Ron Ananian knows his craft and for over 25 years, motorists have received quality, honest work with a smile at Ron’s repair facility, R\A Automotive. ''We fix everything but a broken heart,'' says Ron. Based in Waldwick, New Jersey, this family-owned professional service business has been named the best in the country by CARQUEST Corporation and the New Jersey Automotive Mechanical Shop of the Year. Growing up, Ron learned some valuable lessons from his father, a mechanic who serviced President Franklin Roosevelt’s DC-3 aircraft during World War II. He got the repair bug helping his father tune up the family car in time for an annual vacation. ''He taught me to respect tools and machines. My dad, who worked as the lead mechanic for American Airlines at LaGuardia Airport, would say, ‘There is a place for everything and everything in its place. Think your way through the problem, use your head, be precise, select the right tool for the job and you’ll find your way'', explains Ron, who got hands-on experience as a teenager taking apart and repairing anything mechanical from lawnmowers, motorcycles, and cars to even a washing machine.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from do wor Back now to
the DOBR Saturday Morning Show with Larry MINTI. Welcome back. Now.
When you think of classic cars, you probably think of
fifties fins or seventies muscle. Now you can add Caddies
and El Dorado's from the eighties to that list. The
(00:21):
car Doctor, Ron and Naney. It is here to explain. Hey, Ron,
hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We did. Larry, the same to you.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
When people think about classic cars, they think about like
the cars they saw in the movie Dazed and Confused.
They're from the fifties, sixties, the muscle cars from the.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Seventies, America graffiti.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, exactly why are the eighties models now involved?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, you know they've officially become classics. They've aged into it.
They're like you and me, Larry, they're old.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Hey, speak to yourself.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Cars from the eighties or thirty five to forty years
old now, right, and we all have memories.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Natalie, although I don't just hope for Natalie Saturn. We
were talking before the interview today. You know she wants
to know if her Saturn is ever going to become
a classic.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It was in nineteen ninety two red and silver two
tone Coop. It was adorable.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, I'm sure. Are you looking to sell it?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
What was that all about it? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It's way gone. I was wondering if I held on
to it, it wouldn't have been worth any money one day.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
That wouldn't have been running by now. You knows.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I got out of that car, by the way.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Like, do you know, for example, what's a really hot car,
probably the number one hot car from the eighties, Larry,
that people are looking for to buy? No, no, what
do you remember the eighty one aries K car? No,
Leiah Coca. If you can find a better car, buy it.
When Chrysler was making their big comeback when they went
bankrupt in the late seventies, and Leiah Coca used to say,
(01:47):
the aries K car was a great car. That car
is so hot right now you can't find.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Any Well, why is that because it was less production
of it?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Or well it's forty years ago and they all rusted away,
and now all of a sudden we want them. We didn't,
you know, we didn't. We didn't think any of this
stuff was going to be valuable. I've gotten called. I
got a call last week on the show, somebody wants
to go buy an eighty one Cadillac Fleetwood Brome with
the forty one hundred the HT forty one hundred engine.
Nobody remembers this, but that was the engine that General
(02:15):
Motors suffered so much abuse from because if the engine
lasted thirty thousand miles, it was extraordinary. The engines just
did not last. And you know, his case is concern
was what I do if the engine fails. And here's
the beauty of an eighties car. The engine baser so big.
You can slide a modern day powertrain into that if
the engine failed and have the look of the eighties
(02:38):
with the reliability of a present day automobile.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
This isn't that crazy hold on the look of the eighties,
that is I mean, it's not like the cars in
the fifties that are so wild to look at, Andy,
they're beautiful and they're elegant. I don't know, the eighties
kind of were boxy and wus you.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Grow into these things. I mean, were they really that
beautiful back then? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Think about how big those cars were, think about think
about how sexy a two door El Dorado convertible nineteen
eighty two was wire wheels. I can see. I can
see the one my mother in law had, yellow with
the brown boot, black top. You go driving around. It
was just it was just a gorgeous, sexy car. And
those cars are making a comeback, they really are.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
In the seventies, my dad bought one of those Cadillac Fleetwoods.
It was red convertible and at the time it was
the longest car ever made.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yep, you couldn't get it into a garage king difficult. Well,
the last three feet would stick out of the garage.
I know people that owned them because right, yeah it
was and you'd cover it with a raincoat because you
didn't know what to do and you don't want your
car to get wet, and you were just goofy about it.
But these cars are making a comeback. El Dorado's, Riviera's
(03:54):
Lincoln town Car. Who didn't rent a Lincoln Town Car
to go on vacation in the eighties, right, big four
door tank, the Mustang, the Fox body Mustangs, iraq Z Camaros.
Ringing any bells for those kids that were in high
school in the eighties, early Toyota Supers and the aries
K car, the number one classic you know, car and demand,
and the reason is they're still affordable.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well, why yeah, let's talk about that. What are the
prices as compared to some of the other classic cars.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, you know, a nineteen seventy Chevell Big Block, anywhere
from seventy five to hundred thousand dollars to oh my god,
the guy was going to buy this eighty one Cadillac
with the forty one hundred engine forty nine hundred bucks.
You know, how can you go wrong? If the body's
in good shape and the rest of the drive train
is there and the engine fails, stick another engine in it.
(04:44):
You've got a car for under fifteen grand. It's a classic,
It looks cool and you can kind of hang out.
They're taking them to car shows, Larry. That's the sign
that they're being accepted.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Have you seen this yourself? That demand for these What
are people coming to you and asking for where they
can go together?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
They want to know can I still work on them?
Can I get parts? And that's the other thing. It's easier.
There's still a lot of parts out there for eighties cars,
certain models, there's still a lot of parts available. Because
that's a problem with a collectible. Look, somebody wants to
restore a fifty five Chevrolet. Okay, you can buy a
fifty five Chevrolet brand new. There are companies out there
(05:23):
reproducing it from the frame on up.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But an eighty one Cadillac. Yeah, not so much because
the demand isn't there yet. But there's still a lot
of OE original parts from GM in warehouses and back
alleys and basements that people never used. So it's still
relatively affordable and still relatively easy to get parts for
cars that aren't so easy to find. Part.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Now, you're saying all that as if they're not going
to be affordable soon. So you see the price on
these going up?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, I do. An Once something hits a collectible, it's
kind of like the housing boom in New Jersey. As
soon as everybody wants one, nobody can get it, you know.
It's it's it's all tied to that, Larry.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So you're looking at early demand. You're like reading a
stock market. You're looking at early demand on these things
and realizing that they're a great investment right now.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, I think so. Well, I don't know if a
car is an investment per se. If I do it
over the stock market. But yeah, there are a couple
of cars I take a gamble on. I think everybody's
gonna want. I think everybody's gonna want an eighty eight
Lincoln town Car. Listen, I purchased an O two Ford
Thunderbird little ahead, right, Yeah, I purchased an O two
(06:33):
Ford Thunderbird two years ago. Now paid a couple of
grand for it. The car goes up in value every day.
It's going to be the next classic. If it isn't already.
There are just some cars out there that catch you
ride it. You know we're going to go in the
right direction.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I love the idea of investing in cars because you
can drive around on it, keep it nice, and then
you can resell it. And if you get something that's
going to be a classic, I mean, what how much
could they go up in value?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You can see some cars go anywhere from six to
eight percent. You can see some cars double I purchased
a seventy two Monkey Carlo in twenty sixteen. I'll tell
you right here, I paid eight grand for the car.
That car today is selling all day long for between
twenty six and thirty grand.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Man, that's great advice. Ronananian. We'll be back with us
in two weeks at nine thirty five with more investment helps.
It's investing with Ronananian. Thanks all right, Thanks Ron. This
has been a podcast from Wi
This is a podcast from do wor Back now to
the DOBR Saturday Morning Show with Larry MINTI. Welcome back. Now.
When you think of classic cars, you probably think of
fifties fins or seventies muscle. Now you can add Caddies
and El Dorado's from the eighties to that list. The
(00:21):
car Doctor, Ron and Naney. It is here to explain. Hey, Ron,
hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We did. Larry, the same to you.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
When people think about classic cars, they think about like
the cars they saw in the movie Dazed and Confused.
They're from the fifties, sixties, the muscle cars from the.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Seventies, America graffiti.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, exactly why are the eighties models now involved?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, you know they've officially become classics. They've aged into it.
They're like you and me, Larry, they're old.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Hey, speak to yourself.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Cars from the eighties or thirty five to forty years
old now, right, and we all have memories.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Natalie, although I don't just hope for Natalie Saturn. We
were talking before the interview today. You know she wants
to know if her Saturn is ever going to become
a classic.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It was in nineteen ninety two red and silver two
tone Coop. It was adorable.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, I'm sure. Are you looking to sell it?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
What was that all about it? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It's way gone. I was wondering if I held on
to it, it wouldn't have been worth any money one day.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
That wouldn't have been running by now. You knows.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I got out of that car, by the way.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Like, do you know, for example, what's a really hot car,
probably the number one hot car from the eighties, Larry,
that people are looking for to buy? No, no, what
do you remember the eighty one aries K car? No,
Leiah Coca. If you can find a better car, buy it.
When Chrysler was making their big comeback when they went
bankrupt in the late seventies, and Leiah Coca used to say,
(01:47):
the aries K car was a great car. That car
is so hot right now you can't find.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Any Well, why is that because it was less production
of it?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Or well it's forty years ago and they all rusted away,
and now all of a sudden we want them. We didn't,
you know, we didn't. We didn't think any of this
stuff was going to be valuable. I've gotten called. I
got a call last week on the show, somebody wants
to go buy an eighty one Cadillac Fleetwood Brome with
the forty one hundred the HT forty one hundred engine.
Nobody remembers this, but that was the engine that General
(02:15):
Motors suffered so much abuse from because if the engine
lasted thirty thousand miles, it was extraordinary. The engines just
did not last. And you know, his case is concern
was what I do if the engine fails. And here's
the beauty of an eighties car. The engine baser so big.
You can slide a modern day powertrain into that if
the engine failed and have the look of the eighties
(02:38):
with the reliability of a present day automobile.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
This isn't that crazy hold on the look of the eighties,
that is I mean, it's not like the cars in
the fifties that are so wild to look at, Andy,
they're beautiful and they're elegant. I don't know, the eighties
kind of were boxy and wus you.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Grow into these things. I mean, were they really that
beautiful back then? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Think about how big those cars were, think about think
about how sexy a two door El Dorado convertible nineteen
eighty two was wire wheels. I can see. I can
see the one my mother in law had, yellow with
the brown boot, black top. You go driving around. It
was just it was just a gorgeous, sexy car. And
those cars are making a comeback, they really are.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
In the seventies, my dad bought one of those Cadillac Fleetwoods.
It was red convertible and at the time it was
the longest car ever made.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yep, you couldn't get it into a garage king difficult. Well,
the last three feet would stick out of the garage.
I know people that owned them because right, yeah it
was and you'd cover it with a raincoat because you
didn't know what to do and you don't want your
car to get wet, and you were just goofy about it.
But these cars are making a comeback. El Dorado's, Riviera's
(03:54):
Lincoln town Car. Who didn't rent a Lincoln Town Car
to go on vacation in the eighties, right, big four
door tank, the Mustang, the Fox body Mustangs, iraq Z Camaros.
Ringing any bells for those kids that were in high
school in the eighties, early Toyota Supers and the aries
K car, the number one classic you know, car and demand,
and the reason is they're still affordable.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well, why yeah, let's talk about that. What are the
prices as compared to some of the other classic cars.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, you know, a nineteen seventy Chevell Big Block, anywhere
from seventy five to hundred thousand dollars to oh my god,
the guy was going to buy this eighty one Cadillac
with the forty one hundred engine forty nine hundred bucks.
You know, how can you go wrong? If the body's
in good shape and the rest of the drive train
is there and the engine fails, stick another engine in it.
(04:44):
You've got a car for under fifteen grand. It's a classic,
It looks cool and you can kind of hang out.
They're taking them to car shows, Larry. That's the sign
that they're being accepted.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Have you seen this yourself? That demand for these What
are people coming to you and asking for where they
can go together?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
They want to know can I still work on them?
Can I get parts? And that's the other thing. It's easier.
There's still a lot of parts out there for eighties cars,
certain models, there's still a lot of parts available. Because
that's a problem with a collectible. Look, somebody wants to
restore a fifty five Chevrolet. Okay, you can buy a
fifty five Chevrolet brand new. There are companies out there
(05:23):
reproducing it from the frame on up.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But an eighty one Cadillac. Yeah, not so much because
the demand isn't there yet. But there's still a lot
of OE original parts from GM in warehouses and back
alleys and basements that people never used. So it's still
relatively affordable and still relatively easy to get parts for
cars that aren't so easy to find. Part.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Now, you're saying all that as if they're not going
to be affordable soon. So you see the price on
these going up?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, I do. An Once something hits a collectible, it's
kind of like the housing boom in New Jersey. As
soon as everybody wants one, nobody can get it, you know.
It's it's it's all tied to that, Larry.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So you're looking at early demand. You're like reading a
stock market. You're looking at early demand on these things
and realizing that they're a great investment right now.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, I think so. Well, I don't know if a
car is an investment per se. If I do it
over the stock market. But yeah, there are a couple
of cars I take a gamble on. I think everybody's
gonna want. I think everybody's gonna want an eighty eight
Lincoln town Car. Listen, I purchased an O two Ford
Thunderbird little ahead, right, Yeah, I purchased an O two
(06:33):
Ford Thunderbird two years ago. Now paid a couple of
grand for it. The car goes up in value every day.
It's going to be the next classic. If it isn't already.
There are just some cars out there that catch you
ride it. You know we're going to go in the
right direction.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I love the idea of investing in cars because you
can drive around on it, keep it nice, and then
you can resell it. And if you get something that's
going to be a classic, I mean, what how much
could they go up in value?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You can see some cars go anywhere from six to
eight percent. You can see some cars double I purchased
a seventy two Monkey Carlo in twenty sixteen. I'll tell
you right here, I paid eight grand for the car.
That car today is selling all day long for between
twenty six and thirty grand.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Man, that's great advice. Ronananian. We'll be back with us
in two weeks at nine thirty five with more investment helps.
It's investing with Ronananian. Thanks all right, Thanks Ron. This
has been a podcast from Wi
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