A 5-speed transmission is a type of gear system in a car that lets you choose from five different speeds. It helps the car run better and can save fuel.
The Lucid Air is a fancy electric car that is designed to be very comfortable and high-tech. It’s made by a new company called Lucid Motors and is known for being able to drive a long distance on a single charge.
A manual transmission means the driver has to change gears by hand, using a stick and a pedal. It's different from an automatic transmission, which does this automatically.
The Volkswagen Type 2 is a famous van that people often use for camping and road trips. The 1974 version is a classic model that many people love for its unique look and history.
The Brazilian Volkswagen Type 2 is a version of the VW Bus made in Brazil. It looks similar to older models but was made cheaper and kept the classic design longer than the ones made in Germany.
The Chevrolet Nova is a small car that many people liked for racing and everyday driving. It was made by Chevrolet and was popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Hyundai i10 is a small car that’s easy to drive around the city. It’s great for getting from place to place without taking up too much space and is good on gas.
A straight eight engine has eight cylinders in a straight line. This type of engine was common in older cars and is known for being powerful and running smoothly.
A wedge head engine has a special shape for its combustion chamber that looks like a wedge. This shape helps the engine run better and use fuel more efficiently.
A Hemi engine has a special round shape for its combustion chamber that helps it run more powerfully. This design is known for making engines more efficient.
The muscle car era was a time when American cars were built to be very fast and powerful, usually with big engines. These cars were popular for racing and had a strong following among car fans.
The Chevrolet Corvette is a fast and stylish car that many people love. It has been around since 1953 and is famous for being a cool sports car that can go really fast and looks great.
The Plymouth Fury is a car that was made by the Plymouth brand. The 1958 version is famous for being in a movie called 'Christine', where it acts like it's alive and can fix itself.
The Dodge Spirit is a regular family car from the 1990s that many people used to drive. It was known for being affordable and having enough room for everyone in the family.
The Ford Taurus is a big family car that many people used to drive. It’s known for being comfortable and having a lot of space inside for passengers and luggage.
The Toyota Prius is a car that uses both a gas engine and an electric motor to save fuel. It was the first of its kind and has been popular for many years because it helps people save on gas.
A gasoline electric powertrain is a system in some cars that uses both gas and electricity to make them run. This helps the car use less fuel and be better for the environment.
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Jeffery Heitzman. I thought I'm strong. Glad you could join us today. Who's our guest, Mr. Mars? This is Marshall Reed. He came in in a 1932 Ford Roadster out there that's got a really unique finish on it and that's really well to get your attention besides just the fact that it's a Roadster and love Roadsters. So, Marshall, tell us a little bit about your car. It's a 1932 Ford Roadster. There you go. You got to get it tight here.
1932 Ford Roadster has a Chevrolet engine and most people call that a, if you have a Ford 32 Ford with a Chevrolet engine, they call that a belly button because a lot of hot rotters do that.
I just thought that's the way they came. There's so many of them. Right.
So, what do you got up there under the hood? You said to Chevrolet, but it's a 350 ZZ4 high performance out of the great Chevrolet engine.
Great motor and you got it back with a 5-speed. 5-speed. Nice. Instead of going with the automatic, like a whole lot of people do. I like three pedals.
Yeah, yeah, very good, very good. We were talking about the finish on it.
It's an unusual finish. It's a brushed finish. It's a satin original finish and then it's, then it's sanded as a brush finish and then it's as you saw the car.
No, it's black. It's a black satin black and then the texture has a, has a brush like you're going to paint it again and then it's, then it's a pinstriped on top of that.
Oh, wow. It's real cool car. Yeah. It's kind of sitting over there straight across from us on the other side of this, the black truck that came in.
So it's a black and then it's highlighted with red and the red is the motor and the inside of the frame. Yeah, and then the inside of the frame is red too.
So you don't know it's red until you put it up on Jackson. It's all red on the underside.
You live in the area here? I live in town, Houston. Yeah, about an hour drive from here. Yeah, but yeah, it's still Houston though. It's an hour from here.
And it was raining when we left. So yeah, and you left with the top. Yeah, no top. And your wife was with you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she loves the roadster. It's cool.
I keep telling my wife that, but she hasn't bought into it. Well, well, some days, well, he's going to take her out in the roadster board.
You know, it's great at sunsets. It's beautiful day. I agree. Yeah, I think I think that'd be the way to go. Yeah, I'm lucky guy.
Yeah. Yeah. So we always go to, you know, the Austin Roundup. Yeah. Oh, that's nice. Money by car buddies here today. We'll, we'll all go together. That's very good. I used to cover that long time ago for a magazine.
Alfa West Coast in a back whenever I could literally go down there on South Congress. It's not from the continental club. It used to be that way. And I could literally set my camera on tripod in the middle of the road where they're turning.
No, no more. And I mean, all night long, just buzz and picture. Oh, yeah, the last time I was up there. The magazine got only said, you want to go back and I went back up there.
First thing at cops had no, you know, like it was now, now there's cops on every intersection. And then we go there for the show and don't necessarily go to Congress. And we used to be on Congress all the time. So, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it got to be to the points out at the park where they were having it. I guess out there is still a darker, darker on decker. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you go out there and people would, I mean, one o'clock they're headed for Congress to give a parking spot. It's like, no, you know, you're losing it too much. Yeah. That's what's going on. But anyway, still bound to be fine. That's right. We need to get more younger people into hot rotting.
So any young people out there want to get into hot rotting, get into buzz and let's figure it out.
So what do you do for a living that you can do all this? I'm an architect.
There you go. Yeah. I'm an architect. I've been practicing over 30 years, 45 years, actually. And enjoy that. And it's able to fuel my hobby, right?
Right. Right. Right. And I noticed that on your car, you had some, some not some LA clubs or something Houston Roaster Club, which was all that.
We met this morning. I wasn't there, but they met this morning. We meet the second Saturday on the old alley. I don't know the address. Sorry. Sorry.
The second Saturday of every month, Houston Roaster Club.
Is there a website or something that people could go to and just go to Houston Roaster Club and you'll find it. Yeah. You'll be able to find it that way.
Cool. Yeah. That would be great. Or you can email me marshal at mlread.com.
Yeah. R-E-I-D. R-E-I-D. So email me and I'll get you tuned into that. If you're a Roadster owner. Any kind of Roadster. There's a lot of different things. Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
They build them and the father started the business.
He passed. So they came out and the mother was driving one. She came out and I think they brought four out that day to hear.
And we saw him one more time down it. Yeah, is it sure it's not Bruce's Rudge. Bruce is that's it. That is spring. Spring Texas. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, no, no, they're they're at the Roaster Club. Houston Roasters. And they're building that car from the right now. Oh, yeah.
Better than that one. Only two. Yeah. No, I've had a few. That's why they're getting at me. They're. These are my buds here. Currently you have two cars. One's in it. But at Bruce is being rebuilt.
No, there's my wife right there. I know, but does she drive on them? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that don't take a whole lot to do. So what is what are you to daily driver?
And Adi and Adi SUV. Why not got to have it for business right? That's right. Yeah. Yeah. The Roasters are not to say. Well, don't say that very loud. That's what my wife keeps telling me. Yeah.
So you have a roaster. No, I want one. And so it's it's kind of well. So this is the way you get around this. Honey, this is the car about you. That's that's how I got the Roaster.
Oh, so that car is actually my wife's in these cars. She's laughing. She think that's really funny.
Yeah. So we've gone to a vacant parking lots to show her how to drive it. And it's not been very successful. And it's got a lot of horsepower.
And she says she can handle it, man. Yeah. The other one will have air. Are you having a margarita right now? I am.
I'm having my second margarita right now. Oh, God. Yes. Absolutely. I'm just not meeting you. And all I caught was that there's something about a manual transmission somewhere.
Yeah. Roaster and in the coupe. Oh, the one they're building Bruce is building a coupe. Yeah.
Bruce is on here last time. He's having a roaster. No, no, no, a coupe. I'm sorry. That's why you can get the air conditioning stuff in.
Three window coup. Now, now, who is that woman there on the left? His wife. Okay. It's my wife.
Well, so I didn't know neither. So there was an open place to sit there. And I sat down there and you can guy. And she says, oh, that's my husband.
Like I was going to go try to pick her up or something. Yeah. I just need a place to sit. It's more important right now than looking for any of that. Now, you can't deny that. That's the way that it is.
I would. That's right. In hospital bills. But both of them are so used to it. They have to introduce themselves like that. Yeah.
I got I got a girlfriend now that's trying to protect me because because wait a minute. His blood sugar is off. And he's going to pass out. So just get out of the way. Let me put him back in the car.
Are you? So what is the rest of the day look like for you guys? Well, since I'm an architect, we're going to look at a building. Oh, God. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. And why don't people ask me that? You know what? Why don't people ask me that? You know, because they're jealous. That's why. Just because all you guys have a gray hair didn't mean I'm retired.
I'm about to be and not my choice. No, I'm I like my work. I love my work.
Oh, yeah. Hey, honey. I got a great date for us. We're going to go look at some buildings. Yeah. Let's take this. It was her suggestion. It was her suggestion. We're going to have some great times.
So no, no, no, he's looking at it. Hey, look, that's a really good looking door. I think I'm going to buy that building. That kind of thing. Yeah.
So when you look at a building, what do you look at or four? Oh, is this an investment? No, no, no. I don't do that anymore. I just run my architecture.
Okay. So you say, huh, that's got a really good looking front door. Do you ever say that? I have said that before. I actually have a collection of photographs of front door.
Bing, Bing, Bing. I scored on something because okay. You're a car guy. Yeah. When you look at that bus. Yeah. What do you see? Classic. No, I know that. But let's drill it down a little bit.
And what do you see that really attracts you?
Attracture attention. I can remember when I had a date in a bus like that. So for me, okay, well, I've never had a date in a bus like that.
I wish I had you're much, much younger than me. You're such a hippie. Yeah. So what attracts me to that bus?
The curtains. No, it's the curtains. Yeah. Because you take the curtains away and it's just a regular VW bus. Yeah.
But you put the curtains in it and it says something. It says to me, I've got curtains and I've got a place to sleep at night and I can go camping in it.
And I can drive it back and forth to work. It is the era. Now, that's a 74. Yeah. Okay.
74. 74. Really? He's got a 64, but that's a 74. That is a Brazilian. Not the kind that you're thinking of, but that's a Brazil. It's made in Brazil.
Oh, the rate. That's why I didn't have the bumpers of the 74. It doesn't have sheep. It didn't have bumpers because that vehicle.
We talked to the owner a little while ago because that vehicle was actual. They did not change the bus design, but those vehicles that were built in Brazil versus the German ones.
So there are a lot more of those built, but they were cheaper. Well, the cool thing is they look like the older ones. Yeah.
But because they were this. So nothing has changed in the design of that from the sixties. Yeah. The gentleman that owns this actually.
He's got a VW bus collector. That's cool. Yeah. But you see what I'm saying when I'm saying about the curtains. Yeah.
What makes it see for me? I look at things like that. It's a unique thing. Yes. Yeah. When you look at buildings, don't you think of that? Oh, yeah. Sure.
What did I always say? And things that would enhance. That's right. If I were to look at a building, it's got to have something special. Right. Yeah.
Because if I'm going to rent a space in a building, which I'm sure you deal with, right? Yeah.
I'm going to look at a space in a building. I think, okay, I'm going to have people come and see me in my office.
But I mean, I want to see the front door. I want to where are they going to see when they come in?
Maybe it's because of my A's, but I start to look at things like that.
Exactly. He reminds me of George Skeleton. Yeah.
George Skeleton is a friend of us in our show. And I went to school all my school years with George. Yeah.
He hasn't been feeling well lately and he's had some surgery. And he always listens to the show. Hi, George. Are you a Houstonian? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Do you remember the Metropolitan Theater downtown? Sure. His dad ran the Metropolitan Theater. George worked there for a while back before the demise of it. But yeah. So you can relate. Where did you go to high school?
Abling Cooper in Houston, Texas? No. In Abling Cooper. So when did you move here? 1977. Okay.
But you get the. Yeah. The ride. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, you know, this is a car show. Yeah. We try to keep it in that venue. Yeah. Well, we got off track. No, we didn't know because we always try to have something unique about this.
Show. Kind of like those curtains in the Brazilian. Or in your guest drinking margaritas. Bloody marries today.
Cheers. Cheers. Yeah.
Yeah. And there's a couple of boxes that go over there with places to put cash. And I don't know who owns Lupis that the fellow used the original owner is a hot rudder. Yeah. He's sick. He's just not here today. He's usually here.
Oh, good. Hey, man. Good. Inlaws outlaws. Everybody. He had a great Nova drag. He had a great Nova drag car. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, that's what guys do to get their hobby going and have to give their cars.
You're right. Stay right there. Stay right there. We'll be with you in a moment. It's great to talk to you. Okay. Thanks for stopping by. We appreciate you. I enjoyed it. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate you. All right. Let me see. Let me see what I've got next here on my list of things to do. That's not now. Just ahead. Jeff has the racing calendar.
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All right. Time now for Jeff's racing calendar. Oh, yeah, let's finish it by the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge. Thank you for that Texas Muscle Car Challenge. I've got the results of the 2025 Formula One Championship standings.
Lando with ended last week. Lando Norris. He's the winner of the championship for F1. Max Verstappen. He came in for Stopper.
He came in second. Oscar Piaestry came in third. So those top 10, my driver came in 10th. Fernando Alonzo. He came in 10th. I like Fernando.
Fernando. So there you go with that. We'll follow that next year. What a very intimate way. What's the name of the song about Fernando?
Fernando. I have no idea. But, uh, uh, Abba Fernando. David came. You're not listening to us. It is. What? Fernando? People are figuring me. I mean, uh, Fernando. Yeah. That's what I said.
Fernando. Wait, she's trying to get. Well, we want it. We want to do the trophy presentations 10 to 1015.
Okay. So for those of you that can hear it, can anybody hear us out there in the parking lot? Can you hear us out there? Can you hear us? Can you hear us out there?
Sheila says she can't hear us out there. David, can you fix that so she can hear us? Hello? Jeffery, would you go out there and make sure that?
Thank you, Jeffery. Thank you so much. Hey, let me get back into this because you've got other things for the racing calendar. Please do the racing calendar.
You have, we've got some other things going on. Did you know that there is a blind driver car rally? That's coming up and what you have is a blind individual.
A blind individual drives a car, but they have a co-driver that tells them how to drive the circuit. Then you got lawnmower racing.
You got school bus racing. Bigger eight train racing. How about that? You got a trailer and you got to pull something around figure eight.
Swamp buggy racing and then you got pig in Ford racing. Check this out. You are on a tractor. You have to start the tractor and it's a circuit.
You pull up into the main straight. You have to get out. Grab a pig out of a pen. Hold on to that pig and do a lap.
If you lose the pig, you have to start over. So after one lap, you have to take the pig back and grab another pig.
You do three laps and you win. Where is this? This is in Pigeon. No, it's in Talmook County, Oregon. It's in Oregon.
That's what they do in Oregon. I think we need to do that next time we come out here to looping.
We need to do that this afternoon.
Put that down. There you go. All right, so that's the racing calendar. Thank you for that. Back to you, Michael.
Michael. Next, isn't he? Well, let's see. Yes, the time now.
For the in-wheel time weekly auto history lesson. Here comes my cars.
Do you slow limit, Shirley? Step by step. Do you need to work something on that? Yeah, need to be doing this and that at the same time.
Okay, so it's on this one. Yeah, it's on this one. Can you see it? No, but I'll work it.
All right, so we're going to do this week and auto history. It's over here. No, let's go down.
So December the 8th, 1936, we're going to start and start while Jeff's catching up.
Pontiac introduces its 1937 model lineup. Now this is important because not only did they come out with some new streamlined bodies and integrated headlights, but they also had improved engines.
They had an in-line six and a straight eight engine. And while this was all a recovering economy, this is what helped boost Pontiac, but it also helped people coming out of the depression prior to World War II.
The 1958 Chrysler introduced the wedge head. The eight Chrysler, the wedge had be eight. I'm going to leave it to you, Jeff. Okay.
Now, this is the wedge had be eight and in 1988. And because it was lighter and simpler alternative to the complex hemie designs. So the hemie had the engines that were going on at the time, they wanted something simpler.
And this carried on into the sizes 361, 383, 413 and 440. They sound familiar because they produced them all the way up through the muscle car era.
And it became the backbone of the muscle car era for mopart. They put it police packages. They had heavy duty applications. And it was really cool looking under the hood because you had this cross ran manifold with two fours on it.
1953 Corvette and her full production. So up until this time, the 300 Corvettes had been built. We're all built by hand. And it made it hard to scale things up and to really sell it.
But by pushing it into the mass production model, it got it to where they could make enough of them that they could actually pay for them and sell them well enough to ensure the models survival and evolution.
And actually ended up since the first ones were all six cylinders. They actually became into the V8 and actually that's what helped push the Corvette into the status as America's longest running sports car.
1983, the film Christine was released. This was John Carpenter's film about a shy teenager, Arnie. Arnie.
It becomes obsessed with the sinister 1958 Plymouth Fury that he restores. Yeah, he really got in tight with Christine. She started hammering on him displaying a violent possessive personality just like any other teenage girl would do for a teenage boy eliminating anyone who threatened their connection.
So this movie blended supernatural horror with muscle car culture. And it really had some practical effects that made the self-reparing fury.
An iconic on screen vehicle, you know, because it would fix it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was done really really well. Yeah, they did it filming a reverse.
I guess that's what they did. They did filming a reverse 1994 production ends on the Dodge spirit, Plymouth acclaim and the Chrysler Labyrinth.
One second of silence for that. Kathy had a 94, 4 Taurus SHO petty blue gray interior. It was an awesome car.
Cool 1997 Toyota launches the first Prius. Now this was the first generation was actually launched in Japan.
And they got it and they built it into something that they could bring into United States. And it was the first compact sedan to use a gasoline electric powertrain design.
Proof fuel economy and it put Toyota into the position of a global leader of hybrid technology, which that car is still produced today.
Of course, it's got a lot of technology advances, but it's still the hybrid to chase after if you're looking for a small compact sedan.
Yep, there you go. And that's this week in automotive history. Thank you for that, Michael.
And what do we got next? Headlines. Headlines.
Ladies and gentlemen, bankrupt subprime auto dealer tri-color.
Tri-color holdings is preparing to sue the company's founder who the trustee alleges was at the center of a massive fraud that led to the company's collapse into bankruptcy according to a court following.
Daniel Chu is already facing close by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tri-color's bankruptcy trustee said in the filing in federal court in Dallas, Texas. The trustee said it expects to file a so-called adversary complaint against Chu by the end of the month.
Tri-color filed for bankruptcy in September after shutting down more than 60 locations across the US Southwest.
A preliminary examination of tri-color's records show that at least 29 get this. Listen, 29,000 loans pledged to creditors were tied to vehicles already securing other debts.
And what a what a federal investigators are also looking into whether Tri-color pledged the same collateral to different creditors.
Man, cheaters go to jail. Yeah, just amazing. And listen, a lot of people here in Houston got royal.
Yes, absolutely got their cars confiscated. Well, they put it in for service. They can't get them out. Yeah, no, it's all right.
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About this episode
A lively discussion unfolds at the Christmas edition of the Tale Pipes and Tacos cruise-in, featuring a special guest, Marshall Reed, who showcases his unique 1932 Ford Roadster. The hosts dive into the car's distinctive brushed satin finish and Chevrolet engine, while also sharing anecdotes about hot rodding culture and the importance of engaging younger enthusiasts. The episode includes segments on auto history, racing events, and automotive news, making it a rich blend of car talk and community spirit.
Engines draw a crowd, but design keeps people talking. From a lively morning at Tailpipes and Tacos, we sit down with architect and hot rodder Marshall Reed to explore how a thoughtfully built ’32 Ford roadster can bridge craftsmanship, culture, and the pure joy of driving. His satin black, brushed finish and hand pinstriping show how restraint and texture can be more striking than a mirror glaze, while a ZZ4 350 and Tremec five-speed deliver the kind of engagement only a three-pedal car can give.
We trade stories from the Austin Roundup—how the vibe shifted from tripod-friendly nights on South Congress to curated, policed corridors—and what that means for today’s scene. The conversation widens to the Houston Roadster Club and Bruce’s Rod Shop, where builds become classrooms and new enthusiasts find mentors. Then a Brazilian-market VW Bus, complete with curtains, becomes a perfect metaphor: remove one small detail and it’s just a bus; add it back and a whole lifestyle appears. That’s the heart of customization—small, intentional choices that turn a parts list into a personality.
Between laughs and margaritas, we detour into delightfully odd racing formats—lawnmowers, figure-eight trains, and a pig-hauling tractor sprint in Tillamook County—before grounding the show with a clear-eyed look at the Tricolor bankruptcy and how to protect yourself with titles, financing, and trustworthy dealers. We wrap with automotive history notes that connect Pontiac’s streamlined 1937s, Chrysler’s wedge V8s, Corvette’s production leap, and the first-gen Prius—all milestones that show how innovation and accessibility keep car culture moving.
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