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The Automotive Dating Game: Break/Fix's Holiday Special · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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Ho ho.
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Welcome to drive through episode number 62, but instead of our regularly
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scheduled ranting and raving, we're back with the ultimate holiday shopping
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guide for the petrol heads in your life that might not have everything yet.
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So let's pull up the window, number one for some gift ideas.
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I mean, that sounds like the same thing we've done every year, doesn't it, pinky?
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It does bring, how about we do something different this year?
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How about instead of our standard holiday shopping guide, we dip into the waters
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of what should I buy with a special version of the automotive dating game?
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Him.
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And with that, I'm your host crew, chief Eric here to bring you
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laughs, surprises, and maybe even a little bit of buying advice.
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So just like the classic show from the Groovy 1970s, we've got three
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mystery cars waiting behind the curtain, ready to charm their way
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to the heart of our lucky collector.
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What do you think, Brad?
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I think we're ready to go.
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I think this is a fantastic idea.
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I think our motors are revved.
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We're ready to go first.
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Let's meet the star of today's show.
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She's fun.
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She's adventurous and ready to find a new ride that can keep up with her
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existing collection of collective cars.
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Please welcome our very own executive producer Tanya.
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Hi everyone.
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Hi, Tanya.
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I'm not sure I wanna take that.
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Looking for a new ride?
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All right, Tanya.
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Just like the classic 1970s game, the rules are simple.
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You'll be asking questions to our panel of Petrolhead about
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the car they've selected for you.
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Remember, you can't see the cars.
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You'll get to know them by our panelists answers, and at the end,
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you'll choose the car you'd like to take as your Christmas gift.
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Alright, I'm ready.
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Well, now let's meet our three panelists.
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Well, sort of again, their cars are hidden away, but I'll give you
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a little teaser about each one.
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Contestant number one claims his car can launch off the line faster than an
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Apollo era rocket from Pennsylvania.
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Let's welcome Max Zenman.
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Good afternoon, evening, and good night.
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If I don't see you later.
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Contestant number two is a world traveler who claims they've never
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run out of fuel yet from the place the young kids call mid.
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Let's welcome William.
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Big money Ross.
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Good evening and contestant number three.
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He's a foodie who believes pineapple absolutely belongs on pizza.
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All the way from that great southern state of Virginia.
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It's crew Chief Brad, we're gonna find out as the youngins say in
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the mid, we're gonna fho six seven.
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Oh geez, my son's five.
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He doesn't get these things yet.
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Thank God.
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It'll be worse then.
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But with that, let's give a big round of applause for our contestants.
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But before we dive into the question round, let's take a quick
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Alright folks, it's time to play Tanya.
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The stage is yours.
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Time to ask away.
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Are we ready for this?
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I am not, but let's get into it.
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This is a question for all the Garage Queens, future Garage
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Queens, garage Queen Number one.
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Would you consider yourself a summer or a winter?
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I believe I'd consider myself a summer.
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Same question number two.
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Oh, I'm definitely summer 'cause I really enjoy going topless.
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And number three, I think I was designed and built in the summer,
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but I'm very much a winter vehicle.
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All right.
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Which feature contestant number two would you add to yourself?
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What I would add to myself, I don't know.
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I'm pretty complete package, but the only thing I could think of that I would
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need to add would be maybe some fuzzy dice hanging off the rear view mirror.
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Oh geez.
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Garage queen number three the same.
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Oh, what would I like to myself?
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Yeah.
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I want the same question on this.
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Ooh, he's, he's being sultry, being suspense, sultry.
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I'm doing this.
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The, the shatner.
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I would add something.
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I'm not sure yet.
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I don't know that I would need to add anything.
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Maybe a bumper sticker that says I love Italia.
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Oh, we'll throw this one at garage Queen number one as well.
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I think I would add space for my moon boots and helmet and possibly.
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A little bit of extra fuel for 250,000 miles.
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All right, you're losing me here, but, uh,
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then here we go.
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Garage queen number one.
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Since we're going 250,000 miles worth of fuel, if we were going on this
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long road trip, what's one thing you'd make sure was in the trunk?
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Uh, I don't have a trunk to put any junk in.
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If I did.
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The luggage rack would have two sparkling glasses of champagne for the two of us.
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No, uh, don't drink and drive kids.
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I think a luggage rack for my, um, moon rocks.
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Okay.
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Continue with the space theme.
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Do you think we'd make it on this long extended road trip?
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Oh yeah.
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You, me and a third guy.
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Actually, I think there's three of us.
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All right.
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Only see two.
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So someone's sitting on someone's lap.
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We're not gonna break down.
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We're gonna make it.
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No breaking down, no nothing but good old parts made in, um, America.
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America.
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All right, crash queen number three.
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What song would be playing on the radio?
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I'm not sure.
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I like a big pizza Viol some more.
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I'm gonna ask this question to everybody.
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Garage Queen two.
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What songs playing on the radio wouldn't be specific.
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One song, but would be a specific artist and that would be Bob Seger.
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Okay.
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Number one, fly Me to the Moon.
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Let me play Among the Star.
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Well, Frank Sinatra for y'all.
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Alright, which is more important?
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Number two.
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Speed, style or utility?
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Oh, definitely style.
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Definitely style.
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We got those fuzzy dice.
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I don't know if they were pink, but they were fuzzy dice in the mirror.
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Oh, they could be pink, definitely.
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Why not?
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I think I know the answer to number ones would also be style.
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'cause we're going to the moon.
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But maybe it'd be utility also.
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'cause we can go to the moon.
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No speed.
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Baby Speed.
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Speed.
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What about you?
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Number three?
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I can't leave you out.
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Please don't leave me out.
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Definitely the style.
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And utility are the most important.
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Oil and utility.
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All right.
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What is your least favorite trait about yourself?
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Number one.
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Hmm.
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I work too hard.
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I look great for my age, and I look great with the top up or tops off.
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So, wait, that didn't really answer your question, did it?
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So you love yourself.
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Okay.
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Since 1954.
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Number two, same question.
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I want to hear from everyone.
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Least favorite trait.
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What could you change about yourself?
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Uh, I have a tendency to get a little hot pretty quickly.
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Uh oh.
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Gonna overheat.
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All right.
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So we wouldn't make it on a long road trip.
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Well, the tops off.
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You could, that would cool everything down.
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Oh, okay.
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Things in check.
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All right.
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And number three, I would say the thing I like least about me is that
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there just aren't more of me around.
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All right.
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Limited productions.
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And number three, there's not many of you around.
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How do you feel about weather?
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Oh, baby, I can handle any weather you need.
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All right, all weather, all terrain.
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Maybe number two.
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If you were gonna star in a movie, what genre movie, or you can name a movie,
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however you feel like answering that.
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Oh, I would fit perfectly into Cannonball Run too.
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All right.
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That would be ideal.
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What about you?
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Number one, movies starring Tom Hanks, where he may or may not be
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stranded on an island with a coconut.
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Not on an island, but far away.
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Okay, Tom Hanks movie.
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Horse gone.
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Same question number three was to star in a movie, TV show or whatever.
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Sure.
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Or genre of film, comedy, romance, action.
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I would be in a romantic comedy.
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But I wouldn't be the star.
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I'd be in the background.
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Something that only Eric would see for a split second while watching the movie.
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Did you see that?
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He'd pause.
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Take a screenshot and then share with all of us, and then he would ask
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Daniel to look it up in the database.
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I'm gonna circle back real quick to number two, Cannonball Run.
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Who in that movie would you most associate yourself with?
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Bert Dom, Dee, Jackie Chan.
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Shirley McClain.
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Oh, no.
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This would definitely be Mr. Burt Reynolds all over it.
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Okay.
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And a newer version.
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I guess you would say noon.
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Improved bird.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, but not dead one.
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Not a dead one.
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One.
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Still able to walk.
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But definitely I think a cowboy hat would go very well with this car.
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Ooh, I'm getting some vibes.
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All right.
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What is your most worn out part or a part that you can't obtain for yourself?
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The elusive unobtainium part.
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Number three, what am I going to the mechanic for right away?
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Definitely my wiring and my fuses.
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And my relays.
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Anything that is needed to make me actually run.
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I think you're gonna need a mechanic garage.
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Queen number one, the brakes.
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'cause we ain't stopping.
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Oh man.
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Number two, same question.
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It would definitely have to be my front end 'cause it's
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a very, very expensive park.
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They got pills for that now.
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Yeah, that might come in handy.
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Definitely to lift it up.
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You would definitely need something like that.
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See, these are the vibes I was getting.
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All right, so those only last four hours though.
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Quite overheat.
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Garage Queen number two.
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With that, are we getting into, or are we getting out of mischief?
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Oh, getting into mischief.
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Totally.
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Lots of smoke, lots of noise.
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Lots.
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Screeching and squealing.
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All right.
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Garage queen number one.
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If you could race on any track, which track would it be?
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Probably a big, long runway someplace, my God.
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But, uh, Lamont wasn't too bad either for us.
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Mm. Okay.
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All right.
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Number two, could you make it around a track?
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Long as it wasn't too long?
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Number three, Pikes Peak before it was paved.
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That's an intriguing answer.
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Huh.
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Oh no, that sounds signals.
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We've reached the end of our questioning.
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Tanya, you get one more opportunity to get some clues about your future car
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before we go into our decision round.
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I will end it on a fun note.
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This hasn't all been fun.
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Oh, it has all been fun.
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We'll add whimsy to it.
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Ooh.
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Which superhero would drive you?
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All around.
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Starting in reverse number three, which superhero would drive me?
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Clark Kent, but not Superman.
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Clark Kent, but not Superman.
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Okay.
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So we're a star in a reasonably priced vehicle.
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Got it.
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Number two.
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Oh, this would have Captain America written all over it.
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Wow.
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Number one, since they actually did comics for it, it would be Neil Armstrong.
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Well, Tanya, are you satisfied with your round of questioning?
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Alright, Tanya, you've heard from all three panelists about their cars.
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Now comes the big moment.
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You have 60 seconds in which to decide which car it'll be.
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Is it Max's?
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Williams or Brad
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and your choice is,
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well, this is a really hard decision, honestly.
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I'm pretty sure I probably want.
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Garage Queen number three, but I don't know what garage queen number one is at
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all, and I'm compelled to go with that.
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Garage Queen number two scares me and I feel like it's outside my vibe zone.
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It's probably on the opposite spectrum of your vibe zone,
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but don't fear the unknown.
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Embrace it.
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Embrace the unknown.
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And I think I'm going to, as it was said, eclectic collection.
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The number one would definitely be adding to an eclectic collection.
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So we'll go with garage queen number one,
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flash down, and for our fabulous new couple, that's Tanya and
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the car, we've arranged this.
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Special garage meetup for you, but first Max has to get that
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car run through the car wash.
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So we'll talk about the cars you didn't choose.
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So let's see what Tanya passed up, taking home to her garage tonight.
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Panelist number three.
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Brad, what was your car?
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Tanya's going to be very upset that she passed on is a 2005 Alpha Romeo 1
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56 Cross Wagon Q4 Turbo Diesel manual.
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Geez.
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I was to link to that bad boy.
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I was thinking you were going for a La Forza when you started saying utility.
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Driving it.
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Honestly.
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I was like, okay, that's about Brad's thing getting way out there.
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I think of La Forza.
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It's got utility.
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It's all wheel drive.
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It's a wagon manual.
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Turbo diesel.
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It's the better Fiat Panda.
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I thought it was a Jeep that someone left in Italy for some reason.
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You know?
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And I know we had a $50,000 budget.
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What did this car sell for Brad?
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49,009. Nine nine.
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Look at the link.
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Oh my God.
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What?
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How much was this?
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4,100 you say four grand.
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4,100. We've got $46,000 to have fun with on our date.
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Oh, you could get it rewired and spend the rest of the time looking at each
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other longingly in the, in the lobby of, of the, of the service station.
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Yeah.
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We've got $46,000 for AAA membership.
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Well, we heard from panelist number three with the Alpha Romeo.
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How about panelist number two?
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William, what did you bring to the party?
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Oh, we could go second Gen Dodge Viper.
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Mm. What?
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Really, I, I could have sworn yours was a Cadillac.
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I was thinking the same thing actually.
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Like an xts or something like that.
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Thought he had to hook him.
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Horns on the front, eh?
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Oh man.
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He threw me.
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When you're talking about, well, when I said the Cannonball rundown,
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I was like, I wanna be show.
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That was the genre.
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Not so much fixing the movie and then, yeah, yeah.
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A newer version of Bert.
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So like an updated type.
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I thought maybe the cowboy hat would do it.
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Thinking Carol Shelby ish.
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You know, like you threw me when it, you started talking about lifting it and dice.
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I thought it was gonna be some like squatted out amino or something.
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Well, it's a dodge.
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Yeah.
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Well, gentlemen, as a consolation prize for being the unlucky panelist,
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Tanya did not choose your cars.
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You don't go home empty handed.
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Alright, Tanya, this is it.
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Let's meet the lucky winner.
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I'm scared.
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Yeah.
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I wanna know what this is.
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I'm scared.
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This is gonna be something that's like the equivalent of the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile
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or something, but a space shuttle.
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All right, max,
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show her what you brought to the party.
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What has Tanya selected to take home to her garage today?
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As a representative of the, uh, historic Space Program, we are talking about a 1970
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1,454 LS, five Corvette, not too shatter.
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This one's the convertible for more than what we talked about, but the
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T top in 71 was equally as nice.
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Top on or top off, and no trunk.
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So if you're a female Corvette owner, do you still get the
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Jorts and the new balances?
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Does it come with it?
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No big sunglasses and a scarf.
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Seventies glasses.
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Audrey Hepburn, a scarf around and then big glasses.
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Yeah.
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Hair blowing in the wind or, yeah.
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Wrapped up.
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Alright.
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All right.
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I was scared.
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This wasn't too bad.
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Well, folks, that's all for today's special holiday.
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What should I buy?
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Episode of the Automotive Dating Game.
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Thanks for joining us.
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So up next we have three wise vols where we're gonna do a quick round robin of gift
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ideas for the Petrolhead in your life.
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This can go one of two ways are lovely.
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Panelists are gonna suggest gifts that they would have bought for themselves,
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gifts that they would buy for their best car bestie, and something you must buy.
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Or are traditional for you, for your ride or for your garage?
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Well, mine will be lame, so I can start.
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Well, with that positive endorsement, let's go with Tanya.
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Please sell a 72 Corvette.
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Yeah, I don't need anything anymore.
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I'm good.
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It does your hair for you.
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You don't have to, you never have to get a hair dryer again.
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Exactly.
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I scratched that off my holiday wishlist this year.
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But I will need a good brush 'cause it's gonna be a rat's nest.
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Buy for myself.
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A racing sim rig.
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Oh, buy for a car bestie.
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Any of the Formula one Lego sets.
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All right.
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And a must buy.
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Any car themed apparel is a must buy for any car enthusiast.
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Check out Blip Shift for custom design t-shirts, or even heel tread for custom
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livery inspired socks both short and tall.
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And on your way there.
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Don't forget to check out lunar replicas.com for your official
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Ford and Shelby Apparel.
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Shameless.
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Sorry.
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Sorry, I had to throw that in.
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William, how about you?
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What have you got for me?
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I'm gonna buy, I obviously seem like we're not really worried about price here.
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Since our contestant went over there and went with a sim rig.
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I would get a, a shoe marker helmet, full size, you know,
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real legit, raised, worn helmet.
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Signed by him would be.
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And then for, uh, my garage, I would definitely buy a legit like golf sign
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or some sort of nice sign or like a old neon one, something along those lines.
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They could hang on the wall and the other route I'd go.
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Then for the one would just be, I mean, a nice remote control.
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Type, either a Porsche or Ferrari or something along the line, just
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so someone can play with that.
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That would be lots of fun.
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Can race it around the Christmas tree.
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Nice.
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Brad, what about your gift ideas?
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What do you suggest for the car enthusiast that has everything in their life?
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So I'm going to go out of order a little bit here for my bestie, who's
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sitting in screen number five here.
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I'm getting you a book.
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It is the Automotive Wiring and Electrical System Guide for beginners.
24:59
Is it for an Alpha 1 56 sports station wagon?
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It is not.
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It is not, but it is.
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It is in large print, and it was printed in September 27th, 2025.
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Large print.
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It'll help you a lot with your nine 14.
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Or somebody else's GTI or somebody else's GTI for the must buy for anybody
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really that operates in automobile.
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I said it before, I'll say it again.
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AAA membership I think is very important.
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That's about as just as exciting as diagnostic tool I was gonna suggest.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Now for the real prize for myself, I see every Christmas
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season these car commercials with the big red bow in the hood.
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And you know what nothing says.
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I love you quite like a 9 9 1 Porsche nine 11 GT three Rs.
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So that's what I would buy myself, max.
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You could empathize there, can't you?
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Yeah, that was my gift to myself recently.
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So well, nine nine a 9 9 1 4 SII don't need the GT four rss.
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Nobody needs the gt.
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Oh, I I definitely want it a four s with a cob tune.
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I'm making 450 horsepower.
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Nobody needs that car either.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Max, you're behind the mic.
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What are your gifts suggestions for the 2025 season?
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For my car bestie, who happens to be my my wife?
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We recently upgraded from her 2014 Cross Trek to a 2021 or
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22, I forget, uh, Forester.
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So a Subaru Forester certified pre-owned.
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It was an excellent bargain and they gave her a really good deal on the,
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uh, trade-in value on the cross trek.
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So that was quite an upgrade.
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Excellent car despite the CVT.
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Anyway, the uh, um,
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so the gift to, uh, to myself.
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I recently bought a 1961 Corvette, which is the last truly good year
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of the, uh, no, no, I'm sorry.
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62 is a great year for a C one, but just the perfect styling.
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It's, it's a C two from the back and a C one from all other angles.
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It is the perfect Corvette and a gift for the garage or for anybody's garage.
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I highly recommend if you wrench or if you do.
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Work yourself.
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The Ben Pack.
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Quick jacks.
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What an awesome, awesome, awesome addition to a garage.
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I just got mine the other day and it has instantly changed
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the way I work in the garage.
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So Ben Pack, quick Jacks and I got the new one, the 6,000 tl, the whatever the
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regular one is, but the 6,000 pound one.
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Which has some like added safeties and stuff like that.
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It can do everything in my collection.
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I mean, all the way up to a a ca. I have a Porsche Cayenne as well.
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It can pull the cayenne up.
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Incredibly well made and I recommend everybody get one.
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If they can't put a regular set of lifts in their garage, get a quick jack and
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they go on sale this time of year too.
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Actually.
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There's lots of sales.
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I think Costco used to sell them.
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Discount codes or anything.
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Discount code 1, 2, 3.
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No, I, I don't know.
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That's the Facebook marketplace code.
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Yeah.
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So Max, while we still got you, do you wanna promote any of the
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wares you have on lunar replicas?
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Absolutely.
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Yeah.
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So, uh, I'm wearing, I'm wearing one of my wares right now, two of my wares.
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If you're a Shelby fan, if you're a classic car fan, if
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you're a Ford versus Ferrari fan.
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We are the original uniform supplier to Shelby and Ford teams
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in the 1960s, and we're bringing them back out for the public.
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So you can get our team shirts from 19 64 65, and we'll be releasing the 66
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team shirts and jackets this winter.
28:37
You can also get the, the historic 1965.
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Team jackets and shirts.
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That was the team that sent seven cars to Laman in 1965 into the
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historic Daytona coup, the GT 40, mark two, the Cobras, everything.
28:51
The Ford teams that year were really amazing and the Shelby team
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itself really made a name for itself and they wore our uniforms there
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and you can get them yourself.
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Some great pictures of the guys wearing them when it rained
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terribly at Sebring in 65.
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The pits were four feet of water and the, uh, chaparrals were
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literally like submarines in there.
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Yet somehow they still won.
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Who knew?
29:15
In any case, we make the uniforms.
29:16
They're exactly the right thing to wear in your Cobra Mustang GT 40 Daytona
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coop, and they do keep you warm.
29:24
The jacket is actually quite warm and it has a hood.
29:26
We are coming out with a helmet bag as well, so it's sort of an overnight bag.
29:30
We're looking at expanding our line into driving gloves and some other,
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so sort of the gentleman racer kind of vibe, but very 1960s, possibly a
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set of driving shoes in the future.
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Maybe even an affordable watch for you watch fans out there.
29:45
Now it's time for my picks, so I generally like to.
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I give a little bit of myself when I give a gift to someone else, right?
29:52
So something that when they look at it or they use it, or you know,
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whatever, it reminds them of me.
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'cause you know, hey, that's important, right?
29:59
So for my bestie, then there's multiples.
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But for my bestie, I would get them from the block zone.
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The 3,886 piece Audi Quatro Group B Rally Car.
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They can assemble it over those cold winter months in front of the fireplace,
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and at the end have a one eighth scale model that they put together themselves.
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That reminds them of me every time they look at it.
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I love the stuff that the block zone is putting together.
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There's some very, very cool models.
30:27
This one obviously speaks to me in very profound ways, but check out the block
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zone.com for some great Christmas.
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Ideas for the motorist in your life.
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It's only 260 bucks too.
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Wow.
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Look at that.
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Yeah, it's really cool.
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And Black Friday sales are live, so get it at a discount.
30:43
Fire up the Quattro.
30:44
All right.
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For myself, there's a ton of artists that either demonstrate or put their wares.
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On social media all the time.
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We've interviewed a bunch of them.
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Folks like Samantha Zimmerman and Chris Dunlop, and you know, you go on down the
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line, but there's a new bunch of artists out there that are putting out some really
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epic, very pointed prints and limited numbers that I really, really enjoy.
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And the first one that came out, and this comes from ricardo car artwork.com.
31:13
Was the Alitalia inspired generational list of all the Lancias
31:19
that wore the Alitalia livery.
31:21
I think this looks super cool to include the airplane, and then
31:24
they've branched off and they've included things like the Audis.
31:29
They've done Porsches, they have this whole chronology
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series of limited run prints.
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They're signed by the artists and I think they're just absolutely fabulous.
31:37
So for me, this is something I wanna put in the hallway.
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People come over and go, that's super cool.
31:41
What is that?
31:42
And so if you're into, you know, the group B era, you're into the group C cars,
31:47
that kind of thing, that's your style.
31:49
This is where it's at.
31:51
I just found my new art piece, the Ferrari two 50 GTO.
31:54
They've got the Quatro version and the CIA martini.
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Those are killer.
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Yeah, they're really cool.
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What's the tariff on that stuff?
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Changes every day, right?
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Unfortunately.
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Despite the tariffs, they're priced pretty reasonably too.
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If I remember correctly, they're somewhere around 80 euros, which
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they are roughly a hundred bucks.
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That's not bad.
32:14
Even if you didn't buy it for yourself, you bought it for the
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enthusiast in your life that you know, really likes that generation of car.
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These are where it's at, and these are new as of this year, so super, super cool.
32:25
And finally, a must buy as an AVID one 64th scale model collector.
32:32
I present you with Thei designs.
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Diorama display sets for your one 64th cars.
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You've probably seen these also floating around the internet.
32:41
They're these really cool, highly detailed dioramas that are like Porsche dealership.
32:47
There's a seven 11 back behind the ramen shop and you know, all
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these kinds of things where you can park your themed 1 64 scale models
32:54
and have a really cool display.
32:56
They even sell display cases for the dioramas so you can build it out into a
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wall and have these really cool scenes.
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They're LED backlit, I mean, just.
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Absolutely fabulous.
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Incredibly detailed.
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Not too, too expensive, but to me, as a collector, these are a must buy.
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They're also on sale now.
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Yeah.
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Price better at all, man.
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Those are pretty cool.
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94, 42 down from 1 44 95.
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That's a bargain.
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So those are my three gifts.
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I got my wife a forester, but this is actually cooler.
33:27
That's, oh man, I, I'm amazed.
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Anything Porsche is less than like 500 bucks.
33:33
Actually, that's,
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it's funny you should say that, max, because what would a drive through holiday
33:40
special be without some rich people?
33:43
Thanks.
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Totally Unrelated to cars.
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Okay.
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I recently went to DC for a meeting and I had some spare time.
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I went to museum called the uh, people's House, which is about the White House,
33:55
and it was, uh, open just about a year ago by the White House Historic Commission.
33:59
It tells a lot about the White House and stuff like that, but any case, the
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gift shop there has some really cool little things, and one of them was.
34:06
Colognes made by the same companies that made colognes for US Presidents
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current president excluded, but John F. Kennedy apparently wore Caswell masses',
34:19
jockey club cologne, and aftershave.
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And I gotta tell you, for a guy that doesn't wear cologne,
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I got it for the novelty.
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I, I live in the 1960s basically, so I got it for the novelty.
34:29
It is the nicest smelling cologne I've ever come across.
34:32
It's just unbelievable.
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Marilyn Monroe liked it.
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I hear he had a, uh, tennis instructor that was a fan and get
34:39
it now before the White House is turned into a pink Mar-a-Lago.
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Yeah, right.
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Get it, get them now.
34:45
No kidding.
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I mean, I'm really not a Cologne person, but this has been transformative.
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I feel it's vintage, it's historic.
34:51
They actually were the same company that provided colognes for George Washington.
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They've been in business.
34:56
It's a British company.
34:57
They've been around since Stonehenge or something.
34:59
Yeah, the Druid smelled great.
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Are you sure about?
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That was best.
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You know, they were working with what they got.
35:07
You smelled like a donkey.
35:08
It was an improvement.
35:09
Anyway, so Caswell Massey.
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Jockey Club.
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Seriously, I was blown away by this, and now I get the appeal of John F. Kennedy.
35:16
It really makes sense.
35:17
Max, I'm glad you went here because normally under rich people things we
35:21
would talk about watches and so we'd never really talked about colognes, although
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we've chatted about it on Discord before.
35:28
And so you open the door, you open Pandora's box a little bit.
35:31
So I wanna mention, as many folks might know, I actually wear Ferrari cologne
35:36
and they have different versions.
35:37
They have the carbon, they have the Russell.
35:39
I actually wear the black 'cause I think it smells the best.
35:41
They had a jello for a while, but you order it from Ferrari, you
35:44
can actually get it on Amazon.
35:46
You can get a bunch of different places.
35:47
It's not that expensive.
35:48
It makes a great gift.
35:49
And again, try the sense out.
35:51
The Black seems to be the most neutral.
35:53
But it's kind of funny, the number of car manufacturers that actually have colognes.
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Cadillac, Jaguar, Ferrari.
35:59
There's Porsche design stuff.
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Yeah, the Pure, I think it is.
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Yeah, I think they have them in the stores and stuff.
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Or if you go to the Porsche, boutiques in malls and things.
36:08
But more importantly, tying all this back to cars and racing.
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This summer when we were at Lamont's Classic, William and
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I actually got the sample.
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The red, the white and blue colognes, the official 24 hour of Lama colognes
36:20
that you can buy from the boutique.
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You can also buy online@boutique.lama.org.
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Well, it's not red, white, and blue.
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It'd be blue, white, and red.
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Yes, yes, that's true.
36:29
Blue, white, and red.
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You're right.
36:30
My point is though, another inexpensive gift that says, Hey, I
36:34
understand you as a car enthusiast.
36:37
Here's something you may or may not have.
36:39
You pick up the bottle and go, Hey, that reminds me of
36:41
the person that gave it to me.
36:42
Does it smell like cigarettes, coffee and gasoline?
36:45
That's red, white cigarettes, coffee and urine and baguettes.
36:48
I mean, how did you guess Check out all the car inspired colognes that are out
36:52
there, especially if you're watch shopping or trying to put together a package
36:55
for the car enthusiast in your life.
36:56
One more honorable mention along with that Omega.
37:00
Has the Omega Aqua Terra cologne, which is phenomenal.
37:04
It is the only other cologne that I have ever liked personally.
37:08
I haven't tried the Porsche or the Ferrari colognes yet.
37:11
But the uh, omega aqua is really lovely and it's been the same.
37:14
They don't have five or six of them, they just have one, and it's sold
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in boutiques alongside watches.
37:19
Well, speaking of the watches.
37:20
Aaron, Shelby showed us his at lama.
37:23
Is it Fossil bva?
37:24
Yeah.
37:25
Yeah, it was bva.
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I, I'm not sure about Fossil.
37:27
Bva and Breitling were the two that had them for a little bit.
37:30
Great line, great price.
37:31
Yeah.
37:31
They came out with some awesome watches that are, uh, Shelby themed.
37:35
Well, William, as we wrap out this rich people thing, segment, do you
37:38
wanna talk about the new Ferrari two 50 GTO book that came out?
37:42
This gentleman, this is his first shot at doing this, but he delves into.
37:46
Every single chassis number of the two 50 GTOs and gets into their history.
37:51
You wanna talk about thorough.
37:53
If you're a big fan of the Ferrari two 50 GTO, I mean, this
37:57
is an outstanding book to get.
37:58
It's a limited edition.
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He's only doing a few hundred of them.
38:01
It gets into.
38:03
Minute details, great stories about each specific chassis.
38:07
It's a great coffee table book if you wanna have something that's
38:09
a good, great conversation piece.
38:10
Uh, and there's some really cool stories about it in there as well.
38:13
And he said it is on our website.
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I know he was taking deposits for it.
38:17
I'm not sure where it's that.
38:17
I haven't checked on that lately.
38:19
I know I put a deposit down and the name of the book is the
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Ferrari two 50 GTO Spotting Guide.
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And it even has sections in the book where you can write when you've.
38:27
Seen A GTO like at Pebble Beach Notes or at another car show.
38:31
So you can annotate the times you've seen it and it's almost like the
38:34
Auto Bond Society birdwatching type of book, but for cars.
38:37
Yeah, it's really interesting.
38:38
You know, I like what he did with it, like doing that.
38:41
I guess it's something where you look at it once and you set it
38:43
down and it starts collecting dust.
38:44
It's something you can always go back to and look at it like to your point
38:47
is make notes in there about where you see and everything like that.
38:49
So I don't wanna say interactive to an extent.
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Yeah, it's a great book.
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The guy's a super nice guy too.
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I talk to him.
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I'll add to that as we wrap this out.
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They are replicas of the air cooled nine 11 cylinders, or what they call the
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They look really cool.
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They're made out of.
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God knows what am and what happens when you put it in the microwave.
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Bad things happen.
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When you put it in.
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The microwave takes off.
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It'll f on your Ken do.
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And much like the classic 1970s National Lampoons movie, what would
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a Christmas holiday be without a Griswold Family Road trip?
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This part of the program I kind of wanted to talk about one of the easy.
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Car related vacations you can take, and that is finding the roads near
41:01
you that are the coolest to drive on.
41:04
Whether it's a scenic route, a route that takes you to the most impressive diners
41:09
or drive-ins, or dives or switchbacks that will make your car spin on a dime.
41:17
Where would you travel stateside Europe.
41:19
Where would you like the best roads to travel to if you're traveling
41:22
even on a budget, it's not the road from Paris to Lamont, right?
41:25
Will you?
41:26
God no.
41:26
That's going.
41:27
You just drive to, from Indiana, get the same thing.
41:29
Just close your eyes and say I'm in France.
41:33
You know what?
41:34
I wanna go check it out.
41:35
I had heard about it before, but then kind of escaped my mind and maybe one
41:38
of you guys, maybe a driven, not max, my Brad, maybe you have, but have you
41:42
ever heard or driven on the triple nickel down here in southern Ohio?
41:45
Tencent.
41:46
Shy of a quarter.
41:47
Yeah.
41:47
Where is that?
41:48
No, look it up.
41:49
It's like a 60 mile stretch, Southeastern Ohio, just southeast of Columbus,
41:54
going down to Hocking Hills and that stuff over down to about Athens areas.
41:57
My understanding, it's supposed to be incredible in Ohio, almost like
42:01
a tail of the dragon type situa.
42:02
I mean, not that tight and twisty, but just glass, smooth
42:05
roads, everything like that.
42:06
Yeah, so I just came across this the other day, the triple nickel they call it.
42:09
I'm gonna ask again.
42:10
In Ohio?
42:11
Yeah, in Ohio.
42:12
I mean, I was shocked too.
42:13
Now, many, many moons ago, I was driving to this little rink town
42:18
in Kentucky that was right across the river from Ohio Covington.
42:22
And I had to get off 71 and I was going down these roads and I literally,
42:25
I stopped at this intersection.
42:27
'cause I was out in the middle of, this does not seem right, 'cause all of a
42:29
sudden the road is telling me to go down.
42:31
Was like fresh asphalt.
42:33
So I started driving it and it was gorgeous.
42:35
It went along a river, a stream, and it was just glass smoothly.
42:38
It just paved, it, hilly, everything like that.
42:41
Middle of nowhere.
42:42
And then all of a sudden you pop out onto the one highway
42:44
that goes along the Ohio River.
42:46
'cause then other side's, Kentucky.
42:47
I'm just like outta nowhere.
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Look up the triple nickel.
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'cause we're gonna have to maybe do that one day.
42:51
'cause it, it looks awesome again.
42:52
I'm gonna ask Ohio, Zanesville, Ohio, apparently due east of Columbus.
42:58
She got it.
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It looks like it's Route 7 63 in southern Ohio.
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Here's a fun thing though.
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If you wanna deviate off it, you could hit suck, run road
43:08
just for shits and giggles.
43:10
I think it's it's West Fork Road you hit and then it dumps you into 7 63,
43:14
which takes you straight down, basically right to dead ends into the Ohio River.
43:18
Right across is from Maysville, Kentucky.
43:20
Which is a really cool little town to Max's point, you know, there's
43:23
so many, especially the Appalachia area and everything like that.
43:26
Southern Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and stuff like that.
43:29
I mean, there are so many cool little towns.
43:32
They have all the historical things, everything.
43:33
It's, it's a lot of fun.
43:34
They're really cool things to go do.
43:36
Gainesville's right off 70, so if you take 70 over, you pass through that part.
43:40
Road Track does a lot of stuff on it.
43:42
Bringing our cars down there, especially when they're up in Detroit.
43:44
The one that I want to talk about, especially now that my 9 9 1
43:49
has its winter tires on because below 50 degrees, summer tires
43:52
on that thing are a little spicy.
43:54
Pennsylvania.
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Route 32 takes you through Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
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through the town of New Hope.
44:01
It goes along the Delaware River and in fall time it's absolutely gorgeous.
44:05
So in the wintertime it just looks like.
44:09
Marshmallow town.
44:11
I mean, it is, it's one of the nicest drives.
44:13
It is a Pennsylvania roots, so they do clear it regularly if it snows.
44:17
Wait a second.
44:17
You said it looks like a field of marshmallows.
44:19
This is in Pennsylvania.
44:21
You didn't mean a pumpkin patch.
44:23
Orange cones everywhere.
44:24
It's okay.
44:24
I assume this episode's coming out in December, so it might
44:27
have snowed once by then.
44:29
He, he missed a construction joke.
44:32
Yeah.
44:32
Yeah.
44:33
Oh, oh, yeah.
44:33
Well, you know, when there's snow on the ground, you can't
44:36
tell where the potholes are.
44:37
It makes it more interesting trying to say something about Pennsylvania roads.
44:40
You know, we have a thing about Pennsylvania roads.
44:42
If you're going straight down the road, you get pulled over for drunk driving.
44:48
That's awesome.
44:51
Philadelphia's pothole, city man.
44:53
But it's one of the nicest drives and it's just 20, 30 minutes
44:57
outside downtown Philadelphia.
44:58
So that's something that you can find.
45:00
There's actually a number of websites and stuff that you can look up,
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you know, best drive in my town or in the state that you live in.
45:07
Speaking of organized drives.
45:09
William, you joined up with Mike from ESC Carbon Wheels and you did one of the
45:13
Tail of the Dragon runs with them, right?
45:15
One of the Porsche runs or something like that.
45:16
I went there and met up with them when they were doing it.
45:19
I took my X five and I whipped that thing around on the tail of the dragon.
45:22
You know, Josh, who puts those together, does an awesome job.
45:26
And that's Smokey Mountain Drives, if I remember correctly.
45:28
That's the parent organization.
45:30
There you go.
45:30
Of all those different organized rides that they do.
45:33
And he owns actually, um, it was a building, but he's got a little
45:36
restaurant and everything there too.
45:37
Like the one end of it.
45:38
It's a meeting point.
45:39
And I said he know he's doing a heck of a job organizing driving this.
45:43
So, I mean, it's a great little, uh, setup he's got now.
45:45
I know me.
45:45
I mean, you've had many conversations about paying for going on a public road
45:49
and everything like that, but if you've never been to Tail of Dragon, it's kind
45:51
of like one of those must see things.
45:53
Hey, if you're a car person, you gotta go drive it.
45:55
It's just a lot of fun.
45:56
But giving someone $300, it's a public road.
45:58
Just go whenever you want and drive it.
46:00
I dunno, I guess it's a camaraderie group and they're getting, you
46:02
know, two, 300 people to go on this.
46:05
So, I mean, they got a couple hundred cars and he's not just doing
46:08
Porsche, he does Corvette, he does air cooled only, stuff like that.
46:11
So, I mean, he, he's really got something there in regards to.
46:14
That crowd and just getting together and there's a resort, you
46:18
know, they got cabins, everything right, but they're really nice.
46:20
Like basically little houses got a main area of where the big
46:24
gathering, everything like that.
46:25
It's a lot of fun.
46:26
I mean, it's really cool and not only just being part of that group, but all
46:29
the other people you're gonna meet there.
46:31
There's just tons and tons of people that go there.
46:33
Now you're gonna have your morons and everything like that too.
46:36
There are just hundreds and hundreds of youngsters running around on those little
46:41
a d CCC or whatever the heck you call 'em, one twenty five CCC with the small wheels,
46:45
whatever, you know, whatever you wanna call 'em, little monkey bikes, whatever,
46:47
just whipping all over the place on that.
46:49
But I will say they do look out for everyone because
46:52
they do that universal thing.
46:53
If there's a cop ahead, they tap their head.
46:55
So if you're going the opposite way, you'll kind of give you a heads up.
46:57
That's really cool.
46:58
That's definitely a must do for someone.
47:01
That's the road that's known now here, say in the eastern United States to hit and
47:05
you got angels Crest on the West coast.
47:07
It's really cool too.
47:07
If you never did that, definitely go do that as well.
47:10
And again, public road, don't have to pay anyone to go on it.
47:12
To close out that thought.
47:13
If you're thinking about this as a holiday gift for the car enthusiast in your
47:17
life, check out the different car clubs.
47:20
Because they oftentimes organize cover bridges, tours, or these like back road,
47:26
you know, road rallies and stuff where they do these destination, what they call
47:30
drive and dines and things like that.
47:32
And you don't have to look too much further than clubs like SCCA.
47:36
The Porsche Club, the Audi Club, BMW, doesn't matter really what kind of car
47:40
you drive, they'll welcome anybody.
47:42
But they do organize these types of trips and they're low cost, low risk,
47:47
high fun type of gift that you can give.
47:49
And you can do it together.
47:50
You can do it as a family.
47:51
Max, you're talking, you have a cayenne, why not pack the whole
47:54
family in and go for a road trip?
47:56
Yeah.
47:56
The best also is you'll find some really interesting stores
48:00
and shops and restaurants.
48:02
Along those roots, some of them that have been there for a long time.
48:06
I, I'm a huge fan of the Hole in the Wall diner.
48:09
And, uh, you know, my family always made a point that we'd never go
48:12
to like a Red Robin or something.
48:14
If you're in somebody's town, try the local flavor.
48:17
I gotta tell you, now that I've been, I've been driving my 61 Corvette quite a bit.
48:21
I got it about a month ago, and I drive it a lot until it started getting cold out.
48:25
Park that in front of a restaurant and take a picture and put it up on
48:29
Instagram or something like that.
48:30
It's actually, it's a good hit for that restaurant.
48:32
You'd be amazed what is alongside these historic roads, not on the highway.
48:37
You know, like these are little state route and things like that.
48:40
Your question's kind of tough.
48:41
Because immediately you get all the top gear, roads that come to mind,
48:45
Stelvio Pass, and to your point, tail of the Dragon, I mean, you know all
48:49
these famous roads, but it's those roads in your area that maybe you don't
48:52
think about so much and maybe some of them you just take for granted.
48:55
You're like, Hey, it's a bunch of, you know, hilly roads.
48:57
Lincoln Drive in Philadelphia and Owens around is awesome.
48:59
I'd never recommend it.
49:01
Obviously if it's busy, it's stop and go and there's a lot of blind turns.
49:04
But I did it the other night at about 11, and my license
49:08
plate number is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
49:11
Pennsylvania State Police in the 9 9 1 at like 11 or one
49:15
o'clock in the morning or so.
49:16
Lincoln Drive is incredible.
49:18
There's also, there's like West River Drive and stuff, which is beautiful
49:21
and it's also, they just reopened West River Drive, which bypasses I 76.
49:26
The Schuell Expressway down the Schull River, and it's one of
49:29
the nicest, you know, and you come right up at the art museum.
49:31
So like, there are these great little moments that you can
49:34
have, even if you live in a city.
49:36
I'm just, I'm just talking about Philadelphia, New York.
49:39
Uh, I almost got into a fender bender on the Bronx Expressway on Wednesday.
49:42
But like, there's little places that you can find anywhere if you wanna take
49:46
your car out, whether it's fast or not.
49:48
I mean, it really, it can be a scenic drive.
49:50
There's lovely places around dc.
49:52
There's places obviously in LA and stuff.
49:54
You wanna have a weekend in Las Vegas.
49:56
That ride from LA to Vegas is a lot of fun.
50:00
It's a lot of straightaways through the desert, through Barstow and stuff.
50:03
And if you are in that DC metro area, to your point of a scenic ride, the Blue
50:08
Ridge or Skyline Drive, that whole area is only a couple hours outside the city.
50:13
And.
50:14
Obviously in the fall time it's a very popular destination to see all
50:19
the colors changing and the trees.
50:21
It's not going to be a high speed road trip because it's
50:23
definitely governed, 'cause you're entering Shenandoah National Park.
50:27
But it is definitely worth it if you are in the area and you've never been before.
50:31
You know, and Tanya brings up a good point.
50:32
I was thinking, how do I not talk about something like Blue
50:36
Ridge Parkway or Skyline Drive?
50:38
Even out west things like, you know, the Canyon Roads, Mulholland
50:41
and Angela's crests and all those types of places like that.
50:44
And the one that actually popped into my head, which is a really great driving
50:48
road, which you're not supposed to do with a truck and trailer, a big one.
50:52
But when you're hauling a race car, that's a different story.
50:54
It's actually the Taconic State Parkway on the way to Limerock
50:58
the whole way up through New York to Connecticut to go to Limerock.
51:02
That is a heck of a drive.
51:03
It's beautiful old New England, tight, windy roads all the way up.
51:08
From the city to the racetrack.
51:10
It's kinda like a double destination.
51:12
You wanna drive the road to Limerock so you can get to
51:14
Limerock and drive Limerock.
51:16
You might as well double down.
51:18
So to me, that's the kind of great escape road that I would take,
51:22
especially as an automotive enthusiast.
51:24
I think that would be a lot of fun.
51:25
I got one route, nine N.
51:27
From Lake George to Ty Kon Rogan, New York.
51:31
It's spring, summer, fall.
51:32
It's amazing.
51:33
In the wintertime, you think you're gonna die, but the uh, route nine
51:36
end alongside on the west side of Lake George going north or coming
51:40
back down is absolutely incredible and so much so that they have built.
51:43
Four or five lookout points where you just have to pull over and take a picture.
51:48
That's a lot of fun.
51:49
I did that in the Cayenne actually recently.
51:51
We, we were at a show up in Tay Kon rug in New York and stayed in Lake George
51:55
and went up and down every day for this thing, and that was a lot of fun too.
51:59
Good Call Max.
52:00
I like that.
52:01
That's a good holiday gift.
52:02
Quick, easy vacation you can take with your car and with
52:07
special someone or by yourself.
52:08
It's something cost nothing but a tank of gas.
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57:14
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If I sell that shit, maybe, maybe I should turn that shit off then.
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Alright, real quick, we'll make some be technical difficulties.
57:23
This is where the color pattern and the Indian head comes in.
57:27
Why did I even fucking turn that on?
57:31
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system.
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Oh my goodness.
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In the event of a real emergency, you should have used the actual microphone.
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Well, I'm not home.
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He's using a 1970s microphone.
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57:47
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Alright Max, we'll see you.
57:51
Thank you.
57:52
Thanks for you.
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Alright, cool.
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