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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
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Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars and we'll have the stories-making automotive news headlines this week.
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Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, mars.
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We always need more Jeff Zekin and Chief Engineer David Ainsley.
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Are you kidding?
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He's not here.
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No, it's 1130.
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He's sleeping.
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Well, yeah, it's raining too.
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Well, yeah, it's a good thing to do.
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I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us today.
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Let's get right to it.
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Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
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And here is Sarah and Sarah Vedrine.
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Listen, halfway through the season already.
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it seems like we just talked to you and the season was just getting ready to get started.
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Uh-oh, there we go.
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I forgot how to unmute.
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It's been a minute, it's okay.
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How?
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are y'all.
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Well, we're doing good.
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How are you?
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I'm okay.
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I just got a message from my other guy that was coming on with me.
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He said that he didn't get a link, but that's okay, we can fill him in later.
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And that's Mr Mars.
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He did that.
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He missed the link Send him the link.
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Well, we a link missing, let's send them the link.
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Yeah well, we're sorry, it's all good.
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Okay, me again.
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Well, I know well, we and we enjoy that.
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I see you're sitting, uh, right there in the burnout box at some racetrack texas raceway, now defunct.
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Texas raceway yeah, yeah really, I miss that track very, very much.
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It's my favorite um, yeah, where, where is that?
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That was in kennedale kennedale, so it it's not in operation anymore no, this is a perfect opportunity for you to step up to the plate and buy the dang track.
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There you go actually the city eminent domain did and they're planning and putting a housing development oh my god, that's what they do usually what happens with most of these, so well, that's the only one I know that's for sale right now is a um abilene you know, I I don't have I ever been to abilene.
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I don't think I've ever been to abilene that's a long is it?
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Well, that's a long way from here it is a long way.
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For me as well, it's about a good three hours.
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It's a long way from anywhere.
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it well, it's about a good three hours.
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It's a long way from anywhere.
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It pretty much, is there?
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Is that?
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Yeah, exactly, and you guys do quarter mile instead of eighth mile, right?
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We do both actually, so our slower classes.
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If it's a quarter mile track will run a quarter mile, but anything sub 12 seconds goes eighth mile only.
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Interesting, wow, I guess to keep the speed down and also, in turn, if you keep the speed down, you usually usually can keep the price of the sports down.
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Keep the parts down.
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Yeah, exactly, you know, most of us are geared one way or the other and it's hard going back and forth between, you know, quarter mile versus.
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Well, hey, you know, just a few thousand dollars gets you a quick change rear end.
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Exactly yeah.
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And I'm thinking you're geared for that.
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No, I'm eighth mile only, Eighth mile only okay, she sounded a little disappointed.
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I tried to run it out in the quarter mile.
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It wasn't pretty.
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No, well, you're hitting the red line there, oh yeah.
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I was begging the rev limiter.
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It was bouncing on this like about 6,500.
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It was screaming at me the entire time.
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Yeah, this is enough, mama.
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I can't do it anymore.
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I can't go anymore.
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Yeah, I got it.
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So what kind of car do you have?
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I've got an 07, mustang An 07.
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Mustang with a 5-liter engine in it.
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No, it was actually a 4.6.
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It is now a 5-liter engine.
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Oh you done, spent your money at the machine shop or for an engine swap.
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Oh, it blew up so I had to put you know.
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If it blows up you've got to build it better, right?
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Well, she's run a quarter mile and blew it up.
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Yeah, there's that.
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Actually it was an eighth mile in Ardmore.
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Ardmore, Oklahoma, the elevation got me I think.
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I don't know what happened.
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Well, you know that elevation will get all of us.
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So, sarah, tell everybody about Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.
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What is it?
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challenge.
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What is it absolutely so?
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Um, we are a club versus club racing event.
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Uh, we do bracket series, which is basically a handicapped timed sort of race.
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Um, we have got classes all the way from your shot grocery getter to full-blown alters, running, you know, five seconds and sometimes quicker, but we try to not let them go that fast.
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Um, we, everybody has to be in a car club.
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That's the only requirement for you to be able to participate.
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Um, so, also, you accumulate individual points, but also you're accumulating points with your clubs.
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So we are about three races in now.
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Um, the rain has gotten us a couple times, unfortunately, so we are finally starting to kind of get an idea of how things are shaking out and how clubs are starting to perform.
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We actually have a race coming this weekend.
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Believe it or not, it's going to be miserably hot, but the 4th, on Sunday, we're going to be in Ennis.
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So if anybody is around wants to come hang out, come visit us.
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Any questions about bracket racing in general.
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Well, no, first of all, you said you got to belong to a car club.
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Now, what are the parameters of that?
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I mean, is it a racing car club, or could you just be in like the Corvette club and come and race?
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Yeah, so most of the big clubs around DFW have some sort of a race team, like Caltown.
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Mopar is a big local one, as well as the Lone Star Corvette club, and they've got show circuit cars, they've got daily driver cars, they've got race team.
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They've got all kinds of things.
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Right.
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And then some of these other clubs are just a bunch of people who got together and decided, hey, we like racing and hey, you guys are kind of cool, let's hang out on Sunday and race.
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So all the cars that race under the umbrella of the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge can either be through a club or street driven, or they all have to be through a club.
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You can actually pick up a club the day of.
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A lot of our clubs are now starting to grab any car they can find to get extra points.
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So if you're walking around the pits day of and say, hey, I want to race, can I race with you guys, and they'll tell you, hey, here's what you need to do Put a number on your car and you're ready to go I got.
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I got a 90 chevrolet, no, a 90 buick century that I want to race oh yeah, untouched.
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Yeah it's.
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Do I have to take the hubcaps off of it?
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no, as long as you're not running your air conditioning and dragging water across the start line.
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They will write you, they will let you race so, okay, water burnout, so he's bringing his mom's car there.
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Now, how much would it cost him to join a club, be it your club or any others?
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honestly, most of them are free okay um, and if you want to race just that day for that club, they're probably not going to make you pay anything so so you mentioned that, that you could do that, and the club is open to doing that because they get some points as part of the process, correct?
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So we get a point for every driver and car that's there, that's running.
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In the club.
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The club gets the point.
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The club does Correct.
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So the further you go into the race day, the more points you accrue as a driver.
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And then at the end, our wonderful points person, martha, does her magic and she figures out how many points every club earned that day and we have a running tally throughout the year.
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And at the end, whoever is first, second, third, they would give out awards and we give out cash.
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First, second, third club.
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And also for driver.
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Oh, and we give out cash First, second and third club, and also for driver oh, and for driver Okay.
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If you opted in for the driver reward program, you get a permanent number and you run that throughout the year.
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And how much does it cost you to become a legal driver in the club challenge thing?
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It's $25, which really isn't that bad $25 a year.
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Yeah, my god it sounds like we need to.
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Yeah, it's not much need to buddy up with martha.
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Maybe send her some flowers, you know, get back I didn't make that first pass, but I was here.
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Can I have my point?
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That's?
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right?
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Yeah, I had a flat and I couldn't run that first run, so do I get my point anyway?
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Martha, your hair looks nice today.
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Yeah, exactly, and usually we're pretty reasonable, Like if you break on the starting line while you're running your first run.
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We'll give you the point you broke your mom's Buick on the starting line.
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So does Martha have a car she does.
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She actually races her F-150 for the Corvette Club, I might add.
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Wait a minute, wait stop, I know stop so she has a truck, and so does she tow the corvette with the truck so that's her daily driver in her farm truck and that's just, and she doesn't all of the rest of her corvettes wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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You just breezed right over the farm truck.
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Does it have a farm truck license plate on it?
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Honestly, I don't know.
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I haven't looked at it in a while.
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This is Martha.
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It's a vanity plate.
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A vanity.
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Right yeah.
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Okay well.
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I think that that would be really something to have the farm truck out there.
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Yeah.
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I mean it wouldn't be the first, but I would imagine it would be certainly different for most of us.
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Drag racing you'd be surprised how many trucks we have running oh, I would not be surprised about that, but with a farm truck plate on the back of it, that would.
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That would be kind of special, that's special uh-huh.
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You know the only.
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You wouldn't have to worry about water on the track.
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You'd have to worry about it dropping cow pies on the track, hay flying out of the back.
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So is martha watching this show right now.
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I'm not sure she might be.
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I haven't got a text from her harassing me yet, so I'm going to say probably not, we'll text her back, tell her she needs to be here.
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Yeah, and tell her we're talking about her as a matter of fact.
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We'll be sure and put this up on the podcast later on, so she'll be able to hear about all the wonderful things we're saying about martha yeah, I know she's truly awesome she is.
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She keeps us running, which is amazing um she's kind of like we're all volunteers, yeah so it's kind of like.
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you know, both of my girls played uh softball back in the day.
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You know little league softball and there was always that one woman on the team that she kept track of all of the stats.
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She always sat there behind home plate and, you know, told the umpire he'd look at her how many strikes you know that kind of thing.
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Well, everybody, as we always say, everyone needs a den mom.
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That's it A den mom.
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That's right.
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A den mother I used to coach Little League football Same thing.
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So me and my buddies, we'd get together and we'd go to the draft.
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We'd say, okay, here's a quarterback.
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Okay, now we need to draft a kid.
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That's got the best team, mom, because we need a team.
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Mom that's going to take care of us.
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You draft that kid to get that mom.
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She, mom, she brings the beer yeah, that's right, and the pops yeah and the pops, okay.
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So, um, where do you, where do you stand right now with the texas muscle car club?
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challenge points so my club is killing it.
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We are in first place of course you are.
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Thank you, martha I don't cheat, I promise I've only made it out of one round.
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No, my club members are picking up the slack for me, which I really appreciate, so Red River Car Club is actually running first in the 5A series.
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Gm is closing the gap though, unfortunately, so we're going to have to start picking it up again.
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Gm I assume mainly Camaros.
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Which onem yeah actually no, no, any kind of gm product.
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You name it, it's out there oh my god like there's chevy trucks, there's um.
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I think some of the old guys have moved over and combined forces with them and are helping them out yeah, um the 80 bottle, uh, six cylinder biscayne I've seen one of those out there.
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Yeah, um, try to think what else I've seen.
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I've seen that one guy it's an suv, I don't even know what kind of suv it is, but he is deadly with that thing and he's super consistent really that would be you, mars.
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Well in the handicap van.
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I remember a buddy of mine in high school.
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He got a 1964 door Chevrolet Impala.
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That's what he got from his parents.
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Six-cylinder, two-speed automatic.
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He would pull up there and when it would go green he'd put it on the floor and he would be within a tenth of a second every time.
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I mean it took him all day to get down there, but he was very consistent at it.
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That I mean it took him all day to get down there, but he was very consistent at it and that's it.
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Racket racing consistency is the name of the game 20 second runs.
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You don't have to stop watching.
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Over and over again so you mentioned the Mopar Club, the GM Club.
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Yeah, so 5A Series, which is our biggest, which is 16 cars or more per race, we've only got three clubs, and so it's GM, cal Time, up Hours and Red River, which is me, and then we've got our second group, which is the 7 to 15 cars per race, so they still have a bunch of people, but not quite as many as the rest of us.
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So we've got one club called Whole Shot Racing.
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It's mainly made up of the Leslie family and they are killing it.
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Wow, they are really, really hard to be and honestly that's why I have not been able to get very many rounds in my class, because I am in the class with a bunch of the leslies and I get stuck get racing them if they were first round every time oh okay, well, martha can take care of that.
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Yeah, even the daughters have.
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Martha, even the daughters have started racing, which is awesome.
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For me, being a woman and being in drag racing, you don't see very many of us, so I'm glad they are growing the sport and getting the kids involved, which is awesome.
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Yeah, yeah.
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How do we keep up with Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge?
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You got a com site.
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We do so.
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It's actually TM3C, so TMCCCorg org.
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Okay, you can find our schedule.
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You can find rules, results, all that stuff.
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Can you find Martha's work up there as well?
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Yeah, you will see Martha's work on the results page correct.
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Very nice.
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Okay, well, give her our best and the best to you, and it's great to talk to you.
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When does the season end?
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And the best to you, and it's great to talk to you.
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When does the season end?
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We are going all the way out to November this year November.
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Wow so we're going to talk to you.
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We were counting on a mild fall, fingers crossed.
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Yes, yeah.
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We were actually going out to the 10th, so we've got almost all the way to Thanksgiving.
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Awesome.
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Well, let's talk to you before you get to the final uh race.
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Yeah, we'll see yeah, absolutely.
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Let's try october, yeah yeah, okay, we'll do it.
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We got a date, sarah, it's great to talk to you.
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Thanks so much for joining.
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Thank you thank you, gentlemen, I appreciate it you too, bet sarah vidrine.
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