Tinkering Belles - 72' Corvette Race Wrap with Riley & Jo - Great Race Edition

Do you love iconic muscle cars , road rally racing, moxy and general Maker Shop Talk? 

If so, join Tamara Robertson (Mythbusters, Seekers of Science) as she revs up the fun in this all new mini-season dedicated to the Hemming's Great Race and the amazing team of Trailblazing Creators assembled by Riley's Rebuilds!

As a shout-out to the 72' Chevrolet Corvette Race Vehicle, this episode kicks off with a Tech Talk about the Iconic Corvette before Tamara sits down with Driver & Navigator, Trailblazers and Makers Extraordinaire Riley ( @RileysRebuilds ) and Jo ( @a_car_gal ) !

Topics they cover include (but are surely not limited to):

- Meeting at SEMA

- The Hemming's Great Race

- #CreatorRace Team

- The Jessi Combs Foundation

- Shoutout to Hemmings & Coker Tire

- Importance of Communication

- Shout Out Real Deal Revolution

- Being a Trailblazer 

- Marmots

- Wandering Troubadours of Finland

- Road Rally Racing

- Jessi's Legacy on the Road Race

- Advice for New Road Rally Racers

- The Superpower that is modern day automotive tech

.. and so much more

As we dig into Season 3's 36th episode of Tinkering Belles you're surely not going to want to miss it!

So join in on Tamara's adventure as a Maker as she works to amplify the BAMF Females Behind the Builds one interview at a time! 
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You can follow Jo's adventures here, here, and here: 

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Music for this Episode was provided by Bill Trowell Music.  Visit BillTrowellMusic.com to hear more and to subscribe to Bill's Patreon, where he covers favorite showtunes, movie themes, classic rock and jazz, as well as requests from Patron's. 

Transcript

Tamara: 0:00

Greetings, shopmates, and welcome to Tinkering Belles, a show about DIY design and all things hands-on. The sky is the limit as we talk props, metalwork, cosplay, woodwork, leather, electronics, and so much more. I'm Tamara Robertson, your host, so strap on your tool belts because we're about to get into some skill sharing, y'all.

Tamara: 0:23

Today I'm going to be joined by a team of skilled creators who joined forces for the great relay race behind the wheel of a 72 Corvette. I don't want to give away too much, but these young women were able to prove that with communication, automotive skills, and a little bit of moxie, anything is possible. So if that doesn't make you want to stick around and hear more, then you might be at the wrong podcast.

Tamara: 0:50

But first, let's go ahead and have our Tech Talk of the day. So we're going to be talking about the Hemming's Great Race, a showcasing of classic automotive engineering. And few cars scream iconic louder than the Chevrolet Corvette. It's the kind of car that turns heads at every checkpoint. So let's back it up. Where did the Corvette get its start?

Tamara: 1:14

The first Corvette debuted in 1953, built by Chevrolet as a bold concept car for the GM Motorama. Only 300 hand-built units were made that year, each with a fiberglass body and polo white paint. It was America's first mass-produced sports car, developed to compete with the post-war European roadsters like Jagsters and MGs. The breakthrough came in 1955 when Chevrolet added a 265-cubic inch V8 and a three-speed manual transmission, giving the Corvette the performance edge it needed. By the 1960s, the Corvette Stingray had become a true muscle car icon, featuring independent suspension and sculpted body lines that made it a staple in both racing and pop culture. Today, the Corvette is a symbol of American performance innovation. From small block street cruisers to the mid-engine C8 Z06, it remains a legacy nameplate for speed, design, and driver passion.

Tamara: 2:22

Well, that's it for your tech talk. As always, you can join in on the conversation with my maker friends and me on the Tinkering Belles Instagram and X pages. To search Belles Tinkering, hit follow and share your DIY adventures with us. Got a legacy ride or a muscle car myth you want to unpack? Let me know. It may be featured in a future episode. Tell us what you liked, what you hated, or possibly even what we missed.

Tamara: 2:49

So now we're gonna be getting into the main event, and I am so excited to introduce you to our next maker show, drum roll, please. Presenting Riley and Jo. Riley and Jo, how are you?

Riley: 3:00

Good, how are you?

Tamara: 3:02

I'm good. So last time we talked, you guys had not been to the race, you had never done the great race, you guys were gearing up to go. There was the fair lane stuff going on, there was the new car coming in that we'll talk about. And everyone had a chance to kind of meet you as an audience via your first interview. So, audience, remember, if you guys want to find Jo and Riley, all of their links are on their individual interviews. But in the meantime, if you guys want to just remind them real quick, high level, where's a quick place to find you these days? Because they'll hear what they're gonna hear on your actual interviews.

Riley: 3:43

For me, everything is just Riley's Re builds. That's Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn.

Jo: 3:50

And for me, I'm mainly just a car gal on Instagram. That's a underscore car underscore gal G A L.

Tamara: 3:57

Amazing. And audience, I highly recommend making sure that if you have not listened to this entire season about these racers, go and check it out. Riley and Jo are in the beginning of the season, and their interviews were absolutely incredible.

Tamara: 4:11

Now, you all know I'm a superhero scientist, origin stories are my thing. You guys shared your individual gearhead stories before, but I would love to hear the story of how Riley and Jo as a race team came to be.

Jo: 4:27

So I met Riley very, very briefly at SEMA this last year. And we maybe hung out for like five minutes at a time in a group, maybe didn't exchange much of any words personally. And then one day out of the blue, she asks if she can call me while I'm at school. So I call her between classes, and she's like, Hey, so you're a part of this group chat that I got added to because of my involvement with the Jessi Combs Foundation. And I was told that there might be another car, and I want to try to win this, and you have experience. So, do you want to do this with me? And I'm like, okay, so I'm gonna be in a car for 10 days with this girl who I barely know, but I have so much faith in the judgment of the foundation, and every single woman I've met through them has been incredible. So, to no surprise, Riley turned out to be the absolute most rad human being ever.

Riley: 5:19

Yeah, it was pretty much just I had um Dana from the Jessi Combs Foundation had kind of connected us more after we met at SEMA originally, and I was looking at some of the road rallying that Jo was doing, and it was really cool. And um, she had just come back from a race, and I was like, you know what? This would be that this sounds like my girl, you know, like Jessi Combs Foundation, like the Real Deal. And we had kind of had the idea of the Corvette chalked up to us by Hemmings and Coker Tires, and I was like, Yeah, I I need I need my navigator. And I gave her a call and she said yeah right away. And and from there on out, we called maybe a couple other times and then fully met uh at the race, and I think we just kicked it off like really well from right off the bat. And I was I was like, Oh, I'm so glad this is my navigator. I think in the first video we ever made, I instantly was like, This is my girl, this will forever be my navigator. This is the one, like, yeah.

Tamara: 6:26

I love that. And so going into the race, you know, Riley, we talked about the fact that you hadn't done the great race, hadn't done much racing. Jo, we talked about the fact that while you hadn't done the great race, you had done a large amount of navigating already. And so you guys are talking about you're coming into this completely cold, having never really spent an extended amount of time together, and you're about to do a nine-day relay race across the country that is 100% like derived from the ability to communicate. So coming into it with either the skills you had or the lack of skills, but the curiosity you had, what are some of the benefits that you think that that actually brought you all as a race team?

Jo: 7:09

So I think the biggest thing is that we had never known the exact communication style for the race itself. And since we were getting to know each other at the same time that we were learning how the race is supposed to be run, we were learning it tuning in to each other in a way that if we had come into this knowing exactly what to say and what to do beforehand, we might not have necessarily been able to meet each other and match each other's energies in the car and meet each other exactly where we had to to be successful.

Riley: 7:38

Yeah, I also totally agree with that. It was really funny. The we got sat down 30 minutes before our first race, and they were trying to kind of explain how we communicate. And I looked at her and I was like, I'm dyslexic. None of this works. You you're just gonna we're just gonna have to figure this out. And at first we had wrote like left and right on our hands, and then we scratched that by day two, and we were like driver side, Riley's side, and Jo's side, navigator side, and we were like, that's it. Like, that's perfectly works for our brains. And then they our mentor sat us down every night and watched our video from the GoPro, and they were like, You're communicating too much, like you're putting too much information in Riley's head. And then that was the first day we had the next day when we like tried to change up our navigation style. We kind of flubbed and like couldn't really get on to the groove, and we didn't do our best time. That was actually our worst time, and we we looked at each other afterwards, we're like, we're going back to this to what we did because we aced our trophy run, aced the first day, and we had a break, and then aced the third day. And we were like, you know what? We know what we need, we're figuring it out. We have this good communication style, we just need to stick to it.

Tamara: 8:54

That's really insightful too, because I know being in the fair lane, we were getting a lot of really great insights from the grandmasters who basically along the way would just stop and share knowledge. And so you all did have this really unique um moment where you guys brought in mentors or morely you met these mentors along the way that wanted to be able to share and help. So you guys really were able to like bring in this mentorship then, but also realizing you guys were gonna have your own unique race style, just like any race team does. Now, knowing that before when we talked, you guys had not been to the great race, had not been there. Now, what you did, don't give away the ending quite yet. But as far as the passing the torch that goes on at this race, can you each kind of speak to the benefits that you saw to what these vintage road rally racers actually brought to you all as young new racers?

Riley: 9:55

The first day we got set behind the grand marshal and the grand champions. And with the race, basically we're a minute apart, so we all stop at the exact same place. So it'd be like a sign. And the grand champions behind us continuously came up to our car, like and talked us through for five minutes what to do. And they were like, This is what's gonna, this is the feel of it, this is what's gonna happen. And the first trophy run that we did, we made a wrong turn and we made it up. And when we ended up getting right behind the grand champions, and we just watched the entire time what they were doing, how they were stopping, how they were accelerating. And we ended up acing that run with them, which I think is really awesome. And then they got out of the car, and at the shows, they would talk to us and they instantly were like, What questions do you have? Or they'd be like, That's exactly what you need to do. Because what happened when we were trying to catch up with them, we ended passing them right as the checkpoint hit, and we had to slam on our brakes because we were going faster to try and make up the time. And they were like, That's exactly what you do. You were on our bumper, you knew you were on our bumper, you stayed on our bumper, and then we set we stopped and got a little bit behind you and put for a time allowance. So it was definitely like the community was amazing. And I think at least I had a group, like it was so much fun with the community itself. I don't think we would have done as well with the community, and our mentors instantly grabbed onto us. And Jo was like finishing their sentences as they were teaching us, and they instantly their eyes like lit up. And after the second day, they're like, You guys could win. Like, we need to meet every night. You guys could totally win this. Like, let's get like it's like let's start teaching you as much as we can. And so I it was just a wonderful opportunity to for the community and to learn everything.

Jo: 11:58

And I feel like another really big part of what this community brings to it too is I don't think people realize watching the great race, just how brutal it is every single day out there. It's hot, it's mentally exhausting. You're there for eight hours and you don't have a mental break. Halfway through, you want to give up. It's stress after stress after stress, and because of that, morale is essential to making it through it. And having this community that when you make a mistake can remind you that that's normal, that these winners have made the same mistakes before. They can help you look at errors that happen because I made mistakes. And it's it's a part of it. And the fact that they were able to look at the mistakes that I would make and be like, yeah, listen, I've made the same mistake before. Here's solutions for next time so that you're a little bit less stressed out about it. But don't beat yourself up. It's your first time doing this and it's hard. And having that reminder of these people that genuinely wanted to see us succeed. I don't think there was a single person there who had a bad attitude. Everybody just wanted to see us do well and succeed and have a good time. And having that sort of support from people that had done this before and those reminders that we were on the right track and that we were doing great, at least for me, it made a huge difference in making it through every day. Like there would be a really bad day, but one of those people would always know the right thing to say to help me be in the right mindset to get back out there the next morning.

Tamara: 13:17

Jo, when we did your interview, I had mentioned the stickers that the cars collect. And at the time, you're like, I don't, I don't know what these are. So can you talk the audience through? You know, Riley was saying aces, aces. What is an ace and what did it mean to you to finally learn what those stickers were?

Jo: 13:37

So I guess a little bit of context for the people that didn't necessarily listen to the earlier episodes, it's called a TSD rally time speed distance. And the way that it works is you're given point A, and there's a mysterious point B, and you don't know where it is on the route instructions, and you have a whole list of instructions. And if you follow those instructions to a T, you're supposed to get to this point that you don't know where it is at an exact time. The sticker that you get is called an A sticker, and it's when you get to that point, and you don't know where the point is. So it basically means that you did everything perfectly, every speed change, every turn, everything perfectly enough that when you got there, you were not a second early and not a second late, but right on time. So getting those, especially after the trophy runner was our first day ever doing this together, it was an incredible feeling. It's sort of one of those moments that really, I guess it sat in me and Riley's minds like, hey, this is working. We're functioning as a team, we're not butting heads in this car, and instead, we're being conducive to each other's success. And look, we are going out there and we're kicking butt. It was an incredible feeling.

Tamara: 14:49

I love that. And so now I again not giving away the ending quite yet. I want to talk about the car. So, Riley, can you explain to the audience what car you were driving, how it came into your lives, and then after that, I want to hear what you both think about whether or not you would own one after.

Riley: 15:11

We were driving a 1972 Corvette. Um, it was the Heming Cochertire's uh Zip and Corvette Central giveaway car for the great race. We so it's a kind of crazy story. But when originally Coker tire had approached me at Cinema about the idea of driving in the Great Race, um, we talked about bringing the Fairlane in. And then, like a month later, they called me and they said that they had a car that they wanted it as like a sponsor car and that they wanted people to see this and this be a giveaway car for um anybody. So I obviously said yes, and I didn't know what I was getting until I got there. Kind of I knew I was getting a Corvette. I they were talking about a C3, like 350, kind of just like in that genre, and it has to be below a 74 because for the great race, it has to be, I think it's 50 years or 51, something like that, for how old it has to be. I saw it and I was like, oh my gosh, I've never driven a Corvette before. I'm uh I have big tanks of cars, and so I was super excited, and I think as soon as Jo got in, she didn't understand the kind of driver I was when I had a sponsor car like this. Because we were like, it's a zippy car, it's low to the ground. Like you can take turns really hard and not spin out. And I think after the first trophy run, I realized kind of what the car could do, and so we started driving it like it was a race car, and we ended up glazing the brakes and we had to replace some rotors, and um we our shocks went out in the rear, and so it like we definitely put some nice work on it, but I think it was a lot of fun. I don't know if I would get one necessarily. The engineering of the water pump to the electrics, and if your water pump goes, it drips onto the electrics, and then the Corvette, it's a little interesting, but if I was, I would get like one of the original stingrays, like before Corvette bought it.

Jo: 17:29

I'm gonna be completely honest. I spent so much time in that car in 100-degree weather that I could never sit in the C3 Corvette ever again for the rest of my life, and I'd be okay with it. Like it was a great car. I'm a big European car person, so I don't ever see myself owning necessarily an American car, but I think that definitely the car is great, but there's some trauma associated with being inside of it for that long and that temperature with that much stress. So I don't think I'd get one.

Tamara: 18:04

An audience, just to let you know, we were going through a massive heat wave in the Midwest as the team was going from Minneapolis to South Carolina. So it was breakneck heats, and then there is no AC in these vintage vehicles. So it was definitely one that put us through the ringer. Now, speaking of sponsors, about a little bit earlier, the the Jessi Connect for Jo and you, the Jessi Combs Foundation was the charity partner for this. And so we all talked about your guys' Jessi stories in the last interview, which again, audience, go check that out. They're absolutely beautiful stories. But what about the stories you heard along the way?

Riley: 18:46

We heard some awesome ones. So on the list, Jessi did a little portion about the WTF guys, um, which I don't necessarily, they're the I'm gonna get this wrong, Jo. Wandering Troubadours of Finland, even though they're not Finnish, which I like. No, they're not, and they pulled up like all these funny background videos they had with Jessi, and they talked about all their stories with like her being on their bus. And if you know what happens on the bus, it stays on the bus. And like we heard a bunch of stories here or there, and everybody didn't, I didn't necessarily like put two and two together until the polka dots really came out, and all the women were wearing their polka dots, and like just all the stories coming in. There was another one about um Jessi's like lead foot when she was on the great race. I know we talked to Jeff, who was like the head leader of the great race, um, at the very end of the race, and he just like sat with us for 30 minutes, telling us about how Jessi originally, when they first started the race, was too slow and almost messed up a grand marshal behind her, and then was too fast for the rest of the race. And we also got like signs of that with Jessi, like we felt Jessi's presence along the way on the race. Joke and just talk all about that.

Jo: 20:12

Yeah, uh, we had a couple of marmots visit us along our route on the days that we were going too quick, which we think that it's it's some part of her telling us to slow down. We know marmots were a big special reminder of the Sturgis motorcycle rally, which was very, very dear to Jessi. And then outside of that, too, everything that I heard about her from everyone, everyone always talked about how strong-willed she was and kind she was. And those were really important things to at least keep close to me because you end up in these environments where it can get really tense sometimes because people are competing for large amounts of money, and people have their way of doing things, and they get upset if people get in the way. And having all these stories about Jessi just killing everyone with kindness and being an absolute rock star and helping everybody out, it really, really helped to keep at least I know for a fact, me and Riley grounded and focused and appreciative and thankful, and really helped frame every interaction with anyone that we had in a light of we're carrying on her legacy and we're representing her. We kill everyone with kindness, that's what we do.

Riley: 21:25

Yeah, people kept reminding us of like how kind she was and how amazing she was, and I it definitely helped the journey, like the days that were really rough, and we were on like our last straw, and someone would just be like, yo, Jessi was like the nicest woman ever, and like and that would just like right in our days.

Tamara: 21:45

And I love how you said that seeing the dots go was really a moment because you know, we do this event up in the Catskills every year, maker camp. Um, I started this foundation makers for Jessi when she first passed, and that's one of the things, like bringing the girls along this last year. They said, like from day one to day four, the exponential increase of the dots. And so I started even noticing that from the Fairlane perspective, when we would come across the finish lines, instead of us like having to give out dots, dots were already there waiting. You know, there were the little girls, there were the older women, there were just so many dots there that it became this really just incredible welcome wagon, you know. And so I want to finally get to it because I had the joy the last day of being in the support RV and sprinting with the dads to the finish line to be able to meet you all as you crossed, which like we got there two minutes maybe before. Um, we were a full sprint uh from the parking lot to get there. But it was really incredible because when you all came through, unlike everyone else who then drove off to become part of the car show, you all got to go and actually circle around to a very special place. And so I think it's time that we let the audience know how you ladies did in your first ever road rally race together.

Jo: 23:20

Riley, you get the honors.

Riley: 23:23

Oh thank you. Um, so we circled to the winning circle, and we ended up going to the finish line with first and second, and they announced us as second in the rookie class division, which is a huge accomplishment because we hadn't gotten the car the night before we barely drove it, or we got our digital stopwatch the same morning. 30 minutes before the race, we didn't have our calculated sheets for the car, so that's our stop time, that's our acceleration time. We didn't have a stopwatch, somebody had to give us another stopwatch, and so it was definitely an awesome experience and a feeling of like accomplishment, knowing that we got to represent Jessi in the kick butt winning way, and also like the grunge, get that car going, like with the fair lane, and and never saying no and not letting it die, you know.

Tamara: 24:28

Yeah, and so Jo coming into this race, you talked about how you were excited to see the stories that would get added to the fair lane. So, are there some moments or epic stories that you want to share that you all added to that Corvette, aside from the second place trophy, which I'm sure whoever wins it is gonna be stoked to know it's an award winner.

Jo: 24:51

But we had a couple of moments, I think, where Riley and I both saw our lives flash before our eyes a little bit in that car. We had a blast with it. I mean, we cornered so hard, we lost two hubcaps on the same side at one point. That to me will always make me laugh. But I think for me, what really, really got me was the way that if we made a mistake, no matter how insane it was going to be to make it up, we would try and we would do a pretty darn good job every single time. And it led to some super intense moments, some angry traffic, you know, things like that, um, losing grip sometimes. And everyone always thinks, oh, the great race. Like everyone drives it slow because it's you know, it's supposed to be slow. But every person that we heard from that we talked to says that sometimes they gotta pick it up a little bit. And I guess getting to experience all aspects of the race like that was it was it was just so fun. And that Corvette has seen some things that I probably shouldn't talk about.

Tamara: 25:55

Corvette like the bus, what happens when the Corvette stays in the corvette.

Riley: 25:59

There was a lot of anything out. Let's just say that.

Jo: 26:02

There were a lot of moments where our language changed very drastically.

Riley: 26:08

Yeah, it was definitely it was it was a lot of fun. And I I always say the mistakes are the most fun because you're doing math, and the easiest is just to go two times the speed limit.

Tamara: 26:25

I love it, and so speaking of stories, you know, we were the creator race team, so tell the audience where they can go and actually see what it was like to be in that Corvette every single day with you all.

Riley: 26:40

I did a lot of films, so I did a lot of short snips on Instagram, and then on YouTube, we have our full GoPro footage, and then we have our like walkthroughs. So as we were going through the race, I would teach everybody about the race, and Jo and I would teach everybody about the race, and we would see Jo doing their her navigation math, and then how fast it would be going in the mornings to like cruising, and then yeah, on Instagram, there's just cute little snippets.

Tamara: 27:08

You all again, audience, just just to recap all of the reasons that a podium seat shouldn't have happened. You guys had never seen the car, you had never touched the car, you had never stopped or accelerated the car, you had never actually spent more than 10 minutes together and had a conversation. Riley, you had never raced. So you all are jumping into a race that you have never been on before to do this, and you not only podium, but you podium in second and you only lost because the other team was actually a veteran race team that had raced together before, had raced their car before, but had just not done a great race. So, in reality, the true victors, the true rookie victors here. So if you could give any advice hearing that all of this was sacked against you and you guys still this off, which I, you know, I can't speak for Jessi, but I would have to imagine that she would be so freaking proud to know that the dots got to go that fast on some of those curves and to go across. But is there advice that you would give to that the next generation that might be debating like, is vintage road rally racing for me?

Riley: 28:28

I would say the spring rally is definitely gonna be the best bet. There is a wonderful family. I don't know their last name, but they cover all the rookie entry fees. So it can get really expensive. The Great Race is a very expensive road rally, but the spring rally covers all the fees, and it's less hot for rookies. So I think that would be a great entryway to get in. Get something small, quick, a Z, maybe.

Jo: 28:56

Yeah, and make sure it's automatic. Automatic is important.

Riley: 28:59

Yes, automatic. Something that you can work on, but also trust enough. Yeah, I think, and just getting into it, you know your car best. So being able to take it out. When we were learning, they said look up past great races and see if there's any in your area and do the course, because they have the navigation books on the great race with the course, and you could be able to time yourself and do the race yourself, which I think is an amazing idea if you want to start and don't know where to start.

Jo: 29:33

Um, what I'd say is don't be daunted by the math. I personally am not a mathematician, I don't enjoy doing math. It is not my thing. It is so easy to make patterns in your brain that make it a lot easier. So the biggest thing is go into it eager to learn and wanting to learn. And as long as you have that mindset of wanting to absorb information like a goofy little sponge, you will get the hang of it and you will do. Incredible. So I guess the biggest thing is don't be daunted, keep your spirits up, and just want to learn. That makes the biggest difference.

Tamara: 30:08

Very insightful. And so hindsight is 2020, and you know now what you didn't know then. If you could go back and give yourself pre-race, one piece of advice, what would it be?

Jo: 30:22

Buy sun sleeves.

Riley: 30:24

That's a good one. Have a cooler full of water and ice packs.

Tamara: 30:31

Coolers, man. All of the veteran racers had coolers, and they were like, Hey, do you guys need ice? And we're like, We don't have a cooler. And they just looked at us like we had 10 heads, and they're like, You don't have a cooler? And we're like, no. And they're like, but you don't have AC. And we're like, that's correct.

Riley: 30:50

Get AC. How about that? Get A C.

Jo: 30:54

Another good one. Try to get some sleep. Oh my gosh. It makes the world difference.

Riley: 31:00

It's better really.

Tamara: 31:03

It really does. Maybe don't be up until 2 a.m. wrenching on the vehicle, then 3 a.m. making content about wrenching on the vehicle. You all know there's one question I always ask, and but you guys have answered it about what superpowers you would want. So I'm gonna change it up. You could give the Corvette one piece of superhero tech. What would it be and why?

Riley: 31:27

What's the what's the auto speed that locks the speed on the car?

Jo: 31:33

Cruise control.

Riley: 31:36

Cruise control.

Tamara: 31:38

Well, this is superpower, it's just modern day technology.

Jo: 31:44

Yeah, I was gonna say air conditioning that works and doesn't stop 14 horsepower from the car.

Riley: 31:51

Maybe flying so that it could go above all the icky traffic that doesn't know how to drive properly.

Jo: 31:58

Or how about like brakes that never fade?

Riley: 32:02

Or weather protection, like it doesn't orbit.

Jo: 32:06

Like T tops that actually seal.

Riley: 32:09

Yeah.

Tamara: 32:11

We're learning a lot about the car here, guys.

Riley: 32:13

We were swimming a couple times for sure.

Tamara: 32:18

Oh my gosh, I I I love all of this. This is really great.

Tamara: 32:24

And guys, we journeyed the Hemmings Great Race. It kicked off June 21st in St. Paul, Minnesota, and we ran it all the way until they hit the second place spot in the finish line on June 29th in Irmo, South Carolina. You've heard it here. Go to Instagram, go to YouTube, follow and live the full adventure along with all of us and the creator race team as we recap tackling this iconic vintage rally road race one mile at a time.

Tamara: 32:54

That's it for Tinkering Belles. This episode is assembled and ready for delivery.

Tamara: 32:58

Jo Riley, this has been so incredible. I wish I'd been in the car. We needed a third seat. There needed to be a third seat.

Tamara: 33:06

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