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No, You Don’t Need Power Steering On A MGB · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_03: Coming up, Tim Whitten on the stewardship of owning a classic car.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_03: We'll say we'll call it stewardship in just a moment.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_03: Let's talk to it.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_03: In Jeff's car culture, it's all about size.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_03: And Mike has spring break destinations.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_03: How do you align with Mike out of this world, Mars?
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_03: We always need more Jeff Deacon and Chief Engineer David Angley on Don Armstrong.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_03: So glad that you could join us.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh right now it's uh sunny here in the Houston area where we broadcast this show from.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_03: We're on the live segment of it right now on Saturday morning, 10 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_03: Central Time.
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  SPEAKER_03: Which is we normally do that every camp every Saturday.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh if you're listening on a podcast, we thank you for doing that.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_03: And uh we are going to start the show from across the pond this morning.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we have with us now a fellow by the name of Tim Winton.
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  SPEAKER_03: He is the founder of Cambrian Classics.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: Um family run business that specializes in classic car repair and servicing, and is located by the beautiful Caridia Cridia Car Come on, Tim, help me.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_03: Caradigum.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_03: Caradigion.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_03: Just like it's spelled.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's not spelled that way at all.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um so is it this isn't something that I would bring my 1982 Buick Regal into to get it to serve uh serviced by you.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_03: It's mainly English cars, correct?
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, I mean we we do pre-1980 vehicles all the way back to pre-war.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_04: So if it's got a carburetor, basically, in in in the UK, you know, big part of the classic car world is British sports cars.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_04: Um, we're MG specialists in the first instance.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_04: That's how myself and um a number of the guys at work uh for me came to doing this was through MGs.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so that's sort of our deepest knowledge base, but we do a lot of British marks and even uh quite a lot of air called Volkswagen um and other European makes Alpha Mayo things like that.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_04: Um you've been doing this um this company's been going for about five years.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_04: Um but I've been very involved.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_04: I've run the local MG Club for about 15 years, roughly.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_04: Um and they've been a hobby for a long time, doing my own cars, restoration projects, um, buying and selling and things like that.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_04: And then it sort of naturally evolved into doing it for other people in the club, and slowly but surely I just got quite busy doing it and thought, oh well, let's give it a give it a go doing it professionally.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_04: I I worked I worked in the motor trade, just not doing classic cars up until that point, anyway.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I was a workshop manager in a local rennode and then worked uh in a motor factor selling tools and parts to garages, so I built up a lot of contacts through doing those two things, and I got to a point where it got so got things life got busy, and I was like, well, I had to either choose doing old cars or I've got a stop between children coming along and everything else.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_04: So I decided to go with the old cars.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_03: I believe that you called it Renault, and of course I come from a school where we called it Renault.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_03: Right?
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_03: You'll have to forgive me there.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um so tell me about uh just uh regress here for a moment.
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  SPEAKER_03: What's the difference between a French car and an English car?
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_04: Fundamentally not not a lot.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, they're all basis on a on a theme.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, if you go back to really early stuff, then there's greater differences.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_04: But for the most part, things have distributors and brake shoes and valves and pistons and they're all the variation on a theme.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_04: But with with with classic vehicles, you know, there are certain technologies and and principles applied then that have changed over time.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_04: So you know, tuning a carburetor on a I don't know, a Rena 8 compared to this Humber.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_04: General principles still apply.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_04: Um, with with tuning mixture, making sure the spark is good, etc.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_03: So I I guess that all I can think of is the engineering of all of that stuff seems to be a bit different from the good old boys there in uh England as opposed to uh the French.
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  SPEAKER_04: Can be.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes, that there were different ways of doing things, and uh, you know, especially some of the French cars, they were quite innovative in the way that they designed things.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_04: British cars were a little bit more reserved in that regard.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_04: Um the citron suspension, for example, is often mentioned, you know, it's very, very different.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_04: Um so you just got to be aware of those things.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_04: But we we had uh an Alpha GT Jr.
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  SPEAKER_04: in last year, um, you know, and that was Sideraft Webers, seen those plenty of times before, you know, um with points to Jupiter, and you know, it's just as I say, small variations on a theme with every car.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_04: And by the time you've seen a hundred variations, you know, it's not that alien.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so Tim, tell me about your shop.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_02: You said you've got some folks that work with you.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, how many employees do you have?
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_02: And it looks like uh a pretty decent sized shop there.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, well, it's soon to get a lot bigger, but I'll come back to that in a in a second.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_04: Um, we have uh there's five of us in total at the moment.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_04: Um, there's myself, um, who I do you know, I do do the fixing, um, but as time goes on, that seems to get less and less.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_04: But um, there's my wife then who's does part-time, does a lot of the admin stuff in the background.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_04: I've got um Jeremy, who is um a semi-retired, does about three days a week, um, a lot of experience with the vintage pre-war cars.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_04: So that's quite uh it's very useful knowledge base in in that area.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I've got a full-time apprentice, Joel, um, who has been with me about eight months now, and he's learning really well, really keen.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_04: Um, he's just turned 19, big into cluster cars, and he commutes to work in his MGB.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so that's of course a good sign when he came for the interview, that one.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and then there's um someone else then, Alia, who comes in for doing uh ad hoc welding fabrication as and when we need an extra pair of hands.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_04: Um, this workshop then um is attached is close to my house.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_04: We've got an uh there's another room just off-camera there, like a single card room for doing welding and fabrication.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_04: So we have a separate room for that.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_04: Keeps the dust and the noise down.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_04: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_04: Um, because when you're doing engines and carburetors, the last thing you want is sparks and dust and mud and filler and all of that.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_03: Do you do full restorations?
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_04: Um, yes, but not very often.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_04: Um, we have more than enough to do doing servicing and repair and keeping them tuned and doing carburetor rebuilds and doing, say, a sill replacement or a wing or doing some you know general welding repairs.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_04: Um we we do have done a few restorations and do.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_04: There is a car on a rotisserie outside, um, but we find this is so much of this repair work at the moment.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_04: We just don't have space and time to to do the larger restorations.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so that's kind of where we stick.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_04: And we we're good at fault finding and uh carburetor tuning and running and and getting the the best out of them.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_04: So we tend to sort of keep improve running cars, and that I think increasingly so many cars have been restored now or on the road, and a lot of recommissioning as well, actually.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_04: Cars that are good but have been parked for for you know five to ten to twenty years.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_04: We have recommissioned, uh, and bringing those cars back onto the road again is quite a long process for a candy.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_04: Uh that's a that's an interesting question.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_04: What do you class as an MG?
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_04: I'm sorry.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_04: Which what do you class as an MG?
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_04: Because you can go into a showroom and go and buy one now.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_04: Um, but they're played by Chinese company.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure that somebody else is probably taking the brains, but I'm talking about the classic MG.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_03: The MGB is the one over here that was the most popular, and there were thousands of them around.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, loads and loads of them.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_04: So the MGB is the one that I own, and um, we know we do a lot of.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_04: Um they stopped production in 1980, and the accompanying shape midget sort of was an extra year or so past that.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_04: Um that they use the MG name on stuff in the 80s and then in the 90s, and now the names got sold to Chinese company, they make modern cars.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
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  SPEAKER_04: Um, so you know, people's opinion of what MG varies, and so there are some that I know that go, well, there's no real MG um sort of after the late 40s because they they became part of BMC, and therefore it's not MG anymore.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_02: You know, so is that a bug eye behind you?
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_02: Is that a bugge?
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_04: Uh this one.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_02: The green one.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_02: Is it a green one?
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, this one.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_04: No, it's a Triumph TR5.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, yeah.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_03: It's the one that's directly behind you on the on the lift.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_04: On the ramp.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_04: Um, that's uh it's a Humber Hawk.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_04: Uh it's quite quite a rare thing now.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_04: I th I've I've someone told me there's only 10 left on the road in the UK.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_04: Oh wow.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_04: Um, that one I think is a 61, I think.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_04: Um it's uh it's a two and 2.3 liter four-cylinder.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_04: Uh it's a roots group car, so that's like uh sunbean alpine and um you know, sunbeam Humber, that's that group of manufacturers.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_03: Um, what what is your favorite car to work on?
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_03: I know these are random questions, but um, these are random cars for us.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_04: Right, okay.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I mean this although it's got quite a lot of American styling to this, it obviously.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, it does.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_03: I can see that.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_04: Um they for me, I've done I've done so many MGs that we're really good at them, but I do it all the time.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_04: So for me, there's a there's an element of novelty.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_04: But I do I do really like um big Healys.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_04: Um Austin Healy like 106, or I really enjoyed doing the Alpha Jr.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_04: last year again just because it was something a little bit different.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_04: Um, this triumph actually is a really nice drive, it's had a few modifications to it, um, and uh that's a that's a uh surprisingly nice one to drive.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_04: Um yeah.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_03: What is the number one what is the number one service thing that you do at your shop?
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_03: That obviously, you know, oil changes and the regular maintenance stuff, but is there anything in particular that goes right to the MG brand?
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_04: Things to look out for on an MGB, for example.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_04: Um yeah, aside from the normal sort of tires and that type of thing.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_04: Um one of the most overlooked things with an MGB is a a lack of lubrication of the steering rack.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_04: They actually have they're meant to be oil-filled, and they rarely are.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_04: I get phone calls all the time.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, I like power steering fitted to my MGB.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_04: And my usual reaction is what's wrong with it?
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_04: Because mostly that they are an easy car to drive.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_04: Uh usually they have two lower tire pressures over two bigger tires, a tiny racing steering wheel, no oil in the steering rack, under the lubricated suspension, and people think that's how they are.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_04: So, experience of old cars is quite a useful thing, is that I can get into one and go, that gear sticks missed that that gear selector's missing the bushing.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_04: These brakes are not as good as they should be.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_04: I've got a basis for comparison because I drive and have repaired so many to be able to drive one and go, Whoa, that's not right.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_04: That could be better, you know.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_03: How far away, how far away do your customers come for your knowledge and experience to your shop?
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I don't know how familiar your listeners are to the the size of the country of Wales, but um I have customers from all four corners of Wales, so that's probably a hundred miles, something like that.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_04: Um I guess a few quite a few customers come from Dublin as well.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_04: So Ireland uh across the the Irish Sea, there's a there's a couple of regular ferries, um, and I've got some customers that bring cars over from Dublin then for me to repair.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_04: I repair them and then they come back again and take them away.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_03: You're kind of like your favorite barber, you know, you've been going to him for 18 years, even though I live 75 miles away.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna plan the day to go over there and have you look at the car.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_03: You've got those customers.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, yes, definitely.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_04: And and as time goes on, we we're just getting busier and busier.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_04: So we we we have a lot of great Google reviews and it's exponentially growing the business.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_04: You know, I I started off just myself, and in five years, there's five of us, and we've completely outgrown this place.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I'm about to move to a big workshop, um, hopefully, fingers crossed in about a month.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_03: Right, right, right on the coast, right there where the great big cliffs are.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_03: Watch and you watch the big storms come in.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_03: And uh there's the other question.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_03: The follow-up question to that is do you know Tom Jones?
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_03: I was gonna ask that before we got out of here.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_03: No, no, I don't know.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_03: Because you know, I was I I don't I don't have a direct connection with him, but I am kind of in the entertainment business.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_03: Uh uh for more and I was thinking, I'll just make a little phone call and say, hey, we know this guy.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_03: Take your car to him.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_04: Well, yeah, yeah.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_04: If he's got a classic car, send him this way.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_04: But um, yeah, so I mean if I open those doors, if you if you stood at the end of the uh in the driveway, you can just about see the sea.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_04: So sort of through the trees.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: Basically on the coast, then yeah.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_04: Apparently if you why Wales is in the middle, has got a big a big bay called Cardigan Bay, and we're right in the middle of that, just overlooking the coast.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_03: Is that where Cardigan sweaters came from?
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_03: Quite possibly throw that out there.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_04: Not in my field of expertise, that one.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_02: You are the only one that does what you do.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_02: You there's not like a you don't have a competitor in the area or in Wales.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_04: Not not for not directly.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_04: There's lots of places that will repaint your classic car.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_04: So a body shop is a body shop, a metal panel is a metal panel, it's got rust holes in it on a you know, an 80-year-old car or a 10-year-old car.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_04: You chop the metal out, you put new metal in, you paint it.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_04: So there's lots of places that will paint them, and it's quite obvious sometimes when the cars come in that uh this restoration has been a body shop restoration.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_04: You know, they've they've put the worn-out suspension back onto the shiny car, and that's kind of the bit that we do is that mechanical improvement, right?
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_04: Improving the performance and the reliability of the car and uh getting people's also, you know, they if people don't use them, they become more unreliable, and when they're unreliable, people use them less and they become more unreliable, and eventually they get parked in a shed.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_03: What is what is the highest mileage car that you have worked on and that is still on the road today that you know of?
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_04: Um I owned a 300,000 mile Mercedes at one point.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, um 90.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_04: Um that that car was incredible.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_04: Um that was it it was belonged to someone in my wife's family.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_03: And um what year model was that?
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_04: It was a 91 Mercedes 2 litre 190E.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_04: It had the original clutch, the original shocks.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, the original clutch?
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, didn't have any kids driving that one.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_04: No, he um he just drove up and down the motorway.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_04: It was a business.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_04: He bought it, he had a um a printing business.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_04: It was our grandfather's, and he had a printing business and used to just drive up and down the M4 all the time.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_04: And um, yeah, it was remarkable.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, after that kind of mileage, it wasn't in the first flush of youth, but it was um it was a fun car a long time ago for me.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_04: I think I had that when I was 20 or 21 or something.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_04: I'm now 40, so it's a while ago, but you know, that was uh an eye-opener as to old cars and what what they can do.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_03: Tim, we we could sit here, we could talk to you all day.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I got lots of questions here.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: Bizarre, crazy questions.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_03: I can't believe those guys over there in America have asked me these questions.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_04: But you know, well, the cardigan thing caught me off guard.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, I I will say the car, yeah, I'm sure it did.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_03: You know, the the only thing that I can think of, I love British humor.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_03: I always have, and I know that you guys have a great sense of humor, and I I'm sure that you can appreciate some of my stupid, crazy questions, but I had to ask them anyway.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_03: But it's great to talk to you and have you on the show with us.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_03: Can we call you back sometime and say, hey, what's going on?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_03: What do you got in the shop?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, sure.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, yeah, that's all we'll talk about.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: All right, so we're gonna we're going to do that.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_03: The founder of Cambrian Classics, Tim Winton, over there in West Wales, and it's a real pleasure and honor to talk to you, and we appreciate you today.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for having me.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, thank you very much.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, thank you.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, team, for us.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, please do.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: All right, uh, just ahead.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_03: Jeff's car culture.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yes, it is really about size.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_03: And Mr.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_03: Mars has five spring branch, spring break destinations.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: And maybe, yeah, something else too.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't even know.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_03: It's after this on the In-Wheel Time car talk show.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_03: We'll be right back.
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• 18:57
  SPEAKER_03: The free tailpipes and tacos cruise in is a production of Loopy Tortilla Tex Mex, Baumont and Katie.
• 19:02
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• 19:04
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• 19:31
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• 19:44
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• 19:50
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• 20:03
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• 20:04
  SPEAKER_03: All right, uh time now for Jeff's car culture.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_03: Size matters when it comes to parking spaces.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: Parking spaces.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_02: Well, parking space dimensions are relatively standard across the country, but they can vary slightly depending on the local laws and regulations.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_02: Standard parking space dimensions across America are between seven and a half feet and nine feet of the width and 15 feet to 20 feet in length, or what they call depth.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: So parking space dimensions are seemingly relative straightforward at a glance.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_02: There are several things to consider they consider that affect the final layout of a parking lot.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_02: Parking lot size affects the maximum number of spaces that you can put under the different layouts.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_02: Many parking lots use perpendicular parking to try to fit as many spaces in the lot as possible.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_02: That's like putting a button up seat at a feed or something.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta get them in there.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_02: Perpendicular designs are especially common in high traffic areas like grocery stores and department stores.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_02: However, there's also times when a parking lot is too large for the number of people using it.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_02: Having the high possible number of spaces only matters in a parking lot that's easy enough traffic to fill those spaces.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_02: So you can actually overbuild a parking lot.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_02: This parking is somewhat dangerous and requires wider aisles, so it's often possible to use different configurations in a large lot.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_02: While most people are familiar with perpendicular or 90 degree parking, many are the other angles and choices that can be designed and are in use.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_02: Two-sided parking array at this angle is 44.84 feet eight inches across in total.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_02: Twelve feet of this is for the main driving route, which is the rest of the parking spot.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_02: That setup offers excellent maneuverability because drivers only need to turn a little to get in or out of that space.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_02: In it's particularly practical in areas where people go in and out of the spaces a lot.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_02: So you got a lot of traffic in that one particular space track.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: Uh one notable advantage of the thirty degree space is that all doors are cleared on both sides of the vehicle, and that's important.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_02: Forty-five degree spaces.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_02: There's another one.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_02: It can fit more cars into the same area.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_02: These angles are still tight enough that they're they're only practical for cars traveling in one direction.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_02: You see the arrows and a lot of the parking spaces.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh well I do.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_02: However, increased capacity comes at the most uh comes at the cost to reduce speed because the cars need to slow down and much more uh skill to enter those spaces.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_02: Essentially, it is a balanced option for the angled parking, which is good to know.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_02: 60-degree parking is another one.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_02: It's relatively wide, uses a 59 foot eight-inch space for the areas with parking on both sides, typically about 20 feet of the driving space between the parking stalls.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_02: Then you got uh spaces that give people much more room to maneuver.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't take up quite as much space as perpendicular parking, but it's somewhat easier to back into that spot.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_02: Then you got 90-degree parking or perpendicular parking, as we discussed.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_02: Is the most common that's the choice that people like is where parking stalls are at the right angle to the road.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_02: Perpendicular parking is the worst choice for accessibility outside of an ADA compliant spot, which is the handicap spot.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_02: All vehicle doors uh could be close to one another, such proximity can make it extremely hard for some people to enter or exit the car.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_02: That's why you have some of the grids on the side of the parking spot.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_02: Then you got straight parking or parallel parking are common areas where it could be difficult to install in the driving test.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_02: They're most common along the edges of the streets, which are very common.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_02: Parallel parking spots are usually 19 feet in depth with an average of four feet of buffer space on the top of that, which is about uh 12 feet of driving space next to them.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_02: Then you can get into the other specialty parking, like semi-trucks, motorcycles, and buses.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_02: They each have their own routes of doing that.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_02: Semi-trucks are about 30 feet long.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_02: Motorcycles, you can put more motorcycles in a regular parking spot than you could in a parking spot designated for a motorcycle.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_02: And then you got buses, which are about 60 feet long.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: So I do this because when I go to the special grocery shopping or you go to your Walmart or your Target or whatever, and you got people that are pushing their baskets and they just leave them in the middle of the next lane.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_02: They don't take them to the place where you're supposed to put your car.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_02: I've seen people put shopping carts in the handicap space as someone's trying to pull in there, and it just drives me nuts.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_02: So you want to go out there and just poke them in the eye.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, size doesn't matter.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_03: Uh time now here on In Wheel Time to talk about driving destinations, family fun spring break road trips.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_03: Mr.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_03: Mars, it's all yours.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I picked out like five things that would make great family spring break road trips in the United States.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, because it's when you're talking about spring in particular, it's more like a vacation.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: You got scenic highways, roadside stops, and lots of destinations where the kids go wow.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: Some of them are more than others.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: But we'd start with the Grand Canyon in the North Arizona loop.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's really good to kind of base this out of Flagstaff because then you can drive up to the South Rim and you can kind of overlook the rim and you find lots of paths along the way, and uh you can be like the Griswolds there on the way.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: And then you can uh pick up on stretches of US Route 66 where you go through Williams and you kind of step back in time with the neon signs, the vintage diners, and a lot of roadside attractions.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, you can always stop in Sedona and check out the red rock scenery that you're gonna have along the way there.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: And then from there, we could go to California's Pacific Coast Highway.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: This comes up a lot because of what it is.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you're into the coastal scenery, this is just it's a legendary drive that's hard to beat.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: Start in San Francisco, head south towards Big Surf.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: You got lots of highway hugs, the cliffs and the Pacific Ocean, big, beautiful bridges to go across.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: You can stop in Monterey, check out the Monterey Bay Aquarium there, going down to Santa Cruz, where they've got an actually a little amusement park down there to kind of wind up a day of spending the day in the car.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: But number three would be the Great Smoky Mountains Adventure.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now, families that like mountains and wildlife and like to go hiking, it's hard to beat this because the park is so big.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: You've got the scenic drives, you've got waterfalls, you've got short hiking trips that are great for the younger kids that are out traveling.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: And you can go down through the Cades Cove loot.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is where you can see a lot of deer, a lot of other wildlife like turkeys, and even sometimes a few black bears out through there.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: Now, you can also roll into Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: You've got lots of family fun there, lots of amusements, and it's very touristy.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: You've got some aquariums, mountain coasters, lots of restaurants.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, if you go in the springtime, because of spring break, you're going to find a lot of wildflowers that are blooming.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: Makes things even a lot nicer.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: The other one would be going back to the other side of the world, the Utah's Mighty Five National Parks Loop.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you'd like to get out into the wide open landscapes, this is the place you want to go because now you're looking at Zion National Park or Bryce Canyon National Park or even the Arches National Park, where you're going to find all this vast scenery of red rocks and canyons and uh canyon walls, arches that have been thousands of years in the making.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: And you can actually kind of go hiking out in here because during the summer it gets really hot up in here.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: So springtime breaks are a good time to go out through these desert highways.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: The other one that would be the classic Route 66 road trip.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you want to get on one, there's it's hard to go wrong with Route 66 because you can start in Chicago, go all the way to Santa Monica if you've got time.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'd really like to do that one of these days, but never seems to be enough time.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: So you end up on little stretches of it.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: Even if you go uh down through Texas and you get into the Cadillac Ranch, you're going to find a lot of vintage motels, classic diners.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, you've got neon signs that are all going to bring you back to that American road culture.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: And uh Springfield, Missouri is considered a halfway point, if nothing else.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you make it to there, you could go north for a little ways, you could go west for a little ways.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Great place to kind of kick things off from there.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's that's some five trips that you can look at for spring break because it's the best part of it is it's a time that the kids are out of school, the family can get together, the family can then take and uh take off for a few days, don't mess with the airlines, just pack up the kids in the car and take off on a nice road trip.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_03: And buy some$5 a gallon gasoline.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, Mike, uh, check your, I just texted you.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_03: Check your text.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_03: Check that text.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_03: I did want to uh remind everybody it's time now for a break here on the Inwheel Time Show, Mr.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_03: Mars.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_03: It's time for a break.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_03: Uh in wheel time car talk will continue right after this.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_03: The Easter Bunny's coming.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_03: To the tailpipes and tacos cruise in at the Loopy Tortilla Tex Max in Katy, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_03: And you're invited to.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_03: Bring the kids and grandkids.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_03: It's a cruise in like you've never attended before.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_03: With a donation to Shirley's Kids, you'll get a free Loopy Tortilla breakfast taco.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_03: There'll be coffee and adult beverages, plus chili pepper trophies for the best hot rod, best modern classic, and best classic.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_03: There's no entry fee and no registration.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_03: Just bring your ride and the kids.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_03: Bad bunnies aren't allowed, but the Easter bunny will be there, and he'll be full of joy to help make this tailpipes and tacos a very special one.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_03: Photo opportunities abound.
• 29:25
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• 29:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's the Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise in Easter edition, Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_03: at the Loopy Tortilla Tex Max in Katy, located on 99, the Grand Parkway, just south of I-10, the Katy Freeway, in Katy.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_03: Make plans now.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_03: Loopy Tortilla is pretty good.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: Houston, get ready! At the North Complex, Africa, Mazda, Subaru.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_01: We're collaborating with the Car Meet Network, so you know it's gonna be crazy.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: And that's not all.
• 30:04
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• 30:08
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• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: You're not gonna want to miss this Houston, March 14th.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: We can't wait to see you here.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_03: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_03: I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and our InWheelTime.com website.
• 30:32
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• 30:41
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