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Go behind the wheel, under the hood and beyond with Car Stuff from howstuffworks.com.
Ben Bowlin
Scott, Scott, Scott, welcome back.
Scott Benjamin
Thank you.
Ben Bowlin
Good to see you again.
Scott Benjamin
Good to see you as well.
Ben Bowlin
Yep, and for everyone who hasn’t caught earlier episodes, let’s introduce ourselves.
Scott Benjamin
Why not.
Ben Bowlin
All right.
Scott Benjamin
I am Scott Benjamin. I’m the auto editor here at howstuffworks and you are?
Ben Bowlin
My name is Ben and I’m kind of the sidekick who asks you questions.
Scott Benjamin
Fantastic.
Ben Bowlin
About cars.
Scott Benjamin
That’s the way it works.
Ben Bowlin
Yeah, and let’s go ahead and maybe – let’s try this out. We talk about a lot of different types of cars, you know, we’ve gone through – I mean, we’ve just gone nuts on some stuff, you know, flying cars is still always gonna be a little bit of a disagreement between us but I understand where you’re coming from. So, I was thinking maybe we could build a bridge back. We can maybe talk about something that we’re both pretty big fans of, muscle cars.
Scott Benjamin
Oh, yeah.
Ben Bowlin
You remember muscle cars?
Scott Benjamin
Yeah, I do. I’m from Michigan, Detroit so muscle cars are all over the place up there. You know, up until – well, I just went back a couple weeks ago and I was shocked by how many I saw just because I’d been here for a while, forgot kind of what it was like up there because that’s the weekend car for everybody up there. So, I was there on a weekend and Friday evening, sure enough, the roads were, not packed with them but pretty close.
Ben Bowlin
What kinds were you seeing up there?
Scott Benjamin
Oh, everything. I mean, anything you could imagine that came from the big three in that time frame, you saw.
Ben Bowlin
Wow.
Scott Benjamin
And I’d love to list them but there’s so many, and honestly, they park in groups, you know, it’s kind of like cruise night – you’ve been to cruise nights or you’ve seen cruise nights?
Ben Bowlin
Sure, yeah, definitely.
Scott Benjamin
It’s like that at – I happen to live right near the Woodward Area in Detroit and that road, of course the Woodward dream cruise and it’s really an all-year event now. It’s crazy. I mean, there are people sitting in lawn chairs on the side of the road just to watch traffic every Friday and Saturday night, even now, and I don’t think the dream cruise happens until August or something like that.