Bring a Trailer Podcast Jun 5, 2025

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Volkswagen Karmann Ghia

The Volkswagen Karmann Ghia is a stylish car that combines the body of a sports coupe with the mechanics of a Volkswagen Beetle. The 1963 version is particularly popular among car enthusiasts.

Car

Volkswagen Golf GTI

The Volkswagen Golf GTI is a fun and sporty version of the regular Golf car. It's known for being quick and having great handling, making it popular among driving enthusiasts.

Concept

rally kilometers

Rally kilometers are the miles driven during rally races, which are special car competitions on different types of roads. They show how much a car has been used in these challenging events.

Term

no reserve auction

In a no reserve auction, there’s no lowest price set for the item. It will be sold to whoever bids the most, even if that amount is very low.

Company

Meyers Manx

Meyers Manx makes fun off-road cars called dune buggies. They are light and designed to drive on sand and rough terrain, originally built using parts from Volkswagen cars.

Concept

Myers Manx

The Myers Manx is a famous kind of dune buggy that is light and made from fiberglass. It's great for driving on the beach or off-road.

Car

Lamborghini Alpa

The Lamborghini Alpa is a type of luxury sports car made by Lamborghini. It's known for being fast and stylish, appealing to car enthusiasts.

Term

twin spark engine

A twin spark engine has two spark plugs for each cylinder, which helps the engine run better and use fuel more efficiently. It can make the car more powerful and cleaner for the environment.

Part

magnesium wheels

Magnesium wheels are special wheels made from a lightweight metal called magnesium. They help the car go faster and handle better because they weigh less than regular wheels.

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Lancia Aurelia

The Lancia Aurelia V20 is an old Italian car that was made in the 1950s. It's famous for being well-designed and has a unique engine that was advanced for its time.

Term

GTS

GTS is a term used for certain sporty cars that can have a convertible roof. It means the car is designed for both performance and comfort.

Term

horsepower

Horsepower tells you how powerful an engine is. The higher the horsepower, the faster and more powerful the car can be.

Car

Lamborghini Espada

The Lamborghini Espada is a luxury sports car that can seat four people. It has a powerful engine and is known for its stylish looks and good driving performance.

Car

Noble M400

The Noble M400 is a fast sports car that is very light and handles well. It's built for people who love to drive and want a thrilling experience.

Car

Porsche 914

The Porsche 914 is a sporty car that was made a long time ago, between 1969 and 1976. It's known for being a fun car to drive and is often seen as a more affordable way to own a Porsche.

Car

Maserati Gibli Maserati

The Maserati Ghibli is a fancy sports car that first came out in 1967. It's known for being stylish and fast, combining luxury with a sporty feel.

Car

Ultima

Ultima is another brand of sports cars that focus on high performance and speed, often built for racing and track use.

Car

Noble

Noble is a brand of sports cars from the UK that are designed to be fast and fun to drive, often made with lightweight materials.

Car

Range Rover

The Range Rover is a fancy SUV made by Land Rover. It's designed to handle tough roads while keeping you comfortable inside.

Term

4.6

The '4.6' means the engine is 4.6 liters in size. Bigger engines usually give more power but can use more gas.

Car

Ford EcoBoost

The Ford EcoBoost is a type of engine that uses turbocharging to make cars more powerful while using less fuel. It's found in many Ford vehicles.

Car

Ford F-460

The Ford F-460 is a big truck that can handle heavy loads and is often used for work or towing things like trailers.

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[Music]

Hello everyone. We are here the second

Image Street Classic podcast. We have

two guests today. First guest is uh

Randy Nornberg, co-founder Bring a

Trailer. Welcome. Thank you. You flew

over from San Francisco yesterday to

attend our curated cars and coffee.

Thank you for that. And we have Herbert,

Herbert Vancou.

He is the landlord of this beautiful

farmhouse. He owns a lot of cars. He's

technical magician, car lover, etc. So,

what are we going to do today? Well, we

have five cars in the online bring a

trailer auction. Uh well, imagery

classics is the uh local partner for

bringing a trailer. So we help we're

helping people selling their cars. Today

we have a few cars uh which we will

discuss. But we had have had a lot of

friends coming over with their cars and

some pretty nice cars. So let's discuss

these cars as well. Um we even had guys

from London coming coming over. How long

is that drive? Those guys drove the

Rolls-Royce. How far How far is that?

They said they left at 4:00 in the

morning. 4 a.m. And then they came the

tunnel and then from Cal to this place

was about four or five hours. Another

four or five hours. So that's they win

the award. That is that is unbelievable.

I would have taken the boat probably.

Okay. So So let's start with the the

cars we have on online. So, we have a 63

Getta TI. You also have a a Getta TI. I

own one of those. You're talking about

the race car, right? Or the rally car

that's outside, right? Blue and red.

Yeah, blue and red. It's belongs to a

friend of mine. He clocked 50,000 rally

kilometers with it. He did tulip

rallies. He did winter trial. He did

everything in it. It's uh pretty cool.

It's a no reserve auction as well.

Wellused car. A wellused car. It's a

waror. Uh but it's beautiful. It drives

great. Cool car, right? And then we have

Meyers Mans. Brand new build of a four

seat Meyers Mans, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Mangster 2 plus two. Surprised they look

nicer than three of short wheel. Well,

two of them showed up today. Another one

from the same Gerard. The the Brumos the

Bumos livery man. So you had two MXes at

the event today. That was kind of fun.

We did a great photo shoot with the

Myers Mans uh on the beach where it

basically belongs. But this guy, Studio

Classic 77, he just built them from

scratch. So he has this chassis from 130

1303

3 and it's it's registered as a buggy.

And then he ordered the uh Myers Mangs

uh body and he made a lot of

modifications which you which you will

can see in the in the auction.

And then we have the Lamborghini Alpa

first owner. That was a nice car. And

the owner was here who bought it new.

Who bought it new? Probably I think with

5,000 km on on it. Oh, is that right?

From from the dealer. From the dealer.

Okay. He bought it from the dealer. but

he's the chairman of the the Dutch

Lamborghini Club and 44,000 km. Uh,

beautiful car. Beautiful car. It's

really nice. Yeah. And he's driving it.

Amazing. Yeah. And June 8th, U Valentino

Baloni is his friend. He will come over

and drive it as well. So, uh, yeah,

that's pretty cool. And what's the third

car? GTR. It's uh the guy bought it,

German customer. He bought it from Cool

and Vintage in Lisbon and it was already

a GTA replica with aluminum doors,

aluminum bonnet, aluminum rear lid. When

he bought it, he put the one piece

bumpers on it. Uh he put different seats

in it. Uh Epho Saladori from Switzerland

built him a twin spark engine. Forani

made some magnesium uh GTA magnesium

wheels. He had havens on it. Very cool

car. He did a rally of Morocco. He did

Corsica rally in it. Only 4,000 km on

the on the engine. Uh cool car as well.

Then we have the 52 Lancha Aurelia V20

series 2 car totally restored by Torney

and Callum. You know Tori and Callum in

the UK you said? Yeah. Torney and Callum

are also

known for their chopped roof low roof uh

Aurelia builds. I think they're they

make six of those. How many did they

make? They made a limited number. Yes.

They restored this car in original spec.

So, it's beautiful car. Yeah. Dual box

on wheels.

Exactly. It was amazing to have them all

lined up and see in person all the cars

that are going to be live with Image

Street Classics. You you I was going to

ask you about sort of the strategy

behind this, right? Like listing all of

these, having them all at an event, it

creates sort of an energy around it. Is

that right? Yeah. Well, basically the

same as we did last year at the historic

Grand Prix, which was also quite a

success. uh you know cars were featured

and people could see the cars um in real

life uh at the event. They are here as

well today. So we're going to do the

historic Grand Prix again uh this year.

We will bring some very cool cars as

well. But uh I think let's uh let's

discuss uh Herbert because he has this

beautiful farmhouse here. Uh we are

sitting in his uh living room with a

herring bone floors. And Herbert, how

many cars do you have here? Can you name

them? No, that's difficult.

How many pantas do you have? Two. Two.

Yeah. Like the one of the very early

ones and one of the final productions.

So the sixth or seven last.

So the they're quite different, but I'm

really like those cars. They drive very

well. I also have a 308 and in

comparison that's that's not a good

comparison. I like the 308 because the

roof can come off. But if you have to go

somewhere, the Ponta is my first choice.

Yeah. So So the the early one is a GTS.

Yeah, it's a real European GTS. Nice

car. Looks very beautiful. And I have a

GT5 as one of the last ' 90s car. And

what's the spec engine spec of that

yellow car that has not completely

original engine? So it's about rated 400

something horsepower and okay it's

really a fast and furish car. That's why

the GTS is the better car to take in the

mountains because it's very easy to

drive. You never have to worry in what

range of RPM your it drives. And then

you have the Espada. Also a very

beautiful car to look at. Drives very

well. It's you can even take my my wife

and kid in it. And you maintaining them

all yourself? Oh, I'm not scared of of

them. It's just plain mechanics. Yeah.

Yeah. And then you have your uh latest

addition to your fleet, which is the the

Ultima. The Ultima. Yeah. I also have

the Noble M400 and I like that. It's a

car I own for almost 10 years now. And

then this came up. Yeah. Somebody

brought it to fix

and we ended up trading cars. So, uh,

I never have money, I always say. So, I

trade things. And you trade it for what?

Uh, a 914 and Porsche. And I had a Gibli

of the second series. And Maserati

Gibli. Gibli. Maserati. And I finished

them. They were in perfect working

order. And he was a car trader. So I

said, I take those two. You can have

this. And what did you do with it?

Basically fixed a lot of things because

everything was old. It was standing for

a long time.

First completely mechanical overhauled

the thing and then took it apart and

repainted it. It's just finished and I'm

very happy with it. Yeah, it's very

beautiful to look at like that. So the

noble both Noble and the Ultima are very

what? Rich. radical kind of cars. Yeah.

Yeah. Noble, you also never see here in

uh And you have a left hand drive. Left

hand drive. It's I never see them. Yeah.

We also saw your um Bahama Gold Range

Rover. Yeah. With a 4.6 in it. I bought

that car like for dirt cheap. I took it

apart and uh

now it's a nice car. I use it quite a

lot. So that's It used to be my daily

car. Like if I have to go somewhere, I

take that one. And you had the Ford

Ecoine. Yeah. Yeah. That's a I also have

for a long time. But that's the big

block. So, uh the van that's the van

outside, right? Yeah. I saw the your

kids were playing in it and the girls

were playing it. It looked like

summertime, you know, at the at the

coast or whatever. It was a good It's a

Never Restos original place. Is that

right? Oh, man. It's cool. It's Did it

come from the States or did they they

didn't sell those here? No, it came from

uh like what is the less? Yeah, I don't

know. Well, we we'll try we'll we'll

edit that in. Yeah. Translation. Yeah.

Cool. This is a Californian car. I

brought it bought it online and There

you go. It's a 460, so it it really

drives well. It's It's a sturdy truck.

And Randy Randy just sold his uh his

Falcon. Yeah. On BAT. And I was driving

this car for during the Montre car week

in 23 and 24. I was really That's

probably a car that that you guys would

have liked. Yeah. Yes, definitely.

Because your car you have here is But

yeah, yeah, you like that one, too.

Yeah, you like you brought your own one,

the the red one, the 64. And people were

asking about that. That was out there. I

talked to a lot of people about the

Falcon. And they were a little surprised

that I had that car here, but I'm not

surprised. It seems perfectly logical.

And Herbert did some magic on it. Yeah.

Well, the Falcon the Falcon Whisperer.

Yeah, absolutely. It runs very well.

I've been driving it around the last

couple days. I'm very fortunate that I

get to drive that when I'm here. Um,

that's a nice car. But it is a nice car.

But it was among a bunch of nice cars

today. Right over there. Some were in

the barn, some were out on display,

somewhere in the back lot. When we

pulled into the property, there's some

cars, you know, spec speckled out in

front. I wanted to say about today just

standing in your side sort of farm area.

All the cars parked on the grass. Yeah.

I think you had to cut the grass so we

could park more cars and what do you

call it? The levey or the dyke or

whatever whatever's up here. There's

like this entry and you you'd see the

cars and then you'd see the green

there's like wild flowers growing up the

dyke and then these cars were coming in

like above eye level. You were looking

up at them as they came into the

property. We had a moment over there. It

was just like six of them came at the

same time and it was like a parade.

Anyway, it was a very nice environment.

I think everybody appreciates that we

got to do it here at this facility.

Yeah. Yeah. And did you see the Fiat

Companola? I did. Of course. We talked

all through that vehicle towing a boat,

right? I mean, that's a cool

environment. Tell me about the boat,

Herbert. Yeah. Tell me about the boat.

That's uh Carlson. Carlson design.

Yeah. Clustron Metal Flake. Yeah, gold

metal flake boat. It's really nice. I

like those boats. You don't see them

anymore. It's very low on the water if

it sits very low. I like that. Dutch

people like boats, right? You guys like

your water and your boats, right? I

mean, it's almost like you could launch

it across the street. So, Randy, what

was your let's say top three of uh cars

you were like they showed up and you you

were thinking, "Wow." Oh, man. There

were many of them. There were some BAT

alumni cars. I always like following up

with uh vehicles that I saw on on my BAT

watch list and then two years later or 5

years later or 10 years later I see it

for real. Um so the yellow galaxy that

showed up the 427 63 Galaxy. Do you like

that? Oh, I'm glad. I'm glad that you

like that. The color is good. The engine

is good. It's It looks amazing. And the

other bit alumni car was this 240Z. The

240Z was was an alumni car, too. Um, so

anyway, there were those We're going to

list it again. That I heard it's going

to come back as an alumni car. I talked

to the owner about that. I said, "Does

anybody know what this is in the

Netherlands? Do like are there Datson's

here?" And he said, "There's a Datson

specialty shop like an hour north of

here that services fair ladies and

roadsters and 24Zs and all that." And

that's life is a bit difficult with

those. But yeah, but I thought that was

a interesting car to see here. I talked

to him all about it. Has triple Webbers

and it's kind of a sort of racy racy

car. Halo heavily modified. Yeah, you

can make them very very fast. So anyway,

he was that was that guy was cool. I

don't I don't you must have invited him,

but he was he was a cool guy. I liked

him. We we sold in the 993 X51 from his

collection as well. Oh, is that right?

Yeah. Okay, cool. He has cool taste with

a nice success story on it. Is that

right? Oh, that was the the 93 success

story. Oh, I should have put that

together. I didn't. I talked to him all

about other things. But uh anyway, his

and the third alumni car was this Fisker

Karma Rivero. Crazy. I didn't even know

you could import something like that. He

did. That's crazy. And it came out of

America and he sent it over here, right?

That's wild. Yeah. He sold his M2. Is

that right? Yes. And what did you see

more like for you? What was special for

you? Yeah. Oh, I mean so many things are

special here given that I, you know,

live in another country. Seeing cars

here that I've uh these examples I had

never seen, right? I mean, I know some

of your friends and see some of cars and

different stuff comes out, but uh I

mean, even for me, a Renault Alpine is

is uh special, right? We don't have

those. Yeah, the new one. Two guys came

in in those. Somebody brought a yellow

one and a blue one and a blue one. And

for me, like I perk up. I don't know if

the rest of the people here get very

excited about that car, but I got very

excited about that car. It's popular

here, is it? Yeah. Yeah. Cool

performance car. So, got to see. So,

that's some sort of modern stuff. Your

buddy showed up with his his gold chvel

Chevel four-speed. That's an unusual car

to see here. You know that. I mean, that

would be cool in California. I told him

to put Havens on him. Yeah, you guys are

crazy putting British tires on all these

muscle cars. I think it's great. It's a

It's a different look. To like the M&S

tire from America, right? We hate that.

I know you do. It's great. So, uh, snow

tires on a performance car. It's really

interesting.

They all come with it, but it's

unbelievable. The BF Goodri. We had the

Pont We had the Pontiac, the what was

it? A Firebird with a formula. I heard

that was formerly your car. My old car.

Oh, really? Yeah. Brown. It was sort of

rippier brown with a white interior.

Original Dutch registration car and it's

a 400 or what? 350. 350. Okay. Okay. But

it was very cool. Yeah. That's the

formula package on it with the double

hood scoop, right? The wide scoop on the

hood. Anyway, we keep listing off all

these American cars. There were much

more than just American cars, but there

were a lot of the Chevy van with the

best buy inside. There just were a lot

of interesting US cars. The the NSX.

That's Oh, really? Do you like that? I

wouldn't have picked that one for you.

You like that? They they drive nice.

Yes, they do. They sound nice. They you

sit and amazing sit position. This is a

target. That's a a great bonus, I think,

because it's not about how fast it can

go. It's really convenient. It drives

really well. I was really surprised how

good they are. Yeah, the one that was

here is bright yellow. That's very

striking and a different a different

crazy color. They're mostly red or

silver or whatever, but uh that one I

thought looked great. I was excited to

see it pull in. Yeah. So, some good

variety. So, yeah, that's a Japanese.

And then, uh, the black Ferrari 308 I

liked a lot. 308 GTB. Yeah. Um, with a

with a great story, right? With a crazy

story about getting stolen and returned

years later and different sorts of

things, you know, but another cool buddy

of yours that that brought it, a Dutch

guy that had I loved it with the with

the XWX uh lens on it. So, that's Are

they 14s? I said 15s, but are they 14s?

Yeah. Wow. Yeah, but it's a dry sump, so

it's the not the the It's not the

plastic version, but it's right after

that. Right. Right after that. The

single exhaust the And they look amazing

on the 14s. Everybody put 16 on

underneath them. So, how many Panteras

were there today? Five or six? Yeah,

including mine. It's five or six. Yeah,

the blue one, the orange one. The orange

was really good. That's really That's

the one of the best colors for Yes,

absolutely. And it has the chrome

bumpers. And that was a really good car.

I hope somebody got some pictures of We

had a 924 with a hockey stick. Yeah.

Yeah. The photographer said that that

was his car. Yeah, it is. It is. He's

cool. He was cool. And that car was

cool. And interestingly, he said he

designed the stripes for that car.

Custom. But that he saw one on BAT and

they replicated his stripes, too.

Really? Anyway, his uncle bought the car

new. Oh, really? So, he he he knows the

car for like a bunch of years. Yeah.

Interesting. Yeah. The 76 or 77. You

have the the Alpena B3S

station wagon B46 touring. Yeah, that

was You don't have them in US? Uh

uncommon in the US. They've come in now

and been there. You're you're able to

import that car now. Um this one is

2005. Oh, is it a little bit newer?

Okay. Okay. But that that uh I thought

that body style we were bringing in now.

But anyway, there's Alpino wagons. But

yeah, that's pretty rare for a for

somebody to see in the US for sure.

Anyway, that was cool. I liked that a

lot. That was well done. There was some

Alfa Romeo, right?

I saw an SS.

I didn't see any. Any alphas? You're

blind to Alphas. You look the other way.

No, no, no, no. They're really nice. I

like alphas. That's a joke. My two Azuro

Spatios 64 Julia Ti Super Replica in the

65 Julia Sprint GT. Mhm. Yeah. Anyway,

we can go on and on. I mean, there's so

there were so many interesting cars out

there. The SDO

gray one. We did the Taforio. Target.

How I don't know how you got all these

different alphas over here, but you must

have had a bunch of drivers, but yeah,

that sedan was here. Your other color

sedan was here. Uh, but anyway, yeah,

the SS. Who showed up with that SS? It

came halfway through the party and I I

said, "Who's is that?" I didn't know

whose it was. Do you? That's uh Paul's

uh mechanic, a friend. Okay. So he

restored the um he restored the Aurelia

and it looked pretty nice. But he also

did the right he's the mechanic of the

Julieta TI rally car. Oh, okay. So he

maintains the car for the last 25 years.

Okay. He did a good job. It's still

running. Yeah, it's still running. Yeah.

So what else did we have?

A lot DB24 which was beautiful that

showed up. Yeah. Pardon? The tick for uh

I don't know if it's a tickford, but it

was an it was Yeah. Um and then um yeah,

there was a Pagota Mercedes. There was

an Audi R8 that we were talking about

for a little while. Anyway, we're

racking our brains here. RS clone with a

3.6 engine. And we had the Ruby Stone,

the Ruby Stone with the white fenders

with the white fenders. That was the guy

from Sports Cars Holland. We sold two

cars for him. The Oh, right. I should

have talked to him about the turbo. I

remember the 930 turbo that did really

well, didn't it? The back date. Yeah. I

thought that car did really that car

sell that car hit reserve. No, it was

sold later. It was sold later. Okay. I

remember that one. And the other one was

the the the the yellow greenish one uh

that sold to California as well. Mhm.

But they are building uh well outlaw

Porsches. Yeah, they have a pretty good

reputation, right? I mean, they look

like that Ruby Stone car was very nice.

He said they did the fenders and the

motor and all the customization. That

car started as a narrow car and then

they built that car. Yeah, Ruby Stone.

And we had the Azid. Yeah, the Monstro.

Yeah, that was cool. That one's coming

soon. This is a real Trofeo car. It's

It's u the number 75 of them or how many

of those did they build? I don't know.

But it was limited. Yeah, very limited.

I remember pictures of that at Monaco.

They like ran a cup series with F1 and

they raced those as a Monaco. This is a

very special car because the first owner

was uh Andrea Adamich. So for former

Formula 1 uh driver and they have

pictures with Walter Ru driving it and

uh it's very cool car.

Yeah, we're going to list it. Uh so so

we also had a few cars

um which will be online soon. Mhm. Did

you see the 993

turbo? Turbo. I did very much see that.

We going to silver with blue interior.

Yeah. Silver with blue interior. Yeah.

Oh, that's quite rare. And E type 61.

Mhm. Those both had signs on them that

said coming soon, right? Yes. Yes. Okay.

61 Eype. Image Street has quite a little

pipeline here coming through the show,

huh? Yeah. I think it's exciting. I

mean, this is an excuse for me to do

events, right? Yes. It's the other way

around. just to how to create an event.

Well, find sources which we can bring

them all to one place. No, it was invite

nice people and you know my daughter

really liked it. She never saw so many

cars on the property. Is that right? Oh,

definitely.

That's nice. Yeah, for sure. Good for

her. That's fun. So, what else did we uh

356? Yeah, that's a buddy of mine. and

he bought this car for $3,000

25 years ago. And then he found this

hole in the dashboard. And then he also

found this uh wiring from a Carrera. And

he thought, well, what's what's what's

happening with what kind of car did I

buy? And there was this this different

fuel tank in it. And then he found out

that it was the Schmidt car. And Mr.

Schmidt was a an engineer. He worked for

Porsche and for Aate uh brakes. Yeah. He

always got the newest model and then he

once bought a 356A Carrera and then he

always swapped the Carrera engine in his

new car. So the old engine. Yeah. So, so

this car was equipped with a Carrera

engine and wired as a Carrera engine and

it had in 1957 it had a mobile phone.

Yeah, I saw it as really easy. So, at

that time it had it had a mobile phone.

I didn't. And did you did you see the

interior with the white seats and and

the red u Yeah, it's crocodile skin like

it was crazy about crazy car. It's a

crazy car, but it was like that back in

the day for that driver. He said that

guy specified it in that sort of way.

But it was a 58

356A

coupe Porsche and white with a red and

white interior. Interesting car. He

totally restored it and it's it's

pristine pristine. You can see what

somebody in the shed can do. It's

unbelievable.

Well, the same with you. What you can do

in a in a shed. I mean So, what

else did we have? I just think the mix

is interesting. I mean, you can talk

about the individual cars, but just

thinking about the different types of

cars that showed up and what what types

of vehicles people work on around here

and your guys networks, right? I thought

it was I thought the variety like that

like that's really good. I love it.

Right. And you sometimes you go to like

a whatever a Porsche Club event or you

go to a BMW event or even all boring in

the end. Yes. Like this. I mean, I was

standing in the driveway and you like

couldn't wait to see what was going to

pull in next sort of things and be

surprised. I was in your garage and they

you I was looking out of the garage and

you'd see the next thing drive by and I

was talking to somebody but I was having

trouble like making eye contact cuz I

was like, "Oh, look at the NSX." And

then I was like, "Oh, look at the

Panta." And then I was like, you didn't

want to be impolite. Yeah. But it was

but it would keep, you know, coming by.

Have to pass through the same uh area.

Absolutely. I thought that was very

cool, you know. And that's that's uh for

car people like I think that's really

invigorating and I think your inventory

is like that, right? Like I always joke

you that you're kind of an alpha guy,

right? But also you Yeah, he is. Right.

We tease him for that a little bit, but

but the expansion beyond that, I mean,

Image Street is now listing all sorts.

You're driving down the beach, right? I

mean, and all just sort of different

things. I think that's valuable to be

able to do that. And you I mean, you

talk about it. I'm super pleased and

interested to hear, you know, when you

pick out the NSX or something that's

very different than what you're maybe

well known for, you know, and and I

think it's good for people to do that.

I've always loved doing that. Yeah. You

have to be open-minded. There are so

many surprises in that area. That's

ridiculous. You think, "Oh, that's

nothing. I hear stories about how good

or how bad they are." It's mostly not

true. They

Yeah, be surprised. And there are so

many nice things. But I attended two of

your uh venues at Laguna Sega and I

thought that was cool. Very cool as

well. I mean a lot of different cars and

uh do you see a lot of difference

between let's say what we do here and

what you do in uh in the US? What would

be a typical difference or

uh Good question. I mean, I think what I

think is interesting and is actually

consistent almost no matter where it is

is people like

uh sort of meetups like this. Yeah. It's

not all day long and it's not again one

single category and it's kind of

flexible and it's at an interesting

location. Right. One of the most

interesting part we list off all the

cars but I don't know if you want to

like describe the aesthetic of the place

that we're in, right? which is whatever

year this property was put together and

the buildings made, right? Yeah. And I

mean that that envir an interesting

environment that's kind of a custom

oneoff and then the types of vehicles

that show up in the mix is kind of a

custom oneoff and uh you mix all these

things together. So you ask if it's

different. Um I think that people are

trying to

do just creative different outlets like

this for finding what's successful and

part of that is the mix of cars but part

of that is the mix of people and part of

that is the mix of location or variety

of location right so the same coffee

shop parking lot is kind of wearing on

people a little bit right I think that's

true because the yeah

it brings something interesting you see

a lot of more from the people themselves

and yeah the the parking lot is it's too

open and yeah I think this is nicer

because you have you see real people and

real uh yeah you can look a bit inside

their lives and that's nice

so that's why I and we were a bit afraid

I mean we we kept it really

slow and low you know because we didn't

want to to make it public because can

Can you imagine if it's full here and

people were showing up traffic jam you

cannot you cannot turn your car you

cannot park on the dyke uh so therefore

we we kept it a little bit uh below the

radar and uh but you still filled it up

I would say I mean you could have

smashed more cars in if you wanted to

but it felt lively and it felt very full

and people were successful I think so

thank you yeah thanks for putting up

with this amazing you guys did a lot of

work we cleaned we cleaned the whole

week we cleaned

cleaning the barn, feeding the barn.

You're the new farm hand. That's what I

told you, right? Working W working at

the farm. He doesn't know, but you're

coming back next week, I'm sure. For

her. Exactly. Got a new job now. Yeah.

There you go. I'm the housekeeper. Yeah.

So, no. Anyway, I think so. You ask if

it's different in the US or here. I just

think it's different in general. I think

that it's changed from what what kind of

car show people wanted to go to 20 years

ago. I think is different now. Right.

And people make uh car show is a bit

teening weaning. It is it's not so good

anymore. Yeah. Because you Yeah. But you

need those people who are I I struggle

with this cuz you need those people that

are deep experts like like in a

particular model, right? And so you want

to foster the the depth of single mark

and like real specialists, but at the

same time for the experience, I think a

lot more people and a lot of the younger

crowd is more into a uh event that has

more sort of aesthetic look to it and

then also a variety of cars. Yeah, the

variety is very important I think. Yeah,

because then old and young will mix

better. Then let me show off who has the

Yeah. the nicest of the biggest thing

that that's not at all here. Yeah. Yeah.

I love that too about the variety. Yeah.

What you're saying, right? I mean, some

of your guys showed up. Who was that?

Some guys showed up in a Fiatuno.

Wasn't that what that was? That's were

the Ferrari guys? The Ferrari guys

showed up in the Fiat, right? And then

somebody showed up in a Figaro and

somebody figuro. And then Yeah.

and just like easygoing cars, right? But

then there was also somebody showed up

in the modern rolls or whatever, right?

So, I mean, it was kind of you can if

you have the right attitude, you can

kind of bring whatever you want.

It's all about the people, right? It's

all Yeah. Yeah. with the shared passion

and uh Yeah. And we had some motorbikes

as well. Motorcycles.

What was the I somebody revving

something around the corner. What

motorcycle were they revving on? What

was it?

Silver or something. What was that? Laa.

Laa. Y. Okay. Very special. Uh, and and

you see the the Vespa the Vespa in the

in the van in the Chevy. The Chevy van.

That was also a cool was the the Laa. He

owns it forever. Is that right? Yeah.

But you have a 750 Honda. No, it's a 550

Super Sport. Okay. And and I have the

Kawasaki still the 1200 degree one.

Yeah. Cool. Yeah. So Randy, next event

in the Netherlands is I think um 10port

at the historic Grand Prix. Historic

Grand Prix um for the F1 races and the

historic races there. Similar to what

you did last year. You kind of pioneered

how to do a event. Um that was our first

European event and sort of a launch of

our partnership with you at Image

Classics. So that'll be a one-year

anniversary of that and we're going back

very um probably fairly similar. I mean

it was a good formula last year, wasn't

it? And successful. Yeah, it was very it

was successful for the sales, but it was

also just for talking to people and

having BET. We had a great spot. We have

the same I think we have the same spot

again and we have some some nice very

special cars coming up like we had

today. So maybe five, six, maybe seven.

Uh so we're looking very much forward to

it. Yeah. Some of the BAT team will be

there and you'll be there, I'm sure,

with your crew and yeah, we'll see.

Hopefully it'll be exciting. Yeah. Cool.

When is that? That's late June this

year. It's a little It's a week later

than it was last year. 21st 22nd. Okay.

Good for people to know that. Yeah. So,

uh, people who are watching and are in

the Netherlands or in Germany or

whatever, come by and say hello.

What do you think? I think this was

successful. I think you got to figure

out how many of these events you want to

do a year here in the Netherlands. We're

certainly supportive of it and we love

coming over for it. No problem. Okay.

Wow. Well, I wasn't going to ask for

permission, but there you just got

permission for that. So maybe this

location or maybe obviously at the track

and potentially other things you want to

mix in, but I think it's really good for

visibility of Image Street Classics and

obviously our partnership and everyone

was talking today when I was talking to

them about you know how many cars you're

putting through and how BAT is very

visible here and uh people were excited

about it. So I think it's positive and

we are selling more and more cars in

Europe. So that's basically the idea.

Why should you ship all the cars to the

US? Yeah, I mean Europe is also many

European biders on your auctions. I can

see that behind the scenes and I usually

kind of report out to you how that's

going. Sometimes it's hard. That's good.

I mean that's that's fantastic. Yeah.

Yeah. It's it's almost 50/50 at this

point in terms of North American biders

versus European biders. So it's kind of

a coin flip as to whether you'll ship

the car across or keep it here. And

that's very different than your early

cars that you were selling four years

ago, right? That was always always to

the US. And so now it's very different.

So uh I think that's progress. Yeah,

markets change and markets change. Yeah,

absolutely. But but it's really

visibility. Yeah, for sure you will see

also an increase in people who are

watching or your newsletter or uh you

know registering and yeah and so yeah I

mean you're you're uh one thing that you

can be doing I know you say this in your

auctions but you should tell broader

audiences is yeah subscribing to your

account and getting alerts when Image

Street I'm I'm subscribed I see every

time an Image Street car pops up. Yeah.

Uh, and you can do that really easily on

the website and that's it's good to be

reminded. You can subscribe to

Netherlands vehicles, you can subscribe

to image street vehicles, you subscribe,

you're all European like uh it's an

interesting sort of new component on

BET. Um, the functionality has been

there for a long time, but now it's more

full. There's more activity there. So,

it's good to watch.

Well, thank you so much that you took

the the time and the opportunity to come

by and uh well, of course, uh Herbert

fixture a falcon, but I appreciate that.

It was basically the reason you're here.

Yeah, let's say. Yeah, absolutely. No,

it's my pleasure. We love supporting

this. We're supporting a lot more in

Europe, you know, and being on the

ground here is is a privilege and

exciting and just just and the people

love to to to chat, you know, also with

you and uh yeah, I think that you have

uh elevated the way that's been

presented and that's made you sort of a

standout in this market. Um and that

works really well on BET and that's why

we selected you as a partner and um

others are learning and and starting to

do that and we have more and more

partners in Europe and it's kind of the

more the better. um as we kind of build

the momentum in that. So, yeah, to your

point, auctions are kind of new for some

folks, uh but having a partner and

somebody local that will, you know,

speak Dutch and be by their side for the

auction and that sort of thing. It it's

a model that works and we see it

working. So, uh anyway, kudos to you for

being a trailblazer in that and we're

building

in my life. I'm blazer. A blazer. There

you go. K5. Yeah. Well, you can be that

too if you want. If you want. So, there

probably some on the auction. Yeah,

there are. I need a V8 in my life. Yeah,

it sounds like it, man. You were looking

at all the V8 cars today saying that may

be your next chapter. I love it. All

righty. Hey, thank you so much. We're

going to uh have a swim in the in the in

the canal and um Yeah. What is this

weather? What is this weather? It's

always like this in the Netherlands. Is

that right? Every single day. Very

shitty two years. We haven't We have had

3 weeks of uh It's been summertime,

early summer sun. Anyway, it's been

terrific. Okay. So, Herbert next year

again. Yeah, again definitely it was

good. This is really nice. Thank you so

much, guys. Thanks for having us.

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