July 20, 2026 • 26 mins
Murphy gets a surprise 5 years in the making! His Dad's 1966 Corvette Stingray is back - and it roared up to the front door this weekend. This podcast has heart, and HOT wheels!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Samon Jodi after the Show podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Okay, So for the full story on Murphy having this
reunion five years in the making, since the time you
and your family sold your dad's nineteen sixty six Stingray
Corvette Stingray and you decided to let it go, and
now she has been restored, the owner does not even
live that far from us, and you were reunited with
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this car.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
All of which are crazy surprises.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
You're going crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I have to shout out to the tenacity of Stephen Chapis,
who really helped put this together. So he's the writer
who's writing an article about the car.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Is it going to be in Corvette Magazine?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Is going to be in Corvette Magazine? And so that's
coming soon. But he was reaching out to Murphy months
ago trying to make it happen. You spoke to him
one time, right.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, so we've actually spoke for a long time. So
Stephen listens to Murphy, Sam and Jody, and so he
lives he lives in Delaware and and so you know,
as as a listener, he heard the story of my
dad's corvette right really after my dad passed away and
we hadn't really decided what to do with it. As
both of you remember, it took us two years to
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you know, decide whether to keep or sell, and we
wound up selling it. But anyway, his interest began at
that moment. He wanted to know the story because he
is a corvette and an aviation enthusiast. So he and
I did an interview two years ago. It's actually been
two years.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Ago now when he started writing the story.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, and he started writing the story and you know,
he had he had thrown the idea around and he
would love to come down see the car. Maybe we
can you know, connect with the guy who bought it. Well,
in that time period, the car sold again. The person
who bought it from us wound up selling, you know,
basically flipped it. He fixed it up and he flipped it.
And so Kevin, who's the gentleman who who bought it?
(02:01):
The guy that bought it from us was kind of
even his team was rolling. He told me he had
sold it. He said, but here's that even the guy
who bought it. I'm like, well, look, thank you for
doing that. It's like, all along this way.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
People have been wonderful.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
People have been doing things that they did not have
to do, but they did.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
What I wanted to tell you about the tenacity of
Stephen is this. A couple of months ago he finally
reached out to me and said, hey, Jody, I have
been trying to schedule this with Murphy and I'm yeah,
Sam laughs. He's like, it seems like this is going
to be hard to do. Can I maybe just do
this with you? And I said, Stephen, you've come to
the right place. If you want to make something happen,
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you need to make it happen with me because Murphy
is incredibly busy and I can help you surprise him.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Otherwise it may not happen.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
And so he started reaching out really in early this summer,
when my mom was in the hospital and there was
so much going on for me. I felt like my
communication with him was a little bit lackluster, and I
hate that, but anyways, not.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
As lackluster as mine. But the thing is, we were
communicating by email. When we finally exchanged text, that's when
the conversation regenerated.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Same. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So my favorite little part though, is once we knew
he was coming and he had chosen dates and told
me when he could come. I tried to make everybody,
make it happen for everybody in the family, and we couldn't.
Your sister and her family weren't there yet. They're gonna
get to see the car in time. But it was
so funny some of the things he was asking me
because he wanted to. He wanted Murphy to be the
one to open the door, answer the door. And so
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I'm like, I can make that happen. If you come
to my house on like a Saturday, I can have
him there. And he messaged me a week or so
ago saying, do you guys happen to have cameras? I'm like,
do you know, Murphy? Of course, we have cameras we're
gonna have and He's like, he's he gonna see me
coming up to the door. I said, not if I
can distract him and just ask him to answer the door.
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So you have no idea how I was sweating at
at eleven am when I knew he was about to arrive.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Look, you did a great job. I was wondering why
you redressed that way.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You know something too, we have Murphy loves the curtains
to be open in the front room because he.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Loves to have the light let in.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I knew that if a red sports car comes zooming
to the front in front of the front walkway, he's
going to see it. No, So I'm standing there in
front of the wind. Taylor Taylor, our oldest daughter, Taylor
was home and she's like, just close the wind, closed
the curtains.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I'm like, have you met your dead? Give you closed it?
He's going to go h open, let the light in.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So I just stood there trying to distract you with
conversation about nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I'm not good at that either, by the way, because
I was like.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So, yeah, I mean you had me for one thing.
You had told me, knowing that my birthday is coming up,
you had told me to, you know, block Saturday.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Out, yeah, and show me a birthday celebration.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And I think, as all of you know, I don't.
I don't. I don't like to spoil even my own surprises. Yeah,
I don't want to know. I don't want to ask questions.
Jody and I have been married and together now for
twenty almost twenty seven years. When you've been together for
that long, you know, even though even one word, one
tone difference can sometimes be a giveaway. You know.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, he was getting ready. I was getting the cheeseboards
ready and food and grapes and stuff. And he's like, oh,
he's doing a little I'm like, don't ask me any
questions about what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So she was awesome about that, and I just assumed, Okay,
it's either family, friends coming over or something. You know.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
She said, no, one of these surprise things.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
She said, you may want to wear shorts it's a
hot day. I'm like, okay, that's fine too. And then
I'm thinking, okay, well we're going somewhere, but you know,
to the.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Front of the house.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But he couldn't know that, so he asked me so
many times about what kind of shirt.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm like, I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And if if once the surprise is here, you know,
if you want to change clothes, feel free.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So so once the once the doorbell rang, I guess
is what it was. And you asked me if I
would go get it, can you please get that? But
I never did. I never saw the car sitting out front,
and that's because that's because it was park dead center
at the front door, and our front door has a
little thing windows on either side, so if you're walking
straight to the door, you're not going to see directly
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what's out there.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And shout out to Kevin who parked it perfectly in
the center of the walkway.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So when you open the door, it's.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Like, loh, the Corvette was there looking like the sweetest
sports car. I'm not into cars, and but it is
so gorgeous this car.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well, let me so let me In case you didn't
hear the show, can I share my reaction at least
because this is really what, you know, where the massive
just jaw drop happened was when I opened the door
and the first person I see, I didn't even see
the car at first. I saw Steven at first, you know,
and he and I obviously I recognized him because we've
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done these media we zoom calls and stuff before, so
I've seen him. It's the first time that we've met,
so that was exciting. I'd never met Kevin, who's the
present owner. He and I spoke once. It was a
great hour long conversation when we talked and I did
to this is back in March. It's like, I would
love to come see the car. At some point he's like, great,
you just you know, coordinated with me. So he's there
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and behind him there it is my dad's now his
nineteen sixty six, you know, Corvette Stingray, all shined up
with you know, tires and it's the hub caps, everything
that we'd save for it, you know, in its in
its really pristine condition. And when it was first purchased
from us, there was some paint damage on the on
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the front that was repaired before Kevin bought it. But
the rest of everything he's left in its original condition
because he doesn't want to alter the vehicle, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Perfect new owner because he really loves it.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But I was speechless. I mean when I tell you,
I was stunned. It was the perfect surprise because I
had zero clue. I mean, I had no idea. And
then it starts to hit. It's like, okay, Stephen, did
you drive all this way or you know? And he did,
He drove the entire way and and I can't wait
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until it's published in Corvette magazine because he's also got
some videos that will accompany that that you know, obviously
we won't have until the publication part is done. Where
he actually arrived the day before, and even he and
Kevin hooked up with each other and he did some
video and side by side driving on the road alongside
of it, you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Know, the car, and may have taken pictures at sunset
with it. I'm not sure that was what I was told.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And so, you know, so both of these guys spent
two full days, not to mention the coordination time beforehand,
two full days putting this together and they didn't have
to do that. It's it is one of the kindest,
nicest things, honestly, I think that has ever been done
for me.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And they didn't have to know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's what I'm saying. It's it's they, It's it's one
of the most genuinely human connected awesome. You know, what's
the word I'm looking for. When you give to something
without expecting anything in return, you're just you know, you're
giving to give for the sake of giving. You're giving
because you know it's going to create joy for someone else.
And I'm going to tell you it's between the surprise
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factor and that that's what really moved me, because when
you don't know the people who are involved, and it's
their Saturday and their Friday evening, and this is what
they have done out of the sheer goodness of their heart.
It's truly one of the most heartwarming things I have
ever experienced in my life.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, I will tell you also, there's another thing at
play here. Yes, they are both incredibly generous, but they
wanted to share this because they have the same giddiness
and awe about this vehicle. And that's what Stephen was
telling us, that it's a car, but it's something that
brings people together. And you don't know, like some of
the conversations, Well, when you and Kevin had gone inside
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to get some cheese, get a drink, just continue, you know,
the new owner, Kevin and Murphy spent a lot of
time talking. So I'm outside Stephen and I he's taking
pictures of the vehicle. We're talking talking, and I'm like,
have you did you get to drive it? He goes no,
and I said, oh, I said, and he said, I'm
not going to ask to drive it.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And I thought, that's respectful.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You know, it's Kevin's car now, And but he did
say Stephen said that this is the only like model
he's never driven. He's a corvette enthusiast, so he's the
only one he's never driven. Oh wow, So I'm thinking,
how did you keep from asking?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You know, how did you.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Keep it's referred to as C two because it was
the second generation Corvette from sixty three to I don't
remember what year, Yeah, sixty seven something like that, maybe
sixty six. Maybe it was only a three year run.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Stephen was telling me also that it was designed but
he knows all this stuff that it was designed by
like a nineteen year old in nineteen fifty seven who
came up with the design, and this is the one
that the head of the Corvette division went with. And
that's why it looks it's it's there's a youngness to it,
but a futuristic look to it as well. It still
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holds up like if that passes you on the street,
you're like.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Wow, yeah, yeah, it's special.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
So have you ever seen it like that before? I
mean when you were a kid and it was running.
Had you ever seen it like that before?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah? I mean as a kid, I remember exactly what
it looked like. He was the last time, The last
time I wrote in it was when it was either
kindergarten or first grade, one of the two. But I
was either five or six. That's pretty young. But I
remember how excited I was. And it's a two seater,
so that's all that's in there. My dad worked rotating
shifts at Exon, so if he was working days, which
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was the A shift, he would have never taken us,
you know, to school. But he was either doing you know,
and it probably wasn't the C shift, which was the overnight.
It was probably working B days at that point, so
he would bring me, you know, to school and then
go off, you know to work.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
That's so cool, right, And I rode the bus most
of the time, So I don't know why there was
a day or two where he would, you know, he
would do that. It just it was fun. And I
definitely remember the way it sounded, because over the years
he would crank it. It just just it. Yeah, But
I don't remember it being driven much after he started
having issues with it in the eighties and then he
just he literally mothballed it. But he mothballed it perfectly
(12:08):
because apparently it did not take much to get it
running again. Now I got to understand that's in context
with people who know how to work on these vehicles, right.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Sure, for you, you and your family probably would have
taken a lot to get it running. For someone who
can speak this language and lives in a garage.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, when it's somebody's personal passion and they love it
and they can get under the car and do it themselves,
that's one thing. And that's just not me. So it
would have cost quite a bit of money to get
it back up and you know, running again. But my
dad had preserved it so well that it did not
need that much. Almost everything on it's original except for
the tires, the belts and the air filter and you know,
some things like that. So yeah, when it cranked up again,
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which this is the actual sound, and so I mean
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And he would crank it in and stop it, you know,
And then we moved it one time for pictures, like
in front of our garage. That's where Stephen wanted us
to shoot the pictures of it. He was looking for
a good spot for a light because it was the
middle of the day, you know, the sun is high
when he was when we were looking at this car.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And you know, the other thing I forgot about it is.
The car has just around fifty seven thousand miles on
it now and Ken Kevin has put about three thousand
on it so far himself. So when we sold it,
it was and those were the original miles by the way, Yeah,
from nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Is there anything else he has to do with it
still or is it wear it?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
No, he doesn't. This is what This was the most
one of them, I say, the most wonderful part. All
the conversation was awesome And actually I can't wait to
follow up with it again because I could talk about
it constantly with him. He he is the He's the
kind of corvette owner that he's not about making it
the show car. He's the kind of car you know,
corvette owner that he wants to drive it because he
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believes that's what the car was built to do in
the first place. If you're gonna mothball it and put
it somewhere and make it a show piece, and there's
nothing wrong with people who want to do that, but
that's not his mo. He's got a couple of Camaros,
I think he says he's got there are a number
of different.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Vehicles, three other Corvettes. I can't remember what years.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, and he just he loves those are his babies,
that's his personal passion, and so he wants it to
be as an original shape as possible. So the only
thing that had really been added to it there were
some I'm going to use probably the wrong the overhead
cams I think is what they're called, or no chrome,
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and the original ones were not that that were sitting
on the car, so those were aftermarket, but they might
be the same kind the car originally had. I don't know,
and I don't know if Roland or Kevin was the
one who added those. We had saved the you know,
the hubcaps. He decided he wanted to paint the rims
red and the hub caps sit on it. So there's
like this very thin red line outlining. It really looks good.
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But he all so this is how much he loves
the originality of the vehicle. He went back and when
he saw the picture, well, he bought the tires that
were original to the car, that are not steel belted radials,
so they're kind of mushy. For the lack of a
better term, to drive this is, you know, none of
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us were alive in driving vehicles at that time. But
the original tires on those kind of vehicles were not
very I don't know what the term is, stables the
wrong word. They were just mushy and steel belted. Radios
are tougher tires and they last longer. Well, he went
and bought the original firestones that were on the vehicle
with the white wall on it. The reason he decided
he wanted the white wall is because he saw the
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picture and the apparently that picture of me and my dad,
the picture of me at one year old and my
dad washing the car and he's holding the hose or
helping me hold the hose to wash. It is the
picture that inspired him to go back and get the
original white wall look on the vehicle. And so that's original.
The only thing that's not original is he wanted to
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improve the radio because look, the radio speaker was sixty
years old. It's not it's not really functional if you're
going to enjoy that. So he did put some you know,
some speakers, very classy looking in the back. But even
the original air conditioning's working. Wow, I mean, all of
it is.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It feels incredible. I slid down into the driver's seat
for a moment. I was not about to. I wouldn't
have wanted to drive it because I just wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Would not have. But I just wanted to sit in
that seat. And it's incredible. It's like a little spaceship
in there. It's like a little spaceship and they're so comfortable. Yeah,
so crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Uh and you know, I mean I sat in a
million times. And so he did take me for a
ride in it, which was which was fun. It was
just simple. We just went down our street, no speed
limits broken, no. And he doesn't want to speed in it.
He'll tell you that too. He's just he's driving it to,
you know, to he loves to rev that engine, but
he's not, especially with those softer tires on it. He's
not interested in doing any sort of crazy speed racing stuff,
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you know, in it, because look, when you start to
do something like that to a vehicle that old, there's
a possibility that you're going to strain something you didn't know. Yeah,
and then then yeah, it's just you know, it's it's
it's a vehicle that he enjoys driving. But he says that,
I mean, it's it. Actually he drives it now more
than the other vehicles in his collection and.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's like his new baby. Yeah, it's like the new girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And he uh, but he said that what really would
sold them on it? It was it was at a
car auction. There's so many just strange. This is just
an example of how in the world are things so
meant to be. Because the owner that bought it from
us went to a car show in Mississippi that he
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had I mean, he was probably, I don't know, a
good one hundred and twenty miles away from his home
and this gentleman who lives right here with us was
the one who happened to be going to that car show.
And there were a number of different corvettes there, and
so some of them were really that more show car,
I mean, really squeaky clean, really you know, showy cars.
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And then there was this one. And when he started
reading the story about the car and he realized that
the original car dealership that it was purchased from is
literally six miles down the road from where he was born,
that resonated that spoke to him. And then the fact
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number two, so my dad was the second owner of
the car. He bought it used in nineteen sixty nine,
which is that picture of me right, not long after
he'd bought it, and so he was only the second
owner of it and everything else was original through those
forty years. And so he tells me these stories about
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and asked many questions about how did my dad enjoy it?
You know, because he would he envisions that when he's
driving the car, that's where it puts him mentally. It
puts him in the story of the person who's driving it.
And you know, I've never really gone to these car shows.
I've only had very small amounts of exposure to people
who are in the Corvette clubs, and I do know
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that it's a very special community. But it's the stories
of the cars that literally bring everybody together. And this
is the first time I've experienced that firsthand at this level.
Because the whole reason that Steven drove over a thousand
miles to come do this story in the first place,
and the reason that Kevin had the heart and the
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willingness to come to a total stranger's house technically, you know,
and just because he knew that his dad was the
one who owned the car and was willing to share
that time. It was my first exposure to Wow, man,
this is no wonder. People become so addicted to that
community because it's something that you rally around and it's
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special and it's different, and is Kevin says, it's stress free.
All the other problems of the world and things that
get we get bombarded with every day fall aside when
you're focusing on something literally as simple as a car community.
You know, it just but in Jody's ability to make
it a surprise, and Jody's not giving herself enough credit
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for taking, you know, and and organizing it the way
that that she did. But I mean, I really don't
think I know that's the sentimentality. Sentimentality because it was
my dad's car, and because it's sat in our car port,
and because we have a you know, an affinity for
every story and every sound and everything that went with
that car. But I've never experienced anything this generous from
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strangers who literally and then they're not I mean, I
absolutely consider they're they're absolutely friends now, But they spent
you know, one full day with me and a full
day before that doing all of this out of the
goodness of their hearts. Is just to me, that's a
morning pick me up, right with the morning pick me
up that is a pick me up, and so I
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am never going to forget this. And it's and it's
bittersweet to a degree because you know, you see that car,
and and I think my brother and sister and I
always really wanted to try to keep it alive in
the family. And and you know, the thing about that
that's really tricky is trying to separate the rational part
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of ownership of something like that. How are you going
to use it? How much is it going to really cost?
And it's very different. You know, we weren't the ones
that fixed it up, so seeing it makes it look
like it's easy, breezy and.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Kept it.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, but but the and and and I can't tell
you how many people already even on socials, like why'd
you get rid of? Why'd you sell it? And it's like,
I mean, I, yes, I understand. But you know, the
truth is the the photos and the stories of that
car with my dad are the emotional attachment to that car.
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That picture of me and my dad next to that
car is more is more important to me than the vehicle.
And as much as you know you would like to
hold onto those things, excuse me, I'm sorry it I
don't want to say it's just a car, because it's
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more than a car, and it's brought more people together.
But you know it's a symbol of him, But that's
not a reason to hold on. Is something that can
collect dust and cost money and sit in the car
port and get in an accident or whatever it is.
You know that it would be. And if I was
independently wealthy or something like that and had the jay
Leno garage, you know, and can put things in air conditioning,
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you know, maybe, but that's not It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
An instant decision for you either. Yeah, and you're talking
it over with your brother and your sister to make sure, right.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, as far as putting the day together and all that,
you know, the only thing that bothered me was that
I couldn't make it happen that your sister and her
family could be there.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So I was like, oh my go. As soon as.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The car was there and Murphy was out front looking
at it, and all the oh in and on and
Taylor and Phoebe were there, and you know, Murphy's friend
Randy came down and you were invited. I know you
couldn't come, Sam, But Murphy turned around to me and
as I knew he would. As your brother was there
and his wife Christy, and you were like, is Jackie
coming or are they coming? And I'm like, they were
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coming home from a vacation and they couldn't make it.
And understand, this has been this, this, these dates had
been in the works, you know, seventeenth eighteenth, seventeenth eighteenth
had been in the works for a while, and I
just couldn't And.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I felt bad about that. If I could.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Change anything, I would change it to where maybe it
was one day path farther. But I couldn't ask Stephen
to do that because he also had to get to
a book signing, like he had to leave the very
next day as well.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I think it's meant to be anyway. I mean, you're
trying about a day that it was ninety seven degrees,
it was very hot, and you know our you know,
Kevin has agreed to you know that the family can
get together really any time that they want to to
see the vehicle, and so that will be, that'll be
a wonderful opportunity. You know.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Also Kevin has that garage, by the way, he has
all of his cars are kept indoors garage. Yeah, it's
the Kevin garage, but he has that, so this car
stays indoors, yes, you know, with his other cars, which
makes complete sense.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
And I don't know, did you did you mention that
my friend Randy came over to you? Okay? So I
just wanted to say this significance on that is that,
you know, Randy's one of my best friends of all time.
He knew my dad very well. I've known him since
high school, uh or since college and uh and he
literally lives right down the street from us. Andy and Randy's.
It's it's interesting because he's always been somehow tied to
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some of these very key moments in my family, you know,
through the years as I have with him, you know,
and and and his late wife, one of my great friends, Carol.
But you know, he was the one that came to
my late dad's house when we were moving it from
the house and finally got to sell everything and moved
moved the corvette over to our house until we figured
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out what was going on. He was the one that
you know, supervised that and saw that, and you know,
and so for him to get to see it again
come full circle, I know, it was another great moment
for him, and so he was excited to It's fun
to share those kind of moments because he was the
other one that I, you know, immediately thought you need
to call Randy, and it's like I already did. He's
coming down. I'm like, all right, great. So so it
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was really it was a fun.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I tried to intimate and not too big because there
are a lot of people who would have liked to
have been there, for some people in my family who
probably would have liked to have been there. But I
didn't want it to get so big that you felt
like it was. It's an intimate thing too. It was
a delicate thing too.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
There were people driving down the street who were stopping
to look. Our neighbor came came out, but it came out.
He says, hey, can I see it. It's like, absolutely,
check it out. So so we'll wrap the podcast the
same way that the visit wrapped up, you know, with
us with Kep and cranking up the car and leaving.
And if you're watching on YouTube, you'll get to see
it the video itself. If she drives away, you gotta
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rep it.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, out of the driveway, onto the road.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
That's right, and out of sight.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Isn't that fantastic? Missed any part of the show.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Get it all on the Murphy Salmon Jody Podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Samon Jodi after the Show podcast
anywhere you want to get your podcast and subscribe, Thank you,
and you can also catch us on YouTube if that's
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Okay, So for the full story on Murphy having this
reunion five years in the making, since the time you
and your family sold your dad's nineteen sixty six Stingray
Corvette Stingray and you decided to let it go, and
now she has been restored, the owner does not even
live that far from us, and you were reunited with
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this car.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
All of which are crazy surprises.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
You're going crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I have to shout out to the tenacity of Stephen Chapis,
who really helped put this together. So he's the writer
who's writing an article about the car.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Is it going to be in Corvette Magazine?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Is going to be in Corvette Magazine? And so that's
coming soon. But he was reaching out to Murphy months
ago trying to make it happen. You spoke to him
one time, right.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, so we've actually spoke for a long time. So
Stephen listens to Murphy, Sam and Jody, and so he
lives he lives in Delaware and and so you know,
as as a listener, he heard the story of my
dad's corvette right really after my dad passed away and
we hadn't really decided what to do with it. As
both of you remember, it took us two years to
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you know, decide whether to keep or sell, and we
wound up selling it. But anyway, his interest began at
that moment. He wanted to know the story because he
is a corvette and an aviation enthusiast. So he and
I did an interview two years ago. It's actually been
two years.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Ago now when he started writing the story.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, and he started writing the story and you know,
he had he had thrown the idea around and he
would love to come down see the car. Maybe we
can you know, connect with the guy who bought it. Well,
in that time period, the car sold again. The person
who bought it from us wound up selling, you know,
basically flipped it. He fixed it up and he flipped it.
And so Kevin, who's the gentleman who who bought it?
(02:01):
The guy that bought it from us was kind of
even his team was rolling. He told me he had
sold it. He said, but here's that even the guy
who bought it. I'm like, well, look, thank you for
doing that. It's like, all along this way.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
People have been wonderful.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
People have been doing things that they did not have
to do, but they did.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
What I wanted to tell you about the tenacity of
Stephen is this. A couple of months ago he finally
reached out to me and said, hey, Jody, I have
been trying to schedule this with Murphy and I'm yeah,
Sam laughs. He's like, it seems like this is going
to be hard to do. Can I maybe just do
this with you? And I said, Stephen, you've come to
the right place. If you want to make something happen,
(02:36):
you need to make it happen with me because Murphy
is incredibly busy and I can help you surprise him.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Otherwise it may not happen.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
And so he started reaching out really in early this summer,
when my mom was in the hospital and there was
so much going on for me. I felt like my
communication with him was a little bit lackluster, and I
hate that, but anyways, not.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
As lackluster as mine. But the thing is, we were
communicating by email. When we finally exchanged text, that's when
the conversation regenerated.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Same. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So my favorite little part though, is once we knew
he was coming and he had chosen dates and told
me when he could come. I tried to make everybody,
make it happen for everybody in the family, and we couldn't.
Your sister and her family weren't there yet. They're gonna
get to see the car in time. But it was
so funny some of the things he was asking me
because he wanted to. He wanted Murphy to be the
one to open the door, answer the door. And so
(03:27):
I'm like, I can make that happen. If you come
to my house on like a Saturday, I can have
him there. And he messaged me a week or so
ago saying, do you guys happen to have cameras? I'm like,
do you know, Murphy? Of course, we have cameras we're
gonna have and He's like, he's he gonna see me
coming up to the door. I said, not if I
can distract him and just ask him to answer the door.
(03:47):
So you have no idea how I was sweating at
at eleven am when I knew he was about to arrive.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Look, you did a great job. I was wondering why
you redressed that way.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You know something too, we have Murphy loves the curtains
to be open in the front room because he.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Loves to have the light let in.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I knew that if a red sports car comes zooming
to the front in front of the front walkway, he's
going to see it. No, So I'm standing there in
front of the wind. Taylor Taylor, our oldest daughter, Taylor
was home and she's like, just close the wind, closed
the curtains.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I'm like, have you met your dead? Give you closed it?
He's going to go h open, let the light in.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So I just stood there trying to distract you with
conversation about nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I'm not good at that either, by the way, because
I was like.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So, yeah, I mean you had me for one thing.
You had told me, knowing that my birthday is coming up,
you had told me to, you know, block Saturday.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Out, yeah, and show me a birthday celebration.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And I think, as all of you know, I don't.
I don't. I don't like to spoil even my own surprises. Yeah,
I don't want to know. I don't want to ask questions.
Jody and I have been married and together now for
twenty almost twenty seven years. When you've been together for
that long, you know, even though even one word, one
tone difference can sometimes be a giveaway. You know.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, he was getting ready. I was getting the cheeseboards
ready and food and grapes and stuff. And he's like, oh,
he's doing a little I'm like, don't ask me any
questions about what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So she was awesome about that, and I just assumed, Okay,
it's either family, friends coming over or something. You know.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
She said, no, one of these surprise things.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
She said, you may want to wear shorts it's a
hot day. I'm like, okay, that's fine too. And then
I'm thinking, okay, well we're going somewhere, but you know,
to the.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Front of the house.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But he couldn't know that, so he asked me so
many times about what kind of shirt.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm like, I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And if if once the surprise is here, you know,
if you want to change clothes, feel free.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So so once the once the doorbell rang, I guess
is what it was. And you asked me if I
would go get it, can you please get that? But
I never did. I never saw the car sitting out front,
and that's because that's because it was park dead center
at the front door, and our front door has a
little thing windows on either side, so if you're walking
straight to the door, you're not going to see directly
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what's out there.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And shout out to Kevin who parked it perfectly in
the center of the walkway.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So when you open the door, it's.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Like, loh, the Corvette was there looking like the sweetest
sports car. I'm not into cars, and but it is
so gorgeous this car.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well, let me so let me In case you didn't
hear the show, can I share my reaction at least
because this is really what, you know, where the massive
just jaw drop happened was when I opened the door
and the first person I see, I didn't even see
the car at first. I saw Steven at first, you know,
and he and I obviously I recognized him because we've
(06:45):
done these media we zoom calls and stuff before, so
I've seen him. It's the first time that we've met,
so that was exciting. I'd never met Kevin, who's the
present owner. He and I spoke once. It was a
great hour long conversation when we talked and I did
to this is back in March. It's like, I would
love to come see the car. At some point he's like, great,
you just you know, coordinated with me. So he's there
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and behind him there it is my dad's now his
nineteen sixty six, you know, Corvette Stingray, all shined up
with you know, tires and it's the hub caps, everything
that we'd save for it, you know, in its in
its really pristine condition. And when it was first purchased
from us, there was some paint damage on the on
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the front that was repaired before Kevin bought it. But
the rest of everything he's left in its original condition
because he doesn't want to alter the vehicle, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Perfect new owner because he really loves it.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But I was speechless. I mean when I tell you,
I was stunned. It was the perfect surprise because I
had zero clue. I mean, I had no idea. And
then it starts to hit. It's like, okay, Stephen, did
you drive all this way or you know? And he did,
He drove the entire way and and I can't wait
(08:01):
until it's published in Corvette magazine because he's also got
some videos that will accompany that that you know, obviously
we won't have until the publication part is done. Where
he actually arrived the day before, and even he and
Kevin hooked up with each other and he did some
video and side by side driving on the road alongside
of it, you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Know, the car, and may have taken pictures at sunset
with it. I'm not sure that was what I was told.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And so, you know, so both of these guys spent
two full days, not to mention the coordination time beforehand,
two full days putting this together and they didn't have
to do that. It's it is one of the kindest,
nicest things, honestly, I think that has ever been done
for me.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And they didn't have to know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's what I'm saying. It's it's they, It's it's one
of the most genuinely human connected awesome. You know, what's
the word I'm looking for. When you give to something
without expecting anything in return, you're just you know, you're
giving to give for the sake of giving. You're giving
because you know it's going to create joy for someone else.
And I'm going to tell you it's between the surprise
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factor and that that's what really moved me, because when
you don't know the people who are involved, and it's
their Saturday and their Friday evening, and this is what
they have done out of the sheer goodness of their heart.
It's truly one of the most heartwarming things I have
ever experienced in my life.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, I will tell you also, there's another thing at
play here. Yes, they are both incredibly generous, but they
wanted to share this because they have the same giddiness
and awe about this vehicle. And that's what Stephen was
telling us, that it's a car, but it's something that
brings people together. And you don't know, like some of
the conversations, Well, when you and Kevin had gone inside
(09:50):
to get some cheese, get a drink, just continue, you know,
the new owner, Kevin and Murphy spent a lot of
time talking. So I'm outside Stephen and I he's taking
pictures of the vehicle. We're talking talking, and I'm like,
have you did you get to drive it? He goes no,
and I said, oh, I said, and he said, I'm
not going to ask to drive it.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And I thought, that's respectful.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You know, it's Kevin's car now, And but he did
say Stephen said that this is the only like model
he's never driven. He's a corvette enthusiast, so he's the
only one he's never driven. Oh wow, So I'm thinking,
how did you keep from asking?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You know, how did you.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Keep it's referred to as C two because it was
the second generation Corvette from sixty three to I don't
remember what year, Yeah, sixty seven something like that, maybe
sixty six. Maybe it was only a three year run.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Stephen was telling me also that it was designed but
he knows all this stuff that it was designed by
like a nineteen year old in nineteen fifty seven who
came up with the design, and this is the one
that the head of the Corvette division went with. And
that's why it looks it's it's there's a youngness to it,
but a futuristic look to it as well. It still
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holds up like if that passes you on the street,
you're like.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Wow, yeah, yeah, it's special.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
So have you ever seen it like that before? I
mean when you were a kid and it was running.
Had you ever seen it like that before?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah? I mean as a kid, I remember exactly what
it looked like. He was the last time, The last
time I wrote in it was when it was either
kindergarten or first grade, one of the two. But I
was either five or six. That's pretty young. But I
remember how excited I was. And it's a two seater,
so that's all that's in there. My dad worked rotating
shifts at Exon, so if he was working days, which
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was the A shift, he would have never taken us,
you know, to school. But he was either doing you know,
and it probably wasn't the C shift, which was the overnight.
It was probably working B days at that point, so
he would bring me, you know, to school and then
go off, you know to work.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
That's so cool, right, And I rode the bus most
of the time, So I don't know why there was
a day or two where he would, you know, he
would do that. It just it was fun. And I
definitely remember the way it sounded, because over the years
he would crank it. It just just it. Yeah, But
I don't remember it being driven much after he started
having issues with it in the eighties and then he
just he literally mothballed it. But he mothballed it perfectly
(12:08):
because apparently it did not take much to get it
running again. Now I got to understand that's in context
with people who know how to work on these vehicles, right.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Sure, for you, you and your family probably would have
taken a lot to get it running. For someone who
can speak this language and lives in a garage.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, when it's somebody's personal passion and they love it
and they can get under the car and do it themselves,
that's one thing. And that's just not me. So it
would have cost quite a bit of money to get
it back up and you know, running again. But my
dad had preserved it so well that it did not
need that much. Almost everything on it's original except for
the tires, the belts and the air filter and you know,
some things like that. So yeah, when it cranked up again,
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which this is the actual sound, and so I mean
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And he would crank it in and stop it, you know,
And then we moved it one time for pictures, like
in front of our garage. That's where Stephen wanted us
to shoot the pictures of it. He was looking for
a good spot for a light because it was the
middle of the day, you know, the sun is high
when he was when we were looking at this car.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And you know, the other thing I forgot about it is.
The car has just around fifty seven thousand miles on
it now and Ken Kevin has put about three thousand
on it so far himself. So when we sold it,
it was and those were the original miles by the way, Yeah,
from nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Is there anything else he has to do with it
still or is it wear it?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
No, he doesn't. This is what This was the most
one of them, I say, the most wonderful part. All
the conversation was awesome And actually I can't wait to
follow up with it again because I could talk about
it constantly with him. He he is the He's the
kind of corvette owner that he's not about making it
the show car. He's the kind of car you know,
corvette owner that he wants to drive it because he
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believes that's what the car was built to do in
the first place. If you're gonna mothball it and put
it somewhere and make it a show piece, and there's
nothing wrong with people who want to do that, but
that's not his mo. He's got a couple of Camaros,
I think he says he's got there are a number
of different.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Vehicles, three other Corvettes. I can't remember what years.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, and he just he loves those are his babies,
that's his personal passion, and so he wants it to
be as an original shape as possible. So the only
thing that had really been added to it there were
some I'm going to use probably the wrong the overhead
cams I think is what they're called, or no chrome,
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and the original ones were not that that were sitting
on the car, so those were aftermarket, but they might
be the same kind the car originally had. I don't know,
and I don't know if Roland or Kevin was the
one who added those. We had saved the you know,
the hubcaps. He decided he wanted to paint the rims
red and the hub caps sit on it. So there's
like this very thin red line outlining. It really looks good.
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But he all so this is how much he loves
the originality of the vehicle. He went back and when
he saw the picture, well, he bought the tires that
were original to the car, that are not steel belted radials,
so they're kind of mushy. For the lack of a
better term, to drive this is, you know, none of
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us were alive in driving vehicles at that time. But
the original tires on those kind of vehicles were not
very I don't know what the term is, stables the
wrong word. They were just mushy and steel belted. Radios
are tougher tires and they last longer. Well, he went
and bought the original firestones that were on the vehicle
with the white wall on it. The reason he decided
he wanted the white wall is because he saw the
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picture and the apparently that picture of me and my dad,
the picture of me at one year old and my
dad washing the car and he's holding the hose or
helping me hold the hose to wash. It is the
picture that inspired him to go back and get the
original white wall look on the vehicle. And so that's original.
The only thing that's not original is he wanted to
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improve the radio because look, the radio speaker was sixty
years old. It's not it's not really functional if you're
going to enjoy that. So he did put some you know,
some speakers, very classy looking in the back. But even
the original air conditioning's working. Wow, I mean, all of
it is.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It feels incredible. I slid down into the driver's seat
for a moment. I was not about to. I wouldn't
have wanted to drive it because I just wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Would not have. But I just wanted to sit in
that seat. And it's incredible. It's like a little spaceship
in there. It's like a little spaceship and they're so comfortable. Yeah,
so crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Uh and you know, I mean I sat in a
million times. And so he did take me for a
ride in it, which was which was fun. It was
just simple. We just went down our street, no speed
limits broken, no. And he doesn't want to speed in it.
He'll tell you that too. He's just he's driving it to,
you know, to he loves to rev that engine, but
he's not, especially with those softer tires on it. He's
not interested in doing any sort of crazy speed racing stuff,
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you know, in it, because look, when you start to
do something like that to a vehicle that old, there's
a possibility that you're going to strain something you didn't know. Yeah,
and then then yeah, it's just you know, it's it's
it's a vehicle that he enjoys driving. But he says that,
I mean, it's it. Actually he drives it now more
than the other vehicles in his collection and.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's like his new baby. Yeah, it's like the new girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And he uh, but he said that what really would
sold them on it? It was it was at a
car auction. There's so many just strange. This is just
an example of how in the world are things so
meant to be. Because the owner that bought it from
us went to a car show in Mississippi that he
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had I mean, he was probably, I don't know, a
good one hundred and twenty miles away from his home
and this gentleman who lives right here with us was
the one who happened to be going to that car show.
And there were a number of different corvettes there, and
so some of them were really that more show car,
I mean, really squeaky clean, really you know, showy cars.
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And then there was this one. And when he started
reading the story about the car and he realized that
the original car dealership that it was purchased from is
literally six miles down the road from where he was born,
that resonated that spoke to him. And then the fact
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number two, so my dad was the second owner of
the car. He bought it used in nineteen sixty nine,
which is that picture of me right, not long after
he'd bought it, and so he was only the second
owner of it and everything else was original through those
forty years. And so he tells me these stories about
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and asked many questions about how did my dad enjoy it?
You know, because he would he envisions that when he's
driving the car, that's where it puts him mentally. It
puts him in the story of the person who's driving it.
And you know, I've never really gone to these car shows.
I've only had very small amounts of exposure to people
who are in the Corvette clubs, and I do know
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that it's a very special community. But it's the stories
of the cars that literally bring everybody together. And this
is the first time I've experienced that firsthand at this level.
Because the whole reason that Steven drove over a thousand
miles to come do this story in the first place,
and the reason that Kevin had the heart and the
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willingness to come to a total stranger's house technically, you know,
and just because he knew that his dad was the
one who owned the car and was willing to share
that time. It was my first exposure to Wow, man,
this is no wonder. People become so addicted to that
community because it's something that you rally around and it's
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special and it's different, and is Kevin says, it's stress free.
All the other problems of the world and things that
get we get bombarded with every day fall aside when
you're focusing on something literally as simple as a car community.
You know, it just but in Jody's ability to make
it a surprise, and Jody's not giving herself enough credit
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for taking, you know, and and organizing it the way
that that she did. But I mean, I really don't
think I know that's the sentimentality. Sentimentality because it was
my dad's car, and because it's sat in our car port,
and because we have a you know, an affinity for
every story and every sound and everything that went with
that car. But I've never experienced anything this generous from
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strangers who literally and then they're not I mean, I
absolutely consider they're they're absolutely friends now, But they spent
you know, one full day with me and a full
day before that doing all of this out of the
goodness of their hearts. Is just to me, that's a
morning pick me up, right with the morning pick me
up that is a pick me up, and so I
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am never going to forget this. And it's and it's
bittersweet to a degree because you know, you see that car,
and and I think my brother and sister and I
always really wanted to try to keep it alive in
the family. And and you know, the thing about that
that's really tricky is trying to separate the rational part
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of ownership of something like that. How are you going
to use it? How much is it going to really cost?
And it's very different. You know, we weren't the ones
that fixed it up, so seeing it makes it look
like it's easy, breezy and.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Kept it.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, but but the and and and I can't tell
you how many people already even on socials, like why'd
you get rid of? Why'd you sell it? And it's like,
I mean, I, yes, I understand. But you know, the
truth is the the photos and the stories of that
car with my dad are the emotional attachment to that car.
(22:01):
That picture of me and my dad next to that
car is more is more important to me than the vehicle.
And as much as you know you would like to
hold onto those things, excuse me, I'm sorry it I
don't want to say it's just a car, because it's
(22:21):
more than a car, and it's brought more people together.
But you know it's a symbol of him, But that's
not a reason to hold on. Is something that can
collect dust and cost money and sit in the car
port and get in an accident or whatever it is.
You know that it would be. And if I was
independently wealthy or something like that and had the jay
Leno garage, you know, and can put things in air conditioning,
(22:43):
you know, maybe, but that's not It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
An instant decision for you either. Yeah, and you're talking
it over with your brother and your sister to make sure, right.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, as far as putting the day together and all that,
you know, the only thing that bothered me was that
I couldn't make it happen that your sister and her
family could be there.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So I was like, oh my go. As soon as.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The car was there and Murphy was out front looking
at it, and all the oh in and on and
Taylor and Phoebe were there, and you know, Murphy's friend
Randy came down and you were invited. I know you
couldn't come, Sam, But Murphy turned around to me and
as I knew he would. As your brother was there
and his wife Christy, and you were like, is Jackie
coming or are they coming? And I'm like, they were
(23:27):
coming home from a vacation and they couldn't make it.
And understand, this has been this, this, these dates had
been in the works, you know, seventeenth eighteenth, seventeenth eighteenth
had been in the works for a while, and I
just couldn't And.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I felt bad about that. If I could.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Change anything, I would change it to where maybe it
was one day path farther. But I couldn't ask Stephen
to do that because he also had to get to
a book signing, like he had to leave the very
next day as well.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I think it's meant to be anyway. I mean, you're
trying about a day that it was ninety seven degrees,
it was very hot, and you know our you know,
Kevin has agreed to you know that the family can
get together really any time that they want to to
see the vehicle, and so that will be, that'll be
a wonderful opportunity. You know.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Also Kevin has that garage, by the way, he has
all of his cars are kept indoors garage. Yeah, it's
the Kevin garage, but he has that, so this car
stays indoors, yes, you know, with his other cars, which
makes complete sense.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
And I don't know, did you did you mention that
my friend Randy came over to you? Okay? So I
just wanted to say this significance on that is that,
you know, Randy's one of my best friends of all time.
He knew my dad very well. I've known him since
high school, uh or since college and uh and he
literally lives right down the street from us. Andy and Randy's.
It's it's interesting because he's always been somehow tied to
(24:45):
some of these very key moments in my family, you know,
through the years as I have with him, you know,
and and and his late wife, one of my great friends, Carol.
But you know, he was the one that came to
my late dad's house when we were moving it from
the house and finally got to sell everything and moved
moved the corvette over to our house until we figured
(25:07):
out what was going on. He was the one that
you know, supervised that and saw that, and you know,
and so for him to get to see it again
come full circle, I know, it was another great moment
for him, and so he was excited to It's fun
to share those kind of moments because he was the
other one that I, you know, immediately thought you need
to call Randy, and it's like I already did. He's
coming down. I'm like, all right, great. So so it
(25:30):
was really it was a fun.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I tried to intimate and not too big because there
are a lot of people who would have liked to
have been there, for some people in my family who
probably would have liked to have been there. But I
didn't want it to get so big that you felt
like it was. It's an intimate thing too. It was
a delicate thing too.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
There were people driving down the street who were stopping
to look. Our neighbor came came out, but it came out.
He says, hey, can I see it. It's like, absolutely,
check it out. So so we'll wrap the podcast the
same way that the visit wrapped up, you know, with
us with Kep and cranking up the car and leaving.
And if you're watching on YouTube, you'll get to see
it the video itself. If she drives away, you gotta
(26:11):
rep it.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, out of the driveway, onto the road.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
That's right, and out of sight.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Isn't that fantastic? Missed any part of the show.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Get it all on the Murphy Salmon Jody Podcast.
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