June 2, 2025 • 11 mins
In this high-octane episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and Big Puma dive into the roaring world of cars, performance culture, and a few jaw-dropping stories that’ll leave you laughing and shaking your head in disbelief. From insider whispers about GM reviving the legendary Pontiac brand to the surprising shift away from electric vehicles, this episode is packed with gearhead gold.
The duo’s banter is as entertaining as it is informative, especially when they break down the Ford Maverick’s surprising value, the Jeep pickup’s rugged charm, and the Tesla truck’s uncertain future. But it’s not all torque and tailpipes—don’t miss the hilarious story of a 5-year-old and his 3-year-old sister who took the family SUV on a breakfast run to McDonald’s. It’s the kind of story only Bama could tell, and it’s the perfect cherry on top of this wild ride.
Key Highlights:
The duo’s banter is as entertaining as it is informative, especially when they break down the Ford Maverick’s surprising value, the Jeep pickup’s rugged charm, and the Tesla truck’s uncertain future. But it’s not all torque and tailpipes—don’t miss the hilarious story of a 5-year-old and his 3-year-old sister who took the family SUV on a breakfast run to McDonald’s. It’s the kind of story only Bama could tell, and it’s the perfect cherry on top of this wild ride.
Key Highlights:
- GM’s rumored pivot back to performance and the possible resurrection of Pontiac
- Why electric vehicle sales are stalling—and what’s next
- The Ford Maverick: a budget-friendly truck that punches above its weight
- A $110 million Mercedes and the legacy of Le Mans
- Bama’s daily driver: a beat-up but beloved 1936 Ford coupe
- A 5-year-old’s joyride that made national headlines
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hey to you Bama Brown. Here from the Bama
Brown Experience on the iHeart podcast Network. Got a lot
of people listening now, thank you very much. Tell your
friends it's ten to fifteen minutes. You would try to
make you laugh. We'll tell you some stuff you hadn't
heard from anywhere else. And my partner, Big Puma, the
Big Cat, he has the Sports Cave sports show. The
(00:23):
number one podcast is Sports Anywhere in Central Texas. Because
he played basketball in college, he knows what he's talking about.
So it's one thing and just talk about it's another
thing to actually do it. But I thought you'd enjoy
hearing this. Oh, by the way, Tonight's Live Monday Night
Shows Live Tonight and Yes, Sir.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Back live on YouTube. A's Sports Cave Live. But if
you miss us on YouTube, you can always get the
audio version anywhere you get your podcast, just search for
the Sports Cave with the Biggest Puma. And I love
how much credit you give my end of the bench
tile waving at McMurray University. Love how that is the
reason where he gets all of his sports knowledge from
(01:04):
from being a benchwarmer for a Division III basketball program.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
People don't know any different. We could say anything. I'm
let me say it like that. I remember when Puma
was in the final four and the countdown was coming,
and then you threw the ball. But when y'all got there,
the coach had measured the you know, the basketball goal,
and y'all were you'd only played in Indiana, And I mean,
we could just we could make up so much bullshit.
(01:31):
People don't check that. Remember when I won the Indy
five hundred dead time.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I I love I remember when it was it was
Magic Bird and me. Yeah, nobody national championship. I'm an
eagle scout Bama. I can't handle the catching the truth.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Nobody's gonna look this ship up. But we're both terrible liars.
So that's why you'll know him were lying, because it's
it's you know you can tell. Yeah. Now I your
car guy. I'm a car guy. I talked about of
car stuff. But there's a guy that I know that's
pretty tight with GM, and he told me two things.
He said, GM is putting in a huge new conversion
(02:12):
of one of their electric plants to build the LS
motor because now that now that the old administration is out,
the new administration is like you build us some performance
and they're so GM is so committed to performance, you're
ready for this. They're talking about bringing Pontiac back. Yeah,
(02:32):
they said that they feel like there's enough demand for it.
Their Corvette cells or sales of performance vehicles is way up,
trucks are way up. They're like, the only thing that
ain't selling is electric cars, you know, and so they're
getting out of that. Yeah, I told you last week.
UGO is coming back. The UGO is coming out. Somebody
purchased the name. They don't know what's going on. I
(02:55):
don't know about that. But anyway, performances, performance is back.
Electric cars or I'm not sitting or done, but I'm
just saying that in the future's not you know, the
money is if you go buy electric car, you go
get a Tesla or a Tesla truck. But Tesla supposedly,
I don't know how true. This is supposedly sitting on
one hundred thousand trucks they can't sell. So I don't
(03:17):
know about.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I don't they keep having to recall the trucks. I'm
not gonna lie. The roommate and I we have we
might along with my producer LG on the sports cave.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We're all.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
We've been been looking at some Tesla's lately because it
feels like now is the time if you have any
interest in ever owning one, now is probably a really,
really good time to jump into one.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I think the cars are beautiful, and when one drives
by in it's just quiet. I love quiet like that.
I'll tell you a lot of buzz on something. And
if you're thinking about getting a truck, uh, he don't
want to get a Ram. I love the Rams, the
big Ram trucks, but the Ford Maverick truck, the little
truck has.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's what my buddy LG.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Drives. He's looking.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He's thinking about trading that in to get the Tesla.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I'm telling you, I've got a buddy of mine that's
had one for two years and he's talking twenty five
miles a gallon in a pickup truck, and it'll hold
a sheet of plywood, which is your gauge for a
pickup truck. If it can hold a four by eight
sheet of plywood, you got to pick up anything less.
And I think almost all of them can do that,
but they were he was really impressed with this Maverick truck.
You know, and so that's something to think about. I
(04:33):
tell you what I've been driving as one of those
Jeep pickups, so the Ford door Jeep. But it's a
pickup truck, right man, that's impressive. I mean it's really nice.
But you know, once again, it's fifty grand for a
nice one. And the Maverick you can get that stripped
down Maverick deal for about twenty five you know, So
there's something to think about. But I'm you know, I'm
Bennie Boys folkesperson. So bye from Benny Boy. If you
(04:55):
get one of those Jeep trucks are really nice. I
mean it's super high no matter what you get. Uh yeah.
But but I'm we're talking going back to the honesty thing. Uh.
That Maverick truck is forwarded. So I mean, I think
that probably would be perfect for a young couple, you know,
don't want to have a thousand dollars a month car payment.
That's something you.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Have a family too. You can get one of those.
You can get a quad cab version and it still
gets great gas.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, it's awesome, awesome gas mileage on that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I just though you have shot my wheels off all
I've been sitting here thinking about for the last five
minutes is a mid engine trans am like the new
cop car to be badass.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You know we were talking about Ford's Uh you remember
Ford versus Ferrari. You saw the movie. Everybody saw the movie. Okay,
remember when the three cars cross the line. It in
the monds the the number two car car came in second.
In that we went across the auction block there. Uh
about a month ago, thirteen million. That car sold for
(06:00):
thirteen large for GT for a sixty four model car.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
As crazy as it sounds, that might have actually been
a deal.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh it's history, absolutely history.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You got money. Could you could have told me it
sold for thirty million and I would believe you. It
feels like that could have been higher.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Hey, the Ferrarigto they had the last one sold for
thirty three and that was the highest auction car. I
think it was thirty three million, So that was the
highest auction car until that. Mercedes sold. Mercedes a lot
of people to know this Mercedes was racing and in
nineteen fifty five they crashed at Lemon's and killed like
(06:42):
fifty people. I mean it was it was a tragedy
and Mercedes immediately pulled out of racing forever. They said,
we're not going to. But in the meantime, they had
built two Mercedes cars that were there the ultimate race
car would have won everything, but they never raced them.
They kept them and they kept them for years, and
last year they sold one of them, only built two,
(07:06):
and they sold one of them to a private auction
in it for one hundred and ten million dollars and
they turned that money. That was the money they were
going to use to do. The guy said, we're not
going to pay taxes on it because we're going to
use it for our electric car and our hybrid, all
the you know, the technology for it, all the R
(07:27):
and D for the hybrid. You know, they think hydrogen
may be the answer, or they think there's alternative fuels
is the way to go, not so much electric, but
the or combination of but hydrogens. A you know, that's
a known entity. I don't know. I mean, I'm gonna
you know, I drive a thirty six Ford Coup with
(07:48):
a three fifty Shivvy in it, so I'm not exactly
up on what's going on on cars.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Looking forward to dropping a hydrogen engine into your I would.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You know, what I would consider a uh. And I
should get horse whipped for saying this because the car
was a thirty six. It had a flathead and it
you can't you know, you can't go there twice the
costs and half the power. People that anybody's still listening,
and it's a car. If they're not a car, verson
they're gone. But it's just us. Now this car goes.
But I would look at a I would look at
(08:22):
a new V six, you know, with fuel injection in
it for the I mean, same power, but a lot
better mileage and the you know, fuel injected. It's so
much better in a carburetor. I mean, people argue about that,
but I'm telling you, you go out there, you hit
the button, the thing starts every time with the old
gas car, you carburetor. You know, if you don't know
how to fix one thing got to do, you know.
(08:42):
But I keep that thing running. But you know, I
still got straight axle on the front. I mean, it ain't.
It ain't no new car. And it's so cool. You know,
it's an old rat rod. And so you hate to
put a new engine in an old rat rod. It
needs to have a hot rod mode.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, at least if even if you're not going full original.
At least something that's a little more era appropriate.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Mine was a mine was the sixties. Uh it's a
sixties high rod and it and when I saw it
the first time, it had been flipped on its side,
and my buddy, that was nice. Yeah, a couple of
my buddies were building it, and uh, I loved it.
Minute I saw it. The whole left side caved in
and they beat on it. There weren't body guys, but
they got it pretty close. And I still drive it
(09:23):
with that to this day. Didn't even have a door
panel on the left side. It has one on the right.
The seat's nice and carpet even, but I've got the
left door panel and any you put it on there.
But if you're trying to figure it out, and that's
my only car, by the way, if you're trying to
figure it out, that Bama drafts piece of ship. Every
day I drive it. I've driven it. I drove it
(09:43):
all the way east Austin over to the High Road Show,
and I wouldn't mind. I couldn't take it down or
see you at Zandonio. But uh, you keep your phone
with you the whole time, just because I have a wreck. Yeah,
just in case. Well it's enough with click and class
card talk.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh the great clicking clack, the great clicking clack car talk.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And I'm still laughing about that story we did last
week about the two kids that wanted to go to
McDonald's and have breakfast and mom looked around. I don't
know if I even told you this story. Oh no,
mom looked around and she goes, where are the kids?
She had four? The two of them were missing, and
she looked outside and her suv was gone. Oh, little
(10:28):
sis wanted McDonald's. Little brother drove her to McDonald's. Well,
let me rephrase that. Little brother and little Sis drove
McDonald's because she was she was three and he was five,
and they got the keys and drove an suv to McDonald's.
And the only reason she found out about it they
got it hung up on the curb at McDonald's. They
(10:50):
made it to the McDonald's and had it and had
it all, you know, you know, gossed up on one
of those deals and you couldn't get out, and the
police called her and your kids because they wanted breakfast.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So I know we shouldn't celebrate this, but no, but Wow,
that's impressible.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, that's that's impressive.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We're not celebrating it, but to acknowledge a five year
old driving.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Somebody was somebody was paying attention to to that. I'll
do one more car story and then you want me
to do it today or tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow.
How about that. It's one of the best car stories
you ever heard. Racing driver story, all right tomorrow. Tune
in to The Maamma Brown Experience on the iHeart podcast Network.
Well, hey to you Bama Brown. Here from the Bama
Brown Experience on the iHeart podcast Network. Got a lot
of people listening now, thank you very much. Tell your
friends it's ten to fifteen minutes. You would try to
make you laugh. We'll tell you some stuff you hadn't
heard from anywhere else. And my partner, Big Puma, the
Big Cat, he has the Sports Cave sports show. The
(00:23):
number one podcast is Sports Anywhere in Central Texas. Because
he played basketball in college, he knows what he's talking about.
So it's one thing and just talk about it's another
thing to actually do it. But I thought you'd enjoy
hearing this. Oh, by the way, Tonight's Live Monday Night
Shows Live Tonight and Yes, Sir.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Back live on YouTube. A's Sports Cave Live. But if
you miss us on YouTube, you can always get the
audio version anywhere you get your podcast, just search for
the Sports Cave with the Biggest Puma. And I love
how much credit you give my end of the bench
tile waving at McMurray University. Love how that is the
reason where he gets all of his sports knowledge from
(01:04):
from being a benchwarmer for a Division III basketball program.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
People don't know any different. We could say anything. I'm
let me say it like that. I remember when Puma
was in the final four and the countdown was coming,
and then you threw the ball. But when y'all got there,
the coach had measured the you know, the basketball goal,
and y'all were you'd only played in Indiana, And I mean,
we could just we could make up so much bullshit.
(01:31):
People don't check that. Remember when I won the Indy
five hundred dead time.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I I love I remember when it was it was
Magic Bird and me. Yeah, nobody national championship. I'm an
eagle scout Bama. I can't handle the catching the truth.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Nobody's gonna look this ship up. But we're both terrible liars.
So that's why you'll know him were lying, because it's
it's you know you can tell. Yeah. Now I your
car guy. I'm a car guy. I talked about of
car stuff. But there's a guy that I know that's
pretty tight with GM, and he told me two things.
He said, GM is putting in a huge new conversion
(02:12):
of one of their electric plants to build the LS
motor because now that now that the old administration is out,
the new administration is like you build us some performance
and they're so GM is so committed to performance, you're
ready for this. They're talking about bringing Pontiac back. Yeah,
(02:32):
they said that they feel like there's enough demand for it.
Their Corvette cells or sales of performance vehicles is way up,
trucks are way up. They're like, the only thing that
ain't selling is electric cars, you know, and so they're
getting out of that. Yeah, I told you last week.
UGO is coming back. The UGO is coming out. Somebody
purchased the name. They don't know what's going on. I
(02:55):
don't know about that. But anyway, performances, performance is back.
Electric cars or I'm not sitting or done, but I'm
just saying that in the future's not you know, the
money is if you go buy electric car, you go
get a Tesla or a Tesla truck. But Tesla supposedly,
I don't know how true. This is supposedly sitting on
one hundred thousand trucks they can't sell. So I don't
(03:17):
know about.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I don't they keep having to recall the trucks. I'm
not gonna lie. The roommate and I we have we
might along with my producer LG on the sports cave.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We're all.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
We've been been looking at some Tesla's lately because it
feels like now is the time if you have any
interest in ever owning one, now is probably a really,
really good time to jump into one.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I think the cars are beautiful, and when one drives
by in it's just quiet. I love quiet like that.
I'll tell you a lot of buzz on something. And
if you're thinking about getting a truck, uh, he don't
want to get a Ram. I love the Rams, the
big Ram trucks, but the Ford Maverick truck, the little
truck has.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's what my buddy LG.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Drives. He's looking.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He's thinking about trading that in to get the Tesla.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I'm telling you, I've got a buddy of mine that's
had one for two years and he's talking twenty five
miles a gallon in a pickup truck, and it'll hold
a sheet of plywood, which is your gauge for a
pickup truck. If it can hold a four by eight
sheet of plywood, you got to pick up anything less.
And I think almost all of them can do that,
but they were he was really impressed with this Maverick truck.
You know, and so that's something to think about. I
(04:33):
tell you what I've been driving as one of those
Jeep pickups, so the Ford door Jeep. But it's a
pickup truck, right man, that's impressive. I mean it's really nice.
But you know, once again, it's fifty grand for a
nice one. And the Maverick you can get that stripped
down Maverick deal for about twenty five you know, So
there's something to think about. But I'm you know, I'm
Bennie Boys folkesperson. So bye from Benny Boy. If you
(04:55):
get one of those Jeep trucks are really nice. I
mean it's super high no matter what you get. Uh yeah.
But but I'm we're talking going back to the honesty thing. Uh.
That Maverick truck is forwarded. So I mean, I think
that probably would be perfect for a young couple, you know,
don't want to have a thousand dollars a month car payment.
That's something you.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Have a family too. You can get one of those.
You can get a quad cab version and it still
gets great gas.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, it's awesome, awesome gas mileage on that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I just though you have shot my wheels off all
I've been sitting here thinking about for the last five
minutes is a mid engine trans am like the new
cop car to be badass.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You know we were talking about Ford's Uh you remember
Ford versus Ferrari. You saw the movie. Everybody saw the movie. Okay,
remember when the three cars cross the line. It in
the monds the the number two car car came in second.
In that we went across the auction block there. Uh
about a month ago, thirteen million. That car sold for
(06:00):
thirteen large for GT for a sixty four model car.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
As crazy as it sounds, that might have actually been
a deal.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh it's history, absolutely history.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You got money. Could you could have told me it
sold for thirty million and I would believe you. It
feels like that could have been higher.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Hey, the Ferrarigto they had the last one sold for
thirty three and that was the highest auction car. I
think it was thirty three million, So that was the
highest auction car until that. Mercedes sold. Mercedes a lot
of people to know this Mercedes was racing and in
nineteen fifty five they crashed at Lemon's and killed like
(06:42):
fifty people. I mean it was it was a tragedy
and Mercedes immediately pulled out of racing forever. They said,
we're not going to. But in the meantime, they had
built two Mercedes cars that were there the ultimate race
car would have won everything, but they never raced them.
They kept them and they kept them for years, and
last year they sold one of them, only built two,
(07:06):
and they sold one of them to a private auction
in it for one hundred and ten million dollars and
they turned that money. That was the money they were
going to use to do. The guy said, we're not
going to pay taxes on it because we're going to
use it for our electric car and our hybrid, all
the you know, the technology for it, all the R
(07:27):
and D for the hybrid. You know, they think hydrogen
may be the answer, or they think there's alternative fuels
is the way to go, not so much electric, but
the or combination of but hydrogens. A you know, that's
a known entity. I don't know. I mean, I'm gonna
you know, I drive a thirty six Ford Coup with
(07:48):
a three fifty Shivvy in it, so I'm not exactly
up on what's going on on cars.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Looking forward to dropping a hydrogen engine into your I would.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You know, what I would consider a uh. And I
should get horse whipped for saying this because the car
was a thirty six. It had a flathead and it
you can't you know, you can't go there twice the
costs and half the power. People that anybody's still listening,
and it's a car. If they're not a car, verson
they're gone. But it's just us. Now this car goes.
But I would look at a I would look at
(08:22):
a new V six, you know, with fuel injection in
it for the I mean, same power, but a lot
better mileage and the you know, fuel injected. It's so
much better in a carburetor. I mean, people argue about that,
but I'm telling you, you go out there, you hit
the button, the thing starts every time with the old
gas car, you carburetor. You know, if you don't know
how to fix one thing got to do, you know.
(08:42):
But I keep that thing running. But you know, I
still got straight axle on the front. I mean, it ain't.
It ain't no new car. And it's so cool. You know,
it's an old rat rod. And so you hate to
put a new engine in an old rat rod. It
needs to have a hot rod mode.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, at least if even if you're not going full original.
At least something that's a little more era appropriate.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Mine was a mine was the sixties. Uh it's a
sixties high rod and it and when I saw it
the first time, it had been flipped on its side,
and my buddy, that was nice. Yeah, a couple of
my buddies were building it, and uh, I loved it.
Minute I saw it. The whole left side caved in
and they beat on it. There weren't body guys, but
they got it pretty close. And I still drive it
(09:23):
with that to this day. Didn't even have a door
panel on the left side. It has one on the right.
The seat's nice and carpet even, but I've got the
left door panel and any you put it on there.
But if you're trying to figure it out, and that's
my only car, by the way, if you're trying to
figure it out, that Bama drafts piece of ship. Every
day I drive it. I've driven it. I drove it
(09:43):
all the way east Austin over to the High Road Show,
and I wouldn't mind. I couldn't take it down or
see you at Zandonio. But uh, you keep your phone
with you the whole time, just because I have a wreck. Yeah,
just in case. Well it's enough with click and class
card talk.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh the great clicking clack, the great clicking clack car talk.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And I'm still laughing about that story we did last
week about the two kids that wanted to go to
McDonald's and have breakfast and mom looked around. I don't
know if I even told you this story. Oh no,
mom looked around and she goes, where are the kids?
She had four? The two of them were missing, and
she looked outside and her suv was gone. Oh, little
(10:28):
sis wanted McDonald's. Little brother drove her to McDonald's. Well,
let me rephrase that. Little brother and little Sis drove
McDonald's because she was she was three and he was five,
and they got the keys and drove an suv to McDonald's.
And the only reason she found out about it they
got it hung up on the curb at McDonald's. They
(10:50):
made it to the McDonald's and had it and had
it all, you know, you know, gossed up on one
of those deals and you couldn't get out, and the
police called her and your kids because they wanted breakfast.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So I know we shouldn't celebrate this, but no, but Wow,
that's impressible.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, that's that's impressive.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We're not celebrating it, but to acknowledge a five year
old driving.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Somebody was somebody was paying attention to to that. I'll
do one more car story and then you want me
to do it today or tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow.
How about that. It's one of the best car stories
you ever heard. Racing driver story, all right tomorrow. Tune
in to The Maamma Brown Experience on the iHeart podcast Network.
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