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Drive Thru News #39 - Annual Holiday Shopping Guide, 2023 · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Ho, ho, ho!
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  Welcome to Drive Thru episode number 39.
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  This is our monthly recap, where we put together a menu of automotive,
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  motorsport, and random car adjacent news.
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  Now let's pull up to window number one for more automotive news.
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  Look at that.
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  Don Wieberg has graced us with his presence for the first time
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  on a drive thru, and it's an extra special one because this
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  is our Holiday Shopping Guide.
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  Well, you know what, guys?
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  We are going to be visited by three ghosts tonight.
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  We're going to be visited by the ghosts of drive thrus past,
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  the ghost of Christmas presents.
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  And the ghost of break fix guests yet to come.
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  For our Patreons, we're going to do a little show and tell on this episode.
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  So this is some incentive for y'all to check out the behind the scenes
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  video, all the craziness that happens on a drive thru episode.
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  So let's kick it off.
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  With some general gift ideas.
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  You know, we're having discussions around the writer's room.
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  What should be in the holiday guide?
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  What do you buy for your petrolhead, your loved one in your life?
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  Dire Gal that's got all their toys.
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  Well, this one from five years ago resurrected itself.
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  What about the Honda Type R lawnmower?
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  This could be a winner.
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  This is a contender right here.
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  Save yourself the heartburn and go to Honda, get some decal stickers, and
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  strap it onto your existing lawnmower.
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  It sort of looks like a Roomba.
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  I think it is.
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  I think it's one of those electric autonomous lawnmower things.
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  They have those, the robotic lawnmowers.
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  I've seen them.
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  They're basically a Roomba with a blade underneath the mask.
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  I would buy that lawnmower.
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  That thing looks cool.
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  I mean, you'd be the talk of the neighborhood.
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  I want the Porsche version of that.
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  I want like the RS GT4, only charcoal gray.
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  The Momo.
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  Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Bigger weighing, fatter.
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  You get the hippie 917 livery on that thing.
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  That would look good going around your yard, yeah.
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  Or the pink pig.
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  The pink pig would work.
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  Oh, that'd look cool.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  That's what we buy for the holidays.
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  Racing livery kits for our robotic vacuums.
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  And autonomous lawnmowers, somebody make that, somebody start marketing that.
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  Oh, that would be awesome.
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  So Don, you and I, last year, we talked about the Pilate shoe company.
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  And I said, I'm such a fan boy.
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  I have a bunch of Pilates stuff.
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  I love their shoes.
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  My daughters have bought shoes for me over the years.
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  And you mentioned to me that they started making.
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  Coffee last year and a last minute haste.
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  We actually ordered some.
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  We have the V8, the V10 and the V12 coffees.
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  Oh, you got all three of them.
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  Yeah, they're excellent.
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  And you know what?
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  They're not just a shoe company.
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  They have tons of other accessories from phone cases made of DuPont
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  blast resistant Kevlar to shirts, to hoodies, you know, the normal
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  apparel, the coffees and other things.
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  But more importantly.
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  They've done a deep discount on their shoes this year.
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  I got a hold of a pair that I want to show off.
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  You actually bought a pair?
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  Yeah, why wouldn't I?
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  Shoes?
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  Come on.
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  Oh my, the ultimate fashion statement.
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  So they come in this delightful black box.
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  It's an unboxing.
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  Yeah.
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  The Dodge stripes on it, you know, the black over black.
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  Very cool.
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  So you open this thing up, right?
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  And you pull out the Le Mans driving shoes.
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  Check these out.
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  These were discounted at over 50 percent off clocking in still
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  under 100 after the discount.
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  So these were a really, really good deal.
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  Super comfortable.
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  I love their everyday driving shoes.
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  I think these are fantastic and tons of their styles of shoes are
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  on sale right now from the Prototipo RS's to more of like a Samba style
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  driving shoe called the Midnight.
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  To include the LeMans shoes.
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  So if you haven't checked them out yet, visit www.
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  piloti.
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  com for shoes and other cool car inspired accessories.
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  My wife and I would just, I need new shoes.
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  We're going to Vegas tomorrow.
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  So she said, do you want to go get new shoes tonight?
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  Or do you want me to pick you up some new shoes?
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  I said, no, that's fine.
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  I'll just get them in Vegas.
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  I think I'm going to go back to the New Balance brand.
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  Oh, you're going to be a Corvette owner soon.
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  Well, the sad thing about it was I was always a New Balance
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  guy way back in the day.
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  Like, here's a weird thing.
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  No kidding.
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  At Motor Trend, everyone wore New Balance.
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  Really weird.
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  It's like the car guy's shoe.
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  We ought to be doing a plug for a New Balance cause we all wear them.
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  Your Corvette club membership has just been accepted, Don.
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  That's right.
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  I know I'm a, I'm a closet Corvette guy, but you, you are a closet New Balance guy.
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  You just haven't embraced it yet.
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  Uh huh.
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  Uh huh.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I got something to show you guys.
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  I thought this was super cool.
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  I found this at Petit Le Mans.
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  So you guys know what this is?
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  Filter box.
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  An oil filter.
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  And I said the same thing.
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  It's red and it has Motul written all over it.
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  And you open it up and inside is this.
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  A can of Motul 300V.
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  But not just any 300V.
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  A 300V.
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  The handle!
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  Yeah.
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  And it's made from Motul 300V.
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  Does it smell like burnt oil?
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  It actually smells quite nice.
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  If you like the smell of Motul 300V, it's ester based.
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  It's kind of got that sickly sweet smell to it.
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  They have other versions of this, and this is actually made by a company in St.
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  Louis called Flying Tiger Motorcycles in partnership with Motul.
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  And I'll let Adam and Ryan tell you more about this really unique.
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  And that's kind of where this product lies is like in that blurred space
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  between, Oh yeah, you know, my so and so rides a motorcycle, but I don't,
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  and I don't really understand, or I love it, but I don't have a motorcycle
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  and, you know, you see this a lot at racetracks, you know, it's the reason
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  people buy the t shirt, they like that feeling of wonderment that they get from
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  it, you know, everything that's going on around them, and they want to take
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  a piece of that home with them and, you know, an event t shirt is one thing,
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  but this is something a little more.
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  Sure.
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  interactive.
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  Motul 300v candles.
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  We made them so you can come inside from the garage and be with your family.
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  Let them smell how you smell.
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  Let them smell how you feel.
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  Let them know where your mind's at.
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  Motul 800v for when you absolutely You just need to smell the racetrack.
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  So what do these candles cost if somebody does want to pick one up?
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  Currently they are at 40.
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  That's a bargain.
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  Especially if your significant other shops a Yankee candle.
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  And if you know how much a liter of 300V costs, it's a good deal.
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  Everybody listening that has one, if you could please light them.
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  We're getting ready to make more batches as winter comes, so we got
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  to keep that money machine going.
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  Yes, please burn your candles.
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  I think that'd be kind of cool to have a candle that smells like motor oil.
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  If for no other reason, but every now and then I get moody.
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  So I want to burn something that really offends people to make them go away.
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  I love going to tire shops.
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  I think that's the coolest smell in the world, but my wife can't stand it.
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  So it's one of those things where if you want to get rid of people, you
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  just burn some tires and it's good.
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  I mean, what's wrong with the smell of castor oil in the morning?
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  Right.
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  Especially when it's on fire.
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  And these are for the petrol head in your life.
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  So if you're interested in checking them out and seeing the other varieties
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  of candles that they have available, hop on over to flying tiger, moto.
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  com.
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  All right.
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  I got another one for you guys.
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  This one's a stocking stuffer and then some.
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  These are made by a young lady in Pennsylvania named Cheryl Taylor.
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  And she has a bunch of different motorsport and other
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  inspired drinking tumblers.
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  This one happens to be a can of WD 40.
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  I've taken this to meetings.
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  I've actually forgotten it in the garage because it blends in with everything else.
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  She's got cans of Ford motor oil, Rust Oleum, other kinds of things.
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  These are a lot of fun.
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  They come in at 19 bucks.
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  She does have them in different widths, heights.
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  Diameters, et cetera, but you can also get them for an upcharge
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  with a speaker built into them.
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  That's actually really awesome.
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  You know, the first time I saw something like that was in the
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  remake of Gone in 60 Seconds.
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  Angelina Jolie.
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  She is at the Ferrari dealership.
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  Nicolas Cage comes to ask her to help him.
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  And she's just about to get off work.
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  And she grabs this gas can, just starts tugging whatever's in there.
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  And at first, it kind of shocked me.
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  I thought, what the hell is she doing?
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  It's just water.
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  You sounded so disappointed.
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  It was just water.
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  But remember, like she said, you gotta work twice as hard when it's legal.
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  I think these are really, really cool.
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  And you can check those out at Pretty Ginger Crafts on Facebook
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  or email PrettyGingerCrafts.
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  com.
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  Pretty ginger crafts at gmail.
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  com and look at Cheryl's catalog.
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  She says she has over 400 different designs that she can
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  make on these aluminum tumblers.
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  Hi, I'm Lydia Finette, and I'm so excited to announce the launch of my
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  first ever, the strike method necklace.
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  Those of you who've seen me on stage at broad arrow know that
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  I always come with a gavel.
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  I feel like it brings me confidence and power anywhere I go, and
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  I want you to feel the same.
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  So.
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  You can pick up this limited edition gavel charm necklace at www.
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  lydiafenet.
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  com or on Instagram.
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  And I hope that you will buy it for yourself, your daughter, your
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  granddaughter, anyone who needs that little extra confidence boost.
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  The power is within us, but it never hurts to have a charm as well.
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  I think everybody ought to get out there and consider an auction.
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  Now, as crazy as that might sound, yes, we all have eBay, and
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  that's a terrific resource, too.
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  But for the motor enthusiasts, it's a little bit vanilla.
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  So, what I'm thinking is Mecham.
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  Because Mecham has their new product, Mecham On Time.
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  And that's literally very much like eBay.
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  You get up there, it's on a computer, it's entirely computer.
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  And you just...
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  Start doing your bidding.
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  That's a nice thing.
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  It's entirely automotive.
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  If I remember correctly, there's 1200 items that are available on Meekum
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  on time, including fine art, Dale Earnhardt collectibles, 60 micro cars,
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  buddy L's and gas and oil collectibles.
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  The registration is free.
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  Bidding is easy.
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  You can shop for your favorite road art gifts now at ontime.
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  meekum.
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  com.
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  And receive the gift just in time for the holidays.
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  Was that a pun?
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  That's right.
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  So I think an auction might be fun.
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  It's something different for people.
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  And you never know what's going to pop up.
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  Speaking of auctions and collectibles and memorabilia, near and dear to
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  all of our hearts on this episode are things like model cars.
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  Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and especially Legos.
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  I have to say that maybe it's somebody's at Lego.
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  Our generation is in charge at Lego.
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  There is a lot of car stuff going on, as evidenced by the Speed Champions,
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  the Technic stuff, all the things you can buy on the shelf here in the U.
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  S.
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  There's some really cool stuff.
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  All petrolheads, we're all just doing the church nod right now.
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  Because the Speed Champions series has really been ramping up.
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  We've mentioned it before.
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  This year I found one that I especially liked.
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  And it's the Ferrari 330 P4, Le Mans edition.
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  This thing is fantastic for the bargain price of like 20 bucks.
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  You can have this basically 1 18th scale size model on your shelf made of Legos.
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  And I learned about a website maybe in more detail than I knew before.
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  And that's rebrickable.
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  com.
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  And that allows you to take some Lego sets and turn them into some other really cool
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  things without having to buy new parts.
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  And I mentioned before that, you know, under some rich people things, there
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  was some kits that you could get from like the block zone to build different
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  kinds of automotive models that are out.
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  I found the best of the best, at least in my opinion, you take Dom
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  Toretto's charger from fast and furious.
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  And did you know, you can turn it into the 1989 Batmobile,
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  the Michael Keaton Batmobile.
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  It is the hotness.
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  I have some pictures on doing the conversion.
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  A lot of fun.
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  It's a good way to spend time with the kids.
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  They're interested in, you know, building their little towns, but also in the
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  engineering side with the cars and stuff.
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  So that's been a lot of fun.
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  So if you're out there looking for maybe a different hobby,
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  something new, don't discount Lego.
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  If you're a fan of Audi.
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  And the late Ken Block, there is a Ken Block edition Audi
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  e tron set that is available.
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  That is my number one pick.
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  That's actually on my Lego wishlist this year.
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  I want that thing really bad.
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  It looks really cool.
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  And interestingly enough, Lego has also started to incorporate remote
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  control options and the Ken Block Audi e tron, which clocks in at about
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  179 bucks, comes with the RC option.
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  I think that's super cool.
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  Did you know that there is a NASCAR Lego?
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  You can get the next gen Chevy Camaro ZL1.
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  Is it the garage 56 one?
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  I don't think so because it says number 75 on it.
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  That's a missed opportunity.
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  Right.
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  But it could be yours for the low, low price of 49.
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  99.
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  That's not bad.
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  Does it come with vroom vroom sounds or you got to make those yourself?
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  Sold separately.
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  Vroom vroom sounds sold separately.
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  Batteries not included.
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  But I get the feeling, Eric, that you like to make your own vroom vroom sounds.
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  Only with my Matchbox cars.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  Speaking of Don, you and I got to sit down with a lifelong enthusiast
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  who turned his passions into a career in the model car business.
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  Your buddy, Patrick Strong.
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  Yeah.
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  We ought to do an unboxing.
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  That car has never been out of the box.
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  Oh yeah.
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  I got that beautiful Kuntosh from him.
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  I don't know who made it.
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  I forgot who made it, but whether you are a veteran collector with very
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  finally home taste or whether you are new to the hobby model, citizen diecast.
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  com is a.
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  great place to find a very tightly focused selection of exquisite model cars.
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  And if you are new to the hobby, my contact info is readily available
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  there, and I'm always happy to answer any questions you might have.
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  Honestly, I'd rather make a friend than a customer.
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  The beautiful thing about Patrick Strong is he represents a whole
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  bunch of different manufacturers.
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  If you have a dream of a dream car like I did with the Countach and then you
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  woke up one day and realized you're probably never going to be able to
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  afford the real thing, so he hooked me up with as close as possible of
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  the real thing as I could hope for.
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  I know that we have the holidays coming up.
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  I typically do a kind of a low key Black Friday, Cyber Monday sale in that
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  I just put a lot of stuff on markdown.
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  I don't do a special promotion with, you know, here's your
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  percentage discount or buy two get one free or anything like that.
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  It's just.
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  Things get put into the sales section.
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  So week after Thanksgiving, I'd be looking for that to happen.
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  The best way to find out about deals like that is to get on our mailing list.
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  We're not spamming.
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  We only send emails out to let people know about new products or
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  events where we're going to be.
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  Modelsitizendicast.
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  com is a great place to start or continue your journey as a diecast model collector.
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  Well, since you mentioned that, Don.
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  We found something in what we would normally showcase in
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  our lost and found section.
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  We found a Lamborghini that maybe you can afford.
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  Have you seen that the Wolf of Wall Street Lamborghini Countach
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  is now available and for sale?
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  Yes, yes.
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  And with a little bit of spit and polish, that car will come right back together.
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  That will buff right out.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  Tell you how stupid we got when we had our meeting up in Monterey with
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  our Ferrari mechanic, and he basically talked me out of getting a 456 by
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  telling me it was 35, 000 to service it.
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  I got to thinking, you know, we can't afford the Countach, so
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  why don't we just go get a 550?
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  That seems like the next logical step.
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  You know, the Wolf of Wall Street car would be really cool
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  because you've seen my house.
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  I have a fairly large front yard and it's on a corner and I can
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  just imagine building like a nice concrete platform and just placing the
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  Countach like sculpture right there.
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  I think that'd be good.
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  I think the neighbors would like that.
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  So would you venture a guess as to how much you could get that
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  new monument in your yard for?
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  How much?
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  A hundred dollars.
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  A hundred?
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  I wish for a wrecked Lamborghini.
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  I mean, it's a legit 25th anniversary Lamborghini.
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  How much could I get at the scrap mill yard?
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  I turned it in 500.
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  All right, Bob, the low, low bargain price, 100, 000 million and a half.
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  Million and a half.
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  Million and a half for a wreck to Lamborghini.
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  Can you believe that?
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  No, no, no.
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  That's insane.
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  Considering you can probably get a mint conditional one for 800.
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  Yeah, but this is the Wolf of Wall Street's car.
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  The real deal.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, you know, used as a prop in the movie, but still the real deal.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I have a friend way back when who was so excited he got his first Mercedes
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  and he was so happy with himself and so proud of himself and he didn't
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  have it a week and it was run into by a big F 150 and he found out very
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  quickly how easily your Mercedes bends.
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  Ah, that's Christmas jokes right there.
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  Oh, let me tell you about the three elves that walked into a pub.
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  No, moving along.
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  This year was a good year for authors.
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  Yes, we have a lot of books to cover this year.
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  So let's start off with one of our guests from upstate Michigan, Larry Jorgensen.
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  Remember when we interviewed Larry?
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  I do.
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  He was a very nice man.
• 17:54
  Very interesting guy.
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  Lots and lots of stories.
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  I set out to do a shipwreck book, okay.
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  I thought it was fascinating.
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  Do you know what's happened?
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  I've got as many people that are interested in vintage
• 18:07
  cars that have come to me.
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  The book is for sale in numerous vintage car museum gift shops.
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  Blew me away when I realized that I had created two markets, not just people
• 18:21
  that like to read about the great lakes and shipwrecks, but all these people
• 18:26
  that are crazy about vintage cars.
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  It's amazing.
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  Besides affecting an entire peninsula.
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  It affects so many people in different ways.
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  His book Shipwrecked and Rescued is still for sale.
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  The book includes over 200 1927 Chryslers that are rescued
• 18:42
  from a Great Lake shipwreck.
• 18:44
  This is an amazing true story that has been recently revealed.
• 18:47
  It includes over 50 historic photos showing how the cars and the crew
• 18:51
  finally rescued all those Chryslers.
• 18:53
  It explains what happens to the cars after the rescue.
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  And where one of the remaining cars can still be seen today.
• 18:59
  The cover on the book, when we decided this is too good a story to not really put
• 19:04
  some real effort into it, the cover on the book, I hired a artist in the Keweenaw to
• 19:10
  create that artwork that's on the cover.
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  I wanted something that would show both the state of the boat and the cars.
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  And he was able to meld that together into one painting.
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  It's a fantastic painting.
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  This could be a special gift for the holidays.
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  It's an award-winning book.
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  It's available at shipwrecked and rescued.
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  Make sure you got past tense shipwrecked and rescued.com.
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  If you go to the website, I'll even sign it to you if you want me to.
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  Yes, it's available on Amazon and fortunately it's
• 19:41
  available in a lot of places.
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  Michigan bookstores, White House museums that have gift stores.
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  Like I said before, a lot of vintage auto museums have got
• 19:53
  the book in the gift stores.
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  You never know where you may see it.
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  You know, I've heard this and you walk into a place and there it is.
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  You know.
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  You can also call Larry directly at 3 3 7 5 9 1 1 9 3 7.
• 20:06
  The book normally retails for 20, but as a special holiday promo, if you reach
• 20:13
  out to Larry or order it on the website and mention GTM, he will sell you the
• 20:17
  book for 12 bucks, shipping is free.
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  And all the books are signed by Larry.
• 20:23
  That's pretty cool.
• 20:23
  Next up our friend and newest panelists on the what should I buy series.
• 20:29
  Jeff Willis has been on the show several times.
• 20:32
  Most people might not remember, or maybe you gotta jump back to his episode.
• 20:36
  He wrote a book called Human in the Machine.
• 20:39
  And there it is.
• 20:40
  A very interesting book.
• 20:41
  It's a compilation of different stories, people he's interviewed, like the
• 20:45
  founders of Petrolicious, to people like Elspeth Beard, who was also on the show.
• 20:50
  Full of pictures, full of interesting stuff.
• 20:52
  It's really about car culture in the Pacific Northwest and upper California.
• 20:56
  Pretty well put together construction wise paper and everything.
• 20:59
  Yeah.
• 20:59
  And it's got color photos in it.
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  And a lot of these photos were taken by Jeff because he is a photographer.
• 21:05
  He's noted for doing events like velocity, Monterey car week,
• 21:08
  pebble beach, things like that.
• 21:10
  So he included a lot of that in the book as well.
• 21:12
  So really, really great.
• 21:13
  Stuff in here.
• 21:14
  You can buy it on Amazon.
• 21:16
  It's another 20 book.
• 21:17
  Great stocking stuffer.
• 21:18
  Great gift human in the machine by Jeffrey Willis.
• 21:22
  Speaking of Jeff, I mentioned he hooked us up with Elspeth Beard, who is featured
• 21:26
  in his book, Human in the Machine.
• 21:27
  He actually co hosted that episode with me as we interviewed Elspeth.
• 21:31
  If you don't know her story, she's the first British woman to circumvent
• 21:35
  the world on a BMW motorcycle.
• 21:37
  She took this trip in the early eighties and it took her three years to complete.
• 21:40
  She tells the entire story in her book, Lone Rider, which is
• 21:44
  available in print or on Audible.
• 21:46
  So you can listen to it if you don't have time to read it.
• 21:49
  We have a lot of content on Elspeth on our website.
• 21:52
  Check out the episode, check out the live stream that we did from
• 21:56
  Bob's BMW this year when we met her.
• 21:58
  Her book is absolutely fantastic.
• 22:00
  This is a one of a kind story and is well worth reading.
• 22:03
  Very inspiring, lots of ups and downs, lots to learn from Lone Rider.
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  So it was an absolute pleasure and an honor to sit down and interview her.
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  But if you haven't listened to the episode, do so, but also
• 22:14
  pick up a copy of Lone Rider on Amazon or listen to it on Audible.
• 22:19
  Don, do you want to talk about parking limits and parking
• 22:22
  meters and county zoning again?
• 22:25
  It's what I live for, you know.
• 22:27
  Paved Paradise, written by Henry Grabar.
• 22:30
  We had him on the show, what, about a month ago?
• 22:32
  Mm hmm.
• 22:33
  They paved paradise and put up a parking lot?
• 22:35
  Exactly.
• 22:35
  Joni Mitchell, right?
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  Big yellow taxi.
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  Yeah, very interesting guy.
• 22:39
  Very, very interesting.
• 22:40
  Paved Paradise.
• 22:41
  is basically a study in how parking has changed the world.
• 22:47
  It's a fascinating book.
• 22:48
  You'd probably pass this over at your local Barnes and Nobles
• 22:52
  and not even think about it.
• 22:52
  Oh, that's a really interesting cover.
• 22:54
  Flip it over and be like, wait, what?
• 22:55
  What is this about exactly?
• 22:57
  The premise of the book is really to explain How parking plays such an
• 23:02
  amazing role in our daily lives in terms of zoning taxes, how they can
• 23:08
  build an architect, how they can change cities, how restaurants are built.
• 23:11
  Like, there's so many different things involved in just that side
• 23:14
  of the conversation really gives you a different look at parking.
• 23:18
  I mean, the funny thing is about parking, it's so boring.
• 23:20
  I mean, who cares?
• 23:22
  You put your car in a space, you drop in a quarter, you walk away.
• 23:26
  But there's so much more behind it, and you know, Henry really brings
• 23:29
  that to light, and who knew there was so much fascination about parking?
• 23:33
  And then he talks about the darker side of parking, which I know, Don, you
• 23:36
  enjoyed, like, the stories about the mobs and the gangsters and how they're
• 23:40
  laundering money through parking garages.
• 23:42
  And then it boils down into a study of economics.
• 23:45
  How much does parking really cost?
• 23:47
  You know, is there such thing as free parking?
• 23:49
  And it clocks in at about 325 pages.
• 23:53
  It's a quick read.
• 23:54
  So I highly recommend checking it out.
• 23:56
  Hi there.
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  I'm Henry Grabar.
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  I'm a journalist at Slate.
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  a past guest and the author of Paved Paradise, How Parking Explains the World.
• 24:05
  It makes a great gift and you can pick it up at a bookstore near you or
• 24:10
  get the audio version from Audible.
• 24:12
  Thanks for listening.
• 24:16
  Another quick read.
• 24:17
  Another one I recommend.
• 24:18
  This is a carryover from last year because we didn't talk about it due to timing
• 24:23
  with this episode survival of the fastest, which is Randy Lanier story, the whole
• 24:28
  thing about weed speed and the 1980s drug scandal that shocked the racing world.
• 24:33
  You know, as the joke goes, what does IMSA stand for?
• 24:35
  The international marijuana smugglers association, not the
• 24:38
  international motor sports association.
• 24:40
  It's Randy's rise to fame and also his demise.
• 24:43
  And then what was really cool is we were actually able to sit down
• 24:47
  with Randy after the book came out.
• 24:49
  He's been out of prison for quite a number of years now.
• 24:51
  And we did a, where is he now?
• 24:54
  Talking about all the things that happened after he's been out, what
• 24:57
  he's into, how he's working with the community, how he's giving back.
• 25:01
  You got to read Survival of the Fastest to understand where the story is.
• 25:05
  Granted, there's a Netflix special.
• 25:07
  The book is awesome.
• 25:08
  It's worth reading.
• 25:09
  And then, you know, continue that journey with the Break Fix
• 25:12
  episode surrounding Randy Lanier.
• 25:14
  So a great stocking stuffer as well.
• 25:16
  All right.
• 25:16
  Yeah.
• 25:17
  Parking.
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  There's some wild stuff there, man.
• 25:21
  Wild stuff, you know.
• 25:23
  We gotta park somewhere, right?
• 25:24
  Well, what did we park in front of?
• 25:26
  The hydrant.
• 25:27
  That's how we got that ticket, man.
• 25:29
  Some restaurant, silly.
• 25:30
  Oh, the restaurant, man.
• 25:32
  Yeah, the restaurant, man.
• 25:34
  Sorry, man.
• 25:35
  I'm looking at you with your little hat and your sweater and your beard.
• 25:38
  And, man, I'm getting all weird here, you know, man.
• 25:40
  I think I'm on like Cheech and Chong or something, man.
• 25:44
  Get the Impala.
• 25:45
  Let's go, man.
• 25:46
  Up in Smole.
• 25:47
  Now, you know, you say up and smoke down here in Texas, they're gonna
• 25:50
  think, Oh, where's the barbecue?
• 25:51
  Speaking of barbecue, talking about all that parking and pulling up in front
• 25:56
  of restaurants, we sat down with David Page, author of Food Americana, who also
• 26:01
  happens to be the creator of Diners.
• 26:04
  Drive ins and dives.
• 26:05
  He was a cool guy.
• 26:06
  He had a lot to offer.
• 26:07
  He was very insightful.
• 26:08
  He knew a lot of crazy places that you knew, which I thought was
• 26:11
  interesting because he's East Coast.
• 26:12
  But then he finally hit this little dive down in, uh, Baker, California on
• 26:16
  the way to Las Vegas from Los Angeles.
• 26:19
  And it was a mad Greek.
• 26:20
  So that was kind of fun.
• 26:21
  We bonded over that.
• 26:22
  Let's hear from David Page about how you can get his book.
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  Hi, I'm David Page, creator of Diners, Drive ins and Dives.
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  And now an author.
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  I've written a book called Food Americana.
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  It tells the great stories about the great people behind some
• 26:37
  of America's favorite dishes.
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  Please pick up a copy of my book.
• 26:41
  It's a great gift for the holidays.
• 26:43
  It's all about America's favorite meals.
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  At Amazon.
• 26:48
  com or your favorite bookstore.
• 26:55
  Well, Don, you have some friends and authors in the business.
• 26:58
  What are some of your recommended reads?
• 27:00
  I have no friends.
• 27:01
  None.
• 27:02
  That's why I burn candles that smell like motor oil to offend them.
• 27:06
  No, you know, one of my favorite guys in the world is Matt Stone.
• 27:09
  He was my mentor when I was interning at Motor Trend Magazine
• 27:14
  and Truck Trend Magazine.
• 27:15
  He was one of my many mentors.
• 27:16
  I had about 40 of them there.
• 27:18
  But Matt and I bonded over a lot of stuff.
• 27:20
  We liked a lot of the same cars.
• 27:22
  Very strange.
• 27:22
  We had a lot of the same history with cars.
• 27:25
  And so he's written good Lord and over 40 books by now in his lifetime.
• 27:29
  He couldn't join us on the show today because he's working on a brand new
• 27:33
  book, should be out mid 2024, late 2024.
• 27:37
  I would imagine.
• 27:37
  And he didn't want to talk about that right now.
• 27:40
  So I'm going to throw him under the bus and talk about one of my favorites.
• 27:43
  365 cars you must drive by Matt Stone in it.
• 27:48
  Matt has gathered a multitude of cars.
• 27:50
  that have to be experienced to be believed.
• 27:53
  From the gorgeous to the hideous, to the well built, to the not so well
• 27:56
  built, the list encourages readers to get out there and have fun with cars.
• 28:01
  It was written in conjunction with John Mattress, Dan
• 28:05
  Gurney, he wrote the foreword.
• 28:07
  It's really, really a fun book because it covers everything from the
• 28:10
  Model T to the Porsche Carrera GT.
• 28:13
  So you're going from one extreme to the other.
• 28:16
  And what's really kind of fun about it.
• 28:17
  I don't remember if he does it for every car, but he does have suggestions for the
• 28:22
  perfect passenger for this car and what soundtrack should be played in this car.
• 28:28
  It's really kind of fun.
• 28:29
  The perfect drive for whichever car you're talking about.
• 28:32
  So.
• 28:32
  Tonya, if you had a Carrera GT, what would be the perfect drive?
• 28:36
  Where would you want to take it?
• 28:38
  Anywhere where there's nobody else on the road.
• 28:40
  Sounds like a motorcyclist.
• 28:42
  It's actually a place called Baker, California.
• 28:44
  You can go to the Mad Greek.
• 28:45
  There's nobody else on the road.
• 28:47
  So you'd be good.
• 28:48
  There's so many great roads, even in the U S up to the summit of
• 28:52
  Pikes Peak, tail of the dragon.
• 28:54
  Somewhere along the Appalachian trail, even Shenandoah through like Skyline
• 28:58
  Drive would be great places out West.
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  As well, some of the ones like Angela's Crest and some of those other
• 29:04
  places out in the canyons of like Malibu and Santa Monica and stuff.
• 29:08
  I mean, there's so many great roads to take a car like that.
• 29:10
  So yeah, that's 365 cars you must drive by Matt Stone.
• 29:15
  Well, what else you got?
• 29:16
  Another buddy of mine, Lance Lambert.
• 29:18
  He was a columnist for Garagetown Magazine, so he was our first.
• 29:21
  And he stayed with us through the last printed edition.
• 29:24
  And we're thinking about bringing him back for the digital edition.
• 29:27
  So that might be interesting.
• 29:28
  He too has written a number of different books.
• 29:30
  One of the most fun ones is Fenders, Fins and Friends.
• 29:34
  Lance brings together a gaggle of stories from his days gone by in a
• 29:38
  way that only Lance can tell them.
• 29:40
  And if you know Lance, he is a consummate storyteller.
• 29:43
  The guy knows how to wind up a story and deliver it beautifully.
• 29:47
  He really does got a real gift for that.
• 29:49
  And a lot of admissions, admissions of the wheel stands and police sirens
• 29:52
  and stalls are just a snowflake on the glacier of some of the stories.
• 29:56
  Lance tells us bringing laughter and tears, but mostly understanding
• 30:01
  because car guys all have stories.
• 30:03
  So that's Fender's Fins and Friends by Lance Lambert.
• 30:06
  Another one, another columnist I lassoed in for Garage Town Magazine was Phil Berg.
• 30:12
  Motoring heads will always remember Phil Berg as the godfather of the garage
• 30:17
  movement with his book Ultimate Garages.
• 30:20
  Ultimate Garages inspired many to make over their garages and enjoy their space.
• 30:25
  Having written two Ultimate Garages, the books take readers
• 30:28
  into a journey into places mere mortals are not allowed to tread.
• 30:33
  So you can get inspired to make over your own garage by checking out
• 30:36
  Ultimate Garages or Ultimate Garages.
• 30:39
  Two, I feel bird.
• 30:40
  Both of them are hacked with incredible, incredible garages that
• 30:44
  we'll probably never be able to afford, but it's fun to dream, right?
• 30:47
  Next up I see on your list, you have an author that I share a book with.
• 30:51
  I was at petite Lamont and I almost missed the opportunity.
• 30:55
  Cause I had it on my list of things to grab before I left.
• 30:57
  And I stopped by a vintage book stand that was there and of all things
• 31:01
  sitting on the shelf, a bargain find the biography of Enzo Ferrari.
• 31:06
  As written by Brock Yates.
• 31:08
  Oh, I bought that.
• 31:09
  And it was a whopping 10 bucks.
• 31:12
  10 bucks, that's it?
• 31:13
  With a deal.
• 31:14
  That's a steal.
• 31:15
  Yeah, for 10, that's big.
• 31:16
  So I think that mine was 20 something.
• 31:18
  I bought that one, Brock Yates.
• 31:19
  The first one I read was more of a love letter to Enzo, the person that wrote it.
• 31:24
  Kind of glossing over his other stuff.
• 31:26
  But the one from Brock is supposed to be just like, Hey, he doesn't hold back.
• 31:29
  And that was his style.
• 31:31
  Yep.
• 31:31
  I'm finishing up that other book that was started on that thing.
• 31:34
  Cause I'm excited to read it.
• 31:36
  Cause Brock really, Hey, he tells it like it is.
• 31:38
  It's supposed to be really, really good.
• 31:39
  And I gotta give a shout out to Vintage Motor Books for having titles like
• 31:44
  this available for really cheap prices.
• 31:46
  Not only did I pick up the biography of Enzo Ferrari by Brock Yates, I also picked
• 31:51
  up books like Fast Women, The Legendary Ladies of Racing by Tom McCarthy.
• 31:56
  I picked up some other Audi histories and chronology books and things like that.
• 32:00
  Vintage motor books, you can go check them out online.
• 32:03
  They're in Portland, Oregon.
• 32:05
  They have a massive collection of books about cars, about racing, service
• 32:09
  manuals, owner's manuals, sales brochures.
• 32:11
  You can reach out to them directly at vintage motor books at comcast.
• 32:14
  net, or you can call them at 5 0 3 7 0 4 2 9 2 4.
• 32:18
  Lots of great stuff at vintage motor books.
• 32:20
  If you want to check out some of these maybe long lost or forgotten
• 32:24
  stories that are out there.
• 32:25
  You know, one of my favorite books by Brock was Cannonball.
• 32:28
  Did you ever read that one?
• 32:29
  I did not, but he's the founder of One Lap of America.
• 32:32
  Yeah, that was him.
• 32:33
  People say he had a little something to do with the Cannonball run too.
• 32:36
  And if you're a car guy, you probably know what the Cannonball run is.
• 32:39
  It's not just a movie.
• 32:40
  It's actually a real race.
• 32:42
  From coast to coast back in the 70s, Brock wrote a book called Cannonball to
• 32:47
  document the actual facts of what happened and what didn't happen, quote unquote,
• 32:52
  to kind of break away from a lot of what was happening, which was people spinning
• 32:56
  a yarn as to this, that, and the other.
• 32:58
  And they're pulling from the movie as reality when in reality.
• 33:01
  The movie was far from reality.
• 33:03
  Great book though.
• 33:04
  Cannonball by Brock Gates.
• 33:05
  It really is a terrific book.
• 33:07
  We go back and forth, collector car, motorsport.
• 33:09
  We're always debating it on what should I buy?
• 33:11
  And there's a huge assortment of different books out there.
• 33:14
  There are literally books for every discipline of
• 33:16
  racing and really every mark.
• 33:19
  Of manufacturer out there, if that's what you're interested in.
• 33:22
  In this case, I want to highlight Monaco motor racing by Edward Quinn.
• 33:25
  It focuses on formula one racing from the 1950s and sixties.
• 33:29
  It brings together portraits and images of the racing action from teams like
• 33:33
  Ferrari, Jaguar, and Porsche and other exciting brands from one of the most
• 33:37
  demanding courses in the F1 season.
• 33:40
  That's the Monaco Grand Prix.
• 33:41
  It's over 270 illustrated pictures.
• 33:44
  It's a fantastic book, a great coffee table addition, or in addition to
• 33:48
  your den or your garage collection.
• 33:50
  So I highly recommend Monaco Motor Racing.
• 33:52
  And you can pick that up on Amazon.
• 33:54
  Talking of ghosts of break fix guests yet to come, Bryce Kenney, pro driver
• 34:00
  of the Great Clips Mohawk Warrior Monster Jam truck, visited us.
• 34:05
  He talks about his new book called Geared for Life.
• 34:08
  Hey guys, this is Bryce Kenney, driver of the Great Clips Mohawk
• 34:12
  Warrior Monster Jam truck.
• 34:13
  And if you're like me and ever get to that point where your head
• 34:19
  hits the pillow and you think, is this really all there is to life?
• 34:23
  Then maybe all you need to do is not be given some secret formula
• 34:27
  or some secret to success.
• 34:29
  Maybe all you need to do is find your next gear.
• 34:33
  That's what Geared for Life is all about.
• 34:35
  I would love and be honored if you would pick up a copy anywhere books are sold.
• 34:39
  Go on Amazon, pick up your copy, and I'll see you down the road at Monster Jam.
• 34:44
  I'm a break fix fan, so let's keep it rolling.
• 34:47
  Thanks, guys.
• 34:51
  It's a bit of a self help, inspirational book.
• 34:53
  It's really life lessons from the track.
• 34:56
  He was a top thrilled dragster driver before he became a Monster Jam driver.
• 35:01
  And a lot of tribal knowledge passed down by his grandfather, things
• 35:04
  that he captured along the way.
• 35:05
  Life lessons, you know, trials, errors, and failures, and then ultimately
• 35:09
  success, becoming a monster jam driver.
• 35:11
  So he's got this paradigm of shifting from one gear to another,
• 35:15
  and when do you have to downshift?
• 35:16
  And when do you upshift?
• 35:17
  And when life presents you with challenges, how do you get out of the way?
• 35:20
  And how do you take those evasive maneuvers and things like that?
• 35:22
  So it's a really interesting book.
• 35:24
  It caters to the petrolhead, the car enthusiast, the motorsports enthusiast.
• 35:29
  It's really written for us.
• 35:31
  In talking to him, you learn very quickly that sometimes folks in our world, in our
• 35:35
  sport, we're reluctant to ask for help.
• 35:38
  And this way he tries to translate what he's learned, even from the
• 35:42
  mental health arena, so that we can digest it in a way that's palatable.
• 35:46
  So I would definitely recommend checking out Geared for Life.
• 35:49
  And it's another book that's available on Amazon, like a lot of these are.
• 35:52
  And that's by Monster Jam driver, Bryce Kenney.
• 35:55
  That's not a good one.
• 35:56
  So Don, let's talk about one of your really close friends, Rodney Kemmerer.
• 36:00
  He's got a new book that just came out.
• 36:02
  Yeah, I brought it with me so you could see it.
• 36:04
  I don't know if you saw it, but I got my copy.
• 36:06
  So it's a nice glossy cover and then he's got some of the quotes
• 36:10
  from us plebeians in the back.
• 36:12
  And of course, Jay Leno, he's up here at the top of the cover.
• 36:15
  He's got a lot of terrific stories in here.
• 36:17
  So the graphics in this book are absolutely phenomenal.
• 36:20
  They really are.
• 36:20
  They were taken from the Garage Style column.
• 36:23
  But for example, here's one, one of my favorite stories called Full Serve.
• 36:27
  That is a picture of a beautiful boogie gas station in Beverly Hills.
• 36:32
  He did a story on how that gas station came to be, who it was
• 36:35
  designed by, why it's so special, really, really bold artwork.
• 36:39
  This one's kind of a good one.
• 36:41
  It's called Dorothy, and it's all about a special Mercedes, which you
• 36:45
  see here in Rodney's own garage.
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  It is the Mercedes.
• 36:48
  I believe the number is one 70.
• 36:50
  It was one of the first Mercedes actually imported in North America.
• 36:54
  Then there's, I mean, this silly little thing here, which when you read the
• 36:57
  story, what we're looking at is a picture of a Honda Accord hatchback
• 37:01
  special edition from 1978, and he wrote about it in one of his columns for
• 37:06
  garage style, uh, where he established.
• 37:09
  The title of this book, Tales from the Garage, and he literally has a
• 37:13
  lot of his own original pictures of this Honda that he was writing about.
• 37:18
  And everybody says, well, why is he writing about a Honda?
• 37:20
  Well, really the story behind it is pretty fascinating.
• 37:22
  It is his Honda.
• 37:23
  He bought it brand new and how he secured the loan was pretty interesting because
• 37:27
  at the time he had not only the old Mercedes 190, he had some other Mercedes.
• 37:32
  So he dressed up in a suit and tie.
• 37:34
  Went to the bank, applied for the loan, and they asked for what the collateral
• 37:37
  was, and he put down two Mercedes Benzes.
• 37:39
  Well, when you see two Mercedes Benzes, a guy in a tie and a suit,
• 37:43
  you think this guy's got it going on.
• 37:45
  He's a sure bet, you know.
• 37:46
  So they gave him the loan for the Honda.
• 37:47
  He went running off and went to work.
• 37:49
  So he's got a lot of really, really cool stories.
• 37:52
  Thanks, Eric and Don, for having me on your BreakPix podcast to talk about
• 37:56
  my new book, Tales from a Garage.
• 37:59
  Everyone has a car story, or two.
• 38:02
  These just happen to be mine.
• 38:03
  These are personal stories of mine, mixed with the stories of others.
• 38:07
  Part memoir, and part the memory of other people.
• 38:09
  It's not a narrative.
• 38:11
  Each story stands alone.
• 38:12
  Each chapter has its own graphic language that runs through each
• 38:16
  story, so that nothing is repeated.
• 38:18
  It is designed with the shape and the feel of an automotive owner's book.
• 38:23
  So it fits into your glove box, so you can take it with you.
• 38:26
  And I'm hoping you do take a look.
• 38:27
  It's available at talesfromthegarage.
• 38:29
  com and it's available on Amazon.
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  Perfect Christmas.
• 38:37
  So really, Tales from the Garage, it is all about tales that guys
• 38:41
  might tell each other in the garage about things that happen to them.
• 38:44
  The beautiful thing about this book is how it relates to Anyone, anybody
• 38:49
  can read this book and enjoy it.
• 38:51
  They'll get some nugget of information out of it.
• 38:53
  So you can find this on Amazon as well.
• 38:55
  Tales from the Garage.
• 38:57
  If you're interested in all the books that we talked about, be sure to check
• 39:01
  out our Goodreads list, which is included in the show notes with this episode.
• 39:06
  We gotta select another gear, and we gotta talk about artwork.
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  Artwork is good!
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  Friend of the show and former guest, Bob Gillespie.
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  If you reach back into the catalog and look at the Green Grand
• 40:17
  Prix episode, he talks about his past in the motorsport world.
• 40:20
  He's a renowned artist based out of the Watkins Glen area of New York.
• 40:24
  He's known for putting together, during the holidays, A beautiful calendar.
• 40:28
  He self publishes these.
• 40:30
  They're all his artwork.
• 40:31
  And this year he's featuring Corvettes because it is the 70th birthday of
• 40:36
  Corvette, which coincides with the 75th birthday of Watkins Glenn.
• 40:40
  But let's hear from Bob on how you can get one of these.
• 40:43
  Hi everybody.
• 40:43
  My name is Bob Gillespie.
• 40:45
  I'm a motor sports artist, 12 lithograph prints of my racing history paintings.
• 40:51
  illustrate my 2024 desk calendar.
• 40:54
  This year, there are nine famous Corvettes plus three others.
• 40:59
  It comes in a clear plastic CD case together with an artist introduction page.
• 41:04
  I'm proud to say that I've been self publishing this desk
• 41:07
  calendar for 18 years, featuring different paintings of mine.
• 41:11
  The price is 16 each plus 4 shipping.
• 41:16
  If you're in the Watkins Glen area, you could stop by the
• 41:19
  IMRRC and pick up a copy there.
• 41:22
  You can order by emailing me or calling me at 315 694 2812.
• 41:29
  And I would like to wish everybody a happy holiday.
• 41:34
  One of the other favorite places to go is a great website called vintageautoposters.
• 41:40
  com.
• 41:40
  Now vintageautoposters.
• 41:42
  com is a wonderful place if you're interested in getting original
• 41:46
  artwork from back in the day.
• 41:48
  These are posters, these are advertising.
• 41:51
  Pieces.
• 41:51
  These are some very colorful stuff from way back in the turn of the century.
• 41:55
  One piece I was interested in acquiring was an original point of sale.
• 42:00
  Weber carburetor counter piece, probably only five inches
• 42:04
  tall by three inches wide.
• 42:05
  It's more like a card, absolutely stunning graphics.
• 42:09
  One thing you got to remember about this classic vintage art is it's
• 42:12
  not like today where we just put it on the computer, fire up a printer
• 42:15
  and boom, in 30 seconds, it's done.
• 42:17
  Back then they literally had to hand draw this stuff.
• 42:21
  And then they had to come up with, in some cases, lithographs to put it
• 42:25
  on the can, to put it on the metal, to put it on wherever there was a lot
• 42:28
  of work involved, a lot of artistic artisan skills that are lost today.
• 42:33
  And that is what vintageautoposters.
• 42:36
  com will bring to you.
• 42:38
  And it's all guaranteed original investment grade.
• 42:41
  So I think that might be something special for one of those gearheads in
• 42:44
  your life who really appreciates fine art.
• 42:47
  Speaking of artists, you know who else stopped by the studio?
• 42:50
  Renowned Porsche artist Kelly Telfer.
• 42:53
  Eric just asked me, what are we doing for holiday promotions and sales?
• 42:57
  I'm going to double my retail price and give you 50 percent off
• 43:00
  everything, including freight.
• 43:03
  Let's show a little love to FedEx and the UPS.
• 43:05
  Those guys don't mean to lose the packages or drop kick them
• 43:08
  through the goalposts of life.
• 43:10
  They don't do it on purpose.
• 43:11
  They don't ever drop an original painting or run over it.
• 43:14
  I'm sorry I didn't say that back up the track.
• 43:16
  Oh my God.
• 43:17
  So yes, the week of November 15th, I'm going to put one of my original 000.
• 43:24
  Every day I'm going to lower the price by 500 until someone buys it.
• 43:28
  You might get a good painting for 500 bucks.
• 43:30
  Well, it's an okay painting.
• 43:32
  And then the other thing I'm going to do in the week of November 29th, I'm
• 43:36
  going to offer 25 percent off my entire website, everything, except few things.
• 43:41
  I don't know.
• 43:41
  You can't see all the stuff I have.
• 43:42
  You want artifacts?
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  Come here.
• 43:44
  I'll give you a bunch of junk.
• 43:45
  That's really cool.
• 43:46
  But 25 percent off everything.
• 43:48
  Shipping, packaging, and the artwork as well.
• 43:51
  Sorry, UPS, FedEx.
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  Love you guys, man.
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  You've saved me a million times.
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  You're the best.
• 43:56
  Go Raiders.
• 43:57
  Out.
• 44:03
  Ah, good old Kelly Telford.
• 44:04
  Speaking of fine art, another great place to go to.
• 44:07
  is carartinc.
• 44:10
  us.
• 44:11
  Again, we're dealing with fine art here.
• 44:13
  Some of the great artists in the automotive industry.
• 44:16
  It is run by Peter Aylett and Peter is himself a great artist.
• 44:20
  He used to design for Mazda, Ford, and even DeLorean at one point.
• 44:25
  Great guy.
• 44:26
  He will help you find a commission if you want to put yourself or your
• 44:31
  loved one or a special car in a.
• 44:33
  Piece of art that's very original.
• 44:35
  He can help you find the artist who can make that happen.
• 44:38
  Or maybe you just want to find something that puts a certain scene or a certain
• 44:42
  mood, maybe you've got a loved one from New York and there just happened to be
• 44:45
  a great picture of an old Cadillac at Christmas time, driving down fifth Avenue.
• 44:50
  In the snow with old New York in the background.
• 44:53
  Really cool.
• 44:54
  Or maybe you have a friend from Malibu and the thing is surfing.
• 44:57
  Well, there it is.
• 44:58
  Malibu picture with a beautiful surf scene.
• 45:00
  And of course, some sort of Woody in the foreground or maybe some sort of
• 45:04
  sports convertible fun, fun stuff.
• 45:06
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  media.
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  Wishing you and your loved ones a happy holidays from me.
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• 46:35
  we'll flat pack ship some cars to people as a gift this year.
• 46:39
  We also have some rich people things to talk about.
• 46:42
  And William, I specifically pulled this one out for you knowing kind of cars
• 46:46
  you deal with, the people you deal with.
• 46:48
  And I want to know about these Bugatti.
• 46:50
  Sunglasses.
• 46:51
  I buy my sunglasses at Speedway.
• 46:53
  Ha ha ha ha ha!
• 46:55
  There you go.
• 46:56
  That's the American way.
• 46:57
  Bought my sunglasses at Buc ee's.
• 46:59
  Yeah, exactly.
• 47:00
  What you're telling me is, these Bugatti sunglasses are not on your Christmas list.
• 47:05
  God, no.
• 47:05
  Some of these things are tacky as hell.
• 47:07
  I mean, you gotta have just stupid money.
• 47:09
  Cause I mean, the cost, everything.
• 47:11
  I mean, I don't know.
• 47:12
  These have mother of pearl inlays.
• 47:15
  18 karat gold, black palladium accents, grade 5 titanium, carbon
• 47:21
  fiber, macassar ebony wood.
• 47:24
  Why wouldn't you want this for 2, 000?
• 47:27
  Yes.
• 47:27
  For you to accidentally sit on and break.
• 47:31
  Yeah, these things look like glasses that, you know, you're sitting down at a deli
• 47:35
  getting yourself a bowl of matzo soup.
• 47:39
  Or you're in like a lecture hall and your professor flips
• 47:42
  up as he came in from outside.
• 47:43
  I mean, they're just bizarre Oh my god And just imagine what the knockoffs
• 47:50
  will look like because you know, those are coming right behind it Someone's
• 47:53
  gonna change them just a little bit so they don't get in trouble It's like the
• 47:57
  rounded corners on the Samsung, right?
• 48:01
  Exactly.
• 48:03
  Geez.
• 48:04
  See the yellow glasses.
• 48:05
  I'm sorry to say this.
• 48:06
  They remind me of, you're going to pick up a rifle and take aim at me.
• 48:09
  Oh my Lord.
• 48:11
  Now you've got yellow lens glasses too.
• 48:13
  Oh boy, I'm in trouble.
• 48:15
  I'm at a Smith and Wesson convention here.
• 48:17
  Yeah, right.
• 48:17
  But we need to talk about watches.
• 48:19
  And Don, this is your area of fine expertise.
• 48:23
  So what have you brought us to sample and look at?
• 48:26
  Well, starting at number one, YEMA.
• 48:29
  Y E M A.
• 48:31
  Not to be confused with the city in Arizona, Yuma.
• 48:34
  But YEMA has been in business since 1948.
• 48:38
  And they built watches in France using Swiss made manufactured calibers.
• 48:43
  However, recently they turned to crowdfunding to finance their own
• 48:49
  manufacturing of manufactured calibers.
• 48:51
  Now, if you don't know what that is, literally it's the
• 48:53
  mechanicals in the watch.
• 48:55
  It's the little gears, the little springs, the little tickers that make the watch.
• 48:59
  Oh, and once you wind up now, the nice thing about Yema, what
• 49:02
  I like about them, they have a watch seemingly for every interest.
• 49:05
  They've got a watches for the boating guy to get watches for the airplane
• 49:09
  guy to get watches for the car guys, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
• 49:11
  One of my favorites is the Rallygraph line, which is R A L L Y G R A F.
• 49:17
  Very, very racy looking.
• 49:19
  Looks like it might be on a movie in the sixties.
• 49:22
  Being worn by Steve McQueen or somebody like that.
• 49:24
  Very, very cool stuff.
• 49:25
  Don, don't discount this watch.
• 49:27
  This was done in partnership with Alpine.
• 49:30
  That's right.
• 49:31
  It was.
• 49:31
  They are a formula one team.
• 49:33
  They are in Le Mans.
• 49:34
  This is not just any rally graph watch.
• 49:37
  This is the Alpine rally graph watch.
• 49:40
  This thing is really cool.
• 49:42
  And if you're into French sports cars, if you're into racing.
• 49:45
  I think this is a great get.
• 49:46
  It really is a cool watch.
• 49:48
  The way it's styled, the way it's designed, the heritage of it with
• 49:50
  Alpine really does look like it stepped right out of the sixties racing scene.
• 49:54
  Paul Newman could be wearing this thing and it'd be right there.
• 49:58
  Gmail watches are not all that much money for what you're getting.
• 50:01
  They're really fantastic watches.
• 50:03
  I really like them.
• 50:03
  So I hope somebody will check them out.
• 50:05
  Maybe use them for a stocking stuffer.
• 50:07
  If for whatever reason, those.
• 50:09
  Do not pet your fancy another great company that I really like.
• 50:13
  And I'm actually holding one of their time pieces is Fero and company F E R R O and
• 50:20
  company founded in 2014 by two brothers.
• 50:24
  The question was.
• 50:25
  Why do watches with exceptional mechanicals and
• 50:28
  design need to cost so much?
• 50:29
  That was literally what those two brothers were talking about one day.
• 50:32
  To that end, they set out to produce affordable watches that
• 50:35
  celebrate aviation, fine dress, business, and, of course, motorsport.
• 50:40
  With a multitude of chronographs and single hand watches, there seems to
• 50:44
  be something for Everyone, the one that I'm holding here is kind of
• 50:48
  interesting because you'll notice on the top, there is three, five,
• 50:52
  six, which of course is Porsche 356.
• 50:54
  It looks like a three 56 speedometer.
• 50:56
  Yeah, exactly.
• 50:57
  That was what they designed it for.
• 50:59
  And you can look in the back and you can see the clear casing.
• 51:02
  So you can see all the mechanicals.
• 51:04
  Working back there, really a fun watch comes with a perforated strap
• 51:08
  with either green or red detailing.
• 51:10
  I have the green one and I really like it.
• 51:12
  Every one of them is numbered.
• 51:14
  These were limited edition.
• 51:15
  I want to say they made a thousand of them.
• 51:17
  There are still a few of them that are for sale.
• 51:19
  Terrific watch again, Pharaoh and Company.
• 51:23
  Another fun one, a little more serious, called Ernst Benz.
• 51:27
  Ernst Benz is a real person, or was a real person, if they sold the
• 51:30
  company ultimately, but what began as a quest to produce the most accurate
• 51:34
  and legible timepieces in aviation, Ernst Benz has grown into a watchmaker
• 51:39
  with a multitude of styles, all based off of the original concept.
• 51:43
  While flying is in their heart, It is in the art of watchmaking that
• 51:46
  drives them to produce watches that anyone can appreciate.
• 51:50
  The reason I bring them up is yes, they have the big pilot watches,
• 51:53
  which everybody has been into, but they also have a couple of motorsport
• 51:57
  time pieces that dribble in.
• 52:00
  To the mix specifically, they have a limited edition 50th anniversary Camaro
• 52:05
  watch, which is very, very handsome.
• 52:07
  So if you're a General Motors fan, you're a little off of the Corvette
• 52:11
  Club and more interested in Camaros.
• 52:14
  This is a really, really nice piece to commemorate 50 years of the Camaro.
• 52:18
  Now the next one is C-V-S-E-O-S.
• 52:22
  Vetos, founded by saso S at just 21 years old.
• 52:28
  CVS TOS watches brings a unique style and flair to the world of watchmaking.
• 52:34
  The racing lineup catches the spirit of motorsports through
• 52:37
  bold design and color usage.
• 52:39
  One thing that'll catch your eye about these watches is the shape of them.
• 52:44
  They're not your standard issue circle.
• 52:46
  They're not your standard issue rectangle oblong oblong.
• 52:49
  Yeah.
• 52:50
  I want to call them coffin shape, but I know that's a little bit morbid.
• 52:54
  You know, if you look at them, they're very, very, I call it busy design, but
• 52:58
  you can see you're through a lot of the watches, you know, workings of them.
• 53:01
  Their straps are absolutely fabulous and they do have motorsports styling.
• 53:07
  Your point body wise, they have all very similar design.
• 53:10
  There are quite a large watch clocking at 41 millimeters.
• 53:13
  They're going to take up a lot of wrist space.
• 53:15
  Even though they're a little busy, they're going to be easier
• 53:17
  to see at that larger scale.
• 53:19
  But yeah, I really do like the look of the bronze over gun metal of the
• 53:25
  Nardo, but there's some other ones here that are really, really cool as well.
• 53:28
  Yeah.
• 53:28
  It seems like there's a little something for everyone.
• 53:30
  The next one I like is Tag Heuer or Howard, depending on where you're
• 53:34
  from, how you want to say that.
• 53:36
  Might be impossible to make a list of cool motorsport watches without including
• 53:39
  the granddaddy of them all, the Monaco.
• 53:42
  The Monaco was made famous by Steve McQueen in the film Le Mans.
• 53:46
  The square watch is largely the I Ching of any car guy watches.
• 53:51
  I mean, it seems like any time you talk about car guy watches, the Monaco is.
• 53:55
  Bam.
• 53:56
  It's right there at the top of the list for the line.
• 53:58
  It's, it is the watch to gravitate to now.
• 54:01
  Nicely.
• 54:02
  You know, if you remember that movie, Steve's was in Gulf colors.
• 54:05
  I believe it had a blue strap.
• 54:07
  Even today you can buy the Monaco in any multitude of different colors.
• 54:12
  The Gulf is still available, but you can buy this thing in black.
• 54:16
  You can buy it in silver.
• 54:17
  You can buy it in red.
• 54:18
  You can buy it in all kinds of different things.
• 54:20
  Really, really a cool watch.
• 54:21
  And I guess the official name is the Tag Heuer Monaco.
• 54:26
  Oh, your, Oh, two automatic.
• 54:28
  What I like about this watch, the gulf liveried watch specifically, not just
• 54:32
  because it's a throwback to Steve McQueen is how they modernized it for 2023.
• 54:37
  Because if you look at it, it's got little extra touches that wouldn't
• 54:41
  have existed on Steve McQueen's watch.
• 54:42
  Like the Indiglo for the night stuff, but also the watch band itself.
• 54:46
  Is dual color, it's blue leather on top with an burnt orange on the bottom.
• 54:51
  I'm like, that's a lot of detail in something that it's movement, the way
• 54:55
  it lays out, the way it looks, it is a Swiss made watch, it's beautiful.
• 54:59
  And for the money, if you want a modernized version of what Steve
• 55:02
  McQueen had, and you're that type of collector, I couldn't see why you
• 55:06
  shouldn't have something like this.
• 55:07
  Yeah, they really are a cool watch and you're right.
• 55:09
  There's a lot of details that go into a TAG, especially the Monaco.
• 55:13
  I may be wrong, but it's probably the most expensive
• 55:16
  watch we've got on the list here.
• 55:17
  But I think as you're pointing out, it is probably well worth it to
• 55:20
  a lot of people just for all the details that's involved in that.
• 55:23
  Now, the nice thing about TAG, they have a very, very rich history in motors.
• 55:28
  Or, and one of my favorites is called the Carrera.
• 55:31
  It's another classic it's named for the Carrera Panamericana race of the 1950s.
• 55:36
  Another race that's close to my heart.
• 55:38
  It was one of my father's favorite races.
• 55:40
  And of course, Lincoln dominated it for a long time, but anyway,
• 55:43
  they developed the Carrera.
• 55:45
  It's a terrific watch.
• 55:46
  It's a lot more classically styled.
• 55:48
  It has more of a circular pace to it, but you can have it with chronograph.
• 55:52
  You can have it with non chronograph.
• 55:54
  You can custom tailor this watch pretty much however you want it to.
• 55:58
  There's a lot of motorsport heritage in this watch from Tag Heuer to De Pencel.
• 56:03
  Depencel is probably the newest company we're bringing to the program,
• 56:08
  but it was launched just in 2018.
• 56:11
  Depencel is the result of one man's interest in how watches work and
• 56:15
  blending their unique mechanisms with designs inspired by motorsport.
• 56:21
  Unlike so many others, Depencel is rooted literally in motor racing.
• 56:25
  As such, the company now produces a nice number of racing inspired watches,
• 56:30
  including one called the CERI R.
• 56:33
  Which looks shockingly like the TAG Monaco that costs infinitely less.
• 56:38
  Now, not to go knocking on the TAG, but there is something to be said about
• 56:42
  for those of us on a budget who would like something similar to the Monaco
• 56:47
  but can't quite afford that coin.
• 56:49
  One thing I like about Depencel, they come to the market and in typical racing
• 56:53
  spirit, they are all about competition.
• 56:55
  They have a very rebellious spirit.
• 56:57
  If you like cars, and especially if you love motorsport and racing,
• 57:00
  you're probably going to really appreciate that streak in a Depencel.
• 57:04
  Their version of the Steve McQueen is.
• 57:07
  Quite nice as well.
• 57:08
  I like the fact that it comes down in powers of 10.
• 57:11
  I was jokingly thinking to myself, where's the fossil version of this so I can
• 57:15
  knock another 10s place off of the price tag, but for the money, they're not bad.
• 57:19
  I actually really liked the series are eighties edition that has that stainless
• 57:24
  steel with sort of the elastic stretchy band and like that orange over black
• 57:29
  with almost the interlaced background.
• 57:31
  It looks like louvers on the back of a DeLorean or on the back
• 57:34
  of a Mustang that draws me in.
• 57:36
  And it almost feels like some Something that Jujaro would have designed.
• 57:39
  Right.
• 57:39
  I've seen Jujaro's watches too.
• 57:41
  They're quite nice.
• 57:41
  It has that appeal to me.
• 57:43
  So that's really, really interesting.
• 57:45
  Now it clocks in a little bit more expensive than their version of the Steve
• 57:49
  McQueen watch and some of the others.
• 57:50
  They're all really pretty cool.
• 57:52
  Yeah.
• 57:52
  I like the pen cell.
• 57:53
  I discovered them on Facebook and they were just promoting their watches
• 57:56
  and I just kind of kept after them.
• 57:58
  I really liked them.
• 57:59
  So the next item on the list is probably the.
• 58:03
  Youngest watch that we've got, which is De Tomaso.
• 58:06
  Wait, wait.
• 58:06
  Are you talking about De Tomaso like the Pantera?
• 58:10
  Yes.
• 58:11
  In fact, the watch line was inspired by the De Tomaso Pantera.
• 58:14
  Is it an Italian body with an American innards?
• 58:17
  Is that how this watch works?
• 58:19
  We gotta have this guy on your show so we can crack that open literally.
• 58:23
  But yeah, the manufacturing behind them and the man
• 58:26
  himself is Alejandro de Tomaso.
• 58:29
  Very, very interesting there.
• 58:30
  It said the design of the car is reflected by the watch.
• 58:34
  So I'm unsure, honestly, looking at some of them.
• 58:36
  I really don't see much Pantera in these watches.
• 58:39
  These watches are very modern, very sharp, very clean.
• 58:43
  I think it might go along with the new De Tomaso supercar that they
• 58:48
  were building, which we talked about last year on the drive through.
• 58:51
  So maybe this isn't a nod to the seventies Pantera.
• 58:54
  This is a nod to the new cars that are coming out.
• 58:57
  That could very well be.
• 58:58
  Yeah, I, I hate to say it, but I totally forgot about that car regardless.
• 59:02
  So talk about a watch that is rooted in not so much motor
• 59:05
  racing, but motor design.
• 59:07
  Bargain price too.
• 59:08
  My goodness.
• 59:09
  They're on sale right now at a 40 percent discount.
• 59:12
  You can grab one of these.
• 59:13
  De Tomazo watches, they MSRP at about two 30.
• 59:16
  They're coming in at 1 37.
• 59:18
  Yeah.
• 59:18
  If you want something a little nicer than a fossil that you can
• 59:21
  pick up at your local kiosk in the mall, these are really cool.
• 59:25
  I like the Repaso, the blue watch.
• 59:28
  I like that navy blue with the orange.
• 59:30
  Something draws me in about these pumpkin colored watches for some reason.
• 59:34
  But the D 10.
• 59:35
  With the copper over that charcoal, that is a really good looking watch.
• 59:41
  Yeah, they are beautiful.
• 59:42
  In fact, if you look at some of the outer edges of the cases have little
• 59:46
  hash marks on some of them and some of them are clean, it's such a fine,
• 59:51
  small detail, you either have the hash marks or you don't have the hash marks.
• 59:55
  And I think that's kind of a cool thing that as a customer, I can decide, do I
• 59:58
  want more detail, more eye candy, more visual pop, or do I want it cleaner?
• 1:00:03
  Very interesting the way they allowed customers to kind of do that.
• 1:00:06
  So fun stuff.
• 1:00:07
  Well, he also seems to be a big fan of the color yellow because there's about
• 1:00:11
  three or four different designs that feature that old school Pantera yellow.
• 1:00:16
  So that may be a drawback to the old cars, but very, very cool.
• 1:00:20
  Really cool.
• 1:00:21
  Fine.
• 1:00:22
  These are some really interesting pieces.
• 1:00:23
  Thank you.
• 1:00:24
  I try, baby.
• 1:00:25
  I try.
• 1:00:25
  Dude, this is exciting.
• 1:00:26
  As we get closer to the holidays, where we'll probably see more and more
• 1:00:30
  rich people, things popping up, Dan, what's going to be on your holiday
• 1:00:33
  shopping list here very soon, but you know what, when I go camping, I want
• 1:00:38
  to get away from everything, you know, when I enjoy the wild outside, but
• 1:00:41
  LG have made it much more easy for me to catch up with the latest Netflix
• 1:00:46
  show, they've developed a suitcase.
• 1:00:48
  Which is a 27 inch screen TV that supports airplay, supports screen monitoring.
• 1:00:54
  So just when you thought you've escaped it all, LG are there to make sure that
• 1:00:58
  you stay connected to the real world.
• 1:01:00
  What's the low, low bargain Best Buy price of this particular suitcase television?
• 1:01:05
  To you, sir.
• 1:01:06
  Just shy of a thousand dollars.
• 1:01:08
  You know, that's not unreasonable.
• 1:01:10
  That's expensive for 27 inch.
• 1:01:12
  Yeah, but how many 27 inches can you tuck away in a Pelican case and
• 1:01:17
  carry with you to your next campsite?
• 1:01:18
  I like the concept of being able to transport the TV, but I wouldn't be
• 1:01:24
  bringing it on my wilderness excursion.
• 1:01:26
  I also don't know where I would need to transport it to in general.
• 1:01:29
  It goes landscape and portrait, so I don't know why you would want, maybe Instagram.
• 1:01:34
  I want to watch Instagram at scale.
• 1:01:35
  If it doubled as a computer monitor, then I could see it being advantageous
• 1:01:40
  for like motorsports events, maybe at an autocross, a great way to like tuck
• 1:01:44
  it away, have it stored in a trailer.
• 1:01:46
  Tailgating, tailgating.
• 1:01:48
  Yes.
• 1:01:48
  It would be useful.
• 1:01:49
  Tailgating, you're in the parking lot of the game and you're watching
• 1:01:52
  pre game coverage in the parking lot.
• 1:01:55
  How many of these new big SUVs have TVs in them that you could just jack your
• 1:01:59
  Roku into and do the same thing though?
• 1:02:02
  They should do a Westphalia edition.
• 1:02:03
  Yes!
• 1:02:04
  Oh, then it's okay.
• 1:02:05
  Does that justify that?
• 1:02:06
  100%, it's done.
• 1:02:07
  If it comes in the Westphalia, I'm all for it.
• 1:02:09
  It's all good.
• 1:02:10
  That wouldn't be a bad idea because if you're taking your Westphalia on
• 1:02:13
  a road trip and in some nights you're not really where you need to be, you
• 1:02:17
  would have some form of entertainment.
• 1:02:19
  You know who's not going to be able to use this folding suitcase LG television?
• 1:02:24
  The gentleman that purchased a Bugatti Bolide.
• 1:02:27
  And stripped it down to its carbon fiber monocoque and turned it into an exo car.
• 1:02:32
  What compels people to do stuff like this?
• 1:02:35
  You spend four and a half million bucks and then you strip your car down?
• 1:02:39
  Maybe he wasn't allowed Hot Wheels as a kid.
• 1:02:41
  So this thing is stripped down.
• 1:02:43
  It weighs 2, 700 pounds.
• 1:02:46
  A full bodied bully day.
• 1:02:48
  weighs 3200 pounds, all of that stripping and you only save 500 pounds.
• 1:02:54
  And you know what else you lost in the process?
• 1:02:56
  Aerodynamics.
• 1:02:57
  Yeah, all of that is gone.
• 1:02:58
  Ground effects.
• 1:02:59
  He should have bought a Lucid Sapphire.
• 1:03:01
  That's the ticket right there.
• 1:03:02
  There we go.
• 1:03:03
  Well, you know what they might be buying?
• 1:03:04
  For their children.
• 1:03:06
  Oh, tell me there's a baby three.
• 1:03:08
  We talked before about the Bugatti baby twos.
• 1:03:12
  It was the Chiron.
• 1:03:13
  There was a minute.
• 1:03:14
  Oh, yes.
• 1:03:14
  The Bugatti Chiron.
• 1:03:15
  Yes.
• 1:03:16
  It also had the speed key.
• 1:03:17
  I think.
• 1:03:18
  Yes.
• 1:03:18
  There is a company called Group Harrington that apparently makes
• 1:03:22
  a whole bunch of these cars.
• 1:03:24
  There's the GB Spirit.
• 1:03:26
  There's the Ferrari Spyder.
• 1:03:28
  The Ferris Bueller Ferrari.
• 1:03:29
  Eric, pick the Ferrari.
• 1:03:30
  What would you pick?
• 1:03:31
  You got to go with the Cobra.
• 1:03:32
  The 289 Cobra.
• 1:03:34
  I'm doing the 300.
• 1:03:34
  You're going to go with the 300.
• 1:03:35
  Aye.
• 1:03:36
  Figured you would've went with the F 1 race car.
• 1:03:38
  Nah, I'm gonna go with the Merc.
• 1:03:39
  She's a Benz girl.
• 1:03:40
  And I probably would've, should've went with the Jeep.
• 1:03:42
  Let's see how much, let's see how much is...
• 1:03:44
  They're so expensive, they don't list the price.
• 1:03:47
  You might as well buy the real thing at that point.
• 1:03:49
  Yeah.
• 1:03:49
  You can design your car.
• 1:03:51
  Look at this shit.
• 1:03:51
  It's funny, you guys, bring this up.
• 1:03:53
  I saw some of these.
• 1:03:54
  At some of the auctions in car week, they're really, really cool.
• 1:03:58
  These are the nicest go karts you have ever seen.
• 1:04:01
  I believe it.
• 1:04:02
  If only we could afford them, we could each get one and then go.
• 1:04:05
  We talked about this before the go karts need to look like the race cars, and
• 1:04:08
  then you can do a proper Petit Le Mans.
• 1:04:11
  Or Petit Le Mans classic, there'll be amazing.
• 1:04:13
  Petit Petit Le Mans.
• 1:04:14
  Petit Petit.
• 1:04:15
  You should be able to get the pricing.
• 1:04:17
  It says to email for a quote.
• 1:04:19
  You can add things to your shopping cart.
• 1:04:21
  I don't know because when I went into the 300 it says request for quotation, leave
• 1:04:25
  your details and request quotation for the car and options you have selected above.
• 1:04:29
  Yeah, I see that.
• 1:04:29
  When they say that.
• 1:04:31
  You can't afford it more than you can afford, pal.
• 1:04:34
  I can go buy a real one of these, maybe two or probably
• 1:04:38
  less than this mini one costs.
• 1:04:40
  I do like the little Ferrari, California though.
• 1:04:42
  That's pretty sweet.
• 1:04:43
  I'm going to get one for Henry.
• 1:04:44
  Well, that's why we call it rich people.
• 1:04:47
  Thanks.
• 1:04:48
  Now to have the rich people things.
• 1:04:50
  So Don you're the garage mahal specialist, and it wouldn't be fair if
• 1:04:54
  we didn't talk about cool things and tools and other items for your garage.
• 1:04:59
  So what have you got for us?
• 1:05:00
  Yes, Eric, there's a lot of tools and other garage items that are very exciting.
• 1:05:04
  One of my favorites is a wax product and all of us garagephiles know we
• 1:05:09
  love to get out there and just polish on the fenders for a little bit.
• 1:05:12
  Zymal, been one of my favorite waxes for a long time.
• 1:05:15
  Anybody who's read Garage Style Magazine has seen it cover
• 1:05:18
  to cover on some occasion.
• 1:05:19
  Is car wax the perfect holiday gift?
• 1:05:22
  I've been asked that many, many times, many years.
• 1:05:25
  Somebody wants to give something to someone who loves cars and
• 1:05:29
  you don't know what to give them.
• 1:05:31
  Most holiday gifts say you bought something sophisticated or cool.
• 1:05:35
  But do they say, hey, I know what you love and I love that about you.
• 1:05:40
  Where cars are concerned, there's a passion involved.
• 1:05:42
  There's fun, there's thrills, but we need to remember that
• 1:05:45
  loving a car is a big job.
• 1:05:47
  So, you're right, giving somebody a 16 can of everyday chemicals for the
• 1:05:53
  holiday can be hard to understand.
• 1:05:56
  Sometimes it's not the car that you need, it's the car that needs you.
• 1:06:01
  So let's talk about a real gift.
• 1:06:03
  Scimall was created 44 years ago because of a love for cars and the exciting
• 1:06:08
  people who share a passion for them.
• 1:06:10
  We strive to make the best products based upon what kind of fresh ingredients
• 1:06:16
  we can find available in nature.
• 1:06:18
  This brings to the top of the market the highest quality and
• 1:06:22
  absolute best products that any collector or enthusiast could want.
• 1:06:27
  We want people to understand that we're part of that love for the automobile.
• 1:06:31
  And it doesn't matter whether it's a brass buggy or a brand new Ferrari.
• 1:06:37
  It's the love of the automobile and the reason why we're here.
• 1:06:40
  So when you think about the holidays, Think about that person
• 1:06:44
  that really loves that car.
• 1:06:46
  What would bring a smile to their face?
• 1:06:49
  It could be something as simple as a card, or it could be some Zymal.
• 1:06:52
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• 1:07:02
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• 1:07:10
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• 1:07:13
  literally have the starter kit.
• 1:07:16
  You get a little sampler of whatever wax you want, plus their polish, plus
• 1:07:21
  their one particular product from Zymal is literally designed to...
• 1:07:25
  feed that flex agent and feed that paint to keep it flexible, keep
• 1:07:29
  it rich in color, keep it deep.
• 1:07:32
  Really, really cool stuff.
• 1:07:33
  Another one, a newcomer to the block is called Root66.
• 1:07:37
  Now Root66 is interesting.
• 1:07:39
  They are a one wax pony.
• 1:07:41
  They have one type of wax.
• 1:07:43
  It's a spray wax.
• 1:07:44
  But the cool thing about it is, at least last time I looked on the website,
• 1:07:48
  they were offering customers the opportunity to send in a photograph
• 1:07:52
  of their favorite car, and it would be printed on the box and the bottle
• 1:07:57
  that the Route 66 wax was delivered in.
• 1:07:59
  So that's kind of fun.
• 1:08:00
  So if you've got a friend or relative out there that's got a special car,
• 1:08:04
  if you can somehow get a picture of it and send it to Route 66.
• 1:08:08
  They'll pop it on that box in that bottle.
• 1:08:09
  That's pretty cool.
• 1:08:10
  That's available at root66wax.
• 1:08:13
  com.
• 1:08:13
  Yep, absolutely.
• 1:08:14
  And of course, the xymol.
• 1:08:16
  com.
• 1:08:17
  Okay.
• 1:08:17
  Another good one that you might want to look into, and it's a little bit more
• 1:08:20
  expensive, but it is something maybe you buy for that special someone, that
• 1:08:24
  special gearhead in your life who, Oh, I don't know, they need a little bit of
• 1:08:28
  garage organization and let's face it.
• 1:08:30
  Who doesn't need a little help in that department.
• 1:08:33
  Company out there called C Tech Cabinets.
• 1:08:35
  It's C T E C H Cabinets.
• 1:08:39
  C Tech Cabinets, they are all about garage organization.
• 1:08:43
  Literally the workbenches, the cabinets, the overheads,
• 1:08:46
  beautiful maple workbenches.
• 1:08:48
  And they're all configurable.
• 1:08:50
  They're all completely modular.
• 1:08:51
  So you can go on their website, you can design how long you want it,
• 1:08:54
  how wide you want it, how thick.
• 1:08:56
  You want to how deep you want it and pick your colors.
• 1:08:58
  They literally have hundreds of color to choose from.
• 1:09:01
  I personally like the bright yellow with that silver chim.
• 1:09:04
  I think that looks pretty sharp.
• 1:09:05
  Again, it's a bit more expensive for Christmas, but let's say
• 1:09:09
  you're buying it for a spouse, chances are you both have a house.
• 1:09:12
  This is only really going to enhance not only the value of
• 1:09:15
  the house at the end of the day.
• 1:09:17
  But it is also going to enhance both of your ability to enjoy
• 1:09:20
  that garage, organize that garage, figure out where you keep your
• 1:09:23
  tools, where you keep your Zymal.
• 1:09:25
  It's all good stuff.
• 1:09:26
  If you're interested in hitting up the auctions, Mecham has Mecham on
• 1:09:31
  time, which is a great place to find different antiques and road art, etc.
• 1:09:36
  Small items, but there's always a bunch of other auctions.
• 1:09:40
  You know what, Don?
• 1:09:41
  There's so many things that we could investigate in this category.
• 1:09:45
  And I've been accused of in previous holiday specials of basically going
• 1:09:48
  through my Amazon list from the year prior, pointing out really cool
• 1:09:52
  things that I've bought or people have inspired me to buy, but we did
• 1:09:56
  something even more special this year.
• 1:09:58
  If you visit our show notes, we have put together a kit sponsored by kit.
• 1:10:02
  co.
• 1:10:03
  And you can actually see all of our picks and there's direct links to
• 1:10:06
  where you can buy these items for your garage or your collection, et cetera.
• 1:10:10
  And by going.
• 1:10:11
  through our kit, you can get a discount on those items.
• 1:10:13
  Check that out on the show notes that follow this.
• 1:10:16
  You can learn about all sorts of other really cool garage items.
• 1:10:20
  They call it the season of giving for a reason.
• 1:10:23
  And we have some charities that we want to talk about.
• 1:10:26
  Yes, you're right, Eric.
• 1:10:27
  There are a lot of charities and tis the season for giving back and supporting
• 1:10:31
  those who are looking for a little bit extra love this year and who isn't.
• 1:10:36
  One of our favorites come from Deb Pollack.
• 1:10:38
  She established Drive for a Cure, which is raising lots and lots of
• 1:10:43
  money for Parkinson's research, a disease near and dear to her heart.
• 1:10:48
  If you go to her website, she explains all about it.
• 1:10:51
  So you can always make a nice donation there, help her and her cause, even get
• 1:10:55
  a little tax write off if you want to.
• 1:10:58
  Bill Warner's book, On the Other Side of the Fence, it's a wonderful pictorial
• 1:11:02
  of his history running around literally the United States taking pictures
• 1:11:06
  at different motorsports events.
• 1:11:08
  Hi, this is Bill Warner in Jacksonville, Florida, and I want to wish everybody a
• 1:11:11
  very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
• 1:11:13
  And I'm also here to promote a book that I did on six decades of motorsports
• 1:11:19
  photography from my first race at Sebring, Florida in 1960 to the present.
• 1:11:23
  So if you like photo books, this is it.
• 1:11:26
  Each one's got a little story behind it.
• 1:11:28
  To be honest with you, it's my life.
• 1:11:29
  From the time I was 16 years old to today.
• 1:11:32
  This includes a story from when I did a story with Andy Gibb on a Gimbala
• 1:11:37
  Avalanche Porsche down at West Palm Beach.
• 1:11:39
  Funny story.
• 1:11:40
  I have to thank my friends Jokin Moss, David Hobbs, Brian Redman, Hurley
• 1:11:44
  Haywood, Roger Pinsky, Mario Andretti, Derek Bell, Peter Brock for the lovely
• 1:11:50
  liner notes they did for the book.
• 1:11:51
  They were great to support it and they're in the book too.
• 1:11:54
  Each photo has a story behind it.
• 1:11:56
  It's more than just a photo book.
• 1:11:58
  So if you're interested in me, a nice Christmas present for anybody who's
• 1:12:01
  into auto racing and into photography, the book is available through Spina
• 1:12:04
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  100 percent of the proceeds go for Spina Bifida research and support.
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  Near and dear to Bill's heart.
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  Well, we've reached that point of the episode where it's time to go up north
• 1:12:51
  and talk about eggnog and reindeer.
• 1:13:00
  The
• 1:13:08
  North is feeling more like beer cans and alligators.
• 1:13:11
  Is this Holiday Man?
• 1:13:13
  Is that what we're going to talk about?
• 1:13:14
  Wouldn't be a drive thru episode unless we went down south to our southern neighbors.
• 1:13:20
  The holidays have not happened yet, so we do not have fresh out of
• 1:13:25
  the oven holiday stories for you.
• 1:13:27
  So we are going to go back in time.
• 1:13:30
  Hold on, I got to add more rum to my eggnog before we get into this.
• 1:13:34
  So we'll start Christmas time and we'll work our way back to Thanksgiving.
• 1:13:38
  So headline alone, like to start with those because they're always good.
• 1:13:42
  Florida woman charged with assaulting sister with Christmas decoration.
• 1:13:46
  And I got really excited because I'm thinking there's lots of kinds
• 1:13:51
  of Christmas decorations here.
• 1:13:52
  Are we talking about like the big pieces outside outdoor?
• 1:13:56
  I was a little disappointed when it's merely.
• 1:14:02
  a beaded cone tree.
• 1:14:06
  So I guess it's like a Christmas cone, like a little mini Christmas tree
• 1:14:11
  that's shaped like an ice cream cone.
• 1:14:13
  It's a stabbing device.
• 1:14:15
  And she stabbed essentially her sister in the left side of the torso
• 1:14:21
  with the Christmas cone due to some sort of altercation that they had.
• 1:14:25
  And there was that, but then further reading through the article, apparently
• 1:14:29
  there was another incident in Florida.
• 1:14:32
  Fights at Christmas time using Christmas decorations is a big thing.
• 1:14:36
  This one's even better.
• 1:14:37
  I think they said a similar incident similar.
• 1:14:41
  Okay.
• 1:14:41
  Well, and similar in that it's a Christmas decoration, but this is the
• 1:14:45
  kind of decoration I was looking for.
• 1:14:47
  Florida woman hit her boyfriend with sections of her family's
• 1:14:51
  artificial Christmas tree.
• 1:14:54
  It was sections of the Christmas tree.
• 1:14:57
  The woman's last name is Graham told the police the couple began
• 1:15:00
  arguing because her boyfriend had set quote the TV volume on too high
• 1:15:06
  while she was sleeping in response.
• 1:15:08
  She had quote.
• 1:15:10
  squared up to the victim and was screaming in his face.
• 1:15:13
  She admitted to the police that she, quote, took apart an artificial
• 1:15:17
  Christmas tree and threw three sections of the tree at the victim.
• 1:15:21
  Apparently, in Florida, you could weaponize anything.
• 1:15:24
  I mean, that takes...
• 1:15:27
  You had nothing else to go for?
• 1:15:28
  I mean, what was that guy doing while she's disassembling the Christmas tree?
• 1:15:32
  Or was it like rapid fire, like the Tasmanian devil?
• 1:15:34
  Was he just standing here and he's watching her take apart the Christmas
• 1:15:38
  tree and then he gets chucked in his face?
• 1:15:39
  I mean, how much of a dunce can you be?
• 1:15:41
  I don't know because regardless of a pre lit tree or not, I'm
• 1:15:45
  going to go out on a limb.
• 1:15:47
  You have lights strung around it.
• 1:15:49
  And if they're not pre lit, Well, even if they are, you
• 1:15:52
  got to disconnect the strands.
• 1:15:54
  If not, the whole tree is still like kind of together by virtue of the lights.
• 1:15:59
  And then you got the balls flying everywhere or whatever other
• 1:16:02
  hanging ornaments you have.
• 1:16:03
  I mean, what was that dude doing?
• 1:16:07
  He was, I don't understand.
• 1:16:08
  Please folks.
• 1:16:09
  Don't let your Christmas turn into this disaster.
• 1:16:11
  That's for sure.
• 1:16:12
  Please don't get a misdemeanor jail time on your record for throwing Christmas tree
• 1:16:17
  parts at your boyfriend or girlfriend.
• 1:16:18
  How does that 9 1 1 call go?
• 1:16:21
  Excuse me, Operator Batman, I've been assaulted by a Christmas tree.
• 1:16:24
  Like, seriously?
• 1:16:25
  Oh, who did it, Santa?
• 1:16:28
  Right?
• 1:16:28
  I mean, how do they even keep a straight face?
• 1:16:30
  Were you naughty this year?
• 1:16:33
  It's ridiculous.
• 1:16:35
  But here we go.
• 1:16:37
  Also saving the best for last.
• 1:16:40
  Let's move to Thanksgiving.
• 1:16:42
  You don't even need to read the rest of it.
• 1:16:44
  There's not even anything else to the article, honestly, because it's
• 1:16:48
  summed up in its entirety by the title.
• 1:16:50
  Florida man defrosts Thanksgiving turkey in swimming pool.
• 1:16:58
  What?
• 1:16:58
  Y'all be worried about, Oh, snap.
• 1:17:01
  I haven't taken my turkey out of the freezer yet.
• 1:17:03
  Thanksgiving's in two days.
• 1:17:04
  How will it ever defrost?
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  No.
• 1:17:07
  You got a swimming pool in Florida.
• 1:17:08
  Throw that sucker in there.
• 1:17:09
  It takes just a few hours.
• 1:17:10
  Apparently the salmonella only takes a couple hours to, I mean,
• 1:17:16
  add that little extra something, something really in the hot tub, but
• 1:17:21
  then you'd end up cooking it quote.
• 1:17:24
  Turkey in the pool.
• 1:17:25
  That's how you do it.
• 1:17:26
  When you live in Florida, I didn't know that I've also never lived in Florida.
• 1:17:30
  We learned something new every month, every year, a different family member
• 1:17:36
  throws the turkey into the pool.
• 1:17:38
  I mean, that's tradition.
• 1:17:39
  I mean, that's almost slam dunk.
• 1:17:41
  Most people wonder, doesn't the chlorine get into your Turkey?
• 1:17:46
  That's just keeps it moist.
• 1:17:47
  He says, these bags are sealed by the factories.
• 1:17:50
  We've never had a leakage yet.
• 1:17:52
  Yeah.
• 1:17:52
  And no chlorine is in our turkey.
• 1:17:54
  All right.
• 1:17:55
  I mean, those turkey bags are pretty thick.
• 1:17:57
  So is the skull of the person doing this, but you know, hey, whatever.
• 1:18:01
  And please, people, before you get any ideas, the United States Department of
• 1:18:04
  Agriculture does recommend that there are three ways to safely thaw your turkey.
• 1:18:09
  One, in the refrigerator.
• 1:18:11
  Two, in cold water.
• 1:18:12
  Or three, apparently in the microwave.
• 1:18:14
  That sounds like a lot of work.
• 1:18:16
  All right.
• 1:18:19
  Well, thank goodness I don't like turkey.
• 1:18:23
  Well, now that we've spread a little holiday cheer.
• 1:18:25
  We wish Florida A very merry and safe holiday season this year.
• 1:18:31
  Absolutely.
• 1:18:32
  Keep it classy, Florida.
• 1:18:50
  Well, it's that time we go behind the pit wall and talk about motorsports
• 1:18:53
  news, but we're really not going to.
• 1:18:55
  We're going to talk about motorsports gifts, and we've kind of been doing that
• 1:18:58
  throughout the episode, but we forgot.
• 1:19:00
  Something special for our younger listeners, for our younger audience.
• 1:19:03
  You know what came out just in time for the holidays?
• 1:19:05
  Hopefully you've already bought your latest Xbox or upgraded
• 1:19:08
  your PC because Forza Motorsport number eight hit the shelves.
• 1:19:12
  It's just called Forza Motorsport.
• 1:19:15
  I know, but it's still the eighth one.
• 1:19:17
  Yes, it is the latest in the Forza Motorsport series packed with 650
• 1:19:23
  cars, all sorts of new tracks.
• 1:19:25
  It has a new kind of career mode, which has more of an
• 1:19:28
  RPG style progression system.
• 1:19:30
  Whether you like that or not, I'm a Forza fan.
• 1:19:33
  I'm ride or die.
• 1:19:34
  I'm getting a copy of it and I'm going to play it.
• 1:19:36
  I highly recommend checking it out.
• 1:19:38
  And I think it may be the jumping off.
• 1:19:40
  point for a GTM virtual racing league coming back.
• 1:19:44
  So if you're interested in partnering up with us or racing with us, give us
• 1:19:47
  a shout, but you got to get your copy of Forza Motorsport first, and at least
• 1:19:51
  get your licenses and get through, you know, the basic training in the game.
• 1:19:54
  So now that that's out, check it out.
• 1:19:55
  There's tons of other motors.
• 1:19:57
  Sports games out there, especially if you're in to sim racing, something
• 1:20:00
  else to consider upgrading your gear.
• 1:20:02
  What are you using for your pedal set?
• 1:20:04
  What do you have for steering wheels?
• 1:20:05
  I will say this.
• 1:20:06
  We have an upcoming episode where Brock Packard returns to co host with
• 1:20:10
  me, where we talked to Trevor Marks.
• 1:20:12
  From K53, who's partnering with Torque Motorsports in Atlanta to talk about
• 1:20:17
  their new sim racing program, what they have to offer and what K53 is doing
• 1:20:22
  to revolutionize the e sports world.
• 1:20:24
  So look forward to that in the future.
• 1:20:25
  Lots of stuff out there going on right now.
• 1:20:28
  Lots of great sales in the IT world, checking out websites like
• 1:20:31
  Amazon, like Newegg, like Best Buy.
• 1:20:33
  Now's the time to get your gear upgraded so that you can play and
• 1:20:37
  support the latest version of Forza.
• 1:20:39
  And don't forget, if you're looking to give someone the gift,
• 1:20:42
  a gift that will continue to give, think about club memberships.
• 1:20:46
  And how about a membership to one of the oldest car clubs in the world?
• 1:20:50
  For a whopping 50 euros, you could have become a member of
• 1:20:54
  the Automobile Club of the West.
• 1:20:56
  The ACO has started their own U.
• 1:20:59
  S.
• 1:20:59
  region.
• 1:20:59
  Pretty awesome.
• 1:21:00
  You get a 40 percent discount on schwag and other things.
• 1:21:04
  And let's listen to what David Lowe, president of the ACO USA, has to
• 1:21:08
  say about their membership package.
• 1:21:10
  You definitely want to.
• 1:21:12
  Take advantage of what the members club has to offer.
• 1:21:15
  Got a lot to offer.
• 1:21:16
  Like you talked about the, uh, ACO Tribune, 1718.
• 1:21:20
  That's my go to Tribune.
• 1:21:22
  Purchase access to La Chapelle, which is incredible, uh, hospitality facility
• 1:21:27
  located there, uh, just beyond the Dunlop bridge, which is an incredible,
• 1:21:31
  uh, Viewing of Tetra Rouge, you know, cars coming through the Dunlop.
• 1:21:35
  It's a great place to view as well as the hospitality tents area.
• 1:21:38
  Honestly, the big screen TVs give you the best view.
• 1:21:42
  They're just these huge screens and you hear the sound right there and you
• 1:21:46
  see them right now on the big screen.
• 1:21:47
  So it's a, it's a wonderful place.
• 1:21:49
  Plan to go for a week.
• 1:21:50
  If you only go for the day of the race, you're going to miss a lot.
• 1:21:52
  You need to.
• 1:21:53
  Kind of watch the race come alive.
• 1:21:55
  The pits get built out and you want to get a paddock pass.
• 1:21:59
  Might cost you a few extra dollars.
• 1:22:00
  You want to do that with the club.
• 1:22:01
  So you've got access to La Chapelle and the members areas there at T17.
• 1:22:06
  So, but in the meantime, throughout the year, as we build up, you've
• 1:22:09
  got these events that we're putting together around the country.
• 1:22:11
  Got the zoom meetings each month, evening with a legend, which.
• 1:22:15
  Absolutely are incredible.
• 1:22:16
  We're open to suggestions.
• 1:22:18
  A lot of the ideas we get come from volunteers that actually set it up for us.
• 1:22:22
  We have a lot of past presidents from other car clubs that are members that
• 1:22:26
  provide good sound wisdom and guidance for us as we grow our wings, if you will.
• 1:22:31
  So Reuben, not only are you right hand man to David, part of the board, you know,
• 1:22:35
  making all this stuff happen at the ACO USA, you're also in charge of social media
• 1:22:40
  marketing, all that you run the ACO USA Facebook group, which is for members only.
• 1:22:45
  And then you have the night with the legends.
• 1:22:47
  Do you want to expand upon that and explain to people like what all those
• 1:22:50
  different pieces are really about?
• 1:22:52
  The Facebook group was my idea to get to people that don't read the newsletter,
• 1:22:55
  because a lot of times you get an email, don't open it, we get so much spam,
• 1:22:59
  you know, just another Avenue, we get the message out, whatever we put in the
• 1:23:03
  newsletter, I'll put on, on the Facebook group, whatever comes from Lamont as
• 1:23:07
  well, I'll put there so we can have a daily reminder of something it keeps.
• 1:23:11
  Lamont's whack in the people's mind.
• 1:23:13
  I'll come up with stuff, you know, that I'll pull up from all over, you know,
• 1:23:17
  before the hundred, there was so many events, you know, a chocolate event
• 1:23:20
  at Lamont's that did chocolate, that track and all kinds of unique things.
• 1:23:24
  So I'll put that in there to bring that flavor because our vision is
• 1:23:28
  for the people that can never get to Lamont, we want to bring Lamont
• 1:23:31
  to them and bring it to them on a daily or weekly basis, you know, and
• 1:23:34
  the monthly zoom, you know, again.
• 1:23:36
  Access to a legend.
• 1:23:37
  Some of these legends, you know, their days are numbered the ones in
• 1:23:40
  the seventies and so forth, you know, the, the bells, the Redmonds and so,
• 1:23:44
  you know, dreadies, I mean, they're in their eighties plus, so it's
• 1:23:47
  building that connection with them.
• 1:23:49
  Then, you know, they may like me when I was there, I saw them, but I didn't
• 1:23:53
  get to talk to them, you know, now, later on, I'm, I'm catching up, I guess.
• 1:23:57
  By doing this, and I love it, you know, chasing them down to do the zoom
• 1:24:01
  and really get into their story, how they felt in the car, you know, good
• 1:24:05
  or bad because Lamont, you know, you don't win Lamont, Lamont chooses you.
• 1:24:08
  So everybody's got a story there for sure.
• 1:24:11
  And, you know, and I just want to get that out to people that
• 1:24:13
  want to hear it from our legends.
• 1:24:15
  So those are the things that we're planning.
• 1:24:17
  You know, bringing people in, access to some of these legends.
• 1:24:21
  There might be heroes for them.
• 1:24:22
  They know their story, but they never met in person because in a race track,
• 1:24:26
  it's probably won't ever meet them.
• 1:24:27
  So it has to be some of these social events, meetups, and this
• 1:24:30
  is what we're bringing to people.
• 1:24:31
  You know, whatever we can put together.
• 1:24:34
  That's good to know.
• 1:24:35
  I'll definitely be getting on board.
• 1:24:36
  It sounds like a great.
• 1:24:38
  Group of people.
• 1:24:39
  And they're still actually running clearance sales on selected sizes and
• 1:24:42
  stuff that's left over from Le Mans.
• 1:24:43
  You can actually save a boatload, especially if you're an ACO
• 1:24:46
  member on any of the schwag.
• 1:24:48
  Do we have any Christmas wishes this year?
• 1:24:51
  Pipe dream wishes?
• 1:24:51
  Yeah, wishes for the world.
• 1:24:53
  Puppies, 100 grand.
• 1:24:54
  Oh, wishes for the world.
• 1:24:55
  Oh, yes.
• 1:24:56
  Okay.
• 1:24:57
  Yes, many.
• 1:24:58
  For people to be good.
• 1:24:59
  World peace.
• 1:25:01
  The world, yeah.
• 1:25:01
  You know what I wish for though?
• 1:25:03
  This is my Christmas wish.
• 1:25:04
  I hope that by the new year.
• 1:25:07
  Michael Andretti will be allowed to have his Formula One team.
• 1:25:11
  You've heard that Cadillac is going to be an engine manufacturer in
• 1:25:14
  2028, supposedly the latest rumor or the latest late breaking news.
• 1:25:18
  Cadillac Andretti with Cadillac providing motors.
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  I wish the best for the Andretti family, and I hope they make
• 1:25:25
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  earlier this year around Indy 500 Time called Second to One All But for Indy.
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  He's the owner of Racemaker Press.
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  He's a long time participant and presenter at the Argett Singer Symposium,
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  and he just recently made a donation of books to the IMRRC, 150 new copies
• 1:27:29
  of Joel Flynn's Racing history books that were published from 1995 to 2007.
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  I have a couple copies myself.
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  This is a 425 page book full of black and white color photographs,
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  memorabilia, advertisements from back in the day surrounding
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  org, and they're for sale for 20 each.
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  A beautiful looking book.
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  Well, it looks like we have some upcoming holiday events still on the calendar.
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  We've got Street Survivors of Maryland Christmas Show and Auction,
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  December 17th, Glen Burnie Elks Lodge.
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  The Simeone Foundation and Museum in Philadelphia is celebrating
• 1:29:18
  their 40 years of ATCO racing.
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  It promises to be a drag on December 2nd through the 17th.
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  The East Coast Indoor Nationals returns to the Maryland State
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  Fairgrounds on December 2nd and 3rd.
• 1:29:29
  And lastly, Dragfest 2024 will be January 6th and 7th at the
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  Tons more of events like this and all of their details are
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  Well, you would think as we head into the holidays that there wouldn't be
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  com trackside report.
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  But you know what?
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  So that's our annual promotion to check out for the holidays and
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  Well, the other thing from NAS is I would say that at Hyper Fest, if you want to
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  something that you just want to try.
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  We have something called.
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  Hyperdrives, which is basically a single session HPD E because we
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  And if you just not sure if you want to get out, but you want to try
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  out for a low impact time, but with one of our certified instructors.
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  For 80 bucks, you can get on the track and do a 20 minute session.
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  And it's a taste test of what we do.
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  And it's very low impact.
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  So if somebody wanted to check that out, they would just need to come to
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  any one of the NASA events, actually in mid Atlantic run hyperdrive
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  sessions, but we have a lot of them at hyperfest May 17th, the 19th at VIR.
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  In case you missed out, check out the other podcast
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  episodes that aired this month.
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  Race to the sky in a semi with Carrie Weishar from Trophy Girl
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  Designs, and learn about her epic journey to the top of Pike's Peak.
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  We go deep into the auction world with the voice of Mecham, John
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  auctions this holiday season and beyond.
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  We serve up a delicious episode of Food Americana with David Page, the
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  of food on the automotive industry.
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  We discuss how parking has changed the way we look at the world with Henry
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  Grabar, author of Paved Paradise.
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  And then we triple down with history of motorsports episodes from our
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  Pursuing Excellence in Racing by Dr.
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  Mario Tecce, and a panel discussion about the environmental impact
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  of motorsports and its future by three members of the SAH.
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  This is the last official drive thru of 2023.
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  This month showcases our holiday shopping guide, December brings us
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  our best of episode, and we'll catch back up with all of the industry
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  news starting again in January.
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  Thank you to all the guests that came on the show this month.
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  We have some really exciting episodes lined up for the rest of season four.
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  Don't forget, this season ends at the end of February.
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  Right before the racing season kicks off, tons of episodes still to come.
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  So stay tuned throughout those holiday months.
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