rev up your engines,
Alex says Scotty show us your car collection, well it wouldn't be much of a
collection cuz I don't collect cars, I fix them for other people I'm really into
motorcycles myself but I don't collect them either, yeah it's kind of a
weird thing collecting vehicles, yeah you know guys like Jay Leno it's kind of
weird you know they got all these bunches of vehicles, but that's kind of a
waste of space really, you know you can only drive one thing at a time,
yeah I'm not a museum, I've got a Triumph Thruxton motorcycle and I love it, it's
the most beautiful motorcycle I've had and it's not the fastest I mean it only
goes like 120 miles an hour, it's not the fastest I ever had, it's the most solid and
most beautiful looking one, and with cars to
me they're transportation, and you know I'm using my 94 celica for work car
and my wife's got a Lexus but I only paid 3 grand for that one that had 60,000
miles, I'm not a collector of cars, you know I work on other people's cars and I
appreciate them when they bring their classics here and I work on them for them
and say oh nice car, I have fun driving them around
but owning them, meh it's not something I'm interested in,
you can't take it with you just remember that, I'm getting older and when you're gone
you take with you what you came in on the earth with, nothing but yourself,
capti says what do you think of the new Jags, well not much but I didn't take
much of the old Jags either, now realize Jaguars were actually excellent cars
state of the art, when we go back in the nineteen thirties, forties, fifties and I
mean they were putting some state of the art stuff in and there were true sports
cars they raced them in races, but you know since the 60s their quality is just
down, and now Jaguar is owned by the Indian company Tata and those things
aren't even that popular in India and they owned Jaguar now, I would not
waste my money on a Jag, I mean if you really have to get a Jaguar, what you do
is buy one that's low mileage that's older, the resale value is nothing on
those things, and if you want to get it cheap and then as it ages and you find
out it falls apart, you don't know that much money to lose, or like some guys
they'll get a really old one and they'll throw the engine away and put in a
Chevy v8 engine, hey you might try that if you really want to get, but I wouldn't
buy no one waste of money, seven iffy asks, why isn't
alfa romeo more popular in the States cuz their Italian cars they fall apart,
now they used to sell them the United States decades ago I had customers with
them and I used to work on a lot of sports cars, I worked on a lot of them,
and they were always breaking down, the Italian technology's not made to
last, it's like fast but no last, and the parts were super expensive,
well of course now they're selling them again because Fiat who owns Alfa Romeo
bought Chrysler and they're trying to import all their cars and sell them over
here, but I see reason to buy one unless you're ultra wealthy and you want to say
you got an alfa romeo sports car, for for tons tons less you can get a Mazda
Miata, and yes it's not as fast but it handles quite well and it doesn't break and it
goes forever and forever, and look at the Italian car it costs a fortune you know that
thing is gonna break down, Jacco 7 says Scotty what do you think about a golf
for 1.9 TDI, I'm not a Volkswagen fan since they stopped making the Beatles,
the air-cooled Beatles from the 60s and the 70s when they stopped making those
their quality kind of went down, I have customers with ones that have those
turbo diesel engines, and they can run a long time now Volkswagen did cheat with
an emissions thing, made them so that they had a lot more power and got better
gas mileage, but they were cheating on the emissions and then when you got them
inspected the computer would know it was being inspected, so then it would go to
the other software where you didn't get as much power and didn't get the same
gas mileage, but it would pass the emissions, well they got caught on that
so it's a no no on them, but those things can actually last quite some time the
diesel, if you don't mind driving one of those little bitty diesels they are pretty
well made I do have to admit it cake says Scotty how reliable is a tonawanda
Chevy 454 from 1991, ok well I'm originally from Niagara Falls and a lot
of guys in Tonawanda there's a lot of Polish Americans living there, all the guys I
knew were polish Americans, those are really good engines they're still making
engines in Tonawanda for GM, those 454 are good solid engines they make good
engines back then, and that same plant they made the they made the dive-bombers in
world war 2, so they were you know they made some pretty quality stuff there in
tonawanda the problem is most of that stuff's all
gone, the last time I went back to visit my mother there, and I drove by it's on
the waterfront going to Buffalo between Niagara Falls and Buffalo, all these
factors were gone and they leveled them all and they made these beautiful parks on
the waterfront where kids are flying kites and stuff, so the jobs a lot of them
aren't there anymore, but they didn't make the waterfront look nice I'll give
them that Jana Brown says what's the easiest way
to change a flywheel on a 1996 chevy s10, well the easiest way is you pull the
transmission off, once you get the transmission off then there's the
flywheel on the engine and you can unbolt it and put another one on, pull
the engine is a harder job it just is they weigh more it's more bull work
involved, anytime you need to do any work on the back of the engine it's easier to
pull the transmission off than it is to pull the engine off, especially on those
older things, those older rear wheel drive ones they're pretty easy to get
those trannies off it's not that big of a deal, so if you never want to miss
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