The Revival of the Scout and the Car Show Scene

Dealership Service and Direct Sales Debate

Speaker 1 0:01

Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast , the world's favorite place to go for fun , romance and informative car talk . This is the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show . Just ahead we're going to talk to an expert about salt water in your automobile , uh-oh . Later , jeff has the racing calendar , mars has this week in auto history and I'll get you caught up on some more of the stories making automotive news headlines this week . Howdy Along with Mike out of this world . Mars down there in the red , jeff over here in that sultry gray T-shirt . Yep , I'm Don Armstrong , glad you could join us today . David Ainsley is taking the day off . He is Well deserved . Oh , come on . Well , he worked his tail off last week , did he ? Yeah , wolfing down that chili dog that we had out there . That ?

Speaker 3 0:54

chili dog kind of stuck with you a little bit , see , and that's that's why I didn't have one . I eat healthy .

Speaker 1 1:06

What were you going to say , mars ? I was just going to say all the way home it was , let you know that it was in there . So did you think you had a hydrogen leak or what ?

Speaker 2 1:11

I'd probably been better off if it had been hydrogen yeah .

Speaker 3 1:16

Oh my , Did your glass bulb break ?

Speaker 1 1:18

Nope , do we have Ms Fardsworth yet ?

Speaker 2 1:23

Not yet I'm trying to figure out where she went . Okay , okay .

Speaker 1 1:26

It's over there . Oh , you wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with .

Speaker 3 1:30

Pepsodent With niacin and thiamine . I think that's another pill . Oh , is it Something like that ? The Carter's Little Liver pills Niacin and thiamine , thiamine .

Speaker 1 1:45

Thiamin , thiamin , thiamin . Yeah , I think it's an ointment . Either that or it's a guy that you used to work with years ago , johnny Thiamin Uh-huh , that's it oh , johnny , johnny .

Speaker 2 1:51

Thiamin , johnny boy , johnny Diamond's cousin .

Speaker 1 1:59

Dealership service departments . Let's talk about them . What you got ? Well , another interesting story from Automotive News . I try to pick out the really interesting and involved . Sure . Dealership service departments saw a 14-point jump in its customer satisfaction score in the latest CDK service shopper study . Say that fast , five times , no , I'm not going to . The 2,500 customers surveyed by CDK for its annual look at the service and parts industry gave dealerships a net promoter score of 59 , up from 45 just a year ago . The score is a customer satisfaction rating based on whether they would likely recommend a business . A score of 50 or more is considered good . Independent repair facilities received a score of 66 . They , too , up 10 points from 2023 . Chain service providers scored a 48 , up two points from a year ago . Now , to me , a chain service provider would be somebody like a Firestone . Yeah , yeah , you know . Sure , you buy tires there , but you can also get your car serviced there , mm-hmm .

Speaker 3 3:18

Under one roof , one-stop shop , yeah .

Speaker 1 3:22

Price transparency is so key right now , according to David Thomas , director of Content Marketing at CDK Global , and while some respondents in their comments said they'll never go to a dealer because they believe their prices are too high , it really has come through in the past few years . The dealerships are doing a very good job of competing on price now , and as younger owners come in , they see dealers in a different light than older buyers . We're not just talking about Gen Z . Most of it is the millennial side of things . They're regarding dealers in a better light as well . The study also showed the relationship between a good customer experience and service and future new car vehicle sales is intertwined . Nearly 80% of respondents said for repairs and maintenance , they went to the dealership where they purchased their vehicle . And when somebody says to me you know what kind of car you should buy , it's very difficult for me to answer that question . Well , what's your budget Right ? What are you looking for , particularly Because there are so many different kinds of parts ?

Speaker 3 4:28

and models . How are you going to use ?

Speaker 1 4:29

it Right . But one of the things that I include in there where are you going to buy it ? Drill down , do your research , get the good reviews and if you have to drive a few more miles , then do that . But the dealership plays a huge part , not only in the sale of your vehicle but in parts and service yeah , of your vehicle , but in parts and service , because chances are you're going to get it serviced or warranty work done at the vehicle place where you bought the car . Absolutely the top reasons survey respondents gave for choosing a dealership for service were staff knowledge , existing relationship , good reputation , specialized parts for their vehicle make and model and a convenient location , which is kind of what I was saying .

Speaker 3 5:14

Yeah , yeah , I agree , you can take it back and that way , not only that , but they keep records , yeah , records , until the end of time if you keep taking it there , absolutely .

Speaker 1 5:24

So I think it's important to consider the dealer . Yeah , what are you guys doing over there ? I see blank screens and stuff .

Speaker 2 5:31

Well , he's trying to chase down our guest .

Speaker 3 5:34

Carry the one plus seven . He's doing his taxes .

Speaker 1 5:42

I have another dealership story that I kind of put down at the bottom of the stack . Lay it on us . International Scout story that I kind of put down at the bottom , lay it on a stack International Scout . I know , mars , you're going to cover this story in another segment here , but this is a story that really kind of hit this week . So they're bringing back the Scout name again and in the Scout name it used to be International Scout , international Harvester Scout , all that .

Speaker 1 6:13

Well , apparently Volkswagen has bought the name Scout and they're going to make an electric EV , a SUV and a truck , but they announced this week that they're going to sell direct to the consumer . Oh , and the dealers are ticked the VW dealers , because they thought that they were going to get the Scout . Sure , eh , not Direct to the consumer . Kind of like Tesla , tesla , yeah , there's no showroom per se . You'll probably go to some scout place there . It is right . There Can we take it for a test drive ? Sure , but we can't sell it to you here . You have to go online and buy it , which I think is interesting . And Tesla's not the only one . I believe that Rivian is another one , which I think is interesting . Tesla's not the only one . I believe that Rivian is another one , and there's another electric vehicle maker that they're also selling direct to the consumer .

Speaker 3 7:18

So you buy it online , you put all your information online to the scout entity and you go and pick up your vehicle .

Speaker 2 7:27

Now what happens today ? Or they deliver it .

Speaker 3 7:29

Whatever the case , your data is online doing that , so anybody can kind of like dip in all the blacks .

Speaker 2 7:36

I think you would probably end up saying here's my banker Contact them to get the loans and all that stuff .

Speaker 3 7:42

You think that's what it is . Yeah , I don't think , are you going to put in your account numbers or anything ? It would be just like going to a regular car dealer . I mean , the bank gives them the information for your money . They still have to plug in your social security number . If you're buying it through finance , you've got to plug all that stuff in .

Speaker 2 7:59

Yeah , it just scares me , that's all . Well , I don't do that , but I do some buying online , but it's always run into a credit card or an app or something .

Speaker 3 8:10

It's just scary To me it's scary .

Speaker 1 8:12

It is . Well , I think that they're trying to get rid of the middleman and I think that really , I know that I'm old and I know that I'm more of a traditionalist when it comes to that sort of stuff . But I want to have a relationship with a dealer , somebody that I can go in there and talk to the salesman , talk to the parts department , talk to the service department . I want to be able to pick up the phone and say hey , the car's broken down , Come get it and let them handle it .

Speaker 2 8:45

Well , and where I'm at which is I mean mean there's area down there off the grid march . Well , no , there's about 250 , 260 000 people down there and saw rivian the other day going down the street . We actually have a rivian , but the teslas and things like that they have to bring them to houston to get them worked on . Now bmw is over there now they got a place you can get it worked on over there . But but the other ones and

Dealer Presence in the Golden Triangle

Speaker 2 9:10

I just can't imagine .

Speaker 1 9:10

But wait a minute . Aren't you in the Beaumont Orange Triangle ?

Speaker 3 9:14

Yeah , in the Golden Triangle .

Speaker 1 9:16

That's where you are in the Golden Triangle .

Speaker 2 9:18

Yes , sir , they call it Golden for different reasons , because of the oil , yeah , all the money and stuff , but there's no dealer presence over there to get your car fixed or for some of these makes how many people live in the Golden Triangle area . There's about 250,000 . That's all yeah In between the three big cities there and all the little towns . I only got like 15,000 , 18,000 in my town but we're bordered by towns so we can't grow physically anymore and there's several little towns like that .

Speaker 3 9:48

So someone could come in and annex you another city that wants to take over ? Probably not . No , no , no , they can't .

Speaker 1 9:55

Because I think that his city is incorporated .

Speaker 2 9:57

They bumped up against the city limits . Bump up against each other . Kind of like some of the towns over here Bel Air , sugar Land there's a town . You cross the street , you're in a different town , but it's Sugar Land . There's a town , you cross the street , you're in a different town . That's interesting . There's just no dealers over there .

Speaker 1 10:10

Well , I was going to say with that few people , I mean , unless you've got you know there used to be the Chevy store , right ? How many Chevy stores do they have in your area ?

Speaker 2 10:22

Two In the Golden Triangle . Two , I'm thinking two , okay .

Speaker 1 10:28

But that would be out of the norm , because you said that they just now , recently , got a BMW dealership over there , yeah , in Beaumont .

Speaker 2 10:36

In Beaumont there's a BMW , a Mercedes , just one , but they're at the same thing .

Speaker 1 10:41

Think of the volume that they have to do at that dealership to support the dealership . I mean they got the light bill to pay , they got the employees to pay , they got parts in the parts department that they got to pay for .

Speaker 2 10:53

they don't get those for free no , I understand , don't get me wrong , but the the idea that you're going to sell online , like the tesla or even the scout . I can go in there and buy one and I can get it shipped down to where my house . They'll drop it in my driveway , I guess the tesla they would . But then when it breaks I gotta have it picked up and I gotta send it to houston . I guess if there's a , if there's a scout dealership here in houston , tesla for sure it's got to come back to houston to get it fixed and then it's got to come back down to me . So your day , minimum a day going each way just to travel and get it , and the inconvenience I fiat , that's another one one . If you want to buy a little Fiat , for some reason you're not going to get it fixed down there , not under warranty .

Speaker 1 11:34

Because there's not a deal . Did you buy an Alpha toenail down there ? Nope .

Speaker 2 11:38

Don't believe you can . Interesting the marketing plan , I understand it and in theory it looks like it makes it out to people like me out in the middle of nowhere . But by the same token I may not buy it just because of the inconvenience of I've got to ship it off to Houston or Dallas someplace .

Speaker 1 11:57

Well , again , more importantly , the fact that you need a dealer .

Speaker 2 12:02

Right , even you here in Sugar Land . Where's the Tesla dealer ? He's up north , isn't he ?

Speaker 3 12:08

No , there's a Tesla on 59 in .

Speaker 2 12:11

Richmond and Rosenberg . Richmond and Rosenberg , it's probably maybe eight miles , nine miles from here , but it's not a dealer . No , just a service center , a showroom , service center Right .

Speaker 1 12:20

You can't buy one there .

Speaker 3 12:21

Across the street . There is a Tesla facility for training Directly across the street . For Tesla facility for training directly across the street . For what ? For training , training Tesla technicians and things . I saw a Tesla repair truck the little minivans they have , and it's gas , obviously , and you see the gas flap and everything . When you overfill your tank , some catanus drips out . There's a big line of gas stuck and stained to the side of the Tesla . Hilarious , I almost took a picture of it . I couldn't get it , but the Tesla Electric Service Center truck had gas drip down the side . It was incredible .

Speaker 1 12:56

Only you would see something like that .

Speaker 3 12:58

I think it's hilarious .

Speaker 1 13:00

Well , at any rate , I think that dealers are . I don't think that they have anything to worry about . To be honest with you .

Speaker 3 13:08

Especially the one , sterling McCall , that sells Buicks . They're doing fine .

Speaker 1 13:14

Scout said it's going to sell the Terra pickup and traveler SUV direct to consumers and bypass the Volkswagen dealer body known well by CEO Scott Keogh , the American executive who previously led Volkswagen Group of America and Audi of America . Scout has likely opened the door to legal action by national and state dealer associations that have voiced frustration by a lack of communication over the brand's retail plans . Scout is targeting retail prices under $60,000 for both models when production begins in 2027 . It's 2027 ? It's not too far off , Well , I know , but I mean , we're still in 24 . That's three years away .

Speaker 1 14:01

Ending Two model years away for sure it began taking $100 refundable reservations . Selling vehicles direct to consumer has been a pain point for franchise dealers since Tesla disrupted the legacy model . Electric vehicle makers Rivian and Lucid have followed suit . All three have faced fierce opposition from dealer trade groups and state legislators . There you go , I guess we're on the take ?

Speaker 2 14:25

I don't know . Well , you know we could do that . We could go out and say , ah , I just bought a new Scout . I put my $100 down , and then they come up and say well , in two years , hey , we're ready to gift you a Scout over there . Now , give me my $100 back . I don't want it .

Speaker 1 14:39

No , I think I'd take it , I'd flip it . Well , maybe not you over there , but for us here in the Houston market , if I could get a Bronco , if I could get a Scout , buy it and flip it . If you can do that . You know a lot of these manufacturers that have these off-the-cuff things , one-offs and things like that . You can't do that . They make you sign a contract . Like the Corvette when it first came out you had to sign a contract that you wouldn't flip it . You had to keep it . So many months .

Speaker 3 15:15

Keep it a year . It's up to a year , I think .

Speaker 2 15:17

Ford did that with a couple of their cars Exactly .

Speaker 1 15:19

And GM went after the people that did it and I'm sure that Lost Not .

Speaker 3 15:25

GM . But the people , people , yeah , you sign it , you sign it , yeah , you betcha , there's that .

Speaker 1 15:30

Shall we take a break ? We can . It looks like Ms Farnsworth has stood us up . No , no .

Speaker 3 15:36

She's got other things to do , evidently she stood us up . Yeah , she stood us up , right ? Yeah , I thought .

Speaker 2 15:43

I missed something there , Jeff . Maybe I missed something there , jeff .

Speaker 3 15:45

Maybe I did , I don't know . All right , I only had two margaritas last night , the In Real Time , I know , and it's still working on you .

Speaker 1 15:51

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Car Show and Charity Events

Speaker 1 16:20

Saturday , november 16th . Bring a new , unwrapped toy and get a free breakfast . Taco . Toys will be donated to Toys for Tots and Houston Children's Charity . Get to the best and one of the last Cruisians of the year Tailpipes and Tacos . Saturday , november 16th , 8 to 11 am . Cruisian . Donate a new , unwrapped toy and grab a free Loopy Tortilla Breakfast Taco . Tailpipes and Tacos only happens at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy , 703 West Grand Parkway at Kingsland Boulevard , just south of the Katy Freeway . It's the end-of-the-year car show season and what better way to celebrate than with a free taco and camaraderie at Tailpipes and Tacos . Saturday , november 16th , 8 to 11 am . The in-wheel time car talk show will be there too . Bring a toy , get a free Loopy taco and feel good about heading into the holiday season at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy .

Speaker 1 17:08

Is your car ready for that all-important holiday road trip ? Gulf Coast Auto Shield is having another Car Social Saturday December 7th , and you're invited . Bring your car , truck or SUV and find out what it'll take to get that thing looking new again . Gulf Coast Auto Shield is your one-stop shop for paint detailing , coatings , window tint , clear bras , camera installs and wheel repair . The Car Social is your opportunity to get a tour of this state-of-the-art facility located at 11275 South Sam Houston Parkway , just south of the Southwest Freeway .

Speaker 1 17:38

Join the Car Social Saturday , december 7th , 9 to noon . Talk to other owners and see how good your car can look on the road trip . To Aunt Mary's She'll want that good-looking ride in her driveway . I promise Put it on your calendar the Gulf Coast Auto Shield Holiday Car Social and Road Trip . Get Ready Saturday , december 7th , 9 to noon at 11275 South Sam Houston Parkway , just south of the Southwest Freeway . The In Real Time Car Talk Show will be there too . We'll see you then . And speaking of remote broadcasts , we've got more coming Hemi Hideout Open House November 9th , tailpipes and Tacos November 16th and Gulf Coast Auto Shield December 7th . We hope you'll stop by the In Real Time Remote Broadcast booth and say hello .

Speaker 3 18:20

Now on Hemi Hideout , it's $10 cash and you do have to pre-register Per person . Per person and they'll match it to their charities because they do a lot with the charities in the area , but you have to pre-register , I believe yeah .

Speaker 1 18:33

Okay , so you go to the website hemihydeoutcom , or you can call the number that I gave there . And you can't buy a ticket , you go and you donate the $10 at the door , right , right .

Speaker 3 18:45

But they have to know how many people are coming , so they've got to arrange for parking and all that . Yeah , it's best to do it .

Speaker 1 18:52

Just do it , we'll be there If you've not been there , I encourage you in the most sincere way to go and see it . Even if you're not a car person , go and see it . The neon signs are worth it . The dinosaur head is worth it .

Speaker 3 19:07

There's motorcycles , there's all kinds of historical things .

Speaker 1 19:11

Farm tractors . Yes , caterpillar tractors , you name it , it's there and it's a beautiful setting .

Speaker 3 19:18

He's got a collection of old ammunition yeah .

Speaker 1 19:22

Incredible . Yeah , it's back there where the chuck wagon is . Yeah , yeah .

Speaker 2 19:26

First time I saw that I said how old is some of this stuff ? I mean , you know , yeah .

Speaker 1 19:31

The chuck wagon . You really . It gives you a different perspective . You saw them on all the Westerns back in the day , yeah , yeah , but to see a real , honest to God chuck wagon from the time , from the time period you're going . Well , this thing isn't very big . No , they're not very big . And they carried all of the supplies on there Supplies , Supplies . That's why they had lots of beans . They'd sit around the fire and eat the beans .

Speaker 3 19:58

The Charles Wagon is what it was . Chuck was his nickname . They've got one of these in front of the Walgreens stores . They used to have the mechanical horses and things like that . He's got one there that actually works . Oh yeah , I've got video of Kathy on that , so it's fun stuff to do there . It really is Okay .

Speaker 1 20:19

Time now for the racing calendar sponsored by Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge .

Speaker 3 20:23

Yeah , Sunday , october 27th , which is tomorrow , nascar Cup Series in Miami . I believe this is it . This is the championship Really going on , really . That's all I've got , that's what I know . And then we've got NHRA November 3rd at the Nevada Nationals in Las Vegas . So that's coming up next weekend . It's going to be an FS1 . We did the Circuit of the America was last week for the Formula 1 .

Speaker 1 20:52

Where are they this week for the Formula 1 .

Speaker 3 20:53

Yeah , yeah , yeah , when are they this week ? Uh-oh , I lost a page . Anyways , Formula 1 , it's out there . You can watch it . All that good stuff , IMSA and the IRL stuff , the Indy stuff is over with .

Speaker 1 21:03

They've crowned their champions and they're getting ready for next season and , by the way , speaking of next next weekend , is down at the Motorsports Ranch . Right , it's going to be a fun weekend down there . Go check that out online . They're down between , probably down near Angleton , just this side of Angleton .

Speaker 3 21:25

Okay . Well , back to Formula One . Never mind , they're in Mexico City next week or this week , Mexico City .

Speaker 1 21:33

Everybody's wearing a sombrero . There you go . All right time now for this Week in Auto History , mr Mars .

Speaker 2 21:40

Yeah , it's a real interesting week this week in automotive history , and I wanted to start with October the 19th 1982 . Now this story is about John DeLorean . He was a star at General Motors . He played a pivotal role in the development of vehicles like the Pontiac GTO , the Nova and the Vega , but he's best known for his vision of creating a stainless steel sports car , the DeLorean DMC-12 . Of course , this has got the distinctive gullwing doors and was in the 1985 film .

Speaker 2 22:08

Back to the Future Now , october the 19th is when DeLorean was charged with cocaine trafficking . It took until August 1984 , almost two years for him to be acquitted of the drug charges . The jury found that he had been a victim of entrapment by federal agents posing as drug traffickers . The idea was they were going to make him get him enough money that he could . He was desperate to make his dream come true and they took advantage of that . So while he was clear to the charges , the ongoing effort to clear his name and all the financial woes that came around from all of that event really took its toll and on March 2005 , john Z DeLorean passed away at the age of 80 . Now , october the 22nd 1936 . I remember it well . You were probably there because the drivers road tested the Volkswagen Type 1 prototype for the first time . The car was proposed , designed and engineered by Ferdinand Porsche and his team under contract Porsche Porsche I knew her and his team under the contract of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party , and it was labeled Volkswagen , that's not the original .

Speaker 1 23:12

That's not the original , that's not the 30-something , because the 30-something's got that little bitty tiny back window . No , no , there is no picture of it .

Speaker 2 23:18

Opera window in the back yeah , that I could find , so it translated . Anyway , it was called the people's car because it was supposed to be affordable , reliable and simple to work on , and so everybody could get it . They had a financing set up and all that . Top speed on it was 62 miles an hour , which was perfect for Germany's brand new Autobahn . I will tell you this .

Speaker 1 23:38

I think back in the day everybody knew somebody . If you didn't own one yourself , that had a Volkswagen bug .

Speaker 2 23:46

Worked on , several of them Sunk . One of them , the Type 1 , eventually outsold the Model T with 21,529,464 produced between 1938 and 2003 . Became the best-selling car in the world up to that point . Last Type 1 Beetle left the assembly line in 2003 down in Mexico because they passed a new law down there . Because of all the crime , all the taxis had to have four doors , no more two doors . Too easy to rob them , so they phased out because that was their biggest market . Was the taxis Now rolling into the big one ? October 21 , 1980 .

Speaker 2 24:25

The International Harvester Company actually became to fruition because of a merger between pay attention here McCormick Harvesting Machine Company , the Deering Harvesting Company , the Milwaukee Harvesting Machine Company , the Plano Manufacturing Company and Warder , bushnell and Gessner all combined in 1902 to create the International Harvester Manufacturing Company . They made big tractors . Then they started building trucks in 1907 for farm work . Now they were commercial , selling the trucks they were successful at that and the farm equipment . But they launched their Jeep competitor , the Scout , in 1960 , and that would become the company's most successful consumer vehicle to October 21 , 1980 . They actually sold 532,674 Scouts throughout that decade .

Speaker 2 25:17

Now , to go along with that , what we were talking about earlier , october the 24th , 19 , I mean 2024 , scout Motors introduces an all-new vehicle lineup . Now they're going to bring back the two vehicles . They're going to first be the TerraTruck and it's inspired by the first Scout ever built and it shares the same colors . The second is the SUV and it's based on the last Scout that was ever built . Do you have pictures of that ? The new ones ? Yeah , no , I didn't include them because I really wasn't going to deal on it . I just was using that as a coincidence because two days after the date that they stopped making that they were reintroducing . So anyway , it goes into some details about what they can do and what they can't do . But it was kind of interesting the way they're doing that . Like we were talking earlier about the Don dealers and how it's going to be interesting . But that was this week in automotive history .

Speaker 1 26:07

Thank you , Almost a quarter of electric vehicles in the US may become eligible for a $4,000 tax credit in January , according to data from Recurrent , but they are not all created equal . The EV model year must be at least two years older than the current calendar year , among other requirements , in order to be eligible for the federal tax credit up to $4,000 . That means January 1 , 2025 , the 2023 model year vehicles may qualify , and the percentage of potentially eligible used EVs will jump to 89% from 65% Now . Keep this in mind . First-generation EVs have design flaws and technological quirks that render them a mixed bag in terms of value . Late model-use vehicles are typically more reliable , though different climates or histories can affect battery health . Model year and use case discrepancies create a lot of work for consumers interested in purchasing used EVs ahead of the major incentive milestone . The average used EV with 25,000 to 49,999 miles on the odometer costs $27,639 , nearly 9% cheaper than the $30,000 for a used internal combustion engine , because the battery is going bye-bye pretty soon Expensive . So there's that , all right . We're going to wrap up today's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show right after a quick break and we hope you'll stay with us .

Speaker 1 27:40

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Speaker 1 28:41

The fabulous Hemi Hideout is having an open house and you're invited . Mark your calendar for Saturday , november 9th , 1030 to 1230 , and make a reservation today for a two-hour opportunity to see an eye-popping tribute to American muscle cars , a collection of neon signs that'll dazzle , all in a venue like no other in the country . Entry to this rare Hemi Hideout open house is by reservation only 713-825-2555 . The $10 cash donation per person is matched and given to Brookshire Charities . See you November 9th at the Hemi Hideout . In real time . I'll be there too . Well , that's all for this week's In Real Time Car Talk Show . Be sure and check out our website if you would inrealtimecom . Follow us on Facebook , Give us a like , tell your friends or car friends about us and share our stuff . We'll keep you connected to all things automotive all week long . The love line is open and can be reached at info at inwheeltimecom . I kind of got the love thing going on , I guess so .

Speaker 1 29:37

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Speaker 1 30:14

Our live broadcast runs from 10 to noon central time on all of our in real time car talk outlets . Be safe out there , have a great weekend and have a spookacular Halloween week , All right . That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show . I'm Don Armstrong , inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook , YouTube , Twitch and our InWheelTimecom website . Podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Stitcher , iHeart Podcast , Podcast , Addict TuneIn , Pandora and Amazon Music . Keep listening and we'll see you soon .