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Under the Hood at the Annual Gulf Coast Auto Shield Social Cruise In · 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 Central.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: It's the In Wheel Time car talk show today, coming to you from the Gulf Coast Auto Shield Second Annual Car Social Cruise Inn.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Just ahead we'll talk to some of the folks in attendance.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Plus, we'll have the upcoming events calendar, and it's just jam packed.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: You didn't do any work this week, did you?
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why not Not?
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: On the events calendar, mars reviews the new Dodge Durango that's going to come up in the third hour this hour.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: Jeff's going to have a feature on license plates.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: You thought they were still made at the penitentiary.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: You may be right, you may be wrong, we'll find out.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: It sounds like a song, Plus you'll hear the stories making car news this week.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us and we appreciate it.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with Mike out of this World, Mars King Conrad DeLong.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Let me move over.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: We need more Jeff Zeekin and his Eminence Mr David Ainsley, our chief engineer, cook and bottle washer.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: And head potentate.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us today, on this Saturday.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: If you're listening, watching live on all of the different things that you can, have you ever totaled it up?
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: How many podcasts, how many streams, how many live?
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: So we're live on Facebook, youtube and InWheelTimecom and Twitter and Twitch.
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: I've got that list.
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  Speaker 4: We got the list, yeah, it was almost 50.
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: 50 outlets.
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  Speaker 1: Outlets Yep, and we thank all two of you listeners and watchers who bounce between those outlets.
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: Thanks, george Skelton and Jeff Heidsman.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what would we do without them?
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  Speaker 1: It'd be difficult, wouldn't it?
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we're so glad that you could join us today.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: As you can tell, we're in the magic shop here at Gulf Coast Auto Shield.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: It's the pretty place.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: It's the pretty.
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  Speaker 1: This is the place that makes it pretty, or prettier, because most of their, most of his business here is new cars.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: And some stunning new cars.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, including the Aston Martin SUV.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what it's called, do you?
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  Speaker 4: Aston Martin SUV.
• 2:37
  Speaker 3: DB, DB 11.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: We'll have I'll look it up DB Cooper.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: Db Cooper, that's the guy that jumped out of the airplane with the million dollars and got away.
• 2:47
  Speaker 4: Got away.
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  Speaker 4: It was 200,000.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: Well, whatever it was, remember it was the plane that had the stairway in the back.
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: It was a stairway to heaven.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: And it may be because he may have died.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: Everybody keeps thinking that he died.
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: But did he?
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: That's just because I couldn't find it.
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  Speaker 2: The jump doesn't kill you, it's the sudden stop at the bottom.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: That's what it is the sudden stop at the bottom Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Got an Audi Q8 here in front of us.
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  Speaker 2: Love it Beautiful car.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: I like the color of the Camaro.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: Is that a Z28 or what is that?
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what that is.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a 1LE if the, if the black hood gives it away.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what else is back there?
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: There's a Q5 and it looks like maybe perhaps a Jeep or something back there and back over here we have the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon.
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: The Aston Martin.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy priced.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's the Aston Martin.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: That's that one right there.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: And then we have the R8.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: The black ops Ford Is that what that is?
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: Black ops?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, a special edition Is that John's truck back there, the three quarter ton, the brand new, limited Nice truck.
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm compelling you, but I think the the interior is won by the Aston Martin.
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  Speaker 4: Did you?
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  Speaker 1: happen to look or feel the interior in that Aston Martin.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: John says it's like a baseball glove, and that's what it's like A baseball glove.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, oily, it's that?
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: No, not oily.
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  Speaker 1: Very smooth, though Oily.
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  Speaker 4: My fingertips are still tingling when I touched it.
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  Speaker 2: I made the catch balls.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's a baseball glove.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're off the air.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: We're off the air on every, every radio Thanks, and anywhere else that Thank you for that.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: Once again, you've sent us off the air.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the white vehicle there.
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: What is that one Tesla?
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: That's the Tesla.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he brought it back in, okay.
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  Speaker 4: And the Rivian is behind it?
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Rivian.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the T one truck R T John, is that?
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: Is that the Rivian truck R1 s?
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, are you gonna come and sit down or are you still busy?
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is the proprietor that Is walking gingerly because he's had knee surgery or those actually what I didn't even call it leg surgery.
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  Speaker 4: That was in Nederland.
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  Speaker 4: He's the owner, okay.
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: Just just thank very much, just sit down.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: You're in the king's chair there.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: I Know you do, hi, how you doing.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Good morning boys.
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: How are y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're.
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  Speaker 2: You've been busy this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's, it was an early morning.
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: I was proud that I made it here by six o'clock to meet you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, both times, mars, even early.
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  Speaker 3: I was napping until you pulled up what we have you didn't drive from Nederland this morning, did you sure, good Lord?
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, ask him what time you left.
• 5:55
  Speaker 3: 330 now I left it 402 and.
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: I remember that because I walked out the front door and I heard some woman down the street screaming and as I was dialing 911, they come pulling up.
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the heck was going on.
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: Probably not unusual out there at 402 in the morning.
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was not good nothing good in Niederville.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: Nothing good after midnight.
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: She was seen in a four o'clock.
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: Well, john, the second annual.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: What made you decide to do it in December, before Christmas Weather?
• 6:32
  Speaker 5: the weather.
• 6:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this window is usually pretty good, not too cold.
• 6:35
  Speaker 5: We do risk a little bit of rain this time of year, but you know it looks like we're gonna get away with it touching go this week, yeah but, you go January.
• 6:44
  Speaker 5: You could, you could, you could have 30 degrees, you know.
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: So you just you know, we know We've been out actually at the loopy tortilla, tailpipes and tacos.
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: We went out there one morning and it was freezing free, it was literally, we couldn't hardly do move because there was a bundle up.
• 6:58
  Speaker 4: I think there were 12 people out there, including us.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know that's the risk that you take and and it's gonna be really a crapshoot today to see who's gonna show up because of all the rain that we've had.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: But the chance of rain today is very, very low.
• 7:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we got, we had a.
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: Hey.
• 7:18
  Speaker 5: I guess you can't really count on your RSVPs on Facebook, but there was over 200.
• 7:23
  Speaker 4: And so you know, it's.
• 7:25
  Speaker 5: It should be a substantial little early.
• 7:27
  Speaker 6: We're getting started a little early.
• 7:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, we don't even start this thing till basically nine o'clock.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we got an hour to go.
• 7:35
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I wouldn't.
• 7:36
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't be too concerned with the crowd and you have a shop for.
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: I'll be here cool cars.
• 7:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's some, there's some.
• 7:42
  Speaker 5: There's some pretty cool stuff here, but some some fairly unusual stuff.
• 7:46
  Speaker 5: You know, the four, that four by four square, what?
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: they don't.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: What do you keep calling it that?
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: What is that?
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  Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
• 7:53
  Speaker 5: Some, that's a G wagon that's converted by Brabus and it's it's got the lift on it, all that you know the carbon fiber.
• 8:00
  Speaker 5: Notice the fenders that are extended with carbon fiber on them.
• 8:04
  Speaker 5: That's this thing here, yep.
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, I see the extensions yeah.
• 8:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that thing is, how much does that thing cost?
• 8:12
  Speaker 5: I would you know before markup?
• 8:15
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna guess it's in the in the four and a half range and that's $450,000.
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: You know, if you got the keys, let me pull it out for you.
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: So everyone, yeah, well, you're gonna drive all the wires and everything else.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: No, you can't do that.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's AMG.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an hour.
• 8:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah it's the s63 convert and 63 converted by Brabus, and nothing Brabus touches is cheap.
• 8:40
  Speaker 5: You know, I don't know if you've ever heard of them yet.
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: They're overseas and their stuff is is very, very expensive?
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: They they out of England, great Britain?
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, I believe they are.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: They sure are a bus.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: I've heard of them, but I don't know anything about them.
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: I've always mispronounced it is Barabbas.
• 8:56
  Speaker 5: You might be right.
• 8:56
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 8:57
  Speaker 5: I typically don't focus on Correct pronunciations of the things I can't afford.
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  Speaker 2: There's that yeah, you know, but they also did a six-by on that truck, didn't they?
• 9:09
  Speaker 5: yeah, they did, they sure did, and that thing is crazy expensive.
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: So Well, I want to know what the Aston Martin is called.
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: I was gonna look it up, but I figured that you would know that's a DBX 707 and.
• 9:25
  Speaker 5: The 707 Version of the DBX, I believe, came out last year and it's about 700 horsepower.
• 9:32
  Speaker 5: That thing will move.
• 9:33
  Speaker 5: It's the.
• 9:34
  Speaker 5: I believe it's the most powerful SUV on the market right now as far as horsepower goes beating, beating the Hellcat Durango, I believe it does.
• 9:45
  Speaker 5: That's a very, very nice car to drive.
• 9:48
  Speaker 5: They drive great well.
• 9:50
  Speaker 5: I like the inside.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just gonna say you pointed out the thing about it Feeling like a baseball glove.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, on the inside and it does you sit?
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: you feel like you're in a baseball sitting in a baseball glove.
• 10:02
  Speaker 5: It's just leather everywhere.
• 10:04
  Speaker 5: It's a.
• 10:04
  Speaker 5: It's a very nice car.
• 10:06
  Speaker 5: I Know the maintenance of what not to expect.
• 10:09
  Speaker 5: That's another one that you know I don't.
• 10:11
  Speaker 5: I don't allow myself to get too crazy about the cars that I can't afford, you know.
• 10:15
  Speaker 5: I just don't Lamborghinis, ferrari's.
• 10:18
  Speaker 5: Those are things that I like them.
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: There's a reason why people sell them at 25,000 miles because they don't want to pay for the 30,000 mile service.
• 10:27
  Speaker 5: Well, I tell you what, if you, if you look at the used car market and look at the Lamborghinis and ferrari's, there won't be many with that many miles on them.
• 10:34
  Speaker 5: They're, they're five, seven thousand miles on these cars.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: You know, and then their fair weather cars they turn them.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: Time to turn them.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody else pay for all that maintenance.
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: You know I it's expensive.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: This was years ago.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: I went up to the Lamborghini dealership up on the North Freeway and talked to the general manager.
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: I Was doing a magazine article on high-end cars and figured, well, that was easy.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: General manager up there was really nice at the time.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know who is there now.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: This guy was an older guy and I asked him.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: I said so, who buys these cars?
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: He says don't the guys that buy these cars?
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: Mainly guys that buy these cars money.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: You is only a means to get them.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: They have no, there's no limit.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, these are multi, multi, multi millionaires, yeah, and that that like cars and so they'll buy, you know, half million dollar Lamborghini and they'll have it for I don't know a few months.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: They put a few thousand miles on it and they get tired of it.
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: You know, turn it in and buy something else, and that's pretty common when it gets that level of car I mean, and I'm thinking, okay, I don't know anybody like that, but Well, there's a guy that's been coming here today and bring his new Huracan STO extremely expensive vehicle I believe the it's a Gulf livery and I believe that option is about $80,000 for the paint and this is a guy that you may want to talk to.
• 12:06
  Speaker 5: He can very successful in business, owns a company, a distributor Nationwide called Wave Electronics, and just he and his brother are just great guys and I think you'd you'd enjoy talking to him.
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, also, he is a 11 or 12 time world champion audio installer.
• 12:26
  Speaker 5: David there you go, a guy named Mark Facuda and he does, you know, keynote speeches at electronics conventions and whatnot, on proper installing, whatnot he is.
• 12:39
  Speaker 5: He's a really interesting cat and I think I'm going to get him to come over and talk to you guys a little bit.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: We'd love that.
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a couple of people lined up that I think you'd enjoy talking to today.
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: That's good.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: Then you also have some attainable cars here.
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: That's your wife, you know, I'm a fan of the Audi QA she used to be out on the weather.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: She is this morning.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: She's bare.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: I'm.
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: I'm not ready to put her on waivers yet, but she's got you on her her injured reserve list.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyway it's it's.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: It's a different set of people that like cars, they just have more means to be able to get the high end stuff, Just like a different economic level of doing the same thing.
• 13:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, when we were young and we didn't have very much money, you know we might have a 65 Mustang and a bucket seat was literally a bucket that you were sitting on.
• 13:34
  Speaker 6: That's right, that's what we could do.
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, it's a different mindset when it comes to buying anything at that level.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: You know, a Panerai watch or a Phillip Petique or even some of these high end Rolexes.
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: It's just mostly guys aren't buying things that they're going to lose a lot of money on, either.
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: They're they're they're very astute.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Investment Great stuff, that's right, by the way, speaking of which and I'm just going to throw this in here been getting advertising for the Lilian Thall watch, and I want to ask our Lilian Thalls up in the Northwest, the people that we talk to all the time Sowing that watch.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: And whether they are the ones that are invested in it.
• 14:18
  Speaker 6: I hadn't seen that.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Lilian Thalls Anyway you need names, so yeah, yeah, there's no doubt about it, but at any rate, yeah.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: So how?
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: How long do you usually have a car in here, generally speaking?
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: four to seven days.
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: That's it On a on a paint protection film, a ceramic coating job.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: Yes, we got to turn them.
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we have to turn them, or it's going to really clog us up pretty good.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the paint correction is part of the film application because you got to make sure that the paint is smooth and clean underneath there.
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: You know, even if you know, we're seeing a lot of on a lot of the GM vehicles right now.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: We're seeing a lot of a lot of dirt and debris in the, in the paint, and so you know that it's actually in the paint from the paint process.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the Arlington plant is just bad right now Dirty and dirty, and so we're we're doing a lot of wet sanding and and and other things to try to do.
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: Put a new roller on.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, try a new roller.
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: So you know you got.
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: You can't just cover that stuff up.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Well, they've already said that they're going to be spending a billion dollars in in expanding and upgrading that plant.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I hope they started the paint booth.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: And and they've, they've bragged for years.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Even when I worked with them, they bragged for years about their paint booth being state-of-the-art within General Motors.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Well, that was what 30 years ago and and it sucks I mean for me the you know because Bowling Green, I was never happy with Corvette paint because it always had that orange peel to it.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Now the new ones are substantially better, but you know the older ones were horrible.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: The C7s were the worst I'd seen, so yeah, yeah.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: For all the money they spend on paint booths, you'd think they could turn out a better paint job.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: You would think so.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: You would think so.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: That's interesting.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: So you have to take care of the paint first, before you can protect it.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: Yep, you do, because anything you're, you're, you're putting film on it, man, it's locked in and and you got, you got some different things under the.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: If you have, you know, trash in the paint, it's typically going to look worse once you put film on it too, because it's going to enhance the the bumps in.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: It Makes it worse, yeah, so so he put the wrap on our truck, yes, and, and he went through and did all that before he put the wrap on it, because and?
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: that was a used truck when you bought it?
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Yes, it was.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: You know I'm the second owner, but still, you know it's it's, it's a 2015.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: So it's seven, eight years old, Smooth it out before you could wrap it Well he just wanted to make sure before he went to the trouble of putting the wrap on it, because it's a really nice wrap, yeah it is.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I've never seen a wrap like that.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Is that actually Because the wrap that you was?
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: It a wrap that you had on it before?
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: Well it turns out that this is a wrap.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: That wasn't a wrap.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: That was more like graphics, decals, graphics.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah Well, this is kind of the same thing.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: It's it's just a different kind of of a wrapping film and it's a film that you can print on, you know.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: And so these graphics guys can, you know, download the dimensions of a vehicle and then bring designs over and then it'll, it'll kind of print things out to fit the vehicle and you can manipulate the graphics to put them in there every once.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I've seen some graphics on on some of these plumbers trucks.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: It's got people's pictures on it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I mean it's like it was hand painted on there like the old sign painters.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Truly amazing, and that those are wraps, yeah.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: So how do you do very much commercial ramps?
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Minimal.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: I mean minimal.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: But you would if people would present the card to you.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: I would probably send them to a friend of mine.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: That is really really good with that After that.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I probably would he knows people.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, he knows us, he does know us.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he knows.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Sparks are good thing.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny you should say that because John and I go back to, I guess, when you started this business.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Over at Custom Car Stereo back in 15.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yep, and Steve, a friend of mine that I knew from the 1970s, actually the early 70s.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: He lived a couple of doors down from me in an apartment and then he opened Custom Car Stereo.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: That's a whole other story.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: But he called me and says hey, man, there's a guy I want you to meet and him yeah.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I said Okay and so we started up a friendship back then.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Gosh, but what year was that?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: 15, 16, somewhere in there.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Many years ago I was back when I was by myself, yep.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, after the detailing we were in the radio station in that little bitty studio.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, we were Right, but that was after I met him.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and in any rate.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: So our friendship goes way back and I've seen grow this thing to look at.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: But look at this now and then he would, he would love nothing better than to be able to, I think, double the size of this God.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I wish I could.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I wish I could, but we've got.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: You know, the West Shop is.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Is has been very good to us.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: They're doing a lot of a lot of stuff for Porsche over there and then we'll we're going to have a Sugar Land store open here in the next 30 days.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Indigo is building a, a just about finished, with a Porsche store down in Sugar Land.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Really, Indigo, the car dealer.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, he doesn't have a microphone for some reason.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Indigo the car dealer yeah.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: And it's their kind of, it's their culture to sell X-Bell and so of course X-Bell would like to put a store down there next to them, like they did up north, and they try to do that.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: But wherever Indigo puts a store but you know they're they'd never do that to a, a dealer that's so close, and so that'll be, that'll be our store.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: So that was the partnership that works out.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: And we already already worked with Audi Sewell, Audi down there, and we're in conversation with the Corvette dealer right there on the corner as well.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: So that's going to be a that's going to be a great place for us down there, Really good and a standalone building, yep.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: No, it'll be in a big, a big, big strip center, but it's going to be about twice this size.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, wow, yeah.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: But it won't be connected to the dealerships or anything.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll be a standalone, yeah, operational operation oh standalone operation yes, but no, we can't really none of these dealers have room for us to work over there.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: I wish they did, you know.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: And how easy is it for you to find help skilled people that know what they're doing?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Or do you take people in with a desire and you teach them what to do?
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: We, we will do that.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: I've been very lucky with a lot of my paint protection people.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: We've gotten most of the most of the guys here in some way or another come to us From somebody else Well, yeah, from somebody else or or have some experience in some way doing something that artistic.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: And usually you know, the guys that can draw, the guys that have some artistic ability, creative, can do, can do this paint protection film.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: The most difficult talent I've I've found to to to look for is refined, is is your go-slippery is going to be paint correction.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: People that can, that can polish, that are legit.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: You know, serene.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Serene, I got, I got three, three people here that can, that can do it, but it's it's just hard to find.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, you know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Word of mouth, I think, means a lot too.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: We need to move on.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: We're going to have you back, probably in the last hour of the show, if that's okay.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Yep, I'm going to get somebody over here to talk to you here and list a little bit.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Okay, um, you have the Lamborghini.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Cool, you'll enjoy that conversation.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look forward to it, thank you.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: You stand behind us getting ready.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: I think you just pulled in.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: John Gray, owner proprietor here at Gulf Coast Auto Shield, Our guest this morning.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: The events calendar you said that you had something.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: So?
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: You got a couple of things.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: You said yeah.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Okay so just a couple, because I need to get to Jeff too.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Cypress Cars and Coffee is a two ninety highway.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: No, wait a minute.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Is this the cruise in calendar?
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: No, this is the events, alright.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: So this one is December sixteenth, from eight to ten am at a two, seven, two, four.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, highway two and a half, so it's a cruise.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a it's, it's out a little bit Cruise ins, I do, which are this weekend and next weekend, and then a car social which is the thing to be at and then the other thing would be.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow is coffee and chrome at the Avalon Diner.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Saturday, january 13th is also the Chick-fil-A at Ellison.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: They're opening a new Chick-fil-A and they're opening a new Chick-fil-A at Ellison.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, very nice.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Um time now for this hour's feature by Mr Jeffrey.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Zeekin.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Okay, and it's about license plates.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we did a segment before on vanity plates a while ago.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Uh, you know where are they made, vanity plates along with regular plates that you see going around every day.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: So license plates are something most everybody sees every day and there are companies that manufacture license plates.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: A significant portion of the plates in the United States are made by prison still.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: The practice yes, the practice of having inmates make license plates has been around for a century.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: New York opened the first license plate factory in Auburn Prison in 1910.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Soon after other states started making their own production.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: It was mainly a tax thing to put plates on, so for decades prisoners served as a primary source of license plates in the prison.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: They put their numbers and letters on them, packaged them up and then shipped them out for distribution.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: At one time nearly every state had some form of license plate manufacturing in the prison system.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Now we're going to talk about six of these states.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: The one of them is Alabama.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Alabama is the Alabama Department of Corrections runs a license plate plant in the Draper Prison Facility In Mates Produce the Standard Plates.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: And then there are some specialized plates that are made by Arizona State Prison Complex of Florence.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: They manufacture Standard Plates for the state, and again specialty plates are outsourced to a private provider.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Arkansas didn't know.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Arkansas did this.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Arkansas plates are made by inmates at the Tucker Unit Prison.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Some specialty plates are made by a private company, florida State Prison, at Union Correctional Institution.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: David, that sounds like a vacation spot doesn't it Vacation, it does For seven days, yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: And then they.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: They also sub out the private plates for private companies, the specialty plates, florida State Prison.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Manufactured.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: What about Texas.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Texas wasn't on a list.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: They used to do it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know if they actually do it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: I think it's more private now than inmate or correctional facilities In Louisiana does theirs in Angola.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Now there's a USA slogan on the plates.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Does it?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Since inmates produce plates in some states, those qualifying plates can carry the made in USA tag.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Made in USA mainly comes from the private companies that employ American workers.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Are they lower quality if you get a made in a prison?
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Not necessarily.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Modern prison plate shops have had access, had advantage.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Because of this, there have been some instances of inferior quality plates that have been made in Arkansas in the past.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Arkansas, I made that up.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I'm going to get letters from correctional facilities in.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Arkansas.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Do you like making them?
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Some prison inmates say it passed at the time.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: You know when you're, when you're in there for a particular reason it does.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Of course they can't hear anything because all that's stamping with the steel.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Well, it's made.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: It's actually not that loud and I've seen pictures of how they do it and it's a little different.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Are there different quality of plates that are made in the state?
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: The materials are pretty much the same and it's just a level of how they do it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the other thing is that for years they've been trying to only make one plate for the Texas cars, mm, hmm.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: But I guess DPS says Can't do that, don't do that, we want two plates, so they win.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Yep, oh, the front plate in the back plate.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the front plate can make some cars look ugly.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Well, and that's it.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: That's a revenue thing.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: The Corvette, you know, the front plate is the way that goes, where the license plate goes in the front so if you only have one plate, put it in the back and you put the plug up front says Corvette on it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Well, there's a lot of readers too.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of of like the toll road.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: They read the front plate and sometimes the back plate, so sometimes they do it both.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: So the front plate is important for that particular reason.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Last time I had took my dad to get his driver's license renewed.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: They came out.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: They looked at his van, said Where's your front license plate?
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: He said what for a license plate?
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Well, you know he pulls it out gets some duct tape and sticks it on the front of the car.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: They're never happy.
• 27:48
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• 28:03
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• 28:11
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• 29:09
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• 29:17
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• 29:22
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• 29:30
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• 29:34
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• 29:39
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• 29:44
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• 30:00
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• 30:04
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