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Why Community Makes Car Culture Last - Tailpipes & Tacos in Beaumont · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:00
  Don Armstrong: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
• 0:03
  Don Armstrong: Welcome to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show, coming to you today from the Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise In at the Lupi Tortilla Tex Fec in Baalmont, Texas.
• 0:14
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, we got the man the midst of the legend, Stan Holt, in Q.
• 0:20
  Don Armstrong: I've got to talk to some other folks here, including dignitaries, of which he's one, and cruise in competitors, oh, and regular folks too.
• 0:28
  Don Armstrong: Jeff's car culture, gas cap design, and redesign.
• 0:33
  Don Armstrong: It changed, did you notice?
• 0:34
  Don Armstrong: And Mars has this week's driving destination.
• 0:37
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, Mars, we always need more Jeff Seacon.
• 0:43
  Don Armstrong: Chief Engineer David Ainsley over here.
• 0:44
  Don Armstrong: I'm Dod Armstrong, so glad that you could join us today.
• 0:47
  Don Armstrong: In the fog, it's lifting.
• 0:49
  Don Armstrong: It's lifting.
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  Don Armstrong: And uh and we're here in the parking lot of the Lupi Tortilla Tex-Mex in Beaumont, Texas, right on I-10.
• 0:57
  Don Armstrong: Right on it.
• 0:58
  Don Armstrong: Right on it.
• 0:59
  Don Armstrong: I mean, last night I I was in a nice motel called the Baymont.
• 1:04
  Don Armstrong: Uh-huh.
• 1:04
  Don Armstrong: I living.
• 1:05
  Don Armstrong: And uh I thought that the one I thought that the I thought that the I-10 freeway was coming into the room.
• 1:11
  Don Armstrong: It's down your hallway.
• 1:13
  Don Armstrong: It wasn't down the hallway.
• 1:14
  Don Armstrong: I was on the freeway trying to sleep.
• 1:17
  Don Armstrong: Gotcha.
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  Don Armstrong: So I just wanted to let you know that.
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  Don Armstrong: Stanton, it's so good to see you, sir.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_04: It's it's better to see you all.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you for coming all this way.
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  Don Armstrong: Well, uh, it it's it's been a track.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_04: It's been an experience.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_04: You know, they checked it at the hotel.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_04: They did, they did.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_04: Well, be careful.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_04: Don't pronounce it Beaumont.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_04: Beaumont.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_04: Beaumont.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_04: It's Beaumont.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_04: Beaumont.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_04: Beaumont.
• 1:43
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: Either side.
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  Don Armstrong: You know, this is a very nice restaurant.
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  Don Armstrong: I've never been here before.
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  SPEAKER_04: How long has this been open?
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_04: Five years?
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_04: You're not going to believe this.
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  SPEAKER_04: Twelve years.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_04: Twelve years?
• 1:54
  Don Armstrong: Wow.
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  Don Armstrong: I had no clue.
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  Don Armstrong: Not including next week.
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  Don Armstrong: This is a very nice restaurant.
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  Don Armstrong: I I was I was really surprised inside.
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  Don Armstrong: It's huge.
• 2:00
  Don Armstrong: It is.
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  SPEAKER_04: This is the third bakeover for this restaurant.
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  SPEAKER_04: The third one?
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  SPEAKER_04: Bakeover, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: It was uh Mexican place when we bought it.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_04: And it was kind of a and it's still a Mexican place now, right?
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, no, no, it served everything.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_04: You know, it's kind of like Denny's does French food.
• 2:20
  Don Armstrong: So I got it.
• 2:23
  Don Armstrong: I you know, I think that the entire Corvette uh population over here in Beaumont is showing up this morning.
• 2:29
  Don Armstrong: There's three of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: And uh uh I hope that you've been well.
• 2:32
  Don Armstrong: You've been racing.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_04: We have.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_04: In fact, uh we're we're leaving here, running home, change clothes, and going back to Belrose.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_04: I actually left my rig there.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, you did in Belrose.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: So is is the race this weekend?
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_04: Not this weekend, next week.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_04: Next weekend.
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  SPEAKER_04: So we gotta go home, entertain some folks tomorrow, and then Tuesday morning uh we leave it.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_04: Gotcha.
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  SPEAKER_04: So and racing starts Thursday over there?
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_04: It's gonna start Wednesday morning.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's two races.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's a national open, which is like everybody but the pros and wallies, okay, and then uh regular points race.
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  Don Armstrong: So you get two for the it's uh about the same distance as Ennis from Houston?
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  Don Armstrong: A little further.
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  Don Armstrong: A little further.
• 3:17
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: You know what's so funny because I've only seems longer.
• 3:20
  Don Armstrong: I've only been there once.
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  Don Armstrong: I went with the Enders one time.
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  Don Armstrong: We went over there, Erica and Greg.
• 3:26
  Don Armstrong: And uh it I would never even know that there was a racetrack over there.
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  Don Armstrong: And uh I I assume that they've obviously kept it up, and it's still an NHR.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_04: It never returned.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_04: I just I shouldn't say that.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_04: They're really nice, hardworking people.
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  SPEAKER_04: Uh when Pat Jeffrey on finished it, it was amazing.
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  SPEAKER_04: But it's a good track, great people that run it, the track's prepped correctly, and uh they'll probably have it's in the swamp.
• 3:58
  Don Armstrong: It is literally in the swamp.
• 4:00
  Don Armstrong: It is true.
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  Don Armstrong: And uh I I I was surprised by that and the fact that you know it's a racer's track, in my opinion.
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  Don Armstrong: It is.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_04: Is that what you'd call it too?
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_04: It is.
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  SPEAKER_04: I mean Pat, Pat and I have been friends for a long time.
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  SPEAKER_04: And he just said, I'm gonna build a racer's track.
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  SPEAKER_04: I said, Pat, you're gonna be just like the rest of them.
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  SPEAKER_04: Second race, you're gonna be just like the rest of them.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_04: Bunch of money grabbers, you know what?
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_04: No, I'm not.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, I'm not.
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  SPEAKER_04: And he didn't.
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  SPEAKER_04: It was a racer's track.
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  SPEAKER_04: And that's changed hands since then, hasn't it?
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he's still uh he still uh holds a note, I think, but it has changed hand.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_04: You want to hear an oxymoron?
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_04: Ferrari of Louisiana bought it.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_02: Are you serious?
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_02: I am so serious.
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  Don Armstrong: They bought a racetrack in a swamp.
• 4:47
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, well, and then they turned into swamp boats.
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  SPEAKER_04: The entire car-loving state got together and bought a Ferrari.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_01: They had to go fund me and all.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_03: They did.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's actually a road course there.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_03: How far is Louisiana from here?
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_03: From right here?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, half hour, 20 minutes across the border, yeah.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: Depending on construction.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, depending on construction.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, but it it's it's it's a fun track.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_04: Everybody parties, uh everybody's cooking something, you know.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, frogs are scared to death over there.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_04: Frogs and frogs and squirrels are looking for the gate, you know.
• 5:24
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, and uh, I guess the gators they've they've been taken a long time ago.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: Shoes, belts, that sort of thing.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_04: Hold on.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, hey, forgot part of your car.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_04: Part of your car.
• 5:37
  Don Armstrong: It's in workmobile.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_04: It's in progress.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_04: It's a work in progress.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_04: I I really am thrilled that y'all came here to do this.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_04: Well, thank you for inviting us over here.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_04: We appreciate it.
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  Don Armstrong: I hope this shows the success.
• 5:49
  Don Armstrong: I think it's well as soon as the sun comes up, yeah, it'll be fine.
• 5:53
  Don Armstrong: You know, we don't have to borrow bar rags to wipe off the the wet seat.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_04: To wipe off your guests, yeah.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
• 5:59
  Jeff Dziekan: I was having Mike plug in all the electrical for me, so it just case.
• 6:03
  Jeff Dziekan: That's the arc.
• 6:06
  Don Armstrong: Um you know, Mr.
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  Don Armstrong: Mars uh lives close by over here in Neaville.
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  Don Armstrong: And uh He told me that and I I was quite surprised driving over here.
• 6:16
  Don Armstrong: I haven't been over here in years.
• 6:17
  Don Armstrong: Me neither.
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  Don Armstrong: I haven't driven over to Louisiana, I haven't done nothing over in this part of the town, mainly because of this jacked up I-10, which killed somebody this past week.
• 6:27
  Don Armstrong: Did it?
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  Don Armstrong: And yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: And uh huge wreck, shut down the freeway for I guess 12 hours in the room.
• 6:31
  Don Armstrong: Both directions.
• 6:32
  Don Armstrong: Both directions.
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  Don Armstrong: It was a real mess out here with all this construction starts.
• 6:36
  Don Armstrong: And how long how long does this construction go on?
• 6:40
  Don Armstrong: Is it something to do because it's closer to Louisiana that they just said, uh we'll worry about that next year or a couple of years from now.
• 6:49
  Don Armstrong: That wall has been up there for 10 years and hasn't been completely.
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  SPEAKER_04: I don't understand.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_04: I wrote the governor, we were talking about earlier, I wrote the governor a letter years ago.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_04: Said you ought to be ashamed.
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  SPEAKER_04: I know you're not gonna do anything.
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  SPEAKER_04: You're a politician, but that highway is the main highway through Texas.
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  SPEAKER_04: And people, when they come into Texas, is what they see.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_04: This is the first thing they see, and the last thing they see for decades decades, decades, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: So I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_04: I I don't understand.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_04: They they finally got the exit looking better when you leave Texas.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_04: But I mean, you know, come on, have Louisiana outshine you in highways.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, construction runs all the way to the border in spots, you know, over by the river and over in over in the orange area, and then just before you get into Louisiana.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: Governor, if you're listening, yeah, elections coming out.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: He's up this morning with that around.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_03: Didn't you just pull in in that car?
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_03: Worried about this car show.
• 7:46
  Don Armstrong: So I thought anybody who I'd love to show have show up at one of our tailpipes and tacos, Dan Patrick.
• 7:51
  Don Armstrong: Lieutenant Dan.
• 7:52
  Don Armstrong: Lieutenant Dan has got a beautiful pickup truck.
• 7:54
  Don Armstrong: I know him well.
• 7:54
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, well, I didn't know.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_04: I did get a new car.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for asking.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, what did you get?
• 8:02
  Don Armstrong: Well, I don't even ask anymore because it's always, you know, the car of the month.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_04: You know, Sheila says, you're buying these little cars because you're out of room for big cars.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_04: I've always wanted a 1955 MGTF.
• 8:15
  Don Armstrong: Oh dear God.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_04: Can you fit in it?
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_04: Can you get out of it?
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_04: It's a question.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_04: I'm here.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_04: We had Suicide Doors from the factory.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_04: It was kind of an average car.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_04: So they'll start at about 12,000 and they end at about 75.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_04: Today.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_04: Today.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_04: Because it was about one back then.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_04: But this was a real average car.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_04: I I made an offer on it.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_04: He said, I'll take it.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_04: It looked average in the photographs, it looked average in person.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_04: And George, the guy that works for me in the shop.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_04: I said, buff one half of this hood.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_04: I want to see what's like there.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_04: Unbelievable.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_04: Really?
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my gosh.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_04: Original paint?
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_03: Original paint.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_04: No.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_04: We sent it to a place called Paint Perfection in Houston.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_04: And they were able to match the paint.
• 9:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Wow.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_04: It had a little bruise in the fender.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_04: It's got those fenders kind of pointed at the back.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_04: What I like about that MG is it doesn't have the Model A headlights.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_04: They roll into the fenders like a big mug light sticking up there.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's not like that.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_04: But they roll into the fenders like a Triumph, like a TR3.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_04: Gotcha.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_04: Long, long story, very, very short.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_04: I've spent, including new tires,$2,500 on this car.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_04: It looks like a diamond.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_04: Everything came up.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_04: I can't believe that you didn't bring it over here.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_04: I don't want to drive it.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_02: Not on that road.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_04: I wanted to.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_04: We towed the cattle out.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_04: The point of the story is he wanted 28.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_04: I said, I'll give you the 28, you pay to get it here.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_04: It was in Tennessee.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_04: So essentially I gave 27.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_04: The car's worth 45 to 50,000 right now, walking.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, he cleaned it.
• 10:08
  Don Armstrong: If you can find the buyer.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_04: So anyway, all I powder coated the uh uh valve cover, cleaned the engine left.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_04: I want it to kind of look rubber clean, not you know driver.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_04: It's a driver.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_04: It's a driver, right?
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_04: But it it had chrome wire wheels, which everybody's gonna put chrome wire wheels in their British car.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_04: Took those off and I put powder coated spoke wheels on it.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_04: And when you put the chrome knockoff next to the painted wheel, just pop.
• 10:39
  Don Armstrong: So are you going to bring it to the Easter steel pipes and tacos?
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_04: I'll be pulling in in that car.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_04: But when you see it, it has a fake a foo, a full radiator cab.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_04: A foo radiator cap.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_04: And I ordered a new one because it has some scratches.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_04: And the new one, it's got like threads.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_04: So so you my people.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_04: That's me.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_04: So I figured, well, you unscrew it and put the new one on.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_04: Man, I can't open a managed jar anymore.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_04: But now I got channel locks.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_04: I can't turn this thing.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_04: I got a hammer, brass hammer on, it won't move.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_04: So I said, George, I I I can't turn it.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_04: He's turning, he's got both hands on it, pushing down and turning.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_04: Well, that particular year didn't have the threaded one.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_04: It had two screws running down.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_04: So we're having it re-chrome.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_04: But I'm telling you, it's you probably hear my voice.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_04: It drives.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_04: I replaced the tailpipe and the uh tacos.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_04: No, the tailpipe and the muffler.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_04: Put the it had Yokohama tires on a British car.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_04: So I've got some uh what are the Pirelli's?
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_04: Anyway, well, all the that's what they put on cars over there.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 11:58
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, this the story is So it drives a lot easier than that 55 Buick that uh I was forced to drive to the gas station instead of that's another story.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_04: We just sent that off, had all the front injury done, all the ball joints, everything done.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_04: It drives like a new car.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_04: So anyway, that that MG, you'll see it at the at the show, the next one.
• 12:24
  Don Armstrong: It's a Corvette show.
• 12:25
  Don Armstrong: Look, everybody's starting to get the show.
• 12:26
  Don Armstrong: And a GTO show.
• 12:27
  Don Armstrong: And there's a 55 black and white 55.
• 12:29
  Don Armstrong: I didn't mean to interrupt, I'm sorry.
• 12:30
  Don Armstrong: No, it's okay.
• 12:31
  Don Armstrong: Cars are rolling in and I'm impressed.
• 12:33
  Don Armstrong: Oh, look at that GTO.
• 12:34
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that's well done.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_03: What was it?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_03: Tempest and well done.
• 12:38
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that's nice.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, 66, I think.
• 12:42
  Don Armstrong: Uh Stan, uh before you go, uh I I wanted to uh first of all, thank you for being a loyal sponsor of the show, and we really appreciate that.
• 12:50
  Don Armstrong: I also want to uh get a little bit of a background on the Cadiente.
• 12:54
  Don Armstrong: So everybody that's listening today around the world, by the way, uh four million, um it's got a little story to it.
• 13:01
  Don Armstrong: And it does.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I also uh we'll talk about it at the next car show.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_04: But I've we have been spending we're we're 20 months into redoing a 57 Ford Fairland.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_04: Oh one owner car, black California blackface car, gray and white.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_04: I sent it to Sean Brasard in Louisiana.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_04: We took it is a it's the Ford 300 custom.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_04: It's not the big wing.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, right.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_04: So now it has a a coyote dry train, airbag.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_04: It's painted Lexus uh titanium silver with uh I kept a bent seat, but uh the El Hoquist did a just an amazing job, but I said I want it to look like it, but I want it to be a bent.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_04: And I want a cup holder.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_04: It's a stainless steel cup holder, it's a diamond diamond stitch, double diamond stitch.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_04: Two ghosts.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_04: They won't let me see the car.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_04: They want to surprise you.
• 14:14
  Don Armstrong: Is it gonna be ready for uh Easter uh Talib Setogas?
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_04: No, it's it's they're they're getting close.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_04: But uh even Gerard said I I don't want you to see this.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_04: You're not gonna believe what you're gonna see.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_04: It's airbag, it's it's just he said, you know, body off, epoxy of the chassis.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_04: I've never done a car like that before.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_04: Anyway, it's we're anxious to see it now.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_04: Also, at the same time, we're finishing up the 55 Chevy Superstocker whack.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_04: Two-door, two-door, two Chevy Show.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_04: Wait a minute, a 55 Superstock.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_04: Superstocker.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, there's there was a And I did listen, but you need to do a commercial no, not yet.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_04: All right.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_04: Short story.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_04: Again, almost two years.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_04: So it was an old school superstalker, ladder bar car, okay.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_04: And every year in India I tried to buy it.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_04: You want too much money for us, I'm not doing it.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_04: So he called Jared and he said, Stan's still interested in my wagon.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_04: He said, Yep.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_04: Anytime we want$60,000 for us, not paying$60,000.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_04: Unless there's$20,000 in the glove compartment, I'm not.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_04: I bought it as a roller, and what maybe wanted is I have a fresh, fresh 283.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_04: Is it a race engine or a street?
• 15:33
  Don Armstrong: It's a race engine.
• 15:34
  Don Armstrong: Not three-quarter cam now.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_04: But full race.
• 15:36
  Don Armstrong: Full race.
• 15:37
  Don Armstrong: Full race.
• 15:37
  Don Armstrong: From from Hilo?
• 15:38
  Don Armstrong: From Hilo.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_04: From Charlie's Hilo.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_04: Charlie's Hilo.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_04: Got that whip becker.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_04: Got that whippecker on the glass.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_04: So this is a very standhold story.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_04: I had the four-speed.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Liberty.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_04: Four speed.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_04: The Liberty Four Speed.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_04: At the engine.
• 15:55
  Don Armstrong: So it's a drag race car, is what it is.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_04: It is.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_04: I'm halfway there.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_04: So I decided, let's make a real car.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_04: We sent it to PK Racing Cars up in North someplace, Ohio or something like that.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_04: Now it's four-length.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_04: Full cage, you know, where you sit inside a cage.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_04: Pro stock pedals.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_04: Jared, so you're not going to believe this car.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_04: I hadn't seen it.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_04: Just heard about it.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_04: Full race with double stitched diamond.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_04: No, no, that's the Ford.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's the Ford, okay.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_04: You're still confused.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_04: I am.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_04: Anyway.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_04: So I started building because I already had the engine, I already had the transmission.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_04: So Jared was in Houston last week working on some stuff.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_04: And I said, I said, Jared, I sat straight up in bed at 3 o'clock in the morning.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_04: I said, why would anybody want three quarters of a drink?
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_04: I went.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_04: What are you talking about?
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_04: I want to put an LS in the car and a five-speed Liberty.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_04: So I understand this.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_04: You had an engine and a transmission.
• 16:55
  Don Armstrong: No, because he blew he blew up his race car engine and he went, maybe that should go in the race car and I'll just get a stock LS.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_04: Listen, it's about$42,000 to build a superstock LS.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_04: He called Dan Jacobs, the fellow superstock racer.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, that's beautiful, isn't it?
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it is.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_02: We got a register somewhere.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_04: No, sir.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_04: Just come and have fun.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_04: Start have fun and drinking.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_04: Anyway, so I got an engine for sale and a transmission.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_04: So we did all that.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_04: I said, you know, we we gotta finish the thought.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_04: And it's gonna be two-tone.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_04: Anyway.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: But you can you can put the LS in it and still put it in super sock.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Super sock GT.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: GT.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_04: Even the 283 is GT.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_04: It had to be a 265.
• 17:44
  Don Armstrong: Only Stan Holtz could come up with this story.
• 17:48
  Don Armstrong: And it's true.
• 17:50
  Don Armstrong: I know it's true.
• 17:51
  Don Armstrong: But well, we started here, but it just wasn't right.
• 17:55
  Don Armstrong: It wasn't feeling right.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_04: We're on the way to Dallas, and so on our way to Dallas when we were going through Mississippi, I decided.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_04: Anyway, I think it's gonna be a really special car.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_04: And we're gonna paint it that uh destroyer gray with the uh that'll be on the bottom and then the kind of two-toned half and half.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_04: It'll be that 55 Chevy cream color with that.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_04: Anyway, we sent it to PK.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_04: So what are you thinking?
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_04: I said, I'm thinking slam to the ground.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_04: This car hadn't been tubbed.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_04: Wagon hadn't been tubbed.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_04: I'm thinking slam to the ground and SEMA.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_04: That's what he said.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, it sat like a showroom car on the show.
• 18:44
  Don Armstrong: Well, SEMA is in October.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_04: You got some time in October, yeah.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, got some time.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_04: He didn't have it ready for Indy.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_04: So we're gonna debut it in Indy.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_04: Am I invited?
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_04: Can I can I help you some way?
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_04: You can ride it in the baby seat.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_04: Now, this thing, it the you key the back tires, you don't you don't see the hub.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_04: It's that low in the back.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_04: And it's that low in the front, and the engine's not in there yet.
• 19:09
  Don Armstrong: Well, you're not getting it in the driveway here.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: The 55 wheel wells are are low anyway.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_04: They are.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: So so you're just gonna bring it on down.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: We need to take it back.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_04: We tubbed it and took it inside.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_04: If you saw the axles laying next to each other, the one it came with is like this wide, and the one that's going in is this wide.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_04: It's gonna be quite quite a car.
• 19:30
  Don Armstrong: Well, we want you to stay with us, but we've got to take a break.
• 19:32
  Don Armstrong: Can you do that?
• 19:33
  Don Armstrong: Okay, we'll get a break.
• 19:34
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead in Jeff's car culture gas caps, and Mars has driving destinations after this break on the in-wheel.
• 19:42
  Don Armstrong: The tailpipes and tacos renowned cruising expansed to Boba.
• 19:46
  Don Armstrong: Golden tropical cruisers, the one of experienced tailpipes and tacos at the loopy tortilla.
• 19:51
  Don Armstrong: I can start in Boba near Washington Boulevard.
• 19:54
  Don Armstrong: We have three loopy breakfast tacos with any donation to Shirley's kids.
• 19:58
  Don Armstrong: Enjoy the coffee or an adult coverage.
• 20:00
  Don Armstrong: Every cruising vehicle is automatically able to win one of the beautiful Chili Cover trophies of this hot rod.
• 20:07
  Don Armstrong: Tell Pipes and Tacos Boma happens Saturday morning, March 21st, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 20:12
  Don Armstrong: If you're a car case like we are, this is the event you'll want to attend.
• 20:16
  Don Armstrong: The event of Telicoma Talk should be online live and you may be interviewed about your run.
• 20:21
  Don Armstrong: Tellpipes and Tacos Boma edition Saturday, March 21st, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 20:25
  Don Armstrong: at the Loopy Tortilla 2050 I 10 South in Boma.
• 20:29
  Don Armstrong: The Katie Talepipes and Tacos happens Easter Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11.
• 20:33
  Don Armstrong: The free tailpipes and tacos cruising is a production of Loopy Tortilla Text Max, Boma, and Katie.
• 20:39
  Don Armstrong: It's pretty good.
• 20:41
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• 20:46
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• 20:52
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• 21:02
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• 21:08
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• 21:16
  Don Armstrong: Going on till 11 o'clock this morning.
• 21:18
  Don Armstrong: If you're in the Beaumont area, we invite you to come by.
• 21:20
  Don Armstrong: Boy, there's some really nice cars.
• 21:22
  Don Armstrong: You know what's really fun about this is that we get to see all these different cars over here in each texture.
• 21:28
  Don Armstrong: Boy, that's a nice car.
• 21:30
  Don Armstrong: That's a nice car right there.
• 21:32
  Don Armstrong: That there's a 56 Chevrolet.
• 21:35
  Don Armstrong: Boy, I like it.
• 21:36
  Don Armstrong: I like that silver and that red interior.
• 21:38
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 21:38
  Don Armstrong: Uh Stan Holtz, our guest in the remote studio here at the Loopy on I 10 in the Beaumont area.
• 21:46
  Don Armstrong: So we always invite you to tune in for our live show.
• 21:49
  Don Armstrong: 10 to noon is the regular time that we do this show.
• 21:52
  Don Armstrong: Every Saturday, our live show, All Things Automotive.
• 21:55
  Don Armstrong: Thanks for being with us today.
• 21:56
  Don Armstrong: Time now for Jeff's Car Culture Gas Cap Design.
• 22:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, they're different nowadays.
• 22:01
  Jeff Dziekan: So why?
• 22:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh well for decades, pulling up to a gas station and then unlocking the fuel door, twisting off a cap, setting it aside and filling up.
• 22:09
  Jeff Dziekan: That ritual was so standard that it became second nature.
• 22:12
  Jeff Dziekan: But here's a few things that we didn't know, and here's why.
• 22:15
  Jeff Dziekan: So one of the things, one of the biggest motivators behind the capitalist fuel systems is tighter emission control.
• 22:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Traditional gas caps wear out, crack, or even get loose, allowing vapors to escape.
• 22:26
  Jeff Dziekan: These vapors not only waste fuel but also contribute to smog and air pollution.
• 22:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Capitalist systems seal automatically every time, meeting strict environmental standards and reducing the likelihood of a check engine light to be in the evaporator emission leak.
• 22:40
  Jeff Dziekan: In fact, those are bad gas caps, and one of the most common causes of emissions are failures for vehicles today.
• 22:48
  Jeff Dziekan: The next one would be it's easier for drivers.
• 22:51
  Jeff Dziekan: The convenience is a big role in the move away from the gas caps.
• 22:55
  Jeff Dziekan: With no gas cap to twist, drivers can insert their pump nozzle directly into the filler neck and start fueling.
• 23:01
  Jeff Dziekan: This means no fiddling, no worry with the cap clicking tight enough, no risk of leaving the cab behind in the gas station, which we've all done once or twice.
• 23:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh it's simply the simplicity is especially appealing to the drivers who dislike dealing with that kind of stiff, dirty, frozen caps in harsh weather.
• 23:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Also, the modern capital systems are often tied to the car's locking system.
• 23:24
  Jeff Dziekan: So you can't even open the fuel door without unlocking the vehicle.
• 23:28
  Jeff Dziekan: The this deters casual theft or tampering.
• 23:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Another benefit is the capitalist filters are designed with nozzle-specific openings.
• 23:35
  Jeff Dziekan: The gas vehicles filler neck won't accept larger diesel nozzles, and the diesel truck filler neck are too big for the gas nozzle.
• 23:43
  Jeff Dziekan: These designs help prevent costly misfueling mistakes that can ruin an engine.
• 23:48
  Jeff Dziekan: The next one, Mike, we talked about uh believe it or not, the humble gas tank is responsible for countless trips to the mechanics.
• 23:55
  Jeff Dziekan: A loose or cracked seal can cause vapor fuel leaks and trigger the check engine light.
• 23:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Replacing the cap usually fixes it, but owners often spend unnecessary money in diagnosing the effect before realizing it was just a gas cap.
• 24:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Capitalist designs eliminate the weak point entirely.
• 24:12
  Jeff Dziekan: There's no rubber gasket to wear out, and the system seals more consistently than any human can twist.
• 24:19
  Jeff Dziekan: And there's another reason.
• 24:20
  Jeff Dziekan: If you're ever unscrewed a grimy old gas cap, got dirt and fuel and rusty flakes in your hands, you appreciate the cleanliness of a capitalist design.
• 24:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Because the seal the flap seals uh tightly, but it keeps out the dust, debris, road grime that also reduces the chance of contaminants getting into the fuel system itself.
• 24:39
  Jeff Dziekan: No drivers have to worry about setting a dirty cap on the trunk or dropping it on the ground and obviously driving off with it.
• 24:47
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you got Ford, who was one of the first major automakers to roll out a capless uh capless fuel filter widely, introducing its easy fuel system in the mid-2000s.
• 24:57
  Jeff Dziekan: GM quickly followed, adding capitalist designs to the models like the Chevrolet Malibu and the Cadillac ETS.
• 25:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Chrysler also adapted them in the Dodge and Jeep lineups.
• 25:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Today, capless filters are common across the wide range of brands, though not universal.
• 25:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Many economy cars and imports still use traditional caps, partly to cut the cost and partly because some drivers still expect them.
• 25:19
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you've got the capless fuel filler that uses a spring-loaded metal flap and multiple seals within the filler neck.
• 25:26
  Jeff Dziekan: When the fuel nozzle is inserted, it pushes the flap open.
• 25:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Once the fueling is complete, the nozzle is removed and the cap snaps and shut by creating an airtight seal.
• 25:35
  Jeff Dziekan: Most systems include a secondary door deeper inside the neck to prevent fuel siphoning or tampering.
• 25:41
  Jeff Dziekan: This setup is surprisingly robust and designed to last the lifetime of the vehicle without any maintenance.
• 25:47
  Jeff Dziekan: And just a couple more things.
• 25:49
  Jeff Dziekan: Reactions to the capital systems have never been mixed.
• 25:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Many drivers love the convenience, noting that it's faster and cleaner.
• 25:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Fleet owners appreciate it that there's fewer emission-related check engine lights caused by loose caps.
• 26:01
  Jeff Dziekan: However, some drivers dislike the lack of a physical cap, saying it feels less secure.
• 26:05
  Jeff Dziekan: A few complaints in certain older worn pump nozzles don't always see properly.
• 26:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Occasionally lead to the premature shutoffs during fueling.
• 26:13
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, we got a premature shutoff.
• 26:15
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 26:19
  Don Armstrong: We worry about premature something.
• 26:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, there's a psychological element to the disappearance of gas caps for generations.
• 26:25
  Jeff Dziekan: The twisting motion was a reassurance that the tank was sealed.
• 26:28
  Jeff Dziekan: But without it, some drivers feel uneasy, even though the engineering behind the capital systems went more secure.
• 26:35
  Jeff Dziekan: So if you don't if you have a newer vehicle that's got the cap uh the capitalist underneath your spare tire, in your spare tire area, there is an extension.
• 26:44
  Jeff Dziekan: So that if you have to put gas from a tank or a small container into the vehicle, there's a nozzle that you stick down in there and then you can put it in there.
• 26:53
  Jeff Dziekan: So it's like an adapter.
• 26:54
  Jeff Dziekan: I have when I check my car out, I've got it.
• 26:56
  Jeff Dziekan: It's still in a little package.
• 26:59
  Jeff Dziekan: I've got a Buick and there's nothing like it.
• 27:02
  Don Armstrong: Well, um, thank you very much for that.
• 27:04
  Don Armstrong: And we're going to move uh Mr.
• 27:05
  Don Armstrong: Maher's driving destination to the next segment.
• 27:08
  Don Armstrong: That's okay.
• 27:09
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 27:09
  Don Armstrong: You're just fine.
• 27:10
  Don Armstrong: Uh Stan, I wanted to bring you back in here and uh remind everybody that uh free tacos today with a donation to Shirley's kids.
• 27:17
  Don Armstrong: Is that correct?
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, before I move on, could you would you tell me again about the gas cap?
• 27:23
  Jeff Dziekan: It all started in uh 1858.
• 27:27
  Jeff Dziekan: And if you like, uh for decades pulling up to a gas station, man, unless you're gonna be able to do that.
• 27:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, no, we're good.
• 27:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Thank you.
• 27:33
  Don Armstrong: Uh my my memory hasn't gone that far away yet.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_04: I want to say something.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, you get a ta free taco for donation to Shirley's Kids.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_04: Shirley's Kids.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_04: Uh most people here probably have not heard of Shirley's Kids, but we're drag racers as we started talking about.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_04: So I became uh acquainted with Shirley Modowney.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_04: All of everybody's heard of her, but we became friends, and we started a charity called Shirley's Kids.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_04: And what we do is we help kids in financial need, health issues, and so forth in the drag racing community.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_04: And there was I said I wanted to help.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_04: She was 28, 5'2.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_04: Um she looked like she needed help.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_04: And Sheila said no, she's fine.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, she had plenty of help.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_04: Lots of followers.
• 28:22
  Don Armstrong: You know, I I kind of felt I knew that that where that was going, but at any rate.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_04: I just got like you have an opportunity, my current wife, speak again on the show.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_04: I was shocked that she did it.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_04: Well, yeah, we'd love to have her if we can talk her in things.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Sheila, still Sheila.
• 28:38
  Don Armstrong: Same one, same one.
• 28:40
  Don Armstrong: That's okay.
• 28:41
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, didn't I?
• 28:42
  Don Armstrong: Um but free taco.
• 28:46
  Don Armstrong: There's adult beverages here.
• 28:47
  Don Armstrong: Uh, what do you got?
• 28:48
  Don Armstrong: Mimosas and bloody marys, if that's what you're doing.
• 28:51
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, coffee.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and if you want to step it up for a little bit, we'll actually fix you a margarita.
• 28:56
  Don Armstrong: Margarita.
• 28:57
  Don Armstrong: Imagine that.
• 28:58
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 28:58
  Don Armstrong: By the way, the best margaritas ever.
• 29:00
  Don Armstrong: I will say that.
• 29:01
  Don Armstrong: Oh, and and and let me just say that I learned the hard way that we don't use, you know, squeezed, pre-squeezed juice.
• 29:10
  Don Armstrong: No, no, it's the real thing.
• 29:11
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 29:12
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, we use the real Minute May.
• 29:16
  Don Armstrong: You do not.
• 29:17
  Don Armstrong: No artificial.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, no, we you that he's no artificial, artificial.
• 29:20
  Jeff Dziekan: He is teasing.
• 29:21
  Jeff Dziekan: He's teaching.
• 29:21
  Jeff Dziekan: And if Kathy's listening, they're really good.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_04: Not allowed in the building and stuff.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_04: Everything we do is like that.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_04: Everything we make is fresh.
• 29:29
  Don Armstrong: And I want you to know that, you know, I moved in this past year out to Richmond, Texas, and I will tell you that there are many occasions, uh, particularly for whatever reason, on Sunday, that we drive from Richmond up to the original Loopy there at Highway.
• 29:45
  Don Armstrong: I tend, maybe, perhaps.
• 29:47
  Don Armstrong: Um, and um, that's why we go there.
• 29:50
  Don Armstrong: Well, because of the atmosphere and the staff that I know so well.
• 29:54
  Don Armstrong: And uh, you know, it it's just a great atmosphere.
• 29:57
  Don Armstrong: There's something special about that house.
• 29:59
  Don Armstrong: I can't tell you what it is.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_04: You know, I have a saying, there's uh there's nothing quite like the original of anything.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and it really is you know rub worn worn down pretty good.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_04: But it just has a home feel about it.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_04: It really does.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_04: It does.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know why people eat anywhere else.
• 30:16
  Don Armstrong: Well, I I will say this that uh that there's that a plug, a shameless plug.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's a little shameless.
• 30:23
  Don Armstrong: Not shameless.
• 30:24
  Don Armstrong: It's intentional.
• 30:25
  Don Armstrong: That that house is the basis, really, for all of the decollowing.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_04: That's amazing.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_04: Uh just opening restaurant number 35 somewhere.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_04: That's it's truly an American dream.
• 30:43
  Don Armstrong: And you and you moved to Dallas, too.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, uh, there's eight in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_04: Three San Antonio, three in Austin.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_04: But I mean, think about it.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_04: I had uh I had twelve thousand dollars and I borrowed sixty thousand dollars from a bank.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_04: The loan app was on a legal pad, you know.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_04: And uh I mean it's just uh Hail Mary.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_04: Do you still have all that?
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_04: Maybe frame somewhere or I don't.
• 31:11
  Don Armstrong: Well, it's not paid off yet.
• 31:13
  Don Armstrong: So there's that.
• 31:15
  Don Armstrong: Okay, I want you to stay for the next segment, okay?
• 31:17
  Don Armstrong: All right, uh hey, Inwheel Time is gonna take a quick break here.
• 31:20
  Don Armstrong: Loopy Tortilla Tex-Max in Baumont today for the tailpipes and tacos.
• 31:25
  Don Armstrong: We hope you'll join us and stay with us.
• 31:26
  Don Armstrong: Uh, we're gonna have uh more uh coming your way right after a quick break here.
• 31:33
  Don Armstrong: The Easter Bunny's coming to the Tailpipes and Tacos cruise in at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Max in Katie, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 31:41
  Don Armstrong: And you're invited to bring the kids and grandkids.
• 31:44
  Don Armstrong: It's a cruise in like you've never attended before.
• 31:46
  Don Armstrong: With a donation to Shirley's kids, you will get a free Lupe Georgina breakfast taco, Philby coffee and adult beverages, plus chili pepper trophies for the best hot bottom, the best modern classic, and best classic.
• 31:56
  Don Armstrong: There's no entry feeding and no registration, just bring it right and the kids.
• 32:03
  Don Armstrong: And he'll be full of joy to help make this tail pipes and tacos a very special one.
• 32:07
  Don Armstrong: Local opportunities of help.
• 32:09
  Don Armstrong: The Influencing Car Talk Show will be streaming around the globe, and you can be selected to tell your car story to a global audience.
• 32:15
  Don Armstrong: It's the Tale Pipes and Tacos Cruise and Easter edition, Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 32:20
  Don Armstrong: at the Lupi Torchica Tex Max in Katie, located on 99, the Grand Parkway, just south of I 10, the Katy Freeway, in Katie.
• 32:26
  Don Armstrong: Make plans now.
• 32:27
  Don Armstrong: Lupi Torchia is pretty good.
• 32:31
  Don Armstrong: You own a car you love.
• 32:33
  Don Armstrong: Well, why not let Gulf Coast Auto Shield protect it?
• 32:35
  Don Armstrong: Houstonian John Gray invites you to his state-of-the-art facility to introduce you to his specialist team of auto enthusiasts.
• 32:42
  Don Armstrong: We promise you'll be impressed.
• 32:43
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• 32:58
  Don Armstrong: Curbed your wheels?
• 32:59
  Don Armstrong: Instead of buying new, why not have them repaired?
• 33:02
  Don Armstrong: How about a professionally installed radar detector?
• 33:04
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• 33:06
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• 33:12
  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.
• 33:19
  Don Armstrong: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is your place to go for all things exterior.
• 33:23
  Don Armstrong: Call them today, 832-930-5655 or gcautoshield.com.
• 33:30
  Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 33:34
  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.
• 33:44
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• 33:53
  Don Armstrong: Keep listening, and we'll see you soon.