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A Car Enthusiast's Journey through the Auto Industry with David Tillman and This Week In Auto History · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:03
  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 11am, central yes Channel.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Hey, it's the In Wheel Time car talk show coming up.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Channel 13 weather forecaster and auto enthusiast, mr David Tillman Conrad, has this week in auto history and we'll get you caught up on the stories making car news this week coming up in this segment of the In Wheel Time car talk show Howdy, along with David Ainsley Mars.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Still out with COVID King, conrad DeLong.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: We always need more Jeff Zekin.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: Why are you smiling?
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: Are you still back?
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: No, just because you're picking on Mars.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: No, he's smiling because he's awake.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Still out with COVID.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: No, he's just proud of that pedicure that he got three weeks ago.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: Oh boy, we're done with that.
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: Are we done with that?
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to read this bio here because I want everybody to know.
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: I'm proud to know this guy.
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: I'm proud to have him on.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Chief forecaster, david Tillman, came to JBC 13 in late 2000 from WMC TV in Memphis.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: He worked there as that station's meteorologist and received an Emmy for his coverage of a snowstorm that hit that city.
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: David's a member of the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: In 1998, he received his seals of approval from both organizations To graduating from Jackson State University in Jackson Mississippi with a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: David began his broadcast career.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: He was the weekend meteorologist at WAPT TV in Jackson.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: Year later he worked for the National Weather Network during the weekends and produced weather segments.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: There are 35 television stations and 45 radio stations across the United States.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: Born in St Louis, david and his wife Patricia have three children David, brianna and Sydney.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: David, it's an honor and it's a pleasure to have you on the air with us this morning.
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: This has been a long time coming, I know it has.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: When I first met David, he said to me well, you know, I used to be a car guy.
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: And I said you did.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: Well, that piqued my interest right away.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: Of course I've always wanted to be a weatherman.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the late Doug Johnson said hey, man, why don't you do weekend weather over here?
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: This is back in the day of Channel 2.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: And I said well, I don't know anything about it.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: He says just go and get the aviation weather manual Read up on it.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: I'll teach you what you.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: And of course I had long hair at the time and I was on radio then and I thought, oh, I don't have the confidence to do that.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: No, I'm good.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: And now he flies around in a helicopter without air conditioning.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess about traffic.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: There's that.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: But, david, I am always impressed by your weather forecasts.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: We love to have you on the air and see you on the weekends especially, and now it's expanded to almost seven days a week Most of the time, I think.
• 2:56
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 2:56
  Speaker 4: I was just sitting here just a moment ago while I was listening to you guys, and I'm looking at the latest weather data here because I'm in the ABC 13 weather office.
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: Of course I ran into their office and of course it's tropical weather season, so I was just looking at some of the latest data to see what this thing near Florida might bring us.
• 3:17
  Speaker 4: And the way I like to gauge it is is it going to give us enough rain to force to turn off a long sprinkler for a day or two?
• 3:25
  Speaker 4: And it kind of sort of doesn't look like it.
• 3:29
  Speaker 4: I think that dry ground we have is just going to suck up every drop of rain.
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: If we get it.
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: So we're going to be OK, but San Diego and LA are going to get hammered you know the weather is weird when Houston can't buy any rain and we're about to see record rain in San Diego.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I want to talk to you today mainly about your automotive background.
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: You've been a car nut forever, haven't you?
• 3:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it started when I was about five years old.
• 4:01
  Speaker 4: I had three loves as a child.
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: My love for cars and weather came about about the same time, about five, maybe six years old.
• 4:11
  Speaker 4: And then, later on, as I began to get closer to my teen years, I got into sports, and basketball being my main sport, but following baseball, I mean from St Louis, missouri, you know, people say, the top baseball city in the country I was.
• 4:27
  Speaker 4: I was way into car and baseball as well, but my love of cars started when I was five or six and I remember living on Kennerley Avenue in St Louis and looking about a half a block down the street at the corner there and all these cars would be passing by and I got to the point where, at six or seven years old, I could name every car that passed by Absolutely yes, I can relate to that.
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we all did that yeah it gets a little weird.
• 4:56
  Speaker 4: Here's where you might Okay, david's a little weird.
• 4:58
  Speaker 4: And this is where my love for the mechanical side of cars came about.
• 5:03
  Speaker 4: I could sit next to a car and I would test myself to know what kind of car it was, just listening to the exhaust note.
• 5:14
  Speaker 4: Okay, so you could know the difference between a Ford and a Mercury, between a Pontiac and a Oldsmobile.
• 5:21
  Speaker 4: You certainly knew when a Corvette or Camaro or Mustang, you know, was next to you, but I could tell you know what car company built that car, just by listening to yourself.
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: That is crazy.
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: There used to be a commercial about that with a little kid would be up in his room and the parent would say what is that?
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: And he named the car the whole spot.
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: That was David.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 5:48
  Speaker 4: This is really crazy too.
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: You could even smell the exhaust and know what company you're coming from.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: Well, back in the day, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: So did you work in the auto industry somewhere?
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: Did you work in the automotive industry somewhere?
• 6:05
  Speaker 4: Well, when I became a teenager I guess I knew I didn't want to work in fast food like most kids, and I love cars.
• 6:14
  Speaker 4: I kind of got that from my dad and I ended up working at I'll just give you my quick resume three different firestones, two different auto zones.
• 6:28
  Speaker 4: I worked I was a service manager at a tire place called Tire America and I was a service manager at a tire place called Tire America and I was a service manager at a tire place called Tire America.
• 6:35
  Speaker 4: I worked at a place called National Auto Parts and then I worked at a tire place in St Louis historic place.
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, they've been open since the 20s a telly tire and they're actually still open now.
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: They're still in business, yeah.
• 6:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I worked for and under the son of the founder of the business.
• 6:56
  Speaker 4: His name was Chuck Telly and then he had two sons, mark Telly and Scott Telly, and Scott Telly was my immediate supervisor there.
• 7:06
  Speaker 4: While I was there, I was in the second graduating class in the state of Missouri for safety and emissions inspection In the late 80s.
• 7:16
  Speaker 4: It grew from when you would take your car to get an inspection, from just getting a safety inspection, when they would look at your brakes and toot your horn and make sure your likes were to an emissions inspection.
• 7:30
  Speaker 4: You had to put the prong in the tailpipe and put it through the computer.
• 7:37
  Speaker 4: I was in a second class graduating class of being able to do that in the state of Missouri.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's move up to today.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: What kind of car do you drive?
• 7:50
  Speaker 4: Today I drive a GMC Yukon.
• 7:52
  Speaker 4: I've had it for 17 years.
• 7:56
  Speaker 4: It's a Yukon Denali.
• 7:57
  Speaker 4: I think it's the best vehicle I've ever owned 6.2 liter.
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: That was the first 6.2.
• 8:07
  Speaker 4: Gm produced the engine they had before that was the 6.0.
• 8:11
  Speaker 4: I owned that one too.
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: When I came out with the 6.2, I guess I got caught up in all the hype about it.
• 8:18
  Speaker 3: Bigger is better.
• 8:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got the 6.2, and I was so impressed with that variable valve timing and how you just had power.
• 8:29
  Speaker 4: It didn't matter what speed you were going.
• 8:32
  Speaker 4: You hit the gas and I think it would just take off and had a really good exhaust note to it.
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: I've been driving that for years.
• 8:39
  Speaker 4: I've come close a couple of times to training it in on a new one, but when I went to the dealership and found out they wouldn't give me the $3,000 for it, then I said maybe I just need to hold on to it.
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 8:52
  Speaker 4: Since the last time that happened I've driven to California a couple of times.
• 8:58
  Speaker 4: I've been to Colorado a couple of times.
• 9:00
  Speaker 4: I drove to Mount Rushmore by myself.
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: I went to Washington DC in.
• 9:07
  Speaker 4: It Been a pretty dependable ride.
• 9:11
  Speaker 4: It's pretty dependable Now.
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: I have had to replace pretty much all the major components After about 12 years.
• 9:19
  Speaker 4: Things just start to go.
• 9:20
  Speaker 4: But I think when you compare it to what you would have to pay to get a new vehicle of that same type, I mean it's just no-brainer.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, A new Denali, and I don't know if you're a short wheelbase or long wheelbase.
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: A new Denali long wheelbase is going to push $100,000 today.
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just looking.
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: I was just looking.
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: I'm a long wheelbase and that Denali Ultimate certainly caught my eye.
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: But it scares me just a little because I think the 2007 that I have was one of the last vehicles that were just not so completely loaded with electronics.
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you get to the unreliable side.
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I could buy a new one and trust that after five years the electronics wouldn't just go.
• 10:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, the electronics in the truck are half held up.
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: I still have the original ECM or ECU, whatever they call it now, and hey, it still works.
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I drive a 2004 GMC Yukon as my daily and it's bulletproof.
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, I say that now, hopefully I didn't just jinx myself, but yeah, it's pretty fault-free.
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: And now, right now, in today's times, we have no chance of being caught in a flood with any of our vehicles, that's for sure.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Certainly today.
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I see I use mine too.
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: I mean call me crazy, but I storm chase from time to time.
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: Oh wow, wow.
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: I usually do it with a station vehicle, but if I'm at home and I'm off work and I believe it's going to be tornadic thunderstorms within, say, three or four hours of the house, I'm not going to drive into work to get a company vehicle and go.
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: I'll just jump in my Yukon and go, and it's so nice to.
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, you need a vehicle with a lot of power and you need a vehicle with good traction.
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: Mine has the all wheel drive and it has the locking differential and I've never gotten stuck in it.
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: I've been in, you know, more than a foot of snow and you're right, it's bulletproof.
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: It's a great vehicle.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: You got some decent tires on there.
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: I only put Michelin's on it.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: I put the LTX on it because I travel with it.
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: I used to be a tire man.
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: I'm very sensitive to tire vibration and I hate it.
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: So when I first bought that truck I'll never forget this 17 years ago it had the bridge stones on it and we could not get the vibration out of it.
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: I went and I ended up going to discount tire and they did the.
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: I forget what they call it, but where you match up the road force balancing.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: They matched the high spot in the wheel to the low spot.
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: They index it precisely yeah.
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: They actually.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: What they measure is the sidewall stiffness as it rolls around the tire.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: Pretty high tech balancing system with a pressure system, yeah.
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: Well, that didn't take the vibration out.
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: So the guy told me he said look, you're not going to get that vibration, you're going to have to get the Michelin to get it out.
• 12:32
  Speaker 4: And he said I'll trade those out for 400 bucks.
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: And I said deal.
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: And I used to sell Michelin, so I know you know how good those tires are.
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: That's exactly right.
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: Michelin ever since.
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we always used to say if you have a problem, just put a Michelin on it, they'll solve it.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Do you?
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Are you into motorsports at all?
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: Way into motorsports.
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: You know I watch it from time to time but I'm not way into it.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah Well, I don't think any of us are way into it, we're just casual observers.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: We stare at it endlessly when it's on TV.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: I grew up in the drag racing world and did NHRA drag racing and I've been a marketing and PR for a top fuel team for a year, and a year was plenty for me.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: But I still enjoy watching professional drag racing and I have a lot of drag racing friends, so I'm prone to that.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: But all of us I guess we've all gone out to well, the park that doesn't exist anymore out there in Baytown to watch drag racing.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: I meet many of the drivers that were in the professional ranks out there and it's a great fun time for all of us.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, I guess we're going to have to travel up to Dallas now, up to Ennis, to the drag race up there.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: Did you ever go to any professional drag races?
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: I have not been to any professional drag races but it does kind of bother me that and all that time I had buddies that worked at the station that were there all the time and that I didn't go out there to Baytown before they closed.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: But it's something you know the closer I get to retirement and just enjoying, you're not old enough to retire?
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: David, yeah, I'm going to say come on, Don't even talk to us about that because, listen, I'm a lot closer or past retirement age, but I don't know what I would do.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: I mean I enjoy working, you know.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: When I say retirement, I mean just stepping away from maybe what I do one of these days, but not giving up.
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: I'm not being active.
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: I mean I'm still going to be very active.
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: I think I'll be a storm chaser for life.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: Really, I love doing that and you know I do have something to tell you.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: Please do Talk about the road force wheel balance.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is something that maybe you guys can relate to.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: I used to use that wheel balancer that was on the car.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: Have you guys ever used that?
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, lean your forehead on the car and you hold onto the little knobs that spin the wheel weights around and the weight amount and stuff and put the electric motor on it to spin the tire up to speed.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I did it plenty of times.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: Well, mine, you would put the electric motor on to spin the tire to speed.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: But but they had these sensors that you would put on the control arms that were magnetic sensors and the magnetic sensor would tell you how to balance a tire.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, I used to have these guys that would race.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: You know these cars, these portions and Corvettes, and they will come into telly tire and and when they figured out I knew how to take all the vibration out of that front end and they can do 150 miles an hour without without vibrating.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, they started coming in in droves and they would give me $20 tips and whatnot, but the but the whole gig was up in the late 1980s because BMW started manufacturing aluminum control arms.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: So I couldn't put the magnet on.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: You couldn't put the magnet on it, so and then I mean I guess everybody does now, but that was kind of the beginning of the end of that, yeah.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: And then of course from Wood Drive came in too, so that kind of messed everything up.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: I go back to the bubble balancer.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the bubble balancer.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I you know.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I saw a place the other day, I don't remember where it was.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I saw an actual bubble balancing machine.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: I thought are you kidding me?
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they still.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: They're still around.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it's good enough to get it going down the road for 50 miles an hour.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not going to clean up a no.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: A small vibration in there.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: No, it will not Well.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: So what do you?
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: What do you have in the in the weekend forecast for us More hot weather and maybe a shot at some rain on Wednesday?
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: That's, that's pretty much it.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: You know, we've we've been optimistically advertising.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Maybe we don't get 100 on Tuesday, when this rain is supposed to come in, and and I wouldn't be, I don't know.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: I'm beginning to lose my confidence in that.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Well, david, let me ask you this, and I thought about this last night.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I thought you know, when is this high pressure bubble that we've been over now for a month?
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: What?
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: When is this going to move away?
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: What does it take to push it away?
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Is it just a change in the jet stream?
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's a change of season.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: The way I look at the hurricane season and this is probably true four times out of five you look and see where that ridge is going to set up and that lets you know if you're going to be have a big year for hurricanes or not.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: And and you really know in the month of June that that heat region will set up someplace in the country.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: And where it sets up in June is typically where it stays all summer, and if it sets up over us, like it's been, it makes it really hard for hurricanes to get in here.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: If it sets up over Atlanta, jackson, mississippi, then that puts us in just the right orientation there, to where something gets into the Gulf.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: It would come our way.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: But it's usually the changing seasons that that that that heat ridge finally begins to break down.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: And on a year like this I mean the only other year I know of is 2011.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: That might not happen until November.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: I mean we might be well into the 80s through October.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Wow, in a situation like this.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: It has changed subtly because now it's centered over the Midwest, but there's nothing to say that it won't reposition itself right over us again Geez, as we head to the next month.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: David, it is absolutely wonderful to talk to you and so much fun and we sure appreciate you taking the time and also thanks to the management for letting you come on our our always shaky car show here, because we we, you know, we go off on these.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Tansons in charge yeah because we go on these tansons where we're talking about, you know, conrad's pedicure, so thank you for bearing with us, okay.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Sure, and maybe next time you have beyond, I could share some of my repo stores with you.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh for sure.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to definitely book you at let's.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Let's talk next month, next six weeks or something, if we don't have a hurricane cook.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: What you want is the repo man.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Hey, I got plenty of stories to tell and I'd be happy to do it.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: We look forward to it.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Thanks again, david.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, david Tillman ABC.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Channel 13 weather forecaster, great guy, meteorologist, meteorologist.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: And now about this weekend, auto history.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: And Conrad has that, do you have?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: that?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Yep, oh good.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: So in 1901, charles Yant drove the first automobile up to the summit of Pike's Peak.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: The man's name was really Yant Y-O-N-T.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Yant Okay, and he drove a 1899 locomobile steamer up to 14,110 foot drive, and you got to remember back then it wasn't nearly as easy to drive up as it is today.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Did they have some coal stops on the way up?
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure they had to stop to refire it and get some water along the way.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Get some water, oh God.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: And in 1902, german engineer Felix Wankl, the inventor of the rotary engine that will later be used in race cars.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: He was born this week in 1902.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: The Wankl reportedly came up with the basic idea for a new type of internal combustion engine in Wankl's mind when he was only 17 years old.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Quite an innovative internal combustion engine in the way that it worked and they could make a lot of power.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: But man, were they oil burners?
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: They just couldn't get the seals.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Three spark plugs in it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they just couldn't get the seals to hold up, so they burned a lot of oil.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: In 1907, the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost passed its 15,000 mile official trial with flying colors showing off its seven liter engine.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Right, seven liter engine.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: It's kind of the Corvette 427 as a seven liter engine that reminds me of Chitty, chitty Bang Bang.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that was a Rolls, but yeah, that same generation of vehicles.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Design it had a four speed overdrive gearbox and the trial made the Ghost's reputation worldwide and gave Rolls Royce the name best car in the world.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: There were a total of 6173 Silver Ghosts ever produced.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Stunningly beautiful vehicle for that generation.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: In 1966, the first Chevrolet Camaro drove out of the manufacturing plant in Norwood, ohio.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: The 67 Camaro Coupe was named just a couple of weeks before production was released.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: It was originally supposed to be named Panther and then they came out with Camaro and Camaro was French for something like friend or amigo or buddy.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Shaved legs or something.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Ooh la la Pedicure.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: In 1984, after close to 30 hours of deliberation, a jury of six men and six women unanimously acquit former automaker John Z DeLorean of eight counts of drug trafficking in Los Angeles, california.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: The Detroit native and son of an auto worker, delorean began working at Packard Motor Company as an engineer in 1952, and quickly.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: He rose quickly at Packard and later he went to General Motors in 56, and at GM he worked for Pontiac introducing GTO Both the GTO, the Grand Prix and the Firebird.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: While he was at Pontiac, brilliant man, and then moved on to Chevrolet and introduced the Vega Whoops.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, from genius to oh my.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: God, what are we doing?
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: You can't win them all.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: And then in 1991, this week Mazda Motor Company announced it planned to enter the luxury car market with the Amati after several other high-end friends.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, I completely forgot about that.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: You know, and did you ever drive?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Did you ever have one?
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, they weren't they were ugly.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Anything super wowy.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: But the Amati was Mazda's version of a luxury car and you think about back then in 91, you know you had Toyota kicked off Lexus Infinity or Nissan kicked off Infinity.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Now you have Hyundai, has kicked off Genesis and the success of some of those other upper luxury brands from those Asian imports are pretty successful car divisions.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Amati was a bomb, you know, yeah, and that's it back to you, don you know it's funny because Honda did Acura and they did okay.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Honda.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I thought Honda did wonderful with Acura.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: The problem with Acura was it was known as the legend and the Integra.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: They weren't known as the Acura legend or the Acura Integra, even though they were.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: The brand name of the model line became more important than Acura.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: You know it's funny because when the marketing comes down to it, you think about the way that they Japanese have a different perspective of marketing things.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: And it's not all been great.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, tell that to Bud Light yeah.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Hahaha, Shall we move on please.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's transition to something else Good, good, yeah, good clip.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Kia America continues to chip away at updating its large pool of vehicles targeted by thieves following viral social media videos demonstrating how they can easily be hot wired, auto Maker staged a mobile service event in Atlanta for owners whose cars have been impacted by the crime wave.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Of the 4.5 million Kias on the road without engine immobilizers, only 3.2 million are eligible for the patch because they have internal alarm systems, which is what the update enhances.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Hyundai vehicles have been part of the crime wave as well 4.5 million Hyundai vehicles on the road without mobilizers, like Kia, not all of it equipped with burglar alarms.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Of 3.8 million eligible for the patch, only 19% have been updated.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: If you have not had your Hyundai or Kia updated and you have an engine mobilizer, you need to get it updated.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Trust me on that, because somebody is going to get it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Take it out of joy Ryde.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I mentioned this last year.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I'm going to mention it again because I think that it's important that we keep up with this.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: A hypothetical 10-day strike against the Detroit 3 by the United Auto Workers would result in more than $5 billion in economic losses, according to the analysis from Anderson Economic Group.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Strike by the UAW against four General Motors and Stolantis could cause a recession in Michigan and take a bite out of the nation's GDP.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: According to recent analyses, a strike is becoming more likely as the September 14th contract expiration draws near and negotiations between the UAW President, sean Fain, and the automakers appear to be making very little progress.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: The United Auto Workers Administration averted a rail strike last year by passing legislation to prevent a work stoppage.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Of course we're just coming out of pandemic.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Then.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Federal intervention could also play in if a strike were to occur to the Detroit 3.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Ford, as we mentioned earlier, putting a $300,000, 800 horsepower halo atop its Mustang lineup, it's taking aim at European supercars.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: The Mustang GT-D revealed Thursday evening, billed as the most powerful street machine, legal pony car ever, and is based on the Mustang GT3 race car that will return to Le Mans.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Ford says the car was entirely designed for performance.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: It's a race car.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: All right, just a couple other things about this week in history.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: 54 years ago was Woodstock Okay.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: This week, and then also 30 years ago, robin Ventura got six hits in one inning against Nolan Ryan, but that was Nolan Ryan punching him in the head six times.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And those are car related.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the head wheel time.
• 27:43
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• 27:44
  Speaker 1: After a quick break, stay with us.
• 27:45
  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.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Founder Stan Holt invited you to visit the original loopy tortilla near I-10 in Highway 6.
• 27:58
  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.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Speaking of original, nothing can compete with the original lime pepper marinade.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: That everyone will agree makes loopy tortilla award winning beef fajitas the best anywhere.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Loopy tortilla Katie is another location that gives you the same quality and service.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Historians have come to expect it Loopy's.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: It's located just off I-10 of the Grand Parkway.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: At Kingsland Boulevard in Katie, find yourself an Aggie land.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Head to the loopy tortilla college station, located just around the corner from Kyle Field.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: It's a great place to enjoy those famous frozen margaritas before or after the game.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Headed east to Louisiana, stop in at the loopy tortilla in Beaumont.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: It twos on I-10.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: You can't miss it.
• 28:40
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