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Engines, Enthusiasm, and the Community Spirit: Exploring the Heroes and Hot Rods in the Ozarks Event · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am Central.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: I had to gather up my thoughts here.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of buttons, podcasting and streaming around the globe.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: By a miracle of God, it's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Just ahead.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Hot rods and heroes in the Ozarks.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to Nathan Skelton.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Hey George, you listening Later.
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  Speaker 1: No relation though.
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  Speaker 1: Topless Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: Howdy Along with Mike out of this world, mars.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: We always need more.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: Jeff Zekin, I'm Don Armstrong.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: Glad you could join us on this kind of humid and muggy day here in the Houston Texas area, but all that's about to change tonight.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: From what I understand, I always like to start the show with it gives you an idea of what we're dealing with here, Because I think that right now it's about 70 degrees and very humid.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a warm day and then storms roll in tonight, tomorrow's high temperature is supposed to be in the 50s.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: It's a little warmer than that.
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: But you talked about buttons pushing on a button, you know what's better than buttons Velcro.
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: We need a Velcro board.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: All this needs to be Velcro and have some.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: Velcro gloves, like they use in those amusement park things where you jump and you stick onto the wall.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we need one of those in here.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: We do you prop me up?
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: You jump up there, we leave you up there hey thanks so much for joining us today.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: We always like to get off the beginning of the show with some humor, or what we consider humor.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: We don't know whether you think it's humor or not.
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: Just get on with the show Don and shut up.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: Heroes and Hot Rods and the Ozarks.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: And I told the boys I said you know, we've got kind of a Ozark-y kind of thing going on here and we going on here and we're not talking.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: We're not talking about water here either, we're talking about auto, automotive kind of events uh, hot heroes and hot rods in the ozarks.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: And joining us right now is nathan skelton.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: Nathan, good morning to you good morning well, I hope that you uh are ready for this.
• 2:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I can handle it i'm'm sure you can Most hot rod guys can.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: They say it and then they go.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: Why the heck did I do that?
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: So, june the 7th and 8th, the sixth annual Heroes in Hot Rods.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: First of all, let's get the landscape here.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: Are you with a car club?
• 2:41
  Speaker 4: So I am the director for Heroes in Hot Rods in the Ozarks.
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: We're a 501c3 veteran automotive enthusiast-ran organization here in northwest Arkansas.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: Very nice.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: So this is your once-a-year deal.
• 2:54
  Speaker 4: So this is our main event we host every year.
• 2:58
  Speaker 4: We do three other cars and coffee events every year a spring, summer and fall theme.
• 3:04
  Speaker 4: Other cars and coffee events every year a spring, summer and fall theme.
• 3:05
  Speaker 4: This year we're doing it at the local Air Museum here in northwest Arkansas, in Fayetteville.
• 3:10
  Speaker 4: And then our main event that we host every year that continues to grow and get bigger and bigger, is our main one June 7th and 8th.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: I mentioned this in our tease that we had earlier before we went on the air this morning, my girlfriend and I were talking about the fact that you were going to be on today and I said you know, mars has kind of a Ozark-y kind of thing going on and we really have never delved into the car thing that's going on up there in the Ozarks and Arkansas in general.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: And we talked to somebody last week or a week before Mars Last week Last week, and probably somebody that you know.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: But at any rate, the bottom line is that she said to me right out of the box, she says you know it's beautiful up there.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: And I said you know, I do know that because I have traveled through Arkansas and I have a very old radio friend of mine that moved back to Arkansas after being here in the Houston Texas area for 50 years and I get it, it is beautiful up there, you've got a change of seasons, you've got rolling hills, I mean it's a pretty cool place.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: So we talked about the fact why not do a little four or five-day trip to the Ozarks, go up there, do a car thing, go to the hot springs or wherever?
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: It is some sort of a touristy resort kind of place and I thought, man, that sounds really good.
• 4:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's phenomenal up here.
• 4:32
  Speaker 4: There's so much stuff to do.
• 4:34
  Speaker 4: This area is growing rapidly.
• 4:36
  Speaker 4: You know you've got Crystal Bridges here in Northwest Arkansas.
• 4:41
  Speaker 4: It's an amazing art museum here in Northwest Arkansas.
• 4:43
  Speaker 4: It's an amazing art museum.
• 4:43
  Speaker 4: Biking and hiking trails all over the area.
• 4:47
  Speaker 4: We're one of the largest, if not the largest, biking area in the United States that's funded publicly, versus national parks and stuff like that.
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: We're very blessed to have organizations like Walmart, jb Hunt, tyson that are all here in northwest Arkansas that help improve and grow the community.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: And feed the country with Tyson.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah, and clearly there is a large car culture going on up there too.
• 5:22
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 5:23
  Speaker 4: There's a huge car culture.
• 5:24
  Speaker 4: You know Jeff's event.
• 5:26
  Speaker 4: Uh, jeff yurkovich, you spoke with him last week.
• 5:28
  Speaker 4: His show in eureka springs has been going on in eureka springs for over 30 years.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: Uh, do you go to that I do.
• 5:38
  Speaker 4: I go every year um uh, believe it or not, I kind of help him out with his social media.
• 5:44
  Speaker 4: So I uh, uh, I uh.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: I've known Jeff for about 10 years, so well, you're helping him out with his social media.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: That's what us car guys do.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: We help each other out, and not just on cars, but, you know, flyers, uh, uh, uh, whatever the case may be, I mean, if, if somebody needs something in the car community, by golly, uh, we're there to give each other a hand and uh, and actually move forward the car culture, if you will yeah, we bounce ideas off of each other all the time.
• 6:14
  Speaker 4: You know, jeff's got a ton of experience, uh, in the racing industry.
• 6:18
  Speaker 4: He raced trans am series cars back in the 80s and early 90s, did a lot of that and then so, and I've got a lot of experience in event promotion and so we're constantly bouncing ideas off each other because he doesn't know the social media side of things and I don't know some of the car culture that he does, and so it helps out a lot.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about your June 7th and 8th event of the sixth annual.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: Now, how many, how many cars are you expecting?
• 6:48
  Speaker 4: Somewhere between 200 and 300 is a conservative estimate.
• 6:52
  Speaker 4: You know we'll have 3,000 spectators come through over two days.
• 6:55
  Speaker 4: We do a big swap meet arts and craft festival.
• 6:59
  Speaker 4: We'll have monster trucks on display.
• 7:02
  Speaker 4: We do helicopter rides.
• 7:04
  Speaker 4: So we have a local company that comes in.
• 7:05
  Speaker 4: They do helicopter rides for people.
• 7:07
  Speaker 4: They do helicopter rides for people.
• 7:08
  Speaker 4: We do a giant live auction from donated items where the proceeds go directly back to veterans here within our community.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: Is it all an outdoor event?
• 7:18
  Speaker 4: It is an outdoor event.
• 7:19
  Speaker 4: It's at Holland Barn Venue.
• 7:20
  Speaker 4: It's a venue here owned by my partner, Eric Holland.
• 7:25
  Speaker 4: He's a 26-year Air Force vet and he owns the property, and so we host everything there.
• 7:33
  Speaker 4: It's a giant open grass area, lots of shade, lots of trees really cool barn venue.
• 7:41
  Speaker 4: It's just a lot of fun.
• 7:42
  Speaker 4: We're going to have Ryan Daniel, a country music artist, a 10-year Air Force veteran and a local Arkansas native, there doing a concert for everybody, so it's going to be a lot of fun.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: Well, what do you consider Hot Rods?
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: Is it open to anybody and everybody?
• 7:58
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 7:58
  Speaker 4: You know we do Heroes and Hot Rods I grew up around Studebakers and Fords but everything we're open to everything modern to classic, but everything we're open to everything, modern to classic.
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: What's really great is, over the years we're seeing more and more classics and more hot rides, the 30s and 40s, early 50s showing up to the events, lots of 60s stuff.
• 8:21
  Speaker 4: But we don't exclude anybody.
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: You know it's all about raising funds and awareness for veterans within our community.
• 8:28
  Speaker 4: And how much does it cost to register?
• 8:32
  Speaker 4: So if you register right now, before June 8th or, I'm sorry, before May 8th, it's $20 and then $25 the day of $20,.
• 8:40
  Speaker 4: That's it $20, two days.
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: It gets you in.
• 8:45
  Speaker 4: If you're a spectator it's $5.
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: The great thing is we allow veterans in for free to the event so we can honor them and, you know, recognize them for their hard work and what they've dedicated to this country.
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's a lot of fun.
• 9:05
  Speaker 4: We'll have 30 to 40 arts and crafts vendors and then, of course, our swap meet and all the other goodies.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: And what city is this in?
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: So it's in Highfield, Arkansas.
• 9:16
  Speaker 4: It's three miles southwest of Bentonville, Arkansas.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, so you're right up there by the Walmarts.
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Walmart's corporate office is in Bentonville, and so we're just literally right outside of it.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: We've been showing some of your pictures and your your flyer event while we were talking.
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: I've got it rolling for you so that folks can see.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: And I assume that that barn that sits behind that hot rod that's the barn you're talking about.
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, holland barn there, um, that's that's the main building.
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: He's got another one, a chapel, on there.
• 9:50
  Speaker 4: He does a lot of weddings.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: So wait a minute, so you can have a car show in a barn and then you can go next door to the chapel and get married.
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't get you hitched.
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: Do you supply the bride or do you have to bring your own?
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: I think it would be best if you brought your own.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Well, you can go to the kissing booth and recruit one, all right.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: Um, how many is all the slots filled, or do you have a limitation on how many can enter?
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: no, uh, you know the the most we've had is just over 300 a couple years ago and we still had plenty of room, so it's a pretty large venue.
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: So we'll accept everybody until the police department tells us hey, you got too many people out here, you need to shoot people away.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: Have you ever had that happen to you?
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: No, but we had about 3,500 people in 2021 show up and it was a little scary.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot.
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: See, those are the events that we show up, the cops show up, that's right.
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're used to that.
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: And you know what today is, don't you?
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Saturday.
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: It's Saturday, 420.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: It's Saturday, but it's also 420.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, just thought I'd throw that in there.
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: Soon 420.
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, just thought I'd throw that in there, sooner or later you're going to have to explain it.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: Who me?
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that doesn't need to be explained.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, people that I know, they know all about that.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: If you know, you know, you know, you know.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: If you don't know, look it up Stop by the studio.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: After the show Automotive and motorcycle swap meet Parts or whole complete bikes and stuff.
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: So we'll have a car corral set up for anything that's running and has an engine in it and then we'll have just the parts and everything separate from that so you can register.
• 11:46
  Speaker 4: $20 gets you a running vehicle to put in the car corral and then, if you're wanting a booth, we sell them 20 by 20 squares.
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: They're $20.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: There's a 20 by 20 going on here, it seems to be.
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: So what we did is we gathered data from Dallas to Springfield, missouri to tulsa, and we were trying to be the most competitive and, uh, so that's where we put it in that 20 mark seems to be a very reasonable that's the sweet spot.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: No, I get it.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: How far away, how far away do you get people coming to this show?
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: uh.
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: So we've had as people as far away as Alaska attend In 2021,.
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: We had a group of guys on motorcycles the Air Force vets.
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: They rode down from Alaska during the summer.
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: We had it a little bit later in the year so it was probably a little bit easier for them to ride down.
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: But they show up.
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: But we have people from all over the United States attend.
• 12:45
  Speaker 4: It's pretty awesome to see the large variety.
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: We have a ton of people from Dallas that come up and then a ton of people from Kansas City.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: How far is it from Dallas?
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Do you know off the top of your head?
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: Five-ish hours.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: Five hours, so easily drivable.
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so how far are you from Eureka Springs An?
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: hour.
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so.
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: I can get to Jeff's house in about an an hour so it goes back to what don was saying earlier.
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: You know, you could literally go up there with a few days vacation, check out arkansas.
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: You could literally go to jeff's event and then vacation around arkansas and then come to your event and make the whole week out of it.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: Your wife would love that don't.
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: Don't give me your wife would love that I'm not married, so you're well, that's probably a good thing, you might get to go.
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: It's a good thing for her?
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's for sure.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: All right, what is there to eat around there?
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: You going to bring some food trucks, or what?
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got a slew of food trucks coming in, tons of stuff for the vendors, for kids, and so a little bit for everybody.
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: The biggest thing that we as an organization, we didn't want to be that event that only had stuff for car people.
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: We wanted to be able to spread it out and have stuff for the ladies, for people that weren't interested in cars, because we wanted to make it more about veterans and helping, pay respects and raise funds for them because they've sacrificed so much for this country.
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: So we have a lot to do for anybody.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a car show kind of like this car show we try to appeal to women, men and teenagers too, for that matter.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: And the cops show up.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: And then the cops show up, and then it all goes down.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Sign a few autographs Sign a few autographs as we're handcuffed.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like a Houdini routine.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: Well, all right, so online.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Where do we go to get more information?
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Heroes and Hot Rodszarkscom heroes and so the and is the uh amber sign or the ampersand.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Is it what?
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: What?
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: how yeah that.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: That is um I, but I believe our website is at n instead of that heroes, hot rods, ozarkscom you can find us on facebook search heroes, hot heroes and hot rods in the ozarks.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: Uh, you find us on instagram.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: We just loaded, started a tiktok page, so we're everywhere well, I see here heroes, hot rods, rods, ozarkscom.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Our email is heroesandhotrodsozarkscom.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: Oh my God.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: It's all way too confusing.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Mars.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Are you going to put a link?
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: to their stuff.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, and we've been showing their flyer and stuff up there.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, so if you're interested, I would encourage you to check it out.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a great time.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Do you have room for a car show like our car talk show up there.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: You guys come up, we'll put you in the VIP booth upstairs and kind of overlook everything.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Away from the public.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: So all you can see is our heads looking out the window going hey, kind of like they do in the jail you know hey look there's uh, there's armstrong up there.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I see his head up there.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: He's waving.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it all right.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Well, um, like I said, I'm thinking maybe a trip up there now.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: When is your next event after this?
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: So our first Cars and Coffee event of the season is next Saturday at the Arkansas Air and Military Museum in Fayetteville.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: So after the June 7th and 8th event.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Gotcha.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: So our event for 2025, we haven't secured a date yet Because it's a wedding venue, we've got to make sure we plan around it.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, let me reword this, because you said you said at the beginning of this interview that you personally are involved in four shows.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: A year.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, okay, well, I mean, I do Jeff's show every year and then we do three Cars and Coffee events in our main event every year.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Okay, I got you.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: That clears it up for me.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, because for us car guys we could find at least two or three events on Saturday and two or three events on Sunday somewhere around here, and then if we're going to travel, like next weekend, we're going to be on the hot a little bit more planning, yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: The hot rod tour of Texas next weekend.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: That starts on Thursday evening.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: So we got lots, lots of choices to make.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there's tons to do up here.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: I mean you, you would be busy for a whole week if you came up here.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: So I'm thinking.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking what I'm going to do is I'm going to glom on to your show and I'm going to set up tours by in-wheel time and we'll be able to tour garages, we'll be able to go over and see Jeff a little daytime run.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Liquor stores, liquor stores, yeah.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I have to tell you, don, if that happens, if you go to Hot Springs, you have to keep your pants on.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Just because it says Hot Springs and there's Hot Springs there, you can't go like you normally go.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: You have to keep your pants on, dang it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I can't normally go.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess we've tortured you enough.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Wrap that up.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: By the way, while we have you before we say goodbye, do you happen to know a fellow by the name of George Skelton?
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: I don't, I don't.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I went to grade school, middle school, high school with George and we're still in touch.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: George lives up in East Texas and he is a Skelton, and are you familiar with Betty Skelton?
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not Okay, well see there's another thing.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So you've given us all this information.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Now we're giving you this information.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: So look up Betty Skelton and find George Skelton on Facebook.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I know it's old school, but so are.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: We Do that and I think that you'll be surprised to learn, especially about Betty Skelton.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, I can do that, and one more time.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Nathan, what's the dates on your event?
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: So June 7th and 8th.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Perfect, very good.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Hey, man, it's great to talk to you.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Thank you guys for having me on.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Thank.
• 19:32
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• 19:38
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• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I guess it has something to do with going topless.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I just hope I live up to the expectation he's been talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Located in the heart of Houston's premier retail and service corridor, the Galleria area, pro-am's walk-in storefront includes an 8,000-square-foot warehouse, showroom and installation bays.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Pro-am not only sells parts and accessories, but also offers installation and service.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Pro-am is now reaching a worldwide audience through Pro-Amcom, taking its local reputation to the rest of the world.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: At Pro-Am Auto, you'll be dealing with a small group of professionals who truly want to help you with your automotive needs.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: If you don't see what you're looking for on the website, call and Pro-Am will lend you a hand.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Pro-am Auto 6125 Richmond at Greenridge in Houston's Galleria area.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Call them at 713-781-7755.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Want to feel good about something special?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: You did for someone special In Real Time and the original Loopy Tortilla group of Tex-Mex restaurants have joined together to help a very worthy cause God's Garage, a Christian-based 501c3 charity.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: We know there are lots of places and organizations out there where you can donate a car, truck or SUV, but we're asking you, our car enthusiast family, to consider donating to God's Garage.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Visit godsgarageorg and learn about its mission, the women that have been helped, how each one is screened and about their Restore you program.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: A car donation is an easy way to make a difference in the lives of others.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: God's Garage needs good operating vehicles but will take all types in working and non-working condition.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Make your heart and soul feel good by donating your gently used vehicle and help support single mothers, widows and wives of deployed military.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: At godsgarageorg.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday, may 4th and 5th you're invited to enjoy the 28th annual Keels and Wheels Concours d'Elegance.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: See the largest collection of classic cars and boats in the US on display at the beautiful Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, texas.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: This year's Keels and Wheels features 60 years of Ford Mustangs and Donzie boats.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: There's plenty of free parking and discount tickets are available online at keels-wheelscom.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: It's Keels and Wheels Saturday and Sunday, may 4th and 5th, at the Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: In-wheel time will be there too.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: We'll see you there.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: You know, there are some mornings that work and just some that don't, and this is one of those that doesn't.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Let's see here work and just some that don't, and this is one of those that doesn't.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Mr Chatterbox over there.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: There's a button there and there's a button over here.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: What should I do?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Chatty, chatty, chatty.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I want to tell you that if you'd like to get in touch with us I don't know why, but if you'd like to, the address is info at inwheeltimecom.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Mars is in charge of that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: You get all those, don't you?
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Good, bad and ugly.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I know the ones that are trolling for any kind of money that we can spend with them, those kind.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Well, there's those kind.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I get, yeah, eight or ten of them a day, a day, yeah, yeah, and then I get the occasional one, you know the one.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I loved was who's Becky.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Did you read that to her?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, it came from her.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: It came from who's Becky, that's right, all right, poor Becky.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: We love you, becky.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you do what you do.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: That's Joe.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's Mike's wife.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Jeff, jeff has a special feature this morning called Going Topless with Jeff Zek.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: That is not the episode.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: You sent this to me.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: He wrote that you sent me the episode or the segment and I said that's great, I'll do that.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Well see, it says right here.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Drop tops, or how I learned to go topless right drinks he drinks a lot he gets on the computer he buys stuff in the middle of the night, and all that yeah, he's one of those kind of guys anyways, that's not what it is.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: It's convertibles under thirty thousand dollars okay there you go, here is.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Well we just lost half of our viewing audience there you go in 28 countries, but here's what we got to start out with.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: This first one is a 2009 Pontiac Soltis GXP.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: This rascal can be gathered up for $11,600.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: My daughter would die to have one of those, and you know, there's really nothing wrong with them.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: No, there's not.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: This is called a GM Kappa convertible, sold in the US as a Saturn Sky in a Pontiac Solstice.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: It had a 177-horsepower 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: A rare hardtop Solstice is the pricey collectible, but the convertible remains an affordable option.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: It does bring a solid chassis, sporty handling and room for some serious rubber under those curvy fenders.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: And it's convertible, it'll blow both of your hairs.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all three of them.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: So the next one we have here is a 1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder GST.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: This rascal is $12,400.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: The Eagle, talon, plymouth Laser and Mitsubishi Eclipse offered buyers three flavors of stylish, affordable, sport, compact as part of the partnership known as what Diamond Star Motors or DSM.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately for the Plymouth fans, the Laser never made it to the second generation, which lasted from 1994 to 1998.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: More bad news for the Plymouth fans the Laser never made it to the second generation, which lasted from 1994 to 1998.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: More bad news for the Mopar brand the Eagle, while available with some of the powertrains as the Mitsubishi was not offered as a convertible.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: So the sole drop top is the Eclipse, packing a 210 horsepower 2 liter turbocharged 4G63 engine.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: That was a bad to the bone little car it was.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that means, but there it is Okay.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Next on our agenda would be who's got it?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Chevrolet Corvette 2012.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: This rascal 22K.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: The C6 Corvettes are a lot of car for the money, especially the later models.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Ditched the 400 horsepower Cathedral Port LS2 for the bump in the displacement and betterpower Cathedral Port LS2 for the bump in the displacement and better breathing of the LS3.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: For those that insist on three pedals, Don the standard Corvette convertible comes in well under the price gap that you get with a Tremec TR6060 six-speed transmission and the 430-horsepower LS3 V8 for a fabulous top-down soundtrack.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Now that soundtrack, I like the way you wrote that.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I didn't write that.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Somebody else wrote that.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: You know, I like that car, except for the headlights.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: The headlights on it, particularly on the yellow one and the white one, things like that.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: They just don't do it for me.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: No, they don't do it for me, but that's okay, it's a nice car.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: But that's okay, it's a nice car.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: But that's okay too, and it's a banana yellow, I guess they call it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: 71.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Volkswagen Karmann Ghia $22,900 for this rascal.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Despite sharing its underpinnings and powertrain with the Beetle, the Type 14 Karmann Ghia managed to look special thanks to its hand-finished body and concept car styling.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Enjoy the simple, easy-to-service Beetle drivetrain and ample aftermarket products to keep this curvy cruiser running.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I saw one of these in the wild about 10 days ago.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: It was a little bit rough, but they were working on it and it's going to be a nice car.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: It needed a little TLC and some good hands on it, so the last one we have here for today on this cruise in is my favorite.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I love this car.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: It is a 1969 Mercury Cougar XR7, 28.8 from 67 to 68.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: And it's a good, good, good, good car.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Today's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show is sponsored by the group of original Loopy Tortilla restaurants in Houston, beaumont and College Station, gulf Coast Auto Shield where we're going to be joining John at the Car Social coming up that you'll be hearing about here in just a moment, and Pro-Am Auto Accessories.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: We thank them too.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: We continue right after this quick break.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: The original group of Loopy Tortilla restaurants will have you telling your family and friends just what the original recipes mean when it comes to the best fajitas in Southeast Texas.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Founder Stan Holt invites you to visit the original Loopy Tortilla near I-10 and Highway 6.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Here's the original house that inspired the design of all the rest and the original charm that helped make Loopy Tortilla the go-to destination for Houston Tex-Mex.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Speaking of original, nothing can compete with the original lime pepper marinade.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: That, everyone will agree, makes Loopy Tortilla award-winning beef fajitas the best anywhere.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Loopy Tortilla Katy is another location that gives you the same quality and service Houstonians have come to expect at Loopy's.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: It's located just off I-10 in the Grand Parkway.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: At Kingsland Boulevard in Katy Find yourself in Aggieland Head to the Loopy Tortilla in College Station, located just around the corner from Kyle Field.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: It's a great place to enjoy those famous frozen margaritas before or after the game.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Headed east to Louisiana, stop in at the Loopy Tortilla in Beaumont.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: It too's on I-10, you can't miss it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: The original group of Loopy Tortilla restaurants invites you in for the best Tex-Mex anywhere.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is having another Car Social Saturday morning, may 18th, from 8 to 11.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: It's a car cruise in like no other.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Expect Ferraris, lamborghinis, corvettes and the featured brand Porsche.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Get social at this special cruise-in event.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: You'll also see Gulf Coast Auto Shield's private workshop and learn about their many products and services.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Questions are welcomed.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is easy to get to at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, near West Airport Boulevard, just south of the Southwest Freeway.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: The Car Social featuring Porsche takes place Saturday morning, may 18th, from 8 to 11.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Tell your friends and no matter what car you have, bring it and enjoy this rare opportunity to see some of Houston's finest rides.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: In Wheel Time will bring its car talk show there too.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: In Wheel Time will bring its car talk show there too.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: So join us for another Car Social at Gulf Coast Auto Shield Saturday morning, may 18th, 8 to 11, at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, just south of the Southwest Freeway.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Visit GCAutoShieldcom to see the show flyer for more details.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Show.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am.
• 30:38
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• 30:44
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• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Keep listening and we'll see you soon.