Aug. 16, 2024

Car Talk & Tales: Auction Insights, High School Stories, and Texas Car Events

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Ever wondered how much a 2009 Pontiac Solstice really goes for at auction? Or what happens when a high school coach catches you flipping nickels? Tune into this episode of the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show for a unique mix of automotive insights and nostalgic storytelling. We start with some light-hearted fun at our "BYOS" event—bring your own story, steak, or shrimp—and introduce Mike's granddaughter, Paige, who’s about to embark on her senior year of high school. Don Armstrong shares a hilarious high school tale that you won't forget, and we dive into the Hemings Sold Car Weekly Roundup, guessing the prices of various cars and sprinkling in some humor along the way.

In the second half, we tackle serious issues with a touch of wit and wisdom. From auction prices of a 1969 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia to safety recalls involving Tesla's software and Nissan Ariya's power loss, we cover it all. We also discuss the latest in modern automotive technology and its potential pitfalls. Plus, you'll get a sneak peek into upcoming car events in Texas, such as the Texas Elite Auto Showcase and the 5-0 Car Show in Rosenberg. Stay informed with the latest industry news, including Nissan’s workforce changes and legal challenges faced by National General Holdings and Wells Fargo. This episode is packed with a blend of humor, nostalgia, and valuable automotive insights you won't want to miss!

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00:01 - Hemings Car Weekly Roundup and Stories

11:27 - Car Recalls and Car Talk

19:14 - Texas Car Show Event Highlights

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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast From the Sugar Shack Studios outside Houston, Texas, USA.

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It's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Just ahead.

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It's what, what, what B-Y-O-S.

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B-Y just ahead.

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B-y-o-s Boys Spelled backwards.

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That's it.

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I don't know, bring your own story oh, instead of B-Y-O-B.

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That's a Mars-ism.

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I just copied it from the thing.

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Theoretically it is.

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Theoretically it is From Neidervilleille.

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Mr mars does his trick again.

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Byos, bring your own story steak, bring your own shrimp.

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You know, I, I swear to god, I think it's those chemical plants over there that have done something strange.

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You need to move closer to the inland here yeah, yeah, good clean air.

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jeff has the cruise in and events calendar and I'm going to have some stories making automotive news headlines this week.

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Howdy, along with Mike.

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Out of this world, mars, from really out of this world.

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We need more Jeff Zekin, chief Engineer.

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David Ainsley, busy moving something today.

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I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us for our Saturday morning live program.

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If that's what you're on, if you're on a podcast or listening in some other form like on YouTube or whatever, welcome and thank you for joining us.

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Our guest today is as the world turns, these are the moments of our lives.

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I just dreamt that up, I just threw up in my throat.

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So we don't have a guest this hour.

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Your guest is our guest.

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This is us right here.

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So down at the other end and she is going to chime in on this is Mike's granddaughter, paige.

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You've got to play along.

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Yeah, you have to play along.

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I'll do my best.

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Okay, you've got a score sheet.

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She is going to be a senior.

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Have you started school yet?

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I started on the 15th.

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Oh, the 15th, the upcoming 15th yeah.

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Thursday yeah.

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Next Thursday.

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Okay, so she goes back to high school for her senior year.

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Are you thrilled?

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Yeah, I'm ready to get it over with.

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Get it over with, do you?

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want to do a shout-out to anybody in homeroom or detention or anything.

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Detention no no no.

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Have you ever spent any time in detention?

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I haven't, that's good.

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Glad to hear that.

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Because, your grandfather.

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He lived there.

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Yeah, just saying we didn't have detention, we had boards that they swung real quick, uh-huh Right on your butt.

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Yes, yes, I went through that myself.

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I got caught flipping nickels.

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Have I told you this story?

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Yeah, I think so.

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Well, I'm going to tell it again, okay.

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Darn it.

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So this was after PE, okay.

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So everybody's waiting for the bell to ring, right?

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So me and Ross and a couple other guys are flipping nickels.

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You know how to flip nickels, right.

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You know call it heads or tails, and whoever gets it right, they keep gambling basically Exactly.

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Well, coach Jolly Gene O'Regan, who was about 6'5" and was a bouncer in one of the nightclubs in Galveston back in the day when gambling was allowed down there, he don't like no gambling.

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Come here, boy, none of the other guys got in trouble, but me.

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Don Armstrong always got in trouble for everything, always Not meaning to.

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I didn't know.

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Come here, go to the office, sit down with with him.

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I'm shaking in my shoes because I know he's going to kill me.

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Okay, you got a choice.

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We can either expel you for gambling on school property or you can take five pops a day what monday through friday.

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Five, 25 pops with a board on my butt.

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That's abuse.

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The color of my butt after day two was the color of my shirt.

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It was black bruised, but by God, I did it.

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Yeah, so learn my lesson, not to flip nickels on the back porch at Westbury High.

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School, don't be flipping nickels.

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So there's my story for the morning.

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Now we have some other stories that we're going to get to.

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So PageWeek do this little thing called Hemings Sold Car Weekly Roundup.

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These are cars.

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Most of them are just regular everyday cars.

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Some are collector cars, just all sorts of different cars that people put up for sale on Hemings, which is a car website, and at the end of the week they give a rundown of the cars that were sold, the price that was sold, okay.

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So for instance, I come up with the title of the car is a 2004 Toyota 4Runner Very popular car.

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You know about a 4Runner, I'm sure Toyota 4Runner it's an SUV, it's an off-road, body-on-frame, kind of old school, but they're very popular.

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Even today they sell tons of them.

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2004 Toyota 4Runner, so it's 20 years old.

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How much do you think that that car sold?

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for I'll go first.

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Okay, $17,000.

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I was going to go $14,000.

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$11,030.

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Now, I don't know what the mileage is, I don't know the condition of it, none of that, but that's what it sold for and that's what you were going to guess, right?

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$11,000?

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Yeah, I mean, I was just thinking that, like mine's a 2014, and it's valued at like $10,000 to $15,000.

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So I was thinking somewhere.

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I mean a 4Runner loved this car, Loved, loved, loved, loved, loved this car A 2009 Pontiac Solstice.

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It's a little two-seat sports car that kind of was going after the Mazda Miata curve there and trying to get into that market, right.

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Pretty cool little car.

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Little under-horsepowered Four-cylinder engine in it, but looked pretty cool.

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What year was it?

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This is a 2009,.

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So I'm just going to cover up the price.

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See it right there White black top Looks clean, right.

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How much do you think that that sold for?

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Jeffrey, I'm going to go $9,000.

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No, no, no.

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No, no, no, Let me back up.

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Yeah, an Epiphany, yeah, epiphany, $17,000.

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$17,000.

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Yeah, $12,000.

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$12,000.

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Well, it sold for $13,860.

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Oh well, so y'all were kind of in the ballpark.

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Yeah, yeah, points For you A 1974 Cadillac.

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Eldorado.

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Oh man, long hood, eldo, huge long hood, it's like six feet long.

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Be still my heart.

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Now, I don't 77, you said it's a 74.

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I can't tell whether it's a convertible or not, but whatever, probably not 74 Cadillac Eldorado.

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I'm going to go $9,000.

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$9,000?

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You tell if it's white with a blood red interior, I can tell you that it's a red car.

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Or maroon, or whatever $14,000.

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I was going to say $14,000 or $15,000.

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$18,900.

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Oh wow, so it must be really clean and really nice, so 18 or 15?

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18.9.

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Oh wow, so it must be really clean and really nice.

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We're going to get Paige that point again.

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Yeah, yeah, so let's just stay in the Cadillac family.

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Let's do that.

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Because this is one that now, at my age, I would be interested in.

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Something like this A wheelchair.

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There is that, a 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood, which is the biggest Cadillac they ever built 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood, which is the biggest Cadillac they ever built 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood.

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It is huge.

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I think it's a dark color.

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It looks black, a lot of chrome on it.

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This looks like a limousine actually.

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Does it have New Jersey plates on it?

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No, it doesn't 1994 Cadillac fleetwood very clean looking.

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Uh, what do you think that that sold for twelve thousand?

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dollars that's what I was going to say, but I'll so I'll go one, I'll go to 14, 13 650 and it's around.

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I'm gonna get it.

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I'm gonna take that one because I didn't go over.

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That's it.

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It looks good, I would buy that I would.

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I would buy the Eldo.

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It wouldn't fit in your driveway.

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Let me see the Eldo.

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There, it is Okay, next car up.

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I actually owned one of these cars.

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Actually it was the mother of my children.

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We bought this car for her and we got rid of the Ford Pinto for this car, a 1984 Buick Regal.

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So it's got you know, two-door, it's got that elongated opera window in the back.

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Really a nice-looking car, a 1984 Buick Regal.

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There's a picture of it.

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See it Yep, $9,000.

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And you can tub it out Mars.

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What is it?

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Yep, $9,000.

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And you can tub it out Mars.

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I'm going with eight.

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What is it?

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He said eight.

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He said eight.

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I don't know Like ten.

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Okay, you got eight nine you got five $5,250.

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Yeah.

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I'm going to give you that one.

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At least I get one.

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See, that's one of those cars, though it's not everybody's going to want it.

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It's somebody that's got some sort of sentimental connection.

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Perhaps, and I get rid of the custom wheels on it.

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I go back to the original wire hubcaps.

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You know what that is.

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That is a family selling someone's car that's unable to drive anymore.

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Probably, that's my guess Now here's a hot rod.

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I get a point for that.

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Here's a hot rod, we get a point for that.

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Here's a hot rod for you.

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It looks like it could be a show car and I'm kind of giving away a little bit of a hint.

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Okay, 1956 Chevrolet 210.

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Bel Air they didn't call it a Bel Air, they called it a 210.

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$37,000.

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Mars $29,000.

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$35,000.

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Mars 29.

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35.7.

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There it is.

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I'm going to get Paige that one.

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Okay, here's one that everybody will appreciate.

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And these stupid things are going for stupid money.

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I thought that they were really ugly from the day that they rolled off the factory showroom.

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A 1975 Volkswagen Westfalia oh.

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Can I phone a friend?

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I want to call a Lillian.

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That's the one where they've chopped off part of the top right behind the driver's seat, and they put a camper type top on it.

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That was collapsible, so it looked like kind of a tent.

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The roof of it, I think, was either aluminum or fiberglass or something, something like that, so you could raise the thing up, so you could stand up in it, okay, but it's a Volkswagen.

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What year?

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Again, 1975.

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Westfalia was the name of the company that did these conversions, right, yeah, the conversions, and they sold a buttload of them.

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Get the Lillienthal's on the phone 1975 Volkswagen Westfalia.

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What do you think that that went for?

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I'll let you go first 42.

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Really Wow, Okay, 27.

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18.

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1.13.

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Probably didn't run.

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Now here's one that I thought was very interesting.

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We're going to keep it in the Volkswagen theme, okay.

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A 1969 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.

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Oh, okay.

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Now all this really is is a body on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis Right the pan and all that.

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Yeah, Very very, that's what the headlights are See it up there Sawed-after car.

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My brother had a convertible.

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Okay, sawed-after car.

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So what do?

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you think that that car sold, for it looks very clean.

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What year is it?

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1969.

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69.

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69.

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Volkswagen Karmann Ghia yes, it is.

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What do you?

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think that that sold for Jeffrey $31,000.

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That's a wild guess.

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I'm just guessing.

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I'm going to say 14.

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16.

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$19,950.

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You said 16?

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Yeah, get your point, yeah, but $19,950.

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You said $16,000?

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Yeah, so she Gets the point.

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Yeah, but $19,950.

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You know you're not welcome back anymore.

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If you win, you can't come back.

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All right, well, that's enough of that.

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Let's do some recalls.

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We can always make fun of these, and one of them is my daughter's car.

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Uh-oh, tesla Model 3, s, x and Y from 2020 to 2024.

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Software may fail to detect the unlatched hood.

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So you're going down the freeway, you forgot to close the hood on it, 70 miles an hour, and all of a sudden, the hood comes up.

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You can't see out the front window.

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Now what are you going to do, elvis?

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Slow down, yeah, and hopefully you don't get hit behind, whatever.

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So that's being recalled.

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Got your head hanging out the window with the dog.

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Yeah, pretty much Like the NASCAR drivers used to do when the hood came up?

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Yeah, they were shaped the way they could go down and look through the Underneath it, the Nissan Ariya.

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Oh, that's the new electric one.

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Suv Loss of drive power from inverter software error.

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Your blue screen of death pops up on your Blue screen of death, yeah.

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On your blue screen of death, yeah, but this is the inverter so that's, that's the thing that moves the power from this power to that power.

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Right, right, right right.

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A hyundai santa fe and the santa fe hybrid for 2024 is being recalled.

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Unintentional airbag deactivation or deployment.

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Boom, boom, there it is, it's in your face.

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Unintended movement on vehicle startup for the Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2010 to 2013.

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Unintended movement on vehicle startup.

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So you start the car, it's not in gear, it's in park, it moves, it moves, oh, it moves.

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Bmw recalling 105,588.1 crossovers in the US due to a software fault in the engine starter that could cause mechanical damage and prevent the engine from starting.

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Wow, not good If your software is counting a .1 of a car.

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Well, I just kind of threw that in oh, okay, you're focusing in on that.

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You made that up.

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Recall covers 2019 to 2020 BMW X5, the X7, X-Drive 40i, the 7 Series sedan, the X6, the 8 Series convertible, the 8 Series coupe, 8 Series grand coupe and the 3 Series sedan.

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So just take your bmw back and say here you go, keep it.

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Yep, see how that works out for you you know you, speaking of the heat there, caused me to think of something.

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Last week I went out to get in the press car I was driving.

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I got in it, I started it, everything came up.

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The center stack screen came up.

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It came up and I'm looking for the air conditioner controls because it's hot.

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It's been sitting outside all day.

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Screen comes up and says too hot, this screen is shutting down and it went black.

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So you have no control over anything.

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No radio, no air conditioning, no, nothing.

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If you don't have a button for it, it quits.

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What kind of car was this?

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It was that thing I was driving last week the Dodge Hornet GT.

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Ow, oh, the pretty color.

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Ow, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd never seen one.

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I mean my phone's done that before because it overheats, but I've never seen the main screen in the car.

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You know, if you were going down the road 70 miles an hour.

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Everything's driven through that Exactly yeah.

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I just I couldn't believe it Wow.

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Park in the shade next time.

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Yeah, park in the shade.

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There was no shade at my mom's house.

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Oh boy.

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Is the van still in the driveway?

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Yeah, do you use the van?

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Yeah, anytime she goes someplace we take her in the van because she can't get in and out of some of the newer cars.

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I because she can't get in and out of some of the newer cars.

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Very good.

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Well, she could probably get in and out of the in-wheel time truck.

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No, too tall, Too tall.

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We tried that one time.

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Didn't work.

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Well, getting out of it, she basically falls out.

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You've got to catch her on the way down.

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It's not good.

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No, all right, let's take a quick break, shall we?

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Or did we already do that?

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Nope we're about to.

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We need one, absolutely Okay, let's do that.

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Welcome back to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.

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Jeff's got the cruise in and events calendar I do.

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Do you want to start with the events first?

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Yeah, let's do the events and, of course, today and tomorrow, nrg Stadium.

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You've got the Well center Center NRG, let's just take up the whole stadium.

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Texas Elite Auto Showcase Cars, trucks and exotic cars.

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Craig Bierman is the aficionado for this event.

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You can find out more about it wwwtexaseliteautoshowcasecom.

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Find out what's going on there.

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And again, it's open right now.

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It's open at 10 o'clock yeah, 10 o'clock to 8 tonight, and then tomorrow is the times of 10 o'clock to 6, 10 o'clock to 8 tonight, and then tomorrow is the times of 10 o'clock to 6.

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10 o'clock to 6.

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So get out there.

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It's going to be a fun event.

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It's like the inaugural.

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So get out there.

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It's cool stuff Later on today you've got until about 3 o'clock.

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This afternoon you've got Back to School.

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Fish Fry and Car Show this is up in Conroe.

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You're going to have music, there's going to be shrimp boil, there's going to be a fish fry, all that good stuff up there.

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So get up there and see the cars Donate, if you'd like.

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Today, from 6 pm to 9 pm is the weekly cruise in Montgomery, texas.

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It's at 943 Ava Street in Montgomery it, texas.

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It's at 943 ava street in montgomery.

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It's a weekly event, so we always talk about that.

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And then tomorrow is octane espresso black rifle coffee company.

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That's highway 67086, highway 6.

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It's up like the uh uh.

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You go up north just before what was copperfield area on highway 6 copperfield, so it's north of i-10, right north of i-10.

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Uh, so that's a black rifle.

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So you've got speed advocates out there.

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Uh, you can find out more about it with them.

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I don't have the, I don't have the message, so check it out then.

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For events, we've got woodies coming up on the 5th annual Waterfront Rod and Custom Car Show that's at San Leon.

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Thank you, that is actually on the 30th of.

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September.

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I can't read my own printing here.

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Anyways, I need more ink.

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It's the fifth annual, so the sponsors include the Kamen's Fine Motor Cars got Corvette World Lawson's Auto Works.

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We'll be there.

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It's going to be a fun event.

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You've also got Eat Sleep Car Meat Tuner Showcase.

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That's coming up on August 24th.

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We always manage to get plastered at that event.

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Who you know who Don at that event.

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Who you know who Don't even start with me.

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No, I was going to say I don't know that Woody is going to just open a tab for us.

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He better, he better.

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Because the tab keeps growing.

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It's Sleep Car Me Tuner Showcase.

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We're back to that on the 24th.

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How many Bloody Marys did we have?

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I had gosh Five, Six, Not me.

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You did too.

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I did not.

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I think I had two.

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You're lying.

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They were awesome.

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Oh, that's right, it was me that had the six.

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And the five.

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See, now there's an event you need to come on a remote with us.

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That'd be a good one for you.

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Woody's Waterfront Car.

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Show Probably not.

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Why not why?

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Not it's under the shade.

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Nice car, oh it is.

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And the weather.

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It's a great place.

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