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Demystifying the Auto Industry: UAW Strikes, Car Restoration, and Woody's Waterfront Car Show · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:03
  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 11am.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Central Podcast Channel From the world famous Sugar Shack in Texas, usa.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: It's the In Wheel Time car talk show Coming up.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: We're going to speak with Michael Woody.
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: Michael.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Woody, as he likes to be called, from Auto Appraisal Network about selecting a build shop, and we'll also talk about his upcoming car show, the Woody's Waterfront car show.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Next weekend we will be next weekend.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got all that in store for you here coming up.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: We'll also have the upcoming events calendar Mars reviews, the Kia EV6.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Later we talk to Brad Thompson and a step by step explanation of how donations car donations are handled.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: You'll also hear the stories making auto news headlines.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, mars King, conrad DeLong.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: We always need more Jebs he can.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: I'm Don Armstrong.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us on this Saturday for our live broadcast and if you're listening on a podcast, thank you for podcasting us as well.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: Subscribe.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: Subscribe, of course, the big story this week in the automotive world is about the UAW strike, and it expanded.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: Yesterday UAW added 5600 workers at GM and Stalatis parts depots to its escalating strike, threatening dealership service business, but said it had made real progress in talks with Ford.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: By escalating the strike against the Detroit three to include 38 General Motors and Stalatis parts distribution centers across 20 states, uaw President Sean Fane is elevating the plight of thousands of the union's lowest paid full time auto workers who would benefit most from the record contracts he's demanding.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: He's also threatening the service business at Chevrolet, gmc, jeep and Ram dealerships around the US that need shipments from those 38 facilities to repair customers vehicles.
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: The largest of them fulfills 15,000 orders for GM genuine and AC Delco parts a day.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: Most parts depot employees start around $16 an hour and top out at $24 an hour, versus top pay of $32 at assembly and powertrain plants.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: If put on the same pay scale as most other workers and given raises totaling 20%, as the automakers have proposed, some workers wages would nearly double by 2027 to about $40 per hour.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: If you don't think that that'll affect the price of your car when you go to buy a new car, you're smoking crack.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: So the strike continues and my guess is is that it is going to get uglier before it gets pretty, you know, and you talked about just in time, which is called JIT just in time, and it's a Taiichi Ono.
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, is the Japanese, because they created the just in time, it's called Taiichi Ono.
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no.
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: Oh no, oh no, oh, it's just brown, you never have it.
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, browns, yeah.
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be a continuing thing and it's all about it's all over automotive news.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: It's all making national news, clearly and as it grows exponentially, across all of these.
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: And they're both taking shots at each other.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: You know they've added these parts warehouses, that to strike now, and the manufacturers, because four GM and Stellantis have all announced closures of certain assembly plants.
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: So, as the UAW strikes to impact the profitability of the manufacturers, which is their intent, that's why they do these selective strikes.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: The manufacturers are shutting down assembly plants so that those employees' incomes don't fund the union and the union strike fund.
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: So they're both.
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: It's a wicked balance.
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and these independent suppliers?
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: What are they going to get out of it?
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: Screwed Exactly.
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: They're going to support us, support us, but go away later.
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you talked about the small parts, the third tier parts guys, they're all just going to go out of business.
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: And what happens at that point I've seen this in the past at General Motors is when those third tier guys go out of business, that little plastic piece or that little metal piece that they make isn't made anymore.
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: So now, what do you do?
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: Well, when that part of your car breaks, you either don't fix it or you hope you know somebody who has the design of it and can 3D print it, because that's about the only way you're going to be able to get it.
• 4:51
  Speaker 4: Well, and that's the reason I had to wait almost 16 months to get an ABS module for my 2015 truck, because the company that made it went out of business not related to the strike, but they went out of business.
• 5:02
  Speaker 4: Nobody else wanted to pick it up and start building, probably because it wasn't profitable.
• 5:07
  Speaker 4: Probably, but that's Very probable.
• 5:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's all it was and it only fit like three year models.
• 5:12
  Speaker 4: Then they went to something new, right?
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: So in the new car assembly line.
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: If you're missing that little plastic piece, wherever it is, under the hood, in the dashboard, what does it make an image with?
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: Is visible or not, guess what?
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: The car doesn't get built.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: So what do you do?
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: Build the whole car and some of the pieces get put on the car at the very beginnings.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: You can't go back and store all the cars with all the things, except for that little plastic piece which they did with microchips in the computer.
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: They built all these vehicles and moved them out into a parking lot which has been robbed and pillaged because a lot of those storage lots have been or you get a wheel on a computer chip Right and they're waiting for the WIO to get paid off and then they'll put the module in your vehicle and ship the vehicle.
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: That's what's been going on.
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: That might not be able to happen for that little 15 cent piece of plastic that's part of your sunroof assembly that they don't make anymore.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: So we've got a special guest coming up in our last segment this morning that is going to talk about the supply chain and he's going to be good, well versed in the supply chain and the problems that the strike is going to cause.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: It's a ripple effect that's going to go through the entire industry.
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: And they both in both sides, understand how that ripple effect impacts them.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: But in the meantime and in between time to talk about.
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: We got a woody.
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do, we got a Michael Wooding.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mr Wooding.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: How are you sir?
• 6:43
  Speaker 5: Hello fellas, how you doing this Well we're very good.
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you, it's great to have you with us.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: Michael Wooding is with the auto appraisal network.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: So if, at any time that you need to have an appraisal done on your car and there are very various and sundry reasons for having an appraisal done on your car You're going to talk to Michael Wooding, who does an official appraisal.
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: Tell me about the appraisal.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: There are different levels of it.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: Go over those, will you?
• 7:13
  Speaker 5: Well, we charge a flat fee for the appraisal.
• 7:15
  Speaker 5: It doesn't depend on what it's actually for, but there's several different kinds.
• 7:21
  Speaker 5: The thing that I enjoy the most and what drew me into the business, is we praise custom classic and collector cars for insurance purposes and for fair market value.
• 7:33
  Speaker 5: If they're looking to sell the car, they get the appraisal.
• 7:36
  Speaker 5: They have a third party helping determine the value of that vehicle.
• 7:41
  Speaker 5: For insurance, you know we always go 10, 15% higher than a fair market value appraisal because if you have to replace that car it's going to cost you more the next time you do it.
• 7:54
  Speaker 5: We also do prior to loss, where your car gets total and the insurance company low balls you on the value of that automobile.
• 8:05
  Speaker 5: And then we do diminished value as well.
• 8:08
  Speaker 5: That's where your car gets hit.
• 8:10
  Speaker 5: Your car gets repaired and returned to you, and then what is the difference in value in that car now versus before it got hit?
• 8:22
  Speaker 2: And let me ask you a question about that, mike is when you do diminished value, you're looking at the value lost that, like a car facts report would have on valuing your vehicle?
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: And have you gone back to look at the comparison of what your diminished value numbers are versus what the insurance offers, which is nothing, and how car facts impacts that value Car?
• 8:50
  Speaker 5: facts really doesn't impact it, other than just the information that the cars and that's the reason diminished value is here in Texas Right In first place, so that you have some way to recoup that lost value.
• 9:04
  Speaker 5: And you know you can't.
• 9:07
  Speaker 5: You don't get that from the insurance company.
• 9:10
  Speaker 5: To get diminished value you have to have a third party involved and you go after that third party for your diminished value, ok.
• 9:18
  Speaker 5: Ok, then the insurance company will step in there and usually pick up that cost.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: So let's, let's change gears here and let's talk about building a car, whether you're restoring it, whether you're hot rotting it, no matter what it is how?
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: How do you determine whether the build shop that you have chosen is trustworthy?
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: And I guess that the real story is $2 million of classic cars and parts found during a search in connection with a car repairman accused of ripping off customers.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: You hear these stories quite frequently where you've got a friend of a friend who's turned you on to somebody that does restorations and he sells you the restoration.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: You give him the car, you give him, you know, $5,000 to get started on the car.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: The car is pushed to the corner of the shop and eventually, when you go to check on the car, nothing has been done.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: The guy is out of business and it's covered in muddoppers.
• 10:23
  Speaker 5: Well, we just had that situation occur down in Dickinson, texas.
• 10:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you saw the articles by Fox News on that, but there was a gentleman down there running a so-called restoration shop and he would take him the car and take a deposit on the car.
• 10:38
  Speaker 5: And then the particular car that I did was a 67 Camaro.
• 10:43
  Speaker 5: It had been at one shop already for the engine and transmission work and rear end and wheelwood, brakes and all those good pieces.
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: But it needed some other things to finish it up.
• 10:55
  Speaker 5: So the fellow thought he would bring it closer to home to a shop to get those final things taken care of.
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: So he leaves the car with the guy, gives him a huge down payment to get the work done and doesn't hear anything for a while.
• 11:10
  Speaker 5: He calls the guy and he says you know, we're working on it, don't worry.
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: So he puts him off and puts him off to the point where finally the customer goes down to where the car is supposed to be and the car is not there.
• 11:24
  Speaker 5: He had moved the car and done this to several cars moved them to a facility, a storage facility, and took all the work that had been done.
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: This fellow had bought a brand new LSX crate engine to put in the car.
• 11:39
  Speaker 5: He took it out of the car and sold it.
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: He took the transmission out of the car and sold it.
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: There was nothing but a shell of the car left.
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: That's what I tell everybody.
• 11:52
  Speaker 5: Visit the shops Often.
• 11:55
  Speaker 5: If you're going to send your car to a shop and I don't care if you're in California and you're getting work done here in Texas fly down and visit the shop.
• 12:03
  Speaker 5: Never turn your car over to somebody that you're not seeing face to face and dealing with on a virtual weekly basis.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: I will tell you that Mark Rancourt, over at Sweet Rides, worked on my 66 Corvair and it took him a while.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: I mean it was a long process and he said, look, I'll do this for you, but I'm going to have to work on other cars.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, slow walk it and he did, but he turned out magnificent.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: Mark is well-schooled in car body shop repairs.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: And he's been in business for a long time.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: So he's got a long history and he came highly recommended through Randy Bortcharding and who owns a great shop called Paint House, and so through these networks of people that I have been fortunate enough to actually dance with, if you want to call it that, I will say that I've been fortunate that I've never had that experience.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: So I tell people all the time if you really want to get into anything to do with cars whether you want to go to a car club or you want to get into car restoration, you want to find a custom classic car, whatever it is go to some car shows, go to someplace like Autorama, talk to people.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: People in the car business love to talk about and brag about their cars.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: What kind of experience did you have with, you know X, y, z repair shop, whatever the case may be, don't you agree?
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, absolutely, and you know.
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: But we're fortunate that we're in this auto world and have those kinds of connections.
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: The average Joe that's looking to get into a classic car for the first time not going to have those connects.
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: So he really needs he, she really needs to start working on that before even getting into the car itself.
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: Go to the shops, talk to them about their services, what they offer, ask them to show you some of their work and talk to them about a timeline.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: Like you said, this one took you a little longer than you anticipated was going to take.
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: There's certain shops around town I know one in particular that he won't even let you bring the car there till he's ready to start on.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: But, michael, you know, as a newbie and I go just say I'm a newbie and I go into the shop I've always wanted a 69 Camaro.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: Never had one.
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know much about cars because I'm a desk jockey and I go talk to a shop oh yeah, what you want to be done.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: I've got a lot of cars here.
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: You know that's a 18 month project which, from what I understand from restorations, really isn't too far off on some of them.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: So so you tell me that and, using your example, I live in California but I want to shop down here in Texas to do it.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: So I shipped my car down there, knowing I'm expecting it to take at least 18 months to do it.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: I can't come down here every week to check on it, and so do you.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Because of your appraisal network and things, do you do things like that?
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: You know, like, could I hire you or someone like you?
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Look, I need you to go out to the shop once a month, do a little check on it, make sure everything's up to speed.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: I can't get there and I wouldn't know what I was looking at if I did go.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: I, you know, I've done appraisals on cars that are not complete, but the person's already put, you know, $100,000 into the car, so they want to get insurance for that case Something does happen to the car.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: So I do those types of appraisals.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: But you might have, you know, really touched on a new business that could be evolved right there to provide that kind of service, because there's really nobody out there that will do that for you.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: Right, I mean, and even if I'm local here in Houston and I'm using the Houston shop, but I'm again, I'm a desk jockey.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: I don't know anything about cars except how to put the key in and start it, but I've always wanted that 69 cabaro, you know, and I wouldn't know if the guy's feeding me a line of bull or not, Whenever I get there to look at it.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: You know he's oh, this is art Morrison Chassis we put under here and all he did was paint up the existing one.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: You know, that's kind of what I'm wondering about, because there's a lot of people that are getting to that point now.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Let's talk, let's shift gears here and let's talk about the fifth annual Woody's Waterfront Rod and Custom Car Show.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Rod and Custom.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Show.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: That's a change this year.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: I hope you're all aware.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I noticed that it's a change in the name of the show and I'm thinking yeah, so I thought that there were a lot of custom cars out there already.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: Well, we can't, yeah, but if you were at last year's show and I believe you were I was yes.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I've been to all five of them, if you remember correctly.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: But you know if you don't hang around.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: If you don't hang around until the trophy time, you don't see who wins these trophies.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: Okay, and we had a lady, a sweet lady I mean she was a lot of fun.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: He took me for a ride in it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: I have brand new Tesla with a paper tag on it.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: She wanted, she wanted a trophy.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: We had a brand new Corvette with a paper tag on it On a trophy, and that's not what I set this show up to be.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Just because you got a pocket full of money and go buy a new car, that's you're not the people I'm looking for.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: I'm looking for the guy that's bought that car, worked on that car, brought that car to the level that it is today, either through shops or his own work, and really has a well, like you say, a love affair with the car and creates.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Some of these cars are pure works of art, you know.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: So I really wanted to get those people a better chance of taking a trophy home and not let these root and I don't want to call them rich people, but people with the ability to go buy a new car and just come get a trophy.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: So we limited it this year to 1988 and below, and I went 88 because I wanted to get in the.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: You know the transams were real hot.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Now the 77, 78, 79 turbos, they're all pretty pretty collectible cars.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: You got the Buick Grand Nationals, the GNX, other cars like that that are going to fit that category, that you know they might have bought but they've had it for years and kept it in pristine condition.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: So I'm really looking.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: It's a judge show and we eliminated classes last year and that's seemed to work really well Because you know there's always some Joe that you know why did I get second, not first, or this, that or the other?
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: The Don Armstrong's that come out there.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I got 40 trophies and they're all class winners.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Okay, gotcha, we're going to have 40 cars that get trophies and it'll be a class winner trophy, and then we have the best of show, best interior, best paint, best inch.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Where is it?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Where is it?
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: When is?
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: it.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: It is next weekend, september 30th, at Top Order Grill in San Leon, texas, 815 Avenue O 815 Avenue O.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: In San Leon, texas, san Leon, san Leon.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: It's 816 Avenue.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: O is the Bay of Galveston.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is an absolutely gorgeous place.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Y'all been there.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: You know people that haven't been, and that was another thing that I really want to do, accomplished with this show.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Because I've got a garage full of trophies for my car but I had to set in some hot parking lot all day you know, bringing what shade and air I could bring with me to get those and I just got to the point where it wasn't enjoyable anymore.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: I wanted to go show that I enjoyed being there and when I saw this location, when I was able to put it together, I knew I had something.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: And, like I say, it's continued to grow.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: This is the fifth year we've done it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: It's a little bit of work for a single guy to do.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: You know I can.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: You got to get me a partner here, probably to keep going, because I'm not getting any younger.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: But it's a great.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: It's a great location and the thing I thought was real cool about it is if you get there early enough, you can catch that morning sunrise light.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Oh I've got pictures.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I've got gorgeous pictures of that.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: It's a great photo opportunity for you to bring your car with the water in the background and the other cars parked around it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: In the sunrise it's a beautiful location.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: How many?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Do you have any slots still left open?
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: It's a first come, first serve.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Got it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: We've got room for about 250 cars.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, and when did the gates open for me to bring my car down there?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: The gates- actually open at eight o'clock 8 am and the show runs from what to what?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Eight to four, eight to four.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Okay, now we get people coming in from Conroe and and Tom Ball and Hempstead and you know other parts up here, and they usually leave before daylight, oh yeah, and they get down there.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: So they're sitting there waiting at seven o'clock.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: And these crazy fools with this crazy radio show, yep, yep.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: There's that There'll be somebody at the gate, probably at about seven, fifteen, seven thirty.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Well, if not, we're just gonna have to bust it down, because we got to get started earlier than that, as you well know.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: I will.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: I'll be there to accommodate you guys.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: You know that.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you, we appreciate that.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Well, okay, so next Saturday, topwater Grill in San Leon, texas, eight to four, and it's a great venue.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: What a wonderful place, that Topwater Grill right there at the point out in the middle of the water.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Now you can drive right on out there to show your car and at the very end, where we'll be is a nice palapa and it's going to.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the bar is gonna be open or not, but we'll we'll let him, bloody marriage will be available.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: That's what we needed to hear Woody it's great to talk to you.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much and we will see you next Saturday, my friend, Hi, thanks, woody.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Thanks Alright.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: I'm having me a salad at the restaurant.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: There's that Alright time now here on the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show for the Events Calendar, not the Cruise Inn, the Events Calendar which kind of goes right into Woody's Waterfront Car Show.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: And that would be the start of it is Woody's Waterfront Car Show is next weekend Moving on.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: It's an event, not a, not a cruise.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: In Friday October 14th is the All British Car Show at the Butler House in Spring, texas.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Friday, october 20th, the 30th, 38th annual Wolf Creek Car Show at Wolf Creek Park in Cold Spring, texas, on September 23rd, which is tomorrow no, that's today.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Today Clear Lake Car Show and that's in Kema, texas.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: And for Mars and his, his ilk, out there in in Nederland, you got milk.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I have milk Milk.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Put some ointment on it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: The Nederland Avenue Cruise Inn starts at 8am on September 30th.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Everyone who's arrested by the Popo can come on out, and if you're not thrown in jail out there in Nederland, you can go up to Sillsby for the Sillsby Cruise Inn on the 29th through the 30th, that's Friday and Saturday night at Kirby Memorial Stadium.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: So Mars has got stuff to do.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Alright, and right now, speaking of that, mr Mars has a car review here on the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show, and that would be on the Kia EV6.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, do, and I got a lot to say, so I'm gonna talk kind of fast.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I'll just say because you ain't got much time, now we're talking about the 2023 Kia EV6 GT all-wheel drive.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Now the GT is one of the four trim levels that are on this vehicle.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: This kind of a weird year.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: They're actually dropping the base model, which is the light, and they're adding the GT as the new one, so it'll end up being with just three trim levels on this.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: It's what the best I could describe it as a performance crossover SUV.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: It's just like this little hot rod.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Now you're gonna look at this car and I got a lot of compliments on the way this car looked.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I had the runway red and it really stood out.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: A lot of people liked it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: It has a unique front and rear faces because it is on the GT model, got a front diffuser on it, got some nice neon green accents, including the brake rotors or the yeah, calipers, calipers, that's what I'm thinking about and I wrote it down as rotors and I knew that wasn't right.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: So you got that and you're gonna find.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Up front you got LED lighting on the front and the rear, got some on the interior, got a power lift gate.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: That's got includes a rear spoiler that adds to the styling of this vehicle.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: It's just really sharp.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Got a power sunroof rolls on some 21 inch alloy wheels.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Got flush door handles, that kind of pop out whenever you hit the key fob so that you can pull on them to get it open.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Otherwise it's nice and flush, all door colored.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: You can hardly see them.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: You get into the inside.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: It had the suede seating surfaces.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: The front seats are heated.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: The outboard of the rear seat they're also heated.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Got the front sport buckets.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Now these things have got some really big bolsters on them.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: One day I was running some errands.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: I got in and out of the car.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: I counted it ten times.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: By the tenth time you really noticed the bolstering.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: But when you're setting in it it's really comfortable.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: You really feel like you're secure in the seating on it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: I really liked them in that regard.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Had the H, the heads up display.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: We had the wireless charger.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Had a meridian premium audio system that works pretty well.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: We had the surround view monitor that was in the center stack where it's a 12.3 inch monitor.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: The driver's got a 12.3 inch monitor for it's got all the driver information, the speedometer, the tach, all that good stuff that you're looking for.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Now under the hood there is a dual motor all-wheel drive type setup that is 576 horsepower equivalent.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Now zero to 60 times, according to Kia is 3.4 seconds, which actually beats out the Mustang Mach-E in time.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Now Top speed to 161 mile per hour.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I would not argue with the zero to sixty speed.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know about the top end.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: That's in this little thing.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: It's got a little button on the steering column.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: It's got a green little button.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: This is GT on it and when you push that button it goes.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: It goes really fast.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: It's ever bit of it.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: So I drove this vehicle 349.7 miles.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: I had to go charge it on the bus.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: No, not quite.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: I had to go to the charger twice.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: This thing is capable of taking an 800 volt charging system.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: The best I could find and I did as far as I know, of 350 is about.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: It took me 30, 30 to 32 minutes stick for it to get for 80%, to go from 15% up to 80%.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: So it charges really quick.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: There's three different driving modes on it.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: There's eco, comfort, sport and the GT drive mode and a my my drive mode, the, where you can custom set it for with the settings that you want on and impacting the suspension and how the transmission reacts.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of different things.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: It'll do for you the Theme that I noted and I called Don about this because the first time I had to get ready to charge us.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to plug it into the house and let it charge for a little while.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: So I went to look for the Cable.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: There is no cable.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: I found an adapter that I was talking to you about, but you got to have a male to male charging cable.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: So I went and borrowed one from a guy I knew they have one and I went to plug it in.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Lo and behold that that adapter is actually what they call a v2l adapter.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Now, that is to Export a charge out of the car.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: If you want to run something, run your power, saw exactly but it's not to charge it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: So there is no home charging cable available unless you go to Amazon or the dealer.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: He runs a hundred nineteen dollars to two hundred and thirty dollars on Amazon to be able to charge your car at home without installing something.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Price wise, you're looking at the base model price.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: You can get an eb6 for forty six thousand two hundred.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: That's the light if you can find it.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: If not, you have to buy the wind model at forty eight Seven hundred, which is now they're going to be the new base model.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: The trim price that we had.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: The base trim price for the eb6 GT that we had was sixty one thousand four hundred dollars.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: They asked tested it was sixty two thousand eight hundred and sixty five dollars.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: A couple of things to note.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: If that comes with, at least this year.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: If you use electrify America, they will give you a thousand kilowatt hours free charging and there's a sixty three hundred dollar EV rebate.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: You can get on it currently and it still has the ten year hundred thousand mile warranty that you can get from Kia.
• 29:24
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• 29:37
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• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Right after this quick break, the original group of loopy tortilla restaurants will have you telling your family and friends just what the original recipes mean when it comes to the best fajitas in southeast Texas.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Founders Stan Holt invite you to visit the original loopy tortilla near I-10 and highway six.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Here's the original house that inspired the design of all the rest and the original charm that helped make loopy tortilla the go-to destination for Houston Tex-Mex.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Speaking of original, nothing can compete with the original lime pepper marinade that everyone will agree makes loopy tortilla award-winning beef Fajitas the best anywhere.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Loopy tortilla Katie is another location that gives you the same quality and service Houstonians have come to expect at loopies.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: It's located just off I-10 of the Grand Parkway at Kingsland Boulevard in Katie.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Find yourself in Aggie land, head to the loopy Tortilla College station, located just around the corner from Kyle Field.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: It's a great place to enjoy those famous frozen margaritas before or after the game and at East to Louisiana.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Stop in at the loopy tortilla in Beaumont.
• 30:34
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• 30:35
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• 30:36
  Speaker 1: The original group of loopy tortilla restaurants invite you in for the best Tex-Mex anywhere.
• 30:40
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• 30:44
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