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Why A 1959 BMW Isetta Still Stops Traffic · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:07
  Don Armstrong: It is the award one again with our talk show today coming to you from the Easter edition of the Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise In at the Olympia Tortilla Tex Max in Katy.
• 0:17
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, Judd Holt talking about his Zeta that is here at the show.
• 0:20
  Don Armstrong: It's also the poster child for this cruise in this week, and uh it's a perfect fit.
• 0:25
  Don Armstrong: Uh later, Jeff has the motor minute.
• 0:27
  Don Armstrong: I'll review the new 2026 Kia Carnival in this segment of the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:32
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, Mars, we always need more Jeff Zeken.
• 0:37
  Don Armstrong: We have Chief Engineer David Ainsley with us today.
• 0:39
  Don Armstrong: My name is Thanks so much for joining us today.
• 0:43
  Don Armstrong: In the remote studio setting, we have here at the Loopy and Katie.
• 0:48
  Don Armstrong: Judd Holt is a good question.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I do need to make one correction.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's Peter.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Judd, I'm sorry, that is the handsome one.
• 0:56
  Don Armstrong: I'm sorry, I thought that I wasn't going to say anything.
• 1:02
  Don Armstrong: So um I'm sorry, I didn't know.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
• 1:06
  Don Armstrong: You know, I see you guys probably once every five, ten years.
• 1:10
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:11
  Don Armstrong: Sorry.
• 1:11
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:12
  Don Armstrong: And in his age, five or ten years is a lifetime.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: This is probably the last one, right?
• 1:17
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:18
  Don Armstrong: I got I got one foot in the grave right now.
• 1:21
  Don Armstrong: Oh, look, he's got his father's sense of humor.
• 1:23
  Don Armstrong: That's great.
• 1:25
  Don Armstrong: Stay the rest of the grave.
• 1:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Sit right there.
• 1:28
  Don Armstrong: That was good.
• 1:29
  Don Armstrong: It was great.
• 1:30
  Don Armstrong: It was good.
• 1:32
  Don Armstrong: Well, it doesn't make any difference who it is.
• 1:34
  Don Armstrong: The car is true.
• 1:35
  Don Armstrong: This is not about you, it's about the car.
• 1:37
  Don Armstrong: That's right.
• 1:37
  Jeff Dziekan: So tell me, Larry.
• 1:42
  Don Armstrong: You you haven't had this much ribbing in quite some time.
• 1:46
  Don Armstrong: And I'm sorry.
• 1:46
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:47
  Don Armstrong: I started it and I woke up.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:49
  Don Armstrong: Sorry.
• 1:50
  Don Armstrong: So um is this one of many cars in your collection?
• 1:54
  Don Armstrong: Uh it is, yes.
• 1:56
  Don Armstrong: Because we haven't talked about the other cars in your collection.
• 2:00
  Don Armstrong: Did were you Don't you?
• 2:01
  Don Armstrong: Are you the brother that's because this is the best one?
• 2:04
  Don Armstrong: Is it?
• 2:05
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 2:05
  Don Armstrong: There you go.
• 2:06
  Don Armstrong: And so what happens when you press the accelerator to the floor in that one?
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I mean it's, you know, the neighbors are like, hey, take it easy.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: So kids apply.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, come on, man.
• 2:19
  Don Armstrong: So do we have do we have a picture of uh the It's on the screen?
• 2:23
  Don Armstrong: Well, partially.
• 2:24
  Don Armstrong: It's in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
• 2:26
  Don Armstrong: Oh, okay.
• 2:27
  Don Armstrong: And it is an IZA.
• 2:29
  Don Armstrong: It is.
• 2:29
  Don Armstrong: Who who originally built the IZA?
• 2:32
  Don Armstrong: Was it BMW?
• 2:34
  Don Armstrong: That's what it's badged as.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: So I hope so.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: I can found that.
• 2:38
  Don Armstrong: You know, I never knew that because to me it was always an IZA.
• 2:41
  Don Armstrong: Got it.
• 2:42
  Don Armstrong: BMW?
• 2:43
  Don Armstrong: Because you think of BMW, you think of a high performance German car, right?
• 2:47
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 2:47
  Don Armstrong: Or a German car.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: What do you mean, think of?
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: We're staring at the time.
• 2:50
  Don Armstrong: Well, you know, well, it depends on your definition of that, because this is a car where the entire front end opens up.
• 2:59
  Don Armstrong: Doesn't have doors.
• 3:00
  Don Armstrong: That's the door, the door, the one and only door.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: The one and only door.
• 3:04
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I have a picture of uh my daughter in one of those.
• 3:07
  Don Armstrong: Uh she came to visit, and uh somebody was selling one at the Meekham auction here in town.
• 3:13
  Don Armstrong: The door was open.
• 3:14
  Don Armstrong: I said, get in, let me take a picture.
• 3:16
  Don Armstrong: And she says, Dad, I can't believe this is a real car.
• 3:18
  Don Armstrong: Oh yeah.
• 3:20
  Don Armstrong: Um, I remember that my first vision of one.
• 3:23
  Don Armstrong: I'm not going to tell you what year it was, but it was a long time ago.
• 3:26
  Don Armstrong: And I'm going, that's really weird, but I kind of like it.
• 3:30
  Don Armstrong: There's something, what is what is attractive about that car to a car guy?
• 3:35
  Don Armstrong: Because it shouldn't be.
• 3:36
  Don Armstrong: It shouldn't be attractive because it's a non-traditional anything.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's definitely non-traditional.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I I think it's like it's a very sophisticated moped.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I I think it's the the wicker basket on the back for a picnic.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_04: Well, it is and it is balanced.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_04: That is balance picnics.
• 3:52
  Don Armstrong: Well, I don't know, but let's but let's get back to the car itself because the steering wheel is actually mounted to the door.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: To the door, it folds away.
• 4:00
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, and so an engineer designed a yoke kind of system.
• 4:05
  Don Armstrong: So when you shut the door, all of that all lines up with the steering wheel once the door is shut.
• 4:11
  Don Armstrong: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, genius.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: There's definitely a lot of engineering that went into it.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, to make that happen.
• 4:18
  Don Armstrong: And it is a rear engine and well rear side.
• 4:24
  Don Armstrong: Rear side.
• 4:26
  Don Armstrong: Um what kind of a motor has it got in it?
• 4:30
  Don Armstrong: Four-cylinder?
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh no.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: One cylinder.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: A one-cylinder.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's called a bing.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's a one-cylinder, and I'm assuming the name came from the sound it makes.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: It does make that weird sound.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's just uh just a little one-cylinder.
• 4:47
  Don Armstrong: So it's not much bigger than a Briggs and Stratton lawnmower motor.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: Not that, but they those probably have more horsepower.
• 4:54
  Don Armstrong: Really?
• 4:55
  Don Armstrong: Um, do you know how much horsepower?
• 4:57
  Don Armstrong: What was it advertised for?
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think it's a full horse.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's maybe more in the donkey class.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_04: Oh.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_04: So he can really haul donkey.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_04: I've got to say there you go.
• 5:09
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 5:09
  Don Armstrong: It's a real jackass of a car, I'm telling you.
• 5:12
  Don Armstrong: I I like it.
• 5:14
  Don Armstrong: So what possessed you to buy it?
• 5:17
  Don Armstrong: Uh just to pick up chicks.
• 5:21
  Jeff Dziekan: The ones at the grocery, the ones at the farm to market place.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, anywhere, really look at it.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, sleek lines, you know, aerodynamic, at least if it's in the middle.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_03: You can just swing it open and say, hey, baby.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's just, you know, they have to sit right next to you.
• 5:36
  Don Armstrong: I would imagine that anywhere anywhere that you went, anywhere that you went, people go, Wow, that's a really cool car.
• 5:45
  Don Armstrong: It is.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's an eye catcher, and it's all ages, obviously, because of its age, but uh, yeah, and it's you know, it's still unique.
• 5:54
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 5:55
  Don Armstrong: So uh we have it on our website and we have it on our Facebook page.
• 6:00
  Don Armstrong: It's the poster uh of this particular show.
• 6:03
  Don Armstrong: The event, yeah.
• 6:04
  Don Armstrong: And um it it it's just fantastic.
• 6:07
  Don Armstrong: Uh and uh the wicker basket on the back is an ad.
• 6:10
  Don Armstrong: Did they actually make a real rack for for like a luggage?
• 6:18
  Don Armstrong: Because it has no trunk.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: That is, it has no trunk, just the just the rear trail.
• 6:24
  Don Armstrong: Because remember, you know, us Corvette guys, somebody somebody somewhere along the engineering department like a Chevrolet put a rug luggage rack on a Corvette.
• 6:34
  Don Armstrong: No, no, no.
• 6:36
  Don Armstrong: But I can't tell you how many I've seen.
• 6:38
  Don Armstrong: And when you see them, they're rare.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 6:41
  Don Armstrong: And most of the people have taken them off if it ever had.
• 6:44
  Jeff Dziekan: I think behind us, there might be a one.
• 6:45
  Jeff Dziekan: There's a couple of vets behind us, but so do you have any of those?
• 6:49
  Don Armstrong: The Corvettes?
• 6:50
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 6:51
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 6:51
  Don Armstrong: What what other cars do you have in your collection?
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's an eclectic mix.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um I've got some some classics.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I've got a uh you've seen the 52 Chev.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: The five window.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's got uh I've got a 67 uh Mustang.
• 7:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Nice.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I have a 77 Bronco.
• 7:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Wonderful.
• 7:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Wow.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: A 76 FJ, Toyota FJ.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 7:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh yeah.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I have uh you drive them.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: I was gonna ask, yeah.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: I mean I drive them, they're all drivable.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: They're all you know, you know, practically you know, in in as new condition, um, but I don't drive them all very often.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: 72 uh Chevy pickup, uh 85 laser, uh I have a 52 uh VW transporter too.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_05: Nice.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_05: The pickup I like your taste.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: I like your taste.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but it's it's things that you know are all done correctly.
• 7:53
  Don Armstrong: You have a favorite today.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I it it it changes.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um I was just thinking about that.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I just restored, I'll tell you an interesting story, is I I I found about three years ago the original 911 Porsche.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's a 2001 that I had bought, ordered it from the factory, took nine months to build back then.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh took delivery of it about two weeks before I got married.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: And uh sold it probably a year and a half after I got it.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted a convertible, uh, but came across it on an online auction three years ago.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I went, oh that's just like when I had, and I started doing a little bit of research.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: It turns out it was.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: Where was it?
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was in the Midwest, uh in in like Idaho, and it only has 37,000 miles on it.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm thinking, okay, and they're claiming it's practically new.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: And so my wife, uh, we we actually drove away from our wedding in it.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: And so there's pictures uh from our wedding of us in her wedding dress getting in a car.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: So of course then I had her budget uh to buy the car.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I bought it in Oxford and I recently uh I sent it off to Chicago to a specialist group up there and had the entire completely redone back to uh factories new.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: With with still it's only 37,000 miles.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: So that's been my and I just got it back uh last fall.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_05: So what was the period of time away from our?
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so it was I bought it in 2001 and just bought it back in 2023.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: So and there was only two years, yeah.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there was only uh two other owners between me and uh and the original title.
• 9:29
  Don Armstrong: Other people like you saw what you saw in it originally and then wanted to keep it that way.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: I guess.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: Well it turns out they didn't take that good care of it, but uh maybe.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: But they didn't they didn't modify it, they drove it.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: They they drove it.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: They drove it, and I think there was some maybe some body work that had been done to it.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: But uh but it's okay.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a car on everyone.
• 9:49
  Don Armstrong: So did you ever see Greg Enders Black Corvette?
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh probably.
• 9:53
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 9:56
  Don Armstrong: Um back in 2016, 17.
• 10:04
  Don Armstrong: It had 16,000 miles on it, and now it's got 36,000 miles on it.
• 10:11
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:12
  Don Armstrong: And um it's it's immaculate.
• 10:14
  Don Armstrong: The paint's been massaged on it, it's all original, but it's been massaged on it a lot.
• 10:20
  Don Armstrong: And so um it's it's my baby.
• 10:23
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:24
  Don Armstrong: It's kind of what you're talking about, I think, kind of thing.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was just uh, you know, it was an interesting just to find it and have it be in you know one piece and not have a hundred and fifty thousand.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_03: It's got a settle value with you and your wife.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_03: That that makes the world a lot better.
• 10:37
  Don Armstrong: Now, do you go to the uh Houston Mico auction?
• 10:39
  Don Armstrong: I do.
• 10:40
  Don Armstrong: It's coming up.
• 10:41
  Don Armstrong: Do you uh you buy things there?
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: I I have, I've I've bought quite a few things there, but it's you know, I certainly don't mind skipping it as far as buying something.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: It has to be something right, being hot right.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I bid on stuff and I'm happy.
• 10:55
  Jeff Dziekan: But are you currently looking for something new to add or no?
• 10:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Or are you always in that frame?
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: There no, I uh no, no, but I mean if there's something comes up and it's like I'll kick myself.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's stay inside.
• 11:07
  unknown: Of course he's always looking for.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'll kick myself for your frame now if I don't know.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Well he's a liar, you're always looking.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: So it's uh I'm I'm constantly watching.
• 11:16
  Jeff Dziekan: And if something comes up an interested person.
• 11:18
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes.
• 11:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Is there something in your dad's collection that you want?
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: Is he listening?
• 11:24
  Jeff Dziekan: Probably not.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I I I honestly I don't know what his current collection is at.
• 11:28
  Don Armstrong: I well, but none of us do.
• 11:30
  Don Armstrong: It's a big mystery because it's always changing.
• 11:33
  Don Armstrong: And and it's oh, I gotta sell something because I don't have any more hanger space.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure whatever I want, he's just recently sold.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's the way it always works.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I probably would have bought it for more than he sold it, you know, but he just didn't ask.
• 11:47
  Jeff Dziekan: You're not you're not uh first refusal.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: He should be ready.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: You would think it would be just the path of least resistance.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: He'd run it by the family.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: Anybody want this?
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'm getting ready to sell it.
• 11:56
  Don Armstrong: I'd let it go for the yeah, there's too many, there's too many moving parts in all of this all the time, and you know exactly what I'm talking about.
• 12:06
  Don Armstrong: Right.
• 12:06
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, right.
• 12:07
  Don Armstrong: Uh well, you know, it's great to see you, and thanks for bringing the IZA.
• 12:12
  Don Armstrong: What year is it, by the way?
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: 59.
• 12:15
  Don Armstrong: 59.
• 12:17
  Don Armstrong: Did they only build that one body style?
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: So there was, I know there was a different model series.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: I think there was a 200, a 300, and then they did a an actual uh, I think a two-door.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was a four-seater, it was like a 600.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_05: Why?
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: I mean probably didn't sell.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: When you've you know when you've got that level of performance into picking up chicks, that's why they just didn't.
• 12:45
  Don Armstrong: Does the wife say I am not getting in that thing?
• 12:48
  Don Armstrong: Or does she does she ever ride with you?
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Mostly it's just difficult to get two people into it.
• 12:51
  Don Armstrong: Well, there's that.
• 12:52
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 12:52
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it it'll bar barely squeeze too.
• 12:54
  Don Armstrong: Kitting a men's high canonic.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if it's if it's really dark and no one's out, she'll she'll ride with me in it.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_04: So is it actually four wheels or three?
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_04: It is four.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a lot of people think the back two, for whatever reason, are just closer together.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what the thought process was.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's a it's a solid, it's a solid Apple drive.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
• 13:17
  Jeff Dziekan: It's like a half shaft type.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: I it literally looks like a golf cart.
• 13:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh wow.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: Little, you know, not that those are a transmission, but yeah, a little transaction kind of thing.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: How fast will the joke is I've had it up to 70, but the trailer started to wobble a little, so it's good, yeah.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: But I've I've had it up to 45 driving.
• 13:40
  Don Armstrong: That's probably all she'll go.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: I ran out of road, actually.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I just I don't take it on you know a lot of big roads.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 13:48
  Jeff Dziekan: So it was at the end of the quarter and it was the drop off.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I didn't want to have to pull the chute, so uh I had to get off the brakes.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it's super low maintenance.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, all you have to do is clean the bugs off the back window.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: No, that one.
• 14:05
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, well, does it actually have the looks running into it?
• 14:08
  Don Armstrong: Does it actually you'll get that one later?
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_03: You can explain it to me later.
• 14:13
  Don Armstrong: Does it actually does it actually have room for a quart of oil in it?
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I bet it doesn't take a full quartz.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: No, but it not doesn't either.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: Not a one.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: Check it very often.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I check under it, that's how I know if it's not leaking.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: Does it leak?
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, as long as it's leaking, I know I'm good.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: How many gallons are we?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: When there's no leaking, I go, I must need oil.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta put some in it.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:35
  Jeff Dziekan: How big is it, gas tank?
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I bet it is less than two gallons.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: No room for what they think.
• 14:46
  Jeff Dziekan: What can you imagine?
• 14:48
  Jeff Dziekan: We got trouble.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: There's a bilge pump.
• 14:53
  unknown: Yeah.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: They asked me if the wiper actually was electric.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: I said, oh yeah, it's electric, but it goes, you know, about that fast.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not sure.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: Is it really electric?
• 15:04
  Don Armstrong: Because usually vacuum operated.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know that I would want to be stuck in the thing.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's not very watertight.
• 15:17
  Don Armstrong: I'm thinking tub and LS in it.
• 15:18
  Don Armstrong: So what are you bringing to the next tailpipes and tacos?
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's a good question.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um if it's if it's not something new, what is it?
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: What are these quarterly now?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh how much time do we have?
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: Something up like six months or so.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: I think the FJ.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's time to bring the FJ back out.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: I think you're right.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever the lenders is what he's saying.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever's not repo.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, whatever will start, um whichever battery is the most charged.
• 15:50
  Don Armstrong: So you don't have somebody like a George taking care of your collection.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I do not.
• 15:56
  Don Armstrong: What is your driver?
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I have a uh a Ford F-150 uh Raptor.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: Gotcha.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of my data.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's a pretty cool truck, yeah.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was uh it was a it's a Hennessy.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Oh a Hennessy?
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but it was it's a 21, so it's there early.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: Well, but it was there early.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: Now they're doing a thousand work.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: I do, I know John very well.
• 16:18
  Don Armstrong: And um is his business still thriving out there?
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: I think more than ever.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: I believe his son-in-law is the one that's that's taking the reins.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: So is the drag strip right?
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're selling more cars and in what's that?
• 16:40
  Don Armstrong: Is the drag strip still there?
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: No, I think he sold that.
• 16:44
  Don Armstrong: But it's still there.
• 16:45
  Don Armstrong: I don't think so.
• 16:45
  Don Armstrong: No?
• 16:46
  Don Armstrong: They ripped up the drag strip.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: I believe so.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: You can catch me lying on that.
• 16:52
  Jeff Dziekan: We'll have to check, we'll look into that.
• 16:53
  Jeff Dziekan: We'll get our crack staff out of the street.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: And they're building a new a new facility just behind that existing property.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of the state of the art uh that is well I think it's I think it's really for the for the F5, for the manufacturer high-end sports car, their performance cars.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: Super cars, I guess.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: Supercar, hypercar, right.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: The Venom, what is it, F5 Venom, I think is that sounds right.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: And so I think they're kind of building a home for that.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because that's that's still got a lot of traction.
• 17:24
  Don Armstrong: You know, that was the that was the drag strip that nobody ever heard of.
• 17:27
  Don Armstrong: And it sat out there forever, nobody ever promoted it.
• 17:30
  Don Armstrong: Nothing.
• 17:31
  Don Armstrong: And it what a great location in my mind, right there on the Katie Freeway, but nope.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he started at West Houston Airport.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: I did not know that.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: He had a hanger over there.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was a long time building the original Viking.
• 17:46
  Jeff Dziekan: That was a long time ago, yeah.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: Now you're making me old.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and uh he used to he used to pay to do passes on the runway to test the cars.
• 17:55
  Don Armstrong: To that jerk that owns it.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh, no comment.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: Woody.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, you know, we we land a helicopter out there.
• 18:06
  Don Armstrong: He hates helicopters.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't like helicopters.
• 18:08
  Don Armstrong: No, he hates helicopters.
• 18:10
  Don Armstrong: And he gets all bent out of shape.
• 18:12
  Don Armstrong: And you never know what kind of mood he's gonna be in when you run into him out there.
• 18:16
  Don Armstrong: Oh, hey, how you doing?
• 18:18
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 18:21
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, um when I was working for your dad, I had a little run-in on behalf of her father.
• 18:28
  Don Armstrong: I've heard stories.
• 18:29
  Don Armstrong: Yes.
• 18:31
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, uh Peter, it's great to see you.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 18:36
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I thought you wrote it on real big.
• 18:39
  Jeff Dziekan: He spelled it right, too.
• 18:41
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that but um so well, I guess we'll see you next time.
• 18:46
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 18:47
  Don Armstrong: Hope so.
• 18:47
  Don Armstrong: I would I would with FJ.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'll bring the FJ out.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's well sorted.
• 18:53
  Don Armstrong: It's I know somebody that had one, sold it, and regrets it to this day.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, a guy across the street from me, he did he sold it, and I was griping at him because he didn't take it's a forerunner.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_04: I know, but it's just it's very unique.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_04: And and he's never regrets it.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: Well, not mine is uh is a 76.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: Even better.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: It but it it looks you know factory new, except for it's got every accessory possibly.
• 19:19
  Jeff Dziekan: If you need to bring more out, Mike can drive a couple over for you.
• 19:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay, don't let Mike drive.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, do you guys uh long drive?
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: It'd be something with air conditioning.
• 19:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, and a and a smooth road.
• 19:33
  Don Armstrong: There's that from now on.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, it's maybe maybe ABS.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: I have I have locked the brakes up on the FJ a couple of times.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh boy.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: That's Peter, it's great to talk to you.
• 19:44
  Don Armstrong: Thank you so much for coming.
• 19:45
  Don Armstrong: Thank you, sir.
• 19:46
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• 19:50
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• 19:55
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• 20:00
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• 20:01
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• 20:09
  Don Armstrong: The Easter bunnies coming to the tailpipes and tacos cruise in at the Loopy Georgia Text Max in Katie, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 20:17
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• 20:20
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• 20:23
  Don Armstrong: With a donation to Shirley's kids, you'll get a free Loopy Georgia breakfast taco.
• 20:27
  Don Armstrong: There'll be coffee and adult beverages plus chili cover trophies for the best hot bottom, best modern classic, and best classic.
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• 20:54
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• 20:56
  Don Armstrong: at the Loopy Torchica Text Magics and Katie, located on 99, the Grand Parkway, just south of ITM, the Katie Freeway, in Katie.
• 21:03
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• 21:04
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• 21:35
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• 21:39
  Don Armstrong: For all these years, why do you have to have the minivan look like a traditional minivan?
• 21:45
  Don Armstrong: You don't, and they've proved it in this one.
• 21:47
  Don Armstrong: This vehicle was introduced in 2022.
• 21:50
  Don Armstrong: I think this is the first one that I've had.
• 21:52
  Don Armstrong: Uh, exterior features include a minivan that looks like an SUV, sliding passenger doors.
• 21:58
  Don Armstrong: Love it.
• 21:58
  Don Armstrong: Upright attractive.
• 22:00
  Don Armstrong: Grill and headlight.
• 22:04
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it, overall it gets high marks in design and execution.
• 22:10
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 22:11
  Don Armstrong: Well, they could get rid of those funky wheels.
• 22:14
  Don Armstrong: I said that.
• 22:15
  Don Armstrong: Sorry.
• 22:16
  Don Armstrong: Interior highlights, mini van roominess with second row captain's chairs.
• 22:21
  Don Armstrong: I would imagine that you could probably get a bench back there, but why?
• 22:25
  Don Armstrong: Unless you've got an uh entire school that you're hauling around.
• 22:30
  Don Armstrong: Um fold in the floor, third row seating.
• 22:36
  Don Armstrong: That was good.
• 22:36
  Don Armstrong: That was handy.
• 22:38
  Don Armstrong: It's got a dial shifter located on the center console.
• 22:42
  Don Armstrong: I love those.
• 22:43
  Don Armstrong: Uh ten-foot wide dual-purpose screen inside up on the dash.
• 22:49
  Don Armstrong: Exaggerating, obviously, but uh the thing goes the whole length of the of the dash.
• 22:55
  Don Armstrong: Um cargo room, massive, especially with the seats down.
• 22:58
  Don Armstrong: What I liked, the Swiss Army knife mindset in this vehicle.
• 23:03
  Don Armstrong: We could use improvement again, second row bench option.
• 23:07
  Don Armstrong: Um you could haul the entire soccer team with that.
• 23:11
  Don Armstrong: But here's the interesting thing it has a 1.6 liter gasoline turbo hybrid power plant.
• 23:21
  Don Armstrong: 242 horsepower, which is a lot.
• 23:24
  Don Armstrong: Uh 271 pound feet of torque.
• 23:27
  Don Armstrong: It had plenty of pocket speed, automatic transmission, but it is front-wheel drive only.
• 23:33
  Don Armstrong: Mileage, 34 city, 31 highway for combined to 32, 30.6 miles per gallon over 420 miles.
• 23:41
  Don Armstrong: Ain't bad, McGee.
• 23:43
  Don Armstrong: What I liked, the mileage with the horsepower.
• 23:47
  Don Armstrong: We could use improvement, nothing.
• 23:49
  Don Armstrong: Riding handling, smooth.
• 23:53
  Don Armstrong: What else can I say?
• 23:54
  Don Armstrong: It handles it handles great.
• 23:57
  Don Armstrong: Okay, so here there's a pricing.
• 23:59
  Don Armstrong: Base trim price,$53,099.
• 24:05
  Don Armstrong: Price as tested with all the acutram,$57,865.
• 24:11
  Don Armstrong: It's not bad.
• 24:12
  Don Armstrong: The base price on this vehicle.
• 24:19
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, there you go.
• 24:21
  Don Armstrong: Like you.
• 24:22
  Don Armstrong: Good for you.
• 24:23
  Don Armstrong: Uh base model price,$41,390.
• 24:28
  Jeff Dziekan: That's within range.
• 24:29
  Don Armstrong: That's entry level.
• 24:30
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 24:30
  Don Armstrong: $41,000.
• 24:31
  Don Armstrong: I'm all into that.
• 24:33
  Don Armstrong: So uh competitors at that entry level price include, but not limited, the Chrysler Pacifica starts at$44,445.
• 24:41
  Don Armstrong: The Honda Iodysy starts at$42,795.
• 24:46
  Don Armstrong: Siena starts at$40,000.
• 24:49
  Don Armstrong: So you can see kind of why these things are so popular because let's face it, I mean, the average price of a vehicle these days,$50, that falls well below it,$10,000 below it.
• 25:02
  Don Armstrong: I really do like this vehicle.
• 25:04
  Don Armstrong: And if you're in the market for a minivan slash SUV, uh, I would definitely go down to your Kia dealer and take a look at it.
• 25:13
  Don Armstrong: Get a test drive.
• 25:14
  Don Armstrong: I think that you'll really be impressed.
• 25:17
  Don Armstrong: Good stuff.
• 25:18
  Don Armstrong: It is.
• 25:19
  Don Armstrong: Um Mars, you're sitting down there awful quiet, which we're saying, I'm taking notes.
• 25:25
  Jeff Dziekan: He's ciphering.
• 25:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Are you?
• 25:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:27
  Jeff Dziekan: I think he started his taxes, is what he's doing.
• 25:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, I'm trying to finish him.
• 25:30
  Jeff Dziekan: The 15th is coming up pretty quick.
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• 27:06
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