Ford Builds Boat Propellers?!?

Ford supplying boat propellers sounds like a punchline, until you hear what happened next. We break down a Detroit manufacturing story where Ford becomes the supplier for a startup propeller company and uses 3D sand casting to collapse lead times from months to days. It’s not just a cool headline, it’s a clear signal of how advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, and deep supplier networks can reshape a small business overnight. 

From there, we zoom out on the bigger question: are automakers turning into diversified manufacturing platforms? We talk about the old “everything under one roof” era versus today’s just-in-time mindset, and why the real advantage may be speed, quality systems, and the ability to scale production for more than just cars. If you’re into American manufacturing, Michigan Central, and how partnerships actually get done, this is a practical conversation with real takeaways. 

We also hit the week’s automotive news: Europe’s push toward teleoperation and remote driving where you can summon a car with your phone, plus Brembo’s brake-by-wire system as software-defined vehicles keep marching forward. Along the way we keep it grounded in everyday car life too, including the honest moment when a lifelong manual-transmission Corvette driver starts thinking about comfort, traffic, and what kind of car fits “today is now.” 

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Transcript

Welcome And What’s Ahead

Don Armstrong 0:04

It is the award-winning in-wheel time car talk show. Just ahead. We're gonna have our story of the week. Right. Later, Jeff has the racing calendar, Mr. Mars has this week in auto history, and uh I'll have the stories making automotive news headlines. Howdy, along with Mike Out of This World Mars. There he is over there. See him waiting. There he is. Uh-huh.

Jeff Dziekan 0:26

I see you.

Don Armstrong 0:26

We have uh more Jeff Zeken, as always. And uh Chief Engineer David Ainsley is out today running errands and going to school. What? He's schooling them errands, man. I don't know what I don't know what he's up to. I can't. I won't be around tomorrow. Okay, fine. Go, go. I'm Don Armstrong. Glad you could join us today.

Jeff Dziekan 0:47

That's what we say to Mike. Go out.

Don Armstrong 0:50

We do. We do say that.

Jeff Dziekan 0:51

We do, we do.

Don Armstrong 0:53

Um so I thought that I would uh start uh this segment off with um a different kind of story. Of course, that's why it's the story of the week. Gather around. Gather around children. Uh, this is a story from automotive news that I thought was worthy to repeat here on this show because we can have a little talk about it. Uh a Detroit boat propeller business. All right. I mean boat propellers. Boat propellers, okay. It was drowning in months-long manufacturing lead times until Ford Motor Company did something unusual for a global automaker, and that is it became the startup's supplier. You're going, what? It's the sort of collaboration executive chairman Bill Ford wanted to happen at Michigan Central, a mobility campus centered around a former train station, the automaker restored. You're familiar with this. Uh this is a story that's Central Station, yeah. Yeah, that they they made headlines because they moved out of the old Ford building on in Dearborn and moved everything down to the train station. And uh so, at any rate, I scattered brain here for a moment. Um Cherow Engineering established its headquarters last May next door at New Lab, an innovation hub, working to pair entrepreneurs with the industrial and engineering know-how of the motor city. A first of its kind partnership between Ford and Sherrow centered on a 3D sandcasting supply agreement. It's radically changed the trajectory of the boat propeller business, according to founder and CEO Greg Sherrow. He says it's game-changing. Uh now we're going from 130 days to three days to get our steel. In other words, lead time for customers was reduced from an entire boating season to just a few days, a sales windfall for the startup. For Ford, it was just a matter of plucking the right design from its expansive manufacturing catalog. And I I want to say that Ford is also talking to the US government uh regarding building things, they didn't say what, for the military. Uh again, call them widgets. Uh the Ford Sherrill partnership goes back nearly a year. Greg Sherrow, who launched his reduced vibration boat propeller, it's weird looking. Yeah, no, it's actually a very, very unique design. Yeah, he launched this thing in 2012. Certainly he had the best product in the industry, but it had a big problem. He couldn't make them fast enough. The opportunity uh entrepreneur happened to hear from a new lab employee about an opportunity to connect with Ford engineers, the kind of chance encounter New Lab uh exists to create. Within minutes of that first conversation with Ford, an engineer offered Cherrow a solution, 3D sand casting, which merges traditional metal forming with additive manufacturing. Right then, a partnership formed, minus the red tape, and protracted talks typical when a small company seeks business from an auto giant. After months of fine-tuning, Ford launched production of the castings at its advanced manufacturing center in nearby Redford and had scaled to 100 per week. After Ford produces the castings, they are sent to one of a handful of local foundries and filled with metal. From there, they're shipped to Cherow Engineering's plant in Harper Woods in Metro Detroit to be machined, polished, and shipped to customers. Partnership involves a standard supply agreement in which Ford generates revenue by fulfilling purchase orders from Cherow Engineering. And more and more manufacturers, especially the Detroit three, are getting into this sort of thing because clearly the competition in building cars is getting more and more intense.

Jeff Dziekan 4:55

I see future recalls and propellers with Ford. That's what I got out of the story.

Don Armstrong 5:03

Well, Ford does have a problem with recalls, and we're all aware of the thing.

Jeff Dziekan 5:06

Well, but I think that's a great idea. And looking at the photo that Don had of that, it's it's very, very high-tech, very spacey type propeller. I mean, it it's very it's weird looking.

Don Armstrong 5:16

It looks almost like a bow. Yeah, it does. And it's three three wings of it that run this thing through the water in um like a paper clip three three times uh spread out.

Just In Time Manufacturing Spills Over

Jeff Dziekan 5:29

Kind of like that, yeah.

Mike Marrs 5:30

Yeah, the thing I find real interesting is that the big three or or the automobile world has always developed or they've developed a just-in-time mentality. You know, they buy their parts from suppliers that come in every day because they need them for this day. And it almost seems like they're turning around and now doing some of that for other people. That same mentality. We can do it in three days when you order it.

Don Armstrong 5:55

Yeah, well, they've got the connections, they've got the suppliers, so all they got to say is, hey, uh, who is it that makes our castings, uh, our aluminum castings? Well, go to that guy and say, hey, look, we've got a deal here. Would you be interested in doing that, partnering with us? And they said, sure, because it's more volume for them, more money for everyone. Very space age looking. Yeah, it it's uh I think it's it's the future of the auto industry is not going to be just automobiles. I think that it's gonna have to be for them to survive and to have operating cash to actually get into other businesses.

Jeff Dziekan 6:30

I've got another idea with this just came across. Go ahead, Mike.

Mike Marrs 6:33

Uh I was gonna say, do you think then that they may revert back to supplying some of their own parts, like starters or something? Go back to doing that.

Don Armstrong 6:42

I don't think that I don't think that they're going to do that. I I I don't, but because they've got other people that can build the stuff. I don't think that they're going to, you know, do anything like they're not gonna start making manifolds, they're gonna give that to somebody else over there.

Jeff Dziekan 6:58

Brand it with us, yeah.

Don Armstrong 6:59

Right. Uh they're not gonna make wheels, they're they're not gonna make glass. You know, the uh Rouge River plant there for Ford in uh mid-Michigan, they used to have their own glass plant on the property. Everything was made. Everything was there on the property. Because have you been to the Rouge River, Mike?

Mike Marrs 7:18

Uh one time. Yeah.

Don Armstrong 7:20

And it was, it was, I think that we might have been on that same trip. But the the property up there is massive. And you're going, what in the world do they need all this for? Well, they needed it because they built the entire car coming in and yeah, all that all of it.

Jeff Dziekan 7:35

Here's the other thing I see Ford propellers. I see flying cars in this using that propeller. Yeah, I'm so I'm thinking Ford's getting into it. They got rid of the EV stuff, now they're getting into flying cars with their new propeller. You watch.

Mike Marrs 7:49

Or maybe maybe they'll build boats to kind of put the propellers on.

Don Armstrong 7:53

Yeah, could do that too. Maybe a start. Is isn't there some smoking stuff around here somewhere? Uh I don't I don't know what what these guys are. Second hand smoke blowing through. Second hand smoke, that's what it is. Yeah, yeah.

Mike Marrs 8:06

Swamp fire going on over here. There you go.

Don Armstrong 8:08

Yeah, perfect. Um, I thought I thought it was an interesting story, but I I see these uh auto manufacturers getting more diversified in what they are capable of doing and helping people like this guy here.

Mike Marrs 8:22

Well, generate revenue, generate cash income or another.

Don Armstrong 8:29

Outside of the auto industry, yes, exactly. And because they have the capability of building anything, really. I mean, look at World War II. I mean, all of the car manufacturers moved into building airplanes and all of the support stuff, Jeep, all of that.

Jeff Dziekan 8:43

And the the what's the uh process where they uh oh gosh, where they make the beads and it fills up what's that uh dang, I just lost my train of thought. Beads. Where you can uh they put in a machine and you make a part out of plastic. What is what is that, Mike?

Mike Marrs 8:57

Oh, uh You know what I'm talking about. It's 3D engineering.

Jeff Dziekan 9:01

Yeah, 3D engineering, 3D printing. Printing, air you're printing, 3D printing, so I'm still hung on a Ford M16. The part like that could be a 3D printed, I'm sure. Probably. Yeah.

Don Armstrong 9:12

And then they take that to make the mold, probably. Probably. Yeah. I mean, I I don't know all of the processes involved in this, but uh yes, you're exactly right. As a matter of fact, there's a gal that I follow that uh is very talented. Does she know that?

Mike Marrs 9:27

Is that one of the stalking charges?

Don Armstrong 9:31

That's it. That's it. He's done. Um she's mechanically skilled, and she's by she buys all these high-end for me anyway. Um one was a laser cutter that she bought uh and made a gasket out of it. And uh you take a picture of the gasket, you put it in this machine, it scans it, and then once it's gets scanned in there, then it actually laser cuts the material uh to make it absolute perfect identical uh gasket.

Jeff Dziekan 10:06

Yeah, and you see these on these car shows that we we've watched over the years that they have those devices, those machines that actually cut it out of wood or metal or whatever.

Don Armstrong 10:14

Yeah, and now they're getting etching less and less expensive and um make it affordable for regular Joes like us. Yeah. I don't know, but Joes would be a really good we would probably hurt ourselves with that somehow. Yeah, yeah. Cut off a finger. Hey, what happened to your finger? I cut it off with a laser.

Mike Marrs 10:35

Take your 3D printer then and make you another finger.

Don Armstrong 10:41

You know, that would be something that you're saying. Yeah, you'd go to Neeterville and have done.

Jeff Dziekan 10:48

Not the 180 it normally takes.

Don Armstrong 10:52

You could make that middle finger longer if you wanted to. Yeah. Oh boy.

Mike Marrs 10:59

I'm quit right here. I'm not going any further.

Don Armstrong 11:01

You're not gonna go any further?

Mike Marrs 11:03

No, sir.

Trading A Corvette For Comfort

Don Armstrong 11:03

All right, well, that's probably a good thing. Um yes, I've been thinking about maybe uh getting rid of the Corvette.

Jeff Dziekan 11:12

Yeah, you know, you talked about and and uh God bless you. Yeah, you you deserve something.

Don Armstrong 11:16

You know, something uh you can be more comfortable. I can't even believe that I'm even gonna say this, but I'll be honest with you, I'm getting tired of shifting with a clutch and my knees and getting in and out of the car the whole nine yards. I mean, don't get me wrong, I've had a Corvette since 1970. Preaching to the choir. All through the years, I've had several Corvettes, and I love the car. But you know, it comes a time you're going, hmm, you know, that Cadillac CTS is looking pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. A little four-door sedan.

Jeff Dziekan 11:54

With your connections, you could find a real nice one.

Don Armstrong 11:57

Yeah, it'd be used. I'm not gonna buy a new one, but um, yeah, it'd be used.

Mike Marrs 12:03

That's part of that is that traffic that you drive in. Whenever I come over there and and I'm driving a manual shift car, uh I mean, it's just by the time I get out of there late afternoon traffic and stuff and spend two hours on the loop or something, it's just it's it's miserable driving a manual transmission in this.

Don Armstrong 12:22

Well, you know, and it's it's not so much the shifting part of it that I I dislike. I mean, it is what it is, and I bought the car because it had a six-speed manual transmission in it.

Mike Marrs 12:34

Right.

Don Armstrong 12:34

Well, that was then and today is now. And um, I think I I would be I'd be well served in a nice sedan. Yeah.

Jeff Dziekan 12:44

But you have to be careful on a sedan too. Like Kathy's got the Lexus, and I it it's kind of low for me, because I got a bad back, but that's kind of hard to get in for me as well in her car. Uh my Buick, God save the Queen, it's just perfect.

Mike Marrs 13:00

Well, getting in to me is not too much of a problem. It's the getting out. I can fall into just about anything.

Don Armstrong 13:07

Okay, I don't know as if you if you want to use the word fall in.

Mike Marrs 13:12

Well, worse comes to worse.

Don Armstrong 13:14

Yeah. Well, there's that. Uh it's not that I have a hard time getting in and out of the car in in in for most times, I'll say that. But it is getting more difficult when you have to pick yourself up out of a seat that is probably about six inches uh above the concrete.

unknown 13:32

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 13:32

And so there's that.

Jeff Dziekan 13:34

Or you could have the one like behind me there. See that? That's a that's a uh what my old car looked like, my Nova. Your Nova. Yeah, my 72 Nova. I had sport mirrors on mine and I had the same kind of wheels, uh, same stream. But the sport mirror, what year was yours? Mine was a 72, but the mirrors came from a Camaro. They were new this uh fancy sport mirrors on a Camaro. My dad got some and we put those on the Nova. Interesting. Had them painted body color.

Don Armstrong 13:59

What is funny because when I ordered the 77 Corvette, I ordered it in 76, and I was unaware of the fact that they offered sport mirrors instead of those big chrome things.

Jeff Dziekan 14:13

Yeah. Yes.

Don Armstrong 14:14

And um, so I wanted those sport mirrors. Well, I went back to the Chevrolet dealership and they butchered. Oh my butchered the inside of the door with a with a a sawzall. Is all I can look like to me to get those mirrors on there. They didn't have to do that, but they gave it to somebody that didn't know what he was doing.

Jeff Dziekan 14:38

And in fact, we we painted them ourselves too. They we uh but they had them painted and put them on.

Don Armstrong 14:43

Match the car.

unknown 14:44

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 14:44

That's a nice little custom touch there. Yeah, interesting. Okay. Um turned it into a pro mod. A pro mod. Yeah, it wouldn't go in a car show as an unmolested car. You molested it. Those are not stock wheels on there either.

Mike Marrs 15:03

Yeah, he had a court orders reason, he didn't have it anymore. Court order. Good point. All right, just ahead.

Racing Calendar And NHRA Update

Don Armstrong 15:10

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Jeff Dziekan 17:11

Uh we're gonna start out with NHRA today. They're off until the 14th of May. They're gonna be at the uh Mother's Day week. Yeah, Gerber, Gerber Collision Glass Route, Route 66, NHRA national event by peak. That's gonna go on next week.

Don Armstrong 17:24

But in addition, how many sponsors do they have in that one?

NASCAR Indy F1 And Lawn Mowers

Jeff Dziekan 17:27

It's like a 42 line, 42 words. Uh Adria Force Height, daughter of NHRA legend John Force, passed away at the age of 56 this past week. Uh she had a lifetime role with the racing dynasty there with John Force. The eldest daughter of the NHRA legend John Force, and a formidable figure in his racing career, passed away. Her passing marks the loss of a key architect behind one of the most successful teams in drag racing. I would agree with that. She was born in 1969 in Huntington Park, California. Uh height grew up immersed in the world of motorsports through John Force. Uh she was the oldest daughter with the of the four siblings that he has. Uh John Force once reflected the role she played as bringing the family together, noting that his daughter was a central part to the dynamic of the race team. So uh prayers for that family. Uh we're moving on. We've got NASCAR. NASCAR ran yesterday on the trucks. Uh I watched a little bit of it, didn't really get the uh gist of it. I didn't see well, I actually saw who won, but I don't know the driver. You've got Watkins Glenn uh all week today and also tomorrow for NASCAR. Indy ran uh some qualifying and testing today for the road course. It actually ran at 9 30 this morning for one of the tests and qualifying. Who have they been doing this road course thing in May? They've been doing it for some time, uh I believe. You asked that earlier, and I'll I'll look it up and have you an answer maybe in about a month. Uh but then they're getting ready for uh the Indy 500 at the end of the month, like John's or like uh Don says. Uh F1. F1 is the Canadian Grand Prix on the weekend of Memorial Weekend, so they're off till that time. And then we've got uh well, we just talked about it. They don't they don't recognize Memorial Day up in Canada in in Formula One stuff, yeah. And then today you got the Nasgrass race for the lawnmowers that's in Florida. So if you're out there what race? Nasgrass. NASGRAS. Is that a NAS car? It's Nasgrass.

Mike Marrs 19:18

Nasgrass, okay. Yeah.

unknown 19:19

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 19:21

They race the lawnmower's bars. Yeah. Do you even own a do you own a lawnmower?

Mike Marrs 19:25

Several, unfortunately.

Don Armstrong 19:27

Why do you say several?

Mike Marrs 19:29

Well, because I have one at home, I've got one at the beach, I got one at the daughter's house, they're everywhere. Are they riding or are they self-propelled? I got one rider. Yes, sir.

Jeff Dziekan 19:43

Okay.

Mike Marrs 19:44

Do you like cruise down the beach in it? No, no, no, you don't cruise the beach too much, it kicks up too much sand.

Don Armstrong 19:49

Yeah. You get out there and what what is that road, the main road down the beach roads? What is it?

Mike Marrs 19:56

87 runs down the beachroads.

Don Armstrong 19:58

Well, I was gonna say that you you can just run it right out there in the beachroads.

Mike Marrs 20:01

Yeah. Well, you could, you could, till the uh sheriff's department shows up, and I know they have new colors. I didn't realize I'm always looking for the green and white, but Jefferson uh Galveston County now has new colors on their cars. They're much uh more camouflaged, shall we say? Oh.

Jeff Dziekan 20:16

Camouflage. Are they like ghosts?

Mike Marrs 20:18

Camouflage, they're just more like more neutral, natural colors, so that whenever you have the dry summer weeds in the swamp, they kind of blend in a little better.

Don Armstrong 20:27

Huh. Okay, well that's you're good to hide the cop cars out there in the swamp.

Jeff Dziekan 20:31

Is there a recipe for the dry summer weeds? I don't I don't know. There's a song in that, I think.

Remote Driven Cars You Can Summon

Don Armstrong 20:36

Put a swamp fire summer weeds. Summer weeds makes me feel funny. Okay. Uh some of the stories making automotive news headlines. As of early 2026, the idea of summoning a car, tapping your phone, and having a car drive itself to your exact location is rapidly shifting from a futuristic vision to real-world deployment across Europe. Well, if it's happening over there, you know it's gonna be here before too long. Shift is being driven by technology advances in teleoperation or remote driving, and an evolving European regulatory framework that's beginning to accommodate greater range and higher levels of autonomy. Rather than waiting for full autonomy, several European players are betting on a hybrid approach, remote controlled vehicles or car summoning. This hybrid approach dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of full autonomy, an important consideration in a sector where development can require billions in investment. Berlin based Vay, V A Y is a front runner. Vay's teledrivers remotely control electric cars from a station and drive them to the customer's location. The customer takes the wheel, and when the trip is completed, the teledriver takes back control. of the vehicle and drives it to the next customer. The idea is to deliver the convenience of car ownership without the cost or hassle at roughly half the price of ride hailing. Oh taxi. Oh hail no. So coming to somewhere near you soon.

Jeff Dziekan 22:26

So if you're in the car and you they drops you off at your house and then they say okay bye-bye and then that remote driver takes it to the next place they don't clean it out.

Don Armstrong 22:35

You're gonna you're gonna well there's that. Yeah I mean I left a I left my or you went down to the beach to visit Mars and you got sand all over your feet that's all over the inside of the car.

Jeff Dziekan 22:44

I went grocery shopping and I forgot the the the uh frozen mackerel that I had in the back seat.

Mike Marrs 22:49

Yeah yeah or you drank too much beer on the beach and you're up chucking in the back seat all the way back to town.

Jeff Dziekan 22:55

Or maybe you're just a little gassy.

Brake By Wire And Software Cars

Don Armstrong 22:58

Maybe so the wind that you can roll on the big that would be you Jeff yeah Jeff would have to speak for himself on that one. Italian supplier Brembo not Bimbo but Brembo has begun large scale production of its sensify brake by wire system for a global automaker marking a milestone in the shift toward software defined vehicles the company said the bywire braking system will be standard across this automaker's unknown to us just yet entire vehicle program Brembo said the supplier declined to name the customer the system is designed to support a wide spectrum of applications from advanced driver assistance systems to fully autonomous driving Sensify adopts a fluid free by wire architecture which is a cornerstone of the shift toward SDVs do you know what an SDV is I had to look it up did you get a shot for it software defined vehicle an SDV. Yeah shot for it braking becomes intelligent adaptive and integrated into the whole vehicle system rather than just a mechanical response. Software can adjust braking force at each wheel individually and instantly meaning better stability. Brembo which makes high performance brakes for everything from race cars to exotic cars, motorcycles and bikes said it has signed additional contracts with other unnamed customers and therefore expects to equip hundreds of thousands of vehicles per year. So brake by wire coming to a vehicle near you and you know everybody's going to go to that instead of instead of the other way around well you know the hydraulic fluid thing that was a that was a thing that was a thing what is it a hundred years ago? Not so much anymore. Every car's got it so I thought that that was a pretty interesting story.

Jeff Dziekan 25:00

It's old as new again.

Overdue Henry Ford Books And CT5-V

Mike Marrs 25:01

I guess yeah yeah I'm not fly by wire break by wire break by wire I'm not gonna try to imagine the the hardware when if you go in there if you if you happen to do your brakes still kind of hardware you're gonna have to deal with well i I would imagine that you still are going to have calipers. Yeah yeah no you still probably have all the same parts some sort of solenoid or something to activate yes an electronic solenoid powered by battery that's what it would be so it'd be an electric motor I would imagine of some sort of if it's by wire well it's by wire but it's gonna have to activate something to clean it up you're gonna have the signal come in you could probably bring the power in with the signal I would think what do I know?

Jeff Dziekan 25:45

Well actuator probably some type of actuator or piston system but not depending on hydraulic fluid yeah no no hydraulic fluid a library in Washington state got a pair of Henry Ford biographies back more than six decades after they were checked out.

Don Armstrong 26:05

Richland Public Library in Southeast Washington recently received The Legend of Henry Ford by Keith Sward a record sixty four years and nine days overdue according to Northwest Public Broadcasting quote Ford The Times the man the company by Alan Nevins was returned 63 years and 11 months late how much would that cost? Someone recently inherited an old book collection discovered checkout cards inside the two Ford biographies and brought them to the library the public radio station reported a form on how to write essays also was found in the books quote so we can assume that whoever checked these out originally was writing some sort of essay about Henry Ford for school that according to Chris Nuffland public library manager the library no longer charges late fees but if it did the books theoretically or is that theoretically theoretically could have accumulated some three thousand dollars in fines. Wow my God there you go Mars instead it's a recall of the library thank you Mike there you go and this one for Jeff all right Cadillac rolling out a limited run special edition performance sedan is part of the luxury automaker's high profile entry into Formula One the CT5 V Black Wayne Blackwing F1 Collector Series is outfitted with F1 and Federation International de Automobiles logos inside and out power supplied by a 6.2 liter supercharge V8 685 horsepower 673 pound feet of torque upgraded supercharger was developed in collaboration with GM Motorsports the sedan is offered only with a six speed manual transmission Cadillac will build only 26 of them a nod to the year the automaker joined F1 and it'll be available only in the U.S. and Canada pricing not announced standard S C T 5 V Blackwing is priced at 1027 ninety five including shipping production is set to begin mid year.

Jeff Dziekan 28:17

Didn't you have a black wing both you cats had a black wing did you have a blue one or something when they first came out first came out yeah well there's your Cadillac they didn't say there it is well there's a there's a price problem there.

Don Armstrong 28:29

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