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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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Welcome to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show today coming to you from the Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise Inn at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy Texas, usa.
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Woo-hoo Coming up.
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We're going to announce the winners of this event's well, trophy winners.
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Yeah, chili Pepper, trophy Chili.
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Pepper.
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Trophies yeah.
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Right over there.
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Yeah, we have one in the studio that was honorary, given to us.
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We also have a Wally in the studio given to us.
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we also have a wall-e in the studio yeah, given to us, I know, so we're going to give away trophies for best classic, best hot rod and best modern classic that's coming up also in this hour.
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Uh, guests here from the big shoe big shoe and mr mars reviews the 2024 ford mustang.
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All right, howdy along with Mike out of this world.
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Mars.
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He's got his back to the camera.
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Stephen Woodard is over here, sergeant from the Department of Public Safety.
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Always need more, jeff.
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Zika.
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And back here behind me is David Ainsley.
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I'm Don Armstrong, glad that you could join us today.
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Sergeant Woodard didn't get in on that.
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It hey, the sun's out, the wind is a-blowing, so it's not near as hot as you thought.
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It is Well a little breeze.
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We'll take the little breeze.
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We got that breeze right there.
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We got the.
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Oh, david, thank you, david Turned on the big blow back here there.
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The big blow back here.
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There you go.
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Alright, so who is the one that's going to give away the Chili.
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Pepper trophies.
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Is that going to be Chase Murray, chase Chase with Loopy Tortilla and Loopy Tortilla Racing.
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The camera's right there.
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We have trophies For those that are still left here.
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Some people have left Gather around.
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We have trophies Chili Pepper trophies to give away for the three categories of participants.
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So we want to start with Best.
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Classic, you got Best.
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Classic Chase.
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Yes, sir, we do so the Best Classic Chili Pepper Trophy goes to it is going to the 57 Chevy Bel.
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Air of Michael Brown oh, michael, michael Brown, michael.
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Oh, right there.
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Oh, look at Air of Michael Brown.
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Oh, michael, michael Brown, michael.
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Oh, right there.
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Oh, look at you, michael Brown, very nice.
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Congratulations, my friend.
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Thank you so much.
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Can I get a picture or anything, Mike, for posterity?
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Mars?
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is over there lip-syncing.
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No, he's got it, mike's got it, she's got it right here, he's lip-syncing Betty Streisand movies or something Betty Streisand.
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It's Betty Rubble.
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Betty Rubble.
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That's it.
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I got all her albums, okay.
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Next up is the best Chili Pepper Trophy, hot Rod.
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All right, who are?
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we going to go to For the best Hot Rod.
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We have Kurt Buckles with a 66 Chevelle Malibu four-door gas there.
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He is right there, I just happen to be there, Kurt.
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thank you for coming out today.
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We appreciate you, yeah, zion.
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Thank you so much, Kurt yeah.
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Has it got a blower on it?
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Yes, okay, hello, that's it All right, and the next Chili Pepper Trophy goes to the best modern classic.
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All right, and that's not you, mike, he's close.
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I mean best modern classic.
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We have the 2021 D'Arce Charger on air ride with a lot of carbon fiber.
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It's James Rosella, where's?
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James, james, james James.
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You guys and the two girls.
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What are the girls' names?
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They are Get them in the picture.
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Come on, girls.
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Tell him Put the girls here.
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So they've been here.
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I've got to tell you they've been here since about 7.30 this morning.
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Neither one of them wanted to get out of bed, as you can imagine.
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Yeah, I didn't want to get out of bed.
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They came out here to support Dad and the rest of the family.
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I wanted to sleep in damn it.
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Thank you all so much for coming out.
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Yeah, one more.
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We have one more.
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It's a brand-new award, never been done before.
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This was courtesy of Stan Holtz.
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It is called the what the Hell is that?
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Award and it is given to Jeff Norris.
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He has a 1917 Miller Golden Submarine which raced in Indy Mars can you get a picture of that?
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Take that camera and put it down.
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We have a gift card for you, Mr Jeff.
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I have seen that car in magazines Not that kind of magazine.
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I was going to say you don't read those kind of magazines.
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That is so cool.
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Hey, so why can't he sit down and talk to us?
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Can you sit down and talk to us?
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Put him over here, yeah.
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Put him right here, yeah put him over here.
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Okay, so is the camera on.
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Do you got the camera?
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on the car.
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Mike's got the camera on the car.
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You got it on.
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Okay, good yeah.
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Oh my God.
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So that thing rolled in here and we're going what the hell is that?
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And we're going wait a minute.
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I've seen that car in magazines.
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I've seen that car around.
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Tell me, did I?
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Oh yeah, All my collection is weird stuff.
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So this is a 1917.
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If it's normal, I have no interest in it, so I only build non-normal.
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Well, welcome to the show.
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That's right.
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That's what this show is all about.
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So you fit right in.
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That's been at SEMA the last two years.
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Surprisingly, my other cars that are not near as weird and cool as that got recognition that one did not what.
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But it's been in probably six or eight national magazines that I've seen and they write very accurate articles, which I find amazing because nobody ever talked to me.
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So how they got the information and got it correct is kind of surprising so that car raced at indy the original car that's sitting in the brumos porsche museum in florida did.
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It was the only fully enclosed car to ever race at indianapolis in the 500.
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That is a resto mod version of that original car.
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Wow, we were racing in daytona with one of my lolas and it rained I don't do rain because I don't want to crash my car yep.
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So we took the day off, my crew and we went over to the museum, knowing the car was there, and we took a bunch of pictures of it and they were kind enough to say we're going to be closing shortly, but the curator is going to stay for another two hours.
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Would you like to stay and take pictures?
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And I said, yes, because I'm going to build it.
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And he kind of giggled and I said what's so funny?
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He goes about.
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Every third person says I'm going to build that car, he said.
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He said, but this original and the one that dan wood made are the only two that exist.
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And I said well, there will be a three.
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Fast forward 12 years there's a third.
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Take you 12 years to do it 12 years 12 years, and that's all hand formed all hand formed um, I bought all the equipment from eastwood, did it finished.
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It said I will never build another aluminum car, sold all that eastwood equipment.
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So there's a guy here in houston that's got some really, really nice new equipment that built one car because I'm gonna never build another aluminum so it's too hard.
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How long did it take you and what do you got in it?
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12 years.
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There's no way in the world am I ever going to admit in public how much money it costs like most of the people that are here.
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We do have to ask.
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I've probably built homes that I've got less money in than I've got in the cars that.
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I've got, I totally get it, and is that your background?
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A home builder, a construction no.
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I'm a salesman.
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Okay, just a salesman.
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The fun part about this is I had started this, as I said, about 14 years ago.
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It's been done for about two years.
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It took me 12 years to build it.
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It's a Miller.
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I worked for Miller, the welding company.
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It was all welded with Miller equipment the last four years, five years, the finish work was all done at the Miller Tech Center here in Houston.
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I'll be darned.
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In the far back corner, which at this point we built three cars in the back corner of the Miller building.
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One of the perks of being an employee is I seize the back corner and I get to use all the neat equipment inside the tech center.
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But the other side of it is.
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For 75 years my family's business was Miller Norris, so my buddies knew this was actually going to happen.
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If you'll notice, on the side of it it's got a little football-looking thing that says Miller Norris on it.
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Yeah, I see it.
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Well, that's what my kids gave me when I finished the car to help remember Dad and Granddad, so it's got a lot of history with me, as with this car and most of my other cars in the collection while I'm alive, none of them will ever be sold and if you'll notice my stature, I'm a little bit tight to the ground.
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I'm about five foot six.
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That's all that'll fit in that car.
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Yeah, I can understand that and it's a four speed, so if somebody ever steals it, we're going to be able to recognize them.
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There will be about five foot six tall, going to be over 45 years old, because otherwise nobody would know how to run the stick shift so you mean to tell me that that car originally was designed probably in 1916?
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16 yep barney, oldfield and barney oldfield.
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That's a blast from the past that barney's who drove it?
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Uh, harry a miller is who designed it and built it.
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Um, great heritage.
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It's a.
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It's a 1917, it tried to qualify, blew up an engine one of their engines.
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In 1918, same thing.
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It blew up before it ever even got qualified.
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1919, it actually raced, ran about 30, 40 laps, blew up an engine again.
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Oh.
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And never came back.
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And what kind of motor does it have in it, that motor?
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It's got a BMC motor out of Europe, a 1.2 liter like out of an Austin Healey For many, for probably 40 years I've raced Healeys.
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It sounds like a big block.
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Yes, but it sounds like a big block.
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Because it's only the cylinder or only the casting itself.
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I've got a billet, crank, h rods, dome pistons.
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We're putting out about 140 horsepower Out of that little bitty motor.
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With me in the car, we combined weigh 1,120 pounds, oh my God.
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So we got invited to the annual Miller event three years ago right after it got finished and got to go on track with the other Millers, which was a mistake on my part.
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The top speed for those is 78.
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They clocked us down the back straightaway at Indian 162.
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Oh my.
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God.
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That was on Saturday.
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Saturday afternoon they said you're now a static display.
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We do not want you on track lapping the real cars, and I have to agree that was the right move.
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So it sat just like where it is right now in a static spot and people who nod over it.
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But it never got back on track.
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Well, I have to tell you, as Don Armstrong, I feel honored one to meet you that you built the car, and number two to actually get to see it in person, because I've never seen it in person.
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I see these pictures.
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I'm going what and how do?
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you register it.
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Well, not to throw our beautiful state of Texas under the bus, but we attempted to for over the last three years.
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It was under construction.
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And no offense to your colleagues over on that side of the fence I had all the documentation Felt like I had it 16 times.
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They came and visited my house to try and register it, inspect it, yeah.
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And I finally threw in the towel.
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I have a house in Oklahoma so I took it up there In about 22 minutes they titled as a 1917 Miller Golden Submarine in Oklahoma.
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And happened to be a Chickasaw Indian state of Oklahoma.
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You are yes.
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They charged me about $800 to register it, but at Chickasaw you get 95% of that money back.
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So three weeks later they sent me a check back for $780.
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What a great story.
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The total titling of that was about $40.
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Oh my God, what a great story that is.
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My grandfather always said there's always a loophole.
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And I found it.
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That's right.
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That's right, and amazingly enough, the other 10 cars that I have are now all registered in Oklahoma.
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So it's got an Oklahoma plate on it.
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So I cheated your state that funds you.
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Yeah, sweet so.
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I feel terrible about it.
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You can see how terrible it is.
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Yeah, yeah, I will tell you this that the Texas film industry is about the same thing.
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Yeah, that's why they don't have movies made here anymore.
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It's just crazy, because of all the red tape, which is crap.
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But whatever, did I say that?
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No, you didn't, it's a huge money source.
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I know they're missing, of course, yours especially.
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Yes, yes, I know.
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But I also still live here.
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I love it here.
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You live around here.
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I love Lake Houston, except when it's in my living room.
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Yeah, and I don't like it near as much.
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Yeah, I fly over it quite frequently when there's a flood, trust me, or a drought, when it's down here and I can see the ground, right, yeah.
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Yeah, two weeks ago my wife and I spent all day long moving cars out of our garage, took them to Miller, put them in the Miller building and then, of course, the water came up to about 160 feet from my front door.
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So then the weekend after we brought them all back home, but that's okay.
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It was fine because they were all fine.
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One of my colleagues called me and says hey, my wife and I will come over and help you move your furniture upstairs so that you can save your furniture.
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And I said my wife will shoot you.
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And he's like why?
