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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 Shieldcom.
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It certainly is.
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In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Ahead on HRA Hall of Famer inductee Coleman Roddy Mars has this week in auto history and the events calendar.
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We'll get you caught up on the stories making automotive news headlines this week.
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Today's program, sponsored by Mecham Auctions, houston, april 4th through the 6th at NRG Center Howdy, along with Mike out of this world Mars.
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We always need more.
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Jeff Zekin, I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us today.
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We let David Ainsley, our chief engineer, sleep in.
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I hope he heard that.
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I hope he did too, because that means that he's not sleeping in.
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Oh, he'd be all over the comment section.
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Yeah, soon.
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He's probably not even home yet.
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Did he go somewhere? I'm assuming he's a young guy.
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The young guys do that.
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No, he's younger than us.
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He's not young.
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Oh yeah, he is.
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He's just younger than us, that's all.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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That's David Ainsley Joining us now after 40 years.
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After retiring he got inducted into the National Hot Rod Association's NHRA Hall of Fame and here he is Hall of Famer himself, coleman.
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Roddy Coleman, how you doing Great, how y'all doing, gentlemen, well, we're doing fine.
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You kind of aged yourself by telling us all of that and the fact that you did competition eliminator titles in 83 and 84, again telling us kind of how old you are.
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Yeah, I'm old.
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Pretty well, says it all.
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Yeah, exactly.
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So tell us a little bit about yourself and your career in NHRA drag racing.
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When did you get started? What possessed you to get into drag racing?
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It was definitely my father, ed Roddy.
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He raced in the early and mid-50s.
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He retired in 1957, racing a 40 Ford with an Olds engine in it that set the national record in August of 57.
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Right before he retired it ran 13 flat at 101 and a half miles an hour, which was kind of crazy, unheard of in 1957.
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My 23-year-old Corvette runs a a 13 flat.
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That's the best that it'll do and you know it's relatively stock, so that means a lot from 1957 and that car running that fast he basically um, I don't know it, just genetically rubbed off on me.
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And then in my mid-teens, maybe 16 or 17, unfortunately, I was basically started off as a street racer, which is where I met you.
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There you go, 68 Camaro and uh, uh, got beat by everybody early on and then finally learned how to do it with help from uh, uh, a lot of locals.
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And the first guy I met when I went to Houston was uh Luther and Tommy Costales at Houston engine balancing and and they basically like gave me some tips.
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The car got, uh, toward the end of my street racing career, got really, really fast.
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I think the best it ran was 998.
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So I kind of I don't know just kind of got too fast so really couldn't get anybody to race me anymore.
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And then that's when me and dad decided to turn quote-unquote pro in 1976, trading our 427s in for basically 280, 287 cubic inch small block Chevys.
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Well, that era it would have been the 302 kind of setup from Chevrolet that they put in the Z28?.
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Eventually.
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When I first started, basically it was a small bore motor.
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It wasn't the big bore motor like we ended up running the Z28 style motor ended up running the Z28 style motor.
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The 287s had a little longer stroke and a little shorter.
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I mean a little longer stroke and a little bit smaller bore so you couldn't run as big of valves in them and they weren't nearly as efficient.
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Later on in my career, when me and David Nickens teamed up and I started winning and running really fast, we used the 302 block 30 over and basically de-stroked the 3-inch crankshaft down to 2700, if you can imagine that it ran a 2700 stroke.
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So those motors, even back then you know we crossed the finish line at about 9900 RPMs 9900 RPMs.
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I was going to say screaming is more like it.
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I see a picture here of you standing behind your Camaro.
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I guess it was your street Camaro at the time.
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It had a big scoop on the hood, that's a cool looking car.
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Sitting on top of the carburetors.
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I assume and is that the same car that you ran with all of the graphics on the side of it later on?
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Absolutely.
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It is the same car.
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Yes, that was my real.
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I would consider first real race car, and then we modified it.
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Uh, several times we ran gas with it with a fiberglass front end and then eventually we went to f, modified with david nickens power, set the record and was semi-successful with it.
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We, we won, uh, I think, three races with it.
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We won, I think, three races with it, but then graduated into the 65 Corvette, which was a, and the Firebird, which were much, much better race cars.
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Why were they better race cars?
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The Camaro had 108-inch wheelbase.
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Of course, the 63 through 67 carvettes all had 98 inch wheelbase and they were, you know, the engine set back everything.
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They were one of the most efficient race cars ever in modified and competition eliminator and you know, mine was no exception.
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It, uh it did everything right.
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The only, the only knock I ever had on the Corvette was the fact that when you put the wheel tub in it in order to put the big tire in it, a guy 6'3 1⁄2" like me, I basically had to shift the car four times in the quarter with my knees kind of up in my chest.
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I never had enough room to stretch out and be comfortable in the car.
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And that was the Corvette.
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Did you say that you also had a Firebird?
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The Firebird was my most.
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The Firebird was a famous, famous car.
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It was built by John Harrison.
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It was his brainchild.
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That car had a 101-inch wheelbase.
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It had enough room inside for me to stretch out.
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I was very comfortable in the car.
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We ran modified production with that car and it was the first of its kind modified production with that car and it was the first of its kind.
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Uh, john came up with all of these.
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Uh, it was the prototype for all the cars that basically imitated it afterwards.
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Uh, we were the, we were the.
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Uh, betty and roger lamb did the struts on this car.
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It would take me an hour to describe how he got away with running a call over shock in the back of a car that wasn't supposed to have one, because he designed this ingenious setup that had the shock and the coil spring all in one spot.
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But it actually was not a coil over shock.
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You could take the shock out and the car would still stand, and that's how we got away with it.
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And this car, believe it or not, the record, not the index, but the record was 942.
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First weekend out when we won the winter nationals, we went 933 and then two weeks later in good air at Green Valley.
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It went 9.15 at 147.
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Wow, that's impressive.
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Yeah, whatever became of those cars of yours?
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Well, the Corvette I ended up selling to Eli Lopez in the Dallas area, and it's a really cool story.
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I got a call from them, or a text from them, in 22 that they had something that they wanted me to have.
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Well, the car, the Corvette had been gone many, many, many decades ago, but it had two hoods, and the one hood that I ran on the car had been in their loft for 20, well, for 40 years.
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And there it is.
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Oh my gosh, they presented you with the hood, they presented me with a hood.
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It is absolutely the same.
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If you can see this right here, this is from 1983, when I won the world championship.
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This is the hood and this is my prize possession.
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It is absolutely a time capsule of what went down in 1983.
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That is so cool.
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I know that you're proud to have that.
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What do you do these days? Are you working?
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No, I retired May 27th of 22,.
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But if you can see in the shop, I know your main sponsor is Mecham Auto Auction.
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Yeah, okay, this is a 87 El Camino that I am bringing to Mecham next week.
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So I give them a little plug, it's going to Mecham.
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So instead of working on fast cars, I have a 69, all original, 68, 68 000 mile ssrs, camaro there.
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It is right there that we've been working on for years.
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Yeah, and then there is uh an o10 car vet that I've had for 10 or 12 years got a blower on it.
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Uh, the guys at sam tech in houston, judd mazzengill and his bunch, helped me with it.
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I took it to the track in Baytown.
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It ran 1060, so it's not a slug.
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But I just go watch the races now and talk a lot.
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Well, wow, this is very impressive.
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Where do you live now?
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We live in Port Natchez.
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My little tiny shop here is in Nederland, right behind me and my dad's dealership that we had.
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We were fortunate enough.
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Dad was fortunate enough to be in business for 65 years.
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I helped him for 51 years.
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You see all these little blue ribbons everywhere.
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You see all these little blue ribbons everywhere.
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These little blue ribbons were where we won best used car dealer of the year for I don't know 20 or 22 years, but he passed away in 22, and it was never going to be the same.
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So I decided to retire.
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Well, tribute to dad.
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That's quite a story and very impressive racing career as well.
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Um, do you attend any races anymore? Not in competition, just to go watch?
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I do, um, I, I go every chance I can.
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I did want to mention one thing before.
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Uh, before time gets away from us, this little wall right here is basically a culmination of my racing career.
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Uh, now we are in the museum of the gulf coast here in port arthur and, uh, but the thing I I raced a long time but but I was not very good when Vic Custer, john Harrison and David Nickens helped me.
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The last two years we raced when we won the world championship.
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We won nine races and we were runner-up three times in two years.
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And then the last year which I don't have it here, it's in the museum we were able to outpoint all the other world champions me and my team to win the Quaker State Sportsman Cup, which was the greatest honor as a quote-unquote sportsman racer that we could achieve.
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So that's when I retired.
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We retired after that year when we won the Sportsman Cup.
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And I don't know if y'all know anything about the Museum of the Gulf Coast, but it is a wonderful, wonderful place here in.
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I actually grew up in Port Arthur and if you know anybody down here, if you get time, because they've got Jimmy Johnson and you know Janice Joplin and all these people- and Mike Mars, mike Mars, yeah, the Mike Mars Museum.
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Mike Mars has been through there, but he's not in there.
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No, go see Coleman and a bunch of people.
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You're in it in my book.
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There you go.
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Well, listen, it's been a real pleasure to talk to you and we thank you so much for joining us today.
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And the Museum of the Gulf Coast.
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I assume that we could find that online.
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You can, you can, and you'd be surprised to see some of the names of the people that are in there.
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I would be, yeah, I would be.
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Very cool.
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Well, Coleman, we hope to see you one of these days soon in person.
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Yes, sir.
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All right, right.
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Well, we look forward to it again.
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thanks so much for joining us on this saturday well, we, uh, it was my pleasure and honor to do it, and, uh, y'all keep up the good work thank you, my friend, thank you, sir.
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Talk to you soon you bet that what a fun interview, yeah he still makes it out the the needle and drag still runs like on a third saturday or something.
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It's not nothing like it was when we were growing up, but he still gets out there every once in a while.
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You'll see him on the side of the road.
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As you said, yeah, watches it.
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Part of the festivities.
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We're not done with you yet.
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Now we have the events calendar, Mr Mars.
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What events do you?
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have, sir, I have lots of events.
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I can see that you need to have a file I put it under the bottom.
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That's the wrong thing.
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How about this one Events calendar coming up today? Today, march the 30th, 7 am to 3.30 pm, you can still catch part of the Space City Cruisers Spring Car Show down in League City.
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Spectators are free.
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Come out and check it out at SpaceCityCruiserscom.
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Next week is the big Mecham Auto Auction here in Houston, nrg.
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April 4th through 6th.
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One-day ticket is $30, multi-day is $75.
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This is a great car show to go see.
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The auction is a big show to see as well.
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I've got some things goingcom for more information.
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and coming up april 13th, space city corvettes club, 20th annual corvettes and crawfish drive your corvette out and get some crawfish gates open at 8 30 awards are at three pre-registers.
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45 day, the show is 50.
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This is at stevenson park, 1100 south friendswood drive in friendswood.
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Go to space city corvette clubcom for more info.
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Then coming up, the big hot rod tour of Texas April the 25th through the 28th, victoria, texas kickoff for three days of cruising through Texas.
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Then the next weekend, may 4th and 5th, keels and Wheels at the Lakewood Yacht Club down in Seabrook, keels-wheelscom for more info.
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And then June 7th through 9th, 49th Lone Star Street Rod Association State Run in Granbury.
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Go to lssraorg for more information for the events.
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You're on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show and time now for Mr mars feature event.
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auto history back to back I gotta load it, go ahead.
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This week in 1968, lincoln introduced the continental mark three.
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Now, focus group actually provided feedback that this was negative and they didn't particularly care for it.
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But lee iacocca and henry ford II loved it, overruled.
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The group put it in production.
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But it did not carry any Ford or Lincoln badging.
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It was Continental.
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It was the only badges on it.
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I'd drive it yeah, I would too with a 460 cubic inch engine under the hood, luxury interiors including leather seating.
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Also this week, 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona breaks the 200 mile per hour on track.
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Buddy Baker went to the Alabama International Speedway after Chrysler got a hold of him to test the ongoing Daytona program for the Dodge 30 laps.
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He recorded a lap speed of 200.096.
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Later in the day he actually popped that up to 200.447, became the first person to officially do 200 mile per hour on a closed track.
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Also this week in 2005, the Saturn Sky debuts.
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It came out with the press release.
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A lot of people liked it.
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A lot of people said it was going to be great.
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It shared a platform with the Pontiac Soltis and the Opel GT, which should have been a tail-sail sign.
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But even with the several power options under the hood.
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They only sold 34,415 units and the Saturn band was completely discontinued in 2010,.
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Taking the solstice with it, the sky with it.
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I remember the car very well.
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I liked the car.
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The problem was, like all of the cars that GM made in that era, it was underpowered, it was gutless, it was terrible.
