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The Celebration Capital Playbook For Car Clubs And City Partners · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:02
  Don Armstrong: In person.
• 0:02
  Don Armstrong: We only get to see her once.
• 0:04
  Don Armstrong: Well, we get to see live and in person.
• 0:06
  Don Armstrong: It's Tammy Dooley.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
• 0:10
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 0:11
  Don Armstrong: Who's that guy?
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, hey, Steve.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: My fan club.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: I've brought my fan club.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: One person.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: You brought your crew, your whole crew too.
• 0:20
  Don Armstrong: You got more than we have.
• 0:21
  Don Armstrong: That's Richard.
• 0:22
  Don Armstrong: So you know, I know that you told this story.
• 0:25
  Don Armstrong: And thank you for being with us, by the way.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, thank you for having me.
• 0:28
  Don Armstrong: Um I know you told this story about how you got to Granberry via Rick Neely in Midland, Texas.
• 0:37
  Don Armstrong: And I had forgotten about that.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_01: We we uh yes We meaning your husband Tom Dooley.
• 0:43
  Don Armstrong: I mean Mike Dooley.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we were working in Midland.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: I was out there 14 years managing a big Kevin Center arena, and uh but we had a house here, so I've been here since 93.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: So I've always You're a lake dweller?
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: Uh not on the lake, no, we're in Pecan Plantation golf, golf dweller.
• 1:02
  Don Armstrong: I understand that the uh the they're expanding the golf as if one golf course course isn't enough, they went to two, and now they're building a third one.
• 1:11
  Don Armstrong: How many golf courses can you have?
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I we have a lot of golfers, and uh to hear the golfers talk about it never enough.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:20
  Mike Marrs: Always getting a new course to go to, a hot rod.
• 1:22
  Don Armstrong: You never need, you know, so that the with the third course, uh the green fees and and you know, playing it around now up to four hundred, five hundred dollars for eighteen holes.
• 1:31
  Mike Marrs: No, no, no, no, no.
• 1:33
  Mike Marrs: You gotta go to Loch and Terra or something like that in San Antonio.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's it's very affordable.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's why so many people come here.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: And so uh That's not the only reason.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's not the only reason.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, that it so Rick and I knew each other when um I was out in Midland and we worked on some car events, and then the city of Granbury hired me when I sold our we sold our company, and the one of the first people to call me is Rick Nealing.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Well, you know, I put on the Lone Star Street Rod in Granbury, and I was like, You've got to be kidding me.
• 2:02
  Mike Marrs: You can't get away from it.
• 2:05
  Don Armstrong: Now, is is he friends with your husband, Mike?
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, they work together out there too.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we were all in the same industry.
• 2:12
  Don Armstrong: Wow.
• 2:12
  Don Armstrong: Well, so this so we're kind of part of this.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, absolutely.
• 2:17
  Don Armstrong: Well, you know, when you do maybe not, not after today.
• 2:22
  Don Armstrong: No, no.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: When you do events like this, and you know, I know we talked about this once before, this is all about cars and automobiles, and it's a reunion for them, and we love it.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: But it's every weekend is a different type of event here in Grand Bury.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, one weekend we're all about rodeo cowboys, and uh, you know, everything's about Hood County Stampede or the you know, or Fourth of July hometown parade and fireworks, whatever it is, um, it just happens constantly here.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, perfect segue, we're the celebration capital, Texas.
• 2:54
  Don Armstrong: So we wait a minute, we did just blow that off.
• 2:57
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um we oh, that's a great um story.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: W in um I guess it was about 19.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: No when I was born.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: I want to say like 22 um I started exploring why we were not designated.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: We did not have a place moniker, which is about a hundred cities in Texas have those.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it can be anything place moniker.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it's a designation that says who who you really are as a community.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I started looking into it and couldn't believe Granbury didn't have one because we could be so many things, right?
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so long story short, um, you have to go through the legislature to make this happen.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: You it has to be sponsored by a senator and and carried through the process, you know, by a rep.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so we pulled the whole community together and said, Who are we?
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, that you can't be one of the other hundred names.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, true.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: Very true.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: So you have to rule all those out, and then you have to really establish who you are.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, a lot of people they have something like the pickle capital in Mansfield, or you know, whatever, whatever.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: I always say that it's unfair if you have a vegetable or a fruit because that's just you know obvious.
• 4:10
  Don Armstrong: And you're asking for trouble with Don Armstrong, that's what you're asking for.
• 4:13
  Don Armstrong: Right.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: And if you're very smart, you pick something that represents all year and not one day.
• 4:19
  Mike Marrs: Not not harvest season for the strawberry festival and petite or something like that.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: So see, you know those and and people recognize those.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_01: So we uh formed uh anyone who wanted to be part of it came together, we had brainstorming sessions, we talked, we narrowed it down to like three different things, and the thing that kept coming back was festivals and events, festivals and events, because we do more than our fair share for a city this size.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: And this lady that uh, you know, in the room, her name's Stacey Howe, worked for an air conditioning company, says, Well, what about celebration?
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_01: And you literally could have heard a pin drop, and everybody said, That's it, that's it, you know, because we could have been the monarch butterfly capital.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: There's so many things we could have been.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but anyway, that was that was it because people come to Grandberry to celebrate everything.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: And so we went through the process with the legislature and Shelby Slaussen, our representative, carried it through, and and we are officially now since 23, the celebration capital of Texas.
• 5:28
  Jeff Dziekan: And uh you took our name.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, one of my friends in McCallan called and said, you know, they do a lot of festivals, and they said, That's just not right.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: We're the celebration capital.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, No, you're the South Pole of Texas, and you're stuck with that forever.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: Take that.
• 5:45
  Don Armstrong: Rub it in a little bit.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: But they were they were just you know congratulating us, but also we're gonna celebrate you didn't get the name.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, like mineral wells is the wellness capital, you know, all the different cities are different things.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so I I actually help cities sometimes when they they they're not uh they don't have an identity, and you know, I explained to them the process of how you go about it, and and it's cool to see somebody get that designation.
• 6:14
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, perfect.
• 6:15
  Don Armstrong: Why why does uh Lone Star Street Rot Association keep coming back here?
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um well I think there's l a lot of reasons.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um and again, you know, they they've been here 10 years, so I was fortunate when I started working here that they were already here.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um they I believe were they came from Fredericksburg on their last city.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's all about how you treat an event.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: You can promise them the moon to get them here, but if you do not continually let them know how valued they are, then and deliver.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: And deliver um then they they can go anywhere they want to go.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: And we recognize that.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_01: We never take it for granted that they're here or with any other event we have.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: We know that they have choices, so we um you know, we do a lot of things to incentivize them.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: We offer all the services we're capable of, like you know, making sure the park is pretty and making sure that it's available, it's available.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: They have first ride on this date every year.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: We actually have, if you if you saw there's a farmers market up uh at the Langda grounds, they had contracted this throughout the whole summer, and when they contracted it with us, we said that's great, but you cannot be there this weekend because this weekend is all about Lone Star Street Ride.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: So it takes uh a commitment from our city and our our staff to make sure that people like this are their legacy events, they're protected.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, we supply extra things for them like the porta potties and all the different things, just little necessities.
• 7:54
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, I I heard that Rick was saying talking about a meeting between that y'all had on Friday to talk about things and the bit local getting the local businesses involved in it.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: True.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we have a unique event we do every Friday.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's called Rise and Grind.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: And it is probably the best thing we do for our community.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: When I started here, uh the complaint I kept getting was um nobody knows what's going on.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like these events are still happening, but nobody knows what's going on.
• 8:23
  Don Armstrong: So the locals don't know.
• 8:24
  Don Armstrong: The the locals events are coming out.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly, or they hear about them after or the week of or something, and they're you know, it it I've always said it's all about communication.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: So we started this little event.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: It was a Friday morning get together, nine o'clock.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone's invited, visitors, residents, businesses, uh especially events to promote themselves.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: And they're all invited, it's free.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, a different sponsor is every week brings donuts or something, and then we have two sponsors that take care of coffee and water, so it doesn't cost us anything.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: And we started with like eight people, and we have been doing this every Friday since 2019.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: Even through COVID, we did it by Zoom, and then when we could start meeting again, we met 20 feet apart with our mask on, and you know, now it's what 2026, and we average 50 to 70 people every Friday.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_01: They all get to go around the room, they have up to two minutes to tell about their event, and I have to be the little when they go over, I have to give them the evil eye, you know.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: And they and they love it, it is the most unifying community thing.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like uh people have FOMA if they don't go.
• 9:38
  Don Armstrong: I have to tell you that the reason I bring all of this up with you is because we have a lot of listeners and viewers that are in car clubs that don't know the way to be able to work towards something this big.
• 9:52
  Don Armstrong: And I think that everybody that puts on a car show, a cruise in, whatever it is, hope for the best.
• 9:58
  Don Armstrong: You know, uh they usually charge a a nominal fee to show the car and they get a trophy and all of that stuff.
• 10:04
  Don Armstrong: But how you go about it?
• 10:06
  Don Armstrong: I had very little experience in putting on a car show when I was with the Corvette Club back in the day, Bill and Sharon Sites.
• 10:12
  Don Armstrong: And we did, and it was in a city park uh in Ayleaf, which is a subdivision of Houston.
• 10:19
  Don Armstrong: And um there was a ton of work that we didn't know what we were getting into.
• 10:25
  Don Armstrong: You know what are we how what kind of stage are we gonna have?
• 10:28
  Don Armstrong: They didn't supply a stage.
• 10:30
  Don Armstrong: We had to do that.
• 10:31
  Don Armstrong: We had to supply something as far as drinks are concerned.
• 10:34
  Don Armstrong: I'm not talking about booze, I'm talking about water, soft drinks.
• 10:38
  Don Armstrong: Uh what about food?
• 10:40
  Don Armstrong: This was an all-day affair that started at nine o'clock in the morning and went till five o'clock in the afternoon.
• 10:46
  Don Armstrong: Of course we didn't know, and so we didn't have anybody to be able to go to and say, Okay, well what do you suggest we do with this?
• 10:54
  Don Armstrong: How do we go about doing that?
• 10:56
  Don Armstrong: And see, this is the wealth of information that you bring to us in the car community that I'm sure that you have guided and helped these guys at Lone Star Streetrod to kind of develop this into what it has become.
• 11:10
  Don Armstrong: Because you can't do this without somebody like you.
• 11:13
  Don Armstrong: And um you're a rarity.
• 11:16
  Don Armstrong: You know, convention and visitors bureaus are a dime a dozen all across the United States and especially here in Texas.
• 11:23
  Don Armstrong: And they do well for what they do, but it seems to me that you've kind of bumped this whole thing up because of your experience, and I would take that the experience came from your time out in Midland running the convention center.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, thank you.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: I will tell you, I and I could talk about this for hours, and you are right in that um well, I've done this my whole life.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: I've been in events, and so I understand the impact of events into a community.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: The disconnect that events don't under understand is letting people know that and how to communicate that to um a tourism bureau.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Usually they go in and and just say, Hey, I want some money or some kind of incentive to help.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: The key is to tie find first of all, go to a city that wants to do business with you.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: Go to a city that is going to make it easy.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, find a champion that welcomes you.
• 12:19
  Jeff Dziekan: That welcomes you.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: If they're not wanting you and they're not looking for business, then right there is your clue.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Don't go to that city.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: Find a city like, and I say Granberry.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: There's a a lot of good cities that that do this.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: And build a relationship with your convention and visitors bureau and or chamber or whoever it is.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: In our case, all of this comes through our tourism department and the conference center, and start these partnerships and say, look, we want a home, we want to what what do you need from us to show the impact?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then once that relationship starts, if you have a good CVB, um they're going to be your best advocate and friend.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: And that involves, and you can ask Rick Neely this, I mean, it involves money, services, support, stage, anything this car club wants, we're going to provide.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: And why are we going to do that?
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: Because we don't want them to go back to Fredericksburg or go back to wherever.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: We want this to be um their home.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: So we have to give everything we can.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it's an incentive package that can be done through many, many ways.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: It can be discounts in hotels, it can be, you know, cash uh funding grants, it can be advertising opportunities, it can be swag, like I brought you swag.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it can br it can be all the great things, and this relationship has evolved so much that we even get to do a trophy for a winning car.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we and we don't know anything how to pick cars, so we just pick the producer.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, we we're this is part of our family too.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: So uh if he wasn't happy or this group wasn't happy, they would come to us and tell us and give us an opportunity to make it better.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: So um, and I'm always I love talking about this, and I you are right.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: I am surprised at how many um CVBs just don't see the value in that, but a lot of them do.
• 14:17
  Jeff Dziekan: And I I you talked about your Friday conversation with the community uh the company I'm with we're part of Eastern Fort Band County Chamber of Commerce.
• 14:25
  Jeff Dziekan: Once a month they call it uh conversation uh coffee and combos, conversation and coffee.
• 14:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes, and all of the chamber people that are willing to go there, they do support that and they do have the coffee and donuts and things like that.
• 14:36
  Jeff Dziekan: But they network how can we help support each other as well, not just the community, but each other business.
• 14:43
  Jeff Dziekan: So that's what I'm part of where we're at.
• 14:45
  Don Armstrong: How long did uh I know the the behind the scenes stuff, but when did you start promoting this event this year?
• 14:54
  Don Armstrong: When did you start promoting this?
• 14:56
  Don Armstrong: We never stop promoting it when when the event you have like a a catalog, a book of things coming this year or something?
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, yes.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: We well our website gets over a million views a year, visitGranberry VisitGranberry.com.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and uh we have all of our events.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: So events that are on the same dates every year, like uh this event immediately books next year.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: I mean we already have it on the calendar, but immediately we contract it.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: And then it goes on our event calendar, and as we get updated information um throughout the year, we drop that into our website, and then we're we produce uh printed material.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: We see 6,000 people through our visitor center a year.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um you know it it truly is about understanding that each event brings a significant amount of impact.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: If you drive through Granbury right now, you see all the cars, you see all the people, they're staying in hotels multiple days, um, several hundred hotel rooms, and they eat in the restaurants, and so if I were to go to uh pick a restaurant downtown, go in there and ask the owner, so the what kind of impact does Lone Star Street Rod have on your business here today?
• 16:11
  Don Armstrong: They would be forthcoming and say, Oh yeah, we love these guys, or you know, I I really haven't heard from the person that I thought I was gonna hear from, but the whole place is full.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, no, we um if anybody doesn't know they're here this weekend, they're living under a rock because I mean, you know, we have a street banner up across the street that says welcome Lone Star Street Rod, and um sometimes we put up billboards welcoming welcoming them here.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um we've been promoting it at Rise and Grind.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_01: Rick came yesterday and brought a car.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's all on our event calendars website.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: We send out an email.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: We have electronic signs.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we we send out an email every Friday that has upcoming events for months and months and months out, and it's been on there, and that goes to 14,000 people every Thursday.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: So and then it's all over social media, and our social media is huge.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's a great event, and see all that is free because that's a service Visit Granberry provides, and it should be the So Visit Granbury's got a budget.
• 17:18
  Don Armstrong: Oh, yes, yeah, you have a budget, and I mean, does Street Rod Association pay you?
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: No, this is free.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: We do everything free.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it's part of our support.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: All of our advertising and marketing is is um free to all of our so you have a budget from the city?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, okay.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a city department.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um heavily uh a big part of our budget is through the hotel occupancy tax, and that's the tax that is collected off of hotel rooms.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so um, and then a lot of our budget comes from the Lake Granbury Comfort Center uh revenue.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: And then the city also realizes the value of the impact of tourism, so they actually do general fund transfer.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I I operate about a$2.7 million dollar budget, which you know is public knowledge.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: So that money is to generate tourism right now.
• 18:17
  Don Armstrong: You know, Joe's bar and grill and and the Piccadilly cafeteria and whatever.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: And our return on that, our total direct travel um spending revenue back uh according to the state of Texas through travel Texas is fifty-eight million dollars.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: So we're investing two point seven to get fifty-eight.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: Our direct travel impact back into the community is fifty-eight million.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: And in the in the county, it's eighty million.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: So when you can um speak to the truth to those numbers to your community and your events then um show what they do.
• 18:55
  Don Armstrong: They take on a whole different language, exactly.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: The the uh that's how you speak tourism to a community, and that is the strength of events.
• 19:04
  Don Armstrong: But you ha it's a great destination.
• 19:05
  Don Armstrong: You got a huge lake here that runs uh I think all the way from the South Pole to the North Pole.
• 19:10
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, and uh 21, 22 miles.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: Twenty eight miles, twenty eight.
• 19:18
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, uh uh we love talking to you.
• 19:20
  Don Armstrong: And thank you for having us, as you always do.
• 19:23
  Don Armstrong: We appreciate you.
• 19:24
  Don Armstrong: And uh a great event, and we love coming and uh um it's a great story to tell.
• 19:29
  Don Armstrong: And I don't know, I'm hoping that uh our car club members and people that are interested in this sort of thing gain some knowledge from what you had to say about how to go about things like this.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, um if anyone ever wants to ask that, I am happy to have that discussion.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: I just finished my year as president of the Texas Association of Fairs and Events, and I I was fortunate enough to be president over all the events in Texas and fairs and including Montgomery County Fair, my good friends down there.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so it was really cool.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and and so I am an event lover and I just realized that.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: So if anyone ever needs help with um event advice, give us a call or our association, someone will and don't try to get her at home on the weekend because she ain't there.
• 20:18
  Mike Marrs: Playing golf.
• 20:19
  Don Armstrong: Probably playing golf.
• 20:20
  Don Armstrong: Tammy Dooley, we'll love you.
• 20:21
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 20:22
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 20:22
  Don Armstrong: We appreciate you.
• 20:23
  Don Armstrong: Thank you guys.
• 20:23
  Don Armstrong: Thank you guys.
• 20:24
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 20:25
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• 20:29
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• 20:32
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• 20:37
  Don Armstrong: In Wheel Time continues from Hewlett Park and the Lone Star Street Rod Association here in Granbury right after this.
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• 21:44
  Don Armstrong: Join the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show as we hit the road for a live broadcast from the 51st annual Lone Star Street Rod Association State Run at Hewlett Park in Gran Berry.
• 21:54
  Don Armstrong: This once a year rolling car collection takes place June 12th through the 14th.
• 21:58
  Don Armstrong: Check out hundreds of Classic street rods, vendors, giveaways, awards, and family fun.
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  Don Armstrong: Best of all, spectator admission is absolutely free.
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  Don Armstrong: In wheel time will be live from Granbury Saturday, June 13th, 9 to noon.
• 22:11
  Don Armstrong: Get all the deets at LSSRA.com.
• 22:15
  Don Armstrong: Welcome back to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 22:17
  Don Armstrong: This week in Auto History, and Mr.
• 22:19
  Don Armstrong: Mars has that.
• 22:20
  Mike Marrs: All right, coming up this week in auto history, we have uh a few things like in 1895.
• 22:25
  Mike Marrs: The Parish Burdo Paris is the first race of 730 miles.
• 22:30
  Mike Marrs: It kind of helped demonstrate that motor cars could travel great distances, and that's part of what led off into it.
• 22:36
  Mike Marrs: Now, the winner, the person that crossed the finish line first, uh, he was denied the official victory because he was driving a two-seater car.
• 22:46
  Mike Marrs: The race was for four seaters only.
• 22:48
  Mike Marrs: Somebody didn't read the rules, so they uh kind of kind of sounds like Don Armstrong.
• 22:52
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 22:53
  Mike Marrs: So then uh in 1904, the FIA's predecessor was founded.
• 22:58
  Mike Marrs: Now, this is very French, so I'll do my best.
• 23:00
  Mike Marrs: The Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs, something, something was established.
• 23:07
  Mike Marrs: Bravo, bravo.
• 23:08
  Mike Marrs: Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.
• 23:09
  Mike Marrs: Anyway, so this became the body, governing body that eventually became Formula One and World Early Championships and things.
• 23:16
  Mike Marrs: So blame it on them and the way they set it up back then.
• 23:19
  Mike Marrs: 1936 is when the Blue Ridge Parkway got its official name.
• 23:23
  Mike Marrs: Franklin D.
• 23:24
  Mike Marrs: Roosevelt actually signed the legislation to designate that uh that pathway through the Appalachian Mountains.
• 23:31
  Mike Marrs: 1944, plans for the National Highway network gain momentum.
• 23:36
  Mike Marrs: Now, this World War II ended, like we talked about, the hot rod world blew up.
• 23:41
  Mike Marrs: Transportation planners started uh trying to accommodate the world and changing because people were trying to travel more.
• 23:49
  Mike Marrs: Now, this was actually the precursor to the interstate highway system that we know now.
• 23:55
  Mike Marrs: Then in 1949, we've talked about it several times.
• 23:59
  Mike Marrs: Preston Tucker receives his patent for the Tucker 48 automobile.
• 24:03
  Mike Marrs: There's a lot of things very special about that car, only 51 were actually built.
• 24:07
  Mike Marrs: Yep.
• 24:08
  Mike Marrs: And uh it was a sad story.
• 24:10
  Mike Marrs: Read the book or see the movie and uh check it out.
• 24:15
  Mike Marrs: Last thing I wanted to touch on real quick, 1953.
• 24:18
  Mike Marrs: Jaguar was running in the 21st race of an uh Le Mans, 24 hours of Le Mans, and it was their disc brakes, and the fact they didn't have to stop to change the brakes is what let them win.
• 24:29
  Mike Marrs: Cool.
• 24:30
  Don Armstrong: They didn't have to stop to change brakes?
• 24:32
  Mike Marrs: No, right, because the disc brakes like they could go longer than the pad brakes that everybody else was using.
• 24:37
  Don Armstrong: You know, I know somebody that's got brake problems right now, and they've only got 30,000 miles on the car.
• 24:43
  Don Armstrong: Don't get me started.
• 24:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Don't get you started.
• 24:45
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, you did mention Jaguar, didn't you?
• 24:47
  Don Armstrong: Well, let's mention Volkswagen, too.
• 24:50
  Don Armstrong: And we'll time car talk show.
• 24:51
  Don Armstrong: We'll wrap things up from Hewlett Park in Granbury right after this break.
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• 26:26
  Don Armstrong: Well, that's it for this week's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 26:29
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• 26:33
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• 26:38
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• 26:42
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• 26:49
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• 26:55
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• 26:59
  Don Armstrong: For booking agent and video editor Mike Out of This World Mars.
• 27:02
  Don Armstrong: And Chief Engineer David Ainsley, I'm Don Armstrong.
• 27:08
  Don Armstrong: Thanks to show contributors, Jeff Heitzman and George Skelton.
• 27:11
  Don Armstrong: Be sure and join us next Saturday where you'll find us back in our dual city studios.
• 27:15
  Don Armstrong: We hope you'll join us.
• 27:16
  Don Armstrong: Thanks to the Lone Star Street Rod Association for another job well done on their state run.
• 27:21
  Don Armstrong: Have a great safe trip home.
• 27:23
  Don Armstrong: We'll see you next week.
• 27:27
  Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 27:31
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