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Ford Builds Boat Propellers?!? · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:04
  Don Armstrong: It is the award-winning in-wheel time car talk show.
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  Don Armstrong: We're gonna have our story of the week.
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  Don Armstrong: Right.
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  Don Armstrong: Later, Jeff has the racing calendar, Mr.
• 0:14
  Don Armstrong: Mars has this week in auto history, and uh I'll have the stories making automotive news headlines.
• 0:21
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike Out of This World Mars.
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  Don Armstrong: There he is over there.
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  Don Armstrong: See him waiting.
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  Don Armstrong: There he is.
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  Don Armstrong: Uh-huh.
• 0:26
  Jeff Dziekan: I see you.
• 0:26
  Don Armstrong: We have uh more Jeff Zeken, as always.
• 0:29
  Don Armstrong: And uh Chief Engineer David Ainsley is out today running errands and going to school.
• 0:35
  Don Armstrong: What?
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  Don Armstrong: He's schooling them errands, man.
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  Don Armstrong: I don't know what I don't know what he's up to.
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  Don Armstrong: I can't.
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  Don Armstrong: I won't be around tomorrow.
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  Don Armstrong: Okay, fine.
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  Don Armstrong: Go, go.
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  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
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  Don Armstrong: Glad you could join us today.
• 0:47
  Jeff Dziekan: That's what we say to Mike.
• 0:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Go out.
• 0:50
  Don Armstrong: We do.
• 0:50
  Don Armstrong: We do say that.
• 0:51
  Jeff Dziekan: We do, we do.
• 0:53
  Don Armstrong: Um so I thought that I would uh start uh this segment off with um a different kind of story.
• 0:59
  Don Armstrong: Of course, that's why it's the story of the week.
• 1:01
  Don Armstrong: Gather around.
• 1:02
  Don Armstrong: Gather around children.
• 1:03
  Don Armstrong: Uh, this is a story from automotive news that I thought was worthy to repeat here on this show because we can have a little talk about it.
• 1:12
  Don Armstrong: Uh a Detroit boat propeller business.
• 1:16
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 1:17
  Don Armstrong: I mean boat propellers.
• 1:18
  Don Armstrong: Boat propellers, okay.
• 1:20
  Don Armstrong: It was drowning in months-long manufacturing lead times until Ford Motor Company did something unusual for a global automaker, and that is it became the startup's supplier.
• 1:33
  Don Armstrong: You're going, what?
• 1:35
  Don Armstrong: It's the sort of collaboration executive chairman Bill Ford wanted to happen at Michigan Central, a mobility campus centered around a former train station, the automaker restored.
• 1:46
  Don Armstrong: You're familiar with this.
• 1:47
  Don Armstrong: Uh this is a story that's Central Station, yeah.
• 1:50
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that they they made headlines because they moved out of the old Ford building on in Dearborn and moved everything down to the train station.
• 1:59
  Don Armstrong: And uh so, at any rate, I scattered brain here for a moment.
• 2:05
  Don Armstrong: Um Cherow Engineering established its headquarters last May next door at New Lab, an innovation hub, working to pair entrepreneurs with the industrial and engineering know-how of the motor city.
• 2:20
  Don Armstrong: A first of its kind partnership between Ford and Sherrow centered on a 3D sandcasting supply agreement.
• 2:28
  Don Armstrong: It's radically changed the trajectory of the boat propeller business, according to founder and CEO Greg Sherrow.
• 2:35
  Don Armstrong: He says it's game-changing.
• 2:37
  Don Armstrong: Uh now we're going from 130 days to three days to get our steel.
• 2:43
  Don Armstrong: In other words, lead time for customers was reduced from an entire boating season to just a few days, a sales windfall for the startup.
• 2:52
  Don Armstrong: For Ford, it was just a matter of plucking the right design from its expansive manufacturing catalog.
• 3:00
  Don Armstrong: And I I want to say that Ford is also talking to the US government uh regarding building things, they didn't say what, for the military.
• 3:13
  Don Armstrong: Uh again, call them widgets.
• 3:15
  Don Armstrong: Uh the Ford Sherrill partnership goes back nearly a year.
• 3:18
  Don Armstrong: Greg Sherrow, who launched his reduced vibration boat propeller, it's weird looking.
• 3:23
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, no, it's actually a very, very unique design.
• 3:25
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, he launched this thing in 2012.
• 3:27
  Don Armstrong: Certainly he had the best product in the industry, but it had a big problem.
• 3:30
  Don Armstrong: He couldn't make them fast enough.
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  Don Armstrong: The opportunity uh entrepreneur happened to hear from a new lab employee about an opportunity to connect with Ford engineers, the kind of chance encounter New Lab uh exists to create.
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  Don Armstrong: Within minutes of that first conversation with Ford, an engineer offered Cherrow a solution, 3D sand casting, which merges traditional metal forming with additive manufacturing.
• 3:57
  Don Armstrong: Right then, a partnership formed, minus the red tape, and protracted talks typical when a small company seeks business from an auto giant.
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  Don Armstrong: After months of fine-tuning, Ford launched production of the castings at its advanced manufacturing center in nearby Redford and had scaled to 100 per week.
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  Don Armstrong: After Ford produces the castings, they are sent to one of a handful of local foundries and filled with metal.
• 4:22
  Don Armstrong: From there, they're shipped to Cherow Engineering's plant in Harper Woods in Metro Detroit to be machined, polished, and shipped to customers.
• 4:29
  Don Armstrong: Partnership involves a standard supply agreement in which Ford generates revenue by fulfilling purchase orders from Cherow Engineering.
• 4:37
  Don Armstrong: And more and more manufacturers, especially the Detroit three, are getting into this sort of thing because clearly the competition in building cars is getting more and more intense.
• 4:55
  Jeff Dziekan: I see future recalls and propellers with Ford.
• 5:01
  Jeff Dziekan: That's what I got out of the story.
• 5:03
  Don Armstrong: Well, Ford does have a problem with recalls, and we're all aware of the thing.
• 5:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, but I think that's a great idea.
• 5:08
  Jeff Dziekan: And looking at the photo that Don had of that, it's it's very, very high-tech, very spacey type propeller.
• 5:14
  Jeff Dziekan: I mean, it it's very it's weird looking.
• 5:16
  Don Armstrong: It looks almost like a bow.
• 5:18
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it does.
• 5:20
  Don Armstrong: And it's three three wings of it that run this thing through the water in um like a paper clip three three times uh spread out.
• 5:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Kind of like that, yeah.
• 5:30
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, the thing I find real interesting is that the big three or or the automobile world has always developed or they've developed a just-in-time mentality.
• 5:39
  Mike Marrs: You know, they buy their parts from suppliers that come in every day because they need them for this day.
• 5:44
  Mike Marrs: And it almost seems like they're turning around and now doing some of that for other people.
• 5:49
  Mike Marrs: That same mentality.
• 5:51
  Mike Marrs: We can do it in three days when you order it.
• 5:55
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, well, they've got the connections, they've got the suppliers, so all they got to say is, hey, uh, who is it that makes our castings, uh, our aluminum castings?
• 6:04
  Don Armstrong: Well, go to that guy and say, hey, look, we've got a deal here.
• 6:08
  Don Armstrong: Would you be interested in doing that, partnering with us?
• 6:10
  Don Armstrong: And they said, sure, because it's more volume for them, more money for everyone.
• 6:13
  Don Armstrong: Very space age looking.
• 6:14
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it it's uh I think it's it's the future of the auto industry is not going to be just automobiles.
• 6:22
  Don Armstrong: I think that it's gonna have to be for them to survive and to have operating cash to actually get into other businesses.
• 6:30
  Jeff Dziekan: I've got another idea with this just came across.
• 6:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Go ahead, Mike.
• 6:33
  Mike Marrs: Uh I was gonna say, do you think then that they may revert back to supplying some of their own parts, like starters or something?
• 6:41
  Mike Marrs: Go back to doing that.
• 6:42
  Don Armstrong: I don't think that I don't think that they're going to do that.
• 6:45
  Don Armstrong: I I I don't, but because they've got other people that can build the stuff.
• 6:50
  Don Armstrong: I don't think that they're going to, you know, do anything like they're not gonna start making manifolds, they're gonna give that to somebody else over there.
• 6:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Brand it with us, yeah.
• 6:59
  Don Armstrong: Right.
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  Don Armstrong: Uh they're not gonna make wheels, they're they're not gonna make glass.
• 7:02
  Don Armstrong: You know, the uh Rouge River plant there for Ford in uh mid-Michigan, they used to have their own glass plant on the property.
• 7:12
  Don Armstrong: Everything was made.
• 7:13
  Don Armstrong: Everything was there on the property.
• 7:15
  Don Armstrong: Because have you been to the Rouge River, Mike?
• 7:18
  Mike Marrs: Uh one time.
• 7:20
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 7:20
  Don Armstrong: And it was, it was, I think that we might have been on that same trip.
• 7:24
  Don Armstrong: But the the property up there is massive.
• 7:27
  Don Armstrong: And you're going, what in the world do they need all this for?
• 7:30
  Don Armstrong: Well, they needed it because they built the entire car coming in and yeah, all that all of it.
• 7:35
  Jeff Dziekan: Here's the other thing I see Ford propellers.
• 7:38
  Jeff Dziekan: I see flying cars in this using that propeller.
• 7:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I'm so I'm thinking Ford's getting into it.
• 7:44
  Jeff Dziekan: They got rid of the EV stuff, now they're getting into flying cars with their new propeller.
• 7:48
  Jeff Dziekan: You watch.
• 7:49
  Mike Marrs: Or maybe maybe they'll build boats to kind of put the propellers on.
• 7:53
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, could do that too.
• 7:54
  Don Armstrong: Maybe a start.
• 7:56
  Don Armstrong: Is isn't there some smoking stuff around here somewhere?
• 7:58
  Don Armstrong: Uh I don't I don't know what what these guys are.
• 8:00
  Don Armstrong: Second hand smoke blowing through.
• 8:02
  Don Armstrong: Second hand smoke, that's what it is.
• 8:04
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:06
  Mike Marrs: Swamp fire going on over here.
• 8:08
  Mike Marrs: There you go.
• 8:08
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, perfect.
• 8:09
  Don Armstrong: Um, I thought I thought it was an interesting story, but I I see these uh auto manufacturers getting more diversified in what they are capable of doing and helping people like this guy here.
• 8:22
  Mike Marrs: Well, generate revenue, generate cash income or another.
• 8:29
  Don Armstrong: Outside of the auto industry, yes, exactly.
• 8:31
  Don Armstrong: And because they have the capability of building anything, really.
• 8:34
  Don Armstrong: I mean, look at World War II.
• 8:36
  Don Armstrong: I mean, all of the car manufacturers moved into building airplanes and all of the support stuff, Jeep, all of that.
• 8:43
  Jeff Dziekan: And the the what's the uh process where they uh oh gosh, where they make the beads and it fills up what's that uh dang, I just lost my train of thought.
• 8:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Beads.
• 8:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Where you can uh they put in a machine and you make a part out of plastic.
• 8:56
  Jeff Dziekan: What is what is that, Mike?
• 8:57
  Mike Marrs: Oh, uh You know what I'm talking about.
• 9:00
  Mike Marrs: It's 3D engineering.
• 9:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, 3D engineering, 3D printing.
• 9:03
  Jeff Dziekan: Printing, air you're printing, 3D printing, so I'm still hung on a Ford M16.
• 9:08
  Jeff Dziekan: The part like that could be a 3D printed, I'm sure.
• 9:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Probably.
• 9:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 9:12
  Don Armstrong: And then they take that to make the mold, probably.
• 9:15
  Don Armstrong: Probably.
• 9:15
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 9:15
  Don Armstrong: I mean, I I don't know all of the processes involved in this, but uh yes, you're exactly right.
• 9:20
  Don Armstrong: As a matter of fact, there's a gal that I follow that uh is very talented.
• 9:25
  Don Armstrong: Does she know that?
• 9:27
  Mike Marrs: Is that one of the stalking charges?
• 9:31
  Don Armstrong: That's it.
• 9:32
  Don Armstrong: That's it.
• 9:33
  Don Armstrong: He's done.
• 9:35
  Don Armstrong: Um she's mechanically skilled, and she's by she buys all these high-end for me anyway.
• 9:45
  Don Armstrong: Um one was a laser cutter that she bought uh and made a gasket out of it.
• 9:51
  Don Armstrong: And uh you take a picture of the gasket, you put it in this machine, it scans it, and then once it's gets scanned in there, then it actually laser cuts the material uh to make it absolute perfect identical uh gasket.
• 10:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, and you see these on these car shows that we we've watched over the years that they have those devices, those machines that actually cut it out of wood or metal or whatever.
• 10:14
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, and now they're getting etching less and less expensive and um make it affordable for regular Joes like us.
• 10:24
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:25
  Don Armstrong: I don't know, but Joes would be a really good we would probably hurt ourselves with that somehow.
• 10:29
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:30
  Don Armstrong: Cut off a finger.
• 10:31
  Don Armstrong: Hey, what happened to your finger?
• 10:32
  Don Armstrong: I cut it off with a laser.
• 10:35
  Mike Marrs: Take your 3D printer then and make you another finger.
• 10:41
  Don Armstrong: You know, that would be something that you're saying.
• 10:46
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, you'd go to Neeterville and have done.
• 10:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Not the 180 it normally takes.
• 10:52
  Don Armstrong: You could make that middle finger longer if you wanted to.
• 10:56
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:58
  Don Armstrong: Oh boy.
• 10:59
  Mike Marrs: I'm quit right here.
• 11:00
  Mike Marrs: I'm not going any further.
• 11:01
  Don Armstrong: You're not gonna go any further?
• 11:03
  Mike Marrs: No, sir.
• 11:03
  Don Armstrong: All right, well, that's probably a good thing.
• 11:07
  Don Armstrong: Um yes, I've been thinking about maybe uh getting rid of the Corvette.
• 11:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, you know, you talked about and and uh God bless you.
• 11:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, you you deserve something.
• 11:16
  Don Armstrong: You know, something uh you can be more comfortable.
• 11:20
  Don Armstrong: I can't even believe that I'm even gonna say this, but I'll be honest with you, I'm getting tired of shifting with a clutch and my knees and getting in and out of the car the whole nine yards.
• 11:32
  Don Armstrong: I mean, don't get me wrong, I've had a Corvette since 1970.
• 11:36
  Don Armstrong: Preaching to the choir.
• 11:37
  Don Armstrong: All through the years, I've had several Corvettes, and I love the car.
• 11:43
  Don Armstrong: But you know, it comes a time you're going, hmm, you know, that Cadillac CTS is looking pretty good.
• 11:50
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 11:51
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 11:53
  Don Armstrong: A little four-door sedan.
• 11:54
  Jeff Dziekan: With your connections, you could find a real nice one.
• 11:57
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it'd be used.
• 11:58
  Don Armstrong: I'm not gonna buy a new one, but um, yeah, it'd be used.
• 12:03
  Mike Marrs: That's part of that is that traffic that you drive in.
• 12:06
  Mike Marrs: Whenever I come over there and and I'm driving a manual shift car, uh I mean, it's just by the time I get out of there late afternoon traffic and stuff and spend two hours on the loop or something, it's just it's it's miserable driving a manual transmission in this.
• 12:22
  Don Armstrong: Well, you know, and it's it's not so much the shifting part of it that I I dislike.
• 12:27
  Don Armstrong: I mean, it is what it is, and I bought the car because it had a six-speed manual transmission in it.
• 12:34
  Mike Marrs: Right.
• 12:34
  Don Armstrong: Well, that was then and today is now.
• 12:37
  Don Armstrong: And um, I think I I would be I'd be well served in a nice sedan.
• 12:43
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 12:44
  Jeff Dziekan: But you have to be careful on a sedan too.
• 12:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Like Kathy's got the Lexus, and I it it's kind of low for me, because I got a bad back, but that's kind of hard to get in for me as well in her car.
• 12:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh my Buick, God save the Queen, it's just perfect.
• 13:00
  Mike Marrs: Well, getting in to me is not too much of a problem.
• 13:02
  Mike Marrs: It's the getting out.
• 13:03
  Mike Marrs: I can fall into just about anything.
• 13:07
  Don Armstrong: Okay, I don't know as if you if you want to use the word fall in.
• 13:12
  Mike Marrs: Well, worse comes to worse.
• 13:14
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:14
  Don Armstrong: Well, there's that.
• 13:16
  Don Armstrong: Uh it's not that I have a hard time getting in and out of the car in in in for most times, I'll say that.
• 13:24
  Don Armstrong: But it is getting more difficult when you have to pick yourself up out of a seat that is probably about six inches uh above the concrete.
• 13:32
  unknown: Yeah.
• 13:32
  Don Armstrong: And so there's that.
• 13:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Or you could have the one like behind me there.
• 13:36
  Jeff Dziekan: See that?
• 13:37
  Jeff Dziekan: That's a that's a uh what my old car looked like, my Nova.
• 13:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Your Nova.
• 13:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, my 72 Nova.
• 13:43
  Jeff Dziekan: I had sport mirrors on mine and I had the same kind of wheels, uh, same stream.
• 13:47
  Jeff Dziekan: But the sport mirror, what year was yours?
• 13:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Mine was a 72, but the mirrors came from a Camaro.
• 13:51
  Jeff Dziekan: They were new this uh fancy sport mirrors on a Camaro.
• 13:55
  Jeff Dziekan: My dad got some and we put those on the Nova.
• 13:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Interesting.
• 13:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Had them painted body color.
• 13:59
  Don Armstrong: What is funny because when I ordered the 77 Corvette, I ordered it in 76, and I was unaware of the fact that they offered sport mirrors instead of those big chrome things.
• 14:13
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 14:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes.
• 14:14
  Don Armstrong: And um, so I wanted those sport mirrors.
• 14:18
  Don Armstrong: Well, I went back to the Chevrolet dealership and they butchered.
• 14:24
  Don Armstrong: Oh my butchered the inside of the door with a with a a sawzall.
• 14:30
  Don Armstrong: Is all I can look like to me to get those mirrors on there.
• 14:34
  Don Armstrong: They didn't have to do that, but they gave it to somebody that didn't know what he was doing.
• 14:38
  Jeff Dziekan: And in fact, we we painted them ourselves too.
• 14:40
  Jeff Dziekan: They we uh but they had them painted and put them on.
• 14:43
  Don Armstrong: Match the car.
• 14:44
  unknown: Yeah.
• 14:44
  Don Armstrong: That's a nice little custom touch there.
• 14:46
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, interesting.
• 14:48
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 14:49
  Don Armstrong: Um turned it into a pro mod.
• 14:53
  Don Armstrong: A pro mod.
• 14:54
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it wouldn't go in a car show as an unmolested car.
• 14:59
  Don Armstrong: You molested it.
• 15:01
  Don Armstrong: Those are not stock wheels on there either.
• 15:03
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, he had a court orders reason, he didn't have it anymore.
• 15:06
  Mike Marrs: Court order.
• 15:07
  Mike Marrs: Good point.
• 15:09
  Mike Marrs: All right, just ahead.
• 15:10
  Don Armstrong: We're gonna have Jeff's racing calendar.
• 15:11
  Don Armstrong: Mr.
• 15:12
  Don Armstrong: Mars has this week in auto history, and I'll bring you this week's automotive news headlines.
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• 17:05
  Don Armstrong: All right, time now for Jeff's racing calendar, sponsored by the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
• 17:10
  Don Armstrong: Thank you for that.
• 17:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh we're gonna start out with NHRA today.
• 17:13
  Jeff Dziekan: They're off until the 14th of May.
• 17:15
  Jeff Dziekan: They're gonna be at the uh Mother's Day week.
• 17:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, Gerber, Gerber Collision Glass Route, Route 66, NHRA national event by peak.
• 17:23
  Jeff Dziekan: That's gonna go on next week.
• 17:24
  Don Armstrong: But in addition, how many sponsors do they have in that one?
• 17:27
  Jeff Dziekan: It's like a 42 line, 42 words.
• 17:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh Adria Force Height, daughter of NHRA legend John Force, passed away at the age of 56 this past week.
• 17:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh she had a lifetime role with the racing dynasty there with John Force.
• 17:40
  Jeff Dziekan: The eldest daughter of the NHRA legend John Force, and a formidable figure in his racing career, passed away.
• 17:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Her passing marks the loss of a key architect behind one of the most successful teams in drag racing.
• 17:52
  Jeff Dziekan: I would agree with that.
• 17:53
  Jeff Dziekan: She was born in 1969 in Huntington Park, California.
• 17:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh height grew up immersed in the world of motorsports through John Force.
• 18:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh she was the oldest daughter with the of the four siblings that he has.
• 18:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh John Force once reflected the role she played as bringing the family together, noting that his daughter was a central part to the dynamic of the race team.
• 18:13
  Jeff Dziekan: So uh prayers for that family.
• 18:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh we're moving on.
• 18:16
  Jeff Dziekan: We've got NASCAR.
• 18:17
  Jeff Dziekan: NASCAR ran yesterday on the trucks.
• 18:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh I watched a little bit of it, didn't really get the uh gist of it.
• 18:22
  Jeff Dziekan: I didn't see well, I actually saw who won, but I don't know the driver.
• 18:24
  Jeff Dziekan: You've got Watkins Glenn uh all week today and also tomorrow for NASCAR.
• 18:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Indy ran uh some qualifying and testing today for the road course.
• 18:35
  Jeff Dziekan: It actually ran at 9 30 this morning for one of the tests and qualifying.
• 18:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Who have they been doing this road course thing in May?
• 18:41
  Jeff Dziekan: They've been doing it for some time, uh I believe.
• 18:43
  Jeff Dziekan: You asked that earlier, and I'll I'll look it up and have you an answer maybe in about a month.
• 18:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh but then they're getting ready for uh the Indy 500 at the end of the month, like John's or like uh Don says.
• 18:53
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh F1.
• 18:54
  Jeff Dziekan: F1 is the Canadian Grand Prix on the weekend of Memorial Weekend, so they're off till that time.
• 19:01
  Jeff Dziekan: And then we've got uh well, we just talked about it.
• 19:04
  Jeff Dziekan: They don't they don't recognize Memorial Day up in Canada in in Formula One stuff, yeah.
• 19:09
  Jeff Dziekan: And then today you got the Nasgrass race for the lawnmowers that's in Florida.
• 19:13
  Jeff Dziekan: So if you're out there what race?
• 19:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Nasgrass.
• 19:16
  Jeff Dziekan: NASGRAS.
• 19:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Is that a NAS car?
• 19:17
  Jeff Dziekan: It's Nasgrass.
• 19:18
  Mike Marrs: Nasgrass, okay.
• 19:19
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 19:19
  unknown: Yeah.
• 19:21
  Don Armstrong: They race the lawnmower's bars.
• 19:22
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 19:23
  Don Armstrong: Do you even own a do you own a lawnmower?
• 19:25
  Mike Marrs: Several, unfortunately.
• 19:27
  Don Armstrong: Why do you say several?
• 19:29
  Mike Marrs: Well, because I have one at home, I've got one at the beach, I got one at the daughter's house, they're everywhere.
• 19:36
  Mike Marrs: Are they riding or are they self-propelled?
• 19:38
  Mike Marrs: I got one rider.
• 19:42
  Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
• 19:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 19:44
  Mike Marrs: Do you like cruise down the beach in it?
• 19:46
  Mike Marrs: No, no, no, you don't cruise the beach too much, it kicks up too much sand.
• 19:49
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 19:50
  Don Armstrong: You get out there and what what is that road, the main road down the beach roads?
• 19:55
  Don Armstrong: What is it?
• 19:56
  Mike Marrs: 87 runs down the beachroads.
• 19:58
  Don Armstrong: Well, I was gonna say that you you can just run it right out there in the beachroads.
• 20:01
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 20:01
  Mike Marrs: Well, you could, you could, till the uh sheriff's department shows up, and I know they have new colors.
• 20:06
  Mike Marrs: I didn't realize I'm always looking for the green and white, but Jefferson uh Galveston County now has new colors on their cars.
• 20:12
  Mike Marrs: They're much uh more camouflaged, shall we say?
• 20:15
  Mike Marrs: Oh.
• 20:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Camouflage.
• 20:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Are they like ghosts?
• 20:18
  Mike Marrs: Camouflage, they're just more like more neutral, natural colors, so that whenever you have the dry summer weeds in the swamp, they kind of blend in a little better.
• 20:27
  Don Armstrong: Huh.
• 20:27
  Don Armstrong: Okay, well that's you're good to hide the cop cars out there in the swamp.
• 20:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Is there a recipe for the dry summer weeds?
• 20:33
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't I don't know.
• 20:35
  Jeff Dziekan: There's a song in that, I think.
• 20:36
  Don Armstrong: Put a swamp fire summer weeds.
• 20:38
  Don Armstrong: Summer weeds makes me feel funny.
• 20:41
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 20:42
  Don Armstrong: Uh some of the stories making automotive news headlines.
• 20:45
  Don Armstrong: As of early 2026, the idea of summoning a car, tapping your phone, and having a car drive itself to your exact location is rapidly shifting from a futuristic vision to real-world deployment across Europe.
• 21:03
  Don Armstrong: Well, if it's happening over there, you know it's gonna be here before too long.
• 21:07
  Don Armstrong: Shift is being driven by technology advances in teleoperation or remote driving, and an evolving European regulatory framework that's beginning to accommodate greater range and higher levels of autonomy.
• 21:22
  Don Armstrong: Rather than waiting for full autonomy, several European players are betting on a hybrid approach, remote controlled vehicles or car summoning.
• 21:32
  Don Armstrong: This hybrid approach dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of full autonomy, an important consideration in a sector where development can require billions in investment.
• 21:42
  Don Armstrong: Berlin based Vay, V A Y is a front runner.
• 21:46
  Don Armstrong: Vay's teledrivers remotely control electric cars from a station and drive them to the customer's location.
• 21:54
  Don Armstrong: The customer takes the wheel, and when the trip is completed, the teledriver takes back control.
• 22:00
  Don Armstrong: of the vehicle and drives it to the next customer.
• 22:04
  Don Armstrong: The idea is to deliver the convenience of car ownership without the cost or hassle at roughly half the price of ride hailing.
• 22:15
  Don Armstrong: Oh taxi.
• 22:18
  Don Armstrong: Oh hail no.
• 22:20
  Don Armstrong: So coming to somewhere near you soon.
• 22:26
  Jeff Dziekan: So if you're in the car and you they drops you off at your house and then they say okay bye-bye and then that remote driver takes it to the next place they don't clean it out.
• 22:35
  Don Armstrong: You're gonna you're gonna well there's that.
• 22:37
  Don Armstrong: Yeah I mean I left a I left my or you went down to the beach to visit Mars and you got sand all over your feet that's all over the inside of the car.
• 22:44
  Jeff Dziekan: I went grocery shopping and I forgot the the the uh frozen mackerel that I had in the back seat.
• 22:49
  Mike Marrs: Yeah yeah or you drank too much beer on the beach and you're up chucking in the back seat all the way back to town.
• 22:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Or maybe you're just a little gassy.
• 22:58
  Don Armstrong: Maybe so the wind that you can roll on the big that would be you Jeff yeah Jeff would have to speak for himself on that one.
• 23:05
  Don Armstrong: Italian supplier Brembo not Bimbo but Brembo has begun large scale production of its sensify brake by wire system for a global automaker marking a milestone in the shift toward software defined vehicles the company said the bywire braking system will be standard across this automaker's unknown to us just yet entire vehicle program Brembo said the supplier declined to name the customer the system is designed to support a wide spectrum of applications from advanced driver assistance systems to fully autonomous driving Sensify adopts a fluid free by wire architecture which is a cornerstone of the shift toward SDVs do you know what an SDV is I had to look it up did you get a shot for it software defined vehicle an SDV.
• 24:06
  Don Armstrong: Yeah shot for it braking becomes intelligent adaptive and integrated into the whole vehicle system rather than just a mechanical response.
• 24:17
  Don Armstrong: Software can adjust braking force at each wheel individually and instantly meaning better stability.
• 24:24
  Don Armstrong: Brembo which makes high performance brakes for everything from race cars to exotic cars, motorcycles and bikes said it has signed additional contracts with other unnamed customers and therefore expects to equip hundreds of thousands of vehicles per year.
• 24:40
  Don Armstrong: So brake by wire coming to a vehicle near you and you know everybody's going to go to that instead of instead of the other way around well you know the hydraulic fluid thing that was a that was a thing that was a thing what is it a hundred years ago?
• 24:54
  Don Armstrong: Not so much anymore.
• 24:55
  Don Armstrong: Every car's got it so I thought that that was a pretty interesting story.
• 25:00
  Jeff Dziekan: It's old as new again.
• 25:01
  Mike Marrs: I guess yeah yeah I'm not fly by wire break by wire break by wire I'm not gonna try to imagine the the hardware when if you go in there if you if you happen to do your brakes still kind of hardware you're gonna have to deal with well i I would imagine that you still are going to have calipers.
• 25:17
  Mike Marrs: Yeah yeah no you still probably have all the same parts some sort of solenoid or something to activate yes an electronic solenoid powered by battery that's what it would be so it'd be an electric motor I would imagine of some sort of if it's by wire well it's by wire but it's gonna have to activate something to clean it up you're gonna have the signal come in you could probably bring the power in with the signal I would think what do I know?
• 25:45
  Jeff Dziekan: Well actuator probably some type of actuator or piston system but not depending on hydraulic fluid yeah no no hydraulic fluid a library in Washington state got a pair of Henry Ford biographies back more than six decades after they were checked out.
• 26:05
  Don Armstrong: Richland Public Library in Southeast Washington recently received The Legend of Henry Ford by Keith Sward a record sixty four years and nine days overdue according to Northwest Public Broadcasting quote Ford The Times the man the company by Alan Nevins was returned 63 years and 11 months late how much would that cost?
• 26:30
  Don Armstrong: Someone recently inherited an old book collection discovered checkout cards inside the two Ford biographies and brought them to the library the public radio station reported a form on how to write essays also was found in the books quote so we can assume that whoever checked these out originally was writing some sort of essay about Henry Ford for school that according to Chris Nuffland public library manager the library no longer charges late fees but if it did the books theoretically or is that theoretically theoretically could have accumulated some three thousand dollars in fines.
• 27:10
  Don Armstrong: Wow my God there you go Mars instead it's a recall of the library thank you Mike there you go and this one for Jeff all right Cadillac rolling out a limited run special edition performance sedan is part of the luxury automaker's high profile entry into Formula One the CT5 V Black Wayne Blackwing F1 Collector Series is outfitted with F1 and Federation International de Automobiles logos inside and out power supplied by a 6.2 liter supercharge V8 685 horsepower 673 pound feet of torque upgraded supercharger was developed in collaboration with GM Motorsports the sedan is offered only with a six speed manual transmission Cadillac will build only 26 of them a nod to the year the automaker joined F1 and it'll be available only in the U.S.
• 28:06
  Don Armstrong: and Canada pricing not announced standard S C T 5 V Blackwing is priced at 1027 ninety five including shipping production is set to begin mid year.
• 28:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Didn't you have a black wing both you cats had a black wing did you have a blue one or something when they first came out first came out yeah well there's your Cadillac they didn't say there it is well there's a there's a price problem there.
• 28:29
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• 30:02
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• 30:15
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• 30:34
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