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Live Car Talk From A Texas Cruise In · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:04
  Don Armstrong: Don't fold your arms.
• 0:07
  Don Armstrong: From the Easter edition of Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise In at the Lippy Torchia Tex Mex in Katie, Texas, welcome to the N-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:16
  Don Armstrong: Today we're going to talk to the participants of today's big event in Jeff's Car Culture, vehicle repairs that signal when it's time to sell or trade in.
• 0:25
  Don Armstrong: I like to trade it, trade it off and let it somebody else deal with the old girl giving you problems.
• 0:29
  Don Armstrong: Is she trying to cost you more money?
• 0:31
  Don Armstrong: You're talking about cars now?
• 0:32
  Don Armstrong: Oh, I'm talking about cars.
• 0:34
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 0:34
  Don Armstrong: Just want to make sure.
• 0:35
  Don Armstrong: Mr.
• 0:36
  Don Armstrong: Mars has national parks in his driving destinations feature.
• 0:39
  Don Armstrong: Howdy.
• 0:40
  Don Armstrong: Along with Mike out of this world, Mars, who's uh come to the party.
• 0:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Coming in, he's coming in.
• 0:45
  Jeff Dziekan: He's parking cars right now.
• 0:46
  Don Armstrong: Uh we always need more Jeff Zeken, Chief Engineer David Ainsley is here.
• 0:49
  Don Armstrong: My name is Don Armstrong.
• 0:51
  Don Armstrong: Thank you so much for joining us today at the Lupi Tortilla Tex Mex in Katy, Texas.
• 0:56
  Don Armstrong: And if you're wondering where that is on the west side, we're pretty much at the intersection of I-10 and 99, the Grand Parkway.
• 1:03
  Don Armstrong: But it's not quite that simple.
• 1:05
  Don Armstrong: So you need to get off, and the real place where we are is at Kingsland Boulevard.
• 1:12
  Don Armstrong: Kingsland and 99.
• 1:14
  Jeff Dziekan: So the West Timer, south of the I-10.
• 1:16
  Don Armstrong: Just put it in your key map.
• 1:18
  Don Armstrong: They don't even make that anymore, do they?
• 1:20
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 1:21
  Don Armstrong: Key maps?
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_06: Look for the big red and green Luby Tortilla sign and you'll find us.
• 1:26
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 1:26
  Don Armstrong: Well, you may want to pull your microphone a little bit closer to your mouth.
• 1:30
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 1:30
  Don Armstrong: He doesn't care.
• 1:31
  Don Armstrong: How's that, my friend?
• 1:33
  Don Armstrong: I guess it's just fine.
• 1:36
  Don Armstrong: Stan Holt is uh over there.
• 1:38
  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
• 1:38
  Don Armstrong: And he's not even paying.
• 1:40
  Don Armstrong: It's so funny because you know you would say that oh, Stan Holt is here.
• 1:45
  Don Armstrong: And uh you go you you would you would think that that um he would look over here, but not.
• 1:56
  Don Armstrong: He's over there.
• 1:57
  Don Armstrong: Would you like to join us?
• 1:59
  Don Armstrong: Because we we're looking kind of for a guest.
• 2:02
  Don Armstrong: He's two-fisting it this morning.
• 2:04
  Don Armstrong: Um he's got a Pepsi Cola and a and a non-Pepsi cola.
• 2:10
  Don Armstrong: Non-Pepsi Cola.
• 2:14
  Don Armstrong: You have to sit down and put a headset on because we can't hear you.
• 2:18
  Don Armstrong: Liver and onions.
• 2:19
  Don Armstrong: Uh huh.
• 2:19
  Don Armstrong: Pure aid.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_06: That's why you gave up for Lant.
• 2:24
  Don Armstrong: Uh so um Stan, by the way, is the founder of Lupi Tortilla and a true car guy, and that's how I got to know him uh basically at the drag races, and our first encounter was dinner at the PF Chang's in Las Vegas.
• 2:41
  Don Armstrong: And um I I cried pretty much laughing through the entire dinner, and um I thought this is a guy that I need to get to know.
• 2:50
  Don Armstrong: Now that I know him, uh we can't get enough of him.
• 2:56
  Don Armstrong: Does his microphone not with?
• 2:57
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes, it's fine.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, can you hear me now?
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_06: Can hear you now.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_03: You needed to explain it was at the RuPaul drag races.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_03: The RuPaul drag races.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_03: He took first second and third.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_03: Have you ever watched that?
• 3:11
  Don Armstrong: He took first, second, and third.
• 3:12
  Don Armstrong: I know.
• 3:14
  Don Armstrong: Have you ever watched that?
• 3:15
  Don Armstrong: I haven't.
• 3:16
  Don Armstrong: No?
• 3:16
  Don Armstrong: I haven't either.
• 3:17
  Don Armstrong: Yes, you have.
• 3:19
  Don Armstrong: I've passed by it.
• 3:20
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 3:20
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 3:21
  Don Armstrong: I don't even know what it's about, but it sounds like it's fun.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_03: About an hour.
• 3:24
  Don Armstrong: I will tell you that.
• 3:27
  Don Armstrong: There was a place in San Francisco, and I was with Rob Geiger, and I can't remember the guy's name that uh that was the PR guy for Mach One, which was a freight forwarding kind of company, uh handler or whatever.
• 3:41
  Don Armstrong: And um I remember that he and his wife lived in Oakland, right across the bay.
• 3:47
  Don Armstrong: Uh, because he said, hey, why don't you join my wife and I?
• 3:51
  Don Armstrong: We'll take you guys to dinner.
• 3:52
  Don Armstrong: Well, sure, we had a night off, so we went to dinner in San Francisco, and it was a place called Asia SF.
• 3:59
  Don Armstrong: Asia San Francisco.
• 4:00
  Don Armstrong: You look at the menu, it's American Chinese food, is what it was.
• 4:07
  Don Armstrong: Well, it was in a part of San Francisco that all of the buildings were probably built in the 1930s.
• 4:13
  Don Armstrong: Everything, including the windows, were all painted white.
• 4:16
  Don Armstrong: Everything for blocks.
• 4:18
  Don Armstrong: Except for this one place.
• 4:20
  Don Armstrong: You know, it was one of those old buildings where it sat on the corner, but the entrance to it was on the corner.
• 4:26
  Don Armstrong: So they kind of like saw it off at an angle.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_03: At an angle.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 4:29
  Don Armstrong: And you walk in, and the vestibule, if you will, was tiny and a little desk there, and it's really good looking, and the really good-looking girl comes up and says, Hi, may I help you?
• 4:40
  Don Armstrong: Yes, we have reservations at five.
• 4:41
  Don Armstrong: Well, we've just opened five o'clock.
• 4:44
  Don Armstrong: Great.
• 4:44
  Don Armstrong: Let me take you to your table.
• 4:46
  Don Armstrong: We go in, it's a big place.
• 4:48
  Don Armstrong: Got a horseshoe bar in the middle of it, but it's big.
• 4:50
  Don Armstrong: It's got lots of tables and a whole set of tables and chairs around the perimeter.
• 4:57
  Don Armstrong: So you have a bench seat up against the wall, and then two chairs and a bar stool, bar type table.
• 5:04
  Don Armstrong: So we sit down and um the waitress comes over and she is absolutely knockout.
• 5:11
  Don Armstrong: Golly, she's gorgeous.
• 5:13
  Don Armstrong: And I'm going, uh and she said, Well, let me explain the menu to you.
• 5:18
  Don Armstrong: We have five courses, and we start with, you know, soup, appetizer thing, and it goes, yeah, la la la.
• 5:23
  Don Armstrong: I'm going, my god, she's fine.
• 5:26
  Don Armstrong: She is hot.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we go through dinner.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: She wasn't on a menu, though.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: We go through She was on a woo mu menu.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: So we go.
• 5:41
  Don Armstrong: We go through we go through dinner all of the different uh things of dinner, and uh we're just about ready for dessert, and she says, I I have something I had to do.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: Fly on your egg.
• 5:53
  Don Armstrong: I have something I have to do.
• 5:55
  Don Armstrong: That's okay, he's used to it.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_03: Extra.
• 5:57
  Don Armstrong: Um and she says, I got something extra to do.
• 6:01
  Don Armstrong: I said, Well, that's okay.
• 6:02
  Don Armstrong: We're not in any big hurry.
• 6:04
  Don Armstrong: We'd had a couple of cocktails, and everything was good.
• 6:07
  Don Armstrong: So she goes off.
• 6:09
  Don Armstrong: And by this time, I mean, we're 20 minutes into it's like 520, 5:30.
• 6:15
  Don Armstrong: This place is packed.
• 6:16
  Don Armstrong: There's a huge wedding party over there.
• 6:19
  Don Armstrong: All these girls, all you know, one of the girls' night out thing, the whole nine yards.
• 6:25
  Don Armstrong: Okay?
• 6:26
  Don Armstrong: But I'm still stuck on this waitress.
• 6:29
  Don Armstrong: She's now gone off to the back.
• 6:31
  Don Armstrong: And the lights go down, even though it's daylight outside.
• 6:35
  Don Armstrong: Lights go down.
• 6:36
  Don Armstrong: And, ladies and gentlemen, the announcer says, please welcome to the stage Candace.
• 6:44
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 6:45
  Don Armstrong: Up from the back of the bar, there's like a curtain.
• 6:48
  Don Armstrong: The curtain opens, and here she comes, steps up there.
• 6:50
  Don Armstrong: And a Barbara Streisand song comes on, and she starts lip-syncing it, and I'm going, wait a minute, wait a minute.
• 7:00
  Don Armstrong: It's a man.
• 7:02
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 7:07
  Don Armstrong: Because it turns out all of the way.
• 7:11
  Don Armstrong: Oh my goodness.
• 7:11
  Don Armstrong: She did not have an Adam's apple, but I think that she had something else.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_03: I had a question.
• 7:15
  Don Armstrong: Is it got a goal?
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_03: What does that have to do with cars?
• 7:18
  Don Armstrong: It has absolutely nothing to do with it.
• 7:20
  Don Armstrong: He's trying to tell the story of how he met you.
• 7:22
  Don Armstrong: Oh, that's what I've got a weird segue.
• 7:25
  Jeff Dziekan: I wrote notes.
• 7:26
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 7:27
  Don Armstrong: But in any way, I thought that you would enjoy it.
• 7:30
  Don Armstrong: And of course, you know, the laugh was on the mouth.
• 7:32
  Don Armstrong: The laugh was on the one guy.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_03: That was there.
• 7:35
  Don Armstrong: And uh it was also on Rob Geiger because he was fooled too.
• 7:38
  Don Armstrong: He's like, Yeah, she's hot.
• 7:40
  Don Armstrong: Well, Rob, guess what?
• 7:41
  Don Armstrong: I guess we're gonna do a threesome down in the basement.
• 7:45
  Don Armstrong: Oh no.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_03: That wouldn't have changed Rob's mind, that little detail.
• 7:49
  Don Armstrong: Exactly.
• 7:50
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, so there is my story to lead off the Easter edition of the tailpipes and tacos.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_03: When we were in Beaumont, yes, was it you that did that long um extra day or whatever?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_03: It was me.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_03: About what was the subject?
• 8:06
  Jeff Dziekan: It was um what was it?
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_03: Heck, I don't remember.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_03: You're asking me.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because you were razzing me after.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_03: I know, because I said, could you tell me more about it?
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 8:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Started over.
• 8:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Gosh, I don't remember now.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_06: What did we do last week?
• 8:19
  Jeff Dziekan: We were talking about the tools, it was one segments.
• 8:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 8:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, that was last week as we were in the studio.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_06: Two weeks ago.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_06: That's two weeks ago.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_06: I can't remember that.
• 8:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes.
• 8:29
  Jeff Dziekan: But it wasn't in San Francisco.
• 8:30
  Jeff Dziekan: No.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_03: By the way, I won't but I think rumor has it she did drive a car to work.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_03: Squeeze that in.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_03: That's what that's what she was.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_03: She was pre-Uber, so she had to go.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_03: I appreciate for the listening and watching audience, you guys all have loopy tortilla motorsports surface.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we do.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_03: I asked Sheila's brother-in-law.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_03: I ran off, I won one of the new wallies.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: You won?
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_03: Just a class race, but I still got one of the new Wallies.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_03: So they're different than any Wally before.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_03: It has a diamond for the diamond anniversary.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_03: 15th anniversary.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_03: It's got a black pedestal with a diamond.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure if it's real, I'll have him take it back.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_03: And then it has the silver walleye on it instead of the gold one.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_03: So he's got a he ran back to the hangar to get it.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_03: I thought he'd be internet.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, we definitely will.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 9:24
  Don Armstrong: And somewhere is the uh Lupi Tortilla chili pepper trophy somewhere.
• 9:28
  Don Armstrong: Oh, there they are right there.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_03: There you go.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_03: Hidden in plain sight.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 9:31
  Don Armstrong: Um, but anyway, I don't know where all this was going, but uh the beginning of our friendship was in Las Vegas.
• 9:38
  Don Armstrong: And um I believe that uh that was gone.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: Moved on to Pomona, and we were like on a world tour.
• 9:44
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, we in the United States.
• 9:46
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, never left the country.
• 9:48
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, amazing.
• 9:49
  Don Armstrong: So I want to tell everybody this is uh the oh that's Mike the Muffler.
• 9:55
  Don Armstrong: There's Mr.
• 9:56
  Don Armstrong: Heitzman.
• 9:56
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, Jeff Heitzman, ladies and gentlemen, has made a personal appearance all the way from NASA.
• 10:03
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_03: NASA.
• 10:04
  Don Armstrong: He just got off the uh the spaceship.
• 10:07
  Don Armstrong: That's it.
• 10:08
  Don Armstrong: Jeff Heitz is making a personal appearance.
• 10:10
  Don Armstrong: But anyway, part of his program.
• 10:11
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:12
  Don Armstrong: He's part of our program.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_03: And um good.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_03: Nice to see you.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_03: Hi, Jeff.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_03: He's got a shirt on.
• 10:18
  Don Armstrong: I like that.
• 10:18
  Jeff Dziekan: Do you need an autograph or anything?
• 10:21
  Don Armstrong: Good to see you.
• 10:22
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_07: Watch the cable, watch the cable, watch the cable.
• 10:24
  Don Armstrong: Yes, don't step on the cable for God's sakes.
• 10:27
  Don Armstrong: Um anyway, so today's big event here at the Lupi Tortilla, Tex Mex in Katy.
• 10:32
  Don Armstrong: This is one of your bigger restaurants.
• 10:34
  Don Armstrong: Successful restaurants.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_03: This is the uh well, that's turned into a rumor in the last week, but until last week, this was the busiest loopies of all 32.
• 10:44
  Jeff Dziekan: So do they have competitions in different areas against each other?
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_03: No, it just came up in a conversation because I thought this was busiest.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_03: And Chet said, no, they have one somewhere doing nine million a year.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_03: I'm really proud of this is doing eight million a year.
• 11:04
  Jeff Dziekan: This is gonna put you over the top.
• 11:05
  Jeff Dziekan: That's what I think.
• 11:06
  Jeff Dziekan: I think so too.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_03: Well, and there's two reasons, several reasons we do this car show.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh one of it, of course, we like cars, and then it's a give back thing, and for surely kids, but that one in Beaumont, it really kind of another way to put you on the map without advertising.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_03: And you're on a freeway and people drive by and see all the cars and curiosity and the posters and everything legal.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_03: And the NWL Time show.
• 11:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, they say, I thought those guys were in jail.
• 11:32
  Jeff Dziekan: I was getting to that before you stuck your foot in the aisle.
• 11:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I did.
• 11:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_03: But anyway, it's uh it's right.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_03: I I I was concerned about the turnout because they're talking about rain and so on and so forth.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_03: But I'd reached a spot that it's kind of like a Go for it.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_03: No, you have a party, and the people that are there are the ones you want to see anyway, right?
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 11:54
  Don Armstrong: Well, as I said at the beginning in our tease this morning when we first got on the air, I said, you know what, there are two kinds of car guys.
• 12:01
  Don Armstrong: They're the cruising kind of car guys, and then there are car show guys.
• 12:05
  Don Armstrong: And the car show guys have their car, they trailer it, and you know, don't touch it, don't let it get wet.
• 12:10
  Don Armstrong: Okay, well, that's fine if that's what you want.
• 12:13
  Don Armstrong: We or car guys, we like to drive our cars.
• 12:16
  Don Armstrong: And I can tell you a story that is interesting, and the fact that back in the early days when I had the other 77 Corvette, all painted up.
• 12:26
  Don Armstrong: I mean, uh pen stripes on the underside of it.
• 12:29
  Don Armstrong: I did the whole nine yards and trailered it in an open trailer up to Oklahoma City where there was snow.
• 12:35
  Don Armstrong: And it rained and it snowed all the way there.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_03: That car would have fit right in in Oklahoma.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, especially in the frame.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, yeah.
• 12:43
  Don Armstrong: Didn't win anything, but I spent an entire 24 hours trying to clean it up.
• 12:48
  Don Armstrong: And I managed to do that quite well.
• 12:50
  Don Armstrong: Did not win a trophy or anything, but yeah, you know, and um cars are meant to drive in my world.
• 12:56
  Don Armstrong: You've seen our we have the Playboy bunnies here.
• 12:58
  Jeff Dziekan: See, I need ears.
• 12:59
  Jeff Dziekan: I want to get some ears.
• 13:01
  Jeff Dziekan: I'll wear them.
• 13:02
  Jeff Dziekan: You will look good on you.
• 13:04
  Jeff Dziekan: I think it's a look.
• 13:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Maybe a bunny tail.
• 13:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, yeah.
• 13:07
  Jeff Dziekan: A little poofy money.
• 13:08
  Don Armstrong: You know, uh, my mind is going in a different direction with the bunny tail thing.
• 13:14
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, the Easter bunny's gonna be here.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, is he?
• 13:17
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, she's been advertised all week.
• 13:19
  Don Armstrong: Good.
• 13:19
  Don Armstrong: Well, my grandson and daughter are supposed to be here too.
• 13:22
  Don Armstrong: Oh, really?
• 13:23
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, nice.
• 13:23
  Don Armstrong: So we're looking forward to uh having them.
• 13:26
  Don Armstrong: I know Sheila's all excited about it.
• 13:28
  Don Armstrong: I know.
• 13:28
  Don Armstrong: I talked to her last night, she says, Yes, Dad, we're planning on coming out.
• 13:32
  Don Armstrong: Sheila, you mean Amy.
• 13:33
  Don Armstrong: Amy, sorry, yes.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_03: And um why was he talking to my wife?
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_03: I know.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_07: It's the ears.
• 13:39
  Don Armstrong: The ears.
• 13:40
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:41
  Don Armstrong: That's funny because I met Sheila the same time I met you.
• 13:44
  Don Armstrong: You did.
• 13:45
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:46
  Don Armstrong: So on the short bus.
• 13:48
  Don Armstrong: That's exactly.
• 13:49
  Don Armstrong: Up to the Pomona Mining Company.
• 13:51
  Don Armstrong: By the way, is that still there?
• 13:52
  Don Armstrong: It is.
• 13:53
  Don Armstrong: Is it?
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_03: I haven't been in inside, but I saw it.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: It's still there.
• 13:57
  Don Armstrong: It's up there, the parking lot down below in the and the travel parking lot.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_03: You take the short bus to the top.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_03: Where the restaurant is.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_03: The short bus had a pole, which you use all the way to the top.
• 14:07
  Don Armstrong: Yes, once I got my uh red pumps off.
• 14:09
  Don Armstrong: Yes.
• 14:10
  Don Armstrong: Uh-huh.
• 14:10
  Don Armstrong: I had to do that one.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_03: Where you can really make the moves.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_03: But um, I hope my son shows up in the poster car.
• 14:17
  Don Armstrong: Oh, does he does he have the poster car?
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he has that little iseta.
• 14:21
  Don Armstrong: Oh god.
• 14:22
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 14:22
  Don Armstrong: And I said it with the original engine in it?
• 14:24
  Don Armstrong: Everything's original.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_03: It's uh it's better than original.
• 14:27
  Don Armstrong: I'm sure.
• 14:28
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 14:29
  Don Armstrong: Does he still have the back to the future car?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_03: He does.
• 14:32
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_03: That's a big hit wherever he takes.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_03: One of his sons might drive that here.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_03: Boy, that is a beautiful El Camino driver through here.
• 14:39
  Don Armstrong: It certainly is.
• 14:40
  Don Armstrong: Uh, you know, I saw online this week that apparently Chevrolet is going to uh have a competitor to the Ford Maverick, and they're gonna call it the El Camino.
• 14:50
  Don Armstrong: Now, what it is gonna look like is a different story, but it won't be like that.
• 14:55
  Don Armstrong: But it's gonna be a c a competitor to the Maverick.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_03: The Maverick.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_03: Look at this, isn't it pretty?
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_03: How unusual.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_03: It is.
• 15:02
  Don Armstrong: I like the paint.
• 15:03
  Don Armstrong: There you go.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_03: So thanks for coming.
• 15:06
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 15:07
  Don Armstrong: Um it was it was uh kind of a surprise, but not a surprise that they would use the El Camino name, but Ford used the Maverick name.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_03: They've been threatening forever to reintroduce the El Camino, but they don't do it.
• 15:19
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, well apparently that's in the works, from what I understand, for a 2027 model year debut.
• 15:25
  Don Armstrong: So it's a year away.
• 15:28
  Don Armstrong: Um car industry is in uh turmoil, obviously.
• 15:31
  Don Armstrong: A little bit, yeah.
• 15:32
  Don Armstrong: Just a little bit.
• 15:33
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, with the with the EV stuff.
• 15:35
  Don Armstrong: Uh they've you know bet the bank on going EVs and Porsche's Porsche's backpedaling on the EV deal.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I saw that.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_03: All of them are just their new model, Porsche backpedal.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, instead of EV or yes, that's the backpack.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_07: Like the old paddle boats you can get on the lake.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_03: Um on the racing front, please.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_03: The um the Lupi Tortilla team.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_03: But the uh 55 Chevy wagon is coming along.
• 16:03
  Don Armstrong: Oh that's the one that you told us about last week.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm gonna try to.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_03: Well, this is a real Stan Holt deal.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not bragging, I'm complaining, and but it it even Jared, our good friend at Cruci, said so the project started.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_03: I always admired this guy's 55 Chevy Superstar wagon.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_03: It's sat showroom level.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_03: Pretty car nice, you know.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_03: Um and every year at NDU I would make him an offer, and every year he would decline it.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_03: So we finally got together on a number, and the reason what started it is I had a 283, a brand new 283.
• 16:38
  Don Armstrong: Racing engine?
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_03: Racing engine.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_03: I had a brand new, fresh out of the box four-speed.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_03: I think you're a third of the way there, maybe 40% of the way there because with the engine and transport.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_03: Just in parts, yeah.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the engine's like 40 grand.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: You're 38.5.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_03: But you're you're there.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_03: So we buy the car, we send the roller up to Ohio to a place called PK Racing Cars.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_03: It was a ladder bar car, I don't know if you know what that means.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_03: Ladder frame.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_03: We had it four-linked, and he said, What do you think?
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_03: And I said, I want it slammed to the ground, four-linked, SEMA ready, right?
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_03: Gotcha.
• 17:15
  Don Armstrong: And what class is it gonna race in?
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_03: Superstock.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_03: Superstock.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_03: Well, that's that's the punchline.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_03: So we were at the race in in Louisiana, and I said, Jared, I had an epiphany.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_03: I said, Oh lord.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_03: You taking anything?
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_03: Uh clutch medicine.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, uh, he said, what?
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: I said, well, who wants three quarters of a dream?
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: You know what?
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: I said, what are you talking about?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: I said, here we go.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_03: You think you could sell that 283?
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_03: He said, what?
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_03: The whole project's based on a 283.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: I want to put an LS in it.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_03: So I can then have a five-speed.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_03: And I want to open the hood for nobody but NHRA to inspect it.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_03: That shiny fuel injection cap is sitting on top of the LS.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, car because you already own the 283 in the transmission.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_03: Now you want to shut the transmission and get a new transmission in a new engine.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: So a new LS built by the right guys is about 40 grand.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_03: He calls a friend of ours who had three of them.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_03: Two of them still in the crate, spares.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: So I was able to buy it for 25,000.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_03: We're now allowed to run titanium valves and stuff for lighter and faster, they say.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_03: So anyway, that whole project that started off because I had a 283 and a four-speed.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_03: The 283 is for sale, if anybody's listening.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_03: So uh anyway, it's gonna be a really exciting car.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_03: I I was doing it.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_03: The concept was to slow down.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_03: As I'm aging, I thought, well, rather than stand behind a car, I'll just slow down.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_03: You know, be running running the tens.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_03: It'll be that'll be great.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_07: So so what does that do to your class?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it'll be it'll be superstock GT something.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_03: We don't know what the letter is at this point.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_07: So it's still an offshoot of the superstock class.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_07: It's still superstock.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_07: It's like a modified superstock.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so you're super stock, and once you you can run any Chevrolet engine, any combination you want to, any year, and then it becomes superstock GT.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_03: So the nice thing about the LS is you can run, you know, if they hit you with horsepower, you can say, okay, well, now it's an 88.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_03: I changed my mind.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: So, but it's gonna go from a high 10-second car to a low nine-second car.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_06: It should be a little bit easier to maintain because of fuel injection and everything.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, yeah, they're they're not hard to maintain, but it'll have rack and pinion, and it's just gonna be a beautiful low-to-the-ground type.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_03: Almost a show car, but it's gonna be a positive.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_03: Until you give it to Sheila.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 20:04
  Don Armstrong: She doesn't like the Liberty, so I'll say the Liberty Transmission.
• 20:08
  Don Armstrong: Um, so are you going to trailer it?
• 20:13
  Don Armstrong: Are you gonna drive it to the racetrack?
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no, you can't trail it.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_03: 600 rear gear.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, stop for gas every 12, 15 miles, yeah, every four or five miles.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_03: But the point of the story is we're hoping to debut the car in Indy this year.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_03: That's the goal.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_03: Uh which is Labor Day weekend.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_03: And it's uh it's it's in paint right now, and then upholstery, and ready to go.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_06: You mentioned SEMA earlier.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_06: You guys can take it to SEMA?
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if it'll still look that good after a few races in SEMA.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_03: We'll have patina.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_03: A little patina, patina.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_07: Rocks, but if you take it as a race car, then you know.
• 20:52
  Don Armstrong: Well, you just need to find somebody's booth to put it in.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you have a booth there, don't you?
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_02: I do.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh well.
• 20:57
  Don Armstrong: It's the Lupi Tortilla booth that I'll manage.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_02: What a koinky dame.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_02: Pinstrike the frame.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: Pinchripe the frame.
• 21:03
  Don Armstrong: So Stan is hosting this tailpipes and tacos event at the Lupi Tortilla Tex Mex in Katie.
• 21:08
  Don Armstrong: Always good to talk to you.
• 21:09
  Don Armstrong: We can have you back at the end of the show and kind of wrap things up.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_03: Like the Carson show I've done here.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_03: Well, um back to the green room.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_03: Get on the rollback.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_03: Can we get a rollback for Stan?
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_03: I have a my the act that's probably gonna follow me pretty soon is a lot prettier than me, even though it is radio.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_03: We got video.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, we have video.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, yeah, we got video.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_03: In case she doesn't forget, in case she does forget, I always have to give a shout out to the Emmons brothers.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: Great, great close friends in racing and first close friends in general.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_03: Great guys.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_03: The last two races uh have uh been beaten by the elder Speedy Emmons.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_03: Speedy up the the first time was the two thousand running out the backdoor race.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_03: So it was really a good race.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_03: And I was all set for my sweet revenge at His last race, I dumped the clutch, and the car went.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_03: Great.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, what it was a little fuse.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_03: On the floor, there's all the fuses for everything.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_03: There's lights on each one.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: You can look down to see that it's out.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_03: But what happened when I lost the car, the wheel stand, it went off.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_03: When it came down, it came back on.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_06: What was it for?
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, what was the light?
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, what circuit?
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_06: The ignition.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, the ignition.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_06: Shut everything off.
• 22:28
  Jeff Dziekan: We got that problem with the camera.
• 22:29
  Jeff Dziekan: That could be a problem.
• 22:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 22:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Exactly.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, just a little.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: It's always good to see you through the club.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for having me.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for being here.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_03: I'm uh I don't understand these weak guys.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_03: The car count right now is pretty low.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_03: It's a little early.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_03: There's always a 50-50 chance of rain in Texas.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_06: So but there's some cars I don't remember seeing before.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_03: I brought my car.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_03: That's a driver.
• 22:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Nice Volkswagen bus coming in there.
• 22:54
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 22:55
  Don Armstrong: He probably just came from lunch.
• 22:57
  Don Armstrong: Exactly.
• 22:59
  Don Armstrong: Delivery in the back.
• 23:00
  Don Armstrong: Thank you guys for coming out.
• 23:01
  Don Armstrong: Thank you very much.
• 23:02
  Don Armstrong: Hey, um, just ahead, Jeff's car culture and repairs that may signal it's time to sell that old game.
• 23:09
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 23:09
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 23:10
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• 23:12
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• 25:11
  Don Armstrong: All right, Jeff's car culture.
• 25:12
  Don Armstrong: Car repairs that signal it's time to sell.
• 25:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep, well, uh fix it or sell it.
• 25:17
  Jeff Dziekan: These repairs usually mean it's time to move on.
• 25:20
  Jeff Dziekan: And the way to do that is every car reaches a point where repairs start to cost more than the vehicle is worth.
• 25:26
  Jeff Dziekan: We all know that.
• 25:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Certain jobs hint that your beloved ride might be living on borrowed time.
• 25:32
  Jeff Dziekan: If you see these types of repairs, you might want to have something uh to consider.
• 25:35
  Jeff Dziekan: So here we go.
• 25:36
  Jeff Dziekan: One of them would be a blown head gasket.
• 25:38
  Jeff Dziekan: A blown head gasket is one of the most dreaded and expensive repairs a car can face.
• 25:43
  Jeff Dziekan: It can lead to overheating, poor engine performance, and even catastrophic engine damage if left until repairing it involves hours of labor and significant cost.
• 25:52
  Jeff Dziekan: So use that as a either a yay or nay on that.
• 25:55
  Jeff Dziekan: The next one, Mike, would be a transmission replacement.
• 25:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Now, who doesn't have a problem with a trans?
• 26:01
  Jeff Dziekan: So failure doesn't just ruin your day, it can wreck your budget.
• 26:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Symptoms like slipping gears, grinding, or total refusal to shift are early red flags.
• 26:10
  Jeff Dziekan: So if you got that, be aware of it.
• 26:12
  Jeff Dziekan: A full replacement or rebuild can run several thousand dollars depending on the type of vehicle you're driving.
• 26:17
  Jeff Dziekan: If you got a high-end vehicle, it's going to be more money.
• 26:19
  Jeff Dziekan: A little lower end, not so much.
• 26:21
  Jeff Dziekan: It might be time to say goodbye to that car.
• 26:24
  Jeff Dziekan: The next one that we have on the list would be a blown suspension or air ride systems.
• 26:29
  Jeff Dziekan: A luxurious floaty ride can have a steep cost when air suspension fails.
• 26:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Sagging corners and uneven stands, much like us here on the day I said uh or warning lights that often means systems that are on this last year.
• 26:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Sagging, I'm familiar with that.
• 26:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, and and uh thousands, especially for high-end makes of the vehicles, even standard strut or shock overhauls are not cheap.
• 26:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Next one, Michael.
• 26:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Cracked engine block.
• 26:56
  Jeff Dziekan: If you got this, this is very tragic.
• 26:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh the block is a death sentence for most vehicles.
• 27:01
  Jeff Dziekan: It often means your engine is overheated or suffered a major trauma, and fixing it requires either a complete rebuild or an engine replacement.
• 27:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Unless your car has significant value, this is the kind of repair that says thanks for the memory.
• 27:14
  Jeff Dziekan: So gotta move on from that one.
• 27:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Electrical system overhauls.
• 27:18
  Jeff Dziekan: When multiple electrical components start acting up in dashlights, power windows, instrument clusters, it can all point to a deeper wiring issue.
• 27:26
  Jeff Dziekan: They can be expensive on a time-wise in any shop.
• 27:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Diagnosing and fixing electrical gremlins is often labor-intensive, but with no guarantee that it's fixed.
• 27:36
  Jeff Dziekan: If glitches in multiple fasteners are faster than your mechanics answers, it might be a more cost-effective way to cut the ties of that vehicle and move on.
• 27:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Back to engine-related issues, warped or crack cylinder heads.
• 27:50
  Jeff Dziekan: A warped or crack cylinder head usually results from engine overheating, like we talked about earlier.
• 27:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Fixing it requires machine work, replacement gaskets, hours of labor.
• 27:59
  Jeff Dziekan: You may face lingering issues after that.
• 28:02
  Jeff Dziekan: If damage is severe, selling might be more practical, less painful of a decision.
• 28:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Heater core replacement, back to the related parts.
• 28:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Does your cabin smell like maple syrup or fog when you turn up the heat?
• 28:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, I don't know.
• 28:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh your heater core may be failing, but repair replacement is usually means removing the dashboard, a labor-intensive job.
• 28:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Combine the cost of the age of the vehicle, and it's often repair tips that tips the scale towards selling the vehicle.
• 28:28
  Jeff Dziekan: And the last one, a big one, timing chain or belt failure.
• 28:31
  Jeff Dziekan: When a timing chain belt chain or the belt fails, your engine internal harmony collapses.
• 28:37
  Jeff Dziekan: The repair involves removing large chunks of the engine.
• 28:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh which racks up labor costs very fast for interference.
• 28:45
  Jeff Dziekan: For interference.
• 28:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Making the fix even pricier.
• 28:53
  Jeff Dziekan: And we don't want to go pricier, so be aware.
• 28:57
  Jeff Dziekan: If the repair is more than the vehicle's worth, I'll get rid of the vehicle.
• 29:03
  Jeff Dziekan: Mike has to be a good thing.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_06: One thing I wanted to ask you, because we kind of well, we're kind of running out of time.
• 29:07
  Jeff Dziekan: That's right.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_06: What do you do with it?
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_06: If you decide I'm not going to repair it.
• 29:11
  Jeff Dziekan: That's up to you.
• 29:11
  Jeff Dziekan: If the car's paid off, you can you you can sell it to a private owner, you can do a trade-in, or go over the paper of the drive it.
• 29:18
  Jeff Dziekan: No, you can't drive it, but there's uh places that can pick it up to donate the car.
• 29:23
  Jeff Dziekan: We did that with Kathy's uh vehicle.
• 29:25
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh didn't get a lot out of it, but it was it was a good feeling that you donated to can be repaired for right.
• 29:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Or you might give it uh give it away or or write it off in the taxes or have somebody have it as a project car.
• 29:38
  Don Armstrong: Running behind, thank you for joining us today here on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 29:42
  Don Armstrong: We're gonna have our next segment coming up right after this quick break.
• 29:44
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  Don Armstrong: Gulf Coast Auto Shield does that too.
• 30:21
  Don Armstrong: Get a peek inside the shop and look at the services offered by getting online and heading to gcautoshield.com.
• 30:27
  Don Armstrong: Better yet, stop by their facility at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, just south of the Southwest Freeway, and get a personal tour.
• 30:34
  Don Armstrong: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is your place to go for all things exterior.
• 30:38
  Don Armstrong: Call them today, 832-930-5655 or gcautoShield.com.
• 30:45
  Don Armstrong: Gift giving should be meaningful, and we have an idea.
• 30:47
  Don Armstrong: A hand-painted custom illustration of your car from one of the nation's leading artists.
• 30:51
  Don Armstrong: You've seen his work at car shows and on display at the Heavy Hideout.
• 30:54
  Don Armstrong: Now you can have an illustration or car poster customized for you, a friend or loved one.
• 30:58
  Don Armstrong: Bill Sites is a real car guy that speaks the language and will be happy to guide you through the process.
• 31:03
  Don Armstrong: No matter what today, birthday, anniversary, or any day, an autographics custom illustration adds an extra touch of class to any home.
• 31:09
  Don Armstrong: Call Bill today, 832-922-0963.
• 31:12
  Don Armstrong: That's 832-922-0963.
• 31:17
  Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 31:20
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and our InWheelTime.com website.
• 31:30
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• 31:39
  Don Armstrong: Keep listening, and we'll see you soon.