Here's what it took to sell Van Halen's crazy cars!

Joe is a VERY good story teller! Keep him coming back more

I was Eddie's pool maintenance man. Over time he gave me 11 guitars and two automobiles.

When Edward died so did my youth. Still hard to believe he's gone. Thanks for sharing.

As a true Van Halen, it was awesome that you guys were able to put this story out. Always saw Ed as a great car guy

got to meet Eddie and the whole band back in the late 70's at Rouges Gallery bar in Va. Beach , ticketron sold us tickets but we were underage so couldn't get in ....so we went around back to figure out what to do ....they pulled up in an old window van and walked up to the back door where we were standing and David L. R. asked us what we were doing ,we explained and he said wait here a minute and went inside ....he returned with a bouncer and instructed him to hold the back door open for us the first set ! Eddie showed us the even then famous guitar and they went in and torn the freaking roof off of that place .....they are genuine good dudes for doing that :)

Those of us who are still mourning eat this stuff up. Thanks for sharing a great story.

His voice is actually very similar to Eddie Van Halen’s voice, so his impression of Eddie is actually spot on.

He snuck that last joke right at the end lol. Well played sir.

What no one figured out was a couple years before he died , Ed started selling his cars and giving away a lot of his guitars . Ed was getting rid of whatever Wolfgang didn't want , I guess .

I love stories where the celebrities I care about are both down to earth, cool, genuine folks AND car-guys!

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I was at Barrett Jackson that year; I met you Joe and you told me the story exactly as described here. (I still have your card somewhere); I have a ton of photos of the cars; even my parents standing next to ‘she’s mad’; ironically I met Michael Anthony there and spent time with him having drinks and talking cars….

EVH was not only a musical genius but a true car guy. RIP

I first saw Van Halen in 1983. Omg it was like fast times at ridgemont high lol

Joe is such a good storyteller he actually has current Ed's voice down very well. Like if you close your eyes you could almost think it's actually 2010s Ed. RIP

When a man uses “let me tell ya” in his conversations you know that man has seen a thing or two and he knows a thing or two.

Eddie was known for saying he didn't listen to music. He said he prefered listening to the sounds of the car when he was driving.

what a memory to have, I remember being a young teen and 1984 came out and watching him on MTV videos when they really didn't have that many videos and they just reran Jump I swear every 20 minutes some days.

Eddie never played Gibson guitars regularly on stage. Fender owns Charvele which were making EVH replicas. Then Eddie started his own EVH brand owned by Fender.

Really cool story... I can't imagine how many stories people have of EVH that worked at the grocery store/gas station etc. Just regular people that had interactions with him because of where they worked.