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Lori's Plans and Social Dynamics
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If you want to turn yourselves into a greasy spot on a country road somewhere, it's go right ahead. I don't give a shit. I don't think anybody else does, regardless what they say to your face.
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Hey, Lori, what in the hell are you doing in there? Is she gonna ride with you? Mind your own business, John. Yeah, she's going with me. You take care of yourself, man.
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I heard she was there to burn a rubber and make her motors blow So after school asked her just how fast she liked to go
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Yeah, I cut that early. ah I want to cut it right around there. I just have to redo the whole intro.
Introduction to Jeff's Garage and Nonsensical Network
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Welcome, everybody, to Jeff's Garage. ah We are live on Facebook, two different YouTube channels, The Nonsense Network, YouTube channel, and, of course, Jeff's Garage, YouTube channel. And then we are also live on Twitch. Welcome, everybody. I have, as always, my supercar guru in the house. What's up, buddy? How you doing, Benji? I am fantastic. How are you? Oh, it's last night. I was telling the guys last night after the show, I don't know how Glick hosts a show for six hours at a time. And I hate to give him that fucking props because it's not easy, but it's, it's, it pisses me off that I have to give him the props. It's not easy. So I give him the props that and are deserved.
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Sure. i Completely get it. That's why I don't participate on Saturdays anymore, because it's a marathon, and I'm just not interested. I was ready about three hours to be like, yeah, let's go ahead and cut it early. But I was like, yeah, I can't do it. And then we actually got into a really good conversation, so we had a blast. We are, once again, of course, live on the Nonsensical Network. As you see scrolling below your screen, bio dot.link slash Nonsensical Network. Benji, I got look i got something. little I think Blaze made this. Check it out, buddy. We got his shows right there. Monday's men carry for men. Tuesday's Glick's house music. Wednesday's what the fuck news. Thursday, this Thursday, a new show. Whose argument is it in any anyways? I can't wait. Friday is, of course, um Sports Unplugged with Stephen Jarvis. ah Saturday's, of course, is the the staple. Jeff's, sorry, nonsensical nonsense. Open Door Challenge where you can come up and, you know,
00:04:19
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As long as you keep your wiener in your pants, you're okay. And the races marks to yourself. And then, of course, Sunday, we're back again with Jeff's Garage. It is our first Sunday show. I'm kind of excited. I like the idea of the Sunday show for the simple fact. um We can kind of do our own thing. We don't have to rush. We can, you know, if we go over, no big deal. If we go start early, no big deal. And we can kind of build our own schedule.
Innovations in Protective Gear
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So I just know the people know that there's probably going to be some pre-recorded shows only because I travel Well your travel and and I'm sure once my wife gets back she was like, yeah I don't want to be in the house on a fucking Sunday nice Let me call Benji real quick when pre-recorded and launch it at the correct time. So We are going to start once again with with one of my new favorite subjects the do you need this tool and Benji, I gotta say
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I'm dubbing this a, you need, we all need this tool. I'm calling it now because this is, you work construction, you know, you technically wear, do you wear hard hats where you work? If I'm on a legitimate job site. No, if I'm on someone's personal house. Right. But if it's a construction site, then rules apply, you know. Now, do you wear a hat? Do you wear a hat? Every single day. Okay. Well, I got something for you, buddy. Check this out. This is just your standard hat, very common on the job site today. This is a nail essentially trying to replicate somebody standing up in like an attic space. You have a balloon under there. I do have a balloon in this head form, yes. So what happens is when somebody stands up, you can hear it pop the balloon, obviously that's not going to feel very good. But us now, what we have with the bump hat, it's going to protect the head better.
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This is going to be an ideal solution for anybody in the automotive, in service, on your resi sites. Anybody not currently required or needing the use of a hard hat that's currently wearing a hat. This would be a great solution for them still to get the style that they're used to, but adding protection. This is your brain, people. This is your brain. All right. Taking that same exact standing up position. You can see completely protected. So this is the Milwaukee Hat that be available January 2025. It'll be 34.97 in stores. um And it's going to come with a really nice inside comfortable liner to provide nice side protection as well as really comfortable top protection. Or you could get the shell to put in your own hat. Yes, correct. For $15. $15. Yeah. January 2025.
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There you go. 15 bucks, dude. Right? 15 bucks, you don't have to wear a stupid hard hats because we all know stupid hard hats. I mean, you can get the cool ones that look like cowboy hats, but they they make you sweat. A hard hat will make you sweat more than anything. That liner that goes in a hat, for 15 bucks, you can wear your hat and you're ready to rock. I think this is a wonderful thing. I think we all need it. You know, because I hate, I, Glick and I, you know, we grew up
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it we We went to school for construction, which is hilarious. But we were always getting in trouble because our hard hats would fall off or we'd throw them across the room or whatever. And yeah, there were injuries as always, no matter what. But this, you could just literally wear a hat and rock it out. yeah i The only thing I want to know is if it would be approved by Ocean. I don't see why it wouldn't. Yeah, I'm not sure. And and i mean that is the major brand, obviously. So I'm sure they they they're in the know.
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when it comes to those kind of regulations because they produce tools that need to meet qualifications and strict regulations in all 50 states. So I would assume they would be in the know of things like that. so Right. Milwaukee's not wanting to just throw something out there. Correct.
Performance Enhancements in Cars
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Yeah, I'm sure they've done R&D. But like I said, for 15 bucks, starting January next year, you can buy that. The only thing I wish that maybe maybe like the second iteration they should come out with is some type of lighting system on the hat. I just think if you're going to build a hard hat that is the diverse as that, why not build a light? Or at least have a hat. Well, you could buy those little rim lights. Well, I wear those all the time, right? like All the time. But I don't wear a hard hat very much.
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but okay But if you were to get a hard hat and then slab on a single, the light sits way up here and then you have to like angle it. But if you put it on the brim, they make a ton of those on the brim already. Well, I wonder if they the second iteration they would have like a clip that goes to the front of your brim. so you can clip it onto the brim. That's not a matter. Maybe. I'll call Milwaukee. I'll get it fixed. And then I think this the third iteration, they need to make the 12 ounce can holders. Yes. Oh, 100%. That way, you can go right from the job site, right to the track, and you know have the beer ready to rock. Correct. But yeah, I think it's a great little little toy. I think, well, not even a toy. I mean, as much as I'm not the safety guy,
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i you know i i I bought one hard hat in my life. I worked on dozens of job sites. I refuse to wear a hard hat because it is just you can't see after 15 minutes because your eyes are sweating, your sweat's running into your eyes, and then you got to take the damn thing off anyway. So with that, it's hurt it it literally looks like it it looks like it would like the inside lining of like a baseball. You know what I mean? So it's obviously smaller and it looks comfortable. Hard to answer 90% of the time uncomfortable. Well, that's pretty cool that Toy Yoda, I'm reading Connor's chat. So Yoda already had that in place. So maybe that's where they kind of linked up and got a big business like that to kind of like do the research for them, kind of like trial and error.
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Yeah, that's funny, Carter. Everyone always does that. So you know what? I'm actually a big proponent of preaching safety and doing it myself. Oh, I'm terrible at it. Yeah, but ah you know me being in it. I will send you a clip of me using my homemade table saw that is literally two feet off the ground and I'm hovering over it. yeah literally i'm in ah But I'm in a position of power, so I have to practice what I preach. I would be terrible at that. Cause I'm like, yeah, you'll be right. Walk it off. two four door But you know, what's really cool is like Toyota got nine more you already already has that in place. And then you have like, um, was it BMW down in Spartanburg, South Carolina?
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brought in the exoskeletons for your hips down so you can squat and then it locks in place. And when you go stand up, it releases. So because they're trying, because they run 12 hour shifts down there. um so So, you know, like these big plants do stuff like that to kind of do the R and D for these companies. but Yeah. And I wonder, I wonder if Milwaukee reached out to Toyota and like, here, try this out for a year. I'll be surprised if they, if companies aren't doing that. Right. It's a way for both companies to kind of win, right? Right. And, and you know, wearing in a hard hat, especially in ah in a plant. hot It's muggy. And then you got to wear a hard hat, too. I quit. I quit already. Like, I haven't even started. I quit. Your starting pace is pretty good, Jeff. No, I get that. But I just, I, safety gear.
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You know, whatever happened at the time where you're like, oh, he got ran over by the tractor. He'll be all right. You know, he just looks like Connor. true natural podcast for rest of your life that's alllarious Exactly. you what you When you fail in construction and you almost die, just start a podcast, you'll be fine. but you know What you want to do is you guys find a letter that you're not going to see the company become some type of management in the office. You're like, this is how we're going to handle this, boys. Yeah, you guys do this and fund my podcast. And we're good. That's right. There you go. You know, 10 grand a month.
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life I can I can live with that. I'm extra sure. ah Me too. But today's episode we're going to do a little bit different. We usually have a subject well this and I know it's not Wednesday but we're doing kind of a news segment today. It's a little bit you know so there's some new things out there's some new cars out some new toys um and we're going to start off with I As much as I wanted to hate it when you first brought it to me, I'm kind of enjoying seeing info about the Mustang GTD. So we're going to play this little quick video and we're going to make it full screen. This is the GTD. It's my new favorite American car. I agree. It's, you know, I'm not mad at it, but this is at Woodward Festival of Speed. This is over in England. Woodward Festival of Speed. Good word, sorry.
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yep Yeah, and it's it now correct me if I'm wrong. Is it is it or is it not? It's just it's not a straight shot, but it's a curvy straight shot. Correct. It's not like a loop. So one and a quarter or one and a half miles long? yeah so you know and you get to see the cornering the handling and of course the best part i think is the sound and i'm going to prank this up this is not a little event this is a no this is this has been going wrong since the like 20s it's forever ago and this is a huge event this is always uh exciting and fun to see because
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people are bringing their brand new, you can't just be Jeff or I going there and getting on the starting grid. That's how this happens over there. You have to be somebody to get a call from there. And they're always bringing the newest and latest tech out there. There's full blown race cars all the way to super duper old. Well, when but when we talked about that, when we talked about that miniature V8, the video I showed was at Goodwood. Goodwood. So let's go ahead and watch this. This is a less than a minute clip of the GTD running through Goodwood festival speed. Let's go and check it out.
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come along Oh my goodness, now this is nuts. This is, I think this is one of the... Oh, it's sound. sohar what's in the is three hundred fifteen thousand pounds worth of ford mustang and they They just wound everything up to 11, or maybe it was 12. It is completely pro-legal as well. This track-ready supercar though. super That is pretty. it v eight it an irid over anything You know, I like a blue card in this car. carbon fiber body i'm not I'm not mad at this. It's funny, because we're you're here and it's obviously American, and GTD, when you think it's diesel, just listen to it. It's very clear it's not a diesel. a superar v eight and eight thirty horsepower rear
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gearbox wonderful thing yeah they're now taking It doesn't look like I'm really opening it at up. I think it's lost in translation through the video. that you know that oh I just deleted the other video I had. um
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Oh, man. Hold on one second. um ah You know, we' we've talked about the GTD in the past and and the problem with the GTD comes down to ah the price. um It is a 300. Oh, no. Well, as much as I think the car is perfect, it is pricey. It's 300 plus K. But the next news we have is if you already have a Mustang and you want to
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replicate the power of the GTD, you can. And I have yet to read this. i you know I just kind of read the title and skimmed through it, but this is, Roush has came out with this beautiful ah supercharger that will take your GTD and add 330 more horsepower to it with 190 foot pounds, 195 foot pounds of torque added to it. That is, that is insane. ah There it is, installed in the car. Now, you know, like, yeah there it is, $325,000 for the GTD, where you can buy this where I don't see a price on it. Ooh, we got a video. um So basically what this is, is just this is to get something close to the GTD, right? Here you go. It's dual 80 millimeter throttle bodies.
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the system that's not small like what what would you say on a on a on a standard LS because I know the LS better than any motor What is it, like a 40 millimeter? It's probably standard 30, 40 millimeter through something like that, standard. So you're doubling it and then doubling it again. Yep. Because there's twin. And it goes into you know the supercharger. And the supercharger, for those who don't know, supercharger is basically two ah interlocking fan blades that create the power, the the air that goes into the intake and creates your boost. 13 PSI, buddy.
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Yes, not even bad. That's not terrible. My thing is, 13 PSI is not a lot. It's not going to destroy your motor. you know I've seen bigger, I've seen less. You know you you can do 13 PSI with the so with a turbo. But the beauty of a supercharger, it's all power all the time. It doesn't stop, so to speak. Correct. You know, where your turbo's, it's got to boost, it's got to work up to that boost. This is just all boost. So that's, you know, your standard, what's the standard Mustang horsepower? Yeah, it's not much. Like 300, maybe 400? Yeah, somewhere probably through there. So you're adding another
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300 horsepower to it. That's you know, you've got 600 horsepower for i You know, they don't like 900 wait 9 grand Yeah, but I don't see much of a point unless you're putting it on like a GT 350 or GT 500 agreed this is not something you're gonna But it's also Imagine the body I guess take with it. Yeah thing that I was getting ready make a comment Brian shut up Brian He was giving me shit about the Aztec last night ah
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that you know This is not something your your daily driver, you throw this on. this is you know you're You're building a race car. you know You're building a track car. Most things are supposed to be daily drivers, right? And I understand that. But most people, if you're going to throw a Roush supercharger on your vehicle. You're not just going back and forth for groceries. you're gonna on the way to get groceries, you're gonna see somebody else and be like, yeah, I can take him. And we've all been at that stoplight next to a car that's got a ham in it and be like, I can beat that. And then the wife goes, don't do it, don't do it. And you're like, he winked at me, we have to race. I think this is a smart move. It's a smart move by Roush. Well, Roush has been putting out superchargers forever. Yep, I think this is a smart move to try to tie it into the GTD.
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right like more yeah agree like yeah super smart it well it got it got our attention it's only like a ah few hundred cars for go to make ah great it's it's carrie no i think it they're done i think it's like super limited like there's coins like us me one fifty got one it said one forty one so the only way to get the coin is if you are, if you've got an allocation to purchase the car. So this is an allocation only vehicle. So the only way to get the general public kind of involved on an allocated only car is to kind of throw some of the mods out there that make this car special to the general public so you can put it on something like that. well and and Go it, Brian.
00:21:43
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Then you could come on and talk to us about it. Well, Brian, what you need to do is trade in that F-150 for that. what Didn't they have that stock, look the sleeper F-150 out? Have you seen this thing? It's basically, it it looks like
American Muscle vs. European Luxury
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Brian's F-150, single cab short bed, but it's got 600 horsepower. Have you seen this thing? I don't think it's the F-150s. I know you don't. I'm i'm not a big fan of it. but um I think once the the the other guy gets my Ford 250, whatever van I got, it's like my van is awesome. But though the company will buy me a brand new F-150. So it's a 750 horsepower sleeper that you can buy for under 50K with a warranty. 2024? Yeah.
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and it Oh, that's under 50K, your price. That's not 50K in the United States. Oh, no, it's US. This is the US site. I got a picture here. Yeah. These are US numbers, buddy. It was a $50,000. 705 horsepower, $46,998.
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I didn't even know that-150. 750 horsepower, 705 horsepower. Yeah, it's literally bone stock. It's like, you know, you buy the cheap truck with a big buck off boater. I'm not mad. That's interesting. You know, this thing came out like, ah I'd say six months ago, something like that. um the One of the guys, what's that? McFarland, the guy that does, he builds those weird, stupid cars.
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Yeah. You know, he's got that little, he bought a racetrack and he actually bought one and then added more power to it. Well, that's what you did, right? You have all the money. Yeah, exactly. You take something good and try to make it, or you take something great and try to make it greater. Right. And well, what he did on his channel is he actually went and bought a stock Silverado. same spec as the F-150, and said, okay, what would it cost to build this Silverado to match the F-150? And with the price of the Silverado, obviously, it was used. It was like a year old, turned in. I think they spent right around $40K with the truck. Okay, so very similar. So you could kind of do both. You know, I would, of course, go with the Chevy. I'm not the Ford guy.
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Yeah. Interesting. Because I don't like dudes. but but ah But yeah, it's one of those things. It's like, you know, in that Ford truck, it's it runs a Coyote, you know, the 5.0 Coyote, same as the Mustang. So you can actually take that that truck and throw that Roush supercharger on it, and then you've got a GTD killer truck.
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No.
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Well, maybe not in quartering, but maybe it's top end. Because if you've got 700, well, um it's probably already got a supercharger on, I'm assuming. I still take the gd GDT. I do, too. Just because it's an active arrow, I mean, you have yeah everything. This thing is like sports. Dude, did you see the, so so there is no trunk either in the front or the back of the the Mustang, right? There's none. Oh, really? so Yeah. and that's the the like the cab out and bolted it in a plexiglass window so you can like visually see it working. I like that I like that because if you're driving I'm gonna be staring through that little window look at that you hit a bug buddy you know. I mean that's amazing right like who's been doing this forever Ferrari right. Ferrari's been doing it forever and it's so cool to see
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I guess Ferrari's biggest competition originally do something yeah like this. And it's kind of like, ah to me, it's kind of like a little bit of tip of the cap to the, to the, to your competitor a little bit. Well, and and here's my things, like Ferrari's talking about going hybrid or EV. yeahre They're going to lose this race. Is having to do that. It's not Ferrari. It's, it's literally every car is going to have to go minimum hybrid. but it's how much longer can they keep the- Playing with the toys. Yeah. At a certain point is we're just going to get to a point where they either have to come up with a new fuel altogether for us to be able to keep it ground. And I've said it a million times, if you give me a Tesla, yeah, I'll drive it for a week and then sell it. But I won't drive an electric car. I will, like, if 2025, they stop making a,
00:27:14
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gas-powered vehicles, I will not only anything past the 2024. I totally get that where you're coming from. I, on the other hand, do not mind the electric. I haven't drove one, but as much as I drive, I want one. And understandably, but like for me, I don't go anywhere. I go to the store and, you know, yes I can do it in a scooter, you know, but your like if I'm going to go play, I don't want to do it in an electric field. but you The whole point of electric is for people who enjoy vehicles. There's there's no there's no mo there's nothing there's nothing fun for it. Dodge has that new, I think it's a charger, that makes sounds. It's electric.
00:28:00
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I don't know that new Corvette in there that new Corvette that's electric or whatever too and it's I just I think that was a rumor YouTube short on it. No, I mean there's some guys really hard and it sounds like a freaking transformer like you know when they like start spawning into the you you just what sounds like kind of like what the hell is going on here yeah kind of weird the The beauty of of you know for for people that like cars and you know, I love the sound of any motor and ah you don't get that with electric car and you can't deal with the stereo I don't care who you are no you can't but you know why so originally when the electrics came out and there was no noise you you knew that well they put noise to it because it's stupid dangerous
00:28:43
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Correct. It was, you know, you're walking down the street. I come around on my electric vehicle. I'm going to run you over. You didn't know I was coming. Correct. So they had to produce some type of noise, but it's all like BS noise, right? At the end of the day, it's, you know, as much as they try to push electric and as, and as big as, you know, F1, F2 style racing is is in Europe, the full formula E series, It's not dying popular. Like you don't ever hear about it on YouTube. They're really cool. I've seen a formula e-car. They had one here when when when my wife and I first got together. We were still dating at the time. They had a guy here with a formula e-car. They had like this big ecological. They showed all these new air fixtures and all that stuff. But they had an e-car there and they were they were ripping it up and down the track. It was quick. I'm not bad at it. But it sounded like a washing machine.
00:29:42
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Like the bearings were going out on the washing machine. it kind like It's just wine. It's always like they they had it wine just enough where it sounded like a supercharger, but there was no rumble after the supercharger. So it was like, yeah, I don't know. Yeah. super um And then they're getting into like fan technology now is like, uh, you got, I don't know, Gordon Murray. Uh, does like the fan technology. There's another single cedar car that just got done doing the hill time not long ago, set a record. So doing fan analogies with, uh, I'm just not into the fan stuff either. Yeah, I get the point, but it's like who something something more clearly. And again, I want to do a different episode. I just recently just said this to you before we went live. I want to do an episode on cars back then.
00:30:37
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and what we're missing now on cars. But I don't want to say too much because I because i do have... And I get it. I have i have i've met multiple multiple comments about it. You know, you missed the field, you know? Correct. but You're not part of the car anymore. You're just a passenger, whether you're driving or not. and yeah words Or to write down my future podcasting mouth. Agreed. um from From the Mustang GTD to something I'm not passionate about, you know i I do love my Chevy trucks and Chevy vehicles. Can I touch something real quick before we move on? Sure, please. Go ahead. OK. Sure. So so before the GTD came out, we had the the new version of the the Corvette. Right? And it was a radical change, right? engine moved to the rear very European very Ferrari very Lamborghini. Lambo very yeah very European and I think it probably handles better. I've never drove one I like that. I haven't either but i um I think they look cool but in my honest opinion I think the Mustang did the European stuff better. agree Agreed, agreed it
00:31:56
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it It looks more like an actual track car that you see what is on the circuits. It looks like the next evolution of like a BMW or Mercedes. You know, that, that you know, the with the wider body, you know, yeah it doesn't, it it doesn't compare body style to your, your Ferraris and Lamborghinis, but it does, it looks like it, you know, obviously it would be faster, but it looks like it would, you would set it next to a Mercedes and BMW, you know, that that you sedan style car, you know, it's a two door and obviously Mercedes does have two door, but
00:32:31
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It, it, you know what I mean? It's like, it, if you set it next to a Ferrari and a Lamborghini, it would look mildly out of place. Correct. You know, granted Ferrari and Lamborghini are going to see nothing but taillights, but it does, like, if you're at a show, you're like, oh, look a Ferrari, you look a Lamborghini, you look a Ferrari, you look, what the fuck? Why is this, who put this Mustang here? It should be opened by the Mercedes and BMWs because it's, it's still got that, You know, uh, what, what the work looking for is American muscle. Well, agreed. But also when it comes to, when you look at Ferrari and Lamborghini, I always equate them to like a wedge of cheese. They're, they're wedge. You know, they, they're specific design for them on their specific style roads. Exactly. Where, where everything else is, is a chipped away brick.
00:33:29
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you know it's not what i agree with that angular Correct. Yeah. I think the, I think we have to kind of kind of pull back and ah look why they're like that is because our racing is another left turn here. Right. That's my racing. So you don't have to be super sharp here and super sharp there. And this flat needs to go this way. You never had to do any of that, but they're racing over there. He'll lead downhill, turn to the left, turn to the right slopes, banks, rollercoaster kind of racing.
00:34:02
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Correct. And I think that's why those cars appeal to Americans always because they were so radically different than the big ass square bricks that we had over here. We didn't have to deal with it. It's another left turn here. So all you have to do was go really fast in a straight line and just hit your feet. If you if you if American cars are like trains, they go. one direction straight, a few curves here and there where where European's cars are your roller coaster. You know, they're doing loops. They're doing, you know, hard right turns, uphills, downhills. It's that, that's kind of like the perfect analogy for yeah American cars versus European cars. Yeah, they're both, they can both be really quick, but the track and where you're using them is not the same. Yeah.
00:34:50
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it's It's not the same. And that's kind of why I give the nod to Mustang over the the the Chevy. And I'm a Ford guy, but I'll give credit wherever credit is due. Oh, 100%. Chevy had to recreate a whole new car. Yeah, they could. they couldn't look Exactly. yeah To where Ford tweaked their body to make it compete with the Europeans. And you know what the Ford did is is is is a trend. they're They're starting a trend. You know, when you modify your car, you know, the biggest thing right now is to wide body your car. Yep. And Dodge did it first as a production vehicle. They got the the demon wide body and stuff like that. But Ford took it to the next fucking level. Yep. They said, Oh, you will, you will see a wide body. Well, here you go. And then they go ahead and made, um,
00:35:44
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they, they widened, they, they put in events like Ferrari and Lamborghini does yeah because they're like, well, we can put in a panel here, but let's go ahead and put an event and make it functional. You know, for the longest time forward, I think it was, uh, the first two generations of the GT three fifties events were functional. And then, The powers of being were like, yeah, you guys can't have that many events that cost too much. So the vents were non-functional. They just look cool. Where if I'm not mistaken on GTD, all those vents are functional. Everything is functional on that car. ye and think It has it has ah active DRS that you can hit the button and turn DRS on during the straightaway phase, close it for downforce on the turns. I mean, this car is
00:36:41
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a 100% American European race car. That's how I categorize this car. It's an American European race car. Well, you know what it is? I have the perfect example. It's taking a BMW or Mercedes hybrid and putting an American muscle in it. So I agree with what you're saying, but I'm going to switch cars. I'm going to go Porsche. Okay, yeah, it's it's taking your Porsche, you got there, rip the motor out, throw a fucking LS in it and call it a day, or a coyote and call it a day. You got the handling, you know and and Ford did something that American cars don't do. They worried about weight distribution on this car. Transaxle, baby. The transaxle on the back, that's that's some European shit like you read about. That's not something- I think it literally took the fucking playbook out of, yeah
00:37:35
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Yeah, they stole somebody's fucking design plans and said, yeah, hey we're going to borrow this. Don't worry. Yeah, we're going to compete against you guys and we're going to win. I really hope that they introduced this car to the NASCAR market on a road course here. Agreed. I really want them to to do a NASCAR event on a road course with this car. like like Or Le Mans. It'd be the pace car. OK, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that would be cool. um yeah from From cars, we're gonna go to trucks fair real quick because as I said, i'm I'm more of a Chevy guy. As as you said, credit where credit's due. I think GTD's a great car. I was kind of skeptical at first and you've kind of changed my mind of okay with that. ah yeah The only problem I have with it now is it still has a Ford badge on it. But Chevy has answered Ford's call
00:38:32
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Finally, and we were talking about this before the show, they have finally answered Ford's call when it comes to the Raptor. Let's go ahead and watch this quickie video. Not only the Raptor but the TRX. The TRX as well. The new 700 horsepower 2024 Chevy Silverado Fox factory edition pickup is the Ram TRX and Raptor fighter with a bow tie badge that everyone has always wanted. If someone were to ask me, Brian, just imagine the perfect Silverado 1500 build. i I think this would be it. For starters, the 6.2-liter L87 V8 is Whipple supercharged and precision tuned for a total output of 700 horsepower and 640 pound-feet of torque. And it sings its song through a Borla dual exhaust system, but believe me when I tell you that the power increase is just scratching the surface. Because up front, it's got a Baja Kits pre-runner long travel suspension system providing 14.5 inches of front travel.
00:39:26
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It comes along with billet upper control arms, a build-specific Fox steering stabilizer with an HD steering linkage system, RCV axle shafts, and you've got Fox factory race series 3.2 live valve internal bypass coilovers with recirculating reservoirs that instantly adjust to the terrain that you're driving on. No, they're keeping up with those. Oh, back is a behind. It passes in here in a minute. and set up yeah with the Fox 3.2s giving you 15.5 inches of vertical travel. It uses two upper control arms, a rear track bar and billet aluminum trailing arms. This thing is no joke. The rear axle is a semi-float Dana 60 fit with an ARB airlocker and a 373 gear set allowing you to have the option to have an open diff for everyday driving. With the press of a button you can go fully locked for off-roading.
00:40:13
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Inside the cabin, you've got Fox's new live valve shock management system with pre-programmed damping algorithms, and these can easily be selectable through the dash-mounted controller. Of course, all done on the fly. I don't want to play this whole video. You've got an auxiliary switch panel, and you can control things like your your locker, the LED. So, like I said, that video gets kind of long, but that's really cool. I mean, they they I think what they did, they did a lot of R and&D. You know, and now I think tiny, tiny though it does. It's like a four foot bed, four and a half foot, but now there, there's no real b price on it that I can see. It says, uh, I would really like to see that truck like in a straight up real head to head with the four grafter are agreed.
00:41:05
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Uh, price. So the Fox factory price. the ah rx I really don't care about kind of TRX is kind of its own thing. Oh, okay. Well, okay. I found the problem with this truck. Okay. Here we go. It's going to be super. I'm going to get one 69 99 or whatever.
00:41:28
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what 209,999 dollars. No fucking way. That is pricey. However. Can you look up and see what the price of a Ford Raptor R is? Oh, yeah. Please, sir. While you do that, I'm going to go grab a beer really super quick. R price. So the Ford Raptor 2044 price is 111. See, it' just how can you I can almost get two Ford Raptors R for the price of one Chevy.
00:42:04
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Yeah. It's not looking too good. But yeah, it's not looking good. But it this sounds like very much like when when you buy that, have you seen the Shelby? There's that Shelby F-150, the Super Snake F-150. You see this thing? I don't know. Well, you know, you're not buying it from Ford. This is, you're buying it from Box Factory. Correct. Yeah, yeah go ahead. a Truck. What is the price? that I can't spell today. The truck. Cobra price. Shelby up on 50 price is $127,350.
00:42:50
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um That's still cheaper. And I'm going to show the watching audience the price of it, the view of that. My apologies. No, there's no problem. So this is the Shelby F-150. And like I said, it's 100, it's, what did I say it was? 127.
00:43:13
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And once again, you're not buying it from Ford. You're buying it from Shelby America. And just like that Fox Factory Silverado, you're not buying it from Shelby, you're buying it from Fox Factory. So what they do is just like they go out and buy you a four by four truck and then they add all this shit to it. So I wonder if you get a little money back, they sell the parts. Just curious. What is Chevy's goal on this? This doesn't make any sense financially. Well, financially, it does not make sense. It's, you know, I think it comes down to brand loyalty. Like money aside, certain point I'm buying a Chevy. Super loyal when you're paying 50
00:43:54
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yeah right it fifty percent what But like as much as I would love to have the Ford Raptor R or the TRX, I'd rather have the Chevy. That's supposed to be you, because I'm going to have two Ford Raptor Rs. Yeah, and and you'll see both my tail lights as I pass you. No. You and your wife, as I fly by you in my Chevy Fox factory, you're just looking at tail lights on the back of my silver rug. I'm going to go, this is a great that you think that, but then I'm going to go and I'm going to rebuttal that by saying there's a reason why it took them so long to come out with something.
00:44:35
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Well, and that's something we were talking about before we started. Why did it take Chevy so long? And I, once again, this isn't a Chevy truck. This is a Fox factory truck. This is not something you buy off the Chevy showroom. Like you do the rapper or that's fortune or the TRX. When you go to Dodge, this is a separate company. And it's not like Baja hasn't been popular forever. Agreed. So so again, why has this taking, Five seven ten years to come out with this makes agree. Well, you know, I think I think when it comes down to Chevy's more of like hey, you need a truck You don't need to fucking race car. You just need a truck to go pick up shit Like it honestly, how many rappers do you see on the road? How many of them actually go off-road and do raptor shit?
00:45:29
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Well, the ones I see none because they're parked at someone's house. But literally two weeks ago, I seen a Raptor R at the the person's house I'm working on. But i he was it was a little dirty. i'll be I'll tell you that. Yeah, but it's it's a dirty as like, he did yeah, exactly. you know A lot of people that buy these trucks, or or like I get, like you said, we talked about this with the GTV. How many people will actually put it on the track when they buy one? I really hope a fair amount do. I agree. Well, how about this? I'll say that that might be a difference. That might not be a good, good apples to apples comparison, right? Yeah, yeah, that might not be a good one because those people are looking for that and probably already have cars that they track anyway. Right. But let's say, let's say, you know, Chevy has a Camaro,
00:46:22
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Uh, but it's actually, uh, Hennessy made the Mero exorcist. It's a thousand horsepower. Yeah. Well, they have their dog ran. They have their, their, uh, Ford Raptor. They do. They have their Corvettes. They do. Right. But how many people are buying those, those Hennessy cars and actually using them for what they are? And I will say, I agree with that analogy because and almost never see any YouTube videos. is as much cool stuff that NST does. Why is this an American company we hear about? and And that's what it is. Like, I think Chevy is like, yeah, how many people are going to use this for, for what we're building it for? Why build it? Now, I don't necessarily agree with it because let me, don't get me wrong. I'll buy one of these box factories via the money tomorrow. I'd be like, yeah, give me two, you know, fuck it.
00:47:17
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I don't know, man, something just seems really fishy with this price. It's almost like they've messed up somewhere else. So they're trying to justify this price by saying, hey, ah we've done all this stuff, but they're trying to make up. Well, I think what it is is Box Factory's not ah box factories not Shelby America. and Something just seems weird, man. I've i've never really heard of them. A fox? Oh, no, they're huge. i I know exactly. No, Fox fox Shocks, I've heard of. But Fox Factory? I'm sure that's who. As a company? Yeah, yeah um um I'm probably OK with that. Again, the prime the price is 50% higher. Oh, yeah. That doesn't even make sense. like ah To me, something something is off right here. like Someone needs to make up some money somewhere. Right, yeah. There's no doubt in this. It's like, I don't know. Something's just is a little different.
00:48:16
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But I'm not here. I mean, I could be completely wrong. Again, I'm not like super diverse. and However, I just know 20 yards forward kind of run the show. I agree. The new, then if you want an off-roader, you don't want, maybe maybe, I don't know the price yet, and it probably shows them in the video. um If you want an off-roader, granted I get it, it's not a for it's not it's it's another it's technically another Ford, but I think it's just the broad Bronco body. This little toy looks fun. Vanderhall, the company that gave us the three wheel racer is giving us a brand new off-road spec car called the Brawley GT.
00:48:55
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They posted the coolest Instagram promo video ever and I took a screenshot from it. This thing is planted. It's like the coolest video. These are like off-road Baja racers. Brawly GT. So there's multiple different configurations, but I don't know. I don't know how these work. 360 foot pounds of torque. Are these electric? Here's where they're made. I mean, just off-road tires all day. Here are all the other electric vehicles that they make. I just realized that this is an electric off-roader. I think ah that's that's my ick, electric off-road cars. I gotta say, it looks like a Jeep. it is It is handsome and it's just cool. I'm not sure what the market is like on a jump-in EV. I don't think that guy noticed he's talking about, because he was leading reading the foot pounds of torque and there was horsepower right next to it. 350 horsepower.
00:49:46
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yeah it's it It kind of looks like a Bronco and a Jeep made it. There's probably some 3D carbon. 42 grand. 42 grand. Hmm, that's interesting. I don't know. I mean, it's chopped all up, though. I mean, it is a very little Ford left in it. Yeah, it would if it is. i Like I said, when you look at that back view of it, it doesn't really look like a Ford Bronco. And the grille looks like it's a Jeep. So im you it's kind of their own body. I mean, you kindt agree with but I really like them a lot. I think they're too expensive for what they are, but I like them a lot. But you know but once we're going to go back to GM, you you and I talked before the show, ah you're more of a GM guy. I like GM versus jim c gmc GMC. I'm GMC over Chevy, but I'm Ford over both. Right.
00:50:45
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which is so wide. and I don't. Because I'm a huge 250 fan. Like I don't, I don't really, I'm like whatever about the 150, but um ah my, my fan. 150 is kind of like your starter class. But um back in the, I want to say 70s and early 80s, you can buy a blazer that was as big as the Ford Bronco, OJ style Bronco. e And they also had the GMC Jimmy. Well, GMC, as partner with the company and made a new Jimmy. Here we go. It's back. If you've been missing the iconic era of the K5 Blazer slash GMC Jimmy with the removable top, now is your chance to go out and get a new one. This thing is just like the original, except with a modern pop to it. The build takes a GMC Sierra AT4 and transforms it into the machine that nostalgic dreams are made of. It even brings back the likes of the two-door SUV, something that's almost non-existent in the market these days.
00:51:43
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The idea starts off with a typical long bed Sierra. It then shortens the wheelbase and gets rid of the pickup truck bed in the favor of rear seats. From there, it gets a custom removable top, very reminiscent of the old school Blazer. The GMC truck debuted at SEMA 2022 with flat out autos who also brought the idea back to the trade show for 2023 with the KR2, a similar concept built from a Silverado.
Reviving Classic Cars with Modern Twists
00:52:06
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Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any rumblings that General Motors could bring something like this themselves to mass produce, but I have to say that if they did, it would most certainly be a very cool competitor to something like the Ford Bronco. I mean, this custom shop managed to make a way cooler Blazer than the actual one that Chevy currently puts out. CarScoops does report that the actual SEMA build is heading to Meekum for auction on July 27th if you want to get your hands on this thing. If you want a modernized version of what the Blazer should be in 2024,
00:52:36
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flat out autos as you come there you go flat out autos you can call you can call them up and take your single cab short bed over and they'll make you that now there is no price because they they built it for seam up but that's pretty cool i'm in yeah yeah um it's so it's the redneck with paychecks kind of situation right agreed agreed the old saying i'm trying to keep up with the joneses There is no more choices anymore. No one wants to compete with each other. it's I've got this amount of money, and I want something one of one anymore. Right. And I don't hate it. So so if we're all we're looking for is a company to produce something standard. And then once we get it, because people have so much freaking money nowadays, they're like, I just need you just to produce like how it is. A couple of thousand of these. And then I'll 100% make it my own. Right.
00:53:33
Speaker
And, you know... And you can do that with everybody except Ferrari. That's a no-no with Ferrari. Yeah, they won't let you, let's be honest. No, you can get a letter in the balance. Yeah, and they'll probably take your Ferrari. But something like this, like, the new Blazer, I'm not mad at. It's actually nice. They're actually really huge with those new Blazers. I actually looked at buying one, but they're just pricey. Pricey in the fact where I was like, I got to make payments. I can't, you know, if I pay for something cash, I'll buy right then and there. That's how I buy. But, uh, this is, I think this is how the blazer should look. You know, go back to like, uh, what was it? A couple of years ago, they did the retro styling vehicles, you know, like yeah your PT cruisers and stuff like that. This is the retro styling we need.
00:54:27
Speaker
you know, that it's it's modern, but it's still big. And the reason is because I want this on an episode that was then versus now. ah so I don't want to say too much. understood I have a lot to say on things that honestly if we're missing out on. Oh, I agree. You know, but but this is something like, I think if you had like, I watched a video today, Like, you're a big Ferrari guy, and I'm gonna send you this video privately. It's not... I would show it here, but it's like a 20-minute video. Like, yeah, we don't have that kind of time. But, you know, there... For instance, you won a Ferrari. And... yeah And there is a couple of guys that I watched, and it's obviously a goof on the title. The title is, my girlfriend left me because I didn't have a car. And so he built a supercar.
00:55:25
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Yep. And him and his buddies literally in some shop in like Indonesia or something, you know, they're in the middle of fucking nowhere and or Singapore or Thailand or whatever. And they built a law Ferrari. Now, granted, it's it it runs a Toyota micro motor or something. You know, it's it's not. doesn't know that But it is. These guys did it in a way where, you know, they they built the mold out of clay. They built a frame. They, you know, it's all fiberglass and it looks the only one thing I saw about it. And and i I'll tell you about it, but I want you to comment when you see it on the video. They built the entire suspension. The one thing they didn't do, and I was like, really? Is when they did the brakes, they didn't take the Toyota brakes off the car. They built a full hub. They made their brakes out of a solid piece of steel disc.
00:56:25
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And I was like, really, really, really, really. No, no, no, look like they took a piece of steel, drew a circle on it, cut the fucker out, bolted it on. And I was like, whoa. And it like huge red flag. I was like, yeah, I'm not riding that car. get to about a hundred miles hour Hit the brakes and then watch it. Watch it. That's exactly what I did. yeah Yeah, it's solid. But they use break the brake calipers. from, from the Toyota, but they made ah like a bigger disc. So think i the real people you're talking about, they built a Bugatti. Yeah. Yeah. so and and know who you' needs It's not quite a time lapse. it's It is a time lapse over multiple days. and It's just music. They don't talk, but I was like, you know what? That would be something fun to do, but
00:57:21
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The one thing where they lost me, I was like, A, where did they get the Ferrari ti rims? there's no There's a lot of things like that. I was less like, where are they getting the headlights, the emblems? No, the really cool thing. They built the tail lights. They molded them using epoxy. so Like that clear epoxy that you put on, like when people make those river tables. Yeah. They use that. And they built a mold out of this because where they are, they get red play. You add water to it and it becomes play like you milled, like when car manufacturers design a new car. So they got that chip. They built that, that wire framing and they put the clay over and then they cast the, um, right. And then they shape it. and then over eye glass so Exactly. right But.
00:58:16
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And the only thing that wasn't, like they use the motor and I think they use the transmission off the Toyota, everything else they built. And I was like, that's impressive. I'm assuming Toyota Camry, right? I think so. It's like a little Toyota Camry. Yeah. But, but they, they, they literally, built their own rear axle. And I was like, hey, calm down there, chief. That's not something you just built. And I think they used the steering rack off the Toyota because they did have a steering rack. yeah But, and they, they took the, they took the old steering wheel, butted up. So it was just the metal and then built the foam on it and everything. like And it looked amazing. Oh yeah. though you know do Great job. And the one question I had throughout the whole thing, what did they spend?
00:59:14
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They don't really say that, do they? They don't. And and umm I would say you know they used fiberglass matte. And fiberglass matte, you can buy like a pound of it for like $4. But they obviously use a lot of it. ah And like I said, the one thing that blew in my mind, what they did is they used that epoxy that you do those river tables with. It's clear. They added a little red tint to it and built a mold out of clay and poured the resin in it and then polished the shit out of it so the taillights work. And I was like, that's really cool. You know, it was fucking thick. They could drop this thing. It's not going to break. And I was like, that's really, you know, as because if you buy a Ferrari taillight, you might, well, you just spent your wad. Yep.
01:00:03
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So so they and they they didn't really they showed how they made the headlights but they made them look like the Ferrari headlights. It was I I want to say it's like the LaFerrari but the one thing that lost me the yellow black one they made and they they the one thing that I was perfectly I was like you know what I'm in until they put that solid piece of steel that looked like they cut it off an I-beam to make the break and I was like whoa I'm not riding in that car. Up until there, I was like, I'm in. I was like, you know how hard it is to go grab a disc brake off a Ford F-150 or something and throw it on me, you know? But the yeah that's kind of one of those things.
DIY Supercars: A Creative Exploration
01:00:48
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A lot of people are doing things with this, you know, the the that Chevy Silverado and and stuff like that. If you find the right amount of guys, you can just build your supercar. yep And if you, you know,
01:01:02
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Granted, I wouldn't use a Toyota, or I would put an LS or a Coyote in it, and then put proper brakes on it, and you're going to have a really cool car. Passing standards is kind of a, I'm sure it works. You're going just around. Yeah, you're just going to go all around. It's done deal. It's going to, yeah, everybody's going to be like, yeah, dude, do you build? But if you show up like, yeah, I built this. Like the guy that we watched, he built that kuntash replica in his in his basement. If you say if you show up and say, yeah, this is a LaFerrari, I bought it. and Everybody's like, yeah, sure you did, buddy. But if you say, I built this from scratch in my garage, people go, you know what, dude, you did a fucking amazing job. And they what they used, they built it to you know you normal scale of the LaFerrari, but they used a die-cast model to build it.
01:01:56
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Like they're sitting there measuring stuff with calipers off the diecast model. And I was like, you're putting a lot of trust in those diecasts. Because when Hot Wheels and other people make the diecast, they over exaggerate so that it fits. Once you make it bigger, that over exaggeration looks, whoa, that looks weird. yeah And they just look a touch long. It did. But in the rear section. Well, the the one thing that really drove me nuts, they didn't use like cold rolls or like chromoly tubing. They just use square tubing. Correct. And I was like, yeah, like, I'm not going to hit a lot of bumps with that. I'm not going to super go very fast. But to sit in my garage and stare at it, oh, all day long. It was perfect. Sure. But driving it it long distance, I'll drive it to the store back, you know, 20, 40 feet.
01:02:54
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With those breaks, I was just like, that those are going to work real fast. And yeah if they're mildly offset, like these guys didn't use a lathe for anything. They just cut out a circle. And I was like, poof, got some trust. Like, I don't trust myself to bolt something together if I'm going to ride on it. I'm going to have somebody else check my work. These guys are just like, yep, that'll work. And I was like, poof, that's... Maybe they didn learned a lot building that Bugatti the first time. Well, and they they have a couple of cars that they've built. Correct. You you know, and I don't think, I'm sure they probably drive them around, but they're not hitting high speeds. They're they're cruising like you do your Honda. You know, you just... Correct. you But once again, the brake thing, I was just like, that's that's asking for problems. But, you know, it's...
01:03:50
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It's that whole credit where credits do. They build a beautiful looking car. If you actually, like, took a suspension off of a good car and put on that thing, I'm in. I'm rubber ready to go. And built a decent ah frame for it. But that's pretty much our show. I'm going to quickly play part of our intro-outro. And we're going to say our goodbyes, so we'll be right back.
01:04:26
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Hey, Lord, what in the hell are you doing in there? Is she gonna ride with you? Mind your own business, John. Yeah, she's going with me. You take care of yourself, man. Wow! What's the order?
01:04:42
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I heard she was there to burn a rubber and make it motors, bro. Show what the school asked her just half as she liked to go.
01:05:46
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There it is. Benji, what do you got to sell people? Well, if Ford did not send you a token, just remember, Ralph will be more than happy to sell you a supercharger to get you your version of the GTD. You know, I want to give those Cambodian guys, I want to give them a Mustang and have them build me a GTD and put that Rosh motor in. Give them six weeks and two tons of clay.
01:06:16
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But once again, we are on the nonsensical network, you can check us out at bio dot link slash nonsensical network. ah And one more thing and we keep forgetting to bring this up. We do have t shirts available. Yep, and hats and all that fun stuff. It is at Jeff's garage podcast. I have a banner here for it somewhere. Yep, I got three and I wear my three quite often. You can go to bio.links.com, D-A-R. You can actually see them. picking out people there some good stuff on there Let me go ahead back to this. I thought I had a link for it. Oops, click that wrong. Get rid of that.
01:07:00
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yeah um You said the shirts fit pretty good, too. Yeah, I like my shirts. I like the three I got. I wear them often. Probably the blue one I wear the most has actually got our logo on it. Oh, man, I wear that shirt all the time. Yeah, i definitely once a week. I'm actually there's a place down here they do. They're going to put my logo, the logo on the back of my jean jacket.
01:07:32
Speaker
Oh, there you go. I would do that. Yeah, I just got to take that. Yeah, like the screen printing kind of thing. And then, of course, there's the link if anybody wants to go ahead and click on that. Or it might not do. Save it. Click on it. Yeah. Do the thing. We appreciate that. Also, there it is. There it is. Devs-garage-podcast.critify.me slash products. And that's a mouthful. You can actually go see the T-jurts. That is a mouthful. I need to make a VR code for that. People get in touch with us directly though.
01:08:08
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Excellent question. So we do have a Jeff's Garage email somewhere. Here it is. Jeff's Garage podcast at gmail dot.com. Send us some ideas for a show. Send us some pictures of your rides. we I want to do an episode where we where we we critique or at least show off people's rides. Make sure you put your, your ah you know, this is Bob's car. Bob does this or whatever. And, you know, we could kind of talk about your car. And if you can't remember that long link, yeah we We can email that directly to you. yeah and We can support the show. We greatly appreciate that. We definitely want your ideas. if If you're really into a topic like, oh, you guys haven't touched on this, let us know. Then we can definitely talk about it for more ideas.
01:08:59
Speaker
Yeah, I'm slowly running out, but I still i slowly find more as well. Correct. So yeah, that's that's the end of our show tonight, folks. um As always, get out to your garage. Go do some work. Yeah. Bye. Light up people.