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DIY Car Modifications, Slot Car Racing, and the Future of Cadillac in NASCAR · In Wheel Time Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In-Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In-Wheel Time car show that airs live every Saturday morning, 8-11am Central From Christmas car headquarters in Texas, usa.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: It's the In-Wheel Time car talk show.
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  Speaker 1: Just ahead we're going to talk to Sean Lucas, author of Driveway Modding Warrior.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: I like driveway mods.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Remember those slot cars he used to have as a kid?
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Well, I had one.
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  Speaker 1: I did too.
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  Speaker 1: I was only one, because they were expensive.
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyway, Jeff's got a feature on slot cars and participating in league racing and all the good stuff that we had.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: Jeff has a feature on them and later we talk Christmas gifts for the enthusiast with John Rawson from Pro-Am Auto Accessories.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Conrad has the car clinic and as always, we look at the auto news headlines.
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  Speaker 1: This week Just ahead on the In-Wheel Time car talk show, howdy along with Mike out of this World, mars King, conrad along.
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  Speaker 1: We always need more.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Seekin, I'm Don Armstrong.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of joining us, we have joining us from Merry Old England.
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  Speaker 1: We have Mr Sean Lucas.
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  Speaker 1: Sean, good morning to you and thanks for joining us this.
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  Speaker 1: Well for you it's not so early, it's a nice afternoon Time for tea.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a pleasure to be here with you once again and, yes, it's always time for tea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were just talking off the air there a little bit ago.
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  Speaker 1: I think we had you on once before, about a year, about a year ago.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And what was the subject then?
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  Speaker 3: So that chat last year this time last year was driveway detailing warrior, detailing warrior, which was about detailing your ride, and this is obviously modding your ride, modding, modding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so modifications to your ride and In the driveway.
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  Speaker 4: In the driveway, yeah, DIY.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, so let's just get right into it.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of mods do you feel that we can do in the driveway that are easy to do besides changing hubcaps?
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  Speaker 3: All sorts guys, all sorts of mods you can do in the drive you.
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  Speaker 3: The book describes in detail my 10 favorite driveway mods, some of which involve lifting the car, some don't.
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  Speaker 3: So first thing to do is get yourself a basic toolkit, which most petrol heads would have anyway.
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  Speaker 3: But you would be surprised what you can achieve on the driveway, and with really good quality too.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, there's so many modifications.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I could, I can think of a dozen of them, even wheels.
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  Speaker 1: You know you can.
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  Speaker 1: You can change your wheels right there in the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: Just take it up to the, to the tire store, have the old tires dismounted and then mounted to new wheels, that's.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pretty easy one to do.
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  Speaker 5: We know someone that's done that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we do, yours truly just did that last week, as a matter of fact.
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  Speaker 4: I did my Yukon in the driveway when, before sent it off to college with Austin, put a leveling kit on it.
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  Speaker 4: You know cause typically the GM trucks are a little high in the back, so I just put new rear springs on.
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  Speaker 4: It was actually kind of easy to do.
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  Speaker 4: I did it in the driveway.
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  Speaker 3: Surprised myself.
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  Speaker 3: You can change them, guys, of course, or you can refurbish them, change the color, change the finish, and you can do all of that yourself at home.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and it's funny you can.
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  Speaker 3: You'd be surprised at what a great result you can achieve.
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  Speaker 1: And you know it makes the car look completely different.
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  Speaker 1: I had a 1954 Chevrolet pickup truck.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I did a three quarter ton with a shifted yourself kind of gearbox in it that had a granny first gear in it.
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  Speaker 1: They were so low it was pretty much worthless.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever it was, it was dumpy and what I did was I got a.
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  Speaker 1: Don't laugh, we didn't use spray cans back then.
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  Speaker 1: I should have, but I had a can I think a quart can of gloss black paint, and so painted the wheels with a brush and then the snap ring that was on those particular wheels you know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I painted that white.
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  Speaker 1: The tire was black.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the whole truck looked completely different.
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  Speaker 1: Beauty rings, they call those beauty rings.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they weren't beauty rings back then.
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  Speaker 1: They were actually part of the wheel and they snapped onto the actual wheel itself, because there was no way that you could get the tires on without beating them on, and so they had that.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a split rim, a split split ring on it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's actually pretty dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 1: They're terribly dangerous.
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  Speaker 4: That's why they have those cages and some of those tire places Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't change that, All I did was paint it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, there was no way I was going to paint your wheels.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, wow, of course, remember I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was probably 13, 14 years old, oh, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't have spray cans, they didn't have aerosol cans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did, but I couldn't afford it and I found a can of gloss black paint and painted it with a brush.
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  Speaker 1: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: It was a truck, yeah 50, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: If it made you happy, why not?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and it did.
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  Speaker 5: So what is the most popular mod that you see?
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  Speaker 2: The people can do in the drive.
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  Speaker 3: It has to be the wheels.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you can absolutely transform your ride by refurbishing the wheels.
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  Speaker 3: You know how it goes, guys, with the problem with curbing and curb rash.
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  Speaker 3: It can really ruin the look of your ride.
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  Speaker 3: But with a bit of time and endeavor you can really really bring them up and make them look brand new.
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  Speaker 3: Change the color, change the finish.
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  Speaker 3: It makes a hell of a difference.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, sure, and the way that spray can paints are now.
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  Speaker 1: If you're adept at that sort of thing, I think that you can have a pretty good result in the end.
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  Speaker 1: But you've got to take your time and really know how to do it.
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  Speaker 4: And now they have that little color ring you can put on your wheel to help for curb so you don't scratch it on the curb.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and also the shaker cans or the paint cans have evolved and developed better over the years.
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  Speaker 5: So it's not like it used to be in the day where you get the globs coming out and didn't work all the time.
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  Speaker 5: So that's evolved.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, ok, so what's another popular mod?
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  Speaker 1: I guess some interior stuff too as well.
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  Speaker 3: Racing stripe on the bonnet always adds 20 brake horsepower On the bonnet.
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  Speaker 1: On the bonnet.
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  Speaker 3: yes, exactly, Painting your brake calipers can really compare as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, people do that, yes.
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  Speaker 3: That's easily done on the driveway and then you've got the decroaming.
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  Speaker 3: You probably noticed a lot of the modern cars have this rather unpleasant fake chrome and a lot of modders like to make those matte black or satin black and I think that looks nice.
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  Speaker 3: You can do that at home.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what the most important mod that I think there is that guys Tell me?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's modifying your driving skill.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, ok.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, chapter 9 in the book is Mod the Modder talks about the thrilling process of undertaking driver tuition on a track day.
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  Speaker 3: So when you go down to your local race track in your own car, you have tuition about how to drive rapidly but safely and there's a whole chapter on that, about how you prepare your car, how you get down to the race track and have driving tuition.
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  Speaker 3: It's absolutely thrilling and I'm sure some of you guys have done that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: And what you learn on the track will 100% make you a faster, safer driver on the public roads as well.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt, yeah, and you know Get a coach to ride the car with here.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of tell you what you're doing, right and wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that also makes it fantastic fun guys.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes a great Christmas gift too, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Buy a ticket for your friend to go down there husband, wife, girlfriend, whatever to go down to, for instance, msr.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, I think Richard's talked about that.
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  Speaker 4: They have the Mercedes dealership sponsors MSR and they got a bunch of Mercedes that you can go out with a coach and you can do it that way or take your own car, like he's suggesting.
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  Speaker 3: And what petrolhead wouldn't love a gift like that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you've got.
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  Speaker 3: What do we look at?
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  Speaker 3: We look at tinting your tail lights, making them a little darker.
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  Speaker 3: That modernizes the look of the car very effectively.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's regulations for that.
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  Speaker 5: You can't always get them that dark.
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  Speaker 5: No, we're talking subtle mods.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, we're not talking black, we're not talking about Don's black can of paint.
• 9:44
  Speaker 5: Well, there are car covers for lights and headlights and things that people put on to make the aesthetics during the day but you have to take them off at night.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: No, you can.
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  Speaker 3: You can control how dark you go by how many coats of smoke you use.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think that really modernizes the back end.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it certainly gives it a different look.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah and so, yeah, there's.
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  Speaker 3: There's loads of little projects you can do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's another one Call there insects.
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  Speaker 1: I had this done a couple years ago now.
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  Speaker 1: I had LEDs put on the Corvette.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, yeah, and boy did it improve things a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You can do that in the driveway yourself by the kit and go for it.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty easy and the instructions are pretty easy as well.
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  Speaker 4: Just take some time.
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  Speaker 4: The cold air intakes are probably easy enough to do in the driveway.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, you did the shi-, the ripper shifter or the hearth shifter.
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, pistol grip shifter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I put the pistol grip in there, jeff helped me and, well, actually Jeff did most of the work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so at any rate, you know, get it, get a buddy with you and make a day of it and cook some hot dogs and you're good to go.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds great.
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  Speaker 1: Or a pint of beer or a frover there.
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  Speaker 3: Pints of lager.
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  Speaker 1: Lager.
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  Speaker 3: Lager.
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  Speaker 3: That's right Sounds great.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's something you know.
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  Speaker 4: We've talked to different car clubs and everybody kind of go over to one guy's house and they'll help him mod his car as a car club and you know, you get five or six guys all the sudden.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, they do a lot of things to a car in one afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: Jason used to do that, his buddies.
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  Speaker 5: They would go to one house for one weekend and then go to another house for another weekend, and that's how you got your stuff done.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did that.
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  Speaker 3: with that it's important to sorry guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's important to remember, though, that you can, that subtle, tasteful mods can definitely increase the value of the car, but if you get it wrong, you can also diminish the value.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 3: So you know you've got to read up on the book, and subtle is the way for what I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind.
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  Speaker 1: You know, here in Texas trucks are huge.
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  Speaker 4: And a gun rack in the back window.
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  Speaker 4: That's that subtle.
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  Speaker 1: That's subtle.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: But lift kits, trailer hitches, rock rails with steps that bolt on.
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  Speaker 4: Lighting, upgrades, winches, yep, all of that stuff is forgot about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know big bright kicks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many different things that you can do.
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  Speaker 1: Map it out over the year and you know if you're going to go with a big, expensive one.
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  Speaker 1: Got plenty of time to save up.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm going to get this done by next Christmas and, you know, invite everybody over to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's one advantage of doing that is I get to go over to somebody else's house and learn how to do something on their car before I mess it up on my car.
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  Speaker 4: And the smart person is going to bring somebody over that knows what they're doing and everybody gets educated on it.
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: You hear about that with the Jeep people.
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  Speaker 5: All the time the smart person invites somebody over with the beer.
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  Speaker 4: The beer and the jewels, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because it goes a lot quicker.
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  Speaker 1: That way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the book focuses on projects that the average petrolhead can do themselves Using day to day hand tools.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a hydraulic trolley jack, a torque wrench.
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  Speaker 3: You can do most, most jobs with basic everyday tools.
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  Speaker 1: And you know the other thing is too.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned a torque wrench.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: They're a lot cheaper now than they used to be.
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  Speaker 1: But if you don't even want to do that, you could probably rent one at your local advanced auto parts or the parts store.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Auto parts store usually has tools available, yeah.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Like a torque wrench.
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, 25 pounds these days, guys, for a decent torque wrench that will keep.
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  Speaker 3: Will you look after it?
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: Will keep going for years.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you, george Skelton, for supplying me with that, that's not foot pounds.
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  Speaker 4: That's regular pounds is in British money.
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  Speaker 3: That was the same thing, there's that.
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  Speaker 3: News from me Newton meters or foot pounds, guys, no, newton meters, yeah, we, as a matter of fact, a Cadillac has taken up the use of Newton meters instead of three years yeah, well, or instead of cubic inches or leaders or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, we got the Cadillac CTS 350, but it's 350 Newton meters of torque, yeah, yeah.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're all metric over here.
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, we know it's totally confused.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Everybody yeah, totally confused everybody over here yeah.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Well, in the book I convert all my Newton meter measurements to foot pounds as well.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got your back, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Thank, you, thank you so much, how long?
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  Speaker 1: Did it take you to write this book?
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  Speaker 3: Six months.
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  Speaker 4: And is this a lot of stuff that you've personally done?
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  Speaker 3: I've done everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've done all of the projects.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't write about something that I hadn't done myself.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of car?
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  Speaker 1: Did you do Photos along the way?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of car?
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  Speaker 3: did you do these?
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  Speaker 1: mods on.
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  Speaker 3: I did them on my Mark 7 VW Golf and on my 987 Porsche Cayman.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Oh OK.
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  Speaker 4: Fun car?
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: I have no idea what those are.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: I know the golf, but I don't know the other one, the Porsche.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Cayman, oh, the Porsche Cayman oh.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: Cayman OK.
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  Speaker 3: Leveled below the 911.
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  Speaker 3: Two seater, yeah.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly Great great fun, great fun.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: So where do we find the book?
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  Speaker 3: You will find the book on Amazon, yes, or on all the Amazon territories Amazon USA, amazon Canada, everywhere else.
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  Speaker 4: Signed it on our social media and on the bookselling page on Amazon.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: guys, you can use the look inside feature to browse the introduction and chapter one, so you can try it before you buy it.
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  Speaker 2: A little interview there, or what could be better there you?
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: go.
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  Speaker 1: Preview of it.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Well, sean, it's great talking to you and we really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us about Driveway Modding Warrior by Sean Lucas.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Likewise, so you're looking for something for your automotive enthusiasm?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Go out to Amazon and check his book out.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, you still got time to get it, and you can also go and get yourself a pint of beer.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: It's two o'clock in the afternoon over there, lager, lager, lager.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Well, he's in the loggers.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Well, it's 816 here.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: We could do the same thing.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: We could yeah.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have one now.
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  Speaker 1: Ok, sean, great talking to you.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: You us too.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: All right, sean Lucas, author of Driveway Modding Warrior.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Hey, if you'd like to get in touch with us, shoot us an email.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Our address here is info at inwheeltimecom, or not.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Racing.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: You know, we made a mistake a couple of weeks ago.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: No by saying yeah.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: We did no by saying the racing season is over.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Well, it's over for most of the professional, well-known series Series, yeah, but not so much for some of the smaller stuff.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you know, the winged warriors that do the dirt track stuff, yep.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: And so we have to kind of make a dividing line in which ones we're going to announce and talk about, find the balance, yeah, and we typically don't talk about the local short track stuff, although there's fewer and fewer of them every year, it seems.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of turmoil going on with change of drivers, teams and all that stuff.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Formula One's got a lot of stuff going on, a lot of stuff going on in NASCAR.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah so and in NHRA yeah.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: You see where Leah Pruitt has said I think I'm going to stay back and have babies, and so her husband Tony's going to jump in the top fuel.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: I kind of saw that coming.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but he was not the first choice to fill the seat.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: No, he wasn't, Somebody else was and they backed out yeah, and Tony said home of beer.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Watch this.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Exactly so.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: There's a.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: There's that going on.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Well, as far as racing goes.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: The other thing is what's going on in IMSA.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: So Chevrolet, the GTLM series has ended, so the Chevrolet sponsorship of Corvette has ended in, like the 24 hours of Daytona and stuff.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Now there'll still be some Corvettes racing, but they're going to be a privateer cars now, as opposed to the, the ever dominant Corvette racing.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: But you know, what I find interesting with all of that is the fact that looks like General Motors is putting a lot of effort, or a lot more effort, into the Cadillac stuff racing yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: They got my letter Finally, yeah, and so actually I'm kind of excited about that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm excited to see if they finally get it all put together to go F1 racing, which looks like they will.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: They can get all the whiny babies to complain.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you something.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Total Wolf Let me just.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Let me just throw this out there.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: You know, the Chevrolet Camaro production ended this week.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Done, okay, so now what are we going to use for NASCAR?
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: For NASCAR, how about a Cadillac?
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: CT5.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: What do you think?
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: I don't think they'll get Cadillac in.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I don't remember.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I don't know if Cadillac may have run some cars back in the 50s and 60s no, not a nasty car.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Probably not Once they got off the beach.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I think that that was pretty much over with, because Cadillac got that big floaty big thing going down the road.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Well, cadillac has, you know taken a different street these days, got the big chrome horn up front with the Dagmars, with the Dagmars on it, of course, man, you see it, you've got.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: You've got the Toyota Camry, you've got the Ford Mustang and you got an Escalade.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, escalade.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: For the truck series Anyway.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't think, I don't think it'll be Cadillac, I don't think.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: That that's not their market and still comes down to money.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Now they could get out and play in the F1 and the road course.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: So what are they going to do?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Is it going to hang on to the Camaro for next year?
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they get a couple of three years of grace of body styles for the future.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: You know, you got to think it happens to Erica and her Camaro in NASCAR, in NHRA as well.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: What are they going to do?
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: I truly believe that they have been building that Ford program with the Quadras all along to let Erica move into a Ford.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Hmm, Interesting.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: All right Time now for our feature this hour that's speaking of racing.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Speaking of racing, jeff has a feature on slot cars.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: For slot cars, I do.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Yep, well, and this is because it's winter time.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: What do you do in the winter?
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Some people go skiing.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Not everybody can afford that.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Bowling.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Bowling is another one, an indoor sport, and people at home did this and they did it in my uh, ice fishing, yeah, ice fishing.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, physical ice fishing.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Long before the popularity of racing cars, uh, racing video games, the slot car craze in the 60s and 70s had young people and their parents obsessed with racing scale models.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Uh, in the 60s, home versions of the slot car racing tracks were available, but that wasn't uh the only place to race.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: You could find places all over the U?
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: S where you could go racing.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: You're, if you had a car, you could do that.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Uh, you could set up a track at home.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: But in the 60s there were about 2700 places across the country you could do this.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Large slot car tracks built to accommodate racers in hobby shops and places build themselves as little mini raceways.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: You had to pay to go in.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: There was an hourly fee, much like.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: You guys know that uh.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Uh, have a slot car.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Uh, you could also rent one is basically like a bowling alley was down.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Just said you've got different controllers, you got pistol grips, you got manually, uh, regulated finger grips and things.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: The newer grips have push button and thumbs and all that good stuff.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: While the physical activity required to drive a slot car was limited, racing scale models went from zero speeds to a hundred miles an hour per scale in a split second, and that was required.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Like real racing, you go fast as you possibly can, uh you, full speed down the straightaway.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Slow down in the turn.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Can you make the turn?
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Can you get through the turn?
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Can you get the drift without flying off the track?
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: That was a big problem in 1963.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: The U S championship slot car racing was live on TV.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Where was it, mike?
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: It was on the tonight show with Johnny Carson.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: That's how popular it was.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: How funny, I didn't know that.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: However, the popularity of racing card decelerated quickly.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: It slowed down in the seventies with the advent of all the electronic toys, personal computers, video games.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: You didn't really slow down.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: But along comes COVID and people, uh, wanted to bring something back.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Parents thought what did they do when they stayed home?
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Well, they, when they were young.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: So they introduced the kids to slot car racing.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: The physical experience of slot car racing is different than racing on a video game.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: It's a communal experience.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Rather than sitting in front of a TV screen playing alone, this is having a group of friends playing racing games with the family.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: The new generation of Carrera tracks, which is actually called Carrera Revelle Americas, who owns the big operation of these tracks?
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Uh, to include updated scale models for the racing enthusiasts and tailored for little home kits and things.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: I had one, don had one, there are one, two, three, four.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: There's like six different scales, ho, all the way up to one 18th scale.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: With one 18th, they're like 10 inches to 12 inch cars.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Now you, how much do we do this?
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Well, back in the day don't know how much it is right now, but back in the day eight bucks would get you track time for an hour If you didn't have a car.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: You could spend 12 bucks and they'll let you run a car and you still have the same track time.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Now, if you wanted to go competitive racing, 750 for an hour and you get 30 minutes of open practice, eight heats which last about three to five minutes.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: So not only that in slot car racing, but you have dragsters as well.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: And the cars were extremely customizable you know a lot of the cars would come as a clear body and you'd paint this yourself.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Yup, and you painted the inside, inside.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Well, they had that nice shiny finish when you got finished, and then all the different modifications you could do as far as motor and tires.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, well, the brushes, little motors, how they're wired.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: The more wiring, the faster you go and, as you saw in some of the pictures there, two, four, six or eight lane tracks.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Two were the home, four were more of a commercial and you go to eight, sometimes 10, depending on how it was and there was a slot car track up in the Cypress area for a number of years.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: I think it has since closed, I think there were two.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: There was one actually down in Sugarland, but it was a small, small little hobby.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Stop hobby shop.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: And I'm sure the hobby shop.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: That's why they had the tracks was, because that's they were the ones selling the product Right.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It was the revenue stream as well as getting people in there.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, some guys would show up with like little tackle boxes and they'd have their cars all in the deals.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: They'd have tires and you know, it was like it wasn't a little tackle box.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: They brought the big right yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that was the guys that had no money to put some serious money it looked like Mars is stuff over here.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Exactly, I showed up with my car in my shirt pocket and that was about it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: My car was, I guess, about that big.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know what size that was.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Um, I only had one.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: The HO were two and a half inches to three inches long, that's the size of a matchbox.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: The 1.43 scale was 4.3 inches long, right around four inches long.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: The 132nd scale was five inches to six inches and then the 124 was seven inches to eight inches and then the one 18th scale was the 10 to 12 inches.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: The bigger.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: You went on this, like the 132nd up to the 118th, those things would fly there was two point being dangerous More bigger tracks and more right longer tracks they were wider.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Exactly and truly, the aerodynamics of the body style you chose had an impact on the performance of the car.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think they were put them in wind tunnels.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, but they were, they were.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: A lot of those bodies were designed after real car, race cars and stuff.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: So those, those aerodynamic tendencies were brought to those.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Some of them were bodied over the wheels and tires, others weren't there.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Open wheel.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: No, there's a bunch of information out there on this on the internet, so check it out, go do it.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you, jeffrey.
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