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A pair of street rod pickups - '33 Ford and then a '36 Ford to go along with This Week In Auto History! · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:00
  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.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Central Broadcasting live from the 48th annual state run of the Lone Star Street Rod Association at Hewlett Park in Grandbury, texas.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: It's the in wheel time car talk show that another guest from today's meetup just ahead, conrad, has this week in auto history and we'll get you caught up on the stories making car news this week all just ahead in this segment of the in real time car talk show, howdy, along with Mike out of this world bars.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: We always need more King Conrad DeLonge.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we also need Jeff Zekin, and he's here with us as well and a special who, parents by our chief engineer and Cook and bottle washer.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, david Ainsley is here in the studio with us or outside the studio and Well it's an outside studio and our remote studio you know, i have to tell you that there are a lot of really cool cars, trucks here driven by cool people, but that one speaks to me.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the color I know, but I think more so when it pulled up out here That thing, that thing, that thing's got a cam in.
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: Yep, yeah.
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: And if you look up the license plate on the back of it, you can't see it from here, but it says try me.
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: And it's like mmm, an invitation here.
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: And then you look up front, you see this, what I thought was a big block for those big heads on it And a ton of ram with a couple of Holly sitting up there.
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: But we'll let mr Randy Watson explain the rest of it.
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: All right, randy.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's all you, it's all you, but okay, what so?
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: first of all, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: first of all, it's a 32 Ford pickup.
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  Speaker 4: Got a small block 283 in it.
• 1:53
  Speaker 4: That's a small block, yes.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Under some different covers.
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  Speaker 4: It's been bored 60 over, got 12 to 1 compression pistons and yes, it does have a big Solid left cam in it.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: How often do you have to adjust that solid lifter cam?
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: once a year, that's all, yeah, well, you don't drive it that much.
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: Well, it's got 80 something thousand on it.
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: Well, I love.
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: The color alone reminds me of American graffiti it really does.
• 2:24
  Speaker 5: It'll pass everything but a gas station.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: Does it say on the side of it sir, bounce a lot.
• 2:28
  Speaker 4: Yes sir, it does because oh sure does.
• 2:31
  Speaker 4: well, i guess it bounces around down the road, it's not so?
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: there's any hidden meaning?
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: No no.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: No, no, did you build this yourself?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, i did.
• 2:40
  Speaker 4: It took about eight months to build it.
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: Well, frame and everything, that's pretty quick.
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's, that's truly, and that's working a full-time job and coming home.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: We work on that and you're only 30 years old.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: You just look, you're yeah because of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hear you.
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: That's been built about 30 years ago.
• 2:57
  Speaker 4: I've had it about 32 years.
• 2:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 4: Finally started to work on it and took eight months to get it going.
• 3:04
  Speaker 4: And did you chop the roof yourself?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's chopped, channeled, sectioned.
• 3:09
  Speaker 4: If you look at, the bed is added to the back of the cabin.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm looking.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it truly is What's with the valve covers?
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  Speaker 4: the valve covers were built probably in 69 and 70 Larson engine International or something I remember, Larson Yeah yeah, they built them valve covers and they were 400 and 75 dollars for a pair of.
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: Back then back then and I'm making 125 dollars a week, so it took a long time to find them and swap me.
• 3:42
  Speaker 5: They definitely show as a big block with the big mouth covers.
• 3:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so is it just all valve cover?
• 3:48
  Speaker 4: is all about underneath it.
• 3:50
  Speaker 4: No, it's got a regular head under it.
• 3:52
  Speaker 4: Of course it's got guide plates and Stud girdles and all the stuff to make it run.
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  Speaker 5: But you can see the same as exhaust pipe So I knew it was a small block, but I'm looking at the valve covers going.
• 4:04
  Speaker 5: That's an odd.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people think it's big block.
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  Speaker 4: They said, no wonder it runs so good, it's got big block.
• 4:10
  Speaker 4: I said, no, it's small block and it still runs good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it runs with two, four barrels.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, two, got two six hundred on it.
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  Speaker 4: Both of them are hooked up at the same time.
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  Speaker 4: They've won open, both open.
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  Speaker 1: And it could swallow all that yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wow go and I see, as you've got like an extended gas tank under there or something, Yeah, it's 22 gallons underneath there but it gets 18 miles to the gallon out on the highway.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: Very good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, here in town it don't, but out on the highway.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of transmission?
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  Speaker 4: I got T55 speed in it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, it run 130.
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  Speaker 4: And third and I still got two more gears after that.
• 4:44
  Speaker 4: But whoa, 140 fast, too fast for, and it bounces, and it bounces They don't know that it does, and the suspension.
• 4:52
  Speaker 4: It's all.
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  Speaker 4: Coal springs on the back and of course you got straight axle in the front.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm, yeah, kind of makes 130 miles an hour interesting?
• 5:01
  Speaker 5: Yes, it does, at 140, and start doing this wobble.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: So it's getting across.
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me slow down probably more aerodynamics
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: than anything else.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, or lack of air?
• 5:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll tell you yourself.
• 5:12
  Speaker 4: I built my motor's transmission rear ends.
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  Speaker 1: I did all did you do this professionally before?
• 5:19
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 5:20
  Speaker 4: I started out at 10 years old playing with cars and stuff.
• 5:24
  Speaker 4: My dad didn't know nothing about him.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: My brother didn't know about him, but I knew you had to learn from somebody something.
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  Speaker 4: I met with a real good friend of mine and his brothers and them drag race and stuff and they built transmission and they Drug you along there, you go.
• 5:38
  Speaker 5: I bet right in it.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: You're the pit crew?
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, i was, but how lucky you were you?
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: I mean lucky, yeah, no kidding.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, as a kid out of love to have done something like that, because they did body work, they painted sure, so you didn't have to do it, just watching right, they helped you Yeah hey, randy, get out there and send that door panel.
• 5:59
  Speaker 4: That's right, go help me.
• 6:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, randy, go help me, help me.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: Help me hang that, hang those headers on there Yeah.
• 6:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah that was you Aggressive.
• 6:08
  Speaker 5: Look with the skinnies up front and the fatties in the back.
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  Speaker 3: In the license plate that says try me now, is that the original bed?
• 6:17
  Speaker 4: No, it's aftermarket, but it's still.
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  Speaker 4: It's a bed for 33 Ford pick up, but I didn't like the way the 32 Ford pick up bed look.
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: Well, i noticed it's got some creases in the side for strength and I'm thinking well, did he put those in there?
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: Oh no got that and And obviously you had to modify the bed.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: I guess I don't know how the fenders and all that.
• 6:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, i well.
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  Speaker 4: The fenders.
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  Speaker 4: I bought them from Speedway and there, with the wider fenders for the rear, yeah.
• 6:45
  Speaker 4: And then the front.
• 6:46
  Speaker 4: I had to modify myself to bring them out to where the running board is lined up.
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  Speaker 2: They sort of look like the fenders The other gentleman had in his trailer.
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  Speaker 3: So did you see that came from?
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: a 32?
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, i think he did, so those are similar Yeah.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: But you know, i think that the fenders in that era kind of like today's cars.
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: They were all competing with each other for that kind of look.
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit wider here, a little wider there.
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: More swithy, more swithy Fantail Yeah.
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Now do you?
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: do you trailer it to shows?
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: No, Do you drive?
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: it, it's drove everywhere.
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: We've been to Guadalajara Good for you.
• 7:21
  Speaker 4: We've been everywhere Wow.
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: Has he got air conditioning?
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, does.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 1: The cowl vent?
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: Is that the air conditioning?
• 7:27
  Speaker 4: No, You got vintage air in it?
• 7:29
  Speaker 4: No, I don't.
• 7:34
  Speaker 5: I mean compressor mounted.
• 7:35
  Speaker 4: Well, no, that ends up high.
• 7:37
  Speaker 4: Other cars I have are down low, but that ends up high.
• 7:40
  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: So I want to hang out with you.
• 7:43
  Speaker 4: What anytime, oh God.
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: So, what what did you do?
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, are you retired?
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: You still work, still work every day.
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  Speaker 2: All right, yeah, what do you?
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  Speaker 4: do Heavy equipment mechanic.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there you have it.
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: It's right in, yeah, so heavy equipment Are you talking?
• 7:58
  Speaker 4: about like you know big bulldozers, front loaders.
• 8:01
  Speaker 4: Yes, i love it, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, have you done that pretty much all your life.
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  Speaker 4: I started in 78.
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  Speaker 4: I went working for this one company and I'm still there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've been in a very short period of time when I worked with my dad at Walk and Show Motor Company.
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: They carried Michigan equipment, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Are you familiar with that?
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  Speaker 4: I've worked on it.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, great big, you know hinged front end loaders, all that stuff, and I drove a few of those and boy, that's some fun stuff.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Those mechanics that worked in that shop, which would be you very talented, and they did a lot of welding repairs, because those things get beat up really bad.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah Well, they're supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: They're a working vehicle, that's what they're made for, and they either put them back into the rental fleet or they sold them.
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  Speaker 1: And when they walked out the door with their brand new rebuilt it looked brand new.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, done it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's a shop like, like you've never seen, because it was, like you know, 30 feet high to get those great big trackers in Yeah.
• 9:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you live here in the area I live in, plannersville.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, well, hello, that's the Texas.
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: Renaissance.
• 9:13
  Speaker 5: They're almost in my front yard.
• 9:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, i'm just south of Tomball.
• 9:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah Now.
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: Do you work for a company or you work for yourself?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, i work for Ray Smith construction out of Houston and He gave his company a way to Three of the guys that worked for him Because he had two other company different companies going.
• 9:31
  Speaker 4: So I went to work for him at the other company And then finally he sold them out.
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: So I'm at his house, either working at his house on all his farm equipment, or I'm in Houston.
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: He lets me build people's old cars for him.
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: Oh cool when you don't have nothing for me to do at his place.
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: So I got to know a couple people that need that kind of work.
• 9:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a few of them already there Yeah exactly.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: Hey, randy, can you fix that?
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: fender for me and need a little welding done over here.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: You know that that that 454 just did quite run and right.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: Can you help me with that?
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he does it all.
• 10:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, i got a 67 Mustang fastback in my shop in Houston that we're putting a coyote motor As a matter of fact, that we already got it in all the Detroit speed front end and where's the?
• 10:14
  Speaker 4: shop.
• 10:14
  Speaker 4: So it's in Houston.
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: They're off the hardy tow road.
• 10:17
  Speaker 4: So, So it gives us something that when I don't have nothing to do at his place, i go there and work.
• 10:23
  Speaker 5: So well, the, the coyote motor is becoming the small block Chevy.
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: Hey, hey, that's as you're seeing it being used in more and more applications And and driving towards the Ford products.
• 10:35
  Speaker 5: But you know it's cool to see some of the Fords being built with the Ford engines.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, randy, it's a pleasure.
• 10:42
  Speaker 5: We love it.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: Love your truck, thank you, i want.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: American graffiti, we'll be looking to run into you downtown.
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: Hey, that'll work.
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: Man, Thank you so much.
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: Appreciate you.
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: Hey, thank you You bet.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Hey, we'd love to hear from you.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: All you have to do just shoot us an email.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: Our address here at the in wheel time car talk show is info at in wheel time Dot com.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: So, um, please do that for us, conrad.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Why don't we?
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: while we're waiting here?
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: Why don't we?
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: why don't we do the This week in auto history?
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: Are you good with that?
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: Yep, okay, and then we're gonna get our next guest.
• 11:17
  Speaker 5: So this week in 1864 Ransom Eli Oldsmobile was born.
• 11:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, my god, yeah, go figure that in northeastern Ohio, in a town called Geneva, in 1917, henry Leland, the founder of Cadillac motor cars Yeah, baby.
• 11:36
  Speaker 5: Resigned as the company's president.
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: He had to in 1917 and he and William Durant arranged to sell Cadillac to General Motors Corporation.
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: Leland was Engineer that created the electric starter that made Cadillac so successful at its start.
• 11:56
  Speaker 5: You didn't have to get out there and crank it by hand, you just push a push a button and step on a button on the floor and it started.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: I had a, the truck that I had, that's what it had the floor starter.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, floor starter, that was all manual because when you pressed on the button it had a Lever down there that mashed the and then Leland's next great achievement at Cadillac was to introduce the v8 engine.
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: So you know he was quite the engineer.
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: In 1921, mac adopted the bulldog bulldog as its symbol for its Mac trucks in 1933.
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: This week eager motorists park their automobiles on the grounds of the park.
• 12:39
  Speaker 5: In theater, the first ever drive-in movie theater, located in on Crescent Boulevard in Camden, new Jersey.
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: The nice thing was they created the drive-in.
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: The bad thing was it was in New Jersey.
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: Sorry, you used to hang out in New Jersey.
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: I know I was.
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: I was upstate New York.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: It's a Jersey boy Jersey was close.
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: Forget about it.
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: In 1951, gordon Berrig of South Bend, indiana, he received a patent for vehicle top construction with removable panels, which finally appeared in 1968 on the Corvette Stingray as teatops.
• 13:17
  Speaker 5: Burring was one of the 25 candidates of the car designer of the century, an international award given in 1999 to honor the most influential, some of the most influential automobile designers of the 20th century.
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: Cool, that's this week in auto history All right.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Thanks for the gift.
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: We have another guest with another.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: I was just brought to my attention about the kettle, corn and stuff and there's some pinstriping going on over there.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: If you need a little pinstriping, you know, maybe on your uh, yeah, on your car.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: See how sick it is by getting some pinstriping on that brand new to a hundred thousand dollar Denali over there.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can send it back to the factory.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: We can send it, yeah, send it back to Dallas.
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: Here's what I think makes it look better.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh how do you think that would go?
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: over.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be the last truck I get from general.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, probably, but you might talk, uh, jeff Kinsey, out of his 36 forward truck.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: That's sitting right here, jeff, come on man, jeff Gorgens.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Jeff, uh, obviously you're a hot rodder.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah and uh and um.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Is this your first hot rod?
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, started out in a six bucket and he says it with you know some sort of distance?
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: No?
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: Oh you gotta read his shirt Hot rods by J S K.
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: I'm assuring, yeah, yes, sir, hot rods by J S K.
• 14:33
  Speaker 6: We're in east Texas, we're in east Texas between Greenville and sulfur springs We're about.
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: It's called east east.
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: We're about 65 70 miles east of Dallas.
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: A little small town.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, they're supposed to lose the data 77 people, no, interstate 30.
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: Like you go into texarkana.
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: Okay, we're between Dallas and texarkana, all right, got a hot rod shop there.
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: Uh, started off building cars in school And uh, i built the T bucket in high school and finished it a little later on where'd you go to high school?
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: Hey, come be a little small town there I've never left.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, still there.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they had like an auto shop program.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Well, no, you made it in.
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: That was gonna say our class kind of made it one, but we did a lot of a lot of cutting springs and modifying and in in what we called ag.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Did you do any tractor work?
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, We painted tractors for everybody in town what's your favorite tractor?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: what, what, what brand?
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, I actually have a 1896 Minneapolis.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: It's kind of hard to hurt a little yeah, i kind of like the, i kind of like the Oliver's the 40.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: The 40s.
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they just had really nice lines.
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: You know the grill shells and everything on them.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: We have a friend of ours that likes tractors as well.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: His name is John Hovis.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: He owns a place down there, just West of Houston in brookshire named the hemmy hideout.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a collection of tractors and he's got lots of himmys in there.
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, he's got all.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: That's a place that you really appreciate it, tractors.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Just wasn't fast enough, though You know, i know I got it, but they sure did do some weird stuff out the field.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, they did.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah one thing I noticed about his vehicle here is the tilted front windshield.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it pops out, Yeah.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: I'm a traditional guy.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't it do that originally.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: It did yeah because it doesn't have.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have a cow on it, does it?
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: no, no, it's, it's got a cow, vent It does yeah and but it's we.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: Just we made it look like it's functional But it's not because of all the AC and everything, just not enough room to function the louvers on the top of the hood?
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Did you do those yourself?
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: We did.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: We built the hood, the hood sides, we built the fender wheel openings, the running boards, the grill, the bed Wow, the tail light.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's beautiful, it's beautiful.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Tell me about the wheels.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: They are wheel, smith, and they're actually aluminum, and then we went in and painted them.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: It's a, it's a billet, aluminum wheel.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Oh it is.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a billet aluminum wheel We went in and polished all the veins and everything and painted them.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: How big is your shop?
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: It's, it's well, it's growing.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: We just built the new 40 by 80 section for a body shop.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna try to separate the, you know, the dirty stuff from the clean stuff.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: But uh, now this I was gonna tell you all ago.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: I Worked there in high school when it was a regular automotive shop and then in 96 you bought it me, and me and my wife bought it, and what a great story.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Well, one of them Cinderella stories, you know.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, I guess it was just meant to be.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: And Yeah, we keep a two to three year backlog and have ever since 1996.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Congratulations, Yeah, that's very that's something about the quality of your work that people are willing to hang.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: You Did your own TV show.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: Well.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: J S K.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: All they've tried.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: They've tried, we've run, we've had to run them off a few times really.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah them off.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a total pain isn't it, But now yeah but I've got some really talented guys working for me.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: You know That's what it takes.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: It takes a team.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Did you, did you import them?
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: Actually, yeah, we've.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: We've moved some in from Wisconsin we're gonna say can you only had 700 people to work with there?
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I tell you what those cheeseheads it's Well, it's tough, he's one.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but we're working on him, Yeah he's working on us and we're working on him.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we understand it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Let's say it is a.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: It is a total change of Mindset coming to Texas from Wisconsin.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: I know because I did it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: I told him.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: I said you know we're a lot friendlier than y'all are And you need to get used to that.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, but now we.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Do you know, any cows in the backyard?
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Do you?
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: know we we Used to do all that when I was at home.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: We we had a hundred and seventy eight acres where I was raised And we did cows and horses and all that stuff.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: And my dad, you know, he wasn't in the cars.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: If it didn't have hooves or horns He wouldn't interested in it.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: But, and it probably had a truck that that used it just for that as a truck, and that was all it was good.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: So let's get back to your truck.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: What's under the hood?
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: It's an LT for older VET motor.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, all right.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, mm-hmm, yeah, and it gets decent gas mileage it.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: You wouldn't believe it.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: It gets about 25, 26.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Whoa, what transmission you got for.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: L 60, the.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: We finished that truck in 15 and it had 150 miles on it and we drove it across country and did the the good guys road tour and That truck actually won truck of the year early.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah but we put 3,000 miles on it and no problems at all.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: You know, other than a ticket.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Louisiana run 120 mile an hour.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Well, that's to be expected.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: You'll have that they don't go fast very much over there, Yeah they don't joke around like no.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Come on, no sense of humor over there.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: They do not.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: the only way to validate your speeds to take a ticket for that's right And I did I did otherwise, everybody just thinks you're bragging.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: I'm like no, here Let me show you this I took one for the team, Yeah this one cost me $700 in the night in jail.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: So I had the fortune of Taking the last two-year hot rod tour of Texas.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that next year that Bobby, you know those guys who hot rod tour of Texas- No, Bobby's part.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Bobby sparkman Yeah well, that's something for you to look up.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: I will.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe they'll look me up And maybe so and what I was thinking was hey, bobby, you know, looking for a place to kind of end the tour.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Next year We start in Victoria.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: The past two years We've gone through the Hill Country up to this neck of the woods.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Well, next year.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah we've done that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: We've actually hosted that.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: There was a deal Oh gosh, it was probably 25 years ago.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: It was called tour around Texas and We hosted one of the stops, fed everybody barbecue and all that stuff.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: It was a great time.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing but a bunch of crazy car people that pose.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: He was on that.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: There was a, there was a.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: There was a bunch of people that was on it.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: There is a pretty cool deal.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: It's good to know that the tours are still active, but they're just managed and run by Different entities of the organization.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Right, you might do it, and right done to 25 years, or whatever.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, but it just all goes how long you've been a member of a little stir street ride association.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Well, me and Rick was talking while ago.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: I was in Waco when it flooded so bad and 37 forward and water was going over the running board.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: So it's got to be at least 25 years somewhere in there.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: I've been a member since then.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: You know, now they do it.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: They do a really great job, you know it.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: We, we have a lot of fun.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: You know, the cars are cool, but it's the people that you meet.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: That's really the answer.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: pretty much everybody sat here, exactly, it's kind of a family reunion.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: That's what it's all about cars.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, my girlfriend was never involved in anything automotive until she met me and I can't really explain the camaraderie You know, taking her to races and and and to cruise ends and places like this, and auto shows that sort of stuff, and You can't really explain that to somebody.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: They have to experience to understand it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, some people just don't get it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: But yeah, well, we know the only thing automotive She had experience with was getting screwed on getting a Jaguar fixed.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: The Prince of Darkness.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: That's what I call the wiring and Just something about positive grounds.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: That just don't sound right.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: What do you got in the shop that excites you right now?
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: We got several bills going on.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: We got a 70 Chevelle hardtop that LS, supercharged.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: We're building a a really, really, really cool Mustang Coyote motor, super snake, supercharged motor.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: eight hundred fifty seven horse.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Oh wow We.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: We took a roaster shop Chassis and narrowed it and then actually widen the car, so we don't have to do any you know, fender, flares or anything on it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Everything is hand-built.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: The only thing that we used is a roof and pretty much the the A pillars and the B pillars.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: They, both the doors and the latches together made everything else.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: And then, right down the road, babes, chicken, down here I'm building a 56 Lincoln premier convertible for him.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, how cool.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: That's gonna be a really neat car.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: He's a.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: He's a big car guy got a lot of convertibles in a.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: One of our earlier guests had mentioned babes chicken.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: It's the best chicken.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Oh you need to.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: I promise you won't regret it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: He won't give me the recipe.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: I don't know what to do.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: No, yeah hey, in the Colonel.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, listen, man It's.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: It's a pleasure Love your truck, thank you.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I hope to see you again and now that we've got a connection to the piney woods DPS Texas, we're coming to see you.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: We would love to have you Yeah okay.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Buy you a beer, whatever need to do, all right.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you again.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: All righty.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Thank y'all, thank you, thank you sir.
• 24:10
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• 24:18
  Speaker 1: We're getting ready to close out the show.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, here at the Grandbury headquarters of the Lone Star Street, rod Association Street, run, rod run and I Would you want to get in a couple of extra stories here.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm gonna get to.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, we have trucks.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: General Motors said Thursday it intends to invest more than half a billion dollars at its factory in Arlington to build future versions of its popular full size SUVs.
• 24:53
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• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Up there they make the Chevy, tahoe and Suburban, gmc Yukon and Yukon XL, cadillac Escalade, escalade ESV and the Escalade V.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's all out of Arlington, so they're going to stick a lot of money into that factory up there And Carvana seems to have turned to corner.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: What's going on with those?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Well they may survive.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: They're going to target dead heavy.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: They expect to achieve an adjusted profit above 50 million in its second quarter.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: They robbed the bank.
• 25:26
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• 25:28
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