WEBVTT - The Texas Mile 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:04.440 Welcome to the Fast Track, a production of I Heart Radios, 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:15.360 How Stuff Works. Hello, and welcome to the fast Track. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.160 I'm your co host, I guess Scott Benjamin, and I'm 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.239 joined by Kurk Garn who is the normally just a 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:22.919 producer on the show, and I shouldn't say just but 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.120 normally the producer on the show. And we've brought Kurt 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.639 Gotta behind the mic recently and uh and it's worked 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:29.479 out pretty well, So we're gonna We're gonna stick with 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.360 a Kurt if that's all right with you, That's fine 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.400 with me, Okay, good. Well, We've got one today that 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.800 I think is going to pique your interest and hopefully 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:37.599 the interest of a lot of our listeners as well. 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.680 We're going to talk about a very specific event, a 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.000 very um it's kind of I think it's one of 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:44.800 a kind. I don't I've never heard of an event 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.520 like this any other place in the world. Really, it's 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.600 it's different than a drag race, but it's called the 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.159 Texas Smile, and it has a lot of similarities to 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.200 a drag race. But there's there's variations to this whole thing. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.000 I mean, this is a very this is a unique 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.160 competition of speed and and uh and it's worthwhile for 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:02.880 us to dig into this. And I do want to 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.360 tell you, Kurt Um just so that you're not not 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.840 taking off guard by this, but um we we have 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.959 done a previous episode of this on the Car Stuff program. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.200 Uh So you know that that was the other podcast 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.360 that I worked on for many, many years. So you know, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.839 this archive goes back all the way to two thousand 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.360 and eight and back in August of two thousand twelve. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.160 Uh so this is seven years ago. We did a 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.360 full episode with with my co host at the time, 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.560 Ben Bowling, and myself. We did a an episode that 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.360 really was kind of the ins and outs of the 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.080 Texas Smile and kind of what it's all about and 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.920 where it was and everything and the record holders that were, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.560 you know, the current record holders and how some strategies 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.160 I guess too to get the best time, and you 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.280 know whatever. We just had a whole bunch of topics 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.600 that were we covered in there. Of course, all of 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.280 that's changed now since since two thousand twelve, and I 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.640 mean it's seven years later. You can imagine that not 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.360 only is technology grown and leaps and bounds, you know, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.720 since then, Uh, you know, the guys building the cars 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.000 are learning a lot more and they're and they're they're 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.800 going faster and faster every year. Uh, there's been some 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.000 notable events that are things I guess events, you can 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.519 call it events. I guess it happened. And uh, there's 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.720 even been a change of venue since then. I mean 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.280 there's a lot different And that's right, that's the reason 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.519 I guess that we are covering this one more time 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.280 on the fast track, and of course the fast track. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.480 How could you not cover something like the Texas Smile. Yeah, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.320 it's an actual fast track like the Nerburgring from last week. Yeah, 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.320 it's it's amazing. It's it's just just real quick and 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.919 I want I'll be honest with you. We're gonna jump 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:33.920 into the topic a little bit later. There's a little 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.720 bit of other stuff that I want to talk to 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.200 you about before we start here. But I want to 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.160 talk to you just just a second about what you 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.880 what's your gut feeling about the Texas Smile. I mean, 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.680 just just like a general when you first heard about this, 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.280 initially I compared it to a drag race. Um, but 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.000 as I looked into it a little bit more, I 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.720 drew vast differences between this particular type of racing and 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.919 a drag race. First of all, it's a time trial, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.840 all types set up. It's not two cars aren't competing 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.360 against each other. It's more like a qualifying event, and 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.519 a drag race would be more than a head to 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.400 head race. But but what I mean getting we'll get 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.800 to the specifics I think, But but getting to like specifically, 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.760 what you thought when you first saw like maybe a 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.320 car going I'm gonna say I'm above two hundred miles 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:21.919 per hour. That's not the record, by the way. We'll 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.800 tell you what the record is later in the show. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.840 But let's see the first time you saw a car 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.160 achieve two hundred miles per hour in one mile, you know, 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.440 from standing still? I mean, it's it's it's crazy, isn't. Yeah, 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.440 it is crazy. I'm used to seeing drag races in 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.760 a quarter mile, very different types of cars. Yeah, it's not. 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.720 It's not over in a few seconds. So there's a 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.840 lot of factors that come into play. Um, cooling is 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.840 one of them. Yeah. Um, we saw some interest in 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.040 cooling tactics, didn't we. Yeah. Normally they would cool the 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.480 car with air flowing through holes in the car. That's 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.240 not the way to go fast. You want to make 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.120 the car as slick as possible. So there's other techniques 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.560 that they used, the cool engines down. That's a good 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:01.800 way to put it. I like how you said that, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.440 because like you can't have a ton of openings and 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.880 vents and I guess full face of a vehicle that 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.080 you normally would have. You're trying to minimize that because 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.200 these are modified cars we'll talk about, and there's there 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.280 are different tactics that these racers employ to go and 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.479 do what they do on these Uh. Well it's two 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.080 weekends a year. And again, all of this we're gonna 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.240 get too, I promise, because the Texas Smile is is 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.120 definitely an interesting and unique event in a lot of ways. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.640 And I you can see my notes are crazy again 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.880 today I have a pile of notes in front of me, 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.000 and and for new listeners or listeners that aren't familiar 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.320 with with my note system, I I'm very analog. I've 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.479 got I've got printed notes in front of me. Of course, 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.680 Kurt just has his laptop. He's he's very high tech. Um. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.000 I have just gone with you know, pen and paper 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.599 and I've got tabs, and you know, notes on the 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.880 tabs that you know, point me to different places, and 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.719 notes that lead me to other notes. And it's just 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.440 kind of a mess. And Kurt laughs at me, but 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.280 it works for me. And you'll you'll hear the kind 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.720 of paper shuffling through the whole thing. That's me. I'll 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.599 try to keep it to a minimum. But before we begin, 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:07.599 I want to ask you a couple of questions, and 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.000 one is just kind of you know, neighborly chit chat. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.000 I guess, did you do anything at all automotive related 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.440 over the last week or so or last weekend? Just 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.359 curious because I know you're kind of a car guy yourself. Yeah, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.400 not really. This past weekend I did take a road 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.680 trip to Augusta, Georgia for an arts festival. That's cool. Um, 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.760 so I was in my car straight, shot down and back. Yeah, 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.640 that's good. Is how long is it drive from here? Um? 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.080 About two hours and fifteen minutes. It's not bad, not bad, 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.400 So just a day trip really? Yeah, that's cool? Alright, cool, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.760 I see what did I do? I did some uh 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.560 oh gosh, this sounds real boring right now, but I 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.800 mean I did some just polishing and you know, um, 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.680 scuff removal and that kind of stuff. And yeah, yeah, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.400 I've got a kind of a bang upfront bumper in 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.240 my car and it's gotta crack in it right now. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.080 So I'm looking to do something that's called this. This 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.240 is the term I've seen used for it, called the 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.279 drifters I think it's called the drifters stitch. And it's 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.440 something that people have done, is that with zip ties 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.279 okay before okay? Yeah, and you know what, It's surprisingly 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:14.280 easy to do and surprisingly holds well really well. Um, 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.360 I've done it already on this repair, just in a 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.480 minor way, but I did it in a very not 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.920 haphazard I mean, it looks good. You can't even see 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.600 them hardly that that's there. It makes the makes the 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.640 crack and the bumper disappear really and holds everything together. 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.560 It's it's just you drill a couple of holes on 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.040 each side of the crack and then run a zip 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.600 tie through and you do that a couple of times. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.440 It looks like like stitches that you would put in 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:40.040 somebody's you know body, you know, head arms, wherever you 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.880 get to cut um. It's it's a lot like that. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.800 Um ohm, I've always cracked it. It's kind of funny, yeah, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.839 like anybody would go and get stitches at the doctor. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.000 It's it's very similar for your bumper, and it's it's 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.680 a low cost, easy way to do repair. I mean, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.080 you know, I guess it depends on the color of 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.000 the vehicle. I've got a dark, dark blue vehicle, so 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.840 I'm using black zip ties, and uh, you know, the 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.440 wound in the in the umper pretty much disappears. It's 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.000 it's really nice. And I think I need um maybe 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.240 at the most, like two more stitches to make this 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.599 whole thing working here and there at the moment right now, 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.240 I've got three, um three, and I mean I need 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.400 two more. I've I've just discovered that, you know, the 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.400 the supporting structure behind it was jostle just enough that 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.640 it's not quite holding up in the corner. So I 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.160 need to add some to the corners. I know this 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.240 is all very uh specific to to me and my 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.480 my car, but I wonder if anybody else out there 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.000 has has either done you know this this drifter stitch, 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.040 or has heard of it or anything like that. If 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:33.840 you haven't look at it online, you look at some 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.760 photos online and you'll see some good versions of it, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:38.960 some bad versions of it, and it looks kind of neat. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.720 It looks like like a Frankenstein kind of repair made 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.920 to a car. But um, it works in a pinch, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.120 and it definitely is not going to cost you a 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.880 whole lot of money. Makes makes a huge improvement in 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.280 the way the car looks after you know, a minor 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.960 a minor incident. I've had a minor incident my car, 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.000 and they employed this technique a lot up north, I believe, 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.640 Is that right? Yeah, what what do you mean? Well, 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.400 that's where I've seen it, Okay, Well, like where last 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.960 time was in Boston. It snows a lot there, so 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.760 maybe there's they you hit things a little more often. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.080 The one I saw last was I didn't count, but 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.320 it looked about like forties stitches in the corner of 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.280 a bumper. Yeah, no, dint. It was just a straight crack. 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:23.080 It's weird. It's about forties sometimes holding it it almost 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:24.880 looks like a decal that somebody's put in the car. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.880 Doesn't close to appreciate it completely. Yeah, it's interesting, and 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.600 that's a great theory behind behind why maybe you would 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.840 see this more in the North. I guess that's true. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.959 It goes a new bumper every time you know a 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:42.439 little something happened, Scott, what happened? Tellful, I will tell you, 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.360 you know what, And I'll have to do this and 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.080 I hate to do this. I've already promoted our other show, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.800 car Stuff, but I'm gonna have to promote my other show, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.679 which is Insomniac. And uh, the full story of that. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.000 You know, that incident is there and exactly what happened, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.040 but there's a there's a good long story behind and 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.679 I'll tell you off air, but I think I'll just 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.600 refer listeners to Insomnia. It comes later in the season. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.320 But yeah, I had, um, yeah, I had a little 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.280 incident here in the office area in the parking structure. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.560 Bumped the wall just to put was one of the columns. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:17.880 And now you're gonna make me tell the whole story. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.959 I'm not going to know. It wasn't it wasn't a 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.880 column now it was on one of the ramps. But um, anyways, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.640 there's so much damage on those columns down there, and 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.920 I'm wondering who's doing it. All that was that was 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.959 a first for me and hopefully, hopefully now it's been 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.719 the last but okay, okay, I do I do know 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.600 that we have to get to our topic today. There's 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.679 one other thing that has been just bugging me, and 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.679 not bugging me, but but intriguing me. I suppose for 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.080 the last couple of weeks since you mentioned this, and uh, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:46.640 you know we are going to get a Texas smile. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.720 Don't worry. I see you're getting ready. You get anxious. Yea, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.480 you're getting jump you over there. Um, I want to 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.240 talk just a slight bit about your brother's cars because 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.920 I'm intrigued by this. You said your brother is one 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.240 of these types of personalities that like to both upgrade 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.360 and downgrade. Um, you know, it doesn't matter. It seems 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.280 like it's not like he's like not focused on one 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.199 type of car because of the types of cars that 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.080 you've told me he's owned. And I'm just fascinated by 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.240 this because I often will find, as probably a lot 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.920 of other listeners do, You'll find a used car. Lots, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.240 you know, relatively new cars, maybe even the same model 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.480 year that you're in right now. You know, somebody bought 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.400 them the previous year as that model year, low mileage, 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.480 Like they look pristine. They look brand new, very low mileage. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.679 But you're wondering why the heck would somebody buy, you know, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.480 this brand new car, this w R X S T 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.040 I or whatever and and dump it off in the 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.800 used car lot, you know, six or seven or eight 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.480 months later and then trade up to something else or 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.880 you know, what's the story behind that? And I think, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.280 and maybe just tell me a little bit about like what, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.559 like how many cars has he owned? And like what 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.080 are some of the crazy ones? What does he owned now? 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.479 That kind of thing. Yeah, I would just be speculating 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.080 the number. Um, I really I think that he really 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:02.360 enjoys a sports car. Well, what's the driving now? I 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.160 believe it's a Honda Accord. I don't know the year model, um, 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.600 and I haven't seen it that it was Toyota Prius. Yeah, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.280 so it was a hybrid okay. And then um, before 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.360 that it was a Ford Focus. Yeah. But it wasn't 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.320 just any focus as I as I hear it now, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.000 was it? I wasn't it a focus r S? You 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.560 said it was a topic, So I think Focus may 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.599 have been the st I'm not sure if it was, 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.079 but it was still it was still pretty decent even so, 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.120 even if it's the st still a wonderful car. But 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.319 going from the ST and I'm sticking to say down 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.920 to a Priest and someone's a completely different type. Well 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.600 it is, yeah, And I shouldn't say, you know, it's 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.640 downgrading or anything like that. I just mean it's it's 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.160 a strange switch. You know. It's like somebody going from 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.760 a Corvette to a station wagon or a minivan and 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.280 then going back again to a Camaro or you know whatever, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.720 the sports car. Maybe it's like it's it's just intriguing 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.240 to me to find somebody who switches cars so often 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.439 because I I don't do that myself. I mean, I 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.240 hold onto him for a decent amount of time. But 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.360 people do have limits, you know, either it's a year 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.840 limit or just maybe a condition limit. Could be my ledge, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.400 like I said, you know, a hundred thousand miles, two 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.040 hundred thousand miles, whatever, the limit for them is a 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.079 lot of people are comfortable with a car up to 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.120 a point and then they move on. But some people 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.199 change it like they change their shoes, you know, like 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.360 feeling is it's kind of like a hobby. Yeah, I've 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.600 got a I've got a younger brother who changes cars. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.719 But they're not new cars. It's always used cars, and 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.280 they're always a little you know, on I don't know 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.760 their lower end vehicles, I guess, and um, you know, 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.360 he may end up with like a like I think 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.960 right now he's driving a bmw M three, but it's 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.199 fifteen years old or you know whatever the ages. I 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.600 don't remember right now. Um, it's a little rough around 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.800 the edges, but it's a great car and it's running 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.240 fantastically and everything, and so it's it's a good car 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.880 for him. But you know, he went from a Ford 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.800 Explorer to that, and then he'll go back to a 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.000 pickup truck and then he'll like, he'll move around, but 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.000 not new vehicles and top of the line vehicles like that, 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.760 or they were top of the line but ten fifteen 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.560 years ago. So it's just a it's a strange thing 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.199 that some people do. And I've just always been fascinated 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.200 by people switching cars so often, you know that can't 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:07.880 find myself doing. I would kind of want to be 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.040 that person, but I don't think I have the guts 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.439 to uh to continually trade. I feel like I'm getting 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.800 somebody else's problems. Maybe I drove my cars until they're 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.000 useless basically, so they're like the trade in value is 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.640 almost nothing and then pretty much Yeah, you get over 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.760 two fifty thousand miles and then maybe even more than that. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.880 It's impressive, it's very good. Something about it that's good. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.600 I try to hold on the mind as long as 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.679 I can. They stay in pretty good shape outside of 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.200 my banged up bumper on this one. That's that's upset 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.000 to me. This is like, this is really personally upsetting 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:44.319 because I try to keep them looking almost new inside 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.839 and outside as long as I can, and I've been 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.280 pretty successful with it my whole life. This little minor 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.719 incident with the front end is really really upsetting to me. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.920 And you know, I know, you can take it to 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.880 the body shop and just be done with it, but 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.880 it's expensive. And I don't know, maybe it's too much 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.079 inside baseball about my own vehicle, but but I think 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.040 a lot of people find themselves in the same position 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.280 and look into that. Um you know that the drifters stitch. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.880 If you want to for a for a simple answer, 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.719 an inexpensive answer, it's uh, maybe try it yourself. Yeah, 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.640 it's an option, it's an option. Maybe you could even 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.600 practice on you know, a Junkyard bumper or something if 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.040 you wanted to. But it's very easy to do, very 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.960 very simple to do. And uh and a lot less 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.600 money than taking into a body shop. A lot less 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.400 for sure. Yeah. Okay, well listen, I I probably have 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.160 wasted more than enough time. I think maybe it would 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:35.440 be a good time to take a break and we 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.680 can come back and then finally begin our talk about 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:48.520 the Texas Smile. And we're back and you were listening 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.120 to the fast track, and I'm your host, Scott Benjamin, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.160 and across from me is Kurt Garren. Now you're doing Kurt, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.760 I'm doing well, Scott, still hanging in there. I'm okay, okay, 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.640 I'm gonna keep checking in with you, just make until finally, 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:03.160 you know, one day I'm gonna say, you know, I'm 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.160 your host, Scott Benjamin. Then one day you're gonna I'm 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.440 just gonna jump. You're gonna be like, and I'm Kirkcaren 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.840 and today's a beautiful day or whatever out or now 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.760 something like that. It's a really beautiful is it's a 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.000 really nice day, you know, And you know what, now 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.960 that we're talking about beautiful days, I guess we probably 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.960 should mention that it will probably be a beautiful day 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.320 in late October in Texas, just guessing when they are 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.520 running the next edition of the Texas Smile. This is 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.520 an event that runs twice a year. They running in March, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.720 which is no problem for them. There's gonna be no snow. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.320 Of course, you might have some rain issues. I don't 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.280 know if they ever have or not. Between March and 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.000 then there's another one in October. So it's a It's 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.920 run twice a year every year, and this year they 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.160 are running it at a new place. Actually they have 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.120 for a couple of years now called the Victoria Regional 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.440 Airports in Victoria, Texas. And they've completed this race since. 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.360 And I keep calling a race. I don't mean to 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.840 do that. It's we should just say event maybe and 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.960 just call it an event or yeah, and it's weird 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.440 they call it as. The funny thing is they put 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.200 it in the in the genre of auto show, and 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.240 it's not an auto show by any means, I don't 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:07.720 I don't know why they did that, but I see 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.000 it more as like a contest or even a test 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.640 of your vehicle, or an exhibition, an exhibition of speed 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.520 maybe um approving ground. Yeah, I think a lot of 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.840 people do look at it as a test event. Yeah, sure, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.240 I think that's how they view it. I mean it's 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:22.840 a chance for them to go out and just show 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.480 what they can do, show what they can put together. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.200 It's not a show in the traditional sense where you 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.800 walk around the car and peek in and look at 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.080 the interior, but you can see it run down the track, 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.000 which is nice. Yeah, I mean, it's it's nice to 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:35.360 be able to do that because a lot of times 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.120 you don't see cars in motion. You go to a 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.840 car show and you see all these fantastic vehicles, but 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.640 they're all parked. You know, you might get to hear 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.640 them start off or watch them pull onto a trailer 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.120 or something like that, but this is one where you 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:46.800 get to go and see them actually run. It's it's 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.920 like you know, going to the drag races, like where 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.880 it's amateur and pro and you know, it's kind of 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.800 a big mix. And yeah, I guess any day at 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.560 the track really, but you don't get quite as up 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.360 close and personal when you're at the typical racetrack unless 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.680 you spring for the optional pit pass and you know, 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.920 get go and walk around the vehicles and get a 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.880 little more hands on or not not hands on, but 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.240 just you know, closer to them and talk to people. 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.400 Let's just kind of go through some real simple basics 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.359 of this whole thing, and then we'll move on to 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.440 some specifics, because there's some interesting specifics. I guess. The 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.800 most notable change, I guess is the change in venue. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.920 I mean, this is its third home since two thousand three. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.560 It's been run since two thousand three. It began in 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.000 a place called Goliad, Texas, Goliad, and I looked at 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.080 how to pronounce Goldiead. That's that's correct, uh goal Yead. 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.480 It was ran there until about I think March of 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.280 two thousand eleven, so it ran there for a good 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.000 long time, around eight years. The funny thing about this 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.760 is that it started with only about thirty five people. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.240 It was began by a couple out of the Houston, 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.680 Texas area, a guy named Jay Maddis and his wife 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.200 Sharon Madis, and they had a company I think that 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:52.040 they called J and S. Maddis Motorsports Incorporated. And I'm 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.320 sure that that's still around. I think I think it 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.840 is in some way of course, a couple still still 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.680 around there. They're still running this thing. It started again 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.439 third five participants and almost no spectators because no one 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.480 really knew about the event. It wasn't, how you know, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.400 heavily promoted. I guess the people that participated probably told 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.160 friends maybe and that was about it, but very few 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.200