Revving Up: From Classic Cars to Cutting-Edge Tools

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Favorite auto show, Let's Talk Wheels. I'm Mike Pershing, and every week we're going to give you automotive news, car interviews, car reviews, and classic car information from our co-host, Jeremy Bierenbaum, who is based right there in sweltering Southern California. How you doing, buddy?

Oh man, we are melting out here. I'm glad we shared some of those tips about, you know, tires and what to do with your car last week in hot weather, because I'm putting them to practice us this week that's for sure it does sound that way it really does but uh you know we've had the hurricane here and we've got through that of course they always say oh it's never it's not heading toward you know gulf coast sure enough it it goes straight away from

mexico and says we're not going to bother their margaritas we're just going to take a right turn and end up right here and go right to houston so yeah we got a lot of trees down a lot of we lost power for a while we We lost the internet. We lost all kinds of stuff that you appreciate. And then I appreciate my whole house generator that I spend a lot of money on. And it is so handy to have. I tell you what, it's really kind of cool. But I hope it cools off for you there soon.

And we got a lot of interesting stuff this week. We're going to talk about tools. How are you going to use them? Where and when to get them? And when you have to get some really good quality stuff. And when you can go to Harbor Freight. You know what I mean? and Northern Tool. And there's just so many places to buy tools. And some of them are not really a good investment. Some of them are.

So, yeah, you know, if you're trying to be cost conscious, you know, because you could spend a good deal of money just on one drawer of your toolbox, let alone filling up a whole toolbox. But, you know, there's some tips and tricks we can give as to, you know, where to look and where to buy some of the better tools.

Yes, but man, so that's interesting. interesting and also talk to sean winn from pens penswell quaker state on the interview segment this week he's going to give us some tips about oil and the difference between synthetic and synthetic blend and who needs what and and that's it's interesting he's he's really a sharp guy i'm gonna head out to their lab this next week and and so we'll have a we'll see him again i'll i'm gonna do a couple of interviews and maybe a couple videos so we'll have that.

You know online be kind of fun so um that's kind of before we get ahead of ourselves let's get started with the news and notes segment talk about a new f-150 with lots of horsepower who's who's putting that thing out now now this is a shelby so uh you you can't really buy it from the dealership but some dealerships have them some dealerships are authorized shelby you know builders or whatever they want to call it. But 785 horsepower in a 2024 Shelby Ford F-150 sports truck.

It's a really interesting car. I always looked at it like, why would someone get this over the Raptor? But I talked to my neighbor who has one. He said the biggest reason he got it is it still has a V8 versus the twin turbo six-cylinder that the Raptor has.

And he really enjoys it i think they're pretty bad bad butt cars if you ask me yeah i know price wise price wise you know they're not they're not easy on your wallet i think they're starting around 139 000 and then you can you can do different stages or levels on these i've read yeah and and that's going to be you know with the supercharger and everything makes 139 95 is their starting price but man 785 horsepower is nice and you know that ford five liter coyote v8

is just a really nice engine starts with 400 horsepower and it really is neat i know that i know that the raptor brought back the big v8 for some of the models but the raptor are yeah are like a pirate are you know what those this thing is cool in in i'll tell you why you can get it in multiple different variants You can do it four-wheel drive, three-inch lift. You can do four-wheel drive lowered car. You can do a two-door lowered two-wheel drive.

So there's a lot of different options here. I'm always rolling my eyes at all these guys getting 700, 800 horsepower in a lifted truck. It doesn't seem very usable off-road. Yeah, no kidding. It's more like a Baja-style thing. But a two-wheel drive, two-door, that's where you got me. That's where I would be spending my money. Talk about a fun street truck. Man, that'd be really fun. Also, talk about Toyota and the Prius. You know, they redesigned the Prius,

but they only sold 13 of them in June. And that's kind of odd. You know, but for the first three months, their sales are up 138%. And that's kind of cool. But, you know, the car actually looks like a real car now. You know, it's kind of like it's a real boy. You know, it's like, but in this, so it's really neat. But they had a problem with them, right? Yeah, the numbers are a little bit misleading. There was a recall and a stop sale on these new Priuses for a door that was

opening. And because of the stop sale. No new production cars have gotten to the States yet. And that's the reason why they only sold 13. They're talking about getting them back to the U.S. later this month and into early August is when they should hit showroom floors. Yeah, it had something to do with the automatic door locks causing them to automatically unlock as you're driving down the road. But the June sales were down 99.5%.

That's rough. But they're still up for the whole year because it's so much nicer looking car. It doesn't look goofy. It drives really well. I mean, I would consider buying one. I would not be one of the people that drove it really slow. I think of it that here you got a car that'll go get 50 miles a gallon if you drive it like a grandma. But wait a minute, you ought to be able to get 45 if you drive it like a normal person. But you might even be able to get 40 if you drive it like you or me.

So I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. I'll live with 40. You know, I drove a Prius and I was like, man, this isn't bad. If I took the name Prius off of there, it would be okay. If I went ahead and peel off the word Prius off of it. I don't think. Yeah, I don't even think it's that bad. I do. I think it's a good looking car. You can't be embarrassed. You just got to wear it and drive what you own proudly.

Yeah, but. It's a great around town car. And if you have the conscious mind that, you know, you're trying to save gas. This is, this is honestly one of the best cars you can, you can get. Yeah. We'll go. You stick with that, you know? Okay. We'll go with that. But, but if they're just so embarrassing, but either way, but it's not that it's not the cars, it's the owners. They have to get in the fast. There you go. There you go. It doesn't matter

what they drive. They're going to still drive the same way. Yeah. They'll, if they sell, they'll probably sell the Prius and go buy a Honda minivan and they do the same thing. Cause Honda minivans are my other, you know, you know, And just the thing that happens to me, they get in the fast lane and they plop their butt in the fast lane and they go below the speed limit. And it makes me crazy. Yeah, as long as they don't go and sell their Prius and get a new Toyota Tundra. Yes.

Yeah, that's the next story. Toyota is having major problems with these cars. This is specifically on the non-iForce Max ones. So far. So far. Same engine, same block, except one is a hybrid powertrain and the other is not. What's happening is there's some debris that's in the engine from, you know, the machining process. And I guess it wasn't cleaned out properly. And it's causing these cars to fail at a large rate.

I think at this point, just for the 22 and 23 models, they already have 100,000 plus cars that have blown their motors. Yeah, and the problem there is that Toyota has not figured out. What to do, whether they want to just put any motor in it, whether they want to put bearings in it, in a crankshaft, whether they, what they want to do. And they're kind of like, so there's not a, there's a recall, but there's not a cure for the recall.

I bet it's, it's all going to be vehicle specific because one might need bearings in a crank and the other might've gotten debris, you know, up in the top end. Yeah. But so what happens is, dealers are not taking these things in trade. I talked to an owner that could not take one in He tried to get rid of his truck, and it was because he needed something else, and they wouldn't take it in trade. I could understand. Because of the law saying that they've got to repair it.

There's an open recall on a vehicle. They've got to repair it before they can sell it. Yeah, totally. I understand. But there's no fix for it. No, I understand from the dealer standpoint what's going on. I understand if you went to Chevy, but I think Toyota should really be taking these on. They really should. They should really kind of work on this. So that's something that we need to talk about on these recalls. So that's something we're going to mention, because if there's no fix yet,

then you go to trade it in, and they can't sell it. So they don't want to hold on to it. So they're not going to take it in trade. So either way, interesting theory there. We've got a car review coming up, the 2024 Hyundai Kona, and we've got some car questions coming up. So hang on for more Let's Talk Wheels. Music.

Okay, this is our car review segment. And this week I was driving the 2024 Hyundai Kona. And this is a compact CUV and or could be a subcompact. Actually, it's more like a subcompact CUV or some people will call it an SUV. It kind of like competes with the if you haven't seen the Kona. They're really space age looking, man. It really kind of looks cool. Looks like RoboCop's helmet. You know, the front of it does.

It kind of competes with the Chevy Trax, Volkswagen Taos, Kia Niro would be the cousin of it, Mazda CX-30, maybe Honda HHR or something like that. So it's, you know, compact, CUV, SUV. I think it's more of a CUV because it's really more, it's not really off-roadish at all. It doesn't have any skid plates or anything. They make an all-electric version of it, by the way. It's a really good-looking car, great road manners. It's kind of fun to drive. And the new look is really cool.

Mine, I had, it was kind of like a lime yellow, kind of a lime greenish, yellowish kind of thing. And they have two engines on it. Basically, they make four trim levels. The SE, which is basically starts a little over $25,000. The SEL, the N-Line, which is the hot rod. And then they make the Limited, which is what I had, which is an all-wheel drive and a whole bit with a bigger engine. The inline and the limited come with a 2-liter with 190 horsepower.

The SE and the SEL come with a 2-liter with 147 horsepower. This year, they've added, so they've gone from a seven-speed direct dual-clutch transmission to an eight-speed, so it performs a little bit better. But it's a great little car loaded with all kinds of technology. You know, Hyundai and Kia and even in genesis they load their vehicles up even the bottom.

Levels with technology and that's one of the things that you'll got to appreciate about these folks because it's it runs good enough and the fuel economy is is good like i said if you're going to buy something like this buy all-wheel drive because that way you can drive it anywhere you run on wet roads and slippery roads and things like that and it's kind of nice if you ever want to go some areas where it's icy and snow it's kind of nice it's all-wheel drive is always the way to Unless

you're really trying to save some money or you say, hey, you know, I can't even think of a time when you wouldn't want it because, you know, it rains everywhere, right? Yeah. You know, it's worth it. I know. Actually, the 190 horsepower model is a 1.6 liter. I'm sorry about that. But it goes pretty good. It's not a rocket ship, but it feels good and it runs good. And it has all the different – it's got snow mode and mud, dirt and,

you know, off-road stuff. And it's got a normal mode, and it's got a sport mode, and it's got a track mode. And it's really kind of nice. And it really is. Now, if you've seen a Kona from a couple years ago, it's kind of like Nissan Kicks and things like that. And like all these cars, they get bigger. You know, they keep growing them up. And then after a while, when they get big enough, they just put something down below them. Why don't you leave them the same size?

I don't know. But either way, they feel like every year they've got to make them bigger.

And this one's bigger and it's nice it really is but you know it's fuel economy you get you can get it the all-wheel drive one it's 29 on the highway in 24 city and i think if the regular fuel economy for the two-wheel front-wheel drive one is 29 city and 34 highway you know and you can get it i mean the n version is super neat hot rod i mean it's got these push to pass kind of buttons get an extra horsepower on the dash. And I learned recently that the.

Hyundai stole a lot of M engineers from BMW to work on their stuff. I would imagine, yes. It's only one letter off. Right. From working from an M to an N. But basically, the standard with automatic emergency braking, lane departure warning, lane keeping assist, all that stuff is standard. You can get adaptive cruise control on it, which is what mine had. These things got a 10-year powertrain warranty. It's got a five-year, 60,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty.

It's got complimentary maintenance for the first three years or 36,000 miles. You can't beat the value of this thing. It's got the deals where if you turn on your left turn signal, the left gauge turns into a camera, and you can view the left lane. No, if you're a techie or you geek out on a lot of this new stuff that's in cars, this has got everything. The screen alone is pretty cool. I actually like the way it's done.

It's very big, but it's placed kind of low, and it wraps around the dash, which is nice. It's two 12.3-inch screens, and you can configure the driver's instrument cluster any way you want, all kinds of different ways. But the one, you know, the actual, the infotainment strain on the right, it's 12.3 inches, but it's one big piece of black glass, basically, or plastic. And it really is a nice instrument cluster. It's a neat center stack.

It's got plenty of room for all your cups and all that kind of stuff. And it's just lots of cubby holes. And this thing is very creature, has a lot of creature comforts. And it's a comfortable vehicle. You can fold the seats down. I have lots of room inside. This is a great small family vehicle. critical. It's got all kinds of great safety, you know, ratings and things like that. It's also a driver.

They made the back seats a little slimmer, so it gives you more leg room, you know, for rear seat passenger, but the seats are still comfortable. And so there's just a lot of neat things that Hyundai have done that do it really well. The infotainment system is easy to learn. It has just enough buttons to make it where an old fart like me makes it nice, because I don't have to sit there and look at the screen and do stuff on the screen. and I can push a few buttons here and there.

It's nice for how big the screen is that they do still give you buttons because a lot of brands have gone away. Big screen, no buttons, do everything via the screen. Right, right. And this had, the one I had, it had heated and cooled seats and heated steering wheel and all the extra goodies that you don't necessarily need. But it was kind of nice. But you're also talking, it was around $34,000, close to 35. And that makes it a little bit more, you know, changed. But it's still.

You get a lot for what you paid for. It really is. And it's a nice vehicle. So check out the Hyundai Kona. It really is. So let's talk about some tools, why don't we? Yeah. Ken is starting his first project. It's a 1969 Ford F100. He wanted to know if we had any words of wisdom for tools he should buy. He has some basics, you know, things that were... Handed down to him but this is his grandfather's truck it means a lot to him to get it running.

Well a lot of people are starting off you know first of all you know you got to find the basic tools you know six point sockets 12 point sockets we were talking about that especially when you start using nuts old older nuts and bolts so you're gonna have to have standard you have to have some metric and you know the you can use i would use good sockets you know you know go to go to craftsmen or go to somebody like cobalt from northern tool or some of those brands like that

those are really good good brands that get some good screwdrivers and things like that then you can go to harbor freight you can buy some of their toolboxes you can buy you know you can also buy toolboxes at a good price come christmas time you can go get them over at lowe's or home depot or harbor freight makes great toolboxes at a good price you just want a toolbox that you can that's is big enough and that will carry at least 200 pounds in each drawer because

your tools will weigh a lot. And so that makes a big difference. And we're going to actually talk more about torque wrenches and little torches and things like that. When you work on classic cars, we'll do that in segment four, some ideas on what we want to do. But coming up next, we've got Sean Nguyen. He's from Pennzoil, Quaker State. Interesting guy. We're going to go out to see his place.

I go out to his lab next week and so next couple weeks we'll have some stuff on facebook and and instagram so check out sean winn from penswell and quaker state get some oil answer your oil questions.

All right this is our interview segment and this week we're going to have sean winn he is from penswell quaker state and he's going to talk about oil he is mr oil here in houston and from their from their headquarters here sean welcome back buddy hey thanks for bringing me back mike good to see good to see you again yeah it's good to see everybody after that hurricane this week.

That was a mess but either way we're gonna talk let's talk oil right but all kinds of people emailing us after you after you were on the other day about about different types of oil and one of the things that people you know they'll go to the oil change place and somebody will come up to them and say you know mr and mrs so-and-so yeah do you want synthetic blend or do you want synthetic oil And their eyes kind of glaze over and they go, well, what's the difference in price?

Obviously, that's the only way they know to qualify it. Can you give the folks a little bit of explanation from an expert about what's some of the differences in the two? Yes. The terminology synthetic and synthetic blend is not regulated, right? So it's a common term that we use in the marketplace. And the issue that customers don't realize is that a synthetic blend can mean many things. it can be, one part synthetic or it can be a 99% synthetic.

So there is no regulation on it being a 50-50 mix in that sense. So it becomes a little bit of a gray matter, hazy area for the consumer. Thus, it requires a little bit more knowledge of the quality and the brand of the products and the manufacturer that makes it. The same way when I look at it with gasoline, right? You either go conventional, I mean, regular or full synthetic. The rest, you kind of know what's in the middle ground.

But when it comes to oil, it's not. And so it becomes difficult for the consumer. The nice thing about it, when you buy a full synthetic product, then the base oil is 100% synthetic. And the rest of the ingredients, the rest of the additives that goes into the product is the anti-wearer, the detergents and dispersant package, the anti-foam, the antioxidants. Those are the ingredients that goes into the formulation of the oil.

So for that, you can feel assured that you have a full synthetic product.

Product the rest is based on the brand and i recommend going with some of the high name brand products like pinzol quaker states and some of the other major brands where you can feel that they can put high quality or higher concentration of synthetics in their product aha so it's all about what are you starting out with yeah you're you know you're exactly right i think i would probably rather have a you know a name brand regular fuel rather than a off-brand premium And so,

that's basically what you're saying in a nice way. And I like the way you put that. You're trying to be politically correct, and I appreciate that. But oil works really hard, and in the summertime, it works just a little bit harder. And some of these companies only have four quarts of oil in these engines or three quarts of oil in these engines. And I'm like, my God, that oil is being recycled so much.

And then there are people, as we were talking about earlier, that have oil consumption problems, and they're running a little bit low on oil. And so the oil is really getting recycled before it has a chance to really cool off. I noticed the other day that oil was running about 209 or 210 degrees on my pickup truck, on my wife's pickup truck. And I was like – and the transmission was running about the same. Actually, it was running about between 195 and 201 or so.

But when does the oil start to break down? What temperatures do you really start to freak out when the oil temperature gets up there? Or does it matter that much? That varies quite a bit because all based on the quality of the base oil, right? The ingredients is that 10% to 15% of the ingredients is that. But the oil helps to stabilize the system, right? And the ingredients will help to stabilize the base oil too. There's a rule of thumb in the industry is that typically, let's say you were

measuring 210 degrees. Typically, let's say you were running 190. And then this month, you started running at 210. So that difference is about 20 degrees Fahrenheit or around 10 Celsius. So the rule of thumb in the industry is 10 degrees in Celsius, you halve the life of the oil or the oil will oxidize and get cooked twice as fast. That's one. Two, you mentioned about volume losses and so forth.

And so as the oils decrease in volume because of either evaporation or consumption, having the right level of oil is crucial in maintaining the longevity and the durability of the oil. Because basically, you have less guys, less oils to do the work, right? Right. Sure. Second of all, is having less oil, let's say half a quart or a quart, meaning that you do not have enough oil to sit at the bottom of the pan resident time for it to be gas. Right.

So, degassing allows the system to remove all the air that's happening, the engine's running, thus eliminating all the air that gets pulled up by the sump system and then being compressed in some of the high load areas, the cams, the lobes, the valve train, and so forth. And those may cause cavitations and wear and pitting over time too.

So, having good oil level is good. But don't over-oil either because then you're basically forcing your system to run on heavily oiled system, which actually can cause issues at the same time. And thirdly is having a good temperature, like you mentioned at 210 degrees, is allowing the system to boil off the fuel and the water that may have accumulated over time.

Right in summer we run it longer so heat is a good thing to help to eliminate contaminants like oil and fuel the winter times is when you see issues because people drive it less they drive shorter distances or even in the summer whenever we drive shorter distances we do not give the engine one enough time to heat up two enough time to boil off those those contaminants right to cause issues with the oil.

So oxidation comes or the degradation of the oil comes in manufacturer, manufacturer contamination, the way we drive and the quality of the oil. Going back to the main thing, synthetic oil will help that tremendously, fight the heat, resist oxidation much, much better than conventional motor oil. Oh, that's right. So folks, we're talking to Sean Nguyen. He is from Pennzoil Quaker State, and he is Mr. Oil. He knows all about petroleum and things like that, and so we're picking his brain here.

And you're right. I just remember we were talking about – I tell customers one of the things that my dad used to tell me when I was a kid. We're going to take Granny's car. We're going to take it out. We're going to run it about 25 miles down the road. We're going to get the oil circulating. We're going to get the oil to the PCV system, the positive crankcase ventilation system, to do its job and boil out some of this stuff.

And we're going to keep it from sludging up the crankcase by driving it and making this set of short trips a nice long trip. And we would do that every couple of weeks, every month or so for her because she never took long trips. And that's what you do. And people don't realize you still have to do that. You know, it's still good to run your car and get the oil system that these short trips, if you're going to keep short trips and do this kind of stuff,

that's great for fuel economy. And that's all wonderful. But you're going to have to change your world more often, aren't you? Correct. Correct. So I always tell customers maybe 5000 miles if they're if they're they're in a hot and dusty conditions and things like that. That's that seems pretty fair. Don't you don't you agree? Of course, you may not be able to qualify that seeing as how you work for the company, but that's what I recommend.

That's a touchy area, right? Because every engine we recognize is different, right? From an Audi to a Volkswagen. They perform differently. They consume differently. They create different heat cycles. They can create other issues. And now we incorporate turbos into the system, different heat conditions. So the aging of the oil varies depending on the manufacturer.

Yes. And so it varies. And we've seen it now. Now, in the last 10 years, vehicle change interval went from 5,000 to some vehicles going a year. But at the same time, some of those vehicles that are shorter intervals are, like you said, are four quarts versus eight quarts. And so those give you reserve capacity for those extended drain. So I recommend following your recommended drain interval. And if you can, shorten it by maybe 15% or so.

That does help to extend the life of the oil. It's the cheapest thing you can do in maintaining that engine for 200,000, 300,000, 400,000 miles. And that's what we think you should do if you want to keep that vehicle. Sean, that is great advice. And that's why your vehicles last a long time and a lot of people's don't because you use quality stuff. You can't go wrong by using quality stuff that's API rated, American Petroleum

Institute rated correctly. correctly, the right rated oil, the right oil for your engine. You can never buy too good an oil. That's for darn sure. Quaker State and Pennzoil are two of the best brands out there, and I sure love them. I tell you what. Thanks for joining us today, and we've got more coming up right after this short break. Thanks, Mike. Take care. Music.

Okay, that was Sean Wynn from Pennzoil. That was, like, guys, always fun. Like I said, I'm going to go out there and visit with him next week. Let's answer a couple of classic car questions. And I want to mention, you know, I've been looking for this Mustang or Firebird or kind of extended. And I've just got so many scams and so many things going on. I saw this really neat Firebird convertible, $20,500. hundred dollars. So I knew,

that it was probably a scam. I went, oh, it's out there. It's there in Los Angeles. It was on Facebook Marketplace. I'll call that cell. I'll see if I can arrange to have somebody look at it. My man, the classic car guru, is in Los Angeles. I said, it would be good. So I call. And these guys are like value motors or whatever. And they're like, well, and I talked to this lady. She goes, well, our corporate offices are there, but we do a lot of estate sales.

And we've got an estate that we liquidated and it's, this vehicle is in, yeah, I think she said it was Alabama or something, you know, Florida or something. And, oh, it's there. And I said, okay, how can I see it so I can maybe look at it and see if it's something I want to buy? Well, you can't look at it. We just, the only person that can go in the warehouse is our driver who can just deliver the car. And I said, well, you know, you want me to spend $20,000 on a a vehicle I've never even seen.

She goes, well, that's how we do it. I said, well, that's all fine and dandy for a lot of people, but I'm not here to throw away money. I'd like to at least have somebody look at it. I don't know you from Adam, and I appreciate there are a lot of scams out there. She goes, yeah, I can appreciate that, but this is the only way we can do it. We can't let anybody in that warehouse. I said, well, I appreciate it. Well, have a nice day. She goes, I said, well, wait a minute, you're going to hang up.

And I went, well, yeah, I'm not going to buy something without looking at it. Having somebody having somebody inspected for me and you're telling me I can't get it. Can I have it inspected? You want me to just buy it on faith only and that granted it's a good deal. Don't get me wrong, but it's still $20,000 that I'm not willing to risk if you won't do escrow, which they've mentioned they don't like the escrow program. And I said, well,

That way I could put the money in escrow. And that way, when I get the vehicle, I can look and see if as long as it's everything you say it is, I'll buy it. And they said, she goes, well, I've had people that will try to take advantage of us. And I said, well, I'm sorry that that happened, but I just can't risk that much kind of money. You know, would you do that, Jeremy? No, I would not. Not without.

Yeah. You know, as nice as this woman sounds on the phone, you know, because sometimes when When you find a scam, just talking to the person, you know it's a scam. But this woman sounds like she's answering your questions honestly and nicely. But no, I'm not taking that risk. I'm not sending $20,000. Even if the car is worth $40,000 and you think, oh, man, I could make a $20,000 profit. Wrong. Or you could lose $20,000, you know? Right, right.

I don't know. It's just ugly. And there's so many out there. I mean, I saw a couple of nice 57 Chevys and they're all really in nice shape. And one of them was like $26,000. That's a 57 Chevy that it's got a, you know, it's got a crate motor. It's got a nice automatic transmission, four speed. It's got a, it's got classic air. It's got disc brakes. It's got everything I would ever want. It's red. It's gorgeous, beautiful interior.

And they only want this much for it. I said, that's, that's like a 45 or $50,000 car, you know? And so I went and checked the address of the dealer that's selling it, and it's an address out in the middle of a subdivision, so it's not really an actual address. And I was like, okay. So, I mean, it's always in some little town. You got to get off Facebook Marketplace. Unfortunately, it sounds like there's just too many scams there.

You know, maybe you buy some weights for a gym or some kitchen stuff. Facebook Marketplace might be the spot for you. But for a classic car that, you know, has to be right, doesn't have to be perfect, but has to be right, has to be real. I don't know if Facebook Marketplace is the spot for that. And, you know, unfortunately, that's why some of these auction websites are so successful is because there are so many scammers and people have gotten burned.

And so they want to go to a place where they know it's legitimate. Yeah, it's so bad out there. It's like every other one. I know Facebook marketplace. I've got some friends that that work through there and they buy a lot of I mean, a friend of mine bought four or five cars there last year. And he's done really well, but he only buys stuff in his neighborhood, in his area in Dallas that he can go and look at. I'm not sending $10 to anyone sight unseen without talking to him first.

I don't think anyone should. Maybe a deposit of $500, $1,000, that's understandable, but not a full amount without seeing the car, without seeing... You got to at least see the title. Are you going to get a picture of the title? You know, like, oh, sure. It could be branded. It could it could be salvaged. There's so many things that could be wrong with with spending that kind of money without seeing everything. Yeah, it could be ugly, guys. But either way, we're talking about tools.

When we go back to that subject, you know, one of the things, you know, you get to get a nice, big, fancy toolbox that you don't need a $10,000 or $20,000 snap on box by any means you can go harbor freight makes some pretty decent boxes i bought a box at northern tool a big wide bottom box 36 inches deep it'll hold each drawer will hold 250 pounds which is about right for some of these heavy tools i have i bought a bunch of socks

sockets in there they're heavy oh for sure yeah you don't realize you know how heavy the drawers actually get until you put some stuff in them, but I bought a used Matco box. I decided I'll get it a little bit better, but I'm going to buy used. And some of the better boxes, they're built to last and you can take the risk on something like that. A good thing sometimes you buy a used box, didn't happen to me, but a guy will say, hey, I still got some tools in there. They're all yours.

You luck out with things like that. Sure, sure. You're buying a lot of tools. I mean, my dad gave me some tools from the 40s you know, in thirties and I still got them, you know? Yeah. Some are good and some are cool. It's nostalgic.

You know, I have some hammers from, from my grandfather and, and then some of the stuff is kind of just, um, junk probably shouldn't be used and you're better off just going and getting the new version of it yeah but some of some of the stuff actually still works and they don't make it anymore you know and that's kind of the neat thing about it i mean you'll use some special tool.

Yeah to use uh to to work on a on a quadrajet carburetor and you're like i haven't used that thing in 25 years well don't throw it away because you're going to need it at one point and sure enough i'm going to end up needing it and so that's part of the thing but basically start with a decent toolbox don't buy something small buy something big basically the bottom box at least a big bottom box and and craftsman always made good toolboxes too there were always good toolboxes too so and you

can buy all your craftsman stuff at ace hardware i i do want to say you know there's there's no substitute for buying good quality stuff but our places like i'll say harbor freight and a couple other low-end spots where you can get some good quality tools you really just got to pick and choose what you're getting and kind of look at it and think about what that tool is. You know, a lot of people say they won't buy sockets from Harbor Freight.

I've bought sockets. I've had no issues and I've put, you know, some good foot pounds of torque on them. And I know that with my torque wrench, they haven't seemed to deform. They fit pretty well, but I will not buy a ratchet from Harbor Freight. Nothing that's, you know, like hard moving parts. Those tend to break really easy. And even though they warranty them, they'll give you a free one. and it's not worth the hassle and the time.

Another thing I like Harbor Freight for real quick is if you want to get into something and you're not sure if you're really going to take it, it's not going to be your full-time profession, but you want to try something. That's a good place to get some tools before you get into being a professional on it. Well, you know, I bought a replacement compressor for my big compressor. I set a 60-gallon tank, and the compressor head went bad. And I was like,

man, that's more than I paid for the compressor to replace it. Harbor Freight had one. So either way. So, all right, guys. We have a lot of information, a lot of interesting stuff. I would look at Harbor Freight. I would look at Northern Tool. Online, it's a little tough. But Cobalt makes good tools. You know, KD makes a lot of good tools. You don't have to have Snap-on and Mac or Matco. A lot of these other companies are really good stuff too.

But like I said, I've had real good luck with them and they're lifetime guaranteed. You just got to make sure if you're doing a lot of impact work, buy impact sockets so they don't blow apart. And if you're doing a lot of things like that, if you use any electric stuff, buy DeWalt or Milwaukee or one of those. is go with one brand, and so you have one battery. I'm a Milwaukee guy. Everything I have is Milwaukee.

Everything we have is DeWalt. So, you know, fans and hedge trimmers and chainsaws and half-inch and three-eighths and quarter-inch and everything else. So either way, we'll talk about this more next week. So don't forget, folks, you can catch this show as a podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, iHeartRadio, and Amazon. on.

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