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Car Week Chronicles · That Car Show

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  It might be the largest group of the most welcoming people you'll
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  ever run across. This week on that car show, we
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  are just back from Monterey and we are bursting with car week
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  tails. Each year somehow manages to top
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  the one before and we want to unpack it all with you here
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  today. It's just me and Lindsay this
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  week and this is an audio only episode.
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  It's a fun one though. It's a Car Week Chronicles and
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  it's that car show. Hey, it's that car show.
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  It's Lindsay, Josh and me, Ryan Barkey today and well damn it,
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  it's the annual post car week come down episode.
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  It happens every year. You know, we we all have this
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  best week ever in Monterey and Carmel.
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  We're living it up like doctors brushing our teeth of champagne
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  and caviar. And you know, then we have the
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  world's biggest door hit us in our collective ass on the way
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  out. So holy shit, another incredible
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  car week wasn't. It Oh my gosh, I mean, and it's,
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  I think the contrast was even stronger this year.
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  Like I ended up coming back like leaving midday on Sunday.
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  So I got home Sunday night, which is usually I get home on
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  Monday and I woke up Monday morning and just went was it all
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  a dream? Like it just, it's just amazing.
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  It's just such a different world, and it's so magical.
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  And then you're just boom, you're back in your real life.
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  And it's like, did that even happen?
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  Like, I felt like I spun around and the whole thing was just,
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  you know, this amazing Daydream. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's, it's
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  always amazing, right? You know, it's as soon as you
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  sort of, I don't know, turn around, you run into someone
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  else, you know, or you see something else amazing.
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  I mean, right. The first time is always the
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  best time. And this was my third.
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  You've done it, you know, your whole life.
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  But, you know, that's just, it's hard to wrap your head around it
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  that first time. And, and at this point, I almost
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  want to bring someone new, right?
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  And, and share it with them, right?
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  And, and, and bring them into the into the fold.
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  And I posted something to LinkedIn.
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  I don't usually post, you know, I don't know, poetic
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  dedications. Yeah.
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  Yeah. But I, you know, it's just,
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  again, this sort of same thought that you spend this amazing week
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  where everything is amazing, everything tastes great,
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  everything sounds great, everything looks great.
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  You know, all your friends are there, you know, Then you come
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  down and it's, it's like a melancholia or something, you
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  know, it's, it's, it's. Just a.
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  Very, very different thing. So I, I know a lot of people
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  listening were there, you know, we had a ton of of friends of
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  the show there. Of course didn't get to see
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  everyone. Of course it's like that every
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  year. But I thought we'd just run
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  through the, you know, run through the week as as as seen
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  through our eyes. Maybe starting with with
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  Wednesday. I think I got there a little
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  earlier than you did. You did.
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  And I'm, I am really looking forward to hearing about your
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  week because I think this really exemplifies car week too.
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  Like, you got there Wednesday, I got in late Thursday, and we saw
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  each other for about 25 seconds on Sunday morning at Pebble,
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  which I'm so glad. I didn't think we were going to
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  get to see each other in person at all, which is insanity.
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  But that's also Car Week. It's so true.
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  Well, of course I was late. You got there for dawn Patrol.
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  I got to see your pops again, which was awesome.
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  Love him. He's great.
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  He's awesome. He's an.
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  Amazing. I think we make good wing people
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  for each other at car events. Yeah, yeah, I I yeah, I could
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  have used a good wing person, but after the quail, my wing
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  guy, Colin, poor guy, threw out his back.
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  And so he was basically hanging out at our shared house the rest
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  of the week, which was unfortunate, but we drove down
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  Colin. No, no, it's it's Yeah, it's
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  yeah, I really, you know, especially when you've bought
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  tickets and this. Kind of.
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  Yeah. Well.
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  We flew into SFO. Now, yeah.
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  I just pinged them so hopefully make it a live update.
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  Turning. This show.
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  But yeah, you know, part of what's changed for me is the
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  last couple of years I'd flown directly into Monterey.
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  And I know you drive because you're a Californian, but.
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  Well, and I've done both. Like if I'm coming from Seattle,
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  I've flown in, right? Sure, sure.
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  You know, delightful. But I like, I love doing the
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  road trip up from Southern California because it feels like
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  it's such a part of the journey and you end up seeing cars on
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  the way there. Like, do you know you're going
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  to the same place as people that you're on the road with?
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  And this year was definitely the year of the Urus.
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  We saw at least five of them on the road trip up.
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  One of them this gorgeous purple 1.
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  And I if the license plate was a funny play on purple was at it
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  was stopped in Paso Robles when we stopped and the owner
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  happened to be out there and my daughter got to sit in it, which
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  was fun. Oh, nice.
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  And same place we got to see there was a Renault 5 Turbo, one
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  of those little special race cars.
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  Yes, that was, yes, one of the first cool cars I saw in the
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  road coming down from San Francisco.
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  And it's like, yeah, you know, you've arrived. 100% And then
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  there was one parked on the street in Carmel.
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  But the one that I saw in Paso was on the back of a Citrin
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  flatbed truck being towed up to Monterey.
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  And we pulled in to get gas. And this thing was right ahead
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  of us. And I went, you know, you're on
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  the way to car week when this is what's at the gas station.
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  And then I talked to them briefly and the driver, it was a
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  friend of the owner that was in it when I was right there.
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  And he said, yeah, but it's got an LS swap in it, which was even
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  funnier. But then that that combo was on
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  display at the Avance event. So I'll, I'll find out more
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  about it. But it was just like, what an
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  amazing spot it was. I was like, we're getting close.
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  Totally, totally. Well, we were in a fake Urus.
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  We were in an Audi Q8, which is, I know, built on the same
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  platform, but this was not the SQ8I was a little disappointed
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  in it. You know, it's got the, it's,
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  it's got the small engine, big car.
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  So you press the, you know, press the gas and you wait a
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  couple seconds and you've got the power.
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  But, but, but a great car just to be, you know, shoveled around
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  in or shuttle around others in for car week.
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  And, and I had never done that that trip in San Francisco and
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  along Hwy. 1 and we stopped at Sam's chowder house along the
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  way had lobster rolls. It was a lot of fun.
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  Kind of set the set the tone and we got the stuff by Bruce
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  Canopa's place for the first time.
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  I don't know if you've been to Canada.
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  Every year it's on my list and every year I do not have time,
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  so tell me all about it, I really would love.
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  It, yeah, it was, I don't know what I was expecting.
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  I guess I thought it was going to be, you know, 5895 nines or
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  whatever, just stacked. But it wasn't quite like that.
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  But it was still pretty great. You know, they have a workshop
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  area and then they have a kind of a lower level with cars for
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  sale and then they have a museum upstairs and a lot of race cars.
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  They're iconic. I don't always know why they are
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  like the Providence or whatever exactly, but stuff, you know,
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  again, we've talked about this before cars they turned into Hot
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  Wheels and stuff and and then the cars for sale, there was a
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  BMW 1M, there were a couple 95 nines, you know, some CGTS that
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  that they redo. There's a dark green 1A car I
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  think I'd seen at Laguna last year at Laguna Seca.
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  Like maybe I saw that one. I don't know if they brought it
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  down but I think I saw a dark green one at the track maybe and
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  the color. Yeah, yeah.
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  OK. Maybe it's the same one.
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  Yeah. It was cool.
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  You know, my whole life I've heard of, you know, Canopy, you
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  should stop by. And it was great, you know, but
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  kind of a an amuse bouche, right to the rest, a little teaser.
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  Yeah, like, like in and of itself, like in a vacuum, that
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  would have been an amazing day. But it was it was merely a stop
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  on the way to, you know, the the big show, right.
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  But it was fun. It was such a pretty drive.
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  It's not quite like coming up from the South with with the Big
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  Sur and all that, but it's still beautiful though, like.
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  You can't, you can't go wrong anywhere in that area on the
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  coast like the drives are. So, you know, the, the, the
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  vistas, if I will, you know, you'll allow me to be a little
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  melodramatic. Yeah.
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  They're just so pretty and striking and different.
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  And it really, I think it sets the tone and you know you're
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  headed towards something special.
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  Yeah, exactly. And for a lot of people in our
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  circles, their week started off with Motor Lux, the Kennedy
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  event. I did not attend this year.
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  I still love you Haggerty, but next year I will get my
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  application in on time and hopefully get credentials again.
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  But I just. Yeah, I and we were, it actually
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  worked out really well. We were exhausted.
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  That would have been a lot that first night and it has been for
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  me if you fly in that afternoon or whatever, but I heard it was
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  wonderful for. Sure.
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  Yeah, Yeah, a little different this year because the auctions I
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  think were all off site as opposed to years past, right,
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  the broader auctions. Yeah, they've had them sort of
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  in conjunction and you could go between the Motor Lux event and
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  the auction because it was going on at the same time.
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  Right, right. Yeah.
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  But no, I heard it was great. And next year I look forward to
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  to going. But it was nice to just sort of
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  ease in and, you know, I stayed, I learned my lesson last couple
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  years. I've stayed in wildly overpriced
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  2 star as being generous. But these older motel properties
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  in Carmel. So you're right downtown, right?
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  But it's lovely. But there's not air
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  conditioning, you know, little they're older.
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  They're, you know, 80 years old and, and, and you're for better
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  or worse, you're right in the middle of everything so late
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  into the night, your cars and this kind of thing.
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  And it this year we were out on Carmel Valley Road and a bunch
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  of us from Denver and Chicago and other places as Far East as
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  New York. Shout out to Colin Handler who
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  drove his AMG all the way from upstate New York.
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  Something like 3100 miles to the house on on Carmel Valley Rd.
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  Fun group of people. Do you know Valentina?
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  What's her last name? Valentina Josh Valentina
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  Trentini is her name. I knew it was something very
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  Italian. She's Italian and she does this
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  business called yeah, bruschetta, which is I think
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  very clever, like bruschetta, but like brush.
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  And she does a lot of the like pinstriping, the, the gumballs,
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  the numbers, the, you know, the, the Pegasus pegasi, the, you
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  know, that kind of thing. And she's really well known.
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  She's got a huge following on, on an Instagram.
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  She was at the house Mike Burrows and Derek Shrek from
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  Fuel Fed. You know, God, it was just, it
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  was a bunch of a bunch of neat guys.
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  Nick an old Fuel Fed a friend from Chicago so a little
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  different this year being outside of of the middle of
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  things, but man we slept well yeah, things considered poor
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  Colin and I were the two biggest guys there Collins bigger and
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  taller than I am and we basically shared a tree house
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  that had been turned into an Edu like a couple of Keebler elves.
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  You know we're. Going to go back to our retreat
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  to our tree house for the evening.
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  Basically, but it was kind of brilliant because we slept so
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  well, but we had to go into the house to use the bathroom.
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  First night someone locked the front door so it.
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  Was a bit rustic. More rustic than.
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  The wood pile I I went and bare feet and no glasses.
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  But it was, fingers crossed it. Was fun.
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  Yeah, it was. It was fun.
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  Usually. Stay.
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  Where'd you stay this year? In Carmel, like right, right in
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  Carmel. Same places before.
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  Yeah, which worked out really well because my I drove up
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  Thursday and started my time kind of on the ground there with
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  the reveal of the Range Rover, one of one that they do every
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  year. And that was really close to
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  where I stayed. So it was amazing because I got
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  there and then I was able to walk to where I needed to be,
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  which is I was like, this is the genius move.
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  It's like don't have to move your car, you don't have to deal
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  with parking. And it was a great way to sort
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  of like, you know, get the lay of the land and see a little bit
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  of Carmel like right away when I got there because that's, you
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  know, Ocean Ave. is where a lot of the really special cars are.
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  They had some rally cars kind of parked along like fuel the fuel
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  run and like Gold Rush and a bunch of different ones had cars
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  parked on like a red carpet along, you know, Ocean Ave.
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  And that's kind of the heart of the action in Carmel.
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  So it's it was nice. Yeah.
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  And it's I think. Did you go to the tour?
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  No, because I was on the road up when it was happening
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  unfortunately. Got it.
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  I only. Recommend going to the tour.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've done it in the past.
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  This year, it was, you know, drizzly, for better or worse.
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  I think it was atmospheric, right?
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  But I, I opted to to sleep in and.
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  And I, you know, I missed that first day on Wednesday, too.
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  You know, something I missed was the singer Louis Vuitton collab
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  reveal, which has gotten a lot of press.
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  Yes. What are your thoughts We didn't
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  get a chance to talk about? Well, you know, it's a thing,
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  right? It's not going to be every
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  singer moving forward. And it is sort of a showpiece,
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  you know, of everything that they can do.
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  Obviously, you know, the the Louis Vuitton collaboration is
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  super cool. Yeah, I, I really would love to
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  have gone, just didn't get into town, you know, quite in time.
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  But thank you. Thank you, Thank you.
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  Maurice Merrick, our buddy from Horsepower Heritage, who we'll
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  get to later, basically was the Rover Room reporter at the Quail
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  and did these fireside chats. It was very cool to see him on a
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  giant screen. And also Deb Pollock, singer,
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  who who really hooked up this Car Week D Lister with the
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  swaggiest of swag bags from the event.
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  I think I shared this with you. So cool.
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  They gave. I brought that bag home, took it
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  out of my my, my suitcase and my 13 1/2 year old daughter.
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  Like Louis Vuitton. It's like you should.
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  You shouldn't know what that is, right?
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  Either I've failed or I'm parenting perfectly that she
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  recognizes. That I think she just wants the
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  bag, right, to like, you know, bring something into, you know,
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  school. And they were giving out the
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  most amazing, I guess, I guess you'd call it a, I don't know
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  what the term is, but an enameled engine badge.
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  Basically. There's, there's a term.
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  Wow. Yeah.
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  But but, you know, commemorating the, the collab and super cool
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  and, you know, but it's all packed in a box.
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  Like it's a piece of fine jewelry.
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  And then there was like, I think it's a bracelet.
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  I need to go in. I haven't really gone through my
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  bag since I've gotten home, but what, what a hell of a guy from
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  the race for thinking of me and Deb as well for allowing him to
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  think of me. But I really wish I could have
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  have gone to the end. What are your thoughts on it?
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  Because it's, it's a lot. I mean, it's, it's a, it's, it's
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  like the most, it's like 2 of the world's most powerful brands
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  visually. Or at least right, yeah,
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  visually. And it's kind of name
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  recognition, right? Yeah, yeah, to.
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  Give us to made a baby. To give us this love child Yes,
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  you know it was interesting. I love, I do love with some of
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  these, the cars that are sort of, you know, like like singer
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  and Gunther works in terms of like the attention to detail
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  that goes into every element of those vehicles is always so
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  evident. And I have found myself being
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  drawn to like the cream colored want versions when they do
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  those, I think because it's sort of understated and it's like,
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  you know, all of the work and thought that goes into them.
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  And it's the the sort of quiet confidence of the more subtle
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  colors because it's like, no, I don't have to scream from the
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  rooftops. Like I love the bright ones so
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  much, but there's something I love about the understated ones
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  too. So I loved that about the cream
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  one. I thought the the handbag
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  surround on the gear shift was a really interesting way to
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  demonstrate their capabilities of like, we really can do
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  whatever, whatever you've dreamt up, I think.
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  Yeah, I think in practical terms, I went, wow, that's
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  amazing. Like, look at what they're able
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  to bring to fruition. How quickly would you get sick
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  of that? I think, like, is it, is it
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  gimmicky to the point where you'd be like, you know, I loved
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  this at the beginning. I don't know that I'm still in
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  love with it, but it's a really great way to showcase, like show
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  not tell of we can make your dreams come true, whatever your
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  dreams are. Right, right.
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  If that had been a wrap and those had been stickers, it
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  wouldn't have been half as it would've been cool at all,
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  right. But this was all the real deal.
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  Again, I think it was just a look what we can do and you
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  know, I don't know that that car is going to anyone in
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  particular. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would say
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  the the average person is not gonna check off every box and
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  that is every box done checked. So but I'm sure it was a hell of
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  a party. I think you know.
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  Oh, I'm sure I have. Friends there and it's just you
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  can't do everything. You can't do everything.
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  That is and like what a great position to be in that we have
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  like all of our sort of boots on the ground effort and networking
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  over the past few years. We're now in a position of like,
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  there's too many things, I mean. I know it's very, it's amazing
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  People don't, people don't realize once you get there,
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  you're still getting invited to stuff, right?
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  And as I explained to Molly, it's probably like, well, you
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  know, the A listers, they've they've, they've emailed all
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  those people and now they're down to the, you know, like they
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  said, the the C and the D or whatever.
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  But I'll take it. And even if, you know, I'm not
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  invited two months in advance, but but yeah, so many things.
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  You just, you know, obviously I'm going to take the supercar
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  house over the RV stand. That's just, you know how it's,
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  it's going to be as far as invites.
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  And and so that was my first, I guess.
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  Oh, go ahead. Well, I was going to say like, I
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  think that's part of what makes it so interesting and fun is
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  because, I mean, and this happened last year.
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  I think I mentioned this on the show last year.
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  There was one, I think it was Friday, the night before my
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  entire day flipped around, you know, like I had a thought in my
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  head of like a rough plan of what I was going to attend for
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  the week. And then, like you said, like
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  these invitations come up. And some of it is because you
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  run into somebody and they go, oh, my gosh, I'm bringing you
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  with me or, or people from the brand reach out or whatever it
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  is. But it was like, yeah, if I had
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  told you what my Friday was ahead of time last week and then
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  what? Or last year and then what I
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  ended up doing this year or last, you know, You know what I
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  mean? It was completely different.
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  Never could have imagined that I would get to do what I actually
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  got to do and attend the things I got to attend.
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  But that's what makes it so fun. It's like you really don't know
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  what your week is going to be. You live in the moment.
• 18:31
  Yeah. Yeah, you're on your toes, you
• 18:33
  know, and this logistical side of this.
• 18:36
  Like yesterday, Monterey Car Week is a yes.
• 18:39
  Week yeah. And that's kind of what you do.
• 18:42
  You keep saying yes to the best thing and maybe you Slough off
• 18:44
  something, you know, and you know, you hate to be like that,
• 18:47
  but that's what this is for, for a few days.
• 18:49
  You, you know, you have to be like that.
• 18:50
  I mean, again, there are logistics involved.
• 18:52
  You've got to get from one place to another.
• 18:54
  Oftentimes, you know, things, you know, a mile can take 10
• 18:57
  minutes or whatever. It's right, you know, as you
• 18:59
  know, it's, it's it's a lot. And you know, my, my, I guess,
• 19:02
  first real event, I think was my first real event.
• 19:06
  But we've talked about supercar houses, hypercar houses.
• 19:08
  I had the pleasure of going to the Zenvo house.
• 19:10
  It wasn't too far from the house mirrors thing.
• 19:13
  And it was kind of, you know, toward the, the East End of of
• 19:17
  Carmel Valley. And I don't know about you.
• 19:19
  I didn't know much about Zenvo cars.
• 19:21
  I've never had any experience with them.
• 19:23
  I guess I've seen them around here and there.
• 19:25
  I think, I don't know, it's quite a quite a while now.
• 19:27
  And I'm sure that like the sweeper under the rug.
• 19:29
  But there's a very famous incident with the fire in a in a
• 19:31
  Zenvo car on Top Gear, you may recall.
• 19:34
  I don't, but I got to go to one of their reveals when they, I
• 19:38
  think it was the North American debut when they had partnered
• 19:42
  with Galpin back in May. But that was my first exposure
• 19:46
  to the cars, you know? And of course, they're gorgeous
• 19:49
  works of art. They are, they are and they're
• 19:51
  cool and I guess I didn't realize quite how potent they
• 19:53
  were. These guys are so Danish and
• 19:56
  they kept talking about chairs. Chairs came up a lot and, you
• 19:59
  know, famous, you know, Danish chairs and things and banging
• 20:01
  Olafsson, but you get that, you get the drift.
• 20:03
  This is sort of a a hyper car done in in that, you know, and
• 20:09
  that philosophy, I guess. And so this car, this new car,
• 20:13
  it's called the Aurora. It's just a word that I will
• 20:14
  never say properly in my whole life.
• 20:17
  Aurora. But.
• 20:18
  That has to be. That has to make living in
• 20:21
  Colorado a little challenging. I know.
• 20:22
  Yeah, it's it's, yeah. It's one of those words, you
• 20:26
  know, it's hard to wrap how to wrap your head around, but but
• 20:28
  this car is also kind of hard to wrap your head around because it
• 20:31
  comes in two flavors. Flavors.
• 20:33
  It's very potent. There is a more streetable
• 20:35
  version and there there is a more track focused version.
• 20:39
  Everything down to the body work is is different.
• 20:42
  I think this thing is AV 12. It's got 12150 horsepower with
• 20:47
  the gas engine and then I think with the hybrid system it's up
• 20:49
  to 1650 or 1850. It's just insane.
• 20:53
  Yeah, it's a tremendous number. It's a tremendous number, right?
• 20:58
  It's, it's, it's a car with gravity.
• 21:00
  You remember when the, when the Bugatti came out, right, the
• 21:04
  Veyron and it was 1001 horsepower?
• 21:07
  Well, this is almost twice that. This is almost twice the damn
• 21:10
  horse part. I gotta say.
• 21:11
  These guys, the designer was there, the engineers were there,
• 21:14
  the CEO, all just just super nice guys, really knowledge and
• 21:18
  passionate. They've got something to prove
• 21:20
  here and and the cars are amazing.
• 21:22
  Just just beautifully crafted. Unfortunately, my head filled
• 21:25
  with, you know, all sorts of things since I was I was there.
• 21:29
  But I think about three and three million, 3.2 million, you
• 21:33
  know, which is not nothing, but anymore that's not so much, I
• 21:36
  guess, if you're shopping for a car like that.
• 21:39
  But really impressed, really beautiful house, great
• 21:42
  presentation. Ran into some friends, Gabe,
• 21:46
  who's a writer for Autoblog and some others and some new
• 21:49
  friends. Yeah, it was great.
• 21:51
  It was really cool. It was, it was a nice sort of
• 21:52
  way to ease into things. But yeah, but that was that was
• 21:57
  Thursday I and I think that was the same day that Gunther Works
• 22:01
  had an event. And and I know you've done a lot
• 22:03
  with Gunther Works. I have not.
• 22:04
  This is my first time ever being exposed to the brand other than,
• 22:07
  you know, just seeing the cars and garages and this kind of
• 22:09
  thing. Really classy event They were at
• 22:12
  a winery on. Again, this is this is kind of
• 22:14
  how the house worked out well, because so many of these events
• 22:17
  were actually on Carmel Valley Rd. the the wineries and this
• 22:19
  kind of thing. And they were.
• 22:20
  A lot of the winery manufacturer houses are, so it works out if
• 22:24
  you can, if that's a lot of your calendar and you can sort of
• 22:28
  locate yourself there, it's it's really smart.
• 22:31
  Totally, totally, and it sure helped having a car right,
• 22:34
  instead of trying to like you know, and being able to park it
• 22:37
  this kind of thing. But great event.
• 22:40
  I was able to bring some friends and and walked in and great
• 22:44
  wine. They had a string quartet
• 22:46
  playing Nirvana and other popular favorites.
• 22:49
  It was it was quite nice. It was quite nice.
• 22:51
  He had some cars there. Obviously, you know, they would
• 22:54
  reveal this carbon fiber track focused car later in the week,
• 22:58
  but got to spend, I don't know, 45 minutes from now.
• 23:00
  We're talking with Peter Nam, who I think you know and you
• 23:03
  know, he's also a very passionate guy.
• 23:05
  Yep, Yep. Greg, you know, and also divorce
• 23:08
  Diner. Yes, yeah, he started.
• 23:10
  With for sign here. Gunther Works followed after
• 23:13
  that and now they have Ctr. which is the Ferrari focused
• 23:18
  sort of, you know, entity. But yeah, So what did you and I,
• 23:23
  I ran into, I think Jason Meshnick was with you at the
• 23:26
  Gunther Works. Yeah, he was.
• 23:28
  And then I ran into him at the Range Rover event.
• 23:31
  So what? Yeah.
• 23:33
  So tell me about your chat with Peter.
• 23:35
  Yeah, I'll be real honest. I think people fall into one or
• 23:38
  two camps. You're like kind of a Singer
• 23:39
  person or you're a Gunther Works person, right?
• 23:41
  They're two very different philosophies, sort of going for
• 23:44
  the the same thing or similar thing.
• 23:47
  And and boy, the cars have really grown on me after talking
• 23:50
  with Peter because I'm he's so passionate.
• 23:52
  He told me the story and we'll have to get him on.
• 23:56
  He said he'd come on, but he talked about, he was literally
• 23:59
  laughed at when he decided I was going to make, you know, he's
• 24:01
  going to do this car, right? And it's kind of like, look at
• 24:03
  me now. And he had emotional, you know.
• 24:06
  He's laughing now, guys. I know, I know.
• 24:10
  I really now that I I had a tour of the car by the CEO
• 24:14
  especially. From.
• 24:15
  Him. I'm into it.
• 24:16
  Really. Yeah, it it definitely, like I
• 24:21
  had a similar experience at the Zenvo event at Galpin in May.
• 24:26
  Like you said, the Zenvo team, they're so approachable and
• 24:29
  generous with their time. I got kind of a walkthrough of
• 24:32
  their cars from one of their executive team.
• 24:35
  And it's definitely, I think it brings the cars to life, which
• 24:39
  it sounds like that's what happened to you with the Gutter
• 24:41
  Works and with your conversation with Peter.
• 24:44
  Well, I think an analogue is sort of you go into a museum and
• 24:47
  there's, I don't know, a decooning, you know, painting or
• 24:50
  something. And OK, you don't really, you
• 24:51
  know, OK, that's nice. It looks decorative.
• 24:54
  And then, then you then you then you, you read the, the placard,
• 24:57
  right? And you get some insight or and,
• 24:59
  and you know, and that's the same kind of thing once you sort
• 25:02
  of know why it is the way it is. Yeah.
• 25:06
  And if you, if you think about it, it's a lot of like what we
• 25:09
  do on this show and what we talk about is like, what's the story
• 25:12
  behind it? Like what are the people's
• 25:14
  stories? What are the stories behind the
• 25:15
  cars? What are the stories behind, you
• 25:17
  know, the events or a significant race or whatever,
• 25:21
  Like, and I think that's what a lot of us say to each other in
• 25:23
  the car world is like, it's the story, it's the people.
• 25:27
  That's that's what brings it to life.
• 25:28
  That's what really makes it, you know, makes it special.
• 25:33
  When everything is fast, as we've talked about before, it
• 25:35
  becomes about, you know, how, how you get there, right, how
• 25:38
  you get to that, you know, 230 mile an hour, top speed or
• 25:41
  whatever it is. And you know, his he yeah, he's
• 25:44
  the real deal. Really enjoyed talking with him.
• 25:47
  He also, yeah, he also promised a car to drive, which I hope
• 25:51
  wasn't just the folk telling wine talking.
• 25:55
  But yeah, really nice event. Really, really.
• 25:57
  You know, you get these, like, little Oasis is Oasis sort of
• 26:01
  throughout the week, right, where you can actually relax a
• 26:03
  little bit. Yeah.
• 26:03
  You're on and you're talking to people and they're trying to
• 26:05
  sell you something or inform you and this kind of thing.
• 26:08
  But they become these little sort of hideaways from the rest
• 26:11
  of the, you know, the madding crowds, right.
• 26:13
  And. Yeah, well, yeah, it is.
• 26:15
  It's an Oasis, a little bit of a respite, and sort of like this
• 26:20
  is delightful. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:22
  And you feel kind of kind of, you know, like hot shit going to
• 26:25
  these things, right? Yeah, that's kind of nice.
• 26:26
  It's we talk about this a lot. Right, I am all.
• 26:29
  Self see us now, right? Yeah, yeah.
• 26:31
  It's not just Peter Nam who got laughed at when he said hey, I'm
• 26:34
  going to be a part of this world.
• 26:35
  Here we are. So, you know, it's it's nice,
• 26:37
  but you can totally, totally. I think that brings us to
• 26:40
  Friday. Would you do on Friday?
• 26:42
  Had some non car related stuff to take care of during the day.
• 26:47
  So I'm I'm going to have to live vicariously through you.
• 26:49
  So tell me all about Quail, yeah?
• 26:52
  Well, the Quail was very fortunate this year to get
• 26:54
  credentials and you know, Con Media is obviously very involved
• 26:59
  with the quail and literally bumped into to Dan Khan and
• 27:02
  Corey Burns, who? Oh.
• 27:04
  That's awesome. The two guys, you know, guys
• 27:06
  that do run, you know, con media and so that was really nice and
• 27:09
  and got to spend some time with them before things got too
• 27:11
  crazy. You know, people always ask, are
• 27:15
  you a quail person? It's kind of like the singer
• 27:17
  Gunther question, right? You a quail person or are you a
• 27:19
  Pebble? Person.
• 27:21
  Yeah, and I think kind of like those cars.
• 27:23
  I'm really both this year, you know that each one has their
• 27:25
  place. I think, you know, the quails
• 27:27
  really leaning into what it is, you know, and Pebble now 75
• 27:31
  years on and we'll get to that is is obviously very that's the
• 27:35
  the Granddaddy, right. But it was was wasn't
• 27:37
  fundamentally different than years past.
• 27:39
  But the quail, if you don't know, of course, really focuses
• 27:42
  on on the newer stuff, the hyper cars, the Super cars, So like
• 27:46
  roof as a booth there displays their cars and Porsche is there
• 27:50
  and God, I mean, you know, good on the list right in you know,
• 27:54
  this fun stuff like who's the company that takes the Diablos
• 27:59
  and sort of singer rises them? Can't think of the name but it's
• 28:04
  just kind. Of.
• 28:06
  Right, right. And it'll come to.
• 28:08
  Me. Well, we'll think of it, but
• 28:09
  it's. We're not recording, it's.
• 28:10
  This kind of stuff. And then it's obviously the food
• 28:13
  and the drink is, is a heavy, you know, aspect of it and well,
• 28:16
  and it's, yeah, you walk in the hands.
• 28:17
  Of champagne, yeah, there's champagne as you arrive.
• 28:20
  Obviously there's beverage stations.
• 28:24
  I think one of the unique things about Quail is that the
• 28:27
  manufacturers a lot of times have beverages or food.
• 28:31
  Like there's, there's a hospitality element to
• 28:33
  everyone's display almost, which is not true at other events.
• 28:38
  I know last year, I remember it was two years ago, roof had
• 28:43
  breakfast burritos for everyone. They had like a little, you
• 28:45
  know, a little bag and it's, it's just the little touches
• 28:49
  that make you feel so sort of like welcomed and, you know,
• 28:54
  seen to use a, a word of the day.
• 28:58
  But just like the thoughtfulness of like, Yep, we knew everybody
• 29:01
  was getting up early because one of the things like you said,
• 29:05
  they focus Quail focuses a lot on new cars from major
• 29:10
  manufacturers. Like, you know, Maserati will do
• 29:13
  a reveal or Lamborghini will do a reveal.
• 29:15
  And so in the morning at Quail, they have what they call the
• 29:18
  press conferences and everybody has a time slot.
• 29:21
  And so if you're there in the morning, you're you're
• 29:23
  crisscrossing the field to like, we got to get to Lamborghini at
• 29:27
  8:30. We got to get to Maserati at,
• 29:28
  you know, 845. And at night.
• 29:31
  Yeah. And they're whooping, you know,
• 29:33
  like drapes are coming off of cars left and right and we're
• 29:35
  seeing all this eye candy. But it was nice, you know, like,
• 29:39
  you can feel the thoughtfulness that goes into like roof with
• 29:43
  the breakfast burritos. We know everybody's getting up
• 29:45
  really early to get here for the press conferences.
• 29:47
  And so here's a little token of our appreciation.
• 29:50
  Thank you. For coming to the booth and
• 29:52
  Myers Banks always has a great display, you know, and they have
• 29:56
  like Frame and Thomas. Let's get the sand trap.
• 29:59
  Yeah, the sand trap. And so they have the dune
• 30:01
  buggies or the, you know, Myers Banks in the sand trap, which is
• 30:04
  just such a great visual. You know, a few years ago I met
• 30:08
  the gal that was their color designer for a long time, had a
• 30:11
  long conversation with her. So I think that's one of the
• 30:14
  great things about Quayle is that a lot of the people that
• 30:17
  have helped create the cars that are there are there and
• 30:20
  accessible and willing to just chat with you.
• 30:22
  If you're, you know, like if you're genuinely interested and
• 30:27
  want to hear about the story, they're very happy to share it
• 30:30
  with you, which it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of them
• 30:34
  were like, thank you so much for coming.
• 30:36
  I don't have time to have a long conversation, right?
• 30:38
  No, and that's not the case. Like many of them are willing to
• 30:41
  just chat with you which is amazing.
• 30:43
  It's very real, very authentic. I think you mentioned, you know,
• 30:46
  you mentioned these unveilings, these reveals, oftentimes the
• 30:49
  audience response is very authentic, right?
• 30:52
  Won't clap if they're not impressed with what's been
• 30:54
  presented to them, which is which is unique because it it's
• 30:57
  not just industry people. Anyone can buy a ticket in
• 30:59
  theory, right. But you know, I, I was on the
• 31:02
  bus with the our buddy Bassam less if and his and his wife
• 31:06
  Anna and folks and yeah, obviously much better dress than
• 31:10
  I. Their fabulousity is not to be
• 31:14
  understated. That's right.
• 31:15
  I always look amazing. Yeah.
• 31:17
  You know, I got to spend, you know, Bruce Meyer, another
• 31:20
  friend of ours had, I think it was 6 or 8 cars, the part of
• 31:24
  this special Bruce Meyer collection at the Quail this
• 31:26
  year. He would later win Best of show.
• 31:30
  I got to spend time with him and and his collection manager, Tom
• 31:33
  Kenny on the green. Love those guys.
• 31:36
  You know, I'd like to think that I was the lucky little
• 31:38
  leprechaun that brought him that luck, you know, having hung out
• 31:41
  with him. But I I think that car was going
• 31:42
  to win no matter. But yeah, just just a neat guy.
• 31:47
  Everyone wants their picture with Bruce, right?
• 31:50
  You know, and he had some great cars on on display yeah You
• 31:55
  know, it's it's so great 'cause you do run into friends, but
• 31:56
  then you immediately like lose them.
• 31:58
  You're proud. So since it's.
• 32:01
  Just like a bunch of pews and balls.
• 32:03
  Yeah. And it is.
• 32:04
  It's, I think car week in general is like, it's like the
• 32:09
  best birthday party that you dreamed of as a kid, but as an
• 32:12
  adult because so many of your friends are there from around
• 32:16
  the world, really. And you're all there for the
• 32:18
  same thing, Ooing and I. And just like everybody's heads
• 32:21
  are exploding the best way. And like you said, like you're
• 32:24
  kind of bouncing off each other and you get to see so many of
• 32:27
  your friends all in one place. Yeah.
• 32:30
  Yeah, it's great. It's, you know, it's just, you
• 32:33
  know, the stuff on the field is just always wonderful.
• 32:36
  You know, GT Motor Cars was there and shout out to Zach
• 32:39
  Sapka, who was there, who went around and started up every
• 32:41
  everything and anything I wanted to see.
• 32:44
  So got to poke around with some, you know, F 50s and that kind of
• 32:48
  thing. And that was fun and God, you
• 32:50
  know, got to see the Deisties. The whole Deisty club was.
• 32:53
  Was, I know we got to meet there.
• 32:55
  We got to meet the female contingent, which was amazing.
• 32:58
  I mean, you, yeah. Yeah.
• 32:59
  I've only met them on FaceTime. So it was wonderful to see, you
• 33:05
  know, Lauren and Iowa in person at Pebble.
• 33:08
  But yeah, I mean, Lewis has grown afoot, obviously.
• 33:12
  Yeah, we got to see them at the track on Saturday, up at the
• 33:15
  Corkscrew and. Then oh good.
• 33:17
  My dad and John and Lewis and I did our now second annual Dawn
• 33:21
  Patrol reconnoitering together this year at Pebbles, so that
• 33:24
  was really fun too. Is it just me?
• 33:26
  You know, and I've never done Dawn Patrol, but I would see the
• 33:28
  hats. Over the years on the hats, has
• 33:31
  the Hegarty logo gotten larger? Well, Dawn Patrol has gotten
• 33:34
  smaller. Is that just me?
• 33:36
  I have no accurate information, but I feel like there that's a
• 33:41
  reasonable, you know, hypothesis to put forth.
• 33:44
  Like, yeah, people murder. Oh my gosh, I know murder
• 33:48
  someone. Somebody asked me this year,
• 33:50
  they said did you get here at Hat O'clock?
• 33:53
  And no, last year I was very lucky to get a hat and I was
• 33:57
  like, I'm not running in there this year.
• 34:00
  I'm going to give somebody else a chance.
• 34:02
  Now that's, that's cool. One last thing about the Dicey's
• 34:04
  The first time I ran into them, they literally ran into me.
• 34:07
  I was waiting at the will call at whatever that Saint Philip's
• 34:11
  Church, whatever for Quail. Over quail.
• 34:13
  Credentials and stuff. And there's kind of like 1/2
• 34:16
  circle driveway and I'm standing in line and I see like this like
• 34:20
  Kia Telluride or something, like just inching closer to me and
• 34:23
  closer. It's sunny out.
• 34:24
  I, you know, there's a glare on the wind and this thing's like
• 34:27
  ready to bump me. And I turned around and just
• 34:29
  gave them the look of death, right?
• 34:30
  Just this, you know, I stared through their souls and then I,
• 34:33
  I saw right away it was the whole Deisty family laughing,
• 34:36
  you know? They would, yeah.
• 34:43
  Yes, that's so funny. Yeah, there is a truth, Quill.
• 34:46
  About that little run in. And they were, they were
• 34:50
  removing their Glee at having, having, giving you a Yeah.
• 34:56
  Like, wait a minute, What's going on here?
• 34:58
  Yeah, well, I was cranky. I just got in there.
• 35:01
  I'm still feeling things out. You know, you're, you're sort of
• 35:04
  navigating the the. Well, it's sort of the the
• 35:07
  incongruity of like, no, this car is actually just driving
• 35:10
  right at me. Well, that would make sense.
• 35:12
  Like someone just thinks they're more important than I am, you
• 35:14
  know? And.
• 35:16
  It is. But no, it was, it was great.
• 35:19
  I mean, the quail. What can you say about the
• 35:20
  quail? The quail really has become a
• 35:23
  fun day, a completely exhausting but amazing day with a little
• 35:28
  bit of everything, food, drink. Like the one day actually had
• 35:30
  more than like a glass of wine, right, Right.
• 35:33
  Got to, you know, see so many people, so many friends and it
• 35:36
  was just, you know, they do the fly over with the military jets.
• 35:39
  It's like a thing. Yeah.
• 35:41
  Big peninsula inflatable dude bouncing around.
• 35:44
  I mean, it's, it's, it's good. Peterson had a wonderful, uh,
• 35:47
  display of stuff. Just a very good day.
• 35:50
  I cannot get over the logistics. Not just over the quail or, you
• 35:53
  know, in isolation, but within the greater week, right.
• 35:57
  Because there are cars you'll see there that you'll see other.
• 35:59
  Yeah. I don't know.
• 36:01
  And yet it all seems to be like this controlled chaos.
• 36:03
  Like no one seems to be stressed, you know, I'm sure
• 36:05
  that people are. But you know, seeing Dan and
• 36:07
  Corey from CON, they seem cool as cucumbers and their Blazers
• 36:10
  with their little CON badge, like they're the Secret Service
• 36:12
  I mean. It's their poker face they've
• 36:14
  got, yeah, you know, they have like an earpiece where it's like
• 36:17
  everything. Totally, totally.
• 36:20
  Yeah, yeah, I'm just impressed with with just how at least from
• 36:24
  the outside, how seamless everything seems to to to go and
• 36:28
  and be run. But yeah, the quail is just
• 36:30
  always great. It's ticket prices keep going up
• 36:32
  each year, but dare I say it's worth it.
• 36:35
  It's well, it's a, it's a full. And I think one of the other
• 36:39
  unique things about quail is like you mentioned this briefly,
• 36:42
  is the, the food is as much a part of the event as the cars
• 36:48
  because they have these giant, you know, like circus tents,
• 36:52
  giant event tents scattered throughout the field.
• 36:55
  And it's like cuisines of different regions.
• 36:59
  You know, you have like Italian and Indian and like Mexican and
• 37:02
  whatever. And then even throughout that,
• 37:04
  there's little ice cream stands and little lemonade and, you
• 37:08
  know, ice tea stations and water and whatever.
• 37:11
  And so it's like, you really could spend your entire day just
• 37:16
  eating and drinking, yes. And why can't they do this at
• 37:19
  Disney World where you just walk in and, you know, with your kids
• 37:22
  and like, yeah, I'll have 6 ice creams, right?
• 37:24
  No one bats an eye, right? Because I paid for it and I bet
• 37:27
  a Disney ticket isn't isn't too far off with the quails you.
• 37:30
  Know, I know for these days, I know they had cotton candy that
• 37:35
  was like a cotton candy station one year I mean.
• 37:37
  It's like gourmet. Right.
• 37:39
  And it I think it had a logo in it.
• 37:41
  It was. It was like rose flavored cotton
• 37:43
  candy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:44
  It really is like adult Disneyland for car people.
• 37:47
  Exactly. I'm sure there was popcorn
• 37:49
  somewhere. I feel like, you know, it's like
• 37:52
  and with the the I don't think it's the Blue Angels, but it's
• 37:55
  that type of like you mentioned the fly over and they do the
• 37:58
  patriotic smoke and I think don't they play the national
• 38:02
  anthem? I.
• 38:02
  Think Oh yeah, someone's belting that out the loudest speakers.
• 38:06
  Yes yeah, it's great it's great They I had the most delicious
• 38:11
  ice cream bar I've ever had in my life that was some sort of
• 38:14
  bourbon ice cream just fantastic And you know when you're there
• 38:18
  you know like you know when I'm there like you I'm sure you're
• 38:20
  working you know right. You're going to run into, you
• 38:22
  might have an opportunity for, you know, an the Fly interview
• 38:25
  or something, right? The last thing I want to do is
• 38:27
  feed my face and then get caught.
• 38:29
  Yeah. Halfway.
• 38:29
  You know, through the the yeah. So, you know, you try to, you
• 38:34
  know, you try to, you try to be good, but yeah.
• 38:36
  And then the cars, obviously we hardly talked about the cars,
• 38:38
  but there's just some amazing stuff, right?
• 38:40
  Just just great cars. Just a great what really stuck.
• 38:42
  You at Quail this year? God, I don't know if it was the
• 38:46
  most amazing thing there, but that that the the Flak Bow
• 38:50
  Porsche that they revealed Sunder, Sunder vunch, I think
• 38:54
  kind of a level, you know, beyond the the regular Sunder
• 38:57
  vinch. Yes, Porsche will make you a
• 38:59
  slant nose of new slant nose if you are a good enough client.
• 39:04
  That impressed me. I have really liked seeing
• 39:08
  Audi's Nuvolari in person. I love that thing.
• 39:11
  I think it looks great. That's a very, you know,
• 39:14
  polarizing car. Really like the thing.
• 39:16
  Thought it was interesting that yes, there are the four rings on
• 39:19
  the front of the car, but on the booth itself there was no Audi
• 39:23
  badging to be found. It just said Nuvolari.
• 39:25
  We joked it was kind of like when Oldsmobile decided they
• 39:27
  were going to come up with their Aurora and it was not an
• 39:29
  Oldsmobile, it was an Aurora. There's one small badge, but
• 39:32
  that's a hell of a thing. Obviously the roof cars always
• 39:35
  get me, and it's nice to see the roof family as well.
• 39:39
  I've got a friend who's ordering a roof right now going through
• 39:42
  the process. That's.
• 39:43
  Been fun living vicariously. It's you know, it's like, yeah,
• 39:46
  which, which shade of dark blue are you thinking?
• 39:49
  Or which you know which yellow you think would work best on the
• 39:52
  SCR. Stitching.
• 39:53
  Shall I go with? Yes.
• 39:54
  Yes, you know, I mean, that's that's really that's living the
• 39:57
  dream and and, and you know what?
• 39:59
  And you see that all around there are people like.
• 40:01
  Actively buying cars, right, Right.
• 40:03
  I mean, there was a Hennessy car, right, that was on display
• 40:07
  there, a hyper car. The woman probably, I don't
• 40:10
  know, in her 70s was like, hell yeah, I think I want that.
• 40:13
  I'm going to take that home with me today.
• 40:15
  I. Love that.
• 40:16
  For you, she looked eccentric. You know, she looked like the
• 40:19
  right customer for the car. But, you know, it's just little
• 40:22
  moments like that, you know, where it's just, but it's it's
• 40:24
  very inclusive. It's very welcoming.
• 40:27
  You know, it's just it's it's just a good time, a good day.
• 40:29
  We should probably move on. That's the quail.
• 40:30
  Yeah, you don't need. To beating the quail to death.
• 40:33
  I know. That's right, it's a dead quail,
• 40:36
  people. Are people are buying cars?
• 40:38
  That's kind of been the like, not joke, non joke the last few
• 40:42
  years of like that's why manufacturers are doing their
• 40:44
  reveals there because they sell out on the field at the quail.
• 40:47
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:48
  No, that's it. That's it.
• 40:50
  And just these little moments of magic throughout the week.
• 40:52
  I was fortunate to be hanging out with, again, with Maurice,
• 40:54
  and we crashed the OTS house party.
• 40:59
  I, I was not on the list, but I was with someone who, who was.
• 41:03
  Yeah, Yeah. You know, we ended up walking up
• 41:04
  to. I felt like I was like a
• 41:05
  teenager or something. We walked to the wrong house and
• 41:07
  someone's like, can I help you? The party's next door, They had
• 41:10
  the garage door up, some pizzas and stuff.
• 41:13
  And from the surface, it just sort of looked like a, you know,
• 41:15
  a gathering. And then he realized, yeah,
• 41:20
  that's a very special, you know, what's what's that Ferrari
• 41:24
  shooting break, that light blue one that they drive around.
• 41:27
  You've seen it on, on, on on Instagram.
• 41:30
  It's like this sleek 70s or Bertone or whatever creation
• 41:34
  sounds great. Oh yeah, there's the the Nardone
• 41:36
  928, right? And, you know, and you know, the
• 41:38
  CEO of the company and Oh yeah, good to meet you founders of
• 41:42
  Machinisima, you know, and then you turn around and you know,
• 41:46
  they've got their cool 300 TE Mercedes that they use as their
• 41:49
  shop car and stuff, right? So again, I I it was a little,
• 41:52
  it was a little like I was crashing the party, but they
• 41:54
  were didn't get to talk to to Taz, but did get to spend some
• 41:57
  time with Derek and was very gracious.
• 42:00
  And you know, it's these little moments again, these things you
• 42:02
  fall into and you know, they had been on the grand last year and
• 42:07
  we're on our show, you know, soon after and stuff.
• 42:09
  So it's good to meet these people and and really get to,
• 42:11
  you know, post show, right. But that was also the night of
• 42:16
  the Porsche party. And that's a an event that I
• 42:19
  know you and I have both gone to in the past.
• 42:21
  Word on the street was that that thing was going to be locked
• 42:24
  down this year in a way that maybe it hadn't been, of course,
• 42:27
  later in the evening. Oh, come on over.
• 42:29
  No, no, we can get you but by that.
• 42:32
  Point Car Week In the moment change, yeah.
• 42:35
  We were home, so yeah, we didn't.
• 42:37
  I didn't go. Did you go?
• 42:37
  I I wasn't there. No, Friday was mellow, just
• 42:42
  walking around Carmel, like sort of taken in the sights.
• 42:45
  And I have to say this year, at least in Carmel, it was the year
• 42:48
  of the McLaren because holy moly, were they all over the
• 42:52
  place in Carmel. I mean, it was really and I
• 42:54
  think it was it was fun to see because there was so much
• 42:58
  variety, like, you know, every color of the rainbow, all
• 43:01
  different, you know, models and just so much personality in all
• 43:07
  of them and so distinct from each other.
• 43:10
  And that was one of the cars that I followed in.
• 43:14
  You know, people that have driven up will will know what
• 43:16
  I'm talking about when I say the guy with the big balls, the big
• 43:19
  drawing of the guy with the two cabbages on the road there was
• 43:23
  have. You never seen this?
• 43:24
  Well, if you've driven up from. Oh, driving up from the South.
• 43:26
  OK, Yeah. OK, There was a McLaren in like
• 43:30
  the Gulf livery colors, which was interesting.
• 43:32
  And so they just like, it really was a running theme for the
• 43:36
  week, so that was fun to see. All of those, by the way, you're
• 43:39
  going to see Gordon Murray and he'll probably put his arm
• 43:41
  around you and take a picture with you if you ask, right?
• 43:43
  You know, I mean, this is the kind of thing so it's just, and
• 43:46
  you know, I was trying to explain to someone else, it's
• 43:48
  not just the Mclarens, It's not just the roof cars.
• 43:50
  It's not just the Porsches, the Ferraris or whatever, or the the
• 43:53
  vintage stuff at Pebble. It is the most random stuff like
• 43:56
  you alluded to at the beginning, the the Renault Clio and this
• 43:59
  kind of thing. You know, if you want to see,
• 44:01
  you know, 6 Mercedes, 6 by sixes, you'll probably see them
• 44:04
  or, you know, cars that weren't sold in the States, weird
• 44:07
  Russian cars or Czech cars. Or it's, it's just, it's almost
• 44:11
  becomes a contest of who can have the, the, the most sort of
• 44:14
  like esoteric. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 44:18
  It's in cars that you've forgotten, forgotten about, like
• 44:21
  just, you know, like an E30 BMW that just looked like it rolled
• 44:24
  off the assembly line, right. Well, that's a damn good looking
• 44:27
  car, right? It's it's and then the people
• 44:30
  again, you know, I've talked about being seated next to James
• 44:33
  May my first year and hey, you get given the nut.
• 44:35
  Super, super cool. But it's these chance meetings
• 44:37
  of, you know, with people that you have right throughout the
• 44:40
  week. And I was going to ask you, did
• 44:43
  you go to see the spike show? Did you catch the Spike show
• 44:45
  before the day before Pebble? No, I was at the track that
• 44:47
  morning. Actually.
• 44:49
  We had a friend that was driving in the Phil Hill race and so we
• 44:53
  went for that. So I did not get to any of the
• 44:57
  forums. I did make it to the to the
• 44:59
  Concord village later that day, but no.
• 45:02
  I. Was again.
• 45:04
  It's like too many things happening at the same time.
• 45:06
  I know too many, too many things.
• 45:07
  Yeah, no, I'm sorry to miss their show, but because that's.
• 45:10
  No, no, Yeah, no. I walked past, but it already
• 45:13
  started. And I think I probably could
• 45:14
  have snuck in, but I didn't want to be.
• 45:17
  I didn't want to be that guy, you know?
• 45:19
  I didn't see Seinfeld there, though.
• 45:20
  I poked my head in and I did not see Seinfeld.
• 45:23
  So maybe he came in later. Had Seinfeld been up on the
• 45:25
  stage, I probably would have walked in just to say, you know,
• 45:27
  I did it. But but we'll get to Pebble
• 45:30
  because we still have Saturday. I know well and I wanted to
• 45:34
  briefly share about the Range Rover reveal that they did.
• 45:38
  Oh, please. Yeah.
• 45:39
  So they do, yeah. I didn't get there.
• 45:41
  Yeah. So they do.
• 45:42
  Every year they build a one of one and the intent is that it is
• 45:46
  auctioned off to and then the proceeds go to benefit the
• 45:50
  Monterey Bay Foundation. And it was interesting because
• 45:53
  they had somebody from the foundation this year speak.
• 45:56
  She spoke last year as well. But the little tidbit that I
• 45:59
  took away from her remarks this year.
• 46:03
  So I didn't realize that a couple miles off the coast of,
• 46:07
  you know, the coast of California in the Monterey Bay,
• 46:10
  there is a an underwater Canyon that's deeper than the Grand
• 46:14
  Canyon. This is.
• 46:15
  Where the UFOs are supposed to be coming out?
• 46:17
  Of right, yeah. So there's all sorts of, right.
• 46:21
  She said because of this deep, deep, deep Canyon, Monterey Bay
• 46:26
  is it's either the most or one of the most biologically diverse
• 46:30
  areas on the planet, which I had never heard, you know, in all
• 46:33
  the years of being. But hey, great place for an
• 46:36
  aquarium, right? Yeah.
• 46:37
  Yeah. And so.
• 46:40
  So that was like a little sort of aside, not about the cars,
• 46:44
  but really stuck with me. And so this year they had taken
• 46:48
  inspiration from an abalone shell, which if you've seen is
• 46:51
  sort of a mother of Pearlish type thing.
• 46:52
  So they did a Range Rover white with this abalone paint and they
• 46:57
  have a new logo with the R And so they had incorporated that
• 47:01
  into the interior. It's on the wheels as well, but
• 47:05
  they had it was inlaid with in wood then with like abalone
• 47:12
  esque white material in the console with the logo.
• 47:16
  And then they repeated it sort of on the ceiling and on the
• 47:19
  back of the seats. And what was interesting is the
• 47:21
  way they had done it, whether this this, you know, feeling was
• 47:24
  intentional or not. The wood looked like the sand
• 47:28
  and then it kind of flowed. The logo kind of flowed up onto
• 47:31
  the ceiling and I looked at it and I went, it looks like when a
• 47:34
  wave crashes on the sand and then it goes back out to the
• 47:36
  water and you you're left with the sea foam.
• 47:39
  So you have sort of the white on the sand.
• 47:41
  So it kind of gave the interior a lot of motion and serenity at
• 47:46
  the same time. But it just.
• 47:48
  Yeah, it felt, you know, very unique and of course it was
• 47:53
  really just, you know, it's it's always nice to be included in
• 47:57
  that. And so the.
• 47:58
  Yeah, totally. Cool.
• 47:59
  And then, you know, Lynn Woodward was there and we got to
• 48:01
  catch up, which was amazing. Yeah, and Leader.
• 48:04
  Yeah, yeah. And I got to see her again at
• 48:06
  Pebble, but it was just, it was such a treat to get some time
• 48:09
  with her on Thursday. And then I got to meet Dan Pund,
• 48:12
  who is the, you know, the guy at Road and Track.
• 48:15
  And we have a yeah, we follow him through the show and, you
• 48:19
  know, through my account on Instagram.
• 48:20
  So it was nice to put a face to the name.
• 48:22
  And then nice obviously saw Jason Mesnick, who was your good
• 48:27
  friend that I know through you now.
• 48:28
  So yeah, that was really fun. And my friend from Jaguar, yeah,
• 48:33
  so it was awesome. Nice.
• 48:34
  Yeah. Who?
• 48:35
  Yeah, who I got to to meet later, right.
• 48:36
  You know, I got. I thought you were going to say
• 48:38
  they, they did like a pimp my ride thing.
• 48:40
  There was like an aquarium in the back or something, you know,
• 48:42
  and full of sea urchins and seals or something.
• 48:46
  No, that's super cool. I want to do more with yeah,
• 48:48
  with JLR across the board moving forward.
• 48:51
  I really like those guys Got to got to meet to her and her boss,
• 48:56
  you know, Jeff, who you know later at Pebble.
• 48:58
  But it could have been nicer and appreciate the hospitality
• 49:01
  because it pebbles we'll get to, you've got to, you've got to get
• 49:05
  into. You have to know somebody.
• 49:06
  Yeah, right, Right. You can't just.
• 49:08
  Yeah, it's not just all open to everyone.
• 49:09
  So yeah, sometimes it takes more effort than than others, but.
• 49:14
  No, I love the whole JLR team. They've all, they've been so
• 49:17
  welcoming and like, you know, we're friends for life.
• 49:20
  It's, you know, you meet people and you're just like, yes,
• 49:23
  you're, you're my people. So that's, yeah, no, they're,
• 49:26
  that's been a delight. A real deal and I, I'd be remiss
• 49:29
  if I didn't mention some other folks for the real deal.
• 49:31
  Of course, we had Meekum COO Samurta on the show a few weeks
• 49:35
  ago and I had never been to a Meekum auction.
• 49:37
  I'd done their previews, I think it was last year.
• 49:40
  And, and really all the auctions are going to.
• 49:43
  They're all worth seeing, right? Shout out to Pauline at, at
• 49:47
  Gooding and you know, our friends at Broad Arrow and RM as
• 49:52
  well Bottoms. But but Meekum, I think does, as
• 49:56
  we talked on the show, more volume than all the other
• 49:59
  auction houses do together during the car week.
• 50:02
  And so they literally bring in like these big top tents and
• 50:06
  they're loud and you know, there's, there are lights and
• 50:08
  there are food vendors and they're off at another.
• 50:11
  I can't remember the name of the the golf course, but they're
• 50:14
  kind of off a little bit. It's a massive event.
• 50:17
  Just just a ton of people and and exciting.
• 50:21
  And they were so gracious. David Morton, who's their
• 50:27
  director of communications. And Sam were there.
• 50:29
  Sam was up on the auction block. I get to go up in the auction
• 50:32
  block. David Lee, the big Ferrari
• 50:33
  collector was there. They happened to be doing these
• 50:36
  Brabus Porsches while I was there, which was interesting
• 50:38
  because I didn't even know that was a thing until recently.
• 50:42
  You know, historically they've worked on Mercedes-Benz and
• 50:44
  cars. Yeah.
• 50:46
  And so, yeah, it was. It's such a spectacle.
• 50:49
  You have to love it. It is the pace.
• 50:52
  There's no like British auctioneer there.
• 50:54
  There is a an American and a cowboy hat and you know, he's
• 50:57
  talking fast and they're selling cars fast.
• 51:00
  And it was really a lot of fun. They were really wonderful to
• 51:03
  shummy around like they did and had some fantastic cars too.
• 51:06
  I mean cars of, you know, at least the same caliber as anyone
• 51:09
  else. So really fun to see.
• 51:12
  I mean, Pebble Beach winners and and that that kind of thing.
• 51:15
  You know they very famously Speaking of David Lee, sold that
• 51:19
  250 GTO. Right, it was.
• 51:21
  Last year and I think he was the buyer, the White 1, the Bianco
• 51:26
  whatever, 250 GTO. But so yeah, that was that was
• 51:30
  fun. You know, it's all about new
• 51:31
  experiences and boy, that that was that, that was that was
• 51:35
  really a lot of fun. So I just want to say thanks to
• 51:37
  those guys as well, but. To get to go up on the platform,
• 51:40
  that's the way to go to the auction.
• 51:41
  That was that was cool. And you know you're on TV,
• 51:44
  right? So.
• 51:45
  You just do the cutting the cake.
• 51:47
  You're like, yes to all my fans at home.
• 51:50
  I'll admit before was, I guess was after I was up on the on the
• 51:53
  on the auction block was sitting in the audience.
• 51:55
  I just wanted to get a feel. And then I realized I was
• 51:58
  sitting in the registered auction bidders section and
• 52:01
  there was a woman for me come. She kind of looked over at me
• 52:03
  and. Or like throw, yeah.
• 52:04
  She's little smiled and so I smiled back and then she's
• 52:07
  looking at me cuz she thinks I'm bidding right and thank God my
• 52:11
  placard said media but. Absolutely not.
• 52:14
  You forget that there are people there doing real business,
• 52:16
  right? And, and some of us are just
• 52:18
  there to to report on it. But really, really great.
• 52:21
  And this, I guess, unless there's anything else to speak
• 52:23
  of, this brings us to Sunday, the big day.
• 52:26
  Yeah. So you got there early?
• 52:29
  I did and not. And what was funny is we got
• 52:31
  there before. I think we got there by 5:30,
• 52:36
  which was later than we've gotten there in the past.
• 52:39
  Wow. Yeah, I was looking at the time
• 52:41
  and I went, all right, this year, like we're not, you know,
• 52:45
  crazed to get hats. We don't have to be there right
• 52:49
  at, you know, sunrise. So yeah, I was like, what time
• 52:51
  is sunrise? We'll aim to be there then.
• 52:53
  So I knew we'd see some of the cars.
• 52:56
  Obviously there are a lot of them that they move when it's
• 52:58
  still dark. But yeah, we we made it.
• 53:04
  And on the way in, we had a really fun surprise.
• 53:07
  We're walking in and there's the cars that are being staged, you
• 53:09
  know, to be the next one to drive in.
• 53:12
  And I looked over and it was this really unique car.
• 53:14
  And I went, wait a minute, I know who that is.
• 53:16
  And it was Myron Verdis, who has joined us on the show before.
• 53:20
  So I got to say hello and meet him in person and his daughter.
• 53:24
  And it was a new car to them. And of course I'm not
• 53:29
  remembering. No, this is the one.
• 53:31
  It kind of looks like a big shoe, right?
• 53:32
  And it was made by a company that made like chainsaws and
• 53:34
  things. It was.
• 53:35
  Is this the one? I don't if.
• 53:37
  I I hope I'm not thinking of the wrong one.
• 53:39
  I don't know, but it may. Be one of the.
• 53:42
  Yeah, the. People I really wanted to cross
• 53:44
  paths with this year and it just didn't, didn't happen.
• 53:46
  But it will. It will happen.
• 53:48
  It'll happen. That's cool.
• 53:49
  I'm. So glad you got to meet him.
• 53:51
  It was so fun. Like it was such a like, you
• 53:55
  know, full circle, like, you know, obviously we've been in
• 53:58
  communication, He's been on the show, we've met through the show
• 54:00
  but hadn't seen each other in person.
• 54:01
  And then he had this amazing, like kids from the 80s will
• 54:06
  remember the airbrushed T-shirts where you'd get like your name
• 54:09
  or whatever. He had an airbrushed.
• 54:12
  Yeah, he had an airbrushed T-shirt of himself and the car
• 54:15
  that he was wearing in the car to drive into Pebbles.
• 54:18
  So that was, it was so much fun. And his daughter was lovely.
• 54:21
  And so that was really fun to see.
• 54:24
  And they my favorite of all of the cars that we did see driving
• 54:30
  onto the lawn. So I had two favorites.
• 54:34
  One was a Navy and white 53 Ferrari 340 Vinyale Spider.
• 54:40
  It was just like if you had to pick one car, yeah, it was just
• 54:45
  striking. And it was like it wasn't too
• 54:48
  big. There was nothing extra.
• 54:50
  It was just like, I'm just, I'm here.
• 54:53
  It was just fantastic. Yes, yes, Just cool.
• 54:57
  Just yeah. Just cool.
• 54:58
  So that one and then the 1938 Phantom Corsair, which is the
• 55:03
  one of one, it was the black. I don't know if you saw, Yeah.
• 55:05
  Yeah, yeah. That's, I mean, it's like an art
• 55:06
  Deco and it was built by Rust Hines, who was one of the heirs
• 55:11
  of the Heinz ketchup. Fortune.
• 55:14
  And he actually, I think, passed away the next year in a road
• 55:18
  race or in a race, but he came. He designed the whole thing.
• 55:23
  Exactly. And it just, it was.
• 55:27
  It's such a thing to behold. And if you haven't seen it,
• 55:31
  actually, Chris Jacobs, the host, and, you know, he's worked
• 55:34
  with Haggerty and overhauling, go to his account on Instagram
• 55:39
  because he's got a good video of it driving by.
• 55:41
  And so you really get a sense for the scale of it and just the
• 55:46
  how striking it is. And it, you know, in a sea of
• 55:51
  incredible cars, this car would move or drive by or whatever,
• 55:56
  and there would be this sort of hush because people were going,
• 55:58
  what is this, right? Again, it's got gravity, yeah.
• 56:01
  It really like so much gravity and I think because it was black
• 56:06
  and the lines are so unique, there's a bit of Batmobile like
• 56:10
  superhero to it. And just.
• 56:14
  You know, I went, I don't know anything about this thing.
• 56:16
  And that's if I had to pick one, it would have been a really
• 56:20
  tough choice between that and the Ferrari.
• 56:21
  Yeah, yeah. And if you weren't there, you
• 56:24
  don't know, but there was a real marine layer for most of the
• 56:28
  morning. And so it really added this
• 56:30
  surreal quality to the place, right.
• 56:32
  So you sort of see these things emerge from the mist and yeah,
• 56:36
  I, I pebbles just Pebble, right. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's,
• 56:40
  it's again, it's, it's the one. And, you know, every year they
• 56:43
  outdo themselves. This year is the 75th year.
• 56:45
  We of course had Vince Vinaldi the, the new president on a
• 56:48
  couple weeks ago. He was great.
• 56:50
  I think the future is secure in his hands.
• 56:54
  The, the level of the cars. I mean, just just when you think
• 56:57
  you've seen it all, you know, next year a bunch of new stuff
• 56:59
  shows up. I think the thing that took the
• 57:01
  cake for me was the Ferrari car hauler with the 250 Gtos or
• 57:06
  whatever. Come on, it's like that was I've
• 57:09
  seen pictures of this thing, but there it was this massive you.
• 57:12
  Know size of a city. Bus, I think it was made from a
• 57:14
  fire engine or something. This massive red thing with
• 57:17
  these amazing cars, It's like the best Fisher Price playset
• 57:21
  ever. Come to life, Yeah.
• 57:23
  Good God, there was something about that marriage of those
• 57:26
  cars and that thing like the the truck wouldn't be nearly as cool
• 57:29
  on its own right? The the transporter and the cars
• 57:32
  are wonderful, but together you they just again, it's just
• 57:35
  something elevated and something that you just don't see.
• 57:37
  And it was. Fantastic.
• 57:38
  It was just it was so Pebble, like you said, to just have to
• 57:43
  have those three together displayed that way.
• 57:47
  I mean, it just it took your breath away.
• 57:49
  Yeah, it's so. It was just wild.
• 57:52
  I really enjoyed Pebble this year, but not until I got done
• 57:56
  with an interview that I had scheduled.
• 57:59
  I was so nervous I realized I forgot my wallet.
• 58:01
  So I had to give up my parking right next to the lodge earlier
• 58:04
  in the morning, go back home 2 hours later to get back, then
• 58:07
  I'm out parked by Spanish Bay. Had to take a city bus in.
• 58:10
  I mean, it was fine right? It was it was great, but it.
• 58:11
  Was part of the experience right?
• 58:13
  Yes, yes, and, and I had this interview that I, I, I, I didn't
• 58:18
  know exactly what it was going to be.
• 58:19
  You know, Lamborghini brought these 60 muras, which is, you
• 58:22
  know, more than 1/10 of. I think it might be about one in
• 58:25
  five of all the muras left. You know, we're there so. 60 so
• 58:29
  amazing I love those. And, and it was incredible.
• 58:33
  You can talk about gravity. And then the owners were quite
• 58:35
  colorful too. But I was there to interview
• 58:39
  Federico Foschini, who is the not only the CMO chief sales
• 58:44
  officer and marketing officer, but also runs Polo Storica,
• 58:48
  which is it's the heritage division.
• 58:50
  It's like Mercedes-Benz Classic. And I had 20 minutes with the
• 58:54
  guy and I was so worried about being late.
• 58:56
  So I saw Johnny and Lynn on the way in, and I wanted to sit and
• 59:01
  talk. I think they wanted to talk.
• 59:03
  And because I haven't talked to them in a while and would love
• 59:06
  to, but I had to. I wasn't even sure where I was
• 59:08
  going. I didn't know.
• 59:09
  Of course, the mirrors were all the way in the back at this
• 59:10
  point. The sun's out.
• 59:11
  It's getting a little. It's getting a little schvitzy
• 59:14
  out, you know? Yeah.
• 59:15
  And finally find him. And then I don't really know
• 59:17
  what he. I mean, I know what he looks
• 59:19
  like, but I have to find the PR person, right?
• 59:21
  Shout out to Jordan. He found me.
• 59:24
  And after Stefan Winkelman gave a presentation in a toast, I had
• 59:29
  20 minutes with this guy. And and you know, you're not
• 59:33
  going to have a heart to heart. You know, you're in the middle
• 59:35
  of this thing. You know he's Italian.
• 59:37
  Challenge accepted. So you come in with questions,
• 59:40
  right? And I'm not going to win any
• 59:42
  awards with this interview, but I think all things considered,
• 59:44
  it went well and it was quite insightful.
• 59:47
  And I think one of my big takeaways, he I said is asked
• 59:49
  him if the mural was the most iconic.
• 59:51
  Well, go, go listen to the interview.
• 59:52
  It was a 12 minute whatever special.
• 59:55
  Yeah, special episode, bonus episode, yeah, go, go, go
• 59:58
  listen. But he he did have some real
• 59:59
  insight and and you know, some I think answer from the heart on a
• 1:00:02
  couple things about what he feels is the most iconic
• 1:00:05
  Lamborghini and, and to him as a child of the 70s.
• 1:00:09
  Again, this guy's three years older than me and he's the CMO
• 1:00:12
  of Lamborghini, but it wasn't the Mira.
• 1:00:16
  He basically said the Mira is the car for many and and for
• 1:00:20
  many the Lamborghini story started with with the Mira but.
• 1:00:24
  But he had a different car. So go and listen and find out
• 1:00:26
  what that what that is. But so many people there.
• 1:00:28
  Your question for today. That's right, that's right.
• 1:00:32
  Yeah. I'd give you a Sheffield watch
• 1:00:33
  if I had one, but. We'll send you a that car show
• 1:00:37
  sticker. That's right.
• 1:00:39
  That's. Comment with him three if his
• 1:00:41
  choice then we will send you something.
• 1:00:43
  Yeah, you're feeling nasty. Yeah, yes, so, yeah, but saw so
• 1:00:47
  many friends, you know, there and elsewhere.
• 1:00:49
  Just some shout outs. John Wiley from Haggerty, an
• 1:00:52
  evaluation expert for Haggerty. Got to spend some time with him.
• 1:00:54
  Gooding auction. Great guy, really.
• 1:00:57
  Exactly who I thought he was going to be, which is always
• 1:00:59
  nice when you meet someone like that.
• 1:01:01
  John Chaldenko I saw briefly I. Know I met him.
• 1:01:05
  In person, at least not yeah, length.
• 1:01:07
  And he's again, exactly, you know, with his denim jacket and
• 1:01:10
  all that. Delightful, yeah.
• 1:01:11
  To be all, all sorts of people and we could sit here and talk
• 1:01:14
  about all the people we saw and all the people we missed.
• 1:01:16
  But but thanks to all who who put in an effort to to make our
• 1:01:20
  car week is wonderful again as it was because we're there just
• 1:01:25
  yeah, we say we're working, but there are people there who are
• 1:01:26
  really working, right. I mean, I would argue that we
• 1:01:29
  are as well, but it's different. It's it's so interesting to see
• 1:01:33
  what everybody's, what everyone's job or like what
• 1:01:38
  their goals are. And depending on what their
• 1:01:41
  goals are, that's what they're doing.
• 1:01:42
  You know, and I think we've said this before, like we've learned
• 1:01:45
  that live podcasts don't turn out as well as we would like to
• 1:01:50
  share with our audience. And so a lot of our focus is
• 1:01:54
  meeting as many people as we can, making connections.
• 1:01:56
  And so like, that's our focus. And other people, you know,
• 1:02:00
  they're writing or a combination of, or they're representing a
• 1:02:04
  brand or whatever it is. But yeah, it's everybody's doing
• 1:02:08
  different things, which keeps it interesting, too.
• 1:02:12
  Yeah. And I, you know, one of one of
• 1:02:14
  my favorite, one of my other favorite cars, I think my third
• 1:02:18
  favorite on the lawn was Princess Diana's 1987 Jaguar
• 1:02:22
  XJS, and it was AV 12 Cabriolet. And I was very lucky.
• 1:02:28
  I ran into my friend Jeff Houdin, who I think you met from
• 1:02:31
  Range Rover. That's right.
• 1:02:33
  Yeah. No, he's great.
• 1:02:34
  Right. And so I ran into him right when
• 1:02:35
  I was looking at the car. So that was really fun because
• 1:02:37
  he was able to tell me a little bit about the process and like
• 1:02:40
  working with Prince William to get that car and how that
• 1:02:44
  process was different from when they had the Queen's cars on
• 1:02:47
  display, you know, before. And like who in the royal family
• 1:02:52
  they had worked with for the Queen's cars versus obviously
• 1:02:54
  Diana is a different and just the whole process.
• 1:02:57
  So that was really fascinating because that's not something
• 1:03:00
  most of us are not communicating with members of the royal family
• 1:03:03
  as part of our day job. No, that's for that's for damn,
• 1:03:06
  for did that D type too, which I every time I see AD type, that's
• 1:03:10
  just that's a car that gets me going.
• 1:03:11
  They're just so, so special. They had a Jaguar had an amazing
• 1:03:15
  display of cars. There, they really did, Yeah.
• 1:03:18
  And they were, you know, and thank you to Jaguar for the
• 1:03:20
  hospitality because obviously been very lucky to become
• 1:03:24
  friends with Jessenia, who does PR for them.
• 1:03:27
  She works, you know, very closely with Jeff.
• 1:03:29
  He's officially Range Rover and she's officially Jaguar.
• 1:03:32
  But they do a lot together. And so we were hosted in the
• 1:03:37
  Jaguar Hospitality Suite, which was, that's right, just the most
• 1:03:40
  delightful respite. And got to have breakfast with
• 1:03:43
  Aaron Robinson from Haggerty. And Lynn was there, Bassam and
• 1:03:46
  Anna. And then we were on the lawn.
• 1:03:51
  I ran into our other previous guests, Trent Abbott.
• 1:03:54
  Oh, I missed Trent the whole week somehow, and he seemed to.
• 1:03:57
  Be everywhere he was. He was having the best time,
• 1:04:00
  yes, as he always does. And I got to.
• 1:04:03
  I'm going to break into that damn fraternity eventually.
• 1:04:06
  Well, and I was going to say we had a, if I do say so myself, we
• 1:04:10
  had a rather historic moment on the lawn at Pebble.
• 1:04:13
  For the first time ever, there was the largest ever gathering
• 1:04:16
  in person gathering of the PT Cruiser Spotters Anonymous
• 1:04:20
  group. There were five of us in one
• 1:04:21
  place, so it was trying, which is.
• 1:04:24
  Just a cover group for the real. It really is.
• 1:04:26
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
• 1:04:28
  And John Nicholas and TG, who you know from the Grand.
• 1:04:32
  Oh, sure. Yeah.
• 1:04:32
  We'll see. Yeah, so that was really fun.
• 1:04:34
  And then I don't know if our listeners know about Old Yeller.
• 1:04:39
  It was basically a homemade race car that cleaned up.
• 1:04:42
  And my dad knows the owners, Ernie and Elaine Nagabatsu.
• 1:04:46
  And Ernie was actually in a pretty bad accident in the last
• 1:04:48
  couple years in Australia racing the car.
• 1:04:51
  So it was really wonderful. Like it was great to meet them
• 1:04:53
  in person, but especially special because Ernie is doing
• 1:04:57
  phenomenally was climbing in out of the car, starting it on the
• 1:05:00
  lawn. You know, I got to chat with
• 1:05:02
  Elaine for a bit and it was just really a treat to meet them.
• 1:05:06
  And Ernie used to be into Herbie cars, so he actually knows Tori
• 1:05:11
  from way before. So it was just such a small
• 1:05:14
  world. And then I have to give an extra
• 1:05:17
  special shout out to my friend Lynn Heiner, who she's Lynn
• 1:05:21
  Heiner Cars on Instagram. Check out her work if you
• 1:05:23
  haven't. She does these really beautiful
• 1:05:26
  automotive themed big pieces. She's a painter.
• 1:05:30
  She always has a display in the retro auto tent at the Concord
• 1:05:35
  Village. And when I went to pick up my
• 1:05:39
  media credentials for a Pebble, we stopped in to say hi to her,
• 1:05:42
  my daughter and I. And she's just so to the earth,
• 1:05:45
  one of those just lovely people that really exemplifies the car
• 1:05:48
  community. You know, when somebody says to
• 1:05:51
  me, and I know to you too, of like, I'm not into cars.
• 1:05:53
  I don't get it. And I always say it's about the
• 1:05:55
  people. And she just was so incredibly
• 1:05:58
  kind to my daughter. We had a lovely conversation and
• 1:06:02
  I walked away. And I'm like, that she is the
• 1:06:03
  definition of when I say it's the people like Lynn is it?
• 1:06:07
  So go check out her work Lynn Heiner cars on Instagram.
• 1:06:11
  Just amazing and just really a highlight of the week.
• 1:06:14
  And you know, we walked away and my daughter said she's my new
• 1:06:16
  best friend. And it was that's.
• 1:06:18
  Awesome. Some some people have that gift.
• 1:06:21
  Yeah, no, I I think it's her PR person reached out about coming
• 1:06:25
  on the show. So hopefully gonna make that
• 1:06:26
  happen. Perfect.
• 1:06:27
  Boy do we have some amazing guests coming in the next few
• 1:06:29
  weeks, like childhood hero type people, right.
• 1:06:32
  So more to come, you know, and obviously shout out to Dan.
• 1:06:36
  Dan was not with us this week in.
• 1:06:39
  No, he was definitely. With us in for sure, very, very
• 1:06:43
  much. Yeah.
• 1:06:43
  We just, you know, it's so special that we're part of this
• 1:06:46
  community and, you know, it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's,
• 1:06:51
  it's a it's a big world, but it's a small world, you know,
• 1:06:54
  and it's just something my Grandma Betty would say.
• 1:06:56
  But that's, it is, it's so true. You get there and it's a ton of
• 1:06:59
  people. And yet you see all these
• 1:07:01
  people. Thank you to the people who
• 1:07:02
  come, who came up, listeners of the show who I hadn't met
• 1:07:05
  before, just to say they listened to the show to say hi.
• 1:07:08
  Shame on you for those people who reached out later and said I
• 1:07:10
  saw you when I you know, and I said you should have come over
• 1:07:12
  and said hello. But.
• 1:07:13
  You know you're a big deal because they're like, well.
• 1:07:16
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's on that car show.
• 1:07:18
  We can't possibly, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:20
  They weren't lining up, but there were a handful of them and
• 1:07:22
  that was fun. And and, you know, I'll still
• 1:07:24
  never get over the thrill of, of, of, you know, having someone
• 1:07:26
  come up and say how much they, they like the show, appreciate
• 1:07:28
  what you do. And and yeah, you know, for once
• 1:07:30
  in my life, you know, to hear that right, that's it's fun.
• 1:07:34
  So it's always interesting. I know so many people we could,
• 1:07:37
  we could go on and on about it. So many things that we didn't
• 1:07:39
  get to, didn't really talk about the track, which I want to hear
• 1:07:42
  about. So maybe next?
• 1:07:42
  Week, I know it was really fun. Well, and one thing I will say
• 1:07:45
  quickly is in the Jaguar suite, they had their new type O1,
• 1:07:50
  which is coming out in October and I got to actually sit in it,
• 1:07:54
  you know, sort of experience it in person for the first time.
• 1:07:57
  And it's I would say I think the cabin is lovely.
• 1:08:01
  It's interesting because it has no back window like the Pulsar 4
• 1:08:05
  and you know there's other vehicles too, but that's that's
• 1:08:09
  a a big topic of conversation. It was a topic of conversation
• 1:08:12
  with, you know, when we were eating breakfast.
• 1:08:15
  I think it's going to be interesting to see how many cars
• 1:08:17
  continue to go that way because it's such a departure from how
• 1:08:20
  we're used to driving. But it was yeah, it's I'm
• 1:08:25
  curious who it was designed for. It felt very much like a
• 1:08:28
  chauffeured situation sitting in the back.
• 1:08:30
  Seat I got it was very. Like cocoonish, but in a nice
• 1:08:36
  way, like you felt very held and protected and it was very
• 1:08:40
  serene. I got to sit in the driver's
• 1:08:43
  seat. That felt great, you know?
• 1:08:45
  So it'll be, it'll be fun to see that when it actually comes out
• 1:08:48
  and start to see it on the road. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:50
  Long live Jaguar. Exactly.
• 1:08:53
  Damn, but kill me for that pronunciation.
• 1:08:56
  Well, I have to run because I am off to see a concert of Eastern
• 1:08:59
  European folk music. Since I ever expected to hear
• 1:09:02
  but I love that journey for. You we have these wonderful
• 1:09:06
  concerts in the neighborhood. We're very fortunate.
• 1:09:08
  You know, they're in someone's front yard and you know, one
• 1:09:10
  week it can be or pop music, the next week it's classical or
• 1:09:14
  jazz. Well, this week it's Eastern
• 1:09:15
  European folk music by a group that all all in folk regalia.
• 1:09:18
  So it will be nice, but I hate being the last one to walk in.
• 1:09:22
  Right, you cannot be late to the Eastern folk music.
• 1:09:25
  Concert. That's right, the babushkas will
• 1:09:27
  be angry. We don't want that.
• 1:09:30
  All right, great show, fun to talk, you know, car week and if
• 1:09:33
  you're listening and you you're thinking about doing car, just
• 1:09:36
  do it. Don't wait.
• 1:09:36
  It's only going to get more expensive and more exclusive.
• 1:09:39
  Just just go and do it. Be a part of it, you'll be
• 1:09:42
  welcome. There's nothing to be scared of,
• 1:09:44
  it's just it'll be the best week of of your year so.
• 1:09:47
  It might be the largest group of the most welcoming people you'll
• 1:09:50
  ever run across. It's like showing up for family
• 1:09:53
  reunion for a family you didn't know you had.
• 1:09:56
  Right. And every and and there's no
• 1:09:57
  drama. No, there's no drama because
• 1:10:00
  everyone's in a great mood. Everybody's just happy to be
• 1:10:02
  there. I know.
• 1:10:03
  And if you see us, obviously say hi, please.
• 1:10:06
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• 1:10:09
  We appreciate you listening and leaving a five star review and
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• 1:10:14
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• 1:10:18
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