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I Wrote The Checks And It Got Air Conditioning · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:06
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, and a pleasant Saturday to you.
• 0:09
  Don Armstrong: It's the bonus hour of the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show coming to you today live from the Lone Star Street Rod Association State Run Car Show at Hewlett Park in Grandbury, Texas.
• 0:20
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, guests from today's event, plus some of our regular features.
• 0:25
  Don Armstrong: And uh we want to really thank you for joining us today.
• 0:30
  Don Armstrong: There's a bit of confusion here, uh, but you know, we just always plow through all of that because that is the name of this show.
• 0:37
  Don Armstrong: Plow through.
• 0:38
  Don Armstrong: Once you get past the in-wheel time, once you get past the in-wheel time car talk show.
• 0:43
  Don Armstrong: So we're gonna continue on.
• 0:45
  Don Armstrong: We're a little bit behind in our commercials, and we're gonna try to catch up with that.
• 0:48
  Don Armstrong: Uh joining us now is uh is it Linda Rogers?
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 0:52
  Don Armstrong: Linda Rogers, hi, how are you?
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm great, how are you?
• 0:55
  Don Armstrong: So tell me about yourself.
• 0:56
  Don Armstrong: What are you doing here?
• 0:57
  Don Armstrong: Why are you lost?
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: No, we don't.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: You're not lost.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: We come every year.
• 1:02
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:02
  Don Armstrong: And so I assume that uh you have a car that's here today.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we have a 54 Chevrolet, and then my son has a 66 Chevrolet pickup.
• 1:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, very good.
• 1:13
  Don Armstrong: Uh so tell me about the 54.
• 1:15
  Don Armstrong: You know, my grandfather had a 53 or 54 Chevrolet.
• 1:18
  Don Armstrong: It was still round back then.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: Well, my husband raced until 83.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: All week he had to work on it, put new parts, straighten it out, and all that.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: So then when he got out of it, we got a 54 Chevrolet.
• 1:31
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:31
  Don Armstrong: And the reason that we selected a 54 Chevrolet is that's what he wanted.
• 1:36
  Don Armstrong: There you go.
• 1:37
  Don Armstrong: Interesting.
• 1:37
  Don Armstrong: And how long have you had this car?
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we've had it since '84, but we it wasn't finished till 91.
• 1:43
  Don Armstrong: 84 to 91.
• 1:45
  Don Armstrong: So it was a project.
• 1:47
  Don Armstrong: Uh-huh.
• 1:47
  Don Armstrong: So you were kind of a uh a project widow, as we call it.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Kind of.
• 1:52
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: But I was already a race widow.
• 1:54
  Don Armstrong: Oh, there there is that.
• 1:55
  Don Armstrong: But I'll bet you went to the races, didn't you?
• 1:57
  Don Armstrong: Yes.
• 1:58
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:58
  Don Armstrong: And what kind of races?
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Rounded round.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: Roundy round dirt.
• 2:04
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 2:05
  Don Armstrong: And and I'm trying to get David's attention.
• 2:08
  Don Armstrong: Oh, David.
• 2:09
  Don Armstrong: I don't know what what Jeff's trying to tell you here.
• 2:12
  Don Armstrong: Is would this happen to be it, right?
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: That happens to be it.
• 2:15
  Don Armstrong: Wow, that's a beautiful car.
• 2:16
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 2:17
  Don Armstrong: It is.
• 2:17
  Don Armstrong: Yes.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: When we got it, it was a green and it had a big Tweety bird on the on the trunk.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh nice.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: We went to pick it up.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: I pulled him with the chain from a bell made into Waco about 10 miles.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: And when we got close to where we live, my daughter got down in the floorboard if she didn't want to know.
• 2:36
  Don Armstrong: But I you know what?
• 2:37
  Don Armstrong: I did that with my mother when she had my parents had a DeSoto.
• 2:43
  Don Armstrong: I don't know whether you know what that is or not, but it wasn't good.
• 2:46
  Don Armstrong: It was green, and um, it had a starter issue, so my dad taught her how to get out, open the hood, put the broom handle down on the starter and whack it with a hammer, and it would start every time.
• 3:00
  Don Armstrong: Well, it was that kind of a car, and uh I was embarrassed to ride in it, and I found myself on the floor many, many times.
• 3:07
  Don Armstrong: So I can relate.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but now that it's fixed up when something happens to us, he's she's gonna get the car, and then he's gonna get the pickup that he's working on.
• 3:15
  Don Armstrong: So we're still working on the pickup?
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: No, we've got it finished, but now we're working on a 31 board.
• 3:20
  Don Armstrong: So this this is a lifelong passion.
• 3:23
  Don Armstrong: And it and you so you're married to the car industry whether you like it or not.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
• 3:28
  Don Armstrong: And you knew that getting into this.
• 3:29
  Don Armstrong: Yes, sir.
• 3:30
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 3:30
  Don Armstrong: How long have you two been married?
• 3:32
  Don Armstrong: Uh over 56 years.
• 3:34
  Don Armstrong: Congratulations.
• 3:35
  Don Armstrong: Well, thank you.
• 3:35
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that's that that is awesome.
• 3:37
  Don Armstrong: And she's a race widow, and now she's a car show widow, kind of.
• 3:42
  Don Armstrong: But you put you go but you go to these shows, do you not?
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yes, all the time.
• 3:47
  Don Armstrong: Because I mean you're part of you're part of it.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, as a matter of fact, one year my son and husband decided to go to C ten.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: And my friend and I had already C ten pickups in the in the park.
• 3:59
  Don Armstrong: Oh, I see.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: Went to I see a big, big show.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: And my friend and I had already planned on going to Seaton.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: So he went with his truck with my son, and my friend and I went with that one Louise in in the car.
• 4:12
  Don Armstrong: And did did you win place or show?
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: No, but I beat them all home.
• 4:16
  Don Armstrong: You beat them home.
• 4:18
  Don Armstrong: So it doesn't have the uh the the straight six cylinder in it?
• 4:22
  Don Armstrong: No, of course not.
• 4:23
  Don Armstrong: Why would I think that?
• 4:24
  Don Armstrong: He's a race car driver.
• 4:25
  Don Armstrong: It's got to have a probably a small block Chevrolet.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't know.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: I don't he's right.
• 4:33
  Don Armstrong: What's here he is.
• 4:33
  Don Armstrong: So I have no idea.
• 4:38
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, uh, I get it.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: I just had money, yeah, I just wrote the checks.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're not gonna get the biggest.
• 4:44
  Don Armstrong: You got the important part.
• 4:46
  Don Armstrong: I guess so.
• 4:47
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 4:47
  Don Armstrong: Well, hey, they've got still got a place to live because uh when you're passionate about a car, well, let's see, do I have to make that house par uh uh car payment now?
• 4:58
  Don Armstrong: Do I have to make the house payment now?
• 5:00
  Don Armstrong: So you take care of that end of it.
• 5:02
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, I got it.
• 5:02
  Mike Marrs: So your son has a truck.
• 5:04
  Mike Marrs: Your husband has this, and you're building one, is that yours?
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: He says it is.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he had a 56 nomad, but he sold it because he didn't do any work on it.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: So he sold it.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: So he didn't he didn't have a lot of people.
• 5:19
  Don Armstrong: So there's been so in other words, what you're saying is there's been this ongoing uh turnover of cars throughout the years, except for this one, I think.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we just well we just had the one nomad that he bought and he sold it.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: And then we weren't gonna make any more until we got the 31.
• 5:37
  Don Armstrong: And that changed everything.
• 5:39
  Don Armstrong: Kinda.
• 5:40
  Don Armstrong: Kinda.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: We both have retired and it's kept us together, so he's out there doing that.
• 5:46
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 5:46
  Jeff Dziekan: 51 years, heck yeah.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: 56.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: 56 is a yeah.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be 57 in August if we make it.
• 5:52
  Mike Marrs: You'll make it.
• 5:54
  Mike Marrs: The 31's not finished, you gotta make wait until that's finished for sure.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: And the pickup took forever.
• 6:00
  Don Armstrong: So let me let me ask you, does he still get on the dolly creeper and get underneath the car?
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: But he doesn't get up as well.
• 6:07
  Don Armstrong: Well, we had that discussion earlier.
• 6:10
  Don Armstrong: We were thinking, you know, we would do that, but getting up is the problem.
• 6:15
  Don Armstrong: Getting up and out of anything.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 6:17
  Don Armstrong: Yes.
• 6:18
  Don Armstrong: Matter of fact, I I have a Corvette.
• 6:20
  Don Armstrong: And I I've actually had a conversation with myself.
• 6:23
  Don Armstrong: You know, the clutch has become a problem with my knee, and getting up and out of it has become a problem with my age.
• 6:33
  Don Armstrong: Uh I think I'm working toward the rigomortis generation now.
• 6:37
  Don Armstrong: Where the rigor mortis is setting in.
• 6:40
  Don Armstrong: Kind of gets stiff.
• 6:41
  Don Armstrong: Don't even go there.
• 6:42
  Don Armstrong: I see you thinking, Mars.
• 6:44
  Don Armstrong: Well, I was just thinking, if it happened while you were in the Corvette.
• 6:47
  Don Armstrong: Well, that would be fine.
• 6:47
  Don Armstrong: Just bury the Corvette and me in it.
• 6:50
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 6:50
  Don Armstrong: There's that.
• 6:51
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he got disgusted during building the truck because it took several, several years.
• 6:57
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I said you can't give up on it.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: You gave Christie the car, you gotta give Steven the truck.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: So you've got to pick up.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_00: Wait a minute.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_03: So there's another one besides your son?
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_03: You have another daughter.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_03: A daughter.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: She she gets this one.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: She hid from it from the one that she finds her on the front.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then her younger brother Steven has the pickup over there.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: That I've I've only ridden in it once.
• 7:20
  Don Armstrong: Why?
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I've been invited to.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: He got it as his first truck in school.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't ride in it till oh, I guess it was probably twenty-five years later.
• 7:34
  Don Armstrong: So tell me, uh, I understand that uh you got a trophy already uh as the rotor of the year.
• 7:41
  Don Armstrong: Ladies, ladies.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: Lady Street Rodder of the Year.
• 7:45
  Don Armstrong: Lady Street Rodder of the Year.
• 7:47
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 7:47
  Don Armstrong: Well, I was close.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm very honored.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: I don't understand why.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: There's so many out there that deserve it.
• 7:53
  Don Armstrong: Well, you certainly do, uh, if nothing else, for the longevity that you and and the pain that you've gone through.
• 8:00
  Don Armstrong: So um how did you I gotta ask this question.
• 8:03
  Don Armstrong: How did you meet your husband?
• 8:04
  Don Armstrong: Don't tell me at the racetrack.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: No, at school.
• 8:07
  Don Armstrong: At school, high school.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
• 8:09
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: He was we had a a deal at school where the school got to use the Caram Shrine parking all year, and once a year they got to use our parking.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I was coming in late, and he was telling me I couldn't park there, and I didn't even know him.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I gotta park here, I'm late.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: He said, No, you can't park here.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: I just threw him the keys and said, Park it.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta go, I gotta get to school.
• 8:30
  Jeff Dziekan: And that's and that was the beginning.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: And then I had to find him at the end of the day.
• 8:33
  Jeff Dziekan: And when you came back, your car had an LS in it and a custom paint job.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: No, it was still the sign, but I didn't have any idea where it was, and I didn't have my keys, so I had to find you.
• 8:41
  Don Armstrong: Well, that's good.
• 8:42
  Don Armstrong: So you actually found him.
• 8:45
  Don Armstrong: He just happened to be in the way.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: He happened to be in the way, yes.
• 8:48
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 8:48
  Don Armstrong: Well that that's quite a story.
• 8:50
  Don Armstrong: Where do you guys live?
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: We live in Bruceville, right outside Lorena, Texas.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know where Temple is?
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: Temple, you know where Temple, Texas is Waco.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 9:00
  Don Armstrong: Temple and Waco.
• 9:02
  Jeff Dziekan: That's not too bad.
• 9:02
  Don Armstrong: I have a friend of mine that lives in Grand Saline, and I tell somebody, well, uh Tommy lives in in Grand Saline.
• 9:08
  Don Armstrong: Where's that?
• 9:09
  Don Armstrong: Well, it used to be a salt mine there, and uh it's called Morton Salt.
• 9:13
  Don Armstrong: You ever heard of that?
• 9:14
  Don Armstrong: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 9:15
  Don Armstrong: Well, he lives outside of that one blinking yellow light that you would go through.
• 9:20
  Don Armstrong: Is yours a little bit bigger than that?
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have a blinking light.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know, okay.
• 9:26
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 9:26
  Don Armstrong: So the obviously there has been some work there that was uh that enabled you and your husband to make it to this point in your life.
• 9:36
  Don Armstrong: What did he do for a living?
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: He was a machinist.
• 9:39
  Don Armstrong: A machinist?
• 9:40
  Don Armstrong: Well, that kind of fits in with the small block Chevrolet.
• 9:44
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 9:45
  Don Armstrong: And uh is he still a machinist or is he just retired.
• 9:49
  Don Armstrong: Did he bring any of the tools home from the machine shop?
• 9:52
  Don Armstrong: Some of them in his head, yeah.
• 9:54
  Don Armstrong: That's why I asked that.
• 9:54
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: Some of them.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: And they went out of business and he got a lot of got a little bit of the equipment.
• 10:00
  Don Armstrong: That's good.
• 10:01
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:01
  Don Armstrong: So y'all like it there.
• 10:02
  Don Armstrong: What's what's the name of the high school?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: Lorena High School, I guess.
• 10:06
  Don Armstrong: Is that where you went?
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: No, we went to Waco High.
• 10:08
  Don Armstrong: Oh, Waco?
• 10:10
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 10:10
  Don Armstrong: Oh, you're a big city girl.
• 10:12
  Don Armstrong: I got it.
• 10:13
  Don Armstrong: And he was happened to be there.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 10:16
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 10:16
  Don Armstrong: So the machine shop took you from Waco out to Lorena, is it?
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we just moved out to Lorena to get out of Waco.
• 10:23
  Don Armstrong: So I see.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: More room.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Bigger shop for him.
• 10:27
  Don Armstrong: I was waiting for you to say, yeah, it holds our herd of horses and cattle and none of that.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: We don't get any of that.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: We have a big building that has to be.
• 10:35
  Jeff Dziekan: I was gonna say you've got your home and your building and a shop in the back.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: The building might be bigger than the house.
• 10:41
  Mike Marrs: Well, so are all these people with you?
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_00: He's nodding his head yet, so I'm I'm the one with the sunglasses in the black is my son.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all in interviewed him before and your husband before.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, yep, sure can.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, okay.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_03: So we're going through the family.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, uh you know, we're gonna get next.
• 11:00
  Don Armstrong: The daughter, I guess, is next.
• 11:01
  Don Armstrong: The floorboard daughter.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she has no, she's still on the floorboard idea.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: She likes it now.
• 11:09
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 11:09
  Don Armstrong: Well, um, so next year, um, when you come, bring her so we can interview her.
• 11:16
  Don Armstrong: And that way we can say that we've interviewed the entire family.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 11:19
  Don Armstrong: That's take us years to do this, you know.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: But then I got them grandkids.
• 11:24
  Don Armstrong: Oh, the grandkids.
• 11:25
  Don Armstrong: And and and how old are they?
• 11:26
  Don Armstrong: There's some here now.
• 11:28
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, they're oh that's part of this group, is the grandkids out there.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: My son's kids are 15, 16, and 17.
• 11:34
  Don Armstrong: Perfect age, yeah.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: My daughters are 19, 21, and gonna be 25.
• 11:39
  Don Armstrong: Wow.
• 11:40
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 11:40
  Don Armstrong: Well, it's a family business through and through.
• 11:44
  Don Armstrong: Do you have a passion for cars?
• 11:46
  Don Armstrong: Sorta speak.
• 11:48
  Don Armstrong: Just give me something to drive, that's all you care about, right?
• 11:50
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that's it.
• 11:51
  Don Armstrong: I think well, this has been a real pleasure.
• 11:54
  Don Armstrong: She is the hot rotter of the year.
• 11:56
  Don Armstrong: Lady, lady hot rodder of the year.
• 11:59
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 12:00
  Don Armstrong: I thought she's the lady of the street rotter of the year.
• 12:06
  Don Armstrong: They they left off that.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh well, bookie don't worry about that.
• 12:11
  Don Armstrong: Street Rodder of the Year.
• 12:12
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, we're gonna blame it on Rick.
• 12:14
  Don Armstrong: Well, thank you for stopping by and telling us the story.
• 12:16
  Don Armstrong: We appreciate it.
• 12:17
  Don Armstrong: It's uh it's always fun.
• 12:19
  Don Armstrong: And uh, we love these kind of interviews.
• 12:21
  Don Armstrong: We didn't even talk about the 54 Chevrolet.
• 12:24
  Don Armstrong: No, we didn't.
• 12:25
  Mike Marrs: Well, we we decided it's got a small block.
• 12:27
  Mike Marrs: It's got a few.
• 12:28
  Don Armstrong: Well, it's gonna speaks for itself.
• 12:29
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah.
• 12:30
  Don Armstrong: It's got some Craig SS on it and a nice paint job, and it looks like a pretty nice interior, and we know that it's got a small block Chevrolet.
• 12:37
  Don Armstrong: What else is there to talk about?
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's air conditioned.
• 12:39
  Don Armstrong: Oh, it's air conditioned.
• 12:40
  Mike Marrs: There you go.
• 12:41
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, there very there you go.
• 12:43
  Don Armstrong: So you did a little extra on that.
• 12:45
  Jeff Dziekan: Let's let's talk about taking it for a test drive.
• 12:47
  Jeff Dziekan: That's uh yeah, there's that.
• 12:48
  Jeff Dziekan: There's that.
• 12:49
  Don Armstrong: Well, it's a pleasure, it's a beautiful car.
• 12:51
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 12:51
  Don Armstrong: And I if they hand out awards here, you'd get our award.
• 12:54
  Don Armstrong: Well, thank you.
• 12:55
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 12:56
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 12:56
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 12:56
  Don Armstrong: We appreciate you.
• 12:58
  unknown: All right.
• 12:58
  Don Armstrong: We're good.
• 12:59
  Don Armstrong: It's time for us to move on.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 13:01
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 13:02
  Don Armstrong: Uh thank you for joining us today here on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 13:05
  Don Armstrong: By the way, we're talking to you from today's uh Lone Star Street Rod Association state-run car show at Hewlett Park in Granbury, Texas.
• 13:12
  Don Armstrong: And we'll be right back with more coming up.
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• 14:38
  Don Armstrong: One moment.
• 14:41
  Don Armstrong: That's a sweet sounding hot rod right there.
• 14:43
  Don Armstrong: That is a beautiful car.
• 14:45
  Don Armstrong: I like the way the wheels are tucked under the wheel wells and it fills up the entire thing.
• 14:49
  Don Armstrong: Look at that.
• 14:50
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it it it's the tires are like 15 feet wide.
• 14:53
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, they are.
• 14:54
  Don Armstrong: All right, so what we're gonna do right now is we're going to talk about Jeff's car culture.
• 14:59
  Don Armstrong: Great feature that Jeff does every week.
• 15:01
  Don Armstrong: So here it is.
• 15:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, you know, we're at uh Hewlett Park, we got uh all the hot rods out here.
• 15:08
  Jeff Dziekan: When you're building a hot rod, what kind of engine do you put in it?
• 15:11
  Jeff Dziekan: I mean, what what what are you gonna build towards?
• 15:13
  Jeff Dziekan: So Well, that one there was a small block shaping.
• 15:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Exactly, and that's part of it, because the top hot rod engines include Chevy Small Blocks, Big Blocks, GMLS series, Ford Coyote V8s, each offering unique performance and reliability.
• 15:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Plus, it's the customization potential on what you can get and put aftermarket boots on.
• 15:30
  Jeff Dziekan: So the Chevy 350 small block is an iconic hot rod product worldwide, known for its affordability, reliability, vast aftermarket support.
• 15:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Typically produces between 260 and 400 horsepower.
• 15:43
  Jeff Dziekan: It fits most classic chassis.
• 15:46
  Jeff Dziekan: It makes it ideal for traditional hot rods and resto mods.
• 15:50
  Jeff Dziekan: The 383 Stroker, a modified 350, increases displacement in torque, offering 400 horsepower, offering a balance of performance, drivability without the bulk of a big block.
• 16:01
  Jeff Dziekan: So that's all part of it.
• 16:02
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you got the big blocks for raw power, street presence, the 454, another block, big blocks, uh they deliver the massive torque and horsepower.
• 16:11
  Jeff Dziekan: These engines range between 396 and 572 cubic inches, providing a dominant performance feel.
• 16:17
  Jeff Dziekan: They require a robust chassis, some of the more expensive ones, some of the custom ones, more robust cooling systems, but uh perfect for builders seeking a brute force and classic muscle car aesthetics.
• 16:28
  Jeff Dziekan: That's a big word.
• 16:30
  Jeff Dziekan: GM LS series, love them.
• 16:32
  Jeff Dziekan: The uh LS series engines are modern, lightweight, and high versatility.
• 16:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh from the Junkyard 5.3 engines, 700 horsepower you can put in some of these crate motors.
• 16:41
  Jeff Dziekan: LS swaps are popular for the reliability, compact size, and ease of installation.
• 16:47
  Jeff Dziekan: It's comparable with a wide range of transmissions and offer extensive aftermarket support.
• 16:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Then you're looking at uh the Ford Coyote V8.
• 16:55
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a 5.0, it's a V8, combines raw revving uh performance and modern reliability, it's favored for custom Ford builds and resto mods, but you can put it in really anything.
• 17:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh offering excellent power to weight ratio and adaptability.
• 17:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Coyote engines are particularly suitable for builders who want modern Ford performance and a classic hot rod package.
• 17:15
  Jeff Dziekan: That's what I'd do.
• 17:16
  Mike Marrs: And it's got kind of a classic sound, it sounds different.
• 17:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Exactly, because it's a high rev.
• 17:20
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a high revving engine.
• 17:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh crate engines provide a turnkey solution for hot rod builders.
• 17:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Popular options include the the 357 small block, uh you got delivering 357 horsepower, 407 foot pounds of torque, the LS3 V8, uh create the the crate engine simplify installation often include the intake manifolds, the distributors, the wiring harnesses, and are ideal for seeking reliability performance.
• 17:47
  Jeff Dziekan: You can buy the computers with them too, so you don't have to go and program all that as well.
• 17:51
  Jeff Dziekan: So choosing the right engine, selecting the best engine for your hot rod.
• 17:55
  Jeff Dziekan: If you're looking for a classic vibe and nostalgia, small block Chevy.
• 17:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Brute Force and Torque, big block Chevy.
• 18:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Versatility and modern performance, it would be the GMLS series, which are very popular.
• 18:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh high revving Ford bills would be the Coyote V8.
• 18:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Consider factors like horsepower, torque, weight, chassis, all that compatibility that goes on for the aftermarket as well.
• 18:16
  Jeff Dziekan: So choose the right one.
• 18:17
  Jeff Dziekan: You know what you want to do with it, you know what it wants to sound like, you want to know how fast you want to go, you want mileage, you want horsepower, torque.
• 18:24
  Jeff Dziekan: It's all part of it, and each one offers a different segment for that.
• 18:28
  Don Armstrong: You know that small block Chevy, you know I I always brag about that uh DZ motor, that 302 that was in the Z28s in 1969.
• 18:36
  Don Armstrong: I didn't realize that that was a 327 engine that was uh destroked.
• 18:41
  Don Armstrong: And um that not only that, but uh the 327, the 350, the 302.
• 18:47
  Don Armstrong: They've made all sorts of different displacement out of the same basic block.
• 18:52
  Don Armstrong: They just changed the stroke in it.
• 18:54
  Mike Marrs: Or maybe the maybe the the bore size on some of them, but it was basically the stroke.
• 18:59
  Don Armstrong: All basically the same small block Chevy engine from 1955.
• 19:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Aluminum heads, cast heads, iron heads, all of that.
• 19:07
  Don Armstrong: Double humps.
• 19:08
  Mike Marrs: Always look for the double hump.
• 19:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep.
• 19:10
  Don Armstrong: All of that.
• 19:10
  Don Armstrong: Let's take another break, shall we?
• 19:12
  Don Armstrong: It's the in-wheel time car talk show.
• 19:13
  Don Armstrong: Today we're at Hewlett Park in the Lone Star Street Rod Association state run.
• 19:17
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• 20:20
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• 20:30
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• 20:35
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• 20:40
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• 20:43
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• 20:52
  Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 20:55
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
• 20:57
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