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Hemi Heaven: Exploring Rare Muscle Cars at the Fabuloso Hideout · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast From the fabuloso Hemi Hideout in Brookshire, texas, usa.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: It's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Just ahead, the Hovis Mopar collection.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: And you have not seen all of them?
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Nope, and we're about to show them to you.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Jeff has the crews in and events calendars and I'll bring you the stories making automotive news headlines this week.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, mars.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: We always need more, jeff Zekin.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Sometimes Our chief engineer, david Ainsley, has decided to join us today.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Usually he's sleeping in at this hour of the day.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: It's been a whirlwind of chaos here at the In Real Time show booth.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: We're going to blame it on the weather.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Are we set up to do it?
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: was raining.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Are we set up to do video pictures?
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm doing right now.
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: What do you want to do?
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Well, we start with one.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: How's that?
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Let's see if I can pull that puppy up.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, are you ready?
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: So, john, you know, started this John's a.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: He was 18 years of age in 1970.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: So he's got a special place in his heart for 70 model cars.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, so our first car today that we're going to discuss is the 1970 Dodge Superbee in the collection.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: Is it in here today?
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it is or not.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: I see a yellow car over there, but it may or may not be it.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Anyway, it's back there.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: It's called Banana Yellow exterior with a black interior.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: This has a 440 six-pack, 440 cubic inch V8, three two-barrel carburetors and the N96, not mask, but hood scoop, just thought I'd throw that out there Torque flight, automatic transmission, power steering and AC Power front disc brakes.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: And here's the real clincher on this car it's a numbers matching, one of only 599 built.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Numbers matching one of 599.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: So congratulations, john.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: I know that he put a lot of thought in his collection when he was buying all of these back in the day before this place was built.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: He had the collection in a barn here on the property.
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: Well, this has taken place of the barn, although I understand that the barn is still in use because not all the cars are inside the hideout to make room for people, tables, chairs and that sort of stuff.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, next up on the list is the 1970 Plymouth Superbird.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: Ooh-hoo.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: Now this one kind of changed the landscape of NASCAR, because it's got that big weird nose on the front of it and that great big sticks way above the roof line rear spoiler on it, along with plenty of power and everything.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: If you see this car in person, you go man, that's really weird looking.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: But, boy, I'll tell you what.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: It certainly got the attention of NASCAR because it won all of the races that it was in.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: It was truly amazing.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: And then they banned it.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they banned it.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: They tried to make some changes to accommodate it, but it didn't happen.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: And then it was kind of like the very first car that really worked on the aerodynamics of the cars and that really changed the landscape of NASCAR.
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: It did.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: The cars didn't look like that after they banned the car, clearly, but they started working about windshield rake the nose going into the wind at 200 miles an hour.
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: It changed the landscape.
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: And let's not forget the rear deck lid spoiler on the thing, and you know that thing is adjustable.
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it can also sit on it.
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: It holds the weight of a human.
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: Well, some humans.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: It holds the weight of a very small blonde in a bikini I've seen that.
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen anybody like.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: Dawn sit up there.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: That must be in that bikini.
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: You just didn't recognize me at the time.
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: It must be a younger you.
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: It's not mother-in-law proof, so it must have been a younger year.
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: It was a younger year.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: It's not mother-in-law proof.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: So here's the specs on this 440 cubic inch V8, 390 horsepower, three two-barrel carburetors, torque, flight, automatic transmission, power steering, power, front disc brakes Numbers matching John's, the second owner, one of only 277 440 six-pack Superbirds.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: There were a total of 1,840 Superbirds, made one for every dealership in America.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's how they did it.
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: That was the NASCAR rule at the time.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: Well, it was the NASCAR rule that you had to build 500.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: And they decided that we're going to give one to every dealership.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: Well, I thought NASCAR told them they had to 500.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: And they decided that we're going to give one to every dealership.
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: Well, I thought NASCAR told them they had to 500.
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: There's always 500 cars.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: Back in the day, that was the deal for any kind of car.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: You had to build 500 of them.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: That's why the old saying about you know, race on Sunday, sell on Monday.
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: True, there you go.
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: Yep, All right.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: Next up is the 1971 Plymouth Cuda.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: Now, this is John's favorite car.
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: He's told me that I don't know whether it still is, but I would imagine it would be.
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: If you've ever heard this car run, you go.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of get it.
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: It's painted sublime, Get it Sublime.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Sublime.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Pearl green exterior with a black interior.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: And here's the real kicker 528 cubic inch, all aluminum Hemi V8 with 739 horsepower, One four-barrel carburetor underneath the shaker hood scoop and a five-speed manual transmission with the pistol grip shifter.
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: I have a picture of Kathy and I standing in front of this car from years ago Probably from.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: That was the first car that we took to Autorama.
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: Autorama.
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: Yep, it's right over here.
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: I still have.
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: I got the picture on the wall, kathy and I standing in front of it.
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: We're all dressed to the nines.
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: And it got all the looks.
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: Yep, oh, we did.
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry, they were looking at the car to get to me.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: Narrowed four-link rear end power, r&p steering and AC power.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: Four-wheel disc brakes Pro Street RMS altercation front end with coilover shocks and 22-inch wide rear tires.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: It's tubbed.
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: It's yeah, that's the car, that's tubbed in here Doesn't have an LS it's got, a Hemi it's got a Hemi that thing got a Hemi in it, Mike Got an aluminum.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: Hemi and, by the way, if I didn't tell you already, hey, thanks for joining us today on the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: We're coming to you today from inside the Hemi hideout.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: Open you in.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: No children under 12, come on out.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: The money that you spend per person goes to charitable causes because it's doubled up by John.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: So you pay the 10, he'll give you 20 for the charity.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: All right, next up is the 1937 Plymouth pickup truck Green exterior and tan leather and suede interior he was born.
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, 360 cubic inch.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: V8, 255 horsepower, electronic fuel injection, torque, flight, automatic transmission, low car floor, shifter power, r&p steering and AC Is R&P.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: Is that a company I?
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: believe it is, I believe it is Okay.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: Front power disc brakes, all steel custom-built street rod Mustang II front suspension.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: Plymouth was the last company to build pickups and the first to stop building pickups.
• 7:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look at the airbag sensor on the front, the bumper, yeah, I don't think that's what that is can I point something out with this?
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the folks that are watching this uh on the broadcast, look at all the background behind these, these vehicles.
• 8:11
  Speaker 3: Look at the walls with all the the neon and all the the pictures and all the memorabilia.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: That's the real show there as well it is yeah, yeah, because once john had the collection put in place, then he goes.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: You, I sure do like those signs.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he started filling up the hemohyde on the signs which you'll be able to see throughout the broadcast today.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, next up the 1969 Dodge Coronet RT.
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: Right there Sitting right here, right next door to us.
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's right there, over to the left.
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: And I'll have to apologize to John because I keep drooling on it.
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: Is that what those?
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: stains are.
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: So white exterior with a black bumblebee stripe and a black interior 528 cubic inch Hemi, V8, 650 horsepower.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: Nice Three two-barrel carburetors.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to tune a multi-carbureted car?
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: I've never driven one.
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: It is a real pain.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: I can tell you that You've got to have actually an airflow meter that you stick on top of the carburetor to see what kind of air it's pulling in and that's only the air side of it.
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: Then you've got to fiddle with it to get the gasoline side.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: Three two-barrel carburetors liftoff, fiberglass hood, torque, flight, automatic transmission, power, steering power, four-wheel disc brakes originally a 444 barrel, one of only 99 built rms altercation front end with coilover shocks only 99 and, by the way, I failed to mention.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: it's a convertible too.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is one bad to the bone car.
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: I've only seen one other, and it was the same thing.
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: They took a 440 Cornette and put a Hemi in it, but it was a convertible red, black, I mean it's what they call a resto mod today.
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: See, that's a rag top.
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: I mean not necessarily a rag top, but you need something like that.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: There are plenty of cars in the collection in here, and the one that I want is the one that's next to it.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: But we'll get to that.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: Let me just check and see where we are here on time.
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: We're doing fine Alright.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: Next up is the 1970 Dodge Challenger RT Pink Panther exterior.
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: See, that's one I would have thought Don would win after.
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, bubble gum Barbie yeah.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: You know, I just don't have the matching pumps for that one, but I'll find them somewhere.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Black interior 500 cubic inch, all aluminum V8, 690 horsepower.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: Wow, Three two-barrel carburetors John is really into that Three two-barrel carburetors.
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: John is really into that Three, two-barrel, yeah, the six, what?
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: they call the six-pack Shaker hood scoop.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: Four-speed manual transmission, pistol grip shifter, power steering and AC power front disc brakes One of only five pink stripe challengers, Originally a 440 six-pack custom RMS altercation front suspension.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: Wow, he's like me, I like those restomods, yeah.
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: I do too, Don't get me wrong.
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: I appreciate numbers-matching original cars I got that but I'm drawn to the restomods.
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: Well, sometimes you can't have all that and you want the vehicle, but you didn't find the car with all the numbers matching, so you've got to adapt.
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I want to drive it.
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: If it was a numbers car to me, like if that was a matching car, I'd be hard-pressed to drive it very much on the street, Just because you know the value of it.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: Some little old lady run a red light or something and T-bone it.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: That happens all the time, well, I know it.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: That light or something and t-bone it, it happens all the time, well, I know it.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: That's the reason I wouldn't, but the rest of my it's not quite jackie hansen's nova eggs.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: There's a good example yeah, beautiful car left a car show.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: Somebody ran into it, yeah, popped the whole front end of it.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: It was bad.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, up next.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: Hmm, the 1966 plymouth belvedere ohere bright red exterior, black interior, 426 cubic inch Hemi V8, 425 horsepower, dual 4 barrel carburetors, dual 4 barrels oh my god.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: 4 speed manual transmission 10,000 mile unrestored car numbers matching 2 owner, original.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: One of only 284 built Now.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: That's a rare car.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: That's a rare car 10,000 miles of it Unrestored.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: There it is, two, four barrels.
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: You wouldn't admit you couldn't fit the third one in there.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: I guess not.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: Look at it.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: Got the wedge in there, I guess.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: Oh my, anyway, coming up next we have the plymouth 1937 plymouth coupe that's right there too, nine color chameleon color shifting exterior with a gray interior.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: This one has a supercharged Hemi V8 turning out 800 horsepower through a 671 blower and dual four-barrel carburetor.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: God Torque flight, automatic transmission, ratchet shifter.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: I don't even know how you would drive that.
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: That'd be a first car for a college student.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for about five minutes, until they put it into a tree, go down the road.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Ratchet shifter, power R&P steering and AC and power front disc brakes.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: Custom-built Pro Street Mustang II front suspension.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Narrowed rear with coilovers.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: Narrowed rear meaning it's got Tubbed.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: It's tubbed.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, got some big need under there, yep.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Wagyu Up next I love this thing A 1947 Dodge Power Wagon.
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: It could be an in-wheel time machine.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: It could be.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: This thing is so fine I can't even begin to tell you.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: And to open and close the door, you go.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, it's a Norge refrigerator.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, it is solid man.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Green and black exterior with black interior.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: And this is another part that I really like about it 230 cubic inch flathead, six cylinder, 94 horsepower.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Four speed manual transmission.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: My guess is it probably has that granny first.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Four wheel drive, fully restored, two-time National Power Wagon Nationals.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Best in Show winner Scored 996 points out of 1,000.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Amazing.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: That truck is truly an amazing thing.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's beautiful.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Go down to the feed store and put some grain in there.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Don't put anything, don't in there, don't put anything, don't touch it, don't touch it.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: And if you're going to ride in it, put some of those spandex pants on because I don't want you scratching the interior.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, again.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Again.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, Up next we've got the 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Now the convertible in violet.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Is it violet, Can you tell?
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Plymouth Roadrunner.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: Now the convertible in violet.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: Is it violet, can you tell?
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: Kind of Because the pink one's next to it.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: All right, well, I don't know.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Are these in order?
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Whatever, this is good.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Exterior with a white interior, 440 cubic inch V8, 390 horsepower, three two-barrel carburetors again Air grabber hood yeah, it's got that.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Three two-barrel carburetors again Air grabber hood yeah, it's got that.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Torque flight, automatic transmission, power steering, power front disc brakes Numbers matching One of 34 convertibles made with this engine combo, and only two of those were in this color combination.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Wow, stolen and then recovered after 25 years underwater on a river bottom.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: No way.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Wow, that way.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's a story.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know what that would look like once you pulled it out of there.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: After 25 years Swiss cheese.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Fresh water, yeah, but it doesn't have the air.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: And if it gets a good covering of silt on it, I really don't think.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: If you look at some of them they pulled out when they find these bodies and stuff Do you know what happens when you die.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: You don't live anymore, yeah.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Well, you probably just kind of melt away into nothing, and that's what that would be like I'm going to be stuffed.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Stuffed, I'm going to be stuffed.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, john's got a place right over there in the corner, I'm going to be behind the steering wheel.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: All right, last car for this segment because we're going to carry it over to the top of the next hour, when John can join us.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: This is a 1970 Superbee Go Mango exterior with black bumblebee stripe with black interior, 426 cubic inch Hemi, v8.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: You notice he doesn't give any miles per gallon on this.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: No 425 for his smiles.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 425 horsepower, dual, four barrels.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Carburetors N96, ram, air hood, torque, flight, automatic transmission, power steering, power, front disc brakes numbers matching original.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Get this One.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Of only 32 engine color combos made, wow, only four known to still exist in the Chrysler registry, and this one is one of them.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: That's it, wow, isn't that cool, yeah, okay, so I've got more and we're going to get to those after a break.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: No, we're not.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: We're going to pause the run-through on these.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, what number is this one?
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: The one that's coming up?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: The one that's coming up will be car number 12.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, so we're going to get out of this for now.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: We're going to get out of this for now because we need to take a quick break here and we've got some other stuff we've got to get done, including the cruise in and events calendars and the headlines.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, hey, we hope you're going to join us on the Hot Rod Tour of Texas.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: More of that coming up.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars coming up and I'll have the stories making automotive news headlines this week.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the award-winning In Real Time Car Talk Show, coming to you today from the Hemi Hideout in Brookshire, texas.
• 17:53
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• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, hey, I want to remind you again about the upcoming Hot Rod Tour of Texas.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: We're going to go on it and we'll be broadcasting on the Saturday of April 26th from the Spindletap Brewery right here in Houston up on the city's north side.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I bet you've never heard of it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I bet you've never been there.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: We invite you to join us.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Heard of it?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I'll bet you've never been there.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: We invite you to join us.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: It's a very different place and a bizarre location that you'd never guess in a million years, but it's really a cool place.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: That's a real honest-to-God brewery.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: You're going to love it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I promise you that.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us today here on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Time now for the cruise in and events calendars Jeffrey.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Are we sponsored by anybody?
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: No.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, Just making sure We've got next weekend Wharton Cruise Nights.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: You can sponsor us, though, if you'd like.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sponsored by Need More Jeff.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Saturday night hang out with the old and new friends with their cars, bikes, trucks, all that good stuff.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Bring a tricycle, they don't care.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: From 6 pm to whenever it's the Wharton cruise night at Domino's pizza, 309 East bowling highway in Wharton, texas.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Again from 6.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Pm until whenever at the Pete at the Domino's pizza.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Then you got octane and espresso.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: That's the speed advocates.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: We'll be hosting this event.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: It's every second Sunday of every month at the black rifle coffee company in Copperfield, texas, 7086 highway six North.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: And then we've got one next weekend.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: We're supposed to have some Mustang people here.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: We've got a Mustang event going on next week.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Again, snakes and stangs, all Ford cars.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Snakes and stangs.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: You've got to say that with a little bit of a drawl, don't you?
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I think David could do that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: David's got a snakes and stangs, that's it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Have you seen David's snakes?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: and stangs.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Anyways, have you seen David's?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Snakes and Stains, anyways.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: That's from 5 to 9, tailgate Party at the Hallmark University.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: It's a car show it is in.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Where is that one going on?
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: It's in the Hill Country.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: It's in San Antonio.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: So if you're going to go out there, it's a poker run.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: They've got all kinds of stuff People's Choice Awards, kids' Event and all that good stuff.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Mike sent me this one 21st Annual Corvettes and Crawfish.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Mike, do you want to take that one?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: That's AJ Lupo, the Corvette Club down, Loop, loop, loop loop.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Not Lupo.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Lupo's my neighbor, it's.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Loop, loop.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is benefiting Texas EquiSearch.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: They do this twice a year.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: This spring happens to be their Crawfish event.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: What day is this?
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: This is on next Saturday, the 12th.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's coming up pretty quick, so it's only seven days out.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: So be sure to check it out and it's a great.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: It's a good event.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: It has lots of fun.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: We went down there recently, good, and it's the Space City Corvette Club.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: On Facebook and on the Internet you can find out more information there.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, All right time.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Now I want to get some of news stories in it, Obviously the one that the elephant in the room, so to speak.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's a Mopar elephant.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I got the elephant in the room.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: President, donald Trump has imposed a 25% tariff on imported vehicles.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: In all likelihood, consumers will not see a 25% hike.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: That's because of complex factors, including the amount of non-US content in each vehicle, automaker calculus, dealer decision-making and loan agreements.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Cox Automotive, for example, predicts a 2.8% year-over-year increase in wholesale vehicle prices in 2025.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Black Book projects a 5% increase in the average transaction price this year.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Morgan Stanley predicts the tariffs will boost the average price of a vehicle by 11% or 12%.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: So don't panic, be calm.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Hang on, man Be happy Are you crazy.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Don't worry the projections recognize that the tariff is not applied to the manufacturer's suggested retail price and that the industry relies on sometimes labyrinth systems to calculate the vehicle's cost.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: The price of the vehicle is determined using a cocktail of market research, bills of materials, financial agreements, institution and other elements.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Even more variability enters the picture in the dealership lot, where prices vary widely by region, timing, personal relationships and the way buyers settle up with the retailer a separate business from the automaker.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Are you following all of this?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: We talked about this with our guest last week.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it sounds like a bunch of lawyers sitting around, so automakers export vehicles from the foreign facilities and calculate the transaction value of the import.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Us Customs and Border Protection defines the transaction value as quote the price actually paid or payable for the merchandise when sold for exportation to the United States.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: End quote Plus packing costs, commission royalties or license fees or resale proceeds that go to the seller.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Importers have to explain the declared transaction value to the government Even if an actual sale does not take place.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: As in the case of foreign automakers with domestic subsidiaries, companies follow rules from the Treasury to calculate the transaction value of goods going across the border.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: The rules rely on a principle that transactions be valued as if two unrelated entities were involved.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: For vehicles imported from outside of Canada and Mexico, the automakers who are the importers will be paying the government 25% of the total transaction value.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: For imports from Canada and Mexico which are captured by the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement I know you've heard about that Automakers will be given the opportunity to certify their US content and systems will be implemented such as that 25% tariff.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: It will only apply to the value of their non-US content, according to Trump's March 26th executive offer.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Jeez, like I said last week, it's not just 25%.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: You can't do it that way.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: That's why I said to you about these guesses as to how much the price of a car is going to go up 2.8%, 5%, 11 or 12%.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Not the 25%, because cars aren't made like they used to in our era.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: All of the stuff wasn't produced here in the United States.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Even cars that are actually assembled here in the United States, they get glass.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: It's really just assemblies.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: That's correct.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Actually, there's only one.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: The Toyota Corolla which I'm driving out there is built in Mississippi and the panels the body panels are actually stamped at that assembly facility.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: That's the only one that I know of, because usually the body panels are stamped somewhere else and then they get sent to the assembler, a different kind of factory to do all that.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: It's a bizarre labyrinth of stuff that you just never know really what's going on.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I've got more of this to tell you about.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Automotive News put that together and I thought that kind of really tries to explain it because it's difficult to understand.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Well, the good news is Jeff's got a camera going on the Hemi hideout, so they've got something to look at while we talk about all this nastiness, nastiness.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, we just wanted to.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: You know, give him a shot.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: You don't have that isolated camper that's focused in on you.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: No, we didn't bring it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: We didn't bring it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: You forgot it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I left it at David's house.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: David's house, where he's using it for other things.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Mmm, there is that.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Let me write down what time it is, so we'll know what the FCC says.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Well at least it's not the FAA.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: True, all right.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Or the CIA, I've got lots of papers here.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Have you noticed that?
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: I've really been Every week.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: You get more and more.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Well, I know, are you recycling or what?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: No, I wanted to do the the Hemi Hideout cars and it was very stressful.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I started working on this last Monday because not all of the cars show up on the Hemi Hideout website.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Right, so Shelly had to come out here and take some pictures of the cars that are not in here today, but they're in the barn and the other barn.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a process.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you Well, you did good Well the show's not over yet.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: It was very interesting.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Don't mess it up.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Well, I've already done that.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Coming up at the top of the hour hey, we'd love to hear from you.
• 28:23
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• 28:27
  Speaker 1: We are back after this quick break.
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• 30:05
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