It is the beginning of a new year, and like most years, we're doing the B squad. You don't even have a name for it. I know. It's four times. I do not have a name for it. I've done it for you. I hate it more every year. What is it? Aspirational goals at this point? It's not even the goals. It's an aspirational resolutions episode. Failed resolutions. Yes, we're going with that. I've got bad news and good news this year. Bad news is Hollywood is not here with us. So we've never done one of these without the four of us on there, but I have a whole bucket load of good news. We've got Jim, Gail, Muddy, and Coachiever standing in for Hollywood. It takes four of us to make up for him. We have to say it depends a whole lot. There you go. All right, we should probably get into this. B squad is at its core, a round table discussion of the four of us who are admittedly rank amateurs in the car world, trying to figure our way into hot rotting. Four states, three time zones, two sets of brothers, once a week of a meet and bolt of hot rods for a B squad hot rod. This is lefty. This is train. This is Hollywood. And this is woodchuck because a squad has a TV show legal disclaimer. If you try anything we talk about, that's your fault, not ours. Okay, so last year, there were some goals made. Yeah, boy. I don't even remember my goals. I had them written down. I should have happened. I'm sure you do. We talked about the matrix that had to be generated. And this year with seven of us, instead of four, I've like moved this to Google Sheets and it's going to be, yeah, I'm going to have to get a database next year, maybe. No goals, it makes it easy. That's true. The database can wait till next year. Okay, train. Find and purchase a new rear fender or fix the one you have. Nope. I don't think you touched rear fender since we talked about that. I haven't. You've done a lot else, but it doesn't matter today because this is the resolution. Yes, exactly. So my question is, is your rear fender sitting in the same location as a year ago when we talked about it? No, it has moved. Okay. I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure I took it off this year. It's not on the car. I think we did actually talk about you doing some work to that. I mean, I think I just got the rear fender off and I was evaluating it. Right. Okay. Goal number two, get the floor ready for the shifter. I am part of the way there. Part of the way. We have an entire judges panel. So how close did you get? Do you want to put this up for a vote? Oh, is that what this is? Are we on a tribunal now? I'm not doing it. I'm just rude. Yeah. Like, what is this? So it's fine. If you want to put it up for a vote, we could do this. I have. Tell us how much you did. I have the the the trend. It's known. In fact, I have the transmission in there. I have the shifter mounted and it is set where it's going to go on the floor. And I have the because I was able to move it forward into the gala knows about the little panel there for the transmission work panel. And I have that panel marked to be cut. That's as far as I've gotten. Yep. So I don't have it cut, but the shifter is mounted. That's where it's going to be. And it's it is marked to be cut. And you've looked. Yeah. Okay. So some background that probably has not come in on the podcast yet. Turns out Gail has a 40 Chevy, much like yours. Turns out hers runs though, trying versus the sedan, right, the four door. Yes. Right. So it was I doors was also Gail was yours free. It was not. So we did have a run when I bought it. If it's going to be more expensive, it's infinitely more expensive than trains. That's true. So he's my brother. I got to throw one defense in that one straight up devil's advocate. Okay. I'm going for blood. I appreciate it. Okay. Yes, hers does run, but her her engine wasn't frozen and wasn't a bone anchor when she got it either. No, no, I I've actually got to drive her cards. It's actually in really good shape jealous. Um, okay, so what do you think? However, get a title from the beginning. That helps. Okay. So does that qualify for getting the floor ready for the shifter? I'm going to say no, because how expensive is a grinder wheel and take you like three minutes to cut it out, I have the same boat. It's like you have a bunch of artwork and then failed to accomplish the task. Okay, I'm actually going to play devil's advocate here. That one is not exactly the most friendly floorboard to work on. No, it stops. So if you made if you read the pattern, even in, uh, had cardboardated design, um, I think I would count it then, but you have to at least gone so far as to make it in CAD. Yeah. Have similar. I mean, it's, I used tape, but not cardboard. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so yes, that's what I'm doing and I, it's taped over that the actual sheet metal piece. And you're right. All I have to do is take the grinder, cut it. But that's the scary step that is the scary step is also why it's been sitting there. It's also the important one. It's the one that does the task. It's true. That's absolutely true. Um, I am also finding out that I, I will have to, I am, I have to hammer out the upper portion where it bends up onto the firewall because the transmission, it, it sits on the transmission a little bit. So I think I also waited because I needed to get it out and, and bend it out a little bit. So I wanted to, I'll have to go and redo the thing. So it, in all defense, I'm counting that as a no in my own defense because I realized I have to do more to it before I cut it. Well, I think, you know, that's a guilty. I'm going to go fix his own. All right. We're taking the admission to guilt. Okay. Um, you're supposed to defend your decisions here, Trent, my decisions from fenders, stripped and primed. Now. Brain struck out. All right. No, no, no, no. I'm going to give him a little bit of credit on that one because he went and bought the sander and actually played with it for a while to strip all that stuff. Uh huh. So I'm going to give him partial credit on that one. And there are things like, he did, he did buy that big four inch drum sander. Right. I bought the chain one because he told me it was good and he got the right tool for the job. I do. I give him half credit. Half credit. Do I get half credit for good suspension? No. Okay. I can try, right? Okay. All right. Next, we had Hollywood who's not here. I did talk to him this evening. He was out. He did nothing. No kidding. He shot. He was thinking he had other things going on. Yeah. He still does not have a project, did not build a workbench in his garage. And even though I gave him all the things to put 220 in his garage, he did not actually do it. I'm really surprised he didn't go after the workbench, at least. I know. That was, that was his gimmick. I think that was my vote, was that he'd get the workbench done and nothing else. Because they're like $40 on marketplace. How hard is it? Yeah. He's got a kid. Now, he made a kid. Is that Trump or everything else? That didn't happen until the end of this year. Well, it wasn't. He put in like five minutes worth of work. He put in some work to get the kid. Then he took the credit for the whole year, right? The rest of it was all her work. He's not even here to defend himself. You know what? You know, while she's recovering, he's going to put the dishes away one time. All right. Left here. Hollywood. Yeah. Camaro gone. Camaro is not gone. I was going to say I'm pretty sure that did not happen. Setup workshop. Setup workshop is done. I think that was bullshit then and I didn't get shit now. Dude, I've got like three major purchases and rearranged it twice since we talked about the last one. I'm giving it to him. He's got his workshop going on. Whatever. I agree wholeheartedly because it's like, it's the one thing that's blowing up the group cad is the pictures of him doing the work in there. That's true. There's been work, but. Well, I started on the Camaro and then I ran into like actual fixing cars that work for a little bit and then work. Yeah. I don't have a lot of good excuses. I did actually like cut the floorboard out of the trunk of the Camaro circuit access, the gas tank. So I can start getting the bad gas out of it and to, you know, start the work of getting shit actually moved out. But that tapered off with some other things that came up and gravel and carport. I know you got some gravel and you even went one more and got some pigments. I did not do the gravel at all in the end. I went with the livestock mats instead. I'm willing to count that. Oh my. I did buy the carport part of the reason the Camaro isn't done right now. It's just one of those, you know, versus shelter or whatever, carports, like you buy at Harbor Freight. Mm hmm. It's great. It was awesome. All summer provided lots of shade. I worked on the Jeep there. I worked on my truck. I worked on the daughter's truck like all that happened. Mm hmm. Windstorm blew through the last time I was haul and destroyed it. The carport? Yeah. Oh, man. I just had a little bungee cords holding it to the frame. Yeah. It was staked down and it was tied down. Didn't matter at all because it just destroyed the tubes. Oh, wow. Um, you know, I'm not, I'm not crying too hard. The things less than $200. I'll get another one for next summer. Um, I don't really want to buy one every year. Hopefully the next one I can, you know, manage to make it last, but I, I did, in fact, get a carport. I did install it. I did use it. There's photo evidence of that existing. Yep. I, I think that counts. Definitely. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Woodchuck Mustang moving under its own power. Did I do two out of three? Yeah. You did two out of three. I'm not going to get any acknowledgement of that. You're just going to move right off. Exactly. Nothing for you left. The best I've done years. Yes. You were the one who got the most goals done. I did. I did kind of go with gimme goals. Those I will admit that, that those were not as hard to achieve as past years. Okay. Um, so obviously the must say, you're going to get a number of quarters of a point for each one then. Uh, power, heat and lift installed in the shop. I actually pulled that off. You didn't pull that off this year. I was surprised. Now I want to know, wait, wait, does the heat count because it's portable heater? Yes. It is my shop enough to where I can turn it off. Yeah. Yeah. No, it counts. 100%. Heat is heat. Yeah. All right. No, it, I do have a question though, and this, this is my caveat with the heat is heat point. Is the damned insulation all in? You have seen the size of your shop. What do you think the odds are that you can be? No, I know a thing though. He went out and finally took some advice and let's see what happened. That is like the fifth time I've had access to that man left and no, the insulation isn't completely up. But it is, it is getting very close. Yeah. It's one of those things that you probably would have just been so much easier had you done it in the beginning, I realized it wasn't feasible and it didn't happen. Yeah, but the problem is not with the going up and down. The problem is with getting it all cut and then making it happen. So it's, it's a process. Honestly, it doesn't take that much longer than actually doing it with the scaffolding or it doesn't save that much more time over the scaffolding. Yeah. Probably 10 to 20%. Fair enough. All right. Last one was get the Thunderbird running. That did not happen. I tried really, really hard and it still did not happen. Didn't you try like running and we got it unrunning. Yeah. Yeah. Why did you get it unrunning? We pulled my motor out of it. No, it took the motor out. I forgot. I forgot. It was your motor. Yep. No, I, you know what I would give you half credit for what? So you made the damn thing unrun. Well, that's, that's the habit. Yeah. But we did that. Oops. The previous year. Coach credit because coach do all the actual work, you know what I know. I don't know. I'm just trying to be nice because you did do a lot of work on that car. Yeah. So engine number one was a 460 and it was, and it still locked up tighter than Fort Knox. So. And number two, I got from Jim and Gail, and it was a 305. And I locked that motor up by dumping it on its head and writing it and it's kind of a right of B squad. Passage. Yeah. And I had the drop it in. F E. I'm paying a pass. Yeah. And then I got an F E lined up. Interesting. Finished yet. It, it hasn't finished and it's, it's kind of iffy. So hopefully that, that comes through later, but we'll, we'll see what goes on with that. You know, you have an F E sitting in your shop that is perfectly good and we need to actually be ran. We've been down this road so many times. Yes. Oh, I'm not sure the patina holding the car together is going to handle that much power. And it's only patina because it hasn't fallen off yet. Then it becomes roused. I've heard of a light foot, right? Fair enough. Yes, I haven't. Okay. So I am starting to tally these up and it's going to take a quick second because I was finishing the garage doors and Muddy's going to hate me. Oh, I already do. I'll, I'll send you more pictures. My installation method is unorthodox. Unorthodox. Unorthodox. It looks like my five year old did it. You're aware that garage doors can kill you. My favorite thing on a garage door repairs when I go in and there's a little pool of blood somewhere and cool scattered everywhere and the lady's like, my husband didn't touch it. I swear. Sounds like some of my EMS calls. All right, while I'm tallying these up, shall we start with goals for next year, then we'll find out who doesn't get the trophy because I think train is just in perpetual possession of it. It's more like let's get it this year based on what I just heard. Well, it's all on how we bet. So yeah, it's how we bet. I got to remember how I bet. Okay. So, train. So the, the rule last year was yes on all for your own projects. That was kind of baseline because before we could bet no on our own goal. Yeah. Yeah, no sense. Okay. And you got a half done. So there's a half point on Hollywood, you bet workbench only. So you got two points there. What that he would only do the work point? Only do the workbench. Yeah, I get, I get, I get you. Or left you put no on the Camaro, which was correct. And then the others were yeses. So you got all three points there. We are unpredictable. Yep. And then you voted no one. I'll do anything but work on my car. You voted no one getting the Mustang running under its own power. So you got two points from me because you got that one right and you got the shop and the heat right and Thunderbird was not correct. He wanted to argue that point away. He did. He did. So I said the benefit of us having no idea what we said a year ago. Exactly. Well, it's not like it's out on the Internet to where everybody can go listen to it. What's the Internet? All right. Hollywood said on train, yes, on. He's ineligible to win because he is not present. That's, that's true. That's on front, Fender only. So he gets, he gets a half a point because the, the front Fender was half done. Hollywood's yes on himself. So zero points there, Hollywood's yes on lefty. Wait, can I make an argument? Am I my defense? Sure. I'm not going to listen to it, but you make it. I didn't strip and prime the fenders, but I did strip and prime the dash. That sounds like a goal selection problem to me. Yeah. Okay. I thought I'd try, you know, give me a half a point. I don't know. I want the whole point. I'm greedy. That's going to a lot. I know. Okay. And Hollywood actually guessed on yes on shop only for me, which got him all three points for that one. So he's, he's actually got seven and a half points to lefty. No on Fender and fixing for train. So no one Fender got that one. Floor ready for shifter. He voted yes. So no. Okay. One and a half points on train. No on obtain a project for Hollywood. So one point there, yes on himself, two points there, yes on shop only. So he gets all three points there too. That gives him seven and a half points. We're going to be tied with Chuck. Yes. Only on shifter for train. So I get, I get the half a point for the Fender's half point other than that. It was all around seven and a, you've got seven and a half points a week. I think we've got this one. I don't think I do. I think I'm out. No on Hollywood. Three points there, yes on all mine or yes on all lefties. So two and one, I do have seven and a half. Holy cow. Oh my God. This is retarded. All right. All right. We're on a real topic here. Let's. Yeah. Let's start talking with our guests. Okay. This is retarded. This show is always retarded. Another one's your bailing. Yep. So everybody wins. Nobody loses this is his line is it anyway. Yeah. Send me train. Yeah. Send me the participation trophy. I'm not. It is. It is this here. So goals. I guess I guess trades goal for this year is make participation trophies for everybody. Because that's apparently how it's working. Has anybody seen the trophy? It's actually made. I know you sent us pictures. You may have to send them out to the group and we'll have to put that on the episode artwork. Okay. That was rather anticlimactic. If I would have totaled that up beforehand, then we would probably just skipped all that. Probably good idea. Well, good thing about the magic of editing. Nobody has to listen to all that crap. We should have seven minutes of audio. Exactly. Well, I really think I think the takeaway from this whole thing is that absolutely everybody voted that would check would only finish a shop. Pretty much. It's true. Yes. I think the big takeaway is they know each other very, very well. That's where I was going with it. Yeah. All right. Well, good thing we're mixing up this year and I am moving it from traditional pen and paper to the internet. So we're going to see how this works. Yeah. We're still doing three because this is going to be a long time. We're going to do two. Only two. Yep. And real goals. No gimmies. Something you want to actually want to reach for? Yeah. Like actual like. Yep. So, so goals that are in theory going to take you more than a month, right? Doesn't necessarily have to take a squad more than a month, but maybe you more than a month. Sure. All right. So the question is, who gets to start? Did we do rock, paper, scissors? How we doing? I'm starting. This year. Lefty is starting. All right. Lefty wants to sit over with. We're not doing rock, paper, scissors over two feet and guys. Oh, no, we are not. Half of us don't even have camera. So, yep, I was looking for a way to decide who's starting and trying to find an app. I'm going to start. First one is going to be a continued goal, though, because the Camaro has to go. It's got to get gone. I've started it. The shop is ready, the place to work on it is ready. The storage places are ready. It's got to go. I got to get it done this year, or just, I don't know, get rid of the projects. And I need clarification on this, exactly what do you mean by done with that? Do you mean, like, motor and transmission out and in your shop? Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. The motor and transmission have to be out and in my shop. It's got to be gone, right? It's got to be gone, right? As a stretch here, get rid of the carcass of the car, too. That is more of a logistical problem, but I want the components that I want out of it out this year. Don't you have tweezers up there? They'll come for 20 bucks. Trust me, we got all the tweezers. Yeah, they walk right by his house. Okay, so your goal is Camaro has to go. Motor and transmission out. Car is gone. I could accept. Yes. I accept that as well. I want the motor and transmission out for components that I want out, like it's got to be stripped. Okay, so the car doesn't have to be gone. Hopefully the carcass won't sit there all year, but the logistics I'm having with it right now are that I have to somehow toe it out of the backyard and then get it onto a flat bed of some kind and then get the axles I want off of it. Why do you need to? Never mind. We could talk about that later. Otherwise, it doesn't roll. I understand, but it doesn't have to roll, but we could talk about that later. Well, yeah, if I have a trailer to put it on, still in the yard or something. No, I understand. Okay. I like your goal, as I want to say, I like your goal. Okay. Motor and transmission out. Goal number two. That's the harder one to think of right now because okay, we'll come back to you lefty. Yeah, yeah. I've got one goal. So we'll go around and then we'll do second, the second goal is to find second goal. Yep. Yeah. All right. Train, since you're talking, you're up. Oh, fuck. I mean, unless you want to do rock, paper, scissors, but we cannot. No, no, I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. You only got to come up with one. We'll round around. Come on. Okay. Yeah. We can do that. We'll get the front suspension into the car. Yeah. You bought the whole Mustang 2 setup. Mm-hmm. That's a great goal. Hopefully you get a lot more done than that this year. I think your car is like a year and a half from driving. If I actually put, if it gets some, gets put some time in, then yes, it probably is. The only thing stopping me from really, in all reality with this car is always what stops most people. It's money. Yeah. But you have most of the big components at this point. I do. I mean, there's a million little ticket things that cost just as much, but I mean, I think you could get like the working assemblage of a car going, but, you know, probably could in a year, but realistically in a year and a half. Really. I have the rear end. I have, I have the cross member and top hats for the Mustang 2 suspension. I need to buy the actual suspension components like the arms and the struts and all that stuff. Mm-hmm. And that's what's stopping me, honestly, because that kit to buy those pieces, it's usually about another $1,200 bucks. Yeah. Right. And so, and the big ticket purchases for me are basically a kind of a once a year. I get to do one big ticket purchase every year. I don't get laissez-faire with the credit card like some people. What check? You said that. I really did. I did. You're breaking up. So. My CFO been bad, bad, good to me. So what I'm going to say right now is I'm, I want the front suspension. And if I can get that, if I can get that in the rear suspension, we'll go on real fast. So. What do you want to do with the rear suspension? I'll probably just leave it leave springed, put some shocks on it and then, cause I have a Chevy 10 bolt that swapped out for the original rear end. So. All right. Nothing crazy. Okay. On my screen, muddy, you are next. Oh boy. Well considering that I've spent the last two months working on getting the rear suspension swapped out in my car, and I should have had it done like the first day, I'm just lazy. I think that my. Lazy, the guy who gets much, as much or more done than anyone on the show, I know. I think that I want to completely redo the exhaust system on the Cordova. I think that's a good goal. That's awesome. About being, you know, about being distracted by other things and getting it in there. I bought all the parts. It's just a matter of who has time. Okay. Mm hmm. That's my plan there. Yeah. All right. Good deal. Uh, next on the list. Coach Eaver. Oh yeah. Let's see. This is actually pretty easy. Goal number one, get the 1963 F-254 wheel drive completely finished. Mm hmm. You got to define complete. Yeah. He's ever completely finished. Oh, I mean, complete done, driving around every day. Kind of done. All right. Daily driver. So the last thing I did have a B squad moment that it's like, geez, got it down to the body and paint place. I threw all of the parts, which is a huge amount of parts in my enclosed car trailer, took it the rock springs, dropped them off, lined it out with the body guy. About what color, you know, get rid of the antenna, stuff like that. And yesterday I grew up in my shop that finally cleaned it up and I'm brooming around and I look over there at my barracuda sitting underneath the cover. And what is sitting on top of the roof of the barracuda? The truck grill. Oh nice. Oh nice. I am the word barracuda by the way. It's a sixty-speed. How many B squad moments I have between now and this time next year? Get it. You know what? This is a great opportunity to get it crawled instead. It's it's all done. It's ready to go. It's wrapped up a plastic. It looks beautiful, but it's still here in Cora instead of rock springs. Oh yeah. Nevermind. I still got time to do that. But you're not. Do you remember correctly? That's not that long of a drive, is it? Hour and forty-five minutes. It's not been. He'll call. Go ahead. Hey, I'm missing this part. All right, yeah, you can you can just email him a picture of it. That should work, right? Oh yeah. He'll print it out and put a paper one in. Yeah, there you go. All right, next on my list, just on the zoom screen here, Jim. Okay. My first one is to body swap the fifty-five Buick onto the S10 frame. Did you get the kit for it or no? No, I'm building it. Okay. Nice. We have we have the S10 frame. We have the fifty-five body. And then when after it goes on, it will be lowered back to stock height. So it's going to look right. It's going to look correct and. But have a body, or have a frame you can actually get parts for. I have a frame you can get parts for and they'll actually be all four-wheel drive. Yeah. Yeah. That's nice. That's a great goal. Mm-hmm. Yep. So it's just that you're going to make the swap kit. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that I have a machine shop at my app at disposal. I can make these parts. That's the reason for you not to. Yep. So that's goal one for me. All right. Gail. Get the forty-one engine in the forty. The current forty motor does run drives. The bad bit bearings are pretty well done and it sounds not good. I already pulled the shim so there are no more adjustments. So I'm going to swap the forty-one motor in and get it running consistently, quietly, and happy. That's the goal. Get the stupid bad bit bearings. That'll be done next week. The rate you guys normally go. Probably a month. Oh, they throw us off. Solid goal. So it's also another two-sixteen or did you get a two-thirty-five? It's a two-sixteen. It is out of a forty-one. Yeah. They're the same engines. It's just curious if you managed to find a two-thirty-five because they made them that year, too. I didn't look. I got a screening deal on the forty-one. I got running engine, engine transmission, rear end, drive shaft, four rails and tires for seven hundred dollars. Yeah, I saw that pallet of stuff, I'm like, that's basically all the stuff I took out of mine. Well, for every person who's trying to make something new, there's another guy trying to go back to original. Uh-huh. Fun. And we have video of this engine running and driving and everything else. That's good. That's awesome. I would love to eventually, in the future, get one of those bad bit engines and just rebuild one and four bearings and, you know... I think there's going to be one here who could get you one. I know. I'm like, what are these? I just started joking that I have a no-kill shelter for stove bolts. That's awesome. I was wondering why you didn't just drop one of those in there, just do the full upgrade to a stove bolt. But this is a stove bolt? It is a stove bolt. It is a stove bolt. It is a stove bolt. It is a stove bolt. You weren't thinking like the '70s ones. Oh. I want you to get the power. Yeah. Because I looked into this one, I was actually half looking for a two-thirty-five and I looked into this deal. So the real hard ones to find are the 261s, but... Yeah. Yeah. They are. But the two-thirty-fives aren't bad. That's when you get away from the slung oil and the babbeted bearings. And the 41 engine is five horsepower more. 40. Oh. Five horsepower. Hey. When you're talking numbers in the, you know, double digits, five is a lot. It's 85 to 90. Yeah. That's a significant increase in horsepower for the 20%. It is a 6.25 to one compression at ratio instead of a 6.1 compression. Yeah. Let's say they have the compression a little bit if I remember correctly. Yeah. By a quarter point. Yeah. Yeah. And I was completely wrong. Obviously not 20% of this. No. But five of almost 100 is like five percent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I figured it out after it left. I'm just going to twist the knife a little bit in this. Yeah. All right. So what does Steve have on his... Okay. So I'm going to recycle my goal, but I'm going to add to it every car in my stable. Let me rephrase that because I'm not re-occurring your stable. I'm not rebuilding the parts car for the Mustang. Yeah. Okay. The Mustang, which is not a car because it doesn't have a VIN number yet. And every other car will be running without issue. All right. Everybody may be without issue. Yeah. All right. Everyone point laugh. Point laugh. That's... Look. I love your ambition, but we got to set goals you could possibly meet. Okay. So let me justify this one. To clarify, every car in your stable includes right now a VW bus. Yes. Yeah. Which is running. The VW bus is running, but it's not in my stable. You said without issue. That's not my car. Yeah. Okay. What maybe without its current issues, that's fair, right? Right. Right. Because you've got 80s Toyota pick up. Yep. I heard was spotty running. That's true. And I think it's a carburetor issue. And I think I know where I messed up building that carburetor. Okay. And then the Humvee seems to be running pretty good. So that's fine. The Humvee's pretty good. Yep. You've got a Mustang that's not... A symbol? If trains a year and a half out, you're two and a half. Okay. Here's the... No, no, no, no. You're being too nice. He's had it for like six years and hasn't done a damn thing to itself. I know. I'm trying to... To get the shop to house it. To get the Mustang running, I have all the parts minus the steering column on the way. Right. Right. That's... That's something that... Well, did it go out the group chat? I don't know. Everybody at the table may not know that he just made a massive purchase to get everything. Right. It's not going to be everything, but it's going to be all the running components. Yep. Right. This is news. Okay. That's not... This is... This is why I was throwin' a shade about CEO. Well, he bought... He bought... On the EFI system, he bought the transmission. He bought... Like... He bought serious components. Everything from the flywheel back to the differential. Which is what? Free parts. The EFI. The transmission. The clutch. The drive line is bought, but I... Once everything gets installed, it gets... He bought a brand-new T56 Magnum transmission, okay? I know. He can say all the components, all you want. I'm just fuckin' jealous, that's all. Okay. He dropped the money to get the right to say that. Yes. Sissy disc. Yep. Okay. And the still is, that... My question is... My question is, probably cost more than my... My cars. Without a doubt. Yeah. So my question... And then the... What the definition of running? Yeah. I like yard drivable or licensed in on the street. Licensed in on street. It'll start now. You are out in more than you're out. Yeah, the Mustang's not gonna be licensed. Every car, but the Mustang's gonna be licensed. We're out in caveats now. And okay to go to town. How's that sound? Town is five miles away. There are highways in between the shop and town, so it has to make like a minimum of 55. Could I make a... I can walk you a slow-moving vehicle sign. Yeah, there you go. You'd be like the Amish with the big triangle on the back. He's got one. He owns a Humvee. Yeah. All right. Can I make a recommendation here? Honest one. Let's split this into two goals. Exactly. There we go. Exactly. The Mustang needs to be split out because you have a different mindset and goal on the Mustang than you do on these other vehicles. That's fair. Yeah, I agree with that. Because every year, the Mustang is this perfect, unattainable thing that you just keep making bigger and bigger in your head. And then with what you're looking for, it's gonna take you years. Yeah. Yeah. Even if you get... I mean, you're gonna get all those components. I doubt you'll see that transmission for five months unless it's already on the way. It is. So they had to actually had one in stock. They had one sitting around. Oh my God. That made your specs. Yes. You're lucky. Okay. Cool. That's fairly unusual. Yes. Last I knew it was dropped. It went through Rock Springs and then on to Salt Lake and then it's being transferred from that carrier to another carrier and I don't have visual on where it is. But it should show up next week. Even when your engine shows or even when your transmission shows up, you've got to locate the transmission in the car. Do you have a crossmember? Yes. That'll work for it. Yep. Crossmember is coming with it. Right. You bought it with it. Yep. Right. Is it located to the car? Can you just drill it on and bolt it up? Is it ready to go? It's meant to go on that car. Okay. So it'll bolt to a stock location you're telling me? I don't know for sure. Because then you still have to get the engine in and you have to mount the engine and transmission together and do the drive shaft and get your rear end installed. Yep. Which is a non-trivial task all by itself. I completely did it. I did it. It took me three months to do it. But he's installing an independent rear suspension for this car that did not come with. And in theory, that we'll bolt up to. Yeah. In theory. I love these theories. Yeah. No. You are absolutely right. You find all the time to bolt all these things together, and you will. You haven't done any of the paint prep yet. Do you have seats and a clutch and a gas pedal and a wiring, a bit of a wiring harness? I mean, there's a list that's 18 miles long to make this car start on its own. I got the clutch pedal. Exactly. See? There we go. We'll make a progress. It's coming with the clutch. So saying this car will drive at the end of the year, and this is not to cast aspersions on you, you've hit the point where you've got all the stuff and you're going to get this big kick of energy, but you're also going to get your ass kicked this summer as soon as the fire season comes up, and emergency start, and your kids need something, and you need to go somewhere for a vacation. Life is going to happen. Your shop still needs a little bit of work, not a lot, but a little. You've also got more tools coming. You're going to spend time in the shop messing with the way it works, trying to get all that stuff moved around. Little things are going to pop up like that all the time, and then you've still got to find time to work on three other cars, major projects on them. Well, the F-350 needs a little bit of work, too, but it's just breaks. Okay, so stuff. So you have major work on other vehicles. This is not going to be your sole focus. You need two goals here. You need all of my other cars and rolling Mustang engine transmission rolling gear in the Mustang. I'll take that verbatim Mustang rolling with engine and transmission, and all the other cars are going to town rigs. I think those are doable goals for you in a year. What says the jury? I'd say you can make his goals whatever he wants. We get to vote on them, and that's true. No, I agree with you, Lefty. Like, Steve, we love your ambition. I love your ambition. Well, the majority of this podcast was made under the premise that I sit here and say, "Steve, you can't do all that." And Steve looks at me and says, "Let's do all the things." And I go, "Yeah!" Okay, Steve, I'm going to break in here for just a second back and up a little bit. Okay. Not back up, Steve. Back up, back up, back up, back up, Lefty. The 55 Buick. I've been gathering parts four. I have had all the parts for roughly six months now, and I'm still putting together everything in what order I want to do it, where my brain is, and how I want to do it. I didn't even turn the wrench on it at the first point here. And you keep saying that I'm the A-squat guy. Yeah. I mean, do you even have the bolts to mount the engine? Are you asking? It's not a bad unit. It's not a bad unit. You've got the hard ribbon. Well, I'm specifically asking, would you? Okay. No. No, I don't. Yeah. Okay. You're going to run into a million little things like this, when you've got the engine hanging from a hoist. Yes. Absolutely. Okay. Especially because you're doing a scratch-built panic guard, and you don't have a deep cellar of parts to draw from. That's fair. You don't have 20 years of stuff in the shop. That's true. I don't know how many times I had to pull that stupid trans out when I was putting a hydraulic clutch throw up bearing in, because I realized, "Oh, I need one more shim. I need to go buy another shim." Oh, I probably don't want the bleeder thing inside the bell housing, so I got to go get a hose. Yeah. Yeah. No. All right. He does have a secret weapon, though, in that he's got it coached, I'm going to do it for him. True. He does. He does. He's got... Well... He's got backup up on backup. I've got a wealth of experience to draw. Wait, shit. That sounds like I'm calling him old coach. Yeah. I'm sorry. We're a little old, but we're a wealth of experience. There's things that you don't think about, so my 63 F-250, very simple single cab, no electric anything. I mean, crank windows, it doesn't have squat, so to say. It's a very, very basic, simple truck. Interior park, anybody want to make a guess on how many interior parts are in that cab? In the door or in the cab? No. In the cab itself. How many interior parts? Oh, you're probably looking at it at 60 or 70 still. You're going to have 75. Yeah. This isn't really that many. Yeah. I believe in it. I believe in it. 100, 200 parts. Yeah. Interiors. You start getting on interiors. None of which does... Yeah. Yeah. That is true. That is true. When I put together that 74 MGB again, manual crank windows, manual locks, manual, everything, it took me just to do the dash in the interior two weeks. Yeah. Yeah. So that was the caveat there. So we've got, with Chuck's goals, I think, I think we've convinced him to do goals that are reasonable. Yeah. So I've got both of my goals now, mustang, rolling engine, and transmission installed. I'm going to add, and I have started the engine. Okay. I'll go with that. I'll go with that. Yeah. Sure. Because I think we can make that. What's in the car? The chances of you not starting it are like not... Oh, yeah. It doesn't even have to have a radiator on it. You're going to want to turn the key. That's what I just remind. He's not even got his body rotisserie yet that he's been planning to build here. So... Oh, yeah. I know. Let's have a lift now. Okay. And the rest of the cars are going to town rigs, right? Yeah. They're driving on the road. They're plated. They're insured, which actually all of them are anyway. So that's not going to be that tough, but just fixing them so they can go places, you know, without locked up brakes. Reliably go places. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Since I've got both of mine done, I think we do this... What do they call it? Playground pick style. We're going backwards now. Snake draft. Snake draft. Snake draft. Yes. Yep. Okay. That puts Gail up next. So my... My goal is to not get distracted and buy another project car. Nope. You're going to fail. That could fail. I'm back against that one. Leave it down though. That's an easy win. I think it's a fair goal. I think it's a fair goal. It's a tough one. I don't think it's a painable. Oh. It's not an easy goal, all of it. Okay. I like this goal because there's a caveat in there. Don't get distracted and buy another project car. So if you get your 40 done, then you're free to go. That's how I'm taking this. I would say that's a reasonable interpretation. It'll have to wait a year till we sit down and do this again. Then we can debate whether or not it was reasonable. You've got a lawyer at once we start getting explanations. Once the... What had happened was, before it comes out. All right. Everything I've seen, it's been pretty good. Like, okay. They get the one reasonably running may not be totally finished, but reasonably running and then they go get the next one. Yeah. What I've recently done is the problem. I have like four project cars that are running and driving, but... That's what I... They call reasonable. It's... It's fucked. It's that easy for something, right? Yeah. It's... 80% of the task takes 20% of the effort. And the other 20% takes 80% of the amount of work that goes into something. So you get to like 80, 85, 90% and you go, "This is fine." Yeah. Yeah. 90% to go. I meant it to be this way. Yeah. I don't need tea. I think it's the whole origin of a rat rod, right? A rat rod. Or the quintessential. Yeah. 80%. You hit that 80% of the project and we're done. My personal theory on rat rods is really good fabricators who can't figure out paint. Yeah. Yeah. Don't like bodywork. I'll take that. I'll take that. L right there. That's... You've got a better explanation. All right. Jim, you're up. Goal number two. Okay. My second goal is actually for a friend. We have her 1963 CJ5 sitting down here. We need rewired aim to make two run and so it's the labor for someone else. You know, it's locked between the reverse and the reverse and the reverse, or reverse the third, I don't know which. So I've got some work to do to free up the transmission, got to rewire it, going to just do a wiring kit for it. We're probably going to do just a tractor paint job on it, stuff like that and get it ready to run. Because it was her father's before her husband. Mm-hmm. So we're going to make that one. That's my second goal. Okay. I have to root for that goaler and the bad guy. And that one probably will not occur till spring, because it's open top then I'm going to have that when it's warm. Yeah, that's reasonable. That's fair. So again, the timeline on all these is all year long, so you've got the whole year to do these. So you can decide that it's the health is cheap. All right. So now, now it is coach either. Oh boy, so let's see the whole don't lose your focus by getting other projects. I already have another project. I just don't pick it up until May and and Mav knows that I'm shopping for another another project. I'm sorry, what's the, so your goal is acquire two projects. Oh, I know I already am acquiring the one for sure. And so if neither of those really get in the way, the 49 willies pick up truck, have all of the running gear finished on it. That's good, but okay, let's go with that. That's achievable. I think so. Do you just got the differential for it, didn't you? That's I got that true track is for the front Dana 44 in it. Yeah. Okay. And I got all the other parts to redo the front if the rear diff is already done. Yeah. Have the transmission transfer case, but I also, I'm shortening the frame by three feet. It's on a high boy frame and positioning the rear spring mounts is kind of a critical thing. Yeah. Pretty darn close rails. The it goes down the road kind of funny. Yeah. Yeah. And the big thing is finally getting the red Ford out of my work area that now I can slide the, the Willie's pickup truck out of its hidey hole in the corner and get it out where I can actually get to it. Yeah. Remind me on this, because I seem to remember the story on this. This is where the 390 came from as that truck, right? The red truck. The red truck. Yeah. I'm going to put like a 426 and the willies or something like that, 427 something like that. I don't remember. It's a 428 cobra jig that's been stroked out, got that'll block heads, yaddie yaddie. Oh, so just a little slow little beast, got you. Cochiever. I think I'm understanding where my fixation on F E's is coming from here. You are a bad influence on me. That you've got a blue oval stamped on your forehead. There are, there are both drugs and laser surgery to take care of. I recommend the lobotomy with the ways the surgery is for. Okay. You almost try to do that by himself. That's, that's true. I've got these scars. Maybe that's where your session started. The hard knock to the head was probably our. So that the whole high boy thing that's underneath the, the willies big up truck, it is a practicality thing. The, the shape of the high boy frame where it goes up and down in the width of it matches perfectly to the willies body and just the old willies pickup truck frames were really weak and they would twist and hold that twist. That's the high boy frames were that much longer though. Well, I have a five foot long bed for the willies pickup truck. Oh, okay. It's going to be. Instead of an eight foot bed. Yeah. Well, they came with a stock, a seven foot stock, but yeah, it's going to be real short. I don't know what that works out wheelbase. It's probably only going to be about maybe 110 I was thinking more like about a hundred something like that. Oh, wow. Yeah. You're almost going to be down to CJ like there. Yeah. Yeah. Like a CJ seven or something like that. Yeah. Crazy. All right. I'll be funny. Okay. So I'm going to steal lefties from last year. I want to get a shop building in my backyard now here's where I'm cheating on this. I've already paid for the shop building in my backyard. No, that's not cheating because I had also done that ironically, they can't find garage doors for you. Yes. That is ironic. Yeah. How? Like your door guy. I know, but they won't let me do it. Well, that's not quite true. They'll let me do the only not $200 off the building. I can't get the doors for less than 800 of these and there's two of them. So I'm just going to wait and let them do it and laugh at them the whole time they're doing it. Uh huh. Yeah. The thing that is so contract to them. The thing where this isn't cheating is that I don't have a floor for the building that I bought. Right. I have one foot rise on half of it, uh, out of, you know, center blocks and two by sixes and carpet to put my toolboxes and my work area on that half of it. And then the other half I'm going to do that lefty did. I went and priced it the other day, those rubber mats. That's great. Yeah. They're like $45 a piece. It's going to take like 10 of them to do it, but it's going to be, you know, I can park the car on that side, I can work on it where I'm not in the street with my feet sticking out into traffic. But that's what's taking me so long to replace the real history right now is I just, I don't like sticking my feet out on a road with people driving by, but I have to do it late at night. And I don't want you sticking your feet out on the road either. I kind of like a brilliant. That's a great plan. Yeah. I like it. I think that's going to be an awesome shot. All right. So a big fuck off yellow stripe at that lip because if it were me, I'd be tripping over it all the time, I mean, you know, we fall off it all the time because I'm going to have my, you know, my bar stool sitting there in front of my toolbox and I'm sure I tend to lean back a lot and I'm sure I'm going to fall and crack my head on the Cordova. Well, I can't help you with that bet. I mean, your head is replaceable if you bent the Cordova, you'd have to do body work. Oh, no. Ooh. That worked bad. You could just build a ramp rather than a step. So you lose floor space. Yep. You lose usable floor space there. Oh, fair enough. I'll take the step all day. Fair enough. All right. Make sure you video the B squad move when you bust your head and the Cordova at the same time. Okay. Train. Mm hmm. Gold numero dose. I'm trying to think of what gold numero dose is going to be. I gave you nearly as much time as possible. I know worse is going to be lefty not being able to come up with his. Well, lefty, I'm pretty sure he has his brain and I can help you out with this one. If you want. Yeah. I'm thinking always to get it. I've got a Camaro independent rear suspension sitting in my garage that you can have. That's awesome. Get it. I already do have a rear end for it. Yeah, but it's not an independent rear suspension. No, it's not an independent rear suspension. Like I was just thinking about like, I'm putting that Mustang to suspension on. It's going to drop even with the stock spindles. It's going to drop the whole front in two inches. That's going to look mean to have like a good rate on it. Like I'm probably going to leave it that way. But my second goal will probably be to get working on the interior. Probably I'm going to say I'm going to get the inside painted with rust encapsulator like poor 15 or the Eastwood stuff. Wait, your goal is to paint the interior with rustic caps later to see what to see. Let's see what I mean here. Okay. That's a pretty small goal. That's kind of where I was going with that. Yeah, but it's an achievable one, so I mean between trying to get the front end done and that done, I would think it would be an okay goal. All right. Fine. Okay, fine. We'll do. You can stick a stick at a stick at that interior inside painted inside rusty capsulated. Oh, so not even like finished code, it just rust encapsulate rusty capsulation. Well, because that is a finished code that's a finished code because above that you put carpet if you're going to put carpet, exactly. Yeah. And then, you know, your body panels go on, you know, about, you know, so yeah, that's kind of sheet metal work you're going to do on the inside. It's going to be done. Yes. There you go. Okay. I'd take it with that. I'd take that as a goal. Oh, yeah. All right. Including sheet metal. That makes more sense. I thought you were literally just going to get a couple of cans of Eastwood rusting caps later. Go to town and call it good. No. Okay. Well, that's kind of what it sounded like at first. No. I stand corrected. I got. Okay. Yeah, no, there's some sheet metal work I still got to do in there. Got it down for you. Lefty. Yeah. I'm part of my problem with the car right now is I have another massive project that's hanging over my head that I bought a bunch that like wood check, I bought a bunch of parts for recently. Is it the dueling pistols? No, though I did take the first steps towards those this year, tried to light the shop on fire. I don't know if that actually came out in the show or not. No. I did the first run. I don't remember that. I think it did when I did the first I did the first melt. We recorded it. I don't think that that has gone out yet. Okay. I did the first melt in my furnace and there was a whole series of really, really stupid errors that if I had just taken two seconds and said, why am I at such a fucking hurry? This is dumb. This doesn't need to be done right now. And walked away from now the end result was spilled molten metal. Which caused a very small fire that was contained immediately due to prior planning, right? That nothing got out of hand, but once one thing failed, everything failed in quick succession, right? It's like, oh, I see the holes in my logic now that things are falling through them now that molten metal is literally falling through the holes in my logic. Right. So that is in the near future of things to try again. So it's not the dueling pistols. It's the airplane. Right. Oh, you finally got a first set. No, the plane has always been to project airplane self for nothing, flying airplane self for quite a lot. Gee, if only you knew an aircraft mechanic. Yeah. If only if only he hasn't had two kids since you know, yeah, his problem is like, you know, he's gone for two weeks. He comes back for two weeks and he has to catch up on all the family stuff on top of the trying to get projects that's done, right, you know, and the airport's 20 plus minutes away. Yeah. And there's no, no access to anything there. I either have it in my hanger or I close everything up and I go 10 to 15 minutes away to get, which kills everybody, you know, we've talked about this time and again. It kills motivation. It kills workflow. It's so hard to get restarted once you, if you have to leave that work area. As I said, this year I spent the money and bought all but one of the parts and I'm still waiting on the $2,000 purchase that is a two screw installation. That's going to come at the edge. Is that the name, man? It's a avionics upgrade. Yeah. I'd say it has to be some sort of electronics upgrade. It is. Welcome to things that fly. Yeah. Where you can, it's literally a light bulb that goes in the tail of the aircraft and it's got a little radio in it that says, "Hi, I'm here. This is my name." That costs two grip. Wow. And it's the cheapest option by more than half. Crazy. So anyways, that's a thing but my second goal this year is going to have to be that that plane flies. It's been pretty much, it's been what's kept me out of working on the cars for the last two months. It includes hand drawing, new wiring diagrams, large purchases in repair parts and lithium battery and wiring upgrades and the list goes on. Yes. I think that's definitely a goal and it sounds like something you want to achieve and it sounds... Yeah. Well, I sure would like to fly. It's awfully fun. But certainly mechanically related, I'd say that's an excellent goal. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's ironic that it was also the goal for the first two years we did this. I'm not sure you guys understand the concept of long term goals. No, I understand it, I'm just really bad at them. We're really good at long term goals, it's the short term goals that we struggle at. We can stretch anything out for just about ever. Yeah. Well, you know, there was another kid birthed in there, too, and they tend to take away from time with projects. That they do. That they do. All right. Who's ready to make your bets? I don't shoot the items, have everybody bet on it. Steve, why don't you read off what one person said and we'll just all say "yay" or "nay" on it? Yeah. Yeah, 'cause I can't remember half of it. Yep. No, I'm glad you're thinking the same thing as I am. And it's totally not that I'm stalling as I'm building this table. Thankfully, I'm just about done. So the first item is going to be, obviously, 'cause we went around backwards, lefties goal. And that is, Camaro has to go, motor end transmission come out of it. So-- Oh, yes. Yep. Where I have auto-filled in, you're voting yes on your own goals. We kind of agreed on that last year and I think we're carrying that forward. Because it's kind of sad if you don't have ambition for your own goals, right? Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Having a little faith in yourself is a good thing. It's also sandbagging. That's fair. Okay, with that, Muddy said he's voting yes on this one. Who else do I have? Train said yes. Okay. I'm voting no. Got Gail is no. I'm going to say yes on getting rid of the Camaro. Jim, yes on Camaro. Coach? Yep. Yes. That's a yes. I'm glad you all have faith in me on this one. I'm going to do my best. I mean, I literally just tell them you can have the medal. I was already failed for one year. It's so much easier to let it continue to slide. That's true. And I'm. That's true. I think no, but I'm going to go with my optimism. Lefty, I'm with you. Yes. Okay. Plain flying. I'm going definitely yes on this one. No. I'll go yes on this. I'm going to go no in a year, but I think it'll be done within two. I'm going to go for one year. I'm same with Mav. Sorry, Nick. That's probably realistic. There's a shit done to do because I added a whole lot of work to it. By cutting a big hole in it. So I'm also going to say no. I had this one pegged as a definite one. I thought left to get this one done. I'm shooting that. I'm shooting for it. So I agree for you for it. Well, I say no for the same reason that you said it was difficult. It's not exactly like it's in your backyard and you can just step out and do it in the morning. That's that's been the persistent goal with or the persistent problem with the airplane is it just can't get too bit consistently. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm saying to. I think it's a good one. My children are now old enough that I can drag them with me and they can entertain themselves for a couple hours. Just a two year old just can't do it. Stick them in a post hole like that did us. The frown on post holes at airports. No. Okay. I did that to my brother I'm glad to see other families that absolutely that that was method of child containment when we were small. Yeah. I did it to Declan. I think that's just resourceful there. Okay. Train. Your goal is to get front suspension in the car. I think you'll do it. I really do. He's working harder than any of us at this point. So I think you'll get that one. I'm with you, Marty. I vote yes. I have Mustang 2 suspension in my satellite. It went actually pretty easy. Yeah, they're not pretty easy. Oh, yeah. I think you can get that in here. I'm going to lean on what coach says here then and say you'll probably do that. You've been pretty motivated with this project for a while now. All right. Maybe unanimous. Okay. We've got a unanimous. Yes. He's down. Interior sheet metal and sealed. No. No. I think I think he'll be so hooked up on what he's doing in the front. He will completely just forget that part. That is a real possibility. One of the little things because it's just, yeah, it's going to be just like the fenders. Yeah. Once I get the front suspension in and it's start doing that, I'm like, well, I might as well get the fender walls on and start doing the fence. I was like fenders again. You know how it just cascades. I was going to say muddy. It's almost like you've listened to the show. Okay. I'm going yes on this one. How much sheet metal work does it need? Do you know where those fenders beat the cawling in the bottom corner? You know, that's a very typical rest out spot. Yeah. I have to patch those two spots and then I got to cut and bend that transmission cover and that's it. Yeah. It's not an easy piece. It's not an easy piece. It is not an easy piece. It is about the size of a baseball on his side. In addition to horsepower, train, hate, spotty work, everyone hates body work. My problem with sheet metal is I'm not good at it. So I tend to over prep and overthink it so I never get to it, right? Have you guys seen the air hammer, uh, evening hammers? Mm-hmm. Oh my God. I've never seen those till just recently, you would think with number tools I have, but I would see them, but in my point went out and I'm like, oh, I want that. I tried one out and they are awesome. They're pretty cool. Yeah. Well, I know what's going on my Christmas list. If you need something else on your Christmas list, see if I was going to laugh at you. I know. I think that's going to be the reaction. I might have you. She's like, hey, you're done until you after your birthday and my birthday is like eight months away. Hey, Steve, I know what you can buy me for Christmas. There you go. Then I'm going to tell you, hey, guess what I bought you for Christmas, but, uh, you have to come to my shop to get it and until then I'm totally using it. I know. All right. What do you think on this one? I think no, because there's going to be other things that you're probably going to find out you need to be doing first. Probably. That's kind of where I was at on it too. Yeah. All right, train. It's me and you on that one. Okay. Okay. Muddy. Redoing the exhaust in the Cordoba. I say yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Muddy gets after it. I like the shops. Okay. Yeah. I got a question about the exhaust. Okay. Is it from a exhaust manifold back or is it from where? Okay. So when I was traveling the country over the late fall, I stopped in Pittsburgh and bought a set of brand new headers for it and I decided I have to have those in there. So I'm doing the whole thing doing headers to tailpipe. Okay. Okay. So you're putting headers in a Cordoba? Yeah. Not happening. I say no. Not here. Yeah. I should have asked. I changed my approach to know if you can do headers. I put headers in a 77 charger. That's why I'm just saying it's not happening in here. Muddy, I've got faith in you. Get after it. That's one of us that has faith in you. And you want to do a shop. I'm going to say no to the headers, yes to the shop. Yeah. That's where I'm at. No to header, yes to shop. I'm going to. I'm going to. Hope springs eternal. Yes. Yes. For money. Okay. I'm probably wrong, but I'm going to go for it. Gail. Did you vote on the shop? I didn't catch it. Yes. On the shop. Okay. Yes. On the shop. Coach. Yes. On the headers. No on the shop. I used to monkey around with big locks and oh my God. But the shop, the problem is it's not entirely in Muddy's control. Yeah. That's a fair assessment. So on that coach, currently in the shop, the guy actually got to drive it today. A friend's been working on his car over my shop. He put a 440 into a 70 barracuda. Yep. And put headers up. Yeah. Know how much hammering that takes to get headers fit in those? It's all about B-body or E-bodies were worse than B-bodies. All the hammering. There's no reason that I have like 72 hammer. Okay. It's going to go. Yeah. Okay. Small block headers fit and small blocks way, way easier. But we'll see money. Okay. As far as the shop, Muddy, you got my vote. That's a yes. Okay. No achievers goals, 250 completely finished, driving every day. Yes. I'm going to go yes on that. He's just motivated to know. Okay. Remind me his other goal. His other goal is the 49 Willy's pickup have all of the running gear finished on it. Okay. Does that include the chop of the frame? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Then yes and no. Yes. I first went no on the second. Okay. Well, I keep thinking body shop, paint shop. Where is the truck right now? It's at the body shop. He'll begin work on it probably first of the year. He's thinking 300 hours. So probably two and a half months, something like that. Okay. In that case, I'm going to say yes on the first. No on the second because you'll be spending your time finishing the first. That very well might be. That was kind of where I was going with that. Yeah. The new shiny, I think is going to be the goal, especially during the prime working time of the year when the weather is real nice. Yep. I'm just thinking of all the geometry. You've got about four weeks in August. All right. All right. Again, I think you'll get it both then. I just don't think one year is going to happen. Yeah. Um, let's see, Gail, if you said it, I don't think I heard it. I apologize. Oh, yes. Go to the wheelies. Okay. Uh, I'm, I'm apparently in an optimistic mood. I'm going yes to both. Train, uh, what's your vote on the wheelies? I'm with Gail. Okay. So that seems to be the common vote, except for, uh, apparently me. Hey, if you're not, if you're not at least a little bit off, you're going to have what we had this year. One has seven and a half points. So, yeah, there's that that's, that's fair. It was not due to voting, this is really just how well we all know each other. Yeah. I believe that except for the fact you guys all got points on different things. We, we did. We did. We're just good like that. So the other thing is I'm close enough to maybe affect this a little bit. So we'll, we'll see how close we, uh, we get it. In case it'll be knowing that Steve's helping knowing no. All right, uh, Jim's goal. Do you want both the goals at the same time or one in time? Okay. Jim's goals. Body swap the 55 Buick onto the S 10 frame and, uh, get Helga's CJ five rewired and made to run. Yes. I don't think you'll have time to finish the 55 because I think he's going to be working on the other one, which other one, I'm going to, yes, yes, the body, the body swap, the body swap. Now, I will put a caveat on this just as a warning to all of you. I don't know how much I need to do on that GPS. Okay. To make it run. Yeah. Okay. So I'm starting, I'm starting with something from a field. Okay. Have you already started the body swap? No. We've gathered all the parts. I'm going to say yes, body swap, no Jeep. So, and just so everybody's on the same page, I know we may have some listeners coming in. Jim and Gail are actually married. They are both very much car people. So all their projects kind of have built in help already. So they do, I just think it's funny that Gail says, yeah, you're not getting to the Jeep. I'm like, okay. I look, you know, it's the jeeps for her, but it's like, you're not sure. No, no. It's not hers. Oh, it's not yours. Sorry. I thought it was yours. The cheapest. Someone else is that. Sorry. I guess I misheard that. Yes. It's going to be something else. It's just friend. It's also not. It's also not on a timeframe. I should put that caveat into it. Okay. Then I'll change my vote on that. I'll go. No. No. I think Jim is such a meticulous person that it's going to take him forever to finish gathering up everything he wants and designing what he wants, that by the time he starts actually doing the swap, it'll be December. You know, on most things, I would vehemently disagree with you, but the 55, you might be right. The 55, you might be right. Just three binders. The 55, not the 53. Oh, I got it confused with the 53. The 53 is your dad's car. Okay. The 53 is my dad's and my grandfather's. On that. No, Marty, I think you're off. Jim gets things done. I'm going to go with yes and yes. Okay. Partly to be different, but partly because in the end a lot, excuse me, in the end a lot of this old CJ's, I mean, grab a painless 15 circuit wiring. Yeah. Just put everything new. The wires are not hard to run and you can start from scratch, probably easier than you can try in the wiring. And that's kind of my plan. And I mean, it's a CJ. How long are the wires? 9, 10 inches. I mean, it's actually for everything, but the brake lights. Yeah. Yeah, those are 12, you know, exactly. All right, coach, what do you think? Yes, and yes. Maybe for some of the people here, body swap stuff sounds a little scary, but it's time way into being able to do, you know, frame mounts and motor mounts, and that kind of stuff doesn't scare me at all. And I'm sure Mav is good with it. So yes on that. And getting back to what you guys just were talking about those early CJ's, oh God, they're easy to work on. Holy cow. Yeah. So yes and yes. All right. Next is Gale. Get the 41 engine in the 40 and don't get distracted and buy another project car. Yes. And no. Yes. And no. Yes. I know. It was not an easily achievable goal. I'm going to say yes and yes. I think you have the willpower, you could always channel that energy into helping with the Jeep. Well, and I've been, I wouldn't say I've been shopping for a 40, but I'd sort of been looking for a 40 for a long time. And so now we have the complete set and I can be done. Okay. There you go. See. All right. Muddy. What do you think? Like I said, I've got a yes and a no. Okay. I don't think that she's going to be able to resist because the perfect car is going to come along and she like you and like me has car ADD and it will be, I've wanted that on my life. And what's the cost? Oh, I've got to get that. Holy. Take that. Okay. I, I'm going to vote yes and yes on this. And I'm, I'm going to use that the caveat there in the don't get distracted. I think you'll probably get another one right after you get the 40 done. So that's possible. That's true. We'll see how that works. We, we may have to lawyer that one at the end of next year. All right, that brings us up to my goals, Mustang rolling with the engine and transmission installed and the engine started, not a chance in hell. Do I have any yeses? Let's start there. Creek Creek Creek Creek Creek Creek Creek Creek. I love you. I love you. Like you were my own brother. I'll tell you how far that goes. I don't think you're going to make it on the Mustang. All right. I will mark you down for, I want you to know that goal and I think you're going to, I don't think it's going to be all the way there. I don't think it's going to be off the lift at the end of the year. Okay. I will put you down a no but close. Sounds good. Every other car is going to town rig, drivable. Aren't they all almost there anyway? So yes. That's going to be part of it. Part of it is this, is this putting a new engine in angry eyebrows. So that's, that's, that's the biggest problem. It's been a debacle. Yes. The, the engine in angry eyebrows is probably the most work on the surface. The Toyota, that could be a like a afternoon fix where that could be like a three month fix. I don't know about that. That's a complete unknown. Yeah. Do you have a running motor to put an angry eyebrows? No. No. That's what I thought. Okay. I still think you should put like it, I, I still think you should put in, you know, a five, nine diesel. That's right. What am I able to? Right. Yeah. It's a good idea, but it wouldn't work. Okay. Two, five diesel. There's, I mean, I could, but I need to do a lot of welding before that. I'm one of those little, those little Toyota four, four cylinder diesel engines. Yeah. Yeah. 300 inline six. See, to me, that would be good in there. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe we just need to open up a pole and see what kind of engine needs to go in angry eyebrows. One that you don't drop. I think we've proven that already. That's a ton, that's a call order. I've got room for us to get yourself a little electric motor outside of a cheap little fork lift and put it in there with a whole bunch of 12 volt batteries and see if you can get it. Oh. Electrophile. Yeah, about a two point two, all of these, all of these are possible. I tell you who's going to win the poll on Facebook is the guy who goes, yeah, I've got this engine. Do you want it? Yeah. Yeah. I was really hoping for an FE engine because it will bolt right in, right? That's going to be the least amount of work, but we'll, we'll see that, that 305 may get rebuilt. Well, it's going to get rebuilt that make it put in angry eyebrows. Okay, Steve, I'm going to say no and no. Okay. Trains, no. I know we had a lot of answers shouted out for this second goal, but I don't think I heard any of them. So hit me with them again, guys. Yes. Muddy's a yes. Was that a no? Lefty. For your, your daily drivers? Yeah. Ah, fuck it. Oh, yeah. All right. Lefty's in. I'm in. I'm going to say yes on the daily drivers. No one mustang any year. I did. Anyone other than Steve say yes on the Mustang? No. Okay. That one is also unanimous. Yeah. Not throwing shade. I'm just curious if someone knows. Yeah. No, that's, that's, it's not a small goal. Right? No, it's not. It's not a small goal at all. And it's, it's lofty and I love it, but I don't think it'll happen, you know. I think you're hyping in here. Yeah. I'm with you. Okay. So on the Mustang, the Thunderbird is the wild card on your daily drivers. If you didn't include it, I'd say yes, but like even finding a, remember how old these FEs are. They haven't made them since the, like the early 80s. You know, you could put, I could put any FNE has in, but the FNE, the FV that he has in that and then get like, you know, an LS and put it in the most. Yeah. Yeah. I love the planet. I did jokingly float the idea to my wife. Yeah. We could, we could take the engine for your Mustang and put it in angry eyebrows. And then I could send one of the other big block engines off to stick in your Mustang. And she looked at me and says, that sounds like it costs a lot of money. And all I could do was laugh. And then she told me definitely not. Well, is it the FV already a big block? So you're just trading big block for big block, aren't you? Well, yeah. So the, the FEs a sort of big block, the, the four big blocks I have are the, the 385 series. So the four 29s, four 60s. Four 60s. Okay. So the big, big ones. Yeah. Which is supposed to be FEs. So one of the problems. So one of the problems we run in over here in this area is, you know, if you need to have machining work done, you probably got an engine, there's one automotive machine shop, basically in Western Wyoming right now. Oh, wow. And he is super busy. I mean, we're looking, you're probably looking at like four months. Oh, see, I envy you. I've had my 440 in the engine shop for two and a half years now. Well, that is just a failure on the machinists. Tell me, don't talk about it, don't tell anybody about it boy. He's about to get blasted. You come our way up and enough, you can bring the motor here to have a machine. Yeah. Yeah. That is true. I have a machinist over there. That's like, it took, it took the guy here three months during COVID to do my small block. And that was just him, like he let his two guys go and he was just running the shop by himself. All right. Give me a round. I know where there's a running 352 small block, which was what was originally in that, that area in that angry eyebrows. Oh, there you go. I want 600 bucks for the thing and it runs. There it is, David. I've seen it run on the floor. I know it runs, you know. I could even slap the heads back on it and yeah, it could be the high output again for the Thunderbird. Uh, okay, I guess my wife's going to throw things at me as soon as I tell her. Jim, I will, I will let you know. So, um, coach, what, what is your vote? No one. No. Sorry. No one. No. Okay. So he's like, he does know me. It just means he's not going to help you with that. Okay. Yeah. I can throw a merchant. He's not the only one that could put, you're not the only one that puts your fingers on the scales. I see that. I, now I'm stuck helping him and he's like, uh, asking for a lot more help than he actually needs. So I get to my projects. It's going to be a good year for coach. All right, uh, Gail, did you have two nose on that one as well? Yes. That would be, I know what to know. All right. Running motor to put in the, uh, in gray eyebrows, I might have gone otherwise, but no. Yes. I'm, I'm going to see what I can do about getting a running F E motor because it's relatively simple. Right. As simple as a motor swap can be. Yeah. Although, you know, I still want to be working on the front end of that Volkswagen. I want that video. Yeah. You know, the Volkswagen is planning on going on the bonsai run, uh, I want to video, okay, how far away I need to be when you're driving down the road, like the Volkswagen runs. That's right. It doesn't hold that much gasoline. So I don't think you need to be far away, but it is a magnesium engine. So it's just not going to stop burning. It's an air cool engine, right? It is. Yep. Yeah. Those, those little engines don't get that hot. It'll be fine. And, and the, I was more worried about how it would swerve after it works on the front end. That's true. But there's most of a front end under there, I thought it was going to be an easy project, but yeah, we looked under the front end and, uh, buses are horrible. It turned into rust. It fell off. The engine itself though, I have heard that engine run and it does not sound horrible. It needs some tune up and some timing and a little love, but the engine will be okay. Yep. The rest of it, uh, you know, you know, I think I need that shot going near it, you know. That's, that's fair. It's not as bad as angry eyebrows, but the underneath might be close. Uh, and that kind of brings us to the B squad goal I have for this year is get 10 entrance into the bonds. I run. So, uh, bonds. I run. Do you, uh, it is ambitious. It is. Um, I want to start actually probably not too far from now trying to get, uh, people to go on this, uh, fundraiser for, uh, children's cancer, fighting children's cancer, right? We're not promoting that. Um, trying to fight it. Um, well, there's like seven of us on the podcast right now. Exactly. And I'm counting an entrant as a car. So if, you know, B squad is five of those, there's, there's no problem with that. Um, and I, I think I'm going to also push, you know, bring whatever car you have, bring it on out, um, and then maybe a subsection for the $1,800 or less vehicles for the fun of it. So, how, how about votes on that? I like the idea because it just gets more people there. I've been voting optimistic. I'll keep voting optimistic. Okay. I'll be optimistic. Yes. Oops. I only got coaches. Yes. Out of that. I was going to say, I'm going to vote for optimistic on this one. Oh, yes. Okay. Jim trained for a good reason. I say a just to be different, I must say no, that's just because you're not going to go. Yeah. Well, if we're counting entrants that are above the 1800, then we get to count coach. So that helps talking, you're just talking entrances in general. Yep. Okay. So people who, who come out specifically to do the run with us or, or vehicles were, were taking and, um, yeah, support vehicles because coach usually has the support vehicle, right? Mm hmm. So do support vehicle, they had to be worked on this year. It was. There's also the only vehicle that went this year. We did have a fail on the bonds I run this year. That's kind of where this goal came out of. It's like, you know, it's for a good cause. I want people to come out and have some fun. I, I need to do a better job of trying to get the word out because there's always a lot of interest, but there's never, nobody's ever been, yeah, we're in, signed me up. Um, I shouldn't say ever in the early years we've had interest and it's kind of died off, but I think we're going to, uh, get the whole schedule planned out here in about a month, start publicizing it and really get it out there and, and hopefully have some people come along with us. So, uh, back to the original question because I got off on the orange cone because I never do that, uh, support vehicles. Do they count? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. At this point, we're counting everybody. You show up. You get counted. Okay. Showed by the car. One of his points for an actual bond, I entry. Excellent. All right. I think we're going to have a good year this year guys, probably so, well, we know you're not going to have a pen to say this, if I do, he's right, yeah, if I do, I'm going to be, uh, going in for that Nobel award in science or something, being able to regenerate an appendix. Your Wolverine powers are just starting late. Exactly. Exactly. As we wrap up, I hope you've had a good 2024. Yours to 2025 right in with your goals for the 2025, uh, and send us those pictures of your barn finds, weekend racers, trailer queens, and no kill shelters for the stove bolts. These one, this is woodchuck. This is just left. Everybody speak up Sunday. Say something. This is money. Thank you. Coach here. Everybody done it. Yes. I think so. And this is trade because a squad has a game plan for the new year. Wait, we need one of the hosts. Never mattered so far. That's not mattered so far. All right. Thank you guys. This was a lot of fun. Hopefully you guys had fun as well. Oh, yeah. Always have a good time. All right. Have a great evening and this one will probably come out right around the new year. That makes sense. Nice. Looking forward to hearing it. All right. Thanks guys. Have a good one. You too. Good night. See ya. If you want to help us out, subscribe and review us on your podcast app of choice. Come find us on social media. We're on Facebook and Twitter at B Squad Hot Rod. Also, emails go to hosts@bsquadhotrod.com. All right, let's move on to happier things like cars. Like cars. I was checking the seats. We're boring trains. Wait, wait. I know something about cars. I work tomorrow. No. So. A couple of us do. Not really. Yeah. That one's going in the end of the episode. If this is the episode I think it is, it's going to be I'm going to go to bed and cry because I didn't do what I said I was going to do. No, but you did a lot more than most. [laughter] [music] [music] [music]
