A friendly grudge, a lit tree, and a time slip—few things capture real car culture like club-versus-club drag racing. We sit down to explore the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge and how it turns raw horsepower into community, safety, and bragging rights across eighth-mile tracks statewide. Even when a guest’s signal fades, the story stays clear: organize the adrenaline, race where it’s safe, and bring home a slip that proves it.
From there, we open the hood on the industry’s moving parts. Dealers are quietly finding gold in their service lanes, making real-time offers to maintenance customers to replace shrinking lease returns and tight auction supply. We break down the math, the goals, and what it means for anyone weighing a repair bill against positive equity. Then we zoom out to used-car retail’s evolving landscape—Carvana’s rebound, why some online car buys feel effortless while others come with surprise steps—and the fine print that separates convenience from frustration.
The news cycle adds more heat: potential truck tariffs have Detroit’s big names angling for advantage, and the EV conversation keeps running on two parallel roads—ambition and practicality. We talk charging costs that hit $50 for a 20-minute session, the gap between ad promises and road-trip reality, and the local conditions where electric shines. It’s all wrapped in the heartbeat of the scene: Tailpipes & Tacos returning to Katy, a full slate of cruise-ins, and the kind of Saturday mornings where chrome, coffee, and community collide.
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SPEAKER_02 (00:00):
Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
It's the award-winning In-WheelTime Car Talk Show.
Somebody awarded us something atsome point for what?
Just ahead.
Our drag racing friends willlearn about the Texas Muzzle Car
Club Challenge that you hear ustalk about occasionally.
Plus, Jeff will have the crewsin and events calendars, and
(00:22):
I'll bring you stories makingautomotive news headlines this
week.
Howdy, along with Mike Out ofthis world, Mars.
We need more Jeff Seekin,always.
Chief Engineer David Ainsley,I'm Don Armstrong.
Glad you could join us on thisSaturday.
I'm still trying to recover fromthe dash out.
Never mind.
SPEAKER_00 (00:44):
We actually went back to it's an East Texas
thing.
Just just l let me Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (00:53):
We actually went back through the script you sent
us so we could read it again.
Yeah, we had to look at that.
So just say.
So do we have your discussion,uh Mr.
Mars?
SPEAKER_00 (01:04):
Yeah, Scott is here.
SPEAKER_02 (01:06):
Scott Stregel, president of the Texas Muslims
Club Challenge.
Scott, good morning to you andthanks for joining us.
Morning.
Good morning.
So um, Scott.
Guys can hear me okay?
Yeah, we're doing well.
How are you?
SPEAKER_03 (01:22):
Uh it's a little, you know, for October, it's 89
degrees.
SPEAKER_02 (01:27):
Are you up in the Dallas area?
SPEAKER_03 (01:30):
I am close to Denton, so yes.
SPEAKER_02 (01:32):
Okay, very good.
All right, so for everybody thatdoesn't know, let's talk about
the Texas Muscle Car ClubChallenge.
And um, this is a drag racingevent that actually several of
them that you guys have puttogether at drag strips, mainly
across Texas.
Am I correct?
SPEAKER_03 (01:53):
Correct.
We only have one in Oklahoma,uh, but everything else is in
Texas.
SPEAKER_02 (01:57):
Okay.
And so and and generallyspeaking, these are eighth mile
tracks, correct?
unknown (02:05):
Yes.
SPEAKER_03 (02:06):
So what we the only uh the only one we have that's
quarter mile in Texas would bethe motorplex at Ennis.
Um in Oklahoma, we've raced itThunder Valley.
Um that's quarter mile also.
SPEAKER_02 (02:21):
Now, do you run the quarter mile?
It just the track is a quartermile, and you just run the
eighth?
How does that work?
SPEAKER_01 (02:34):
Is he frozen up?
SPEAKER_02 (02:36):
Scott, can you hear us?
SPEAKER_01 (02:38):
Uh oh, no?
SPEAKER_02 (02:39):
Well, okay.
Well, Mr.
Morris, I'm gonna let you uhhandle that.
Um uh we don't have anything todo with that on this end.
That is probably his cell phonesignal, I would imagine.
So um we will let you take careof that if you don't mind, sir.
SPEAKER_00 (02:54):
Yes, sir.
Oh, you guys are bad.
SPEAKER_02 (02:56):
There he is.
Yeah, he he he's gonna have toredial us up.
Okay.
All right.
Uh Mike, I'm I'm gonna let youtake take care of that.
Um it says here the Texas MuscleCar Club Challenge Series.
The goal of it is to provide aracing venue for people who want
(03:17):
to race for fun.
It's a club against a club eventthat races for points.
Uh challenge committeerepresenting the clubs will meet
periodically and decide how manyraces to run each year, where to
run, the structure of theprogram, and the rules.
And these are basically friends.
Yeah.
Um buddies.
SPEAKER_01 (03:38):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (03:38):
And they they go to these different events as
friends and they race againsteach other.
SPEAKER_01 (03:43):
And it's better than the street.
You see these TV shows aboutstreet racing and all the bad
stuff that happens after that,and then the city's alone.
So that's good.
SPEAKER_02 (03:50):
Yeah, appreciate it.
Yeah, the the the streettakeovers and stuff like that.
This is not that.
Um, this is legit stuff uh withtime slips uh that they hand out
after the end of each run.
And uh, hey, look what I did.
I beat you by you knowtwo-tenths of a second, whatever
the case may be.
Yep.
So, at any rate, uh Texas MuscleCar Club Challenge.
(04:12):
They sponsor one of our segmentson the program.
And um anyway, it's good stuff.
So I did want to mention to you,and you probably heard the
commercial already, and we'regonna repeat it a couple of
times during the rest of theshow.
Um, there was a throw-downtailpipes and tacos event that
was scheduled for October the18th, and it is still scheduled.
(04:34):
Yeah, and this is going to be atthe Lupi Tortilla Tex-Mex out in
Katy, which is the only placefor tailpipes and tacos, and
it's coming up on October the18th.
And I tell you this because wetypically will be there for all
of the tailpipes and tacosevents.
Uh Stan and Chase and the wholegang out there at the lupi
(04:57):
tortilla out there.
But this particular event wewill not be at because we had
already committed to anotherremote broadcast for the Spring
Branch uh high schoolfoundation.
And we are going to be at thatevent while this event is taking
place.
So you got your choice.
You can either go to Tailpipesand Tacos or the Spring Branch.
(05:17):
With or without us.
Yeah, with us or without us.
Uh either way, it's going to beon October the 18th, so I
believe that's three weeks fromtoday.
Right.
Yeah.
Uh that's coming up.
Um, and if you'd like moreinformation uh on the Loopy
event, uh go to uh Tailpipes andTacos and you can get the or you
(05:38):
can go to Inwheeltime.com aswell and get the information
there.
Or you could go to both.
SPEAKER_01 (05:45):
You could start it at one and end at the other.
And you never know.
You never could very well dothat.
And I think there's gonna be aducks and show.
SPEAKER_02 (05:51):
No, a dash hound.
A dash hound show a dash houndshow.
Don't say that too fast tooquickly.
Okay.
Um Mike's working on the guest.
Is he?
Okay, well, we don't have anycontrol over that, so we're just
going to kind of move on.
All right.
Um, I had a story that I wasgoing to originally use our
(06:15):
story of the week, and thenanother one came up that I
changed it out.
But this is kind of a part twoof our story of the week.
Late model used vehicles, someof the most profitable for
franchise dealerships, areharder to secure in 2025.
Competition for a smaller amountof that inventory stays strong,
(06:36):
however.
In response, some dealershipsturn to their service department
as a potential internal goldmine for those used vehicles.
If you've taken your car to acar dealership here of late,
chances are you've beenapproached by someone within the
car dealership and says, Hey,want to sell your car?
Well, dealers have been findinginventive ways to source
(06:59):
pre-owned vehicles for severalyears.
The pandemic and subsequentsemiconductor shortage curtailed
new vehicle production.
That resulted in fewer U.S.
sales and in particular newleases.
And that in turn led recently toa shortage of off-lease vehicles
returning to dealership lots astrade-ins.
Some dealership managers saidthe service drive is one way to
(07:22):
find inventory at theirfingertips to supplement what
they can't find as frequently inother channels.
It's uh it's an interestingthing that they have discovered.
And hey, we've got all thesepeople coming to the service
department.
They're coming to us with usedcars.
Why not say, hey, we can makeyou a deal?
SPEAKER_01 (07:44):
So that's what it's just coming to life, but that's
been around a while.
Because you know, now you cansell your car without buying
one.
So that's how that all started.
And I agree.
They used to do that when I wasuh working at dealerships, they
would they would do that.
Hey.
But you're a lot younger thanme.
By a whole lot.
SPEAKER_02 (08:00):
Oh yeah.
Years.
Decades.
Uh it's a full commitmentaccording to Jim Farkas,
executive management manager ofuh preferred auto dealerships in
Grand Haven, Michigan.
I wonder if he's anyrelationship to Scott Farkas.
SPEAKER_01 (08:14):
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (08:15):
Farkas introduced preferred auto dealerships uh to
sourcing more out of theirservice drives in 2025 after
honing the strategy at aprevious dealership group.
What matters most isestablishing consistency, he
said managers should designateemployees to work that process
with regularity while settingclear goals for how many used
(08:36):
vehicles need to be acquired.
A dealership sourcing 8% of itsoverall used vehicle retail
inventory each month from itsservice customers, for example,
would be rocking it, he said.
Yeah.
So when you go in there and youmay or may not be ready for uh a
trade or a new car or to get ridof your car, but it might be
(08:57):
something to consider,especially if you got, you know,
35,000, 40,000 miles on it andit's uh either uh off-lease or
it's not an off-lease and youare making payments on it, you
might be able to bump up forjust a few dollars more.
SPEAKER_01 (09:10):
Not only that, you're in there for service.
So is the car paid off?
Are you upside down on it?
Is the repair more than thevalue of the car?
There's all that to considerthat these sharp salespeople
will put that into apresentation and get you into a
new car.
SPEAKER_02 (09:24):
I had a friend of mine that uh actually had a
vehicle and they were havinglots of trouble with and they
had taken it in for well, theythey were going to trade it in
or sell it to uh Carmax.
And the guy at the dealershipsaid, Hey, I'll give you two
(09:45):
thousand dollars more thanCarmax will.
So she brought the the paperfrom CarMax and said, This is
what we're gonna offer you.
She says, Here you go, here'sthe extra money.
And they bought the car, theused car, and got her a new car.
SPEAKER_01 (09:59):
There's even a commercial where the guy, the
Carvana, where you buy in yourcar or they come pick it up.
SPEAKER_02 (10:03):
There's there this is a big promotion, big
marketing is and I have to tellyou, speaking of Carvana, there
was a time when Carvana came totown and they put up the big
vending shoes.
They're still up, they're stillup.
They're not building themanymore because they're very
expensive.
But um, Carvana has actuallyturned the corner and are
actually doing quite well.
(10:24):
So uh there are a lot of otherused car retailers out there
that haven't made it.
Vroom for one other shut down,and then uh there was Texas
Direct that shut down, gotbought up by somebody else, and
it was it it the whole used carth car thing just kind of
evolved to what it is today.
SPEAKER_01 (10:45):
But it's it's not an easy process, even to Carvana.
There are a lot of things, a lotof hoops you gotta jump through,
and there's a lot of fine printthat you have to read before
buying or selling a car to them.
If you buy a car from them, youhave to have certain things
required by them through theiroutfit for insurance and things.
Uh, and then you you go throughthe steps to sell your car or to
(11:08):
buy your car.
If you want it delivered, yougot to do certain steps to have
it delivered.
If you want it picked up, yougotta go through certain steps
to have it delivered.
SPEAKER_02 (11:13):
Yeah, they make it sound so easy on the
commercials.
There's there's there are thingsthat you have to do.
Jump through this hoop, and bythe way, we're gonna set it on
fire when you jump through.
So when when you sold yourCadillac, did you trade it in?
Uh I did.
You traded it in for the for theBuick.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah.
How was that process?
Pretty simple.
SPEAKER_01 (11:31):
Was it pretty simple?
What was it?
General Motors dealership, itwas a GMC Buick Cadillac store.
SPEAKER_02 (11:37):
Um oh it was okay.
Yeah, and uh other than take thetitle, what else did you have to
do?
Nothing really.
Just take the title.
SPEAKER_01 (11:46):
Yeah, here's the title, sign it over.
Yeah, give them a check for thecar, boom, I was out.
It probably took maybe two hoursto stop at.
Yeah, and that was me callingthem on the way to the
dealership to find out if thecar was still there that I saw
on the ad.
It was still there.
I got there, and two hours laterI was driving out.
SPEAKER_02 (12:06):
In that car.
SPEAKER_01 (12:07):
Because that's the car that you saw online.
That's the car that you well tomake the story longer.
I was at another dealership forthe same car, and they couldn't
sell it to me because it wasmissing a sticker from General
Motors that was part of a recallunder the hood.
There was some type of technicalsticker that General Motors puts
under there.
It was missing, and they said,We can't do that.
Well, how do I get this?
You could sell it to me and thenmail me the sticker, I'll get my
(12:29):
own.
I don't need it, whatever thecase.
Can't do it because they'll getin trouble through the feds and
General Motors.
Right.
So, you know, very upsetting.
I left the dealership and on myway out of the city.
Ticked off.
Very, I called anotherdealership because I'm sitting
with the guy telling me he can'tsell me the car, and I'm
scrolling to buy another car onthe phone.
(12:49):
So that's what I did.
And they had one basically likethe one, just like it.
Just same identical.
In fact, had less miles, like 10miles on or something.
SPEAKER_02 (12:58):
Oh, okay.
But you did buy it new, right?
Brand new car.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (13:02):
Brand new car.
Yeah, they had to get it cleanedup, and actually, that was
probably the process of the twohours done cleaning up the car.
SPEAKER_02 (13:08):
Because it sat on the lottery for a few days.
SPEAKER_01 (13:10):
Whatever it was, you know.
I had the papers all filled out,I paid cash for it, I had a
check in hand, all that stuff.
So good.
And they traded my gave me thevalue of the car.
Yeah, they actually gave me morebecause it was a V.
Oh my god.
So the story with the V is uhthey didn't they didn't make a
Cadillac.
Was it an SRX?
They did.
Generation one, they did make aV.
(13:31):
Mine was mine, was the thirdgeneration.
Um it was an SRX.
Yes.
SPEAKER_02 (13:35):
Yeah, a Cadillac SRX.
Beautiful, yeah, station wagonlooking kind of.
SPEAKER_01 (13:39):
Yeah, it was a neat little car.
It was fit me perfect.
It held all my drum equipment inthe back with you know,
passenger despair, all that goodstuff.
Was it the CT5 that took itsplace?
What was what was yeah, XT5.
XT5, and then they made asmaller one, the XT4 beyond
that.
Yeah.
But I would get my car washedbecause I've worked at
dealerships.
I with American TirelessRegional Manager, dealerships,
(14:01):
three, four a day, and and Iwould get the car washed a
couple times a day.
You know, if it was raining orsomething, I'd get pulled.
Hey, how much does it cost for acar for a car wash?
No problem, Jeff.
Give me your keys.
While we're doing business,talking about tires and things,
they were cleaning my car.
Well, this one particular one ata Cadillac dealership, it was in
San Antonio, Bachelor Cadillac,I believe it was.
And uh the operations guy was agood friend of mine, came back
(14:25):
and said, Jeff, I got a problem.
The 3.6 emblem on the back brokeoff with during the process of
washing the car.
Oh gosh, we'll just put anotherone on.
We can't get one for likeanother week, eight days.
All right, well, what do yougot?
Well, we got a V.
Let me have it.
I didn't let them put it on.
I took it with me and I put iton.
So uh I had a V meaning a highhorsepower catalog.
(14:48):
Yeah, exactly.
So uh I had to do that.
Did you ever have anybody pullup next to you?
I've had people go, hey, I'mthat that's is that a V?
That's a V.
The car's not, but that is a V.
Let's get technical about that.
Love it.
So, yeah.
And I think I think they gave memore money because they thought
it was a V.
SPEAKER_02 (15:05):
I don't I know, I'm just kidding.
Give that man, give that mansome extra money for the V.
Speaking of extra money, there'sMichael.
Yes, sir.
Well, did you make it back?
SPEAKER_00 (15:17):
Yeah, I did, but we were having I'm not sure what's
going on with Scott.
Uh we texted back and forth, andhe was gonna do some rebooting,
and uh it just didn't happen.
Didn't happen.
Oh boy.
SPEAKER_02 (15:27):
Okay, well, uh Scott, it's great to have you uh
not with us.
I'm sorry that we started thisthis all happened.
I I got that, but we've got tomove on.
Okay.
Hey, uh we do want to remind youthat coming up, Jeff has the
cruise in and events calendars,and I'll have the stories making
headlines this week.
Stay with us here on theaward-winning Inwheel Time Car
(15:48):
Talk Show.
We continue after this quickbreak.
Stay with us.
You've waited all summer andit's finally here, the Tailpipes
and Tacos Fall 25 Cruise In CarShow.
It's been a while, but thepopular Tail Pipes and Tacos
Cruise In returns to the LoopyTortilla Tex-Mex in Katy,
Saturday, October 18th.
(16:08):
Make any donation to Shirley'sKids and get a free breakfast
taco.
There'll be mimosas and bloodymerry's, too.
Get to the best cruise in of theyear, Teal Pipes and Tacos Car
Show, Saturday, October 18th, 8to 11 a.m.
Cruise in, make a donation ofany amount, and grab a free
Loopy Tortilla Breakfast Taco.
Tail Pipes and Tacos onlyhappens at the Loopy Tortilla
Tex-Mex in Katy, 703 West GrandParkway at Kingston Boulevard,
(16:31):
just south of the Katy Freeway.
Join the carcom rottery, andyour car will automatically
compete for one of three chilipepper trophies at no charge.
Paul is here, and what betterway to celebrate than with a
free taco at Tailpipes and TacosCruise In Car Show, Saturday,
October 18th, 8 to 11 a.m.
It's the cruise in you won'twant to miss.
Loopy tortillas, tailpipes andtacos in Katy.
SPEAKER_04 (16:54):
Time to fire up those engines and pay tribute to
the folks who make freedompossible.
Is rolling in for Veterans DayWeekend.
Friday night, downtown cruise.
Saturday, 400 of the coolestrods in Texas.
Proceeds of veterans, shelters,food pantries, and scholarships.
(17:15):
Sponsored by Craig's Jewelry,November 7th and 8th, Main
Street, Best Drop.
Don't miss it.
SPEAKER_02 (17:25):
You know, um there's some there's some uh production,
uh real production work donethere.
You think?
Yeah, I love the yeehaw at theend of it, and uh the music is
perfect.
SPEAKER_01 (17:36):
The chicken picking on the banjo.
Yeah, yeah.
You know who's a good banjoplayer?
Um, Tom Easley, guy that playedbass for us in the band.
Is that right?
Oh, yeah, he teaches uh banjo.
He's really good at it.
SPEAKER_02 (17:47):
He's you know hey, be sure and join us for a live
show every week.
In Wheel Time airs Saturday, 10to noon Central Time.
And uh we're on Facebook,YouTube, and nwheeltime.com.
And thank you for joining ustoday.
Time off for the cruise in andevents calendars, Mr.
Mars.
I'm sorry, Jeffrey.
Oh, no problem.
(18:08):
I saw Mr.
Mars there now.
SPEAKER_01 (18:10):
Hey Michael, how are you doing, buddy?
Uh, here's one for usDangerfield Days car and bike
show.
Now you're probably Dangerfield.
You're probably wondering whereDangerfield, Texas is.
It's east of Dallas, and it'ssort of between uh Shreepport
and uh what's up to uh notLubbock.
Lubbock's on the other side.
It's it's just north and east ofTyler.
(18:30):
Tyler, all that.
Yeah, it's a little bit north ofTyler, but it's in that area.
You know, if they wereGeorgia's.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh it's the Horn Family FamilyFuneral Home Run.
What?
Yes, wait, run that by the HornFamily Funeral Home is
sponsoring this.
It's a 400 Web Street inDangerfield.
Dangerfield Days will featurecar and bike show with
categories including classicmuscle cars, jeeps, trucks, and
(18:52):
corvettes from 1990 and newer.
The event includes food trucks,barbecue, vendor booths, kids
area, and cornhole tournament.
Register for the cost is 20bucks.
Takes place between 8 a.m.
and 10:30.
Judging is scheduled between12:30, around 12:30-ish.
Is the king and queen of theevent going to be riding?
I don't know, but it's a funeralhome.
(19:14):
People are dying to get inthere.
Uh so also various raffles,50-50 raffle along nine people's
choice awards.
So there you go.
That's in Dangerfield at HornFamily Funeral Home.
Good luck.
Uh, Bel Air High Water TruckPool and Car Show.
Uh that's going on at 7008 SouthRice in Bel Air, Texas, not far
from here.
They'll host a high water truckpool and car show October 11th.
(19:37):
High water truck pool.
Yeah, October 11th.
The event runs from 8 a.m.
to 11 in Bel Air, Texas.
The truck pool invitesparticipants to play tug of war
with high water rescue truckssupporting Special Olympic Texas
athletes.
The car show welcomes allvehicles, including hot rods,
vintage cars, customs,motorcycles, and daily drivers.
You know what they need to do isget one of those great big army
(19:59):
vehicles that they use.
Yeah, like Mattress Mac has oneof those.
He's got a five year old.
SPEAKER_02 (20:04):
You need an elevator feet off the ground.
SPEAKER_01 (20:06):
Yeah.
I I got a feeling I know whowould win that.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
And then we got one Legacy Fordof Rosenberg Mustang Club of
Houston Fall Open Car Show.
It's the 11th, which is nextSaturday, 9 a.m.
to 1.30.
Legacy Ford at 27225 SouthwestFreeway in Rosenberg.
Uh Legacy Ford Rosenberg hostingthis event, fall car show.
(20:27):
The event opens to all makes andmodels, not just Fords.
It'll be held at the uhSouthwest Freeway location for
them.
Registration runs from 9 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.
The show will run from 9 a.m.
to 1.30.
Awards presented at two.
Entry cost is 30 bucks.
Pay cash.
Uh discount rates for 25 for thefirst responders.
18 classes will be judged.
(20:47):
Go out there and support that.
It's a good cause.
We need to do a remote there.
Yeah, we do.
Patrick is the general uhprincipal principal, the general
manager, pretty much.
Patrick, the owner of LegacyFord.
Oh.
Cars and Coffee, hosted byFearless Performance.
That's in Huntsville.
And that goes from 8 a.m.
(21:08):
to 11.
And when you're done with that,you can go take the tour of the
prison.
I was going to say SparkyPenitentiary, too.
Go see Sparky.
And then we've got one thatwe're doing.
Don mentioned it earlier.
Back to the past car shows theannual classic car, truck, and
motorcycle show museum uh openhouse, uh Cornerstone Academy,
uh Spring Branch Bears.
It's on the 18th, I believe thatis.
(21:28):
I wrote 18th.
Maybe you're wrong.
Okay.
And that's it.
10th.
All right.
Thank you for that.
SPEAKER_02 (21:41):
Mr.
Mars, is that playing me out?
SPEAKER_01 (21:42):
Was that coming from you?
SPEAKER_00 (21:45):
We lost.
No, I was trying to hit the mutebutton and I hit the wrong
button.
SPEAKER_01 (21:50):
Oh my God.
Okay.
He's playing me out.
And that's about it.
I mean, support your local carshows, your car events.
I'm sure you got them, you know,either at a church or a car of
uh dealership.
SPEAKER_02 (22:00):
Well, October is the big month.
Yeah, October's a big month.
Um, a lot of people do that, andthen they take the car home and
then they start cleaning it upfor Autorama, which comes
Thanksgiving weekend.
Yep, that's a good deal too.
Yep, it's always fun.
SPEAKER_01 (22:12):
All right, brown chicken.
SPEAKER_02 (22:15):
I was waiting for the music.
You know, you know, you knowwhat?
What's really nice about thissetup is that I can take this
button right here and go pod medown.
And we can't hear him.
Oh.
Say something, Mars.
SPEAKER_00 (22:28):
Hello.
It works.
SPEAKER_01 (22:32):
Well, we know that feature is great.
This digit right here worksgreat for you.
He's got nine others.
SPEAKER_00 (22:38):
Yeah.
They don't know.
We don't want to know what theydo.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:43):
Well, no, you don't.
All right.
Time now for some of the storiesmaking automotive news headlines
this week.
Detroit three automakers havemounted a furious last-minute
lobbying blitz over the Trumpadministration's potential
tariffs on medium and heavy-dutytrucks in a fight pitting
Detroit's legacy automakersagainst each other.
(23:04):
Oh boy.
Huh.
When is the last time thathappened?
Girl fight.
It still goes on today.
Stillantis has lobbied theadministration in recent days to
waver or soften a possible 25%tariff that could otherwise hit
medium-duty ram pickup trucksthe company makes in Mexico.
(23:25):
People familiar with the mattertold Bloomberg.
This is a story from AutomotiveNews.
General Motors and Ford,meanwhile, have urged Trump's
administration officials todismiss the request, said the
people who asked not to beidentified, because the
discussions are private.
Ford argued that shieldingStellantis from the medium-duty
truck tariffs would hand thecompany a cost advantage over
(23:48):
U.S.
assembled trucks that containimported parts already subject
to tariffs, they said.
GM told administration officialsthat if Stellantis gets relief
on trucks, other automakers willwant exemptions.
And the maker of Chevrolet andGMC pickups could and should get
one on its other Mexican-builtmodels, according to one of the
(24:09):
people.
The effort comes just as theadministration has blown past a
timeline for imposing thetariffs, which the president has
said would be in place byOctober 1.
Trump said last week the 25%duty on heavy duty trucks, part
of the month-long investigationinto heavy and medium duty
models.
We'll see what happens on that.
SPEAKER_01 (24:31):
They're fighting.
SPEAKER_02 (24:32):
They are.
(25:32):
She urged automakers to addressEV headwinds such as
affordability and charging.
Two of the big things that keeppeople from going, I'll buy one
of those.
SPEAKER_01 (25:41):
Yeah, well, and I feel understanding that the
automakers are buying up theexcess EVs to keep that rebate
in place.
That'll only last for a while.
I know.
SPEAKER_00 (25:51):
Well, and it's like her like her talking about it
going up to 25% uh in 10 yearsor whatever it is.
They're not buying them now.
It's slowing down now becauseit's all a money matter, which
means they don't, most of usdon't want to take that
lifestyle change that it takesto move to an EV if there's no
money for it.
SPEAKER_02 (26:09):
And you and I both know that it is a lifestyle
change if you want an EV.
Absolutely.
My daughter has one, and uh afriend of mine that I work with,
he has a Tesla.
And it is, and he told me I'llnever have another one because
it is too big of a pain to haveto go somewhere on a road trip
to stop for 20 minutes to get itcharged when I can just pull in
(26:31):
the gas station, and for fiveminutes I can get 400 miles
worth of gas.
SPEAKER_00 (26:35):
20 minutes if you stop at the right charger.
Otherwise, it could be an houror an hour and a half.
SPEAKER_02 (26:41):
For my charging story, as I told you on this
show, I had an EV that wasrunning low, and I just could
not catch up.
So I decided that I was going togo find a fast charger.
I did.
And it was called a shellrecharge station.
There was no gasoline available,it was strictly a fast charging
(27:01):
station.
80% charge, took 20 minutes.
It cost me$50.
SPEAKER_01 (27:09):
$50.
But didn't you have to likedrive to Pasadena to get that?
SPEAKER_02 (27:14):
No, no, it was right there in First Colony.
Oh, how many miles did that getyou?
Well, um, it got at an 80%charge, and that particular
vehicle it was about 320 miles.
SPEAKER_00 (27:25):
Yeah, okay.
50 bucks.
SPEAKER_02 (27:28):
I could I could have a car, a gasoline motor to go to
Dallas and halfway back for$50.
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (27:35):
Yeah, I I I would think so.
SPEAKER_01 (27:37):
Yeah.
Well, what was the last tour wewent on?
We went uh when we followed youout, I think it was one of the
tours.
I did the whole thing on a tankof gas.
Yeah.
Down to Victorian back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's that.
I get uh this week I got alittle, I got like 29 because I
was more city driving, but I'mgenerally in the 32 range on the
highway.
SPEAKER_00 (27:57):
Yeah, yeah.
They're they're hoping that EVstake off.
There's no real data that shecan present, I don't believe.
I've never seen any that'lljustify her statement that 25%
of the market will be there in10 years.
SPEAKER_01 (28:09):
I don't agree.
Yeah, I I agree with you, Mark.
I'm driving a Buick and everyoneshould own one.
SPEAKER_02 (28:14):
Yeah.
I I like I've said from the verybeginning, if the EV can't
compete head to head without anincentive, then why?
And these companies have spentbillions of dollars already, and
they've stopped buildingbuildings that they're going to
(28:35):
build these EVs in.
They've backed out of these bigbattery plants.
It it's it was way too much toosoon, and no infrastructure.
SPEAKER_00 (28:46):
That's your government at work here.
SPEAKER_02 (28:47):
Yeah, well, it was my government at work.
Yeah, they're the ones thatstarted all this mess.
Well, um, okay.
I think that uh we are done withthis segment.
What do you think, Mr.
Mars?
SPEAKER_00 (28:59):
I think so.
Um I think it's we have someother things to do.
SPEAKER_02 (29:05):
We do?
SPEAKER_00 (29:06):
We do.
SPEAKER_02 (29:07):
What are they?
SPEAKER_00 (29:09):
They're in the next segment.
Oh!
SPEAKER_02 (29:12):
All right, well, I'm just checking.
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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
It's the award-winning In-WheelTime Car Talk Show.
Somebody awarded us something atsome point for what?
Just ahead.
Our drag racing friends willlearn about the Texas Muzzle Car
Club Challenge that you hear ustalk about occasionally.
Plus, Jeff will have the crewsin and events calendars, and
(00:22):
I'll bring you stories makingautomotive news headlines this
week.
Howdy, along with Mike Out ofthis world, Mars.
We need more Jeff Seekin,always.
Chief Engineer David Ainsley,I'm Don Armstrong.
Glad you could join us on thisSaturday.
I'm still trying to recover fromthe dash out.
Never mind.
SPEAKER_00 (00:44):
We actually went back to it's an East Texas
thing.
Just just l let me Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (00:53):
We actually went back through the script you sent
us so we could read it again.
Yeah, we had to look at that.
So just say.
So do we have your discussion,uh Mr.
Mars?
SPEAKER_00 (01:04):
Yeah, Scott is here.
SPEAKER_02 (01:06):
Scott Stregel, president of the Texas Muslims
Club Challenge.
Scott, good morning to you andthanks for joining us.
Morning.
Good morning.
So um, Scott.
Guys can hear me okay?
Yeah, we're doing well.
How are you?
SPEAKER_03 (01:22):
Uh it's a little, you know, for October, it's 89
degrees.
SPEAKER_02 (01:27):
Are you up in the Dallas area?
SPEAKER_03 (01:30):
I am close to Denton, so yes.
SPEAKER_02 (01:32):
Okay, very good.
All right, so for everybody thatdoesn't know, let's talk about
the Texas Muscle Car ClubChallenge.
And um, this is a drag racingevent that actually several of
them that you guys have puttogether at drag strips, mainly
across Texas.
Am I correct?
SPEAKER_03 (01:53):
Correct.
We only have one in Oklahoma,uh, but everything else is in
Texas.
SPEAKER_02 (01:57):
Okay.
And so and and generallyspeaking, these are eighth mile
tracks, correct?
unknown (02:05):
Yes.
SPEAKER_03 (02:06):
So what we the only uh the only one we have that's
quarter mile in Texas would bethe motorplex at Ennis.
Um in Oklahoma, we've raced itThunder Valley.
Um that's quarter mile also.
SPEAKER_02 (02:21):
Now, do you run the quarter mile?
It just the track is a quartermile, and you just run the
eighth?
How does that work?
SPEAKER_01 (02:34):
Is he frozen up?
SPEAKER_02 (02:36):
Scott, can you hear us?
SPEAKER_01 (02:38):
Uh oh, no?
SPEAKER_02 (02:39):
Well, okay.
Well, Mr.
Morris, I'm gonna let you uhhandle that.
Um uh we don't have anything todo with that on this end.
That is probably his cell phonesignal, I would imagine.
So um we will let you take careof that if you don't mind, sir.
SPEAKER_00 (02:54):
Yes, sir.
Oh, you guys are bad.
SPEAKER_02 (02:56):
There he is.
Yeah, he he he's gonna have toredial us up.
Okay.
All right.
Uh Mike, I'm I'm gonna let youtake take care of that.
Um it says here the Texas MuscleCar Club Challenge Series.
The goal of it is to provide aracing venue for people who want
(03:17):
to race for fun.
It's a club against a club eventthat races for points.
Uh challenge committeerepresenting the clubs will meet
periodically and decide how manyraces to run each year, where to
run, the structure of theprogram, and the rules.
And these are basically friends.
Yeah.
Um buddies.
SPEAKER_01 (03:38):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (03:38):
And they they go to these different events as
friends and they race againsteach other.
SPEAKER_01 (03:43):
And it's better than the street.
You see these TV shows aboutstreet racing and all the bad
stuff that happens after that,and then the city's alone.
So that's good.
SPEAKER_02 (03:50):
Yeah, appreciate it.
Yeah, the the the streettakeovers and stuff like that.
This is not that.
Um, this is legit stuff uh withtime slips uh that they hand out
after the end of each run.
And uh, hey, look what I did.
I beat you by you knowtwo-tenths of a second, whatever
the case may be.
Yep.
So, at any rate, uh Texas MuscleCar Club Challenge.
(04:12):
They sponsor one of our segmentson the program.
And um anyway, it's good stuff.
So I did want to mention to you,and you probably heard the
commercial already, and we'regonna repeat it a couple of
times during the rest of theshow.
Um, there was a throw-downtailpipes and tacos event that
was scheduled for October the18th, and it is still scheduled.
(04:34):
Yeah, and this is going to be atthe Lupi Tortilla Tex-Mex out in
Katy, which is the only placefor tailpipes and tacos, and
it's coming up on October the18th.
And I tell you this because wetypically will be there for all
of the tailpipes and tacosevents.
Uh Stan and Chase and the wholegang out there at the lupi
(04:57):
tortilla out there.
But this particular event wewill not be at because we had
already committed to anotherremote broadcast for the Spring
Branch uh high schoolfoundation.
And we are going to be at thatevent while this event is taking
place.
So you got your choice.
You can either go to Tailpipesand Tacos or the Spring Branch.
(05:17):
With or without us.
Yeah, with us or without us.
Uh either way, it's going to beon October the 18th, so I
believe that's three weeks fromtoday.
Right.
Yeah.
Uh that's coming up.
Um, and if you'd like moreinformation uh on the Loopy
event, uh go to uh Tailpipes andTacos and you can get the or you
(05:38):
can go to Inwheeltime.com aswell and get the information
there.
Or you could go to both.
SPEAKER_01 (05:45):
You could start it at one and end at the other.
And you never know.
You never could very well dothat.
And I think there's gonna be aducks and show.
SPEAKER_02 (05:51):
No, a dash hound.
A dash hound show a dash houndshow.
Don't say that too fast tooquickly.
Okay.
Um Mike's working on the guest.
Is he?
Okay, well, we don't have anycontrol over that, so we're just
going to kind of move on.
All right.
Um, I had a story that I wasgoing to originally use our
(06:15):
story of the week, and thenanother one came up that I
changed it out.
But this is kind of a part twoof our story of the week.
Late model used vehicles, someof the most profitable for
franchise dealerships, areharder to secure in 2025.
Competition for a smaller amountof that inventory stays strong,
(06:36):
however.
In response, some dealershipsturn to their service department
as a potential internal goldmine for those used vehicles.
If you've taken your car to acar dealership here of late,
chances are you've beenapproached by someone within the
car dealership and says, Hey,want to sell your car?
Well, dealers have been findinginventive ways to source
(06:59):
pre-owned vehicles for severalyears.
The pandemic and subsequentsemiconductor shortage curtailed
new vehicle production.
That resulted in fewer U.S.
sales and in particular newleases.
And that in turn led recently toa shortage of off-lease vehicles
returning to dealership lots astrade-ins.
Some dealership managers saidthe service drive is one way to
(07:22):
find inventory at theirfingertips to supplement what
they can't find as frequently inother channels.
It's uh it's an interestingthing that they have discovered.
And hey, we've got all thesepeople coming to the service
department.
They're coming to us with usedcars.
Why not say, hey, we can makeyou a deal?
SPEAKER_01 (07:44):
So that's what it's just coming to life, but that's
been around a while.
Because you know, now you cansell your car without buying
one.
So that's how that all started.
And I agree.
They used to do that when I wasuh working at dealerships, they
would they would do that.
Hey.
But you're a lot younger thanme.
By a whole lot.
SPEAKER_02 (08:00):
Oh yeah.
Years.
Decades.
Uh it's a full commitmentaccording to Jim Farkas,
executive management manager ofuh preferred auto dealerships in
Grand Haven, Michigan.
I wonder if he's anyrelationship to Scott Farkas.
SPEAKER_01 (08:14):
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (08:15):
Farkas introduced preferred auto dealerships uh to
sourcing more out of theirservice drives in 2025 after
honing the strategy at aprevious dealership group.
What matters most isestablishing consistency, he
said managers should designateemployees to work that process
with regularity while settingclear goals for how many used
(08:36):
vehicles need to be acquired.
A dealership sourcing 8% of itsoverall used vehicle retail
inventory each month from itsservice customers, for example,
would be rocking it, he said.
Yeah.
So when you go in there and youmay or may not be ready for uh a
trade or a new car or to get ridof your car, but it might be
(08:57):
something to consider,especially if you got, you know,
35,000, 40,000 miles on it andit's uh either uh off-lease or
it's not an off-lease and youare making payments on it, you
might be able to bump up forjust a few dollars more.
SPEAKER_01 (09:10):
Not only that, you're in there for service.
So is the car paid off?
Are you upside down on it?
Is the repair more than thevalue of the car?
There's all that to considerthat these sharp salespeople
will put that into apresentation and get you into a
new car.
SPEAKER_02 (09:24):
I had a friend of mine that uh actually had a
vehicle and they were havinglots of trouble with and they
had taken it in for well, theythey were going to trade it in
or sell it to uh Carmax.
And the guy at the dealershipsaid, Hey, I'll give you two
(09:45):
thousand dollars more thanCarmax will.
So she brought the the paperfrom CarMax and said, This is
what we're gonna offer you.
She says, Here you go, here'sthe extra money.
And they bought the car, theused car, and got her a new car.
SPEAKER_01 (09:59):
There's even a commercial where the guy, the
Carvana, where you buy in yourcar or they come pick it up.
SPEAKER_02 (10:03):
There's there this is a big promotion, big
marketing is and I have to tellyou, speaking of Carvana, there
was a time when Carvana came totown and they put up the big
vending shoes.
They're still up, they're stillup.
They're not building themanymore because they're very
expensive.
But um, Carvana has actuallyturned the corner and are
actually doing quite well.
(10:24):
So uh there are a lot of otherused car retailers out there
that haven't made it.
Vroom for one other shut down,and then uh there was Texas
Direct that shut down, gotbought up by somebody else, and
it was it it the whole used carth car thing just kind of
evolved to what it is today.
SPEAKER_01 (10:45):
But it's it's not an easy process, even to Carvana.
There are a lot of things, a lotof hoops you gotta jump through,
and there's a lot of fine printthat you have to read before
buying or selling a car to them.
If you buy a car from them, youhave to have certain things
required by them through theiroutfit for insurance and things.
Uh, and then you you go throughthe steps to sell your car or to
(11:08):
buy your car.
If you want it delivered, yougot to do certain steps to have
it delivered.
If you want it picked up, yougotta go through certain steps
to have it delivered.
SPEAKER_02 (11:13):
Yeah, they make it sound so easy on the
commercials.
There's there's there are thingsthat you have to do.
Jump through this hoop, and bythe way, we're gonna set it on
fire when you jump through.
So when when you sold yourCadillac, did you trade it in?
Uh I did.
You traded it in for the for theBuick.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah.
How was that process?
Pretty simple.
SPEAKER_01 (11:31):
Was it pretty simple?
What was it?
General Motors dealership, itwas a GMC Buick Cadillac store.
SPEAKER_02 (11:37):
Um oh it was okay.
Yeah, and uh other than take thetitle, what else did you have to
do?
Nothing really.
Just take the title.
SPEAKER_01 (11:46):
Yeah, here's the title, sign it over.
Yeah, give them a check for thecar, boom, I was out.
It probably took maybe two hoursto stop at.
Yeah, and that was me callingthem on the way to the
dealership to find out if thecar was still there that I saw
on the ad.
It was still there.
I got there, and two hours laterI was driving out.
SPEAKER_02 (12:06):
In that car.
SPEAKER_01 (12:07):
Because that's the car that you saw online.
That's the car that you well tomake the story longer.
I was at another dealership forthe same car, and they couldn't
sell it to me because it wasmissing a sticker from General
Motors that was part of a recallunder the hood.
There was some type of technicalsticker that General Motors puts
under there.
It was missing, and they said,We can't do that.
Well, how do I get this?
You could sell it to me and thenmail me the sticker, I'll get my
(12:29):
own.
I don't need it, whatever thecase.
Can't do it because they'll getin trouble through the feds and
General Motors.
Right.
So, you know, very upsetting.
I left the dealership and on myway out of the city.
Ticked off.
Very, I called anotherdealership because I'm sitting
with the guy telling me he can'tsell me the car, and I'm
scrolling to buy another car onthe phone.
(12:49):
So that's what I did.
And they had one basically likethe one, just like it.
Just same identical.
In fact, had less miles, like 10miles on or something.
SPEAKER_02 (12:58):
Oh, okay.
But you did buy it new, right?
Brand new car.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (13:02):
Brand new car.
Yeah, they had to get it cleanedup, and actually, that was
probably the process of the twohours done cleaning up the car.
SPEAKER_02 (13:08):
Because it sat on the lottery for a few days.
SPEAKER_01 (13:10):
Whatever it was, you know.
I had the papers all filled out,I paid cash for it, I had a
check in hand, all that stuff.
So good.
And they traded my gave me thevalue of the car.
Yeah, they actually gave me morebecause it was a V.
Oh my god.
So the story with the V is uhthey didn't they didn't make a
Cadillac.
Was it an SRX?
They did.
Generation one, they did make aV.
(13:31):
Mine was mine, was the thirdgeneration.
Um it was an SRX.
Yes.
SPEAKER_02 (13:35):
Yeah, a Cadillac SRX.
Beautiful, yeah, station wagonlooking kind of.
SPEAKER_01 (13:39):
Yeah, it was a neat little car.
It was fit me perfect.
It held all my drum equipment inthe back with you know,
passenger despair, all that goodstuff.
Was it the CT5 that took itsplace?
What was what was yeah, XT5.
XT5, and then they made asmaller one, the XT4 beyond
that.
Yeah.
But I would get my car washedbecause I've worked at
dealerships.
I with American TirelessRegional Manager, dealerships,
(14:01):
three, four a day, and and Iwould get the car washed a
couple times a day.
You know, if it was raining orsomething, I'd get pulled.
Hey, how much does it cost for acar for a car wash?
No problem, Jeff.
Give me your keys.
While we're doing business,talking about tires and things,
they were cleaning my car.
Well, this one particular one ata Cadillac dealership, it was in
San Antonio, Bachelor Cadillac,I believe it was.
And uh the operations guy was agood friend of mine, came back
(14:25):
and said, Jeff, I got a problem.
The 3.6 emblem on the back brokeoff with during the process of
washing the car.
Oh gosh, we'll just put anotherone on.
We can't get one for likeanother week, eight days.
All right, well, what do yougot?
Well, we got a V.
Let me have it.
I didn't let them put it on.
I took it with me and I put iton.
So uh I had a V meaning a highhorsepower catalog.
(14:48):
Yeah, exactly.
So uh I had to do that.
Did you ever have anybody pullup next to you?
I've had people go, hey, I'mthat that's is that a V?
That's a V.
The car's not, but that is a V.
Let's get technical about that.
Love it.
So, yeah.
And I think I think they gave memore money because they thought
it was a V.
SPEAKER_02 (15:05):
I don't I know, I'm just kidding.
Give that man, give that mansome extra money for the V.
Speaking of extra money, there'sMichael.
Yes, sir.
Well, did you make it back?
SPEAKER_00 (15:17):
Yeah, I did, but we were having I'm not sure what's
going on with Scott.
Uh we texted back and forth, andhe was gonna do some rebooting,
and uh it just didn't happen.
Didn't happen.
Oh boy.
SPEAKER_02 (15:27):
Okay, well, uh Scott, it's great to have you uh
not with us.
I'm sorry that we started thisthis all happened.
I I got that, but we've got tomove on.
Okay.
Hey, uh we do want to remind youthat coming up, Jeff has the
cruise in and events calendars,and I'll have the stories making
headlines this week.
Stay with us here on theaward-winning Inwheel Time Car
(15:48):
Talk Show.
We continue after this quickbreak.
Stay with us.
You've waited all summer andit's finally here, the Tailpipes
and Tacos Fall 25 Cruise In CarShow.
It's been a while, but thepopular Tail Pipes and Tacos
Cruise In returns to the LoopyTortilla Tex-Mex in Katy,
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(16:08):
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(16:31):
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SPEAKER_04 (16:54):
Time to fire up those engines and pay tribute to
the folks who make freedompossible.
Is rolling in for Veterans DayWeekend.
Friday night, downtown cruise.
Saturday, 400 of the coolestrods in Texas.
Proceeds of veterans, shelters,food pantries, and scholarships.
(17:15):
Sponsored by Craig's Jewelry,November 7th and 8th, Main
Street, Best Drop.
Don't miss it.
SPEAKER_02 (17:25):
You know, um there's some there's some uh production,
uh real production work donethere.
You think?
Yeah, I love the yeehaw at theend of it, and uh the music is
perfect.
SPEAKER_01 (17:36):
The chicken picking on the banjo.
Yeah, yeah.
You know who's a good banjoplayer?
Um, Tom Easley, guy that playedbass for us in the band.
Is that right?
Oh, yeah, he teaches uh banjo.
He's really good at it.
SPEAKER_02 (17:47):
He's you know hey, be sure and join us for a live
show every week.
In Wheel Time airs Saturday, 10to noon Central Time.
And uh we're on Facebook,YouTube, and nwheeltime.com.
And thank you for joining ustoday.
Time off for the cruise in andevents calendars, Mr.
Mars.
I'm sorry, Jeffrey.
Oh, no problem.
(18:08):
I saw Mr.
Mars there now.
SPEAKER_01 (18:10):
Hey Michael, how are you doing, buddy?
Uh, here's one for usDangerfield Days car and bike
show.
Now you're probably Dangerfield.
You're probably wondering whereDangerfield, Texas is.
It's east of Dallas, and it'ssort of between uh Shreepport
and uh what's up to uh notLubbock.
Lubbock's on the other side.
It's it's just north and east ofTyler.
(18:30):
Tyler, all that.
Yeah, it's a little bit north ofTyler, but it's in that area.
You know, if they wereGeorgia's.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh it's the Horn Family FamilyFuneral Home Run.
What?
Yes, wait, run that by the HornFamily Funeral Home is
sponsoring this.
It's a 400 Web Street inDangerfield.
Dangerfield Days will featurecar and bike show with
categories including classicmuscle cars, jeeps, trucks, and
(18:52):
corvettes from 1990 and newer.
The event includes food trucks,barbecue, vendor booths, kids
area, and cornhole tournament.
Register for the cost is 20bucks.
Takes place between 8 a.m.
and 10:30.
Judging is scheduled between12:30, around 12:30-ish.
Is the king and queen of theevent going to be riding?
I don't know, but it's a funeralhome.
(19:14):
People are dying to get inthere.
Uh so also various raffles,50-50 raffle along nine people's
choice awards.
So there you go.
That's in Dangerfield at HornFamily Funeral Home.
Good luck.
Uh, Bel Air High Water TruckPool and Car Show.
Uh that's going on at 7008 SouthRice in Bel Air, Texas, not far
from here.
They'll host a high water truckpool and car show October 11th.
(19:37):
High water truck pool.
Yeah, October 11th.
The event runs from 8 a.m.
to 11 in Bel Air, Texas.
The truck pool invitesparticipants to play tug of war
with high water rescue truckssupporting Special Olympic Texas
athletes.
The car show welcomes allvehicles, including hot rods,
vintage cars, customs,motorcycles, and daily drivers.
You know what they need to do isget one of those great big army
(19:59):
vehicles that they use.
Yeah, like Mattress Mac has oneof those.
He's got a five year old.
SPEAKER_02 (20:04):
You need an elevator feet off the ground.
SPEAKER_01 (20:06):
Yeah.
I I got a feeling I know whowould win that.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
And then we got one Legacy Fordof Rosenberg Mustang Club of
Houston Fall Open Car Show.
It's the 11th, which is nextSaturday, 9 a.m.
to 1.30.
Legacy Ford at 27225 SouthwestFreeway in Rosenberg.
Uh Legacy Ford Rosenberg hostingthis event, fall car show.
(20:27):
The event opens to all makes andmodels, not just Fords.
It'll be held at the uhSouthwest Freeway location for
them.
Registration runs from 9 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.
The show will run from 9 a.m.
to 1.30.
Awards presented at two.
Entry cost is 30 bucks.
Pay cash.
Uh discount rates for 25 for thefirst responders.
18 classes will be judged.
(20:47):
Go out there and support that.
It's a good cause.
We need to do a remote there.
Yeah, we do.
Patrick is the general uhprincipal principal, the general
manager, pretty much.
Patrick, the owner of LegacyFord.
Oh.
Cars and Coffee, hosted byFearless Performance.
That's in Huntsville.
And that goes from 8 a.m.
(21:08):
to 11.
And when you're done with that,you can go take the tour of the
prison.
I was going to say SparkyPenitentiary, too.
Go see Sparky.
And then we've got one thatwe're doing.
Don mentioned it earlier.
Back to the past car shows theannual classic car, truck, and
motorcycle show museum uh openhouse, uh Cornerstone Academy,
uh Spring Branch Bears.
It's on the 18th, I believe thatis.
(21:28):
I wrote 18th.
Maybe you're wrong.
Okay.
And that's it.
10th.
All right.
Thank you for that.
SPEAKER_02 (21:41):
Mr.
Mars, is that playing me out?
SPEAKER_01 (21:42):
Was that coming from you?
SPEAKER_00 (21:45):
We lost.
No, I was trying to hit the mutebutton and I hit the wrong
button.
SPEAKER_01 (21:50):
Oh my God.
Okay.
He's playing me out.
And that's about it.
I mean, support your local carshows, your car events.
I'm sure you got them, you know,either at a church or a car of
uh dealership.
SPEAKER_02 (22:00):
Well, October is the big month.
Yeah, October's a big month.
Um, a lot of people do that, andthen they take the car home and
then they start cleaning it upfor Autorama, which comes
Thanksgiving weekend.
Yep, that's a good deal too.
Yep, it's always fun.
SPEAKER_01 (22:12):
All right, brown chicken.
SPEAKER_02 (22:15):
I was waiting for the music.
You know, you know, you knowwhat?
What's really nice about thissetup is that I can take this
button right here and go pod medown.
And we can't hear him.
Oh.
Say something, Mars.
SPEAKER_00 (22:28):
Hello.
It works.
SPEAKER_01 (22:32):
Well, we know that feature is great.
This digit right here worksgreat for you.
He's got nine others.
SPEAKER_00 (22:38):
Yeah.
They don't know.
We don't want to know what theydo.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:43):
Well, no, you don't.
All right.
Time now for some of the storiesmaking automotive news headlines
this week.
Detroit three automakers havemounted a furious last-minute
lobbying blitz over the Trumpadministration's potential
tariffs on medium and heavy-dutytrucks in a fight pitting
Detroit's legacy automakersagainst each other.
(23:04):
Oh boy.
Huh.
When is the last time thathappened?
Girl fight.
It still goes on today.
Stillantis has lobbied theadministration in recent days to
waver or soften a possible 25%tariff that could otherwise hit
medium-duty ram pickup trucksthe company makes in Mexico.
(23:25):
People familiar with the mattertold Bloomberg.
This is a story from AutomotiveNews.
General Motors and Ford,meanwhile, have urged Trump's
administration officials todismiss the request, said the
people who asked not to beidentified, because the
discussions are private.
Ford argued that shieldingStellantis from the medium-duty
truck tariffs would hand thecompany a cost advantage over
(23:48):
U.S.
assembled trucks that containimported parts already subject
to tariffs, they said.
GM told administration officialsthat if Stellantis gets relief
on trucks, other automakers willwant exemptions.
And the maker of Chevrolet andGMC pickups could and should get
one on its other Mexican-builtmodels, according to one of the
(24:09):
people.
The effort comes just as theadministration has blown past a
timeline for imposing thetariffs, which the president has
said would be in place byOctober 1.
Trump said last week the 25%duty on heavy duty trucks, part
of the month-long investigationinto heavy and medium duty
models.
We'll see what happens on that.
SPEAKER_01 (24:31):
They're fighting.
SPEAKER_02 (24:32):
They are.
(25:32):
She urged automakers to addressEV headwinds such as
affordability and charging.
Two of the big things that keeppeople from going, I'll buy one
of those.
SPEAKER_01 (25:41):
Yeah, well, and I feel understanding that the
automakers are buying up theexcess EVs to keep that rebate
in place.
That'll only last for a while.
I know.
SPEAKER_00 (25:51):
Well, and it's like her like her talking about it
going up to 25% uh in 10 yearsor whatever it is.
They're not buying them now.
It's slowing down now becauseit's all a money matter, which
means they don't, most of usdon't want to take that
lifestyle change that it takesto move to an EV if there's no
money for it.
SPEAKER_02 (26:09):
And you and I both know that it is a lifestyle
change if you want an EV.
Absolutely.
My daughter has one, and uh afriend of mine that I work with,
he has a Tesla.
And it is, and he told me I'llnever have another one because
it is too big of a pain to haveto go somewhere on a road trip
to stop for 20 minutes to get itcharged when I can just pull in
(26:31):
the gas station, and for fiveminutes I can get 400 miles
worth of gas.
SPEAKER_00 (26:35):
20 minutes if you stop at the right charger.
Otherwise, it could be an houror an hour and a half.
SPEAKER_02 (26:41):
For my charging story, as I told you on this
show, I had an EV that wasrunning low, and I just could
not catch up.
So I decided that I was going togo find a fast charger.
I did.
And it was called a shellrecharge station.
There was no gasoline available,it was strictly a fast charging
(27:01):
station.
80% charge, took 20 minutes.
It cost me$50.
SPEAKER_01 (27:09):
$50.
But didn't you have to likedrive to Pasadena to get that?
SPEAKER_02 (27:14):
No, no, it was right there in First Colony.
Oh, how many miles did that getyou?
Well, um, it got at an 80%charge, and that particular
vehicle it was about 320 miles.
SPEAKER_00 (27:25):
Yeah, okay.
50 bucks.
SPEAKER_02 (27:28):
I could I could have a car, a gasoline motor to go to
Dallas and halfway back for$50.
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (27:35):
Yeah, I I I would think so.
SPEAKER_01 (27:37):
Yeah.
Well, what was the last tour wewent on?
We went uh when we followed youout, I think it was one of the
tours.
I did the whole thing on a tankof gas.
Yeah.
Down to Victorian back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's that.
I get uh this week I got alittle, I got like 29 because I
was more city driving, but I'mgenerally in the 32 range on the
highway.
SPEAKER_00 (27:57):
Yeah, yeah.
They're they're hoping that EVstake off.
There's no real data that shecan present, I don't believe.
I've never seen any that'lljustify her statement that 25%
of the market will be there in10 years.
SPEAKER_01 (28:09):
I don't agree.
Yeah, I I agree with you, Mark.
I'm driving a Buick and everyoneshould own one.
SPEAKER_02 (28:14):
Yeah.
I I like I've said from the verybeginning, if the EV can't
compete head to head without anincentive, then why?
And these companies have spentbillions of dollars already, and
they've stopped buildingbuildings that they're going to
(28:35):
build these EVs in.
They've backed out of these bigbattery plants.
It it's it was way too much toosoon, and no infrastructure.
SPEAKER_00 (28:46):
That's your government at work here.
SPEAKER_02 (28:47):
Yeah, well, it was my government at work.
Yeah, they're the ones thatstarted all this mess.
Well, um, okay.
I think that uh we are done withthis segment.
What do you think, Mr.
Mars?
SPEAKER_00 (28:59):
I think so.
Um I think it's we have someother things to do.
SPEAKER_02 (29:05):
We do?
SPEAKER_00 (29:06):
We do.
SPEAKER_02 (29:07):
What are they?
SPEAKER_00 (29:09):
They're in the next segment.
Oh!
SPEAKER_02 (29:12):
All right, well, I'm just checking.
All right, the in-wheel time cartalk show continues right after
this quick break.
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Wrap up your engines.
It's time to roll back in styleat the Back to the Pass Car
Show.
Join the Spring Branch SeniorHigh School Foundation Saturday,
October 18th at CornerstoneAcademy, 9016 Westview Drive in
Houston.
Classic cars, trucks, andmotorcycles, family fun, food,
music, and memories.
There's something for everyone.
Proceeds benefit local studentsand programs.
Don't miss the shine, thechrome, and the nostalgia.
(30:39):
10-2 Saturday, October 18th,back to the Past Car Show.
Springbranch Bears.com slash CarShow for more information.
In Wheel Time will be there too.
That's it for this podcastepisode of the In Wheel Time Car
Show.
I'm Don Armstrong, inviting youto join us for our live show
every Saturday morning onFacebook, YouTube, Twitch, and
(31:01):
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