Uno Mas, Family Legacy & the Cars That Find Us - Spud Hughes Ep80

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, what if the car that you absolutely love the most?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Isn't really a car even at all?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What if it's like your entire childhood, your father, even a piece of home?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Today I'm sitting down with a guy who's been around Volkswagen since he was basically old enough to walk.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His dad took him off-roading in the Azusa Canyon as just a little kid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had a Baja actually before, most kids even know what a Baja is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, he rebuilt his first car with his father and then life took him away from California away from his dad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He found a way to keep that connection alive through Volkswagen's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, that's what we're here for.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's built some incredible cars over the years, but one of them actually carries a story that's hard to explain.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a black 65 beetle, and he named it Uno Moss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He bought it after losing his father, using money that was connected to his dad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His father had one another bug before he died, but he never got the chance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So guess what he does, Spud builds it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then last year Uno Moss was actually wrecked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of letting it die, he actually rebuilt it again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But here's the part that got me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Spud is now a dad and when he picks his son up from school,

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[SPEAKER_01]: in that same Volkswagen vibe, he looks in that rear view mirror and sees himself as a kid sitting with his own father.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe today's conversation really isn't about Volkswagen's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's about fathers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's about sons.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's about loss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's about memories.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's about why how sometimes a stupid little old car can carry an entire lifetime inside it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Spud Hughes welcome to Dublife Diaries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you very much to the community and get on here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's it, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The another one from my father, um, we were, uh, it came about as about six years old, six or seven and, um, we were, uh, he was late in getting me ready to go to school.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we had, he was out here at the Baja warming up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We were in California at the time and he had, he did have posters, Budweiser dogs, Bud McKenzie dog in the garage.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, buddy, Nancy, I remember that dog heck, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so if I was six or seven, this was roughly, you know, 88, 87, 88, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, hey, Spud, we've got a hurry up man, we're late, getting the car, let's go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even at that age, I remember thinking of myself, what did he call me?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went with it and it was something after that point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We went to school.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We dropped me off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Didn't necessarily hear it again for a while, but when we would hang out, I hung out with him and his friends back in the day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it came up again, he started introducing me a spud.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is my boy's spud, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And during, as a few years had passed, when my mom and dad had like went into a separation and he had his own place, that's when I became spud.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a personality I took on, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was somebody I became and it was,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, that was my dad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He named me that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's someone I became.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then he made me, I have it on still to this day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When I was 11, he made me this silver ring with my name on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I still wear it every day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So cool, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's, the two I am, the two I'd become, it's who I'll always be and when people always ask me what my real name is, it's it's spud and that's as far as that goes and if you get into the legal aspect of things, you only people to call me my real name or the judge and the office that will be on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I will we'll stick with split.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But let's talk to your or about your dad for a second.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you named your car after your dad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let let me clarify that for for the listener.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So your dad was Uno Moss, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Where did that name come from for your father?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I think it stemmed from when he was getting into the, he was always into, he painted his whole life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He painted custom bikes, a lot of low riders and so-called, he was real big.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We always had a little rider in the garage, but I'll be in, I'll step and paint it all the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he had close buddies that would be like, you know, he could never do anything with them because it was, oh, I got one more car, I got one more bike.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they ended up calling him, you know, he ain't never going to do nothing because he's doing no moss and something, you know, he's always got one more thing and then he was okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then he also, he had a small bar out in California for a short period of time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and he ran that and he also got dubbed that because you couldn't get him to leave because he would end up having a couple beers at night and you couldn't get him to leave because it was unomossed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One more one more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This unomossed name of his just kind of like progressed and it had it popped up here and they're all the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So then that's what he ended up going by.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some years later, that's what he put down on everything, you know, and

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I stuck with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's who he is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it almost is how I have him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have him uh, pinstriped up and it can't next to me here as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Cool man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, he's hanging out with us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good energy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's good stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for clarifying and and also sharing that with me now back to you You actually describe yourself as a nutcase, but here's what I want to know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you actually mean by that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think when I say nutcase, I'm very I've been told I'm very extreme in everything that I do so

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[SPEAKER_00]: this Volkswagen life and I mean you know Volkswagen people all of us out there we we go hard okay we we hoard parts we have 15,000 franchises on the side of our house for what we don't know but we're not throwing them away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm I'm real big on wheels I've got Volkswagen wheels hanging on the wall I got him behind me I got him stacked up so we love we love the hard stuff but I the nut case part

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love this stuff, like you can't, if you, if this stuff were to go away tomorrow, I wouldn't know what to do with myself, like I need this, and I'm, I mean, it's in my blood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm embedded in it, there's, I'm absolutely nuts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: when it comes to this stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, not case, I just, there's some people that get into the scene and they get a bug and they enjoy the bug or whatever model they buy and get into.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I feel like I put myself in a different category and there's a lot of us, I mean a lot of us out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's die parts for the rest of their life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They grew with them, had parents that are into them, so on and so forth, just like myself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, let's touch on that though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's let's touch on that now in your background and in your story you basically said that you were basically born around Volkswagen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So looking back over your life like what was some of your earliest memories of maybe your dad or even Volkswagen's

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I have most of them are with my father, and that was off-roading in Azusa Canyon, and I used to climb in the back in the luggage compartment area under the back window.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Him and my mother would be in there and would have a cooler in the back seat if there was a back seat in it at the moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His car's changed quite often.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and we would go mobbing through rivers and the water would come in and come up waste high and he's still just woooooh you know and he's getting it in the rivers and I'm back there flopping around and we'd get to where we were going and set up camp and hang out and uh you know I just enjoyed it I can smell it had a distinct smell

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[SPEAKER_00]: the car, the mud, the water, you know, all of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember all of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then also my mom's mother, my grandmother, on her side, she had bugs all her life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And like every three years they would go in and her and her husband, they would trade in for the next model a few years later.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she had

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[SPEAKER_00]: and that was the last one that was the one I wrote in when I was just little I would go out to Pennsylvania and spend the summer with them and I would do the same thing I'd climb in the back of that luggage compartment area and then you know this is you know nowadays you have to have car seats and you have to all the rules and you know regulations but back then you just crawl on the back I'd hang out look out that back window and just the you know that sound of that engine that Volkswagen motor the way things smelled I was

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was just in heaven.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know I was I was a mellow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was a com kid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know with that and she drive me all over town.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Coatsville.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Reading all that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'd go all over the place breakfast at diners and stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that was my childhood was off-roading in Abahah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, even at eight years old, my father got me, we bought Abahah 66 Abahah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Eight years old with, I used to take the neighbor's beer cans to the recycle center.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I got money, enough money to go buy this Abahah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We got it running and all it needed was a set of points.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm eight years old and I think by time I got to drive it in as soon as you came in on my own I was about nine and a half ten years old and my dad taught me how to drive a stick in the back for it He had like a half a acre behind in the house out in California and Sandeam is and I Learn how to drive a stick back there and I would tear it up, you know, it was ball to the wall You know when you're out off-roading and there was nobody in front of you just get it sure And I mean a nine ten year old kid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm having a blast shit

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[SPEAKER_00]: beyond.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'll never forget it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm in it today, man, you can notice what I do and I love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, a lifetime in it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So around 15, you were then your dad handed over his own personal Baja to you, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, one at that time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, tell us about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, he, I was about 15 years old and he was like, you know, you need your first car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he had this ball that him and he had a buddy that I grew up around and they built cars together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The other guy, um, Ken Crum was in Hotby, Doug Mags with his ball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They got it already show worthy and all that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And my dad was headed that way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but he didn't want to give up the off-road.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't want to give up the mud to go and trailer his bah-ha, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he ended up, he stopped doing it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he looked at me and he says, you know, would you want that car in the backyard, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that was a coolest car to me because I had the whole cooler scoop on the roof.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean, I love that in a bah-ha.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What that scoop on the roof, it just had to look, it had to one piece.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, front end on it, you know, it didn't have the 7p street kid had had a one piece on it when you unpinned it took it off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It had bars all on the beam into the car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it was set up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, oh my God, you're going to give me that in a granted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a shell.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it needed everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But one summer, I told them I would love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We got down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We painted it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We painted it shiny black with flames.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did blue flames all over it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was my first time

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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, you know, for a 15, 16 year old kid, this was the bad-ass act car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't even need to get this thing home and run it down the street and just be like, you know, look, you know, people get they had Cavaliers back then, you know, for the first car or Ford Taurus that was beat up and I rolled up in a Baja, it had a 1641 in it with a single 40 Weber on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: an SNS muffler and head around it, and it was just, it may not have been fast, they had 31 inch mutters on the back, and Dick C. Packed fun countries on the front with centerlines all the way around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, man, you know, I was the luckiest to me, and I didn't care what anybody else had.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They could have had a Lambo, but I had this car, and my dad helped me build it, and it was just, it was mean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember rolling up to my girlfriend's house and she came out of the house and she said, what is that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just was like, this is a Baja, you know, and out here they didn't really, they didn't really have that going on, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she absolutely hated it and I didn't care.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're not together now, so it doesn't matter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Did you have any lessons that that that stuck with you from back in those times when your dad was with you was was kind of teaching you showing you the way any any lessons or anything that he taught you that you actually still do today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes, I'm actually I'm a painter by trade now and he taught me paint and body.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He made me do as a kid that I didn't like then.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he made me wet sand Harley tanks and fenders.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll never let me do any bodywork, but I always watched him do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But wet sanding, he always made me do that before he polished paint, stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now today, you know what, I love doing paint and bodywork.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I do everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If anything sits in front of me for more than six days, I'm painting it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing something to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Looking back at those, that time spent those years now, do you realize now how important that was, that time was with your dad learning all that stuff?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh God, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope I can instill not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to force anything on my little man and by any means, but I will have him do certain things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if he wants to come out and a garage and I'll teach of anything he wants to know whether he does or not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then it could stem into that because I don't even know who I would be or where I would be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Had I not learned?

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[SPEAKER_00]: All the things my father taught me, well, you know, the cars, the welding, the bodywork.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I build motors because of my father, you know, I do this entire car on my own because of what my father taught me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, today,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have a job, I have a career doing it only solely because of what he taught me and it was a fallback job.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we got laid off a few years ago and I was worried and somebody made a phone call and said, hey, this guy can paint.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen you paint and I've only ever painted for myself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I went into the industry doing things and they were blown away and I was blown away that they were blown away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like really I do the stuff all the time and I do it now and I do enjoy my job, you know, it is a job, it's a four letter word.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's nice to go and be able to go into the booth and then I lose myself into painting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can paint and I'm happy, you know, I do enjoy that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think my dad every day for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm very grateful for that because I wouldn't I don't know what I would be doing or how long I would have been out of work and I not known this other trade more power to the trades.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got two kids that are going into the trades plumbing and electrical and I spent the last 15 years of my life in the H back industry, but really more over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: being a coach and a trainer for all trades companies, mainly in home services, but the saying about me, this is about you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about your parents.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you had mentioned this a little while ago, you had said, you know, then they split up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's spend a little bit of time there talking about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So your parents split up your mom moves to Colorado.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At that time, how old were you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was, I believe I was 14 going into 15 the summer of

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh God, it might have been, it had to have been 95.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she had had a workplace boyfriend that, you know, he had this idea that let's move to Colorado will be better for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be better for everybody, you know, and so it was a pretty brutal detachment, or I should say, I was torn away because I spent the weekend with my dad, my mom had come and picked me up that Sunday evening when we got home pulled in the driver.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a pensky truck already loaded ready to go, dude, and we left that night within a few hours, so there was no, and I know my father knew, but he didn't want to tell me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When you said that right now, I couldn't help but go back to, you know, my wife and I when we lived in Colorado Springs for a number of years, we took a bunch of foster kid placements and helped out foster kids.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when you, you know, you have that that super fast exit, that when you describe that, even though this wasn't the same thing, but when you describe that, it made me think, sometimes these kids,

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[SPEAKER_01]: were asked to get up and leave everything they've ever known with a literally a trash bag full of their belongings and that's it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they got them out and you know, go start their life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So how crazy that is and then enter the system, etc.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This isn't that, but you go from California to hanging with your dad and his friends hanging around the bikes, the VWs, the Canyon, all that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: To now,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're you're you're somewhere else describe that like did you did you measure that I mean what what what of that dude to you at that time 15 14 year old kid and and you know I guess what what your identity was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well the first initial.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that comes from it was felt like I was I was a band

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he let me go and I didn't know about it, you know, nobody told me and I think maybe I wasn't necessarily told because, you know, maybe there was a potential that I'd take off or I would throw a fit, maybe not, you know, and it'd be some situation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I wasn't a terrible kid by any means, but maybe they thought in the back of their head like we don't know what he's going to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it seems kind of shy, Steve, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: later on while I'll stick with the feeling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I felt that way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We went.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The truck was already loaded ready to go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was basically, you know, takes charge, changed your clothes if you want to, but we're we're headed out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I got in the back of my mom's 86 Toyota pickup that had a cap on it and I sat in it, had a carpet kit in it with a couple.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's an all that sort of pull.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I laid back there and was

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, confused, I had no idea this was actually happening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I also remember it was dark.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're coming up on Vegas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: First time I've ever seen Vegas in my life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you know, it was all lit up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we had to stop and pull in for DAS.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now I remember working round going, well, this is crazy like we're doing this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know, it's some rate I fell asleep.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I woke up in Aurora, Colorado.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we were unloading a Pensky truck to following day into this, you know, it's a new house.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a new, everything's new.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So how much time passed before you maybe even started looking for a way to find that comfort way to produce that or try to recreate that feeling that California gave you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was, well, I had issues being here when we had the first snowfall which back in the day was end to September.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and my mom got me up one morning and she said, you got to come outside, you got to come outside.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's snowed and I'm like, I didn't, I mean, we had snow in California, but you had to travel for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Big bear, whatever, you know, you can go up in a mountains and get it, but I never messed with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I went outside and I remember looking at it and I, I didn't want to have nothing to do with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And nothing to do with it and that point on right there, I told my mom I said, I want to go home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I went home back to my dad for like a couple months and I just spent a couple months.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe it was a few months in because it was winter time and I'd spent Christmas out there with my dad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I hung out for about a month or so or whatever it was and then I had to go back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and get into school and do that sort of thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just, I just wasn't taken very well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just didn't want to be here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The way I was ripped apart, you know, and you know, it was pretty brutal on me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it probably, a few years had passed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It probably took six years before I got to go back and see my dad again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked on the phone and stuff like that, but, you know, from our early teens to a, you know, 21, 22 year old man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I did have that moment where I went out for a summer and we built the Baja together when I was 15, 16.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I, you know, I did go out there for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a short stand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We trailered the car back and I had the car and from that point on, I never went back for a good chunk of time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I made it a point when I started driving that I was going to drive out every year for my birthday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's where my started to go back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'd spend the summers with my dad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was insane to have that feeling to go back and be with my dad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I started getting into street bugs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he, it was crazy because he was off road.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when I showed him the car that I was potentially going to buy,

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, man, you're going to buy a pink, lowered bug like you can get that from.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, you know, I went to a car show out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I seen this, this bug was low and it rolled in and it was the coolest thing to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, man, I like this car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was like a coffee color with cream, you know, it was, there was low.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just like this thing is what I'm talking about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I ended up buying that pink 65-bug sunroof from a high school girl that I knew her friends.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went through all that and it was the best thing in the world to go cruise that hot pink bug.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And being a lowered bug and from that point on, I never went back to anything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm afraid to hide these days, so I'll never go back to anything much further off the ground and then maybe an inch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I love me a slammed car, everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have a 99 to coma as well that's shaved and dropped.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, we're supposed to truck, but I ain't doing truck stuff in it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're probably similar, A, I'm 49, how old are you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm 45 just turn 45.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we're we're close enough.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think low rider culture did the same thing to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not necessarily was I a California kid, but I was on the West Coast of Florida.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Low riders were everything for us at the end of the 80s, into the early 90s, you know, hydraulics, all that fun stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I feel the same way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything that I have, I picture it being lowered.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, you know, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't have all of my vehicles or they're not all low.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wish they all were, but you know, I have a wife that the she doesn't like them low and then I have a lower back than also don't like them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But let's spend a little bit more time on this this pink 65.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in the beginning of getting it, I found out it was her uncle's was her uncle's previous show car from like 83 to 86.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It did the show circuit, it had legit real mirror glass mirror firewall installed with liquid nail.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had to like get it out of there at one point, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was all done up with real mirror and I believe our uncle was into low riders because it had a lot of low rider style things in it You know, it wasn't like a cow looks style bug it had you know, it had the best of both worlds it had cow look it had full heartbeat Valor interior in it the seats were done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were not like

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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe they were early 80s, Honda, corridor, Honda, something seats in it that were pulsed to match the door panels.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't pulse wag and seats in the front.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It had these wooded.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I swear they were a dresser knobs, pull knobs that were put on the door panels for door repuls.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that stuff was kind of throughout.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and things like that, it was bad ass.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was, and I'm sure in its day, it was way bad ass, and, um, it had, uh, why ended up putting it had cromies on it, just the wide five cromies, no hubcaps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I ended up putting cromies back on it with nipple, Porsche nipple hubcaps on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They gave it to look.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were my very first street wheels I ever had.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I put it, and it was just lowered on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, back in the day, 135's up front, 195 and 15's out back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was just, and it was lowered, you know, drop spinnels and adjustable beam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I believe it had a select a drop beam in it from back in the day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it was old school.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and it was just man was it cool the sun roof man when you would take off from a red light too fast I mean you know 1500 sitting the port fast, so we're not talking you know blazing Saddles here, but the sun roof would open on its own because the cables were busted and when you had when you hammered on the brakes and shut on you Oh shit, it went cool man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love this car in the sun roof aspect was just cool and It was a good vibe man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I obviously the car's name was pinky

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I did, when that car had gotten wrecked, I had a lady who was disciplined and were children in the back seat blasted me in that car, and I lost that car, which was like my first heartache of losing a bug.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I resurrected it into what I have now, and I still call our pinky, and it's a 66-bug hardtop.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Gloss Black, it's all shiny black, 2387 nitrous roll cage car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but she had gotten resurrected into much more than it ever was, but I enjoyed that pink bug.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a good time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It got me into the lower bug scene, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what got me started in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've never stopped.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now it's just progressing to everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm everything I touch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, my lawnnors lowered.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mowed my grass to low, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha, I can burn it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So what happened to Pinky?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, while I was going through an intersection, me and my girlfriend at the time, I mean, Jesus, I was probably 19 or 20.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she was apparently, she had, what she had told, uh, she was disciplining a kid's reaching back and grabbing the kids in the back seat and she teaboned us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Mash McCarrot, but it was bad enough that you couldn't do anything about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the glove box door was twisted and was never going to be repaired.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was that deep.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, damn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I put my head through the windshield to brand new windshield, I put in two weeks prior and my head went through that and took a, took a door knob to the rib cage because it slammed me into that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they ran me to the hospital with that whole thing and I was fine, you know, for the most part the worst part about it was was seeing that car a few days later going and picking it up at the tow yard and dragging it home and.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's your life, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You put everything into that and being the people that we are and carve guys in general, doesn't have to be Volkswagen specific.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's you're into this stuff, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You love it right down to every nut and bolt, you know?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And taking that loss is pretty brutal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it took me three years to

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[SPEAKER_00]: get back behind the wheel of the car getting one put back together, which I still own today and I don't drive it much anymore, but I put it back together and I did a whole life in that thing and did a show circuit in it and now it's parked and I'm hoping to resurrect it in a different style somewhere down the line, maybe me and my boy can do it, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're so cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you actually still have Pinky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I still have her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's right behind me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome, dude.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At the time, Rack car, you know, these weren't what they are today, especially, you know, that long ago, parts were a way cheaper than they are today and everything else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously, that could be one of these reasons that I'm going to ask you, but why not just walk away back then, car just met that much to you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: that whole life meant that much to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, my father comes back into play and it's what I had to have another one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had to be back in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was this addiction, you know, this, you don't know, it's just there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it stems in me, you know, it's deep.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I started talking to my dad about when I was building this other one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was asking him stuff over the phone and essentially built a lot of these things with this car behind me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: using him you know we would talk about it and he we were basically building another car together you know and I had to I had to get back into it I mean it was probably a few weeks after the accident and I I got to the point where I was stripping the rect one I went to a place called Randy stuff out here in old Arvada it's the it was a huge Volkswagen store awesome place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually believe I built my garage around the style of that shop because when you went in there, I would get my, I would get up, take a shower, get ready and go Saturday morning to go hang out at Randy's stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a cool place, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: People were cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They would talk to you about stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They would suggest things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, he had Neon's, he had his old magazine cars in the shop, mannequins dressed up, which I also have in here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I believe I did because I fell in love with that as a teenager early 20s, you know, going to that place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I bought, he took me to his personal home one morning and said, I think I've got a 66-book back there that a lot of your stuff will

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we went down to his house and he had a nice sizeable house.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the car, I couldn't even tell you, a 17 car garage, 20, I don't know, it's huge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're walking through these sections of garage with these custom street rods and vipers this, you know, in this plimuth on a viper chassis.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we walk in the back and there's this, little ratty, 66 bucks with the rear clip cut off of it, no fenders, no glass.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was like a bulks rod.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and they were, I think what it was going, it was headed towards being a baja.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were going to cut it up into a baja, but they never got around the cut in the front clip off of it just yet, and then he ended up with it, and it had cromies on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were already on it, and he told me, says, that's the car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you want it, 600 bucks in the jaws, and it had a brand new freeway flyer transmission in it, and I said, done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I went back, you know, I talked to my mom, I got the 600 bucks, not necessarily from her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think she gave it to me up front, and then I gave her the money back over time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, right on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can I drop this thing home?

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[SPEAKER_01]: 600 bucks, though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, hello.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God, yeah, and you're not doing it today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Today, it would be 4,500 bucks for the shell.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, all right, all right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, depending on the condition, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So what did you do to this thing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I drugged it home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I looked at it and said, what the hell did I do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because it was a shell with no rear clip on it, but the rear clip was cut clean and it was in the car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that was a savior.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Basically, mock it back up, stitched well, back on, made sure everything was good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it was a massive project I've never taken on before from scratch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, wire harness, every nut and bolt, every little handle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, impressive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of it, you know, obviously it came off the old wreck.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and on to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then things started to snowball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't want the little single port motor in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I wanted a bigger motor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it took some time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I built a 1914, all CB, guts, you know, crank rods, everything CB heads.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I put a set of dual 40 whibbers on it, tall CB manifolds, MSD ignition.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when I got that thing in there and started it, man, was that that was something else.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd never felt

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... three years roughly three years from uh... shell to uh... interior paint it was it didn't have pain i did all the body work and it was in a black primer i did a black primer dp ninety uh... with a gun not rattle can i'm very adamant about that full of all or interior i did ninety nine and take revocance and it was shaved head rest how cool

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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of did that because the last car had, you know, a different model seats in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was kind of there, I did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I did, you know, 99 and take receipts in it, ended up getting a fully custom in black leather and gray-valor flames, which I did door panels the match later on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fiberglass dash, now the dash was chopped.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and a lot of holes and they cut it so at the time I didn't have the skills to graft in another dash.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what I did was I got a fiberglass dash from creative car craft and I put it in there and I airbrushed it with some skulls, you know, did my placement and my video gauges and things like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I had one skull with the eyeballs that were the turn signal lights, you know, you know, you know, sick like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was my cool little hot rod that I built from this was the first one I did scratch on my own without, I mean, my dad was there over the phone, but for the most part, I did this big project on my own.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So in three, three years, what what did it feel like describe the feeling of of of of first taking that thing out your first drive?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if there was ever a feeling where, you know, you had the right outfit on and you went to a party or you went to a high school dance and you knew you were badass.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's doing a being in that car and just rolling by people on the street at the red light people would look and, you know, thumbs up and oh man, nothing is cool and man and I'm saying that my ego is huge bany means I'm not going that right you just felt you built this thing man, you know you built it and you did the work so you can appreciate everything and feel it and it man I felt

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I will.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was badass in this car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and I mandated, I feel good, and it was mean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it was only in 1914.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's but it had power, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It moved.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was just an all around good feeling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I, God, I love that car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I just love being in it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What's your dad think about it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll send him this back in the day, you know, where you would take pictures on one of those disposable crank cameras.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then take it to the records and have to have your film developed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and you know, and then I would get them developed and I, I sent him stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we would do stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd send him photos and you know, that phone call would him tell me going, you know, you did this and I'm like, yeah, man, I did all this stuff from everything he taught me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, even the bodywork and it was just smooth, black primer and the motor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what was one thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think you were going to take to any of this stuff the way you did, but you mean, this is amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, that was one of those moments where I don't think he necessarily said, hey, you know, kid, I'm proud of you, but you knew it in the conversation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was blown away that his, it could have done something like this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he did tell me at one point, he said, you know, I think you out did me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: hey that's the point right that's what we're supposed to do with them we're supposed to make them better than us meaning our kids right yeah yep and that was the moment where you didn't have to say you were proud of me he told me that and I was like all right okay that's him telling me

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm proud of you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You did a great job and from that point on dude, I just do so deep into this and there's no way I could live without having one of these cars and to have to, you know, to be able to drive it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you need that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's one thing to push this thing in and out of the garage for a couple of years and the love it and look at it, love the lines on it, whatever you're doing, but.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the day you get to turn the key of that and you listen to that motor, whether it be a 1600 single port, 2387, they do all have their own vibe to it, but to turn the key in general in this car is getting me choked up right now, I need it in my life, and I could never live without it ever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: awesome and well said since then I mean you you've you've probably you've built a lot of car since then tell me what do you think it is about these little air cooled cars that just I mean captivate people so much I mean it's got to be first off it's got to be shape

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's shape, it's so distinct, you can, you know, you can find, you're not losing this car in a Walmart parking lot with 5,000 people parked there with all those Honda Accords and SUVs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's got a shape and all the Volkswagen models have their own car, you know, it's just, there's something about it and to me,

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's got a personality and it might be the nutcase part of me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's another one goes in there, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I give him personalities.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They tell me, let me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: backtrack.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They told me who and what they are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not case.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I believe we say a lot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I talked to other guests, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I say this a lot on this podcast.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You may have even heard it if you've ever listened any other, any other previous shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: These cars find us like like cats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they say cats have this, this, you know, cats are guilty of finding or selecting their own humans.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I say the same thing about these classic Volkswagen's man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They just the ones that are supposed to be in your life end up being a part of your life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And even if it's for a short time and you flip them or whatever, dude, they find you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They the opportunity to find you for some reason the stars align.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like, I don't know why I all of a sudden have this money and I'm making this happen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I ain't going to question it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's that's absolute truth and everyone that I have.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was something that aligned that led me to that car because it could have been anything, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But every one of these cars behind me right now, there were crazy events that happened that pushed me to a certain point and got me to these cars and then when I realized that exact thing, I will no longer let them go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had two in my life that I had come across,

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've done my thing to them, and I sold them off, and I watched them get destroyed by the next owner.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was something that killed me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have a personal attachment to every one of these cars and to watch that happen, absolutely kills me inside.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So from here on out, I'm not doing it anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I hold on to him and I mean, I'm hoarding him and luckily I got three of them stuffed in this garage now and I measured, I did some measurements and I got lucky and three of them fit in here and now in my mom, you know, I love her to death and thank you for all the backyard space because I've got them over there too, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the ones I haven't here, I will never in my life let go if I don't have to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm, you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have a thing, if something were to ever happen and let's say we don't need to get into that, but to someone in my family and I would need a chunk of change, hospital wise, or whatever, to make sure everything's good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you know, I'll do that and that's a sacrifice I'd make, you know, in a heartbeat, but I don't have to do anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not getting rid of them, because I don't want to watch anything bad happen to these cars, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love I totally get that and a lot of the folks that are listening to this podcast completely under understand that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: earlier you had also mentioned and you even said it as you were telling the story you described that that you could smell you know this the smell of this old old Volkswagen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean what a cool feeling I go back to you know my first I had a 72 beetle that I bought fresh out of high school 1996 I think I was 17

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[SPEAKER_01]: when i got that car and i remember you know in florida here obviously it's hot as hell and it's humid in the summertime and this car as you very well know had no ac and the heater channels were

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[SPEAKER_01]: absolutely banging back then.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this thing would just barrel heat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just dump heat hole.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know was horrible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But here's my point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would sometimes open that door in the summertime to get in that car and drive it when those up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And as soon as I would open the door, I would get hit with this rush of

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[SPEAKER_01]: vinyl and gasoline and horse hair and just just the smell of an old VW man, you know, and I just I go there a lot mentally.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I know how that how that feels.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why do you think that scent?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not just for me, but you described it too, as you said, you were enjoying that memory and you were like, man, I can still smell it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why do you think the smell of stuff hits us emotionally

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I would say, and it probably goes for every one of us, you're a child, you're a little kid, you're experiencing things for the first time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I eat these smells.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You get into your grandmother's car on a summer, every day, and you just have, there's this distinct smell.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you don't know it at the time because you're young.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're just in the background, you'll like, every time I get in this car, there's a smell.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you have memories which are then instilled in your mind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you go on further in life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you get into another one, and you get that smell again,

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[SPEAKER_00]: It brings you back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're right back to the summer of 87 as a king.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In the back of your grandma's bug, or it could be a march in your dad's ba-ha, and you just, there's the smell of this Volkswagen motor, the fumes that are in it, and stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it wasn't a, oh man, this is rough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just the way it was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, exhaust fumes, whatever you smell, but when you get older and you smell it again, it's memories, it's a time of, you know, remember in good things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what sticks with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I know there are smells out in the world that will hit you in your life, it takes you to a bad place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I can mention some, but I won't go there with that with certain things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These smells of the cars, that's what it is, you're young.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're new to it, it's all new, you bring it in and then you fast forward through life and you hit them again and it brings you back to when you were a kid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You were having a good time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was no stress and it's just an all around good feeling which just resonates with your mind and it's just and then it sticks with you and now you enjoy that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's something to bring in and it's like spilling fresh bread when you go down the road past the bread factor and it's just like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Some songs can do that to us too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, exactly songs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Any of that sort of stuff, definitely songs do the exact same thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it'll pinpoint a time in your life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Remember good vibes and man your right back there again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think it is?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe I should ask this another way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you make one of these cars like have soul?

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[SPEAKER_01]: like you know where you can name it or where you can like you said they these cars have personality what's what's one thing described for me one thing that kind of that for you that makes these cars you know have a soul that's a hard one because it's hard to explain that it's hard to get that out that's uh that's something you pick up on the car i like ulamas i remember you get in it i get in it i talk to it

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, I got in that car with the owner outside talking to a buddy of mine, which brought me to the car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sitting in that dusty old car, you know, mouse poop and washness and stuff like that in there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just talking to the car and it could go back to me being a bit at Volkswagen luni and then I hear things and I'm like, you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just get this vibe, which then also goes back to the idea of these things, a certain events lead us to these cars, certain things lead us to these cars, and to me, the personality of the car grabbed a hold of me, it knew me, it picked me out, and I went to it, I had a slight conversation with it, and I went home with it, and I've done it with every one of these cars, and they all absolutely have a personality, they're all named, and I love

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope they love me too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just the hard one to explain.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a feeling that you did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You captured it though, but you said something and I want to touch on this now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You talked about you know, Moss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's let's get into you know, Moss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's let's let's talk about this car now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you to I guess let's tell the story of of this car coming to now you had lost your dad right how long had it been when this car found you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... probably uh... maybe two maybe two three years maybe two years i think it was like a two-year span it was still pretty fresh i mean it still is today some years later sure where were you mentally at that point in your in your life um... well one thing i had these cars in the garage and i was

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... not stable i was a mess absolute wreck in a dark place uh... given up on a lot of things that i did on a normal basis which would be uh... a working out that aspect of my life left and working on these cars i was in the middle we did the move we literally just moved into this house and i was working on uh... elchopo the green patina bug

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this all went down and I couldn't even come out here and I don't I couldn't tell you why I just my mind was in a bad place that you couldn't sit and You couldn't focus on anything and you didn't want it you didn't want another car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No not by any means no I couldn't I couldn't I couldn't put the ones together that I had in here torn apart because of where I was at.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So who's the buddy that shows up then and and and and shows you this this black 65 on Craigslist I got my buddy big Mike big Mike shows up and he shows up on a kid on occasion, you know, he'll stop his sister lives down the street shout out to big Mike and he shows up with his phone and he says man, you see this black 65 on Craigslist and I'm like, I don't really mess with Craigslist, but he's like, do you got to check it out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And 65 for some reason have been my year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, my first bath was a 65.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My second bath was a 66.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'd flopped around those two years my entire life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He shows up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He shows me these photos.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he tells me, I'm thinking about going to look at it, where you go with me to look at it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, you know, by this current, he says, I don't know, I might buy it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know if my wife's going to let me buy it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That sounds like all of us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh hell, let's, let's go do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go look at it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so we get there and we roll up and I let him do his thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, this was his find.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want him to do, but he came up to me and he told me he's like, oh, I just like I let me buy this car and bring it home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, we can't we're here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We can't be bothering this guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like we showed up and I don't want to be a look, you know, and then leave.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and being a Volkswagen, a hollock nutcase, again, I'm like, so he told me, says, well, you know, if you want to buy it, you go ahead and buy it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, are you serious?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, you're going to be mad at me if I buy this thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I talked to the guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had a number.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I tried to do a, you know, a little bit of haggle with it because it was kind of high for what I typically bought with these in the condition it was in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it blacks my favorite color of 65's my favorite ear car and it's patina and I'm like dude, it's all of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we settled on a number nice and okay, and then my buddy big mic, he had the trucks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we had to go borrow a trailer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We came back probably a few days later with the money got the car, drug at home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then within a day got the motor that was in it running, waspness and all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I swear the the fan kicked on and sucked the wasp down in there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't run good by any means.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh man, the whole exhaust system was rotted out, but man did I I went down the streetness thing and I was happy camper, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And on your background, you had this, you had described that when you found this car, there was this feeling of a calm, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like everything suddenly, everything suddenly went quiet, describe that for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I can capture that with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: well now and see now my buddy big mic in the original owner of the car they kind of faded off when i'm walking around this car and i'm sliding my hand across the roof the hood i'm talking to you know and then i asked the owner can i is it okay if i sit in the car you know just at a respect he said sure go right ahead i get my sitting in car and shut the door and they faded off into the background they weren't even there you know and they're talking about that

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just I sat and I remember looking at the dash, you know, the dash was cruddy, but I rub my finger on it and that that that single stage black German paint came right out and I was like, oh man, and I'm talking to this car and it was just quiet in the sense that there was a calming feeling and you just knew I knew.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was taking this car home and I knew this was going to be my car, and I didn't necessarily know what was going to happen after that, but man did a snowball happen afterward and think goodness, I mean I loved the car, but the calmingness and the quietness that happened inside that car, having a conversation, a slight whisper, talking to this car, and something just came over and it's like it knew, and it told me, and I got out of the car and that's

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't care because I knew I wanted to car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So a couple hundred bucks didn't matter and I said, fine, let's do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want the car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this poor thing, you know, busted headlights, you know, it had a dent in hood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could something went across like a bumper of a truck or something went across and it took the headlights out in the hood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't care, it mows like, I'm gonna, I'll take you home and I'll do, I'll do you right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, so something I want to touch on was something that we've continued to kind of describe is that, you know, when the stars align, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for you, how the stars align were, you really didn't even have the money for this for this moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the moment I did not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so let's tell that portion of the story because I thought it was really cool that this money came that was from your dad's dad even, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yeah, please tell us that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At this rate, at the moment of the purchase, I had gotten a contact from a lawyer to just kind of say, hey, your father was in line.

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[SPEAKER_00]: to receive some money, and there's, you know, that has to go through all the family members, you know, stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I, you know, I didn't think anything of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't care.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I didn't care about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I lost my dad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't care about any of the material aspect of things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so with it in the back of my mind, no clue as to what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because nothing was divvied up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just thought, I mean, with them telling me, I just thought, well, there's something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have no idea what, but you know what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting this car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm buying this car and we'll see what happens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, what have you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And upon purchasing the car, I took it home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the idea was just to,

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[SPEAKER_00]: throw back in my mom's house, you know, say, hey, mom, I got another one, you know, you know, you know, mom, go back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, my mom gives me a little bit of grief, but I'm only challenged.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's like, oh, I find bringing over the other ones.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I had that in mind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then maybe a couple weeks was a short period of time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, I feel had gone by and I got another phone call.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they let me know, and I was at work, and I was sitting in a park, and I let me know, and I mean, you know, it's was nothing, you know, super substantial or anything, but it was enough to get this car and be okay in life, you know, in the sense like I can get this car and I can get some stuff done on this car without it being a bird and you know, and.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My god, but you know what I will say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've never received anything like that before my life and I felt bad for a long time because it wasn't mine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was my dad's and he missed out and it passed him and then went to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So by that, I wanted to do him right and not just, I bought this car and I did it in his name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I built this thing in like what would be the word, you know, just remembrance everything, a tribute, a tribute.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But my father and the things he taught me and without him and without to say, I mean, you know, not necessarily the situation, but without my father, I wouldn't been here to be able to get it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, maybe it's a crazy idea, but he wanted a build.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We were talking about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Months prior to him passing, he was looking for a project and he wanted to get back into it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: See?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this comes up, everything was aligned.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything worked out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was viable without worrying about taking money away from something else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was a smooth transition so to speak.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was a tribute to my father because without him and without the idea of him, I wanted to do one for him in a sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He wanted a project.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He sent me one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got it and I built it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I named it after him because it's

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a tribute to him, a tribute to him teaching me and everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I take him with me when we go, we drive in this car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I take him with me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We go to shows.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's with me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Super awesome dude.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got goosebumps.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Dad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for teaching me and sending me this car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So cool, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So obviously, the vision for this car was West Coast, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, hundred percent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to feel like I was at home or I was getting in it and heading to the beach unit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what it was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was my dad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when it came to my dad and the thought it was California, it was home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was the beach, I grew up there, my whole life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have photos of my dad and I in the headliner in California and Azusa Canyon, no less.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, his name is the beach bum, the car is the beach bum, bring him up, beach bum, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, the beach bum, I guess would be his nickname, who knows his name and he's the beach bum.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And...

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I instilled anything I could that would bring Venice Beach, Santa Monica where I grew up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I spent a lot of my childhood of Venice Beach.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some people may not necessarily, you know, it's Venice Beach.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like Malibu, but Venice Beach has a vibe and I grew up around it and I love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I go there every year and I enjoy everything about that beach, regardless of what people may think of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: it's a good place for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I instilled it into the car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have it as beach artwork that I when I go there and you walk.

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[SPEAKER_00]: that boardwalked down there, and there's people that sell their personal artwork that they make on the beach.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I buy it, and I put it in the car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you get in it, it's got bamboo from Florida ceiling in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I cut all the bamboo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I put it all in, the whole firewall's all bamboo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just got a full blown beach vibe in it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have to send me pictures all the interior and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I could put them up on the on the YouTube version of the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: People want to see that man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can do that and it's done up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's a nice interior done in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do the seats front and back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I did do a back seat in it recently.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So my little man can ride with.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had a full blown system in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 210 subs, amps, bamboo, but he started to show interest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I wanted to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: have us all three get in the car and go to a show or go to a cruise in instead of my wife packing up the kid in her car and meeting me because that was it in the beginning you know especially when he's a little baby right so then we got old enough to where I could I put a vaccine in it TMI I did the TMI interior in it did seatbelts in it so we can all ride and we got two runs out of it before the before the accident

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's when I had, I had a lot of pickups.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did a lot of school pickups with him prior to the accident.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that realization, man, that full circle life come around and hit you and having that realization that I'm sitting where my dad sat and my dad looked at me the same way I'm looking at my little boy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm my dad and man, do I get choked up

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[SPEAKER_00]: Amazing feeling that life went full circle and I'm in my dad's position right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, awesome and my kids proud to be in the car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He loves kids at school, I think it's the coolest thing ever, even in the parents, you know, the parents like, oh, man, and that's a cool vibe because my dad did the same thing for me when I was little and I went to school before I could necessarily know kids loved my dad's cars when he would roll up in him and the feeling was awesome, you know, and I'm doing it again without even, I didn't even know because it's not like I planned it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It just happened and here I am full circle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So how long have you had the car now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Uno Moss, I've had probably six to seven years now at this rate.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, six to seven years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you, do you still talk to Dad while when when you're driving on this car?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely do and which totally brings up the day.

01:01:56.493 --> 01:02:01.575
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to turn the key again in the drive way after the year of the rebuild and repair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did an up and down driveway thing just to go up and come back down and I'm like, well, it rolls and things seem to work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was in the passenger seat with me and I said, well, I guess I guess we'll go down the road and let's see what happens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're in the neighborhood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It worst case scenario, I push at home and it's like, I've been pushing it for a year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we went down the road and I absolutely broke down 100%

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was talking to my dad, and I said, we got a back, I'm back.

01:02:34.811 --> 01:02:36.733
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I talked to the car, we're back, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going down the road, dude.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like we're going down the road again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it didn't take us out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't take us out.

01:02:45.278 --> 01:03:13.238
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're back and I drew over on neighborhood and I went around like one block just to make sure everything was cool next single one block was going around a couple times and I was all over the neighborhood I couldn't get enough of it I'm driving and then I did the gas station run where I got out on the main road and right then in there man people vibing thumbs up screaming and I pull into the gas station and I'm like we're in and I got that whole got filled again.

01:03:14.445 --> 01:03:15.385
[SPEAKER_00]: that missing piece.

01:03:15.765 --> 01:03:16.426
[SPEAKER_01]: What a feeling.

01:03:17.066 --> 01:03:33.910
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was absolutely feeling and then the following day to be able to make it to the show on such a deadline to make it successfully they're in back, not to mention 303 dobs and then Josh and then they presented me with some hardware at author all of that.

01:03:34.370 --> 01:03:34.831
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.

01:03:34.891 --> 01:03:38.912
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I got something for the build and you know, everything just was amazing.

01:03:39.512 --> 01:03:41.032
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's go back just a little bit

01:03:44.863 --> 01:03:47.065
[SPEAKER_01]: I know that was an important date, right?

01:03:47.465 --> 01:03:47.725
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:03:47.785 --> 01:03:48.906
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.

01:03:49.046 --> 01:03:53.729
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the day the morning, 1033 when when it got hit.

01:03:54.870 --> 01:03:55.170
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

01:03:55.230 --> 01:03:56.951
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell us, walk us through that story.

01:03:56.991 --> 01:03:57.512
[SPEAKER_01]: What happened?

01:03:58.572 --> 01:03:59.473
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I got up that morning.

01:03:59.493 --> 01:04:00.834
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a small show.

01:04:00.854 --> 01:04:03.496
[SPEAKER_00]: A little full, so I can show that was going to be up at Slums Lake.

01:04:04.816 --> 01:04:08.219
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was talking to my wife from the little boy of that day.

01:04:08.639 --> 01:04:10.140
[SPEAKER_00]: And we were going to go out.

01:04:10.520 --> 01:04:11.001
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do it.

01:04:11.021 --> 01:04:11.741
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be the third

01:04:15.347 --> 01:04:17.829
[SPEAKER_00]: But my kid was pretty adamant about going to the pool that day.

01:04:18.750 --> 01:04:20.431
[SPEAKER_00]: So I said, you know what?

01:04:22.193 --> 01:04:23.274
[SPEAKER_00]: You and mom go to the pool.

01:04:24.054 --> 01:04:25.235
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll make this a quick trip.

01:04:25.596 --> 01:04:26.256
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll shoot down.

01:04:26.276 --> 01:04:27.757
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a nice day, a beautiful day.

01:04:27.777 --> 01:04:30.760
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the perfect pool weather breeze, the whole nine.

01:04:30.800 --> 01:04:32.121
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, you know, I'll shoot down there.

01:04:32.822 --> 01:04:33.382
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll hang out.

01:04:33.482 --> 01:04:35.044
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll shoot to shit with some of the guys.

01:04:35.844 --> 01:04:38.486
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll come back up and I'll meet you at the pool in a couple hours.

01:04:39.247 --> 01:04:39.808
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, dad.

01:04:40.781 --> 01:04:48.364
[SPEAKER_00]: They went on their way, I got the car ready, you know, dust it off, all the windows were open, front windshield back, it's got safari windows, and I opened them all.

01:04:49.005 --> 01:04:51.966
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just gonna do 30 miles an hour, the whole way there.

01:04:51.986 --> 01:04:56.448
[SPEAKER_00]: I had, I was in no hurry, and the weather was beautiful.

01:04:56.688 --> 01:05:00.030
[SPEAKER_00]: I took back roads upon backwards to avoid any situations.

01:05:00.890 --> 01:05:03.151
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, I'm vibing, it was to arm out the door.

01:05:03.571 --> 01:05:08.454
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, I'm going nowhere fast, I'm cruising, enjoying life.

01:05:09.524 --> 01:05:13.006
[SPEAKER_00]: And I took this super back road into this one interception.

01:05:13.987 --> 01:05:17.529
[SPEAKER_00]: And I did, as I rolled up, I had the yellow arrow, but I had enough time.

01:05:18.069 --> 01:05:20.310
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't a yellow arrow, three miles away.

01:05:20.410 --> 01:05:24.072
[SPEAKER_00]: And I tried to gun it, because I'm not gunning it in a 16-hundred sitting in the port by any means.

01:05:25.053 --> 01:05:26.494
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just cruising.

01:05:26.654 --> 01:05:29.135
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I may have been doing 13 miles an hour, right?

01:05:29.155 --> 01:05:29.455
[SPEAKER_00]: Through there.

01:05:29.475 --> 01:05:31.656
[SPEAKER_00]: And I made it through three quarters of the interception.

01:05:32.977 --> 01:05:36.239
[SPEAKER_00]: And this, and I was looking at her.

01:05:39.678 --> 01:05:45.699
[SPEAKER_00]: And as I'm looking at it, just go on through the corner, I'm on the street I need to be with the exception of the back end of the car.

01:05:45.899 --> 01:05:53.921
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've seen this Dodge Caravan Silver Dodge Caravan junk, you know, yellow faded head line.

01:05:53.961 --> 01:06:01.663
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I remember absolutely every bed of this thing because I, it's locked in there here, she hit me full force to never stop.

01:06:01.683 --> 01:06:03.243
[SPEAKER_00]: She continued to push the car.

01:06:03.483 --> 01:06:06.844
[SPEAKER_00]: The car guy hit and then slid out of the way and she continued down the road.

01:06:08.052 --> 01:06:15.658
[SPEAKER_00]: for at least a quarter mile before she stopped at this rate by time she got out I got out of the car and was looking at my car in absolute devastation that it was destroyed.

01:06:16.959 --> 01:06:23.525
[SPEAKER_00]: Motor was messed up the carburetor had broken off from the man in the fold and I mean it was disgusting.

01:06:23.605 --> 01:06:33.273
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean I could have puked on myself right then and there first thought and in that moment are you thinking about the car or are you thinking about your dad?

01:06:36.189 --> 01:06:40.210
[SPEAKER_00]: First thought, honestly, um, my car was taken away.

01:06:41.610 --> 01:06:42.391
[SPEAKER_00]: It was destroyed.

01:06:42.931 --> 01:06:44.111
[SPEAKER_00]: I looked at it and I couldn't believe it.

01:06:44.151 --> 01:06:48.212
[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't believe, you know, it was brutal.

01:06:49.092 --> 01:06:51.653
[SPEAKER_00]: Dad's on the floor at this rate, and luckily, the lid didn't pop off.

01:06:51.673 --> 01:06:52.893
[SPEAKER_00]: There had been ashes everywhere.

01:06:53.213 --> 01:06:55.054
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, shit, that had been crazy, dude.

01:06:55.614 --> 01:06:57.354
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, then that would have been bad.

01:06:57.514 --> 01:06:58.455
[SPEAKER_00]: Bad news, bears.

01:06:58.595 --> 01:07:00.655
[SPEAKER_00]: I tried to hold it to get as much as I could.

01:07:00.675 --> 01:07:01.175
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

01:07:01.716 --> 01:07:03.256
[SPEAKER_00]: I did break down and, um,

01:07:03.830 --> 01:07:10.153
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you know that you were in your mind or you're already like, dude, I'm, you know, this sucks, but yeah, I'm rebuilding it.

01:07:10.793 --> 01:07:12.894
[SPEAKER_01]: Or did you, did you feel that we're done?

01:07:13.674 --> 01:07:16.215
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I was devastated most of that day.

01:07:18.389 --> 01:07:34.183
[SPEAKER_00]: After I had gotten the AAA to come out and drag it on a tow truck and this is kitchen the whole long story of all the drama involved with that I got at home and we had to a couple guys that took to push it off of the flatbed being angled that it was into my garage.

01:07:34.203 --> 01:07:36.265
[SPEAKER_00]: It wouldn't roll because everything was bent and destroyed.

01:07:36.305 --> 01:07:37.786
[SPEAKER_00]: Transmission was fast.

01:07:39.387 --> 01:07:55.177
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... we had to push it in the garage and at that rate still to this moment i remember there was no thought of uh... what i was going to do i was absolutely uh... i was destroyed and was not even thinking of it or even what i was going to do at the moment i went in the house

01:07:56.315 --> 01:07:59.598
[SPEAKER_00]: My wife and my boy are still at the pool and I didn't bother with anything there.

01:07:59.618 --> 01:08:03.461
[SPEAKER_00]: I just kind of sat in the sofa and I did what I had to do there.

01:08:04.521 --> 01:08:05.142
[SPEAKER_00]: I broke down.

01:08:06.403 --> 01:08:09.045
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize at the time that my dad was still on the floor.

01:08:09.605 --> 01:08:13.228
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to at some rate come out and check on him because I was worried about the lid and what have you.

01:08:13.248 --> 01:08:14.249
[SPEAKER_00]: So I went and got him in.

01:08:16.322 --> 01:08:22.488
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was, uh, disgusting to come out in the garage and see it in the mangled state that it was in and I broke down yet again.

01:08:22.608 --> 01:08:39.482
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it took me a few weeks took me a few weeks to be able to get the courage up to come outside and not break down and to more or less look at it and go, okay, what do we need and what are we going to do to get this thing back up and I looked at it and I mean it killed me.

01:08:40.467 --> 01:08:50.858
[SPEAKER_00]: All motivation and any confidence of getting it done I you know I didn't know I had to tear into it and start disassembling it, but it was the Sometime after that I did roll it out.

01:08:50.878 --> 01:08:55.683
[SPEAKER_00]: I took defender off and I started to pull the damage out of the quarter panel.

01:08:56.364 --> 01:08:58.586
[SPEAKER_00]: I grabbed the fire hydrant out in front of my house.

01:08:59.863 --> 01:09:06.367
[SPEAKER_00]: which may have been sketchy, but the tree that I had was kind of small and I'd pull the tree out of the ground trying to pull it.

01:09:06.447 --> 01:09:11.110
[SPEAKER_00]: So I used the fire hydrant and I did there was a glimpse of hope because things were moving.

01:09:12.551 --> 01:09:17.654
[SPEAKER_00]: So I said, OK, I'm going to hold off on this and I'm going to assess everything else because it was hard to roll.

01:09:17.734 --> 01:09:19.295
[SPEAKER_00]: The axel was banned.

01:09:20.183 --> 01:09:47.082
[SPEAKER_00]: caliper rotor was tweaked, I mean nothing would roll so I had to assess all that so then it was transmission so I got I pulled it back into garage, put it on jack stands and that's where it sat for a good 10 months on jack stands, new transmission from KCR, shout out to KCR Riverside, they've always done me well, got to transmission, once it started rolling it was still damaged, the body damage was there but once it started rolling it was I was getting

01:09:49.579 --> 01:09:54.384
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I redeed a German fender to match the patina original fender that was on that was totally man.

01:09:54.424 --> 01:10:00.509
[SPEAKER_00]: It looked like a piece of bacon and I did try to do a hammer and dolly on it and I got it back into a shape of a fender.

01:10:02.190 --> 01:10:09.597
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was pretty rough and I didn't want to use it so I took a German, you know, we have stuff in stock, you know, being Volkswagen guys and we love the hard stuff.

01:10:09.657 --> 01:10:15.122
[SPEAKER_00]: So I did have fenders that I resorted to, bear, or metal did, then I did exactly how the factory did it.

01:10:15.780 --> 01:10:21.242
[SPEAKER_00]: the the sealer, the primer, the sealer, and then into a single stage black, and then I proceeded to wear it down.

01:10:22.502 --> 01:10:26.843
[SPEAKER_00]: I did some acid process to it to get it to rust up as the same way.

01:10:27.984 --> 01:10:30.024
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, you wouldn't necessarily know.

01:10:30.885 --> 01:10:33.785
[SPEAKER_00]: But I put the work in on the fender, but it was so nice to get it back.

01:10:33.805 --> 01:10:38.427
[SPEAKER_00]: And then once I had a good straight German fender, I can assess how far the quarter panel was pushed in.

01:10:39.114 --> 01:10:46.397
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, yeah, then I bolted it back up and I could put my hand between the fender and the quarter panel behind the back quarter window.

01:10:46.417 --> 01:10:50.219
[SPEAKER_00]: I could put my hand back there and I was holy moly was that a lot.

01:10:51.259 --> 01:11:02.904
[SPEAKER_00]: But getting all of my ingenuity going and getting out there, I started welding washers to things and hooking chains to stuff and I used my Toyota Salacca, my 2000 Toyota Salacca is a

01:11:09.787 --> 01:11:10.388
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it worked.

01:11:10.428 --> 01:11:11.008
[SPEAKER_00]: I got it out.

01:11:11.028 --> 01:11:12.029
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a body line.

01:11:12.089 --> 01:11:14.130
[SPEAKER_00]: And I moved the washers down under the body line.

01:11:14.150 --> 01:11:15.632
[SPEAKER_00]: I got the body line back out.

01:11:16.412 --> 01:11:17.233
[SPEAKER_00]: And I did leave it.

01:11:17.273 --> 01:11:21.036
[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to paint match to patina in the area.

01:11:21.056 --> 01:11:23.217
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I was very worried about ruining the patina.

01:11:23.297 --> 01:11:24.718
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's a very small area.

01:11:25.499 --> 01:11:27.981
[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, you know, a couple of people had said, leave the damage.

01:11:28.061 --> 01:11:30.143
[SPEAKER_00]: It's it tells a story in all this.

01:11:30.183 --> 01:11:31.944
[SPEAKER_00]: But the damage I couldn't leave.

01:11:31.964 --> 01:11:35.267
[SPEAKER_00]: It was too much to have that gap between the fender and the body.

01:11:35.507 --> 01:11:36.868
[SPEAKER_00]: That would have drove me nuts.

01:11:37.931 --> 01:11:42.032
[SPEAKER_00]: So what I did do is I got it as straight as possible, and I left it bare metal.

01:11:43.273 --> 01:11:50.195
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's there, it's got like a little scarring from the, you know, the stud welder, where you would pull in on certain things and you grind the weld down.

01:11:50.215 --> 01:11:52.096
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a couple little things there, but they're there.

01:11:52.796 --> 01:11:56.997
[SPEAKER_00]: As like, you know, stitches in the scarring from stitches.

01:11:57.798 --> 01:12:01.519
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's there, but it's very minor, and it's in the shapes back.

01:12:01.599 --> 01:12:05.240
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just happy to have it back and everything is put back into shape.

01:12:05.280 --> 01:12:06.841
[SPEAKER_00]: I went back into the engine compartment.

01:12:07.563 --> 01:12:25.223
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hammered and dollied the side back at everything's original and it's all back and I'm just happy that I got it done and I'm surprised I got it done wasn't it recently then you just get it back on the road just a month ago or so yeah, it was I believe the show was August first.

01:12:26.805 --> 01:12:28.607
[SPEAKER_00]: But I got the body stuff done.

01:12:29.933 --> 01:12:33.197
[SPEAKER_00]: probably three weeks to a month prior to the show.

01:12:33.738 --> 01:12:45.133
[SPEAKER_00]: I got the body pulled out and massageed him back and then the engine was in and then the engine was three weeks of working out bugs and issues and stuff like that right down to the last few days prior to the show.

01:12:45.193 --> 01:12:45.473
[SPEAKER_00]: I just

01:12:46.602 --> 01:13:13.697
[SPEAKER_00]: Something was giving me trouble when I found out what it's always the stupid easy thing that you over You over, you know, I've done this a thousand times it ain't that I know what I'm doing and next thing you know you're like, oh shit, I totally did And then you go in there and soon as soon as I saw it as I go there, it is cleaned it all out, readjusted the carbs boom, we were on the road and we're back and everything is good And I mean it's all good cars back and it's straight

01:13:16.018 --> 01:13:18.320
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm lucky that a lot of things didn't get destroyed.

01:13:18.340 --> 01:13:22.123
[SPEAKER_00]: The wheels on it, I'd say they're unique.

01:13:23.604 --> 01:13:29.269
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I can mention, I mean, I did mention a few companies already, but... You can mention anybody you want, brother.

01:13:29.369 --> 01:13:32.671
[SPEAKER_00]: Aircooled out of Arizona, they originally sold the billet wheels.

01:13:33.032 --> 01:13:34.793
[SPEAKER_00]: They're real big on that sort of stuff.

01:13:35.634 --> 01:13:36.895
[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't get them through them.

01:13:37.075 --> 01:13:38.316
[SPEAKER_00]: I got them through the Samba.

01:13:38.896 --> 01:13:43.720
[SPEAKER_00]: A guy was like changing up his, uh, his look on his car, his, the wheels were outdated for him.

01:13:44.801 --> 01:13:46.743
[SPEAKER_00]: And I picked them up for a, I mean, a pride.

01:13:46.763 --> 01:13:50.367
[SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't, even if you weren't in the bill, it wheels you to bottom, you know?

01:13:51.508 --> 01:13:54.911
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I bought them, and they weren't supposed to go on this car by any means.

01:13:55.892 --> 01:14:00.377
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a fluke that they ended up on the car when I stuck them under there one night, doing breaks.

01:14:00.477 --> 01:14:04.541
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, this has got to happen because I don't see billet wheels on patina cars.

01:14:05.782 --> 01:14:07.063
[SPEAKER_00]: You get your typical folks.

01:14:07.143 --> 01:14:08.725
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you have 17-inch folks.

01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:10.380
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't get me wrong.

01:14:10.540 --> 01:14:12.501
[SPEAKER_00]: Food guys are gonna, I'm not hating on foods.

01:14:13.201 --> 01:14:14.342
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't put them on any of my cars.

01:14:14.942 --> 01:14:17.763
[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, they're out there.

01:14:17.783 --> 01:14:20.264
[SPEAKER_00]: They're on a lot of cars and they look great though.

01:14:20.284 --> 01:14:22.405
[SPEAKER_00]: 17 inch, I love 17's on a bug.

01:14:22.445 --> 01:14:27.787
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's the perfect size wheel to go with the shape of the car, the size of the car.

01:14:27.887 --> 01:14:28.947
[SPEAKER_00]: It's, it's, I love them.

01:14:29.968 --> 01:14:34.550
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm messing around with these billets and I threw them up under there and I, I just, I had to do it.

01:14:34.690 --> 01:14:35.430
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're different.

01:14:36.370 --> 01:14:41.112
[SPEAKER_00]: So I wanted to be different and everything about what I do is I don't want to fall into the norm.

01:14:42.472 --> 01:14:43.673
[SPEAKER_00]: So I went ahead and did it.

01:14:43.693 --> 01:14:45.773
[SPEAKER_00]: Now one of the wheels got destroyed in the accident.

01:14:45.793 --> 01:14:47.014
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean it got whacked.

01:14:47.434 --> 01:14:48.874
[SPEAKER_00]: Most of the hit was into the wheel.

01:14:49.515 --> 01:14:49.655
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh.

01:14:51.035 --> 01:14:54.016
[SPEAKER_00]: So I was looking around and repair shops and repair wheels.

01:14:54.096 --> 01:14:56.237
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody wanted to touch it for less than 600 bucks.

01:14:56.257 --> 01:14:58.618
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they told me we could try.

01:15:00.046 --> 01:15:02.308
[SPEAKER_00]: I called the company that made him bill it specialties.

01:15:02.328 --> 01:15:03.509
[SPEAKER_00]: They told me they don't do them anymore.

01:15:03.529 --> 01:15:05.591
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't they no longer make them.

01:15:05.611 --> 01:15:06.712
[SPEAKER_00]: So I couldn't get him at all.

01:15:08.053 --> 01:15:10.575
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, called on a buddy about it.

01:15:10.595 --> 01:15:12.196
[SPEAKER_00]: My an overheard about the situation.

01:15:13.397 --> 01:15:14.778
[SPEAKER_00]: He looks at me as I do that got it.

01:15:15.819 --> 01:15:16.580
[SPEAKER_00]: He fixed the wheel.

01:15:16.600 --> 01:15:19.142
[SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't even tell $60 he charged me.

01:15:19.202 --> 01:15:19.722
[SPEAKER_00]: Disguise.

01:15:20.403 --> 01:15:21.084
[SPEAKER_00]: Class is so thankful.

01:15:21.104 --> 01:15:21.884
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much.

01:15:22.064 --> 01:15:22.545
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, right.

01:15:23.105 --> 01:15:25.908
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, because there was no other wheel that I was going to put on this car.

01:15:27.015 --> 01:15:32.378
[SPEAKER_00]: And he saved that wheel, which also saved the car to me, because that's the look of this car.

01:15:32.398 --> 01:15:35.340
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a big look of this car as the wheels that are on it as well.

01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:38.522
[SPEAKER_00]: So then I also went through Colorado Customs.

01:15:38.562 --> 01:15:40.243
[SPEAKER_00]: They made custom wheels and steering wheels.

01:15:41.063 --> 01:15:46.507
[SPEAKER_00]: So I did a, I was celebrating the wheel being repaired and I got a steering wheel to match.

01:15:47.067 --> 01:15:51.310
[SPEAKER_00]: So I got rid of my blue flight steering wheel, old school moon eyes.

01:15:52.220 --> 01:15:58.063
[SPEAKER_00]: And I did a bill of cereal wrapped in black leather match the seats and stuff and it's just got a different feel and vibe in there now.

01:15:58.543 --> 01:16:06.427
[SPEAKER_01]: I need all pictures of that stuff so I can flash them across the screen when when when when when these guys are watching this YouTubeverted and that's awesome.

01:16:06.968 --> 01:16:11.330
[SPEAKER_00]: Most certainly will and it was just I mean everything about I love the steering wheel.

01:16:11.390 --> 01:16:20.555
[SPEAKER_00]: It just everything was just a celebration to move on to the next big part to get past this accident situation and get this car back on the road and

01:16:21.819 --> 01:16:23.443
[SPEAKER_00]: They were some crazy huge feats.

01:16:23.483 --> 01:16:31.602
[SPEAKER_00]: Sister-in-law was a pedadrama involved and getting it made and all this sort of stuff, but once it got here, all that faded away, it was gone.

01:16:32.661 --> 01:16:38.166
[SPEAKER_00]: And it just helped the build get a little bit further and a little bit more of a revamp from prior to the accident.

01:16:38.186 --> 01:16:40.247
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I just I love the car.

01:16:40.848 --> 01:16:44.771
[SPEAKER_00]: I love this specific car and it has a lot of emotional value.

01:16:45.612 --> 01:16:51.477
[SPEAKER_00]: I do it and I believe that I mean, obviously that's where the love for this car is just so deep for this thing.

01:16:51.497 --> 01:16:55.320
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just couldn't live about it and I had to fight through some stuff and some hurdles.

01:16:55.740 --> 01:16:57.541
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I made it through.

01:16:58.505 --> 01:16:59.626
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know it's a car build.

01:16:59.646 --> 01:17:08.316
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's things, you know, people go through a lot of trials and tribulations and life that are far worse than having a car hit and getting it back on the road, but it was a big deal.

01:17:08.336 --> 01:17:10.178
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we, yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

01:17:10.338 --> 01:17:10.938
[SPEAKER_01]: The whole thing.

01:17:11.099 --> 01:17:12.600
[SPEAKER_01]: The whole connection.

01:17:12.660 --> 01:17:14.402
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

01:17:15.103 --> 01:17:18.487
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's touch on something speaking about emotions.

01:17:19.763 --> 01:17:23.864
[SPEAKER_01]: You, and this kind of fits into the big picture of everything, right?

01:17:23.924 --> 01:17:30.986
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, life as it evolves and it happens to us, we grow up, we start doing things like having kids.

01:17:31.046 --> 01:17:33.647
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you spend a lot of time talking about your dad.

01:17:34.447 --> 01:17:37.008
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, then you became a dad, right?

01:17:37.188 --> 01:17:41.129
[SPEAKER_01]: What happens to you emotionally when now you become a father?

01:17:41.469 --> 01:17:41.789
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.

01:17:42.669 --> 01:17:44.089
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I mean, where do I be?

01:17:44.109 --> 01:17:44.349
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:17:45.210 --> 01:17:46.290
[SPEAKER_01]: I got five kids.

01:17:47.962 --> 01:17:51.227
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, emotionally now, now I'll start with the beginning.

01:17:51.287 --> 01:17:54.151
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I was, I had mine later on in life.

01:17:54.812 --> 01:17:55.413
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

01:17:55.774 --> 01:17:57.416
[SPEAKER_00]: So I did a lot of life on my own.

01:17:57.436 --> 01:17:58.397
[SPEAKER_00]: I did a lot of my own.

01:17:58.578 --> 01:17:59.419
[SPEAKER_00]: I did what I wanted.

01:18:00.315 --> 01:18:13.697
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and so what I had to grasp was not having all the time in the world that used to have to do whatever I wanted with these cars and build a car when I wanted, I had a little man to take care of.

01:18:14.458 --> 01:18:15.938
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's all that stuff in the beginning.

01:18:15.958 --> 01:18:26.920
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, when they're little, and I mean, you got to be there all the time, and I did find myself emotionally drained frustrated at times, and I had to grow up.

01:18:28.603 --> 01:18:37.415
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm at this rate, I'm 38, 39 years old, whatever it was right then and there and I had to grow up at that rate because I didn't.

01:18:37.455 --> 01:18:38.516
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to do what I wanted to do.

01:18:38.536 --> 01:18:39.918
[SPEAKER_00]: I did whatever I wanted in life.

01:18:40.539 --> 01:18:42.401
[SPEAKER_01]: So I had a pretty late two man.

01:18:42.441 --> 01:18:44.264
[SPEAKER_01]: My first, my first kid was born, I was 31.

01:18:45.645 --> 01:18:46.266
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

01:18:46.406 --> 01:18:52.269
[SPEAKER_01]: I did a lot of living in that time, you know, from being a teen and do we were wild.

01:18:52.950 --> 01:19:12.622
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, my friends bro, I'm sure, you know, we're a similar age group, you know, the things that I was a 90s kid do, you know, I mean, really kind of my my teens, you know, my my childhood was really an 80s kid, but we started we started raising hell in the 90s.

01:19:13.843 --> 01:19:23.269
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, there's just something different about them, kids that drink out of the garden hose and play with dirt and, you know, we didn't have devices and phones and all that other stuff.

01:19:23.309 --> 01:19:28.352
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I believe me, I vibe with you there, but I had to grow up, too.

01:19:28.452 --> 01:19:37.097
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you say that, it's like, damn, it really kind of hits me, you know, I feel like, because I had kids.

01:19:38.511 --> 01:19:39.952
[SPEAKER_01]: that's kind of why I grew up.

01:19:40.093 --> 01:19:44.257
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like because I tell you, it probably never would have happened otherwise, right?

01:19:44.277 --> 01:19:46.299
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.

01:19:46.319 --> 01:19:46.699
[SPEAKER_00]: No, 100%.

01:19:46.739 --> 01:19:49.642
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel because I've had this thought myself, um,

01:19:51.028 --> 01:19:53.809
[SPEAKER_00]: if I never had the kid, where would I be, right?

01:19:54.509 --> 01:19:56.029
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and what would I be doing?

01:19:56.069 --> 01:19:56.849
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't know.

01:19:57.109 --> 01:19:59.210
[SPEAKER_00]: And I couldn't imagine my life without him.

01:19:59.750 --> 01:20:01.390
[SPEAKER_01]: Did not do my life without him.

01:20:01.510 --> 01:20:03.550
[SPEAKER_01]: And I got fired, you know?

01:20:03.851 --> 01:20:04.531
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:20:04.951 --> 01:20:06.231
[SPEAKER_00]: And so glad that he's here.

01:20:06.331 --> 01:20:07.451
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm glad I grew up.

01:20:07.611 --> 01:20:08.952
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a different type of grow up.

01:20:08.972 --> 01:20:10.772
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I had responsible as I worked.

01:20:10.832 --> 01:20:11.992
[SPEAKER_00]: I did all those things.

01:20:12.212 --> 01:20:12.452
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

01:20:12.592 --> 01:20:14.113
[SPEAKER_01]: I was out of the house 17.

01:20:14.313 --> 01:20:15.833
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I feel that.

01:20:16.313 --> 01:20:38.011
[SPEAKER_00]: then this is a different level of responsibility and things so there was a little bit of a fight in my mind you know and I when I got through it and started to kind of let up on the things that I didn't spend more time doing things with him and stuff like that it was great and then the emotional aspect oh my god like

01:20:39.270 --> 01:20:40.611
[SPEAKER_00]: I love doing all the stuff now.

01:20:41.031 --> 01:20:44.653
[SPEAKER_00]: I said I grew up, but what's nice now is we're in the Lagos together.

01:20:44.733 --> 01:20:48.455
[SPEAKER_00]: And I get to go right back to me being in a kid with Lagos and playing with my little boy.

01:20:48.495 --> 01:20:49.655
[SPEAKER_00]: He's my best friend now.

01:20:50.196 --> 01:20:51.016
[SPEAKER_01]: What's your last name?

01:20:51.736 --> 01:20:52.177
[SPEAKER_00]: Cypher.

01:20:52.677 --> 01:20:53.077
[SPEAKER_01]: Cypher.

01:20:53.277 --> 01:20:54.358
[SPEAKER_00]: And is he your old child?

01:20:55.078 --> 01:20:55.398
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

01:20:55.998 --> 01:20:56.919
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:20:56.979 --> 01:20:58.760
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you plan to have any more?

01:20:59.751 --> 01:21:21.709
[SPEAKER_00]: My wife did want a second, but I think I'm an only child, and I'm one and done, and I want to, I want to, you know, I don't know what the world is going to bring, and I'm, you know, I want to make sure I protect this kid, and I also want to make sure that I can provide for him, and I don't want to be stretched too much and one not get enough of something.

01:21:22.740 --> 01:21:24.281
[SPEAKER_00]: So and we we got a good one.

01:21:24.361 --> 01:21:25.161
[SPEAKER_00]: We rolled the dice.

01:21:25.301 --> 01:21:26.162
[SPEAKER_00]: We have this kid.

01:21:26.322 --> 01:21:27.563
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a great kid.

01:21:28.063 --> 01:21:31.685
[SPEAKER_01]: What are you going to, are you going to do the same stuff with him that your dad did for you?

01:21:31.745 --> 01:21:33.286
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you going to instill?

01:21:33.846 --> 01:21:37.208
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you said in the beginning, you know, it's kind of like it's different, right?

01:21:37.268 --> 01:21:40.110
[SPEAKER_01]: Our, our parents like push us into shit, you know?

01:21:40.630 --> 01:21:44.634
[SPEAKER_01]: like we're a little different, you know, I am at least with with my kids.

01:21:44.654 --> 01:21:52.262
[SPEAKER_01]: I said the same thing that you did a little while ago where you're like, well, you know, I'm going to introduce it, but I mean, I'm not going to be forced feeding anybody into anything, right?

01:21:52.282 --> 01:21:54.144
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's a cool thing, you know.

01:22:02.380 --> 01:22:03.102
[SPEAKER_00]: I always say it.

01:22:03.363 --> 01:22:06.149
[SPEAKER_00]: If he's into it, sure, if he's not, it's not a big deal.

01:22:06.510 --> 01:22:09.056
[SPEAKER_01]: You won't be happy if he likes Volkswagen's.

01:22:11.509 --> 01:22:13.230
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, I'd be happy for my thoughts.

01:22:13.250 --> 01:22:16.372
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people say the worst thing you can do is and still I'm into a headache.

01:22:16.572 --> 01:22:18.834
[SPEAKER_00]: But now you come along and I'll buy the Tylenol.

01:22:18.854 --> 01:22:24.998
[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll deal with it together and I'll teach you how to be in the trials and tribulations of owning an old Volkswagen.

01:22:25.018 --> 01:22:28.280
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, but let's ask the important question.

01:22:28.780 --> 01:22:31.442
[SPEAKER_01]: How old is he going to be when you get him his first Baja?

01:22:33.924 --> 01:22:37.826
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think it's crazy that I was young as I was.

01:22:37.986 --> 01:22:40.348
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to get one that early on.

01:22:40.609 --> 01:22:40.929
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

01:22:41.009 --> 01:22:41.390
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

01:22:42.210 --> 01:22:48.854
[SPEAKER_00]: But especially been in more of a city aspect, uh, not that we weren't in the city and, you know, say it was different.

01:22:48.874 --> 01:22:49.915
[SPEAKER_01]: Bro, it was different back.

01:22:49.955 --> 01:22:50.195
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:22:50.275 --> 01:22:51.396
[SPEAKER_00]: Different times, man.

01:22:51.416 --> 01:22:58.661
[SPEAKER_00]: And, uh, no, I didn't go ripping down the street in the neighborhood in the Baja nine years old, not going right.

01:22:58.721 --> 01:22:58.981
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

01:22:59.301 --> 01:23:00.482
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there's laws now.

01:23:00.622 --> 01:23:03.804
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the police will get involved now and something against for sure.

01:23:03.824 --> 01:23:06.666
[SPEAKER_00]: We do all jankers and Mister Jankers please.

01:23:07.606 --> 01:23:32.501
[SPEAKER_00]: We knew the police officer back in a day and he was pretty lenient on me, you know, but if he's interested by all means and maybe we get a Michelle or we start something small together, if he's interested, or maybe we wait until he's, you know, in his teens at some rate where he has better understanding and if he's into it at that rate, we'll dive into a project or whatever he wants to do.

01:23:33.782 --> 01:23:36.024
[SPEAKER_00]: and shit really any type of car.

01:23:36.565 --> 01:23:48.894
[SPEAKER_00]: If he shows interest in anything in a car like that I'm down and I'll be there right next to him and we'll figure it out together if I don't know anything about it and we'll get this thing built, you know.

01:23:49.435 --> 01:23:58.903
[SPEAKER_00]: If he's in the Volkswagen's that'll be awesome and we can continue this insanity that is Volkswagen's and I'm all for it, of course I'd be, you know.

01:23:59.742 --> 01:24:02.003
[SPEAKER_01]: I got some rapid fire questions for you then.

01:24:02.083 --> 01:24:05.125
[SPEAKER_01]: These are questions that would demand a fast response.

01:24:05.685 --> 01:24:07.826
[SPEAKER_01]: However, your story teller.

01:24:08.187 --> 01:24:10.968
[SPEAKER_01]: So if a story comes of it, dude, I'm not going to stop you.

01:24:11.388 --> 01:24:13.129
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to tell these stories, all right?

01:24:13.249 --> 01:24:16.551
[SPEAKER_01]: However, these questions are designed for a fast response.

01:24:16.651 --> 01:24:20.293
[SPEAKER_01]: I want gut reaction, first thing that comes to mind, all right?

01:24:20.373 --> 01:24:20.793
[SPEAKER_01]: You ready?

01:24:21.454 --> 01:24:22.254
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's do it.

01:24:22.614 --> 01:24:23.375
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's do it.

01:24:24.075 --> 01:24:27.377
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty much no the answer to this one, but I'm still going to hit you with it.

01:24:28.582 --> 01:24:29.742
[SPEAKER_01]: Aircooled or watercooled.

01:24:30.383 --> 01:24:30.683
[SPEAKER_00]: Here.

01:24:31.143 --> 01:24:33.304
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, here's a good one.

01:24:33.424 --> 01:24:37.385
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good one because this is your years.

01:24:37.405 --> 01:24:38.165
[SPEAKER_01]: 65 or 66.

01:24:38.225 --> 01:24:38.545
[SPEAKER_01]: 65.

01:24:39.306 --> 01:24:39.606
[SPEAKER_01]: 65.

01:24:39.646 --> 01:24:41.006
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

01:24:42.747 --> 01:24:44.367
[SPEAKER_01]: Baha or slamb.

01:24:45.068 --> 01:24:45.488
[SPEAKER_01]: Slamb.

01:24:46.528 --> 01:24:47.068
[SPEAKER_01]: Patina.

01:24:47.088 --> 01:24:47.628
[SPEAKER_01]: Start man.

01:24:48.649 --> 01:24:49.189
[UNKNOWN]: Ha ha ha.

01:24:49.649 --> 01:24:50.970
[SPEAKER_01]: Patina or paint.

01:24:51.770 --> 01:24:52.230
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm both.

01:24:52.990 --> 01:24:53.470
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm both.

01:24:53.750 --> 01:24:56.611
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I am two now when I first got back

01:24:58.507 --> 01:25:18.738
[SPEAKER_01]: I was more of a shiny paint guy, but as I, you know, as I was going to the shows and I really started seeing how much patina and rest was celebrated and, you know, we've talked to a lot of guests that have been on it's like, man, it tells the story of these cars, the past, the everything and the more I kind of saw that and really started to realize, hey.

01:25:19.378 --> 01:25:30.811
[SPEAKER_01]: They're actually painting it to look like patina now that fucking car is mint underneath all that would be right so they're they're trying to make it look that cool right so when you have an original patina.

01:25:30.951 --> 01:25:34.094
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but anyway, so about you not me, but yeah good.

01:25:34.735 --> 01:25:37.017
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I mean, I'm for patina and I like.

01:25:38.285 --> 01:25:40.287
[SPEAKER_00]: It adds a massive character now.

01:25:40.948 --> 01:25:43.050
[SPEAKER_00]: You get into paint and you get rid of all that.

01:25:43.150 --> 01:25:45.413
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's shiny purple, it's shiny black.

01:25:45.493 --> 01:25:51.239
[SPEAKER_00]: It looks shiny and it's appealing to the eye for 90% of the population.

01:25:51.660 --> 01:25:56.325
[SPEAKER_00]: It takes a certain somebody to get into that and enjoy patina for what it is.

01:25:56.345 --> 01:25:57.286
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people don't.

01:25:57.979 --> 01:26:09.082
[SPEAKER_00]: but the patina, there's something about it, and I absolutely enjoy it, but I can also appreciate, I like black, a clean black, straight, clean black paint job.

01:26:09.522 --> 01:26:12.303
[SPEAKER_00]: You paint, that's what you do, your professional painter.

01:26:12.803 --> 01:26:13.103
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

01:26:13.643 --> 01:26:22.786
[SPEAKER_00]: So I do enjoy some paint as well, but I will say I've never enjoyed an old, air cooled Volkswagen as much as I have as a patina version.

01:26:23.723 --> 01:26:25.144
[SPEAKER_00]: How hard is black to paint?

01:26:25.525 --> 01:26:28.167
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the painting aspect isn't hard.

01:26:28.327 --> 01:26:31.010
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the bodywork in the prep that goes prior to it.

01:26:31.370 --> 01:26:31.470
[SPEAKER_01]: OK.

01:26:31.570 --> 01:26:39.077
[SPEAKER_00]: It has to be absolutely perfect before you lay that down because black will showcase any imperfection immediately.

01:26:39.157 --> 01:26:47.204
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're going to do a black paint job, take the time to do the prep, the bodywork, and go over it multiple times.

01:26:47.905 --> 01:26:50.967
[SPEAKER_00]: before you decide to lay that gloss black down on top of that.

01:26:51.547 --> 01:26:53.829
[SPEAKER_00]: It's got to be perfect before you lay that paint.

01:26:54.349 --> 01:26:55.950
[SPEAKER_00]: Almost anybody can lay paint.

01:26:57.591 --> 01:27:00.893
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's that prepping that bodywork that were at matters, you know.

01:27:02.654 --> 01:27:03.434
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I got another one.

01:27:03.454 --> 01:27:04.315
[SPEAKER_01]: You ready for this one?

01:27:05.033 --> 01:27:06.694
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, sir, interesting.

01:27:07.074 --> 01:27:08.995
[SPEAKER_01]: California or Colorado.

01:27:09.475 --> 01:27:10.076
[SPEAKER_01]: California.

01:27:10.416 --> 01:27:11.136
[SPEAKER_01]: California.

01:27:11.777 --> 01:27:12.017
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

01:27:12.417 --> 01:27:15.359
[SPEAKER_01]: In your life, favorite VW that you've ever owned.

01:27:15.919 --> 01:27:17.880
[SPEAKER_00]: My, my paying 65 son roof.

01:27:19.201 --> 01:27:20.081
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that the same one.

01:27:20.722 --> 01:27:22.703
[SPEAKER_00]: The, well, you still have that one, right?

01:27:22.943 --> 01:27:25.044
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I don't have that particular body.

01:27:25.104 --> 01:27:30.467
[SPEAKER_00]: It got wrapped, but what I put into it is a 66 standard roof body.

01:27:31.814 --> 01:27:38.617
[SPEAKER_00]: But that particular pink bug being 18, is that one that you wish you never sold?

01:27:39.577 --> 01:27:43.558
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's when I wish I could have brought back if I had the knowledge when it got hit.

01:27:43.638 --> 01:27:48.560
[SPEAKER_00]: When it got teabone, if I could have fixed it, I would still have it today.

01:27:49.461 --> 01:27:52.882
[SPEAKER_00]: But I didn't have the knowledge of metal work and welding at the time.

01:27:54.288 --> 01:27:56.470
[SPEAKER_01]: What's one car you'd never sell?

01:27:56.910 --> 01:28:01.473
[SPEAKER_00]: This black, uh, my paint key black bug that nitrous car I'd never sell it.

01:28:02.014 --> 01:28:02.334
[SPEAKER_00]: Never.

01:28:02.394 --> 01:28:06.577
[SPEAKER_00]: The other two, I mean, you know, Moss is pretty, it's up there that I wouldn't get rid of it.

01:28:06.857 --> 01:28:10.660
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've turned down quite a bit of money at one time on an offer for it.

01:28:11.060 --> 01:28:14.443
[SPEAKER_00]: And it took me five days to consider it, and I walked away from it.

01:28:15.123 --> 01:28:16.404
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I couldn't live without that car.

01:28:16.424 --> 01:28:17.865
[SPEAKER_00]: It's got too much emotional attention.

01:28:17.885 --> 01:28:18.806
[SPEAKER_00]: So I guess, here.

01:28:18.846 --> 01:28:19.026
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

01:28:21.122 --> 01:28:22.603
[SPEAKER_00]: Those two I can't get rid of them.

01:28:22.823 --> 01:28:24.404
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll propo the green one.

01:28:24.564 --> 01:28:35.370
[SPEAKER_00]: I am attached to but if someone came in off it I would I would move it, but the other two I can't get there's two I can't I can't pick one How about this one favorite

01:28:36.552 --> 01:28:39.073
[SPEAKER_01]: or maybe not favor it, maybe the best.

01:28:39.334 --> 01:28:41.735
[SPEAKER_01]: What's your version of the best BW show?

01:28:42.155 --> 01:28:46.678
[SPEAKER_00]: I would say it had to be California and it would be the classic.

01:28:47.478 --> 01:28:53.581
[SPEAKER_00]: I've already been into the classic one time and it was massive in the amount of people that show up there.

01:28:54.402 --> 01:28:58.264
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, all across the world, so you get to see stuff you see in magazines and Japan.

01:28:58.984 --> 01:29:03.306
[SPEAKER_00]: The bug in as well, I've been in the last bug and I went to actually, I think it was bug in 35.

01:29:05.430 --> 01:29:06.731
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was kind of neat to see.

01:29:06.791 --> 01:29:08.772
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, a lot of, you know, all the cow look guys come out.

01:29:08.812 --> 01:29:15.715
[SPEAKER_00]: The magazine guys that you see and you always want your card to be at that level, you get to lock up to them and see them.

01:29:16.576 --> 01:29:20.758
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so I would say like the classic, you get everything.

01:29:21.596 --> 01:29:24.377
[SPEAKER_00]: The bug and you get the cow look guys hard.

01:29:24.797 --> 01:29:26.317
[SPEAKER_00]: You get drag guys to come out.

01:29:26.377 --> 01:29:32.259
[SPEAKER_00]: And you get to see these things, the power and hero, that I enjoy that.

01:29:32.939 --> 01:29:34.240
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a big one for me.

01:29:34.440 --> 01:29:35.320
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, how about this one?

01:29:35.760 --> 01:29:37.120
[SPEAKER_01]: Favorite VW smell?

01:29:37.420 --> 01:29:38.041
[SPEAKER_01]: The interior?

01:29:38.321 --> 01:29:39.021
[SPEAKER_00]: Old interior.

01:29:39.201 --> 01:29:49.724
[SPEAKER_00]: The old, the coconut shell, the horse hair, the, that it's got to be mixed with the vinyl and mixed with the gas that's coming in your, yeah, that, I mean that.

01:29:50.244 --> 01:30:12.565
[SPEAKER_00]: that right there absolutely 100% that smell and you know what's funny is I get rid of all that when I put new interiors and I'm in put little stinky trees and all of them I don't get that any more right eliminate it so what I have is a little pile of old material everyone wants to lie with the horse there and you just a little oh that's that's actually cool you know I'm not crazy or anything I might be a little bit

01:30:13.660 --> 01:30:14.321
[SPEAKER_01]: How about this one?

01:30:15.141 --> 01:30:19.644
[SPEAKER_01]: Most underrated VW model of all time underrated.

01:30:20.184 --> 01:30:27.809
[SPEAKER_00]: You know that they're all getting pretty pop after these days though, but I would say Something we don't see enough like a Brazilians.

01:30:28.609 --> 01:30:30.451
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's a that's a cool one actually.

01:30:30.891 --> 01:30:35.854
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yeah, I but not that long ago Nobody paid it no mind.

01:30:36.434 --> 01:30:36.634
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

01:30:36.834 --> 01:30:38.836
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean air cold though still a badass car

01:30:39.531 --> 01:30:48.539
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a super badass car and for me, what brought it out of, I guess it brought it out of the underrated was in a Volkswagen mag on the cover.

01:30:48.559 --> 01:30:49.220
[SPEAKER_00]: It was white.

01:30:49.861 --> 01:30:59.209
[SPEAKER_00]: It was tubed out on 17 inch fuchs and it was the first time I seen a dropped custom Brazilla and I was in love with the car.

01:30:59.389 --> 01:30:59.830
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:31:00.517 --> 01:31:02.159
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, what, I didn't even know.

01:31:02.399 --> 01:31:03.480
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, what is that?

01:31:04.401 --> 01:31:06.082
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was amazing.

01:31:06.122 --> 01:31:08.685
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's something I'd like to have at some point in my life, you know?

01:31:09.205 --> 01:31:10.847
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't feel like there's enough of them.

01:31:10.887 --> 01:31:12.248
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, at least not up in the States.

01:31:12.288 --> 01:31:15.311
[SPEAKER_00]: They're around, but not, you know, you go down there Brazil, obviously.

01:31:15.351 --> 01:31:20.656
[SPEAKER_00]: They've got a modded like crazy, but I'd like to see more of them up here modded.

01:31:21.316 --> 01:31:23.759
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got quite a few of them down here, you know.

01:31:25.085 --> 01:31:38.612
[SPEAKER_01]: on the west coast central Florida area when we have our shows throughout the year we usually see like two or three of them that come that are all different that are just one of them is so sick every time he shows up he wins awards it's so nice.

01:31:39.892 --> 01:31:41.113
[SPEAKER_01]: All right how about this one?

01:31:42.090 --> 01:31:43.691
[SPEAKER_01]: favorite VW engine.

01:31:44.071 --> 01:31:48.613
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to have a type one with a 36-horse fan shroud that basic iconic shape.

01:31:49.173 --> 01:31:52.235
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's just, you know, it's the shape.

01:31:52.315 --> 01:31:54.035
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the, that's the motor.

01:31:54.115 --> 01:32:00.318
[SPEAKER_00]: First thing I think of when you think of Volkswagen motors, dual dual IDAs.

01:32:00.338 --> 01:32:01.659
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to have IDAs on it.

01:32:01.679 --> 01:32:02.439
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm big on that.

01:32:03.179 --> 01:32:04.240
[SPEAKER_00]: 36-horse fan shroud.

01:32:04.660 --> 01:32:07.861
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't necessarily have to be, you know, a big two-liter

01:32:12.228 --> 01:32:20.880
[SPEAKER_00]: iconic that that that shape with two carbs on it 36 horse fan trial type one for me favorite color favorite VW color

01:32:21.672 --> 01:32:33.980
[SPEAKER_00]: Black, I don't want to have a special, you know, like ill 37, whatever, I'm, I'm, and that's, and out of all the, the, the, the beetles is 65 your favorite year.

01:32:34.381 --> 01:32:34.681
[SPEAKER_00]: It is.

01:32:34.761 --> 01:32:36.162
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I like that car.

01:32:36.182 --> 01:32:37.283
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I like that year.

01:32:37.503 --> 01:32:38.504
[SPEAKER_00]: I like to like you, too.

01:32:38.544 --> 01:32:39.244
[SPEAKER_01]: They find you.

01:32:39.965 --> 01:32:42.706
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, for some, somehow or another, they do.

01:32:42.867 --> 01:32:44.528
[SPEAKER_00]: And I like to 65.

01:32:44.548 --> 01:32:50.072
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people, you know, split windows, old windows, and sure what I want to split window,

01:32:51.717 --> 01:32:51.977
[SPEAKER_00]: wouldn't.

01:32:52.858 --> 01:33:01.326
[SPEAKER_00]: But I absolutely enjoy the 65, the bigger window, the link pin front suspension because it goes lower.

01:33:02.627 --> 01:33:06.471
[SPEAKER_00]: I just like to 65 and I may just be biased because that's what I grew up around.

01:33:06.511 --> 01:33:07.812
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's one of those things.

01:33:08.332 --> 01:33:16.100
[SPEAKER_00]: I grew up in it around it, 65, 66, the only thing that determines me from a 66 over 65 that ball joint front end.

01:33:17.377 --> 01:33:25.100
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't necessarily particularly like to have into ball joint front end, especially when you're going to, you know, I mean, even off road status, you don't want to ball joint front end, you want to go link pin.

01:33:25.160 --> 01:33:27.061
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm a link pin guy.

01:33:27.461 --> 01:33:28.321
[SPEAKER_00]: So 65.

01:33:28.901 --> 01:33:30.782
[SPEAKER_00]: I just just like that year.

01:33:32.022 --> 01:33:37.344
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're dead, could ride with you in Uno, Moss, just one more time.

01:33:38.325 --> 01:33:39.045
[SPEAKER_01]: Where are you going?

01:33:39.405 --> 01:33:40.566
[SPEAKER_01]: What are you guys talking about?

01:33:42.406 --> 01:33:43.347
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go play pool.

01:33:48.822 --> 01:33:53.084
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're probably having a conference.

01:33:53.124 --> 01:34:03.287
[SPEAKER_00]: He's having a conversation about me and how far I took that car and he probably can't believe what I did to these cars with the knowledge he gave me.

01:34:04.188 --> 01:34:05.828
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to go play pool in my guy.

01:34:05.908 --> 01:34:06.849
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we're going to do.

01:34:08.109 --> 01:34:14.091
[SPEAKER_01]: So you pull back into the driveway after a successful night.

01:34:15.272 --> 01:34:16.932
[SPEAKER_01]: What's one thing your dad says to you

01:34:24.887 --> 01:34:38.207
[SPEAKER_00]: You did a great job, you still suck at pool, I'm better than you, at it and I love you and I miss you, man, awesome, man.

01:34:39.553 --> 01:34:42.777
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01:34:43.378 --> 01:34:48.925
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01:35:16.622 --> 01:35:17.703
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01:35:17.863 --> 01:35:18.703
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01:35:18.963 --> 01:35:20.764
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