September 12, 2023 • 30 mins
Strap in as we mark a milestone, the 25th anniversary of the Bastrop Area Cruisers. We're getting revved up with Bill Szelag, who has the inside scoop on the club's revival after the devastating 2011 fire and subsequent growth. Bill gives us a front-row seat to their phenomenal Veterans Day car show, setting the stage for a maximum of 400 pre-registered vehicle for the annual event.
Hop into the passenger seat as we journey through the fascinating assortment of vehicles soon to grace the Veterans Day car show. From classic models that have stood the test of time to vehicles adorned with patriotic paint themes, Bill Szelag introduces us to the wide range of vehicles expected to attend the annual event. But it doesn’t end there - discover how the event manages to present, judge and celebrate all the cars in just an hour and a half of setup time.
Konrad Delong also has one of our popular features, so join us as we speed from the launch of the Ford Thunderbird in 1954 to the 1994 inauguration of the National Corvette Museum with This Week In Auto History.
We'll also shine a light on the dark side of technology, exploring how car brands are pocketing our private data. Find out how Ford is addressing rear view camera glitches with a $270 million investment, and learn about the eyebrow-raising results of Mozilla's Privacy Not Included Survey.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30 minute
mini version of the In WheelTime car show that airs live
every Saturday morning 8 to 11amcentral.
It is the In Wheel Time cartalk show Coming up.
We're going to talk to BillZilag about a big Veterans Day
(00:24):
car show that you can plan forit's coming up.
You'll want to go.
Bastrop Town gonna host thatthing Beautiful downtown Bastrop
it is.
It's a very cute place.
Conrad has this week in AutoHistory.
We'll get you caught up on thestories making car news this
week.
Howdy, along with Mike out ofthis world, mars down there in
his studious position, kingConrad DeLong in the middle
(00:48):
position.
He's the cream and the cookieand then we have over here the
cookie and outside of the cookie.
It would be we need more.
Jeff Seekin, I'm Don Armstrong.
I'm down here opening the ovendoor.
Thank you so much for joiningus today and welcome back for me
(01:09):
.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was wondering where that was going.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I wound up in Wisconsin a week ago today, but
you were heading to Arizona.
Yeah, I just made a wrong turn,that's all.
But I had a great time mycousin's birthday and great big
birthday celebration.
All families good up there.
Little I have left and lots ofliquor.
Oh, this is Wisconsin, brother.
Yeah, there's a tavern on everycorner.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, so just saying All right, tavern not bar.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, there's taverns and there's bars, and I don't
know what the difference is.
They all sell liquor.
That's all I know.
Anyway, bill Zilag, he's beenwith this before and he is with
the Bastrop Area Cruisers.
Bill, good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Good morning to you guys.
Thanks so much for having me onthe show.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, what you didn't know is that we had a kind of a
round robin here about who youlook like, and we've all voted
in the fact that you look likeRoger Pinsky.
I've been told that severaltimes.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
To be honest with you , I have Well, that's a good
thing.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Do you sign autograph ?
Do you sign?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
autograph.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Where's the money?
I wish I had the money.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, yeah, no kidding, go in the bank and get
it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You can sign autographs.
Just put that hat on and Ithink away you go.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Okay, well, thank you , appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, Bill, it's good to have you here.
Bastrop Area Cruisers.
How long I didn't know therewas a Bastrop Area Cruisers.
So how long has Bastrop AreaCruisers been around?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
We're going to be celebrating our 25th year next
year.
We lived in the area of 17years, my wife and I, so we've
been the members of the club.
So 25 years and we've got about160 members, which is pretty
large for a relatively smalltown, growing like crazy, though
.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So you survived the fire, we did.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yeah, we're, luckily we're on the.
We live on the east side of I'msorry, on the west side and
most of the fire was on the eastside.
Yeah Well, how's this?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, how's the recovery going?
I'll tell you what when you,when you cross that bump in the
road out there coming into theBastrop, and to see all of that
forest gone, it just kills meevery time.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
There's quite a, quite a bit of growth, natural,
and many millions of trees wereplanted also after the fire over
the years.
But I would say there's, it'svery green now, but they're a
lot shorter than they used to be, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What did you do during the fire?
Where were you?
You at home.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
We were at home and we actually did have to evacuate
our neighborhood also.
Our neighborhood has oak treesand not as much pine trees and
it's a little more spread out.
So a fire.
We did have a few fires at theback of our development, but we
made it through okay and we wereprobably out of the house for
about eight or 10 hours or so.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Wow, how long ago was that?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Was that seven years ago?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
That was 2011,.
I believe, wow, it was 2011.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Wow, that's quite a ways back.
We're not here to harp on that,but you've got a big Veterans
Day car show coming up.
Who all is invited?
When is it?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Okay, well, it's November actually happens to be
on Veterans Day, this yearNovember 11th.
We also have a little cruise inthe day before, on Friday the
10th, so everyone's invited.
Obviously there's no charge forspectators and we encourage
many people.
There's been estimates of sixor 7,000 people, give or take
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1,000 here or there, dependingon who's doing the estimate that
a 10.
We limit the show to 400 carsbecause that's all we have room
for, because it is downtownBastrop where there's plenty of
restaurants.
So we close the streets.
We work with the city close offthe streets.
Our parking goes is a littlechallenging because we parked
400 cars in less than an hourand a half or so.
(05:02):
We backed the cars in,obviously, and the streets are
narrow, somewhat narrow, but nottoo bad.
It's pre-registered onlybecause of that limit.
The registration closes onSunday, november 5th, unless
we're full up ahead of time.
Obviously we always get peoplethat want to get in on the last
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minute, the day or two before,but it can't happen.
No registration the day of theshow, but that makes it a lot
easier and a lot smoother forgetting the cars in and
registration and all that.
But it's a great event andjudged by class, which is
unusual for such a large,all-making model car show.
We give awards in 29 differentclasses.
(05:46):
I think it's a lot, 35 to 40judges.
It attracts a pretty highquality of vehicle overall.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
The 17th years.
You guys are well-seasoned onputting this thing on.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yes, we try to enhance it every year and many
times the enhancements worksvery smoothly.
Sometimes the enhancements arede-enhancements, but sometimes
that's not quite as evident tothe people there, but we try to
do the thing.
We usually have at least 140volunteers and obviously many
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are our own members.
Not all of our members arevolunteers, but we get the high
school automotive program fromBass Drop High School.
We get their students fromtheir SkillsUSA group involved,
we get other high schoolstudents that are in the honor
of society and many communityvolunteers, of course all of our
businesses, both downtown andoutside of the area, are heavily
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involved as sponsors.
We've got probably 170 or sodifferent sponsors at different
levels for the event.
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Do you have to have crowd control and actually more
along the lines of fuel controlat the Buckeys there as you go
in?
Because even though they've gota thousand gas pumps, I would
imagine with all those carscoming in there it's going to be
kind of crowd.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yes, yeah, one enhancement we did recently
about two years ago is we havetwo entrances for the car show.
We cut down the parking time inhalf by having a south entrance
and a north entrance.
The entrance is off the ConStreet and you go down some side
streets and a lot of peoplewant to drive Turn into Main
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Street but that's not allowedoff of Chestnut.
Chestnut is the Highway 150that crosses Main Street in Bass
Drop, but it's a beautifuldowntown area.
I was mentioning our sponsors.
Many of the restaurants andalmost all the businesses are
sponsors, and our major sponsorfor the event is Craig's Jewelry
.
There are presidential sponsorand Maxine's, which is a
(07:56):
well-known restaurant downtown,is our Admiral's sponsor and
then we have Colonel Levelsponsors, which are many of the
car dealers in the area, as wellas other businesses.
Like many of the banks, almostevery bank is a sponsor.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
How many people you got signed up already.
I mean 400 slots.
To a lot of people that's a lot.
But you know, I would imaginethe popularity of your show is
such that you've got peoplesigned up already, people coming
back year after year.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, we started our well.
We got a brand new website too,so if you haven't had a chance
to look at that, one of ourmembers really did a great job
in working with a websitedesigner, and so registration is
only online.
We don't do the paperregistrations anymore.
Like I told you, the deadlinewas on November 5th.
Right now, we're sitting atabout 125 registrations already.
(08:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So if you're going to go, you better sign up Building
fast, like you said, don't waittill the last minute because
they could fill up even by youknow, november 2nd or 3rd.
And typically that part ofNovember, the weather is usually
really good.
We don't have to deal with 100degree temperatures, that's for
sure.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah we don't know yet.
We've lucked out pretty good.
We've had a little bit of adampness a couple of years.
Last year, friday night, whichwe do have a cruise in, we call
it on Friday night, and thisyear is from 5pm to 9pm.
I know Conrad has been therefor the cruise in as well a
couple of times, but it's kindof more informal.
We still park all the cars onthe street.
(09:26):
It's closed off to any anynormal traffic and people can
just park on the street in aconfiguration similar to the car
show go and we usually havediscounts at many of the
restaurants and shops downtown.
There's also a great museumdowntown that will be open on a
Friday and Saturday and there'sa.
You know the show is a lot aboutveterans.
(09:46):
I'll have to say that it'sabout the cars and the veterans
Because it's also as much aveterans tribute ceremony as it
is a car show, because weactually have a march down the
street, much like you might seeat the airport when you have
honor flight, when all theveterans are marching down and
people are applauding and youknow, and recognizing them for
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their service, and we go.
We have about a 4 block marchdown the street from the post
office and basket goes to thecourthouse and then there's a
ceremony at the courthouse andthat takes place about 1138,
1130 or so.
We also also have and we justgot confirmed that we have 2
vintage Military airplanes thatwill be flying over.
(10:29):
We do that every year, weatherpermitting, and that's in the
plans this year again.
So it's a great ceremony and 2,2 local veterans are honored at
that, at that ceremony, boththe officer and a enlisted
person for their communityservice.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Bill, you have a lot of entrance from Bastrop itself.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, we do, but we haven't done it in the last year
or two, but about two or threeyears ago we actually did a you
know a zip code search and over35% were more than 100 miles
away.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, and I would imagine Austin, san Antonio and
Houston are the big cities.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Because I mean, when I think of Bastrop, I think,
well, that's pretty cool, it'slike halfway to Austin.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's always a good place to stop.
It's a destination.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It is.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And it is also a destination.
Well, and you've?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
got a good partnership with visit
Bastropcom as well and you knowpromoting Bastrop as a
destination city and you being apart of it.
So, Bill, you had mentionedearlier that you've been a
member of the Bastrop areacruisers for 17 years and this
is the 17th year of the show.
Are you kind of one of thefounders of the show?
(11:44):
No, no.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The show.
The show actually startedbefore we, before we became
members, for just a couple ofyears or so, and it originally
started off off Highway 21 in asmall area and then it moved
downtown.
So we've been around for theinitial, you know, you might say
the third, I think the third orfourth year, because we didn't
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join immediately when we gothere.
What kind of like you mentionedvisit Bastrop, because they are
a big part of it.
We get great support by thecity.
You know to put this thing onbecause it's not an easy thing.
We've been planning this everyyear.
We get finished and then westart planning it again in March
.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Is I forgot what I was going to eat?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
a plan?
Are you going to show a car?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Well, that's one thing you know.
When you host a show like thiswith your own club, we do not
enter our cars.
As a matter of fact, it's arequirement when you join the
Bastrop area cruisers.
Your membership form says thatyou're not going to enter a car
to show because we have guestsand we don't want all in.
Many of our members are judges,so we don't want things to be
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interpreted that you know we'rejudging our own cars.
So we put our cars in aseparate lot on display and I do
usually bring my 70 years on bea color that we've owned for 49
years on display, if I can.
And then we give theparticipants anybody who enters
their car in a show.
We give them one or two ballotsand we ask them to go look at
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our cars.
So we do have awards, but it'sentirely separate than the
regular awards that we hand outto all the participants.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What would you say?
The main cars that show upthere are the classics, antiques
, retro mods, whatever it isthat give us an overview of some
of the cars that show up there.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Well I'd have to say it's a really it's quite a mix.
I mean, obviously you've gotwe've got some Corvette classes,
so you've got the later modelcars, you know the muscle cars,
the Camaros, the Mopar muscleand things like that late model.
But we have a lot of uniquevehicles.
There's a lot of people becausethis is a veterans event that
do special paint themes,veterans paint themes or
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patriotic paint paint themes.
Of course pickup trucks are big.
We actually added a class thisyear.
It's called our class andadventure mobile Jeeps, broncos,
blazers and non military.
We have some Jeeps that come inmilitary vehicles and classics
and antiques.
I know there's one of ourOzoneville Club members that
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comes down with this 27Ozoneville and usually are some
20s and 30s vehicles in there.
Great rods rest on mods.
It's really a mix.
To be honest with you, I can'tsay that there's anything
prevalent.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's.
That is really good, andthey're all driven in.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You know there's not a bunch of trailer.
Queens show up to this.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Right.
Most everybody drives into theshow.
Is there a limit?
I mean not a car like no newerthan a certain year model, or is
it open, open?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
We do a lot, we do have a class and I'm glad you
brought that up.
We do have a class that'scalled K, which is newer cars
and trucks.
So it's 2018 and newer.
Let's see 2018 and newerBecause, like in some of our
classes, if it's a class thatthere's not as many vehicles and
you don't want a brand newvehicle competing against a 1990
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or 1995 vehicle, so we put allthose.
You know it's a mix.
Some people you know say well,why am I not in my Corvette
class if I've got a new car?
Well, you're in with the newcars.
So new cars and trucks arejudged against each other.
We number the spots.
A lot of people wonder how wejudge by class, but the same two
judges judge the same cars intheir class.
(15:38):
It's not like we go down theline and you mix up all the cars
together.
We number the spots, so thosejudges find the spots where
those cars are at.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I was wondering how you did that, because you
mentioned you put all 400 ofthem in in an hour and a half.
You've got to have some sort ofdesign to make that work and
keep it to where everybody canfind what they need.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, exactly.
So the cars aren't you know, itwould be impossible really to
judge to park the cars by classbecause that would take probably
until three in the afternoon toget them all in there.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Now on your website, do you show the kinds of classes
of cars like, for instance, andwhat N would be?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, well, I guess I don't understand totally your
question.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well, for instance, like I have a 2001 Corvette and
I'm sure that that falls underone of your categories of
classes and are there?
I mean it wouldn't be just a2001, it would be I don't know
10 years with the yeah, well, Ithink I get what you're asking
for.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
For one thing, there are some classes.
There are some vehicles thatcould fit in more than one class
.
We only allow somebody toregister a car in one class
because sure we don't wantsomebody to win two awards with
the same vehicle, of course, butI think what you're getting at
is how do they know what classdo they need to be in?
In most cases, they do know,but we have a great
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communication process throughour email, through our Google
email, where they can ask thejudge a question hey, do I fit
in this class or that class?
Or when we get theregistrations in, we'll look at
them and we'll say, well, Idon't know if this really fits
in there.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
So, like I see, so one of the the last that's many
times confused, is the survivors.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Well, the reason that I ask is because, if I'm a real
show kind of guy and this isreally important to me, I need
to have some sort of idea ofwhat I'm competing against.
Not that I'm going to changeanything, but I need to.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Don wants to enter into the class that there's only
one car is so he can win.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, no, that's not.
That's not it at all.
Just have an idea of what mycompetition is.
Yeah, I mean, I don't want togo up against some guy that has
that, has a trailer queen, thathe's going to show up, you know,
and he's going to beat me rightout of the box.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, but I it sounds like, to me it sounds like
you've kind of got it laid outto where, if Don registers his
Corvette, he's got to do itahead of time so he, when he
shows up, he's going to knowwhat, what class he's in, what
group he's in, he's going toknow where to park his car,
because you've got a numberedsystem and all these guys I mean
(18:23):
.
To me that sounds like it'spretty cool.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, better than a lot of places.
Very smart, yeah.
We parked the cars as they comein, so they don't really know
where they're going to park.
We number after they after theypulled in.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Okay, so so you do it , so you can track them
afterwards, okay.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Okay, and that's an important point too, obviously
many times.
And we do have two awards forclub participation who brings
which club brings the most cars?
And one is a cash award of $100plus a trophy, and the other
was $50 for the second numberedhighest number of cars.
But if you want to parktogether with your friends or
fellow club members, you have todrive in together.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
show up in the way that we save spots.
So, bill, let, we're runningout of time here.
So what, let's?
Let's get everybody an addresswhere they can go to register
and look at all of the thingsthat they need to know going to
the big show.
Speaker (19:15):
BastropareaCruiserscom is the place to go, our new
website.
It's a really good job and youcan get.
You click right there andregister, you pick your and also
there's a registration fee is$35, but that includes a show
T-shirt.
If you show up for the event,you get your T-shirt included
(19:35):
with the with the price of the$35 registration and go online
and use any type of credit cardand that's the main way to
register, the only way toregister.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Bill, it's great to talk to you.
Thank you so much for joiningus today.
Best of luck.
Let's touch bases again when weget closer to November.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Okay, sounds good.
Thanks, appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Thank you, I love that.
I didn't know all of that soyeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I was looking at the calendar.
He said November the 11th isthe event you know.
Stan happened to hit the thirdSaturday of the month.
That would be the followingSaturday, the 18th, and then the
following Saturday would beAutorama.
We could go on a road trip forthree weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, there you go Just saying Just saying I needed
permission.
All right Time now for thisweek in Auto History here on the
In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
Conrad has that.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, I know Jeff is a fan of the a couple of cars,
so we'll have a little bit ofthat in here.
Thank you, conrad.
In 1954, the Ford Thunderbirdbegan production.
You know the original T-bird,very iconic car.
And then in 1959, the FordFalcon was introduced as well.
(20:44):
Not quite as iconic, but somepretty cool Falcons.
There was a Sprint with alittle Hypo 289 available and
you know to a large degree thatwas the foundation.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
We made so much fun of those cars.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
But that was the foundation of the Mustang.
I understand that, but it suredidn't look like that, and then
you could also get that in aRanchero, which I thought was a
cool car.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That would have been OK, but that one there that
you're showing that's the fourdoor.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You could easily tub it out.
And then in 1980, willie Nelsonhits the charts with On the
Road Again.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Ok, so I'm seeing younger faces on money.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And then in 1989, lexus begins car sales here in
the US.
Yes, and then there's just aderivative and upscale version
of the Toyota.
You know, last week we talkedabout the Mazda Amade brand,
that kind of bombed.
Well, lexus to this day isstill quite a desirable car in
(21:47):
the industry.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
It's the bomb.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, and then in 1994, the National Corvette
Museum opens up.
Have you been done?
I never have you got to go, Iknow that I do.
They have big, huge Corvetteevents every year.
You know you can actually getan RPO on your Corvette for
museum delivery and they willdeliver you the vehicle right
from the museum.
(22:09):
It's a desirable RPO to have ifyou're going to own a Corvette
forever.
So, and then in 2002, the lastMercury Cougar was built.
Now that's a 69 eliminated.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
That's a good look at the car there.
That's the 302.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
There was the Mercury version of the Boss 302 Mustang
with the Boss 302 engine.
School buddy of mine had a 390.
That was kind of my favoriteyear for Cougars.
But you can get some prettycool engines in Cougars 428,
cobra Jets.
There were two Cougars thatwere built with the Boss 429,
but they were built for the WoodBrothers kids.
(22:48):
Yeah, that's it for today.
So the last Cougar was built in2002 and the last Cougar was
not a desirable Cougar, that wasthat little import looking
thing.
And then in 2006, the BentleyContinental GTC production
begins.
You know, if you're intoBentley's beautiful car as well,
(23:08):
and actually that kind of afeatured car in a Gulf Coast
Auto Works, you can see themworking on the front of one of
those as they're putting a, asthey're putting its front pretty
sector on it.
So that's this week in AutoHistory.
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Don All right.
Thank you so much.
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Where are mine?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Collie.
So Big Brother is watching andusing the data, so it's selling
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Yeah, I always wondered how,all of a sudden, things will
appear on my Facebook feed.
It's like what?
Where did that come from?
Do they list it on the Moroni?
No, no, no, no, they don't listit.
(25:15):
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Speaker 2 (25:17):
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Speaker 4 (25:21):
What's?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
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What's going on?
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I'm sure if I use my phone inthe car they know where the car
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You don't even have to use your phone, you just have
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Well, that's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
Yes, they have the phone turnedon in your car.
They know where the car is.
It's uh, it's kind of scaryactually.
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It's extremely scary.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah.
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Big brothers watching all the time and they're going
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It is the In Wheel Time cartalk show Coming up.
We're going to talk to BillZilag about a big Veterans Day
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car show that you can plan forit's coming up.
You'll want to go.
Bastrop Town gonna host thatthing Beautiful downtown Bastrop
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Jeff Seekin, I'm Don Armstrong.
I'm down here opening the ovendoor.
Thank you so much for joiningus today and welcome back for me
(01:09):
.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was wondering where that was going.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I wound up in Wisconsin a week ago today, but
you were heading to Arizona.
Yeah, I just made a wrong turn,that's all.
But I had a great time mycousin's birthday and great big
birthday celebration.
All families good up there.
Little I have left and lots ofliquor.
Oh, this is Wisconsin, brother.
Yeah, there's a tavern on everycorner.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, so just saying All right, tavern not bar.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, there's taverns and there's bars, and I don't
know what the difference is.
They all sell liquor.
That's all I know.
Anyway, bill Zilag, he's beenwith this before and he is with
the Bastrop Area Cruisers.
Bill, good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Good morning to you guys.
Thanks so much for having me onthe show.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, what you didn't know is that we had a kind of a
round robin here about who youlook like, and we've all voted
in the fact that you look likeRoger Pinsky.
I've been told that severaltimes.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
To be honest with you , I have Well, that's a good
thing.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Do you sign autograph ?
Do you sign?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
autograph.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Where's the money?
I wish I had the money.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, yeah, no kidding, go in the bank and get
it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You can sign autographs.
Just put that hat on and Ithink away you go.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Okay, well, thank you , appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, Bill, it's good to have you here.
Bastrop Area Cruisers.
How long I didn't know therewas a Bastrop Area Cruisers.
So how long has Bastrop AreaCruisers been around?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
We're going to be celebrating our 25th year next
year.
We lived in the area of 17years, my wife and I, so we've
been the members of the club.
So 25 years and we've got about160 members, which is pretty
large for a relatively smalltown, growing like crazy, though
.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So you survived the fire, we did.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yeah, we're, luckily we're on the.
We live on the east side of I'msorry, on the west side and
most of the fire was on the eastside.
Yeah Well, how's this?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, how's the recovery going?
I'll tell you what when you,when you cross that bump in the
road out there coming into theBastrop, and to see all of that
forest gone, it just kills meevery time.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
There's quite a, quite a bit of growth, natural,
and many millions of trees wereplanted also after the fire over
the years.
But I would say there's, it'svery green now, but they're a
lot shorter than they used to be, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What did you do during the fire?
Where were you?
You at home.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
We were at home and we actually did have to evacuate
our neighborhood also.
Our neighborhood has oak treesand not as much pine trees and
it's a little more spread out.
So a fire.
We did have a few fires at theback of our development, but we
made it through okay and we wereprobably out of the house for
about eight or 10 hours or so.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Wow, how long ago was that?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Was that seven years ago?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
That was 2011,.
I believe, wow, it was 2011.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Wow, that's quite a ways back.
We're not here to harp on that,but you've got a big Veterans
Day car show coming up.
Who all is invited?
When is it?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Okay, well, it's November actually happens to be
on Veterans Day, this yearNovember 11th.
We also have a little cruise inthe day before, on Friday the
10th, so everyone's invited.
Obviously there's no charge forspectators and we encourage
many people.
There's been estimates of sixor 7,000 people, give or take
(04:41):
1,000 here or there, dependingon who's doing the estimate that
a 10.
We limit the show to 400 carsbecause that's all we have room
for, because it is downtownBastrop where there's plenty of
restaurants.
So we close the streets.
We work with the city close offthe streets.
Our parking goes is a littlechallenging because we parked
400 cars in less than an hourand a half or so.
(05:02):
We backed the cars in,obviously, and the streets are
narrow, somewhat narrow, but nottoo bad.
It's pre-registered onlybecause of that limit.
The registration closes onSunday, november 5th, unless
we're full up ahead of time.
Obviously we always get peoplethat want to get in on the last
(05:24):
minute, the day or two before,but it can't happen.
No registration the day of theshow, but that makes it a lot
easier and a lot smoother forgetting the cars in and
registration and all that.
But it's a great event andjudged by class, which is
unusual for such a large,all-making model car show.
We give awards in 29 differentclasses.
(05:46):
I think it's a lot, 35 to 40judges.
It attracts a pretty highquality of vehicle overall.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
The 17th years.
You guys are well-seasoned onputting this thing on.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yes, we try to enhance it every year and many
times the enhancements worksvery smoothly.
Sometimes the enhancements arede-enhancements, but sometimes
that's not quite as evident tothe people there, but we try to
do the thing.
We usually have at least 140volunteers and obviously many
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are our own members.
Not all of our members arevolunteers, but we get the high
school automotive program fromBass Drop High School.
We get their students fromtheir SkillsUSA group involved,
we get other high schoolstudents that are in the honor
of society and many communityvolunteers, of course all of our
businesses, both downtown andoutside of the area, are heavily
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involved as sponsors.
We've got probably 170 or sodifferent sponsors at different
levels for the event.
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Do you have to have crowd control and actually more
along the lines of fuel controlat the Buckeys there as you go
in?
Because even though they've gota thousand gas pumps, I would
imagine with all those carscoming in there it's going to be
kind of crowd.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yes, yeah, one enhancement we did recently
about two years ago is we havetwo entrances for the car show.
We cut down the parking time inhalf by having a south entrance
and a north entrance.
The entrance is off the ConStreet and you go down some side
streets and a lot of peoplewant to drive Turn into Main
(07:35):
Street but that's not allowedoff of Chestnut.
Chestnut is the Highway 150that crosses Main Street in Bass
Drop, but it's a beautifuldowntown area.
I was mentioning our sponsors.
Many of the restaurants andalmost all the businesses are
sponsors, and our major sponsorfor the event is Craig's Jewelry
.
There are presidential sponsorand Maxine's, which is a
(07:56):
well-known restaurant downtown,is our Admiral's sponsor and
then we have Colonel Levelsponsors, which are many of the
car dealers in the area, as wellas other businesses.
Like many of the banks, almostevery bank is a sponsor.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
How many people you got signed up already.
I mean 400 slots.
To a lot of people that's a lot.
But you know, I would imaginethe popularity of your show is
such that you've got peoplesigned up already, people coming
back year after year.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, we started our well.
We got a brand new website too,so if you haven't had a chance
to look at that, one of ourmembers really did a great job
in working with a websitedesigner, and so registration is
only online.
We don't do the paperregistrations anymore.
Like I told you, the deadlinewas on November 5th.
Right now, we're sitting atabout 125 registrations already.
(08:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So if you're going to go, you better sign up Building
fast, like you said, don't waittill the last minute because
they could fill up even by youknow, november 2nd or 3rd.
And typically that part ofNovember, the weather is usually
really good.
We don't have to deal with 100degree temperatures, that's for
sure.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah we don't know yet.
We've lucked out pretty good.
We've had a little bit of adampness a couple of years.
Last year, friday night, whichwe do have a cruise in, we call
it on Friday night, and thisyear is from 5pm to 9pm.
I know Conrad has been therefor the cruise in as well a
couple of times, but it's kindof more informal.
We still park all the cars onthe street.
(09:26):
It's closed off to any anynormal traffic and people can
just park on the street in aconfiguration similar to the car
show go and we usually havediscounts at many of the
restaurants and shops downtown.
There's also a great museumdowntown that will be open on a
Friday and Saturday and there'sa.
You know the show is a lot aboutveterans.
(09:46):
I'll have to say that it'sabout the cars and the veterans
Because it's also as much aveterans tribute ceremony as it
is a car show, because weactually have a march down the
street, much like you might seeat the airport when you have
honor flight, when all theveterans are marching down and
people are applauding and youknow, and recognizing them for
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their service, and we go.
We have about a 4 block marchdown the street from the post
office and basket goes to thecourthouse and then there's a
ceremony at the courthouse andthat takes place about 1138,
1130 or so.
We also also have and we justgot confirmed that we have 2
vintage Military airplanes thatwill be flying over.
(10:29):
We do that every year, weatherpermitting, and that's in the
plans this year again.
So it's a great ceremony and 2,2 local veterans are honored at
that, at that ceremony, boththe officer and a enlisted
person for their communityservice.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Bill, you have a lot of entrance from Bastrop itself.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, we do, but we haven't done it in the last year
or two, but about two or threeyears ago we actually did a you
know a zip code search and over35% were more than 100 miles
away.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, and I would imagine Austin, san Antonio and
Houston are the big cities.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Because I mean, when I think of Bastrop, I think,
well, that's pretty cool, it'slike halfway to Austin.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's always a good place to stop.
It's a destination.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It is.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And it is also a destination.
Well, and you've?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
got a good partnership with visit
Bastropcom as well and you knowpromoting Bastrop as a
destination city and you being apart of it.
So, Bill, you had mentionedearlier that you've been a
member of the Bastrop areacruisers for 17 years and this
is the 17th year of the show.
Are you kind of one of thefounders of the show?
(11:44):
No, no.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The show.
The show actually startedbefore we, before we became
members, for just a couple ofyears or so, and it originally
started off off Highway 21 in asmall area and then it moved
downtown.
So we've been around for theinitial, you know, you might say
the third, I think the third orfourth year, because we didn't
(12:07):
join immediately when we gothere.
What kind of like you mentionedvisit Bastrop, because they are
a big part of it.
We get great support by thecity.
You know to put this thing onbecause it's not an easy thing.
We've been planning this everyyear.
We get finished and then westart planning it again in March
.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Is I forgot what I was going to eat?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
a plan?
Are you going to show a car?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Well, that's one thing you know.
When you host a show like thiswith your own club, we do not
enter our cars.
As a matter of fact, it's arequirement when you join the
Bastrop area cruisers.
Your membership form says thatyou're not going to enter a car
to show because we have guestsand we don't want all in.
Many of our members are judges,so we don't want things to be
(12:54):
interpreted that you know we'rejudging our own cars.
So we put our cars in aseparate lot on display and I do
usually bring my 70 years on bea color that we've owned for 49
years on display, if I can.
And then we give theparticipants anybody who enters
their car in a show.
We give them one or two ballotsand we ask them to go look at
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our cars.
So we do have awards, but it'sentirely separate than the
regular awards that we hand outto all the participants.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What would you say?
The main cars that show upthere are the classics, antiques
, retro mods, whatever it isthat give us an overview of some
of the cars that show up there.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Well I'd have to say it's a really it's quite a mix.
I mean, obviously you've gotwe've got some Corvette classes,
so you've got the later modelcars, you know the muscle cars,
the Camaros, the Mopar muscleand things like that late model.
But we have a lot of uniquevehicles.
There's a lot of people becausethis is a veterans event that
do special paint themes,veterans paint themes or
(14:01):
patriotic paint paint themes.
Of course pickup trucks are big.
We actually added a class thisyear.
It's called our class andadventure mobile Jeeps, broncos,
blazers and non military.
We have some Jeeps that come inmilitary vehicles and classics
and antiques.
I know there's one of ourOzoneville Club members that
(14:23):
comes down with this 27Ozoneville and usually are some
20s and 30s vehicles in there.
Great rods rest on mods.
It's really a mix.
To be honest with you, I can'tsay that there's anything
prevalent.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's.
That is really good, andthey're all driven in.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You know there's not a bunch of trailer.
Queens show up to this.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Right.
Most everybody drives into theshow.
Is there a limit?
I mean not a car like no newerthan a certain year model, or is
it open, open?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
We do a lot, we do have a class and I'm glad you
brought that up.
We do have a class that'scalled K, which is newer cars
and trucks.
So it's 2018 and newer.
Let's see 2018 and newerBecause, like in some of our
classes, if it's a class thatthere's not as many vehicles and
you don't want a brand newvehicle competing against a 1990
(15:15):
or 1995 vehicle, so we put allthose.
You know it's a mix.
Some people you know say well,why am I not in my Corvette
class if I've got a new car?
Well, you're in with the newcars.
So new cars and trucks arejudged against each other.
We number the spots.
A lot of people wonder how wejudge by class, but the same two
judges judge the same cars intheir class.
(15:38):
It's not like we go down theline and you mix up all the cars
together.
We number the spots, so thosejudges find the spots where
those cars are at.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I was wondering how you did that, because you
mentioned you put all 400 ofthem in in an hour and a half.
You've got to have some sort ofdesign to make that work and
keep it to where everybody canfind what they need.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, exactly.
So the cars aren't you know, itwould be impossible really to
judge to park the cars by classbecause that would take probably
until three in the afternoon toget them all in there.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Now on your website, do you show the kinds of classes
of cars like, for instance, andwhat N would be?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, well, I guess I don't understand totally your
question.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well, for instance, like I have a 2001 Corvette and
I'm sure that that falls underone of your categories of
classes and are there?
I mean it wouldn't be just a2001, it would be I don't know
10 years with the yeah, well, Ithink I get what you're asking
for.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
For one thing, there are some classes.
There are some vehicles thatcould fit in more than one class
.
We only allow somebody toregister a car in one class
because sure we don't wantsomebody to win two awards with
the same vehicle, of course, butI think what you're getting at
is how do they know what classdo they need to be in?
In most cases, they do know,but we have a great
(17:07):
communication process throughour email, through our Google
email, where they can ask thejudge a question hey, do I fit
in this class or that class?
Or when we get theregistrations in, we'll look at
them and we'll say, well, Idon't know if this really fits
in there.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
So, like I see, so one of the the last that's many
times confused, is the survivors.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Well, the reason that I ask is because, if I'm a real
show kind of guy and this isreally important to me, I need
to have some sort of idea ofwhat I'm competing against.
Not that I'm going to changeanything, but I need to.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Don wants to enter into the class that there's only
one car is so he can win.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah, no, that's not.
That's not it at all.
Just have an idea of what mycompetition is.
Yeah, I mean, I don't want togo up against some guy that has
that, has a trailer queen, thathe's going to show up, you know,
and he's going to beat me rightout of the box.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, but I it sounds like, to me it sounds like
you've kind of got it laid outto where, if Don registers his
Corvette, he's got to do itahead of time so he, when he
shows up, he's going to knowwhat, what class he's in, what
group he's in, he's going toknow where to park his car,
because you've got a numberedsystem and all these guys I mean
(18:23):
.
To me that sounds like it'spretty cool.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, better than a lot of places.
Very smart, yeah.
We parked the cars as they comein, so they don't really know
where they're going to park.
We number after they after theypulled in.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Okay, so so you do it , so you can track them
afterwards, okay.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Okay, and that's an important point too, obviously
many times.
And we do have two awards forclub participation who brings
which club brings the most cars?
And one is a cash award of $100plus a trophy, and the other
was $50 for the second numberedhighest number of cars.
But if you want to parktogether with your friends or
fellow club members, you have todrive in together.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
show up in the way that we save spots.
So, bill, let, we're runningout of time here.
So what, let's?
Let's get everybody an addresswhere they can go to register
and look at all of the thingsthat they need to know going to
the big show.
Speaker (19:15):
BastropareaCruiserscom is the place to go, our new
website.
It's a really good job and youcan get.
You click right there andregister, you pick your and also
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Speaker 1 (19:45):
Bill, it's great to talk to you.
Thank you so much for joiningus today.
Best of luck.
Let's touch bases again when weget closer to November.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Okay, sounds good.
Thanks, appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Thank you, I love that.
I didn't know all of that soyeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I was looking at the calendar.
He said November the 11th isthe event you know.
Stan happened to hit the thirdSaturday of the month.
That would be the followingSaturday, the 18th, and then the
following Saturday would beAutorama.
We could go on a road trip forthree weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, there you go Just saying Just saying I needed
permission.
All right Time now for thisweek in Auto History here on the
In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
Conrad has that.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, I know Jeff is a fan of the a couple of cars,
so we'll have a little bit ofthat in here.
Thank you, conrad.
In 1954, the Ford Thunderbirdbegan production.
You know the original T-bird,very iconic car.
And then in 1959, the FordFalcon was introduced as well.
(20:44):
Not quite as iconic, but somepretty cool Falcons.
There was a Sprint with alittle Hypo 289 available and
you know to a large degree thatwas the foundation.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
We made so much fun of those cars.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
But that was the foundation of the Mustang.
I understand that, but it suredidn't look like that, and then
you could also get that in aRanchero, which I thought was a
cool car.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That would have been OK, but that one there that
you're showing that's the fourdoor.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You could easily tub it out.
And then in 1980, willie Nelsonhits the charts with On the
Road Again.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Ok, so I'm seeing younger faces on money.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And then in 1989, lexus begins car sales here in
the US.
Yes, and then there's just aderivative and upscale version
of the Toyota.
You know, last week we talkedabout the Mazda Amade brand,
that kind of bombed.
Well, lexus to this day isstill quite a desirable car in
(21:47):
the industry.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
It's the bomb.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, and then in 1994, the National Corvette
Museum opens up.
Have you been done?
I never have you got to go, Iknow that I do.
They have big, huge Corvetteevents every year.
You know you can actually getan RPO on your Corvette for
museum delivery and they willdeliver you the vehicle right
from the museum.
(22:09):
It's a desirable RPO to have ifyou're going to own a Corvette
forever.
So, and then in 2002, the lastMercury Cougar was built.
Now that's a 69 eliminated.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
That's a good look at the car there.
That's the 302.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
There was the Mercury version of the Boss 302 Mustang
with the Boss 302 engine.
School buddy of mine had a 390.
That was kind of my favoriteyear for Cougars.
But you can get some prettycool engines in Cougars 428,
cobra Jets.
There were two Cougars thatwere built with the Boss 429,
but they were built for the WoodBrothers kids.
(22:48):
Yeah, that's it for today.
So the last Cougar was built in2002 and the last Cougar was
not a desirable Cougar, that wasthat little import looking
thing.
And then in 2006, the BentleyContinental GTC production
begins.
You know, if you're intoBentley's beautiful car as well,
(23:08):
and actually that kind of afeatured car in a Gulf Coast
Auto Works, you can see themworking on the front of one of
those as they're putting a, asthey're putting its front pretty
sector on it.
So that's this week in AutoHistory.
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Don All right.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate that An evaluationof 25 vehicle brands consumer
privacy policies found that noneof them offer adequate
protection.
According to Mozilla's PrivacyNot Included Survey, each brand
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collects too much data, canshare or sell too widely, and
fails to grant drivers controlover their data.
According to Mozilla, thissurvey was released on Tuesday.
The story from Automotive News,the Privacy Not Included Survey
, launched in 2017, found thatall 25 car brands reviewed
(24:07):
collect more personal data thannecessary and use that
information beyond operating thevehicle.
Some brands even collect dataabout drivers' sex lives and
genetics.
Automakers harvest personalinformation through sensors,
microphones, cameras, connectedphones and other devices,
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company websites, dealershipsand vehicle telematics.
According to Mozilla, there wasa feature this week on Nissan.
Privacy Not Included hasreviewed smart speakers, data
apps, robot vacuums and even sextoys.
This is the first time thesurvey has reviewed car brands.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Don's going.
Where are mine?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Collie.
So Big Brother is watching andusing the data, so it's selling
it and selling it.
Yeah, I always wondered how,all of a sudden, things will
appear on my Facebook feed.
It's like what?
Where did that come from?
Do they list it on the Moroni?
No, no, no, no, they don't listit.
(25:15):
No, it's not listed anywhere.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You would be surprised what access OnStar has
to your life.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
What's?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I'm saying when you go where you've been, how fast
you got there.
What's going on?
They can actually turn themicrophones on and listen inside
your car if they choose to.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well, I have a car that doesn't have that.
I have a 2001 model.
I'm sure if I use my phone inthe car they know where the car
is, but that's all that theyknow.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
You don't even have to use your phone, you just have
it in your pocket.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, that's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
Yes, they have the phone turnedon in your car.
They know where the car is.
It's uh, it's kind of scaryactually.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It's extremely scary.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Big brothers watching all the time and they're going
to figure out a way to tax youfor whatever it is you do.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Ford Motor Company said it will spend about $270
million to fix an issue withrear view cameras that has
plagued several models,according to a document filed
Friday with the US Securitiesand Exchange Commission.
Thank you, automotive news forthis.
The affected vehicles are the2020 to 2023 Ford Explorer and
Lincoln Aviator, 2020 to 2022Lincoln Corsair, 22 to 23 Ford
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Transit, 18 to 21 LincolnNavigator and 21 Ford Bronco.
More than 422,000 Explorer,Aviator and Corsair models
equipped with a 360 degreecamera were recalled in May for
an issue with the rear viewcameras that caused blue or
black screens when the vehicleswere in reverse and when the 360
(26:49):
degree view was selected.
Ford later determined thatcamera hardware contributed to
the blue or black screensexperienced by consumers.
Part of that action, Ford isalso recalling the 20 to 23
Lincoln Aviator.
A bunch of other ones.
Recall affects more than169,000 of those vehicles.
Ouch, they're big bucks thatthey're having to cough up.
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That's it for this hour of theIn-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
Quick break, now We'll be rightback.
We invite you to stay with us.
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