- Look how open this car is.
Like how we should be as humans,
with open chakras, with open arms
to the world, nothing but love.
Welcome to Miracle Whips.
I'm comedian Byron Bowers.
Imagine if you could only drive one car
for the rest of your life.
No project car, no dailies.
It's like a spouse, if you're a good person.
Today I get to drive a 1964 Lincoln Continental.
Let's see if it's my Miracle Whip.
(electronic music)
When I turned the corner and I saw this car,
man I was like, "Oh my God."
- Oh Daddy
- In the last episode I got Byron
what I thought for sure would be his Miracle Whip.
R32 Skyline GTR.
But it wasn't.
So, I'm on Driveshare, which is basically AirBNB for cars,
and I think I found him the exact opposite
of a Skyline GTR. 1964 Lincoln Continental.
I dare you not to like it.
- [Byron] The Lincoln Continental
was one of the classiest cars to ever come out of D-Town,
Detroit Michigan.
Man, this is dope right here.
This car was liked by the highest profile celebrities.
Like, baller alert when you came down the street.
This is America, everybody doing great.
Get your ass a Lincoln.
There was Elvis, James Brown,
JFK, the Pope, Elizabeth Taylor,
Sinatra, that's right. He's like the first R. Kelly.
Seen being driven in one of these mean that
you was very classy, elegant, and stylish.
Inside is spacious.
I mean, I could lay down in the back.
I could lay down in the front.
Things that stand out about this car is the low belt line.
It sits real low. Called a wheel skirt right there.
These days, wheel wells, bigger than a motherf*cker.
I gotta check out how low it sits.
Extremely low.
'Cause this car got some weight on it.
You need a motor that big, this car is 6,000 pounds.
6,000.
You know what kind of doors you have on this car?
Get in like this. Suicide doors. That's dope.
Even though I think this car would be very dope to drive,
a part of me wants to know what it's like
to be driven in a car like this.
I need a driver.
(trumpet-forward music)
- Mr. Bowers.
(upbeat jazz music)
- Being driven in this car, woo.
This is very chill. I got my legs up, this is crazy.
- [Offscreen Voice] 1966 or '64?
- '65.. 4.
- '64.
You get respect in a car like this.
Man I can nap, I can stare up at the sky,
I'm all over the place. I can stand up back here.
Aaaahhh.
It's just as comfortable
as the best couch you ever sat on before.
And I've sat on a lot of couches.
Life is good. There's something about being driven like this
that make you feel good about being alive.
- We've used like a quarter tank of gas.
- Well that hurts.
I feel like I was in my own personal parade.
What's up?
As I stood up in the back
or as I looked at people and stuff,
people seemed pretty chill.
Most cars nowadays are tinted,
they've got the a/c blowing, they've got radios going,
everything is covered and closed.
But this car, look how open this car is.
I got all the room.
It's wide open, you know? Like how we should be as humans.
With open chakras, with open arms to the world,
nothing but love.
- (whispering) I love you
- What's up, ladies? Where ya'll headed?
Let's go to the dog park.
Makes me kind of feel peaceful.
So I tell James,
"James, take your black ass back to the office."
I'm driving. (hip hop beats)
Whoa.
This thing is going, and it's out of control.
Where am I driving?
I see why they call it a boat.
This turn is wide.
Woo.
Oh, whoa.
The counter steer on here is crazy.
When you give it some gas, it goes
whichever way it wants to go while you still trying to get..
You're holding on for your life in this car.
So I guess driving a boat isn't a bad thing,
if we on the water,
where you can make those type of mistakes,
but we on the street, with idle just cruising,
I mean, wow. It's like cruising in a new car.
It's like sitting on a La-Z-Boy
I mean, it's comfortable.
Actually, like a loveseat, when you think about it.
This car right here is kind of an old money car,
so I decided to stop
in an old money neighborhood.
Let the car rest.
(electronic music)
- The thing about the car, it's a great cruiser.
You can cruise your ass off in this car.
You could ride all day.
The bad thing about the car? The steering.
It takes forever to brake.
To get it to stop is a beast.
It's no seat belts.
It's luxurious. It's fully electric.
It has air conditioning, and it rides
it's a comfortable ride, you know what I mean?
You got CEO's jogging down the street.
This is a car you could take your mom to brunch in.
Any cool chick would dig this car.
You pick a chick up in this car and she don't like it,
it's not gonna work out.
One night stand, nah don't one night stand her.
Just, don't go on the date.
But if you do go on the date..
Nah, don't do that. But.
(funky music)
- [Byron] Is this a car I could drive every day?
I think I know my answer,
but I still want to drive it a little bit more,
just to make sure.
(funky music continues)
- Man, when I drive this car, I get a lot of looks.
But women, too.
- [Woman in van] What are you filming for?
- Donut Media, it's a big car thing on Youtube.
Search it, look it up now.
Why you in the middle of the street?
This is the first car that young black women enjoy.
I didn't expect to get this many looks
driving this car the way I did,
but the people who liked it showed a lot of love.
Yo.
- Yo.
- [Byron] How you doing? You good?
The positive about the Lincoln, I mean
the comfort.
It's one of the most comfortable cars I've been in.
(singing) I'm in a yacht, on wheels.
This car is classy, it looks good.
The lines on this car is perfect.
It's a 20 foot car, how do you u-turn
in a 20 foot car on a narrow road?
30 point turn? Sure, bring it on.
Oh, this ain't gonna work at all.
Oh, I hope you got time.
Gimme a minute. Sorry, sir.
Woo! We turned.
As I drive this car down the street, I started realizing
it's just a beautiful day, and can't be angry at nothing.
Even the little stress I had is gone.
Yeah this car brings out a part of me
that's more chill and relaxed, you know?
Like life isn't about getting to that next thing
or getting to your next goals, you know what I mean?
You don't need goals in this car.
There's no goals.
In this car you just be. You know what I mean?
You just go where the wind blows, just like a boat.
Is the 1964 Lincoln Continental my Miracle Whip?
Nah, it ain't.
I mean, it's an elegant car.
It's meant to be laid back in, it's meant to be driven in.
But the genie don't give me a driver.
I guess I'm gonna have to keep on looking.
I know my baby's out there somewhere.
So I'll catch ya'll next week
on Miracle Whips.
Thanks for Hagerty, for bringing you
this season of Miracle Whips.
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