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Restoring Memories: A Classic Car Journey with Mike Kelly plus a review of the 2025 TRAX 2RS · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, this is the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Today, coming to you from the Back to the Past Car Show presented by Spring Branch Senior High Museum Foundation.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Coming up, we've got more car people among us and we're talking to them.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Mr Mars reviews the new Chevy Trax.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: That and more just ahead of this segment of the In Real Time Car Talk Show, it's a bonus hour Bonus.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Today's show is sponsored by VFW Post 8790 and its auxiliary, working to vitalize and unite the Houston community and its veterans.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: No veteran is left behind.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: Mars.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: We need more.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Jeff Seacon, yep Chief Engineer.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: David Ainsley I'm Don Armstrong, glad that you could join us today.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: All right, mr Mars, tell us who our guest is, please.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: Joining us now is Mr Mike Kelly.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Mike Kelly.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: us now is mr mike kelly, and mike kelly's got this really nice, really sharp.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: 1963 drop top chevy 2.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: yeah, nova ss, nova ss.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: Get it right.
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: It's a nova kind of a fine line between that well, you know, it could be a no, it could be a chevy too, it depends so, mike, how long have you had that car?
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: looks like it just rolled out of the showroom floor.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: No, it looks better than the showroom.
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: Looks like it needs to roll into my garage.
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: I bought it 10 years ago and finally got it on the road two years ago.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: Ten years ago Did it look like that 10 years?
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: ago, it was blue.
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: It was blue.
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it had a six-cylinder Was it a three-speed on the column.
• 1:46
  Speaker 4: Nope cylinder and all it was a three speed on the column, nope, just a two speed automatic, air cool, yep.
• 1:48
  Speaker 4: So in that time frame it just sat, or did you like just diddle with it?
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: I was taking it apart.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: You know, stripping it, doing everything get a little bit more yeah, yeah so it's uh how do?
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: You?
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: How do you keep your interest up in that?
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: You know, after a while you go, I really don't want to.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like getting out there and futzing with it today.
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: Actually, I was building it for my wife.
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: She wanted the red convertible, and so it's hers.
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: She couldn't be here today.
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: So, it's hers.
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: I have a 65 SS, it's yellow.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: Oh man.
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: And so that was my high school car.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: So why didn't you bring it as opposed to this one?
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: Because this hasn't been here before?
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: ah, the other one has yeah, gotcha a couple times all right, yeah, yeah, well, it's a beautiful car thank you and uh, so let's, let's start with the engine.
• 2:33
  Speaker 3: It's uh 69 327, it's 40 over and uh 67 camel hump heads, uh crane energizer cam and uh so you kind of wanted it to kind of look the part yes, and it was, um, I wanted it to be a cruiser because it's, yes, it's got fuel injection, um, the transmission's, uh, 204r out of a buick grand national, wow, and stuff, so that I could, we could, drive it on the road 80 miles an hour and not be taxed anything.
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it does that very well and uh, what, what size rear end you got in it um, it's just the 8.2 out of a 64 nova, but it's a posi 336, okay, so it's, it's got road manners yes it's not got some 411 or 556 gearing in the back end of it.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: No, where you're doing 60 miles an hour and it's revving up at 6,000 RPM, yeah.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: But you can still spin them at the red light if you want to.
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, most definitely.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Have you had the thing on a dyno?
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: What kind of horsepower is it?
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: No, I've never done anything like that with it no.
• 3:39
  Speaker 3: No, it's probably around 300.
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, so it's mild.
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you said, it's a driver.
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, back in the day, if you would, if you got 300, if you got one horse per cubic inch, you was doing something you know before all the technology kicked in.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: So 300 horse 327.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: With a fuel injection, well, it's probably better than 300.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: Then Somebody was telling me I've heard it on the radio or something.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: They were talking about carburetors and I didn't realize that they haven't put carburetors on cars in a long time.
• 4:12
  Speaker 4: I know what you're talking about.
• 4:13
  Speaker 4: I saw the same thing.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: In a long time and somebody was making fun of somebody else and they said, oh, he's a carburetor guy.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: Man, nobody does it anymore.
• 4:24
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 4:24
  Speaker 4: I eat carburetors for breakfast.
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: They don't even know what it is.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Well, and the fact that you know some of these fuel injection systems.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: Today, if you take the air cleaner off, that's the only way you could tell that it wasn't a carburetor under there.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what kind of a fuel injection system do you have?
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: It's Edelbrock Pro Flow 4.
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: It's got the eight injectors right into the runners.
• 4:45
  Speaker 4: So you have that in both the yellow one and this one.
• 4:47
  Speaker 3: No, I just have carburetor in the yellow one Carburetor.
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah an old AFB man.
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: That's what it came with A Carter.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: AFB.
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, I hated to work on one of them.
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: They always had parts left over Seals and gaskets.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: Anybody that had a Carter they always changed it out for a Holley as soon as they could.
• 5:09
  Speaker 3: I had Holleys on this until this last year.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: And then you went back to the Carters, went back to the Carter.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 5:15
  Speaker 3: For the nostalgic look, the look.
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: There you go, but aren't the new Carters considerably different than what the old Carters are?
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: They don't make them that I know of.
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I thought you could still get them they look just like Edelbrocks.
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: Or Edelbrock.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's what I'm thinking.
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: And a lot of them are being made overseas.
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: You know what do you call those?
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: Everything is made overseas.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: They're fakes.
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: No, I've got an old one from the early 70s.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: Where in the world did you find that?
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: At a swap meet somewhere?
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: Ebay eBay.
• 5:47
  Speaker 3: It's amazing what you can find on there.
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: The modern swap meet.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah exactly All right, and so this clearly is not an original paint job, right.
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: I believe it's white when it was original.
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: White's not bad White.
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: A white six-cylinder.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe it's white when it was original.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: White's not bad A white six-cylinder Company car, except it's a convertible.
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: That's me, that's my style.
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just plain, jane.
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: My wife wanted a red convertible and I said I won't buy a new one.
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: And I said, if we can find one of these, because I had a lot of parts left over from doing my 65.
• 6:19
  Speaker 4: So Mike helped you.
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so she picked all the colors on it.
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: That's what she wanted.
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: She decorated it for you.
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, well, that's what ladies do.
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: Did she drive it?
• 6:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, well, hers is the yellow one, right, no?
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: mine's the yellow one.
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is hers.
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right Okay.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: How about that interior, that white interior, that's not hard to keep clean.
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: She had to clean it before I brought it down here.
• 6:41
  Speaker 4: I can say that much.
• 6:42
  Speaker 4: That was hers.
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: She did that to get you out of the house.
• 6:45
  Speaker 4: Kathy does that with me.
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: No, I went in the house yesterday and said honey, you need to clean the seats.
• 6:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, so it's one of those deals.
• 6:53
  Speaker 4: Gotcha, what do you do for a living?
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: I'm retired Okay.
• 6:56
  Speaker 4: What did you do for a living?
• 6:57
  Speaker 3: Actually, I worked for the Department of Agriculture with Food safety inspection service for 38 years Wow.
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: You know there's a lot of crap going in food these days.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: And they're saying you need to throw that out.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Factories are closing because of you know.
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: That's probably the FDA.
• 7:14
  Speaker 4: Whatever, it's bad news.
• 7:15
  Speaker 4: Well, he's retired, so it went downhill after he retired.
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: That's what it is, that's right.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: Well, that's good.
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: You say that you drive it.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what car shows.
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, in fact, next week we were going to take it over to Hill Country, because that's what we built it for was the cruise of the top down.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: Nice it's nice weather Beautiful.
• 7:36
  Speaker 3: And then plans changed and we're not taking it now.
• 7:39
  Speaker 4: Well, you've got the tailpipes and tacos coming up, yeah we've got tailpipes.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: You ever been to?
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: Tailpipes and Tacos?
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: No, you need to go out there.
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: Don and Katie at the Loopy Tortilla out there.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: Stan's a good friend of mine and he invited us to do the show out there, so every time he has a Tailpipes and Tacos event, bring a toy and you get a free taco.
• 7:57
  Speaker 3: Is that next weekend.
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: No, it 1116?
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: 1116, right here, 16.
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: There you go, right there, oh, okay.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: November yeah.
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: Have to check that out.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, please do Bring them both.
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been out to the Money Hideout?
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: No, In fact, when you were talking about it, I've got a good friend that's over here and they're Mopar guys and I've never been there.
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: I need to schedule and go.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: John was into the Hemi's and he's got a beautiful collection muscle car era stuff.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: But the Hemi Hyadite is so much more than just the cars, the neon collection.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: It started off as really petroleum a petrolyana as you want to call it for signage and then it's kind of evolved into this thing, this passion, with his neon passion that he has.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: So he's got ready kilowatt in there all neon-ed up.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: You would really enjoy it, sure I would.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: It's an open house, yeah, and so a lot of car guys go for the open house.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: It's a couple of hours 11-9.
• 9:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: And so I would encourage you to take the car out there.
• 9:06
  Speaker 4: You'd enjoy it Very nice, probably run into people that you know out there, and even if you didn't drive yours out there.
• 9:11
  Speaker 4: It's such a fantastic place to go visit and then you can find out about other events that he has too.
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: Right Same thing with tailpipes and tacos, and they've got great food, yeah it doesn't even make you sick.
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I live way out in the middle of nowhere.
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: Where do you live, montgomery, oh, montgomery, texas.
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not bad.
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: Well, 99 is your friend.
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, until you hit the tolls, it's true.
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: There's that.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: It is that.
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: Going to Katie is like 20 bucks.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: Really yeah, yeah, 15, 16, something like that.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: Open your wallet, open your heart, come on down, suck it up.
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: Get a toll tag, put it on your credit card.
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: You never even see it.
• 9:50
  Speaker 4: No, just cover your license plate.
• 9:52
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: That's how Jim does it.
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: Cover the license plate, just pew.
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah go real fast.
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: Actually, I've heard people have gotten toll bills from one of these old cars going through.
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: I'll be darned Really.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: Funny Because you have to get those plates through the state just like all the other ones.
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: No, I found that on eBay yeah.
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: That's what he's saying.
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: It's period correct.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: Well, it's period correct.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: You can buy period correct legal plates.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: Who wants to do that?
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: Not for the state of Texas.
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: You're not going to buy that, yes, you can?
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: You can do that, you can do that.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: No, it's going to say antique or some other.
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: No, it's not.
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: We have license plates in the studio the looking glass studio that we broadcast from.
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: John knows the plates.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: I collect them on my cars.
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: I still have them from way back in the early 70s.
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: I have the plates for my Nova because I had it in the 70s the yellow one, and I still have the plates.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: Have you ever watched the?
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: show.
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: No, why I don't?
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: know he's never heard of it.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: I see it's on have.
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: I see it's on.
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: Have you ever?
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: heard of the show.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, you've heard of it.
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you never watched it.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: I've heard it.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Okay Well, next weekend we'll be back in the Sugar Shack Studios, okay, okay, and we've got a license plate collection in there.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: It's back to the 60s.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: It's our backdrop.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: It's part of our backdrop Cool backdrop, part of our backdrop, so cool.
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: Check that out, maybe there's a plate in there that you want to put on your car.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: We should give to you studio.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: We have people.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: You know who is this klyx person?
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: I'm getting a bill, I don't understand I like it just confuse everybody.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Interesting, yeah, well, um, what else can we talk about here?
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Who built that?
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: motor for you, G&G machine and Tomball.
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: Tomball Texas.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not part of the Tomball bunch, are they?
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: You did.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: What did you say?
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: David Tomball High School?
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: You did, I didn't know that.
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: Not far from.
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: Friendswood what.
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: Hey, tell the engineer to get him a headset.
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: Get a headset, engineer.
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: Where's your headset?
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: He's holding an umbrella.
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: Get a headset in here.
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: So we can hear you Where's your headset.
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: He's holding an umbrella.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: He's holding the umbrella here.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Let me hold the umbrella for you, princess.
• 12:12
  Speaker 5: I got it.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: I got it.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: We're going to hold the umbrella for you.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: Put your headset on and join in the conversation.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Normally he doesn't have a problem joining in the conversation.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: We try to keep him quiet, but he just won't.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, might as well, I did not know.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Tomball High.
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: School I did 19.
• 12:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it was 19, so we know it was at least 25 years ago oh yeah, I'm going to say 76.
• 12:42
  Speaker 5: Tomball.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: Bearcats.
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: That place is right, higher or lower.
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: It was before Tomball.
• 12:46
  Speaker 5: They changed the whole high school.
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: They tore it down.
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, like three years.
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: It was before Tom Ball.
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: They changed the whole high school.
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: They tore it down, oh, kind of like Rear it's back when it was just Tom, it was Tom, yeah.
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: Then they grew some balls.
• 12:57
  Speaker 5: Balls, tom Ball.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: High School.
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: I met a Tom Ball up in Michigan Did you.
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: He's like have you ever heard of Tom Ball?
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: And I was like yeah, he's like, that's my name.
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: Seriously, that was the man's name.
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I said I graduated from there.
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: Thank you for the diploma, sir.
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he owned a fishing place and he gave us some free stuff.
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: How funny, Small world Interesting.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: You know this show.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: We kind of wander, we digress a lot and we talk about all sorts of stupid stuff.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: We did racing back then too.
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: 1230, we're going to be talking about food, there you go.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can come back and join us, talk to us.
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: Soufflés and things of that nature.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: About food, food, yeah.
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go get something to eat.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: See you triggered it.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: What are they serving over there?
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Barbecues or something.
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: I heard somebody mention a hot dog.
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: Oh boy.
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: Don't you?
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, hot dogs, yeah On a stick.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: Well, Mike Kelly, this has been fun.
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, it's been an experience for you.
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: I'm sure thinking what the hell did I just do?
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: I'm sure thinking what the hell did I just do?
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you that front bumper, that little kind of step up on that front bumper is that factory.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an option.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: That's the grill guard.
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, because, I'm sitting here looking at it going.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: I've never seen that.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: So somebody's rear bumper doesn't ride up over the top of the front bumper Into the grill.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: I guess that's what it was for Makes sense.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: It was just a lot of the stuff on here was I'd ask my wife do you?
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: want this on there.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Let me see it.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Yep, let me see it, yep.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Make sure it color matches.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's funny because I worked at a Chevrolet dealership and we did a lot of Novas.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: I never saw that on any 68, 69, 70 Nova, so this had to have been an early thing in the Chevy II era.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a 62, 65.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: Only.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: After that I think they went with those straight up and down things Like those straight up and down ones on the back Like a push guard.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: There really is a nice looking grille.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: I never really paid.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: I washed many of them, but I never paid that close of attention to the detail of them.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: If you look at it real close, it looks like a 62 Chevy full-size grill, only it's smaller.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: It does actually.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, my dad had a 62 Biscayne Similar.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: It was very similar.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: I had a 62 Impala SS convertible when I lived in Southern California.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Now you're bragging it's my daily driver out.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: There Was it really.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Oh God, it was nice.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Did it pass inspection?
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Well, there's no inspection Smog, Smog it was too old for smog when.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: I had it Really, yeah.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Is it still too old for smog?
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: If you had the car today.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't have to pass smog.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Wow, anything over 25 years old, as much as I know, doesn't have to.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: I'll be, yeah, that's part of why you can get the JDMs in the country now.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that's 25 years.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that is Japanese domestic whatever, whatever.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: That's one right.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Well, you just left.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: No.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Oh there, it is Okay, very good, all left.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: No, oh there, it is Okay, very good, alright.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Well, at any rate, mike, it's great to talk to you with your 63 Nova SS, actually your wife's Nova.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: SS, she let you come out to play today.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we do.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: We want to see both of them at Tailpipe and Tacos.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, alright, we'll check that out, do it Alright.
• 16:24
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• 16:25
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• 16:26
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• 16:35
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• 16:39
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• 16:43
  Speaker 1: The In Wheel Time Car Talk Show continues after this Free tacos again at the Tailpipes and Tacos pre-holiday cruise-in.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: It's been a while, but the popular Tailpipes and Tacos cruise-in returns to the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Saturday, november 16th.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Bring a new, unwrapped toy and get a free breakfast.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Taco Toys will be donated to Toys for Tots and Houston Children's Charity.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Get to the best and one of the last cruise-ins of the year Tailpipes and Tacos.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Saturday, november 16th, 8 to 11 am.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Cruise in, donate a new, unwrapped toy and grab a free Loopy Tortilla Breakfast Taco.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Tailpipes and Tacos only happens at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy, 703 West Grand Parkway at Kingsland Boulevard, just south of the Katy Freeway.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: It's the end-of-the-year car show season and what better way to celebrate than with a free taco and camaraderie at Tailpipes and Tacos.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Saturday, november 16th, 8 to 11 am.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: The in-wheel time car talk show will be there too.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Bring a toy, get a free Loopy taco and feel good about heading into the holiday season at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy.
• 17:50
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• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Fall 24 car shows and cruise ins.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: The tour of our show continues on in a little time here.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Uh, up next the hemi hideout open house.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: That's november 9th, uh, the holiday kickoff at tailpipes and tacos november 16th, and the holiday road trip get ready at gulf coast auto shield.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's calling it, I just made that up.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: You might call it something else.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Man, that's a pretty car, isn't it, it is Golly.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: It's such a driver I know.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: It's really nice, anyway, so we hope you'll stop.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, he's got a taillight out.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Oh no, it should be an 1157 bulb.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Chad yeah.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I've got one in my pocket, I'll give it to him.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: I used to carry them, did you really?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I absolutely did 1157.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right Time now for a car review.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: That's okay, just walk on through.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Around the camera.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: There you go, thank you.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Come through around the camera, there you go, thank you.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: A better selection, thank you.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Um, we have a bonus car review today.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, mr mars, uh how about that car show at spring marina high school?
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: quick shout out mr mars has the chevy tracks yeah, you know, I was thinking the other day.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I remembered I first ran across the chevyx back 25, 30 years ago.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: It's nothing like this one.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: This is the 2025 Chevrolet Trax.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: It comes in five different trim levels LS, 1rs, lt, an active model and a 2RS.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: And we had the Trax 2RS so we were setting up here in the top of the line of the one that was reintroduced in 2023.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Now this, again, again, is a small suv.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Typically you might even call it a subcompact, but uh, the world is changing so it's small suv.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: You're going to find out front.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: You're going to find you got led headlights, including the daytime running lights, got power, heated side mirrors with black caps on it, black side moldings, black roof rails so it's got this body color door handles on it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Black side moldings, black roof rails so it's got this body color door handles on it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: So everything kind of blends in with this black trim on it, including the rear spoiler, does have a sunroof package and it's rolling on some 19-inch black machined wheels.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: So it's got all this black trim on it that really makes the color stand out, regardless of which color you happen to be driving it.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: What?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: if it's black on it that really makes the color stand out, regardless of which color you'd happen to be driving it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: What if it's black?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: If it's black, it even even better.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like that black gt500 yeah, yeah, yeah so inside we had some evotech seating material heated front seats, uh 60 40 split folding rear seats on.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: It has an 11 inch display with apple carplay, android auto and the rear display camera, all sitting right up here in the middle of the dash, real easy to reach.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Uh had an eight inch driver information center that had all the information.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: You could change the screens around and all of it's easy to see, it's easy to reach and it's easy to use the buttons and stuff that are on it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Now it has also got a rear cargo area, rear cargo area cover and I like those things because you can put stuff in the back cargo, pull that over and you got out of sight, out of mind.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: People can't see it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: They don't want to steal it because they don't even know it's there, there you go Now.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: under the hood we had a 1.2 liter turbo three-cylinder.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: This is back to that three-cylinder.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: It's kind of different, but you can't really tell it when you're driving it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: It's got a six-speed automatic.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Epa says you should be looking for 28 miles to the gallon in the city, 32 out on the highway and a combined of 30.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Now I drove this vehicle 214.5 miles and I got 21.7 miles to the gallon out of it combined.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: We spend a lot of time in town.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: City driving and I will say that it handles very crisply inside the city, a little spunk on it, huh.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, got a little spunk, particularly in the parking lots, and it's very easy maneuvering around town.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: You know it's a very easy-to-drive car and you get out on the highway.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: It's got very nice highway banners.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: It's comparable with most of the subcompacts that are that size.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: It'll.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: You know it'll get out on the highway and it'll.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: It's not real noisy and it's not real rough.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: It's not real bad riding or anything.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: It's just it's a nice driving car.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Now the base model price on this is what I really like.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: The 21495 is the base trim model.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: That's where you get into the game.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Yep, now the base trim for the 2rs that we were driving starts at 24 300.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: And then if you look at the msrp because we had a couple of options like the tires and wheels and the sunroof 27 085 is msrp the way this thing set and I thought that was a heck of a bargain.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're looking for something to compare it to entry level, might look at a 25 Mazda CX-30.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Starts at $24,995.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: The 24 Volkswagen Taos starts at $23,995, and the 2025 Buick and Vista is at $23,700.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: So it's a little cheaper than some of them and it's got a couple of things that you might be looking for, but you can always option it up and I think, as far as the Trax 2 RS, I think if you're looking for something in that size vehicle particularly if you're mainly going to be around town yeah, or kids, college kids I think this is one you ought to look at.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: It's really surprising.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: On the value, I think you're going to find that you're going to get out of this car Nice, and that's my review of the 2025 Chevrolet Trax Beautiful.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: You don't even want to know what David and I were just talking about.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Probably not until after 1 o'clock.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably so.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: It's one of those conversations you know well.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I'll just go ahead and say it it's about nail fungus.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: No.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Jeff, how you been doing.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I'm doing great buddy.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: You know, you're talking about the three-cylinder my granddaughter was looking at the cars back at the auto show.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: We went to the automotive show.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: She said I got pictures.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: She wanted one of those.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Obviously she didn't get one Right, but she's in the Escape.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: The Ford, yeah, yeah, pre-owned.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: But, yeah, she was looking at them.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: She likes them.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: I like that green color, the mist, or whatever they call it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Which is sort of the same color as nail fungus, I think.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It's kind of a light course of it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Got kind of a yellow tinge to it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Okay, we've got a commercial break coming up.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Well, it's not quite time for that, yet I was just trying to.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's time you guys wanted to know.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: It's time you guys wanted to know it's time.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: No, we didn't.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you didn't, you just blurted it out.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, you did.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: You wanted to know.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: We wanted to know after 1 o'clock.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: After 1 o'clock We'll go get a hot dog or something.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: There's 1 o'clock somewhere.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: We've got something on our stomach.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: East Coast time sandwiches over there and what I'm gonna get is gonna get me a chili cheese dog plate plate.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it comes with the chips, I think.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Oh boy, well did.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Last week we saw the mashed potatoes with chipped beef and the onions and the cheese on that you know, that delicious dish it looked like it could be really good, but I just don't know about that combination kind of heavy, yeah, very heavy it's reason he had it in a double cup, because it was so heavy yeah.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you that when we come to these car shows, we're offered booze.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got offered booze today and I'm thinking well, is that under the front seat of the car you just pour it in a cup, kind of hide from the, because I would imagine that liquor and stuff is not allowed on school property.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: No no.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I would think not.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Not even during school hours.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there's that as well, but unless they're having some sort of indoor event, you know that ain't going to work.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I think that there is some sort of police presence here there is there is.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Hold on.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: We do, we're going to be talking to you.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: We'll wish in a minute.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just hang tight, yep.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: So that's all I know, david.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: You know the third hour just kind of goes right down the tubes quickly.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Wait until the fourth hour comes.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not going to happen, okay, because I'm going to go home.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to watch the Alabama football game this afternoon Are they playing?
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Are they in?
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: good shape this year.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I think they've had one loss, but whatever they all have, okay, texas is number one.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Nice, well, you wouldn't say that Because you went to Texas A&M, that's right.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Do you brag about the fact that you're one of those from Texas A&M?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: That goes crazy.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, my Texas A&M?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: No, no, he's not.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: He just went there and got his little diploma.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: It is interesting to go sit in the game though.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I can only imagine.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: He got a sheepskin from A&M Well, the whole stadium.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Reverberates.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's shaking.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Because they're jumping up and down and chanting and you know Well, I had the fortune of going to an Alabama football game in Tuscaloosa.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: When Katie was right before she graduated.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And I will tell you, I have never had in my life the experience of sitting with 110 000 other people in the same place and uh, of course, they were playing texas a&m and uh, they whipped their tail ends right out of the state of alabama.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Bad, nice yeah, and had the support of 110,000 people.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: 110,000 people Screaming yeah.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And the party started well before it's sun up.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: And it went way late into the night that Saturday, so they were trashed Absolutely, oh yeah.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: You talking about last night?
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, not last night.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: But we digress.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Let's see here Okay, we can do that.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: And this gentleman's coming on at 1230.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: So we got him all lined up.
• 28:43
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• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Mark your calendar for Saturday, november 9th, 1030 to 1230, and make a reservation today for a two-hour opportunity to see an eye-popping tribute to American muscle cars, a collection of neon signs that'll dazzle, all in a venue like no other in the country.
• 30:13
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• 30:19
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• 30:23
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• 30:25
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• 30:26
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• 30:30
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