If you have a Corvette or other type of car that rides low to the ground, then you'll want to tune in for our latest Wine Down episode. Here's the rub: Prescott is a town with terrain, so low-riding vehicles can bottom out easily here - especially in driveways that are steep or have not been properly graded. In this episode we reveal our very own Cajun-style invention you can use to check to make sure you can get the Corvette in the garage without scraping. And like all good DIY tools, it's cheap to make and easy to use. You can find our episode on Bridjits here... https://prescottpicklelady.com/vehicles/ More info on the Bridjit device... https://www.bridjit.com/Video Transcript
good morning good morning peeps
randall and diane bro here he’s breast
piccolating i am i am the gherkin
sidekick he is the gherkin sidekick yes
i just jarred another five gallons
another five gallons doing our part in
production yeah
so if you give me a call or we see you
i’m happy to bring you a jar of my
famous cajun that’s right logistics
problems do not hold back never the
pickle production that is correct always
in production
and always excited to share yes um my
pickles with everybody but anyway
uh we are i digress we are here to talk
today about something called driveways
and corvettes driveways and corvettes
well what i’ve noticed yeah how about
you
lately everywhere in prescott i see
people driving corvette after corvette
yeah lots of corvettes here it’s a big
cars of all types are big here vintage
cars and
they have uh uh we’ll have shows with mg
and but it seems the corvettes are kind
of uh taking center stage
yeah vintage corvettes brand new
corvettes um the new ones have beautiful
colors yeah beautiful so shout out to
mr goodman and to the lucex who are also
fellow uh friends and clients yep who
corvettes yeah corvettes here’s the
thing about corvettes they ride low to
the ground
super super low to the ground
not the only cars that ride low to the
ground no they’re producers also ride
low to the ground priuses uh any number
of so the hot rod cars you know
testosterone and all that stuff that
they ride low to the ground
which helps you i guess with the air
flow when you are i get it i mean i get
the design yeah um the design doesn’t
always work for us as realtors that’s
right yeah the problem is we are a
mountain town so we do have terrain
they have any number of areas around
town you’re driving your corvette you’re
going to bottom out yep
and sometimes when you don’t expect it
and i hate the sound of that we have a
sedan uh we also have the pickle van the
pickle band rides low the scene does not
ride very high yeah uh from time to time
you know we get a bit of a scrape if you
have a car that’s really low you’re
gonna be scraping a lot so be careful
with that
and in particular be careful about your
right way yes so but the pickle lady
team yeah
we’ve come up with a solution yeah we
did yeah so a lot of times kind of thing
right people will come in and they’re
like oh my gosh i love this house i love
everything about it the driveway is not
going to work for my corvette we just
had this with a really super nice climb
so i was out i came home and like where
are you because we were getting ready to
go meet them
and randall says well i’m i’m over here
at lowe’s i’m like what are you doing we
need to be gone
and he came back and he actually devised
this tool that helps us measure
yes um the the the how low the car is
the clearance on the driveway so just
it’s very science
you think it would be easy you know it’s
not about the front of the car it’s
really not about the back of the car
it’s really about the middle of the car
so what happens is you have you have
like a little hump
in your driveway you know because it’s
it’s you’re going up terrain or whatever
and you have like a little hump if the
front tires go down
faster than the back tires are going up
uh you may scrape in the middle
so i made a little device where it uses
yardsticks and uh it’s pretty much it
you know it’s orange and engaging
contraption
it’s our own invention nobody tried to
patent this that’s right
i think i’m gonna make one instead of
instead of rope i might do one with uh
with some kind of wood to get but the
idea is
you uh you measure the clearance of the
tires and how far apart the tires are
and the yardsticks kind of show you they
represent the tires and if the rope is
touching your driveway then you’re
probably going to scrape
and it’s not an exact thing but barring
you know actually bringing the car in
and trying it out it’ll give you a good
idea um i don’t know why they don’t use
a device like that to actually pave what
else did your driveways what else did
you bring oh we also did uh the other
issue was the the slope of the driveway
may be of concern for the the pods the
storage units the storage containers
so we had to we had to measure the pitch
to see if they were going to allow the
client to put the storage unit in the
driveway or it was going to be too
angling that’s right so here’s the thing
people
you think we’re just here writing up a
contract
and chit chatting as we do with this on
these little videos we actually are full
service yeah uh we’re out there
measuring we’re coming up with new
measurements uh measurement uh equipment
we’re inventing a group correct we we
are we’re double time here
we’re like you know what we’re going to
figure out about this corvette for sure
before you make a decision the other
thing we love to talk about and we have
it in our own house is something called
a bridget
oh yeah the bridge shout out to the
bridgette the bridgette company yeah i
think we did it
we did a video i think on bridget’s
so in our particular little babies
subdivision or neighborhood of uh
prescott lakes called creekside they did
a really horrible job on the curbs the
curbs are too high yeah so in effect it
you have a speed bump going into your
home driveway okay so most of the
neighbors here have this device called a
bridge
which is made out of the same kind of
rubber that make tires it’s amazing so
shout out to the bridge the bridging
company so that’s a tip for you guys
yeah definitely if you are having a
hard uh you know jump up over a curve
into your garage
look at the bridge of the company yeah
i’ll put it if i find that our old wine
down on the bridgette i’ll put to think
on it it’s it’s supersize so between the
bridget and our measurement tools
and uh knowledge and know-how yeah we
will make sure that car is gonna work
it’s gonna fit yeah yeah because a lot
of times homes here are built into
terrain we don’t have super flat
necessarily driveways
and uh it’s important to understand that
when you’re coming here
um either get rid of those cars or
we’re gonna try to figure it out and
make it we’re trying to make it work
don’t be disappointed if not listen buy
a new car and get a higher higher
clearance because you’re going to you’re
going to want that
we’re going to run into it time and time
again here unfortunately just because of
the nature of the terrain if you’re
you’re a collector or you know you have
a a really beautiful car and that’s kind
of what you’re in you may want to
consider some sort of alternative
storage you know a garage or something
where you can store it might you might
do better than keeping it in your own
garage
but the main point of this particular
video though was just to talk about how
we’re full service
um we have a measurement uh equipment
now in place
to help you really determine with pretty
much 95 accuracy i would say well i mean
you’re going to really tell you you just
you know if it says you’re you’re not
going to scrape you probably want to try
the car
you know i mean the ultimate test is the
car itself
um but if it tells you you’re gonna
scrape and you’re probably gonna scroll
i mean it’s it in the end it’s
yardsticks and it’s rogue it’s yardstick
you know and i’m not an engineer now you
know but i mean we will try to help you
do your due diligence for it and show
you what’s going on but the good thing
is is that uh you know if you’re coming
in from out of state you may not have
that car with you right we try to in the
interim give you some idea of whether or
not it’s going to work yeah
so that is our tip of the day yeah it is
important here
so cheers to you for coming up with that
little system we love it
we love it and we love it
so give us a call if you have any
questions or if you’d like to see a home
or list a home we’re at 713-302-1964
yeah if you’re just looking for
information place for that is
pickle411.com
that is our information site whether you
are buy or sellers somewhere in between
all kinds of information about prescott
and uh real estate and life and
restaurants and all kinds of things that
are going on you never know what will
pop in our little in our little p brains
and out of cons trying to make it
informative and entertaining try we try
that’s what we do okay
well good luck to you if you’re out
there looking
call us we’re happy to help you
and have a great rest of your day
absolutely bye
