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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am Central.
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Yes, friends, we'd like to welcome you to the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
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We're winning awards for not being able to get the show on the air on many levels.
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Coming up, danny Dotson from Hot August Nights, you'll hear my thoughts on driving the new 2024 Toyota Tacoma, and Mr Mars has this week's events calendar just ahead on this segment of the In Real Time Car Talk Show Howdy, along with Mike out of this world Mars.
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We always need more Jeff Zekin engineer talk show.
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Howdy, along with Mike out of this world Mars.
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We always need more Jeff Zekin engineer.
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David Ainsley, I'm Don Armstrong, glad that you could join us today.
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On this Saturday.
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All of the racing venues, the people that race, the organizations that race they're all back in business today.
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A lot of them took Father's Day off, which is a good thing they should have.
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But, at any rate, right now we are going to talk to Denny Dotson and he has the history of Hot August Nights and the event is coming up on August 1st.
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And, denny, good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us.
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Good morning guys.
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Thanks for having me Well.
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I have heard of hot August nights.
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I have not had a car that would allow me well, to allow me to enter the car in the event, but I sure could go out there to Reno Nevada and look.
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You know, guys, about 500,000 people every year over a 10-day span come out just to do that, to come out and check out the over 6,000 cars that we bring in here in the Reno, nevada, truckee, meadows area every year.
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So tell me a little bit about the history of Hot August Nights.
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When did it start?
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You know, it started in 1986 with just a bunch of guys like you and me.
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They got together, wanted to do a little car show and, honestly, it just blew up.
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They mixed in a little rock and roll and a perfect recipe.
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It's All Americana right here in Reno Sparks.
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Well, I have to tell you that Tahoe's not that far away.
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There's plenty of gambling out there too.
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So there's all of this draw for us heathens.
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There's a few things to do here for sure.
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Reno Nevada is pretty well centrally located in the United States.
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You can get to a lot of places pretty quick and it is beautiful here, with Lake Tahoe just a few minutes away and there's a lot to do here.
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But just again, it's a perfect mix of classic cars we mixed in rock and roll, and what I think makes Hot August Nights unique is that it's pretty much free.
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There's no charge to get in, there's no charge to see the cars, to listen to the music.
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There's a few places some of our mag auction, drag races, the swap meet there's a few places that the general public will have to pay to get in, but for the most part every parking lot in town is full of classic cars and it's free.
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Is there a limit on the year model of the cars that are in the event?
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yeah, we limit it to 1979 and older, just to keep that classic era alive 1970.
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Well, I had a 77 corvette that I was proud of in 1977.
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But I'll tell you what that thing was.
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I didn't even have 200 horsepower with a V8 motor in it.
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So I guess that you probably got some of those dyed-in-the-wool kind of guys out there that bring something like that.
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But I'm more interested in the actual hot rod era.
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You know, cars from mainly the 32 Ford Roadsters, the 32 Ford Roadsters and that sort of.
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Thing.
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Tubbed out.
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Yeah, you know when you pull up to the actual, is it just a one-night event?
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It's over 10 days, guys.
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It's spread out through multiple venues here in the area.
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Oh my God, my tongue would be hanging out.
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I don't know if I could handle 10 days.
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Well, you've got to have time to look at all the cars.
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Well, I understand that, but gee whiz 10 days.
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So what do you have?
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A special display area, an area for the get-together.
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We actually take over every flat surface I kind of say that in jest In the area all of our partners, all of our casinos, our convention center.
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Seriously, we take over every venue and turn it into a show and shine, a drag race, a swap meet.
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We have indoor space as well as some of the convention spaces here in Reno that we put in special cars, unique cars, we do all kinds of stuff.
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Like I said, we have name brand top entertainment that plays out for free.
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Well, you've missed one.
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Yeah, us yeah.
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You don't have the In Real Time.
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Car Talk show out there.
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I mean, I'm thinking, you know, there's two weekends there, there's two opportunities for us.
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Let's do it.
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Let's do it.
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Come on out.
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We'll make a nice spot for you guys to podcast, for we actually uh, yeah, I've been doing that with quite a few folks and we'd love to host you guys to come out and broadcast live so let me ask you though so across 10 days.
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so people that come out there and they bring their cars out there do, do they typically come for the whole 10 days, or is it like you see different cars five days in Different segments?
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yeah, yeah, a little bit of both.
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There's some folks that come out for the whole week.
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We kick off up in Virginia City the weekend before, which is about 20 miles up in the foothills out of Reno and it just flows into Reno and Sparks area.
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So, some folks come for the week, some folks come for four days.
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It's just a little bit of mix.
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You have a lot of locals who come out and will enjoy it every night, but our attendance is well over 500,000 people over that 10 days.
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It's like a 10-day cruise in yeah.
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It's more than that.
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There's gambling and debauchery that I'll sign up for anyway.
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We'll go back to the gambling, but there's a lot to see here in this Truckee Meadows area.
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It really is beautiful and August is a wonderful time of year.
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It is a little warm at times, but it always cools off.
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We're a little over 5,000 feet elevation, so it cools off in the evening, which is really nice.
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Yeah, and I would imagine that there are some guys that get out there and actually run their own little route, probably up to Tahoe and back or something like that.
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Yeah, we do poker runs and poker walks and and we you know there's all kinds of stuff that we do throughout the whole week, uh, with the participants.
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We figure there's about 6 000 uh registered cars.
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That's what we get.
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We'll usually sell that out, uh, and there's probably another.
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Honestly, there are five or six thousand that come that just to come and hang out, that are not registered and with that they can't participate in the cruising, the show and shines or awards, they can't come into the venues, but they're all over.
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Everybody knows it.
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The impact here is well over about $110 million $115 million into the economy.
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So are there things to do for the ladies that, uh, you know, the spouses, the wives, the things?
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to do for them, yeah all that yeah, absolutely.
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You got to make the uh, make mama happy, right?
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So there's all kinds of stuff that we do uh with uh shopping elements to their own show and shine.
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There's women with wheels we put on their own women uh, uh, run, show and shine over at the nugget uh casino and uh.
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So it's pretty popular.
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You always see the ladies driving in the cruising while they're out there too.
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It's not just guys.
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Cool.
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Where do the majority of the cars come from?
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They come out of California.
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I would say about a good third out of California, a little more A third here in Nevada, northern Nevada area, and then a third from all over the country and even some once in a while we get them shipped in from overseas.
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Honestly, there's folks that come in from Great Britain, from Germany, from Australia.
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It's amazing to see the folks come from all over the place.
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Is it a bunch of old guys like us?
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No, that's kind of the misnomer is, you think, old cars, old guys and gals, but it's not.
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We're seeing a lot of younger demographics coming into our event.
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We're seeing them come in with their rat rods, with their patina paint or their work in progress.
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It's neat to see the families that are getting interested or the kids that are driving Grandpa's truck with Grandpa.
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I mean it's kind of neat.
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There really is something for everybody and we're real mindful of making sure that we do things so that the younger generation is still interested.
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Well, lone Star Street Rod Association had their state run here a couple of weeks ago.
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We were invited up to Granbury, which is just south of Fort Worth, and a great group of guys that come and meet up there, and it's interesting because I met all age groups up there.
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Like you said, you'd like to think that most of them are old guys, but that's not necessarily the case.
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There are a lot of younger guys too that really dig the era of hot rods Go ahead, jeff, I was going to say there's some of the folks that we did entertain with their grandpas or their older folks that brought their younger kids, that brought their grandchildren, and you talk to them and they say, well, yeah, I'm working on this, my first car, grandpa and I, or my dad and I, are working on this, and mom's letting us do this in the garage, so it's being carried on, it's being continued down the line of whatever family and the generation, so to speak.
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Right, yeah, you know, we actually added the first time this year a youth automotive challenge just to keep that fire alive.
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It's kind of like a science project that's automotive related, where kids under 21 come in and and basically display their, their project.
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Uh, we'll be grading it, uh, judging it with our sponsors and then we'll be giving away about fifteen thousand dollars in vocational scholarships to the winners wow, very nice.
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Yeah, um, I wanted to bring up the fact that this is an event out on the western part of the United States, reno Nevada, reno Sparks is the convention center involved in this at all.
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It is 100%.
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We couldn't do it without our partners there, and that's where we hold our mag auction.
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And then, on the last day of Hot Lugger's Night, august 11th, we do our finale, where we actually do all of our awards.
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We'll give out the scholarship money and then we'll crown our event series champion, which is a pretty unique award where a lot of participating car shows across the West are sending us their best of show.
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They'll compete, be judged by some ISCA judges and our local judges, and then we'll crown the overall winner there on the 11th.
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Do you find a lot of cars trailered in?
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Yeah, sure, yeah, quite a few.
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You know, it's just you've got to get over the Sierras to get here, or across the desert, so a lot of them don't want to get that road grime on their cars, so they'll trailer them in.
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Yeah, it's a pretty good haul and they'll be in a lot of areas to park.
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Yeah, yeah, it's a big haul.
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From Houston 23, 24 hours, I would think oh yeah, probably.
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So I can only imagine, because it's actually further than Las Vegas and that's a two-day drive in itself.
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At least.
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It takes us a day to get to El Paso from Houston, so you can just imagine that it is quite a haul.
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But this is one of those events that I would like to go to, but I'd like to spend some time.
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I don't want to just fly in there and then fly out.
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I want to spend some time.
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Well, you've got a week, 10 days.
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Well, I know that, but that's what I'm saying, because most people, I would imagine, go and spend four days there.
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Well, that's not even half the event.
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No, no, I understand, but my wife and I we like driving out in the west New Mexico Arizona area and we would love to take a trip like this.
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Take the two days to drive up there.
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I did it once in a day to Vegas, 23 hours on the button.
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I wouldn't do it again.
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But take a couple of days to get up there and then you spend four or five, six days there.
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If you don't have two weeks and then you're going to spend a couple of days getting home.
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It'd be great trip what?
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about overnight accommodations there.
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I mean, obviously, all the hotels are full.
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Uh, we have thousands of hotel rooms and, yeah, it is probably one of the or if not the um, most uh desirable uh week for for hotel rooms, uh, and during the year here in the reno sparks area, but there's a lot of them, you know, and, uh, you guys come out, I'll make sure we, uh we get you a place to put your head on a pillow, I promise yeah, he keeps erasing our excuses exactly, yeah.
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So there's no charge to get in now.
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If I, if I want to enter the car, then there could be a charge there.
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Yeah, if you register, we start out early bird pricing for the show, the 10-day show Well, it's actually about a 7-day show.
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The other three days are up in Virginia City.
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That's a separate charge.
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It's only like $50 for that one.
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Our main registration early bird is $185.
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And with that they get their goodie bag, they get credentials, they get access to all the attractions, like I mentioned the auction, the swap meet, the drag racing.
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They get to go on the cruises.
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They're eligible to go in the competitions, if you will, for the show and shine purse money and or we also give qualifiers to the event series finale during the week.
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Has it always been 79 and older or has that adjusted over the years?
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It's been adjusted a little bit, but I think it may have been 79 and older, or has that adjusted over the years.
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It's been adjusted a little bit, but it's pretty.
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I think it may have been just a year or two, maybe about 10 years ago they adjusted it, but it's 79, it's pretty much been there for a while.
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Yeah, last of the cool hot rods.
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Do you live out there.
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I do.
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I live right here in Reno.
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Yeah, and when was the first time you attended this event?
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I've been a sponsor and or working with Hot August Nights for almost 20, 22 years.
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I've been the executive director now for two years but I was a tourism director up in Virginia City and then for a long time we brought them up there as a kickoff location for Hot August Nights during that week.
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Prior to that I was a sponsor working with Raley's and Coke and doing that thing here down in Reno with Hot August Nights.
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So I've kind of been a part of it and known them for a long time and now I feel like I came home.
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Were you born and raised in Reno?
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I was not, as my wife always points out, a California transplant.
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If you're not born here, you're not a local.
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I've been here for 25 years.
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Yeah, but no, I'm from Northern.
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California Gotcha.
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Well, I can tell you that we're all jealous.
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Yeah, very, very.
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You know, houston Texas doesn't have anything like this.
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We have some really fantastic car shows and cruise-ins and there's some really beautiful, cool cars that hang out in the Houston Texas area, as you can imagine.
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But this is one of those events that, for us, that when you go there you make a commitment not only to the event, but you make a commitment to your car and to yourself and make it something of a memorable event, even if you only attend one time in your life.
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You could say that you've been to Hot August Nights and that's something that you can hang on the wall.
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It is, guys, and I hear it all the time.
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This is a bucket list for people and it really should be.
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If you're a car enthusiast anywhere in the country, you've got to come.
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This is not a.
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It's very unique, it's different and it takes, like you mentioned, more than three or four days to see everything you can't you know, and then each night there's big headliners playing at different venues.
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So you've got to kind of figure out what band you want to hear.
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Uh, you know what.
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Uh, what auction you want to go watch, or swap meet, or drag races, or the show and shine it's or the grand finale on the sunday it's a it's a carnival.
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Pretty cool it is.
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It really is.
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And there's something for everybody.
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It really is.
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And there's there's shopping elements we bring in craft.
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You know it's.
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We try to stay automotive related, but um, there are other shopping elements for for the public and um, so it's, yeah, it's pretty cool so where can we find out, where can we learn more about hot august nights?
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Uh, the best place is our website.
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It's very up to date.
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We're very uh um on it, uh 24, 7, and that's the hot august nights dot net, hot august nights dot net all the information, including registration and that sort of stuff, will get you where you need to go and you can learn all about it, and I assume that Expedia could be your friend.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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We do a lot of advertising, so it's out there.
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It's pretty easy to find us.
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But hotaugustnightsnet is your source for all information on Hot August Nights.
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And if you go look at that site and see some of the pictures they have posted up there, you will definitely be calling Expedia you know this kind of makes me want to retire and do nothing but travel and do these sorts of things especially now I can see your future wife going along with that Really yeah.
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I had to put that damper on there.
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Bring you back to reality, Okay.
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Well, we're going to discuss Mars future on this show just a little while, but not on the air.
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But, Denny, we thank you so much for joining us.
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We appreciate you, my friend, and best of luck to Hot August Nights coming up in August.
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Thank you guys for having me and again, our door is always open.
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You're welcome to come anytime.
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Thank you, we'll check back with you and see how it went.
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Okay, thanks, you bet.
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Hotaugustnightsnet Reno, nevada Golly, that sounds like so much fun.
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Time now for the events calendar and obviously Hot August Nights is on there.
