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The Soulful Journey of Corvette Heritage · In Wheel Time Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time Podcast, a 30 minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11am, central Podcasting and streaming around the globe.
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  Speaker 1: It's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Today coming to you from the 46th annual Corvette Chevy Expo at the Galveston Island Convention Center.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Today's show, brought to you by Meekum Auctions Houston at NRG Center, april 4th through the 6th Just ahead, more guests from this weekend's show.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Jeff has a feature on five futuristic cars from the 1950's, along with this weekend's cruise ins around the area.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Just ahead on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show, howdy along with Mike out of this World, mars.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: We always need more Jeff Seekin, and we drug along with us today.
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  Speaker 1: We drug along, mr David.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: Ainsley, our chief engineer and IT director and helper and good deed doer All of those good things.
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  Speaker 2: It's what a all around great guy All of that too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Dodd Armstrong, glad you could join us today from the convention center.
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  Speaker 1: Is the sun shining?
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  Speaker 2: You know we can kind of see out there but we can't see totally.
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  Speaker 2: We do know that it is daylight.
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  Speaker 2: We do know that we can see that much you do I don't.
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  Speaker 1: That's all the shenanigans that I pulled back in the 70's.
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  Speaker 2: Well, tomorrow is what?
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow is shenanigans, shenanigans.
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  Speaker 2: Think about it, think, think, think.
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  Speaker 1: It's a musical group somewhere, even my mother knows what tomorrow is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, patrick's Day.
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  Speaker 2: All right Well they must have said, I don't really celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but I don't really celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: And you polished your Blarney stone Because you have to remember the name.
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong is Scottish and from what I understand there's a lot of them that they didn't like one another.
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  Speaker 1: Is that like the Hatfields McCoy's Kind of not, not really, but kind of anyway?
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't make any difference about that.
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  Speaker 1: We have another in studio.
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  Speaker 1: Guest in studio meaning our remote studio, studio, and he's got some.
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  Speaker 2: he's got two vehicles.
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  Speaker 2: Well, who is?
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  Speaker 1: it.
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  Speaker 2: So we're talking with Dan Crisp.
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  Speaker 2: Ok, it's got a 99 C five here.
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  Speaker 2: And he has an 80 model C three here on exhibit.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, he's a two for.
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  Speaker 4: Got a two for.
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  Speaker 2: Inside or outside, in the in the lobby or in the in the.
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  Speaker 2: They're both inside, both inside here.
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  Speaker 1: Where is the C?
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  Speaker 4: five.
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  Speaker 4: They're both right over there in the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Do you?
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  Speaker 4: have a black cover over your battery.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, ding, ding, ding ding ding.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you?
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  Speaker 1: get that?
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  Speaker 1: Did you buy it or did you make it online?
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  Speaker 1: Online?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, you're going to give me all the information, absolutely so what?
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  Speaker 4: color is it?
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  Speaker 4: We got two over there, got to have a red 99 C five and a white 80 C three.
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  Speaker 4: Ok, so they're right next to you.
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  Speaker 1: You know who he sounds like Mars, he sounds like Tim Spell.
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  Speaker 1: You have.
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  Speaker 2: Tim Spell yes, he does.
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  Speaker 1: You have Tim Spell's voice.
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  Speaker 2: Is that good or bad?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's good.
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  Speaker 4: OK it's good he's a newspaper guy, so yeah, five warrants.
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  Speaker 1: He used to be the automotive editor for the Chronicle for decades, anyway, so it's a compliment.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it is Well.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to talk about the C five, the C three, I'm sorry the.
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  Speaker 1: C three.
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  Speaker 1: Anything you'd like to talk about?
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  Speaker 4: The C three has been the family since it was new.
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  Speaker 4: My mother bought it in Florida in 1980.
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  Speaker 4: And it turned out not to be an old lady car, so she kept it for a couple of years and gave it to my brother and he lived here and used it as a daily driver for about two years, decided to move to Kentucky and he moved what we call in Kentucky up a holler, if you know what that is A holler A holler, yes, yes A holler A valley type.
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  Speaker 4: It was hard to get in and out, so he didn't drive it much and he sat in his garage a lot and then about 12 years he had cancer and he didn't drive it at all for 12 years.
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  Speaker 4: He sat in the garage for 12 years and when he passed I went and got it and had to fight my sister-in-law over it.
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  Speaker 4: She didn't want to give it up.
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  Speaker 4: But then that was right before COVID so I worked from home so I was able to go out in the garage and do a lot of work during COVID for about seven months.
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  Speaker 3: Working from home.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: So it has a lot of sentimental value to me.
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  Speaker 4: Every time I drive it I think my mother sitting there driving at my brother.
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  Speaker 1: Mother or your brother.
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  Speaker 4: They both passed away, and so it's a lot of you got a connection.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, yes, how wonderful is that.
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  Speaker 1: Though it's great so did that car fuel your passion for your Corvette.
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  Speaker 4: Stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I had two Corvettes before.
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  Speaker 4: In 1982, I bought an 80 and had that, and then when the 84s came out, I bought an 84.
• 4:39
  Speaker 4: You're a sucker for punishment, aren't you?
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  Speaker 1: You like that light wallet feeling, I could tell.
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  Speaker 4: Well, unfortunately, when I got married I had to sell the 80.
• 4:49
  Speaker 4: So I was down to one, had a baby, had to sell the 84.
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  Speaker 4: So I didn't have one until about four years ago.
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  Speaker 4: So I went through a long time without a Corvette.
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  Speaker 4: How old is that baby?
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  Speaker 4: She's 37 now.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I can relate to that most definitely.
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  Speaker 4: But I love that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with the Space City Corvette Club also and we do a lot of good things in the area.
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  Speaker 4: But I was offered once Don't know if the guy was serious, but at a show a guy came by I had a lot of gold chains, heavy gold chains, and he said I'll give you $30,000 for it.
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  Speaker 4: And I said no, I've been the family.
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  Speaker 4: He says I'll give you $40,000.
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  Speaker 4: I said no.
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  Speaker 4: Got a big family he says one last time I'll give you $50,000 for it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm the verge, but I said no, it's been the family, I can't do that.
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  Speaker 4: So it's to me.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those priceless things to me I wouldn't take Is that the one that's over there that has the cloth interior?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's leather interior.
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: It's a leather interior.
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  Speaker 1: There's one over there in that corner that has a cloth interior.
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  Speaker 1: That's all it stood out to me, Because you rarely see a Corvette with a cloth interior.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I ever have no it's white exterior, red interior.
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  Speaker 4: Got you All original, except for some of the peripherals I've put on.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you a little bit about the 99.
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  Speaker 4: When we joined the Space City Corvette Club they do a lot of little fun runs and we line up 30, 35 Corvettes and we're going down the freeway.
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  Speaker 4: My wife said why don't you sell the white one?
• 6:19
  Speaker 4: Because it's just a show car.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you sell the white one and get one week and have some fun with it?
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  Speaker 4: Driver?
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all I heard was why don't you get one week and have some fun?
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I like the way you think.
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  Speaker 2: We know your type.
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  Speaker 4: So we got the red one and we take it out.
• 6:36
  Speaker 4: I'll show it to you, but we take it out on weekends and have some fun with it, so she's happy with that.
• 6:42
  Speaker 4: She says it's hers.
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: I let her think that that's OK.
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: I let her think that you know she's watching right now.
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  Speaker 2: I know she's probably over here.
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: She's watching the show right now.
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: You scared me there for a second.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: Well, she could be.
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  Speaker 4: She's around here somewhere.
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: OK, because you know what she's going to be in here next.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: We're on this, ok.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can edit that part right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd be Mars.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Next week we can edit that part, but the live yeah, what's her name?
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  Speaker 4: First name is Dan.
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  Speaker 4: No, her name.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, her name is Mary Mary Mary.
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  Speaker 2: Mary Crisp when are you?
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: So are you?
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  Speaker 1: So you're showing here.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, what made you decide?
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  Speaker 4: to show here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, when I got the white one and put a lot of work into it, my brother-in-law used to show his Corvette back in the 80s and he said why don't you start showing it?
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  Speaker 4: So I went to a show and actually won first place with it, and you got the bug bitch and the bug bit me.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that, yep.
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  Speaker 4: Another interesting thing.
• 7:42
  Speaker 4: If you want to, if you have the time is during the year.
• 7:44
  Speaker 4: I do Santa Claus, I grow the beard and I've got the costume and I do Santa Claus.
• 7:48
  Speaker 4: So I take the white one out, sometimes in full costume, and I drive through Pearland to drive through Alva.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, fun.
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  Speaker 4: And it's people are just waving and taking pictures and it's just, it's really a hoot doing that.
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: This is.
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  Speaker 4: Santa Claus.
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  Speaker 1: Right here, I start to be here in about July.
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  Speaker 4: So after that and then this year I took the red one out and did Santa Claus and the red one and did the ho, ho, ho and Merry Christmas and all this stuff, and people just eat that stuff up.
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  Speaker 2: Does your wife dress up as Mrs Claus?
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  Speaker 4: and go with you.
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  Speaker 4: She did one time and I can't convince her to do it again.
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  Speaker 4: Why, don't know?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I guess because she thinks Mrs Claus is kind of old and she doesn't want to be seen as being that old or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: She's not old, but beautiful lady.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm going to talk her into it.
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  Speaker 2: OK.
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  Speaker 4: If you need some help, let us know.
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're good arm cameras.
• 8:40
  Speaker 4: I can show you some pictures, but we're good.
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: We're good right now.
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  Speaker 1: So how long have you been with the Space City Corvette Club?
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  Speaker 1: About a year and a half.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's all.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you know they've got a lot of new members down there, don't they?
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: We pick up a lot of new members here, yeah, really, yes, well, I could understand that.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is the area for Space City Cruisers, nasa area, that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually a Space City Corvette Club.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, space.
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: City Corvette.
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got schooled on that a minute ago.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: Cruisers are different.
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  Speaker 2: See, I would have never said that.
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: No, you wouldn't have.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't have said anything would you Probably not.
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: Sorry, my my bad as it's all right, space City Corvette yes, ok, is this your first club?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, first club ever been in?
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, all these years you've owned Corvettes and you're just now into a club.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why did it?
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  Speaker 4: take you so long?
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: I can't say.
• 9:40
  Speaker 4: I just ran into AJ at a show.
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: I wasn't a member.
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: I ran into AJ at a show and he said why don't you join the club?
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: And it took me about another six months after that but I ran into him again at another show and he finally convinced me to join.
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: I'm not much of a joiner, you know so, but it's a worthwhile organization.
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: We don't need a lot of money to equity search and and it, you know, feels good to help the community.
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: So you live in the area.
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  Speaker 2: Did you drive them both or your trailer?
• 10:07
  Speaker 4: I drove one and my son in law volunteered to drive the other.
• 10:10
  Speaker 4: Ok, can't imagine that she has to drive a Corvette I called him about a month ago and said I need somebody to drive the Corvette to me and he said yeah, I'll do it.
• 10:18
  Speaker 4: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 4: So I followed him.
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  Speaker 4: He's driving down the road and he's got his hand up and he's he's looking around like a cool.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Did it rain yesterday?
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: No, did you move in?
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: yesterday.
• 10:29
  Speaker 4: I came in Thursday, thursday.
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: So it was open for you to come in Thursday.
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: Right, then it's coming Thursday morning.
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: That's nice we have 34 cars, almost a third of the cars here.
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  Speaker 4: So they give us a little.
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: You know a little.
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: Little leeway, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: Well, we know about move-ins, don't we Mars?
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have been attending AutoRama with the show for quite some time.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Autorama, auto show.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, houston Auto Show, but at any rate, well, it's great to talk to you and we shall meet again, ok.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that Because because AJ is is twisting our arm to come to the spring event.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: He's great, he's, he's, he's a spokesperson.
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a good guy.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: And then, oh, we got to make the fall show.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: But I have you guys down to the fall show, ok.
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  Speaker 4: OK, well, thank you, thank you, yeah, yeah.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: Well to run it.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see each other.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll be over there.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Thanks, I need to get that information on that battery cover?
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, ok, you got it for you.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: OK, thank you, and if you go over, there and yours is missing.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, ok, you know, you know where to look, yeah, All right, thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks with the Space City Corvette Club God.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff has some sort of thing about these fifties five futuristic cars of the fifties.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah Going back to the future.
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  Speaker 1: Hit me up.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Life in the fifties was all about embracing the future, or at least preparing for it.
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  Speaker 2: Equal parts of excitement and terror, Michael.
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  Speaker 2: All of that came through the decades of wildly futuristic concept cars, and there's just a few of them that I picked out.
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  Speaker 2: This first one is called a Lincoln for Chura Futura.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: It is predicted that the Futura of the American automobile Get it Futura future, but not exactly.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Over the decade after it made its debut, the legendary Hollywood car builder Chuck Barris transformed this exact car into something called a Batmobile for the sixties TV show based on the comic book.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know that yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it's called a GM Firebird to.
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  Speaker 2: It's the second of four turbine powered concept cars nicknamed Firebirds.
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  Speaker 2: Firebird two was designed as a four seat family car complete with a semi self driving characteristics.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, with AI along a stretch of road, with wires embedded in the pavement.
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  Speaker 2: It could theoretically Michael that would be periodically follow the preordained roots and then, coming up next to say preordained, preordained roots.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a weird way of saying that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they used them in the convent, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The Ford X 2000 designer, alex Tramilius, counts among you sure that's the way to pronounce his name Tramilius Tramilius.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: There's many creations as, like the Tucker 48, as well as the flying saucer, it really drew the flying saucer alien thing of World War Two and the government.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, scary.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Styling's tended to be straddled, a fine line between genius and insane.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: But it's better than the X.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: This is the best X 2000 that you will see from Ford.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: The next one we have my favorite Damn.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Look at the Dagmars on that.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about that.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Another one of Harley Earl's projects the Cyclone to you know he obviously was very much into the.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Dagmars, I think he was.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: He was a leg man.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: No, he was so far more literal.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Literally, most of the concepts comes from those aren't Dagmars.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: By the way, it resembles the nose cone of a fighter jet oh sure.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's what you say.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Actually hide small radar.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: It's because they're not chrome.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: That's the difference, I'm not buying into that baby Small radar.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: That's a black brazier right there, if I ever saw one Sort of a primitive primitive crash detection design Crash detection.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to use that.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: That's what those are, I'm going to use that forever Okay, crash detectors.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: The next one and the final one, thank goodness, is the Ford Nucleon.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: The.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Nucleon.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Everybody in the future will be driving a nuclear powered car.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: So they say, or maybe not, the Nucleon was one of the most, one of the more exercised of anything else, serious intent of the design.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: They wrote it, I didn't.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Ford's idea was to show the Nucleon, was to show the nuclear reactors with very small, small enough to produce power in the back of that and they took the Dagmars off.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: They took the Dagmars off.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: So there you go, those are your five concepts.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I watched.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I watched yesterday a deal that Jay Leno did on the Corvair truck.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: And it was the.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Corvair 95 and it was the truck that had the the side gate on it, yep, and I guess that it was the one that was needed to do this.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: You know, it was the same Corvette motor and everything else, our Corvair motor that was in there, and that's what that thing reminded me of.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Well, we see those at Alderama, the, the Corvair club has those.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, pick up style they're kind of groovy, really Groovy.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: You think that I like it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I like it, I like the unusual, you know and the funny thing about that is is that that is a forward driven machine.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: So in order to give it more space in the back to be a truck right, they put the cab of it in front of the front axle Right.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: So you're hanging out there Almost like a cab over, yeah, yeah.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Well, it's not a cab because the engine's in the back.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: It's further out.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, and he showed basically the where he sat was right over the wheel.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: You know that, one of those that Jeff was showing that maybe it was that last thing the front wheels were behind the cab, completely Exactly.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: So I'm saying Yep.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hanging out there.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Huh, it's hanging.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so talk about crash protection.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: You're it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I am going to do some news stories because I have some good news stories here today.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: You said you have some coming up and I haven't had a chance to get to them.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Ford Motor Company is going to pay six five dollars to resolve US allegations it violated a federal tariff law by misclassifying and understating the value of hundreds of thousands of its transit connect vehicles.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Remember those little bitty ones?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they stopped making them just recently.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Justice Department said the settlement resolves allegations that Ford devised a scheme to avoid higher duties by misclassifying cargo vans in March 2013.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I did not know that those things were made in Turkey.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: The government said the settlement is one of the largest customs penalty settlements in recent history.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Way to go, ford.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: This story from automotive news.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: 13 out of 14 driver assist systems received a marginal or poor score in a new insurance institute for Highway Safety Rating System for driver safety, the driver focused.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: The ratings, which test systems for driver monitoring, involvement and encouragement of safety feature usage, were released Tuesday.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: The Lexus teammate with advanced drive was the only system to receive a rating of acceptable tested systems from General Motors Nissan, ford, bmw, genesis, mercedes Benz, tesla, volvo and the second system, no-transcript or marginal.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Wow, so a driver beware, yeah, no, it's not because people spend a lot of money.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, look at, my car drives itself.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: No, don't do that.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I noticed General Motors doesn't have that commercial where they're clapping down the road in the car anymore, because of issues as well.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness, yeah.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Franchised auto dealers polled by Cox Automotive in the first quarter perceived no improvement in their markets, but no worsening conditions either.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: However, those polled continued to show the sourest sentiment since the heart of the COVID pandemic 19 pandemic in the US as growing inventory shrank, profits and interest rates and other economic factors weighed on customers.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: 650 dealers were surveyed by Kerrigan advisors to gauge their sentiment on the future value of their business growth plans, earnings expectations, as well as perceptions on franchise values and their trust levels in the manufacturers.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Wow, the market feels very tight right now.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: According to Kia dealer in the Midwest, consumers are unsure about buying.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Everyone has the same inventory and there's much more hesitation to buy than what we've seen throughout COVID.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: The survey polled dealers from January 30th to February 13th and received responses from 546 franchise dealers and 472 independence.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: So the car dealers themselves are going.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: It ain't working for us.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Nope, hope it's working for you and they're in to make money.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: And if they're not making money, why do it?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Well, there's that and there have been some large groups that have sold recently, not here in Texas but around the country, a couple of them you know six vehicle, six manufactured type vehicles, different dealerships within the groups, and so I think people are going.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: You know we're getting out.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I look at it like the electric vehicle thing.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Remember, I believe that it was, was it Cadillac and Ford both said you're going to have to upgrade your dealership to accept and service electric vehicles and spend all of this money in your service department or you're out.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no more, you can't sell you can't sell EVs and you're being downgraded and blah, blah, blah.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: You can pull your franchise, franchise I don't know.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: But and then a lot of dealers said, okay, well, here, we'll take your buyout and they're out.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, close the door lock the door, stick out the inventory.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't sell them if you don't have a place to do that.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: And the other interesting thing that Mars and I are currently dealing with is, apparently there is a shortage of vehicles at one of our press vehicle suppliers.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, and neither he nor I can get press vehicles from them.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Wow, and why is that?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Well, this particular supplier handles General Motors and Stellantis vehicles, among others.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, in the past they used to have the most press vehicles in the GM fleet and the Stellantis fleet.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Well, apparently they've all pulled back on the press fleets.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Well, look at it nationally.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: All the auto shows that they've pulled out of Correct.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know not having the Cadillac display at Houston Auto.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Show or.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Stellantis pulling out with the RAM and the Jeep displays.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because that was a big square foot, they had a big footprint for both of those inside driving events.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they waited till the very last second to pull out.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Yep, that was.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: That's a shame, let's see.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: All right Time now for a quick break.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Let's see when are we here Break.
• 26:57
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• 27:08
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• 27:13
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• 27:21
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• 27:26
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• 29:16
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