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Join us on a captivating journey through the automotive world as we welcome car enthusiasts and experts to Drive Radio. Discover the intricate process of consigning vintage and modern collectible cars with Worldwide Vintage Auto. From discussing the available inventory to understanding the privacy and security benefits of selling through a trusted source, this episode is perfect for anyone interested in the complexities of car consignments. Listen in for detailed advice and learn how to address common automotive issues, such as dealing with knock sensor problems in a Chevy Tahoe.
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SPEAKER 05 :
All right, we are back. Hour 3, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Again, Pat Schneid from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Steve Horvath from Geno’s Auto Service with us today as well. Question of the day. Tell us what you or your friends drove when you were in high school. Larry Unger answering phones, of course, and Charlie Grimes driving. our engineer and jim from worldwide vintage auto speaking of those cars from high school you guys have a array of cars that you’ve got for sale and always looking for inventory and all that so explain to us number one i guess number one how are things at worldwide jim let’s start there
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, very good, very good. We’re doing well. We’ve got a large inventory right now. We’ve got 302 cars on the website currently available. Nice. Yeah, so things are doing good. Luckily, the air conditioning is still working in the warehouse.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s all that matters. But, yeah, come down and check us out. You know, that’s one thing. I mean, 300 cars, you know, car shows are generally only on weekends. But Monday through Friday, we’re open 9 to 5, and it’s like walking into a car show.
SPEAKER 05 :
It really is. And we’ve done, you know, events at you guys’ place. And, yeah, and I don’t think we stress this enough, Jim. These are not cars that are like… sitting outside in a lot. You guys have a huge indoor warehouse where if people want to come by and look at the vehicles, they’re all there. You’re not out in the sun. It’s not beating down on you. You’ve got time to look at the car. And I will also say, because I check the web, I’m a VIP member, so for those of you listening, become a VIP member. Sign up. You get that listing on Thursdays where they send you things that you won’t get otherwise or the rest of the world, I guess I should say, Jim, isn’t getting. But you guys have right now just a vast array of cars, everything from a – Steve will enjoy this – an original Porsche Speedster replica, which is kind of a unique car. And it’s a replica, not an original Speedster, but a replica. But you guys have got that all the way to – you guys even dabble in some of the newer – what would I want to say, Jim? Some of the newer one-off cars. You’ve got a Beetle, too. Yeah. Even some of the newer one-off type cars as well. You’ve got those also.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, modern.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, modern hot rods. Yeah, that’s the right way to say it. Thank you.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Yep, modern collectibles and sport utilities. You know, there’s a few. I mean, it’s funny. I was looking at the inventory before the call. In age, we started a 1917 Model T, and then we go up to a 2024 what’s called a Grenadier, which is a big four-door sport.
SPEAKER 05 :
I actually would like to own one of those. I know what that is. A Grenadier, for all of you listening, is a company that a billionaire decided that when Land Rover stopped making the Defender, He said, you know what, I wish they still would, and since they won’t, I’ll just go buy all of what they had, the stamps, the tooling, and so on, and then started up that company, put a BMW engine in it, and it’s essentially the old Rover, only new. Is that the right way to say it, Jim?
SPEAKER 14 :
I’d say that, yes. Very unique vehicle, by the way. Really nice looking, good ratings as far as quality goes. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. I’m looking at this. This is an interesting vehicle as well for all of you listening. There’s not too many of these around, and it’s priced probably at what it’s worth. You have a 2006 Dodge 2500 Cummins with 33,000 original miles. Oh, my. And that was, they made this in 07, part 07 and 08s and 06s were there as well. But that 06, the last really full year of that Cummins 24 valve, I’ve got an 04 of that version, only it’s got way more miles than that 33,000. But I don’t think that price is that far off because it is a cherry rig.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, it’s brand new. It’s brand new. It came up out of Sedalia, Colorado, and just beautiful.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s leather. It’s the whole nine yards, Jim. Yeah, this thing’s got everything on it. I mean, that’s a nice rig, by the way, really nice rig.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s a really great one. And then, well, behind that, we also have a 97 Dodge that is a 12-valve coming. Okay. With 32,000 miles. So that one’s like a brand-new truck, too. You know, the difference is being more power out of the 24-valve.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sure, absolutely.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, great cars, great cars, lots of inventory to choose from. I’m glad you mentioned the VIP. I was going to talk about that a little bit. Just every Thursday, you get a simple email with our new releases. And then if you are a VIP member, you have until Monday at noon to buy those. It’s exclusive only to VIP members. And you buy them at that price. And then on Monday at noon, they go out to the regular population, anyone who looks at our website or the 13 other websites that we advertise on. And so you really have an opportunity to buy the car quick. You don’t have all the competition there, although there’s quite a few people on the VIP now.
SPEAKER 06 :
There is, yep.
SPEAKER 14 :
There is a little competition.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, Jim, if there’s somebody out there listening, they’ve got a car, maybe they’re thinking, you know, I’ve owned this long enough, I’d like to turn that into cash, or I’d like to sell out of it and maybe buy something different. Walk us through that process. I mean, I’ve done it with you guys, so I know the process, but you’re the expert. Explain to everybody how this works.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, you simply call or email in. And, oh, from there, you know, we will talk about your car. You’ll send some pictures over. We’ll check it out. I’ll go through and basically put a value on the car. So I’ll check all comparable sales and value guides and just narrow that thing down to what we think we can sell it for. And then we will offer out to you a guaranteed price on the first 60 days of the contract. If we get the car sold, you’re guaranteed the price that’s agreed to. If that all works for you, then we just simply set it up. We have transportation available. Let’s say you don’t want to drive the car down. Or maybe the car’s not running. It’s been sitting a while. That’s something I’ve ran into quite a bit and had great success with. As far as, you know, we’ll have the car brought down to our shop. We have a full shop with five mechanics right now, about a 10-bay shop operating, and full detail department and all that. So maybe you’ve got a car you inherited that has bad gas in it and just can’t get going and won’t run. You know, you’ll end up selling that car $4,000, $5,000, $6,000, $10,000 back of what it’s worth because it’s just not running. There’s people looking at it. They’re like, boom. So those are great things to come to us for because we can actually take the car in, get it running, get it all prepped, get paint work done, make that a nice car. And then we’ll get your top dollar out of that car versus giving it away. Yeah, great point. Because we don’t know how to make it run.
SPEAKER 05 :
Great point.
SPEAKER 14 :
But also, if you have a full premium collector’s car, we’re a great source for that. Because people want to buy from a trusted source. They can literally come to their doors. Let’s say a guy in New York wants your old Pontiac. He’s nervous about buying it from you because you’re just an individual. That’s right.
SPEAKER 05 :
And part of that, Jim, as you know, is because of all of the scams that are out there that, you know, people get scammed out of, you name it. People are very leery of doing things, especially across state lines. And I was going to mention, really, you took the words out of my mouth. If you want to avoid all of that and, Jim, even the hassle of the whole, you know, sales process and the, you know, Ever since you sold me this car, I mean, you eliminate all of that by having you handle that transaction.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. And you keep the privacy there. Yep. Yeah. It’s just a great deal to go consignment. And you know what?
SPEAKER 05 :
Back up, Jim, for just a minute. The privacy thing, I think, is big. I wanted you to mention that as well because you guys are a dealer. So by the time that is all done and the paperwork is handled and so on, it is. It’s a very private thing where that’s not coming back on that original seller. Am I right in saying it that way?
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely, yes, because we will literally before – You know, when you buy a car from a dealer, we’ll assign a temporary tag to that car. Then you’ll get the title, and you’ll have to go down and title it. Well, as a seller, you’re protected because once we pay you for the car and we transfer the title to the new buyer, we’ve already transferred it into WWVA’s name, Worldwide Vintage Autos. So they don’t see the name of the person that actually had the car prior.
SPEAKER 05 :
So important.
SPEAKER 14 :
So important. Yeah, they can’t show up at your house. They can’t call you. They can’t, you know. So, yeah, it’s very private, and it’s nice that way.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, no, I’m glad you said that because I think there’s a lot of folks that worry about that part of it. You know, how do I part with this vehicle? How do I sell it? How do I maximize my price? And, yeah, for all of you listening, yes, Worldwide Vintage Auto is a business. They need to make money, so they’re going to take some money off the top of this. But, Jim, you’re taking, you know, you’re really making this an easy process. You’re taking all of the headache out of that whole process is what you’re doing.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, absolutely. It’s very convenient, very, very convenient. And, you know, not necessarily will you get less money. I’ve explained to a lot of people, you know, if you ever sold a car on your own, you might list it for, say, $15,000. And the guy shows up, they offer you $10. That’s right. That’s right. And you don’t know what to do. You think, well, do I sell it? Do I do it? You know, so… That’s part of it, too. And the reason we get more money for our car, we earn the money we get because we have a shipping department in-house, we have financing available, which is something a private seller is never going to have. Yes, no, you’re right. Great point. Great point. I think it’s just a win-win situation. A lot of times, well, we have high success with the consignment side of it. Yep.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, you guys have done, because of the situation I had with other cars I needed to dispose of, get rid of, and all of that, you guys have done very well. I’ve got one car left. I sold three cars already, so you guys have done a fabulous job. And if anybody out there listening wants a really nice 40 Ford, call Jim at Worldwide, and he’ll take care of you.
SPEAKER 14 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 05 :
Put a little plug in for myself there while I can, Jim.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And back to Charlie, you know, the tri-power thing. Your Ford has tri-power.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, mine does. That’s right. No, you’re right. Flathead. Actually, not to brag, but that 40 Ford of mine, Jim, is probably one of the nicer, original-type 40 Fords. Not original as in from 40, but the car was done in the 70s, and whoever did it did an extremely nice job. And I’m not exaggerating when I say this. You could eat off the undercarriage of that car. It’s so nice. yeah and i noticed it also has the two-speed columbia it does which very very few of those as you know had so it’s a for those of you listening if you want a really nice 40 ford that is unique that you literally could drive any car show you want to go drive to buy it it’s there ready to go it’s there yep baby blue looks great got the right hub caps yeah it’s got everything on it so well jim i appreciate you what phone number do they call jim if they want to get a hold of you
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, 720-908-3660. Okay. And that is my, I’m the manager of consignment. That is my direct cell phone. So just if you call, if you don’t get me, leave a message. Tax works on that phone number too. Okay. So, yep, and I’m available actually six days a week, sometimes seven. I’ll get back to you as soon as I possibly can.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right.
SPEAKER 14 :
We’ll see what we can do and get your cards in. But I appreciate you having me.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, likewise, Jim. Thank you for all you guys and what you do. We appreciate it. It’s been a great partnership, and you’ve helped a lot of folks out, and I appreciate it greatly. Sure, awesome.
SPEAKER 14 :
Sounds great.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thanks, Jim. Appreciate you.
SPEAKER 14 :
We’ll talk to you again.
SPEAKER 05 :
You bet. Have a great rest of your day. Dennis, with a knock sensor question, we’ll come right back and take you as a caller. We’ve got lines open, by the way, for anybody else, 303-477-5600. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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And we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560, Patch Knight from Alltech Automotive with us today, as well as Steve Horthbath from Geno’s Auto Service. He is with us also. Dennis in Denver, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hi, John. I’m calling about my problem child 2005 Chevy Tahoe with a 5.3. Okay. We can’t keep knock sensors in it. And three and a half years ago, I had the motor replaced with a… premier remanufactured engine supplier. The warranties expired. Took it back in September before the warranty expired because I was getting a check engine light, which was both knock sensors. A Colorado Select shop replaced the knock sensors under warranty, scoped them as they came out of the folder, after just three years, put new ones in, some of which were bad, out of the box, because they had the ability to scope them. Put them in, gave the car back to me, and I was still getting check engine lights. They went to the expense and effort of rewiring everything between the knock sensors at the computer. Gotcha. And that seemed to take care of it for a while.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
But now when I’m pulling a hill at more than 2,000 RPM after it’s run for a while, I’m still getting check engine lights and knock sensors. And the shop’s willing to replace them once again, but I’m wondering, first of all, could the engine, the reman engine supplier, I went with them because they did not use Chevy parts. But could they have put something in there that’s causing a conflict with the knock sensors? I doubt it.
SPEAKER 05 :
I can’t think of one. Top of my head, no. I mean, that’s me just really quickly saying that, Dennis, without doing any other investigative work. But at the top of my head, I just can’t think of mechanically what they would have done that would take out knock sensors prematurely i just i can’t think of anything there i mean the knock sensor doesn’t even go inside of the engine it’s actually on the outside of the the head if you would to where it’s picking up any kind of pinging that would be there so it’s not even internal to the engine did they did they put factory ones in or just uh aftermarket ones
SPEAKER 11 :
They tried everything but pulling their hair out.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I was going to say. So they’ve done aftermarket. And, again, the factory’s not even on an 05, especially the factory’s not even making their own. They’re buying those from somebody else that’s being made for them now. And that’s part of, Dennis, what might be the issue here is the simple fact that those are no longer being made even by the original manufacturer that made them in 05. probably not getting the quality that’s the over 20 years past that i mean typically for everybody listening this is a great lesson typically for everybody listening out there factories will make parts for those cars even through their own original vendors for about a decade after that all bets are off they’re coming from whoever they can actually even on the gm side those sensors are going to come from whoever will supply those at that point that’s right
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, in my opinion, Napa has gone straight downhill. But I remember one of their claims to fame was that they supposedly took… parts that were bad and re-engineered and redesigned them to be better than OEM.
SPEAKER 05 :
In a lot of cases, they do. Yeah, no, and that’s still true today. And depending upon the part for, you know, for example, back when the headers were cracking on the four-liter Jeeps, they did a redesign and came up with a fix for those. It was way better than what the factory header was. It was coming from Jeep. That was one example of that quote-unquote redesign. Sensors and stuff, I’ll be honest, Dennis, there’s not much redesign that can be done on those. They’re at the same limitation on suppliers that the factory is. And the reality is there’s just not that many manufacturers of those components left. That’s part of what’s happening in this trade war we’re having with other countries is there’s just some components that just frankly there’s not that many suppliers made for anymore.
SPEAKER 08 :
I’d have to say this is a pretty unusual problem for them to redesign a knock sensor.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, you’re not going to redesign a knock sensor. I’m sorry. Yeah, that’s what I meant to say.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I find that interesting when everything else on the market is junk, too.
SPEAKER 05 :
As in?
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, none of the…
SPEAKER 05 :
offerings that this colorado select shop has available oh you mean as far as the knock sensor goes yeah and that there are just certain times where there are certain ingredients quote unquote that you’ll find that way since some and most the time it’s going to be an electronic type component and and again as that truck even continues to age that will become a larger problem unfortunately I’ll give you an example. My 04 Dodge truck, I need a lumbar support for the seat that, frankly, and it’s a mechanical one, it’s not the electric one. I can find all sorts of electric lumbar supports for that seat. I cannot find a mechanical replacement for it anywhere, and I can’t even make the part myself just because it’s at that age. It’s a year older than yours, and that’s what I’m up against.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. As a consumer… What would you consider fair? Because, I mean, I’ve got a – since they touched this in September, I’ve got a three-year, 36,000-mile warranty. But what do you consider fair between the consumer and the shop? You know, it’s not my fault they can’t get a good part.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, and that’s why we have the warranty we do. We do get reimbursed for that, although at a very, very low rate.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I mean, what’s fair? I mean, I guess keep putting sensors in it, but it’d be nice to have an actual final fix to it. I mean, if it were me personally, knowing that that’s not really doing any damage and it’s not hurting, especially if you’re running the right octane fuel and that in the vehicle, if it were me, I would get a scan tool, you know, a cheap scan tool that will reset that code. And personally, if it were me, when that came on, I’d clear it and keep driving it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, so it’s not going to do any damage.
SPEAKER 05 :
Nope. Okay. If it were me, Dennis, that’s what I’d be doing.
SPEAKER 15 :
Kind of going back to the problem you described or the solution you described, Dennis, with the wiring, in that when they replaced or repaired a section of the wiring harness, that seemed to fix it for a while. I wonder if the sensor failing is not a symptom, and maybe we haven’t gotten to the root. Maybe you might have ground or other electrical issues there that are causing those sensors. It’s hard to say, so that might be an area to look at, but I’m kind of with John. If you can clear it and keep driving it, I don’t think you’re going to hurt that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Especially since it’s only doing it in that particular instance, that’s exactly what I would do.
SPEAKER 12 :
So I find it interesting. Is there only one diagnostic trouble code for knock sensors?
SPEAKER 05 :
As far as I know, it’s a P0332, yes. Pretty much, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because it shows up on my cheap little scan tool as not sensor low voltage.
SPEAKER 05 :
Which, who knows, could be, could not be. It’s on a cheap sensor where you don’t have a scan tool on it to really see exactly what that voltage is. Who knows?
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Who knows?
SPEAKER 12 :
All right. Well, that’s interesting that it’s not going to do any damage because I have thought about… you know, proceeding that way.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s what I would do. If it were me, Dennis, and that’s, I mean, as a side note, and this isn’t, you know, and this is a GM issue as well, we have one particular new diesel truck we bought that has a knock sensor issue that will not repair. The dealer’s had it three times now. It’s, you know, almost on that verge of being a lemon other than the truck works fabulous. Other than that, we’ve gotten into the point of it where we’re just going to clear it and keep driving it. We don’t care. And it’s a brand new truck.
SPEAKER 12 :
So one of you mentioned the fuel.
SPEAKER 11 :
We have run, what is it, 85 or 87, whatever we have here, since we have owned this vehicle without any problems.
SPEAKER 12 :
But I’m wondering if maybe putting this Jasper reman engine in
SPEAKER 05 :
might cause us to have to upgrade fuel play with that i mean i tell that to everybody out there whether they’re running a jasper or the original doesn’t matter if it were me run some different loads of fuel in it and see how it how it responds and what i mean by that is not even from the same station so buy 91 at a you know non-ethanol station for example and see how it performs buy 91 at an ethanol station and see how it performs. Buy 89. And I would run through a few tanks of each and just see what happens, Dennis. That’s what I would do.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
Because I know they are using a different piston than Chevy does. Correct. Would that be to cause me to use a higher octane fuel?
SPEAKER 15 :
Could be.
SPEAKER 11 :
Possibly.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. If you’ve got higher compression in that Jasper engine, you might need a higher octane. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I think what I would do is just jump up to 91 to start with, see how this responds. Do you get the light as often, not as often? Keep a journal. You’re good about that. You know how to do that. Keep a journal on it and see exactly how it responds. Then run a few loads of 89 and then go back to your 87 and see what it does.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Or, sorry, 85, I mean.
SPEAKER 1 :
85, 87, 91.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s a 60-cent-a-gallon fix. Right. Well, and also what I would do is keep track of your mileage because the other thing that we have found on certain vehicles is depending upon what fuel and how that vehicle responds, you may get better fuel economy with the higher octane, therefore not really spending as much as you think because your fuel economy improved. Sure. And all you can do is journal it and see. That’s a journaling thing, Dennis. You don’t know until you try.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I’ll try it on a road trip because it won’t do it around town just when it’s out on the road.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and that’s where I would, again, I’d just keep a scanner and clear it if it were me.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, Dennis, appreciate you very much. Thank you for the phone call. Eric, hang tight. He’s got a comment on that Tempest we talked about earlier. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, guys. So this is just kind of a sidebar comment. You were talking about the Tempest earlier. Yeah. And kind of a funny story. So in 68, I was just not even a year old yet. My parents had – I want to say it was a 62 or a 63. I forget. I guess I’d have to ask my dad. Tempest. My mother used to call it her sewing machine.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
I had to ask them why, and they said because it sounded like one. Well, anyhow, it was a manual, and we lived back in Ohio. My whole family was born and raised back in Ohio. And my mother was coming home from work one afternoon, and she was pretty damn good at driving a stick shift, actually. And she got caught in this light on a hill, and for the whole life of her, could not take off. Every time she’d try to start off, she’d stall it. And this truck pulled up behind her, and the guy sat there, and the story that she’s always told was that she could see the guy in the mirror staring at her, getting annoyed. But every time she would go to take off, the car would roll back a hair, roll back a hair, and she was getting more and more frustrated. And finally the guy got out, walked up, tapped on the window, and told her, roll back so that you’re up against the front of my truck, and then you can launch. They laughed about it for years because that story got passed around, got told so much.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m sure.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, my mother was in tears. She was in tears by the time the guy walked up to her.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, at least he didn’t come out and chew her out. That was good of him. That was good.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, yeah, because he didn’t. But you know what? That’s a generational thing. Nowadays, somebody would get out and start yelling and screaming at you. 60 years ago, you’re more likely to help.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re right, Eric. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
Whenever I hear somebody talk, in fact, there was one of the History Channel automotive shows I was watching not too long ago, and they were talking about a Tempest, about the Tempest morphing into the GTO. And I just, I start, every time I hear somebody say that, I start laughing. I think about that story that my parents have always told. Because it’s just one of those things, you know?
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s funny.
SPEAKER 15 :
You just kind of laugh at it. Anybody who’s learned to drive a manual, or at least, you know, that scenario you described, starting on a hill, is terrifying until you figure it out.
SPEAKER 11 :
So, when I started driving, you know, I only drove automatics my first couple of vehicles, and then I bought a little Mazda pickup, that in fact i’ll give you a funny story about driving a manual my father was a truck driver and bought this little mazda b 2200 it was a five speed and we’re taking it for a test drive it’s me him and the saleswoman okay in the cab of this truck i mean that’s a tiny that was a tiny little truck yep and i’m squeezed in the middle between the two of them well anyhow he’s driving it and we’re the the old um i forget what the dealer was it used to be down there on Colfax and Wadsworth, the Mazda dealer, but that’s where I bought it from. We’re going down Colfax, and my father is trying to float the gears. Now, if you’re old enough to have done it in a gas-powered vehicle, or if you’ve ever driven a semi, you know what floating the gears is. It’s basically shifting up without using the clutch. He’s trying this, and it doesn’t work because they’re just too well synchronized. It’s not going to happen. and he grounded a couple of times, and the sales lady looks at him, and she’s like, I think maybe we need to take this back before you ruin it.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s funny. He was trying to be cool.
SPEAKER 11 :
He was trying to be cool. Well, and then to make it even worse, about 10 years later, I’m in truck driving school, and our very first day out on the road practicing, I got kicked out of the driver’s seat 20 minutes into the drive time because I was floating the gears. And the instructor looked at me and he says, who taught you how to float gears? I said, my father. He says, pull over, stop, and get out. He says, get in the jump seat. Somebody else is driving. He says, you don’t float gears. Okay. he says and then later on then later on he says he came up to me he goes you don’t float gears in school when you’re out have a job and driving on the road that you can float gears if you know how to do it gotcha in school you can’t do it yeah gotcha gotta follow the rules and the thing is is one of one of the other guys who had no clue what was going on he didn’t The other two guys that were in the truck with us, because each truck would seat three plus the instructor, the way they were set up. And the other two guys are kind of looking at the instructor and me going, they don’t understand. And the one guy asked the instructor, he goes, I don’t understand. He goes, you won’t either. He goes, and we don’t teach that here. This is something you learn later in life.
SPEAKER 05 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
And a lot of them are automatics now. They don’t have to do that anymore.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, everything, yeah. If you want a manual and a semi nowadays, that’s the special order, and a lot of them don’t even have that option anymore. But there again, you know what? They’ve been running automatics in Europe since the late 90s and heavy haul applications upwards of a million pounds with an automatic. And I hear guys say, all the time here go, oh, they’re junk. They can’t do this. They can’t do that. You say, well, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Not anymore.
SPEAKER 11 :
They’re doing this.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 11 :
They’re doing this over there. Or the argument comes, most of the guys here is, and I get it, the first generation auto shift automated manual transmissions were terrible, were junk. And if you drove one of those trucks, in most cases, you got good at roadside swapping. I could… I drove a 2000 Mac that had the automated manual transmission, and my boss and I could, if the XY shifters failed while I was driving, I would call him, tell him where I was at, and by the time he would get to me, I would have the floor plate removed, waiting for him to get there with the gun, with the deal, with the bigger sockets to pull the transmission bolts loose, pull the shifters off, drop the new shifters in there. Sometimes you might have to tap the top of the transmission to knock it into neutral. You put the, if it didn’t already drop in, because sometimes it would just drop into neutral and stay there. You drop the new XY shifters in, plug them in, bolt it down. And we had it down to, I could go for, I could be swapped out and on the road rolling in 20 minutes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
We had gotten so good at it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
In fact, the one, One of the best ones ever was I shut down the Monument southbound scale for two and a half hours during rush hour one morning when my XY shifters failed.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, geez. Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
And it made a lot of drivers happy.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
They didn’t have to do it anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 11 :
Didn’t make them happy, but it made a lot of drivers happy.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right. That’s right. Eric, I got to run. Appreciate you, man, very much. Albert in Denver, you hang tight. We’ll come back and get your question answered on a Chevy Colorado. Don’t go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 16 :
Hi, John. Enjoy the show as usual. Thank you. Especially the classic car section. Man, these guys got some stories, I’ll tell you that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, thank you.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, but I got a question about… I’m considering, I got a small HVAC business, and I’m considering getting a used car. I know your opinion on used, but between a 2015, 2020 Chevy Colorado. What is your opinion on them? You know, for a mid-sized truck, average?
SPEAKER 05 :
I owned a 2018 and a 2020. I had the little diesel, which are hard to find. I had the little diesel Colorado that actually – I don’t regret too many vehicles that I sell, Albert. I’m not one of those types of individuals that gets emotional or whatever. But I will tell you, out of all the vehicles I’ve had and then sold – I think if there’s anything I miss the most, it’s that little Colorado diesel. That was just a really good, well-rounded, worked well, performed well, great fuel economy, low like 22, 23 miles to the gallon. And they made that in the same V6 model gas engine, just a matter of whether you wanted gas or diesel. But I loved the truck. It worked great.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I’m looking at that, either that or a Ranger.
SPEAKER 05 :
And the Rangers, I’ve got nothing negative to say about the Ranger as well. This is one of those, again, Albert, as you hear me say all the time, this really comes down to the vehicle and who owned it and how well was it maintained, whether it’s the Ford or the Chevy. I don’t care. It all comes down to who owned it and how well was it taken care of. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, that’s good. Is the guy from Geno’s there, is he with you?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, Steve’s here. Yep. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
I took my truck in about a month or so ago. A month or so ago, you did a flush on my transmission, my F-150. Great job. Holy smokes.
SPEAKER 08 :
It makes a difference, doesn’t it?
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s one of those things you can do that you can actually feel it. Yep, you can tell the difference.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep, I did it, and I’m glad I did it. I’ll be taking my wife’s in here pretty soon. Nice. I’ll be catching up with you guys.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, really, back to that, Albert. Either vehicle is fine. That one comes down to what do you find, how well is it being cared for, what’s its history look like, and so on. But I would have no problem buying either a Ranger or a Colorado, either one.
SPEAKER 16 :
The Colorado is a 2.5 and 2.9.
SPEAKER 05 :
3.6. They had the 3.6 on the V6 in those.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, 3.6.
SPEAKER 05 :
The four-cylinder, the 2.8 was the diesel, and I wouldn’t buy the four-cylinder gas engine at all in that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Didn’t they have the straight six or something?
SPEAKER 05 :
Not in the car. Well, that’s way older. Okay. Yeah, way older.
SPEAKER 16 :
There was a five-cylinder.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, for a while, and yeah, stay away from that. Those are older. You won’t run into that in that model year range anyway, so don’t worry about that. And stay as new as you can, Albert. I would stay in the 2018 to 2020 range is what I would do.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that’s what I’m looking at.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, you’d be fine doing that. Thanks, Albert. Mike, you’re next. Go ahead. Hey, nice to get through. Good to hear you. Thank you, Mike.
SPEAKER 10 :
I had a comment. You asked about old cars driven in high school. Yes. Yeah, my first car was a 55 Ford custom line. This was in 1965. Okay. It was a 272 with a three-speed, and by the time I was done with it, I’d gone through a 292, a 312, and ultimately a 406 out of a Galaxy. Wow. When the 406 was in there, the broken broomstick I used to hold up the rear seat was Excuse me, the back of the front seat because the hinge was broken. It didn’t work too good. It’s hilarious. Yeah, it was. I had a three-speed overdrive in it, and I ended up throwing a rod out of it at high speed on north by 25.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t know how fast it was going, but my buddy’s 62 Corvette was a long way behind. Sounds like you had fun with that car. Yeah. Oh, I had a lot of laughs with it. I never went to jail with it. That’s good. That’s the most important part.
SPEAKER 15 :
Never convicted. That’s right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Best part. Good luck. You’re talking about Corvairs, too. We’re going way back again. I was working at the Capri Motor Lodge, which was 84th and Pearl, as a bellman when I was in high school. Okay. And they had a Corvair van that they used as their airport shuttle. Yeah, I remember those, actually. Yeah, you’re right. And the jackpot was if you got sent to Stapleton in it, because if you revved it up high enough, you’d blow the fan belt. Uh-huh. And you got to sit there for two or three hours. Well, they came and got you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
We all learned how to do that until they decided they bought an Econoline.
SPEAKER 05 :
Ah, that went away. Even the regular Corvairs, the turbo cars, were famous for that as well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Were they?
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, they all were. I had a, I think it was a 62, and the fan belt let go on I-25 in the middle of winter. And the car filled up with oil smoke as it heated up.
SPEAKER 05 :
They were awful for that, as you know. Just terrible.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, fun car otherwise.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, otherwise, yeah, they were, actually.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, anyway, thanks.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thanks, Mike. No, appreciate you very much. And I’ll close with this. Some of you may not want me to say this, but I’m going to say it anyways. We have these memories, and I do as well, of how fast cars were, what this was like back in the day, and this, that, and the other. I get my old Buick out occasionally. It was my car from high school, which my story is I had a 68 Buick Grand Sport, I had a 72 Chevy Camaro as well that I had through high school. So I had two cars, mainly because I was going through the process of rebuilding. The Camaro I bought totaled. It was a car I only paid, first car I ever owned. It was 600, no, I paid 400 bucks for it back in the day. And I bought it when I was 14. Took me a long time to get everything straightened out because a motorcycle had T-boned the back of the car. It was actually a car that was parked along Broadway down there north of Spedding Chevrolet back in the day where Broadway makes the curve and it was parked out there and some kind of motorcycle in the middle of the night missed the corner. whoops and the camaro was parked out on the street and literally there was a v in the back of that camaro or that motorcycle hitting was total so anyways about the car total and went through the whole rebuild process but at the same time i bought this 68 buick grand sparta was actually my great aunt’s car so it was in the family we had sold it originally as a dealer and i was able to buy the car and drove that car through high school i put studs nose on the back it had positive traction rear end it was a you know a 400 series car so it ran you know pretty well or what i thought at the time ran really well and that car at band of mirrors after we were all done would run you know high school drags like 14 fives or something so it wasn’t a bad you know car as far as how fast it was but in the day we thought it was really fast well in today’s world it’s actually very slow. But anyways, the story of that car is I sold that car to a good friend of mine when my youngest son, Richard, you hear him occasionally, when he was born, he was about two, I finally sold it because I just knew I had other obligations and things I needed to take care of. And 18 years later, I was able to actually buy the car back, actually in better shape than I had sold it, long story there, but I actually bought it back with better shape than what I had sold it and I’ve owned it since. I still own it today. I got it out the other day and And this is a testament, by the way. You guys hear me talk a lot about BG Supercharge. And I got testimonial on BG Supercharge. So I had not driven that Grand Sport in three years. This is not an exaggeration. And I know I should get it out and do more with them and so on. But it was on the upper lift. I’ve got stackable lifts in my shop. So it was on the upper lift. And I just don’t get it down much. And I had so much going on the last year and a half or so, especially with my folks and their estate and downsizing and my mom dying and all of that, that I honestly just didn’t have time to drive half the cars I owned. So didn’t get the car out. It had sat the year prior. So it had been two and a half years, not quite three years, but two and a half years since I’d driven the car. And three weekends ago, I went ahead and got it all down, blew it all off. I had unhooked the battery, so the battery was unhooked, but it was still on a tender. Battery was still good. Put one shot of starting fluid, and it was all. And it fired right up.
SPEAKER 15 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 05 :
And all I had done to that fuel was put BG Supercharged. And keep in mind, this is a vented system. Sure. It’s got a lot of moisture and a lot of things. If you’re going to keep gas stable, is my point, BG Supercharged will do that for an extended period of time. And I am living proof that that product works because that’s all I did to that fuel was put BG Supercharged in it, and it lasted that long. I since have gotten it down, put some more in it, put a little bit of fresh fuel in it and so on, and I’ll drive it some this summer. There’s the story of BG Supercharged. Pat, thanks for coming down. Appreciate you. Pleasure. Thanks for having us. Steve, you as well. Appreciate you as well. And again, Pat and Steve, both, you can find them at drive-radio.com. Charlie, Larry, thank you guys as well. We’re going to take next week off. You guys all have a great Independence Week. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 18 :
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