A Rare Italian Luxury Car Rolls In And Steals The Show

Live From Back To The Past

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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast. Welcome everybody to the award-winning In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show. Today, coming to you from the Back to the Past car show in Houston Spring Branch neighborhood here at the Cornerstone Academy 9016 Westview. Just ahead, our story of the week, recalls, name the sold car price. Plus, Jeff will have the crews in and events calendars. I'll bring you stories making automotive news headlines. And Mr. Mars is going to start us off with driving destinations. Howdy, along with Mike Out of This World Mars, Jeff Zeke is here with us. He's walking this away. Chief Engineer David Ainsley is here. And I'm Don Armstrong. Glad you could join us today.

Five Fall Trips To Ren Fairs

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And so we've kind of postponed the driving destinations today for a good reason because it's the places to go for Renaissance festivals. Are you into dressing up? Well, you need to go see a psychiatrist, but um it'll be fun. You could go in anything that you want to, and Halloween's right around the corner, so I can only imagine there'll be some dresses worn by men.

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Yeah, well, when we get back to the studio, we'll have a little uh Halloween show.

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Of our own? Not hot in the air, I hope. Alright, well, let's see if we can't get driving destinations. Five fall road trips to Renaissance festivals, Mr. Mars. Okay.

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Alrighty.

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Did I catch you at a bad time?

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Yes, you did. Where's it? Is it this one? Right there.

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So we're here. Let me explain to everybody that the problem is that we are doing the same thing that we did a little over a month ago with all brand new equipment and a new setup. So uh this is all a big experiment, and um we'll just have to see how it goes. Apparently it's going. Yeah, it's going.

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Yeah, this we need uh we gotta do something about being able to see the uh see what's going on over here because it's hard to see on this laptop out here in this.

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I can see that.

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I got you covered over here.

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All right, so a driving destinations, five Renaissance festivals.

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Right. So uh we're gonna go with um let's go over to three, Jeff. I'm gonna cut the first two. Go to the next one. That's three. There you go. Don, I picked this one specifically for you. Oh God. The Renaissance Pleasure Fair.

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All right.

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Southern California. Averages 250,000 people per season. Oh my god. Uh it's one of the oldest modern Renaissance fairs in the United States. Generally takes place in April, May, so it's already done. You need to look at it for next year. Happens in the Santa Fe Dam Recreation.

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This is supposed to be fall destinations. Sir? This is supposed to be fall destinations. But that's okay. We'll we'll we'll include it it's California.

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I wanted this one for you. It was special for you.

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It's California, so it works. It's just the opposite of everybody else.

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So the next one is going to be the Pennon Pennsylvania Renaissance Fair in Manheim, Pennsylvania. $250,000 annually. It's on 35 acres. Uh includes part of an estate and winery where they set it up. 12 to 13 weekends that they run starting in August all the way to the end of October. Got a nice Shire built out there, dozens of stage shows, kitchens, lots of fair, food fair. Very immersive opportunity if you like to get into that stuff. The uh next one would be the Maryland Renaissance Festival.

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Let me ask you this. Let me interrupt and ask you something. Would you get dressed up for a Renaissance festival? Because if if you did, I would go there. I'd pay good money to see that. And who would you be? Would you be the court jester or would you be the queen or the king? Or I think queen.

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In my young day, when I first started going to these things in the 70s, I always wanted to wear a chainmail suit. Never had enough guts.

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You know that you can rent those.

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Well, I know, but I just didn't have enough guts to wear one. But then I found out later on that you wear a bodysuit underneath it. Oh. And that made it, I might have done it then if I wasn't.

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Well, that's to protect you from the lance on the on the horse. If they're not uh Sless chainmail, are you? Sorry. Do we have children here?

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They have 300,000 people over its nine-week run. Again, 16th century English village environment across 25 acres. Where is this? And this is in Maryland, Crownsville, Maryland, kind of up in the northeast, you might say. The uh next one would be the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Yeah. Now this is 300 to 320,000 average in recent years. It's near the Minnesota River. Runs several weekends, late summer into fall, 16th century European village recreation. And they've got uh, of course, multiple stage, artisans, roaming characters, foods, and things like that. Uh large grounds, got plenty of room for everybody. And then the one I really wanted to get to, consider the biggest in the country, the Texas Renaissance Festival in Todd Michigan, Texas. 530 plus thousand people in 2024. This is the biggest rent fair in the U.S., runs over eight weekends from October through late November. 55 acres. Started in 1974. We were going in the late 70s. Where's Todd? It is nothing like it is now. Back then, women were women, and you could tear your beer cooler in and all that good stuff, and it was a different world.

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Let's hope they were.

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They have 400 shops, they got 21 stages, they got a 200-acre camping facility that uh people can go and stay at. My brother's daughter got married there. We went to the wedding. Him and the entire wedding party camped in the grounds. He said it was well worth the price of admission just to see what happens in the campgrounds at night.

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Oh my god.

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My wife and I did not stay there, but um I wouldn't like to have seen it. This year is the weekend.

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Wait a minute, Todd Mission. That's Plannersville. That's that's that's our that's our yeah, yeah. That's our yeah. Yeah, Todd Mission. You said the largest in Texas. Magnolia, Todd Mission,

Texas Ren Fest And Camp Tales

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all that up there. Okay. I I don't I normally don't hear about Todd Mission. David?

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David, that's the original, that's our guest there that we were looking at.

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Okay, if he could get by that white line and in between the white line and the cone. Does it does it go in reverse?

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You're gonna love this. Uh apparently. Yeah. So anyway, uh, there's lots of Renaissance festivals around the country. If you like to do that kind of stuff, I even found out there are people that make a living. They go from fair to fair to fair around the country with their designs and their uh performances. And uh it's pretty interesting, I will tell you that. Not as interesting as it was back in the 70s, but it's very interesting.

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I went there once and I can take my kids now.

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Yeah.

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And it rained. I went there once and it rained. And did you leave or did you stay? Stay as long as we could. This is the years ago. The kids were really little. Okay, are we off the how do you get off the screen there?

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All right. Well, um, I think that our next next guest has just has just shown up. There it is. Uh yeah. Is that a Model T? Perfect. What is that? It's an oil burner, I can tell you that. Yeah.

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Jeffrey.

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And I wasn't trying to be funny, it just said it is. And I'm sure that he'll confirm that. Um and so will all the dead mosquitoes. It doesn't, actually. It doesn't have bumpers, David said. You know, it doesn't. Um I wonder I wonder how long I wonder how long um it takes to go down the road. Like like, you know, ten miles or something. Come on over here, boys. One of y'all, who's our spokesperson? Don't hurt yourself now. Here goes the camera. All right, chief engineer is going to fix that.

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I'm gonna give him a hand.

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Yeah. So come on over here down there at that end. I can only have one of you on, so y'all have to Yeah.

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Let me try that off.

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Wait, um, so while we get it reset here, we've got an umbrella on the camera to shade it from the sun. And uh the wind took the umbrella and took the camera down. So we'll we'll get it all fixed up and uh we will continue on. Again

A 1910 Bianchi Arrives

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today we're coming to you from the fabulous Back to the Past car show at the uh Cornerstone Academy, the site of the original Spring Branch High School that was torn down years ago. And uh this Cornerstone Academy is a very nice place. But inside there is the museum and they have lots of uh high school stuff from the fifties and sixties and that sort of stuff. So if you come to visit, be sure and go to the museum, which is open and free to get in. And um there's also food here. I understand barbecue is available down the way. So as soon as David gets back back here and turns on your microphone, we will uh be more than happy to interview. I'm I'm sorry, I didn't get your name.

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Brass Era Luxury And History

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this on? Yes, sir. Uh Lee Brown.

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Lee Brown. All right, not Lee P. Brown, just Lee Brown. No. Did you get confused by about the the former mayor and police chief and all that? Well, we're acquainted. Are you acquainted? That's good. Well, Lee, uh, that's uh interesting car. I have no clue what even to begin. Is this a 20s car? It's a 1910. Wow. Wow. Okay, and what is it?

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It's uh Bianchi. It was made in Milan, Italy.

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B Bianchi, B-A-N-C-H I.

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No, B-I-A-N-C-H-I. It's Italian for white.

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Bianchi. It's Italian for white.

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Yeah, and bicycle.

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And so uh That's right. They make bicycles?

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Well, they did initially, and then they start got into cars, and then they uh inadvertently made war material for the Italian army during the Second World War and the US Air Force destroyed their factory, so now they just build bicycles again.

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Well that's an interesting story. How in the world did you uh come across this car? How did you get how did you get associated with uh Bianchi?

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Well, I have a real interest in brass era cars, and I was at an event.

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Would this be considered a brass era car? Oh, very much so. Okay, all right.

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I was at an event and there was a fellow there who had a brass car who was interested in not so much selling it, but looking for a new uh caretaker, put it that way.

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Gotcha.

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And he and I got talking and he offered to sell it to me. He was well into his eighties. He'd owned it since he was twenty one.

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Oh my god.

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And uh he was looking for someone to take care of it. And so after an extensive interview, he realized that I was to meet someone who would also preserve it in the in the manner that he did, and so he offered to sell it to me.

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Very nice.

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And that's how I got it. Yes. It was originally sold to an expatriate in Lugano, Switzerland. He owned it from 1910 to 1930. We believe he lost his fortune in the crash of twenty-nine. So he returned to the States but left the limousine behind. It was taken over by his uh landlord, who was equally as wealthy as he was. He kept it till nineteen fifty when he passed away. And his wife wanted to get rid of the car. To her, it was just an old junk car, so she literally threw that thing away, gave it to a junk dealer. Really? Wow. And a junk dealer realized that it had value, so he put it in a barn and waited for a uh buyer to come back.

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So you you indicated it's a brass era. What years or what constitutes a brass era?

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Well, they have a predominance of brass in the uh appointments, and usually it's between about oh nineteen eight or nine up to nineteen sixteen. That's when the brass era kind of ended. And it that was a favored for nickel plating and even painting because of the maintenance involved with keeping brass shiny.

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So as technology evolved, it got out of the brass side.

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Right.

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Interesting.

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But that's what to me gives it character.

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Absolutely. And and you see it's a limousine. And there is a glass between the passenger compartment and the driver.

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Right.

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And that's what makes it a limousine, as opposed to a sedan.

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Correct. And the back quarter of it folds down like a convertible, so it's not only a limousine, it's a landlet limousine.

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I'll say that again, a landalette? A landalette limousine.

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And that means And that means that means the back of it folds down, so the people in the back. And if you look at that car, it's very indicative of the uh character of the world in 1910. This is the Edwardian year when the world was still run by kings. So people were quite conscious, socially conscious of their surroundings. And so see the back half of that car is intended for the aristocracy. Oh, and the front half is for the servant class. That's why the back half has uh fully enclosed the windows in the back are all bevel glass, the interior is finished, it is carpeted, it has flower vases, has a heater.

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I see that.

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Um whereas the front half, all they get is a seat to sit in.

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Well, I I'll tell you what, I have never been a fan of that era. But that one's cool, yeah. That one attracts me. Yeah. Okay. Well, it's it's very different. First of all, it seems to be lower. The whole the body of the car seems lower than most of the cars that I'm familiar with and have seen in the past. I don't know whether they're from that era or not, but it seems as though like the Model T was higher.

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Actually, they weren't. In fact, uh that thing is seven feet tall. Oh, yeah. And I had to reconfigure my garage just to get it in.

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Well, just don't hit, just please don't hit the Houston Avenue Bridge down there. Okay. Yeah, don't do that.

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It's like the first SUV.

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Well, kind of. Yeah. Well, I I would say more along Gen 1. So was there did they make buses in that era? No. So this would have been kind of the forerunner to a bus.

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In a way. Not really. It's uh it was the high-end car you could have bought in 1950.

Lighting, Power, And Starting Rituals

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Okay, so this would have been like the Cadillac or the Rolls-Royce of the era.

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In fact, that was one time considered the Rolls-Royce of Italy.

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There you go. Well, I got something right. Yeah. So now how are the lights lit?

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Now that's interesting, right there. It has uh five oil lamps, two on the car cowl, two on the carriage, and one in the back. And the front two are powered by acetylene. Wow. And you actually make your own acetylene on this thing. It has a uh acetylene generator inside. You put calcium carbide crystals in there and let water grip on it. Have you done that? No. It makes I don't drive it in. I was gonna say it makes a big mess, I think. And so when the water grips on the calcium carbide, it makes acetylene, and then you go out front and you light it with a match. And stand back.

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Yeah. Martha, get out there and light my headlights.

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And because this is a luxury car, it actually has two acetylene generators, one for each hand lamp.

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It's an option that year. Wow.

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And then there's another really unique feature on that car, and in 1910, having electricity anywhere in your presence was a real luxury item, even even in your house.

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Yes.

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So having a car with an electric light on it was really high class. And so that one has one electric light, and that's the dome light. And that's the electricity is created by a glass jar battery which is under the front seat, generates eight point two volts and lights, nothing but the dome light.

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Oh, be darn. Does the dome light come on when you open the doors? No. No. And no three.

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So the servants. By mistake. You obviously live in the area to drive it here.

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Yeah, that's the only reason it's here. I live a block away.

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Okay. And a car, the top speed?

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Who knows?

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Okay. And what we're not going to press the accelerator that hard. Yeah, I was wanting to sign the driveway when he left. Uh what was the price of these?

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$8,500. Holy cow. In 1910? Yeah, that's when you buy a Model T for $600.

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Yeah. Well, they've been recalling those forever.

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But they only made 450 cars in 1910, of which only maybe 10% of them were limousines. Wow. And as far as we know, that's the only 1910 Bianchi limousine in existence.

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It's truly it's truly an amazing car. And what kind of motor does it have in it?

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It's a four-cylinder casting block, which means all four cylinders are cast together.

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Right. So they're not sleeved, it's cast.

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Yeah, it's one big casting with four holes in it, four cylinders. And magneto-driven with an updraft carburetor. And you have to pressurize the gas tank to get it to start. That's why it took so long to get here. There's a whole procedure on starting this thing.

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But is there like a backup crank to it?

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No, no, there's a crank in the front, you start it. Okay. But you have to pressure the gas tank with a boy air pipe.

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Because you gotta get the gas up there to it.

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Yeah. That's why it takes so long to start. And then you've got to put primer cups, gasoline and primer comps in each cylinder because the choke had yet to be invented. So you do all that business. Takes a good five minutes to start it.

Value, Materials, And Preservation

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That is truly amazing. And the story that goes with it is is amazing as well. Yeah. Um you should you should do you should do television. Me? Yeah. Yeah. Are you are you still working? You retired or all retired. Are you? What did you do uh in in a professional life?

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I was uh I owned an engineering construction company.

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That doesn't surprise me as an engineer. And you said he's a pilot too. Are you? Oh yeah. Very nice. Yeah, do you have a plane?

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No, but I have friends that do. That's just as good. Yeah, it's better actually, because you don't have to put your money in. It's going in a boat.

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Now, have you have you lived in the Spring Branch area long? About 50 years. Fifty years? So you remember when the school was here. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Did you have kids that go here? No, I did not.

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I do do appreciate the school having that path around the school for people pick up their children. Yeah. Come down here on weekends is great for driving around with that.

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Yeah, exactly. Now I noticed that uh the the it burns a little oil.

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Uh that's because there is zero paperwork on that car. We have no owner's manual, no sales brochures, and no technical information whatsoever. And that's because, again, they were building war material during the war. Right. And the Army Air Corps bombed their factory to it was only about that tall when they got down. So there's zero paperwork in that car. So we have to take everything apart just to figure out what it does. And one thing I haven't really deciphered is the oil system yet. So I over lubricate it.

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Well, another oil hey, it's running. Yeah. Yeah, it hasn't seized up or anything. Yeah, yeah. Now it it does have a radiator, or at least it looks like it does.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah. And it's water cooled.

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Water cooled with a water pump.

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Yeah, and it's got a fan.

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No, it does not have a fan. Doesn't have it just the fan is built into the flywheel, which is on the back side of the engine. Oh. And has a belly pan, so the the engine compartment is a s is a wind tunnel.

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So it really i it it's it behooves you to keep the car moving.

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I've never had it overheat. No? No.

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Does it have a thermostat or a temperature gauge on it? No thermostat.

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Oh no.

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But it does it must have some sort of a gauge to tell you whether or not it's overheating.

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Yeah, it's called steam coming out of the radiator. Visual indicator.

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Yeah, I love it.

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Well, it has one instrument and that's a speedometer.

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Okay. It does have a speedometer. Right. Wow. How is this speedometer driven?

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It's off a drive off the drive shaft. And it's a real unique speedometer, and it's it's called a flyball speedometer. It's got two pendulums that hang down, and as it spins, they rotate out and mechanically pushes up a little bit.

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Like a barber shop. Yeah. Yeah. Now it it was 8,000 new back in 10. What's can you describe the value of it on it now?

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Well, it's the only one in existence, so priceless.

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Yeah, it's priceless.

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And we bought it with a suitcase full of money, so that's about what's worth it. Oh, okay.

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Yeah.

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And the suitcase is in the back. Empty.

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Empty, yeah. Is that green or brown? Is green and brown brown and that's that's mahogany.

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It's natural finished

Events Calendar And News

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mahogany. Okay. The whole body is uh custom made and hand-covered.

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So let me ask you this. Is it an everyday project for the rest of your eternal life? Absolutely. I mean, congratulations. Oh, thank you. And um, man, patience of Job. I would not be able to do that. It would drive me insane.

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Yeah.

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Because once you start, for me, once I start on something, it better be finished within a certain time period in my mind. Yeah, 30 minutes. That is never finished.

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Oh, yeah, that's the joy of it.

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And David was asked, David was asking me earlier, is that like a chick magnet? Pick up clothes.

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Let's let's hope.

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There's still time, huh?

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Yeah.

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Oh my gosh. Well, it's truly amazing the car, but it's more amazing to talk to you for you to explain all these things. We need we need to have you back on. And I know we don't have to have the car. I'm not going to pressure you to bring the car. But we'd like to uh and I know you've got plenty of pictures of it. So um Mars will be in touch with you in the next few months, and we can send him some pictures because I'd love to interview you further, because I find it absolutely fascinating.

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Or you know, anytime if where you keep it, you've got a good enough internet signal. We could just do a live video from where you are. Yeah, I think you can point to things as you tell us about it. Okay.

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On your cell phone, whatever the case may be. Well, Lee Brown, yeah, exactly. Just come on over. Lee Brown, it's a real pressure.

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I got more cars over there, too. I was gonna ask you if you what else is in your stable, yeah. What else you got over there? Oh, I have a 13 Buick and 29 Dodge. Oh 37 Mercedes.

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See, we don't get to talk to people like you. Buick. No, yeah.

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Because they don't get out and about where we go.

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And and most of them that I knew that had cars like that, they're dead.

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Or the previous three owners are among them.

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There you go. So, well, thank God for you because you carry on the legacy. I love it. Lee Brown, thank you again. You appreciate it, sir. Thank you. And you can't have the headset. Yeah, you gotta leave that here.

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You gotta leave that here.

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Thank you, everybody, for joining us today here at the Back to the Past car show. This is the annual classic car, truck, and motorcycle show. Cornerstone Academy is where we are. This is a judged show here at 916 West of you. If you get a chance, stop by. Yeah, 1910 car.

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I was going to ask them what size those tires are because they're quite unique.

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Yeah, well we'll find out. Yeah. Much like a motorcycle tire.

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Yeah, you know that right. Yeah.

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All right. Let's get the cruise

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in and events calendar. Got it right here. Thanks for joining us here on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.

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Well, we got the Texas Mile. Uh it's coming up. It's going to be October 26th, 3 p.m. at 1399. Offsite is what the road is. That's what the name of the road is. Offsite. Offsite. It's in Beaville, Texas. The Texas Mile returns to you the Chase Field in Beaville on October 24th through the 26th. The biannual motorsports event attracts participants from around the world. So $25 per person for the weekend, free admission, children under 12. So if you got 13 children, you've got to get rid of one and make it down to 12 to get in free. The next one we got is Coles Crossing Cars and Coffee, Cars at the Park October 25th, which is next weekend, 13050 Barker Cypress Road. It's an event scheduled 7 30 a.m. to 9 30. Get out there, organizers, participants, uh they don't want you to be crazy, so just get out there and enjoy the show. Third annual Hazelwood Hot Rod Car Show, Family Fun Fest benefiting dudes for boobs. This one is October 25th at 8374 Paloxi Drive. It's in Tyler, Texas. So get on out there. It's a good charity event. And of course, where are we at? We are at the Back to the Pass car show today. We can smell that car leaving. So we're here today, and then you got Heroes and Hot Rides coming up Friday, November 7th.

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So that is so cool. Think about this. Hey, good to see you. Yes. Is that yours? No. Okay. Well, it's good. Yes, it's it's it's it's great to see you. Do we have the events? Did we do the events? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so we did everything we needed to do. I got you. All right. Um, I did have one story that I wanted to get in uh before we go too too far off the track. Um a former employee of a New Jersey dealership was sentenced to October 3rd to seven years in the state prison in order to pay over $1.3 million in restitution for theft. Uh Martin DeMato, 40, from Beechwood, New Jersey, was employed in a digital advertising role at Pine Belt Nissan of Tom's River. According to an October 3rd statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, the theft was discovered uh October 2021 when the dealership discovered its credit card costs exceeded its budget. Uh DeMato was arrested for d by detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office Economic Crime Squad September uh twenty-two on charges of money laundering and theft and was released eight days later due to state bail reform. He pleaded guilty to one count of theft in April. Wow. DeMato will serve seven years in New Jersey State Prison and his one million three hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred seventy-seven dollars and fifteen cents restitution will be paid back to the dealership and an insurance company. Well, good luck on collecting that while you're in the next seven years. Yeah, something like that. Hey, we'd love to hear from you. Just shoot us an email. The address is info at inwheeltime.com. We'll be back right after this quick break. Own a car you love. Well, why not let Gulf Coast Auto Shield protect it? Houstonian John Gray invites you to his state-of-the-art facility to introduce you to his specialist team of auto enthusiasts. We promise you'll be impressed. Whether you're looking to massage your original paint to a like new appearance, apply a ceramic coating, install a paint protection film, nano ceramic window tent, or new windshield protection called Exoshield, Gulf Coast Auto Shield is where Houston's car people go. Curbed your wheels? Instead of buying new, why not have them repaired? How about a professionally installed radar detector? Gulf Coast Auto Shield does that too. Get a peek inside the shop and look at the services offered by getting online and heading to gcautoshield.com. Better yet, stop by their facility at 11275 South Sam Houston Tollway, just south of the Southwest Freeway and get a personal tour. Gulf Coast Auto Shield is your place to go for all things exterior. Call them today, 832-930-5655 or GCAutoShield.com. Wrap up your engines. It's time to roll back in style at the Back to the Pass Car Show. Join the Spring Branch Senior High School Foundation Saturday, October 18th at Cornerstone Academy, 916 Westview Drive in Houston. Classic cars, trucks, and motorcycles, family fun, food, music, and memories. It's something for everyone. Proceeds benefit local students and programs. Don't miss the shine, the chrome, and the nostalgia. 10 to 2 Saturday, October 18th. Back to the back. Car Show. Springbranch Bears.com slash car show for more information. In Wheel Time will be there too. That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show. I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and our InWheelTime.com website. Podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartPodcast, Podcast Addict, TuneIn, Pandora, and Amazon Music. Keep listening, and we'll see you soon.