Andrew Johnson from Wheelwell

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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🗓️ 11 February 2015

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This week Matt and I are joined by Andrew Johnson co-founder of Wheelwell a new social networking site tailored to the automotive community. We of course talk about Wheelwell and how it serves the community vs. forums and older sites like CarDomain but we also cover his track prepped C5 Vette, Pfadt and LG suspension parts, IRS Foxbodyies, the new Ford GT, bargain bin 996 Porsches, the maladies of selling minivans and I share my thoughts on the 2015 Ford F150 Ecoboost.

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0:30.0	Yeah, smoking is our podcast. Still, we're still here.
0:40.0	160.
0:41.0	Is it one more than three years? We're fucking.
0:45.0	If we hadn't, we were doing a lot of fucking podcasting, man.
0:49.0	Yeah. I'm glad we're actually, I'm glad that I get to read these now.
0:53.0	So we actually, these are live 30 second ad reads.
0:58.0	And this is paying the bills right here.
1:00.0	Keepin' the lights on. Yeah, we got to go guess today.
1:02.0	Andrew Johnson is co-founder of WheelWell.com, which is a social network of cars for sorts.
1:08.0	And I know a lot of you out there are rolling your eyes at that.
1:12.0	And that's okay. It is, right? That's great.
1:14.0	It's okay. Because we've seen the social network for cars concept before.
1:18.0	I mean, you remember CardoMain? Oh, yeah.
1:20.0	CardoMain, are they still kicking? They're still out there.
1:22.0	How many people use CardoMain? The four or five.
1:25.0	There's not many, right? Yeah. Because they got, well, who'd they merge with?
1:27.0	There's a video site. They were five out of three.
1:30.0	Streetfire, right? Yeah.
1:31.0	Streetfire acquired them. And that was rate when Streetfire started getting
1:35.0	cease and desist from top here.
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