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High-Octane Heartbeats: Exploring Classics and Culture at the Grand National Roadster Show · 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 11 am.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the In-Wheel Time car talk show Head to head.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Garcia talks the Hemings Car Corral at the Grand National Roadster Show.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: We've got this week in Auto History, I think, mr Mars, are you doing that?
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I think you've got yourself turned off.
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  Speaker 2: You passed on that.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll get you caught up on the stories making automotive news headlines this week.
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  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with Mike Otto, this world Mars, and we always need more.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Zieken.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us on this rainy Saturday here in the Houston Texas area.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not rainy out in California, and that is where our next guest, brandon Garcia, is speaking to us from the Hemings Car Corral at the Grand National Roadster Show.
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  Speaker 1: All right, brandon, good morning to you.
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: Good morning boys.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're doing fine.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: 7.30 in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: You look all bright and bushy-tailed up there.
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: You're just getting in, aren't you?
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: It just getting in around last night.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on East.
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  Speaker 3: Coast time.
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: Guys, I'm on East Coast time.
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: I've been waking up at 4 am every day.
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  Speaker 3: Been here for about two days now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Lord, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So where are you in California?
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  Speaker 3: So we're out in Pomona California.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: This is about yep, right close to the Fairplex where we're hosting our Hemingscom car corral.
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: We're at the Forest yesterday.
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: We're crossing our fingers for a great, sunny California day today.
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: Man, it's all looking good.
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  Speaker 1: I've spent quite a bit of time there in Pomona at the drag strip and I know exactly where you are.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: Is the NHRA Museum there in front of you?
• 1:57
  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 3: I actually was able to do a short press conference in the museum yesterday and it was amazing.
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: I come from the NASCAR world, where we had the Darlington Raceway Museum, of course, the Hall of Fame in Charlotte.
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  Speaker 3: The cars are just beautiful and the history is what attracts me to those types of venues.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as a matter of fact, I ran into Erica Ender a week ago at a private party and she was looking forward to heading out to Pomona again after the kickoff down at the Gator Nationals.
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  Speaker 1: But that's another story for another day.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: I want to know about the Grand National Roadster Show.
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  Speaker 1: Let's put that into perspective first and then move on to the Hemings car corral.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: We got time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 3: This is the 74th annual Grand National Roadster Show.
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  Speaker 3: We got Hemings partnered with that show here.
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  Speaker 1: I assume that they partnered with that show.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that they partnered with that show 74 years ago Maybe not quite 74.
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  Speaker 3: 1954.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so we were on our way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So tell me about the.
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  Speaker 1: I can only imagine the Grand National Roadster Show in LA, because that's basically where they are.
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  Speaker 1: So what about Hemings car corral?
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  Speaker 1: It's a special section there at the show.
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 3: So we have brought 15 of the most beautiful hot rods you'll see at the show to be a part of our Hemingscom car corral, which is right on Redwood Avenue If you guys are familiar with that right very close to the main hall, and what we've done is provided an opportunity for enthusiasts to sell and display their hot rods in front of thousands of enthusiasts that are going to be coming through over the weekend.
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: So we have a great kind of sectioned off area where these folks are talking to potential buyers.
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  Speaker 3: Each vehicle is on Hemingscom for sale via our Hemings Make Offer product, and Hemings Make Offer is a way for buyers to set their asking price and then communicate in real time, or I should say in wheel time.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: Good catch With potential buyers, yep, so it's been great.
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  Speaker 3: You know, those folks started showing up bright and early yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: It was actually a great crowd on Friday and we hope to have a similar crowd, if not more, today.
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  Speaker 3: And it's really an opportunity for not just the folks who are selling their car but everyone to understand how frictionless our Hemmingscom marketplace really is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've listened to our customers, we've listened to enthusiasts of all kinds and put together a marketplace where, no matter where you are at in your enthusiast, your novice or season collector, there's a place for you to land within our journey, if you will.
• 5:10
  Speaker 3: And the great part is that our brand new service, hemmings Payton Title, is available to these 15 sellers and potential buyers to use.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: And the Hemmings Payton Title service is really eliminating payment and title fraud.
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  Speaker 3: You know, our partners at Keysavvian and ourselves, we are verifying the buyer's identity as well as verifying the ownership of the vehicle.
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  Speaker 3: So it's really, you know, taking out any friction that you may have with the transaction, which you know, as we all know, can be sketchy at times, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So we're providing that service, launched maybe a few days ago, for our customers.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that there is fraud in, especially in the aftermarket, and especially when it comes to hot rods and special cars, all over the place Title fraud, fraud and misrepresenting the car and that sort of stuff.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting to know.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into that a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: How does it work?
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: Explain it to me.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely so you know, putting my marketing hat on, it's really no more.
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  Speaker 3: No more do you have to go and meet a buyer and or seller at the bank or carry a large amount of cash.
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: So what we do is one the data each term is they can shoot leverage the Hemmings Payton Title service.
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: It's $300 that the buyer and seller can negotiate on who pays what.
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: Have a great kind of process, if you will, to see who's paying that price.
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  Speaker 3: And what we do is we take your information.
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  Speaker 3: Our partners at Peace Savvy, who have done this hundreds of times and seen almost everything, will hold your funds, if you will, and release it to the seller once the vehicle arrives to the buyer.
• 7:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a bad connection.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, brandon, if you can hear us, you know we, Mike, told us at the beginning of this interview that you got some real sketchy internet service there at the hotel where you are in Pomona, and it's bitten us because we have a frozen image of you.
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: And no audio.
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  Speaker 2: And no audio.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: And no audio and no audio, so uh, Well, the good news is though is that.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, go ahead, Mike that there's an opportunity to join us again in a week or two to actually talk specifically about that title process.
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: Got you.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good, okay, we got you back, go ahead.
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: Nope, we don't have you back, so you're going to have.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: I think Mike gave you a number to call and maybe that's probably the best way to continue the interview.
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll just do the audio.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: If you could call us back, that'd be good, because I want to learn more about this, this new service that they're offering, and in the meantime and in between time, it just so happens that I have a Hemmings look, look at that.
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: I got to get a scorecard.
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: It's Hemmingscom sold cars roundup here.
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: I'll give you a piece of paper I got right here, I got it, yep, yep.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: So while he's, while Mars is working on that, let me move on to this week's Hemmings sold cars roundup that I love doing.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: One that caught my attention was a 1978, 78 Toyota FJ 40.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: What's that off road looking Jeep looking kind of thing from Toyota?
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine what a 78 Toyota FJ 40 would go for?
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: You want to take a wild style?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to guess 14.
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: 14.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: Michael, mr Mars, he, we're all going to give me a second.
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: He's going to have to do that, but I'm going to tell you.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: You said 14, 53,025.
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: I meant to say 53.
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: I meant to say that.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: Now, what was 78?
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Come on, what was the?
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: What was the character's name in American graffiti?
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, steve, that had, that is, had his brothers Ron Howard's 58 Chevy Impala.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: I believe that he was driving it, but whatever the case may be, imagine a 58 Chevrolet Impala.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: Now, this is a two door.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like it just rolled out of the factory.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, White on white on red.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Red interior, white, beautiful white wall tires.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, nothing, the FJ went for that price.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: What do you think the 58 Chevy Impala went for?
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  Speaker 2: 52.
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: 52?
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  Speaker 2: Mike 42.
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  Speaker 1: $71,400.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: Holy cow, yeah, but it I mean, look at it, it looks beautiful, it's gorgeous.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: What I need to do is I need to steal these pictures Double headlight.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to steal these pictures so you guys could see it too.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: All right, here's one A 1999 BMW Z3.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Now, that is that sports car looking thing, kind of imagine a, an MG, with a long hood on it.
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  Speaker 1: And this one here has the optional hard top roof.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: It's a convertible, clearly, but guess how much that went for a 99 BMW Z3.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Now, you know those, those high school boys that up there in the Woodlands high school they would eat this up, especially at the price of $11,550.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: I was going to say 11.
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, I say 22 is what I was going to say.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, and that's why I picked it, because it was such a eye opener.
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: I thought what?
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: All right, here's one for you An 88 Ford Bronco Now, not the OJ Simpson.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: An 88 smaller Ford Bronco two is what it is the Ford Bronco two.
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  Speaker 1: It's sold for $27,8,750.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: We're way off.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know Is he.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: Is he back?
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: with us now.
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: Well, he's trying to, okay.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Well, you try to get him to unmute?
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: All right, unmute, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one, jeff, this is for you to buy and take on the hot rod tour of Texas.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, a 1941 Buick Super 8.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, in teal blue, I would be interested in this $32,000.
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: Look at look at, look at that.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: Look at that up there Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Eight grand for that Eight grand, and I guess the point that I'm trying to make is is the fact that there is something out there that's for sale for everyone, for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Mike, can I have one on nine grand?
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: The 2002 Lexus SC 430, and that's the little sports car.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, the two-seater With the retractable hardtop Looks really good 2002.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: Now again, I don't know the condition 18.
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  Speaker 1: 18, Mars, you got an idea and we got to guess back on audio.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry you have to unmute yourself, Mike.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: He always forgets that the sold price in the Lexus SC 430 is $9,500.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: Wow, way off today.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: See now that would be something that you could get Kylie, oh, her parents can't.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Now, this is Mars car, right here, a 1953 Hudson Hollywood, hollywood, hollywood.
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: Hollywood Michael J.
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to have to bust that one out at about 18.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: 18.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: I'll go 14.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: How about 26, 775?
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: I will wait off, I know, and a Hudson Holy it's the weather.
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: It's the weather Got to fall out of a hotline playing.
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Take my sandbox, so do we have our guests back with?
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Us, you believe so All right, all right, well, we got you back.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: We think Are you there with us.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: You do Sorry about that guys.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: Well, that's all right, you need.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: You need to get your money back on that hotel room.
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: Are you staying there in Pomona?
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: We are, yeah, not too far away, um, but I heard you guys talking about some cars.
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: Figured I'd give you guys a taste of of what we have in the Corral, if you're interested.
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I am.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: Definitely hit it.
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  Speaker 3: My, my personal favorite.
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  Speaker 3: Um, we actually have a beautiful 1939 Ford deluxe custom.
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: Um, it was actually one of the first to arrive and we were just in our like oh my goodness, this is.
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: This is going to be a showstopper for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Um, and then a close second is a 1949 Chevy 3105 window cab short bed in a beautiful orange.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Um, um, let me make this clear to everybody.
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: Let me make this clear to everybody.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: let me make this clear to everybody that's listening and picturing this in your mind that these are custom hot rods.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Correct, brandon?
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: That is correct, yes.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't want you to get the idea that you know these are stock cars.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: They're not.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: These cars have been massaged a lot.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah To be at a show like this.
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  Speaker 1: Are these in in the uh, hemmings car corral?
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: They are, yes.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: So we're right off of redwood avenue, right next to building for the main hall, um for anyone attending today or tomorrow to come check and check out and and again.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: The beautiful thing about this, this opportunity, the car corral, is that you can make an offer on the spot.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Wow, if you wished.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, which is, you know, pretty wild when you think about it.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: You know we had um 15 total vehicles submit or register to be a part of this, this Hemmingscom car corral.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: All 15 are available for sale in Hemmingscom.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Now are they all from the LA area.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: They are Um, I probably said that talking to some of the sellers maybe about a hundred miles away, you know, some drove them in, some came on a on a truck bed.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: So we have a good variety, but I would say most of them are from the Southern California area.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Cool Cause I'll.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this it's a, it's a different car culture that we are used to here in in in Houston Texas, exactly.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Uh, it is remember, this is where it all began, and so these guys are well-schooled and probably grew up around these cars, uh, in their day and uh, so I would imagine that the quality of the cars impeccable.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: So that wouldn't be good at that, because I've been messing up the guessing game here today, so I would be overpaying on that.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Not necessarily, uh, because I mean they may be in the car corral, but you know there is.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: There is a kind of a standard price as a rule for the make, the model, what's been done to it?
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: How deep is the?
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Is the, uh, actual customization of the car?
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Restoration, yeah, Kind of motors that got in it, I mean is this a real show car or is this a driver?
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: We want to go in the hot rod tour with this?
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, so there's those kind of variables in there.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure that we'll be able to do that.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, so there's those kind of variables in there and I'm sure that once you get there and you start asking questions and they realize just how well versed you are in the automotive world, they would take sympathy upon you and Brandon, is there any any there that you'd like to get a hold of?
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: But that 49, 3,100 actually caught my eye when it rolled in.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: So my grandfather, who has since passed away he has one in his in his ranch up in Northern New Mexico and myself and my, my family are trying to put plants together, actually revive that.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: You know, wait for my time.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: My, my family, my aunts and uncles have stories of of him driving that and working a ranch in it and it really brought me back to that.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: You know, I haven't really touched that plan in a while, but you know it's stories like that that drive you in.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: You know, I didn't grow up a car guy, um, but what I do love is community and storytelling, right?
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: So that's the one that I'm going to take home um, spend a little bit time with, check it out, share with my family and put a rush on on what we can do to revive that and really, you know, revive my my grandfather's legacy.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Uh, so you got some family history with it.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: That's always special and you'll never get that back.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, I would encourage you to go.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go go with that.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Um, so have you noticed the difference I was just talking about I I'm sure that you heard me the fact that East coast customs are different than West coast customs.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, um, they're lower to the ground.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Lower to the ground, the paint color um a little bit more bold.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Um, and outside of our Hemingscom car corral, the main hall where we're situated with a, with a tent, vehicles that for for the ARP award, look completely different than what you might see out East.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: You know the paint colors.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: It's a really pretty um, hot pink, I believe it's a.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: I might be getting this wrong.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I believe it is a deluxe Um, but that's the biggest difference for me the paint yeah, the paint colors and the Lord to the ground.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's always been the cutting edge of car customization out there, um, uh, out there in Hollywood and, um, it's not a bad thing.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: And even even if you're on the West coast or here in the Houston area, you know a lot of the ideas come from the West coast.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Hey, I really like the way that they lowered that, I like the wheels on that, I like the color of that and, uh, it's the latest, greatest from out there.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: A lot of guys kind of tend to grow with that kind of design and look and then others going.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I appreciate what they got going on.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: We got our own thing going on, well, and that's the, that's the advantage and the beauty of going to these is because you can get ideas.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: You can some say I'm going to steal that idea.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Others say I'm going to use that as a research tool and put that fender this way or that bumper closer.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: It's all part of that networking and getting ideas.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So where do we, where do we find all of the information on the Hemings car Corel, the grad national roadster show?
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Where do we get the information on that?
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think that the information just comes straight from the, from my mouth.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: You know we're going to be at the Fairplex and Pomona today, saturday, and tomorrow, sunday Again, we're right off of Redwood Avenue near the main hall and everyone's welcome to come check it out.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: We do have those 15 vehicles for sale, can we see?
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: those online.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Can we see those online?
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Brandon yeah.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, we can.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, we can.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: So we have a great story written by one of our staff riders that talks through each vehicle.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: So you can just go to Hemingscom, click on the entertainment icon on the on the top navigation and read about.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: You know, the corral itself and the 15 cars we have available.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and when you're coming back to the East Coast.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I'm probably going to.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I'm actually going to take a red eye tomorrow night and I think I leave around 10 pm.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Get in 5 am Charlotte time.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm looking forward to that.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Do you have to go to work Monday?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I'll be on, you know we're always on.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: You know there's there's customers to take care of and, in a marketplace, to make better.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, there you go.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, man, we're going to let you get back to it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I know that we got you up early out there and we sure appreciate you taking the time to tell us all about the Hemings car corral at the Grand National Roadster Show, and I assume that the Roadster Show goes on all the way through tomorrow.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: That is correct.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: That is correct.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: All right, and that's out at the LA County Fairgrounds in Pomona, california, pomona.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: California yeah.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: So if you're headed east, out on I-10, well, you're going to have to pass Pomona to get out there.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: So just take a little left and head on out there to Pomona.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: You ever been Is there?
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: is there an?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: admission Is there an admission fee to get in?
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: There is.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I believe it's pretty nominal, but we do have actually tickets that we can hand out.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: So if you guys want to shoot us a DM on the Instagram?
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you want to shoot us a DM on Instagram, I'll be happy to share those with you guys.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Very nice, all right.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Well, brandon Garcia, it's great to talk to you, my friend, best of luck, stay in touch with us.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: You got something you're going to go to soon.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Let us know, we'll get you on again.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Thank you, guys.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: You have a great day.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: You do the same, brandon Garcia, with Hemings.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Right, yeah, we looked at a few of those pictures.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: That would be a lot of fun.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it would be.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: But, like you say, you go out there to go to that car culture and you get sunk into it between the cars and the street and museums, in the nightlife and the drag racing, and let's just move and be amongst for that week for that event, and then we'll move back, got you?
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Pen up demand and expectations of lower interest rates are driving consumer purchasing going into 2024, according to a report from Kaiser Associates and Dave Kenton Group released Wednesday.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Report found that 27% of consumers put off buying a car over the past two years because of high interest rates and 16% said they chose a cheaper vehicle for that reason.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: The survey also found that consumers are more receptive towards hybrids than battery electric vehicles.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Of the 43% of respondents who said they want their next purchase to be an electrified car, more than twice as many said they would prefer a hybrid over a full EV.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Hmm, auto makers face a new customer loyalty challenge.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Ha, imagine that.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Yep, in addition to rolling out attractive new models with cutting edge technology, as they've always done, they must now figure out how to bring a vehicle pricing back in line with that consumers, with what consumers find palatable.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: That's according to JD Power's annual automotive franchise assessment review.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: The supply disruptions of the pandemic and the current struggle with sticker price inflation have roiled consumer perceptions of some brands.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: According to Tyson Jomany, jd Power's vice president for data and analytics, the annual presentation charts.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: The presentation charts charts the rise and fall of brands because of a wide range of issues, such as product flaws, stale product and poor service shop satisfaction rankings, hmm.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Misteps in technology also continue to sour customers on some brands.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: One such glitch was Cadillacs no Replacement of a traditional latch to open the glove compartment on its electric Lyric with a digital process that requires owners to open it from the vehicle touchscreen.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: What kind of moron came up with that?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Hey, watch the language of Cadillacs.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: A moron, oh, come on.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Who would do that?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's drill down into the menu to open the glove box.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Not, I bet.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Just that's another one of those things.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: There's some engineering student needed a project for his thesis or something.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, let's just throw more technology at it.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, but that's not the way.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Does it work?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: cares.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not the way to do it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: They want it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: It's what I was trying to say General Motors plans to sell plug-in hybrids in North America, again shifting its strategy to go all in on fully electric vehicles after demand has been weaker than anticipated.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Ceo Mary Barron Tuesday said the automaker would continue to focus on 2024, on growing its EV portfolio, but that hybrids would play a role in helping GM meet tightening emission standards.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: She did not disclose which segments GM will target with plug-in technology or when that will happen, but do you think with the strike and all the renewal of the contracts and everything, they kind of had to do that for the EV side?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: On the hybrid side?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Look, because everybody's stopping the EV all electric, so they figured to get back into it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Well, it's not not everybody, but I mean they were a they were working toward.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's going to be this huge rush to the dealership to buy nothing but EVs.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Well, that's yeah, that's not happening.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: That was not the market.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: That was.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: The problem is it was not a consumer driven decision that these companies were making.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: No, the dealers are going hey, we need this to sell cars here.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: That's how we stay in business.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: The EVs aren't selling and they're all stacked up on the lawns.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: You know it goes back to the cafe standards.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Like I said, they need to get their mileage mileage thing and that's a real quick way to do it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Time out for a quick break?
• 26:30
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