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We Break Down Car Ads, Car Shows, And Emissions Rules! · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:05
  Don Armstrong: From our dual city studios in Texas, USA, it is the award-winning in wheel time car talk show.
• 0:12
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, Jim Rowlett.
• 0:13
  Don Armstrong: Uh Lone Star Street Rod Association State Run coming up in two weeks.
• 0:18
  Don Armstrong: And uh we're gonna talk to Jim about it.
• 0:20
  Don Armstrong: Uh Jeff will have the cruise in and events calendars, and I'll bring you stories making automotive news headlines this week.
• 0:24
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world Mars, he's somewhere around somewhere there.
• 0:30
  Don Armstrong: Uh and uh we always need more Jeff Seacon.
• 0:32
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong, so glad that you could join us on this Saturday.
• 0:36
  Don Armstrong: He may be trying to get uh our guest on.
• 0:38
  Don Armstrong: Oh, well, if that's the case, then good.
• 0:41
  Don Armstrong: Uh because um I've got some interesting stories in the news category that uh I always wind up with stories that I haven't gotten on the air.
• 0:50
  Don Armstrong: Well, we're not gonna do that anymore.
• 0:53
  Don Armstrong: He said, saying some of the nation's largest public and private dealership groups were among the ninety-seven auto retailers the Federal Trade Commission in March warned of suspected illegal advertising practices.
• 1:08
  Don Armstrong: The FTC refused this spring to disclose the names of the dozens of groups and dealerships that received these letters.
• 1:15
  Don Armstrong: However, the agency reversed course and just this past week posted the documents and recipient names to the agency's public database of warning letters.
• 1:25
  Don Armstrong: The FTC says it will post information if it encounters multiple Freedom of Information Act requests for its disclosure, according to a spokesperson that uh told Automotive News where we got our stories from.
• 1:38
  Don Armstrong: Recipients include at least four of the six large publicly traded fine franchise dealership groups, Lithia Motors, Auto Nation, Group One Automotive, and Sonic Automotive.
• 1:49
  Don Armstrong: In some of the letters, several of the group stores were copied.
• 1:53
  Don Armstrong: Publicly traded Asbury Automotive Group and Penske did not appear to be included, nor were the two major publicly traded used vehicle retailers, Carmax and Carvana.
• 2:05
  Don Armstrong: Uh, receipt of the warning letters did not necessarily mean guilt, according to the author.
• 2:09
  Don Armstrong: Uh, but he wrote in the letters that he was concerned the recipients had engaged in one of six advertising practices the FTC considers illegal.
• 2:21
  Don Armstrong: Uh, the letters warned dealerships it was illegal to advertise unavailable models or vehicle prices omitting anything from the actual out-the-door price except for government taxes and fees.
• 2:36
  Don Armstrong: Advertised prices need to include the dealership's mandatory fees on charges.
• 2:41
  Don Armstrong: They cannot be contingent on certain down payments using dealer financing or the consumer qualifying for a rebate that isn't universally available.
• 2:52
  Jeff Dziekan: You said you mentioned Lithia.
• 2:54
  Jeff Dziekan: I remember with Lithia only had like six dealerships up in the Midwest, Colorado, they were more of a Oklahoma kind of area.
• 3:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh and then they've expanded.
• 3:02
  Jeff Dziekan: This is like 25 years ago.
• 3:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep.
• 3:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 3:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Penske wasn't mentioned because they probably follow the rules.
• 3:08
  Jeff Dziekan: They probably do everything, you know, by the book.
• 3:10
  Jeff Dziekan: So you know that.
• 3:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, absolutely.
• 3:12
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, because that's the way Roger Penske operates.
• 3:15
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 3:15
  Don Armstrong: And uh, this is a story that we did.
• 3:17
  Don Armstrong: Would you call and see what's going on with Mr.
• 3:19
  Don Armstrong: Morris?
• 3:20
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 3:20
  Don Armstrong: This is a story that um we had last week.
• 3:24
  Don Armstrong: Lugnut, axle, diesel, and turbo have flown the nest.
• 3:30
  Don Armstrong: They left behind worldwide fame for the Kansas Ford dealership where they hatched atop the tire of an F-250 King Ranch.
• 3:39
  Don Armstrong: The two-week-old Robins left O'Lave Ford, Lincoln, on May 27th.
• 3:44
  Don Armstrong: According to the dealership's social media page, employees plan to leave the nest in place for a few more days just to make sure the birds don't come back before releasing the truck to the patient buyer who's been waiting for nature to take its course.
• 3:58
  Don Armstrong: In addition to automotive news, the Robin's unusual nesting location received coverage from the New York Times, People Magazine, The Guardian, numerous other media outlets, including In Wheel Time, with Ford helping to spread the word through a story on its media website as well.
• 4:13
  Don Armstrong: Federal law prohibits destroying an active robin's nest.
• 4:17
  Don Armstrong: Operation Wildlife, a Kansas Rehabilitation Center, advised dealership employees that they could relocate the nest to a similar pickup if needed.
• 4:26
  Don Armstrong: But the buyer, a construction company, agreed to wait.
• 4:31
  Don Armstrong: Well, that's good.
• 4:32
  Don Armstrong: And because the the buyer was actually a company and uh it wasn't in desperate need of the F-250, and they said that they could wait a few weeks longer before they took delivery of the big expensive F-250 King Ranch, where the birds found a nest uh on the top of the tire.
• 4:54
  Don Armstrong: Open wheel well.
• 4:55
  Don Armstrong: It was a it was a good thing for all of them.
• 4:57
  Don Armstrong: Did we lose Mr.
• 4:58
  Don Armstrong: Morris?
• 4:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh Mike is working with our guests to try to get him situated to get him on the air, so he's behind the scenes working diligently with our guests.
• 5:05
  Don Armstrong: Diligently.
• 5:06
  Don Armstrong: Okay, I'm gonna make a copy of that work.
• 5:08
  Don Armstrong: Steady profits, rising sales, and record stock prices were not enough to keep General Motors CEO Mary Berra, a top fortune's most powerful women, listed for a third consecutive year.
• 5:20
  Don Armstrong: Barra slid to number two of the publications 2026 list behind Citigroup CEO Jane Frazier.
• 5:27
  Don Armstrong: Jane, you never never mind.
• 5:29
  Jeff Dziekan: So the money automatically gives her power.
• 5:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Is that what it is?
• 5:34
  Don Armstrong: Well, it's study profits, rising sales, and record stock price.
• 5:40
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, since taking charge of GM in 2014, Berra has never ranked lower than fifth on the fortune list.
• 5:47
  Don Armstrong: Uh, she's been number one five times, including twenty-four and twenty-five.
• 5:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I know what one finger they're gonna flip or one for number one.
• 5:57
  Don Armstrong: Dude, I you know, it amazes me that uh the the price of the cars go up, and so does her salary.
• 6:03
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 6:04
  Don Armstrong: All the time.
• 6:05
  Mike Marrs: Strange how that works, huh?
• 6:06
  Mike Marrs: Mike's all tied together.
• 6:08
  Don Armstrong: What did you say, Mike?
• 6:09
  Mike Marrs: I say it's all tied together for some silly reason.
• 6:11
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, money and power.
• 6:13
  Mike Marrs: Exactly.
• 6:13
  Don Armstrong: Okay, do we have Jim on the line?
• 6:15
  Mike Marrs: I believe so, sir.
• 6:16
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 6:17
  Don Armstrong: Well, Jim Rollett is with the Lone Star Street Rod Association, and uh in preparation for the state run that's coming up in two weeks.
• 6:25
  Don Armstrong: Jim, good morning to you and thanks for joining us.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: Jim?
• 6:31
  Don Armstrong: Okay, so that's working real well for us.
• 6:33
  Don Armstrong: Uh we'll just continue on with the stories.
• 6:35
  Don Armstrong: Biggest company in North America's retail tire and auto repair sector keeps growing.
• 6:40
  Don Armstrong: And you know it's funny, because I thought of you when I was looking at this story.
• 6:45
  Don Armstrong: Mavis Tire Express Service Corporation.
• 6:48
  Don Armstrong: Uh are you familiar with that?
• 6:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep, sure am.
• 6:51
  Don Armstrong: Which has held the top spot in tire business annual retail rankings since 2022, reached at least 2,100 company employee-owned stores this year, the most of any North American tire and auto service.
• 7:06
  Jeff Dziekan: They started on the East Coast many, many years ago, and like anything else, you grow and you get you get bigger.
• 7:12
  Don Armstrong: Mavis, which along with its namesake stores, does business as NTB, Tire Kingdom, Town Fair, Express Oil Tire Engineers, and other brands, has uh more than 800 store lead over its nearest competitors, and that would be a company called Monroe M-O-N-R-O, Incorporated, uh Reinalt Thomas Corporation, the parent company of Discount Tire, and America's Tire, according to data collected and analyzed by tire business.
• 7:43
  Don Armstrong: Purchase of the Midas franchise portfolio with its system-wide sales of nearly two billion dollars, gives Millwood, New York based Mavis more than 3,500 points of sale in the U.S.
• 7:55
  Don Armstrong: and Canada.
• 7:56
  Don Armstrong: Never heard of them, but I guess if we went over to the East Coast, they'd be everywhere.
• 8:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 8:00
  Don Armstrong: Kind of like discount is here.
• 8:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Right.
• 8:02
  Jeff Dziekan: When uh some of the employees of ATD left, they went over to Mavis back on the East Coast, uh, you know, for employment.
• 8:09
  Jeff Dziekan: So I know a couple of guys that went over there, and I I know the the the retail side of it.
• 8:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh since I was on the distribution on the wholesale side, we wealth with them.
• 8:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Dealt with them sorry.
• 8:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Dealt with them in different aspects.
• 8:22
  Jeff Dziekan: So uh yeah, supply and supply and demand, supply chain, all that.
• 8:26
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh obviously we're not going to get uh Jim Rallett on, but you know what?
• 8:30
  Don Armstrong: We have enough knowledge since we've been there so many times.
• 8:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Look behind us.
• 8:34
  Jeff Dziekan: See that see that image behind you?
• 8:35
  Jeff Dziekan: I I keep asking folks to send in pictures of their cars so we can get them on and talk about them.
• 8:41
  Jeff Dziekan: But I had a van almost identical to this.
• 8:44
  Jeff Dziekan: I didn't have side pipes on it like this.
• 8:45
  Jeff Dziekan: Did you have did you have shag carpet in it?
• 8:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh no, we didn't get that far.
• 8:49
  Jeff Dziekan: Um I had a shaggy haircut at the time.
• 8:51
  Jeff Dziekan: But it was almost the same color, blue.
• 8:53
  Jeff Dziekan: Um mine was a GMC, it was a 77, and this this brought back uh I sent Mike a photo.
• 8:59
  Jeff Dziekan: I said I'm living my old hippie days.
• 9:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Those can't be real side pipes.
• 9:02
  Jeff Dziekan: No, I'm I'm just saying if they were, that that's a pretty stupid idea.
• 9:06
  Jeff Dziekan: But if you look at the real picture, they're kind of tucked under, so it I I believe they're on there.
• 9:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 9:11
  Jeff Dziekan: They're not on the engine.
• 9:13
  Jeff Dziekan: I would well, no, they're probably like the the faux.
• 9:15
  Don Armstrong: My god, like a zoomy the runners on them, but have to be, you know, ten miles long.
• 9:19
  Don Armstrong: Well, it is, you know, the engine is up in the it's right between the driver and the passenger in the front.
• 9:24
  Jeff Dziekan: I know.
• 9:25
  Jeff Dziekan: Big cup holder on it and all that.
• 9:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 9:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 9:27
  Don Armstrong: And that's where all the crap was.
• 9:29
  Don Armstrong: Every everything that you could possibly have is a pocket, yeah, collection point.
• 9:34
  Don Armstrong: Kind of like cup holders used to be.
• 9:35
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 9:36
  Don Armstrong: Now you use the cup holders.
• 9:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I yeah, yep.
• 9:38
  Jeff Dziekan: But anyways, send in your pictures of a vehicle that you drove or your current one.
• 9:42
  Don Armstrong: We'll get I'll have Mike put it up there and we'll and you know what I'd like to see is I'd like to see our contributing uh editors, if you want to call them that.
• 9:50
  Don Armstrong: Uh George Skelton and Jeff Heitzman.
• 9:53
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 9:54
  Don Armstrong: I'd like to see their cars back in the day.
• 9:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep.
• 9:56
  Jeff Dziekan: In fact, I told you we went to Johnson Space Center the whole time I was thinking of Jeff while I was there.
• 10:01
  Jeff Dziekan: You know, he's there.
• 10:01
  Jeff Dziekan: I know, he's there.
• 10:02
  Jeff Dziekan: We did the tram tour.
• 10:03
  Jeff Dziekan: It's an incredible facility.
• 10:05
  Jeff Dziekan: I can't say enough.
• 10:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Kathy and I had a great time.
• 10:07
  Don Armstrong: So let's talk about uh Granberry and the Lone Star Street Route Association, shall we?
• 10:11
  Don Armstrong: I'm packing.
• 10:12
  Don Armstrong: Um so um we're going to be up there a week from today doing our show.
• 10:16
  Don Armstrong: We're gonna have a bonus hour.
• 10:17
  Don Armstrong: We're gonna be on the air from 9 to noon.
• 10:21
  Don Armstrong: Two weeks.
• 10:22
  Don Armstrong: Two weeks.
• 10:23
  Don Armstrong: Two weeks.
• 10:23
  Don Armstrong: Two weeks from today, yeah.
• 10:24
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, two weeks.
• 10:25
  Don Armstrong: Two weeks.
• 10:27
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, we'll have the patio all decked out in two weeks.
• 10:30
  Don Armstrong: And it's six months later, they finally opened it.
• 10:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Let's this real quick.
• 10:34
  Jeff Dziekan: We frequent a restaurant every every weekend, uh, same Mexican restaurant, and they were remodeling the pad front area of the approach, the parking lot area.
• 10:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Every time we asked when it was going to be done, because there's a hole that's 12 feet deep and it's maybe 30 feet long.
• 10:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, two more weeks will be done every time.
• 10:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Is that a government project?
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_03: Two more weeks, it was.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_03: It was hysterical.
• 10:54
  Don Armstrong: And it was about a month and a half.
• 10:55
  Don Armstrong: So Lone Star Street Rod Association, back to it again, uh, Granbury, Texas, and uh it is in a park up there called Hewlett Park.
• 11:06
  Don Armstrong: And it's uh right on the main drag in Granbury, and uh it's also just down the street from the lake.
• 11:14
  Don Armstrong: And the lake, as you've probably heard if you watch this or uh get this show every week, that the lake is like 23 miles long.
• 11:22
  Don Armstrong: 23, 25 miles.
• 11:23
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, something like that.
• 11:24
  Don Armstrong: Surprisingly big.
• 11:24
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, it's a beautiful setting, it's a beautiful little town, Granbury.
• 11:28
  Don Armstrong: And uh not only is the town great, but so is this car show.
• 11:32
  Don Armstrong: It's uh nothing but hot rods from all over, and not only Texas, but uh states beyond Texas.
• 11:38
  Don Armstrong: They all everybody comes in for this.
• 11:40
  Don Armstrong: Um it's a big deal, and it's not so large that you can't get in the whole show during the day.
• 11:46
  Don Armstrong: You can, and yes, there's hot dogs and all that good stuff as well.
• 11:50
  Don Armstrong: But um, it's very easy to get to, and if you want, you can park your car and your trailer that you've brought the hot rod on at the hotel, leave it there, and the hotel's got shuttles that goes to the park.
• 12:04
  Don Armstrong: So and they make it really convenient for you, it doesn't cost anything for the shuttle, by the way.
• 12:09
  Don Armstrong: Um it's it's south of Fort Worth by about 45 minutes to an hour, depending on where you're gonna go.
• 12:16
  Don Armstrong: But uh, and it's not on the main drag of any major highway.
• 12:19
  Don Armstrong: Yes, there's a highway that goes by, but and it's easy to get to, you just gotta wiggle your way up there.
• 12:25
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, um from Houston, I think uh 290 would probably get you out of town, and then you'd uh head on up to uh Bryan College Station and go up that way.
• 12:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Make your own road trip, make your own cruise.
• 12:38
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, you can.
• 12:40
  Don Armstrong: Um we're gonna leave on Friday.
• 12:41
  Don Armstrong: The the actual event itself starts on Friday.
• 12:44
  Don Armstrong: We're gonna leave Friday from Houston and travel up there, uh spend the night and then get up at the crack of dawn or before crack of cranberry.
• 12:52
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, and um and we'll get all set up so we can start at nine o'clock that morning.
• 12:58
  Don Armstrong: Um it it's a it's a great fun adventure and uh great people, and uh you you would really enjoy it.
• 13:06
  Don Armstrong: It is different than any other cruise in, if you want to call it that, that we deal with in the Houston area.
• 13:12
  Don Armstrong: And that's not a put down for those cruise ins here in the Houston area at all.
• 13:15
  Don Armstrong: But it's just different.
• 13:16
  Don Armstrong: It's a different crowd, it's a different notoriety, and it's a di it's a different car culture as well.
• 13:22
  Don Armstrong: Uh we're not gonna have uh you know Honda 2000s with the pow pa.
• 13:28
  Don Armstrong: There's none of that.
• 13:29
  Don Armstrong: No, no, no, no.
• 13:30
  Don Armstrong: You might get a great big huge V8 that rumbles in.
• 13:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, we had that Lincoln last year, and it was huge.
• 13:36
  Jeff Dziekan: It was like 13 miles long, and it was pretty and pinstriped, and yeah, it was nice.
• 13:41
  Jeff Dziekan: And the other thing you like you were talking about.
• 13:43
  Don Armstrong: Again, we'll be on the air 9 to noon central time in two weeks up at Granberry for the Lone Star Street Rod Association State Run.
• 13:51
  Don Armstrong: This will be the 52nd?
• 13:54
  Don Armstrong: 51st or 52nd state run.
• 13:55
  Don Armstrong: 51.
• 13:56
  Don Armstrong: Um, but um it's it's a great time, and we invite you to join us.
• 13:59
  Don Armstrong: Look forward to it.
• 14:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, not all wherever you're coming from.
• 14:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, we like to stop at the little towns and you know do a little knick-nack uh shopping and kind of take in the the the depth and breadth of of what Texas has to offer on the way up.
• 14:15
  Jeff Dziekan: So good point.
• 14:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep, very nice stuff.
• 14:17
  Jeff Dziekan: And we could enhance Mike's travel.
• 14:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Traveling's average to do destinations.
• 14:23
  Don Armstrong: Uh coming up, Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars, and I'll have the stories making automotive news headlines this week.
• 14:28
  Don Armstrong: Stay with us.
• 14:29
  Don Armstrong: The N-Wheel Time Car Talk Show will continue right after this break.
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• 15:35
  Don Armstrong: Join the Inwheel Time Car Talk Show as we hit the road for a live broadcast from the 51st annual Lone Star Street Rod Association State Run at Hewlett Park in Granbury.
• 15:45
  Don Armstrong: This once-a-year rolling car collection takes place June 12th through the 14th.
• 15:49
  Don Armstrong: Check out hundreds of classic street rods, vendors, giveaways, awards, and family fun.
• 15:54
  Don Armstrong: Best of all, spectator admission is absolutely free.
• 15:57
  Don Armstrong: In Wheel Time will be live from Granbury Saturday, June 13th, 9 to noon.
• 16:01
  Don Armstrong: Get all the deets at LSSRA.com.
• 16:12
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• 16:18
  Don Armstrong: It's free, and we thank you again for joining us today.
• 16:21
  Don Armstrong: Time now for the cruise in and events calendars.
• 16:24
  Don Armstrong: And of course, two weeks, we got Granberry and the Lone Star Street Rod Association.
• 16:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep.
• 16:29
  Jeff Dziekan: This is for next week, actually, uh June 6th.
• 16:32
  Jeff Dziekan: This is a brand new month coming up.
• 16:34
  Jeff Dziekan: This is the Gears and Grounds.
• 16:35
  Jeff Dziekan: We talk about this one quite often because it's a deep little show to go to.
• 16:38
  Jeff Dziekan: It's at 13150 Brenton Ridge Street in Houston.
• 16:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Good for Houston.
• 16:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Gathering promises to display a wide range of vehicles, including classic sports cars, exotics, race cars, you name it, they'll have it.
• 16:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, except Corvettes.
• 16:52
  Jeff Dziekan: No, they don't allow Corvettes there.
• 16:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay, well.
• 16:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, they do.
• 16:55
  Jeff Dziekan: And then we've got the Crossroad Cruisers Car Club, Cars, and Coffee.
• 16:59
  Jeff Dziekan: This is at Freedor's Cafe in Victoria, Texas.
• 17:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Frida.
• 17:03
  Jeff Dziekan: Frida, where we know the uh Bobby's gonna be the new mayor and ruler of Victoria.
• 17:07
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm sure.
• 17:08
  Jeff Dziekan: He already is.
• 17:08
  Jeff Dziekan: I think so.
• 17:09
  Jeff Dziekan: The event takes place the first Saturday of the month, 9 a.m.
• 17:11
  Jeff Dziekan: to 11, and it's at 8901 North Navarro Street in Victoria.
• 17:16
  Don Armstrong: That's the main drag.
• 17:17
  Jeff Dziekan: The main drag.
• 17:18
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you got Daniel's Meat Market, Cars and Coffee.
• 17:20
  Jeff Dziekan: These we're just reliving all these for June 6th.
• 17:22
  Jeff Dziekan: It's in Baytown near Mike.
• 17:24
  Jeff Dziekan: We're near both of us, actually, halfway.
• 17:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh 6010 Thompson Road.
• 17:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh registration vehicles, emailing, marketing manager at Daniel's Meat Market.
• 17:34
  Jeff Dziekan: So that's for the classic guys.
• 17:35
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh drivers will receive free coffee.
• 17:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Place takes place every Saturday.
• 17:39
  Don Armstrong: Mine's I have a classic Corvette.
• 17:41
  Jeff Dziekan: You do.
• 17:41
  Jeff Dziekan: You do.
• 17:41
  Jeff Dziekan: It's in the garage.
• 17:42
  Jeff Dziekan: It's pretty 25 years old.
• 17:44
  Jeff Dziekan: 25 years old.
• 17:45
  Jeff Dziekan: Remember when you were 25?
• 17:46
  Jeff Dziekan: You didn't look that good when you were 25.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_03: I don't remember when I was 25.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_03: You weren't as shiny as that.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you know.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_03: You had some dents and dings on it.
• 17:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, I will tell you that at that point in my life, I was uh living large, as they say.
• 17:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Just you know, you needed to get rubbed out.
• 18:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh Mauriceville cruise in.
• 18:02
  Jeff Dziekan: This is in Orange.
• 18:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Orange, Texas.
• 18:05
  Jeff Dziekan: That's Orange.
• 18:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Orange.
• 18:06
  Jeff Dziekan: It's uh Sunday the 7th.
• 18:07
  Jeff Dziekan: It goes from noon as 11.
• 18:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Mars knows about that.
• 18:11
  Don Armstrong: Mars, you ever been over there?
• 18:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Is he spotted?
• 18:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Is he good?
• 18:15
  Jeff Dziekan: He's right there.
• 18:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Orange?
• 18:17
  Don Armstrong: Orange.
• 18:18
  Don Armstrong: Mauriceville.
• 18:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Mauriceville.
• 18:19
  Mike Marrs: They've got a drag strip up there.
• 18:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, this is going to be actually at Leslie's place in Mauriceville.
• 18:24
  Jeff Dziekan: It occurs first Saturday at noon.
• 18:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Participants engaged or they're encouraged to bring their classic cars, hot rods, rat rods, resto rods, and any rod you got.
• 18:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Bring your curtain rod if you want.
• 18:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Wimberly Cars and Coffee is in Wimberley, Texas.
• 18:40
  Jeff Dziekan: Now that's not too far from here.
• 18:41
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a nice little cruise up drive.
• 18:43
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a great cruise.
• 18:44
  Jeff Dziekan: That is at uh where is that?
• 18:47
  Jeff Dziekan: It's at 14200 Rural Road 12 in Wimberley.
• 18:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Starts at 8 a.m.
• 18:52
  Jeff Dziekan: till 11.
• 18:53
  Don Armstrong: Rural Road.
• 18:54
  Don Armstrong: Rural Rural.
• 18:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Rural Rural.
• 18:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Yep.
• 18:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Organizers invite car enthusiasts in the community to attend this.
• 18:59
  Jeff Dziekan: I think that's a rural route.
• 19:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Rural route, rural road?
• 19:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 19:02
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 19:02
  Jeff Dziekan: R R could be Railroad 12.
• 19:04
  Don Armstrong: It's not Railroad 12.
• 19:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Take a train, you'll be better.
• 19:07
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 19:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 19:08
  Don Armstrong: Save some money on gas.
• 19:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 19:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Two weeks we'll be at Granberry.
• 19:11
  Jeff Dziekan: It's going to be fun.
• 19:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Come on out.
• 19:13
  Jeff Dziekan: Mike, I think, is setting up a kissing booth out there.
• 19:15
  Jeff Dziekan: It's going to be great.
• 19:16
  Jeff Dziekan: So I thought about it.
• 19:17
  Mike Marrs: I'm waiting to find out if my wife is coming or not.
• 19:20
  Don Armstrong: Is she not coming again?
• 19:22
  Mike Marrs: Well, she's she's Debating.
• 19:25
  Mike Marrs: Debating.
• 19:25
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 19:26
  Don Armstrong: So so women's grown grown children.
• 19:31
  Don Armstrong: You have grown grandchildren.
• 19:33
  Don Armstrong: Bring them to what what is it that uh that she's gonna stay home for this time?
• 19:37
  Mike Marrs: Well don't get me started.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_03: Do you do we need to call her?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_03: No, you don't need to call her.
• 19:45
  Mike Marrs: No, that would just that would make it worse.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_03: I was gonna say we could stir it up over there.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: If you call her Mike's not going to be a good thing.
• 19:58
  Mike Marrs: Sometimes she gets left out if she's the only one.
• 20:00
  Mike Marrs: Kathy's going, so Kathy will be the Well I just found that out, so I'm hoping that that will encourage her to uh Well we can have Kathy call.
• 20:08
  Jeff Dziekan: We're gonna stop the places.
• 20:10
  Jeff Dziekan: We're doing the we're doing the uh tourist road trip thing.
• 20:13
  Jeff Dziekan: We always make a weekend out of it.
• 20:16
  Jeff Dziekan: You laugh, you have fun, you you know, you have a uh couple of adult beverages.
• 20:20
  Don Armstrong: Well for me it all depends on when I leave as whether I can stop and you know meet you and in some sort of uh bizarre little town that's uh you know one school one school there, yeah, that kind of thing.
• 20:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Bizarre thing.
• 20:34
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 20:36
  Don Armstrong: Honda will halt production of the ridgeline for 18 months because the pickup cannot meet emissions regulations.
• 20:45
  Don Armstrong: Whoa.
• 20:46
  Don Armstrong: Honda, the company that sold everything to everybody.
• 20:52
  Don Armstrong: The the the popularity of the Honda Accord back in the late 80s, early 90s, and I mean ever my ex actually had a brand new Honda Accord, it was a nice little car.
• 21:04
  Don Armstrong: Is this the same?
• 21:04
  Don Armstrong: They've gone down the toilet.
• 21:05
  Mike Marrs: Is this the same?
• 21:06
  Mike Marrs: So did we.
• 21:07
  Mike Marrs: We bought one because it was a Honda and it was so good back then.
• 21:11
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, exactly.
• 21:11
  Don Armstrong: The Japanese automaker will stop building the mid-sized truck in Lincoln, Alabama in the fourth quarter.
• 21:17
  Don Armstrong: So it plans to assemble a heavily refreshed ridge line at the same plant starting in the third quarter of 2028.
• 21:28
  Mike Marrs: So for a year and a half they're gonna quit?
• 21:30
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 21:31
  Don Armstrong: Makeover is expected to include design changes, revised components, and an updated V6 engine to comply with regulations.
• 21:41
  Don Armstrong: This is according to people with knowledge of the plan and automotive news who published it.
• 21:46
  Don Armstrong: Honda is one of six automakers still obligated to improve vehicle efficiency under oh, here it is.
• 21:53
  Don Armstrong: California rules through the twenty twenty six model years.
• 22:00
  Don Armstrong: The Trump administration's moves to reduce environmental regulations.
• 22:14
  Mike Marrs: It's a big number of cars, but it's a small percentage of the country, you got to do something special for that nobody else wants.
• 22:24
  Don Armstrong: I don't know, but uh you know, here's the deal.
• 22:25
  Don Armstrong: So let's say, for instance, you live in LA, like Jack.
• 22:29
  Don Armstrong: You've bought a new Honda eight years ago under California emissions regulations.
• 22:37
  Don Armstrong: Now you're going to be moving to Texas.
• 22:40
  Don Armstrong: Guess what?
• 22:41
  Don Armstrong: Who wants a car of any kind with California emissions equipment on it?
• 22:49
  Don Armstrong: That's it, you know, uh more money to keep up with.
• 22:53
  Don Armstrong: Were you gonna say something?
• 22:54
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, I was.
• 22:55
  Mike Marrs: I was gonna say that's that's the thing about it, because I've looked at that before.
• 22:58
  Mike Marrs: Like what happens?
• 22:59
  Mike Marrs: You don't have to disclose that you got that car in California.
• 23:04
  Mike Marrs: You don't know it until you get the title.
• 23:06
  Mike Marrs: And really and truly, if they go through the title transfer process, you never really see.
• 23:10
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, Jack Nierad had it, and this was his home address, but you don't know for sure that that was a California emission.
• 23:16
  Don Armstrong: I'll bet you Carfax has that.
• 23:18
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 23:18
  Jeff Dziekan: That may be true.
• 23:19
  Mike Marrs: You you can do some research and probably find it.
• 23:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, there's the uh Secretary of State of California would have it.
• 23:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Because it'd have to pass emissions to get through the tech secretary state for plates.
• 23:30
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, but can you afford the bribes that it would take to get that information?
• 23:34
  Mike Marrs: The bribes.
• 23:36
  Mike Marrs: Well, there is Excuse me.
• 23:37
  Mike Marrs: The the donation, campaign donations.
• 23:40
  Mike Marrs: There you go.
• 23:42
  Don Armstrong: I don't I don't know.
• 23:43
  Don Armstrong: I I don't know as if I'd want a California car.
• 23:46
  Don Armstrong: Um I'm sure that there's nothing wrong with them, but I worry about what what is on that emissions control vehicle for California that's different than mine that I'm gonna wind up having to pay for to keep the car actually current.
• 24:02
  Don Armstrong: Because once you inherit the car, you buy the car, you're supposed to keep up with all of that stuff.
• 24:08
  Jeff Dziekan: What about all the smog pumps that were disconnected and taken off in the 70s of some of the cars?
• 24:13
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, mauler cars.
• 24:14
  Jeff Dziekan: If they did that, they can't get past the inspections now.
• 24:18
  Mike Marrs: You know, San Antonio just started doing the same inspections that y'all do there in Houston.
• 24:23
  Mike Marrs: Well, you keep a lot of people upset.
• 24:25
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 24:25
  Don Armstrong: Well, I will tell you that uh in 1977, when I bought the Corvette, my first Corvette, one of the first things that I did was I and it was still underwater.
• 24:36
  Don Armstrong: No, I didn't.
• 24:37
  Don Armstrong: I took the whole pump off.
• 24:39
  Don Armstrong: I took the small pump off because I put the pumpkin pump.
• 24:41
  Don Armstrong: Oh, you're going for weight.
• 24:42
  Don Armstrong: No, I put the headers on it.
• 24:44
  Don Armstrong: So it just kind of blew out everything.
• 24:47
  Don Armstrong: And uh remember the recirculation valve went into the into the air cleaner?
• 24:53
  Don Armstrong: Nah, forget that air cleaner.
• 24:54
  Don Armstrong: That is dumb looking.
• 24:56
  Don Armstrong: We've got to put some open element.
• 24:57
  Mike Marrs: Nice chrome one up there that doesn't have all that nasty looking hose on it.
• 25:02
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you had the heater, the heater tube from the exhaust manifold up into the intake, the snorkel.
• 25:07
  Don Armstrong: Uh-huh.
• 25:07
  Jeff Dziekan: All that.
• 25:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Take that off.
• 25:09
  Don Armstrong: Take that, get rid of that.
• 25:10
  Don Armstrong: That's clogging up the good looks of the engine.
• 25:12
  Jeff Dziekan: You know what it look good in here?
• 25:13
  Jeff Dziekan: An LS.
• 25:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Drop one in.
• 25:16
  Don Armstrong: Um, I was just reading uh yesterday that apparently there is somewhere roaming around an actual 1969 Chevrolet DZ302 engine that's up for sale.
• 25:28
  Don Armstrong: But it's not all original parts, but it is a DC block D Z block, which is uh exclusive to the Camaro Z28 uh back in the day.
• 25:38
  Don Armstrong: That the factory said has, I don't know, 305 horsepower.
• 25:42
  Don Armstrong: Liars.
• 25:43
  Don Armstrong: It had a lot more horsepower than that, and it revved up to like 7,000 RPM and they blew up all over the place.
• 25:49
  Don Armstrong: But whatever the case may be, I looked at that and I thought, oh would I love to have a car with a DZ motor in it, especially a 69 Camaro.
• 25:59
  Mike Marrs: Or a 32 Ford Coop.
• 26:01
  Don Armstrong: No, I wouldn't want to do it.
• 26:03
  Don Armstrong: No, I wouldn't want to waste it on that.
• 26:04
  Don Armstrong: It'd have to be something in the 60s.
• 26:07
  Don Armstrong: Maybe you could put that D Z motor into a uh I was gonna say a Chevelle.
• 26:13
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, or a Nova.
• 26:14
  Don Armstrong: Any of those, yeah.
• 26:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Some Chevy 2, something like that.
• 26:17
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, Chevelle might be a little heavy, but a Nova would absolutely be good.
• 26:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, whatever.
• 26:22
  Don Armstrong: Absolutely.
• 26:23
  Don Armstrong: Just keep keep it in the family, keep it in the Chevy family.
• 26:26
  Don Armstrong: In the old GM make Mary Berra happy.
• 26:30
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 26:32
  Don Armstrong: That's not gonna happen that's not gonna happen.
• 26:35
  Don Armstrong: Um bless her heart.
• 26:36
  Don Armstrong: Next hour I'm gonna have a news story.
• 26:38
  Don Armstrong: Um what Chevy did for the 250th birthday of the country at the Indy 500 this year.
• 26:45
  Don Armstrong: I think that you're gonna find it.
• 26:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, yeah.
• 26:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, you know what?
• 26:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Interesting story.
• 26:49
  Jeff Dziekan: Don't don't blow it.
• 26:50
  Jeff Dziekan: No, I don't know your story, but I've got a story.
• 26:52
  Jeff Dziekan: I've got stories.
• 26:53
  Don Armstrong: Hey, we'd love to hear from you.
• 26:55
  Don Armstrong: Just shoot us an email.
• 26:56
  Don Armstrong: The address here is info at inwheeltime.com.
• 27:01
  Don Armstrong: We're back after this quick break.
• 27:02
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• 28:35
  Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 28:39
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• 28:49
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