How Racing And Recalls Shape The Cars We Trust

School Bell Banter And Set Up

Don Armstrong 0:05

It's the award-winning in-wheel time car talk show. Just ahead, recalls, and what the auction car sold for. It's a fun game we play. If you've not witnessed it before, I invite you to stay tuned. We always have a lot of fun doing it. Later, Jeff has the racing calendar. Mars has this week in auto history, and I'll have the stories making automotive news headlines. Howdy, along with Mike Out of This World Mars in Studio 2, Jeff Zeken, we always need more Jeff Zeken. And Engineer David Ainsley.

Jeff Dziekan 0:36

David.

Don Armstrong 0:38

I'm Don Armstrong. Thank you very much for joining us today. Pardon my cough. But at any rate. Mr. Mars, let me ask you something. Yes, sir. When you were in school.

Jeff Dziekan 0:55

Oof.

Don Armstrong 0:56

I know it was a long, long time ago, and you probably don't remember, but I want you to kind of go back.

Jeff Dziekan 1:01

Specifically third grade the fourth time.

Don Armstrong 1:03

Yeah, yeah, that one. Third grade, and it's the end of the day. It's 329. Okay? School's out at 3:30. Were you that kid that I can remember going, oh teacher, I had one more thing before we go home for the day. Were you that guy that all of the class wanted to get up and kill?

Mike Marrs 1:26

I'm holding the door open for everybody else, is what I'm doing. Yeah.

Don Armstrong 1:30

Yeah. And then over there at the door going, oh teacher, oh, I have one more question.

Jeff Dziekan 1:36

We're just we're just picking on you, Mike. He's picking on you, buddy.

Don Armstrong 1:41

That's all.

Jeff Dziekan 1:42

He's speechless. We left him speechless.

Don Armstrong 1:44

And he's got it, he's got his head tilted to one side, like what did I do?

Mike Marrs 1:49

No, I know. I know what you're talking about. I'm just not going to respond in public like this.

Don Armstrong 1:56

But I noticed that you're not laughing.

Jeff Dziekan 1:58

I know. Hey, we've all been there. We used to do that in meetings. Crazy. Anyways, fun times. Mike was still rubbing his chin.

Don Armstrong 2:21

He wants to kill me, I think. I didn't know that it would upset him that bad.

Fresh Recalls And Why They Matter

Don Armstrong 2:26

Okay, so we're gonna do some recalls so everybody can settle down. Um incorrect front wheel hub bolts. That's specifically the front wheel hub bolts. Okay, I know. Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, Suburban 1500, Tahoe, UConn, UConn XL for 25 and 26. It's being recalled for the bolts.

Mike Marrs 2:52

I I don't understand. A bolt screws in, you bolt it in to something, or you put a nut on the end of it. How do you do that on a car and send it out the assembly line?

Don Armstrong 3:03

Well, I don't know either, because you know you would think that all of that was inspected. Well, you see it wouldn't work.

Mike Marrs 3:11

How do you if it doesn't matter?

Don Armstrong 3:12

Well we're not talking about the nut, it'd be the bolts, so those are those are pressed in usually. So you're talking about a wheel stud, the stud for the wheel.

Mike Marrs 3:20

Well, no.

Don Armstrong 3:22

Well, yes, I don't know. That's well, that's yes, that's what but here in this, they're calling it an incorrect front wheel hub bolts. Those would be the bolts that are pressed into the rotor of the front brake. They're pressed in.

Jeff Dziekan 3:36

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 3:36

Okay? Well, what would make them incorrect? The wrong size, or if the nut screwed on it okay, you would think it would be the length that would be the issue.

Jeff Dziekan 3:47

It could be, but then you would notice that right off when you're putting it on. Or maybe because they're pressed in. Is it the right uh PSI, the right pressure going on?

Don Armstrong 3:55

You're giving it way too much thought, but um, whatever.

Mike Marrs 3:57

Well, just confusing, but go ahead. Just take it out. I don't own a cat. I don't own an escalate, so it matters not to me.

Don Armstrong 4:03

Uh vehicle roll away risk, Ford Escape 2026, and the Lincoln Corsair roll away risk. Martha, did I just see the car leave the driveway and run down the hill? Yeah. Over there at Mars House, right in front. We're visiting Mars.

Mike Marrs 4:20

We're right by the window.

Don Armstrong 4:21

Yeah, and we're is somebody driving that? Wait, there's nobody there.

Jeff Dziekan 4:25

So is that your car going down the street? Exactly. Is it the Ford Escape in the what?

Don Armstrong 4:29

Corsair. The LinkedIn of Corsairs on the same platform or anything. Yeah, they stay, they go down the same assembly line. Yeah. Uh Ford Bronco.

Jeff Dziekan 4:37

Uh-oh.

Don Armstrong 4:38

For 21 and 22. Now, this is a problem that they've recalled before. The hard top may crack and detach. Oh. They've had problems with these tops on these Broncos. Now, not the Bronco sport, but the Bronco, the one that comes off. Right. And I remember the the first recall was the fact that the color was fading.

Jeff Dziekan 4:56

The gel coat or whatever they call that. Yeah.

Don Armstrong 4:58

I I don't know how they did it, but whatever.

Jeff Dziekan 5:00

I'm interested to think that what parts of the country? Is it colder winter areas? Is it uh areas where it can delaminate like in Arizona? I mean, that's they don't give that information.

Don Armstrong 5:13

Sunbaked. They've had nothing but problems with those tops. Uh seatbelt warning system malfunction. Land Rover, Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, and Range Rover V Lar for 2026.

Jeff Dziekan 5:25

Is that the electric one? The VLR?

Don Armstrong 5:27

I couldn't tell you. I don't know. I'm not I'm not up to my up to parlour.

Jeff Dziekan 5:31

Yeah, you're up to here with your electric, hey. Yeah.

Don Armstrong 5:33

Hey. Rear view camera may display distorted or blank image. Wouldn't it be funny if they put some naked woman in there? Yeah.

Jeff Dziekan 5:41

And all of a sudden, clown pictures or something.

Don Armstrong 5:44

Something, yeah.

Jeff Dziekan 5:45

Well, people do that. They put pictures behind it, and then when their wives or girlfriends put it in reverse, that scary picture pops up. Is that what it is?

Don Armstrong 5:52

Well, anyway, the rear view camera may display a distorted or blank image. Uh Acura ZDX and Honda Prologue, 24 to 25 model years. Airbag inflator may rupture. That's not good. Hyundai Elantra and Elantra GT 2015 to 2016. And the Hyundai Ellantra hybrid, 24 to 26. Hybrid power control unit may overheat. They didn't say it would catch fire, but it can overheat.

Jeff Dziekan 6:17

Get pretty warm.

Don Armstrong 6:18

Loose rear suspension fasteners in the Hyundai Ionic 5 and Ionic 9 for 25 and 26 model years. Here's a bunch more. Forward collision avoidance system may activate the brakes unexpectedly.

Jeff Dziekan 6:32

Oh, that's not good.

Don Armstrong 6:34

No. Mars, so you're doing 70 on your uh freeway entrance ramp test that you that you're well well known for, and all of a sudden the brakes go, you're not going any further. Uh-huh. You hope and pray that nobody is behind you.

Jeff Dziekan 6:51

Exactly. Now, you have that I have that feature where you back up and there's a the sensor, the seat vibrates and all that if you're getting close to something or the lake.

Don Armstrong 6:59

This ain't that.

Jeff Dziekan 6:59

No, I know. But if when I back out of my garage and it's raining, my car will actually dead stop because the rain is hitting the sensors. Uh-huh. And it's it's scary. It's scary as heck because you're backing up in a nice, comfortable one mile an hour and all of a sudden it locks up.

Don Armstrong 7:14

Well, this forward collision avoidance system uh is now functioning on the Hyundai Santa Cruz Tucson, Tucson hybrid, Tucson plug-in hybrid, 25 and 26 mile years. Wheelchair restraint retractor may not lock. Oh, look, there goes Aunt Martha right through the windshield. Ford Odyssey and Ford Terra Transit, whatever that is. And the Toyota Tundra for 2024. Debris in the engine may cause a stall.

Jeff Dziekan 7:41

Debris in the engine.

Don Armstrong 7:43

Debris, that's what it says. Debris in the engine.

Jeff Dziekan 7:46

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 7:47

Okay, so are you ready to run down the Yeah.

Hemmings Sold Car Price Game

Don Armstrong 7:52

So Mars pointed out to me. I see I said it's complicated the way that we do this, but boy's kind of to be.

Mike Marrs 7:59

No. We can't do it simple.

Don Armstrong 8:01

Mars pointed out to me after I sent him the sold car roundup this week that the prices are all wrong. I'm going, well, not to my knowledge. So and he starts quoting all this other stuff, and I'm going, I can't go with all that. They're close, let me put it that way. But what I get from Hemings is what we're going to go with today. So, first up. So we can make up our own prices on this? No, we can't. This is what they sold for. So, first up, on the sold car roundup, uh, everybody get ready to chime in. Your guess as to what the car sold for. Oh, this, ladies and gentlemen, is the biggest 1959 Cadillac Series 75. This is as big as they come, ladies and gentlemen. So, how much do you think that this beauty sold for?

Jeff Dziekan 8:48

175.

Don Armstrong 8:50

175 is what Jeff.

Mike Marrs 8:53

$175? Yeah.

Don Armstrong 8:56

I think he's thinking. It's gorgeous. It is. It looks like it is an all-original, even with the wide whites, everything about it. Look at the size of those fins. Yeah. How much do you think that this car sold for on the Hemings sold car?

Jeff Dziekan 9:10

George says $39,999. And this is pre-Dagmars.

Don Armstrong 9:14

Yeah, there's no Dagmars on Dagmar's.

Jeff Dziekan 9:16

Yeah, but it does have a great set of fins. Yeah, it's got some training Dagmars.

Don Armstrong 9:21

Yeah. So I don't I I don't know whether uh Heitzman's with us.

Jeff Dziekan 9:24

Is Heitzman with us? Oh, okay. The uh the Lusk family says 33K.

Don Armstrong 9:29

33,000.

Jeff Dziekan 9:30

David and Stacey.

Don Armstrong 9:31

Okay. So do we wait for Mr. Heitzman? He might not even be there.

Jeff Dziekan 9:35

He's probably working on Artemis.

Don Armstrong 9:37

Yeah, on the uh Blue Origin thing that blew up this week.

Jeff Dziekan 9:40

That's not his.

Mike Marrs 9:41

No, that's not his, but I'm not seeing him on in an earlier two weeks.

Don Armstrong 9:45

Okay, so the the sold car price for the 59 Cadillac Series 75 was 19,950. The only problem is you're gonna have to spend $40,000 on redoing the garage to get it inside there that long.

Jeff Dziekan 9:59

Get a buy a new house for $175. Pretty much. All right.

Don Armstrong 10:03

Next up, another Cadillac. But I thought that this was an interesting because I I never knew that in 1973 they made a Cadillac Calais.

Jeff Dziekan 10:13

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Don Armstrong 10:14

You're familiar? Yeah, yeah. So where does this fit in between the Sedan de Ville and the Coupe de Ville?

Jeff Dziekan 10:19

It's like uh it's like the Fleetwood. It's like the the Buick GMC version in that category, the the in in betweener. The Calais was sort of uh sporty and luxury.

Don Armstrong 10:33

That is not a sporty car. Okay, 78.

Jeff Dziekan 10:36

Like an extended cab? Fender skirts on it. So you had a little bit of classier stuff. Okay, well, whatever.

Don Armstrong 10:42

Um, so so does anybody want to guess how much this car sold for?

Jeff Dziekan 10:46

I'm gonna go 12. Uh look at uh the last family says 127. Yeah, I'm in that range, 12 to 15. I'll go 15.

Don Armstrong 10:52

Okay.

Jeff Dziekan 10:53

George says 21,999.

Don Armstrong 10:55

This is a George car. Yeah. This car sold for $1,700. It looks like it needs a little upholstery work, or is that just a reflection down there?

Mike Marrs 11:07

No, it's it needs some state work, yes. Okay.

Don Armstrong 11:10

Oh, look at that. Next up is the 1981, it 1981 Chevy Blazer. This is the old square body blazer. Uh, yes, the rear roof does come off, but what a pain. You had you have to unbolt it if you want it off.

Mike Marrs 11:26

Well, yeah, but it didn't come off going down the highway like that.

Don Armstrong 11:30

It did not, that it did not. So an 81 blazer, what do you think that that sold for?

Jeff Dziekan 11:34

Oh gosh, those things are hot. And it's lifted. Yeah. Got a little chrome under the nose.

Don Armstrong 11:40

I like the uh wood wood green.

Jeff Dziekan 11:42

I'm gonna go 39. 39? Yeah, I'm gonna go 39. Wow's uh 59, says the Les family. That's beautiful. I agree.

Don Armstrong 11:49

59? Okay, anybody else? George?

Jeff Dziekan 11:54

1499. 1499.

Don Armstrong 11:56

Okay, so it's sold for 23,625.

Jeff Dziekan 12:01

Well, we've all got a range, but you know what?

Don Armstrong 12:02

This is this has all been redone. You don't have to do anything to it, just run it down the road.

Mike Marrs 12:06

Oh no, you do it's just a climb up and get in it.

Don Armstrong 12:09

That's it. Okay, next up. This is a school teacher, Mrs. Rogers' car. Uh, this is a 1972 Volvo 1800. Remember the little sports car that they made for a very short period of time? Yeah, that was hot. Yep, and so is Mrs. Rogers. Golly. Uh, so what do you think that this Volvo 1800 from 1972 sold for? It looks like aftermarket wheels on there.

Jeff Dziekan 12:33

I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say uh 19,000. 19,000. Jumps in with 19. It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood for her. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mike Marrs 12:43

It has a uh it's got a manual transmission, but if you look at that engine picture, it's it's almost like a wankel or rotary or something. It's really a four-cylinder.

Jeff Dziekan 12:54

George says 12999, and I think I missed the Les family. Uh they might be coming up. Here we go. Uh 265 from them.

Don Armstrong 13:01

It's sold for $21,000 either.

Jeff Dziekan 13:03

Okay, we're all in the park.

Don Armstrong 13:04

Yeah. Yeah. Everybody's kind of.

Jeff Dziekan 13:05

Well, my uh brother-in-law Jerry had a Capri. He rallied a Capri and had the same kind of wheels on that. It was very cool wheels.

Don Armstrong 13:12

All right. Next up, and I had to put this in here because it's kind of surprising to me. A 2015 Porsche Cayman. Okay. All right. Uh Porsche Cayman for 2015. Um 70. Really?

Jeff Dziekan 13:27

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 13:28

A 2015. So that this car is 11 years old, Jeff.

Jeff Dziekan 13:31

Right. It's a Cayman.

Don Armstrong 13:32

All right. It's a Cayman.

Jeff Dziekan 13:34

Should I go more?

Don Armstrong 13:36

Um, what did you guess?

Jeff Dziekan 13:37

This is 70. Uh Lost Family says 80.

Don Armstrong 13:41

Really?

Jeff Dziekan 13:42

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 13:42

Well, you all are going to be surprised.

Jeff Dziekan 13:44

Yeah. Probably went for 12 or something.

Don Armstrong 13:47

16.8. Ah. What uh my question is, what's wrong with it?

unknown 13:51

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 13:53

Is it that little? I don't know. It looks clean. All right. This one here is for George. Next up. A 1932 Chevrolet Custom. Do we have that? Yeah, he's coming up.

Mike Marrs 14:06

I'm not sure why it's not coming up. There it is. There you go.

Don Armstrong 14:09

A 1932 Chevrolet custom.

Mike Marrs 14:12

George.

Don Armstrong 14:14

George, I'm sorry. I I didn't I'm not trying to offend you, but I thought, well, this is a George car.

Jeff Dziekan 14:19

George sent, uh I just noticed on the George sent a picture of his first car, so we're gonna have to put that up for next week.

Don Armstrong 14:24

Okay.

Jeff Dziekan 14:24

Uh I'm looking at 17,000. I'm way off.

Don Armstrong 14:30

Really?

Jeff Dziekan 14:30

I'm thinking way off.

Don Armstrong 14:31

Well, it does not have the stock engine in it. It looks like it's got a Chevy or something.

Jeff Dziekan 14:38

Yep.

Don Armstrong 14:38

How much?

Jeff Dziekan 14:40

17.

Don Armstrong 14:40

17. All right.

Jeff Dziekan 14:42

32 from George. Uh David and Stacy said 5K.

Don Armstrong 14:47

Well, you well, they they win. Yeah. $5,320. So don't tell me you can't afford to get into a hot rod.

Jeff Dziekan 14:56

Or are you going to spend another 60 grand tubbing it out and put an LS?

Don Armstrong 15:00

This one here is Mars Car of the Week. Next up.

Jeff Dziekan 15:03

It's coming up. I love this.

Mike Marrs 15:07

I'm telling you.

Don Armstrong 15:09

The only problem with that is that on-ramp accelerator test that you uh have happened to have. I'm not thinking of real good thoughts there.

Mike Marrs 15:17

Do I see a Briggs and Stratton stencil on that end? Could very well be. This is your own personal clown car you can have here.

Don Armstrong 15:25

1960 Vespa 400. Wait a minute. Vespa, didn't they make those fucky little Italian motorbikes?

Jeff Dziekan 15:32

There you go. David and Stacy said 25. I was going to go around four. I'll do four.

Don Armstrong 15:38

Well, David and Stacy, I'm telling you, they got it together. Yep. 18, 821. Wow. The only problem is you have to ask yourself, can I fit in it?

Mike Marrs 15:48

Yeah, I don't think. The other thing I was thinking about, if you had, if it's got a, I couldn't find it in the picture, but if it's got a like a moonroof or a sunroof that you can open up and stick your head out the top of your head.

Jeff Dziekan 15:58

You know, it does look like it, Mike. It's got something.

Don Armstrong 16:00

That would be one of those that the that big humongous guy in all of those Bond movies with the with the braces teeth. Yeah. All right, uh, so that sold for $18,821. Next up is a 2005 Chrysler Crossfire. When that thing came out, that was the hottest looking little thing. And the problem is it had no leg room in it whatsoever. Because it was based. This is back when uh Chrysler was owned by Mercedes-Benz, and they took their I don't know, what whatever little car that they had at the time and re-badged it. Then re-badged it with uh whatever it whatever it was in the Mercedes-Benz form and called it the Cross or Christfire.

Jeff Dziekan 16:45

12,000.

Don Armstrong 16:46

12,000, Jeff says. Anybody else?

Jeff Dziekan 16:50

They're coming up. George says $12,999.

Don Armstrong 16:54

Okay.

Mike Marrs 16:55

Still talking about the clown car that we just looked at.

Jeff Dziekan 16:59

I think so.

Don Armstrong 17:01

All right. The actual sold price was $9,500.

Jeff Dziekan 17:05

There you go.

Don Armstrong 17:10

So what have we learned today? Don't let me buy your car. And also, don't buy the Vespa automobile before you sit in it.

Mike Marrs 17:19

I would have to, I would have to buy that. Yeah, I can because I can fit that in my garage. I got a little corner over in the, I could put it in the garage.

Don Armstrong 17:28

You take all the crap out of the garage and then put that in and then put all the crap on the top of the city.

Mike Marrs 17:33

I bet it didn't take up as much room as a golf cart.

Don Armstrong 17:36

Oh, I bet not.

Mike Marrs 17:37

Yeah, you're probably right.

Don Armstrong 17:38

Okay.

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Don Armstrong 17:39

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Don Armstrong 17:58

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Indy 500 Origins And Auto Milestones

Don Armstrong 19:31

Okay. Hey, uh, welcome back to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show. Uh time now for the racing calendars. Oh, I'm sorry. Mars, is it okay if we do the This Week in Auto History? Sure. Okay. We're gonna do you first.

Mike Marrs 19:46

You're gonna do me first?

Don Armstrong 19:48

We're gonna do you first. So Mr. Mars has This Week in Auto History. And um we're ready when you are, Mike.

Mike Marrs 19:55

All righty. This week we found a few stories that we thought were rather interesting. And of course, the Indianapolis 500 was just finished up. Excuse me, and and I found another little story about it. But actually, the very first Indianapolis 500 was on May the 30th of 1911. Now, it may it that's the start of the most famous race in American history. Now, the car winning car was a Marmon Wasp. This was a revolutionary single-seat car, had one of the earliest rear view mirrors, and that's significant because that's another thing that came out of the racing world and became into production cars, as well as some of the other features for the engineering advancements on this car kind of influenced cars made for the public sector for the next several centuries. So the also this week was the introduction of the diesel passenger car. Now at the Berlin Motor Show, Mercedes Benz introduced the 260D, which is generally recognized as the first series production diesel passenger car. There were diesel engines obviously out in trucks and uh tractors and railroad gear, but this was the first one that was set up for everyday automobiles and improved the efficiency and the reliability of the diesel motor in that in the category. Now, it's long been held over in Europe. They've always used diesels a lot more than what we would here, but this is where it started and where it brought it into uh common usage. Now in 1934, this was really interesting. I did not know this existed, but it was the birth of the Chrysler Airflow era. Now, they started production of this automotive design thinking that Chrysler engineers were going to use the wind tunnel testing and the airflow, which was actually a model of a car that was produced from nineteen thirty four to nineteen thirty seven, and it was a unibody vehicle that I did not even know existed back then.

Jeff Dziekan 21:52

So, uh Sir I said I like it.

Mike Marrs 21:56

Yeah. It it's got a lot of features on it, including the Uh it sits down low, it's got a waterfall type grill to it. The uh windshield was technology advanced because instead of it being one piece of glass that was flat, it's two pieces that come up to that V that you can see sections off right there. Uh it sets a little lower, it's got the wheel wheel coverings that kind of come over the tires. There's a lot of things that were done because of the wind tunnel testing that they developed on this car. And it's a shame they only produced it for three years, but they also produced one over in the DeSoto line as well as the Chrysler line, but it just never was publicly accepted. I mean, they just couldn't sell many of them. I think it was only like about 7,000, was actually they ended up selling it across three years and uh they pulled it from production. But it was another one of those things ahead of its time. Yes. In 1986, Henry Ford's quadricycle hits the road. Now, this was the same. You just said 1986? 1886. 1896. Yeah, there you go.

Jeff Dziekan 22:59

1896, okay.

Mike Marrs 23:00

Yeah, let me let me turn my glasses around. Okay. So this was uh in Detroit, and this was a four-wheeled vehicle powered by a small gasoline engine. Now, this is Ford's earliest practical automobile, and this is what he started off building the whole Ford Motor Company from. It's absolutely very primitive, but if you think about it, some of the things that as kids that we tried to build little go-karts, our own little motorized powers, it was basically that four wheels and a motor with some sort of steering. In uh 1928, Chrysler produced purchases the Dodge Brothers. Now, the interesting thing about this is the Dodge Brothers were originally parts suppliers to all of the manufacturers at the time, including Ford. So in 1914, they decided to start building their own automobiles. And so through that production, and then it came up in 1928 after both brothers had uh died for one of them was under the Spanish flu, and the other one they're not really sure, but they think it was related to that. So the family then ended up selling it, and Chrysler ended up buying it through a couple of other transactions. And what it did, it gave Chrysler, expanded their production ability to bring things in and make Chrysler that started Chrysler into becoming one of the big three of Detroit. Uh and uh yeah, and that's the things that I found that were interesting. Some of them I didn't even know existed in automobile history.

Don Armstrong 24:26

I saw the Marmon Wasp, it's in the uh Indianapolis Museum uh at the Indianapolis Speedway, and I got to see, and I think you did too, Mike, that uh that Chrysler Airflow. That was in the Chrysler Museum there in Auburn Hills when we went to visit. That's very cool. Yeah, yeah, and that those cars are around, but you have to seek them out. You just you know they don't show up at at a cruise in or something.

Mike Marrs 24:49

No, yeah, they're they're very special cars and they treat them that way, fortunately.

Detroit Grand Prix And Weekend Racing

Don Armstrong 24:53

All right, time now for the racing calendar, sponsored by the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.

Jeff Dziekan 24:57

Thank you for that. Now going on the indie theme, Doug Taylor. You got indie going on tomorrow. I watched a little bit of the NXT series this morning. They're uh practicing and qualifying today. They're gonna qualify for the Detroit Grand Prix. It's gonna be awesome. Uh Detroit used to run it on Bell Isle. Now they went on to the mainland around the streets of Detroit. It's gonna be fantastic. 11:30 tomorrow morning on Fox Local. I want everybody to tune in for that. It's gonna be great. NHRA is going on. They are at the uh Potomac Nationals and Maryland International Raceway. It's going on this weekend. Uh I don't know any qualifying aspects or anything, so uh you have to tune in and watch that. Uh Formula One is in uh actually not gonna be too to June 7th, so they're another week out in Monaco. Uh NASCAR. Let's talk a little bit about NASCAR. Uh just gonna give you some stats here and move on. They're gonna Nashville, all three series. Uh they kind of paraded uh uh Kyle Bush's wife out there, and it was kind of embarrassing, I think, for NASCAR. So shame on you, NASCAR, and that's it.

Don Armstrong 26:01

Okay, well, thank

Corvette ZR1X Blows Out Candles

Don Armstrong 26:02

you. Uh for America's 250th birthday, Chevy gave itself the honor of blowing out the candles. GM set up an 188-foot-long birthday cake topped with 250 oversized candles at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, then used a 1250 horsepower Corvette ZR1 X to extinguish the flames at 90 miles an hour. We're going to wrap up today's In-Wheel Time car talk show right after this quick break.

Protecting Paint And Custom Car Art

Don Armstrong 26:29

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How To Reach Us And Next Stop

Don Armstrong 28:00

Well, that's all for this week's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show. Be sure and check us out online at InWheeltime.com. We're always looking for new, informative, and great automotive things to bring to our global audience. If you have an idea, an event, a road trip, or tall tale you'd like to tell us, let us know. The email address is info at inwheeltime.com. You can find the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show 24-7 on the In Wheel Time app and the website. Grab a podcast from your favorite podcast store. We video stream our live show every Saturday, 10 to noon, on Facebook, YouTube, and InWheeltime.com. The NWL Time Video Coordinator is we always need more Jeff Zeken for booking agent, video editor, Mike out of this world bars. Chief Engineer, David Ainsley. I'm Don Armstrong. Thanks to our show contributors, Jeff Heitzman and George Skelton. And the Lus family. And the Lus family. Thank you very much, yes, for joining us. And for you, be sure and join us next week for our 51st annual. Well, let's see two weeks, actually. Two weeks, I think. 51st annual Lone Star Street Rod Association State Run and show June 13th from Hewlett Park in Grand Berry. In real time, we'll have a bonus hour show, so you can grab us beginning at 9 to noon on the 13th. Hope you'll join us again next week. Have a great safe weekend. So long for now. 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.