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Everyday Driver Car Debate

441: How To Be Worse, End Of Nostalgia, Forbidden Fruit

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Does a good car make you better? Does a bad car make you worse? The guys explore this for Topic Tuesday, and discuss modern options for Joel R.’s dad in Minnesota, who has a 1966 Corvair. They also take social media questions that include the meaning of chassis tuning, engine development consolidation by Geely and Volvo, and what would they change for Pilgrimage 2020? Season 5 is available on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, the Everyday Driver show on IMDB and Amazon, and write to us with your Topic Tuesday discussions and podcast debates at everydaydrivertv@gmail.com or everydaydriver.com. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow car enthusiast friends! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

With traffic errands and parking cars can be a chore but a great car can be an

0:05.8

adventure a getaway and a prize possession whatever your budget or family

0:10.5

require there's a car out there you'll love.

0:13.7

We're here to help you find it.

0:16.1

I'm Todd.

0:17.1

I'm Paul, and this is the everyday driver car debate.

0:22.1

My brother-in-law is really good at finding stuff at garage sales and Craigslist.

0:28.0

He is just the master of finding real estate deals and he'll stay up late at night,

0:32.0

you know, after the family's gone to bed and he'll stay up late at night you know after the family's gone to bed and

0:33.7

he'll search the internet and he'll come up with these great ideas and so he's always

0:37.2

sending me ideas for cars or what he should buy and and he had a fifth 1950 mercury when he was dating my sister so this is back in

0:47.0

college and the car's name was Nina all right and I got to ride in it and I think

0:51.8

he's missed Nina for a long time and had a family and job and life and all that stuff.

0:56.2

So he's constantly searching for cars and he sent me a photo two days ago and he and my sister bought a 1988 sob 900 turbo convertible.

1:08.9

You're kidding with two hundred and two thousand miles $2,000. What? Why? To teach the kids manual. Oh no, that's cool. So my

1:20.0

sister has wanted a sob. She's into sobs. She's loved the look for years.

1:25.8

She's always loved sobs. And I thought, she's finally got a sob. So yes, I know you guys are

1:30.6

listening. I'm so thrilled but two thousand miles but at that

1:34.8

mileage and it runs probably all the major stuff has been done so at least

1:39.1

turns into a fifteen hundred dollar fire pit or a planter in the yard, then okay, you know, they repurposed up.

1:45.7

I could see that becoming the $1,500 planter or whatever later, yeah.

1:49.5

The $1,500 teach you to drive manual device. That's good. I do like that. That's excellent use there

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