November 21, 2024 • 32 mins
What if a faulty part in your car could compromise your safety? Discover the latest automotive recalls affecting major manufacturers like Tesla, GM, and Mazda, and learn why keeping up with vehicle safety updates is crucial. Join us at the lively Tailpipes & Tacos Cruise Inn at Lupe' Tortilla Tex-Mex Restaurant in Katy, Texas, where we bring you an engaging mix of humor and hard-hitting news. From the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's scrutiny of Ford's recall practices to the hidden dangers of unrepaired airbags in older Volkswagen models, we cover it all with a blend of serious discussion and lighthearted banter. Plus, catch our amusing take on the beloved beverage V8!
Step into the world of classic car restoration as we share tales of transforming vintage beauties, like upgrading a cherished car's interior with bucket seats and a console from a '62 Oldsmobile Starfire. Hear about the meticulous process of sourcing rare parts, battling rust, and maintaining a pristine engine that has traveled over 153,000 miles. We also celebrate our exciting transition to Audacy Radio and preview our upcoming fall tour, including a special Gulf Coast Auto Shield event. Alongside, get the latest scoop from the racing world with highlights from Joey Logano's NASCAR triumph and updates from NHRA and Formula One. This episode promises a delightful ride for car enthusiasts everywhere!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
This is the world's favoriteplace to go for fun, intrigue
and informative car talk.
It's the In Wheel Time Car TalkShow Today, coming to you from
the Tailpipes and Tacos CruiseInn at the Loopy Tortilla
(00:22):
Tex-Mex Restaurant in Katy,texas.
We've got a full house heretoday.
We've got to be close to 100cars here.
It's really good.
We ran across anotherhitchhiker and he's waiting to
talk to us.
Jeff has the racing calendar,mars has this week in auto
history and I'll get you caughtup on the stories making
automotive news headlines, whichI haven't done any of.
Howdy, along with Mike Ott ofthis World Mars.
(00:44):
We always need more.
Jeff Zekin, chief Engineer,david Ainsley.
I'm Don Armstrong, glad youcould join us today.
Thank you very much.
This car show Cruise Inn isactually a donation site for
Toys for Tots and HoustonChildren's Charities, so bring
an unwrapped toy, give it tothem you'll get a little ticket
(01:06):
and take that ticket inside andget yourself a breakfast taco
for free.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh, they also have beverages.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, they do.
Yummy, yummy beverages.
Yum here, let me see.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
V8.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Ah good, ice, cold water it's a car show, so you've
got to drink V8.
V8.
V8 good ice, cold water.
Car show, so you got to drinkv8, v8, not v6 or a turbo.
You got it, you know, go right.
Well, it might be turboed,splash of turbo.
You ought to know it's turboed,you're drinking one too I know
I'm calling mine buick you dothat?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
um, there was some.
Oh, I wanted to give you someof the headlines that I've got,
but before I do that, I want toalso give you the recalls.
Okay, tesla recalling 2,431ugly Cybertruck electric pickups
in the US.
A loss of drive power couldincrease the risk of a crash.
(02:01):
Oh, martha, it's not going.
It would increase the risk of acrash.
Oh, martha, it's not going.
This is the sixth recall of thepolarizing truck in the US this
year.
A fault in the drive inverterin Cybertrucks manufactured
between November 6, 2023 andJuly 30 of this year could cause
(02:22):
the part to stop producingtorque when the driver uses the
accelerator pedal.
In other words, it ain't goingnowhere.
The part to stop producingtorque when the driver uses the
accelerator pedal.
In other words, it ain't goingnowhere, resulting in a loss of
propulsion and increasing therisk of a collision.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Poor Aunt Martha.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
GM recalling 461,839.1 diesel engine vehicles
due to a faulty transmissioncontrol valve.
The defect can lead to wear andtear, resulting in a gradual
loss of pressure and a temporarywheel lockup, increasing the
risk of a crash.
The recall affects thefollowing vehicles 20-22.
(02:59):
Chevy Silverado $1,500, $2,500,$3,500.
Gmc Sierra $1,500, $2,500,$3,500.
21.
Cadillac Escalade what Escalade?
Esv?
No.
Chevy Suburban Tahoe and GMCU-Korn and U-Korn XL models
equipped with the diesel engines.
More recalls Chevy Bolt, euvand EV 2022, 2020 to 2022.
(03:25):
High-voltage battery may catchfire.
No big deal.
Carb-a-cue Instrument clusterdisplay and function errors in
the Mazda CX-70 and CX-90 for 25and 24 to 25 models which I
just had recently.
Yep and I will review that nextweekend and you'll stay tuned
for some hate.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Can't wait.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Improper software can cause a loss of drive power in
the Mazda CX-70 and CX-90, 25,24 model years.
Engine may not restart afterthe auto engine stop on the
Mazda CX-90.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's the one that I had A loss of drive power in
the EV mode of the Mazda CX-70.
You got a Mazda, you're screwedCX-70 and CX-90 for 2024.
There's a problem there.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah Well, I mean, how can you continue to do that?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I don't know Volkswagen Beetle, beetle
convertible, and VolkswagenPassat 2006 through 2017 or, in
the Beatles version, through 19,.
Driver's side front airbaginflator may explode.
Oh no, if you haven't takencare of those things, you really
need to do that.
(04:39):
If you know somebody thathasn't sent their car back to
the dealership to get fixed,please encourage them to do that
and not drive it.
People get killed.
Ah, it's no big deal, I'll takecare of it.
Next month, martha will takecare of that for me.
No, you need to take care of ityourself why are you always
letting me drive?
(04:59):
consumer commended.
Consumer reports commended thenational highway traffic safety
administration, or nTSA, forholding Ford Motor Company
accountable for failing torecall vehicles with defective
rearview cameras in a timelymanner and for providing
incomplete and inaccurate recallinformation, in violation of
(05:21):
the National Traffic and MotorVehicle Safety Act.
The consent order issued byNHTSA includes both monetary and
non-monetary provisions aimedat improving foreign compliance
and federal safety requirements.
The civil penalty issued,totaling $165 million, is the
(05:42):
second largest civil penalty inNHTSA's history.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That sounds like a vendor deal.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Shame, shame, shame.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You need one vendor to do it all for everybody.
Shame on you.
Who sang that song?
I don't know.
Shame, shame, shame.
You need one vendor to do itall for everybody, shame on you.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Who sang that song?
I don't know.
Shame, shame, shame.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, it wasn't you.
Shame on you.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I was going to say Martha, but it's not.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Martha and the.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Vandellas, it's Big Martha.
No, I like Martha, big Marthaand the Vandellas.
It wasn't her, it wasn't her.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
You know what he did.
I don't know what he did withthis money for singing lessons.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I don't know either.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Who did that?
I don't know.
Are you ready?
No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You're just going to have to hold on, because I'm
going to find out who sang Shame, shame, shame, shame on you.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I think it was Hart.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Elliman.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
No, it wasn't Hart.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Elliman Not.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Ell, it's not in there.
Element.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Wait just a minute.
Who's saying shame, shame,shame?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Anybody out there knows that would be Shirley and
Company from 1975.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I knew that David said that.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
See, there's something worthless information
you didn't know today.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
David said that he didn't have his mic on.
We needed to know.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You should know this.
He's a fountain of thatworthless information.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah Well, you're the big music man.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You're the radio guy.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You're the radio guy, mr Radio Music man, what I
can't hear you.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
He's not that old.
He said you are that old?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
What year were you?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
born David 1985.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
You're a liar.
Yeah, I was going to say I gotkids older than you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You made that crap up .
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, he just tries to act.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Can we get another round?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
That's exactly what we need.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, Mr Morris, your turn.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Don just for you All right.
Just for you, this is MrPatrick Lindquist.
Okay, is that right?
Yes, sir, okay he has, and I'msurprised you haven't sniffed it
out yet.
The blue, light blue, 1971Delta 88 convertible with a
white interior in it oh man.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And I'm going to let him tell you about the rest of
this car that he's had before.
Well, why don't you ask himsome specific?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
questions.
Mr Morris, that would be a wayto go.
I'm still addressing you there,you go.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
No, you're trying to lay your job onto him.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
So you mentioned you've had this car for a little
while.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yes, 40 years 40 years.
My wife and I had our firstdate in that car.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Oh, wow, wow, Put this microphone a little bit
closer.
There you go.
Perfect, there you go, andthere you go, and he's got Hot
Rod Tour stickers all over it.
Hot Rod Tour, they've got anauto-release shirt.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You know, I thought you looked familiar.
I thought, oh, I've seen yousomewhere.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yeah, I've been three times.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So have you, yeah, yeah.
So have you made any changes tothe car?
Is it still all stock?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
It's pretty much stock.
It had a bench seat in it.
I took it out and put a set ofbuckets in a console.
But wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You just got through telling me that your wife's
first date with you was in thatcar.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yes, did it have the bench seat in it then?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yes, and you've taken that out and replaced it with
buckets.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Yes, Because you got tired of the of the wife and
didn't want to have her sit nextto you.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
No, not at all I just yeah, I wouldn't say that
wanted to change it, wanted I'vealways wanted it with bucket
seats in it really yeah, well,you know they quit putting
bucket seats in those cars inthe late, in the early, late 60s
so the car didn't come withbuckets and buckets weren't
available for the car, no, soyou robbed some car for those
(09:15):
buckets 62 old Starfires.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, there you go, Starfires and they fit Well,
yeah they do now.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
They do now yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
And the console had the Starfires in it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Did you have to modify the floor or anything?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
No, I just built brackets.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Hey gotcha, nice it looks really nice I can imagine
you're gonna have to go overthere and look at it, you'll
you'll appreciate it, uh how'sthat convertible top working?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
uh, it's got the scissor top in it and uh,
there's a guy here in town thatuh is that knows how to put them
in.
Yeah, but I I had it allcompletely rebuilt and uh, all
new bushings and everything, andso I I took the frame to him
(10:05):
and the top and he put it allback in the car that's cool
because I just I just had itrepainted and all the body work,
uh, and a funny story uh, wefound a new in the box, rear
quarter panel for it a new inthe box, new, old stock new, old
(10:26):
.
It cost me more to ship it thanit cost to buy it.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I guess there wasn't too big of a high demand for it.
Now, was that quarter panel onthe convertible different than
the sedan?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
It was, but it was the guy that did the work for me
.
He was able to make it work.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
He didn't take the whole quarter panel off, he just
cut out all the rust not a lotof rust, did a great job,
because I was looking down theside of it and I thought it was
all original sheet metal thisguy, so it did have rust.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Is it not an original houston car or?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
uh, I'm really.
It was uh originally sold inmidland texas.
Yeah, bird Oldsmobile Okay, andthat's where I'm from.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Okay, and it's got rust.
Well, I guess it's not toosurprising because you know rust
mitigation really didn't existback then and it depends on, you
know, the high humidity andthat sort of stuff.
Once it starts, the egg willstop.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's right Well.
I mean, you get like the snowand salt and it's the angle of
stop.
That's right Well.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I know, but you get like the snow and salt, and salt
is what.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Midland.
Odessa doesn't get a lot ofsnow, but they do get some snow
every now and then.
A little bit but snow is notthe factor, it's all the other
garbage they put in there, thesalts and all the the chemicals
the chemicals that they put downon the road.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
That's what does the rust.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
If you look at any 71 through 76 B-bodied cars, they
all rust around the back wheels.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, Does it have that chrome strip around the
wheel opening?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
A small one, it's kind of on the inside of it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Gotcha.
Yeah, it doesn't fold out tothe outside of it, but it's on
the inside.
Yeah, holds moisture inside.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Holds moisture.
Yeah, yep, yeah.
But it's interesting because,you know, when they designed
those cars back in the day, theydidn't think that way Because,
if you remember correctly and Iworked for a Chevrolet dealer in
1969, 69, 70, that they putwindow molding around.
It trapped all of the water,yep, all of the time.
(12:32):
If you washed it, set itoutside in the rain didn't make
any difference, it wasunderneath there.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
And that 66 Corvair that I had.
That was its major problem wasthat chrome trim around the
window that trapped the water inthere between the window and
the actual body itself and it'lleat it up.
Yeah and I guess you when youhad it repainted.
I guess you had it alleverything was fixed.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
It's all metal, no bondo that's good.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And then they invented z bart z bart, I
remember z bart does that stillexist.
Uh, it's in form.
It's called undercoating now.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, there's a different name.
I think that franchise is gonebut there's a different one.
Yeah, they probably bought themout.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's what they used to spray in there.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Take the moldings off , drill holes.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Yep and then plug it the guy that actually painted
the car, when he's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, it does that, and it also helps make it
quieter and heavier and heavier.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah yeah, because now they've got the mats.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
How about that motor that's in there?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
It's original 455 with 153,000 miles on it.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And it's never been apart.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
How cool is that.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I'll rephrase that.
It's had a timing chain andgear put in it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, that's for the course.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
I took it apart when I was redoing it and I put
chrome valve covers on it andyou could literally eat off the
inside of the engine.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
And this was maybe 6,000 miles ago.
Nice, it's really a nice car.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Well, that comes with having it for the last 40 years
and taking care of it.
Yeah, I mean, 150,000 miles in40 years is not a lot of miles.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So what did you pay for it back 40 years ago?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I think I paid about $3,000.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I was going to say that's a lot of money 40 years
ago.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I got that car.
We had a restaurant in midlandtexas and we had some friends
two ladies that owned that car,and they bought that car new to
throw a rule paper routeconvertible one of them would
sit in the back seat and theywould fill the newspapers up to
about here and then they wouldthrow sure, and that top stayed
(14:49):
down all the time.
Of course, if you ever been inwest texas, there's no humidity,
it never rains.
But they came in the restaurant.
I was always teasing them, say,you know, bring it up to me
sometime and let me wash it andwax it for you and I'll drive it
for the weekend.
Well, they came in one time andthey said if you get a minute,
come see me and see us.
And they I sat one time andthey said if you get a minute,
(15:09):
come see me and see us.
And I sat down with them andthey pushed the keys over to me
and I said does it need a washjob?
And they said no, we want youto have that car.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Wow, they gave it to you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
No, they didn't give it to me.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
They told me I could pay for it any way.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I wanted to, but they wanted me to have that car.
Obviously, it went to theperfect owner.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Yeah, it's been a great car.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And that's when you met your wife.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Not too long, a couple years after that.
Yeah, there's a couple morebetween there.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
A couple of wives no, just checking, but it's got the
A couple of wives no.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh no, just checking Ladies.
Okay, I got you.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
But it's got the polycast wheels on it that were
an upgrade for 71 and 72.
Delta 88s.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
They look kind of like a honeycomb, kind of like a
bigger honeycomb that were onthe Pontiacs Right.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Is it 8 lug or 5 lug, 5.
5 lug.
Yeah you on the Pontiacs Right.
Is it an 8-lug or 5-lug?
5.
5-lug.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, you think the.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Pontiacs had the 8-lugs, I think.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, it's great talking to you.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You got a name for that car, you call it anything?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
As a matter of fact, the two ladies that I bought the
car from, those are the onesthat fought over you Right.
All my friends that knew them,we all called them the ladies,
and so my wife named it the lady.
Ah, ah, so that's its name.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And I assume that it spends all these days in the
garage, unless you bring it toan event like this Exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, exactly so.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
You live in the area here Down in close to Sugar Land
Meadows.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Place.
Okay, yeah, yeah, down by us,yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
So he just spends all his time with the lady.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Yeah, yeah, we just took it on a.
We just did the Veterans Dayrun in Bastrop.
Yeah, a little over 300 mileson it, trouble-free miles.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
And you've been on the Hot Rod Tour of Texas, so
you're obviously driving.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh yeah, I drive it all the time Not as a daily Is
he going this year on the HotRod Tour?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I am.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, once again, I think that we're going to go,
Although have we been invited.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I can get you invited .
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, we've been invited, but we're waiting to
hear where it's going to be.
He keeps saying he's coming ourdirection this year.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Because we do a broadcast that doesn't make any
difference whether or not we'reinvited.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Well, no, I was just trying to make a segue into
telling more about the event.
They're not ready to come onthe air and announce it.
They're still working on plans.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Well, no, because it's too early.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I keep asking them Goodtimes, what do they tell?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
you.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
To keep me from bugging them.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah Well we'll just get it from Patrick.
Patrick, let us know what'sgoing on, there you go.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Patrick Lindquist.
Thank you very much for joiningus.
Thank you Appreciate it.
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(20:31):
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The In Real Time Car Talk Showwill be there too.
We'll see you then.
In Real Time continues our falltour Gulf Coast Auto Shield,
december 7th.
We hope you stop by the In RealTime Remote Broadcast booth the
booth.
Would you call this the booth?
Would you call it a booth?
(20:53):
It's a radio booth.
It's a radio booth.
It's a radio booth.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It's not like a photo booth.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It could be.
It could be a photo booth or aphone booth.
No, I was thinking more alongthe lines of go to the Fox for
your photos, remember Fox photo.
Go to the Fox.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Kathy used to be in one of those satellite places in
a parking lot.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
That's where she used to be Parking lot, usually at
the grocery store or somethingyeah, and then she went into a
home furrow, was it no?
Handy Dan Handy.
Dan, yeah, was it Handy DanHandy.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Dan, and then she went from there to Academy for
37 years, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Alright.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Nice, by the way.
Next weekend.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
we're back in the studio, will you?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
be glad I was taking off next week.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know, as long as we have nice weather like this,
remotes are great.
We could just set up in thedriveway.
But I will tell you, it takesus a full two hours to get
everything all set up.
It's a long time.
It's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, but it's worth it.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We just don't fold it up into a little case and just
do this.
Mars had to go out and buy atruck to haul all this stuff
around.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I thought she was coming to get us another round.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I know Could be, I guess not.
Okay, you want to do the racingcalendar Good, you want to do
auto history.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Well, mike said, do auto history.
I could plug it in, but itwouldn't be worth it.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
All right, well, let's do the race calendar.
Racing Racing, sponsored byTexas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Texas Muscle Car Challenge.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
NASCAR Muscle Car Club.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Challenge.
Thank you for that Muscle CarClub Challenge.
All right Thanks to Joey Loganobeing the champion of NASCAR
Penske livery.
So good for them.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
That's the yellow car , Yellow number 22.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Pennzoil.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Pennzoil.
Penske's won everything inevery event this past year, imsa
and all that.
Does that surprise you?
No, nhra In-N-Out Burger, nhraFinals in Pomona Well so Pomona
got rained out yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I think they got top fuel in.
Yeah, I think they got top fuelin for the first round of
qualifying.
Yeah, and we'll see how thatgoes.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Weather related and you know all that good stuff.
It might run into Monday, wedon't know.
And then the last one we haveis, of course, formula One.
They are in Las Vegas StreetCircuit.
It's the Heineken Las VegasGrand Prix, the Heine Heineken,
and I think their trophy is likea giant stein.
I don't know, I think you mightdrink out of it.
No, I'm just kidding, I madethat up, but it's going on right
(23:32):
now.
It's in las vegas, and Ithought maybe las vegas would
learn a lesson from last year,because it people were not happy
but they signed a multi-yearcontract.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That's their problem.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, I mean the people that live around there
and have to work and andeveryday stuff now they close
down all the streets yep, andyou can't get around and there's
, there's nastiness and allkinds of stuff beyond the normal
las vegas stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
So my wife watches all the shows and she came in
there one day and told me thatthey were on, whoever they were
talking to, good Morning America, whatever.
Whatever they were in Las Vegas, and Visit Las Vegas took them
around for a week, showing themall around about the race and
all the things that were goingto happen and all this other
stuff.
So they're really pushing thetourism to come to Las Vegasgas
(24:15):
to watch this race and they lost.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Actually they lost money you know that that as much
as I like automobile racing, Iwould not go to that.
The problem.
The problem is as a spectatorand it's actually that way at
the circuit of the americas it'sa road course.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You're only going to watch a couple of turns in a
straightaway somewhere, andthat's what I was telling her
that when we went to the COTAfor a couple of broadcasts, we
could be on that straightaway,but that's all we could see.
You couldn't see anything elseanywhere else, and the people in
the bleachers across from us,that's all they could see.
So it's not the Indy 500.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Oh, let's go to the Indy 500.
I've been to the Indy 500.
It's great Love going.
It's great to be there in thepresence of all of that.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The problem is the best that you can do two turns
and one straightaway.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yep, that's it.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
One of my girls went up to Texas Motorplex and
watched a NASCAR race and theygot down.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Low, wanted seats down.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
No, no, no, no and she got there and that's all
they could see was the blur theycouldn't see nothing right now,
as a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Uh, one of my first nascar races that I went to was
in talladega.
That's a two and two-thirdsmile course, so you can imagine
the back stretch is way overthere so I got the highest seat
I could get and I could seeeverything really you had to
have binoculars to see the carsgoing around.
(25:43):
They came by every 60 seconds orsomething, but still you gotta
sit.
You gotta sit a ways away tosee that the biggest mistake I
made one year is I went thereand sat in turn four.
Well, here they come all theway around in that 33-degree
banking at Talladega and they'rehauling buns Donkey.
(26:04):
At this particular time theywere doing over 200 miles an
hour.
Your eyes cannot see a cargoing by at 200 miles an hour.
It's a blur.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
That's what I've heard.
That's what I'm always heard.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Michigan International Speedway.
My brother-in-law, jerry, was aphotographer in the Navy and he
used to get media passes, likeyou all do, for different things
.
And this was back at MichiganInternational, where they had
the holes cut in the fence forthe cameraman to spin the camera
as he went by.
Now it's all electronic and allthe other stuff that you do, but
we were looking through one ofthese.
Gordon Johncock was doing 210miles an hour, coming at us and
(26:41):
just blew us back.
It was the most amazing thingyou've ever seen and I'll never
forget it.
We were in the camera well atthe time, watching it and taking
our pictures and it was justamazing.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
No, it's too fast for the human eye to keep up with.
When you're watching, you cansee it coming at you, but it
reaches a point where it turnsinto a blur as it goes past you.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Then you can see it going away, but in that split
second or two.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's like the Doppler effect, but it's in vision.
Mr Mars, I've been holding alittle feature that you have Is
that what you guys are callingit To this segment At his age.
Wait a minute.
Is it really the time that I'mlooking at here?
We ain't got time for this.
No, we don't.
Ain't.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
nobody got time for this, ain't got no time, but we
do have time to tell you tobring a toy unwrapped, get a
breakfast taco or you can donatecash Still got time.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Beautiful day, it's Toys for Tots and Houston
Children's Charity and they'retaking toys and they give you a
little ticket to go in there andget yourself a free breakfast
taco, get you a little ticket.
Yeah, so I've done some newsheadlines.
I got a couple I want to get inthis hour.
Business review website Yelprecently bought repair pal as it
(27:58):
explores expanding itsautomotive services offerings.
The purchase price for repairpal, which provides auto repair
locations and maintenanceestimates, was 80 million
dollars in cash.
The deal announced november 7th, expected to close by the end
of the year.
Advance Auto Parts said it willclose more than 500 stores by
(28:19):
the middle of next year and cutsome jobs under a restructuring
effort as demand for vehicleparts takes a hit from fewer
consumers opting to repair theirown cars.
The company posted athird-quarter net loss from
continuing operations of $25.3million, compared with a loss of
(28:40):
$74.1 million during the sameperiod last year.
They're in some deep doo-doothere.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Well, if you think about it, they're getting so
complicated you've got to have acomputer to even hook on to it.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You can only sell so many batteries.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, exactly Either that, or they want to be like
Nissan.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
If I were going to buy auto parts and I've tried
them all Advance Pep.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Boys O'Reilly.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
The one that is more professional and that I've
always bought parts from.
It used to be Hylo or Charlie'sis now O'Reilly.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And I go in there.
I can always usually find whatI need, and if they don't have
it, they'll have it tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, well, they used to turn brake drums.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
They had a little machine shop set up.
They used to do all kinds ofthings.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Before I bought my Buick, the guy down the street
used to work on my car for me,little incidental things and car
for me little incidental things, and he used to use Rock Auto.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
He used to do everything online, you know I
don't have a problem with RockAuto, except for the fact that
it's good, better, best withthem, and if you want to buy
just the good, you're going toget some Chinese stuff.
That doesn't necessarily work,but that's the way it's going.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
And usually whenever I'm working on something I mean
flow sensor the other day forone of the kids' cars I don't
want to wait two days to get it.
You know, I'm going to go downand find whoever's got it in
stock or can get it for metomorrow, and that's who.
I'm going to go Find somebodyto do it for you.
You're going down.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Downtown, brother, you're going downtown.
Julie Brown, hey, we'd love tohear from you.
Shoot us an email.
Timecom Time now for a quickbreak.
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That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel
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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
This is the world's favoriteplace to go for fun, intrigue
and informative car talk.
It's the In Wheel Time Car TalkShow Today, coming to you from
the Tailpipes and Tacos CruiseInn at the Loopy Tortilla
(00:22):
Tex-Mex Restaurant in Katy,texas.
We've got a full house heretoday.
We've got to be close to 100cars here.
It's really good.
We ran across anotherhitchhiker and he's waiting to
talk to us.
Jeff has the racing calendar,mars has this week in auto
history and I'll get you caughtup on the stories making
automotive news headlines, whichI haven't done any of.
Howdy, along with Mike Ott ofthis World Mars.
(00:44):
We always need more.
Jeff Zekin, chief Engineer,david Ainsley.
I'm Don Armstrong, glad youcould join us today.
Thank you very much.
This car show Cruise Inn isactually a donation site for
Toys for Tots and HoustonChildren's Charities, so bring
an unwrapped toy, give it tothem you'll get a little ticket
(01:06):
and take that ticket inside andget yourself a breakfast taco
for free.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh, they also have beverages.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, they do.
Yummy, yummy beverages.
Yum here, let me see.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
V8.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Ah good, ice, cold water it's a car show, so you've
got to drink V8.
V8.
V8 good ice, cold water.
Car show, so you got to drinkv8, v8, not v6 or a turbo.
You got it, you know, go right.
Well, it might be turboed,splash of turbo.
You ought to know it's turboed,you're drinking one too I know
I'm calling mine buick you dothat?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
um, there was some.
Oh, I wanted to give you someof the headlines that I've got,
but before I do that, I want toalso give you the recalls.
Okay, tesla recalling 2,431ugly Cybertruck electric pickups
in the US.
A loss of drive power couldincrease the risk of a crash.
(02:01):
Oh, martha, it's not going.
It would increase the risk of acrash.
Oh, martha, it's not going.
This is the sixth recall of thepolarizing truck in the US this
year.
A fault in the drive inverterin Cybertrucks manufactured
between November 6, 2023 andJuly 30 of this year could cause
(02:22):
the part to stop producingtorque when the driver uses the
accelerator pedal.
In other words, it ain't goingnowhere.
The part to stop producingtorque when the driver uses the
accelerator pedal.
In other words, it ain't goingnowhere, resulting in a loss of
propulsion and increasing therisk of a collision.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Poor Aunt Martha.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
GM recalling 461,839.1 diesel engine vehicles
due to a faulty transmissioncontrol valve.
The defect can lead to wear andtear, resulting in a gradual
loss of pressure and a temporarywheel lockup, increasing the
risk of a crash.
The recall affects thefollowing vehicles 20-22.
(02:59):
Chevy Silverado $1,500, $2,500,$3,500.
Gmc Sierra $1,500, $2,500,$3,500.
21.
Cadillac Escalade what Escalade?
Esv?
No.
Chevy Suburban Tahoe and GMCU-Korn and U-Korn XL models
equipped with the diesel engines.
More recalls Chevy Bolt, euvand EV 2022, 2020 to 2022.
(03:25):
High-voltage battery may catchfire.
No big deal.
Carb-a-cue Instrument clusterdisplay and function errors in
the Mazda CX-70 and CX-90 for 25and 24 to 25 models which I
just had recently.
Yep and I will review that nextweekend and you'll stay tuned
for some hate.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Can't wait.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Improper software can cause a loss of drive power in
the Mazda CX-70 and CX-90, 25,24 model years.
Engine may not restart afterthe auto engine stop on the
Mazda CX-90.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's the one that I had A loss of drive power in
the EV mode of the Mazda CX-70.
You got a Mazda, you're screwedCX-70 and CX-90 for 2024.
There's a problem there.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah Well, I mean, how can you continue to do that?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I don't know Volkswagen Beetle, beetle
convertible, and VolkswagenPassat 2006 through 2017 or, in
the Beatles version, through 19,.
Driver's side front airbaginflator may explode.
Oh no, if you haven't takencare of those things, you really
need to do that.
(04:39):
If you know somebody thathasn't sent their car back to
the dealership to get fixed,please encourage them to do that
and not drive it.
People get killed.
Ah, it's no big deal, I'll takecare of it.
Next month, martha will takecare of that for me.
No, you need to take care of ityourself why are you always
letting me drive?
(04:59):
consumer commended.
Consumer reports commended thenational highway traffic safety
administration, or nTSA, forholding Ford Motor Company
accountable for failing torecall vehicles with defective
rearview cameras in a timelymanner and for providing
incomplete and inaccurate recallinformation, in violation of
(05:21):
the National Traffic and MotorVehicle Safety Act.
The consent order issued byNHTSA includes both monetary and
non-monetary provisions aimedat improving foreign compliance
and federal safety requirements.
The civil penalty issued,totaling $165 million, is the
(05:42):
second largest civil penalty inNHTSA's history.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That sounds like a vendor deal.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Shame, shame, shame.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You need one vendor to do it all for everybody.
Shame on you.
Who sang that song?
I don't know.
Shame, shame, shame.
You need one vendor to do itall for everybody, shame on you.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Who sang that song?
I don't know.
Shame, shame, shame.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, it wasn't you.
Shame on you.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I was going to say Martha, but it's not.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Martha and the.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Vandellas, it's Big Martha.
No, I like Martha, big Marthaand the Vandellas.
It wasn't her, it wasn't her.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
You know what he did.
I don't know what he did withthis money for singing lessons.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I don't know either.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Who did that?
I don't know.
Are you ready?
No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You're just going to have to hold on, because I'm
going to find out who sang Shame, shame, shame, shame on you.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I think it was Hart.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Elliman.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
No, it wasn't Hart.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Elliman Not.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Ell, it's not in there.
Element.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Wait just a minute.
Who's saying shame, shame,shame?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Anybody out there knows that would be Shirley and
Company from 1975.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I knew that David said that.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
See, there's something worthless information
you didn't know today.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
David said that he didn't have his mic on.
We needed to know.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You should know this.
He's a fountain of thatworthless information.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah Well, you're the big music man.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You're the radio guy.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You're the radio guy, mr Radio Music man, what I
can't hear you.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
He's not that old.
He said you are that old?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
What year were you?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
born David 1985.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
You're a liar.
Yeah, I was going to say I gotkids older than you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You made that crap up .
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, he just tries to act.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Can we get another round?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
That's exactly what we need.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, Mr Morris, your turn.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Don just for you All right.
Just for you, this is MrPatrick Lindquist.
Okay, is that right?
Yes, sir, okay he has, and I'msurprised you haven't sniffed it
out yet.
The blue, light blue, 1971Delta 88 convertible with a
white interior in it oh man.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And I'm going to let him tell you about the rest of
this car that he's had before.
Well, why don't you ask himsome specific?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
questions.
Mr Morris, that would be a wayto go.
I'm still addressing you there,you go.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
No, you're trying to lay your job onto him.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
So you mentioned you've had this car for a little
while.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yes, 40 years 40 years.
My wife and I had our firstdate in that car.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Oh, wow, wow, Put this microphone a little bit
closer.
There you go.
Perfect, there you go, andthere you go, and he's got Hot
Rod Tour stickers all over it.
Hot Rod Tour, they've got anauto-release shirt.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You know, I thought you looked familiar.
I thought, oh, I've seen yousomewhere.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yeah, I've been three times.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So have you, yeah, yeah.
So have you made any changes tothe car?
Is it still all stock?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
It's pretty much stock.
It had a bench seat in it.
I took it out and put a set ofbuckets in a console.
But wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You just got through telling me that your wife's
first date with you was in thatcar.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yes, did it have the bench seat in it then?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yes, and you've taken that out and replaced it with
buckets.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Yes, Because you got tired of the of the wife and
didn't want to have her sit nextto you.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
No, not at all I just yeah, I wouldn't say that
wanted to change it, wanted I'vealways wanted it with bucket
seats in it really yeah, well,you know they quit putting
bucket seats in those cars inthe late, in the early, late 60s
so the car didn't come withbuckets and buckets weren't
available for the car, no, soyou robbed some car for those
(09:15):
buckets 62 old Starfires.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, there you go, Starfires and they fit Well,
yeah they do now.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
They do now yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
And the console had the Starfires in it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Did you have to modify the floor or anything?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
No, I just built brackets.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Hey gotcha, nice it looks really nice I can imagine
you're gonna have to go overthere and look at it, you'll
you'll appreciate it, uh how'sthat convertible top working?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
uh, it's got the scissor top in it and uh,
there's a guy here in town thatuh is that knows how to put them
in.
Yeah, but I I had it allcompletely rebuilt and uh, all
new bushings and everything, andso I I took the frame to him
(10:05):
and the top and he put it allback in the car that's cool
because I just I just had itrepainted and all the body work,
uh, and a funny story uh, wefound a new in the box, rear
quarter panel for it a new inthe box, new, old stock new, old
(10:26):
.
It cost me more to ship it thanit cost to buy it.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I guess there wasn't too big of a high demand for it.
Now, was that quarter panel onthe convertible different than
the sedan?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
It was, but it was the guy that did the work for me
.
He was able to make it work.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
He didn't take the whole quarter panel off, he just
cut out all the rust not a lotof rust, did a great job,
because I was looking down theside of it and I thought it was
all original sheet metal thisguy, so it did have rust.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Is it not an original houston car or?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
uh, I'm really.
It was uh originally sold inmidland texas.
Yeah, bird Oldsmobile Okay, andthat's where I'm from.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Okay, and it's got rust.
Well, I guess it's not toosurprising because you know rust
mitigation really didn't existback then and it depends on, you
know, the high humidity andthat sort of stuff.
Once it starts, the egg willstop.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's right Well.
I mean, you get like the snowand salt and it's the angle of
stop.
That's right Well.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I know, but you get like the snow and salt, and salt
is what.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Midland.
Odessa doesn't get a lot ofsnow, but they do get some snow
every now and then.
A little bit but snow is notthe factor, it's all the other
garbage they put in there, thesalts and all the the chemicals
the chemicals that they put downon the road.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
That's what does the rust.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
If you look at any 71 through 76 B-bodied cars, they
all rust around the back wheels.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, Does it have that chrome strip around the
wheel opening?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
A small one, it's kind of on the inside of it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Gotcha.
Yeah, it doesn't fold out tothe outside of it, but it's on
the inside.
Yeah, holds moisture inside.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Holds moisture.
Yeah, yep, yeah.
But it's interesting because,you know, when they designed
those cars back in the day, theydidn't think that way Because,
if you remember correctly and Iworked for a Chevrolet dealer in
1969, 69, 70, that they putwindow molding around.
It trapped all of the water,yep, all of the time.
(12:32):
If you washed it, set itoutside in the rain didn't make
any difference, it wasunderneath there.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
And that 66 Corvair that I had.
That was its major problem wasthat chrome trim around the
window that trapped the water inthere between the window and
the actual body itself and it'lleat it up.
Yeah and I guess you when youhad it repainted.
I guess you had it alleverything was fixed.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
It's all metal, no bondo that's good.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And then they invented z bart z bart, I
remember z bart does that stillexist.
Uh, it's in form.
It's called undercoating now.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, there's a different name.
I think that franchise is gonebut there's a different one.
Yeah, they probably bought themout.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's what they used to spray in there.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Take the moldings off , drill holes.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Yep and then plug it the guy that actually painted
the car, when he's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, it does that, and it also helps make it
quieter and heavier and heavier.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah yeah, because now they've got the mats.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
How about that motor that's in there?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
It's original 455 with 153,000 miles on it.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And it's never been apart.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
How cool is that.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I'll rephrase that.
It's had a timing chain andgear put in it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, that's for the course.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
I took it apart when I was redoing it and I put
chrome valve covers on it andyou could literally eat off the
inside of the engine.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
And this was maybe 6,000 miles ago.
Nice, it's really a nice car.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Well, that comes with having it for the last 40 years
and taking care of it.
Yeah, I mean, 150,000 miles in40 years is not a lot of miles.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So what did you pay for it back 40 years ago?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I think I paid about $3,000.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I was going to say that's a lot of money 40 years
ago.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I got that car.
We had a restaurant in midlandtexas and we had some friends
two ladies that owned that car,and they bought that car new to
throw a rule paper routeconvertible one of them would
sit in the back seat and theywould fill the newspapers up to
about here and then they wouldthrow sure, and that top stayed
(14:49):
down all the time.
Of course, if you ever been inwest texas, there's no humidity,
it never rains.
But they came in the restaurant.
I was always teasing them, say,you know, bring it up to me
sometime and let me wash it andwax it for you and I'll drive it
for the weekend.
Well, they came in one time andthey said if you get a minute,
come see me and see us.
And they I sat one time andthey said if you get a minute,
(15:09):
come see me and see us.
And I sat down with them andthey pushed the keys over to me
and I said does it need a washjob?
And they said no, we want youto have that car.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Wow, they gave it to you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
No, they didn't give it to me.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
They told me I could pay for it any way.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I wanted to, but they wanted me to have that car.
Obviously, it went to theperfect owner.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Yeah, it's been a great car.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And that's when you met your wife.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Not too long, a couple years after that.
Yeah, there's a couple morebetween there.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
A couple of wives no, just checking, but it's got the
A couple of wives no.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh no, just checking Ladies.
Okay, I got you.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
But it's got the polycast wheels on it that were
an upgrade for 71 and 72.
Delta 88s.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
They look kind of like a honeycomb, kind of like a
bigger honeycomb that were onthe Pontiacs Right.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Is it 8 lug or 5 lug, 5.
5 lug.
Yeah you on the Pontiacs Right.
Is it an 8-lug or 5-lug?
5.
5-lug.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, you think the.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Pontiacs had the 8-lugs, I think.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, it's great talking to you.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You got a name for that car, you call it anything?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
As a matter of fact, the two ladies that I bought the
car from, those are the onesthat fought over you Right.
All my friends that knew them,we all called them the ladies,
and so my wife named it the lady.
Ah, ah, so that's its name.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And I assume that it spends all these days in the
garage, unless you bring it toan event like this Exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, exactly so.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
You live in the area here Down in close to Sugar Land
Meadows.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Place.
Okay, yeah, yeah, down by us,yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
So he just spends all his time with the lady.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Yeah, yeah, we just took it on a.
We just did the Veterans Dayrun in Bastrop.
Yeah, a little over 300 mileson it, trouble-free miles.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
And you've been on the Hot Rod Tour of Texas, so
you're obviously driving.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh yeah, I drive it all the time Not as a daily Is
he going this year on the HotRod Tour?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I am.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, once again, I think that we're going to go,
Although have we been invited.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I can get you invited .
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, we've been invited, but we're waiting to
hear where it's going to be.
He keeps saying he's coming ourdirection this year.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Because we do a broadcast that doesn't make any
difference whether or not we'reinvited.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Well, no, I was just trying to make a segue into
telling more about the event.
They're not ready to come onthe air and announce it.
They're still working on plans.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Well, no, because it's too early.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I keep asking them Goodtimes, what do they tell?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
you.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
To keep me from bugging them.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah Well we'll just get it from Patrick.
Patrick, let us know what'sgoing on, there you go.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Patrick Lindquist.
Thank you very much for joiningus.
Thank you Appreciate it.
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Find yourself in Aggieland Headto the Loopy Tortilla in
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Is your car ready for thatall-important holiday road trip?
Gulf Coast Auto Shield ishaving another Car Social
(19:48):
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The Car Social is youropportunity to get a tour of
this state-of-the-art facilitylocated at 11275 South Sam
(20:09):
Houston Parkway, just south ofthe Southwest Freeway.
Join the Car Social SaturdayDecember 7th, 9 to noon.
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She'll want that good lookingride in her driveway, I promise.
Put it on your calendar theGulf Coast Auto Shield Holiday
Car Social and Road Trip.
Get ready, saturday, december7th, 9 to noon at 11275 South
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We'll see you then.
In Real Time continues our falltour Gulf Coast Auto Shield,
december 7th.
We hope you stop by the In RealTime Remote Broadcast booth the
booth.
Would you call this the booth?
Would you call it a booth?
(20:53):
It's a radio booth.
It's a radio booth.
It's a radio booth.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It's not like a photo booth.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It could be.
It could be a photo booth or aphone booth.
No, I was thinking more alongthe lines of go to the Fox for
your photos, remember Fox photo.
Go to the Fox.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Kathy used to be in one of those satellite places in
a parking lot.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
That's where she used to be Parking lot, usually at
the grocery store or somethingyeah, and then she went into a
home furrow, was it no?
Handy Dan Handy.
Dan, yeah, was it Handy DanHandy.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Dan, and then she went from there to Academy for
37 years, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Alright.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Nice, by the way.
Next weekend.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
we're back in the studio, will you?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
be glad I was taking off next week.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know, as long as we have nice weather like this,
remotes are great.
We could just set up in thedriveway.
But I will tell you, it takesus a full two hours to get
everything all set up.
It's a long time.
It's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, but it's worth it.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We just don't fold it up into a little case and just
do this.
Mars had to go out and buy atruck to haul all this stuff
around.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I thought she was coming to get us another round.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I know Could be, I guess not.
Okay, you want to do the racingcalendar Good, you want to do
auto history.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Well, mike said, do auto history.
I could plug it in, but itwouldn't be worth it.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
All right, well, let's do the race calendar.
Racing Racing, sponsored byTexas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Texas Muscle Car Challenge.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
NASCAR Muscle Car Club.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Challenge.
Thank you for that Muscle CarClub Challenge.
All right Thanks to Joey Loganobeing the champion of NASCAR
Penske livery.
So good for them.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
That's the yellow car , Yellow number 22.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Pennzoil.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Pennzoil.
Penske's won everything inevery event this past year, imsa
and all that.
Does that surprise you?
No, nhra In-N-Out Burger, nhraFinals in Pomona Well so Pomona
got rained out yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I think they got top fuel in.
Yeah, I think they got top fuelin for the first round of
qualifying.
Yeah, and we'll see how thatgoes.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Weather related and you know all that good stuff.
It might run into Monday, wedon't know.
And then the last one we haveis, of course, formula One.
They are in Las Vegas StreetCircuit.
It's the Heineken Las VegasGrand Prix, the Heine Heineken,
and I think their trophy is likea giant stein.
I don't know, I think you mightdrink out of it.
No, I'm just kidding, I madethat up, but it's going on right
(23:32):
now.
It's in las vegas, and Ithought maybe las vegas would
learn a lesson from last year,because it people were not happy
but they signed a multi-yearcontract.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That's their problem.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, I mean the people that live around there
and have to work and andeveryday stuff now they close
down all the streets yep, andyou can't get around and there's
, there's nastiness and allkinds of stuff beyond the normal
las vegas stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
So my wife watches all the shows and she came in
there one day and told me thatthey were on, whoever they were
talking to, good Morning America, whatever.
Whatever they were in Las Vegas, and Visit Las Vegas took them
around for a week, showing themall around about the race and
all the things that were goingto happen and all this other
stuff.
So they're really pushing thetourism to come to Las Vegasgas
(24:15):
to watch this race and they lost.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Actually they lost money you know that that as much
as I like automobile racing, Iwould not go to that.
The problem.
The problem is as a spectatorand it's actually that way at
the circuit of the americas it'sa road course.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You're only going to watch a couple of turns in a
straightaway somewhere, andthat's what I was telling her
that when we went to the COTAfor a couple of broadcasts, we
could be on that straightaway,but that's all we could see.
You couldn't see anything elseanywhere else, and the people in
the bleachers across from us,that's all they could see.
So it's not the Indy 500.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Oh, let's go to the Indy 500.
I've been to the Indy 500.
It's great Love going.
It's great to be there in thepresence of all of that.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The problem is the best that you can do two turns
and one straightaway.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yep, that's it.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
One of my girls went up to Texas Motorplex and
watched a NASCAR race and theygot down.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Low, wanted seats down.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
No, no, no, no and she got there and that's all
they could see was the blur theycouldn't see nothing right now,
as a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Uh, one of my first nascar races that I went to was
in talladega.
That's a two and two-thirdsmile course, so you can imagine
the back stretch is way overthere so I got the highest seat
I could get and I could seeeverything really you had to
have binoculars to see the carsgoing around.
(25:43):
They came by every 60 seconds orsomething, but still you gotta
sit.
You gotta sit a ways away tosee that the biggest mistake I
made one year is I went thereand sat in turn four.
Well, here they come all theway around in that 33-degree
banking at Talladega and they'rehauling buns Donkey.
(26:04):
At this particular time theywere doing over 200 miles an
hour.
Your eyes cannot see a cargoing by at 200 miles an hour.
It's a blur.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
That's what I've heard.
That's what I'm always heard.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Michigan International Speedway.
My brother-in-law, jerry, was aphotographer in the Navy and he
used to get media passes, likeyou all do, for different things
.
And this was back at MichiganInternational, where they had
the holes cut in the fence forthe cameraman to spin the camera
as he went by.
Now it's all electronic and allthe other stuff that you do, but
we were looking through one ofthese.
Gordon Johncock was doing 210miles an hour, coming at us and
(26:41):
just blew us back.
It was the most amazing thingyou've ever seen and I'll never
forget it.
We were in the camera well atthe time, watching it and taking
our pictures and it was justamazing.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
No, it's too fast for the human eye to keep up with.
When you're watching, you cansee it coming at you, but it
reaches a point where it turnsinto a blur as it goes past you.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Then you can see it going away, but in that split
second or two.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's like the Doppler effect, but it's in vision.
Mr Mars, I've been holding alittle feature that you have Is
that what you guys are callingit To this segment At his age.
Wait a minute.
Is it really the time that I'mlooking at here?
We ain't got time for this.
No, we don't.
Ain't.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
nobody got time for this, ain't got no time, but we
do have time to tell you tobring a toy unwrapped, get a
breakfast taco or you can donatecash Still got time.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Beautiful day, it's Toys for Tots and Houston
Children's Charity and they'retaking toys and they give you a
little ticket to go in there andget yourself a free breakfast
taco, get you a little ticket.
Yeah, so I've done some newsheadlines.
I got a couple I want to get inthis hour.
Business review website Yelprecently bought repair pal as it
(27:58):
explores expanding itsautomotive services offerings.
The purchase price for repairpal, which provides auto repair
locations and maintenanceestimates, was 80 million
dollars in cash.
The deal announced november 7th, expected to close by the end
of the year.
Advance Auto Parts said it willclose more than 500 stores by
(28:19):
the middle of next year and cutsome jobs under a restructuring
effort as demand for vehicleparts takes a hit from fewer
consumers opting to repair theirown cars.
The company posted athird-quarter net loss from
continuing operations of $25.3million, compared with a loss of
(28:40):
$74.1 million during the sameperiod last year.
They're in some deep doo-doothere.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Well, if you think about it, they're getting so
complicated you've got to have acomputer to even hook on to it.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You can only sell so many batteries.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, exactly Either that, or they want to be like
Nissan.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
If I were going to buy auto parts and I've tried
them all Advance Pep.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Boys O'Reilly.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
The one that is more professional and that I've
always bought parts from.
It used to be Hylo or Charlie'sis now O'Reilly.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And I go in there.
I can always usually find whatI need, and if they don't have
it, they'll have it tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, well, they used to turn brake drums.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
They had a little machine shop set up.
They used to do all kinds ofthings.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Before I bought my Buick, the guy down the street
used to work on my car for me,little incidental things and car
for me little incidental things, and he used to use Rock Auto.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
He used to do everything online, you know I
don't have a problem with RockAuto, except for the fact that
it's good, better, best withthem, and if you want to buy
just the good, you're going toget some Chinese stuff.
That doesn't necessarily work,but that's the way it's going.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
And usually whenever I'm working on something I mean
flow sensor the other day forone of the kids' cars I don't
want to wait two days to get it.
You know, I'm going to go downand find whoever's got it in
stock or can get it for metomorrow, and that's who.
I'm going to go Find somebodyto do it for you.
You're going down.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Downtown, brother, you're going downtown.
Julie Brown, hey, we'd love tohear from you.
Shoot us an email.
Timecom Time now for a quickbreak.
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That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel
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I'm Don Armstrong, inviting youto join us for our live show
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