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I'm going to talk to Richard Tomlin about his Wrench Rally 3.
All right.
Detroit to College Station.
Ah!
I'm going to revert.
What could go wrong there?
Yeah.
I'll review the Bronco Stroke Edition.
Plus, Jeff has this week's Motor Minute just ahead
on the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
How do you along with Mike out of this world Mars,
we always need more Jeff Seekin'
and to my right over here, the infamous
who let us borrow his beautiful neat garage.
What is it, David?
He had his headset on.
He could talk to you.
He's looking at you to pot him up.
You can turn that music down.
Okay.
And get out of my garage.
Well, that's not going to happen.
Now, see, we'll say this, that you could cut us off
and go, I don't know what happened, something happened.
Blew the breaker.
Blew the breaker.
Or when your son comes home and hits the garage door.
Oh yeah, that's it.
Yeah, I can turn it off.
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
Well, so Richard Tomlin, I guess it was Richard.
We're going to find out.
Richard, are you there?
Good morning to you, sir.
I had him there.
Good morning.
Are you there?
I'm here.
Okay, good.
It's good to see you, good to hear you.
We're going to pull your picture up here
so everybody can see.
There he is.
There he is.
Richard, was it you that came up with the wrench rally?
You can hear me now.
Loud and clear.
Yeah, we can hear you loud and clear.
So was it you that came up with the wrench rally?
I do not know.
I don't think he can hear us.
He can't hear us.
David, would you work with Mr. Tomlin here
and hopefully get him on the air with us?
We can hear you.
Can you hear us?
Now I can hear you back.
Okay.
All right.
Well, we never left.
Are we going to do this?
Yes.
Yes.
I'm glad to get you to come in.
I'm not going to be on the rally,
but I'm asking you, were you the one that came up
with the wrench rally?
Correct.
We were sitting around having beer and a good time
and watching old roadkill and Top Gear and Cannonball Run
and we said we should do something like that.
And that was 2022.
We got the next morning and called a bunch of friends
and within a month we had created wrench rally.
We flew to Seattle.
Everybody bought cars for $1,500 and we bonsied back
to Houston in two and a half days.
And we found out that was a little too much.
So we've slowed the pace down and originally we were donating
the cars to single mothers when we got back to town.
And now we are working with Drive for the Cure.
All the money we raised this year will be going
to Parkinson's Research.
So it's going to be pretty entertaining.
So explain to everybody exactly how this works.
Well, we all jump on planes.
We fly this seat.
Well, this time it'll be to Detroit.
Some of us will drive up there.
We have a service truck that runs behind us.
So I'll drive up there.
But basically you show up when you want.
If it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever.
You buy your vehicle Wednesday.
You show up.
We basically inspect the vehicle.
Make sure it's good.
We've got a cap of $2250 this year.
Go out and buy a vehicle.
We verify that you paid that much for it.
If you go over that budget, then you immediately donate
that right to charity.
No problem.
You can get a better vehicle if you want.
But the purpose of this is to get something that forces you
to learn a little bit, to wrench on a car,
to work with somebody on repairing a car.
And in the end, once we've done four days traveling across
the great United States and round route 66,
that we can sell on eBay motors or cars and bids.
And then all that money gets donated directly to the charity.
So this is about going out having fun with friends on the road
and then selling a car at the end for charity
and then going home with a road trip to tell for a lifetime.
Give me some examples of cars that you can purchase for $2,200.
We have found four-wheel drive 7-3 turbo diesel ambulances
in Detroit running and driving for $2,000.
With the body still in it.
With the cannonball run, that is the perfect vehicle.
Is the gurney still in the back?
There is no gurney, but there is a couch so the co-driver
could sleep on, right?
And this is a team event.
Yes.
So the reason it's a team event is we run what we call,
it's called a gimmick rally.
So I tell you day one, we're going from Detroit
to Louisville, Kentucky.
That morning when you leave, I will hand you a sheet
with 18-25 riddles of things that when you solve the riddle,
it will tell you where you should go.
And then you will drive there and you will get a picture
with your team, your vehicle and your sign
because some people are very creative with Photoshop
to verify that they are actually at the location.
And then you solve more puzzles and go to the next one.
And eventually you will end up in Louisville.
Now when you get to Louisville, you have a four and after.
So if I tell you you got to be there at six,
you show up 5.54, you're too early,
but you show up at 6.06, you're late.
So you have a ten minute window to arrive
at our location that night.
And with 16 to 17 teams, it ends up being a little over
an hour and a half of the range of people showing up.
So it's, there's a lot of gimmick to it,
a lot of fun and going to get you in some spots
that you've never seen and never done.
You guys were talking about AI earlier,
that's kind of the nemesis for us on this rally.
We wish we could take people today.
So there's been a lot of time and effort put into trying
to make really good riddles that even AI cannot solve.
A lot of Google Maps using Street View
to find interesting things to go look at and see.
And, you know, if I can get you to stop at 15 spots a day,
for days, I've created a story that you will tell
for a lifetime.
The service vehicle was behind Chase
with three competent mechanics.
In case anything happens, you've got somebody to fall back on.
We got a rule that we call the Kansas rule.
If you see another team that's broken down beside the road,
you're required to stop and render service to them.
Help them get to a part store, take care of things.
It's not that serious of an event.
But it is that serious because in the end,
we're helping Research for Parkinson's this year.
And when you get to Louisville, or each night stop,
you get there, you get all checked in,
yeah, everybody's here now.
Isn't there something going on that evening?
We usually have a dinner, get together,
maybe some adult beverages happen.
Depends on where we're at.
Some of the Chamber of Commerce's
bring a lot of local businesses out.
We've had some, the actual little car shows that happened,
which was entertaining because stars are not that pretty.
Some of them are pretty nice and you're amazed
they got it for the price they did.
Well, actually, the car did it twice.
They found a 1997 Lincoln limousine, white limousine.
And it actually did both of the first two rinse rallies.
And now it's at some off-road park in Dallas
with 44-inch tires on it.
So some of the vehicles are crazy.
Some of them are very basic.
A lot of minivans, quite a few of the later model BMWs
get chosen just for liability.
We've had a couple of Mercedes.
There's just fun stuff.
Detroit has a lot of Cadillacs though.
We are finding those.
How about school buses?
Are school buses allowed?
Yeah, we can sell to help raise money.
That's the goal.
And you're going to be stuck in it for three and a half days.
So this is a combination of a gumball rally and a lemons race.
Kind of, yeah, kind of.
We've talked to the guys at the gumball, that.
Gambler 500, the off-road guys.
They actually may be partaking with us this year on rinse rally
because theirs is now about cleaning up the environment
and off-road world.
So they're coming out and helping us with Parkinson's.
But Gambler 500 is another one that people compare it to.
But this is on-road.
We behave.
We obey the laws.
We meet a lot of new friends and make new acquaintances
and places go and see things too every time we go out.
There's something new that's added to the event.
I'm thinking right now that we should really attempt
the three of us to maybe to join you
because I guess the appealing thing is,
I never even considered an ambulance.
But as long as I can work, as long as I can work,
the wee woo lights and the siren, I'm in.
That might get you in some trouble, Don.
It might.
We'll have some IVs of adult beverages lined up back there.
Oh, yeah.
See, that's why we need to have Jeff involved.
Right.
And because everybody will want to wind up getting a ride
in the ambulance, at least for a short while.
Right.
And I've had plenty of IVs in my life.
Yeah.
And Mars.
And Mars.
He could drive.
He could drive.
And we could worry about tires and curbs later.
Well, that would help us make our time
because we have to stop and change the tires
after we hit the curbs.
We could get a hearse.
A hearse would be another good one.
The other good thing about this, Richard,
is the fact that we can actually now do a live broadcast
rolling down the street.
Down the road.
Yeah.
And I'm thinking that this is something that we could work
with maybe perhaps our good friend, John Gray,
over at Gulf Coast Auto Shield to sponsor us.
And we could get a wrap on it.
We could put all sorts of things on the side of it
because there's a lot of billboard space
on the side of it.
David to sit up in the back.
He can be sitting back there being the engineer.
And let me tell you something about David.
And you don't know this, but I will tell you
that back when he and I worked together at a radio station,
that he actually went on a ship, a passenger ship,
and caught the ship outside of London
and actually took the ship and did a live broadcast
with then Doug Johnson, the weatherman.
And this was before you could keep the satellite and...
Geographically.
Yeah, everything all...
David managed to do that.
So if he can do that, he can do the wrench rally three
and keep us on the unit for days on end.
Now, when does this start again, Richard?
Because I'm thinking with all the stuff,
like you said, the AI and pulling phones,
if you get up there maybe a week ahead of time
and really scope out them 25, 50 cars and get a deal
and, hey, something under the table.
Yeah.
Well, there are teams that have already purchased vehicles
that are in storage in Detroit already.
Oh, wow.
Found them on Facebook Marketplace, made the deal.
They trust what the people are saying.
They trust the vehicle is going to be there when they get there.
And that's how the game works.
So there's our vehicles have been secured.
Other people will show up the day of
because the thrill of the hunt is one thing
and the pressure of getting it back to inspection by 6 PM.
It's always fun.
But yeah, so the other kicker for me this year is this is
the 100th anniversary of Route 66.
So we get to do some of the Appalachian roads
and then we'll get to do some Route 66 tour as well.
We'll drop down from Louisville, Kentucky
down to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Then we'll go into Possum Kingdom Lake
and then into Bryan College Station.
So some great back roads, no interstate allowed.
Interstate automatically gets points deducted.
Even if you are behind, you're not allowed to take the interstate.
That's not what we're here for.
Why Bryan College Station?
Is this a joke on the Aggies or something?
No, just a new place to go.
There's some good roads around here that we enjoy
and I had some really good gimmick things for people to find there.
And coming into Houston has proven to be challenging
at 5 o'clock on a Sunday.
So we decided to go to Bryan and we'll terminate there that night.
A bunch of us will spend a night there at the Stella Hotel
is where we're going to end at.
It'll be a good ending.
That's also Mike Satterfield's home with the gentlemen racer
where we run Gross Speck Grand Prix out of
which is also our Victoria event in April.
Where is the starting point in Detroit?
So there's a couple old factories that I'm talking with.
We've sent some emails to city management because they're abandoned.
It's not like we need them very long
but we're trying to get some epic photos to come out of there.
But there's a couple old factories that we're looking at.
Yeah, there's more than a couple, but yeah.
It should be an awesome time.
So much of this is made purely out of fun.
That's what we're doing.
And if we've got the opportunity to help people while we're having fun
it makes an even better experience.
I'm excited for this one.
What's the dates again?
Some of the back roads are crazy.
February 25th will be the team meeting in Detroit.
We will roll out that next morning, Thursday morning, the 26th.
I'm not going to let Morris try to attempt to pronounce this
but the Washetaw Mountains, Route 66 influences,
Tribal Nation Regions, Sunset Arrival at Possum Kingdom Lake.
That all speaks to us and it just so happens to be
on Saturday, February the 28th of Possum Kingdom Lake
that would be the ultimate goal of getting there.
Maybe perhaps we can speak with you while you're on the road
if you have cell service.
Oh yeah, we'll have cell service.
We're not that far off the main roads but we are off the main roads.
You could use this as a Valentine's gift to your loved one
and say, hey, we're going to Detroit
and we're going to be in a car rally at the end of the month.
And we're going to go to the Washetaw Mountains.
And we're starting in Detroit.
And we're starting in Detroit.
I had a friend of mine that was inmate of the month
at County in Detroit one time.
Made of the month.
Inmate of the month.
Oh, inmate.
See, we're my mother.
I never won that award, never.
No, none of us do.
But Jeff, Jeff knows people.
I got a guy.
Well, this sounds like tons of fun.
So is there a website or something you can go to
and keep up with you guys?
Yep.
So you just go to my Apex Auto Works TX.com
and on there it'll have a little link that will say
Wrench Rally.
And from there you apply.
We want to know who you are and what you're doing
and why you're there because there are legal implications
of what we're doing.
And we can't get a bunch of yahoos out there
messing it up for the rest of us.
Yahoos.
I guess we're not invited.
We're not.
That's why we're out.
Well, that's why we're postponing our next trip
with you guys until next year
because we don't want to be classified in the yahoos department.
And then you got the Chihuahua run.
Yeah, the Chihuahua run.
Well, Richard, best of luck to you.
We will be talking to you, Mr. Morris.
We ought to put that down on February 28th.
Well, February 25th and then we leave on the 26th.
I know, but the Saturday for our show.
Broadcast, got you.
Yeah, see what we can cook up something.
Okay, all right.
Well, best of luck, brother.
And good luck on that ambulance run.
We'll see you then.
Thank you.
You bet.
Take care.
That would be so much fun.
Wouldn't it?
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Okay, time now for Jeff's Motor Minutes.
I've got questions and questions to start conversations about a car.
Do you have a name for your car?
No.
No name?
No.
You got a name for your car?
No.
Okay, we're going to move on then.
If you could live the life of any professional motorsports driver,
who would you trade places with?
I'm thinking...
Mario Andretti for me.
I was thinking Jay Leno, but he's not really a race car driver.
Well, okay.
And this goes out to the folks out there listening too,
because we can chime in on the internet.
If you could add one single driving law across the nation,
what would that rule be?
And you could make it mandatory for the road.
I suggest driving naked.
Really?
What would you do?
I don't know.
I don't want to see most people naked.
No.
Even if it's just from the neck up.
I don't know.
If you want to have those thoughts.
If you have one person as a chauffeur,
who would you hire for the job?
And remember, they're naked.
Who would you hire to be a chauffeur?
That would definitely make a difference in who I would hire.
I would think Jeff Gordon would be a good chauffeur.
Because I remember that video where he took that poor salesman on a race ride.
And he started that trend of that too.
That was good.
What's your favorite car movie?
Oh, Eastbound and Down.
Really?
Load it up and truck it.
Okay.
Mine would be Bullet.
I'd have to go with Bullet too.
It's not really a car movie, but that car is just...
Right, exactly.
But speaking of Bullet, there was a movie called Seven Ups with Gene Hackman.
It was about a New York cop driving through the streets.
The soundtrack of the Mustang and Bullet,
all the shifting and all that stuff,
was actually used in the movie Seven Ups.
They just took that audio and put it in there.
Yeah.
And it's also been in several other movies as well.
And the gentleman that drove the Charger in the Bullet movie,
he was actually the stunt driver for that car.
And he did other stunts as well with different movies.
He worked with Steve McQueen a lot.
Yeah, a lot, a lot.
Yeah, they were buddies.
They were buddies.
Anyways, that's a motor minutes.
That was the same guy that went into the gas station
and blew everything up and he dives and all that.
Yeah.
And the guy was shooting guns.
Yeah.
Good stuff.
Yeah.
We need another new good car movie, don't we?
You know, Gone in 60 Seconds, that was a great movie.
That was a good one.
Never really got into that.
And the original Gun Ball Rally was pretty good.
Then they hammed it up when they made too much stuff in it.
Too many people.
Yeah.
It worked very good.
You talked about, what's the movie you talked about?
About Tulane Blacktop or something.
No, no, no.
East Bowling Down.
East Bowling Down.
Yeah.
We saw that movie when we were on the Hot Rod Tour.
Yeah.
At the Drive-In.
Yeah.
Very good.
It was good.
And Richard Tallin needs to get ahold of them boys out there
and go on that rally.
Okay.
Get some cases of Coors while you're at it.
Yeah, they could do that too.
That would be the, yeah.
There you go.
When I was in high school, that was the big thing.
It was.
Because you could not buy Coors in the state of Texas.
And we went on a road trip.
Me and my buddies, my Hot Rod buddies back in high school.
We went on a road trip to Oklahoma where Ross was from.
We went up there and we decided that Kansas wasn't that far away.
So somebody made a run to Kansas and bought Coors beer and brought it back,
put it in the bathtub with a lot of eyes.
Never drank one of them.
It's called bootlegging.
Well, whatever.
Yep.
But we did that.
All right.
Very good.
Time now for this hour's car review.
I had the opportunity and it was a good opportunity to drive a 2025 Ford Bronco.
But it's just not an everyday regular Bronco.
Although the Bronco itself is really a cool vehicle.
I will say that.
Final assembly location, Michigan assembly.
Wayne, Michigan.
You've been there.
Driven by it.
Morris, did you go to Michigan assembly with me?
At the time, they were building Ford F-150 pickup trucks.
Anyway, so this is where they build the Ford Bronco.
Available trim levels, the base, the big bend, the outer banks, the badlands, heritage edition,
the strobe edition, and the Raptor.
I had the strobe two-door edition.
Very special vehicle.
I'll tell you about it in just a minute.
Small SUV.
This was the two-door version.
It seats five people.
It's a red, white, and blue paint job.
And it is patterned after the famous strobe fella that actually did the big rally stuff
back in the day that made a name for the Ford Bronco, off-road stuff.
And so they've kind of recreated that in many ways.
I was really hoping, as you can see here, exterior features and interior features,
I drove the line through there.
Why did I draw the line through there, Morris?
Because I was going to have a great video that I was going to play that explained everything
about Mr. Strobe and the strobe edition.
And it had video on it, the whole nine yards.
It was a five-minute long video.
And I thought, well, this will be a great addition to my car review.
Well, guess what?
It's done.
Thank you, Ford Motor Company, to putting it up on YouTube that we couldn't download it, jacked up.
So it's got a 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6 that turns out 330 horsepower, 415 pound-feet of torque
through a 10-speed automatic transmission, till ratings $3,500, but that's not what you want it for.
17 miles per gallon city, 18 on the highway, because it is a hot rod.
It has a combined rating of 18.
I got 18.4 miles per gallon, over 342.8 miles.
What I liked, the power and the transmission work very well together.
And most of the time, when I say something about the motor and the transmission,
they don't talk to each other.
This one, oh yeah, baby, they got this one down.
It's like I said with the Ford Maverick.
You know, when it comes to Ford Motor Company, they know how to build pickup trucks.
And this is kind of an extension to that, and this stroke addition has all of the off-road features.
What could use improvement?
Absolutely nothing.
Love the paint job, got tons of thumbs up with the red, white, and blue paint scheme on this thing.
Ride and handling, not as bouncy as you'd think with this short wheelbase.
Really?
Yeah, it's not because the travel and the shocks and the springs is great,
so we can handle that off-road bouncing stuff.
So lots of suspension travel.
I want you to go to YouTube and look up Ford Bronco Strope Edition,
because we can't play it for you here.
It's not your fault, I'm not blaming you.
No, no, no, yeah.
So the media website that Ford has come up with for us media folks to use as a tool to show these things to you
has been hijacked by somebody, I guess, that Ford contracted with.
So I'm just griping, and I've got to write to you.
Base trim price, $77,630.
You're going, oh my god, that's huge.
Price is tested, $77,665.
Now the base model Bronco price is $38,995, got the goat mode, all that good stuff.
Now, what are you going to compare it to?
Obviously Jeep Wrangler, it starts at $32,095.
I thought I would go outside the box and look at some other vehicles that you may or may not have heard of,
because in this group of vehicles, I picked the Scout Traveler.
It doesn't come out until 2028.
It's under $60,000 is what they're shooting for.
My guess is two years out, they're not going to make that.
That's an all-electric Scout version called the Scout Traveler, you remember the name.
Then we have the Subaru Outback, and you're going, well, how could he compare that to it?
Well, you know, that off-road edition that they have, I think.
I think it's a wilderness.
Subaru is pretty strong in that market.
It was, $34,995.
We got tons of thumbs up with this thing riding down the road, going into parking lots.
Hey, man, can I see that?
Yes, you can.
The paint job resonates with everyone, and I would not have thought that, but boy it does.
What Ford did was they took the paint job from the Stroke family that did the racing back in the day,
and they got real close to the same colors, and it's just a really cool vehicle.
It depends on where you put those colors.
How you put that on the body of the vehicle to make it look good,
because sometimes putting that together, you make it look too busy and gaudy.
Yeah, well, it was really cool and really enjoyed it.
I thank the Ford Motor Company and Ken Peabody and Dallas for sending that to me,
because I had lots of fun with that, and unfortunately couldn't play the video for you.
You know what? We need to really try and get that video somehow, some way,
and play it on a random show coming up, because it's that good.
It gives you the whole story behind the Strokes.
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About this episode
Richard Tomlin joins the discussion to share insights about the Wrench Rally 3, a unique charity event where participants buy cars for $2,250 and embark on a fun-filled road trip from Detroit to College Station. The rally emphasizes teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving through riddles and challenges along the route. The episode also features a review of the Ford Bronco Strobe Edition, highlighting its impressive performance and eye-catching design. Listeners can expect entertaining anecdotes and a glimpse into the camaraderie of automotive enthusiasts.
Ever wondered what happens when you hand a team $2,200, drop them in Detroit, and tell them to chase riddles across America for a good cause? We sit down with organizer Richard Tomlin to unpack Wrench Rally 3, a back-roads, no-interstate adventure where budget beaters become charity champions. From the thrill of the hunt on Facebook Marketplace to the tight ten-minute evening check-in window, Richard explains how a gimmick rally blends navigation puzzles, teamwork, and roadside repairs into a road trip you’ll tell stories about for years.
The format is simple and brilliant: buy under the cap, pass a safety check, then follow clue sheets that lead to hyperlocal landmarks you can’t game with AI. Each team proves progress with photos, helps others under the Kansas Rule when breakdowns strike, and rolls into nightly meetups that sometimes turn into pop-up car shows. The route celebrates history and scenery—Appalachian stretches, Route 66 nods, the Ouachita Mountains—before winding into Possum Kingdom Lake and a finish at Bryan–College Station. Every vehicle is sold at the end on platforms like eBay Motors or Cars & Bids, with proceeds going to Parkinson’s research. Think diesel ambulances, white stretch limos, faithful minivans, and the kind of unexpected finds only Detroit can deliver.
We also take the Ford Bronco Strop Edition for a spin and talk heritage. The two-door Bronco’s 2.7L EcoBoost and 10-speed auto deliver stout torque and surprisingly composed ride quality, while the red, white, and blue livery honors Bill Stroppe’s desert legacy. We compare it to segment staples like the Jeep Wrangler and off-road-leaning alternatives, and share why this Bronco pulls thumbs-up everywhere it goes. Rounding things out, Jeff’s Motor Minute sparks nostalgia with favorite car films and motorsport heroes, reminding us why car culture is as much about stories as specs.
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