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Ever wondered how right-hand-drive icons like the Toyota Supra, Nissan Skyline GT-R, Mazda RX-7 and Acura Integra DC2 actually make it from Japanese auctions to American driveways? In this episode of To All the Cars I’ve Loved Before, hosts Doug & Christian sit down with veteran JDM importer Mohammad Azeem (former GM of MDK Japan, now based in Virginia) for a deep dive into:
- Japanese car-care culture and why second-hand Supras and Skylines arrive in pristine shape — minus the occasional cigarette burn
- The step-by-step exporting process: auction bidding, multi-lingual sales teams, container shipping and clearing U.S. customs under the 25-year rule
- Engine royalty—1JZ-GTE vs 2JZ-GTE—and what makes Honda’s B-series & the DC2 Integra Type R cult classics
- Tips for first-time buyers choosing between a clean Toyota Vitz/Yaris, Honda Insight hybrid, or track-ready drift chassis
- How rising global demand is driving prices, plus Muhammad’s personal weekend weapon and Doug’s dream of owning his first imported JDM car
Check out Mohammad's favorite episode is "Iron Curtain Automotive Adventures: Wartburg 353 Restoration & Ford Probe GT Autobahn Drive" https://www.buzzsprout.com/2316026/episodes/16245536-iron-curtain-automotive-adventures-wartburg-353-restoration-ford-probe-gt-autobahn-drive
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome back to all the cars I've loved before, your
authoritative podcast onautomotive nostalgia, where
every car tells a story, everymachine has a soul and every car
has a culture.
Time to plug in, dust off andget little grease and memories
on your hands.
Hey, uh, welcome back.
It's been a while we've beenoff.
(00:22):
Uh and uh, let's see gosh Idon't know if we've ever had
gone this long weeks withoutrecording.
So of course I'm going to berusty, but we'll just we'll make
sure we maybe the most excitingthing the show has heard around
the world, but we have some.
Before you talk about our newinternational listeners in the
Philippines, I'm going to tellyou about the good folks
(00:44):
listening in Hilton Head, southCarolina.
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be wrong on this, but I thinkMark Twain was either born in
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(01:04):
Elmira, new York.
Welcome to new listeners fromElmira, of course.
Maryland, which is where Dougis based.
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welcome, but I have to say a biginternational thank you.
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The city of Tagbilaran is acomponent city and capital of
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How do you like that partner.
Love it.
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But linktree slash carsloved,linktree slash carsloved,
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equivalent to.
To me it's a switchboard,because you know everybody's
presences.
You're able to see where we areon Instagram, facebook.
You know I'm not having a goodhair day like you.
You must have gotten your haircut or something Looking
fantastic.
I'm having a bad hair day, so Iam wearing this 300Z hat, pretty
(02:32):
stylish 300ZX hat that I stolefrom you last time I was there
because I'm from, you know.
I live in Florida, he lives inMaryland and when I visit it
gets really cold.
I'm forever stealing hisjackets, scarves, hats, gloves,
etc.
And this one just made it.
This is such a hat I'm fond ofand, you know, by the time he
realizes it's missing, I'msitting on the beach in
(02:54):
Pensacola.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I just realized it's missing.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Beautiful, if not sneaky things.
See, exactly there it is.
But on enough banter.
Are we ready to introducetoday's guests or what else do
we have?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We are, but given that you have a Nissan 300ZX hat
Nissan from Japan.
Right, amen, you got it.
I think it's only appropriatethat this episode is going to be
about JDM cars, and with ustoday we have Muhammad Azeem.
Nobody knows JDM cars betterthan this guy.
(03:28):
He is a importer of JDM cars,he spent some time in Japan and
lives in Northern Virginia, andI might be buying my first JDM
car through him.
Maybe, christian, we can talkyou into it.
But for those who've seen Fastand Furious franchise, this guy
knows all the numbers and codesand he's plugged in.
(03:51):
So, without further ado,mohamed, please introduce
yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Thank you for inviting me, doug, and so my
name is as you have, I mean,everyone know my name is
Muhammad Azeem and I was born inKarachi, pakistan, the economic
hub of Pakistan, themetropolitan city, and in 2010,
I got a job in a Japanese usedcar exporting company it was MDK
(04:19):
Japan and they offered me if Ican run their business as a
general manager, so I took overthat company and they offered me
if I can run their business asa general manager, so I took
over that company and then, from2010 till 2022, when I moved to
USA, I was, I mean, runningtheir company and I was buying,
I was bidding, I was sellingcars all over the world in South
(04:41):
America, in Northern America,in Russia, in Europe, in Africa,
so all the mostly all the thirdworld countries who cannot
produce their own cars and theyhave to import cars from Japan
and mostly those car, thosecountries who import right-hand
driving cars.
So I was exporting cars and Iwas, I mean, in my job, dealing
(05:03):
with the shipping companies,cars, and I was, I mean, in my
job, dealing with the shippingcompanies, dealing with the
exporters.
I mean that was my job, so thatI mean I came into this
business of JDM cars and that'smy intro.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's so and I know Doug has some more questions,
but I found it so interestinghow, with the company that
you're running, you found itvery important to find, to have
representatives that spoke thelanguages in the different
company, different countries,that you run.
Could you talk a little bitabout that?
That helps make things easiermaking inroads into those
(05:38):
markets.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah.
So everyone who is listeningand have been to Japan, they
know that when they go to Japanthey find it difficult.
I mean, normally in Tokyo youwill find people who can speak
English, but you won't findpeople they even cannot say no.
If a Japanese has to say no, hewill make this style kind of no
, that means no to them.
(06:00):
So most of the exporters inJapan they find the sales people
in Karachi, pakistan, becausethey can speak a lot of
languages.
You will find a Russian speaker, you'll find a German speaker
and you'll find a Spanishspeaker there.
So they make their call center,they make their sales office
there and then they run theircompanies, they outsource their
(06:20):
companies.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Okay, and I'm sorry, doug, I didn't mean to jump in
here, but Mohammed has thisenthusiasm and energy that's
infectious.
I mean, I was about to take anap before this show, but he's
just got me so revved up.
It's fantastic.
Over to you, doug.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, no worries.
And yeah, mohammed, mybrother-in-law is Japanese.
Yeah, no worries.
And yeah, mohamed, mybrother-in-law is Japanese.
So he and I were.
I'm sure you understand thephenomenon of living there.
He's actually lived in the USlonger than he lived in Japan.
But I'm like, why are Japanesecars in such good shape, like
these cars?
Like Americans just beat thecrap out of cars, it just
(07:02):
happens, he said.
He just said the Japanese justtake really good care of their
cars.
They treasure them like a house, like furniture.
Is that your feeling as well?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yes, that's my feeling as well In the schools,
in the Japanese schools, whenthe kids arrive at the school,
the first 30 or 20 minutes isthat they know do the broom and
they just clean the school bythemselves.
Even I've seen the bankmanagers in the japan that they,
when they came and they justclean everything.
Uh, because when I was in in myoffice there was no concept of
(07:38):
an office boy in japan.
So that is why they it is their, it is their habit that they
keep their cars very clean.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But, the only thing is that you will find in the
Japanese car is the cigaretteburn because they smoke Gotcha,
gotcha.
That's one downside, but that'sthe only one.
So, speaking of Japanese carsand it seems like you've owned
quite a few of them your veryfirst car was a 2016 Toyota Vitz
manual.
If you would tell our listenershow you got the car I know in
(08:13):
America it's called somethingelse and you know all the
internal codes but tell us howyou acquired the car, how long
you had it, any great storiesabout?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
it.
Yeah, so because when I startedwith that company, that company
was not even under 10, like notin the top 10.
So we started the sales andgradually we took it to the top
10.
So the company's owner, mr AwanArshad, he gifted me my first
car.
Oh wonderful.
I sent it from Japan and I justreceived it at the Karachi port
(08:44):
I cleared it and that was myfirst Yaris.
So for the listeners, they knowthat in Northern America it's a
Yaris and there in Japan it'sWits.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Okay, wonderful, and you had that car for a while.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, and then I sold it and then they sent another
yaris.
Uh sorry, honda insight, whichwas hybrid and honda inside is,
by the way, in america also withthe name same on the inside.
Yeah, that was my second.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It's a very sportish look, yeah yeah, yeah, it's kind
of a sporty civic yeah, inamerica, right yeah yeah,
exactly.
And uh, I didn't ask what colorwas the Vitz and what color was
the Insight.
Okay, both they were silver.
Silver, my favorite color.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
True, true story.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
True story so yeah here's a guy his company car is
a company car, literally right,and then I think the car I think
our listeners are going to bereally excited about is a car
that you probably importedyourself, I think into the
United States.
Maybe it's your daily driver.
(10:00):
Can you tell us about it?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's not my daily driver, but I just keep it for
sometimes, maybe weekends, orthe car shows.
It's a Tegra, it's a non-type R, but it is manual shift, but
it's a D2 engine, one of thegreatest engine Honda has ever
produced.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And that's a DC2, you said, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay, gotcha, yeah, and what's a?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
DC two.
You said right, yeah, okay,Gotcha, yeah.
And what?
What makes it the greatestengine I I'll take?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I was just I was just about to ask the same words
coming out of my mouth.
Sorry, go ahead, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Because of the reliability, because of the
performance that makes thegreatest engine, you know.
But if you talk about indetails, about the jdm engines
mostly americans since ouraudience is mostly americans
they are listening.
They just love one jz gteengine.
It comes in three cars mark two, crown uh, chaser and some
(11:02):
other car it comes.
So this is normally the guythey do the drifting, the guy
they do the racing.
They normally like that engine.
Toyota.
As per toyota, they say, isthat they have ever produced two
greatest engine.
One of them is one jz gt andthe second one is two jz gt
which comes in the super right,right, yep, yep, yeah, um, yeah,
(11:25):
yep, no, those are the enginesto have legendary, right?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Do you think those cars were legendary before?
I mean, I remember going tohigh school and I graduated in
1991, and a friend of mine had aMark II Supra and I just
thought that was the coolest car, I think 2.8 liter, inline 6.
It was so cool, this would havebeen mid-80s.
(11:51):
It was probably 86, 87.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Go ahead, Bob.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I think 87, 88 is when Mark III Super came out, so
it was a little bit before that, if I'm correct, at least over
here.
It's a little bit different.
And of course, some cars youwere telling us before the show
some cars stop being importedinto the US or stop being made
in the US, but they live outlonger years overseas, for
(12:25):
instance, like the RX-7, right,fd RX-7, which is also famous
from Fast and the Furious.
Yes, it is, yeah, sure, theRX-7, which is also famous from
Fast and the Furious.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, sure, and we're going to have to pull in and
talk about his website, themdkjapancom.
What do you remember about that, your buddy Supra from high
school, doug?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So it was Mike Supra, I just remember he got it used.
Yeah, I'm back, no problem.
It's funny.
I think he was a smoker backthen.
But it was just such a cool car.
It had a sunroof, it had pop-upheadlights, it was rear-wheel
(13:11):
drive, it was a stick shift itwas just such a cool car and I
think we saw something similarwhen I was visiting you a few
years ago that red Supra.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Come to find out.
My middle son fell in with theowner of that car, a young man
who has it, and he let my middleson.
Yeah, he drove it right hedrove it and I said, son, that,
that that is a really specialpiece of history, the time
capsule that you're driving, andhe'd never been behind the
(13:45):
wheel of anything like that.
So a real treat.
Go ahead, muhammad.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I think you were going to say something yeah, I
think in my intro I just uh leftone thing that uh, I mean
people might think that I'mstill sitting in, maybe, uh, in
japan, but I am in usa, I'm invirginia and I came here in july
2022 and when I came here I wasalso went in depression that
what I will do in americabecause I, my skill set is not
(14:10):
as per the american market andthe cars I see on the roads,
they all are left-hand drive.
So then I search and somepeople I just searched the JDM
cars and I saw some JDM dealers.
They are doing business in allover America, every state.
I find two, three people, two,three dealers.
So someone told me that thereis a JDM car policy here that
(14:32):
you can import 25 years old carin USA, usa.
So I contacted my old company Istill have very good contacts
with them because I ended on avery good notes and they said
okay, we can ship you over onecar and let's see how it goes.
And I, I, I brought first ourfirst r32, white with a big rear
(14:55):
spoiler, and when it arrived onthe baltimore port, I started.
I just posted it on thefacebook marketplace and in in
just I mean some hours.
I got a client from tampa,florida, and the guy said I need
this car, don't sell it toanyone, and I said okay, no
problem.
So I just gave him the prizeand he said okay, okay, and he
(15:18):
was very happy with that car,you know.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, so that's a good point.
And boy, you said something init and several thoughts kind of
hit me at once.
So you bring.
The nasty state of things isfor you to bring cars into Port
of Baltimore, huge port.
But for the right customer thatgets a hold of you and sees a
car on your site can I give outyour site at this point,
(15:42):
mdkjapancom you can have itshipped directly to them.
They don't have to wait for itto clear customs in Baltimore
and then make it to Port Arthur,texas.
That's not the way.
So could you talk a little bitabout that process and how you
make that market?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yes.
So since after that first car Ihave imported over 60 cars.
So now I'm experienced how tobring the car, how to find a
broker, how to clear the car,how to pay the custom duties and
how to arrange a transportationguy who can bring your car from
the port to your home.
So now from japan we we havetwo shipment styles.
(16:20):
One is the container shipmentand one is the rollo shipment.
Rollo means roll on, roll off.
Your car goes like a parking,like when you go to the any
parking plaza.
So your car, your car goes inthat vessel like in in that ship
.
It parks, and then it comes tothe America, so it comes a
stretch less car.
(16:41):
So you have, I can ship thecars to the California, I can
ship to Texas, I can ship toSavannah, georgia, I can ship to
Jacksonville, florida, and Ican ship it to the Baltimore and
then we have a port in New York.
So all the ports I can bringthe cars.
And then, if a customer needsthe help, I have very good,
(17:07):
reliable people here who canclear their cars, and I mean
then I have team here who cantransport their car to their
driveway.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, and that's a good point.
I remember when Doug bought hisDeLorean a few years ago I
think, he went to Chicago andchecked it out and all this good
stuff and then came back andthen he had it shipped and I
thought, oh, this is going totake forever and it was at his
house very quickly and, justlike you said, roll on, roll off
(17:38):
, which was a beautiful thing.
But, oh and Doug, I wanted tomention that this site, you can
peruse the available stock here,but you can actually get in
touch with Mohammed directly onFacebook and we'll probably
we'll put all of this in theshow notes, right, so that our
(17:58):
so that our viewership,listenership, knows how to get
ahold of him.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, lovely, yeah, yeah.
So I I did want to ask Muhammad, and I think I know the story.
By the way, muhammad, I own a1990 Nissan 300ZX or not,
non-fair lady z, but that was mydream car in high school that I
got 30 years or some odd later.
Um, but uh, how, uh, how is itfor customers finding parts for
(18:29):
these cars?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
okay.
So if you can search in googlejdm parts dealer in in your
state, you will find some somepeople, but suppose if you don't
have, then I I can offer thisservices to anyone who who wants
to find any parts in japan.
I have a team in japan, sonormally, if, uh, I can find
(18:52):
that part and I can, uh, I canship it to you.
So that's not a problem, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
And just just because , um, because it's Nissan,
toyota and many of these carswere imported here anyway, but
they were left-hand drive, ofcourse.
There a lot of the parts areinterchangeable, correct.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, so there there's a good source of parts
for engines and those types ofthings, certainly things that
are unique to left-hand drive,right-hand drive that they're
going to have to go to you orfind another source To bring
from Japan yeah.
Yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Normally the cars which I import I go with the 4
and 4.5 good cars because Idon't have any mechanical team
here in USA.
I mean I don't bring accidentalcars or any mechanical issue,
engine check, light car so thatmy mechanic team can do it and
then I place it for sale.
Normally I bring very cleancars.
(19:49):
So for till now I knowcustomers has ever contacted me
for any parts yet.
But but still suppose ifsomeone will contact me or
anyone they need any part, I cansource it from Japan.
That's not a problem.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Okay, gotcha Good to know.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And if you, oh, I just had to ask about and Doug
is, we're in some mind meldtoday, Doug, because you're
saying a question that's on thetip of my tongue, the opposite
is happening.
But, Mohammed, I got to knowwhat is your dream car okay.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
So when I came here and I when I imported the
skylines, then my car eventuallybecame the r34, uh, skyline.
It has the rb26 dett engine,which nissan says one of the
best engine they have everproduced.
Yeah, uh, because of theirreliability.
(20:44):
I mean, it's a man, it's, it'sa manly car like you can uh, you
can as for your own style andeverything.
Because of their performanceand tuning.
You can do the tuning as peryou.
So that is why I mean, wheneverI bring any car, I just do the
test drive of all the skylinesrb20, I mean r32, r33 and now
(21:05):
I'll be importing r34.
So, so, whenever I take a testdrive, you know I fall in love
with the Skyline.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Talking to you is like talking to an automotive
Wikipedia.
It is so beautiful, all thedetails you know and your
enthusiasm.
It's fantastic.
But I got to ask you what's itlike driving that Skyline?
What's it like?
What's it like driving thatSkyline?
What's it like?
What's it like sitting in there?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I mean it's you know you can say that it's not that
much automatic, so it's a personwho knows how to drive a manual
shift.
It's a manly car, like when youyour road grip, and I mean, if
you can manage it, if you cancontrol it, that's, that's the
fastest.
(21:50):
I mean I mean engine and the Imean everything like I.
I mean I'm unable to explainthe beauty of Skyline, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Interesting, got it, got it, oh yeah so.
So, oh, the uh, cars and coffee, so, oh yeah.
So you also have a really neatcar that I've always, uh, I
thought was pretty fantastic theIntegra, a late nineties
Integra.
(22:20):
I had a three, two TL the samevintage.
But talk a little bit aboutthat car, integra, and do you
like to go to cars and coffeeand in in in habit as a
conversation starter?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, I'm a little bit weak in that because, um,
normally I don't go um because Imean a lot of people, they find
me, uh my cars on Facebookmarketplace and then they send
me invitation if I can come.
So I was thinking that I shouldgo, but uh, it's just my
weakness that I've never oh, Isee you just haven't been to one
(22:56):
yet.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh, talk a little bit more about how somebody can
reach you on Facebook.
Of course we'll put that in theshow notes to make it a little
easier, but we were talkingearlier and you said some people
I would.
I would think that one of thebiggest barriers in your line of
work is hey, is Mohammed forreal?
Is he?
For?
When I see him on Facebook, hekind of you know, so forward and
all this knowledge and he seemslike a scammer.
But Mohammed is very real.
(23:17):
This is how he makes his living.
And talk a little bit aboutdealing with people on Facebook
and how you show that you're forreal.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, so, since I'm new, this is again my weakness,
that I've never been able tomake my tiktok or instagram page
.
I'm just, uh, you know, I'mmarketing all my cars on the
facebook marketplace, so and Itry to boost my ads.
Uh, someone told me that youshould go to the b8 b8, bring a
(23:45):
trailer and cars for bid.
There are some other websites.
They offer the live auction ofyour cars, but I mean they ask
for a lot of things, like morethan 200 pictures, then the
title of the car and a lot ofthings.
So I just, rather, I try to postmy cars on the Facebook
(24:06):
marketplace and, trust me,facebook marketplace is one of
the biggest uh, right now thatall my cars, more than 45 cars I
have been able to sell fromfacebook marketplace.
So definitely I do not go toany second source.
Uh, that I should, I should go,but so, um, I mean I just post
it from my personal id, muhammadAzeem.
(24:27):
I mean I will share it withDoug and I mean he can share it
in the caption yeah, yeahabsolutely yeah, go ahead, doug.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
No, yeah, no, just agreeing, and in fact that's how
Muhammad and I found each other.
I saw he had a Honda Beat,although I think I'm more
interested in a Nissan PAL P-A-O, a really neat little car that
you don't see many of them.
I actually have seen a fewHonda Beats in the US, but yeah,
(24:56):
that's how I found them onFacebook Marketplace.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So small world.
That is fantastic, fantastic.
And so, as we ramp down hereand get ready to close the show
and guide the car, guide theshow gently to the off ramp, I
have to ask you, mohamed, onelast question when do you get
your energy?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I get my energy because I have a family, so I
just I see my kids.
It automatically boosts me andI don't need any.
You know the energy drinks todo.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You don't need any of it, man, but I tell you,
talking to you is like drinkingtwo Red Bulls.
You have this energy and thisenthusiasm that I just love, and
I would love to have you backon the show every so often to
hear how your business is going.
But I love your style andenthusiasm.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Let me tell you something very interesting.
Those guys who work in theauction ask them that they
cannot whenever they aresleeping.
They are not sleeping, actually, they are, I mean, they are
just getting up.
So when, in Japan, you have thecars to bid, it's just like
it's just like a habit, it'sjust like a passion.
You have the cars to bid.
It's just like it's just like ahabit, it's just like a passion
(26:10):
you have.
So every day, when you have to,you select some cars and you
have to bid those cars.
I mean that's reallyautomatically.
Energy comes in in you.
And when you actually buy a carin japan, when you have, when
you want more than 197 countriesof the world and more than I
mean a lot of companies,everyone is bidding that car.
(26:30):
And when you buy that car, thatthis gives you, I mean kind of
a what do you say?
Energy, that okay, a rough yeah, like a treasure.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
It's almost like you've won a prize or you found
the treasure.
You, you, you have to compete.
You have, you eat what kill.
You have to compete foreverything you get.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah, yeah.
So I mean, when I came here, sosome of my customers in Guyana,
in Suriname, in South America,they approached me and they said
that we are looking for Tacomafrom USA.
And I approached one of the guyhere who has the dealership, I
said, buy two Tacoma.
And when he bought and thatgives me again that energy.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So it's so funny that , mohamed, now you're reading my
thoughts, I was going to askyou one last question.
So not only do you bring carshere and have them on offer, you
will look for a car for someoneYou'll keep an eye out Somebody
can reach out to you and say,hey, I know this is your line of
work, this is kind of what I'mlooking for.
So, for everyone listening andwatching on YouTube, reach out
(27:33):
to him because he can act asyour broker, he can keep his
eyes out for you and he'll beaware of things and find things
that you never would have foundon your own, because Mohammed
thinks about this 24 hours a day, yeah, maybe 25.
Hours a day, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Maybe 25.
I'm importing as well as I'mexporting cars here from USA.
So I mean, in future I'mplanning to export a lot of
pickup truck to Trinidad, toJamaica, to Guyana, because I
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have a customer base there,because I've been involved in
sales also in these fourcountries, so I have my personal
clientele in those countries.
So, yeah, that's my futureplans.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, I can't wait to see how it unfolds.
I want to welcome you here.
Anything we can ever do for you, let us know.
We're going to spread the word,and Mohamed is so wonderful and
easy to deal with it.
Reach out to him, just shoothim a message.
Hey, introduce yourself and goto that site I'm going to give
it again MDK, marydougkjapancom,mdkjapancom, and you'll see so
(28:40):
many interesting, well-pricedcars.
And then you reach out toMohamed and it's really been
wonderful to meet you.
Thank you for your time.
I had a blast.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Thank you.
Thank you, mohammed Yep, andI'll be in touch with you about
the Nissan PAL.
I haven't forgotten.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Sir, I'm looking in the auction right now and I'm
sending you a personal link andit's an honor for me to talk to
you guys and it's an honor forme.
I mean, I'm very happy that youtook me for your show and you
selected me.
Oh, we're going to have youback.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
This is too much fun, we're going to have you back
and Doug and I would talk to youabout this all night, but we
know you have to go eat dinnerand feed your children and
shovel snow.
I know there are about 11inches of snow right outside
your front door.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Mine too.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, well, anyway, not here in Florida.
You guys can keep all that, butWell, anyway, not here in
Florida.
You guys can keep all that, but, mohamed, thank you again,
thank you for your time, thankyou.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
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But linktree slash carsloved,linktree slash carsloved,
l-i-n-k-t-r dot E-E slashcarsloved, and it's the modern
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equivalent to.
To me it's a switchboard,because you know everybody's
presences.
You're able to see where we areon Instagram, facebook.
You know I'm not having a goodhair day like you.
You must have gotten your haircut or something Looking
fantastic.
I'm having a bad hair day, so Iam wearing this 300Z hat, pretty
(02:32):
stylish 300ZX hat that I stolefrom you last time I was there
because I'm from, you know.
I live in Florida, he lives inMaryland and when I visit it
gets really cold.
I'm forever stealing hisjackets, scarves, hats, gloves,
etc.
And this one just made it.
This is such a hat I'm fond ofand, you know, by the time he
realizes it's missing, I'msitting on the beach in
(02:54):
Pensacola.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I just realized it's missing.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Beautiful, if not sneaky things.
See, exactly there it is.
But on enough banter.
Are we ready to introducetoday's guests or what else do
we have?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We are, but given that you have a Nissan 300ZX hat
Nissan from Japan.
Right, amen, you got it.
I think it's only appropriatethat this episode is going to be
about JDM cars, and with ustoday we have Muhammad Azeem.
Nobody knows JDM cars betterthan this guy.
(03:28):
He is a importer of JDM cars,he spent some time in Japan and
lives in Northern Virginia, andI might be buying my first JDM
car through him.
Maybe, christian, we can talkyou into it.
But for those who've seen Fastand Furious franchise, this guy
knows all the numbers and codesand he's plugged in.
(03:51):
So, without further ado,mohamed, please introduce
yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Thank you for inviting me, doug, and so my
name is as you have, I mean,everyone know my name is
Muhammad Azeem and I was born inKarachi, pakistan, the economic
hub of Pakistan, themetropolitan city, and in 2010,
I got a job in a Japanese usedcar exporting company it was MDK
(04:19):
Japan and they offered me if Ican run their business as a
general manager, so I took overthat company and they offered me
if I can run their business asa general manager, so I took
over that company and then, from2010 till 2022, when I moved to
USA, I was, I mean, runningtheir company and I was buying,
I was bidding, I was sellingcars all over the world in South
(04:41):
America, in Northern America,in Russia, in Europe, in Africa,
so all the mostly all the thirdworld countries who cannot
produce their own cars and theyhave to import cars from Japan
and mostly those car, thosecountries who import right-hand
driving cars.
So I was exporting cars and Iwas, I mean, in my job, dealing
(05:03):
with the shipping companies,cars, and I was, I mean, in my
job, dealing with the shippingcompanies, dealing with the
exporters.
I mean that was my job, so thatI mean I came into this
business of JDM cars and that'smy intro.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's so and I know Doug has some more questions,
but I found it so interestinghow, with the company that
you're running, you found itvery important to find, to have
representatives that spoke thelanguages in the different
company, different countries,that you run.
Could you talk a little bitabout that?
That helps make things easiermaking inroads into those
(05:38):
markets.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah.
So everyone who is listeningand have been to Japan, they
know that when they go to Japanthey find it difficult.
I mean, normally in Tokyo youwill find people who can speak
English, but you won't findpeople they even cannot say no.
If a Japanese has to say no, hewill make this style kind of no
, that means no to them.
(06:00):
So most of the exporters inJapan they find the sales people
in Karachi, pakistan, becausethey can speak a lot of
languages.
You will find a Russian speaker, you'll find a German speaker
and you'll find a Spanishspeaker there.
So they make their call center,they make their sales office
there and then they run theircompanies, they outsource their
(06:20):
companies.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Okay, and I'm sorry, doug, I didn't mean to jump in
here, but Mohammed has thisenthusiasm and energy that's
infectious.
I mean, I was about to take anap before this show, but he's
just got me so revved up.
It's fantastic.
Over to you, doug.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, no worries.
And yeah, mohammed, mybrother-in-law is Japanese.
Yeah, no worries.
And yeah, mohamed, mybrother-in-law is Japanese.
So he and I were.
I'm sure you understand thephenomenon of living there.
He's actually lived in the USlonger than he lived in Japan.
But I'm like, why are Japanesecars in such good shape, like
these cars?
Like Americans just beat thecrap out of cars, it just
(07:02):
happens, he said.
He just said the Japanese justtake really good care of their
cars.
They treasure them like a house, like furniture.
Is that your feeling as well?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yes, that's my feeling as well In the schools,
in the Japanese schools, whenthe kids arrive at the school,
the first 30 or 20 minutes isthat they know do the broom and
they just clean the school bythemselves.
Even I've seen the bankmanagers in the japan that they,
when they came and they justclean everything.
Uh, because when I was in in myoffice there was no concept of
(07:38):
an office boy in japan.
So that is why they it is their, it is their habit that they
keep their cars very clean.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But, the only thing is that you will find in the
Japanese car is the cigaretteburn because they smoke Gotcha,
gotcha.
That's one downside, but that'sthe only one.
So, speaking of Japanese carsand it seems like you've owned
quite a few of them your veryfirst car was a 2016 Toyota Vitz
manual.
If you would tell our listenershow you got the car I know in
(08:13):
America it's called somethingelse and you know all the
internal codes but tell us howyou acquired the car, how long
you had it, any great storiesabout?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
it.
Yeah, so because when I startedwith that company, that company
was not even under 10, like notin the top 10.
So we started the sales andgradually we took it to the top
10.
So the company's owner, mr AwanArshad, he gifted me my first
car.
Oh wonderful.
I sent it from Japan and I justreceived it at the Karachi port
(08:44):
I cleared it and that was myfirst Yaris.
So for the listeners, they knowthat in Northern America it's a
Yaris and there in Japan it'sWits.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Okay, wonderful, and you had that car for a while.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, and then I sold it and then they sent another
yaris.
Uh sorry, honda insight, whichwas hybrid and honda inside is,
by the way, in america also withthe name same on the inside.
Yeah, that was my second.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It's a very sportish look, yeah yeah, yeah, it's kind
of a sporty civic yeah, inamerica, right yeah yeah,
exactly.
And uh, I didn't ask what colorwas the Vitz and what color was
the Insight.
Okay, both they were silver.
Silver, my favorite color.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
True, true story.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
True story so yeah here's a guy his company car is
a company car, literally right,and then I think the car I think
our listeners are going to bereally excited about is a car
that you probably importedyourself, I think into the
United States.
Maybe it's your daily driver.
(10:00):
Can you tell us about it?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's not my daily driver, but I just keep it for
sometimes, maybe weekends, orthe car shows.
It's a Tegra, it's a non-type R, but it is manual shift, but
it's a D2 engine, one of thegreatest engine Honda has ever
produced.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And that's a DC2, you said, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay, gotcha, yeah, and what's a?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
DC two.
You said right, yeah, okay,Gotcha, yeah.
And what?
What makes it the greatestengine I I'll take?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I was just I was just about to ask the same words
coming out of my mouth.
Sorry, go ahead, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Because of the reliability, because of the
performance that makes thegreatest engine, you know.
But if you talk about indetails, about the jdm engines
mostly americans since ouraudience is mostly americans
they are listening.
They just love one jz gteengine.
It comes in three cars mark two, crown uh, chaser and some
(11:02):
other car it comes.
So this is normally the guythey do the drifting, the guy
they do the racing.
They normally like that engine.
Toyota.
As per toyota, they say, isthat they have ever produced two
greatest engine.
One of them is one jz gt andthe second one is two jz gt
which comes in the super right,right, yep, yep, yeah, um, yeah,
(11:25):
yep, no, those are the enginesto have legendary, right?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Do you think those cars were legendary before?
I mean, I remember going tohigh school and I graduated in
1991, and a friend of mine had aMark II Supra and I just
thought that was the coolest car, I think 2.8 liter, inline 6.
It was so cool, this would havebeen mid-80s.
(11:51):
It was probably 86, 87.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Go ahead, Bob.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I think 87, 88 is when Mark III Super came out, so
it was a little bit before that, if I'm correct, at least over
here.
It's a little bit different.
And of course, some cars youwere telling us before the show
some cars stop being importedinto the US or stop being made
in the US, but they live outlonger years overseas, for
(12:25):
instance, like the RX-7, right,fd RX-7, which is also famous
from Fast and the Furious.
Yes, it is, yeah, sure, theRX-7, which is also famous from
Fast and the Furious.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, sure, and we're going to have to pull in and
talk about his website, themdkjapancom.
What do you remember about that, your buddy Supra from high
school, doug?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So it was Mike Supra, I just remember he got it used.
Yeah, I'm back, no problem.
It's funny.
I think he was a smoker backthen.
But it was just such a cool car.
It had a sunroof, it had pop-upheadlights, it was rear-wheel
(13:11):
drive, it was a stick shift itwas just such a cool car and I
think we saw something similarwhen I was visiting you a few
years ago that red Supra.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Come to find out.
My middle son fell in with theowner of that car, a young man
who has it, and he let my middleson.
Yeah, he drove it right hedrove it and I said, son, that,
that that is a really specialpiece of history, the time
capsule that you're driving, andhe'd never been behind the
(13:45):
wheel of anything like that.
So a real treat.
Go ahead, muhammad.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I think you were going to say something yeah, I
think in my intro I just uh leftone thing that uh, I mean
people might think that I'mstill sitting in, maybe, uh, in
japan, but I am in usa, I'm invirginia and I came here in july
2022 and when I came here I wasalso went in depression that
what I will do in americabecause I, my skill set is not
(14:10):
as per the american market andthe cars I see on the roads,
they all are left-hand drive.
So then I search and somepeople I just searched the JDM
cars and I saw some JDM dealers.
They are doing business in allover America, every state.
I find two, three people, two,three dealers.
So someone told me that thereis a JDM car policy here that
(14:32):
you can import 25 years old carin USA, usa.
So I contacted my old company Istill have very good contacts
with them because I ended on avery good notes and they said
okay, we can ship you over onecar and let's see how it goes.
And I, I, I brought first ourfirst r32, white with a big rear
(14:55):
spoiler, and when it arrived onthe baltimore port, I started.
I just posted it on thefacebook marketplace and in in
just I mean some hours.
I got a client from tampa,florida, and the guy said I need
this car, don't sell it toanyone, and I said okay, no
problem.
So I just gave him the prizeand he said okay, okay, and he
(15:18):
was very happy with that car,you know.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, so that's a good point.
And boy, you said something init and several thoughts kind of
hit me at once.
So you bring.
The nasty state of things isfor you to bring cars into Port
of Baltimore, huge port.
But for the right customer thatgets a hold of you and sees a
car on your site can I give outyour site at this point,
(15:42):
mdkjapancom you can have itshipped directly to them.
They don't have to wait for itto clear customs in Baltimore
and then make it to Port Arthur,texas.
That's not the way.
So could you talk a little bitabout that process and how you
make that market?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yes.
So since after that first car Ihave imported over 60 cars.
So now I'm experienced how tobring the car, how to find a
broker, how to clear the car,how to pay the custom duties and
how to arrange a transportationguy who can bring your car from
the port to your home.
So now from japan we we havetwo shipment styles.
(16:20):
One is the container shipmentand one is the rollo shipment.
Rollo means roll on, roll off.
Your car goes like a parking,like when you go to the any
parking plaza.
So your car, your car goes inthat vessel like in in that ship
.
It parks, and then it comes tothe America, so it comes a
stretch less car.
(16:41):
So you have, I can ship thecars to the California, I can
ship to Texas, I can ship toSavannah, georgia, I can ship to
Jacksonville, florida, and Ican ship it to the Baltimore and
then we have a port in New York.
So all the ports I can bringthe cars.
And then, if a customer needsthe help, I have very good,
(17:07):
reliable people here who canclear their cars, and I mean
then I have team here who cantransport their car to their
driveway.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, and that's a good point.
I remember when Doug bought hisDeLorean a few years ago I
think, he went to Chicago andchecked it out and all this good
stuff and then came back andthen he had it shipped and I
thought, oh, this is going totake forever and it was at his
house very quickly and, justlike you said, roll on, roll off
(17:38):
, which was a beautiful thing.
But, oh and Doug, I wanted tomention that this site, you can
peruse the available stock here,but you can actually get in
touch with Mohammed directly onFacebook and we'll probably
we'll put all of this in theshow notes, right, so that our
(17:58):
so that our viewership,listenership, knows how to get
ahold of him.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, lovely, yeah, yeah.
So I I did want to ask Muhammad, and I think I know the story.
By the way, muhammad, I own a1990 Nissan 300ZX or not,
non-fair lady z, but that was mydream car in high school that I
got 30 years or some odd later.
Um, but uh, how, uh, how is itfor customers finding parts for
(18:29):
these cars?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
okay.
So if you can search in googlejdm parts dealer in in your
state, you will find some somepeople, but suppose if you don't
have, then I I can offer thisservices to anyone who who wants
to find any parts in japan.
I have a team in japan, sonormally, if, uh, I can find
(18:52):
that part and I can, uh, I canship it to you.
So that's not a problem, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
And just just because , um, because it's Nissan,
toyota and many of these carswere imported here anyway, but
they were left-hand drive, ofcourse.
There a lot of the parts areinterchangeable, correct.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, so there there's a good source of parts
for engines and those types ofthings, certainly things that
are unique to left-hand drive,right-hand drive that they're
going to have to go to you orfind another source To bring
from Japan yeah.
Yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Normally the cars which I import I go with the 4
and 4.5 good cars because Idon't have any mechanical team
here in USA.
I mean I don't bring accidentalcars or any mechanical issue,
engine check, light car so thatmy mechanic team can do it and
then I place it for sale.
Normally I bring very cleancars.
(19:49):
So for till now I knowcustomers has ever contacted me
for any parts yet.
But but still suppose ifsomeone will contact me or
anyone they need any part, I cansource it from Japan.
That's not a problem.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Okay, gotcha Good to know.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And if you, oh, I just had to ask about and Doug
is, we're in some mind meldtoday, Doug, because you're
saying a question that's on thetip of my tongue, the opposite
is happening.
But, Mohammed, I got to knowwhat is your dream car okay.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
So when I came here and I when I imported the
skylines, then my car eventuallybecame the r34, uh, skyline.
It has the rb26 dett engine,which nissan says one of the
best engine they have everproduced.
Yeah, uh, because of theirreliability.
(20:44):
I mean, it's a man, it's, it'sa manly car like you can uh, you
can as for your own style andeverything.
Because of their performanceand tuning.
You can do the tuning as peryou.
So that is why I mean, wheneverI bring any car, I just do the
test drive of all the skylinesrb20, I mean r32, r33 and now
(21:05):
I'll be importing r34.
So, so, whenever I take a testdrive, you know I fall in love
with the Skyline.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Talking to you is like talking to an automotive
Wikipedia.
It is so beautiful, all thedetails you know and your
enthusiasm.
It's fantastic.
But I got to ask you what's itlike driving that Skyline?
What's it like?
What's it like driving thatSkyline?
What's it like?
What's it like sitting in there?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I mean it's you know you can say that it's not that
much automatic, so it's a personwho knows how to drive a manual
shift.
It's a manly car, like when youyour road grip, and I mean, if
you can manage it, if you cancontrol it, that's, that's the
fastest.
(21:50):
I mean I mean engine and the Imean everything like I.
I mean I'm unable to explainthe beauty of Skyline, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Interesting, got it, got it, oh yeah so.
So, oh, the uh, cars and coffee, so, oh yeah.
So you also have a really neatcar that I've always, uh, I
thought was pretty fantastic theIntegra, a late nineties
Integra.
(22:20):
I had a three, two TL the samevintage.
But talk a little bit aboutthat car, integra, and do you
like to go to cars and coffeeand in in in habit as a
conversation starter?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, I'm a little bit weak in that because, um,
normally I don't go um because Imean a lot of people, they find
me, uh my cars on Facebookmarketplace and then they send
me invitation if I can come.
So I was thinking that I shouldgo, but uh, it's just my
weakness that I've never oh, Isee you just haven't been to one
(22:56):
yet.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh, talk a little bit more about how somebody can
reach you on Facebook.
Of course we'll put that in theshow notes to make it a little
easier, but we were talkingearlier and you said some people
I would.
I would think that one of thebiggest barriers in your line of
work is hey, is Mohammed forreal?
Is he?
For?
When I see him on Facebook, hekind of you know, so forward and
all this knowledge and he seemslike a scammer.
But Mohammed is very real.
(23:17):
This is how he makes his living.
And talk a little bit aboutdealing with people on Facebook
and how you show that you're forreal.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, so, since I'm new, this is again my weakness,
that I've never been able tomake my tiktok or instagram page
.
I'm just, uh, you know, I'mmarketing all my cars on the
facebook marketplace, so and Itry to boost my ads.
Uh, someone told me that youshould go to the b8 b8, bring a
(23:45):
trailer and cars for bid.
There are some other websites.
They offer the live auction ofyour cars, but I mean they ask
for a lot of things, like morethan 200 pictures, then the
title of the car and a lot ofthings.
So I just, rather, I try to postmy cars on the Facebook
(24:06):
marketplace and, trust me,facebook marketplace is one of
the biggest uh, right now thatall my cars, more than 45 cars I
have been able to sell fromfacebook marketplace.
So definitely I do not go toany second source.
Uh, that I should, I should go,but so, um, I mean I just post
it from my personal id, muhammadAzeem.
(24:27):
I mean I will share it withDoug and I mean he can share it
in the caption yeah, yeahabsolutely yeah, go ahead, doug.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
No, yeah, no, just agreeing, and in fact that's how
Muhammad and I found each other.
I saw he had a Honda Beat,although I think I'm more
interested in a Nissan PAL P-A-O, a really neat little car that
you don't see many of them.
I actually have seen a fewHonda Beats in the US, but yeah,
(24:56):
that's how I found them onFacebook Marketplace.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So small world.
That is fantastic, fantastic.
And so, as we ramp down hereand get ready to close the show
and guide the car, guide theshow gently to the off ramp, I
have to ask you, mohamed, onelast question when do you get
your energy?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I get my energy because I have a family, so I
just I see my kids.
It automatically boosts me andI don't need any.
You know the energy drinks todo.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You don't need any of it, man, but I tell you,
talking to you is like drinkingtwo Red Bulls.
You have this energy and thisenthusiasm that I just love, and
I would love to have you backon the show every so often to
hear how your business is going.
But I love your style andenthusiasm.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Let me tell you something very interesting.
Those guys who work in theauction ask them that they
cannot whenever they aresleeping.
They are not sleeping, actually, they are, I mean, they are
just getting up.
So when, in Japan, you have thecars to bid, it's just like
it's just like a habit, it'sjust like a passion.
You have the cars to bid.
It's just like it's just like ahabit, it's just like a passion
(26:10):
you have.
So every day, when you have to,you select some cars and you
have to bid those cars.
I mean that's reallyautomatically.
Energy comes in in you.
And when you actually buy a carin japan, when you have, when
you want more than 197 countriesof the world and more than I
mean a lot of companies,everyone is bidding that car.
(26:30):
And when you buy that car, thatthis gives you, I mean kind of
a what do you say?
Energy, that okay, a rough yeah, like a treasure.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
It's almost like you've won a prize or you found
the treasure.
You, you, you have to compete.
You have, you eat what kill.
You have to compete foreverything you get.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah, yeah.
So I mean, when I came here, sosome of my customers in Guyana,
in Suriname, in South America,they approached me and they said
that we are looking for Tacomafrom USA.
And I approached one of the guyhere who has the dealership, I
said, buy two Tacoma.
And when he bought and thatgives me again that energy.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So it's so funny that , mohamed, now you're reading my
thoughts, I was going to askyou one last question.
So not only do you bring carshere and have them on offer, you
will look for a car for someoneYou'll keep an eye out Somebody
can reach out to you and say,hey, I know this is your line of
work, this is kind of what I'mlooking for.
So, for everyone listening andwatching on YouTube, reach out
(27:33):
to him because he can act asyour broker, he can keep his
eyes out for you and he'll beaware of things and find things
that you never would have foundon your own, because Mohammed
thinks about this 24 hours a day, yeah, maybe 25.
Hours a day, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Maybe 25.
I'm importing as well as I'mexporting cars here from USA.
So I mean, in future I'mplanning to export a lot of
pickup truck to Trinidad, toJamaica, to Guyana, because I
(28:07):
have a customer base there,because I've been involved in
sales also in these fourcountries, so I have my personal
clientele in those countries.
So, yeah, that's my futureplans.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, I can't wait to see how it unfolds.
I want to welcome you here.
Anything we can ever do for you, let us know.
We're going to spread the word,and Mohamed is so wonderful and
easy to deal with it.
Reach out to him, just shoothim a message.
Hey, introduce yourself and goto that site I'm going to give
it again MDK, marydougkjapancom,mdkjapancom, and you'll see so
(28:40):
many interesting, well-pricedcars.
And then you reach out toMohamed and it's really been
wonderful to meet you.
Thank you for your time.
I had a blast.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Thank you.
Thank you, mohammed Yep, andI'll be in touch with you about
the Nissan PAL.
I haven't forgotten.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Sir, I'm looking in the auction right now and I'm
sending you a personal link andit's an honor for me to talk to
you guys and it's an honor forme.
I mean, I'm very happy that youtook me for your show and you
selected me.
Oh, we're going to have youback.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
This is too much fun, we're going to have you back
and Doug and I would talk to youabout this all night, but we
know you have to go eat dinnerand feed your children and
shovel snow.
I know there are about 11inches of snow right outside
your front door.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Mine too.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, well, anyway, not here in Florida.
You guys can keep all that, butWell, anyway, not here in
Florida.
You guys can keep all that, but, mohamed, thank you again,
thank you for your time, thankyou.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
You have just heard to all the cars I've loved
before your authoritativepodcast on automotive nostalgia
the high revving, low mileage,late model hurt around the world
.
That's true Around the world.
Welcome Philippines.
Authoritative podcast onautomotive nostalgia.
He's Doug.
Reach him at Doug atCarsLovecom.
I am Christian.
(29:56):
Reach me at Christian atCarsLovecom.
And he was Mohammed.
So please follow and tell afriend, write a review.
Check out our digitalswitchboard Linktree, our
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You'll find all of our onlinepresences and, uh, hey,
definitely feel free to reachout.
We will see you at the nextlocal car show, showroom, race
trip or concourse.
Thank you for listening.
Keep the rubber side down andwe'll see you next time.
(30:18):
Thank you, listener land.
Happy new year.
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