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A Celebration of Vintage Motorcycles and Classic Car Culture - Hill Country Motorheads · 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.
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  Speaker 1: It's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Ahead Pat Hanlon with Hill Country Motorheads Museum in Burnett, texas, with a display Also at the upcoming Keels and Wheels, with a display and also and also with a display.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: I wrote this and I can't even understand it myself.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: You want me to read it, I can read it.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: They're going to be at Keels and Wheels.
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right With the display, with some of these motorcycles he's got behind you.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Alright.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Well, whatever we're going to find out, I'll shut up.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: We'll have this week in auto history and we'll get you caught up on the stories making automotive news headlines.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with Mike Howdy.
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  Speaker 1: This world, mars.
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  Speaker 1: We always need more.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Jeff Zekin, our chief engineer, david Ainsley, is joining us mentally.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: God help.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: You know, things start to go down in the last 30 minutes and my brain stopped functioning.
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  Speaker 2: What day is today?
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's 420.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: It's 420.
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  Speaker 1: He had to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's 420.
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  Speaker 1: Just saying Some people can relate to that, others can't.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: So be it.
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  Speaker 1: Pat Hanlon is a collector and a participant with the Hill Country Motorheads Museum.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: Did I say it right, is it Burnett?
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  Speaker 5: Texas.
• 1:44
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's Burnett.
• 1:46
  Speaker 5: Don't ever say Burnett or people around here will get after you about it.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: I know and see.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: You know I'm not right very often, but I will pat myself on the back.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: I knew that it was Burnett and everybody says, ah, it's Burnett.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: No, it's not Burnett.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Don't say that.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: I wanted you to clarify that for me.
• 2:07
  Speaker 5: well, pat, it's good, I'm sorry the big saying here locally is it's burn it, darn it, learn it that's it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, uh, tell everybody where burnett texas is we are about an hour northwest of downtown Austin in the hill country in the lakes trees up here, close to famous or not really, it's a popular tourist area called Marble Falls and Lake.
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: Buchanan oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah, it's a great area.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just going to say it is absolutely stunningly beautiful up there and if you've never been there, that is a destination, that's a Texas destination to drive through.
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: Don't fly over it.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: Go there, drive through it and enjoy it.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's so unique and so pristine beautiful up there.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: It's on the way to kind of Fredericksburg way, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: That's right, yeah, fredericksburg and the rest of the western part of the hill country.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, it's, it's beautiful and the the reason we locate the museum here in the first place, because it's coming down highway 29 here in 281.
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of the entryway to the hill country for motorcyclists when they want to do the best riding in.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Texas Go cruising when they want to go up there to Enchanted Rock and do that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I got that all day long.
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  Speaker 5: So how did you wind up there, pat?
• 3:37
  Speaker 5: Well, we're originally from West Texas, out there in the oil field area, and we had a house on Lake LBJ down here.
• 3:45
  Speaker 5: So we just decided at some point to move down here and kind of consolidate households just move down here.
• 3:53
  Speaker 5: And we had a big motorcycle collection at the time, which was about 10 years ago actually, when we moved down here.
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  Speaker 5: But uh, we just decided to uh give it a try as opening a museum instead of just having a personal collection like so many people have where they just keep in their garage and nobody gets to see them.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: So has it kind of?
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: Has it kind of surprised you that you've got all these, uh, motorcycle guys and girls running through to see your collection?
• 4:25
  Speaker 5: Well, that's what we were hoping.
• 4:26
  Speaker 5: That was the game plan to be a popular, what they call a destination location.
• 4:33
  Speaker 5: We're not in the middle of town or anything where they can just go walking around to all the shops and then come and see us.
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  Speaker 5: They've got to want to come to see us here, so we've become a pretty popular destination.
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  Speaker 5: We have thousands visit here a year.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of motorcycles do you have?
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  Speaker 1: What's the earliest motorcycle you have in your collection 1900?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Our collection is primarily 60s through 80s, what we call kind of the baby boomer preferred.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry, I can't relate to that.
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  Speaker 2: That, harley, that's right there over your left shoulder though it doesn't quite fit that description.
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: Sorry, that's right there over your left shoulder, though it doesn't quite fit that description.
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  Speaker 5: Well, this is a replica of an original 1910 Harley and they were built over in Georgetown, just an hour from here, so we couldn't help but get one for the museum.
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: But it is the exception really.
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  Speaker 5: We do have some 40s bikes here and some 50s, and then we have some newer ones, some uh, you know newer like sport bikes that the younger people like when they come in here pat, did you, do you work on these bikes yourself at all?
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  Speaker 5: uh, as much as I can.
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  Speaker 5: Um, don't really have a lot of time to do full restoration, but we do get them running.
• 6:08
  Speaker 5: When we get them in, we do the tests and cleaning up, detailing and things like this.
• 6:14
  Speaker 5: But I used to do a lot of restorations years ago when I started collecting.
• 6:19
  Speaker 5: But it's just too time consuming and now they can sit there on the lift for months or even a year waiting for parts and things like that, and it's have a tendency not to.
• 6:32
  Speaker 5: You know, you get kind of gridlocked here.
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  Speaker 5: Bikes that are pretty much, uh, museum ready or uh are.
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  Speaker 5: My preferred bike to put in the museum is what we call survivors, which is original bikes that just survived all these years.
• 6:54
  Speaker 5: They may need new tires or a little bit of cleaning up, but basically uh, real, real low miles.
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  Speaker 5: So so you've, they're special I'm surprised that you find very many of those uh, they're out there, um, they just come out of the woodworks, so, um, not that many, and a lot of them, a lot of the ones that are out there, aren't really what I would consider collectible, or they don't suit my taste in bikes.
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  Speaker 5: So so when we do find an original Survivor, it's really something special and generally there could be a story with it, because we probably get it from the original family that owned it and, you know, we find out that their grandpa or their dad or their uncle owned it and bought it brand new, right and their history.
• 7:42
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's fun.
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Because I mean you're looking for stuff that's 60, 70 years old.
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: I mean I had to do careful careful.
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: I had to do the calculate, I had to take my shoes off, just shut up.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, I got that.
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all that, uh, so I understand you're coming down yeah, heels and wheels.
• 7:59
  Speaker 5: You're that, you're the man uh, we are and uh, we are.
• 8:04
  Speaker 5: We're really excited to be down there.
• 8:07
  Speaker 5: Uh, I've actually been attending that uh event for many years because the business we have that supports this basically is a oil field related business, and so the big oil show called otc is in houston.
• 8:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that, uh, either the week before or the week after, so it gives us the opportunity to attend keels and wheels.
• 8:30
  Speaker 5: So when they contacted us about putting motorcycles in, we were all in how many folks do you have working with you as a the curator?
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: there you have a team of folks.
• 8:44
  Speaker 5: Well, we do have a team, but the only full-time people here are me and my wife Janelle.
• 8:51
  Speaker 5: She's pretty much the curator for it.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: And I think that she is she the camera operator on this video.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah she's pretty steady.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she is, despite you standing in front of it.
• 9:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, yeah well, you're doing a good job here so, uh, how many bikes are you bringing?
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: what are you bringing, uh, have you?
• 9:17
  Speaker 5: decided yet.
• 9:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we had to commit early so they could do the prep, promotional and everything.
• 9:24
  Speaker 5: It's funny that right before we got on this call, I was asking my wife if I could have a list of the bikes that are in there, because my mind went blank.
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: But that's all right, we're bringing a 47 Indian Chief.
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And a Royal Enfield no Ariel, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 9:43
  Speaker 5: And Roll-Enfield, no Ariel, ariel.
• 9:46
  Speaker 5: Square Four, late 40s model.
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  Speaker 5: Those are some of our older bikes there, and then we're bringing something that would be newer for our collection is a 85 Honda VFR 1000 sport bike that we just picked up earlier this year.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't happen to have a late 60s Honda F-150, some sort of a glide or something.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: It had dual exhaust down the bottom and I remember this kid, his dad had it and I got to drive it and I was just royally impressed.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: You know, it was really a cool bike because I was in the Honda 50s back in the mid-60s.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: So you could imagine, you know, here I am driving, you know, a two-cylinder motorcycle around the block and I'm thinking do you have anything like that?
• 10:41
  Speaker 5: Yes, I think I know which one you're talking about.
• 10:43
  Speaker 5: I think they might have called it the 150 Dream or something like that.
• 10:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, yes, we've got that and we've got a 305 Dream.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: What is your favorite bike that's in your collection?
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  Speaker 1: Which one do you love?
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  Speaker 5: Wow, you know that's probably the most popular question that's asked all the time here, so that's a good one.
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  Speaker 5: It's actually a 1972 BSA Rocket 3.
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  Speaker 4: A.
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  Speaker 1: BSA.
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: You know, I haven't heard that in a while.
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  Speaker 1: Bsas were always at the top of the list European bikes.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the kids that I had, you know, the dads usually had the BSAs.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: And the kids we all had, you know, honda 50s or whatever they were, and the BSA had this.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: Ooh, that mystique, that, ooh, wow, look at that.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: Royalty, yeah, royalty, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's what this is all about Exactly.
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: I mean, you nailed it on that, hit the nail on the head.
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: It was back when my father was in the Army in El Paso, fort Bliss, and we lived off base and our whole neighborhood was full of young GIs and they all rode motorcycles or they had really cool muscle cars, and so, being that we were in grade school or junior high, we always just drooled over everything, and one of the guys had this exact same BSA back then and he used to start it up in the morning and ride it down our street on the way to base, and I used to just go to the front door when I'd hear him start it up, just watch him go by, and it just left that impression on me.
• 12:21
  Speaker 5: So it was always on my bucket list all these years to get one, and we finally found one at an auction that is probably the most beautifully restored example out there.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: Now, Pat, are you a car guy too?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, kind of sort of I don't have a big collection, but that's what I actually started doing in the first place was restoring old white muscle cars, and it was just too much work for one person.
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: It was uh, you know, you got to have a big team to really do that.
• 12:52
  Speaker 5: So I found that motorcycles was, uh, more something that you can do by yourself, sure do you know?
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: a fella that is also in the oil support business by the name of john hovis.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: John hovis, um, he owns, he owns a place.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's out in brookshire and he owns a place called the hemi hideout and, uh, he has an oil tool business.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: That he knows him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been very successful.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what did you say?
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: He said he knows him.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: You do know him.
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: Well, no no.
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  Speaker 5: I know his place.
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: We haven't been there, but so many people come in here and recommend that we go see his collection and the name was ringing a bell.
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: But I just don't.
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: I've never met the guy.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I think that you and he would really hit it off.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: We're all about the same age and he is from the oil business as you are, and he has a very small collection of motorcycles, like you and me as well.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: Back in the day, back in the 60s, mainly that we gravitated towards certain motorcycles why, I don't know, because I own several.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: I owned a Honda Yamaha.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: I did all that back in the day, but, john, when he became successful and could afford it, he bought I don't know a handful of motorcycles that really struck a chord with him from back in the day, like you, and I think that you two would really appreciate each other.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: So I encourage you to get in touch with us.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: We'll put you guys together, but I think that you would appreciate him.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: But let's go back to keels and wheels.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: What are you expecting there?
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Guys like us going wow, pat, that's really cool.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: Tell me about it us going wow, pat, that's really cool, tell me about it.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: Uh well, what?
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: What we're hoping is that we just uh, add a whole different type of genre to the event and that, uh, yeah, I think that anybody that's in, especially if they're up around our age, which represents a lot of the attendees at that event you had these little bikes back in the day, or your dad or your uncle did, and we find that people that just happen across these old bikes, not expecting it, really creates a lot of emotions and a lot of memories.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Well, I have to tell you that when we found out that we were going to talk to you and there were going to be bikes at the keels and wheels Mr Mars down here I didn't even know this he got all excited and jittery and thinking oh, boy, he gets jittery a lot.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets teary eyed a lot.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: It's the caffeine, the caffeine.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: But he was thinking wow, man, I can relate to that.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: So what's the story with you and your bike?
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: No, I've never met a motorcycle I couldn't wreck, but I did do some photography work on some early Harleys once upon a time and it was fascinating.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Like you said, there's always a story with a bike that's that old I want to know, pat, do you ever get the urge or maybe your wife gets the urge to when nobody's looking, maybe hop on one of those and take it for a spin around the block or down to the store.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: You ever get that urge we do it all the time.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know, we, when we get them running, you know, ultimately we drain the oil and gas out of them if they're putting them in the museum because we don't want leaks or whatever.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: But right, still, we want to be able to remember what it was like to ride that particular bike.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: So I always make it a point when we get them running, to take them up and down the street or, if it's a dirt bike, maybe go blasting around in the neighborhoods back here at dirt road.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: So, uh, that's.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Part of the excitement about uh being around these old bikes is?
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: You know, I've probably over the last uh 15, 20 years probably ridden a couple hundred different uh old vintage bikes right, well, uh, when is when is the move-in for you at Keels and Wheels On Thursday?
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: On Friday we're moving in and I failed to mention that there's another guy that's bringing some really incredible bikes to the event.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: That are the early bikes, like what you mentioned earlier, the pre-war stuff.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, early bikes like what you mentioned earlier, the pre-war yes, yeah.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: And uh, steve klein out of soledo.
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  Speaker 5: Steve and joan klein have really, really high-end, beautiful, very rare collection of motorcycles and, uh, we've asked them to join us for this so we can have a like cover the whole gamut of the age genres of motorcycles.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Very cool good idea, we're really excited about that no doubt.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Well, pat and uh, your wife, thank you both for joining us this morning.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: We really appreciate it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing the collection and look forward to meeting you there as well, okay, well, we're so excited to be down there.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: We want to thank you guys for including us in your broadcast, and we're excited and look forward to meeting you and seeing just what kind of reaction we get.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: You take care up there and burn it, darn it, Don't phone hey you catch on fast.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: All right, thanks again.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: All right, thanks again, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Time now for this week in auto history.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Mr Mars has history this week.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Hold on, Michael.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: There we go.
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  Speaker 3: April 14th 1927.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: The very first Volvo was produced in 1927.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: 280 cars that year left the line.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: That's the drag racing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, did I get the wrong one.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: So anyway, the car was built and designed to take care of, withstand Sweden's harsh roads and the frigid temperatures.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: But they figured out real quick that the very popular open carriage design wasn't going to work so well.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: So the next year they changed it, so they only produced the open carriage design one year.
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  Speaker 1: There it is.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like Granny's car, yep, absolutely From the Beverly Hillbillies.
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  Speaker 3: April, the 16th 2003,.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: The Honda Element goes on sale.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: It's only half painted, One of the very first adventure vehicles.
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  Speaker 3: You could get accessories including tents and roof racks, and it did attract a lot of buyers the first year 70,000.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: They sold in the very first year.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: However, it's a single generation and it continued as it was until 2011 when its sales stopped.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Also, April, the 17th 1964, the Ford Mustang goes on sale.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: 1964, the Ford Mustang goes on sale, Debuted at the New York Auto Show and approximately 22,000 were sold on the first date on the market.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Who's that in that picture?
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  Speaker 1: No, up on the top of the statue.
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  Speaker 2: It's like Columbus.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking more along the lines of the guy that had the smoking tobacco.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm thinking Sir Walter Raleigh.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, it looks like a knight from playing chess.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like a chess piece.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: So they sold 22,000 on the first day.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: 18 months they had.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Over a million were sold.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: It's Mars with a hat like that.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the first one sold for $2,368.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Now there's a side story to this.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I found in the Chicago Sun-Times yeah, that this car here, Gail Wise, bought the very first Ford Mustang sold in the United States.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Now what happened was she got a new job, graduated, got a job as a school teacher.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Her family were Ford drivers.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: They took her down to buy her first car to the Ford dealer.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Couldn't find anything she wanted in a convertible because the family had always drove convertibles.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Salesman said look, I got something in the back here that we got hidden, I'll show you.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Goes back there, she sees it, she falls in love with it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: No test drive.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Made him a cash offer $3,447.50.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: He sold the car to her two days before the official debut.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: So this car that she now owns 60 years later was sold two days before it was supposed to be sold.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: So this is the very first car that was sold Mustang sold.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: The other 20,000 were sold.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I bet it wasn't blue back then yes, it was.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: That's the color.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: That's the car.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Really, she had it restored.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: It parked in the garage for several years, but she's had it restored, running and driving All right, very cool.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Is that the end of it?
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just thought it was cool that she bought it before it actually went on sale.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and then she still got it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that the dealer didn't want that let out.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll take it, salesman wanted to make money.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, he couldn't turn it down.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Be sure to go to my car dealerships that I tell you to go to, because I put $1,000 in my pocket for every car, every referral that I have.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Welcome to 420.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: You don't know what I did before this show.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: We're figuring it out.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I did before this show.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Well, we're figuring it out.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know that we want to know.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: No, lee, I think I'm going to tell you to go to the XYZ dealer and you tell them that I sent you down there and they'll give you a great deal and I'll put $1,000 in my pocket and the bad part about it is that the dealers give this guy money for referrals.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: What Are you what?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: No, Anyway, I'm just ranting, you are, I have an opportunity to rant and I'm going to rant, rant away All right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Got some headlines?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I do, but I guess I could read one General Motors says it plans to leave its Renaissance Center office complex for Dan Gilbert's Hudson's Detroit development downtown.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Departure involves the automaker taking space in the 404,000-square-foot office component in the block portion of the 1.5 million-square-foot Hudson's redevelopment.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Gm and Gilbert's Bedrock commercial developed the firm development.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Uh, the firm said monday, the move throws it into limbo.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: The future of the renaissance center, the massive office and hotel complex in the detroit riverfront, has seen, suffered, has suffered during the pandemic, as office usage trends to have shifted dramatically.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Actually the Renasant Center.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: There's actually businesses.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: The hotels are kind of separate from that.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: We used to go there twice a year with ATD for their Fords and General Motors specialty Ford actually sold the property to GM to build that and then GM bought it, like in the late 90s.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: In real time.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: The original group of Loopy Tortilla restaurants will have you telling your family and friends just what the original recipes mean when it comes to the best fajitas in Southeast Texas.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Founder Stan Holt invites you to visit the original Loopy Tortilla near I-10 and Highway 6.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Here's the original house that inspired the design of all the rest and the original charm that helped make Loopy Tortilla the go-to destination for Houston Tex-Mex.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Speaking of original, nothing can compete with the original lime pepper marinade.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: That everyone will agree makes Loopy Tortilla award-winning beef fajitas the best anywhere.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Loopy Tortilla Katy is another location that gives you the same quality and service Houstonians have come to expect at Loopy's.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: It's located just off I-10 in the Grand Parkway at Kingsland Boulevard in Katy.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Find yourself in Aggieland Head to the Loopy Tortilla and College Station.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Located just around the corner from Kyle Field, it's a great place to enjoy those famous frozen margaritas before or after the game.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Headed east to Louisiana, stop in at the Loopy Tortilla in Beaumont Tortilla in Beaumont.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: It twos on I-10.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You can't miss it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: The original group of Loopy Tortilla restaurants invites you in for the best Tex-Mex anywhere.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is having another Car Social Saturday morning, may 18th, from 8 to 11.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: It's a car cruise in like no other.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Expect Ferraris, lamborghinis, corvettes and the featured brand Porsche.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Get social at this special cruise in event.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: You'll also see Gulf Coast Auto Shield's private workshop and learn about their many products and services.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Questions are welcomed.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is easy to get to at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, near West Airport Boulevard, just south of the Southwest Freeway.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: The Car Social featuring Porsche takes place Saturday morning, may 18th, from 8 to 11.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Tell your friends and no matter what car you have, bring it and enjoy this rare opportunity to see some of Houston's finest rides.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: In Wheel Time will bring its car talk show there too.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: So join us for another Car Social at Gulf Coast Auto Shield Saturday morning, may 18th, 8 to 11, at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, just south of the Southwest Freeway.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Visit gcautoshieldcom to see the show flyer for more details.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Well, that's it for this week's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
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• 29:09
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• 29:17
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• 29:32
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• 29:50
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• 29:51
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• 30:00
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• 30:06
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• 30:17
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• 30:26
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