Jeff Glucker's Auto Ups and Downs

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Smoking Tire – Episode “Jeff Glucker's Auto Ups and Downs”

Introduction

In the March 11, 2025 episode of The Smoking Tire, hosts Matt Farah and Zack Klapman welcome automotive writer and enthusiast Jeff Glucker to discuss his ongoing automotive projects, challenges in car restoration, and various driving experiences. This episode delves deep into Jeff’s adventures with his Mustang restoration, interactions with parts suppliers, and the broader implications of maintaining and upgrading classic cars. The trio also touches on related topics such as racing events, personal hobbies, and the intricacies of automotive culture.

Jeff Glucker's Automotive Projects

Restoring the Mustang

Jeff Glucker shares his journey of restoring a 1967 Mustang, highlighting both the excitement and frustrations involved. He reflects on acquiring the vehicle from Motor Trend’s Head to Head drag race series, emphasizing his desire to own and revitalize a classic American muscle car.

Jeff Glucker [52:01]: "I bought it because I've always wanted a Mustang. But Mustang prices are fucked, especially Fastbacks. Fastback prices are broken. It's 30 grand for a shell, which is stupid."

Challenges with Parts Suppliers

A significant portion of the conversation revolves around Jeff’s struggles with Holley, a parts supplier. He recounts issues such as receiving faulty engine mounts and dealing with poor customer service, which compounded the difficulties of his restoration project.

Jeff Glucker [55:53]: "I realized I needed to send these back. They got them back. They're like, oh, they're scratched up from your install. We can't use them. I'm like, I didn't install them. I took them out of the box, went, these are wrong."

Rebuilding and Upgrading

Jeff discusses the technical aspects of his restoration, including the installation of a Straight Six engine and the complexities of wiring the vehicle using the Painless Wiring Kit. He expresses his disdain for the tedious process but acknowledges the necessity of meticulous work to bring the car back to life.

Jeff Glucker [55:45]: "I'm rewiring it. So I got a Painless kit. Literally, every wire is labeled to where it goes, which is fucking brilliant. But I hate it. I hate doing it."

Driving Experiences and Issues

Encountering Mechanical Problems

Jeff recounts a harrowing experience while driving his rejuvenated Mustang, where a leaking rear cam seal forced him to pull over near the Long Beach airport.

Jeff Glucker [74:10]: "I'm like, I have such a long drive ahead of me. And I just... I have to go get back."

Zach’s M3 Mishap

Host Zack Klapman shares his own ordeal with his BMW M3, where improperly tightened lug bolts led to a sudden loss of power steering, highlighting the importance of meticulous maintenance during car restorations.

Zach Klapman [65:43]: "I open the door, and it's raining. And I look down at the ground, and I see the rainbow that I posted on Instagram. I go, and I could see the trail. Like, yep, that's Ix on Valdez."

Interactions with Uber Drivers

The conversation shifts to amusing and sometimes frustrating interactions with Uber drivers, particularly those driving pickup trucks and high-performance vehicles like the Durango Hellcat.

Matt Farah [10:09]: "He was like, yes. And then I went to, you know, Amsterdam and I was like, oh, I love that city. The canals. He's like, yes, but it's very bare. Why does that even come up?"

Jeff also shares anecdotes about drivers who are deaf or non-English speaking, adding a humorous yet insightful layer to the discussion about ride-sharing experiences.

Jeff Glucker [19:28]: "Yeah, so Matt's driving this M3, if Sarah was driving it, I'd go, eh, there's probably just something rattling in the stereo."

Racing and Events

Planning for Thunderhill

Jeff and Matt discuss their participation in racing events like Thunderhill, detailing the preparation, logistical challenges, and the sheer thrill of competing on renowned tracks.

Jeff Glucker [74:32]: "Yeah, yeah. So it was dead straight. So I drove home and I just... I'm not being... I'm not asking anything. I know."

Experiences at Race Tracks

Sharing past racing experiences, Jeff reminisces about testing his Mustang’s capabilities on race tracks, often pushing the car to its limits and learning valuable lessons in vehicle performance.

Jeff Glucker [32:57]: "So we went into these with no planned outcomes. It was whatever happens happens. Who gives a shit?"

Side Discussions

Watches and Accessories

The trio briefly veers into discussions about watches, specifically shift knobs, highlighting the blend of automotive and personal style choices.

Jeff Glucker [06:11]: "That was stupid. Wait. It's a low-risk accessory."

Personal Hobbies and YouTube Channels

Jeff expresses his interest in pizza ovens and his desire to grow his YouTube channel, sharing his personal pursuits outside of the automotive realm.

Jeff Glucker [49:18]: "So I'm... Zach had pissed so bad right there. That was..."

Long-Form Episode Planning

As the episode progresses, Matt and Zack tease the upcoming 1000th episode, promising an extensive, eight-hour live show featuring special guests and interactive segments. They emphasize the milestone's significance and their gratitude towards loyal listeners and participants.

Matt Farah [35:26]: "TST1000 is coming up. It's gonna be amazing."

Conclusion

The episode concludes with a mix of light-hearted banter, shout-outs to patrons, and final thoughts on Jeff’s automotive journey. The hosts encourage listeners to engage with their content on YouTube and Patreon, solidifying the community-driven nature of The Smoking Tire podcast.

Jeff Glucker [131:04]: "Thank you."

Matt Farah [135:24]: "Record's over."

Notable Quotes

• Matt Farah [03:04]: "It's the Smoking Tire podcast you sent me."
• Jeff Glucker [55:53]: "I did a story for own track where I drove the Super T and then the racing T. The Super T was..."
• Zach Klapman [65:43]: "I could see the trail. Like, yep, that's Ix on Valdez."

Final Thoughts

This episode offers a candid glimpse into Jeff Glucker’s challenges and triumphs in the automotive world, balanced by the hosts’ relatable stories and humor. For enthusiasts looking to understand the intricacies of car restoration, the pitfalls of parts procurement, and the joys of driving classic muscle cars, this episode serves as both an informative and entertaining listen.

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Transcript

[Matt Farah]

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[Jeff Glucker]

Which is by his own GPS estimate. Right, right.

[Matt Farah]

I figured you were like in the car at 4:30, you say 10 minutes away. Dude has increased his driving range by 40 miles over the course of this trip. This is a gas powered car. You haven't gone over 60, even in areas where it's open and safe to do. So he.

[Zach Klapman]

So was he testing a perpetual motion machine?

[Jeff Glucker]

I honestly think there might have been some drugs involved, but Just because like hands at 8 and 4 the whole time, a fair amount of break. When there was wide open road, I'm just like, oh hell man. But there wasn't anything immediate. Like there was no swerving. There was no driver.

[Matt Farah]

Is a 1991 Bentley. And he was just.

[Jeff Glucker]

You can't do that.

[Matt Farah]

He couldn't adapt himself to the 2020 Jetta. It was.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's funny how like I took that car here. I could have driven a 710 horsepower SUV here. But I was like, you know what, it's Friday. I want to have a couple drinks because I'm not going to be here to celebrate the thousandth. Not that this is going to be like some big boozy palooza, but I want to be responsible. Yeah, I'm not going to drive. I've also heard there's a DUI checkpoint in Irvine tonight. So, you know, wink today this is like.

[Matt Farah]

So I was sitting in the Escalade and I checked whatever my app is.

[Jeff Glucker]

And then I was like, Durango Hellcat.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, it's a Durango Hellcat.

[Jeff Glucker]

I was supposed to have the Ram Rho, but somebody might have. So.

[Matt Farah]

Missy dad.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, this is the last call. One of the, this is the. Oh, nickel last call.

[Matt Farah]

Okay, so this is, this is the ones where they sued to.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, I think it's one of those. Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Because they said it was going to be one year only and then stickers.

[Jeff Glucker]

115 on this one for a Durango. Now granted it is one of the craziest dumb. And I say dumbest, but I mean dumbest in one of the best ways. One of the, the best dumbest vehicles because seven passengers, 710 horsepower, just hilarious lift.

[Matt Farah]

But like you're. Yeah, no, it's awesome. Yeah. Like if I. We have this whatever seven years ago.

[Jeff Glucker]

And it's probably like randomly multiple times over that period.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, but I think it, but, but I think it was 83 grand or so. You know it was. It was not.

[Jeff Glucker]

And that's not even it because that's the 392. That's, that's the, that says the final Hellcat one. And I think they've already recanted that. And they're probably like no new guys or old guys back in Jew.

[Matt Farah]

Do you wait till they Fucking un cancel V8s there to everyone who like.

[Jeff Glucker]

Loves mopars for 300 out of 15 is the sticker. That's not a markup price. They have a sticker.

[Matt Farah]

That's the difference between Mopar people and Tesla people. When you defraud mopar people, they actually sue you.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Though some of them are like, no, I'm going to get that. That's the last one. So in 30 years of Barrett Jackson, when this crosses the block, I'm a wealthy man.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, there's been a lot of the, you know, there's a bunch of those. It's the last naturally aspirated, the last manual, the last, you know, this.

[Jeff Glucker]

That everybody thinks they're Mad Max. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Like it's okay like if you, like if you think something's going away to get in on the game. Yeah. But like, you know, you shouldn't bet the farm on that being a laugh.

[Jeff Glucker]

Right? It'll go a spreading thing. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Zach did the TV turn off for a reason.

[Zach Klapman]

It was unplugged by half a mil, so it's now recharging itself.

[Jeff Glucker]

It was distracting.

[Matt Farah]

Nice. Nice.

[Jeff Glucker]

Seiko.

[Matt Farah]

Arnie.

[Jeff Glucker]

Thank you.

[Matt Farah]

Full commando.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. So I did the dumb thing where we probably. I don't know. You're not as much as a watch nerd. I've gotten worse.

[Matt Farah]

He's getting there.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Forcing it on, right?

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Though you got a Weiss. Right? Which is awesome. You got this awesome.

[Matt Farah]

I wear in my waist.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'd like to get a Weiss. One of these days. I went watches of Espionage on Ice degree yeah. They released that with submersible seat. With one of the other dive watch ones. They released their own compass. I was like, oh no, the attachment. Yeah, I'm gonna get one of those. And I got it and I put it on. I was like, this is stupid. Wait.

[Zach Klapman]

It's like a compass you attach to an existing watch.

[Matt Farah]

It's a.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's a remake of this. Back in the day, this Vietnam era Seiko, they actually used it. These real commandos and you can find those. Our friend Nick from DC Fit Watches sells them. They're pretty rad looking. The. The real old ones. But I put this on. I was like, oh, I'm. This is nerd.

[Matt Farah]

This is one of a bunch of. A bunch of things that look awesome on Instagram. And then you put them on, you're.

[Jeff Glucker]

Like, this is ridiculous.

[Matt Farah]

I'm not doing. And it's a dime sized compass that. That clips onto the part of your strap immediately at 6:00. And so like if someone photographs it quite right, you're like, oh, I see what's happening there. And when you try to put out before, I'm like, nope.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yep, that's exactly.

[Matt Farah]

I ordered it.

[Jeff Glucker]

It wasn't terribly expensive doing a Lot of land neck. I was like, this would be cool if I'm like out overlanding somewhere. And so I took it off. I kept it on the band it came with. And it literally is now wrapped around part of my, my Montero, which glued to the dashboard. So I was like, that was stupid. I put it on as like hard note. But I also bought the, the Bond NATO.

[Matt Farah]

The strap looks good.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

You know, there's the funny. The funniest thing about watches and Instagram is just that like, you know, it's not like, it's not like the pictures are fake or anything, but they're, they're taken to make the watch look its best. And a lot of times, like, if you can't, if you can't try it on. And the first time you try it on, you bought it. You're like, why Is it like 17 millimeters tall? Like what?

[Jeff Glucker]

No. And I, I. When I bought it, I was like, this is going to show up. I wasn't immediately like, this is going to be awesome. Like, I knew.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

One of two ways. I'll use the compass for something. It got there. I tried. I was like, that's stupid.

[Matt Farah]

It's a low.

[Jeff Glucker]

A low risk accessory. Yes, exactly.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. And then I've been through many. I ordered, I just ordered a strap that was by strap standards, really expensive and it arrived and it's made from a Panerai radio mirror which has a 27 millimeter lug. So watch. Yeah. So it's the only watch.

[Jeff Glucker]

This is.

[Matt Farah]

The strap fits and I got the strap.

[Jeff Glucker]

I fucking hate it. And there's no returns. I've never even heard of 27. But that's awesome.

[Matt Farah]

It looks right.

[Jeff Glucker]

When you tapers, it can go wider. Yeah. It's a 27 Dennis Reynolds strap.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Geez.

[Matt Farah]

I need a taper in my strap.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Grail Seiko. Like, like a NATO strap is no taper.

[Jeff Glucker]

Right. It's run right.

[Matt Farah]

But in a, in a leather strap or in a steel, there has to be taper. So if it's like 22 at the lug and then you want a 4 mil taper.

[Jeff Glucker]

So it'll be 18 or 16 on the metal. How People have already checked out of this episode.

[Zach Klapman]

Listen, we get a lot of watch questions.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, I know you have a lot of watch followers.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. And it's like it's Friday afternoon, but you just can't. You just got here.

[Jeff Glucker]

Like, I'm like buzzing with anti lift sentiment.

[Matt Farah]

You know what? I've had a couple really bad Ubers in the last couple days, I had to run my NSX to service, which is 30 miles east of here at Evasive, shout out to the best for Hondas. But, like, it was at the South Bay store. So that was. So from my house, Uber to South Bay, drive their Uber home. The inverse of that. So it's two long Ubers.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yep.

[Matt Farah]

And like, one guy is blasting Christian music. One guy, like, wouldn't shut the fog up. The most interesting one by far, I can't even call it bad, was a Nigerian immigrant that seems to have been to, like, probably 100 countries. Oh, cool. Really interesting. Dude judges every country. I shit you not by how easy it is to make friends and connections explicitly for purposes of finding a mate for immigrating. Wow.

[Jeff Glucker]

On paper into that country. That's amazing.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. He was like. And I was. He was like, yes. And then I went to, you know, Amsterdam and I was like, oh, I love that city. The canals. He's like, yes, but it's very bare. Why does that even come you up?

[Zach Klapman]

It's a Dutch language test.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. Oh.

[Matt Farah]

He's like, I love Finland. I was like, oh, really? What did you love about Finland? He was like, it's very easy.

[Jeff Glucker]

I was like, taking notes.

[Matt Farah]

What's going on?

[Jeff Glucker]

That's amazing. I had a dude. I was in New Hampshire. I had to fly back to deal with some stuff with my mother. And I landed late at night. Didn't try to arrange a press cars. I was like, let me just get here. Do this. The normal human being way landed in a dude from Tanzania, picked me up. I was like, oh, I'm going there later this year. And he lit up. He was just so happy that he was really. I was watching a movie on like an iPad while we were driving. He had lights going to match. I was like, am I in Vegas? Like, this is Anchester, New Hampshire. Like, I expect like Adam Sandler's dad to pick me up or something weird like that. But yeah, the light's going off. The nicest guy ever. I gave him a huge tip. He followed. I just was like. I was also jet lagged to him, like, whatever, New Year's. Thank you. You were wonderful to talk even. He lit up when I said, I'm going to Tesla. He's like, my mother's there, she's coming out soon. And great. It was wonderful. Delightful conversation. This today, though, was not m. I.

[Matt Farah]

Would say, is the worst. You ever get picked up in an Uber that's like a. A pickup truck.

[Jeff Glucker]

No.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

Yes.

[Jeff Glucker]

I've never Had a pickup.

[Matt Farah]

So I've been picked up in Tacomas. I've been picked up in F150s.

[Jeff Glucker]

It feels like. Like Hawaii. Like, if I let it. Yeah, that.

[Matt Farah]

That's kind of.

[Jeff Glucker]

And I'd be like, all right, yeah, let's do this.

[Zach Klapman]

I got picked up here in, like, a Pro X4 in the. Inside the. And the trunk or the. The bed was lined with carpet. Cause I had to put a suitcase in there. I was like, all right, that's kind of nice. But I remember years ago, I just.

[Jeff Glucker]

Gave it five stars.

[Zach Klapman]

I rode in, like, a Sierra 2500. And I was in the back, and the ride's uncomfortable. It's very stiff. And the guy was complaining to me that Uber wouldn't let him register the car as a luxury car for black service because it's a pickup truck. And he's like, this thing's nice, right?

[Jeff Glucker]

And I was like, yeah, maybe if it was a King Ranch Pro. I don't know. Like, I know it's a different brand.

[Matt Farah]

But he's in there arguing, your honor. It's a King ran.

[Jeff Glucker]

I had the issue where we. Whenever I was in New York, if you don't take a taxi in New York, you're, like, rolling the dice. Because a lot of times they all have to be wheelchair accessible, which is great. But they. But if it's. If it's marked as fitting. More than four people, you know, expecting a minivan or something to show up, they always have it ready, like, the backseat folded. So they always have to get out and unfold it. Where, like, odds are. And this is a touchy subject, but, like, odds are that should be ready to be a seat not folded out for Realtor action. He should get out and really quickly set it up. And it's great that they have that accessible. But every time I was, like, undoing this and unfolding that. So I was just in Boston. We needed to get to the airport. I was like, I'm just going to go big suv. Even though there's three of us with luggage. I'm like, rolling dice. And what showed up? Suburb. And I was like, oh, hell, yeah. That's. That's what I was looking for. Wasn't even black. It was just suv. I was like, this is what I'm talking about. And the dude was in a suit, so I'm like, oh, he's livery. This is on the side of.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, he's slimming to pick you up.

[Jeff Glucker]

And we were like, right in the city. So his to drop us over the airport in Boston. Five minute ride for him. He was like, yeah, easy. And I think they charged more for the airport to go through the tunnel. Anyway. He was stoked.

[Matt Farah]

I live so close to the airport that I. And I like a yellow cab at night. Coming, coming in because they're just there. Everyone else is standing around, looking at phone, waiting for an uber. Meanwhile, there's 35 yellow grab and go. And now I have a rhythm, but I've been. I, I was like, like, aggressively yelled at for living too close to the airport because the guy had waited in the cab line for like two hours or whatever. And it's 11:00. Like, like, sorry. By the way, this is why I worry.

[Jeff Glucker]

Why does I fly so much?

[Matt Farah]

Like, oh, fucking shit.

[Jeff Glucker]

I live close to the airport.

[Matt Farah]

Like, sorry. So now I have a whole thing now I have cash, now I land, I go, hey, man, listen, sorry, it's not very far, but, like, I'm paying cash and I'll take good care of you and I have to leave a really good tip.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

And whatever. And that usually disarms them.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And then I give them the address and it's. And you know, maybe by then my primer has made them think it's a half a mile, but it's really three and a half. Right.

[Jeff Glucker]

So, you know, so there's a little bit on the. Yeah, yeah. When I was in this, this lift today, I was sitting there thinking, like, I should have called a cab. Like, let's undo disruption and all the bullshit that's happened from the text.

[Matt Farah]

Dude, if they, if, if the cab, if like the, the taxi commission or whatever could adopt an Uber, like, software platform, I would much rather roll around in New York.

[Jeff Glucker]

Like, New York City proper has it. I, like, I think I used it last time I was there and I even. Well, last time I was there, I hit up Piccinello. I was like, hey, do you have to be a member to have dinner at the Classic Car Club? He's like, no. When you want reservations? Went down there. This was a year ago. Went down there with my family, you know, had a great dinner. Only my. I had two drinks. My wife had one drink. No one else drank. I got the bills and. Oh, shit. Like, and it wasn't that bad during New York City.

[Matt Farah]

The amount of.

[Jeff Glucker]

It really wasn't that bad for the amount of people. But I also was like, oh, oh, no, it really wasn't bad. I just wasn't. I wasn't thinking.

[Zach Klapman]

You weren't ready?

[Matt Farah]

No.

[Jeff Glucker]

And, yeah, I wasn't ready.

[Matt Farah]

My, my last couple weeks of. Of Ubers and Lyfts, you know, because there's a lot of Waymos rolling around here now. I said, really?

[Jeff Glucker]

Everybody seen one?

[Zach Klapman]

Oh, we see them every.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Stand in the driveway for. I guarantee you, you could one take.

[Jeff Glucker]

Me all the way to Orange county tonight.

[Matt Farah]

No. So I. If you're fenced, there's a geo fence, and I, I have the app, so, you know, it's kind of fucking sucks. The geofence is in between the shop and my home.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, shit. Really? Which is sort of annoying.

[Matt Farah]

So.

[Jeff Glucker]

But you would use them if it wasn't.

[Matt Farah]

If it went to my house, I would use them.

[Zach Klapman]

Oh, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Use them more.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Because I don't need them from here. I, I, I, I.

[Zach Klapman]

Because you're in a different city. You live in a different city technically, right?

[Jeff Glucker]

Because this.

[Matt Farah]

Because this, this city ends across the street. Yeah, yeah. I'm on the edge of the city here.

[Jeff Glucker]

Is this technically Culver or Inglewood?

[Matt Farah]

This. This building is the end of Culver City, and on the other side is.

[Jeff Glucker]

Plios, because the driver's like, we're going to Inglewood. I'm like, well, Culver City. But, you know, it's like, no, it's also fine. Just find things in the equal way.

[Matt Farah]

But I just got a notification that they've expanded the Waymo map. So let me see.

[Jeff Glucker]

Where. Let me see. I'd have map. That'd be an adventure. It would.

[Matt Farah]

You could also on the big screen, maybe. Oh, here. It's like, it's a home screen here. So it's like you can't see exactly where the border is, but it basically.

[Jeff Glucker]

I forgot you have moved the last phone.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, but little. I fit by 13 mini. So it goes. It's a band that moves the east and west across the city.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

But the bottom of the band, the southern end of the band, has a bit of, like, wrinkles in it.

[Jeff Glucker]

Let's call it that.

[Matt Farah]

Wrap in between my house and it's okay. They'll. They'll expand it. But like, dude, they.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, I'm not joking. I've never even seen a Waymo car.

[Matt Farah]

I. Oh, I'm telling you, if we do. If we just stand outside the studio on the stairwell for three minutes and we'll go by. When I was in San Francisco a week and a half ago, I you not. I saw more way mos than I saw, like, Ubers. Really? Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

How is it? How's the experience?

[Matt Farah]

I. I've only been in one once, and it Was fi.

[Jeff Glucker]

Fight. Yeah. It's fun. You don't have to, like, tell someone to shut up. Like, not that you would. I'm joking. I joke.

[Matt Farah]

I. I mean, like, I. I understand the. The appeal. I absolutely understand the appeal of it as a cat.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay. I mean, yeah. That.

[Matt Farah]

And it's like. I mean, and I. And look at me. I. I look like I was there on January 6th. Imagine if you're a woman.

[Jeff Glucker]

Don't think that's true.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, imagine if you're a woman yet.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, that's my point.

[Matt Farah]

If you're my wife or. Or, you know, or. Or, you know, any, like, woman I can imagine, that could be a threat.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's a very good point. Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate that.

[Matt Farah]

Or kid.

[Jeff Glucker]

Or just, like, someone who doesn't want to get hear the shit from someone else. What? Any marginalized person.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Would probably love the idea of a way.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Right. And, like, even though I learned about what countries were the best to immigrate as a marriage, like, my fucking settings for Uber are, like, cool and shut the fuck off. The person has to acknowledge, though. And then they.

[Jeff Glucker]

I got one home when I dropped my Montero for service again. And that's an expensive Uber because I go, you know. You go to your guy to Visa for your nsx. Yeah. Just like. Just like you. I go to a guy from my Montero. He's in Bell Garden. Oh, yeah. Which from. It's like, forest is about $100 each way. But the guy got in it, gave me the warning. It's like, hey, he's deaf. And gave you. Ed actually gave you some. Hello. Like, he gave you some signs to practice when he. I was like, that's really amazing. And I was sitting on the corner going like, I forget him already because I'm an asshole. I'm like, hello. You know, like, I got in the car, I'm like, I don't think this guy's deaf.

[Zach Klapman]

I've had a lot of that lately.

[Jeff Glucker]

A lot of it. I think he just didn't want to fucking talk.

[Zach Klapman]

I've had that.

[Matt Farah]

Isn't that. Isn't that a fucking plot point of Seinfeld?

[Jeff Glucker]

I think it is.

[Matt Farah]

Elaine pretends to be deaf so cab drivers don't talk to her.

[Jeff Glucker]

That makes.

[Matt Farah]

That's an episode of Seinfeld. And listen. Okay.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. Spike's like, I wrote that fuck out.

[Zach Klapman]

I've had a lot of drivers lately that do not speak English. That's what I found.

[Jeff Glucker]

And then he, like, talked to me a little bit. I'm like, this guy's no fucking dad. I'm like, but you know what? I appreciate the move for both of us. I was literally practicing on the side before he came and got me looking.

[Zach Klapman]

At if you had gotten in and started signing. And he looks and he's like, oh, I forgot what they are.

[Matt Farah]

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[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. So anyway, there's the map of Waymos are. Are expanding.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's up. It's all.

[Matt Farah]

It's like a botch.

[Jeff Glucker]

You can get through like a good part of the downtown Hollywood. Wow.

[Matt Farah]

You could take.

[Jeff Glucker]

I mean you can go from the coast to deep into.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. You can go from Venice to Hollywood in Uema. And if you.

[Jeff Glucker]

If any of you are looking at this and you know la, that's a.

[Matt Farah]

Lot of important areas to get the blue from. From the. The westernmost blue where it says Santa Monica on the map. That's that specific fallacy. And you wouldn't need to go more west than that because there isn't heavy.

[Jeff Glucker]

I mean, judging by this map, you can get to your boat dock in Marina del Rey. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

You can go from Hollywood to your yacht in Marina Del Rey without a unit.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. It's about a 10 mile, 10, 12 miles across.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, of course. They have so far. That's smart. That's also Kia Forum. That's also Intuit.

[Matt Farah]

So anyway, good times. And he'll keep expanding.

[Jeff Glucker]

So I'm gonna have to drive to your house and then I can't. I'm Gonna drive here to get awaymo. Well, we're eventually. Want to go see. We're going to run the Jewel. Are you gonna go to that? I get back from. We're doing a huge personal family trip this year. Like a dream trip. We're going to Africa. I get back the day before that concert. I'm like, it's a lot. Couldn't make this.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah. I saw Run the Jewels last year and it was like one of the best shows I've ever been to. It was sick.

[Jeff Glucker]

He responded to me before on Instagram. I'm like, I'm friends with Mike Brown, Right.

[Matt Farah]

Where's the show?

[Jeff Glucker]

It's Crypto. Oh, here? Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

Crypto.com.

[Matt Farah]

Well, it's a tour.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's Wu Tang's final tour. I've seen Wu Tang. When they opened for Rage against the Machine.

[Matt Farah]

I saw that show. Two dates 97.

[Jeff Glucker]

So did you see them down in New York area?

[Matt Farah]

I saw them at the Brendan Byrne arena, which became Continental Airlines arena, where the Nets played. And then I saw them at the.

[Jeff Glucker]

Hartford Meadows, where there were riots and.

[Matt Farah]

They burned the fucking place.

[Jeff Glucker]

So I saw them at Greatwoods, which is no longer Great woods in Massachusetts. We saw a great Pearl Jam show. It was like the whole. You know. But apparently they played verses. It's where they played every song over the course of three days. I didn't go to that, but my friends went to all of it. But the night before Rage was supposed to come to Greatwoods, Zach De La Rocha broke his.

[Matt Farah]

That's the show I was at.

[Jeff Glucker]

So that's why that's a broken episode. I was at the fucking next show. Rage was late. Wu Tang played for two hours. Well, ODB was alive. Rage shows up. They. Oh, and it's an outdoor, so they have a curfew. Rage plays 10 songs. He doesn't move. Album perfect. Album perfect. It was unbelievable. And to get two hours of Wu Tang was incredible.

[Matt Farah]

So at both shows I was at. Wu Tang kind of sucked.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, not in my show.

[Matt Farah]

Like, I. I can't wait for that going. Oh, okay. Wu Tang is a great.

[Jeff Glucker]

Did you like Wu Tang? Like the albums?

[Matt Farah]

I think. I think a. I liked and still loved the idea of Wu Tang.

[Jeff Glucker]

I can understand it.

[Matt Farah]

I like.

[Jeff Glucker]

I like their music.

[Matt Farah]

I respect all of them. But, like, I didn't think they put on at all of them, though.

[Jeff Glucker]

Even the tertiary particular Dissected Deck, who.

[Matt Farah]

I've totally heard from Breeze.

[Jeff Glucker]

Ghostface is one of the best of all time.

[Matt Farah]

Ghostface is one of the best of all time. And. And Christian Hand has crazy stories about RZA because he was in Gravediggers with rza.

[Jeff Glucker]

Are you shitting? I don't think I knew that about Christian.

[Matt Farah]

Christian Hand was a foreign member of Grave Digging. And has he had to sub in.

[Jeff Glucker]

For some of the Grave Digest stories? Come on.

[Zach Klapman]

No, for real.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, his picture.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, I did not notice that Christian.

[Matt Farah]

Hand was dosed by Rizzo.

[Zach Klapman]

What do they call him? Skull Cap? He's like ghosts. He's like DJ Skull Cap or something.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

He had to south bank someone British or American.

[Matt Farah]

What the. Literally the white guy in Gravedale come.

[Jeff Glucker]

On live a year.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. He was also in PM dawn fishing. Him was in PM dawn also.

[Jeff Glucker]

I did not know.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, my God.

[Matt Farah]

He was crazy.

[Jeff Glucker]

Ecgh. Lore. Gross. He's one of the most interesting person people I've ever do.

[Matt Farah]

You know what he's just added to his resume.

[Jeff Glucker]

You know what he's doing right now? I know. He was just. If you're telling me about the Eagles of the Sphere, funny story about that. Okay, so they announced that.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

And I sent. I sent him on Instagram. I was like, dude, I know you don't care about the Eagles, but I like the Eagles. And to see Hotel California live in the Sphere would be incredible. He wrote back, he's like, the Eagles. This would be terrible. I shouldn't even be saying this. He's like. He's like never. Blah, blah, blah. And I saw him post that. He's doing that. The spirit's a great chance. You read a whole thing as like, you motherfucker.

[Matt Farah]

Well, so, you know, here's company that made the U2 show.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay. Or the dude was like hand holding iPhone Shit.

[Matt Farah]

Well, so the gut. So the company that made the U2 show. The company that made the Grateful Dead show is called Treatment. Christian got a gig working for Treatment.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Treatment was brought in to fix the Eagles show.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

So what Christian. The thing he got to do was. I don't know if the word is produced, but be heavily involved in a complete piece.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

There's probably an exact title. And I doubt Producer is it, but.

[Jeff Glucker]

He picture his accent. I was the director of Un Fucking up. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Of like, unfucking thing. And so it was pretty cool. That is very cool. To make a thing for the Sphere is pretty cool.

[Jeff Glucker]

That is very cool. I love Christian support everything he does. So that's very incredible.

[Matt Farah]

We're gonna go out to that show. We're gonna go see it at some point.

[Jeff Glucker]

Let me know.

[Matt Farah]

I'M sure we can arrange that.

[Jeff Glucker]

Let me know. We should do it.

[Matt Farah]

To see that we should do it.

[Jeff Glucker]

I would love to do it.

[Matt Farah]

All right, let's. Let's phone that.

[Jeff Glucker]

I haven't been to the Sphere yet, so.

[Matt Farah]

It's unbelievable.

[Zach Klapman]

I want to see real, which is obviously not.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm staying at a hotel that was like near the Sphere for the fucking McLaren. Can I say what you text me on that? How fast you went?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay. Because like he. We were waves apart.

[Matt Farah]

Was this 750 or was. It was 750, right? Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Can I say it?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I was like. I was like, dude, this car is. This car's sick because they. They like got us permission to drive through what's not a state park or.

[Matt Farah]

Is it a state Valley of Fire.

[Jeff Glucker]

And there was no cars. And I, I always try to leave first just to get it, you know? Yeah, that's the move. I try to leave first. And I left first on this one. And I'm. I'm the road. There's a section where the road is just straight forever. And you're just like, well, well, exactly. And you're like. And I get up to. I probably got up to like 120 and I'm like, kilometers per hour. Of course. Yeah, fuck it. I don't care. Was that 120 miles an hour in America? Eagles in a British car. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Comes in handy. Okay. Nobody.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, the guy be like, oh, shit, that was 750. This new.

[Matt Farah]

Even the most egalitarian civilized society needs a road in the middle of the goddamn desert. Okay. It doesn't have anything to do with taxes or health care.

[Jeff Glucker]

Montana backed off their reasonable importance. Still need that one thing. So doing about 120. Slow down. Because I'm like, you know, be smart. And then I'm like, I'm still on the road. I'm like, man, let's try it again. I go up, I text, I text Matt.

[Matt Farah]

And it's like seven miles.

[Jeff Glucker]

So long. No cars. I can see. So it's. People will be like, you shouldn't go that fast if you're in the moment and you can see miles ahead and there's visibility and the car is perfectly safe. And the only one. I'm going to hurt if a tire. I know I am. This is more for people listening. I know I'm preaching the choir because I haven't said yours.

[Matt Farah]

No, Even our people. Even our people, we know what the middle of the desert is for. It's okay. We're not In a school zone. We're in the middle of the desert.

[Jeff Glucker]

If a tire blows, I've done it to myself.

[Matt Farah]

Valley of fire. There's nobody.

[Jeff Glucker]

When I licked that bitch on fire. No, I didn't. Because I text Farah. I'm like, yeah, I was in the rain and I had the top down and I did 140. Like, okay, all right.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, the rain. That was 720 spider. That was me and Chris was 750. No, that was 720 spider. Cuz it rained.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay, it rained.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

All right. But you're going fast enough to move the rain.

[Matt Farah]

Yes. 74. If you stay over 74, you stay dry.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Me and. That was. Me and Kristen Lee had had a lot of fun on that launch. Shared. Shared a car. I just got a 750 for the road and track Austin event, which includes a Coda track day.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, yeah. They were like, have you driven Coda?

[Matt Farah]

Never.

[Jeff Glucker]

Me either. No, I actually driven the go kart track outside with Will Barber. Yeah, yeah, Will. Very nice guy.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, Will Barbour, wax Canadian.

[Jeff Glucker]

Waxed me.

[Zach Klapman]

And very fast.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, he can wheel.

[Zach Klapman]

I don't think he owns a car. He lives in New York.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, he isn't. No, no, no, no, no.

[Zach Klapman]

You're talking about Schultz.

[Matt Farah]

Schultz.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, no, no, no.

[Matt Farah]

Will Schultz lives in Austin and he's.

[Jeff Glucker]

An editor for Tangent.

[Zach Klapman]

Yep.

[Matt Farah]

Yes.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay. Yes, he has a Z06.

[Zach Klapman]

Yep.

[Matt Farah]

Yes, that's Will Schultz. He edited All Cars Go to Heaven.

[Jeff Glucker]

He just. He was also on Edith. Yeah, his name's in Edith.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Will Barber's also fast.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Zach Klapman]

Filmed the first run of Edith.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

But he had to come back down because of altitude issues or couldn't go back for the second.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

He was at a. Our mutual friend's bachelor party and I show up as the car journalist. Like, no, let's go on the karting track. I was like, oh, that guy's morning.

[Matt Farah]

You know, Morningstar, too.

[Jeff Glucker]

He never owned a car because he weighs nine pounds.

[Matt Farah]

He would wax people. Dude.

[Zach Klapman]

No, he was pretty. He was good, though.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. But he also. He also. He weighs nothing. And he has, I think, probably no fear.

[Zach Klapman]

Correct.

[Jeff Glucker]

Like negative. Negative fear. I'm gonna go live alone in the woods.

[Matt Farah]

No fear. Full send.

[Jeff Glucker]

Has he ever finished his cabin? Oh, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

He has like four or five different structures up there that he could build himself. Yeah, it's crazy.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's how far behind I am. The Morningstar time. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

No, he's. He's built things.

[Jeff Glucker]

Good for him.

[Matt Farah]

Very much committed Good for him. I forgot how we've ended up there.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, I know. Like, so what do you guys think?

[Matt Farah]

Back up to cars.

[Jeff Glucker]

What do you guys think about cars?

[Matt Farah]

Where do we exit cars? Forgot where that happened.

[Jeff Glucker]

Driven anything good lately?

[Matt Farah]

Tanzania. Uber to Tanzania.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's a personal trip.

[Matt Farah]

Personal trip in June.

[Jeff Glucker]

That'll be a good one. There's a car there. We have a Land Cruiser taking us around where they're like, what do you. What kind of drinks do you want on board? Like, hell, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

It's. It's Safari. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Days finished with three days on Zanzibar.

[Matt Farah]

Sick.

[Jeff Glucker]

I basically took the money I made on that Motor Trend show I did with Johnny, which got cut. Canceled with two episodes to film, which is a shame. Thanks, David Zaslav.

[Matt Farah]

Fun while lasting.

[Jeff Glucker]

It was really fun. We even filmed one more that they didn't edit, which is a real kick in the dick. Like, we shot it all and it was awesome. We.

[Matt Farah]

It was like, yo, I'll give you 50 for the.

[Jeff Glucker]

Give me the footage. Yeah, exactly. Because it was a Bentley. Johnny had a Bentley. I had the Electric 7 series. What is it? The i7 M70. What's the big Electric.

[Matt Farah]

Very inspiringly named i7 M60 Li square.

[Jeff Glucker]

Listen, I am no BMW fan. I take any chance I can get to shit on BMW. Even though E46 is one of the greatest cars I've ever driven, the i7 M70, whatever the fuck its name is, is one of the nicest vehicles I've ever driven. And it ended. We rented out tracks, streets of Willow. The whole idea was like, we very, you know, pseudo Top Geary, where we.

[Matt Farah]

Sit in the back and did Bentley. Did Johnny have the flying spur speed hybrid?

[Jeff Glucker]

I think it was pre hybrid.

[Matt Farah]

I think it was just flying spur speed.

[Jeff Glucker]

Just flying spur speed. If I had to remember correctly, the other person had to sit in the back while the person drove their car with a plate of charcuterie. And as much as you could keep on the plate, like, didn't affect your lap time. And I drove first and Johnny was in the back. He's like, can I hold it? I'm like, yeah, hold it. Like, not even thinking. And he, like, covered it so, like, nothing fell off his plate. And I even forgot to turn off traction control in the BMW. I go. And I'm like, wasn't even thinking. He hits the gas right off the line. All of it falls off the plate. And I still beat him in the BMW. Because the BMW was that fucking good on the track, folks.

[Matt Farah]

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[Jeff Glucker]

Like, we gave the wind to the BMW and that episode was never cut.

[Matt Farah]

Did the driver actually end up driving pretty much as quick as possible?

[Jeff Glucker]

We drove as hard as we could.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh yeah. Because like we, there was, we went into these with no, there was no planned outcomes. It was whatever happens happens. Who gives a shit? Like there were times where I'm like, I had to fight for a win for a vehicle. Johnny was like, no, no, no, this like we would, we would legit arg. We're like, we settled. We turn to production. We're like, all right, we got a winner. Like, did we.

[Matt Farah]

When we did the car show for Speed back in the day, someone was just. Did we do that with tattooing?

[Zach Klapman]

Yes, we did. Wow, I forgot about that. We did do that.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, actual. Well, we copied it from Jackass. Right? Jackass.

[Jeff Glucker]

Stevo got a tattoo first.

[Matt Farah]

No, we didn't. No. We had a rolls Royce Phantom versus my box 62. Lapping Willow Springs. I drove the role. Big, big Willow Streets would be rough. Yeah. Lapping the track with someone in the backseat, getting a tattoo, getting a car show logo.

[Zach Klapman]

Just like a random fan, boyfriend, girlfriend, couple who were just like, sure, we'll do that for whatever money we paid.

[Jeff Glucker]

They already have tattoos.

[Zach Klapman]

It was a guy, girl, couple.

[Matt Farah]

Okay.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, they had tattoos.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Zach Klapman]

So they were like, whatever, like a day rate thing.

[Jeff Glucker]

But yeah, there's 700 bucks.

[Matt Farah]

There's a bell curve of tattooing.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And when you cross it, you'll just get.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, yeah. No, for sure.

[Matt Farah]

Someone's like, free tattoo. It's like, well, it's a dick that says heil Hitler. You're like, well, but I got it.

[Jeff Glucker]

But I can add it to. You know what? I need to. I need to feel right on tv.

[Zach Klapman]

So of course people show up for that.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, they did. We did tattooing in the back.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's amazing.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Dan Neal drove the Maybach and I drove.

[Zach Klapman]

And I remember him getting out, going, I can't believe we were doing.

[Matt Farah]

No, it wasn't the Rolls Royce. It was the Bentley Molsan. It was the 2010. The white one. The Bentley. That's my dream.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's a great segue, that show to one of my favorite moments in the history of the this podcast. Which is kind of why I was like, hey, Matt, I can't make a thousand. Can you squeeze me in?

[Matt Farah]

993.

[Jeff Glucker]

I think I was originally five air.

[Matt Farah]

Cool.

[Jeff Glucker]

You're on episode three or five, which is insane.

[Matt Farah]

You might have.

[Jeff Glucker]

And you guys would text me like, dude, can you. Like, hell yeah. Like, pre child for me, you guys were in the hills.

[Matt Farah]

So if you're on episode five and 995, I'm guessing five. He said you probably have the best spread.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, yeah, good point.

[Matt Farah]

Congrats.

[Jeff Glucker]

I spread. Matt.

[Matt Farah]

Biggest spread.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, but what I was gonna say is one of my favorite moments is when you eventually had John Sally on. For some reason, you brought up my name. For some, I don't even remember why, but John, it was like Saying something that went against somebody else's argument. And John Sally goes, fuck that guy. Like, as a joke. And I heard it. Used to still listen to podcasts outside of the Dollop, by the way. I'm still jealous of that one. Dave Anthony and the James May one, but we can dive into those too. When John Sally said that, I was howling with laughter. I'm like, john Sally, just go and go.

[Matt Farah]

I wonder if I should. Oh, for one. All right, I'm going to try to text John Sally. Oh, Jesus Christ. I mean, I have his number from 10 years ago. He had three phones.

[Jeff Glucker]

He's an NBA player.

[Matt Farah]

What are the odds one of those numbers still pops up?

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, shit. Matt Farah.

[Matt Farah]

I will try to get him back for the 1000.

[Jeff Glucker]

When you sent the text saying, hey, we're doing a thousand, I looked at the date. I'm going to be in Puerto Rico, which is a good excuse.

[Matt Farah]

It's okay. You're here now. I think he was just weaseling for a solo show. Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

You know, I love the solo show. Like, I saw a few, like, crew shows in Rome. Like, I can squeeze in one. That's true. You're crew plus fucking salmon up streaming at this.

[Matt Farah]

My man knows content. He knows how we schedule it. Dude, we're getting a lazy period sometimes. It's all right.

[Jeff Glucker]

I have a question for you. Have back when I. I'm almost going back to, like, when I gave a. About me doing podcasts, too. I miss doing mine. How. How consistent have you been with one a week? Like, I know there's been three weeks.

[Zach Klapman]

We've been two weeks.

[Jeff Glucker]

Two years.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, two weeks for.

[Zach Klapman]

For five. At least five years.

[Matt Farah]

At least five years.

[Jeff Glucker]

Maybe. When was episode one? What year? Not 2010.

[Matt Farah]

2010 or 11.

[Jeff Glucker]

Jesus Christ.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, we did one a week.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. Okay. And then you switch to two.

[Matt Farah]

And then we went to two.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. So. So many. Almost a thousand, you might say. Almost.

[Zach Klapman]

You might say it's almost a thousand.

[Matt Farah]

That's all. You might say it's 900.

[Jeff Glucker]

When I rebooted my podcast, like, a two years ago, it came up. Spike was like, oh, wow, Glucker's getting a podcast. I'm like, dude, I. I was doing these before. I was like, Barry did his. There was a couple other ones. And, like, I used to rank too. I do is with my podcast.

[Matt Farah]

Somebody asked Pearl Jam on some interview recently, like, what's the secret to your band's longevity?

[Jeff Glucker]

I thought you were gonna say, like, Farah's.

[Matt Farah]

No, Jeff Ament was like, I have to say, not breaking up.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And you're like, well, yeah. And like, that's. That's.

[Jeff Glucker]

That makes sense because I. I was so. Not to bring it back to me, but when I.

[Matt Farah]

You're the guest. Your name is in the title to the show.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's. You guys fucked up on that fucking crazy algorithm.

[Matt Farah]

Just went center card and everything. Algorithm killing. Center card. When I was going to put dollar signs around your face. How much money?

[Jeff Glucker]

Cross them out. When. When I used to do this with Hayes, who was an amazing support piece for me being able to do it at all. I just hated driving to his fucking house to do it because it was. And he knew it. It was such a long drive, but he put so much effort into it and work. And you had comments that were like, I love Chris. I hate Chris. It was divided. I didn't. He put so much effort into it. I just hated the drive and it burnt me out. And we had no ads and I said, fuck this. Even though we were ranking in itunes. Like, we would put an episode out, it would come up, and it took a break. And then Ron Baugh and I came out and did it for a while. And now I'm letting other people. I'm like, you want to do it under our name? Please, go ahead. So for you guys to make do a thousand is awesome.

[Zach Klapman]

You were on episode eight, and that was in February of 2012.

[Matt Farah]

Wow.

[Jeff Glucker]

God damn.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

2012.

[Matt Farah]

So I guess it was probably like December 2011.

[Zach Klapman]

I think that. Yeah. Our first published episode, according to.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

One. January 19th of 2012.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, okay.

[Jeff Glucker]

I think back to.

[Matt Farah]

I've been quoting the wrong year this year. I thought it was 2011.

[Jeff Glucker]

Back to, like, I thought it was 2012. The house.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, it was great.

[Jeff Glucker]

On the hill was.

[Matt Farah]

Someone just sent me a photo of it the other day. It was. God, it was great.

[Jeff Glucker]

I missed his Pug is no longer with us.

[Matt Farah]

Rip Darla. Rip Conrad.

[Jeff Glucker]

We make. I would occasionally even text Nino randomly, like Pizza Dave, which was a quote we used to say. Now I have a pizza oven, which is the greatest joy in my life.

[Matt Farah]

Which one do you rock?

[Jeff Glucker]

Gosney. Yeah, I got the Arkadel and I literally have been posting almost nothing but pizza content.

[Zach Klapman]

Really?

[Jeff Glucker]

Well, I relaxed a little bit, but I went. It was going hard for a bit.

[Matt Farah]

And when you go real hard in a thing, it's. Dude, there's pizza stuff.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's why there's only 50 likes.

[Matt Farah]

I had a real dumpling period. Oh, I made wonton soup. The Other night when you and Hannah came back from a couple wonton soup.

[Jeff Glucker]

When you and Hannah came back from Italy, you were hard on that for a while because the grandma taught you my ragu though.

[Matt Farah]

My ragu is next level. And then during COVID I sent that ragu to the moon.

[Jeff Glucker]

Thad was hitting me up after I got my my oven. He's like, dude, I'm here for the pizza concert. I got the Gauzy Arc xl.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

And I love that. This is not a car podcast this episode. I'm happy. Well, I'm about to talk about pearls at next after this.

[Matt Farah]

I mean we talk about cars all the time, all day, every day. I think sometimes it's nice to talk about other things with friends.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yes.

[Matt Farah]

And maybe it's not good for the algorithm or.

[Jeff Glucker]

I already told you, but my name in the title. Screw that up. Anyway, I was just at the all drain.

[Zach Klapman]

We can talk about that pizza by the show.

[Matt Farah]

Aren't they great?

[Jeff Glucker]

I was talking to Zach about this because my brother in law really. Hi Ben. My brother in law. Really, who met you guys. Actually he really wants me to. He's like, dude, how do you get invited to that old car ass driving thing? He's like, well, you know, you could.

[Matt Farah]

You could get in.

[Jeff Glucker]

Get me in on it.

[Matt Farah]

Don't you know Donald?

[Jeff Glucker]

I don't. I know they sell his bow ties right in the Audrey for like a shitload.

[Matt Farah]

Really?

[Jeff Glucker]

I didn't know there's like. Like sterling silver. There's a whole case just.

[Matt Farah]

Donald, I love you. Please never change.

[Zach Klapman]

You can probably DM their Instagram because they're.

[Matt Farah]

No, no, follow me. Yeah, I can intro that.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, I want, I want to attend that.

[Matt Farah]

So I'm gonna blow.

[Jeff Glucker]

My brother in law really wants so.

[Matt Farah]

Hard right now so they. We can go there and we can do their. Their veteran run. Yeah, like we've. Like Zach and I have done. It's so fun if we put together a group of like perspectives 10 to 12 folks.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

They will send us a fleet of cars and we can do our own here.

[Jeff Glucker]

I really want to do Rhode island though.

[Matt Farah]

Rhode island is a good for it. Yeah. Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

My in laws are from there. I went to college just over the bridge in uri. Yeah, so did Hannah. We were there at the same time and didn't know each other and I randomly. While I was back there a month ago visiting family, we went and visited my wife's niece who's a freshman there and I ate in one of the dorms. I gotta tell Hannah this too, because it was fucking amazing to be. I'm just sitting there going like, I cannot believe I'm here right now. Yeah, you're, like, freaking out because it's totally different too. But. And the. But we went to her dorm room, which looked exactly like the same prison cell, but she's like that building over there. You get your own rooms and it's like a hotel now. I was like, oh, shit. But I'm walking around, like, in the. In the. In the dining hall, they had this app where you could, like, change the music overhead. I'm like, oh, I would have abused the fuck out of that. There would have been a slip slide up and down. And it was a good range of music, too. Some country, some Kendrick, some, like, random shit. And I'm like, like, oh, people paying. Kendrick going back to California. And it was so wild to be there. But I don't. Even. The gist of it is I would love to get back to Rhode island to experience that. I'm open to.

[Matt Farah]

Newport is kind of an awesome place to visit.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's an interesting town.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

In the winter it's dead as fuck.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Matt Farah]

No, but the Audrain concourse week is a really good time.

[Jeff Glucker]

They shut down that street, right?

[Matt Farah]

They shut down and just Newport for that type of event. Like, me and my dad literally went to all the events on fucking bird scooters. And like, you can't do that everywhere, but you can do it in Newport and with the veteran cars. You know, the island of Newport isn't very big, but when you're going 17.

[Jeff Glucker]

Miles an hour, it takes forever.

[Matt Farah]

It takes a while. But yeah, you can come out and do it. I don't know if we can do it this year, but the car we drove last year, the Yale, that was.

[Jeff Glucker]

The good one, right? Yeah, because I watched both of them. I was. I watched both of them. I was very entertaining. That was sick. The first one was a thing.

[Matt Farah]

Dude, we all did. No, the first one was a thing.

[Jeff Glucker]

We did.

[Matt Farah]

The second one, we almost podiumed. We were mobbing and I was fucking puffing a Cuban for this whole thing. It was such a bomb shout out to Ben with the cigars. That was our.

[Jeff Glucker]

It was very. Feeling good, looking good.

[Matt Farah]

No, but the. But the oysters and the fucking white wine up there and the boat life. Newport is one of the greatest.

[Jeff Glucker]

I am apparently the Segway King. One of the greatest documentaries you can watch is about America's. And I'm not a sailing guy. I need boats with throttles. And power.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, you mean the Australia joint.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. Oh, that's an amazing documentary.

[Matt Farah]

Did we talk about it last time you were here?

[Jeff Glucker]

I wouldn't be surprised because I probably had just watched. Watched it. I haven't been on for a bit.

[Matt Farah]

You're right. In terms of like top three sports documentaries ever. What's the name of it? I'd have to Google the America's cup sports document where they developed the hull.

[Jeff Glucker]

And he's like, kind of like a.

[Zach Klapman]

Race of the century.

[Matt Farah]

Yes, Untold. The race of the century.

[Jeff Glucker]

He develops that crazy keel. And again, I'm not a sailboat guy, but I'm just like. And I was watching it.

[Matt Farah]

No, but you get. You can get it.

[Jeff Glucker]

I was renting a house down in Musquammakish from a friend who's in tertiary car industry. He has an old beach house there. We rent it when we go back there because it's a town over from Watch Hill. Because we can't afford Watch Hill, which is where Taylor lives.

[Matt Farah]

Can't afford Watch Hill. Was stuck in Mesquamocean.

[Jeff Glucker]

My favorite boat of all time, because I have a favorite boat is in just down the road in Watch Hill.

[Matt Farah]

Stars and Stripes.

[Jeff Glucker]

No. Aphrodite.

[Matt Farah]

Aphrodite. Oh, isn't that the Onassis boat?

[Jeff Glucker]

No.

[Matt Farah]

Whose boat was it? What makes it the best?

[Jeff Glucker]

It was owned by a businessman in Staten island who donated it to the war effort back in the day. FDR used to be on it watching sea trials of other boats. And this boat was faster and smoother.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, is it like what they'd call a commuter boat?

[Jeff Glucker]

It was.

[Matt Farah]

It was like gorgeous. Yeah. Commuter boat. Oh, it's fucking sick.

[Jeff Glucker]

So it was found. It was found in the mud in Florida. Of course ruined. It was restored. The guy who owns the Ocean House in Wash Hill.

[Matt Farah]

Scroll right there. This. So what we're looking at is probably about a 65. Oh, 74. 74 foot.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's my favorite boat on the planet.

[Matt Farah]

Imagine like. Okay, imagine it's the Rolls Royce Wraith of boats. Aft cabin, long nose, high end materials, very fast, sleek. It's like that raked back job.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's like what Hinkley owners masturbate to.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. So they call these a commuter boats.

[Jeff Glucker]

Because basically looking at the camera on.

[Matt Farah]

That, folks who would live on like the Great Gatsby part of Long island would have these shits and commute into the city.

[Jeff Glucker]

I said Staten. It was probably Long Island.

[Matt Farah]

No, it was Long Island. That is Long Island. That ain't Staten Island.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, I saw the end of the Andrew Schultz stand up. It wasn't Staten island, if you've seen that one on Netflix.

[Matt Farah]

But when I was doing my boat scam when I was reviewing boats.

[Jeff Glucker]

Dude, I'm so jealous.

[Matt Farah]

Great scam while it lasted. It was great scam ended hard and fast. But I drove. Billy Joel had a commuter boat called Vendetta. Can you just pull it up real quick? Billy Joel, motor yacht Vendetta. It's a sort of modernized version of this. It was 65ft, zero staterooms. The whole inside was just a bar, like Cheers.

[Jeff Glucker]

Shit.

[Matt Farah]

That was.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, wow.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it was so sick. I personally did like 45 yachts of this thing. Yeah, it was awesome. It was great.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, my God. So the Aphrodite this year, the Ocean House has opened it, which is an insane.

[Matt Farah]

Look at that. Look at that angle.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's. I mean, this. Oh, it's like the boat tail.

[Matt Farah]

If you're at home listening to the audio of this, please make a note to Google the rear 3/4 view of motor yacht Vendetta.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's. It's. And I will give it credit, Aphrodite remains my favorite. That is.

[Matt Farah]

It's different.

[Jeff Glucker]

Stunner. That's in Florida too. Where that is. That looks like Florida.

[Matt Farah]

This. Yeah. I don't know where it is now.

[Jeff Glucker]

But I mean, that was.

[Matt Farah]

This was in new. That looks like Marilla Dog.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's Palm Beach. Oh, look at that photo, too.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

I want to find the house here.

[Matt Farah]

Look at the overhead.

[Jeff Glucker]

What's the big yacht community? Not Palm beach, but it is.

[Matt Farah]

What's Palm Beach?

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

With all the canals and. Yeah, okay. That looks like Palm beach to me.

[Matt Farah]

Look at that. See, there you can see, there's the. The thing that's all bar below and then the engine. No.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, but there's no state room. I know. He's like, we got a place to drink and a place to.

[Matt Farah]

That's it.

[Jeff Glucker]

Honestly, that's rad.

[Matt Farah]

Sick. Rad is good for you, Billy Joel.

[Jeff Glucker]

I. I loved the boating scam. Those were some of my. It was so good, dude. You're like, we're out here in Newport, twin sticks. Look at the. How smooth it is. Because you did one of the boats that had the.

[Matt Farah]

The gyro.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, the gyro Secret. Yeah. It's not a gimmick. Oh, it's legit, right?

[Matt Farah]

Oh, no. It's unbelievable. It. It, It's. That's like. That's like if you showed that to someone in the 1940s they would be like, you could have a cult. You could very easily start a cult by having a Seakeeper. You'd be like, I can stop the way, right? Just like, have the clicker in your pocket.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, yeah. Rockvell's like, ah, I gotta give this guy a blowjob. All right, you want the Biltmore? Here's the key.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, my God. Okay, wait. So I want an update on all of your totally not boxes. No. Okay, so let me take that.

[Jeff Glucker]

Start with my West Mazda CX5.

[Matt Farah]

I want an update. I want an update of the Glucker garage from most broken. Most broken to least broken.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, well, the Mustang, okay, counts as more broken than the Mercedes, which some of you will be amazed. Yeah, I still own the Mercedes. My Mustang, which I don't even know when you have to scroll because I got so tired of not showing. I'm playing guitar in front of it in that 60s Mustang 67 that I bought. I should have done the YouTuber thing. I bought the world's cheapest Mustang, because I did.

[Matt Farah]

I just did it to great success. Taycan, go on.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, we're talking about different price. I'm jealous of that one too.

[Matt Farah]

Still, it was the cheapest.

[Jeff Glucker]

You and I, sometimes our brains are in sync on that. That was a smart move. I immediately started when you posted that. I was like, immediately went to fucking Autotrader and Craigslist. I got a shout. Autotrader, because they pay me.

[Matt Farah]

Okay, so Mustang is Mustang.

[Jeff Glucker]

I bought it from Motortrend. Derek Beery Show Roadworthy Rescues Season one, Episode one. They find a Mustang in the swamps of Tennessee on a farm for 28 years. He rescued it, made it road worthy as the name of the show implies.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Then it went to a lot that Motor Trend owned. I bought it because I've always wanted a Mustang. But Mustang prices are fucked, especially Fastbacks. Fastback prices are broken. It's 30 grand for a shell, which is stupid. There was a while where you could pick up running Mustangs v8 Mustangs for good prices. And that day is gone. I think we'll get back there, but we're. But we're not there now. So I. This Mustang, a friend of mine who's a producer for Motor Trender was, He's like, oh, you want that piece of shit? Normally when Motor Trend has to sell a car, there's a list of names who want it, and they might roll the dice, like, all right, you get it? He's like, no one's name is on. I was like, oh, That's a bad sign. He's like, they're asking 2,500. He goes, for that fucking car offer, a thousand. He goes, no, fuck that offer, 750. I go, hey, Steve, who's the guy? The. The keeper? I was like, 750. Goes, deal. I was like, oh. And then a dude who was like logistics for head to head drag race on our show and was. Did logistics for Ken Block's family too. Like moving race cars. He just loves being on the road, towing ship. Like, Cody, could you tow that car from their lot, wherever it is up in LA to my house? He goes, yeah, deal. Didn't charge me. I handed him a bottle. I think a bottle of whiskey or bourbon that he liked. He's like, awesome, man. We unloaded it. Running driving straight six, automatic Mustang.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, here it is.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, that thing. Oh, look. Playing Wu Tang in the background. Come on. That's full circle moment.

[Matt Farah]

It basically looks like the before of Bumblebee. Oh, this is old transformers.

[Jeff Glucker]

Engine is still in it.

[Matt Farah]

Wow.

[Jeff Glucker]

So running driving roof because the hood is on.

[Zach Klapman]

The slant six is like three on the tree.

[Jeff Glucker]

Straight six.

[Zach Klapman]

Straight six.

[Jeff Glucker]

Not a slant six, sorry, straight six. Four. Four speed. No, three. Whatever the C4 is. So it's a dog shit.

[Matt Farah]

You're getting rid of that, right?

[Jeff Glucker]

This is very. That's 24.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, yeah. So you've gotten rid of that?

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, all of that is gone. I bought. I found a guy who wanted it all, which is great. I took off half the shit I didn't want. I posted it. I'm talking engine, trans, drive shaft, suspension, brakes, all the shit. Because a V8 car is a five lug. Those are four lug cars, okay? He's like. And I had half of the stuff off. I was like, 500 bucks for a working engine, working trans. But it blows smoke.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. It's like.

[Jeff Glucker]

He's like, I have one on my lot that I need to just turn into a runner. He's like, I'll take all of it. He drove from like Antelope Valley and he had a built in engine hoist in his truck. I'm like, oh, cool dude. Took 500 cash. He was the nice enough guy. I'm like, I took the envelope, I don't need to count it. And then I counted it when he.

[Zach Klapman]

Left and it was all there running down the street.

[Jeff Glucker]

And then he's like, when you need to sell the rest of it, call him. Me. Oh. So I. I pulled off all the other stuff. Rear axle, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Hey, I got it all off. Another 500 bucks. He's like, I'll be there tomorrow. Boom. Took it all off. So now I've learned taking a car apart, very easy.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Yeah. Putting a car back together, very difficult.

[Jeff Glucker]

Because I'm rewiring it. Oh. So I've gotten to the point. I bought the. The. What's the kit? The. They make the best wire wiring kit.

[Zach Klapman]

It's painless wiring.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, painless. I got a painless kit. Literally, every wire is labeled to where it goes, which is fucking brilliant. But I hate it. I hate doing. I hate it.

[Matt Farah]

You know what? That makes you, like, a normal person.

[Jeff Glucker]

Right. So I got. I let the car sit for a while because I was so brain dead of like, how am I gonna do this? I fucking hate this. I'm gonna rebuild the front suspension. So I went in, I did the front suspension. The shop in O.C. where my Mercedes is at, like, hey, I've got these pieces from Meyer Racing for upper and lower controllers. So, like, all right, put those in. Put that. Like, nothing is torqued, but it's bolted in. Now I'm looking like, oh, I can do front brakes. I'm looking at the car. I'm like, all right. So I go front brakes. Now I've got that. I can get. Then I can start thinking about wheels and tires. I get a 9 inch in the back because I already have the rest of the suspension. I get wheels and tires. I sent a text to Brian, OC car in Lake Forest. I'm like, hey, Brian, if I tow this to your shop, can you guys finish the wiring for me? He's like, oh, absolutely. So that's going to be my play.

[Matt Farah]

You found someone who was excited to do wiring?

[Jeff Glucker]

No, they're not excited, but they're a hot rod shop.

[Zach Klapman]

They'll do it for money.

[Jeff Glucker]

They're. They're a muscle car hot rod. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Speaking of wiring, I just sent.

[Jeff Glucker]

It'll take them a.

[Zach Klapman]

What engine are you putting in there?

[Jeff Glucker]

So my goal, my plan is 302.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

But then I'm talking. But I want it to rep. There's a dude on Instagram called Fred Shepard Racing. He's a British dude who runs American cars at, like, the Revival. And they sound incredible. He drives the balls off them like. Like cutting the chicane tight, you know, like. And he. It sounds like he's revving him to seven. I want to be able to rev my Mustang at 7,000rpm. I want it to scream. I want a screamer.

[Matt Farah]

I draw A ratty Canyon Carver. Mark. Don not Mark Donahue. Parnelli Jones car.

[Zach Klapman]

Oh, yeah, I drove high.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Yeah. One of the worst. One of the worst performing videos I've ever made.

[Zach Klapman]

Of course.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Actual 1970-boss-302, Trans Am. It made. It made. It made zero dog power. Right? That's fine until 5000. And then from 5 to 85, it was a.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's why Matt Damon holds the sign up.

[Matt Farah]

It was a complete animal. And then it had no brakes and no. No power steering because you could do.

[Jeff Glucker]

351, which is all low end, or you can do 302 and 289. Or.

[Matt Farah]

Or 347 stroker.

[Jeff Glucker]

You know, Lemon's car, we have a 331.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Which is so awesome. Yeah, so I'm like, 93 Mustang engine. It's a stroke 302.

[Matt Farah]

It's just a different stroke without the bore.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Zach Klapman]

Zach Bowman has a Mustang with like a 302 and a 5 from something. And it's so fun.

[Jeff Glucker]

We've talked about his car before because you drove it. And his car for years has been the inspiration for me buying one. Because I asked him, like, what would it take to buy that? And he laughed. I was like, would you take the Montero? And he said, you know, like, me being. I was drunk.

[Zach Klapman]

So many off road vehicles. He doesn't need more of them.

[Matt Farah]

My apologies at home. If you can hear Rosa vacuuming, rather.

[Jeff Glucker]

Have her vacuum than not. This place is a dump.

[Zach Klapman]

So you're wiring before you get the engine because you know you're gonna put in it because.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, because Holly sent me a whole. I have a whole issue with Holly, but Holly sent me a sniper efi. I'll talk about it. I don't give a. Holly sent me. We were working. I was working with them. They were giving me discount on parts. I ordered a couple wrong things, which is on me. I ordered the wrong part numbers. So I sent it back. One thing I ordered incorrectly was I ordered. I'm like, wow, Detroit speed has engine mounts. I'll get the Detroit speed engine mounts. I didn't realize you also had to have their alumna front subframe.

[Matt Farah]

Wait, dude, are you. Are you concerned about building a half a race car car?

[Jeff Glucker]

No, no, no, no.

[Matt Farah]

Are you sure?

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, yeah. No, I just want a ratty Canyon Carver. Okay. I want it to look ugly, and then people go, oh, okay. That's all right. No, you're.

[Matt Farah]

But you're not. But, you know.

[Jeff Glucker]

But I was getting a discount. No, I was getting a discount. Like, I'll take those deep, like, I'll take these. Detroit speed. Detroit. Detroit, whatever engines.

[Matt Farah]

Is it not just Detroit?

[Jeff Glucker]

I don't know, I, I felt weird saying either one. So it could be the Celsius. I know, dude.

[Matt Farah]

Apparently.

[Zach Klapman]

Guys, am I talking weird? Am I pronouncing cities wrong?

[Jeff Glucker]

Like I'm on the. All right, so I, I, you needed to buy the aluminum. I didn't buy the subframe because it's thousands of dollars. So I'm like, oh, I gotta send these back. They get them back. They're like, oh, they're scratched up from your install. We can't use them. I'm like, I didn't install them. I took them out of the box, went, these are wrong. But they're, they normally go to like Riddler. Not Riddler, but like high end builds. I'm like, I didn't fucking even install them. They arrived to me like that. They jangled in the box and like some powder coat rubbed off. Like, we can't take them back. They're $500 engine. I'm like, all right. And I ordered the wrong front brakes because I, I, like, I put a number wrong. I transposed a number. So I ordered like G body front brakes instead of fucking Mustang. Something stupid again. My fault.

[Matt Farah]

You were drunk shopping.

[Jeff Glucker]

I wasn't. I swear to God. I literally transposed a number. And the Detroit speed thing was dumb. Detroit speed thing was dumb.

[Matt Farah]

Judge Clapman. What do you. What's that matter?

[Zach Klapman]

I wasn't there when it happened.

[Jeff Glucker]

Simple mistake.

[Zach Klapman]

But you gestured like you wrote them by hand. So did you write the part numbers by hand?

[Jeff Glucker]

I said, dearest Holly, I write to you from the battlefields of my Mustang.

[Matt Farah]

You see, my quill was running out of ink.

[Jeff Glucker]

I quiver at the thought.

[Zach Klapman]

I used blood and it ran. I had too much alcohol in my system and therefore an ink looks like a zero.

[Jeff Glucker]

So I said to them, oh boy. So they fucking there. They denied that. I'm waiting to get this stuff back. And then the PR guy was off on a trip on Sema and then he kind of ghosted me. And then I still get their PR person being like, hey, we got this new thing coming out. We're doing this. I'm like, but they're not responding to any emails. Nothing. I'm like, you know what? Fuck this. And I don't want to be done with Holley because they literally make. They own everything that I need for this car. And they've given Me a bunch at a discount. But I'm also like, it's annoying. I mean, it's very annoying that they're like, we can't take those back. We're not getting back to you on the brakes. Fuck you. Oh, but here's a PR release that now we offer parts in Mexico. I'm like, oh, I wonder why you offer parts in Mexico. Now all of a sudden, wink fucking like, okay, I'm not gonna fuck you. Fuck you.

[Matt Farah]

And people are like, matt, how did you get to 23 grand in receipts for the Bentley by. Not that I'm over it.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm done with it.

[Matt Farah]

I bought my way around that.

[Jeff Glucker]

So this process. And I talked to a good friend in the Overland community. AJ, AJ PhotoRunner on Instagram. Amazing photographer. Has some great truck builds. He travels a lot, takes good photos. And I asked him, like, oh, how much? Who'd you get those wheels through? He's like, I bought them. Yeah. Really? He's like, yeah. He's like, I'm sick of owing people things. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Like, I understand if you send me something. And that's. It is a transactional nature at times. If I get tires from KO2, I'm gonna go say, like, oh, you know, BFG, excuse me. KO3s are coming out in my size. Someday when they eventually come out, I'll put them on the truck. Here's why. They're awesome. Thank you for the free tires. And I will tell the truth about them, but it's still. I got the tires for free.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

But I'm so sick of owing people stuff. And it sucks because, like, sometimes they dangle stuff where you're like, oh, you want this? You want this? Yeah, I really need that. I really need that. It's very expensive to build, and I don't have this money to do this. And it is literally, the car is a table in my garage right now.

[Matt Farah]

Look, you have to pay for it one way or the other. You pay for it in cash or you pay for it in sweat equity, or you pay for it in labor or some combination of the three. I got other things to do, so I'll blend. Paying for it in promo, sweat equity with cash, but you know what I mean? But you're kind of. You're there. You're sort of in the middle. With my fox body, there was a bunch of trade for this, trade for that, and that's how it ended up taking two years to build the car.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yep.

[Matt Farah]

You know? Cause it was just. It was always a back and forth about not that anybody was ill intentioned or anything. It was just a constant back and forth about some bullshit. Right. Building cars can be a pain in the ass.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. Turns out you don't know what you, what you're doing. Yeah. I'm learning though.

[Zach Klapman]

There's a. There's a reason that all of my power steering fluid was on the ground last night.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, yeah. No. What happened, Clapman? What happened? Dude, you broke your.

[Zach Klapman]

I. I didn't break it, but I, you know, I. I left my. I was gonna go. I got, I went to get a haircut, meant to take the lotus walk downstairs. Didn't have the lotus key because I have too many keychains now I'm like a janitor. I go, I'll just take my car, test drive it. I haven't driven it yet since I installed all new power steering hoses and fluid.

[Matt Farah]

He took a Dremel to the car.

[Zach Klapman]

That was recommended by some people and it. I think it was fun.

[Matt Farah]

Moral threshold you cross the first time you cut something off, you know? Yeah, yeah, that one bolt rebolt different.

[Jeff Glucker]

On my motor where like, I can like kick things off. Yes.

[Zach Klapman]

That hose had been there for 23 years, so it was kind of seized on, but that was fine. So I replaced those hoses. But that's a good thing to bring up because that comes into the plot later. And I drive down Jefferson, which is dead straight, and I'm like, oh, right, my steering feels fine. And then I turn left. I'm like, does it?

[Jeff Glucker]

Does it? I mean, and this is one of the cars that defines steering.

[Zach Klapman]

Well, here's like, yeah, you know what? It's not as perfect as people say, like, for the time, sure. Pretty good dead spot in the middle. But then it gets, all right. I turn left and I'm like, something feels weird. And so I'll just go, full disclosure with. With honesty. And I drive and I, And I start. My brain starts going super fast. Like, what am I hearing? I'm hearing like a jingle sound, but it's not RPM dependent. What is this weird vibration coming through.

[Jeff Glucker]

The car when it's not RPM dependent? You're like, what the.

[Zach Klapman]

Right. What the fuck? What the fuck? And I go, oh, I didn't tighten my lug nuts down.

[Jeff Glucker]

No.

[Zach Klapman]

Yes. Because when I. When I first jacked the car up, when this all began a week ago, I went, all right, I need to take my wheels off for access to all the parts. And then I immediately went, oh, wait, no, I don't. But I'd already cracked them Loose.

[Matt Farah]

Broken the bolts.

[Zach Klapman]

I broke the bolts, and I didn't immediately tighten them. So I have a sign now that I printed that says, check your lugs.

[Jeff Glucker]

I was wondering what.

[Matt Farah]

Okay, so that's a different thing.

[Zach Klapman]

So I pull over and I go, okay, I'm not driving this car anymore. I'm canceling my haircut. Like, I took a lift home. I grabbed my jacket, and I. I took a lift with a jack back to my car. What do you mean?

[Jeff Glucker]

It wasn't that guy in the 2500, right?

[Matt Farah]

Wait, could you not. Could you not tighten the bolts with the car on the ground? You need it. What?

[Zach Klapman]

I needed more leverage because the Only. The toolkit that's in the back of the M3 does not work for a studs. Really? Because I have studs now. Not lug nuts.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

[Matt Farah]

It's been converted.

[Zach Klapman]

Converted. Which is.

[Matt Farah]

Was it converted for these wheels?

[Jeff Glucker]

Bolts. Right. Originally.

[Zach Klapman]

Originally it's lug bolts, and now it's lug nuts. So you need it better, but you need a deeper wrench. So I'll be keeping a new wrench in the back of the truck.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay, that makes sense.

[Zach Klapman]

But that's why I went.

[Jeff Glucker]

So I was gonna say, give it just a yank.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, no, I would have done that, but obviously that would be fine. So I go back and I jack the car up, and I tighten them all down and I torque them to, you know, 90 pounds feet. And people are like, holy shit in the chat. So that's fine. And then I pull away, and I decide, all right, I'm. I'm three blocks from my haircut, and I turn and I go. That feels weird in the wheel. Now the vibration sound is gone.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

So that's the good news. But when I turn into the driveway to the haircut place, I recognize I have no power steering. Like, it is very hard and gone. And I pull in, and I open the door, and it's raining. And I look down at the ground, and I see the rainbow that I posted on Instagram. I go, and I could see the trail. Like, yep, that's Ix on Valdez.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's me.

[Zach Klapman]

Like, that's me.

[Jeff Glucker]

My bad.

[Zach Klapman]

And. And I just, you know, head to the sky. I pop the hood, and the fitting that I had dremeled off and replaced had popped off. And what this is, is it's a medium pressure power steering line that goes to the power steering cooler and the return.

[Matt Farah]

Okay.

[Jeff Glucker]

So you just need a different clamp.

[Zach Klapman]

It's a weird. I hate whoever invented these things. It's like a press on fitting and once it. It slips over the male end and like this collar with these barbs are supposed to snap into place.

[Matt Farah]

Like it's like my air hose on the compressor.

[Zach Klapman]

A lot like that.

[Jeff Glucker]

But it's not mechanical.

[Zach Klapman]

It's not.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's not mechanical like an air hose.

[Zach Klapman]

It's not mechanical like an air hose. It's almost like it's like it has barbs like teeth.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

So it still needs a fucking clamp.

[Zach Klapman]

It has its own clamp built into it.

[Matt Farah]

Okay. Does it?

[Zach Klapman]

It does, but when you press it on, you're supposed to hear a click, according to the videos which I heard on both hoses. And one of them was fine, and one of them I looked and was obviously off. So there's just fresh redline ATF everywhere. And I. Very funny. I call the manager of Office Autosport, who's so nice, and I go, yeah, I know I didn't pay you to do this and I did it myself. But I have a question. Can you ask? And I was like, can you ask Ken, the very nice tech that usually works on my car, what I have done wrong? And I sent him a photo of the fitting to show that I had not over dremeled or in the hope I hadn't. Which I didn't. I was very accurate because Cassandra goes, how aggressive were you with the Dremel? Like, he. He paused and asked, chat.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's a crazy thing, though, to ask you to Dremel your car.

[Zach Klapman]

It's just there are special tools you can use to get these fittings off, but if they won't release because they're old, like, basically when they put them out of the factory, there's the barb that clamps on the fitting. Then there's a sealant they use and that like glued itself. So you have to release the aluminum pressure of the casing of the hose and then knock the thing off. But basically when I was pushing this new fitting on, it was clicking, but it wasn't actually locking into place.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh.

[Matt Farah]

So it just blew off.

[Zach Klapman]

It blew off. And then I subsequently.

[Jeff Glucker]

So you could drive the car home, though.

[Zach Klapman]

I drove it home because it was close enough.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

And it was honestly closer to drive home than to drive to a auto parts store for a new ats.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

So it was. It was dead straight. So I drove home and I just.

[Jeff Glucker]

I don't know if there's any damage.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, it was. But it was like a mile.

[Zach Klapman]

With it dry. You can burn out your.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, that's what I thought. But it was like a mile.

[Zach Klapman]

It was, yeah. And so it seems fine.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. I would have driven home angry.

[Zach Klapman]

Oh, I was, I was concerned. And I'm in, I'm in the. I'm in the stoplight. I'm like, why do I like this car? What am I doing?

[Jeff Glucker]

You like visions of Matt's like, I spent 21, 000 on steering seals.

[Zach Klapman]

Well, in that moment I was like, it would have been worth the money to pay them to do this correctly the first, first time. Oh, there's that, there's that. But you know, I'm having an adventure in learning to do this, so.

[Matt Farah]

But also like just to defend myself. Not even. I don't, I don't need, I don't need.

[Jeff Glucker]

No.

[Matt Farah]

But like if Zach is driving this M3, if Sarah was driving it all the time, it might be a different story.

[Zach Klapman]

Bigger problem.

[Matt Farah]

If I'm. If I'm willing, if I'm driving my own car. Car, I'm willing to adjust my driving style. I'm willing to do a variety of things in order to make that experience safe and whatever, but I can't expect Hannah to do all that same shit. Which is part of the reason that I didn't necessarily want her driving the Bentley around anymore is because although she is a good driver, she does not understand that you drive completely, completely differently with a 35 year old car than you.

[Jeff Glucker]

Than you do with a. I was.

[Zach Klapman]

Telling, I was telling one of the Lyft drivers a story on the way back because the one on the way there had the thing on the app that says don't talk to me. And. And the guy, he was like, well, it's a good thing you heard a weird sound and knew enough to pull over. I was like, that's because I drive a lot of cars. But to your point, Matt, if Sarah had been driving and called me, I'd go, eh, there's probably just something rattling in the stereo.

[Matt Farah]

Just.

[Zach Klapman]

It'll be fine. And then her fucking wheels would fall off.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

So, dude, I was in the back of an, Of a fucking Model 3, one of those other Ubers. The guy, the guy, the guy didn't say a word. But wholly out of balance for your wheels. The vibrating. Vibrating is 25 miles.

[Jeff Glucker]

Reminded me of the. One of the craziest Ubers. When I went to buy my Montero. I was in a Sonata, a regular Sonata. The dude hit 110. Whoa. I want to get there, but I.

[Matt Farah]

Want to get there alive. Dude, if you're if you're not in.

[Zach Klapman]

I would tell a driver, you need to slow down. I've done it before.

[Jeff Glucker]

I was literally about to be like, hey, man. And then, like, traffic.

[Matt Farah]

I was like, yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I wish I was. There are times in life where I wish, because I am a. Take a breath, be calm. Everything's gonna be okay.

[Matt Farah]

Montero driver.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, no, I drive that thing like an asshole. Actually, I think I can drive that thing shockingly well. Like, I can take on and off ramps. You'd be like, whoa, I got this, homie. Like, I drive the piss out of that car. Which is probably why.

[Zach Klapman]

Which is why. But you're still going the speed limit.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, no, man. I fucking. When I have to get to, like, a lemons race in that thing up at Buttonwill. I've driven it to Thunderhill. And I'm like.

[Matt Farah]

Like, you drove to Thunder Hill in that car? Does it have cruise control?

[Jeff Glucker]

Actually, it does, but it doesn't work, dude. It does.

[Matt Farah]

Okay. I actually find amazing that it came with cruise control. Listen, if you're out there and you don't understand Los Angeles. And I'm sorry, not Los Angeles. It's not Los Angeles, California geography, where you live, which is in Orange county, to Thunder hill is like 700 miles.

[Jeff Glucker]

Not even the worst part of that drive, because the next year, I flew to Thunderhill because. Well, Sacramento. But, yeah, that trip to Thunderhill, I get in my truck. It's. And I'm in charge of food when we race lemons. So I have my.

[Matt Farah]

Me, too.

[Jeff Glucker]

All that. Sorry. Camera. I have all that loaded up. All right, let's do this. Maybe leaving it like 9, 30, 10am Boom. Around long Beach, I was. Remember, I was braking hard because someone cut me off, and I felt a pop. And then all of a sudden, it pulled hard to the left. That's weird. And anytime I hit the brakes, I was like, fuck, something is broken. And I just got my brakes done. I pull off the freeway right by the Long beach airport. I pull into a fucking random. Well, actually, first I pull into a lot, and I look under, and I can see one of my caliper bolts has exited the chat.

[Matt Farah]

Oops.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm like, I have so far to go.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Just started the drive. I find a lot within a mile, and to get there, I drove slowly on service streets, using my parking brake to slow down for stop signs. Yeah, just because that's rear brakes. And pull in, they're like, we can get you in soon. And it's a 91 Montero and the guy's like, I'm sitting there for an hour and a half maybe, and I'm just like, what the fuck? I have such a long drive ahead of me. And I just. I'm not being. I'm not asking anything. I know. I'm. It's their rush hour. I'm not trying to be a dick. Like, hey, man, just checking in. It's like, we actually were on your truck. Now our guy is looking for a thing, blah, blah, blah. He's like, we can't find any parts online. I'm like, if you can just get the bolt that fits the caliper. I do not care. The brand of bolt. I do not care. It doesn't need to be. He's like, that's all we needed to hear. We have a bucket out back. I'm like, fucking start digging, homie. 30 minutes, we bolted it up, we've tested it. It clamps. It does move like. It's all I need.

[Zach Klapman]

What part were they trying to buy a new caliper?

[Jeff Glucker]

No, I don't know.

[Matt Farah]

What.

[Jeff Glucker]

They're trying to get the right kits. Like, I'm like, I just need the fucking bolt. And like, he's like. He's like, we've even, like, asked local autozones. I'm like, I don't care. Like, it can. You can take it off that guy's car. Because I still needed to go to Alpine Stars because my. One of my friends was giving me a new suit, but I needed to go pick it up. And then I needed to go to fucking Johnny's house on the other side of LA because he had. I don't run a Hans. I run the next.

[Matt Farah]

You're talking about running errands in LA for a race in Thunderhill.

[Jeff Glucker]

I was picking up things.

[Zach Klapman]

They're on. On the way.

[Jeff Glucker]

They were on the way. So I go to. I finally get my truck on the road.

[Matt Farah]

I thought I had this.

[Jeff Glucker]

I go to Alpine Stars, which is in what, Torrance, I think. Alpine Stars on this side.

[Zach Klapman]

I believe you.

[Jeff Glucker]

So then I have to go. I have to cross LA to where Johnny lives. Yeah, that is, thankfully, by the time I arrive there, all of this LA traffic has died down.

[Matt Farah]

Okay, all of this is your fault. So you made terrible choices.

[Zach Klapman]

So then you haven't started the trip yet.

[Jeff Glucker]

Finally. Where is he? Eagle Rock? Wherever the fuck Johnny is.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I finally leave there. We're trapped. Traffic has relaxed and my journey north is like. Now I pull into Thunderhill at 1 or 2am yeah, everything about what you've just. I told them like 17 hours. I told them like, hey, just leave two Coronas out because. Or Pacificos. Like, yeah. Like, they're like, we're not gonna be out. I'm like, yeah, it's fine.

[Matt Farah]

How is your time not worth more than it is?

[Zach Klapman]

That's why.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's the problem.

[Matt Farah]

Crazy.

[Jeff Glucker]

But I like being able to sleep in my truck when I'm there.

[Matt Farah]

Look, I liked rolling this Bentley.

[Zach Klapman]

For a year I did this. I flew up to Thunder Hill and I rented a grand caravan.

[Jeff Glucker]

The following year, I borrowed the press at Carnival. Yeah. I slept.

[Zach Klapman]

Just do that.

[Jeff Glucker]

It was wonderful.

[Zach Klapman]

Way better.

[Jeff Glucker]

Button Willow. When we race at Buttonwillow, a different story. I'm like, you can't fly there.

[Matt Farah]

Awesome. No.

[Jeff Glucker]

That drive, to me is fantastic. However, the last time I did it, the last race at Buttonwillow, because you.

[Matt Farah]

Can skip around the city from us.

[Jeff Glucker]

I get to the base of the grapevine.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Fully stopped traffic going up. And I'm like, heavens, heavens. I should have put it into four low.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

And let it crawl up because I actually. For the first time I've ever owned the car, I actually felt heat in the transmission. If I put it in four low and just let it walk, it probably.

[Matt Farah]

Would have been good.

[Jeff Glucker]

It would have been fine.

[Matt Farah]

I cycle my Delica's gearbox through 4x4 and low all the time. Even though it's just a street driven.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's the diesel, right?

[Matt Farah]

It is the diesel, yeah. I just had it serviced. We had everything. Everything done.

[Jeff Glucker]

Is that it's soon or.

[Matt Farah]

No, Hannah loves it. Are you kidding me?

[Jeff Glucker]

Awesome.

[Matt Farah]

Hannah would kill me if I got.

[Jeff Glucker]

I gotta drive that.

[Matt Farah]

You want to drive it?

[Jeff Glucker]

Not tonight.

[Matt Farah]

But Hannah was like.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm like, when the cameras turn off. Yes, I do.

[Matt Farah]

Hannah was like, when you come home for dinner after this, can you have Jeff drive it home?

[Jeff Glucker]

And I was like.

[Matt Farah]

I was like, jeff's taking an Uber so you can get wasted. And she was like. She was like, it has like 85 horsepower. What could happen? I was like, I'd be the most.

[Jeff Glucker]

Familiar person you could put in that fucking car.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I remember when we drove. I drove you home here from one once in my Montero.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

And you're like, this thing has torque. I'm like, to the Delica.

[Matt Farah]

I also drove a. One of the guys at bbi, Jared has a, like a JDM Land Cruiser with a. With a four cylinder that has like so much more torque than the Delica. It turns out the Delica's engine actually sucks Balls.

[Jeff Glucker]

I drove a JDM swapped 80 Series Land Cruiser with the Japanese diesel for Scott from Express Rally who might be doing a tour of this big torque place. He's talking to Vinny. Don't worry about it. I texted you once about it and then I texted Vinnie and Vinny's dealing with it. Doing a rally, a small rally. They might come through here and check the place out.

[Matt Farah]

It sounds great. Love it.

[Jeff Glucker]

Diesel swapped 80 series Land Cruiser. It sounded like a Cummins. It was the raddest thing.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it did sound. It did sound like a Cummins. Yeah. Okay. Fuck. We. Zach had pissed so bad right there. That was.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, that's usually me. He's getting old like us. Oh, shit.

[Matt Farah]

I know.

[Jeff Glucker]

Cut to that camera three.

[Matt Farah]

Cheers. Okay, wait. I need a rapid fire because we're gonna go to Patreon. Questions? When Zach gets back, I need a rapid fire. I was trying to get your fucking fleet update from mostly shipbox.

[Jeff Glucker]

Sorry. We started with the Mustang and.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, and then you did 37 minutes on the Mustang. That's. That's the problem. So now we have to go speed round on everything else.

[Jeff Glucker]

Got it.

[Matt Farah]

You have fucking 30 seconds, Mustang. I should have worn a chronograph.

[Jeff Glucker]

Table 37 is getting some leaks fixed.

[Matt Farah]

Pause, pause. Because we're gonna go. We're gonna go very legit.

[Jeff Glucker]

I was going.

[Matt Farah]

I'm gonna go 60 seconds. All right. Mercedes.

[Jeff Glucker]

Mercedes actually has an engine in the engine bay. It's not bolted in. It is the 5.3 Chevy motor.

[Matt Farah]

Okay.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's like, we'll get to it soon. But it has an engine. I still own the Mercedes.

[Matt Farah]

Okay, great. Next. Reset the clock. Next.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, I thought it was speed round. I thought it was total.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, okay. Yeah, it's total go.

[Jeff Glucker]

The Montero, I had the engine replaced, but it. I saw two leaks on the ground. It's leaking from the rear cam seal and he's fixing it. And he's fixing a few other things that I've never gotten fixed. So that's. It'll be back soon. My wife CX5 is 108,000 miles. And if anyone wants to buy it, let me know because she's probably due for a new car. She doesn't want to buy one because car payments suck.

[Matt Farah]

Car payments do suck. Done. Great. Next. Yes, we have a lot of great questions on the Patreon. I want to get to those. It's not a pot. No, no. It's. We. I want to get a happy balance here. We had some. We had some really good ones. And and so I wanted to get to some of those because I thought they were good conversation starters. Oh, that was my timer for this old man alarm.

[Jeff Glucker]

Like Bill Murray on Hot Ones.

[Matt Farah]

I saw that. I just lost that one. I just watched it on the elliptical yesterday. Okay, we're gonna. We. 1, 2, 3. Skip that. We're gonna go to. Keep going. No, I want to. I want. I have ones for. For Jeff. Oh, okay. Hang on.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, that's a good one.

[Matt Farah]

Which one? Papa Gray. The hair. Oh, you wanted it, Mr. Nail Head. Okay. Mr. Nail Head says. Remember the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror where Homer gets a transplant from a criminal and it comes alive? Where are you going?

[Zach Klapman]

Are we comparing hair?

[Matt Farah]

What are you doing?

[Zach Klapman]

Read the rest of the question frame by frame.

[Matt Farah]

All right, read the Western. If Zack and Jeff's hair each came alive, which one is winning a fight?

[Jeff Glucker]

This is younger, but mine's grayer.

[Matt Farah]

No, Zach has actually tamed it today. Normal hair looks like Bill Murray at the end of Kingpin.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, would it flop?

[Zach Klapman]

It kind of goes. You know, it just goes.

[Matt Farah]

It's not comb over, but it's like. It's wily.

[Zach Klapman]

As a mother, I really needed that hair.

[Matt Farah]

Okay, Papa Gray is looking is in the market for Salines. I have an SM. Oh, sorry. I have an SN95 and S196 license plate idea.

[Zach Klapman]

Saline away.

[Matt Farah]

Saline on my radar. Thoughts and opinions on Saline.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yes. Was this question asked in 1992? I just haven't heard Celine. Is it Celine or Saline? It's Celine, but that could be because I'm from New England.

[Matt Farah]

Either. He's not as culturally powerful as Porsche, so he can't dictate how people pronounce his name.

[Jeff Glucker]

Reimagined by Celine.

[Matt Farah]

I say Celine.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay. I say Celine.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, dude, I'm about this.

[Jeff Glucker]

I. I will need Saline tomorrow.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah. S A L I N E is Saline. I am extremely pro. SN95 Saleen Mustangs.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, sure.

[Matt Farah]

I am all about them. The 351s love them, especially in. Not black or red. I like them in different colors.

[Jeff Glucker]

And I'm not a white car advocate, but triple white.

[Matt Farah]

No.

[Jeff Glucker]

Cleen had some good whites if you're.

[Matt Farah]

Gonna go triple white.

[Jeff Glucker]

And I'm more of a fox body guy over an SN95. And one of my very closest friends rebuilt over Covid. I'm not a black car guy, but he built a black fox body with an SN95 interior. Fucking works. And he never drives it because he just. That guy.

[Matt Farah]

I know It's a shame. I miss my fox body. Not enough to buy it back, but. But it.

[Jeff Glucker]

Was that the first one you started doing funky interiors. Yes. Yeah. That was cool.

[Matt Farah]

I'm gonna try to continue the trend. Zack's tartans are gonna be fun. My Manx is gonna be really rad. Huh?

[Jeff Glucker]

You're doing a Manx?

[Matt Farah]

You didn't know that?

[Jeff Glucker]

I didn't know you were doing one. No, I know you've driven them.

[Matt Farah]

No, no, no. I bought one.

[Jeff Glucker]

I didn't know that.

[Matt Farah]

It's a radio. Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Is it? It's a nine cylinder, three cylinder.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, they're all three. They're three cylinders. The radios.

[Jeff Glucker]

Why did I think they did a nine cylinder?

[Matt Farah]

I don't know. The nine cylinder. The Lycoming radial is a nice.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's what I thought was in it.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, that's what I thought was this huge.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Years ago there was a lemons team that did a nine cylinder.

[Matt Farah]

This is a. This is an engine company in Australia that built a small compact, lightweight radio, smarter rotary. It's a radial. No, it's a true radial. Three cylinder, true radial. It uses L GMLS rods, pistons, internals, valve train, things like that.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's fucking amazing.

[Matt Farah]

Yes.

[Jeff Glucker]

It cools.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. I'm super stoked. You can drive it when it comes in.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Awesome.

[Jeff Glucker]

But my father in law has a buggy that's not a Manx. But everybody thinks it's a Manx. It's one of those random east coast kit car ones. So he's always like, I come here and never see a Manx, so maybe we'll plan the next time.

[Matt Farah]

But you know that like, like Myers Manx is really cool in that they accept Manx like buggies into the club. Even if they're not Manx brands. They're not. They're not pretentious like that at all.

[Jeff Glucker]

I've been trying to get my hands on a press car one too. They have them if Mike Rice is still there. He's. He's working on it for me, but I don't know if he's.

[Matt Farah]

I can. I will make the arrangements. Don't worry about it. You want to drive the radio?

[Jeff Glucker]

I do.

[Matt Farah]

They have. That's what they.

[Jeff Glucker]

The 1.

[Matt Farah]

They have their development car.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. I've heard they've kind of like. Not to be rude, but I've heard maybe they've lost the plot on the ev.

[Matt Farah]

I don't think that's true at all. No. What do you mean lost the plot?

[Jeff Glucker]

Not lost the plot. But they just. They promised it. They've taken money and they haven't delivered one.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, they had to build a factory. Those aren't handmade. That's a fact. Those are gonna be factory built vehicles. I understand. Actually, I had two people who put deposits on the Mag CV and call me and go, hey, man, can you connect me with them? Because, like, I don't know what's going on. And I went. And it's like they're building like their engineer. It's. So that's a new.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's not a. It's not a Radford, wink, wink situation.

[Matt Farah]

No. And it's not based on a Volkswagen floor pan. It's a whole new everything. It's all new. And so they're building an infrastructure just.

[Jeff Glucker]

Off flying his rad dude.

[Matt Farah]

I can't. I can't like personally vouch for, of course, their financials or any of that. But like.

[Jeff Glucker]

But the guy who's involved in the company has his financials are.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, Philip. Yeah, Philip's all right. Philip's all right. No, he's not. But. But like, like it's happening. It's just a huge project building a factory.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And in the meantime, what they call the classic division, which is where the traditional Manxes and the radial Manxes are being built. And the original spot in Costa Mesa.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's in Costa Mesa.

[Matt Farah]

It's in Costa Mesa. And that's a different. So that's ongoing. Yeah, you should go. Fuck yeah, you should go.

[Jeff Glucker]

All right.

[Matt Farah]

The radial's insane. It's so fucking real torquey. It's a beautifully smooth power band that. It sounds like an LS3 Corvette when it idles.

[Jeff Glucker]

Really.

[Matt Farah]

And then it sounds like a Cessna at high rpm.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's amazing.

[Matt Farah]

It's nutty. It's.

[Jeff Glucker]

Believe it or not, I've never driven a radial engine powered.

[Matt Farah]

No, I know. I fell in love with it instantly. I fell in love with the second I saw it. I was like, this is the fucking craziest shit ever. And the one we built is so cool. It's beautiful. I've been fucking. Fucking poking Freeman Thomas like crazy to get him to use mine as a display car for the Quail this year. I really just, like, want that. I'm so selfish.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

When I have a fucking car. If you're a car guy.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, I get it. I get it.

[Matt Farah]

You know what it's like, it's not bucket list, but it's like it's on the list. Display a car.

[Jeff Glucker]

What I've never been of Car week.

[Zach Klapman]

What?

[Matt Farah]

How is that possible?

[Zach Klapman]

What?

[Jeff Glucker]

I was even invited this past year. Are you crazy? I've never been to car week.

[Matt Farah]

Why?

[Zach Klapman]

How You've done. Because you've done a lot of things.

[Jeff Glucker]

This is going to be the dumbest reason. My closest friends, who I've known since 12.

[Zach Klapman]

Careful for that. Spill.

[Jeff Glucker]

I've known since 12. Yeah, don't knock over water.

[Matt Farah]

It's empty. But thank you. Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

The. My closest friend since I've known since 12th grade, since I moved back to Massachusetts and formed my identity as an asshole Celtics fan, are one of my best friends. He is my best friend. He owns a house in New Hampshire.

[Zach Klapman]

Should I start the timer?

[Jeff Glucker]

We have a weekend. Yeah, seriously. We have a weekend. It's our fantasy football draft every year.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, dude, listen.

[Jeff Glucker]

But it's my closest friend. They're my closest friends. They're my guys.

[Zach Klapman]

I get it.

[Matt Farah]

I understand.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's my favorite weekend of the year.

[Zach Klapman]

Oh, all right.

[Matt Farah]

How many years have you done this?

[Jeff Glucker]

That.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

A lot.

[Matt Farah]

All right. And who.

[Jeff Glucker]

I mean, there's mushroom that chooses the date. That's more fun than car week. I could push the date. I just. I don't know. Car week feels never. I feel like I want to go to car week once. Go once. I do want to go one.

[Matt Farah]

It's fucking crazy. If you said. Look, if you said. If you said, I've been 5, 6, 7, 10, 12 times, I'm Jade and I'm over it, I'd go.

[Jeff Glucker]

I feel like I only care about the historics anyway. I feel like I only care about the modern.

[Matt Farah]

That's bullshit. Bullshit. That's bullshit.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay?

[Matt Farah]

It's not about the events that require tickets, okay. It's about hanging with your friends in fun, fucking. We're now people. I want to go. We know the top people.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, that's true.

[Matt Farah]

True. We can. We can optimize our car Week experience so that it's awesome. It's not about money. It's about access, and we have it. You are serious. But I'm not saying, like, it's not like. It's not like you're like, oh, I go every year, but I missed last year, and I'm, like, beaten up. No. Never, ever been. That's crazy. That's crazy.

[Jeff Glucker]

I played the course once before I was in the industry.

[Matt Farah]

That is the idea that you're an automotive journalist. You've never been to the concourse and you've played the golf club.

[Jeff Glucker]

I played and stayed at Spanish Bay when I was a mortgage broker. I got into the mortgage industry in 2008.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, buddy. That one round of golf.

[Jeff Glucker]

So sick.

[Matt Farah]

And then the company collapsed.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. I was the worst loan originator because I was honest.

[Matt Farah]

That's crazy. I. I'm.

[Jeff Glucker]

I've never been a car. I got invited by Acura last year. They're like, you can even bring your wife. We'll have shuttles. It was a gorgeous hotel. And I'm like.

[Matt Farah]

And. Oh.

[Jeff Glucker]

And I couldn't go last year because the time he lined up, I was going off roading with Toyota in Colorado. I'm like, I'm going off road, dude.

[Matt Farah]

Look.

[Jeff Glucker]

12,000Ft.

[Matt Farah]

You got. How do you not go? Once. Once.

[Jeff Glucker]

That was actually last year. Was the first year I've ever been invited. And I'm not going on my own.

[Matt Farah]

That's also extremely weird.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm not going on my own dime.

[Matt Farah]

No. No. Nor should you. But that's also extremely weird.

[Jeff Glucker]

Makers. I agree. Yeah. Universe is small.

[Matt Farah]

No, no. Here's why.

[Zach Klapman]

But you work.

[Matt Farah]

I'm going to tell you why.

[Zach Klapman]

Channel.

[Matt Farah]

I'm going to tell you why. The only. I've only been invited. Excuse me. I'm going to rephrase that. I've never been invited. I've requested to be invited.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, shit. Okay.

[Matt Farah]

And about half of those have resulted in a real invite.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. Because they're like, oh, you want to go? Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

So, like. But like, it's never been. Hey, Matt, come. It's been. Hey, excuse me, Bentley folks.

[Jeff Glucker]

Are you hosting?

[Matt Farah]

Do you got. What are you guys. Do you guys have plans? What are you doing? So. But, like, it's crazy that you haven't. Have you. That you haven't gone.

[Jeff Glucker]

I've never been.

[Matt Farah]

That's.

[Jeff Glucker]

Outside of golf. And I gave up golf years ago.

[Matt Farah]

Wild to me. Wow.

[Jeff Glucker]

Because golf. Cars are way cooler.

[Matt Farah]

Golf's.

[Jeff Glucker]

You know what's more fun? Mountain biking.

[Matt Farah]

These are not.

[Zach Klapman]

But you don't have to repair your golf clubs. And then they stop working. And these fix them in the ground.

[Jeff Glucker]

So when we moved out of Huntington beach because we had a child and we wanted to be able to buy, so we had to leave the coast. I literally threw my clubs in the trash. And. And they were like. They were. They were blades. I played blades. Yeah. Yeah. So they were hard to hit.

[Zach Klapman]

I don't know what that is.

[Jeff Glucker]

They're like.

[Matt Farah]

You have the. You have to be a tour pro. Most. Most.

[Zach Klapman]

Well, he's playing. It's whatever. Sand hill, whatever.

[Matt Farah]

It's called Spanish Bay. If you're like the best golfer. If you're like the best golfer ever. And you're like regular clubs.

[Jeff Glucker]

Modern golfers don't play blades.

[Matt Farah]

Nobody plays blades.

[Zach Klapman]

That's what they did back then.

[Matt Farah]

Regular golf. Regular golfers play a club that has a weight around the perimeter cavity with a hollowed out center which is forgiving like a drum. It's a forgiving blade is an even amount of weight across solid iron. Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's like I showed up to Dodger stadium with the.

[Zach Klapman]

That analogy is not going to work for me.

[Jeff Glucker]

That got struck down from the lightning tree.

[Matt Farah]

I don't know why is that a. That that doesn't help him.

[Zach Klapman]

I don't watch baseball. I know the movie sports. I know the movie. I played sports until I was 12 and then I started mountain biking and skateboarding.

[Jeff Glucker]

Sports ball guy, right? Good.

[Matt Farah]

No, if you're not like you're a sportsball guy.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, no, no. I hate when car people say sports ball because I love sports.

[Zach Klapman]

Oh, you mean using the phrase. Yeah, I've definitely done that. But I get it. Like I liked it for a while and I don't know.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's fine.

[Zach Klapman]

You have to be so much fun.

[Matt Farah]

The point is you have to be so amazing at golf to decide that. I'm going to go out and buy blades.

[Jeff Glucker]

These clubs can hurt your hands if you hit them. Yeah, and they did.

[Matt Farah]

I shot my dad 112 with blades.

[Jeff Glucker]

Pebble in blades. I feel like that's not bad.

[Zach Klapman]

It's like you're running a three minute buttonwell.

[Jeff Glucker]

I feel like that's not bad.

[Zach Klapman]

GT3RS.

[Matt Farah]

You shot a 112 with blade.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's not bad.

[Matt Farah]

Dude, that is like being like. I took a radical to the Nurburgring and ran a 1347.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's like an 8. That's like an 8. It's like an 8. For the average guy in a radical. For the average guy in a radical. You have to bring it to reality, bro. Put the average guy in a GT3RS. Different story. Put the average guy in Blaze. Different story. You got a fucking actualize.

[Zach Klapman]

You've seen Monterey in the strangest ways because you played one of the most prestigious golf courses in the country using some of the most prestigious clubs at the time. You did that badly.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

And then when you got into the job of cars and there's a car week, you never went back.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Can we ever. Have we ever told the story of what we won wanted to do for Pebble?

[Matt Farah]

I think Thad, you mean storming the beach like Normandy? Yeah. Yeah. We have. No, we have We've definitely told the story of storming the beach.

[Zach Klapman]

We should do that.

[Jeff Glucker]

We should do.

[Matt Farah]

I still think you should do it. It only works. It only works if you have tickets.

[Zach Klapman]

Yes, otherwise we'll get arrested.

[Matt Farah]

Because otherwise you get arrested like you have to. If you.

[Jeff Glucker]

I would die. I would frame that ticket. I would frame that arrest. Hold on.

[Matt Farah]

You also need a photographer. You all see the photographer to enter the normal way.

[Jeff Glucker]

By the way, I've used off the record successfully many times.

[Matt Farah]

Me too.

[Jeff Glucker]

I love.

[Matt Farah]

And people think that's just an advertiser. They don't fuck around.

[Jeff Glucker]

Johnny does because he got fucked and his guy sucks.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, no, really?

[Jeff Glucker]

Johnny Historian. Off the record, I have not had that experience and I've used it.

[Matt Farah]

It's not been mine. Mine's been primo.

[Jeff Glucker]

Primo.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

About to use it on this delica on the way. Let's get to the rest of the questions.

[Matt Farah]

All right. Matt's BLE signal. Oh, that's a good one. I don't even know what that is. But like we had. I had a. Nevermind. If I recall correctly. Oh, it was random that we were just talking about this. Hannah picked a hot dog shift knob for the Manx, which they don't get why we specced the car together, which.

[Jeff Glucker]

They don't get why.

[Matt Farah]

No, they get it.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, okay.

[Matt Farah]

We talk about the hot dogs a lot. What knob would I have picked if Hannah didn't have a. This is a great one. Is there a shift knob I dream of? I mean, for me, it's. It's about that bowling ball from Kingpin. So basically, like as close to that as you could get. I would do.

[Jeff Glucker]

Because you're thinking like fun, dude.

[Matt Farah]

So. So the hot dog shift knob, it's not. It's not shaped like a hot dog. It's a little mini tiny hot dog toy that's cast inside of a Lucite.

[Jeff Glucker]

That guy who does that?

[Matt Farah]

No, there's a person who works at Manx who makes them. Oh, man. Instagram Manxan makes these things.

[Zach Klapman]

Okay, so.

[Matt Farah]

No, that one looks like a dildo. That's like a JDM one. This is a round. It's a sphere. I'm trying small sphere. That one. That one you would definitely insert into a Russian's butt. I'm just saying. I've seen.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's from California.

[Matt Farah]

I've seen it. I know. Deadly red roses, six inch shift knob. Yeah, we're not fucking with that.

[Jeff Glucker]

You don't need to give me the inches, bro.

[Matt Farah]

It's written in the Description on the ec.

[Jeff Glucker]

Dude, the shift knob has a girth of.

[Matt Farah]

That's really funny. It's never occurred to me to find a shift knob on Etsy, but here we are. Here we are on Etsy. Okay. Otto Bon Jovi, great username. Currently planning a father son trip to the Nurburgring. Besides the ring itself, is there anything you have to have enjoyed in the region that we should check out? You should go to the Piston Klaasa. Eat steak on a stone.

[Jeff Glucker]

My favorite Piston class story.

[Matt Farah]

Do not put pepper on the stone.

[Jeff Glucker]

My favorite Piston clasp story is the first time I was ever there. I saw Rob Holland, who's an amazing race car driver. I walked up, I was like, hey, man, Bill Caswell came up and told me to say hello to you. He's like, did he tell you to look for the only black guy? And I started laughing. He goes, yes. That's literally what he said.

[Matt Farah]

Rob Holland is a fucking G. Shout out to him. We had a great, great time. Yes.

[Jeff Glucker]

Super awesome guy.

[Matt Farah]

And he's always giving me very good pointers.

[Jeff Glucker]

Facial hair. It's time.

[Matt Farah]

Plethora of pinatas says, my wife is a terrible driver. She has no situational awareness at all. She can drive, quote, fine. But there's an advanced driver training course that can put her in a safe space to learn where the edges of her car are without curbing her wheels or knocking it. Oh, oh, is there an advance?

[Jeff Glucker]

No.

[Matt Farah]

Dude, go order four cones on Amazon, bro. Order some cones.

[Jeff Glucker]

Teacher.

[Zach Klapman]

No, I. I would.

[Matt Farah]

What?

[Zach Klapman]

Because if he says, hey, babe, I'm gonna buy some cones so you can practice knowing, that's an argument immediately. But if you say, I'd like to do this early.

[Jeff Glucker]

Would you like to do it with this early? As a married man?

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

But, like, school, no, it's not gonna exist. But. But in driving school, like, they're trying to get you the apex. You need to know where the edges.

[Jeff Glucker]

Could you send her to an actual driving school? Maybe that would awaken the most basic things, like send her to level one. Skip Barber. Like, the tiniest level they have the.

[Matt Farah]

Ones that are focused for, like, teenagers driving the car. Control joints.

[Zach Klapman]

That might be insulting also, but you.

[Matt Farah]

Could try just like an intro.

[Jeff Glucker]

If you pitch it as, honey, we're gonna take a vacation to Monterey, and they have an AMG driving school. We're doing level one. And then the situational awareness might be like, oh, look down into the turn. Just like, little things like that maybe. And that's. You get a vacation out of it. And I appreciate you. I also understand the patience thing. I get it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Jeremiah Dicklesworth III went to Moda Miami, saw elantia Delta Integrale, Evo 2 and fell in love. Have we driven one? And what's it like? And you know what's funny is I went to Miami the same week as Moda, but I went on a family vacation that weekend in the Keys. So Johnny Lieberman sat next to me on my flight to Miami and Magnus.

[Jeff Glucker]

And he had to go to work.

[Matt Farah]

And Magnus and Hannah and quiet down back there and another automotive journalist were on my flight home and they were all like, oh yeah, Mota. And I was like. I was at Key Largo. I don't know.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's great.

[Matt Farah]

It was all right. Moto looked great. Actually. Mota did look fun. It looked nice. I probably would like to go, maybe Temarian wants to have us down there next year or something. But. Launched a Delta and Degrale. Really neat car.

[Jeff Glucker]

I've heard though the. So if you are out asking this question in the United States, Mr. Dicklesworth III, I've heard parts and that shit is just a nightmare. I have a friend who doesn't have an Evo 2, but he has an Integrale up in Oregon, which is where you'd think they'd be like stockpiling that shit. And it's a bit of a nightmare for him to keep that thing road worthy and entertaining and happy. And I think you're complicated. Ron Darris is dealing with his shit out here. That's the problem. The parts come from far away and they're few. And so if you. You have to buy the cleanest one and the people selling you them are telling you they're the cleanest one and it's the rattiest fucking piece of shit you ever bought.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, it's. It's the problem with Italian stuff that isn't Ferraris is it basically costs as much to run as a fucking Ferrari. You might.

[Jeff Glucker]

Where's your engine right now?

[Matt Farah]

You might in Italy. You might as well buy a Ferrari. I to send the wire today. I just sent them so much money.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, I won't even ask.

[Matt Farah]

I just sent them. I just said you just.

[Jeff Glucker]

You. You hit the sand like music from the Godfather playing like, what the.

[Matt Farah]

But at least they sent photos of work happening. No, it's all right. Like work. Work is happening. I'm. I'm confident.

[Jeff Glucker]

But even like when it's done, you're like, by the way, to ship the engine back, it's $45,000?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it's crazy, dude. Yeah, it's all crazy.

[Jeff Glucker]

But like, give us a delica trade or we hold this engine hostage.

[Matt Farah]

That's the problem with with, with Deltas is they. They cost as much as Ferrari.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, exactly. So you think you're buying the cheaper Italian car and you are absolutely not.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

If you can find a clean one, rad as go for it.

[Matt Farah]

What is the cheapest cool Italian car to run that you can think of?

[Jeff Glucker]

What's the lease on a 500e right now?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm joking.

[Matt Farah]

It's got to be be pre 2000. Pre 2000. What's the cheapest motorcycle Italian car you could run? Pre 2000?

[Zach Klapman]

I think it would still be some 500. Like V500.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, it's got to be some old like Alpha.

[Zach Klapman]

Alpha spider thing.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. Oh, what's that? You know, like what is. What is a Dave and Sarah? Dave and Sarah. What?

[Matt Farah]

That. That doesn't seem you. No, it seems like. Seems like work. Yeah. That Fulvia seems tough because those are gorgeous cars. Like shit. I mean, well, pre 2000, dude, like a Ferrari 348 graduate car. I mean, even a 328 is like pretty reliable, actually. It really is.

[Jeff Glucker]

I once drove. I drove a 308 with no power steering once and it was like the worst driving experience. Experience ever.

[Matt Farah]

308S don't have power, String. They shouldn't have 308 shouldn't have powers.

[Jeff Glucker]

Then it sucked. I hated it.

[Zach Klapman]

Which car did the Buso come in? Alpha.

[Matt Farah]

The what?

[Jeff Glucker]

The Alpha.

[Zach Klapman]

The Busso.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. The164 and the. And the Milano155. Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, Milano is interesting. That's.

[Matt Farah]

That's a. That's a very tough one.

[Jeff Glucker]

I wonder what you could like find in Mexico and bring up that's like old but not that old, you know.

[Matt Farah]

From Mexico or Canada. Wow.

[Jeff Glucker]

Because what are they, 15 years instead of ours?

[Zach Klapman]

I don't think any of them will be cheap.

[Matt Farah]

That's really. There is no. It's got to be like the world's greatest 308 GT4. Dino is like 65 grand and that's probably pretty straightforward.

[Zach Klapman]

I Wonder if a 348 is the cheap fist to run not to buy.

[Matt Farah]

Early in early 90s.

[Jeff Glucker]

In early 90s be that cheap.

[Matt Farah]

None of them are.

[Zach Klapman]

I'm trying to think of maintenance.

[Jeff Glucker]

You got to get away from those brands. It's got to be something alpha. It's got to be something from there.

[Matt Farah]

Old Julia, you could probably run like an old Julia, like a 70s Julia is about as cheap.

[Jeff Glucker]

The funny thing is like either way you pull it in, you're like, ah, I got this baby.

[Matt Farah]

Or like if you could wrench yourself, like a carbureted GTV is probably pretty straightforward.

[Zach Klapman]

I would love to have of those. I think they're probably expensive to buy because people love them. They're pretty.

[Jeff Glucker]

What is a Matt from formerly Ken's number two in New York MVTT on Instagram.

[Matt Farah]

Johnson.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, fuck. He was Ken's number two for a while. He is the sickest alpha right now in New York City. But it probably wasn't cheap.

[Matt Farah]

I don't know.

[Jeff Glucker]

Never mind. Sorry.

[Matt Farah]

The sickest of anything is probably not cheap. I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bad. Love you. That's great. I said that the Honda N6.

[Jeff Glucker]

I can't understand these lyrics.

[Matt Farah]

With the VFR engine was one of the all time great one takes. It was. If I can shoehorn a CBR1000RR engine into my Honda beat, would that be similar results? I would say yes. I talked to Camisa about this. He loved the sound of his little three cylinder Honda Beat engineering.

[Jeff Glucker]

I like the cylinders.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. But a bike motor, like I would go full boosa. I wouldn't. You know, if you could. But the problem with the N600 was no reverse.

[Jeff Glucker]

Probably gonna be. Yeah. Well for most of them. Yeah. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, I guess some bikes.

[Jeff Glucker]

Loving the name, dude.

[Zach Klapman]

We got some good names.

[Matt Farah]

There's some modern motorcycles that have reverse, right?

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Is the BMW K 1600 have reverse? Oh, I don't know.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm not a bike.

[Matt Farah]

If it does. I'd put the BMW 1.1.6 liter in line 6 with the gearbox and reverse in the back of a beat.

[Zach Klapman]

But now you could also just put a little electric motor that like.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

Electric reverse which is.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

What's the smallest EcoBoost? Is there a sub 2 liter EcoBoost or no.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, but what was that really?

[Jeff Glucker]

No, that three cylinder Fiesta, which is not an EcoBoost.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. But the problem is the Morgan. The Morgan Super 3 has the 1 liter.

[Jeff Glucker]

Who. They wouldn't let me borrow one because they require motorcycle licenses and they never did.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, they had to get all official.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. The old PR guy did it.

[Matt Farah]

No, what you want is a proper motorcycle engine. You don't want a crappy economy car engine.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, that's. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Not the v twin. The N600 is a high revving 3.

[Jeff Glucker]

No, but I mean I was thinking old Morgan.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, And a Morgan.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah, I would do a V20.

[Matt Farah]

I'll answer this question. We're gonna need more Advil. Jeff, what e mountain bike you riding?

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm in a Marin because I got a really good deal on it. I'm in the latest Marin with the Bosch. I sold my Trek analog. I miss it because they are so light. No trail beef where I am down in South OC Though I do feel bad every time I pass them on the climbs. And I do not feel bad when I pass the roadies on the road climb because fuck Lycra. No, I'm in the Marin, the Bosch Marin. And I'm very happy. I've swapped on the Fox factory, so it's a little plush. It's got the coil on the back. Got an SDQ seat. Stoked on it.

[Matt Farah]

Happy cool. Frozen dingleberry metallic. How hard is the life of a press car? Have either of you crashed one? I crashed.

[Jeff Glucker]

Have you?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Long time ago. Like 12 years ago.

[Jeff Glucker]

Legit.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Lost it.

[Matt Farah]

Tried to slide a car in the rain. Didn't go well. Didn't go well. And it was not a high speed crash. It was a very low speed in the rain.

[Jeff Glucker]

Were you like, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.

[Matt Farah]

I had 35 seconds to think about the thing that was about to happen. It was horrible. Yeah, it wasn't great. But in general, a press car, life is pretty hard. But it will get reconditioned before it gets sold to the public.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we. The. It's a varying degree of who beats on them and who doesn't. Some do it in the name of testing and, And. But you can still buy gems out of press fleets.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I've only dinged a wheel in.

[Matt Farah]

In Dodge, we rust. You get to be the curator of an automotive museum with no budget or building limit. What is the theme and location?

[Jeff Glucker]

Wow, that's a good question.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. The location has to be in Sea Ranch, Northern California, north of San Francisco. Highly architectural. Highly at the end of where the Russian River Valley meets the Pacific Ocean. And it's gonna be all Giugiaros. The Giugiaro Museum. Heavy.

[Jeff Glucker]

Would you wear a Giugiaro Seiko to this?

[Matt Farah]

I would. There's an automotive journalist that rocks one of those. Yeah. On all the press. On the press launches. Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I would do one in Boston just so I could use an excuse to get back to Boston, even though it's a horrible idea for a car museum. And I think I would do maybe Group B's greatest hits. Even though it's been done. But it'd just be fun to do again because I'm not an F1 guy and I can't convince Australia to import all their V8 supercars and no one would give a shit. So I would go a groupie history groupie.

[Zach Klapman]

I would do a race car and then the stock version of the race car all the way from. I like that like even top. Even like pro touring but also like group B. And then all.

[Jeff Glucker]

Just all those funny with like Lumina next to it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, exactly right.

[Jeff Glucker]

By the way, speaking of the museums, Audrain's current Monaco exhibit is fucking sick.

[Matt Farah]

You know the next question, Chris Limbright. Have you tried to line up a one take with the new AYG mobile where some heaters are involved? That's Kippy's new Lumina. You just dropped Lumina. You didn't even know his next question.

[Jeff Glucker]

I don't even know what that is.

[Matt Farah]

Kippy. His first. His old like beater was Illumina. He had many Lumina so he bought. Who's Kippy from? Ay. From Ru. Garbage.

[Zach Klapman]

Kevin.

[Matt Farah]

Kevin Ryan.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm sorry.

[Matt Farah]

You garbage train. I would.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm literally just the dollop.

[Matt Farah]

Okay. I would rip heater. I would rip heaters in alumina. 100% wood rip heaters. Old rusty Bimmer. What car magazines would you recommend to subscribe to? Road and track.

[Jeff Glucker]

Sorry. Yeah, apologies. Road Track.

[Matt Farah]

The road rat is excellent.

[Jeff Glucker]

When I'm taking a shit at my uncle's house in New Hampshire he has a bunch of those Hagerty museums and those seem good.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Triple zero shout out to.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's expensive though, right?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it is.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah it is.

[Jeff Glucker]

Just the Internet and Road and track.

[Matt Farah]

Shan. Wow. Wants to buy a car from Florida but resides in California. I've heard very much about avoiding Florida cars due to flooding and title. How would you go about purchasing a car from Florida if you were to. I wouldn't.

[Jeff Glucker]

I wouldn't hire Freddie to look under the Freddie.

[Matt Farah]

I would absolutely not buy a Florida car.

[Jeff Glucker]

I would ask Freddie to look at it. But most of you don't have access to be able to do that. And Freddie would also decline my car.

[Matt Farah]

Dude, I don't even trust of Florida ppi like straight up. Oh man.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's good.

[Matt Farah]

It's good.

[Zach Klapman]

It has to be PPI by a very well respected dealership. And even then I'd be nervous.

[Jeff Glucker]

You know, only two raccoons slept in it.

[Matt Farah]

You know there's a rumor going on straight up YouTube drama rumor that Freddy is going to be returning the fully restored Million mile Lexus to me, which I can. Which I'll be buying back for a dollar.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's doesn't feel like a rumor. This feels like a breaking news.

[Matt Farah]

It seems like. Well, because I haven't seen it. I'm not.

[Jeff Glucker]

I saw a video of someone else who isn't Freddie.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, Freddie was stored it. Yeah. Yeah. So the. The idea was I sold it to Freddy for a dollar.

[Jeff Glucker]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

He was gonna restore it.

[Jeff Glucker]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

He then decided to, like, you know, go way off the deep end with the flood P1s and shit. He was like, what am I gonna do with this fucking Lexus? But his other homie was a ex Lexus master tech and wanted to start his YouTube channel.

[Jeff Glucker]

The other dude.

[Matt Farah]

The other dude?

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Whose name I don't even know. I think it's Jared. Oh, is it Jared?

[Jeff Glucker]

No, Jared is another dude from.

[Matt Farah]

With Freddy. Whatever. But the other dude, who I assume I'll meet at some point, did actually restore the car.

[Jeff Glucker]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

But Freddy still owned it, and now the guy was moved on to the next thing.

[Jeff Glucker]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

So the car's coming back apparently.

[Jeff Glucker]

I've heard.

[Matt Farah]

I've heard it's fully restored and coming back.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Charlie Puth. Andrew Stone says predict what the Bentley will sell for. So. So we have here at wccs, I. I run the gaming. Gambling. Also I own the company, but also I make. I make the book. So we have an in company, in house company betting pool of what the bet links.

[Jeff Glucker]

So I'm from Boston, so when you say that you're firing neurons that I'm not supposed to talk about in front of my wife because I have bets with my friends back in Boston because we can't do that legally out here. Thank you, Paul, for taking all my bets and my venmos. My tax guy's like, what are all these? So this year, this one was just to watch this. And Ben, don't tell your sister.

[Matt Farah]

What the fuck?

[Zach Klapman]

Think of all the money you save if you go to car week.

[Jeff Glucker]

So are we talking over unders? Like what? Like what type of bets are we talking about?

[Matt Farah]

Like this Price is Right rules. Closest going over close without going over if you get it. Exactly. It's a. It's a higher pay out. All right, so it's a small. It's small money company betting 31 5. So it's at 30 right now. Oh, it is 30 right now.

[Zach Klapman]

There's like a number.

[Jeff Glucker]

My initial number was 31.

[Matt Farah]

So it. Not that it matters to the end Result, because it's whatever someone's willing to pay for it. But if it crosses 33 and what day this is going to air? Tuesday. Right. So this auction ends tomorrow. If you're listening to this on Tuesday.

[Jeff Glucker]

I almost wanted to come back Wednesday.

[Matt Farah]

Wednesday the 12th, it ends. Okay, so if it goes past 33, I win the game. I will have spent the game.

[Jeff Glucker]

Well, you should be the one who.

[Matt Farah]

Well, I've already won the game of life. But the game, this game, the game where. Where that I made up, which is can I drive a Bentley for a year for less than leasing a mid size EV? Right, right. So if it goes over 33, then I have done that. Right. If it goes over 43, I make a net profit, which is 43 unheard of in the Bentley community. Nobody has ever. Nobody has turned a profit on a Bentley in 47 years. So we'll see where it ends up. But it's a good car.

[Jeff Glucker]

I sold the car on cars and bits. And I feel bad telling the story because I did very well. Not well, actually, percentage wise. Yeah, I'm gonna come out ahead of you. I bought a Jaguar with a V8 with all the paperwork that was legally done. And I was hoping. I sold it, no reserve. And I was hoping to get five. And if it sold for 1500, I was mentally ready for it. Yeah, it sold for $14,000. And I was screaming in my office, My wife's like, what wrong? I'm like, I went from Epiphone to Gibson. I was. I had two different mountain bikes in my shopping cart. I was ready to buy, like, this Trek, this Nat. And she's like, hold on. Pause all that. Let's figure out what to do with the money. Because she's the smart one, right? That car has already been. They've owned it for two years. It's already for sale on, like, Craigslist or Marketplace for $6,500. And I feel fucking terrible. And I was like, should I buy it back and roll the dice again? It had Arizona plates.

[Matt Farah]

It hasn't gotten better, but I did.

[Jeff Glucker]

All the stuff to fix it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

And they probably. When it came time to smog it, it is California legal, but it is a pain to smog because it does blow dirty. And you got to, like, do all the tricks and all this. And I think when it was their turn, but when they bought it, they're like. They're like, it's just part of owning a Jag. And I was like, all right, boom. And they were the only people to Come see. See it in person. Which made me feel better. I've never sold a car at auction.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

And then when I. Someone sent me a link, they were like, hey, does this look familiar? I was like, no fucking way. I was like, should I buy it?

[Matt Farah]

Look, man. Well, this, we talked about it last episode. This rolling 35 year thing could really benefit us with the smog. Have you seen this thing? I have, yeah. Apparently Leno's sponsoring it. We, we hypothesized last show that it would bring in tax revenue for people who would happily register their classic European gray market era sort of cars. Yeah. You could sort of put those ones with dealer. Not put an end to Montana, but like, Yo, I'm excited, S.C. i'm going to tell California I pay my way.

[Jeff Glucker]

It's the dealer plate is kind of a sweet little.

[Matt Farah]

It is, but it probably, I. Probably the state gets more of my money.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. I mean you can't, being a dealer, you can't just get a dealer plate. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, but like I'm in California, my shit is legit.

[Jeff Glucker]

100%.

[Matt Farah]

100% percent. But like the countach, like that won't pass. That won't pass. Smog period.

[Jeff Glucker]

Right. As it is the Japanese car, cleanest countach on the planet, I would happily.

[Matt Farah]

Fucking do it in California. It's not about the taxes. It will not pass.

[Jeff Glucker]

I always love when I see like the most random car in a Montana plate. I'm like, what are we doing? And that's the guy who's like, these roads are shit. I'm like, yeah, the disconnect.

[Zach Klapman]

Thank you very much for saying yes.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a liberal cuck the Bentley. Those Bentleying plates, that's a Cali tag.

[Jeff Glucker]

Great plate.

[Matt Farah]

Taycan. Cali tag, motorcycles, Cali tags, dealer plate, Cali tags.

[Jeff Glucker]

My Jag plates were two inline four.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, that's pretty good.

[Jeff Glucker]

And I was filling it up one night at a gas station in Lake Forest. And it has the boat tail so you can pull up either side. It was great because it was two tanks, saddle tanks. And I'd fill one up and I'd fill the other up. And this dude behind me is like staring at the car, staring at the car because I'm filling up over here and I'm gonna fill up over here. And he walks up, he goes, he might have been a little high, but he walks up, he's like, hey, man, does this have two engines? And at first I'm like, are you a idiot?

[Zach Klapman]

I'm like, great.

[Jeff Glucker]

I pause, I go. The plate says two in line fours.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. I'm like, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I chuckle. I'm like, no, it's a V8. And he goes, oh. I'm like, I still don't think he got the joke, but I'm like, It's like, all right, cool.

[Matt Farah]

No, that's a. You put out misleading signs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a real, well, what was she wearing moment, if I may. No, that's. It's not cool to joke about that, but. Except if it's a no, right? If it's a car and it's not a person, then you can make a joke pretending that it was a person who was wearing a skirt and please, next question.

[Zach Klapman]

Misleading license plate.

[Matt Farah]

No. You know what happens is I get accused of something and then I have to make a hard right wing turn.

[Zach Klapman]

Oh, God.

[Matt Farah]

And then Zach and I start. And we have to start running Griffs. I mean, we could do do it, though. We could definitely do it.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm in Baldwin Heights and this is where the start of this was like.

[Matt Farah]

A. Bro, listen, listen. You want to make some money? All we have to do. Careful, careful. Scare the out of people.

[Jeff Glucker]

You know, that, that. Oh, the old people who are still there.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

That's where I live in. That's where I live in Orange county too.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Chound wants to talk mad. Must defend the Lotus engines I was shitting on in the last episode. I said, you don't want a Lotus powered Lotus. Said you want a Toyota powered Lotus. And then calm down. Richard goes on to defend their Lotus.

[Jeff Glucker]

Never broke, not once. She's still going.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Congratulations. You had a good one. You had a good one.

[Jeff Glucker]

You sit on a throne of lies.

[Matt Farah]

You had a good one. It's okay. Here for Matt's cats has a good question. Accepting that cars generally don't appreciate and you lose money no matter what, how should the aspiring manual transmission enthusiast pick out cars that have a high floor? So how do you lose the least money in a fun car? What do you buy?

[Jeff Glucker]

You got to worry about it, though. That's the thing you got to worry.

[Matt Farah]

About a little bit. Some cars lose a lot more money than others. How do you lose the least amount of money to fun car?

[Jeff Glucker]

I mean, if you want a fun car, you shouldn't care about that part.

[Matt Farah]

Right. But like Mark 2 GTI, is it. Is it a Toyota Mr.2? Is it an 86? Is it a Mustang?

[Jeff Glucker]

Go buy a Fox body. Exactly.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Or C5 Corvette. You know, like I'm the Wrong person to ask. When the hammer fell on that Jag, I shit myself because I'm parentally been the guy. I buy high and I sell low. Same with my meme stocks, man. Fucking amc. Still smart over that one. So. My God, that was a great. It really helped my taxes out. One year, actually. Joke. It's awesome.

[Matt Farah]

I.

[Jeff Glucker]

If I'm. If you're buying an enthusiast car to enjoy it and drive it. Who gives a. About the floor. That was.

[Zach Klapman]

But I mean, if you want to minimize. It's hard reliability, a lot of collectibility. Those are important things.

[Jeff Glucker]

A lot.

[Matt Farah]

It's. It's.

[Jeff Glucker]

And I don't care about that one.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm not in the financial space to care about it maybe is the way to look at it. I'm buying it to enjoy it and I'm looking for one that I can afford and drive it hard and then go like, oh, you want it next?

[Matt Farah]

If you're financially able to treat a car as disposable, that's awesome. A lot of people aren't able to do that.

[Jeff Glucker]

Right. And that's not what I intended. That's how I said it.

[Matt Farah]

It's not. I'm not saying. I'm not trying to say anything's wrong with what you said. No, but that is how I sent him. The sentiment is correct.

[Jeff Glucker]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

You know, you should buy the thing you want and enjoy it for what it is and not. Not consider the resale. But.

[Jeff Glucker]

And because I meant it as like, I can't afford like a short wheelbase 911 with the blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, like I can't afford that even though my dream is an old 911.

[Matt Farah]

No, I mean even with the question that they were talking about, it was really like, what. Like what car? What's a good car with a hard floor where you can buy it and drive it for a couple years and it's on that floor. So my floor is broken. How about like S197 Bullitt Mustangs? Yeah, sure, boss. 02 Laguna Seiko, like Terminator Mustangs or.

[Jeff Glucker]

Like some grand sport version of a Corvette.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. A C7 or C6 Grand Sport will just sit on the floor.

[Jeff Glucker]

Or a C5Z06.

[Matt Farah]

A C5Z06 is $17,800 for all of eternity.

[Jeff Glucker]

And it's the quickest car for 90% of people out. Out there.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

Someone just bought one of my building. It looks so good.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Yeah. There's a. There's a bunch of stuff. I mean, a bunch. I think integrity anything from 2005 with manual gearbox, it's like it.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, right? Yeah. SVT Focus. I don't know.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Okay. Christian says, what are signs a used car was driven very hard? I stay away from tinted tail lights and aftermarket paddleships.

[Jeff Glucker]

Is Christian asking about as many.

[Matt Farah]

If you're aftermarket paddles. If you're getting aftermarket paddle sh tail lights, you're looking at some trash.

[Jeff Glucker]

Aftermarket paddle shifters is back away.

[Matt Farah]

That's like major, not slowly major, because.

[Jeff Glucker]

That person's a serial killer.

[Zach Klapman]

Tinted tail lights are also a big.

[Matt Farah]

Tail lights are bad.

[Zach Klapman]

They look terrible.

[Jeff Glucker]

Like, let me darken the thing that tells people I'm slowing down.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

The things we think are cool when we're young.

[Zach Klapman]

Right.

[Jeff Glucker]

Are not.

[Zach Klapman]

And it was a style choice from like 12 years ago, 15 years ago.

[Jeff Glucker]

But even then there was like. Like when they switched to altique, you know, that was brighter. At least that was a clear brake light.

[Matt Farah]

Go back to that. I'm not saying it was good looking period of that when we were like 16. First it was those GTS Lite covers, the tinted ones that you stuck in there. And then you were like, I can't see shit. You get rid of them. And then it was like the EG light or whatever, like the super bright. You know, when hids first came out on the high end cars, we had the Mustangs, we'd have the blue. We'd get the blue lights and it would like melt the wiring harnesses.

[Zach Klapman]

I saw those on an old Apollo the other day and they were blinding.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. Terrible.

[Zach Klapman]

In front of that car.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it was mag.

[Jeff Glucker]

Grimy trunk rattling with like bases set to neg 1.

[Matt Farah]

Well, if you don't go. If you don't put a scotch Brite behind the license plate, you know that. You know about that, right?

[Jeff Glucker]

Is that to stop it from.

[Matt Farah]

From the license plate vibrator? That was what we used to do. He used to shove that scotch hatchback there if you couldn't get.

[Jeff Glucker]

My buddy in high school had a Blazer, the S10 Blazer, where he would drive around with the rear hatch open popped and he would bump, bump, bump, and we would be driving around. And one time he got pulled over and the cop came up and slammed that shut. Eric Esposito from Winter, Massachusetts.

[Zach Klapman]

Wow.

[Matt Farah]

That's when you had the MTX Thunders.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably even before that. It's probably.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, you couldn't even buy those. Not stolen a hundred percent of the image. Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, my God. Mtx, they just had a Factory.

[Matt Farah]

And then people. They just put them in a room, and people just steal them. And you.

[Jeff Glucker]

When you first moved to California, did you. And I don't know what year you moved here.

[Matt Farah]

Did you ever get.09?

[Jeff Glucker]

So I predate you a little bit. You do ever get the. Hey, man, you want to buy some speakers?

[Matt Farah]

No, that was New York. In New York. Oh, that's why I got it out here, though. That's how I got the mtx. You think I went to a store for.

[Zach Klapman]

I don't think they sell them in stores.

[Matt Farah]

They don't.

[Zach Klapman]

Their storefront is a white E350 van.

[Jeff Glucker]

It was a great sketch, and I cannot remember who did. It was like a comedy sketch on YouTube. Like, you want to buy some speakers, and you walk into the van, and then you walk through the van into the front of a Best Buy, and he takes it. And it was. At best, he's like. And he started selling him, like. He legit starts selling him, like, Best Buy speakers. Best sketch. But when I first moved here, because the skit.

[Matt Farah]

The.

[Jeff Glucker]

The thing was, they'd tell you these box of speakers.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

And there were rocks inside and like that. Oh, right.

[Zach Klapman]

They make them heavy.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, you got sold some faces.

[Jeff Glucker]

I had a guy try to. But I was like, I've seen this sketch.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, dude. Me and Larry Casilla would go down to Chinatown and we would buy the grimiest. Dude, it was great. He had bazooka tubes, dude. He had. Yeah, I had the. I had the box. I had the. The big. The MTA Thunder 1000s. Two of them with the JL audio, the big amp that you'd mount on that back seat. You know what I mean? The back of the back seat, you had it mounted up nice cable management, the whole. Larry, he had two because he had a fox body hatch. So on either side.

[Jeff Glucker]

One.

[Matt Farah]

On either side, he had a. He had two bazooka tubes.

[Jeff Glucker]

It was amazing. Sick. It's so not Picture Larry, dude.

[Matt Farah]

If you had that today.

[Jeff Glucker]

Hey, guys, thanks for tuning in. I'm listening to Still Dre, Limp Bizkit, the.

[Matt Farah]

No, it was rage. Larry would be bumping rage against the machine.

[Jeff Glucker]

He'd be the type would look at the camera and would like not mouth to swear you. I won't do what you tell me.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love Larry. Yeah, he. It was rage as.

[Jeff Glucker]

And to bring this full circle back to Congrats on a Thousand episodes as. Meeting all these people and your friends and, like, intermingling. Larry Cassilla is one of the nicest People I've ever.

[Zach Klapman]

Absolutely.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

And to see what he's done.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

With his. I just bought a GT3, you know.

[Matt Farah]

Like, so, you know, what's the best about Larry is it's not his GT3 that he really loves. It's his Model T. He's now where we are.

[Jeff Glucker]

He has a Model T. He bought.

[Matt Farah]

A Model T for five grand, and he fucking loves it. And he rolls. He commutes in it. Sometimes in the summer, he commutes in it to his shop. It's like four miles. Yeah. And he rocks his Model T, and he loves that shit. Dude.

[Jeff Glucker]

Amazing.

[Matt Farah]

I'm so. That's. That, to me, is like. That's the circle where it's like. I want to connect with this machinery in a way that's not.

[Jeff Glucker]

Because you've driven one, right?

[Matt Farah]

Oh, yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, you did the whole fucking.

[Matt Farah]

I've driven them.

[Zach Klapman]

We did that. But he did a story for road and track.

[Matt Farah]

I did a story for own track where I drove the Super T and then the racing T. The Super T was.

[Jeff Glucker]

I've never driven anything that old.

[Matt Farah]

They're tractors.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

When you can drive a Model T on, like, dirt, it makes a lot of sense, Right. In roads with other cars. You drove that.

[Jeff Glucker]

That was the guy who does the Bentley Recreations, right?

[Matt Farah]

Persang. It's b. Yeah. Persang is all right. Yeah. I'm happy for Larry and his red GT3. His guards red.

[Jeff Glucker]

Then he drives it, too. I love that.

[Zach Klapman]

Nice.

[Matt Farah]

Well, he. You know, what's great about him is he doesn't. I mean, there's so many things that are great about him, but for one is he doesn't give a. About weather, whatever. He just. He does it, you know, he's all right.

[Jeff Glucker]

The car will be clean.

[Matt Farah]

He's so. He's. I. I taunt him because my tycon. Because he bought an. He bought a new Taycan.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And then he sold it.

[Jeff Glucker]

He asked me about it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

The wagon, right.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I bought one that was 2 years old. So, you know, he paid like 140 grand for his car and then sold it for 70. And I paid. I paid 64, 80.

[Jeff Glucker]

He asked me about it when he first bought it because he wanted to lower it. And then I connected him with Ben Abrams. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

One of the first ones. There was, like, a thing. You bolt on the module, tricks the fucking suspension.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Because Ben's. He still has his. Even through all his problems. Oh, hey, look at that. Hold on.

[Matt Farah]

I fucking. When 405 motoring. I went over there the other day and they're like, you're gonna lower this, right? And I got, like, so mad at them. I was like, it's on air suspension. Like, yeah, but, like, you can lower it. I was like, have you driven around here? I was like, I'm tempted to, like, fucking lift it and turn into a four by four.

[Jeff Glucker]

Can you do me one favor before we close this out? Can you go to my YouTube channel? Because I've been stuck on 49,000 subscribers, what, for 9 million years?

[Matt Farah]

Subscribe. Can you get me all I want? 48.9. This is bullshit.

[Jeff Glucker]

And I've been there for decades.

[Matt Farah]

Subscribe.

[Jeff Glucker]

Just. I just want to get to 50.

[Matt Farah]

God damn.

[Jeff Glucker]

I don't. I don't go.

[Matt Farah]

Subscribe.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm not asking to get to a hundred. That's ridiculous. I just need to get to 50, okay? Even though my daughter said because she's now almost 10, she's like, dad, when can we get it? I'm like, we're never getting the fucking thing, Sheik. If we get it, can I have it? I'm like, you can have it 100%, but we're never getting. I just need to get to 50 for my own mental health.

[Matt Farah]

Please subscribe to The Hooniverse on YouTube. Please go do it.

[Jeff Glucker]

Thank you.

[Matt Farah]

You need to do it. Oh, you drove the ID buzz. Is it disappointing? Is it awesome?

[Jeff Glucker]

The range? I drove it to the fucking Porsche show you were at, and it turned every Porsche guy. I was like, what is that? It's great. The range sucks. The touchscreen is absolute garbage. The infotainment, because it's all touchscreen. Everything else about it is delightful and wonderful.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I could see if Hannah ever wanted.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, she would want it.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yes.

[Matt Farah]

No, she would want it. Yeah. She loves the Taycan. She's. She's 100% on board with the Taycan I love. So. Great.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, I've driven the newer Taycan. It's even, you know, better.

[Matt Farah]

It is. It is better. But. But I can't afford it. I can afford this Taycan and it's very nice.

[Jeff Glucker]

Sure.

[Matt Farah]

We have promoted that on Monday. We have a very special show, but we had to bump it to from Monday. No, no, no. Monday was the 10th. What do we bump to? The 8? I think it's the 18th. We'll get back to you guys, I promise. It's a very special show with a very special guest.

[Jeff Glucker]

This is like 80s PSA.

[Matt Farah]

It was going to be on Monday. We had to bump it. It's okay. It's all good scheduling bullshit. TST1000 is coming up. It's gonna be amazing.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'm so sad I can't be here. Thank you for letting me come on this one.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, dude, this is great. Thank you for, for bringing us some booze. Thank you for your amate. I think you still even at what, 8, 8 to 9? 93. Is that the biggest spread?

[Zach Klapman]

Maybe. Unless Johnny comes on between now and 1000.

[Jeff Glucker]

Joking.

[Zach Klapman]

Because he'd be one episode. Episode four and five.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, really? All right, well, we can. We'll engineer that.

[Zach Klapman]

Part two.

[Matt Farah]

Listen, he's been on a lot.

[Zach Klapman]

I think it was a long one and we split into two. That's probably what happened.

[Jeff Glucker]

Okay. I want one of these days I want to come back and break Scotto's record.

[Matt Farah]

No, no, listen. No, no, no.

[Jeff Glucker]

I know because when it's us, we're normally quick and out we go, eat and we drink and, and this is this one.

[Zach Klapman]

But just like the Chappelle thing, it is a self serving record.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah, you're right.

[Zach Klapman]

I did this thing.

[Jeff Glucker]

You're right.

[Matt Farah]

And, and, and you're right. And being the.

[Jeff Glucker]

The.

[Matt Farah]

Long isn't like it's. I'd rather say I want to do two hours of incredible radio instead of just going, yeah, I want to do for four and a half hours. That's fair. Three hours of it kind of suck. No, I know.

[Jeff Glucker]

And I saw. I did it. I was like, oh, I want to break that. But you're 100% right.

[Zach Klapman]

Like, he has a momentum to his storytelling that seems like it's the first 10 minutes and he has. And he's got amazing stories, but we don't want to start an arms race where every guest is like, I can beat that.

[Matt Farah]

No, you're right.

[Jeff Glucker]

You're.

[Matt Farah]

After, after, after we. We established that there was some kind of a record. I got like eight text messages and be like, yo, I could beat that. Like, yo, bro. No, we're so. Have we. Actually, we've talked about what we're doing for the 1000, right? The 1000 is going to be the Putting this to death. It's. It's eight hours of podcasting. Eight hours of podcasting. Okay. And then we're never going to talk about the length of a podcast ever again. Yeah, we're going to give you what you want.

[Jeff Glucker]

Is it going to be live?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Zach Klapman]

Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

Oh, that's sick.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jeff Glucker]

I'll be on a plane.

[Matt Farah]

Jeff Cluck Puerto Rico Jeff Clucker the Hooniverse subscribe to the universe on YouTube. Get him to 50 grand. No, get him to 50 GS, dude. He needs it. He wants it. We all deserve it. We do.

[Jeff Glucker]

Shout out.

[Matt Farah]

We all deserve it.

[Jeff Glucker]

Thank you.

[Matt Farah]

Wanna go eat dinner?

[Jeff Glucker]

Yes, I do eat dinner. I also really have to pee. Cause I'm 44.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, let's go eat dinner. Thank you to our patrons for asking such great questions. Of course. Patreon.com the Smokingtirepodcast if you wanna get the show early live ad, free, ask questions and a whole lot more merch@the smokingtireshop.com TST 1000 coming live March 30th. Mark your calendars. It'll be available not just to patrons, but to everyone in the public. And of course, please watch our actual car reviews on YouTube. We do still need to make a little bit of money doing that. A little bit. It's, you know, it's not a lot. It's dying slowly. It's being choked.

[Jeff Glucker]

You guys keep talking. Finish this up. I gotta go pee.

[Matt Farah]

It's being choked out. Jeff's leaving the studio and I will too.

[Zach Klapman]

He's getting up on the record.

[Matt Farah]

I'll see you later. Good fucking.

[Jeff Glucker]

Yeah. The record's over.

[Matt Farah]

Record's over.