Recalls And Real-World Car Values

Cold Open And Weekend Banter

Don Armstrong 0:04

It is the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show. Just ahead. We're going to have the person. No.

Jeff Dziekan 0:13

Okay. You do.

Don Armstrong 0:14

You go.

Jeff Dziekan 0:15

Okay. I can tell you. Okay, well tell me this. Well, we've got uh recalls coming up. Uh we've got this is what's sold for Hemmings. And then we've got uh my car my car culture coming up.

Don Armstrong 0:28

Oh, really?

Jeff Dziekan 0:29

So there.

Don Armstrong 0:31

Well, I I have the racing calendar, but we already did that, didn't we?

Jeff Dziekan 0:34

Yeah, we did the racing calendar.

Don Armstrong 0:35

We're on uh 11 o'clock.

Jeff Dziekan 0:37

We're at A B. Oh turn the page, Bob Seeger.

Don Armstrong 0:45

There you go. So gather around. Recalls and how much did that car go for? Yeah. Well, you know, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. That's all right. Isn't that what they said? Well, we were said that. I don't know who did. Yeah, I know. I had one too many last night. I did three margaritas, and I never do that. Um apparently uh somebody pushed me into it.

unknown 1:09

Gosh.

Don Armstrong 1:10

The people sitting across the table from me. So whoa, I'm gonna have another one. How about you? Well, what am I gonna be the bump on the log and go, no, I'm gonna go home and go to bed.

Mike Marrs 1:20

I hate to see a man drink alone, you know. You want to be sociable.

Don Armstrong 1:24

Yeah. Did you drink last night, Mars?

Mike Marrs 1:26

No, sir. Oh, liar liar pants on fire. Nope, not last night. It's gonna be tonight. Tonight. Oh, yes.

Don Armstrong 1:35

I knew it.

Mike Marrs 1:36

It's Saturday night. I'm gonna take a bath and everything.

Recall Roundup And Safety Questions

Don Armstrong 1:40

That's what you do on a Saturday night in Neaterville, Texas, huh? Okay, I got some recalls, okay, as I always do. Misassembled airbag sensors. I mean, what does that mean? Misassembled. So, in other words, when it blows up, it blows down to your feet. Uh I don't I don't know exactly what that means. We'd have to look into that.

Mike Marrs 2:05

Maybe it blows out instead of in.

Don Armstrong 2:08

I I don't know. Misassembled airbag sensors. Uh Hyundai, Elantra, Alantra in, Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, Tucson plugin hybrid, all from the 2026 model year. Wow. It's being recalled. Wheel stud may separate.

Jeff Dziekan 2:25

Darn it.

Don Armstrong 2:30

Tesla Cybertruck 2024 to 2026. How does a stud separate?

unknown 2:38

Okay.

Don Armstrong 2:39

Fuel tank may leak after a crash in the Volkswagen Taus. TOUS 25 and 26 model years. Instrument panel display failure, Dodge Charger EV, Jeep Wagoneer S 24 to 25. Fuel tank may leak, Land Rover Defender, 2026. Uh seat belts may not restrain occupants, then what good are they?

SPEAKER_01 3:07

Yeah.

Hemmings Sold Car Game Begins

Don Armstrong 3:08

This would be the Audi Q5, Q5 Sport Back, SQ5, and SQ5 Sportback 2025 model year. And drum roll, please, Ford. Okay, that's it. It's gonna the entire company does it all. Um loose bolt in the front seat frame. Martha. Martha, you're what are you doing in the back seat? I thought you got in in the front. Ford Bronco and Ford Ranger, 24 through 26 model years. So I guess they're gonna bring it in and uh ratchet on it. And that'll that'll take care of that. All right, this is what we've all been waiting for. It's time now for Heming's sold car roundup. We pick a few out of the weekly list that they supply, and we say we describe what the car is. Mars shows us the picture of the car, and then you guess the price of what that car sold for. Okay.

unknown 4:14

Okay.

Don Armstrong 4:14

Here's the first one up for bid this morning. It sold for uh, and this is car number one, the 1948 Studebaker Commander. Now, it I don't recall the headlights being like that in a stock Studebaker Commander. Uh, but I think that they've done some you think that's modified.

Mike Marrs 4:37

I I don't know. Yeah, well, I think that it is. I think if you you look at the wheels and the tires and like you say, the head motor.

Jeff Dziekan 4:43

Yeah, look at the engine too.

Don Armstrong 4:44

And it's a convertible D headlights in it. Did they make a convertible in 48 for that car? If they did, well, what a waste of time. What?

Jeff Dziekan 4:54

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 4:54

Really? Yeah. Okay. So Jeff's gonna go for 68,000. Bring it home.

Jeff Dziekan 4:59

What are you gonna go for? David and Stacy uh Lusk say 27.5. 27.5, okay. Mr. Heitzman is in a 10 grand. Okay.

Don Armstrong 5:09

Anybody else?

Mike Marrs 5:11

I think we lost George. George, yeah.

Jeff Dziekan 5:13

Whatever his is is a 9999.

Don Armstrong 5:15

Yeah. Uh so it's sold for$22,050. Okay. It's just a little off base. But you see, that's not a stock insurance. It's a restaurant. Yeah, but restaurant are getting um and it's a convertible. Why more would you spend that kind of money on that car?

Mike Marrs 5:34

Ooh. Yeah, but it's because it's different, it's unique.

Don Armstrong 5:38

Okay. Well, I'll tell you what, you buy it, and I'll go, why would you spend the money on that car? You know what it needs? It needs a Ford propeller on it. That's what it is.

Mike Marrs 5:46

Oh, right there in the middle of the middle of the front, right there right there.

Don Armstrong 5:49

While we're in the mood for Studebakers, let's do another one, shall we? Here now is a 1941 Studebaker Commander. Okay. It is a it's got like it's got suicide doors on it. So and that was stock, I'm sure, from the factory. Because this looks like a completely stock car. 1941 Studebaker Commander probably has got a spineless six-cylinder in it, would be my guess. And uh what do you think that looks like it? Yeah, pardon me. It looks like it, yeah. Yeah. Um, what do you think that that car sold? 42,000.

Jeff Dziekan 6:24

Wow. 42? I'm going 42. Okay. Heitzman says 35. 35. Uh the Lusk family says 37,999.

Don Armstrong 6:35

Okay. You all are going to be disappointed because you all have overbid.

Jeff Dziekan 6:39

All right. That's part of the game.

Don Armstrong 6:40

It's sold for$18,900. Wow. And here's the problem. Uh it's a beautiful car. Don't get me wrong. It looks like it's all completely stock. Try to find a part for that. Uh you're not going to walk into the uh O'Reilly's high-low auto supply and say, Um, I need a starter or I need a water pump for my 41 Studebaker Commander.

Mike Marrs 7:04

Because it's if if you look real close at well, some of the other pictures, it's still a six-volt system. It's not even upgraded to 12 volt. Ah.

Jeff Dziekan 7:12

There you go. Well, see, then I would have changed my bid to 18,000 if I would have known. 18,000. Only even an hour.

Don Armstrong 7:18

I would have changed it in a hurry. All right. Next up is a 1968 AMC AMX. Yeah. So what they've done is that they took this car, they took the back seat out of it, and they put what was their high performance motor in it to compete with the Mustang and the Camaros and that sort of stuff. The problem with it is, have you ever seen one of these in person? Yeah. It's big. Yeah. It's a big it's a big it's bigger than a Nova. Oh, and it's bigger than the Camaro, and certainly bigger than the than the Mustang. It's like a Chevelle size. Yes. Yeah. Correct. So a 68 AMC AMX. They didn't build that many of them. So that's kind of a hint at what this car sold for.

Jeff Dziekan 8:04

I'm going to go 23. 23. George is at 1699. The Lusk family's at 19K. And Jeff Heisman is at 29.

Don Armstrong 8:15

Well, everybody is under bid because this car sold for 39,375. Now, it looks stock to me. Does the radio look stock to you? Yeah, it does. Okay. Well, you've got an ashtray. See, I didn't see that. What'd you say, Mike?

Mike Marrs 8:29

I I think it is pretty much stock, so you know, from the other pictures and stuff.

Don Armstrong 8:33

Well, that alone is worth some money.

Jeff Dziekan 8:35

And the ashtray and cigarette lighter raised it. I should have noticed that. Yeah, I think it's a good idea.

Don Armstrong 8:39

Mars got all panicky about the next car. Oh, wow. Because he wrote me and said, listen, he wants it? No.

Mike Marrs 8:45

He wrote me and said, Well, I was thinking our stuff would fit in the back of it for our road trips.

Don Armstrong 8:50

Yeah. Kind of like uh like Bobby at uh Hot Rod Toura, Texas, with the Edsel that's actually um It's a Lincoln, isn't it? It's Oldsmobile. No, it's a it's either a Lincoln or it is a uh uh We'll find out. Yeah, whatever.

Jeff Dziekan 9:07

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 9:08

But this this this is not that. This is a 57 Plymouth Suburban.

Jeff Dziekan 9:14

This that looks like a helicopter uh dash panel almost. Well kind of whatever. Wow they did weird things like that. How much? Uh Flesh Family says 3,000 and it's rough, right?

Don Armstrong 9:25

Well, I think that the the sale price of this is I'm gonna go nine. Nine. I want to say this, and I should have said this up front, that I think that the stickers are all original, that this car was used for something other than a streetcar. Yeah, it looks rough, but it is rough. Jeff Heisman said 17.

Jeff Dziekan 9:46

George's 15,999. Okay.

Don Armstrong 9:48

Well, it's sold for 24,750 for some reason. Wow. Uh, and I think that the stickers probably have something to do with it. It was in some sort of a Pan American race or something.

Mike Marrs 9:57

Oh, the cross-country thing that's yeah.

Don Armstrong 10:00

I like the I like the hubcaps. Dave I love those cats. Those are full wheel covers, sir. Well, yeah, that's right, they are.

Muscle Cars And Nostalgia Buys

SPEAKER_01 10:07

You're right.

Don Armstrong 10:08

Right. Next up, I had one of these. This is a 1985 Chevrolet Camaro. And a couple of years into this car, I decided that I wanted to put some headlight covers on it. And I did. And they made them, they were clear plastic, and I had to drill two holes at the front of the lower part of it, and then they had little nubs that you'd click in there, and then you'd fold them back, and then you'd close the hood.

Jeff Dziekan 10:36

I what color was yours?

Don Armstrong 10:38

Um, silver, I think.

Jeff Dziekan 10:40

I had a 92 RS Victory Red, and I had the headlight covers on it too. Did you? Mine were smoked, mine were black.

Don Armstrong 10:46

Oh, okay. Well, they didn't make the smoked ones then. All right. So how much do you think that this 85 Chevy Camaro went for? It had no horsepower, I'll tell you.

Jeff Dziekan 10:54

I'm gonna say$7,000. Really? Yeah.

Mike Marrs 10:58

Less families at$25. Mr. Heitzman says$42. He likes it.

Don Armstrong 11:04

I know. Apparently. It's gorgeous. Yeah.

Mike Marrs 11:10

It's gorgeous. Um then uh George wants for$13,999.

Don Armstrong 11:15

Well, uh George is closest without going over because it's sold for$16,275.

Jeff Dziekan 11:21

Yeah, good.

Don Armstrong 11:22

Yeah, that that that's an okay price. Yeah, that's the driver.

Jeff Dziekan 11:26

Does it have T-tops? Uh apparently it looks like it. It kind of looks like it. Yes, it did. Yeah.

Don Armstrong 11:31

Yeah, it has T tops. Um if they don't leak, then that's a good thing. But they all leak. Did they make them that don't leak? I don't think so. All right, next up. This is for uh this is for Jeffrey. This is, ladies and gentlemen, a 1976 Cadillac El Dorado Convertible.

Jeff Dziekan 11:50

I'm tearing up.

Don Armstrong 11:52

Are you?

Jeff Dziekan 11:53

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 11:55

This looks uh actually stock. And remember those painted wheel covers? Oh, they're gorgeous. They match the color of the car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So 76 Cadillac El Dorado Convertible. I've driven many of those. Now, did they not have headlight covers on them? No. They didn't. Okay. All right. I thought they, you know, flopped.

Jeff Dziekan 12:13

Oh no, that you're thinking of the Riviera. Okay. Yeah. So 76 Cadillac El Dorado, what did that say? Uh the Lusk family says 50K. 50? Wow. Okay. Heitzman says 51. I'm going to do uh I'm going to do 32.

Don Armstrong 12:30

32.

Jeff Dziekan 12:31

And George's 29,999.

Don Armstrong 12:33

Okay, well, it's sold for 1811. I still would have paid 32.

Mike Marrs 12:41

You'd have to spend the other 10,000 to build your garage big enough to get it in there.

Don Armstrong 12:45

Well, not only that, but you're going to have to get all of the electric motors repaired on everything that is operated by an electric motor, which is probably a thousand things.

Jeff Dziekan 12:54

Well, you know, that's the risk you take, though.

Don Armstrong 12:57

Does the top work?

Jeff Dziekan 12:58

Well, the top's up, yeah. The top's down there and the top's up there. Yeah, they could have done that by hand.

Don Armstrong 13:02

All right, next up, we're gonna go to the other end of the spectrum and to a 64 Shelby Cobra. Now, based on the price, I'm just gonna say to you that this is some sort of an original, uh, unrestored. Uh, it looks like a race car. It's got uh open headers on it. Yeah, collectors, yeah. 64 Shelby Cobra. What do you think that that would go for?

Jeff Dziekan 13:30

Are you sitting down? I'm gonna go 225.$225,000. That's what I'm going. Look at look at the look at the Russ family's a lusk family says 100?

Don Armstrong 13:43

Those are those are in injectors, aren't they?

Jeff Dziekan 13:45

Yeah, they're they're like awesomeness.

Don Armstrong 13:47

Yeah.

Jeff Dziekan 13:48

54 from Mr. Heitman.

Don Armstrong 13:51

Does it say Roush on it? Yeah. Well, Roush, it's a Roush motor, but that that was not that was not stock in 64 like that.

Jeff Dziekan 14:02

George is at 119.999. It sold for you to think this is a factory street car.

Don Armstrong 14:08

No. No, it's a race car. It's got open headers on it.

unknown 14:12

Right.

Don Armstrong 14:13

Collectors. Okay, well it sold for 174.3.

Jeff Dziekan 14:17

Okay.

Don Armstrong 14:18

174.3. And and not only that, but it I don't believe that that car originally had a tilt nose on it. It had a hood. It's been modified for racing. Yeah. Anyway.

Jeff Dziekan 14:32

Hey, I drive it.

Don Armstrong 14:34

$174,000. Quickly. All right. And our last one up this morning is this one, a 1978 Pontiac Firebird. And I picked this out because it looks a little rough. A little? It looks rough. What was that? Is that is let me ask you this. On the motor there, is that a red shop rag? Yeah. It is a red shop rag over the carburetor. They're concealing the uh state of the air.

Jeff Dziekan 15:07

Good sign right there. Secret carburetor. Yeah, top secret carburetor. Not I wonder what the sparkleators look like to have. Who was it that had the TV show with that kind of car? It was a detective show. It lived in a beach house or something.

Don Armstrong 15:21

Oh, that was James Garner. James Garner, yeah. What was the name of the show? I don't remember the name of the show, but at any rate.

Jeff Dziekan 15:27

Jeff says 13 on this. The Lusk family says five, and I'm with you on that. I'm going to go seven. Jeff is 13. George is 179.

Don Armstrong 15:39

Sold for$7,600.

Jeff Dziekan 15:43

Just bought me a car. Look what I bought. Yeah. Yeah. Don't show it to Kathy. She says, you're not going to put that on mine. Now, don't buy that for Mother's Day. That's not a Mother's Day print.

Mike Marrs 15:53

And if you're worried about the T tops leaking, if you'll notice that bottom left-hand corner there, the floorboard, there's a hole that goes through, so it'll drain right on through down onto the ground. Rockfit files. Rockfruit files. That was the name of it.

Jeff Dziekan 16:06

It looks like it's got some somebody attempted wood grain on the side there on that shop. Oh my God. Oh, that's Bobo, sorry.

Mike Marrs 16:14

That's the rust that's not fixed but painted on.

Jeff Dziekan 16:17

Uh-huh. Throw some paint on it. Oh my gosh. The wheel, the honeycomb wheels are probably uh a good thing if they're not scuffed up.

Don Armstrong 16:24

Well, but they're not stock. No. They they I think that the um the fire that that cannot be a real honest to god firebird.

Mike Marrs 16:36

I I think it is.

Jeff Dziekan 16:37

Well, Hemings would have to disclaim it.

unknown 16:40

Yeah.

Jeff Dziekan 16:40

Whatever.

Mike Marrs 16:41

I mean, there are more pictures of it with the uh the reversed hood scoop that goes through the hood. Yeah. It came with that, or that car has it. Let me rephrase that.

Jeff Dziekan 16:50

I was just gonna say it's a firebird, not a TA. We don't we don't know.

Mike Marrs 16:57

We'd have to do a little more digging.

Don Armstrong 16:59

We're going down the translator with the I know, but we're getting down the shop rag on the carburetor pretty well says it off. Yeah, yes, yeah. What happened to the what happened to that air filter? Oh, we threw it away, didn't work for anyone.

Mike Marrs 17:10

Shop rags are cheaper, collects more dirt. Yeah.

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Don Armstrong 17:15

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unknown 19:15

Okay.

Don Armstrong 19:15

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Jeff Dziekan 19:21

No, I was thinking, well, we just had a Mexican food commercial and I was thinking a little cramped up.

Don Armstrong 19:27

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Jeff Dziekan 19:32

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Don Armstrong 19:40

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Jeff Dziekan 19:58

And if you're in Mike's area of, you know, in the Beaumont area, uh, they've got one out there too. Yeah. Right there on the freeway. Several down here in the Houston, Richmond, Sugarland area.

Where Full-Page Car Ads Went

Don Armstrong 20:07

All right, time out for Jeff's car culture. Where did the full-page car ad go?

Jeff Dziekan 20:12

Well, uh we talked in the preview of the show that well uh Mike and I were trying to coordinate some videos of some of the old car commercials, Dinosaur, Chevrolet, you know, the Bonanza Boys, all that. Couldn't really coordinate that, so we came up with this. Uh they're static. These are actual magazine ads from back in the day. The first one that we've got is basically a vintage 1966 ad, and it's good deals back in the day, is what it's what it's called. No, that's not the right one, is it, Mike?

Don Armstrong 20:39

That's not the that's not a 66, I can tell you that.

Jeff Dziekan 20:42

But that's okay. Let's move on to this. This one, I believe, is uh well, don't know what that is. That's the chrome, chrome head more chrome in 1957. That's not even it. Move on to the next one, Michael.

Don Armstrong 20:55

That's a pretty picture.

Jeff Dziekan 20:56

Yeah, it is. This one is uh the Cadillac. Yeah, it's a chrome uh chrome chrome and more chrome is what that is. So you'd see that in a magazine ad, you'd be flipping through your uh uh with the ladies' magazines that they had back in the day, you that would pop up. Look, look magazine. There you go. Look at that. Move on to the next one here. The LaSalle. The LaSalle. That one is uh the 1240. It's for$1,240. So you won't find that on Hemings for$1240, that's for sure. Nice little family.

Don Armstrong 21:33

Yes. What does it say something? Now go go sailing on the highway. Yeah, now we'll go sailing on the highway.

Jeff Dziekan 21:43

Yeah, as a Mercury A for 41. Look at that bad boy. Yeah, not a big fan, but whatever. But it's the way they actually drew that picture, the rendering of it. That's that's pretty nice.

Don Armstrong 21:53

You don't see it. The one thing that I've noticed on these, they they actually didn't take a picture. Picture of the car. Somebody did a drawing.

Jeff Dziekan 22:03

It was like Bill Heitrick making a rendering, yeah. The artist back in the design shops of the actual manufacturer would make the pictures. Like you see in today's automotive car shows where they make an actual picture of the car. That's what they would do.

Don Armstrong 22:17

Mercury 8 for 1941. Next up. Ooh, it's a Woody.

Jeff Dziekan 22:24

Yeah. Boston.

Don Armstrong 22:26

I hit Boston and Buenos Aires. Yeah. You got a little European flair there with the wooden sides of the wagon.

Mike Marrs 22:35

And of course the other thing, almost all of them have got family members in them, either in the cars or even the drawings. But you know who makes that? Jeep.

Jeff Dziekan 22:46

That's a Jeep.

Don Armstrong 22:48

It is a Jeep.

Jeff Dziekan 22:48

So you could have a Jeep down.

Don Armstrong 22:50

Is it a wagoneer?

Jeff Dziekan 22:51

Uh that I don't know. But you could drive it from Boston all the way down to West. That's right. Stick it on the boat. Well, no, I think you could be yeah, you could probably get there.

unknown 23:02

Yeah.

Jeff Dziekan 23:03

You'd have to cross the uh Panama Canal to put it on a boat. Okay. This is going well. Yeah, okay.

Don Armstrong 23:12

Nash Nash. Combined with Rambler, and it was called a Nash Rambler eventually.

Jeff Dziekan 23:19

And that's uh every engineer in the air, or every engineer the air. That's what it is.

Don Armstrong 23:27

We've we've re-engineered the air.

Jeff Dziekan 23:29

Yeah, something like that.

Don Armstrong 23:30

I guess because of its aerodynamic capabilities. And that big old front end looks like a fence.

Jeff Dziekan 23:36

It does.

Don Armstrong 23:36

Yeah, it really does. Not really attractive.

Mike Marrs 23:40

No wonder they're not. Flat fenders, kind of like uh uh back into the 40s, maybe even 30s.

Jeff Dziekan 23:46

That's for the coefficient. The drag coefficient. That's right. All right, Mike. Next.

Don Armstrong 23:54

I don't know how many you got there.

Jeff Dziekan 23:56

Oh, yeah. This is my favorite.

Don Armstrong 23:58

This one is uh uh blindfold test opens eyes of motorists.

Mike Marrs 24:04

Yeah, so you're driving blindfolded?

Don Armstrong 24:06

No, the driver's not blindfolded. Come on, look at the you gotta look at the picture, Mike.

Jeff Dziekan 24:12

Why are we on the why are we on this dirt road in the middle of nowhere and you got a shovel in your hand?

Don Armstrong 24:19

Because they're trying to demonstrate, apparently, the ride quality of it. Right, right. Oh, rides like a Cadillac, but it's a dodge. It's a dodge. And why do you have rope?

Mike Marrs 24:32

It's just that's crazy.

Jeff Dziekan 24:34

Thank you, Mike. That didn't work out. No, it didn't work out at all. What happened? I uh well, they were kind of different that they were they were not in order. I might have sent them the wrong ones.

Mike Marrs 24:45

Well, there was no order.

Newspaper Car Deals And Fine Print

Don Armstrong 24:48

There was no order, great. Well, we you know what, we need to try that again. We'll do it again. And we needed to we need I want newspaper ads of car dealerships. All right. Um that and they they should be easy to find because I ran across one. I I'm on the same. I sent it with you. Yeah, I sent it over to you, but I was too late getting it to you to put on there. But I will tell you that uh it's funny because if you remember correctly, on the weekends, mainly on Saturday, the car dealerships used to run full page newspaper ads for the cars. Well, that one there is the parts department at Kmart.

Jeff Dziekan 25:25

Yeah, that's the one you sent me.

Don Armstrong 25:26

Yeah. And uh the full pay and they had all of the prices, all of the cars on there. So you go there and say, I want that car right there. Oh, I'm sorry, we sold that. Yeah. I don't think it'd be differ it'd be difficult to do these days, especially with the new laws that in the lawsuits.

Mike Marrs 25:44

Exactly. Yeah.

Don Armstrong 25:44

Yeah. I don't know how you'd do it, but you'd have to do it online, I guess. But uh yeah, full page ads, all of the new cars, all of the used cars, and then there was always a big thing in there about you know oil changes uh this weekend or$9.95 or whatever it was. And different grades of oil. Yeah, good bad. Yep, all that. And you could also buy tires. I know at Richardson Chevrolet, guess what kind of tires we sold? Don't know. Armstrong tires. Oh boy. Armstrong the road. Do you remember those ads? Armstrong tires?

Mike Marrs 26:16

Now that you mention it.

Don Armstrong 26:18

Yeah. Wow. Well, that was back in the day. Armstrong tires. Do they still make those? I bet you.

Jeff Dziekan 26:23

It was U Royal, wasn't it? Uh I I don't I don't think they make them. Armstrong tires. But don't know.

Don Armstrong 26:29

Yeah. Said I thought Armstrong on the side of the tire. Look at that.

Jeff Dziekan 26:33

Yeah. Famous.

Don Armstrong 26:35

They were proud. I wasn't. I was embarrassed. Because I mean, no, who would who would go at that time? You'd never go to the car dealership and buy tires. Unless you they came in on a wrecker and you had no choice. Collision shop or something else. Yeah.

Mike Marrs 26:53

Well, you for one thing you don't think about it. And you just that's not where I would think about going to buy tires for my car.

Tire Talk Then Closing Invitation

Don Armstrong 26:59

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