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A No-Reserve Mecum Bid Turns Setback Into A Dream Convertible · In Wheel Time Podcast

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  Don Armstrong: Welcome to another In-Wheel Time podcast.
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  Don Armstrong: This is your place for all things automotive, the award-winning In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show today, coming to you from the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Beaumont, Texas.
• 0:18
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it's tailpipes and tacos just ahead.
• 0:21
  Don Armstrong: This week's recalls and what it's sold for.
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  Don Armstrong: Later, Mars has This Week in Auto History.
• 0:27
  Don Armstrong: Jeff has the racing calendar, and I'll get you caught up on the stories of making automotive news headlines.
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  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, Mars, who always takes a lot from all of us.
• 0:37
  Don Armstrong: We blame everything on him.
• 0:39
  Don Armstrong: The good stuff we still love him.
• 0:41
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: The good stuff we don't really get pay much attention to, but if there's something goes wrong, it's his fault.
• 0:46
  Don Armstrong: But we figured that he has been beaten down so many years by being married, and I have some experience in that department too, that I figured you're used to it by now.
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  Mike Marrs: Pretty much, yeah.
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  Mike Marrs: I'm sitting here going, this guy living my life or what?
• 1:03
  Don Armstrong: Exactly.
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  Don Armstrong: We also we always need more Jeff Zegner.
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  Don Armstrong: Chief Engineer David Ainsley is with us today.
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  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
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  Don Armstrong: Glad you could join us.
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  Don Armstrong: Thank you very much.
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  Don Armstrong: The sunshine is out, and somebody else showed up from TechStot or one of their subcontractors to join the other one person working on the damned I-10 highway over there.
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  Jeff Dziekan: And he's leaning on it, so we know he's working.
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  Jeff Dziekan: But there we go.
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  Jeff Dziekan: He's leaning on it.
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  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, he's working.
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  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: What did you say?
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  Don Armstrong: What did you say?
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  Mike Marrs: I was gonna say I saw a hi-ho move over there.
• 1:36
  Mike Marrs: Somebody's digging some dirt.
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  Mike Marrs: So a hi-ho.
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  Mike Marrs: What is a hi-ho?
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  Mike Marrs: It's a real tall backhoe.
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  Mike Marrs: Okay, you should have said a real tall backhoe.
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  Don Armstrong: Oh, so you know, but but you know, you don't have to you have to give him a little yeah, you have to give him a little break because he is from Neeterville, and that's in the area.
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  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, hi-ho.
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  Jeff Dziekan: See, who's our guest?
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  Jeff Dziekan: Well, that's another story.
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  Don Armstrong: All right, uh, time now for our guest in the studio.
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  Don Armstrong: We have an actual participant in today's cruise in.
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  Don Armstrong: Mr.
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  Don Armstrong: Mars, would you introduce our guest?
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  Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
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  Mike Marrs: This is Charlie Domain.
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  Mike Marrs: He is the proud owner of this white 1968 Chevelle SS drop top convertible, no less.
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  Mike Marrs: That uh beautiful car setting over here, and he's going to share with us what he knows about his car.
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  Mike Marrs: And what's his name again?
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  Mike Marrs: Charlie Domain.
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  Mike Marrs: Charlie.
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  Mike Marrs: Domain.
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  Mike Marrs: Yep.
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  Mike Marrs: Really?
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  Mike Marrs: Not to be confused with Buddy Domain down in Groves, that's a drag racer, but this is Charlie.
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  Don Armstrong: Charlie, you got a really cool car.
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  Don Armstrong: I don't know anything about you, but you got good taste in cars.
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  Mike Marrs: Thank you, sir.
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  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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  Mike Marrs: Pull this up a little tighter there.
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  Don Armstrong: There you go.
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  Don Armstrong: There you go.
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  Don Armstrong: Perfect.
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  Don Armstrong: Uh 68 Chevelle S is it you got the original motor in it?
• 2:44
  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
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  Don Armstrong: It's a number matching car.
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  Don Armstrong: It's a 396 numbers matching car.
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  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
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  Don Armstrong: Well, it's beautiful.
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  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
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  Don Armstrong: White, white.
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  Don Armstrong: With a black interior.
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  Don Armstrong: Black interior.
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  Don Armstrong: Bench seat.
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  Don Armstrong: And yes, and you're going to talk about that.
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  Don Armstrong: And the top is white or black?
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  Don Armstrong: Black.
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  Don Armstrong: Black.
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  Don Armstrong: Good for you.
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  Don Armstrong: Yep.
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  Don Armstrong: You're the man.
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  Don Armstrong: You keep it in the garage?
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  Don Armstrong: Yes, you do.
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  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
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  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
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  Don Armstrong: Under a cover.
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  SPEAKER_02: Under a cover.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you do you drive it very much?
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  SPEAKER_02: I usually go to car shows on the weekend.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like this one.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: And special events.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, uh something for the kids.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh go to Calderwoods, you know, for the senior people, and we have a little get together there once a year.
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  SPEAKER_02: What do you mean the senior people?
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  SPEAKER_02: You mean what do you think we look like?
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  SPEAKER_02: High school seniors.
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  SPEAKER_02: High school seniors.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Still wear mini skirts.
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  Mike Marrs: There you go.
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  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
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  Mike Marrs: Exactly.
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  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: They don't even make those anymore.
• 3:38
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
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  Jeff Dziekan: They still wear them.
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  Jeff Dziekan: What are you talking about?
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  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: Well, never mind.
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  Don Armstrong: Um, Charlie.
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  Don Armstrong: I I I I know you told us the story earlier off the air.
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  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: So I want to let share everybody, share with everybody the story of this car.
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  SPEAKER_02: I had another old car in uh Hurricane Harvey.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wanted it more than I did.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh-oh.
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  Don Armstrong: Oh, Hurricane Harvey.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it they they took it, and then my car buddy enthusiast told me, Let's just go to Meekham.
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  SPEAKER_02: I said, Well, I said, I really don't need to go to Meekham.
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  SPEAKER_02: I got a house to put together and a lot of damage.
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  SPEAKER_02: They said, Well, you need to take your mind off of it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Go to Meekham.
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  Jeff Dziekan: And bring your checkbook.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Are you married, Charlie?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Been married 54 years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Good for you.
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  SPEAKER_02: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_02: I know y'all was talking about that a while ago, but it it don't change.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that's good to know.
• 4:32
  Don Armstrong: We need to have uh knowing that.
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  Don Armstrong: Confirmation that we've got to look forward to.
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  Don Armstrong: So anyway, continue on.
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  SPEAKER_02: We went to Meekham and I I targeted the car well I looked on online first and I picked out the car I wanted.
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  SPEAKER_02: And uh collision specialist David Fetter went with me and he picks out cars, he buys cars from Meekham a lot.
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  SPEAKER_02: But anyway, we targeted.
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  Don Armstrong: Is he buying for other people or buying it?
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  SPEAKER_02: No, buys them for himself.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's got his own car collection going on.
• 4:59
  Don Armstrong: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we targeted that car and it came up during the lunchtime.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a no reserve.
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  SPEAKER_02: No reserve.
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  SPEAKER_02: No reserve.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we bid on it, and I actually wanted it$42,000.
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  Don Armstrong: You got that car for$42,000.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you but you got to pay them 10% in an auction fee.
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  SPEAKER_02: I understand.
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  SPEAKER_02: So then when I was signing the papers over, I started smiling, and the lady says, What's so funny?
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  SPEAKER_02: I said, Well, this is the exact check I just got paid for my other classic car that flooded.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I really got a nicer car, you know.
• 5:30
  Don Armstrong: So that worked out well.
• 5:33
  Don Armstrong: It just moved around now.
• 5:34
  Don Armstrong: Um I asked you, I said, so is it a frame off restoration?
• 5:38
  Don Armstrong: Because that paint job on that car is really nice.
• 5:41
  Don Armstrong: You don't know.
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  Don Armstrong: I don't know that, no, sir.
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  Don Armstrong: And and it also has a special sticker on it that I believe one of our my two partners here noticed that if it is one of those cars, we have no way of I've that's been asked about many times.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's got a Baldwin sticker on the rear on the tail panel, like they sold it, and it's got a Baldwin tune sticker on the valve cover.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_02: Wasn't Baldwin Chevrolet, weren't they in Pennsylvania?
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  Mike Marrs: I thought they were in Detroit.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: No.
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  Mike Marrs: I was I was thinking East Coast, isn't it?
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  SPEAKER_02: New York New York, yeah.
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  Mike Marrs: New York, yeah.
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  Mike Marrs: They were in New York.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: I could tell by the accent it was something up there.
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  SPEAKER_02: And they was probably the forerunner of the Copo Camaros and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh Yanko makes them, you know, they they were just a dealership that did their own thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, put the bigger motor in it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh so yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I I have no way of proving it or disproving it.
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  Don Armstrong: Right.
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  Don Armstrong: But it was a numbers matching car.
• 6:38
  Don Armstrong: It is a numbers matching car.
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  Don Armstrong: Chances are that there's maybe some truth behind all of that.
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  Don Armstrong: Is it necessary?
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  Don Armstrong: Is it called a four-speed?
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  Don Armstrong: No, sir, it's automatic.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's an automatic, three-speed on the column.
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  SPEAKER_02: Three-speed on the column.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was individual.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's got optic lighting on it, which was a tornado feature.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that car's got it also.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's why I'm thinking a dealership probably put that car together for somebody special ordered.
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  Don Armstrong: And uh you also mentioned the fact that uh it had uh bench seat in it.
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  Don Armstrong: Tell the story about the bench seat.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, we if you look at the little number plate, uh bench seats, you break all the numbers down, and it it shows you the paperwork, and there's an asterisk at the bottom.
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  SPEAKER_02: It says Chevrolet did not offer a bench seat in '68, so they went across the street to the Buick plant and got a Buick seat and installed it.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_02: Buick offered a bench seat in the Skylark.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_02: I was just gonna say that, uh that's a Skylark body.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, basically, yes.
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  Jeff Dziekan: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_02: They called them all A-bodies back then.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_02: General Motors called them all A bodies.
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  SPEAKER_02: A lot of the parts interchange.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_02: How does it look like underneath that car?
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  SPEAKER_02: Spotless, spotless.
• 7:48
  Don Armstrong: Do you know how many miles it's got on it?
• 7:51
  Don Armstrong: What does the odometer say?
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_02: Right now, the odometer said like 863.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_02: So it just turned over 100,000 miles in December of last year.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I don't know whether that's original, if it's 200,000, or you know, I mean, there's 60 years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's so well taken care of.
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  SPEAKER_02: Did has it ever been wrecked or bumped or not?
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_02: Not that I can tell.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, sir.
• 8:12
  Don Armstrong: Can't see anything.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_02: I've had body men look at it and they they finger the cracks and stuff and tell you all the door edges are just right.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_02: Uh you know, the putting it together, all the lines.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 8:24
  Mike Marrs: You baby that's it sure is pretty.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_02: I love about black and white car.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_02: I wash it and clean it and cover it up.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_02: Love it.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_02: Look at it, kiss it, kiss it, start it, rub on it.
• 8:35
  Don Armstrong: Uh, four four-barrel carburetor on that 396.
• 8:39
  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
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  Don Armstrong: Does it have cowl induction?
• 8:41
  Don Armstrong: No, sir.
• 8:41
  Don Armstrong: They didn't offer cowl induction 68.
• 8:43
  Don Armstrong: 69 is when they offered cowl induction.
• 8:45
  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
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  Don Armstrong: Because somebody along the line, that would have been a big temptation to put a 69 hood on it because I think it would interchange.
• 8:54
  Don Armstrong: Yes, right.
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  Don Armstrong: Whereas the front end, the grill and the fenders, they don't interchange.
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  Don Armstrong: Because the way that the headlights and the bezels around the headlight go back into the wheel wave.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, that's the first year of the dual headlights.
• 9:07
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: It's a beautiful car.
• 9:09
  Don Armstrong: Well, thank you.
• 9:10
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, really.
• 9:10
  Don Armstrong: I know you're proud of it.
• 9:11
  Don Armstrong: And you probably have idiots like me that want to know all about it and ask the same questions that I asked.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that's the that's the purpose of coming to the car show.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_02: You share that information.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_02: And they what you share what you know, and they share what they know, and it it all is a Chevelle Club?
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_02: No, sir.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_02: You know, we don't have a Chevelle club in this area that I know of.
• 9:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Or any club?
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: No, sir, no club, no.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_02: No, we have a lot of clubs, but uh I just go independently.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: Retired, I don't have time for what did you do when you were working?
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_02: I worked for Exxon Mobil.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_02: Mobil to start off with, and Exxon purchased it in 2000.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_02: And I retired from in 2007.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_02: You're a refinery.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_02: How long did you work there?
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I went back for 10 years as a consultant, so I got all together at 37.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_02: Then I worked back, so I had 47 years total.
• 10:07
  Mike Marrs: You you can quit now if you'd like.
• 10:09
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I have.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_02: My age, age caught up with me.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_02: Did it?
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: But you are you enjoying your retirement?
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I enjoy it.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_02: I do something to do all the time.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_02: People call me.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_02: My wife will say, Well, what are you gonna do today?
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_02: Well, whoever calls first.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_02: Whoever calls needs something.
• 10:25
  Don Armstrong: Hey Charlie, I need you to come over here and put this new manifold on this car.
• 10:28
  Don Armstrong: Will you help me?
• 10:29
  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_02: Is that the kind of thing?
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_02: Or go to the beach and turn the water on or turn the water off or just you got a beach house?
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_02: No, sir, I don't, but I have friends that have beach houses.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_02: You don't need to buy a beach house because you know everybody else that's got it.
• 10:40
  Mike Marrs: It's kind of like having a beach house, it's like having a boat.
• 10:43
  Mike Marrs: You always want it, you have a friend that's got that.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_02: Here comes an old mobile retiree right here.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_02: There you go.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_02: And what did he drive today?
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_02: Did he just come down here to have?
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_02: What did you drive, Randy?
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_02: What do you have today?
• 10:54
  unknown: What's up?
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: What'd you drive today?
• 10:57
  unknown: A Durango.
• 10:58
  Mike Marrs: A Durango.
• 10:59
  Mike Marrs: A Durango.
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  unknown: Going to Stingery restaurant.
• 11:01
  Mike Marrs: Oh my god.
• 11:02
  Mike Marrs: Speaking of going to the beach, that's where he's headed.
• 11:05
  Mike Marrs: Stingery.
• 11:06
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 11:07
  Don Armstrong: Oh yeah.
• 11:08
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 11:08
  Don Armstrong: Well, that's why he drove the Durango.
• 11:10
  Don Armstrong: He doesn't want to mess up the good cars that he's got.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have any uh good cars?
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_02: He's got numerous good cars.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_02: Does he?
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_02: And he he helps people with built and mechanic work on them too.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_02: He's got a little restoration shop.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_02: But he didn't bring one.
• 11:22
  Mike Marrs: He's gonna go to the damn beach.
• 11:24
  Mike Marrs: He's going 78 miles to eat dinner.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I think there might be a lady behind that.
• 11:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Probably.
• 11:31
  Jeff Dziekan: If he's if he's going to dinner, he better leave now because that traffic's well, you know, it's supposed to be a nice warm day.
• 11:36
  Don Armstrong: It is.
• 11:37
  Don Armstrong: I know in Houston it's supposed to be close to 90 degrees.
• 11:39
  Don Armstrong: I don't know about here, but it's probably something.
• 11:42
  Mike Marrs: It'd be a little cooler down there on the bay because the restaurant's right there on the bay.
• 11:45
  Mike Marrs: Ah, the old bay.
• 11:46
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 11:47
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 11:48
  Don Armstrong: Well, um, it it's uh it's interesting to talk to you because you know, uh, we talk to all sorts of different car people.
• 11:54
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, but uh there's something special about that particular age of automobile that we can all relate to.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 12:02
  Don Armstrong: We all wanted that car that you have.
• 12:05
  Don Armstrong: Now, when you were working down there at Exxon Mobil, what'd you drive?
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_02: Well, started out as driving a Volkswagen when I hired on.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_02: And then I think I turned to a Toyota and maybe a Shivvy truck or a GMC truck.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_02: Just I keep them 10, 12, 15 years.
• 12:24
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I mean, did you have uh any hot rods back in that day?
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_02: No, sir.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: No, I had I had motorcycles, four-wheelers, and jet skis.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: And kids.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_02: A wife and kids.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_02: A wife and kids.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't get a classic car until after the family had left, and it was just something for me to do.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_02: So how long have you been into classic cars?
• 12:43
  Don Armstrong: Because obviously you had one in Harvey.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_02: Uh maybe what was 2019.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_02: What was it?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_02: No, no, no, no.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_02: What was that car that got uh ruined by Harvey?
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_02: It was a Buick Skylark Grand Sport.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_02: Well, hello.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_02: And then my buddies out there at the refinery.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_02: Here's a car like you had in high school, and it was in San Antonio, and I went and bought it, and but it was a convertible.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: You and your convertibles.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: Well, of course you got hair to cover up that head.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, I mean it don't get messed up too often.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_02: But I I also have a Volkswagen convertible.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_02: A little wheel.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the cars.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that was the high school car.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that's the car took took the motorcycle's place.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_02: The motorcycle flooded in Harvey, also.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_02: Isn't there a song, Jesus Take My Buick?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_02: You know what Jesus Take the Wheel, that's what it is.
• 13:36
  Don Armstrong: Oh, that's right.
• 13:37
  Don Armstrong: Take the Buick.
• 13:39
  Don Armstrong: Well, it's a real pleasure to talk to you.
• 13:41
  Don Armstrong: It's an honor to do that.
• 13:42
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:43
  Don Armstrong: And uh do you ever make it over to Houston?
• 13:46
  Don Armstrong: Just about once a month to go to a doctor.
• 13:48
  Mike Marrs: Really?
• 13:49
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 13:49
  Don Armstrong: Well, you need to make that doctor's appointment right around Easter because you know they got another tailpipes in tacos.
• 13:54
  Don Armstrong: Yes, that's how I heard you talk about that.
• 13:56
  Don Armstrong: And uh the interesting thing about it is is that we're far enough away, different cars here.
• 14:02
  Don Armstrong: Sure.
• 14:02
  Don Armstrong: We love different cars.
• 14:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Sure.
• 14:04
  Jeff Dziekan: You got any low riders coming in, the different stuff.
• 14:06
  Don Armstrong: And that's not to say that we don't love everybody that has cars, but you know, you get to see the same cars because we're not we are all creatures of habit.
• 14:15
  Don Armstrong: Sure.
• 14:16
  Don Armstrong: And so we know that you're gonna see a lot of the same cars, but you come over here, it's a whole different world.
• 14:22
  Don Armstrong: So we need to get some of these cars, we need to intermingle, we need to coalesce, we need to love one another and take a little road trip early on a Saturday morning in the dark over to Houston.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we gotta we gotta worry about the price of gas.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_02: You know, maybe eight, nine miles to a gallon, you don't want to go very far.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_02: That's true.
• 14:41
  Mike Marrs: Maybe we meet in the middle like an Annawak or someplace.
• 14:44
  Mike Marrs: Not I have no idea where that's at.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_02: You you go over there and you wait for everybody to show up and tell me how it worked for you.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_02: They have a car show in Annawak once a year to Gators, to Gator Fest.
• 14:54
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, that's true.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Mars, I'll let you set that up.
• 14:57
  Mike Marrs: We tried to do that one time when Danny Coker was coming down.
• 15:01
  Mike Marrs: He was gonna him and his band were gonna be there.
• 15:03
  Mike Marrs: Danny Coker.
• 15:04
  Mike Marrs: And we thought, well, that'd be a good time for us to go, but we just is he is he in jail still?
• 15:09
  Don Armstrong: No, he was.
• 15:10
  Mike Marrs: I think he's in jail.
• 15:13
  Mike Marrs: I see his reruns, I couldn't.
• 15:14
  Don Armstrong: Well, I know because uh apparently he got sued by everybody and his mother.
• 15:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, I don't know about all that.
• 15:18
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm sure he did.
• 15:19
  Jeff Dziekan: They all get sued.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_02: His painter's from Waco.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_02: He comes down to a car show, the Carvet Club puts on here in Beaumont in September.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 15:27
  Don Armstrong: Well, you know, there's another car show that I was uh telling Chase about.
• 15:32
  Don Armstrong: I can't remember the name of it, but it's up at College Station.
• 15:35
  Don Armstrong: And it happens in the early spring.
• 15:37
  Don Armstrong: I remember going up there with Michael Wooding when he had the uh Pontiac.
• 15:40
  Don Armstrong: And it's a big cruise in on a Saturday.
• 15:43
  Don Armstrong: Do you know what I'm talking about?
• 15:44
  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
• 15:44
  Don Armstrong: I've heard of it.
• 15:45
  Don Armstrong: I can't think of the name of it either.
• 15:47
  Don Armstrong: But uh it it it's not in one parking lot, it's in about a dozen parking lots in one area of town, and you go from here to here to here in any colour.
• 15:54
  Mike Marrs: Almost like a woodward cruise type thing to take in that?
• 15:57
  Don Armstrong: You kind of no, it's not a Woodward type cruise, it's a parking lot cruise.
• 16:01
  Mike Marrs: Oh, okay.
• 16:01
  Don Armstrong: But we're gonna find out, we're gonna get involved in that with uh the loopy tortilla because apparently that loopy tortilla that is in uh college station, it has parking lot from here all the way to Cady, Texas.
• 16:14
  Don Armstrong: Wow so uh we're in.
• 16:16
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that's it.
• 16:17
  Don Armstrong: So we could readdress all of that problem that they've got over there.
• 16:20
  Don Armstrong: Charlie, it's great to talk to you.
• 16:21
  Don Armstrong: Nice talk to you guys.
• 16:22
  Don Armstrong: Thank you very much for stopping by and sharing your story.
• 16:24
  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
• 16:25
  Don Armstrong: We appreciate it.
• 16:26
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 16:27
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, Epicar.
• 16:29
  Don Armstrong: Jeff has the racing calendar and he's gonna talk about a muffler shop.
• 16:33
  Don Armstrong: Mars has this week in auto history, and I'll bring you this week's automotive news headlines.
• 16:37
  Don Armstrong: When the in-wheel time car talk show continues.
• 16:41
  Don Armstrong: The tailpipes and tacos renowned cruising expands to Boma.
• 16:45
  Don Armstrong: Bolton tropical cruisers will want to experience tailpipes and tacos at the Loopy Tortilla High Tent South in Boma near Washington Boulevard.
• 16:53
  Don Armstrong: Grab free loopy breakfast tacos with any donation to Shirley's kids.
• 16:57
  Don Armstrong: Enjoy a coffee or an adult beverage.
• 16:59
  Don Armstrong: Every cruising vehicle is automatically entered to win one of the beautiful chili pepper trophies for Best Hot Rod, Classic, and Modern Classic.
• 17:06
  Don Armstrong: Tailpipes and Tacos Baumont happens Saturday morning, March 21st, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 17:11
  Don Armstrong: If you're a car geek like we are, this is the event you'll want to attend.
• 17:15
  Don Armstrong: The Intel Time Cover Talk Show will be online live, and you may be interviewed about your ride.
• 17:20
  Don Armstrong: Talepipes and Tacos Baumont edition Saturday, March 21st, 8 to 11am, at the Loopy Tortilla 2050 I-10 South in Baumont.
• 17:28
  Don Armstrong: The Katie Tailpipes and Tacos happens Easter Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11.
• 17:32
  Don Armstrong: The free tailpipes and tacos cruising is a production of Loopy Tortilla Tex Mex, Baumont and Katie.
• 17:38
  Don Armstrong: It's pretty good.
• 17:40
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• 17:45
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• 17:51
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• 18:01
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• 18:07
  Don Armstrong: Mm-hmm.
• 18:07
  Don Armstrong: InWheeltime.com has a list, and we know you love lists.
• 18:32
  Don Armstrong: Cruise in in Beaumont's loopy tortilla Tex-Mex.
• 18:36
  Don Armstrong: Thank you very much for joining us.
• 18:38
  Don Armstrong: Time now for the racing calendar, sponsored by the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
• 18:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Thank you for that.
• 18:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Hey, we got NHRA going on this weekend.
• 18:44
  Jeff Dziekan: It's the Arizona Nationals presented by NGK Sparkplugs.
• 18:47
  Jeff Dziekan: It's at the Firebird Motorsports Park in Maricopa Road in Chandler, Arizona.
• 18:53
  Jeff Dziekan: You got quite a compliment of all the racers going out there, top fuel.
• 18:56
  Jeff Dziekan: You got bikes and all that.
• 18:58
  Jeff Dziekan: It kinda is.
• 18:59
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you got indie car schedule.
• 19:00
  Jeff Dziekan: They're going to be uh on the end of this month as they're at Barber Motorsports Park.
• 19:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh good stuff to watch there.
• 19:07
  Jeff Dziekan: And then this weekend you've also got uh Darlington, Darlington, Darlington.
• 19:11
  Jeff Dziekan: You got NASCAR Cup, you got uh the O'Reilly trucks.
• 19:14
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm sorry, the O'Reilly uh cars, and then you got the Craftsman trucks.
• 19:18
  Jeff Dziekan: So they're all out in Darlington.
• 19:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh it's on a different channel.
• 19:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Darlington.
• 19:23
  Jeff Dziekan: Darlington.
• 19:25
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh and then you got Formula One schedule, which uh they got the Japanese Grand Prix on the 29th.
• 19:30
  Jeff Dziekan: And you know what?
• 19:31
  Jeff Dziekan: The Saudi Arabian uh I'm just gonna take that back, the Bahrain Grand Prix and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix have been canceled.
• 19:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh they're moving because of the conflict in the East.
• 19:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Because of bombs.
• 19:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Because of the East.
• 19:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, more of a terrorism thing.
• 19:45
  Jeff Dziekan: So that's pretty much it.
• 19:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh go support your local tracks, your local drag strips, your local circle tracks, all that stuff.
• 19:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Just go out and be a supporter.
• 19:54
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 19:54
  Don Armstrong: Uh I'm I'm a good supporter, an athletic supporter.
• 19:57
  Don Armstrong: There you go.
• 19:58
  Don Armstrong: Um, time now for this week in auto history, Mr.
• 20:00
  Don Armstrong: Morris.
• 20:01
  Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
• 20:01
  Mike Marrs: Got a few things here that we thought was really interesting this year, or this week in auto history.
• 20:06
  Mike Marrs: And uh we wanted to start off with March the 16th, 1913 was actually the first uh year that I was born?
• 20:14
  Mike Marrs: Yes.
• 20:15
  Mike Marrs: Where the heck did you go?
• 20:17
  Mike Marrs: There we go.
• 20:19
  Mike Marrs: Did you lose your place?
• 20:20
  Mike Marrs: Well, I can't see the light.
• 20:21
  Mike Marrs: I can't see what the light sun.
• 20:23
  Mike Marrs: Hold on.
• 20:24
  Mike Marrs: Here it is.
• 20:25
  Mike Marrs: There you go, Jeff.
• 20:26
  Mike Marrs: Thank you.
• 20:26
  Mike Marrs: How about it?
• 20:27
  Mike Marrs: Anyway, Mars is the 16th, 1913.
• 20:32
  Don Armstrong: Look at that impact.
• 20:34
  Don Armstrong: You'll never see that.
• 20:36
  Don Armstrong: That's a 396 in power.
• 20:40
  Mike Marrs: Anyway, I'm sorry.
• 20:41
  Mike Marrs: No problem.
• 20:42
  Mike Marrs: So Ford's moving assembly line just didn't change manufacturing.
• 20:45
  Mike Marrs: It made uh it made performance more potential.
• 20:49
  Mike Marrs: It cut the building time so it put more cars out and accessible to the masses, and people became enthusiasts overnight.
• 20:57
  Mike Marrs: So it expanded the whole car culture because there were more racers, more modifiers, and people that were just tinkering with their cars.
• 21:03
  Mike Marrs: And then when the aftermarket industry was developed, it really kicked things in.
• 21:07
  Mike Marrs: Now, in March 21st, 1952, mobile economy run, highlights efficient engineering.
• 21:14
  Mike Marrs: Now, this was really a marketing contest between the automakers.
• 21:18
  Mike Marrs: The objective was to win the title and show that your car had more uh excellence in the build and the quality of the engine, the quality of the car and how it rode and drove, and it was truly a marketing thing that in people used it for years and they win when they could win that title.
• 21:38
  Mike Marrs: Then March 18th, 1965, Chevrolet Mark IV Big Block V8 came out.
• 21:43
  Mike Marrs: Now, this is when Chevrolet pumped this out and got into the horsepower wars of the 1960s.
• 21:48
  Mike Marrs: They were big engines with big displacement and big torque.
• 21:52
  Mike Marrs: It became a favorite of drag racers and street machines.
• 21:55
  Mike Marrs: One of them was the 366 cubic inch, six point zero liter big block V eight engine.
• 22:00
  Mike Marrs: Primarily used for talking about no stinking liters back then.
• 22:04
  Mike Marrs: It was all cubic inch.
• 22:05
  Mike Marrs: 366 cubic inch.
• 22:08
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 22:08
  Don Armstrong: They know liters.
• 22:09
  Don Armstrong: We don't care about that.
• 22:09
  Mike Marrs: No obla liters.
• 22:10
  Mike Marrs: Okay.
• 22:11
  Mike Marrs: So this is the big truck engine, and it found its way into a lot of race cars because it was built heavy duty.
• 22:16
  Mike Marrs: Now then came the 396 cubic inch engine.
• 22:19
  Mike Marrs: This was in the 1965 Corvette.
• 22:22
  Mike Marrs: It was an L78 option rated at 435 horsepower.
• 22:26
  Mike Marrs: Now you could also get a C Z16 Chevelle, and it came up with 375 horsepower.
• 22:33
  Mike Marrs: Now in the 1970s the 402 came out, and this was really just a 396 bored out by 30.
• 22:40
  Mike Marrs: And it wasn't that much larger, but they continued marketing as a 396 and putting it in smaller cars at the same time, which I did not know.
• 22:48
  Mike Marrs: Then March the 19th, the Chevrolet Cabaro was actually pulled out and codename was Panther.
• 22:55
  Mike Marrs: I thought that was rather interesting.
• 22:57
  Mike Marrs: It was built to compete with the Mustang.
• 22:59
  Mike Marrs: What they call it the Panther because a Panther, a Cabaro is a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs.
• 23:05
  Mike Marrs: That was the marketing thing.
• 23:06
  Mike Marrs: March 17, 1970, Clean Air Act pressure advanced reshaped performance cars.
• 23:12
  Mike Marrs: Basically, they killed the muscle cars when they did that.
• 23:14
  Mike Marrs: And uh they started shifting to the smaller cars, not necessarily brute performance performance, but everything fuel economy.
• 23:22
  Mike Marrs: Then in March the 21st, 1972, as a result of the Clean Air Act in 1970, the Honda Civic came in and it led the way for a lot of small cars that were more fuel efficient, and a lot of people went that way because of the high price of gasoline, car insurance, and everything else that went into killing off the muscle cars.
• 23:45
  Mike Marrs: Perfect.
• 23:46
  Don Armstrong: What goes around comes around.
• 23:47
  Mike Marrs: There you go.
• 23:48
  Mike Marrs: That was this week in automotive history.
• 23:51
  Don Armstrong: Let me swallow this bite of taco here.
• 23:53
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 23:54
  Jeff Dziekan: They're good tacos, too, by the way.
• 23:55
  Jeff Dziekan: If you haven't come out here and enjoyed a taco, you need to get out here because they're good tacos.
• 23:59
  Jeff Dziekan: They've got all kinds, they've got chorizo ham and eggs, eggs, they got breakfast beverages.
• 24:05
  Don Armstrong: And the tacos are free if you give a donation to Shirley's kids and Couture.
• 24:09
  Don Armstrong: And Stan will match that money.
• 24:11
  Don Armstrong: So um can't go wrong.
• 24:13
  Don Armstrong: Plus, it's a great car show.
• 24:14
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 24:14
  Don Armstrong: And you don't have to show a car, you can come out here and look at the car.
• 24:17
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, come out and enjoy it.
• 24:18
  Mike Marrs: It's a free car show.
• 24:20
  Don Armstrong: Honda is expected to pull the plug on its uh sole electric vehicle in the U.S., the prologue after the current production run ends in December.
• 24:29
  Don Armstrong: The automaker isn't planning a second generation of the mid-size crossover, which GM builds for Honda on a shared EV platform, according to industry forecaster Auto Forecast Solutions.
• 24:42
  Don Armstrong: Honda spokesperson declined to comment on future product plans, but said the prologue remains in the lineup.
• 24:47
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 24:50
  Don Armstrong: Killing the prologue built in a GM factory in Mexico would mark the latest retreat in Honda's US EV push and cap a brief but volatile chapter for the brand's first major battery electric offering in the market.
• 25:03
  Don Armstrong: They are in some deep doo-doo.
• 25:05
  Don Armstrong: They are currently fifteen point eight billion dollars in write downs and expenses tied to the change in strategy going from ice engines to battery electric and now back to ice engines, and they have nothing that looks good, so I don't know what they're gonna do.
• 25:24
  Don Armstrong: I think they're looking for a buyer.
• 25:26
  Don Armstrong: Of all people, are you kidding me?
• 25:31
  Don Armstrong: Hyundai Motor America extorated by a judge for destroying evidence, was ordered to pay a Pennsylvania used vehicle dealership nearly$10 million after losing a key ruling in a fraud lawsuit that dates to 2019.
• 25:46
  Don Armstrong: Pennsylvania judge called out Hyundai for a filing baseless fraud lawsuit against two used car dealerships that bought 628 recalled 2011 to 2014 Hyundai Sonatas at auction between February 18 and March 19.
• 26:04
  Don Armstrong: Dealerships bought the vehicles with defective Theta 2 engines to Hyundai's franchise dealerships for engine replacement or buyback.
• 26:15
  Don Armstrong: It didn't come out, and uh the amount represents, let's see, part of the sanction for destruction of evidence.
• 26:22
  Don Armstrong: He ordered Hyundai to pay Knight, which is the name of the company, representing storage costs the dealership incurred for 163 recalled vehicles titled in Knight's name and still in its possession.
• 26:32
  Don Armstrong: The amount represents$25 a day for almost seven years.
• 26:37
  Don Armstrong: Wow.
• 26:39
  Don Armstrong: Dealer Christopher Pantella said in an affidavit.
• 26:43
  Don Armstrong: Honey, we called more than 1.6 million of those vehicles with the Theta 2 engine.
• 26:48
  Don Armstrong: They bought them thinking they were gonna, you know, put another engine in it and make some money.
• 26:52
  Don Armstrong: Guess what?
• 26:54
  Don Armstrong: Didn't work.
• 26:56
  Don Armstrong: That's some big doo-doo on that.
• 26:58
  Don Armstrong: Big duty on that.
• 27:04
  Jeff Dziekan: There's a little thing going on here.
• 27:05
  Jeff Dziekan: They're trying to take pictures of the of the youngster.
• 27:08
  Don Armstrong: What is that, a car?
• 27:08
  Don Armstrong: I don't have no idea.
• 27:10
  Mike Marrs: It looks like it's got the light hand on it, but I can't really tell about the rest of it.
• 27:15
  Don Armstrong: Well, Morris, I think that you need to get up, go over there, and find out what it is for all of us.
• 27:21
  Mike Marrs: After I kick this commercial off when we go to break.
• 27:23
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, you don't want to be late on that.
• 27:24
  Mike Marrs: I don't want to be late.
• 27:25
  Mike Marrs: Don't be late.
• 27:26
  Don Armstrong: Don't be late.
• 27:26
  Mike Marrs: Don't be late.
• 27:27
  Mike Marrs: Again.
• 27:28
  Don Armstrong: Again.
• 27:28
  Don Armstrong: And be sure and make bring the checklist and that piece of equipment that you keep leaving at the house.
• 27:34
  Mike Marrs: I have it.
• 27:34
  Mike Marrs: It's in my pocket.
• 27:35
  Mike Marrs: It's in his pocket.
• 27:36
  Don Armstrong: Did somebody bring it to you?
• 27:37
  Mike Marrs: No.
• 27:38
  Mike Marrs: No, I had it in my pocket.
• 27:39
  Mike Marrs: The point that I left at the house is in my pocket.
• 27:41
  Mike Marrs: Oh my god.
• 27:43
  Mike Marrs: The other one's broke.
• 27:44
  Mike Marrs: We're shipping it back.
• 27:45
  Mike Marrs: And that's in the other pocket.
• 27:47
  Don Armstrong: I don't want to know what's in his pockets.
• 27:49
  Don Armstrong: I can only imagine.
• 27:50
  Don Armstrong: Probably a whole.
• 27:51
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Don Armstrong: Then there's a whole nother story too.
• 27:55
  Don Armstrong: There's a whole nother story to that.
• 27:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 27:57
  Jeff Dziekan: How many fingers you got in your pocket?
• 27:58
  Jeff Dziekan: 11.
• 28:00
  Don Armstrong: Oh my God.
• 28:02
  Don Armstrong: You know, there is that.
• 28:04
  Don Armstrong: All right, I'm done with all that.
• 28:06
  Don Armstrong: We'd love to hear from you.
• 28:07
  Don Armstrong: Shoot us an email.
• 28:07
  Don Armstrong: The address is info at nwheeltime.com.
• 28:10
  Don Armstrong: And we are back.
• 28:12
  Don Armstrong: The Easter bunnies coming.
• 28:14
  Don Armstrong: To the tailpipes and tacos cruise in at the Loopy Tortilla Text Max in Katie, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 28:20
  Don Armstrong: And you're invited to.
• 28:22
  Don Armstrong: Bring the kids and grandkids.
• 28:23
  Don Armstrong: It's a cruise in like you've never attended before.
• 28:26
  Don Armstrong: With the donation to Shirley's Kids, you'll get a free Loopy Tortilla breakfast taco.
• 28:30
  Don Armstrong: There'll be coffee and adult beverages, plus chili pepper trophies for the best hot rod, best modern classic, and best classic.
• 28:36
  Don Armstrong: There's no entry fee and no registration.
• 28:38
  Don Armstrong: Just bring it ride and the kids.
• 28:40
  Don Armstrong: Bad bunnies aren't allowed, but the Easter bunny will be there, and he'll be full of joy to help make this Tail Pipes and Tacos a very special one.
• 28:47
  Don Armstrong: Photo opportunities abound.
• 28:49
  Don Armstrong: The NRL Time Car Talk Show will be streaming around the globe, and you can be selected to tell your car story to a global audience.
• 28:55
  Don Armstrong: It's the Tail Pipes and Tacos Cruise and Easter Medition, Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 28:59
  Don Armstrong: at the Loopy Tortika Text Max in Katy, located on 99, the Grand Parkway, just south of I-10, the Katy Freeway, in Katy.
• 29:06
  Don Armstrong: Make plans now.
• 29:07
  Don Armstrong: Loopy Tortika is pretty good.
• 29:11
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• 29:12
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• 30:03
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• 30:11
  Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheeltime Car Show.
• 30:14
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• 30:24
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• 30:33
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