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It's the Car Doctor with Kevin Raywinkle and Tom Klexton on FM Talk 1065 called Kevin and Tom Nell at 3 4 3 0 1 0 6 with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in. Well you heard the story of the hot rod race that fatal day when the Ford and the Mercury went out to play. Well this is the end of the side story and I'm here to say it with the kid who was driving that model. And welcome to the Car Doctor show. This is Car Doctor Kevin Raywinkle on Tom Klexton. Have any questions? Give us a call or send us a text 3 4 3 0 1 0 6. She was brought to you by U.J. Chevrolet serving mobile since 1939, Alabama pipe and supply and ed seafood cheers. And fabulous seafood cheers. Yes. I told that guy, you know this had a song about my Model A. I told that guy to leave my car home. That's right. Yeah. That's right. That's right there. My mother will get this out. Biden come up with a deal about he was a drummer in the Revolutionary War. You know. And I'm going like, well I don't remember him because I was with George and I crossed the Delaware River with George. I don't remember him. You know. Yeah. I don't. Yeah. I know he wasn't there because I was there. That's right. Oh, my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Oh my Lord. Let's do it down. I know that man. You kind of like put any Pete and Nick. You know. They put real food in their food. So you the real donut man with your donuts. This is the real donut man. It ain't no chicken and dumpling man. I know baby. I'm just kicking the dumplings either. Extraordinary. You know I'm getting old. I forgot about my donut. My chicken was in your ice bike but it didn't stay in that. No, no. No waste. I just want to head and eat it. I'm glad. Hey Kevin. Yes. What year did Oldsmobile make the first muscle car? That was Mill's first muscle car. I don't know what you consider a muscle car but I'm going to say it's going to be the 64. 442. 442. I would think. Yeah, sure. You got it. Oh yeah. 646. 442. They actually had them before that but it was sudden. Yeah. Catch your phone. That girl ain't just going to hang up. Hello. Hello darling. Hey hunger. Yeah. She hung up. She got tired of waiting on me. You don't ever hear from no women to the first of the month. That's when you hear me. Wonder why. Wonder how that works. I don't know how they work that. First of the month. That's when they call. Is that when you have your money food? Yeah. She called him back. She heard you there. Yeah. Hello. Hello. Yeah, let me call you right back. Let me call you right back. Let me call you right back. Let me call you right back. Yes, darling. Hey. He called us back when you get through with that. I don't know what to do. How do you handle that? I don't know. That'd be your problem. She have to know it's eight o'clock on Monday. So we'll get the engineer to help me out. If he helps you, you're going to need more help. Good luck with that. Good luck with that. Hey, Tom, what are we going to meet to eat lunch, man? I can't go for it right now. Okay. Yeah. I'll tell you what. I think we try to maybe do something one day this week. This week? Yeah. I'll tell you what I did have. I went to duties today and they got a Connecticut hamburger. Connecticut sausage hamburger. Really? Yeah. And I said, "Well, I got to try me one of those." So I was looking for the links to be in it. And they come out there and said, "Okay. What's the deal with the Connecticut?" She said, "Well." Said, "We take, you know, I guess ten pounds of Connecticut sausage and patties." And then we take ten pounds of hamburger meat like we'd normally make our hamburgers. And we mix them through, run them through the mixture and, you know, and get it all mixed together. But I'll tell you what? Did you like it? That's a good hamburger. I will eat another one. I took one home to my little bride and she loved it. Yeah. This is it. Yeah. Sounds good. Well, that sounds real. Well, engineer was nowhere to help duties this year. Yeah. Oh, it's on. It's, say you wrote it. And there you go, you know. There you go. A drug store down right behind the drug store. Yeah. It was originally a drive-in theater or something. You wouldn't remember that. There you go. There you go. Yeah. Across the street from there. Yeah. And before that it was on down on the other side. Now, and what's that? What's that pottery place? Old town pottery. Old town pottery is right. It's in that parking lot. But folks out there on one end of it and the duties is on the other end. Yeah. And we always talked about having the cobbler over there on Wednesday. Jackie, forget about that. Well, you know, they got cobbler every day now. Yeah. So it doesn't make any difference. I wonder could I get ice cream on top of it. You get any damn thing you want, baby. You tell him Tom told you to get it. Well, as the engineer when he going to meet himself that way, he can buy. Oh, uh-oh. That'd be a lot of calls. He's wanted a freebie for a bus. Wow. Well, I call you Tuesday and we'll figure out what time on Wednesday. If Wednesday, if not, we'll wait the next week. I'll tell you what to do. I'm going Wednesday at noon. You're on Wednesday at noon? Yeah. So you got somebody that can bring you? I get up there. If I got rid of fire truck, I get up there. Well, all right. If you don't have a ride, you call me. I guess so. I'll get you there. But you go and win. You want to go with us? Sir? I've asked you in the engineer. What's he doing? Hell no. He ain't going. We had to buy his. No, no, no, no. He's got to study him. He's got about four hours of study for him. He's coming to do his work at night. Oh, no, no, no. He's got to study him. He's got about four hours of study for him. He's coming to do his work at night. Oh, I got you. Oh, I got you. Yeah. You got to study him. Hit the damn button. I hate you, buddy. It takes a while to practice hitting that phone button. Listen. I love y'all. There ain't nothing y'all can do about it. And I'm listening to my favorite program. All right. All right. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you. I'll be with you now. Give me straight again, Kevin, on that what I just asked you about. Straight me out, man. Sixty-sixty-four, four forty-two. I know they had him sixty-five. I'm pretty sure it's sixty-four. That's a four baron carb right now, my correct, sir. I did have four baron carb right now. And some of them had three deuces on it, too. And some of them had fiberglass hoods. Yeah. Really? Yeah. And some of them had fiberglass hoods and hoodpents. See, this is a learning channel. That's why people don't know they should call. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Well, we were just talking about the fact that I come across the river with George there. You know, when he was coming across the Delaware. And Biden said he was, you know, that he was a drummer boy in the revolution. So I don't know. That's a lie because I didn't see him. He won with you, huh? Yeah, he won with me, baby. No. God. Mm-hmm. Don't you think maybe you think maybe in the six or four of Kevin or what? I'm thinking sixty-four, but I may be wrong on that. But you never know. You never know. I'm close enough that it's going to... I mean, next Monday, let me know. Okay. Okay. I think he's right. I think he's right. Yep. I think I believe him right there. I was the oldest colorist, am I correct? Yeah, it was the oldest colorist, but it was, you know, the hot ride version of it was the 442. Two-barre, I mean, a two-door, four-door. Uh, two-door. Two-door. Yeah. Well, 442 indicated what? Four-barre. Four-barre. Four-barre. And dual exhaust. Yeah. Yeah. That was on the floor of my car. Right. Yeah. And GTO, Bonnie, I got it. That stood for gas, tires, and all. Yeah. Yeah, brother. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah. Yeah. She burned up a whole bunch of tires. I hear you. Ooh, ooh, a bunch of tires and a bunch of tickets. Yep. Yep. Talk to y'all gentlemen later. Later, baby. I'm enjoying it. Yeah. All right. All right. All right. Of course, I've always been a fan of the old, uh, muscle cars from the early era era. That's, uh... Well, that's why we had real cars. Early to mid-60s. Yeah. That's like, you know, Big John. I bought him a 66 Nova. Mm-hmm. Uh, you know, that two-door, uh, Nova Coupe. Yeah. And they come out in, uh, that thing would light up your life. Oh, yeah? That was the last one. Uh, I think he won the, they called it a king of the track. It, uh, Dolphin Island drag strip for like 12, 13 weeks in a row. Yeah. Uh, and he was running a stock car. He'd take the hook caps off. [Laughs] But that was all. Everything else was stock car. Well, they were, you know, they made, what, almost 300 horsepower. Well, they had, it was like, well, it was 327, 350 horse. Yeah. The 350 horse 327. That's what he had. That's what he had. You know, they had a 350, 375 horse. But, uh, when, when, that's what I had ordered. 'Cause I ordered, I bought it for my whole sale or, or, uh, commercial dealer. And you all, that's what I was with, uh, the truck line down there. Mm-hmm. And, uh, got him a better dealer. I don't think it was $3,200 for that car. Yeah. Brandi, you know? Yeah. Yeah. But that, that, he got this right 27. He was, he was mad 'cause I didn't get that big motor. Yeah. And he got in and went down the street and he come back. He says, "Oh, man, I don't want the big motor." I'd have liked to switch what it said, but it winds up quick. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And they were sporting gold cars. That was actually the hot ticket in them. Well, that's that short stroke, man. That's what it was too. No doubt. Sounds like it's time for us to take a break and let's hear from our sponsors. And we'll be back. ♪ ♪ It's the car doctor with Kevin Ray Winkle and Tom Klexton. On FM Talk 1065. Call Kevin and Tom now at 3430106 with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in. ♪ ♪ Yeah. Welcome back to the car doctor show. This is the car doctor Kevin Ray. We've had a long time in question. You have any questions? Give us a call or send us a text. 3430106. It looks like we have a caller in line. And I have a suspicion who it is, but let's see. Call you with us. Good evening, gentlemen. Hey, I was right. Oh, oh. And I do use that term loosely. Yeah. Yeah. You just throw that around. That'll be looked marked that day. And I don't believe I've been called that in a long time. Well, you know, Kevin Ray Marcus was interrogating you about that car. I think he might have had a little money bet on that. On the answer that you were going to give. Yeah, somebody was already calling in about it. They was already calling them a couple of times while we were on the phone. Yep. No where they could pick up their money. Mm-hmm. Well, they wouldn't want something on that one. Yeah. Well, most of the cars, those are some of the easier questions to find out. But, well, you know, NASCAR. And you know, guys, you know how. Oh, my God, not that crazy. Gas, mileage, races. Right. And, well, we had another one this week. And it was up there in Nashville Memphis. I don't know. Nashville. You can see where they were. That ugly burnt orange color. Yeah. But, you know, when your crew chief says, we got enough gas for one green white checker. And you try to make five out of it. Something's a little rotten right there on me. Yeah. Yeah. Well... I mean, you know, people running out of gas and tearing up a lot of cars. I'm glad they got that coming. I'm glad I didn't watch that. Who did that happen to? Well, there was... I didn't get sick because it went all... It runs so late because of rain. It went off on my TV. I couldn't find it. Okay. Okay. Come back on on a U.S.A. network. Yeah, but it was. And on mine, it didn't. How many people? How many people went out of gas? Well, that's the dining hamlin, Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, I was wondering how Logano got up there because when I watched the portion that I watched, he wasn't anywhere near me. Oh, is it anywhere near being competitive? No. He wasn't. Well, he was the last one to get gas. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Well, and Hamlin had the car most of the day. So, you know, just... Well, that's the one that got in front. Yeah. He got around... Bell and Bell was running second. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, you know, I think Elliott might have had a good chance, but he got up there and that slick stuff and turned itself sideways and ended up going from like six to six. Yeah. And he had made his way back up to about six and then all the crap broke loose. Well, let's ask you guys something. What's all the deal about Chase won't be with Hendrix next year? No. It's actually that Hooters won't be with Hendrix. Hooters won't be a sponsor. It won't be a sponsor in NASCAR and all that either. Oh, really? Yeah. They're backing out of... Well, yeah. They're down. The restaurants are going down. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're fixing to have to play with much of them. Well, have you been in Hooters lately? No. The girls that are working there are not that qualified to work there. Oh. Oh, they're not... They're carrying the Hooters around. And no, they're miles or not. Their eyes are not as wide as they used to be. Oh, my lord. Okay. I hadn't been in a Hooters in 15 years. The problem is they still got some of the same girls. Oh, the same girls are working there. Okay. All right. Yeah. And they got their mama's helping them now. That could be the problem. Yeah. The mama's helping them time, time, time. Yeah. We're coming up on the 4th of July and, you know, I just want to tell y'all, I hope y'all have a great 4th. Eat some good food. Marcus, I'm here for you, brother. I know you won't be able to see the fireworks, but I hope you enjoyed listening to them. At least anyway. Well, that's a good part about them anyway. I just got a public service announcement that I wanted to put out there. You're going to do a PSA? Yeah, I'm going to do a PSA. All right. And I just wanted to say enjoy the fireworks and be safe with them. And remember, kids, don't play with fireworks. Oh. Let the grown-ups that have been out there drinking all day, shoot them things. Well, they're the one that gets hurt, not you. That's right. That's right. Yep. Well, hey, uh, uh, uh, y'all here. How was vacation? Too short. Uh-oh. It always is. Yep. They always are, I guess. All right. Dan Gumshow didn't want to go back to work this morning. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Well, did you, uh, do you get enough grass-cut and, uh, how many days around the house? And I still didn't get finished. Oh, my boy. You sound like me, boy. I'd have to hire three or four of me. I mean, that, that, uh, forty-eight hours in a day, and they're still not enough time to get all the money to do. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Well, let's go to your sitting on your butt too much in the afternoon when you come home, like me. But my chair keeps calling me. Oh, that's a hundred and fifteen degrees outside. I know. You really don't want to come in. I went out to my utilities after they started looking around and I thought, "Well, maybe I'll come out tomorrow and do something." But I thought, "Maybe I might get up about six o'clock morning and do it." Yeah. Yeah, 'cause I don't want to. Yeah, no, no. You don't have to get up four o'clock morning because it's sick. That doesn't got too hot. It's already hot, huh? Okay. Yep. Yeah, you can, uh, go ahead and pack an end by then. Mm-mm. The way I sleep, but probably I'll have to get me three or four fans blowing out there and stir up that hot air. Yeah. Well, you know, I figured if everybody in the country would just go ahead and open their doors and just turn the American dishes on full blast, maybe we could cool it off down here. Could have a whole, whole, whole south down, baby. Well, let's go buy us an iceberg and bring it down here and put it in their mobile bay. There you go. Drag it up in Mobile Bay and let, you know, let that cold air blow around on them. Well, John got plenty of money and he's probably got a big enough boat, so let's talk to him. There you go. Just get somebody, just drag it on down here. Yep, got a big old boat. Yep. All right, guys. Y'all have a great fourth and, uh, simplify boot drop. All right. Thank you, John. It's always good to hear from you. Are you talking about a big old boat? What was it like today? And the guy's talking about his buddy just got this boat. And he says one day of cruising out there and he burns 280 gallons of diesel. I don't doubt that at all. You know? And, uh, actually that's probably a low amount. They probably ain't going that far. But you know how much that is? Oh, that's a lot of money. Well, it's three to three hundred times forty. Four dollars, that's what, twelve? Yeah. Well, I mean, it's even, you know, my brother's got a 52 foot. And, uh, he's got a thousand gallon fuel cell on board. And he carries two, two hundred gallon bladders. What? With him, if he's going far. What? Really? Um, he just spent, you know, a fortune doing a motor change on it. One, one, to make it a little faster cruising speed. Yeah. But two, to also make it get better fuel economy, um, that will, I mean, it'll be a huge improvement. When you burn that much fuel, you know, it definitely makes it different when you get, you know, when it's not, uh, not like a car, but, you know, it's like another mile per gallon or two mile per gallon. Yeah. That's a lot. Like a truck. It's, it's, uh, just like crossing the, uh, uh, over the road truck. Sure. Two mile per gallon is huge. That's a lot of money when you, when you roll it every day. Yep. Absolutely. Well, you know, if you, if you burn two hundred and eighty gallons in ten hours, that's what, uh, that's, uh, how many gallons is that an hour, twenty eight, thirty gallons an hour? Yeah. Yeah. Close to it? Yeah. You won't, you won't go an hour and twenty eight gallons in these boats. Man. Yeah. They don't, they don't get a whole lot of fuel, fuel mileage, you know, as far as mileage goes. Well, he's talking about some. It takes a lot of, it takes a lot of power. You know, he's got two thousand horsepower motors, um, pushing his boat to make it, make it run. Oh, and then you, and you motor? Yeah. About forty mile an hour. Holy cow. That's, uh, no one who's got the big bladders over there. Yeah. You have to. Well, I'm sure there's somebody out there who's got a car problem. We, we do. We got a caller online. Call are you with us? Yeah. How y'all doing? Have to pay me. All right. We're doing good. How are you? Yeah, man. I did. Got back from Huntsville. I talked to y'all last week. Yeah. Uh, some guy called, caught on fire and burned him. We've been traffic about an hour. Yeah. And another wreck by the Space Center again, about thirty minutes, but other than that, it was a good trip. Yeah. Yeah. But my question is this. When you're driving, when you're driving like that, do y'all, did you recommend a regular un-litered gas or a mid-grade? We, we, we, we, you know, better than everyone when you, when you're driving five or six hours. Uh, well, it sounded like we're going to, uh, have to take a break. Okay. Yeah. I had a little bit when we got a few more minutes to talk about it. But, uh, if you'll hold on, we'll, uh, talk about it. I can hang up and listen to you from home, too. Okay. Okay. We'll do that. All right, Dan. All right. Thank you. All right. And, uh, I want everybody to hang on and we'll be back after these messages. ♪ Don't know the ground ♪ ♪ Need to take my baby for the rain ♪ It's The Car Doctor with Kevin Ray Winkle and Tom Klexton on FM Talk 1065. Call Kevin and Tom now at 3430106 with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in. And welcome back to The Car Doctor show. This is Car Doctor Kevin Remkle on Tom Klexton. You have any questions? Give us a call or send us a text. 3430-106. But, uh, with this, this is the Fourth of July holiday week. I'm assuming, uh, I hope everybody is able to get out and enjoy themselves and, you know, hopefully taking some vacation time. And, uh, you know, just enjoy the, enjoy the holiday. Remember what it's about. Uh, if you're out there on the interstate, you know, cruising, you know. Yeah. You're not following me, you want me? Yeah. Back to somewhere else. Sure you. Oh, I'm sure it will. We've been sitting here talking about some running into some of that ourselves. But, uh, you know, it's, uh, be careful. Pay attention. Yeah. Um, you know, try and be courteous on the interstate. You know, it's, you know, I go to Houston fairly regular and it's, um, it's amazing. You don't run along for hours and it won't be any issues. Then all of a sudden you'll get around this one little group that is competing for space on the interstate. You know, and they're jockeying around and everything else. And then they won't go on. Yeah. Yeah. They just, they, they got to sit there and play on the interstate. Well, I know we've got a question that you're going to answer here in a minute. But if that being said, we're, we're talking about that. I think it irritates the hell out of me driving like that now on the road. As you, if you run along and then you're, I say you're in the right lane and somebody will come up on your left side. And they don't stop to realize that just about every vehicle has a blind spot. Now I have a rear view mirror on my town car. But I also have the little bitty mirror in it now. But there's still a spot right in front of those two mirrors. Right. Right. It's, it's kind of like it in my left rear fender. Mm hmm. Right outside of that. I can't see them. Yeah. And you know, I have to turn my head and check my peripheral vision. Yeah. To see that car. But that's a dead run for a damn 30 miles. Yeah. You know, I don't understand that. And that's the thing is you get, you get to run it down to interstate and someone gets up on your, your rear quarter. Okay. You can't see that person very well. Right. And sometimes you may not be able to see them at all until they either get a little further up, a little further back, or maybe you have to turn and look over your shoulder. You want to wake him up? You know. You call a little bit over to the left. Yeah. Like you're going in that lane. And, and the thing is you're cruising along and if he sits there for 10, 15 minutes, you'll have to forget he's even there. Right. That's what an accident is going to happen because you're going to pull over on top of him. Right. Subconsciously you do. And the other pet peeve I have is when you, you're riding along and the guys in the left lane, you know, the fast lane. And you're pulling, you're coming up on him and he doesn't move over. Yeah. You blink your lights a couple of times and he don't move over. So you turn on your turn signals and you don't move over and you come over on the right side and you're going to pass them on the inside. And that y'all who speeds up when you get up side of it. Yeah. I'm going like, it makes me want to reach down and get my pistol to fire a couple of rounds out. Just get up in the air and just scare his ass. Right. Right. You're like, wait a minute fool. This is part of my road. This is part of my highway too. Right. Right. Why, why people want to do that? Yeah. They only want, they only want to go so fast but they want to ride in the fast lane. They don't want you to pass them. I know. Just get out of the way. Just get out of the way. Yeah, I know it. Well, I usually brought up on them and I'll blink my lights two or three times. Well, see if I can get your attention. And most of the time they'll pull over. Yeah. There's always that y'all who they want. I love it when somebody out and running 80 mile an hour or 78 or whatever I'm running. Yeah. I love it when somebody comes up on me running 85, 90. Yeah. Because y'all go find that way. Go ahead bird out. Go on up there bird out. Y'all flush them out. Y'all go on up there and flush them out. If there's anything up there I'll know y'all go ride it. Exactly. I love it. And let them go. Yeah. And I'm on your page. Yeah. Now tell us about the gas. But on the gas. Well, the guy we called in about the gas in order to know if you should use the medium grade gas or the regular unleaded gas. Yeah. You know, and it really depends on the car. If your car requires the higher octane fuel then you need to run it. If it doesn't need it, it doesn't really benefit you a lot. Now the car that requires the lower grade fuel, if you put the mid grade in it, you may get a little benefit out of it. Like better mileage? Me, possibly, because you know these cars there, it depends on how close they are on the timing and fuel and everything else. If they're right on the verge of detonation issue, if you put that little extra octane in there, it can run a little higher time and it can get a little better gas mileage. Okay. A little more power. That was going to be my question. I can today when the ethanol came out and we were running in '87, the cars weren't able to control the air, fuel, and timing mixture to run the higher octane fuels. To get the benefit. Right. To get the benefit from it. Yeah. Now, to, and when did, if they have it, the new cars start where they can, the computer can control the different timing and fuel mechanisms now? I mean, so that they can change the timing, change the fuel mixture and what have you electronically, so that we do get the better, better fits from that fuel. Well, anything that's fuel injected, which is all your cars nowadays, can, has the capability to adjust and get the most out of the car. The earlier ones that were just like a throttle by the injected. Right. Whatever. They could do it, but they, the computers were so slow that they really weren't able to really take advantage of it. Make it productive. Yeah. Yeah. All of our newer cars have a much faster processor that can take that information. And adjust the timing and fuel. That's what I was wondering. That's what I was wondering. Yeah. I thought that that would, that would occur. And yeah, you, you might get a little bit better gas bottles out of that. I'll tell you, if you're looking for gas bottles, and you'll have to go try this. But we're all told that the gas that we buy from a cheaper station and the gas that we buy from the high dollar stations, for instance, Shell and Sitco, I don't like to use Sitco, man. That's Vinsuova. Yeah. You know? Yep. Did we ever stop thinking about that? Sitco is almost Vinsuova. Right. So we're just putting money in the Vinsuova's pocket. I don't like to do that. But anyway, it's back to the mileage. Shell, I know for a fact that I can put in regular gas from Walmarts or whatever. A racetrack and run, just say I go to Punsco and buy a lot of tickets. And I can check my mileage over there and back. And next time I go, I top off with Shell and I go over there and back. I'm going to pick up a mile per gallon. Right. Now, the only thing I can adjust that to, and maybe you can straighten me out on this, is the fact that Shell and Costco and what's the one out to bring them all? Sam's place. Sam's. Yeah. They have, what do they call it, that fuel? The E85, or it's a ethanol base. Yeah, but it's their tier one gas. If they have that on a pump, tier one gas, that means that they've got enough of those additives in that fuel to help keep the interior of that motor clean and all. But it will also give us just a tad better gas mileage. Yeah. Yeah. I can believe that. Yeah. And I found that to be true. But running the tier one gas, I try to run the Sam's gas or Costco. But, you know, for 10 cents a gallon, or 20 cents a gallon, I'll run the water race track fuel. What the hell? I can buy a couple gallons of gas anyway, you know. And, you know, one of the biggest factors in fuel mileage and fuel you get nowadays is the ethanol content. Right. Yeah. Because you can run up to, well, I think it's actually 15%. Right. It was 10% for years. Right. But if you get up to that 15% number, your gas mileage is going to drop. Right. Yeah. Your fuel economy is going to drop. So you had better had paid quite a bit less for that fuel. Right. Yes. But for it to work out. On purchasing, because you're going to get less mileage out of it. Right. It's only going to work out if you paid less for that fuel. Right. So, and you might, you might explain to our listeners why that occurring in that, I know that the manufacturers of these cars sell you these cars, but understanding that the 15% ethanol is a better way to go. Right. You know, it's a cleaner fuel, and it's a more sustainable fuel because it is based on something we're making now. Yeah. We go out and we can farm it, you know, we can, we can, we can grow it in, and we can find it. It's taking our bread away. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know. You're using that stuff to take. Right. And we don't have all of our bread. Yeah. You know, the fossil fuels, once you use it up, it's gone. Well, they say, they say that there's enough fossil fuels in the last several hundred years. And I don't think it's anybody living at this time is going to worry about that. No. No. And, you know, it may affect my, my, uh, all springs off spring off spring, you know. Well, by then they'll all be lying around and, and, and electric planes or something. Yeah. They'll, they'll figure out how to. Yeah. They'll come up with something completely different. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the hydrogen motors and, and the big, big thing is, you know, getting the hydrogen and, and getting it right, uh, there. But as far as the technology to run it in the vehicle is no issue. It's no issue. Yeah. You know, you can, heck, you can run hydrogen, uh, base fuel and, uh, in your lawnmower if you want to. Yeah. It's a little different in the octane or in the, in the fuel mixture. But as far as, uh, you know, as far as being able to run in a combustion motor, no problems. Yeah. Okay. Back to our, our ethanol deal, it's that 15% ethanol is 15% alcohol. Right. Right. Right. It's basically like putting 15% alcohol in the motor. Right. It doesn't work. No. No. Don't be refined correctly. Right. It's got to be the right stuff. And, uh, you know, and it's doable, but, uh, you know, it's, it takes, it takes more of that fuel. It takes more of it. It's more expensive. Right. Yeah. So, you know, it doesn't really work out at this point, but, you know, that's pretty much what, you know, everybody's running as a 10 to 15% mix. Right. Yeah. It's here. We got to live with it. Yeah. I'd like to break and let you hear from our sponsors, and we'll be back. It's the car doctor with Kevin Ray Winkle and Tom Klexton on FM Talk 1065. All Kevin and Tom now at 3430106 with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in. Welcome back to the car doctor show. This is the car doctor getting around with a long time collection. Having questions gives a call or send us text 3430106. But, uh, like I say, I know everybody's looking forward to some, uh, fireworks and some time off, uh, coming up later this week, um, and, and please be careful with the fireworks. Right. Yeah. Somebody always gets hurt. You know, they'll let it be you. Yeah. Yeah. And be careful around the dogs and stuff because the dogs can't handle the fireworks. No. And for another thing, for all of you guys and gals out there that have made have some, some veterans around you that were in Iraq or Afghanistan or either of Vietnam veterans. And a lot of these guys have got PTSD. And these loud explosions sets off a mental, uh, thing for them that they can't handle. Right. Uh, I'll give you an explanation of that. We with the Marine Corps League Detachment back several years ago when we had the Bay Bears a year in Mobile, we would get the veterans to come over from Biloxi and we would buy them a seat and buy their food and, and be there. And socialize with them during the ball game. But the first night that we had them there and they started doing the fireworks, it kind of out of hand. We had full five of those guys that, I mean, they jumped up and they, they got all, I mean, it was pitiful. So for what we had to do then in the future, we kept bringing them over. We did not, not do that. But when just as soon as the game was over, the, we got the, the, uh, management of the Bay Bears to have a 10 and 15 minute pause between that and the fireworks. And we could get our veterans out of there and get them loaded up and get them out of the parking lot headed back to Biloxi before they started the fireworks. Yeah. So it's a really a serious event guys and gals, uh, and those guys put their lives on the line for us. They fought for us. They left our country and went to other countries in fault for us. And, uh, we need to respect them when they come back. And if they do have these problems and a lot of these, some of these guys even have dogs that are happening with their PTSD, normally that's what it is when you have someone that's got a dog that's, that's with them is that dog can read their nervousness. And when it starts having a PTSD, that dog will start rubbing on their legs and all and make them reach down and pet the dog and get their mind off of what's going on. Uh, so the dogs are, uh, the service dogs are needed. Now, I take exception to some of that, but that's not my judgment. I shouldn't be making it. But anyway, respect our vets, respect these animals that's out there. It might even be your dog to go crazy. It's a lot of dogs will run away from home. Oh, yeah. I mean, they'll run off in the neighborhood. They don't know where the hell they run. They just scared me. Yeah. And I've seen people actually lose their dogs because they run off while they were at the severe fireworks going on. So just, you know, just consider some of the stuff like that. Uh, I mean, we want you to have a good time and do your fireworks, but, uh, be generous with your respect for the animals and the other human animals that we have. And some of us are animals, so, uh, just respect us. We might go crazy, you know, you know, if we hear that fireworks going on, we might be reaching for a weapon to start firing ourselves. Yeah. Well, you know, and your animals, if, um, you know, just because they didn't get upset last year during it, don't mean it won't happen now. I had, I had wanted to do that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she was no problem for years, but, but it didn't, I had a lady. It was happening to me with my wife and she was scared and she showed that fright even in a storm. Yeah. We had storm enlightening and she would start whimpering herself and all what a dog picked up on that. And, and, and Sadie never got rid of that. She tore up two or three doors in my house trying to get in the room wherever we were at during weather like that. Yeah. And so, uh, you know, you got to consider that they don't know what they're doing. And our, our voters and our people that having those problems, they don't know what they're doing. They just know that they've got a mental challenge and they're trying to compensate. They're trying to overcompensate for it. Right. And, uh, you know, you never know, they could hurt you and they wouldn't do it on purpose, but they can. Yeah. And it has happened. So just be careful guys. Yeah. Yeah. Be thoughtful about it. But, uh, you know, we're, uh, like I say, we got, uh, our fourth of July holiday coming up and people are going to be traveling and, you know, we got travel season here. Uh, you know, we've got, uh, you know, definitely have, uh, you know, people on the interstate more, uh, get your car checked, get it in, you know, look at the belts, look at the hoses, get someone to check the cooling system, you know, get your air conditioner checked. Right. Cause I'm sure everybody's noticed it's been extremely hot the last few weeks. Yeah. I have issues. I have problems. Yeah. So, you know, please, please get all that stuff checked for you hit the, hit the road. Uh, and if you're going in a real distance, just do, do, do a precautionary thing is that if you can get somewhere and you've burned a half a tank a fuel, start looking for a service station somewhere and go on and top off your tank because 10 miles up the road, you might be stopped for two hours and you don't want to stop and have to turn off that air condition. And if you had a quarter of a tank of fuel or half, or half a tank of fuel and you still had 120 miles or 200 miles to go to the next big city, you, you come in trouble. Right. So don't let your fuel tanks get down below half a tank. Yeah. Yeah. You never know when you're going to have to stop and sit there for an hour. Right. Yeah. Really don't. I mean, it's, uh, and take plenty of water. Yeah. And take some snacks with you. It's just like the, the bridge right there you want to cross, uh, Louisiana. Oh, yeah. That's a bad one. It's, um, you get in the middle of the thing. There's no exits. I'm just going to rent it. And, uh, you hit hat and you, people wreck on that thing. Right. Nonstop. Right. I've been caught on it myself a couple times. Right. I have to. I've been caught over there. Yeah. So it's nothing. I just got, I'd call the name of it. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. I have cone ice names. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's, uh, yeah, that, that one's a little ball over my head, but it's, uh, uh, uh, um, you know, you never know when you're going to get caught on that for a couple hours. You know, so, uh, be careful, be mindful of where you're at and what's going on around you. Um, yeah. If you travel at night, which I like to do, you know, uh, be careful because you never know who's around you and, and, uh, whether they're, they're wide awake or sleep, you know, so. And be careful. Don't, don't get too far away from your piece. Okay. No. Uh, you don't want to mean friends. Yeah. You don't get too far away from that piece, you know, that may keep you alive. You don't have to take it into a restaurant or something, but have it in that car. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you just never know, you know, and, and especially if you travel at night and even during the day, but at night, some of these places you pull off and they have to get gas at night. Yeah. Uh, are you going to risk off? They're not the safest places, you know, and it, it, I've been to some of them in this. You know that the druggies are standing around seven drugs there. Right. Yeah. Or some pothead is all hyped up, you know? Mm hmm. No, I ain't going to wear without mine. Yeah. They just have to lock me up. All right. Now I want to thank everybody for listening to the car doctor show tonight and, uh, everybody have a happy fourth of July and we'll be back next week. Yeah. And a big hoo. Ah, do all of our vets and first responders say I drive a truck. (upbeat music)