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The Texas Muscle Car Challenges, Houston Car Scene, and Auto Theft Prevention · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars and we'll have the stories-making automotive news headlines this week.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, mars.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: We always need more Jeff Zekin and Chief Engineer David Ainsley.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding?
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: He's not here.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: No, it's 1130.
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: He's sleeping.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's raining too.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's a good thing to do.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us today.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: Let's get right to it.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: And here is Sarah and Sarah Vedrine.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: Listen, halfway through the season already.
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: it seems like we just talked to you and the season was just getting ready to get started.
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: Uh-oh, there we go.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: I forgot how to unmute.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: It's been a minute, it's okay.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: How?
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: are y'all.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Well, we're doing good.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: I'm okay.
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: I just got a message from my other guy that was coming on with me.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: He said that he didn't get a link, but that's okay, we can fill him in later.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: And that's Mr Mars.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: He did that.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: He missed the link Send him the link.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: Well, we a link missing, let's send them the link.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah well, we're sorry, it's all good.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, me again.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I know well, we and we enjoy that.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: I see you're sitting, uh, right there in the burnout box at some racetrack texas raceway, now defunct.
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: Texas raceway yeah, yeah really, I miss that track very, very much.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: It's my favorite um, yeah, where, where is that?
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: That was in kennedale kennedale, so it it's not in operation anymore no, this is a perfect opportunity for you to step up to the plate and buy the dang track.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: There you go actually the city eminent domain did and they're planning and putting a housing development oh my god, that's what they do usually what happens with most of these, so well, that's the only one I know that's for sale right now is a um abilene you know, I I don't have I ever been to abilene.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been to abilene that's a long is it?
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a long way from here it is a long way.
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: For me as well, it's about a good three hours.
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: It's a long way from anywhere.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: it well, it's about a good three hours.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: It's a long way from anywhere.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: It pretty much, is there?
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: Is that?
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, and you guys do quarter mile instead of eighth mile, right?
• 2:33
  Speaker 3: We do both actually, so our slower classes.
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: If it's a quarter mile track will run a quarter mile, but anything sub 12 seconds goes eighth mile only.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: Interesting, wow, I guess to keep the speed down and also, in turn, if you keep the speed down, you usually usually can keep the price of the sports down.
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: Keep the parts down.
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, you know, most of us are geared one way or the other and it's hard going back and forth between, you know, quarter mile versus.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, you know, just a few thousand dollars gets you a quick change rear end.
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: Exactly yeah.
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking you're geared for that.
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: No, I'm eighth mile only, Eighth mile only okay, she sounded a little disappointed.
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: I tried to run it out in the quarter mile.
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: It wasn't pretty.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: No, well, you're hitting the red line there, oh yeah.
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: I was begging the rev limiter.
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: It was bouncing on this like about 6,500.
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: It was screaming at me the entire time.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is enough, mama.
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: I can't do it anymore.
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: I can't go anymore.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: So what kind of car do you have?
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: I've got an 07, mustang An 07.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: Mustang with a 5-liter engine in it.
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: No, it was actually a 4.6.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: It is now a 5-liter engine.
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: Oh you done, spent your money at the machine shop or for an engine swap.
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, it blew up so I had to put you know.
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: If it blows up you've got to build it better, right?
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: Well, she's run a quarter mile and blew it up.
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's that.
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: Actually it was an eighth mile in Ardmore.
• 4:07
  Speaker 3: Ardmore, Oklahoma, the elevation got me I think.
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know what happened.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: Well, you know that elevation will get all of us.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: So, sarah, tell everybody about Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: challenge.
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: What is it absolutely so?
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: Um, we are a club versus club racing event.
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: Uh, we do bracket series, which is basically a handicapped timed sort of race.
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: Um, we have got classes all the way from your shot grocery getter to full-blown alters, running, you know, five seconds and sometimes quicker, but we try to not let them go that fast.
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: Um, we, everybody has to be in a car club.
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: That's the only requirement for you to be able to participate.
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: Um, so, also, you accumulate individual points, but also you're accumulating points with your clubs.
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: So we are about three races in now.
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: Um, the rain has gotten us a couple times, unfortunately, so we are finally starting to kind of get an idea of how things are shaking out and how clubs are starting to perform.
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: We actually have a race coming this weekend.
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: Believe it or not, it's going to be miserably hot, but the 4th, on Sunday, we're going to be in Ennis.
• 5:22
  Speaker 3: So if anybody is around wants to come hang out, come visit us.
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: Any questions about bracket racing in general.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Well, no, first of all, you said you got to belong to a car club.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: Now, what are the parameters of that?
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, is it a racing car club, or could you just be in like the Corvette club and come and race?
• 5:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so most of the big clubs around DFW have some sort of a race team, like Caltown.
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: Mopar is a big local one, as well as the Lone Star Corvette club, and they've got show circuit cars, they've got daily driver cars, they've got race team.
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: They've got all kinds of things.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: And then some of these other clubs are just a bunch of people who got together and decided, hey, we like racing and hey, you guys are kind of cool, let's hang out on Sunday and race.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: So all the cars that race under the umbrella of the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge can either be through a club or street driven, or they all have to be through a club.
• 6:28
  Speaker 3: You can actually pick up a club the day of.
• 6:30
  Speaker 3: A lot of our clubs are now starting to grab any car they can find to get extra points.
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: So if you're walking around the pits day of and say, hey, I want to race, can I race with you guys, and they'll tell you, hey, here's what you need to do Put a number on your car and you're ready to go I got.
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: I got a 90 chevrolet, no, a 90 buick century that I want to race oh yeah, untouched.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah it's.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: Do I have to take the hubcaps off of it?
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: no, as long as you're not running your air conditioning and dragging water across the start line.
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: They will write you, they will let you race so, okay, water burnout, so he's bringing his mom's car there.
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: Now, how much would it cost him to join a club, be it your club or any others?
• 7:11
  Speaker 4: honestly, most of them are free okay um, and if you want to race just that day for that club, they're probably not going to make you pay anything so so you mentioned that, that you could do that, and the club is open to doing that because they get some points as part of the process, correct?
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: So we get a point for every driver and car that's there, that's running.
• 7:35
  Speaker 4: In the club.
• 7:35
  Speaker 4: The club gets the point.
• 7:36
  Speaker 4: The club does Correct.
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: So the further you go into the race day, the more points you accrue as a driver.
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: And then at the end, our wonderful points person, martha, does her magic and she figures out how many points every club earned that day and we have a running tally throughout the year.
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: And at the end, whoever is first, second, third, they would give out awards and we give out cash.
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: First, second, third club.
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: And also for driver.
• 8:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, and we give out cash First, second and third club, and also for driver oh, and for driver Okay.
• 8:08
  Speaker 3: If you opted in for the driver reward program, you get a permanent number and you run that throughout the year.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: And how much does it cost you to become a legal driver in the club challenge thing?
• 8:22
  Speaker 3: It's $25, which really isn't that bad $25 a year.
• 8:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my god it sounds like we need to.
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not much need to buddy up with martha.
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: Maybe send her some flowers, you know, get back I didn't make that first pass, but I was here.
• 8:40
  Speaker 3: Can I have my point?
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: That's?
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: right?
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a flat and I couldn't run that first run, so do I get my point anyway?
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: Martha, your hair looks nice today.
• 8:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, and usually we're pretty reasonable, Like if you break on the starting line while you're running your first run.
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: We'll give you the point you broke your mom's Buick on the starting line.
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: So does Martha have a car she does.
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: She actually races her F-150 for the Corvette Club, I might add.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, wait stop, I know stop so she has a truck, and so does she tow the corvette with the truck so that's her daily driver in her farm truck and that's just, and she doesn't all of the rest of her corvettes wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: You just breezed right over the farm truck.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: Does it have a farm truck license plate on it?
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't know.
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: I haven't looked at it in a while.
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: This is Martha.
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: It's a vanity plate.
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: A vanity.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: Right yeah.
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: Okay well.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: I think that that would be really something to have the farm truck out there.
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: I mean it wouldn't be the first, but I would imagine it would be certainly different for most of us.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Drag racing you'd be surprised how many trucks we have running oh, I would not be surprised about that, but with a farm truck plate on the back of it, that would.
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: That would be kind of special, that's special uh-huh.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: You know the only.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't have to worry about water on the track.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: You'd have to worry about it dropping cow pies on the track, hay flying out of the back.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: So is martha watching this show right now.
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure she might be.
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: I haven't got a text from her harassing me yet, so I'm going to say probably not, we'll text her back, tell her she needs to be here.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and tell her we're talking about her as a matter of fact.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: We'll be sure and put this up on the podcast later on, so she'll be able to hear about all the wonderful things we're saying about martha yeah, I know she's truly awesome she is.
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: She keeps us running, which is amazing um she's kind of like we're all volunteers, yeah so it's kind of like.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: you know, both of my girls played uh softball back in the day.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: You know little league softball and there was always that one woman on the team that she kept track of all of the stats.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: She always sat there behind home plate and, you know, told the umpire he'd look at her how many strikes you know that kind of thing.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: Well, everybody, as we always say, everyone needs a den mom.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: That's it A den mom.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: A den mother I used to coach Little League football Same thing.
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: So me and my buddies, we'd get together and we'd go to the draft.
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: We'd say, okay, here's a quarterback.
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: Okay, now we need to draft a kid.
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: That's got the best team, mom, because we need a team.
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: Mom that's going to take care of us.
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: You draft that kid to get that mom.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: She, mom, she brings the beer yeah, that's right, and the pops yeah and the pops, okay.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: So, um, where do you, where do you stand right now with the texas muscle car club?
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: challenge points so my club is killing it.
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: We are in first place of course you are.
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you, martha I don't cheat, I promise I've only made it out of one round.
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: No, my club members are picking up the slack for me, which I really appreciate, so Red River Car Club is actually running first in the 5A series.
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: Gm is closing the gap though, unfortunately, so we're going to have to start picking it up again.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: Gm I assume mainly Camaros.
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: Which onem yeah actually no, no, any kind of gm product.
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: You name it, it's out there oh my god like there's chevy trucks, there's um.
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: I think some of the old guys have moved over and combined forces with them and are helping them out yeah, um the 80 bottle, uh, six cylinder biscayne I've seen one of those out there.
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, um, try to think what else I've seen.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: I've seen that one guy it's an suv, I don't even know what kind of suv it is, but he is deadly with that thing and he's super consistent really that would be you, mars.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: Well in the handicap van.
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: I remember a buddy of mine in high school.
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: He got a 1964 door Chevrolet Impala.
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: That's what he got from his parents.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: Six-cylinder, two-speed automatic.
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: He would pull up there and when it would go green he'd put it on the floor and he would be within a tenth of a second every time.
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: I mean it took him all day to get down there, but he was very consistent at it.
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: That I mean it took him all day to get down there, but he was very consistent at it and that's it.
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: Racket racing consistency is the name of the game 20 second runs.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: You don't have to stop watching.
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: Over and over again so you mentioned the Mopar Club, the GM Club.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so 5A Series, which is our biggest, which is 16 cars or more per race, we've only got three clubs, and so it's GM, cal Time, up Hours and Red River, which is me, and then we've got our second group, which is the 7 to 15 cars per race, so they still have a bunch of people, but not quite as many as the rest of us.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: So we've got one club called Whole Shot Racing.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: It's mainly made up of the Leslie family and they are killing it.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: Wow, they are really, really hard to be and honestly that's why I have not been able to get very many rounds in my class, because I am in the class with a bunch of the leslies and I get stuck get racing them if they were first round every time oh okay, well, martha can take care of that.
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, even the daughters have.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: Martha, even the daughters have started racing, which is awesome.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: For me, being a woman and being in drag racing, you don't see very many of us, so I'm glad they are growing the sport and getting the kids involved, which is awesome.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: How do we keep up with Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge?
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: You got a com site.
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: We do so.
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: It's actually TM3C, so TMCCCorg org.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, you can find our schedule.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: You can find rules, results, all that stuff.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Can you find Martha's work up there as well?
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you will see Martha's work on the results page correct.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Very nice.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, give her our best and the best to you, and it's great to talk to you.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: When does the season end?
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: And the best to you, and it's great to talk to you.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: When does the season end?
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: We are going all the way out to November this year November.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: Wow so we're going to talk to you.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: We were counting on a mild fall, fingers crossed.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: We were actually going out to the 10th, so we've got almost all the way to Thanksgiving.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: Awesome.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk to you before you get to the final uh race.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see yeah, absolutely.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Let's try october, yeah yeah, okay, we'll do it.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: We got a date, sarah, it's great to talk to you.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Thank you thank you, gentlemen, I appreciate it you too, bet sarah vidrine.
• 15:22
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow 3 pm, the weekly car meetup in where?
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: In Willis, texas.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: What you talking about Willis, the DNM True Value in Willis, texas.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: So that's going to clear that up.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Now you've got things going on for the future.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: The events coming up are the Houston Back-to-School Vendor Market and Caffeine and Chrome Car Show.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Damn.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Is that title long enough?
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: know it is Mike sent this to me.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I'm blaming him.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Well, there you go, blame it on him.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So that's.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Saturday.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: July 27th today from 9 to 2, the Getaway Classic Cars of Houston, Cypress Station Drive.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Pet-friendly, family-friendly, kid Hyper Station Drive Pet friendly, Family friendly, Kid friendly, Everybody's friendly.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Food trucks are friendly.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: All the local vendors are friendly out there.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Free entry fee.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: August 10th and 11th the 2024 Houston NRG Park, Texas Elite Auto Showcase we had Craig on last week.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Very cool, Very cool event.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Houston's newest indoor car show, Custom car trucks and exotic cars.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: You can find out more at TexasEliteAutoShowcasecom.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Write that down.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: August 17th this year wheels, watches and whiskey.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Michael.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: The Stella Hotel Autograph Collection at 4100 Lake Atlas Drive.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: You want to contribute anything to that, sir?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: No, he's going to go there and partake in it.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: The Gentleman Racer in McLaren.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Exotic and classic cars, premium whiskey tasting Michael Shop, a display of luxury watches and silent auctions Got my attention.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm telling you what the time is, the essence.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's the watches.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Essence of time.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: September 28th, the Woody's 6th Annual Waterfront Topwater Grill.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: It is at the San Leon, texas.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: San Leon.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: San Leon, it is not San Leon, 1920 to 2004.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Best truck Best rat ride Best import, best paint, best engine, best interior, best of show and best car talk showdown would be us.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I worked with a guy by the name of Leon, and if you were to go up to him and call him Leon, he'd probably punch you in the nose.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, and it's a $30 entry fee for the event.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: They're not even spelled.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: The same Facebookcom Woody's Waterfront and Custom Car Show.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: You can find out more from there and the last one I have would be October 19th.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Back to the Past Car Show, the annual open classic car truck and motorcycle show benefiting Spring Branch Senior High School Foundation.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: That's at 9016 Westview Drive, houston, texas.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: You can find out more at springbranchbearscom slash carshows for more information, by the way did you write down the next open house out there at the Hemi Hideout that I sent you?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, I did.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Was it October or November?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that was legal to send out.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I thought you told me November.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I may have November the 9th, I want to say Early November.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I think is what you said.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, I think it's November the 9th, so we'll be there for that.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Let me get out my magic book.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: All right, yeah, do that Got something that I wanted to get in on the show today.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Sema Specialty Equipment Market Association.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: They have the big, big show out in Las Vegas every year and they rarely have any kind of an announcement other than about the show.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Well, they came out with one this week in a press release from President and CEO Mike Spagnuolo, and here's what it says the Specialty Equipment Market Association appreciates the difficult task facing the Democratic Party as it begins its process of identifying a new nominee for President of the United States.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: While many issues will be weighed and considered with regards to the pool of emerging candidates weighed and considered with regards to the pool of emerging candidates SEMA asks that the party identify and unite around a nominee whose values are in line with those of SEMA's members.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: The 7,000 companies that create, buy, sell and use specialty automotive parts, as well as the consumers who support of these businesses, help create jobs and fuel a nearly $337 billion in annual economic impact to the US economy.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Sema seeks a candidate who will remain technology neutral in pursuit of decarbonizing motor vehicles in their environmental policy, prioritize small businesses in their economic policy and preserve America's recreational use of public lands in their conservation party, and then it goes on.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get into all the details, but you can read it if you go to semaorg.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Very good, okay, so I just wanted to make sure that we got that out there for them on their behalf, because we support SEMA Consumer Alert.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Nhtsa reminds drivers to safeguard their vehicles.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: A million vehicles were stolen in 2023.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: What A 25% increase in vehicle thefts over the previous few years.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: That's equivalent to one vehicle stolen every 31 seconds.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Park in well-lit areas.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Close and lock all windows and doors when you park.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Hide valuables.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Don't leave a running vehicle unattended.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: If your vehicle has an immobilizer, use your key fob to lock your vehicle.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Don't leave your keys in your vehicle, including when you fill up with gas at the gas station.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: And purchase an anti-theft system if the vehicle did not come equipped with one.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Some of the things that NHTSA is saying.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Please do that.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Chrysler parent Stellantis paid $190 million in civil penalties for failing to meet US fuel economy equipment requirements for 2019 and 2020 and owes another $459 million in outstanding penalties.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: $459 million in outstanding penalties.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Government documents seen by Reuters show Stellantis will take steps to address problems in its North American market and elsewhere, including cutting output and prices after reporting worse-than-expected first-half results.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Net income fell 48% in the first six months.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: They keep laying off executives that might be able to make that up.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Well, that and the fact that they stopped building the cars that they sold the most of, exactly, and I don't understand that at all.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: It makes no sense to me.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, we're putting all of our efforts in electric, okay, Well, how's that working out for you?
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Exactly, they're all cutting back.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: You tripped over a cord out there on an electric I did, yeah, a cord.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: That's a story that I really wanted to get into and I didn't have time to today, but I certainly made a note of it and I will when I review the electric car.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Every time I get an electric car, the devil comes out, and I'm not joking.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: The devil made him do it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, all right, we'd love to hear from you.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Shoot us an email.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: The address is info at inwheeltimecom.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Back after this, the original group of Loopy Tortilla restaurants will have you telling your family and friends just what the original recipe means when it comes to the best fajitas in Southeast Texas.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Founder Stan Holt invites you to visit the first Loopy Tortilla near I-10 and Highway 6.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Here is 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.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Nothing can compete with the original lime pepper marinade.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: That everyone will agree makes Loopy Tortilla award-winning beef fajitas the best anywhere.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Loopy Tortilla Katie's another location that gives you the same quality and service Houstonians have come to expect at Loopy's.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: It's located on 99th and Grand Parkway at Kingsland Boulevard in Katie.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Find yourself in Aggieland Head to the Loopy Tortilla in College Station, located just around the corner from Kyle Field, it's a great place to enjoy those famous frozen margaritas before or after the game.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Going to Louisiana, the Loopy Tortilla in Beaumont is on I-10, so you can't miss it.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: The original group of Loopy Tortilla restaurants has the best Tex-Mex anywhere and you are invited anytime.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Your car is a direct reflection of you, so don't be satisfied with color fade or a dingy, dull appearance.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Get rid of those terrible automated car wash scratches.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is your save.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: The paint company John Gray and his team of detailing experts can help your cars finish without a full repaint.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Searching for the real experts in window tender?
• 27:05
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• 27:07
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• 27:11
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• 27:12
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• 27:14
  Speaker 1: If you don't know which of the multitude of protection products to go with, john Gray will give you an honest opinion and won't sell you something you don't need or can't afford.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: John will help you understand the many options and pricing right on the spot.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: He's your guy to have your ride looking its best and protected too.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: See the state-of-the-art shop yourself.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Free tours anytime.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is easy to get to, located just south of the Southwest Freeway on the Sam Houston Parkway.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield full service luxury car care today and online at gcautoshieldcom.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Huh, believe it or not, that's all for this week's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: That is all.
• 27:53
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• 27:55
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• 28:03
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• 28:05
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• 28:07
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• 28:17
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• 28:18
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• 28:20
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• 28:20
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• 28:21
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• 28:23
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• 28:25
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• 28:25
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• 28:26
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• 28:26
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• 28:28
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• 28:32
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• 28:36
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• 28:43
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• 28:46
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• 28:51
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• 28:54
  Speaker 1: We hope you'll join us again next week here on the In Real Time Car Talk Show, saturday, august 3rd, 10 to noon Central Time on all of our In Real Time Car Talk outlets.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Have yourself a great weekend, stay dry and we'll see you next week.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Real Time Car Show.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong.
• 29:22
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