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Classic Cars, Boats, and Community Passion – A look at the Keels & Wheels Concours D'Elegance · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:01
  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.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Central Shieldcom Streaming and podcasting worldwide.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: It's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Just ahead we talk about some of the events on the In Wheel Time Remote Broadcast schedule, along with, hopefully, gary Garnett, director of Keeals and Wheels, the car and in the water boat show, sometimes known as Concorde de Allegance.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: That's cool.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: That's coming up in May.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: Is he ready, mike?
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well, you'll let me know what he is At any rate.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: So we're going to talk to him about the Keeals and Wheels and we're hoping to do that here momentarily.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: I did want to mention that we next week are going to be from the Hemi Hideout.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's an open house, but I think it's mainly a Corvette event.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Corvette Club I don't know.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: Here's what I'm hoping.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: Big Corvette Club.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: Big Corvette Clubs Multiple.
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: Clubs it could be.
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: They said they were looking for 150 plus Corvettes, so maybe it is multiple clubs, I don't know.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: I have no clue, but I'll tell you this that I'm going to try.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to have your baby rolling Uh-huh and take it out there.
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: We talked about that last night Just to say that you know.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: You're part of the organization.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, corvette, yeah, but I'm not part of a Corvette Club.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like I was talking to you about.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: I would love to get on a bowling league, but because of my hours it doesn't work out for me my actual job hours Because I don't get off, and when I work the afternoon shift I don't get off till 7 pm.
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: I'd love to join a bowling league, but I don't bowl very well, so there you go, but they've got people that don't bowl very well in leagues.
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: They do it for fun, yeah, and beer drinking.
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: Well, but you know what I mean.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: It's much more popular up in the Northern states, right Right, and it's become a religion up there for some.
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: That's how I met Kathy Bowling.
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: No, my parents bowled with.
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: She used to babysit for my cousin and my cousin and my parents would bowl on a league on Sunday evening, sunday afternoons.
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: And there was one time they came over to the house after bowling and they said we need you to watch and meet this girl, whatever.
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: And we met.
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so it's the babysitter the babysitter.
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my God.
• 2:47
  Speaker 3: She was babysitting me.
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: She was movie adventures with babysitters or something.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: You know I'm not familiar with that and I had a cool car.
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: I had a cool car.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: She liked the car more than me.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: That was not a good car she still likes a car more than me, yeah.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: That would be the Nova yeah.
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and my mother used to bowl every Wednesday morning with her ladies league.
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a true fact that you know.
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: It is a it's almost a cult.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: Well, because you know it's cold outside, snow up to your yin yang, whatever that is, and nothing else to do except go inside a nice, warm bowling alley.
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: Get a bowling alley hot dog and coke.
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: And a hot and a pitcher of beer and you're ready to go Golden, it is golden, all right.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: Speaking of golden, this is guy that I met I guess I was trying to think exactly when it was, and I think it was in the 80s, and I did some work for him.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: I didn't know him in particular, but I knew some of his producers and it was a company that did travel videos and I did the voiceover zone back when you did that sort of thing for the internet stuff.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: And anyway, I did a lot of work there and the owner's name was Gary Garnett.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: Well, decades went by and he sold the business and blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: Time went by and so all of a sudden, I don't remember where it was, but I was at some place and there is Gary Garnett.
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going wait.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: Travel view.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don, you worked for me going.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, I did Guess what.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: He's back and it's a different kind of take, gary Garnett.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, sir.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: We don't have an image just dropped him yeah.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, there he is.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: Can you hear us, gary?
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: I?
• 4:33
  Speaker 4: Hear you now, yes.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: All right, very good, gary Garnett.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: It's good to see you, my friend, not that I haven't.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: I saw you on Wednesday.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: We had lunch together but, gary, gary is now the director of keels and wheels, and so we had a nice conversation and talking about some of the stuff that you guys have got coming up at this year's keels and wheels.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: Now I know that it's a ways away May 4th and 5th is when the keels and wheels this year is going to take place, and this is a concord de elegance and it is a high-end car show that you pay good money to go see some very expensive cars and some very unique cars as well, from all over the United States.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: And, gary, I understand that this year you're doing 60 years of Ford Mustang and Don's he boats.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: That's correct.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: Well, how were you, how were you able to gather up classic Ford Mustangs at the concours level?
• 5:33
  Speaker 4: Well, we've got connections all over the country with collectors and and this has been going on for 28 years Bob Fuller started this and and We've got a group of guys that love cars and Tommy Hammond Ustie.
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: We've got a bunch of guys that know the right people and there's a lot of cars, a lot of Mustangs and a lot of Don's these in the state of Texas and in the Houston area as well as all around.
• 6:00
  Speaker 4: So we are just on the phone inviting those people to bring their cars.
• 6:06
  Speaker 4: We have a car collection of selection committee that actually looks at each one, pictures, etc and make sure we get the quality cars.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: Well, and that's another unique thing about this concours, because this is not one of those that Everybody in America could just say oh, I'm gonna enter my car here.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: You have to be invited by Kiehl's and wheels in Houston, right.
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: That's correct.
• 6:28
  Speaker 4: It's not a.
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: It's not a Saturday night parking lot show.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: Well, not that there's anything wrong.
• 6:36
  Speaker 4: Great back.
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: Some of our cars are there.
• 6:38
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of lectures that do that participates and there's car shows going on all over Houston all the time.
• 6:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we've got, we've got people in, you know, doing that, but ours is.
• 6:50
  Speaker 4: It's a unique setting with the only concourse in the country of the world probably that does boats and car and cars.
• 6:57
  Speaker 4: It's held at Lakewood Yacht Club and of course we have the boats there.
• 7:02
  Speaker 4: We have a lot of the old vintage wooden boats.
• 7:04
  Speaker 4: We will again this year but Don's a been 60 anniversary.
• 7:09
  Speaker 4: We're getting a lot of interest and there's a lot of beautiful restored Don's ease out in the world.
• 7:15
  Speaker 4: I happen to have a 1967 sweet 16, totally restored, that I will have there.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna be?
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: You're gonna have it in competition with the other ones.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: I am I am.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: So there's not going to be any kind of good old boy bat pat on the back kind of deals going on under table, is it?
• 7:35
  Speaker 4: Oh no, not at all the judges that will be judging that.
• 7:39
  Speaker 4: I don't even know them.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and how do you think you're going to hold up with that?
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: Well, mine's pretty nice, but there's an awful lot of beautiful ones out there, so I don't know.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: Well, explain to everybody.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: You know I have heard of Donzie.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: Are they still in business?
• 7:55
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
• 7:56
  Speaker 4: There's a really strong Donzie Restoration Club I'm a member of and I get text messages and emails every day, you know, from the group.
• 8:08
  Speaker 4: There's just a lot of them out there.
• 8:10
  Speaker 4: I didn't realize that until I bought this Donzie and then I started getting involved in it and doing a little bit of research and it's a big group.
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: And, of course, the Mustangs you know, we all know what the Mustangs are.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, to say the least.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, we had one that was right across from us at this year's Auto-Rama.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: That was a very unique car.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: It was a pre-production Mustang Right.
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: And it'll be, it'll be.
• 8:37
  Speaker 4: It'll be a Kilsom Wills, that's Eric Glipper's car.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah red one.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a beautiful red one and the story behind that car is truly amazing.
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: And you just walk up to the car, you think, well, it's just a regular old Mustang.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: No, it's not.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: It's a pre-production model, meaning that it was hand-built by Ford Motor Company to be on display and not to be sold.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: And he got this car and it's.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: It is truly amazing the intricacies of it and the uniqueness of it where you know there's certain parts of the car that you know an inch longer here.
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: Right, it's a different length and width.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: And it's truly amazing, and those are the kinds of things that you see at Kilsom Wills, isn't it?
• 9:19
  Speaker 4: That's correct and we try to find the most unique, the best restored, the best kept cars in the country.
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: We spend a lot of money bringing I think they told me our budget this year is $20,000 for transport to bring a lot of these cars in from museums, A lot of the what we call the big iron or the old iron car, the kind of course older vintage cars are getting hard to find, Unfortunately, and I'm a lot older than you, Don, but our age group.
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: Thank you for not including Jeff and I.
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: I didn't say miles, I said hey.
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: I understand.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: Exactly, a lot of the, a lot of the old cars are going to museums.
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: They were in family collections and obviously the sons and daughters of the of the owners may not want to keep them, so a lot of them are going to museums and they're getting harder and harder to find, which is one of the reasons this year we're also adding for the younger generation and our generation.
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: I think you remember, don, when back in the in the 60s or early 70s, maybe one of the cars you had a 68 Camaro or 69 Camaro or or a 69 Corvette.
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: And now that we've made a little bit of money and and we want to have that, we want it to be a brand new 2024 drivable car.
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: And we've got a bunch of builders that are building these cars and we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars With new suspension, new frames, new brakes, new motors, everything.
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: In fact we're doing one that Smitty's rehab garage has been in a build with for over three years.
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: It's it's a Chevelle and we're going to unveil and present that car to the owner from Peru at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning.
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: It'll be the first time the car's been uncovered, shown and handed over to the to the owner of it.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Wow, cool is that.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the other thing too is that this is going to really kind of revolve.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: At least a certain number of cars are going to be Resto mods in a special display, correct?
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: That's correct.
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: The the center tent where we featured the race cars last year and where we featured Ford versus Ferrari, will be dedicated to 25 to 30 of the highest Resto mods in the country.
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: We've got Range Rover Defenders coming in that are just unbelievable.
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: We've got Corvettes, camaro's.
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: Several local builders Are our sponsors, creating class and custom out of Kima Smitty's rehab garage, and we've got two or three others that are that are pending.
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: It'll be coming in and and a lot of their work will be shown.
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: They'll be there for people to talk to in case you want to have a rest of my bill, and then a lot of their clients cars will be there on display.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: So, gary, the rest of mods on the car side.
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: Do you have any rest of my boats that'll be pulling in there?
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: I'm not.
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: We've got some, some they're not really called rest of my boats, per, say, we've got Don's, these and boats that have been upgraded and horsepower and engines and you know these things done to them.
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: And.
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: I think there'll be a lot of those.
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: We've got several interesting Boats that'll be on display that we're negotiating right now that people have not seen.
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: So yes, there will be some, some really interesting boats there.
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: We're good.
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: We're folks very heavy because again the old wooden boats are getting hard to find and hard to get and they're also extremely Expensive, if they're restored correctly.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: They're extremely expensive to restore and they're also expensive to maintain.
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: That's not something you just leave sit out in the weather or they've got to be sitting in.
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: You know humidified Garages and and and that it's a continual work to keep those boats in first-class you know I never thought about that.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: You know, in the car business we try to keep ours all nice and dry and nice and cozy.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: But you know the humidity I would imagine does play a big part in that.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: You don't want the seams to start pulling apart on a boat.
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: Well, it's kind of interesting.
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: We've had many times when we bring those old wooden boats in and they're, they're putting the water and we bring them over to the dock there at Lakewood, which is right below the club.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: There they're, they're seeping a little water through through those wooden seams and after being in the water for a while They'll swell up and but it makes you nervous when you start to see them leak a little.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I need us to say.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: I mean I could see me in there bailing water, you know, at midnight going.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Let's keep it off the bottom of the bay out there.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: Did you attend this year's auto boat of show at NRG I?
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: did, I, did, I did what you think.
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: I always liked any of the car shows.
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: I've been a car nut since I was 14 years old and you know my first car was a 1930 model a At 14 years old.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: I can't believe that that is good a driver's license back in those days, at 14 years old, but they did and that was my first car and I guess I've loved cars and and boats as well.
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: I'm a very avid A boater and, and you know, member of the yacht club and that.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: So I Goed it is to.
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: In fact I understand.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: My son just text me and he said Conroe, swap mates today, dad, did we forget it?
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: And I went oh, she did well, you know what?
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: it's not too late.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: It's still early in the morning.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: You're exactly right, and that's exactly probably where we're all behead.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Well, how many cars do you own now?
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Collector cars?
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: I have kind of a unique collection might or not necessarily show cars.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: I have a variety I have about.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: I think I have 16 now about another one last week, so I think I have 16, but you know what those it does it, but those are the weekend to pick up a 1927 Osmobile, ford or sedan totally restored, on Wednesday of this week.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Nice you're gonna drive it back.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know it'll only take me.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: I'll be here by kills will know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna trailer it back.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: I, I've got.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: I've got an interesting little car.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: I think I showed you a picture of it, a 1969 cheetah, which was the answer to the Mustang.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a car, but there's very few of them around.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: I took it to coffee and cars which we have at Lakewood week before last and I was sitting next to Eric's Mustang the red Mustang you were talking about right, and and it was an interesting thing.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Here's a Multi thousand dollar car sitting there and and then my little Cheetah.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: But it's your fun to drive.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: I know I've seen one restored on a television show not that long ago and I'm going.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: I Remember the name and vaguely remember the car, the purpose yeah, it's kind of like a opal GT If.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken kind of a little cut, that kind of look to it, except you had a hotter motor in it.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can only imagine.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Motor in it, and it's it's 2,600 pounds, has an 18-inch drive shaft, so you're sitting on the rear end.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: How funny.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I Really excited about, or working with you guys In wheel time car talk show and the 28th annual keels and wheels and you said you know we really need to start kind of promoting it and getting people thinking that way May 4th and 5th.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: And I said, well, why don't we do that?
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Let's have you on the show and and we appreciate you taking the time today and I want to invite all of our viewers and listeners to be sure and check it out keels, dash wheels, calm.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: You can get all of the information there.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Can you buy tickets yet?
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: You can buy tickets.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Go to our website.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: It gives you a lot of information If you're coming in from out of town.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: We've got hotels that have specials there.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: The city of Seabrook and the city of Nassau Bay are both our big sponsors, as well as Seabrook Plaza, which is the new Margaritaville Hotel, and condos that's coming in.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: But now all that information is on the web.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Go online.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: You can buy discount tickets early, which is a plus if you wait till you the day at the gate.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: They're $40, but you can get them for 30 online.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: We have buses running from parking lots all over the area, from Nassau Bay right off the Gulf freeway.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: And speaking of that, gary, let me let me interrupt here and just say that you're going to have a 146 cam Stationed out there.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: So the day that they finish the construction is going to be tight but they're going to finish that rehab just before keels and wheels and it's going to be wide open, big celebration.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: From around the world they're going to be flooding in cheering 146 because that's basically where a seabrook and the Lakewood yacht club on it.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Here's money tears.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Right right at the corner of 146.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I was out there yesterday.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: They are opening up the ramps now and the access and I would say by early April That'll be fully accessible.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: We had a little bit of problem last year because it is congested coming in from that direction, but this year it will not be.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: And you mentioned that the cam.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: We have a Camera that will be set up that we will be broadcasting keels and wheels 24 hours To our website and to the world, showing for the people that can't get here from around the world.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: We'll be showing the cars and we'll be doing interviews.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: We're going to be working with you guys who hope will be there with us, and Promoting promoting that as well, as we're looking forward to working with you.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Well, like you said, it's been years since we've seen each other and we worked together more years ago that we're going to tell.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: We have grandchildren now, or children, children, grandchildren.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Who knows?
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Gary?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: it's great to talk to you.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: It's great to talk to you, my friend.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for all the information.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: We'll be in touch and we're going to talk to you again here in the next few weeks and keep up to date on what you got going on.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Now it keels and wheels okay.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I look forward to seeing you and and just off the cuff, I met a guy at the club yesterday that you went to high school with bill kingsbury.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, yes absolutely.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: The next time, the next time you come out to have lunch with me.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Bill wants to be there.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: He said he's got some stories he wants.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he does.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, last time we see him.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: My, yeah, my reputation seems to proceed me.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Gary, thanks again.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Thanks again, my friend.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Thank you very much, and we look forward to working with you too.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Gary Garnett and Keele's and wheels.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we need to take a recorder with us.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: We go to lunch.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Hell, no, you're not going to there's no cameras or recorders.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Allowed Crews in events calendar.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Does anybody have that?
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Mr Mars, I know that you're busy being social Vents that I would like to talk about.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: All right please do and I got cruising All right Coming up.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Hold that thought, because I need to take a quick break.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you can gather your thoughts.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Everybody wants to listen to this.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: All right, I know I do Me too.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: All right, so stay with us, we'll be right back.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Pro-am Auto Accessories has been serving Houston's auto enthusiasts since 1984, providing world-class products for sports cars, european sedans and American muscle.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Pro-am is known as the place to go to find exclusive and hard to find parts of accessories.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Pro-am is one of the very first distributors in the USA for brands such as Rekaro, redline, momo Corbo and Simpson.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Located in the heart of Houston's premier retail and service corridor, the Galleria area, pro-am's walk-in storefront includes an 8,000 square foot warehouse, showroom and installation base.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Pro-am not only sells parts and accessories, but also offers installation and service.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Pro-am is now reaching a worldwide audience through pro-amcom, taking its local reputation to the rest of the world.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: At Pro-Am Auto, you'll be dealing with a small group of professionals who truly want to help you with your automotive needs.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: If you don't see what you're looking for on the website, call and Pro-Am will lend you a hand.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Pro-am Auto 6125 Richmond at Green Ridge and Houston's Galleria area.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Call them at 713-781-7755.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Want to feel good about something special you did for some one special In-wheel time and the original Loupetortilla group of Tex-Mex restaurants have joined together to help a very worthy cause God's Garage, a Christian-based 501C3 charity.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: We know there are lots of places and organizations out there where you can donate a car, truck or SUV, but we're asking you, our car enthusiast family, to consider donating to God's Garage.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Visit godsgarageorg and learn about its mission, the women that have been helped, how each one is screened and about their Restore you program.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: A car donation is an easy way to make a difference in the lives of others.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: God's Garage needs good operating vehicles but will take all types in working and non-working condition.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Make your heart and soul feel good by donating your gently used vehicle and help support single mothers, widows and wives of deployed military at godsgarageorg.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Well, that's just great, don Armstrong Right on the butt.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I was making fun of Mars being social and everything and here I am re-social.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, being social.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: So welcome back to the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 22:42
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• 22:45
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• 22:47
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• 22:54
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• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, cruise in events calendar.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: You guys have it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, I've got the cruise in of calendar.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, and what we're talking about is Clear Lake Cars and Coffee is going to be at Grace Church at 14505 Gulf Freeway.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: It is today from 7 am right now until 11.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Bundle up, dress warm, because it's cold out.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Cypress Cars and Coffee is at Fairfield Baptist Church.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: That's at 27240, us 290.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: That's from 8 am.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: It's going on right now until 10 o'clock this morning.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: And then we have the Kingwood Classic Cruisers and Cars and Coffee.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: That's at Whataburger in Kingwood, kingwood, texas, 4545, kingwood Drive, today from 830 to 10.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: I'll kind of go through this.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: We've got one, my favorite.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I've been down there a couple of times, have seen it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I haven't been to the cruise yet, but it's Wharton Cruise Night.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: It's tonight.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: It is at Domino's Pizza in Wharton.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: It's a nice little facility.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: It's at 309 East Bowling Highway, which is pretty much in nowhere.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: It's kind of in between two big cities.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: That's what you call the cruises.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: It's just cruise over and it's 6 pm, so it's going to be a nice drive.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Once the weather clears up it gets a little bit more sunny and it'd be a nice thing to do.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Conroe Cruisers Saturday Night Cruise Tonight at Kroger Marketplace Parking Lot 341 South Loop 336 West in Conroe, texas, 6 pm till 9 pm tonight.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: So be there or be square.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Does Mars have anything, or was he just?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: teasing this.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: He's going to do it in the next time.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do the events calendar Later.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when it comes up, Okay Well.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I just, I just yeah, yeah, yeah, no, we got it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, I did want to mention to you that there are some recalls that I wanted to tell you about.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, always, tailgate may open while driving on the Chevy Silverado 2500, 3500 and same for the GMC 2500, 3500 model years 20 to 24.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: That's being recalled.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Lots of accuracy.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Mdx, rdx, tlx, accord, accord Hybrid, civic, civic, type R, crv.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Airbag may deploy unintentionally during a car crash.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: It also involves the CRV hybrid, the fit, the HRV, the Insight, odyssey, passport, pilot, ridgeline.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: All of that being recalled.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And please, if you're part of that, please get your car in, because people can die because of these things, and they have.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Don't be one of those, and all you have to do is go to safercargov, put in your VIN number, which you can find on your insurance card, and it'll tell you, yes, your car is being recalled or no, it's not being recalled.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Loss of drive power from a faulty driveshaft on the Genesis GV60, the Hyundai Ionic and the Ionic 6 for the model year 2023.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Mercedes-benz headlights are aimed incorrectly.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Does anybody really care about that?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I guess so Somebody does.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Uh, 2019 to 2022 model years.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Glc and the AMG GLC basically all of the GLC models, now the Nissan Leaf.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: The rear view camera image may not display from 2018 to 2022.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: It's all electric.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: The engine valve springs may break from Kia, the Kia Telluride for 2024.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: And if that happens, you're toast.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's not good.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: No, that's not good, so you'll need to get valve springs.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Does it say what size engine I have?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to take my car and get my valve springs.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Does it say what size engine?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: or is it just all of them?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Um, it doesn't say, and it could be.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Is it coming variety?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe it doesn't say which engine, gotcha, but I, if it doesn't say, chances are that all of the Tellurides have the same engine.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Bring it on in.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Bring it on in or, like I said, check safercargov.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: That's right, and it will tell you from anything yes, anything and everything, even if you've got a sore toe dial in.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Or if you've got trail, rash trail, trail, that's a new thing.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: That's what she said.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she said trail rash that was our G, it's stuck with me, I don't know.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: It's like an earworm.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Our wheelers, wheelers, wheelers.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I've never heard that term before, but you know, as old as I am, I don't know, everything, and I'm reminded of that quite frequently.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Some of the Jeep clubs that we used to talk to, uh, kind of COVID kind of they kind of dispersed during COVID.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: So we've kind of just now getting back into talking with the Jeep clubs again.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I wonder if they're involved in the Jeep thing down on the coast Galveston, we don't probably not.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: You talking about Jeep Gotopolis weekend?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: You know if I.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: What county is that?
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Galveston, galveston County, if.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I were Galveston County, I'd ban that thing.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I think they can't literally they can't.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a public beach.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Well, not only that, it's, it's.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: It's not an organized event, it's just, it's like one of them Like a rave and yeah, and that's the reason most of the Jeepers that's were there.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: They've moved on down the coast Toward you From Galveston County because of all the side by sides, the trucks and all the riff-raff oh, it's a good word for it that's now coming down there for the big party and it's really turned into a bad thing for the Jeep name.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: So they've moved.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Gotcha, there's still some there, but most of them have moved.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: They need to fix that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, time now for a quick break.
• 28:12
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• 28:14
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• 28:17
  Speaker 1: We're back after a quick break.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Stay with us.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: The original group of loopy tortilla restaurants will have you telling your family and friends just what the original recipes mean when it comes to the best fajitas in southeast Texas.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Founder Stan Holt invites you to visit the original loopy tortilla near I-10 and highway six.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Here's the original house that inspired the design of all the rest and the original charm that helped make loopy tortilla the go-to destination for Houston Tex-Mex.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Speaking of original, nothing can compete with the original lime pepper marinade.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: That everyone will agree makes loopy tortilla award-winning beef fajitas the best anywhere.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Loopy tortilla Katie is another location that gives you the same quality and service.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Historians have come to expect it Loopy's.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: It's located just off I-10 of the Grand Parkway.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: At Kingsland Boulevard and Katie, find yourself an Aggie land.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Head to the loopy tortilla college station, located just around the corner from Kyle Field.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: It's a great place to enjoy those famous frozen margaritas before or after the game.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Head to East, to Louisiana.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Stop in at the loopy tortilla in Bulma it twos on I-10.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: You can't miss it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: The original group of loopy tortilla restaurants invites you in for the best Tex-Mex.
• 29:19
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• 30:00
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• 30:17
  Speaker 1: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 30:22
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