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Speaker: I've delegated everything in the shop that's going on right now to do this podcast, but I've already done that pretty much the whole morning.
Speaker: And then every time I'm not on a call or making a financial model, I'm running, literally running around the shop trying to...
Speaker: Put parts into my tech's hands.
Speaker: Answer the phone.
Speaker: I've already done a whole front brake job negotiation with a guy today.
Speaker: Why does it seem like Fridays, the end of the week, are always the most chaotic for shop owners?
Speaker: What is with that?
Speaker: Everybody wants their cars fixed on Friday.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: But it's also that...
Speaker: They think they can just walk in, number one.
Speaker: But also, separate from being a shop owner, we always reschedule our recordings to Fridays.
Speaker: Yeah, that's true too.
Speaker: They look open when the day starts.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: It's never that easy.
Speaker: It's so deceiving.
Speaker: So deceiving.
Speaker: Good morning.
Speaker: Welcome to the We Are Driven podcast where cars meet motivation.
Speaker: This is episode 130.
Speaker: My name is Arun Kumar and I'm the driver.
Speaker: I'm here with my co-host, Dan LaRue.
Speaker: How are you doing, Dan?
Speaker: Good morning.
Speaker: I'm great.
Speaker: Things are great.
Speaker: Life's great.
Speaker: It's beautiful outside.
Speaker: Winter's over.
Speaker: Summer's here.
Speaker: It's great, Dan.
Speaker: I agree with all of it.
Speaker: Anyways, we're making money.
Speaker: Hell yeah.
Speaker: The We Are Driven podcast is one of the pillars that we are using to build a community of driven people around the world.
Speaker: We're doing it in a few different ways.
Speaker: First off is this podcast, and if you...
Speaker: like the combination of cars and motivation, the pursuit of excellence in your life, and doing it through an automotive lens, this is the place for you.
Speaker: So if you think you have people in your car club or at work or at the gym or wherever that would agree with your mindset on this subject, then please share the podcast with them so we can continue to build the community.
Speaker: Another way we are building this community is through the YouTube channel.
Speaker: The YouTube channel is called Driven Diary.
Speaker: And on this channel, once a week, on Monday mornings, I am posting a weekly vlog that is covering a day in the life of myself as I am working to build my billion-dollar automotive services empire.
Speaker: The last way we are building this community is through the Discord server.
Speaker: This is Discord, if you don't know, is an app where you can go and build chat rooms and basically converse with people through yet another platform.
Speaker: texting app, just put it that way.
Speaker: But anyways, that's where a group of driven people are congregating from around the world to discuss their pursuit of excellence in business, fitness, and cars, hold each other accountable and work through our iterative goal setting framework.
Speaker: So why are we doing all this?
Speaker: Why do we believe that it's important for there to be a community of driven people around the world?
Speaker: Well, we think it's important because we believe that driven people are the future leaders of our society.
Speaker: So we are here to bring that group of people together so that we can unite and hold each other accountable to build our lives into those leadership roles and help to make the world a better place.
Speaker: So with that, Dan, do you have an icebreaker for us today?
Speaker: I actually have two questions for you.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Both of them not related.
Speaker: Did you know that Honda is an American-made car?
Speaker: They have a plant in Ohio.
Speaker: Yeah, but it's more than just that.
Speaker: So cars.com came out with the...
Speaker: 2023 model year most American cars list.
Speaker: It's a list of 100 cars.
Speaker: I'm only going to do the top 10 because those are the cool ones.
Speaker: Their metrics that they use are locations of final assembly, percentage of U.S. and Canadian parts, countries of origin for all available engines, countries of origin for all available transmissions, and the U.S. manufacturing workforce.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I'm intrigued.
Speaker: Yeah, I was intrigued too when I saw this video last night.
Speaker: The top 10.
Speaker: Honda.
Speaker: I'm sorry.
Speaker: Not Honda.
Speaker: Number 10.
Speaker: It is a Honda, but not Honda.
Speaker: Accurate RDX SUV internal combustion.
Speaker: Number nine, Honda Ridgeline internal combustion.
Speaker: Number eight, Acura MDX.
Speaker: Number seven, Honda Odyssey.
Speaker: Number six, Volkswagen ID.4.
Speaker: That's the first EV on the list.
Speaker: Number five, the Honda Passport.
Speaker: Number four, can you guess it?
Speaker: Do you know where the next four go?
Speaker: Ford?
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Where?
Speaker: It's not a V3.
Speaker: It's Tesla.
Speaker: Model S.
Speaker: Tesla Model X, Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model Y. That makes sense.
Speaker: It's a very weird top 10.
Speaker: You wouldn't really think of Honda if you're just a normal person on the street.
Speaker: You'd automatically think, oh, it's big three.
Speaker: But you don't see Chevrolet until the Corvette at number 19.
Speaker: What about Ford and Ford?
Speaker: Dodge, Chrysler.
Speaker: You don't see a Ford, which Wrangler I know is high for Chrysler because they're made in Toledo, Ohio.
Speaker: Ford shows up at 38 for the F-150 Lightning, which is wild.
Speaker: And then they also have 39 with the Explorer Hybrid.
Speaker: And then 48 at the Explorer.
Speaker: So they are pretty far down.
Speaker: Just kind of crazy.
Speaker: Mustang doesn't show up until 72.
Speaker: This is weird.
Speaker: Pretty crazy, right?
Speaker: Statistic.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Well, so I failed question number one.
Speaker: I didn't know this, and it's a weird statistic.
Speaker: Right?
Speaker: It's pretty wild that Honda slash Acura takes up so much of that list.
Speaker: I guess they're investing on American soil, which thank you, Honda, for putting people to work.
Speaker: Yeah?
Speaker: What's your second question?
Speaker: Have you read any good books lately?
Speaker: I've been slacking on my book reading.
Speaker: I'm just curious if you've read anything good.
Speaker: I am reading a lot by Vivek Ramaswamy right now.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: So he has published a lot of books in recent years, and I've read two of them.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: One of them is Capitalist Punishment.
Speaker: And it's about how Wall Street is taking your money to fund things you didn't want them to.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I'll put my tinfoil hat on and read that.
Speaker: And then the other one is Woke Inc., which is how corporations are advancing an agenda that is killing them in our country.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Check it out now.
Speaker: Yeah, I thought they were the... He is extremely intelligent, and they were very well thought out arguments, and they're very well organized books.
Speaker: Yeah, he's very tactful on how he approaches the way he converses with his masses.
Speaker: But even... It is so rational, but it's not easy to get... Like, it's still dense, but...
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But it's very just well measured, I think.
Speaker: And yes, confirmation bias is high on it.
Speaker: Also, you know, everything I read it, I'm like, oh, this is this is exactly how I've always wanted to articulate this stuff.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: It's mostly because you and I relate to him in some fashion.
Speaker: And that's whom I would have voted for had the election panned out that way.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: But it's not, which is.
Speaker: sad because i would have loved him i would have loved a young guy with a business mind who's not afraid to say anything on his mind so yeah i'll check out his book why not support support the cause yeah for when he runs for president again yeah he said on an interview that he would only do it if the country still needed him i don't think the need is going away so yeah
Speaker: Okay, so with that, let's move into the appraisal segment.
Speaker: This is where Dan and I will each give each other an auction off and bring a trailer.
Speaker: And we have to guess what the hammer price is going to be.
Speaker: We can skip this part.
Speaker: And let's start with catching up the listeners on last week where Dan is continuing to feel the pain.
Speaker: I got absolutely screwed.
Speaker: I know I've said that before.
Speaker: This one, I don't know.
Speaker: It went to the moon.
Speaker: That might be the highest...
Speaker: ever of that vehicle ever sold.
Speaker: So Dan got an S55 AMG, a 2002 54,000 mile S55 AMG that he guessed would go for $9,200, but a couple people really wanted it and it went for $23,777.
Speaker: Absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Meanwhile,
Speaker: I got a rare pre-production low mile Pontiac Solstice Coupe GXP that I guessed would go for $27,777, at which time the current bid was 20 grand.
Speaker: And there was one more bid after that to $20,250.
Speaker: And it went reserve not met.
Speaker: And I was off by 37.2%.
Speaker: Dan was off by 61.3%.
Speaker: So I'm still less bad than Dan.
Speaker: Literally the exact same car sold for $7,000 three weeks prior.
Speaker: What the fuck?
Speaker: So Dan and I are both doing badly lately.
Speaker: Dan's doing more badly.
Speaker: I'm getting angry on how much overpriced stuff is being bought for.
Speaker: Well, but one of your most recent failures was overbidding on that FJ.
Speaker: And overbidding on the Vector.
Speaker: Yeah, the FJ was sad.
Speaker: Yeah, the Vector... I think the Vector had every potential of getting there.
Speaker: But so the current standings are that my average is 23.06%.
Speaker: Dan's average is 25.08%.
Speaker: There was a long period of time where both of us were under 20% average doing this.
Speaker: Oh, just to let you know, it wasn't the highest ever, but it's up there.
Speaker: Noted.
Speaker: It's 40.5% highest ever.
Speaker: That was probably not at 2002.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, four.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So those, and it was sold in 22.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I believe it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: So this week for you, sir,
Speaker: I got a race car.
Speaker: The Camaro.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: It's the only one I remember seeing.
Speaker: I have for you a 2002 M3 coupe, six speed, 3.5 liter S54 stroked motor, fully built track car.
Speaker: This thing has 212,000 miles on it, but that is pretty irrelevant considering the motor has been completely rebuilt, full race engine.
Speaker: You will never, ever register this thing, ever.
Speaker: That's it.
Speaker: I'm giving you the duck boat.
Speaker: It's a straight, straight-piped, just, oh, everything about this is fantastic.
Speaker: So, I love it.
Speaker: I want this car badly.
Speaker: Why am I not finding it?
Speaker: 2002 M3.
Speaker: I was just scrolling.
Speaker: It was already at the bottom of the page.
Speaker: All right, here we go.
Speaker: I like them wheels.
Speaker: Those are cool.
Speaker: This thing is amazing.
Speaker: I'm a big fan.
Speaker: I'm a huge fan of this car.
Speaker: You wouldn't register this?
Speaker: I would in South Dakota.
Speaker: Yeah, I was going to say, you wouldn't in California for all these reasons.
Speaker: Well, you can't because they basically just bolted a pipe to the side of the engine and put it out the back of the car.
Speaker: Definitely not.
Speaker: This thing is pretty cool.
Speaker: I'm a huge fan of this car, except it has a stock steering wheel, which is a bit odd.
Speaker: You know, they just want some more cushion just in case, you know, whatever.
Speaker: Big three have been done.
Speaker: Rear subframe mounts, Vanos.
Speaker: So rod bearings.
Speaker: Can I call a friend on this one?
Speaker: Who's that?
Speaker: What do these things really go for?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Send help because I don't know.
Speaker: A normal E46 M3 with 212,000 miles but in really good condition, it's already at the number.
Speaker: 25 oh so it's oh gosh so it yeah so current bids 25 000 there's a day left in this auction yeah and that doesn't bode well for me it's you know for this high of miles it's already at the number but the thing is is it it does not have the original motor it's been fully rebuilt with a brand new engine right it's not like it's got 200 000 miles on the original motor that they modified no it's correct it's modified
Speaker: Before that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And then it is a, it's a six speed car.
Speaker: So those are worth more than the SMGs fully caged.
Speaker: You know, it's, it's a properly built out race car here.
Speaker: So it's definitely worth, I would say I would, you know, if it were me and not looking at any comps of other race cars, I would give it at least another five to 10 grand on there.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Just on, and you know, obviously you can't hold me responsible for this by the way.
Speaker: I won't.
Speaker: It's just interesting because the seller's comment on it says this is a 125 to $150,000 build.
Speaker: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker: The engine itself is worth, I don't know, 30, 40 grand.
Speaker: So someone could be trying to buy this car just for the steel on the motor.
Speaker: The S54, like a stock S54 is seven grand with 170,000 miles on it.
Speaker: This one is as built as they come.
Speaker: So why would it go so cheap if it's got that much money put into it?
Speaker: I know I'm going into the weeds.
Speaker: Because it's a race car.
Speaker: No, I'm just curious.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Race cars are never worth how much it costs to build them.
Speaker: I was really thinking 30 before you gave your opinion.
Speaker: And then you're seeing the seller saying it's 150.
Speaker: They may know something that neither of us do, but I mean, it, it, it definitely has $150,000 built into it.
Speaker: You know, my, I just, I feel like if you're going to spend anything more than 40, there's gotta be something else out there.
Speaker: That'd be more worth it for that money.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I could be vastly wrong in my opinion there, but I'm going to say 32 instead.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Just in case.
Speaker: I'm going to meet you in the middle there.
Speaker: That's fair.
Speaker: That's fair to do.
Speaker: This is a cool car.
Speaker: If I didn't already own something very similar to this, I would buy this.
Speaker: But I own something very similar to this already.
Speaker: Your car is almost like right there with it.
Speaker: My car looks extremely similar to this, except it is not a real M3.
Speaker: I don't have the...
Speaker: rear quarter panels of an m3 so my car looks like it skipped leg day i don't have the brakes of an m3 i don't have the engine of an m3 and i have a five speed instead of a six speed i also don't have a cluster and mine's blue if you want to get into that yeah mine is also blue but otherwise gutted cage seats suspension loud as shit yeah no mine's not loud mine still has cats
Speaker: Oh yeah.
Speaker: Cause you registered in Cali.
Speaker: No, I don't.
Speaker: You don't, but no, but it's straight pipe from the cat's back.
Speaker: I just have never bought headers.
Speaker: Ah, cause I don't want to put that kind of exhaust money into a motor that I don't care about.
Speaker: True.
Speaker: I replaced the engine last year and this one pretty sure also has a head gasket leak.
Speaker: It's just not as bad as the original.
Speaker: It's BMW problems.
Speaker: There's leaking stuff.
Speaker: My car was great for 25,000 miles before this.
Speaker: It has 182,000 miles on it.
Speaker: It's got some miles.
Speaker: I've driven it like 1,000 miles in the last two years or less.
Speaker: Poor thing.
Speaker: Collects a lot of dust.
Speaker: It's great at collecting dust.
Speaker: Pretty parts on it.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: That billet.
Speaker: Bill and everything about everything.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like I'm looking at all the transmission stuff.
Speaker: It's all freaking billet.
Speaker: Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker: Just make it look pretty to never see it again.
Speaker: Anyway, what do you got?
Speaker: Duck boat?
Speaker: I heard you say something about a duck boat.
Speaker: I should give you the goddamn fucking duck boat.
Speaker: Did you see it?
Speaker: The purple duck boat?
Speaker: No, I haven't looked at Burger Trailer in days.
Speaker: There's a duck boat on here.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Let's take a diversion if my computer would load.
Speaker: It's close to the top because it is for sale.
Speaker: Oh, it's for sale?
Speaker: For sale with less than a day left.
Speaker: Sorry, I didn't finish my sentence.
Speaker: Hey, there's a mercy.
Speaker: Yeah, I saw that too.
Speaker: Current bid, $150,000.
Speaker: Should I do it?
Speaker: It's sexy too.
Speaker: I love the black.
Speaker: Where'd the duck boat go?
Speaker: Oh my God.
Speaker: It's one of those.
Speaker: Oh no.
Speaker: This duck W. Yep.
Speaker: Amphibious vehicle.
Speaker: Six by six amphibious.
Speaker: Are you going to give me this six feet seven three F550?
Speaker: I want that.
Speaker: Can you give me that one?
Speaker: No, but that was on the list.
Speaker: That's sick.
Speaker: It's a tow truck.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: What do I got?
Speaker: What am I searching for here?
Speaker: A 355 powered 1965 Nova 2.
Speaker: You already gave me a Nova before.
Speaker: What's this?
Speaker: With a four speed.
Speaker: I don't think I've given you a Nova 2.
Speaker: Actually, I don't think I've given you anything this old in a while.
Speaker: Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker: It's not the motor I would want in a Nova.
Speaker: I don't even know anything about a 355.
Speaker: It's a little small, but...
Speaker: 24,000 miles shown overboard.
Speaker: 355 cubic inch V8 Muncie four speed manual transmission.
Speaker: Positive traction diff.
Speaker: It's black with all the chrome accents.
Speaker: This is exactly how I would want a Nova if I were to buy one.
Speaker: Does have vintage air climate control as well.
Speaker: Vintage Air.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: There are a lot of guys out there that make really badass drag cars out of these.
Speaker: I just really like the styling of this specific car.
Speaker: I just think it's clean.
Speaker: It's quite gangster to me.
Speaker: So here's a question, though, for you.
Speaker: Currently listed 15 grand, two days left.
Speaker: Do you know what my question is going to be?
Speaker: What?
Speaker: So this thing went on Bring a Trailer in September of 2023.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Bid to $32,000.
Speaker: Reserve not met.
Speaker: Currently for sale again by the same person.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Do we think that it does better or worse than it did before?
Speaker: I think it does better.
Speaker: I don't.
Speaker: I just don't.
Speaker: You're not seeing it?
Speaker: The problem, in my opinion, is that September is the wrong time to be trying to get one of these.
Speaker: Trying to get one of these?
Speaker: Yeah, because if you buy it anywhere outside the south, you're not driving it.
Speaker: It's going to get shipped to you and you're going to put it away.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: So we're going to go with, I don't think it's going to do 32 again.
Speaker: 30.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: 30.
Speaker: 30 it is.
Speaker: both hovering in that 30 mark.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's what I was thinking about.
Speaker: B31, meet us in the middle.
Speaker: Both cars go for 31.
Speaker: Hey, that'd be great for both of us.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: We both could use a little bit of that in our lives right now.
Speaker: Yeah, it's not the most exciting car on the planet.
Speaker: Just something that caught my eye.
Speaker: One of Cletus McFarlane's shop hands has one of these.
Speaker: It was like his dad's car.
Speaker: And I've always found it gorgeous.
Speaker: It's almost identical.
Speaker: I hear you.
Speaker: I hear you.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: So we're going to continue talking about cars this morning.
Speaker: One of those days.
Speaker: And this is, I think, a very good game that everybody should play at home with their friends who have cars and are into cars.
Speaker: I feel like I have before, but I can't remember a specific instance.
Speaker: Have you?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So what we're going to play is something that I'm calling Daily Drift Crush.
Speaker: And this is a game that has spun off from Fuck, Marry, Kill.
Speaker: Just to say it.
Speaker: Which would be a game that you play where you give the other person three people and say, who would you marry, who would you kill, and who would you sleep with?
Speaker: once and yeah and so i wanted to come up with some sort of equivalent to that for cars and i came up with daily drift and crush and yeah i heard there are plenty of cars out there on this planet i wouldn't want to own but i would drive it just once you know just to know it's like like i don't i don't want to own a murcielago
Speaker: You do, but I would drive one just to know.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Yeah, and drift is kind of a fluid thing.
Speaker: Probably better to just say you drive it once really to fulfill everything it ever meant to be.
Speaker: Yeah, it's that bucket list check mark off.
Speaker: So that's really what that one means, but we're going to call it drift.
Speaker: Yeah, just like I want to drive a tank someday.
Speaker: But I don't want to buy one.
Speaker: I'm not giving you any tanks today.
Speaker: I'm giving you some real interesting lists of cars here.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: So, Dan, daily drift crush.
Speaker: Keep in mind, all of these cars in this situation would have 150,000 miles on them.
Speaker: A B5 S4, the 2.7 turbo S4 with 150,000 miles on it, which means you know that motor is about to explode.
Speaker: Yeah, the rear main is going.
Speaker: Timing change is going.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Car number two, a B6 RS4.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: The 4.2 liter V8.
Speaker: I'm marrying that one.
Speaker: That one's going home with me forever.
Speaker: We're not done yet.
Speaker: We're not done yet.
Speaker: And the last one would be a 2021 S4, which is what you own.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Definitely, I would marry the RS4 all day long.
Speaker: Okay, so you're going to daily a car with 150,000-mile timing chain problems.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: Oh, boy.
Speaker: No questions asked.
Speaker: okay yeah you're weird but all right crush the v5 i'll fuck with my my current car why not it's kind of what i'm doing with it now i'm just fucking around with it fair i mean it's not i don't love it but i don't hate it it's not a lease but you're kind of treating it like what yeah right yeah all right it was a good swap from what i was driving before i just
Speaker: I'm not super stoked with it, I guess.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: I was at first.
Speaker: Especially if you're talking about real long-term daily driving use.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's too much tech.
Speaker: Yeah, 100%.
Speaker: But it is fast and comfortable.
Speaker: And you could, you know, cannonball it or autobahn it or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker: It's a good buy.
Speaker: It's just after three years now, it's just not what I want, I guess.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But I'll still drive it.
Speaker: Don't care.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: That was good.
Speaker: That was my first one for you.
Speaker: I was intrigued by your answers.
Speaker: What do you got?
Speaker: Do you have a list?
Speaker: I just want to hurt some feelings, I guess.
Speaker: Oh, no.
Speaker: Daily, Drift, Crush...
Speaker: The RX-7, the Skyline GTR, or the Super Turbo, and the JDM Height.
Speaker: You mean the FD RX-7 and the Mark IV Supra?
Speaker: Yes, correct.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: The real ones.
Speaker: The real ones.
Speaker: The ones that actually went to war and lied about horsepower numbers.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I am crushing the RX-7 because I hate rotaries.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I hate rotaries.
Speaker: This is where it's tough, huh?
Speaker: Dang.
Speaker: I think given how much I know about Toyota and about the 2J over the RB26, I just know more about those cars.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'm more comfortable with them.
Speaker: I think they're worth...
Speaker: In our era because they were allowed here.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Well, and they're worth a bit less.
Speaker: It would be a left-hand drive or I could get a left-hand drive.
Speaker: So I think I would daily the Supra.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And I don't know what I would do.
Speaker: I'd probably go to that whatever it's called racetrack in Japan with the GTR and just fuck some shit up.
Speaker: oh i i would i would build a i would i would get a race car r34 gtr i'd get the r34 gtr gt yeah there you go yeah i think all right what's that track called though i'm sad about the rotary i don't think they're very good looking cars they sound horrible oh i love lowest they're the slowest cars
Speaker: I think it starts with an N, that track.
Speaker: Nakayama?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Oh, well.
Speaker: There's a lot of race tracks in Japan.
Speaker: It's Fuji and Suzuka.
Speaker: I think it's actually Suzuka.
Speaker: Yeah, because IMSA does the 12 hours of Fuji.
Speaker: It's a great race to watch.
Speaker: Never mind.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: You ready for your next one?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Crush.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: A third gen RAM.
Speaker: Picture a third gen RAM.
Speaker: 1500.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Big bulbous headlights.
Speaker: Kind of silly looking.
Speaker: question did these ones have hemis well not the one i'm giving you but they did have these they had a 5 7 they had a 5 7 hemi a 4 7 magnum and then a v6 which is what you're getting ah so you're getting a v6 crew cab short bed third gen ram okay
Speaker: so bad hurt my soul okay what other things are you gonna hurt my soul with a 1995 explorer sport the two-door oh explorer sport okay all right the boxiest thing in the world heck yeah
Speaker: And a geotracker.
Speaker: Oh, man.
Speaker: Let me daily the tracker.
Speaker: Hello?
Speaker: I thought you were going to say that.
Speaker: Heck yeah, the tracker.
Speaker: Man, do those things will go anywhere.
Speaker: Literally anywhere.
Speaker: You can't see him either.
Speaker: I'm taking the tracker.
Speaker: Crush the ram.
Speaker: I'm fucking around with the explorer and I'm drifting it.
Speaker: I'm going to slam it, put a coyote in it and drift it.
Speaker: Okay, I can see that.
Speaker: That sounds legitimate.
Speaker: That would be awesome.
Speaker: Alright, that works for me.
Speaker: So I did a lot of trios when I was thinking about this.
Speaker: Same.
Speaker: Of what was related.
Speaker: So I went with... Oh, you couldn't tell that that's what I just did on that last one?
Speaker: That was the intent.
Speaker: So I went with, are you going to drive... I'm sorry, daily drift or crush the JL Wrangler two-door...
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: The JK Wrangler two-door or the TJ Wrangler.
Speaker: tj wrangler i just gotta you know i'm not the best with these so okay so jk jl is the newest the newest right jl is the newest jk is the that mid one and the tj is the old one all right so i would probably oh man i
Speaker: I don't want to daily any of these.
Speaker: I really don't.
Speaker: Okay, so I'm going to rock crawl the TJ.
Speaker: Heck yeah.
Speaker: Heck yeah.
Speaker: I think because, okay, so in California, every single new Wrangler is a fucking 4xe.
Speaker: Oh, the 4xe.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Bullshit things.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But they also make a 392.
Speaker: They do.
Speaker: I saw one the other day.
Speaker: So aftermarket quad tip exhaust on it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So I think I'm going to daily a 392 JL.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And I'm going to crush the JK because I have the worst memory with one of the cars in the shop with a JK.
Speaker: We put a seven inch lift on this thing.
Speaker: Before I really knew everything that would go into a seven inch lift on it.
Speaker: And I undersold that job by easily $4,000 of labor.
Speaker: So I hate those cars.
Speaker: They're tin cans, aren't they?
Speaker: They're not very good.
Speaker: The guy put 10 grand into it and it was not any better or worse than it was.
Speaker: He also lifted it seven inches and kept the stock wheels.
Speaker: So that's a problem.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Not happy about that.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: For you, sir, the final trio that I put together.
Speaker: Oh, boy.
Speaker: A Tundra, Toyota Tundra on bags.
Speaker: On bags.
Speaker: It's a new one, let's say.
Speaker: Oh, a new one on bags.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Laying frame.
Speaker: absolutely just on the ground and when you're all the way aired up it's still the most impractical thing in the world sweet okay all right just keep that in mind a lifted to the moon f-150 2.7 we're talking like the big motors on 37s
Speaker: Oh, that moon.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: With the smallest engine possible and no gearing changes.
Speaker: So, similarly impractical.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Or a Mazda B2000 automatic.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: Which is basically a Ford Ranger.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: But, you know, like a 1.6.
Speaker: Anything done to it?
Speaker: I did not take that into consideration.
Speaker: So you may have free reign on that.
Speaker: Oh, man.
Speaker: I really loved my Ranger, man.
Speaker: And you know what?
Speaker: It was a great daily.
Speaker: It was a daily.
Speaker: Now...
Speaker: That being said, this becomes a hard decision of which one of these monstrosities I would love to crush.
Speaker: I'm crushing the F-150.
Speaker: Yeah, I thought you were going to say that.
Speaker: And I know it's going to sound strange, but I'm at a point in my life, I just really like slam shit.
Speaker: I don't know what it is.
Speaker: The lower they are, the cooler they are to me.
Speaker: I just have no urge to jump up into trucks and not be able to see and turn properly.
Speaker: I have no urge for that.
Speaker: So I would crush it, and I would drift the low-riding...
Speaker: Tundra.
Speaker: Why not?
Speaker: That sounds interesting.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's not... And you're just going to daily... So when I... I had to confirm that it was called a Mazda B2000, so I googled Mazda B2000.
Speaker: And I got...
Speaker: this super rusted blue one in Google images.
Speaker: And I just thought to myself, yep, that is exactly what I think of when I think of a Mazda B2000.
Speaker: It's just this collapsed to shit, really neglected old thing that has a dent on every single panel.
Speaker: And Dan would just daily that all the time.
Speaker: I would.
Speaker: Such is life.
Speaker: All right, you ready for my last three?
Speaker: What do you got?
Speaker: So I pulled these off of the top 10 hypercars list from AutoCar, because why not?
Speaker: Why not?
Speaker: Let's just pull them off of there.
Speaker: I really like this one.
Speaker: The Aston Martin Valkyrie.
Speaker: Yeah, all right.
Speaker: I really like that one.
Speaker: It's not a bad-looking car.
Speaker: Then we were going to go with the Bugatti Chiron.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I know how much you love your W12s.
Speaker: I don't, actually.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And this one wasn't on the list because I don't really know where it falls, technically.
Speaker: So you didn't pull all these off the list?
Speaker: No, because I was really hoping this one was going to be on the list, but it's not on the list.
Speaker: The Mercedes won.
Speaker: Well...
Speaker: Is it the AMG one?
Speaker: Yeah, the AMG one.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's a very pretty car.
Speaker: The AMG one is gorgeous.
Speaker: I don't know anything about this.
Speaker: What even is this?
Speaker: It's a hyper car with a Formula One powertrain.
Speaker: Like the exact same thing.
Speaker: They pulled it out of a race car and they put it into a car that hopefully someone can drive on the road.
Speaker: Ah.
Speaker: So it is a hybrid system.
Speaker: Uh, it's very wild.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's got like that.
Speaker: I believe it has that electronic valve train system like the Conus eggs do, which is wild.
Speaker: That's wild.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Pretty, pretty crazy, man.
Speaker: This is a tough one.
Speaker: You just gave me.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: To me, the cheer on the ugly one of the three,
Speaker: But it is a W16 and it's pretty cool.
Speaker: I think I'm going to daily this year on.
Speaker: I'm going to fuck around with the Mercedes and I wish I wasn't crushing an Aston Martin Valkyrie, but I'm going to crush an Aston Martin Valkyrie.
Speaker: And I picked that one because one, it was ranked one on the list and two, I know you've been looking at them.
Speaker: There it goes.
Speaker: I think, you know what just won me over though, is I have, I pulled up the Google images for all these cars side by side and the Mercedes is just a better looking thing.
Speaker: Yeah, it is.
Speaker: It has a huge roof scoop on it.
Speaker: It does.
Speaker: Oh my God.
Speaker: Like Valkyrie doesn't even have, oh, it does.
Speaker: Nevermind.
Speaker: It has a roof scoop.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Holy shit.
Speaker: That Mercedes is it.
Speaker: You know what?
Speaker: It kind of barely a little tiny bit reminds me of just the shape.
Speaker: If you don't actually look at the details, just the shape.
Speaker: You could say it's a CLK GTR.
Speaker: A hundred percent.
Speaker: Which is one of the best cars ever made.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Correct.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: They definitely tried to reimagine that car.
Speaker: So I had never seen one of these before just now.
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: You've never seen one?
Speaker: They've been out for...
Speaker: Ever.
Speaker: Two years.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Sorry.
Speaker: I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker: I can't believe you've never seen photos of this.
Speaker: I'm living under a rock.
Speaker: That's crazy.
Speaker: It's okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I do have to say, though, I think for Aston Martin, I think I liked the Vulcan better, styling-wise.
Speaker: I get why they made the Valkyrie, but the Vulcan was a gorgeous car.
Speaker: The Valkyrie looks like a hovercraft.
Speaker: Not a hovercraft.
Speaker: What do I mean?
Speaker: A hydrofoil, I think.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: The story behind the Vulcan was much cooler, too.
Speaker: They just told a team of guys to go build something with spare parts in a warehouse.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Yeah, hydrofoil.
Speaker: If you look at a Valkyrie next to a hydrofoil, you'd say that the Valkyrie is a road-going hydrofoil.
Speaker: Pretty much, yeah.
Speaker: Good looking car.
Speaker: Just I think its predecessor was better.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: It looks like a cube of parts to me.
Speaker: I crushed that shit.
Speaker: But that one is also a brainchild of an F1 team.
Speaker: Just pretty crazy.
Speaker: But the Chiron, we just know that it's going to be the best.
Speaker: The all around best of these three cars.
Speaker: It sounds the weirdest of all of them.
Speaker: I think it sounds the best.
Speaker: W16s are just where it's at.
Speaker: Quad Turbo W16.
Speaker: You know, I just... There's something about a Quad Turbo W16 that just sounds... An 8 liter, 16 cylinder, 4 turbos, making whoosh noises.
Speaker: I wonder if there will ever be a car that has 100 valves in it.
Speaker: I bet that far off.
Speaker: If you had a 5 valve, 20 cylinder car, you'd get there.
Speaker: What a weird question.
Speaker: I'd
Speaker: I bet they exist.
Speaker: I bet they don't.
Speaker: Maybe not.
Speaker: Not yet.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't think so.
Speaker: Because I would think there's a lot of 16-cylinder engine vehicles, but none of them have, what, seven valves per cylinder.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Or you think of, like, a Coyote's got tons.
Speaker: Yeah, because even if it was six valves, it would be 96 valves in total, which is not enough.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Got to be close.
Speaker: I'm like thinking, what does a coyote head look like?
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: How many valves does a coyote have?
Speaker: I'm pretty sure it's four per cylinder.
Speaker: It is.
Speaker: That's normal, though.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's 32.
Speaker: You're not even close.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: I had to think about it.
Speaker: How many do they have?
Speaker: Because they got big heads on those cars.
Speaker: I see.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So just to recap, Dan, if you had an ideal dream garage of dailies, it would have... Here we go.
Speaker: The 150,000 mile, probably leaking, probably a bit rattly, RS4 B6.
Speaker: It would have a GeoTracker and it would have a Mazda V2000.
Speaker: Heck yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: If you had a dream garage of cars that you really just beat on, they were your toys.
Speaker: You didn't see them very often.
Speaker: They stayed on the charger.
Speaker: Whatever you want to say about them.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: You'd have your current car, your current daily driver, a 2021 S4.
Speaker: You would have a 1995 two-door Explorer Sport.
Speaker: Heck yeah.
Speaker: And you'd have a brand new on-the-floor hard-parked Tundra.
Speaker: And then you'd be a cool looking garage.
Speaker: I'd be at the silliest looking garage.
Speaker: You've ever seen two fairly new cars, just one, mostly stock.
Speaker: The other one modified to like insanely heavily modified just to get a Tundra to lay for like, that must be very difficult.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: yeah and then we cut out the bed and hold nine you know there's no towers anymore right yeah and then an explorer with a coyote in it yeah dude i'm so i'm in okay that that one i don't even know if a coyote fits in that old tiny engine bay those things are so small look dude
Speaker: I got an angle grinder.
Speaker: We'll cut some stuff out.
Speaker: Like the hood.
Speaker: Cars with no hoods.
Speaker: Stop.
Speaker: Look, if Kalitas McFarlane can put a big freaking blower LS into a blazer, we can make a Coyote fit.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And then your little crush pile over there has a B5S4, a V6 third gen Ram crew cap shortbread.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: Good one.
Speaker: And a monstrously lifted F-150 that you just told to go die in a hole, basically.
Speaker: Too big.
Speaker: It's too big, man.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: And I think I don't have it all written down, but I'm getting a Supra, a Chiron, a
Speaker: What was the middle one?
Speaker: Yeah, you're getting a Supra, a Chiron, and the JL 392 for your dailies.
Speaker: Oh, I got to say, my garage looks better than yours.
Speaker: Yeah, I gave you better cars.
Speaker: And then I've got an old TJ.
Speaker: Yeah, you're rock on the TJ.
Speaker: AMG1.
Speaker: Oh, yes.
Speaker: Yeah, your AMG1.
Speaker: Those are interesting cars to have next to each other.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: and then you were uh had the r34 yeah an amg wanted an r34 crushing the fd sad saddens me saddens me and is what it is deal with you're crushing the jk the tin can that's a smart move and you're crushing a valkyrie yep sad
Speaker: But oddly okay.
Speaker: Because the Vulcan was better looking.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Bye, Valkyrie.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Dad was cooler.
Speaker: I think that's all we got for this episode.
Speaker: This has been Arun and Dan.
Speaker: We appreciate you listening.
Speaker: And until next time, stay driven.
