To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Your First Car Tells The Story
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To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Your First Car Tells The Story
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Welcome back Cars Love Nation to, to All the Cars I've Loved Before, your Podcast, where we talk about life lessons through cars and the cars that you've owned from the beginning of your life straight to the end. Sometimes, as in today's episode, cars become a business, but not to bury the lead here, all right. So as we move through season three and everyone's battening down for the hurricane, I am on Florida's Gulf Coast, so counting lucky stars as well as boarding up the windows will be in my near future. Yes, we move into autumn, but everybody's out there. Stay dry, stay safe. Keep everybody in your thoughts who's in Big Bend and Florida as we move through this week. And you look high and dry up there, partner, how you doing.
Speaker 2:Good, good, but I will say, for the next five days, I think it's going to be rain and gloom, not a hurricane, yeah, exactly right, my son in your neck of the woods has said the same yeah for sure he's going to college in your neck of the woods.
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Speaker 2:And we're on Facebook, instagram and if you know somebody who's would have a great story maybe it's not you, maybe it's your neighbor, maybe it's your dad Right, we'd love to have family members. We had a sibling episode. We had a husband wife episode. We're going to have a father son episode shortly episode shortly. Just drop us a note. There's a form on our website, carslovecom, or just shoot us an email.
Speaker 1:As Christian said, we're easy to find. Yeah, that's well put and when you go to your podcast streaming platform of choice, I always go and follow the shows that I'm interested in, go to your favorites, and then when we drop a a new episode, we queue to the top and you're able to never miss anything. Get involved and, uh, feedback crucial download the episodes also. We appreciate that and let's see I think that's all the housekeeping uh, really excited about today's guest and I will let doug do introductions. But you know it's going to be a great time when this is how your guest bought the house he's in right now.
Speaker 1:Picture, if you will, real estate agent and our guests here today roll up on this house and he sees, from the outside I think, a three-bay garage. He pokes his head inside and he says let me sign. Real estate agent says well, I haven't seen the kitchen, you haven't seen the bedroom, you haven't seen anything. He says no, no, the garage is most important to me and that's when you found a true car guy and, as, as we look at him on today's, we have video just for we can see the the our facial cues as we talk. And he is from one heck of a garage um automotive museum, if you will. And uh, I will lead the formal introductions over to Doug, but um, very excited about who we have today. So how did you come upon this gentleman?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so of course I own a DeLorean and through friends of the show who've been on the show, I found out about RentDeLoreancom, which was started by Andy McFly McFly is not his real last name, but it's pretty good and Andy gets people together, he does events. He's located in the Midwest but he has a community of DeLorean owners myself on the list as well and if there's an event he can't do due to his time or location, he reaches out to a DeLorean owner. That's how I found out about him from Brian Paone, one of our guests from season two. And you know it's always full circle because Brian knows about Brian and Andy know each other.
Speaker 2:You know the world keeps giving but uh, you know Andy, andy took, uh, you know, I'm just. I love the fact when somebody can turn a career, whether part-time, full-time turn their love into a career, and if you can make people happy, even better. And you know, I think that's what Andy does. But you know, I want to give Andy a chance to introduce himself because I can't give him full justice, but I'm happy to have him on.
Speaker 1:Welcome Andy.
Speaker 3:Thanks guys.
Speaker 1:So tell us a little bit about, um, tell us a little bit. Should we start with the business or should we go? Should we step back into the literal time machine and go back to to Andy's first few cars? How would you like to start, andy?
Speaker 3:Well that I own a time machine. So let's go back in time to my first love that yeah.
Speaker 2:Yes, so go ahead.
Speaker 3:The year is 1996, Andy.
Speaker 3:Yep, that sounds about right. I graduated high school in 97, so about 96, end of 96. I got a job at a grocery store. My mom would take me back and forth until I hit about 18. I got my permit when I was 16, took my time until I was about 18, got the actual license. So I got the hand me down 1985 chrysler le baron le baron and that was my first car as a, as a late teenager, and that car taught me some things. Um, because it said it had some holes in it and it needed some love. But being that, I knew that I needed to get to back and forth to work back and forth to my friends. Whatever. I learned how to change oil, keep your eye on the tires and you know little maintenance things like that. So that car, it was a clunker. Uh, I lived my house that I grew up and was kind of on the top of a hill, hill, yeah, and sometimes you know what it didn't feel like getting up that hill hill you know, so literally I had to you know done
Speaker 3:it to get up some of these hills and stuff, but I learned a lot from that car. That was a really cool car. In fact it was, uh, like I said, it was my first car and I was a big um comic book hero fan. So, um, this was back in the american online days when you hung out with your friends and then you came home and you logged on to american online and everybody had their own little um, you know, their fake name or whatever. So I was the flash and, uh, I painted on that side of the car. I would never do this today as an adult, but you know, when you're a teenager, whatever. So I painted the flash symbol on the side. So my buddies and we always called it the flash mobile.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:So so the artistic streak in you and a bit of the rebellious streak in you comes out early yeah.
Speaker 3:I like that.
Speaker 3:Yep. So that car got me from point A to point B. I remember my first job as a grocery store and then they, you know, paper, plastic, paper, plastic, and apparently I was too good at that. So I remember one day the boss came and said we're putting you in the meat room. So I, you know, worked in the butchers and stuff and I was basically their cleaning guy. I had to go in after school, I went to school and then straight to work. But, um, that car got me back and forth, you know, from home. And then saturdays, I remember it was 6 am, was starting time. So I don't remember if it had a heater or not. If it did, it didn't work. But in the winters in Pennsylvania it was cold, you know.
Speaker 1:So I was just happy in the morning that it started and that's yeah, that's what I was thinking when you said in in, you 've really been all over the united states kind of crisscrossing back and forth. But when you said pennsylvania and if you're in pennsylvania, pittsburgh, yeah, right and um, now I've also heard a rumor that, um, maybe this car had the option package that didn't include a floorboard, or so the, the passenger side.
Speaker 3:I remember, if I wanted to see the, the street think fred flintstone here I would lift up the carpet and, boom, there was a big hole. You know, and I'm literally sometimes I I had the thought that, you know, if I can't make it to my house, I might literally have to put my foot through the, through the floor and and push, you know, but luckily, it never came, or at least if you had a date, you know the date could help.
Speaker 2:Just be careful, honey don't put your no
Speaker 1:such thing as a free ride, my dear yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so where did this?
Speaker 1:car come from. Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 3:No, no, go, go ahead it was my father's mother's car, so she was probably getting a new car and stuff, so it was kind of a hand-me-down.
Speaker 3:So I think my dad threw 300 bucks for this car. That just again. First car I got to know what a dipstick was. It was not kids. Today They've got all the bells and whistles and they don't realize how important it is to understand that there's no such thing as wiper or what are they called Blinker fluid? You know, you ever see those jokes that go in and ask for new blinker fluid and you have an old car like that. You learn a lot about cars. It's, it's. There's a lot more than just putting your foot on the gas. There's a lot more that goes on.
Speaker 1:And why is $300? I've bought, either bought or had bought. $300 was the magical price in the 80s and maybe early mid-90s. What is with that? You know that's a good question, not one for price control.
Speaker 2:Ask my dad.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, it was just you know. Hey, we're going to give you this car and whatever, it's Andy's first car, so good luck. Yeah, that was my first one. And 300 sounds a lot better than 299.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right, so that was the first car.
Speaker 2:And what happened to that car. I think there's an interesting story and maybe it ties into the flash I don't know so from what I could recall, my um, my mother's mother, was selling her car.
Speaker 3:It was a little bit better. It was an 89. Um, what was it an 89? What did I write to you? York, new york, new york century, that's what it was, yeah it was a little bit sky blue.
Speaker 3:So it was a little bit of an upgrade. Uh, the windows actually had power windows. So we got rid of the old car. Um, you know, I was constantly having to pour oil in it and keep it, you know, just keep it going.
Speaker 3:So, um, I think my dad must have just sold it to somebody he knew, or I can't remember exactly all the the technicalities of it. But, um, he found out about a month later that the gentleman who bought it off of him probably for 100 bucks you know, 200, I can't remember exactly how much he sold this thing to him. He found out about a month later, I think the guy took it to a, let's say, an old riley's or something and the teller said uh, excuse me, sir, your your car's on fire in the parking lot. So he looked down. It already had just. So I had already kind of washed my hands of the the thing. But, um, it was like I said it was a clunker, you know. So I was living it up in the uh, in the 89 car, with the uh, the power windows and stuff, and I took that car to college yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:At least that car had the good good sense to self-immolate once it had left your garage, thank goodness yeah, yeah, it was a flash fire sale, if you will, and uh, but the buick lasted you some time in college.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, it introduced me to what cars are made of and stuff. So I, I and it's a shame back in the I don't have a lot of pictures of it. I wish I would have taken more. I mean I had it was just. It was a fun car. You know it was an old. The interior was red like velvet. Oh, the velour, yeah it was just and I so I had the, so I had a CD player that was detached.
Speaker 2:So if I wanted to, play CDs.
Speaker 3:I had to use the cassette to put it into the cassette player with the wire that's connected to the CD player. So I thought it was pretty cool. Listen to my old, you know early 90s bands, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Every time it hit a bump it would skip.
Speaker 3:It would skip. But I remember I used, you know, just tape or something to just kind of keep it in the center console, you know. So I was taking a turn, or whatever. Resourceful, resourceful.
Speaker 2:So what we had, but so that was so.
Speaker 3:That was the 85. So then when I went to college I took the 89 to college and then I've had that for a couple of years and then I literally totaled. It learned real quick that yellow lights mean slow down, not trying. So I got t-boned and completely destroyed that car and that killed me. No, I mean sorry, it didn't literally kill me, but it hurt that I was carless. I was living on the Penn State campus. So my parents are like well, you're carless, like not our problem you know, so I had to bike everywhere I went.
Speaker 3:So I lived off campus. I had to bike back and forth to college campus, penn State, and I remember I worked. I worked all throughout my college career. But yeah, riding a bike really changes your. Hey. Yellow, not lights mean slow down, they don't mean try to speed up. You know, but when you're? I guess it would have been 2021. I don't remember. I guess it would have been 2021.
Speaker 1:I don't remember you learn a lot more about adulting. You know that your car.
Speaker 3:Your parents aren't going to just keep throwing cars at you, you know. So that was it for a while.
Speaker 1:Great. So how does the dream car, how does your dream car from it? Was it at that point in your life that you sort of started to, kind of in your mind, revisit what you would want it? Or maybe there were a few more cars. But it's very interesting to me when people fixate on a certain car and then, by hook or crook, get there so, so 1989, back to the Future 2 came out, and I remember seeing it in a drive-in movie theater.
Speaker 3:And so I was about 10 years old and I realized I need to own one of those cars someday. And you know, when you're a 10-year-old you can dream big, but you don't realize there's money attached to the dream. So at that point in my life I I needed to own a delorean.
Speaker 3:it was just that's the car, that's the one that I think about all the time. So, um, my best friend, growing up he was a sciencey guy. I was kind of the outside marty mcfly guy, so we had the doc and the marty and that was just my relationship with my still to this day my best friend, um.
Speaker 3:We got to know. We met each other, I think, in first grade. So years and years later we still talk on a daily basis. But he was the doc and I was the marty. So it kind of like, yeah, we were. He was always coming up with ideas on, you know, creating a device that could do this, that and the other. You know that kind of thing. So it was like it just kind of falls into place with the whole time machine thing. And then when you get older, obviously you have adult money, you're gonna buy adult toys, you know. So that's where kind of the delorean kind of landed in my brain, like this is the coolest car ever and it's interesting, so I'm.
Speaker 3:When people say, are you a car guy, I am not. You know, you can ask me lots of questions about ferraris and lamborghese. I don't really know, but I know my car, I know the delorean, I know the condo and community, all that kind of stuff. So am I a car guy? Yes, to one car, I don't care about anybody else's and how yeah, how did you procure it?
Speaker 1:so I'm how did you take the dream and then really commit to making it reality? How did that happen?
Speaker 3:it was kind of a negotiation. So back in in 2006 I think it was I I I was living in las vegas and I really wanted to get to know the DeLorean and I went on the internet and looked up the local DeLorean club. Well, there was only about three guys in the club and I messaged that, emailed them and said hey, can I just hang out with you guys on the weekends, tinker on your car, hang out with you? Know, just be in the presence of a couple of DeLoreans. Sure, come on over Every. You know, just be in the presence of a couple of DeLoreans. Sure, come on over, awesome, every other weekend and come in and hang out with these guys, you know. So then Craigslist at the time, cause we didn't have Facebook marketplace or anything like that A DeLorean pops up. These guys send me a message Andy, you need to get this car. Now, this is pre-marriage free, like I'm living in a hotel or not, I'm living in an apartment. I'm living in an apartment, I'm a school teacher, I'm not making any money, but I got to get this car. The guy said, yep, let's do it.
Speaker 3:So I got this car, I had it for about a year, delorean, and I felt like I was in over my head. Financially I could not keep up with this thing. And one of my friends at the time was having a birthday party and it was in january I think it was and he's like yeah, you know, come to the, we're all meeting here. So I, of course, got to bring the delorean down and at the time, like you know I was, I was using my credit card to fix this, to fix that, fix this, whatever. I bring the car down and it's cold. And I brought to this birthday party and I opened up the door and the handle cracks off at my cause. It's plastic and cold and plastic don't do well. And at that point I thought, all right, well, there's another thing I need to fix. Came home, realized it was 300, some dollars just for a handle. You can't buy one. You got to buy both left and the you. You know the left and the right, and that was the decision. It was like well, you know what?
Speaker 3:I can't afford this I'm gonna get myself into more and more debt. So that's when I put it up to sit for sale, sold that car and it hurt, you know, when the truck came and it brought it over.
Speaker 3:The dream and it went actually to. If the owner is still out there, he lived near Allentown, pennsylvania, so this was in Las Vegas. So the truck it wasn't a FedEx truck but some kind of a big car hauler truck came, took it away and left and I just thought, ah, a piece of my heart just gone. But you know what? The dream was still inside of me. So, um, a couple years later, another one popped up and actually that original club that I started hanging out with the guy that ran that club, this was his car. So this car was the car that's sitting behind me is the car that I first sat in. I never sat in delorean before first car was the first car that I ever got to sit in and, just like many other delorean people that get in their car for the first time, I got in, sat in. Oh, I love this thing. I got out, banged my head really hard never did it.
Speaker 3:Never did it after that because I learned my lesson, but he put it up on his facebook and it said time to say goodbye one evening and I thought whoa, whoa, whoa, because his car was beautiful. I mean, he worked on it every single weekend. You knew the car really well. I knew that car and I knew the owner and I knew that he took care of it, because many deloreans they sit for years and years and years and everything's rotting. No, I knew this car was good. So, you know, I messaged him up and I said what's happening? He's like well, I'm moving, I'm getting married. I'm kind of you know, I'm over it kind of thing, and I thought, well, so we talked and I said let's keep it in the family. You know the friendship world kind of thing.
Speaker 3:So at the time I was married, I told, I said I'm really thinking about getting this. However, I'm not going to just buy a DeLorean to drive around and look cool. I want to start a business with this. So I kind of proposed to her that this wouldn't just be a car that's going to sit and look cool with, but it's going to actually be a business. So that's when I kind of thought I can rent this out to 80s parties, birthday parties, corporate events, whatever you know, big parties. Events that happened today are 80s parties when I was growing up. A lot that happen today are 80s parties. When I was growing up, a lot of people were having 50s parties, now everything's 80s parties so what's the icon of that era of the car, the DeLorean.
Speaker 3:So I thought I can start to try to, you know. So I started looking for every car show that I could find in Las Vegas Free car shows, just to get my name out there. You know, just to kind of get a name for myself. I showed up to some scary car shows biker car night, you know, biker night and, and some rough stuff, you know, and, and I didn't have it wasn't all time machined up, it was all stock DeLorean. So as an art teacher, I just had to use what I had and I grabbed some pool hoses and some cardboard. I mean it was janky, it was really just scary. But you know what, that's all I had, that's all I had to work with. So I I try to make it look a little DeLorean time machine, you know, cause that was my thing.
Speaker 3:I loved back to the future A lot of guys out there, some guys that they buy the cars cause they look sexy. You know that DeLorean looks sexy without the whole lights and sounds and whistles and all that kind of stuff, which is totally fine. But when you take it to the gas station people aren't going to ask about the gullwing doors, they're going to ask where's the flux capacitor, you know. So that question came up so much that I thought I need to make this into something that looks like something from back to the future well, that's that's so interesting, that you have made this car you.
Speaker 1:You make your living by your art, and this is, this is a piece of performance art that's. I mean, I'm looking at it, right behind you, it's striking, it totally is. It's your creative talents, your passions, your dreams and, um, yeah, yeah, so as a.
Speaker 3:As a teacher, I'm also a bit of an actor. You know you have to get up, perform in front of students and all that kind of stuff. So I'm an art teacher. I teach K through five, so that's five to six-year-olds up until about 10, 11-year-olds. So when I am performing, teaching in front of kids, you're an actor. So with this, when I do events not all the time, but I love doing Doc Brown I will get up in front of people and just recently I did Back to the Future. The musical came through Minneapolis and they were here for two weeks. So for three different times I was able to bring the car down and perform in front of the public. You know I have the Doc Brown outfit with the hair and all that. And great Scott, what are you doing over there? You know that kind of thing. So I enjoy that.
Speaker 3:Because in our community there was a man his name was Paul Nye passed away almost a year ago I think I can't remember, but he was kind of one of the inspirations for me. Anytime he did an event he did a lot of events with kids present. He was always mindful of who his audience was. He was a Deloitte time machine owner. He would show up. As soon as he would show up there would be kids that were coming up to him. You know, and just want to see the cards, and and and Paul got out and he was Doc Brown, and you know he was. There was no swearing, there was no drinking, there was. He was in front of kids performing and he it was so sad when he passed away, but, um, what an inspiration he was. He did lots of events for um, he was a big with the uh, what is it called? Cannonball run, I think it was called. But he did a lot of things with missing kids too.
Speaker 3:He did lots of charities and stuff with, uh, searching for missing kids and stuff. But um, he kind of you know he, he started this. So when I do an event and stuff, I'm kind of paul, is you know in the back of my mind, kind of thing but, he literally he grew his hair out too.
Speaker 3:He never did the wig, he had his hair. So I'm kind of I mean, I'm not there yet, I've got a couple grays, but I think I'm just gonna let it grow out and just be the Doc Brown, because people love that. I've done events with cause I'm not a sports person, I'm a bit of a nerd, dork and stuff. So I never really got into sports. So when I do events for sports things I did something for the hockey team here, the baseball teams they'll park me on the concourse and stuff and I'll dress as doc brown. And uh, when I did something for the hockey team, you know people would hardcore sports people would come out with you know, see the car, and doc brown did they, did they get a field goal. Yet you know, that's the thing people looking like what's wrong with this guy, you know. But again, it's doc brown, doesn't? He's not a sports guy, he doesn't know his thing, and that's kind of me too.
Speaker 2:So and you're throwing yourself in the park. Yeah, yeah, I'm playing the part.
Speaker 3:Acting, yeah, so, but that's that's what I got. Is is how long have you been doing the rent? Delorean, officially 2012. Okay, that's what I thought. Yep, my first car. I did a couple of events here and there, but I didn't really know the DeLorean community yet. So I started reaching out to the community to try to rent out their cars because, you know, there's nothing like getting your car out in the public eye and getting a little money for it. You know, I've gotten a lot of flack sometimes through some community members to think, oh, you charge for somebody sitting in your car. Well, you know what it's nice to do what you love, but it's also nice to be able to pay that electric bill yep and it helps well, but parts yep parts everything it does, you know it this car has paid off.
Speaker 3:It's paid itself out a few times and, yep, it's enjoyable, you know but is, was there any event?
Speaker 2:I know this is a hard ball here, um, was there any event that that you did that really? You know, just hit me, you can't forget right, it's like it really you know, it might have been your 10th event. It might have been your first. It might have been your 100th, it might have been last week.
Speaker 3:I believe this was a birthday party. I believe the kid was eight and I showed up. This was in Las Vegas. I showed up with this hunk of bolts behind me and this kid, like I said, eight years, about eight years old. He was dressed as Marty McFly, his favorite movie in the world's back to the future he was. He had like a cochlear implant in it and he was very hard of hearing. So he had a little bit of a, you know, a speech impediment and all that kind of stuff. And you know I I have three boys. I've been blessed, they're healthy. That kid had some issues, you know, health issues and that kind of thing. And when he showed up and when I showed up in me and he just lost it like the Delorean and all that stuff, I started bawling. It was powerful, because here I am dressed as a fool you know, dressed in the duck doing the whole thing.
Speaker 3:And here's this kid. It was very powerful and I I let that kid get in the car and touch any button that you know only cause it was like kid I probably made. I mean, he may, I made his year and all I do is show up with this thing and he'll never forget that, and I still have his photos with me. This was like I said, this was good lord. This had to be about 2013, 2014, and that was one of the events that I will always stand out because I mean I made his parents happy. But those are the kind of events that are huge. I don't even remember what I got paid. I don't even remember if I did get paid. I don't really care, but that was powerful and it stuck with you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it really did.
Speaker 2:We put you on the spot. But yeah, no, I probably said before that first event I did just seeing how happy people were just to see the car and the line, I would have done it for free. It was so awesome, it just made my day.
Speaker 3:I mean, honestly, the trilogy hands down, in my opinion, is the best trilogy ever written and it's a movie that a teenager or a kid could watch today and it still makes sense. You know, a kid goes back in time and hangs out with his parents. That's something kind of cool to think about. So it's not like it's a movie that you would watch today. That'd be like, ah, that aged terribly, you know because there are a lot of 80s school yearbook and he's like my dad was kind of cool.
Speaker 2:Maybe I could travel back. That was for the inspiration for the story.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and the neat thing is, like kids this was an 80s movie, so you have adults now sharing them with their own kids and then they get to see this and that's what I'm doing with their own kids and then they get to see this, you know, and that's what I'm doing with my own kids. We just watched all three movies recently and then I took them all to the back to feature the musical and it was like it was really cool to see your kids see, because they don't call this. My kids don't call this the delorean. They know it as the data car. They called it the data, the car that they remember. You know it's the data car. They call it the data car. It's the car that they remember. It was the moment they could see. It was like this car has been in their life. So they don't know. I mean, they know a DeLorean, but they know data car. And they also know all the toys that I have and stuff are my toys. They don't touch those toys.
Speaker 3:They have their toys, and I have my toys.
Speaker 2:Oh man, let's see Is doing all these events, and sometimes they're corporate events, sometimes they might be a Comic-Con. I'm sure have you met anybody from the original movies.
Speaker 3:So I've had Jennifer Parker first. Jennifer Parker, claudia Wells. I've given her a ride in Las Vegas. I met her and I got her a ride in the car and stuff. We were doing a big charity event and that was kind of cool. This past summer I finally got to meet Christopher Lloyd.
Speaker 3:So, Christopher Lloyd. Many people don't know Christopher. I'm a Star Trek fan, big Star Trek fan. Christopher Lloyd played a Klingon in Star Trek 3. Correct, every year I fly to. I try to fly to Las Vegas. When I lived there I used to go every year. Now a lot of the Minnesota. I try to go every year to the, to the Star Trek convention. Christopher Lloyd was there this year so I finally was able to meet him, but I didn't just meet him dressed normally. I, I I finally was able to meet him, but I didn't just meet him dressed normally. I love cosplaying as a Klingon, but this year I cosplayed as a Doc Brown Klingon.
Speaker 3:So as an art teacher, I made a headpiece, a Klingon headpiece, but I had white hair hanging out all over it and then I walked around with a flux capacitor shirt, like a paper, you know, and I would do the whole Doc Brown impersonations as a Klingon and it was fun to see people get it, you know. If you know that. You know that. Oh yeah, christopher Lloyd played a Klingon in Star Trek III. So when I finally got to meet him, it was one of those okay, got his autograph and and. But I'll never forget when he looked up at me you know, because christopher, I don't really know his age, he's, he's up there he looked at me like what is wrong with this guy?
Speaker 3:because I'm in full klingon, white hair, the whole deal, you know. But it was cool, you know it, to finally meet Christopher, this guy that I impersonate all the time that I do events, you know, under the just thinking about him and stuff. I've never got to meet Michael J Fox. I've just I'm not in the right place at the right time. I think that would be awesome and I really love to meet Biff Tom Wilson. I've watched a lot of videos on him. He is just a great human being and so I haven't.
Speaker 3:But Harry Waters Jr. He lives in Minnesota and when I first moved here he was the gentleman in Back to the Future 1 and 2 who sang Earth Angel to everyone. So that actor actually lives in Minnesota and he is a I believe he's a professor for a theater school or something. So we did an event. When I first moved here I got the whole DeLorean club, minnesota club to do an event with him. So he's the other guy and he was awesome too, Just super nice. I love when you meet an actor who knows that the only reason they're famous is because of their fans, so they take, they're very thankful to meet the fans so they're not standoffish or anything like that.
Speaker 2:but that's about all the celebrities that I've met yeah, well, that's, uh, yep, fulfilling your dream in others, right, and then, uh, you know, meeting, meeting these people that you know they're part of your part of your childhood, I've already told people this is kind of morbid, but I already told people there's two celebrities that I know that I'm going to be taking a sick day for just to kind of you know.
Speaker 3:I can't believe he's back.
Speaker 2:Christopher lloyd is one of them and william shatner and those two go then, then okay. I need a day. I need a day of mourning. Yep, I've thought the same about Bill.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's up there. But the man has been to space, so he's awesome Yep, he's the captain, for sure.
Speaker 1:As we conclude here, Andy, what's one thing you'd like everybody to know about your business that maybe they wouldn't think?
Speaker 3:You know, when I meet a lot of young people, I'm around. You know, in my profession past years I've taught high school as well and I'll bring the car in and show them and stuff. And some kids think that what you see is impossible. And I go back to like, how do you have that? How do you? You know all that kind of stuff. And some kids think that what you see is impossible. And I go back to like, how do you have that? How do you? You know all that kind of stuff. And I go back to the back to the future theme of if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything. And that's really a true theme to live by, you know, because if you're 17, 18 years, old, you see something like this.
Speaker 3:You think, ah, that guy must be a billionaire and all this kind of stuff. And no, I started collecting. I was a fan, since I was about 10, 11, 12 years old and I had it in my mind I'm going to own one of those cars one day and you just have to push on with that goal. You know, yeah. And now that I have it, it's like okay, what else can I do with this thing? I don't want to just have it sit in the garage all day. I love sharing this thing. So, as a side note, I actually have a. So I'm also a doctor who fan. I have a doctor who tardis outside of my house and it's a little free library. So if you've ever heard of no way.
Speaker 3:When you open it up, there's a whole library in there, and then there's also a geocache. I don't know if you've ever heard of it, no way. When you open it up, there's a whole library in there, and then there's also a geocache. I don't know if you guys know what geocaching is. Absolutely so when I put that up, a gentleman found me on the internet and said hey, can we put a geocache in there? And I said, sure, what's a geocache? So him and I become really great friends. We put this geocache in there.
Speaker 3:I have a camera in there where I can speak to people, because people come to my house all the time just to geocache or get books. I have a ring camera in there. So when I talk to them I kind of feel them out and say you know, what do you? So I'll go on the camera and sometimes I'll mess with people that are in the box and I'll say you know, do you who was open, who's awake in the TARDIS? You know, and they'll, they'll, oh, somebody's in here. And I'll ask them do you realize you're standing in a time machine? You know, yeah, okay, you know, dr who, whatever. And I and I. I asked them would you like to see another time machine, you know, and then I'll bring people over and they'll check out the garage and I always ask just give me some favorite points so far. Because of that, from last we checked my TARDIS, geocache has become Minnesota's number one favorite spot for Geocache.
Speaker 1:Wow, you are a marketing machine, my friend.
Speaker 3:I'm always trying ABC always be closing. That's one of the things I learned. But, um, I love entertaining guests. I've met so many strangers, so many complete strangers. But again, as a teacher, you have, you know, you have to become a people person so you never know who's showing up outside. Um, but the tardis is all out there and it's full-sized TARDIS it lights up at night. I forgot all that. But.
Speaker 1:I will say you, you have met your calling and your calling has met you. I don't know if I just uh, you guys have got to check out his business rentdeloreancom great website, by the way been checking out here as we speak. And just just one of the coolest guys out there, andy, is an art teacher at elementary. At the elementary level. He has a TARDIS little library. He has a dream car that makes dreams come true. As you say, you know, if it can be conceived, it can be created, and that's a great message and that's powerful. So I just want to thank you for taking time, andy, and being on the show. I had a great time getting to know you.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much. This was awesome I love it.
Speaker 2:Thank you, andy. Yeah, there's so many stories there and you know that boy probably won't forget the birthday party, but you won't either, and I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 3:So it's awesome. Hey, as Doc said, you know your future isn't written yet, so make it a good one.
Speaker 1:Exactly Well said, I like that, I like that.
Speaker 2:Yep Christopher Lloyd, great job.
Speaker 1:Well, that's another episode in the books partner. So again, thank you to Andy. Check out rentaloriancom. Go there immediately. Great website, lots of fun, charismatic leader in Minnesota area. Who knows?
Speaker 2:Stop by and check out the little library and the geocache Rentaloriancom Cars all over the US. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:Another good point. Check it out. It is all on the well-appointed website, so we will get this up as quick as we can. We will link to all all the information you need to about rentdeloreancom, or check us out on your podcast streaming platform of choice. This is Christian he's Doug. I'm Christian at carslovecom. He's Doug at carslovecom. Thanks, andy, take care, we'll see you all next time. Thank you guys. Thank you.
