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What Tariffs And USMCA Changes Could Mean For Car Prices And Production · In Wheel Time Podcast

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Don Armstrong: Wow, that's loud.
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Don Armstrong: It's the award-winning in-wheel time car talk show.
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Don Armstrong: Just ahead, our story of the week.
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Don Armstrong: Guess what the Hemming Sold car went for?
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Don Armstrong: And recalls.
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unknown: God.
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Don Armstrong: Later, Jeff has the racing calendar.
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Don Armstrong: Mars has this week in auto history, and I'll bring you the stories making automotive use headlines.
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Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike Out of This World Mars, who's right over there.
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Jeff Dziekan: He's back there.
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Jeff Dziekan: He's over there.
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Jeff Dziekan: He's everywhere.
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Don Armstrong: We always need more Jeff Zacan.
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Don Armstrong: David Ainsley.
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Don Armstrong: David Ainsley is joining us from his bed.
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Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
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Don Armstrong: Thanks so much for joining us today.
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Don Armstrong: It's gonna be good.
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Don Armstrong: Do you think Larry's in his bed?
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Don Armstrong: Larry the cat.
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Don Armstrong: You know, I that let that cat thing with David.
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Don Armstrong: David has two cats.
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Don Armstrong: Larry and what's the other one's name?
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Don Armstrong: Not Larry.
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Don Armstrong: Not Larry.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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Jeff Dziekan: Larry's a uh pretty only one.
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Don Armstrong: There's two.
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Don Armstrong: No, there's two cats.
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Don Armstrong: Two cats in the yard.
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Don Armstrong: All right.
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Don Armstrong: Um let's do our story of the week that I have selected for all.
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Don Armstrong: Are you ready?
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Don Armstrong: It's about tariffs.
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Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: And um the like.
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Don Armstrong: So listen to this.
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Don Armstrong: Major decisions on tariffs, the future of North American trade, and new duties on robotics loom for the auto industry this year, offering potential clarity on a policy landscape that has upended the planning of automakers and suppliers, including EVs or not EVs.
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Don Armstrong: U.S.
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Don Armstrong: Supreme Court in the first part of 2026, now, is expected to rule on the legality of many tariffs enacted by President Trump earlier this year, and the future of North American trade will come into focus as the United States, Mexico, and Canada review their trilateral trade agreement that Trump suggested the U.S.
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Don Armstrong: could abandon.
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Don Armstrong: At the same time, the Trump administration has signaled it could pursue a wide range of new tariffs, including on industrial robotics and critical minerals.
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Don Armstrong: New tariffs will likely weigh heavily on auto companies as they decide how to adjust production and investment plans, according to experts.
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Don Armstrong: And the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of many of Trump's tariffs in early 2026.
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Don Armstrong: Now the case pertains to duties issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which includes nation-level reciprocal tariffs on global trade partners, and those Trump said he placed on Canadian, Mexican, and Chinese goods in response to fentanyl trafficking.
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Don Armstrong: Can he do that?
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Don Armstrong: Well, the Supreme Court's going to say one way or the other.
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Don Armstrong: The US-Mexico-Canada agreement is up for review this year, six years after the trilateral trade deal went into effect.
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Don Armstrong: In July, the three countries must signal in writing whether they want to continue with the agreement.
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Don Armstrong: If so, the deal will be extended for another 16 years.
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Don Armstrong: If not, USMCA, US, Mexico, Canada, would enter into a period of annual reviews before potentially expiring in 2036.
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Don Armstrong: Now remember, we have lots and lots of car manufacturers, not necessarily American, in Mexico.
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Don Armstrong: And let's not forget, a lot of the Detroit III have also uh building places out there in Canada.
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Don Armstrong: Right.
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Don Armstrong: Right across the river.
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Don Armstrong: Uh the Trump administration appears poised to issue a wide range of new tariffs in 26.
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Don Armstrong: Commerce Department in September launched a national security investigation into imports of robotics and industrial machinery under Section 232.
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Don Armstrong: Thank you, Barney Fife.
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Don Armstrong: The same law used to implement auto duties.
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Don Armstrong: The Commerce Department is expected to issue the results of its investigation no later than the end of this month.
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Don Armstrong: So the whole trade thing is all up in the air now.
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Don Armstrong: And who's to say what's going to come of it?
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Don Armstrong: To me, what is more concerning is USMCA, because it has kind of overridden a lot of the tariffs that have been put into place between Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
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Don Armstrong: So they're kind of doing the USMCA thing.
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Don Armstrong: But if it's all up in the air, and I'd fail to mention in there that President Trump has even said, hey, we might even do just a bilateral deal.
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Don Armstrong: In other words, United States and Mexico, that'd be one deal.
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Don Armstrong: Right.
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Don Armstrong: United States and Canada would be another separate deal.
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Don Armstrong: Correct.
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Don Armstrong: So it's going to be very interesting.
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Don Armstrong: It's going to be one of those things that you'll want to keep up on because it's going to have a huge effect on the auto industry and imports too.
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Jeff Dziekan: Now George W.
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Jeff Dziekan: Bush, not George H.W., not the dad.
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Jeff Dziekan: The son is the one that implemented all that.
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Jeff Dziekan: They got that deal working.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Jeff Dziekan: USMCA.
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Don Armstrong: USMCA.
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Jeff Dziekan: Is there a dance to it, Mike?
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Jeff Dziekan: USMCA?
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Don Armstrong: You're going to ask him to dance?
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Jeff Dziekan: He does the Macarena on Friday nights.
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Don Armstrong: Mars, do you dance?
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Don Armstrong: I've never seen you dance.
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Don Armstrong: Well, at least not on a dance floor.
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Mike Marrs: I do dance on the dance floor, by golly.
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Mike Marrs: Do you belly rub?
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Mike Marrs: I did want to say one thing about the uh polished belt buckles, but the the tariffs and stuff, I understand all that being uh a tool.
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Mike Marrs: And and but when you start talking about doing annual reviews, I mean the government is so big an annual review takes a couple of years.
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Mike Marrs: I I I can't imagine how that would help anything.
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Don Armstrong: Obviously, they would have to speed that up a bit, don't you think?
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Don Armstrong: Well, there is that more bureaucracy.
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Don Armstrong: All right, let's do some recalls, shall we?
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Don Armstrong: All right.
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Don Armstrong: Uh airbag inflator may detach from the steering wheel.
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Don Armstrong: Kind of like the one in uh uh family vacation.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: You know, it kind of detached.
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Don Armstrong: All it was was a blow-up uh plastic bag, but whatever.
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Don Armstrong: For the Nissan Cube, uh 2009 to 2010.
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Don Armstrong: Um oh huh.
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Don Armstrong: Look who's on here.
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Don Armstrong: Ford Motor Company.
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SPEAKER_04: Not again.
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Don Armstrong: Loss of drive power due to a transmission misalignment.
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Don Armstrong: Martha, what is that sticking through the floor back there?
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Don Armstrong: It's the drive shaft.
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Jeff Dziekan: Transmission or drive shaft misalignment?
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Don Armstrong: This is a transmission misalignment which would cause the drive shaft.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Don Armstrong: It would be a big, huge mess.
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Jeff Dziekan: So it's not a connected to the engine.
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Mike Marrs: How do you misalign the transmission?
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Don Armstrong: Well, I don't know.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh probably a a mount, some probably a mount or something.
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Don Armstrong: I would think.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: All right.
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Don Armstrong: Oh, but we're not done.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Sun visor wiring may cause a fire.
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Jeff Dziekan: Pull over.
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Jeff Dziekan: So when the sun visor is on fire.
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Jeff Dziekan: When I'm putting on makeup, can you get it?
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, when I'm putting on my makeup and I poke myself in the eye with my Maybelline.
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Don Armstrong: It's the Ford Ranger for 24 and 26.
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Don Armstrong: Oh, but let's not stop there.
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Mike Marrs: Why stop now?
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Don Armstrong: Engine block heater may overheat and cause a fire.
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Don Armstrong: Now that typically is not a problem here in the Houston area.
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Don Armstrong: However, up north it could be.
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Don Armstrong: Uh for the Ford Broncos Sport and the Ford Maverick 25 and 26.
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Jeff Dziekan: Speaking of that, do you know there's still on still snow on the ground in the UP of Michigan?
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Jeff Dziekan: Calumet Mich Calumet UP Michigan.
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Jeff Dziekan: It's a uh weather station.
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Jeff Dziekan: They still have like two feet of snow on the ground.
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Mike Marrs: That's why we live here.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, and that's why they have engine block heaters up there.
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Don Armstrong: You have to because it's the engine will you know, and you have to have a battery tender on it overnight, and maybe a little battery blanket or something.
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Don Armstrong: Brake pedal may detach from the brake booster on the Audi Etron and the Etron Sportback.
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Don Armstrong: Even though they're electric, they still have a brake pedal.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, 2019 to 2024.
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Don Armstrong: Well, it cannot be, yes.
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Don Armstrong: Um, and there's a do not drive order issued for the Roush Nissan Frontier Pro 4XR for 2026.
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SPEAKER_00: What Roush?
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Don Armstrong: Do not drive.
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Don Armstrong: Loss of steering control from a loose or missing fastener.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Uh Roush Nissan.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, I didn't know that they were doing that.
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Don Armstrong: Do-da-do-da.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: And uh Land Rover, Range Rover, Jaguar, they're all under recall.
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Don Armstrong: Loss of drive power from a DC DC converter failure, all electrics.
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Don Armstrong: Uh, you're screwed.
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Don Armstrong: Oh boy.
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Don Armstrong: Um, lift gas springs may rupture on the Mitsubishi Outlander and the Outlander PHEV 2014 through 2022, and improperly welded seat brackets on the Toyota RAF 4 for 2025.
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unknown: All right.
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Don Armstrong: Now let's get to the fun stuff, shall we?
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Don Armstrong: All right.
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Don Armstrong: We don't have too long, but we can't linger on this.
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Don Armstrong: Don't linger.
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Don Armstrong: We're not lingering.
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SPEAKER_00: No lingering.
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Don Armstrong: Dilly-dally.
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Don Armstrong: There's a big lingering felter, uh, open house today going on up there in Michigan.
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Don Armstrong: Um, so here's what we got.
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Don Armstrong: These, ladies and gentlemen, are this week's Hemings Sold Cars.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Got it, Michael.
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Jeff Dziekan: Are you guys ready for this?
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Jeff Dziekan: Do we have Jeffrey and George calling on Jeffrey's and George's and David's.
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SPEAKER_00: George was here a few minutes ago.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's get moving.
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Don Armstrong: Here's the first one.
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Don Armstrong: A 1966 Jaguar XKE.
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Don Armstrong: Now, back in the day, this was the bomb.
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Don Armstrong: The 66 Jaguar XKE.
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Don Armstrong: Look at the length of that hood.
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Don Armstrong: I didn't know it.
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Don Armstrong: Massive.
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Don Armstrong: How much do you think that that thing went for?
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Don Armstrong: It's a convertible, obviously.
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Don Armstrong: And it's got wire wheels on it.
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Don Armstrong: It could be all original.
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Don Armstrong: Oh, it's beautiful.
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Mike Marrs: One thing I found really interesting about this, it's an automatic.
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Mike Marrs: I did not even know they made an automatic in that.
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Jeff Dziekan: I did not either.
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Jeff Dziekan: Maybe, maybe that's.
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Jeff Dziekan: It's gonna go 129.
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Don Armstrong: 129 for Jeff.
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Don Armstrong: Is there anybody else that would like to throw it out?
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Mike Marrs: Sitting at 40.
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Don Armstrong: 40, okay.
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Mike Marrs: George sitting at 18,999.
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Don Armstrong: Oh, wait, what 1399.
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Mike Marrs: 1399.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: It went for 162,750.
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Mike Marrs: Hey, hey, hey, I'm close.
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Mike Marrs: That's an automatic option.
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Don Armstrong: Probably so.
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Don Armstrong: Rare.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Um, let's move on to something that's comparable in the American standard.
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Don Armstrong: A 1963 Chevrolet Corvette split window coupe.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: And it's got those big louvers on the hood, and I can't remember what that means.
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Don Armstrong: Is it is it a no a 63 did not have was it a 409 an option?
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Don Armstrong: 63?
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Don Armstrong: I don't know.
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Don Armstrong: But anyway, uh, this is a rare car.
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Don Armstrong: It looks like it's got original knockoffs on it.
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Don Armstrong: And uh it looks like it could be uh restored.
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Don Armstrong: Original.
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Don Armstrong: Okay, so let's go for the let's go for the gold here.
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Don Armstrong: How much?
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh I'm gonna say I'm just gonna go flat 200,000.
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Jeff Dziekan: There's a uh David and Stacy Lusk say 48,000.
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Jeff Dziekan: 48,000?
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Jeff Dziekan: I say it's a six-figure car.
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Mike Marrs: Jeff Jeff said 51.
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Mike Marrs: And George is at 28,999.
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Don Armstrong: A 63 Chevrolet Corvette split window coupe that you see before you went for$174,300.
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SPEAKER_00: Candace says$50, she got$50.
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Don Armstrong: Well, not bad.
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Don Armstrong: We'll take that donation.
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Don Armstrong: Okay, the next up is a 68 Ford Mustang, Candace Thackeray Sneed.
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Don Armstrong: You should know this one.
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Don Armstrong: Now it does have aftermarket wheels on it, and it is the fastback variety.
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Don Armstrong: 68 Ford Mustang.
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Don Armstrong: That's pretty too.
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Don Armstrong: It is pretty, it's a pretty car.
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Don Armstrong: How much do you think that that went for?
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Jeff Dziekan: Oh, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go 71.
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Jeff Dziekan: I'm I don't know what just came to mind.
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Jeff Dziekan: Anybody else?
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Mike Marrs: We're gonna have to move a little bit.
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Mike Marrs: I'm still seeing it things like Incredible about the previous car.
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Don Armstrong: Okay, so this car sold for$70,000$350.
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Don Armstrong: Thank you, Jeffrey.
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Don Armstrong: All right.
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Don Armstrong: Next up is a 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle.
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Don Armstrong: This is like the Malibu SS, if I'm not mistaken.
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Don Armstrong: Yep, it says SS on the side.
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Don Armstrong: Does have aftermarket wheels, got some Krager SSs on it.
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Don Armstrong: See, if I had that car, it would not have Kregger SS on it.
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Don Armstrong: But it um it's a very, very nice car.
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Don Armstrong: Let me put it that way.
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Mike Marrs: If you look at the way it's displayed, it's got a 454 and a manual five speed.
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Don Armstrong: 52.
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Don Armstrong: But the 454 didn't have any horsepower, so I'm just saying.
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Don Armstrong: Had lots of torque.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Okay, so how much?
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Don Armstrong: Oh, no horsepower.
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Don Armstrong: I'm gonna go 51 then.
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Don Armstrong: 51?
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Don Armstrong: Anybody else want to join in?
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, I'm not sure if David's going at this one or not.
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Mike Marrs: I just saw another one up there.
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Don Armstrong: David 69,000.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Well, I'm going to tell you right 25.
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Don Armstrong: It sold for$90,300.
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Don Armstrong: Probably because it had that uh big block Chevy in it.
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Don Armstrong: All right, next up, something we're gonna bring it back to Earth now.
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Don Armstrong: This is a resto mod.
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Don Armstrong: It's got a knot factory hood on it.
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Don Armstrong: 66 Chevy Malibu.
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Don Armstrong: I know.
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Don Armstrong: Me too.
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Don Armstrong: I'd do that.
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Don Armstrong: So how much do you think that 66 Malibu sold for?
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Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna say uh I'm gonna go flat 100.
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Jeff Dziekan: 100 grand.
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Jeff Dziekan: Really?
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I'm gonna go 100 grand.
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Jeff Dziekan: Dang.
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Jeff Dziekan: It's a resto mod though, Jeff.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, it and it's a Malibu.
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Mike Marrs: It's not a Chevelle.
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Jeff Dziekan: I'm sticking to my gun.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Mike Marrs: If I'm over.
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Don Armstrong: Anybody else?
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unknown: Oh, yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Anybody else want to guess the price on that?
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Don Armstrong: They got some more coming in.
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Don Armstrong: 32 from David and Stacy.
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Don Armstrong: David and Stacy said 32.
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Jeff Dziekan: Jeffrey's 35.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Jeff Dziekan: Anyone else?
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Jeff Dziekan: George is ending to 999.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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Jeff Dziekan: 75.
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Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Well, um, David and Stacy, they won.
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Don Armstrong: 60, I'm sorry, 29,925 is what it sold for.
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Jeff Dziekan: I was buying like multiples.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Next up, a 49 Studebaker 2R5.
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Don Armstrong: Remember I it went through the whole thing about the Studebaker last week.
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Don Armstrong: 37.
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Don Armstrong: Because this is almost like a car-like grill on the front of it.
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Don Armstrong: And there's so many features that are so car-like for 1949.
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Don Armstrong: About this, I think that this is a beautiful truck for what it is.
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Don Armstrong: I mean, look at it.
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Don Armstrong: I'd want one of these.
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Don Armstrong: 37.
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Don Armstrong: 37 for Jeff.
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Don Armstrong: Anyone else?
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: It's uh it's sold for$17.535.
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Don Armstrong: Wow.
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Don Armstrong: See, this is see, we're all over.
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Don Armstrong: Everybody's saying in the 40s and 50s.
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Don Armstrong: See, this is the thing that I that I love about that is the fact that you can get those.
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Don Armstrong: The problem is trying to find parts.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, maintenance of it too.
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Don Armstrong: Next up, 66 Chevy Malibu.
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Don Armstrong: This looks like a stock vehicle.
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Don Armstrong: That's a good one, too.
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Don Armstrong: That's a daily driver there.
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Don Armstrong: Is that a small block?
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Don Armstrong: V8?
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Don Armstrong: It looks like it.
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Don Armstrong: It has the emblem on the on the front of the uh hood, uh front of the fender there.
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Don Armstrong: Anyway, 66 Malibu sold for 24,150.
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Don Armstrong: Wow.
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Don Armstrong: 24150.
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Don Armstrong: And finally today, the 67 Ford F 350.
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Don Armstrong: This is a one-ton stake truck.
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Don Armstrong: It is a stake bed truck.
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Don Armstrong: The stakes aren't on it, but it's a stake bed.
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Don Armstrong: Is it a tilt bed?
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Don Armstrong: I don't know.
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Don Armstrong: You can't tell.
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Don Armstrong: It's a one-ton.
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Don Armstrong: You could easily do a hydraulic system on that.
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Don Armstrong: How much do you think that that truck sold for?
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Don Armstrong: 15 grand.
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Jeff Dziekan: 15 grand.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, probably too high on that.
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Jeff Dziekan: David and Stacy say five.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's probably closer.
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Jeff Dziekan: Anybody else?
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, uh Jeff is 33.
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Don Armstrong: Well, David and Stacy, you win.
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Don Armstrong: It's sold for$5,000.
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Don Armstrong: You own a steak truck.
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Jeff Dziekan: You own a lot you know, but how but see if that were me, I would put the stake bed, uh stakes on it.
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Jeff Dziekan: I would put a camper.
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Jeff Dziekan: I'd take that flat off there and I'd build some kind of camper on it.
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Jeff Dziekan: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Don Armstrong: No, what you do, yeah.
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Don Armstrong: You have one of those that pass through.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, okay.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: We would have a Mars camper on the back of it, where you step up into the back of it.
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Don Armstrong: Kind of like those uh nuclear trucks that you see roaming around on the freeway.
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Don Armstrong: Or just leave it flat and put a tent back there.
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Don Armstrong: Stake a tent down on it, and there you go.
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Don Armstrong: Great.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Great day, I can tell already.
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Don Armstrong: All right, as we wrap things up, let's uh start with Jeff's Racing Calendar, sponsored by the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
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Jeff Dziekan: And thank you for that.
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Jeff Dziekan: We've got NHRA going on right now, the first to the third, the NHRA Southern Nationals, the Georgia Motorsports Park.
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Jeff Dziekan: All classes, pretty much all the classes are competing, and it's going on right now.
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Jeff Dziekan: Formula One, well, they're back in Miami, and uh we'll see how that goes.
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Jeff Dziekan: Miami's a good host of racing.
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Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
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Jeff Dziekan: So that's gonna go on at Formula One.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh there was testing, I believe, yesterday.
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Jeff Dziekan: Indy is going on uh the road course at Indianapolis next week, uh May 9th, so that's gonna be next Saturday.
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Jeff Dziekan: They're gonna do that.
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Jeff Dziekan: And it's all in prep for the Indy 500.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh here we go.
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Jeff Dziekan: NASCAR making history again.
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Jeff Dziekan: They've got their first black female driver.
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Jeff Dziekan: Distiny Spurlock is set to make NASCAR history.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh black female driver driving the number 69 truck for MBM Motorsports Garage 66, and she'll be competing at Watkins Glen.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh, she's made her way through the ranks, and they're gonna put her in a truck.
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Jeff Dziekan: And then you've got uh the regular NASCAR boys, of course, we're they're uh in Texas uh today and tomorrow.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh Friday they ran the uh truck race, and that was where was that?
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, that was it was all in in uh Texas.
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Jeff Dziekan: Everything ran in Texas, so I apologize for that.
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Jeff Dziekan: So that's all going on this weekend for NASCAR, and then you've got the NASGRASS, the Lone Star Mower Association, they're coming up.
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Jeff Dziekan: They're gonna be next week on Mother's Day as well.
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Jeff Dziekan: So that's gonna be in Florida.
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Don Armstrong: Let's go down there and watch some racing lawnmowers.
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Don Armstrong: All right.
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Mike Marrs: All righty, sir.
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Mike Marrs: Got a few things that we saw was uh we really thought were interesting this week in auto history.
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Mike Marrs: You got it, Jeff?
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Mike Marrs: Yep.
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Mike Marrs: Alrighty.
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Mike Marrs: So this week, April the 29th, Oldsmobile built its final vehicle.
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Mike Marrs: Now, this closed the chapter that began on 1897 when Ransom E.
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Mike Marrs: Olds founded the company.
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Mike Marrs: I did not know it, but the cars were originally called Olds after Ransom E.
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Mike Marrs: Olds.
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Mike Marrs: Automobiles from the Olds Motorworks up until 1942, and then it just kind of caught on and it actually became the Oldsmobiles, and uh they were known for being innovators.
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Mike Marrs: They created they introduced the automatic transmissions and several modern production techniques, and at the height, they were selling a million cars a year.
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Mike Marrs: Now, as General Motors expanded, and being general motives being what it is, they had problems uh maintaining a different identity.
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Mike Marrs: They kind of got lost in the shuffle.
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Mike Marrs: So when they finally closed, they were the oldest American automobile brand still existing, and now that title has passed on to Buick in Jeff's honor.
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Mike Marrs: So in April 30th, prior to World War II, the Rover car company was building luxury cars.
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Mike Marrs: Now, during the war, the factory.
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Mike Marrs: Got bombed.
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Mike Marrs: So restarted after they launched the Land Rover as a rugged utilitarian vehicle basically focused on agricultural.
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Mike Marrs: And the idea was to build these easy to assemble vehicles with aluminum panels, very square, very boxy for two or three years, get some money going, get back into the Main Street luxury automobile market.
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Mike Marrs: But when they finally did that, they figured out that this Land Rover they were building actually outsold the cars, so they dropped that and focused back on the Land Rover and kept building them since then and created a very historic type vehicle.
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Mike Marrs: Next, we have May the 1st.
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Mike Marrs: The first Nelson Motor Car.
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Mike Marrs: Now Nelson was a 29-horsepower car that started in 1917, and they were able to build 10 vehicles per day.
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Mike Marrs: Now this was designed very much like a European style, and it had a 2.4 liters four-cylinder engine to start with.
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Mike Marrs: So, but they began production just before World War I.
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Mike Marrs: Of course, timing is everything.
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Mike Marrs: And uh so the E.
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Mike Marrs: A.
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Mike Marrs: Nelson Auto Company had serious financial issues.
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Mike Marrs: So September 1921, the company again filed for bankruptcy, but was permanently closed.
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Mike Marrs: So from 1917 to 1921, the company produced 1,028 cars.
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Mike Marrs: There is one known preserved car left today.
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Jeff Dziekan: I'd like the wing on the back of that convertible.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, yeah, that's for the high speed.
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Mike Marrs: Now, May the 1st, Ford also introduced a new reduced work week in 1926.
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Mike Marrs: And they did a lot, 26.
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Mike Marrs: They've done a lot of things to change production models.
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Mike Marrs: But this decision was actually made in 1922 when Ford and they described they had eight-hour working days, and it was six days a week, and it gave them a 48-hour work week.
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Mike Marrs: But in 26, 1926, it was announced that they were going to go to a five eight-hour days, giving a 40-hour work week that is generally considered what we have today.
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Mike Marrs: And um it started with uh on May the 1st and 26th, the uh the factory worker switched to that four-day, 40-hour work week, and then the office worker switched to the thereafter.
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Mike Marrs: Then in May the 1st, 1994, Arson dies at the Imola F1 Grand Prix.
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Mike Marrs: Now, this was really significant because this guy was a real up-and-comer.
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Mike Marrs: He was pretty young, and uh, but during the the qualifying runs the day before, there'd been a lot of accidents.
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Mike Marrs: Roland Rotzenberger died in qualifying in an accident.
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Mike Marrs: Now, this really brought a lot of attention to it.
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Mike Marrs: This was a friend of his, and he was really focused on it, and it really bothered him.
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Mike Marrs: So he was trying to get everything and make sure he could stay as safe as he could, new family, all that.
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Mike Marrs: He wanted to make some adjustments to the steering column of his race car the night before the race.
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Mike Marrs: No time to rebuild it.
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Mike Marrs: So his crew got together and they modified his exiling existing steering column, welded it in some pieces to extend it the way he wanted it.
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Mike Marrs: Now, things went off, he took off on the race, but anyway, he had an accident, high speed in the corner, crashed, and the steering column is what killed him.
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Mike Marrs: There was a lot of information, a lot of a lot of investigation, took years.
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Mike Marrs: Some uh the first time the owner of the team and the pit crew were charged with uh negligence because they welded it and they did not do it properly, supposedly.
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Mike Marrs: They were uh the courts found that the accident was caused because of that failure.
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Mike Marrs: And so they were all charged, and then later the courts determined that it wasn't the cause, and then again later, another trial, they decided it was.
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Mike Marrs: Nobody actually went to jail or anything, but a lot of people got charged, and it was a very sad thing, and it created a lot of changes in the F1 as far as safety and things go.
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Mike Marrs: And uh again, it was really sad to read as much about it as I did because this guy was really a nice upcomer, it seems.
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Don Armstrong: Tesla has thank you.
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Don Armstrong: Tesla tallied up uh Elon Musk's annual compensation for the first time since shareholders approved his moonshot pay package.
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Don Armstrong: And it's a doozy.
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Don Armstrong: 158 B billion dollars.
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Don Armstrong: The bulk of the sales, about 430.1 million, came from doing business with XAI, Musk's artificial intelligence startup.
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Don Armstrong: Tesla first disclosed in January.
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Don Armstrong: Automaker added this week that it also recognized another one hundred and forty-three point three million in revenue from SpaceX.
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Don Armstrong: He ain't doing too bad.
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Don Armstrong: Nissan told U.S.
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Don Armstrong: suppliers April 30th that it has dropped plans to build electric vehicles in Mississippi.
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Don Armstrong: Ain't happening ain't no more.
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Don Armstrong: We're gonna wrap things up for this week, right after this quick break.
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