Crafting a Brighter Tomorrow with Hands-On Learning

Foundation Supporting Youth in Agriculture

Speaker 1 0:01

Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast From the Good Grub and Gears Car Show and Fall Festival in Stevenson Park in Friendswood , Texas . It's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show presented by the Space City Corvette Club and sponsored by Emmons Autoflex in Webster . Thank you Ahead . We've got another guest here in the in-wheel time remote studio . Keep calling it booth , it's not , it's a studio , Don't you think , with all the wires and all the crap that we've got sitting around , you'd think that we're going to go to Mars .

Speaker 2 0:36

Hey , hey , hey , hey , get it Mars . We're going to go to Mars for the next one , I'm with you . Take us away , Michael .

Speaker 1 0:42

No , so at any rate , we have a guest . Mr Mars is going to introduce him .

Speaker 4 0:47

Yeah , joining us now is Mr Scott Gordon . Yes , sir , he's got a place sitting back over here with a Cole Gordon , the helping hand , right .

Speaker 5 0:57

Yes , sir .

Speaker 4 0:58

Yeah , AJ mentioned that earlier , so could you kind of tell us what that is ? Cole ?

Speaker 5 1:04

yeah , explain this gordon right , it is foundation that was founded roughly five years ago last two weeks ago and it was in honor of my son , who was killed in a car wreck sorry thank you , uh , cole was , I cannot imagine something more horrible than that , as we've said many times is most people never get to see what their kids accomplish .

Speaker 5 1:25

When we've seen the love and reward , people never get to see what their kids accomplish . When we've seen the love and reward and people's respect and the things that people have done in honor of Cole , you get a feeling of what your kid actually did . Most of us hope that you never get to see it . Believe me , I hope nobody has to , but inevitably sometimes it does happen . He had an accident hauling animals for four H and FFA children bringing back from Northwest Texas and they say lost control . I say fell asleep about 5 o'clock in the morning in Navasota . Houston News covered it to the nth degree . Friends would be in the community that you see here today . It would be another kid in a big city , but he was a big kid in a little city and uh , it was . It was blessing and it was very uh . It helped us get through it and then we founded a nonprofit .

Speaker 5 2:15

Uh , because we believe kids need the four H , we need the FFA back in back in these kids and the biggest thing I've wanted or saw is kids with a lack of self-confidence , and people always and it's human nature to walk and tell you what you can't do , you know if you walk up to somebody .

Speaker 5 2:32

I can't run that computer , I can't do a show . Tell them what you can do . We'll work on what you can't . And that's what kids don't get generally is they feel like you know , I can't do that , I shouldn't go , I shouldn't go talk to those guys , they don't want me and you know , if you think about it , everyone's on their phones and they're all on their computers . Well , that's true , and they're not .

Speaker 1 2:50

Although I can't relate to that . I've got daughters and they're on their phones a lot , but not like some I see .

Speaker 5 2:57

And FFA and 4-H are great responsibility builders and character of children and young adults . I should call them . We've got a half a dozen going in this weekend . Brazoria County Fair kicks off today , so we've got animals .

Speaker 1 3:11

We weren't invited , but we'll go Come on , let's go .

Speaker 5 3:22

Don't threaten me with a good time . There is the shows and the majors and the Houston Livestock Show where the kids get to go and walk on green shavings and it's a big , big deal . And you've got homeschooled kids that never don't have a barn and they don't have or take field trips to a barn and they don't have sports places , they don't have all that and there's a big niche of kids that don't .

Speaker 5 3:38

The parents don't put them in public schools . I was talking to one of our Texas officials , or now United States official , and it's north of a third of all kids don't go to public schools and that's across the United States or just Texas . I think it's Texas and you can see it when they have shootings and things in those schools that you kind of get it to be well , maybe not quite yet understood , yeah so we have a lot of homeschool kids that wouldn't have the opportunity to make other friends .

Speaker 1 4:07

So do they FFA and 4-H ? Do they allow kids that are homeschooled into their organization ?

Speaker 5 4:15

FFA is tied to your high schools and school systems . So if they're not in the schools , no , now 4-H , you can do anything you want . So we have the helping hand 4-H that we founded , so kids can I don't understand .

Speaker 1 4:26

Okay , so it's tied to a high school .

Speaker 2 4:28

What if you don't go to a high school , the revenue that a school makes Well , and the teachers and the facilities .

Speaker 4 4:34

But you know , I have a cousin . She homeschooled all ten of her kids literally Ten . Ten . She had two sets of twins . So you know it wasn't the plan but she homeschooled them . She's had four of them who have already graduated college . You know a couple of them went to the seminary but she found football and sports , baseball , that it's a homeschooled child . They could go participate and she made sure that they did all that they could . So it's very important what you're doing .

Speaker 5 5:06

We were blessed with income . We had lots of people help donate to it in the beginning . As soon as Cole passed , del Papa Distributing is a big one , carbock Beer in Houston they actually made Cole his own beer . It's Love Street Light in the store , but it will have cole's logo on it eventually , and you know things that by the way , just to interject , yes , I did go to the love street light circus and feel good machine .

Speaker 1 5:33

It was an actual place in houston , texas did you know that it's over by uh ? It's downtown yeah , yeah , okay , he's got a tattoo , oh boy yeah , you don't want to know where it is , though , anyway , go ahead .

Speaker 5 5:44

So we bought , uh , we had someone step up and help me as a silent partner , a business partner , whatever , and we bought 13 acres in alvin , just out of the friendswood line . Over here we built a 18 000 20 000 square foot barn and it was full . I mean within . We're only five years old . We did that three years ago . We outgrew it in 18 months . That many kids needed a place to do From sixth , seventh , eighth grade . You know high school , you can do what you want , but those juniors , don't get in it .

Speaker 5 6:16

And once they get to high school they got cars and they're working on their go-fast cars and all the mechanics and all the things they want to do . And then you get football and sports and band and boyfriends and girlfriends . They're gone , yeah .

Speaker 4 6:28

They're not going to get into it . So when they're younger you get a better chance to at least teach them something and it's a little bit easier for them to learn the responsibility and things because they're not quite so distracted , they're a little more focused . They can learn better .

Speaker 5 6:42

And we want the parents around you know the more the parents help them . We say it's on the kid , but it's not families feeding animals , but it is the kid and the parents . Hey , let's go to this show . Hey , I want to go watch this person . He's really good and they find something that they like in it and it sticks with them and you know , just like football sticks with people , but how many people play football out of all the kids that go through high school ? What a tenth of 1% .

Speaker 5 7:05

Maybe , and animals . Everybody has a chance to do it . You do it in college . They have show teams and professional drivers that take them around .

Speaker 1 7:13

I watch more reels with animals in it than anything else . Yeah , makes sense . I mean I do On my Facebook feed . That's what I watch .

Speaker 5 7:21

You've got animals , you've got it on your funniest bloopers yeah On . Tv Everyone wants to see the video with the cats and the dogs and the animals . And these kids work really hard . They're there every morning , every night , a couple hours . Every session that they're there they have to raise their own animal . They have to pay for it .

Speaker 4 7:38

Yeah , that's where you develop that work ethic that they can use the rest of their life , correct ?

Speaker 5 7:43

And so we built that barn . And then we were blessed from Leeward Energy , a solar company that came in and through the Brazoria County Commissioner's Court donated enough money to build another 18,000-square-foot building Jeez . And then we've had remarkable donors . Being a nonprofit , one company donated the entire electrical install Davidson Electric , wholesale Electric donated every light bulb , wire , nut , conduit , everything non-profit . One company donated the entire electrical install davidson electric , uh , wholesale electric donated every light bulb , wire , nut , conduit , everything . Every in 18 wheelers showed up with stuff .

Speaker 1 8:12

That car right there has got some wire nuts in it , mainly behind the wheel yeah yeah , including the one behind the loose nut .

Speaker 5 8:21

I want to know about this . Oh , oh boy . Well , we're blessed that we knew Tracy Bird . Cole was actually pretty good friends with him . He could knock on his door at his motorhome and he'd let him in . And he called and asked us hey , I've got a couple dates . I promised you I'd do one , and this is Cole's five-year anniversary . And he said Tracy Bird said I'll come play a concert for you and we'll do a full show , you and we'll do a full show , and we'll do the whole bit . And and then we called the flight museum over in webster , the lone star flight museum and fabulous they made they made a little uh deal with us .

Speaker 5 8:51

If we would help them through our cooking part of the organization , they would donate the entire facility so we go do a little , it's like you know , you scratch my back , I'll scratch yours right ? We know about that , that's the old handshake deals and you don't have to have your firstborn .

Speaker 4 9:07

Yeah , all your financials .

Speaker 5 9:08

Yeah , exactly , and so we're going to play a concert January 18th . He's coming in . We're going to have a big live auction , silent auction , open bar , sit-down meal . What day is a week ? Saturday night .

Speaker 1 9:22

It's a Saturday night .

Speaker 5 9:24

It'll be a fun deal . I'm going to get with the Corvette guys and see if they want to bring their cars out and put them in the building with us too that would be nice .

Speaker 1 9:32

We'd be more than happy to let you see , the in-wheel time machine .

Speaker 5 9:35

Yeah , let's do it . Okay , I think it'd be fun .

Event Information and Youth Ag Mechanics

Speaker 1 9:39

So how do you get tickets to the event and find out more information .

Speaker 5 9:42

Cole's wwwcolegordonfoundationcom , and the Facebook is Cole Gordon Help at Hand , and my phone number is on everything , so it's 713-823-5989 . There's several different ways to get us . If you pull up Help at Hand on Google , it'll bring you to the Help at Hand Ranch .

Speaker 2 10:04

So are you over here in a booth or just your car ?

Speaker 5 10:07

No , we have a . On the other side of the ag there's more to 4-H and FFA .

Speaker 2 10:12

There's actually a culinary side to it , so they can , folks can actually donate to that to get a shirt or a hat or merches over there .

Speaker 5 10:19

Merch . And yeah , there's a full culinary side and all kinds of things for the kids , so we have a full class where they can come get their ServSafe in our commercial kitchen . Really , we have a full commercial kitchen , basically donated most of it by Bucky's . Beaver from Bucky's stepped in and helped us quite a bit . He's a big supporter and believer in helping kids . You know he built that multi-million dollar facility at Texas A&M so he believes in helping the next generation , which we all should .

Speaker 4 10:49

Sure yeah , we do , we do .

Speaker 1 10:53

We do . Matter of fact , we've got a big car show next weekend out at Spring Branch those kids that are in the automotive program out there and they're going to put on a big car show and they've invited us to come out there . So we get it .

Speaker 5 11:10

I'm going to do one , like you would do for everybody on the auto side . We're getting ready to start . When I find a donor to help us with a building , I want to put a 1,600 , 1,800-square-foot building up .

Speaker 1 11:24

Ag Mechanics and get kids using their hands , and I know that you're a part of the rodeo and you know that they've got a whole Ag Mechanic competition Correct , and , if anybody , I was out there for 20 years and I thoroughly enjoyed my time out there .

Speaker 5 11:39

Were you on that committee .

Speaker 1 11:41

No , I was not .

Speaker 5 11:42

Gus Smith was the one that helped run that the ag mechanics .

Speaker 1 11:46

He was a good friend , I'll tell you to see those kids and do that ag mechanic thing you're going to go .

Speaker 4 11:50

What is ag ? I'm envisioning tractors .

Speaker 5 11:53

Well , there's that . There's that . They teach welding . They teach how to put in trailer lights . They might build a trailer hay hauler . They might build something to haul a piece of a tractor .

Speaker 4 12:04

Farm and ranch Farm and ranch ag Repair of equipment .

Speaker 5 12:07

So anything that like ranch hand is maybe a better word , but it's ag mechanics . I know some places I don't know if Houston still does it , but they would take , like our friends at Kubota that help us on our place from Lansdowne Moody , they would sabotage a tractor and make somebody go fix it . Yeah , figure out what's wrong with it .

Speaker 1 12:26

I thought that that was well , at least back in my day , when I was out there at the rodeo . They had a competition . They did and they would sabotage the tractor and it was up to the ag mechanic team , from whatever school it was , to find out what the problem was and get it running . Or it was all by the clock .

Speaker 2 12:42

And it could be anything from a fuse to maybe a wiring harness to a pinhole .

Speaker 5 12:46

Anything A vacuum line and they . But at Rodeo , you're familiar , they gave them those great big snap-on boxes . That was their trophy , yeah .

Speaker 4 12:54

Oh wow .

Speaker 5 12:54

So they got you know five $10,000 snap-on toolboxes for their classroom or their rag mechanics program . That's what we're doing next . I got a lot of people that want kids to . Not all kids are going to go to college . Right , and just accept it .

Speaker 2 13:08

Well , you know and you look at what the colleges are offering nowadays too , and how much it costs .

Speaker 1 13:12

Yeah , that's it . Oh man , yeah A lot . Thank you so much for coming by . It was a pleasure and an honor to talk to you . Thank you and sorry for your loss , and just chalk this up as another one for Cole .

Speaker 5 13:27

Make lemonade out of lemons , that's it .

Speaker 1 13:30

Thanks again , thank y'all .

Speaker 1 13:31

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Speaker 1 14:00

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Speaker 1 15:59

Welcome back to the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show . I want to take just a couple of seconds here to talk to you about Emmons Autoplex , our sponsor here today at the Good Grub and Gears Car Show and Fall Festival in Stevenson Park in Friendswood . And you know it's funny , friends and friends and friends . And somehow or another , david connected yeah , connected with the Emmons brothers at Emmons Autoplex and wound up over the years has bought six cars . Six cars , yeah , six .

Speaker 4 16:33

So how did that ?

Speaker 6 16:33

come about , did I tell you ?

Speaker 1 16:35

about Emmons , or was it the end of the block ?

Speaker 6 16:37

or what . I found them when they were in Pasadena before they moved to Webster .

Speaker 2 16:41

Wow .

Speaker 6 16:42

It's a used car .

Pre-Owned Car Dealership Highlight

Speaker 6 16:44

I was looking at them online and found very clean , very reasonable , low miles , low miles . Started buying them for the stepkiddos . Great cars , you don't have to haggle on the price .

Speaker 1 16:56

That's right , there's no haggling .

Speaker 6 16:58

That's the price of the car , it's the price you want it , you get it , you drive it , boom , you're done .

Speaker 2 17:03

And then you come back for your second one .

Speaker 1 17:04

I think the most amazing one was the Honda Odyssey van , and it is a brown color and it looks like Grandma would take it to the grocery store . I'm sorry , david .

Speaker 2 17:17

No , I like it , david . I don't know where he's going with this , but this car .

Speaker 1 17:20

I swear when he brought it to me and showed it to me . I'm going , david , this looks brand new .

Speaker 2 17:26

Yeah .

Speaker 1 17:27

And it basically was . It has as many miles on it as that car does right now 35,000 miles .

Speaker 6 17:34

I didn't want a van , I was shopping for a car for Ryan , which we found and got a different car there , but it was so clean , I mean it looked like it was off the showroom floor .

Speaker 4 17:43

You couldn't pass it up , yeah .

Speaker 6 17:44

I couldn't pass it up . I figured if I ever need to pack in the family and go somewhere .

Speaker 2 17:49

Which you did .

Speaker 1 17:57

You drove it to michigan on vacation . Yeah , drove it all the way up there . No problem starts every time if both air conditioners work leather loaded , you know . So if you want to , know more about emmons autoplex .

Speaker 2 18:02

You can , just you can , uh emmons autoplex . If we're talking about they are .

Speaker 2 18:06

Uh , I lost my place , okay , well store hours are monday through friday from 7 am to 7 9 am to 7.30 pm , saturdays from 6.30 , and they're closed on Sunday . But they're conveniently located for the Webster area Pasadena , dickinson , pearland . They've got over 750 vehicles like David talked about . They have financing available . They'll have those options on it . Wide variety of pre-owned . My granddaughter got one from them as well , loves the car , so I encourage you . My granddaughter got one from them as well , loves the car , so I encourage you . They're located at 528 West Nassau Parkway , just south of I-45 on the Gulf Freeway . Emmons Auto Plex in Webster , pre-owned at its finest .

Speaker 1 18:40

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Speaker 2 19:12

Well , they're going to have to stop by because I'm going to be there . Well , that's true .

Speaker 1 19:15

Yeah , that's right . This time he's got his pants on . There you go , okay , and I know that you told me your name when I first met you , and it is .

Speaker 4 19:24

Austin Davis . Yes , sir , pull that closer to your mouth .

Speaker 1 19:28

Austin Davis . You know there's a couple of famous people in that name .

Speaker 3 19:33

Oh , really yeah , All right .

Speaker 2 19:37

Clive Davis is the one I said yeah , and Stephen F Austin , but at any rate , mr Texas A&M .

Speaker 1 19:45

What year are you in there ?

Speaker 3 19:46

in Aggieland . I'm a sophomore .

Speaker 1 19:48

A sophomore .

Speaker 3 19:48

Yes , sir .

Speaker 1 19:49

So you've got a few more years , about two and a half to go . And what are you majoring in ? What do you hope to get a diploma in ?

Speaker 3 19:56

I'm an ag economics major and I think I like focus in finance and real estate .

Speaker 1 20:03

So you could tell me how much a bale of hay is and how many bales of hay I need for that group of cows . I got over there and I've got , you know , all of that kind of stuff . Yes , sir , sure thing , Good answer , you know when he met me and I was introduced to him , he goes to Texas A&M and I said hey Roll , tide , nice to meet you .

Speaker 4 20:25

Yeah , go Blues , I'll throw in a Boomer Sooner for you and that'll allow you to be surrounded .

Speaker 3 20:29

Hey , I'm a Sooner fan today , as long as they beat Texas there you go , Texas is number one aren't they ? They rated number one . They ain't played in the RTS yet they're not going to admit that .

Speaker 1 20:39

But anyway , he was talking to me about his vehicle and it's on the front of his shirt there . Is it a Bronco ?

Speaker 3 20:47

It's an 89 Bronco 89 Bronco yes sir , and it's got some longhorns on the front I was going to say what the ?

Speaker 4 20:53

What .

Speaker 1 20:54

What .

Speaker 2 20:55

What's the longhorns going on .

Speaker 4 20:57

You've got them going the wrong way . You need to get them down , dude . Either that , or at least they're sawed off or something .

Speaker 1 21:01

But no .

Speaker 2 21:02

Not yet . Not yet Not yet so . There's oh yeah .

Speaker 4 21:08

Do you know him . Ask him where he came from to get here .

Speaker 1 21:12

Where did you come to get here ?

Speaker 3 21:13

I drove from Aggieland and College Station all the way back home here To be here just for the show .

Speaker 2 21:19

What you needed to do . You had your laundry done and maybe your car , so that's why you came in . Oh yeah , I gave it to .

Speaker 4 21:24

Mom , hey , I'm hungry Since I'm here yeah .

Speaker 3 21:27

Oh yeah , oh gosh .

Speaker 2 21:30

So you live in a dorm , in a home or you got to share it ? Yeah , he lives in a prison cell .

Speaker 3 21:35

Yeah , pretty much On the quad . 50 square feet . Yeah , Pretty much shared between it's 100 square feet , but it's shared between me and my roommate .

Speaker 1 21:44

So I get about 50 realistically . But you know what it's an experience you'll never forget .

Speaker 3 21:48

Oh yeah .

Speaker 2 21:50

Enjoy every moment . It's great . What is her name ? Your roommate ?

Speaker 3 21:55

Her name is Jake .

Speaker 4 21:58

Okay , is he from Allstate or State Farm or wherever ? Not , yet that's the State Farm guy State .

Speaker 2 22:04

Farm .

Speaker 3 22:04

He's looking for that degree .

Speaker 2 22:06

Oh my God , no , not yet . Is he in the ag program as well ?

Speaker 3 22:10

No , he's a history major for now . History major , oh yeah .

Speaker 6 22:16

So in other words .

Speaker 1 22:16

he can either be a school teacher , or he can teach something that , or a politician or a politician maybe he can tell me a lot about my historic truck .

Speaker 3 22:25

So there you go there you go Quite a bit .

Speaker 6 22:28

How did you get that truck ? Where did you get that ?

Speaker 3 22:30

It was my dad's second car . My grandparents bought it for him , so then I took it over , once I needed one . And you haven't tore it up yet . Don't tell my dad , it's been a few ditches .

Speaker 2 22:41

How many times ?

Speaker 3 22:43

Twice , I've fallen into two washouts .

Speaker 1 22:48

And it's caught on fire twice . That's what they call them now washouts .

Speaker 4 22:53

And he fell into it , I fell into it .

Speaker 2 22:56

He sucked them right into that ditch .

Speaker 1 22:59

Austin it's great to have you here .

Speaker 3 23:01

Yes , sir , thank you for having me .

Speaker 1 23:02

Yeah , you bet Anything . You want to tell our listening audience .

Speaker 2 23:05

Global except for . Russia Folks back up in Agulia .

Speaker 3 23:08

Yeah , yeah , oh yeah , everybody needs to turn out . Come down here , beautiful weather . It is Got a cloud in the sky .

Speaker 2 23:14

There's no clouds in the sky . Oh yeah , anyway , amazing . Thank you for stopping by .

Speaker 3 23:19

Thank you for having me .

Speaker 1 23:24

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Speaker 1 23:54

Nice you know what that does to your credit Well , in some cases yes .

Speaker 1 23:58

Brian Olson , whose lawsuit said he was explicit with Napleton's Arlington Heights Chrysler , dodge , jeep , ram about wanting to pay cash and sought class action status for the past five years for US consumers who experienced a similar unauthorized hard credit check by the group . Hard formal credit checks can affect a customer's credit score and are typically performed when a consumer submits a credit application to finance a vehicle which he did not . He was paying cash for it and he got hosed on his credit . For instance , he's going to go try and buy a house . Well , wait a minute . You just had a credit check . Now we're going to charge you a higher interest rate now that you had a credit check ?

Speaker 4 24:40

Well , not only on your house , but your car insurance .

Speaker 1 24:43

Yeah everything .

Speaker 2 24:44

Everything comes up . Yeah , yeah .

Speaker 4 24:45

Yeah , and it's ridiculous that just somebody does something simple like that .

Speaker 2 24:54

You something simple like that . You're even thinking about getting another credit card . Save your money and pay cash . You get better deals .

Speaker 1 24:57

Have you heard about this thing from Honda ? Oh , tell us . Honda has finally revealed the business plan and technology behind the O Series .

Speaker 1 25:06

It's a lineup of next-generation electric vehicles for American drivers , promising seven battery-powered models with all-wheel drive , spunky acceleration , 300 miles of driving range and eyes-off automated driving . We've been waiting and Honda has done absolutely nothing . In all of this buildup of electric vehicles , Nobody at Honda has stepped up to say what are you going to do ? Well , they finally said it's going to be the O , and I encourage you to check it out . There's not a lot written about it . They had a press release , and so that's all I can tell you , Because I don't know anything either , other than what I just brought you . There's that Ford Motor Company become one of the latest companies to reevaluate how it approaches diversity , equity and inclusion in a testy public atmosphere where such initiatives have come under fire . Not only have they gone in that way , there's other dealership groups that have gone that way , and I also wanted to bring to you this news .

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I think I told you that Volkswagen has gone away at the Port of Houston . Well , they are aiming to simplify vehicle shipping logistics for a large swath of its US dealers while utilizing a new port facility along the Texas Gulf Coast . The shipping hub in Freeport will import and process up to 140,000 vehicles annually by VW , Audi , Bentley , Lamborghini and Porsche . The facility at Port Freeport will be used for only importing vehicles . It's a huge , beautiful , brand-new facility . If you're into that sort of thing , look it up down there in Freeport . I just thought that it was interesting and I thought that everybody wanted to know Yep .

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So there's that All right . It's time now for us to wrap it up here , and we are going to wrap up officially today's show from Stevenson Park and the beautiful Grub and Gears Car Show and Fall Festival right after a quick break .

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The In-Wheel Time Fall Remote Tour continues Saturday , october 12th , from 830 to 3 at the Good Grub and Gears Car Show and Fall Festival hosted by the Space City Corvette Club . See up to 300 cars under the trees in beautiful Stevenson Park in Friendswood . Competitors register online . Proceeds benefit Texas EquiSearch . Showgoers are free and will see all makes and models of the finest rides at this judged event . It's Saturday , october 12th , 830 to 3 . At the Good Grub and Gears Car Show and Fall Festival in Stevenson Park in Friendswood , sponsored by Emmons Autoplex on FM 528 near the Gulf Freeway in Webster , the In-Wheel Time Fall Tour continues Saturday , october 19th at the fourth annual Blast to the Past Car Show . It's fun for the family with classic cars , food vendors and the school museum will be open for tours . It all happens at 9016 Westview Drive in Houston . Discount registration online at springbranchbearscom . Slash car show or $30 the day of Spectators are free . Sponsored by VFW Post 8790 and its auxiliary , working to vitalize and unite the Houston community and its veterans . No veteran is left behind . See you October 19th . No veteran is left behind . See you October 19th .

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Well , that's it for this week's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show . Be sure and check out our website , inwheeltimecom . Follow us on Facebook , give us a like , tell your car friends about us and share our stuff if you would . We'll keep you connected to all things automotive all week long . Reach out to us 24-7 via email . Info at inwheeltimecom is our address . We like car picks . So send us some of your car with the description and any info you want to pass along and we'll feature it on a future show .

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Heitzman , I'm Don Armstrong .

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Special thanks today to the Emmons Brothers at Emmons AutoPlex in Webster for sponsoring today's show . Next week we'll be at the Back to the Past Car Show , located at 9016 West View at the site of the Old Spring Branch High School . A live broadcast of one from 10 to 1 Central Time . Thanks for joining us today . Be safe out there and have a great weekend . 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 InWheelTimecom 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 .