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A Houston Mustang Club Leader Explains Why They Cruise So Much · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:03
  Don Armstrong: From the Dual City Studios in Texas, USA, it is the award-winning In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:10
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, Richard Jones from the Mustang Club of Houston.
• 0:13
  Don Armstrong: Jeff will have the cruise in and events calendars.
• 0:16
  Don Armstrong: Mr.
• 0:17
  Don Armstrong: Mars is going to have driving destinations.
• 0:19
  Don Armstrong: And I'll bring you stories making automotive news headlines this week.
• 0:24
  Don Armstrong: Howdy.
• 0:25
  Don Armstrong: Along with Mike out of this world, Mars, we always need more Jeff Zeke.
• 0:30
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
• 0:31
  Don Armstrong: Glad you could join us, David Ainsley.
• 0:33
  Don Armstrong: He is nowhere to be found.
• 0:34
  Don Armstrong: He's in some sort of a class.
• 0:36
  Don Armstrong: I can only it it is it a Lamaz class?
• 0:39
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't know.
• 0:40
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't know what I don't know.
• 0:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, no.
• 0:47
  Jeff Dziekan: No.
• 0:47
  Jeff Dziekan: No, no, no.
• 0:48
  Don Armstrong: Listen, that boy would not get out of bed for uh start of an 8.30 class in the morning on a Saturday.
• 0:54
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 0:55
  Don Armstrong: Maybe it's a drive maybe he got caught driving too fast or something and he had to go take away.
• 1:01
  Don Armstrong: A defensive driving class.
• 1:02
  Don Armstrong: Remember those?
• 1:03
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 1:04
  Don Armstrong: Do they still have those?
• 1:05
  Don Armstrong: I don't think they're not.
• 1:06
  Mike Marrs: Oh yeah.
• 1:06
  Mike Marrs: I had a granddaughter just finished one.
• 1:09
  Don Armstrong: Really?
• 1:10
  Mike Marrs: Yes.
• 1:13
  Don Armstrong: Because it was mandated or what?
• 1:15
  Mike Marrs: Well, it was that or pay a bigger fine.
• 1:18
  Don Armstrong: Ah.
• 1:18
  Don Armstrong: So it was a speeding ticket.
• 1:20
  Mike Marrs: Uh close enough accident, little accident.
• 1:24
  Jeff Dziekan: Did it used to be if you didn't pay the fine, they'd they make you go in the army?
• 1:27
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't know about that.
• 1:29
  Jeff Dziekan: The army.
• 1:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Really?
• 1:32
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm just messing with Mike.
• 1:33
  Jeff Dziekan: He's always got a granddaughter story of accident, part failed ticket.
• 1:39
  Jeff Dziekan: They're busy.
• 1:39
  Don Armstrong: He's gonna have to go live with somebody else now.
• 1:42
  Don Armstrong: Got a full life out there.
• 1:43
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:43
  Don Armstrong: We don't know what's going on over there.
• 1:46
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 1:46
  Don Armstrong: Um, so let's talk to Richard Jones.
• 1:50
  Don Armstrong: Uh, Richard is uh the head honcho at the Mustang Club of Houston.
• 1:54
  Don Armstrong: Richard, good morning.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_02: How y'all doing?
• 1:58
  Don Armstrong: Well, we're doing good.
• 1:59
  Don Armstrong: How are you doing?
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: I'm doing pretty good.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_02: It's kind of a gloomy day, but I'm doing good.
• 2:04
  Don Armstrong: I know.
• 2:05
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh, that that's quite a necklace you're showing us there.
• 2:07
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 2:08
  Mike Marrs: Uh can you kind of tilt your camera up?
• 2:10
  Mike Marrs: There you go.
• 2:11
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, there you go.
• 2:12
  Don Armstrong: There you are.
• 2:13
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 2:14
  Don Armstrong: So it's it's good to talk to you.
• 2:15
  Don Armstrong: Mustang Club of Houston.
• 2:18
  Don Armstrong: How many members you got?
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_02: About 80.
• 2:24
  Don Armstrong: 80 members.
• 2:25
  Don Armstrong: 80 members.
• 2:27
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 2:28
  Don Armstrong: 80 members.
• 2:29
  Don Armstrong: So uh I assume that you probably have about, I don't know, 60 cars.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_02: About that.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, about 60, 65 car, yes, sir.
• 2:39
  Don Armstrong: Because usually, you know, it's a husband and wife thing, and so you gotta you gotta count both of those as clubs.
• 2:44
  Don Armstrong: Club members, yeah, whatever the case may be.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_02: That's true.
• 2:47
  Don Armstrong: So uh Mustang Club of Houston's been around a while.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_02: It's been around 33 years.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_02: We celebrate our 30th anniversary three years ago.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so now it's far after that though, we're 33 years old.
• 3:02
  Don Armstrong: 33 years old, just a youngster.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 3:05
  Don Armstrong: Uh so so, Richard, please please tell me that when you have meetings, that you don't have somebody read the minutes of the last meeting.
• 3:12
  Don Armstrong: Please tell me that.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_02: We don't have anybody to read the minutes.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_02: We post we post our minutes online, and people can go and look at the minutes online, and then at the meeting we can ask to look at the minutes, and we vote on approval of the minutes from the past meeting.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_02: No, no.
• 3:32
  Don Armstrong: Because I remember a day it's back in the day when I was a member of a of a Corvette club, and we had a once-a-month meeting, and uh, you know, it filled up a ballroom of a hotel somewhere, somebody paid some money for that.
• 3:47
  Don Armstrong: And one of the things that had to be had to be done is read the minutes of the meeting from last time.
• 3:54
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 3:54
  Don Armstrong: And I was like, okay, I'm going to go and find something to do for the next 10 minutes while the meetings from the last meeting are red.
• 4:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 4:03
  unknown: Right.
• 4:04
  Don Armstrong: I just wanted to make sure that I uh yeah.
• 4:06
  Don Armstrong: I just wanted to make sure that we're on the same page and we both hate minutes being read at the meeting.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, we're back in Dred Minton Church.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_02: We don't do that.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_02: Anyone know.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_02: Oh boy.
• 4:18
  Don Armstrong: Well, here's what happened last time.
• 4:20
  Don Armstrong: We don't care what happened last time.
• 4:22
  Don Armstrong: So, Richard, how long have you been president of this club?
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_02: This is my fifth year.
• 4:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Fifth year.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_02: Fifth year.
• 4:30
  Don Armstrong: Are you an incumb you're an incumbent?
• 4:34
  Don Armstrong: That's because that's that that's either because that's either because you're so popular they keep or nobody else wants to have your job.
• 4:43
  Don Armstrong: Let Richard do it.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's that ladder.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_02: Nobody wants to step up.
• 4:50
  Don Armstrong: Nobody else wants to do it.
• 4:53
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 4:53
  Don Armstrong: Well, I don't know.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_02: And he really don't.
• 4:56
  Don Armstrong: No, I was gonna say.
• 4:57
  Don Armstrong: I mean, it's fun.
• 4:58
  Don Armstrong: Hey, look, you're on the In Wheel Time Show.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 5:00
  Don Armstrong: So um y'all are a very active club.
• 5:04
  Mike Marrs: You've almost always got something going on.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_02: We do.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yes, we had we on a cru we are on a cruise right now.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_02: We're driving down the highway, well, far to the side of the road, but we're on the way to Blessing, Texas, to the Blessing Hotel for lunch.
• 5:21
  Don Armstrong: Oh, nice.
• 5:22
  Don Armstrong: How far is Blessing from where y'all started?
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh about maybe an hour.
• 5:30
  Don Armstrong: Okay, 50, 60 miles, something like that.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_02: And then we're going to start going the backway.
• 5:41
  Don Armstrong: Nice.
• 5:42
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that sounds like a fun deal.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 5:44
  Don Armstrong: Uh uh has it been raining on you at all?
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_02: Not at all.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_02: Not at all.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_02: We thought it was, but it hadn't been it hadn't rain.
• 5:53
  Don Armstrong: Because you know, that car wash that we spent hours on this morning before the actual cruise would be ruined.
• 6:01
  Don Armstrong: But and I've been on many of those too, I will tell you that.
• 6:04
  Don Armstrong: It's so disappointing for about 30 seconds, and then you go, ah, whatever, and just get wash it again.
• 6:10
  Jeff Dziekan: So, Richie, what do you what are you driving right now?
• 6:14
  Jeff Dziekan: What are you sitting in?
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: I am sitting in a two 2020 Eco Boost Mustang, a 2.3 liter Eco Boost Mustang.
• 6:24
  Don Armstrong: And it's got um almost 300 horsepower.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_02: It has about 310 from the factory, but I have a little bit more because I add the coal into KN coal air and tape.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_02: I had an MBRP uh cat back, and so it boosted the horsepower like by 335 to 340.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_02: So this is a bit more loose than it is when I bought it.
• 6:46
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, grocery.
• 6:47
  Don Armstrong: You know, and everybody says, Oh, I a four-cylinder Mustang.
• 6:50
  Don Armstrong: I'm not gonna do that.
• 6:51
  Don Armstrong: Why?
• 6:52
  Don Armstrong: Because it gets good gas mileage and it's got horsepower.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_02: It gets great gas mileage.
• 7:00
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah.
• 7:01
  Don Armstrong: Now, is it an automatic or is it a standard?
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_02: It's an automatic.
• 7:09
  Don Armstrong: Well, thank you for that.
• 7:10
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I know.
• 7:11
  Don Armstrong: Uh I've I've got uh an old Corvette that is a standard transmission, and uh longing for the day that I can push my foot on the accelerator and don't have to shift gears again.
• 7:24
  Don Armstrong: But uh there is that.
• 7:26
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 7:27
  Don Armstrong: So uh how many cars are on this cruise on this Saturday morning with you?
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_02: About seven or eight cars because when you have seven cars going on.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna have like about maybe about twenty twenty five people you know back.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_02: It's still fun though.
• 7:49
  Don Armstrong: Yes, of course.
• 7:51
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, absolutely.
• 7:52
  Don Armstrong: Absolutely.
• 7:56
  Don Armstrong: That's exactly right.
• 7:57
  Don Armstrong: So are you about 20 minutes away?
• 8:00
  Don Armstrong: 20 minutes away from your destination?
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_02: We're we're about 10.
• 8:06
  Don Armstrong: Oh, 10.
• 8:07
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 8:09
  Don Armstrong: So you're almost yeah, almost there.
• 8:12
  Don Armstrong: So do you guys do this like once a month or something?
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_02: Almost there.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_02: We we do different things on different months.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um like next one we have a thing called we're gonna do a housing social ring, like the and where we meet and have ice cream and go into is called Heidi Ice Cream in Katie and people for it at that uh establishment or handicapped disabled people, and I think that's a great cause.
• 8:46
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, very nice.
• 8:47
  Mike Marrs: Very nice.
• 8:48
  Mike Marrs: You get some ice cream and you support them.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_02: Exact exactly right.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_02: And our big thing is coming up in uh in a big thing coming up in August where we're gonna take a cruise, we'll hopefully take a cruise to Atlanta because the Mustang Club of America is so that's a parent company of all the charter clubs out here in the country.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_02: And it's turning.
• 9:16
  Don Armstrong: How fun.
• 9:17
  Don Armstrong: And I'll bet you that they're expecting thousands of Mustangs for that.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_02: They are, they are expecting a lot.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_02: Just like a couple weeks ago, we had a thing in Gaussian, and we had about maybe maybe close to 4,000 Mustangs in Gaussian about a month ago.
• 9:39
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I remember uh us talking about that.
• 9:42
  Don Armstrong: Uh, I don't know why we didn't have somebody on the air with us.
• 9:45
  Don Armstrong: I think Mars tried, but they everybody went, well, wait a minute.
• 9:48
  Don Armstrong: Where where are you gonna go to this event?
• 9:50
  Don Armstrong: What are you gonna be bogged down by some sort of moron on the on the radio talking to us about this?
• 9:56
  Don Armstrong: Isn't that right, Mars?
• 9:57
  Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
• 10:01
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah, he's agreeing.
• 10:05
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, there's that.
• 10:07
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh, all right.
• 10:09
  Don Armstrong: Um do you have any classic Mustangs in the club?
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_02: Small amount of class.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_02: We had a lot more claims for Nanic, about maybe one or two.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_02: One of our guys, he has like a 72 month.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_02: He just repurchased about two years ago.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_02: And that's about it, right?
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_02: About it right now.
• 10:34
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:34
  Don Armstrong: So most of the Mustangs are.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir, more late.
• 10:42
  Mike Marrs: So y'all are when you do your activities, like you say, you're gonna cruise to Atlanta, you're going to Blessing today, you do a lot of driving, and I would think probably some of the older 64, 56s Mustangs, they probably don't drive quite so well, maybe.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_02: That's true, it's the same.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_02: Don't have like that.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_02: It's kind of hard because we do a lot of drive.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_02: As a matter of fact, my Mustang right now, I'm looking at the dial, has 103,577 miles on it.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_02: And what year is it?
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_02: We drive a lot.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: We drive a lot.
• 11:22
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 11:23
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, what and you you said it's uh what a 2,000.
• 11:28
  Don Armstrong: A 2020.
• 11:30
  Don Armstrong: 2020.
• 11:31
  Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
• 11:32
  Mike Marrs: Grab our lines.
• 11:33
  Mike Marrs: So you're averaging 20 plus thousand miles a year.
• 11:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:38
  Jeff Dziekan: They they drive a lot.
• 11:40
  Jeff Dziekan: The national insurance average is 17,000 in Houston, so but he's not in Houston.
• 11:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Is that what it is?
• 11:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 11:44
  Jeff Dziekan: 17?
• 11:45
  Jeff Dziekan: It's around 17,000, the national average.
• 11:48
  unknown: Yeah.
• 11:48
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh it's great to talk to you.
• 11:51
  Don Armstrong: How do we get a hold of you?
• 11:53
  Don Armstrong: And not your phone number now.
• 11:55
  Don Armstrong: You like to do it.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_02: You can get a hold of MCO.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_02: We also have Facebook.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_02: We also have Facebook.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 12:05
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 12:06
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 12:07
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh, we're gonna send we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna send some Mustang people over to you and say hello.
• 12:12
  Mike Marrs: You got a coach with you?
• 12:14
  Mike Marrs: Sounds good.
• 12:15
  Mike Marrs: You got a co-pilot?
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, does my wa his mouse on the side right here?
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_02: She is she's waving.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: She's waving.
• 12:23
  Jeff Dziekan: What kind of Mustang does she drive?
• 12:26
  Jeff Dziekan: The one that they're in.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_02: Oh she drives this.
• 12:30
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 12:34
  Don Armstrong: Driving the edge.
• 12:36
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 12:37
  Don Armstrong: Well, listen, man, thank you so much for taking the time talking to us today.
• 12:41
  Don Armstrong: Get back on the road and be safe getting on the road now, and uh stay in touch with us.
• 12:45
  Don Armstrong: We look forward to talking to you again soon.
• 12:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Thank you, sir.
• 12:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Try the soup and sandwich.
• 12:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Don't forget to tip the wiggles.
• 12:52
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, stupid sandwich and tip the wiggle.
• 12:54
  Don Armstrong: Oh, I will.
• 12:55
  Don Armstrong: Hey, uh coming up, Jeff is gonna have the cruise in okay, Jeff's gonna have the cruise in and events calendars, and uh, I'll have the stories making automotive news headlines.
• 13:04
  Don Armstrong: We're also going to tap into Mr.
• 13:05
  Don Armstrong: Mars driving destinations.
• 13:08
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:08
  Don Armstrong: So we'll do that after this next break.
• 13:10
  Don Armstrong: Shall we do that, Mr.
• 13:10
  Don Armstrong: Mars?
• 13:11
  Don Armstrong: Perfect.
• 13:11
  Don Armstrong: Sure.
• 13:12
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 13:12
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• 15:02
  Don Armstrong: Forgot auto history, so we're gonna play that after uh we have Jeff's cruise in.
• 15:08
  Don Armstrong: But first, though, let's do driving destinations.
• 15:10
  Don Armstrong: I know that uh we teased that, so let's let's let's do that if you don't mind.
• 15:14
  Mike Marrs: Where is that, Michael?
• 15:16
  Mike Marrs: So it's it's been a long time since I was over in Houston running around like on the previous life, but there's a lot of things to do over there.
• 15:22
  Mike Marrs: We talked about fun and play.
• 15:24
  Mike Marrs: Then we're gonna talk about date night, trying to find something that's a little bit different for date night.
• 15:29
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• 15:30
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• 15:32
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• 15:35
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• 15:36
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• 15:41
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• 15:44
  Mike Marrs: It it's very speakeasy-ish looking.
• 15:48
  Mike Marrs: Uh, it's tucked away in an upstairs area in downtown Houston.
• 15:52
  Mike Marrs: It's kind of a moody cocktail spot, low lighting, vintage lounge vibes, and it's got a very nice hidden skyline view of the city from the patio area.
• 16:01
  Mike Marrs: The drinks are serious without getting pretentious.
• 16:04
  Mike Marrs: It's kind of a place where you might hang around a little bit longer than you might want to.
• 16:08
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• 16:14
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• 16:16
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• 16:25
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• 16:28
  Mike Marrs: It's more relaxed, quirky, and it's great for people that just want to go someplace, have a few laughs, and kind of sit through some uh unexpected experiences and just something to be different.
• 16:39
  Mike Marrs: Then from there, if you want to go something back to more quiet and more intimate, you check out Le Cref.
• 16:46
  Mike Marrs: This historic little wine bar, and it is historic because the building was built in 1847.
• 16:51
  Mike Marrs: The Kennedy Bakery is what used to be there, and the Kennedys actually owned this building for five generations before it was sold, and it's considered the most haunted bar in Houston.
• 17:03
  Mike Marrs: So you're gonna have lots of candlelight, old brick walls, you're gonna have handwritten tabs, not the computer touch screens.
• 17:10
  Mike Marrs: So there's no rush here.
• 17:11
  Mike Marrs: If you just want to go someplace that's nice and slow and have a real conversation, kind of feel a little bit different from the normal Houston nightlife that I'm aware of.
• 17:20
  Don Armstrong: Get yourself a Jin Fizz.
• 17:24
  Don Armstrong: La Craft La Craft.
• 17:27
  Mike Marrs: So from there, if you want to stay casual but get outdoors a little bit more, you might go to the Axlrad Beer Garden.
• 17:34
  Mike Marrs: Now, this is uh a place that you're gonna find.
• 17:38
  Mike Marrs: It's actually in the old Axlrod grocery that was built in the 1920s.
• 17:43
  Mike Marrs: So hence you get the name of the beer garden.
• 17:45
  Mike Marrs: You're gonna have uh it's gonna be out underneath the trees, you got live music, you got food trucks nearby.
• 17:50
  Mike Marrs: So it's kind of a laid-back crowd with some picnic tables and just kind of place you can go settle in and hang around for a place just to kind of have a nice time in the evening.
• 18:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Looks like you could probably take your dog with you to that type of event there.
• 18:04
  Mike Marrs: Oh, you might could.
• 18:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 18:07
  Mike Marrs: Then uh the other one, the last one I wanted to bring up was a place called the Little Dipper Bar.
• 18:13
  Mike Marrs: Now, this is small, it's retro, kind of low-key.
• 18:17
  Mike Marrs: It's got that old Houston neighborhood bar energy with the vintage decor and a little relaxed atmosphere that kind of makes it easy to kind of go in and just settle down, have some light conversation, and just have a relaxed evening if you're looking for something like that.
• 18:32
  Jeff Dziekan: We got pinballs too.
• 18:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 18:34
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, a lot of these places are downtown.
• 18:36
  Mike Marrs: This one's downtown in the 300-block of Main Street.
• 18:39
  Mike Marrs: So, so there's a lot of places you can go for date nights.
• 18:42
  Mike Marrs: It's not necessarily about spending a bottom money and going out to a big fancy place.
• 18:46
  Mike Marrs: Just kind of take a little drive and find something different and see where things go.
• 18:51
  unknown: Perfect.
• 18:51
  Don Armstrong: Very nice.
• 18:52
  Don Armstrong: I like that.
• 18:53
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh in that same vein, Jeffrey has the cruise in and events calendar.
• 19:00
  Jeff Dziekan: All righty.
• 19:01
  Jeff Dziekan: We've got the Taylor swap meet.
• 19:03
  Jeff Dziekan: These are all going on at the end.
• 19:04
  Don Armstrong: Well, I for you to say Taylor Swift, but Taylor Switzerland.
• 19:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 19:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh Taylor's the 15th, which is next weekend from 9 a.m.
• 19:12
  Jeff Dziekan: to 5 p.m.
• 19:13
  Jeff Dziekan: It's at the Murphy Park Pavilion in Taylor, Texas at 1600 Veterans Drive.
• 19:17
  Jeff Dziekan: It's just a swap meet and good old boys getting together, chit-chatting, and swapping stories and swapping parts.
• 19:23
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh May Cruise In car show and swap meet at the Faux Reel Trade Days.
• 19:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Faux Real.
• 19:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Faux Reel.
• 19:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Faux Real.
• 19:29
  Jeff Dziekan: This is in Liberty, Texas at 180 Independent Street.
• 19:32
  Jeff Dziekan: This goes from 9 a.m.
• 19:33
  Jeff Dziekan: to 5 p.m.
• 19:34
  Jeff Dziekan: It's on May 16th.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: Wait a minute.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: Wait, let me see the faux faux faux reel.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_03: Faux reel.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, F-A-U-X.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: Real.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: Faux reel.
• 19:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Faux reel.
• 19:42
  Mike Marrs: Pibodeau faux reel.
• 19:44
  Mike Marrs: Uh-huh.
• 19:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Aye.
• 19:45
  Jeff Dziekan: The May Cruising Car Show SWAT meet is scheduled there at that event.
• 19:49
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh first Saturday of every month.
• 19:51
  Jeff Dziekan: It goes from 9 to 5.
• 19:53
  Jeff Dziekan: Attendees will find food trucks, live music, coffee, treats, and a variety of the other things.
• 19:59
  Jeff Dziekan: No, it's it's this one is this.
• 20:01
  Jeff Dziekan: It's Saturday of each month.
• 20:03
  Jeff Dziekan: Saturday of each month.
• 20:04
  Jeff Dziekan: I see.
• 20:05
  Jeff Dziekan: But this one is the 16th.
• 20:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Crossroad Cruisers Car Show.
• 20:09
  Jeff Dziekan: It's at Riverside Park Special Event Center in Victoria, Texas.
• 20:12
  Jeff Dziekan: We all know where that's at, 407 Memorial.
• 20:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Registration begins at 8, judging's at 11.
• 20:18
  Jeff Dziekan: So, you know, we don't we don't judge around here.
• 20:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh awards would be presented.
• 20:23
  Jeff Dziekan: We judge every clock.
• 20:25
  Jeff Dziekan: Top 30 awards from the five best awards.
• 20:28
  Jeff Dziekan: So there you go.
• 20:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Then you got the Southern Pontiac Firebirds on the border.
• 20:32
  Jeff Dziekan: This is in Alamo, Texas, which is really down by the border, down in the McAllen Laredo area.
• 20:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh if you want to travel down there, that's great.
• 20:40
  Jeff Dziekan: It's May 17th from noon to 5 at the Rail Yard 83.
• 20:43
  Jeff Dziekan: It's 106 North 9th Street.
• 20:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Pontiac Firebirds, Trans Dams, they all gather near the border.
• 20:49
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh takes place from noon to 5 at the Rail Yard.
• 20:52
  Jeff Dziekan: So be there.
• 20:53
  Jeff Dziekan: Street Runners cruise in to Bucky's.
• 20:55
  Jeff Dziekan: This is always a fun one.
• 20:56
  Jeff Dziekan: It's in Colleen at Lions Park.
• 20:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh street runners meet every Sunday night at the Lions Club and they cruise on over to Bucky's, get yourself a sandwich and uh beaver beaver nuggets and all that good stuff.
• 21:07
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you got the car meet at 403 Eats coming up in Tomball.
• 21:10
  Jeff Dziekan: That's the 17th.
• 21:12
  Jeff Dziekan: And I actually uh got some buddies in a band that are gonna be playing out there at 403 Eats, I think, in the next couple weeks.
• 21:16
  Jeff Dziekan: It might even be at that event.
• 21:18
  Jeff Dziekan: So I'll keep you abreast of that.
• 21:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Take me with you.
• 21:20
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't know if I'm going.
• 21:21
  Jeff Dziekan: I just know that buddies might are playing out there.
• 21:23
  Don Armstrong: If you go, take me with you.
• 21:25
  Don Armstrong: Will you?
• 21:26
  Jeff Dziekan: I'll take you with me.
• 21:27
  Jeff Dziekan: I'll take you anywhere.
• 21:28
  Mike Marrs: Put him in the cargo area of the Buick, Jeff, and just tag him along.
• 21:32
  Don Armstrong: Time now for this week in auto history, Mr.
• 21:34
  Don Armstrong: Morris.
• 21:35
  Don Armstrong: Where are we at, Michael?
• 21:36
  Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
• 21:37
  Mike Marrs: We found a few things that we uh thought were really interesting uh this week in auto history.
• 21:43
  Mike Marrs: Starting in May the 3rd, 1919, W.
• 21:46
  Mike Marrs: O.
• 21:46
  Mike Marrs: Bentley officially founded Bentley Motors.
• 21:49
  Mike Marrs: His idea was to build a fast car, build a good car, and make it the best in class.
• 21:54
  Mike Marrs: And what they did to get their reputation going for their engineering excellence, they went out and did endurance races.
• 22:00
  Mike Marrs: Like Le Mans, and they even made it to the Indy 500 in 1922.
• 22:05
  Mike Marrs: And this is the type of activities that built up their creds inside the market.
• 22:10
  Mike Marrs: And even today, it's much respected as a handcrafted British luxury performance automobile.
• 22:16
  Mike Marrs: And in May the 4th in 1904, we often talk about the Oldsmobile Curved Dash vehicle that ransom Olds brought out.
• 22:25
  Mike Marrs: It was one of the first mass-produced automobiles.
• 22:29
  Mike Marrs: It was a lightweight runabout single cylinder engine, made it very reliable.
• 22:35
  Mike Marrs: But the thing was that he a lot of his assembly techniques actually predated Henry Ford's moving assembly line.
• 22:43
  Mike Marrs: So he proved that you can build a car efficiently.
• 22:46
  Mike Marrs: And one of the things that helped this thing get in started, it was actually a fire in 1901.
• 22:53
  Mike Marrs: All the prototypes for the new Oldsmobiles burned except for the curved-runabout.
• 23:00
  Mike Marrs: So by it being the only survivor, they built 2,500 in 1902 of them, and that's what really kicked it off, and they built 19,000 total before it went out of production.
• 23:11
  Mike Marrs: Arson.
• 23:12
  Mike Marrs: Arson?
• 23:13
  Mike Marrs: Arson?
• 23:14
  Mike Marrs: Then May the 5th, 1964.
• 23:16
  Mike Marrs: And we've talked again about the Mustang.
• 23:18
  Mike Marrs: We talked about before how the Mustang rollout was so successful that they sold a million of these things the very first year.
• 23:24
  Mike Marrs: But one thing I did not know, along with the World's Fair and the nationwide dealership rollouts where everybody showed at the same time, three weeks after that, Ford was Mustang was to be the pace car for the 64 Indianapolis 500.
• 23:41
  Mike Marrs: So it got a lot of attention there.
• 23:43
  Mike Marrs: And then they also launched the Pace Car Edition immediately right behind that.
• 23:49
  Mike Marrs: And that even drove more traffic to the showrooms.
• 23:52
  Mike Marrs: And that's part of the ways that they ended up selling a million of these the very first year it rolled out.
• 23:59
  Mike Marrs: May the 5th, 1925.
• 24:00
  Mike Marrs: Chrysler introduces the four-wheel hydraulic brakes.
• 24:03
  Mike Marrs: We were talking earlier about the wire brakes versus the hydraulic.
• 24:07
  Mike Marrs: So Chrysler was very much into technology and trying to uh push new things out into the marketplace, particularly improving on the mechanical braking systems.
• 24:18
  Mike Marrs: And then coming up in May the 7th, 1946, I thought this was very interesting.
• 24:24
  Mike Marrs: The Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation was founded.
• 24:28
  Mike Marrs: Now that sounds like a mouthful, but what happened was in 1958, this actually became Sony, the very famous Sony electronics company that went on to uh influence automotive technology with radios and cassette players, CDs, nav systems, things that are we're still having things from Sony show up in our cars today.
• 24:48
  Mike Marrs: So they've really made a big deal, uh big impact on the automobile industry.
• 24:53
  Mike Marrs: May the 7th, 1998.
• 24:56
  Mike Marrs: This is terrible.
• 24:58
  Mike Marrs: Mercedes Benz announces the Chrysler merger.
• 25:01
  Mike Marrs: What was listed publicly as being a 50-50 deal, that they were both going to be co-equal partners.
• 25:07
  Mike Marrs: Immediately the lawsuits had started because it was reality Mercedes Benz was taking over Chrysler.
• 25:13
  Mike Marrs: And Chrysler was into it because they were in a bind and they wanted to kind of uh they wanted to survive is what it amounted to.
• 25:20
  Mike Marrs: So this uh merger lasted seven years before all the lawsuits were about over and it kind of dissolved back into Chrysler and Mercedes Daimler.
• 25:29
  Mike Marrs: Uh finally, in May the 8th, 1984, Chrysler introduces the minivan, the Dodge Caravan and the Plymouth Voyager.
• 25:38
  Mike Marrs: And and this really revolutionized family transportation with the modern minivan.
• 25:42
  Mike Marrs: Station wagon was still available, but this was so much more user-friendly with the front-wheel drive, the sliding side doors, car-like handling.
• 25:51
  Mike Marrs: It actually handled a lot better than most station wagons.
• 25:53
  Mike Marrs: So it quickly became a suburban staple.
• 25:57
  Mike Marrs: And even today, a lot of companies use these for moving people around at events and stuff because it's so easy to get in and out of.
• 26:04
  Mike Marrs: And that's some of the things we found this week in automotive history.
• 26:08
  Don Armstrong: Thank you, sir.
• 26:08
  Don Armstrong: Uh consumers, albeit a small number, who use artificial intelligence tools to buy a vehicle report, being more pleased with the outcome than those who don't use them, according to the Cox Automotive 2025 Car Buyer Survey.
• 26:25
  Don Armstrong: Uh the findings, including buyers enjoying real-time answers and personalized recommendations, could signal a shift in how consumers research vehicles and how dealerships respond.
• 26:36
  Don Armstrong: The study, released in January for the first time, includes data on customers using AI to buy vehicles.
• 26:43
  Don Armstrong: Gen Z and millennial shoppers, buyers with children, and multicultural buyers lead the shift in AI use, according to Cox.
• 26:52
  Don Armstrong: Cox surveyed 2,300 car buyers August 6th through September 5th, who purchased a new or used vehicle within the previous 12 months.
• 27:00
  Don Armstrong: And new vehicle inventories fell to 2.85 million at the start of May as elevated fuel prices drove demand for hybrids and electric vehicles to record levels while supplies of such models dropped, data firm Catalyst IQ said.
• 27:16
  Don Armstrong: Despite representing about one in five vehicles marketed for sale, hybrids were both the fastest turning powertrain type and had the lowest day supply, according to Catalyst.
• 27:28
  Don Armstrong: Hybrids advertised for sale spent an average of 59 days on a dealership lot compared to 75 days for traditional gasoline-powered vehicles and 114 days for EVs, which had supplies of 77 and 79 days.
• 27:44
  Don Armstrong: Hybrids had a 67-day supply.
• 27:47
  Don Armstrong: So if you're looking for a hybrid, better get marching out there right away because uh the inventories are continuing to drop because those are the hot potatoes, so to speak.
• 27:56
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 27:57
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 27:58
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• 27:59
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• 28:02
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• 29:40
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