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What Recalls Mean And What Auction Results Reveal · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:05
  Don Armstrong: And welcome from the Dual City Studios in Texas, USA.
• 0:10
  Don Armstrong: It's the award-winning in-wheel-time car talk show.
• 0:13
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, recalls and what the auction car sold for.
• 0:18
  Don Armstrong: Right.
• 0:18
  Don Armstrong: Everybody likes that.
• 0:19
  Don Armstrong: Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars, and I'll bring you stories making automotive news headlines this week.
• 0:24
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world Mars.
• 0:26
  Don Armstrong: There he is, right over there in front of the green car.
• 0:28
  Don Armstrong: That's George Skelton.
• 0:31
  Don Armstrong: That's it.
• 0:31
  Don Armstrong: Along with we always need more Jeff Zeke.
• 0:35
  Don Armstrong: David Ainsley is at home in bed watching this program, making sure that he's resting up for next time.
• 0:46
  Don Armstrong: Wait a minute.
• 0:47
  Don Armstrong: If he's in bed, that's what's wrong.
• 0:48
  Don Armstrong: That well, there's that.
• 0:50
  Don Armstrong: Hello, I'm Don Armstrong.
• 0:51
  Don Armstrong: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 0:52
  Don Armstrong: What'd you say, Mr.
• 0:53
  Don Armstrong: Morris?
• 0:54
  Mike Marrs: I said he's taking notes.
• 0:56
  Don Armstrong: Notes.
• 0:57
  Mike Marrs: He'll be taking notes about the show.
• 0:59
  Don Armstrong: Well, let's hope not.
• 1:01
  Don Armstrong: Hope it doesn't get down to that.
• 1:02
  Don Armstrong: Let's hope anyway.
• 1:03
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 1:04
  Don Armstrong: Let's do the recalls of the day.
• 1:06
  Don Armstrong: Got a few.
• 1:07
  Don Armstrong: Rear view camera image may not display Volkswagen Tiguan 2024.
• 1:13
  Don Armstrong: Oof.
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  Don Armstrong: Roof rail airbag inflator end cap may detach.
• 1:20
  Don Armstrong: Ow, what was that that just hit me in the eye?
• 1:23
  Don Armstrong: Silverado, Sierra, Chevy, GMC 1819 Deer Models.
• 1:28
  Don Armstrong: Sing along.
• 1:29
  Don Armstrong: Rear view camera image may not display.
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  Don Armstrong: Jeep Grand Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer L 2026 model year.
• 1:35
  Don Armstrong: Rear view camera image may not display.
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  Don Armstrong: Chrysler Jeep RAM, Pacifica Wrangler 1500, 2500, 2019, 2023, 24, 25.
• 1:47
  Don Armstrong: All of those.
• 1:49
  Don Armstrong: So when you get to 29, sold to an American.
• 1:53
  Don Armstrong: Side airbags may not deploy properly.
• 1:55
  Don Armstrong: Jeep Grand Cherokee.
• 1:57
  Don Armstrong: That would be for your models 22 through 26.
• 2:02
  Don Armstrong: Airbag inflator may rupture in the Cadillac ATS, CTS, Escalade.
• 2:08
  Don Armstrong: Oh no.
• 2:08
  Don Armstrong: Escalade, ESV, SRX, and XTS 2015 through 2016.
• 2:15
  Don Armstrong: Blank screen display.
• 2:19
  Don Armstrong: Nissan Kicks 25-26.
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  Don Armstrong: Airbags may not deploy.
• 2:24
  Don Armstrong: No, sorry.
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  Don Armstrong: Airbags may deploy unintentionally during a crash.
• 2:30
  unknown: What?
• 2:31
  Don Armstrong: Wait a minute.
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  Don Armstrong: I thought you wanted to deploy in a crash.
• 2:32
  Don Armstrong: You would think you would, but it could be a low-speed crash.
• 2:35
  Don Armstrong: Pretty much every Acura and Honda known to God 2017 through 2026, and some models go to safercar.gov to get them.
• 2:46
  Don Armstrong: I mean, it's a whole big long list.
• 2:50
  Don Armstrong: So those are the recalls.
• 2:52
  Don Armstrong: Okay, let's get to some fun stuff.
• 2:53
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, I didn't hear anything about Ford.
• 2:54
  Jeff Dziekan: I knew that there's two Ford recalls coming out.
• 2:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Bronco, and then you got one Bronco with uh something with a ball joint.
• 3:00
  Jeff Dziekan: I think that's on the escape in the ball.
• 3:02
  Don Armstrong: Well, I don't have it in this week.
• 3:03
  Don Armstrong: It could be next week's, or it could have been already.
• 3:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Maybe it came to me in a dream.
• 3:07
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't know.
• 3:07
  Don Armstrong: Well, that and that's possible.
• 3:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 3:10
  Don Armstrong: All the stuff that you did back in the 70s.
• 3:13
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I know.
• 3:14
  Don Armstrong: All right.
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  Don Armstrong: There's still two.
• 3:15
  Don Armstrong: So here's the way here's the way this works.
• 3:17
  Don Armstrong: Hemings has an auction, an online auction every week.
• 3:22
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
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  Don Armstrong: It actually is an ongoing thing, but uh these are the cars that sold this week.
• 3:28
  Don Armstrong: And so it's up to you to kind of guess with us what that sold car sold for.
• 3:36
  Don Armstrong: Okay?
• 3:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Based on the description you give on the notes you have.
• 3:39
  Don Armstrong: And I think Mr.
• 3:40
  Don Armstrong: Morris has some pictures.
• 3:41
  Don Armstrong: I think he certainly does.
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  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 3:43
  Don Armstrong: So let's get to the very first one.
• 3:45
  Don Armstrong: Jeff, this is for you.
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  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 3:46
  Don Armstrong: This is a 1957 Cadillac El Dorado.
• 3:51
  Don Armstrong: Oh my lord.
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  Don Armstrong: And it is awesome.
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  Don Armstrong: I'd love to have this car.
• 3:56
  Don Armstrong: Dagmar's in the front, white white's got custom wheels on it.
• 4:00
  Don Armstrong: I wouldn't want that.
• 4:00
  Don Armstrong: I want to get it.
• 4:01
  Mike Marrs: Look at that rear end.
• 4:02
  Don Armstrong: I'm looking at the rear end.
• 4:04
  Don Armstrong: Don't I always?
• 4:05
  Don Armstrong: It's hot, man.
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  Don Armstrong: And the car, too.
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  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 4:08
  Don Armstrong: So how much do you think that that 57 El Dorado sold for?
• 4:12
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go, I'm gonna say$70,000.
• 4:15
  Don Armstrong: $70,000.
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  Don Armstrong: Who's joining us today in the bidding process?
• 4:18
  Don Armstrong: They're in the process of getting it.
• 4:21
  Don Armstrong: They've got their bidding paddles ready.
• 4:23
  Don Armstrong: Bidding paddles are ready.
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  Jeff Dziekan: So let's see what says$18,999.
• 4:28
  Jeff Dziekan: George.
• 4:29
  Don Armstrong: Jeffrey says$55.
• 4:31
  Don Armstrong: Jeffrey says$55?
• 4:32
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 4:33
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, and I don't see the LUT, so I'm I'm guessing that this is probably it.
• 4:37
  Don Armstrong: So it sold for$50, oh,$400.
• 4:41
  Don Armstrong: $50,400 worth of pillars.
• 4:43
  Don Armstrong: So we're going to kind of stay within that time frame.
• 4:46
  Don Armstrong: About 10 years later.
• 4:48
  Don Armstrong: How about the price?
• 4:49
  Don Armstrong: Can we stay in that price range?
• 4:51
  Don Armstrong: Um okay.
• 4:52
  Don Armstrong: We'll we'll try to do that.
• 4:54
  Don Armstrong: Next up is the 1967 Chevy Corvette convertible with uh some side pipes on it.
• 5:00
  Don Armstrong: And um it may have are those knockoffs or are they just aluminum wheels?
• 5:07
  Don Armstrong: I think they're aluminum.
• 5:08
  Don Armstrong: Whatever.
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  Don Armstrong: They it that looks like factory stuff.
• 5:10
  Don Armstrong: How much did that 67 Chevy Corvette convertible with the side pipes go for?
• 5:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh gosh, I'm guessing I'm gonna go 45.
• 5:18
  Jeff Dziekan: 45.
• 5:19
  Mike Marrs: I I should tell you that it does have a 350 horse 327 factory motor, numbers matching manual force speed with it.
• 5:28
  Don Armstrong: Oh, well now you give the details.
• 5:30
  Don Armstrong: Well, okay, you can you you still have time to change your bid.
• 5:33
  Don Armstrong: No, I'll I'll stay with it.
• 5:34
  Jeff Dziekan: What'd you say?
• 5:35
  Jeff Dziekan: I remember.
• 5:39
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 5:40
  Don Armstrong: And uh Jeff Heitzman says 60.
• 5:44
  Don Armstrong: Uh huh.
• 5:44
  Mike Marrs: Let me see.
• 5:45
  Mike Marrs: What's George popped in here with?
• 5:47
  Mike Marrs: 24,999.
• 5:49
  Mike Marrs: George.
• 5:50
  Don Armstrong: Really?
• 5:51
  Don Armstrong: Um no, it sold for$75,600.
• 5:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, I said$70, yeah.
• 5:56
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 5:56
  Jeff Dziekan: No, I didn't.
• 5:58
  Don Armstrong: Whatever.
• 6:00
  Don Armstrong: Next up, every man's car.
• 6:02
  Don Armstrong: A 1999 two-door Chevy Tahoe.
• 6:06
  Don Armstrong: Yes, they did make two-doors back in the day.
• 6:08
  Don Armstrong: 99 Chevy Tahoe.
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  Don Armstrong: I like the looks of it.
• 6:12
  Don Armstrong: It looks nice.
• 6:13
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, clean.
• 6:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 6:15
  Don Armstrong: Yes, very clean look.
• 6:16
  Don Armstrong: Looks tough, looks uh rugged, but yet so delicate.
• 6:20
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, and uh, and the vehicle itself is very clean.
• 6:23
  Don Armstrong: Delicate.
• 6:24
  Don Armstrong: Look, they even got the window sticker.
• 6:26
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go 12 grand.
• 6:28
  Jeff Dziekan: That's all?
• 6:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 6:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Jeff says now you now you're making me down myself.
• 6:32
  Jeff Dziekan: You know the price, so don't don't don't don't Jeff says 12.
• 6:37
  Don Armstrong: George says$15.99.
• 6:39
  Don Armstrong: $15,999.
• 6:40
  Don Armstrong: And Mr.
• 6:41
  Don Armstrong: Heitzman says where'd he go?
• 6:44
  Mike Marrs: Come back, come back.
• 6:46
  Don Armstrong: $35.
• 6:47
  Don Armstrong: It's sold for$27,$825.
• 6:51
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 6:52
  Don Armstrong: That's a little pricey for me, but yeah, okay.
• 6:55
  Don Armstrong: All right, next up, and I picked this because I had a Land Rover recently.
• 6:59
  Don Armstrong: Here's a 1979 Land Rover Series 3.
• 7:04
  Don Armstrong: Now, I don't quite understand why somebody would be attracted to something that ugly.
• 7:10
  Don Armstrong: The Queen had many of them.
• 7:12
  Don Armstrong: Well, there you go.
• 7:13
  Don Armstrong: And look at the Queen.
• 7:14
  Don Armstrong: She's dead.
• 7:15
  Don Armstrong: 79 Land Rover Series 3.
• 7:17
  Don Armstrong: Well, how much do you think that thing went for?
• 7:19
  Don Armstrong: Get out of the truck and put it in the four-wheel drive.
• 7:22
  Don Armstrong: It's got locking hubs on it.
• 7:24
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, yeah.
• 7:24
  Mike Marrs: And if you quickly look at the back of it, it looks like the short bus.
• 7:28
  unknown: Yeah.
• 7:29
  Don Armstrong: Uh 27.
• 7:31
  Don Armstrong: Jeff says 27.
• 7:33
  Don Armstrong: Jeff Seeking.
• 7:34
  Don Armstrong: Uh George says 99.
• 7:37
  Don Armstrong: Thank you, George.
• 7:38
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I agree.
• 7:40
  Don Armstrong: I wouldn't even break a$1,000 thing for that.
• 7:44
  Don Armstrong: And then uh Mr.
• 7:44
  Don Armstrong: Heitzman says$26.
• 7:46
  Don Armstrong: Well, it sold for$23,000.
• 7:49
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 7:50
  Don Armstrong: I guess you gotta really like that thing.
• 7:52
  Don Armstrong: I'll flip it.
• 7:53
  Don Armstrong: Now, this is something that I would buy because my dad had a 55.
• 7:57
  Don Armstrong: It's a 55 Buick Super.
• 8:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 8:00
  Don Armstrong: Uh yeah.
• 8:02
  Don Armstrong: What we called a four-holder back in the day.
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  Don Armstrong: Uh 55 Buick Super.
• 8:08
  Don Armstrong: And uh this is a two-door uh and it is a hardtop.
• 8:14
  Don Armstrong: Well, that's good looking.
• 8:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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  Jeff Dziekan: Uh looks like a combination.
• 8:18
  Jeff Dziekan: How much?
• 8:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh sea foam green, white, four-holder.
• 8:22
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go twenty-seven.
• 8:24
  Jeff Dziekan: Twenty-seven?
• 8:25
  Jeff Dziekan: Huh, okay.
• 8:27
  Don Armstrong: That's good.
• 8:28
  Don Armstrong: Forty for Jeffrey.
• 8:29
  Don Armstrong: Forty for Jeffrey.
• 8:34
  Don Armstrong: And Mr.
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  Don Armstrong: Heitzman says Jeff says.
• 8:37
  Don Armstrong: Oh, that's it.
• 8:38
  Don Armstrong: I'm sorry.
• 8:38
  Don Armstrong: Uh George Skelton says, anything?
• 8:40
  Don Armstrong: Does he give us anything?
• 8:42
  Don Armstrong: Is that a nail head?
• 8:43
  Mike Marrs: He's having to do some serious thinking about it.
• 8:45
  Mike Marrs: 1799.
• 8:46
  Mike Marrs: Does it run?
• 8:47
  Mike Marrs: Does it run?
• 8:48
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
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  Mike Marrs: By the way, it only has 41,000 miles on it in the last 50 years has been the same owner.
• 8:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh my.
• 8:55
  Jeff Dziekan: George, it'll run forever.
• 8:56
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a Buick.
• 8:57
  Jeff Dziekan: It is a Buick.
• 8:58
  Jeff Dziekan: That's it.
• 8:59
  Don Armstrong: Uh it's actually sold for$26,250.
• 9:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Hey, I'm right on there.
• 9:03
  Jeff Dziekan: I know my Buick's.
• 9:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep.
• 9:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Especially my four holders.
• 9:07
  Don Armstrong: Okay, this one here is interesting.
• 9:10
  Don Armstrong: Uh, and I'm not sure who I would put in this.
• 9:13
  Don Armstrong: Perhaps as a parade car for George Skelton.
• 9:15
  Don Armstrong: Oh, I like it.
• 9:16
  Don Armstrong: 1968 Ford Galaxy.
• 9:19
  Don Armstrong: Now, you know, it kind of lost its panache in 68.
• 9:23
  Don Armstrong: It just wasn't quite there for me.
• 9:26
  Don Armstrong: It just looks big and heavy, and the original Ford Galaxy wasn't that way.
• 9:31
  Don Armstrong: 68 Ford Galaxy, how much?
• 9:32
  Don Armstrong: For the convertible?
• 9:33
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm going to give you a range.
• 9:34
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm going to go between eight and nine.
• 9:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Eight, okay.
• 9:38
  Jeff Dziekan: In that area.
• 9:39
  Jeff Dziekan: All right.
• 9:41
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 9:42
  Mike Marrs: I think we're we're still having to look at it.
• 9:44
  Mike Marrs: I will tell you it's one of 6,066 made like that.
• 9:48
  Mike Marrs: Well.
• 9:48
  Mike Marrs: But like you say, it much like the Chevrolets of that era, they were all big and bulky and heavy and they just didn't have a lot of style to them, where the original Galaxy did.
• 9:59
  Don Armstrong: So this particular 68 Ford Galaxy convertible sold for uh Jeff says 32.
• 10:06
  Don Armstrong: So it sold for$1,2863.
• 10:08
  Don Armstrong: Like I said, this is going to be a per Art Grindle.
• 10:12
  Don Armstrong: Art Grindle Dodge on OST.
• 10:15
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I do remember him jumping up and down the cars.
• 10:18
  Don Armstrong: And the cars that he couldn't either get started or they stalled as they were running them through.
• 10:23
  Don Armstrong: This is on live television.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:26
  Don Armstrong: He would uh have the guys that were driving the bushes get push it out of the way.
• 10:30
  Mike Marrs: Get it out of here.
• 10:31
  Mike Marrs: On live TV.
• 10:32
  Don Armstrong: On live television.
• 10:33
  Don Armstrong: All right, next up.
• 10:34
  Don Armstrong: Next up is the 1965 Shelby Cobra.
• 10:39
  Don Armstrong: Oh.
• 10:40
  Don Armstrong: Is it a replica?
• 10:41
  Don Armstrong: I think it's probably a replica because I'm just gonna say it's a replica.
• 10:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 10:47
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 10:48
  Don Armstrong: But it sure does look good.
• 10:50
  Don Armstrong: If you're into that sort of thing, um they're fast.
• 10:53
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:54
  Don Armstrong: They got a big V8 underneath the head.
• 10:56
  Jeff Dziekan: A little dangerous.
• 10:56
  Jeff Dziekan: I'd go 60 grand on that danger.
• 10:58
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 10:59
  Don Armstrong: 60 grand.
• 11:00
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 11:00
  Don Armstrong: Heitzman says 60 grand.
• 11:02
  Don Armstrong: I'm sorry.
• 11:03
  Don Armstrong: Jeff Zeken says 60 grand.
• 11:05
  Don Armstrong: What does Heitzman say?
• 11:07
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, Heitzman's.
• 11:12
  Don Armstrong: George 24.
• 11:14
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 11:15
  Mike Marrs: Jeff.
• 11:16
  Don Armstrong: 48.
• 11:16
  Jeff Dziekan: And 48 for it's sold for 63,000.
• 11:19
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm getting better at this.
• 11:20
  Jeff Dziekan: I own two cars now.
• 11:23
  Jeff Dziekan: That's with TTNL.
• 11:25
  Jeff Dziekan: No, it's not.
• 11:26
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, it doesn't include destination.
• 11:28
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that.
• 11:29
  Don Armstrong: Ooh, look at this.
• 11:29
  Don Armstrong: I like this.
• 11:30
  Don Armstrong: Okay, this is a 1933 Dodge.
• 11:34
  Don Armstrong: Now, now be honest with me.
• 11:37
  Don Armstrong: Would you really buy this vehicle?
• 11:40
  Don Armstrong: I mean, forget the price for just a moment.
• 11:42
  Don Armstrong: Do you are you attracted to that body stuff?
• 11:44
  Jeff Dziekan: I would have to do some things to it.
• 11:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Like what?
• 11:46
  Jeff Dziekan: I would change the wheels, one thing.
• 11:48
  Jeff Dziekan: I would probably, I don't know if I'd chop it.
• 11:51
  Jeff Dziekan: I'd have to look at it in person.
• 11:52
  Jeff Dziekan: I might chop it and lower it.
• 11:54
  Mike Marrs: I think I wouldn't like about it.
• 12:02
  Mike Marrs: To me, the cab area on this is a little more square, and I kind of like it a little more square like this.
• 12:08
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I think I think that the wheels just don't do it justice.
• 12:11
  Mike Marrs: No, no, no.
• 12:12
  Mike Marrs: Wrong way.
• 12:12
  Don Armstrong: And it obviously does not have the stock engine in it.
• 12:15
  Jeff Dziekan: No.
• 12:15
  Jeff Dziekan: I wouldn't put any, you know, uh I'd modify the the engine, but I wouldn't put any velocity stacks or pipes on it or anything like that.
• 12:23
  Jeff Dziekan: No, nothing like that.
• 12:24
  Don Armstrong: No, I think that the wheels, I think the wheel change would uh change the whole outlook of the car.
• 12:28
  Don Armstrong: Maybe put a wing on the back on it.
• 12:29
  Don Armstrong: How much do you think that 33 Dodge sold for?
• 12:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh 33 Dodge, I'm gonna go 30, 32 grand.
• 12:37
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go 32.
• 12:39
  Don Armstrong: 32.
• 12:39
  Don Armstrong: George says 19,339.
• 12:44
  Don Armstrong: And then Jeff says$75,000.
• 12:47
  Don Armstrong: Well, it's all over the place on this, isn't it?
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 12:50
  Don Armstrong: So it's called a resto mod, is what it's called.
• 12:53
  Don Armstrong: Restored and modified.
• 12:55
  Don Armstrong: So it's sold for$33,600.
• 12:58
  Jeff Dziekan: All right.
• 13:00
  Don Armstrong: I guess.
• 13:01
  Jeff Dziekan: I got it.
• 13:02
  Jeff Dziekan: I will say this.
• 13:03
  Don Armstrong: As long as it's got as long as it's got AC in it, and you can roll up the windows and you can kind of isolate yourself.
• 13:10
  Don Armstrong: That's a given.
• 13:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, you'd have to.
• 13:12
  Mike Marrs: Well, not necessarily, but at that price range, I I think you would find air conditioning in there.
• 13:17
  Mike Marrs: I don't remember.
• 13:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, well, the point I'm if you're going to modify it, you would modify it to have air conditioning.
• 13:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Most definitely.
• 13:22
  Mike Marrs: Oh, absolutely.
• 13:23
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 13:24
  Don Armstrong: But with if that's the case, and with the V8 engine, it's probably got an automatic transmission.
• 13:29
  Don Armstrong: Let's hope, yeah.
• 13:29
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, it's a column shift.
• 13:30
  Mike Marrs: If you can see it, you see it up there in the column shifts.
• 13:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 13:33
  Jeff Dziekan: I would get rid of the billet dash.
• 13:34
  Jeff Dziekan: I'd put something else in there, make it more.
• 13:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Is there a billet?
• 13:37
  Jeff Dziekan: It looks like billet, doesn't it?
• 13:38
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, it's it's kind of stainless steel look, and there's switch covers and uh I'm like you.
• 13:44
  Mike Marrs: I'm that's not me.
• 13:45
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:45
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, no, I I mean I like the whiteface gauges, but I'm not into the because that car originally had a painted dash.
• 13:53
  Jeff Dziekan: Would you put buckets or a bench in the front?
• 13:56
  Jeff Dziekan: There's not really a lot of whip.
• 13:57
  Don Armstrong: There's no there's not any room.
• 13:59
  Don Armstrong: I would I would put a bench in it with a nice center uh console fold-down armrest.
• 14:05
  Don Armstrong: So at least you could get a third person in there if you had to.
• 14:08
  Don Armstrong: But it's tight, man.
• 14:09
  Don Armstrong: I wouldn't think of it.
• 14:09
  Jeff Dziekan: It'd be a two-seater for me.
• 14:11
  Jeff Dziekan: I wouldn't put anything, maybe a few groceries or a you know, an overnight bag if you travel.
• 14:15
  Don Armstrong: But you got the rumble seat.
• 14:16
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, you got the trunk area back there.
• 14:18
  Don Armstrong: You could either have a rumble seat in there or make it into a trunk.
• 14:21
  Don Armstrong: What if a big wing on the back?
• 14:22
  unknown: Oh god.
• 14:23
  Mike Marrs: Well, they just put the wing on the trunk lid so that it comes up above the cab whenever you can.
• 14:28
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, that's yeah.
• 14:29
  Don Armstrong: I saw one online today.
• 14:31
  Don Armstrong: Somebody had made a wing out of wood.
• 14:33
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 14:34
  Don Armstrong: Sure.
• 14:35
  Don Armstrong: A two by six and two two by fours, and they glued it or bolted it down to the trunk lid.
• 14:40
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 14:40
  Don Armstrong: Great stuff.
• 14:41
  Don Armstrong: That's a mod.
• 14:42
  Don Armstrong: That is a mod, for sure.
• 14:44
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 14:45
  Don Armstrong: We've got to take a break here.
• 14:47
  Don Armstrong: Um, coming up, Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars, and I'll bring you the stories making automotive news headlines this week.
• 14:53
  Don Armstrong: Stay with us.
• 14:54
  Don Armstrong: The N-wheel time car talk show continues right after this break.
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• 16:29
  Don Armstrong: Welcome back to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show next Saturday.
• 16:34
  Don Armstrong: Be sure and join us because we are going to be in Granbury, Texas, for the Lone Star Street Rod Association State Run in Hewlett Park up there.
• 16:43
  Don Armstrong: And the very special aspect of the, one of them aspect of the next weekend, is going to be a three-hour show.
• 16:51
  Don Armstrong: So we're going to start at 9, 9, 10, and 11.
• 16:54
  Don Armstrong: So we're going to have a three-hour show.
• 16:56
  Don Armstrong: So we're going to be on the air from 9 to noon next Saturday, and we hope that you'll join us because it's always lots of fun.
• 17:00
  Don Armstrong: Come by and see us.
• 17:10
  Don Armstrong: And if you've never been, you need to go.
• 17:11
  Don Armstrong: And this would be a good time to go, I think.
• 17:13
  Don Armstrong: You might have to get you a motel outside of Granbury, but whatever the case.
• 17:17
  Don Armstrong: It's only about 45 minutes or so south of Fort Worth.
• 17:21
  Don Armstrong: Or do what we do.
• 17:21
  Don Armstrong: We just sleep in our cars.
• 17:23
  Don Armstrong: We do not, nor will I.
• 17:26
  Don Armstrong: You can sleep in your car.
• 17:27
  Don Armstrong: I'm not sure.
• 17:28
  Mike Marrs: Well, he's got a Buick, though, so he gets right.
• 17:31
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, with the bed for the Corinthian plush and all that.
• 17:35
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 17:35
  Don Armstrong: Some of the stories making auto news this week.
• 17:38
  Don Armstrong: U.S.
• 17:38
  Don Armstrong: auto sales are holding steady.
• 17:40
  Don Armstrong: Despite inflation hitting a three-year high and consumer confidence declining, a disconnect that has experts monitoring for signs the industry's luck may be running out.
• 17:51
  Don Armstrong: But while high gasoline prices, tariffs, trade instability, and war weigh on the economy, economists and other auto industry stakeholders say the auto industry sales figures may be relatively insulated from the chaos for the moment.
• 18:05
  Don Armstrong: I think that the American consumer is going to be doing what they do best, and that's spend money, says Patrick Manzi, NADA's chief economist, National Automobile Dealer Association guy.
• 18:18
  Don Armstrong: We're just in a unique industry here, and people love to buy cars, and I think that pretty much says it all.
• 18:25
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 18:26
  Don Armstrong: This I thought was very interesting news.
• 18:28
  Don Armstrong: Again, coming out of the Stellantis thing.
• 18:32
  Don Armstrong: Fiat unveiled the first images of the Grizzly and the Grizzly Fastback SUVs, two new smaller models designed to expand the brand's global lineup.
• 18:43
  Don Armstrong: Both the Grizzly and Grizzly Fastback are set to reach global markets this year, with availability in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa in the second half of the year.
• 18:51
  Don Armstrong: Prices of the new models have not been revealed.
• 18:53
  Don Armstrong: However, the Citroen C3 Aircross sibling model with a hundred horsepower gasoline powertrain starts at 22,265 in Germany.
• 19:03
  Don Armstrong: Another sibling model, the Opel Frontera, starts in at about$30,540 in Germany.
• 19:13
  Don Armstrong: The Grizzly SUV will compete against the Renault Dasia Duster, a small SUV that starts in Germany at$21,885.
• 19:24
  Don Armstrong: Stellantis is expected to sell rebadged versions of the two Fiat models as Chryslers in the United States.
• 19:32
  Don Armstrong: Because I told you all along, you wait, they're going to bring back the Chrysler badge, and it may not be what it has been.
• 19:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Right.
• 19:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Now the Grizzly, wonder where they came that name, came up with the name in Germany.
• 19:43
  Don Armstrong: I don't know if they're Grizzly or Well, you know, it's going to be a global vehicle, so the Grizzly name may or may not be a tough vehicle or the Grizzly in the Chrysler lineup, I could understand that.
• 19:55
  Jeff Dziekan: And an opal.
• 19:56
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't is I'm interested to see what it looks like when it comes out.
• 19:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 19:59
  Don Armstrong: Well, remember, those vehicles over there get a different look and a different name in the whole nine yards, but it goes down the same assembly line.
• 20:06
  Don Armstrong: Mitsubishi will enter the increasingly crowded U.S.
• 20:09
  Don Armstrong: mid-size pickup segment with a new truck sourced from Nissan as it tries to lift its sagging business by siphoning seals from the market leading Toyota Tacoma, Chevy, Colorado, and Ford Ranger.
• 20:22
  Don Armstrong: New entry will be built by Nissan at a U.S.
• 20:24
  Don Armstrong: factory, according to a per person familiar with the plan.
• 20:27
  Don Armstrong: Mitsubishi did not detail a launch timeline.
• 20:30
  Don Armstrong: But the Nissan Frontier mid-size pickup is expected to get a redesign around 2028 as part of Nissan's rollout of a new frame-based vehicle architecture that will underpin the Xterra SUV and other products that's built at its Canton, Mississippi plant.
• 20:47
  Don Armstrong: The pickup is part of Mitsubishi's three-pronged plan for reviving its U.S.
• 20:51
  Don Armstrong: operations, and all I can say is good luck.
• 20:56
  Mike Marrs: When was the last time you drove a Mitsubishi?
• 21:00
  Don Armstrong: Years ago.
• 21:02
  Don Armstrong: Actually, I will say this, and I'm lying.
• 21:05
  Don Armstrong: It was a rebadge, and I don't remember.
• 21:07
  Don Armstrong: Was it a Nissan SUV that they turned into a Mitsubishi?
• 21:11
  Don Armstrong: It was something like that.
• 21:12
  Don Armstrong: And it was actually pretty good because it wasn't something that they built.
• 21:16
  Don Armstrong: Somebody else built it.
• 21:19
  Don Armstrong: I just have never been a Mitsubishi fan.
• 21:22
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, I mean that's who bombed us and Pearl Harbor.
• 21:30
  Don Armstrong: I can't wait to try the sunbeam.
• 21:32
  Don Armstrong: The sunbeam, yeah.
• 21:34
  Don Armstrong: A Maryland mother's gift for her son's college graduation, an eighty thousand dollar Chevy Camaro was stolen twice in the span of five days.
• 21:46
  Don Armstrong: The second time, a thief posing as a technician boosted it from a dealership lot in the middle of the day.
• 21:52
  Don Armstrong: TV News report initially helped police recover the twenty twenty three Camaro Z L one.
• 21:58
  Don Armstrong: That's a twenty twenty three model, by the way.
• 22:00
  Don Armstrong: That's not a new one.
• 22:01
  Don Armstrong: Shortly after it was taken, May 25th, from behind Mimi Arnett's home in Beltsville, Maryland, a viewer who saw the report noticed the Camaro abandoned in a nearby city, and after it was possessed, processed for evidence, the car was towed to the Autonation dealership where Arnett and her son's father had bought it in January.
• 22:21
  Don Armstrong: And just two days later, an employee at the store called to say the Camaro is gone again.
• 22:26
  Mike Marrs: So somebody walked in and said, Hey, I I work here, so I'm taking this car and going to do something with it.
• 22:32
  Don Armstrong: She said, Ms.
• 22:32
  Don Armstrong: Arnett, where's the car?
• 22:34
  Don Armstrong: Arnett told News 4 Washington, I said, Excuse me?
• 22:37
  Don Armstrong: The car is with you guys.
• 22:38
  Don Armstrong: She said, We've checked the whole lot.
• 22:40
  Don Armstrong: The car's gone.
• 22:41
  Don Armstrong: It's been stolen again.
• 22:42
  Don Armstrong: My heart dropped.
• 22:44
  Don Armstrong: Another employee at the dealership unknowingly witnessed the second theft, Arnett said.
• 22:49
  Don Armstrong: The store didn't make anyone available for comment to News 4.
• 22:53
  Don Armstrong: News 4.
• 22:54
  Don Armstrong: Action News.
• 22:56
  Don Armstrong: He said, We thought it was a technician that was taking my son's car, pulling it out to go into the garage to start the inspection of the car.
• 23:04
  Don Armstrong: She said he said he'd actually seen the guy come onto the lot, get in the car, and drive it away.
• 23:13
  Jeff Dziekan: It's gone again, ladies and gentlemen.
• 23:15
  Jeff Dziekan: And you know, if you see it, report it.
• 23:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 23:18
  Jeff Dziekan: Let us know.
• 23:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Or change the key fob or lock your door or something.
• 23:24
  Don Armstrong: Toyota posted slightly weaker sales in May on lower RAV4 volume and a slump in Lexus car deliveries.
• 23:31
  Don Armstrong: The Automaker sales slipped 0.6%.
• 23:35
  Don Armstrong: Not a lot, but that's a lot of money.
• 23:37
  Don Armstrong: With volume down slightly at the Toyota brand and 3.9% at Lexus.
• 23:41
  Don Armstrong: It was the company's third straight monthly decline.
• 23:44
  Don Armstrong: Sales of Toyota's top seller, the RAV 4, fell 26% as the Automaker preps four assembly plants to produce the redesigned compact crossover.
• 23:54
  Don Armstrong: So everybody knows it's coming, and they ain't buying the one that's currently out there.
• 23:59
  Don Armstrong: Deliveries of the Highlander and Grand Highlander crossovers among Toyota's other core light trucks were also weaker last month, offset by higher forerunner and pickup volume.
• 24:08
  Don Armstrong: Lexus's car sale slid 36% on weaker ES volume.
• 24:12
  Don Armstrong: Companies launching another redesigned ES sedan this year that'll be larger and available as a hybrid or an EV.
• 24:19
  Don Armstrong: That's why everybody's waiting.
• 24:20
  Don Armstrong: Overall, Toyota said its sales of electrified vehicles, most of them gasoline electric hybrids, rose 15% to just over 137,000 cars last month.
• 24:31
  Don Armstrong: That accounted for 57% of all sales up from 50% in May of 2025.
• 24:40
  Don Armstrong: Okay, and finally, dealership groups warned by the Federal Trade Commission about advertising practices had twice the number of customer review complaints about marketing and bait and switch behavior compared with the broader industry, according to a new wide whale study.
• 24:56
  Don Armstrong: The Review Analytics Company examined sixty-three of the ninety-seven dealerships and groups the FTC identified May 28th as recipients of the agency's March warning letters and compared their feedback with the rest of the industry in the first quarter.
• 25:10
  Don Armstrong: Findings suggest customer complaints can flag problematic practices before regulators act.
• 25:17
  Don Armstrong: So keep that in mind.
• 25:18
  Don Armstrong: Do your research on the dealer that you're thinking about using to buy your car from is the is the learned lesson there.
• 25:25
  Mike Marrs: Makes a big difference.
• 25:28
  Don Armstrong: So are you going up on Friday, Mr.
• 25:29
  Don Armstrong: Mars?
• 25:31
  Mike Marrs: I think I'm going to try and go up on Thursday evening.
• 25:33
  Don Armstrong: I think you should.
• 25:34
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 25:34
  Don Armstrong: That's exactly what you should do.
• 25:36
  Don Armstrong: Jeff and I, I don't think we're riding together, but I don't know.
• 25:39
  Don Armstrong: The jury's still out on all of that.
• 25:41
  Don Armstrong: Uh but he and I are both leaving on Friday, correct?
• 25:44
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I'm leaving on Friday.
• 25:46
  Don Armstrong: I'm going to try for a noon departure.
• 25:48
  Don Armstrong: We'll see how that works.
• 25:49
  Don Armstrong: And then, of course, Saturday is the big event for the Lone Star Street Rod Association.
• 25:54
  Don Armstrong: In real time, we'll wrap things up right after this quick break.
• 25:57
  Don Armstrong: Stay with us.
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• 26:58
  Don Armstrong: Join the Inwheel Time Car Talk Show as we hit the road for a live broadcast from the 51st annual Lone Star Street Rod Association State Run at Hewlett Park in Granbury.
• 27:08
  Don Armstrong: This once a year rolling car collection takes place June twelfth through the 14th.com.
• 27:44
  Don Armstrong: And by the way, if you got a picture of your car or somebody else's car you want to throw up and have it behind us, just send it to info at nwheeltime.com.
• 27:53
  Don Armstrong: You can find the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show 24-7 on the NWL Time app and website.
• 27:58
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• 28:00
  Don Armstrong: We video stream our live show every Saturday, normally 10 to noon.
• 28:04
  Don Armstrong: Next week it's going to be 9 to noon on Facebook, YouTube, and NWLTime.com.
• 28:09
  Don Armstrong: The NWL Time Video Coordinator is we always need more Jeff Zeken for booking agent and video editor Mike out of this world Mars.
• 28:16
  Don Armstrong: Chief Engineer, David Ainsley, I'm Don Armstrong.
• 28:20
  Don Armstrong: Thanks to show contributors Jeff Heitzman and George Skelton.
• 28:23
  Don Armstrong: Be sure and join us for the 51st annual Lone Star Street Rod Association State Run and Show June 13th, next Saturday, from Hewlett Park in Granbury, Texas.
• 28:32
  Don Armstrong: In real time, I have a bonus hour so you can grab us beginning at 9 until noon next Saturday, the 13th.
• 28:38
  Don Armstrong: We hope you'll join us.
• 28:39
  Don Armstrong: Have a great week.
• 28:40
  Don Armstrong: Stay safe, stay dry, and we'll see you all next week from Grandbury.
• 28:44
  Don Armstrong: Take care.
• 28:44
  Don Armstrong: Goodbye.
• 28:56
  Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 29:00
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and our InWheeltime.com website.
• 29:10
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• 29:18
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