VW Super Beetle First Car - Aiden and Tom - Father Son Dream Car Story

Aiden & Tom take you inside the hunt for a pristine 1972 VW Super Beetle, bumping shoulders with GT40s, AC Cobras, and original Eleanors in a classic-car warehouse. Learn how Aiden scored “Miss Maggie” for $4K—an unforgettable first car moment that sparked lifelong car memories and automotive nostalgia. Then, Tom shares his craftsmanship skillsfor evaluating, maintaining, and lightly restoring vintage VWs.

Aiden and Tom's favorite episode is "Air-Cooled and Carefree – Guinevere’s VW Beetle Tales and Family Restoration Traditions" https://pod.link/1733902541/episode/25179670e31fa4972ec52019b456a63c

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• Heartwarming family car culture behind every deal
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Chapters

• 0:03 Father and Son Car Memories
• 8:26 Generational Love of Cars
• 17:41 Grandfather's Car Influence and Restomods
• 26:53 Family Bonding Through Cars

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

Welcome back to All the Cars I've Loved Before. Your Podcast, where every car tells a story. We're at CarsLovecom CarsLovecom I'm Christian, he's Doug. Catch me at Christian at CarsLovecom, he's Doug at CarsLovecom. And we have a bit of a departure for our format today. Can't wait to introduce our guests. Let's see a little housekeeping. Where are we here? How you doing, doug?

Speaker 1: 0:36

What's going on on your end. Yeah, so, as we typically mention, we have downloads, growing, audience growing, heard around the world. The big thing to us and I'm getting this in the emails a lot these days is the calls to action. Okay, so get involved, listen to the episodes, download if you can. That helps us out. People like to see that. Follow the show. Don't miss an episode. And if you're going to be somewhere where you don't have Internet connectivity you are mining for ore deep in the earth, you're going to Middle Earth to fight elves and trolls, that sort of thing you can download them straight to your phone and take the, take the device in the mind with you. What do you think that happens?

Speaker 3: 1:26

often, right, absolutely, we can roll with that On a plane. Yeah, you can download it on your podcast streaming platform of choice and queue it all up. Take it on a road trip.

Speaker 1: 1:41

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Speaker 1: 2:08

It is easy as us hanging out at a football tailgate on the weekend and reminiscing about cars, saying hey, I want to be on the show, to being on the show Monday. You can ask Tom, who's another guest here in season three. So, all right, partner, before we introduce our guests, who are a father and son tandem, which gets me really gets the juices flowing over here, I'm going to ask you in a minute, doug, to share with us some father and son memories in the car, but I will. I'll go first. Here I was before we were having Aiden and Tom, our guests today on the show.

Speaker 1: 2:48

I started to uh, I spent this afternoon texting with my dad and at checking with him about the, the cars that he had that sort of intersected with my life and the car that he had when, when I arrived into the world, was a 1967 pontiac catalina, which I didn't know. This he told me today that he first car that he bought new it. It the car. Look it up online. Very attractive car, really interesting front end, kind of the over under headlights, very unique looking. Uh, he said he bought this is the first car he bought new thirty three hundred dollars. And uh, the car he drives now is a honda accord which he paid thirty three thousand dollars for. That's an order of magnitude for the mathematicians out there, just to let you know how things have changed. Yes, you could buy a brand new car for thirty three hundred dollars back in in the late 60s 60s, but that was a used car right, Did he buy it new.

Speaker 1: 3:47

New. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I was saying 1972, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the cars back in the 60s were cheap, think about it. But of course, people made nowhere near what they make now. If you look at average salaries then yeah. So remember my dad put me on his lap and I think this would have been in Pennsylvania, and hey let's steer us around the corner and you know of course I had no business being behind the wheel.

Speaker 1: 4:14

Another memory was his teaching me how to drive stick in the 1980 or 81. He was a little iffy on the year chevy citation, which was maroon. You wouldn't look at it nowhere to think of it, to look at him now. But they were a revolutionary car in their day. In their own way I guess they were kind of a counterpoint to the previous um, um gas guzzlers, the american gas guzzlers that had been along. Is that right, doug? Am I on the right track?

Speaker 3: 4:46

there, that's correct, but also really the first broad application of a front wheel drive for GM. Oh yeah, that's it. There you go, yeah, and the unit unibody construction and all the all the benefits that front wheel drive has. But it took them a long time to get that right.

Speaker 1: 5:03

Yeah, yeah, good stuff, so you know. So I remember with my pops road trips back and forth from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, where he was raised. He was a professor at LSU for a long time, but we'd go back to New Orleans when I was younger for holidays, mardi Gras, to see the older folks there and and for some reason, he had a nissan stanza in the 80s or late 80s which was a completely uh, I think this car was made of aluminum foil.

Speaker 1: 5:33

Maybe was 1200 pounds. All in it was really something else. Um, it was not not much heavier than my hot wheels car, but so what about you doug any thoughts about father and son memories before we introduce our father and son guest?

Speaker 3: 5:48

Yeah, so I have to say either late 70s, early 80s, because we lived in Maryland. Then I remember the day my dad said, whatever day it was. He said hey, you don't need to come in on my side anymore, come around to the other side and get in on the passenger side door.

Speaker 1: 6:10

With a great big bench seating, you could just slide all over.

Speaker 3: 6:13

Yeah, you could slide right in, certainly, speaking of siblings, and we had Lisa on last season who mentioned the story about the hump in the middle, and we all remember that, um, if you had a big, real dry car right and uh there were three of us I think that you had uh three siblings to one as well.

Speaker 1: 6:36

Yes, off right.

Speaker 3: 6:37

Yes, if somebody had to sit in the middle, in the back, and it was always a fight, right it? Had to be, there wasn't a whole lot of space back there to begin with.

Speaker 1: 6:46

Yeah, with the hump you got a little bit of elevation yep, yep and uh god.

Speaker 3: 6:52

I remember my dad without going. We'll save some stories for later. My dad had, he always had company cars he was just fortunate enough to have that, and they were always GM or Chrysler, I think, and the last one he had was a Pontiac. But this first one he had was a either early 80s, late 70s, oldsmobile, delta 88, but it was an diesel version. Gm tried to adapt a diesel from a truck and it got great mileage, but it was a total piece of garbage and if anybody looks into it they'll find like that was one of the that that kind of sealed the fate of diesels in, uh, in gm cars for quite some time. It was just so poorly built but he, he, he liked it, he, uh, he was a ham radio guy, so he always had to put his antenna on the back and he had a, you know, in car, ham radio, amateur radio. So pretty cool that is neat.

Speaker 1: 7:54

Yeah, cbs were everywhere in the eighties. We need to show about CB.

Speaker 3: 7:57

Well, it wasn't. It wasn't CB.

Speaker 1: 7:59

I understand I understand, but I understand, I understand, but that was from my childhood, so we're going to. If anybody has stories about CB's Common Band Radio or Ham Radio, yeah, yeah, let us know and we'll have you on. So, without any further ado, with great pleasure I would like to introduce today's guests, tom and Aiden. How are you doing, gentlemen?

Speaker 4: 8:22

We're doing pretty good Doing pretty good. Thanks for having us.

Speaker 1: 8:24

Thank you for being here. So let's start with Tom the father. What were some major? What were the first? Well, let me put it this way what were the first cars that meant something to you? Maybe first car, second car, third car? How far back can we go?

Speaker 4: 8:42

um, well, the first car I remember was probably my dad's uh 66 uh convertible is the red red convertible with black interior. Yeah, he's got a polaroid of it with me, with my mullet and sunglasses on sitting in the passenger seat. We need that picture, tom, I'll find it. I'll find. I'll find this next picture too, because one day when we were leaving bowling, uh, all the san diego charger cheerleaders were doing some sort of event and we pulled up there and got a picture of me right in the middle of them with every single cheerleader on the San Diego Chargers wrapped around me on the car.

Speaker 1: 9:15

It was awesome. Please tell me that photo exists. It exists somewhere. Oh good answer it exists somewhere.

Speaker 4: 9:25

So this was the. I'm sorry this was mustang fastback or do I have? This was a convertible. This was my first car that I can remember oh, oh, gotcha, gotcha okay, I think I was probably 10 or 11 years old at that time, maybe through up to 12, but uh, that was before I actually uh knew a whole lot about cars and one day we were driving he always played oldies on the car and had a little eight track player in and everything.

Speaker 4: 9:47

And I looked at him I said, dad, does this play anything but oldies music? It just had like the one, two, three, like the little tiny radio portion yes, and I remember that on it and I I I guess it didn't, because that's all he ever played. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1: 10:03

The answer to that is, son, it plays what I tell it to play it listens to the owner.

Speaker 4: 10:09

It plays what?

Speaker 3: 10:10

I want.

Speaker 4: 10:10

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1: 10:13

Very good, very good. So you grew up in the West Coast. Is that what happened? Born and raised in San Diego, I didn't know that. Very good, very good. So when did you make your way here? Was the? Was the next car, the next prominent car in your, your future happen, or what did the move kind of east happen?

Speaker 4: 10:32

oh, no, move. East happened 18 years ago. I was already grown up and starting my life everywhere else. But uh, no, no. The second car was actually another one of my dad's. He got rid of that Mustang, got a 64 and a half Corvette with a little split window in the back and that thing was mean, absolutely mean. He took it from a 351 and made a 383. And first 500 horsepower car I was ever in. 500 horsepower and like 530 pounds of torque. That thing threw you back now what?

Speaker 1: 11:08

what happened to that car? Was it was it? Was it kept, or do you remember?

Speaker 4: 11:13

um, he had it for a couple years. Uh, actually funny story the the day he got the engine rebuilt he was driving at home and got on it for the first time a little bit and threw a rod right through the engine block. Oh no, it got towed right back over to the guy who did it and got it rebuilt again. But that was an awesome car. That was fun.

Speaker 1: 11:37

What do you think about that, Doug? Does that make you cry? What does that do to your car-loving soul?

Speaker 3: 11:46

does that? What, what, what is? What does that do to your car? Loving soul? Well, I mean, uh, tom, you're, you're, uh, I don't know if, if your mom was, uh, mom was around and it sounds like she was must have been a very patient woman. If, uh, she was fine with the mustangs, the corvettes, and she sounded like must have been a great lady. To uh, to uh, not mind your dad's habits, right?

Speaker 4: 12:06

oh yeah, oh yeah, no, she's. She supported him.

Speaker 3: 12:08

She was good, that's that's what we all need.

Speaker 4: 12:11

It's better than going to a spouse partner.

Speaker 3: 12:15

Yeah, and uh, yeah, that split window corvette. Yeah, beautiful, beautiful car, oh it was great.

Speaker 4: 12:21

Very rare. Yeah, he usually keeps cars two or three years and then he would just get another one, just switch them out and then after that one, he started just going towards the newer cars. We had one of the new z3 roadsters when they first came out. The bond cars yep, yep, six one, not the little v4 one, the one with the flared sides in the back.

Speaker 3: 12:42

Yep yep Late 90s, early 2000s. Yep yep.

Speaker 4: 12:46

Got one of my first real tickets in that car.

Speaker 3: 12:52

How fast were you going?

Speaker 4: 12:54

According to the cop, he was doing 110 and wasn't catching me, and me and him sat and talked for about 15-20 minutes about cars and he ended up giving me a ticket for doing 80 and a 70 and told me have a good day. Wow, yeah, good times.

Speaker 3: 13:14

Yeah, Now Aiden, that would never happen these days. Not much All the electronics they'd be timing, they'd have digital records. Never get out of it. Yeah, these times are behind us.

Speaker 1: 13:27

And that's actually a perfect segue and Aiden, who's a close personal friend of my middle son, finn, and I have to share the story of when I first met. Well, we had met kind of all over town. I would see what a game, I would see what a function or an event. We chat and say hi and and but one evening a dusk, he pulls into my driveway with a couple of buddies. They get out of car and Finn comes out of the house, out of the car and Finn comes out of the house and of course I have to come out of the house. We all have to chat and see what's going on. We're eaten alive by the mosquitoes.

Speaker 1: 14:03

But I was really taken by Aiden's car and truck Apologies, it's a Ranger, right, 94 Ranger, yes sir. And the first thing that drew me to it was it's obviously old, yes sir. He proceeded to give me about a half a minute monologue on what he's done to it and he was giving me the walk around the quirks of the car and of the truck and the things he didn't like and what he was going to do this. And so I asked him what, how do you keep this thing on the road? And he came back immediately with eBay Motors and I just I laughed out loud. I thought it was wonderful you. You are an industrious and resourceful young man. So I have to ask how's it running?

Speaker 2: 15:04

It's running pretty good now. The starter's acting kind of weird, but that's. It'll start every time, no problem. But like I said before the couple couple weeks ago when I was heading to school, I throw it in reverse, pull out of the driveway, go about 30 feet and I hear gong, gong, engine stalls out, all the lights come on. I mean this is a two-wheel drive truck, by the way. I mean, this thing was so broken. The 4x4 light came on on a two-wheel drive. That's how broken it was. Every single light came on.

Speaker 2: 15:37

I was freaking out and I have enough power to throw it in the neutral. And, by the way, it's a column, it's not a stick shift, it's just a little automatic column. I just throw it in neutral and I roll into my neighbor's driveway or more it was yard and I pop the hood and there's transmission fluid everywhere. My brothers were on a white shirt, by the way, and this stuff transmission fluid smells really bad and it gets all over. My brother with his white shirt and this stuff is pungent. But my engine bay is all clean now and I remember I took a high pressure hose, I threw it on the radiator and the whatever was left of the transmission line, the coolant line, and I take some hose clamps and me and my neighbor we just strapped that on there and it's worked ever since wow, and and you got to school.

Speaker 1: 16:37

wait a minute minute, this was before school. Somehow there was a school tie in here. This was before school.

Speaker 2: 16:43

Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, this was 30 minutes before school.

Speaker 1: 16:48

So from popping the hood to diagnosing, to coming up with the hack, all happened very quickly hack.

Speaker 2: 16:58

All happened very quickly. Yeah well, my neighbor, he's got a uh, I think a 96 bronco, I can't remember the year too well and he runs me up to advanced auto parts and we grab transmission fluid, all that and we race back and we get this stuff in.

Speaker 1: 17:09

So and uh, good, good. So let's take a step back here. How did you, aidan? How did you get into cars? Let's talk a little bit about the interplay between your grandfather, your father, and really the theme of today is really just fathers and sons. Not only Tom and Aidan, father and and son, but then tom and his father too. So how did all that happen, aiden?

Speaker 2: 17:41

well, um, ever, ever since I was little, I, my grandpa's, always had these cars. You know he had a porsche 911 and audi r8 with the uh, with the v10 in it very good and, uh, he would like.

Speaker 2: 17:58

I was amazed by that and he just he inspired me. And when he got this, as I got older, he got a 57 t-bird after he sold this audi, wow, and he would go to car shows all the time and I'll go there with him and I would, you know, put up the lawn chair like an old dude when I was 12 years old and kick my feet back next to this T-Bird and we would just talk about cars for hours. And then I had an idea. I was like, when I get my first car, my dream is going to be to park next to my grandfather in a car show and be able to be there with him and do that. That is, that was my dream, and be able to be there with them and do that.

Speaker 1: 18:37

That was my dream. So you felt comfortable from the word go. You felt comfortable about being around these attractive metal machines, Felt like family from the word go didn't it?

Speaker 2: 18:48

Yeah, totally. I mean I'm more of an old car person. I mean I see these rides and all that and they're cool. But I mean every car has its culture and I like the old car culture and my grandpa loves it too. So that's our. It's our kind of bonding thing.

Speaker 1: 19:05

Every car has its culture. We might have found our new marketing or PR guy. I think I'm going to have to write that down. What do you think, partner? That's pretty good. I think I'm going to have to write that down. What do you think, partner, that's?

Speaker 3: 19:18

pretty good, I think we should. And kind of, on that note, speaking of cultures and subcultures, aiden, what do you think about restomods? So you like old cars? Right, old cars are not disappearing, in fact, they're going up in value. People are pulling them out of swamps and you name it wherever they can, barns, wherever you can find it Right. And so there are these. You probably know more about it than I do, but there are companies, there are kits, there are people modifying, updating, whether it's a new engine, new transmission, maybe making it safer, maybe adding disc brakes. Whatever the case is, what are your thoughts about Restomods? What's your favorite Restomod.

Speaker 2: 20:06

I'm a huge fan of Restomods. I see these companies like Velocity. They're local around here and they do the Broncos and they do mustangs and they put all like, like you said, new, safer parts in them. They put really fast engines in them. You know, make them like a new car in an old body.

Speaker 3: 20:29

So yeah, yeah like how, how it could be today, right, and I'm sure there are some newer parts in your Ford right, I would say so.

Speaker 2: 20:42

I put a SCAR speaker system in there. The neighbor that I actually rolled into the driveway and he's got custom speaker boxes and he's done audio and all that. So I ordered the SCAR scar system and he built me a custom box to go in the back. That's a good neighbor. Little five inch sub, it's a great neighbor to have yeah, gotta have your tunes.

Speaker 1: 21:06

Gotta have your tunes, especially in in in a vintage ride like that. Um so, how? Where did you get the car? How did you get get the car? How did you know that the Ranger was what you wanted, or was it meant to be?

Speaker 2: 21:23

Well, I remember we were looking for my first car and we looked at all the dealerships and all that and they were asking insane amounts or they wanted all these crazy. Yeah, you know, you know, they wanted all these. Yeah, yeah, you know. And then we looked on marketplace and I I my dad knows I would send him probably 85 cars a day that I see on marketplace and he was so, oh man, you got.

Speaker 1: 21:48

You got a big, big laugh from doug. That doug is from the moment we met aiden. Uh, you know there's a lot of prep that goes into a show like that, and Doug said to be boy. He's got a lot of energy and a lot of initiatives. Anyway, sorry, keep going, aiden.

Speaker 2: 22:03

Well, we we see this. I see this 94 Ranger on marketplace and it's complete rust bucket. And I'm like you know this, this, they only want like four grand for it. You know they guys in Pensacola, not too far away, and then my dad's like let's go, he checks it out. You know he test drives. It's a great car, it's got great AC. You know it's only got, I would say, 180,000 when we first got it, I mean it was really well kept, especially the interior. The original owner put towels over the seats for 30 years.

Speaker 1: 22:37

I remember you telling me that that was one of the first things you oh, oh, oh. I remember. When you came by, I poked my head in and I remarked on why is this like a time capsule? Why is the interior so nice?

Speaker 2: 22:50

Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt, but please, no. No, you're fine, yeah, but it's like it was showroom quality seats. The guy who originally owned it was really lonely, so no one's ever sat in the passenger seat. But the only thing that was really damaged in the interior was the front dash, because it never had one of those windshield covers to block the sun, so that's the only thing that was really messed up on the interior. Everything was perfect.

Speaker 1: 23:13

I remember.

Speaker 2: 23:19

And then I remember we take it home home, pay the guy, and then we put it in the driveway and the next morning I wake up there's like five different puddles in the driveway. Wow, I'm like, and I I think to myself, what did I just get myself into? And I'm just, you know, I'm looking at this thing and I go, this is going to be a good project. That was my first thought.

Speaker 1: 23:50

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Speaker 1: 24:36

But you know, that's uh it. It teaches you to be reliable, it teaches you to be self-sufficient. I will find myself at work right now saying hey, um, hey, uh, let you know what and I say this I don't even mean to, I'll just be like, while I'm while, while I'm, while we're under the hood, while we're under the hood, uh, let's figure this out, let's figure that out. Okay, so, so, uh. And just kind of a wonderful analogy for, hey, let's just try and dig in to see why something, something is not working. What do you think, doug?

Speaker 3: 25:12

I think that's good. I think that's a good approach, good troubleshooting. I think that's good.

Speaker 1: 25:16

I think that's a good approach. Good troubleshooting, now the okay. So did you have to finish up on the Ranger? Did you have a predefined price or a price range that you were looking for?

Speaker 2: 25:26

Price range that I was looking for, mm-hmm, from what I've put into it. I'm not getting any money back, but, um, I'm thinking I think eight would be a good. Eight would be a good number. Eight or nine, that's beautiful. It's beautiful From the last time I've seen you.

Speaker 2: 25:46

I've done a lot of work. I mean, I've replaced the back bumper. I mean that was that was a dealio and a half. Uh, I was under my truck for about five hours working on one bolt, so well. I mean, that was that was a dealio and a half. Uh, I was under my truck for about five hours working on one bolt, so well.

Speaker 1: 25:58

I just I'm so happy for you to get your uh, to get your hands dirty and figure out what makes it tick, and I know Doug wanted to ask about your any a future, any future dream cars or yeah, yeah, what, what, what, what, um.

Speaker 3: 26:16

so we have this ranger right and you know who knows, maybe a listener on the show. Um, this could be your modern uh, bring a trailer, yeah, but uh, maybe maybe there's somebody who wants to trade, um, trade up whatnot, and uh, what, what would be your dream car? Next car that you're thinking about?

Speaker 2: 26:36

Absolute dream car would be a 1972 Volkswagen Bug, convertible or hardtop, I don't care, but I like the four-speed manual in it. You know, seeing how many people you could fit in the back, putting the surf rack on top and all that, I mean that's the dream, right there.

Speaker 3: 26:53

And so why 1972 specifically, besides it being christian's birth year?

Speaker 2: 27:00

well, um, vintage. I didn't know that, but I mean, I've looked. So it's a funny story. So I was going down to the navarre area and I'm I look to my left and there's this dealership, this used car dealership, and there's all these new like 2010 Chevys and all that and all that, and right between all these cars is a 1972 Volkswagen bug and I just I fell in love with it. It looked straight at me and I was just I fell in love. You know that culture is amazing and I get into all the clubs and all that and I see what people are doing.

Speaker 3: 27:41

Yeah, and your grandfather had a 9-11, right, certainly the spiritual successor to the Volkswagen bug, right, volkswagen bug being the grandfather, so to speak itself. And I mean there's a big culture. Speaking of cultures, again, there's a big culture with Volkswagens. We had Joe, our friend, my friend, joe Gibson on talking about one of his first cars was a Volkswagen bus, right, and he's had several Volkswagen everything since then. He had a Volkswagen thing, I think when we were post high school. But what are like big events? There's got to be a lot going on where you live with Volkswagen's or air-cooled cars.

Speaker 2: 28:29

Well, yeah, you're right, the Gulf Breeze and the more the beachy area, the panhandle of florida, so, and there's a lot of volkswagen communities around here. You're right, and uh, actually, the rare air show meaning air-cooled engines, not planes um is at the five flag speedway, october 19th. So that's, you're gonna be there, I'm gonna be there I'm gonna be there, tom.

Speaker 3: 28:52

This guy's not gonna miss that. I'll be. I'll go everywhere with them on the.

Speaker 1: 28:53

I love going to be there. I'm going to be there, Tom. How about you? This guy's not going to miss that.

Speaker 4: 28:56

I go to Brewer with him. I love going to see that stuff too, oh man, that's excellent, that's excellent.

Speaker 3: 29:02

He'll be waking you up, I'm sure. Most likely, dad, let's go Coffee time.

Speaker 1: 29:11

Yeah, two perfect segues. Yeah, her two, two perfect segues. So, as we wind down here, um, that's, that's something, uh, that I was going to mention all three of us kind of arrived at the same place here. Four of us is that. Um, as the weather so we're moving into autumn here everything kind of cools down. It's a wonderful, wonderful time to be outside, especially here here in Florida's Gulf Coast, where the humidity backs off, the heat backs off and everybody kind of comes out of their house all at once to feel the nice dry air here. Car shows, cars and coffee they're ramping up there everywhere the one you mentioned, I think there are a few more going on down here and do you have those going on in your neck of the woods up there, doug, yeah, yeah, there's uh one in uh downtown annapolis uh, when it's not flooded or when there's the boat the boat show is not in town I can literally walk there when I need to.

Speaker 3: 30:07

Um, there's a huge one then. The last one is uh at the end of this month. It's uh at mikey and mel's deli, so it's a deli in maybellon maryland. They have had up to 400 cars there. It is insane. That's a lot.

Speaker 1: 30:26

What space do they have?

Speaker 3: 30:27

goodness, uh they. They just have parking from all these office buildings that are on the weekend they get corporate sponsorships. So all the cars I love before may be a sponsor soon. But it is when you think you haven't seen a certain kind of car, there it is. Yeah, and how about the Lotus? Da-da-da-da, it drives by. How about a Ford Ranger? There'll be one there. How about a Mazda RX-7 with a Chevy LS? There's two.

Speaker 1: 31:02

Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 3: 31:03

It is quite a show. You know, there's a Volkswagen section, of course, Porsche section. Quite a show.

Speaker 1: 31:08

Quite a show. Well, this was quite a show. This was quite a show. This was quite a show. This was quite a show. This, this, and we got another one in the books. Partner, and I got to tell you when.

Speaker 1: 31:16

When, when Doug first started talking about having a father son tandem on, I was like, well, how are we going to do? We're pretty open and creative. We were thinking, well, how are we going to make that work? And the more we talked about it, we thought was a no brainer and a natural fit. So I want to thank you both for being on today. It was just a great pleasure meeting you, tom and Aiden. It's good to catch up. Appreciate it. Thanks for having us on. Yeah, totally, this was great.

Speaker 1: 31:45

Come back anytime and, as a coda or a postscript in preparation for this show, kind of spent the afternoon texting with my dad and kind of got a little backstory to his. You know, live with a guy my entire life, obviously, and always learn something new. Just goes to show. This show is about family and you can never be too close. What do you say, partner? Well said, well, that's it. We got another one in the books. This was To All the cars I've loved before. Catch us online carslovecom. That's something we didn't talk about at the top of the show. Check us out online. You can. I think you can access all the episodes there. Doug has done some, some great work recently with the graphics and in access to the files. Let us know what you think. Drop us a line. Christian at carslovecom, doug at carslovecom. Thanks everybody, we will see you next time.