Speaker 1: Many of us have thought about doing this, but we haven't.
Speaker 1: It's one more thing.
Speaker 2: I'm strung and getty one more.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: You don't have the falls, and neither do I and shouldn't.
Speaker 1: But if you've ever had a really crappy car, like not,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about like you had a car and
Speaker 1: it was fine, but over ten years of ownership it
Speaker 1: became crappy. I mean it was crappy from the get go.
Speaker 1: You got ripped off a lemon if you will, and
Speaker 1: you were quite angry who sold it to you? Maybe
Speaker 1: you can relate to this person?
Speaker 4: Then, oh, anybody under the car?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: It was kind of a very very scary situation. Several
Speaker 3: hours later he came back and he was very emotional.
Speaker 3: He said, listen, if you don't give him my money
Speaker 3: back right now, I'm going to run this car right
Speaker 3: through the front door.
Speaker 2: I was just really angry. I was upset about my money.
Speaker 2: I kind of blacked out for a second.
Speaker 3: You know, I know I probably shouldn't have done it,
Speaker 3: but I guess I just hit a breaking point.
Speaker 1: Probably, Well that's a crazy person, is what that is.
Speaker 1: If it was an hour ago, you didn't have time
Speaker 1: to find out you have a crappy car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was worried about my money, and I kind
Speaker 2: of blacked out. I expected to hear the guy yelling,
Speaker 2: listen this thing. I found sand in the transmission, right,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, But no, just a wacky doodle.
Speaker 1: Yeah and uh and you could have killed somebody obviously.
Speaker 5: So yeah. I don't know if you saw the video
Speaker 5: of this, but he went straight through the big pane
Speaker 5: glass windows and into somebody's desk with that car.
Speaker 2: Oh jeez, that's oh yeah, that's that's no good. I
Speaker 2: got ripped off once on a car. Yeah. You remember
Speaker 2: when I flew to Boise to buy that pickup truck.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was that turned out bad?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like four days it was on the way home,
Speaker 2: the transmission stopped working. Oh really yeah, And I don't
Speaker 2: know enough about transmissions to know how you would get it,
Speaker 2: you know, hair pinned and duct taped together to hold
Speaker 2: up during test drive. But then it potts like as
Speaker 2: soon as I left the guy's house. But that's what happened. Jeez.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I've had vehicles that ran fine until they got
Speaker 1: warmed up when things got hot, and then things went south.
Speaker 1: So as long as you drove the car when it
Speaker 1: was cold, it seemed like it ran fine. Things got
Speaker 1: all hot, they didn't work so well. What time? My
Speaker 1: buddy Chris and I, Hey, gladys, can you play the
Speaker 1: hard for this? My buddy Chris and I were going
Speaker 1: to college in Western Kansas, and we both were I
Speaker 1: think we're nineteen years old. We're freshmen in college. And
Speaker 1: we both had like a thousand bucks and we went
Speaker 1: to Denver to get cars. Neither one of us had
Speaker 1: a car, and we had a thousand dollars. His sister
Speaker 1: drove us to Denver and dropped us off. We got
Speaker 1: a cheap rental car. And the only way we're going
Speaker 1: to get back home is one or both of us
Speaker 1: were going.
Speaker 2: To buy our cars. Wow.
Speaker 1: And we spent the weekend shopping.
Speaker 2: What year it was?
Speaker 6: This?
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty four?
Speaker 2: Standby, I mean go ahead, you can keep talking. And
Speaker 2: I mean by standby, I mean continue you.
Speaker 1: Talking, Jose, I assume trying to figure out what one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars would be in today's money.
Speaker 2: Precisely, it still wasn't a lot nineteen thirteen, No, nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty two, you said, four eighty four? Okay?
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 2: The year van Halen's nineteen four album nineteen Charts. It
Speaker 2: was the year after Van Halen's nineteen forty eight album
Speaker 2: I'm trying to type in a talk at the same time,
Speaker 2: and it's going poorly. Okay, here we go. There you go, Jack,
Speaker 2: that would be in today's dollars a three thousand dollars car.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, yeah, so that that's helpful, but you know,
Speaker 1: so not disastrous cars, but not a not a great car.
Speaker 1: So we each had the cash in our pocket and
Speaker 1: we went to a whole bunch of crappy car lots
Speaker 1: because when you're buying it, when that's your your limit,
Speaker 1: you can't go to very nice car lots, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: most car lots don't have a car that cheap anywhere
Speaker 1: on the lot. So we're going to what they call potlot.
Speaker 1: It's the places that are gravel, you know, and got
Speaker 1: a puddle over there, and they got kind of like
Speaker 1: a mobile home for where you go in and fill
Speaker 1: up the paperwork. Charming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those kind of places.
Speaker 1: And I've bought quite a few cars at places like that,
Speaker 1: and they're sketch af But we each bought Baja Bugs,
Speaker 1: which was very childish of us, and The only people
Speaker 1: that thought that was cool was ten year old boys.
Speaker 1: Girls certainly didn't think so. But we each bought these
Speaker 1: old Volkswagens on the way home. Driving on the way home,
Speaker 1: similar to your situation. His his broke down. We didn't
Speaker 1: even make it home, like two hundred miles and his
Speaker 1: broke down. Mine soldiered on and ran for years. Actually,
Speaker 1: but man, you buy a car and you don't even
Speaker 1: make it home, that makes you mad. That will make
Speaker 1: you mad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say, all right, hang out, go ahead, Katie.
Speaker 5: Oh my Lemon was a brand new car, which sucked,
Speaker 5: but I was I was working at the radio station
Speaker 5: in San Francisco, and I had gotten it was also
Speaker 5: a Volkswagon Jack, but it was one of those convertible ones,
Speaker 5: so it had the little button and the convertible would
Speaker 5: tuck back into the trunk. Look at thet convertible, huh yeah.
Speaker 5: And I had always wanted a convertible. So I'm on
Speaker 5: my way to the radio station. It is four o'clock
Speaker 5: in the morning and raining, and I am on the
Speaker 5: freeway driving through Oakland, California, and out of nowhere, the
Speaker 5: convertible opened.
Speaker 2: While I was a whole freeway oh boy in the rain,
Speaker 2: let me gets your attention. Yeah, so I closed it rain, I.
Speaker 5: Closed it, went to the radio station, did my show,
Speaker 5: came home, and then when he straight to the dealership
Speaker 5: and got rid of that car that day.
Speaker 1: Did you get any money back or anything like that?
Speaker 1: I know I got the no cooling off Lemon Long
Speaker 1: whatever it is you see in California.
Speaker 5: They took pretty good care of me because I had
Speaker 5: purchased the car the week before. I mean, this was
Speaker 5: eight days of owning this thing. But I'll never forget it.
Speaker 5: Just it just started going back and I'm going, what
Speaker 5: the's going on here?
Speaker 2: That had to be a moment of am I in
Speaker 2: attack or whatever? Did I black out? What is happening?
Speaker 2: So Jack for for I set my limits, my price
Speaker 2: limits here at eBay Motors between three thousand and thirty
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars, and I've got several fine vehicles for you.
Speaker 2: I got a nineteen eighty six Chevrolet Caprice Classic. Now
Speaker 2: this is a classic. It's right there in the name.
Speaker 1: Boy, an American made car from the eighties, new.
Speaker 2: Three thousand and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm pro American made cars now, high quality. There was
Speaker 1: a period of time in the seventies and eighties, they
Speaker 1: were crap.
Speaker 2: It's a nineteen eighty six, one of the best years made.
Speaker 2: Low mileage, It just doesn't look like it. What is
Speaker 2: the mileage, hones, You're gonna tell me the damn mileage?
Speaker 2: Good lord, what a I used.
Speaker 1: To do commercials for one of those potlights Katie Beck
Speaker 1: into my early radio days, and I do ads every day,
Speaker 1: and all the cars were like fifteen hundred dollars in
Speaker 1: the ads I'm doing, and I would I'd readop I said.
Speaker 1: We got in nineteen seventy six, you know, Capri Classic
Speaker 1: ice Coaldale air conditioner for good tires. We're letting this
Speaker 1: one go with eleven hundred dollars. Now we got a
Speaker 1: dots in to eighty Z for fourteen hundred dollars. This
Speaker 1: one's got a stereo, leather seats, and ice cold air conditioning.
Speaker 1: When you're advertising the air conditioning is a real luxury point,
Speaker 1: that's that's not a good sign.
Speaker 6: That's a sign for how good the tires are. Hey,
Speaker 6: it's got a stereo. Yeah, yeah, exactly, of course it does.
Speaker 6: You won't have to ride around in silence in this one.
Speaker 5: That's got all four seats exactly.
Speaker 2: Hanson cold air conditioning.
Speaker 7: Hanson just informed me that eighties cars are coming back
Speaker 7: in certain auctions. Barrett Jackson auctions. Have you ever heard
Speaker 7: of him? I guess they're bringing back eighties cars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh yeah. My son's really into a lot of
Speaker 1: cars that that. He's like, oh, that's a cool car, Dad,
Speaker 1: And I said, wow, really I remember that car. You
Speaker 1: could go to that for two thousand dollars. But they
Speaker 1: got popular for a variety of reasons, you know, the
Speaker 1: way things just get popular.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that whole you know, life span of whether it's
Speaker 2: a band or a car or a dance craze or whatever.
Speaker 2: That it's it's super hip, then it's new ish, then
Speaker 2: it's established, then it's kind of tired, then it's old
Speaker 2: and mocked, and then the nostalgias starts. What is that
Speaker 2: twelve there's some sort of twelve year rulers. I can't remember,
Speaker 2: but yeah, and then all of a sudden it's the
Speaker 2: hottest thing.
Speaker 1: Definitely happens with cars. I got a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: crappy cars I wish I would have kept because they'd
Speaker 1: have been they'd be worth something now, or they certainly
Speaker 1: would be cool now they were not at the time.
Speaker 1: This one takes American made fuel. It's only nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: You know what, Looking at cheap cars online is comical.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: For thirty eight hundred dollars, you can get a two
Speaker 5: thousand and five Hondai Ailantra with one hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: thousand miles, has no punch lights and only three tires.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I am. I am not to
Speaker 1: the place yet my life where I can even like
Speaker 1: joke about that. I spent too many years driving crappy cars,
Speaker 1: and the only thing I ever wanted was to make
Speaker 1: enough money that I could have a car that when
Speaker 1: I walked out in the morning, I knew it was
Speaker 1: gonna start. I thought that that was just my dream
Speaker 1: in life, to know I could walk out there and
Speaker 1: be almost certain that when I turned the key it
Speaker 1: would start.
Speaker 2: Because s was luxury in your head all the time.
Speaker 1: Oh, definitely, because every day of is it going to
Speaker 1: start today? And then everything that goes with if it
Speaker 1: doesn't start, how you get to work, how you're gonna
Speaker 1: get it somewhere, how you're gonna pay for it? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's the worst.
Speaker 5: My mom always talks about her seventy five bug that
Speaker 5: she had to park on a on a hill facing downhill,
Speaker 5: and she'd have to pop the clutch to get it
Speaker 5: rolling in order for it to start.
Speaker 1: No starter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good thing here in the Bay Area,
Speaker 2: in the Central Valley.
Speaker 1: Right, I had many motorcycles like that. I'd have to
Speaker 1: run and then hop on the seat and pop the clutch.
Speaker 1: Oh did you get all sweaty?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: Well, what are you gonna do? I'll be back there
Speaker 1: again soon enough. I'm sure.
Speaker 2: I was hanging out at the strip mall wherever it
Speaker 2: was the other day and a guy passed me rolled
Speaker 2: by and I'm not like a car guy exactly, so
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it was an early seventies like Impalla.
Speaker 2: It was one of those cars that's like sixty five
Speaker 2: feet long. I mean, just a ridiculously long hood and
Speaker 2: trunk Tudor. But you know, it took like five minutes
Speaker 2: for the thing to roll by me, and it was
Speaker 2: just magnificent. Yeah. Is that because it's just the car
Speaker 2: that I admired when I was, you know whatever, seven
Speaker 2: years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got to do with your age, because I
Speaker 1: go to a lot of car shows with Sam because
Speaker 1: he is a car guy and who loves him. And
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, all the cars were fifties cars,
Speaker 1: you know, fifty seven Chevy or whatever like that, because
Speaker 1: the old guys there, that was the car that was
Speaker 1: hot when they was in high school. They were in
Speaker 1: high school. Now you see the occasional one of those,
Speaker 1: but that's not what Guinneabody gathers around. They gather around
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty you know, Pontiac Firebird because that's the
Speaker 1: car they had when they were in high school. It
Speaker 1: has to do with what you had when you're in
Speaker 1: you're not a car guy. You know who is a
Speaker 1: car guy. Mike Canton, our executive producer Hansen joined.
Speaker 4: Them just you know, Joe, every kid, every high school
Speaker 4: kid should appreciate and enjoy ownership of a land yacht,
Speaker 4: one of those big cars. And I had one and
Speaker 4: it was it was actually a proud moment for me
Speaker 4: because I bought it from a Junkyard. My nineteen seventy
Speaker 4: one buhicless saber bought from a Junkyard for two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: It was awesome. The heater had a quality heater up.
Speaker 2: I'm adjusting for inflation that two hundred dollars would be
Speaker 2: two hundred and four dollars to that.
Speaker 3: I could.
Speaker 4: I could fit six guys in that car, I'm sure.
Speaker 4: Plus load up the trunk with a lot of beer
Speaker 4: before basketball games. We had a great time, heater beer awesome,
Speaker 4: had a great time, no doubt. Someone plowed into that
Speaker 4: car in the middle of winter on my street, and
Speaker 4: I think I know who it was. Troy.
Speaker 1: I'll hold that against you for the rest of your life. Troy.
Speaker 2: Wow, damn Troy. Anyway, this may be illegue.
Speaker 1: He went last name.
Speaker 4: I'm serious about it. Never revealed that ever, So my
Speaker 4: whole life, I've never had a chance to call him out. Okay,
Speaker 4: I've been wanting to do this for the past thirty years.
Speaker 2: Wow. If anybody else would like to level a half
Speaker 2: assization for a decade's old incident, to call us and
Speaker 2: we'll put you on the air. I want to call
Speaker 2: out my uncle right now.
Speaker 4: So then I sold the car to a guy for
Speaker 4: two hundred dollars. He drove it for the summer. Then
Speaker 4: I bought the car back from him that fall for
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty bucks. And I drove it again
Speaker 4: for another winter. It was fantastic that a.
Speaker 1: Box on the God, now you broke even, all right.
Speaker 1: That is the one thing with the cheap cars, because
Speaker 1: I've done that a few times. You buy him for
Speaker 1: something and then you sell them for the same amount
Speaker 1: because they just bought them out, that's what they were worth.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, boy, my old buddy Scott, God rest his soul,
Speaker 2: had this gigantic since in nineteen seventy, probably eight. I
Speaker 2: don't know Impalla, but it was one of those giant
Speaker 2: land yachts. It was crappy when he owned it, and old.
Speaker 2: But you know, the old complaint used to be cars
Speaker 2: are too small, they have sex in the back seat anymore. Well,
Speaker 2: Scott's racing and Palla. You could have one couple in
Speaker 2: the front seat and one in the back seat and
Speaker 2: they wouldn't be aware of each other.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: It was so freaking big. We could put so many
Speaker 2: people in that car and in the trunk, Hansen to
Speaker 2: your point, I mean, never mind beer, you could you
Speaker 2: could like put one of those the tiny houses in
Speaker 2: the trunk. It was so ginormous.
Speaker 1: I learned to drive in our station wagon that was
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know how I learned to drive
Speaker 1: as a five foot two fourteen year old. But uh,
Speaker 1: you couldn't see anything but hood. There's just hood, giant
Speaker 1: hood turning the giant hood everywhere I go. Those cars
Speaker 1: are so long too. Learning to parallel park a twenty
Speaker 1: foot car, I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 2: Makes you good? Who knows how many people you ran down?
Speaker 2: And we're totally unaware of it, right? Maybe Old Troy
Speaker 2: as somebody who had it coming. Huh.
Speaker 7: My parents bought a station wagon true story. They didn't
Speaker 7: realize that the windows didn't roll down in the back
Speaker 7: until when their kids got car sick, and that's how
Speaker 7: they found out. Well, I guess that's it.
Speaker 1: Rolled down the window. I can't barf card