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The muscle car place, online podcast, episode number 621.
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This week, it's the recap from Holley MoParty 2025, done in conjunction with the Kibbe and
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Now, if you know anything about these Holley events, they put the fun in everything.
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But MoParty is just a little unique.
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It does have all the normal stuff.
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It has a car show, it's got a Swatman, it's got a drag race, it's got an autocross,
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it's got the stuff.
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But it also has monster trucks, and it has mullet contests.
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And over on Kibbe and Friends this week, we had Dylan McCool and Tommy Boshers of YouTube
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We had a kid named, I think his name was Skid Will.
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He had a straight axle Jeep with a straight six out of Blower, and he was autocrossing
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On muscle car place this week for you, we have Steve Sparkman from Holley, Dave Swaringer
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with Rust Bucket Restorations, Blake Anderman with Sublime Technologies, and we will
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start out with legendary drag racer, Paul Rossi.
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He gave us all a lesson in that you win at your strengths, not at your opponent's
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You win races with torque.
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Because I could not outpower the Cobra Jets or the 454s.
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They've just made more suds, period.
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Their heads are bigger, they flow more air.
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But they don't make more torque, not at these speeds.
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This is the Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, brought to you by National Parts Depot.
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This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.
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If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you.
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Now here's your host, Rob Kibbey.
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Yes, indeed I am Rob Kibbey, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place Podcast.
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The final episode of September is here, and by the time you hear this, it may
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actually legitimately, legally be fall of 2025.
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And what it also means is that Mo Party 2025 is now done.
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It's in the rearview mirror.
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So if you listen to the Kibbey and Friends show gang, you already are in the loop.
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But the entire Kibbey and Friends gang, the whole staff, the whole bananas, minus me, unfortunately,
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went down to Bowling Green, Kentucky and had the time of their lives at the biggest Mo
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Party that's happened to date.
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We kicked off our coverage over on Kibbey and Friends this week, and we're going
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So here in this show, you're going to have Steve Sparkman from Holly, Dave
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Swaringer from Russ Bucket Restorations, Blake Andromeda Sublime Technologies.
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Blake is the coolest.
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He has a lot of very elegant, simple little techie ways to accomplish motor swaps with
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We're going to start it all out, though, with legendary drag racer, Paul Rossi.
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And that was an interview put together in a range for by Jimmy Day himself of FM3.
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Really nice that he did that.
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So on Kibbey and Friends, we had Dylan McCool and Tommy Boshers.
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And you'll want to check all that out as well.
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So I'm just telling you, listen to both shows this week.
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We picked the interviews that kind of went to each show, but the whole event was just
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I just want to say personal thank you to, of course, Bernie McPartland, because Bernie
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led the team remotely without me.
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And as Bernie will tell you, Bernie's an old man.
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I only received a photo of Bernie laying flatbacked on a trailer once.
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I received a photo of our show writer, Scotty Stapp, asleep in a chair at the
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Our man, Corn Dog from Kibbey and Friends and Nathan Warren, builder of My Generally.
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They were both there.
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They did interviews.
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They were cracking up and had a good time.
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Jimmy Morrison, the anointed, appointed president of the Kibbey and Friends show.
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Patreon entity, I guess we call it.
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He was there and provided a grill and steaks and cooked for everyone.
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Ryan Brutt, the autoarcheologist, even did a nice job.
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And that's hard for me to say.
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I feel like I need to take a shower now.
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But it was awesome that all those guys did that.
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Quite honestly, they choose to do this work.
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I mean, this is a labor of love.
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There's a lot of effort that goes into this.
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There's a lot easier ways to make a buck here and there.
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But they choose to do that.
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Now, Jimmy Morrison made nothing, nothing he just chose to do it.
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So God bless you, Jimmy.
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And I assume Ryan Brutt is sitting on the, well, not the Cadillac seat.
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What would be the best Chrysler Fiat option?
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Probably one of those EVG's or something.
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Whatever you're like, Ryan, he's sitting up top.
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Everybody, thank you.
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By the way, all those interviews are coming up here shortly.
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Well, burn, cue the Dallas Kibbey Legends car.
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Racing update intro right here.
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The rear end loose, car is fast.
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Loose is fast and on the edge, you're out of control.
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So here's the reason I wasn't with the gang in Moe Party.
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So as you know, for my son, Dallas, he has a desire to race cars professionally.
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This is an all chips in year for legends car racing.
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Our goal was to hit 30 races, just develop his skills, get really good.
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I don't think we knew when we started the year
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that we'd basically only be doing asphalt racing.
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But that's basically what's happened.
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So he is preparing right now for the Asphalt Nationals
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Finale event in Las Vegas.
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And there are several national events
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and all you have to do to qualify is register.
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But it's kind of like a track meet.
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You'll show up on a Thursday in practice.
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And on Friday, you'll see if you make the cut to race on Saturday.
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And Dallas has some experience
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at this at a national event going to Charlotte.
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He went to Charlotte in June.
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So this will be kind of a nice book in any way to prepare
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for the Asphalt Nationals, which are held in Las Vegas,
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the Boring in Las Vegas.
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We needed to find a track, a local here that was kind of close.
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The only track that's basically as close as we can find here
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is called Elko Speedway.
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And it's in Lakeville, Minnesota, but it's basically the Twin City.
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So if you've ever gone in and out of Minneapolis, Saint Paul,
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even just flying through, that's where we work.
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Dallas did a great job.
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And I am proud of him for that.
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But the real value came is that we actually thought
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we had another race there this weekend.
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Now, his coach was only available for the first weekend.
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That's why we really had to go.
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But I thought I'd take him up to this weekend.
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This weekend either got canceled or postponed.
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It was a one-and-done.
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Had we not skipped Moe Party to be there,
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he would not have got a chance to race there and prepare.
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And I'm so glad that we did.
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Because when we got there, he was not very good at practice.
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And what he got another lesson in, and that's the beauty of these.
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You should never look at any of these as,
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boy, I didn't do well there.
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You should always say, here's what I learned from it.
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And for Dallas, what he learned is how to communicate to his coach
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when he really only feels what's wrong with the car.
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And where his coach is so excellent is saying, no, Dallas,
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you're over-driving it here.
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No, Dallas, you're absolutely right.
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There is something wrong.
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And help him pull that out of him.
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And that got better this weekend.
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He went from having a car that was not very fast
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to getting that second place.
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Now, out of the field, I don't know.
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There was probably 18, 20 cars in the field.
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Out of the field, the top three were all from our team.
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Dallas's coach was actually running second.
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Dallas was third, and the guy who lives up there
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and kind of damaged that track, he's on our team too.
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And he was in first.
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When the race started, the track monster,
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his name is Tristan, he got to first.
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Dallas's coach was just right on him for a second.
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And Dallas had to fight his way to third.
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Dallas did end up not punting somebody,
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but he had to move somebody,
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or he was gonna end up in tenth.
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And he got himself up to third.
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Unfortunately, Tristan, who was running in first place,
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he must have had an actual break or something.
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His car just failed.
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So he pulled off to the inside.
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So Dallas's coach went to first.
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And by that point, Dallas had fought his way
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all the way to third to second,
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and it was a good ways back to third.
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So another great well-used weekend to learn and improve.
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And yeah, it's always nice
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when you finish at the top of the leaderboard,
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or even get wins, but sometimes you finish eighth
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and have the best lesson of the day, you know?
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This whole endeavor is to help him learn
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and develop racecraft.
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They're all rooting for him.
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Jimmy Morrison was even wearing his race shirt,
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which is just the coolest.
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So just want to say thank you all for that again,
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for going to Moe Party, so Dallas could run this race.
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And that does conclude the Dallas Kidby Racing Update.
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Roll the outro, Burn.
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I should mention in that,
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right before we did the outro,
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I am hoping that when we go to that Nationals event in Vegas
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that there's some opportunities there to meet people.
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Man, racing is a hard sport,
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because you have to be noticed to make connections
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and you have to be at places to be noticed.
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It really is a chicken and the egg type scenario.
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Do you get noticed by being places?
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Well, only if you're at the right places
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and how do you get to places if nobody knows who you are?
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You know, that's the trick.
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So I hope that we'll meet some people there
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that kind of help us plan the next step.
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I think he'll still be in Legends Card next year,
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but probably not exclusively.
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It's time to start moving up as soon as he's competent.
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I mean, he's getting competent now.
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When are you so competent
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or when are you competent enough to move on, right?
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Everybody wants to know,
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even when you're thinking about your life
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or your friend or your church or your career,
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like when do you finally realize
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I need to move to the next level now
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or I need to move to the next thing?
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So that's what I'm hoping for Dallas in Vegas.
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All right, I really should have included that in the outro.
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Burn, run the outro again, may as well, right?
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Okay, before we move on to our interviews
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and we have several and it's time to run them,
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I struggled with whether to do this or not,
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but I did want to take one minute
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to address the Charlie Kirk assassination.
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Now, I know a lot of you,
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especially those of you who listen to The Cubing Friends
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show, but many of you that come here as well,
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you're looking for a little break from reality
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and I get it, I get it.
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But at the same time,
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sometimes you're looking for your podcast
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and friend Robert to acknowledge stuff
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that's been on your mind.
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Let me put it this way.
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In our church this week,
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our pastor didn't address Charlie by name,
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but he did address evil directly
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because evil is done to so many
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and some are famous and visible like Charlie
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and most you'll never know of.
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But when a very visible figure is assassinated,
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I wasn't a regular listener at Charlie's,
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but I know people that were,
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I know that you are really hurting right now
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with the loss of your friend.
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I'm sorry for that.
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That is so painful.
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If you listen to somebody via podcast like you do to me,
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This is how I feel about other podcasts.
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You feel like a friend if somebody never me
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and for many Charlie brought clarity to confusion every day
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and now they're sad and scared
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because who's going to bring
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that clarity to confusion going forward?
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What I know of Charlie is that he is absolutely
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in heaven with his savior
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that I feel quite confident of.
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And I also believe that while God does not orchestrate evil,
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he does allow good to come from it
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because God does allow good in all things,
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even things that he didn't create, such as evil.
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So I pray for Charlie's wife and kids during this
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and for you, if Charlie was a friend of yours
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through the podcast,
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I'd pray for you for that suffering here.
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I think we can all agree
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that silencing anybody you disagree with is a bad thing.
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but don't silence people because you disagree with them.
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Never, you'll never get forward by being a bully.
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Ever, it never works.
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So I just want to say that, again, you come here
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and you come to the Kid Me and Friends show for a break.
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The rest of the show for you is absolutely 100% a break.
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So with that said, let's get rolling to the interviews.
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Don't forget once per month,
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we do have Mr. Rick Schmidt from NPD
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on for the Ask Rick segment.
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You can ask him anything you like,
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send in your questions to me,
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Robert at themusclecarplace.com
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Rick will be on, we'll record this next week
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as I talk to you right now.
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I watched a fascinating YouTube interview with Bob Lutz.
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If you don't know the name, Google him, you should.
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Bob's, Jesus, gotta be in his 80s or 90s.
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He is one of the most famous people
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that shaped the development
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of many automotive segments.
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I mean, he's the guy behind the Dodge Viper.
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He had a loyal run inside General Motors, BMW.
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He kind of has a great business acumen
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for the major manufacturer of automobiles and a crystal ball.
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He'll tell you that the future right now is EV.
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And for someone like Bob to say that, that is shocking.
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He's also saying the future of EV is a ways out,
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but that's the future.
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He believes that because
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of how battery technology is right now.
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But I'm gonna play a couple of clips
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from that interview for Rick, just to get Rick's take on it.
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I'll tell you, if Bob Lutz says that
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I have a tendency to believe it, I do.
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So I'm curious to see what Rick has to say about it.
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If you've got questions along those lines,
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send them in to me, Robert at themusclecarplace.com.
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and just got the goods.
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I know I did it twice, but I was in my windup.
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All right, Byrne, let's go ahead
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and get to the interviews.
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We will have Steve Sparkman from Holley,
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Dave Swaringer from Russ Bucket Restoration,
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Blake Andrews from Blind Technologies.
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And we will kick it off
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with legendary drag racer, Paul Rossi.
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This is Scott and Corn Dog.
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We're sitting at Holley Mote Party 2025.
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And we're talking to Paul Rossi,
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a name that is synonymous with racing
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in what, 70s and the 80s?
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You did everything.
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Give us a little bit of history.
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Tell us who you are, what you do,
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and why are we talking to you today?
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That remains to be seen.
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However, thank you very much for coming by and seeing us.
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Yes, I've been in motorsport a long time.
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I'm a Detroit boy born in Dearborn
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and used to race Woodward Avenue and back in the day
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when all the hot cars there, muscle cars.
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So I came out of the muscle car time period
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from the muscle car geographical area,
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So all the engineers would get down
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and hustle down Woodward Avenue,
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the Ford guys, the GM guys, and the Chrysler guys.
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And so we'd all have it out on Saturday night
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and the rest of us were trying to catch up
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and be part of the show
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and take our girlfriends down there.
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Ted's on one end, totem pole on the other end.
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It was a big, long deal.
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And where mile roads were 15 miles, 14 miles,
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we had a long time between lights.
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That was a good place to race.
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And all that you had back then was sun tax,
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sticking up in the dash
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and that's what the police used to follow, the sun tax.
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They would see that and that was a sure indicator
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that you were racing.
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Nothing good is gonna happen here.
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And they've been trying to crack down on that forever.
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And the scene is still going on
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but you were at the very beginnings of it.
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How did your on-track racing career get started?
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Well it got started because Detroit Dragway opened.
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They opened in, I believe, 59.
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And so I had to go out and we had a place to race.
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So that gave us the arena and gave us the motivation.
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And we had a Sunday place to go and test our cars out.
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And it was fun and no police were there bothering us.
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We just paid and we could run all day long.
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No worry about a ticket.
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No, no, it was just fun.
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Drag racing is just fun.
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Obviously you got involved with Mopar
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and Direct Connection and how did your
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Direct Connection come at that point?
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How did you get involved with the sponsored racing teams?
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Well, back then there was no Direct Connection.
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I'm talking about the early 60s.
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So my first, I was racing a C-Sports car at Detroit Dragway
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and I was asked to tune a Max Wedge car.
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Long story short, it did very, very well after I tuned it.
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And so I decided that I was gonna park my fuel injected
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Corvette and get a Max Wedge 426.
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So I went down to the first Chrysler dealer in Dearborn.
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And so he opened up and he was excited
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to give me a car at cost and I would put his name on it.
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And I towed it home on a wrecker.
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I didn't go get a milkshake.
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I didn't go dating in it.
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This was a serious thing for me.
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So I took the car all apart.
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Me and my buddies from high school.
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Took the doors off, the trunk off the hood.
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Everything scraped, all the fenders,
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scraped all the undercoating off.
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Cut the bolts off where they went past the nuts.
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Put some aluminum nuts and bolts in.
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Put some lead sheet lead in.
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You could buy it back then and from the X-ray people.
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Now you can't buy it.
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It's hazardous weight.
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And so when I got it all done,
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I drove it to the racetrack.
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No truck, no nothing.
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Me and my buddies jumped in.
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We had some tires, some sparks,
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a few valve cover gaskets and off we went.
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So we pulled up Detroit Dragway
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and I was waiting for this day.
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It was the biggest race of the year.
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It was a dollar a foot, $1,320.
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And it was the prelude to the Indy race, US nationals.
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So everybody would come from all around the country,
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tune up here at Detroit Dragway,
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head over to Indy, you know,
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get the air right and get your tune right.
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So I was there and all these people were there.
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So I pull up and the guys in staging like,
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hey, polish your new car.
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Said, hey, there's a big meat going on here.
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You know, I don't know if you can,
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you want to race here and I go, yeah.
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He said, well, these got big trucks and stuff here.
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I go, well, can I race?
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I didn't have to pre-enter.
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I said, well, I want to race.
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So I entered and I raced.
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And there were like 150 cars there,
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Royal Pontiacs and Bob Ford's
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and the people from the West, you know,
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where they're Landy was there.
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And at the end of the day,
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Sunday night, there were two cars left,
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Dick Thornton's Ram Chargers.
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And I'll be damned if it wasn't Paul Rossi's
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Westborn Plymouth and the others.
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And I never bought another car.
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I didn't win, but I went right to the final.
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That's pretty cool.
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I don't know if you can do anything like that today
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because everybody had their own erector set.
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That's what you got.
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Those are the parts you could mix and stack up.
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Now there's engine guys and there's this guys and that guys.
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But back then you went and got the car.
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That was your erector set.
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That was your Legos.
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So you put that together and however you stacked it up,
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but it had to pass tech, of course.
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There were specifications and they were real strict.
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They tore my car apart at that race
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because they thought there was something wrong.
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All these other guys goes, who the hell is that?
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The engine must be bad.
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There's something wrong with it.
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They took it all out and it worked.
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Yeah, one of the Raptors guys gave me a key.
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Dan Mancini gave me a car and said, call this guy.
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So I did and that was the end of that.
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Dale Riecker was the same.
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So we're standing next to your 1970 Challenger.
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I saw that it's a 446 pack.
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This particular car, can you tell us the history
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on this particular car that we're standing next to?
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How long have you had this car?
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Is this the same car that you had back then?
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It is the same because it's the number two of two.
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So the first one was built in 1975, the end of that.
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And beginning of 76 and it was raced from 76 to 80.
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Then it was sold to a custom car magazine in London, England.
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And so this package was a contract that I got with Dodge
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and I didn't actually want it.
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I took it at gunpoint.
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So I guess when most racers are running the Hemi, why the 446 pack?
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That's what I told them.
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I'm running a Hemi.
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I just got through 1975 being Superstock NHRA World Champion.
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I had the world's fastest Superstock in 75, going on 970,
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back then with stock heads and those tires
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in full grown 727 transmission.
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And I wanted to continue my work with the Hemi
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because I had done it in 64 and 5 and now I had the 68.
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And they said, we don't have any budget for that anymore, Paul.
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We're selling all the Hemi parts we can get
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and we can't hardly get them.
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So we don't need anybody selling Hemi parts.
20:13
They sell themselves.
20:15
They said, this is the only project we have.
20:17
And it has a 440 in it.
20:19
I said, that's a station wagon motor.
20:20
And they put it in motor homes and some trucks.
20:23
It's not a race car engine.
20:24
And they said, but that's what we have.
20:26
And it went back and forth.
20:28
And finally I agreed to do it after they said,
20:31
we'll pay you if you do the clinics with the dealers.
20:34
And so we did a package that we went out and did dealer clinics.
20:38
And that's how I got some pay.
20:40
And I decided to develop this program.
20:44
Now, the 440 had never won any race
20:46
that I'm aware of in an HRA.
20:49
The 383 did with the Dave Bortman I'm one of our team,
20:53
So this car was in the hands of God rest his soul,
20:57
Dick Landy and Bob Lambeck.
20:59
My understanding is they gave the package back to Dodge
21:02
said it wouldn't run.
21:04
Ron Mancini had the package in Detroit.
21:06
Again, I'm a Detroit boy.
21:08
And he never got out of the 11s.
21:11
And so the reason I didn't want the package
21:13
is because these are good teams.
21:15
And if they couldn't get it to run,
21:17
you know, I'm not starting out in the basement,
21:18
I'm starting out in the sewer.
21:20
So I was against it because I thought
21:23
I didn't have the package.
21:24
So I just assumed that they had done everything they did.
21:27
The problem with those programs on both of their teams,
21:30
unfortunately, they tried to make it into a Chevy.
21:34
It's a torque machine.
21:36
And if you understand that and understand the torque
21:38
and then you can find out,
21:40
if you're fortunate enough to hook it up,
21:43
you can win races with torque.
21:45
Because I could not outpower the Cobra Jets or the 454s.
21:48
They've just made more suds, period.
21:51
Their heads are bigger, they floor more air.
21:53
But they don't make more torque, not at these speeds.
21:56
And we have a very short RPM band.
21:58
So you haven't got room to gear it.
22:00
And I should have a 20-speed transmission,
22:02
which I couldn't probably drive anyway.
22:05
So once you got into the 80s corporate scene,
22:10
you were talking about that?
22:11
Where did you go from there?
22:13
That's a good question.
22:14
A couple of different directions.
22:16
I decided that I was help other guys out
22:19
that I thought were good drivers
22:21
and good competitors and clean cut teams.
22:23
And I've provided them with a car and an engine.
22:25
So I had a team dodge in the same color scheme.
22:29
I had four or five cars that were out there
22:32
They represented well.
22:33
And I helped them with the engine work
22:35
and whatever sponsorship I could get them.
22:37
I divided it up so everybody got a little something.
22:40
That's what we did.
22:41
But in the meantime, they asked me to do IMSA,
22:44
which was road racing.
22:45
So I did, started with that.
22:47
Now we got to remember,
22:48
Chrysler Corporation in 1982,
22:51
their lead car was a K car.
22:55
I never thought I'd ever see
22:56
a rear-wheel drive car in my life again.
22:58
So I'd help a little bit get the GT started within HRA
23:02
so they could put an older big engine
23:04
in a front drive car and make it in rear-wheel.
23:06
And they adopted that eventually
23:08
and had a lot better ideas than I did.
23:10
But at least the concept was
23:11
because I didn't think
23:12
we're gonna have any rear drive cars.
23:14
And that's the same thing now.
23:16
Everything, never panic.
23:19
They'll come back around.
23:21
Take it easy and the right thing will happen
23:23
because the water always levels up
23:26
and people figure out
23:27
if they're not selling what they wanted to sell
23:29
and their customers aren't happy,
23:30
they'll make them happy.
23:32
And we got a new team boss now, Tim Kaniscus
23:34
and he's making people happy.
23:38
and then they changed their minds
23:39
and then now they brought them back
23:41
and we're back on track.
23:43
We got a brand new SRT performance car
23:45
coming out next year.
23:46
And it's gonna be a factory super stock car.
23:48
So it's really the Hellcat Demon drag pack
23:53
which means you take out the back
23:54
and you can put the big tires in it.
23:56
So this should be a sensational hot rod
23:59
and it'll be debuted at SEMA in the mother's area.
24:02
And so if you get a chance, come out and see it,
24:04
shake some hands and we'll show you all about it.
24:06
Yeah, we didn't mention that.
24:07
We are standing in the mother's booth
24:09
surrounded by mother's protectants and cleaners
24:12
and how did you get into this?
24:14
Well, this is a beauty shop for show cars.
24:17
So if they need whatever they need, we got it.
24:19
We got air spray, we got shampoo, we got waxes,
24:23
we got greases, we got window cleaners,
24:25
we got chrome cleaners, we got tire washes,
24:29
we got everything. Yeah, this is it.
24:30
So this is first aid for your show cars and drag cars.
24:33
And mothers, Jim Holloway and Nick Tosi,
24:36
the general sales manager,
24:38
they've put this in progress and I'm out doing my tour.
24:41
And so they decided to hook this up
24:43
and now we bring mothers along
24:45
and it's all part of the show
24:46
and now we're all together.
24:47
It's just a good program.
24:50
Yeah, it's a good fit, thank you.
24:51
The product definitely has the car looking beautiful.
24:54
It looks like it was just freshly built this year.
24:57
Well, actually it wasn't, it was built in 22, but thank you.
25:01
Mothers has the products to do that
25:02
and I'm not a guy that likes to spend a lot of time
25:04
cleaning things because that's never been in my nature.
25:06
You just only go fast.
25:07
Yeah, it was go nut show.
25:09
In this particular thing, they've got a,
25:11
I love this waterless cleaner that they have.
25:15
You just spray that on and wipe it off.
25:16
It's fantastic stuff.
25:18
And we got some new ceramics that are really the raspberries
25:21
and that's all brand new at SEMA
25:23
and people are having great luck with that.
25:25
Looking back on your career, obviously they're here,
25:28
they're gonna give you a tribute,
25:29
you know, you're gonna go back down the track again
25:33
From the start back on Woodward in the 50s till now,
25:37
what do you think of the hobby?
25:38
What do you think of the changes?
25:40
Where do you see the hobby going in the future?
25:43
Well, most of my career, it's grown.
25:46
It's grown and grown and grown.
25:48
And then something happened,
25:50
I guess it's the iPhone, the internet, I don't know.
25:53
And there seems to be more competition for young kids
26:00
And I wanna go back to the schools
26:02
because I like the shop classes
26:05
and I like working with their hands.
26:07
And that at a certain part of my life
26:09
almost became a liability.
26:11
People look down on people that work with their hands.
26:14
I was an airline pilot for Trans World Airlines.
26:18
And so that's working with your hands
26:20
and your head as well, but you still.
26:23
And so it seems like we've lost something here
26:26
in the culture and so working with your hands,
26:29
that's for other, you know, we pay for that.
26:32
Well, that's sort of what we do.
26:34
My whole career, I did how-to,
26:37
I did cookbook articles in Hot Rod
26:39
and popular hot rodding, car craft
26:42
and we were simply trying to give the information
26:45
to everybody so they could go build their own package.
26:49
And I call the 440 the blue collar hemi.
26:52
Because it's cheaper.
26:53
Something everybody can access.
26:53
Yeah, yeah, you can buy the engine on a motor home
26:56
and now there's companies like Trick Flow,
26:58
their American company,
26:59
they're one of the best cylinder heads for these.
27:01
By the way, when I did this project
27:04
there were no cars, if you remember,
27:08
Now my understanding is it's the number one
27:12
big block parts machine, the big block mopars
27:16
save the big block Chevy.
27:19
So they sell more of this stuff
27:21
because it's available than the Fords
27:23
or the Pontiacs or the Olds.
27:26
This has passed them all up.
27:27
The hemi, you look, you know,
27:29
oh, that car's a hemi car.
27:30
Oh, that car's a hemi car.
27:32
The engine in my charger came out of a motor home.
27:34
Yeah, actually it did.
27:36
Yeah, that is a motor home block.
27:38
And my race cars were because I use brand new blocks
27:41
that we got from Chrysler
27:42
and they were all the motor home truck block.
27:45
So if anybody wants to find out more
27:47
about what you're doing
27:48
or more about your history even
27:50
where would they go to look for it?
27:52
Well, I think a good place would be Dodge Garage.
27:56
They keep up with that.
27:58
We'll be doing more posting with mothers.
28:01
We're gonna be doing some podcasts and so forth.
28:04
I do a podcast with Jeff Smith and Cam Bente.
28:07
It's called Confessions of a Car Guy.
28:10
And that's kind of fun.
28:11
We tell stories there and we got time.
28:13
We usually do it at the Roadster Show.
28:14
And then stay tuned because we're gonna go
28:17
into the Gen 3 stuff with Jeff Kirk.
28:20
He's the local guy here
28:21
and he's making lots of power.
28:23
And so we're gonna have his power in our new car.
28:27
Tony and Phil Mandela from PMR,
28:30
they built this car in 22.
28:32
They also built the Ford electric car
28:34
so it's a real top team.
28:36
It's one of the best there is.
28:38
They're building the new car
28:39
and we're gonna be debuting it, unveiling it at SEMA.
28:43
Both of these cars will be at SEMA
28:44
in the mother's display.
28:46
Okay, thanks so much, Paul.
28:48
Thanks for taking your time to see me today.
28:50
And I hope that everybody found this
28:52
a little bit interesting.
28:59
Well, we're still at Holly Moe Party
29:01
but we're in a really comfortable place.
29:02
A little breezeway here.
29:04
Got a big Holly sign behind us
29:05
and that means probably we're gonna talk
29:06
about some Holly stuff, which will be fun as well.
29:09
Here with Sparky, just before you guys are setting up here
29:12
for a demo of some good plug and play stuff
29:14
and Holly EFI and all that.
29:16
First, man, just thanks for your support
29:19
for the podcast and as a company
29:21
with getting some good reviews
29:22
and it's really helping out.
29:23
So we say thank you for that.
29:26
Yeah, I'm having you guys out here, man.
29:28
So a lot of people in our audience
29:29
are really into swaps.
29:30
That seems to be the big thing these days.
29:33
Oh yeah, the Gen 3 Hemi Swaps
29:34
is starting to become very popular now.
29:36
Can you run down what Holly is doing with that
29:38
and maybe what's new coming down the pike?
29:40
Well, new, I can't really disclose a lot.
29:43
Unfortunately, we're a publicly traded company,
29:45
so sorry, it's like Christmas time
29:48
when we come up with something new.
29:51
Yeah, so we got a line that's called Hooker Blackheart
29:53
and we have a lot of swap parts
29:55
especially for the Gen 3 Hemi stuff.
29:56
We offer you guys motor mounts, cross-member mounts.
30:00
We'll basically give you all the solutions
30:01
that you need to do a engine swap of that kind of nature.
30:05
You know, also we got some of our other companies,
30:07
Flowmaster, we offer exhaust systems.
30:09
We do a lot of stuff for some of the A-body stuff,
30:11
B-bodies and E-body stuff, Mopars.
30:14
But yeah, Gen 3 Hemi's are coming around.
30:17
Another thing we got from Holly
30:18
is we got with their mid-mount accessory drive.
30:20
Basically, if you're trying to put a Gen 3 Hemi
30:21
in something compact, like an E-body,
30:24
we have the whole front drive accessory
30:26
that keeps everything nice and tight and tucked
30:28
so you don't have to worry about anything
30:30
that kind of issues but you still have
30:31
the modern power steering, the modern water pump
30:34
and obviously AAC, that's a good thing.
30:36
And it's a great thing in Kentucky or in Texas
30:39
where I'm from or Mississippi,
30:40
wherever air conditioning is, that's a great thing.
30:44
Are there specific things, differences
30:46
than the Gen 3 package that are hard to address
30:50
or just maybe a challenge to address
30:51
from the old systems?
30:53
Nothing really, we just obviously
30:54
we gotta figure out how we can make these big motors
30:57
fit in smaller, you know, classic cars.
31:00
Basically, it was our big issue that we were having.
31:02
You know, we obviously got our Terminator X kits now
31:04
that does the whole standalone ECU
31:07
that basically if you get a junkyard Hemi
31:09
and you didn't get the harness that came with it,
31:10
you know, we have that solution.
31:12
Obviously it lets you get into the ECU
31:13
where you have full control of it.
31:15
That's kind of a nice thing when it comes to tuning,
31:17
especially when guys start hot rotting
31:18
and making race cars out of them
31:20
and you wanna have full control of your ECU
31:22
and that's where the Holly Terminator X
31:24
or Terminator X Max kit, you know, comes in play.
31:27
It changes a little bit every year
31:29
but what would you say is your sweet spot in spots?
31:31
Who are you getting calls from to do this?
31:34
As far as like the public, you talking about?
31:36
Just that, you know, every day calls, you know,
31:38
our public calls us and, you know,
31:40
a lot of these guys are getting, like I said,
31:41
they're taking these classic A bodies, B bodies
31:43
and E bodies and they're upgrading something
31:45
into more modern with better fuel injection
31:49
So that's why they're all going
31:50
through these Hemi motors now.
31:52
So we're standing under this awning here
31:54
and you are getting ready to do a seminar
31:57
for the, is it the Sniper 2?
31:59
Yeah, it's our Sniper 2 EFI seminar
32:02
we're gonna get ready to do.
32:03
Basically it replaces your carburetor.
32:05
Basically you can bolt this onto any kind of 4150 flange
32:08
style intake and basically it gives you
32:11
modern fuel injection and what I mean by that is the,
32:14
you know, basically your front flow bowl
32:15
will now become two injectors
32:17
and obviously the rear flow bowl
32:18
is now two injectors also.
32:21
Basically you got standard wiring, it's pretty easy.
32:23
It's basically four wires.
32:24
You got, you know, a power to your battery
32:27
and then a negative to your battery
32:28
and then you got a key 12
32:29
and then you got one blue wire
32:30
that's gonna trigger an electric fuel pump.
32:32
You can either do the one in the tank
32:34
because we have a lot of different retrofit
32:36
basic modules that go into
32:38
where your old fuel sending unit used to be
32:40
and that becomes now your fuel level
32:42
and also becomes your pump.
32:44
And then the nice thing with that is
32:45
when you keep your fuel pump in the gas tank
32:47
it keeps it submerged, it runs cooler,
32:49
helps the longevity of life with the fuel pump
32:51
and then obviously you don't hear it as much
32:52
because it's submerged with the fuel.
32:54
We give you a bunch of different options too
32:55
so if you have new modern computer control transmissions
32:59
now we have a trans control.
33:01
We also have now our Bluetooth module
33:03
so instead of using a standard three and a half inch screen
33:06
we have now an option to do the Bluetooth control
33:09
where you can basically adjust everything
33:10
off your phone or iPad now
33:12
and then obviously we have some different screens tune
33:15
We have a five inch screen, we have a six 8.6
33:18
and then we have a 12.3 screen.
33:20
We've got some other cool stuff too.
33:21
We got a, it's called a PDM
33:23
it's a power distribution module
33:24
that basically makes the wiring of this thing
33:28
and also when you plug all the wires to that PDM
33:30
that PDM basically is a solid state relay
33:32
so it's kind of nice
33:33
and then it also has little warning lights on there
33:35
so if there was a problem that tripped it
33:37
you can go look at your PDM
33:38
and your PDM basically is like your little miniature fuse box
33:41
for your sniper too.
33:42
And that's a new product though
33:43
like maybe the last year or two maybe?
33:45
Yeah, it's been out just over a year now.
33:47
Obviously we have the whole hyper sparking mission
33:50
if you're an old school guy
33:51
and you used to have to don't have to worry
33:53
about points and condensers anymore
33:55
and you don't have to worry about getting your timing light out now
33:57
pretty much when you have a hyper spark ignition
33:59
you do everything from your handheld
34:00
or from your Bluetooth phone or iPad.
34:03
Pretty much you just tell the computer
34:04
hey I want you to start up at 15 degrees
34:06
give me total timing of 32
34:08
and boom it's done.
34:09
You don't have to like I said
34:10
get the timing light out or anything like that anymore.
34:12
Yeah and that unit's a lot smaller than the original.
34:14
Yeah. Probably half the size.
34:16
Yeah basically it's a little miniature ignition box
34:19
basically a MSD6 box
34:21
and then obviously you get a new coil
34:23
and a new distributor.
34:25
Okay, well we appreciate the time
34:27
and thanks for the support
34:28
and catchin' us up on everything.
34:29
And yeah, love havin' you guys out here
34:31
thank you guys for supportin' our events
34:33
and yeah, look forward to next year
34:35
Have fun with the seminar.
34:37
Thank you guys, take care.
34:43
So we are here at Moe Party 2025
34:46
basically in the Moe Park connection booth
34:49
and we've stumbled upon another
34:51
soon to be friend of the show.
34:54
Current friend of the show.
34:55
Russ Bucket Restorations.
34:56
We're looking at his super bee here.
34:59
It looks nice, but he's got a really good story
35:02
Go ahead and introduce yourself.
35:04
Tell us who you are, what you do
35:06
and why we're here standing next to this car right now.
35:09
Yeah, so my name is Dave Swaringer.
35:10
I'm based out of Ogden, Utah.
35:12
Maybe about five years ago or so
35:13
we started takin' on some pretty crazy Mopar builds
35:16
68 Charger, 71 CUDA.
35:18
We've got a 68 Satellite,
35:21
and then in January,
35:23
this car came available
35:24
and it was formerly owned by Kevin Shaw.
35:26
A lot of you guys may know it as the Zombie,
35:29
and it has a crazy history
35:30
and it was just such a strange car
35:32
that needed a whole lot of love
35:35
and I immediately reached out to Kevin.
35:37
I psycho called him, texted him, emailed him,
35:39
every possible way I could
35:40
and I even had other people get in hold of him
35:43
and man, actually between Christmas and New Year's
35:45
we drove 4,000 miles round trip
35:48
and drove all the way out from Ogden
35:49
to Nashville to pick it up
35:50
and yeah, so we started on the car
35:52
back around March 15th or so
35:55
and when we got it, it was pretty much just a shell,
35:57
frame rails and rockers, right?
35:59
And really since then we've had to completely
36:02
We showed us the picture earlier
36:04
I don't know if you could even say it's got frame rails.
36:06
The frame rails were surprisingly solid
36:08
for how rusted out the floors were in it.
36:11
But yeah, we had to do a complete front to back
36:14
just to get the metal right
36:15
and then of course with the 70s
36:16
there's no aftermarket quarter panels
36:19
so these are actually 69 quarter panels
36:21
that we had to shorten by about three and a half inches
36:23
and we also had to section in the scallops here
36:27
so a whole lot of work to get those right
36:29
but it actually turned out pretty good.
36:30
I don't, I haven't seen anybody else do it that way
36:32
but it worked out all right.
36:34
After that, we let it up everything
36:36
finished up all the metal work on it
36:38
and it is kind of a strange color
36:40
it's a factory beige with orange interior
36:42
so and then also with it being a post car
36:44
it could be a super low numbers
36:46
I don't know somebody that'd be crazy enough
36:47
to buy that combination.
36:49
Most Mopar owners would say it's a one of one.
36:52
I am documented the one of one
36:54
or even better than one of one.
36:56
It's like an orange creamsicle color.
36:58
So after we got the metal right
36:59
we reached out, worked with QA1
37:02
with Holley, US car tool, pipes,
37:04
cold case, a bunch of people
37:05
and so the car's all complete
37:07
front to back QA1 component
37:09
so it's got power rack and pinion tubular
37:11
everything on coil overs all the way around.
37:14
It's got a rear four link, a 354 Dana
37:16
and we found out today at Hall's ass so.
37:21
We also worked with Skog and Dicky
37:23
so it's got a stage four cam set up in it
37:26
but it's a six four Hemi pushing about 600 horse
37:29
and we literally finished it
37:30
the day before we had to load up
37:32
and drive 1600 miles to get here.
37:35
So the car has 35 miles on the build
37:37
we did a bunch of burnouts with it
37:38
once we got it right
37:39
and drove it roughly 30 miles
37:42
and loaded it straight on the trailer
37:43
and beat the hell out of it today
37:48
It's been an every day, every night kind of thing
37:50
since the middle of March
37:51
and still in shock that it's here
37:54
but happy it is and happy everybody can see it.
37:56
You said it's got a very interesting backstory.
37:59
Is that something you want to talk about?
38:01
I don't know all the details of it exactly
38:03
but this car has sat for a really long time
38:05
and I know it's been to a lot of different shops
38:08
and it's been in various stages of disassembly
38:10
I think for the last few years
38:12
and so you saw the photos of when I got it right
38:14
so there's a few boxes of parts
38:15
and really just a rusted out shell that had been dissected
38:19
and yeah, I was on Dolly's when I got it
38:22
and looks like it does today.
38:24
So what's the future plans for it?
38:26
Man, I'm not too sure yet.
38:28
I know number one as I found out today
38:30
it's only got lap belts in it
38:32
and it's got my 68 charger seats in it
38:34
so I was gonna go to the swap meet today
38:35
and go pick up some actual Coronet
38:37
or Super B seats for it.
38:38
It might have gotten a little busy.
38:41
We need to get some better seats
38:41
and better harnesses
38:42
because I'm sliding all over the seat
38:44
the whole time we're out there
38:45
and but no, we just want something that we can run
38:47
and drive and reliably take anywhere we want to
38:51
drive across the country
38:52
or do power tour events with it
38:54
but we're just happy to have it here.
38:56
What made you to settle on the QA1 stuff?
38:59
I did it on one car
39:00
and now every single car I've got
39:02
has the exact same setup in it.
39:04
The charger, the Cuda, the satellite
39:06
they've all got the exact same stuff in it
39:07
and my philosophy is if I have to replace it
39:11
especially on something like this
39:12
none of these are rare number cars
39:13
or not Hemi cars or anything
39:14
so I wanna make them fast and fun
39:16
and if I have to replace it
39:18
it's gonna be something better
39:18
than what it was originally.
39:21
So are you doing the builds on
39:23
any social media platforms?
39:24
Where would people go to find out
39:26
more about what it is you're doing?
39:28
Yep, so I do document all the builds
39:30
in pretty painful detail
39:31
but I think it helps out a lot of people
39:33
with their restorations and stuff
39:35
but we document all that stuff
39:36
on our YouTube channel at Russ Bucket Restos
39:38
and then I do post a whole lot of like DIY things
39:41
on our Instagram as well
39:42
and just kind of more frequent updates there
39:44
but yeah we've got some fun builds coming up
39:47
and this is one that I'm again
39:48
I'm just still in shock that it's actually here.
39:51
So you say you have 30 some odd miles on it
39:53
prior to coming here
39:55
and I see you're doing the grand champion competition
39:58
can you talk about what all events are part of that?
40:03
So it's three different races
40:04
we've got the autocross that we did today
40:06
they're doing the drag racing right now
40:08
so quarter mile drags
40:09
and then I believe on Sunday
40:10
we're doing what's called a 3S challenge
40:13
I don't know a lot about it
40:14
but I've been told it's like a slalom course
40:15
and it's almost like parking a car in your garage
40:17
at 60 miles an hour.
40:20
I mean we were standing on the brakes today
40:22
thankfully they worked really good.
40:24
So you signed up for something
40:25
that you don't even know what you're doing?
40:26
No, I just knew I wanted a lot of track time
40:28
and have a lot of fun.
40:29
Yeah, do a good shake down with it.
40:31
Wish we could have done it before we came here.
40:32
Well very cool, thank you for grabbing us
40:34
and dragging us down here
40:36
I only know one or two of us
40:37
were kicking and screaming coming down here
40:38
but as soon as I heard the story
40:42
I'm like this is going to be a good thing
40:43
for people to check out
40:44
and see what's going on with it.
40:46
Saving cars that other people
40:48
would have just pitched into garbage.
40:51
Well thanks for having me on, I appreciate it.
40:58
Okay, we're at, it's a pretty truck
41:01
it says sublime technology zone
41:02
we're here and I'm going to let you
41:05
introduce yourself back to our audience again
41:06
and then tell us what we're looking at
41:08
this little bitty lawnmower accessory
41:11
that you have here.
41:13
So I'm Blake Anderman with Sublime Technologies
41:16
and we are standing in front, two things
41:18
it's our test stand where we do a lot of R&D
41:21
and it is also our demonstrator
41:23
from when we come out to show people
41:25
how effective these swaps can be
41:26
and how easy they are to actually go through
41:28
with and implement them.
41:30
That's really what we have here
41:32
we have the full blown demonstration set up
41:34
we're going to walk through it pretty easily
41:37
and I'm going to verbally kind of communicate
41:40
what we're doing here and how quick this is.
41:41
So get this, we're going to get this engine fired up
41:44
we're going to install this wiring harness
41:46
less than three minutes and less than three minutes
41:48
we're going to turn the key and this thing's going to run.
41:51
We can't wait let's do this.
41:52
Okay, first thing what we need to do
41:54
is we need to look at the engine as a whole.
41:56
So for those of y'all sitting here today
41:59
the engine harness that is on this engine
42:01
on the stand is a factory engine harness
42:03
as it is pulled out of a charger or challenger.
42:06
There's nothing specialized about this.
42:08
If you were to buy an engine say from a salvage yard
42:11
or from a reputable auto parts dealer
42:14
it's going to be just like this.
42:16
You'll have the main harness
42:17
and then you'll have two connectors
42:19
a body connector which is the small oval connector
42:23
here towards the side of the ECU
42:25
and then there's a rectangular connector
42:26
this ECM connector.
42:29
That's all factory.
42:30
What we do is we take the factory ECU
42:32
that also comes with the engine
42:33
and we unlock its capabilities.
42:36
We take out the security protocols
42:38
that would prevent it from running standalone
42:41
and recalibrate it so it also doesn't need
42:43
all that CAN bus language to get it started.
42:46
All the separate modules that come in a modern car
42:49
there's no need for those in a classic.
42:51
We need to keep it simple.
42:53
We want the drivability, the reliability
42:56
but we just don't want all the headaches
42:58
and all those extra wires.
43:00
They're not necessary.
43:01
So our quick run harness kit
43:04
is a fully entailed quick kit
43:06
and its name really signifies what it is.
43:08
It's supposed to get you up and running quickly.
43:10
So you connect one ECU connector,
43:14
you connect the body connector
43:17
and then it's a simple five wire hookup after that.
43:20
Over here, what we call the loose ends.
43:22
We have a large blue wire
43:25
and they're all labeled.
43:26
This wire 10 goes to the positive post
43:28
on your electronic fuel pump.
43:31
Then we have a ground wire, wire 15.
43:34
You just ground it to your chassis.
43:36
Nothing really special about it
43:38
as long as a good, clean contact ground.
43:41
We have the larger wire right here
43:44
which is wire 21, large gauges
43:46
to the positive posts of your battery terminal
43:50
Constant power, right?
43:52
Then we have wire 13.
43:53
You connect that to a source
43:55
that's 12 volts when you're in the cranking position.
43:58
So your ignition key is rolled to start.
44:01
That would be what you would tie into.
44:03
A lot of times what we do for those in the old Moparis
44:05
is we actually take the two ballast resistor wires
44:08
off the firewall, twist them together
44:10
and tie it to wire 19.
44:12
It's a perfect place to tie in.
44:13
Wire 13, I'm sorry, is the starter wire.
44:16
So that's when the starter is in the crank position.
44:20
So we have those five wires hooked up.
44:23
Our kit comes with two additional wires
44:25
because let's face it,
44:26
I'm from Louisiana and I like air conditioning.
44:29
And it gets a little bit hot now in the boot.
44:31
And Mississippi, as you know.
44:33
So wire 22 is a wiring that goes through our system,
44:38
through the original harness
44:40
and connects to the AC compressor clutch.
44:43
So this gives you a nice tie-in for say a vintage air
44:45
or something like that.
44:47
Optional, doesn't make the engine run
44:48
but it's just nice to have.
44:50
This yellow wire is just number 51.
44:53
It is an optional starter wire.
44:55
A lot of times with these hemi swaps
44:57
people interchange transmissions.
45:00
They'll say, I really want to run an old school 727
45:03
or I want to run a four speed pistol grip.
45:06
Something that has a starter on a different side.
45:09
With these modern hemi's,
45:10
the starter can go on either side.
45:12
This wire is just an extra wire.
45:14
If you move the starter around,
45:16
you can just tap in here
45:17
and it will go to your starter solenoid.
45:19
Not necessary, but it's a nice to have.
45:21
And I've done a lot of talking just now
45:23
but this thing is ready to fire.
45:27
So we're going to go ahead and turn the key on.
45:40
Surely you forgot something.
45:41
If anything I think I did forget,
45:44
I didn't plug in the gas pedal.
45:48
I did forget something.
45:49
Now I need this engine for my RAM charger.
45:51
This is 6.4 with an eight speed automatic behind it.
45:55
And you get all the power and all the MPGs.
45:59
You're not too far away from me either, are you?
46:06
It's going really well.
46:07
It's going really well.
46:08
So we're really getting a lot of love from the community,
46:12
from the automotive community.
46:15
Sales have been growing tremendously.
46:17
A lot of it is due to shows like this,
46:19
getting that outreach out there.
46:21
So my wife, who is a school teacher for years,
46:26
We grew so big I couldn't no longer keep up.
46:28
We couldn't keep up in the shop.
46:29
My wife quit her day job as a school teacher.
46:32
She now works for the business full time,
46:34
answering phones, shipping orders,
46:35
doing all those things.
46:37
Not only is she able to be home with our kids
46:41
and our family and do those things,
46:43
but she has a flexibility and she helps me tremendously.
46:45
So I get emotional just thinking about it.
46:47
Like the reception has been insane.
46:49
It's really taken off.
46:52
We're hoping to see things get even better in the future.
46:55
We're working on some new items and groundbreaking stuff.
46:59
Like I said, this is an R&D machine.
47:02
Right now we have this window in Hemi Swaps.
47:04
From 2011 through 2014 where those ECUs,
47:08
they're not usable in swaps.
47:09
We can't get them into a standalone condition.
47:12
We're working on that.
47:13
It takes a lot of learning and a lot of time,
47:17
It's worth it to be able to help people out
47:20
Is there any support from the manufacturer
47:22
or do they just say leave us alone,
47:24
stop messing with it and you're on your own to do it?
47:27
You do get some help from maybe previous employees,
47:31
people that'll give you a little golden nugget
47:33
We've gotten some good stuff that way.
47:35
But as an entirety, you know where the help comes from?
47:40
There's so many people that have walked by today
47:42
and that have said, hey, by the way, I found this out.
47:46
And they come and share that with us
47:48
and they see it's a reciprocal relationship.
47:51
I'm gonna tell you the secrets.
47:52
I want you to be successful and do all these things.
47:55
And then it comes back full circle.
47:57
It really does, you know?
47:59
So I'll tell you right here, look on this run stand.
48:01
This alternator may not look like much, right?
48:04
This is a prime example of that.
48:06
There's an issue with these swaps
48:08
where if you have say an E-body or an A-body,
48:11
the alternator would come into contact
48:13
with the subframe on the front of the car.
48:15
It's very tight tolerances.
48:17
This is an alternator from a 2007, 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
48:24
It fits the exact same time and cover.
48:26
It bolts from the front as opposed to the side
48:29
and it sucked in tighter.
48:30
That came to me from a friend of mine, Christine,
48:33
that does the Hemiswap seminars with us in Carlisle.
48:36
I got that information from her.
48:38
Now, they didn't fit the newer,
48:40
like say the post eagle stuff.
48:43
They really work well.
48:44
Like if you look at my orange car over there,
48:46
it's a direct bolt in, but with the newer stuff,
48:48
there was a pulley misalignment,
48:50
which is why we developed this offset pulley
48:53
to rectify that situation.
48:55
Other than that, it bolts right in.
48:56
But I didn't come up with that on my own.
49:00
Before that was a frame notch.
49:03
Did we talk about that last year?
49:04
Yeah, frame notch was what you had to do.
49:05
And if you have a really collectible vehicle,
49:10
like that car over there, for me was a dream car, right?
49:13
It is a real J code AAR.
49:15
And I probably would get burned at the stake
49:17
at an all out AARTA reunion for having a modern Hemi in it.
49:22
But I also knew that I wanted to have that ability
49:25
to go back original if I wanted to.
49:28
I didn't want to cut on that car at all.
49:30
This saved me from having to cut on that car.
49:33
And that was something I got from someone else.
49:36
Are there two lines of customers for you?
49:39
Are the ones that pull their own Hemiswap
49:43
And ones that you buy great and then supply the package?
49:48
And we got a full mix.
49:49
Some people want brand new, 100% new.
49:52
And I met with an individual at Carlyle this year.
49:55
We kind of covered all the pros and cons of everything.
49:58
There is security in buying new crate engines.
50:00
So I never want to diminish that.
50:02
Mancini Racing was really a good one in the game
50:05
and they have great prices on new engines.
50:07
The issue is you got to look at things
50:10
from a whole perspective, right?
50:12
Do you want to have that warranty,
50:15
that reliability of a new engine
50:16
that say, yes, I bought this brand new.
50:18
I know if something's wrong, I could bring it right back.
50:20
That may have a specific weight to you,
50:23
but there's a financial advantage to doing a pullout.
50:27
You already have all your accessories.
50:28
You already have the ECU.
50:30
You have a lot of the components that you need.
50:32
You don't have to go out and buy.
50:36
So purchasing a low-mile pullout,
50:38
especially from a reputable salvage ore
50:40
that gives you maybe a 90-day warranty
50:42
or something like that,
50:43
why wouldn't you use that?
50:45
Because all of the extras really do add up.
50:48
Okay, now I have to buy an alternator.
50:50
I have to buy a AC compressor.
50:52
I have to buy an intake manifold.
50:53
I have to buy this, that, this, that.
50:56
There's a trade-off.
50:57
Do you want to know that you have something new?
51:01
Or in the case of this,
51:02
what's really funny is before this engine stand,
51:05
I had a 5.7 on here.
51:06
And that's in our new Jeep project,
51:08
which you may have seen on social media.
51:10
That was a salvage yard.
51:13
Actually, it was a police auction.
51:15
It was in the police salvage yard.
51:16
We got it from our Baton Rouge Police Department.
51:19
It was a 2018 Dodge Charger.
51:21
I thought it looked really clean
51:22
besides the gaping hole on the passenger side.
51:25
You know, I'm like, man, this car is pretty shiny.
51:28
It's got to be low miles,
51:29
but I bid on it anyway knowing
51:30
that it was T-boned really hard for it.
51:34
fired up the instrument cluster,
51:36
18,000 miles on it.
51:39
I paid $800 for that car.
51:41
The fuel rails were still polished
51:44
and the condition was great.
51:47
So I really implore people
51:49
to get creative and have fun with it.
51:51
And you don't need a brand new one.
51:54
Don't get me wrong.
51:55
But you're gonna save so much money
51:58
with accessories and all the little bolt-on things
52:02
Is there a sweet spot for people who are coming to you
52:04
for a specific model year range?
52:09
I used to say there's no such thing as a bad Hemi.
52:12
Let's do them all now.
52:14
But the thing is, these engines are getting old.
52:17
The first ones are over 20 years old now.
52:20
Introduced in 2003.
52:23
Discontinuation of parts has become real.
52:25
So when you get older Hemi's from 2003 to 2008, 2009,
52:31
those old-style ECUs and connectors,
52:33
they're discontinued.
52:34
They're hard to get.
52:35
I had to buy a batch of connectors out of Europe
52:38
two years ago just to get them
52:40
because it's really hard.
52:43
It's hard to get some parts.
52:44
Now, when you look at new stuff,
52:46
15 and newer, it's everywhere still.
52:48
And the compatibility with eight-speed kits
52:51
and all the bells and whistles
52:53
and the cool tech that people really enjoy,
52:55
it exists with the 15 and newer.
52:58
So when you run the eight-speed kits,
53:00
you can run modern instrument clusters
53:03
and have them fully functional.
53:06
So yes, the sweet spot, I would say,
53:08
is anything 15 or newer.
53:10
Blake, tell us how they get ahold of you.
53:12
We've been following you since the start,
53:16
before the sublime was sublime.
53:18
So we joke about this.
53:19
You guys, we've been together, man, years, years and years.
53:24
I remember having interviews with Rob
53:27
in my office at a construction trailer
53:30
at a chemical plant site,
53:31
I think before my kids were born.
53:33
I mean, way back in the day.
53:36
To go from that to maybe two years ago,
53:39
out here, showing parts that we made on a rag,
53:43
a shop rag on a folding table,
53:45
to what we have now, it's been crazy.
53:47
So I'm really appreciative of your support.
53:49
We're glad to do it.
53:50
And by the way, you've noticed
53:51
that there's somebody missing.
53:54
And Mr. Rob is not here with us here.
53:57
He thought he would just sit in the trailer
54:01
but then he decided not to come at all.
54:03
He said, you guys got it.
54:04
I'm not so sure about that.
54:06
There's been a lot of security.
54:08
You have a handsome stand-in.
54:09
We do have a handsome stand-in.
54:11
A handsome stand-in.
54:12
He's running the camera over there.
54:17
It just shakes the camera.
54:19
That's not right, so.
54:22
I didn't know the fireworks started so soon.
54:26
Rob is dearly missed.
54:28
I do appreciate talking with him every year,
54:30
as do the rest of you guys.
54:31
So I appreciate you coming by.
54:34
You can get a hold of me.
54:35
Blake at DIYHemmy is my email address, direct.
54:39
Or Blake at SublimeParts.com.
54:41
Both of those still work.
54:41
Good to the same place.
54:43
The website is sublimeparts.com.
54:46
And you can follow us on all the social media channels.
54:49
It has been great to catch up with you again.
54:51
Thank you for the time,
54:51
for the demonstration.
54:53
I look forward to next time.
54:59
Okay, there you go.
54:59
Whole party 2025 done in the can.
55:02
And we're looking forward to 26.
55:04
Thank you again, gang, for going.
55:06
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55:10
It's the last week of September.
55:11
And we've already done three shows this month.
55:13
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55:14
for the first Friday of October.
55:16
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55:17
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55:19
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55:23
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55:27
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55:29
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55:30
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