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Revving Up: Texas A&M's Car Club and the New Ford Maverick · 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, central.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Father's Day edition Just ahead.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Texas A&M Sports Car Club Big Shot Kate Lilly.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Also, jeff has this week's racing calendar and Mr Mars reviews the 2024 Ford Maverick XLT Howdy.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Along with Mr Mars, we always need more Jeff Zekin and IT Director of Engineering, david Ainsley.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, who was with us last weekend sleeping in this weekend?
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us and we thank you very much for doing such a thing.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Mr Mars, it was actually had Kate Lilly on the horn over there and then he hung up the phone accidentally.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Apparently, I hung up on her.
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: That's just great.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: You might want to text her, or something.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: But in the meantime I've got to share this with you.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Police in Florida were alerted to a car theft in progress at a Cadillac dealership by a witness who called 911.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: The caller turned out to be the would-be car thief herself.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: The Lee County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook video that the 911 caller said she was notifying authorities about the theft because she believed that would allow her to take the car without penalty.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to steal a car that's not legally mine, so y'all gotta come make a report, she said in a recording of the 911 call.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: I'm reporting this now.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Kind of a thought process is that Deputies who responded to Val Ward, cadillac and Fort Myers about 1 am on May 31st found a woman getting out of a used Toyota Corolla from the dealership.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: The woman told them she was being trained in a game of black ops to steal a car, but called 911 in an attempt to make her carjacking legal.
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: The 911 call did help the 37-year-old suspect avoid being charged with theft because she never left with the car.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Instead, she was charged with trespassing for accessing the lot after hours.
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: And what city was this in, with trespassing?
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: For accessing the lot after hours and what city was this in?
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: That was in Fort Myers, Florida.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, you know I'm thinking she needs to go back to her travel trailer and just camp out for a while and be satisfied.
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: Well, if she needs to sleep in it, we've got a person that can hook her up with some shelving and commode and showering.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: All of that.
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: Bed stuff, absolutely.
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mr Morris Got her back.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: I got her back.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: I have to apologize for hanging up.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: Kate, it's all his fault.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: He did it and he admits it.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: We're sorry that he hung up on you.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: That's okay's.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: Kate lilly, ladies and gentlemen from the texas a&m sports car club and I have her listed as a big shot.
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: Did I miss that by much?
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: No, not, not by much and then, and then you've got somebody sitting next to you.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: You'll have to introduce yourself.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: That's the little shot.
• 3:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I am the comparative little shot.
• 3:26
  Speaker 4: My name is Andrew Spain.
• 3:28
  Speaker 4: I am the president of the Sports Car Club.
• 3:31
  Speaker 5: I see and besides Big Shot, what is Kate's real title?
• 3:37
  Speaker 5: I'm public relations for the Texas A&M Sports Car Club.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: PR.
• 3:41
  Speaker 5: Yep, this is my third consecutive year.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: You must be doing a good job and you've also gotten us to bite into all of the Texas A&M Sports Car Club stuff and we're so interested that we decided to get in touch with you and say, hey, there goes her career, yeah, there goes the club right there.
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: But no, I had no clue that texas a&m sports car club even existed where you been well, I mean, I think a lot of people didn't realize it, because the club has been around for many, many, many years.
• 4:15
  Speaker 4: It's been around since 1968, um, and it's taken many different forms over that time, but especially during COVID, it was a very small footprint on campus and nearly no longer existed.
• 4:30
  Speaker 4: We've been slowly trying to rebuild this organization from scratch post-COVID, so what?
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: kind of cars are in your club.
• 4:37
  Speaker 5: Any cars.
• 4:38
  Speaker 5: We have people who don't have cars.
• 4:39
  Speaker 5: It's literally just for people who love cars.
• 4:42
  Speaker 5: It's the oldest collegiate car club in the world but we hold rallies, we hold meets, it's just.
• 4:48
  Speaker 5: We hold social events, it's just for anybody that loves cars.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, you guys had a great racetrack down there, but somehow, some way a developer got a hold of it and put townhomes and houses on it.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: You're saying yes.
• 5:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, unfortunately is on it, you're saying yes, yes, yeah, we we were at texas world speedway for many, many years and then, yeah, I think it would have been around mid 2010s, I believe where it got bought and then, inevitably, yeah, they quickly tore down all the banks and it's now housing.
• 5:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, some of us some of us still have some of the original seat cushions and some memorabilia, but, yeah, it was a big part of the club.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I have to tell you that I went to some early races there.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I saw some nascar races there.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: I saw um richard petty race there, aj foight race there in a nascar um and I had a great time.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: It back, it was typically a two-day deal, where ARCA raced on Saturday and NASCAR raced on Sunday.
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: I also saw IndyCars there as well, and then later on in the years they developed the road course and went out there for a couple of events, for that, and you know it's a shame that all folded but nobody had any money that they wanted to put into the track, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and it kind of fell in disrepair and that's a thing of the past.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Great memories though I can tell you that.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about what you guys have coming up with the sports car club there at A&M.
• 6:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we're going into our kind of basically fourth year post-COVID and the club has seen exponential growth.
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: Obviously, there's a lot of automotive enthusiasts on campus.
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: Our mission is to kind of bring them all together, and so a lot of our upcoming plans is for when schools, School year starts back up.
• 6:39
  Speaker 4: We're going to be resuming all of our weekly meets we have a cars and coffee that happens every month All of our random events, including track days and autocrosses, that we got to put on this past spring.
• 6:53
  Speaker 4: We're going to be resuming a lot of those, hopefully here in the fall.
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: Where are your cruise-in events On campus?
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: In a parking lot somewhere?
• 7:05
  Speaker 4: We'll drive around College Station, we'll hit a lot of the back roads in Brazos Valley.
• 7:10
  Speaker 4: I mean it's really nice roads around here For our track days.
• 7:13
  Speaker 4: We just you were talking about Texas World Speedway and a lot of tracks being closed.
• 7:19
  Speaker 4: We were actually super excited that a track was just recently built in Madisonville and we went out there for that and the spring had a really, really good time.
• 7:28
  Speaker 4: We plan on going back out there For our autocrosses.
• 7:32
  Speaker 4: We do at the Brazos Valley Expo Center, brazos County Expo Center.
• 7:36
  Speaker 4: We do it in one of their big back parking lots.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: Do you guys have anything like a cars and coffee type of cruise in?
• 7:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, we have one in Century Square, which is kind of one of our like little shopping areas in town.
• 7:52
  Speaker 4: We do it every third Sunday of the month, obviously when school was in session.
• 7:56
  Speaker 4: So while everyone's gone for summer right now we don't really hold any events.
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: But yeah, we do that.
• 8:02
  Speaker 4: It's a little bit of limited space, but we very much try and pack as many cars in there as we possibly can yeah, and do you guys work at the university?
• 8:12
  Speaker 4: no, so the texas a&m sports car club is a student organization.
• 8:15
  Speaker 4: It is completely run by students.
• 8:18
  Speaker 4: Um, we have a advisor who works with the university, who's the.
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: I believe she's a researcher and professor at a and m, um, but yeah, the club is completely run by students.
• 8:29
  Speaker 4: Um, it's a, it's a student organization and we, we do it.
• 8:34
  Speaker 4: We do the best of what we got well, yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: You know, uh, I was going to say that there are some really, uh, besides the main drag up there, there are some really nice back roads to get up to a and m.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: Uh, for us, those uh here in the houston area and, um, we need to get you guys involved in some of the stuff down here so y'all could have a a cruise in need to get you over to the hemi hideout.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of that?
• 9:00
  Speaker 5: no, sir, no.
• 9:00
  Speaker 5: So uh, yeah, hemi hideout is a dear friend of ours.
• 9:01
  Speaker 5: John hovis owns the Hemi Hideout.
• 9:02
  Speaker 5: Have you ever heard of that?
• 9:03
  Speaker 5: No, sir, I've not.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: So the Hemi Hideout is a dear friend of ours.
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: John Hovis owns the Hemi Hideout.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: He's out in Brookshire and so that's kind of out west, obviously, of the city of Houston so it kind of puts it a little bit closer to you guys.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: But that would make a nice cruise, I think, from A&M and College Station and a nice cruise I think from A&M and College Station, and he'd host them.
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: He would host them at that facility, absolutely.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: That would be something that we'd love to put you guys in touch with.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we like to have those kind of short little road trips on a Saturday or a Sunday, and John has them quite frequently, not every weekend, or certainly nothing like that.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: But he does one for kind of open to the public clubs right in the spring and in the fall so they can get a taste of it up.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all would really enjoy that.
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a large facility, beautiful facility.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: It's on his property and, uh, it is a timber frame constructed man cave and it's huge.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: And he's got you know, he had this collection of hemi's, uh, and then he decided that he's going to build this homage to that, and then he decided that, hmm, there's lots of room in here, this beautiful ceiling, let's just go ahead and get lots of neon in there.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: So you guys, I think, would really appreciate it.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful facility and I'm speaking on his behalf.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: He's going.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Why are you inviting them down?
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: here, you don't even live here, it's my place.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: Sorry, john, just had to, but that's one of the things that comes to mind for y'all's group.
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: You know, make it a Saturday or Sunday or something like that College event getting introduced to the networking of the automobile us John, the whole thing works.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: So you know, like all the other car nuts in the world, we all try to get together and put everybody else together and have a big party, a good get-together.
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: So to speak.
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: So what type of PR work are you working on right now?
• 10:58
  Speaker 5: Basically just what y'all just said.
• 10:59
  Speaker 5: I just I work on connecting just people who love cars in the area, cause it's it's really hard to find like a larger group of people.
• 11:07
  Speaker 5: So what we do is we we've basically taken a lot of smaller car clubs in the area and we kind of incorporate them more into our open public events.
• 11:16
  Speaker 5: So that's been really good We've been.
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: I think we had a 600% growth in just the last year.
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: We went from during COVID and I say that we nearly died in COVID.
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: I think there was two people in the club during COVID and now we're up to 200 right now.
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: Wow, nice, and a lot of that is the outreach that she's been working on with smaller, really small, very small micro clubs.
• 11:41
  Speaker 4: As well as just she's been helping on with like kind of smaller, really small, like kind of very small micro clubs, um, as well as just she's been helping out with putting on events, a lot of just there's a lot of you know a lot of fun things you can do with car people.
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: There's also a lot, a lot of people at a and m looking for like social organizations to be a part of when they're not in school, of course, and so we we look to host a lot of those events, the social events what is the name?
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: what is the name?
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: I?
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: I actually attended that several years ago with uh woody.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: Uh, I followed him up there and it was a saturday, saturday or sunday event and it was a huge cruise in and there must have been a thousand cars up there at College Station Not at the campus, but there is a place to eat around there.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: Do you guys know what I'm talking about?
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: It's a once-a-year cruise and cars from all over the state cruise in up there.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Are you familiar with it?
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: I'll have to find out from him what it is.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: What is the?
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: name of that cruise.
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: I remember, remember it, but I don't remember the name of it.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't get to go.
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: I'm blank on the name as well.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: I'm really searching through right now well, when I find it out, I'll I'll send you guys an email.
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of emails, do you have an email address?
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: we sure do it's.
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: It's t-a-m-s-c-c-68 at gmailcom.
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's our primary club communication.
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: And then for all of the young people out there, we primarily use Instagram and Facebook.
• 13:12
  Speaker 5: We have a Facebook.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, that's very good.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, it's great to talk to you, guys, get to meet you and all, and we look forward to getting together with you.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Next time you're in Houston, be sure and let us know, and we'll forward to getting together with you.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: Uh, next time you're in houston, be sure and let us know, and we'll.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: And we'll do the same when we come up there, I would imagine.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: Let's see, isn't there a big george straight concert coming up?
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: today, yeah funny enough.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm in town right now is to go see that yeah, well, you and everybody else, and I can only imagine the tickets are not that easy to get a hold of, and if you do get a hold of them, they're kind of pricey, I would imagine.
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I will say the resale market's pretty good right now.
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: You can find some tickets for pretty cheap if you want to come down.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate that, yeah.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't tell my wife.
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the heat would probably kill me, but it would be quite the experience.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: I love George Strait Big fan.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know anybody that doesn't.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Well, listen guys, it's great to talk to you.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us today.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: We'll be in touch.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's all stay in touch and let's get together when you guys are in town and we'll do the same when we're headed your way.
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: We'd Thank you.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: You got it, take care, all right.
• 14:21
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• 15:03
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• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Time now for the racing calendar sponsored by the Texas Muscle Car Club.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Challenge.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, buddy, we got NASCAR going on today.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Iowa Speedway Tickets are still available, mike.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: That is tonight.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Is it in the middle of?
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: a cornfield, yeah, something like that.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: It's actually tomorrow, the 16th is the Cup Guys.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: It starts at 7.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: The Xfinity guys are the other stuff that's going on today as well.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: This afternoon Drag racing is off this weekend.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Drag racing is off this weekend.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I heard that, yeah.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: And then you've got the Ramco Spanish Grand Prix in Formula One, michael, that's next week.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: You know the rain falls mainly in the plane.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, in Spain it's the Grand Prix.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Indy is off and also IMSA is off, so we've got a little bye week going on.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Go have a good time with Dad.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish my dad were still alive.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah I'd like to go visit him today.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: So, uh, for all those that uh like me that don't have a dad anymore, I hope that you've got your own family and, if not, enjoy the day, go out and treat yourself to uh, some loopy tortilla or something there you go yeah or find one of the local cruise-in clubs.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: There's plenty going on.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, get out there and do it as well, okay.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Mr Mars has the review of a 2024 Ford Maverick.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I remember the Maverick back in the days I guess that was mid-'60s that they had the Maverick.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Maverick was cool.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Mid late-'60s they had Maverick GTs yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Of course you need to fix your microphone.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Mr Radio Four-door.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Mavericks, four-door, two-door.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Mavericks, yeah, I remember the two-door.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Mavericks Maverick Brothers on TV.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: And what was the Mercury?
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: The Mercury.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: No, mercure A comet.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: No Mercury Mercury, it's in a thermometer it wasn't near as popular as the Maverick.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Let's say that it's in a.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Capri Well anyway, Was it Mercury Capri?
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: My brother and I had a Capri, yeah, but that wasn't the same car.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: No.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't make any difference.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: The answer to that, Someone will tell us.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that they will, but in the meantime there is a new 2024 Ford Maverick pick-em-up truck.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Here's Mr Morris to explain.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: It is the new version of this vehicle that was introduced in 2022.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: It comes in actually three trim levels an XL, xlt and a Lariat.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: We had the XLT with the all-wheel drive option on it.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Now I would say there is also a trimmer option.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: That's out there, but that's a total option up there.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: It's a nice place.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: You took it for those pictures.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you like that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is considered a compact pickup.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: It's basically built on the Bronco Sport platform, so it's a unibody four-door, 4.5-foot bed.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: That's the way it comes.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: You don't really get a choice on anything else like that.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: So it looks like a truck and it does drive like a truck.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Does it quack like a truck?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: If it quacks like a truck, it is a truck.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Whenever you hit the bumps, just right, it will quack a little bit.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: So up front you're going to find it has LED lighting with the auto headlights, which I love, and I think everybody ought to start doing that.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Got the side mirrors on the doors that are powered.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Got the power locking tailgate.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Got cargo tie downs inside of the bed along with a bed liner is what we had as some of the options on it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: We had the 4k towing package, which is the wiring and the upgraded cooling system on it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Fx4 package also there's an option.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: So we had the all-terrain tires, tow hooks, skid plates on it so you can get a little bit of off-road on this vehicle.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Got some unique 17-inch wheels on it as part of that XLT package.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: We did have cloth bucket seats on the inside of it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: So it's not leather, it's not that fancy, it's not that upper Lariat level thing.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: So the second row has flip-up bench seats.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: It's got a little bit of storage underneath of that.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: It's got a rotary gear shifter, which some people don't particularly care for.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I think they're great.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Yep Makes things a lot easier, a lot cleaner in there.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: They also had the 8-inch center stack screen Now, so that's not necessarily the biggest, but it's plenty big for this compact vehicle.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: You're going to find your nav there, your Ford Copilot 360, your rearview camera All those kind of convenience controls are all right in that.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: The interior storage compartments there's some in the door panel and they're kind of unique on that door panel.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: They're not full like most cars, so it's got room for larger bottles.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: You can actually put a big bottle in there.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: That's tall because it doesn't go all the way down Like a fifth of.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Jack, I was thinking a fifth.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe even a half gallon.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: When you go to close it, though, you can't just reach over and grab something, because of the door handle on it, the door panel, the way it's made To make allowances for that makes it a little bit smaller.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I've got plenty of USB A and C, so you got your auto car play and your Android auto.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Now, up under the hood, we had the 2.0 liter turbo engine.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Now this produces 250 horsepower, 257 pound feet of torque, backed by an 8 speed automatic.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: And again, this was an all wheel drive version, so it will tow With the tow package and everything on it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: It says it will tow up to 4,000 pounds and haul up to 1,500.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Which that's a pretty good size load behind a compact truck Another day, older and deeper in debt.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: And maybe yeah, I'd like to put 4,000 pounds behind that, just to see.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: That's two tons.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: So the EPA says you should be looking for 22 in the city, 29 out on the highway and combined you should be getting 25.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I got 20 across the 148.8 miles I drove it and again, like I said earlier, it does ride and drive like a truck, which is kind of surprising with the unibody.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: But that's because the suspension and the load package and stuff, the way it's built and the way it'll carry it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Now, this vehicle, we didn't have it.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: No, excuse me, this vehicle, the base model price on a Maverick is $25,410.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: The base trim price that we had was $26,345.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Now you add in the all-wheel drive and some of the other features that we had for the bed liner and things Puts the MSRP as tested at $34,735.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: The best thing I could find to compare it to with that unibody-sized vehicle was the Hyundai Santa Cruz.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: That starts at $26,900 versus the $25,410 for the base model.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: And what's the Honda?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: version of that that's the Ridgeline, but it's actually bigger.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: It's more into the midsize with the Colorado.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Getting to that compact size.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I was just looking at it as a crossover.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I looked at that too, but I thought the difference in the size was too big A small avalanche design.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: This is a small compact pickup.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: If you're looking for that compact truck, this might be the one for you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You're a game player, aren't you?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you didn't have to reply like that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: That sounds kind of creepy.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: He has the games rolling through his mind, yeah what kind of games?
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: He's got in mind are different than mine, yeah, that's kind of what I'm wondering.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Hemmings sold cars roundup.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've collected some that sold recently on Hemmingscom, and so we guess what the price is going to be.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I know because I'm the game show host here and my contestants are Mike Mars and Jeff Zekin.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: You go, vanna, so picture this, and I picked this because of your love for station wagons.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: This is a 1971 Chevrolet Nomad.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Now, this is based basically on a Chevy Malibu.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: They called it a Nomad 71.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Chevy Nomad I've never seen one that I can remember anyway, but it's clean and it is four-door.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, chevy Nomad I've never seen one that I can remember anyway, but it's clean and it is four-door, it's not like a it's a station wagon.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: No, it's not.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Now, nomad had the ribs on the back, so these have the ribs.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: No ribs, I'll show you the picture.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: There's the picture.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: You just can't look at the box.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: That's not a Nomad.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: See right there it says Chevy.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Nomad, whatever the case may be, it's a Chevrolet Malibu station wagon.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: How's that?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Does that make it better for you?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Much better?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: $25,000.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: So how much $25,000.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: $25,000?
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: $32,000.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: $32,000.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: How about $27,300?
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: There you go we.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I saw one recently.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: At what show was that?
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Dang it, it was a black one, the black.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and white one up at Lone Star.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Yep, that's what it was.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, it was beautiful.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Here's a 68 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe with some lake pipes on it, and for those that don't know what that is, those are side pipes.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: A 68 Chevy Corvette Looks like a small block.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: It's maroon in color, Got some aftermarket wheels on it, but other than that it looks pretty straightforward with chrome bumpers front and back.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: 68 Chevy Corvette what do you think that would go for?
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: 17.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: 27.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Mars, did you peak no 27.3.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: ?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: You said side pipes yeah.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 27.3.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Because I've got my eye on one important H's.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I'm just waiting for the guy to come down.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Did you ever find out about the one at Emmons, or did?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: they sell it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: It's still there.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: 1970 Chevrolet C10.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: It looks original With one of those ugly dealership bumpers where they etch the bumper.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Name of the dealer.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the bumper.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: So this looks all original 70 chevy c10 probably got a six banger in it.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Eight thousand dollars uh, eighteen thousand, eight thousand on the button I got one, you got one first one in like three weeks.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Uh, how about a 90?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I kid, I don't even know what this homologation is.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: It's a 73's, a 73 Volkswagen that appears to have been stretched and made into a woody wagon.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: All right, okay, I'm going to cover it up.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: It's a 73 model there.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: It is right there.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: How much do you?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: think that something like that would go for.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: They've got to pay somebody to take that Pretty much.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: And how about you, Mr Mars?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: What would you?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: say, I would say probably $10,000.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: They owe me $6,000.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: How much $6,000.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: $6,000.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: $8,500.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: $8,500.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: You could have this.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: How about a 1969 Mercury Cougar XR7?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Now, the XR7 was the hopped-up version of the 69, well, Cougar.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go 14.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: 14?
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: .
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Mr Mars, looks like it's been in a.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: It looks like a barn find.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Actually Looks like it's original.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go closer to 18.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: 18.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: This one sold for $6,500.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: It must not run Volkswagen Thing from 1973.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Volkswagen Thing.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Well, volkswagen Thing would be Expensive, little thing Five grand, five grand.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say 12.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: , 12.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: $13,650.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Well, no, no, I'm going to say 12.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: , 12.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: 13, 650.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Well, they're rare they are, and part of the reason is that they rust away.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: But anyway, that's the Hemmings sold car roundup for this week.
• 28:53
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• 29:08
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• 29:12
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• 29:20
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