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A Live Road Update From The Hot Rod Tour Of Texas · In Wheel Time Podcast

0:05
Don Armstrong: From the Dual City Studios in Texas, USA, it's the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
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Don Armstrong: Just ahead, Sabra Sparkman from the Hot Rod Tour of Texas, and they are on the road.
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Don Armstrong: They are rolling.
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Don Armstrong: Plus, Jeff's Motor Minute, and I'll review the new 2026 Chevy Blazer EV.
0:23
Don Armstrong: Just ahead on this edition of the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
0:26
Don Armstrong: How along with Mike out of this world, Mars.
0:29
Don Armstrong: There he is.
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Don Armstrong: We always need more Jeff Zeken.
0:33
Don Armstrong: Engineer David Ainsley, who's been on the phone with us for the past hour and a half, trying to make sure that this broadcast gets on, and probably is not.
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Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
0:43
Don Armstrong: Thanks for being with us this morning.
0:45
Don Armstrong: Mr.
0:45
Don Armstrong: Mars, why don't we just get right to it?
0:48
Don Armstrong: I know that uh the Spartans are uh on the air with her.
0:51
Don Armstrong: There's Sabra.
0:52
Don Armstrong: Good morning, you guys.
0:53
Don Armstrong: Uh Bobby's sitting next to her.
0:54
Don Armstrong: Bobby.
0:55
Don Armstrong: And uh want to make sure that uh you guys can hear us and we can hear you.
0:59
Don Armstrong: Where are you exactly right now?
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SPEAKER_04: Um we're pulling into Blanco, Texas right now.
1:05
SPEAKER_04: Uh just got off the devil's backbone, left from Gateway this morning.
1:10
Don Armstrong: Wonderful, wonderful.
1:11
Don Armstrong: Yeah, that's great.
1:12
Don Armstrong: Well, uh we're glad that there's there's cell phone service out there and we can hear and see you guys just fine.
1:18
Don Armstrong: Uh so what we wanted to do is kind of divide up our interview with you guys uh this morning.
1:24
Don Armstrong: And our first uh part of this is we're gonna talk to you guys about what happened on Thursday night because that's when you have the big uh symphony concert down there at uh City Hall and uh the county seat and all of that down at Town Square.
1:39
Don Armstrong: How did things go?
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SPEAKER_04: It was great.
1:41
SPEAKER_04: We had a huge turnout.
1:43
SPEAKER_04: In fact, I think this is the year that we handed out the most packets on the first night.
1:48
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
1:48
SPEAKER_04: I don't think we hardly had any left by the time we got done.
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SPEAKER_04: Um the symphony, they had a wonderful um performance as usual.
1:58
SPEAKER_04: They include all the local school districts, I mean schools for Victoria and their performances.
2:05
SPEAKER_04: And um everybody had a blast, as usual.
2:09
SPEAKER_04: We missed you guys.
2:10
Don Armstrong: Well, uh, you know, we wanted to do something a little bit different, and this is kind of different for you and us on the hot rod tour.
2:18
Don Armstrong: And I just heard uh I guess that was Bobby's uh uh cop car that we just heard.
2:23
SPEAKER_01: Acceleration, word hot pursuit.
2:26
Jeff Dziekan: Uh either that or he's being pulled over one or the other.
2:31
SPEAKER_01: So how we got a few pictures we're gonna scroll while you are while we're talking to you.
2:35
Don Armstrong: Okay, so uh let's uh let's let's talk about how many people are on the tour with you today.
2:42
Don Armstrong: About 263, 263.
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SPEAKER_04: We got about 263, 264 people this year.
2:47
unknown: Wow.
2:48
Don Armstrong: You would say people, you're talking about cars?
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SPEAKER_04: That's cars, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: That's just drivers and then six hundred and twenty-two.
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SPEAKER_04: About six hundred and twenty-two uh participants altogether.
2:59
Don Armstrong: Wow, wow, that that that that's that's really I can I can only imagine what the food line would be.
3:09
SPEAKER_04: I will tell you yesterday at the restaurant we went to everybody fed within probably an hour, everybody had a hot meal.
3:18
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
3:18
Don Armstrong: Yeah, wow, that's fantastic.
3:20
Don Armstrong: And where where was that?
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SPEAKER_04: That was at the powerhouse uh grill in Sagine.
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SPEAKER_04: It's right on the Guadalupe River.
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SPEAKER_04: It's the power plant.
3:29
Jeff Dziekan: I I need to interject something here.
3:31
Jeff Dziekan: I've been following y'all on Facebook, Bobby.
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Jeff Dziekan: You your folks are doing a great job posting these things and keeping us aware of it.
3:37
Jeff Dziekan: Uh you're you're there, but you're not there by following me on Facebook.
3:41
Jeff Dziekan: And some of the things I'm reminiscing of the places we went to last year and the year before, I'm thinking that's cool, I've been there.
3:47
Jeff Dziekan: But congratulations to y'all on your marketing and getting that out there because it's fantastic to follow y'all.
3:53
Jeff Dziekan: Really is.
3:57
Don Armstrong: And there's gonna be times when then we're not gonna be able to hear them.
4:00
Don Armstrong: Yeah, so we're just gonna have to kind of fill in the gaps.
4:03
Don Armstrong: Right.
4:04
Don Armstrong: There they are.
4:04
Don Armstrong: There they are.
4:10
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
4:11
SPEAKER_01: Uh on top of the hill.
4:14
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
4:14
Don Armstrong: Yes, we did.
4:15
Don Armstrong: Yeah, up above the cell phone tower.
4:18
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
4:20
Don Armstrong: So um, Bobby, I I have to ask, I heard that motor roar just a little bit ago.
4:25
Don Armstrong: I obviously you got your foot into it.
4:27
Don Armstrong: So are you driving the Edsel cop car?
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
4:30
SPEAKER_01: The 59 for uh Edsel Ranger.
4:35
Don Armstrong: If the 59, but it doesn't it, but it doesn't have an EDSL motor in it.
4:39
SPEAKER_01: No, it's everything underneath it other than the body is a 2000 town car.
4:44
SPEAKER_01: It's on airbag, vintage air conditioning.
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SPEAKER_01: So we're we're getting a nice cold AC.
4:51
Don Armstrong: Do you do you actually do any work on the car anymore?
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Don Armstrong: I mean, once you got the body changed over to the uh Lincoln, uh, I mean, I I've I've never heard you complain, or I mean the thing just keeps running forever.
5:11
SPEAKER_01: This this thing can really just all take it in, take it, take it in, baby them.
5:15
SPEAKER_01: Y'all y'all know that y'all been on the tour with us.
5:17
SPEAKER_01: We don't baby them.
5:19
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
5:20
Don Armstrong: Yes, I know.
5:21
Don Armstrong: Because I've even in the Corvette, I've had uh every once in a while a time to keep up and catch you guys.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_01: We really enjoy it.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, it it truly is.
5:32
Don Armstrong: So uh what are the highlights that you got going on today?
5:35
Don Armstrong: Now, this is day two of the tour, correct?
5:40
SPEAKER_04: We are headed to 40 darks garage in Spring Brand, the long way.
5:44
SPEAKER_04: We're going through Cisterdale and Candelia and a couple places, and we're gonna have lunch there, and then we're gonna go um head towards uh Fredericksburg.
5:56
SPEAKER_04: We're gonna take the Willis City loop and make our way to Archery uh resorts this afternoon to have dinner there.
6:04
SPEAKER_01: Wow, I will send you a sort of I'll send you guys some pictures of the the photo wap we have at the lunchtop.
6:11
SPEAKER_01: You guys are really good.
6:14
Don Armstrong: Well, thank you for rubbing it in.
6:16
Don Armstrong: But yes, uh yes, we already we already do, actually.
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Don Armstrong: Um so Thursday night was the big uh concert with the symphony orchestra down there in Victoria, and uh I assume that all of that took off just fine.
6:30
Don Armstrong: How was the uh Friday morning send-off from the baseball fields?
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SPEAKER_04: It was perfect.
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SPEAKER_04: We uh I believe we have some drone footage.
6:40
Jeff Dziekan: You do?
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SPEAKER_04: Everybody showed up and we went to uh we went by several schools.
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SPEAKER_04: If you hit our Facebook page, I posted pictures of all the kids um one of the schools in Victoria and we made sure they all had Texas flags and they were giving Texas flags.
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Jeff Dziekan: Oh no.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh oh just to finish up what she was saying, I did see that video.
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Jeff Dziekan: The kids are out there, the the whole school is emptied out on and they had a path.
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Jeff Dziekan: They were the the hot rods were just uh wonderful to go through there.
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Jeff Dziekan: A couple of them were revving their motors, the kids are all excited and getting uh getting all high fives and getting excited about that.
7:17
Jeff Dziekan: So they did a great job.
7:19
Don Armstrong: So uh I guess my question now is is it it's not the same path though up through the hill country that you guys have gone before?
7:26
Don Armstrong: All new routes.
7:27
SPEAKER_04: No, it's an all-new route.
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SPEAKER_04: We've never taken this route before.
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Don Armstrong: This more you went through some other little towns with all the kids uh out there in the playground uh waving as you guys go by.
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SPEAKER_04: Yes, yes.
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SPEAKER_04: That whole uh Yorktown we went through, all the the whole school district was out as we drove by.
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SPEAKER_01: And our more our morning drive this morning is about 225 miles, just a morning drive.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow.
7:54
Don Armstrong: And that's to that's to get to the lunch stop.
7:57
Don Armstrong: Yes, yeah, and what are you guys having for lunch today?
8:02
SPEAKER_01: We're having uh beef and chicken fajitas catered in by a caterer we brought in from San Antonio, Texas.
8:08
SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's great.
8:09
Don Armstrong: Look at you guys go.
8:10
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
8:11
Don Armstrong: Talk about stepping it up.
8:13
Don Armstrong: You know, uh, we were on the very first tour with you guys, and uh we connected, and uh, I remember that there was a bar that got overwhelmed on the first night on third on Thursday night.
8:24
Don Armstrong: Uh the poor folks over there, and they actually they did quite a uh quite a job getting everybody uh all fixed up and you got all the bags handed out.
8:33
Don Armstrong: And uh it was it was a fun time, but things have really progressed in the past few years.
8:38
SPEAKER_01: The garage crawl, too.
8:40
SPEAKER_01: Uh, this is our second year to do the garage crawl on Thursday before the kickoff party was fantastic.
8:46
SPEAKER_01: Uh all the shops, we had five different shops, uh, from drag racers to IMSA racers to uh basically my dino guy.
8:58
SPEAKER_01: So a big variety of stuff.
9:00
SPEAKER_01: They open our doors to the anybody can come, even if you weren't part of the tour.
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SPEAKER_01: The Thursday kickoff party, it's it's open to the public, it's completely free.
9:09
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to be part of the tour to be.
9:14
Don Armstrong: Yeah.
9:16
Don Armstrong: So obviously, you know, cell phone service up in the hill country is kind of sketchy, especially if you're on the move.
9:22
Don Armstrong: Um, I I hear them trying to get back in.
9:25
Don Armstrong: So there they are.
9:28
Don Armstrong: There they are.
9:28
Don Armstrong: Okay, so you guys are back.
9:29
Don Armstrong: Sorry about that.
9:30
Don Armstrong: No, no, it's okay.
9:31
Don Armstrong: No need to apologize.
9:33
Don Armstrong: Well, uh, I was just gonna say that uh with the advancement of the hot rod tour, it sounds like uh you guys have uh learned a few things from past events and improved on those, and you know how important it is uh to have some different venues along the way.
9:49
Don Armstrong: It sounds like a ton of fun.
9:51
Don Armstrong: Uh, you know, um I know that I thoroughly enjoyed it and I had no idea what to expect.
9:56
Don Armstrong: You know, the first hot rod tour.
9:58
Don Armstrong: I I can tell you that uh I got there to that uh that great outdoor patio bar that we all met up the first time and uh people aircraft.
10:09
Don Armstrong: Yep, and yeah, and and the uh the guys uh from the uh the diesel guys from Dallas, um smoke uh the smoky whatever it is.
10:20
SPEAKER_01: Black smoke garage guys with cartridge, Texas.
10:24
Don Armstrong: That's it.
10:24
Don Armstrong: We got a bunch of them with us.
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SPEAKER_01: Jonas Patrice did make it, but the rest of them are all we got a handful of them with the steel.
10:30
SPEAKER_04: So were you there the year that we had the 18 wheelers that followed us for a while too?
10:35
Don Armstrong: No, well, if I was there, but I don't know if I remember them following you guys, but how fun would that be?
10:41
Don Armstrong: I would have liked to have gotten into that uh that that follow-up.
10:45
SPEAKER_03: They went to the drag strip.
10:46
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, they went to the drag strip with us, and they went to the place in dripping springs that we did.
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SPEAKER_04: They they were with us for about half a day that day.
10:54
Don Armstrong: How fun.
10:55
Don Armstrong: How many 18 wheelers were there?
10:58
Jeff Dziekan: It was oh no.
11:02
Don Armstrong: Six of them or so.
11:04
Don Armstrong: Anyway, uh you know, these are some of the things that uh surprises that you get along uh with on the on on the hot rod tour.
11:11
Don Armstrong: It's it's uh it's it's a fun, fun event that uh that pretty much anybody is invited to go.
11:20
Don Armstrong: There's just a limited number of slots, right?
11:22
Don Armstrong: And I think it's 300 or so.
11:24
Don Armstrong: Right.
11:24
Don Armstrong: Am I right with the 300 slots?
11:27
SPEAKER_04: We did 350, but he was selling slots on Thursday night, people wanting passenger tickets, and he was selling them that night at the at the uh kickoff party.
11:37
Don Armstrong: Yeah, we know there's the other the other the other the other fun thing about it is the fact that you know everybody is welcome.
11:44
Don Armstrong: It's not something if you've got an 80 cutlass, yeah, it it doesn't make any difference.
11:50
Jeff Dziekan: Whatever it is that we took Kathy's uh Lexus or 2013 Lexus a couple years ago.
11:55
SPEAKER_01: Yes, Bob.
11:56
SPEAKER_01: We're branching out this year.
11:57
SPEAKER_01: When we leave the the lunch stop, we've got a helicopter following us all the way to Fredericksburg.
12:02
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna do a bunch of video footage for us by helicopter.
12:05
Don Armstrong: Well, I'm glad it's somebody else and not me.
12:09
Don Armstrong: No, I'm not on call this weekend, and I'm glad that I'm glad to report that.
12:12
Don Armstrong: So that's a good thing.
12:14
Don Armstrong: What kind of helicopter do you even know?
12:16
SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure what it is.
12:17
SPEAKER_01: It's a second one that he's picked it up.
12:19
SPEAKER_01: A real good friend of ours.
12:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
12:21
Don Armstrong: Well, he's crazy, I can tell you that.
12:26
Don Armstrong: Whoops.
12:27
Don Armstrong: We lost her.
12:27
Don Armstrong: We lost her.
12:28
Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, they came to bounce.
12:30
Don Armstrong: You talk about helicopters and things just go south.
12:33
Don Armstrong: Exactly.
12:36
Don Armstrong: I know that they're trying to get my talk to us.
12:38
Don Armstrong: There you go.
12:39
Don Armstrong: There we I think we got you all.
12:41
Don Armstrong: No.
12:43
Don Armstrong: But uh any at any rate, uh, that ought to be fun with the helicopter shot.
12:49
SPEAKER_01: Yes, and we've had a we've had a bunch of uh bunch of drone footage as well.
12:53
SPEAKER_01: So we'll have a lot of footage on the website on the Facebook page.
12:57
SPEAKER_01: So keep an eye on the Facebook page for live updates and real real time postings and lots of big things.
13:03
Don Armstrong: What is it?
13:03
Don Armstrong: What is it?
13:03
Don Armstrong: Is it hot rod touroftexas.com?
13:06
Don Armstrong: No, Facebook.
13:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the Facebook's just Facebook's real simple.
13:10
SPEAKER_01: Just search for Hot Rod Tour of Texas.
13:12
SPEAKER_04: But uh we're we try to keep stuff on our actual website too, but you're gonna find it on the Facebook page first.
13:21
Jeff Dziekan: Lots of saying earlier.
13:24
Jeff Dziekan: I was saying earlier that you can actually follow the tour without being there.
13:27
Jeff Dziekan: I was I was commending Bobby on all the posts that he had.
13:29
Jeff Dziekan: It was you were like you were there.
13:31
Jeff Dziekan: He didn't do anything.
13:31
Jeff Dziekan: He that that's Sabra did.
13:34
Jeff Dziekan: I'm driving.
13:36
SPEAKER_04: Yes, yes, it's me.
13:38
Jeff Dziekan: Well, you're fantastic because you can follow it.
13:40
Jeff Dziekan: You don't even have to be there, you're just you're there with spirit just by watching.
13:44
Jeff Dziekan: So, where is your is your partner back there behind you guys or what?
13:48
SPEAKER_04: Actually, he's in front of us.
13:50
Don Armstrong: Jeremy.
13:51
SPEAKER_04: Yes, the lead man.
13:53
SPEAKER_04: He's always in the front.
13:54
SPEAKER_04: We always see the rear end of his truck.
13:56
Don Armstrong: That's great.
13:58
Don Armstrong: Yeah, well, uh we're doing it.
14:00
SPEAKER_01: We're doing a navigation uh via uh radios for the rest of the group, so we kind of got a scattered out throughout the I think 12 miles long total.
14:12
Jeff Dziekan: So was there hasn't been a lot of attrition with any of the hot rods, has there?
14:17
Don Armstrong: We're we're 90 percent repeat repeat customers, so yeah, 90 percent of the of the of the group that normally goes.
14:26
Don Armstrong: Um it's a great bunch of people, and uh I I the one thing that comes to my mind is we were out in the middle of nowhere.
14:34
Don Armstrong: And here, you know, 300 cars all in a row, and we all decided no, somebody up front decided that they needed to take a leak.
14:42
Don Armstrong: Yeah, and they pulled they pulled in into a little one-woman shop, convenience store, and there was no no there was no gas.
14:52
Don Armstrong: It was just uh the fact that it was a one food items, yeah.
14:55
SPEAKER_04: And and the first year we did it, yeah.
15:01
Don Armstrong: I was overwhelmed, but I asked her, I said, is there something that I can do to help?
15:04
Don Armstrong: Yes.
15:04
Don Armstrong: Uh you want to take the money?
15:06
Don Armstrong: I said, No, no, I don't want to take the money, but I'll be more than happy to help you in any way that I can.
15:10
Don Armstrong: And that's the whole spirit of the hot rod tour, is uh everybody helps each other.
15:15
SPEAKER_01: She was more interested in going outside and looking at the cars than she was taking money.
15:20
Jeff Dziekan: So is she a usual stop now?
15:22
Jeff Dziekan: Is she on the she on the schedule for stops now?
15:25
SPEAKER_04: No, we haven't been that way.
15:26
SPEAKER_04: Maybe that'll be a uh thing we need to revisit.
15:30
Don Armstrong: And there was a guy that had a Corvette convertible, and it looked like it was gonna rain, and the top got stuck down, and everybody came to help.
15:38
Don Armstrong: And I guess that they finally got the thing to work.
15:40
Don Armstrong: That's a good thing when you got a bunch of uh you know shea tree mechanics all in a row out there.
15:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
15:46
Don Armstrong: Well, listen, it's great to talk to you.
15:49
SPEAKER_01: A lot of VA Corvette convertibles.
15:52
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
15:54
Don Armstrong: It's great to talk to you guys, and we thank you very much for taking the time out to talk to us.
15:59
Don Armstrong: And let's talk again in another hour, okay?
16:02
SPEAKER_03: Sounds changed.
16:04
Don Armstrong: Okay, y'all.
16:05
Don Armstrong: Good luck to you, and we'll talk to you then.
16:07
Don Armstrong: Very nice.
16:08
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SPEAKER_01: Fat fingers.
19:11
Don Armstrong: Yeah?
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Don Armstrong: Well, you need to kick those fingers away from all those buttons you got control of over there.
19:20
SPEAKER_01: I see.
19:21
Don Armstrong: Well, I think that you also still have uh Sabra and them uh through your computer over there, so I just wanted to bring that up.
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Jeff Dziekan: So here we go.
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Jeff Dziekan: The first one on the block is uh Kevin Harvick's$3.5 million European castle.
20:23
Jeff Dziekan: It's a 12,000 square foot Oak Ridge mansion.
20:26
Jeff Dziekan: It looks more like a your European fortress rather than a uh race car driver's pad.
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Jeff Dziekan: 2014 uh NASCAR champion.
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Jeff Dziekan: He listed the five-bedroom home featuring a garden for$3.5 million.
20:38
Jeff Dziekan: It's a fitting residence for a man with$121 national series wins, ranking him third all time in NASCAR history.
20:45
Jeff Dziekan: I like it, but I don't like the big hill there.
20:47
Jeff Dziekan: I would probably trip and roll down it.
20:49
Jeff Dziekan: The next one we have is Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s uh$3.7 million Pirate Paradise.
20:55
Jeff Dziekan: Uh Earnhardt, his love for history in the Key West, built his pirate home.
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Jeff Dziekan: 3,300 square foot nautical escape features rope-wrapped columns, ship wheels, and even a secret hatch.
21:07
Jeff Dziekan: Don't know where it goes.
21:08
Jeff Dziekan: 26 time cup winner listed a five-bedroom home for again for$3.7 million, showcasing a renovation hobby he once shared on the do uh on the DIY network.
21:18
Jeff Dziekan: So he was actually doing remodels to it and uh put it on TV.
21:23
Jeff Dziekan: The next person we have this is a retired driver, Kurt Bush's uh Trophy Room Palace.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh located in Mooresville, uh which is North Carolina.
21:31
Jeff Dziekan: Uh Kurt Bush's former uh 9,500 square foot estate was built to house a legacy.
21:37
Jeff Dziekan: The inaugural the inaugural Chase for the Cup Champion designed the office specifically for thirty-four trophies.
21:44
Jeff Dziekan: Uh boasting uh five and a half bathrooms, uh garage large enough for a custom nineteen sixty four Volkswagen Beetle.
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Jeff Dziekan: Home recently hit the market for nearly four million bucks.
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Jeff Dziekan: So there you go.
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Jeff Dziekan: If you got an extra four million, you can buy it.
21:58
Jeff Dziekan: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
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Jeff Dziekan: Equestrian estate.
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Jeff Dziekan: This home is a massive 9,986 square foot property, previously owned by NASCAR legend Ernie Irvin and Joe Nimachek.
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Jeff Dziekan: I don't think they owned it together separately.
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Jeff Dziekan: Valued at$16 million.
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Jeff Dziekan: The estate features an 18-stall horse barn, three-acre pond, and a putting green.
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Jeff Dziekan: The Daytona 500 residence often uh offers a spa and a cabana for the ultimate post-race relaxation.
22:26
Jeff Dziekan: Jeff Gordon, who knows him?
22:27
Jeff Dziekan: This is the Manhattan condo guy.
22:29
Don Armstrong: In your tiny little speedo.
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Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
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Jeff Dziekan: Four-time champion uh Jeff Gordon trademarked for uh the track for Central Park views with its$30 million residence.
22:38
Jeff Dziekan: Now bear in mind it's an apartment or condo, I should say, featuring Brazilian cherry floors and an Italian ceramic kitchen.
22:45
Don Armstrong: Brazilian.
22:46
Don Armstrong: I knew we would get that word in there sooner or later.
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Jeff Dziekan: 3,454 square feet uh home tripled in value since Gordon's 2007 purchase.
22:56
Jeff Dziekan: NASCAR Hall of Famer sold the electric unit just two months before finishing it.
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Jeff Dziekan: He provided speed translates to real estate, is what he's talking about.
23:07
Jeff Dziekan: So he real estate.
23:08
Jeff Dziekan: Real estate.
23:09
Jeff Dziekan: Not real estate, I guess.
23:12
Jeff Dziekan: Uh-huh.
23:12
Jeff Dziekan: An estate for the real.
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Jeff Dziekan: Tony Stewart's$30 million Indiana Lounge or Lodge.
23:16
Jeff Dziekan: This is pretty cool.
23:17
Jeff Dziekan: Uh known as Smoke, that's his moniker.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh owns this most expensive residence, a$30 million rustic large spanning over 19,000 square feet, 415 acres.
23:29
Jeff Dziekan: The home features an 8,700 gallon freshwater aquarium and an indoor trout stream.
23:34
Jeff Dziekan: Oh boy, get out of bed and drop a line.
23:37
Don Armstrong: Drop something.
23:38
Don Armstrong: Drop.
23:39
Don Armstrong: I was going to say trout, but I guess that'd be kind of trout.
23:42
Jeff Dziekan: Go trolling the night before.
23:43
Jeff Dziekan: Built in the Northern Rockies Lodge Pole Pine.
23:46
Jeff Dziekan: Extreme luxury.
23:49
Jeff Dziekan: The last one we have, this guy is known as the Kid, Mark Martin.
23:55
Jeff Dziekan: It's the million-dollar Chef Haven, known as the Kid.
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Jeff Dziekan: He said another square foot sanctuary on Lake Norman, the 40-time NASCAR champ winner.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh enjoy Professional Chef's Kitchen, a private pavement, a pavement dock for Lake Access.
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Jeff Dziekan: $2.55 million.
24:12
Jeff Dziekan: It remains a testament to his storied Roush racing career.
24:15
Jeff Dziekan: And of course, he made a lot of money with uh when Viagra was his sponsor.
24:22
Jeff Dziekan: Are you serious?
24:23
Jeff Dziekan: He was winning races by inches.
24:24
Jeff Dziekan: Oh my god.
24:25
Jeff Dziekan: And uh and I got it.
24:27
Don Armstrong: There was a joke in there.
24:28
Don Armstrong: I just now getting it.
24:29
Don Armstrong: Sorry.
24:30
Jeff Dziekan: But there you go.
24:30
Jeff Dziekan: So if you got a lot of money and you're a race car driver, and I know there's a lot of folks out there that are trying to be a uh uh that level, keep trying.
24:37
Jeff Dziekan: I mean you gotta start somewhere, and and there's a lot of folks out there that know what they're doing.
24:41
Don Armstrong: Time now for this hour's car review.
24:43
Don Armstrong: Had a chance to drive the 2026 Chevrolet Blazer EV.
24:48
Don Armstrong: Comes in these trim levels: the LT, the RS, and the SS.
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Don Armstrong: I had the SS.
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Don Armstrong: Now, this is considered by the government as a small SUV.
24:58
Don Armstrong: We would like to call it really a medium size.
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Don Armstrong: Uh ours was Habanero Orange.
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Don Armstrong: Seats 5 folks, including the driver, all new for 2024.
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Don Armstrong: Sharp and unique EV styling ranks high on our looking glass meter.
25:15
Don Armstrong: Unique gills behind the front wheel well.
25:18
Don Armstrong: Uh driver's side in particular opens for a charge port over there.
25:23
Don Armstrong: Good-looking 22-inch wheels, not ugly EV wheels, great-looking rear hatch area, Chevy unique.
25:31
Don Armstrong: And what I liked, the overall design kills it.
25:35
Don Armstrong: We could use improvement.
25:37
Don Armstrong: The power sunroof is a$1,500 option.
25:40
Don Armstrong: It's not for Houston sunshine in the summertime.
25:45
Don Armstrong: That my opinion.
25:50
Don Armstrong: There's no stop button.
25:52
Don Armstrong: You get it in, sit down, uh, put your foot on the brake, and it's it turns on.
26:00
Don Armstrong: Wow.
26:00
Don Armstrong: Uh-huh.
26:01
Don Armstrong: You want to get out?
26:02
Don Armstrong: All you gotta do is just put the car in park and get out, and it shuts off.
26:08
unknown: Wow.
26:08
Don Armstrong: There's no button.
26:09
Don Armstrong: Very different.
26:10
Don Armstrong: It's kind of unsettling at first.
26:12
Don Armstrong: Anyway, uh seating materials are cool.
26:15
Don Armstrong: Three round vents on the dash for AC.
26:19
Don Armstrong: Uh layered dual screens are awesome.
26:23
Don Armstrong: 17-inch center screen.
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Don Armstrong: Uh cargo room, adequate for a vehicle.
26:29
Don Armstrong: Its size.
26:29
Don Armstrong: What I liked, the overall interior design is awesome.
26:33
Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
26:35
Don Armstrong: There is no Apple CarPlay or Android Auto available on this vehicle.
26:42
Don Armstrong: It's a thing that General Motors is doing across the board that they're going to do away with all of that and bring it in-house with the OnStar built in.
26:50
Don Armstrong: And so they want your money that you would normally pay for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
26:57
Don Armstrong: They want to be in charge of everything on the no button.
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Don Armstrong: Engine, 120, uh, I'm sorry, 102 kilowatt per hour battery.
27:06
Don Armstrong: Uh, it's got dual motors on it, it's all wheel drive.
27:10
Don Armstrong: Uh, relative speaking, it's uh 615 horsepower, 600 650 pound feet of torque.
27:18
Don Armstrong: No transmission, it's a direct drive electric motor.
27:21
Don Armstrong: Uh range, it says 302 miles.
27:24
Don Armstrong: Well, um, I got uh 2.6 miles per kilowatt hour, which uh related to about a 443.5 miles.
27:33
Don Armstrong: Anyway, what I liked about it, um it's for a plug-in.
27:39
Don Armstrong: I mean, it's it's okay.
27:41
Don Armstrong: I plugged it in at home and I plugged it in at work.
27:44
Don Armstrong: And so if you want to call it free electricity, as you know, there's no nothing free anymore.
27:48
Don Armstrong: Riding handling, uh, it's smooth despite its heavy battery pack.
27:52
Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
27:54
Don Armstrong: Nothing, I suppose.
27:55
Don Armstrong: Here's the price.
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Don Armstrong: Uh base trim,$60,600.
27:59
Don Armstrong: Price assessed$63,985.
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Don Armstrong: The base model price, not the SS now, uh, is$44,700.
28:08
Don Armstrong: Competitors, Hyundai Ionic 5 starts at$35,000.
28:12
Don Armstrong: Cadillac Lyric,$59,200, which I think would be its twin sister on the Cadillac brand.
28:19
Don Armstrong: And then the Mustang Mach E starts at$37,795.
28:23
Don Armstrong: Next week I get to review the Kia K4.
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Jeff Dziekan: You I want to back up.
28:28
Jeff Dziekan: You talked about the no start button.
28:30
Jeff Dziekan: Do you think maybe there's a uh sensor in the seat, like the weight would maybe activate you the computer.
28:37
Don Armstrong: You have to have the key fob on you, and then you sit down in it.
28:41
Don Armstrong: So there's probably some kind of sensor, maybe?
28:43
Don Armstrong: Absolutely.
28:44
Don Armstrong: Okay.
28:44
Don Armstrong: Because uh I think all cars are that way.
28:46
Don Armstrong: You can't start it without somebody having their butt in the seat and the foot on the brake.
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Jeff Dziekan: You just can't lean in and because you gotta put your foot on the brake and all that.
28:53
unknown: Yeah, correct.
28:55
Don Armstrong: Like the good old days.
28:57
Jeff Dziekan: Hot water car with one hand.
28:59
Don Armstrong: There's none of that.
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