When the Wrong Shop Gets Your Dream Car | Rice & Beans

This week, Scott Kelly, Vice President of the Porsche Club of America Los Angeles Chapter and host of the Rennstreet Podcast, joins Jimmy ("Rice") and Nate ("Beans") to talk about the nightmare no enthusiast wants to live through: watching your dream car become someone else’s unfinished project. After his highly modified 996 Turbo blew its engine, Scott trusted a builder with serious credentials -- only to spend years waiting, questioning, and eventually facing a discovery that shattered the trust behind the entire rebuild. The conversation explores the side of car ownership nobody posts online: the anxiety, helplessness, and heartbreak of not knowing if the car you love will ever come back the same. Between the jokes, the anger, and the hard-earned lessons, one fear sits at the center of it all: once your car is in someone else’s hands, how much control do you really have?Rice & Beans is a humor-driven automotive podcast rooted in Southern California car culture, focused on canyon carving, driving passion, and the people behind the wheel. Through relaxed, conversational episodes, the show explores the many sides of the automotive community while highlighting how similar drivers really are — no matter what they drive. From current events shaping the Southern California car scene to deeper conversations about driving technique, responsibility, and community growth, Rice & Beans dives into what’s happening now and where car culture is headed. The podcast aims to connect drivers, strengthen the canyon carving community, and promote safer, more fulfilling driving experiences through shared stories, perspectives, and passion.Nate Rodriguez and Jimmy Xie are the hosts of Rice & Beans, a program of the Sociology of Cars Podcast.Follow Nate at:https://www.instagram.com/nayt83/?hl=enReach out to Nate: [email protected] out to Jimmy:[email protected] Kelly is the Vice President of the Porsche Club of America Los Angeles Chapter and host of the Rennstreet Podcast.Follow Scott at:https://www.instagram.com/scottkelly911tt/https://www.instagram.com/rennstreetpodcast/Sociology of Cars Podcast is produced by Sociology of Everything, supported by Havana Cigar Lounge in Hesperia, CA. Follow Havana Cigar Lounge at: https://www.instagram.com/havanacigarlounge/.