May 1, 2025 • 30 mins
Take a ride with us as we catch up with the Hot Rod Tour of Texas at Spindletap Brewery on Houston's north side. What started four years ago as a modest gathering has evolved into a 300-car caravan of classic automobiles winding through the scenic back roads of the Lone Star State.
Tour organizer Jeremy reveals the behind-the-scenes efforts that make this automotive adventure possible – months of scouting routes, coordinating police escorts, and finding unique venues that can accommodate hundreds of vintage vehicles. The tour deliberately avoids highways and toll roads, instead taking participants through charming small towns where children line up outside schools to wave at the procession of rumbling engines.
The heart of the Hot Rod Tour isn't just about the impressive machinery – it's about the community that forms when car enthusiasts share the open road. When a breakdown occurs, multiple vehicles pull over to help. One participant even brought a trailer specifically to assist anyone experiencing mechanical troubles. These moments of camaraderie, along with experiences like dining inside the Lone Star Flight Museum or visiting the Hack Winery in Santa Fe, create lasting memories that keep participants returning year after year.
The conversation shifts to a broader discussion about American versus foreign cars, with interesting statistics about where vehicles are actually assembled (Tesla tops the list of American-made cars at 89%) and changing perceptions about quality and longevity. The hosts also touch on the growing hybrid market as a pragmatic middle ground between traditional vehicles and fully electric options.
Whether you're a dedicated gearhead or simply appreciate the rolling art of classic automobiles, this episode captures the spirit of Texas car culture and the special connections formed when enthusiasts gather to celebrate their passion. Visit hotrodtouroftexas.com to learn more about joining next year's tour through the Hill Country or possibly East Texas!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
Oh God, here we go On the roadwith the Hot Rod Tour of Texas.
This is the In Wheel Time CarTalk Show coming to you today
from Spindletap Brewery onHouston's north side, coming up.
We're going to hear from someof our tour takers and their
(00:21):
rides, yeah nice.
Jeff will bring us some carculture.
God knows, we need it.
Are we going to do Americanversus foreign?
Yeah, what's better?
What do you buy?
What's going?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
on we're choices.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Howdy, along with Mike out of this World, mars,
who's gathering up our nextguest, who's going to be Jeremy.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Actually he went to the kissing booth.
It's his turn in the kissingbooth, Whose?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Mike's.
Well, that means that they'regoing to close the gates and
everybody's leaving.
I cannot even imagine such athing.
Howdy, along with Mike, out ofthis world Mars.
We always need more Jeff Zekin.
Our chief engineer, DavidAinsley, sits behind me today,
which is a pretty scary thingactually I'm Don Armstrong.
So glad that you could join ustoday, Jeffrey.
I think that the group is here.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
The group is here.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, there's a little place for you and there's
a headset for you.
We sterilized it just in caseyou had some sort of you know
second thoughts about.
You know, maybe is this ahealthy place for you.
This is not, but the headsetsare.
How are you All right?
What about yourself?
So, did you get any sleep lastnight?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
A little bit Did you get any sleep the whole tour.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yet A little bit yeah .
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, so this is the better half of the duo that
presents the Hot.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Rod Tour in.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Texas.
I assume that Bobby is out andrunning around.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
He's right out around the corner.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Okay, well, we don't need him anyway, but we have you
here.
So, uh, how are things thismorning?
You guys start off at eighto'clock this morning.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
We start at eight o'clock uh, at the move that
microphone a little closer toyou yeah, uh.
At the lone star flight museum?
Uh, oh, yeah.
And then we went over.
How was?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
how was that yesterday afternoon?
I know that you guys went upthere yesterday afternoon, did
you not?
Oh, yes, we did.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It was great, did you have?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
dinner there last night.
Mars, Would you get up and helphim?
He's struggling here a littlebit.
There you go, I've got a guysitting right next to you that's
supposed to know how this works, but he's just going to let you
sit there and fumble with themicrophone.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I hate putting my hands on a man.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Today.
That was yesterday Mars.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Last night was great though it was great, we did have
dinner.
We did have dinner.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What kind of dinner did you?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
have.
I didn't make dinner.
Are you guys fajita dinner?
Are you picking out furniturethis week?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Anyway.
So that was at the Lone StarFlight Museum.
Yes, sir Did you have dinnerinside the museum.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
We did.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Was everybody wowed by that place?
Everybody was impressed.
I'll tell you what man.
That is an impressive place,yes, it is I didn't know
anything about it.
I knew that they were buildingit down there several years ago
and the Northside Mustang Clubactually hosted the National
Mustang Clubs and everybody wasthere.
(03:07):
It was a full house andeverybody was absolutely wowed
by that flight museum.
And if you're listening andhave never been to the flight
museum, I would encourage you togo.
I mean, if you're a car guy, itdoesn't make any difference.
If you're a car guy or not acar guy, it doesn't make any
difference.
That thing is impressive.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It is very, very, very impressive.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And last night we had flight simulators also.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, I heard about that A lot of people got to get
on the flight simulators.
How did you?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
do?
I just watched.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Because it can be intimidating If you don't know
how you actually fly an airplane.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's not like a car.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
No, it's not there's a lot going on there.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So what are your most exciting points of the tour to
this point in time?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
To this point.
My favorite parts really aredriving the back roads.
We hit a little bit of windingroad on the way here.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Did you?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Every stop's been great.
I'm not going to tell you wherethis happened, because you
probably know where thishappened, but I got the Corvette
up to 105 before I got nervousand shut it off.
I was waiting for the cops tocatch me, but they didn't.
I didn't see them, but therewere a couple of open stretches
of roadway out there between wasit Victoria or Palacios?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Don't tell them where .
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Palacios, north of Palacios.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
There were two steps.
You know, I know what you'retalking about.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
How fast did you get the truck up here?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
You're pulling the trailer, I have to behave, so I
was going 60.
60?
Were you?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
the one that was saddled with the trailer.
My nephew's pulling the traileroh, okay.
So it's a family affair.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yes, it is very much well you got your yellow truck.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I got the yellow truck.
Yeah, so uh.
We had a great time at the hackwinery.
Yes, who would ever know thatthere's a winery in santa fe?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
a particularly one, that nice, yeah, very nice yes,
and in like a middle of aresidential area.
I know pretty much, yeah, howthe hell did you guys find these
places?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Research, research.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
A lot of research and begging.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
No, he just looked at where can I get a beer near me
and that's what popped up.
That's the research.
That's not the research.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So when you did the research for the tour, it wasn't
just one day or two days, itwas like a week or so, probably
even more, because you tookmonths, months, because you take
several trips all the time outof town, absolutely Out of
Victoria.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yep, we do a lot of road trips, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Well, it would be just like coming to find this
place.
I mean, you know you're acouple hours away and you've got
to find something to figure out.
Well, let's go.
Look at this place.
It's two hours away, all theway on the other side of Houston
.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And, amazingly, the hardest part is finding
somewhere to park.
That was my question.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
How do you determine where you're going to stop?
Parking really clearly doesn'thave much to say about any of
that.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, parking is the biggest part.
So we'll find a location thatlooks cool to go to and then
we'll have to start Googlingmaps and then we'll start
talking to the owners and themanagers running the place and
see if they can handle this sizeof crowd.
Well, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I did some legwork for you this morning, whether
you know it or not, did you?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
know it?
No, I did not know that.
What did you?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
do.
Well, we were a little bitverklempt coming up here because
, coming from Sugar Land, we hadto go through town, around town
, over here, and there's a bigconstruction project on 59
Northbound at Parker.
I'm thinking, well, that wasn'tthat bad, although things were
down to two lanes and afive-lane road.
That's never good in Houston.
(06:40):
And then we found that there'ssome other construction around
here.
Call bobby, call jeremy, callsomebody and let them know,
because we didn't know thedamned route where you guys were
coming from and how your routewas coming up here.
Oh, but once we talked to sabra, we're going ah okay, so
they're coming up the back way.
(07:01):
yeah, no problem, and so thatworked out.
But we thought, god, they'regoing to go the freeway.
Oh, no.
The Hardy toll road is shutdown and you know, 59 is shut
down.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
We avoid tollways, major highways as much as we can
, and that's part of it, becausenot everybody has a toll tag or
anything like that that's notas much fun.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yep, you can go right , the whole purpose is to get
out in the country and drive.
That's the whole purpose of it.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So just to let you know that you guys weren't
really scheduled to be hereuntil between 10 and 1045.
And it's like herding cats.
Yep, because, as you knowespecially the back roads.
You get to a stoplight thatisn't controlled by the police
and you've got to stop.
(07:46):
So then it creates a gap, thenyou get lost and there's this
group and then that group andyou follow this guy and
yesterday took a tour rightoutside of victoria and here's a
policeman, and everybody turnedright I heard about that and we
had to go around the block, youget back in and he's going come
on, this is the way to go.
So, uh, there's that sort ofstuff so yeah, so you don't have
300 people like a funeralprocession with cops going all
(08:09):
over the place guarding the wayit's like.
Here's the course you make ityou know that's another
impressive thing.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The first day is police escort most of the way, I
know.
You know that was pretty coolall the way to santa fe.
You know what?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
and you know they let you go through a red light.
They never let you go throughstop sign.
So I caught myself runninglights and signs this morning,
thinking where's my?
Escort.
Come on, even though that therewere police up and down the
tour.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
There were some that weren't manned by police.
Screw it, we just ran it, yeah.
And I thought if they stop us,I'm going to say well, sir, you
were supposed to be at thatintersection waving us through.
We're on the most impressivetour of the state of Texas, and
that's another thing.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
speaking of impressive having that
coordinated so when you get intothat town that they're ready to
do what they do, and I'll giveDavid Brogger full credit for
that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
He managed all the escorts, and when we did that,
going through those small townslove the kids out in front of
the elementary school, witheverybody waving, revving the
engine, honking the horn, Yayyeah it's great fun.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It's great, ain't it?
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It makes you feel good, you know, exposing the
kids to an event that grandmaand grandpa are on.
Oh look, there goes grandpa'struck up there, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That kind of thing.
I think a lot of people likethe marina there in palatial
studio.
You know we did and you knowwhat the funny thing about it is
.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
That was one that we could walk up and down, talk to
guys.
I met a guy yesterday that'sfrom neederville, where he is,
uh, great guy, and he introducedme to his little group.
One of us with the 61 imperialoh yes, the convertible.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yep, did you look under the hood of that car?
It's got a little littlesomething oh, my god, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So we got a little bit into it, come to find out
that the engine fit, but thetransmission did not, because
it's got a 10 speed.
You know those things aremassive.
Yep, so they had to cut out,cut out the rear floorboard to
get the transmission in there.
The rear four, wow, yeah,because the engine sits so far
back.
It was great.
Love those guys and, uh, that'sreally what all this is about
(10:15):
the camaraderie and meetingpeople that have the same
passion that we do.
Yep, everybody becomes friendsdid you think that this was
going to happen when you startedthis four years ago we were
quite surprised it grew like itdid.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah, we didn't know what to expect and it just kept
on going.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, that's kudos to you for putting on an
organization, an event, and thenmaking sure that anything that
was say you made a mistake orsomething wasn't right you
correct it, yep.
And then the next year it getsbetter and you get more people,
and you get more people, and youkeep adding to it, and I think
that's where you're at today.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Yep, yep, we're trying to improve every year.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well, and look at the fortune.
I mean my god, you got a merchtrailer now just like the rock
and roll bands.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I mean, what more to say?
You got a nephew for a roadie.
Yep, yep, I sure do yeah.
So how?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
many people you say you have your nephew driving the
merch truck.
So there's you, there's Bobby,your nephew.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Obviously, your wives are involved in this how many
in your group to kick this off?
Let's see, we have.
Let's see, another fivevolunteers?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I believe no.
Seven volunteers, Sevenvolunteers, and then you four,
five, Right?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
So a dozen people, about a dozen people.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Dirty dozen.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
They stepped up to the plate to help park and do
the scanning in and everything.
Yeah, always appreciated.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
By the way, all the tedious little stuff yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I was talking to Kate down there at the Victoria
Square.
Yep, the lady down there and Isaid do me a favor, would you
please guide these guys nextyear, because there's not enough
parking on the square.
Here's what happens they allget there at 2 o'clock in the
damned afternoon and the eventdoesn't start until 5.
Well, they snap all the parkingspots, so I have to park in a
(12:01):
parking lot.
We'll fix it next year.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
There you go, and that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
We even had ancillary parking right there next to the
courthouse.
You know what parking lot I'mtalking about, so that's going
to be ours.
Thank you very much, donArmstrong.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I going to be ours.
Thank you very much, DonArmstrong.
You know what he negotiatedthere's going to be a spot with
his name on it.
That's what he wants.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Right next to the band Don Armstrong Once I'm dead
there'll be the memorial therethe Don Armstrong Memorial
parking spot, and they'll put a.
Yugo in it, exactly.
So what's the car count likethis morning?
Because you know it's one thingto start the event and you've
got a full house and then, forwhatever reason, this guy has to
(12:44):
drop out, can't do the wholething, so do you know what the
car count is this morning?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I do not, but it's still over 200.
It's still over 200.
And we?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
started with three, yes, 300?
.
But you know, folks do otherthings.
They'll be here, they'll becoming in.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, some of them.
You know there were severalcars on the side of the road and
people were stopping to helpthem.
So it's not just one car down.
Now you've got two, maybe threethat are down because people
are trying to help each otherout.
That's right.
I saw that I think threedifferent times.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
And different time, and that's a good thing about
this group.
They see someone go down,they're gonna pull over and
absolutely yeah, well, maybe wecan get someone, uh, for next
year to have like a chase truckhave actually, there is somebody
I saw one of those, a recoveryvehicle.
There you go, there you go.
Is that what it said, you see?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
triple a on it or something somebody glom on to
the end of the tour hey, he'sbringing a trailer, his uh, he
has a, uh, a bel air stationwagon that's getting painted.
It didn't get finished.
So he's still coming along.
Brought a trailer in caseanybody breaks down.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Very nice and that's camaraderie and thinking ahead.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, that's very good.
That's Steve.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Glenn from Pan Joe's Pizza in Corpus.
Ah, very nice.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Pedro's in Corpus.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Pan Joe's, oh, pan Joe's Pizza.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I've had that pizza.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You know there's a pizza place there in Victoria
that I thought went out ofbusiness.
Oh no, pied Piper Pizza, ohyeah, remember.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Pied Piper oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's over there on Navarro, across the street.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Competitor at Chuck E Cheese.
Yep, yeah, see, look at what Iknow.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I've learned the hard way, he ordered a pizza.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
He's got a parking spot.
He's good.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, he's good to go .
So what's on the agenda forthis afternoon?
You spent a couple of hourshere.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
We'll spend a couple hours here.
Then we're going to move on andwind our way to Montgomery.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Montgomery, Texas.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Tonight is the guitars and classic cars in
Montgomery, and what is that?
That was a new venue that westumbled across, and so I
believe it's 20 acres, right at20 acres five-acre pond.
And it's got a stage set up andwe'll be parking under the
trees.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
It's an outdoor venue .
It's an outdoor venue.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
We'll be parking under trees and they have string
lights throughout the treesVery nice, and they held a about
a month or so ago they had anighttime car show there.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Oh, so they set the stage.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yes, and we'll have the crowbars playing there also,
by the way.
Congratulations, fun group theyare and, uh, very talented.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
And we learned something about the crowbars
yesterday, about the drum, thebass drum he had a suitcase he's
playing a suitcase you can use,as long as it makes the tone.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
As long as it makes the tone, it's good it sounded
good.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, there's no bass drum per se.
It was the suitcase and itworked.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yep, samsonite and ludwig, they need to get into
business well, or dw you talkingabout mary samsonite?
Do you remember mary samson?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
no, I no she didn't go to my school.
Did you ever watch Dumb andDumber?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
No, oh, I know what you're talking about, mary
Samsonite.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yep, yeah because she had left her briefcase with all
the money in it and it hadSamsonite on it.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And she was Mary must be Mary.
What's her name?
Mary Mary Samsonite, okay.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, I remember that , yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Remember the strange things.
Is there food here today?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
They do have a food truck outside.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Okay, good, I think it's right out.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
And there's lots of beer here.
I can see it through the windowright there.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Lots of beer here.
There's a Hot Rod Tour merchtruck out there.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Yes, they're setting it up.
Right now they are.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
We're backing it up as I walked in here, I see it on
camera right here oh, I see itthere.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, there, it is right there with the texas flag
and the hot rod tour of texasthe giveaway go.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, our famous logo so tonight is montgomery and
then you're going to staysomewhere up in the woodland.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
We'll say we'll stay in the con.
Most of us are in the conroearea, yeah, and then tomorrow
we'll leave out um hunger crushcafe in montgomery, yeah, and
we'll be pulling Hunger CrushCafe in Montgomery, yep, and
we'll be pulling out of there,of course, taking a bunch of
back roads, and we're going toend up in Madisonville at Braves
Yep Playground and museum.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I believe You're going to go through the forest
up there.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
We're going to be driving through some trees yes.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, so before you leave us, how do folks get a
hold of you?
Hot Rod Tour of Texas, maybefor some merch or maybe kind of
pre-sign up for next year.
How do they do that?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
All right.
So we have our Hot Rod Tour ofTexas tour page, facebook page,
and then we also have a website,hotrodtouroftexascom, and we
have our store located therealso, if you want to, if you
want to buy merch and doshipping got.
We're trying to get better atannouncing where we're going to
(17:23):
be if you want to go and see usthere.
We do go to New Brunswickmonthly to meet there, right and
uh, really yes yeah, everymonth.
Every month last weekend of themonth at uh Gateway Cars.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
But you don't stay at Gateway Classic Cars, that's a
consignment store.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yep, but we go there.
They have like a caffeine andchrome is what they call it.
I think we've done a couple ofannouncements on it Last year,
the past two years, the past twoyears, yep.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
We sure did.
It's good to go in there andsee the cars with the stickers
on them, the price tag of them.
Yeah, yeah, hell, they got 100cars inside that warehouse?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, easily, easily.
Yeah, it's a beautiful facility, so if you want to get on the
Hot Rod Tour.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
George, are you listening to me?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
George, david George is down there somewhere, jeffrey
, a hot rod.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Calling those boys out.
That's right.
It don't have to be a classic.
It could be a car.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Well, you know, I'm driving a Buick this year and
I've been getting rave reviewsabout it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
It's a 2025 model.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
It's going to become a classic.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
He's actually looking at putting some wood siding on
it.
There you go, but you know.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I've got to get the right shaker.
Can color yeah, that.
And the sponge and the spongeyeah, You've got to get the
texture All right, but yeahregistration usually doesn't
open until the beginning of theyear.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
That's when we finalize everything.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
You want to maybe give us a preview of where you
think you might be going nextyear.
We won't tell anybody.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Nobody we believe we'll be going back to the Hill
Country next year.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Okay, yeah, that's always fun.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
But you know what?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
There's only one other place, and that would be
East Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And going north from the Beaumont area up through the
Piney Woods up to maybe downthe road.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Maybe down the road.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
We try to change it up every year.
By the way, there's your carright there.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
My train.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, yeah.
If you could figure out a wayto go around Houston to East
Texas, that'd be great.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
That would be a logistical thing for them to
work out from Victoria up toBeaumont.
I don't know.
You need a passport, you've gotto get shots and all that Shots
.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Jeremy, thank you.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Thank you, sir, it's great to be here.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
All right, we'll see you later on.
We'll talk before the end ofthe show.
All right, you bet All right,thank you, hey.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Just ahead a special feature, along with Jeff's car
culture and prepping Americanversus foreign rides.
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Um, let's see.
Hey, we hit the road again.
God help oh no the next stop isgranbury for the lone star and
street rod association state run.
Join our live broadcast on June14th.
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We'll be on 9 to noon.
Thanks for being with us todayand we appreciate you.
We're coming to you on the HotRod Tour of Texas today and we
are at the Spindle Tap Breweryhere on the north side of
Houston Yep, just off of US-59,the East Tex Freeway as we call
it, and all of the well.
(22:02):
It started off as 300 cars.
I think that they're probablydown to 200 cars, but let me
tell you that's a lot of cars alot of cars, yeah and uh 50 cars
is a lot of cars.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It is if you stop and think about it.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
It is all right.
So, uh, what do you got?
You have a special for us.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I do, it's called American Cars vs Foreign Cars.
A little bit of stats and facts.
And what would you buy?
Choosing between American andforeign automobiles is sometimes
a complicated decision, butit's interesting to find out
what people want to know aboutit and how they make their
decisions.
What percentage of cars areAmerican?
(22:39):
Well, nearly half of all carsin the United States are from
overseas.
More specifically, about 45% ofthem are foreign cars.
54% are domestic.
So that's a fairly decentnumber, american outweighing the
foreign.
What are the foreign carsbetter than American cars?
Well better is a subjective term, but because European car
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manufacturers usually havestricter regulations, the
requirements from an automobilemanufacturer in America these
tend to be higher.
The quality tends to be alittle bit lasting longer.
That's consensus in the peoplethat are looking into buying
these things.
Why are American cars betterthan foreign cars?
Well, that's another choicethat you have to make.
(23:22):
American cars are sometimesbetter than foreign car vehicles
, especially to consumers thatwant to buy America wherever
they can.
I mean even in appliances andmultiple choices purchases as
well, even though sometimesdifficult to tell exactly where
the parts of that vehicle aremade.
Do American or foreign cars lastlonger?
There's always an argumentregarding whether American or
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foreign cars last longer.
At one time, typically,vehicles drove very well under
that banner about 100,000 miles,that was the max.
Now they're about 300,000 milesand still going.
So it's a matter of maintenanceand how they put them together.
Who assembles the most cars inAmerica?
Well, you're looking at in theUnited States.
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Tesla assembles the most in theUnited States, in the country,
followed by Jeep at 89%,cadillac 86, dodge at 83%, gmc
at 80, and number 11 on the listis Nissan, which assembles
about 55% of the vehicles in theUnited States.
Why do Americans prefer foreigncars?
Well, whether these perceptionsare nissan, which assembles
about 55 of the vehicles in theunited states, why do americans
prefer foreign cars?
Well, uh, whether theseperceptions are completely
(24:25):
realistic or not, it issubjective and there's a few
reasons that people have intheir own making of that
decision can I just jump, insure.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
So back in the day when toyota and honda came to
the States.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
And they were head-to-head.
They were head-to-head.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But the movement was in my era at that time late 60s,
early 70s that the foreignmakers, honda and Nissan and
those bunches that came to theUnited States first.
They lasted longer, they werebetter built, they were higher
quality cars.
Well, they were smaller carstoo.
(25:02):
They were they were betterbuilt.
They were higher quality cars.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Well, there were smaller cars too.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
They were, they were, and for that they competed
against the other smaller carsthat the manufacturers in the
United States were making, theNovas, for instance.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
That sort of stuff.
I had one.
It was a great car.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
But that was the nomenclature here that we all
said.
Oh well, I hear that they makelonger lasting cars, and that
wasn't necessarily true.
If you took care of youramerican car, which we didn't do
, we treated them like trashwell 35,000 miles we traded it
in a different era, because theydidn't last much longer than
(25:35):
35,000 yeah well that's well.
What do you mean by that?
Well, my dad's.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Buick lasted forever, but our age, when we were
growing up, I was flipping carsevery couple of years, you know
as a teenager.
Well, I didn't have that kindof money, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, I think that's part of being a teenager, though
, but you're right, you know.
I remember my dad rebuildingmotors in the driveway.
Oh, it's got 100,000 miles onit.
It's got a hundred thousandmiles on it.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
It's got the rings in it.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, you got to put rings in it or bearings, the
points or something.
Yeah, exactly, there's alwayssomething.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And why are cars, not american cars, not sold in
europe?
Well, it's, it's the conception, and not being the better built
vehicle, like you just said.
It's not true?
Well, that's the, that's theperception, and the conception
of some of the people yeah,anyways, uh, worldwide, there's
roughly 160 brands of vehicles,which means that the uh the
makes of these vehicles.
As far as models are concerned,there's new ones popping up all
(26:30):
the time, but in 20, as of 2020, the estimate uh about 250 to
260 total models of vehicles.
So make your choice my god, it'sall you a lot yeah and some of
them brands I've never evenheard of.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So it's and there's more and more now yeah now it's
the electrics that areeverybody's trying to get a foot
in the door ev this and ribbiantype ocean there's all sorts of
different new makers thathaven't even thought about
coming out of states yet, butthey're poised to.
We haven't even opened up themarket to the Chinese.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And the Chinese really have a leg up on pricing
and longevity mileage on theirelectric vehicles.
We haven't even opened a storehere yet.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
That's coming.
They interviewed the CEO ofHyundai on some news show the
other last week or whatever, andhe was talking about how they
want to come to the UnitedStates and start blasting cars
out in the United States, andthey ended the conversation on a
handshake.
So that was good.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I have to tell you, and I'm going to- review this in
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'm just driving.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I just took delivery of a 2025 Ford F-150 hybrid.
Granted it's $80,000,.
But let me say this it's ahybrid and boy is it nice.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Hybrids are popular.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Hybrid is the way to go.
Manufacturers know how to makethem.
They've been making them for awhile.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I think they got the juju down on the hybrids.
So if you're going to themarket for a new car, I would
definitely check out a hybrid ifyou can.
They're a little bit moreexpensive but, hey, it's worth
the money, I think.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Cadillac Escalade Electric 460 miles is what
they're touting, and on a rangeyeah range.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So keep that in mind.
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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
Oh God, here we go On the roadwith the Hot Rod Tour of Texas.
This is the In Wheel Time CarTalk Show coming to you today
from Spindletap Brewery onHouston's north side, coming up.
We're going to hear from someof our tour takers and their
(00:21):
rides, yeah nice.
Jeff will bring us some carculture.
God knows, we need it.
Are we going to do Americanversus foreign?
Yeah, what's better?
What do you buy?
What's going?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
on we're choices.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Howdy, along with Mike out of this World, mars,
who's gathering up our nextguest, who's going to be Jeremy.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Actually he went to the kissing booth.
It's his turn in the kissingbooth, Whose?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Mike's.
Well, that means that they'regoing to close the gates and
everybody's leaving.
I cannot even imagine such athing.
Howdy, along with Mike, out ofthis world Mars.
We always need more Jeff Zekin.
Our chief engineer, DavidAinsley, sits behind me today,
which is a pretty scary thingactually I'm Don Armstrong.
So glad that you could join ustoday, Jeffrey.
I think that the group is here.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
The group is here.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, there's a little place for you and there's
a headset for you.
We sterilized it just in caseyou had some sort of you know
second thoughts about.
You know, maybe is this ahealthy place for you.
This is not, but the headsetsare.
How are you All right?
What about yourself?
So, did you get any sleep lastnight?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
A little bit Did you get any sleep the whole tour.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yet A little bit yeah .
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, so this is the better half of the duo that
presents the Hot.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Rod Tour in.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Texas.
I assume that Bobby is out andrunning around.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
He's right out around the corner.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Okay, well, we don't need him anyway, but we have you
here.
So, uh, how are things thismorning?
You guys start off at eighto'clock this morning.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
We start at eight o'clock uh, at the move that
microphone a little closer toyou yeah, uh.
At the lone star flight museum?
Uh, oh, yeah.
And then we went over.
How was?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
how was that yesterday afternoon?
I know that you guys went upthere yesterday afternoon, did
you not?
Oh, yes, we did.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It was great, did you have?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
dinner there last night.
Mars, Would you get up and helphim?
He's struggling here a littlebit.
There you go, I've got a guysitting right next to you that's
supposed to know how this works, but he's just going to let you
sit there and fumble with themicrophone.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I hate putting my hands on a man.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Today.
That was yesterday Mars.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Last night was great though it was great, we did have
dinner.
We did have dinner.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What kind of dinner did you?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
have.
I didn't make dinner.
Are you guys fajita dinner?
Are you picking out furniturethis week?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Anyway.
So that was at the Lone StarFlight Museum.
Yes, sir Did you have dinnerinside the museum.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
We did.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Was everybody wowed by that place?
Everybody was impressed.
I'll tell you what man.
That is an impressive place,yes, it is I didn't know
anything about it.
I knew that they were buildingit down there several years ago
and the Northside Mustang Clubactually hosted the National
Mustang Clubs and everybody wasthere.
(03:07):
It was a full house andeverybody was absolutely wowed
by that flight museum.
And if you're listening andhave never been to the flight
museum, I would encourage you togo.
I mean, if you're a car guy, itdoesn't make any difference.
If you're a car guy or not acar guy, it doesn't make any
difference.
That thing is impressive.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It is very, very, very impressive.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And last night we had flight simulators also.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, I heard about that A lot of people got to get
on the flight simulators.
How did you?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
do?
I just watched.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Because it can be intimidating If you don't know
how you actually fly an airplane.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's not like a car.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
No, it's not there's a lot going on there.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So what are your most exciting points of the tour to
this point in time?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
To this point.
My favorite parts really aredriving the back roads.
We hit a little bit of windingroad on the way here.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Did you?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Every stop's been great.
I'm not going to tell you wherethis happened, because you
probably know where thishappened, but I got the Corvette
up to 105 before I got nervousand shut it off.
I was waiting for the cops tocatch me, but they didn't.
I didn't see them, but therewere a couple of open stretches
of roadway out there between wasit Victoria or Palacios?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Don't tell them where .
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Palacios, north of Palacios.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
There were two steps.
You know, I know what you'retalking about.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
How fast did you get the truck up here?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
You're pulling the trailer, I have to behave, so I
was going 60.
60?
Were you?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
the one that was saddled with the trailer.
My nephew's pulling the traileroh, okay.
So it's a family affair.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yes, it is very much well you got your yellow truck.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I got the yellow truck.
Yeah, so uh.
We had a great time at the hackwinery.
Yes, who would ever know thatthere's a winery in santa fe?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
a particularly one, that nice, yeah, very nice yes,
and in like a middle of aresidential area.
I know pretty much, yeah, howthe hell did you guys find these
places?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Research, research.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
A lot of research and begging.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
No, he just looked at where can I get a beer near me
and that's what popped up.
That's the research.
That's not the research.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So when you did the research for the tour, it wasn't
just one day or two days, itwas like a week or so, probably
even more, because you tookmonths, months, because you take
several trips all the time outof town, absolutely Out of
Victoria.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yep, we do a lot of road trips, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Well, it would be just like coming to find this
place.
I mean, you know you're acouple hours away and you've got
to find something to figure out.
Well, let's go.
Look at this place.
It's two hours away, all theway on the other side of Houston
.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And, amazingly, the hardest part is finding
somewhere to park.
That was my question.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
How do you determine where you're going to stop?
Parking really clearly doesn'thave much to say about any of
that.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, parking is the biggest part.
So we'll find a location thatlooks cool to go to and then
we'll have to start Googlingmaps and then we'll start
talking to the owners and themanagers running the place and
see if they can handle this sizeof crowd.
Well, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I did some legwork for you this morning, whether
you know it or not, did you?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
know it?
No, I did not know that.
What did you?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
do.
Well, we were a little bitverklempt coming up here because
, coming from Sugar Land, we hadto go through town, around town
, over here, and there's a bigconstruction project on 59
Northbound at Parker.
I'm thinking, well, that wasn'tthat bad, although things were
down to two lanes and afive-lane road.
That's never good in Houston.
(06:40):
And then we found that there'ssome other construction around
here.
Call bobby, call jeremy, callsomebody and let them know,
because we didn't know thedamned route where you guys were
coming from and how your routewas coming up here.
Oh, but once we talked to sabra, we're going ah okay, so
they're coming up the back way.
(07:01):
yeah, no problem, and so thatworked out.
But we thought, god, they'regoing to go the freeway.
Oh, no.
The Hardy toll road is shutdown and you know, 59 is shut
down.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
We avoid tollways, major highways as much as we can
, and that's part of it, becausenot everybody has a toll tag or
anything like that that's notas much fun.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yep, you can go right , the whole purpose is to get
out in the country and drive.
That's the whole purpose of it.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So just to let you know that you guys weren't
really scheduled to be hereuntil between 10 and 1045.
And it's like herding cats.
Yep, because, as you knowespecially the back roads.
You get to a stoplight thatisn't controlled by the police
and you've got to stop.
(07:46):
So then it creates a gap, thenyou get lost and there's this
group and then that group andyou follow this guy and
yesterday took a tour rightoutside of victoria and here's a
policeman, and everybody turnedright I heard about that and we
had to go around the block, youget back in and he's going come
on, this is the way to go.
So, uh, there's that sort ofstuff so yeah, so you don't have
300 people like a funeralprocession with cops going all
(08:09):
over the place guarding the wayit's like.
Here's the course you make ityou know that's another
impressive thing.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The first day is police escort most of the way, I
know.
You know that was pretty coolall the way to santa fe.
You know what?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
and you know they let you go through a red light.
They never let you go throughstop sign.
So I caught myself runninglights and signs this morning,
thinking where's my?
Escort.
Come on, even though that therewere police up and down the
tour.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
There were some that weren't manned by police.
Screw it, we just ran it, yeah.
And I thought if they stop us,I'm going to say well, sir, you
were supposed to be at thatintersection waving us through.
We're on the most impressivetour of the state of Texas, and
that's another thing.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
speaking of impressive having that
coordinated so when you get intothat town that they're ready to
do what they do, and I'll giveDavid Brogger full credit for
that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
He managed all the escorts, and when we did that,
going through those small townslove the kids out in front of
the elementary school, witheverybody waving, revving the
engine, honking the horn, Yayyeah it's great fun.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It's great, ain't it?
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It makes you feel good, you know, exposing the
kids to an event that grandmaand grandpa are on.
Oh look, there goes grandpa'struck up there, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That kind of thing.
I think a lot of people likethe marina there in palatial
studio.
You know we did and you knowwhat the funny thing about it is
.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
That was one that we could walk up and down, talk to
guys.
I met a guy yesterday that'sfrom neederville, where he is,
uh, great guy, and he introducedme to his little group.
One of us with the 61 imperialoh yes, the convertible.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yep, did you look under the hood of that car?
It's got a little littlesomething oh, my god, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So we got a little bit into it, come to find out
that the engine fit, but thetransmission did not, because
it's got a 10 speed.
You know those things aremassive.
Yep, so they had to cut out,cut out the rear floorboard to
get the transmission in there.
The rear four, wow, yeah,because the engine sits so far
back.
It was great.
Love those guys and, uh, that'sreally what all this is about
(10:15):
the camaraderie and meetingpeople that have the same
passion that we do.
Yep, everybody becomes friendsdid you think that this was
going to happen when you startedthis four years ago we were
quite surprised it grew like itdid.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah, we didn't know what to expect and it just kept
on going.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, that's kudos to you for putting on an
organization, an event, and thenmaking sure that anything that
was say you made a mistake orsomething wasn't right you
correct it, yep.
And then the next year it getsbetter and you get more people,
and you get more people, and youkeep adding to it, and I think
that's where you're at today.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Yep, yep, we're trying to improve every year.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well, and look at the fortune.
I mean my god, you got a merchtrailer now just like the rock
and roll bands.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I mean, what more to say?
You got a nephew for a roadie.
Yep, yep, I sure do yeah.
So how?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
many people you say you have your nephew driving the
merch truck.
So there's you, there's Bobby,your nephew.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Obviously, your wives are involved in this how many
in your group to kick this off?
Let's see, we have.
Let's see, another fivevolunteers?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I believe no.
Seven volunteers, Sevenvolunteers, and then you four,
five, Right?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
So a dozen people, about a dozen people.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Dirty dozen.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
They stepped up to the plate to help park and do
the scanning in and everything.
Yeah, always appreciated.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
By the way, all the tedious little stuff yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I was talking to Kate down there at the Victoria
Square.
Yep, the lady down there and Isaid do me a favor, would you
please guide these guys nextyear, because there's not enough
parking on the square.
Here's what happens they allget there at 2 o'clock in the
damned afternoon and the eventdoesn't start until 5.
Well, they snap all the parkingspots, so I have to park in a
(12:01):
parking lot.
We'll fix it next year.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
There you go, and that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
We even had ancillary parking right there next to the
courthouse.
You know what parking lot I'mtalking about, so that's going
to be ours.
Thank you very much, donArmstrong.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I going to be ours.
Thank you very much, DonArmstrong.
You know what he negotiatedthere's going to be a spot with
his name on it.
That's what he wants.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Right next to the band Don Armstrong Once I'm dead
there'll be the memorial therethe Don Armstrong Memorial
parking spot, and they'll put a.
Yugo in it, exactly.
So what's the car count likethis morning?
Because you know it's one thingto start the event and you've
got a full house and then, forwhatever reason, this guy has to
(12:44):
drop out, can't do the wholething, so do you know what the
car count is this morning?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I do not, but it's still over 200.
It's still over 200.
And we?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
started with three, yes, 300?
.
But you know, folks do otherthings.
They'll be here, they'll becoming in.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, some of them.
You know there were severalcars on the side of the road and
people were stopping to helpthem.
So it's not just one car down.
Now you've got two, maybe threethat are down because people
are trying to help each otherout.
That's right.
I saw that I think threedifferent times.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
And different time, and that's a good thing about
this group.
They see someone go down,they're gonna pull over and
absolutely yeah, well, maybe wecan get someone, uh, for next
year to have like a chase truckhave actually, there is somebody
I saw one of those, a recoveryvehicle.
There you go, there you go.
Is that what it said, you see?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
triple a on it or something somebody glom on to
the end of the tour hey, he'sbringing a trailer, his uh, he
has a, uh, a bel air stationwagon that's getting painted.
It didn't get finished.
So he's still coming along.
Brought a trailer in caseanybody breaks down.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Very nice and that's camaraderie and thinking ahead.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, that's very good.
That's Steve.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Glenn from Pan Joe's Pizza in Corpus.
Ah, very nice.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Pedro's in Corpus.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Pan Joe's, oh, pan Joe's Pizza.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I've had that pizza.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You know there's a pizza place there in Victoria
that I thought went out ofbusiness.
Oh no, pied Piper Pizza, ohyeah, remember.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Pied Piper oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's over there on Navarro, across the street.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Competitor at Chuck E Cheese.
Yep, yeah, see, look at what Iknow.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I've learned the hard way, he ordered a pizza.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
He's got a parking spot.
He's good.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, he's good to go .
So what's on the agenda forthis afternoon?
You spent a couple of hourshere.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
We'll spend a couple hours here.
Then we're going to move on andwind our way to Montgomery.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Montgomery, Texas.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Tonight is the guitars and classic cars in
Montgomery, and what is that?
That was a new venue that westumbled across, and so I
believe it's 20 acres, right at20 acres five-acre pond.
And it's got a stage set up andwe'll be parking under the
trees.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
It's an outdoor venue .
It's an outdoor venue.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
We'll be parking under trees and they have string
lights throughout the treesVery nice, and they held a about
a month or so ago they had anighttime car show there.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Oh, so they set the stage.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yes, and we'll have the crowbars playing there also,
by the way.
Congratulations, fun group theyare and, uh, very talented.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
And we learned something about the crowbars
yesterday, about the drum, thebass drum he had a suitcase he's
playing a suitcase you can use,as long as it makes the tone.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
As long as it makes the tone, it's good it sounded
good.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, there's no bass drum per se.
It was the suitcase and itworked.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yep, samsonite and ludwig, they need to get into
business well, or dw you talkingabout mary samsonite?
Do you remember mary samson?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
no, I no she didn't go to my school.
Did you ever watch Dumb andDumber?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
No, oh, I know what you're talking about, mary
Samsonite.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yep, yeah because she had left her briefcase with all
the money in it and it hadSamsonite on it.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And she was Mary must be Mary.
What's her name?
Mary Mary Samsonite, okay.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, I remember that , yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Remember the strange things.
Is there food here today?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
They do have a food truck outside.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Okay, good, I think it's right out.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
And there's lots of beer here.
I can see it through the windowright there.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Lots of beer here.
There's a Hot Rod Tour merchtruck out there.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Yes, they're setting it up.
Right now they are.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
We're backing it up as I walked in here, I see it on
camera right here oh, I see itthere.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, there, it is right there with the texas flag
and the hot rod tour of texasthe giveaway go.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, our famous logo so tonight is montgomery and
then you're going to staysomewhere up in the woodland.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
We'll say we'll stay in the con.
Most of us are in the conroearea, yeah, and then tomorrow
we'll leave out um hunger crushcafe in montgomery, yeah, and
we'll be pulling Hunger CrushCafe in Montgomery, yep, and
we'll be pulling out of there,of course, taking a bunch of
back roads, and we're going toend up in Madisonville at Braves
Yep Playground and museum.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I believe You're going to go through the forest
up there.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
We're going to be driving through some trees yes.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, so before you leave us, how do folks get a
hold of you?
Hot Rod Tour of Texas, maybefor some merch or maybe kind of
pre-sign up for next year.
How do they do that?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
All right.
So we have our Hot Rod Tour ofTexas tour page, facebook page,
and then we also have a website,hotrodtouroftexascom, and we
have our store located therealso, if you want to, if you
want to buy merch and doshipping got.
We're trying to get better atannouncing where we're going to
(17:23):
be if you want to go and see usthere.
We do go to New Brunswickmonthly to meet there, right and
uh, really yes yeah, everymonth.
Every month last weekend of themonth at uh Gateway Cars.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
But you don't stay at Gateway Classic Cars, that's a
consignment store.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yep, but we go there.
They have like a caffeine andchrome is what they call it.
I think we've done a couple ofannouncements on it Last year,
the past two years, the past twoyears, yep.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
We sure did.
It's good to go in there andsee the cars with the stickers
on them, the price tag of them.
Yeah, yeah, hell, they got 100cars inside that warehouse?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, easily, easily.
Yeah, it's a beautiful facility, so if you want to get on the
Hot Rod Tour.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
George, are you listening to me?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
George, david George is down there somewhere, jeffrey
, a hot rod.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Calling those boys out.
That's right.
It don't have to be a classic.
It could be a car.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Well, you know, I'm driving a Buick this year and
I've been getting rave reviewsabout it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
It's a 2025 model.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
It's going to become a classic.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
He's actually looking at putting some wood siding on
it.
There you go, but you know.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I've got to get the right shaker.
Can color yeah, that.
And the sponge and the spongeyeah, You've got to get the
texture All right, but yeahregistration usually doesn't
open until the beginning of theyear.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
That's when we finalize everything.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
You want to maybe give us a preview of where you
think you might be going nextyear.
We won't tell anybody.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Nobody we believe we'll be going back to the Hill
Country next year.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Okay, yeah, that's always fun.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
But you know what?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
There's only one other place, and that would be
East Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And going north from the Beaumont area up through the
Piney Woods up to maybe downthe road.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Maybe down the road.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
We try to change it up every year.
By the way, there's your carright there.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
My train.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, yeah.
If you could figure out a wayto go around Houston to East
Texas, that'd be great.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
That would be a logistical thing for them to
work out from Victoria up toBeaumont.
I don't know.
You need a passport, you've gotto get shots and all that Shots
.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Jeremy, thank you.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Thank you, sir, it's great to be here.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
All right, we'll see you later on.
We'll talk before the end ofthe show.
All right, you bet All right,thank you, hey.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Just ahead a special feature, along with Jeff's car
culture and prepping Americanversus foreign rides.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
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Um, let's see.
Hey, we hit the road again.
God help oh no the next stop isgranbury for the lone star and
street rod association state run.
Join our live broadcast on June14th.
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We'll be on 9 to noon.
Thanks for being with us todayand we appreciate you.
We're coming to you on the HotRod Tour of Texas today and we
are at the Spindle Tap Breweryhere on the north side of
Houston Yep, just off of US-59,the East Tex Freeway as we call
it, and all of the well.
(22:02):
It started off as 300 cars.
I think that they're probablydown to 200 cars, but let me
tell you that's a lot of cars alot of cars, yeah and uh 50 cars
is a lot of cars.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It is if you stop and think about it.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
It is all right.
So, uh, what do you got?
You have a special for us.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I do, it's called American Cars vs Foreign Cars.
A little bit of stats and facts.
And what would you buy?
Choosing between American andforeign automobiles is sometimes
a complicated decision, butit's interesting to find out
what people want to know aboutit and how they make their
decisions.
What percentage of cars areAmerican?
(22:39):
Well, nearly half of all carsin the United States are from
overseas.
More specifically, about 45% ofthem are foreign cars.
54% are domestic.
So that's a fairly decentnumber, american outweighing the
foreign.
What are the foreign carsbetter than American cars?
Well better is a subjective term, but because European car
(23:01):
manufacturers usually havestricter regulations, the
requirements from an automobilemanufacturer in America these
tend to be higher.
The quality tends to be alittle bit lasting longer.
That's consensus in the peoplethat are looking into buying
these things.
Why are American cars betterthan foreign cars?
Well, that's another choicethat you have to make.
(23:22):
American cars are sometimesbetter than foreign car vehicles
, especially to consumers thatwant to buy America wherever
they can.
I mean even in appliances andmultiple choices purchases as
well, even though sometimesdifficult to tell exactly where
the parts of that vehicle aremade.
Do American or foreign cars lastlonger?
There's always an argumentregarding whether American or
(23:45):
foreign cars last longer.
At one time, typically,vehicles drove very well under
that banner about 100,000 miles,that was the max.
Now they're about 300,000 milesand still going.
So it's a matter of maintenanceand how they put them together.
Who assembles the most cars inAmerica?
Well, you're looking at in theUnited States.
(24:05):
Tesla assembles the most in theUnited States, in the country,
followed by Jeep at 89%,cadillac 86, dodge at 83%, gmc
at 80, and number 11 on the listis Nissan, which assembles
about 55% of the vehicles in theUnited States.
Why do Americans prefer foreigncars?
Well, whether these perceptionsare nissan, which assembles
about 55 of the vehicles in theunited states, why do americans
prefer foreign cars?
Well, uh, whether theseperceptions are completely
(24:25):
realistic or not, it issubjective and there's a few
reasons that people have intheir own making of that
decision can I just jump, insure.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
So back in the day when toyota and honda came to
the States.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
And they were head-to-head.
They were head-to-head.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But the movement was in my era at that time late 60s,
early 70s that the foreignmakers, honda and Nissan and
those bunches that came to theUnited States first.
They lasted longer, they werebetter built, they were higher
quality cars.
Well, they were smaller carstoo.
(25:02):
They were they were betterbuilt.
They were higher quality cars.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Well, there were smaller cars too.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
They were, they were, and for that they competed
against the other smaller carsthat the manufacturers in the
United States were making, theNovas, for instance.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
That sort of stuff.
I had one.
It was a great car.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
But that was the nomenclature here that we all
said.
Oh well, I hear that they makelonger lasting cars, and that
wasn't necessarily true.
If you took care of youramerican car, which we didn't do
, we treated them like trashwell 35,000 miles we traded it
in a different era, because theydidn't last much longer than
(25:35):
35,000 yeah well that's well.
What do you mean by that?
Well, my dad's.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Buick lasted forever, but our age, when we were
growing up, I was flipping carsevery couple of years, you know
as a teenager.
Well, I didn't have that kindof money, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, I think that's part of being a teenager, though
, but you're right, you know.
I remember my dad rebuildingmotors in the driveway.
Oh, it's got 100,000 miles onit.
It's got a hundred thousandmiles on it.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
It's got the rings in it.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, you got to put rings in it or bearings, the
points or something.
Yeah, exactly, there's alwayssomething.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And why are cars, not american cars, not sold in
europe?
Well, it's, it's the conception, and not being the better built
vehicle, like you just said.
It's not true?
Well, that's the, that's theperception, and the conception
of some of the people yeah,anyways, uh, worldwide, there's
roughly 160 brands of vehicles,which means that the uh the
makes of these vehicles.
As far as models are concerned,there's new ones popping up all
(26:30):
the time, but in 20, as of 2020, the estimate uh about 250 to
260 total models of vehicles.
So make your choice my god, it'sall you a lot yeah and some of
them brands I've never evenheard of.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So it's and there's more and more now yeah now it's
the electrics that areeverybody's trying to get a foot
in the door ev this and ribbiantype ocean there's all sorts of
different new makers thathaven't even thought about
coming out of states yet, butthey're poised to.
We haven't even opened up themarket to the Chinese.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And the Chinese really have a leg up on pricing
and longevity mileage on theirelectric vehicles.
We haven't even opened a storehere yet.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
That's coming.
They interviewed the CEO ofHyundai on some news show the
other last week or whatever, andhe was talking about how they
want to come to the UnitedStates and start blasting cars
out in the United States, andthey ended the conversation on a
handshake.
So that was good.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I have to tell you, and I'm going to- review this in
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'm just driving.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I just took delivery of a 2025 Ford F-150 hybrid.
Granted it's $80,000,.
But let me say this it's ahybrid and boy is it nice.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Hybrids are popular.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Hybrid is the way to go.
Manufacturers know how to makethem.
They've been making them for awhile.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I think they got the juju down on the hybrids.
So if you're going to themarket for a new car, I would
definitely check out a hybrid ifyou can.
They're a little bit moreexpensive but, hey, it's worth
the money, I think.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Cadillac Escalade Electric 460 miles is what
they're touting, and on a rangeyeah range.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So keep that in mind.
Alright time now for a quickbreak here on the In Wheel Time
Car Talk Show.
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Thank you for joining us uphere at Spindle Tap Brewery.
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