The Ferrari NART Spider is a special kind of Ferrari that is very rare and valuable. It is a convertible car made a long time ago and is famous because it was connected to racing in North America.
A classic collector car is an old or special car that people keep because it's rare or important. People like to take care of these cars and sometimes use them only on weekends.
Collector car insurance is special insurance made just for old or rare cars. It helps protect your car's value and covers things normal car insurance might not.
Agreed value coverage means your insurance company and you agree on how much your special car is worth before anything happens. So if your car gets damaged badly, you get that agreed amount of money back.
The Ferrari 275 GTB 4 Cam NART Spider is a very special red Italian sports car from 1967. Only ten were made as convertibles by a racing team, so it is very rare and valuable.
NART is a special racing team from North America that worked with Ferrari a long time ago. Cars with the NART logo are special and can be more valuable.
Magnesium wheels are special car wheels made from a light metal called magnesium. They help the car go faster and handle better but are rare and need careful handling.
Carbon fiber race seats are special car seats made from a very light and strong material. They help keep the driver safe and comfortable when driving fast.
A retractable roof is a roof on a car that can fold back or come off so you can drive with the top down. Taking it off can make the car lighter and stronger.
The Mercedes-Benz SL 600 Black Series is a special, fast version of a luxury convertible car with a big powerful engine and lightweight parts to make it go better.
The Toyota Camry is a four-door car made for everyday driving. It is known for being easy to drive, comfortable, and reliable, making it popular with many people.
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The Jaguar E-Type is a classic sports car made in the 1960s. It is famous for looking very stylish and being fast, and many people collect it because it is special.
The Plymouth Superbird is a special muscle car from 1970 with a big wing on the back and a pointed front to go fast on race tracks. It was only made for one year and is very rare now.
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All right, I have a long time friend here Brad. How you doing Brad good? Welcome to vote in Miami
Yeah, man. We we've been dodging the rain, but right now. It's really nice out and you were nice enough to bring an
Incredible car that's been in your family for how long now. Yeah 40 years 40 years. So
Tell us about this wonderful. I think they called it in the movie
Thomas crown affair. Yeah, they called it this little Italian red thing
Tell us about this little Italian red thing. Yeah, so this is a 1967 Nart spider. It's a Ferrari 275
Gtb 4 cam Luigi Canetti of the North American racing team commissioned a few of them
To be converted into a convertible. This is one of ten of the originals that was originally converted
This is the third one produced. It was sold in 1968 to a gentleman down here in Miami
So it's great to sort of bring it back to its original stomping grounds. Yeah, that's awesome
Now if I remember right Kennedy originally wanted like 25, but they only actually made 10
Yeah, he wanted a few. I don't know the exact amount that he requested. I think it was a little bit over 20, but
yeah, he only got 10 and
The 10 are still very sought-after vehicles now if you would if you could share you remember when
Your dad bought this car. It was kind of an interesting story. What can you share about that?
Yeah, so it was in the middle of a restoration down here the owner at the time was up in Fort Lauderdale and
basically
In the middle of the restoration he decided he didn't want it. So after saying he was never going to sell the vehicle
My dad who had met him a few years earlier got a call saying the cars for sale come on down and pick it up
Do you mind opening the door just to look at this pumpkin interior? Tell us about the color combo. Yeah, it is
It's referred to as the the NART with the orange interior. It's got a beautiful leather, but definitely has that orange hue to it
Could have moved that uh, that's okay
The car cover for you, but yeah
So red line is seventy five hundred seventy six hundred rpms. It looks like
Now how fast have you driven this car? I have not pushed this car
I've enjoyed it as was intended as a cruiser top-down highway speeds
It's a blast to drive. I mean the 275 GTB's
Recognized as one of the best street Ferraris ever put out for the era
And this is the same driving dynamics just with the convertible option and that's the factory North American racing team logo
That was on the car. That's the NART logo. Yeah, the badge that they put on. I just love this thing
Well, man, thanks for bringing it to Moda Miami. Yeah, we're happy to be here
And I'm sure you're winning some sort of big award if I had to guess
We'll see I haven't seen anything yet, but I
The judge was very nice we came by this morning and we chatted about the vehicle
So we'll see and it is a wonderful little Italian thing for sure. It definitely is
All right, so we got a two-time guest here Rob at Moda Miami and
You and I are friends. The thing I've come to know is that you you like weird quirky British race cars
So tell me what are we looking at? I do. I like the cars. I don't fit in
We're looking at a 1952 Cooper MG
It's a Cooper chassis
They sold them as rolling chassis is back then because of tax purposes
The body was a one-off body by Gray and rich
It was commissioned by Victor Percy Drew. He was a shop manager at University Motors
So he sourced the 1250 X-Pag MG
Motor and built this car and he'd initially build it a race
But then thought it was too pretty and never raced it. Oh really so I didn't actually race until the 60s when he sold it
But yeah, it's one of
Somewhere between 12 and 20
T21 Cooper variants they built
they moved on from the T14 variant which I'm restoring right now the creative workshop and
Move to the T21
the T21
It then moved to the Cooper Bob tail, which I sold with your last year at RM in Pebble Beach
So what draws you to these cars?
You know I I
like the hunt and finding you know, there's maybe
six to eight of these left right and
Finding one of six or eight is a challenge
Yeah, and and when you do when you find something it's it's just I like to I like to look I like to hunt
I like I like unique. I like rare
affordable and affordable right and
you know, it's
They get into every show they get in every tour they get in every event. They're fun to drive. This one's very fast
Probably really good looking car from the rear here. Yeah, it's it's got you know
He he was actually in the 1952 auto sport magazine at
Silverstone and
He said he he he always wanted a 166
Barquetta, right couldn't afford it. So this was his
Styling and what he thought the barquetta a little longer nose. Yeah much longer tail. Yeah, but as you know
My uncle Howard Banozak has the joy 500 which is a sister card of this
Which probably looks more like the one 66 Barquetta because it's a little shorter
Also very very successful race car
We moved the firewall back move the pedals back so I could drive it. It's still I'm still tight
But I can definitely drive and it is it is fun to drive it's
The car I'm restoring now the t14 is faster because it's lighter
But this one is really quick and really I've had it going last year on the tour at Amelia. I had it going
92 oh, wow. Yeah, you said these are magnesium wheels magnesium wheels. Yeah
Don't break one because there's only one guy in England that makes them and he apparently made you one
He's made one. He made me one. He's made me a couple of sets actually because I had him made for the Bob tail and I had it and yeah, he
he
He's very proud of his work
Well, if you got a cast magnesium, right? Yeah
Well, awesome, man. Well, thanks for uh, of course in the car to motor Miami. Of course. Thanks for having me as usual
All right, we have previous podcast guest Phillip Richter on how you doing buddy? I'm good. Well, I know you like really rare cool cars
And apparently you got one of the rarest and coolest behind you. So what did you bring to motor Miami? I brought a
2009 SL 65 black series. This was a car that was produced only in 2009
350 worldwide were produced. This is a US car 175 for the US the US cars and the Euro cars are slightly different
the US cars have side airbags and normal seats the Euro cars do not have side airbags and they have carbon fiber race seats which Jeremy Clarkson
Adamantly said they were like sitting on a pile of rocks, right?
So that's how you could tell the Euro car from the right so same side blinker lights headlights that kind of stuff
Yeah, oh interesting. All right, so is it a hard top convertible or strictly a hard top
So so our 230s work. They were hard top convertibles, but in the conversion process at AMG
this was the first car 100%
Manufactured at AMG and in the conversion process. They actually made it a permanent structural hard top interest
So there's actually roll bar components
In here in the production photos, you'll see that there's actual metal roll bar. It's inside
You can't see it from the interior, but this is one whole piece of carbon
So the the retractable roof was removed saving about 500 pounds Wow place with carbon now
It's interesting. So are these carbon fenders all the flared? Yeah. Yeah, and actually you can it's really kind of neat you can see
Even it's kind of fun. Oh, well up with gas. You see the carbon construction
So this was a very complicated car for them to build. I'm actually surprised it even got approved to be built
Completely bespoke all the suspensions different than a normal 230
Obviously the incredible DTM style flares carbon fiber even the leather in the interior is a different level of leather
So the build quality on this car is a
Hand-built second to none. I think so we have to ask V12 by turbo is a six liter 6.3 6.2
8 or like what so it's it's it produces just under 700 horsepower
Okay, I leave it's a 6.3 liter by turbo the turbos are bigger on the black series than the standard
SL 600
Okay, yep motor and there are some other tweaks they did to get it, you know to produce more horsepower
That does some of that include the exhaust. Yeah, is it a loud rockets? It's actually it's it when it's running
It sounds like a Toyota Camry. Okay, but if you get after it, it's got a nice growl
So what drew you to this just the rarity of it all so what special build?
Yeah, yeah, but what drew me to it is in 2009 in the middle of the financial crisis
I was walking down Park Avenue for my office and Mercedes used to have a showroom on Park Avenue and a black series of
Silver one was sitting in the showroom in 2009. I remember in 2009 like
After the world was ending banks were failing it was bad and here comes this car
So I sat there and stared at it through the window and I called my friend Scott who owned a Mercedes dealer to be educated on
What it was because I never even heard of it and he told me all about the car
And I became obsessed and I finally when it hit the right part of the depreciation curve in 2014
I bought a very low mileage one-owner car. I love it in
In the steel gray, they only made seven of them in this color most are black
The car looks really like a Batmobile in black
but in the in the steel gray it it takes on an elegant look and
It's a rare car with a rare color in what's the mileage on this one. It's just about 2,000 miles
Oh, wow, okay. Yeah, what was the original sticker on it 304,000? Wow. Yeah, that was huge money in 2009 dollars
Yeah
Yeah, and I even I even bought another set of rims for it because these cars were produced for about eight months in 2008 and
You can't the rims are totally bespoke to the car
So I found a set in Italy someone had changed them up with more bling-bling wheels and they sold their original wheels
So I bought them so I have another set of rims for it in case it's a very wise purchase. I just yeah
Yeah, so tell me about the license tag v-dozen. I'm assuming I know what the dozen is. Yeah v-twelve just v-twelve
V-twelve. That's nice. It's cool. I didn't think that plate would be available
But it was you can see the exhaust tips and the diffuser. I mean it has a really throaty exhaust
It's actually a comfortable car to drive once the tires are hot
It's a little bit of like driving a luge when the tires aren't warm, but once it's rolling
It's actually a fairly comfortable car very hard ride, but the interior is full luxury has, you know
Fantastic audio very supportive seats high quality leather. So it's a drivable supercar
And it looks like you won some some sort of award
I don't know what we won, but we won something today. You got the Moda M. So I'll just tell you ahead of time. Congratulations. Thank you
Thank you. Thank you so much man. Thanks. Alright, so now I have Chuck with an incredible Allard Chuck. How you doing, buddy?
Good today. Well, you're doing really good because you won your class right not with one car, but with two cars
Is that right? What was the other 1970 mangusta? Wow two for two very good for two. Yeah, it's been a good day in Miami
Yeah, well tell me a little bit about this incredible Allard here
I have a little bit of experience because you gave me a ride in it once which was incredible, but what are we looking at?
So it's a 1950 Allard J2 race car
Originally bought by a guy named Colonel Steinmetz who ordered it specifically to go race at Pebble Beach in 1950
It came without any engine in it. He put originally put a Mercury Flathead 8 in it
That engine apparently was blown up
I'm not sure if it was blown up by him or not because the story I was told is that after he entered it in
1950 he got cold feet and backed out of the race. He decided he didn't want to do it
so after that it was sold to another private individual and then
Oh, the fellow that raced with Carol Shelby ended up driving this car
And they put a Chrysler 331 Hemi in it in 1952 and that's the engine that's in it to this day
It came with a Ford three-speed transmission because Sydney Allard was a Ford dealer over in England
So all of the cars came with three speeds and to die in rear-ends
Now did it come with this massive hood scoop? It did
Come with that and the other thing it came with is because of the Hemi this one was modified here
To accommodate for the generator underneath because it stuck up
So it's very easy to find this car because of that bump here
Not so much the massive hood scoop but that little bump now if I remember correctly you have a really cool story
About seeing this car like 20 years earlier. Yes something crazy like that. What's that story? So
2012 we used to do a show in the Glenmore which is in Ohio and Canton
And the last year 2012 every year we had a featured mark that year Allard was the featured mark
And we had about 22 or 23 Allards there not all j2s. We had k1s. We had m's. We had l's
We had all different variants of Allard's
but
I had done the show field for them for the last five years
And I've got a 62 jag e-type and they asked me to bring it down on saturday
And they put it up on the stage to use it for the centerpiece for the luncheon or actually for the dinner that night
So I bring the jag down on saturday morning
Then I go put old clothes on because i'm setting the show field up
We actually put markers on every one of our cars with their with their
Identification number so it made it really easy where to park them
So I would do things and then I'd go back out and tweak them. So I'm down in the grass. I've got old pants on
I've got an old sweatshirt on I probably hadn't shaved in four or five days
And as we're all done, Dave Schultz comes up to me and says, you know, chuck your jag looks great
He says but we're featuring Allard
So do me a favor and run up and go find Andy and have him bring one of the Allards down and I was like, well, who's Andy?
And he says Andy piccarella. He's the president of the Allard club and um, he's got a couple of cars and go find him
So I go up there and I asked him to go up to the hotel and I asked him to come down
And he comes down and he says, can I help you and I said, yeah, I'm chuck loper
Dave Schultz asked me to come up here and see if you'd be nice enough to bring one of your Allard's down for display
And he looks at me and he says, yeah, my wife's taking a nap and I'm getting ready to go get a beer
So he says, I don't think so and I said, well, that's okay
Dave told me to tell you if you needed me to I'll be glad to drive the car down there for you
At which point he looks at me like this
He goes, yeah, that's not going to happen son
And I said, uh, no, really, it's okay. And he does it again. He goes, yeah, you're not driving my car
Right, so I get him down to the show field. I had a golf card. He follows me down
We take the car. We leave it. We're getting ready to go back up at which point
He stops me and says, hang on before you take me back up. I want to go look at that jag
That thing's gorgeous and I said it is isn't it? And he said, uh, he's walking around
He goes, you know, whoever owns this is some lucky son of a bitch
I went, well, I don't know if I'm a son of a bitch, but it's mine. Yeah, right
And he says, yeah, there's no way that's your car and I said, I got no reason to lie to you
So I take him back up. I go shower. I shave. I put a suit on. I'm sitting at dinner
All of a sudden there's a tap on my shoulder and it's Dave Schultz
With Andy and Andy turns around and looks at me. He goes, yeah, I think I owe you an apology
And I said, for what? And he said, uh, I honestly thought you were one of the groundskeepers
I was not going to let you drive my car
And he and I said, well, obviously I'm not and he said, and he looks at me again. He goes, damn son, you clean up good
So we laughed and he said, look, I got a problem tomorrow morning
He says, I've got three eyelids here and I can't get them all on the show field at once and my wife does not get up early
He said, would you be nice enough to drive my j2 down to the show field in the morning?
And I said, well, yeah, show me how to drive it. So it's got a because it's a race car
Has a kill switch for the fuel pump up underneath there. You can't see
So he shows me how to do that turn it all on how to
Do the choke and get it started. So I get up early in the morning. Take the car down
Drop it off. All the guys and I got a suit on because I'm uh, I was the field general
All the guys that are there look at me and go, good god, chuck, where did you get that?
And I jokingly said, oh, I bought it at the auction yesterday
Not knowing that 15 years later. That's exactly what I would end up doing, but I had no idea
So during the day
My son came down
I introduced him to Andy. He he was nine or 10 at that time
Andy says to me, why don't you put him in there and take some pictures of him?
He says it'll be something he'll never forget
So Austin's sitting in here and up until a couple of years ago
My screensaver on my computer was my little boy sitting in this car and how old was he at the time?
He was nine or 10. He's 23 now. He's 23 now. Yeah, so yeah, it's like 14 years ago
Well, so I take the picture
I say go to say goodbye and he says, well, listen before you put the car away for me
He says, why don't you take your son for a ride in it?
And I said, I thought I was never driving your car. Yeah, he goes, you're a real smart ass, aren't you?
Yeah, and I said, well, I didn't mean to be but you told me I'm not going to drive your car
He said, well despite my first impressions. He goes, you obviously know what you're doing
He says, no, take your son for a ride. So I took him for a ride
took him all around
Put the car away said goodbye to them didn't think much of it
I met in the state sale a few years later or not a few months later
and I find a
poster Monterey historic car race
And it's an Allard going around a corner with the Mercedes SLR right behind it. Oh my goodness
So I buy it for like five bucks or something
I have it framed and I put an inscription on it and it said to Andy
Thanks for sharing your Allard with us from Chuck in Austin. It's my son
And I sent it to him for Christmas and he called me up and he goes. Oh my god. Where did you find that?
I said, I was in an estate sale
And I said it looked a lot like your car. So I thought you'd like it because it doesn't look like my car
That is my car. Oh my goodness because of this right because you could see it
You could see it in the poster because of the bulge for the generator
Right, and I said no way and he goes, listen, you got a friend for life
He says you come to massachusetts you do whatever you want. He says you come stay with my wife and I
So about a year later, I had to go up for a work event. I had dinner with him
That would have been like 2014 probably and then I never saw him again
Fast forward to 2023 to malea island. I'm at the r.m. Auction
I walk in the back and as I'm walking down the road
I look up and I didn't go there with any intention of buying a car
And I look down and I see this thing
And I reach up underneath and I find the kill switch for the and I said, it's got to be the same
So I asked the r.m. People
Is that the andy piccarellis car and they they didn't know but they said this fellow over here
He consigned it so go ask him so he tells me yes, that's andy's car and I said
He wouldn't be here by any chance. He goes. Yeah, he's down front talking to bill warner
So I go walk down and he turned around and he just kind of looked at me blank and unfortunately he had a stroke
You could tell
And I said andy. It's chuck loper and he's like
Didn't click and I said it's chuck the guy who sent you the
The poster of your car and then it clicked and he gave me a big hug and he goes. What are you doing here?
And I said, well, I just came to look around
But I don't know maybe I'll go home with an allard
And he said, oh my god, if you bought my car, it'd be so great
And he says actually he says if you want to work out a deal right now, I'll pull it from the auction
And I said no, I'm not doing that. That's not gonna happen. I said, that's not right
And he goes no, I want you to have that car
He says with you and me with our history because I want you to have it
And I said, well, why are you selling it? And he says look at me. He says, yeah, I'm not going to be around much longer
So I said, well, look, I'll go do the best I can so he is sitting in the huge tent like we have here but
Pack thousands of people in the right front corner. I'm over with my friends over in the left front corner
So I walk all the way back around and sit down
About two minutes later. I look up and Andy is sitting next to me. I go Andy. What are you doing?
He says, well, my daughter Mimi's here. She's over in the corner
She's going to video the whole thing when you buy my car with me sitting next to you. Oh, that's great
And I'm like, uh, no pressure. No pressure at all. No pressure at all
So I end up buying the car. I'm bidding on it. I end up buying it
And I look up and Andy's gone
And I was like, where'd he go and this woman comes walking up to me and she goes, hi, I'm Mimi
I'm Andy's daughter. She goes, can I give you a hug?
And I said, yeah, sure. Why and she said my father is not an emotional person
He's over in the corner crying saying he can go to his grave now and knowing where his car went
I'm gonna start crying. I'm gonna start crying. Yeah, and I was like, oh my gosh. And she goes
He um, he's so happy you got the car. She goes, but I want you to know something
She goes he had that car sold earlier on bring a trailer
For almost a hundred thousand dollars more than you paid for it. Oh, wow
And I went really and she goes yes and she said but he didn't like the guy and she just he wouldn't do the deal
She said the stars align. This was kismet. You're supposed to have this car
So she said, what are you doing for dinner?
And I said, well, I had plans, but I'll change them. I said, I'll come have dinner with you and your dad
And I said, where do you want to go? Now? We're at the ritz carlton. It did a melee island. She goes, you know what?
My dad loves cracker barrel
So we drove all the way out to yule and I had dinner with him, which is the last time I ever saw him
And he said to me, listen, I wasn't going to do this
But if you come to massachusetts, he says, I'll give you all the extra parts I have for this car
He says, I got an extra rear end an extra transmission. I got an extra block
He says, I got all kinds of body parts. They're all yours plus all the awards I've ever won with this car
60 years he owned this car all the awards everything I ever did
How about the poster and the poster he says and your poster? He says, I'll get give it all to you
He said, but don't take too long because I won't be here much longer
I was like, well, don't say that. Well, that was march in may his daughter called me and told me he passed away
So I went up there
Probably two months later with my niece
We took a trailer and I got there and his daughter came out
I his other daughter Maggie who I'd never met introduced herself said
My dad left you all kinds of things. There's boxes and boxes
She goes and all the engine parts and everything she goes. It's all there for you. She says, that's the good news
I said, what's the bad news?
She goes all the engine parts and the transmission everything
She goes, it's on the third floor of the barn and unfortunately the lift's broken. Oh, no
So we got it all down and we came home
Um, and I've stayed in touch with them. Uh, my fiancee Denise and I
We did a rally this uh past october and when we were done
We were in massachusetts we went out to the cape and we stayed with them
We stayed with his daughter and uh, and her husband's name is greg as well
And we stayed with them and had a wonderful time
Um, I was contacted
Uh by a guy named mark brinker earlier this year mark
Who was doing a race cars cars that raced at pebble beach and asked us to bring this to pebble beach this year for that class
Really?
Yeah, I don't know if I'm in yet or not. We're not sure. I'm waiting to find out
But if we do I had told Maggie and Mimi both of them that I would fly him out
That was their dad's dream to get this car to pebble beach. He applied three times
I found all the paperwork and unfortunately all three times he was turned down. Wow. So we'll see what happens. It'll be
It'll come full circle. I'd love to do that for him. I every time I drive this I think about andy
I mean, yeah, that's 60 years for someone own a car for 60 years and then be so gracious to tell me how happy he is
That i'm the new caretaker. I couldn't be happier. That's incredible. Well, I have to ask
From a driving living with it perspective. What's your
Favorite aspect and what's your least favorite? What's the best and the worst?
It's it's a wind in your face feel good kind of experience
It's a son of a gun to drive. Yeah, you're I know that. Yes. Yeah, you're eight feet behind the front wheels
You step on the brakes and they go left right. They pull you all over the place because they're drums
I know there's there's no side mirrors
But you have a side mirror as your center mirror in the center. Yeah, I look almost looks like one of the ones from a cobra
Yeah
Yeah, it kind of does
Yeah, so it's got to be a handful. It's a handful to drive
And andy was a very small man. I think he was five four five three. Oh, wow and i'm five ten
um
If you look in here and you see where the
Pedals are yeah, there's no place for me to rest my foot where my knees aren't up underneath the dashboard
Which is pretty uncomfortable. Yeah, but it's okay. We make the best of it. We did the tour. It was pretty funny
um, I took this seat out
And I went and got the cushions off of my deck
Which are about this thick
Oh, and I had one across the back and denise had a scarf
And we put the scarf underneath and I had the other one underneath and then I was pretty comfortable
Because I've taken this sink this uh, this seat out and sat in here and then I'm pretty comfortable
I need this like extra three inches. So sometime during the spring. I'm going to have this seat taken out to have the stuffing
No, no no cruise control, huh? No cruise control
Actually, I know a lot of a lot of stuff. No. Yeah. No, it's um, it's pretty simple. It's a four three speed
It's easy enough to drive. We had it up to I don't know
I have no idea if this is accurate or not
But I was probably at 3,500 rpms. I'm guessing according to the folks around us. We were doing 74 75 the whole time
right
When we were on the highway it handles
It handles amazingly well
Going left
What's weird turning right where you think you can feel it right it wants to oversteer
It's really you got to keep coming back because
There was a cut and for denise when she was sitting over here and we're going down the traffic
Well, all of a sudden I feel her hand on my leg. It's like, okay, you're getting over to the other lane a little too far
Yeah, a little stress. Yeah
Well, Chuck, thanks so much for bringing it and uh sharing it at moda miami man. Well, thank you for having us
Hopefully I'll see you at Monterey. Yeah. All right. So I have john with this incredible mopar. Hey john, what am I looking at right here?
Greg, this is a 1970 Plymouth super bird made one year 1970
and uh, this is a car that um
I was a teenager and I was in high school
And my my dad and I would always look at the classified ads and papers and say oh look at this car
Look at that car and one day dad called me in the local morgantown west virginia paper and he said let's go
Look at this car
And it was a super bird that had been sold in morgantown west virginia. Here's here's the original ad from wilkins motors
that um
That the the car was advertised there at wilkins. I bought it
52 years ago. I'm going on my 53rd year of ownership
So now you said that that is this actual car because they only had one at that dealership. Is that right?
Um, that's that's my understanding. I I know that I've seen pictures of this car inside the dealership
And there was a unique positioning of the nose that I said, I know that's my car
And uh, and so I bought it in 75
So now how old were you when you first put your butt in the front seat 17?
Was your dad crazy like what guy what dad says?
I'm gonna buy my son this car as his first car dad. Let me get away with that for about three months
And then he said john. I think we'd better park it. Oh, wow
And so I don't know whether he wanted to save the car or he wanted to save me god bless him
But uh, when dad said that I said, okay
And so I really didn't get to put a lot of miles on it a buddy and I drove it down to the
Kentucky Derby one year
But but that's the only real miles that I really got to put on it
So then it was put away for storage sunday drives or occasional drives. It was put away for storage
I'd move it with me
over the 52 years of my professional career
Uh insurance and sat in the garage and it was 52 years of craziness to to keep doing this and um
And and I'm I'm very fortunate
I decided I wanted to restore it and after a lot of searching looking for the right person
I found a
gentleman up in Providence, Rhode Island mike man senior at american muscle car restorations
Flew up met mike
Spent time he's done. Um, I think seven Daytonas and super birds
So I knew this guy knew his cars
I told him the car had to remain entirely original
And um, and so the car is pretty much original where he's refurbished everything
There's a few parts that he's had to to redo but at over
It was actually more of a four or five year restoration
Mike and his team just done a great job. Yeah, mike's been on the podcast before and he does amazing work
Do you mind opening the door for me? Sure. And so what I want to make sure the
Listeners know is that this is all in os new old stock or the original like this is the original
The original door panel original hoses original everything. Yeah, and I know I think that's original dash original dash
I mean, it's just unbelievable
In mike's level of detail you can see the plastic covering the seat belts
And I think he said there's only like two things that's not original on here was like the battery cover
And what was it the seats or something like that? Yeah, it was but every other thing the headliner
You know the weather stripping
Everything is incredible the trunk stripping. I mean mike found the original numbers on it said we're gonna keep it
We can do it and and the the stabilizer bars
He mike pulled them off and he shows me he goes these are perfect
The motor mounts the motor mounts the transmission mounts the rubbers the moldings on all of those
He just said I can reuse these. It's so interesting this little part right there
Well, let's look underneath the hood here. It's open. So you might as well look, right? Yeah, please. I mean, so what's the engine?
Greg it's it's the 440 with the big carter 4 barrel and
And I ran the dickens out of it in the in the three short months that that I was really driving it
And it it really it was a great runner. Yeah
Well, it's just spectacular. I remember earlier mike was saying I think the black cover on the battery is a replacement
But every red one is is the factory had to restore each one of those little red caps. Yeah, unbelievable
Yeah, so now is this its debut has it been somewhere else before this?
Um, we we were honored to be invited to the audrain. Oh, yes in newport
Yep, and and mike did the first time I got to see it mike
Unveiled it at carlyle last year for the 100th anniversary
He had this on the lift and
And uh, and it's the first time I got to see it completed. You know, it'll choke you up. Oh my gosh. I can't even imagine
So what are the future plans for the car?
I'm gonna take it to homestead and do hot laps. Ah, there we go
All right, so what are some of your secrets to success and uh, having a wonderful car like this restore. There's there really
Two key items first. You got to find the right restore and and mike me and senior. I found that
But most importantly day in day out
I had a beautiful wife that didn't look at the checkbook
As long as she's not looking at the checkbook. I could keep going
Well, hopefully she's not looking at this video either
I hope not. Thank you. Greg. I appreciate it
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