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Inside Wasabi Super Garage: JDM Wonder and High-Performance Racing · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast and a good Saturday morning to you and welcome to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Coming up.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: We talk JDM with Ulysses Garcia, a local, very connected guy.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Jeff has a feature on seven fun facts about the automobile.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Mr Mars reviews the new Subaru BRZ Hot Rod Just ahead on this segment of the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show, howdy, along with Mike out of this world, mars.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: We always need more.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Jeff Zekin, I'm Don Armstrong, so glad that you could join us on this Saturday morning.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: It's a hot one here in Houston, texas, and it's not raining and it's going to be kind of that way all weekend long.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: It's not raining yet yeah.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: We dashed by, or the hurricane dashed by us and made its way over to New Orleans and I'm sure that was a big ugly mess and probably millions without power.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: We're quite familiar with that.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: But that's another show for another day.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: That doesn't include cars, Do we have?
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  Speaker 3: Ulysses, we do, but his picture's gone.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Well, we kind of do.
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  Speaker 3: He's on his left ear.
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're kind of on the side.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: You need to go to landscape instead of horizontal, yeah, instead of vertical, yeah what I said.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So matter of fact, why don't you just go ahead, he can hear us?
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: I know he can hear us.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: Why don't you just go ahead and pull him up so we can see what he's doing?
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: Now I got vertigo.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: See if we can help him.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah see, if you're sideways, then we can't hear you, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: It's because you're muted or lay on your side.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, he's a car guy, he's not an electronics guy.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: Go figure, uh-huh, there he is.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: There he is Okay.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: So we got you right side up.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Now we can't hear you, so you're going to have to unmute.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: Now we can hear you Look at you.
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  Speaker 2: This is not difficult, maybe not Horizontal.
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  Speaker 4: There you are Good like that Perfect, don't twitch it.
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  Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: this morning.
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: I'm good here.
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: I'm going to put it on the stabilizer.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Oh God.
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  Speaker 4: Oh boy Sorry about that.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: So when you go and look at yourself after this show is over with and it's recorded and you can play it back, you're going to go.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, dear God, did I do this?
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: All right, so you?
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: oh, I thought he was.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: It's the thing nightmares are made of Hair care products there.
• 2:24
  Speaker 4: So what did?
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: you say Sorry about that, sorry about that, we're going to turn him into a television guy, whether he likes it or not.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: Exactly, put him back on, okay, so are you ready now?
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we'll decide that I'm ready when you are Do what we're on.
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: I'm ready when you are.
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  Speaker 4: No, we're on the air.
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  Speaker 1: We're on the air'm ready when you are.
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  Speaker 1: No, we're on the air.
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  Speaker 1: You're live and in color, right on the air right now.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, all right how you guys doing good well, we're good.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: Well, good morning to you.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: We're doing just fine.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you, um.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: And what?
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: Whose garage are you in today?
• 2:57
  Speaker 4: I'm in my friend's uh, dewey buoy's garage.
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: What's it called?
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  Speaker 4: This is the garage is called the wasabi Super Garage.
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  Speaker 4: It's owned by Dewey Bowie.
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  Speaker 4: He has a race program.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a part of it.
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  Speaker 4: We work on his race cars, which is mainly imports Japanese vehicles.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: And he has a little bit of a collection here too.
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  Speaker 1: Ulysses and I had a conversation right when I first realized that he was a car guy.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: You said something about an 8 000 horsepower car 5 000.
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry I missed it by 3 000 horsepower.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: Darn, I mean what you know.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Write it down.
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  Speaker 4: It's not here right now it's not, it just shipped up north to get some chassis work done, uh-huh okay, so is this a professional shop?
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys do this full-time, or your friend does.
• 3:47
  Speaker 4: Well, it's like a hobby race team, but we do this as much as possible.
• 3:53
  Speaker 4: We have a schedule throughout the year and we try to make it to as many races as possible.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like the sportsman class of NHRA.
• 4:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just other classes and other series.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So if this is just a hobby, you've got some pretty high-tech stuff and some pretty fancy cars back there that look like they go real fast.
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: So how big is that shop?
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  Speaker 4: The shop's 4,500 square feet.
• 4:23
  Speaker 4: I can show you around a little bit.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, show us around, and while you're switching us around there, tell us a little bit about what we're seeing there.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: What is that green car?
• 4:35
  Speaker 4: Toyota Supra.
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  Speaker 1: A Toyota Supra uh-huh.
• 4:38
  Speaker 4: This one's a car with a Hemi in it, a mod Hemi.
• 4:42
  Speaker 4: It has a.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: Hemi in it, a pro mod Hemi in it, pro Mod Hemi.
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: It has a Hemi in it, a Pro Mod Hemi, yes, a Pro Mod Hemi.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: So how many horsepower has that got in it?
• 4:51
  Speaker 4: Well, this one.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't disclosed numbers as we're competing in a no time, no numbers.
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, the hood's closed for a reason.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: We can't see anything.
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  Speaker 1: No, Can you tell us whether it is a four-, six or eight-cylinder engine?
• 5:08
  Speaker 4: Eight-cylinder.
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: It's an eight-cylinder.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a drag car.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: It's a drag car, that's a drag car.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yep, are all of them drag cars, or do you have any hot rod?
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: street cars.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we Three drag cars.
• 5:21
  Speaker 4: This is another one.
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  Speaker 4: It's a 240SX Nissan with a Toyota Supra 2JZ motor in it Now.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: What kind of motor is a 2JZ Toyota Supra?
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  Speaker 1: No, the motor is a Toyota Supra motor.
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, Well, it's got a great big turbocharger on the front of it which came out of this one.
• 5:42
  Speaker 4: So this is the original Toyota Supra and that's the motor that it came from.
• 5:46
  Speaker 4: The 2JZ Okay, it's a 3.0 inline six.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: So what's in that one?
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: That one's stock, it's just stock, now, mild little.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: So in other words, you stole the good stuff and put it in the other car, put it in a Nissan 240an, 240sx, correct?
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure that the toyota and nissan may have a little problem with you.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: Know, it's kind of like ford and chevy.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: Hey, what do you got in that ford?
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, I got an ls motor in it.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, is there a reason that you did that, that that you would put a Toyota motor and a Nissan and vice versa?
• 6:28
  Speaker 4: Well, the Toyota, the 3.0 2JZ.
• 6:30
  Speaker 4: It's a very powerful motor.
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: It's got a lot of R&D.
• 6:34
  Speaker 4: It can make really good power.
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: Back in the day they started a thing called the Super Nationals where all the Supers would come out and play and they would drag race and they were making really big power back in the early 2000s.
• 6:51
  Speaker 4: Now it's called Texas 2K.
• 6:52
  Speaker 4: Well, of course, baytown shut down recently the drag strip, but that's where it used to be held at Right.
• 6:59
  Speaker 4: Now I think they're doing Dallas in March.
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: Well, as you know, and we discussed when, uh, we first started talking about this stuff.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: You know, we are old timers and really understand about the jdm thing, because that is more your age group, because the cars that we grew up with, the hot rods that we now have, they don't exist anymore.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can go to well, used to be able to go to dodge and, uh, you know, get the thousand horsepower, uh, supercharged hemi, yeah, right, from the factory.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: Well, we didn't have any of that and clearly that might be out of y'all's age group price range.
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: So you guys tended to go with, generally speaking, what your parents had in the driveway the honda accord.
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: You know and right yep so, and that's what we did these vehicles.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's what we did back when we were obviously at, you know, young and in high school, but, um, clearly you guys have taken it to a new level there.
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: Uh, in in the jdm world yeah, I don't remember having any lifts.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: It seems like we were in the driveway crawling up underneath the car yeah, with a shell driveway and yeah, uh-huh and uh, floor jacks sinking into the dirt of course it made easy oil spill cleanup, because it just sunk right into the ground, that's right.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: It became a hazardous waste site in a matter of minutes.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, so what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Do you consider pretty much anything as an import, as a JDM car, or at least a possibility of being a JDM car?
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: Well, there's two ways of seeing it.
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  Speaker 4: Jdm Japanese domestic market could be just anything directly from Japan, but a lot of people do see any imported car whether you can buy it here in the United States, but it's from Japan, like a Honda or Toyota or Nissan.
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: As a JDM, I started off with a Honda Civic back in 2006,.
• 9:07
  Speaker 4: Or Toyota or Nissan as a JDM, I started off with a Honda Civic back in 2006.
• 9:10
  Speaker 4: But I mean, right now, a lot of people are importing right-hand drive cars.
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, as a matter of fact, I got a story that I saved for you and our viewers and listeners this morning and I'm going to read it.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: This is obviously an edited version of a story from Automotive News.
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  Speaker 1: Legal imports of 25-year-old cars from Japan and Europe have grown from fewer than 300 in 2009 to around 20,000 per year.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: Now, as these imports grow in popularity in the US among collectors, some enterprising dealers are looking to capitalize.
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  Speaker 1: Because these cars don't meet federal safety and emission standards, they could not be registered in the US until they turned 25 years old and were treated as collectibles.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: But each year, the pool of cars reaching that age grows and with it private imports to the US.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, japanese domestic market cars are one of the fastest growing segments of the specialty used car market.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: Dealers from California to New York and many states in between, as well as private buyers, are importing them by the thousands each year.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Now, and according to figures from two sources, 25-year-old cars from Japan and Europe are on track to set a sales record this year, reaching an approximate 20,000, based on import figures for the first seven months of the year.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: Several Japanese websites make purchasing and importing such vehicles and shipping them to an American port as easy as clicking a mouse.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Old cars from the UK and Germany make up the bulk of the rest of the 25-year-old vehicles entering the US, with Land Rovers, mini Coopers, bmws and Porsches being popular private imports.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: So it gives our viewers and listeners an idea of the JDM market, specifically those cars that you guys really I would imagine that those cars are over and above current basic imported cars that you guys maybe have there in the shop that you showed us earlier.
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: These are older cars, obviously 25 years old, bringing them into the United States and hot-rodding Do you have any of those in the shop, hot rods?
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, yeah, hot rods.
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  Speaker 4: JDM hot rods yeah, this one behind me 1999, 25 years old, right-hand drive.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: And what make is it Nissan?
• 11:32
  Speaker 4: It's a Nissan, it's a Varietta, it's a convertible.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: Very cool, let me flip it over.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: That's a sharp-looking car.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: So is there any car that you won't work on?
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: Don's got a 2001 Corvette and he brought it in to you.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Would you refuse it?
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: Would work on.
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: Donald's, got a 2001 corvette and he brought it into you.
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: Would you refuse it?
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: Would you, you know, accommodate?
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, I mean I, I work on everything I personally own like european a little bit of muscle, a little bit of import, um, but this one is the jdm varietta.
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: It's uh imported so somebody's car so so in japan, uh, obviously that car probably didn't look like that.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: I would imagine that it was imported, probably more in a stock condition, and you guys brought it here, body kit and all that yeah so you had the body kit.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: There you go, yeah, and paint it.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have put a lot of money and effort into that car.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, how much money would you guesstimate that you've got invested in that car?
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: and keep in mind you're not married, so you can tell us the truth.
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, uh, that one is that one's been fully overdone.
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: It's, it's got a.
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  Speaker 4: Really it also has a 2jz in it.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: So it's it's crazy, a lot of money a lot, a lot of money, so we're probably talking over fifty thousand dollars uh maybe see he he's one of those kind of guys that you really you really don't know about what he's actually got in his deck of cards, because he ain't showing you.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well, I got that.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: Well, okay, let's go away from that aspect of it, because we're kind of running short on time.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: Tell me about something that you can tell me about.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: That's in the shop, something you may be working on for a friend or something okay, so, uh, this truck right here.
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: We've been working on it all week.
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: Um, this is one of his drag trucks and it has a 2jz as well you guys like that 2jz, don't you?
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: yeah, it's a powerful motor yeah yeah, and then you guys goose it up even more figured out.
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: We have it figured out pretty pretty well.
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: Uh, we, we actually hold records with uh, this one over here, oops, sorry, that one over there.
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: Okay, and this one has a similar setup.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: Now We've ran this one before.
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: It runs really good times in the eighth and quarter, but it should go way faster now.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: It looks like it's got a dual overhead cam.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Is that correct?
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, the dual overhead cam.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: Now did it come that way from the factory?
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, so two cams, Everything from the factory, other than maybe modified headers, turbo intake.
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: Everything's been modified outside, Of course, inside too Pistons, rods, cams, retainers, springs.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: But that's the way it is.
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: It's an inline six.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: Well, if you were to say hey, man, you've got a choice between a four, an inline six, a V6, or a V8, which one would you take?
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: I'll take the inline six, because of the torque that an inline six is capable of making.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: It is my engine of choice.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: How big is that turbocharger?
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: You got on that thing, this one on here is a 98 millimeter.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Wow, Huge yeah.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: And you've obviously had to modify the radiator there to accept all of that the plumbing and the placement of the turbo.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: It's an in-cooler.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: Currently we're not going to run it with water, but it is set up to possibly run water.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: We're going to test all that out.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: But yeah, everything is fully modified.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Is that a drag car?
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a drag truck.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: It's a Toyota Tacoma.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: Okay, Also an import?
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: All right, and I mean, it doesn't come with this motor.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: We made it go that way.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: It's a fancy looking radiator too.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I think it's an intercooler.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you would you take it to the drag strip?
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, for sure.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: That's what it's for.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: What is the next event that you're going to enter it in?
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: We're trying to make it to an event in Florida.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: It's in two weeks, three weeks, Florida 2K.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: We should be doing some testing with it soon.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Hopefully everything fires up.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: We don't have any issues.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, of course, if there are, we'll fix them and adjust from there.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: But we should be going to the track really soon with this one.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: We have an Instagram account where we post all the cars and everywhere we go what's the title of the Instagram account.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: The title of the Instagram account is at, the at, and then Wasabi, supra Wasabi.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: W-A-S-A.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Wasabi Supra.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, wasabi, okay, there you go, all right.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Wasabi Supra, all right.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Well, so that's where we show everything.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, from the shop to, you know, just going on cruises, doing photo shoots or just going to events or car meets.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Well, I want to know where we can get information on the cruises and the car meets that you guys have that the public's invited to.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: Okay, a lot of the events that we go to are, again, it's a series Donald Production, donald X Production he does a series throughout the year.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Field Tech has a radio outlaw series as well, mainly Facebook for local stuff, whether it's Cars and Coffee or just we're taking the car somewhere to just show them.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: How to you know car I want to go.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: I'll invite you to the next one, please do.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to go because I've never been and you know you guys would be the age of can I say it, grandson.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: But that's okay.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, I appreciate what you guys are doing and you are the first actual person that we have talked to on this show.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: That is a JDM guy, yeah, and when you told me you were into JDMs, I'm going.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, come here, let me hug you.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: He does that a lot, I do that a lot.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: My roots imports.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because we just, you know, our stuff is old muscle stuff and the events that we go to, generally speaking, other than new car events that John Gray has over at Gulf Coast Auto Shield, we mainly are going to events that has more hot rod stuff that you might not know Hot rods muscle cars, classics, yeah, that kind of stuff.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: So, at any rate, we'll talk and you'll be back on with us and you let us know as soon as you've got something planned that we can all go to.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Looks like you had a Camaro behind him.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: There Is that a Camaro back there the black one Again.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: It's from the wrong one?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: No, not that one.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You're standing next to it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Another one that we race 67, 68, something like that Yep 67 Camaro.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: This one also has a pro-model.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Had me in there with a supercharger, Our friend Rob Valden.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Well, it's great, it's great.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Listen, man.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: We really appreciate you coming in today and we will talk to you again soon and we appreciate your time.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Ulysses Garcia, thank you so much.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, take care.
• 19:17
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• 20:12
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• 20:13
  Speaker 1: It's located on 99th and Grand Parkway at Kingsland Boulevard in Katie.
• 20:17
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• 20:23
  Speaker 1: It's a great place to enjoy those famous frozen margaritas before or after the game.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Going to Louisiana, the Loopy Tortilla in Beaumont is on I-10, so you can't miss it.
• 20:32
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• 21:38
  Speaker 1: We got a lot going on in here in the studio this morning.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: A lot, yeah, no, I don't.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: You do nothing good, but it's a lot yeah, I know anything to deal with with you.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Mr mars is usually not a good thing because he's over there futzing, futsing that's a word Futsing with the internet and all of the other connections that we've got going on over there, and it's challenging.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: It's challenging for all of us.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, time now for Jeff's feature this hour.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Seven fun facts on the automobile.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: You may or may not know, jeffrey, okay well, surprising stories about the evolution of the car.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: What, no, jeffrey?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, surprisingly, stories about the evolution of the car.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: What is the world's best-selling car?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: How long would it take to drive to the moon?
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: What does the word car come from, and who invented the first turn signal?
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to tell you all about that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: So the world's first speeding ticket was issued in 1896 to Mr Walter Arnold of East Peckham, london.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: He was clocked doing an alarming 8 miles per hour, which is 12.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Hell, hell yeah 12 kilometers of his motorized vehicle four times the 2 mile an hour speed limit which was actually enforced.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: He was fined 1 shilling in order to pay 9 shillings in cost.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: And those are all the shillings.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: They look like a bunch of heathens.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you what the and those are all the shillings.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Those are the babies.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: They look like a bunch of heathens.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you what the invention of the windshield wiper.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: In 1903, an American woman named Mary Anderson.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: She was born in 1866 and died in 1953.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: But she invented the first windshield wiper.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Look at that, thank you, mary.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: You bet First automobile to reach sales of 30 million.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: That's million, million, million.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: According to the Guinness World Records, the Toyota Corolla was the first automobile in history to reach sales of 30 million.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: It's the best-selling car ever.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: That's a good-looking car.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: That's a JDM there.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Do you know that 95% of all cars' life is spent in a parked position?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: In some big cities it drops to about 92% due to the increased traffic and extended commuting time.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: The fact, on the average, your car only spends about 5% of its life running on the road is because it's parked overnight or in a parking lot during the day.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Front license plates We've got some behind me in the studio.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Some of these are rear license plates.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Laws regarding license plate displays vary significantly across the United States, with 29 states currently requiring both front and rear license plates, while the remaining 21 states necessitate only a rear plate.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: You didn't know that, did you?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I didn't Okay.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: And last one we have well, two ending I didn't Okay.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: And last one.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: We have well, two ending Jamming all day.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: The average driver will spend approximately 99 days of their life stuck in traffic.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Per year yeah.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, white is whiter than white.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: White remains the most popular color choice among car buyers worldwide.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: The reasons for this vary from the ease of maintenance and the color association with luxury, to its high visibility, the less likelihood of being involved in an accident.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: So there you go you didn't know that did you, you didn't I like, I like.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: No, you did because you can keep them cleaner.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Well, they don't show dirt as bad as a black car black cars clean.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Don't talk to me about a black car.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I know everything that there is to know about and there car and there's a reason you have one, because they look great but you have to clean on it a whole lot more than I have to do my white car Actually, no, I wish that car were silver or something other than black.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: To be honest with you.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I've had red ones silver ones, black ones?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if you can get it wrapped.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we're not doing mrap he's okay.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Mr mars, it's your turn for the review of the 2024.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Subaru brz.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Please go the 2024 brz ts.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: This is a new model or a new trim level that came out this year and this is actually the second generation of this vehicle.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: It was introduced in 2022 as the second gen uh comes in three trim levels premium, limited and again, the ts.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: It is a two-door sports car, it is rear-wheel drive, it's got the long front hood lines, it's got the TS, has the upgraded sports-tuned suspension on it and it's got the steering-responsive LED headlights so they kind of turn with you for your tracks or your nights out on the road LED daytime running lights, taillights, ts Bimbro brake package on this vehicle and it comes with some 2540 R18 summer performance tires rolling on aluminum 18-inch wheels.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Now, on the inside of this vehicle, it's got the 8-inch multi-screen system up front.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Now this is where you're going to find your nav, your convenience controls, your Apple CarPlay, android, all those good things.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: It has ultra-sway performance front seats, so they've got a little bit bigger, bolstering on them.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Again, this car is very track-oriented and so it all fits into all of it.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: The front seats are heated, however, and the rear seats are there.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: It comes with an eight-speaker audio system.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Well, they call them seats.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: They look like seats.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: One of my granddaughters called them seats as well.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: The other one said something else about them.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: But it does have an eight-speaker audio system.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: That to me, is rather retro 60s.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: It needs a little bit of help, considering all the wonderful things that are out there in technology.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: This one sounded a little weak as far as I was concerned Because it wouldn't help overcome the road noise.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: And we know that you're the audio aficionado.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Well, this vehicle, whenever you're driving it, it does have a lot of road noise on it, a lot of engine noise, because the 2.4 liter V inline, four-cylinder, 228 horsepower, 184 pound-feet of torque.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: We had the 6-speed manual transmission.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Now it doesn't have a tow rating but it will haul donkey.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Now it doesn't have a tow rating but it will haul donkey.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Now all these vehicles are all rear-wheel drive.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: The CPA says in the city you should be getting about 20 miles to the gallon on Highway 27 and combined 22.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I actually drove this vehicle 335 miles and got a 27.5 miles per gallon average on it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Not bad.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: And again, the TS is very performance-oriented.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: It is the trim and everything is oriented towards that, including the firm ride.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: It does ease up out on the highway at some kind of speeds.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: It kind of lines out a little bit later, I guess, because it's not riding so low on the road, because it's flying high.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: The base model price on this vehicle, if you're looking for one, is $3,131,315.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: The base trim price is $34,345.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: And as tested price it's $36,465.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Now, if you're looking for something to compare it to, the Toyota GR86 starts at $29,300 versus the $31,300 for this vehicle.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: The Mazda MX-5 is $2885 and the ford mustang was another one.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: That to me, is basically a two-door sports car 31 920.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: So if you're looking for that little sports car, ride and drive, uh, it's all right here in all, the pricing on these cars are all about the same and, as we talked about earlier, it could use a little more juice under the hood, but it's still a fun car to drive.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Cool.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Today's In Real Time Car Talk Show is sponsored by the group of original Loopy Tortilla restaurants in Houston, beaumont and College Station, also Gulf Coast Auto Shield and our friends over at Pro-Am Auto Accessories.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: We continue In Real Time right after this.
• 28:48
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• 28:57
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• 29:02
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• 29:29
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• 29:34
  Speaker 1: The Enreal Time Fall Tour begins Saturday, september 28th.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: At Woody's 6th Annual Waterfront Rod and Custom Car Show, there'll be awards for Best Truck Rat Rod, import Paint Engine Interior and Best of Show.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: It happens at the Topwater Grill in San Leon, texas, where the backdrop of Galveston Bay will be one for your car scrapbook.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Registration is $30 per car on site.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Visitors are free 8-4,.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Saturday, september 28th.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: It's Woody's 6th Annual Waterfront Rod and Custom Car Show at Topwater Grill in San Leon, texas.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 30:22
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• 30:32
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• 30:41
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