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Announcer

You're listening to the Get Out N Drive podcast fueled by AMD with your hosts John custom car nerd Meyer and Jason old car guy car We'll be bringing you gearheads everything you've never wanted to know about cars and why they should be on the road and not in your garage Are you ready to Get Out N Drive?

Jason

Hey John, are you ready to Get Out N Drive?

John

I have to be right now. I was I was told I was told to be.

Jason

I was born ready.

John

Oh, good God. You ready? Boom.

Jason

Yeah. We're going to make Paul earn his keep tonight.

John

Oh, well, welcome back to another fabulous episode of the Get Out N Drive podcast. Tonight, it's going to be kind of wacky. I think our topic is kind of stupid.

Jason

Well, I would have to agree with you because when you presented it to me, I was like, John has fallen and bumped his head.

John

I did. I did. Now, I'm sure everybody that even remotely has ever seen a car knows what Mad Max is. You know, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, you know, everybody's chasing gasoline, all that rust and fire and garbage and people dying and guts and everything. Wouldn't that be fun?

Jason

No.

John

Why? You wouldn't want to swing off the front of a giant tanker playing a guitar.

Jason

Look, in the game of survival, this temple was not built for survival. I'm just saying.

John

Well, all right, now. so I like traditional hot rods I like the way they're put together I like patina don't yank the hubcaps off your 76 Eldorado and tell me it's a rat rod okay now I like rat rods kind of but when you start making a saw for a steering wheel and you have an old barn door for a roof and all that stop it hurts my eyes I don't want to see it anymore now Pull a handbrake. What if we could mix rat rods and the terribleness that is the rat rod stuff with Mad Max? Would you be interested or is that it's still terrible?

Jason

You have fallen and bumped your head.

John

Aha. Well, let me bring you into the world of wasteland now you did not know maybe you did maybe you didn't uh there is a whole entire genre of people that like rat rods they like horsepower they like Mad Max they like all that stuff and they cosplay they get dressed up they put their face on all that stuff the girls are wearing some kind of steel bikini with hubcap bras and all craziness and they run around For real. Like they're in the Mad Max movie.

Jason

Like for real. They do us off.

John

For real. It is a full on cosplay thing. So this isn't Wasteland weekend.

Jason

This isn't Star Trek World of Warcraft cosplay. This is like automotive. Nerdism.

John

Is that what you're saying? It is 100% automotive nerdism.

Jason

That's a word, by the way. Look it up.

John

It is. It is now. Automotive nerdism. Because I am not a rat rod fan. Patina fan? Yep. Do I want a 41 Plymouth on a four by four chassis with a saw blade sticking out of the back of it? Maybe. Here's your reminder to support the companies that support your right to Get Out N Drive.

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Announcer

Hey kids, this is Jason with AMD. You're watching the Get Out N Drive podcast.

Jason

Come on.

John

I don't want to like this. And I think my love of it, it comes from the terrifyingness of the new Mad Max movies. Paul and I and my wife and several other people, we went and saw Mad Max. and it was the most intense thing I was I was ready for it to be stupid you know like new Herbie Herbie fully loaded stupid but it blew me away Cadillac stacked on top of each other cars flying all over the place people killing each other all sorts and that was the first three minutes of the movie it was just crazy and I did not know that there was a real full scale cosplay weekend and people take this just out just it's outlandish how well people make this happen.

Jason

Outlandish is it sounds pretty accurate for what you're talking about.

John

Yeah. No, because I started learning about it because of Hot Wheel collecting and there's a tabletop game called Gaslands. And people take Hot Wheels and they stick all kinds of crap to them, barbed wire and fins and anchors and all sorts of crap. They patina them all up and they make them all dirty. And they play like a tabletop game, like you would Dungeons and Dragons.

Jason

Oh my God.

John

With Hot Wheels. Yes, we're nerds. So now I look at that and I'm like, oh man, that's cool. I wonder if anybody's building Mad Max type post-apocalyptic cars. And I started looking it up. Now I'm in love with it and I want to build one. Have you seen any of that? I mean, past, you've seen Mad Max, right? The new ones.

Jason

No.

John

No? No.

Jason

No, no, look, I remember being 10 years old.

John

Okay.

Jason

And seeing, not the original, I think the original came out like in the 70s. but like one of the carry on versions.

John

You're more Enid Turner, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Jason

Yep, back in like '85. I remember seeing that as a kid. And guess what? I probably haven't seen it since.

John

Oh, shame, shame, shame.

Jason

Look, you and I have had conversations before about like these epic car movies that are like the best of all time.

John

Sure.

Jason

And you've shamed me for never seeing them. I didn't grow up watching movies as a kid.

John

Wow.

Jason

So like when Tulane Blacktop, never seen it. The original gone in 60 seconds. I did go back and watch that. You did twist my arm.

John

I did.

Jason

I do not regret watching that. Right. But like those type of movies, And like those cars get beat. But now you're throwing in end of world, post-apocalyptic. Yep. Gasoline is more valuable than gold.

John

Yep.

Jason

And these people are making cars. And I get the whole thing. They're making their cars not necessarily for just simple transportation, but survival.

John

Oh, as a war rig?

Jason

As a war rig. So basically, you know, if you, if someone's coming at you, you need to withstand getting hit by somebody else because the toughest, the toughest car survives.

John

Right. There's a reason why you have chicken wire or stretch metal for a windshield.

Jason

But you know what?

John

What?

Jason

I enjoy my cup holders for my coffee. None of that. None of, none of that appeal. Like even rat rods. I, a well done rat rod I can appreciate I can appreciate the work that that goes into those and making certain things look a certain way right um War rigs I don't know man I think I think that's pushing the limit.

John

Now you would you would you drive a lifted Crown Vic I've owned a lifted Crown Vic I've lifted a Crown Vic there you go you're already on the way to owning a war rig all you have to do is knock all the windows out of it and then and then put wire screen you know just think daily driver demolition derby car.

Jason

So when that fella cuts you off yes on the on the on the traffic circle you just ram them off the road correct that I could get on board with.

John

Now you're on board. Now you're on board.

Jason

No.

John

Have you seen, have you played the video game called Twisted Metal?

Jason

I can't, I can't say that I have.

John

Paul, are you there? Have we put in a new ad for another...

Jason

For a co-host.

John

Another co-host.

Jason

Who knows something about cars?

John

Who knows anything about cars? Who've seen a car? I'm sorry, that's above my station. All right, well, I'll do my best with this one. Davey, it's so popular. Twisted Metal video game is so, it's a first person driver video game and you get out of your car and you shoot all the clowns and clowns chase you with an ice cream truck with a rocket launcher on top. You know, all that crap. You know, because that happens to you daily, right? You get chased by a clown.

Jason

Oh, I mean, up here in Eastern Canada, yeah, the ice cream trucks are on every corner.

John

With a rocket launcher on it. But it's so popular. They've made it into a full-on television show on Peacock. It's the most hilarious thing you've ever seen. It's awesome.

Jason

Hey, Siri, cancel my Peacock subscription, please.

John

Oh, okay. Let's make believe that you were on board. With building a war rig. Let's just make believe you were on board. What do you think you would build? Any idea what you would build? Do you care? Or we would be just going out first to take you out.

Jason

Let's do it this way. Let's ask me that question at the end of the episode.

John

Oh.

Jason

After you try and sell me.

John

Okay.

Jason

On this ridiculousness.

John

Oh, it's pretty stupid.

Jason

Oh, I agree. But the floor is yours, Mr. Meyer.

John

All right. No problem. Paul, hit it. What do you got for photos? If people are watching this, what do you got for photos for war rig stuff or Wasteland Weekend? Throw that up there. Now look. Right there, right in front of you. That's exactly what I was just talking about. 41 Plymouth. 4 door on a on a. Four wheel drive truck chassis.

Jason

They do this for five days.

John

Yeah, five days. And it's something like the eastern side of California in the desert.

Jason

Even more of excuse not to go.

John

Well, you are kind of far away. And it's one of the reasons it's because it's the weekend. Get Out N Drive.

Jason

Falls on. Get up and drive day. Okay. All right. I'm 10% of the way.

John

Yeah. So like you've got a car that you think you have nothing to do with. You have a car that's a decent four door, something that's electable, 50s, four door car, whatever. Do you do you donate it to the demolition Derby? Do you smash it up? Do you restore it and put $50,000 in it? It's only going to be worth 1200 bucks. No, I do.

Jason

I do own. I do own several crown Vicks.

John

I understand. I mean, there's a Corvette. I mean, those a disco Corvette that looks like an 82. Is that a there's a Torino? Oh no, OK, no trunk and it's got a gun in the back of it. That's called a dune buggy.

Jason

French toast is that?

John

That's a dually dune buggy.

Jason

Oh, my dear.

John

With a rocket on it. That's fantastic.

Jason

What is this?

John

That's like a 70 F1 tow truck. That was a half of these vehicles you probably have by your house. Look at that. I look like an 80s Caprice with a Jeep front end. Some sort of murder cycle. There's girls. I mean, I have to tell you, look, at that. It's Bane. It is Bane. You could do that. could be you, Jason. That could be you. It already looks like you're wearing a CPAP.

Jason

A CPAP, horns, a bloody scarf.

John

Yes. Now you're with me.

Jason

No, I'm not. I mean, I'm OK with that.

John

Well, yeah, that's girls. See, as you're, there you go. There's like a geo metro with no doors on it and 15 people hanging on the roof. How could that not be fun?

Jason

So wait, could we take your burned out trains, planes and automobiles car? Oh, we most certainly could.

John

We could. We could. We could put like a big swinging thing on top of it with a bunch of chain. I mean, you've got cars that you don't have anything you want to do with. What would be better than taking a black and white Crown Vic? and making it all patina and crazy and taking it to this thing and just having an ex-police car shredded.

Jason

OK, well, this is fantastic. I'm 5% more there.

John

But you're still not on board. That is, I mean, there's a there's a like a Mad Max style. I can't see the back of it. Looks like maybe a Torino or a or some sort of Interceptor Falcon. Australian Falcon. But this just brings out the destructive horsepower hot rod in me. It did.

Jason

You have lost it.

John

I have.

Jason

Paul, we are officially looking for a co-host.

John

I've just been handed this.

Jason

I can't read it.

John

Okay, this says support building a war rig says plus 10% for Jason. So that's Joanne's donation.

Jason

In Joanne's handwriting. Yeah, way to go, Joanne.

John

In Joanne's handwriting, it says that she supports building a war rig and she puts in extra 10% of interest. Interesting. So you're at like 15% now?

Jason

Well, we're at 25 actually, but hey.

John

Oh wow, okay, all right. Well, who's counting? Who's counting? I mean, better if the thing spouts fire out of the exhaust.

Jason

Well, like the whole thing, like seeing these car, like there's a cat, that's a cattle guard on a, what is that?

John

Looks like a 67 Fairlane.

Jason

Okay.

John

68 Fairlane.

Jason

I could picture a Crown Vic with a cattle guard on it.

John

Oh, now you're getting there. There you go. And it'd have to be dirty, beat to hell, black and white.

Jason

Well, see the white one that I've got now?

John

Okay.

Jason

Like I could totally like strip the paint off that.

John

Oh, yeah.

Jason

Right? And then do like a vinegar and salt water wash.

John

Uh-huh.

Jason

To get the rusty, dried out desert look.

John

Right.

Jason

Or I could just drive it through one winter season here in New Brunswick, Canada.

John

That's true. You could take a perfectly good car and make it look like it fit in there.

Jason

Hey, yeah, in six months, it would look just like that.

John

Yes, yes. Yeah, you have to think of this as like, I don't know. I guess it's Burning Man for cars.

Jason

Well, I was just going to say you had some guy playing music. So they've got music.

John

Right.

Jason

They've got scantily dressed women.

John

Okay. So far, there's two of my things I like.

Jason

They've got cars, clearly.

John

Okay, three.

Jason

It's not in the snow.

John

Four. Might be a little hot there, but I don't care.

Jason

I like showering every day. Can we shower every day at least?

John

No, there's no showering.

Jason

Oh, damn it. Minus 5%.

John

No, see, I mean, there's goth girls that are there. There's...

Jason

Goth, what? No, whoa, back up. Goth girls. Goth girls.

John

Goth girls.

Jason

What are goth girls doing at a... apocalypse ending world.

John

They would fit in. They just came ICP concert. Yeah. And you gotta think. This is like take goth girls and ICP what the hell are they called? Uh. The jugglettes. Steampunk. And I think it's this is what you get.

Jason

Go back that one slide there Paul to the carts does that not remind you of the Shriners for peace?

John

It is that's exactly right post-apocalyptic Shriners.

Jason

The Shriners events are still around yes.

John

Oh with shrunken heads right this is the and we've been to custom car shows we've been to shiny car shows we've been to all sorts of different stuff this out in left field of crazy.

Jason

So take Pebble Beach and go to the absolute opposite end of the scale.

John

That is correct. You've seen on the East Coast, the race of gentlemen where they get all dressed up and they're all hoity-toity looking in perfect looking 1941, you know, pre-war, post-war little hot rods and they're all cute little things. This, but Mad Max.

Jason

Steampunk is kind of appealing. I've always thought that that was.

John

I like, I like steampunk stuff.

Jason

So this, this is just one event that takes place basically Labor Day weekend after Labor Day weekend. Like, please tell me there's not more of these events around the globe.

John

Oh, I haven't looked yet, but I'm guessing that Europeans are involved in this pretty heavy. If anybody's talking and they can tell us about other events that are like this, you have to tell us.

Jason

Who likes cars?

John

Yeah.

Jason

In their patina form, in their shiny paint form, in their classic hot rodded form, in their meticulous concourse form. I love all vehicles. I'm really, really having a hard time. I'm struggling with this on the level of dressing up.

John

Oh, you're okay. So you're down with it all except for the cosplay part.

Jason

Maybe I could get, I'm, look, hypothetically, if you could get me on board with the cars, I'm not sure you would get me in a pair of leather assless chaps with Bane get up on my face. I just, oh, I don't know. I can't. I can't get past the make believe.

John

So you just want the chapless *** covers.

Jason

Could you stitch a pair up for me?

John

I could. I could. It's actually like two. It looks like it looks like two eye patches.

Jason

I don't know. Like I said, I hypothetically, if I could get on board with the making the car look like those with the cattle guards and the rust and the roll cages and the lights and the this and the that. I don't, I never used to dress up for Halloween. Okay. I just, I don't think I could do this on purpose to dress up looking like a fool.

John

Wow. We can even change our logo for the week says get out and die. We wouldn't have to change the logo much.

Jason

I don't know.

Announcer

Maybe we start them on one-sixty-four scale.

Jason

There we go.

John

We could do that. We could do that. You'd have to build some Hot Wheels first.

Jason

I could build some look.

John

Build some gas land. Have you even looked at all these before you jump in? Have you even, did I say there you go?

Jason

I got an old, looks like an old Pontiac of something. There you go. I could probably, yeah, right, like we'll scrap that one up.

John

There you go. I mean, we're going to have to play, I guess we're going to have to play Gaslands. We get me and Paul together and play on Zoom or across the United States all the way up to Canada. We can play that together. you can get your tiny little Hot Wheels we can play Gaslands I mean that's a cool looking car right there it's like half of a half of a stomper

Jason

we'll see I've got I've got this one here this is bigger than 164 okay but like that's 132 if we took the wheels and the duals off that oh yeah yeah see grafted them onto the Bonnyville there you go okay I'm now you're

John

Now you're thinking. Now you know.

Jason

You might be on to something.

John

I mean, it's all about creativity. And you don't have to build it pretty and you don't have to build it according to somebody else's and what they feel is cool.

Jason

Well, what I want to know.

John

Demolish some four-door cars that aren't cool.

Jason

So I guess what I want to know is the mindset behind this. Is this something that people are just, A, they're just simply doing it for fun as a throwback to the Mad Max style of movies? Just like Trekkies will dress up in their Klingon and their this or their that type uniform and this, like make sure. If that's what it is, that's one thing.

John

Yes.

Jason

If in their mind, at some point in time, they're absolutely thinking end of the world, doomsday prepper, I'm going to build a car that can withstand the whole E, what is it called? EMF.

John

Oh, yeah. EMF. Yeah.

Jason

Whatever.

John

Yeah.

Jason

Like, that's just, I mean, to me, that's a little out there. I don't know. I just, I just, That's what I think.

John

Well, considering the level playing field that the current US situation is giving us, that everything is going to go to hell and 1% of the people are going to own everything and everybody else gets to pick up the scraps. We may be going to this. Maybe that's what people are. Maybe that's what people are prepping for. There's just one step being a quote unquote hillbilly prepper. one step off the line and all of a sudden you're a wasteland participant.

Jason

Well, when we first started, when you first approached me with this idea, I absolutely thought you were crazy. But like we talk about it and all joking aside, I think that the whole You know, to some of these cars, there is just as much effort and creativity that goes into building some of these full-size, you know, real running, driving cars.

John

Right.

Jason

As some showstoppers.

John

Most certainly.

Jason

Right. And like I said, I can appreciate the effort and the creativity and the artistic value that goes into that stuff. It certainly is not me. I just, I don't think that you would ever catch me Building a car like that, dressing up and cost. No, I just, I'm just not that big of a nerd.

John

So, but you're okay. You're better with the C10 cost of having a C10 and having a beard and some plan. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Jason

Censor that one out, Paul.

Announcer

I almost spit my beer.

John

Look, you can't tell me that that's not cosplay. Every single one of you see 10 guys looks the same.

Jason

Paul, you had part of the conversation that one time I shaved my beard and, and I was threatened that if I ever did it again, that I was going to be fired. Get Out N Drive. Were you part of that conversation?

John

You don't remember that. I remember that very well.

Jason

Come on. You encouraged me to never shave my beard again.

John

I did. I did 100%. But see, you have to look and go look right now. Anybody wants to look right now. Flat bill hat, beard, plaid, seated.

Jason

Do you see a flat bill hat here?

John

Not today.

Jason

Do you see plaid? Look, I'll even undo my sweater. Do you see plaid?

John

I think I struck a chord. And Mr. Robbie Purser out there, I may have struck a chord with him as well.

Jason

Rick Cheeseman.

John

Rick Cheeseman and several of our friends in the C-10 community. I still love y'all.

Jason

All joking aside, I do believe that this is a pretty, it's a pretty cool adaptation of what they're trying to pull off with the whole Mad Max end of the world type thing. Yeah. I do, I think it's very creative. There's certainly, you're gonna certainly be in a position where there's no two cars ever identical. Right. You know, I love the creative thought and taste that goes into these things. Again, is it my, look at the blood on the blade. That's just crazy. Oh yeah. Is it my thing? Absolutely not. Neither is hot or neither is rat rod, but there are some that are more tastefully done than others.

John

Yeah.

Jason

Right. There's rat rods out there that shouldn't even be on the road. They're so distastefully done. There's some that are purpose built.

John

Scarily built.

Jason

To be safe.

John

Yeah.

Jason

Like, I don't know if you follow Village Customs or not. I do. They're building some quality stuff over there.

John

Right.

Jason

But some of this backyard stuff that people just throw license plates and coat hangers on.

John

Right.

Jason

Anyways, I get it. I do, I get it. You know, put me at a passing grade of about 60% there on this whole topic because- Okay. Could I ever see myself building a car? Like, sure, I think I could do that. I think I could make something look the part. You would never catch me doing the whole cosplay thing on anything. It's just that's just not me. Okay. Wow. Call me cosplaying the C10 guy all you want. You're not going to catch me cosplaying end of the world. I'd be interested in hearing from some of the people who listen to us. Whether you're actually watching this on YouTube or you're listening to us in the form of a podcast, it's always neat to see a different side of hot rodding, which is exactly what this is. You know, it involves, you know, it involves cars, involves bikes, it involves even tractor trailers to some degree. It involves off-road ATV style vehicles. There's a lot that you can do with this and, you know, to everyone's credit, Kudos because it takes a lot of work, a lot of evenings, a lot of weekends, a lot of time away from your family doing this sort of thing, whether it's a shiny concourse build or whether it's patina build or whether it's rat rod or a post-apocalyptic wasteland build. You know, there's creativity there. And, you know, some have more of it than others, certainly more than me. I'm certainly not a shiny paint guy, although I have a shiny paint car. I'm just, I like seeing things in their true weathered form. You know, no rusted holes and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, if it's drivable and you're having fun, that's the key to this whole hobby, whether it is any of those things or not, is if you're having fun doing what you're doing, even if it is dressing up. power to you. Do your thing. Have fun, because that's what it's all about. There are certainly worst things in life you could be wasting your money on. And if you're doing this together, either with friends or with your spouse or whatever it happens to be, you know, kudos on you. It's doing something fun and different, that's for sure.

John

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John

What drives you?