Pod Insights The Smoking Tire Eric Kendricks (NFL Linebacker, Top Notch Car Enthusiast) About this episode Eric Kendricks is a professional football player who is a true car enthusiast with what might be the perfect 6-car fleet. On this episode we talk about:
His cars
Why his mod level is OEM+
Thoughts on the new Mustang FX wheel
How to speed up his CRX Si
What he wants to buy next
The best and worst cars in an NFL parking lot
Advice for people about to buy their first cool car
Other players with excellent taste
And more!
Recorded June 13, 2025
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2:10 Matt Farah? I don't. I imagine he's very good at the foosball. But that's not why he's here. It's because in his spare time, he's basically also a car influencer and a really good entertaining one at that. And so Eric is awesome and we have a great 90 minute chat about his incredibly interesting car collection, which is a Fox body. He's got a Viper. He's got a Porsche. He's got the stuff that we all want and this is a great chat. And yeah, also they tell me the guy plays some football. Eric Kendricks is in studio with us. It's the Smoking Tire. Let's go.
2:54 Matt Farah? That's the show. Here we are. Eric, welcome. You've all, you, you made, you made quite a statement by rolling up in the correct vehicle.
3:02 Speaker 01 And it was, it was just in my garage too.
3:04 Matt Farah? It was just there?
3:05 Speaker 01 I mean, I had just like, kind of brought it for the week.
3:07 Matt Farah? It was on rotation?
3:08 Speaker 01 I honestly forgot that I was on this until like midweek and I was like, wait, I think I have something on Friday. Checked in. So I was just, perfect coincidence.
3:15 Matt Farah? Yes. You rolled up in a, in a 93 notchback, black, black with the correct sounding cam, the correct looking wheels. And when you're tired of this vehicle, you give your friend Matt.
3:30 Matt Farah? We will make, we will make a, that's, so you can see me in the photo that Zach took right there just going, yeah. It's basically the adult version of the car that I built like 10 years ago.
3:41 Speaker 02 It really is.
3:41 Matt Farah? Yeah.
3:43 Speaker 01 It was gonna go two ways, you know, I feel like keep it, keep it kind of super clean OEM plus.
3:47 Matt Farah? Yeah.
3:47 Speaker 01 Gotta go hard on it. But they, they make, they make chassis for them now or like the racing chassis. I don't know if you saw that.
3:53 Matt Farah? Maximum Motorsports, they have a full aftermarket independent rear suspension, if that's what you mean.
3:58 Speaker 01 I'm talking about like an actual, I forgot who makes it.
4:01 Matt Farah? I had a Tubular K-member front thing.
4:04 Speaker 01 No, they make a full like.
4:06 Matt Farah? Like front to back. Oh, you just.
4:08 Speaker 02 Roadster shop.
4:09 Matt Farah? Oh, Roadster shop.
4:10 Speaker 02 I mean, among others, but.
4:12 Speaker 01 It's nuts.
4:12 Matt Farah? Oh, Fox body's about to get expensive.
4:17 Speaker 01 They just look so good, you know, I feel like, I mean.
4:20 Matt Farah? I would like a roadster shop chassis.
4:22 Speaker 01 But I felt like I was just, I was wait, I was looking for one for years.
4:25 Matt Farah? Real quick, we had this, the only thing that's up that works on this webpage is the price tag. It's just a white fucking thing.
4:34 Speaker 02 That's what you're supposed to see, and then you click it, and then it goes nowhere.
4:37 Matt Farah? It's gone. If a company has a website that bad, you know their products must be real good.
4:42 Speaker 02 I read the fabrication's excellent. That's what they're focused on.
4:48 Matt Farah? You, they keep telling me that you play football, but if you look at all of your social media, you're actually a car influencer. Like, also plays some football on the side, kind of.
4:57 Speaker 01 It was like, I feel like this offseason, I mean, the, like, early in my career, I was kind of nervous to lean into the car thing, because I wanted to be like, I'm focused, I'm humble, I don't know, like, all this fake, you know.
5:08 Matt Farah? Your cars are awesome, but your cars are so awesome, and, and I don't think, I think people who know cars, you're not, you're not buying like, poser, rich guy shit. You're, but you got a first gen Viper.
5:20 Speaker 02 Yeah.
5:20 Matt Farah? You rolled up here in a Fox body, you've got a Skyline, like, these are, these are cars of people that like, they know what they're looking for. You don't.
5:29 Speaker 01 I appreciate that.
5:29 Matt Farah? You don't buy a first gen Viper, because like, the guys in the locker room told you that was cool. Like, that's not, unless I'm wrong.
5:37 Speaker 01 It was actually my grandpa's.
5:38 Matt Farah? Get the fuck out of here.
5:39 Speaker 02 Exactly.
5:40 Speaker 01 So, so like, so I kind of grew up knowing my grandpa had the car, and like, you know, as I, as I got older and I went to, was able to go visit him, because we lived in different states. It was like, in bad shape. It was in the garage, it was, it was on, you know, flat tires, had, had mice and stuff running through it. So I, I gotta, I gotta like, take it over and kind of just clean it up to where it's at now.
6:01 Matt Farah? Did your grandpa ever have a time where he was like, cool Viper guy?
6:05 Speaker 01 Yeah, I mean.
6:06 Matt Farah? And then he just stopped driving at some point?
6:07 Speaker 01 For sure.
6:08 Matt Farah? Always garage.
6:09 Speaker 01 No, he, he, he drove it to work and, and back every single day. I mean.
6:12 Matt Farah? Daily to Viper.
6:13 Speaker 01 He daily, his work was super close, so, I mean, you know, it still has pretty low mileage, so.
6:18 Matt Farah? That, alright, that's cool, grandpa.
6:20 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:20 Matt Farah? Yeah, alright, and mice?
6:23 Speaker 01 Yeah. I mean, we, we cleaned it up big time. Um, I, the first thing I did was like take out the seats and like scrub the interior and you know, painted, we did took the dash off and everything, um, but now it's like, I mean, there's little things that I've done to it now. I mean, we put new coils on it this off season, um, wheels, we put the gen two ACR wheels on it.
6:42 Matt Farah? Oh, that's what I thought, yeah, that's what I thought it was an ACR.
6:45 Speaker 01 Still looks like, you know, like factory, um, shoot, airbox, spark plugs.
6:50 Matt Farah? Do that exhaust, I saw that video.
6:51 Speaker 01 Fuel filter, just, just, just keeping it running, it's running so strong.
6:55 Matt Farah? Is your, is your, is your grandpa still with us?
6:57 Speaker 01 No, he passed away.
6:58 Matt Farah? Alright, so did you properly inherit the car?
7:00 Speaker 01 I mean, he, he, I inherited the car, it kinda was just like my, my dad, uh, uh, he was kinda just telling me, this, this car is gonna be yours and I would kinda go visit my grandpa and I'm like, this car is in rough shape, like, you know, like, just stop telling me that unless you're like, unless it's like a real. Cause I don't know if this is real, so like, stop telling me that.
7:18 Matt Farah? Yeah.
7:18 Speaker 01 And then like, two weeks later, my aunt was like, hey, um, I'm gonna send you the title and then like, and then you like figure out shipping and so I figured out shipping, you know, got a battery, jumped it, got it on a flatbed, got it to Minnesota and then I just started.
7:32 Matt Farah? Started right up?
7:33 Speaker 01 Started tinkering it, yeah.
7:34 Matt Farah? You put, you jumped in and started right up?
7:35 Speaker 01 I would, I would, I wish it was that easy, you know, I wish it, but uh, but um, it's, I mean, now it's running so strong.
7:41 Matt Farah? Do you like, there it is.
7:42 Speaker 01 I took it to Angels Crest, uh, last week.
7:44 Matt Farah? Do you like driving it?
7:45 Speaker 01 I do.
7:46 Matt Farah? It's a real unique flavor of first gen Viper.
7:49 Speaker 01 Especially with the new exhaust now, it feels like a proper like.
7:53 Matt Farah? Is it, what year is it?
7:55 Speaker 01 It's ninety-five.
7:56 Matt Farah? So does it have side pipes?
7:57 Speaker 01 Side pipes.
7:57 Matt Farah? It does have a side pipe, right? Does it have a hard top on, it's an RT with a hard top?
8:01 Speaker 01 It's the one you take off.
8:02 Matt Farah? Soft top?
8:03 Speaker 01 It's, no, it's not a soft top, it's a hard top, but it comes off.
8:05 Matt Farah? Oh, yeah, a target top, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no exterior door handles?
8:09 Speaker 01 No exterior door handles, gotta reach in, you know, it's all like, it, when it.
8:13 Matt Farah? Glass windows?
8:14 Speaker 01 No.
8:15 Matt Farah? No glass windows?
8:16 Speaker 01 No windows. Insert, the window inserts.
8:18 Matt Farah? Oh, yeah, that's, he daily, grandpa daily that.
8:22 Speaker 01 It's all the quirky stuff.
8:23 Matt Farah? That's fucking crazy.
8:24 Speaker 01 The, I mean, I, it was dying the first like, it kept dying like after two days of me not starting it, so we had to get like a, a, a plug in for it.
8:32 Matt Farah? Yeah.
8:32 Speaker 01 And, uh, every time it died, the alarm tra, would trigger and. You have to take off-
8:38 Matt Farah? I bet you it was the alarm that was draining.
8:39 Speaker 01 You had to take, you had to take off the rear wheel to get to the battery. It was, it was so annoying. It happened like three times until I finally like, okay, we gotta fix this.
8:48 Matt Farah? You had to put a hole and make a connector from the outside. Yeah.
8:51 Speaker 01 So now it's dialed.
8:52 Matt Farah? Dude, every couple of months, I see, you know, on Bring a Trailer or Cars and Bids or whatever, a first gen Viper that goes cheap. And I'm like, ooh, is now the time to get in on one of those things?
9:02 Speaker 01 With, with the new exhaust and the little things that I've done to it, it's a different car. I mean, the brakes are still, you know, we, we, we, we got new brakes on it, but I would say the, I would be the next thing I do is upgrade the brakes, but.
9:14 Matt Farah? What exhaust is it?
9:15 Speaker 01 It's Lou Bellinger race exhaust.
9:18 Matt Farah? That sound-
9:19 Speaker 01 And, and I was gonna get, yeah.
9:20 Matt Farah? That sounds like some fucking, the Goombies, like that dude-
9:24 Speaker 01 I was gonna get, I was gonna get the like the modest one.
9:26 Matt Farah? Cargo shorts. He is ready to go.
9:28 Speaker 01 I was gonna get like the modest version and my buddy was like this, no, you don't get that on this car. So we opened the box and it's like in pieces. We're like, I'm like, dang, now I need a welder because they're just expecting you to like know how to do that.
9:43 Matt Farah? Some assembly required.
9:44 Speaker 01 Yeah. We thought it was just plug and play, you know? So I was like, dang, but now it's like, it's, it unlocked the car.
9:51 Matt Farah? But are you're pretty handy then. You're doing lots of work.
9:53 Speaker 01 So I have a buddy in Minnesota who has been working on cars his whole life and he like works on everything. So he, I kind of get the one-on-one time with him, like that's that we-
10:03 Matt Farah? He comes to you?
10:04 Speaker 01 So we started it when I was in Minnesota. Played for the Vikings for eight years. Um, we started in like the springtime, this time when we would have practice, we would be done at 12. And I'd be like, what do I do with myself? Well, I learned how to work on, you know, some cars. So I would just go to his garage, worked on the Mustang. We worked on the Viper, got it, got it super dialed. And, um, so he comes out to LA now and we have, since I have a garage.
10:25 Matt Farah? At your garage, you got a lift and tools and shit?
10:27 Speaker 01 Everything.
10:28 Matt Farah? Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Import the tech, set them up.
10:31 Speaker 01 Harbor Freight hooked me up with some tools.
10:32 Matt Farah? Did they? Hell yeah. Couple posts you're there.
10:35 Speaker 01 Good.
10:36 Matt Farah? Hey, can I do four posts for a four post homie? Let's go.
10:41 Matt Farah? That's crazy. I had a, I had a, I have a friend who's in product placement and I overheard a phone call that they were on this morning about a certain product that was gonna be placed in like a really popular artist's music video, okay? It's two artists that are collaborating on a new song and they're both really popular, okay? And it was a product placement and it was for four non-contiguous seconds in the music video. Four seconds?
11:15 Speaker 01 So just straight on it?
11:16 Matt Farah? Non-contiguous. Now, I don't know what that means, like it's not a four-second shot.
11:20 Speaker 01 Right.
11:21 Matt Farah? It could be two, two-second shots or four, one-second shots. They didn't specify, okay? How much do you think it costs to put this product, which probably, I guarantee you has nothing to do with the music or the video? It's like a gratuitous product shot. How much to place that for four non-contiguous seconds in a music video? With an A-list? A-list, A-list, right now.
11:44 Speaker 01 Two-hundred grand.
11:45 Matt Farah? Two-hundred grand, so that would be fifty grand a second.
11:48 Speaker 02 I'm going five-hundred.
11:49 Matt Farah? Five-hundred, okay. I, I may have built it up a little bit. You both shot a little high, but it was, but it was twenty K a second.
11:57 Speaker 01 Okay.
11:58 Matt Farah? Yeah, not super, this is an everyday music video, but for a big artist.
12:00 Speaker 01 That's expensive.
12:01 Matt Farah? Yeah, twenty K a second? I was like, damn, those rates are good. Getting a set of fucking tools and a lift though is pretty good.
12:08 Speaker 01 Doing right here.
12:09 Matt Farah? Yeah.
12:10 Speaker 02 Wow, Taylor Swift uses Harbor Freight.
12:12 Matt Farah? Oh, yeah, yeah. Maybe B-list, not Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift probably would be closer to what you're talking about. Fuck, importing your mechanic, though, to your own shop is excellent. Someone you trust. That's a good time and you guys are chilling too.
12:26 Speaker 01 We're just hanging out, we're boys, you know, and some of the stuff I do myself and then some of the stuff I'm like FaceTiming them. Hey, what do I do with this, you know?
12:34 Matt Farah? NFL players are just like us. Or like Zach, actually, not like me. I don't even try. I'm a proud, I'm a proud patron of experts.
12:42 Speaker 01 I enjoy it.
12:43 Matt Farah? Shit's broken, here, I don't trust me to fix that.
12:45 Speaker 01 See, if it's, if it's out of my league and it's out of my comfort zone, I don't, I don't mind having like, you know, with, with my GT-R, I'm not, I'm not messing with my GT-R.
12:54 Matt Farah? Yeah, you got a, you got a black R34 that looks quite spicy.
12:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
12:58 Matt Farah? Tell me the story of that car.
13:00 Speaker 01 The story of that car, I bought it, uh, 2020, I believe.
13:05 Speaker 01 I bought it from Japan, obviously. Went to Canada. My wife's Canadian.
13:12 Speaker 02 There you go.
13:13 Speaker 01 And then I got it into the US last year officially.
13:15 Matt Farah? The Skyline Underground.
13:17 Speaker 01 I said that, I said, I said that like, like it was like easy, super stressful.
13:22 Matt Farah? No, no, no.
13:22 Speaker 01 Super stressful, people are, people are taking care of your car that, you know, you have to put trust in. And I mean, ultimately you get to like, when the product gets there, but I mean, I'm so pleased with it.
13:32 Matt Farah? Believe me, I know, I'm, I'm in that business.
13:34 Speaker 01 Yes.
13:34 Matt Farah? I'm in the trust business. It's hard, it's stressful being on your end.
13:38 Speaker 01 For sure.
13:38 Matt Farah? So, I mean, how old are you?
13:40 Speaker 01 I'm thirty-three.
13:41 Matt Farah? Okay, so you're ten years younger than me, but what is it, so is it, was it Gran Turismo?
13:45 Speaker 01 Yeah.
13:46 Matt Farah? It's all Gran Turismo, right?
13:47 Speaker 01 It was the start of it, you know, getting the, getting familiar on the video games, but it was really just the, when, when, when, uh, I think it was Ludacris, I got a guy, you know, Too Fast Too Furious.
13:57 Matt Farah? Yeah.
13:58 Speaker 01 He pulls up, he started, the Ludacris song is bumping and he's just kind of sliding through traffic. I was just like, I need a, I need a thirty-four, like.
14:06 Matt Farah? I, I'm older than you, but when it was Gran Turismo one and two, my friends and I would race each other and it was Nürburgring, no Skylines, right?
14:15 Speaker 01 Exactly.
14:15 Matt Farah? They were, we banned from our, our friendly competition because they were too good. And like, finally, when I got to go to Japan for a gig and drive an R thirty-four Skyline, I was like, wait a minute, it's really that good? That video game like wasn't bullshitting me? I was like, oh, fuck, they weren't kidding. It was all, it was a game over.
14:35 Speaker 01 Yeah, people ask me all the time, like, what's it like to drive? Or like, is it hyped, is it worth the hype? And I'm just kind of like, it's my best car to drive. So like, obviously my, my Porsche, my GT three RS is like, the most track focused, it's pure, you know what I mean? But the thirty-four is like, the seats are comfortable, you know what I mean? Like. My wife can ride it and she'll she'll enjoy the feel of it, the sounds of it. It's a little bit nostalgic, but it's also super planted, it's fast, like.
15:03 Matt Farah? You can do anything.
15:04 Speaker 01 It's checking all the boxes, all the feelings.
15:06 Matt Farah? Yeah, they're they're fucking so rad. I had a thirty two uh in like twenty fourteen and fifteen for like a year. And I lost my storage and had to like fire sale a bunch of cars, which is why I started this business, so that hopefully never happens again. Um but I miss it and one day I'd like to get another one.
15:26 Speaker 01 Thirty twos are sick.
15:27 Matt Farah? They are, no, I I would get a thirty four, they those weren't available at the time, this was before you could really get them. Um I should have bought one in Japan, fucking sat on it, that would have been the move, that would have been the move. Everyone I drive is great. Is yours super motted or not really?
15:42 Speaker 01 So I got it completely stock.
15:44 Matt Farah? Okay.
15:44 Speaker 01 So I got it completely stock and it just has like Nismo, Nismo parts, so Nismo, Nismo intercooler, um exhaust. Shoot, it has a Halltech, you know, E eighty five conversion.
15:55 Matt Farah? Okay.
15:55 Speaker 01 Super, super like.
15:56 Matt Farah? Do you put an E eighty five through it? Oh, you do?
15:58 Speaker 01 There's a bunch of like space spots.
15:59 Matt Farah? Up there, on the valley?
16:01 Speaker 01 Yeah.
16:02 Matt Farah? I haven't, they're around here, they don't sell it.
16:04 Speaker 01 No, you gotta, you gotta search.
16:06 Matt Farah? You need to get an app or something.
16:07 Speaker 01 Yeah, we, there's an app for that.
16:08 Matt Farah? Do you have an app?
16:09 Speaker 01 I have a, there's like a website, I forgot what it is, but I can send it to you.
16:12 Matt Farah? Can you?
16:12 Speaker 02 Corn finder dot com.
16:15 Matt Farah? Can you real?
16:16 Speaker 01 And it's pretty solid, cause it has like.
16:17 Matt Farah? H U S K R, uh can you see, see what, where we can get some E eighty five?
16:22 Speaker 01 It'll have like little uh reviews, um.
16:26 Matt Farah? I need it to be easier than that.
16:27 Speaker 02 Well, E eighty five app.
16:29 Matt Farah? Is there, is that an app?
16:30 Speaker 02 That's what that's a link for.
16:31 Speaker 01 That looks new.
16:32 Matt Farah? E eighty five app on the app store?
16:34 Speaker 01 I I just use the, I go through the hard way.
16:36 Speaker 02 What's it, you do, oh, you do uh?
16:37 Speaker 01 I do one of those links that you.
16:40 Matt Farah? Uh, all right, well, I have to try, cause it's, it's, people keep telling me I need to use it, I need to use it, I can't find it around here, but. All right, so you run that?
16:47 Speaker 01 I run that, it's clean, it it burns quick, you know, I, every time I drive the car, I need to fill back up.
16:52 Matt Farah? Is it, it's not, is it flexible? Can you run regular gas in it?
16:55 Speaker 01 I run ninety one or or E eighty five, so it's, it's kinda nice if you're in a pinch, you can just put ninety one in it, but, you know.
17:00 Matt Farah? And it knows what to do, or you have to do math?
17:02 Speaker 01 No, it knows what to do.
17:03 Matt Farah? Yeah, math, math in your fueling.
17:06 Speaker 01 Yeah, no, you don't wanna, I just, I just try to keep it up with the E85, it's gonna be, have no problem.
17:11 Matt Farah? By the way, Zach, I think we have to do, we have to put a little bit of Boostane in that Alpine.
17:14 Speaker 02 I was wondering why that bottle was in the car.
17:16 Matt Farah? In case I needed it.
17:17 Speaker 02 Yeah.
17:18 Matt Farah? It's just like, I just had, we had to turn 91 effectively into 93.
17:22 Speaker 02 Okay.
17:22 Matt Farah? So just like a little splash of Boostane.
17:24 Speaker 02 I thought you were sipping it or something, or...
17:25 Matt Farah? I mean, it is delicious.
17:27 Speaker 02 It looks like whiskey, it's not.
17:28 Matt Farah? My spider, I had to use that, the Octane booster stuff for a while, and now I don't, it's better.
17:33 Speaker 02 Is, uh, is OEM plus kinda like how you like to mod your cars? You don't go too crazy on anything?
17:38 Speaker 01 I mean, I, I thought when I was younger, I was gonna be the guy who went crazy in certain ways, but the, the, like...
17:46 Speaker 01 I buy, I like to buy cars that look cool to me, first of all, but also like are functional, and what better way to like, I wanna keep the value of the car, I try to buy clean cars, I wanna keep the value of the car, but also, we don't mind a little OEM plus, we're, we're drivers, so it's like, you know, for the person who, I, I don't wanna sell any of my cars either, but like, if someone were to have my car after me, they can appreciate the modifications that I did to it, but also you can look at the-
18:10 Matt Farah? They're not gonna rush to undo them.
18:11 Speaker 01 Yeah, but also you can look to, look, look at the car and be like, man, that's, that's an original, like, I don't wanna, I don't wanna lose that, like, that, that factor, especially when you open the interior and you see everything, I want it to look like it's, you know, from the factory.
18:24 Matt Farah? We were talking on a recent show about like, someone asked like, what's the sign of, of your maturing? And I was like, you, you stop doing interior delete, you know, mods, like, that's like, I regret every, every bit of interior I've ever taken out, I regret.
18:40 Speaker 01 The hardest I ever went on a car was my Jeep, my, my, my very first Jeep.
18:43 Matt Farah? Like a Wrangler?
18:45 Speaker 01 I had a Jeep and I had a Subaru, which I kinda, uh, STI.
18:48 Matt Farah? Okay.
18:49 Speaker 01 So, my first year in Minnesota, I was-
18:51 Matt Farah? I don't know why you said that, I pictured an Outback for some reason, I was like, why?
18:55 Speaker 01 You looked at me, I was like, STI, like, STI.
18:59 Speaker 02 Which, which year?
19:00 Speaker 01 I had a, the last year, so I think I was 21.
19:02 Matt Farah? Okay.
19:03 Speaker 01 Uh, and, uh, so my, my rookie year, I was like, man, I'm gonna go to get a Subaru, funny story.
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23:06 Speaker 01 I go to the Subaru dealership and they were like, you can't drive this. This is our Viper. And I'm like, I'm sitting there like.
23:11 Speaker 02 They still do that shit.
23:12 Matt Farah? Did you drive in in the Viper?
23:13 Speaker 01 I called my agent. Exactly, no.
23:16 Matt Farah? This is my Viper.
23:18 Speaker 01 I called my agent, I was like, hey, they're not, he's like, how's the car shop been going? I'm like, they didn't let me drive it. And he's like, what? He called them and then next thing I know, I come back and then the car's pulled out in front.
23:26 Matt Farah? Flatbed at your house.
23:27 Speaker 01 But anyway, I'm going to Minnesota and I'm scared of like the snow and everything, rightfully so. So I'm like, I can go two ways. I can get a Jeep and just like, thug a Jeep for a couple of years, modify, have it fun and then like sell it and get another car in a couple of years. And I went that route.
23:45 Speaker 01 Got a, had a matte army green, big tires, 36s or something like that.
23:49 Matt Farah? Didn't have that like Tyrese grill thing on it? Like, did it have a weird grill on it?
23:53 Speaker 01 It had a weird grill on it, but it had the good one. It had the good one. One that kind of just was like OEM. For some reason, I feel like I got, I feel like, I feel like.
24:01 Matt Farah? I'll stop.
24:02 Speaker 01 I'll, I'll abandon it. It had a little nose, it had a little nose on top, you know? A little aggressive with the, but anyway, I actually did slide down an embankment from the top of it. Like on the off ramp, it was after it had rained all night and it froze over. I literally just couldn't do anything. I was, I was gonna try to turn and then I would've got hit in the side. So I kind of just straightened it out and just, just plowed into the person in front of me. So I did end up like, I didn't do anything to the Jeep at all, not even a scratch. But I actually did end up wrecking it. So I'm like, it was good. Fast forward, fast forward, my last year in Minnesota, my wife is pregnant and I had a 4Runner TRD Pro. So I upgraded from the Jeep to a 4Runner.
24:43 Speaker 02 Jeep, Jeep crowd right now is so mad. What do you mean upgrade?
24:47 Speaker 01 No, I mean.
24:47 Matt Farah? Go fuck yourself.
24:49 Speaker 01 I bought a baseline, I bought a baseline Jeep and then modified it. So it was like, at the end of the day, it was just a baseline Jeep. So you know, I got the TRD and then I was, it was a, my wife was pregnant. So I'm like, you know what? You drive the, here, here babe, you know what?
25:03 Matt Farah? Smart man.
25:04 Speaker 01 You're gonna need this. You're gonna need this for the season.
25:06 Speaker 02 Protect our child.
25:07 Speaker 01 I'm gonna get a different car.
25:08 Matt Farah? Sure. And then Jim Con of 27 came out.
25:12 Speaker 02 Yeah.
25:12 Speaker 01 Then I got an STI. Put some Blizzax on it.
25:16 Speaker 02 Yeah, buddy.
25:17 Speaker 01 It was so sick. It was so sick. Got a, a matte performance, gave me a tune and they gave me an exhaust and like, I had TE's on it.
25:24 Matt Farah? You got snow to play with, they're the best.
25:27 Speaker 01 Dude, it was, my Blizzax, I had, so I had like, like Bridgestone Duelers on my, my 4Runner and then the Blizzax. I had the actual snow tire for the, for the STI and like.
25:38 Speaker 01 It was crazy because I got in my STI and I was and I was ripping like it was it was so grippy.
25:43 Matt Farah? The difference between a winter tire and an off-road tire is is a big difference.
25:47 Speaker 01 And my and my four-wheel was great in the snow like and so it was it was it was cool like it was safe and everything so.
25:52 Matt Farah? But with that with the difference with a Blizzak that rubber is a different compound so even when it's dry and it's cold it's like having a summer tire and you can go you can go full fucking kill in the cold.
26:04 Speaker 01 It was it was great so uh ended up ended up so my rationale for getting the STI was look if I get a rental car for the season I'm spending in Minnesota snow spending like at least minimum two grand a month on a rental car. Or you know get a lease start a lease I didn't want to do that so I'm like hmm I can buy a last year STI. I can drive it for the whole season put 10,000 miles on it and then I sold it to the same dealer for the exact same price.
26:32 Matt Farah? Dude car math wow very nice.
26:34 Speaker 01 So cuz I got cuz I got you know I got all these things from these uh you know for free that upgraded the car a little bit.
26:39 Matt Farah? Yeah.
26:39 Speaker 01 But I took the wheel I took my TE's off kept those and then um you know put the stock wheels back on but the people who I sold it back to they were getting you know they got they got a PPF rap you know.
26:49 Matt Farah? Oh they got some upgrades too yeah.
26:51 Speaker 01 They got they got a little upgrades they got they got a little tune a little exhaust so it was like it was a win.
26:56 Matt Farah? Yeah that's great math is anyone else in the locker room rolling an STI?
27:00 Speaker 01 Um I no one was.
27:03 Matt Farah? They're all doing just big trucks right?
27:05 Speaker 01 Big tru- I mean big trucks um at that year actually one of my teammates had a Yuris a Mansory Yuris and it started getting a little bit colder and I started being like hey bro it's time to put the car away or it's time to get some different tires because.
27:20 Speaker 02 I love that conversation so much.
27:23 Matt Farah? See I have all-wheel drive what's the problem?
27:24 Speaker 01 I would just go around the parking lot and be like dude like you got you need new tires you need new tires like you guys are out here tripping like.
27:30 Speaker 02 He's like but I have all these carbon fiber wings aren't they gonna keep me on the ground?
27:33 Matt Farah? I go to car shows and I shame people who have old tires I'll sell look at people who have like old Vipers and 4GTs and Diablo's and stuff and I'll be like yo your tires are from 99 bro like you're gonna die on the way home from this.
27:46 Speaker 01 True true story. My, right when I got the Viper, the story I'm telling, I got the Viper, we got it running. It was, it was, it was good to go. I took it to a car show. As soon as the sun came out in Minnesota. Took it to a car show, a kid, maybe thirteen, twelve or thirteen. He came up to me as soon as I parked and he said, hey, bro. You have old tires. You need to change your tires. And I, and I, and in my mind, I'm like, the Viper's running. I just got it. Like, I hadn't even thought about that.
28:12 Matt Farah? Yeah.
28:13 Speaker 01 And I, I looked down at the tires and then I looked at him and I'm like, you're absolutely right. I got some Pilot Sport Cup twos the next week.
28:21 Matt Farah? Yo, if that kid is listening to this show.
28:23 Speaker 01 Yeah.
28:24 Matt Farah? Well done.
28:25 Speaker 01 He, he came right up to me and was like.
28:26 Matt Farah? Really?
28:27 Speaker 01 He's like, get new tires, bro. Like, you don't want that to happen with, you know, Paul Walker.
28:31 Matt Farah? Wow, the youth, the, the youth is there. They're doing, they're on it. Kids are alright.
28:36 Speaker 02 That's amazing.
28:36 Matt Farah? Yeah, I bet that car was a whole other world when you got those tires too.
28:41 Speaker 01 I mean.
28:41 Matt Farah? That, a, a car like that from the nineties, well, that's a different fucking car.
28:46 Speaker 01 The new tires actually makes a, makes like the biggest difference.
28:48 Matt Farah? Yeah, them cars aren't scary when you put modern tires on them. They're, they're great. They're, they're nice linear compared to shit like this.
28:54 Speaker 01 Now it has suspension and tires. That's what I'm saying. Like, the brakes is like, now it's like, the brakes are like obvious. It's okay. That's the last. Last thing I do.
29:02 Matt Farah? Every two months, I'm like, yeah, I think so. And then I'm like, no. When you pull the handbrake, does it, does it almost touch the roof?
29:13 Speaker 01 I almost, I almost, there's a sign, please don't bang on the table. I almost just banged on the table. The fact that you know about the handbrake in the Viper. When I was parking it for this past season, I played in Dallas this past season, when I parked the car to, you know, my last, turn the car off.
29:26 Matt Farah? Yeah.
29:26 Speaker 01 Pull the handbrake, pow, snaps. Cause you know, you pull it back far. Snapped it, just fixed it. Right now, I have a, I have like a, a wheel block in my car. My handbrake, it's fixed now, but it just needs to be tightened, but.
29:39 Matt Farah? Dude, if you ever.
29:40 Speaker 01 Like you said, it goes back far, so I just.
29:42 Matt Farah? Dude, a Viper handbrake, picture this is.
29:47 Matt Farah? It's, it's up, dude, it's like, it's up to like here. It's, it's.
29:51 Speaker 02 Like the lever's too long.
29:52 Matt Farah? So long. It's so, it's so weird.
29:55 Speaker 01 I think that's why, cause it's like, for me to pull it that. Far back, I just get used to it, you know, and then I'm in, I'm lifting weights, I'm ready for season.
30:02 Speaker 02 You're doing a row.
30:03 Matt Farah? It's the kind of lever you expect to be on the floor of a Ford Arostar. Like, it's crazy that that's a sports car.
30:10 Speaker 02 But also, if the lever's that long, then it's way more pressure on that little cable.
30:14 Speaker 01 And that's, that's exactly how I set it. And that's why I'm gonna make it tighter, you know, but.
30:18 Matt Farah? I snapped the Aston Vanquish one once, too, and the cable was $1,800, because of course it was, why wouldn't it have been?
30:26 Speaker 01 When I took it to Angel's, last week or like two weeks ago, though, I had the blocks with me. So I just like parked the car, first gear.
30:35 Matt Farah? When you go to play, when you go to Dallas for a season, do you send a car or two down there to enjoy?
30:40 Speaker 01 I sent the RS this year, the GT3 RS. I feel like that was a good one to send.
30:45 Matt Farah? Do you get to do any Texas track time while you're down there?
30:47 Speaker 01 I didn't do any Texas track time, but like, everybody drives so fast in Texas because the freeways are so wide.
30:56 Matt Farah? They're nuts.
30:57 Speaker 01 Everyone's driving ridiculously fast.
30:58 Matt Farah? It's all highway pulls.
31:00 Speaker 01 Whoa.
31:01 Speaker 02 With six lanes and your perception of speed.
31:03 Speaker 01 The thing that scares me the most in Texas driving is the big modified trucks. People smash in those trucks.
31:10 Matt Farah? The 2500s and the stacks.
31:12 Speaker 01 Like, you're in their way, like, get out of my way, I'm driving fast, like, it's, it's like different.
31:17 Speaker 02 Fast lifted diesels.
31:18 Speaker 01 Anytime I saw a truck like come in being aggressive, I would, I would easily get over, let them go by, you don't know what they're packing, I'm not trying to have no road rage.
31:26 Matt Farah? Really, like, ill-fitting wheels. You're like, dude, they're on like spacer, you know, 50 millimeter spacer, just waiting for a stud to snap.
31:35 Speaker 01 I mean, it would, it would be like, I'll be at a like standstill and there will be trucks that like blew by me and it would be like, I was scared, like, I'm literally scared of trucks out there, I was staying away from them.
31:45 Matt Farah? They're fast.
31:46 Speaker 01 They're fast, like.
31:47 Speaker 02 Well, some are really, so I went to the, the Ford Lobo launch last night and they had some of the like fast, supercharged turbo trucks outside. Like the ones that used to run at Hoonigan's this versus that, you know, they show up, they run nine second quarter miles, F150, short bed.
32:01 Matt Farah? Yeah.
32:01 Speaker 02 But that thing's 6,000 pounds and it's as fast as a McLaren. That's a lot of energy if it hits something. It's cool, but terrifying.
32:07 Speaker 01 That's what I'm saying.
32:08 Speaker 02 I know, I get you.
32:08 Speaker 01 And so I'm like thinking like I I hit for a living, so I know how things work.
32:13 Matt Farah? You're like, I can see this math.
32:15 Speaker 01 I'm like, man, these guys don't care. Like, they're out here, one arm on the wheel, like, this is my road.
32:21 Matt Farah? Big gulp, just fucking alternating, yeah. Do you ever driven like a really fast pickup truck like that?
32:28 Speaker 01 I've driven, the fastest I've done is a SUV. I haven't driven a pickup truck.
32:31 Matt Farah? When you, when your seat is that high, the perception is completely different. You ever drive a G sixty-three? Same shit.
32:40 Speaker 01 You just feel like a, you're on the road.
32:42 Matt Farah? Feel the speed and and you can like a hundred is like sixty or something else like, I have an NSX. It's like dropped about a half inch, like an O five NSX, and you're sitting on the fucking ground. And seventy feels like a hundred and twenty. It's great, actually. It's a really nice way to live. Um, and this is the exact opposite. And when you're in like a lifted twenty-five hundred, you don't even know.
33:05 Speaker 01 No, it's.
33:05 Matt Farah? You're just sailing along.
33:07 Speaker 02 Yeah.
33:07 Speaker 01 You're just floating.
33:08 Speaker 02 I drove a Roush F one fifty, it was lifted, it had six hundred and fifty horsepower, and you're way up tall, but you just floor it and you go, oh wow, a hundred. Oh my god, how does this thing do that?
33:16 Matt Farah? How is the the Lobo, by the way?
33:19 Speaker 02 Looks like a sport truck.
33:20 Matt Farah? And what is, what is it? It's like, it's a street F one fifty, right?
33:24 Speaker 02 Coyote engine, they lower the back like an inch, so it's like a leveled thing. I mean, the event was cool. They had these rad modified trucks out front. Um, and it looks good, if you're into like street truck stuff. I just think what those things are capable of now with the ten-speed trans. And the drivetrain that holds up to all that boost. I mean, people are gonna take these and be like, thank you, and then they're gonna shove a supercharger on it.
33:44 Matt Farah? Sure.
33:45 Speaker 02 And just clean up at drag strips.
33:47 Speaker 01 How about the OJ era F one fifty?
33:49 Matt Farah? The Lightning?
33:50 Speaker 01 The Light, those are serious.
33:51 Matt Farah? I like those three Lightnings, my, those are great.
33:54 Speaker 01 Like the Fast and Furious ones?
33:55 Matt Farah? Yes, that's my, those are my jam.
33:57 Speaker 01 I like the box, though.
33:59 Matt Farah? I I respect the style, the ninety-five, ninety-six.
34:02 Speaker 02 Then you like the logo, because they added that, like, the front valence and stuff, and it looks boxier.
34:06 Speaker 01 Cool.
34:06 Speaker 02 Yeah.
34:07 Matt Farah? Did you see that FX pack thing that Ford just announced for the Mustang? We were kind of shitting on it the other day, because it's like a Fox body inspired thing, but like-
34:15 Speaker 01 The gauges and stuff like that?
34:17 Matt Farah? It doesn't look right, though. Someone on Instagram, someone on Instagram, by the way, Zach, photoshopped-
34:24 Speaker 02 I saw, I reposted it.
34:25 Matt Farah? It was so much better.
34:26 Speaker 02 Yeah.
34:27 Matt Farah? So this supposedly, Eric, this is supposed-
34:30 Speaker 01 Is that the same green as the Fox?
34:32 Matt Farah? Yes, it is, and I'll give them that, but these white wheels are supposed to look like the ninety-three GT wheels, which they fucking don't.
34:41 Matt Farah? And here, they put it next to a ninety-three Cobra. And it doesn't look like those fan wheels at all, and someone on Instagram-
34:48 Speaker 02 Yeah, let me see.
34:49 Matt Farah? -made a Photoshop of an updated version of that car with a new fan wheel, and it looked sick.
34:56 Speaker 02 There we go.
34:57 Matt Farah? There! How much better does that look?
34:59 Speaker 01 Okay, okay, okay.
35:00 Matt Farah? See? How hard was that? That's so much better.
35:04 Speaker 02 Yeah.
35:05 Speaker 01 And that's just the wheels.
35:06 Matt Farah? Yeah, doesn't that look cool, actually? That's a nice-looking wheel. Your car would look dope on those. Your black car would look sick on those.
35:13 Speaker 01 Have you seen that they do the CHP wheels now?
35:14 Matt Farah? Mm-hmm.
35:15 Speaker 01 Those are pretty cool, too.
35:16 Matt Farah? Mm-hmm.
35:16 Speaker 01 But I would, those wheels are sick.
35:18 Matt Farah? Yeah. Doesn't that, oh, see, there you go, on the ninety-three Cobra.
35:22 Speaker 01 It's just a good-looking car.
35:24 Matt Farah? I do love me a Mustang, and you give me a notch back in that color, fuck, I'm on board.
35:30 Speaker 01 So, oh, so on the way here, there was like a, like a semi truck, a couple lanes over, and he honks the horn, "Er, er," and then I look over, and he's just like this, "How much? How much? How much?"
35:43 Matt Farah? Guys making deals on the four oh five.
35:45 Speaker 01 So I kind of got over, I kind of got over a couple lanes and revved it for him, and then kind of, you know.
35:49 Matt Farah? That's awesome.
35:49 Speaker 01 But I was, it's just like that, that, that age group, that generation, they just, you know.
35:53 Matt Farah? Well, you're, the three, the cars of yours that we've talked about so far are some real dude magnets. You have some serious dude magnet cars.
36:01 Speaker 01 If you know, you know.
36:02 Matt Farah? The Skyline is the most dude magnet car ever.
36:04 Speaker 01 The Viper turns heads, too.
36:06 Matt Farah? Yeah.
36:06 Speaker 01 Believe it or not.
36:07 Matt Farah? Yeah.
36:07 Speaker 01 But the Skyline, for sure, I mean, because, because now, now, like, it's eight years, eight-year-olds, thirteen-year-olds, you know, and then our generation, like, younger, everybody loves that car.
36:17 Matt Farah? I don't blame him. What's the, what is your, what's your everyday run around?
36:21 Speaker 01 CT5 V Black one.
36:23 Matt Farah? Oh god, you're a man of taste.
36:25 Speaker 01 Automatic too.
36:26 Matt Farah? I don't care.
36:27 Speaker 01 Exactly.
36:27 Matt Farah? I don't judge. Not for a daily, I don't judge.
36:30 Speaker 01 No, no, come on, come on. You got the car seats in the back right now?
36:33 Matt Farah? That's a, that's a great fucking car.
36:34 Speaker 01 Carbon seats with the car seats? My son has no idea.
36:36 Matt Farah? Massage, massage seat, yeah.
36:38 Speaker 01 My son has no idea.
36:40 Matt Farah? They are superb.
36:42 Speaker 02 How many cars do you have?
36:43 Speaker 01 I have six right now.
36:45 Speaker 02 Oh, okay. Like manageable number, you can drive all of them.
36:47 Speaker 01 Could you have all of them?
36:48 Speaker 02 Yeah.
36:48 Speaker 01 I can drive all of them.
36:49 Matt Farah? Ah, that's alright.
36:50 Speaker 01 My last one was a, I got a Honda. I just got that.
36:54 Matt Farah? What kind of Honda? Is it NSX?
36:57 Speaker 02 What is it? White CRX was it?
36:58 Speaker 01 It's a black CRX.
36:59 Speaker 02 A black CRX?
37:00 Matt Farah? Is it?
37:00 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
37:01 Speaker 02 Those are fun.
37:02 Speaker 01 Something on there.
37:03 Matt Farah? Is it right-hand or left-hand drive?
37:04 Speaker 01 It's right, it's left-hand drive.
37:05 Matt Farah? It's left, is it, but is it a good, is it like a special CRX?
37:09 Speaker 01 It's a C, it's a SR.
37:10 Matt Farah? It is an SR, cool. Did you have one back in the day or?
37:13 Speaker 01 I didn't have one, my neighbor, my, so my neighbor growing up, they had a red S2000 and a rest, a red CRX. And they would just be outside tinkering on it when I would walk home from school. And I would just be, you know, hands on my backpack straps, walking by, looking at them every day. So I was like, man, I would, and everyone's like, man, what kind of cars do you like? And I'm like, I like Hondas. That's like my first go-to. I like Hondas. That's how much I like cars. And they're like, oh, what kind of Honda would you like? And I'm like, man, I gotta stop talking about it. I gotta start getting it.
37:40 Matt Farah? Yeah.
37:41 Speaker 01 But.
37:42 Matt Farah? I mean, the best CRX in the world is like 25 grand, like let's, you know, let's go.
37:45 Speaker 01 No, and, and honestly, so what happened was my, my bu, one of my mechanic buddies in, in Minnesota, he had one. And it was his personal one. And I had offered him, I, I mean, we had talked about buying it, you know, me selling it, uh, a couple of years back, but I never followed through with it. And then this past offseason, now he has five right-hand drives. He has five like right-hand, you know.
38:06 Matt Farah? That's called a business.
38:07 Speaker 01 So I'm like, yeah.
38:08 Matt Farah? Oh, look at that. Is this it?
38:09 Speaker 01 That's it.
38:10 Matt Farah? Oh, it's got louvers on the back window?
38:12 Speaker 01 It's got the louvers.
38:13 Matt Farah? What wheels are those?
38:14 Speaker 01 I don't know. They look good though. They're like, they're like.
38:16 Matt Farah? Fucking cool.
38:17 Speaker 01 They're like perfect too.
38:17 Matt Farah? Yeah.
38:18 Speaker 01 Like untouched.
38:19 Matt Farah? This is like the CRX that wanted to be a, uh, Corrado. Right? It's got like Corrado, Volkswagen Corrado vibes.
38:27 Speaker 02 It's cool because it's very different, you know, you have like all-wheel-drive, big power GTR. The Vipers rear-wheel-drive craziness. And now this is like super lightweight, front-wheel drive.
38:36 Speaker 01 Front-wheel drive.
38:36 Speaker 02 No, great. I mean, you have a lot of the, you kind of cover all the flavors in a six-car garage for much.
38:41 Speaker 01 For sure.
38:41 Matt Farah? That's fun.
38:42 Speaker 01 I know. I feel like. I when I sold my I sold my Subaru to get the black wing, which is like I sold my Subaru and I sold my four runner TRD.
38:52 Matt Farah? To get a black wing? Living in California, good trade.
38:55 Speaker 01 No, so that's what I'm saying, you feel me? So so I got I it was it was but now I'm like the Subaru, I was like I just think about it a lot.
39:03 Matt Farah? You they're do a revy, you know, fucking turbocharged or whatever, you know, high, strong import is a good thing.
39:11 Speaker 01 It's just good.
39:12 Matt Farah? It's a good thing.
39:13 Speaker 01 And it's broomy, but.
39:14 Matt Farah? Mine is like the two thousand Civic SI coupe, that generation, those are that's my jam.
39:20 Speaker 01 Um, you like those?
39:22 Matt Farah? I do. That's what that's that's that's what uh the cool kids had in high school.
39:26 Speaker 01 The the you talk about the the like the two door, like the fast and furious, the spoon ones, they go there. Okay, I got you.
39:32 Matt Farah? Yes.
39:32 Speaker 01 Those are sick.
39:33 Matt Farah? They're they drove right, they.
39:35 Speaker 01 They're expensive too now.
39:36 Matt Farah? I know, because there's none left.
39:38 Speaker 01 No, no clean ones for sure.
39:39 Matt Farah? Me and everyone else crashed them all, not everyone else crashed them all. That and like B five S fours, everyone crashed all those, those don't exist anymore either.
39:47 Speaker 01 B five, RS four, imported right now. That would be sick.
39:51 Matt Farah? They as a highway car spectacular, they don't handle very well, but they look amazing and they're fun as fuck.
39:58 Speaker 01 I've actually been, you know, that was one of the ones I've been looking at this past year.
40:01 Matt Farah? An RS four?
40:02 Speaker 01 B five.
40:03 Matt Farah? Mm hmm.
40:03 Speaker 01 So good.
40:04 Matt Farah? Mm hmm. They're they're fucking tasty.
40:06 Speaker 01 There there's some good colors too, I mean, good colors get sold high, but.
40:10 Matt Farah? Yeah.
40:11 Speaker 01 They're good.
40:11 Matt Farah? Fucking paint it. Rap paint it, rapid, who gives a shit? I drove I drove one that was was like a safari prepped one that had like a lift on it and like over fenders and yeah, it was like a rally car. I drove it in winter in New York. It was amazing. It was so fun. Yeah, they're a good time and they're the right size. They're not too big.
40:28 Speaker 01 Throw a car seat or two in the back for a car show, you know, that'll be the excuse.
40:33 Matt Farah? That's learning to wrench for sure. If you know, you know, car.
40:35 Speaker 02 They're problematic, so you definitely learn to work on cars.
40:38 Speaker 01 That's the thing I was like going over the list of like, you know, things that they might need or problems that they have.
40:43 Matt Farah? Yeah.
40:44 Speaker 01 Okay.
40:44 Speaker 02 Yeah, just circle the car.
40:46 Matt Farah? Oh, everything.
40:49 Speaker 02 Not quite.
40:49 Speaker 01 Like nothing I have any better list of my.
40:51 Speaker 02 That's very funny, yeah, yeah.
40:53 Matt Farah? Does anyone else that you play with have a similar kind of taste to you of the eighties and nineties interesting cars?
40:58 Speaker 01 Yeah, so my buddy, uh, my buddies, Daniel Hunter and Byron Jones, those are my my my my good guys as far as we go on drive. They came out here like a couple of weeks ago, we went on a drive.
41:08 Matt Farah? Oh, cool.
41:09 Speaker 01 For like we they came out here for a week and we could drive all week.
41:11 Matt Farah? It's cool.
41:12 Speaker 01 They have a great colle- they have a great collection, they have a great taste. Um, Connor McGovern, he's a, a center.
41:19 Matt Farah? Uh huh.
41:19 Speaker 01 Um, he has great taste. There's a bunch of guys who have ta- like, we're starting to band up, like, I feel like it's like.
41:25 Matt Farah? Tell me there's like a fucking WhatsApp thread or something of like NFL 90s.
41:31 Speaker 01 I wanna be, I wanna be.
41:32 Matt Farah? You should organize it.
41:33 Speaker 01 I, I wanna bring it together, you know, at some point, you know, I think that that would be awesome for the, for the culture, for sure.
41:39 Matt Farah? Calling all NFL players who like 90s and 80s.
41:42 Speaker 01 Who like, who like, who like actually are enthusiasts, you know, cause there, there is some guys out there for sure. Kenneth Murray is another enthusiast that I know. Um, Dakota Shepley, who I played with in Dallas, you know, there's like, there's like one or two on each team.
41:52 Matt Farah? I just saw someone, uh, fucking from, on TMZ, one of the Lakers rolled up in a sick typhoon.
41:59 Speaker 01 Yeah.
41:59 Matt Farah? Really sick.
42:00 Speaker 01 Devin Booker.
42:01 Matt Farah? Yeah.
42:01 Speaker 01 Devin Booker.
42:02 Matt Farah? You know, really nice looking, clean, clean typhoon.
42:04 Speaker 01 Like typhoons, like cyclones, those are the cars that I've been looking at since I got to the league, like box bodies.
42:09 Matt Farah? If you, typhoons, dude, I drove the nicest one you've ever seen. They drive horrible. They're, they're hopeless to drive, but they look awesome. There's just, it's 97% attitude. Yeah.
42:25 Speaker 01 Yeah. Those, I mean, come on.
42:26 Matt Farah? Normally I'm not, I'm not about white on white wheels, but I think Devin Booker has pulled it off.
42:31 Speaker 02 Well, it's got the good style of like the two-door Tahos, but it's just a little smaller.
42:35 Matt Farah? And by the way, that is not the stock wheel. That's an oversized wheel, but that's made to look like the stock wheels. So, respect.
42:43 Speaker 01 That's, looks good. Oh, E plus.
42:44 Matt Farah? There, yeah.
42:45 Speaker 01 We like those.
42:45 Matt Farah? You are on the same page. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's a great look for him. That's fucking cool as hell. I'm so. I love a typhoon for anyone else that's not me. I wanna see you in a typhoon, Eric.
42:58 Speaker 01 That'd be cool.
42:59 Matt Farah? I don't wanna go in it though. I did a fucking story for Rodeo Track last year that was, rode, it was typhoon versus Urus Porformonte.
43:08 Matt Farah? Let's just say the thirty years hadn't been kind to the Ford GMC.
43:12 Speaker 01 That's, but I mean, that's how I feel in the Viper. I would never let any, I would never drive in the passenger seat of that.
43:19 Speaker 01 That's a car that I would throw someone the keys and be like, have fun driving it. I'm not riding with you.
43:23 Matt Farah? I don't even wanna know.
43:24 Speaker 01 The clutch is on the left, you know, like.
43:26 Matt Farah? Sorta.
43:28 Speaker 01 You can't have to drag your foot a little bit on the side of the car, but you'll figure it out, but.
43:32 Matt Farah? Oh dude, does your, do your feet get real hot driving that motherfucker?
43:36 Speaker 01 It used to, but now with the new exhaust, it's way better, but.
43:39 Matt Farah? What do you like, what kind of footwear do you like to drive in? Do you have special shoes, vans?
43:43 Speaker 01 You know, some, some, some athletic, some, but uh, I feel like, man, that car is just. Like you can't drive, you're, it's meant to drive fast, which is a beautiful thing about it, but if you're in the city and you're. Red light to red light, you're gonna be jerking around the whole time.
44:01 Matt Farah? All that really fast stuff from nineteen eighty-five to nineteen ninety-nine. That was meant to go fast was not very good at going slow.
44:11 Speaker 01 You slam on the gas, you shift through gears, you're like, man, this is smooth. This runs great. You're driving it slow in the, in the track, you're like, man, this is awful.
44:18 Matt Farah? That's, you, that is, that's, it's, they were inspired by Italian cars from the eighties. That's what that was. Leia Coco, like, them boys are Ferrari. Here's how they do it. Let's go, you know? Yeah, they're fucking nutty, them cars. I like them though. They're kind of fucking, any car that has an irreplaceable. Charm about it. It's totally unique in the world. Actually, I would, all your cars, Fox Body, a CRX, a Skyline. Uh, a Viper, these are all cars that have no equal, you know, really. Which is pretty cool.
44:53 Speaker 01 That's how I like it.
44:53 Matt Farah? They have a very unique flavor that you actually can't get anywhere else, which is a, which is a man of taste.
45:00 Speaker 01 And you can't, and you can't necessarily just go and buy a clean version of it as well. Like you, it's hard to find a good version because. The Vipers back in the day, like, that's what people, people always come to me and tell me, hey, people don't even know how many Gen one Vipers are available because. Everyone was just wrecking them. Like everyone was just crashing on left and right.
45:18 Matt Farah? It's a car that you think there's a lot of until you try to find a good one. Like E forty-six M threes. You think there's a lot of them too, and then you're like, actually, seven of these are worth buying. Um, but there's, have you seen, there's a guy? You must have seen him around at some point or on the internet. There's like a local sort of Viper celebrity that lives in Marina Del Rey. That has a two hundred thousand mile ninety-two Viper that just lives outside next to the.
45:44 Speaker 01 It's just red?
45:45 Matt Farah? It's red. It's fucked up.
45:47 Speaker 01 I, I've seen it.
45:47 Matt Farah? And the homie dailies it. And it's fucking crazy. That it's just.
45:52 Speaker 01 I can imagine like.
45:53 Matt Farah? So happy with himself.
45:54 Speaker 01 Just from, yeah, just from a rain perspective, I'll like.
45:57 Matt Farah? I don't know. He got the seats recovered like two, three years ago.
46:01 Speaker 01 Okay, okay. So he's, he's fixing it up a little bit.
46:04 Matt Farah? Uh, at, at minimum.
46:05 Speaker 01 But my thing is like, all the plastics in there is like the cheap plastics. Like they're so, it's like, you can't find pieces for those like. So they're probably all missing.
46:13 Matt Farah? That's like, uh, dude like.
46:14 Speaker 02 Is it this one? It's sold?
46:15 Matt Farah? No.
46:16 Speaker 02 Okay.
46:16 Matt Farah? That, that looks amazing.
46:18 Speaker 02 It's a three hundred thousand miles too, but.
46:20 Speaker 01 That's a gen two?
46:21 Matt Farah? That's, uh, that, this one is so nice that even with two hundred thousand miles, it's still got forty-five grand.
46:27 Speaker 01 Wow.
46:28 Matt Farah? I bet if that car had fifty thousand miles, it would get forty-five grand.
46:31 Speaker 01 A gen two ACR is like a, I feel like a good buy.
46:34 Matt Farah? Is that an?
46:35 Speaker 01 I don't know how much they're going for, but I feel like.
46:38 Matt Farah? Depends on if you want with the two hundred thousand miles, I think. ACRs are, I don't see those as much.
46:42 Speaker 01 That's what I'm saying.
46:43 Matt Farah? Yeah, I don't see this as much, but fucking Vinny who works for me is obsessed, had a, had a ninety-six. GTS with the, the blue with the white, you know, the Shelby colors for a minute. And he's missed it ever since and doesn't shut the fuck up about it. And so we gotta find him one of these things.
46:57 Speaker 01 That's like the best, like. Gen two, blue with the stripes.
47:01 Matt Farah? We have one in storage at our other store.
47:02 Speaker 01 That's like the, I feel like that's the sweet, I mean, I like my Viper, uh, like obviously biased, but. The gen two is like, they cleaned up a little bit of everything. They have windows, power windows, the door locks are better, like, everything's better.
47:14 Matt Farah? I actually like.
47:17 Matt Farah? The GTS gets all the love, but I like the gen two RT. And I know it's sacrilege, but I like the center rear exhaust.
47:25 Speaker 01 Okay.
47:25 Matt Farah? I think they makes that car sound like a Lambo. Whereas with the side exhaust, you're only really hearing like one and it sounds kinda like a UPS truck. Yeah, which is cool. Like, that's a vibe, but I, but the ones with the rear exit exhaust, I think do sound.
47:41 Speaker 01 Those are the wheels I have a mine.
47:42 Speaker 02 Can I just say, I, I just looked at four different listings of Viper, cause I was like, I must be looking at a weird one, cause. This headlight to hood gap is so big, but all four of them have this same. Eric's like, nope, cross the board.
47:54 Speaker 01 Yeah.
47:55 Speaker 02 Alright, yep, that's just a thing.
47:56 Speaker 01 You better, you better have somebody on the other side when you open the hood up.
47:59 Speaker 02 Yeah.
48:00 Speaker 01 That's a big, heavy hood and I, you know.
48:02 Matt Farah? People crack them, probably.
48:03 Speaker 01 Yeah, you wanna, you wanna.
48:04 Matt Farah? That's like the Ford GT rear bumper gap with the clamshell. They're, they're all fucked. It doesn't exist. Yeah.
48:11 Speaker 01 But yeah, my, I think that the gap changes every single time.
48:15 Speaker 02 Do the headlights stay aligned right or no?
48:17 Speaker 01 It looks good this time.
48:18 Speaker 02 Alright, okay.
48:20 Matt Farah? Wow. That's how they stopped it from rattling. They just moved them further apart.
48:24 Speaker 02 Yeah.
48:26 Speaker 01 Man, the more, the more you drive the Viper, the more you realize they just like threw it together to race. Like, alright, alright, come on.
48:32 Matt Farah? Well, you, I, there's, I remember seeing back in the day, there were, there was a whole forum threads. Cause I had a C5 Corvette too, which was just as fucking rattly as a Viper. Um, there was all these forum threads about people that was taking apart their interiors and like dynamating them to make them stop rattling and like, there is some amount of dynamat that you can add that will stop it from rattling, but it's a lot.
48:56 Speaker 01 I take all the rattles.
48:58 Matt Farah? We did it online in my Corvette, cause the transmission tunnels would get hot as fuck. And so you, you have to line it with dynamat and it would actually help dissipate the heat.
49:07 Speaker 01 Shoot.
49:08 Matt Farah? Yeah.
49:08 Speaker 01 That's smart.
49:09 Matt Farah? Uh, I, I didn't come up with it. I saw it on the internets.
49:12 Speaker 02 You had to take the trans out for that?
49:14 Matt Farah? No, you just had to take the interior apart, the, the, the housing bit. Yeah, yeah. Um, do we have things from the people, from our patrons, our lovely patrons over at patreon.com slash the smoke tire podcast? The greatest website on the entire goddamn planet. That's what I'm saying. Everybody, uh, people probably have football questions. I don't know if you know it or not. I'm not a very big football person. Uh, I love watching a football game if one is presented to me, but I don't follow the sport. Um, that's why I like your car shit. It's really good. I don't care that much about football. But I imagine our fans have some football questions. So I'm gonna try to not sound like an idiot when I read them.
49:53 Matt Farah? Of course, if you wanna ask us questions, if you wanna catch our live stream, if you wanna get the show without ads, if you wanna get the show before everybody else. If you wanna get exclusive access to merchandising and collaborations, patreon.com.
50:07 Matt Farah? The Smoking Tire Podcast. Uh, Matt's Hard Knobra says, uh, which football player has the worst taste in cars? Oh, that's you're just asking to shit on somebody?
50:18 Speaker 01 Yeah, I'm not gonna, I mean, the, uh, there's a ton, first of all, a ton of players, however,
50:25 Speaker 01 I'm gonna say Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins, first of all, has great taste in cars.
50:29 Matt Farah? Okay.
50:29 Speaker 01 So, it's kind of like a, whatever, but if I was him, I would have so many cars.
50:37 Matt Farah? Because he has too few really expensive cars?
50:39 Speaker 01 No.
50:40 Matt Farah? Or what?
50:40 Speaker 01 He just doesn't like, he doesn't spend money on cars, but he loves them though. He loves them for what they are and he knows like, you know, Mopar, he knows like, he, he knows a lot about a lot and he has great taste in cars, but he refuses to buy them.
50:51 Matt Farah? Oh, that's a sin. That is a sin.
50:54 Speaker 01 And I'm like.
50:55 Matt Farah? You owe it to us to buy cars.
50:56 Speaker 01 Buy it all. Buy them all. You know, but that's.
50:58 Matt Farah? But is there, like, have you seen, like, the Mansori stuff?
51:01 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen some Mansori stuff. I've seen, you know, the Brabus and stuff like that, which I've been, some, you know, the Brabus GW.
51:07 Matt Farah? The Brabus is alright.
51:07 Speaker 01 They're hard, yeah.
51:08 Matt Farah? I don't know about the GW.
51:09 Speaker 01 But, I mean, uh.
51:10 Speaker 02 Cause I also don't follow football. So Kirk got a hundred and eighty million dollar deal from the Falcons. And so he likes cars and you're like, dude, you can afford cars.
51:16 Speaker 01 Hopefully he has some now.
51:18 Matt Farah? Some left.
51:18 Speaker 01 But I remember, I remember, we, I remember we went to go to this guy's collection and, and he had a, like a Gen two Viper, the blue one we're talking about, and it was something reasonable, sixty, super low miles. I'm like, but you're never gonna lose on this. And he was just like, can't do it.
51:30 Speaker 02 Okay. He loves his Astro van, you know?
51:33 Matt Farah? What? Is it Astro van?
51:35 Speaker 02 I think he has, is an Astro.
51:36 Speaker 01 I mean, he, yeah.
51:36 Matt Farah? That's a conversion van? Yeah.
51:38 Speaker 01 No, he, he, he had a 4Runner, we both have 4Runners in Minnesota. I mean, love that guy.
51:44 Speaker 02 Alright.
51:44 Speaker 01 But I'm like, man, buy some more.
51:47 Matt Farah? Do you know, do any, any, any of the fucking boys have like six Sprinters that they get driven around in?
51:52 Speaker 01 For sure, for sure. I mean, my, my thing is the, like, is if you, there's cars that people want and they just check off the list and it's like, who am I to tell someone who's worked hard, you know?
52:04 Matt Farah? Oh, no.
52:04 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, who's worked hard and they want, and they, and if you want a Maybach, cool, get it. But like, for me, I'm like, looking at the numbers and I'm like, the amount that you lose on the Maybach, you could just like.
52:13 Matt Farah? Do you ever get press cars? Or like you do? Oh, so you get to roll, do you roll up in press cars?
52:18 Speaker 01 Yeah.
52:19 Matt Farah? See, that's, then people are like, what are you doing over here?
52:22 Speaker 01 So I, I, I gotta, I gotta drive a lot of flavors, you know, it's, it's, it's been awesome.
52:25 Matt Farah? Doesn't that help you not spend stupid money?
52:28 Speaker 01 Hundred percent.
52:28 Matt Farah? Totally does, right?
52:29 Speaker 01 I gotta drive this for a week, I gotta drive this for the week, I mean, I get to taste, you know, what's cool and what's not, but...
52:34 Speaker 02 Are there cars you've had as press cars where you get out and you go, yeah, I wouldn't buy that, uh, you know, I thought I might like it, but I don't? And then are there cars where you've gotten out, had to return it and you go, ooh, should I go to the dealership?
52:44 Speaker 01 To be, like, so the car that made me feel like that, like, it was an Aston Martin DBX.
52:49 Matt Farah? Oh, interesting.
52:51 Speaker 01 For some reason, I just didn't, I didn't think anything of it getting it, I'm like, cool, I gotta drive this, this, this fast SUV, you know, it's gonna be fun. And then I started driving it and I'm like, oh, like, this has a kind of a feel to it.
53:01 Matt Farah? Was it a 707?
53:02 Speaker 01 I have no idea.
53:03 Matt Farah? Probably.
53:04 Speaker 01 It was a sweet color, had sweet wheels, I'm like, I'm like, okay, like, if someone buys one of these on a used market, I'm like, I'm like...
53:11 Matt Farah? A DBX 707 is exceptionally good, and they're, uh, they, they're, they're gonna be the first...
53:16 Speaker 01 No, it wasn't the 707, that's the one with the spoiler and everything added on top, yeah.
53:19 Matt Farah? If you like the regular one, you should give Aston a buzz and do the 707, they're awesome.
53:25 Speaker 01 But yeah.
53:25 Matt Farah? They, they're the first car that's gonna do this, uh, the full CarPlay integration.
53:29 Speaker 01 Yeah.
53:30 Matt Farah? Like where it's your whole shit, your gauges and everything become CarPlay, yeah.
53:34 Speaker 01 Another car was the Acura NSX.
53:36 Matt Farah? Hmm.
53:37 Speaker 01 The new ones, I love those too.
53:39 Speaker 02 Yep.
53:39 Speaker 01 It was a good car, I mean, like, I, I had one, I had thought about it one way in my head and I got it and I'm like, wow, this hybrid is actually, it's kinda nice.
53:46 Matt Farah? Yeah.
53:47 Speaker 01 And it's, and they're fast.
53:48 Speaker 02 Super fast.
53:48 Speaker 01 It's comfortable, it's performed well, it got looks on the road.
53:51 Matt Farah? They ca, they caught a bad rap for some reason, but they're...
53:54 Speaker 01 Yeah.
53:54 Matt Farah? Yeah. Uh, Matt loves Pearl Jam, that's, that's an accurate statement. Who's the hardest player to tackle?
54:02 Speaker 01 I feel like, um...
54:05 Speaker 01 There's a toss up. I mean, obviously you have like Lamar Jackson, who's like, he's like a running back that's quarterback. So he is like very shifty. He just avoids getting hit hard. And it makes no sense because sometimes you feel like you have him dead to rights and he just kind of squirms out of it and gets like four more yards. And then Saquon Barkley is obviously one of the top running backs in the league and he's pretty hard to tackle. I would say he's, you know, he's got all the attributes as far as running backs concerned that you you'd want, you know, strength, you know, contact balance. He's shifty, he's fast. Um, but my underrated hardest person to tackle, and this is like physically like one on one, head, head to head, was Chris Carson from the Seahawks. He was a running back for the Seahawks and um,
54:51 Speaker 01 he, I would watch film and he would just like, if someone's about to tackle him, he would just like,
54:58 Speaker 01 like punish them.
54:59 Matt Farah? He just knew how to like turn himself into stone.
55:02 Speaker 01 He's getting tackled and he's like not, no, sometimes there are no gains, but like whoever's tackling him is going to feel all of that.
55:07 Matt Farah? It's going to hurt for trying.
55:09 Speaker 01 For that like, so I'm like, I respect the, because it's like, that was his game. And it's like, that's hard to do down to down.
55:14 Matt Farah? Make yourself painful is a fucking hard, yeah, all right, cool. Wow. Uh, Laguna Seca Genesis, that's a fucking good one. All right. Uh, what's a car, Eric, uh, that's on your list? Haven't had it yet, looking at it?
55:30 Speaker 01 The two cars that I've been looking at the most is probably, uh,
55:36 Speaker 01 I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go like expensive ones. I would say four GT, like a 06, 05.
55:41 Matt Farah? Yes.
55:42 Speaker 01 And then, um, I would say, uh, Ferrari, I'm gonna give three, Ferrari, um, 458 Special A.
55:51 Matt Farah? Okay.
55:52 Speaker 01 And then I would say, um,
55:56 Speaker 01 The Carrera GT has been.
55:58 Matt Farah? Yeah.
56:00 Speaker 02 You need.
56:00 Speaker 01 Those are like my, like, those are like my, you know, those are my.
56:03 Matt Farah? When you go up from where you're at, it's 4GT and then Carrera GT.
56:07 Speaker 01 I'm like right here right now, you know, so it's like, that's next.
56:09 Matt Farah? You add a zero and then two zeros.
56:12 Speaker 02 But you need a, you don't have a mid-engine car, right? You need that.
56:15 Speaker 01 I don't.
56:16 Speaker 02 So that's the problem. You have to replace, you gotta get one in there.
56:18 Speaker 01 And you can, you can see it. It's like turning. That's the only thing that's kind of missing.
56:21 Speaker 02 Those are all pretty different, though.
56:23 Speaker 01 They are different. They are different and.
56:25 Speaker 02 They deliver different flavors.
56:25 Speaker 01 I've driven one of those. I've driven the 458, but I haven't driven the 4GT and I haven't driven the Carrera.
56:33 Matt Farah? 4GTs are very special.
56:35 Speaker 01 I heard.
56:35 Matt Farah? As are Carrera GTs, but they're different.
56:37 Speaker 01 Way different.
56:38 Matt Farah? 4GTs are smooth, really smooth.
56:41 Speaker 01 Really?
56:41 Matt Farah? Like eerily smooth, yeah. And Carrera GTs are like, very like sharp and, and like on your fingertips. They're both really nice.
56:52 Matt Farah? You know, you drive and you go, I understand why these are very expensive.
56:55 Speaker 01 If anyone wants to let me drive one, you gotta, you wanna, wanna lend me one?
56:57 Matt Farah? Sure.
56:57 Speaker 01 I'm open, I'm open for.
56:59 Matt Farah? Somebody could help you find one.
57:00 Speaker 02 Go, go visit Doug Demiro in San Diego.
57:01 Matt Farah? Yeah. Um, yeah, Doug is, Doug has the extra two zeros.
57:08 Matt Farah? Uh, regular cat reviews. Do any of the bigger NFL players have to do Shaq-style seat mods to fit in their car?
57:14 Speaker 01 Yes.
57:15 Matt Farah? Yeah?
57:15 Speaker 01 Absolutely. I mean, the ones who.
57:17 Matt Farah? Is there a guy, a go-to, that's the modder of the seat rails?
57:20 Speaker 01 No, I, I would say that the guys who I know, I mean, most guys would just, to be honest, they would just buy the car that they fit in. But the guys who, that I know who are enthusiasts, who are, who are on the bigger side, they get the seat rails for sure. And they, and they're enthusiasts, so they know guys who are like, they can trust and everything.
57:38 Matt Farah? It would be funny if there's like one dude.
57:40 Speaker 02 Yeah, Johnny Legg.
57:40 Matt Farah? In the NFL, that's like, everyone knows, oh, you gotta call, uh.
57:44 Speaker 01 I know like three people in the NFL who have 34s and I know for a fact one of them has seat mods in them. And I, and I thought about doing it, cause I mean.
57:52 Matt Farah? 34 is the longest wheelbase one, right? If you actually wanted legroom, that's the one you'd want.
57:57 Speaker 01 It's, it, it works well with seat, with, with the, like, you can't even tell. I mean, they can, they can just fit in a good, but like, I fit in that, like, NSX, the old NSXs, I don't really fit them in as well. But the, the GT-R, I sat in that and I was like, okay, I fit great in this, so, I mean.
58:12 Matt Farah? GT-Rs are easy.
58:13 Speaker 01 Yeah, I don't need to, I don't need to put seat rails in mine, but I feel like.
58:16 Matt Farah? Shaq, this, the Shaq shit was crazy.
58:18 Speaker 01 Yeah, his are like, he's like in the, he's like in the, he's looking out the rear, like, you know.
58:22 Speaker 02 Yeah, where they stretch the whole car.
58:24 Matt Farah? Remember the Gallardo, they did the 04 Gallardo, stretched like 18 inches. The door was like the size of his table, so funny.
58:32 Speaker 01 Just to get a Gallardo.
58:33 Matt Farah? I, yeah, right? In hindsight, remember them people did wide bodies on Hellcats?
58:39 Speaker 01 Gallardo, Gallardo Superleggera?
58:41 Matt Farah? Yeah, they were nice.
58:43 Speaker 01 I like those.
58:44 Speaker 02 Yeah.
58:44 Speaker 01 I like those better than Huracans.
58:46 Matt Farah? Uh, there's an argument, if you've driven a stick one.
58:49 Speaker 01 Mm-mm.
58:49 Matt Farah? Yeah.
58:50 Speaker 01 I haven't driven one, haven't driven.
58:51 Matt Farah? You, a stick Gallardo is a nice thing, yeah. R8's too, kinda the same. Uh, Unpimp Your Auto says, what car buying advice would you give young players who just got money for the first time?
59:02 Speaker 01 This is crazy, cause I actually just talked about this yesterday. I, the, the first thing I would do was like, if you're finding, if you're going for a car that you wanna purchase, the, the least thing you should do is just go on the internet and try to find five versions of the cheapest version of the car that you can find. Before you go to the dealership that's close to you or whatever, like, find five cars and they could be cheap, the cheapest ones you could find, just so you know what the market is on them at their lowest.
59:30 Matt Farah? Uh-huh.
59:31 Speaker 01 And just so when you go into the dealership, you're not like blindsided by a 20K plus charge because they know you're in the NFL and you just think, oh, that's just what it costs.
59:40 Matt Farah? Yeah.
59:40 Speaker 01 Know, like, figure out how much this car really costs, especially if you're buying a used one. You know, you can search all that stuff, so, I mean.
59:48 Matt Farah? Yeah, I bet people.
59:49 Speaker 01 But buy used, though.
59:50 Matt Farah? Can take advantage of.
59:51 Speaker 02 Yeah.
59:52 Matt Farah? Uh, Mini Finny says, uh, most common car found in an NFL parking lot?
59:57 Speaker 01 Like, most common, like?
59:58 Matt Farah? Player car, I think, is the question.
1:00:00 Speaker 01 Like a, like a, I would say like.
1:00:05 Speaker 01 I would say like a G-Wagon or a Urus.
1:00:06 Matt Farah? It's got.
1:00:07 Speaker 01 Bigger guys.
1:00:08 Matt Farah? Big SUVs.
1:00:09 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:00:09 Matt Farah? G-Wagons are interesting.
1:00:10 Speaker 01 Or like Raptors.
1:00:11 Matt Farah? Not great for like tall people.
1:00:13 Speaker 01 They're not.
1:00:13 Matt Farah? No.
1:00:14 Speaker 01 But but I would say like Raptor, Raptor, Raptor Rs, Raptors have been really popular.
1:00:18 Matt Farah? Sure.
1:00:18 Speaker 01 Uh, the, the, the Rams, what are the TRX?
1:00:21 Matt Farah? TRXs.
1:00:21 Speaker 01 Yeah, those are really popular.
1:00:23 Matt Farah? Oh, you're playing in Dallas.
1:00:24 Speaker 01 Yeah. TR, yeah, so like TR, TRX, Ram, Escalades. The Escalade Vs though, I've seen a couple of those this past year.
1:00:34 Matt Farah? See, I'm, I'm a hater, I'm an Escalade V hater. I think it's dumb.
1:00:38 Speaker 01 They sound so good.
1:00:39 Matt Farah? They do, but if you put that exhaust on the regular one, it sounds just like that. It's not the engine, it's just that exhaust. And in practical terms, really, a 450 horsepower Escalade versus a 700 horsepower Escalade, what is the difference?
1:00:56 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:00:56 Matt Farah? How often are you in an Escalade? On the floorboard? If Garrett is out there, he's probably mad at me, because I was in Garrett, you know Garrett? You know that dude? Um, he's the American muscle, uh, HD influencer, he's from the South. Uh, he's like, uh.
1:01:14 Speaker 01 I saw him, I've probably seen him.
1:01:15 Matt Farah? Yeah, he's like a black dude with like braids and he does all like crazy builds and stuff. Shout out to him, we love Garrett. But he has a fucking built Escalade with like 800 horsepower. And he took me for a ride, dude, and I was like, this is the stupidest car in the world, but he loves it, so.
1:01:31 Speaker 01 And they're so big too.
1:01:32 Matt Farah? Yeah.
1:01:32 Speaker 01 Escalades are huge.
1:01:33 Matt Farah? Huge. I don't, I don't like huge cars anymore.
1:01:35 Speaker 01 I don't, I mean.
1:01:36 Matt Farah? I like little cars now.
1:01:37 Speaker 01 4Runner, like, that's the biggest I would go.
1:01:39 Matt Farah? No, like, I'm not saying everyone has to drive like a tiny little econo box, but like, let's keep it in the fucking zone.
1:01:44 Speaker 01 Yeah. Lexus GX?
1:01:47 Matt Farah? Yeah.
1:01:47 Speaker 01 That's like, that's perfect.
1:01:48 Matt Farah? Yeah, like.
1:01:48 Speaker 01 That's the biggest I'll go.
1:01:49 Matt Farah? If you pull straight into a parking spot at the fucking grocery store, the cars on either side of you both need to be able to open their doors pretty comfortably. Like, that's, that's not too much to ask, right? I was just driving that Alpine today and it was the right size. We can talk about that later.
1:02:07 Matt Farah? Uh, Nice Cam says, do you or any other NFL players consistently go to the track?
1:02:12 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:02:12 Matt Farah? To race?
1:02:13 Speaker 01 So, my, my buddy Daniel Hunter, he, he, he lives in Texas. I mean, it's harder out in California, I would say. I try to go to the track, especially when I'm not driving my own car.
1:02:22 Matt Farah? Peckler.
1:02:24 Speaker 01 But, uh.
1:02:25 Matt Farah? Shout out to Peckler.
1:02:27 Speaker 01 Yeah, a bunch of people do. I feel like, uh, I feel like more guys will go to the track.
1:02:32 Speaker 01 Even if it's, you know, one of the ones you go to the Vegas and you rent it out.
1:02:35 Matt Farah? Yeah.
1:02:35 Speaker 01 More guys would do that, you know, even if they're not a car enthusiast in the league because guys like to be competitive and and test themselves and we're adrenaline junkies. So yeah, for sure. Guys go to the track. I've I I would say that some go like my buddy Daniel goes all the time, Daniel Hunter, big car guy.
1:02:50 Matt Farah? That's cool. Dustin says, what was your childhood poster car?
1:02:55 Speaker 01 Actually, the Viper.
1:02:56 Matt Farah? The Viper?
1:02:56 Speaker 01 I had the Viper with the three colors on it with the stripes going down.
1:02:59 Matt Farah? Oh, I remember that one.
1:03:00 Speaker 01 So I actually had the Viper as a poster card with, uh, and I had an Allen Iverson poster right next to it. And in in a quick little story about me and my brother who also played in the NFL, one time he jumped on my back and I rammed him through the wall, the drywall. Cause I was mad he's on my back.
1:03:16 Matt Farah? Wow.
1:03:17 Speaker 01 And we and we took the the Allen Iverson poster and we moved it over the hole and my mom walked in and she said, what'd you guys do right here? She, like, we tried to hide it, you know? So funny thing about posters, I had to give a shout to my brother.
1:03:30 Matt Farah? I was I was in I went to I was in college in Philly during Allen Iverson time and it was fucking crazy down there, Allen Iverson. He was fucking man, Philly at the time. Couldn't couldn't fucking tell him nothing. Um, throw some D's on it says, oh, if you weren't in the NFL, would you consider being part of a NASCAR pit crew as college football players transition well into those competitive roles?
1:03:52 Speaker 01 No, absolutely. And I think we we saw that, we seen that video go viral like recently.
1:03:56 Matt Farah? Yeah. Yeah.
1:03:58 Speaker 01 I mean, it's it's competitive, you know, you're on a time. It's like you're competing with yourself as well. I think that would be super fun, be around motorsports, not really, you know, behind the wheel. Um, you still part of a team. I think that's a good way for, I feel like football players, like we transition, it's so tough for us to transition from football life to like after football life.
1:04:16 Matt Farah? Yeah.
1:04:17 Speaker 01 Because we lose the team aspect. You can't go play pickup football anywhere, you know what I mean? Any other sport, any other sport, you could really like, you can go to the batting cages, you can go, you know, you can go play pickup basketball, you can play hockey.
1:04:28 Matt Farah? Crazy.
1:04:29 Speaker 01 Football is like one of those things where it's like, when you're done, you're done. So a lot of guys struggle. So I think this is a good way for guys to transition, still be part of something like team oriented, physical. Um, I think it's awesome. I think it would be.
1:04:41 Speaker 02 I was talking to Bozy about it.
1:04:43 Matt Farah? Our buddy Bozy's on a pit crew and is very much enjoys it.
1:04:46 Speaker 01 Yeah, I think it would be cool to try.
1:04:47 Speaker 02 A friend or a friend was inquiring about it and I called Bozy and said, what's the process of getting in there? And he's like, at the top teams, a lot of the people that do go over the wall are former college athletes or pro athletes. And I had no idea.
1:05:00 Speaker 01 Oh yeah, it's pro sport.
1:05:01 Speaker 02 And he's like, here's why, like, one, you gotta move fast, you gotta carry these heavy things, but also they're disciplined, they're trained up, they're already athletic.
1:05:08 Speaker 01 And if someone's telling you you're doing it wrong, you gotta be able to fix it.
1:05:11 Speaker 02 You'll fix it quick and you do it right. Yeah.
1:05:14 Speaker 01 High pressure.
1:05:14 Speaker 02 I didn't expect that at all, yeah.
1:05:16 Matt Farah? That'd be a good career. And you do the travel thing.
1:05:20 Speaker 01 How much are they getting paid?
1:05:21 Speaker 02 At the top, top teams, they're making six figures, but it's what he said, like, top NASCAR teams, like, salaried six figures, but it's not crazy money. And then as you go down the, you know, the pole of pit crew stuff, like, some of them are contractors, some of them are salaried, you know, but also doing other things. It depends on how much value you can bring to the team besides just, like, carrying a tire, you know, maybe you're an engineer, maybe you can fix the car, stuff like that.
1:05:46 Matt Farah? Make a really good bacon, egg, and cheese.
1:05:48 Speaker 02 Do that, you know, marketing.
1:05:50 Matt Farah? That's what I do, so.
1:05:52 Speaker 02 I know that viral video, that guy you're talking about, he's reading, like, he speaks like four languages and is reading all these amazing books.
1:05:58 Speaker 01 That's so cool.
1:05:59 Speaker 02 And then goes, moves so fast with the jack that I have to drag, and I'm like, clack, clack, and he just runs around the car, it's so amazing.
1:06:06 Speaker 01 Yeah, no, that was cool.
1:06:08 Matt Farah? Ted Stryker says, what would be the biggest car buying mistake you've made and a lesson you learned from that? Do you have a big mistake?
1:06:15 Speaker 01 Um, I actually don't have too big of mistakes. My second car was a RS7 that I sold for a trade-in value on a Porsche, so like, I got a significant, yeah.
1:06:26 Matt Farah? That sounds okay.
1:06:27 Speaker 01 That was like, I mean, that was the most money I had lost on a car, essentially, but...
1:06:31 Matt Farah? Like, just buying a new car and taking regular depreciation on it?
1:06:34 Speaker 01 Exactly. I bought it used, though, I took regular depreciation on it, drove it a ton, so I think that was...
1:06:40 Matt Farah? That was a mistake, that's life.
1:06:41 Speaker 01 But I think that the biggest thing that I did on my first car was when I was buying it... The guy who was helping me buy it, shout out to Mike, uh, Mike Lastovich, he was telling me, just get like the top of the line version. Like, you know, you're gonna, you know, just like get the top of the line version. You're in Minnesota. You have a little bit of money now. And I was like, no, I'm gonna go the cheap route. And then I ended up modifying everything to where I had got all the things that I could have just got from the factory. So I think that was like my biggest mistake was like, you know, if it, if it makes sense, it makes sense, but.
1:07:14 Matt Farah? A lot of people learned that like with Hondas in high school and you learned it with like Audis and big money. But yeah. No, it's, yeah, but just if you, if you know you're gonna wanna go fast, figure out how to get the fast one from the factory. And then if you need to go further, okay, but yeah, buy this, buying the small one and trying to make it the big one.
1:07:32 Speaker 01 Yeah, that's that. I was like, I learned, I learned right away.
1:07:35 Matt Farah? That's a good lesson. That's life lesson. I love it. Uh, follow Eric's Instagram. It's like 80% car shit. Uh, with some football sprinkled in there. And, uh, dude, thank you for joining us. I imagine we'll, uh, we'll see you up on the mountain, right? You're up there pretty regularly.
1:07:52 Speaker 01 I'm at, I'm at car shows. I'm just, I see, that's where I meet everybody. I see everybody there. I'll be around.
1:07:57 Matt Farah? Good. It's, I'm glad, I'm glad you had time out in person.
1:07:59 Speaker 02 Yeah. Now we know you have like six cool cars.
1:08:02 Matt Farah? Yeah, you have, you have excellent taste.
1:08:04 Speaker 01 I don't think I'm taking the CRX up to Angels Crest anytime soon.
1:08:07 Speaker 02 Oh, it'd be so fun. Why?
1:08:08 Matt Farah? Fun. Be fun. Just make sure you have good brake pads and fluid.
1:08:11 Speaker 02 You fuck up the power to weight a bit.
1:08:12 Speaker 01 So actually, actually, I need like, it has R12 AC.
1:08:17 Matt Farah? Uh-oh.
1:08:18 Speaker 01 Yeah, it has no AC.
1:08:20 Matt Farah? You're gonna have to convert it, but it's pretty easy to convert. I have a person for that.
1:08:25 Speaker 01 Okay.
1:08:26 Matt Farah? I do. I tried to convert, I have a, my wife has a Mitsubishi Delica, the J, the JDM van. And the R12 died. Converting it is, according to the Delica forums, like a nightmare. Where almost the entire engine has to come out of the car to convert the AC.
1:08:43 Speaker 01 I don't want that.
1:08:44 Matt Farah? Yeah. No, no, in, in a CR, in an old Honda, it's much, much easier. In, in this car, it's like, oh, I guess it doesn't have air conditioning anymore. Like, sorry.
1:08:51 Speaker 02 What tires are on the CRX?
1:08:53 Speaker 01 It's got some hand cooks.
1:08:54 Speaker 02 Yeah. Oh, it'd be fun.
1:08:55 Matt Farah? Yeah.
1:08:55 Speaker 02 It's a mountain drive.
1:08:56 Speaker 01 No, and actually like, I might drive it up there, but I can't take, take anybody to passenger seat.
1:09:01 Speaker 02 You gotta build up speed on the flat, right? Build up speed in the valley and then just keep going. Don't lift off the throttle.
1:09:06 Speaker 01 The car rips, man. It's, they're fast. They're, they're, I mean, here we go talking about cars. We're trying to wrap up, but at, at the same time.
1:09:14 Speaker 01 The car is faster than I thought it was when I, you know, it's fun, it's engaging, but when I put my buddy Kenneth Murray in the passenger seat, when we were going uphill, I was like, oh, I feel, I feel, I feel the slowness now.
1:09:24 Matt Farah? Dude, so I was driving that Alpine this morning, this, this thing is from Europe and we're gonna do video about this car, but it's 2,400 pounds. And look, I'm, I weigh what I weigh, but like, I don't know how to drive a car without my own weight in it, so, so I'm driving, ripping this fucking thing, and our friend Thaddeus goes, you have to take me for a ride. I said, okay. Thaddeus weighs probably 30 pounds more than I do. And so he's in the passenger seat, so we're going, and he's like, man, this car feels great. And I didn't want to say like, you should feel it without you.
1:09:55 Speaker 01 Yeah, I mean, it's not, it's not feeling the same for me right now.
1:09:59 Speaker 02 He's probably, he's driving his Vegas, listening right now.
1:10:02 Speaker 01 I was excited to take my friend to show him how fast the CRX was, like, bro, watch how fast it is. And then I'm like, we're kind of, I'm like, we're kind of putting around right now, dang.
1:10:09 Matt Farah? Yo, you think this is great? You should try it without you.
1:10:15 Matt Farah? Yeah, no, a CRX is, it'd be mobbing up there, it'd be a good time. I saw, I, I talked to a lovely woman up there this morning named Sarah, who was driving a Mercedes 240D four-speed up the fucking hill, which is like chugga chugga, chitty chitty bang bang shit. I was like, have you ever timed yourself? She's like, it's about 45 minutes. I was like, I think it might be long.
1:10:40 Speaker 01 I was, I, I, at first I was driving the Porsche up there all the time. I would go all the time with the Porsche, I still do, but the first time I drove the Mustang, I'm like, how much time am I spending up here? Like, this is like double the time.
1:10:52 Matt Farah? Yeah, but it's fun. It is a good time. I do like driving old cars up there, man. Thank you for joining us. This was great. Thank you to our patrons for asking such good questions. We appreciate y'all. Patreon.com slash the smoke and tire podcast. If you really didn't like the ads you heard during the show and you never want to hear them again, there's your out. That's how we do it over here. We'll be back with more smoke and tire podcast next week. Thank you. Goodbye.
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