Car Collections - We talk to the Owners of Rambler Ranch and John Goodenough

Car Collections - We talk to the Owners of Rambler Ranch and John Goodenough

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What a garage. Willie Bee's garage is now open.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
What up?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Welcome to it your Saturday morning kicking it up and
what will be an awesome day? This same sweet's gonna
be a hot one, but fired up man, Welcome to
WILLI Be's garage.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
My man, Mike Pettiford back in the house. What Mike,
hey man, house things man.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yeah, it's good. I wore my honorary z R one shirt. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
He's all happy about the z R one.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
He missed our conversation last time I did we were
on the show, so he's all like, will we gotta
talk about ZR one.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm like, you're a few weeks behind, brofe know, but
we'll get to that. Today.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
We're gonna focus in on the show on car collections.
If you're aware of a cool one, or you ever
seen a cool one, you could call up and.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Let bout it.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
We're gonna kick off here in about fifteen minutes with
this guy named Terry who owns what really is one
of the most unbelievable collections.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
On earth, Like it is, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Pretty effing amazing, to be honest. And I've seen some yeah,
I've seen some collections I've seen Hendrix, the race.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Owner of the NASCAR.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Dude, I've seen his private collections private collection, No, not Leno's,
but Hendrix's dwarfs. Really yeah, it makes Leno's collection look silly. Yeah,
it's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
So yeah, I've seen this private collection, which is, you know,
not open to public. He's got another full collection that's
open to the public, but this is his own collection.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
They're separate.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
If I tried to get in to see it, they
would say security, No.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
You just have to set it up and have some
sort of flex but they might let you in.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Man. So when when you think car collections could be, look,
it could be vast, could be a massive number, or
it could be you know, a few really cool.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Just rare, unique car cars.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Because I hit up my buddy John, who's got just that.
He doesn't have a huge car count, although I think
he's got a number of cars, but the ones he
does have are kind of standouts. They're kind of like, WHOA,
that's an amazing car, and then WHOA, that's an amazing car,
and then what that's an amazing car. If you're you know,

(02:22):
if you're familiar with the car collection, like that feel
pretty calls.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I also was thinking about it.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I reached out to my buddy Louis, and there's this
guy we know, Jim, who's a painter, and he's got
a really insane cool collection of chargers.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
So I got a question. Sure, let's just say hypothetically
that you have a bunch of solstices. Do you have
a car collection?

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I mean, look, Terry, the guy that we're talking to,
he collects.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
The whole reason I came.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Across this guy is because I was making fun of
AMC's one day, and there's a lot of reasons to
make fun of a However, when you get into the car,
if you look at some you know some things. They
did some things very unique and very performance oriented, like
a X Yeah, yeah, it's really They packed that thing

(03:14):
into a Pacer version of that car.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Did you know the Pacer passinger door was.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Longer so they could easier get people in and out
of the back seat easier.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
How clever is that?

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Right?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
You would never know just looking at it, But that's
all by design, you know.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
And they put a big V eight in that and
it was one of the first cars like you know
that year was like a Haven independent rear suspension or
independent from some suspension on it.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, that was crazy.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Surprising, yeah, depend Yeah, it's kind of wacky thing well
out terry, you'll know. But they had all kinds of
like wild things that were unique. And he's also the
world's premiere collection of Nashes and just other wild, wild
and weird cars.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
But it is a it's.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
An unbelieve beievable place, and it is right here in Colorado,
and it's not just here in Colorado, it's like not
that far away, and so many people are n't aware
of it. But I mean it's got an ice cream
parlor of fifties diner buildings the size of football fields,
full of like then number one or three or the

(04:21):
lowest mile Amcason Nashes on the planet.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Well after the show, can we like go over there.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
He's over today. I talked to him Earli day.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, he's got he has all kinds of you know,
everything from it's a museum, right, He's got an unbelievable collection,
and he does all kinds of you know, events and
banquets and parties and you know, just host different clubs
out to see it because it's it's the location and
the drive honest to God, it's so funny. This place

(04:51):
is like four miles from my house. It's out in
like Elbert County. It's off of you know, just this
country road. You'll drive through this what really cool, just
those beautiful forest like setting and then you just turn
on a dirt road that's about a quarter mile. You
hit his driveway and you pull up into these big,
massive pines, these huge ponder roses, and there's just this

(05:12):
ungodly spread. There's a cabin from the eighth late eighteen nineties,
there was the original homestead he's restored. There is about
I think he owns like three hundred or four hundred acres.
About one hundred of it is covered in the biggest
AMC and Nash junkyard on Earth.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
And he's got several football field sized buildings that are
decked out with not just the most unbelievable collection of cars,
but like hand painted billboards from the forties when they
painted it on wood and they painted billboards by hand
and then they would go up in a symbilum. He's
got some of those that never went up as backdrops.

(05:52):
He's got unbelievable memorabilia and one offs he's got the
Nash car that I think it was.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
One of the was it.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Ferrari or Lamborghini one of their builders was was co
signed to do with Nash and they made one off car.
It's like an ungodly looking, beautiful Rose Royce type of
looking car with fenderskirts and really yeah, maybe Lamborghini is
one of them and Nash they did this this car

(06:25):
and he's got the he's got that car.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I mean it's just and he's.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Got mannequins that are all fifties and sixties era correct,
and every car is in a scene. Every backdrop is
full of shells with you know, collectibles and memorabilia, signs
and just posters and it's just unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's an unbelievable collection.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Dude, you should him. I'm down.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's it's really amazing.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's uh, it's one of the things that once you
see you'll just be blown away.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
That is right here in that close. And then also we.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Get done talking with him, hopefully we can get you know,
my buddy John to call in, my buddy Jim to
call in speak about their collections or if you guys
are aware of a cool collection, do you know if
anybody collects, you know, unique in different cars, different type setups.
Do you know anybody that has a cool collection of
Chevelle's or Nova's or first gen Camaros, maybe got a

(07:22):
collection of Mopars or Fords. Even I don't know who
would do that, but some people, some people actually do weird.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
But you know, maybe we'll get Dave.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Dave from especially Auto Auction big on Collections as well,
and they've got an event coming up, so we'll probably
chat with him before it's all over.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
All right, let me get through.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
This break, we'll dive in. Really cool man, this is
something that you guys, it's free to go out and
see this. It's an unbelievable connecting family day event. Like
at the end of this tour you can go into
his ice cream potter. He's got homemade ice cream that's like,
you know, old school like scoop ice cream on waffle cones.

(08:02):
And he's got to pull up gas station with the
bell ding ding ding ding, you know, the pup. It's amazing,
like and this is all just like you know, twenty
thirty minutes away. It's all open to public. He just
doesn't off donations. He's like, hey, if you want to
make a donation, that'd be great. But everything in the
time and what he said about there is you know, yours.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
For the viewing scene. And it's really it's mind blowing.
It is. It's unbly. I try to find a couple
pictures on my phone, but google this.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Google Rambler Ranch, Colorado. Rambler Ranch is where you can
find it, and you'll be blown away that this is
right here, this closed and it's that vast so more
with Terry with Mike Petiphord is will to be the
garage we're back in a minute is one seven nine kvpi.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Willybe's garage. You're back in Willybe's garage.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, some guys with the bees garage fired up today. Man,
awesome Saturday morning. It's funny.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
I just had Terry Collis and he is just getting
ready to fire up. As we literally just about came
out of the air. It's like boom, he called in
and I'm like, what are you doing, Terry. He's like,
I'm getting ready to fire up and open up the ranch,
which is Ramble Ranch. Tell you before the break there
go online google this place and you will be blown away.
And when he says he's opening it, Terry. You mean

(09:25):
opening it and that's quite That's a lot of involved
things for you to do.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Because it's not just a building.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
It's not just like you're turning on one light switch
when you open up the ranch.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
You're doing things.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Oh there's a ton to turn on and tidy up
for everybody. I've been doing this this year for thirty
one years.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Wow, damn, Terry, that.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Is a large collection.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, it is amazing this collection you've mounted, and just
how you've gone above and beyond you know, everybody else
that would ever collect these cars. Let's take a step
back and kind of set this up, because you guys,
it's ramblers.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
When you go online and check it out, it's right
here in our own backyard. It is amazing. It is.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
I've seen some amazing collections, Like I've was telling Mike Petiford,
I've seen Hendrick's person, his own personal the NASCAR dude
I forgot his first name, Hendrick Motorsports. That dude has
not just one of the most amazing collections for the
general public, but his private collection is something you know,
a few few people get to see. I've seen that collection,

(10:26):
and I'm just as much, if not more blown away
by what Terry has right here in her own backyard.
Because it's one thing to collect the same thing that
you see at every car show, like Camaros and Chevelle's
and you know Cadillacs or you know mopars and one
off Hemmys and you know, I don't know why, but
people do collect Ford's so maybe cool boss, badass mock

(10:50):
one Mustangs or whatever.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Look, it's one thing to.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Collect those that you know and you see all the time.
They're in high demand, and you know, there's all these
stories stuff with it because everybody's been interested in it.
But it's another thing to collect cars that are kind
of off the beaten path, cars that are maybe slightly different.
Maybe the production number wasn't near the you know, the

(11:16):
Big three if you will, but yet still crazy rare cars.
Wild to even think about the AMC and the nash As.
You know, these vintage classic cars. But once you see them,
especially laid out of collecttion like you have, you really
have a chance an opportunity to appreciate all these this
evolution of this car company. So tell us how you

(11:37):
first started this endeavor out man.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Well, I got a call from my brother, my father
bought a Nash when I was ten years old at
a dealership he worked at for fifty dollars and for
my father passed away in nineteen seventy seven. A card
been sitting at the farm after it broke down for
eighteen years, and my brother's gone haul it to the
junk and called me and asked me if I wanted it.
So that's what started all this. And I'm discovering that

(12:04):
no one else has really saved the history of this company.
Here's something I can do, but no one else in
the world is done. And so I did have the
largest collection of these things anywhere. I got people from
all over the world visit. Besides Nash and Rambers, I
have sixty one other manufacturers. We have our new Brand
X building that's got right, just a little of everything

(12:25):
in there.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, and I love that building because it's got some
of my my favorite you know, wildest rides. You've got
an unbelievable collection, not just he said, brand exits everything, y'all.
And he's got I'm talking snowmobiles that you wouldn't believe
from Crazy Cool you know Tom gone By eras that
are just nuts to look at. Crazy set up for cars,
like the front he's got this front hinged BMW car,

(12:49):
that little door where the front door is like the
front of the car, and the steer wheels in the Yeah,
that little tunny thing.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
He got one of those. Yeah, yeah, he's got one
of those.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
He's got everything you could imagine, not to mention, like
he said, the most unbelievable collection of Nashes, AMC's, and more.
And there was something else that caught your eye as
a kid, or maybe you found out about Nash that
you started collecting as well, that you have on property
that I think is really amazing too.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Well.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
I'm my goal is to have something from every year
from the beginning to end. I'm eight cars away from
having that. And I also show all the other things
they're involved in, like Kevin Air, appliances, realhorse garden, tractors,
and a journals, so something from all of that. And
then we have a beautiful sixties house as nothing to
do with cars, but it's abstolutely fabulous, and a diner

(13:42):
and two appliance displays. Also, besides Kevenor, I have all
the other car companies that have appliants to have from
all of them. My collection is more about history than
money because people come out here and they relate to
these cars because their grandma drove around. But whatever, everybody
clearly remembers them. Yeah, and Henry's just come out with

(14:04):
their Last Fall with a new museum guide the top
seventy five Museums in Europe and America and Rambler inches
on the cover.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Shut up.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
What was this about the Rambler that resonated with you?
I mean, was it the lines or the ride or what?
What was it? I'm just curious.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
I think they are beautiful and just their history and
how they struggled, and they were innovative. They are the first.
They have air condition under the hood. They had seat
belts in forty nine. They hit first to do the unibody,
and they had a three twenty seven in nineteen fifty seven,
and they did some amazing cars, like the fifty seven
Rebel was the fastest production car of nineteen fifty seven.

(14:47):
They only made fifteen hundred of them. Wow, the carbeted car.
And they just never have been given credit, I think
for what they deserved, for what they contributed.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, they really did.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
And I remember you going over some of the things
that AMC and Nash kind of did first and kind
of you know, were copied by other manufacturers or it
was really interesting to hear some of that history because
I think you're right until you see a collection like yours.
It is difficult because a lot of times their bodies
were so different, their styling was so unique, and oftentimes,

(15:21):
you know, you would pass it by and not even
know it. And a lot of times it wouldn't be
until you know, you pulled up some AMC pacer with
some three oh one or whatever the helling it you know,
roasted you that you realize that that thing was even
fast or you could even handle a Kurby road or whatever.
They would be a big surprise, they think out on
the street, my buddy had an AMX with a three
ninety in it, and that thing was built and that

(15:42):
car was fast, man, it was.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
It was quick.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Fun. Yeah, a couple.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
And some jablins. I've got a little bit of everything.
It really makes me happy when somebody comes through and
makes you something that remembers them. It reminds them of
their childhood and you know, makes them smile and I'm happy. Yeah,
there's something for everybody. I mean a lot of times
the guy comes out and the wife, you know, comes along,
you know, not unless she really wants to. And I

(16:14):
had a guy one time from the club that come
up puss hand on my shoulder and he said, he said,
you usually after dragging my wife to these things. This
is the first time I've had a dragger away.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Really it's he's not lying it because he's got so
much stuff around the cars. It's not just the car collection.
Everything around there is everything that the car is encapsulated with,
the walls, the ceilings, all the memorabilia. He's got a
fifties diner. There's a damn ice cream store up in it.
There's a gift store, like there's really unbelievable. There's there's

(16:45):
a whole sixties apartment, which is just amazing. Me and
my wife are actually we're taking some family photos there
here in a little while. We're like, oh, we're stoked.
He's he really has an amazing layout. And it's not
just cars, cars being the centric focus of it all,
but it's really just a like like Terry mentioned, it's
a little bit of a time capsule. Well, it's largely

(17:06):
a time capsule and a snapshot of history of some
amazing companies, amazing cars, and appliances and really a great
display of a different era that is right here, accessible
in her own backyard, which I think is amazing.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
So not just the car, but the scene that goes
with the car period.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
From surfboards to dressed and the attire and the picnic baskets.
He's he's really done an amazing job. Well, you could
probably explain it. Tell everybody a little bit about the
memorabilia just in and around the cars.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
I've got the national of seven original highway billboards, and
tons of original posters and advertising and portman signs and
a literature we addressed the mannequins and period cru clothing
and around around the cars. We didn't have Miss America

(18:01):
nineteen fifty two. Colin Hutchins was Kiki Vandwick from The
Demon Nuggets. Yeah, his mother, and so we got hold
of him because I have a billboard with her on it,
and we have her dress on display. Wow, the original
dress she wore the night she's crime Miss America on
display on annequin, and we go to a lot of detail.

(18:22):
I have a lot of several want of a prototype
concept car from nineteen fifty five. I've got the only
existing thirty eight Ambassador convertible.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Hey, tell us about the concept car, because that's the
one they did with with who.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
That was Panine Farina Hann built in Italy nineteen fifty five,
you know, the only one I have a done of
course and delivered to Nash personally by Panine thinking himself.
And it's just a gorgeous car.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, that's the car walk Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
And then Nash tow truck. I mean, I've just got
so much pictures. Don't do it justice you're really in person?

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, they really do, and which is amazing because you
can do that. We'll get to that shortly.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
But when you talk about some really unbelievable cars you
mentioned some you mentioned some of the concept cars and
some standoffs. Explain how you find you go and harvest
these these low miles or these you know.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Low production number type vehicles. How how you found them?

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Tell us a couple of stories about where you've located
a number of Oh wow finds, because you really do
have some amazing like small production numbers. We're talking he's
got some of the first VENs, some of the first
like production numbers. Like his collection is unbelievable, not just
the number of cars, but the quality of the car

(19:44):
and the low mileage and the you know the production
number on it. Uh so, tell us a couple of
stories that are really surprising in your collection.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Well, I picked up and I think sending seven Matador
Barcelona coop from the original dealer. When he closed his dealership,
he still had the car, so he kept it for
thirty years. And he had kept two other cars, Marlin
and a an a mix, and his boys one of those,
but neither one wanted the Matador. So he found me

(20:16):
and I looked the car and it had one hundred
has one hundred and one miles on it, and he said,
we are negotiating a price. He said. Everybody said, you
gave me full sticker price. I can tell my friends
I finally got full price for the car. So for
seven eighty seven dollars about a brand new, three year old.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Car, isn't that crazy? Think about that? The sticker price
of the car in nineteen he said seventy seven. Yep,
the car had one hundred miles on it, and he
bought a thirty year old, brand new car, crazy for
the sticker price.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
And I remember those cars, the Marlin and the manager.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, yeah, oh my gosh, yeah, no, wild, Yeah, that's crazy, that's.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
Fall, that's all. He got a call from a yelemen
that the last car that Aims produced. They'd shut down
all the factories but the one in Canada, and the
last car off the line before they shut it down
was the nineteen eighty eight Eagle station Wagon. This gentleman
who bought it in Oklahoma trailed at home and restored
it and it has fifty miles on it and it's

(21:21):
the last car they built, so it's got a really
cool history. And that guy called me because he was elderly,
wanted the car to go to a good home.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
That's why I got it.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
And he also said that he would sell that to
me for basically what he paid for it, wow, which
is it's worth a ton more. But he knew that's
not that's nothing. Most set its and yeah, so think
about that.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
That's in nineteen you said, seventy eight or eighty eight,
eighty eight, eighty eight? Yea Eagle station Wagon. So was
that the four wheel drive one?

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yes, so it's a four wheel drives dude, remember those
They had a little bit of a lift to it,
they were. Yeah, I actually saw one of those up
at Fall River Road, Saint Mary's Glacier one. It climbed
all the way up the road and it was a
it was an Eagle. It wasn't the it was the Eagle.
It's the smaller one, not the station wagon. But I
was like how it had its skid plates underneath it

(22:13):
and it was like I was like, yeah, I was like,
what the hell? But I remember that I was.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
I was a school zone. What do you call the
crosswalk attended?

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, I was one of those in elementary school and
I'd always have to stop and open.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
The door for people.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
I opened the door for everybody when they dropped their
kids out, so you know, the kids get out. And
that was one of the cars I always like seeing
because it was a four wheel drive station wagon and.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
It was just kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
You got the last one with fifty miles on it.
I imagined what was that interior? It was like a tweet,
like a it was kind of different.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Oh you got leather.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Wow, it's got power everything, leather interior. It's it's a
beautiful car.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
It's a dark blue.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Wow. Wow, still there with how many miles.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
Fifty on the on the Eagles, I have one of
each model, the two door, the foorder of the camback
sx four and the wagons, and they offered a wagon
with a turbo diesel motor. Rumors they made seven of these,
and I on the only one of those that just left?

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Were you on the only? So wait? They offered a
station wagon in a.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Diesel turbo diesel turbo diesel?

Speaker 4 (23:27):
What I mean? Did they make the motor? Who made
the motor?

Speaker 5 (23:31):
No, it broke down, the oil pumping out and it's Italian. Wow,
it's really unusual motor. But I heard it was like
a nine thousand dollars option to get that dual tank.
The thing would travel amazing mileage on what that?

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Well? No, you know, well you stumped. You stumped Willie
and I and we seen this collection.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
And you've got a couple of mazing race cars, a
couple of really cool, you know, vintage tight race cars
that people be stunned to see.

Speaker 5 (24:06):
Yeah, I've got the Gremlain that Amos Johnson drove. I
have a Pacer race car I'll go one hundred and
thirty five miles and a Pacer with a six hunder.
If you just don't believe what it is here until
you see it.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, it really is nuts.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
It amazes me and I still, you know, I go
down and look at holy crap, what have I done?

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (24:27):
Man?

Speaker 3 (24:27):
And what about some other you know, you have some
if I were a car, right, you have some STUDI Baker's,
some really cool other cars. Tell me Aboutles, Yeah, Chrysler.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
I have one of the little Dodge Johnny's with Shelby
g LHS. One of those with twenty seven thousand miles.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, is there like or something.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Just as amazing?

Speaker 5 (24:55):
Brend has just a lot of cool stuff in it.
Do you have a let the land out Lincolns?

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Do you have any Studebaker Hawks?

Speaker 5 (25:06):
I don't. I have a Lark convertible, okay, wagon Era,
a postal vehicle and a sixty five cruiser.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
The postal vehicle is another rare one, a Studebaker postal truck. Again,
just really rare cars.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
And it's you know, after so many years you've developed
such a reputation, it's got to be wild and kind
of an auto two that people call you or find
and search you out for these cars to find. You know,
a great home and a place for people to appreciate, admire.
You know, these cars that really, you'll you never go
to see a car like this again.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
I used to travel all of the country picking up
cars that I see in uh in magazines or newspapers,
and on Craigslist and at car clubs that go to
and now I don't look anymore. I truly don't needy.
More people search me out for these things. I have
a jeep limousine, which most people have never seen, a

(26:08):
grand Wagon aer that stretch four.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Feet Okay, wow, how many I'm intrigued by the diesel.
How many years did they make that car?

Speaker 5 (26:19):
The diesel just it was one year?

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yeah, I haven't restored that yet. I've got the motor.
I'm trying to find somebody to rebuild the motor because
it needs a fuel pump, and I probably find somebody
in Italy that would send me one. But I've got
so much to do around here. There's only three of
us that take care of this. My mechanic's been here
twenty five years.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
And when he says, you know, he was just going
to open the place up, he mentioned briefly there's a
lot of things to turn on, but you guys don't understand.
There's also a look a fifties diner. There's an ice
cream parlor at the end of you know, the whole thing.
You got a vast area, just a picnic tables with
the umbrellas, and you know, he just everything is just meticulously,

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you know, taken care of, well groomed.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
The buildings.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
He's got one building, well, he's got several buildings that
are the size of a football field, like like when
you see he's got pictures up on his website if
you go to Rambler Ranch, or he's got this like
ladder on wheels where you can get on one, you know,
one side of the building and you stand up on
his platform or ladder and you take this photo and
it's length wise, it's as long as a football field,

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and it's got one, two, three, four rows of cars
maybe more, and it's that long all the way down
stack member billion all this stuff, and it looks like
that Raiders in the Lost Ark scene, you know, where
they're in that warehouse and they put up the Holy
Grail or whatever.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
And then he's just this massive, like endless It looks
like that in a photo. It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
So he is really I think you said thirty years
he's been doing this so he is amount of I
don't believe what is the what is the furthest away?
You've got a car from out of your collection? What's
the furthest you've purchased.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
A car from.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
I got one in Canada. It wasn't old enough to
come to the US legally, it wasn't twenty five years old.
And to get it across the border, it was really complicated.
I get stuff through there, and so to go around
all the rat race of that, I went to DMB,
I got a temp tag. I flew to Canada for

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the tent tag and un drove it home. But that's
the first I drove all at home. And what a
fun trip that was. During that Matador, people was just
stare at it and watch and stop and talk to you.
It was just a blast.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
You drove a Mattador from Canada to Colorado. Yeah, that
laws of what year was the was the.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Matador seventy seven? Another Barcelona, the Barcelonas was their top
line trim level. The I'm in uh Sanda tan and
on the Burgundy one and im and I'm.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
Guessing that was not the most comfortable. Truth.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
No, they had big pillow seats. Dude, do Yeah. They
had massive pillow top seats.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
So they were comfortable.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Oh like plush right.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Driving the Lazy Boy down the road.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah yeah, man, dude, they were Hey, that car was plush.
It's like it's the seat that goes when you sit.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Down a little bit. Oh man, Yeah it was nice, dude.
They had They were Cadillac.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Esque as far as their tears go, as far as
comfort goes, yeah, man, bigger seas found a lot of
foaming and gives.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, they were nice.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
So I drove my dance Carhaus factory. I went to
a Nash Pennsylvania and Denver, Pennsylvania, and I drove a
fifty for Ambassador the factory that still work to Pennsylvania
back with no problems.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Wow, Well and I got it.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
I got to ask obvious question, is there anything that
you don't have in this venue that you still are
looking at?

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Yeah, well i'd like to have all the performance cars,
a Scrambler, the Rebel Machine. I'd like to have some
of those as well, but those have been saved and
they're not as hard to find. I also try to
find things that no one else saving. There's a lot
of these four doors bands. It's tough for getting crashed
or useful parts. Yeah, yeah, those I'd like to find

(30:30):
in the nineteen seventeen, nineteen eighteen I need. My oldest
is nineteen nineteen. I've been searching, but I found that
all of them that I need, everything I need is
in the Nash Club. What they're just not currently for sale.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
So you found that nineteen seventeen and at nineteen eighteen.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
In the Nash Club.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, wow, well it's currently not for sale.

Speaker 5 (30:52):
About everything? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (30:54):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Nineteen Nash? What is the architect What blows you away
about it? Nineteen nineteen Nash?

Speaker 5 (31:02):
Oh? Just the technology and how strong they And they're
actually beautiful cars. I have my nineteen nineteen. We drove
around all the property here. It's incredible years ago.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Is a flathead?

Speaker 5 (31:17):
No, no, it's no, it's the overhead with a well
I've not seen one. They made a flathead four cylinder,
six cylinder and they overhead valves. I have a nineteen
thirty one with a straight eight with sixteen spark plugs.
They called it ton Admission.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Sixteen straight eight. Dude, how wild? Straight eight?

Speaker 5 (31:40):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, it's insane.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Man.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
See the disturbery calf with the sixteen park sparkplugs come
out of it.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Wow. Wow, wow as well.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Now are you Are you guys open seven days a
week or what?

Speaker 6 (31:55):
Now?

Speaker 2 (31:56):
How do people schedule to come out and see you?

Speaker 4 (31:58):
I'm gonna have to come down there. This is crazy good.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
Currently we're open on weekends from Tim the two. Anyone
can come out and know the reservations are in you
and bring groups or individuals whatever. And I have a
lot of people that have been here before and they
have family and friends of visitings from out of town
and they want to bring them here. So I do
weekday appointments by our tours by appointment. Yeah, because I'm

(32:23):
home all the time, so I can accommodate all people.
We're gonna be closed on September fourteenth weekend. Without that,
we're open through the end of September and the weather
depending in my first couple of weeks of October.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Cool, crazy man, And what's the easiest way for people
to come out and see it or you know, come
and check this out because this is something that it's
unbelievably vast and what it takes to run this operation.
I'm still stunning that there's only three of them because
Like I mentioned, he's got several buildings the size of
football fields. He's always adding on to it. We didn't

(32:58):
even get into the the massive sixties apartment, or the
appliance building that he has that's up and running.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
We didn't even get into.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
The diner that's you know, operating, or his ice cream
partner that has the best ice cream anywhere. He really
does go above and beyond just what a normal. When
you think car collections, you think people with a warehouse
or garage in their backyard, or they got a nice
collection on property somewhere, But you don't think this sort

(33:28):
of interactive experience like Terry really has created out there
at Rambler Ranch. And when you see it, you're just
blown away. You're absolutely, it's look, it's something that will
take several you know, honestly, it takes a couple of
hours to get through, and it is something that you
could bring the wife and the kids to that they
will be blown away.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
They will absolutely. It's not just for card aids.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
It is for families, for you know, businesses that want
a cool team building deal or an a wild project
or field trip. It's just an amazing spot. Goes to
pitt A few hours. It's back in massive, cool, beautiful
Ponderosa pines in the woods. It's an unbelievable walk. There's wildlife.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
We didn't even get into his he's got field. How
many cars you got in the junkyard out back? Like,
we didn't get into that.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
There are three hundred and thirteen cars in the boneyard.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
How many three hundred and thirteen cars? Dude? Three hundred
and Look these cars are sick. They're one off.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
You're like, oh my god, there's one of those. There's
one of those. They're just duplicates. Rep because of what
he's got a museum, but three hundred cars crazy? How
many do you have under how many do you have
under under roof?

Speaker 5 (34:42):
When did people tell for toys about two hundred and
fifty cars on display? There are four buildings with cars. Wow,
two applies. We're adding one hundred and twenty five feet
to the back of one building because I run out
of space for some things and my snowmobiles are getting
at a new home. So we're putting a space for
those more points than I got so many points in storage.

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It's an experience to come here, It really really is.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
I mean it'll blow you away, you guys, and it's
right here. It's local, and it is fun for the
entire family. Maybe you and some friends of motorcycles. Uh,
maybe you with some hot rides. Mike was asking me
last time I went there, and I said, be and
a bunch of my friends and all hot rodes. We
drove them up there and spend a spend a day
up there on tour and getting some ice cream and
just you know, really admiring what Terry has done with

(35:28):
this unbelievable layout. Unbelievable, you know, just gift these cars.
Nobody on earth would have collected these cars. Nobody would
say this history and this is something that's really amazing
when you see the sheer number and how dedicated Terry
is to preserving these cars. These are gorgeous cars in

(35:49):
great and unbelievable you know, factory condition not you know,
not every car he's got on display is restart. As
a matter of fact, I say most of the cars
he's got to display are the exact way they came
out from the factory.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
They're not restored.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
Yeah, I've got I'm second or third owner of a
lot of my cars in the AMC building, and a
lot of those are just all original low mileas cars
and just will taken care of. We recently did a
hornet station wagon nineteen seventy three. They offered a like
a cane, like a cane chair vinyl on the side.
No one has ever seen one. I had some of
this vinyl. I've got six buildings with parts and we

(36:27):
found some of these. It's vinyls, so I have it reproduced.
I put on this wagon. It's the only one known
to exist, and it's absolutely gorgeous. Wow, a cane elect concord.
The concord has a range of thirty two miles.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Wait in electric concord.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
Wait, company Sologon bought them and converted them to electric.
It has two hundred sixty eight miles on it. It's
a nineteen eighty let's Seeintek.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Eighty four, an electric car in nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
No concord conquered Happy in eighty three. It was the
last year that conquered eight two eighty three. Eighty three
is the last year they made a concord.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
So they made an electric one.

Speaker 5 (37:13):
Another company did it. Yeah, they're extremely rare, soligent. The
guy who did it in Bezel twenty five million dollars
from the company ran after South America and in jail
for twenty years.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
But it's a legit. It's a legit electric car though
it will run like twenty thirty.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
Yeah, it takes thirteen batteries. Also have a two thousand
COBN sparrow, which most people have never seen this so
electric three wheel car.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Got oh yeah, h yeah, a little bitty one.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
Got a I've got a Toyota century that the only
government officials and dignitaries were allowed to have those. Those
are Toyotas. It's got a BE eight and it was
there one hundred thousand dollars car.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Now there's wund be twelve in them for one hundred
and eighty what Toyota had a V twelve?

Speaker 5 (37:59):
Yeah one' have a V twelve of them. Wow, wow,
I've seen a couple of coming. They also made a wagon,
and if I get another one, I want a wagon
because they're so cool.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Crazy.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
So I got it weirder the better. I just like
odd things that that no one else has saved it,
you know.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
So we're five hundred cars in total, so I got
recently counted.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
There are seven hundred cars on the property. One licensed
to drive.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
So I got to ask the obvious question. When you're
hungry for a Snickers bar and you have to go
down to the corner store, what do you drive?

Speaker 5 (38:37):
Well, either a McLaren, a Bentley Rolls, whatever has gas
in it. Let's take that, whatever has most gas in it.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, not a bad selection of cars. Well, damn it.
I gotta take the as today A today stucks. I
gotta clears cars that I drive.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
I keep up the house and occasionally we've take some
of them out down I'll put them on display. Because
there's there's twenty five things that I keep up the
house that I drive, the four garages at the house
for my drivers.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Whow that's odd, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (39:17):
And again go to Rambler ranch dot com. You'll see
this display. You'll see this unbelievable you know you said
you had how many acres? Sixty five one hundred and
sixty five acres? Really are just unbelievably gorgeous, gorgeous ponder roses.
And really just the whole layout he's created out there

(39:38):
is just really mind blowing. It's quite experience. It's a
great afternoon. Uh, really worth the drive. It's kind of
right between park and Elizabeth Uh. If you're thinking about
you know, how to get there and how long it takes,
really right between Parker and Elizabeth Uh. And it really
is just an amazing facility. Encourage you to spend a
day out there, go entertain Terry. He loves seeing people,

(40:01):
he loves sharing what he's built in.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Why wouldn't you.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
It's a collection unlike any other in the world, and
it really is something to appreciate once you're there, and
it's Brett taking. Once you see the size and you
understand the vast work that has gone into this presentation,
it's an unbelievable presentation, really one of the kind.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
I also enjoy hitting other people's stories that have these cars.
That's fun for me too. I've had Charlie Nasha's granddaughter
was here and with her daughter and grandkids, and I've
had his great grandson here. I've had people from all
over the world don't here to visit.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Yeah, man, incredible for me, really cool.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Rambler ranch is the spot. Terry thinks so much for
your time and again, we'll see you soon. Keep it
with great work and enjoy your awesome afternoons. He's got
a lot of people showing up their day.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
Thanks Terry.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
Yes, I've got the Lincoln Clubs coming today, so I
got to going and attained a bunch of Lincoln swhich
would be awesome.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yeah, man, how cool is that way?

Speaker 4 (41:01):
You cool?

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Awesome man?

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Thanks Terry, appreciate the time, Boston, Hi, buddy, See man,
what a cool man? What a cool collection you guys?
And I guess right here in your own backyard. And
like I said, it's it's really breadthonking because it's cars. Honestly,
when I first met Terry, I was talking at AMCs
and one of his friends called me or said something
or put me in touch with Terry or Terry was

(41:25):
calling to defend it. And I was like, he's like,
come out and see my collection of AMC's and see
what you think.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
And I was like, Oh, why don't see the cars
in the world. And then I go out there and
I'm just blown away.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
I'm like, my god, man, what an unbelievable tour, What
an unbelievable history lesson, what an unbelievable dude. He's got
some cars that are military, they have amazing stories. He's
got some one offs that played big moments in history
and movie cars and just all these crazy cool you know,
old wild West gunslinger looking nashes that they build back

(41:58):
in you know, the thirties and forties, just some tail draggers,
just unbelievable stuff.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Man. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Uh, And it's all really, it's all for free. He
just actually make a little donation and it's it's what
a wonder a kind collection. Like I said, it's something
you really need to take advantage of. I don't know
of another like I've seen a lot of car collections
and I love them all. Like you know, if guy's
got five or six seven cars and a back garage,
I love it.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Or in a warehouse where love it. That's a dope
car collection.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
This just happens to be one of a kind, really unique,
and the cars, the subject matter of his collection is
really unique. You know, it's just different, so therefore worthy
for you to check out, spend some time out and
really appreciate because nobody else, there's nobody on earth that
would do this, would collect these cars. And maybe it's

(42:47):
one off for two op models, you would understand why.
But once you see them all together, didn't understand how
important that collection is.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
It really is cool. All right, we're behind on a break.
We'll see. Just mean, do you know anybody with a
good car collection? Let's know about it.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
I'll see if I cant hit up boy John Here
in just the second one seven nine KVPI.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Willy B's Garage.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Portions of the following program we're prerecorded.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
You're back in Willyb's garage.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
What uf y'all welcome to you a Saturday morning? Will
it be a his garage?

Speaker 3 (43:18):
Mike Petiford, go for it services, go the number four
it services, tune.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
You up behind the wheel. He's all excited about that
z R one and why wouldn't you be O uh yeah,
it's a nasty car.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
My brothers, brothers trying to get one. Mike says he's
first on the list those numbers that came out with
the fun factor smiles for miles ratio is killer. It's
in the same car we talked about it talk about
a bunch of couple weeks ago. We'll dive into it
probably here more in just a minute. But that again,
a car like that, you know, definitely definitely collector car.
When you think about cars that really have you know,

(43:52):
it's always it's funny because there's a common formula for
a car that really you can't lose with. So if
you think about low production numbers, big horsepower, performance based cars,
because that's key the dude and people that buy those
cars love you know, there's a big ravado with the

(44:15):
with those type people.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
I'm one of them, Mike's one of them. The dude
we got on the phone is one of them.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
There's something about that alpha stereo type and in mentality
that goes with you know, the dude that would buy
a thousand plus horsepower car and be tickled with it
and be inspired to drive it. So having that sort
of mentality and that and just the money to.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Be able to do it. So they all cost you know,
they all cost a chunk, right, So it's.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
A payment that car guys somehow have to figure out
and they're there in lies what they like to call
the disease. But most car guys will they'll do the
same thing I do. I oftimes tell me now, I'm
not rich, I'm irresponsible. There's a big difference. So but
but at the same time, in the end, right, the
goal is to be able to enjoy the car, have

(45:06):
that car for whatever your intentions and or purposes to
use cars for. And then when it's time to pass
that car onto the next owner or family person or
you know, a buyer or at an auction or whatever,
you get your return on investment that makes you happy
with the whole deal. Right, A lot of times that
becomes an investment, and a lot of times it's a

(45:29):
worthy investment.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Very few cars with low production numbers that are at
the top of their game.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
When you're thinking these cars, you got to think about,
you know nowadays in this era, definitely what we were
just mentioning, the ZR one like that is gonna be
an ungodly collector's car. The Demon one seventies for the
Mopart guys, the thousand North Power, you know, the unbelievable
race car, Demon one seventy car, five wheel all that stuff.
That's gonna be a car that, you know, low production numbers,

(45:58):
you're gonna be able to save and make money on
uh down the road.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Your eternal investment should be significant.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
The you know, the think about the GTD Mustang, the
crazy new Mustang that they're they're coming out with. All
the manufacturers have hit us with ungodly performance, ungollly performance,
capability as far as their design, meaning the GTD Mustang,
that's a that's an ungodly road course car and it

(46:24):
is It is as bad as of a Mustang as
you could ever imagine. It's supercar type. You know, numbers,
that's set, set records everywhere. It's gone and done, test
traze it like that's a legit car. And it's under
a Mustang badging, which is mind blowing.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
You take this ZR one, this is gonna be a
game changer mid engine car over the thousand horse power
U golly amount of torque.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
You know that's gonna be a game changer. D one
seventy same thing.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
It should be the first and the last, the first
ever over a thousand horse powers Chevy and it'll be
the last pure non hybrid, non all wheel drive car.
Due yeah yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Bestly for shabby similar to the one seventy that what
looks to be the GTD for four. So each brand
has their offering, and really what a great era and
time to be in. So it's just wild that we
have these cars that you can go turnkey by and
you get out and enjoy and man if you are
lucky enough to get your hands on one of these.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Hey, more power to you. It's a great investment.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
It's an ungodly fun factor smiles, promus thing that is
just you know, well, anytime you have a thousand horse power,
I don't care what you have it in this blast,
let alone sticky tires of some handling, performance, breaking tracks
and control everything that goes with that. So we got
a buddy on the phone, John, John is one of
those guys. We just had Terry on the phone. Terry

(47:49):
had over seven hundred cars in his collection. Someone the
ball park just under three hundred and a roof, you know,
three hundred, a Junkyard, just all kinds of amazing, wild cars.
And then there's other collection. So the cars maybe aren't
that big in numbers as far as hundreds go. There's
not hundreds of them, but you know there's five or fifteen,

(48:09):
there's you know, ten or twenty something like that. But
yet the cars, what they mean and what they stand
for or what the story is behind them, how you're
lucky enough to grab a gym or a diamond in
a rough or a rare find.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
It was pretty cool to see this guy John. He's
one of the first friends I ever met.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
When I came to Colorado. One of the first guys
I leaned onto for car knowledge and just came a
car buddy, and I was blown away as collection. I'm like,
oh my god, whatever is ass One time, it's just
like an endless catacomb of cars. It's like, Oh, there's
another garage attached to this garage with this other wing.
You go down this hallway and it's another garage, and
there were cars all over the place. And I think John,

(48:54):
like a lot of people, were fortunate enough to find
some of these a long time ago, and therefore what
really is is a little sense of pride is what
you were able to get him for and then what
they're worth in current form and condition. So, John, welcome
to the show man.

Speaker 6 (49:11):
Thanks for coming on you bet no problem.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Will.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
So how many cars do you have currently? What John,
I would say, has the disease? John has the bug.

Speaker 6 (49:22):
We're gonna say under twenty probably, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
I don't count him under twenty, but very yeah, short
number under twenty.

Speaker 6 (49:30):
Yeah, yeah, team somewhere out somewhere around there. So I
met you thirty years ago and you came to the
party patrol. You were new to town. Yeah, and yeah,
my birthday fell on a Saturday night and I was
thirty one. I'm sixty one. Now, Oh my god, that's
that's thirty on the button. Isn't that something?

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Nutshell? So I did a thing party show where I'd
come to people's houses. They would call me or to
send me a message, and if they had a party
going on on a Friday Saturday, I would show up
and I broadcast from their party.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
I just show up.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
I had a whip Inten and a Marty. I would
shoot to a tower off Lookout Mountain and I would
straight turn a damn radio station on from your house.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
And I loved it. And I went over to John's
house for his thirty or thirty first birthday and I
was like, what in the hell? I was blown away.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
So John had an immense collection then and a lot
of the same cars they have today.

Speaker 6 (50:25):
So yeah, basically all the same cars.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
So what are some of the highlight stories?

Speaker 3 (50:32):
And what means like, there's one car we'll get into
here in just a minute that you really have is
just unbelievable, man, It's an unbelievable car. And I just
I love that this man drives this holy grail car,
but we'll set that aside, put that on a shelf.
We'll talk about that in a minute. Outside of that one,

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what is what is your first hot ride that you
still have in your collection? What's the earliest hot ride
you have in your collection?

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (51:00):
And give us a couple of your your highlights that
mean the most to you, and then maybe a highlight
or two that would mean the most to other people
outside of the gym.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
We'll talk about a minute.

Speaker 6 (51:12):
Sure. So I still got my first car, started driving
in seventy nine. It's fifty eight Chevrolet Impalla. I had
a small block and automatic in it when I got it.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
It has a You still have that car?

Speaker 6 (51:27):
Oh yeah, I never saw that you got it. You
got fifty eight too, but yours is a Chrysler.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
You got a Dodge Yeah, yeah, And I got fifty
seven seventy that I was almost born in, And I said,
I used to sit in in as a baby and
make broom broom noises.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
But yeah, cars is nice too.

Speaker 6 (51:43):
Yeah, don't ever get rid of that. Yeah, that's family
heirloom there.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Yeah. So yeah, so you had your first fifty eight.
Does you said a small block?

Speaker 6 (51:52):
It was, Yeah, it's got a four h nine dual
quad and rock roll Now I remember that car, yeah yeah,
and it's it's pretty naughty. It likes to break part,
so I don't drive it too often. It's it's gone
to that uh that Julesburg reunion. I think next year.
Two of my buddies are up there now, and man,
there's some nice cars up there, so that that looks

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like a hell of a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
So wait, you put was it originally a four nine car?
You put that four nineteen forty?

Speaker 6 (52:18):
I think it's three forty eight. I think it's three
forty eight car. Okay, there's there's no way to run
the numbers on it, but uh, every three forty eight
car scene has the friend swavebar. But now I'm finding
out that that's not even exactly the same way to tell.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
So wow, So you did the four nine dual quiet
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, foreed.

Speaker 6 (52:37):
Nineteen Yeah, changed the door to forrcepeed. It looks factory
I did. I did a real nice job for nineteen.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
What kind of rims are on it?

Speaker 6 (52:44):
It's got the auto drag center lines on it, the
solid rim yeah man, yeah, back in the day, Yeah, man,
I remember that solid like, yeah, yeah, it's it's cool man.
I think of the car shows and I whooped a
WRX on Colfax with it, so it's pretty quick.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
That's cool man. All Right, So you have your first car,
what was your second?

Speaker 6 (53:10):
Well, I had Transam and I sold that to buy
my first Corvette. And it's a drag it's an old
drag car, split window Corvette, and I still have that.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Wow, split windows sixty three. Yeah, yeah, sixty three split
window Corvette. Think about that for a minute.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
That car. That's a huge that's a big money car,
original small blocker.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
Big block car.

Speaker 6 (53:31):
They're going nuts. Yeah, they're all small blocks and you
get four different motors in them, but they're all three
twenty sevens and yeah they're out pacing the sixty seven
big block cars, which I never thought i'd see the day.
Never never about that. Oh my god. It's it's if
you don't have one, you wish you did.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
So you how much did you pay for that split window?
Sixty three?

Speaker 6 (53:57):
Four thousand dollars?

Speaker 2 (53:59):
You paid four grand for that freaking sixty three split
window in what year?

Speaker 6 (54:03):
It's a little it's a little rough around the edges.
I think I bought that around eighty three, I think.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Four grand is it? It's a four speed?

Speaker 4 (54:13):
Right?

Speaker 6 (54:14):
Oh? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Is that the one you drove my house back in
the day.

Speaker 6 (54:18):
Ah, yes, it definitely is. Yeah, that's the car.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Wow I brought.

Speaker 6 (54:24):
I brought the old Camino down too.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Yeah. That was a different time. Yeah, that was the
second time. Yeah, somehow Camino, but we dropped the valve.

Speaker 6 (54:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that was a sad night.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
All right.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
So all right, so you got the split window you
held on to since nineteen eighty three you.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
Said three, I think eighty three.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (54:43):
I also have another one that I bought and shut
up seven.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
You have two split windows?

Speaker 6 (54:50):
Yeah, don't tell no one, don't put this on the air.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
Oops.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Yeah, all right, so wow two split windows both all right?

Speaker 6 (54:59):
Yeah, the other one, the other one's a complete car,
and it'll it'll be nice. It'll be as nice as
is the one we're going to talk about here in
a minute. Which is a big secret.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
What you transam.

Speaker 6 (55:11):
So I've had about twelve trans ams. I have four currently,
and two are late models and the other two are
I got to seventy six's and they're both super nice cars.
Very lucky. No, but one's got an h O motor
in it. And yeah, there's a thirty seven thousand mile

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original paint car and it starts and drives like it's new.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah, I'm seeing that one.

Speaker 6 (55:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's clean. Yeah that the nice one
is like, that's a five year nutt and bolt restoration.
Probably the nicest thing I own. And hopefully we'll get
that one out start and enjoying that one. But yeah,
that that one. It's a two time show winner, and
it's it's it's you could you could eat off any
part of the car.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
It's just it's that's the smoking the banding car.

Speaker 6 (56:00):
Well it's it's red. It's red.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
But yeah, it kind of looks like a smoky abandoned
but it's red with silver wing silver bird.

Speaker 6 (56:09):
No, no, it's no, it's all a MG out. It's
no no graphics or nothing. People think it's a damn
Camaro and I'm like, no, that's ta and it's uh,
it's it's it's pretty modified, but it uh, you know
it it'll stick to the road like blue, it'll out
handle actually some of the corvetts I own.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
But it's got the it's got the shaker hood.

Speaker 6 (56:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, shaker. Hood's four fifty five for speed.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
Car with that with the floor speed, the flap that
opens up when you floor it.

Speaker 6 (56:42):
I have a couple of those shakers. Yeah, I do
have some of those early ones. Yeah, I got a
couple from the gto that seventy four and has that
functional one too, So those those are kind of hard
to find.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
H That was my favorite back then.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Three okay, all right, so you have four trans ams,
a couple of split windows.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Yeah, all right, he's got fifty eight bel air.

Speaker 6 (57:10):
Pala, pala.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
What's the next on the list?

Speaker 6 (57:14):
Oh gosh, let me think I got three old caminos.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Three caminos, yeah, two.

Speaker 6 (57:23):
Seventies, A twenty seven one, it's a four fifty. It's
an LS six four fifty four.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
That's what's in my fifty seven Chevy l.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (57:36):
Yeah, yeah, they're strong. All So, I found this car
in the auto shopper, the same place I found that
first split window. And that's you know, you're picking up
a Winchills back in the day for free, you know.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Yeah, yeah, it's.

Speaker 6 (57:50):
Because I'm cheap like you, you know, I'm sorry, irrespond
right right right?

Speaker 2 (57:57):
So so all right, so you got you got that
now you got.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
I'm just trying to think a couple of split windows,
the trans ams. You pick up an auto trader or
whatever it was, and what grabs your attention?

Speaker 2 (58:10):
What's next on the I gotta have that car? Okay?

Speaker 6 (58:15):
So well, one of the cars I found out of
there was a I bought a sixty three and Paula
with a four h nine and then it was a
factory four door car. So somebody tried to steal that.
So I ended up having to part that out because
I was pretty I used to drive to work when
I worked construction, so I was nervous about losing that.

(58:35):
So I stick out the drive train out of that car.
And I wish I would have saved the whole car,
because that would be worth it a nice chunk of money,
being how oddball it was. But in the auto Trader,
which you buy at some eleven, that's where I found
a twenty thousand mile original paint LS six L Camino

(58:56):
and I bought that from the original owner in Loveland
at night. He truly bought that car with his Vietnam
discharge pay what. Yeah, well it's one of it's less
than one of ninety bill uh. The majority were automatics.
They say, there's about thirty five force feed cars built.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Dude, how many forcepiece you have? This dude buys a
for speed of everything.

Speaker 6 (59:21):
About eighty percent of my collection is a gear jam.

Speaker 4 (59:24):
Wow, awesome.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
That is nuts, man.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
That alone ups to collection value insanely and is probably
the best depth control you could have on in modern times.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
It really is.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, you know. They get in there and
get lost. I had a vertical gate shifter in a
trans amn years ago that a guy tried to swipe
at seven to eleven. I left it running because the
battery was low on it. I knew it wouldn't restart,
and he got in there and couldn't figure.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Out where We're like a cheetah shifter or something.

Speaker 6 (59:56):
Yeah, it's an old mister gasket vertical gate and okay,
yeah he did. He didn't have a clue what the
hell he was doing.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Right at trigger up to get it out of out
of a locked position.

Speaker 6 (01:00:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, And I chased him down and tackled
him on asphalt. I was nineteen, pretty spry back then
of their work instruction. And then he got up and
started reaching in his pants for a knife or a gun.
And I said, you know what, I think I'll go
back to my car still running.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Funny, So next time the list you buy this this
four fifty four el Comedo.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
What color is it?

Speaker 6 (01:00:31):
It's Cortes Silver, got the black.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Vinyl sick car.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
It's a seventy great it smells new.

Speaker 6 (01:00:39):
Yeah, it's it's it's like it it's like it dropped
out of heaven. This this car is so freaking nice.
And uh, you know, it was unfortunately missing the hood.
So I was able to get a hood through the
dealership and paint that to match and got that back
on the car just in time because GM sold the
molds like literally months later after I got that. The

(01:01:01):
dealership even called me to buy the hood back. They
had two other buyers for it, and I said, oh no,
I'm definitely using it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:01:10):
So yeah, that was that was just timing, just timing.
I was their right place, right time. I literally offered
the guy the same amount he was offered years earlier
for the car, and he didn't like the guys and
wouldn't sell it to him. We became friends and he
saw what I did with my car collection, and what'd you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Give for the LS six four fifty four nineteen seventy El.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
Comino seventy five dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Wow, wow, damn yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Crazy crazy, all right, And it gets better because now
you have how many of these?

Speaker 6 (01:01:40):
Uh well, I got three Elcos, I got one of
them Chu Chu Customs ones. It looks like Amani ssa.
Those are going nuts and prices and those are just
really sweet cars. I'm just getting ready to put a
new drive train.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Those are going nuts really.

Speaker 6 (01:01:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, those are trading for in the twenties
and stuff that They're nice. Now, yeah, those are those.
Those are big demand cars if you if you got
one of those up for sale, it's a foot race
to get it, for sure. I get. I get every
time I drive mine, I get somebody wants to buy
the damn thing. And you know, I almost I went
to Nashville to buy one and basically got kidnapped when

(01:02:20):
I was trying to hitchhike out of there because the
deal didn't work out in the car. The car looked
creating pictures in person. It was terrible and the guy
wouldn't negotiate, so I had to leave. And yeah, that
was that was a little quite ugly. Yeah, out of town,
don't go out of town to buy a car.

Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
Done that a couple of times yourself?

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Yeah, fast forward the next car you get, you get
these caminos. What's after the man?

Speaker 6 (01:02:46):
Yeah, this is We're talking forty five years, so give me,
give me a second. I uh, let's see what else
am I have I bought?

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Before we get to the gym.

Speaker 6 (01:02:56):
I've gotten I got an eighty one Corvette with you?
Have you had an eighty one?

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
I love that car, man, so underpower.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Let's just go ahead and say it before my petophord
times in it's w's gutless is underpowered.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
However, however, I don't think styling wise car.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
I don't think styling wise Corvette ever made a sharper
looking car.

Speaker 6 (01:03:16):
It's it's black on black.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Mine was triple black too.

Speaker 6 (01:03:19):
I got a I got a supercharger motor. It's going
in it. And I just found a new old stock
hood so I don't have to cut the original hood.
And you know you, matching black pain is pretty easy,
so this turned out to be pretty cool. I got
the hooker chrome side pipes and stuff for sick.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
I love those eighty and eighty one Corvettes, man.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
And is that a Star shift as well.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
It's a It's the only automatic I got out of
the collection. Mine was you couldn't you couldn't find you
couldn't find a force feed to save your life. Back then.
That's that's the last year for the for the manual
transmission cars, and I think they made about four thousand
of them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Mine was Mine was an eighty.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Oh yeah, there's forespeak car and it didn't matter.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
Had two hundred that regudless. It was terrible. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:04:08):
You know. The other thing is the pedals are so narrow.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
I mean exactly so.

Speaker 6 (01:04:13):
I'm not big, but I drove one of those manual
cars and the pedals are It's uncomfortable to drive them that.
The cockpit is so narrow in those damn things your
foot well.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
But dude, that was such a sharp car. I love
my that that eighty. If it wasn't so underpowered, I
would have kept that car.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
But I just loved those lines. Yeah, you look at
the modern cars and I love this new you know,
the eight is just sick. But you know, for that,
for that era, that car was a standout. That car
is so unique. Started was so different than the Camaro
than you know, anything for Dodge anything from forward that
car in that era.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
God, it was gorgeous.

Speaker 7 (01:04:48):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:04:48):
Nothing else looked like it, nothing else resembled it. It
was just such a cool, cool car. It sucked in
the time of missions and underpowered you know, cats and
everything else. They just crunched them little peanut head vows
and just awful, awful performance. But as far as aesthetics,
just just looking. Man, the car had some great lines

(01:05:10):
shark is Yeah, absolutely, That's why I love driving, get
big fins and it just some about It looked great.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
It looked great.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
I didn't care.

Speaker 6 (01:05:18):
Yeah, I kind of think of it as like an
American Lamborghini as whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
Yeah, I loved the spoiler. If we didn't have the spoiler,
I agree in the back of it, but with the
spoiler it looked great. Mine had the big spoiler on
it and it was all triple black.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
It was sick.

Speaker 6 (01:05:32):
Yeah. Yeah, that's the first thing I ever bought on credit.
My mom co signed for my twenty first birthday and
I worked construction like six years to pay for that
damn thing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
And you still have that car.

Speaker 6 (01:05:43):
Oh yeah, yeah. I so when I found my house
where I live now, Uh, that Corvett was almost paid off,
and my mom told me, you're not going to qualify
for the house and with the corvett on there, so
we're gonna have to get down the core vet. I
told her that's all right, I'll just live in the
vat's a way. I'm sorry, no freaking way. This thing

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leaving so almost almost missed out of my house with
this nice garage here.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
So well.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
I remember me, I had my clothes, was two days
out and the person called me and said, hey, we
need five thousand more dollars at closing. And at the time,
I bought a nineteen sixty eight original big block Dodge Charger.
I paid nine hundred bucks for it out of this
dude's garage. It didn't have an engine in it. I
got in one of my four forties out of pulling pay.

(01:06:34):
It was out of a sea body I put in there.
I put a transmission in it, got it fired up.
The brake sucked on it. But I was just building
the car. I was just you know, just throwing it together,
just as a little driver because I didn't have alreadly
anything into it. And then the closing to my house
a couple of days away. The guy I was doing
the deal with said Hey, man, we need five thousand

(01:06:54):
more dollars. So I was on the air on this
radio station and I said, the first person at my
house after the show with five thousand dollars gets that car.

Speaker 6 (01:07:03):
And I had.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
I had three or four people lined up at my house,
and honest god, they were like, hey, let's just do
the bidding war.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
And I said, I said, I gave him a word
to be the first person with five grand. So I
got to honor that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
I could probably sell that from ten to fifteen, but
I needed five grand. That was two thousand and four.
That pains me to think about today. I sold a
sixty eight big block dodged charger for five grand.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
You know how Bay that hurts.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
But you got but you got your house.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Yeah yeah, I know. I got my house and that's
what matters.

Speaker 6 (01:07:34):
But I mean, you did what you said. That's how
I've been my whole life. I was talking about that
the other day.

Speaker 8 (01:07:41):
I just bought a car from a gentleman that his
brother passed away, and I restored a bid grand Sport
for him and the guy declined doing the.

Speaker 6 (01:07:52):
Transmission on the car. And I now he was trying
to laborate me by holding the title out on this
car on the station way. You know, I bought his
Malleable wagon and he's, uh, he's trying to leverage me
to take the transmission out and then rebuild and receive it.
And I'm like, you know, I got into writing that
the man declined all that work. So people, you know,

(01:08:13):
people are sketchy. Man, I've never been that way. Everything,
everything I've ever said.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
You know, well, dude, I had a sixty I had
my sixty seven dollars charger got stolen from me, and
so did Barrett Jackson for forty seven thousand dollars because.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
I signed it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
I signed the title. Yeah, this dude, he gave me
that I'm a single dad. If if you give me
the title, now, he's gonna pay me, you know. So
he paid me five thousand dollars for some upgraded indie
heads that outcomes port work done to it, blah blah blah.
And he said he wanted to get this engine together
to put in that SAT seven charger that I was trading.
He's supposed to give me like twenty grand cash and

(01:08:50):
do a bunch of work to another car I had.
So I was like dude, give me the twenty grand
in cash and I'll give you the title, and we'll
worry about the work, you know, because you have the
car there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Well, he didn't do anything to it. He ended up
he came to my house. I was like, dude, I'm
a single dad.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
I'm trying to get my daughter here. We wanted to
go to this car show next week. If I get
the title, I'll get the car attack because I got.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
The engine together. I give you that five grand. I'm
good for it. I got this big job closing on Friday.
I'll just bring you, you know, all the money then.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
So my dumb ass signed the title, and then next
weekend his shot was closed down.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
He was gone and moved to Arizona. In that car.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
That charge of mine sold a Barrett Jackson for forty
seven thousand dollars. Yeah, man, and I went and found
out when we did. I did RAT for Racing on
two guys. I went down there and did a course
at RAD for Racing School, and the production dude on
the crew said it was really close. I found out
where that dude lived because his ex fiance told me
his address, and I went down and getting my production guy.

(01:09:51):
He had the one rental that we all had. I say, hey, man,
can you take me to a friend's house after we
get done with the shoot? And he's like, yeah, no problem.
So we get a and he's like, where's his friend live.
I mean, he's only like twenty minutes from here. He's like, oh,
you got a buddy down here. And I'm like, well,
he used to be a buddy. Yeah, and he said
he said, what do you mean used to be? And
I said, well, he stole a car from me and uh,

(01:10:12):
and he sold it. And he was like, wait, you
haven't talked to him since then. I'm no, I'm about to.
And he's like, wait, it's just gonna be a thing.
And I was like, well it might be a thing.
I don't know, depending on how you're act. So yeah,
I knocked on his door. He freaked out. Man, he
jumped back like he saw a ghost. He's like, call
the cops. He wouldn't come out. I was raised, sir, lungs, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
I was like, let's go.

Speaker 6 (01:10:36):
You're pretty big, dude, Willy. I'm surprised he didn't cought
some money back that he was.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Bigger than me. He's yeah, he's bigger than me. But hey,
but that's okay, man, I don't I don't think the
dude had a spine on him.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
I was like, dude, he talked the big game, but
I was like, hey, man, I can I could throw
down when I need to throw down.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
It's always about the intensity.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
Yeah, I'm like, come here, body, I'll gladly back out us.

Speaker 6 (01:11:04):
Should we get to the best story?

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
Yeah, so the gym here, you guys go, Well, I
got to take a break. But we're talking car collections.
If you know anybody's got one, do you feel free?
Chiming and collis the gym, though, there's always one car collection.
Now obviously with John here, he's told us kind of
about several about you know, some unbelievable cars. Really, he's
got a knack for putting the nice ones. It is look,

(01:11:28):
it is a knack. It is a thing to be
able to pick and choose cars that have seemingly increased
exponentially over over the normal market. There's you know, Camaros
and Chavelle's, and you know, they all do their thing,
but it's unique to have a little, a little taste
for those unique cars, those one off years, those really

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rare collectible and sought after the type cars. John's been
fortunate enough to find several of those and be able
to get more of them, knowing.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
That that was the deal with the car.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
However, none of the stories we have just heard comes
close to the one that you're about to hear and
the car you're about to hear about.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
All Right, this, my friends, is a story. All right,
a break, we'll come back with these garages one of
seven nine KVP I.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
Willy B's garage. You're back in Williebe's garage.

Speaker 3 (01:12:29):
It's mos seven nine KVP. I mean me and my
boy John here. So we're talking car collections Dan the show.
We talked to a lot of a cool car collections.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (01:12:37):
I'm feeling left out, buddy. You guys are going back
and forth. Well, I got a supercharges I got here.
It is Chevy couple and that's all I look.

Speaker 6 (01:12:46):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
Soices will one day be popular with with ladies clubs
and book clubs.

Speaker 6 (01:12:51):
You buy your girlfriend that car forever?

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
All right, So we gotta get to the gym right here.
We mentioned before, you've been fortunate to get these cars
a long time ago. You've been fortunate to find or
keep your kind of pulse on cars that increase in value.
So therefore, you know a lot of people use car
collections or things like this. I plan on using mind
like a retirement fund to help, you know, help with kids.

(01:13:19):
You know, I want to be able to give pass
down you know, my dad. One of the few things
I ever got from my dad was that fifty seven Chevy.
I'll be in a bunch of parts and pieces and whatever.
I had that car, you know, as a kid in
my childhood.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
That was one of the very first memories I had.
I followed that car its entire life.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
Used to sit in that car when it was in
the barn on the farm when I was like eight
nine years old, to make broomproom noises. Used to you know,
sit there and polish the mac wheels. When it was
under my dad's little video store in my hometown when
I was like in seventh and eighth grade. When I
was in high school, my dad moved into the basement
of the house because at one point he was gonna

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to restore it. He used to sit in that car
and be like, Wow, this is such cool ride, and
dreaming like one day, Wow, I wonder what this car
is going to mean in my life, you know, down
the road, and I was fortunate enough to be able
to get that car. It wasn't restored. Well, me and
a friend of mine were able to restore it give
it back to my dad. He had it for you know,
a year or so and he bought a Corvette. So
come get your fifty seven Chevy. I've got a Corvette.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
So I got that car back.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
I'm you know, hopefully one day and give that car
to my kids. And you know, I stored my fifty
seven Chevy. But you know, cars, especially when you're able
to get them and find them and have them in
your history and in your story, it really means something.
There's few cars that really set your story apart from
so many others, and there's really there's cars that that

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really become the story. When people see you, they're like, oh,
this is the dude with that car. And this car
that we're talking about is one of those type rides.
It's one of those type Holy Moulley cars. So there's
a story behind it. And if you don't mind sharing
a little bit of the backstory and how you were

(01:15:07):
able to get I think this car is by far
you've heard what he's got split windows, unbelievable trans ams,
and in palace he's got some big, big, big money cars.
This car worth more than anything he's gotten in his lot,
at least in my opinion, right, I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
Anxious to hear the story.

Speaker 6 (01:15:24):
Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
So.

Speaker 6 (01:15:27):
I purchased a Roadrunner Superbird and.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
I think the spring of eighty five, a Plymouth Superbird.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
That's the big wing car, that's the nose with the
nose cone. NASCAR only made it for two years. They
crushed every NASCAR record. They went over two hundred miles
an hour on the big tracks, on the super speedways.
They dusted everything in their sight, and in order for
it to be NASCAR legal, they had to make a
very low production run of them and offer them to

(01:15:57):
the general public. So for sixty nine to seventy these
cars were offered in a Plymouth Superbird version. And the
production number is really small, like you know, just the
I think the number was five hundred they had to produce.
They produced a little bit over that for each of
those years, but not many of these cars made, and.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
They were lot They were like forty five hundred bucks
at the time.

Speaker 6 (01:16:19):
Yeah, yeah, which was the price of a Corvette back then,
and guess what. Guess what sold not not the Plymouth right,
So yeah, they sat on They sat on dealer lots
for up to two to three years, and they just
basically had to almost give them away, some of them.

Speaker 8 (01:16:36):
Some of them did.

Speaker 6 (01:16:37):
So the two cars that I've owned both both sold
off the floor. But anyway, they so I purchased a
yellow four barrel automatic car and it was a little
rough around the edges, but it's still a presentable.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
Car, Plymouth Superbird your phone seven bringing.

Speaker 6 (01:16:59):
Up little bit Lemon twist, yellow forty four broll car.
I actually tried to purchase the second split window I own,
and the gentleman wouldn't take my offer. So I got mad,
came home, read the paper, went Tom cooked, Nebraska, bought
the first car. I brought it home, got my ass chewed.
Because I was still living at home. I told my

(01:17:21):
mom I was just gonna flip it. I wasn't keeping it,
of course I was lying, but anyway, because I knew,
I knew what how special this car was.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
So years.

Speaker 6 (01:17:32):
This was in eighty five.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
You must have been dealing drugs in the mid eighties,
because because you buying a lot of cars.

Speaker 6 (01:17:40):
No, I actually I got heard at work and I
got I got hey, I got back payment for the
time I was off work. So I got a nice
check for about nine thousand dollars. Okay, yeah, I walked
to the limp for four years so and my back
was bad if my back was jacked up.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Good.

Speaker 6 (01:17:58):
So the money didn't mean nothing compared to what I went.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Through, right right, But that money allows you to get
something that does mean something.

Speaker 6 (01:18:05):
Yeah, well I invested. You know a lot of my friends,
A lot of my friends blew it on the you know,
they go after gold Russ and buy a case of
beer for everybody in the joint, and you know, buy
some dope and whatever, right right, yeah, yeah, all their
money disappeared. I hung onto mine. So but uh so, okay,
so I had this car two weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
But what did you spend for this yellow seventy super
Bird in nineteen eighty five?

Speaker 6 (01:18:28):
Seventy five hundred dollars seventy five hundred okay, yeah, yeah,
it's a twenty three thousand miles car. And man did
it run nice? Uh? Four forty four barrel and you
know she'd light.

Speaker 8 (01:18:39):
Them up good.

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
It was.

Speaker 6 (01:18:40):
That was a strong running car I had it. I
had like about twenty five going down Hamon. So that's
something that's gotw's programmed. So and that's kind of scary.
I'm biased play tires.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
Believe me. So yeah fire Stone, so.

Speaker 6 (01:18:55):
Yeah yeah. So so I took I had that car
two weeks and I'm putting gas in it. The guy
walks up to me and says, I know where a
six pack four speed car is? That makes yours look sick.
And all I heard him say was four speed, right.
So I was like, okay, it's like I gotta go
see this car. So I got his phone numbered called
the guy up. Very abrasive guy. He told me it's

(01:19:19):
not for sale, but I hear you have one and
if you bring years over, you can look at my car.
So I said, I said, I'm free Saturday. I said
I can, I can come check it out. I'll bring
my car. So we had a little superbird party that
day and I eventually became his mechanic and he had

(01:19:43):
just had the engine rebuilt on it. He didn't even
drive the car five hundred miles three years he owned it.
All that did is sit in the garage. So he said,
I need my first oil change done to get the
brake in oil out of the motor. And I went
over there and did that for him on site, and
I told him that was not the original engine in

(01:20:04):
his car. And he got very upset with that, ran
and grabbed some polar right pictures of a motor and said,
here's proof that that's the original motor. And I said,
that doesn't prove anything. Just to picture the top of
the engine. You can't even read the numbers that are,
you know, on the on the pad on the front
of the motor. So I said, no, you got to
get under here and look at the pan rail and

(01:20:24):
see where where those are gangs stamps right, and so
I so, so he got he got nervous and decided
he would let that car go. So I immediately put
my yellow car up for sale.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
And so because because you found out it didn't have
the original engine, he panicked it and didn't want to
have a non matching numbers car.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
So he decided to sell that to you. He was
going to go acquire a numbers matching car or something
like that. No, no, just done with it.

Speaker 5 (01:20:55):
But he was flying on the things now.

Speaker 6 (01:20:56):
He just wanted the money back and he he was
kind of in hot water with his family for spending
all that money. He had over ten thousand dollars in
that car backed in. You just paid Denneur Dennis Mawert
like thirty five hundred bucks to rebuild them motor. He
did a fantastic job. It still has that non matching engine.
It's a correct seventy motor that's in the car now.

(01:21:19):
But the story gets better. So I ended up buying
the car, and it was literally five times nicer than
the one I had hated to let the other cargo.
The other car went to a museum in Murder, South Dakota,
sat there for about twenty years and they recently sold it,
I found out. But I was able to bring this
beautiful hemmy orange car home, and it's got the pistol

(01:21:42):
grip force feed. It's a factory six pack car.

Speaker 9 (01:21:46):
A magazine cover car, and I actually have the guy
when I bought it, he gave me a copy of
that magazine, and I found the second owner's name in
the magazine.

Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
So I started doing a lounddist in search for this
guy and eventually found out that he had moved and
he had an unlisted phone number, So that was a
dead end. So later down the road the guy in
the Gentleman the cars were featured in the magazine. He

(01:22:18):
owned two, the Dodge Charger Daytonas and the orange Superbird.
So I was able to later on in Hemings find
the black Hemi four speed Daytona for sale in Hemings
and I got the guy's phone number. So I called
the number and I said, are you the former owner

(01:22:39):
of a six pack Superbird that came to Lakewood in
eighty three? And he said yes, and he said, am
I the guy that? He said, are you the guy's
old due? And I said no, and he said good
because I probably hang up on you. Absolutely hated the guy,
So I said, any idea where the original engine is
that car? And he said, yes, it's in my basement

(01:22:59):
right now. And I asked him what you'd be interested
in reuniting it with the car. You have to choose
your words carefully. Yeah, like that real fancy guy. He said,
I don't know what you got. I'm a heavy guy.
You got a complete running Hemmy. That's what I want
for it. So I started shopping for a Hemmy. Well,
I found him one twelve five hundred dollars. I didn't

(01:23:20):
pay that for the whole car, for the car of
the car I currently own. So I told him, you know,
I'm a young man. I just started my own business.
I'm an auto mechanic. And I said, I said, that's
a piece of chrys Or history. What are you doing
with that engine? I said, belongs with this car. Oh,
I agree, I just know what I have here. So
he said, I'm putting in a thirty five pm a

(01:23:41):
street rod I'm building. And I said, well, you don't
care what the numbers are on it. I said, I'll
trade me engines. I'll bring you an hp of F
code four forty for it. And he said we could
probably do that, but you're gonna have to sweeten the pot.
So he ended up getting me for about five thousand dollars,
and I collected all the parts together and then we

(01:24:04):
traded motor. So I had to find a motor and
then add about five thousand dollars in value to it.
And then he told me send me everything you got
and if I like it, I'll send you back your engine.
Hell no, I threw the topper on my seventy three
P fifty driver El Camino and loaded that son of

(01:24:26):
a gun up and bought a new set of tires
at super shops two blocks from my house here, and
I headed for Huntsville, Alabama, and went and went and bought, bought,
bought that engine back. And he even he worked for Chrysler.
He ran the radio plant where they built used to
build all the radios for the cars. It was the
head of the plant. He was the president of it.
So he was kind of a big deal. And so

(01:24:49):
he said, I'm taking the week off, so I'll be
here when you get here. I got there at noon Wednesday,
and he told me on the phone before I left
Sunday night, I talked to him. He said, if you're
not here by five o'clock, theirs they can turn around,
drive back to Colorado. The heels off. So the print
of pressure was on, believe me. So I get there

(01:25:10):
at noon Wednesday, I'm like, oh my god, I'm gonna
get the I'm gonna get the motor for the car. No,
Don went into work today. He was bored, so I
had to wait. I sent there four hours and wait
in his driveway for him to come home. Then, so
I bought the motor from him. He was mad because
he said you're just gonna take this engine and put
it in the car, and you're gonna flip the car
for a profit. I know that's what you're gonna do. Well,

(01:25:33):
thirty eight years later, I still got the car. So
as I'm walking off, he said, I guess you might
want this too, and he pulled out a folder and
he had all the original paperwork to the car, the
original windowsticker, bill of sale, warranty paperwork, and the owner history.

(01:25:53):
Everything on the car was sold new in Louisville, Kentucky.
And I think you're from Kentucky. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and
that's something so h yeah, and he just he just
willingly gave me that. My job about it before I
couldn't believe it. So, uh yeah, it was worthwhile trip.
But I mean that was a lot of money to
come up with back back in the day. This is

(01:26:14):
ninety one. I went down, So it was about there's
about four, about four or five years after I bought
I bought the car, I was able to put this
steel together.

Speaker 3 (01:26:22):
Yeah, So you imagine me seeing his car collection and
I come across in nineteen seventy Kimmi Orange four speed
superperd Aneed got week dude.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
I almost fell off when I saw that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
I was like, yeah, you know the time my seventy
dogs charger was four different colors primer, both doors were
different colors.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
I had massive rustles in it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:43):
I had the whole front you know, front seat, it
was those seventy buckets. I just had it covered in
duct tape, just like that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
And it was a man. I was happy as hell
to drive. It had some craiger loving the slots on it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
Yeah, I was like, yeah, man, I'd push it out around,
leave oil spots as big everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
And I stumbled upon that. I was like, God, what
a car. And he still drives it today. You know
that's a you know, that's a five hundred thousand dollars car.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
But you have sacrifice for that car.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
My friend story.

Speaker 6 (01:27:12):
Yeah, it's uh, it's worth worth the trip, worth the effort.
I uh, you know, I wanted that Hemi Kuda that
I missed out on by about six months. But I
actually think I got the better car. This car shows
up at a show, dude, they're like they're like either
two things are either wow or there goes my trophy.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
You know, yeah, yeah exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:27:36):
I mean there's there's times I've won, and there'd be
three or four cars there that are nicer, restored, better restored,
you know, worked history car cars that are you know,
maybe better than mine, and I still win just because
of how amazing the car is.

Speaker 3 (01:27:50):
Yeah, in the history, he's got owner paperwork, original sticker, like,
it's just an unbelievable presentation.

Speaker 6 (01:27:56):
It really is, win or lose. I'm always happy just
to be there and meet the folks. I used to
like the cars more than the people. I actually I
actually like the people more now when I go to
the shows. It's more fun to talk to the people
and hear their car stories and see see what they
had to do to, you know, to achieve what they
have there. So it's it's kind of come full circle.

(01:28:17):
It's and car people are some of the nicest people
you ever meet in your life. Name in that absolutely
true cool.

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
Car collection and just you know amazing You've been able
to score them at a you know, at a price
that you know what jew about nowadays, to get a
wing car that's worth half a million dollars that you know,
for a price tag of seven grand, Wow, you know
it's and it really is, mate, And what's wild is
those cars exist out out there today if you can
find them. There's certain cars that you know, you know,

(01:28:45):
in a matter of decades it's gonna be worth huge money.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
You know, obviously newer cars modi performance that's gonna cost you,
but you know, there's still cars out there. Imagine for example,
the you know those wing those late model like late nineties,
early two thousand wing cars, the trans Ams, the W
six is, the Firehawks, the things like that. I imagine

(01:29:10):
that it's gonna be a collective car. I imagine you know,
anybody knows that Buick GNX from maybe six or seven
or whatever it was.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
See what those have been going for lately.

Speaker 3 (01:29:19):
You know, maybe it's yeah, maybe it's you know, it's
a it's a Corvette that's got a rare thing going on,
or you know, a modern crazy option. You know, you
look at some of these ZL ones that's kind of
an underrated modern hot car Camari that you can still
find at a you know, pretty significant and decent price.
There's just you know, all kinds of things going fast

(01:29:40):
out there, and finding things worth big money in the
end is a knack. And you know, thankfully for us
when we grew up there weren't as many offerings as
are today, so it made that choosing a little a
little easier. But man, you've got the post on some
really good ones and definitely an amazing car collection.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
So thanks for sharing a.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
Little bit of these stories the history with it, man,
And what car do you enjoy driving the most? Out
of all those that you the aforementioned? Which one outside
of the Superbird do you like driving the most?

Speaker 6 (01:30:11):
I like going to work so I can keep all
this stuff right. Probably my late model trans Ams are
the most enjoyable drive. I've got a couple of those
you were just talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Oh do you got a couple of those? What were years?

Speaker 6 (01:30:26):
I got a ninety five l T one six speed,
and then I've got an one ram a six speed.

Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
Yeah, yeah, that car. Those are gonna be good money cars.

Speaker 6 (01:30:37):
They're they're they're kind of they're kind of a lot
on the street. I know there's faster stuff out there,
but you can't pull up to a light without some
some idiot trying to race it. And I got I
got a perfect driving record, so leave me the.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
Hell I don't all right, John takes some time, brother.

Speaker 6 (01:30:56):
I heard about your trip to work one day yeah,
thanks for calling Willie.

Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
Right, see buddy, all right, quick break, we gotta come back.
We'll be his garage. Just want to seven nine KVP I.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
Willy Bee's garage. You're back in Willybe's garage.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
Some guys would be his garage. Man, that's cool. It's funny.

Speaker 3 (01:31:20):
I was trying to get a home my buddy, Jim.
He's got a bunch of Dodge chargers. I wanted too, Kudas.
It's funny because sometimes it's one of two cars, sometimes
it's fifteen cars. But having the ability to be able
to grab so a lot of my chargers I don't
have the luxury of so I've been fortunately, I got
a lot of Dodge chargers, but a lot of them
are small block cars. I just put big blocks in,

(01:31:40):
you know, and those cars are still worth a lot,
you know, but not like a number by my sixty eight.
I got a true sixty eight RT four speed NASCAR Adition.

Speaker 4 (01:31:49):
Charger numbers match, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
I've had it assessed, and that's worth that's worth big money.
But yeah, that's one of the rare, you know, one
of the rare numbers match cars. I have my Titan,
my sixty nine original three eighteen cars. So but you know,
at the same time, I don't know that's in those cars.

(01:32:12):
I don't know that that lineage is quite as important
because everybody just loves an O Dodge Chargers.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
Some cars you get buy with it, you know, it's
like a small black Gen one Camaro.

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
A lot of people put big blocks or ls's in it, whatever,
and they turned out great and always sell for a
bunch of money. But there's some numbers matching rides like
John had there just amazing, like you see, yeah, Terry had.

Speaker 4 (01:32:34):
Oh my gosh, that orange super Bird.

Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
What a crazy departure from all things the manufacturers were
coming out with at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
So wild but such cool car and like, like they said,
they had to give them away at one point because
they were so they're so ugly.

Speaker 4 (01:32:52):
People didn't know what to do with it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
Yeah, they're like what is that?

Speaker 1 (01:32:55):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (01:32:57):
But now, man, they're just enormous and value and still
got the one in Kentucky we're working on. So oh
yea Brothers still greasing that deal.

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Yeah, yeah, that'd be sweet.

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
It's funny because Superbirds, I believe were made two years
and the Daytona only made one, so Dodge daytona pluming
of superbirds, different cars, but really cool and just you
know how they were put together, what they were put
together for.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
They wanted to win on the track.

Speaker 4 (01:33:21):
But the drive trains were identical, weren't they.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
Yeah, in regular charges four forty six pack or the
four to twenty six Semis.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
Yeah, so big power back.

Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
In that era, and the HEMMI was faster.

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
Yeah, yeah, a little bit, not by much though, it
was wild and really depending on you know a lot
of there's oh god, what was it. Was it sixty
nine or seventy where the four to forty six pack
won more than a himI?

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
What are those years? I think it was. I mean
they're really neck and neck. The six packs got.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
Tuned a little big port the heads, and I think
the uh, they were just right there under you know.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
It was the cars, the application.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
Those cars were doing two zero six when everybody else
is doing a buck ninety yeah, buck ninety five, you
know arrow, Yeah, it's amazing. All right, Well, look, you
guys enjoyed the rest of the weekend. We're picking up
cars cars for Christmas, which is gonna be a blast.
My man Mike from Go for It services, go the
number four IT services. You got a couple championships on
the line next weekend, right.

Speaker 4 (01:34:17):
Yeah, man, we're trying to break in the motor for
the Solstice Turbo that we just got. So if you
see me with that with that boy, this really hurts
to drive this car for this long look on my face.
What I need to do?

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
Yeah, it does break in sicks, but what a cool
fun right, good luck next week Grayson. Yeah, thanks man,
I know that'd be fun for you.

Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
We'll get back at it here in the week and
a half or a week, two weeks, I guess here
with the these garage carster, Christmas takes a takes control
next weekend for us picking up cars. If you emailed,
by the way and have a car for us to
pick up, donate a car. We'll be back in touch
with you this week. Just getting back to those emails
here this weekend start tomorrow. So we had other cars
pick up last weekend. This weekend, we're doing it now,

(01:35:02):
so we'll be back in those emails as of next
week or early this week.

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All right, you guys enjoy We can't enjoy your time.
Have blast you on Monday. It's one of seven nine
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