
24:41
Special, right? I mean, this is, you know,
24:43
Boulder stole, uh, Sundance right, from Park City recently,
24:47
you know? So this is the level of, you
24:49
know, affair they're putting on, right?
24:52
I mean, technically, technically red, technically Redford offered
24:55
it to Boulder 1st and we said no.
24:58
So we're just getting it. I don't know the whole SO.
25:00
We're gonna. Use stole relative but that car
25:03
show's bringing. You all borrowed more
25:05
permanently. You know, it's you know, it's,
25:07
but this is the level of, you know, this is this is what we're
25:10
doing in Boulder. And so, you know, the fact that
25:13
you know, and and and fuel fed is is, you know, thought of it
25:15
that at that level, right, just waiting for the fuel fed Film
25:19
Festival to, you know. We're just gonna, we're just
25:23
gonna, we're just gonna, oh, what?
25:24
We're gonna just gonna show La Rendezvous over and over and
25:27
over. That's all that matters.
25:29
Maybe that 5 minutes from Ronan, right?
25:31
Exactly. There you go.
25:32
There you go. Yeah, Perfect.
25:34
I was gonna say yeah. The opening of The Italian Job
25:36
and we end with Ronan and Bullet.
25:38
Work at right? It's the shortest build.
25:40
The original or Oh yeah remake. OK.
25:44
Or maybe like a double feature with both and then you gotta
25:47
throw the double. But only the car scene.
25:49
So it's a double feature that lasts a combined total of 15
25:52
minutes, right? Right.
25:53
It's a very short Film Festival, but.
25:55
Yeah, but the real reason we're here today, I guess, is to talk
25:59
about Zuf. Is it Zufin grupa or Zufin
26:01
group? I feel like, however, I say
26:02
Zufin Groupa, Zufin Grufin group.
26:04
But it's Zufin Grupa. Yeah.
26:06
Porsche Zufin Grupa. OK.
26:08
And and. And so, you know, if you have
26:09
been to Air Water, you know, this is very much in the spirit
26:13
of of that. This is a I don't want to say
26:16
Porsche only because I think you're open to some other
26:18
special Germans, but this is an event that will take place at an
26:23
airport. I think there might even be some
26:25
planes involved as as well. But this is this is this is
26:28
going to be a you really turn it up a notch with with zoo phone
26:32
group, aren't you? So it's kind of yeah, trying to
26:35
kind of pull the the best that we know of and a few things that
26:39
haven't been out to to other fuel fed events on October 4th
26:42
at the Boulder airport. This is going to be, they're
26:45
kind of open to a plethora of German cars.
26:47
So everything from some really wild and interesting VWS, you
26:50
know, buses, SP twos and low mileage Rabbits, things like
26:55
that, to Mercedes SL, Mercedes 300 SLS, to a variety of
27:03
Porsches. We are bringing in airplanes.
27:05
The point here is that we're parking these things out on the
27:09
the Boulder Municipal Airport tarmac.
27:11
We'll have DJs and food trucks. Just go check out Zuffungrupa
27:15
colorado.com. If you just Google that or look
27:19
into it or we'll we'll post something here.
27:21
I was going to say do. You want to spell that for
27:23
everybody? ZZUFFE Oh no, I'm not even going
27:29
to try the. Worst.
27:32
Color is through the universe. I'm not going to do it blind.
27:34
But no ZUFFENGRUPP. Yes, look at that.
27:41
You did, yeah. Yeah, yeah, all the points.
27:47
We we need like the the Sesame Song, like get across all this.
27:51
Right. So Mike, which which airplanes
27:53
will be at the event or can you share at least a few that's like
27:57
I would love to hear about that? So we're working on that.
28:01
We're trying to find, but we should have a couple pre war
28:05
things we're working on actually or World War 2 vintage, working
28:10
on a couple of German like flat 6 type of powered things.
28:14
So definitely some interesting unique airplanes, not just not
28:20
just the G650 year, you know, something that we're just going
28:23
to roll off. Hey, I heard a lot.
28:24
Hey, bring that over. Here I'm just, I'm just saying,
28:26
you know, I don't want to build this up too much, but.
28:29
That's for the finale, that's. Gonna buzz the.
28:37
The humanity, yeah, Wow. But it's, it's enough Time has
28:43
passed. It's OK.
28:44
Yeah. Yeah.
28:45
But we've got some Absolutely Fabulous cars we have, like
28:49
Bobby Allison's I Rock, GG Blue Porsche RSR.
28:55
Yeah, we have a fight, another Viper green RSR, just to round
28:59
that out. Working on a multitude of 300
29:04
SLS in various configurations, including one very rare
29:08
configuration that is not going or roadster, if you will.
29:12
OK, there's a teaser there again, a bunch of a bunch of
29:18
Volkswagens, multitude of BMWs you got Alpinas to to what 8850
29:27
manuals? So really just trying to kind of
29:30
bring together just these things that you don't normally see and
29:34
get them together in a beautiful spot with, you know, good food.
29:37
We've got some really high end food trucks.
29:40
So not just kind of your, not just your Schnitzel.
29:43
So, so really good times, good stuff.
29:45
If you want to display a car free, register again Zufen
29:48
Grupa, colorado.com. As a spectator, you're more than
29:52
welcome. Parking is free.
29:55
It's a $10.00 with door per head.
29:58
If you have a car that's 25 years and newer, we have kind of
30:02
a special parking area where we're lining up.
30:05
So if you've got that Wysock package, if you've got that Audi
30:09
RS7, if you've got, you know, a cool Porsche build, if you've
30:13
got something that's kind of the we're going modern Audubon Row,
30:17
I think we'll have a sport classic in there.
30:19
You know, just to just sitting there on the side, it's just
30:22
kind of give you a sense of those types of things.
30:24
And that'll be kind of part of the from, from kind of where you
30:27
have to park getting over kind of to the main event just to
30:30
kind of prime things up and make it worthwhile.
30:33
And just in case you can't figure out how many FS and PS
30:36
are in Zoof and Grupa, it's the event is on October 4th. 10
30:41
four. You can't forget that 10/4. 10/4
30:43
right when? Do when do do doors open, Mike?
30:47
So it's again 12:50. 12:50 Yeah. 12:50 on 10/4 and I wore the
30:53
right shirt without even realizing.
30:55
Roger, there you go. Totally.
30:57
So spread the word. I think the VW is a, a super
31:00
great group out here as well. And the the, the buses and the
31:04
hippie buses and The Beatles have been here a long time and
31:07
there's a lot of really, really good ones.
31:09
Not to mention all the Westfalia.
31:10
Then we're now all the way up to Euro vans now and you got some
31:13
some super crazy old builds. So what happens if somebody
31:16
shows? Up there's a straw.
31:20
There you go, the. Overflow.
31:23
That's in the area. We've had, we've had.
31:25
We've had I eights, we've had. Yeah, yeah, but it goes without
31:29
saying Boulder is a, you know, it's got a hippie history and so
31:33
pretty strong Volkswagen town. Lindsay, maybe you and Tori
31:37
should get out for for. That I know.
31:39
I'm thinking road trip. That's what I'm hearing, yeah.
31:42
Yeah, this. Is how hardcore Lindsay is they
31:45
she and her husband Tori bought AGT 4 and where was it?
31:50
Kansas City, MO. We were just talking about the
31:52
Missouri the other night. We were reminiscing Kansas City,
31:55
MO and it has carbon buckets. Everyone loves to talk about
31:59
that and it's also. Straight piped.
32:03
And it's straight, but can we have a moment for the blue
32:07
wheels, which is one of my favorite parts?
32:09
There. You go.
32:12
Just because the blue wheels are.
32:13
Probably the. Yeah, by the wayside anyway.
32:15
They drove through Denver and so.
32:17
Yeah, We flew to Kansas City. We met up there, picked up the
32:21
car and immediately got on the road.
32:22
And we went to what ultimately turned out to be the saddest car
32:26
museum we've ever been to, which was like, and we don't know what
32:31
it was called. Couldn't tell you what town it
32:32
was. It was an hour.
32:35
No, it was an hour West of Kansas City, MO, and they were
32:38
supposed to have a Doc Hudson replica, but we wanted to take a
32:43
picture of it for my daughter. And we walked in and the whole
32:47
museum maybe had 50 cars. And pretty quickly we realized
32:51
they were all yellow. So cue the song.
32:55
And so we did a quick lap and then we're like, we're stuck.
32:59
And so we went up to the counter and it's these kids that like,
33:02
you know, this is their minimum wage job.
33:05
They're not there because they love cars.
33:07
We're like, right. So quick question.
33:09
Could you point us to Doc? And they were like, Doc hasn't
33:12
been here in a long time. Still on his website I'm sure.
33:16
Still on the website anyway. Yeah.
33:19
So we drove it. We did.
33:21
Our inaugural, you know, connection with the car was a
33:24
2000 mile road trip. Nice, it was the best way.
33:28
Yeah, and we got to stop and see.
33:29
Ryan that which was fun. We had lunch and yeah, yeah, it.
33:34
Yeah, It. I don't know if you ever drive
33:36
as an I-80 through Nebraska. I think there's a place that
33:40
might beat that. The last time I checked, I think
33:42
it had officially closed down, but it was an Oldsmobile,
33:45
primarily museum, but it wasn't like they're cool Oldsmobiles.
33:49
I don't know, it was just like 4 door cup of Supremes and this
33:52
kind of stuff. Do you know the one?
33:53
Derek, you have. Fire, like her heart is against
33:56
the inner. There are some, there are some
33:58
cool. There are some cool Oldsmobiles,
34:00
but it's been a while. OK, OK, So you've been there?
34:03
You've been there? Yeah.
34:03
I I. I have I have kind of seen I'm
34:06
I'm a sucker for a I'm a sucker for a tourist trap.
34:09
I really like when I was I drove coast to coast a couple of times
34:12
and I'm I'm the guy being like, oh, the world's largest rubber
34:15
band balls in Akron. Oh, well, I'll take but I did, I
34:19
did stop off in there and I was kind of shocked at how many
34:22
malaise era cars that are now collectible.
34:26
I'm like, I'm like, do we really need to do we really need to
34:29
keep an old 350 diesel for posterity?
34:32
It's more of a warning to history, but yeah, it's.
34:36
Unless we forget. Yeah, exactly.
34:39
This, this is what you get for roadside attractions in western
34:41
Nebraska. There is the world's largest,
34:43
uh, covered wagon, which has been in disrepair for about 30
34:46
years. I got out of the car immediately
34:48
stepped into a pile of human shit.
34:50
But this is kind of where, where we are with roadside attractions
34:53
between here and I guess Lincoln.
34:55
But. Yeah, we got the Union Pacific
34:57
Museum at Omaha. You do if you're into the golden
34:59
spike. That's good stuff, but.
35:01
Apparently it's not where they actually did the golden spikes.
35:03
No, that's in Utah that. Was.
35:06
Utah. Yeah, that's in Utah.
35:07
That's just where the train is. That's OK.
35:10
OK, well, Zoofing group, check it out.
35:14
It's going to be an awesome event.
35:16
You might even have a live podcast.
35:18
You know if if if. Only our favorite podcast.
35:21
That's. That's right, might even
35:23
remember the power cord at this time anyway.
35:29
And, and just as a clarification, I think kind of
35:31
interesting thing. So we were doing this in
35:32
conjunction with, with Zoof and Grupo in the Burlington Airport
35:36
in Wisconsin the same day. So can't make.
35:40
So yes, if you can't make Colorado and you're in the
35:44
Midwest somewhere in Chicago or Wisconsin area or anywhere
35:47
nearby, go check out that one. So we're doing kind of a a dual
35:51
car show, same theme, same place, Burlington Airport,
35:55
Boulder Airport, same day, same time, the same theme.
35:58
Yeah. So check it out.
36:00
Absolutely. And you know guys, we are how
36:04
many days away from the Colorado Grand. 05 drive up on Monday.
36:10
Highlight of a year? What are you guys running this
36:12
year? Because it wasn't what I thought
36:13
you were going to run. We're are we allowed to even?
36:18
Yeah, we're talking. About that, we have approval.
36:21
Yeah, we are, we're that's fine. So no, we're, we're running,
36:25
we're running a 59 Corvette this year, which is a lot of fun.
36:29
It's fantastic. It's not, it's not something you
36:31
normally see on the grand, hence the joke about about not not
36:36
really mentioning it. And it's, and it's mostly just
36:38
because the the grand is is 1959 and earlier in kind of kind of
36:44
an homage to the meal Emilia, which is 57.
36:47
Same thing with the cow Meala, but they decided 59 when the
36:50
grand started 37 years ago. And the the Corvette qualifies.
36:55
It's a lot of fun. And you know, when you're
36:59
driving through the middle of Colorado, people want to people
37:02
want to see some American muscle.
37:04
Sometimes it's it's funny, last year we we ran it as well and we
37:07
were parallel parking in between, you know, a prototype
37:11
pontoon Ferrari just hand fabricated by Scalietti and the
37:15
D type Jag that took second in the 58 Lamar.
37:18
And these guys came up, looked at the vet and just go best car
37:21
here. From realist to God's ears.
37:26
And it's. Yeah.
37:27
Well, it's, I mean, it's because it's because people have a
37:29
connection to it. Nobody, nobody, nobody's dad had
37:33
a 250 short wheelbase and you know, you know, the middle of
37:36
nowhere. So you know, it's but but yeah,
37:40
so we're we're going to be ripping that this year.
37:42
It'll be a. It'll be a lot of fun.
37:43
Yeah. And is there a story like with
37:46
the car, like with your connection to the car, like how
37:49
you? So the car, yeah, well, so the
37:52
car actually was one of the first ones that I restored
37:56
completely. I built it 25 odd years ago for
37:58
my dad and it was just yeah, it was.
38:02
It's an unusual color combination high optioned car.
38:06
It's a Snowcrest white, Grecian Gray coves, black interior.
38:10
It's a 283 dual 4 positive traction 4 speed car.
38:15
And it was just kind of an untouched original.
38:17
It was originally delivered to the Los Angeles area in late 58
38:22
and found it back when they were just used cars and you can
38:27
afford, can afford to do this stuff.
38:30
And so I restored it for him and he loved it, but he didn't
38:35
really drive it much. We're we're originally from Las
38:37
Vegas and which is where he still lives.
38:39
And, you know, a summer's day in Vegas, the last thing you want
38:42
to be in is an in an open top car with, you know, vinyl seats.
38:47
So eventually he downsized and I got the car back and
38:53
cosmetically it looked great, but I mean because of the desert
38:56
heat everything with a rubber seal had gone.
38:59
So I sorted it as best as I could.
39:01
We ran it last year and it did really well, finished no
39:05
problems, but I ended up with a laundry list of shit to take
39:08
care of for the following year. So now it's fully sorted.
39:12
Now we should actually have a little bit more fun and a little
39:15
less. What's that smell?
39:19
It looks like it belongs though, you know, Despite that that
39:23
elevated, you know, company or whatever, it looks like it's
39:26
supposed to be there. Well, I mean, and the, the grand
39:28
is the grand's open to, to anything sporty 59 and, or it's
39:32
not that they're, it's not that they're Pooh Pooh in Corvettes.
39:34
It's just that, you know, the grand, though, it's a very
39:37
special event in that one of the many charities that it was
39:40
founded to support involves the Colorado Highway Patrol.
39:44
So a lot of impossible cars from the, from the 50s and earlier
39:49
that are not technically street legal get special dispensation
39:52
to run on the open road for a week.
39:55
You get up, you get temporary registration.
39:58
And so it attracts a lot of vintage race cars because it's
40:01
the only time they can really exercise them publicly.
40:04
And on open roads and streets rather than, you know, on an
40:07
enclosed track and you know, you're not going to you're not
40:10
going to say no to, you know, you know, Lamont winning cars.
40:14
So that's so it's it's just unusual to to have one apply, I
40:20
think. So that's.
40:20
What it? And I think so that it's funny
40:23
that there's always kind of a conversation of of, well, if I
40:26
want to go on the grand, What Car to What Car to buy?
40:29
So the short answer is a Jaguar 120.
40:31
But now they're past that. The hardest things to get on the
40:37
on the Colorado Grand is a 356 and A300SL and the most common
40:42
and you're just competing with the, the best of the best of the
40:45
best cars. So that the Corvette we, we've,
40:50
we've got a history with the Grand, which I think kind of
40:52
helped us get in there because you know, that's not a common
40:56
thing there. There's we are actually kind of
40:58
happy of this distinction. There's officially only been one
41:01
other Corvette, physically speaking, one only Corvette ever
41:05
on the Grand. Tom Rain gets credit for the
41:08
story. But it was a 57.
41:11
And there's one owner that would bring the car for a while pretty
41:14
early on and brought it like 5 or 6 years and then kind of just
41:17
disappeared. And just as we were talking
41:19
about it was a fan favorite. And like, you know, the Grand
41:22
crew is really just disappointed to see it disappear.
41:25
Fast forward several years and Tom is at a race track walking
41:31
around a big, big car day. Bunch of bunch of activity at
41:34
the track runs into this individual and he's like, oh
41:38
man, wow. Like it's it's amazing to see
41:40
you like it's it's been years. What are you up to?
41:43
He's like, Oh yeah, I'm, I'm racing my Ferrari FXX and and
41:49
Thomas Quack. Only.
41:51
Modern track only special if you don't know what.
41:53
Correct. Yeah.
41:53
And like this is, let's just say this is not your first Ferrari.
41:56
Let's just, we'll put it in that in that category of Ferrari.
42:01
And he says, oh, yeah, of course, you know, like I, I have
42:03
17 Ferraris, like, and Tom comes back, wait a minute, like you
42:08
own 17 Ferraris go, yeah, I've got all this stuff.
42:11
And they go, why did you bring the Corvette on the grant?
42:15
Because everyone wants to see the Corvette, and so there's
42:19
kind of this a little bit of an homage of like 1 Corvette on the
42:23
Grand. And I think there's a huge
42:24
hesitation. Like 2 would be too much.
42:27
Yeah, I'm digging the. But it's tradition.
42:31
Just within the the broad spectrum of things you try to
42:34
get on the grand, you really try to, especially as I was kind of
42:37
started with 350 sixes and the 300 SLS.
42:40
The beauty of it is the variety, yeah.
42:42
And you really, really hate to see too much of a concentration
42:45
of anyone thing. No, no, you'd never think you'd
42:47
get sick of 300 SLS, but you know, if you have 30 of them,
42:49
that might be, yeah. You know when you get when you
42:51
get sick, it's like is is that the green rudge or or is that
42:56
the the rudge wheel green one or the non rudge wheel green one?
42:59
Yeah, yeah. You start to get real particular
43:01
and you want those Rudge wheels, you know?
43:03
Yeah. And I want to make a quick
43:04
clarification. It's 60 and earlier.
43:06
I just don't want to get. Trouble.
43:09
Right for that. But no, it's it's always fun to
43:13
see that car. And you know, I've tried to put
43:14
into words on this show and and and words in print for that
43:18
matter, but I don't know that I've ever really actually
43:21
captured what makes the grand so incredibly special for those of
43:24
us who are lucky enough to be a part of it.
43:26
So I yield the floor to you guys.
43:28
What is it about the Grand? It's the purity of the event.
43:33
It's, it's not a corporate event.
43:36
And, and that I, you know, I hate to be reductive about it,
43:39
but it's true. The grand was started by
43:43
enthusiasts as a charity event and it is retained that flavor
43:51
for 37 years. And I mean, Lord knows, you
43:54
know, you can throw enough money at an event and people are
43:58
inclined to sell and to privatize it or to make it a for
44:01
profit thing. But with the grand, they've been
44:04
able to say the entire mission of this is to gather a great
44:08
group of people. Again, coming back to the
44:11
community factor like in the, there are enough people with
44:15
money that you can cut a check and you can get an amazing car
44:18
that qualifies for the grand, but that doesn't get you on it.
44:22
It has to be a group of people that they want to spend 5 days
44:27
with, that they want to, to hang out with and see that are, that
44:32
are like minded, that really love the cars, but also really
44:35
value what the grand provides. And that is the kind of the the
44:39
charitable aspect and giving back to the community every I
44:42
don't think that that a lot of the listeners realize.
44:45
I think they would just assume that it's kind of like, you
44:47
know, the Cal Mila, you pay a bunch of money and they close
44:49
some roads for you. The the Grand is given back at
44:52
this point in time about 12 to $15 million in charitable in
44:56
charitable money. Every small town that the Grand
45:00
stops at you never drive more than 60 to 120 miles at a time
45:04
before you stop at a town for coffee and a break.
45:07
So it really doesn't feel like you're driving all that much in
45:09
a day, even though you are. But every single town gets
45:13
scholarships for college for students.
45:15
They let the kids out of school so that they can come and
45:18
experience the cars and meet the owners and sit in them and smell
45:22
them and interact with them. They they work directly with the
45:27
individual towns to say, well, what do you need?
45:31
We're not going to dictate where what this money is going to go
45:33
to. What are your specific needs?
45:36
No middle man just will give you a check for what your community
45:39
needs. In Walden, they helped put up a
45:41
medical facility. They put up arts centers,
45:45
healthcare, anything that that particular towns town needs.
45:48
There's no middleman with the donations and they've managed
45:52
to, they've managed to keep that flavor for 37 years when most
45:58
other events have have just become a, a, a pay to play
46:02
thing, right. And I really, I really do feel
46:06
like what makes the grand special is just that they've
46:09
been able to make it more about the people than it is about the
46:13
cars, even though it's a driving event.
46:15
And we'll say. That's a lean.
46:16
It just absolutely like lean into this even further,
46:20
especially in contrast coming back from car week where you
46:23
know, if, if you have a car that's being displayed anywhere
46:27
on on the peninsula, you just there are throngs of people that
46:31
like you cannot get away from anything.
46:35
So the grain is the absolute opposite.
46:37
Like the, the starting point is a secret.
46:40
If you know where, what what is up and what's going on, you know
46:45
kind of where it ends and where to hang out and the rest of the
46:48
1000 miles and the rest of the stop is unpublished.
46:51
There is not the public. There is not, I mean, outside of
46:55
the small towns and the kids and things like that, there's not
46:58
paparazzi. There's not influencers.
47:01
Just I'm going to use that word. They're not influencers.
47:05
So it just becomes this really like you're kind of part of it
47:08
or or you're not. And, and not to say that you're
47:10
like, that's maybe not the right word, but it's like it's, it's
47:15
kind of you're part of this group that that's enjoying this
47:18
whole experience. And it's less what it's being
47:21
seen. It's a part of just the shared
47:23
experience. Yeah, yeah.
47:24
The yeah, the the route, the route changes every year and
47:28
even even the participants until the drivers meeting on day one
47:33
and until we receive the route book, we have no idea where
47:36
we're going. It's it's a very closely guarded
47:39
secret into Mike's point. What what that does is it allows
47:42
people to just tune out every every other kind of status Y
47:47
thing that goes on with events like this typically and to just
47:51
exist. Yeah.
47:52
And it's it is the most laid back, fun, engaging and
47:58
ultimately very community positive event that I've been.
48:05
I've been privileged enough to be able to be a part of.
48:07
And that's and that's why as long as as long as they'll,
48:10
they'll keep letting my ass let us.
48:14
Yeah, exactly. I was just like.
48:16
With the three of us are not representative.
48:18
Exactly. Yeah, Yeah.
48:19
In fact, I was just, I was just gonna say if you're watching
48:21
this on video, these are not the faces you typically see.
48:27
But yeah, it's, it's as long as, as long as, as long as I, I have
48:31
breath and am allowed to wave the flag for the grand, I
48:34
definitely will because it is it really is the last of its kind.
48:37
There are there are events that there are lots, there are lots
48:40
of events that started out this way and unfortunately have just
48:43
kind of morphed into something else.
48:45
This one has managed to just stay incredibly pure.
48:49
Yeah, it's a special thing. Well said, both of you.
48:51
Yeah. Yeah, it's that curation, isn't
48:54
it? Not just the cars, but of the
48:56
people and the you know and and. It's the whole thing, yeah.
48:58
It's the whole thing. It's just they call it the
49:01
enchanted forest, right? And and that's, you know, you
49:03
get into this zone and that's and that's what it is indeed.
49:06
But we're coming up near an hour and you guys are not just
49:14
friends, not just Co drivers on the grand you're business
49:17
partners. So you, you, you deal in white
49:20
powder. Where we are, we are native.
49:24
We are native to the US We're not.
49:26
We distribute. Weight powder.
49:28
Yeah. Let's.
49:33
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49:41
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49:45
product called Zorbent. Think like Absorbent.
49:48
So I think if, if you've got your car, if you're a British
49:51
car owner like me or some of these, I think you always have a
49:54
little bit of drips, something on the floor.
49:58
Yep. Be it, be it water, be it oil,
50:00
be it transmission fluid, anything, this stuff will absorb
50:05
all of it. It takes like literally seconds
50:09
and you just sweep it up for it right in the trash or just keep
50:12
using it. I usually just have a push broom
50:14
and I just kind of like go back and forth periodically like
50:17
it's, it's that reusable and that straight.
50:19
That's the official technique, straight from the source, yeah.
50:22
Straight from the. Source.
50:23
Yep, totally. But no, it's fantastic stuff.
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50:30
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50:33
You can imagine 125 classic cars going through these parking
50:36
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50:39
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50:42
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50:44
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50:47
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50:51
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50:54
With a? With a?
50:55
Yep, just like yeah, Z isn't Zufengruppa.
50:58
Less consonance though. Yeah, we're going to call this
51:01
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51:03
That's right, right? And then we're actually just
51:07
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51:11
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51:13
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51:17
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51:20
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51:24
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51:29
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51:33
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51:34
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51:38
You could throw that down and and bring it back to, you know.
51:41
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51:43
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51:45
actually eat the the oils and the petrochemicals.
51:48
Yeah. This is not like a cleaner.
51:50
It's something that is like actively by chemistry, biology,
51:54
like science. I'm gonna say the second-half of
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that. But now you've lost me.
51:57
Yeah. But yeah, that works.
51:58
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52:00
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52:06
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52:09
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52:13
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52:16
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52:19
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53:39
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53:44
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53:48
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54:06
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54:51
OK. Oh.
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That's super helpful. What's that like getting your
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55:33
Well, is this a show? I think it is that a retort.
55:40
And now we know. Yeah, there it is.
55:43
I love it. There we go.
55:45
God, I love that. From Grupa 10/4 in.
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Boulder Airport. Boulder Airport. 12:50.
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We're off on great adventures. Mike Burrows, Derek Shrek good
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That's. Right.
56:01
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56:03
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56:07
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