6/20 Garage Logic is at Back to the 50's at O'Gara's pub courtesy of We Are Nuts!!

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast Summary

Episode: June 20, 2025 – Garage Logic at Back to the 50's at O'Gara's Pub
Location: O’Gara’s Pub, Minnesota State Fairgrounds
Guests: Wally Burchell (Minnesota Street Rod Association), Matt Avery (Mecham Auctions)

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Episode Overview

The Garage Logic team broadcasts live from the "Back to the 50's" car show at O'Gara's Pub, courtesy of We Are Nuts. Joe Soucheray ("The Mayor") and the crew deliver a lively celebration of mid-century automotive culture, discussing the enduring legacy of classic cars, the Great Race rally, generational shifts in car enthusiasm, and personal stories of car obsession, all punctuated with the show’s typical wit and nostalgic flair.

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Table of Contents

1. Setting the Scene: Back to the 50's
2. The Great Race Rally: Details & Logistics
3. Classic Cars & Community: Aging, Youth, and the Future
4. Garage Stories: Cylinder Index & Car Culture Lore
5. Guest Segment: Matt Avery from Mecham Auctions
6. Notable Quotes & Moments
7. Lighthearted Dispatches: Odd News & Audience Q&A
8. Personal Car Histories & Collector Realities
9. The Economics & Trends of Car Collecting
10. Closing Remarks and Shoutouts

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1. Setting the Scene: Back to the 50's

00:30 – 02:00

• The team gathers at O’Gara’s amidst the spectacle of "Back to the 50's," reflecting on the event's growth and its reputation as one of the nation’s largest and most beloved car shows.
• Wear and fashion take a humorous turn: "Sleeves are optional at Back to the 50's." (John Height, 02:48)

Weather Humor:

• Joe ribbing on modern meteorologist hyperbole:

  "Today the meteorologists come on TV and say, if you go outside, you'll instantly explode." (Joe Soucheray, 03:40)

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2. The Great Race Rally: Details & Logistics

04:10 – 05:40 & 17:00 – 18:00; 77:00 – 81:00

• Guest: Wally Burchell, MSRA veteran

• The Great Race, a prestigious timed rally, launches from Back to the 50's, heading to South Carolina over ten days, with 124 classic cars participating. The starting ceremony features a grand marshal, the national anthem, and a careful one-car-per-minute start.

• Event Scale:

  "It's going to take them about an hour and a half to two hours to get them all out of the gate. There's 124 cars running this year, and it's a 10-day long timed event." (Wally Burchell, 05:04)

• Vehicles range from MGBs and Jaguars to a 1918 American La France (belonging to the famously quirky "World Tour of Finland" team).

• The rally is all about precision, not speed, and the role of navigator/mathematician is key to success.

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3. Classic Cars & Community: Aging, Youth, and the Future

09:23 – 10:28; 10:54 – 12:02

• The panel contemplates the event's long-term prospects, especially as classic car owners age.

• Wally Burchell: Optimistic, noting a surge of young families and women entering ("a lot of young ladies with trucks, and they've got nice trucks").

• Evidence of continuity:

  "We see a lot of car seats. That's a really good sign." (Wally Burchell, 10:13)

• Barriers: Rising costs discourage "youthful" entry, but certain models (e.g., Model A Fords) have become relatively affordable again.

• Trends: Increasing prevalence of modified, unrestored, or "patina" cars with modern drivetrains under original skins (LS swaps and V8s).

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4. Garage Stories: Cylinder Index & Car Culture Lore

11:43 – 13:00

• Cylinder Index: The tradition continues—Wally brags about having 198 cylinders in his collection, though some attendees dwarf even that (661!).
• Marital success for gearheads:

  "He's got that many cylinders and he's still married. Congratulations." (Rook, 12:26)
  "At the same time, my wife has got two Tahoes, a Camaro convertible, a 63 Cutlass convertible." (Wally Burchell, 12:29)

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5. Guest Segment: Matt Avery from Mecham Auctions

34:08 – 43:34

• Role: On-air host for Mecham, sponsor of the event & the entertainment stage.

• Mecham’s involvement in the classic car scene, live auctions, and the enthusiasm it brings—not just for high-end collectors but for buyers at all price points.

• Key Mecham markets: Kissimmee, Indianapolis, and Monterey (Pebble Beach).

• Media: Mecham in the Morning (YouTube video show), offering inside looks at auction logistics and cars.

• "The enthusiasm that you see, whether it be on site or on any of our broadcasts, I mean it's genuine. We eat, sleep and breathe these cars." (Matt Avery, 42:33)

• Market Realities: Not just million-dollar cars—lots of good deals under $10K, vital for new enthusiasts.

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6. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Weather Hysteria:
  "Today the meteorologists come on TV and say, if you go outside, you'll instantly explode." (Joe Soucheray, 03:40)
• Youth & Cars:
  "We see a lot of car seats. That's a really good sign." (Wally Burchell, 10:13)
• Cylinder Index:
  "661 outbuildings. Full of stuff...he's got 661 now." (Joe Soucheray, 12:01)
• Role of Marital Support:
  "He's got that many cylinders and he's still married. Congratulations." (Rook, 12:26)
• Mecham’s Diversity:
  "You can get into a hell of a set of wheels for 20 grand...great for collectors getting into the market or for people looking to expand their collection. It's not all just the high dollar stuff." (Matt Avery, 42:56–43:09)
• The Hunt vs. Ownership:
  "The hunt and the chase is always more fun than the ownership." (Joe Soucheray, 63:03)

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7. Lighthearted Dispatches: Odd News & Audience Q&A

45:01 – 54:55

• Segments on bizarre news: Adrian Peterson’s slap fight, United Airlines’ ‘Bite Me One’ flight, a summer snowmobile crash in New Hampshire, and a Texas woman charged for a wedding without the groom.
• Audience questions and sharing of personal favorite ramp-building stories and hometown shenanigans.
• Reminiscing about dangerous childhood games and how car culture was woven into growing up.

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8. Personal Car Histories & Collector Realities

57:21 – 62:41

• The crew describes their past car purchases, mechanical mishaps, and the one(s) that got away.
• Examples: Model A Ford, '36 Chevy pickup, '40 Dodge, '56 Ford pickup, Ford SHO (with Yamaha engine!).
• "My dad was kind of a car guy. He had a Studebaker Champion.” (Joe, 61:17)
• Debates over keeping cars original versus modern engine swaps.

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9. The Economics & Trends of Car Collecting

59:01 – 65:34

• Market faces generational shifts—declining interest (and value) in certain British cars, but muscle cars (e.g., mid-sixties Impalas) fetch eye-popping prices due to nostalgia.
• Rising costs and the status of unrestored cars: accessible entry points for new generations.
• Car transport: now a business heavily populated by Russian immigrants, sometimes to comedic effect.

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10. Closing Remarks and Shoutouts

81:07 – end

• Thanks to partners and sponsors: We Are Nuts, O’Gara’s, North American Banking Company.
• Event invitations: British car gathering at Cedar Lake Speedway (July 12).
• "We’re going to take a brief time out… I like reminiscing about cars and we'll do more when we come back." (Joe Soucheray, 69:10)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | | ----------------------- | ------------ | | Opening Banter/Weather | 00:30–03:40 | | Great Race details | 04:10–05:40 | | Generational car culture| 09:23–10:28 | | Cylinder Index Joke | 11:43–13:00 | | Mecham Auctions Segment | 34:08–43:34 | | Odd News & Audience Q&A | 45:01–54:55 | | Car Collection Stories | 57:21–62:41 |

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Episode Tone & Final Thoughts

The episode is quintessential Garage Logic—warm, witty, full of nostalgia and irreverence about both the past and the future. The hosts foster a sense of community and continuity, even as they poke fun at generational change and recall a time when “common sense prevails, the 2-car garage is revered, and cigar smoking is allowed.” For enthusiasts of car culture, small-town tradition, or the Garage Logic universe, this episode is both celebration and reflection.

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Transcript

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[Joe C.W.]

All right.

[Kevin Doran]

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[Joe C.W.]

Hi, Kenny Olson from the Krabby Coffee Shop.

[Kevin Doran]

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[Joe C.W.]

John Height in the news, of course, the rookie here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner of common sense, your man Joe Sushi.

[John Height]

Let's go, let's go.

[Joe C.W.]

Before we get to Wally, I. I want to say, do you have a shirt or anything resembling a shirt that you could put on?

[John Height]

Sleeves are optional at Back to the Picture.

[Joe C.W.]

I don't know why I'm sitting next to Kenny. Who's I.

[Kenny Olson]

Did I buy this without sleeves or did I cut them off? Look at this though.

[Matt Avery]

Store bought.

[Kenny Olson]

Extra venting here at the neck.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh, God help me. I do want to make a note back in. The weather lately has been a bit hysterical. We are told that if we go outside tomorrow, we'll disappear and we should be hydrated and stay safe and make your plans. And the. The records that would have to be beat tomorrow, the record is 95 set in 1910. And Sunday, the record that would have to be beat is 98, set the very next year in 1911. In those years, the meteorologists came on very primitive televisions and said, enjoy the weather.

[John Height]

Ah.

[Joe C.W.]

Today the meteorologists come on TV and say, if you go outside, you'll instantly explode. So I have. I. The weather's not interfering with the thing. I have never seen this big of a crowd at back to the 50s in my life. I've been going for 25 to 30 years. I have never seen it like this. We have Wally Burchell with us. He's with the Minnesota Street Rod Association. Am I on the right track? Wally, is this as big as you've seen for an opening day?

[Wally Burchell]

This is really good for an opening day. We had a good one last year for the 50th also.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Wally Burchell]

But this is outstanding. I think everybody found out it wasn't going to rain and they started coming down. And I heard that there were a lot of registrations of people who hadn't registered yesterday and today already.

[Joe C.W.]

How familiar are you? I would imagine you would have to become very familiar with this being the starting point of the great race.

[Wally Burchell]

Very familiar. Actually, the first time we did it was 2013.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh, they were here before they started here in 2013. Oh, I didn't know that.

[Wally Burchell]

And that was the first time that we had them. I've known Jeff Stubb from the great race for about 15 years. This year we were working on trying to do it for the 50th. Just didn't work out. So this year they're going to be going from back to the 50s down to south Carolina.

[Joe C.W.]

Right. Right out the main gate tomorrow. Is that correct?

[Wally Burchell]

Correct.

[Joe C.W.]

And they're leaving is staged.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Joe C.W.]

Yep.

[Wally Burchell]

And it's a minute apart. It's going to start out a little bit before noon. They're going to have the national anthem. They've got. Going to have a grand marshal who's going to say a few things. Jeff will be up there. So it's going to be a good time. It's going to take them about an hour and a half to two hours to get them all out of the gate. There's 124 cars running this year, and it's a 10 day long timed event.

[Joe C.W.]

And they fit right in here, don't they?

[Wally Burchell]

That little space? Yeah, we've actually got 100 foot by about 6 foot, 600 foot space marked out for them right now.

[Joe C.W.]

Wally. I meant ideologically. They fit right in here. Oh, yeah. This is their deal.

[Wally Burchell]

This is their sweet spot.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. And are the. Are the participants in the great race out on the roads right now doing some trial runs?

[Wally Burchell]

Yes, they started a little while ago. They should be getting here in about.

[Kenny Olson]

An hour, hour and a half.

[Joe C.W.]

Coming back in.

[Wally Burchell]

Correct.

[Joe C.W.]

And will their cars remain here overnight and they take them back to the doubletree?

[Wally Burchell]

Most of them take them back.

[Joe C.W.]

Okay. All right. Wally, how long have you run the event?

[Wally Burchell]

I've been on the board for about 32 years.

[Joe C.W.]

It just remains one of the great events in the country, doesn't it?

[Wally Burchell]

Oh, I love it.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Wally Burchell]

It's one of the nicest venues you can have for an event like.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh, it's perfect. Is it the largest of its kind in the country?

[Wally Burchell]

Yes, it is. As far as a three day event, we have the highest count total in one of our years. And this year we're gonna. It's looking like we're gonna be up near 10,000 again.

[Joe C.W.]

10,000 cars?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Joe C.W.]

Good Lord. Good Lord. And still pre1964.

[Wally Burchell]

Correct.

[Joe C.W.]

Explain that to us. I think I know the answer, but I enjoy hearing the answer every year.

[Wally Burchell]

Well, it started out as pre 64 and as a lot of others have evolved into 30 year runs or up to 74, something like that. The board has decided that we want to keep this a back to the 50s event like how it originally started. So we're keeping it at 64 and I don't see it changing anytime in the near future.

[Joe C.W.]

I had always heard. And you correct me, please, because I don't want to denigrate anything, but I always heard it was to keep Mustangs out. No, no, no, seriously. I always heard that it would have been an overflow of mid-60s Mustangs. Otherwise.

[Wally Burchell]

Well, actually, we go to 64.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. Can you get in with a Mustang?

[Wally Burchell]

There was never, if you got a.

[Joe C.W.]

Build date of pre. Pre January 1st, but they were all 65 and. Oh no, they were all 64 and a half.

[Wally Burchell]

Well, but it's a 65.

[Joe C.W.]

Okay. Okay.

[Wally Burchell]

So that's how that breaks out.

[Joe C.W.]

So they're. We're not going to see them, which is fine. I'm not. Again, I'm not ripping Mustangs. I love them. But I always, I always heard that was Part of the reasoning.

[Wally Burchell]

No, that was because of the date.

[Joe C.W.]

Well, and I heard wrong and we're fact based, aren't we?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, sometimes, yeah, I heard wrong.

[Joe C.W.]

Anything special we need to know about over the three days that the listeners might want to tune in for, for or show up for?

[Wally Burchell]

Well, a couple different things we've got going on. We've got Kids World that's sponsored by the select Heartland Chevy dealers over in, in block 15. All right, so they've got all kinds of bouncers and climbing walls and things like that. On Saturday they're going to have kids tractor poles and kids games. So there's all kinds of stuff for people to do. There's even a Ogares has a beer stand over there for the grandpas and grandmas and everybody else.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. Oh, that is that new.

[Wally Burchell]

Two years.

[Joe C.W.]

Two years you've been allowing beer.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe C.W.]

Because in the, in all the years I attended that was one of my great regrets. I didn't even sneak it in.

[Wally Burchell]

Now that was a fair board decision.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. But now that's been waived. And now that.

[Kenny Olson]

Now that you quit drinking.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, now that I no longer imbibe, we can get beer at the, at the back of the 50s.

[Kenny Olson]

I have a question for Wally. Where's the unofficial cross cruising happen after hours tonight? Is it University Snelling? It used my dad when he was a kid said, do they do Lake street, then they jump up to University, go to the Capitol, back and then all the way back.

[Wally Burchell]

I would have to say that the majority of the people who are attendees of back to the 50s, the participants don't cruise. Oh, they go back, they go out and eat, they get to bed and then they get back up so they can be out here at 3:00 in line. Yeah, a lot of the stuff, the cruising that goes on and some of the issues are people who aren't attendees. But you will see a lot of the, you know, some of the cars going back and forth on Snelling. Some of them get down, you know, Summit and some of the other streets. But the crowd has aged a little bit.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, well that's a good question. Do you fear that? Well, what's a way to state this?

[Kenny Olson]

They'll just say it the way you said it to us.

[Joe C.W.]

When this generation dies, is this over?

[Wally Burchell]

I would have to say no. And I've got a couple different perspectives. We're seeing a lot more young people getting involved here and a lot of kids of the older parents. I'm also the NSRA National Street Rod Association. Representative for Minnesota and doing events like the nationals in Louisville and Des Moines and some of the others. We're seeing more and more young kids coming in with cars, and we're seeing a lot of young ladies with trucks. And they've got nice trucks. Yeah, but you're seeing more families.

[Joe C.W.]

There's. Trucks are euphemism for anything. No, no, just nice trucks.

[Wally Burchell]

Oh, beautiful ones. Yeah. And a lot of. We see a lot of car seats.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh, yeah.

[Wally Burchell]

That's a really good.

[Joe C.W.]

That's a good sign.

[Rook]

Yep.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. Because that. That an infusion of youth is going to be needed just to keep the values of the cars up, if nothing else.

[Kenny Olson]

What I've noticed more and more are crew cab cars, four doors, unrestored cars. Guys just do what it takes to get them on the road and get them registered and then drive them as is. Because even in the boat world, Joe, in the vintage boat world, it's cost prohibitive for the youngsters.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

You know, they can't drop 80 grand on a hot rod.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. But, you know, Model A Fords are now affordable, and they weren't 25 years ago.

[Kenny Olson]

Cyclical.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, they're affordable.

[Wally Burchell]

One of the things you're seeing is a lot of them that look like the. They're totally original, but They've got a V8M and automatic power steering, brakes and all that stuff. But you'd think it was just an original car they pulled out of the pasture.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, everybody's doing the LS swap these days.

[Wally Burchell]

Yeah, a lot of those.

[Joe C.W.]

Wally, I can't tell you how much we enjoy it. Thanks for having us and we appreciate talking to you.

[John Height]

May I ask a car question?

[Joe C.W.]

You may.

[John Height]

Wally, what would you do for a guy that maybe has a hole in the gas tank and can only fill up the gas tank to about 3/4 full? Oh, yeah. When he pulls into a driveway of a coworker, what would you do for that?

[Wally Burchell]

I tell him to make sure he's parked on a flat and then take the gas tank out and replace the darn thing.

[Rook]

Don't go.

[Wally Burchell]

Don't go up or down hills.

[Joe C.W.]

See? Don't park in my driveway.

[John Height]

Be horizontal.

[Wally Burchell]

Oh, and are you still doing the. The cylinder volume numbers?

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, I was doing cylinder index.

[Kenny Olson]

What do you suppose? The cylinder as I came over here.

[Wally Burchell]

And I'm sitting at 198 right now.

[Joe C.W.]

You know what? I tell you congratulations, but that's pretty pathetic. We met a guy here, he's at 661.

[Rook]

What?

[Wally Burchell]

Wow.

[Joe C.W.]

661 outbuildings. Full of stuff he didn't want to let too much on. But he's got 661 now. You're doing very well. Are you urban or rural?

[Wally Burchell]

Rural.

[Joe C.W.]

That's still handsome.

[Kenny Olson]

The index is right here on the grounds.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh, my God. It's in the millions. Here's the true miracle.

[Rook]

Look what's on his finger.

[Joe C.W.]

What?

[Rook]

Look at what's on his finger.

[Joe C.W.]

A wedding ring.

[Rook]

A wedding ring?

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Rook]

He's got that many cylinders and he's still married. Congratulations.

[Wally Burchell]

Well, at the same time, my wife has got two Tahoes, a Camaro convertible, a 63 Cutlass convertible.

[Joe C.W.]

So I'm doing well. Well, then you're married to the right woman.

[Kenny Olson]

Is she looking for a second husband?

[Wally Burchell]

No, she's an attorney.

[Joe C.W.]

And I can't. I can't let her go. Oh, thanks, Wally. Thank you. Good to see you. Thank you. I mentioned before that summer ends tonight. It ends at 9pm tonight with the occasion of the summer solstice. For those of you who are members of the Royal order of the 21st ERS. I myself am a charter member and president of the Royal order of the 21st ERS. It's over. At 9pm tonight we'll glide into a very nice autumn. But by the time December 21st, December 22nd rolls around, we're back, we're feeling really great. We're grilling and we're back outside.

[Kenny Olson]

You've had a cool summer this year.

[Joe C.W.]

We've had a cool summer. Summer's over tonight. This is one of the warmest days of a royal order of 21st or summer. And unfortunately at 9 o' clock tonight.

[John Height]

So that. That means then that fall is going to be off to a very warm start.

[Kenny Olson]

98.

[Joe C.W.]

We're going to have a very nice fall, very warm.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you acknowledge heat index?

[Joe C.W.]

No, we don't. Again, on very primitive TV sets. The meteorologists in the early 1900s just said, oh, I bet people are enjoying this weather. And they're going to the lakes. And now, now we're told you have to have a plan to stay safe. You must be hydrated, get to a cooling center, check on your neighbors, worry about the dog. It's amazing we can even be here. It's just amazing. Unfortunately, not to get into our darkness from the mystery, but because we don't want to do that today. The day's coming when we'll. We'll be forbidden to gather above a certain temperature. The days that the day is occurring.

[John Height]

Much like Covid.

[Joe C.W.]

Exactly. Especially with the current governor, who could be A bit of a problem with that. The summer solstice occurs tonight at 10:42pm Eastern Daylight Time, which means at 9:42pm tonight the Royal Order of the 21st or say. And then it's over. While it's often believed that the summer solstice is an event that spans an entire calendar day, the solstice actually lasts just a moment. And that's according to the old Farmers Almanac. So have a care. Just have a care. In meteorology, the official start of the summer season is June 1st. So even, even us 21sters have been enjoying meteorological summer.

[Kenny Olson]

Don't look at me when you say us.

[Rook]

Is there something.

[Joe C.W.]

You're a normal person.

[Rook]

Is there some type of banquet? Is there a meal? Is there any official.

[Joe C.W.]

I'm waiting for the delivery of something right here, right now.

[Rook]

I mean for the. Okay, I see.

[Joe C.W.]

That'll be our bank.

[Rook]

There is food involved.

[Joe C.W.]

That'll be our bank.

[Rook]

Okay, got it. Thank you.

[John Height]

I still had the hint of sunlight. Last stand at about 9:51.

[Joe C.W.]

Well tonight it'll be about 10 o'. Clock. And then watch it disappear off into the ether. It just gets darker and darker and darker and you know, it'll be okay.

[Wally Burchell]

You need a hug?

[Joe C.W.]

I'm fine.

[Kenny Olson]

Let's line up and give Joe buy.

[Joe C.W.]

A guy that's not wearing a shirt.

[John Height]

No, you need a sleeveless shirt hug from Kenny.

[Joe C.W.]

No, that's not that be great. I have some emails that we need to get to boy cuz we're fact based show and boy two people weighed in. We get a lot of mansplaining, don't we? Well yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

The state fairgrounds is ground zero for mansplaining for the next three days especially. Every man here is an expert on cylinders.

[John Height]

You know what you should do?

[Joe C.W.]

Last night I went to the Double Tree Hotel in Bloomington. It's right in front. It's between IKEA and the freeway.

[Kenny Olson]

You guys, I got an email blast. My email was dinging for 30 minutes straight.

[Joe C.W.]

I sent, he sent me videos. This great race is a big deal.

[Kenny Olson]

It's really cool.

[Joe C.W.]

It is a big, big deal and it's very expensive. I saw the cars that are being campaigned in the great race are amazing. I saw MGB GTS, I saw Jaguar XKES, Corvettes, Packards, Studebakers. A 1918American La France, which I was tempted to clean. Just my instincts because they had oil spots all over it. I'm sure the thing throws oil. The minutes rolling down the road.

[Kenny Olson]

Those spots in that dirt, they're Treasured.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh yeah, that thing went up Pike's Peak.

[Kenny Olson]

I think it was this one. Whatever this is.

[Joe C.W.]

Then I saw a. With the spray pipes. That's a Hudson. Yeah, that's a Hudson. The stuff in that parking lot is amazing. It. It's. They'll be gathering here. They leave here tomorrow at noon. Staged one minute at a time. Their first stop tomorrow night is Rochester, Minnesota.

[John Height]

Well, not. Not to give anybody an idea, but do we have security in this lot?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, they do.

[John Height]

Okay.

[Joe C.W.]

These are the type of people that probably would just. You would instinctively not fuss with.

[John Height]

Well I, I get that personally, but I had a brother that stayed in Bloomington and that's F A F O. Gotcha. Okay.

[Rook]

Gotcha.

[John Height]

Gotcha.

[Joe C.W.]

I don't know what that means, but.

[John Height]

That'S probably screw around and find out.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Lol huh. Yesterday we talked about the bunker bomb. Anybody remember that on the show? Talked about the bunker bomb and a guy had given us a breakdown comparing it in garage logic fashion to various cylinders and the weight of such objects. And of course we're fact based so apparently we have to correct the record. Paul writes. Sorry Sarah, your comparison to the bunker bomb doesn't add up with the construction equipment. The construction equipment numbers are way off. Just saying. Good luck. And by that he means.

[Kenny Olson]

Well he was. That was an email, Right? Right.

[Rook]

So that bothered him so much that he penned an email.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. But this guy went a step further. This is from Andy Leech who writes. Joel, I can't resist. In the letter you read yesterday comparing the size of the bunker buster bomb, the letter writer referenced a Cat 330 hydraulic excavator. He said it is 30,000 pounds. Not true. Caterpillar excavator models begin with a three and the second two numbers are the metric ton size. Thus a Caterpillar three hundred and thirty is a thirty metric ton excavator with a weight of approximately 66,000 pounds. Thought Kenny would have caught this as he acts like such an expert in this type of equipment. I agree with that about the show lecture. Let me know if you ever want to see some big earth moving equipment that shapes America. Take care. Andy Leach. And he's the regional manager of something. Oh, he's the regional manager of. Of a heavy equip equipment operation.

[John Height]

We did the math on that wrong. Like you did the math wrong with.

[Kenny Olson]

We.

[Joe C.W.]

We didn't do any of the math wrong. I was reading about an email from a listener. Chris, do you pay attention?

[Kenny Olson]

Sometimes by heavy equipment operation, it's Ziggler.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, they're a big damn deal in the Midwest.

[Joe C.W.]

Well, I, I'm aware.

[Kenny Olson]

I mean, a big, big deal.

[Joe C.W.]

All right. They're not it. Back to the 50s.

[Rook]

I would say that nothing is more satisfying than using heavy equipment. That time I got to go down by Hastings or whatever it was and do the backhoe and all that stuff. It was very thrilling.

[Joe C.W.]

Kelly in New Fort, are you working.

[Rook]

With heavy equipment today?

[Kenny Olson]

Good story, man.

[Joe C.W.]

Thank you. That was.

[Rook]

I'm done for the day.

[Joe C.W.]

That was exciting. Okay. I'm glad you. I'm glad you had that opportunity, Matthew.

[John Height]

I enjoyed the story.

[Rook]

I, I, I disagree. I don't think you guys are being sentimental, being sarcastic.

[Joe C.W.]

Kelly from North Carolina, Newport, North Carolina, writes Joe on Thursday. Yesterday you mentioned that you had seen kids playing. The other day I witnessed three teenagers. One was recording with his phone, the other friend high, hitting a jump on his bicycle, jumping over the third kid, not a helmet in sight. Is this a ray of hope?

[John Height]

Hell, yeah.

[Joe C.W.]

Yes.

[Matt Avery]

That's awesome.

[Joe C.W.]

That's a rat hope.

[Kenny Olson]

The day ended with at least one broken limb.

[Joe C.W.]

Well, there has to be. Don't tell Mom.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, that's what builds a character.

[Rook]

Were you guys good ramp builders? And what was your choice of material?

[Joe C.W.]

No, no, we, we, we didn't build ramps, Matt.

[Rook]

What did you do?

[Joe C.W.]

We had chug races. Chug? Don't you know what a chug is? No, chug is a couple of planks and you create a. You fashion a front axle and put two wagon wheels on it. In the back you put two wheel go karts. Well, we called them chugs Downhill, right? Oh, yeah. And the neighborhood dogs were highly involved.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. Sometimes they'd run you right off the course, but you'd tie clothesline rope to each end of the front two by four. That was the front axle. And that was for steering.

[John Height]

Oh, yeah. I did not know it was called.

[Matt Avery]

Boy, this, this sure is back to the 50s, isn't it?

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[John Height]

See, that's just mean, John.

[Joe C.W.]

Sorry, John. Yeah, it really is.

[Matt Avery]

I'm sorry. I apologize.

[Joe C.W.]

Let me tell you something. If you're offended, I have news for you. Most of us, maybe not people like you, but most of us, we try to recapture our youth from time to time. And although I won't get on a chug, I will say that this event is probably the premier event for recapturing your past if you're of a certain age. Right. Just see these. These were the cars your boss took you to school in.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe C.W.]

You know, these were the cars that were used as a daily driver in the middle of the winter. I can't believe some of the British stuff was used as your daily driver. How did it not fall apart by December 1st?

[Kenny Olson]

That little thing with the half door. What the hell was that thing?

[Joe C.W.]

That was a Triumph TR3.

[Kenny Olson]

Amazing.

[Joe C.W.]

And they had side curtains. They didn't even have windows. Yeah, there was a bit drafty, but people bought those as their regular cars. You'll see.

[John Height]

A lot of that was fun in January.

[Joe C.W.]

Hear it back to the 50s.

[Rook]

What. What is your car, Joe? What is. If a car is driving around you, do you have a model year in mind that you see and say, wow, I wish I had that for years.

[Joe C.W.]

My takeaway car from this event would be a 1946 Ford convertible. 46 Ford convertible or any Corvette between 1954 and 1967.

[Kenny Olson]

What car would you walk to the opposite side of the grounds to see?

[Matt Avery]

Right.

[Joe C.W.]

Right now?

[Kenny Olson]

None.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh. Oh, that's because it's probably something I've seen before.

[Kenny Olson]

That's kind of bitter sounding.

[Joe C.W.]

No, that would mean it. I don't even mean it bitterly. I just. It. It would have to. I can't imagine what it would be. I suppose if there was some rare Aston Martin, I might. Or a Bugatti, something like that. A Bentley race car. Guys, my brother Doug is turning 70 on June 26. He raised retired five years ago. He was hoping to work longer, but unfortunately he became ill. He had seven surgeries since his retirement and now lives in assisted living. He listens to you guys every day. I can't tell you how much pleasure your humor and reporting has brought him. Thank you for being his entertainment during his trying time. Thank you. But we will not say no.

[John Height]

We can't.

[Joe C.W.]

Happy birthday to this guy on June 26th. It would be Doug's 70th birthday on June 26th.

[Kevin Doran]

We don't do that.

[Joe C.W.]

We don't mention.

[Kenny Olson]

I would probably do that.

[Rook]

It's too bad.

[Kenny Olson]

I would probably do that.

[Rook]

Too bad because it sounds like what am I doing?

[Joe C.W.]

Use it. You know, how about an E bike here?

[John Height]

It's back to the 50s.

[Joe C.W.]

Well, that would be nice to have to ride around the ground.

[John Height]

Oh, you are right.

[Joe C.W.]

I wonder if they would be allowed in. I don't know if you can bring a bicycle. You have to park it on there probably. But if you could. You know, I don't ride a bus, but if I did. No. EcoFun Motorsports is. You got to get up there if you haven't been there. It is really Fun. It's the electric bike capital of the world. All the electric bikes have been in stock since pre tariff. It's motorcycles, many different brands, all fabulous motorcycles. Youth recreational gas scooters and gas, little gas. Four by fours. And they got neat, they got neat deals on them where parents can control the speed. They've got Yamaha wave runners that the parents can set up. I suppose it'll take the kid about 30 seconds to figure out the code, but a parent can hold the speed down on one of the jets.

[Kenny Olson]

Just makes the parent feel better.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, they got four by fours and side by sides and helmets and apparel and everything in Ecofund in Forest Lake, Columbus. Ecofund is on 97, immediately west of 35. And down in Burnsville on the service road of life near County Road 42. And a great website. Get up to Ecofund. Make it part of your journey to back to the 50s. You won't regret it. Ecofunmotorsports.com.

[Kenny Olson]

I can't imagine such. Could you imagine a place where Seafoam is more loved, more appreciated and more appropriate?

[John Height]

Oh, that's got to get the horn. That's definitely got to get the horn.

[Kenny Olson]

Right here at the 51st annual MSRA back to the 50s.

[Joe C.W.]

I'm going to answer your question. No, I can't.

[Kenny Olson]

How many of these cylinders do you think have received tender loving care from the Seafoam Motor Treatment?

[Joe C.W.]

All of them. Yeah. If there's 10,000 entries, just call them, let's just say six cylinders. There's 60,000 cylinders here, minimum.

[Kenny Olson]

We're talking putting them to bed in the fall, waking them up in the spring. Spring receiving regular doses throughout the season. This is literally a Seafoam event. Oh my God. I just said literally. Sorry about that. You gotta wonder now, how many of these hot rods have a couple, two, three spray jugs of bugs be gone sitting in the back, keeping those windscreens and bumpers and grills bug free on their journeys. Bugs be gone. Perfect for the fancy cars. It's not going to harm or stain the paint. The fiberglass, plastic, crack chrome or anything on a vehicle safe on all surfaces. Works on any organic material. Far more for just bugs. I wish I would have brought some. We should have brought some here to give away, tell you the truth. And of course the deep creep penetrating oil. You're not going to restore a car without gallons and gallons of deep creep. It really works amazing. All of the Seafoam products work better than anything else on the market. The big three, the motor Treatment, the Bugs be gone, the deep creep. It's actually a g. Ers emergency survival kit. All from our buddies at Seafoam, Joe.

[John Height]

Hey, let's make sure we thank our presenting.

[Joe C.W.]

Mike was just here from. We are nuts. They're sponsoring us here today. Where's Ruck?

[Kevin Doran]

Where's Ruck?

[John Height]

Where's Ruck?

[Rook]

What do you got?

[John Height]

Check this out, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. We are not coming to the State Fair in 2025. Michael. Just brought by the big dill toffee. Peanuts. Rookie, get over here. Get over here.

[Joe C.W.]

Get over here.

[John Height]

He's got a sample.

[Joe C.W.]

He can't get through this.

[John Height]

I know.

[Joe C.W.]

No.

[John Height]

Where's rook?

[Joe C.W.]

Let me just smell him. Let me smell.

[John Height]

You want to smell him?

[Kevin Doran]

Give him a sniff.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, let the record show such is sniffing.

[John Height]

Now, anybody touches these cashews, and you're gonna have to deal with me. Here we go.

[Joe C.W.]

No, we'll be taking the cashew. No, see, see, I was just talking to Ingy, longtime friend of the show, and he showed me a. It's a wonderful picture. It's a picture of Ingy with our governor. And it's signed Joe C.W. the Experience. I don't know what that means.

[John Height]

Cock wobble.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh, yeah. See, at the fair. Now, the story Ingi has told me is that he lobbied the governor on our behalf and said, would you like to go on Garage Logic? And the governor said, oh, I love to. I can't wait. He's been asked 15 times. He's never. Come on. He never will. But that's a great picture of Ingi and the. And the governor.

[John Height]

Nice job, Ingy. Nice job.

[Joe C.W.]

A great picture. Wonderful. Thank you.

[John Height]

The only thing would have made it better said you had your GL hat.

[Joe C.W.]

Now I'm putting it back in the folder.

[Rook]

Can somebody get Ingi a mic and come up?

[Joe C.W.]

No, no, no, Matt, mark me down for that. And just take this away. Mark me down for that. I don't want any pictures of the governor. I'm not keeping this. I'm not keeping that. You got to be kidding.

[Kenny Olson]

Such. Before we move on, let's talk about this. Another car show coming up in July. Very British car show. It's going to be at this big party we're having at Cedar Lake Speedway. The event time, noon. But you can show up anytime in the afternoon. We're all going to be there, hanging out, not doing a show. And if you do own a British car, please, please bring it by and show it off. And if you want to stay after the event, you know, things get A little dusty. At a dirt track race, they have a separate building in an arena where you can park that vehicle and keep it dust free for the evening. So please join us. Cedar Lake Speedway Saturday, July 12 what's.

[Joe C.W.]

The official time that GL is there? There?

[Kenny Olson]

We're hoping we'll all be there around 3, 4 o'.

[Joe C.W.]

Clock.

[Kenny Olson]

And I really want you guys to stick around for a few races I want you to experience.

[Joe C.W.]

What if I have a thing?

[Kenny Olson]

No, you don't have a thing.

[John Height]

We already cleared your calendar.

[Kenny Olson]

I want you to experience what it's like when they drop the green flag on the late models and the sprints. It's really, really something.

[Joe C.W.]

What time's the first race?

[Kenny Olson]

What is it? Right around six, 6:30.

[Joe C.W.]

Okay, six. Yeah.

[Kevin Doran]

Right.

[John Height]

And we already cleared it. You're giving everybody a ride to and from.

[Joe C.W.]

You couldn't fit in the car. I'm bringing.

[John Height]

Oh, I'll.

[Joe C.W.]

I'll stay in the. I'll stay in the moment. Bring a British car.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, please do.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, please do. Say, are we talking to race people today? The great race.

[Rook]

You want me to roll up the Jetta?

[Joe C.W.]

Pardon?

[Rook]

You want me to roll up the Jetta?

[Joe C.W.]

I think you should roll up in it. Okay. I can handle that. Here. Are we talking to anybody from the great race?

[Kenny Olson]

Really hoping Jeff was going to stop by. I don't know if he'll be here or not. And the owner and driver of the 1918American La France also threatened to show up and talk to us for a few minutes. That's unconfirmed. I don't know if he'll be.

[Joe C.W.]

Are they part of a group called the Troubadours of Finland?

[Kenny Olson]

It's. It's.

[Joe C.W.]

What are they called?

[Kenny Olson]

It's wtf.

[Joe C.W.]

The World Tour of Finland. Yeah.

[John Height]

Shut up.

[Joe C.W.]

No, no, no. Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

These guys are goofballs.

[Joe C.W.]

Yesterday in the parking lot out at the hotel where I did my due diligence and went out to see stuff, there was a huge revised school bus. Yeah. And I could hear laughter and merriment from inside. And I saw people inside the school bus. And I. I think they were. I think they were being festive.

[Kenny Olson]

These guys in years past have hooked up the window washing system on cars.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

And poured adult beverages. Really, really run the hose.

[John Height]

Shut up.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

No, no, there are people, Chris.

[Joe C.W.]

Well, on the side of the school bus, it said, well, World Tour of Finland. Yeah. And then I came across the 1918American La France.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep. Yellow.

[Joe C.W.]

That's their car. They campaign that in the great race.

[Kenny Olson]

Driving from Alexandria down to the Twin Cities yesterday. They broke down, had clutch issues, pulled it over to the side of the road, got out the tools manufactured apart, slapped it back together, continued on.

[Joe C.W.]

That's like rebuilding a Honda 350 motorcycle in a parking lot. It just takes you about an hour. You're back on the road.

[Kenny Olson]

You truly are shape tree mechanics.

[Rook]

I know.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. What I would ask the great racers.

[John Height]

Here, I, I have information, updated information for you. The great race started at 11:30. So they're driving over now.

[Joe C.W.]

They're practicing.

[John Height]

Right. But we have Matt Avery.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh.

[John Height]

And he's here waiting. So Matt, Matt, come on over.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, fantastic.

[Joe C.W.]

Can you guys hear us out there? Match with Mika. My thing. Just stand out front, Matt, right here.

[Kenny Olson]

So you can hear us.

[Kevin Doran]

Like I got in trouble in school.

[John Height]

Here, Matt, take mine, take mine.

[Joe C.W.]

I have a, I have a Mecham story for Matt. I don't know where Matt is.

[John Height]

Matt's over by Johnny.

[Kevin Doran]

All right, Matt, got you loud and clear.

[Joe C.W.]

What's your last name?

[Kevin Doran]

Avery.

[Joe C.W.]

Matt Avery. You're with Mecham Auctions. That's correct. Couple of questions. What role does Mecham have here at back to the 50s?

[Kevin Doran]

So we are proud to be a.

[Joe C.W.]

Sponsor of the great race or back to the 50s.

[Kevin Doran]

So back to the 50s. And we're also sponsoring the entertainment stage.

[Joe C.W.]

All right.

[Kevin Doran]

Which I think is getting ready to rev up. Looking forward to that. And I think kind of beyond that, we're just looking at how can we get even more involved in the automotive community and great events like this.

[Joe C.W.]

I'm sorry, we have to foghorn your use of the word community. Oh boy. Because everything is a community.

[Kevin Doran]

Everything's a community. All right. So what do we call it?

[Rook]

Squad?

[Kenny Olson]

Just a world bunch of dummies.

[Joe C.W.]

Matt, how long have you worked for Dana Mecham?

[Kevin Doran]

Seven years.

[Joe C.W.]

So that you would be in my time frame. I have a brief Dana Mecham story. I was at the Lake Geneva Wisconsin Antique Boat show probably seven years ago. And I learned, I did not know this, but I learned that there was going to be a very festive occasion at Dana's house, which is on Lake Geneva. And I started to go to it, but was told to turn around in the, in the driveway. I was walking down to this marvelous home of his in the, in the driveway. And I apparently did not have the right credentials. So I gazed fondly at his property and walked back up the driveway and walked with my head hanging back to the hotel.

[Kenny Olson]

This is not the first time this has happened to him.

[Matt Avery]

By the way.

[Joe C.W.]

But I didn't know he lived in Wisconsin. Correct.

[Kevin Doran]

Yeah. So the company's headquartered there. That's where the Mechan family is set up.

[Joe C.W.]

But boy, are they ever.

[Kevin Doran]

But yeah, but we're out. I mean, we're not even there that much though, guys. I mean, we are out on the road holding auctions around the country.

[Joe C.W.]

Isn't it become a marvelously big business?

[Kevin Doran]

It has, it has. I mean, well, and, and it's way beyond just the transaction of the automobiles, right? I mean it's the live entertainment. It's why we want to come out and get together around these cool classic cars, trucks and motorcycles. So I mean, we just provide a forum to connect buyers and sellers. But there's so much more that goes on on site at an auction.

[Joe C.W.]

Are you guys friendly with the other auctioneers I'm thinking of particularly of Barrett Jackson. Or are they the hated rival?

[Kevin Doran]

I mean, they're aware of us and we're aware of them. I mean, we don't exchange Christmas cards, I suppose, but. Well, you know, but no, I mean, you know, and, and you know, the other thing too guys, that I've. I've been told by those in the industry is that, you know, there's really enough room for all of us. If you really think about it, there really is. You know, I mean it's, there's so much demand and activity to see what these cars are bringing at auction. Also just to see, see them. I mean a lot of people love just the live TV broadcast. Just have it on the background.

[Kenny Olson]

I can lose hours and hours if I flip it on Amica. Next thing you know, the sun's gone down. I'm sitting there drooling all over myself and I've seen some of the most amazing vehicles in the United States. What is your people that get to buy them?

[Joe C.W.]

What is your role with Miku?

[Kevin Doran]

So I am one of our on air talent and hosts. I host two different shows for Mecham Auctions.

[Joe C.W.]

What are they called?

[Kevin Doran]

So Meekam in the Morning. That's our, our live morning show where myself, my co host, Brion Poland, we get viewers up to speed with what's in store for the auction day ahead. That's kind of what we say. So that airs every morning of an auction day?

[Joe C.W.]

That's a podcast.

[Kevin Doran]

No, it's a video. It's a video show on YouTube. Yeah, you can find on YouTube. So we have a lot of fun there. And then that's also an opportunity for us to kind of pull back the curtain a little. Bit further on what happens during the Mechan experience because a lot of people only know us from either coming out in person, which is fantastic or our TV broadcast. But as you guys know, probably a lot of people in the room. There are so many other moving parts for the well oiled machine that that is our operation. I will. I was talking with a fan yesterday here on site the show who just commented. They said how many semi trucks does your operations team? And I said I don't even know because a lot of times I show up and I'm surprised at all of the, all the stuff that we have for each of those auctions on top of all the cars and trucks and motorcycles that are there.

[Joe C.W.]

Has Mechan been previously involved with back to the 50s?

[Kevin Doran]

So we have many years ago and I will say we're always looking at new markets. I mean but we're excited to be back. Like I said, just involved with the, not the community, the, the posse here. How about that?

[Joe C.W.]

Does that work at work? That work.

[Kevin Doran]

I Posse.

[Joe C.W.]

Does Mecham have any role in the Great Race as a sponsor so that.

[Kevin Doran]

You'D have to check some of the details in the, in the program for the Back to the fifth. I think we were part of the kickoff but I'd have to confirm and get back to folks, will you leave.

[Joe C.W.]

This event and attend a similar one next week?

[Kevin Doran]

So yeah, I mean we are, we've got, we've got activations going on now in Monterey, California as we gear up for that event later this summer. Over the last couple weeks we had several of our team members myself including the Hot Rod Power Tour which Fun, super fun.

[Kenny Olson]

I would love to be on that super fun.

[Kevin Doran]

If you guys haven't done it, do.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what the Power Tour.

[Joe C.W.]

I do not.

[Kenny Olson]

Describe it briefly for Joe.

[Kevin Doran]

Oh man. All right, so how do you describe the Hot Rod Power Tour? You basically get together with thousands of other people who are crazy about their cars and then you go drive around.

[Joe C.W.]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

You go from much like the Great Race, there's a destination.

[John Height]

Correct.

[Kevin Doran]

And it's, it's organized. I, I, you know. But Hot Rod provides the route of the five stops of where this caravan is going. This year was their 31st year. I think they said they had the, the most participants around. I think, I think 7,000 vehicles.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kevin Doran]

And so basically it's a big, it's not, it's a caravan. The sense of you're all going in the same direction but it's not a parade. It's basically you leave when your friends and you see all these groups of cars, cars and trucks on the road. It's such a fun time.

[Kenny Olson]

And you run down a drag strip.

[Joe C.W.]

Right?

[Kenny Olson]

Correct at each, each event. And the day ends at a drag strip. You take off your street tires, you put on the, the race tires, you do a couple runs, then you put everything back to street form and head down the road. It's fantastic.

[Joe C.W.]

Well, will Mecham be having an auction at Pebble Beach?

[Kevin Doran]

So we, we're there on the Monterey Peninsula.

[Joe C.W.]

Yep.

[Kevin Doran]

So yeah, come, come August, was that.

[Joe C.W.]

Considered your premier auction of the year?

[Kevin Doran]

It is in some ways. Just because of the nature of being out there for car week, I can't.

[Joe C.W.]

That's on my bucket list. I've done the Lake Tahoe Antique Boat show, which is the best of its kind. I've never done Pebble Beach. I really want to do that someday.

[Kevin Doran]

You've got to get out there. It's a phenomenal week. And I will say in terms of, you know what, prestige or whatever, I mean, yeah, that's typically where, where we'll have the fewest amount of cars at an auction, but also the, the highest price point for those. Right. But I will say, I mean a lot of people know us for our January Kissimmee auction.

[Joe C.W.]

That's true.

[Kevin Doran]

Which is a 10 plus day event down there in Kissimmee, Florida. 4000 plus cars. But then another one too is our Indianapolis, which is a lot closer here for, for folks in the room.

[Joe C.W.]

What's the closest. What's the closest mecum auction to St.

[Kevin Doran]

Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Indianapolis or perhaps Kansas City. But both of those are great options.

[Kenny Olson]

About 11 hour stretch.

[Joe C.W.]

What. What would determine if you were to have one here? How would that happen?

[Kevin Doran]

An auction here in Minnesota? Yeah, I mean it'd be one of those. We would look at the market to see, you know, just saying, you know, hey, what's currently in that space? Is there demand for an auction in the space?

[Joe C.W.]

Probably not a lot of Priuses around here.

[Kevin Doran]

A lot of Priuses.

[Joe C.W.]

Probably not really ready yet. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

See, I have a question for you and Joe maybe suit you. Yeah. Take your headphones off. Go ahead. Are you hiring? Seriously? I would love to work for Mechan.

[Kevin Doran]

Yeah, I don't. I don't have anything witty to say to you, but I, I wish.

[Joe C.W.]

What did he just ask? Just say yes?

[Kevin Doran]

Yeah, of course.

[Joe C.W.]

No, I missed it. What did he say to him?

[Kenny Olson]

Nothing, I just.

[Kevin Doran]

Oh, no.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kevin Doran]

He asked what the weather was. Joe, it's all good. It's all good. But we do have a lot of fun. I mean all kidding aside, you know, we are passionate. Like I said, those who are with me on the hot Rod Power tour, I was down there for one of my shows producing content, but we were joined by a family, we have a husband, wife team and they were with their two twenties year old boys and it was summer vacation. Like they were there wearing mechan gear. But for them it was like this is how we want to spend our off time. And it's just we are passionate. I will say the enthusiasm that you see, whether it be on site or on any of our broadcasts, I mean it's genuine. We eat, sleep and breathe these cars just like most of these people.

[Joe C.W.]

People doing the.

[Kenny Olson]

And what I've noticed from continued watching is there's a tendency to maybe typecast the show as only being for people who buy $150,000 $500,000 cars. There are some incredible deals on Mecam and you can get into a hell of a set of wheels for 20 grand. So you cover all aspects of autos.

[Kevin Doran]

Yeah, you really can. That's a fantastic point that we're trying to broadcast more and more just because obviously it's the six and seven figure sales. Right. That get the most news, that get the most buzz. The Bullitt Mustang, that kind of stuff.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kevin Doran]

But when you come out to an auction, especially in some of those early days, I mean you can find great collector cars for under $10,000 that are great for collectors getting into the market or for people looking to expand their collection. It's not all just the high dollar stuff that's unattainable.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep.

[Joe C.W.]

Matt, I appreciate it. You have gifts for us, some mechan T shirts or hats or cars or any.

[Kevin Doran]

I'll find some stuff.

[Joe C.W.]

I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Thank you Matt. Best of luck.

[Kevin Doran]

Thanks guys for having me on. Appreciate it.

[Joe C.W.]

All right, thank you. We're going to take a brief time out here and I don't know what.

[John Height]

We'll be back with news Johnny Height news.

[Joe C.W.]

Johnny's got a little news for us but he's going to keep it back to the 50ish.

[John Height]

Welcome back to Garagelogic live at back to the 50s here. Hey, how about a quick shout out to our friends at we are Nuts. They are the presenting sponsor of us being here.

[Rook]

Ado Garris.

[John Height]

Where's Michael? Where's Michael? There's Michael right here. So he is the reason that we're here today. But he is the second generation owner. No, don't Smash my phone.

[Joe C.W.]

I will if you speak fast.

[John Height]

But he's gonna hand out this right here. I mentioned this earlier. The new dill pickle we are nuts collection is gonna be here at the Minnesota State Fair. I was not aware until yesterday that they have a location up at the blue Barn up on the west end. At the state fair. For the state fair. Okay.

[Matt Avery]

These. These big dill toffee peanuts that he just worked on today. Yeah, that we've been eating.

[John Height]

I say, is there anything left?

[Matt Avery]

Not about. About six of them.

[John Height]

Rick take care of that pretty good, man. But anyway, he's going to be handing out samples and stuff.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, we're up at the North Market. We got our booth at the North Market air conditioned for tomorrow. Brand new bathrooms, air conditioned in the ladies market. So come visit us. You can buy a nut house. That's our show special. 30 bucks for any four. Pick any four. All right. Thank you. Thanks, Michael.

[John Height]

You're the best. Are nutsmn.com is their website.

[Joe C.W.]

I thought you were going to do something.

[John Height]

Yeah, I just did.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh. All right.

[John Height]

Here's John Height. The newsroom here.

[Joe C.W.]

Here in his remote Back to the 50s newsroom is John Height.

[Matt Avery]

Thank you, Joe. And we're going to keep it a little light, but we'll start with Adrien Peterson. I don't know if you guys.

[Joe C.W.]

That's pretty light.

[John Height]

Dear God, this guy is swirling the drain.

[Joe C.W.]

See the guy who rode a llama into his birthday party camel?

[John Height]

It was a camel.

[Joe C.W.]

A camel. Yeah.

[Matt Avery]

Adrian got into a scuffle with a fellow card player at a club in his native Texas. It was all recorded on video. That video obtained by tmz, if you haven't seen it.

[John Height]

Yeah, it's depressing.

[Joe C.W.]

Who won the fight?

[Kenny Olson]

Is it a slap fight?

[Matt Avery]

It's. There's a lot of punches thrown. I don't know how many.

[John Height]

Well, they're both about a 20.

[Joe C.W.]

Well, I'd like to hear that. Adrian at least one. He's an NFL player. Let's go here.

[Matt Avery]

Apparently, Peterson acknowledges one thing led to another after he and a friend had a disagreement at a gaming table.

[Joe C.W.]

I see.

[Matt Avery]

The video shows Peterson absorbing punches to the face before he counters with a few blows of his own. The fight, if you watch the video, moves through a big portion of the room that they're in. He told TMZ that, quote, me and the guy were cool. It was literally like a brother situation. We agreed to disagree.

[Kenny Olson]

3.

[Matt Avery]

There's. Adrian's had some problems, you know, with the law now and then we. We Won't.

[John Height]

Adrian's gonna be broke and in prison within five years.

[Kenny Olson]

Isn't it fun to know that they're. You're playing cards with your buddies. A fight breaks out. One buddy records it and immediately puts it on social media. Yep.

[Joe C.W.]

That is fantastic. True friendship.

[Kenny Olson]

Wow.

[Joe C.W.]

That's true friendship.

[Matt Avery]

The fight was if. If you watch it, a bunch of friends. Friends keep following him around, trying to stop it, but they never reach him. They just keep going, punching.

[John Height]

Well, he's elusive.

[Matt Avery]

He's the elusive Adrian Peters.

[Joe C.W.]

He's a running bit.

[Matt Avery]

Passengers on a recent United Airlines flight to Chicago were shocked to find a surprising message greeting them on every single in flight video screen on the plane. Some of the customers, though, they thought it was funny. Others, they didn't think it was that funny. One of the passengers shared a photo of the video which said, welcome aboard flight Bite Me one to Chicago.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh, that's not funny. I know. Funny. That's not funny.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, you do, do you?

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. That's not funny.

[John Height]

Would bite me too.

[Joe C.W.]

That'd be funny.

[John Height]

Okay.

[Matt Avery]

It wasn't just displayed once. Further down the screen as you continue to read, the flight number was again displayed as Bite Me one. The passenger wrote, this is what the in seat monitor display displayed on today's flight. Not a good look. United. I was bite spelled B, I, T, E. It's all one word. B, I, T, E, M E. Is.

[Kenny Olson]

Somebody suing for emotional damages?

[Matt Avery]

Not yet.

[Rook]

So to find out who did it, though, you just have to find out who was on their last day that day.

[John Height]

Right.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. Yeah.

[John Height]

Can I ask a question?

[Joe C.W.]

No.

[John Height]

How is bite supposed to be spelled?

[Joe C.W.]

I was just wondering if it was by two.

[John Height]

Oh, I see. Okay.

[Joe C.W.]

And I don't know why. I don't know why I wondered that.

[Rook]

All the tech people are laughing.

[Joe C.W.]

Isn't a bite in computer language? Byte.

[John Height]

Yes, you are correct.

[Joe C.W.]

You know, I guess that's why I wonder.

[Matt Avery]

I see some. Not everybody hated it. Some commentators on the post said it was funny and that, well, a little humor in this day and age is sorely needed. One wrote, if this genuinely makes you mad, you need to take it easy. Like life isn't that serious.

[Joe C.W.]

That's right.

[Matt Avery]

This story involves death. But it's kind of a weird story.

[John Height]

It's a real beastlebar.

[Joe C.W.]

So far, so good, huh?

[Matt Avery]

I'm gonna need your Kenny Olson's thoughts on this because I'm a little confused. A man is dead after crashing a snowmobile into a tree early Sunday morning in Mason. Authorities said Mason is in New Hampshire. New Hampshire Fish and games set around 2:15 in the morning. Conservation officers were notified of a possible snowmobile crash on Old County Road. The operator was 37 year old D Day Charme of Mesa, New Hampshire. He went off the road at a high rate of speed and hit a tree. He was not wearing a helmet. Speed. Not surprisingly, alcohol and operating on a public way appeared to be the lead contributing factors in the crash. Now here's the part that confuses me. Kenny.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Matt Avery]

Do we drive snowmobiles in summer?

[Kenny Olson]

I think everything's answered by what you've already said. 2:15 in the morning. And alcohol.

[Joe C.W.]

Alcohol, anything goes. Let me watch this.

[John Height]

Let me tell you something, John. Down in Rice County, June, snowmobile driving, not a problem.

[Joe C.W.]

Really?

[John Height]

Yeah, we'll take care of that.

[Kenny Olson]

He wasn't water skipping, was he? Did he come off a pond?

[Matt Avery]

No, there was no mention whatsoever of water.

[Joe C.W.]

Huh.

[Matt Avery]

And highs that day were in the 70s in Mason. So, you know, obviously there was no snow.

[Joe C.W.]

Like maybe he thought there was snow.

[Kenny Olson]

Snowmobiles work just fine in the summer.

[Joe C.W.]

They just, they don't turn. That's true. Yeah.

[Matt Avery]

That's why you hit the tree.

[Kevin Doran]

Probably.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. Sorry.

[Matt Avery]

Sorry. A 36 year old Texas woman is being held on felony stalking charges in a bizarre case where a wedding was allegedly held without the group consent or presence.

[Joe C.W.]

Ah, that's happened.

[Matt Avery]

Kristen Spearman was arrested and booked into the McLennan County Jail. Beverly Hills Police Chief Cory Martin said his office was contacted by a 42 year old man who said he found a package from his ex girlfriend at his home that included a copy of a marriage certificate saying he was married. The victim told police he had been in a relationship with the suspect. They had gotten a marriage license around June 2, but had broken up before the wedding took place. The chief there said the investigation determined the woman had convinced a pastor to certify the marriage without the groom being present. Chief said then she went to the county clerk's office and filed the certificate. With the assistance of the Hewitt Police Department. The suspect was located at a residence near Hewitt. Police obtained an arrest warrant for third degree felony stalking and took her to jail. The chief said his department was not releasing any info on who officiated the ceremony because they're moving forward.

[Joe C.W.]

Too complicated.

[Rook]

And with her one phone call, she called her husband. Say, why haven't you picked me up yet?

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, you know I'm impatient. Why'd you leave me at the station was like 45 below.

[Kenny Olson]

Anyway.

[Matt Avery]

What are the odd story from St. Louis? A runner Was injured Thursday after a car crash in downtown St. Louis hit a fire hydrant and sent a piece of the hydrant flying and it then hit the runner. According to a first Alert four staff member at the scene. The vehicle happened around seven in the evening. A fire hydrant near the corner was hit. Piece of it hit the runner who was near the intersection about a block away. A spokesperson for the St. Louis Fire Department said the runner was transported to an area hospital. Does have some serious injuries, but is expected to recover.

[Joe C.W.]

Boy, that's a tough one.

[Matt Avery]

Yeah. Running along.

[John Height]

Is it grandma's this weekend? Speaking of that.

[Joe C.W.]

Yes.

[John Height]

Are you heading up?

[Joe C.W.]

I wonder if they'll call it off because of the heat.

[John Height]

You know, that's exactly what I was just about to ask you.

[Joe C.W.]

There's some event in town, isn't there? Some sporting event in the north suburbs. It'll be called off if it hits 87.1 degrees.

[John Height]

A running event.

[Joe C.W.]

I'm not. I'm not making that up. I think it is sports. 87.1, huh?

[Matt Avery]

Wonder how they arrived at that number.

[Joe C.W.]

I don't know. But the day is coming when we back to the 50s will not be allowed because it's too warm.

[John Height]

Wasn't that. Was it last year? When did they cancel the. The Twin Cities Merchant Marathon?

[Joe C.W.]

I think that was two years.

[John Height]

Two years ago. Well, I remember one year when it was about this and Jess ran the marathon. And I remember thinking, I don't know how she's gonna get through it.

[Joe C.W.]

Did she?

[John Height]

Oh, yeah. She finished.

[Joe C.W.]

I bet you check your life insurance. Thank you, John. Anything else?

[John Height]

That's cash, right? I don't need all that.

[Matt Avery]

Only an accidental find. Because I love these stories and you guys are always bored by them. I'll read it. A 10th century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark. Packed with a spectacular trove of ancient objects. Pearls, coins, ceramics and a box containing a gold thread were unearthed during construction work near Lisborg, a village located within four miles north of Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city.

[Rook]

Our gal on the accents there.

[Matt Avery]

Thanks. Yeah, I'm just making it up. And nobody knows if it's right here in the bag.

[Kevin Doran]

Yeah.

[Matt Avery]

Archaeologists found the site contained about 30 graves dating from the second half of the 10th century. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? Huh? Can you?

[Rook]

Well, isn't that.

[John Height]

No, John. I did.

[Rook]

Isn't that bad juju though that you're digging in their grave and taking their belongings?

[Joe C.W.]

I think they're a statute of limitations ran out Got it.

[Matt Avery]

I would guess that they'll. I'm not. I'm looking ahead in the story to see if they're going to do anything about that. Rook.

[Rook]

Any wheat pennies? It doesn't be worth a lot.

[Matt Avery]

Doesn't look like they care.

[Joe C.W.]

John.

[Kenny Olson]

Was it on private property?

[Matt Avery]

Oh, God, you guys are asking a lot of questions.

[John Height]

Yeah, well, you're the news guy.

[Matt Avery]

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know, Kenny.

[John Height]

I don't know anything about that.

[Joe C.W.]

You know, two of the. Two of the kids I used to have are daughters.

[Kevin Doran]

Yep.

[Joe C.W.]

And I brought them to this event probably more than once when they were very young. And both of them are.

[Kevin Doran]

Are.

[Joe C.W.]

Do not like cars anymore. They just want nothing to do with it. One of whom has become the world's worst driver. That when she hits something, she just keeps hitting it until she's free.

[John Height]

Yep.

[Kenny Olson]

Were they of stroller age or walking age?

[Joe C.W.]

Walking.

[Kenny Olson]

That's why.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, that's why. Well, you take them at stroller age, they don't have any psychological wounds.

[Kenny Olson]

Right.

[Joe C.W.]

They don't remember it.

[Kenny Olson]

Right.

[Rook]

What did they like to eat when they were out here?

[Joe C.W.]

You know what, Matt? Back then, I'm not even sure there was food stamps.

[Kenny Olson]

Maybe part of it because you were falling down drunk.

[Joe C.W.]

No, that's not. No, no. That's a very.

[Rook]

Daddy sleeping again.

[Joe C.W.]

Very unkind of you. That did not. Sleeping under a tree. That never happened. Well, a dog urinated. I just find it interesting. That was my way of trying to indoctrinate them. And they just didn't bite. They didn't like it at all. They didn't really didn't care.

[John Height]

So it's just the girls. The. The oldest one didn't come along.

[Joe C.W.]

Then I got a kid who really is into cars. Well, that's great, isn't it? That's a great story.

[Rook]

Didn't he call you out one time to tell you that? I think you had a. You had the Audi. It was the silver Audi.

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Rook]

And he basically said. You're basically driving a German Lebaron.

[Joe C.W.]

Right. German taxi cab. Which I resented that.

[Rook]

And you sold it right away.

[Joe C.W.]

I did. I got rid of it. Now, I'm going to say this.

[Rook]

What are you driving now, Joe?

[Joe C.W.]

We're going to take a brief time out.

[John Height]

Let's talk about North American Banking Company, shall we? Six Twin Cities locations to serve you here. I'm gonna put my hand out here, so if. In case I talk too fast, you can smack it down. We got six locations in the Twin Cities. You can Find out more [e-mail] I actually got a great email out trying to pull up from Jim. He's a small business owner and he said thank you for the recommendation of North American Banking Company because the thing that's different about North American Banking Company as opposed to those big national banks is the fact that they are locally owned and operated. And Joe, do you know why that's important? Why that means that loan decisions are made right here in the Twin Cities. They don't send these loans out of state. They handle them right here. So give Mr. Bilski a call or just find them [e-mail] they're wonderful people. I have made the switch from my big national bank, North American Banking Company member FDIC is an equal housing lender Back to, back to the 50s here at Ogares. Where's Danny O' Gara by the way? Is he here? Shout out to Ogares for having us once again at back to the 50s.

[Rook]

Yeah, Danny's here, Chris is here, Tommy Kippers is here, the whole crew.

[John Height]

Joe's wondering what kind of APB he's going to put out for Reuben Bytes.

[Joe C.W.]

Every time I'm at this event I think of the cars that I had that I wish I still had.

[John Height]

Such as?

[Joe C.W.]

Well, a 29 model A Ford two door.

[Rook]

How did you acquire that?

[Joe C.W.]

I bought it.

[Rook]

I mean, I mean why were you in, why were you interested in that car? Restoration purposes.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, well it didn't even need restoration. That's more than 50 years ago. This thing was still could have been a daily driver. Then I had a, a 1936 Chev pickup truck but it didn't have a universal joint so it really didn't go anywhere. Then I had a 1940 Dodge. I had a 50, wait for four Ford. The Dodge.

[Kenny Olson]

What model was that?

[Joe C.W.]

It was a two door coupe doctor sedan or something.

[Kenny Olson]

What engine was in that? Straight six.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. Yeah. Cool. And then I had a 56 Ford pickup truck. 54 Ford mainliner I had. I'm trying to think of some of the older stuff I had. I, I think none of them really ran very well. A buddy of mine had a 1925 Dodge sedan that. We had lawn chairs in the back of that.

[Kenny Olson]

Nice.

[Joe C.W.]

It didn't have a, didn't have a seat travel safe and you couldn't go more than a mile and that would overheat. You'd have to stop and put water in. Was. It was an era when people my age were entirely fascinated by the automobile. Yeah. Now the fellow we talked to who runs this.

[John Height]

Wally.

[Joe C.W.]

Wally Burchell. He is confident. I think he has to be in the business of being confident. But no less, he was confident that this will continue. And boy, I meant to ask Matt from Mecham about. There are certain segments of the auto business where the, the values are really falling. British car values are really full.

[Kenny Olson]

That astounds me.

[Joe C.W.]

Not J, not Jags and Aston Martins, but triumphant mg. But weren't you the one you want to get into the British car hobby? You can get in for a song, right?

[Kenny Olson]

Why are they dropping?

[Joe C.W.]

I don't. They. They were the, the people who might want to have one. Don't remember them. They were never part of the American consciousness.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay.

[Joe C.W.]

They, they, you know, once in a while I run into people that say oh my dad had one. Yeah, you know and. But they, they have successfully remained uninterested about it.

[Kenny Olson]

Can tell me something and we probably had this conversation off the air. But why is my treasured 1965 Chevy Impala not a super sport? Could be a 283. Why are they selling for 35000 to 45 000?

[Joe C.W.]

Don't know their opinion appeal.

[Kenny Olson]

It doesn't make any sense to me.

[Joe C.W.]

I don't know the appeal that. Are there any. I bet there are some here.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I'm sure It's not a 65 but my deal.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh yeah, it's got to be 64.

[Kenny Olson]

I love the 65. It was a one off year with six tail lights in the back.

[Rook]

You know that 85 impact wasn't too bad either. DZL 697, that was our plate. That would breeze through. You could go into SBA's parking lot after a fresh snow and just whip donuts. What kind of car was this 1985 Chevy Impala?

[Joe C.W.]

Well that's great.

[Rook]

No, Caprice Classic. It was Caprice Classic.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Rook]

Silver with that red plastic. It wasn't even leather. It was fake leather.

[Joe C.W.]

It was pleather.

[Rook]

It was pleather. I don't know why my old man bought that. But that was a. That was a good car to learn how to drive.

[Kenny Olson]

I had a 69 Galaxy. I think the engine was a 390. Could have been that thing goes down the freeway at about 140 miles an hour. The front end just bouncing like a bouncy house.

[Joe C.W.]

My dad was kind of a car guy. He had a Studebaker Champion.

[Kenny Olson]

Now with the surround back glass.

[Wally Burchell]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

That was with the bullet nose.

[Joe C.W.]

Early 50s.

[Kenny Olson]

Nice.

[Joe C.W.]

That was his daily driver and it.

[Kenny Olson]

Was it afforded door. I can't remember because some of them the back doors were suicide doors.

[Joe C.W.]

He had a 68 Ponic Tempest, a 63 Ford Country Choir station wagon.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait a minute. That Tempest was a cool car.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. The CP had what was the hot mid-60s Chevrolet that everyone wants now?

[Kenny Olson]

Probably the Malibu. The Chevelle or the Malibu.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh, she had a chevelle. Yeah, yeah. 66 chevelle two door.

[Kenny Olson]

Nice. Do you remember the motor?

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, it was a six cylinder.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, well, no.

[Joe C.W.]

Well, it would be coveted because somebody drop a LS1 into it.

[Kenny Olson]

Not.

[Joe C.W.]

How do you feel?

[Kenny Olson]

What do you feel about the.

[Joe C.W.]

I'm an original guy.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, what I don't.

[Joe C.W.]

Original.

[Kenny Olson]

What I don't like about the LS swap is that these are the guys that are always on the side of the road.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Why can't you keep that thing running? It's a brand new engine.

[Joe C.W.]

The first MG I saw made me feel fall in love so much with mgs. It was half buried in a snow drift. And I attempted to uncover the snow because I had never seen one with an mga. And I. I just thought, well, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. And I. So I've been concentrating on those over the years. I've had a couple, three of them.

[Kenny Olson]

What?

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

That's okay, stop there. That's what I don't understand about you. Is it something like, well, I've had it, I've enjoyed it, I want to move on to something else. Is that what it is? I don't see you falling in love with a vehicle and saving it until the day you die. What is that?

[Joe C.W.]

Because I'm. To me, the hunt and the chase is always more fun than the ownership.

[Kenny Olson]

Sure.

[Joe C.W.]

Finding them is more fun than owning them. I like finding golf balls better than playing golf. So on a larger scale, I like finding cars better than owning them. But some I've kept for years that my last MGA I had from 1969 through 1986.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe C.W.]

And I know who has it now and I have right of first refusal.

[Kenny Olson]

So. So there's a chance you'd buy it back. You're the same way with boats.

[Joe C.W.]

Absolutely. Yeah. Currently has my 1938 Chris Craft. I have writer first refusal.

[Matt Avery]

Do you get that way with acquiring? Because I'll want a guitar really badly. I'll acquire it and then it'll sit in the corner for five, five years before I do anything.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Rook]

Bob also acquired a 1972 green Nova that you couldn't ride around too long in. Because you'd become asphyxiated. Because there was a little hole. It had the, the blue smoke coming.

[John Height]

Out of the internal ventilation, I think. Yeah, right, right.

[Rook]

So you didn't want to take a. You didn't want to take that thing down to Winona. Maybe that was just a. That was his daily city car.

[John Height]

May I ask a question about Bob's mode of transportation?

[Rook]

Yes.

[John Height]

Did the self tanner come in the. The glove box or did he have to stop and get that in the glove box?

[Kevin Doran]

Gotcha.

[Rook]

Glove box. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

The big, the big heartbreak for me, such was this 60. I think it was a 60 Studebaker Hawk that my uncle owned. Drove it into the ground. My dad, dad bought it. We, it was a ground up restoration. We really worked for years and years and when we were done with that thing, it was, it was like a factory car, which is to say it was garbage. I mean, Studebaker, come on, they, they made great looking cars. But yeah, maybe the fit and finish wasn't that great. He sold that thing and I still don't know why. I think, I think it's what you describe. We restored it. We did it. It's time to move on. And that's the car. I really wish I could find that individual car that we did.

[Joe C.W.]

I'm not proud of this, but two of the Triumph TR6s I've owned, I bought twice. One of them I still have. I think that that has a fighting chance to not be sold. Yeah, that's the one I'll take to the Cedar Lake Speedway.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, you've got to put it in paper that, that goes to the, the boy, the oldest.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, that one, I think It's. It's got 22,000 miles on it. It's never been touched. It's all original.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, wow.

[Joe C.W.]

So we're getting to the point where. Okay, let that go. First of all, the market prices aren't what they should be. And two, where are you going to find another one? Right.

[John Height]

Is buying the same vehicle twice equivalent to crossing the river twice?

[Kenny Olson]

No, it's equivalent to getting divorced and then remarried to the same gal.

[John Height]

Gotcha. Okay. Okay.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Which is all right. A lot of people do it.

[John Height]

Do what you got to do.

[Rook]

The divorce didn't work out right.

[Joe C.W.]

The first one I bought again was the first one I owned. And you know, I never could get it sorted out, as the British say. Yeah. So I sold it. Years and years and years went by and the guy I sold it to called me and said, I'm thinking to get rid of that. You got any tips? And I was going to help him sell it.

[Kenny Olson]

I'll just give him some tips.

[Joe C.W.]

And I said, of course I need to see it. So I went and see it. And I had learned so much about them in the intervening years that it was a hell of a car. Yeah, it was much better than I remembered. So I bought it back from him and saved him the trouble of having to sell it. I in turn sold that one just last fall. And now there's another story about cars that a lot of people in this room know and a lot of people attending this event know. Car transporting has become a weird industry, pretty much populated by Russian immigrants.

[Kenny Olson]

It's so funny that you and I had the same experience separately.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

My nephew bought a car. He lives in Austin, had it shipped down there. And a guy with a flat. Flatbed trailer. Long one.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Got lost finding the most simple address where they had to go looking for him. Barely understood a word of English. And my sister and my nephew had no confidence that that car would show up at their house in Austin too.

[John Height]

Well, your guy get lost in the McDonald's right over here?

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah, my guy. I had to go find him. Yep, he was in a McDonald's on West 7th Street. And he kept. Kept showing me his phone. His phone was in Russian. All the language was crillic.

[Rook]

What did it say?

[Joe C.W.]

It said. It didn't even say that.

[Rook]

Go to Joe's house on Fourth Street, 1706.

[Joe C.W.]

And he had no earthly clue. And then I had to help him put it in there because he did that wrong the first time.

[John Height]

Oh boy.

[Joe C.W.]

And I do feel bad for whoever I sold it to took delivery of that and Nash Nashville. And he did get it. Which shocked me that that guy actually made it there.

[Kenny Olson]

So that's a business waiting for us. You realize that.

[Joe C.W.]

Well, from now on, if I ever got to the point where I bought something really, really charming and trustworthy and expensive, I think I would go and hire one of the major carriers.

[Kenny Olson]

I would just advertise on bring a trailer, not a Russian car delivery. That's what my business.

[Joe C.W.]

I don't mind that they have the. But they've cornered the business.

[Matt Avery]

Yeah.

[Joe C.W.]

And the stuff they tow with sometimes doesn't work.

[John Height]

Well, Kenny and I both offered Roy to drive his convertible back from Florida, but he gave it away. Cuz I don't like paperwork. That's what I'm saying. There's no market for it.

[Joe C.W.]

You know, he's not a car guy.

[John Height]

He you don't think.

[Joe C.W.]

No, he. He thinks the radiator cooling fan is going to called a propeller.

[John Height]

I did get a text from a few minutes ago. I am ready.

[Joe C.W.]

You want to talk to him?

[John Height]

Well, we. We can't.

[Joe C.W.]

Why? Why we're not phone do we.

[John Height]

I am ready right?

[Joe C.W.]

I don't you called me. I. I don't want to read you a serious email.

[Rook]

Don't get too serious.

[Joe C.W.]

I don't want to get too serious. I. I like reminiscing about cars and we'll do more when we come back.

[Kenny Olson]

So we got an email from a gl er after hearing and this guy was addressing the te weeder. He said after hearing about the te weeder from you guys I went to tee weeder tool.com I ordered one. Just finished trying it out and I can report it works great. It was very easy to use although he thinks there would be more effort required until if you waited until the weeds are full grown. My advice, buy one now and use it now. If you you haven't heard this T Weeder tool. It's actually invented by one of us, not one of us knuckleheads, but by a gl er Tim. He moved to the lake, discovered he had a little bit of a lake weed problem. Like all of us. What do you do when you have a problem? You go to the garage. You figure it out. When he emerged, he had this rake type tool made out of lightweight aluminum. Calls it the T Weeder. Three, two, three foot plates on the front, the business end with offset teeth. It grabs and uproots these weeds. It's got 25ft of line attached to it. Toss it out and jerk it into shore.

[John Height]

You mean throw it?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, throw it out and. But you tug it. You don't pull it steady. You do the tugs and everything in its path comes up. And it's on all weeds that you can usually pick by hand. The ones that don't have deep roots and it's any aquatic weeds whatsoever. It's a one man operation. But here's what you do. You do it like everything else. You do it in front of the kids. You go check this out and the next thing you know you're sitting in the chair watching the kids. Kids do it. Like I said, online free shipping tea weeder tool.com and all the information, pictures and video. You'll find all of it there along with testimonials again. Oh, and everything about the T Weeder made in the United States. All materials sourced from the US of.

[Joe C.W.]

A. Te weer tool.com shorters yet, Mr. Mayor. Pardon?

[John Height]

Did you order yours yet?

[Joe C.W.]

The te.

[John Height]

Weer. Yeah.

[Joe C.W.]

Yes.

[John Height]

Okay.

[Joe C.W.]

No, I haven't, but I want to get one for the.

[Kenny Olson]

Before we move on, I wanted to bring something up that happened between the three of us. Walking in, John came across a car that you had as a kid.

[Matt Avery]

It was a Rambler. And I don't know what model it was. You know better than I.

[Kenny Olson]

But it was a Rambler wagon.

[Joe C.W.]

Station wagon.

[Matt Avery]

Station wagon, yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

And you had one. How old do you think you were?

[Matt Avery]

I was probably 4ish. 5ish, something like that.

[Kenny Olson]

That Rambler wagon is the first memory of a car. My grandpa Olson had two of them living here in Minneapolis, South Minneapolis. He had his Sunday going to meeting, really nice one. And then he was a construction guy guy building houses and stuff. And he. He had that thing. He drove that thing into the ground. But I always thought that I was curious that he bought two of the same.

[Joe C.W.]

Rook. Rook.

[Rook]

Yes, sir.

[Joe C.W.]

When's this from? What do you think? Oh, I'm thinking I'm holding up a logic hat.

[Rook]

How's the quality?

[Joe C.W.]

Very good.

[Rook]

Okay. Those are the good years. That's probably 0. 5. That's probably. Oh, 5.

[Joe C.W.]

I found this.

[Rook]

That's when they poured some money into the.

[Joe C.W.]

I know you're not supposed to wear a hat indoors, but I found my.

[John Height]

All of us.

[Rook]

Well, basically, you're in the garage. Look at.

[John Height]

You got garage doors.

[Joe C.W.]

That's open.

[Rook]

This is a garage.

[John Height]

Yeah. What a turn of events, though. You're the only one wearing one and the rest of us are not.

[Joe C.W.]

But I found this and I thought, well, that's too nice to not pay attention to. So I'll tell you a new car story I bought. I was an SHO fan for a while. Taurus came out with something called an shoe show.

[Rook]

Super high output.

[Joe C.W.]

That's right.

[Kenny Olson]

I remember you dropped.

[Rook]

You had a. You had a red one and then a green one.

[Joe C.W.]

That's right. And the green one. I'm not going to mention the dealer where I bought it from, but I took it home and the brakes were really, really iffy. I mean, to the point where she might stop. I don't know. I don't remember why I didn't turn around and go directly back to the dealer. I don't recall that. I got home and had to use the emergency brake to stop it. The brake lines were not connected. Now why was I stopping? Something was connected, but not all of them.

[Kenny Olson]

I wonder if they popped off, if they weren't Fully threaded.

[Joe C.W.]

I'm not saying that the build quality has improved. I'm saying the build quality has really improved.

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Joe C.W.]

And that was as recent as. What would those have been? Late 80s. And they were neat. They had Yamaha engines. Those are essentially Yamaha motorcycle engines. Great big Yamaha engines in the Taurus sho.

[Kenny Olson]

Ah, you're on drugs.

[Joe C.W.]

You're on the dope. Look it up.

[Kenny Olson]

Really?

[Joe C.W.]

Taurus. The Sho had Yamaha engines.

[Kenny Olson]

I was.

[Joe C.W.]

There's Taurus, there's Sho. Claire Club. My brother had an sho. Really? Oh, it was a really cool car when it had brakes. It was a hell of a car.

[Kenny Olson]

I was commiserating with the roommate last night. I told her I've never. And she didn't believe this. That you used to be able to go down to the dealership and order a car with everything that you want in it, all the specifications. And sometimes that would end up resulting in a one of a kind.

[Rook]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

And it would be a very rare car today.

[Joe C.W.]

Do that today.

[Kenny Olson]

I was going to ask you, have you.

[Joe C.W.]

Of course you can. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Have you ever done that? Have you ever ordered a car with all the accessories that you want?

[Rook]

No, no, I want it all stuck.

[Joe C.W.]

No. Well, it would have been.

[Kenny Olson]

It would have been.

[Joe C.W.]

Who said that? Rookie. Well, it would have been all stock, but the accessories, it's like my motorcycle.

[Rook]

Don't put any pedals on it.

[Matt Avery]

The Ford super high output V8 engine designed and built by Ford in conjunction with the Yamaha Motor Corporation.

[Joe C.W.]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Kenny Olson]

It's funny, Matthew, that you would come to a car event and then mock everybody here.

[Rook]

I'm just mocking these guys. Not these guys.

[John Height]

They were mentioning the sho. You and I drive the shi.

[Rook]

Right. Shi.

[Joe C.W.]

You know what?

[Rook]

So how did those negotiations go for that first show?

[Kenny Olson]

How did.

[Rook]

You're kicking some tires, running the numbers.

[Joe C.W.]

You know, I got news for you. That BLEEP you're driving will soon be eligible to be here with this show.

[Rook]

I'm in. I'm in.

[Kenny Olson]

So I've been texting with Jay, the owner of the 1918American La France. He is not here at the moment. He's actually at Matt's having a juicy Lucy.

[Joe C.W.]

I don't blame him.

[Kenny Olson]

And he said that support bus that you talked about fondly will be outside of the Mall of America here in a few hours. If you want to head down there.

[Joe C.W.]

And see that not at the Mall of America, it's at the Double Tree Hilton, which is vastly across the parking lot.

[Kenny Olson]

Remember, these guys are from out of town.

[Matt Avery]

Yeah, I got. I got a Facebook message from a certain fellow we know.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah.

[John Height]

Who may or may not be sitting in the front row.

[Matt Avery]

Inform me all about the Doubletree. Just so you know.

[John Height]

So can I ask a question on behalf of all of Gumption County, Please tell us you're not going to be one of these knuckle draggers that finds your way out to the beach. Hey, you guys mind if I follow you and then maybe meet up down in a canyon when you go down? Yes. What is your plan for the following week?

[Joe C.W.]

My plan is. Remains private.

[John Height]

You are. You're 100 gonna do it?

[Joe C.W.]

No, my. No, no, no. My plan remains very quiet.

[Matt Avery]

Okay.

[Joe C.W.]

I. I don't want to let out.

[Matt Avery]

Is that like.

[John Height]

Is that orange Chris?

[Kenny Olson]

When my phone exploded last night, I thought it was another stupid family text and somebody had died. There's literally bing, bing, bing, bing. It was all these three second videos. That suits.

[Joe C.W.]

I don't waste my time with the video. I keep them short.

[Kenny Olson]

Three to five second videos. Like I want to see.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh yeah. Now. Now, for everyone here and everyone listening this, back to the not Not. We are at back to the 50s, but the great race will leave here tomorrow at noon. Staggered departures, one minute. They are not in a speed contest. In fact, what I noticed last night walking the parking lot to stare at them all. All the cars, they all have their speedometers and tachometers papered over. They don't want to see them. They run with their own timing devices. They have their own. They have their own fashion clocks. However, they want to do satellite and there's. Yes, you saw a lot of stuff that would be hooked up to GPS and satellite and that's what they're following. They don't. Maybe they don't trust their co cars or maybe this race is so specifically designed to award punctuality. That's why a guy can get away with running something built in 1920. It's not about speed. It's about how you follow directions and follow math. And I'm very serious when I say the math part is probably taking me out of any future consideration. I'm not. I'm not trying to be funny, dude.

[John Height]

No, I get what doing you're. What you're saying.

[Kevin Doran]

Yeah.

[Joe C.W.]

So I either have to just be the driver and get a math whiz as the. As the.

[John Height]

You need a good co pilot.

[Joe C.W.]

What's the word I want?

[Rook]

What's the word?

[Joe C.W.]

I'm thinking of the navigator. I either would have to get an extraordinarily good navigator or I'm out. Because I. I would screw it up.

[Kenny Olson]

Here's the thing with you. You have a personality disorder. You will not be able to follow instructions.

[Joe C.W.]

But I wouldn't have to. Have you heard what I've been saying?

[Matt Avery]

You would.

[Joe C.W.]

Navigator would do it. No, no, you follow the navigator's instructions.

[Kenny Olson]

You. You won't be able to do that. You cannot pull that off.

[John Height]

I can't tell you how much money I would pay for just two minutes of video of rookie riding shotgun down to South Carolina.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[John Height]

So I think, like, you turn left.

[Kenny Olson]

So what's fun about this also, and we discovered when we were talking with Jeff, the race director, they don't say, go 10 miles, take a left on county 11, and then go down to 14 and take a right. They just say take the fourth right.

[Joe C.W.]

If you see asphalt on the next right, take. You know, they don't name the streets. No. So it really is up to the navigator. They're on their way, folks. Tomorrow they leave. Nine days later, they arrive in North Carolina.

[Kenny Olson]

3,000 miles.

[Joe C.W.]

It's a big, big deal. It costs them a lot of money to enter it. But there's a. I think first place is 50 grand.

[Kenny Olson]

Wow.

[Joe C.W.]

Yeah. So it's. It's worth the effort, and it's. It's fantastic. And there's a big part of me that says, well, that's right up my alley. Except the reality is I. I would. I wouldn't get out of Minnesota. I'd screw it up. I'd end up in North Dakota when I was supposed to be in Illinois. And.

[Kenny Olson]

And like we were talking on the way over, you'd need a real genius as a navigator.

[Joe C.W.]

Not.

[Kenny Olson]

Not just a mechanic, but somebody with the instincts to fix something, like replace a part that hasn't been made.

[Joe C.W.]

What do you want a guy in mind?

[Rook]

Yeah, I got the hook plug. You're gonna run that right by the bypass lane. Pick it up through the fuel pump.

[John Height]

Oh, you missed your turn.

[Rook]

Drop it on the tree. Yeah, we missed the.

[Joe C.W.]

The turn, so we're good. My friend Big O is a not only a brilliant mechanic, electrician, but also a brilliant mathematician and would be the brilliant navigator. He's been spoken for. He might end up in one of these races. Friend of mine. Oh. Who wants to campaign and has been accepted a 1974 TR6, which he could do next year or the year after. Right.

[Kenny Olson]

Because.

[Joe C.W.]

Because it's 74.

[Kenny Olson]

We've got to be part of the support.

[Joe C.W.]

And Big O would be his navigator.

[Kenny Olson]

Let's just be support. We're Running in an AC vehicle. We're having fun, you know, bending the elbow, pulling the.

[Joe C.W.]

Do it. They've had many adventures. I'm sure they could pull this off, but. So that guy, the Big O, He. He'd have to be my guy. And he's spoken for. And I'm not sure he wants to do that for nine.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm really curious as to how he got that nickname, but maybe that's for off here.

[Matt Avery]

Careful.

[Joe C.W.]

Well, because it's his first name.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I see.

[Joe C.W.]

His first name is Orin.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay. Well, that wasn't as fun as I imagine.

[John Height]

If our Big O. Orville.

[Joe C.W.]

Oh, yes.

[John Height]

You lost that turn.

[Joe C.W.]

Then if he saw somebody like a policeman, you say, well, officer, we weren't trading at all. It was just right. Happen to be 30 miles an hour whatsoever. G. Ellers, thank you for being here and thanks for Ogaris for having me. Thank you, Danny. Thank you, Danny and Chris. Can I interrupt, family people? Yes, John, Can I interrupt just for a minute?

[Matt Avery]

The fellow over there gave me a little note. The fellow we all know and love. And he says, I'm three miles from Doubletree. Look for the Gl flag flying from the back of my Kia Sportage. But. But here's the. Here's the weird part. You turn it around and he gave it to me on this card.

[Joe C.W.]

What's the card?

[Matt Avery]

The card is James Ingetson, activist, mischief coordinator. The Angie Experience.

[Joe C.W.]

The C. Experience.

[John Height]

Got his own business experience for the INY Experience.

[Rook]

I've been doing radio.

[John Height]

I guess Joe's eating now, so I guess that's the end of the show.

[Matt Avery]

I don't have cards.

[Kenny Olson]

I guess we're done.

[John Height]

Joe needs a napkin now. He's motioning for the napkins. Does that mean I need to send us to the out queue?

[Kevin Doran]

Is that.

[John Height]

Oh, Joe's done.

[Rook]

Okay.

[John Height]

Well, thank you once again to We Are Nuts.

[Rook]

Thank you. Thank you to J. Marie Figar.

[Matt Avery]

Yep.

[John Height]

Thanks to Danny o' Gara for having us out.

[Rook]

Thank you to We Are Nuts.

[John Height]

Please do us a favor.

[Joe C.W.]

Didn't I say all that?

[Matt Avery]

No, you did not. Please.

[John Height]

I did do us a favor and subscribe to the Garage YouTube channel.

[Rook]

Thanks to Reavers.

[Matt Avery]

Yep.

[John Height]

We'll just call it a day.