September 29, 2025 • 32 mins
Randy Borchiding's colorful journey from model car enthusiast to custom paint specialist unfolds with charm and practical wisdom. What started with Testors spray cans and a childhood model contest victory evolved into a full-fledged career creating custom colors for show-stopping vehicles.
Randy pulls back the curtain on his early days, revealing how he built his first professional paint booth using nothing more than PVC pipes, plastic sheeting, and box fans with air conditioning filters. "Don't feel like you can't accomplish something just literally in your garage because you don't have a $50,000 box," he encourages, sharing how cars painted in this humble setup went on to compete at prestigious shows like the Grand National Roaster Show.
The science behind the art proves fascinating as Randy explains the critical role of temperature in modern urethane painting. Working in environments below 50 degrees can leave paint jobs permanently sticky or mushy – a costly lesson he learned firsthand. His process for creating custom colors evolved organically from customer requests to modify OEM shades, resulting in approximately 50 signature colors that he can reproduce consistently.
Currently preparing a hot pink 1968 Roadrunner (aptly named "Ransberry") for the upcoming SEMA show, Randy shares the pressure and timeline of readying show cars for major events. His other project, a 1968 Oldsmobile convertible, demonstrates his versatility – maintaining period-correct aesthetics while incorporating modern performance with an LS3 engine disguised to look like an original Oldsmobile powerplant.
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SPEAKER_04 (00:00):
Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30
minute mini version of the InWheel Time Carter's live every
Saturday morning to 11 a.m.
Central.
Put that a little item away ifyou remember correctly.
SPEAKER_02 (00:12):
Maybe you didn't need it, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (00:13):
Yeah.
Well, we need to I made a bigmistake, didn't I?
Okay.
Again.
I'm always reminded of thesemistakes that I make, but
whatever.
Uh hello and good morning,everybody, and welcome to the In
Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
Shut up.
Just shut up, Mars.
Uh In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
It is Saturday, September 27th,2025.
(00:33):
Glad you could join us today.
And uh we welcome you.
Coming up, uh Paint House'sRandy Borchiting, talking about
his journey to become asuccessful paint engineer and
mixologist.
And those are my words that Ikind of gave him a new tip.
Sure.
Uh Jeff has this week's MotorMinute.
I'll also give you my thoughtson driving the 2025 Mazda MX5
(00:54):
Miata.
All of that more coming up inthis segment of the In-Wheel
Time Car Talk Show.
Howdy, along with Mike out ofthis world Mars, who if you're
watching on video, you can seehim over there on the right hand
side of the screen.
Is he frozen again?
Yeah.
Yeah, he is.
And then over on the left handside, live and in living color,
it's me and my partner Jeff.
(01:14):
And then there at the bottom ofthe screen, here he is, ladies
and gentlemen, our man of thehour, Randy Borchiding.
Paint House.
And uh good to see you, Randy.
Thanks for joining us today.
And I'm not going to getsidetracked today.
unknown (01:26):
Why?
SPEAKER_04 (01:26):
Because the only reason that we had you back so
soon is because I, I, DonArmstrong, forgot that we really
originally wanted to talk to youabout your history, your story,
how you got into the paintbusiness.
How did that come about?
SPEAKER_00 (01:48):
Uh it sounds cliche and kind of silly, but starting
building models as a kid, youknow, I since seven or eight,
nine years old, I don't know,but I always enjoyed painting
them and coming up withinteresting colors out of the
old testers' spray cans to uh tomake them look interesting.
And entered a model contest inColorado Springs when I was
(02:11):
probably I don't know, eight ornine years old, got a first
place, and maybe that's where ithappened.
I don't know, but it's just beenan evolution of that beginning.
Now school of hard knocks, ifyou will.
SPEAKER_04 (02:22):
So let me ask you this while while Mr.
Mars fiddles with our picturequality here.
Um I wanted to know when youstarted painting cars, at least
for me when I was painting cars,they had little bitty spray cans
that you could use to paint thecar with.
Is that what you used?
SPEAKER_00 (02:38):
Yeah, absolutely.
Aerosols.
SPEAKER_04 (02:40):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (02:42):
Back then they even had a little uh little add-on
thing you could buy that waskind of a pistol grip.
Yes.
So you kind of felt like youwere spraying with a spray.
It was just it was silly andplastic, but when you're nine
years old, it felt cool.
SPEAKER_04 (02:53):
Yeah, and uh you made sure that you didn't have,
you know, you didn't do it in adirty garage floor or something
like that to get stuff in thepaint.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (03:01):
Exactly.
SPEAKER_04 (03:02):
So let's bring it up to kind of the present day when
you actually got into a realhonest to God paint booth.
SPEAKER_00 (03:10):
Uh well, certainly a different in environment.
And my my first booth washomemade.
Uh it actually did pretty goodwork.
We took cars to the GrandNational Roaster Show that were
painted in a homemade paintbooth.
So don't feel like you can'taccomplish something just
literally in your garage or yourbackyard because you don't have
(03:30):
a$50,000 or$100,000 box to putthings in.
Yeah, now they're absolutelypossible.
SPEAKER_02 (03:35):
Now they have those you can buy and set them up in
your backyard, they'reinflatable and all that stuff.
SPEAKER_00 (03:40):
I've thought about that.
Becoming this have gun slashbooth will travel setup with one
of those temporary inflatablebooths.
They're they're prettyfascinating.
SPEAKER_04 (03:50):
Um when you started the the whole paint booth stuff,
what did you use for your firstpaint booth to call it a booth?
SPEAKER_00 (04:01):
It was PVC pipe and plastic sheeting and uh a couple
of those little cheap box fansto pull air through the
structure.
SPEAKER_04 (04:13):
Did you use a filter with the fans or no?
SPEAKER_00 (04:15):
Uh well I figured that out that I needed air going
in because otherwise you justsuck the thing closed.
Yeah, right.
So yes, air conditioningfilters.
It was it was truly a homemadething, and you know, with some
trial and error, it it worked.
SPEAKER_04 (04:30):
I I find all of that uh fascinating.
I see some of that on televisiontoday where I can't remember
what was it, the garage showthat um uh uh you there's
several out there, yeah.
Yeah, there's several of them,where they don't really have a
real paint booth and they can'tget the car into a paint booth,
so they build one, and it's notreally that big a deal with
(04:53):
today's technology, like yousaid, uh plastic pipes and um
some cellophane, if you will.
Yeah, high wraps, all that,yeah.
Right, right.
It's yeah, it's not that big ofa deal.
What's the importance of that?
Why can't you just paint it outunderneath the tree?
SPEAKER_00 (05:12):
Well, uh I would say two reasons.
Number one is you don't want allthe overspray going everywhere.
It's your neighbors probablyaren't gonna like it.
Uh, and it tends to land onthings and not want to come off.
And number two would becleanliness of the paint job.
You don't want you want to keepas many things out of the film
as you can bugs, dirt, leaves,pterodactyls, whatever.
(05:35):
Um it's keeping the paint jobclean.
A lot of these finishes are verysensitive to that.
Metallics and pearls, anytimeyou get something that lands in
the paint, they tend to amplifythemselves, and you see them
bigger than they actually are.
So the cleaner the paint job,the better.
SPEAKER_02 (05:51):
There's also temperature regulation when you
do that too.
You can't paint it too cold orpaint it too hot.
It's got to be like a theGoldilocks type.
SPEAKER_00 (05:59):
In the world of urethane paints, which is what I
live in, it's a 50 degrees tohowever hot it is, window, but
you get under 55 or 50 degrees,and a lot of these, and actually
all of them, as far as I know,these catalyzed products, the
clear coats, the primers, yeah,and now even the base coats,
they won't dry.
SPEAKER_04 (06:19):
They won't catalyze, they won't do their voodoo and
witchcraft to what do you windup with a sticky paint job after
it's allegedly dry?
SPEAKER_00 (06:27):
You you or you end up with a half-dried film that
never hardens fully and it'sjust kind of mushy.
And it and in theory, it doesn'tcontinue drying later, it just
stays locked in that state, andnow you got a problem.
Wow.
SPEAKER_04 (06:42):
That's yeah, that that's a major problem.
I guess the only way to clearthat is to remove all of that
and start all over.
SPEAKER_00 (06:48):
Well, uh, yeah, I've had to.
I've learned that lesson amongothers.
SPEAKER_04 (06:52):
So let's talk about color because obviously you have
somehow perfected the art, andthat it is, of coming up with
your own unique colors, not onlyfor the cars that you paint, but
for other people to use in theirpaint booths.
Um, how did that come about?
SPEAKER_00 (07:12):
It was truly uh through a customer that had a
color on an OEM vehicle.
He said, I like it, but I wantto change this about it.
So you add and you subtract, youtake this thing out, maybe you
put a different thing in, andnext thing you know, you've got
a custom color.
The important part is todocument what you did so it's
repeatable down the road.
And it started with one bluepearl and has evolved into now.
(07:37):
We probably have, I don't know,50 or so repeatable colors that
but for the most part, I'd say80% of what colors we sell are
probably four of our mixes, redsand blues.
That there's some reason thoseare the most popular.
SPEAKER_04 (07:53):
I'll be there.
That's interesting.
Did do you find that guys thatuh are looking for a custom
color, do they ever use newstyle factory colors?
Randy, I really like this silverthat they've come out with this
on the Corvette.
But can you start there andlet's customize it a little bit?
(08:13):
Do you do that?
SPEAKER_00 (08:14):
Uh I have, yes, sir.
We're doing one for 34 Plymouthright now where the the art that
was drawn, the rendering,features two either Honda or
Toyota colors, kind of a sagegreen and a darker green, very
pretty two-tone.
But there were things he wantedme to change in those two
colors, which I did, and he getshis own personal color, but they
(08:35):
were based off of an OEMstarting point.
SPEAKER_02 (08:38):
Yeah.
Do you name it after thecustomer that's requesting it,
or you just come up with a namelike a it depends.
SPEAKER_00 (08:43):
There's times when I personalize it for the customer,
other times it's my quirky senseof humor.
Um, most times it's probablythat.
Yeah.
I I don't know.
I find it.
Well, we know you have a senseof humor.
SPEAKER_04 (08:55):
Very quickly, you have a sense of humor because
you keep appearing on this show.
SPEAKER_00 (09:00):
Or I'm a cutting for punishment, one or the other.
SPEAKER_02 (09:03):
Yeah.
So these model cars that youbuilt growing up, did any of you
take any of those to SEMA?
SPEAKER_00 (09:09):
Uh the big model cars?
The big one.
The the big cars, yes, we takethem to SEMA all the time.
We got one that we're about topick up from upholstery later
today, actually.
MTI up in College Station hasdone a beautiful job on a 68
Roadrunner.
It's a uh, I'm gonna just callit a hot pink.
The name for it is Ransberry.
(09:30):
Um, you know, because you canget away with that with a Mopar
that had pinks and greens andbright colors, purples that uh
no other manufacturer seemed toget away with.
So I came up with a a very loudcolor and put it on this
roadrunner and hopefully it getspeople's attention.
We'll see.
SPEAKER_04 (09:49):
Cool.
Now, the SEMA that I am familiarwith happens in October, and
this is you're talking abouttaking it coming up next month.
Correct.
And you're just now gathering itup from the upholsterer.
SPEAKER_00 (10:03):
Right.
But what's your timeline?
In this case, the upholstererwas about the last thing.
Okay, there's a few items thatstill need to go in the car,
front and rear bumpers, um, somelower trim panels, a general
just overall cleanup of thepaint.
Um, but for the most part, I'dsay right now, after upholstery,
it's 95% done.
(10:23):
Cool.
Now that doesn't mean we won'thave challenges, and this last
three and a half weeks won't bestressful, but I feel like I'm I
don't even want to say itoutside.
I am not ahead of the curve, I'mnot saying it.
There, I did not say it.
Yeah, there you go.
SPEAKER_04 (10:37):
Okay, yes, and and we totally I get that.
I know um uh my dear friend BillSeitz helped me with my first
car show after a custom paintjob in the 77 Corvette.
And I had the thing uhdisassembled as far as I could
get it, and uh Bill helped meput it back together, and of
(10:59):
course, you know, two nightsbefore we were going to do the
move in, it was still on jackstands.
SPEAKER_00 (11:05):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (11:06):
Yeah, and uh I know that you're familiar with that,
and it was I am yeah, it was arush, it was nervous nelly.
Um, and I somehow, Bill and Isomehow got that car ready.
I had uh completely redone theinterior in it, and um and I I
did get the first place on it.
SPEAKER_00 (11:26):
It's called youth and caffeine.
SPEAKER_04 (11:29):
Pretty much, yeah, that's exactly right.
SPEAKER_00 (11:31):
Uh and late nights, and I got the caffeine, I've run
out of the youth.
SPEAKER_04 (11:35):
Yeah, well, haven't we all?
Did you have to go there?
Yeah, you did.
But um, so uh you have are yougonna take it out there yourself
with your truck and and and andhauler?
Now the hauler is only a one-carhauler.
SPEAKER_00 (11:50):
Correct.
It's 40 feet long, hauls holdsone car, but it gives me some
extra room.
We've got a bathroom in it, it'san ATC trailer.
And uh I've had smallertrailers, yeah, they're a little
easier to maneuver, but I likehaving some room to move around.
If I need to haul some extrastuff, it's not so cramped.
SPEAKER_04 (12:09):
Yeah, got it.
Um, let's talk briefly hereabout uh what you got in the
shop.
Obviously, that's a good-lookingOldsmobile behind you.
Convertible, it looks like whatyear is that?
SPEAKER_00 (12:19):
68.
It's on a Art Morrison chassis,has a retro decorated LS3, but
it looks like an Oldsmobileengine.
Um it's shot wheels, it's aboutto go to upholstery next week,
but it's gonna get a moreactually an original upholstery
that they did not want to go thefull custom route.
(12:40):
So this car will have a muchmore traditional look and feel
about it, but still drive like amodern hot rod.
That's the best.
SPEAKER_04 (12:48):
Now, when you do this, you don't you don't go out
uh outside, uh, an outsidesource to do like you know
remanufactured uh door cards andstuff like that.
SPEAKER_00 (12:59):
We do.
In this case, there are good uhyou know, repop or
remanufactured kits out there,particularly in the GM and and
Ford world, um where you can getuh a very nice reproduction of
the original and it's qualitystuff.
SPEAKER_04 (13:15):
And you can find the actual upholstery that goes on
the seats and the other trim inthere that matches that color.
SPEAKER_00 (13:21):
They've got matches for the original.
It's it's a it's a pretty welluh fleshed out industry in that
there's some good products outthere if you want to stock
interior.
SPEAKER_04 (13:33):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (13:33):
And there's some junk too, you just gotta know
which is which.
SPEAKER_04 (13:36):
Right.
Do the Chinese make that?
SPEAKER_00 (13:40):
I don't think so.
I think it's actually made here,thank God.
SPEAKER_02 (13:43):
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00 (13:44):
I'm a big fan of that.
SPEAKER_02 (13:45):
Yeah, so when will the old be done?
SPEAKER_00 (13:48):
I'd say late this year.
You know, we'll have it up andrunning.
We we just got it uh under itsown power last week.
So we're in the test driving andand working out the bugs phases
right now.
SPEAKER_04 (14:02):
Did you do the engine yourself?
SPEAKER_00 (14:04):
We didn't build the engine, we installed it, and we
did all did wiring via a friendof mine.
Uh he's a mobile electronicsguy, and he's just a wizard with
this stuff.
Uh Mike Swan, he's phenomenal.
Does a beautiful job.
Looks like an aircraft mechaniclaid it all out, and it makes it
easy to service, which is one ofthe things I'm a stickler on.
SPEAKER_04 (14:24):
Well, I'm I'm curious uh as to the look that
you achieved, the stock lookunder the hood with an LS
engine.
Um, I I assume that there areparts out there that you can get
that.
SPEAKER_00 (14:35):
If you want, I'll I'll uh lift the hood here real
quick and show you.
SPEAKER_04 (14:38):
Yeah, I'd love to see that.
If I can't the reliability of anLS engine, but also have the
have the stock look of theoriginal.
Yeah.
Don't scratch the paint.
SPEAKER_00 (14:53):
I know.
All right, here we go.
I'm gonna grab the camera.
Trying to look at it while I'mshowing you, but oh my gosh,
yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (15:03):
So it's got the original Oldsmobile Gold Paint
crossover intake.
Um it's got headers on it, andnow were the those those valve
covers, they they look like uhthe old Corvette valve covers
that I used to have.
They're a little stout, aren'tthey?
SPEAKER_00 (15:19):
Uh they are the they're Offenhauser brand.
So it's a you know traditionalhot rod valve cover that uh I
don't know, it just looked kindof cool, a little decorated, but
not not too fancy.
It's not all chromed out.
It looks it looks likeOldsmobile might have put that
there.
SPEAKER_04 (15:36):
Does it have Offenhauser on it?
SPEAKER_00 (15:38):
On the valve cover, yes, it does.
SPEAKER_02 (15:40):
Yeah, yeah.
See, not a lot of not a lot ofoverdone billet because a lot of
folks put a lot of all thatbillet on there and it looks
like trash.
SPEAKER_00 (15:46):
Being that they were sticking with uh a more
traditional, certainly interior.
Um, I didn't want to go off thereservation on this one, so we
kept it very OEM stock looking.
The only thing that's missing isa distributor, and if you're not
looking for that, you'll neverknow.
SPEAKER_04 (16:02):
Now, did this car actually have uh a hood blanket
underneath there?
SPEAKER_00 (16:07):
It would have, but we just we just paint it and get
this under there.
Just a matte finish, just cleanit up.
SPEAKER_04 (16:13):
Ah, matte finish.
So it is a little bit different,but it's clean.
SPEAKER_00 (16:18):
Yeah, yeah.
We didn't smooth it, we didn'tmake a bunch of panels to hide
something.
It is what it is.
You just try and you know go alevel up if that's the right way
to put it in.
SPEAKER_04 (16:28):
I'm real attracted to that look.
That that's my kind of stuffright there.
SPEAKER_00 (16:32):
Yes, sir.
Right, right.
SPEAKER_04 (16:34):
Well, how how much yeah, very cool.
Uh, we're we're very impressed.
And uh best of luck to you atSEMA this year.
I know you don't want to hearfrom us before uh you uh take
that trek out there.
SPEAKER_00 (16:46):
Well thanks, fellas.
SPEAKER_04 (16:47):
Yeah, thank you very much, and it's always a pleasure
to talk to you.
Thanks for the history, thestory, and um we love you, man,
and take care of yourself.
SPEAKER_00 (16:55):
Take care, guys.
Thanks for being back.
Thanks for letting me once beback.
Yep, thank you.
Bye-bye.
SPEAKER_04 (17:00):
Um, Mr.
Mars is going to say goodbye toRandy, I think.
Yeah, he just did.
He just did, and he's gonna uhhopefully put himself back up in
the I think maybe he's stillworking on some technical
issues.
SPEAKER_02 (17:11):
I think so.
Okay, well that's what I was I'mabout to say.
SPEAKER_04 (17:15):
Well, if that's the case, then uh that are we going
to be able to play thecommercials?
SPEAKER_02 (17:21):
If he's at his end, he can do that.
I know.
Well, we can't.
Okay.
I don't have any control overthat.
Do you want to pod me down andI'll go get that device?
SPEAKER_04 (17:28):
Um, yeah, that'd be great.
Okay, do that.
Okay.
Wanted to remind you that justahead, we're gonna have a review
of Toyota's new Mazda MX5 MiataAnniversary Edition, and we'll
also have Jeff's Motor Minutewhen the in-wheel time car talk
show continues after this break.
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Okay.
Well, whatever.
I don't I don't know whereyou're talking about.
But I'm sure it was good,whatever it was.
Uh well, I'm I'm trying to umget some other stuff working
here.
SPEAKER_02 (20:13):
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (20:13):
Um, for instance, the show open, it's in that
computer.
Uh but I need to get that.
SPEAKER_02 (20:18):
You want me to do this while you're doing it?
I do.
That's what I was talking about.
I'm gonna talk about my motorminute here uh with the
grandioso introduction.
NASCAR is rumored to increasehorsepower to 750 in the next
gen cars in 2026.
Check this out.
NASCAR introduced a nextgeneration car in 2022 season,
and the horsepower changedcomparatively to the Gen 6
(20:41):
vehicle instead of 550horsepower and 750 horsepower,
depending on the package and thetrack.
The next gen car is going tohave 670 horsepower every week.
Standard.
NASCAR drivers have pushed formore horsepower, and it seems
they might just get their wishcome true.
According to Brad Keselowski,evidently he's a spokesman, he
was on a uh podcast with CoreyLaJoy.
(21:03):
NASCAR intends to increase thehorsepower in the next gen to
roughly 740 to 750 for the 26thseason.
That's a lot.
Wish I had it.
It looks like NASCAR is going tochange the rules next year,
where they likely the 740 to 750horsepower, because you know
right now, technically they'reat 670, but realistically
they're about 685 to 690.
So there's a little tweaking,there's a little cheating going
(21:24):
on.
Haslowski also said he thinksNASCAR will increase the size of
the spacer, which is good.
That's we get a lot ofhorsepower too.
And the next gen cars.
SPEAKER_04 (21:33):
Size of the spacer, you mean underneath the
carburetor?
Right.
But I didn't I thought that theywere fuel injected.
Uh is it still a carburetorlooking?
SPEAKER_02 (21:40):
No, it's a it's a fuel injected, but it there's
there's still spacer uh elementsinvolved in that carburetor, how
they have that brought in.
So we'll see.
I don't know either.
But it's one of the mostcontroversial topics of NASCAR
over the last few years ison-track product has fallen
short compared to its debutseason back in 2022.
So they're tweaking it, they'realways trying to do something.
(22:02):
It's it's they're alwayschecking.
But there's nobody in thestands.
No, no, so there's a problemthere.
There is, and it's how theymarket themselves.
SPEAKER_04 (22:09):
Well, it's how they market themselves, and I will
tell you that I think that themajority of the fans have gotten
older, they don't want to go tothe racetrack, and I don't think
that they really like the newformatting.
SPEAKER_02 (22:21):
No, no, all of that, all of what you said is true,
and a lot of respects to a lotof fans.
SPEAKER_04 (22:26):
I know that absolutely at least I heard
rumors that uh Dodge is comingback.
That's a good thing.
SPEAKER_02 (22:30):
Well, that's hopefully that'll bring more uh
seats, you know, to be filled.
SPEAKER_04 (22:34):
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (22:34):
You never know.
I yeah, I I I don't know.
But they've got other issuesbesides horsepower.
SPEAKER_04 (22:39):
They do, yeah, and that's getting butts in the
stands.
Would you go if you you had freetickets to go to Texas Motor
Speedway up in Fort Worth, wouldyou go?
I probably would if I had freetickets, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:52):
Because you know, the tickets nowadays are like
anywhere from fifty to severalhundred dollars depending where
you go, but it's not just theticket price, it is getting
there.
You got lodging, you got a lotof walk-in, you got a lot of you
know stuff going on.
So uh yeah, I would go.
I mean, I've been to Texas MotorSpeedway dozen times, been to
Kansas, they're racing inKansas, uh, been there several
(23:14):
times.
SPEAKER_04 (23:15):
I've been to Talladega.
SPEAKER_02 (23:16):
Yeah, love Talladega, went to the final in
uh Homestead, Florida, the thegrand finale for NASCAR a few
years ago, Captain.
SPEAKER_04 (23:22):
I've been to Texas and I've been to Charlotte.
I've actually been to Daytona,but there wasn't a race there.
I took a tour.
Yeah, because uh Amy was goingto school right there across
across the track at uh Ember.
The other side of the tracks.
On the other side of the tracks,uh that's it.
All right, so let's do thishour's car review, shall we?
Had a chance to drive the 2025Mazda MX5 Miata uh final
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assembly location, Hiroshima,Japan.
Yes, home of the atomic bomb.
Uh available trim levels come insport, club, grand touring, and
35th anniversary edition.
If you're watching, what you'reseeing there is the 35th
anniversary edition.
This is a two-seater, um, it'sclassified as a two-seater.
(24:12):
And uh exterior changes fromlast model year.
Well, it is part of the fourthgeneration that was originally
introduced in 2016.
This is the best looking MazdaMX5 Miata that has ever been in
existence, as far as I'mconcerned.
I love the peaks on the fenderwells up front.
Notice how it's almost aCorvette-like look up there.
(24:35):
Long hood short deck, classicsports car shape.
Crisp top of the front fender,low to the ground grille, uh
bulging rear fenders to carrythe rubber back there.
Unique taillights fit its uniqueoverall design.
What I liked about iteverything.
Uh I love the fact that theshape of it, including the
(24:58):
grill, all proportionate.
Nothing is overdone, but what isthere is really outstanding, I
think.
Interior highlights.
Uh love your passenger becauseit's very tight confines on the
inside and six footers, beware.
Oh boy.
Modern infotainment system andinstrument cluster.
(25:22):
Um clean look dash design withno passenger side glove box.
The tiny storage area is behindand between the two seats.
Okay.
It's interesting.
You can't actually look in thereif you're driving.
You just got to kind of feelaround in there and hopefully
(25:43):
you've remembered where you putwhatever it is that you put in.
Surprise.
Trunk room is tiny, oneovernight bag, and that is all.
What I liked about it, the easyto use top, uh, it's a one-click
thing for the top, and you putit down manually right behind
you.
Yeah, and the same thing to putit up.
(26:03):
There's no electric top ornothing like that.
It's manual, but it works sowell, it's unbelievable.
SPEAKER_02 (26:08):
Nice.
SPEAKER_04 (26:09):
Uh the manual shifter that you see there, it
is butter.
It works like butter.
I have never driven a car with ashifter like that.
It's so smooth, unbelievable.
Um, could use improvement?
Well, it is what it is, it'stiny.
I remember when they came outwith this car and they sent all
(26:31):
the press out there to debut thecar, and um everything about it,
there is a name that they used,and it's a Japanese name.
I can't remember what it is.
For instance, like the steeringwheel, where the steering wheel
is placed in the car, it's deadcenter up in front of the
driver.
If you will notice your caroffsets, they're offset the the
steering wheel is a little bitoffset one way or the other to
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accommodate the mechanicsunderneath the hood.
Anyway, just a bit of triviacool two-liter four-cylinder
engine turns out 181 horsepower,151 pound feet of torque.
But let me tell you this that isall about the fact power to
weight ratio.
It car weighs nothing, and at181 horsepower, it feels like
it's got a great big block,Chevy, 400 horsepower motoring.
(27:18):
Well, because you're in a smallenvironment and you're low to
the ground.
And the car doesn't weighanything, yeah.
Till rating, no, there's none.
Hall rating, it hauls butt.
How about that?
Uh, manufacturers set up as faras uh miles per gallon is
concerned, 26 city, 34 highwayfor combined 29.
I got 34.5 miles per gallon over453.1 miles.
(27:43):
What I liked about it, power toweight ratio is awesome.
What could use improvement?
This is a purpose-built sportscar that can cut a rug around a
road course racetrack.
And if you want to go and havesome real fun, get yourself one
of these.
What I liked about it, handlingon this thing is awesome.
(28:05):
What could use improvement maybea bit too stiff for those
looking for a highway cruiserbecause that it is not.
It will cruise the highway,there's no doubt about it.
But the ride, well, it's a sportcar ride.
Here's the pricing.
Base trim price is$37,485.
Price is tested,$37,435.
(28:27):
Now, I don't know what happenedto the$50 there.
Just by looking at it, I guessthey want you to say, I like the
car.
Base model price.
You can get in one of these for$29,530.
Yeah.
So here are the competitors.
The Toyota GR86 starts at$30,400.
(28:48):
Its cousin, the Subaru BRZ,starts at$33,210.
Wow.
The other competitor, if youwant to call it that, the Mini
Cooper, is$28,950.
That's my review of the 2025Mazda MX5 Miata.
Love the car.
SPEAKER_02 (29:08):
As far as a six-footer person is concerned,
it's a little tight.
I was gonna say, so when you goto an amusement park, you have
to be uh taller than this lineto get into that car.
Yeah.
If you're and with the car, ifyou're taller than this line,
you can't drive it.
Yeah, well, I will tell youthis.
SPEAKER_04 (29:23):
So I had my my buddy that I work with, um Matt.
Matt got in it.
Matt um is a little heavier setthan I am.
Okay.
By golly, he could fit.
Now his knees did touch thedashboard, but he could make it
work.
So I'm telling you, if youreally want to, for no other
reason, go out, take a look atit.
I think that you'll really havea good time looking at the car
(29:45):
if you don't want to buy it.
SPEAKER_02 (29:46):
And a step up from that would be what the Mazda 3
to be a little bit largervehicle, yes, kinda.
I guess.
SPEAKER_03 (29:52):
But you lose the whole two wheel thing, though,
when you do that.
SPEAKER_04 (29:56):
You lose the performance.
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Central.
Put that a little item away ifyou remember correctly.
SPEAKER_02 (00:12):
Maybe you didn't need it, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (00:13):
Yeah.
Well, we need to I made a bigmistake, didn't I?
Okay.
Again.
I'm always reminded of thesemistakes that I make, but
whatever.
Uh hello and good morning,everybody, and welcome to the In
Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
Shut up.
Just shut up, Mars.
Uh In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
It is Saturday, September 27th,2025.
(00:33):
Glad you could join us today.
And uh we welcome you.
Coming up, uh Paint House'sRandy Borchiting, talking about
his journey to become asuccessful paint engineer and
mixologist.
And those are my words that Ikind of gave him a new tip.
Sure.
Uh Jeff has this week's MotorMinute.
I'll also give you my thoughtson driving the 2025 Mazda MX5
(00:54):
Miata.
All of that more coming up inthis segment of the In-Wheel
Time Car Talk Show.
Howdy, along with Mike out ofthis world Mars, who if you're
watching on video, you can seehim over there on the right hand
side of the screen.
Is he frozen again?
Yeah.
Yeah, he is.
And then over on the left handside, live and in living color,
it's me and my partner Jeff.
(01:14):
And then there at the bottom ofthe screen, here he is, ladies
and gentlemen, our man of thehour, Randy Borchiding.
Paint House.
And uh good to see you, Randy.
Thanks for joining us today.
And I'm not going to getsidetracked today.
unknown (01:26):
Why?
SPEAKER_04 (01:26):
Because the only reason that we had you back so
soon is because I, I, DonArmstrong, forgot that we really
originally wanted to talk to youabout your history, your story,
how you got into the paintbusiness.
How did that come about?
SPEAKER_00 (01:48):
Uh it sounds cliche and kind of silly, but starting
building models as a kid, youknow, I since seven or eight,
nine years old, I don't know,but I always enjoyed painting
them and coming up withinteresting colors out of the
old testers' spray cans to uh tomake them look interesting.
And entered a model contest inColorado Springs when I was
(02:11):
probably I don't know, eight ornine years old, got a first
place, and maybe that's where ithappened.
I don't know, but it's just beenan evolution of that beginning.
Now school of hard knocks, ifyou will.
SPEAKER_04 (02:22):
So let me ask you this while while Mr.
Mars fiddles with our picturequality here.
Um I wanted to know when youstarted painting cars, at least
for me when I was painting cars,they had little bitty spray cans
that you could use to paint thecar with.
Is that what you used?
SPEAKER_00 (02:38):
Yeah, absolutely.
Aerosols.
SPEAKER_04 (02:40):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (02:42):
Back then they even had a little uh little add-on
thing you could buy that waskind of a pistol grip.
Yes.
So you kind of felt like youwere spraying with a spray.
It was just it was silly andplastic, but when you're nine
years old, it felt cool.
SPEAKER_04 (02:53):
Yeah, and uh you made sure that you didn't have,
you know, you didn't do it in adirty garage floor or something
like that to get stuff in thepaint.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (03:01):
Exactly.
SPEAKER_04 (03:02):
So let's bring it up to kind of the present day when
you actually got into a realhonest to God paint booth.
SPEAKER_00 (03:10):
Uh well, certainly a different in environment.
And my my first booth washomemade.
Uh it actually did pretty goodwork.
We took cars to the GrandNational Roaster Show that were
painted in a homemade paintbooth.
So don't feel like you can'taccomplish something just
literally in your garage or yourbackyard because you don't have
(03:30):
a$50,000 or$100,000 box to putthings in.
Yeah, now they're absolutelypossible.
SPEAKER_02 (03:35):
Now they have those you can buy and set them up in
your backyard, they'reinflatable and all that stuff.
SPEAKER_00 (03:40):
I've thought about that.
Becoming this have gun slashbooth will travel setup with one
of those temporary inflatablebooths.
They're they're prettyfascinating.
SPEAKER_04 (03:50):
Um when you started the the whole paint booth stuff,
what did you use for your firstpaint booth to call it a booth?
SPEAKER_00 (04:01):
It was PVC pipe and plastic sheeting and uh a couple
of those little cheap box fansto pull air through the
structure.
SPEAKER_04 (04:13):
Did you use a filter with the fans or no?
SPEAKER_00 (04:15):
Uh well I figured that out that I needed air going
in because otherwise you justsuck the thing closed.
Yeah, right.
So yes, air conditioningfilters.
It was it was truly a homemadething, and you know, with some
trial and error, it it worked.
SPEAKER_04 (04:30):
I I find all of that uh fascinating.
I see some of that on televisiontoday where I can't remember
what was it, the garage showthat um uh uh you there's
several out there, yeah.
Yeah, there's several of them,where they don't really have a
real paint booth and they can'tget the car into a paint booth,
so they build one, and it's notreally that big a deal with
(04:53):
today's technology, like yousaid, uh plastic pipes and um
some cellophane, if you will.
Yeah, high wraps, all that,yeah.
Right, right.
It's yeah, it's not that big ofa deal.
What's the importance of that?
Why can't you just paint it outunderneath the tree?
SPEAKER_00 (05:12):
Well, uh I would say two reasons.
Number one is you don't want allthe overspray going everywhere.
It's your neighbors probablyaren't gonna like it.
Uh, and it tends to land onthings and not want to come off.
And number two would becleanliness of the paint job.
You don't want you want to keepas many things out of the film
as you can bugs, dirt, leaves,pterodactyls, whatever.
(05:35):
Um it's keeping the paint jobclean.
A lot of these finishes are verysensitive to that.
Metallics and pearls, anytimeyou get something that lands in
the paint, they tend to amplifythemselves, and you see them
bigger than they actually are.
So the cleaner the paint job,the better.
SPEAKER_02 (05:51):
There's also temperature regulation when you
do that too.
You can't paint it too cold orpaint it too hot.
It's got to be like a theGoldilocks type.
SPEAKER_00 (05:59):
In the world of urethane paints, which is what I
live in, it's a 50 degrees tohowever hot it is, window, but
you get under 55 or 50 degrees,and a lot of these, and actually
all of them, as far as I know,these catalyzed products, the
clear coats, the primers, yeah,and now even the base coats,
they won't dry.
SPEAKER_04 (06:19):
They won't catalyze, they won't do their voodoo and
witchcraft to what do you windup with a sticky paint job after
it's allegedly dry?
SPEAKER_00 (06:27):
You you or you end up with a half-dried film that
never hardens fully and it'sjust kind of mushy.
And it and in theory, it doesn'tcontinue drying later, it just
stays locked in that state, andnow you got a problem.
Wow.
SPEAKER_04 (06:42):
That's yeah, that that's a major problem.
I guess the only way to clearthat is to remove all of that
and start all over.
SPEAKER_00 (06:48):
Well, uh, yeah, I've had to.
I've learned that lesson amongothers.
SPEAKER_04 (06:52):
So let's talk about color because obviously you have
somehow perfected the art, andthat it is, of coming up with
your own unique colors, not onlyfor the cars that you paint, but
for other people to use in theirpaint booths.
Um, how did that come about?
SPEAKER_00 (07:12):
It was truly uh through a customer that had a
color on an OEM vehicle.
He said, I like it, but I wantto change this about it.
So you add and you subtract, youtake this thing out, maybe you
put a different thing in, andnext thing you know, you've got
a custom color.
The important part is todocument what you did so it's
repeatable down the road.
And it started with one bluepearl and has evolved into now.
(07:37):
We probably have, I don't know,50 or so repeatable colors that
but for the most part, I'd say80% of what colors we sell are
probably four of our mixes, redsand blues.
That there's some reason thoseare the most popular.
SPEAKER_04 (07:53):
I'll be there.
That's interesting.
Did do you find that guys thatuh are looking for a custom
color, do they ever use newstyle factory colors?
Randy, I really like this silverthat they've come out with this
on the Corvette.
But can you start there andlet's customize it a little bit?
(08:13):
Do you do that?
SPEAKER_00 (08:14):
Uh I have, yes, sir.
We're doing one for 34 Plymouthright now where the the art that
was drawn, the rendering,features two either Honda or
Toyota colors, kind of a sagegreen and a darker green, very
pretty two-tone.
But there were things he wantedme to change in those two
colors, which I did, and he getshis own personal color, but they
(08:35):
were based off of an OEMstarting point.
SPEAKER_02 (08:38):
Yeah.
Do you name it after thecustomer that's requesting it,
or you just come up with a namelike a it depends.
SPEAKER_00 (08:43):
There's times when I personalize it for the customer,
other times it's my quirky senseof humor.
Um, most times it's probablythat.
Yeah.
I I don't know.
I find it.
Well, we know you have a senseof humor.
SPEAKER_04 (08:55):
Very quickly, you have a sense of humor because
you keep appearing on this show.
SPEAKER_00 (09:00):
Or I'm a cutting for punishment, one or the other.
SPEAKER_02 (09:03):
Yeah.
So these model cars that youbuilt growing up, did any of you
take any of those to SEMA?
SPEAKER_00 (09:09):
Uh the big model cars?
The big one.
The the big cars, yes, we takethem to SEMA all the time.
We got one that we're about topick up from upholstery later
today, actually.
MTI up in College Station hasdone a beautiful job on a 68
Roadrunner.
It's a uh, I'm gonna just callit a hot pink.
The name for it is Ransberry.
(09:30):
Um, you know, because you canget away with that with a Mopar
that had pinks and greens andbright colors, purples that uh
no other manufacturer seemed toget away with.
So I came up with a a very loudcolor and put it on this
roadrunner and hopefully it getspeople's attention.
We'll see.
SPEAKER_04 (09:49):
Cool.
Now, the SEMA that I am familiarwith happens in October, and
this is you're talking abouttaking it coming up next month.
Correct.
And you're just now gathering itup from the upholsterer.
SPEAKER_00 (10:03):
Right.
But what's your timeline?
In this case, the upholstererwas about the last thing.
Okay, there's a few items thatstill need to go in the car,
front and rear bumpers, um, somelower trim panels, a general
just overall cleanup of thepaint.
Um, but for the most part, I'dsay right now, after upholstery,
it's 95% done.
(10:23):
Cool.
Now that doesn't mean we won'thave challenges, and this last
three and a half weeks won't bestressful, but I feel like I'm I
don't even want to say itoutside.
I am not ahead of the curve, I'mnot saying it.
There, I did not say it.
Yeah, there you go.
SPEAKER_04 (10:37):
Okay, yes, and and we totally I get that.
I know um uh my dear friend BillSeitz helped me with my first
car show after a custom paintjob in the 77 Corvette.
And I had the thing uhdisassembled as far as I could
get it, and uh Bill helped meput it back together, and of
(10:59):
course, you know, two nightsbefore we were going to do the
move in, it was still on jackstands.
SPEAKER_00 (11:05):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (11:06):
Yeah, and uh I know that you're familiar with that,
and it was I am yeah, it was arush, it was nervous nelly.
Um, and I somehow, Bill and Isomehow got that car ready.
I had uh completely redone theinterior in it, and um and I I
did get the first place on it.
SPEAKER_00 (11:26):
It's called youth and caffeine.
SPEAKER_04 (11:29):
Pretty much, yeah, that's exactly right.
SPEAKER_00 (11:31):
Uh and late nights, and I got the caffeine, I've run
out of the youth.
SPEAKER_04 (11:35):
Yeah, well, haven't we all?
Did you have to go there?
Yeah, you did.
But um, so uh you have are yougonna take it out there yourself
with your truck and and and andhauler?
Now the hauler is only a one-carhauler.
SPEAKER_00 (11:50):
Correct.
It's 40 feet long, hauls holdsone car, but it gives me some
extra room.
We've got a bathroom in it, it'san ATC trailer.
And uh I've had smallertrailers, yeah, they're a little
easier to maneuver, but I likehaving some room to move around.
If I need to haul some extrastuff, it's not so cramped.
SPEAKER_04 (12:09):
Yeah, got it.
Um, let's talk briefly hereabout uh what you got in the
shop.
Obviously, that's a good-lookingOldsmobile behind you.
Convertible, it looks like whatyear is that?
SPEAKER_00 (12:19):
68.
It's on a Art Morrison chassis,has a retro decorated LS3, but
it looks like an Oldsmobileengine.
Um it's shot wheels, it's aboutto go to upholstery next week,
but it's gonna get a moreactually an original upholstery
that they did not want to go thefull custom route.
(12:40):
So this car will have a muchmore traditional look and feel
about it, but still drive like amodern hot rod.
That's the best.
SPEAKER_04 (12:48):
Now, when you do this, you don't you don't go out
uh outside, uh, an outsidesource to do like you know
remanufactured uh door cards andstuff like that.
SPEAKER_00 (12:59):
We do.
In this case, there are good uhyou know, repop or
remanufactured kits out there,particularly in the GM and and
Ford world, um where you can getuh a very nice reproduction of
the original and it's qualitystuff.
SPEAKER_04 (13:15):
And you can find the actual upholstery that goes on
the seats and the other trim inthere that matches that color.
SPEAKER_00 (13:21):
They've got matches for the original.
It's it's a it's a pretty welluh fleshed out industry in that
there's some good products outthere if you want to stock
interior.
SPEAKER_04 (13:33):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (13:33):
And there's some junk too, you just gotta know
which is which.
SPEAKER_04 (13:36):
Right.
Do the Chinese make that?
SPEAKER_00 (13:40):
I don't think so.
I think it's actually made here,thank God.
SPEAKER_02 (13:43):
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00 (13:44):
I'm a big fan of that.
SPEAKER_02 (13:45):
Yeah, so when will the old be done?
SPEAKER_00 (13:48):
I'd say late this year.
You know, we'll have it up andrunning.
We we just got it uh under itsown power last week.
So we're in the test driving andand working out the bugs phases
right now.
SPEAKER_04 (14:02):
Did you do the engine yourself?
SPEAKER_00 (14:04):
We didn't build the engine, we installed it, and we
did all did wiring via a friendof mine.
Uh he's a mobile electronicsguy, and he's just a wizard with
this stuff.
Uh Mike Swan, he's phenomenal.
Does a beautiful job.
Looks like an aircraft mechaniclaid it all out, and it makes it
easy to service, which is one ofthe things I'm a stickler on.
SPEAKER_04 (14:24):
Well, I'm I'm curious uh as to the look that
you achieved, the stock lookunder the hood with an LS
engine.
Um, I I assume that there areparts out there that you can get
that.
SPEAKER_00 (14:35):
If you want, I'll I'll uh lift the hood here real
quick and show you.
SPEAKER_04 (14:38):
Yeah, I'd love to see that.
If I can't the reliability of anLS engine, but also have the
have the stock look of theoriginal.
Yeah.
Don't scratch the paint.
SPEAKER_00 (14:53):
I know.
All right, here we go.
I'm gonna grab the camera.
Trying to look at it while I'mshowing you, but oh my gosh,
yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (15:03):
So it's got the original Oldsmobile Gold Paint
crossover intake.
Um it's got headers on it, andnow were the those those valve
covers, they they look like uhthe old Corvette valve covers
that I used to have.
They're a little stout, aren'tthey?
SPEAKER_00 (15:19):
Uh they are the they're Offenhauser brand.
So it's a you know traditionalhot rod valve cover that uh I
don't know, it just looked kindof cool, a little decorated, but
not not too fancy.
It's not all chromed out.
It looks it looks likeOldsmobile might have put that
there.
SPEAKER_04 (15:36):
Does it have Offenhauser on it?
SPEAKER_00 (15:38):
On the valve cover, yes, it does.
SPEAKER_02 (15:40):
Yeah, yeah.
See, not a lot of not a lot ofoverdone billet because a lot of
folks put a lot of all thatbillet on there and it looks
like trash.
SPEAKER_00 (15:46):
Being that they were sticking with uh a more
traditional, certainly interior.
Um, I didn't want to go off thereservation on this one, so we
kept it very OEM stock looking.
The only thing that's missing isa distributor, and if you're not
looking for that, you'll neverknow.
SPEAKER_04 (16:02):
Now, did this car actually have uh a hood blanket
underneath there?
SPEAKER_00 (16:07):
It would have, but we just we just paint it and get
this under there.
Just a matte finish, just cleanit up.
SPEAKER_04 (16:13):
Ah, matte finish.
So it is a little bit different,but it's clean.
SPEAKER_00 (16:18):
Yeah, yeah.
We didn't smooth it, we didn'tmake a bunch of panels to hide
something.
It is what it is.
You just try and you know go alevel up if that's the right way
to put it in.
SPEAKER_04 (16:28):
I'm real attracted to that look.
That that's my kind of stuffright there.
SPEAKER_00 (16:32):
Yes, sir.
Right, right.
SPEAKER_04 (16:34):
Well, how how much yeah, very cool.
Uh, we're we're very impressed.
And uh best of luck to you atSEMA this year.
I know you don't want to hearfrom us before uh you uh take
that trek out there.
SPEAKER_00 (16:46):
Well thanks, fellas.
SPEAKER_04 (16:47):
Yeah, thank you very much, and it's always a pleasure
to talk to you.
Thanks for the history, thestory, and um we love you, man,
and take care of yourself.
SPEAKER_00 (16:55):
Take care, guys.
Thanks for being back.
Thanks for letting me once beback.
Yep, thank you.
Bye-bye.
SPEAKER_04 (17:00):
Um, Mr.
Mars is going to say goodbye toRandy, I think.
Yeah, he just did.
He just did, and he's gonna uhhopefully put himself back up in
the I think maybe he's stillworking on some technical
issues.
SPEAKER_02 (17:11):
I think so.
Okay, well that's what I was I'mabout to say.
SPEAKER_04 (17:15):
Well, if that's the case, then uh that are we going
to be able to play thecommercials?
SPEAKER_02 (17:21):
If he's at his end, he can do that.
I know.
Well, we can't.
Okay.
I don't have any control overthat.
Do you want to pod me down andI'll go get that device?
SPEAKER_04 (17:28):
Um, yeah, that'd be great.
Okay, do that.
Okay.
Wanted to remind you that justahead, we're gonna have a review
of Toyota's new Mazda MX5 MiataAnniversary Edition, and we'll
also have Jeff's Motor Minutewhen the in-wheel time car talk
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there?
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Ainsley and uh he he pointed mein a direction and we went that
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SPEAKER_02 (19:53):
And you get your um in wheel time, what do they call
that?
The device, the never mind.
Moving on.
SPEAKER_04 (20:01):
Okay.
Well, whatever.
I don't I don't know whereyou're talking about.
But I'm sure it was good,whatever it was.
Uh well, I'm I'm trying to umget some other stuff working
here.
SPEAKER_02 (20:13):
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (20:13):
Um, for instance, the show open, it's in that
computer.
Uh but I need to get that.
SPEAKER_02 (20:18):
You want me to do this while you're doing it?
I do.
That's what I was talking about.
I'm gonna talk about my motorminute here uh with the
grandioso introduction.
NASCAR is rumored to increasehorsepower to 750 in the next
gen cars in 2026.
Check this out.
NASCAR introduced a nextgeneration car in 2022 season,
and the horsepower changedcomparatively to the Gen 6
(20:41):
vehicle instead of 550horsepower and 750 horsepower,
depending on the package and thetrack.
The next gen car is going tohave 670 horsepower every week.
Standard.
NASCAR drivers have pushed formore horsepower, and it seems
they might just get their wishcome true.
According to Brad Keselowski,evidently he's a spokesman, he
was on a uh podcast with CoreyLaJoy.
(21:03):
NASCAR intends to increase thehorsepower in the next gen to
roughly 740 to 750 for the 26thseason.
That's a lot.
Wish I had it.
It looks like NASCAR is going tochange the rules next year,
where they likely the 740 to 750horsepower, because you know
right now, technically they'reat 670, but realistically
they're about 685 to 690.
So there's a little tweaking,there's a little cheating going
(21:24):
on.
Haslowski also said he thinksNASCAR will increase the size of
the spacer, which is good.
That's we get a lot ofhorsepower too.
And the next gen cars.
SPEAKER_04 (21:33):
Size of the spacer, you mean underneath the
carburetor?
Right.
But I didn't I thought that theywere fuel injected.
Uh is it still a carburetorlooking?
SPEAKER_02 (21:40):
No, it's a it's a fuel injected, but it there's
there's still spacer uh elementsinvolved in that carburetor, how
they have that brought in.
So we'll see.
I don't know either.
But it's one of the mostcontroversial topics of NASCAR
over the last few years ison-track product has fallen
short compared to its debutseason back in 2022.
So they're tweaking it, they'realways trying to do something.
(22:02):
It's it's they're alwayschecking.
But there's nobody in thestands.
No, no, so there's a problemthere.
There is, and it's how theymarket themselves.
SPEAKER_04 (22:09):
Well, it's how they market themselves, and I will
tell you that I think that themajority of the fans have gotten
older, they don't want to go tothe racetrack, and I don't think
that they really like the newformatting.
SPEAKER_02 (22:21):
No, no, all of that, all of what you said is true,
and a lot of respects to a lotof fans.
SPEAKER_04 (22:26):
I know that absolutely at least I heard
rumors that uh Dodge is comingback.
That's a good thing.
SPEAKER_02 (22:30):
Well, that's hopefully that'll bring more uh
seats, you know, to be filled.
SPEAKER_04 (22:34):
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (22:34):
You never know.
I yeah, I I I don't know.
But they've got other issuesbesides horsepower.
SPEAKER_04 (22:39):
They do, yeah, and that's getting butts in the
stands.
Would you go if you you had freetickets to go to Texas Motor
Speedway up in Fort Worth, wouldyou go?
I probably would if I had freetickets, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:52):
Because you know, the tickets nowadays are like
anywhere from fifty to severalhundred dollars depending where
you go, but it's not just theticket price, it is getting
there.
You got lodging, you got a lotof walk-in, you got a lot of you
know stuff going on.
So uh yeah, I would go.
I mean, I've been to Texas MotorSpeedway dozen times, been to
Kansas, they're racing inKansas, uh, been there several
(23:14):
times.
SPEAKER_04 (23:15):
I've been to Talladega.
SPEAKER_02 (23:16):
Yeah, love Talladega, went to the final in
uh Homestead, Florida, the thegrand finale for NASCAR a few
years ago, Captain.
SPEAKER_04 (23:22):
I've been to Texas and I've been to Charlotte.
I've actually been to Daytona,but there wasn't a race there.
I took a tour.
Yeah, because uh Amy was goingto school right there across
across the track at uh Ember.
The other side of the tracks.
On the other side of the tracks,uh that's it.
All right, so let's do thishour's car review, shall we?
Had a chance to drive the 2025Mazda MX5 Miata uh final
(23:49):
assembly location, Hiroshima,Japan.
Yes, home of the atomic bomb.
Uh available trim levels come insport, club, grand touring, and
35th anniversary edition.
If you're watching, what you'reseeing there is the 35th
anniversary edition.
This is a two-seater, um, it'sclassified as a two-seater.
(24:12):
And uh exterior changes fromlast model year.
Well, it is part of the fourthgeneration that was originally
introduced in 2016.
This is the best looking MazdaMX5 Miata that has ever been in
existence, as far as I'mconcerned.
I love the peaks on the fenderwells up front.
Notice how it's almost aCorvette-like look up there.
(24:35):
Long hood short deck, classicsports car shape.
Crisp top of the front fender,low to the ground grille, uh
bulging rear fenders to carrythe rubber back there.
Unique taillights fit its uniqueoverall design.
What I liked about iteverything.
Uh I love the fact that theshape of it, including the
(24:58):
grill, all proportionate.
Nothing is overdone, but what isthere is really outstanding, I
think.
Interior highlights.
Uh love your passenger becauseit's very tight confines on the
inside and six footers, beware.
Oh boy.
Modern infotainment system andinstrument cluster.
(25:22):
Um clean look dash design withno passenger side glove box.
The tiny storage area is behindand between the two seats.
Okay.
It's interesting.
You can't actually look in thereif you're driving.
You just got to kind of feelaround in there and hopefully
(25:43):
you've remembered where you putwhatever it is that you put in.
Surprise.
Trunk room is tiny, oneovernight bag, and that is all.
What I liked about it, the easyto use top, uh, it's a one-click
thing for the top, and you putit down manually right behind
you.
Yeah, and the same thing to putit up.
(26:03):
There's no electric top ornothing like that.
It's manual, but it works sowell, it's unbelievable.
SPEAKER_02 (26:08):
Nice.
SPEAKER_04 (26:09):
Uh the manual shifter that you see there, it
is butter.
It works like butter.
I have never driven a car with ashifter like that.
It's so smooth, unbelievable.
Um, could use improvement?
Well, it is what it is, it'stiny.
I remember when they came outwith this car and they sent all
(26:31):
the press out there to debut thecar, and um everything about it,
there is a name that they used,and it's a Japanese name.
I can't remember what it is.
For instance, like the steeringwheel, where the steering wheel
is placed in the car, it's deadcenter up in front of the
driver.
If you will notice your caroffsets, they're offset the the
steering wheel is a little bitoffset one way or the other to
(26:53):
accommodate the mechanicsunderneath the hood.
Anyway, just a bit of triviacool two-liter four-cylinder
engine turns out 181 horsepower,151 pound feet of torque.
But let me tell you this that isall about the fact power to
weight ratio.
It car weighs nothing, and at181 horsepower, it feels like
it's got a great big block,Chevy, 400 horsepower motoring.
(27:18):
Well, because you're in a smallenvironment and you're low to
the ground.
And the car doesn't weighanything, yeah.
Till rating, no, there's none.
Hall rating, it hauls butt.
How about that?
Uh, manufacturers set up as faras uh miles per gallon is
concerned, 26 city, 34 highwayfor combined 29.
I got 34.5 miles per gallon over453.1 miles.
(27:43):
What I liked about it, power toweight ratio is awesome.
What could use improvement?
This is a purpose-built sportscar that can cut a rug around a
road course racetrack.
And if you want to go and havesome real fun, get yourself one
of these.
What I liked about it, handlingon this thing is awesome.
(28:05):
What could use improvement maybea bit too stiff for those
looking for a highway cruiserbecause that it is not.
It will cruise the highway,there's no doubt about it.
But the ride, well, it's a sportcar ride.
Here's the pricing.
Base trim price is$37,485.
Price is tested,$37,435.
(28:27):
Now, I don't know what happenedto the$50 there.
Just by looking at it, I guessthey want you to say, I like the
car.
Base model price.
You can get in one of these for$29,530.
Yeah.
So here are the competitors.
The Toyota GR86 starts at$30,400.
(28:48):
Its cousin, the Subaru BRZ,starts at$33,210.
Wow.
The other competitor, if youwant to call it that, the Mini
Cooper, is$28,950.
That's my review of the 2025Mazda MX5 Miata.
Love the car.
SPEAKER_02 (29:08):
As far as a six-footer person is concerned,
it's a little tight.
I was gonna say, so when you goto an amusement park, you have
to be uh taller than this lineto get into that car.
Yeah.
If you're and with the car, ifyou're taller than this line,
you can't drive it.
Yeah, well, I will tell youthis.
SPEAKER_04 (29:23):
So I had my my buddy that I work with, um Matt.
Matt got in it.
Matt um is a little heavier setthan I am.
Okay.
By golly, he could fit.
Now his knees did touch thedashboard, but he could make it
work.
So I'm telling you, if youreally want to, for no other
reason, go out, take a look atit.
I think that you'll really havea good time looking at the car
(29:45):
if you don't want to buy it.
SPEAKER_02 (29:46):
And a step up from that would be what the Mazda 3
to be a little bit largervehicle, yes, kinda.
I guess.
SPEAKER_03 (29:52):
But you lose the whole two wheel thing, though,
when you do that.
SPEAKER_04 (29:56):
You lose the performance.
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