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Speaker: That's right. It's that time of the week. It's Jeff's Garage podcast. We are here. We are live once again, always on the nonsensical network. Also on the Jeff's Garage podcast YouTube channel and the nonsensical network YouTube channel and the nonsensical not nonsensical network Facebook channel. We are live once again. And we have, of course, the supercar guru with us Benji's in the house. How are you doing today, sir?
Speaker: I am fantastic. How are you, Jeff? I'm doing excellent. It's one of those weird weeks, but my kids play music. But we're going to start off. The new kind of favorite thing that we're doing that we talked about earlier is we're going to start off with, do you need this tool?
Speaker: And as I said, I got a little video here. It's about a minute 19 about this new product that I think you and I talked about a few minutes ago. I think this is something we need. So let's go and check this out.
Speaker: Take a look. Streams of muddy black substance flow out of the pipes. This isn't about making Play -Doh. Any product related to metal pipes will eventually rust inside over time. The twisted pipes make it impossible for regular cleaning machines to clean. Hence, this black substance was invented. Its name is abrasive flow. Its main job is to polish the inner walls of various pipes.
Speaker: As seen from the outlet, it mainly consists of silicon dioxide or carburundum mixed with a soft carrier. Because carburundum is hard and wear -resistant, having the carrier take them through the pipes once will polish the inner walls clean and carry out the dirt. If once isn't enough, then go for another round. Like the machine we see now, the abrasive flow is poured into the machine's piston. As the piston presses down, the abrasive flow is squeezed out of the outlet and returns to the piston, waiting for the next compression.
Speaker: It's worth mentioning that the viscosity of the fluid varies, so does its function. When the viscosity is higher, the grinding effect is stronger, suitable for workpiece polishing. Otherwise, it's more suitable for removing surface burrs. Using this process to clean the inner walls of pipes is not only effective, but also low cost, making it very suitable for cleaning car parts. How about that? Isn't it amazing?
Speaker: So like I said, that's the new that's the product is something flow adverse flow. That's pretty cool. I mean, that's that's I don't think it's something that you can necessarily have in your shop.
Speaker: But it would be definitely something that like if if a if you're rebuilding your motor or you know, whether it be motorcycle car Truck, you know and especially like I I just watched a video the other day on youtube. These guys are rebuilding a a flathead deuce You know 32 motor, you know been around since 1932, you know, the inside looks like shit so so using that
Speaker: product. I mean, and it seems fairly inexpensive. Couple hundred bucks getting your motor internals cleaned to brand new and polished, which means better flow, more horsepower, the whole nine yards. That's a win in my book. For sure. I don't know if mechanics will be able to use that product. Um, cause that might be a little bit on a day to day. Yeah, because you know, it's a process. It's not something small.
Speaker: Correct. So I don't know, but it'd be really cool. I mean, if, if it really works, like the video shows, you know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of the firecracker, that little black snake you light up and that's what it reminds me of. Exactly what I thought when I first saw it, I was like, so it's a black cat and then you just light it. But my other thing is the only issue I have, and they don't really address it in a video.
Speaker: What about the excess? There's going to be excesses. You got to get the rest of it out of the motor. I wonder if it just burns up. I don't know. Like with tea and liquid, like it'll just dissolve a little bit. And like, if it finds a crack, will it fill the crack? You know, you know, I don't think it would fill the crack. I think it's just, it's got to like, almost like a, like a soft sandpaper, maybe.
Speaker: that's what i'm thinking it's a it's you know because i anybody that's ever polished their intake or you know the internals the intake to actually get better flow it's not a small job it creates a big mess this does the same thing yeah you might have to run it through two two or three times but at the end of the day it's a time saver because if you've ever you know taken a die grinder and cleaned out those intake ports
Speaker: It's a bitch. It's not something you do. It's it's a full day job where this you can set it Let it run its course and then go do something else while it's doing that now you like to see I'd like to see how they sell it if it's so many ounces or whatever like a four cylinder six cylinder v8 It's because it's not just the one size fits all right and they're there to make money obviously if
Speaker: I don't know. It's kind of weird. It's a really weird product. I don't think it's out yet. I think they're just kind of advertising it. The problem with automotive tools and certain things like that, you don't see the ad and then the next day see it in Walmart or something like that. It's going to be a specialty item. Not every shop is going to have it or need it or even
Speaker: want it and so It's gonna be a couple years before it comes mainstream, but I think it's a great product I think it'll be something like I would if I had a custom shop or a rebuild shop I would totally add it to my repertoire. Yeah, it's neat. It's different. It's it's you know, I I assume it can be added to any kind of press and
Speaker: Like, I'm sure it's got, like, some sort of... Like, if you just buy the paste itself, it's not like you can just use a bicycle pump to put it in. You have to use some sort of machine to do it. So it's going to be a pricey setup. But long term, it's going to pay for itself. Because you can have 12 parts lined up, one right after the other. Just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Or even do multiple parts at a time. It'd be good for a hot rod shop, right?
Speaker: Agreed, you know, it's like I said, I don't think you would see it in your your your local Dodge dealership that you go in to get service It's gonna be definitely for the aftermarket or repair shop because my first thought was this I had a 97 Dodge neon and that there's a there's a part on the transmission that actually
Speaker: would constantly get clogged up that you would have to replace. It was like a $400 park. And the owner of the shop said, dude, if I had something that I could clean it out with, I'd have it working tomorrow. But there is nothing to clean it out with, so we have to buy you a new one. This would have solved the problem. Interesting. So you guys think of applications, hot rod shop, race teams. Oh, 100%. Things like that.
Speaker: Not really a DIY thing, you know what I mean? You kind of need to. Yeah, it's not. I mean, if unlimited budget in my shop, oh yeah, I'd have it. I might never use it, but it's nice to know it's there. Yeah, because you've almost got to have.
Speaker: you've got to have the quantity of work to be able to say, this just about the cost of not having somebody do this, you know, for hours on end, right? Well, and there's certain parts on most on, I'd say 99 .9 % of motors that you, I don't care what you do, you can't reach it. You know, you know, even if you throw a snake in there, you're not going to get the other part and you're not going to know without a, you know, one of those telescopic,
Speaker: camera things to see if you got it or am i getting it oh no i gotta check again you know it becomes more time consuming i i think it would be something great for it not necessarily it's a novelty but it would be it's not going to be in your local muffler shop it's a specialty not a novelty we're exactly it's a specialty item but i think it's kind of a
Speaker: new toy that, if I was like, you know, if I was Roy Brizio, building some of the most beautiful 32 Ford's on the planet, I would definitely want this in my shop. As a local or as a shade tree mechanic, no, I don't need it.
Speaker: No, you're not tearing the engine down that far. If you are, there's a bigger problem. You're coming in with a new motor from the junkyard. Exactly. Well, and that's where this could actually help. You know, we talked about, you and I talked about the guy on, is it Netflix? He has that rust to the Canadian dude. Yep. He did.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. That guy, he builds, you know, he takes the old motors. This would be something in his shop. 100%. This could be a useful product for that guy because when season five ended, he sold all of his cars off. So I don't know if there's gonna be a season six. I don't know. He had, he had 600 cars. Yeah. Well, and all of them were in various states of
Speaker: I don't want to touch it because I, well, this repair is a, is a light term. It's more of a different shades of tetanus shot because some of them were like, you could see through it, you know, but God love him. He did some amazing work. He's kind of a goofy guy and I get that. And I think it'd be cool to hang out with him. But are you talking about wild man? Uh,
Speaker: Because there's two different guys on Russ. Well, the guy was the guy with the dreads. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. His name is Mike. Yeah, Mike. And then the wild man guy, the bald guy, he's actually gotten his own job. Yeah. Wild man. His name's Avery.
Speaker: Yeah, the two of them together crack me up. They're basically walking ass stacks. They're walking accidents. Oh, yeah. They're actually one of my favorite shows. And I don't really want to get into it because I want to do a show. Yeah, we have a show planned for that. But tonight, and that kind of leads us into tonight's subject. He does found objects.
Speaker: kind of thing you know granted they all sit out in the field and tonight we're talking about the ultimate barn find and I have a video and the video as as you and I mentioned it is a boring video so we're gonna talk over it I'm gonna share my screen to show this video it's on YouTube so we're gonna play this because this I I I'm so jealous of this guy I don't get jealous I'm not a jealous person
Speaker: But this guy just makes me extremely jealous because he lucked out in a way where you and I will never luck out. So we're going to play this video and kind of talk over it. And I'm going to mute the music because it's crap. But as you see, a New York man retired, wanted to use the retirement money wisely. So he bought a few acres in Portugal, him and his wife, obviously. And it's such a slow video. The farmhouse was old.
Speaker: The old owner had died, sold to the government. The New Yorker couple just bought and recovered it in Texas. This was on the property. This is the barn. Yeah, it's not, you know, when you say barn, it doesn't really pop in your head. Yeah. And as you see, there's no real windows. It was welded shut and the, and cause I've done some research on it. You can see right there, the welds.
Speaker: It was welded shut and the original sellers, the property company, didn't want to spend the time and money to open it up to find out what was in it. So the old man got curious and he bought a generator and a couple of heavy duty grinders and he cut through the welds. And what he found is why I'm jealous. There it is, the ultimate barn find.
Speaker: There is how many cars you remember? I mean, that's a hundred and eighty something. Yeah Just I believe the total amount of these cars is about six to eight million dollars. Oh, yeah as they say it's gotta be up there Because and it's and you know granted it's Portugal So you're not gonna get a hold a lot of your American cars, you know Austin Healy's Volvo's, you know, there's some portions in there but every one of them in
Speaker: They're not in disrepair. They're just dirty as shit. There's a couple that look like there was parts cars, but yeah. Well, that that Lancia is not necessarily the most beautiful. Well, you get the Heelys, you get into those those Porsches and a couple of these Mercedes like that's your money. Like, holy crap. Yeah, it's big money. And
Speaker: There is a there's is more to this story. I mean, there's some Fiat race cars right there. Those are those are they could figure out who drove those cars. They could drive over the price too. Well, that's true. But not only they were F1. Well, they're actually I actually learned about this today. I was doing a little bit of research. Thirty five million dollars is the work of the oh my God, what an asshole. The
Speaker: God love him. And I'd love to be his new best friend. I don't necessarily want any of the cars. I just want to, you know, let me clean them. Let me, you know, let me make sure they run. You know, let me play with them. You know, you don't have to give me any, you don't have to give me any money. Just let me tinker. Um, but those, those race cars during the time of, uh, right, right. During the cold war, uh,
Speaker: Formula one was a was still a big was a big thing in this in Europe in the US. Well people beyond the iron curtain That was controlled by all them guys they would get pictures of formula one cars and build their own and They're called they're called formula. Oh I just heard it today They use a 1 .3 liter
Speaker: Lada engine which is you know, you're talking maybe 200 horsepower and that's after you build the piss out of it, but The the for that formula series I can't remember what it's called it I just watched a thing on it that When if you and I were to go to build a race team and We said we're gonna we're gonna run a race team How many tires do we need for the year?
Speaker: Oh, wow. Exactly. It depends on how many races you do, but you need. Right. Multiple sets per race. Well, this formula series, your set of tires had to last the entire season. Sure. When, when you get no fucking money, you know, and they were basically robbing Peter to pay Paul to build these cars. You know, they were the, the, the,
Speaker: steering rack was from a soviet -style van and the the front suspension and a arms on that came from a from a
Speaker: I think it was a Triumph car. The rear suspension was basically straight axles. I mean, they built these things. They're kind of like how Cuba is right now with their cars, American cars that they cannot get parts for. Exactly. Exactly. And so that guy has those cars. And like I said, I cannot remember the name. I was just watching it on. Shit, what's it called? Grand Tour.
Speaker: They were just, they did that, uh, the sand job series season two. Um, Richard Hammond, I actually got to drive one and they're amazing cars and they're, they're not quite necessarily what formula was back then. What formula one was back then, but they are that interpretation using that lot of motor and the one, you know, the 1 .3, maybe 200 horsepower. And, but they're beautiful cars.
Speaker: so he's got a couple of those in there he's got you know he's got a couple american cars in there there's cars from the 70s 60s 70s and 80s in that garage yep um and coming from the 50s yeah and there's something he's got a four that's in like the 30s or 40s maybe yeah that first picture so at the very it's like a green one or something there's there's a maroon one there too
Speaker: Yeah, it looked like 60 was his error though that he liked the most. Well, it, you know, it's a crazy thing. I actually, there's another story about the ultimate bargain find in the States. This guy, he, you know, he had a small business, nothing crazy. He made enough. Everybody assumed he just made enough money to take care of his family. Well, when he died, it turns out he had 130 cars.
Speaker: that the family didn't even know he had, but he had them stashed in buildings he had bought over the years. And not just the cars, but he had like the memorabilia and the dealership stuff and neon signs and all this crazy cool shit. And nobody knew he had it. And for me, I'm kind of like, what a waste of,
Speaker: Like me, if I would have had that, oh man, I'd be like, dude, you guys gotta get out of my car collection. But I think it comes down to his, his wife was not a car person. She was like, you only need one car. And he's like, yeah, we'll see about that. But, um, barn finds are, they're harder and harder to find. Like now, if you go to a barn, you're going to find like a Buick sentry from, you know, 92 and nobody cares.
Speaker: But a barn find like what this guy found is right up there with the Holy Grail of barn finds. I kind of agree with that. Well, granted, this guy, he maybe spent, let's say on the high end, he spent, because it's Portugal,
Speaker: this was a couple of years ago. I think it was like 10 years ago this happened. Let's say he spent 100 grand or 130 grand. He put 130 grand and he got 35 million out of it. I just wonder where he
Speaker: Because it's just importing, right? All those cars are like 99 % imported. Not necessarily because it's Portugal. So, you know, it's Spain. A lot of them are European cars. They don't transfer between countries. You have to import them. You have to pay import tax. Right. But with those cars, they had dealerships in the area.
Speaker: So there, you know, he just bought them used and, you know, for really cheap, you know, it's kind of like the story of why he collected. Exactly. Let them sit. And the mindset of I don't think he let these doors shut. I don't think he let them sit. I bet you the original owner, he was out there wrenching on that shit all the time or outside. And it doesn't look like he's been out there
Speaker: This would maybe be mid -90s. I was thick thick. Yeah, you agreed and and I think what happened is is the guy got too old Maybe he got Alzheimer's or something like that. So One day he was like, you know what? Fuck it. I don't want nobody steal my car collection So he grabbed a welder welded shit up and then lived out the last 20 years of his life puttering around the house Thanks, buddy You know and
Speaker: Obviously didn't have any family. He didn't it busted rubber. How you doing, buddy? He didn't have a whole he didn't have family or What happened was is it the original story and there's there's actually a a Full written story that I've read what happened was is this old man? Lived in this house that this couple from New York retired and bought the house and
Speaker: And the old man that lived there had spent all these years collecting these cars. And like I said, as he got older, he welded the door shut and died in the house. Then for 10 years, you know, nobody lived on the property and then it got turned over to the government. The government was like, well, let's fucking sell it. And the real estate company that was put in charge, they're like, what do we do about this barn? They're like, well, it's going to cost this much money to cut it open. And there's probably nothing in there.
Speaker: so they're like fuck it let's not cut it open so they sold it as is and this couple retires from new york and they're like let's go live in spain where we can live pennies on the fucking dollar what we would here in the states and they bought they found this farm out in the middle of nowhere and they said let's fucking buy it and they bought it and the guy that bought it the retired guy that bought it was sitting there and he was like
Speaker: You know what? I wonder what's in there. So he went out and he bought a generator, he bought a couple of grinders and him and his wife cut open the doors. And when they opened the doors, they probably had small heart attacks because there's $35 million worth of cars there. Now granted, I'm not sure. I bet me what you're having. Oh, I would have had to change my skivvies. Yeah. Even if you don't know exactly what you're looking at.
Speaker: Yeah, you recognize a car collection when you see it, you know, it's not like there were a bunch of fucking Honda Civics laying around, which would still be worth something. But, you know, there were there. Mint condition, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s cars and, you know, the heyday of car making. So even as a non car person, you see it and you're like, yeah, this is worth something.
Speaker: And my thought was, OK, maybe we don't have the money.
Speaker: to keep all these, but let's sell some of the ones we don't care about. Like those formula, the formula, I think they're called formula carriage, the formula, formula cars. Let's sell a couple of those and we can buy batteries for all these and wash them all. And then we have a really nice car collection or, you know, as we need money, we'll sell one. I don't think it's that simple with that collection. I mean, those cars, even if they've been sitting there, let's say 10 years at most, right?
Speaker: Right? Man, you've got even the paperwork alone, the paperwork alone, it's got to be insane. Yeah. But man, just just to get them in startup order. Agreed. Quite the task. Right. But but the beauty of it is you don't really need to because you get the right car collector out there and they come in. They're like, holy shit.
Speaker: you're sitting on a fucking gold mine. How much do you want for that one? I'll give you 50 grand for that one right there. And you're like, well, what you were saying, like, you know, go and sell a few that you don't want and then try to get a few going that you want to keep. Right. But.
Speaker: you're almost not, you're not taking this to a shade tree mechanic, right? Right. No, no, super high end, someone that can handle a car of that caliber who can even get the freaking parts, you know, think somebody's cars, some of those Mercedes.
Speaker: Man, I didn't even even get the parts for them, right? Some of them have probably been special made, or you've got to go to a junkyard, or you've got to get just whatever. But I mean, hell, even someone to come in and just pressure wash what you have to get them just, let's just say cleaned up, not even spicker spaces. Not even cleaned up, just so that you're not afraid to touch it. You've got to be looking at 10 ,000 plus.
Speaker: Exactly I mean later getting the vehicles out Yeah, that's that's another thing because every one of those batteries is dead. We know this tires and tires have went to shit everything Yeah, they're you know, the brakes are seized up I guarantee it but you get the right I mean at the very minimum if you're not a car guy you get the right car guy in there and say look I'll sell you the entire fucking lot how much I
Speaker: If you can get, if you could get 15 million out of it, as is you take it and run. Oh, a hundred percent. A hundred percent deal with the logistics of that nightmare, the mechanical nightmare. It's just the whole entire nightmare that that's going to be, you might
Speaker: Sorry, my dog got loose. You might, you might want to keep one or two. Right. And yeah, somebody lined up that can, you immediately start doing your research coming in. I could buy that whole lot. You go in there and say, Hey, I'm going to keep these two. They might even be willing to say.
Speaker: Let us take them in. We'll fix them up for you. We've got the contacts of the people who can do that kind of work. We'll take a couple of bucks off this original site. Like Richard Rollins, I just watched a video. Richard Rollins was doing an allotment where he was selling like 35 cars. He's big into that now. That's really because his business is buying multiple cars at one time. Well, and he just got offered for an allotment of like 12 cars. 12 cars.
Speaker: over a million dollars. And he was like, I don't know. You know, he ended up selling for 1 .2 for, for like eight cars. This guy's got 60 plus, you know, granted, Richard Rollins were all running and driving and gorgeous, but you could easily get for that collection on the low end. I don't know. Find him.
Speaker: You could easily get, you know, two, 3 million minimum for half that lot and then keep the other half. Or, you know, hell, you could probably sell some of the rarer ones because there was a couple of BMW race cars there. Yeah. And like, as you said, if you tie them to a driver, like a famous driver,
Speaker: Shit, that one car will get you a couple million. Yes, it has a limit at that point. Again, if this was me, I'm probably going out to your grandpa's yard and like, wait, you have a Richard Petty stock car here. And grandpa's like, I didn't know. That's a $30 million car right there. I think if it's me, I'm probably selling 95 % off. Yeah, agreed. I wouldn't want it to fall off. Yes.
Speaker: You know, if you're a car guy, you want to keep as many as possible. But if you're a non -car guy, you're just like, I just want that one because it's pretty. How about even doing like this? If you're a young guy, if you're a young car guy and into tinkering, you maybe keep more. But if you're an older guy like this guy is who's retired and was done with everything, he just wanted to ride off the rest of his life.
Speaker: Exactly. He's in that weird position to where he's trying to keep the minimal amount because he's at the retirement age to where he's there to hang out. This is a headache this guy's got. Right, exactly. But it's a headache that anybody is willing to take. Oh my God.
Speaker: I mean, you can't. If he took what he made in New York and was able to say live really comfortably in Portugal. He's high on the horse after selling.
Speaker: Even if he went in and he found he grabbed, he marked them off into lots, 10 cars a piece and find 60 seller or six sellers that buys 10 cars a piece and for, for a couple of million a piece or, or whatever, you know, let's say, let's say a million a piece he's making six, eight, maybe 10 million. He's already retired.
Speaker: Yep, he says his wife. Hey, you want a new Birkin? Let's fucking go get it, you know, or you know, let's go to France for the fucking weekend or you know, you know, that's That guy's troubles are fucking over done, you know and and yeah, it's not gonna it's near not gonna sell it all tomorrow. No but
Speaker: That's a fun journey to have to actually sell that allotment of beer. I don't know that Saudi prince you got videos of. He might be interested in going in there.
Speaker: And be like, hell, you know what? I'll just offer you $20 million for the whole lot. You don't have to worry about nothing. I'll send the brooks and cranes and ships and we'll snatch it all up. Door's open. I'll leave the light on for you, boys. Come on in. My interests are there's a few Mercedes in there, the Austin Heelys, and the Porsches. That would be exactly what I'd go for, because those are, I mean, Austin Heelys, there wasn't even a ton of those even made.
Speaker: Well, Austin Healy was bigger in Europe, you know, you got to remember Spain, which is, you know, and I think this guy is like, yeah, we live in the internet world now. So, so just because something's here doesn't mean it doesn't go somewhere else. That's why these barn finds are harder and harder to find anymore, right? Because you don't just drive down a road. Anyone, you know, they can jump on the internet and say, Hey, this is what I got. And you've got 50 million people looking at it. Yeah. And everybody going, I got a couple of bucks.
Speaker: you know we've all we've all heard the story of uh and it's it's the same story just a different chapter each time of the guy that you know some ladies like just get it out of my fucking barn and it's a fucking kuntash in mint condition she doesn't know what it is and it's it's it's timing it's luck it's call it what it is you know uh i was actually telling you we were talking about before the show we were talking about the
Speaker: the Grand National. This guy, he bought four semi -truck trailers. They were in a field and this guy had bought the field. The trailers were locked up with padlocks on it. And he was like, you know what, just get them out of here. And the guy's like, I'll give you 50 bucks apiece. So he bought these six trailers and they were in good shape. You know, the tires were bad on them, you know, so they dragged them out. And before they dragged them out, they're like, well, let's see what's in them.
Speaker: And one of them had a 12 mile, it only had 12 miles on it, or 12 or 200 or 1200 or something like that, extremely low miles, like under 20 ,000 miles, Grand National with the wrapping still on the seats. And as you and I said before, the Grand National is one of those cars, like they're not everybody's cup of tea, but they were gorgeous.
Speaker: And they're fucking monsters for v6 turbocharged car back in in 86 When turbos were nobody with the fuck they were Like and the f -body cars there. They don't really go straight Because their suspension was shit, but f -body cars are gorgeous cars especially if they're done right and it's
Speaker: It all came down to the guy was in the right place the right time and he had the money and the seller was like, just get it the fuck out of here. Lucky. There was a guy that I was just telling you about, a guy the other day, he found three cars in a old warehouse and two of them were Corvettes, like 81 Corvettes. One of them had a thousand miles on it and the other had 200 miles on it.
Speaker: And then the other was a, like a mock one Mustang 79 or something like that. Well, weird looking mock ones. And it had like 10 ,000 miles on it. And they said, get this stuff. And it's like, what happened? You know, does somebody pass away or does someone just got so much money that they forget even what they have?
Speaker: Well, okay, so excellent, excellent point that you bring up. Have you heard about the story of the guy that originally played Dumbledore in Harry Potter? I can't remember his name. The original actor, unfortunately, he did pass away a couple of years. He didn't get to finish the series, but he played Dumbledore in the first movie. One day, somebody was showing him pictures.
Speaker: And there's pictures of him, and there's a picture of him sitting next to a Rolls -Royce. And he's like, what the fuck was that taking? And they're like, that's your car. He's like, I don't own a Rolls -Royce. They're like, yeah, you do. Apparently he had this Rolls -Royce in New York in a parking garage for 20 plus years. Completely forgot he owned it. And
Speaker: Uh, it was the guy, the guy was showing him the pictures. He's like, wait, you saw on the card. He says, it looks like I had it when I was in New York. So they tracked it down. It was in his old building. It was still sitting in the parking garage and it sold for like 150 grand. And all it needed was a new battery, new tires. And I was like,
Speaker: You know, so, so you have those, those out there, like an old man that buys a car, loves it, parks in the garage and then dies. And his wife doesn't know shit about cars or his kids don't know shit about cars. They're just like, we just want the garage space. And we just want, you know, this is a burden to us. We don't want, I'd rather have the money. And I'm like, I'll, I'll take the car. Here's a hundred bucks, you know? Um,
Speaker: It still happens from time to time, but it's just getting rarer and rare, right? Again, people have more information because of the internet. And it's super hard to find someone who can't do some mere basic research at this point. Well, yeah, there's a whole channel on YouTube that's actually called Barn Finds.
Speaker: And they literally just drive around and they stop at somebody's house and it's got an old barn. Hey, can we look at your barn? And the guy's like, yeah. And they're like, you know, you got a fucking Austin Healy here? And he's like, totally forgot that was there. And they're like, you want to sell it? And he's like, sure. Give me a thousand bucks, you know, because he does. I've been in this barn in 15 years. My great grandfather was in the perfect example.
Speaker: Now, the difference is he knew what he had. Like, I kid you not, my great -grandfather, he grew up in a town called Coolville. And I think the town had a total of like 200 people in it. And the closest neighbor was like five miles away. And we'd go out to Great Grandpa's place. And this man knew what he had, but knew where it was. The one day, we would go out there and do maintenance on the farm because Grandpa was too old to do it.
Speaker: So we'd go out there with the tractor and do the brush hogging On the fields because grandpa was too old to do it blah blah blah blah blah and he says He I kid you not grandpa was like 92 years old You could barely understand him, but he's like hey when you're doing that field when your brush hog that failed out there be careful because in that stump in 1989 we put an axe in that stump. It's still there and Fuck if it ain't I mean the handles gone
Speaker: But the axe head is still in there. And he says, if you go about 20 yards from that axe head into the woods, there's a 49 pickup sitting there. And the 49 pickup was there. It was just a shell at that point. The frame was gone. The motor's gone. But he knew where it was. And I told my dad, I said, why didn't you know about this shit in the fucking 80s when you could have taken this truck out of here?
Speaker: Grandpa had some fucking, he had a four -door 57 Chevy with all the chrome still on it. And the car was so bad that my brother and I went out and we ripped the hood ornament off because the rest, that was the only thing worth on the car to keep. And we ripped the hood ornament off so we could keep the hood ornament. And we ended up polishing up that hood ornament and giving it back to Grandpa before he died. But it was like,
Speaker: There's people out there that they're usually in the middle of nowhere. And it's like this thing. This is one of the, this is basically a barn find. You know, if I never fix it up, I still won't sell it. I love this car. If I make enough money to fix it up, I will, but I'll never sell the car. So it might end up being a barn find one day, but that's not the plan. And that's usually how barn finds happen.
Speaker: Something goes wrong with the vehicle, you know, the individual barn find something goes wrong with the vehicle. I don't have the money fixed right now. Let's store it. And when I get the money, I'll fix it or you forget or you die or something happens. And then your kids stuck with this car going, what do I do with it? I don't care about it. You know, dad's old car, you know, and I think going forward in the future, obviously, there's only so many old cars left.
Speaker: There's a finite number. It just is what it is. But say in like 50 years, I think our barn finds are going to be like Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches. That's going to be the next evolution because nobody's looking for a barn full of Honda Civics and Toyota Corons. Well, on that same side of that same coin, if you got somebody that's got like an MR2, a Toyota MR2, or
Speaker: or even, you know. You can say like a Honda Civic Si, Honda Civic Type R, Honda S2000, but I'm talking about those are like specific miles just in general. Right. You know. Yeah, you're going to find a lot of fucking shitty old Buicks and a lot of fucking cars that nobody cares about. BMWs, like 325s or something, you know, so like shit that isn't worth fixing up. But eventually, man, we're going to get into like
Speaker: Supras RS RX sevens Lamborghinis for the people are finding Supras now people find yeah I think but you got to think the generation that's buying those up now It's gonna be the generation that eventually puts it in a barn and doesn't sell and then the new generation That's like oh my god. This is a super from 1993. Holy fuck. Yeah Because right now 93 that's an old car. Yeah in another 30 40 years
Speaker: man but it's like where do you get where do you get parts for it and especially if it's highly modified with hks and greti and stuff you know that's that's that's the weird thing is like uh the like we we saw in the video that those barn finds those are all stock they're not modified you know the race cars are a little bit modified but but parts yeah are hard to find but you can find
Speaker: remodeled parts or, or, or you can upgrade or something like that. But, but when you talk about like what I have planned for this, some of the parts I, you know, they don't, they never made, they make and make them now. So if that company goes out of business, you can't buy that part anymore. So you have to make it from scratch or something like that. So I see a lot of companies or a lot of people who do restorations.
Speaker: some of these cars, some of these parts are just so hard to find. Like with the motors, you just stick a whole new motor in it that doesn't even belong with that car because it's just not worth the time, the hassle, the effort, nor the money that you just can't recoup from the car. Well, and here's the other thing is like in, in 50 years, you're going to find a Tesla cyber truck sitting in somebody's old barn. Yeah. And you know, it'll be interesting to see the modifications that, that you do to get that running again.
Speaker: You know what I mean? Because I would assume, yeah, I mean, I don't know. Again, it might just be a yard ornament for someone, you know, because our stuff has been so far advanced. I think at the end of the day, everyone's going to want the petrol, right, at the end of the day. Agreed, agreed. I don't think electric vehicles are the future, like everybody says they are, because the technology is not there. And according to some experts, it never will be.
Speaker: Because battery life is not going to get any longer than it already is. And I mean, the day you use it, it automatically starts to die. Yeah. And and you can only recharge something so many times and then you get what do they charge for a battery for one of them tests is like 80 grand or 28 grand or something like that. It's ridiculous.
Speaker: where we're like, fuck it for that kind of money. I'll rip the battery out and I'll throw a fucking LS in it and call it the day. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I don't, I don't know what they're going to start doing. Uh, once these things, you know, kind of reached their lifespan, they're just going to be, I don't even know how you scrap them. Well, they don't. There's a, there's supposedly a pile that the, the, I saw video once there was a company, they had like 15 used Tesla batteries. They're like, there's nothing we can do with it. It's toast. Yeah.
Speaker: so they're not quote unquote environmentally friendly as everybody says they are you you can't get your money you're friendly to even make well not only that you can't get your money back you'll never get your money back up nope so where you can rebuild it and then sell it off well it's it's like if you went out and you found a a 69 hemicuda right now they're worth so much that you could spend
Speaker: Shit ton of money fixing it up drive it till wheels come off Fix it up again and then sell it and get every dime you put in it back Because they're so rare that won't happen on a Tesla that won't happen on your what's the the leaf, you know because the
Speaker: The parks are so expensive and nowadays everything's a throw it away by new one style. What do you guys think also with electric cars, you know, like.
Speaker: So we're supposedly supposed to be getting another Holy Trinity, which if people don't know what the Holy Trinity is, it's McLaren Ferrari Porsche, right? The Porsche is already leaked. There's, it's called the Mission X, spec freakin' tackular. But all you put the next evolution of these cars have to be mostly electric. To me, honestly, I think the next Holy Trinity needs to be all electric for it because they've had the electric hybrid and then all
Speaker: So the only one, yes, so the LaFerrari and the McLaren P1 are both petrol with electric. The force was the only one that didn't have it. But the petrol version of that is like, what's that? That BMW 8? It has a four cylinder in it, but it's got a thousand horsepower electric motor in it, and the four cylinder just charges the battery.
Speaker: Yeah. Dude, have you not seen the Mission X? No, I haven't. Oh man, what a spectacular beauty. But the problem with, you get electric cars, right? So take electric cars. Let's take that Mission, that Porsche Mission X in 50 years versus a 63 Corvette and you let them sit for 50 years. You don't do anything, you just let them sit.
Speaker: Oh, that is all day long. You have to go with the Corvette over the Porsche over the mission. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, because the battery is not going to work and the electronics are going to be fried. No, there's nothing you can do. So it's going to be interesting with these barn finds and what they can do with batteries, because you take like a McLaren P1. Dude, the battery is like a hundred and something thousand dollars.
Speaker: It's fucking tiny little battery. It's not even that big. Oh, look at that thing, dude. Oh, my God. That is pretty. It is fucking immaculate. But but my my thing is this is and I've mentioned it a couple of times. And and I know it's kind of a toss away thing. BMW, as much as we all hate BMW, they are coming out with that hydrogen fuel. Now, right now it's stupid expensive. It's like 10 bucks a gallon. But it's basically water.
Speaker: And it puts out, it's like 93 octane. And it's technically renewable. And I wish I had the video, but there's a short video that Donut Media did where they showed how they actually created. They actually pull the water and the hydrogen and all that stuff from the atmosphere. And then when the car actually, it's exhaust, actually puts the elements back into the atmosphere.
Speaker: It's like zero waste and you get energy out of it. I think it's a 1 % waste. So you can technically reuse the fuel if you were able to recapture it and use it all in one system. You can use a gallon of gas, a gallon of that fuel for like 10 years.
Speaker: Yeah, but they've had the same technology with petrol engines, but they won't, they won't allow us to have it. And that's the other thing. It's like, and I think it comes down to there's a little bit too much government restriction. And, and, and when, when it comes down to, if you say this new, you know, man, so it's kind of like a blurry, right? Is it too much?
Speaker: government or is it big business not wanting not allowing us to share because they're looking for more of our money right and it comes down to one thing it's like if you say fuel or petrol or whatever gas people automatically go it's bad for the environment the people that don't know any better and and once again i you you say fuel i'm like come in
Speaker: I light it on fire and it goes faster. That's what I want. You know, but any time you say fuel, the eco warriors get out there and they're like, oh, fuck it. It's electric. It's not electric. It's shit. Well, but this one gallon of fuel, you can last for, you know, six months or a month or whatever. That's way more efficient.
Speaker: than what your tesla is or your electric vehicle and this thing should show you that they're not smart enough to do research that technology has been out since the 50s and 60s for for cars to get well you you saw the vehicles getting five six seven hundred miles you know you sent me you sent me that video the guy the guy took a
Speaker: B -8 fucking Lincoln from like 79. This thing is like two football fields long. You can't turn around at a 40 acre field. And he got 28 miles to the gallon just by building his own carburetor. 28 miles to the gallon in a 79 where mostly it was 28 gallons to the mile back then. That's insane. And the big three,
Speaker: Let's say the big three killed him off, but I don't I doubt it was the government But and then the guy that built the water powered buggy back in in the 80s He got poisoned. Yep, so I think it was like just one or two of them all of them got killed well in the one guy he built a he built a motor and The motor got like 49 gallon 49 miles to the gallon
Speaker: Yep. And he sold it. And I think I, I can't remember who bought it. I think it was, it was, it was one of the big three bought it and they shelved it. He's like, so all of these seeing these in the cars next year. And he's like, and they're like, yeah, sign here, sign. Yeah. We're never going to sell this. And they just put it on a shelf. Yep. Well, the problem is that was in the eighties. Yep. The problem is that guy's,
Speaker: he was he was what like 50 60 then in the 80s so he's probably dead now so or even if he is even if he's not he's too old to tell you how they did it so even if whoever bought it brings it out and says let's figure out how this works it's such old technology nobody knows how to do it
Speaker: Well, one guy specifically designed his notes so no one could interpret it but him. That's the guy doing water car. Yeah. And so the other problem with that is too, so if you design something new to be more efficient, you don't, it says really fucked up. The government owns all the rights to it. You don't actually own any of the rights to, and you can't
Speaker: You can't do anything about it. The government owns everything. And it's like, what the freak, man? It's like, how was this legal? And it's like, yeah, you're not allowed to own it, even though you came up with it. And it immediately gets shelved and the government files the patent and then they shelve it. You can't, it never sees a light of day. Yeah. But people are pushing electric and it's like, guys, we could have had a great time. You want to talk about, oh man. This is what's destroyed our ozone for the last 50, 60 years.
Speaker: Well, I mean, I read a statistic that if you in order for. What so here, it's an interesting question in this statistic, what's more efficient? A Tesla brand new Tesla 2024 or a brand new 2024 Honda Civic. I would say the civic
Speaker: for what you're getting in return for the money you're spending. I think probably overall, you're getting a better deal with like a Honda Civic. It's more environmentally friendly to buy a Honda Civic and drive it for 30 years, 20 years, than it is to buy a Tesla and drive it for six months. Yeah. Because the mining involved, you know, A, it's child labor. No matter what anybody says, it's a bunch of kids digging in the dirt to find this lithium.
Speaker: Even though they say it's not. There's pictures of the people. It is. They have destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres. Yeah. And like if you look at the lessons in those countries, either. Yeah, exactly. The fucking hole and oh well. And and on top of that, let's say even if you did it on a proper mining style where it was machinery, that machinery uses diesel fuel. Yep.
Speaker: And then you got to haul it from wherever you got it to where it goes. That's diesel fuel usually by train or truck or whatever. And then, oh, we build these in the States. Well, you got to ship into the States. That's a boat. That's more diesel fuel. And then, so just to make one step forward. Your employees are using gas. You're not going to have 100 % workforce using electric vehicles. Yeah. At the end of the day, the Honda Civic,
Speaker: I can build a Honda Civic out of scrap metal in my fucking yard. That's basically what the Honda Civic is. Because to build a traditional gas powered vehicle, there's not a lot of shit you need. I mean, look at the 32 Ford. 32 Ford is the most simple vehicle. I think it's got four wires in the entire thing. Yeah. And granted, technology in newer cars with computers and all that stuff,
Speaker: A lot of it's not needed, I get it. But if you're looking to save the planet, so to speak, the electric vehicle is not the way to do it. I don't fucking care what it looks like. At least it's currently not the most economical nor environmental way to go currently. Well, and the price of them are insane. I mean, for the price of the Tesla, I could go out and buy two Honda Civics.
Speaker: And then both my, my wife have a car that's more efficient than the Tesla. So it's, you know, and I get something's got to change with the electric market because number one, sell it. Another one selling vehicle in America as a truck. Right. And now you've got. Is it Subaru and it's not until we go to Toyota is not releasing in America as Subaru and somebody else they're getting ready to release an $8 ,000 truck.
Speaker: Really? Yeah, that's going to destroy. Yeah, but you know what's going to happen? You know what's going to happen? That car will be released and it'll be $8 ,000 for about four minutes. That's okay. Because here's what's going to happen. The US government's going to bail out the fucking US automakers and they're going to add a tariff on that vehicle of 20 grand. So now it's a $28 ,000 vehicle.
Speaker: And then you got the dealer markup. It just went to 35 grand. Yeah, I don't know. These trucks are so basic. I think that they're meeting the minimum standards. Okay. And that's kind of it. So the Subaru, it's a Subaru BRAT they're coming back out with.
Speaker: And I can't remember the other one. Maybe it was Suzuki. I can't remember. So Toyota was coming one, but they're not releasing it here. They're only releasing it in third world countries. Second and third world countries. Uh, then Subaru's coming out with one and there's one other one. I just can't remember the name. That brat is not ugly. Nope. Looks pretty decent.
Speaker: Well, there's a couple of different renderings we have because there's a couple that's kind of like, then there's a couple of them that look really good. I have two here. Is it the one with the like double headlights going down or whatever? Well, these are what I found. I'll add both of them here and we can kind of compare. There's one that like headlights are kind of like a star. I don't really like it too much. I found this one. That one looks good. But it won't look like that when it comes out. And then I saw found this one.
Speaker: See that's nothing more. I don't really care for that looks like the old version looks like Yeah, it's the 70s that looks really good though. I do. I like that but it's like The real one won't look like that. That is 100 set up for show not go
Speaker: Oh, oh, absolutely. But there's, there's, they said they're going to be able to tell like a thousand pounds, 1200 pounds. So there's going to be some, they're not going to have double cabs. It's going to be as manual windows. You say that, but then they have this, this is an advertisement for the Subaru brat and it's a four door. Oh shit. I guess they changed. Now then the back looks ugly.
Speaker: Yeah, it does. It looks like somebody took a Subaru Forester and cut the top off. Oh, what have they done? So they got a 2025, 2026 release date on them. So yeah, that's good. And a sub $10 ,000 truck. I mean, right. And are they going to be electric? No, they're all on the motors, which is fine for me. You know, I don't need like your average everyday guy that that buys a truck.
Speaker: Will you really do truck shit at it? No. So you don't need the big fuck off V8 as much as we all want it. You don't really need it. You're not going to not if you like, it's like the assholes about that Ford Lightning that is is electric. And then they complain that it can't tow their own boat. That's on you. You bought an electric vehicle. What did you expect? So
Speaker: Well, and that's my thing. Anybody that's had a remote control car and tried to tow something behind it, what happens to the battery? It dies faster. Yep. So you went from, let's say, 400 miles range down to 200 miles range, which means if you're going to the lake and it's 400 miles away, you got to stop halfway there and have fucking breakfast. And problem number one arises, no infrastructure. Yeah.
Speaker: That's the other problem. Don't even start on the infrastructure. So it I don't like I said, I don't see electric vehicles as going Good because even if you build the infrastructure the grid can't handle it
Speaker: I think it could, but here's the other problem, right? You can't. It's not like going to fill up your car full of gas. It's not. Give me three minutes. I'm going to fill my tank up and I'm out. That doesn't exist in electric. That is impossible to exist, but it could. You know, it's not impossible. It should, because there is a vehicle. I know. I know what you're going to say. And that the replaceable battery structure product that had solved.
Speaker: Why isn't that the way they're doing this? The switchable pattern? I think you have to have massive... I honestly, to pull that off... I have to stay pulling a Walmart, check out 5000 double A's and call it a day. Well I think you have to have a...
Speaker: They're all the government's have to have their say and to what these manufacturers do with electricity across the board. You're allowed to produce four different types of batteries. That's it. You cannot produce one this way camp. You're going to have to stick with this battery and the charger has to be interchangeable.
Speaker: just like the gas gas yes well you can buy the adapters right no big deal yeah i think once you have to go in you have they have to go in and say for the next i say minimum let's say minimum 10 years we have to stick with this battery and this is the only battery you're allowed to produce for the next 10 years on the 11th year no problem but uh if you plan on producing let's say 600 000 cars
Speaker: where you have to put 1 .2 million batteries out into the world, right? For us to be able to change the math. That's the only way the math works. And does that, how could they possibly? You're talking about adding money to a car. So you're talking about taking a $20 ,000 car and making it 50 grand right there because the company's not going to pay for all those extra batteries. It's got to be put into the system. You're like, fuck you.
Speaker: Yeah, thumbs up thing Weird I wish I knew how you did that because I'm like Random, but I think that's the problem with electric is the infrastructure, right?
Speaker: It's not a fast charge, but the solution is, like you said, go in, go underneath the system, it drops, it goes in, unboltures, sticks in the battery pack -in. But the only way that gets paid for is if you're willing to take a $20 ,000 car and make it $50 ,000. That's it. There's no other way to do it. But in that same sale of the $50 ,000 car, you don't buy one battery, you buy two.
Speaker: But you don't get the second battery. Your second battery actually goes to a charging vehicle. Second battery goes to a charging program. Correct. But that's it. So again, you're taking affordability out of it for people who are in the sub $30 ,000 cars. And that's always the problem with electric, right? I get that. But I will probably be the last asshole on the planet to buy an electric vehicle.
Speaker: I mean, I want one. I don't. I think the Cybertruck is a fucking gorgeous vehicle. I totally want to get one. I want one, but I don't want an electric. I want one that's been slightly fucked up and the battery's fucked up so I could actually put an LS in it and call it a day. Yeah. But I will be the same asshole. I'm like, ha ha, I got a full tank of gas. The cops can run, can chase me until their battery dies and then I get away. And all I got to do is 30, you know?
Speaker: It's a weird scenario. We live in a weird time, right? Yeah. And there's no solution, at least correct. Well, there's no cheat solution. Right. Well, there's 50 solutions, but there's no feasible one. Correct. It's really hard to replace an infrastructure that has been around since the early 1900s. Exactly. And say, hey, we're going to... Which is funny because that's when electric cars were introduced.
Speaker: The first vehicle, I think, was electric, right? Yeah, it just ran. Well, actually, the first vehicle was steam. Steam, yes, correct. Yeah. But electric was kind of like these weird -looking little batteries. It was only just a couple of them. Yeah, and they were basically a couple of coconuts, and you'd go four miles, and you'd have to swear out the coconut. But yeah, it's so weird, because we need to... And I don't mind the upgrade, right? I don't either. The upgrade, and it's just something else.
Speaker: But it's man the the sheer Commitment and I and I really hate that the government has to get involved because the only way the government Can can spend money on something is when they take it from people like me who don't even own a fucking electric car So like why do I got to pay for them for that? Well, and that's the other thing. It's like the the biggest problem I'm seeing with these, you know electric vehicles is There's rumors that there's a kill switch in them
Speaker: where if you fuck up, the government can just shut off your car. Yeah. They can't do that with my electric, my gas car car. Cause you got to reach into the window because I still have two keys. Um, well, they do that all the time. Well, they can still do that on a motorized, a newer motorized vehicle. They get stolen. They call on star. Hey, and I get that this car down blue, but shuts down. You're not causing, you know, casualties and risks and property. And I get that, but it's like, it like,
Speaker: And I hate to go to political about it, but there's like China has this whole Was it social credit score? Yeah, like if you if you There was a great episode about it on the the Orville TV show where if you do something stupid like I I I'd not slap you My social credit score just went go went down and if it gets down low enough the government just shuts down my car So I can't start it. Yeah
Speaker: Which I'm a hundred percent against because bucket if I want a pack of cigarettes at two o 'clock in the morning And it's 40 miles to get there. I'm gonna take my car. You know, I'm not gonna walk so I I don't think I would I No matter what they they've yet to come out with an electric vehicle that I'm like, I hundred percent have to have that Like there's no other option I might my life's goal is to buy that electric vehicle
Speaker: And it would only come down to something like the Cybertruck looks really cool. Yep. Where I'd be like, okay, I want one. I don't know, man. Have you not seen the new DeLorean? I'm not a fan. I want the old one. And you know what's really funny is I think that's the proper evolution for that car to be electric. Like that's 100%. If they did another motor in that car today, I'd have been like,
Speaker: You're going to want electric because that's kind of where it should have went. Well, and it makes sense because it is. It's an iconic car, you know, you know, no matter what, every time anybody sees a DeLorean, whether it's a stock form or it's modified to look like the back of each car, everybody says back to future, even though that's not how the car actually started. That car was almost dead by that point.
Speaker: But oh, I love that car. I love everything. It's a beautiful car. Oh, man, it was it was it was a it was a Cybertruck before the Cybertruck. It was the Cybertruck of its day. And and. I think missed opportunity by Elon not to make it going doors on the Cybertruck, but I think he already did it one time on that car and said it was too impractical. He didn't want to do it again. Well, he did. Yeah, he did it on that one day X. Yeah. And he said it was just too impractical. He said it was it was a waste of resources. I think they got rid of it.
Speaker: Yeah, but by making the Cybertruck bulletproof, that was a good way to be resources. Because if you can get a couple government contracts, right? And I think that's where he was going with that because I know that I know the government's looking into electric vehicles for the field. I think it's a huge mistake.
Speaker: but I could see where they're thinking it it kind of makes sense on a on a business model as a soldier I don't I'd be like yeah no I'll take the Hummer yeah I'm good yeah you guys go ahead I'll be there waiting with a beer when you get there um but going back to the barn find thing um just kind of wrap up for the night show if you
Speaker: If you were to find an electric vehicle or find your dream car in a barn find, it comes down to at this point in time in history, it's pure unadulterated luck. It's not skill. It's not something you can like, like here. It sounds silly, but one of my most coveted vehicles I've always wanted is a 92 Mustang, a hatchback.
Speaker: I don't know why. I just think this is a cool car. I can't get them here. There's one here and it's a, it's an 86 is the only Mustang hatchback of its style in Cancun. I'm never going to find one in a barn. So at least here. So finding a, a barn find that's worth a damn anymore.
Speaker: is 100 % unadulterated luck. No matter how much research you do, it comes down to there are few and far between anymore. Would you agree? Yeah, it's not even the internet. Not even the internet. Because some old lady's got this 89 Cadillac sitting in her fucking garage that she doesn't even have a computer. She doesn't even have a cell phone.
Speaker: you know somebody's just waiting on for her to die so they can yeah but I mean it's the internet right just because you don't have a computer doesn't mean that old lady doesn't have you know a grandson daughter or something and and and those then these people are smart enough to know how to resell or how to look things up and it's just not you know back in the day you needed someone's phone number you're flipping through the yellow pages and the way you're knocking on doors
Speaker: Correct. It's just not so much information is at our fingertips within mere seconds now. Yeah. So it's, there's whole entire, people make their entire income off of reselling. They don't go to jobs, you know, they're at yard sales and they're at restores and all this stuff and they're making pretty decent livings. Um, it's, it's pretty wild. So like you said, those, the barn finds,
Speaker: are only going to get slimmer and slimmer and we might hit like a patch to where you don't hear anything and then all of a sudden it's like somebody finds the Porsches the supers are back again, but I think it's going to be mostly European foreign cars. Well, you also you'll you'll also find a bunch of 80s cars, you know, there were some cool cars in the 80s not not, you know, you're not going to find your really holy shit moments.
Speaker: But you guys think who we're talking about though, you got to think like mine and your kids, right? Yeah. Their super cars are the Lamborghinis, Porsches and Ferraris. So when that hits, that's who's going to be, that's the age of people that's going to be looking for this. Like, Oh my God.
Speaker: You know what I mean? Because right now a Ferrari 430 is what I really want. I want a 458. They're unattainable in price. Well, the 458 is. But in 30, 40 years, that's going to be a pretty affordable car for someone who is looking that doesn't mind fixing a couple panels, a couple electric issues. Yeah, those cars are going to be more and more affordable, right?
Speaker: Yeah, because you'll get the guy like you or me that buys it, then dies and his wife's like, fuck, I hated this car since he bought it. And she's like, just get it out of my driveway. So I do see what you're saying. But the problem is when it comes to a barn find, it's not what you know. It's who you know and what you happen to get lucky enough to find. And if you are unlucky to find the car of your dreams,
Speaker: That is owned by somebody that knows what the fuck they're doing. Yeah, you're still not getting that car Yeah, you also got to think too, man. There's less barns now. Yeah. Well, yeah Yeah, you got millions of people that are living in cities that are living in right little square cubes or rectangle cubes They have no land Some of them don't even own cars because they just commute to work through the subway station or whatever. So so the
Speaker: The government, I can't remember what it was. They've even put restrictions on neighborhoods going up. They don't even want single family homes anymore. They want apartments or condo style, apartment style, townhouse style, because they want you right on top of each other so they can get the most amount of people in the least amount of space. So it's just not like it was.
Speaker: 30, 40, 50 years ago where people had four or five buildings because they were farming. They also went and worked in a warehouse during the day. They made some, you know, they just, there's less of that tube. Yeah. There's less and less hobby farm, so to speak. Yeah. It's almost a sad moment. It's almost a sad moment in history, not just for the car industry, but for, for
Speaker: you know, finding, and it's not just cars, you know, I mean, you, you and I both been to car or to like garage sales where you'll find old tools that like the hand crank drills and so on. You can't find those neon signs. And yeah, you know, man, you know, if, if my wife would let me, you, there's a place in, uh, in, um, in Vegas,
Speaker: It's it's called the There's a place in europe and france as well. It's called the neon sign graveyard Okay, and it's literally like old coca -cola signs and neon signs that say you drive through and all this stuff and I can get them like for pennies, you know because you know and they work And you know, they're they're bolted to the wall plug the fucker in it's ready to go. My wife won't let me buy them
Speaker: And I'm like, I get it. You know, who wants a four foot, you know, drive -through sign on the side of their house? I do. And she's like, no, what are you an asshole? So, and that's the problem. Where did you use to keep things like that at?
Speaker: in a barn you've been a barn yeah and now you don't have to you just don't have that oh it's like it's like yeah i don't know about i don't know about you but like when i was a kid i had the wall of chrome in my bedroom where it was just a bunch of fucking hubcaps and buffers and grills that i found cleaned up and bolted to the fucking wall yeah once again we're i'm in that adult stage where my wife will let me have shit like that for good reason because i would have it on every wall but
Speaker: You know, like the, the plan right back here behind me, you can actually see where I'm actually getting ready to put my shop. It's the space in between the two houses that I own. And that's going to be like, she's like, whatever you put in there, that's your deal. I'm like, oh, I'm going to have a wall of growth. So I keep saying that we're having less and less barns, but if there's a greater problem too, we have less and less people going into trades in general.
Speaker: So it's kind of like a trickle down effect, right? So if you're not in the trades, why do you need a barn? You know, it's kind of the first world. This first world is getting more first world to where it's more hands off. Yeah. And, you know, I don't know if you've seen the video of the robot that killed itself. No, it was. So I can't remember the company, but it was like a company built this robot.
Speaker: that was its one job was its job was to take stuff off a conveyor belt and put it on a shelf. It did the job for 20 minutes and decided that the job was worthless and it was worthless. So it shut itself off.
Speaker: So it's like the job, the reason why they had this robot doing it was because it's real. Oh, this is a real thing. Also, I'll send you the video. So the only way that robot could do that, if it was, it was like, it was like, it was, it was, it had a built in AI on it. And this was like a year ago, this happened.
Speaker: I don't know if it was sentient, but it literally shut itself off. And my wife just sent me a video the other day of a robot that it had the ability to shut itself off. It walked 14 steps and went, what's the point? And shut itself off.
Speaker: sure so it's and you know so we've been asking ourselves that forever i was like why can't i shut myself off but but it's like so when they when they get to the point where a robot can do a job there's no point for people to be in the trades and and and i think 100 that you know the biggest problem comes down to
Speaker: less and less people are being introduced to a job that you can do with your hands and be happy. Whether it be shop class or auto shop or something like that in school where you could actually learn to change your own oil and get into that field.
Speaker: And it's a sad thing because now, well, and you can't even do that with quote unquote old cars right now, because even to work on the 97 Eclipse that's sitting here to reprogram the computer, I don't know how to do it. I have to find somebody to do it. And they're few and far between where I am. So it's. And you look at something like a brand new Chevy Silverado, there's more fucking electronics in that thing.
Speaker: then four of these eclipse books together and you need a and you need a ability system alone is probably electronics in the whole car and and you have to you have to have like a science like an engine not a computer computer degree to work on your car where where you and i were growing up
Speaker: you know, if your suspension breaks, oh, I guess I'm out there in the shop. I'm ripping out the suspension and I'm figuring out how to put in a new one. You can't do that anymore because there's 4 billion sensors on your car. Yep. And then you got to reset the whole computer or that part of the computer. And then, and then, you know, even if you have the car or you have like these, like these mechanics are spending big money on these computers to hook up and they're not like a DIY anymore.
Speaker: Well, it's like I in this was you can't even like literally change a battery. Well, no, I saw I saw one thing and this was like 10 year 10 15 years ago. When Mercedes came out with her new car, if you disconnect the cigarette lighter, the car wouldn't start. Yep. So you would spend, you know, four hours to figure out your cigarette lighter fuse is blown. So
Speaker: The it's working on cars is getting into a hobby of working with tools is not the start anymore. Correct. Where that was the start for a lot of people. So it's like a weird. How do you get people into tools? Well, you can't be into fucking cars because you can't change the tire without having to disconnect four sensors. Correct. So so and I actually think I found a solution and it's buying old tools and fixing them.
Speaker: There you go. Like, you know, one of my favorite things to do is watch Adam Savage on Tested. He's got his YouTube channel. He bought a power hacksaw, which I was like in that like a bandsaw. And it's literally a hacksaw that's hooked up to a wheel that literally slowly cuts metal and it's more precise than your top of the line bandsaw. Wow. And like it was he cut a piece.
Speaker: and he basically made like a what looks like a coin now but it like he said if i would have done this on the lathe yeah it would have been just as clean but it would have been just off for like this thing was super you know and it's like the the tool was built in 67 insane isn't it and it's like
Speaker: So newer is not always better, but in order to get that power hacksaw to work, he had to take it apart and redo it. And one of my favorite things to do besides watch him is watch the guys that restore old tools and old things. Oh my gosh, you want to talk about ASMR. Just
Speaker: The one guy I watch, he builds, like, if he needs a new bolt, he'll take a piece of round stock and build a new bolt from scratch. And it's just like, I want to know how to do that. And like, my son's like, why do you watch this? I'm like, because it's fucking awesome. He's like, why don't you just go buy a new bolt? I said, what is the fun in that? And he's like, yeah, I don't get it, dad. And I was like, you know what, until you actually
Speaker: And I think that's the problem until you actually build something or fix something and make it work, get your hands dirty. There's that satisfaction that, that you and I had working on cars or working on whatever growing up, isn't there for this new generation. And it's a sad thing. It is, it is super sad and it's, it's, I make really good money right now. I can only imagine if I was my age.
Speaker: 15, 20 years from now, the amount of money I could make doing what I do. It's probably, it's probably going to be triple my salary right now. And it's like, Oh my God. Yeah. How, how, and I feel, I feel really good about, about how much someone with my experience is going to make no, it's like, and these guys, it takes a special person to do what I do. And it's like, I want these people to do this. If there's going to be less people in there.
Speaker: because it's such a weird, difficult niche job that I was like, I want you guys to make all the money you can make. As long as you're putting out a good product, I want you guys to rake it in. Well, and that's the caveat to it. It's like the guys that can do it, do it right the first time and on whatever it is they're working on, whether it's building a deck or building a chair or what you do, you know, or like what I do,
Speaker: Anybody in their brother with a mouth can do what I do. A monkey can do my job if they can speak. The difference is I make really good money. But I have the opposite problem here. For every one job, there's 50 people that can do it here and do it just as good as the next. So because the jobs like what I do online are not available in Mexico.
Speaker: And they are, but they're, you know, you, you English needs to be perfect, blah, blah, blah, blah. And, and so when it comes down to like the satisfaction you get from doing something nobody else can do, but you, when it's working with your hands, there's nothing, there's no better drug on the planet. It's good stuff. And it's just like, like, what was it the other day? Uh, the, my, my freezer.
Speaker: fan decided to stop working. And anybody else in my entire town was like, well, let's fucking call the repairman. I took apart the freezer, figured out that the fan was iced up. I defrosted the fan fucker started working again. My freezer is as cold as ice now. Damn this thing in it. And, and my son was like, how do you know how to do this? I was like, I don't know. I just figured it out. It's, it's, it's a couple of screws. Make sure you put them back where you got them. And
Speaker: You know especially for there's a there's a guy on YouTube. I can't remember name his channel he shows you all the things that I Think it's called something like all the things man should know Like he'll show you how to change a light socket, you know You know how to how to test you know, if if your light sockets got power how to use a voltmeter shit like that The that stuff is lost on today's generation and it's a terrible thing
Speaker: But it's really cool that he takes the time and does a simple little task, right? Right. And it's like, little stuff like that is what people need. You know, like, if, if, for instance, when I bought this house, there's nothing wrong with the house, because it's brand new. But I've done so many upgrades to the house, like the plugs that are in the wall, they were two pronged plugs.
Speaker: Well, a lot of my stuff has the ground wire and stuff like that. So I was able to switch them out, put in three prong. You know, if a light switch breaks, I don't have to call somebody to fix it. You know, calling somebody to fix something stupid simple should not be an option. Yeah. Especially if it's just one thing, you know, it's it's. And to use your brain to actually
Speaker: Like I know how to do this. This is, oh my gosh, this is so easy. I'm gonna rewire the house now, you know? It should be the goal for everybody. And the fact that it's not like, and like, if you don't know how to do something, the beauty of what we have now,
Speaker: that our generation didn't have growing up is if you don't know how to do something, there's somebody on YouTube that'll show you how to do it. And you just got to be willing to put in a little bit of time to learn it.
Speaker: so so Anyways, that's the end of the show tonight. Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks everybody. Listen. Thank you for Benji for coming in I always appreciate you having here because you actually bring up thoughts that I don't have because I'm very simplistic We are once again Jeff's garage podcast. We're on the nonsensical network every Tuesday at 7 Eastern Monday's men's caring for men same time
Speaker: same channel tomorrow is what the fuck news i already i do have a story for tomorrow's show thursday is uh talking shit friday is clicks house music i although i think he's doing bi -weekly uh and saturday of course is the open door challenge for nonsensical nonsense if you are brave enough come on in have a chat see if you can keep up and then saturday sunday is of course uh
Speaker: Jarvis with his podcast. I think he's doing another movie review.
Speaker: Like I said before, if you want to send in your car or your projects for us to review and talk about, you can go ahead and send an email to Jeff's Garage podcast at gmail .com. And of course, here is the Jeff's Garage bio link where you can actually see all our content. And then, of course, we are on the nonsensical nonsense network, the nonsensical network at bio dot link slash nonsensical network.
Speaker: Check us out anywhere you find podcasts. I still have to upload last week's episode. I forgot. So I'll have to do that tonight. We're going to go ahead and play the outro music and then say our outs. So we'll be right back.
Speaker: I heard she was here to burn a rubber and make her motors blow So what does school ask her? Just ask that she like to go Peace!
Speaker: I do love that song. I don't know why. I just love that song.
Speaker: It's actually called Psychobilly. It's the genre. But yeah, that is the end of our show. Benji, what are you going to say to the people? We've got to shut the garage door. You don't got to go home, but you can't stay here. Amen to that. And I think I'm still working out what I'm going to be start saying, but
Speaker: It's easy. Go out there and go get some work done. Go do something. Get out of the house. Never. Go out to the garage and build something. There you go. Bye, everybody. And it just takes forever.
