August 16, 2024 • 28 mins
Ever wondered how much a 2009 Pontiac Solstice really goes for at auction? Or what happens when a high school coach catches you flipping nickels? Tune into this episode of the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show for a unique mix of automotive insights and nostalgic storytelling. We start with some light-hearted fun at our "BYOS" event—bring your own story, steak, or shrimp—and introduce Mike's granddaughter, Paige, who’s about to embark on her senior year of high school. Don Armstrong shares a hilarious high school tale that you won't forget, and we dive into the Hemings Sold Car Weekly Roundup, guessing the prices of various cars and sprinkling in some humor along the way.
In the second half, we tackle serious issues with a touch of wit and wisdom. From auction prices of a 1969 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia to safety recalls involving Tesla's software and Nissan Ariya's power loss, we cover it all. We also discuss the latest in modern automotive technology and its potential pitfalls. Plus, you'll get a sneak peek into upcoming car events in Texas, such as the Texas Elite Auto Showcase and the 5-0 Car Show in Rosenberg. Stay informed with the latest industry news, including Nissan’s workforce changes and legal challenges faced by National General Holdings and Wells Fargo. This episode is packed with a blend of humor, nostalgia, and valuable automotive insights you won't want to miss!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast From the
Sugar Shack Studios outsideHouston, Texas, USA.
It's the In Wheel Time Car TalkShow Just ahead.
It's what, what, what B-Y-O-S.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
B-Y just ahead.
B-y-o-s Boys Spelled backwards.
That's it.
I don't know, bring your ownstory oh, instead of B-Y-O-B.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That's a Mars-ism.
I just copied it from the thing.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Theoretically it is.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Theoretically it is From Neidervilleille.
Mr mars does his trick again.
Byos, bring your own storysteak, bring your own shrimp.
You know, I, I swear to god, Ithink it's those chemical plants
over there that have donesomething strange.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You need to move closer to the inland here yeah,
yeah, good clean air.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
jeff has the cruise in and events calendar and I'm
going to have some storiesmaking automotive news headlines
this week.
Howdy, along with Mike.
Out of this world, mars, fromreally out of this world.
We need more Jeff Zekin, chiefEngineer.
David Ainsley, busy movingsomething today.
I'm Don Armstrong, glad youcould join us for our Saturday
morning live program.
If that's what you're on, ifyou're on a podcast or listening
(01:25):
in some other form like onYouTube or whatever, welcome and
thank you for joining us.
Our guest today is as the worldturns, these are the moments of
our lives.
I just dreamt that up, I justthrew up in my throat.
So we don't have a guest thishour.
(01:47):
Your guest is our guest.
This is us right here.
So down at the other end andshe is going to chime in on this
is Mike's granddaughter, paige.
You've got to play along.
Yeah, you have to play along.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'll do my best.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay, you've got a score sheet.
She is going to be a senior.
Have you started school yet?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I started on the 15th .
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh, the 15th, the upcoming 15th yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Thursday yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Next Thursday.
Okay, so she goes back to highschool for her senior year.
Are you thrilled?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I'm ready to get it over with.
Get it over with, do you?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
want to do a shout-out to anybody in homeroom
or detention or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Detention no no no.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Have you ever spent any time in detention?
I haven't, that's good.
Glad to hear that.
Because, your grandfather.
He lived there.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, just saying we didn't have detention, we had
boards that they swung realquick, uh-huh Right on your butt
.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes, yes, I went through that myself.
I got caught flipping nickels.
Have I told you this story?
Yeah, I think so.
Well, I'm going to tell itagain, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Darn it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So this was after PE, okay.
So everybody's waiting for thebell to ring, right?
So me and Ross and a coupleother guys are flipping nickels.
You know how to flip nickels,right.
You know call it heads or tails, and whoever gets it right,
they keep gambling basicallyExactly.
Well, coach Jolly Gene O'Regan,who was about 6'5" and was a
(03:24):
bouncer in one of the nightclubsin Galveston back in the day
when gambling was allowed downthere, he don't like no gambling
.
Come here, boy, none of theother guys got in trouble, but
me.
Don Armstrong always got introuble for everything, always
Not meaning to.
I didn't know.
Come here, go to the office,sit down with with him.
(03:46):
I'm shaking in my shoes becauseI know he's going to kill me.
Okay, you got a choice.
We can either expel you forgambling on school property or
you can take five pops a daywhat monday through friday.
Five, 25 pops with a board onmy butt.
(04:07):
That's abuse.
The color of my butt after daytwo was the color of my shirt.
It was black bruised, but byGod, I did it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, so learn my lesson, not to flip nickels on
the back porch at Westbury High.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
School, don't be flipping nickels.
So there's my story for themorning.
Now we have some other storiesthat we're going to get to.
So PageWeek do this littlething called Hemings Sold Car
Weekly Roundup.
These are cars.
Most of them are just regulareveryday cars.
Some are collector cars, justall sorts of different cars that
(04:47):
people put up for sale onHemings, which is a car website,
and at the end of the week theygive a rundown of the cars that
were sold, the price that wassold, okay.
So for instance, I come up withthe title of the car is a 2004
(05:09):
Toyota 4Runner Very popular car.
You know about a 4Runner, I'msure Toyota 4Runner it's an SUV,
it's an off-road, body-on-frame, kind of old school, but
they're very popular.
Even today they sell tons ofthem.
2004 Toyota 4Runner, so it's 20years old.
(05:32):
How much do you think that thatcar sold?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
for I'll go first.
Okay, $17,000.
I was going to go $14,000.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
$11,030.
Now, I don't know what themileage is, I don't know the
condition of it, none of that,but that's what it sold for and
that's what you were going toguess, right?
$11,000?
.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, I mean, I was just thinking that, like mine's
a 2014, and it's valued at like$10,000 to $15,000.
So I was thinking somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I mean a 4Runner loved this car, Loved, loved,
loved, loved, loved this car A2009 Pontiac Solstice.
It's a little two-seat sportscar that kind of was going after
the Mazda Miata curve there andtrying to get into that market,
(06:20):
right.
Pretty cool little car.
Little under-horsepoweredFour-cylinder engine in it, but
looked pretty cool.
What year was it?
This is a 2009,.
So I'm just going to cover upthe price.
See it right there White blacktop Looks clean, right.
How much do you think that thatsold for?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Jeffrey, I'm going to go $9,000.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
No, no, no, Let me back up.
Yeah, an Epiphany, yeah,epiphany, $17,000.
$17,000.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, $12,000.
$12,000.
Well, it sold for $13,860.
Oh well, so y'all were kind ofin the ballpark.
Yeah, yeah, points For you A1974 Cadillac.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Eldorado.
Oh man, long hood, eldo, hugelong hood, it's like six feet
long.
Be still my heart.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Now, I don't 77, you said it's a 74.
I can't tell whether it's aconvertible or not, but whatever
, probably not 74 CadillacEldorado.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I'm going to go $9,000.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
$9,000?
You tell if it's white with ablood red interior, I can tell
you that it's a red car.
Or maroon, or whatever $14,000.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I was going to say $14,000 or $15,000.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
$18,900.
Oh wow, so it must be reallyclean and really nice, so 18 or
15?
18.9.
Oh wow, so it must be reallyclean and really nice.
We're going to get Paige thatpoint again.
Yeah, yeah, so let's just stayin the Cadillac family.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Let's do that.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Because this is one that now, at my age, I would be
interested in.
Something like this Awheelchair.
There is that, a 1994 CadillacFleetwood, which is the biggest
Cadillac they ever built 1994Cadillac Fleetwood, which is the
biggest Cadillac they everbuilt 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood.
It is huge.
(08:16):
I think it's a dark color.
It looks black, a lot of chromeon it.
This looks like a limousineactually.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Does it have New Jersey plates on it?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
No, it doesn't 1994 Cadillac fleetwood very clean
looking.
Uh, what do you think that thatsold for twelve thousand?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
dollars that's what I was going to say, but I'll so
I'll go one, I'll go to 14, 13650 and it's around.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna take that one becauseI didn't go over.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's it.
It looks good, I would buy thatI would.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I would buy the Eldo.
It wouldn't fit in yourdriveway.
Let me see the Eldo.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
There, it is Okay, next car up.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I actually owned one of these cars.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Actually it was the mother of my children.
We bought this car for her andwe got rid of the Ford Pinto for
this car, a 1984 Buick Regal.
So it's got you know, two-door,it's got that elongated opera
(09:19):
window in the back.
Really a nice-looking car, a1984 Buick Regal.
There's a picture of it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
See it Yep, $9,000.
And you can tub it out Mars.
What is it?
Yep, $9,000.
And you can tub it out Mars.
I'm going with eight.
What is it?
He said eight.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
He said eight.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I don't know Like ten .
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Okay, you got eight nine you got five $5,250.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I'm going to give you that one.
At least I get one.
See, that's one of those cars,though it's not everybody's
going to want it.
It's somebody that's got somesort of sentimental connection.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Perhaps, and I get rid of the custom wheels on it.
I go back to the original wirehubcaps.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
You know what that is .
That is a family sellingsomeone's car that's unable to
drive anymore.
Probably, that's my guess Nowhere's a hot rod.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I get a point for that.
Here's a hot rod, we get apoint for that.
Here's a hot rod for you.
It looks like it could be ashow car and I'm kind of giving
away a little bit of a hint.
Okay, 1956 Chevrolet 210.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Bel Air they didn't call it a Bel Air, they called
it a 210.
$37,000.
Mars $29,000.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
$35,000.
Mars 29.
35.7.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
There it is.
I'm going to get Paige that one.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Okay, here's one that everybody will appreciate.
And these stupid things aregoing for stupid money.
I thought that they were reallyugly from the day that they
rolled off the factory showroom.
A 1975 Volkswagen Westfalia oh.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Can I phone a friend?
I want to call a Lillian.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
That's the one where they've chopped off part of the
top right behind the driver'sseat, and they put a camper type
top on it.
That was collapsible, so itlooked like kind of a tent.
The roof of it, I think, waseither aluminum or fiberglass or
something, something like that,so you could raise the thing up
, so you could stand up in it,okay, but it's a Volkswagen.
(11:15):
What year?
Again, 1975.
Westfalia was the name of thecompany that did these
conversions, right, yeah, theconversions, and they sold a
buttload of them.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Get the Lillienthal's on the phone 1975 Volkswagen
Westfalia.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
What do you think that that went for?
I'll let you go first 42.
Really Wow, Okay, 27.
18.
1.13.
Probably didn't run.
Now here's one that I thoughtwas very interesting.
We're going to keep it in theVolkswagen theme, okay.
A 1969 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.
(11:49):
Oh, okay.
Now all this really is is abody on a Volkswagen Beetle
chassis Right the pan and allthat.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, Very very, that's what the headlights are
See it up there Sawed-after car.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
My brother had a convertible.
Okay, sawed-after car.
So what do?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
you think that that car sold, for it looks very
clean.
What year is it?
1969.
69.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
69.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Volkswagen Karmann Ghia yes, it is.
What do you?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
think that that sold for Jeffrey $31,000.
That's a wild guess.
I'm just guessing.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm going to say 14.
16.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
$19,950.
You said 16?
.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, get your point, yeah, but $19,950.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You said $16,000?
Yeah, so she Gets the point.
Yeah, but $19,950.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You know you're not welcome back anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If you win, you can't come back.
All right, well, that's enoughof that.
Let's do some recalls.
We can always make fun of these, and one of them is my
daughter's car.
Uh-oh, tesla Model 3, s, x andY from 2020 to 2024.
Software may fail to detect theunlatched hood.
(13:01):
So you're going down thefreeway, you forgot to close the
hood on it, 70 miles an hour,and all of a sudden, the hood
comes up.
You can't see out the frontwindow.
Now what are you going to do,elvis?
Slow down, yeah, and hopefullyyou don't get hit behind,
whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So that's being recalled.
Got your head hanging out thewindow with the dog.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, pretty much Like the NASCAR drivers used to
do when the hood came up?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, they were shaped the way they could go
down and look through theUnderneath it, the Nissan Ariya.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Oh, that's the new electric one.
Suv Loss of drive power frominverter software error.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Your blue screen of death pops up on your Blue
screen of death, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
On your blue screen of death, yeah, but this is the
inverter so that's, that's thething that moves the power from
this power to that power.
Right, right, right right.
A hyundai santa fe and thesanta fe hybrid for 2024 is
being recalled.
Unintentional airbagdeactivation or deployment.
Boom, boom, there it is, it'sin your face.
(14:11):
Unintended movement on vehiclestartup for the Hyundai Genesis
Coupe 2010 to 2013.
Unintended movement on vehiclestartup.
So you start the car, it's notin gear, it's in park, it moves,
it moves, oh, it moves.
Bmw recalling 105,588.1crossovers in the US due to a
(14:34):
software fault in the enginestarter that could cause
mechanical damage and preventthe engine from starting.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Wow, not good If your software is counting a .1 of a
car.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well, I just kind of threw that in oh, okay, you're
focusing in on that.
You made that up.
Recall covers 2019 to 2020 BMWX5, the X7, X-Drive 40i, the 7
Series sedan, the X6, the 8Series convertible, the 8 Series
(15:05):
coupe, 8 Series grand coupe andthe 3 Series sedan.
So just take your bmw back andsay here you go, keep it.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yep, see how that works out for you you know you,
speaking of the heat there,caused me to think of something.
Last week I went out to get inthe press car I was driving.
I got in it, I started it,everything came up.
The center stack screen came up.
It came up and I'm looking forthe air conditioner controls
because it's hot.
It's been sitting outside allday.
Screen comes up and says toohot, this screen is shutting
(15:35):
down and it went black.
So you have no control overanything.
No radio, no air conditioning,no, nothing.
If you don't have a button forit, it quits.
What kind of car was this?
It was that thing I was drivinglast week the Dodge Hornet GT.
Ow, oh, the pretty color.
Ow, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd neverseen one.
(15:57):
I mean my phone's done thatbefore because it overheats, but
I've never seen the main screenin the car.
You know, if you were goingdown the road 70 miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Everything's driven through that Exactly yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I just I couldn't believe it Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Park in the shade next time.
Yeah, park in the shade.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
There was no shade at my mom's house.
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Is the van still in the driveway?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, do you use the van?
Yeah, anytime she goessomeplace we take her in the van
because she can't get in andout of some of the newer cars.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I because she can't get in and out of some of the
newer cars.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Very good.
Well, she could probably get inand out of the in-wheel time
truck.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
No, too tall, Too tall.
We tried that one time.
Didn't work.
Well, getting out of it, shebasically falls out.
You've got to catch her on theway down.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
It's not good.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
No, all right, let's take a quick break, shall we?
Or did we already do that?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Nope we're about to.
We need one, absolutely Okay,let's do that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
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Jeff's got the cruise in andevents calendar I do.
(19:02):
Do you want to start with theevents first?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah, let's do the events and, of course, today and
tomorrow, nrg Stadium.
You've got the Well centerCenter NRG, let's just take up
the whole stadium.
Texas Elite Auto Showcase Cars,trucks and exotic cars.
Craig Bierman is the aficionadofor this event.
You can find out more about itwwwtexaseliteautoshowcasecom.
(19:31):
Find out what's going on there.
And again, it's open right now.
It's open at 10 o'clock yeah,10 o'clock to 8 tonight, and
then tomorrow is the times of 10o'clock to 6, 10 o'clock to 8
tonight, and then tomorrow isthe times of 10 o'clock to 6.
10 o'clock to 6.
So get out there.
It's going to be a fun event.
It's like the inaugural.
So get out there.
It's cool stuff Later on todayyou've got until about 3 o'clock
.
This afternoon you've got Backto School.
(19:51):
Fish Fry and Car Show this isup in Conroe.
You're going to have music,there's going to be shrimp boil,
there's going to be a fish fry,all that good stuff up there.
So get up there and see thecars Donate, if you'd like.
Today, from 6 pm to 9 pm is theweekly cruise in Montgomery,
(20:14):
texas.
It's at 943 Ava Street inMontgomery it, texas.
It's at 943 ava street inmontgomery.
It's a weekly event, so wealways talk about that.
And then tomorrow is octaneespresso black rifle coffee
company.
That's highway 67086, highway 6.
It's up like the uh uh.
You go up north just beforewhat was copperfield area on
highway 6 copperfield, so it'snorth of i-10, right north of
(20:39):
i-10.
Uh, so that's a black rifle.
So you've got speed advocatesout there.
Uh, you can find out more aboutit with them.
I don't have the, I don't havethe message, so check it out
then.
For events, we've got woodiescoming up on the 5th annual
Waterfront Rod and Custom CarShow that's at San Leon.
(21:06):
Thank you, that is actually onthe 30th of.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
September.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I can't read my own printing here.
Anyways, I need more ink.
It's the fifth annual, so thesponsors include the Kamen's
Fine Motor Cars got CorvetteWorld Lawson's Auto Works.
We'll be there.
It's going to be a fun event.
You've also got Eat Sleep CarMeat Tuner Showcase.
That's coming up on August 24th.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We always manage to get plastered at that event.
Who you know who Don at thatevent.
Who you know who Don't evenstart with me.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No, I was going to say I don't know that Woody is
going to just open a tab for us.
He better, he better.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Because the tab keeps growing.
It's Sleep Car Me TunerShowcase.
We're back to that on the 24th.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
How many Bloody Marys did we have?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I had gosh Five, Six, Not me.
You did too.
I did not.
I think I had two.
You're lying.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
They were awesome.
Oh, that's right, it was methat had the six.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And the five.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
See, now there's an event you need to come on a
remote with us.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That'd be a good one for you.
Woody's Waterfront Car.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Show Probably not.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Why not why?
Not it's under the shade.
Nice car, oh it is.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And the weather.
It's a great place.
It really is.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You can fish in pole.
You can fish out there.
It's all good, it's right atthe very tip of Galveston Bay.
If you go any further, you'rein the water.
Yeah, I mean, it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
So come to that.
We're inviting you to come tothat.
It'll be an experience for you.
And try the salad.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
They're great.
Yeah, try the salad.
I think we're pretty much done.
There's another one.
There's 5-0.
Oh, this one's good.
Let me get this one in 5-0 CarShow.
It's in Rosenberg.
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5-0.
You know, what?
5-0, like Hawaii 5-0?
Do you know how that became?
Oh, yes, well, 5-0,.
They were filming the Hawaii5-0 series down in Hawaii and
the 5-0 came to be because theyear they started it, hawaii
became the 50th state.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Well, little unknown information, little unknown
information.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Now we know.
But now it transitioned intoMcGarrett 5-0, bookham-dano and
all that stuff.
So it was 5-0.
5-0.
Now it's burned up.
Well, it's coming back.
It really is.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Nissan Motor Company will cut its US salaried
workforce through voluntaryseverance as the Japanese
automaker's fortunes falter inits second largest market.
Nissan confirmed the plannedautomotive news.
The automaker said buyoutpackages were offered to
white-collar Nissan and Infinityemployees at least 52 years old
(23:51):
in certain non-manufacturingbusiness units.
End of those 55 years and overin the manufacturing
organization Hourly productionworkers are not affected, but
they still get layoffs.
Automotive News reported inlate July that Stellantis is
continuing corporatecost-cutting with the new
voluntary separation program aswell.
Parent company of Ram, jeep,dodge and Chrysler also offered
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buyouts to 6,400 US salariedemployees last November in
response to quote-unquotechallenging market conditions.
National General HoldingsCompany and three subsidies
wrongfully force-placedcollateral protection insurance
products on massive numbers ofvehicles financed through Wells
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Fargo, according to the USJustice Department.
Wells Fargo, according to theUS Justice Department Government
civil suit accuses thecompanies of systematically
failing to accurately trackwhether cars financed by Wells
Fargo had the requisiteinsurance coverage from an
outside carrier and therebyknowingly or recklessly
force-placed its own, muchcostlier insurance on at least
(24:59):
655,000 vehicles that alreadyhad outside insurance.
Accidentally, of course.
Accidentally, yeah.
So if you had your car notetoted by Wells Fargo, you might
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want to look into that becauseyou should be due lots of money.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Hasn't Wells Fargo been in the news before for
other things?
Oh God.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Just a horrible bank.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
If you ever banked with them, you'd yell Used
vehicle wholesale prices rose ona seasonally adjusted basis in
July from the previous month,according to Cox Automotive.
Previous month, according toCox Automotive, mannheim Used
Vehicle Value Index Cox'smeasurement of used vehicle
wholesale prices, calculated bytracking vehicle transactions at
the Mannheim auctions, rose to201.6 in July, up 2.8% from June
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.
The average used car price nowis going through the roof
rapidly because the cars thatweren't sold but were leased now
coming off of lease are veryfar and few between.
Because of the pandemic, theydidn't sell a lot of cars, they
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didn't lease a lot of cars, sothere's going to be a shortage
of used vehicles.
If you're in the market for aused vehicle, you better hop to
it, as they say.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, her sister is looking for one and it just it's
.
The market is just terrible, atleast for sure over there in
our part of the world.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
We're going to wrap up today's show.
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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast From the
Sugar Shack Studios outsideHouston, Texas, USA.
It's the In Wheel Time Car TalkShow Just ahead.
It's what, what, what B-Y-O-S.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
B-Y just ahead.
B-y-o-s Boys Spelled backwards.
That's it.
I don't know, bring your ownstory oh, instead of B-Y-O-B.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That's a Mars-ism.
I just copied it from the thing.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Theoretically it is.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Theoretically it is From Neidervilleille.
Mr mars does his trick again.
Byos, bring your own storysteak, bring your own shrimp.
You know, I, I swear to god, Ithink it's those chemical plants
over there that have donesomething strange.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You need to move closer to the inland here yeah,
yeah, good clean air.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
jeff has the cruise in and events calendar and I'm
going to have some storiesmaking automotive news headlines
this week.
Howdy, along with Mike.
Out of this world, mars, fromreally out of this world.
We need more Jeff Zekin, chiefEngineer.
David Ainsley, busy movingsomething today.
I'm Don Armstrong, glad youcould join us for our Saturday
morning live program.
If that's what you're on, ifyou're on a podcast or listening
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in some other form like onYouTube or whatever, welcome and
thank you for joining us.
Our guest today is as the worldturns, these are the moments of
our lives.
I just dreamt that up, I justthrew up in my throat.
So we don't have a guest thishour.
(01:47):
Your guest is our guest.
This is us right here.
So down at the other end andshe is going to chime in on this
is Mike's granddaughter, paige.
You've got to play along.
Yeah, you have to play along.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'll do my best.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay, you've got a score sheet.
She is going to be a senior.
Have you started school yet?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I started on the 15th .
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh, the 15th, the upcoming 15th yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Thursday yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Next Thursday.
Okay, so she goes back to highschool for her senior year.
Are you thrilled?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I'm ready to get it over with.
Get it over with, do you?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
want to do a shout-out to anybody in homeroom
or detention or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Detention no no no.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Have you ever spent any time in detention?
I haven't, that's good.
Glad to hear that.
Because, your grandfather.
He lived there.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, just saying we didn't have detention, we had
boards that they swung realquick, uh-huh Right on your butt
.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes, yes, I went through that myself.
I got caught flipping nickels.
Have I told you this story?
Yeah, I think so.
Well, I'm going to tell itagain, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Darn it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So this was after PE, okay.
So everybody's waiting for thebell to ring, right?
So me and Ross and a coupleother guys are flipping nickels.
You know how to flip nickels,right.
You know call it heads or tails, and whoever gets it right,
they keep gambling basicallyExactly.
Well, coach Jolly Gene O'Regan,who was about 6'5" and was a
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bouncer in one of the nightclubsin Galveston back in the day
when gambling was allowed downthere, he don't like no gambling
.
Come here, boy, none of theother guys got in trouble, but
me.
Don Armstrong always got introuble for everything, always
Not meaning to.
I didn't know.
Come here, go to the office,sit down with with him.
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I'm shaking in my shoes becauseI know he's going to kill me.
Okay, you got a choice.
We can either expel you forgambling on school property or
you can take five pops a daywhat monday through friday.
Five, 25 pops with a board onmy butt.
(04:07):
That's abuse.
The color of my butt after daytwo was the color of my shirt.
It was black bruised, but byGod, I did it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, so learn my lesson, not to flip nickels on
the back porch at Westbury High.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
School, don't be flipping nickels.
So there's my story for themorning.
Now we have some other storiesthat we're going to get to.
So PageWeek do this littlething called Hemings Sold Car
Weekly Roundup.
These are cars.
Most of them are just regulareveryday cars.
Some are collector cars, justall sorts of different cars that
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people put up for sale onHemings, which is a car website,
and at the end of the week theygive a rundown of the cars that
were sold, the price that wassold, okay.
So for instance, I come up withthe title of the car is a 2004
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Toyota 4Runner Very popular car.
You know about a 4Runner, I'msure Toyota 4Runner it's an SUV,
it's an off-road, body-on-frame, kind of old school, but
they're very popular.
Even today they sell tons ofthem.
2004 Toyota 4Runner, so it's 20years old.
(05:32):
How much do you think that thatcar sold?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
for I'll go first.
Okay, $17,000.
I was going to go $14,000.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
$11,030.
Now, I don't know what themileage is, I don't know the
condition of it, none of that,but that's what it sold for and
that's what you were going toguess, right?
$11,000?
.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, I mean, I was just thinking that, like mine's
a 2014, and it's valued at like$10,000 to $15,000.
So I was thinking somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I mean a 4Runner loved this car, Loved, loved,
loved, loved, loved this car A2009 Pontiac Solstice.
It's a little two-seat sportscar that kind of was going after
the Mazda Miata curve there andtrying to get into that market,
(06:20):
right.
Pretty cool little car.
Little under-horsepoweredFour-cylinder engine in it, but
looked pretty cool.
What year was it?
This is a 2009,.
So I'm just going to cover upthe price.
See it right there White blacktop Looks clean, right.
How much do you think that thatsold for?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Jeffrey, I'm going to go $9,000.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
No, no, no, Let me back up.
Yeah, an Epiphany, yeah,epiphany, $17,000.
$17,000.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, $12,000.
$12,000.
Well, it sold for $13,860.
Oh well, so y'all were kind ofin the ballpark.
Yeah, yeah, points For you A1974 Cadillac.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Eldorado.
Oh man, long hood, eldo, hugelong hood, it's like six feet
long.
Be still my heart.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Now, I don't 77, you said it's a 74.
I can't tell whether it's aconvertible or not, but whatever
, probably not 74 CadillacEldorado.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I'm going to go $9,000.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
$9,000?
You tell if it's white with ablood red interior, I can tell
you that it's a red car.
Or maroon, or whatever $14,000.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I was going to say $14,000 or $15,000.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
$18,900.
Oh wow, so it must be reallyclean and really nice, so 18 or
15?
18.9.
Oh wow, so it must be reallyclean and really nice.
We're going to get Paige thatpoint again.
Yeah, yeah, so let's just stayin the Cadillac family.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Let's do that.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Because this is one that now, at my age, I would be
interested in.
Something like this Awheelchair.
There is that, a 1994 CadillacFleetwood, which is the biggest
Cadillac they ever built 1994Cadillac Fleetwood, which is the
biggest Cadillac they everbuilt 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood.
It is huge.
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I think it's a dark color.
It looks black, a lot of chromeon it.
This looks like a limousineactually.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Does it have New Jersey plates on it?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
No, it doesn't 1994 Cadillac fleetwood very clean
looking.
Uh, what do you think that thatsold for twelve thousand?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
dollars that's what I was going to say, but I'll so
I'll go one, I'll go to 14, 13650 and it's around.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna take that one becauseI didn't go over.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's it.
It looks good, I would buy thatI would.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I would buy the Eldo.
It wouldn't fit in yourdriveway.
Let me see the Eldo.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
There, it is Okay, next car up.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I actually owned one of these cars.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Actually it was the mother of my children.
We bought this car for her andwe got rid of the Ford Pinto for
this car, a 1984 Buick Regal.
So it's got you know, two-door,it's got that elongated opera
(09:19):
window in the back.
Really a nice-looking car, a1984 Buick Regal.
There's a picture of it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
See it Yep, $9,000.
And you can tub it out Mars.
What is it?
Yep, $9,000.
And you can tub it out Mars.
I'm going with eight.
What is it?
He said eight.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
He said eight.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I don't know Like ten .
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Okay, you got eight nine you got five $5,250.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I'm going to give you that one.
At least I get one.
See, that's one of those cars,though it's not everybody's
going to want it.
It's somebody that's got somesort of sentimental connection.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Perhaps, and I get rid of the custom wheels on it.
I go back to the original wirehubcaps.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
You know what that is .
That is a family sellingsomeone's car that's unable to
drive anymore.
Probably, that's my guess Nowhere's a hot rod.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I get a point for that.
Here's a hot rod, we get apoint for that.
Here's a hot rod for you.
It looks like it could be ashow car and I'm kind of giving
away a little bit of a hint.
Okay, 1956 Chevrolet 210.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Bel Air they didn't call it a Bel Air, they called
it a 210.
$37,000.
Mars $29,000.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
$35,000.
Mars 29.
35.7.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
There it is.
I'm going to get Paige that one.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Okay, here's one that everybody will appreciate.
And these stupid things aregoing for stupid money.
I thought that they were reallyugly from the day that they
rolled off the factory showroom.
A 1975 Volkswagen Westfalia oh.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Can I phone a friend?
I want to call a Lillian.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
That's the one where they've chopped off part of the
top right behind the driver'sseat, and they put a camper type
top on it.
That was collapsible, so itlooked like kind of a tent.
The roof of it, I think, waseither aluminum or fiberglass or
something, something like that,so you could raise the thing up
, so you could stand up in it,okay, but it's a Volkswagen.
(11:15):
What year?
Again, 1975.
Westfalia was the name of thecompany that did these
conversions, right, yeah, theconversions, and they sold a
buttload of them.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Get the Lillienthal's on the phone 1975 Volkswagen
Westfalia.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
What do you think that that went for?
I'll let you go first 42.
Really Wow, Okay, 27.
18.
1.13.
Probably didn't run.
Now here's one that I thoughtwas very interesting.
We're going to keep it in theVolkswagen theme, okay.
A 1969 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.
(11:49):
Oh, okay.
Now all this really is is abody on a Volkswagen Beetle
chassis Right the pan and allthat.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, Very very, that's what the headlights are
See it up there Sawed-after car.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
My brother had a convertible.
Okay, sawed-after car.
So what do?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
you think that that car sold, for it looks very
clean.
What year is it?
1969.
69.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
69.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Volkswagen Karmann Ghia yes, it is.
What do you?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
think that that sold for Jeffrey $31,000.
That's a wild guess.
I'm just guessing.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm going to say 14.
16.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
$19,950.
You said 16?
.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, get your point, yeah, but $19,950.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You said $16,000?
Yeah, so she Gets the point.
Yeah, but $19,950.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You know you're not welcome back anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If you win, you can't come back.
All right, well, that's enoughof that.
Let's do some recalls.
We can always make fun of these, and one of them is my
daughter's car.
Uh-oh, tesla Model 3, s, x andY from 2020 to 2024.
Software may fail to detect theunlatched hood.
(13:01):
So you're going down thefreeway, you forgot to close the
hood on it, 70 miles an hour,and all of a sudden, the hood
comes up.
You can't see out the frontwindow.
Now what are you going to do,elvis?
Slow down, yeah, and hopefullyyou don't get hit behind,
whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So that's being recalled.
Got your head hanging out thewindow with the dog.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, pretty much Like the NASCAR drivers used to
do when the hood came up?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, they were shaped the way they could go
down and look through theUnderneath it, the Nissan Ariya.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Oh, that's the new electric one.
Suv Loss of drive power frominverter software error.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Your blue screen of death pops up on your Blue
screen of death, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
On your blue screen of death, yeah, but this is the
inverter so that's, that's thething that moves the power from
this power to that power.
Right, right, right right.
A hyundai santa fe and thesanta fe hybrid for 2024 is
being recalled.
Unintentional airbagdeactivation or deployment.
Boom, boom, there it is, it'sin your face.
(14:11):
Unintended movement on vehiclestartup for the Hyundai Genesis
Coupe 2010 to 2013.
Unintended movement on vehiclestartup.
So you start the car, it's notin gear, it's in park, it moves,
it moves, oh, it moves.
Bmw recalling 105,588.1crossovers in the US due to a
(14:34):
software fault in the enginestarter that could cause
mechanical damage and preventthe engine from starting.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Wow, not good If your software is counting a .1 of a
car.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well, I just kind of threw that in oh, okay, you're
focusing in on that.
You made that up.
Recall covers 2019 to 2020 BMWX5, the X7, X-Drive 40i, the 7
Series sedan, the X6, the 8Series convertible, the 8 Series
(15:05):
coupe, 8 Series grand coupe andthe 3 Series sedan.
So just take your bmw back andsay here you go, keep it.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yep, see how that works out for you you know you,
speaking of the heat there,caused me to think of something.
Last week I went out to get inthe press car I was driving.
I got in it, I started it,everything came up.
The center stack screen came up.
It came up and I'm looking forthe air conditioner controls
because it's hot.
It's been sitting outside allday.
Screen comes up and says toohot, this screen is shutting
(15:35):
down and it went black.
So you have no control overanything.
No radio, no air conditioning,no, nothing.
If you don't have a button forit, it quits.
What kind of car was this?
It was that thing I was drivinglast week the Dodge Hornet GT.
Ow, oh, the pretty color.
Ow, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd neverseen one.
(15:57):
I mean my phone's done thatbefore because it overheats, but
I've never seen the main screenin the car.
You know, if you were goingdown the road 70 miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Everything's driven through that Exactly yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I just I couldn't believe it Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Park in the shade next time.
Yeah, park in the shade.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
There was no shade at my mom's house.
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Is the van still in the driveway?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, do you use the van?
Yeah, anytime she goessomeplace we take her in the van
because she can't get in andout of some of the newer cars.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I because she can't get in and out of some of the
newer cars.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Very good.
Well, she could probably get inand out of the in-wheel time
truck.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
No, too tall, Too tall.
We tried that one time.
Didn't work.
Well, getting out of it, shebasically falls out.
You've got to catch her on theway down.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
It's not good.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
No, all right, let's take a quick break, shall we?
Or did we already do that?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Nope we're about to.
We need one, absolutely Okay,let's do that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
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Welcome back to the In WheelTime Car Talk Show.
Jeff's got the cruise in andevents calendar I do.
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Do you want to start with theevents first?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah, let's do the events and, of course, today and
tomorrow, nrg Stadium.
You've got the Well centerCenter NRG, let's just take up
the whole stadium.
Texas Elite Auto Showcase Cars,trucks and exotic cars.
Craig Bierman is the aficionadofor this event.
You can find out more about itwwwtexaseliteautoshowcasecom.
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Find out what's going on there.
And again, it's open right now.
It's open at 10 o'clock yeah,10 o'clock to 8 tonight, and
then tomorrow is the times of 10o'clock to 6, 10 o'clock to 8
tonight, and then tomorrow isthe times of 10 o'clock to 6.
10 o'clock to 6.
So get out there.
It's going to be a fun event.
It's like the inaugural.
So get out there.
It's cool stuff Later on todayyou've got until about 3 o'clock
.
This afternoon you've got Backto School.
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Fish Fry and Car Show this isup in Conroe.
You're going to have music,there's going to be shrimp boil,
there's going to be a fish fry,all that good stuff up there.
So get up there and see thecars Donate, if you'd like.
Today, from 6 pm to 9 pm is theweekly cruise in Montgomery,
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texas.
It's at 943 Ava Street inMontgomery it, texas.
It's at 943 ava street inmontgomery.
It's a weekly event, so wealways talk about that.
And then tomorrow is octaneespresso black rifle coffee
company.
That's highway 67086, highway 6.
It's up like the uh uh.
You go up north just beforewhat was copperfield area on
highway 6 copperfield, so it'snorth of i-10, right north of
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i-10.
Uh, so that's a black rifle.
So you've got speed advocatesout there.
Uh, you can find out more aboutit with them.
I don't have the, I don't havethe message, so check it out
then.
For events, we've got woodiescoming up on the 5th annual
Waterfront Rod and Custom CarShow that's at San Leon.
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Thank you, that is actually onthe 30th of.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
September.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I can't read my own printing here.
Anyways, I need more ink.
It's the fifth annual, so thesponsors include the Kamen's
Fine Motor Cars got CorvetteWorld Lawson's Auto Works.
We'll be there.
It's going to be a fun event.
You've also got Eat Sleep CarMeat Tuner Showcase.
That's coming up on August 24th.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We always manage to get plastered at that event.
Who you know who Don at thatevent.
Who you know who Don't evenstart with me.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No, I was going to say I don't know that Woody is
going to just open a tab for us.
He better, he better.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Because the tab keeps growing.
It's Sleep Car Me TunerShowcase.
We're back to that on the 24th.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
How many Bloody Marys did we have?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I had gosh Five, Six, Not me.
You did too.
I did not.
I think I had two.
You're lying.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
They were awesome.
Oh, that's right, it was methat had the six.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And the five.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
See, now there's an event you need to come on a
remote with us.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That'd be a good one for you.
Woody's Waterfront Car.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Show Probably not.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Why not why?
Not it's under the shade.
Nice car, oh it is.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And the weather.
It's a great place.
It really is.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You can fish in pole.
You can fish out there.
It's all good, it's right atthe very tip of Galveston Bay.
If you go any further, you'rein the water.
Yeah, I mean, it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
So come to that.
We're inviting you to come tothat.
It'll be an experience for you.
And try the salad.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
They're great.
Yeah, try the salad.
I think we're pretty much done.
There's another one.
There's 5-0.
Oh, this one's good.
Let me get this one in 5-0 CarShow.
It's in Rosenberg.
It supports the local policeexplorers.
We talked about this beforeSaturday, october 26th at 10 am,
so get out there and supportthe local 5-0.
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5-0.
You know, what?
5-0, like Hawaii 5-0?
Do you know how that became?
Oh, yes, well, 5-0,.
They were filming the Hawaii5-0 series down in Hawaii and
the 5-0 came to be because theyear they started it, hawaii
became the 50th state.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Well, little unknown information, little unknown
information.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Now we know.
But now it transitioned intoMcGarrett 5-0, bookham-dano and
all that stuff.
So it was 5-0.
5-0.
Now it's burned up.
Well, it's coming back.
It really is.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Nissan Motor Company will cut its US salaried
workforce through voluntaryseverance as the Japanese
automaker's fortunes falter inits second largest market.
Nissan confirmed the plannedautomotive news.
The automaker said buyoutpackages were offered to
white-collar Nissan and Infinityemployees at least 52 years old
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in certain non-manufacturingbusiness units.
End of those 55 years and overin the manufacturing
organization Hourly productionworkers are not affected, but
they still get layoffs.
Automotive News reported inlate July that Stellantis is
continuing corporatecost-cutting with the new
voluntary separation program aswell.
Parent company of Ram, jeep,dodge and Chrysler also offered
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buyouts to 6,400 US salariedemployees last November in
response to quote-unquotechallenging market conditions.
National General HoldingsCompany and three subsidies
wrongfully force-placedcollateral protection insurance
products on massive numbers ofvehicles financed through Wells
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Fargo, according to the USJustice Department.
Wells Fargo, according to theUS Justice Department Government
civil suit accuses thecompanies of systematically
failing to accurately trackwhether cars financed by Wells
Fargo had the requisiteinsurance coverage from an
outside carrier and therebyknowingly or recklessly
force-placed its own, muchcostlier insurance on at least
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655,000 vehicles that alreadyhad outside insurance.
Accidentally, of course.
Accidentally, yeah.
So if you had your car notetoted by Wells Fargo, you might
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want to look into that becauseyou should be due lots of money.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Hasn't Wells Fargo been in the news before for
other things?
Oh God.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Just a horrible bank.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
If you ever banked with them, you'd yell Used
vehicle wholesale prices rose ona seasonally adjusted basis in
July from the previous month,according to Cox Automotive.
Previous month, according toCox Automotive, mannheim Used
Vehicle Value Index Cox'smeasurement of used vehicle
wholesale prices, calculated bytracking vehicle transactions at
the Mannheim auctions, rose to201.6 in July, up 2.8% from June
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.
The average used car price nowis going through the roof
rapidly because the cars thatweren't sold but were leased now
coming off of lease are veryfar and few between.
Because of the pandemic, theydidn't sell a lot of cars, they
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didn't lease a lot of cars, sothere's going to be a shortage
of used vehicles.
If you're in the market for aused vehicle, you better hop to
it, as they say.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, her sister is looking for one and it just it's
.
The market is just terrible, atleast for sure over there in
our part of the world.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
We're going to wrap up today's show.
Right after this quick break,the original group of Loopy
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Founder Stan Holt invites youto visit the first Loopy
Tortilla near I-10 and Highway 6.
Here is the original house thatinspired the design of all the
rest and the original charm thathelped make Loopy Tortilla the
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go-to destination for HoustonTex-Mex.
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That everyone will agree, makesLoopy Tortilla award-winning
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Loopy Tortilla Katie's anotherlocation that gives you the same
quality and service Houstonianshave come to expect at Loopy's.
It's located on 99th and GrandParkway at Kingsland Boulevard
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Find yourself in Aggieland Headto the Loopy Tortilla in
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College Station.
Located just around the cornerfrom Kyle Field, it's a great
place to enjoy those famousfrozen margaritas before or
after the game.
Going to Louisiana, the LoopyTortilla in Beaumont is on I-10,
so you can't miss it.
The original group of LoopyTortilla restaurants has the
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Show.
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