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Corvettes, Community, and the Road Ahead: A High-Octane Journey with the Space City Corvette Club
Corvettes, Community, and the Road Ahead: A High-Octane Journey with the Space City Corvette Club
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About this episode
A lively discussion with AJ Loop, president of the Space City Corvette Club, highlights the club's growth and community involvement since its establishment in 2007. The conversation touches on the club's impressive car shows, including a recent event that raised $100,000 for charity. Members share their love for Corvettes, with stories about unique vehicles and personal experiences. The episode also features insights on the Corvette's history and the excitement surrounding new models, making it a rich exploration of Corvette culture and camaraderie.
Topics:
corvette club history
car shows
community involvement
unique corvettes
new corvette models
member stories
car culture
charity events
Rev your engines and buckle up as AJ Loupe, President of the Space City Corvette Club, takes us for a spin through the heart of Corvette culture at the HEMI Hideout in Brookshire, Texas. This episode isn't just about the roar of engines and the shine of chrome; it's a celebration of community, with a look at the impact of our Good Grub & Gears Fall Car Show and its staggering $100,000 donation to Texas Air Research. Don Armstrong shares a personal update on his own Corvette journey—tinkering with enhancements and tackling a steering wheel challenge that's as stubborn as a rusted bolt.
Shift into storytelling gear and ride shotgun with "Big Tuna," a legend in the Corvette community, who brings us tales of his prized Corvettes and a hint at a big event revving up on the horizon.
Then, we take a detour through automotive history with This Week In Auto History, reminiscing about Hudson automobiles and the Thunderbird's rivalry with the Corvette.
Join us for this high-octane episode where every turn brings another thrilling story from the world of sports cars and hot rods.
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Welcome to another In Wheel Time Podcast, a 30 minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11am central.
This is your favorite go to spot and car podcasting and live streaming.
It's the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show today, coming to you from the fabulous Hemmy Hideout in Brookshire, texas.
Thanks to Headboard Guests for today's gathering of car folks.
Plus, we'll also have Mr Mars and the event calendar.
Look at you, caught up on the stories making auto headlines this week too.
Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, mars, who cannot sit down, and we always need more.
Jeff Zeekin, our Chief Engineer.
David Ainsley I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us today from the Hemmy.
Joining us today down at the guest hotspot would be AJ Loop.
He's the President of the Space City Corvette Club and since this is really kind of a Corvette takeover, we thought it would be appropriate that we talk to another Corvette Club, don't you think?
I agree.
Yeah, move that microphone a little bit closer to your mouth, sir.
Thank you very much.
How's that?
You know, I think, that the last time I saw you was a car show.
Was it in the?
fall down in Friendswood.
Yes, sir, and you finally made good on your promise when coming out, and it met the world just to see you out there.
Thank you very much.
Well, thank you, I remember that I don't know, but I remembered your face Right.
Well, that's probably a good and a bad thing.
Well, so what was the name of that event?
That was the 11th annual Good Grubbing Gears Fall Car Show, and we ended up raising $100,000 for Texas.
Air Research.
Day last year.
Wow, that's awesome.
Well, mars is like that bad classmate that you had that passes your notes and you get caught.
Yeah, well, that's it.
So there's that.
Oh, okay, very good, tony, we're going to get to you.
Are you going by the nickname of Big Tuna?
Okay, okay, all right.
So, tony, we're going to get to Tony in just a minute, but right now we're going to talk to AJ, president of Space City Corvette Club, and I have to tell you, I think when I spoke to you down there at that cruise in well, actually it was a car show in the park which I thought was an absolutely fabulous setting- Thank you.
Yeah, I'll agree with you on that.
Yeah, I mean that is a really a cool setting and the collection of cars that showed up for that thing, that's something.
How long has that thing been going on down there?
So this year would be our 12th annual, that's kind of hard to do.
Where in the hell have I been?
I don't know.
You know you kept promising me for years that you were going to come out.
Well, I did.
You finally made good on your promise and we appreciate that.
Well, and you know, and again, I was impressed and, as a matter of fact, I came back, talked about it on the show here, how impressed I was, and I think that this year I'm going to try, try that I'm going to try and bring my Corvette down.
Now, this is not a show car, right, this is a street running car.
Looks okay, it's passable, you won't be embarrassed, but well.
I may be, we can put you in a daily driver class.
How about that?
It's not a daily driver, I will do that?
No, definitely not.
But it's, it's, it's driven.
There you go.
Yeah, Just had some more Corvo seats put in it, okay, yeah, from a Pro-Am auto accessory.
So we got her shifter, you got new wheels, you got new tires.
Yeah.
So I've been, you know, slowly but surely trying to.
You know it's trying to keep up with the failing electronics Right.
The last, the last thing is the tilt.
Not the tilt, but the telescoping steering Right.
The telescoping has failed.
I am not digging into the airbag to get the steering wheel off.
That ain't happening.
No, I wouldn't want to do that either.
Yeah, so I know that you're going to find me somebody that is really attuned to that.
We can we can take care of that, I'm sure, I'm sure you can.
So anyway, let's talk about Space City Corvette Club.
How long has that been going?
on Since see.
It was established in 2007 and right now we have 263 members.
You know that's that 250 seems to be a good number.
It's like a sweet spot.
Yeah, because the Alamo.
Have you met the Alamo guy that came in?
They were here a little bit ago.
He's around here somewhere.
He's around here somewhere.
But anyway, the Alamo guys are here.
They got about 250.
Seems to be a good number for a club and you know, having been a member of a couple of clubs in my day, I will tell you that 250 is probably manageable, but it's right on the cusp of not being that chaos.
Yeah, and, as you know, being the president of the car club, it's like Wranglin' Cats.
Like Herd and Cats.
Yeah, it's a lot like work, but it's also a lot of fun.
Oh, I know.
Because you all have that one common thing going on and that's cars, and particularly the Corvettes.
But there are lots of car clubs around and I'm sure, well, as you have put on a car show down there, that everybody's invited.
You work with lots of car clubs.
That's correct.
Yeah, I understand that you helped wrangle all well, not all, but a lot of the people here.
Well, so this gentleman is sitting to the left of me.
Big Tuna who's?
coming on here in a few minutes.
About seven years ago, we put together all the Corvettes coming out and you know we had a pretty decent showing.
But in 2022, we had 115 Corvettes out here and today we had 170.
So it continues to grow and I think there's some vibrers out there, that I think there's about 18 vibrers or so.
The.
Corvette wannabes Exactly.
Yeah, sorry.
I better be careful.
I'm gonna make it out of the parking lot you didn't have to walk him to his car this evening.
Yeah, Listen, I'll never forget.
I drive press cars all the time.
Well, when the Viper came out, they said we're sending you a Viper, great, I get in.
This thing you need is a wild beast that has no traction control.
I mean, if they put a fiberglass body on it by, they might as well just had a frame and this ginormous 10 cylinder motor in it that have a 2,000 horsepower.
And I was a six speed had to be a six speed transmission.
That thing was all over the road.
I mean, it was like trying to drive a funny car.
Right, it's crazy, and but I can certainly understand the attraction.
I would imagine that if I were a little bit younger man I'd have probably had that thing on its top in a ditch somewhere in a New York minute.
But I tried, had to control myself.
Didn't that happen in your press fleet?
Somebody called you yes.
Yes, I know that person and he's still alive and he has that to brag about.
Yeah, he spun it out into an open ditch, put it on its lid.
They took it back to Detroit and crushed the car Yikes.
The rest of the way, yeah, the rest of the way, that's right.
So who does everybody have 2018 and 2022 and 2024 Corvette's?
this.
So yeah, the C8 obviously is becoming very popular.
Just acquired one in January.
Oh, so you're one of those.
Yep, yep, I'm one of those.
Had to sell a few to make room for it, but I got to tell you Chevy nailed it on that C8.
Yeah, I know I really did.
I'm jealous actually.
Well, how many do you have now?
So I had to sell three.
So I'm still.
I'm down to the 2024, the 96 and a 72.
What is the oldest year in your club?
It's a 1953 production, number 32.
It's been on American Sports Car Magazine Used.
The previous owner was the owner of the San Diego Padres.
It's been signed by Zora Arcus Duntoff under the hood.
Last year at Tri City it won Best of Paint by Ryan Evans of Counting Car Count Counts Customs and if I remember right, I think you guys were out there in Beaumont, if I remember correctly.
Maybe not, but it was quite an honor.
I think you're asking me to remember something.
Yeah, I know right yeah forget that yeah, forgive me.
Sorry.
That's cool.
It's interesting.
I saw Corvette number three and it only seen it once and it was at Corvette Expo at the George R Brown no, sorry, at the Albert Thomas Convention Center in downtown Houston.
Not too many people remember that because it goes back to about the turn of the century, but at any rate it was there and it was number three and I had no clue.
It was fiberglass car, clearly, but I had no clue how bad the paint job on was, because you can see the fiberglass.
Yeah, yeah.
And to be able to paint a car and keep.
Now, this was the original, all original.
To keep a car that you could still see the fiberglass underneath the paint is truly amazing.
That that's what Ryan Evans with with Counts, customs or Count, had mentioned.
He said that the paint job on that car was not necessarily the best paint job there.
But the paint job that was on that car was unbelievable because the way they laid the fiberglass it was cloth fiberglass.
It was very difficult to get a decent finish and this car it is.
It's just the texture of the fiberglass coming out.
Well, I don't think that they gel, coated them back then and so you could see thank you so much.
Is this the vodka that you promised I ordered?
a martini.
Is that coming down there?
That's, yeah, it's headed your way after I get done with my share of it, but it's truly amazing to see that car and to see that car.
And you know, you look at that first production run.
300 would have been in that first production run, correct?
And I believe that that car was built in Flint, michigan, if I'm not mistaken.
That's correct.
That was before they opened the Corvette factory in St Louis, and very primitive and nothing fit it was.
It was of course at the time.
Put your mind back to 1953.
I don't think I even had a mind in 1953.
I was building a spine, yeah, building a spine, but that was really cutting edge and they were trying to compete against European cars of the time.
And to see that car in person you go Wow for an American car from 1953, built out of fiberglass, that had a, you know, a two-speed transmission in it and it was primitive.
Oh yeah, but it was also cutting edge.
You nobody'd ever seen anything like it before and it's truly amazing to see the technology and all the brain power that went behind that.
I also saw a C1 Corvette that was owned by Ken Lingenfelter and his brother, john, who I did the interview with, and John Lingenfelter had a C1 and it was a 19.
I Want to say it was a 55 model that a Supplier to Corvette, chevrolet, wanted to turbocharge Sorry, supercharge the 235 blue flame 6 that was in it, as opposed to putting the V8 motor in it, which they ultimately did.
But this was a one-off and it was a car that went down the assembly line, the difference being that they put a supercharger on it.
And to see all that fit under the hood of that blue flame 6 was truly amazing, wow.
And I asked him.
I said how did it run?
He says runs really well and it would would have beaten the V8 Corvette because of the torque right and that in line six cylinder.
But I've seen a lot of Corvettes in my day and those are a couple.
Those C1s are truly amazing.
If you ever get a chance to go through one, look at it, put your head in the window, look under the hood, see how that the suspension is built.
You're gonna go, wow, this is so primitive.
Back in 53 that was cutting it.
Here's a little fun fact for you.
This month, february 12th, what happened in Bowling Green Collapsed of the Corvette the sinkhole was up.
Yeah, cold.
February 12th.
It happened early morning.
In eight vehicles were Virtually destroyed, which are still on display.
Yeah, have you been up to the?
Bowling Green.
I did.
I Took a group of our club members.
I did eight trips in 2023.
Most recent was in January 26th where we did a dual delivery from our Corvette Club myself and Paul Lopez, our membership director, we did a museum delivery and that was only 26 and we had about 13 of us that went up there for that.
Are they still doing the museum deliveries?
Oh yeah, they do about probably 16 a day, didn't?
they.
I thought they stopped that for the tour.
Well, they stopped the tour that they still doing the museum deliveries, but February 5th they stopped the plant tours.
That's what it is.
And you also can't order the baby book if you bought a new one and you wanted to order the baby book, where they Take pictures of the car when it's going through the assembly line.
They're not doing that anymore and I they never speculated what it is.
I mean, I got some ideas, some guesses what I think it might be, but that's just my personal opinion.
Espionage Well, I think it's because they're probably doing something with that new ZR1 is going to come out.
That's what.
Yeah, yeah, and that's kind of the just changes, right.
Well, they built that museum on top of a cave because in that part of Kentucky there's a lot of caves to go for miles and miles right, and when they hit bedrock they should have gone a little bit further, because it was just a false bedrock reading and then it went through and Right rest his history.
That the way they put it back together.
I mean it's gonna be here on, gabriel toots his whistle, so it's it's thought it was a horn.
Well, yeah, yeah, toots is horn, you're correct whistles, horns, yeah.
This is a silly city.
Yeah, tony, akado, is it?
Can you turn the microphone on so known?
as turn a microphone on there you go.
Okay, so okay, yeah, tuna, yeah, tuna, yeah, so why did you get that?
name.
It's a long story, but I'll give you the short version.
Is it clean?
Yes, it's clear.
We don't want to hear about it.
The mafia boss.
The mafia boss of Chicago for a very long time was Tony Akado and His nickname was the big tuna.
He also had another nickname called Joe batters, and the reason he had Joe batters was because that was his weapon of choice Was a bat, baseball bat.
So he was best friends with Al Capone and one night they were in a restaurant and a guy came in with a machine gun and sort of mowed, mowed down the place and Tony jumped on top of Al Capone and Gave him the nickname of the the big tuna and then out.
When I went to jail, al turned Las Vegas over to Tony Akado, so that's how I got the nickname is your last name.
a car, though?
A car though, yes, well, naturally Mars would misspell it here.
He gives a CC, a RDO.
Hey, uh-huh, right here.
I'm also a veteran there you go.
Thank you for your service, thank you, thank you.
Yeah, so what kind of car do you have, tony?
I have a, I have two, I have a 1972 blue coupe I 454 big block.
Of course you're there yeah.
That's that.
That was my first Corvette.
I got that in 99 in a divorce sale and I got a real good bargain on that.
I'm sure you did, and what did she get?
And then I talked my wife and let me buy a 2015 c7.
Same color, same blue color.
It's called Laguna blue.
Yeah, yeah, and it's a coupe.
I turned 40,000 miles today on that car, so I drive it a lot.
I love it and you're here, locally or no?
No, we're Northwest Houston, we're in Cyprus.
He's, he's down in Clearlake opposite side.
So what?
what car club is, are you?
It's called Northwest Houston vet rods and, unlike other Corvette clubs, we're very unique we allow hot rods into our club.
I call it 80 80 20 club because 80% of our cars are Corvettes and 20% of hot rods, and the reason we do that is because many of our members own more than one Type of car right.
So we might your bragging, yeah, well, show off.
So what?
One of our members has 35 cars, okay, so I'll give you that'll give you an idea what we're talking about.
So those guys and not all of them are Corvettes.
There's one over there and we and we want to be them.
Yeah, yeah, it was a 35 car, so we're out of Cyprus spring area, yeah, and we've been in business since 2004.
Very nice.
So, yeah, let me tell you my 454 72 coupe story.
Uh-huh, I was.
I was working at a Chevrolet dealership called Richardson.
Chevrolet used to be at the intersection of Hillcroft and 59 and I was working in new car make ready.
And so every night they take the Corvettes off the showroom display outside along the side of the showroom and they pull them in service department.
Prevent theft well.
And the morning somebody had to drive him and put them back on display course they did Saturday mornings, yeah.
I'm strong and Ross Putnam, take those cars out.
Not a problem, start those cars up.
And our favorite one was the blue 454.
Yep, oh my god.
It might not have had a whole lot of horsepower for cubic inches, yeah, but by God it had lots of torque.
Oh, you know, it would boil the black tire off the back of the car, oh yeah, so when he sold the car they had to change the back tires on it.
Yeah, you listen, say Ross is on the rubber off right.
It was great stuff.
Yeah, yeah, we, and we thoroughly enjoyed that car.
You know the one thing that stands out.
This is gonna be stupid, I know, but they had Some fiber optic that went from the back tail lights up to the center console.
I had that in my work.
No, no, no I don't work in my Nova.
No work in the back of a Cadillac.
If you look in the rear view mirror, there would be two little eyes or two little red lights.
When you hit it, the fiber optic would show that your lights are working Right or left, or blinkers.
It would do the same thing.
I installed it in my Nova Course.
You did because my dad was a Cadillac guy, so I had a ability.
Well, this was on the Corvette and it came up right there in the center console.
Need to get those working for me.
I have the roll-up windows in my seventy.
Yeah, they see that you go.
Yeah, I bought my daughter a 2007 Ford Focus.
It's got roll-up windows and a five-speed manual transmission.
She's lucky it's got an AM radio.
Yeah.
Those are the days.
So how do we get a hold of you guys?
How about you?
Well, we have, you know, in the In the city, we have seven Corvette clubs Wow, and he and I represent two of them, and if you count the Corvette Club that came in from San Antonio, we actually have five presidents that are here today.
Today.
Today, and what we've done last year, we decided to get together as a group, so we have a committee, or we have a presidential committee, of all the Corvette Club Presidents and we're planning a big, big event on June 30th in Friendswood, his neighborhood.
So we'd like you guys to be there to to do exactly what y'all doing here today, and we're expecting anywhere from 200 to 300 Corvettes to show up for that.
So you know very, very special event.
So the five presidents are here today.
There's five presidents here, including, including, including Tim, including Tim Kirch Kirchner from San Antonio.
Here's my suggestion.
I'd like to do this get it all, five of you, on stage here.
We'll take a picture If we can track them down, tony, don't break If we can track them down.
Bill bills here, bill Hoffman's here.
From coach AJ's here.
I'm here.
Who else is here?
I haven't seen anybody.
Nevertheless, there's five.
Yeah, we'll round them up somehow.
Yeah, exactly, well, I'm gonna get a hold of us through space city Corvette Club comm.
I'll leave you my card, okay, I?
do and what I'd like to tell everyone, all the Corvette owners out there.
Unlike the other Corvette clubs, we meet every Sunday morning On the corner of spring, cypress and champions forest and on a good day like today, we'll average anywhere from 60 to 70 cars show up, and that would be vet rods.
So we might have, like I said, 80% Corvettes and 20% Beautiful hot rods.
We got we got some of the most beautiful hot rods in the city, in our, in our club.
Y'all do any hot rod runs.
We, we do runs.
Yeah, we try to do a run every every month.
This is, this is considered a run.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah.
So next weekend, next Sunday morning, right nine to noon, there's chrome and coffee.
Craig beer man that owns speed and sport, chrome plating puts it on at the Avalon diner Down at the fountains, which is right there by highway 90 a and 59, the south, and so easy to get down the belt way, it was to say.
And, and every weekend is more and more and more and more cars.
And yes, there there's some later model cars but there's a lot of older hot rods that come in.
Lots of fun, lots of good guys to you have breakfast at the diner to breakfast at the diner.
Yeah, we have a.
We have a breakfast place, so we call it the big tree.
It's a big oak tree and that's where, to remember, the nifty fifties used to be at the.
Kroger Center.
Yeah well, that's where we meet and we've been meeting there for the last 17 years and it's been successful, and we meet every Sunday, rain or shine, cold weather, hot weather, and if it's too rainy or too cold, we go inside and we have a good time.
That's sleek cafe.
There's a place called sleek cafe, so very nice, and that's how we, that's how we get our membership.
It's cool, perfect, very nice, and we're up to about 250.
Can you believe that?
Wow, 250 members.
What do you estimate vehicles here today?
Okay so, I think AJ mentioned it, but the previous record in 2022 was 115 Corvette, not just yours, all the clubs, all the clubs.
Okay, so we had 170 Corvettes outside.
And what?
13 Vipers?
yep that's right, I'm right today, today, today and plus in the back 40, we even had three or four hot hot rods from my club back there as a 57 Chevy back there.
If that belongs to my club, nice, yeah, yeah it.
Doug brought three cars today.
One guy brought three cars, one's driven by his granddaughter, that big, wide body, see C3 outside, that yellow one which is very unique, and then he brought he brought his Corvette, and his Granddaughter and his wife drove another, the 57 Chevy, wow so good.
Well, gentlemen, thank you so much for stopping by today.
Well, as they almost say thank you, thank you very much.
We appreciate it, guys.
Thank y'all, you bet.
Appreciate you.
All right, is mr Mars here?
Yeah, mr Mars, do you have auto history, or do we need to postpone that Auto history?
You said that you had auto history.
I made a note right here.
We're gonna do a break, we're gonna do a break, but I need to find out whether he's gonna do his thing or not.
Okay because if not okay, we're gonna do sure Okay.
No, do we?
Are we all set up to do the break this?
time we're gonna do the right one, which is number three.
Correct All right yeah, whatever you say, whatever.
All right.
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Time now for this week in auto history, mr Mars.
Okay as soon as I turn it on, it is you need to stop.
You need, you need, you need to take that.
Take that away from him.
We got a microphone switch over there and he turns it off.
You forget to turn it on.
I thought you wanted it off.
That was the that's.
When he wants it off, he wants it off.
All right, mars go ahead, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So this week in auto history found five things that I thought were very interesting.
This week in auto history 1917, glenn Curtis designed an aluminum auto plane at three wings spanning 40 feet.
The car's engine actually drove a propeller at the rear of the car and while it didn't actually fly fly it did a bunch of hops, but it's considered the first flying car.
Oh yeah, I could see you in that thing 1909, hudson Motor Car Company was founded.
in 1910, a total of 4,500 Hudson automobiles left the assembly line, which was a record for all automakers that year.
The Hudson name saw its last name, last car come off the assembly line in 1957.
When Chevrolet rolled out the Corvette prototype in January 1953, less than a month later Ford suddenly came up with a Thunderbird prototype.
In its first year it sold 16,155 units, which outsold the Corvette that year, and the Thunderbird lasted through 11 generations, ended production in 2005.
Its main claim to fame was it made the Corvette get better.
February 1959, the High Bank 2.5
mile Daytona International Speedway hosts the first Daytona 500.
41,000 fans attended the inaugural event and the winner was not decided until 61 hours after the race ended because they had a it was the photo finish.
They had to develop the film so that they could look at it and see who won To get the photo met.
And lastly, the aerodynamic Plymouth Superbird.
While we're at the Daytona 500, ran in February of 1970.
The number 40 car, driven by Pete Hamilton for Petty Enterprises, crossed the finish line of full three car lengths ahead of the number two car, which immediately got people looking at how to disqualify it and keep it from running anymore.
Yeah, they did, and they did, and they did.
And that's this week in Auto History.
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As Scout motors barrels toward revealing its initial electric SUV and pickup this summer, An overly retro design overtly retro design does not seem likely, according to the startup brand's chief.
While the company is embracing fully the heritage of international harvesters Scout vehicles, CEO Scott Keough said he doesn't want to be trapped in the 1970s when it comes to styling.
Who do you think you are?
International harvesters, First Scott.
One of the industry's initial SUVs rolled off the line at the company's Fort Wayne, Indiana plant in November 1960.
International built its last SUV wearing the scout to name plate in October 1980.
The name then went dormant outside of enthusiast communities, collectors and off-roaders.
Keough said Scout intends to show the two vehicles at the same time.
Both will ride on a new body on frame platform that executives insist is unique to the brand.
Oh boy, we got us another SUV coming that looks like all the rest.
Put a bit, Put more seats in it.
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It too is on I-10, but can't miss it.
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