Mesquite, Texas — For Earl Guynes and his son, Jared, cars have always been their love language, bonding over Bondo and brake pads since Jared was young.

And through the years, the one thing they’ve talked about most is the 1967 Chevrolet Camaro that Earl used to own.

“Anytime that we saw a Camaro, he would definitely bring it up,” Jared said. “It’d be a reoccurring theme in a reoccurring story…The joke was, or the way that he just summed it all up, was that I had to sell this car for your diaper money.”

Actually, Earl was only half-joking.

“You got to build a nursery, find a crib and a cradle, and it was time to settle down and raise the family,” Earl said.

So in 1983, it was goodbye hot rod, hello lukewarm minivan. 

Since then, his car dreams have been mostly confined to helping others with their vehicles. He works at O’Reilly Auto Parts in Mesquite, Texas, where he has continued to share that story of the Camaro that got away.

Of course, Jared knew his dad never really regretted selling that car.  But he still felt like he owed his dad more than he could ever repay. So, he went to work.

A car, exactly like the one his father had, just didn’t exist. So, Jared spent three years scouring the internet for parts and putting it together piece by piece. Until last month, when he handed over the keys to a restored Camaro to Earl for his 65th birthday.

“And it hit him, and he was just overcome,” Jared said of his father’s reaction. “And he just wrapped his arms around me. It was the best.”

We all give up something to start a family. But if you’re lucky and patient, sometimes you can have your Camaro, and keep it too.

Said Earl: “He loves me a lot, as much as I love him.” 

Los Angeles — Bobby Djavaheri is trying to stock up his warehouse with appliances from overseas, while he can still afford it.

“We’ve been preparing for the last six months — both our factories and us as importers — for Trump to win,” Djavaheri told CBS News.

Djavaheri is president of Los Angeles-based Yedi Houseware Appliances, which manufactures its products in China. He says President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to increase tariffs will force him to charge more.

His company’s Yedi Evolution air fryer is currently priced at $130, Djavaheri said. He estimates that Trump’s proposed tariffs would raise that price to about $200. Yedi’s two-quart air fryer currently costs between $30 and $40. Trump’s tariffs could raise that to almost $100.

Trump campaigned on implementing a blanket tariff of 10% to 20% on all imports, along with an additional 60% or more on goods from China.

“It would decimate our business, but not only our business,” Djavaheri said. “It would decimate all small businesses that rely on importing.”

Djavaheri says it is not Chinese companies that pay the tariffs, it is his own business.

“We’re getting the bill, the bill comes straight to us from the government,” Djavaheri said.

Brian Peck, adjunct assistant professor of international trade law at USC, says Trump’s tariffs could also be a negotiating tactic.

“If he doesn’t like a certain practice or policy initiative, he can use it as leverage to threaten them,” Peck said. “…It’s important for the American people to understand that the people who pay tariffs are U.S. importers. Not China, not foreign governments, not foreign companies. That’s going to come down to your wallet.”

An August study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics indicated that Trump’s proposed tariffs could cost middle-income households more than $2,600 a year.

In 2018, when Trump slapped tariffs on imported washing machines, prices jumped almost $100. But foreign appliance makers also moved some production to the U.S., and a year later they had created 1,800 new jobs.

Other countries, however, retaliated with tariffs on U.S. exports, which led to job losses.

According to Djavaheri, most of Yedi’s products cannot at the moment be manufactured in the U.S.

“There’s no factory in America,” Djavaheri said. “A factory that could potentially produce hundreds of thousands of air fryers in one year, same quality, there’s no where in the world other than the Chinese.”

Djavaheri’s advice? If you’re considering a purchase, make it before the potential tariffs kick in. 

Carter Evans

Carter Evans has served as a Los Angeles-based correspondent for CBS News since February 2013, reporting across all of the network’s platforms. He joined CBS News with nearly 20 years of journalism experience, covering major national and international stories.