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A JCW Show Special: Meet Don Baskin
A JCW Show Special: Meet Don Baskin
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About this episode
Don Baskin shares his journey from starting with just $500 to building one of the largest collections of trucks and cars in the country, emphasizing his cash-only business approach and deep knowledge of the salvage and wholesale truck market. He discusses the challenges of the industry, including tight margins, financing struggles, and the impact of external events like Katrina. Don also opens up about personal experiences, family involvement in the business, and his plans to sell his massive vehicle inventory. The conversation offers a rare glimpse into the mindset and operations of a seasoned vehicle trader and collector.
Topics:
used truck trading
cash-only business
vehicle collection
salvage auctions
industry challenges
family business
vehicle financing
market impact of events
vehicle restoration
personal business stories
Cars:
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A funny thing happened on the way to 2026...catch up with John Clay's visit with one of the most prolific collectors of classic cars and trucks in the United States: Don Baskin has worked in the wholesale automotive trade for six decades, and has amassed a collection that rivals any we've seen. Our official video is getting a LOT of attention on YouTube, but there is much more to the conversation John had with Don Baskin for you here. We hope you enjoy it.
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Hey guys, sorry we missed a show this week.
I went to Tennessee, you might have seen it on our YouTube channel, the Don Baskin interview
and 1000 car collection.
There was a long form interview in that and I asked Bobo to take that unedited interview
and put it up here for you guys today to get a little something on the side since I
missed you last week.
See you Saturday morning bright and early.
The YouTube's located at JCWShow.com and that video is tracking ahead a million
for the end of the week.
It's pretty exciting.
Thanks.
We're going to Covington, Tennessee to go buy Don Baskin's massive collection.
It's got a thousand cars, one of the largest collections in the country.
But I ended up discovering the story behind this car empire and the way this guy thinks.
This is the most interesting son of a bitch I've come across in a long time.
I see you on TV all the time.
Oh yeah?
I've been doing the radio show for 20 years.
And I don't know if you ever hear me on the radio on.
In Memphis we're on the Max.
Is that the rock station?
Oh, I just think it can be on the radio.
So the cars that when we're driving up and they got the stickers on them are those co-parts?
Some of them are about co-parts.
I mean, I got some of the questions on where to start.
But like I told the guys when we got here, I'm like, okay, now I know where I understand
who I'm dealing with.
Yeah, yeah.
Because I've been, not like this, but you know, you're just a trader.
Yeah, I try.
We're a trade.
Horses, pigs, rags, straigs.
I got a bunch of horses.
Bunch of cows.
Right?
Yeah.
I suppose you've probably ever made a trade for land.
Yeah, I got a lot of land.
I got that billed over.
Some food you can't walk in, but I guess I got two big old cotton warehouses full of cars.
I mean, I got 970 inches.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
I thought we were just going to come up and try to buy a handful of cars.
JD said that you were serious about it.
I want to sell them all.
Yeah.
Okay.
What are you going to do with it when you're done?
Biggest of the land?
Might start buying again.
I don't know.
Probably we'll run out of room.
So when you started, I mean, obviously you made the money on the equipment to buy the cars
and then you probably...
Yeah.
But were you buying wrecks in the beginning?
I always bought wrecks and big trucks and some cars and fixed them up, you know, for
years.
I was buying for A.A. and co-party would come along, you know.
Right.
They didn't get so competitive.
Now they're so big you can't buy nothing.
No.
And it's all over the world.
Ain't no way to buy no bargain no more.
The whole world like that.
Right.
The margins tie it.
It is.
Yeah, I don't know how to get on them all the more.
I sell a lot from Ritchie Brothers, which he's done that outrageous too.
I sell a lot to Ritchie Brothers.
Sammelcast, I thought that a little bit.
Oh, yeah.
Because once the Sammelcast really sat in and opened the whole world, I've been on that
thing that you're used to moving.
Oh, yeah.
It's hard to buy.
Were you shipping stuff overseas a lot back in the day?
I did in the years, yeah, 90s, yeah.
We big salvage yard too, some day we cut 20 cuckoos, you know, sell them motors
and grant me the room and got them all scrapped on off.
And do you take them?
Are you like a, what's that company called where you get all the car parks?
Oh, yeah.
KQ.
Are you?
Is there LKQ at truck parks?
They have got one or two.
Yeah.
Is that what do you catalog them all and have a website where they know to go to
your deal to get your parts?
No, no.
I use a lot of them parts just for fixing up my trucks.
Like I buy a truck motor bed, I'll take one out of the other trucks, put in
it or over all of it or whatever that does it.
Now we buy mostly dead trucks and fix them, that's the only house I got to make
any money from.
But I got them listed in there, but I've had coffee like 10,000
months or something.
Looking, yeah, looking at a, you finance a lot of it?
I do, I do a lot of finance myself and then I get a bunch of finance, you
know.
Right.
But I don't owe nothing on none of it.
When we rolled up, I said, old Don is not all a 60-day turn.
No.
I never, it's very hard for you to believe it, but I've never borrowed one
dime from a bank or no financial institute.
I believe you.
I didn't have the money, I didn't buy it.
I'm the same way.
Yeah.
I've done it before, but now I'm 100% cash, I don't, I don't.
Our game is so, I don't know if you're familiar with what I do, but I'm,
I run a lane at, I'm Mannheim's largest customer.
Yeah.
And I run a lane at Dallas and we sold, this year we only did 35,000, but the
other years during COVID we did 53 was on high.
I know.
So you can imagine what that is.
So we got seven lanes going, one in California, one in Chicago, yeah.
And there ain't no bank going to cover that.
Yeah.
No.
I know.
You ain't got no title, no title, no car, because the car's gone.
You know, there's like, there's nothing here to finance.
You can take a bunch of cash and put it with the bank and get doubled
down on it.
Yeah.
But that's, they don't want any part of this business.
No.
They never would.
I asked them one time about bonds of money.
You had to go through so many hoops.
I just told the people that I dealt with when I was starting out, they
knew me and knew I wouldn't know the crook, man.
They would, you know, make a hole to check for a couple of days.
Sometimes I moved a few of them or something, but I've always never had
nobody mad at me over no money or nothing.
I mean, because I always did exactly what I said I'd do.
Right.
But it's a tough world out here now, though.
I'm tell you, it's just different.
I mean, things are different from me.
I mean, we still retail all that 100 bucks a week.
Really?
We sell a hell out of it.
That's a lot.
We do.
We sell a hell out of it.
We sell it a wholesale price.
Right.
And, you know, a man can walk up, buy a truck, five, six
thousand dollar cheaper, come from the same place, the same
mileage.
They're bad for me, you know.
Good Lord, been good to me.
When I was 14, my daddy was in the car-sourced
business.
Yep.
So I told him, I said, me and him couldn't get along.
So I quit school and I went to buying big trucks and
sourced them.
You know.
This is cool stuff because a lot of people don't believe this
is the truth.
I'm the same way.
Yeah.
This man, I can tell already.
That's what I said the first 500.
I know he started with $500.
That's right.
And he's worked it to this thing.
And all of his wealth is tied up in this inventory.
Right, right.
And he knows, unfortunately, because you probably got a
little bit of autism before they were saying what
autism was because you got the memory.
And to do this game, you've got to have this
memory that is completely photogenic.
Right.
Yes, the inventory list matters.
Right.
And yes, it helps you, but you know.
Because you remember everyone you bought and what
you didn't.
And the ones you buy at auctions, you don't have a
feeling for that much because you did it so fast.
Yeah.
But everyone you bought off the street, you
fucking remember.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
So the.
It's OK.
So I interrupted you.
The first 500.
Was how did it start?
Well, first 500.
My daddy created me enough to buy a truck,
a big truck that was burnt.
Okay.
It was a 9,500 GMC, like a 69 or
71.
Pretty new back in.
And I took a cab off when I bought off another
truck, put on it and made like seven or eight
thousand.
And you were held?
I was 14.
Okay.
And that was when you just ruined yourself at
that moment.
You were never coming back.
I never went back to school.
Never went back to school.
Why would you need to?
I kept on.
I mean, I knew how to read and write,
you know.
Right.
So then I went back to buy.
So what year was that?
That was, I was born in 57.
So it'd be about 14 years or that,
whatever it was.
So mid 60s, 70 or something?
Mid 60s.
So in the mid 60s, you made 7,000 on a
truck?
One truck.
That started with 500.
Right.
And you went and did it again?
Yeah.
I mean, I did it over and over and I
started getting good people that trust
me and I was buying big packages from
like, you know, truck sales in Memphis.
I went down there one day, you know,
I was just driving around Memphis.
I still do it.
I drive around Memphis to all the
truck lots and what they don't,
what they could sell that they don't
sell.
Right.
Because they want to turn money.
Right.
You do it?
Well, I do.
I go like, you know, truck sales
had 7,9500 GMC trucks.
And I,
What year do you think we're in?
This was about 74.
I bring this up because this
guy's are remembering the deal
from 74.
Oh, yeah.
And you remember all the deal.
Go ahead.
I bought 7,9500 GMC's had 238
Detroit's 10 speeds.
They've been sitting on his lot
down there.
Of course.
I've seen them four or five time
when I do that.
And I went there one day and I
said, uh, I want to buy them
trucks.
And he told me, he said, you've
been down here so many times.
Have you got any money?
I said, I wouldn't be down
about that a month.
Right.
And he said, uh, we'll take
7,000 a piece.
That's 50 grand.
That's 50 grand.
So I told him, I said, I'll
give 35,000 for him right now.
Well, they had never dealt
with no cash on.
Yeah.
But I had, didn't have no
bank account.
And I had, before I sold other
trucks.
So I paid them for them.
They did take cash.
You don't make cash at the bank.
Make sure everything's good.
Anyway.
And then I started there and
then I can remember that deal.
Then I went deal after deal after
deal.
People won't sell their
trucks.
And I was so interested.
So you had more money than
your dad pretty quick.
Yeah.
Was he jealous?
No.
He never was jealous.
What about grandpa?
Because I helped him.
I helped him.
When I'd get a truck in that
they could retail because I
got what it's wholesale and
moved trucks so fast.
And because he wouldn't have
been doing it.
Right.
I mean, I was doing things.
I was going to Texas.
I was going to come out to
California, Arizona, buying
packages.
Were they taking drafts?
No.
I just always had cash money.
Right.
I'd bring suitcase.
I had a couple of boys with
me.
We'd pay them cash.
I mean, I paid my taxes
all the way through.
Everything I owed, I'd
paid.
I mean, I never, because I
had my daughter, she was
young.
It's about 10 or 11 years.
She was keeping up with my
stuff already.
She was keeping your numbers?
She still does it now.
She was keeping your numbers?
Keeping my numbers and
keeping what we paid for it,
what we got for it, pay the
taxes.
10 or 11 years old is when
we started.
Yeah.
My son is the same way.
They still with me to the
day.
How far through school did
they get?
My daughter went to college
through college.
My son went to...
I think he might have
finished high school.
But he's...
You think I'm a crack
jack.
Now, he's a cracker.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, he don't...
He'll get to every damn
everything he sells.
He still sells.
He sold down trucks that
they retail each one of them.
Right.
I mean, he gets a kick at it.
I mean, that's what he does.
He loves it.
He just like me, just
loves it to death.
My daughter don't love it
as much as we do.
She does love it.
She does work still at
the shop.
She don't love it like me
and Skip love it.
My son's skill.
So that day that you
bought those seven trucks,
were you nervous as a
whoring church?
Nope.
Nope.
I was never nervous.
I said money ain't
nothing but money.
And if I lose it,
I know how to go back
scrapping and make it back.
Right.
And to this day,
I still sell you used
truck parts.
I got a big scrap yard
and a whole scrap
on a haul.
11 loads yesterday.
I mean, I haul
scrap on it every day
when it's high.
It's high right now.
It's not real high,
but it's high enough
to be...
I can turn it.
I need the room too.
I mean, I don't run out
of room up there.
But we've been hauling
for probably like
three, four months right
now.
When you buy those
cars off a copar,
why do you do it?
Where are you going?
I've got something going on
with me
that
I just like to buy.
I understand.
Because it's made you
so much money.
Yeah.
But I've learned that
you buy things.
You used to go
buy a copar
and I ate
when they come hauled
together.
Right.
I buy a few now
without me
like I used to.
What's the biggest
package you ever
sat down and did?
I'd say about
three or four million.
What's the
biggest package you ever
sat down and did?
Three or four million.
Yeah.
Mostly we just retail.
Right.
But I have wholesale
them.
I got a deal
with Freak coming.
I'm not going to mention
name, but up there in
Nashville.
And they was
pretty big at the time.
And he got the guy
got to like him.
Because I'd give him
a number.
And I say this number
is good for six months.
Right.
Even though they
went out or went up,
he wants a number
and he can
back it up.
Well today
I still buy
trucks for him.
It's like
that.
And he just
knows.
He don't mention
nobody because he knows
if I tell him
I'm going to pay him
he might
wire the money right
then.
I don't look at him
I'm going to do nothing
because I know what
they trucks are.
Right.
If you get
a bag when
everyone wants
to buy you just
get a bag when
I look at them
worry about it.
I never worry about
nothing.
When I buy
I don't
never worry about
nothing.
I never had
too much
pay too little.
I never had that worry.
That's a gift
because I still
you know
I've bought and sold plenty
and
I still go through
to my head a lot.
Yeah.
But my margins are
tight.
Yeah.
Real tight.
See what it is
I just don't want to
I need to get
better at it.
When we were
booming hard
and got in
50,000 cars
and COVID was rolling
I quit worrying about it
because it was all
working out so good
and we'd sell
cars this day
but more
than we
caught hot.
And then we'd go back
the next week
and pay
what we paid
that we sold the cars
for there.
That's right
because you could
make more in it.
It was the craziest day
of thing.
I straight
I didn't miss
too many cars.
It was a
moment in my
car.
Cars and pickup trucks
there's too many
people doing it.
When I
started in this business
what I started
right now
it wasn't
one or two people
like
I'd go by
50 trucks
and two or three
days we
didn't even
sold them all.
And we'd
make 5, 6 grand
a piece of it.
And I just kept
doing it
and doing it
and paying taxes
and paying taxes
and I said
I'm going to get in
the car
old cars
can't hold them
and take
some money
off my
taxes.
So I started
buying them
cars and
sell one
every once in a while
and I never laid
an eye on it.
We
sit right here
and here
we sit right in here
and
run the gas
out of any of these
cars in here
and put new gas in them
and they
crank up
any of them will
that's just the way
they are.
I don't crank them
very often
but about once a year
I go through
and they got
boosters
come around
crank them
out a few minutes
and cut them
black off
but it's hard to keep
all the
admin
of cars
just like these
and I got
a couple more
buildings it's not
quite full
but they
got cars in them too.
I
never want to try to
get
I'm
68 years old
and I
figured
I don't want this
burden on my kids trying
to sell it stuff
and if
I could sell it
I'd sell it
but I don't
just let them have it
and they do
what they want to do
with it.
Well dealing
with me
while back
I bought some
bargains at
Co-part
when they had that
big storm
we had
where everything
went silent
I bought
a hell of a car
a few muscle
cars
but a lot of
trucks
it just
got
where nobody had
the money
and you could buy them
cheese
which storm
were you talking about
Katrina
yeah
that was when
I got
embezzled real bad
back then
motocross wreck
I had a
General Motors
Ford and Dodge
Chrysler Jeep
franchises
so I could send
my wholesalers
into the factory sales
but Katrina
happened in this
customer that we did
a bunch of business with
was going to set up
a tent down in
New Orleans
and have
them be selling cars
and they need
me to pump
cars to them
and I was
sitting in a
wheelchair
hell I was
sitting in my
hospital bed
with a laptop
buying these
million dollars
and it busted me
when I was 32
so I'd start over
so I started
my story like yours
I started with 7 grand
not 500
but maybe damn
many other equivalent time
in 96
yeah
and then
when I started back over
really I got on the radio
cause I was in a wheelchair
I didn't know what to do
with from a wheelchair
and I was like
I can't make the car
actually more
I'm never gonna walk again
I was pissing through a stick
and then I started getting
better and I got on the radio
I was like
maybe I can get the cars
on the radio
and it worked
but long story short
I had to
start over
you know
have you ever had that moment
doesn't sound like you have
never have I mean
I never missed no cars
but you know
cars and margins so close
but you know what got me in trouble
is what you said earlier
I had
a GMAC floor plan
I had a Dodge Chrysler
Credit floor plan
I had a Ford Motor Credit floor plan
so I had all this money
and when you don't
when you're using other people's money
you're not watching it
like to watch your money
yeah
well I did
I should say when I started out
I just took me through it
I mean
I mean it wasn't them
I couldn't be here now
today but
I never backed up on nothing
I mean I bought trucks
they come in they trucked
went out
I still buy trucks for me people
went out on 20%
but I stubbed my word
and they said
you gonna have to
I said yeah I'm gonna do
what I said
I don't buy trucks next time
because those big waves
that we go through 9-11
was my truck
and obviously
I made more money
when it waved down
yes because you have money
where I make my money
because I buy trucks
that you could cost 20,000
two days ago
you might have 7,000
yeah
and I just stopped buying my own
I mean I bought
a bunch of time
I bought some trucks at one time
but not
you know they wouldn't come in
all the same time
you could have
you didn't have no money
you could move them
but I always kept money
I mean I just
one thing I did
they want to say
well let's put in
an interest man
I said no
I don't want
a little 2% interest
in our hell
I don't want that shit
I don't want to mess
just like yeah
you pay me 10%
and I might do something
right
but 2% I rather just tie it up
in trucks you know
and I just spent
spent spent spent
but today
it's not that way
I mean I've got
970 big trucks
I got a big place
right down here
and I got this place
in another place
I got a platform
I got sale there
one of them
some days
like yesterday
I mean slow right now
bad slow
we sold 10 trucks
we have sold
40 trucks a day
I mean we sell
we sell them like
do you floor any
of the people that
I do a few
but not very many
probably 10
they bought for me
they get me too
they get me too
it's frustrating
when you go
floor somebody
it makes enemies
that easily does
yeah
cause they can say
how sorry I am
but they the one
didn't do the deal
you know
they didn't pay the payment
it's some bitches
that live fancy
they ain't got no money
they ain't got no money
no
I'd rather see a man
walk in a cover all
and I had a man
walk in a dead young
whole old shirt
and a pair of breeches
cause most of them
that man said
crawl brawls on
he reached that
be a british
and he'd come out with a
cash
so let's talk about
this collection here
and
you know
seeing you
and meeting you
is kinda scaring me
cause I've got
a little version of this
I keep my shit
moving
but
I pull some off
the assembly line
and put them in my barn
and I'm sure
when you started this
or was it
it was a plan
to always have a bunch of cars
to get this money
I really planned it
okay
I bought the chivalry
did a ship out up here
and they offered me
chivalry
where I'm at now
and chivalry did a shit
and I said
I don't want it
oh you bought the real estate
I bought the real estate
from chivalry place
had an auction
he said
yeah
bought them up
and they had an auction
didn't get it through the auction
they had
it didn't bring enough
so we just
negotiated
we drove through there early
we still don't sell
the salvage
I use so much of it
but we do sell
like people order
10 motors
with this can
they gonna put them
over all of them
put them in stock you know
we do that
we do a lot of that stuff
but when you bought
the Chevy real estate
they wanted you
to have the franchise
and you said no
I didn't want it
I don't blame you
I had the forward tractor
and John Deere
at one time
one of the margins
was so close on that stuff
they said
what about you
them two
I said
it's all paid for
I almost sell it
I bought a lot of stuff
from them
when I get ready to sell it
you know
by brand new tractors
they built bargain
all bound
so you're known in this zone
as the guy that put a number
people call me
all over
all over
that I've dealt with
and they don't know that
like Taylor Martin
I used to go
to every one of them
I bought
so many trucks
cause I knew
what I could get from
I always mess
with high mileage stuff
big trucks
me and
me and had miles
mostly what I mess with
what were you
and JD
working on
were y'all working on him
auction?
he wasn't going to have an auction
up here
but
I'm just going to tell you
where I'm at right now
it's just a hard place
for me to sell these cars
I mean I like them
when I come out
and walk around
every week or two
have a bad day
I walk around
his car
and have a day
to be better
but I got to sell them
cause
my daughter
my son
they don't really
care about them
and I think
about dad
they would never sell them
cause that's just
I feel like they were doing
a disservice to you
disservice to me
so you want to sell them
all
but all means everything
outside too right?
everything
I feel like I have one day
outside
and rest on the inside
and how many
is it all on the computer?
no
I got all the titles
but I ain't got none
you don't have them
logged in the system?
I got them
logged in my business
up there
I mean but the inventory
of cars and titles
is in a computer
yeah
okay good
I may have one or two
titles that we wait
yeah I got you
a few of them
the last ones I bought
but we
do you know the difference
between Don's cars
and Don's trucks
titles?
count?
no
I just know
that we
I should have a little bit
over 900
like 970
but that includes the junk?
no
okay
now it comes to
outside cars here
but not down the street
nothing down there
nothing
so that's what's called
Don's Trucks
I bought two cars this
morning a
morning
come up and
bought them
I've been trying to buy them
a while he just
finally brought them up
to get the money
they just
are they here?
they downed it
I didn't
brought them up
yet
I bought
I bought ten cars this
week
but that moment
around Christmas
I always buy a bunch of
cars
you've been talking
about cars for a while
on the phone and today
those are your Christmas
presents
that's right
and you're excited about
them
yeah
I love
you gotta pull these
things out
and I so
to enjoy them
cause they get water
down with everything else
and you can't focus
on that memory
we're talking about
we clean
things up
about once a year
and have people
come to look at them
I have so many
people come
I mean
I go through
last time
there were
a thousand people
come to them
eight hours
really
and all I did
give them a bottle of
water
I come down
with them
like in
you know
like this
I call
rat roddy
whatever you call it
catty
is it catty
that's old
forward
I just
seen that
thing
at an auction
it was
like a meekle
or something
years ago
when he first started
I've had that car
probably
for 25 years
and I
maybe not that long
about 20 years
so it rolled through
with a bag on it
cranked right up
and the guy that sold it
was happy to say
back in I was
about a month
when I bought it
do you know Dana
very well
meekam
I know him
fairly well
I bought a few cars
off him
he's always been
good to me
I spent the day
with him
up in Wisconsin
about a year
too real rich
yes
I think he was
his home
looks like
what you would
imagine
but with a little
bit of class
to it
that looks
like something definitely
out of here
or something Ralph Lauren
would have
he's got a
$13 million
Ferrari
da da da da
he got some big shit
but to get a guy
like that off
he's got
to be big shit
he's seen everything
Peterbilt's calling
you got a big one
do it
hello
I ain't had a chance
I'm with a customer
give me a few minutes
and I'll do it
I think
did he
see any pictures
he said
what
let's look
do you mind
say he's getting
called on the trade in
from Peterbilt's store
and they're sending pictures
of the trade in
in the description
he's got to hang a number on it
so that they can work
their deal with their customer
that's right
what is it
but it's a
2020 Peterbilt
is it a sleeper
yeah big sleeper
yeah
got a savings condo sleeper
how many miles
over a million
over a million
so it's been done twice
been done once
the motor
never been done
well then look
there's 60 grand right there
yeah
but what I did
I can do it
I can hold one for five
five
six
five
really
yeah
I buy
I buy so many parts
and I buy them at like
like the end of the year
like yesterday
they had 12 kids
that they sold
and they brought them back
so they don't know
where's something missing
in them
or what
they don't think
it's nothing missing
but they don't know
so I told
he said
what were you getting
for it
he said come back to me
I said come get them
are you giving them eight grand
for that truck
yeah
is that about right
about eight
yeah
they're bright enough
but you gotta do it for
bright 15
will you sell it
with a million
or will you do the motor
I won't do nothing to it
I'm on dyno
and I got dyno
and I can show them
dyno part
but if it needs overhaul
and I overhaul it
sure
but if you put it in
a blow-by
and I got a big dyno
and I got boys
dyno them all day
every day
dyno is old
I mean it's like
I bought it in like 2,000
and I upgraded all time
but I put them on dyno
if you're not gonna hammer them
I'm gonna hammer them
I make them
flip the wheels on the dyno
if you do the motor
what do you get out of it
I can do the motor for 5,000
but what do you get out of it
we do a lot of them
do the motor and charge
10,000 more
sure
but I can do it for 5,000
I mean
I got boys do it
nobody else can do it
for 5,000
I got boys can do it in a day
they do it in 12
13 hours
put a brand new head
I got kids in stock
I got all the pistons
line kids in stock
they're going there
and do the whole overhaul
and won 16 hours
they work all that
and then come to
Air Connect for the rest of the week
I mean I just want
another money to live
but they've been working for me
since I was
Trump started
you know what
it would cost to go do that
oh yeah
it cost you 40, 50, 60
I don't know
I have people
who want me to overhaul them
for me
I don't want to do that
well before we get into these cars
I noticed the
Trump stuff all over the time
and I might get
I want to hear
some hot sports opinion
about you
what do you think this country
I never thought
it would get this bad
right
and I thought he would bring it out
but he ain't brought it out
I mean I'm really disappointed
what did you think he would bring
oh get it out of the funk
I think get out of the funk
get it that's like rolling in
but our bet is still good
but nothing like it was
at one time
well I mean
the rate cuts are
obviously in the start
but the tariffs
you know that's
that tariff money
like Mazda
they're just eating it right now
they're losing money
and that price
has not shown up
in the new car yet
and when that price
really shows up in the new car
it's going to funk so hard
oh yeah
it's going to be
it's a different world
out here right now
and you're out here
it's not a
this world's not that different
don't bother me
but when you get
if there's just one ounce
of not bringing nothing
it wouldn't even bother me
I mean it just
doesn't bother me
I mean I've been through it
I've been through the lows
how many times have you been married
uh
just a few
I got one of them
with right now
I got one right now
she's uh
I already knew the answer
she was
I went to her marriage
when I was 16 to 17
maybe 18
I went to their marriage
I was one of the best men
in their marriage
and then
he got to run around
and she divorced him
and then I've been single
for a good while
and I started dating her
and the next thing I know was married
you know
she's just a good woman
I mean
she's gonna go to church
when it's open
and she's gonna do right
and are y'all still good
oh yeah
and I was at
when I was selling my
I'll tell you a little story here
it was
at
Lawyer's
divorcing
she was divorcing me
and I had to give her a bunch of money
the first one
the first one
a bunch of money
and
my
daughter and son
called me at 12 o'clock
or 11 o'clock at night
and said don't settle
we found what she had
installed millions from us
so good
so
I went into the courtroom
and I was giving her 7 million
and
I told him I wanted to re-nig it
I said I'm not giving it to her
and she said y'all need to go talk
so I went back around
and called her
when nobody was me and her
I said I got you called
I was stealing money from her
and it was a corporation
they said I can prosecute you
and I said
I'm going to prosecute you
before extinct
I said I'm pretty good friend of the
yeah
and I've already contacted
which I had
and I
it went from 7 to 3
so I settled with her
3 million
but I was just fixing to give her 7 million
did you tell her just get you
I bet the first offer was
get the fuck out of here
and I won't put you down
I ain't paying you nothing
yeah I said
I thought about it
first offer I'll give her was 3 million
okay
we wanted to be done
I want to be done with her
because you knew that
she was my CPA
I put it through school and everything
I mean she was a CPA
she was the nabbing buddy
I got a good friend
out in California
who's famous
I won't say his name
but his wife was his lawyer
and just fuck him
don't work
silly
silly
that man had stole
lots of money
I mean
launches
she was the type
she'd go by
two or three thousand
there was a close
like when she left
and I got my daughter
and we
what she stuff
she didn't pick out
she had 37
pair of brand-new black pictures
and all of them was the same name on
I mean it's all the same good stuff
but no reason for it
no reason
I mean she just
spent money to spend it
and she spent money
I mean
how much she stole
that woman that got me
for all that money
she
this will make sense to you
so
she came to work
from this other dealership
is my controller
and this
this dealership I bought
was two, three hours away
from me
first problem
so all this is going on
but
she was his lover
he was broke
they set this up on the front
side
and then I'm selling him
all these cars
and he's taking them down to
Louisiana for Katrina
and she is not
getting paid on him
but every once in a while
she goes to the bank
and gets a check
for ten thousand
seven hundred
twenty thirty seven five
and there was no
bid number on it
so what she was doing
is selling them to him
for about ten percent of the
value
but the actual transaction
did occur
and we did surrender title
and they did
they had the detail on their end
but she was stocking them in
as sold for the prices
that we agreed to
making a thousand
making eight hundred
making eighteen hundred
losing five hundred
and so in my books
it looked good
but there was no cash
and it was just shrinking down
shrinking down
shrinking down
the problem with it
you probably
you already get it
they actually did a deal
and she said well he lied
he wanted me to stock them
in for that money
because he was just trying
to buy another day
oh yeah
she was like my wife
an average
you know
and at the bottom of it
was meth
and that's one thing
I've seen in my career
oh yeah it's meth
you don't even know
they're vampires
oh yeah
when you get on meth
you turn into a vampire
you cannot
I've had people
working me
you know that stuff
lately
they steal everything you get
that you've ever had
have meth behind them
and you don't realize it
when they get on it
and they're people that you
trust it
and they get on that
they can't hardly get off it
they get on that shit
and they just
they change
they don't care
they steal anything you got
right
I give them drug tests
oh man
often
often
because these sales
make it get me big
because I got the titles
all in there
and hopefully
you know
we can pay
with a cashier check
they can't be stopped
or something
we'll get them
you know
I told them
ain't nobody getting no
title
cause they got cash
you won't get a title
I'll put it all to bank anyway
those EFTs
they can call back too
oh yeah
oh yeah I don't do it
a hard wire
is pretty solid
I do all
one way they can get that
title
is
green cash
compared to the bank
cause I want to make sure
it's all good
or a bank wire
not an EFT
no a bank wire
but our business
is 90% bank wire
in the rest of the case
we don't do no business
if they don't give us a
check
come back and check
clear
we'll let them do it
we got
we got a lot of big cars
Lamborghinis
$500 million
and hey boss
I can hand sell this
to so and so
so that's cute
but
so and so
ain't gonna pay me
man
he will pay me
eventually
gotta go through
a bunch of
hoops and play
bunch of games
and the lady
didn't show up
and she can't sign
the check
and he's out of town
oh yeah
I don't go through
that's when you mess with cars
and trucks like you are
you can't do it
but I can
because
it's still a lot of truck
leaders out there
but it's not narrow one of them
like me
right
and they'll call me
I don't care
every used truck
a lot cause me
every place
within two or three
miles call me
and I'll tell them
how to trade
and they'll go my number
a lot of times they said
well we got a better offer
I said well take it
they'll have it
they'll always call me back
I say
90% of the time
after they say that
I'll low on me
I said no
you done shopped me
shopped me where it's going to hurt me to sell it
cause everybody's got a picture of it
everybody's got a picture of it
just like these cars here
they don't nobody know about them
and they don't know what I'm going to do
that's why I don't want nothing
you know you put just
what we do in here on camera
but I don't want nobody
I'm going to have an auction
and sell every one of them
yeah
do you want me to buy anything today
I really don't want selling out here
I just want to sell it all up
but it's just so many in here
I don't know what they'd work
you know I bought them years ago
just like it had a whole line of
transamps at one time
I got a few over now
like you don't have the good ones left
I noticed
no I still got
I mean I think they good
I mean but I bought them cheap
right
do you want to walk some cars
and try to make
and we'll just start
let's work on tan
and see what we come up with
okay
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