May 29, 2023 • 30 mins
We grew up with car clubs and we try to include one in our Car Club Spotlight segments because we think it is a great way to enjoy hot rodding and a great way to keep the sport going. Join us as we chat with car enthusiast Bobby Stout, with the Christian Classic Cruisers as we learn what it takes to be the host club behind organizing the annual Lone Star Street Rod Association's annual meetup in Granbury, Texas. We talk about the participants work on their own vehicles and the volunteers who make the event happen, and how car culture has been passed down through generations.
Bobby shares his personal project of rebuilding a performance car with a Mopar engine, handling all the wiring and nuts and bolts, but outsourcing the welding, painting, and upholstery.
Learn more about the Lone Star Street Rod Association's upcoming yearly meetup in Granbury, Texas, where In Wheel Time Car Talk will be LIVE on Saturday 06/03/2023!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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's the In Wheel Time car talkshow Coming up Bobby Stout on
Lone Star Street.
Rod Association's yearly meetupin Grand Berry, texas, of which
(00:21):
we're going to be a part of ina couple of weeks.
Can't we Later look at thestories making automotive news
headlines this week?
howdy along with Mike out ofthis World, mars King, conrad
along.
We always need more, jeff Zekin.
I'm Don Armstrong and thanks somuch for joining us today.
Is Bobby ready?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Well, as soon as I can get him to unmute, he will
be.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh, okay, bobby.
So, bobby, you need to unmute,and I don't know if you know how
to do that, or not.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, he's good to go .
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Is he good to go?
Yeah?
he's talking in the backgroundBobby Stout, there you go, we
can see you, we can hear you.
look at you.
look at all pretty and dapperon a Saturday morning.
I'm happy to be here.
Well, thanks so much forjoining us.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Don't ride us.
No, I'm happy to be here.
We all are.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Hey man, we got a big event coming up here in a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We do and getting excited about it.
It's a year long process to gethere, but the weekend goes fast
and it gets here fast on ussometimes.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You know it's funny because we have a lot of events
that we get involved with thatare yearly events and I think
that most people, that thecasual listener, viewer of this
show, really doesn't understand.
But it really does take a yearbecause most of us don't devote
full time to this sort of thing,it's a part time thing.
(01:38):
But to put on a show like this,it is a year round event that
you have to keep working onevery week at least doing
something, to get to the pointwhere you can put on a great
show like the Lone Star StreetRod Association show.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, that's very true.
Actually, the show will end onSunday and on Monday we'll start
talking about next year's event.
So it's not a full time job forall of us.
All of us are volunteers andnone of us get paid for putting
on this event.
All the money goes to theassociation.
From our vantage point, it's alabor of love.
(02:17):
My tagline that I try to tellpeople is I got interested in
cars as a kid.
I hung around drag racing for along time as a teenager and
starting into my young adultlife, and then I got married and
the Friday night after I gotmarried I tore the transmission
(02:37):
out of my car and we only hadone car.
So I became a mechanicovernight, and the tagline that
I use is it's a hobby thatbecame a passion, that became an
obsession.
Yeah there you go.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
That's a great way to put it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That describes not only the participants that work
on their own cars or that havecars and bring them.
It's a chore to bring 1920s or1930 model car across the state
of Texas and have an event, soyou have to be passionate about
it And for those of us that dothings like work all year long
on the event, that becomes aobsession for us.
(03:19):
So I don't know what level doyou want me to go into
discussing.
I'm in personally.
I'm involved in my local clubis the Christian Classic
Cruisers here in the Fort WorthMetro Cities area, lone Star
Street Ride Association, whichis a we call it a statewide
association, but it functionallyit's multiple states.
(03:40):
We have members that come infrom Arkansas for this event
each year And then I'm at anational level.
I'm a member of the NationalStreet Ride Association, so I'm
an official at the NationalStreet Ride.
I'm a DJ, sound guy for LoneStar And then for Christian
Classic Cruisers.
I'm the treasure.
I'm the nerd in the club, i dothe website, i help people with
(04:04):
their computers and their phonesAnd then I've been the treasure
since 1997.
So all of that is a labor oflove and a passion.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, that, sir, is all combined.
All that, that's a full time.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That's a lot.
You're actually the Mike Marsof us.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Oh well, it's full time, but it's.
I have a full time job that Iwork about 12 hours a day, all
time, and on weekends as well.
So I I find time.
I'm fortunate enough that mychildren are grown.
Matter of fact, i categorizedthem as old a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh God, I was the age of 50.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I thought 50 was way over the hill.
Now I have children that age.
It's something that that wewant to do, we talk about, we go
to dinner with, with car peoplemost every night We go to
church with car people.
We hold car shows at churchesto bring in men and families
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into the church.
So we we are devoted to the carhobby.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well, I have to tell you that, that my wonderful
girlfriend Leslie and NikiEtochio.
She has, through me, beenexposed for the first time into
the car culture And she had noclue.
I think our first event that wewent to was the Corvette
invasion last year And shethought, well, that's cool.
(05:25):
It was in a kind of like acruise in and I'd take it to a
couple of those, And then thenwe go to the hot rod tour of
Texas And that was a whole newexperience for her because, as
you know, being a car guy, thereare so many different levels of
all of this.
There's the racing, there's theshowing, there is the cruise
ins, the street rotors themuscle cars what?
(05:48):
all brings it all together isthe are the people that are
involved, the network, Yeah, Thenetwork of folks, And and
that's really really what it'sall about, because without all
the people you wouldn't have allthe cars and everybody having
the same passion.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Absolutely the.
Uh.
A very dear, dear friend ofmine is a chaplain of national
street rot association And oneof the things he tells people is
the cars bring us together.
But actually it's just a bigfamily reunion.
The cars are what we have incommon, so you can look at it.
I go to a car show inLouisville, kentucky, that will
have in excess of 10,000 carsand If you walk, if you look at
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the hours that the show is open,the number of cars that are
there, you have eight secondsper car to see them.
And and you, you don't go tolook at the cars?
Yes, I'm.
I'm in Springfield, missouri,right now at a car show.
We'll have about 1500 cars herethis weekend And I'm one of the
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officials that are here andjudging cars and doing things.
But it's the people I talk to.
I look at the car, i admire thecar, look at engineering, i
look at craftsmanship, i look atpaint and upholstery, but it's
the person sitting behind thecar in their chair that I want
to talk to.
That's, that's what is part ofthe passion is the people,
(07:09):
absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And there's some.
There's some great storiesbetween the person and the car,
not just about the build butabout the history.
Some of it may be the emotionof this was the kind of car my
mom and dad had, when I grew up,and now I've created a street
ride out of it, and in someinstances it may be the exact
same car that their mom and dadhad when they grew up and now,
(07:31):
all of a sudden, it's men andwomen, it's not just men that
are the gearhead.
The muscle head is the women aswell.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I will tell you, i married the right woman 55 years
ago.
She goes to every car show.
I don't go to any event alone.
If I'm judging cars, she canget out there and judge cars
with me.
If we're just walking aroundthe fairground or parking lot
looking at cars, she's rightthere with me, hand in hand.
So it's men and women, and wetried to drag our children into
(08:00):
it, our parents.
So it's, it's a hobby that isvery worthwhile.
It can be expensive if you wantit to be.
I mean, we've got people thatare building $2 million cars
competing for the Riddler Awardin Detroit every year, and then
you got the guy that's got$5,000 invested in his car.
So it it crosses all types ofpeople, It crosses all
(08:26):
industries, it crosses alloccupations And, at the same
time, it we all have the sameuniqueness When, when I pull up
in my car, i can park right nextto a car that, in my
terminology, is a rust bucketand mine's all shiny, it doesn't
matter.
We both get out, shake hands setand talk all day.
So it's an event that we, wetruly enjoy.
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And I will tell you thatGrandbury is a city that
embraces us.
So we're, we're, always happyto be in Grandbury.
We hold our meetings there.
The Lone Star Street RoutAssociation comes in from around
the state, as far away asMidland, from your neck of the
woods down in Houston, catSprings and those of us in Fort
(09:10):
Worth, and then there's some inEast Texas.
We drive to Grandbury fourtimes a year to hold meetings to
to make sure we're all on thesame page and we're all at the
same point and focused on the,on the event that happens each
year.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well, Bobby, we've talked a lot about, you know,
Lone Star Street RoutAssociation, but we haven't
talked about your car.
What do you have?
I have a 1934 Plymouth Coupe.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right, it's currently under.
I would call it.
It's currently under.
I would call it re restoration.
We've had the car since 97.
It had a 350 Chevy Chevroletengine in it And every time
someone would come over and lookat my Plymouth and I had the
hood up and I had it shining andyou could see yourself in the
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valve covers and all that kindof stuff.
They would look and go, oh no,it's just another shipping.
So they were walking over to aMopar produced car and they were
expecting something different.
So I explained to my wife.
I said when we get to the pointwe're going to rebuild, we're
going to put a Mopar engine inthis car.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Put the heavy in it.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We've got a hit.
We've got a six one.
Himmy is sitting in it rightnow.
If that's going to be the finalengine, i'm not sure, because
we're literally we're.
We're building from the frameup.
I lifted the body up and eithergave away or sold everything
from the wheels and the frame,the engine, transmission.
Every piece of it went awayexcept the body, and I'm
(10:38):
building from the frame up, andso we're in that process.
I have to show pictures topeople because I don't have a
car to show them right now.
I can talk to them about it,but I can't show it to them.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now are you buying.
Did you buy a frame or are youbuilding it yourself?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No, sir, i'm not a builder.
I can do some of the things,but there's some things I don't
do, such as welding, paintingand upholstery and high class
body work.
I can pull a den out, but Ican't do a rebuild or chop or
anything else like that, so Ihave to depend on somebody else.
(11:15):
I'm building a tubular frame.
It's custom built for mydesigns and obviously with the
engineering capacity of theframe builder.
Then I, when I get ready forpaint and upholstery, i don't
have to have the car at somebodyelse to shop.
I'm a nerd.
I've been in computer since1970.
(11:35):
The Air Force taught me to be anerd And so I can do all the
wiring, i can do all themechanical, i can turn all the
nuts and bolts and screws myself.
But there's some of the thingsthat require talent, and God
bless me with something elseother than those talents.
So I have to ask somebody elseto assist me and then usually
pay dearly for it.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Isn't there a TV show called that's my final engine?
because he's brought that upthat's your final engine.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't think you're going to speak up.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, I would say that was my final engine.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
So did you get the engine out of a out of a salvage
car, or is this one of thosethat you ordered from Mopar?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
No, i haven't ordered one from Mopar.
This one came from a gentlemannamed Mark Campbell up at Street
and Performance in Mina,arkansas.
It was an engine that he wasputting in his own car and we
needed it in Chicago to have theframe built.
So Mark crated it up, shippedit to Chicago and then I brought
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the car back down to Arkansasto be worked on and have some
modifications made on the metal.
And when we picked the car upin Chicago and trailer it down
to Arkansas it wound up stayingin the car.
Unfortunately, mark passed awayand they closed Street and
Performance.
So I have a 6-1 Hemi but Idon't have the computers to go
(13:01):
with it, And so that's anotherside of deciding what I'm going
to finally put in it.
So the engine will be built,the car will be driven on the
road, so National Street RideHolds shows as far away as
Bakersfield, california, orBurlington, vermont, and
Caroline 9 and 10 to drive ourcar to those events.
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So it has to beperformance-oriented.
I mentioned I grew up in thedrag racing world and it's got
to be able to go fast and stopfast.
So the brakes have to be superb, and then it's got to be
comfortable, and we obviouslywon all the amenities of 1934,
like six-way seats, cruisecontrols.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
All that air-to-bears cold air yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, you got to have .
well, I have to have cold air.
I married a cotton farmer'sdaughter and she doesn't want to
perspire, So the airconditioning must work.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Hey, I married a cotton farmer's daughter too.
She grew up chopping cotton,chopping the weeds out of the
rows of cotton.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Really.
Yeah, my wife did that too.
but as a teenager we've knowneach other since we were very
small children.
As a teenager I volunteered toher dad I'd come chop cotton
just to be with her out in thefield.
So I was in love.
That's what you young kids arecalling it now.
Yeah, cotton chopping Yeah weknow there's a backstory to that
, we won't go into that rightnow.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
No, we don't need to go there.
Let's talk about the event inGrandbury in a couple of weeks.
When does it start and what canwe look forward to?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It starts on Friday afternoon.
We start registration, we openregistration.
People pull into the park thereat Hewitt Park in Grandbury.
Friday afternoon is kind of anall unofficial activity.
As the DJ, i will set sound upon Friday morning and we'll
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start playing tunes.
We play predominantly 50, 60smusic.
We'll slide in a few 70s hereand there, but it's
predominantly that genre ofmusic that we're going to play
And we'll crank the sound up andlet it play to about eight
o'clock.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I was kind of looking for a little hip hop myself,
but you know, oh, you were not,i was not You could go on
downtown.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, you probably won't find that in Grandbury
You're going to go to.
Dallas.
You're going down the streetand find it, but I don't believe
you'll find it in Grandbury.
The event, like I said, beginson Friday at noon.
Saturday morning my car club,christian Classic Cruisers, as
the host club, will show up atabout six o'clock at the front
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gate And we call that activitymanning the gate.
What we're looking for atregistration is they issue a
button that you pin on yourshirt And we're making sure that
they have a window sticker ontheir windshield so that when
they pull in the park we knowthey're registered.
It's sometimes a frustrationfor the new participant because
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he wants to come in the park andwalk across the street to the
convention center, but we wantthem to register before they can
come in the park.
So we direct traffic, so we'retraffic cops, we're manning the
gate for participantacknowledgement.
Then we, if we need to assistsomeone in getting parked, we do
that.
So as a host club we startedsix o'clock on Saturday morning
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The event officially we shutdown at four.
I continue to let the musicplay throughout the park until
eight o'clock that night AndI'll shut it all down and load
some of the sound equipment backup in the trailer.
Then we come back on Sundaymorning and we do a church
service.
We have a local gospel quartetgroup that will be singing,
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called Living Water.
One of their members lives inGrandbury and so it's a home
event for him.
They will be singing gospelquartet music and then Jim
Rowlett, the National Street RodChaplain.
He will be bringing scripturein the word as a church service.
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So we do a partial churchservice.
We have singing and preachingbut we don't take up an offering
.
Then we begin the awardsceremony.
So somewhere about 11 o'clockin the morning we'll start with
awards and we'll be through withawards by 12, 12, 15 or so in
the events officially over atthat time.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
How many awards are there In those clubs.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Then we have to tear down all the sound.
You guys were there last year.
I have speakers runningentirely around that entire park
so that I don't have to playthe music loud.
I tell everyone I'm a DJwithout an ego.
The music should be in thebackground, because you're there
to visit.
You're not there to listen tomy music and my PA announcements
(17:48):
.
So we start on Thursday morningand we finish on Sunday
afternoon and we do a lot ofactivities on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
How cool, yeah, and you're so well.
You know Grandbury is such awelcoming city, very gracious to
us when we showed up and youknow they're so happy actually
proud to have a Lone Star StreetRod Association come and do
their event there.
The city of Grandbury and theofficials there were pretty neat
.
They were fun to talk to lastyear.
I know that Kathy and I arevery excited about going and I
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was going to.
How many awards do you give outon Sunday?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Each director gives an award, so there's eight and
then we have there's probably atotal of about 15 awards.
There's things like we haveelected as directors.
They have elected a streetrider and a street ride lady of
the year and we give them achair that has been in brood
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read to have all theirinformation on it.
That award is probably the topaward of everything going on
because they serve as the streetrider and the street rider lady
of the year.
That's a very honored award toget.
And then we're there's clubsand organizations.
Christian classic cruisers willgive an award away.
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National Street Rod safety isthere to inspect cars, which is
another.
It's a free activity to theparticipant.
They give an award away.
So the safety state safetyinspector that's there will pick
a car that he likes.
As a NSRA official, i will alsopick a car that I like.
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Then we have various otherorganizations throughout the
state that they want to give anaward away.
So somewhere between 12 and 20awards, depending on how many
other activities are going on.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Sounds like a ton of fun.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
We're excited to be part of Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
We're looking forward to seeing you again and we'll
all get get married in a coupleof weeks.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well, i'm excited And for those that have cars that
want to come participate duringthe award ceremony, we have a
drawing for a Napa tool chest,and this at standing at five
foot seven, i can't see in thetop drawers of it.
So it's a huge tool chest andit will have a screen on it silk
(20:13):
screen on it that will displaythe Lone Star street riding
event activity on it.
So we're all excited, we'relooking forward to it.
If you're in a nursing home andlistening to this in Grandbury,
we'll drive through yourparking lot on that Saturday
afternoon.
So that's one of the eventsthat we do, that the Grandbury
police that you talked about,the city of Grandbury embracing
(20:36):
us, the police department, willgive us an escort to drive
through the city of Grandbury tovisit the nursing homes.
Wow That's always exciting forboth the participant and the
resident.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Well, Bobby is great to talk to you.
Thanks so much for joining usthis morning.
I know you got to run and youtake care of yourself and we'll
see you in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Thank you, guys.
We'll see you at the park.
You got it.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Bobby Stout, lone Star Street Rod Association and
the big meet up there inGrandbury on June the 10th.
Okay, time now for a couple ofthese stories making automotive
news headlines.
This week.
Got some recalls to tell youabout Many.
He's still in business.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, it's kind of a leg of BMW.
Yeah, it is not like manyanymore.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
They're getting bigger and bigger, i know So
there's been a bunch of recalls.
Control module in the footwellmay short circuit The Mini
Cooper, the Cooper Clubman, theCooper S and the John Cooper
works.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
You got to go get a pedicure to fix it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, 2007 through 2014.
Electrical short in the powerliftgate module in the Jeep
Cherokee 2014 to 2016.
World seat anchors may notfunction in the Chevy and the
GMC the equinox and terrain,respectively, 2020 to 2023.
Review camera image may notdisplay in the Ford Explorer,
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the Lincoln Aviator and theCorsair 2020 to 2023.
Mitsubishi Outlander 2022 to2023.
Review image may not displayPorsche Taycan Correct brake pad
wear indicator.
Wow, is that a safety issue?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
No, is that a safety issue?
Probably a compliance issuemore than a safety issue.
I remember there.
A recall can be eithercompliance, if they didn't
follow the rules, or safety,because somebody's life's in
danger.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well, there's that Volkswagen Group and its Audi
unit have agreed to an $85million settlement in principle
over violations of Texasenvironmental laws stemming from
its diesel cheating scandal.
That's according to embattledTexas Attorney General, ken
Paxton.
The settlement stipulates thatthe German automakers pay a
(22:45):
civil penalty of $85 million fortheir unlawful actions.
Earlier this month, the TexasSupreme Court ruled the state
environmental lawsuit againstVolkswagen and Audi could go
forward.
Volkswagen, which declined tocomment on Thursday, previously
settled US actions prompted bythe emission scandal for more
than $20 billion, but that didnot shield it from local and
(23:06):
state government liabilitycourts ruled previously 2015,.
Vw disclosed it had usedsophisticated software to evade
emissions requirements in nearly11 million vehicles worldwide.
It also misled the EPA, whichstarted looking into the matter
in 2014.
Whoops.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, you know, it's OK for the government to lie to
you, but you can't lie to thegovernment Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Or at least don't get caught.
Yeah, state of California hasasked the Biden, administration
Has asked the Biden.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I can't believe You need to turn it down.
That's stupidity.
I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Jack Neyrad still lives there.
State of California has askedthe Biden administration to
approve its plan to require allnew vehicles sold in the state
by 2035 be either electric orplug-in electric hybrids.
according to a letter seen byReuters, The California Air
Resources Board, which approvedthe plan in August, asked the
Environmental Protection Agencyon Monday to approve a waiver
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under the Clean Air Act toimplement its new rules that set
yearly rising zero emissionvehicle rules starting in 2026
and would end new gasoline-onlypowered vehicle sales in the
state by 2035.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Because their power grid is so wonderful that it'll
be able to charge all those cars.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It is going to be a calamity out there.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
So there was a fleet that is buying a button I can't
remember who it was.
It's buying a bunch of Teslatrucks in California And I think
it's to move all of that stuffin and out of the Long Beach
shipping yards And they don'thave enough electricity to
recharge those trucks everynight.
Will they use them on the bigelectric cranes?
Well, those have their ownbuilt-in diesel generator.
(24:45):
It's like the cranes here atthe port of Houston.
They have a big, huge dieselgenerator at the base of those
cranes so the crane can operateelectrically.
So your electric crane stillruns on fossil fuel.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And will continue to, because it doesn't, except in
California, except because itwon't run at all.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Right.
The only thing will run are allthe Californians away.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Think of the same thing, people are running And
great news for radio fans of theAM frequencies.
Ford Motor Company will keep AMradio in all 2024 Ford Lincoln
models and restore it on twoelectric vehicles via a software
update, according to CEO JimFarley.
In a tweet, Farley said thedecision was made after speaking
(25:33):
with policy leaders about theimportance of AM broadcast radio
as part of the emergencybroadcast system.
The company removed AM radiofrom the Mustang Mach-E and the
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Farley said the company wouldlook for other ways to deliver
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Yeah, the way they're going to do it is going to put
your mother-in-law in the backseat and smack you in the head
to get an emergency broadcast.
But if they can do it bysoftware, it means how?
how does the car cause theinterference?
bingo, didn't I say last weekthat there's gonna be some
company that will inventsomething to override that we
(26:31):
talked about?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
that If they can do it by software, to me that means
that problem didn't existexactly, and you know that's.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well streaming through my phone.
Frustrating me to say that okaythe silver alert messages don's
on the loose, the little devicethat you plug in your Corvette
to get My phone.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, for the blue, that type of technology.
Yeah, but it's silly.
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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's the In Wheel Time car talkshow Coming up Bobby Stout on
Lone Star Street.
Rod Association's yearly meetupin Grand Berry, texas, of which
(00:21):
we're going to be a part of ina couple of weeks.
Can't we Later look at thestories making automotive news
headlines this week?
howdy along with Mike out ofthis World, mars King, conrad
along.
We always need more, jeff Zekin.
I'm Don Armstrong and thanks somuch for joining us today.
Is Bobby ready?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Well, as soon as I can get him to unmute, he will
be.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh, okay, bobby.
So, bobby, you need to unmute,and I don't know if you know how
to do that, or not.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, he's good to go .
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Is he good to go?
Yeah?
he's talking in the backgroundBobby Stout, there you go, we
can see you, we can hear you.
look at you.
look at all pretty and dapperon a Saturday morning.
I'm happy to be here.
Well, thanks so much forjoining us.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Don't ride us.
No, I'm happy to be here.
We all are.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Hey man, we got a big event coming up here in a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We do and getting excited about it.
It's a year long process to gethere, but the weekend goes fast
and it gets here fast on ussometimes.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You know it's funny because we have a lot of events
that we get involved with thatare yearly events and I think
that most people, that thecasual listener, viewer of this
show, really doesn't understand.
But it really does take a yearbecause most of us don't devote
full time to this sort of thing,it's a part time thing.
(01:38):
But to put on a show like this,it is a year round event that
you have to keep working onevery week at least doing
something, to get to the pointwhere you can put on a great
show like the Lone Star StreetRod Association show.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, that's very true.
Actually, the show will end onSunday and on Monday we'll start
talking about next year's event.
So it's not a full time job forall of us.
All of us are volunteers andnone of us get paid for putting
on this event.
All the money goes to theassociation.
From our vantage point, it's alabor of love.
(02:17):
My tagline that I try to tellpeople is I got interested in
cars as a kid.
I hung around drag racing for along time as a teenager and
starting into my young adultlife, and then I got married and
the Friday night after I gotmarried I tore the transmission
(02:37):
out of my car and we only hadone car.
So I became a mechanicovernight, and the tagline that
I use is it's a hobby thatbecame a passion, that became an
obsession.
Yeah there you go.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
That's a great way to put it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That describes not only the participants that work
on their own cars or that havecars and bring them.
It's a chore to bring 1920s or1930 model car across the state
of Texas and have an event, soyou have to be passionate about
it And for those of us that dothings like work all year long
on the event, that becomes aobsession for us.
(03:19):
So I don't know what level doyou want me to go into
discussing.
I'm in personally.
I'm involved in my local clubis the Christian Classic
Cruisers here in the Fort WorthMetro Cities area, lone Star
Street Ride Association, whichis a we call it a statewide
association, but it functionallyit's multiple states.
(03:40):
We have members that come infrom Arkansas for this event
each year And then I'm at anational level.
I'm a member of the NationalStreet Ride Association, so I'm
an official at the NationalStreet Ride.
I'm a DJ, sound guy for LoneStar And then for Christian
Classic Cruisers.
I'm the treasure.
I'm the nerd in the club, i dothe website, i help people with
(04:04):
their computers and their phonesAnd then I've been the treasure
since 1997.
So all of that is a labor oflove and a passion.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, that, sir, is all combined.
All that, that's a full time.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That's a lot.
You're actually the Mike Marsof us.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Oh well, it's full time, but it's.
I have a full time job that Iwork about 12 hours a day, all
time, and on weekends as well.
So I I find time.
I'm fortunate enough that mychildren are grown.
Matter of fact, i categorizedthem as old a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh God, I was the age of 50.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I thought 50 was way over the hill.
Now I have children that age.
It's something that that wewant to do, we talk about, we go
to dinner with, with car peoplemost every night We go to
church with car people.
We hold car shows at churchesto bring in men and families
(05:00):
into the church.
So we we are devoted to the carhobby.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well, I have to tell you that, that my wonderful
girlfriend Leslie and NikiEtochio.
She has, through me, beenexposed for the first time into
the car culture And she had noclue.
I think our first event that wewent to was the Corvette
invasion last year And shethought, well, that's cool.
(05:25):
It was in a kind of like acruise in and I'd take it to a
couple of those, And then thenwe go to the hot rod tour of
Texas And that was a whole newexperience for her because, as
you know, being a car guy, thereare so many different levels of
all of this.
There's the racing, there's theshowing, there is the cruise
ins, the street rotors themuscle cars what?
(05:48):
all brings it all together isthe are the people that are
involved, the network, Yeah, Thenetwork of folks, And and
that's really really what it'sall about, because without all
the people you wouldn't have allthe cars and everybody having
the same passion.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Absolutely the.
Uh.
A very dear, dear friend ofmine is a chaplain of national
street rot association And oneof the things he tells people is
the cars bring us together.
But actually it's just a bigfamily reunion.
The cars are what we have incommon, so you can look at it.
I go to a car show inLouisville, kentucky, that will
have in excess of 10,000 carsand If you walk, if you look at
(06:28):
the hours that the show is open,the number of cars that are
there, you have eight secondsper car to see them.
And and you, you don't go tolook at the cars?
Yes, I'm.
I'm in Springfield, missouri,right now at a car show.
We'll have about 1500 cars herethis weekend And I'm one of the
(06:48):
officials that are here andjudging cars and doing things.
But it's the people I talk to.
I look at the car, i admire thecar, look at engineering, i
look at craftsmanship, i look atpaint and upholstery, but it's
the person sitting behind thecar in their chair that I want
to talk to.
That's, that's what is part ofthe passion is the people,
(07:09):
absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And there's some.
There's some great storiesbetween the person and the car,
not just about the build butabout the history.
Some of it may be the emotionof this was the kind of car my
mom and dad had, when I grew up,and now I've created a street
ride out of it, and in someinstances it may be the exact
same car that their mom and dadhad when they grew up and now,
(07:31):
all of a sudden, it's men andwomen, it's not just men that
are the gearhead.
The muscle head is the women aswell.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I will tell you, i married the right woman 55 years
ago.
She goes to every car show.
I don't go to any event alone.
If I'm judging cars, she canget out there and judge cars
with me.
If we're just walking aroundthe fairground or parking lot
looking at cars, she's rightthere with me, hand in hand.
So it's men and women, and wetried to drag our children into
(08:00):
it, our parents.
So it's, it's a hobby that isvery worthwhile.
It can be expensive if you wantit to be.
I mean, we've got people thatare building $2 million cars
competing for the Riddler Awardin Detroit every year, and then
you got the guy that's got$5,000 invested in his car.
So it it crosses all types ofpeople, It crosses all
(08:26):
industries, it crosses alloccupations And, at the same
time, it we all have the sameuniqueness When, when I pull up
in my car, i can park right nextto a car that, in my
terminology, is a rust bucketand mine's all shiny, it doesn't
matter.
We both get out, shake hands setand talk all day.
So it's an event that we, wetruly enjoy.
(08:46):
And I will tell you thatGrandbury is a city that
embraces us.
So we're, we're, always happyto be in Grandbury.
We hold our meetings there.
The Lone Star Street RoutAssociation comes in from around
the state, as far away asMidland, from your neck of the
woods down in Houston, catSprings and those of us in Fort
(09:10):
Worth, and then there's some inEast Texas.
We drive to Grandbury fourtimes a year to hold meetings to
to make sure we're all on thesame page and we're all at the
same point and focused on the,on the event that happens each
year.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well, Bobby, we've talked a lot about, you know,
Lone Star Street RoutAssociation, but we haven't
talked about your car.
What do you have?
I have a 1934 Plymouth Coupe.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right, it's currently under.
I would call it.
It's currently under.
I would call it re restoration.
We've had the car since 97.
It had a 350 Chevy Chevroletengine in it And every time
someone would come over and lookat my Plymouth and I had the
hood up and I had it shining andyou could see yourself in the
(09:54):
valve covers and all that kindof stuff.
They would look and go, oh no,it's just another shipping.
So they were walking over to aMopar produced car and they were
expecting something different.
So I explained to my wife.
I said when we get to the pointwe're going to rebuild, we're
going to put a Mopar engine inthis car.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Put the heavy in it.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We've got a hit.
We've got a six one.
Himmy is sitting in it rightnow.
If that's going to be the finalengine, i'm not sure, because
we're literally we're.
We're building from the frameup.
I lifted the body up and eithergave away or sold everything
from the wheels and the frame,the engine, transmission.
Every piece of it went awayexcept the body, and I'm
(10:38):
building from the frame up, andso we're in that process.
I have to show pictures topeople because I don't have a
car to show them right now.
I can talk to them about it,but I can't show it to them.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now are you buying.
Did you buy a frame or are youbuilding it yourself?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No, sir, i'm not a builder.
I can do some of the things,but there's some things I don't
do, such as welding, paintingand upholstery and high class
body work.
I can pull a den out, but Ican't do a rebuild or chop or
anything else like that, so Ihave to depend on somebody else.
(11:15):
I'm building a tubular frame.
It's custom built for mydesigns and obviously with the
engineering capacity of theframe builder.
Then I, when I get ready forpaint and upholstery, i don't
have to have the car at somebodyelse to shop.
I'm a nerd.
I've been in computer since1970.
(11:35):
The Air Force taught me to be anerd And so I can do all the
wiring, i can do all themechanical, i can turn all the
nuts and bolts and screws myself.
But there's some of the thingsthat require talent, and God
bless me with something elseother than those talents.
So I have to ask somebody elseto assist me and then usually
pay dearly for it.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Isn't there a TV show called that's my final engine?
because he's brought that upthat's your final engine.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't think you're going to speak up.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, I would say that was my final engine.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
So did you get the engine out of a out of a salvage
car, or is this one of thosethat you ordered from Mopar?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
No, i haven't ordered one from Mopar.
This one came from a gentlemannamed Mark Campbell up at Street
and Performance in Mina,arkansas.
It was an engine that he wasputting in his own car and we
needed it in Chicago to have theframe built.
So Mark crated it up, shippedit to Chicago and then I brought
(12:38):
the car back down to Arkansasto be worked on and have some
modifications made on the metal.
And when we picked the car upin Chicago and trailer it down
to Arkansas it wound up stayingin the car.
Unfortunately, mark passed awayand they closed Street and
Performance.
So I have a 6-1 Hemi but Idon't have the computers to go
(13:01):
with it, And so that's anotherside of deciding what I'm going
to finally put in it.
So the engine will be built,the car will be driven on the
road, so National Street RideHolds shows as far away as
Bakersfield, california, orBurlington, vermont, and
Caroline 9 and 10 to drive ourcar to those events.
(13:23):
So it has to beperformance-oriented.
I mentioned I grew up in thedrag racing world and it's got
to be able to go fast and stopfast.
So the brakes have to be superb, and then it's got to be
comfortable, and we obviouslywon all the amenities of 1934,
like six-way seats, cruisecontrols.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
All that air-to-bears cold air yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, you got to have .
well, I have to have cold air.
I married a cotton farmer'sdaughter and she doesn't want to
perspire, So the airconditioning must work.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Hey, I married a cotton farmer's daughter too.
She grew up chopping cotton,chopping the weeds out of the
rows of cotton.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Really.
Yeah, my wife did that too.
but as a teenager we've knowneach other since we were very
small children.
As a teenager I volunteered toher dad I'd come chop cotton
just to be with her out in thefield.
So I was in love.
That's what you young kids arecalling it now.
Yeah, cotton chopping Yeah weknow there's a backstory to that
, we won't go into that rightnow.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
No, we don't need to go there.
Let's talk about the event inGrandbury in a couple of weeks.
When does it start and what canwe look forward to?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It starts on Friday afternoon.
We start registration, we openregistration.
People pull into the park thereat Hewitt Park in Grandbury.
Friday afternoon is kind of anall unofficial activity.
As the DJ, i will set sound upon Friday morning and we'll
(14:54):
start playing tunes.
We play predominantly 50, 60smusic.
We'll slide in a few 70s hereand there, but it's
predominantly that genre ofmusic that we're going to play
And we'll crank the sound up andlet it play to about eight
o'clock.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I was kind of looking for a little hip hop myself,
but you know, oh, you were not,i was not You could go on
downtown.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, you probably won't find that in Grandbury
You're going to go to.
Dallas.
You're going down the streetand find it, but I don't believe
you'll find it in Grandbury.
The event, like I said, beginson Friday at noon.
Saturday morning my car club,christian Classic Cruisers, as
the host club, will show up atabout six o'clock at the front
(15:36):
gate And we call that activitymanning the gate.
What we're looking for atregistration is they issue a
button that you pin on yourshirt And we're making sure that
they have a window sticker ontheir windshield so that when
they pull in the park we knowthey're registered.
It's sometimes a frustrationfor the new participant because
(15:57):
he wants to come in the park andwalk across the street to the
convention center, but we wantthem to register before they can
come in the park.
So we direct traffic, so we'retraffic cops, we're manning the
gate for participantacknowledgement.
Then we, if we need to assistsomeone in getting parked, we do
that.
So as a host club we startedsix o'clock on Saturday morning
(16:19):
The event officially we shutdown at four.
I continue to let the musicplay throughout the park until
eight o'clock that night AndI'll shut it all down and load
some of the sound equipment backup in the trailer.
Then we come back on Sundaymorning and we do a church
service.
We have a local gospel quartetgroup that will be singing,
(16:43):
called Living Water.
One of their members lives inGrandbury and so it's a home
event for him.
They will be singing gospelquartet music and then Jim
Rowlett, the National Street RodChaplain.
He will be bringing scripturein the word as a church service.
(17:05):
So we do a partial churchservice.
We have singing and preachingbut we don't take up an offering
.
Then we begin the awardsceremony.
So somewhere about 11 o'clockin the morning we'll start with
awards and we'll be through withawards by 12, 12, 15 or so in
the events officially over atthat time.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
How many awards are there In those clubs.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Then we have to tear down all the sound.
You guys were there last year.
I have speakers runningentirely around that entire park
so that I don't have to playthe music loud.
I tell everyone I'm a DJwithout an ego.
The music should be in thebackground, because you're there
to visit.
You're not there to listen tomy music and my PA announcements
(17:48):
.
So we start on Thursday morningand we finish on Sunday
afternoon and we do a lot ofactivities on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
How cool, yeah, and you're so well.
You know Grandbury is such awelcoming city, very gracious to
us when we showed up and youknow they're so happy actually
proud to have a Lone Star StreetRod Association come and do
their event there.
The city of Grandbury and theofficials there were pretty neat
.
They were fun to talk to lastyear.
I know that Kathy and I arevery excited about going and I
(18:18):
was going to.
How many awards do you give outon Sunday?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Each director gives an award, so there's eight and
then we have there's probably atotal of about 15 awards.
There's things like we haveelected as directors.
They have elected a streetrider and a street ride lady of
the year and we give them achair that has been in brood
(18:47):
read to have all theirinformation on it.
That award is probably the topaward of everything going on
because they serve as the streetrider and the street rider lady
of the year.
That's a very honored award toget.
And then we're there's clubsand organizations.
Christian classic cruisers willgive an award away.
(19:09):
National Street Rod safety isthere to inspect cars, which is
another.
It's a free activity to theparticipant.
They give an award away.
So the safety state safetyinspector that's there will pick
a car that he likes.
As a NSRA official, i will alsopick a car that I like.
(19:30):
Then we have various otherorganizations throughout the
state that they want to give anaward away.
So somewhere between 12 and 20awards, depending on how many
other activities are going on.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Sounds like a ton of fun.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
We're excited to be part of Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
We're looking forward to seeing you again and we'll
all get get married in a coupleof weeks.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well, i'm excited And for those that have cars that
want to come participate duringthe award ceremony, we have a
drawing for a Napa tool chest,and this at standing at five
foot seven, i can't see in thetop drawers of it.
So it's a huge tool chest andit will have a screen on it silk
(20:13):
screen on it that will displaythe Lone Star street riding
event activity on it.
So we're all excited, we'relooking forward to it.
If you're in a nursing home andlistening to this in Grandbury,
we'll drive through yourparking lot on that Saturday
afternoon.
So that's one of the eventsthat we do, that the Grandbury
police that you talked about,the city of Grandbury embracing
(20:36):
us, the police department, willgive us an escort to drive
through the city of Grandbury tovisit the nursing homes.
Wow That's always exciting forboth the participant and the
resident.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Well, Bobby is great to talk to you.
Thanks so much for joining usthis morning.
I know you got to run and youtake care of yourself and we'll
see you in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Thank you, guys.
We'll see you at the park.
You got it.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Bobby Stout, lone Star Street Rod Association and
the big meet up there inGrandbury on June the 10th.
Okay, time now for a couple ofthese stories making automotive
news headlines.
This week.
Got some recalls to tell youabout Many.
He's still in business.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, it's kind of a leg of BMW.
Yeah, it is not like manyanymore.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
They're getting bigger and bigger, i know So
there's been a bunch of recalls.
Control module in the footwellmay short circuit The Mini
Cooper, the Cooper Clubman, theCooper S and the John Cooper
works.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
You got to go get a pedicure to fix it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, 2007 through 2014.
Electrical short in the powerliftgate module in the Jeep
Cherokee 2014 to 2016.
World seat anchors may notfunction in the Chevy and the
GMC the equinox and terrain,respectively, 2020 to 2023.
Review camera image may notdisplay in the Ford Explorer,
(21:50):
the Lincoln Aviator and theCorsair 2020 to 2023.
Mitsubishi Outlander 2022 to2023.
Review image may not displayPorsche Taycan Correct brake pad
wear indicator.
Wow, is that a safety issue?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
No, is that a safety issue?
Probably a compliance issuemore than a safety issue.
I remember there.
A recall can be eithercompliance, if they didn't
follow the rules, or safety,because somebody's life's in
danger.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well, there's that Volkswagen Group and its Audi
unit have agreed to an $85million settlement in principle
over violations of Texasenvironmental laws stemming from
its diesel cheating scandal.
That's according to embattledTexas Attorney General, ken
Paxton.
The settlement stipulates thatthe German automakers pay a
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civil penalty of $85 million fortheir unlawful actions.
Earlier this month, the TexasSupreme Court ruled the state
environmental lawsuit againstVolkswagen and Audi could go
forward.
Volkswagen, which declined tocomment on Thursday, previously
settled US actions prompted bythe emission scandal for more
than $20 billion, but that didnot shield it from local and
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state government liabilitycourts ruled previously 2015,.
Vw disclosed it had usedsophisticated software to evade
emissions requirements in nearly11 million vehicles worldwide.
It also misled the EPA, whichstarted looking into the matter
in 2014.
Whoops.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, you know, it's OK for the government to lie to
you, but you can't lie to thegovernment Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Or at least don't get caught.
Yeah, state of California hasasked the Biden, administration
Has asked the Biden.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I can't believe You need to turn it down.
That's stupidity.
I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Jack Neyrad still lives there.
State of California has askedthe Biden administration to
approve its plan to require allnew vehicles sold in the state
by 2035 be either electric orplug-in electric hybrids.
according to a letter seen byReuters, The California Air
Resources Board, which approvedthe plan in August, asked the
Environmental Protection Agencyon Monday to approve a waiver
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under the Clean Air Act toimplement its new rules that set
yearly rising zero emissionvehicle rules starting in 2026
and would end new gasoline-onlypowered vehicle sales in the
state by 2035.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Because their power grid is so wonderful that it'll
be able to charge all those cars.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It is going to be a calamity out there.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
So there was a fleet that is buying a button I can't
remember who it was.
It's buying a bunch of Teslatrucks in California And I think
it's to move all of that stuffin and out of the Long Beach
shipping yards And they don'thave enough electricity to
recharge those trucks everynight.
Will they use them on the bigelectric cranes?
Well, those have their ownbuilt-in diesel generator.
(24:45):
It's like the cranes here atthe port of Houston.
They have a big, huge dieselgenerator at the base of those
cranes so the crane can operateelectrically.
So your electric crane stillruns on fossil fuel.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And will continue to, because it doesn't, except in
California, except because itwon't run at all.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Right.
The only thing will run are allthe Californians away.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Think of the same thing, people are running And
great news for radio fans of theAM frequencies.
Ford Motor Company will keep AMradio in all 2024 Ford Lincoln
models and restore it on twoelectric vehicles via a software
update, according to CEO JimFarley.
In a tweet, Farley said thedecision was made after speaking
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with policy leaders about theimportance of AM broadcast radio
as part of the emergencybroadcast system.
The company removed AM radiofrom the Mustang Mach-E and the
F-150 Lightning and planned todiscontinue it on all products
moving forward.
Farley said the company wouldlook for other ways to deliver
emergency alerts in the future.
Ford's reversal comes after abipartisan grip of lawmakers
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last week introduced legislationto bar automakers from
eliminating AM broadcast radioon new cars and light trucks,
citing safety concerns.
The bill would direct NHTSA toissue regulations to mandate AM
radio and new vehicles withoutadditional charge.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, the way they're going to do it is going to put
your mother-in-law in the backseat and smack you in the head
to get an emergency broadcast.
But if they can do it bysoftware, it means how?
how does the car cause theinterference?
bingo, didn't I say last weekthat there's gonna be some
company that will inventsomething to override that we
(26:31):
talked about?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
that If they can do it by software, to me that means
that problem didn't existexactly, and you know that's.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well streaming through my phone.
Frustrating me to say that okaythe silver alert messages don's
on the loose, the little devicethat you plug in your Corvette
to get My phone.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, for the blue, that type of technology.
Yeah, but it's silly.
But whatever, all right timenow for a quick break here on
the in real time car talk show.
We'll be right back after thesemessages.
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