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Keels, Wheels, and Classic Appeal: A Journey through Nautical and Automotive History · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am Central.
• 0:10
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• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, friends, it's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Today, coming to you from the 28th Annual Heels and Wheels Concours d'Elegance at the Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, texas.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: You know what I feel kind of yachty today.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: Do you?
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: I am you got?
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: your little yacht shoes on.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: You got your deck shoes.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: I have you feel kind of shoes.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: I had another guest from this year's show.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Mars has this week in auto history, if we get to it, and I'll take you and get you caught up on the stories making automotive news headlines.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with mike, out of this world, mars.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: We always need more jeff seacon right behind me here is that's my cut back behind me.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Here is we, david david ainsley I.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Glad you could join us.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Julie Howell, that's right as the membership person with the country club or the yacht club.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: The yacht club.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: Pull that microphone up a little bit closer to your mouth.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: Are you married to Thurston Howell?
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: I am lovey.
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: Lovey.
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  Speaker 1: We found somebody that knows about Thurston.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: Howell, that's Thurston.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: Howell.
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  Speaker 3: III.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we asked the young lady inside if she knew about Gilligan's Island, and she didn't have a clue.
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: She had no clue, Of course she was only 20.
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah Something like that.
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  Speaker 1: What's to say?
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  Speaker 2: So the membership committee.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: So you go out and get members.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine that you would recruit members.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like hey, I'm a member of the Lakewood Yacht Club and you know, one person says, come on, come on to the Yacht Club with me, I'll buy you lunch, and they go.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: I really like it here.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: I want to be a member.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Boom, there it is.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: And so we don't have to worry about recruiting people.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: You have to worry about recruiting people.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: You've got people that are members of the Yacht Club that are recruiting all the time.
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: We are the best kept secret in the area.
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: There's no secret.
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: Look at all the people that are here, which is great.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: That's why we love keels and wheels.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, and you know, the funny thing about it is and every time I come down here, which has been a number of times over the years, it's not that easy to find off of nasa road one.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: It's kind of behind an apartment complex and it's.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: It's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like you gotta know, that's exactly right do you hear that a lot?
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: we hear that a lot and, uh, you know, the beauty of the club is that we back up and we face clear lake and we're the only private club on the lake with over 300 slips uh, floating and fixed.
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You're the only private club on the lake with over 300 slips, floating and fixed.
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You're the only private club on Clear Lake we are, and we have 38 acres of prime space that overlook.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: How long has this club been in business?
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  Speaker 2: Since 1955 55.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I remember that year very well.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: You can comment on that if you'd like.
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  Speaker 2: I will.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: Shut up.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't ask you.
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  Speaker 2: But we do.
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  Speaker 2: We face the water.
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: It is a glorious place to be.
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: Our members are fantastic and we certainly appreciate you all being here.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: Well, thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we enjoy coming and we kind of feel part of the gang, if you will.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: Well, you don't call them gangs in the Yacht Club.
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: You don't say gangs.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: What do you call them?
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Gangs in the yacht club?
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: you don't say gangs, what do you call um?
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  Speaker 1: well, gang is a gang plank oh yeah, we're gonna walk that way cruise, call them cruise cruise yeah we saw some t-shirts where it says crew on the back that is our liquid staff.
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: Actually, we are the crew here.
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: We are here to serve our members and and the guests that we have on property and the interesting thing about it is it's kind of like the houston livestock show in Rodeo in the fact that when you put on this big event, here comes all the volunteers.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Members of the Yacht Club.
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  Speaker 2: That is correct, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so they've got a piece of this as well.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: This is kind of like their baby.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: This is their baby.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: So this is their Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo event once a year, in a sense, I guess you could put it in that manner.
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  Speaker 2: But of course we are in the water as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just classic cars.
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  Speaker 2: We have amazing vintage boats here and our members do embrace and rally around this event and we see several thousand people come through the gates.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I notice a lot of young people here too.
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  Speaker 2: There are, which is a family-friendly event.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting that we've been coming here long enough now that a lot of these events with these classic cars tend to be a lot of gray-haired people and I'm not speaking out of class, am I?
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: But uh, we're seeing more and more youngsters, children, grandchildren, that are now either getting dad's car or grandpa's car and they're going.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of like this.
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  Speaker 2: This is a nice, nice thing to get into well, you know, I have to laugh because when I pulled in I thought maybe my car is vintage it's not restored but definitely what I drive is vintage.
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: Right, it's 15, 20 years old and I think that these kids are enjoying what their parents, what we um experienced right as youngsters, and it's scary to think that my car is now a classic car right.
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: As we grow older they keep getting younger, but these children are certainly out with their families and enjoying.
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  Speaker 2: There is a group over here and I'm not quite sure who they are, but they're doing a youth judging.
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  Speaker 2: So all of the kids have been around with their own scorecards and they are judging their own boats.
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  Speaker 1: They walk through here A group of youngsters with little blue shirts.
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  Speaker 1: They're all probably 10, 12, 13 years old walking through, and younger yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And judging these cars, so it's a great way to pull your family in and enjoy the afternoon.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: You live down here.
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: I Pull your family in and enjoy the afternoon.
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: You live down here.
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: I'm born and raised.
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: Where I'm in Lake City now, so I'm just on the other side of the bridge, but I grew up down the street about four miles in Nassau Bay.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Yep, yeah Well, my first radio job at KLYX Radio, which was originally in the Nassau Bay Shopping Center the Nassau Bay Shopping Center but when I went to work there they had moved over to Gemini Boulevard on El Camino Real and Bay Area Boulevard in a building back there.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: Of course, all right, I'll just say it.
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  Speaker 2: That was in 1971.
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: Shut up, anyway, so.
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: I spent a number of months there.
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: I wanted so badly to move down here.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: You're telling me that Because I had never really experienced the area before and I knew about NASA clearly.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: But back then it wasn't like this.
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: It was very barren.
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: This was a very isolated place that wasn't even part of Houston at the time.
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: It was its own city and it was teeny tiny.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: The only real subdivision was back there, off of El Camino Real and Bay Area Boulevard and right across the street from NASA, and that's where the astronauts lived over there.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: And then there was that famous bar.
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: Is the bar still down on NASA Road 1 where the astronauts used to go?
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: Because they closed that down?
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether they tore it down or what they tore it down.
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: They did when they did an expansion of Egret Bay 270, and NASA Road 1, and El Camino, that intersection Did it relocate it.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: They just tore it down.
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: Oh no, you couldn't replace that?
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: No, I relocated in another area, so there is no way you could ever rebuild or relocate that.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: I believe they shot a scene in there for the reluctant astronaut with Don Knotts.
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: With Don Knotts, I think so.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: You are kidding, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: I remember seeing the inside of it and it was a dumpy little bar, but that's the way it was.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: It was a neighborhood bar, you don't say dumpy.
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: It was a neighborhood bar.
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: You don't say dumpy.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: Well, no, it wasn't dumpy, it was iconic for sure, it's kind of like Griff's Bar in downtown Houston Very similar.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: It's a very old, old building that was here before NASA was here With patina.
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it had, patina it had patina, that's it.
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's a lot of history down here and clearly NASA is at the center of it all.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: The Lyndon B Johnson Manned Spacecraft Center yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, lakewood is part of that history.
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: When, as you mentioned, the area was being built and we were sleepy, I think you know.
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: When was NASA built?
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  Speaker 2: I think 63 to 65, nasa was built, or actually a little later than that.
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: But the astronauts, well, they were building their homes in El Lago and Taylor Lake and Nassau Bay.
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: We had cabanas out on our south lawn.
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: And the astronauts were living and staying in those cabanas while and these are the original Apollo astronauts Gemini, mercury while their homes were being built.
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: So you know, we like to think here at Lakewood.
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: We were part of the history and we were part of that space program as well, absolutely yeah.
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: Building our community.
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: I think Cape Canaveral was built first and then this came along because of the technology and launch capabilities, for you would know more about that.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: Being from Michigan, I wouldn't.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I read a lot.
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: He reads a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But from being a sleepy little town, as you all called us, we are now the third largest recreational boating area in the united states.
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: Wow, so it doesn't surprise me, yeah, and you know keema.
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: Since we're going to go back, keema obviously has got its own identity now, but back in the day I remember coming down here and going over 146 back in there it's a drawbridge.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: And there was also a place where you could go and get fresh caught seafood and the guys, the fishermen, were all there.
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: Their boats were undocked and you'd go in there and buy it fresh off the boat.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: That's right, yeah.
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: And the oysters too.
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: Not so much anymore.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: Not so much anymore.
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: But there are still restaurants in the area that they pull them right off the boats and they are served there do you know a guy by the name of rick clap?
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: absolutely well you know I've been writing for b area houston magazine for gosh 25 years.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: Did you know that?
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: I did yeah, see, there you go.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: Taught you something, didn't?
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: I learned something new today.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: There's car reviews in there by don armstrong so now you can start he's one of the founding fathers as well.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: In different ways, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Lovey Howell learned something new today.
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  Speaker 1: Lovey, I love that.
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: So how long did you stay on the island?
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought you I did live in Galveston for a while, so I thought I was there about nine years.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little longer than Luddy.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: So where did you go to high school?
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: Clear Creek.
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: What about you?
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: Westbury?
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: Westbury, so you were in town.
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, now, not too far right on the other side of the lake.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me and Colonel St James went to Westbury High School.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: Colonel, st James, colonel.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: St.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: James, a rock shut up, oh my gosh, that is a blast from the past.
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, holy moly, that's why we have him around.
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: That's right, wow, yeah.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: I can pull that card frequently.
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: So Colonel, st James Colonel.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: St James.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: The Colonel St James Really went to your high school.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, we went to high school together.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: They're still friends, they're still buddies.
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had Jay Buhner.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: I remember him.
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: Jay Buhner was with Seattle Mariners for a long time.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he and Ken Griffey are still really good friends, but I don't know if anybody other than Jay that we've had that was prominently known in the United States, other than, of course, as we mentioned, the astronauts yes, of course, other than, of course, as we mentioned, the astronauts.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, of course, and you still have them, and they still are down there, but we don't know them like we did the original seven.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: Different times.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah Well it's great to talk to you.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you so if you're interested in Lakewood Yacht Club, I guess that you're the person to go to.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: Absolutely yes.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: So how do we get a hold of you, Lovey?
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: You can look us up on lakewoodyachtclubcom.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: There's information about the club.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: We have an amazing youth seahorse sailing program.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: We call them the seahorses.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: Oh wonderful, so we have an internationally recognized and known youth sailing program.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: So if you are interested in getting out on the water, having your kids out on the water it's a remarkable opportunity for them to learn not only sailing but life skills.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a fun and different experience down here.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: There's no place else like it, this area in here, absolutely there's no place like lakewood.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: There's not.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: That's true, and I said that from the very beginning.
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much thank you, it was a real pleasure.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for being here today, julie howell aka thurston Howell III's daughter.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: You're welcome, all right.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Thanks again, hey the In Wheel.
• 12:29
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• 12:44
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday, may 4th and 5th, you're invited to enjoy the 28th Annual Keels and Wheels Concours d'Elegance.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: See the largest collection of classic cars and boats in the US on display at the beautiful Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, texas.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: This year's Keels and Wheels features 60 years of Ford Mustangs and Donzie boats.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of free parking and discount tickets are available online at keels-wheelscom.
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  Speaker 1: It's Keels and Wheels Saturday and Sunday, may 4th and 5th, at the Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: In-wheel time will be there too.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: We'll see you there.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Unwilled Time Car Talk Show Coming to you today from the 28th Annual Keels and Wheels Concours d'Elegance at the Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, texas.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: And you just heard a spot there a minute ago for God's Garage, dick Langer.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: He's the volunteer facilities manager up there.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Stop by to say hello and we appreciate him and all the fine work that they do up there at God's Garage.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Be sure and visit them.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Yep, there goes the Blackhawk helicopter.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: They were at the airport by my house, three of them landed yesterday.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: They hang around every once in a while.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: I had lunch with those guys.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: They're very nice.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Those are very big helicopters, very big, very big, very big.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: The blades on them not that wide.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I know About that wide.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I know I'm going to tub one out.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Tub one out, that's it.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Well, they do have wheels on them.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: I know Jay Matthews joins us now.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Jay, who are you with?
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I'm with Jay Matthews, I'm with Jay Matthews.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: What?
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: does Jay Matthews do?
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Jay Matthews is a retired rice farmer.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, a rice farmer.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Rice farmer.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Most people don't know that they grow rice in Texas, but they do.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I do.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, okay, well, good, there's fewer and fewer rice farms these days.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Most of them now are south of Houston, right Down toward Angleton in that area 288 area down there how and why do you put those big dirt berms in weird patterns out there and the farmland that follows the contour of the land and obviously the land is not perfectly square, so as the level changes and normally those are run on two-tenths of a foot.
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  Speaker 3: So every time you see one of them we call them a levee.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Every time you see a levee it's dropped two-tenths of a foot those contours.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: So that's what that's called, so you can keep the water in that section as opposed to having it all drain down to one end of the field.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: That's correct.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Interesting I never knew that.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Did you know that?
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: No but I've seen them all out in Winnie and all the places.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I fly over them all the time and I'm going.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I just don't understand.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense to me.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I knew that so how do you come up with that curvature like that?
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Well, it's run with a surveying instrument.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I got you Okay.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: So at some point somebody has to go out there with one of those stakes and then the surveying thing and they go yep, that's that high, that's that high, that's the way.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: That's the way they used to do it Now.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: It's all satellite stuff, yeah it's all GPS.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm retired.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I hadn't done one in a while, but that's the way they do it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Are you still?
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: active in that.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Is it a family-run business now, no, actually I'm a second-generation farmer, but my son anyway, I was the last of the Mohicans, last of the.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Mohicans.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: You mentioned Winnie.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: That's where my farm was in Winnie.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Winnie, yeah, what do?
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: you got here today.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I've got a 1908 Buick oh.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Well, as we like to call it in the hood, the Buick 1908 Buick, oh Well, as we like to call it in the hood the Buick Buick.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: You got your Buick A 1908.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: A 1908.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: When did they start making Buicks?
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: They started making them in 1903.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Is this the second?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: gen.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah Well, david Buick was an engineer and he was a plumber and he patented the way to put uh enamel on cast iron, like like for the old bathtub or commodes, or whatever, and uh, he made a fortune in that and then he got interested in motors, engines and and started this automobile company, but he was a better inventor than he was a businessman and by after about two years he was out of the company.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: He he was, and he made bad investments and he died, broke, uh, so hey well, whoever took over the company, I guess we'd say he did pretty good, they did pretty good.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: They did pretty good.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: It was an independent company and then in 1910, when they formed General Motors, it became the keystone of General Motors.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Buick, buick did.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, buick did.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: It wasn't Chevy, it wasn't Cadillac, none of the other ones, it was Buick.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Well, they put Buick, they bought Cadillac.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: They Well, they put Buick, they bought Cadillac.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: They bought some other companies.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Chevrolet didn't exist at that time.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: And then a guy named William Durant started.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Sure, well, he got over at Stennett and he got kicked out by his board of directors.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: So then he started the Chevrolet company.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Louis Chevrolet was a well-known race driver, he was the AJ Ford of his day, and so they used his name and they started the Chevrolet company in the mid-teens.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: And then in 1915, I believe it was no, it was a little later, late teens I believe it was no, it was a little later, late teens.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I forget the date.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Anyway, chevrolet bought General Motors.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: General Motors didn't buy Chevrolet, chevrolet bought General.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Motors.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: He's a Frenchman.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Chevrolet was a race car driver overseas.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: No, I think he was born in France, but he was American.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: He lived in America and he was racing.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: There were three Chevrolet brothers and they all raced and one of them won the Indy 500 and then died in a car wreck the next year.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: You know, racing it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: But anyway, and then in 1920, Durant made the same mistakes he'd made earlier and he got bought out of General Motors again.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: So he was out of, he controlled General Motors twice, but he ended up.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So here's my question to you why did you decide to go with a Buick Of all the makes and models of cars in that era?
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Well, I've got a number of antique cars and this Buick happened to come up for sale and I liked what I saw, so I bought it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: What other cars do you?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: have.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Well, I've got a 1910 Stanley Steamer that I've had here at Kills and Wheels before.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, I've seen it and I've got a 1910 Rio, I don't know if y'all yeah, I remember yeah.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Remember the well the Ransom Olds his last name was O-L-D-S started at Oldsmobile and in 1904, he had a fallout with his board of directors so he left Oldsmobile there's a lot of divorce in your story.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but so in 1905,obile and there's a lot of divorce in your story.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but so in 1905 he decided to start a new company, car company but he couldn't use the name o's or osmobile because it was incorporated into the company so he uses initials reo, so that's where rios came from, and they made uh.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: They quit making passenger cars in the mid-30s, but they continued to make trucks.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Fire trucks.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Well, you may remember Diamond Rio.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, right, they made them up to the 70s.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: They merged with the Diamond Truck Company and in the 20s their trucks were called the Speedwagons, and those were Oreo Speedwagons.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: That's where the rock and roll band.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: You're old like you are, so I know I got it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: If you go online to look for Rio parts, all you're going to find is REO Speedwagon band records.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: T-shirts and whatnot?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, whatnot.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: But anyway, and I've got a number of other cars- but are they all in the early 1900s?
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: No, it's in a kind of eclectic set.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Uh, I've got, uh, a 1917 chevrolet and a 1929 25 veely v is in victor veely willard veely was john deere's grandson and they made these cars in moline, illinois, same place I make john deere's grandson, and they made these cars in Moline, illinois, same place they make John Deere's today.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: But it was a separate entity and they made them from 1909 to 1929.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: They're kind of rare, because in the 20s, when they're making literally a million Model Ts a year, they were making maybe 3,000 of these a year.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: And in the Beely Club I think there's 230 known Beelys in the world.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Wow, anyway, and I've got cars up to.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I think my newest by year is I've got a 68 Chrysler Imperial convertible that I've had in here before too.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Anyway, my wife says it's a sickness.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand, had in here before too.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: So, anyway, my wife says it's a sickness.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I understand, okay.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: So so I have to ask you, um, you've got this one car on display here?
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: That's it just one this year?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, well, um, it's a pleasure to talk to you.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Well, I enjoyed being talked to.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Do you live in the area?
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I live in Belleville.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Okay, sure, I guess everybody's familiar with Belleville.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Of course I'm from Houston.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Did you move there for a reason?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: My wife and I decided to get married and she lived in Austin and I lived in Winnie.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: This was 20 years ago when I retired from farming and it was kind of a.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: This was 20 years ago when I retired from farming and it was kind of halfway in between.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: So we Compromised.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: We compromised.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: She was like 40 years your lesser.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah you, she's clearly a lot younger than you are.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Well, actually, the answer to that is yes.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Don, she is yes.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Don, she is Actually.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: This is interesting.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: We went from second grade on through high school together but and we weren't particularly friends or didn't date or anything, and but we met, or I should say remit, at our 35th high school class reunion.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: So and then we got together so well.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Congratulations and congratulations on your car collection.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Does she help you with that at all?
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Well, she likes to ride in them, does she?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that, but I don't like that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Do you ever get that?
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: But she's a gamer.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: She'll ride with the top down.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah right.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Your daily driver is what my daily driver is a Lincoln SUV.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was waiting for you to say, yeah, got me an F-150.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Well, I do have a Dodge pickup that I drive when I need a pickup.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: It's not a daily driver, but I live about five miles out of town and whenever I go into town, if I'm not in a big hurry or if it's not raining, I'd easily take one of my old cars.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I'm well-known around town, maybe not by name.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Now you're known worldwide.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Worldwide, yep, just like the wide world of sports.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: That's us.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: There you go, jay.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Matthews, it's a pleasure.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, enjoy it.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you, we do too.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Me too, thank you very much.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: The In Wheel Time Car Talk Show coming to you today from Keels and Wheels, the 28th annual.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Mr Morris, let's not do your auto history here, let's do it on the other side of the break.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: If that's okay with you, works for me.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir All right, very good, and we'll do some news things.
• 26:41
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• 26:42
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• 26:46
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• 26:47
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• 26:50
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• 26:52
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• 26:54
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• 27:10
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• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Founder Stan Holt invites you to visit the original Loopy Tortilla near I-10 and Highway 6.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Here's the original house that inspired the design of all the rest and the original charm that helped make Loopy Tortilla the go-to destination for Houston Tex-Mex.
• 27:21
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• 27:25
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• 27:29
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• 27:35
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• 27:39
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• 27:40
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• 27:45
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• 27:53
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• 27:54
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• 27:55
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• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is having another Car Social Saturday morning, may 18th, from 8 to 11.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: It's a car cruise in like no other.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Expect Ferraris, lamborghinis, corvettes and the featured brand Porsche Get social at this special cruise.
• 28:13
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• 28:19
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• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is easy to get to at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, near West Airport Boulevard, just south of the Southwest Freeway.
• 28:29
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• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Tell your friends and no matter what car you have, bring it and enjoy this rare opportunity to see some of Houston's finest rides.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: In Wheel Time will bring its car talk show there too.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: So join us for another Car Social at Gulf Coast Auto Shield Saturday morning, may 18th, 8 to 11, at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, just south of the Southwest Freeway.
• 28:54
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• 28:58
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• 29:01
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• 29:13
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