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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
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This is the world's favorite place to go for fun, intrigue and informative car talk.
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It's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Today, coming to you from the Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise Inn at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex Restaurant in Katy, texas.
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We've got a full house here today.
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We've got to be close to 100 cars here.
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It's really good.
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We ran across another hitchhiker and he's waiting to talk to us.
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Jeff has the racing calendar, mars has this week in auto history and I'll get you caught up on the stories making automotive news headlines, which I haven't done any of.
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Howdy, along with Mike Ott of this World Mars.
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We always need more.
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Jeff Zekin, chief Engineer, david Ainsley.
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I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us today.
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Thank you very much.
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This car show Cruise Inn is actually a donation site for Toys for Tots and Houston Children's Charities, so bring an unwrapped toy, give it to them you'll get a little ticket and take that ticket inside and get yourself a breakfast taco for free.
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Oh, they also have beverages.
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Yeah, they do.
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Yummy, yummy beverages.
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Yum here, let me see.
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Yes.
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V8.
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Ah good, ice, cold water it's a car show, so you've got to drink V8.
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V8.
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V8 good ice, cold water.
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Car show, so you got to drink v8, v8, not v6 or a turbo.
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You got it, you know, go right.
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Well, it might be turboed, splash of turbo.
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You ought to know it's turboed, you're drinking one too I know I'm calling mine buick you do that?
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um, there was some.
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Oh, I wanted to give you some of the headlines that I've got, but before I do that, I want to also give you the recalls.
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Okay, tesla recalling 2,431 ugly Cybertruck electric pickups in the US.
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A loss of drive power could increase the risk of a crash.
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Oh, martha, it's not going.
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It would increase the risk of a crash.
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Oh, martha, it's not going.
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This is the sixth recall of the polarizing truck in the US this year.
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A fault in the drive inverter in Cybertrucks manufactured between November 6, 2023 and July 30 of this year could cause the part to stop producing torque when the driver uses the accelerator pedal.
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In other words, it ain't going nowhere.
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The part to stop producing torque when the driver uses the accelerator pedal.
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In other words, it ain't going nowhere, resulting in a loss of propulsion and increasing the risk of a collision.
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Poor Aunt Martha.
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GM recalling 461,839.1 diesel engine vehicles due to a faulty transmission control valve.
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The defect can lead to wear and tear, resulting in a gradual loss of pressure and a temporary wheel lockup, increasing the risk of a crash.
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The recall affects the following vehicles 20-22.
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Chevy Silverado $1,500, $2,500, $3,500.
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Gmc Sierra $1,500, $2,500, $3,500.
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21.
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Cadillac Escalade what Escalade?
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Esv?
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No.
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Chevy Suburban Tahoe and GMC U-Korn and U-Korn XL models equipped with the diesel engines.
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More recalls Chevy Bolt, euv and EV 2022, 2020 to 2022.
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High-voltage battery may catch fire.
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No big deal.
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Carb-a-cue Instrument cluster display and function errors in the Mazda CX-70 and CX-90 for 25 and 24 to 25 models which I just had recently.
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Yep and I will review that next weekend and you'll stay tuned for some hate.
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Can't wait.
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Improper software can cause a loss of drive power in the Mazda CX-70 and CX-90, 25, 24 model years.
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Engine may not restart after the auto engine stop on the Mazda CX-90.
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Oh man.
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That's the one that I had A loss of drive power in the EV mode of the Mazda CX-70.
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You got a Mazda, you're screwed CX-70 and CX-90 for 2024.
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There's a problem there.
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Yeah Well, I mean, how can you continue to do that?
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I don't know Volkswagen Beetle, beetle convertible, and Volkswagen Passat 2006 through 2017 or, in the Beatles version, through 19,.
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Driver's side front airbag inflator may explode.
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Oh no, if you haven't taken care of those things, you really need to do that.
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If you know somebody that hasn't sent their car back to the dealership to get fixed, please encourage them to do that and not drive it.
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People get killed.
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Ah, it's no big deal, I'll take care of it.
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Next month, martha will take care of that for me.
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No, you need to take care of it yourself why are you always letting me drive?
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consumer commended.
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Consumer reports commended the national highway traffic safety administration, or nTSA, for holding Ford Motor Company accountable for failing to recall vehicles with defective rearview cameras in a timely manner and for providing incomplete and inaccurate recall information, in violation of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
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The consent order issued by NHTSA includes both monetary and non-monetary provisions aimed at improving foreign compliance and federal safety requirements.
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The civil penalty issued, totaling $165 million, is the second largest civil penalty in NHTSA's history.
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That sounds like a vendor deal.
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Shame, shame, shame.
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You need one vendor to do it all for everybody.
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Shame on you.
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Who sang that song?
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I don't know.
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Shame, shame, shame.
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You need one vendor to do it all for everybody, shame on you.
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Who sang that song?
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I don't know.
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Shame, shame, shame.
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Well, it wasn't you.
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Shame on you.
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I was going to say Martha, but it's not.
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Martha and the.
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Vandellas, it's Big Martha.
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No, I like Martha, big Martha and the Vandellas.
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It wasn't her, it wasn't her.
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You know what he did.
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I don't know what he did with this money for singing lessons.
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I don't know either.
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Who did that?
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I don't know.
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Are you ready?
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No, I'm not.
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You're just going to have to hold on, because I'm going to find out who sang Shame, shame, shame, shame on you.
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I think it was Hart.
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Elliman.
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No, it wasn't Hart.
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Elliman Not.
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Ell, it's not in there.
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Element.
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Wait just a minute.
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Who's saying shame, shame, shame?
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Anybody out there knows that would be Shirley and Company from 1975.
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I knew that David said that.
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See, there's something worthless information you didn't know today.
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David said that he didn't have his mic on.
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We needed to know.
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Yeah.
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You should know this.
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He's a fountain of that worthless information.
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Yeah Well, you're the big music man.
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You're the radio guy.
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You're the radio guy, mr Radio Music man, what I can't hear you.
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He's not that old.
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He said you are that old?
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What year were you?
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born David 1985.
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Are you serious?
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You're a liar.
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Yeah, I was going to say I got kids older than you.
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You made that crap up.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, he just tries to act.
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Can we get another round?
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That's exactly what we need.
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All right, Mr Morris, your turn.
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Don just for you All right.
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Just for you, this is Mr Patrick Lindquist.
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Okay, is that right?
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Yes, sir, okay he has, and I'm surprised you haven't sniffed it out yet.
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The blue, light blue, 1971 Delta 88 convertible with a white interior in it oh man.
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And I'm going to let him tell you about the rest of this car that he's had before.
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Well, why don't you ask him some specific?
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questions.
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Mr Morris, that would be a way to go.
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I'm still addressing you there, you go.
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No, you're trying to lay your job onto him.
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So you mentioned you've had this car for a little while.
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Yes, 40 years 40 years.
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My wife and I had our first date in that car.
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Oh, wow, wow, Put this microphone a little bit closer.
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There you go.
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Perfect, there you go, and there you go, and he's got Hot Rod Tour stickers all over it.
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Hot Rod Tour, they've got an auto-release shirt.
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You know, I thought you looked familiar.
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I thought, oh, I've seen you somewhere.
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Yeah, I've been three times.
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So have you, yeah, yeah.
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So have you made any changes to the car?
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Is it still all stock?
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It's pretty much stock.
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It had a bench seat in it.
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I took it out and put a set of buckets in a console.
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But wait a minute.
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You just got through telling me that your wife's first date with you was in that car.
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Yes, did it have the bench seat in it then?
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Yes, and you've taken that out and replaced it with buckets.
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Yes, Because you got tired of the of the wife and didn't want to have her sit next to you.
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No, not at all I just yeah, I wouldn't say that wanted to change it, wanted I've always wanted it with bucket seats in it really yeah, well, you know they quit putting bucket seats in those cars in the late, in the early, late 60s so the car didn't come with buckets and buckets weren't available for the car, no, so you robbed some car for those buckets 62 old Starfires.
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Yeah, there you go, Starfires and they fit Well, yeah they do now.
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They do now yeah.
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And the console had the Starfires in it.
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Did you have to modify the floor or anything?
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No, I just built brackets.
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Hey gotcha, nice it looks really nice I can imagine you're gonna have to go over there and look at it, you'll you'll appreciate it, uh how's that convertible top working?
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uh, it's got the scissor top in it and uh, there's a guy here in town that uh is that knows how to put them in.
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Yeah, but I I had it all completely rebuilt and uh, all new bushings and everything, and so I I took the frame to him and the top and he put it all back in the car that's cool because I just I just had it repainted and all the body work, uh, and a funny story uh, we found a new in the box, rear quarter panel for it a new in the box, new, old stock new, old.
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It cost me more to ship it than it cost to buy it.
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I guess there wasn't too big of a high demand for it.
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Now, was that quarter panel on the convertible different than the sedan?
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It was, but it was the guy that did the work for me.
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He was able to make it work.
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He didn't take the whole quarter panel off, he just cut out all the rust not a lot of rust, did a great job, because I was looking down the side of it and I thought it was all original sheet metal this guy, so it did have rust.
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Is it not an original houston car or?
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uh, I'm really.
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It was uh originally sold in midland texas.
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Yeah, bird Oldsmobile Okay, and that's where I'm from.
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Okay, and it's got rust.
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Well, I guess it's not too surprising because you know rust mitigation really didn't exist back then and it depends on, you know, the high humidity and that sort of stuff.
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Once it starts, the egg will stop.
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That's right Well.
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I mean, you get like the snow and salt and it's the angle of stop.
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That's right Well.
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I know, but you get like the snow and salt, and salt is what.
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Midland.
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Odessa doesn't get a lot of snow, but they do get some snow every now and then.
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A little bit but snow is not the factor, it's all the other garbage they put in there, the salts and all the the chemicals the chemicals that they put down on the road.
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That's what does the rust.
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If you look at any 71 through 76 B-bodied cars, they all rust around the back wheels.
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Yeah, Does it have that chrome strip around the wheel opening?
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A small one, it's kind of on the inside of it.
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Gotcha.
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Yeah, it doesn't fold out to the outside of it, but it's on the inside.
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Yeah, holds moisture inside.
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Yeah.
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Holds moisture.
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Yeah, yep, yeah.
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But it's interesting because, you know, when they designed those cars back in the day, they didn't think that way Because, if you remember correctly and I worked for a Chevrolet dealer in 1969, 69, 70, that they put window molding around.
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It trapped all of the water, yep, all of the time.
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If you washed it, set it outside in the rain didn't make any difference, it was underneath there.
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Right.
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And that 66 Corvair that I had.
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That was its major problem was that chrome trim around the window that trapped the water in there between the window and the actual body itself and it'll eat it up.
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Yeah and I guess you when you had it repainted.
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I guess you had it all everything was fixed.
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It's all metal, no bondo that's good.
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And then they invented z bart z bart, I remember z bart does that still exist.
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Uh, it's in form.
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It's called undercoating now.
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Yeah, there's a different name.
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I think that franchise is gone but there's a different one.
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Yeah, they probably bought them out.
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That's what they used to spray in there.
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Take the moldings off, drill holes.
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Yep and then plug it the guy that actually painted the car, when he's pretty good.
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Well, it does that, and it also helps make it quieter and heavier and heavier.
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Yeah yeah, because now they've got the mats.
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How about that motor that's in there?
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It's original 455 with 153,000 miles on it.
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And it's never been apart.
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No.
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How cool is that.
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I'll rephrase that.
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It's had a timing chain and gear put in it.
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Well, that's for the course.
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I took it apart when I was redoing it and I put chrome valve covers on it and you could literally eat off the inside of the engine.
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Wow.
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And this was maybe 6,000 miles ago.
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Nice, it's really a nice car.
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Well, that comes with having it for the last 40 years and taking care of it.
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Yeah, I mean, 150,000 miles in 40 years is not a lot of miles.
