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Under the Hood with NHRA Legend Coleman Roddy: A Journey of Speed, Success, and Automotive Nostalgia · In Wheel Time Podcast

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  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 Shieldcom.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly is.
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  Speaker 1: In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Ahead on HRA Hall of Famer inductee Coleman Roddy Mars has this week in auto history and the events calendar.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: We'll get you caught up on the stories making automotive news headlines this week.
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  Speaker 1: Today's program, sponsored by Mecham Auctions, houston, april 4th through the 6th at NRG Center Howdy, along with Mike out of this world Mars.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: We always need more.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Zekin, I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us today.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: We let David Ainsley, our chief engineer, sleep in.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: I hope he heard that.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: I hope he did too, because that means that he's not sleeping in.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, he'd be all over the comment section.
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, soon.
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: He's probably not even home yet.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: Did he go somewhere?
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: I'm assuming he's a young guy.
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: The young guys do that.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's younger than us.
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  Speaker 1: He's not young.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he is.
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  Speaker 1: He's just younger than us, that's all.
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  Speaker 3: Mmm.
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  Speaker 1: Mmm.
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  Speaker 1: That's David Ainsley Joining us now after 40 years.
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  Speaker 1: After retiring he got inducted into the National Hot Rod Association's NHRA Hall of Fame and here he is Hall of Famer himself, coleman.
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  Speaker 1: Roddy Coleman, how you doing Great, how y'all doing, gentlemen, well, we're doing fine.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: You kind of aged yourself by telling us all of that and the fact that you did competition eliminator titles in 83 and 84, again telling us kind of how old you are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm old.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty well, says it all.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us a little bit about yourself and your career in NHRA drag racing.
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: When did you get started?
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  Speaker 1: What possessed you to get into drag racing?
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  Speaker 2: It was definitely my father, ed Roddy.
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  Speaker 2: He raced in the early and mid-50s.
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: He retired in 1957, racing a 40 Ford with an Olds engine in it that set the national record in August of 57.
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  Speaker 2: Right before he retired it ran 13 flat at 101 and a half miles an hour, which was kind of crazy, unheard of in 1957.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: My 23-year-old Corvette runs a a 13 flat.
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  Speaker 1: That's the best that it'll do and you know it's relatively stock, so that means a lot from 1957 and that car running that fast he basically um, I don't know it, just genetically rubbed off on me.
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  Speaker 2: And then in my mid-teens, maybe 16 or 17, unfortunately, I was basically started off as a street racer, which is where I met you.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, 68 Camaro and uh, uh, got beat by everybody early on and then finally learned how to do it with help from uh, uh, a lot of locals.
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  Speaker 2: And the first guy I met when I went to Houston was uh Luther and Tommy Costales at Houston engine balancing and and they basically like gave me some tips.
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  Speaker 2: The car got, uh, toward the end of my street racing career, got really, really fast.
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  Speaker 2: I think the best it ran was 998.
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  Speaker 2: So I kind of I don't know just kind of got too fast so really couldn't get anybody to race me anymore.
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: And then that's when me and dad decided to turn quote-unquote pro in 1976, trading our 427s in for basically 280, 287 cubic inch small block Chevys.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that era it would have been the 302 kind of setup from Chevrolet that they put in the Z28?
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  Speaker 1: .
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  Speaker 2: Eventually.
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  Speaker 2: When I first started, basically it was a small bore motor.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the big bore motor like we ended up running the Z28 style motor ended up running the Z28 style motor.
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  Speaker 2: The 287s had a little longer stroke and a little shorter.
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: I mean a little longer stroke and a little bit smaller bore so you couldn't run as big of valves in them and they weren't nearly as efficient.
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  Speaker 2: Later on in my career, when me and David Nickens teamed up and I started winning and running really fast, we used the 302 block 30 over and basically de-stroked the 3-inch crankshaft down to 2700, if you can imagine that it ran a 2700 stroke.
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  Speaker 2: So those motors, even back then you know we crossed the finish line at about 9900 RPMs 9900 RPMs.
• 5:31
  Speaker 4: I was going to say screaming is more like it.
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  Speaker 1: I see a picture here of you standing behind your Camaro.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it was your street Camaro at the time.
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  Speaker 1: It had a big scoop on the hood, that's a cool looking car.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting on top of the carburetors.
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  Speaker 1: I assume and is that the same car that you ran with all of the graphics on the side of it later on?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: It is the same car.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that was my real.
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  Speaker 2: I would consider first real race car, and then we modified it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, several times we ran gas with it with a fiberglass front end and then eventually we went to f, modified with david nickens power, set the record and was semi-successful with it.
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  Speaker 2: We, we won, uh, I think, three races with it.
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  Speaker 2: We won, I think, three races with it, but then graduated into the 65 Corvette, which was a, and the Firebird, which were much, much better race cars.
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  Speaker 1: Why were they better race cars?
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  Speaker 2: The Camaro had 108-inch wheelbase.
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: Of course, the 63 through 67 carvettes all had 98 inch wheelbase and they were, you know, the engine set back everything.
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  Speaker 2: They were one of the most efficient race cars ever in modified and competition eliminator and you know, mine was no exception.
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  Speaker 2: It, uh it did everything right.
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  Speaker 2: The only, the only knock I ever had on the Corvette was the fact that when you put the wheel tub in it in order to put the big tire in it, a guy 6'3 1⁄2" like me, I basically had to shift the car four times in the quarter with my knees kind of up in my chest.
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  Speaker 2: I never had enough room to stretch out and be comfortable in the car.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the Corvette.
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  Speaker 1: Did you say that you also had a Firebird?
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  Speaker 2: The Firebird was my most.
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: The Firebird was a famous, famous car.
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  Speaker 2: It was built by John Harrison.
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  Speaker 2: It was his brainchild.
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  Speaker 2: That car had a 101-inch wheelbase.
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  Speaker 2: It had enough room inside for me to stretch out.
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  Speaker 2: I was very comfortable in the car.
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  Speaker 2: We ran modified production with that car and it was the first of its kind modified production with that car and it was the first of its kind.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, john came up with all of these.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it was the prototype for all the cars that basically imitated it afterwards.
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: Uh, we were the, we were the.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, betty and roger lamb did the struts on this car.
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  Speaker 2: It would take me an hour to describe how he got away with running a call over shock in the back of a car that wasn't supposed to have one, because he designed this ingenious setup that had the shock and the coil spring all in one spot.
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: But it actually was not a coil over shock.
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: You could take the shock out and the car would still stand, and that's how we got away with it.
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  Speaker 2: And this car, believe it or not, the record, not the index, but the record was 942.
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: First weekend out when we won the winter nationals, we went 933 and then two weeks later in good air at Green Valley.
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  Speaker 2: It went 9.15 at 147.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever became of those cars of yours?
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: Well, the Corvette I ended up selling to Eli Lopez in the Dallas area, and it's a really cool story.
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  Speaker 2: I got a call from them, or a text from them, in 22 that they had something that they wanted me to have.
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: Well, the car, the Corvette had been gone many, many, many decades ago, but it had two hoods, and the one hood that I ran on the car had been in their loft for 20, well, for 40 years.
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  Speaker 2: And there it is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, they presented you with the hood, they presented me with a hood.
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  Speaker 2: It is absolutely the same.
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  Speaker 2: If you can see this right here, this is from 1983, when I won the world championship.
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  Speaker 2: This is the hood and this is my prize possession.
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  Speaker 2: It is absolutely a time capsule of what went down in 1983.
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  Speaker 1: That is so cool.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you're proud to have that.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: What do you do these days?
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: Are you working?
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: No, I retired May 27th of 22,.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: But if you can see in the shop, I know your main sponsor is Mecham Auto Auction.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, this is a 87 El Camino that I am bringing to Mecham next week.
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: So I give them a little plug, it's going to Mecham.
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: So instead of working on fast cars, I have a 69, all original, 68, 68 000 mile ssrs, camaro there.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: It is right there that we've been working on for years.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there is uh an o10 car vet that I've had for 10 or 12 years got a blower on it.
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: Uh, the guys at sam tech in houston, judd mazzengill and his bunch, helped me with it.
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  Speaker 2: I took it to the track in Baytown.
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  Speaker 2: It ran 1060, so it's not a slug.
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  Speaker 2: But I just go watch the races now and talk a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, wow, this is very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you live now?
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  Speaker 2: We live in Port Natchez.
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  Speaker 2: My little tiny shop here is in Nederland, right behind me and my dad's dealership that we had.
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  Speaker 2: We were fortunate enough.
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  Speaker 2: Dad was fortunate enough to be in business for 65 years.
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  Speaker 2: I helped him for 51 years.
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  Speaker 2: You see all these little blue ribbons everywhere.
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: You see all these little blue ribbons everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: These little blue ribbons were where we won best used car dealer of the year for I don't know 20 or 22 years, but he passed away in 22, and it was never going to be the same.
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  Speaker 1: So I decided to retire.
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  Speaker 1: Well, tribute to dad.
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  Speaker 1: That's quite a story and very impressive racing career as well.
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  Speaker 1: Um, do you attend any races anymore?
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  Speaker 1: Not in competition, just to go watch?
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  Speaker 2: I do, um, I, I go every chance I can.
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  Speaker 2: I did want to mention one thing before.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, before time gets away from us, this little wall right here is basically a culmination of my racing career.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, now we are in the museum of the gulf coast here in port arthur and, uh, but the thing I I raced a long time but but I was not very good when Vic Custer, john Harrison and David Nickens helped me.
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  Speaker 2: The last two years we raced when we won the world championship.
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  Speaker 2: We won nine races and we were runner-up three times in two years.
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  Speaker 2: And then the last year which I don't have it here, it's in the museum we were able to outpoint all the other world champions me and my team to win the Quaker State Sportsman Cup, which was the greatest honor as a quote-unquote sportsman racer that we could achieve.
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  Speaker 2: So that's when I retired.
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  Speaker 2: We retired after that year when we won the Sportsman Cup.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if y'all know anything about the Museum of the Gulf Coast, but it is a wonderful, wonderful place here in.
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  Speaker 2: I actually grew up in Port Arthur and if you know anybody down here, if you get time, because they've got Jimmy Johnson and you know Janice Joplin and all these people- and Mike Mars, mike Mars, yeah, the Mike Mars Museum.
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: Mike Mars has been through there, but he's not in there.
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  Speaker 4: No, go see Coleman and a bunch of people.
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  Speaker 2: You're in it in my book.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Well, listen, it's been a real pleasure to talk to you and we thank you so much for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: And the Museum of the Gulf Coast.
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  Speaker 1: I assume that we could find that online.
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  Speaker 4: You can, you can, and you'd be surprised to see some of the names of the people that are in there.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: I would be, yeah, I would be.
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: Very cool.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Well, Coleman, we hope to see you one of these days soon in person.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: All right, right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we look forward to it again.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: thanks so much for joining us on this saturday well, we, uh, it was my pleasure and honor to do it, and, uh, y'all keep up the good work thank you, my friend, thank you, sir.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: Talk to you soon you bet that what a fun interview, yeah he still makes it out the the needle and drag still runs like on a third saturday or something.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: It's not nothing like it was when we were growing up, but he still gets out there every once in a while.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: You'll see him on the side of the road.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: As you said, yeah, watches it.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Part of the festivities.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: We're not done with you yet.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Now we have the events calendar, Mr Mars.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: What events do you?
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: have, sir, I have lots of events.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: I can see that you need to have a file I put it under the bottom.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: That's the wrong thing.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: How about this one Events calendar coming up today?
• 15:29
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• 15:37
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• 15:38
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• 15:40
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• 15:44
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• 15:46
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• 15:48
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• 15:51
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• 15:53
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• 16:17
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• 16:20
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• 16:28
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• 16:37
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• 16:43
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• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 16:49
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• 19:36
  Speaker 1: You're on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show and time now for Mr mars feature event.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: auto history back to back I gotta load it, go ahead.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: This week in 1968, lincoln introduced the continental mark three.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Now, focus group actually provided feedback that this was negative and they didn't particularly care for it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: But lee iacocca and henry ford II loved it, overruled.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: The group put it in production.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: But it did not carry any Ford or Lincoln badging.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: It was Continental.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: It was the only badges on it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: I'd drive it yeah, I would too with a 460 cubic inch engine under the hood, luxury interiors including leather seating.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Also this week, 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona breaks the 200 mile per hour on track.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Buddy Baker went to the Alabama International Speedway after Chrysler got a hold of him to test the ongoing Daytona program for the Dodge 30 laps.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: He recorded a lap speed of 200.096.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Later in the day he actually popped that up to 200.447, became the first person to officially do 200 mile per hour on a closed track.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Also this week in 2005, the Saturn Sky debuts.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: It came out with the press release.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: A lot of people liked it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: A lot of people said it was going to be great.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: It shared a platform with the Pontiac Soltis and the Opel GT, which should have been a tail-sail sign.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: But even with the several power options under the hood.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: They only sold 34,415 units and the Saturn band was completely discontinued in 2010,.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Taking the solstice with it, the sky with it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I remember the car very well.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I liked the car.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: The problem was, like all of the cars that GM made in that era, it was underpowered, it was gutless, it was terrible.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, I think there's one on display down on the I-45.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: What's the Buick GMC dealer down there?
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: We just passed Gay Pontiac.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: I think there's one down there in their showroom.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: It used to be Gay Pontiac, now it's Gay Kia or something, something like that.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Gay family, don Gay and Donny Gay.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Donny Gay was a drag racer.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Yep, donny Gay was a drag racer that damn near burned to death in a terrible fire in a funny car.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: But yeah, a lot of history back there.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Matter of fact, we drove past it and I said, right, there is where the drag strip used to be at the Walmart I had a friend that built a front-engine dragster back in our days, back when we were still just coming out of high school.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Why do you say it like that?
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Because I wanted you to realize that there are people that are almost as old as you are.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: But he took it over to who are they?
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: You're such an ass.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: He took it over there and Don Garlitz actually signed his license once he made the passes that he was supposed to.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: I never drove the car.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I helped to do the burnouts out in front of the house.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: That's good, because we know that you can't back up well it's.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: There's no reverse in it and your license is signed by sergeant wooden.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: He was on tv last week, yeah he was.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: He was talking about trying to see if he can join us next week to talk about driving with the eclipse.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: He was talking about four-wheelers, yes, and all the crazy stuff that goes on with them.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: The takeovers and stuff.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: You know, back in our day we wouldn't have done that on the street oh no.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: We would have done it in some parking lot, somewhere.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: There wasn't anybody.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Well, you wouldn't have done it because you would have known it was not.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Well, we didn't have the vehicles to begin with, yeah, and there was a different mindset growing up.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I think the worst we did was get to a parking lot, like at Gateway or something.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: We'd take the four-wheel drive trucks and we'd time together to see who could tow the other one.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: But I mean, we didn't tear up anything, we didn't mess up any traffic, unless people stopped to watch.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Have you been ticked off at all this morning?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: A little bit here and there have you all this morning a little bit here and there have you.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to get really mad?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Not particularly.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: You're going to ford ceo jim farley's total compensation.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Farley farley jumped 26 last year oh wow to 26 million 470 thousand and 33, despite falling short of his potential bonus target.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: According to the company's annual proxy statement, compensation for four of Ford's top five named executives rose from the prior year, largely because of revamped stock awards that estimate the hypothetical value of future payouts.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: According to a spokesperson to a spokesperson, uaw President Sean Fain, an outspoken critic of what he views as excessive management compensation, blasted Farley's pay package Quote.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Just a few weeks ago, farley was crying to the press about how the UAW's record contracts are forcing the company to rethink where they build their vehicles, but now they have no problem finding the money to give him a 26% pay raise to $26.5 million a year, fain said.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Let's be clear, this is corporate greed, plain and simple.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Now, if I keep reading, it's going to do more than make you bad Farley's compensation trailed that of Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares, which jumped 56% last year to roughly $40 million.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: General Motors has not yet released CEO Mary Barra's compensation, although she received nearly $29 million in 2022.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: The automaker will hold its annual virtual shareholders meeting May 9th, according to the filing.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Virtual, because nobody wants to be in a crowd of angry people.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: As you can imagine, mike, I need a raise.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of Mr Sean Fain, uaw membership fell 3.3% last year to 370,239, its lowest mark since 2009,.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: According to the annual financial report filed by the union, following prolonged work stoppages at Ford, gm and Stellantis last fall, the UAW paid out $152 million in strike benefits, more than triple the previous reporting period.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Strike-related costs last year also included $27,295 for rain ponchos for strikers and $37,350 for yard signs related to the Detroit 3 strike.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: According to the filing, the union reported net assets of $1.1 billion and almost $4 million in liabilities at the end of the reporting period.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: What would Jimmy Hoffa do?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: That's what they need to base everything on.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: First of all, you've got to find him.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Well, no, just his ideas and his theories and the way he went about running the UAW.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: What would he do?
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I don't think he'd have that guy in charge.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so either.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Swimming with the fishies.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Well, it's been an interesting show, gentlemen.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, it has, and I'm really glad we got the chance to talk to Coleman.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: We've been trying to juggle schedules for quite some time.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Are you all so glad that I made you mad at the end of the show?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Well, the Twitch is about gone gone now, so I'm getting over it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Have a donut, yeah, and some brown water, yeah, but.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: But they always talk in total compensation.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: You know, I learned a long time ago that some of that is is built into their contract for you know performance incentives type things.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying they're, they're right, but it's not.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: They're not saying this is what the guy's salary is, it's what you can get away with.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: It's kind of like a senator.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: The salary is $175,000, but they're worth $50 million.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: We do know, and it still ticks me off.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I think that's way too much money for anybody.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: What do you do with that, unless you formed and made the company.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Well, it should be based on performance.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: What are you contributing to the company.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're contributing on sucking out all the money of a company.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: That's what that all means.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Get a big pile and roll around in it.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Hey, we've got to take a quick break.
• 27:38
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• 27:41
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