1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: She's real. Find my phone night, She's real, find my 2 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: phone night, My phone Ronan. Part of the repair process 3 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: is looking at what's been done, and it generally gives 4 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: you a direction on where you have to go the 5 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: car Doctor the next time you pull into your repair 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: shop and go. You know, I was using my cell 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: phone adapter and the cigarette lighter no longer works. I 8 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: blew a fuse. Can just pop one in for me. 9 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: The only thing we pop in is people in the 10 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 1: pool if they're standing too close. Welcome to the radio 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: home of Ron and Anian the Car Doctor, since this 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: is where car owners the world overturned to for their 13 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you 14 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: a busy signal, pick up the phone and call in. 15 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: The garage doors are open, but I am here to 16 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: take your calls at And that's two dead hey running, 17 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: Hey hey, welcome back. This is another Car Doctor road trip. 18 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: We are live once again at the d m C 19 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: Wild hot Rod Weekend, the Dead Man's Curve, Wild hot 20 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: Rod Weekend, and Wild hot Rod Weekend here in Mahwah, 21 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: New Jersey, at the Mahwah Sheridan. I can't believe where 22 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: a year has gone. Year just flew by, Summer flew by. 23 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: So we're here saying goodbye to summer on Labor Day 24 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: and we're doing it with some very special guests and 25 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: friends for the next two hours. And we appreciate the 26 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: fact that you're taking the time to be here with 27 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,559 Speaker 1: us today as we look out on this live event 28 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: that has grown in proportions beyond I think with the 29 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: d m C the dead Man's Curve, guys have expected 30 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: and um, I thought I would kick off this hour 31 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: with the gentleman to my right. It is the illustrious Danny. See. 32 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: We spoke to Danny last week and Danny, welcome might 33 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: here life with the microphone and um, you gotta heck 34 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: U an event going on here today. Ye man, I 35 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 1: can't believe we're the week went since we talked. Yeah, 36 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: it's that the year. I mean, it just keeps going. 37 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: Look at this place. Yeah, it's it's there are cars 38 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: of every shape, size, color, and the fans that go 39 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 1: along with it in terms of you know, the culture, 40 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: that the style of clothes, that what they're wearing. Yeah, 41 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: we got everything here, I mean almost everything in between. Right. 42 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: I just came downstairs We just did a vintage vintage 43 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: pit up show with all the girls and everything like that, 44 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: and they were all just like from the late forties, 45 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: early fifties. It was gigantic. But if you look out there, 46 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: there's everybody. I mean, it's rockabilly, it's it's Elvis, it's 47 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe. Uh, it's people with their children pushing them around, 48 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: you know, in little red wagons that they've popped up. 49 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: And you know, I think you need that today. You know, 50 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: you talk about they're they're pushing kids around in carriages 51 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: and there are a lot of parents here with kids, 52 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: you know, in hand the stroller thing, and it's you 53 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: know what, this is throw weekend. This is a retro weekend. 54 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: And you talk about, you know, kids today, kids today 55 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: need some guidance. Look at the guidance cars gave to us, 56 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,399 Speaker 1: to me, to you. I'm sure we started with the bicycles, 57 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: cutting them up right, and and just look what it 58 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: did for us and what we're doing that here. I mean, 59 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: we've taken everything that we grew up with and we're 60 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: this is almost like fun one oh one all over again. 61 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: You know, you walk in this building and on this 62 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: property and there's everything from bicycles that we grew up with. 63 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 1: The cars are all pre seventy two. I mean, everything 64 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: you see here is throwback vintage. The music's fifties, sixties 65 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: would a touch of the early seventies, garage, rock and everything. 66 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: So I mean we've tried to put together a to 67 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: Z and everything in between, whether it be hot rotting clothing. 68 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: There's a beauty shop this year for the women, there's 69 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: vintage clothing. I mean, because so many people go, I 70 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: want to look like that, I want to be like that, 71 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: So we covered it. I mean, it's here when you 72 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: look back. And this is the question I'm gonna ask 73 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: each and every guest today when you look back at 74 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: the sixties, the sixties and the seventies were a car culture. 75 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: They were a movement. Absolutely when you look back at them, 76 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: whether you live through it or just your earliest memories 77 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: of it, is it bigger today than it was then 78 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: in your mind? Or is it just such a special 79 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: time when you look back and think about it. Well, 80 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: here's the way I judge it. Okay, from growing up 81 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: as a kid till now, I remember high school American graffiti. 82 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: It just came on the scene exploded, brought everything back. 83 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: You know, major remember the fifties, the cruising and everything. 84 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: Now you've got the fast and furious, which is whole 85 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: different culture. But if you notice, like I said last week, 86 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 1: look at the cars that they featured, it's the old Charger, 87 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: the old Roadrunner. So yeah, I mean it's big. I mean, 88 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: you know, and these kids that are here today, look 89 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: at them, I mean, they're going crazy. They they're trying 90 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: to find all cars that they can rebuild and just 91 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: to be at this show, to just try to bring 92 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: it back and see what it was like to live 93 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: in that period. They're trying to live that period. Now, 94 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: when you look at the cars that are here and there, 95 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: there's such a variety. Words can't really express it. You know. 96 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: All I can think of is four years from now, 97 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: nobody's gonna take a Honda Accord and chop it, cut 98 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: it and make it a hot rock. Now, absolutely not. 99 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: I mean look at here here when we were kids, right, 100 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 1: look what you could buy a Corvette for it? Right, say, 101 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: you know, just something between fifty eight and sixty two. 102 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: That model I've worked in my uncle's lumber yard. The 103 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: guy I wanted to sell it to me. For dollars 104 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: and he was begging you to take it right yeah, please, yeah, 105 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: now there's one down there, because there's one for sale 106 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: right out in front of us. It's so and it's 107 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: I think when you look back at that time period. 108 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: And I was watching this on YouTube the other day. 109 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 1: There's a body by Fisher video on YouTube and it 110 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: shows the they're building fifty four and fifty five Chevies 111 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,559 Speaker 1: and some oldsmobiles as they come down the assembly line 112 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: and the dies and the presses and a nine hundred 113 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: ton press to build a door, and the way it 114 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: bangs these things out, and the precision and the craftsmanship 115 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: and how that grew into the sixties. That's what I 116 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: think of, And I think the sixties was a period 117 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: that spawned the craftsmanship that you're seeing here today handmade 118 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: in the USA. Oh yeah, absolutely, nuts supporters, yeah, nuts 119 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: and bolts. Um. They talked about the involvement of math 120 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: and the way they were drawing the redrawing the doors 121 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: and the fenders, and the way the cars came alive 122 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: on paper that style before they were done by computer 123 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: and everything was done by hand. And that's what this 124 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 1: movement is about in my mind, that that there was 125 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: pride in what we did, and we had the ability 126 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: to do the design, the grills, the fins, the interior, 127 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: the chrome, the chrome. Yeah, look at us a statement 128 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: and you look at all the chrome that's out here today. 129 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: I wonder how long it would take us to polish 130 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: holders chromes forget it. Yeah, it would just be just 131 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: just too big. It was. But that's what this weekend is. 132 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: This weekend is a look back, and it's a look 133 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: forward because it's it's what if somebody's not here, it's 134 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: what they're missing. But they can also you know, you 135 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: were catching fire. I mean you were here last year. 136 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: We have more than triple the attendance this year. Well, 137 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: the line, I'm not sure who it was, but I 138 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: was talking to one of the ticket takers. Um, she's 139 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: she's the wife of one of the members of d MC. 140 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: I don't know her name. I was catching her before 141 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: we were talking and she said, checking in cars this morning, 142 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: Oh that was Lisa. Was that Lesa? And I won't 143 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: use her exact words because this family radio, but she 144 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: was saying the line was so long that she couldn't 145 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: get the cars checked in fast enough. And she's, you know, 146 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: just in the cars. She's saying it nice. Well, I'm 147 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: trying to, Like I said, it's family radio, but you 148 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: know it's a lot that goes on behind the scenes 149 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: to make all this happen. Yeah, everybody says, you know, 150 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: we're sold out already just for this hotel for next year. Wow, 151 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: sold out, we said, we we broke a record. We 152 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: sold out in twenty two minutes. That's crazy. Yeah, So 153 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: now you gotta go to the Mawa Courtyard Marriott and 154 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: that's going to fill up. So I would we went 155 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: from one hotel trying to fill it five years ago. 156 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: We'll probably going to be it the way I see you, honestly, 157 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: probably four hotels at least next year, well in this area. 158 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: And you know how I know it'll be successful is 159 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: because I noticed, Now maybe this is coincidental, but we 160 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: started on air and the sky got blue right over 161 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: the whole event. We talked about that. Look at this right, Yeah, 162 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: I mean the weather is just it's it's not a 163 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: big deal. But I'll tell you who's a big deal. 164 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: Let's let's introduce some real quick. We got a surprise guest. 165 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: I brought you somebody, Well, yeah, who'd you? Who would 166 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: you bring me, who's sitting here to you? Maybe she 167 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: just have them talk a little bit, just to see 168 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: if they recognize who this is. Well, Hi, I'm Tony Orlando. 169 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: Not even a dawn, not quite so dan, he introduced, 170 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: introduced a gentleman to your right. Well, this man is 171 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: uh TV superstar. When I was going up in the 172 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: man you wanted to be. I mean, you went to 173 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,559 Speaker 1: your television sets and you turned it on, and here 174 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: he was, and was on his motorcycle in l A 175 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: And if you pulled you over, you got excited, like 176 00:08:54,800 --> 00:09:01,439 Speaker 1: they're doing here today. They're going crazy to see him here. Hello, mahwa, Hello, 177 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: A pleasure to have you here with us today. I 178 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: need a prescription. I'll talk to you about it. Talk 179 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: we can, week, we can. This is awesome being here. 180 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,959 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you it's great for me because I 181 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,439 Speaker 1: grew up across the water in New York City, Manhattan. 182 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: Uh was born in Hallam Hospital, raised in a hundred 183 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: and third and first Spanish New York board. Yeah, I 184 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: was born in forty nine and Uh I used to 185 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: roam the streets of Spanish Harlom and my grandfather used 186 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,079 Speaker 1: to sell snow cones. So so when you were growing up, 187 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: what were the cars that were in your era? The 188 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: cars were the Fords, the fifty two Dodge. Remember the 189 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: fifty two Dodge. My friend of mine had one and 190 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: we used to piling it to go to Jones Beach 191 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: or or Coney Island and stuff. But when I was 192 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: the first car I ever wanted, there was a dealership 193 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: on Broadway or Seventh Avenue, and I think it was 194 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 1: in Street, a Ford dealership, and the Mustang was there, 195 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: and I wanted always. I used to go and just 196 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 1: drool all over the New York. You talk about a 197 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 1: fifty two Dodge that you piled in like it was 198 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 1: a nothing called, Like a nothing called today would be incredible. 199 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: But it was a big old you know. It looked 200 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: like a giant Pete cruiser look like. And how many 201 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: kids could you put in it? Twelve? Were about fourteen, 202 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 1: mostly girls and laps Well his family radio play. Yeah 203 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: if they were cousins and nieces, yeah, I'm sure. So listen, 204 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: we're gonna pull over and take a pause, and when 205 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,319 Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna continue this interview and we're 206 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit more to Ericastrada and a 207 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: whole strew of others were just loaded with guests this 208 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: afternoon and I'm running any in the car. Doctor. We'll 209 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: be back from dead Man's Curve, Wild Hot broad Weekend 210 00:10:38,760 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back, Doctor, we are alive once 211 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: again and the Wild Road Weekend in the Mama Sheridan 212 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: Mama New Jersey with the Gang from the dead Man's Curve. 213 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: A very special guest with me this segment none other 214 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: than Eric Astrata Paunch from Chips. Mr Astrata, Eric, Sorry, 215 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,839 Speaker 1: sorry to meet you. Absolutely a pleasure. Um. You know 216 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,599 Speaker 1: we were talking during the pause and uh, just a 217 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: regular kid from across the river, New York, growing up 218 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: in an era of fifties and sixties hot rods and 219 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: then went west and hit the big time and had 220 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: a good time. And you know, I gotta tell you, 221 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: I'm a little star struck myself when I think back 222 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 1: about Chips. You know, that was the first show in 223 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: in in my mind that brought main street, mainstream cops, 224 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,599 Speaker 1: cars and bikes to the air and did such a 225 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: good job of it. Thank you. It was great work. 226 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: I was very proud of that, very proud of the show. 227 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: Because I'll run into people today thirty years later. Then 228 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: I was just happy to have a steady job because 229 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,599 Speaker 1: I was going to be a New York cop. And 230 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: what happened was there was a girl that I wanted 231 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: to meet, and she was in this acting club and 232 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: I said, I grew up in the street to Harlem. 233 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: I can act. So I auditioned, I got in, and 234 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: then I got bit by the acting bug, and then 235 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,719 Speaker 1: I no longer. I had to tell my mamma meet 236 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 1: that I want to try this acting thing, so you 237 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,719 Speaker 1: got to stay in the projects a little longer. I 238 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,719 Speaker 1: can't get you out yet. And then yeah, Papa please, no, 239 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: meho no, You're gonna be policeman, and all the sud say, mom, please, 240 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: I gotta give it a shot. I like it. I 241 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 1: like the way I feel what I do, and I 242 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: love the reaction I get from people when I perform, 243 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: because I meeho, no, you want to be policeman, and 244 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: we're going to move out of the projects. And A said, 245 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: I tell you, mama, and make a deal with you 246 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: if I can't make a living in this acting thing, 247 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: which was my second choice my whole life. I want 248 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: to be a copy because my mother day in one 249 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: and he was my hero. So I'm a cop lover. 250 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: So I tell her, if I can't make a living 251 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 1: by the age of thirty, I'll could at this business 252 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: in acting. I'll come back. I'll go to the Academy 253 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: in New York. I still and all, but I'll still 254 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: be eligible because thirty two is to cut a cut 255 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: off day for eligibility to go to the academy. And 256 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: she cried all the way through by speech, you know, 257 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: And I said, look, if I can't have you living 258 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: the way I want you to live by the age 259 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,199 Speaker 1: of thirty, I'll come back. And how old were you 260 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: doing ships? I got it at twenty seven, just just 261 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: in time. So my mother hasn't worked since twenty since 262 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: seventy seven, and she I got her living. She hasn't 263 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: worked since then. I take care everything. I still do. 264 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: I just put a pacemaker in it. She's eighty six. 265 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: Keep her going, Yeah, another two miles out of her 266 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: just changing the filter. Good. Now she's pretty greasy. Well, 267 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: get pretty tough, So you know, she's the deal I 268 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: made with worked out. So my mother take care of 269 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: I still take care of it. I gotta live in 270 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: on fifty seventh and eighth Avenue. So when you look 271 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: back at the sixties and the seventies and you think 272 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: it a car culture. You know, the question I've been 273 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: asking it here today, Um, is it as big a 274 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: time as you think? You think our memories aren't really true, 275 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: or do you think it really was a special time 276 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: in terms of cars. I think it was. It was 277 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: like the era of the seventies. It was. I compared 278 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: it to the Well, first, the car era was wonderful 279 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: because you have the colors, you had the body, you 280 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: had the shapes, you had the designs, you had the 281 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: jet stream look, and and and and then you know 282 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: they try to beat them up, and then the muscle 283 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: cars and all that come out because on Chips I 284 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: had a Camaro, you know, and then they blew it 285 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: up and everything. I said, I wish I had kept it, 286 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: but they blew it up in an episode. If we 287 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: had the cars we blew up and threw away. Yeah, right, 288 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: that's the whole story. And I remember my first car 289 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: when I decided to go to California and I brought 290 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: this car that it was had eight. It's a V eight. 291 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: It only ran on seven, and it was you could 292 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: have brought to me I would have fixed it. Well, 293 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: I had a ragged out that look it looked like 294 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: my air and humidity. And the car, you know, it 295 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: was a Ford Galaxy five hundred. I wish I had 296 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: it today. Oh my goodness. When I got rid of it, 297 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: I saw it for a hundred of parts for hundred 298 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: fifty dollars. And you know what it's worth today. Oh, 299 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: forget about it. Forget It'll make me cry. I think 300 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: about it and think about it. But now and then 301 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: there was a shop on fifty seventh and eighth Avenue. 302 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: Seventh Avenue it was it was a dealership for dealership 303 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: and the Mustangs came out in the sixties and that 304 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: was the car for paunch. Oh man, that's what I 305 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: wanted as a kid. I could never have it. You know, 306 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: I was raised on welfare. I wasn't gonna get a car. 307 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: What are you driving today? I drive a few different cars. 308 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: But what's your hot rod? You gotta have a hot rock, dude. Well, 309 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: I had a fifty seven pink Cadillac, you know, with 310 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: the California black plate on it and everything. But um, 311 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: I had to give that up in a divorce. But 312 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: you know, they take a few things you know, and 313 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: that's okay. I gotta I've got new things that I ride. 314 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: That's a that's a good thing, right, you get to 315 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: go out and get new things. Oh yeah, thank god. 316 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: You know I've been lucky and us. So tell me 317 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: the story real quick. Uh you know when I was 318 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: watching ships and I have to ask you this. I'm 319 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: gonna ask you on area. I still remember when you 320 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: got hurt on the show. But that was a real 321 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: life injury. Well, yeah, I was an intensive kid. The 322 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: helicoptered me from the alley to U C U C 323 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: l A, and they wanted to cut me open from 324 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: the chest to mc gut to see if I ruptured 325 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: my A order. But I wouldn't allow them. I didn't 326 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: give him permission to open me up. Soely just shot 327 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: me with die and keep flipping me on the slab. 328 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: How did that happen? Well, it happened was here. We 329 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: have a scene. We're in an alley. They put a 330 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: camera on the dashboard of the villain car. Me and 331 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: my partner coming out of the building, jump on the bike. 332 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: They're shooting through the windshield at us. The bad guy 333 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: gets in the corn he starts backing up the down 334 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: the alley going backwards, and we jumped on the bikes 335 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: and boom, were shifting and boom, we're chasing him. We 336 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: rehearsed it, we shot it. They had a stunt guy 337 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: in the car. The actor that played the bad guy 338 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: was from fugg Yeah. Yeah, great guy by the way. 339 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: So he's backing up. We jump on the bikes and 340 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: boom we get him. We get him down at the 341 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: end of the alley. They we got the shot print. Okay, 342 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: it's Friday. Everybody says, Okay, it's a rap. Everybody go home. 343 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,880 Speaker 1: The stunt guys are the first people to leave a show. 344 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: They go boom because they want to go jump out 345 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: of planes for fun. They do that thing, you know. Boom. 346 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: We end up. We end up. I'm back in the 347 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: trailer getting undressed to go home for the weekend, and boom, 348 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: they're not gonna do it. Mrs Stralio, you gotta come back. 349 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,159 Speaker 1: We gotta do it over. There was a hare and 350 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: the in the lens, so a hair in the lens, 351 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: so we gotta do it over. So I put back 352 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: on the suit, the Sam brown and boom, we go 353 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: to do it. The stunt guy already left. I don't 354 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: know you were the stunt guard. No, no, no, the 355 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: stunt guy that drove the car left. I drove the 356 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: motorcycle chasing the car. But I didn't realize that that 357 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: guy was gone, and they put a team st in there. 358 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: They put somebody in there to drive the are who 359 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 1: when we did it, I didn't realize that they've changed guys. 360 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: And I'm ready to go and let's do this. Boom 361 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: the guy stopped twenty too soon, so I my motorcycle 362 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: plows into his front fender, getting stuck under the book 363 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: between the ground and the fender. I go through the 364 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: winds here landon theod. The bike stood up momentum and 365 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: it flips on my back. Eric, We're we're glad to 366 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 1: have you here with us today. To be here, let me, 367 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: it's always been. It's been a great pleasure. Ericastrada chips 368 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: I car Doctor, we are back. Rove you Mala bye bye. Hey. 369 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: The music is a dead giveaway. I'm wanting any of 370 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: the car Doctor here at the dead Man's Curve Wild 371 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 1: the weekend and I'm here this hour with Patrick up 372 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: the monsters. But welcome back. We talked last year. Yeah, 373 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: thank you so much. It's great to be bad. Listen. 374 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to have you. Um, and I should 375 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: point out in the middle between us, Well, we'll give 376 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: him some credit. We have Mike Kicky. Mike is Uh. 377 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: He's one of the backbone members here at the Man's Curve, 378 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 1: and he's responsible for this radio show being here today. 379 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: He's helped us organize it. And Uh, we're gonna talk 380 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 1: to you in a minute. Okay, Mike, you're you're out 381 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: for now. We love you, but I'll talk to Butch. 382 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: He'll go fabricate something, whip us up a car in 383 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: an hour? Can you make us a car in an hour? 384 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: You know they talk about they talk about um, three 385 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 1: D printing of cars. Do you think that I'll ever 386 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,239 Speaker 1: christ making making cars out of making cars? Print a car? 387 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: Can you imagine that we're going to print the car? 388 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: They did it a couple of years ago. Somebody had 389 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: it in Popular Mechanics, and then after they drove it, 390 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: they pulled the illuminum motorcycle engine out and then they 391 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: threw car recycled it. And that's probably not I don't 392 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: I don't think so. Butch. People look at you and 393 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: you know, obviously I think of the When I turned sixteen, 394 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 1: I got a sixty nine mak one was my first car. 395 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: And when I was in high school, prior to getting there, 396 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: had a friend of mine was working for rolland Leong 397 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: and he was the owner of the Hawaiian Dragstra the 398 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: funny car. So I was going to the drags with 399 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: Dean and he had convinced me when I got my 400 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: money out of the bank when I was nineteen, that 401 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: we were gonna buy a funny car. He was gonna 402 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: wrench and I was gonna drive it. So I was 403 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: hanging around the drags from about nineteen sixty eight to 404 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: seventy three consistently. Uh and these were the good old 405 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,920 Speaker 1: days when you know, we were at Keith Black Shop, 406 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: Don Perdom, McEwan, Jean Snow, Big John Masmania one of 407 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: his car's out here. But I was going to the 408 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: drags with Jack Chrismin, and Jack Chrismin was very much 409 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: the innovator. He was the first nhr A top they 410 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: called it gaser back then. He won top Gaser over 411 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: Don Garlts in sixty one. But I lived near d 412 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: Lyon's drag Strap, so that was what I was doing. 413 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: A lot of back in the day was hanging around 414 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: Jack Krismin going to the track. And what I really 415 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 1: loved about the early days of drag racing was the 416 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 1: nicknames these guys had. It was gas Ronda and Dinah, 417 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: don Nicholson and fast Eddie Sharpman, you know, and it 418 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: was just a jungle Jim Lieberman, forgot's sake, all these 419 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 1: killer names, these killer drivers in the heyday drag racing, 420 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 1: when funny cars were still squirrely, and they were still 421 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: turning mid seven's and the drivers were like rock stars, 422 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,959 Speaker 1: right and and back then the car drove them as 423 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: much as they drove the car. It was really dangerous. 424 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 1: They were still figuring out how to make him go straight. 425 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: There are a lot of fires, a lot of explosions. 426 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: They were only doing aboutrseback then, but they were still 427 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: really a lot more dangerous than the are today. I'll 428 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: never forget the first time I saw Don Garlage dragster 429 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: when it was old older dractors. Yeah, and you're sitting 430 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: on the differential and when that exploded, Oh boy, Jack 431 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: Chrismin actually had one explode under him and he lost 432 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: two inches of his right leg and walked with a 433 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: limp ever since then. But what a lot of people 434 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: don't remember. With Jack, he had a Kendall GT one 435 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: Comment nine and he put a fiberglass Mercury cyclone body 436 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: on it without a roof. It had a little cowling 437 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: for it, and people said, Jack, that's a funny looking dragster. 438 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: And from that term they coined the term funny car, 439 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 1: which then replaced the fuel altered class in the I 440 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: think in the nineteen sixty nine or seventy and Heat 441 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: toured the country for Mickey Thompson with the Caliph Coca 442 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: Cola's calvalcated cars with eight funny cars, And that was 443 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: right when I was hanging around the drags. Which when 444 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: you look back at the sixties, yea. And this is 445 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: a question we're kind of taking a look back this 446 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: weekend here at the Wild hot Rod Weekend at dead 447 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 1: Man's Curve here in the Mama Sheridan. When you look 448 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: back at the sixties and that car culture, that movement, 449 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: and you think about it that was forty some odd 450 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: years ago, is it is it still as fresh as 451 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: it is big a time in your mind as it 452 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: was then having lived through it, or is it just 453 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 1: a great memory. It's actually it's still there. It runs 454 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,440 Speaker 1: simultaneously with the sixties, in my opinion, is just a 455 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: decade that it's taught in schools and colleges. There's courses 456 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: about the sixties, the music, the TV of the cars, 457 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: the culture. Everything about the sixties is magnetic. And people 458 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,360 Speaker 1: who were lucky enough to live through it, like myself 459 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: as a teenager, look back upon it. I feel actually 460 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: feel sorry for kids that never had a chance to 461 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: really be their firsthand and it's hard to playing what 462 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: it was like. But cruising the beach and cruising Vanities 463 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 1: Boulevard and Hawthorne Boulevard and going Wednesday nights the Lions 464 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 1: Dragster for two dollars, you could raise your car all 465 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: night long for time slips. That was a magical time. 466 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 1: And I think it's just radiates even though people are 467 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: not living at first hand, that they're living vicariously through 468 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: their parents and their grandparents and just historical film. If 469 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 1: if if you had a kid today, ten twelve years 470 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: old and you were trying to keep them safe, would 471 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: you have an issue with them learning how to work 472 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: on a car. No, not at all. I think cars 473 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: are wonderful. I think it's great. Uh, it's it's it 474 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: was sort of a camaraderie thing. And you know, we 475 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: we had gangs, but our gangs were hanging around a 476 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: gas station working on each other's engines and stuff. I 477 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: mean that was our click. And somebody you know, would 478 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: bring a you know, case of beer when this is 479 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 1: when we're holding up to drink and stuff and sometimes not. 480 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 1: But but basically that's what we were getting into mischief. 481 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: But it was good, wholesome mischief, and it was it 482 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: was just such a different time period, absolutely, And and 483 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: you know, there you are on the Monsters and they 484 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 1: wield this monster coach in Yeah, it was. I was, 485 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 1: like I said when I was speaking about Georgia's tribute, 486 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 1: that I took it for granted. Now the hindsight, I 487 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: looked back. My stepfather was playing professional baseball. My job 488 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: was going to the Munsters on Wednesdays, I got to 489 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: go to Georgia's shop. I mean, this was a magical time. 490 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: And and just roaming around the Universal Studio in my 491 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: spare time and meeting and greeting people. I mean, I 492 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: think I had probably the best childhood one could ask for. 493 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: And when you look at the Munster Coach. Your first 494 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: impression when you when you saw it, you were just 495 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: it was like, this is cool, this is like, this 496 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 1: is like the model. I'd like the build and then 497 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: it turned into a model. But I would on Monday 498 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: morning when we would read our script and whenever I 499 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: would see the coach was included, it was exciting because 500 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 1: number one and we were outside and number two, I'd 501 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: be sitting up in that little coachman seat and uh, 502 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: it was like a magical time to be writing in 503 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: the coolest car on TV. And then they added the 504 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: dragula to that, and then that George up to Annie 505 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: a little bit with the dragula, and uh, I mean 506 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: everybody remembers the Batmobile, and we loved the Batmobile, but 507 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 1: the coach was first, the dragular second, and then the 508 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: Batmobile came along. And George was already designing cars, and 509 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: he was already very a student what he did for Privateer, 510 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: but that was his launch into television history. Probably probably 511 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 1: the three most famous cars on TV, I think. So 512 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,360 Speaker 1: you know those three cars, you know, how did George 513 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: get involved with the Munsters at that point, Well, you know, 514 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,239 Speaker 1: George was in the fifties, George was He was very 515 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 1: student businessman. He was like a pt bar on him. 516 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: He was a showman. She he knew showmanship. I mean 517 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,719 Speaker 1: I was around Evil Kinevil who was a huge showman. 518 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: But George Barris and Evil were like two of the best, 519 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 1: if not the best. But George, what he did is 520 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: he saw how cars and TV and movies were you know, 521 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: could benefit each other, and how he could market and 522 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: he could establish, you know, a business through this. In 523 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: the fifties he did the B movies with you know, 524 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: Hot Rods to Hell and uh, you know, hot Rod 525 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 1: Girls and sweater Girls and black Top, you know, burnouts 526 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: and this and that, and he supplied the cars to that. 527 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: And then when TV came into its own, he saw 528 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: a medium for that. And the shop was down the 529 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: street from Universal, and I'm sure he probably lobbied the 530 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: people at the at the Universal that the Munsters needed 531 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: a cool car and he was the he became the guy. 532 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 1: He was a salesman for it, and he and he 533 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: was a very smart man. He never gave up the 534 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: rights to his cars. He would build them for the studios, 535 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: but he always owned them. Not to take anything away 536 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: from Georgia, you know, in his own right he was 537 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: a genius. But do you think the monsters the were 538 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 1: the monsters the show the cars that put him on 539 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: the map in that sense, or what he picked before then? 540 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: Well it was the first TV car that he put 541 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: on TV. So yeah, to a point, the show and 542 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: George had a nice marriage. It's just it just seemed 543 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: to be a connection and connected really well. I mean, 544 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: he was already really well established in the who's who 545 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: in the private collections, and everybody in moot, in movies 546 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: and TV wanted to have embarrass custom. And that's if 547 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 1: you go to his shop and the wall is the 548 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: wall of fame is incredible. You couldn't get a car, 549 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: pick up a car unless you had a picture taken 550 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 1: with George. And he's got you know, John Lennon on there, 551 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: and he's got anybody who's anybody. He's got an eight 552 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: byte ten on his wall. It's gotta be a it is. 553 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: But I want to thank you for taking the time. 554 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: I'm busy this weekend and we're glad to be here 555 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: with Hey, this show, this show is. I've been here 556 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: since the get go, and I was lucky enough to 557 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: become a member of that dead Man's Curve took me in. 558 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: As soon as I met these guys years ago, I said, 559 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 1: this is if I was going to be at a 560 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: car club, this is the one I want to be in. 561 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: And then I was lucky enough to be actually surprised 562 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: the honored a couple of years ago with my jacket. 563 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: And now I got a Munster coach on a dragula 564 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: my own. So I'm a real member. You're a real member, 565 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 1: which patrick a great pleasure, sir, and thank you for 566 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 1: being here with us. Mike, you stay put. We'll talk 567 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: to you in a little bit. I'm run any in 568 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. We are back right after this. We 569 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 1: are back running any in the Car Doctor. We are 570 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 1: alive at the dead Man's Curve Wild hot Rod Weekend 571 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: here in Mahwah, New Jersey, at the Share It And 572 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here with Mike Kicky to my right, and 573 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 1: one step over from Mike Kicky is Jim Buchette, Big 574 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: Jim's Custom Concepts. And that we're all looking at these 575 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: cars as they filter in. There's a flame. What is that? 576 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 1: Is that? An Anglia? It's an old Anglia, flamed Anglia. 577 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: We saw a very nice version of a Chrysler road Runner. 578 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: Go buy? Is that another Angliare we're in the world? 579 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: Could you possibly see first a flamed Anglia and then 580 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: another Anglia right behind her with a blower sticking out 581 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: of the hood. That's just that's just yeah, a nice 582 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 1: set of wheelie bars. And I guess that's the kind 583 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 1: of thing Jim Buchette. That's the kind of thing you're 584 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: looking for, right, that's your inspiration in terms of you 585 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: see cars like that, you want to draw them. Yeah, 586 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: A more like a traditional custom kind of guy too, 587 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: Like there's this uh, there's this lavender I chevity and 588 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: that's coming around the corner. I just saw. I like 589 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: vehicles like that as well. I also like the muscle 590 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: cars I'm known for the coda. Of course, there's there's 591 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: all my business car now. Um, you know that's a 592 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: you look at these cars and I guess it's easy 593 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: for you when you get your inspiration from Jim. But 594 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: you know, is there a car that you prefer to 595 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 1: draw more so than others? Uh? Not really, I just 596 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: uh like all types of vehicles. I like somebody throwing 597 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: me a curveball, if you will. On cars, Let's say 598 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: like drawing all these old, very funny cars are right 599 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,239 Speaker 1: in front of us right now, because well those are 600 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: really fun to do. And and what do you when 601 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: you when you see that, you know, we look at that, 602 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: we see funny cars, hoods up, we see what is 603 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 1: that going by? Is that a that's an old you know? 604 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: We we look at that, we see a square body. 605 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: For Jimmy, what do you see when you look at 606 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: that car? You see, I see a potential for like 607 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: a really radical custom or like some really slick kind 608 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: of like Ron dold Spire designs, stuff like that, and 609 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: you just kind of change it in your mind's eye, 610 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you you put it 611 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: out on paper. Yes exactly. I kind of essentially build 612 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: it in my head, if you will. You've been here 613 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: all day? Have people been asking you to draw cars? 614 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: And you've been I see a little business going on. Yeah, 615 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: I've been I've been here since around eight o'clock this morning. 616 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: I have so far done a nineteen Ford pickup truck. 617 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: I did four Moulti Huckster Woody, and I have a 618 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: few other cars on on tap lined up. I did 619 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: several I have several g T O s lined up 620 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: morstly with sixties cars like sixty five, sixty seven, et cetera. 621 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: Cool beans, cool beans. Hey Jimmy, if the listeners want 622 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: to get more information about you, what's your website again, 623 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: let's get a plug in there for it. My website 624 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: is Big Jim's Art is uh big gyms art dot com, 625 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: or you can follow me on Instagram at big Gym's 626 00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: Art or on Facebook at uh Big Jim's cust concepts. 627 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: Cool means Big Jim's Art dot com. Mr Hicky, We're 628 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: gonna pull over and take a pause some closing thoughts 629 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: before we do anything. Real quick, Look, what what's that? 630 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 1: What's that that just went by? The turquoise? Is that 631 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: a Ford convertible turquoise? That's a model, a convertible with 632 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: a convertible top. Yeah, that's a rumble seat in the boy. 633 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: There's a little bit everything. It's it's amazing the amount 634 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: of cars that we've got here, in the variety of 635 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: styles and just personal touches that these folks add to 636 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: these cars, and it's just it's a beautiful time. And 637 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: then a guy like Jim comes along and draws it, 638 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: isn't that the turquoise by the way, Cabrion has parked 639 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: on the other end of the lot. Is that after 640 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: car that we saw go by. That might be I 641 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: think they tour every everybody kind of brings them around. Well, listen, 642 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: let's pull over and take the pause. I'm running any 643 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: in the Car Doctor. We'll be back here at the 644 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: Wild hot Rod Weekend right after this. Don't go away, 645 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 1: just taking this welcome back. We're on any of the 646 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: Car Doctor here at the Wild hot Rod Weekend. The 647 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: mahwah Sheridan. Let's get right into it. I am sitting well, 648 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: I have sitting to my right a very special guest. 649 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: He just kind of popped in and we're taking we're 650 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,239 Speaker 1: taking poppins right now. And um, I love I love 651 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: this guy's he's just a wild guy. Hence the name 652 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 1: of his team, frantic Ford al leaven Minal, Welcome back 653 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,239 Speaker 1: to the Car Doctors. Thanks for having me back here. 654 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 1: What's new in the world of leaven in the team 655 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: at frantic Ford. I mean, we've just been really busy 656 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: this year. We'll be doing a lot of charity events 657 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 1: for some of the charities that we support. We did 658 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: a couple of car shows. We're going to Michigan. We're 659 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: going to Kentucky. We're here. Tell the listeners what you 660 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: do so that it's somebody that may not understand what 661 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: this is about. Well, I'm the marketing partner in the team. 662 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: I'm the guy who finds all the thirties sponsors and 663 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: keeping happy on Facebook, on instag Here let's see it's 664 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: DJ Safety Champion, Bonefonti Kan w M and H Kleevit Racing, 665 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 1: Junk McGuire, CRC, Welsh Media, Stay loub Okay, that's enough 666 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: of the commercial, go ahead now. But we got some 667 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 1: new ones. We got a company called Earpiece. Uh they're 668 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: really great to make uh um earplugs for rock bands. Uh. 669 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,479 Speaker 1: Tub of towels who's been really good helping us here. 670 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 1: Like I said, we got Lucas and Poor fifteen is 671 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: one of the sponsors that are helping thunder Alley, one 672 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: of my guys from New Jersey. Cool and and these 673 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: are the guys that helped keep these cars on the road. 674 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 1: Now this is nostalgia drag racing. That is correct. We 675 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: have another car we running called the super Camaro. Uh. 676 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: We decided not to bring it this year. We wanted 677 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 1: to bringing up rockies other car, the big bag Big 678 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 1: John Masmanian car. Excuse me, it's badass. It's an exact 679 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 1: replica of the original car and it shoots five ft 680 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: flames at the bottom. Now, for people that don't understand 681 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,080 Speaker 1: who Big John Masmanian is, how would you describe that 682 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: in thirty seconds? Or Big John he was wanting the 683 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: gasser Kings of the sixties and seventies until he passed away. 684 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: Early funny car guy and that Rocky and his father 685 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: used to race it. Or Rocky was with her boys 686 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,800 Speaker 1: father used to race against Big John in the sixties 687 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: and seventies. Wow, cool stuff. Are they gonna fire these 688 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: cars up today? Yeah, we're gonna do a five o'clock. 689 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: I said we haven't last year. We only had four 690 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 1: cars this year. Um, I decided to get with the 691 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,839 Speaker 1: guys here. I'm like the ring leader, a circus ran leader. 692 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: I have thirteen cars here, so we're gonna get them 693 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: more running at the five o'clock. We got drag serve, 694 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: they got altered, and we've got gasoline funny cars. We've 695 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,840 Speaker 1: got alcohol fount of cars, and we've got Frannic for 696 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 1: a nitro funny car. What would you say the accumulative 697 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:38,280 Speaker 1: horse powers amongst the thirty cars. Uh probably you're probably 698 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: talking about about eighteen thousand horsepower. Where where the where 699 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,800 Speaker 1: can the listeners find out more? They can find a 700 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: frantic forward at frannic Ford dot com. You can also 701 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,760 Speaker 1: check us at the Supercomaro dot com is another website. 702 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: Find us on Facebook frannic Ford Supercomaro Facebook, Instagram, Twitter LinkedIn. 703 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: We're all over the place. Are you going after this? 704 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,319 Speaker 1: Gonna go to Michigan next week? Yeah? And what are 705 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 1: you gonna do out there? We're gonna be raising a 706 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,799 Speaker 1: super Camaro. Cool being's cool stuff. You guys are keeping 707 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,320 Speaker 1: that era of of funny Cardinalstalgia racing alive and the 708 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: memories that you generate real quick in ten seconds. The sixties, 709 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: was it as big a car movement as we remember 710 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 1: it to be? Uh? Yeah, it really was. I'm telling 711 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,960 Speaker 1: you know, I've been around funny cars for forty three years. 712 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:18,800 Speaker 1: I got out about fifteen years ago and decide to 713 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 1: get back when Rockety and some other guys and love it. 714 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,400 Speaker 1: It's just it's really there. Hey, I'm running any in 715 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: the car. Doctor. Want to remind you there's another hour 716 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: of card doctor and to come on many of these affiliates. 717 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: Until then, good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See