GTM’s Holiday Shopping List! – 2020

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Crew Chief Brad: Hello, and welcome to another edition of BrakeFix. I’m your host, Brad. With me, as always, is Eric and Tanya. Heyo! And this is the DriveThru November edition. As you all know, the DriveThru is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of local, racing, and random car jason news. Now, let’s pull up to the window number one for some holiday shopping news.

That’s right. This month we’re taking our traditional holiday shopping article and [00:01:00] bringing it to you in podcast form.

Executive Producer Tania: That’s right, Brad. It’s that time of year again to answer the age old question. What do you want for the holidays? Most of the time we’ve already bought what we’ve needed throughout the season, but your loved ones really want to get you something.

So what do you get for the enthusiast that already has all their toys?

Crew Chief Eric: But before we get deep into gifts this time of year, I’m often reminded of those commercials you see on TV with the Lexus in the driveway, a big bow on the roof and an unsuspecting new owner shedding tears of joy. Or that car hauler full of silver Mercedes and that one red one driving alongside that you just have to have for your loved one.

I’m pretty sure plenty of people do buy new cars for the holidays. So that got me thinking, let’s play a round of what car should I buy holiday edition. What do you say guys?

Crew Chief Brad: Well, you know, one car I would love to see in my driveway, even though it’s probably got too much power is the [00:02:00] GT 500 that we talked about on a previous episode.

It’s got more power than the GT 350 and sometimes more power is too much power, but. Not in this case. Give me a GT500 and I’ll be a happy man.

Crew Chief Eric: Since somebody else is buying it for you, what color should it be?

Crew Chief Brad: There’s no other color in the world but black, my friend.

Crew Chief Eric: Dark blue? Black with

Crew Chief Brad: black racing stripes.

Crew Chief Eric: No, no dark blue with white Shelby stripes? What’s wrong with you?

Crew Chief Brad: The hell’s wrong with you? Dark blue? No, no, no. Do you know me?

Executive Producer Tania: You don’t want red stripes on your black? I

Crew Chief Brad: want black, black on black with black leather, red piping on the leather, and maybe red strips on the racing stripes. Very thin pinstriping on the racing stripes.

Crew Chief Eric: I will have to see if Hot Wheels makes that for you, but we’ll talk about that in a little bit. So I think if we have to go back over previous cars we talked about, I’d love to see a brand new Z400 in my driveway. That’d be a car I’d love to have for Christmas. Can you imagine that? I don’t think I would go for yellow or that poo brown, but a [00:03:00] nice silver would look pretty cool.

Crew Chief Brad: With racing stripes or without?

Crew Chief Eric: Uh, you know, I’m thinking maybe the old school Datsun livery, you know, the blue and the red, but I just, I’m not a big fan of stripes. So for me, I like it just in its natural, natural look. It’s like, it’s like. Highlighting your hair. You know what I mean? It’s just, it doesn’t do it for me.

You don’t want a car with

Crew Chief Brad: frosted

Crew Chief Eric: tips? No, no. I think I could do with that only in my five. Oh, so Tanya over to you. What do you think?

Executive Producer Tania: Uh, alpha anyone,

Crew Chief Eric: even the four C.

Executive Producer Tania: Sure.

Crew Chief Brad: I mean, who wouldn’t want a 4C?

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, if there’s some rich European entrepreneur that just wants to give me a car, I’ll happily take their custom designed bespoke Ferrari.

Crew Chief Eric: What, only in red though, right?

Executive Producer Tania: Of course, why not? Is there any other color a Ferrari comes in, or should come in?

Crew Chief Brad: Ferraris are like Ducatis. They come in ketchup and mustard. That’s it. That’s all they should come in. If you

Crew Chief Eric: were shopping for a car this Christmas, and it had to be a 2021 model, [00:04:00] What would you be looking forward to?

Crew Chief Brad: For me, my answer is going to be the same as for your next question. Uh, so I’m going to reserve that until we answer the next question.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, I, that’s really hard. Unfortunately, I like small hatchback vehicles, which are dying. So if, and when I eventually need a brand new car in the future, I’ll probably have unlucky one choice.

So what you’re saying is

Crew Chief Eric: the Mark 8 GTI really doesn’t do it for you right now.

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t even remember what it looks like.

Crew Chief Brad: It looks like a Corolla Hatchback.

Executive Producer Tania: No, actually, you know, honestly, the Corolla Hatchback is not that

Crew Chief Brad: looking

Executive Producer Tania: terrible looking. I’ve seen several on the road. Yeah. But I don’t think I’d want one.

Crew Chief Eric: What about the Veloster N, since you like hatchbacks? No?

Crew Chief Brad: No. If you want me to answer this question, so I am changing my answer a little bit, not that I even gave one, but so if I had to buy a brand new 2021, I’d, I’d be looking for something. And I talked to somebody earlier today about this. I’d [00:05:00] get one of those lifted, you know, hatchbacks, maybe like a McCann turbo or something like that.

Um, because I would want to lower it and then use it as my track car because those are some of the only things I fit in. Transcribed

Crew Chief Eric: That is some sound logic right there, but since we’re talking about SUV like vehicles, a car I would rather enjoy for 2021 and I was surprised to still see it available for sale today.

So if anybody’s listening, I wouldn’t mind if a Lincoln Continental showed up in my driveway all as well. But in addition to that, if I was an Impala, that’s what you

Executive Producer Tania: in the car. All right,

Crew Chief Eric: all right, all right, you get Will Willis from Forged in Fire instead. No, no, Matthew McConaughey, but no, I think, uh, in all honesty, though, if I look at the rest of the Lincoln lineup, I’ve seen the Corsair on the road a few times.

I really liked the way it looks. I think it’s a nice compromise between the Mark C and the Mark X. [00:06:00] It’s a really good looking car. And now they just introduced. The Nautilus, which is going to be in between, you know, what used to be, you know, the big old navigator and what was the mark C to kind of replace the mark X.

And I like the way it looks and profile really nice seven seater SUV. So again, if I was in that market as a family man, I would kind of steer my eyes towards Lincoln if I had to buy a new car for 21. So good on them. It’s making some really cool looking cars these days.

Executive Producer Tania: If money is no object, and this is all fictitious, I would definitely go look at an Audi RS5.

But having driven a previous year S5, or A5, I don’t even remember now, it’s been a couple years. That was quite an enjoyable car to drive.

Crew Chief Brad: 21 model year RS5, there you go.

Crew Chief Eric: If you had to buy an EV for Christmas, knowing what we know now, and Tanya, our resident EV specialist here, what would it be?

Executive Producer Tania: This year?

So, for Christmas we’re buying one?

Crew Chief Eric: Let’s say you could buy one now. [00:07:00] None.

Executive Producer Tania: There’s no choice in America.

Crew Chief Eric: She would buy a DC Toyota.

Executive Producer Tania: Tesla, and then like Chevy Bolt or Volt. I don’t even know which one.

Crew Chief Eric: So let’s say hypothetically of the ones that we talked about this year, if you could buy them now for Christmas, which one would you pick?

Executive Producer Tania: Does it exist? It has to exist? Can’t be um… You

Crew Chief Brad: can, you, you, so I, I’m, I’m qualifying this as it doesn’t have to be delivered by Christmas, but you can put a deposit by Christmas.

Executive Producer Tania: I like that. I like that. What if it’s just the concept?

Crew Chief Eric: That’s fine too. It exists in some form. I want

Executive Producer Tania: my Fiat Panda Retro EV.

Crew Chief Eric: I’m with you there. I’m with you on the Fiat side. I really like that 126 concept that we talked about. We’ve been interviewing a lot of other people lately and we’ve gotten some interesting feedback on the EV market and I think Brad was probably going to go there as well. But somebody actually brought up the Lucid Air and I thought that was really interesting.

So people are definitely diving into all these different models of the [00:08:00] hypercars, I’m not really interested in. I think I would have a tough choice on what I would buy as an EV, but I’m with you on the fiat side of the house. I’m still waiting to see how the Volkswagens turn out. There hasn’t been the right car yet for me.

What about you, Brad?

Crew Chief Brad: For me, it would either be the Audi, I guess it’s the e tron or whatever, the Q7 looking thing. I’ve seen a couple of those on the street. I think they’re pretty slick. And if I was putting a deposit down on something, it would be a Mach E.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. You know what? I take that back and you’re right.

I do like the Mach E. I want to drive one. I mentioned the other day to somebody I drove by the dealership yet again, and I haven’t seen one outside happens to be a Ford and Lincoln dealership. That’s why I’ve seen the Corsair so many times, you know, it’s not out yet. So I’m kind of disappointed in that, at least in our area, it’s not available yet to test drive, but I agree with that.

The Mach E is a good choice. And I think in addition to that, since I’m still kind of on this weird Ford kick right now. I’m kind of holding out for that E 150 pickup truck that we talked about. I really want to know what that’s all about. I want to know some more specs. I mean, that’s [00:09:00] definitely on maybe my Christmas list a year or two from now, but I’m still very excited to see where that goes here in the near future.

Good on Ford. Some interesting stuff for a change. I got, I’m usually pitching the Chrysler flag all over the place, but yeah, I know

Crew Chief Brad: your, your Mopar gods are very angry with you right now. You’re going to go outside and your jeep’s not going to start.

Crew Chief Eric: I’m going to be smoted momentarily.

Executive Producer Tania: Fossil fuel drum too.

Pun intended.

Crew Chief Eric: New year, new you. Okay. That’s what it’s all about. You got to embrace the change, I suppose.

Crew Chief Brad: New year, new fuel. What kind of skidder car would you buy? All right, moving on. So we’ve got next, we’ve got Tanya apparently wants to talk about an electric Bugatti. Tell us about it.

Executive Producer Tania: So I like the news article title that I saw.

Bugatti is selling a 35, 000 electric car. For kids and I read that and just said, what are you kidding me? I think an [00:10:00] alternative title might’ve worked here. They could have used Bugatti rich people doing rich people things again. Cause I, I, I, what happened to the couple hundred dollar, you know, pow, pow, power wheels.

As a kid, I remember seeing, you know, Oh, they have a power wheels. They must be rich. They got a lot of money in hindsight, those poor destitute people. I mean, I don’t know how they got by with the plastic power wheels. So, but this article is about the Bugatti Baby 2. And yes, two, it means there was a one before it.

So Mr. Bugatti, he made the baby one for his son, his eight year old son at the time. I mean, sure, you’re Bugatti, why not, right? But the baby two, this is geared towards teenagers. And so we heard it starts at that modest 35, 000. It doesn’t look like a Chiron or a Veyron or anything like that. It’s a replica [00:11:00] of the 1920s.

Type 35 Bugatti, if you’re familiar with that, same Bugatti blue and everything, right? And you’ve got that base model that’s at 35, 000, but there are two upgrade versions that you could choose. Starting at 50, 000 or up to 68, depending on the article you read. And they come with the Speed Key. Now, if you’re familiar with the Chiron, the Chiron has a speed key, which unlocks the pow pow power.

So the models are the Vitesse, French for speed, and the Pursane, pure blood. And when you engage the speed key, these pre learners permit drivers. Can get up to 42 miles an hour and drive it in the driveway because they’re not street legal. So I’m not really sure where these people are going, but I’m gonna suppose that if you have $70,000 to spend on your child’s toy, [00:12:00] that the grounds you live on probably are pretty impressive.

So there’s space to go driving. I don’t know. There’s a lot of, I have a lot of questions here. I don’t know about you guys. Mainly mine are why? And the only thing I could come up with was rich people, rich people things.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, my immediate answer was it’s French and I was just going to leave it there.

Crew Chief Brad: I would need to buy two of them just so I can wear them around the shoes.

I

Crew Chief Eric: think it’s cool. And let’s just say you have the budget and you’re like, man, I want the coolest go kart. That I can buy and it’s a replica Bugatti type 35. I mean, yeah, that’s pretty slick, right? Go karts

Executive Producer Tania: could you buy for 35, 000 and go

Crew Chief Eric: faster? You can buy legitimate shifter carts for less money than that.

That’s it. But

Crew Chief Brad: here you go. You can buy your Bugatti go kart for 68, 000 or you can buy your little shifter cart for 15 grand and dump, you know, 50 grand into it. And completely blow it out of the water [00:13:00] for half the cost.

Crew Chief Eric: Since we were talking about kids and motorsports and electric vehicles, if you don’t want to spend all that money on the Bugatti BB2 or the Aston DB5 Jr.,

you should consider getting a go kart. And Brad has said that probably more than once. So if you’re looking to get into the world of karting or need to upgrade your gear, the friendly folks from Race Factory USA, who we had on the show a while ago, are extending all of our listeners. A 15 percent off promotion on complete carts for anyone who uses the code GTM 15 on orders through January of 2021.

So you’re looking to gear up for next season or you want to get your kid into carting and not have to spend 68 grand on the hyper key and all this kind of thing. Get yourself a U S built and designed go kart from race factory.

Crew Chief Brad: Do they have a DE cart because I don’t race

Crew Chief Eric: it’s the DK cart for you. The Donkey Kong [00:14:00] edition.

Executive Producer Tania: All right. So moving on from that. So we haven’t talked about motorcycles very much at all. And apparently there is a Texas startup that is going to be building an electric motorcycle called the Vulcan grunt.

Crew Chief Eric: All right, let’s, let’s stop there. ’cause the names are getting really, really good these days.

Executive Producer Tania: I, I don’t make the names up.

I just read the names

Crew Chief Eric: of vol. So let me get this right, the Volcan grunt.

Executive Producer Tania: So not Volcan. Volcan not, and not

Crew Chief Eric: Voltron.

Executive Producer Tania: Not Voltron.

Crew Chief Brad: Voltron vol. And not gr grunt.

Executive Producer Tania: Exactly. Now you’re with us here, brought to you by the letters. So the Vulcan Grunt is going to be a super affordable EV motorcycle. It’s going to be priced at just under 6, 000.

So 5, 995 and it’s going to be ready allegedly in spring of [00:15:00] next year, spring 2021. The motorcycle is going to have 50 horsepower, 75 foot pounds of torque. And it’s 60 mile an hour top speed and 100 mile range. Now I just heard everybody keel over going, what the heck? My understanding is I don’t think this is at all intended to be a street legal bike.

So I don’t know much about bicycles, but there were some comments talking about how this bike is very similar looking to a Rokon. And even similarly named, I guess. So for people, motorcycle enthusiasts and, and kind of off roading vehicle enthusiasts, you might know what, what that is. So the intent is, this is more of a hobbyist or worker bike.

So if you had, you know, your, I guess it makes sense in Texas, you’re on your ranch and you want to get from one side to the other, you hop on your little electric bike and you scoot across the ranch, or maybe you’re going to go out hunting or something, and, and this is your bike. It does it. It’s basically a electric dirt bike.

Crew Chief Eric: I [00:16:00] mean, if you think about it from that perspective, I can see the appeal. I can see the use I can see sneaking up on wild animals much more easily because you don’t have that going on where, you know, you can hear them from half a mile away. So I kind of liked the idea. I could see this being very popular in Asian countries, like, especially like Vietnam and places like that, where motorcycles are extremely popular.

And they have a lot of bikes that. over here, we would consider not street legal. I could see something like this working out really, really well. I’m really shocked by the numbers though, because when you tell me, you know, a hundred miles of range and 60 mile an hour, I’m thinking moped on steroids, not motorcycle.

So, I mean, neither here nor there, but you know, I’m still holding out for the Tron light cycles. So when those become available, please sign me up.

Executive Producer Tania: Yes, and apparently this company too, they also do like electric ATVs, or they’re going to be doing electric ATVs. So they’re very focused on this off roading, hobbyist, not street legal, running down the highway market.

[00:17:00] So, interesting. So if you’re in the market for anything, uh, look out for the Volcon Grunt.

Crew Chief Eric: At your local grunt dealer, head on down. Alright, so we talked a little bit about cars and I think it’s important we get back to holiday shopping. Today is Black Friday, so let’s talk about deals that are out there.

Crew Chief Brad: Today is Tuesday, my friend. Shut up.

Executive Producer Tania: Today is Gray Tuesday.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s Burgundy Tuesday.

Crew Chief Eric: So, our holiday shopping guide is traditionally divided into three categories. for your garage, for your So let’s talk about some for this holiday season.

Crew Chief Brad: of carrying around an air

Look no further than this Ryobi portable air compressor, lightweight, no larger than your average impact gun. I have to say, I’ve got one, Eric’s got one. I think he’s burned out one of them using it so much. I’ve got an actual air pump that connects to the battery of the car. And I find myself using that 5 percent of the time in the [00:18:00] Ryobi 95 percent of the time because it’s so convenient.

So it’s a good piece of kit.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. And it uses the same batteries that all the other Ryobi tools do. So you’ve, if you’ve already invested in Ryobi on your shelf, you know, the green brand versus red, yellow, blue, and the rest of them. Yeah. It’s 18 volt one plus system, and you can quick charge it in 30 minutes and be out there and inflating all sorts of tires, bicycles, you name it, even basketballs for your kids.

Right. And it’s available on Amazon for as little. as 30 bucks. One of our favorite things and it’s a recurring item on our holiday shopping guide is the QuickJack. The QuickJack is the world’s first and only portable car lift to truly meet the needs of wrench turners and professional techs in any situation.

It was designed to be taken to the track. It is a portable lift. It’s also known as the RangerJack if you search for it on the web. It is able to lift various weights. They make three different models, [00:19:00] a 3, 500 pound, a 5, 000 pound and a 7, 500 pound model. They’re very low profile when they’re closed and it’s modular and easy to move around.

And it fits under just about every vehicle. It’s ideal for tight situations where you don’t have head height in your garage. And for very low cars where a typical two post or four post lift won’t be able to get under the car without putting it up on blocks first or something like that to be able to lift the car the rest of the way.

I’ve had mine for over five years now. I’ve had very minimal issues with it. A couple silly things, you know, like O rings on the quick connects that have to be replaced after tons and tons of use, you know, changing fluid, which is cheap, you know, five bucks for some ATF, you know, things like that. But if you’re searching for one right now, BendPak, the manufacturer of the QuickJack RangerJack is offering a 150 off if you order through them, or you can buy it through Costco and the Black Friday sale for the QuickJack is 250 off.

So thanks to Brett and John Richter for [00:20:00] bringing that to our attention

Crew Chief Brad: and for anyone out there that has a home and you’ve got a furnace in your home and you need air filters, K and N has filters for your furnace. They are lifetime warranty, washable, reusable. You, you buy one K and N filter instead of one box of the throwaways and you’re set for life.

So check it out. They’ve got them on Amazon right now. They’ve got a number of sizes to fit your needs. So go get one.

Crew Chief Eric: Absolutely. And these are supposed to be hyper allergenic, Merv 11 rated, a bunch of other stuff. I have one, Tonya has one and a few of other, other members jumped on top of it. I really liked the quality of the K and N HVAC.

filter, it’s an aluminum frame with their typical washable filter material. Like you’re used to on your car that you would put in the car’s air box. So I saw it as a plus and for the price of what I was paying for 3m or other brands at that same level or higher Merv rating, one K and N was the same price.

And it’s going to last me probably a lifetime. So something to [00:21:00] consider next time you got to change your, your furnace filter,

Crew Chief Brad: and you’re also forgetting the most important fact. Every K& N air filter gives you plus five horsepower.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, I put that sticker on my furnace. So you have to

Crew Chief Brad: for when the tech comes out, he doesn’t just toss it away.

This is a reusable filter. Don’t throw away my K& N.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s exactly what it is. Perfect. So speaking of that, you want to spruce up your garage now that you’ve got it all nice, warm and toasty and running with fresh air. Check out the vintage racing posters available at allposters. com and varying sizes from different eras of racing from Le Mans to World Rally to IndyCar to Formula One, you name it.

There are tons of color prints as well, but they’re black and white prints are exceptionally beautiful. I have a lot of them hanging around my house and obviously prices vary. So it’s a great way to bring some motorsport into the house and have an artistic twist on it.

Executive Producer Tania: And if you’re busy working in the garage, tucking your.

Possibly race car away into a deep slumber for the winter, or maybe [00:22:00] doing some tune ups to your daily driver. Perhaps you’re getting thirsty with all the hard work you’re doing. And if you are nostalgic for the old VW camper vans, then this refrigerator might be for you. It’s a retro VW fridge inspired by the old VW camper van.

So when you look at it from the front, it essentially looks like the front of a VW camper van comes in two colors and comes in a light blue. Uh, like a turquoise or a burgundy color. It’s not the largest fridge in the world. They’re about two by two by five foot tall. It’s a very large mini fridge, but it’s slender and sleek looking.

And I do not know if you can get it in the United States, because it’s sold out of the UK. So I have yet to find the price, because it… about three clicks in. I still wasn’t at a price. If you’re interested in it, it might be possible to get it here stateside and keep yourself hydrated this winter. So if you’re hungry and you’re looking for something different, little known fact is that Volkswagen actually [00:23:00] has part number one nine nine three nine eight five hundred dash a currywurst.

Which apparently is specialty sausage made in house at the Wolfsburg factory by about 30 employees that are trained in the art of making the sausage slash part time butchers, etc. And the majority, unfortunately, of these sausages are sold directly within the different VW plants. But then you can actually find them in grocers across Europe and VW dealerships will also give some away.

So if you find yourself in Europe anytime soon, get over to Germany specifically, find yourself a VW dealer or go try and get to the factory and get yourself some currywurst. They do not, unfortunately, ship it to the United States,

Crew Chief Brad: but if any of our German listeners are listening, please be sure to send these to us.

Reach out to GTM on our website and we’ll give you an address to send them to. We’ll pay for [00:24:00] them. Everything. Well, we. are dying to try these sausages.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, I didn’t realize they’ve been making these sausages for 47 years. This is not something new. This has been around for a long time.

Executive Producer Tania: 73.

Crew Chief Brad: The people’s sausage.

Crew Chief Eric: The people’s sausage. So to round out things you should get for your garage.

Executive Producer Tania: Do you remember? The Bugatti Baby 2.

Crew Chief Brad: That’s my pair of shoes.

Executive Producer Tania: No. But. Aston Martin. Doesn’t want to be outdone by Bugatti. And they too are offering an electric kitty version of one of its iconic cars. The DB5.

Crew Chief Eric: James Bond.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s Jimmy

Crew Chief Eric: Bond Jr.

Executive Producer Tania: So, it’s not for your everyday person, okay? This is rich people stuff again, alright? So let’s just…

Crew Chief Eric: She’s like, [00:25:00] I… You get it? Rich people doing rich people things, yet

Executive Producer Tania: again. Let’s just calibrate here for a second, okay? Because 60, 000 for your child to have an electric car.

Crew Chief Brad: Now wait a minute, that outspends the Bugatti.

Wasn’t the Bugatti 58 or something like that?

Executive Producer Tania: The actual cost range, because of course, there’s different models.

Crew Chief Brad: Right.

Executive Producer Tania: You get one as low as 47, 000 or as high as 60, 000. Now you’re absolutely right. The starting price of the Baby 2 was 35, 000. But it’s top of the line speed key blah blah blah was 68, 000.

Crew Chief Brad: Ooh, 68, 000, that’s what it was.

Executive Producer Tania: So they are in line with each other. Okay. And not only that, so there’s, so there are two models of the DB5 Electric Junior, and its top speed is 30 miles an hour with a 20 mile range. And then there is the Vantage model. Which goes faster. [00:26:00] And that’s all they said, so I don’t know how much faster it goes, but it goes faster.

And if you recall, the Baby 2 also had a 30 mile range. And then its expert mode would go 30 miles an hour, but then the speed key is what brought it up to 42 miles an hour. So I could only assume that the DP5 is going to be something on par with. you know, the Bugatti and be around 40 miles an hour as well.

The real question is, is there a James Bond version that has like, I don’t know, oil slicks to come out of it or something?

Crew Chief Eric: That’s way better than the speed key. I need all the booby traps and grenades and smoke, smoke screens.

Executive Producer Tania: But yeah, I mean. Get that on your Christmas list.

Crew Chief Brad: Well, before we move on, a little note on the Bugatti and the Aston Martin, the little Baby 2 and the BB5 or whatever.

Those aren’t for your garage. Those are for your kid’s garage. Don’t you have to have like a separate structure for your kids to park their little toys too?

Crew Chief Eric: Yes, but more often than not, they’ll [00:27:00] probably live in my garage taking up space and I get to trip over them and curse at them constantly. Not if you’ve

Crew Chief Brad: got enough money though.

Your kids are going to have their own little garage. They’re going to have their own little driver of their own little DB2 or DB5 or whatever. Can

Crew Chief Eric: we, can we get baby butlers?

Crew Chief Brad: Yes. A little bit of others.

Executive Producer Tania: Those count older children.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. The, the, the younger, you’re gonna have multiple kids and then the youngest one is gonna be the little baby butler.

Crew Chief Eric: I can just imagine this baby in diapers, like detailing their Bugatti. Wax on, wax off, Miyagi style. Fantastic.

Crew Chief Brad: Like Biff from Back to the Future. It’s all signed up for you, boss.

Crew Chief Eric: But if you’re looking to put something extra special in your garage this year, you are still in time to help.

us support the International Motor Racing Research Center by entering to win a brand new C8 Corvette through their sweepstakes. If you don’t want the [00:28:00] C8, you can also opt for 50, 000 in cash as the first prize option there. The sweepstakes have been extended to the end of December. So December 28th is when the sweepstakes end and the drawing will begin.

They’ve also extended us a great promotion code. So if you want to up your chances of winning that Corvette or winning the cash, use the promotion code at checkout. K. I. P. 25 to get bonus tickets when you make your purchase. All proceeds from the event go to helping fund the International Motor Racing Research Center.

And please be sure to visit the episode that we recorded with them previously. And you can find out all the details about the center and everything they do and how they provide and give back to the motor sports community. So great cause great people. Best of luck if you’re trying to win that Corvette and get it in your garage this winter.

Crew Chief Brad: So to continue on with the, what should I buy? Eric, what would [00:29:00] you buy for your garage for you? Or what do you want somebody to buy you for your garage? You know what I really want? That alignment machine? I want,

Crew Chief Eric: no, I want that set of every size of 10 millimeter socket that exists. You seen that thing going around?

I mean, for the love of God, I have lost every 10 I can think of. I know exactly. Where they are. I know where mountain man Dan’s are there in the woods because I dropped them there. I bought every 12. I don’t know why, but

Crew Chief Brad: cause you can’t find the tens in the store. You can find the twelfths.

Crew Chief Eric: Exactly. So yeah, I really want that mix match set of sockets.

So that that’s definitely got my name all over.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s not exciting, but I actually would like a set of really nice, really nice. Whatever. I would like a set of. The, uh, like jewelers, screwdrivers, those type of really thin, but also long that you could reach, like, if you had several inches that you need to reach, but you need a very fine Phillips or flathead, I [00:30:00] would like a set

Crew Chief Brad: of

Executive Producer Tania: jewelers.

Crew Chief Brad: I’d also like a set of, uh, nut drivers, the, the multi size. Yeah. Cause I’m tired of using. Like a socket and a wrench. It’s, it’s a pain in the ass. I’d rather just have some, you know, some nut drivers.

Crew Chief Eric: I know something that Tanya would like that was on a previous holiday shopping article. Those are the indexed wrenches from gear wrench, those dual pivot ratcheting wrenches.

Those have come in super handy on multiple jobs where it’s very difficult to reach and very difficult to turn

Executive Producer Tania: the wrench. Those are the ones that were such a gigantic lifesaver when we changed the steering rack on that. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: They’re super awesome.

Executive Producer Tania: Those, those turned a fricking six hour job into. 45 minutes only hours.

I think if it takes you that long to reach the frickin bolt,

Crew Chief Eric: yeah, you’re moving an eighth of a turn at a time. Those index wrenches were a lifesaver and I’ve used them for multiple jobs. You set them where you want. I mean, you’re talking, you know, very severe degrees of angle where you can set that thing and then you have all this motion or you leave them wide [00:31:00] open and you literally pump it.

Like a train piston moving a wheel. And I mean, it’s so awesome. The ability to reach with those things. So I could see that on Tanya’s list for sure.

Crew Chief Brad: And another thing I need is new blades for my Dremel because cutting the hole in my, for the insert on my bumper, I broke about four. What’s those stupid blades?

Those stupid little wheels?

Crew Chief Eric: And if Mountain Man Dan’s listening right now, he’s, he’s yelling at his speaker going, you need an angle grinder. That’s what you really

Crew Chief Brad: need. I was cutting plastic. I wasn’t cutting anything serious.

Crew Chief Eric: Hey, you could still cut with an angle grinder.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I need his plasma cutter to cut plastic.

That’s what he’s saying. I’ll fix it right up. So let’s

Crew Chief Eric: move on to gifts for your ride. Keep your eyes out on the Garmin Catalyst driving trainer, which is now being sponsored in part by Ross Bentley, who many of us know through speed secrets and as many webinars, and he’s come to personally coach some of us through the motorsport safety foundation, and he [00:32:00] makes guest appearances at many clubs, you know, chin and HRD, et cetera, et cetera.

He is involved in a. Aim like device, which looks like a old school Garmin that you’d have up on your dashboard GPS base. And it’s designed to coach you through a lap, make you faster, work with you eliminates the human factor, but it uses a bunch of AI to analyze your laps and make you go faster.

Crew Chief Brad: Before we move on though, I want to say about that Garmin, I pray.

That the person giving guidance and, uh, advice and stuff, the computer, the AI that’s talking back to you is Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s gotta be him.

Crew Chief Eric: Dude. I, uh, I still want to get to

Crew Chief Brad: the chopper. If you do not take the turn and get the apex.

Crew Chief Eric: Hey, apex is out. You must track out. Oh my God. That’s where’s my tortilla.

Anyway,

Executive Producer Tania: I will say the price tag is hefty on this thing and if it wasn’t for that Boy, does it look gorgeous the user interface in it and [00:33:00] everything like that? I mean, it looks like it would be a high quality product, but outside my budget

Crew Chief Eric: I think we all gasped at the price, but it is price competitively against the AIM Solo 2 and especially the Solo 2 DL, the ones that offer the OBD2 services and things like that.

So I don’t think it’s too far off. It’s a little shocking because a lot of us don’t think you bought your AIM so many years ago and it’s one of those tried and true devices that you’ve made the investment and it pays for itself over the years. This is the next generation of a tool like that. Now what I’m really excited for is what’s AIM going to come up with.

In retaliation to this device from Garmin, because Garmin’s the new kid in this space, right? So maybe they’ll send Garmin back to making fitness watches and, uh, AIM will come out with something even better.

Executive Producer Tania: Garmin makes more fitness watches. They’ve been making, you know, they’ve got the bicycle huds and everything.

So, especially when you’re going off trail and things like that, they’ve got a lot of hiking, um, It’s true. GPS [00:34:00] watches and things of that nature. So, I mean. They clearly can do the GPS function. Oh,

Crew Chief Eric: absolutely. Absolutely. I was, I was just poking a little fun at Garmin, right? As seen in our GTM article, the battle against brake dust, which is a multi part article that I wrote about trying to keep your track wheels clean.

I found this nifty little tool that’s made our shopping guide more than once. It’s known as the Brush Hero Pro. And basically the way it works is it is a water rotary. And a lot of people online, if you go read about it, and I’ve done a couple of reviews in the positive light for this tool, we’ll say, Oh, this is going to scratch your wheels.

And Oh, my God. And these are really the car show purists that, you know, they want to rub everything with a diaper and that’s totally fine, but for everyday use with the right soaps and everything, the brush hero is an amazing tool and it’s. saves a lot of time, especially if you have multi spoke wheels, older wheels, basket weaves, you know, things like that that are just a pain in the neck to clean and never really come clean with the traditional [00:35:00] brush or rag.

The brush hero again is a water rotary. It is not electric. It is powered by your water pressure. It spins the brush brush while also using four jets. To inject water into the cleaning area that you’re looking at. It turns at low speed. The bristle brushes are of different types, and it comes with four of them.

When you buy it, they’re all pretty soft. There’s just more bristles on one than the other, so it’s kind of a coarse clean versus a detailed clean. I’ve been using mine now for a couple of years. I love it. And I, I don’t want to go back to cleaning wheels the old way. So if you want to learn more about that and how it works, go to our website, gtmotorsports.

org and search for battle against brake dust. You can read out all about it and about the chemicals we used and we tested on the various wheels along with this tool. If you’re interested in buying the brush hero, you can find it on Amazon for 45 bucks and you can buy replacement brushes. in a multi pack for about 10 to 15.

So, and also check out our YouTube channel for a [00:36:00] review of the product as well in action.

Crew Chief Brad: This next product is designed to help you not be left on the side of the road with a flat tire. These V Safe Universal Solar TPMS Wireless Tire Pressure Monitoring System has four external cap sensors, real time display.

I use it on my trailer. It works really well. I haven’t had any issues with it. It’s great to know. With my trailer tire pressures are at, you know, as I’m going down the road, because I mean, you can only look back and see him, you know, so often. So it’s available on Amazon. 72 99. Get it.

Crew Chief Eric: I agree, man. It’s great to have that early warning system and an ability to monitor my trailer.

And I’m with you. I can’t see it. I mean, if the wheel flies off, I might be able to catch it. But at that point, it’s too late. Or if I’m dragging a flat, It’s really hard to tell with it being that far behind me. So having a TPMS for the trailer is, in my opinion, crucial hardware for your ride, for your rig.

If you’re, if you’re using trailers a lot, and even if you’re not going to the track, maybe you’re just pulling a [00:37:00] landscaper or you’re, you’re pulling a tractor or even horses. This would be great for any trailer application or anything where you just want to put a tire pressure monitor on a wheel and tire, and you don’t want to have to get the onboard ones like you would have on your car.

But since we’re talking about tire pressure monitoring systems, you know, a lot of us spend time at the track, worrying about our tire temperatures, worrying about our pressures and what’s ideal. And when we can really give it the beans in a corner, you know, are my tires hot enough yet? Or am I getting that heat in the rear that I was looking for?

Well, there’s a company out there named. Orange, not to be confused with the formula one team for many years ago, they make a universal tire pressure monitoring system. It comes with four internal sensors that you have to have mounted to your wheels. And then it gives you a real time display that you can mount on your dashboard, you know, permanently affix it or Velcro or whatever you want to do.

It’ll give you different alarm functions for if the tires are too cold. The tires are too hot. It gives you internal temperature of the tire. It also gives you pressures as they’re changing. And there’s a couple other [00:38:00] different modes you can use on that same display. I personally have this device. I think it’s absolutely awesome.

It’s been a lifesaver at the track, especially doing time trials and other things. Cause I’m getting real time data from my tires as I’m out there on track. And then I know, Hey, my three warmup laps, their warmup laps. My tires are ready to go. Let’s go for it. Let’s let’s put some hot laps down. So for. You know, the 130 bucks that this unit costs, I think it’s well worth it.

The other thing is the tire pressure monitors themselves are probably the most expensive part. And oddly enough, I did a little research and it seems like they’re using Ford off the shelf TPMS sensors. So if you blow one out, you can always get more. And they also say that you can buy more sensors and link it.

To the one head unit that you have, so you could have multiple sets of wheels with TPMS is on them. So I think it’s a valuable tool. It’s a great time saver. Don’t have to worry about parameters and all that kind of stuff. And it’s giving you that functionality that a lot of [00:39:00] the modern cars have for. So for those of us with older vehicles, this is a great plus and a great little gadget that will help you when you’re out there.

Crew Chief Brad: And if anybody from my viewership is listening. This probably would have helped me not spin in turn one in BIR if my tires were actually up to the right temperature. So, uh, anybody that’s worried about my safety, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. All right. I’ll continue on with the what should I buy? How about for your ride?

Oh, thanks for my ride.

Crew Chief Eric: I’m weird because I’m still trying to get parts for the Wookiee wagon from Europe. And so I think one of the things I really want. are the center caps for those ALMS wheels, the VW style ones instead of the Audi ones. I’ve been looking for those forever, so that’s on my wishlist right now.

And hopefully I’ll be able to find them. I know it’s a UK thing or European thing, but hopefully I can track a set down. I’ve been asking people all over the place. I’ve been scouring all over the web, looking for them.

Executive Producer Tania: I [00:40:00] too would like a set of center caps, oddly enough, because I lost one, unfortunately, off the Mille Miglia wheels that I have on my daily driver.

And then a second one broke, which I have it, but one of the, it’s missing two of the pegs now, so I don’t trust it to stay on anymore. So I have two out of four. So another set, which I know are available, I think on the grand eBay’s.

Crew Chief Eric: So what about you, Brad? What about for your car? What are you looking

Crew Chief Brad: for?

Well, you know, I’m not as, uh, my cars aren’t as close to being done, I guess, as your guys cars are. So there’s huge things on my list, but, you know, it’s nothing that I would ask anybody to get me. But if Santa was listening and feeling generous. I need a roll cage for the GTI, uh, which means I also need fixed back seats.

Anybody that wants to go down to OG and, and test fit me, you can get me some seats. I’d like a new stereo for the Tundra because the stereo that I got, the [00:41:00] junkyard stereo doesn’t have Sirius XM for some stupid reason. So I need to get a new stereo for the Tundra and, uh, Yeah, that’s what I want for my rides.

Crew Chief Eric: Maybe a gift certificate to crutchfield. com, right? The, uh, the audio, uh, superstore there, right? That might be something to think

Crew Chief Brad: about. Not to be confused with our crutchfield, but yeah, crutchfield. com.

Executive Producer Tania: I do need that. Well, I don’t need it, but…

Crew Chief Brad: We don’t need any of this stuff,

Executive Producer Tania: any of this stuff, but if Santa were just magically dropping stuff off the adapter for the aux cable on the older style radios, it doesn’t have that.

So you don’t have to use a car cassette adapter, which still works flawlessly, which a member actually recommended the exact unit for the. component to, to buy.

Crew Chief Eric: That is some retro stuff right there.

Executive Producer Tania: Hey man, that car cassette adapter still works.

Crew Chief Eric: So let’s talk a little bit about GIFs for you, not necessarily Brad, but for you, the automobile.

No, no, no, I

Crew Chief Brad: need, I need all the GIFs. [00:42:00]

Crew Chief Eric: Many of you may or may not know the DeLorean Motor Company still exists. It is based out of Texas and they are still working on developing a new version of the DeLorean, and we wrote about this in an article earlier this year that Mountain Man Dan put together, because he’s a big fan of the DeLorean, unbeknownst to most of us.

But, you can now own your own time machine. And I’m not talking about a gull winged stainless steel car. No. Texas based DMC Motors has licensed the rights to DMC logos, uh, style, patterns, etc. to the UK based Charlie Foxtrot Watches to release a line of DeLorean inspired DMC watches. And so the website is dmc watch.

com. They have seven different styles and they clock in, ha ha, pun intended, between 130 and 150 US. So they’re really affordable. They’re actually very [00:43:00] stylish. All of the bezels are stainless steel and you can check them out on the website. Really cool stuff. So yes, you can now own your own DeLorean at a very affordable price, unlike the DeLoreans that are going to be coming out of Texas, which will probably have a sticker price.

well above 100, 000.

Crew Chief Brad: Do they come with a line of coke?

Crew Chief Eric: One of the things that’s come across our desk and we’re actually trying it out this year with much success and much enjoyment is a subscription service known as petrol box. It’s the number one automotive enthusiast subscription box. Each box contains handpicked items, including tools wearables, garage gear, detailing supplies, magazines, collectibles, coupons, and more.

Every box is different. Every month is different. Every month is themed. There is no contract. You can cancel at any time. Boxes do range from 20 to 40 a month, and there are discounts if you go with a full year [00:44:00] subscription. I’ve had PetroBox now for about six months. I’ve been happy with every box that’s come.

It’s been a great thing to have. Lots of really cool stuff I probably wouldn’t have bought myself or have known about. So it’s, you know, new products to try. Some really unique tools. Really cool gifts and potential giveaways.

Executive Producer Tania: Speaking of boxes, Road and Track actually has a Road and track kids club, basically kind of a similar thing where you get a box maybe a month or at some frequency and it’s, it’s car related things geared towards kids.

So there might be little hot wheels cars in there. There could be comic books that are car themed. They’re specifically made. And then like, I think there’s even little trading cards that have cars on them. So we’re trying to get kids engaged and excited about motorsports. If you have any little kids of varying ages, maybe it’s something you could look into for the little ones, not you, but you’re you juniors.

Crew Chief Eric: I think I’m going to sign up for this service myself. Hey, you said Hot Wheels. You have my attention. The post office has released for the first time [00:45:00] Hot Wheels inspired stamps. So you can start using those on your Christmas cards as you’re getting prepared. But in addition to that, if you’re a Hot Wheels collector or Matchbox, which is owned by Mattel as well, and you like collecting that scale of vehicle, be careful while you’re out there.

I happen to do this myself. There are collectors out there who are spending. thousands on limited and rare additions of Hot Wheels cars. This is not new news to really anybody that’s in that space. A lot of those old red line Hot Wheels from the 60s and 70s, things like that, they’re worth a mint. But this is also the reason why when you go to your local Target, Walmart, Walgreens, whatever, you can never find the Hot Edition cars of the year.

And little trick to people to do collect or you’re looking, look in different states and different areas because Mattel distributes different paint schemes, different models to different parts of the United States and hope that the collector network distributes that almost like coins being minted in Denver [00:46:00] versus being minted in Philadelphia and how they, you know, make it from one coast the other.

So Mattel implements a similar strategy and they also do limited quantities and limited batches of certain vehicles, paint schemes, etc. So not to diverge too far on that, but since we’re talking about the post office a little bit.

Executive Producer Tania: We also issued a small matchbox size postal jeep that you can buy for 5.

99 and I think they have a larger semi truck option which is about 30 bucks. And the money goes to helping USPS out. So if you’re into, again, collecting the little Matchbox Hot Wheels type cars, you could add a USPS postal truck to your collection.

Crew Chief Eric: Very cool. But speaking of collectibles, auto art. For those of you that might not be familiar is probably one of the number one brands when it comes to making replica die cast vehicles and models, they range from, you know, [00:47:00] 1 18 scale 1 43rd and so on.

But they’ve also gotten themselves into making. automotive related household items. And as an example, they have a Weber carburetor, salt and pepper shaker. It looks just like a two barrel Weber or two barrel Delorto. If you’re into Italian carburetors and they also have a Camaro muffler spice grinder.

They have towel racks in the shape of upper stress bars. All sorts of interesting cutlery and cups and dishes and things like that. Really cool stuff. And the prices are actually quite reasonable considering how expensive the models can be from, from time to time. As an example, the carburetor salt and pepper shaker retails for around a hundred dollars right off of their website.

And remember auto art is top quality replica. So all things coming from auto art are going to look. Like the original item and we’re very close to so really cool stuff. Very unique talking piece. Somebody comes out and goes, why the heck do you have a carburetor sitting on your [00:48:00] kitchen table? Well, here you want some salt.

You want some pepper? Have at it.

Crew Chief Brad: And for many of us enthusiasts, when it comes to fashion, socks are the new tie. Everybody check out heel tread and there’s collection of motorsport and racing inspired socks. They’ve got other things too. A couple of those little things, but mostly socks. Anybody that follows me on Instagram, uh, knows that I got all my groomsmen, these socks.

Uh, I’ve got probably 10 to 15 pairs. So I’m, I’m all in with, uh, with heel tread and I love them. So, uh, go get you some.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, you started a whole nother collection problem for me. Now I got, I got watches, I got cars, I got socks. As long as nobody buys me ties, we’re okay. Cause I think ties are out. You’re right.

Socks are the new tie.

Crew Chief Brad: And what, and what motor or what a heel tread is doing now is they’ve actually got some inspired. I think earlier in the year, they had some that were inspired by tanks and now they’ve got some that are inspired by airplanes. Uh, it’s like the world war two era, like the mustangs.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So

Crew Chief Brad: they’ve got a really cool collection. The way [00:49:00] they tie into the vehicles, they don’t have pictures of cars on them. They’re inspired by these vehicles and the designs and everything. And they’re really slick the way they do it really retro, really cool. I like them all.

Executive Producer Tania: And act now because they are having a black Friday sale and you could get up to 50 percent off select styles.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s actually really good. Considering the MSRP on the socks ranges from nine to 12. So you’re talking about a high quality pair of dress socks for like four and a half bucks to six bucks. That’s really, really good. And to be perfectly honest with everybody that’s listening, they’re one of the most comfortable dress socks I’ve actually worn because I would wear them to work every day.

I didn’t get the hole around my calf where the elastics biting into my biting into me or they’re falling down all the time. Like you buy a brand new pair of socks. Always yanking them up. They’ve been great. And I almost don’t even realize I’m wearing them. And to be even more transparent, I have a pair in my track bag that I wear with my Sparko booties because they are, you [00:50:00] know, not a hundred percent synthetic, they are cotton based.

So I can wear those, you know, underneath my racing suit and stuff like that. And I like the fact that they’re thin and they gave me that feel and I don’t have to worry about yanking them up all day.

Crew Chief Brad: But I think over time they’ve kind of developed it. It’s almost like a hybrid dress kind of sports sock.

They’re a little bit thicker, a little bit more comfortable. They don’t wear through like, like other dress socks do. Uh, so I, I think they’re, they’re a great piece of kit.

Crew Chief Eric: And I’m still looking to try out their sport socks. I just, you know, I kind of wonder, cause I do like low cuts, but I’m like, are you really going to see my Lotus or Porsche golf livery inspired low cut socks?

If they’re low enough in my shoe. I mean, so for me, I’m, I’m still on the fence about that. So he’ll try the

Crew Chief Brad: GTI ones.

Crew Chief Eric: So he’ll, so he’ll tread. If you’re listening, I’ll take us, I’ll take a pair to try them out.

Crew Chief Brad: They actually did send me a pair of free socks.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s more for you to enjoy as you have your feet up on your Ottoman or your table, enjoying some Netflix or Hulu or Amazon prime.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. When you’re watching the latest, [00:51:00] uh, car inspired, you know, Netflix documentary, and you’ve got your, your auto art. Salt and pepper shaker eating your, your dinner or whatever, and you can watch yourself having

Executive Producer Tania: a drink out of your VW fridge as you stare across your toes.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, you’re enjoying your VW sausage.

I’m

Crew Chief Eric: watching my baby butler buff. My baby to

Crew Chief Brad: try saying that 10 times fast.

Crew Chief Eric: So speaking of apparel, what else is on the list? Brad?

Crew Chief Brad: I’m wearing one now. Everybody’s got a shirt from blip shift pretty much nowadays. I think I think everybody in the in the North America’s has a blip shift shirt to speak of.

I’m wearing the G. T. I. 1. I’ve they’ve got many different styles. They’ve got the thicker ones. They’ve got long sleeve. They got short sleeve. Mine, I’ve, I’ve started getting the tribe blend because I found that they don’t shrink, uh, as much, uh, the, the thick ones, the heavy duty ones were a little too much, a little too thick for me, especially for summertime and stuff.

The, the fitted ones, I liked them, but they shrunk really quickly. [00:52:00] Uh, the tribe blend seemed to be the way to go for me. Uh, and they’ve got all kinds of different styles. Every single day, they come out with a new design every once in a while. I don’t know if they’re doing it now or not, but they, they roll out.

past designs to have like a huge sale, I guess, to clear out inventory. Uh, you don’t have to get a t shirt or a long sleeve shirt. You can also get a poster of the designs. So yeah, go to Blipshift and get some of that cool stuff.

Crew Chief Eric: So since we’re still talking about apparel, our friends at OG Racing. Are doing closeouts on various brands of helmets.

So there are some really great deals out there on 2015, right? And as, as we learn on the safety as a system episode, there’s a reason to update your helmet more often than the 11 year expiration period would suggest. Remember that 2015 helmets. are good until 2026 and a lot of the 2020 helmets are just now starting to ship and you may not be able to get them until next year.

So [00:53:00] honestly, if you’ve got a 20 10 right now and you’re trying to get into something else, uh, because they expire next year and maybe a little later because of COVID and not having the track time, you know, getting into a 2015 and helmet that’s five years newer, it’s going to have newer hookups in it.

Radio hookups are becoming standard now. You’re not allowed to drill your helmets anymore. So, you know, as we learned, you know, the posts are going to be there, all that kind of stuff. The black Friday sales for OG racing are running from November 20th. Through December 7th, and they’re taking 20 percent off all closeout items, including SA 2015 helmets.

That’s all brands, your ruse, your sparkles, your steelers, your bells, and so on down the line. Apex pro you’re looking at 10 percent off all items that are in stock. And 15 percent off all O. M. P. and that would be all O. M. P. sport items. And so sport will be in the name of the item. So 15 percent off those [00:54:00] and B.

2 helmets apex running at 199 95 and the B. 2 helmet known as the vision running at 179 95. through December 31st. So there’s an extended sale on the B2 brand of helmets. So if you want to find out more about those particular sales. Hop on over to www. ogracing. com or reach out to Mark Francis, who was on the show earlier this year at mark at ogracing.

com as well, I believe the showroom is open again, but I would definitely call OG Racing. To make sure you don’t need an appointment, uh, if you want to run down there last minute and see what they have on the shelf or try something on, but you can call them. Their staff is super knowledgeable and they’ll be able to virtually fit you as well, based on some criteria as we learned on that previous episode.

Crew Chief Brad: And if you’re looking for Mark, he told me before that he’s there pretty much every Thursday.

Crew Chief Eric: Perfect. Even better. So thanks to the [00:55:00] guys at OG for extending those, uh, promotions and letting us know about it.

Crew Chief Brad: So moving on to talking back about the OG and the, all the stuff that you can buy, you know, for safety for you and your car.

You need that stuff when you go to the track and hooked on driving or one of the, you know, the many organizations out there that provide track events and track days and stuff like that. They have what’s called a frequent driver program. They offer it two times per year. And it works out on a sliding scale.

I think basically you spend a certain amount of money. The more you spend, the extra bonuses you get. Um, there’s two levels. There’s the gold and the silver level. If you’ve got any questions, you can surely reach out to Hooked on Driving. You can reach out to Mona directly if you’re here in the Northeast, uh, and she’ll hook you up.

They’ve got, uh, also gift certificates as well. Somebody gave me one as a wedding gift that I was very happy about. So if you yourself want to go to the track or, you know, some people that you want to. Send to the track, reach out to Hoked On Driving and get, get yourself a frequent driver program or some gift certificates.

Crew Chief Eric: And speaking of [00:56:00] gift certificates, Mark Hicks, who was on the show earlier this year, also mentioned to us that Chin Track Days has online gift certificate sales as well. So you can actually go to their website, ChinTrackDays. com and purchase gift certificates for Chin Track Weekend as well. And again, these are just Two of the many clubs out there to offer this kind of service that people don’t realize you can buy a track day for someone else.

So gift your petrol head, a track day, probably heard over the years, you could get all sorts of Cadillac cologne and Jaguar driving gloves and

Crew Chief Brad: Volkswagen sausages, Volkswagen

Crew Chief Eric: sausages, and Porsche designed sunglasses. But did you know? A name that’s synonymous with motor sports, that being Momo has a website devoted to apparel and accessories and motorcycle gear, et cetera.

It’s known as Momo design. You can check it out by using the link that’s in the follow on article to [00:57:00] this episode, but they carry a full online store with his and hers apparel, motorcycle gear, sunglasses, watches, accessories, and more. And it’s all reasonably priced and is made and ships from Italy. So right from Momo, really cool stuff.

One of the other things you might be able to get for your loved one is Something that’s actually free right now, and that’s a membership to one of our new partners, Garage Riot. Garage Riot is the car enthusiast social network. It’s a great place for petrolheads, motorsports fanatics, anybody that’s into cars, even casually.

It’s a great place to share ideas, share stories, pictures, events you’re going to, et cetera, with like minded people. It’s a great down to earth environment. It’s not like anything you’ve probably used before. It’s not like your Instagrams and your Facebook groups and things like that. It’s really geared for petrol heads and motorsports and car enthusiasts alike.

A great environment. Brad and I are on there along with a bunch of other GTM members. So head on over to Garage Riot and [00:58:00] check it out. So that’s www. garageriot. com and stay tuned for an upcoming episode where we dig in deep with the CEO and founder of Garage Riot so you can learn all about the service in more detail.

Crew Chief Brad: What about for you? What is something that Eric wants, not for his car, not for his garage, or Tanya, not for her car, not for her garage?

Crew Chief Eric: You know, Jess would cringe at me saying this, but… I could go for another motorsport or car inspired watch, to be honest with you, because like the DeLorean watch is fantastic.

It’s a really gorgeous watch in person, but there’s some really cool ones out there. There’s some Porsche watches, BMW motorsport ones, even though I’m not the biggest BMW fan, but some other Their kit is really cool. The Momo watches are pretty neat. If you’re looking at those, I like stuff like that. I will say one thing just for me that I think I would like to have, and this is because I recently [00:59:00] posted about this on Garage Riot and I watched a video on motorsport.

tv, I would like to have a model. Of the first Jaeger liveried car. And that happens to be a nine 14, six,

Crew Chief Brad: that’d be a good yet,

Crew Chief Eric: right? They just got to find it. That’s the, that’s the thing. And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, head over to motorsport. tv and search for Jaeger Meister. Uh, there’s a 30 minute video on there, uh, talking about the history of the Jaeger cars and one of the largest collections, single owner collections of Jaeger liveried cars, et cetera.

And he happens to also in his showroom have a. The largest collection of Jaeger models. Uh, there’s about 144 of them total. He’s got them in one 43rd scale, but I thought it was really cool that he owns car number one Jaeger livery, number one, and the final Jaeger livery car, which happens to be a Opel touring car V8.

And the first one is a 914 six. And then he’s got a ton of cars in between really good episode, really cool stuff, [01:00:00] definitely worth checking out. So what about you, Brad? Just for you?

Crew Chief Brad: Uh, just for me. Well, you know, you’re, you’re talking about Jaeger and everything. I’m actually getting a little thirsty. So a new bottle of Jaeger would be great for me and in my freezer.

Uh, also to go with that,

Crew Chief Eric: to go with that case of rich energy you have

Crew Chief Brad: and my Haribo

And then I also I used to have 1 and I don’t know what happened to it. I thought I gave it to you. I had a 1 18 scale mark for G. T. I. and I do not know what happened to it. I’m so furious that I can’t find it. Um, but I want 1 and then I want to sand it down and kind of paint it. Like my car and essentially just do a replica.

Now there is a company on Instagram that I follow, but they actually make wooden models of anything you want. You send them pictures. I’m sure it’s super expensive, but someday I feel like I will have, I will have one of those.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s actually really cool. Especially 118 scale [01:01:00] cars. Those are harder to come by anymore.

Everybody seems to have shifted to 140 third. I have a problem moving to that, right? I mean, we talked about this about, you know, the model Jeep and the Hot Wheels and stuff like that. It’s hard to transition to a whole new collection. I mean, I started with 118. And I have a lot of them and they’re, they’re really cool, but then it’s like, you look at a hot wheels, you know, one 64th scale, I believe they are.

And it’s like, you can get them for 70 cents when they’re on sale, 50 cents, you know, 94 cents at Walmart, stuff like that. It’s hard to say, Hey, here’s a four inch car. And it’s, it’s 80 bucks, you know what I mean? Um, that kind of deal. So, so I haven’t been able to transition into that market. That, and if we are talking about model cars that we’d love to have, I mentioned this to somebody the other day.

If I could have any one, one 18 scale car right now, there’s actually two I would have one is the hunch took Audi 90 ITU car. Like I saw walk ins Glenn back, you know, in the eighties when, when they were running there and Trans Am with SCCA. And I think the other one I [01:02:00] would love to have is like a 88, 89 Sauber C9.

Mercedes LMP car. Those are going to be super hard to find. I don’t even know if, you know, auto art or, you know, Maisto or any of those guys make those, but that’d be, that’d be really cool. Again, that’s, that’s a, for me thing, but since we’re talking about for ourselves, you know, that, that’d be super cool as well.

So I

Executive Producer Tania: think I’m going to take advantage of the sock sale.

Crew Chief Brad: Somebody else has to take advantage of the sock sale for you, Tanya. This is Christmas time.

Executive Producer Tania: The list is going to be long. And then I’m going to have to decide how many socks is an appropriate amount of socks. She’ll

Crew Chief Brad: be ready by December 2021.

Executive Producer Tania: There’s that many socks to choose from is the problem.

Crew Chief Brad: They have a huge selection. It’s great, isn’t it?

Executive Producer Tania: I would definitely have alpha ones. I haven’t decided which one yet. I’d like both.

Crew Chief Brad: My favorites are the, the Mercedes, the Wynn Mercedes, uh, GTD car. The ones [01:03:00] that I wore at the wedding, those are my favorite by far because they really pop underneath like a dark suit or something.

My second favorite, I call the Wynn socks, my good luck sock. My second favorite of the, the Ferrari. 250 GTO inspired socks. Those are fantastic too.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah. See, I’m going to be more of the enjoys the socks as she looks over her feet at the TV.

That is perfectly

Crew Chief Brad: acceptable. But wait, there’s more! If you want to get more holiday shopping ideas, head on over to www. gtmotorsports. org and search holiday to pull up this article and previous year’s suggestions and check out all of our recommendations.

Crew Chief Eric: To help support the club you love, think about picking up some GTM swag.

And thanks to one of our members, we recently released a new online store. The URL is Swag, which is spelled S C H W A G. So that’s swag. gtmotorsports. org or jump onto our [01:04:00] main website, gtmotorsports. org and click on store. So all the remaining goodies we have in stock. Are listed on the website, the full inventory.

And then we have some new items coming for 2021, which we will release probably sometime in December or closer to the new year as we’re still developing that stuff for next year. But we do have a new store. It’s pretty cool. There’s a lot of different things you can do there. And we’re also going to be doing some cross selling and cross promotion with some of our other partners through the store site.

Crew Chief Brad: And remember, GTM is fueled by volunteers, and we need your support to help keep things going. And during this time of giving, consider helping us out by subscribing to GTM through Patreon. We’ve always been a no annual fee organization, but we do rely on donations and pledges to help us to continue to deliver awesome content, publish articles, and keep our developers on that strict diet of Fig Newtons, Monster, and Haribo gummy bears.

For as little as 2 and 50 cents a month, you can show your support. Become a patron today by visiting www. patreon. com [01:05:00] slash GT motor sports.

Crew Chief Eric: We definitely wouldn’t be able to do any of this if it wasn’t for our sponsors, our members, our listeners, our audience, everybody. So we want to give a big shout out as we start, begin to close out this season to our sponsors and our supporters.

For everything they’ve done for us this year, and we look forward to great things with all of them in the 2021 season. So let’s give a big round of applause to Chaz’s Used Auto Parts. Hooked on Driving.

Executive Producer Tania: AutoFab Race Cars.

Crew Chief Eric: OG Racing. Battery Warehouse.

Executive Producer Tania: Radial Tire Company.

Crew Chief Eric: RLC Automotive Industries.

Crew Chief Brad: Crutchfield Decals and Numbers.

Executive Producer Tania: Brian Schad Photography.

Crew Chief Eric: Ultimate Outlaws. Breach Tech Solutions. TLC

Executive Producer Tania: T Moto Works.

Crew Chief Eric: Fontana Web Designs. HPDE Junkie.

Executive Producer Tania: And Garage Riot.

Crew Chief Eric: Again, thank you all so much for all the help this year, and we can’t wait to do great things [01:06:00] with you guys next year. So in closing guys, we can’t thank you all enough after 30 some odd episodes that you’ve been hanging in with us and listening all the downloads, you know, we’re seeing the uptake and viewership on the website and uptake on the podcast and all that, again, we can’t thank you enough for supporting us and keeping us motivated to continue doing this.

So I guess it just leaves us with one thing to say, which is happy holidays. So, from all of us at GTM, thank you, be safe, and have a great holiday season.[01:07:00]

Crew Chief Brad: You can call or text us at 202 630 1770. Or send us an email at crewchief at gtmotorsports. org. We’d love to hear from you.

Crew Chief Eric: Hey listeners, Crew Chief Eric here. Do you like what you’ve seen, heard, and read from GTM? Great! So do we, and we have a lot of fun doing it. But please remember, we’re fueled by volunteers and remain a no annual fee organization.

But we still need help to keep the momentum going. So that we can continue to record, write, edit, and broadcast all of your favorite content. So be sure to visit www. patreon. com forward slash gtmotorsports or visit our website and click in the top right corner on the support and donate to learn how you can [01:08:00] help.

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

• 00:00 Introduction and Sponsorships
• 00:52 Holiday Shopping News
• 01:46 Dream Cars for the Holidays
• 06:45 Electric Vehicles Discussion
• 09:44 Bugatti’s $35,000 Electric Car for Kids
• 17:09 Holiday Shopping Guide: Tools and Gadgets
• 24:22 Luxury Kids’ Cars: Bugatti vs. Aston Martin
• 31:41 Gifts for Your Ride
• 32:51 Garmin’s New Device: A Game Changer?
• 34:09 Brush Hero Pro: The Ultimate Wheel Cleaning Tool
• 36:02 V Safe Universal Solar TPMS: Never Get a Flat Again
• 37:29 Orange TPMS: Real-Time Tire Monitoring
• 39:24 Holiday Wishlist: Car Parts and Accessories
• 42:00 DeLorean Watches: Time Travel on Your Wrist
• 43:22 Petrol Box: The Ultimate Subscription for Car Enthusiasts
• 44:57 Hot Wheels and Matchbox Collectibles
• 46:44 Auto Art: Die-Cast Models and More
• 48:03 Heel Tread: Motorsport-Inspired Socks
• 51:26 Blipshift: Unique Car-Themed Apparel
• 52:26 OG Racing: Black Friday Helmet Deals
• 55:10 Track Day Gift Certificates
• 56:43 Momo Design: Stylish Motorsport Apparel
• 57:14 Garage Riot: The Social Network for Car Enthusiasts
• 01:03:40 GTM Swag and Support
• 01:05:01 Thank You to Our Sponsors
• 01:06:01 Happy Holidays from GTM