B/F: The Drive Thru #10

• Ford F-150 Lightning Name Will Return for Electric Pickup
• Thousands of best-selling pickup trucks sit along I-71 — and Wall Street is watching
• GM's adorable convertible EV for the masses revealed ahead of Shanghai Auto Show

• Some California EV Owners Allegedly Switch Back to Gas
• Lotus Emira: Firm's final combustion car to arrive on 6 July
• This hydrogen hypercar will be developed in Britain

• F1 Canadian Grand Prix Bounced from Schedule for Second Consecutive Year
• By adding Miami, Formula 1’s future may be on the fast track out of Texas

The Evolution of Formula 1

• 40k-Kilometer 1998 Subaru Impreza 22B STi
• Honda Will Go Electric- and Fuel Cell-Only by 2040
• Mazda has restored the first ever MX model: the MX-81 concept

Honda Urban EV Concept (as seen in GM MINIEV article)

• Triumph Stag and Morgan 4/4 Get EV Power

• Mercedes Starts Building Its Tesla Model S Fighter

• Up Next, a Possible Tire Shortage
• Top Speed Record-Holding SSC Tuatara Wrecked in Car Carrier Crash
• When did NEWEGG start selling Car Products?

Red Mist – My NEMESIS!

#tbt Powerwheels Downhill racing, Hyperfest 2019

• Wild Rescue of a Dead Jeep from the Bottom of a Utah Canyon Must Be Seen to Be Believed

• U.S. indicts two Stellantis managers from Italy on emissions fraud charges

• TESLA SET TO LOSE MAJOR REVENUE SOURCE THAT'S BEEN KEY TO PROFITS

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Crew Chief Brad: Welcome to the drive through episode number 10. This is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of automotive, motorsport, and random car adjacent news.

Now let’s pull up to the window number one for some automotive news. And we’re going to start off.

Crew Chief Eric: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I love how it’s the window number one, like the Facebooks. I swear I thought the was it. [00:01:00] Every month you do the same thing. It’s the window number one. And I’m like,

Executive Producer Tania: Really?

Is there a, the window number two? I’m glad it’s all Brad, Brad, Brad at the beginning.

Crew Chief Brad: So late last year, Subaru unveiled the, the new 2022 BRZ. I don’t know if anybody looked at it. I personally don’t care. But for those that do care, Toyota answered with their new GR 86 just unveiled recently. Both cars actually look quite different compared to the last model or the last generation.

The Toyota actually looks different than the Subaru, which I’m surprised by because I thought the last ones, the last ones looked identical to me, except for the badge. These, the styling’s a little bit different.

Executive Producer Tania: I’m trying to scroll through the 61 photos. And differentiate what’s really different aesthetically.

I mean, it’s subtle.

Crew Chief Brad: The tails, the tails are different. It looks like the, the lights on the Subaru are a little edgier. They stick out a little further. The hips are wider on the, on the Toyota.

Crew Chief Eric: It could be an optical [00:02:00] illusion too. Cause the colors will throw you, especially since they’re all red versus blue.

Crew Chief Brad: It also could be the angle. Cause I think the toy, the picture from the Toyota is a little bit higher up.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah,

Crew Chief Brad: you’re right. Maybe they’re exactly the same. And I don’t know, the noses are a little different though.

Executive Producer Tania: The grilling is different. The Toyota has a honeycomb grill versus, and the, the ducks on the side are different,

Crew Chief Brad: but let’s talk about what’s important.

Executive Producer Tania: I’m sorry. This is not important because it’s not the Toyota GRR. So

Crew Chief Eric: a hundred percent, we’re still talking about the birds and the furs. Right. Yeah.

Crew Chief Brad: Let me tell you about the birds and the furs, the two liter motor is being bumped up to 2. 4 liters. Oh, and it’s getting a whopping 228 horsepower. Wow!

Crew Chief Eric: Horsepower specs from 2003. That’s amazing. I know.

Crew Chief Brad: The Toyota numbers are not unveiled yet, but it’s probably going to be the same because they’re the same car. And torque numbers are up by 28 foot pounds to 184.

Crew Chief Eric: [00:03:00] What? Are you kidding me?

Crew Chief Brad: Up to 184.

Crew Chief Eric: Again! We’re talking There were Volkswagens making these numbers in the early 2000s.

We’re proud of this. Oh, I think a

Crew Chief Brad: 2016 Dodge Dart makes these numbers.

Executive Producer Tania: If that was

Crew Chief Brad: back in 2016.

Executive Producer Tania: Hey now, I’ll stop picking on the Dart. That’s

Crew Chief Brad: true. I shall not. The Dart is now my target.

Executive Producer Tania: I saw one in the grocery store parking lot today, actually. It was a white one. That neon is so cute.

Crew Chief Brad: Did it have a racing stripe on it?

Executive Producer Tania: It did.

Crew Chief Brad: You can tell we really don’t care about these two cars. I mean, as enthusiasts, we should, they come with a six speed manual. You can also get a six speed automatic transmission as an option. Give us more power,

Crew Chief Eric: you know, exactly. You know, what would make me care? Throw a freaking turbocharger on this thing already.

I mean, we’ve been complaining about the burrs and the furs for a while. It’s the Japanese nine 44 it’s gutless, just like a nine 44 was. Throw a turbo on it already. And let’s get 300 horse out of these things and [00:04:00] have some fun, but no, you know, whatever. All right, fine. Moving on. So

Crew Chief Brad: I don’t know if you all looked at the article, at least looked at the pictures or anything, but I’m just going to throw this out there.

Do you go with the blue Subaru or the red Toyota? Which one would you prefer?

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, if we’re going blue versus red, I’m going to go to Yoda just because maybe there might be a GR package for this thing eventually, but I’m holding out hope, right? It does have

Crew Chief Brad: GR badges.

Crew Chief Eric: And GR is in the name. It’s GR86, so.

Crew Chief Brad: GR86.

Crew Chief Eric: You know what is worth it? If you’re looking for a two door coupe like this, just get a 400Z. Call it a day.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, but you’re gonna pay double what you can get one of these for.

Crew Chief Eric: But it’s gonna be double awesome, and it’s gonna make double the horsepower. And it’s French. Well, I’m sorry. Uh, it’s Nissan.

Crew Chief Brad: So it’s French.

Crew Chief Eric: Exactly.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. But you’re also going to need to buy like three or four transmissions to go along with it. I

Crew Chief Eric: don’t know. They could be better than the three 50 Zs and the earlier ones, you know, are they better

Crew Chief Brad: than the Titans?

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, snap. So in keeping with Subaru, [00:05:00] Brad, there’s some other news floating around the interwebz.

Crew Chief Brad: If you can’t find that coveted 2016 Dodge Dart that you want to buy so badly, you could have gotten a Subaru Impreza 22B STI from 1998. It had 40, 000 kilometers on it. It’s around 25, 000 miles and it’s sold just recently for 380, 000. And 25. Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no. I read that wrong. Hold on. Holy shit.

325, 000. What the, who is this lunatic that paid 325, 000 for this piece of shit?

Crew Chief Eric: Let me guess. Let me guess. Yet again, another car on bring a trailer. Wait,

Crew Chief Brad: wait, wait. Did Sam, did Sam buy this car? Have you been to his house lately? Does he have

Crew Chief Eric: a new season? What is going on at bring a trailer? Have they lost their minds since they went to auction?

I think it’s gone just nuts. It’s no longer, you know, privateer selling cars that were in really good shape with all the documentation, the pictures and stuff. I mean, the stuff that’s been coming across [00:06:00] bring a trailer for the last year is just insane. In my opinion is outrageous. It’s insane. I mean, you’re, you’re seeing E 30 M threes going for quarter million dollars cars, you know, upwards of a million bucks and just for stuff, and you’re like, for that crap, can, I

Executive Producer Tania: will say that you could eat off this car, whoever detailed it.

Yes, it’s super clean, clean, super prize

Crew Chief Eric: and, and the 22 B is a great Impreza. It was a great car. You know, it goes back to those Colin McRay days of the heyday of Subaru in the WRC and all that kinda stuff. But 325 grand? No, no thank you.

Crew Chief Brad: I’m just waiting for when I can list my 2008 Volkswagen R32 with 125, 000 miles and get 125, 000 for it.

That’s what I’m waiting for.

Crew Chief Eric: 125, 000 pesos. Oh, excuse

Crew Chief Brad: me. 125, 000 yen.

Crew Chief Eric: So let’s move on to Maybe something more relevant. Let’s talk about

Crew Chief Brad: Ford.

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, there’s lots of things going on with Ford. I mean, the biggest thing that’s hitting everybody and it’s not Ford exclusive is [00:07:00] production issues because of the chip shortage that is still ongoing.

So they’ve halted Mustang production among other cars for now. We’ll see how long the shortage remains.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. And anyone that was traveling along I 71 this past weekend, was it this weekend or last weekend for the, for the Derby probably noticed thousands, I think 22, 000 Ford super duty pickup trucks sitting and waiting for parts because of the shortage.

They just can’t get them. Ford, as Tanya pointed out, Ford is not the only manufacturer affected by this. All the manufacturers are having this issue. So pretty soon 2025, you’ll be able to get a brand new 2021 Ford super duty

Crew Chief Eric: going right along with this chip shortage. They’re talking about a potential tire shortage as well.

So now you’re going to have cars sitting on rims with no chips. It’ll be even better. Right? It’s amazing what. COVID has done to the industry and to manufacturing, you know, on a global scale and the long

Crew Chief Brad: lasting effects too. I mean, this, the [00:08:00] pandemic is winding down if you listen to what the government tells us, but the long lasting effects of all, like you’re saying, the manufacturing shutdown and all that it’s going to continue on for years.

Crew Chief Eric: So on the flip side, there’s some Californians that have decided to go back to internal combustion engines. Studies shows that upwards of 20 percent of California residents have switched from EVs back to ICE. Too bad that information was about 10 years old and completely irrelevant. And back to your regularly scheduled EV news.

Crew Chief Brad: Thank you. But if we want to stick with the EVs, Ford has unveiled that they’re going to release an F 150 Lightning. They’re bringing back the Lightning nameplate from the late 90s, early 90s, and the early 2000s.

Executive Producer Tania: So it’s their long talked about all electric F 150 that we’ve been hearing about for some time that they’re finally gave a name to.

You’re

Crew Chief Eric: correct. So this was the one we were calling the F 150. E 150 for a while, right? Not to get confused with the Econoline. [00:09:00] I,

Crew Chief Brad: I don’t, I think this is going to be separate from the E 150 though. Cause this is like, I think a special performance based, it’s going to be a dual motor, all wheel drive, 560, 000 horsepower, original lightenings were special edition or limited production.

Or Tonya’s shaking your head. I must be. No,

Executive Producer Tania: I, this is the electric F 150. They’ve always been talking about, but they’ve decided to name it lightning. I mean, that makes sense. I

Crew Chief Eric: like that. I think it works.

Crew Chief Brad: I mean, the lightning is, it does have something to do with electricity. It makes sense. A lot more than Mustang.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, God. What is a Mach E? I mean, I know airplanes can go Mach 2 or Mach 5 or whatever. What’s

Crew Chief Brad: an E Ray? I guess an electric Eel Ray E E Ray, E E Wrong.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, whatever a take can is or Tycan or Toucan or whatever the hell it is. I love

Crew Chief Brad: the turbo electric car.

Crew Chief Eric: Le Car. We’ll just go with that. It’s Le Car. Is

it Le Car?

That’s enough about that.

Crew Chief Eric: [00:10:00] Yeah, it’s enough about Ford, you know, but we can’t go a drive through episode without talking about Stellantis because there’s always something going on over in Chrysler world. So what’s up this month, Tanya?

Executive Producer Tania: So apparently they, Stellantis is being indicted now for emission fraud charges.

This is related to all that debacle several years ago with the software features that disabled the emissions control systems to provoke higher fuel economy.

Crew Chief Brad: Eric, correct me if I’m wrong, but you drive a Stellantis vehicle, don’t you?

Executive Producer Tania: I do.

Crew Chief Brad: And I And your vehicle has a diesel in it, doesn’t it? It does. And that diesel was caught up in the cheating scandal, wasn’t it?

It is. Just checking.

Crew Chief Eric: Yep. Nothing’s changed. And you know what? I will be honest with you. I’ve gone through. Four recalls. I still have one to go and every software patch they’ve put on it has been worse and worse and worse. And then some of the software packages have actually made those Jeeps [00:11:00] undriveable for some people.

I had my PCM go up on it. Another guy, his oil cooler exploded that I know I’ve had, you know, but apparently that’s kind of. Common in some respects, although they’re blaming it on some of the recalls, people are getting terrible gas mileage, horrible shifting now because they changed the shift patterns of the transmission.

I mean, all sorts of crazy stuff. I’m like, guys. Just fix it. Just do it right. Stop putting out these patches and calling everybody back to the dealership. Now, the latest one, which I still need to do is the EGR cooler replacement. Luckily, every time it goes in, they keep extending the warranty. So I’m like, you know what, fine, we’ll keep going down this path.

But with these two Stellantis managers being indicted for, you know, something that happened now, what, seven years ago at this point, I don’t know how much longer this is going to carry on, but I’m curious to see where the journey takes us. So. And that’s not a Dodge Journey, by the way, which is probably still available at my local Chrysler dealership.

Crew Chief Brad: You know, funny you mentioned that when we get into Lost and Found, I’ll go ahead and tell you about that. But I love the fact that you jumped from one [00:12:00] scandal right into another scandal.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s when you jump from the pot to the frying pan, right? Yeah, it’s

Crew Chief Brad: exactly what you did. Yeah, we

Executive Producer Tania: talked and we talked about this one already last month because the rumor was already there that their Volkswagen was going to be under investigation.

Sorry, the Volkswagen Audi group was going to be under investigation for their Volkswagen name change announcement. So yes, I mean, that rumor is true. They’re being investigated for, uh, I feel

Crew Chief Eric: like I’m watching an episode of billions. All right. It’s like, Paul Giamatti is on a rampage taking all these guys down.

It’s like Stellantis and we’re going after Volkswagen and it’s like, it’s nuts. Every, the thing is

Crew Chief Brad: nobody made any money last year as far as like consumers. So they’re not getting any income tax dollars. They need to generate revenue somewhere. That’s true. That’s true.

Crew Chief Eric: And then, you know, they, they levy these heavy penalties against these companies and the sec and all this stuff.

And then it begs the [00:13:00] question. Not to be answered. It’s rhetorical. Where does it all end up going? Millions upon billions of dollars in fines and whatever. That’s, that’s for another podcast. So if you’re interested in

Crew Chief Brad: that. It goes to pay our interest payments on

Executive Producer Tania: China. Is that what it is? Paves our roads to that smooth, smooth billiard

Crew Chief Eric: table finish.

Yeah. If a billiard table was like the surface of the moon, absolutely. But you know, hey.

Crew Chief Brad: So the last couple of episodes, we’ve kind of created this little segment called lost and found where we’ve been given articles about new vehicles that were sold that were actually four or five years old. So I thought, why don’t I scour cars.

com and see what I can find. So this month’s brand new old vehicle. 2005 . Oh man. Chevrolet Express 1500 cargo van. Brand new with 383 miles.

Crew Chief Eric: Whoa.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: At CarMax or at cargo? No,

Crew Chief Brad: [00:14:00] no. Brand new vehicle. It is at SVG Chevrolet.

Crew Chief Eric: Really? What are they asking for?

Crew Chief Brad: 29,000, well, 29 9 through $30,000.

Crew Chief Eric: Whoa. What can you buy a new express van for instead of it?

I don’t

Crew Chief Brad: think you can buy a new express van. You can get a brand new 2016 Dodge Dart, but you can’t get a brand new express van, except for this.

Executive Producer Tania: The 2021 Chevrolet express cargo van.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh, they do have it.

Executive Producer Tania: MSRP is for 33, 000. Wow.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s pretty good. From a depreciation standpoint, it’s

Crew Chief Brad: not depreciated. It’s brand new.

There’s no warranty or anything, but it’s a brand new van. But this is a conversion, man. It’s the ultimate it’s got captain’s chairs. This is what Jordan Furman, who we’re going to talk about later, should buy, you know, as his, you know, tow vehicle for his

Crew Chief Eric: lifestyle. Yeah, absolutely.

Crew Chief Brad: According to cars. com, you can also get a brand new 2008 Jeep Wrangler.

You can get a brand new 2015 Jeep renegade. You can get a brand new [00:15:00] 2016 Chevrolet express 2, 500 work van and a brand new 2016 Ford escape. I’m noticing a theme here. They’re all American, but that’s not true. There is a brand new 2016 Mazda CX3 Grand Touring with an automatic transmission.

Crew Chief Eric: Talk about a car that nobody gives two shits about.

Speaking of which, if you’re talking about lost and found, Mazda recently unearthed the MX 81. You know, last month we talked about the MX and what it meant. Which is the original Mazda prototype. I don’t know what happened to number zero through 80. Like you said, Brad, but again, file this car under cars.

People just don’t give a shit about it is terrible looking. It is way too futuristic. And I’m glad Mazda took. All of their plans in a completely different direction.

Crew Chief Brad: So I think that is enough to close out Lost and Found for this month. But what I would like to do is check this next month and see if any of these vehicles are still [00:16:00] available.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, that’d be cool.

Crew Chief Brad: So we’ll have to put a pin in this. But yeah, so For anybody looking for a 2005 Chevrolet Express 1500 cargo van in black with alloy wheels.

Executive Producer Tania: Wow, that’s rare. That’s why it’s commanding such a price.

Crew Chief Eric: My goodness. So let’s talk about cool cars instead of all this mess we’ve been dealing with up until now.

I thought

Crew Chief Brad: we were.

Crew Chief Eric: Now this is just us. Picking up the tragedy that is April and May, uh, at this point. So next up a cute car for Tanya, let’s talk about the Honda go.

Executive Producer Tania: I feel like we’ve talked about this one before, or at least I’ve seen this one before I’m aware of this car. I feel like we’ve covered this one at some point in the past.

But yes, it’s a little teeny mini two door hatchback style, Honda, all electric squarish with round headlights. So I’m already a fan.

Crew Chief Eric: She said with a grimace and some sarcasm.

Crew Chief Brad: Cause it’s no gazoo racing Yaris.

Crew Chief Eric: And we’re never going to see it. Now, the thing I [00:17:00] read was that had the potential of being electric and, or fuel cell.

So they might go both ways, hydrogen or electric with the Honda in about

Crew Chief Brad: 20 years,

Crew Chief Eric: 2040 is the number I read, but, uh, you know, it was kind of cool idea. I mean, I still go back to a previous drive thru episode where we talked about the Fiat one 26 concept. I’d rather see that. I mean, maybe Stellantis Fiat, we’ll put that out to go into competition with Honda over this, but you know, Honda, you know, Still leading the charge on these hydrogen cars.

I did read this month that there is a hydrogen hypercar being developed in Britain, it came through from top gear and not a whole heck of a lot to say about it, but I think that’s kind of cool that people are still researching that type of technology going forward. But I think EV is really leading the charge and we’re starting to see that more and more.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, I don’t think hydrogen is dead yet, nor should it probably be to have a diversified portfolio of energy sources. Obviously, there’s still a lot of stuff to be ironed out. So there should be research still being done [00:18:00] around hydrogen as an alternative because it’s much more abundant and lithium becomes scarce and creating these batteries become scarce.

It’s going to be unrealistic that billions of people are all going to be on an electrified platform if there isn’t the raw material to do it, right?

Crew Chief Eric: What’s the probability of a electric hydrogen hybrid? And I bring that up because that would be the only thing I step back off my pedestal from, where I keep going with diesel electric hybrids like trains.

Is that a possibility?

Executive Producer Tania: Can you imagine? You wreck your EV. And it causes a fire, and then the hydrogen lights off. BOOM It’d be like the

Crew Chief Eric: best gender reveal party ever. Just make sure the car has like, color, you know, powder in it. I mean, there’d be no

Executive Producer Tania: point in the firefighters, I mean the firefighters would just be there to like, keep the Fire from spreading to the surrounding environment because the frickin thing would just be a pile of ash.

It would be nothing left. I mean, [00:19:00] would it, would it be

Crew Chief Eric: wrong of me? If that was a thing to get a vanity plate that reads C H R N B L E, Chernobyl.

Executive Producer Tania: You mean Hindenburg is what your license plate needs to say. Same

Crew Chief Eric: difference. I

Executive Producer Tania: mean, not, not to say that like, oh, a hydrogen car can’t wreck and a spark get created and light off that way or any of the source.

I mean, what’s

Crew Chief Brad: worse, the Teslas and electric cars. Spontaneously combust in a parking garage. So

Executive Producer Tania: allegedly,

Crew Chief Brad: no, no, there’s no alleging. I’ve seen the videos and I’ve seen the footage.

Executive Producer Tania: The counter arguments always going to be that there’s far more gasoline cars that catch on fire. It’s not reported. As mainstream in the news and media, as we hear about electric.

So, but I

Crew Chief Brad: think that all goes down to volume too. The volume is so much higher in gasoline cars. I wonder if the percentage based on volume works out to be about the same.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, I don’t know. I haven’t looked at any numbers. I haven’t seen them. You got to pro rate up the number of EV cars versus gasoline and see how that’s comparable.

It’s a [00:20:00] valid point. I

Crew Chief Eric: just like the hybrid idea. I’m still not okay with being tethered to the grid. I’d rather have something super efficient. Generating electricity for me, whether it be hydrogen as an example, or, or diesel as an example, maybe propane is the answer. Some sort of little propane generator that, you know, you got a 20 pound bomb in the back.

Did you pick up blue Rhino at home Depot or something? I don’t know. If it could be self contained, then I would be okay with it. Look at this marketing

Executive Producer Tania: strategy. You drive to the campground, then unhitch your propane tank and fire up the grill. Ready to barbecue. Come on now.

Crew Chief Brad: Well, I will say I am all for being off the grid because as we’ve seen on the East Coast over the last week or so, when there’s the hint of a fuel shortage or something, the entire East Coast or country or whatever goes completely nuts and they buy it all up.

Crew Chief Eric: I got 22 gallon black trash bags full of gas. Do not lowball me. I know what I got. All right. [00:21:00] That’s all I’m going to say. Hey, yo, yo, yo. Is

Crew Chief Brad: that that premium?

Executive Producer Tania: Is that that premium joint? You better make sure it’s them like heavy duty, ultra grade contractor bags. I bought them at the dollar

Crew Chief Eric: store because I’m trying to maximize my profit.

All right.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, you could be like that guy. The guy that loaded up the back of the van with like back in some maybe it was a Chevrolet Express cargo van with like and apparently he didn’t secure it in such a way so he he bought I think 2, 000. Was it 2, 000? It was something ridiculous. It was a lot. 2, 000 worth of fuel.

He didn’t pack it correctly, if you will, store it correctly. And so he drives away and he’s pouring fuel out the back through like the back of the van down the road. That was money well spent.

Crew Chief Brad: Can I ask you a question though? And since you seem to be an expert, what is the proper way to safely secure fuel in a garbage bag?

Because you’re saying he didn’t do [00:22:00] it correctly. So that must mean that there is a correct way to store your fuel in a garbage bag.

Executive Producer Tania: I do not know if he was storing it in a garbage bag or just like open Rubbermaid totes.

Crew Chief Eric: Is this

Executive Producer Tania: the same

Crew Chief Eric: fool that lit a cigarette or was that another guy?

Crew Chief Brad: That was a guy on a Humvee.

Executive Producer Tania: Needless to say. Neither of those are proper ways to store or transport playable language. When I heard about all that nonsense,

Crew Chief Eric: I got phone calls from friends like, you gotta go kick ass. You gotta go kick ass now. And I’m like, what are you talking about? So the first thing I did was I stayed my ass home.

And you know what? A couple days later, there was no issues. But more importantly, I revisited that episode of sunny in Philadelphia, where they try to sell gas door to door. That’s all you needed to see in order to learn your lesson on this one. So if you haven’t seen that, I highly recommend it.

Crew Chief Brad: Can we go back to the gas crisis for a second?

Crew Chief Eric: Sure. Why not?

Crew Chief Brad: Because to your point, where the fuck were all these idiots going? Nobody’s going to work, we’re all [00:23:00] working from home.

Executive Producer Tania: That’s what I said, I’m like, we just lived through a year where you work from home. You’re telling me those people on the east coast couldn’t have spent an extra day working from home again?

Or whatever. Okay, fine. Maybe bring kids to school. I don’t know. I mean, what are you gonna do? Call your boss. Be like, My tank’s on zero. The gas station’s empty. What do you want me to do? Push it? Uh,

Crew Chief Eric: hello, Zoom?

Executive Producer Tania: You could not go to the mall, I guess. I don’t know where you’re going. Do

Crew Chief Eric: people

Crew Chief Brad: go to the mall?

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t know where they’re going, but you go to that club there for a day?

Crew Chief Brad: They used all that gas to get to the gas station to buy more gas.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s like a Russian doll thing. It’s like inception.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. They, they, they were low on gas. So they drove to the gas station to get gas and then you need to get more gas. So they drove to the other gas station to get gas. And they used all that gas they were getting at the gas station to get gas.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay. I want to know, I just want to, okay. Picture it. The east coast. Sicily, 19th. Yeah. The east coast, 2021. How are you [00:24:00] getting the gas out of the hefty bag back into the gas tank?

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t know. That was my question. Like, what were these people thinking when they got home with their rubber made Tupperware and their plastic bags?

They realized

Crew Chief Eric: that gas dissolves plastic, right?

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, eventually. They did

Crew Chief Brad: after they bought it.

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, that must’ve smelt real good in the car too. Like I hope they were running with their windows closed. Jeez. So, so all sorts of wrong, but as evidenced by the guy that tried to light a cigarette with the fuel in the car, this was a bad idea.

Bad.

Crew Chief Eric: I don’t know. There’s so many conspiracy theories too with all of this that it was a, you know, a thing to drive people to go buy EVs suddenly because what happens if you run out of gas? You know, all this bull crap. I’m like, but you can’t buy

Crew Chief Brad: cars right now because all the semiconductors are missing.

Executive Producer Tania: I think finally somebody got that email at work that said, you’ve won. Or your package is waiting and they click the link and it was fricking ransomware and they got a virus. I’m a Nigerian

Crew Chief Brad: prince and I [00:25:00] have 15 million dollars I need you to convert.

Executive Producer Tania: Because people are unfortunately careless or, you know, honestly, a lot of the phishing attacks are very sophisticated in the sense that sometimes they do a very good job of mimicking and if you’re not paying full attention.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay. I’m going to say, I’m going to say this. All right. I click

Executive Producer Tania: on nothing. Just like I don’t answer the phone. If I go,

Crew Chief Eric: I go to the next level, I go strong, bad, late nineties, deleted, deleted. I mean,

Executive Producer Tania: come on guys. It’s very simple. That little key

Crew Chief Eric: that says D L done. It

Executive Producer Tania: is. It is. I mean, there’s no excuse, but unfortunately it’s a reality.

So

Crew Chief Eric: it is. It is very unfortunate, but, uh, I mean,

Executive Producer Tania: the shocker is that that hasn’t happened sooner.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, the bigger shocker is that somebody’s work computer was actually connected to the SCADA systems that they use that control those types of environments that that should never happen. They’re supposed to be isolated completely.

And it just, I don’t know, there’s a lot going on there. I’m not going to nerd out on the it side of this, but it’s just, whatever.

Crew Chief Brad: But as a consumer goes, Only puts your fuel in a [00:26:00] certified container. Certified container to to hold it. Uh, and also don’t go buy all the fucking fuel.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, because that’s the other thing I was thinking too.

Leave some fuel for the EMS and the fire trucks and the police officers in case something happens. The species are shut down. I mean, come on.

Executive Producer Tania: Or how about people that were first responders or medical professionals that still have to go to work because they’re saving your life? They need to be able to have fuel in their car.

You don’t to go to the restaurant or McDonald’s drive thru

Crew Chief Brad: or pick up some mulch.

Crew Chief Eric: I’m sure we’re going to piss people off by saying this, but it’s just, you know, it’s, it’s that stay

Crew Chief Brad: home.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. I mean, cheese Louise after a year, come on. I mean, I see the same

Crew Chief Brad: thing after a snowstorm when the government shuts down for rain, they don’t shut down so you can go shopping.

They shut down so you can get home before the storm starts.

Crew Chief Eric: Exactly. It’s safety first. Right. And just, yeah. Again, whatever. But back to EVs. You know who else is getting their foot in the game?

Executive Producer Tania: Who is getting their foot in the game?

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, you know, they used to [00:27:00] make tractors way back in the day. And then they got John Deere.

No, they worked for Enzo Ferrari and they got pissed off. And now they’re owned by Germans. Lamborghini’s getting into EV game.

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, they’re part of the VAG family, right?

Crew Chief Eric: That’s right.

Executive Producer Tania: So it shouldn’t be that hard for them.

Crew Chief Eric: It really isn’t. It’s not a stretch. No,

Executive Producer Tania: it

Crew Chief Eric: is a Lamborghini, like hyper car. And when you look at it straight out of Mattel, right?

This looks like a shark. Yeah, it looks like something off the Hot Wheels, made it up in the laboratory design. Going back to the roots of Lamborghini, slapping people in the face with designs that they’ve never seen before. I’ve never seen a car that looks quite like this.

Crew Chief Brad: I have in every Hot Wheels collection that I’ve ever gotten.

I bet you they contracted the design with Hot Wheels.

Crew Chief Eric: I kind of like it, but I kind of don’t at the same time. I think I’d [00:28:00] like to see something that isn’t a rendering. It’s a little Forza esque, the pictures that are out there, but I think they’ve run out of bull names too. So I don’t know what they’re going to call this one either, but to Tanya’s point, it’s the Porsche and Audi PPE platform underneath.

So again, it’s nothing. They’re not really reinventing the wheel. Curious to see where they take it, but I’m excited that Lamborghini is getting in the fight too. Why not?

Crew Chief Brad: It looks like it’s ready to go off one of those giant orange jumps and do the hoop.

Crew Chief Eric: Yep. A hundred percent. What’s really cool though is the Brits, man.

I got to tip my hat to them because if you look at them in the history of automotive design and innovation, The Brits have really been at the forefront of things. Now, they haven’t always gone to plan. A lot of things have gone pear shaped. And as we learned on our British owners episode, they kind of continue to trudge down the road regardless of whether the idea was good, bad, or indifferent.

But I got to hand it to a recent set of entrepreneurs. They’re [00:29:00] taking old cars and retrofitting EV power plants into old British roadsters. Now this isn’t a new concept, but what’s new and different is a number one. They’re not using Tesla power plants. They’re using a EV system from a company called electrogenic.

Other thing they’re doing is they’re adapting these electrogenic power plants to the existing drive train of the vehicles, retaining original layout, original suspension, and manual transmissions. So they’ve completed conversions on two cars, neither of which are really. Anything to write home about one is a triumph stag, which is like, it’s interesting if you’re a Brit and you know, if you like those cars, it’s not my cup of tea or Earl Gray, I guess in this case, but the one that is interesting is the Morgan plus four that they converted to Evie power.

And I think that’s really, really cool. But in addition to that, Gotta love the Brits. And GM of UK is not [00:30:00] necessarily dead yet. Neither is the European, you know, arm of it in Germany. And so, you know, we talked about the lightning being an appropriate name for the E 150. Opal’s badge has always been a lightning bolt, you know, going back to way back when.

And, you know, Mike Crutchfield has hinted more than once that they were going to bring back Opal as an ev. Well, we got a first glimpse of it thanks to top gear, and they are teasing the Opal, manta, GSE, with an EV power plant, rear wheel drive, and a manual gearbox. And the people rejoice. This car looks.

Sick. I like the original Opel Manta. My grandparents had one. If I could get this car over here, I would definitely be in line to go test drive one. I think this is really, really cool. And I like this idea of these restomods. I’ve seen this with Alfa Romeos. Now we’re seeing it with the British cars and whatnot.

I think this is the way to go. So tip my hat to these guys out in Britain for doing this and we’ll see what comes next. We’ll be talking about more [00:31:00] retro cars. With EV swaps in the future. So pretty cool.

Crew Chief Brad: I love everything about this car, the color, the style. It’s amazing. I want one so bad.

Executive Producer Tania: You’re even keeping the black hood.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. That’s a signature Opel Manta thing. The flat black hood.

Crew Chief Brad: It reminds me of an old skyline.

Crew Chief Eric: Absolutely. At that time period, they all kind of look the same. You know, we saw that even in the 80s where they’re all copying each other and whatnot, but there’s a last hurrah for Britain as well. Let’s talk about one of Brad’s favorite brands.

Let’s go to

Crew Chief Brad: Lotus.

Executive Producer Tania: What about the Lotus, Brad?

Crew Chief Brad: So Lotus is coming out with a successor to the Elise and the Exige called Lotus. The Amira. I think all their names start with an E.

Crew Chief Eric: That is correct. Once they switched away from the type and number, which was the naming system they used in the early days, they went to all cars named with the letter E.

Crew Chief Brad: And the Amira is going to be the last internal combustion car that Lotus makes.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh wow. And

Crew Chief Brad: arrives on July 6th.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s sad. Not that far away, as a matter of fact.

Crew Chief Brad: [00:32:00] No, it’s about a month or so away. Month and a half away.

Crew Chief Eric: I think it looks pretty neat, all honesty. It looks like a shrunken Ferrari almost from certain angles, especially the nose, reminiscent of the LaFerrari in a way.

It looks

Crew Chief Brad: just like that Ferrari Stradale or whatever that came out. Not too long ago, like one off car or whatever, or the bike or something or other, especially

Crew Chief Eric: in the red color that they’re showing it in. It very much looks like a Ferrari. I think it’s a cool evolution of the Elise and the Exige platform as a final hurrah for Lotus.

I think that’s neat. I’d be curious to see what it looks like in person and what it drives. I’m sure it won’t be too far off of the current Elise platform anyway. Let’s see what happens. Are they going to jam an EV in it later? I’m curious. You know, maybe it’s the beginning of things to come.

Crew Chief Brad: We’ll get to find out both because I guarantee you, Andrew Bank has already put in his order for one.

Crew Chief Eric: Ain’t that the truth. So if anybody’s interested, there is a, uh, 72D, at least for sale. Just contact Andrew Bank. But in [00:33:00] keeping up with the times, we would be remiss.

Executive Producer Tania: Didn’t transition and have some terrible news. I mean, not generally very exciting. We’ve mentioned this before. Tesla profitability is all very confusing,

Crew Chief Eric: isn’t it though?

Executive Producer Tania: Cause they’re quote unquote, we sell so many cars, blah, blah, blah. Ooh, our profits are so great, but without personally going through their financial sheet about the first time, you know, allegedly, you know, most of their profits come from the carbon credit selling that they do and not from the actual car sales.

And so they. been selling credits, carbon credits to some of the major manufacturers, such as

Stellantis.

So, and you know, and others, and not surprisingly as Stellantis or, you know, Ford or GM or Volkswagen, all these people start generating their own EVs. They’re going to be getting their own credits and no longer need to buy off of [00:34:00] Tesla.

And Solantis has already said that they’re going to save themselves some do re mi and pull out of whatever purchasing agreements they have, which will cost, I think, somewhere near to the tune of 240 million to Tesla that they will lose. So considering apparently first quarter 2021 was something like 533 million pre tax income.

Now they’re going to lose 240. That’s pretty significant chunk of profit sheet. Now, if

Crew Chief Eric: you’ve been continuing to follow our sub thread of Unsolved mysteries with respect to Stellantis, which Brad usually prefaces by saying, how the hell can they still maintain 700 horsepower V8s on 400 year old Mercedes chassis?

No, no, no,

Crew Chief Brad: no, no. My, I usually say, thank God they can still produce 700 horsepower V8 monster motors, but

Crew Chief Eric: this is the reason why they can remember we said they walk in the door and they go, I don’t give a shit about anything. They’re buying these credits from Tesla so they can continue to produce things [00:35:00] like the Hellcat.

I mean, it all makes sense now. So if what Tanya is saying is true and Chrysler is going back on that, or Stellantis rather, that means that might be the death knell for cars. Like the track Hawk, the Hellcats, the, you know, the demon, all that kind of stuff, whatever’s got that engine, that Hemi in it.

Crew Chief Brad: Why couldn’t they use those credits for their diesels?

Crew Chief Eric: That’s just a sore, sore subject.

But as we said, months and months ago, as the majors were waiting. To see what happened and begin to tool up and develop their EVs. They’re going to take their pot shots at Tesla. So what’s coming next on you?

Executive Producer Tania: This question was asked last month because it was like, Hey, what is Mercedes doing? I haven’t heard anything yet.

Well, funny that was asked [00:36:00] because they’re coming out in 2022 with their Mercedes Benz EQS. Which is going to be their all electric entry into this realm. Brad, you look puzzled.

Crew Chief Brad: Do you mean the Mercedes Volt? Because that’s exactly what it looks like. Mercedes Chevrolet Volt.

Crew Chief Eric: I’ll give you that. It does look like a Volt.

It is being labeled a Tesla fighter. I don’t know. I will

Executive Producer Tania: say when I was like, Oh yes, Mercedes. Oh. And then when I saw it, I was like, Oh

Crew Chief Brad: no, Mercedes, what have you done?

Executive Producer Tania: Um, no, couldn’t you all really maybe it’ll look better.

Crew Chief Brad: No, no, it won’t. It looks like, you know what it looks like. If you’ve ever been to a sporting event and they’ve got those, uh, the inflatable flying around drone vehicles, That’s exactly what it looks like.

I expect to see this floating around a capitals game at the arena someday.

Crew Chief Eric: No, I just want them to get rid of the EQS or whatever they’re [00:37:00] calling it and put a BLA so we can just go, what do you drive? I drive a blog.

Executive Producer Tania: Unfortunately from its profile, it has some very Tesla reminiscent lines to it and it’s like, come on Mercedes.

Yeah, no.

And then

from the back, I don’t know if in the back, if the, if the Mercedes emblem wasn’t on there, I think it was Buick. But not even like the Buick of today, which is actually like, that’s a Buick.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s your grandfather’s grandfather’s Buick. But

Executive Producer Tania: this is like 10 years ago, Buick.

Crew Chief Eric: Don’t forget, we still got like the Lucid Air and like all these other cars that are back there that are that are chomping at Tesla’s bit, you know, trying to get in there.

And so I don’t know, Mercedes, come on. We just talked about the Brits. Just take a GLA. Or a C class and dump an EV in it and go boom. And everybody goes, ah, it’s amazing. It’s kind of like the e tron idea, right? It’s like revolutionized on the design you already have. And then retrofit the EV power plant into it.

Everybody expects a certain level of design, quality and style [00:38:00] from Mercedes. But this thing I’m with you, Brad, it looks like something from GM 15 years ago. I saw

Crew Chief Brad: basically when it comes to Tesla competition. I say Audi and Porsche winning. They’ve got the best looking Tesla fighters. Especially the

Crew Chief Eric: Tay.

I gotta, I gotta tip my hat to the Taycan. It’s way better than the Panamera. From every angle, it’s not bad. You’re kind of like, Hey, we got the four door 911 finally right after 35 years of trying it. It doesn’t look bad. It’s got good numbers and Porsche. It’s going to take them a minute. Maybe they’re not necessarily concerned with 600 miles of range or whatever, but they’re going to build.

A fighter jet.

Executive Producer Tania: So I stopped listening

to you for half a second because you said GLA, then something else. And if they’re going to go retro, could we like a 300 SL going or even in like an AMG going all electric? Like, please, please. That sounds like a

Crew Chief Brad: prime candidate for the electrogenic motor swap.

Crew Chief Eric: I give you that too.

It’ll be unaffordable, but I would love to [00:39:00] see it.

Crew Chief Brad: Absolutely.

Crew Chief Eric: I’d like to see that in more cars, that’s for sure. But since we’re, you know, kind of ragging on GM a little bit, one of our favorite cars to talk about, not the HHR Geometric Convertible? That’s right! You got it! And GM is bringing something very similar to the table.

It’s She took a big breath out on that one. I mean, it’s

Executive Producer Tania: some sort of joint venture with, with the Chinese company. I don’t know. I’m sure this thing is called mini Evie. It has

Crew Chief Eric: no

Executive Producer Tania: name. Like I literally think it’s named as mini Evie. It’s very small. If you’ve seen the Honda go. It looks like a Honda go, but worse.

Crew Chief Eric: Yes.

Executive Producer Tania: The Honda goes much better looking this size stature of a car. It’s not even, I think it’s got like a top speed in the 60 miles an hour. I mean, it’s something great. If you’re living in a congested town where you’re not going to be. Oh, the range numbers are

Crew Chief Eric: terrible. It’s like 75 miles of range and a 13.

[00:40:00] 9 battery.

Executive Producer Tania: Densely populated areas where you’re just going from A to B or small rural country. This is not for getting on the highway and crossing cities or anything like that. I’m sure it’ll find a home.

Crew Chief Eric: No, but it’s the first K car. In the modern time. So when I looked at it, I was like, it’s a geometric convertible for 2021.

It’s, it is exactly what it’s trying to be. And to your point in a small congested, you know, a city area like Japan or China, it’s perfect. It’s, you know, the size of a shopping cart and it’ll get you to and from your house. And that’s pretty much it.

Executive Producer Tania: This is really difficult to say, but the Geo Metro convertible might be.

Better

Crew Chief Eric: looking, especially with John Cena driving it.

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, this thing is very similar to the Honda go, but the Honda go is a thousand times better looking. Like, I mean, anyway, at any rate, there’s another one. We’re not seeing it. So we don’t have to worry about that.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. It doesn’t matter. Cause I don’t want to see it anyway.

Crew Chief Eric: But you know, [00:41:00] what was cool though about that article. And if you’re looking at the show notes and you scroll down, there’s a video on there that says Honda brings past the future with urban EV concept. That’s not the Honda go that we’re looking at, that we’ve been talking about. But whatever that is, it looks like an old CCBC civic.

I really like whatever that is in the video. I think it looks super cool. It’s got old flares, like a GTI. I’m in love with those, like. 93 spoke wheels that it has, you know, they look like fans. I mean, fantastic looking car, whatever that is. I want to know more about that, but I think that was from, you know, 20 years ago or something, but still, I think it’s super cool looking, you know, I’ll post that in the show notes as well.

So ignore the, uh, the GM and go straight for that Honda video.

Crew Chief Brad: You mean like people do in the car park?

Crew Chief Eric: Exactly. You know, we would be remiss if we didn’t just find random car adjacent things to talk about in this particular segment. And one of them that got me [00:42:00] really scratching my head the other day was when I was searching on newegg.

com and realize they now sell car parts? Did anybody realize that? Is this like the end of Newegg? But then I also came to find out that they quietly went IPO this past week. And so I’m like, Huh, that’s kind of weird. Yeah, I’m not sure. So maybe Newegg will be the new advanced auto or something online and we can order car parts and stuff.

I mean, I looked at the catalog. There’s an interesting array of things, accessories and stuff to wash your car. And I’m not going to probably buy oil filters from there, but just, you know, if you want to save a buck or two, maybe check out newegg. com and see if they’ve got something that you could use.

Can’t actually buy on Amazon?

Crew Chief Brad: I will say that they are accepting multiple different currencies, especially Dogecoin. So anybody who’s got some Dogecoin lying around Is that like Doge? Is that Dogecoin? Yeah, whatever. Dogecoin. I say Doge because it’s a dog. What the fuck is a Doge? Doge. [00:43:00]

Crew Chief Eric: That’s

Crew Chief Brad: awesome.

Crew Chief Eric: One of the things we got to talk about in this section is, you know, we just recently concluded our second annual off roading event here.

It was hot. It was the hotness. And if you missed out, you got to check out our YouTube channel and go visit all the videos that we posted. I went through and actually edited down a bunch of. Very interesting moments that we had over the course of, you know, two and a half days that we were there, interestingly enough, maybe it’s big brother watching or the, you know, the ad machine, you know, sending me all the targeted, you know, nonsense that it constantly does, but I came across this video from a Utah Canyon of a rescue team pulling up a Jeep using a square body.

So I had to click on it and I had to watch it 12 and a half minutes later, condensed. It’s down from 90 minutes of them rescuing this Rubicon from the bottom of this canyon. It was interesting to see how they did the rescue. They had a 383 cubic inch square body tow truck hooked [00:44:00] up to it. Yeah. It looked like Mater basically, but a square body, you know, hooked up to this Rubicon, which apparently had broken its rear axle.

E brake was stuck, like all this crazy stuff. In order to get it up this really steep hill of 30 plus degrees of incline, they hooked an XJ to it, which I thought was. The XJ had kind of no problem just, you know, working its way up the mountain, but it was there to act as front ballast to keep the square body down.

And then at one point they had a second XJ to pull the other XJ. So it was like this, you know, donkey train going up the hill. You know, I watched this whole video and I got to the top, I got to the end of it. And there was one thing that really stood out to me. You know, I was really proud of these guys.

They rescued this dude from the bottom of the canyon. And there was one thing that I noticed. And Brad, would you like to guess what it was?

Crew Chief Brad: That the square body did not catch fire. Boom!

Crew Chief Eric: There were no fire extinguishers used in this off road adventure. And if you want to find out more about that story, again, check out our YouTube page and find out how we off road square bodies.

Crew Chief Brad: Disclaimer, no square bodies were injured in the making of this [00:45:00] video.

Crew Chief Eric: Sick burn. Shout out to Shane Hopkins for being the only person smart enough to bring a fire extinguisher. I brought the hot dogs. I mean, we could have grilled them right there.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh, I know.

Executive Producer Tania: So speaking of tragedies, um, it was a

Crew Chief Brad: comedy.

Executive Producer Tania: Speaking of tragedies and possible insurance claims, there was a story that is actually a little, a little bit old. We missed reporting on it last month. So in Italy, somebody’s. Ferrari 812 GTS needed a little bit of cleaning. Needed a bath. Owner didn’t want to, want to wash it by hand. So letting it roll into a lake was a better alternative.

So this actually happened to Lago di Garda, which is Lake Garda, which I’ve been to and had a big article. where he talks about where it went off. I’m like, I’ve been there. I have a picture of this now forming in my head. Apparently, I don’t know, [00:46:00] he had it parked and it rolled away into the water. This sounds very

probably.

Possibly. Yeah.

400, 000 Ferrari you just accidentally somehow leave it out of gear and it rolls into a lake. I don’t know the details but that’s really unfortunate for the car because I’m sure it was totaled.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s bad when you feel worse for the car than for the owner, you know. I don’t care about the

Crew Chief Brad: jabroni that owned it.

It’s probably the same dude that took that Veyron for a swim a few years ago. Oh, man. Looking for that insurance payout.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, speaking of cars that ended up being wrecked, remember the Tuatara, the record setting Tuatara?

Crew Chief Brad: I’m glad you said it correctly this time.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, I’ve, I’ve been studying for months now to get it correct.

But anyway, the record holding alleged 300 and 37 billion mile an hour to a Tara touted as the fastest production car in the world. [00:47:00] You would imagine that the owner of the vehicle probably wrecked the car. And that wasn’t the case. A strong wind blew it off of the transport that it was on. No, it

Executive Producer Tania: didn’t blow it.

It toppled the transporter over so high, wherever it was. High profile vehicles were advised that they should not be traveling down this highway. That’s right. We’re so strong.

Crew Chief Brad: I thought this thing was more aerodynamic than that.

Executive Producer Tania: Not when it’s inside an enclosed trailer.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s, that’s a shame. I don’t know how many more of these that they’ve sold, but this was. VIN number one for this particular Tuatara. Uh, It was

Executive Producer Tania: headed to none other than Florida.

Crew Chief Eric: Do

Executive Producer Tania: another, uh, I think to do some more high speed tests. Well

Crew Chief Eric: then, then it was destined to end up in a swamp. So nevermind.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s unfortunate to see.

Crew Chief Brad: That is terrible.

Crew Chief Eric: Meanwhile, Bugatti’s building crazy cars that we can’t even talk about right now. They have no names and they look. Like they’re from [00:48:00] Star Trek. So they’re

Crew Chief Brad: all grand the test, the test, grand the test. We

Crew Chief Eric: will talk about them on a future drive thru episode. As we learn more about these crazy Bugattis that are going to take down the Tuatara and it’s top speed record because Bugatti will not be outdone.

And I applaud every minute of that back to Florida, since we’re talking about Florida.

Executive Producer Tania: We were sort of adjacent all roads adjacent to Florida , all roads lead, all roads lead to Florida. This one isn’t very funny and, and it’s not the first time it’s happened either. This woman had a projectile come through her windshield as she was driving and like it practically killed her.

I mean, this is very serious, only to realize that it was a. turtle that got kicked up from another vehicle and was sent, you know, the shell, the projectile, and it went through the windshield of her car. This is the first time this has happened in some other states down the east coast as well. It just became funny in my mind

because I have,

Crew Chief Eric: I have a [00:49:00] question I have to ask.

Was the turtle shell red? Green or blue

Executive Producer Tania: or orange. No, wait, red, green or blue. It was red or

red, orange, purple or blue. Either way, a Super Mario Kart. That’s all I’m saying.

Oh, Super Mario.

Crew Chief Brad: Tanya totally went to the comics.

Executive Producer Tania: I went to Eric

Crew Chief Brad: went to Nintendo.

Crew Chief Eric: I just had this vision of it getting hit by a turtle and

Crew Chief Brad: off it goes

Crew Chief Eric: to the side of the road.

Crew Chief Brad: Did her car spin around and she stopped and was like, I know it’s not funny, it’s not funny, but

Executive Producer Tania: luckily that’s where they

Crew Chief Brad: got the idea. Is her name princess toadstool?

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t think they named her.

Crew Chief Brad: Well, we’re naming her princess toadstool. That’s at princess toadstool on Instagram.

Executive Producer Tania: She was an elderly woman, apparently 71 years old.

She was her, however, the turtle apparently. Survive

Crew Chief Brad: because he was in a shell.

Executive Producer Tania: Hopefully he retracted his body parts. Yeah, [00:50:00]

Crew Chief Brad: he was protected.

Executive Producer Tania: That’s scary though. Can I, I mean, turtle shells are really hard. So if that came through your windshield, I mean, it could. I want to know

Crew Chief Eric: what kind of vehicle grabbed it and just shot it up as like a cannonball.

You know, that’d be interesting. It was

Crew Chief Brad: a falling over Tuatara.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, is that what it was? I mean, we’ll call a guy from Mythbusters and see how it’s doable. Right?

Executive Producer Tania: Maybe it was this guy in Florida who was driving over a hundred miles an hour and a 45 mile an hour zone.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, was that a police officer?

Executive Producer Tania: No, it was a guy that claims he was just trying to get back to Cuba.

Crew Chief Eric: What?

Executive Producer Tania: What was he going to do when he hit the end of the beach?

Crew Chief Brad: He was going to go so fast that he just treaded water all the Oh, it’s like Fast

Executive Producer Tania: and the Furious. Was it the fourth one where they shot out of the mountain and they were flying? Exactly. Now you got it. Oh.

Crew Chief Brad: Well, they got to get over the wall somehow.

Crew Chief Eric: How

Executive Producer Tania: many bags

Crew Chief Eric: of gas did he

Executive Producer Tania: have in the trunk? How far, how far is Cuba by car? [00:51:00] Maybe it’s an amphibious vehicle.

Maybe it was, you know, they didn’t say that. I don’t think it said what the vehicle was. Maybe it was the toy

Crew Chief Eric: boater.

Executive Producer Tania: Maybe it was an old beetle.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, how fast do those duck boats in DC go? You know, the ones that drive into town and then go out on the Potomac.

Crew Chief Brad: They don’t go a hundred miles an hour

Crew Chief Eric: with a big enough blower. They sure do.

Executive Producer Tania: But speaking of speeders, there was also a gentleman in Kentucky was driving his brand new Ford Mustang. How fast do we think he was going in his GT Ford Mustang?

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, it’s a five Oh coyote. So 15. 15

Executive Producer Tania: over? They leave cars and coffee faster than that.

15

Crew Chief Eric: miles an hour. I’m gonna say a buck and a quarter.

Executive Producer Tania: If you add the 15 to it, we’re getting close.

Crew Chief Eric: Really?

Executive Producer Tania: So he was apparently clocked doing [00:52:00] 143 miles an hour in 16 minutes. 70 mile an hour zone.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay. Double the speed

Executive Producer Tania: limit.

Crew Chief Brad: That sounds illegal.

Executive Producer Tania: The cops were in a pursuit of him. Apparently a lengthy pursuit.

Not sure how long this pursuit lasted. However, it ended. How do we think it ended?

I’m going to say

Crew Chief Brad: jail time. Fiery crash.

Executive Producer Tania: I’m pretty sure the jail time is probably correct, but no, he ran out of gas. He did not

Crew Chief Brad: have enough bags with him. So please have more bags.

Executive Producer Tania: How sad is that? You’re doing 143 and it’s like cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck and you’re like NOOOOO and you just

coast on down MONICA!

Crew Chief Eric: If only I had some hefty bags

Crew Chief Brad: Hefty, hefty

Crew Chief Eric: I just like the lengthy chase part of this because What’s the top speed of a panther? I mean, or of a crown. No, a panther, a panther.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh, I see. It wasn’t a panther. It was a charger.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, well, all right. Well, that’s yeah. Well, it [00:53:00] had cylinder deactivation, so it could only run in four cylinder mode.

That explains that. Well, you know, speaking of fun times, I came across an oldie, but a goodie. And if you haven’t seen this video, it is the most. Excellent red mist video you have ever seen. And if you don’t know what red mist is, this is this condition you get at the track where you get target fixated behind another vehicle and you drive really, really hard to catch that vehicle.

You got to check this out because This dude in a Porsche is chasing a Mustang and it’s that typical, the Porsche is all over him in the turns and the Mustang has got him on the straights and it’s this accordion back and forth. But the stuff that’s coming out of this guy’s mouth is absolutely hilarious, but I will just end it with my nemesis.

I will have you.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh my God. He’s so good. It is

Crew Chief Eric: so good.

Crew Chief Brad: Isn’t it his, the guy’s brother, like he’s racing with his brother.

Crew Chief Eric: I think it is, but it’s an [00:54:00] absolutely hilarious video and it just gets better and better and better. And then finally, and not to spoil it, you know what? I’m not going to spoil it. You got to watch it because the ending is fantastic.

It’s absolutely fantastic.

Executive Producer Tania: It was remiss of me to forget to mention this one. Guess what it’s about? Tesla. Oh, And not to pick on them,

but

to pick on them

in I like how she always says that, not to pick on Tesla, but we’re gonna, we’re gonna poke the bear again. But they

make themselves pick on able because Is that even proper English?

I know, don’t you like it? They make themselves pick on able because they’re the only ones I feel like that are really touting their self driving, full time, level 897 awesomeness. Driving capability drives itself.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay, listeners. She’s on the soapbox. Be prepared. No.

Executive Producer Tania: No. Because, yes, I went in the soapbox with It’s not full self driving.

And it proved, [00:55:00] once again, how it’s not. When it crashed into a parked police car. Smashed up the front of this Ford Exploder. Because it couldn’t see it. There is something

Crew Chief Eric: with the cherries and berries. It freaks out the Tesla computers. I’m telling you, this is like the third story of this already.

Executive Producer Tania: So here’s the thing.

The police officer pulled over because there was some other vehicle that had crashed to a pole on the side of the road. Maybe it was a Mustang. I don’t know. He was pulled over, but he also positioned himself in such a way that he was partially sort of in the lane of traffic to cause people to slow down.

Like, we’ve all kind of seen this. It’s dangerous, but if it’s a small road, small highway, okay, big deal. Your eyes should be looking, but it was on the side of the road. Light splashing was partially in the road. So the guy was in self driving mode and figured the car was going to slow down or move. Guess what?

It didn’t. The dude got ticketed, which he should because he should have fucking moved himself. Oh man.

Crew Chief Eric: They’re the same ones that throughout this miniature gas [00:56:00] crisis we had, I’ve been standing there like the, uh, the aristocracy going, look at you all with your hefty bags of gasoline. We run on unicorn farts.

Oh, just horrendous. So I guess it’s time to move on and go behind the wall and talk about some motor sports news. I

Crew Chief Brad: mean, if we want to talk about F1, there were some races, Lewis Hamilton won. Yet again, 100

Crew Chief Eric: polls or 100 finishes. Now some, he broke some other record that Is it going to be unobtainable by anybody else?

Crew Chief Brad: Go to F1. com if you want to find out. We don’t really care. I mean,

Crew Chief Eric: here’s the bigger problem I have, right? I mean, yeah, Shumi won, what, seven times in a row? And you had so many people win so many times in a row. But the problem is, with Hamilton winning so much, yes, he’s breaking all the records, but it’s going to be impossible For anybody to break his record until he retires.

So we’re going to be like in this drama forever. It’s just like, Oh yeah, here’s Hamilton yet again. Go do something else. [00:57:00] Matter.

Crew Chief Brad: If somebody breaks his records in the same car, again, a Mercedes. Cause I mean,

Crew Chief Eric: I want to see Hamilton drive somebody else’s car, go drive the. The Haas car, go drive the Force India car, go drive something else, not the McLaren.

Like if you’re that good, here’s a Geo Metro convertible. Let’s go. You know what I mean? It’s like, I don’t know. It’s the best, best team. It’s like the Forza guys, right? Good on you for picking the fastest car in the game with the leaderboard tune.

Crew Chief Brad: I still think Andy Pilgrim is a better driver than Hamilton, because he comes out to the track in a Kia.

Crew Chief Eric: And I have proof of that.

Crew Chief Brad: And he schools people in that Kia.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s true. But at any rate. Well, he was in star at a reasonably priced car on Top Gear. Remember the, uh, whatever that piece of crap was that they had way back when. In the rain, he set the fastest lap time way back when. Never to be outdone.

Crew Chief Brad: Lewis Hamilton did?

Crew Chief Eric: Yes. But we’re all like, who cares? It doesn’t matter.

Crew Chief Brad: Snoozefest. Who cares? Yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: 100%. [00:58:00] There’s some changes this year in the schedule, just like last year at Formula One.

Crew Chief Brad: GTM members, start booking your flights to Miami now, because in 2022 Welcome to Miami.

Executive Producer Tania: Bienvenido a Miami.

Crew Chief Eric: The reason Miami is interesting is because they’re touting it as a replacement for Koda.

Executive Producer Tania: What?! It’s not supposed to be a replacement for COJA. The problem is it might inevitably become one because the contract with Austin, or the contract with Texas, I guess, because Texas tax dollars goes to the F1 race every year, and the contract is up this year. Hence, the new contract with Miami starting, I think, next year.

The part of the stipulation was Austin could be the only US F1 race. So what you gonna do, Texas, if now Miami’s gonna have an F1 race? That’s more than one.

Crew Chief Brad: All that does is screw the fans.

Executive Producer Tania: Having a

Crew Chief Brad: stipulation like that, it’s [00:59:00] stupid.

Executive Producer Tania: Shouldn’t we want more? I mean, Italy’s got 15

Crew Chief Brad: F1 races in one year.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, man, it’s like one per county.

Every time you turn around in Italy

Crew Chief Brad: at a new track.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, it’s like one per province. It’s perfect. But speaking of screwing over the fans, the Formula One Grand Prix of Canada has been cancelled again. So that means no spectators, no poutine, and no Formula One in Canada this year. It has to do with the Canadian travel restrictions, the COVID vaccination rules, all that kind of stuff.

And the fact that basically Montreal’s track is on an island and it’s very difficult to get in and out of. So if you wanted to create a cesspool for COVID transmission, the Formula One Grand Prix of Canada is where it’s at. So I don’t know. Begrudge them for the decision that they’ve made. I think it’s actually pretty smart erring on the side of safety until Canada and Montreal, the province of Quebec can kind of get everything under control, then we will see formula one return to Montreal.

It’s a fun race from the people I’ve talked to that have gone there in person. It’s a fantastic sport. We were actually [01:00:00] looking forward to going to the F1 Grand Prix of Canada last year, but then, you know, COVID shut it all down and ticket sales for that race sell out super quick. And I assume that when it does reopen, you’re going to be hard pressed to get tickets to the Canadian Grand Prix.

So looking forward to that. In addition, there was a video that came out on YouTube. It was kind of, you know, just going around. Uh, it’s the evolution of F1. Check it out. Kind of fun. We’ll link to it in the show notes. It just shows the progression through the years and all different cars and drivers and whatnot.

That kind of wraps up our Formula One news and leads us into the nothingness of anything interesting with respect to WRC IMSA. Or anything else, but we do have some other disciplines we want to talk about. So over the bread,

Crew Chief Brad: we had a drag racing episode not too long ago, where we got to talk with, I would call him professional drag racer, Bobby parks and black nasty.

He does more of the, uh, the small tire, uh, no prep, uh, drag racing now, but he was, uh, he does hold an NHRA license. I believe he [01:01:00] talked to us about the EV revolution and how the NHRA could possibly open up a class. And a lot of, uh, future drag racing could be done by EVs. Well, it has been determined that the NHRA is adding the EV class to the Grassroots Sportsman Series starting next year, 2022.

Personally, I think, I mean, this is inevitable. I mean, with the gas crisis on the East Coast and the EV revolution. More and more things like this are going to happen as in more and more internal combustion classes and things like that are going to start getting phased out probably over the next 15, 20 years, there may not be internal combustion anything.

Crew Chief Eric: Meanwhile, in Australia, where it’s still like 1986.

Crew Chief Brad: V8 supercars are still a thing.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, heck yeah! We’re burnin that dick! Dinosaur blood in Australia. This came across my desk by way of Garage Riot and a couple other sites where these guys in Australia are creating quite the stir by drag racing a Lamborghini Countach.

Executive Producer Tania: Wow. That’s

Crew Chief Eric: [01:02:00] yeah, it’s got a hell of a roots blower on it. That’s not where the motor belongs. As far as I remember how the Countach was built.

Crew Chief Brad: That’s a Fiero.

Crew Chief Eric: In reality, it’s a two frame car with a fiberglass body on top of it made to resemble Lamborghini Countach and it has upset a lot of people, but the owners and the team that run this car have decided they’re going to continue to run with it because it’s getting them publicity. I think it’s pretty cool.

And I watched the passes that they did and whatever motors in that thing is nasty. And I will say this, it’s doing sixes at 200 plus mile an hour. It is a quick car. And you know what? That wedge shape, good choice. It’s aerodynamic. And the way they have it raked, it works. And it’s the right color too, black.

I’m all about it. Good on you guys. But there’s another form of racing that I know Tanya absolutely adores. We got to talk about it yet again.

Executive Producer Tania: There’s more downhill Power Wheels racing?

Crew Chief Eric: Better believe it! As a throwback [01:03:00] Thursday, we went back to Hyperfest 2019 and watched not a downhill, you know, as we’ve seen it in the past where we’re going down a ski slope or down a mud or whatever.

This was actually downhill on a racetrack. And the action was pretty intent. No, hold on, hold on,

Crew Chief Brad: hold on. I recognize these curves. Is this VIR?

Crew Chief Eric: I believe it is. Yes.

Crew Chief Brad: There you go.

Crew Chief Eric: But can you imagine coming down roller coaster in a Power Wheels?

Executive Producer Tania: No.

Crew Chief Brad: I love the steering wheel quick release.

Executive Producer Tania: I love the guy that flips over at like, I don’t know.

I think after a minute seven or something. That’s awesome. That’s all I’m saying.

Crew Chief Eric: That is awesome. We should do that. Actually, we should try to organize that for one of our next events. So, Brad, what do you think? Should we campaign a power wheels car once my, my kids are done with them?

Crew Chief Brad: I mean, dude, I’ve been saying we should campaign a Pikes Peak hill climb car forever.

So, yes, this will be. How long

Crew Chief Eric: would it take us to go up in a power wheels?

Crew Chief Brad: Pike’s Peak, 15 days.

Executive Producer Tania: This is like a Flintstone style so you can get extra oomph with your feet.

Crew Chief Brad: We’re going to have to pick [01:04:00] the car up and carry it up Pike’s Peak because it’s not going to make it on its own.

Crew Chief Eric: It’ll have a little diesel generator.

So we’re going to link to that video in the show notes as well. So check it out. Those Power Wheels races are an absolute riot. I think it leads us into Our final segment, which is kind of wrapping up with some GTM news and talking about some events. You know, we go to VIR every year. I don’t know when we’re going this year.

I usually kind of spur the moment there. We alluded to the off road adventure. So Brad, you know, how was it? What did you think?

Crew Chief Brad: I thought it was awesome. I love camping and I love the camaraderie hanging out with my friends and everything. And I mean, who doesn’t like going out wheeling and rock climbing and crawling through mud and all that stuff.

And, you know, you get a little square body barbecue on the side.

Crew Chief Eric: But on top of that, we also got to get together with a previous guest of the show. We had Dan Ralph from the silver monster episode, who was also on truck night in America. He brought out not the silver monster, but his other 4BT Cummins powered Land Rover known as the [01:05:00] beast.

And we have a video of that as well. That thing is. Amazingly good. We did have an interesting end to our weekend with the beast and we caught that on film as well. So you go ahead and check that out. But on top of that, I really got to say that can am that our new member, Shane from the mountain region brought out, you wrote in it, uh, Matt wrote in it.

I wrote in it. That thing is phenomenal when you show up. To the campsite with a can. Am that’s like showing up to the track with a Porsche GT three. Absolutely. And for the listeners,

Crew Chief Brad: I believe it was a Can Am Maverick

Crew Chief Eric: X three. Yes. Correct.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s a, AKA the Batmobile tumbler. Cause that’s exactly what it looks like.

Insane. That thing was, it went through everything.

Crew Chief Eric: And, you know, and he didn’t have the opportunity all the time to really rip into it, but when you can open the tap on that thing and really let it drink, let’s say sub, you know, thousand CC with a turbocharger, it does zero to 90 in like the blink of an eye.

I mean, if that thing was track legal, [01:06:00] it’d be really interesting to see what it could do.

Crew Chief Brad: Interesting to find out if it actually is track legal. And to, to another point, just another little tidbit about the off road thing. You mentioned how great the K& M was, but also Shane is quite the skilled off road driver.

I will quote from Dan Rauh, who is our resident professional off roader. Wow. That guy can drive.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, he absolutely can. He has a natural ability. I was really shocked. I’ve ridden with him before. The K& M is a different beast than his Honda Pioneer that I rode with him the last time. But behind the wheel of the K& M, you would have thought he’d been rally driving for years.

I mean, he’ll purposely throw that thing sideways and just Catch it and hang on. It’s amazing. I mean, a lot of really great talent, a lot of stuff for me to learn there. So I’m really looking forward to, you know, wheeling with him again and getting back out there on the roads, less traveled, we’ll put it that way.

Not in a square body though. That, that is not happening again, but other events that are coming up, Brad, you got something planned for here in midsummer.

Crew Chief Brad: [01:07:00] Yeah, so I’ll be going to Tale of the Dragon, uh, with a good buddy of mine. So the weekend of the 25th through the 27th, we may meet up with, uh, some of our newest members from Garage Riot, our partners in Garage Riot, to kind of hang out down there and see the sites.

I’ve never been to the Tale. Got another street car again. So I’m looking really forward to driving down there and checking it out. And it just can be a good time. If anybody’s around the tail of the dragon on June 25th through the 27th, hit me up.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s right. And it’s a busy time because that’s the same time that the Salem six hours race at Watkins Glen is going on.

And that there’s a bunch of us that are making a trek out to Ohio to Nelson ledges for the first time. So if you haven’t been out to the track and didn’t realize that you’re Well, A, it existed or B, that they had been reopened and repaved, you know, hit us up because there’s a bunch of us going out to Nelson Ledges that same weekend to go check out the track and kind of scratch it off of our bucket list.

In addition to that, we’ve got our cannonball run to Carolina [01:08:00] Motorsports Park. Not too long from now, we’re going to go down there with Just Track It at the beginning of August. They’ve invited us to come down and there’s a bunch of us making the trip. To join some of our Southern States region members that frequent CMP to come check it out for the first time.

And, you know, we’re going to make it a grand old time. We’ve also been setting up for our paddock party at pit race. I got to get that one out and not say it three times fast. We’re going to be doing a carting showdown this year. Yet again, we’ll be hosting that for whoever’s there and present. If you’re interested, you can reach out to us to pre register and get your spot.

And if the boys from Race Factory are listening, we definitely want one of your carts on site. Got to have that unfair advantage. In addition to that, Tanya, do you want to talk about Summer Bash and some of the plans we have going on?

Executive Producer Tania: Summer Bash is the last weekend of July with Auto Interest Group. And it’s technically, I think a four day event because they’re going to be on Jefferson on Friday, Shenandoah, Saturday and Sunday, and then Summit Main on Monday.

[01:09:00] We’ll be having our annual Summer Bash party Saturday night in the paddock and the special event there. Uh, our unofficial sponsor of that event will be Kitty Fire Extinguishers. So in seriousness, um, the special event we’re adding on this year is partnering with Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society to do a charity walk on the track.

So that will kick off 5 p. m. at the track. Come early to register in or also to see what it’s like to be on a track day. Um, if you’ve never done it, you can observe, you know, the run groups that are going out there, maybe even catch a ride with an instructor. But join us if you’re interested in, in the walk, as we’ll be raising money for you.

for the American Cancer Society.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s right, Tanya. And, you know, we do something philanthropic every year. You know, we just got done with lupus at the end of 2020, uh, raising money for them. We raised 2, 000 for lupus by, uh, as part of our virtual racing series that, you know, Tom, Wendy, and the whole VRL committee puts on, who was on our show two months ago now, I guess it was.[01:10:00]

And then this time we partner with ACS and summit point and auto interest groups and on all that. And our goal this time, it’s a bit ambitious. We’re looking to raise 5, 000 for the American Cancer Society. So details on that will be included in the show notes. So you can sign up today and register. We’re still trying to get all of the swag together.

So the designs aren’t finalized yet. Tanya is diligently working on that, especially the folks that that love to collect our anniversary tea because we are going to be celebrating GTN’s seventh birthday at the Summer Bash event this year, July 31 through August 2. So if you can join us, you know, please come on out.

And if you’re a GTN member listening to this, don’t forget to register. early because it’s cheaper if you register sooner than later. So don’t wait till the last minute. Now, I love reading HPD junkie. com because I get super excited about all the events that I can’t go to. And that’s the way I like to put it.

There’s still so many. So many track events going on right [01:11:00] now, because people are trying to reconcile from last year. There’s literally events throughout the week. I mean, there were weekday events before Monday, Tuesdays here and there, Tuesday, Thursdays here and there. When I lay out the HPD calendar in my, you know, in my Google calendar, kind of overlay them.

Holy cow. You could go to the track every day of every week from now until the end of the year. It’s really difficult for us to pick all the good ones, but I’ll tell you this, you know, be on the lookout for events with PCA, with chin hooked on driving auto interest, max speed, just track it. All these groups are listing their events on HPD junkie.

com. It’s a lot easier to navigate in some ways than motorsports reg. And not only that, a lot of the Southern States. Providers aren’t using MSR they’re listing on club registration or on a different platform or even on a proprietary platform. Right? So HPD junkie is a great way to get all of that information in one spot.

Search all of North America now, not [01:12:00] just the U S so that’s us and Canada minus the F1 Grand Prix available on there. And we actually just recently shout out to Dave Peters. We were on garage riot and a gentleman posted about some motorcycle events. Going on to the New York safety track. And Dave was able to add them into HPD junkie within a matter of, you know, a couple hours and now they’re posting their events on there as well.

So if you’re interested in posting your events on HPD junkie, don’t hesitate to reach out to us or go to HPD junkie. com and reach out to Dave Peters directly. So good stuff there and keep up the good work, Dave.

Executive Producer Tania: And in case you missed it, check out the other podcast episodes that have aired this month.

Get up to maximum speed with Phil and Brendan from max speed track days. Enjoy a full length episode and a bonus pit stop available on Patreon. Tribute was paid to longtime GTM’er Matt Yip for his 55th birthday, with some great stories and memories he shared with us. And finally, geek out with Andrew Rains from Apex Pro and discover how much more potential can be gotten from lap times.[01:13:00]

Crew Chief Eric: That’s right. And new patrons for this month, big shout out to longtime supporters of GTM, Mike and Mona Arrigo. You may know them from Hooked on Driving Northeast. You know, we want to thank them for all of their support over the years. And they happen to be loyal listeners of the Break Fix podcast. So thank you to Mike and Mona for signing up for Patreon.

Crew Chief Brad: And hopefully they will be future guests on the show.

Crew Chief Eric: Absolutely. Absolutely.

Crew Chief Brad: And we would also like to give a huge congratulations to our very own GTM member, uh, Martin Scorsese, Jordan Furman for graduating from RIT with a film was a film degree. I can’t remember exactly what it is, but graduated summa cum laude.

Huge congratulations to Jordan. We look forward to fantastic things from you in the future. Uh, and when we do the GTM movie, we hope that he directs it.

Crew Chief Eric: And your dad didn’t put us up to this. Nope. Not at all.

Crew Chief Brad: No, no, not pay us either. [01:14:00]

Crew Chief Eric: Sign up for Patriot, Steve. What are you doing? Speaking of which, it is folks like the Furman’s, it’s folks like the Arrigo’s, it’s folks like, you know, John Caffeci last month, John Richter, you know, Judd, all these other folks that have supported us over the years that are also Patreon members.

And so they’re helping keep the lights on around here. They’re helping keep the lights on. This show in its 60 some odd episode now with more on the can. I mean, we’ve got so many really cool episodes coming out, folks that you would never guess that they would come on this show that have yet to be aired.

You know, things like that. Some really, really neat stuff coming. You know, we’re still writing articles, although they’re not as prevalent as they used to be, although I got some on my back burner, there’s other things we’re working on, some cool new events, obviously last year was a bummer for everybody.

Like always, we’re always going for bigger, badder, better, and we always want to send it. But, you know, we’re. We do need help as well. So if you’re feeling generous and you want to help out, remember patreon. com forward slash GT motor sports. You can sign up for different tiers to get different access to behind the scenes, content [01:15:00] and all sorts of other stuff, but also we just enabled an annual.

Subscription to Patreon with a 12 percent discount. So if you sign up for an entire year, you get some money back. We use that to keep the lights on and keep Brad fed with a Haribo gummy bears and fig Newtons and uh,

so

Crew Chief Eric: we appreciate the help. You know, it’s always tough to ask for that kind of thing, but, you know, It does go a long way.

And without folks like you, the listener that’s listening to me prattle on right now, none of this could be possible. So thank you all.

Crew Chief Brad: Well, we forgot to thank our special guest host this month. Who’s the 2016 Dodge Dart. for

all

Crew Chief Brad: the stories and the levity you provide to us. Day in and day out here at GTM.

We appreciate it.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s true. This episode. Here’s to

Crew Chief Brad: you.

Crew Chief Eric: This episode brought to you by the letter Q and the number 7.

Crew Chief Brad: And our new sponsor, Kitty Fire Extinguishers. [01:16:00]

Crew Chief Eric: And Tanya. Don’t forget Tanya.

Crew Chief Brad: How could we forget Tanya? This is her show.

Crew Chief Eric: Keeping us honest.

Crew Chief Brad: She doesn’t think it’s her show, but it’s her show.

Crew Chief Eric: You really don’t think it’s my show? Bye everyone. Goodbye. We

Crew Chief Brad: did

Crew Chief Eric: it. We did it. We did it in record time. Can you believe it?

Bus cars in back of us all. Just waiting to order. There’s a idiot in a Volvo with his brights on behind me. Hi. Lean out the window and scream. Hey, watch you trying to do

blind me. My wife says maybe we should call.

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Skip ahead if you must… Here’s the highlights from this episode you might be most interested in and their corresponding time stamps.

• Upcoming/Recap GTM Events: Off-road Adventure (5/15), Tail of the Dragon (6/25-27), Summer Bash 7 (7/31-8/2), Cannonball Run to CMP (8/6-8), Nelson Ledges (6/25-27), Paddock Party at PITTRace (7/2-4) – Check the Club Schedule for all the details. 
  
• HPDEJunkie.com report – What’s coming in June/July in the DMV?
• New Sponsors: (UNOFFICIAL) Kidde Fire Extinguishers
  
• In case you missed out- check out the other Podcast episodes that aired this month: Get up to Maximum Speed with Phil and Brendon from MAXSPEED TrackDays enjoy a full length episode and a bonus PITSTOP available on Patreon. Tribute was paid to long-time GTM’er Matt Yip for his 55th birthday with some great stories and memories he’s shared with us. And finally geek out with Andrew Rains from Apex Pro and discover how much more potential can be gotten from lap times.
• New Patreons for May: Mike/Mona Arrigo from HookedOnDriving. Thanks for all the support of GTM over the years, and for being loyal listeners of the show!
• Shoutout, Steve F would like us to give a little shout out to our own Martin Scorsese, Jordan F for graduating RIT summa cum laude in the field of cinematography!