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Lion, Tiger, Bear ... Oh My! (John W. Warner IV) · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  We always have a blast chatting with our guests about all sorts of
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  different topics, but sometimes we go off the rails and dig deeper into
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  their automotive and motorsports pasts.
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  As a bonus, let's go behind the scenes with this pit stop mini sode
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  for some extra content that didn't quite fit in the main episode.
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  Sit back and enjoy.
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  Enjoy, and remember to like, subscribe, and support Brake Fix on Patreon.
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  They say that of cars too, never drive your heroes.
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  I've made that mistake several times.
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  I do not recommend it.
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  That I don't understand.
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  What do you mean?
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  So for instance, celebrity cars, I've driven the Smoky and the Bandit Trans Am.
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  I've driven an R5 Turbo.
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  I've driven all sorts of things that you would see in a movie,
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  you know, all sorts of cars.
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  And you're like, that isn't nearly as impressive as it looked like
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  when it was on the big screen.
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  No, especially if it's a studio stunt car, you know, they're
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  all rigged for doing spins.
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  Exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  By the way, I, I have to voice all my racing friends and I just couldn't
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  stand the Ford versus Ferrari movie.
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  It's true story and, and the acting was good.
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  That wasn't the problem, but they were all driving 60 miles an hour on track
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  and talking to one another in a GT40.
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  And I'm like, you can't do that.
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  The windows are shut.
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  It's loud as hell.
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  I'd driven an original GT40 around summit point in a vintage race.
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  And you can't hear yourself scream.
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  The movie is just, it was pathetic.
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  The racing scenes.
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  But other than that, it was a great movie for the story.
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  And yeah, I agree with you there.
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  And it had a little touch, a little dash of Fast and the Furious 2, where it's
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  like, how many times is he going to shift?
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  And how long is a lap at, you know, how long is the Mulsanne at Le Mans?
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  It's like 20 minutes for him to get from one end to the other at 200 miles an hour.
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  And then he suddenly downshifts and goes faster.
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  I'm like, come on.
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  They never get it right in movies.
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  They just, they're so lazy and stupid and all.
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  Well, the alternative to that would be Steve McQueen's Le Mans,
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  where it's almost too realistic and it's three hours of torture.
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  Yeah, that was docudrama.
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  Exactly.
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  And he could drive.
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  You know, whereas a lot of these actors, they can't fucking drive.
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  You can't teach anyone that.
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  kind of stuff.
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  Stunt driving is a little different from racing.
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  Movies never get it right.
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  As you know, you got to be there at the race or you got to be behind the wheel.
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  It's like watching paint dry.
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  Exactly.
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  Nobody wants to watch golf.
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  Everybody wants to play golf.
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  Well, that only takes one ball.
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  Racing takes two.
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  I like that.
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  That's, I'm going to use that.
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  That's great.
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  What's the difference between historical fiction and revisionist fiction exists.
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  I believe that it's all has a basis.
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  In fact, some of it's pure fantasy, but not as much as people think.
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  That's my personal thing.
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  I'm merging the UFO disclosure movement topics and history and the history of
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  the world and Atlantis, blah, blah, blah, into the new book of World War II.
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  And people will think, wow, this is a great fantasy thing, It's more truth
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  in it than people would ever suspect.
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  I'm not telling people what to believe, but my foreword,
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  I'll send you my foreword.
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  I say, look, you can watch video footage of Foo Fighters.
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  Everyone thinks that's a 1990s band.
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  That was the name for UFOs in World War II.
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  A lot of people don't realize that.
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  Yeah, nor does my cousin ever mention that shit.
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  A lying liar.
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  But what they're hiding is not funny.
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  Whatever the truth is, and I think it's a lot of it really is true, because
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  they've been hiding this tooth and nail.
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  Father.
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  told me not to go down that road.
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  You can watch my Daniel List interviews.
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  I call spade a spade.
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  My father lied to me, but he did it to protect.
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  So your recent thing on history, is that with respect to the book
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  or is that with respect to the US?
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  I'll send you the link.
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  Okay, cool.
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  As we kind of wrap up here, I have a couple other questions I want to ask
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  just for, just for fun, because you, you mentioned earlier Ford versus Ferrari
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  and some of these other historical pieces and there's been a recent influx of.
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  biopics or biopics, depending on how, you know, how you want
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  to use the inflection there.
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  You weren't a big fan of four versus four, but what did you think of rush?
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  Rush was good.
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  I thought I did a little bit of Formula Atlantic and Formula Ford early on youth.
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  That is the most pure form of racing.
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  There is open wheel.
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  I was always afraid I was going to lose my leg.
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  I wanted a car with a roll cage.
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  I think I promised my parents that.
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  I think a guy, somebody at Indy smashed into a wall and you can build those
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  tubs out of carbon fiber all day long.
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  No way.
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  And so I got out of that, but it was the most pure, Formula Atlantic
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  was just unbelievably precise.
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  So I liked Rush.
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  I thought Rush was very good.
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  I thought the original Grand Prix movie from 1964 was good.
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  Robert Wagner, right?
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  Yeah, and I thought that was very good.
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  It showed, you know, those guys died like rats in a drain pipe,
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  you know, the cruel sport.
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  I thought, you know, that was a good movie.
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  That was the only two I think I liked.
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  In reality, and I know this sounds like, I'm meeting a celebrity or
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  whatever, but I'm in awe of your history and this in the book.
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  And like I said, reading this has been an inspiration and it's kind of, you
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  know, been a kick in the balls to say, if you got an idea, just fricking do it.
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  So I really appreciate it.
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  Yeah, I mean, it came out of a time in my life where I just didn't have many
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  options to work or do anything anymore.
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  And I had been so used to the action and adrenaline.
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  I think what you're doing is really interesting.
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  I love to hear stories.
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  And, More.
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  Anton's a deeper story.
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  It's more poignant than just racing history.
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  Absolutely.
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  Absolutely.
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  Now you've done a fantastic job.
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  War starts, but the racing and the World War II and the
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  propaganda and all that stuff.
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  That's all real.
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  Horseshoe did go on to build military parts and things that
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  Wolfberg factory with slave labor and It's sort of sexy history.
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  A lot of people turned off by Hitler and the Nazis, but there are more people that
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  are very interested in that because it was just such, I mean, we're, I'm learning
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  new things about World War II every month that aren't told in the history books.
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  And then I have to dig out a Polish historian.
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  I mean, it's that kind of thing.
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  And I dovetail that stuff.
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  So when Bee and the crew goes on into other books, they
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  have that Porsche legacy.
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  The new book, Portia has an electric Kugelwagen.
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  It's a prototype and he's got it with a solar cell for the Africa
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  core, which makes perfect sense.
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  And of course, if anyone was going to do an electric car, it would be Porsche.
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  Well, he's, he was obsessed with it from an early age.
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  Like the water Porsche was all electric.
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  I'm sure during the war, they tried that, but battery technology,
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  I make it seem he's privy to classified batteries and stuff to
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  make it work, but it's a prototype.
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  And so there is a Porsche in the new book.
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  Funny enough, there is a car it's inside something else, this
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  German anti gravity airship.
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  It's the emergency landing vehicle.
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  Nice.
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  It's shuttlecraft.
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  It's brilliant.
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  It is.
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  You land in the desert.
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  What are you going to do?
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  And of course this thing is supplying a mining base in the desert.
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  Porsche is in there with his engineering, but his tank,
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  yeah, you're gonna love that.
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  That's gonna be awesome.
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  A hybrid electric tiger tank, that's true.
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  Oh, that's brilliant.
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  Yeah, it didn't work quite well, and I wrote it, it broke down.
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  When it worked, it was brilliant.
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  It would have been the better tank, but Hitler rushed everything into production.
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  What an idiot.
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  Porsche went up to Hitler and said, The Soviets have this beautiful
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  tank, the T 34, that they're rolling out by the thousands.
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  Let's copy it.
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  And he said, No way.
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  We're doing a heavy tank with an 88mm gun.
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  Porsche couldn't believe it.
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  He said, I'll copy the Russian tank.
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  It's diesel.
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  It won't blow up like our tanks are blowing up.
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  No, no.
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  That's true.
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  Porsche recommended the Soviet tank.
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  I mentioned it in the book.
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  I had a cut out three chapters where Porsche actually went to Russia.
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  They wanted him to be the automobile czar.
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  I do remember seeing that somewhere.
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  Not in the book, but I remember reading that in the history.
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  Yeah, they couldn't leave.
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  Once they were there, they'd be paid well, but it's like, One of his
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  engineers went up to him and said, What's the point of being paid all this
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  money if we can't leave Soviet Russia?
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  You know they won't let us come back to Germany.
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  And they said, Fuck that.
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  I can't believe it.
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  He was offering them like the equivalent of millions of dollars.
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  He was like, Nope.
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  I know too much about French and British cars, not as much about
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  Porsche history as I should.
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  But you know, hey, whatever.
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  One of my favorite cars, I had a 1986 Lotus Turbo Esprit.
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  Oh, nice.
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  With a tan interior, and I had been racing for three years, and
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  I thought it was the best car.
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  The engine didn't have a lot of torque, but the car was very lightweight.
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  It was 2, 800 pounds, whereas the compatible Ferrari
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  328 was 500 pounds more.
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  That was Chapman's thing, add lightness, then power.
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  Yeah, lightness.
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  And so, I think the lotus flower, you know, that goes back to ancient Egypt.
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  It was sacred.
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  It might have something to do with lightweight.
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  The mystical nature of the lotus flower.
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  Probably something like that if Colin knew his Egyptian history, but it was
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  very important to the Egyptians They actually drank a tea of opium lotus
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  flower and belladonna and the priest would astral travel in the pyramid
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  Yeah pyramid before anyway, you know, it might have had something to do with
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  that But I liked Chapman's idea of lightness and of course, he would just
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  die today You have to have so much safety gear that car was really something.
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  I had it for a long time four years.
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  God, he should drive around Manhattan.
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  Crazy man.
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  It was actually the suspension was supple.
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  What a great car.
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  It's underrated.
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  They weren't built very well, but they were great to drive.
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  They handle.
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  I've had the pleasure of driving several different kinds of loaded low tie.
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  They all put a smile on my face.
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  And then I cringe afterward when I look at how they're made.
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  They were like kid cars, but you know, he didn't care about that.
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  He was like after performance.
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  Correct.
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  Absolute.
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  So you sacrificed luxury.
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  I mean, and the car had beautiful leather, but the, you know, the switch gear and
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  the, the shitty transmission was from a EO or something, or ult god that let it down.
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  But, uh, other than that, it was brilliant and the engine was good and strong.
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  You had to red the hell out of it, but it was a great engine.
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  I think they got 300 horsepower out of that four cylinder after a while.
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  That's a lot from 2.2 liters.
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  Exactly.
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  Back in the day today, it's no big deal.
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  You can get a one liter car to have a thousand repair, but it was
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  difficult back in the late eighties.
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  You know, what's funny though, that I kind of strangely imagined in the
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  book that not the Porsche had buddies.
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  He was kind of like a lone wolf in a lot of cases.
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  Right.
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  I mean, you do a very good job.
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  Adolf Rosenberger was his friend, but he was also a financier.
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  And so, but they were always at like arm's length, but I got, he was a friend.
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  Yes.
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  But I also thought because of Porsche's use of diesel, that.
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  In my head, I imagined him sitting down in the book and discussing
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  ideas with Rudolf Diesel.
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  Just like, one of those kinds of things.
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  Like, they would have been buddies.
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  I don't know when Rudolf died.
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  He was French.
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  He probably did, he saw the merit in it for trucks.
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  Not cars at the time, but with trucks.
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  But Bugatti was a fellow genius, and they really were friends in real life.
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  One can only imagine the conversations.
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  Yeah, right.
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  I write it that they're kind of like two bros and they're like making fun of
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  each other in sort of an offhand way.
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  He calls Bugatti's cars ox carts and Bugatti's called his trucks or
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  whatever, you know, and, but I can see that happening between two geniuses.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  And they actually, Bugatti worked with him in Germany a long time back.
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  They met in Germany.
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  I can't remember if they were working for Mercedes or I think it
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  was for somebody else and they met.
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  They were both engineers.
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  They were young men.
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  Can't remember when they met or where it was, but they discussed,
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  back when I met you at such and such place, you were a grease hog, I mean,
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  you were an asshole, you know, and they go back and forth with this.
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  I liked the banter between Bugatti and Porsche.
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  And now I ate in there.
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  Where B goes to Bugatti.
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  My editor said to take it out, and I said, Fuck you.
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  I'm not taking this out.
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  So B and this real, you know who Wolf Barnetto is?
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  Mm hmm.
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  The Bentley Boys.
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  Okay, well he's in the book.
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  He and B are friends.
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  They become friends.
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  Oh yeah, fuck yeah.
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  She drives a supercharged Bentley.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's a little bit onto Ian Fleming a little bit, but I have her drive a special
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  with a speed six, not a four cylinder.
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  It's a real hot rod.
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  And she becomes friends with Wolf.
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  Well, they go to Bugatti to convince him of this project that she's working on.
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  I need to go to the Grossglockner.
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  This is all fiction, but Porsche took his auto units to the Grossglockner hillclimb.
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  As the Germans did every year for testing.
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  She and Wolf Barnano, Barnano knew Bugatti.
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  And her mother knew Bugatti.
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  They're all chummy.
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  Her mother drove a Bugatti.
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  She's at school.
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  So she goes up to Bugatti when you read it.
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  I love this chapter.
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  And she's like, I need a Grand Prix car for the Grossglockner hill climb.
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  It's got to have 600 horsepower and I need it in a month.
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  And Bugatti's like, what?
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  Uh, sorry, you know, all our things are spoken for and we don't
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  build Grand Prix cars anymore.
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  We're outclassed by the Germans.
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  And she goes up to a picture on his shelf of him and Porsche at a racetrack.
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  And she turns it to him and said, But just imagine Herr Bugatti or whatever.
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  What do they call him?
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  Monsieur.
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  No, they call Bugatti, I don't know, a name like Ferrari had.
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  Oh yeah, Commendatore.
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  Yeah, something like that.
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  And she goes, imagine wiping that smug look off Porsche's face.
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  When a French car and a French woman, she's gonna pose as a French woman, blows
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  his doors off at the Grossdager Helpline.
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  And Bugatti dovetails to the next chapter and Bugatti whips the
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  tarp off of this chassis, this Grand Prix car that he built.
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  Actually, it's a real car.
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  I got the chassis number that he built with a five liter engine.
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  He turns to his engineer and says, You see that big supercharger over there?
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  Let's bolt it on here with the bigger carburetor.
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  Up the compression and then redo the cans and make the valves bigger.
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  I need 600 horsepower.
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  And the guy's like, yeah, we can do it.
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  Is that a nod to like the 57G tank?
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  Something like that.
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  I have the chassis and he built one five liter Grand Prix car for someone and they
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  either didn't use it or they did it in one race and they didn't use it anymore.
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  They just couldn't compete with the Germans.
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  But B goes up to him and says, Of course, Wilf Barnetto bribes him.
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  Says, if you don't do this, you know, I'm going to tell the
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  press that, you know, that story.
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  He's putting the heat on him, and so they're both putting
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  the heat on, screws to Bugatti.
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  He's like, what the fuck are you people doing in my office?
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  Breathing my air.
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  And they convinced him to do it.
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  And I think in real life, He would have done maybe not a grand prix car
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  to take on Nurburgring but a hill climb car overpowered They were all
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  over cranked superchargers and the germans were running 600 horse and
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  she says I need 600 or better And so they mixed exotic fuels in those days
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  hill climbs were what 10 minutes?
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  They went up full power so they could get away with non standard fuels and No way.
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  You mentioned that when Shtook talks about when the, the, the idiot guy
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  Phil in the petrol spilled it on his neck and how he was burning it.
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  Yeah.
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  It would burn the first two layers of skin off because there's nitrobenzene
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  in it and there's, uh, alcohol and there's all these toxic chemicals.
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  That's a true story.
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  You can actually see some of the footage if you look up the
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  auto union races on YouTube.
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  Somebody gets splashed and turns around really furious.
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  They would burn the drivers.
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  Of course, when they wrecked, they went up like a fireball.
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  So the reason I brought up the 57G tank, I've seen it in person.
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  It's up at the Simeone Foundation in Philadelphia.
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  And that car has an interesting backstory, 100 percent related to World War II.
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  It was the Bugatti race car at the time, it has an airfoil teardrop shape, you
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  know, it was a study in aerodynamics, but it was also a race car, not
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  necessarily a Grand Prix car, though you probably could consider it back then.
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  But because of all the turmoil and everything that was going on in Vichy
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  France to protect that design, Ettore told all those guys to basically find
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  a spot hidden and bury it underground.
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  They almost forgot where it was.
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  And then unearthed it after the war.
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  So that existing car is in Philadelphia.
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  What is this?
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  So I don't know planes as well as I know cars, so you're gonna
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  have to tell me what that is.
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  This is Bugatti's design for an air racing plane.
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  No way.
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  Using two of his straight eight Grand Prix engines with counter rotating propellers.
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  torque effect.
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  But it's a very unusual and beautiful design, like a swallow.
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  That's awesome.
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  So, imagine if the Germans copied this.
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  And whose engine would power it?
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  Well, it'd be Porsche's engine over anybody else's.
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  That's little Anton.
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  Ah.
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  It's a Heinkel.
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  High altitude interceptor.
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  It's the fastest plane in the world in April of 1940.
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  So Little Anton is the codename for the plane?
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  It's his big brother.
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  He nicknames the plane after his dead big brother.
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  Who was named after his father, Antonius Portia, right?
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  Don't tell anybody that, but I'm giving you, I'm spoiling it for you.
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  Yeah, yeah, no, that's fine.
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  I couldn't resist because Bugatti has, the story is, The Germans
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  did have their eye on this plane.
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  Oh boy, did they.
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  Because air racing was basically fighter design.
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  Right.
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  And so Bugatti and his men in the factory, they hit it in a French farmhouse.
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  It survived the war.
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  See, Bugatti's good at hiding stuff, apparently.
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  He did not want his technology going into German hands.
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  The French Air Force was interested in it.
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  War broke out.
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  It was just in a shed and prototype stage.
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  They had no time to test it.
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  No Germans rolled into France quick.
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  And so there is a lot of truth to this German idea of stealing Bugatti's
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  plane, but they make it bigger and it houses one hell of a big cannon.
• 17:34
  And it's got some other tricks up its sleeve, but Porsche is tasked to design
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  the biggest, most powerful engine in the world out of a classified alloy.
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  Even though it's a 16 cylinder with twin superchargers and twin intercoolers,
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  and it makes 3000 horsepower.
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  This is 1940.
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  So that's a lot.
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  It's twice as much the biggest.
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  It's lightweight because Bugatti, of course, lightweight Porsche lightweight.
• 17:59
  They both agreed on that principle.
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  And so he says that he's in the hangar with being loose.
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  I mean, it's a great chapter.
• 18:06
  The plane has massive power.
• 18:07
  It's an advanced design, but it is lightweight.
• 18:10
  And there's something on board that makes it even lighter.
• 18:14
  But I won't ruin that part for you.
• 18:16
  So I'm just wondering, in historical truth, is there a lot of truth behind it?
• 18:21
  The story, everyone thinks, oh, he made it up, and, you know, the guy's racing plane
• 18:24
  was small, and it wouldn't have worked.
• 18:26
  Oh no, the Germans, they put, you know, they build it with their
• 18:30
  strength and their, and their stuff, but they build it light and fast.
• 18:34
  What I'm getting at is, based on historical truth, I'm wondering if
• 18:36
  that's where the fascination that Porsche has always had with precious
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  metals like magnesium come from.
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  Right.
• 18:43
  The fictional alloy, blau aluminum, blue aluminum, that I
• 18:46
  put in the book has also a basis.
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  In fact, the Germans were ahead of everyone as far as the racing
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  aluminum and alloys and stuff.
• 18:55
  They were working on aircraft frame alloys that were stronger and lighter.
• 18:59
  So that's basis in truth as well.
• 19:02
  I'm going to get so many people on this.
• 19:03
  Porsche designed the Mercedes Benz V12.
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  601 aircraft engine.
• 19:08
  ME 109, the bombers, they all used it.
• 19:10
  He designed it before he left Mercedes.
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  It was on a design board that's in the book.
• 19:14
  He did design a big 16 cylinder engine for Mercedes.
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  Fluge Motor Works.
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  And there's a scene, it's in Mercedes.
• 19:22
  In fact, the aircraft back.
• 19:23
  He did design a 16 cylinder.
• 19:25
  And it had twin superchargers.
• 19:27
  It never left the bent, and you have to have the book on the Mercedes aircraft
• 19:31
  engines of World War II to know it.
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  Wow.
• 19:34
  Everyone's gonna write me and say, oh, they wouldn't have done that.
• 19:37
  Oh, no, they did.
• 19:38
  Now, it was for a bomber, not a fighter.
• 19:40
  Fighters used to hot rod.
• 19:41
  You stick a big engine in a small airflame.
• 19:43
  It's the same thing as a car.
• 19:45
  Porsche cut his teeth on aircraft engines and cars.
• 19:48
  He was a dual genius in that area.
• 19:50
  He knew about aerodynamics enough.
• 19:52
  But, you know, in the book you'll see there's a U Boat section.
• 19:55
  The U Boat story has also a basis in fact, believe it or not.
• 20:00
  When you get to that, everyone's gonna think, they think
• 20:02
  Little Anton is this U Boat.
• 20:04
  No, it's a misleading thing.
• 20:05
  I'm ruining the whole book for you.
• 20:07
  No, no, no, no, I don't, I don't mind.
• 20:08
  I don't mind.
• 20:09
  There's so much in it, it doesn't matter.
• 20:11
  Portia did work on some of the diesels for the Schnell boats, you know, the PT boats.
• 20:17
  He had a hand in all that stuff.
• 20:18
  I think, uh, man, M A N, Machina Anschluss, Machina Fabrica.
• 20:24
  Which is owned by Volkswagen, so.
• 20:25
  Yeah, and he did have little pieces of that.
• 20:29
  And he was called in, you know, we've got a problem with this.
• 20:32
  And so his experimental engines on this U boat, I thought it was very clever.
• 20:36
  I put the after coolers.
• 20:37
  In the hull and they're chilled by seawater and that's why he's
• 20:40
  got three big diesels in there.
• 20:42
  And, and this u boat can go 30 knots on the surface and people will say, ah,
• 20:46
  and then there's some other technology that seems like science fiction.
• 20:49
  But I'm telling you, between you and me, uh, it's not the Germans were
• 20:53
  working on free energy, tooth and nail.
• 20:55
  Porsche didn't have anything to do with it.
• 20:57
  But in my new book, Walter Gerlach has everything to do with it and
• 21:00
  they sort of merge, you know, Porsche is not a physicist, Gerlach's not a
• 21:03
  mechanic, but they need each other.
• 21:05
  Yeah, yeah.
• 21:06
  It's an anti gravity airship run.
• 21:08
  I find that very interesting.
• 21:09
  The gearheads will go crazy for it, but it gets into torsion
• 21:12
  fields and electromagnetism, but it's all based on real technology.
• 21:15
  I'm not kidding.
• 21:16
  That's awesome.
• 21:17
  So when you read about that in the viewboat section, I debated
• 21:21
  whether or not I wanted to do it in this book, but I did it anyway.
• 21:24
  First of all, I wanted to distract the reader down a dead end alley.
• 21:28
  The little red herring, yeah, yeah.
• 21:30
  It is absolutely something they would have tested in a U boat, and they
• 21:34
  probably did at the very end of the war.
• 21:37
  The Type 21 U boat was this beautiful, modern prototype of what
• 21:41
  we call the Albacore tuna looking submarines that we'd still use today.
• 21:45
  It wasn't perfectly round, but it was very modern.
• 21:48
  And there's no evidence, but the historians I talked
• 21:51
  to, we're all in agreement.
• 21:52
  They probably tried to shoehorn that thing in there.
• 21:56
  Because you don't need diesels.
• 21:58
  Run on electric motors all the time.
• 22:00
  And unlimited range.
• 22:01
  And you can make your own oxygen and fresh water, like they do today in the
• 22:06
  USS John Warner, Virginia Classic, Texas.
• 22:08
  Must be nice to have a ship named after you, right?
• 22:11
  It was only a matter of time!
• 22:12
  I said to dad, I said, It's only a matter of time before they have a
• 22:14
  weapons system with Warner on it.
• 22:16
  He's like, yeah.
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