Oct. 6, 2025

Inside the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge: Grassroots Racing, Real Community, Safer Than the Streets

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A friendly grudge, a lit tree, and a time slip—few things capture real car culture like club-versus-club drag racing. We sit down to explore the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge and how it turns raw horsepower into community, safety, and bragging rights across eighth-mile tracks statewide. Even when a guest’s signal fades, the story stays clear: organize the adrenaline, race where it’s safe, and bring home a slip that proves it.

From there, we open the hood on the industry’s moving parts. Dealers are quietly finding gold in their service lanes, making real-time offers to maintenance customers to replace shrinking lease returns and tight auction supply. We break down the math, the goals, and what it means for anyone weighing a repair bill against positive equity. Then we zoom out to used-car retail’s evolving landscape—Carvana’s rebound, why some online car buys feel effortless while others come with surprise steps—and the fine print that separates convenience from frustration.

The news cycle adds more heat: potential truck tariffs have Detroit’s big names angling for advantage, and the EV conversation keeps running on two parallel roads—ambition and practicality. We talk charging costs that hit $50 for a 20-minute session, the gap between ad promises and road-trip reality, and the local conditions where electric shines. It’s all wrapped in the heartbeat of the scene: Tailpipes & Tacos returning to Katy, a full slate of cruise-ins, and the kind of Saturday mornings where chrome, coffee, and community collide.

If you love honest racing, straight talk on the car market, and the events that bring people together, this one’s for you. Hit follow, share it with your track buddy, and drop your take: where do you stand on EV practicality, and what’s your best time-slip story?

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00:00 - Kickoff & Guest Setup

01:34 - What Is TMCCC?

03:40 - Eighth-Mile vs Quarter-Mile Talk

05:11 - Connection Drops & Format Pivot

06:13 - Safer Than Street Racing

08:39 - Tailpipes & Tacos Announcement

12:10 - Remote Conflict & Event Options

15:25 - Used-Car Sourcing From Service Lanes

21:40 - Carvana, Vroom, and Fine Print

25:56 - Personal Trade-In Story

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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.

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It's the award-winning In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.

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Somebody awarded us something at some point for what?

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Just ahead.

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Our drag racing friends will learn about the Texas Muzzle Car Club Challenge that you hear us talk about occasionally.

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Plus, Jeff will have the crews in and events calendars, and I'll bring you stories making automotive news headlines this week.

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Howdy, along with Mike Out of this world, Mars.

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We need more Jeff Seekin, always.

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Chief Engineer David Ainsley, I'm Don Armstrong.

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Glad you could join us on this Saturday.

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I'm still trying to recover from the dash out.

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Never mind.

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We actually went back to it's an East Texas thing.

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Just just l let me Okay.

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We actually went back through the script you sent us so we could read it again.

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Yeah, we had to look at that.

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So just say.

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So do we have your discussion, uh Mr.

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Mars?

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Yeah, Scott is here.

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Scott Stregel, president of the Texas Muslims Club Challenge.

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Scott, good morning to you and thanks for joining us.

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Morning.

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Good morning.

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So um, Scott.

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Guys can hear me okay?

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Yeah, we're doing well.

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How are you?

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Uh it's a little, you know, for October, it's 89 degrees.

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Are you up in the Dallas area?

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I am close to Denton, so yes.

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Okay, very good.

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All right, so for everybody that doesn't know, let's talk about the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.

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And um, this is a drag racing event that actually several of them that you guys have put together at drag strips, mainly across Texas.

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Am I correct?

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Correct.

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We only have one in Oklahoma, uh, but everything else is in Texas.

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Okay.

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And so and and generally speaking, these are eighth mile tracks, correct?

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Yes.

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So what we the only uh the only one we have that's quarter mile in Texas would be the motorplex at Ennis.

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Um in Oklahoma, we've raced it Thunder Valley.

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Um that's quarter mile also.

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Now, do you run the quarter mile?

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It just the track is a quarter mile, and you just run the eighth?

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How does that work?

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Is he frozen up?

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Scott, can you hear us?

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Uh oh, no?

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Well, okay.

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Well, Mr.

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Morris, I'm gonna let you uh handle that.

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Um uh we don't have anything to do with that on this end.

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That is probably his cell phone signal, I would imagine.

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So um we will let you take care of that if you don't mind, sir.

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Yes, sir.

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Oh, you guys are bad.

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There he is.

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Yeah, he he he's gonna have to redial us up.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Uh Mike, I'm I'm gonna let you take take care of that.

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Um it says here the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge Series.

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The goal of it is to provide a racing venue for people who want to race for fun.

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It's a club against a club event that races for points.

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Uh challenge committee representing the clubs will meet periodically and decide how many races to run each year, where to run, the structure of the program, and the rules.

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And these are basically friends.

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Yeah.

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Um buddies.

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Yeah.

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And they they go to these different events as friends and they race against each other.

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And it's better than the street.

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You see these TV shows about street racing and all the bad stuff that happens after that, and then the city's alone.

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So that's good.

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Yeah, appreciate it.

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Yeah, the the the street takeovers and stuff like that.

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This is not that.

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Um, this is legit stuff uh with time slips uh that they hand out after the end of each run.

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And uh, hey, look what I did.

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I beat you by you know two-tenths of a second, whatever the case may be.

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Yep.

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So, at any rate, uh Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.

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They sponsor one of our segments on the program.

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And um anyway, it's good stuff.

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So I did want to mention to you, and you probably heard the commercial already, and we're gonna repeat it a couple of times during the rest of the show.

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Um, there was a throw-down tailpipes and tacos event that was scheduled for October the 18th, and it is still scheduled.

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Yeah, and this is going to be at the Lupi Tortilla Tex-Mex out in Katy, which is the only place for tailpipes and tacos, and it's coming up on October the 18th.

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And I tell you this because we typically will be there for all of the tailpipes and tacos events.

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Uh Stan and Chase and the whole gang out there at the lupi tortilla out there.

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But this particular event we will not be at because we had already committed to another remote broadcast for the Spring Branch uh high school foundation.

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And we are going to be at that event while this event is taking place.

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So you got your choice.

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You can either go to Tailpipes and Tacos or the Spring Branch.

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With or without us.

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Yeah, with us or without us.

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Uh either way, it's going to be on October the 18th, so I believe that's three weeks from today.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Uh that's coming up.

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Um, and if you'd like more information uh on the Loopy event, uh go to uh Tailpipes and Tacos and you can get the or you can go to Inwheeltime.com as well and get the information there.

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Or you could go to both.

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You could start it at one and end at the other.

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And you never know.

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You never could very well do that.

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And I think there's gonna be a ducks and show.

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No, a dash hound.

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A dash hound show a dash hound show.

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Don't say that too fast too quickly.

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Okay.

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Um Mike's working on the guest.

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Is he?

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Okay, well, we don't have any control over that, so we're just going to kind of move on.

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All right.

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Um, I had a story that I was going to originally use our story of the week, and then another one came up that I changed it out.

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But this is kind of a part two of our story of the week.

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Late model used vehicles, some of the most profitable for franchise dealerships, are harder to secure in 2025.

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Competition for a smaller amount of that inventory stays strong, however.

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In response, some dealerships turn to their service department as a potential internal gold mine for those used vehicles.

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If you've taken your car to a car dealership here of late, chances are you've been approached by someone within the car dealership and says, Hey, want to sell your car?

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Well, dealers have been finding inventive ways to source pre-owned vehicles for several years.

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The pandemic and subsequent semiconductor shortage curtailed new vehicle production.

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That resulted in fewer U.S.

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sales and in particular new leases.

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And that in turn led recently to a shortage of off-lease vehicles returning to dealership lots as trade-ins.

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Some dealership managers said the service drive is one way to find inventory at their fingertips to supplement what they can't find as frequently in other channels.

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It's uh it's an interesting thing that they have discovered.

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And hey, we've got all these people coming to the service department.

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They're coming to us with used cars.

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Why not say, hey, we can make you a deal?

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So that's what it's just coming to life, but that's been around a while.

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Because you know, now you can sell your car without buying one.

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So that's how that all started.

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And I agree.

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They used to do that when I was uh working at dealerships, they would they would do that.

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Hey.

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But you're a lot younger than me.

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By a whole lot.

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Oh yeah.

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Years.

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Decades.

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Uh it's a full commitment according to Jim Farkas, executive management manager of uh preferred auto dealerships in Grand Haven, Michigan.

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I wonder if he's any relationship to Scott Farkas.

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I don't know.

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Farkas introduced preferred auto dealerships uh to sourcing more out of their service drives in 2025 after honing the strategy at a previous dealership group.

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What matters most is establishing consistency, he said managers should designate employees to work that process with regularity while setting clear goals for how many used vehicles need to be acquired.

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A dealership sourcing 8% of its overall used vehicle retail inventory each month from its service customers, for example, would be rocking it, he said.

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Yeah.

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So when you go in there and you may or may not be ready for uh a trade or a new car or to get rid of your car, but it might be something to consider, especially if you got, you know, 35,000, 40,000 miles on it and it's uh either uh off-lease or it's not an off-lease and you are making payments on it, you might be able to bump up for just a few dollars more.

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Not only that, you're in there for service.

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So is the car paid off?

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Are you upside down on it?

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Is the repair more than the value of the car?

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There's all that to consider that these sharp salespeople will put that into a presentation and get you into a new car.

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I had a friend of mine that uh actually had a vehicle and they were having lots of trouble with and they had taken it in for well, they they were going to trade it in or sell it to uh Carmax.

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And the guy at the dealership said, Hey, I'll give you two thousand dollars more than Carmax will.

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So she brought the the paper from CarMax and said, This is what we're gonna offer you.

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She says, Here you go, here's the extra money.

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And they bought the car, the used car, and got her a new car.

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There's even a commercial where the guy, the Carvana, where you buy in your car or they come pick it up.

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There's there this is a big promotion, big marketing is and I have to tell you, speaking of Carvana, there was a time when Carvana came to town and they put up the big vending shoes.

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They're still up, they're still up.

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They're not building them anymore because they're very expensive.

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But um, Carvana has actually turned the corner and are actually doing quite well.

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So uh there are a lot of other used car retailers out there that haven't made it.

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Vroom for one other shut down, and then uh there was Texas Direct that shut down, got bought up by somebody else, and it was it it the whole used car th car thing just kind of evolved to what it is today.

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But it's it's not an easy process, even to Carvana.

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There are a lot of things, a lot of hoops you gotta jump through, and there's a lot of fine print that you have to read before buying or selling a car to them.

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If you buy a car from them, you have to have certain things required by them through their outfit for insurance and things.

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Uh, and then you you go through the steps to sell your car or to buy your car.

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If you want it delivered, you got to do certain steps to have it delivered.

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If you want it picked up, you gotta go through certain steps to have it delivered.

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Yeah, they make it sound so easy on the commercials.

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There's there's there are things that you have to do.

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Jump through this hoop, and by the way, we're gonna set it on fire when you jump through.

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So when when you sold your Cadillac, did you trade it in?

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Uh I did.

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You traded it in for the for the Buick.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Okay, yeah.

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How was that process?

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Pretty simple.

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Was it pretty simple?

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What was it?

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General Motors dealership, it was a GMC Buick Cadillac store.

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Um oh it was okay.

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Yeah, and uh other than take the title, what else did you have to do?

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Nothing really.

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Just take the title.

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Yeah, here's the title, sign it over.

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Yeah, give them a check for the car, boom, I was out.

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It probably took maybe two hours to stop at.

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Yeah, and that was me calling them on the way to the dealership to find out if the car was still there that I saw on the ad.

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It was still there.

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I got there, and two hours later I was driving out.

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In that car.

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Because that's the car that you saw online.

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That's the car that you well to make the story longer.

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I was at another dealership for the same car, and they couldn't sell it to me because it was missing a sticker from General Motors that was part of a recall under the hood.

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There was some type of technical sticker that General Motors puts under there.

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It was missing, and they said, We can't do that.

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Well, how do I get this?

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You could sell it to me and then mail me the sticker, I'll get my own.

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I don't need it, whatever the case.

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Can't do it because they'll get in trouble through the feds and General Motors.

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Right.

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So, you know, very upsetting.

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I left the dealership and on my way out of the city.

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Ticked off.

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Very, I called another dealership because I'm sitting with the guy telling me he can't sell me the car, and I'm scrolling to buy another car on the phone.

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So that's what I did.

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And they had one basically like the one, just like it.

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Just same identical.

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In fact, had less miles, like 10 miles on or something.

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Oh, okay.

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But you did buy it new, right?

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Brand new car.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Brand new car.

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Yeah, they had to get it cleaned up, and actually, that was probably the process of the two hours done cleaning up the car.

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Because it sat on the lottery for a few days.

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Whatever it was, you know.

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I had the papers all filled out, I paid cash for it, I had a check in hand, all that stuff.

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So good.

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And they traded my gave me the value of the car.

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Yeah, they actually gave me more because it was a V.

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Oh my god.

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So the story with the V is uh they didn't they didn't make a Cadillac.

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Was it an SRX?

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They did.

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Generation one, they did make a V.

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Mine was mine, was the third generation.

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Um it was an SRX.

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Yes.

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Yeah, a Cadillac SRX.

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Beautiful, yeah, station wagon looking kind of.

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Yeah, it was a neat little car.

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It was fit me perfect.

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It held all my drum equipment in the back with you know, passenger despair, all that good stuff.

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Was it the CT5 that took its place?

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What was what was yeah, XT5.

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XT5, and then they made a smaller one, the XT4 beyond that.

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Yeah.

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But I would get my car washed because I've worked at dealerships.

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I with American Tireless Regional Manager, dealerships, three, four a day, and and I would get the car washed a couple times a day.

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You know, if it was raining or something, I'd get pulled.

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Hey, how much does it cost for a car for a car wash?

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No problem, Jeff.

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Give me your keys.

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While we're doing business, talking about tires and things, they were cleaning my car.

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Well, this one particular one at a Cadillac dealership, it was in San Antonio, Bachelor Cadillac, I believe it was.

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And uh the operations guy was a good friend of mine, came back and said, Jeff, I got a problem.

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The 3.6 emblem on the back broke off with during the process of washing the car.

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Oh gosh, we'll just put another one on.

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We can't get one for like another week, eight days.

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All right, well, what do you got?

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Well, we got a V.

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Let me have it.

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I didn't let them put it on.

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I took it with me and I put it on.

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So uh I had a V meaning a high horsepower catalog.

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Yeah, exactly.

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So uh I had to do that.

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Did you ever have anybody pull up next to you?

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I've had people go, hey, I'm that that's is that a V?

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That's a V.

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The car's not, but that is a V.

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Let's get technical about that.

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Love it.

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So, yeah.

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And I think I think they gave me more money because they thought it was a V.

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I don't I know, I'm just kidding.

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Give that man, give that man some extra money for the V.

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Speaking of extra money, there's Michael.

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Yes, sir.

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Well, did you make it back?

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Yeah, I did, but we were having I'm not sure what's going on with Scott.

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Uh we texted back and forth, and he was gonna do some rebooting, and uh it just didn't happen.

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Didn't happen.

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Oh boy.

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Okay, well, uh Scott, it's great to have you uh not with us.

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I'm sorry that we started this this all happened.

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I I got that, but we've got to move on.

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Okay.

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Hey, uh we do want to remind you that coming up, Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars, and I'll have the stories making headlines this week.

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Stay with us here on the award-winning Inwheel Time Car Talk Show.

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We continue after this quick break.

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Stay with us.

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You've waited all summer and it's finally here, the Tailpipes and Tacos Fall 25 Cruise In Car Show.

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It's been a while, but the popular Tail Pipes and Tacos Cruise In returns to the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy, Saturday, October 18th.

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Make any donation to Shirley's Kids and get a free breakfast taco.

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There'll be mimosas and bloody merry's, too.

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Get to the best cruise in of the year, Teal Pipes and Tacos Car Show, Saturday, October 18th, 8 to 11 a.m.

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Cruise in, make a donation of any amount, and grab a free Loopy Tortilla Breakfast Taco.

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Tail Pipes and Tacos only happens at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy, 703 West Grand Parkway at Kingston Boulevard, just south of the Katy Freeway.

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Join the carcom rottery, and your car will automatically compete for one of three chili pepper trophies at no charge.

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Paul is here, and what better way to celebrate than with a free taco at Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise In Car Show, Saturday, October 18th, 8 to 11 a.m.

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It's the cruise in you won't want to miss.

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Loopy tortillas, tailpipes and tacos in Katy.

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Time to fire up those engines and pay tribute to the folks who make freedom possible.

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Is rolling in for Veterans Day Weekend.

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Friday night, downtown cruise.

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Saturday, 400 of the coolest rods in Texas.

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Proceeds of veterans, shelters, food pantries, and scholarships.

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Sponsored by Craig's Jewelry, November 7th and 8th, Main Street, Best Drop.

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Don't miss it.

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You know, um there's some there's some uh production, uh real production work done there.

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You think?

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Yeah, I love the yeehaw at the end of it, and uh the music is perfect.

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The chicken picking on the banjo.

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Yeah, yeah.

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You know who's a good banjo player?

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Um, Tom Easley, guy that played bass for us in the band.

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Is that right?

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Oh, yeah, he teaches uh banjo.

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He's really good at it.

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He's you know hey, be sure and join us for a live show every week.

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In Wheel Time airs Saturday, 10 to noon Central Time.

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And uh we're on Facebook, YouTube, and nwheeltime.com.

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And thank you for joining us today.

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Time off for the cruise in and events calendars, Mr.

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Mars.

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I'm sorry, Jeffrey.

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Oh, no problem.

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I saw Mr.

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Mars there now.

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Hey Michael, how are you doing, buddy?

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Uh, here's one for us Dangerfield Days car and bike show.

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Now you're probably Dangerfield.

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You're probably wondering where Dangerfield, Texas is.

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It's east of Dallas, and it's sort of between uh Shreepport and uh what's up to uh not Lubbock.

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Lubbock's on the other side.

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It's it's just north and east of Tyler.

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Tyler, all that.

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Yeah, it's a little bit north of Tyler, but it's in that area.

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You know, if they were Georgia's.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Uh it's the Horn Family Family Funeral Home Run.

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What?

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Yes, wait, run that by the Horn Family Funeral Home is sponsoring this.

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It's a 400 Web Street in Dangerfield.

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Dangerfield Days will feature car and bike show with categories including classic muscle cars, jeeps, trucks, and corvettes from 1990 and newer.

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The event includes food trucks, barbecue, vendor booths, kids area, and cornhole tournament.

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Register for the cost is 20 bucks.

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Takes place between 8 a.m.

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and 10:30.

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Judging is scheduled between 12:30, around 12:30-ish.

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Is the king and queen of the event going to be riding?

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I don't know, but it's a funeral home.

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People are dying to get in there.

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Uh so also various raffles, 50-50 raffle along nine people's choice awards.

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So there you go.

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That's in Dangerfield at Horn Family Funeral Home.

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Good luck.

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Uh, Bel Air High Water Truck Pool and Car Show.

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Uh that's going on at 7008 South Rice in Bel Air, Texas, not far from here.

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They'll host a high water truck pool and car show October 11th.

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High water truck pool.

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Yeah, October 11th.

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The event runs from 8 a.m.

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to 11 in Bel Air, Texas.

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The truck pool invites participants to play tug of war with high water rescue trucks supporting Special Olympic Texas athletes.

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The car show welcomes all vehicles, including hot rods, vintage cars, customs, motorcycles, and daily drivers.

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You know what they need to do is get one of those great big army vehicles that they use.

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Yeah, like Mattress Mac has one of those.

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He's got a five year old.

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You need an elevator feet off the ground.

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Yeah.

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I I got a feeling I know who would win that.

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Yeah, yeah.

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All right.

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And then we got one Legacy Ford of Rosenberg Mustang Club of Houston Fall Open Car Show.

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It's the 11th, which is next Saturday, 9 a.m.

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to 1.30.

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Legacy Ford at 27225 Southwest Freeway in Rosenberg.

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Uh Legacy Ford Rosenberg hosting this event, fall car show.

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The event opens to all makes and models, not just Fords.

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It'll be held at the uh Southwest Freeway location for them.

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Registration runs from 9 a.m.

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to 11:30 a.m.

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The show will run from 9 a.m.

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to 1.30.

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Awards presented at two.

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Entry cost is 30 bucks.

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Pay cash.

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Uh discount rates for 25 for the first responders.

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18 classes will be judged.

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Go out there and support that.

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It's a good cause.

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We need to do a remote there.

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Yeah, we do.

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Patrick is the general uh principal principal, the general manager, pretty much.

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Patrick, the owner of Legacy Ford.

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Oh.

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Cars and Coffee, hosted by Fearless Performance.

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That's in Huntsville.

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