December 13, 2023 • 31 mins
Have you ever wondered about the behind-the-scenes logistics of the auto transport industry?
We're fortunate to have on board Steve Yariv, owner of Dealers Choice Auto Transport, who transports an impressive 20-25,000 cars annually for big clients like Shelby America, and the Holman Automotive Group. Taking us for a ride in this episode, Steve unravels the intricacies of moving vehicles ranging from everyday rides to exotic cars, and shares how they cater to dealers, individuals, and military personnel alike.
Let's shift gears and explore the growing world of transporting high-end and exotic cars, particularly in Houston, which interestingly is the third-largest market in the country. Steve gives us an insider's look at how the advent of online car purchases has revved up their workload and how word-of-mouth acts as their turbocharger. We also get to explore their participation in adrenaline-rushing events and rallies, such as the launch of the new BMW M3 and Lotus cars.
On the final stretch, we delve into the fascinating history of the iconic Shelby Mustang. From Mr. Norm's award-winning 1965 Dodge Cornette 500 at AutoRama to the coveted limited-edition Hertz rental racers, we cruise through the Shelby's incredible journey in the automotive industry.
Wrapping up, we share insights on the iHeartRadio app, your go-to platform for the latest car news and reviews. So buckle up as we speed through this enlightening episode on the fast and furious world of auto transport and classic Shelby cars.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another In .
Wheel Time podcast, a 30 minutemini version of the In Wheel
Time car show that airs liveevery Saturday morning 8 to 11
am Central.
It's the In Wheel Time car talkshow.
Just ahead we're going to talkto Steve Yarov, with dealer's
(00:23):
choice auto transport, aboutgetting your car moved without
driving it All right magic Plus.
Conrad's going to have the InWheel Time car clinic and it's
going to be on Shelby's ShelbyFord products.
Okay, very good, and we'll havethis week's automotive news
that's later on.
Howdy, along with Mike.
Nope, mike's not here.
It's David Ainsley filling infor Mike.
(00:44):
Today, one of those rare timesthat Mars is not here.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You know what's funny , I'm glad he was here.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You know it's funny because I don't.
Mars is rarely not here Veryrare and so need some time.
Absolutely.
It's a little time every oncein a while.
So we appreciate everythingthat Mr Mars does.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And we also have here this Mr King Conrad DeLong, and
we always need more.
Jeff Zeekin, I'm Don Armstrong,glad you could join us on this
Saturday morning, and Wally.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Wally's here and.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Wally is here and we're going to.
You're going to find out allabout Wally.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
My name is Wally.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's it, thank you so do that again.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Sorry, my name is Wally.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Steve, I don't know what you've called into this
morning, but you know, we'rekind of.
We're kind of waiting here tosee if we can settle down enough
to make it look like it.
We're trying to be legit, butat any rate, steve Yarov is with
the Dealers Choice AutoTransport Company and we thank
you so much for joining us.
Steve's overdressed.
He's got a jacket on.
(01:53):
Yeah, so is it cold up there?
Is that why you're wearing thejacket?
Or you thought that this was adifferent car show and you
needed to put on a jacket andlook really official?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, believe it or not, in Florida, when it hits
65 degrees, it's actually cold.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, that's right.
So you're in Florida and youhave a.
You have a company calledDealers Choice Auto Transport.
Okay, Explain everybody exactlywhat that is.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So Dealers Choice is a nationwide transport company
for automotive dealers,individuals, college students,
military personnel that aregoing and shipping their
vehicles throughout the entirecountry.
That's what we did.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So you pick up the car wherever you were told to go
to pick up the car and you pickit up and put it on a
transporter, an 18-wheeler, Iassume.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, we have a majority of the businesses
18-wheelers, but we have a lotof small trucks that people want
more of a private service whereit's their car by itself or,
you know, maybe they have, youknow, two cars and just put it
inside a two car and closedtrailer and go.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, so they don't.
They don't have, you know, haveto go out and buy or rent a
trailer, right, and then how areyou going to trailer it there?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, plus, they have people with experience that
know how to load it, tie it down, probably insurance, so that
they're they're covered whilethe vehicles in movement.
Now, do you, do you physicallyown your transport vehicles or
do you contract that out?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Both we actually own our own trucks and trailers and
have our internal drivers, andthen we have hundreds of drivers
that are leased onto us withtheir own trucks and trailers,
but everything goes via ourinsurance.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh my gosh.
So the logistics on that hasgot to be incredible.
What do you got?
Do you have a staff attend tokeep all this stuff straight?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, more than that.
It's never ending.
It's a.
You know it's in wheel time, Iguess.
There you go.
How did you?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
get into this business.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Interestingly enough, I was on Wall Street and it was
just an investment that I madein a little one truck company.
Really, yeah, just went fromWall Street to Main Street and
learned the business on my ownby meeting somebody and learn
the entire transport brokeragebusiness on my own and figured
it all out.
(04:19):
How many years ago was thatSteve?
Twenty-two years, twenty-one,going on twenty-two years now.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Wow, wow.
So you've got obviously morethan enough experience to do
this, and I assume that youtransport anything from
motorcycles all the way up tothe most expensive car in the
world.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Absolutely.
We are known to be the numberone transport company for all
the exotic and high-line dealersthroughout the country.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, and I guess when it comes to moving oddball
stuff, you do that too.
As far as competitive truckswith great big wheels on them
and that sort of thing, you sendpeople to where they're going
to start the shipment there andthey are obviously the final
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deciders as to whether the thingis going to fit on the
transport or if they needsomething else.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know, usually when it's the oddball unit, we
ask for photographs,measurements, and we'll get the
right trailer there to pick itup.
We don't make mistakes.
We've learned over time whatneeds to get done, what needs to
show up, how many measurementsare correct.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
How many vehicles did you move last year or the year
before, just as a raw number?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Ballpark anywhere from twenty to twenty-five
thousand cars.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Can you name some of your clients, or is that a
privilege?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
thing, no, absolutely Coincidentally, Shelby America,
which you just mentioned.
A little while ago, we shippedthe vehicles from their facility
in Las Vegas to the dealershipsBraven Motor Cars, eurocar
Orange County, iloso in OrangeCounty.
There's thousands of them.
We were Racatina followed theircollections.
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Holman Automotive Group.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Oh wow, are your transports mostly enclosed.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
About 80% 80%.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Is the volume of your business the wholesale side of
it or the individual retail sideof it?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
In the beginning it was the majority on the
wholesale side and over time, asyou grow with the dealerships,
you end up with a tremendousamount of the retail business
from the dealership to theconsumer.
And then the consumer becomes aclient because they're a
snowbird, shipping their vehiclefrom the northeast to Florida
or from Washington Oregon downto California or Arizona when
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they spend their winter and thenshipping the vehicles back.
So the business has evolvedover time tremendously.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So are you domestically based or do you do
international shipping as well?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, we just do domestic.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, I've got a friend of mine that has gotten
into buying and selling orflipping if you will exotic cars
and you would think thatHouston being such a big market
here that he would get them fromhere.
But no, he gets them all overthe United States, wherever the
deal may be, and has the carshipped here and I assume that
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in that particular model, if youwill, that you'd find a lot of
business in that industry wheresomebody especially with things
booming online now, online salessomebody buys a car For
instance, we do Hemingscom salesevery week and we make our
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guesses as to what the car soldfor and that sort of stuff.
But if I bought, let's say, a57 Chevrolet out of New York,
then I have no way, and not onlythat, but I wouldn't drive that
car all that way down here andI guess that's a good chunk of
your business too.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, absolutely Bring the trailer.
Today has become one of thelargest sites where people go
and list cars for sale and go tobuy cars.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And you're the one with the trailer they bring
right.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, I'm the one that they bring If you're in
Houston.
You do a tremendous amount ofbusiness in Houston with a lot
of the exotic and highlinedealers in the area from
Lamborghini and Ferrari andPorsche.
You know the entire Indigogroup we do business with over
there in Houston and I can tellyou that a lot of cars moving in
and out of that state it's thethird largest market in the
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country.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Wow.
Well, you know, I could thinkof several people that I know
personally that go to, forinstance, hemings and they'll
buy something like a 57 Chevythat I mentioned and have it
shipped here.
And I would imagine that youguys do a damage, free move and
guarantee it.
(08:55):
And you know, once they feelcomfortable with somebody like
yourself, they'll tell anotherfriend and somebody else tells
somebody else, and I bet youword of mouth is huge for you.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's tremendous I mean, that is our entire
business has been word of mouththis year.
The year hasn't ended and we'reup 33% for the year?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Wow, so do you work with like the meekums and the
Barrett Jackson's of the world?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We're there at all the auctions.
We're constantly there.
We have representatives thatshow up to get ready to schedule
the truck to you know, to shipthe vehicle out as soon as the
transaction is finalized.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I think I'd have to have me a desk inside the
auction somewhere that says, hey, transport your vehicle here.
Do you do that?
Is that how it works?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, some of them we do.
We'll have a tent sitting overthere, but the vast majority of
the clients just seem to know us.
They see the dealer's choicelogo and they just walk up and
hand over their gate release totell us hey, ship this car and
this is where it's going.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well, not that you'd want to leave Florida, but do
you ever go yourself and have agood time with all of us crazy
car people?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Are you a crazy car person too?
I am.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I'm a fanatic.
What are you driving?
Cars, you know, from theclassics to the exotics.
You know, I've got a handful ofexotics myself and I continue
to acquire them as I feel, youknow, it's my time.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So the online purchase phenomenon has really
helped your business as well.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, I can say, and I think every dealer can see the
same thing COVID was thegreatest thing for our industry.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh Lord, which is crazy.
I just couldn't say.
I don't know if I bragged toomuch about that, but it
certainly makes sense and Iunderstand.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, what it's done.
You know, the entire world haslearned to shop online.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean, the grocery stores are filled with people,
you know, with shoppers, notwith the actual consumer.
Correct, they're shopping forthem.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, matter of fact it's harder to get around in my
grocery store now because of theindividual shoppers and they
got those big carts and they'rebeing, yeah, exactly, and I
guess it's the same thing in theautomotive business.
What do you do if you have anissue?
Let's say the transporterbreaks down or the car that is
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on the way to me had to be movedoff the transporter to make
room for another car.
Get another car off and youcan't get it back on.
What do you do with things likethat?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You know things can happen, there's no question
about it.
Sometimes, you know, we have topick up a vehicle and have to
unload it and reload it based onwhere the vehicle fits in the
trailer.
We don't like it to get loadedonce and never moved again, but
that's 95% of the time.
You will have a 5% possibilitythat your vehicle will get
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unloaded once to get put intoanother position in the trailer,
especially in the event thatyou're the third drop but the
car is blocking Right, and thatwill put your vehicle to move, a
vehicle to take your vehicleoff, to release, let's say, your
vehicle, and then they have toreload the other customer's car.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So do most of your cars take a one-way trip, or do
you relay a lot of them around?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
99% go one direction.
Wow, sometimes you know whatwe'll have is we'll do an event
or rally where you are trailingthe vehicle or loading and
unloading it, taking it fromevent to event.
When we had to do the launch ofthe new BMW M3, you know, we
had to unload the car todealership, reload it up, take
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it to the next dealership thenext day and, you know, went in
a big circle.
Same thing we did with Lotus ontheir recent cars that they're
releasing.
So you have to go from dealerto dealer and just load and
unload it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Do you name-dropping?
Bmw and Lotus is good.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It is good.
Where in Florida are you?
Palm Beach, oh, okay, Do you do?
You have, obviously,transporters that have multiple
cars on them.
Do you wait for the transporterto get loaded with a full load
before it comes to Houston, oryou might have some open spaces
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on it?
How does that work?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You know we're an extremely busy outfit so we
don't have much downtime ofwaiting to try to get loaded.
Generally, if you know, oursix-car carrier is gonna go to
Houston and Dallas, san Antonio,coming out of Florida.
I'll have them loaded within,you know, 48 hours and in route.
Wow, and delivered within 48hours.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And I would imagine that you'll have some that'll
have a space on it, because youleft the space in there to pick
up a car up in Tallahassee.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh, absolutely.
But most of the time, you know,if there's an emergency it can
be carnites to get there.
We will leave with an open spot.
You know, come a hell of a highwater, tallahassee is more
important to get the job donethan to worry about the extra
unit.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, Well like.
I said at the beginning of this, the logistics, and trying to
get all of this situated.
Get the truck, get it loaded.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
There's so many things in motion that you're
trying to coordinate them all toget to different places.
You're strategist.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
And what everybody forgets, guys, let me tell you,
what everybody forgets is theexperience of the driver.
You know, just can't hireanybody to just get in these
cars that nobody's familiar with.
Oh, true.
Is they're gonna load it onto atrailer and strap it down.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Is your pricing structure done on the mileage
traveled or is it by the valueof the car?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
We do it by the mileage.
We're pretty much we were aflat rate.
You know, if we're going fromFlorida to, you know, texas,
it's just a set rate generallyfor the Tri-City area.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
So if somebody was interested in transporting a car
, how could they find you guysonline?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Just go to dcatcom, which is D is in dealer C-A-Tcom
.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
So that's for dealer choice, auto transport, that's
the-.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, dealer choice, auto transport no, no clature
for it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
yeah, the one.
Very cool, Very good.
So you've got.
Obviously you're in the officetoday.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'm here, all right.
So are you?
Are you 24 seven or are youjust a five day a week?
No, we're open Monday throughSaturday for our phone calls to
take orders.
Sundays, no, we shut down.
Everybody needs a break.
Yeah, to clear their minds.
Do you have offices here inHouston?
Uh, not in Houston.
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We have an office in?
Uh, right here in Palm Beach,florida.
Another one also in RanchoMirage, california.
Rancho Mirage, california.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, from one extreme to the other.
There you go.
Well, you got, yeah, butthat'll pretty much take care of
everything from one end of thecountry to the other.
I noticed but I do notice thatthey're warm climates.
And are you?
Are you a New Yorker originally?
I am Well, that says it all andwe know where you are now,
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because you know, I think Icould go for the year round.
You know, 70, 80 degree weather.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
He is a snowbird.
What is your daily?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
driver.
What is your daily driver?
What is your daily driver'steam?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Um, my daily is a go to back and forth to work as a
brand new seven series BMW, andthen I have my Ferrari, I have
my Porsche.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, monday, tuesday , wednesday is a different car.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, when he feels it.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, it's great to talk to you, steve, but thank you so much
for filling us in on what hasturned out to be a very
lucrative and um importantbusiness for you.
Coming off of wall street, theguy goes and gets into the
business and with one truck withone truck 22 years later and
he's doing nationwide stuff andand we we congratulate you on
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job.
Well done, my friend.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, I appreciate it , guys.
Thank you so much for theopportunity.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Thank you Well, I hope to talk to you again soon.
All right, so it's got SteveYarov dealer's choice auto
transport.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You know that's self made, self made.
I've put their link up on oursocial media.
Pretty cool.
You know that's a lot of peoplelooking for somebody that can
transport a vehicle and youdefinitely want somebody with
experience and knowledge andinsurance to cover it.
Well, the other thing is withhim.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
it's really the connections, because he uses so
many freelancers, if you will,that do 18 wheelers and
specialize in automotivetransport, and those are the
guys that really make hisbusiness that do the work.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, they do the work that he trusts.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And I think that you know, if I'm gonna move my
$50,000 investment from Kentuckyto Houston, I'm gonna use him
because he's got the connectionswith the guys that know how to
do it.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, it's a piece of mind.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, and not mess up my car.
Listen, I wouldn't trust mebecause I'm not in that business
and I don't know I'd strap itdown the wrong way and had the
thing hanging out of the side ofthe the transporter.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
There you go, you strap on again.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
Well, we'll go there Um time.
Now for let's see Conrad's carclinic.
We were talking about Shelby's.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Well, yeah, you know, we started with Mr Norm and the
car that we had at AutoRamathat won its class.
Did we tell everybody that, yes, okay, no, we didn't.
Well, we did.
On social media.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
No, I know, but we didn't, we really didn't.
We should back that up, weshould, yeah.
So let's back up and remindeverybody.
If you didn't know or didn'tsee, we had the 1965 Dodge
Cornette.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Cornette 500.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And it was a Mr Norm car.
Mr Norm was a dealer in Chicagothat hot-rodded factory cars.
When he got them to thedealership and there weren't an
overall terms, there weren'tthat many of them made, and Jim
took the car and completelyredid it in its original form
except for the wheels 426, wedgeyeah, wedge motor in it and the
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judges deemed it worthy of afirst place award and we were
really proud and proud for himto get the award Stunning car.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
He had two awards Stunning car?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yes, he did.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I don't remember what the second award was, but it
was a cash award, it was thedivision, it was the best booth.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The booth no, it wasn't the booth, but um.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It was you.
But that's kind of started mythought of the conversation of
you know and you had done apiece on who Mr Norm was and
Grand Spalding Dodge, up in theChicago area, and then I
followed it up with the Chevyguys and Dickie Harrell and the
Yankos and the Bald winning allof those.
So I thought you know.
The other one of fame is CarolShelby.
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We got to remember.
Shelby started with the Fordproducts Building Mustangs.
The GT350 scene here was a 65model car.
All of them in 65 were whitewith a blue stripe and that was
the choice.
And they all started life as a289 with the K-Code hypo motor
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in them.
And then Shelby put on his own.
He had his own exhaustmanifolds created for him that
were kind of like this Tri-Yheader and he put a high-rise
intake manifold on them and a325 CFM Holley carburetor and
the output went from 271 to 306horsepower at a 6000 RPM red
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line and that was kind of whereShelby built his thing.
And then in 66 Shelby startedadding some other colors and
stuff to the cars.
But I thought one of the coolthings about 66, the GT350, was
not just the change of colorsbut also the relationship with
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Hertz, rent a car and Shelbyproduced 1,373 fastbacks in 1966
.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
And that's my favorite there.
Yeah, good looking car.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And then the GT350H, which was the Hertz cars that
were sold to Hertz and you couldrent them from Hertz.
There was a thousand and threeof those that were delivered to
Hertz for rental and where thephrase was coined rent a racer.
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That was about this car andcome to find out through the
years that rent a racer car, alot of people would go rent the
car, jerk the motor out of it,put a regular 289 in it and
return the car to Hertz.
Also in 66, shelby played aroundwith.
That was the first time theyoffered an automatic in the car,
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but they also offered anoptional Paxton supercharger.
Pretty cool that the smalllittle differences between the
65 and 66 cars were there.
But Ford, in order to helpShelby sales Ford a major
stakeholder.
That extra thousand cars thatwere sold to Hertz was because
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Ford owned Hertz at the time.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Don't you wish that you had one of those cars?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
350H.
That would be my Shelby ofchoice.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I've only seen all in all the years, a couple of
those.
There was two of the Hertzrental racers at all, ramma and
a booth not far from that I sawthat you know.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
so you know there were some differences in them.
But you know the limited slipdifferential was an option.
You would think in those carsthe Shelby's at the limited slip
would be standard.
In 67, the Mustang changed.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Why did he do?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
that.
Well, it was just about price.
He was just trying to managethe price of the vehicle.
And buy them in production.
And then in 67, the car gotbigger and Shelby got bigger
along with it.
You know he went from the GT350, he added a GT500.
And the GT500s came with the428 police interceptor engine.
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And they say there was a coupleof Shelby's that were actually
sold with the 427 side oilerengines in them as well, and
there were some things about thecar you could identify.
I've seen one of those and itwas here in Houston one of the
427 side oiler cars.
So again, shelby was trying tocreate that wow factor the halo
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car for Ford and he did a greatjob of it.
There were some other uniquevehicles that were built in the
67 model year.
A little red, which wasdiscovered in a farm field in
March of 2018, was a Shelby knotback that they never produced,
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but there was.
Shelby had one made for himselfand that was found not that
long ago here in Texas.
And then they also startedreleasing the GT350 and 500
convertibles in that time periodas well.
Is this a long report?
He said he needed a couple ofminutes and then in 68, shelby
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Cobra was applied to the vehicle.
It was, it was all just ShelbyGT 350, gt 500.
In 68 they added the name Cobrato it because Ford had released
the Cobra jet motor.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So now, I wanted to show the Cobra was related to
the Cobra jet motor, correct,gotcha?
I never understood why.
You know it was the Mustangright but a Cobra right.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
So we got a horse and we got a snake and and you know
the the GT 350 went from a 289to a 302 in 68 as well, again
producing more horsepower, andShelby had his own unique
features on it as far as theIntake manifold and the headers
to create more power from theproduction one.
(25:23):
But the key point of that wasthe 428 police interceptor
engine With the singlefour-barrel carburetor or with
the dual four-barrel carburetors.
You know the hood scoop thatwas actually brought fresh air
into the engine and it heincluded the Sequential tail
lights, which I always thoughtwas a cool feature to you that
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was brought over from the Cougarbut was added to the Shelby
products as well and integratedthe, the rear spoiler and the
functional brake scoops and alot of that.
Fiberglass parts were createdfor Shelby, exclusively for his,
for his model line, and thenWe'll talk next week about
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Shelby.
Also had a relationship.
When Leigh Iacocca left Fordand went to Chrysler, shelby
came over and did some Chryslerproducts.
We'll talk about those nextweek.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Okay, thank you, sir.
One recall that I wanted to getin before the end of the show
and that is like your phone itwas.
Is latest recall from Raminvolves a hundred forty two
thousand plus pickup trucks formalfunctioning turn signals and
high beams.
The affected vehicles includemodel year 23 1500 pickups and
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model year 23 24 25 hundredthirty five hundred forty five
hundred fifty five hundredtrucks.
The issue concerns the steeringcolumn control module which may
cause the high beams toactivate when the turn signal is
used.
To activate the turn signalwhen the high beams are used
Additionally, the turn signalSelf-canceling feature may not
function properly either, cancause confusion or reduced
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visibility for other vehicles,including the risk of a crash.
Dealers Will inspect them ifnecessary, replace the steering
column control module for freeowners, going to be notified by
Ram parent automaker Stalantis,january 17th 2024 hmm, I thought
they bought those parts fromBMW, because they never use
return signals and the autoshows the 24th.
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driving it All right magic Plus.
Conrad's going to have the InWheel Time car clinic and it's
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You know what's funny , I'm glad he was here.
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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Speaker 1 (01:33):
Steve, I don't know what you've called into this
morning, but you know, we'rekind of.
We're kind of waiting here tosee if we can settle down enough
to make it look like it.
We're trying to be legit, butat any rate, steve Yarov is with
the Dealers Choice AutoTransport Company and we thank
you so much for joining us.
Steve's overdressed.
He's got a jacket on.
(01:53):
Yeah, so is it cold up there?
Is that why you're wearing thejacket?
Or you thought that this was adifferent car show and you
needed to put on a jacket andlook really official?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, believe it or not, in Florida, when it hits
65 degrees, it's actually cold.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, that's right.
So you're in Florida and youhave a.
You have a company calledDealers Choice Auto Transport.
Okay, Explain everybody exactlywhat that is.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So Dealers Choice is a nationwide transport company
for automotive dealers,individuals, college students,
military personnel that aregoing and shipping their
vehicles throughout the entirecountry.
That's what we did.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So you pick up the car wherever you were told to go
to pick up the car and you pickit up and put it on a
transporter, an 18-wheeler, Iassume.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, we have a majority of the businesses
18-wheelers, but we have a lotof small trucks that people want
more of a private service whereit's their car by itself or,
you know, maybe they have, youknow, two cars and just put it
inside a two car and closedtrailer and go.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, so they don't.
They don't have, you know, haveto go out and buy or rent a
trailer, right, and then how areyou going to trailer it there?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, plus, they have people with experience that
know how to load it, tie it down, probably insurance, so that
they're they're covered whilethe vehicles in movement.
Now, do you, do you physicallyown your transport vehicles or
do you contract that out?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Both we actually own our own trucks and trailers and
have our internal drivers, andthen we have hundreds of drivers
that are leased onto us withtheir own trucks and trailers,
but everything goes via ourinsurance.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh my gosh.
So the logistics on that hasgot to be incredible.
What do you got?
Do you have a staff attend tokeep all this stuff straight?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, more than that.
It's never ending.
It's a.
You know it's in wheel time, Iguess.
There you go.
How did you?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
get into this business.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Interestingly enough, I was on Wall Street and it was
just an investment that I madein a little one truck company.
Really, yeah, just went fromWall Street to Main Street and
learned the business on my ownby meeting somebody and learn
the entire transport brokeragebusiness on my own and figured
it all out.
(04:19):
How many years ago was thatSteve?
Twenty-two years, twenty-one,going on twenty-two years now.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Wow, wow.
So you've got obviously morethan enough experience to do
this, and I assume that youtransport anything from
motorcycles all the way up tothe most expensive car in the
world.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Absolutely.
We are known to be the numberone transport company for all
the exotic and high-line dealersthroughout the country.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, and I guess when it comes to moving oddball
stuff, you do that too.
As far as competitive truckswith great big wheels on them
and that sort of thing, you sendpeople to where they're going
to start the shipment there andthey are obviously the final
(05:06):
deciders as to whether the thingis going to fit on the
transport or if they needsomething else.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know, usually when it's the oddball unit, we
ask for photographs,measurements, and we'll get the
right trailer there to pick itup.
We don't make mistakes.
We've learned over time whatneeds to get done, what needs to
show up, how many measurementsare correct.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
How many vehicles did you move last year or the year
before, just as a raw number?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Ballpark anywhere from twenty to twenty-five
thousand cars.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Can you name some of your clients, or is that a
privilege?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
thing, no, absolutely Coincidentally, Shelby America,
which you just mentioned.
A little while ago, we shippedthe vehicles from their facility
in Las Vegas to the dealershipsBraven Motor Cars, eurocar
Orange County, iloso in OrangeCounty.
There's thousands of them.
We were Racatina followed theircollections.
(06:02):
Holman Automotive Group.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Oh wow, are your transports mostly enclosed.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
About 80% 80%.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Is the volume of your business the wholesale side of
it or the individual retail sideof it?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
In the beginning it was the majority on the
wholesale side and over time, asyou grow with the dealerships,
you end up with a tremendousamount of the retail business
from the dealership to theconsumer.
And then the consumer becomes aclient because they're a
snowbird, shipping their vehiclefrom the northeast to Florida
or from Washington Oregon downto California or Arizona when
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they spend their winter and thenshipping the vehicles back.
So the business has evolvedover time tremendously.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So are you domestically based or do you do
international shipping as well?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, we just do domestic.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, I've got a friend of mine that has gotten
into buying and selling orflipping if you will exotic cars
and you would think thatHouston being such a big market
here that he would get them fromhere.
But no, he gets them all overthe United States, wherever the
deal may be, and has the carshipped here and I assume that
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in that particular model, if youwill, that you'd find a lot of
business in that industry wheresomebody especially with things
booming online now, online salessomebody buys a car For
instance, we do Hemingscom salesevery week and we make our
(07:42):
guesses as to what the car soldfor and that sort of stuff.
But if I bought, let's say, a57 Chevrolet out of New York,
then I have no way, and not onlythat, but I wouldn't drive that
car all that way down here andI guess that's a good chunk of
your business too.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, absolutely Bring the trailer.
Today has become one of thelargest sites where people go
and list cars for sale and go tobuy cars.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And you're the one with the trailer they bring
right.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, I'm the one that they bring If you're in
Houston.
You do a tremendous amount ofbusiness in Houston with a lot
of the exotic and highlinedealers in the area from
Lamborghini and Ferrari andPorsche.
You know the entire Indigogroup we do business with over
there in Houston and I can tellyou that a lot of cars moving in
and out of that state it's thethird largest market in the
(08:33):
country.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Wow.
Well, you know, I could thinkof several people that I know
personally that go to, forinstance, hemings and they'll
buy something like a 57 Chevythat I mentioned and have it
shipped here.
And I would imagine that youguys do a damage, free move and
guarantee it.
(08:55):
And you know, once they feelcomfortable with somebody like
yourself, they'll tell anotherfriend and somebody else tells
somebody else, and I bet youword of mouth is huge for you.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's tremendous I mean, that is our entire
business has been word of mouththis year.
The year hasn't ended and we'reup 33% for the year?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Wow, so do you work with like the meekums and the
Barrett Jackson's of the world?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We're there at all the auctions.
We're constantly there.
We have representatives thatshow up to get ready to schedule
the truck to you know, to shipthe vehicle out as soon as the
transaction is finalized.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I think I'd have to have me a desk inside the
auction somewhere that says, hey, transport your vehicle here.
Do you do that?
Is that how it works?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, some of them we do.
We'll have a tent sitting overthere, but the vast majority of
the clients just seem to know us.
They see the dealer's choicelogo and they just walk up and
hand over their gate release totell us hey, ship this car and
this is where it's going.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well, not that you'd want to leave Florida, but do
you ever go yourself and have agood time with all of us crazy
car people?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Are you a crazy car person too?
I am.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I'm a fanatic.
What are you driving?
Cars, you know, from theclassics to the exotics.
You know, I've got a handful ofexotics myself and I continue
to acquire them as I feel, youknow, it's my time.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So the online purchase phenomenon has really
helped your business as well.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, I can say, and I think every dealer can see the
same thing COVID was thegreatest thing for our industry.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh Lord, which is crazy.
I just couldn't say.
I don't know if I bragged toomuch about that, but it
certainly makes sense and Iunderstand.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, what it's done.
You know, the entire world haslearned to shop online.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean, the grocery stores are filled with people,
you know, with shoppers, notwith the actual consumer.
Correct, they're shopping forthem.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, matter of fact it's harder to get around in my
grocery store now because of theindividual shoppers and they
got those big carts and they'rebeing, yeah, exactly, and I
guess it's the same thing in theautomotive business.
What do you do if you have anissue?
Let's say the transporterbreaks down or the car that is
(11:20):
on the way to me had to be movedoff the transporter to make
room for another car.
Get another car off and youcan't get it back on.
What do you do with things likethat?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You know things can happen, there's no question
about it.
Sometimes, you know, we have topick up a vehicle and have to
unload it and reload it based onwhere the vehicle fits in the
trailer.
We don't like it to get loadedonce and never moved again, but
that's 95% of the time.
You will have a 5% possibilitythat your vehicle will get
(11:53):
unloaded once to get put intoanother position in the trailer,
especially in the event thatyou're the third drop but the
car is blocking Right, and thatwill put your vehicle to move, a
vehicle to take your vehicleoff, to release, let's say, your
vehicle, and then they have toreload the other customer's car.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So do most of your cars take a one-way trip, or do
you relay a lot of them around?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
99% go one direction.
Wow, sometimes you know whatwe'll have is we'll do an event
or rally where you are trailingthe vehicle or loading and
unloading it, taking it fromevent to event.
When we had to do the launch ofthe new BMW M3, you know, we
had to unload the car todealership, reload it up, take
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it to the next dealership thenext day and, you know, went in
a big circle.
Same thing we did with Lotus ontheir recent cars that they're
releasing.
So you have to go from dealerto dealer and just load and
unload it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Do you name-dropping?
Bmw and Lotus is good.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It is good.
Where in Florida are you?
Palm Beach, oh, okay, Do you do?
You have, obviously,transporters that have multiple
cars on them.
Do you wait for the transporterto get loaded with a full load
before it comes to Houston, oryou might have some open spaces
(13:19):
on it?
How does that work?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You know we're an extremely busy outfit so we
don't have much downtime ofwaiting to try to get loaded.
Generally, if you know, oursix-car carrier is gonna go to
Houston and Dallas, san Antonio,coming out of Florida.
I'll have them loaded within,you know, 48 hours and in route.
Wow, and delivered within 48hours.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And I would imagine that you'll have some that'll
have a space on it, because youleft the space in there to pick
up a car up in Tallahassee.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh, absolutely.
But most of the time, you know,if there's an emergency it can
be carnites to get there.
We will leave with an open spot.
You know, come a hell of a highwater, tallahassee is more
important to get the job donethan to worry about the extra
unit.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, Well like.
I said at the beginning of this, the logistics, and trying to
get all of this situated.
Get the truck, get it loaded.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
There's so many things in motion that you're
trying to coordinate them all toget to different places.
You're strategist.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
And what everybody forgets, guys, let me tell you,
what everybody forgets is theexperience of the driver.
You know, just can't hireanybody to just get in these
cars that nobody's familiar with.
Oh, true.
Is they're gonna load it onto atrailer and strap it down.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Is your pricing structure done on the mileage
traveled or is it by the valueof the car?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
We do it by the mileage.
We're pretty much we were aflat rate.
You know, if we're going fromFlorida to, you know, texas,
it's just a set rate generallyfor the Tri-City area.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
So if somebody was interested in transporting a car
, how could they find you guysonline?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Just go to dcatcom, which is D is in dealer C-A-Tcom
.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
So that's for dealer choice, auto transport, that's
the-.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, dealer choice, auto transport no, no clature
for it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
yeah, the one.
Very cool, Very good.
So you've got.
Obviously you're in the officetoday.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'm here, all right.
So are you?
Are you 24 seven or are youjust a five day a week?
No, we're open Monday throughSaturday for our phone calls to
take orders.
Sundays, no, we shut down.
Everybody needs a break.
Yeah, to clear their minds.
Do you have offices here inHouston?
Uh, not in Houston.
(15:42):
We have an office in?
Uh, right here in Palm Beach,florida.
Another one also in RanchoMirage, california.
Rancho Mirage, california.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, from one extreme to the other.
There you go.
Well, you got, yeah, butthat'll pretty much take care of
everything from one end of thecountry to the other.
I noticed but I do notice thatthey're warm climates.
And are you?
Are you a New Yorker originally?
I am Well, that says it all andwe know where you are now,
(16:11):
because you know, I think Icould go for the year round.
You know, 70, 80 degree weather.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
He is a snowbird.
What is your daily?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
driver.
What is your daily driver?
What is your daily driver'steam?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Um, my daily is a go to back and forth to work as a
brand new seven series BMW, andthen I have my Ferrari, I have
my Porsche.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, monday, tuesday , wednesday is a different car.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, when he feels it.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, it's great to talk to you, steve, but thank you so much
for filling us in on what hasturned out to be a very
lucrative and um importantbusiness for you.
Coming off of wall street, theguy goes and gets into the
business and with one truck withone truck 22 years later and
he's doing nationwide stuff andand we we congratulate you on
(17:03):
job.
Well done, my friend.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, I appreciate it , guys.
Thank you so much for theopportunity.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Thank you Well, I hope to talk to you again soon.
All right, so it's got SteveYarov dealer's choice auto
transport.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You know that's self made, self made.
I've put their link up on oursocial media.
Pretty cool.
You know that's a lot of peoplelooking for somebody that can
transport a vehicle and youdefinitely want somebody with
experience and knowledge andinsurance to cover it.
Well, the other thing is withhim.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
it's really the connections, because he uses so
many freelancers, if you will,that do 18 wheelers and
specialize in automotivetransport, and those are the
guys that really make hisbusiness that do the work.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, they do the work that he trusts.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And I think that you know, if I'm gonna move my
$50,000 investment from Kentuckyto Houston, I'm gonna use him
because he's got the connectionswith the guys that know how to
do it.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, it's a piece of mind.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, and not mess up my car.
Listen, I wouldn't trust mebecause I'm not in that business
and I don't know I'd strap itdown the wrong way and had the
thing hanging out of the side ofthe the transporter.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
There you go, you strap on again.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
Well, we'll go there Um time.
Now for let's see Conrad's carclinic.
We were talking about Shelby's.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Well, yeah, you know, we started with Mr Norm and the
car that we had at AutoRamathat won its class.
Did we tell everybody that, yes, okay, no, we didn't.
Well, we did.
On social media.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
No, I know, but we didn't, we really didn't.
We should back that up, weshould, yeah.
So let's back up and remindeverybody.
If you didn't know or didn'tsee, we had the 1965 Dodge
Cornette.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Cornette 500.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And it was a Mr Norm car.
Mr Norm was a dealer in Chicagothat hot-rodded factory cars.
When he got them to thedealership and there weren't an
overall terms, there weren'tthat many of them made, and Jim
took the car and completelyredid it in its original form
except for the wheels 426, wedgeyeah, wedge motor in it and the
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judges deemed it worthy of afirst place award and we were
really proud and proud for himto get the award Stunning car.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
He had two awards Stunning car?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yes, he did.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I don't remember what the second award was, but it
was a cash award, it was thedivision, it was the best booth.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The booth no, it wasn't the booth, but um.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It was you.
But that's kind of started mythought of the conversation of
you know and you had done apiece on who Mr Norm was and
Grand Spalding Dodge, up in theChicago area, and then I
followed it up with the Chevyguys and Dickie Harrell and the
Yankos and the Bald winning allof those.
So I thought you know.
The other one of fame is CarolShelby.
(19:56):
We got to remember.
Shelby started with the Fordproducts Building Mustangs.
The GT350 scene here was a 65model car.
All of them in 65 were whitewith a blue stripe and that was
the choice.
And they all started life as a289 with the K-Code hypo motor
(20:21):
in them.
And then Shelby put on his own.
He had his own exhaustmanifolds created for him that
were kind of like this Tri-Yheader and he put a high-rise
intake manifold on them and a325 CFM Holley carburetor and
the output went from 271 to 306horsepower at a 6000 RPM red
(20:44):
line and that was kind of whereShelby built his thing.
And then in 66 Shelby startedadding some other colors and
stuff to the cars.
But I thought one of the coolthings about 66, the GT350, was
not just the change of colorsbut also the relationship with
(21:04):
Hertz, rent a car and Shelbyproduced 1,373 fastbacks in 1966
.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
And that's my favorite there.
Yeah, good looking car.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And then the GT350H, which was the Hertz cars that
were sold to Hertz and you couldrent them from Hertz.
There was a thousand and threeof those that were delivered to
Hertz for rental and where thephrase was coined rent a racer.
(21:40):
That was about this car andcome to find out through the
years that rent a racer car, alot of people would go rent the
car, jerk the motor out of it,put a regular 289 in it and
return the car to Hertz.
Also in 66, shelby played aroundwith.
That was the first time theyoffered an automatic in the car,
(22:02):
but they also offered anoptional Paxton supercharger.
Pretty cool that the smalllittle differences between the
65 and 66 cars were there.
But Ford, in order to helpShelby sales Ford a major
stakeholder.
That extra thousand cars thatwere sold to Hertz was because
(22:26):
Ford owned Hertz at the time.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Don't you wish that you had one of those cars?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
350H.
That would be my Shelby ofchoice.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I've only seen all in all the years, a couple of
those.
There was two of the Hertzrental racers at all, ramma and
a booth not far from that I sawthat you know.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
so you know there were some differences in them.
But you know the limited slipdifferential was an option.
You would think in those carsthe Shelby's at the limited slip
would be standard.
In 67, the Mustang changed.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Why did he do?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
that.
Well, it was just about price.
He was just trying to managethe price of the vehicle.
And buy them in production.
And then in 67, the car gotbigger and Shelby got bigger
along with it.
You know he went from the GT350, he added a GT500.
And the GT500s came with the428 police interceptor engine.
(23:25):
And they say there was a coupleof Shelby's that were actually
sold with the 427 side oilerengines in them as well, and
there were some things about thecar you could identify.
I've seen one of those and itwas here in Houston one of the
427 side oiler cars.
So again, shelby was trying tocreate that wow factor the halo
(23:52):
car for Ford and he did a greatjob of it.
There were some other uniquevehicles that were built in the
67 model year.
A little red, which wasdiscovered in a farm field in
March of 2018, was a Shelby knotback that they never produced,
(24:16):
but there was.
Shelby had one made for himselfand that was found not that
long ago here in Texas.
And then they also startedreleasing the GT350 and 500
convertibles in that time periodas well.
Is this a long report?
He said he needed a couple ofminutes and then in 68, shelby
(24:39):
Cobra was applied to the vehicle.
It was, it was all just ShelbyGT 350, gt 500.
In 68 they added the name Cobrato it because Ford had released
the Cobra jet motor.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So now, I wanted to show the Cobra was related to
the Cobra jet motor, correct,gotcha?
I never understood why.
You know it was the Mustangright but a Cobra right.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
So we got a horse and we got a snake and and you know
the the GT 350 went from a 289to a 302 in 68 as well, again
producing more horsepower, andShelby had his own unique
features on it as far as theIntake manifold and the headers
to create more power from theproduction one.
(25:23):
But the key point of that wasthe 428 police interceptor
engine With the singlefour-barrel carburetor or with
the dual four-barrel carburetors.
You know the hood scoop thatwas actually brought fresh air
into the engine and it heincluded the Sequential tail
lights, which I always thoughtwas a cool feature to you that
(25:44):
was brought over from the Cougarbut was added to the Shelby
products as well and integratedthe, the rear spoiler and the
functional brake scoops and alot of that.
Fiberglass parts were createdfor Shelby, exclusively for his,
for his model line, and thenWe'll talk next week about
(26:09):
Shelby.
Also had a relationship.
When Leigh Iacocca left Fordand went to Chrysler, shelby
came over and did some Chryslerproducts.
We'll talk about those nextweek.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Okay, thank you, sir.
One recall that I wanted to getin before the end of the show
and that is like your phone itwas.
Is latest recall from Raminvolves a hundred forty two
thousand plus pickup trucks formalfunctioning turn signals and
high beams.
The affected vehicles includemodel year 23 1500 pickups and
(26:43):
model year 23 24 25 hundredthirty five hundred forty five
hundred fifty five hundredtrucks.
The issue concerns the steeringcolumn control module which may
cause the high beams toactivate when the turn signal is
used.
To activate the turn signalwhen the high beams are used
Additionally, the turn signalSelf-canceling feature may not
function properly either, cancause confusion or reduced
(27:05):
visibility for other vehicles,including the risk of a crash.
Dealers Will inspect them ifnecessary, replace the steering
column control module for freeowners, going to be notified by
Ram parent automaker Stalantis,january 17th 2024 hmm, I thought
they bought those parts fromBMW, because they never use
return signals and the autoshows the 24th.
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