Ambulances, Hearses, And Minivans, Oh My!

Kicking Off From The Garage

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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show just ahead. We're going to talk to Richard Tomlin about his wrench rally three. Detroit to college station. I'm going to revert.

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What could go wrong there? Yeah.

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I'll review the Bronco Stroke Edition. Plus, Jeff has this week's motor minute just ahead on the In Wheel Time Card Talk Show. Howdy, along with Mike Out of This World Mars, we always need more Jeff Zeke and to my right over here, the infamous who let who let us borrow his beautiful neat garage. What is it, David?

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He had his headset on. He could talk to you. He's looking at you to pot him up.

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He can turn that music down. Okay. And get out of my garage.

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Well, that's not gonna happen. See, I will say this that you could cut us off and go, I don't know what happened. Something blew the breaker.

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Or when your son comes home and it hits the garage door. Yeah, yeah. That's it.

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I shouldn't turn that off.

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Oh my gosh.

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Okay.

Guest Tech Woes And Setup

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Well, um, so Richard Tomlin. I I guess it was Richard. We're gonna find out. Richard, are you there? Good morning to you, sir. I had him there. Are you there?

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I'm here.

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Okay, good. It's good, it's good to see you, good to hear you. Uh we're going to pull your picture up here so everybody can see. There he is. There he is. Um, Richard, was you that came up with the wrench rally? Yeah, we we we can we can hear you loud and clear. So was it you that came up with the wrench rally?

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Do you not know?

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I don't think he can hear us. He can't hear us. He must not be able to hear us, yeah. David, uh would you work with uh Mr. Tomlin here and and hopefully get him uh on the air with us? Uh we can hear Can you hear us?

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Now I can hear you back.

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Okay. All right. Well we never left.

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Like, are we gonna do this?

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Yes. Yes.

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I'm glad to get

Birth Of The Wrench Rally

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you to commit.

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So I want I I I'm not I'm not going to be on the rally, but I'm asking you, were you the one that came up with the wrench rally?

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Correct. We were uh sitting around having beer and a good time and watching old roadkill and top gear and cannonball run, and we said we should do something like that. And that was 2022. Um we got the next morning and called a bunch of friends, and within a month we had created wrench rally. We flew to Seattle, everybody bought cars for $1,500, and we bonsaied back to Houston in two and a half days. And we found out that that was a little too much. So we've slowed the pace down, and uh originally we were donating the cars to single mothers when we got back to town, and now we are working with uh drive for the cure. Uh all the money we raise this year will be going to Parkinson's research. So it's pretty entertaining.

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So

Rules, Budget, And Charity Model

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explain to everybody exactly how this works.

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Well, we all jump on planes, we fly to C well, this time it'll be to Detroit. Um some of us will drive up there because we have a service truck that runs behind us, so I'll drive up there. But basically you show up when you want. If it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever, uh you buy your vehicle Wednesday, you show up, we basically inspect the vehicle, make sure it's good. We've got a cap of twenty two hundred and two two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars this year. Go out and buy a vehicle. Well, we verify that you paid that much for it. If you go over that budget, then you immediately donate that right to charity. No problem, you can get a better vehicle if you want. But the purpose of this is to get something that forces you to learn a little bit, uh, to wrench on a car, to work with somebody on repairing a car, and in the end, once we've done four days traveling across the great United States and round Route 66, that we can sell um on eBay motors or cars and bids, and then all that money gets donated directly to the charity. So this is about going out having fun with friends on the road and then selling a car at the end for charity and then going home with a road trip to tell for a lifetime.

Cars You Can Buy For $2,200

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Give me some examples of cars that you can purchase for $2,200.

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We have found four-wheel drive 7-3 turbo diesel ambulances in Detroit running and driving for two grand. With the body still in it. That is the perfect vehicle.

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Uh is the gurney still in the back?

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Yeah. There is no gurney, but there is a couch so the co-driver could sleep on, right?

How The Gimmick Rally Works

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And this is a team event. Yes. So the reason it's a team event is we run what we call it's called a gimmick rally. So I tell you day one, we're going from Detroit to Louisville, Kentucky. That morning, when you leave, I will hand you a sheet with 18 to 25 riddles of things that when you solve the riddle, it will tell you where you should go. And then you will drive there and you will get a picture with your team, your vehicle, and your sign, because some people are very creative with Photoshop, um, to verify that they're actually at the location. Um, and then you solve more puzzles and go to the next one. And eventually you will you will end up in Louisville. Now, when you get to Louisville, you have a before and after. So if I tell you you gotta be there at 6, you show up at 5.54, you're too early, but you show up at 6.06, you're late. Um so you have a 10-minute window to arrive at our location that night, and with 16 to 17 teams, it ends up being a little over an hour and a half of the range of people showing up. So it's uh there's a lot of gimmick to it, a lot of fun, and gonna get you in some spots that you've never seen and never done. Um you guys were talking about AI earlier, that's kind of the nemesis for us on this rally. Yeah. Um, there's been a lot of time and effort put into trying to make really good

Beating AI With Real-World Riddles

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riddles that even AI cannot solve. Um, a lot of Google Maps uh using Street View to find interesting things to go look at and see. And, you know, if I can get you to stop at 15 spots a day a day for days, I've created a story that you will tell for lifeline, you know, lifetime.

Support Truck And Kansas Rule

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Um the service vehicle is behind Chase with three competent mechanics. In case anything happens, you've got somebody to fall back on. Um we got a rule that we call the Kansas rule. If you see another team that's broken down beside the road, you're required to stop and render service to them. Help them get to a park store, take care of things. It's not that serious of an event. Um, but it is that serious because in the end we're helping research for Parkinson's this year.

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And when you get to Louisville, or each night stop, right? When you get there, you get all checked in, yeah, everybody's here now. Isn't there something going on that evening?

Evenings, Dinners, And Pop-Up Shows

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We usually have a dinner, get together, maybe some adult beverages happen. Um depends on where we're at. Some of the Chamber of Commerces uh bring a lot of local businesses out. We've had some the actual little car shows that happened, um, which was entertaining because stars are not that pretty. Um some of them are pretty nice and you're amazed they got it for the price they did. One of the well actually the car did it twice. They found a 1997 Lincoln uh limousine, white limousine, and it actually did both of the first two wrench rallies, and now it's at some off-road park in Dallas with 44 inch tires on it. So some of the vehicles are crazy. Some of them are very basic. Uh, a lot of minivans, uh quite a few of the later model BMWs um get chosen just for reliability. We've had a couple Mercedes. Um there's just fun stuff. Detroit has a lot of Cadillacs, so we are finding those. Oh, yeah.

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How about school buses? Are school buses allowed? Yeah, yeah.

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That's the goal, and you're gonna be stuck in it for three and a half days.

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So So this is a this is a combination of a gumball rally and a lemons race.

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Kind of, yeah, kind of. Uh we've talked to the guys that

Wild Rides From Limos To Minivans

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the gumball race that Gambler 500, the off-road guys. Um, they actually may be partaking with us uh this year on Rent Rally because theirs is now about cleaning up the uh environment and off-road world. So they're talking about coming out and helping us with the Parkinson's. But Gambler 500 is another one that people compare it to. But this is uh on-road, we behave, we obey the laws, um, we meet a lot of new friends and make uh new acquaintances and places go and see things too. Every time we go out, there's something new that's added to the event.

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I'm I'm thinking right now that we we should really attempt the three of us to maybe to join you because I guess the appealing thing is I never even considered an ambulance. But as long as I can work as long as I can work the wee woo lights and the siren, I'm in.

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That might get you in some trouble, Don. It might.

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We'll have some IVs of adult beverages lined up back here.

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Whoa, yeah, dude. That's

Comparisons To Gambler 500

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why we need to have Jeff involved. Right. And because everybody will want to wind up getting a ride in the ambulance, at least for a short one.

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Right. And I've had plenty of IVs in my life.

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Yeah. And and uh and Mars, and Mars. Um He can drive. He could drive, and we we could worry about you know, tires and curbs later.

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Well, that would that would help us make our time because we have to stop and change the tires after we hit the curbs. And we could get a hearse.

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A hearse would be another good one.

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The other good thing about this, Richard, is the fact that we can actually now do a live broadcast rolling down the street.

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Absolutely.

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And I'm thinking I'm thinking that this is something that we could work with uh maybe perhaps our uh our good friend John Gray over at Gulf Coast Auto Shield to sponsor us. And uh, you know, we could get a wrap on it, we could put all sorts of things on the side of it because there's a lot of billboard space on the side of it, and we need David to sit up in the back.

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You know, he can be sitting back there being the engineer.

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And let me tell you something about David, and uh you don't know this, but I will tell you that back when he and I worked together at a radio station, that he actually went on a ship, a passenger ship, and caught the ship outside of London and actually took the ship and did a live broadcast with uh the then uh Doug Johnson, the weatherman. And this was before you could keep the satellite and geop geographic. Yeah, everything all David managed to do

Hosts Plot An Ambulance Entry

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that. So if he can do that, he can do the Wrench Rally three and keep us on the air for days on end.

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So that now when does this start again, Ricky? Because I'm thinking with with all the stuff with, like you said, the AI and pulling things off. If you get up there maybe uh a week ahead of time and really scope out them 2550 cars and get a deal and hey, something under the table.

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Yeah, well, there are teams that have already purchased vehicles that are in storage in Detroit already. Uh found them on Facebook Marketplace, made the deal. They trust what the people are saying, they trust the vehicle is going to be there when they get there, and uh that's how the game works. So there's our vehicles that have been secured. Other people will show up the day of because they the thrill of the hunt is one thing, and the pressure of getting it back to inspection by 6 p.m. It's always fun. Um but yeah, so the other kicker for me this year is this is the 100th anniversary of Route 66.

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Right.

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So we get to do some of the Appalachian roads, and then we'll get to do some Route 66 tour as well. We'll drop down from uh Louisville, Kentucky, down to uh Hot Springs, Arkansas. Uh

Buying Early And Route 66 Centennial

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then we'll go into Possum Kingdom Lake and then into Bryan College Station. So some some great back roads, no interstate allowed. Interstate automatically gets points deducted. Um, even if you are behind, you're not allowed to take the interstate. That's not what we're here for.

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Why, why, why Bryan College Station? Is this a joke on the Aggies or something?

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No, just uh a new place to go. Uh there's some good roads around there that we enjoy, and I had some really good gimmick things for people to find there. And coming into Houston has proven to be challenging um at five o'clock on a Sunday. So we decided to go to Bryan and uh we'll terminate it there that night. We'll spend uh a bunch of us will spend the night there at

Route Plan And No-Interstate Rule

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the Stella Hotel, is where we're gonna end at. And uh it'll be a good ending. That's uh also Mike Satterfield's home with the Gentleman Racer, uh, where we run Grosspec Grand Prix out of, uh, which is also our Victoria event in April.

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So where where is the starting point in Detroit?

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Um so there's a couple old factories that I'm talking with. We've sent some emails to city uh management because there are abandoned. Um it's not like we need them very long, but we're trying to get some epic photos to come out of there. But there's a couple old factories that we're looking at.

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There's more than a couple, but yeah, this is what I've been told.

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Yeah,

Why End At Bryan–College Station

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so it's uh it should be an awesome time. Um, so much of this is uh you know made purely out of fun. That's what we're doing. And uh if we've got the opportunity to help people while we're having fun, it makes it an even better experience.

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All right, cool. I uh I I'm excited for this one. Now what's the dates again?

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Some of the back roads are crazy. Um February 25th will be the team meeting in Detroit. We will roll out that next morning, Thursday morning, the 26th.

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Um, I'm not gonna let Morris uh try to attempt to pronounce this, but the Washita Mountains, Route 66 influences, tribal nation regions, sun sunset arrival at Possum Kingdom Lake. That all speaks to us, and it just so happens to be on Saturday, February the 28th, uh Possum Kingdom Lake. Uh that would be the ultimate goal of getting there. Maybe perhaps we can speak with you while you're on the road if

Dates, Regions, And Final Stop

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you have cell service.

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Oh yeah, we'll have cell service. We're not that far off the main roads, but we are on the main roads.

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You could use this as a Valentine's gift to your loved one to say, hey, we're going to Detroit and we're going to be in a car rally at the end of the month. Yeah. Yeah. You do have a really good fight. And and we're going to go to the Wachita Mountains. Yeah. And we're starting in Detroit.

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And we're starting in Detroit.

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Yeah, I had a friend of mine that was uh uh inmate of the month at County in Detroit one time.

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Maid of the month.

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Inmate of the month.

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Oh, inmate. Inmate of the month.

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See where Michael I never won that award. Never.

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No, none of us do. But uh Jeff, Jeff knows people. I gotta go. So there's that. Well, this sounds like tons of fun. So is there a website or something you can go to and keep up with you guys?

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Yep. So you just go to my apexautoworks tx uh dot com and on there it'll have a little link that'll say wrench rally, and from there you apply. Uh we want to know who you are and what you're doing and uh why you're there because there are legal implications with what we're doing, and we can't get a bunch of Yahoos out there uh messing it up for the rest of us. So Yahoo!

How To Apply And Vetting Teams

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We apply it. I guess we're not invited. We're not. That's why we're out.

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Well, that's why we're postponing our our next uh trip with you guys till next year because we don't we don't want to be classified in the Yahoo department. Then you got the Chahua Chahua run. Yeah, the Chihuahua run. Well, Richard, best of luck to you. Um we will be talking to you, Mr. Morris. We ought to put that down on February 28th.

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Yeah, so well, 25th, February 25th, and then the 26th.

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I know, but the Saturday for the four-hour showcase, gotcha.

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Yeah, yeah, see what we can we can cook up something.

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Okay, all right. Well, best of luck, brother, and uh good luck on that ambulance run. We'll see you. Thank you. All right. You bet. Take care.

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Oh, that would be so much fun.

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Farewell To Richard Tomlin

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Jeff’s Motor Minute Q&A

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I've got questions and questions to start conversations about a car. Do you have a name for your car?

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No.

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No name? No. You got a name for your car? Okay, we're going to move on there. Uh if you could live the life of any professional motorsports driver, who would you trade places with? I'm thinking Mario Andretti for me.

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I was thinking Jay Leno, but he's not really a race car driver.

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Well, okay. Uh if you could add one single driving law across the nation, what would that rule be? And you would make it mandatory for the road. I suggest driving naked. Really? Yeah. What would you do?

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I don't I don't know. Vinyl feet. Leather feet? Drive naked. I don't I don't want to see most people naked.

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No. Even if it's just from the neck up. I don't know.

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If you have one person as a chauffeur, who would you hire for the job? And remember, they're naked. No, I'm just who would you hire to be a chauffeur?

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That would definitely make a difference in who I would hire.

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Um I would think Jeff Gordon would be a good chauffeur. Yeah. Because I remember I remember that uh I remember that video where he took that poor salesman on a race ride. And he started that trend of that too. That was good. I like that. What's your favorite car movie? Uh oh, Eastbound and Down. Loaded up and trucking. Okay. Mine would be Bullet.

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Uh I'd have to go with Bullet too. It's not really a car movie, but it's that car is exactly.

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But do you know, speaking of Bullet, do you know there was a movie called Seven Ups with Gene Hackman? It was about a New York cop and driving through the streets. The soundtrack of the Mustang and Bullet, all the shifting and all that stuff, was actually used in the movie. Movie Seven Ups. They just took that audio and put it in there. Yeah. And it's also been to several other movies as well. And the gentleman that drove the charger in the bullet movie, he was actually the stunt driver for that car, and he did other stunts as well with uh different movies.

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He worked with Steve McQueen a lot, a lot, a lot. Yeah, they were buddies.

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So anyway, so that's a motor minute. That was the same guy that uh went into the gas station and blew everything up and he died and all that. Yeah, yeah. Good stuff. Yep. We need we need that another new good car movie, don't we? You know, Gone in Sixty Seconds, that was a great movie. That was a good one. Yeah.

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Never really got into that. And the original Gumball Rally was pretty good. Then they hammed it up when they made uh too much stuff in it. Too many people.

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You talked about uh what was the movie you talked about? The the the Tulane Blacktop or something?

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No, no, no.

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Uh Eastbound and Down and Down. Yeah, we saw that movie when we were on the hot

Car Movies And Trivia

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rod tour. Yeah. We had to drive it. Yeah, very good. It was good. And Richard, uh Richard Tonlin needs to get a hold of them uh them boys out there and go on that rally. Okay.

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Get some cases of coors before you're at.

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I could do that too. That would be the yeah.

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When I was in high school, that was the big thing. It was because you could not buy coors in the state of Texas. And uh we went on a road trip, me and my buddies, my hot rod buddies, uh back in high school, we went on a road trip to Oklahoma, where Ross was from. We went up there, and we decided that Kansas wasn't that far away. So somebody made a run to Kansas and bought Coors beer and brought it back, put it in the bathtub with a lot of eyes. Never drank one of them.

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It's called bootlegging.

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Well, whatever. Yep. But we did that. All right, very good. Time now for this hour's car review. I had the opportunity, and it was a good opportunity, to drive a 2025 Ford Bronco. But it's just not an everyday regular Bronco. Although the Bronco

Don’s 2025 Bronco Strop Edition Review

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itself is really a cool vehicle, I will say that. Final assembly location, Michigan Assembly, Wayne, Michigan. You've been there? Driven by Mars, did you go to Michigan Assembly with me? At the time they were building Ford F-150 pickup trucks. Anyway, so this is where they build the Ford uh Bronco. Available trim levels, the base, the big bend, the outer banks, the Badlands, Heritage Edition, the Strope Edition, and the Raptor. I had the Strope Two-door Edition. Very special vehicle. I'll tell you about it in just a minute. Small SUV. This was the two-door version. It seats five people. Uh it's a red, white, and blue paint job. And it is patterned after the famous stroke fella that uh actually did the big rally stuff back in the day that made a name for the Ford Bronco, off-road stuff. And so they've kind of recreated that in many ways. Um, I was really hoping, as you can see here, exterior features and interior features. I draw the line through there. Why did I draw the line through there, Mark? Because I was going to have a great video that I was going to play that explained everything about Mr. Strope and the Strope Edition, and it had video on it, the whole nine yards. It was a five-minute long video. And I thought, well, this will be a great addition to my car review. Well, guess what? It's done. Thank you, Ford Motor Company, to putting it up on uh YouTube that we couldn't download it. Jacked up. So it's got a 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6 that turns out 330 horsepower, 415 pound feet of torque through a 10-speed automatic transmission. Till ratings $3,500, but uh 3,500 pounds, but that's not what you want it for. Uh 17 miles per gallon city, 18 on the highway, because it is a hot rod. Uh, it has a combined rating of 18. I got 18.4 miles per gallon over 342.8

Powertrain, MPG, And Drive Feel

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miles. What I liked, the power and the transmission work very well together. And most of the time, when I say something about the motor and the transmission, they don't talk to each other. But this one, oh yeah, baby, they got this one down. It's like I said with the Ford Maverick. You know, when it comes to Ford Motor Company, they know how to build pickup trucks. And this is kind of an extension to that. And this Strope Edition has all of the off-road features. Um, what could use improvement? Absolutely nothing. Love the paint job, got tons of thumbs up with the red, white, and blue paint scheme on this thing. Uh riding handling, not as bouncy as you'd think with this short wheelbase. Really? Yeah, it's not because the uh travel and the shocks and the springs is great, so we can handle that off-road bouncing stuff. Okay, okay. Okay. So lots of sp suspension travel. Um I want you to go to YouTube and look up Ford Bronco Strope Edition

Pricing, Rivals, And Takeaways

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because we can't play it for you here. Gee whit. It's not your fault. I'm not blaming you. Yeah. Yeah. So the media website that Ford has come up with for us media folks to use as a tool to show these things to you has been hijacked by somebody, uh, I guess that Ford contracted with. So I'm just griping uh and I've got a right to. Base trim price, $77,630. Okay. You're going, oh my God, that's huge. Uh price is tested $77,665. Now the base model Bronco price is $38,995. Got the goat mode, all that good stuff. Now, what are you going to compare it to? Obviously, Jeep Wrangler. It starts at $32,095. I thought I would go outside the box and look at some other vehicles that you may or may not have heard of because in this group of vehicles, I picked the Scout Traveler. Okay. Um, it doesn't come out until 2028. Um it's under $60,000, is what they're shooting for. My guess is two years out, they're not going to make that. That's an all-electric scout version called the Scout Traveler. You remember the name? Then we have the Subaru Outback, and you're going, well, how could he compare that to it? Well, you know, that uh off-road edition that they have, I think um I think it's a wilderness.

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Is that what they say? Subaru's pretty strong in that market.

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Yeah, it was $34,995. Uh we got tons of thumbs up with this thing, riding down the road, going into parking lots. Hey man, can I see that? Yes, you can. Um, the paint job resonates with everyone. And I would not have thought that, but boy, it does. And what Ford did was they took the paint job from the Strope family that did the racing

Closing Ads And Where To Listen

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back in the day, and they got real close to the same colors. And uh it's just a really cool vehicle.

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And it depends on where you put those colors, how you put that on the body of the vehicle to make it look good, because sometimes putting that together you can make it look too busy and gaudy.

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Yeah, well, it it was really cool and uh really enjoyed it. And uh, thank the Ford Motor Company and Ken Peabody in Dallas for sending that to me because I had lots of fun with that and um unfortunately couldn't play the video for you. You know what? We need we need to really try and get that video somehow, some way, and play it on a random show coming up because it's that good. Gives you the whole story behind the strokes. All right. Hey, if you'd like to get in touch with us, send us an email. The address here is info at inwheeltime.com. We are back after this quick break. You 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. Apple or Android, NWL Time Podcast can be found everywhere, on the stream and through downloads. Whether you're on the road or at home and Jones in for a different kind of car talk show, give In Wheel Time a try. Honest new car reviews, fun, informative interviews with real car people, weekly automotive news, features like Jeff's car culture and Mike's driving destinations, all on In Wheel Time. Check us out on Sirius XM Podcasts, iHeartRadio, or while you're shopping on Amazon through Amazon Music. Mm-hmm. InWheeltime.com has a list, and we know you love lists. 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, iHeart Podcast, Podcast Addict, TuneIn, Pandora, and Amazon Music. Keep listening, and we'll see you soon.