Classic Auto Mall - #082 - Stewart Howden with Miss Pennsylvania Alysa Bainbridge
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Classic Auto Mall - #082 - Stewart Howden with Miss Pennsylvania Alysa Bainbridge
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Car
Ford Ranchero
The Ford Ranchero is a type of vehicle that looks like a car but has a truck bed in the back, making it useful for carrying things. It was popular in the past and is a mix between a car and a truck.
Term
brakes
Brakes are what help your car stop when you press the pedal. If they're not working well, it can be dangerous to drive.
Concept
barn find
A barn find is a car that has been hidden away for many years, often in a barn. People love these finds because they can be valuable and interesting to restore.
Car
Triumph TR6
The Triumph TR6 is a classic car from the late 1960s and 1970s. It's known for its sporty look and fun driving experience, making it a favorite among collectors.
Term
Jaguar
Jaguar is a well-known British car brand that makes luxury cars. They are famous for their stylish designs and powerful engines.
Car
Triumph TR-4
The Triumph TR-4 is a classic sports car from the 1960s. It's known for its stylish design and fun driving experience, making it a favorite among collectors.
Term
original miles
Original miles means how far a car has been driven since it was new. If a car has very few miles, it can be worth more money because it’s considered less used.
Term
exempt mileage
Exempt mileage means that for cars older than a certain age, like 10 years, states don’t require the owner to report how many miles the car has been driven. This can make it harder to know how much the car is really worth.
Term
value of the car
The value of a car is how much money it is worth. This can change based on how many miles it has, how well it has been taken care of, and how popular that type of car is.
Car
Rolls-Royce Rollsroyce Corniche
The Rolls-Royce Corniche V is a very fancy car that people often think of when they imagine luxury. It's a convertible, which means the top can come down, and it's known for being really comfortable and stylish. Many people admire it for its beautiful design and the high-quality materials used to make it.
Car
Rolls-Royce Corniche
The Rolls-Royce Corniche is a fancy convertible car that was made in 1986. It's known for being very luxurious and is often owned by people who have multiple cars.
Term
6.75 liter V8
A '6.75 liter V8' is a type of engine that has eight cylinders and is very big, which helps the car go fast and drive smoothly. It's a powerful engine often found in luxury cars.
Car
Chevrolet Corvette
The Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Coupe is a fast sports car that has a very powerful engine. The 2007 version has a big V8 engine that makes it really exciting to drive.
Term
V8 engine
A V8 engine is a type of engine with eight cylinders that helps the car go faster and run smoothly. It's known for being powerful.
Term
horsepower
Horsepower is a way to measure how powerful an engine is. More horsepower usually means the car can go faster.
Car
Trans-Am
The Trans-Am is a sporty car made by Pontiac. It's known for being powerful and has a classic look that many people love.
Car
Volkswagen Vanagon
The Volkswagen Vanagon Multivan is a type of van made by Volkswagen in the early 1990s. It's known for being roomy and is often used for family trips or camping because it can be set up with beds and other features.
Term
pop-up canvas top
A pop-up canvas top is a roof made of fabric that you can open or close. It lets you enjoy the fresh air when it's open and keeps you dry when it's closed.
Term
2.1 liter four-cylinder
A 2.1 liter four-cylinder engine is a type of car engine that has four cylinders and can hold 2.1 liters of fuel and air. It's usually good for providing decent power while being efficient on gas.
Car
Datsun 280Z
The Datsun 280Z is a popular sports car from the late 1970s. It's known for being fun to drive and has a classic design that many people love.
Term
five-speed manual
A five-speed manual is a type of car transmission where you have to shift gears yourself. It has five different gear options to help the car go faster or slower.
Term
inline six
An inline six is a type of car engine that has six cylinders lined up in a row. This setup helps the engine run smoothly and efficiently.
Term
fuel mileage
Fuel mileage is how far a car can go on a certain amount of gas. It's usually measured in miles per gallon, and it's important to know, especially when gas prices are high.
Term
classic car
A classic car is an older vehicle, usually at least 20 years old, that many people find interesting or valuable. People often don't drive them much because they want to keep them in good condition.
Term
miles per gallon (MPG)
Miles per gallon (MPG) tells you how far a car can go on one gallon of gas. The higher the number, the better the car is at using fuel.
Car
Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 is a famous sports car that has been around since the 1960s. It's known for being fast and fun to drive, and many people love its unique look. The 2001 model is special because it has a turbo engine that makes it even quicker.
Term
twin-turbo flat-six
A twin-turbo flat-six engine has six cylinders that are laid out flat instead of standing up. It uses two turbochargers to make the car faster by forcing more air into the engine.
Term
all-wheel drive
All-wheel drive means that all four wheels of the car get power from the engine at the same time. This helps the car grip the road better, especially in rain or snow.
Term
six-speed manual
A six-speed manual means the car has a gearbox with six different gears that you can change yourself. This gives you more control over how the car drives and can help with fuel efficiency.
Term
water-cooled
Water-cooled means that the engine uses liquid to keep it cool instead of just air. This helps prevent the engine from getting too hot while it's running.
Term
air-cooled
Air-cooled means that the engine stays cool by using air instead of liquid. It has special parts to help the air cool it down as it runs.
Company
Classic Automall
Classic Automall is a website where you can find and buy classic cars. They have many cars in one place, and you can look at them online or visit in person.
Term
VIN number
A VIN number is like a car's unique ID. It helps identify the specific vehicle and contains important information about it, like its manufacturer and year.
LIVE
This is the Classic Automall Show.
Broadcast from the studios inside the Classic Automall in Morgantown, Pennsylvania.
Just one hour west of Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Turnpike Exit 298,
featuring nearly 1,000 classic vintage and barred-fine vehicles for sale under one climate-controlled roof.
Now, here's your host, Classic Automall president and the man with all the toys, Stuart Howden.
And good morning, Steve. Good morning. Ethan's not with us today, but good morning, Steve.
We'll say good morning to Ethan. Good morning. Even though he's not here.
You're wearing a few hats today. I am. Running around.
Classic Automall hat being of one. That's a quality hat.
We don't buy quality hats. We don't buy crap. We buy junk hats.
We don't buy junk hats. And you can buy stuff if you come to Classic Automall.
We have a little swag display here. You can buy hats and shirts.
Absolutely. Shirts, denim shirts or t-shirts or polo shirts or whatever else we happen to have.
We get some nice stuff, though. The guy Kent Wyndham who does our embroidery is amazing.
I mean, the level of what he does on the embroidery. Everybody else that we took it to before we found him
were like, oh, that's a little too complicated for us. We don't think we can do all that stitching.
Where is he located? I don't know. I mean, is it local here?
Yeah, local guy. Yeah, local within the area. Pennsylvania. Yeah, Pennsylvania. People say name.
Yeah, right. Elverson. Elverson. I do know Elverson. I do know where Honeybrook.
I do know where a lot of things are, but some things escape me even though I've heard them a hundred times.
So sorry if I get your thing wrong when I read out your name before you bought a car for me.
Which is probably what we should do now. Really? Yeah. Big week.
Big week to finish off the year. We had a fantastic March.
It was great. And January and February were great, too.
So, I mean, we've had three really solid months after three kind of OK months in the next year.
So we're happy for that. And where are we sold cars this week?
How about Woodbury, New Jersey, Addison, New York, Moton, Pennsylvania, Elverson, Pennsylvania.
I know where Elverson is. Hampton, New Hampshire, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Minersville, Pennsylvania,
Mont Bellevue, Texas, Rensailer, New York, Manassas, Virginia, Long Beach, California,
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Owlshead, Maine, So Wickley, Pennsylvania,
Sandia Park, New Mexico, Elizabeth Town, Pennsylvania, Jackson, Mississippi, Phoenix, Maryland,
Williamsburg, Virginia, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and Groveport, Ohio.
So, that's the state. 11 states.
On average, how long does it take for people to set up shipping and for a car to get delivered?
Like, especially the out-of-state ones. Like, do they sit here for weeks or like a year?
No, it depends. I mean, it depends on the route.
Like, you're going to Bismarck, North Dakota.
It might be a couple of three weeks because there's not a lot of traffic going that way.
If you're going to down I-95 to Jacksonville, Florida, we can probably get it picked up tomorrow,
you know, literally. But on average, I would guess they stay here for about a week to 10 days
because you got to understand, if you buy a car from us, if you agree to buy a car from us,
we can't call the shipper until we have clear funds and it's ready to go out the door.
And you say, well, why don't you just call them ahead?
We don't because they don't like to put it on their schedule until they know for sure
that the vehicle is funded and paid for fully. So, if you give me a check that takes five business days
then you've got to wait. We've got to wait to call the shipper until the check is clear
because if I call the shipper and he says, why don't you pick it up tomorrow?
Well, we're not ready for it to be picked up tomorrow. We want it to be picked up five days from now.
Oh, well, then call me in five days.
So, but does the buyer pick the shipper?
We can help with shipping. We have a transportation department, Bill Borneman,
who works for us, handles all the transportation. So, they can, if they choose to use us,
then we will help them make the arrangement for the shipping.
A lot of people already have a shipper, have a buddy.
Funny you should mention all this because my article I wrote for the Speedster that just came out yesterday,
the AACA online emailed newsletter was, you bought it, now how do you get it home?
Okay.
We'll talk about that in a minute. But yeah, it's something that we provide as a service
and we pack a little service fee on top of it for us because it's time and effort and all that.
And we're happy to do it. We're happy for you to get your own shipper if you like.
But if you do, certainly pay attention to the details.
And we'll get into that in a minute.
And don't forget, if you want to find out what's going on here,
sign up for our newsletter. Go to our website, classicautomall.com
and there's a sign up for our newsletter button.
And you push that and put in your name and add, or not just name and email address.
And once a month we send an email and the only time you'd get more than one a month
is if we had something really special to the names.
And so far it's just been one a month.
I think one time we had to close for a weather or something we sent out an email.
But for the most part, we just send one a month.
So we don't overload you.
But it's funny, I see people that unsubscribe to our newsletter.
Get too many emails from you.
There are companies I get four and five a day from.
Exactly.
So I don't do that.
Sometimes you just go and call, you filter everything
because you're getting so many emails.
You just dump the junk indiscriminately.
Well, and nowadays if you get something that's a spam,
you're afraid if you click unsubscribe, you're clicking into some kind of vortex
that you'll never get out of.
That's true.
You know?
I always think like, am I getting on another list by hitting unsubscribe?
You have to be careful too, because it says which of these,
which features in this web, if you don't hit them all, then you're still on the list.
You're still on the list.
And there's certain things that I love to get that I love to see.
And then I wait anxiously for every day or every week or whatever.
I like the newspaper ones that show you the headlines with the newspaper
and then you can kind of pick and choose which one to read, although
there's been a lot of single-sided news today being April 1st, April Fool's.
It is April Fool's.
Dang, so we haven't fooled anybody.
Rainy April Fool's Day.
Rainy.
It's a beautiful soggy day.
Oh, there's a ranchero.
Ranchero, yeah.
With a hood of jar.
Getting a little air.
I wonder why.
Or it's got a jump box under the hood.
I was reading a not-consumer report, popular mechanics.
You know, Ethan collects old magazines and he got one from 1950.
From 1950.
So over here at this, we have a little antique store in Morgantown.
It's great and they have old magazines.
And it's amazing how aggressive the ads were even in 1950.
So I'm thinking of like the internet ads and trying to get your business
and sending you emails every other day or every day.
And it was the same way in 1950.
It was just a different, it was like a print medium.
And it's still like a little, like not trying to rip you off, but just like
really aggressive sales.
Right, right.
You must have this.
Yeah, exactly.
If you don't have this, then you're, you know, whatever.
Right.
You know, and it's funny because it is true.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
We always jokingly say about Sears.
Sears was a mail order company that was put out of business by Amazon,
which is another mail order company.
You know, in essence, it was just a different model.
Had Sears not, you know, if they had decided to go
in the online direction, they would have been Amazon.
Yeah.
You can't even get somebody in the store, let alone somebody to mail you something.
Although as we discuss, is that rain?
Yeah.
Although as we just, if you can hear that, that's how hard it's raining on our flat
in here.
We have, oh wow.
I hope my windows are up.
Got it.
All six cars.
Yeah.
That's a horrible feeling when you've got a car outside.
Hmm.
I wonder if I, the sunroof, I left the sunroof open of my wife's car one time.
And, and, and it rained all night.
Oh my God.
And the car was just almost ruined.
Yeah.
It really was.
The water's not good inside.
It was very moldy smelling for a long, long time.
And every time, of course, she got in it, she was reminded of my stupidity.
Because it smells a little mildewy.
Because it was very, I was like, nah, it's all good, you know.
Spray and lice all as much as I could.
So anyway, talking about computers, if anybody knows anything about Excel.
Yes.
I need help.
Okay.
I need help because my, one of my programs on my gazillion spreadsheets that I do for
this.
Yeah.
Won't, won't, won't follow the formula.
So if I say, I need it to add up line one, two, three, four, five and six and give me
the sum.
And then when you change a number in there, it would change the sum.
Yeah.
Duden.
Not doing that.
It's not.
And then if I go back and, and delete it and then go back again, then it's there.
So now I'm always second guessing everything that I do.
So if anybody knows anything about Excel.
Yes.
Podcast at ClassicAutomom.com.
I need some help.
Gotta be an IT guy in Morgantown somewhere.
That understands this.
Or it doesn't have to be in Morgantown.
You can just, you know, I'll remotely let you get into my computer.
If you prove to me that you're, you're not going to do any damage or harm.
Computer.
So 920 cars in inventory, which I believe was the exact same number as last.
Pretty close.
Yeah.
It was close to that.
And the reason that it sometimes stays the same is because sometimes we take in, uh,
consign as many cars as we sell, or we sell, or we consign more than we sell, or we sell
more than we consign.
So that's where the number fluctuates a little bit.
And sometimes people take their car out like I had a guy the other day who, um, was curious
why his car hadn't sold.
And we'd come to the determination that, uh, uh, there had been, there was a couple
of issues with the car that needed to be repaired.
So we decided to take it out and fix those.
And then he'll bring it back and then we'll, we'll give it another shot because some certain
things are, are kind of insurmountable, you know, you can't overcome with people.
They just need to be fixed.
And usually it's something to do with safety, like the brakes or something like that as
well too.
So we always recommend that, that the car operates properly and we'll stop and go, um,
beyond that cosmetic stuff, it's kind of a crapshoot on whether it's worth it to spend
the money or just discount the car enough to, to make it, uh, attractive to somebody.
So, uh, but anyway, so that's why those numbers can actually stay the same, uh, from week
to week.
But you know, 920 is plenty.
Yeah.
There's a lot of cars.
I'm not complaining that we don't have enough.
It doesn't look a little more roomier in here after some of the antiques have been moved
out.
Yeah.
We've moved 40 of our barn find my partner's barn finds are gone.
So 40 are out of here with another 50 to go.
And then we're going to get more aggressive on the ones that are still here.
I'm talking about barn finds that have been here since we opened that have never been
for sale.
So if you've had your eye on something here, uh, that was never offered for sale and you've
seen in here coming, reach out to us because it may be, uh, yeah, the, the edsles online.
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
Next in the pipeline, a couple of the pierceros you can have are online.
Now, granted, these aren't, uh, piercero v 16 roasters, but they are, you know, four
doors today and straight eight cars, but still pretty rare, you know, somewhat desirable.
Well, we always stay rare and desire is two different answers.
Right.
This goes down.
We made a one or something.
I didn't mean anything.
That's right.
That's true.
So, uh, but some of the new inventory we got in this week, uh, was the 63 Triumph ER fork
every other really cool car, red signal, red over black.
And is it Triumph or Triumph or Triumph Triumph Triumph Triumph like Triumph the dog.
Right.
But, but it's funny.
It's one of, that's one of those ones that you can hear people mispronounce, you know,
all the time.
I'm still stuck on Jaguar, Jaguar, Jaguar, is Jackie Stewart said in British say Jaguar.
Jaguar.
I can't do that.
And Jackie Stewart also says Akura for Acura.
And then if you just want to be a hillbilly like you and call Hyundai Honda.
Honda.
And what was the other one?
Uh, uh, uh, Toyota, Toyota, Toyota, the guy's never doing business with us.
Right.
You said Toyota.
So you can't believe you remember that.
I, you know, I have a brain trust me.
He probably wasn't going to do business anyway.
It's probably a 14 year old.
I have a brain.
I mean, I have a memory like one of those gray things with a long nose.
Oh yeah.
You know, like an elephant.
That's funny.
So you did.
No, I'm hilarious.
Um, so you did a Tik Tok live event last Tuesday after we did our show and the numbers
were staggering.
Yeah.
We, I mean, I don't know.
I just, for the S and G's, I just went live on a Tuesday afternoon and all you people
working at your desk and looking for something to do apparently found it interesting.
So 40,000 people stopped in to say, what's going on at Classic Automall?
It's nice too, because there are not a lot of people walking around and had the run
of the place.
Yeah.
It was a quiet day for us on Tuesday.
Sometimes they can't be.
What's interesting about it is that Tik Tok is perceived as the younger generation crowd.
Yeah.
However, 43% of the 40,300 people that viewed it were 55.
I was surprised by that.
Yeah.
I'm very surprised.
Yeah.
Although, you know, the older you get, 55 doesn't seem to be.
And I guess on a Tuesday afternoon, that's who's could be upper retired people retired
or executives.
Yeah.
You know, we used to have, you know, debates on when to end cars on eBay, like what, what
day to start an hour so it would end.
So you do it in the evening when, you know, all the guys are home from work or you do
it.
If it's a high dollar car, you can do it during the day, because a guy who's in that category
is able to get on his computer and check emails and all that.
Right.
More personal stuff they can do during the day than the guy working on the factory floor
and stuff.
This is show number.
What is it?
Show number 81.
Show number 82 that we're doing.
So we're all pros.
That's it.
We seem to think.
We're like click and clack.
Yeah.
We're clacking.
Yeah.
Exactly.
So, but you know what?
It's fun to do.
I've enjoyed doing it and I think that you need a break from all those, all those spreadsheets.
Yeah.
Nice to get a break in those non-working spreadsheets.
So again, any XL junkies out there, call me.
Let me know.
So the new inventory, the 63 Triumph TR-4, signal right over black, thousand miles since
the employee restored, garage kept, all the restoration receipts and photos, which is
so nice.
Don't forget to save all that stuff when you restore your car and take pictures and document
it.
And the reason is that you want to document is because you might forget the way something
went back to get, you know.
So if you take lots of pictures and really follow the process, then not only do you have
a nice record of the bill, but if something doesn't seem to go back into place like it
should, you've got a way to go back and check it.
So it's important to do that, but not everybody does that.
Not everybody's good at keeping records and receipts and things like that.
But any paperwork that, that if you bought the car new, anything that came with it that's
paper or written or extras, keep them, keep them in a place where you know where they
are, where you can get to them when it's time to sell the car.
Make sure and keep that stuff.
Anything when you time you buy a car, keep every piece of paper that comes with it.
Don't throw anything away because there's a lot of invaluable information and there's
stuff that can be important to the history of the car and when it comes time for somebody
else to restore it or whatever they may do or to sell it.
But it's always nice to, nothing worse than not knowing the answer to a question about
the car.
And we get that from time to time because we sell a lot of cars that are from estates
and people that have passed away and therefore they don't always know, you know, the family
doesn't always know the history of the car.
So if you keep all that paperwork, it makes everybody's life when you're gone, much better.
So sometimes we get box loads of papers, sometimes we get too much papers or too many trophies.
Copies and copies.
Copies of, you know, a thousand receipts, but I'll take that any day over nothing and
no information and not even knowing what size the engine is or what the cranny is or when
it was rebuilt or if it was ever rebuilt or if it's original miles or not.
Because, you know, part of the problem with original miles on cars is once the car gets
over 10 years old, a lot of, a lot of states will just mark them exempt.
They'll just say, no, that's just, that's over 10 years old, mileage doesn't matter.
It's exempt.
Well, it does matter.
If it's low, it's 5,000 original miles and they mark it exempt, they're with the value
of the car.
Because the values in the mileage in late model cars, I'm just here to tell you, I think I've
told you that.
That's true.
That's where the value of that stuff is.
So keep all the documentation.
Another piece of new inventory, 1986 Rolls-Royce Corniche, yep, Corniche convertible, Blackover
Ivory, 27,000 original.
They're not driven.
They're not driven.
That's daily drivers, generally speaking, usually a fifth or sixth car for somebody.
Yeah, I mean, if you've got a Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible, you probably don't have
one car.
Sunday driver.
Yeah.
Garage cap, 6.75 liter V8.
And as Peter likes to say, richly appointed interior.
The most richly appointed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You would find anything more richly appointed than a Rolls-Royce Corniche.
And near flawless paint.
Miles deep near flawless because, you know, you don't like to say flawless because I
guarantee if you tell me something flawless, I'm going to find a flaw.
I will promise you I'll find a flaw.
And the good news is, is that if you're looking at it under fluorescent lights, you will certainly
see any of the flaws.
That's the boon in the bane of this.
It's a beauty though.
It really is a beautiful car.
And that black on that car is probably the best color.
I don't know.
White's pretty good.
Or a cream color.
The cream one, yeah.
It's pretty elegant looking, but certainly the black is his way up.
Another new inventory, 2007 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Coupe, a victory red over Ebony, 15,000
garage kept, 7 liter, 505 horsepower V8.
That's a lot of car for the money.
It is.
That's a whole lot of car.
Two owners.
It's got the paint protective film on the exterior and all the service proceeds.
But I mean, the performance of that car is pretty amazing.
And the price, it's cheap compared to its European brothers.
Yeah.
It's a super car.
It really is.
For bargain basement.
Yeah.
It really is.
And then of course, and it's fast.
505 horsepower is not nothing.
They're outrageously fast.
Yeah.
A lot of fun to drive.
Well balanced, easy to drive.
And just be careful leaving cars and coffee because that's all the rage as somebody wrecked
a ZR1 this week.
I see it.
Every time these guys, how do they lose control?
When it lets go, it lets go and there's nothing you can do.
So be careful and don't show off and just coast out of cars and coffee.
And there's one guy.
Is it Billy Hype?
No.
It was somebody else based on this ZR1.
He had done a video.
Oh, it was in Florida.
He did a video a couple of weeks ago for this cars and coffee and said, listen, I'm getting
sick of this.
I'm getting, this is hard to put together.
And if you ruin it by doing a burnout on the way out of here, then what's the point?
Right.
You know, and especially if there's really tall curbs.
Yeah.
And they're usually usually just resist the urge to smack that tire.
We don't have to hear your exhaust.
We know it's fast.
You can just rev it up in the parking lot without, you know, in neutral.
Yeah.
We can hear on the break out of gear, out of gear.
Make sure that it's out of gear.
You don't want to.
But it's amazing how people just lose it in seemingly dry conditions and they don't
seem like they're really going that fast.
And then all of a sudden it's just like the thing just starts going sideways.
It does.
It's like it's on ice all of a sudden.
I don't know.
I got a question in the ability.
It's true.
That's what it's about.
Exactly.
It's skill level.
Well, and there's so much more.
I mean, if you think about it, we talk about this.
When we were growing up, the most horsepower of a Corvette was like 220 or 180 in a Trans-Am.
Right.
You know, that wasn't nearly.
I mean, nowadays, you know, a Hyundai, yeah, whatever has got that kind of power.
There's a new Toyota.
There's a new Toyota, the GR.
It's three cylinders.
300.
I saw one the other day.
Three cylinders.
Three cylinders.
300 horsepower.
Any time you want to say Toyota, just look at me and give me a wink.
I'll say Toyota for you.
Toyota.
Weird.
I know.
But you got to get it right or otherwise we're going to get more.
We're going to lose business.
Over your mispronunciation.
All right.
Anyway, how about the 91 Volkswagen Vanagon Multivan?
Bordeaux Red.
That's the dark red.
That's the dark and maroon.
Yeah.
Or it's like red wine.
Yeah.
Bordeaux is a red wine.
That's the name.
Russ-free exterior.
Pop-up canvas top.
Really cool.
2.1 liter four-cylinder.
So, you know, it ain't getting out of many things way.
Right.
It probably won't do a burnout out of the cars of coffee and go sideways into the curve.
They are cool to see at car shows.
I love seeing this.
Yeah.
The little four-cylinder though apparently is enough to get it on down the road.
So, you know, what are you going to do?
People who like those kind of vehicles, like that high gas, they like the ability to...
Sure.
They're leaving less of a footprint on there.
So, good for them.
If you make it to the park, you get good gas mileage.
Exactly.
No, it's a good running one.
And they're fun to drive.
And they're cool.
They're very neat cars.
They're neat and fun to own and fun to hang out in and to go camping in and hang out with
your significant other.
Sure.
Also, we've got a 77 280Z Dotson, blue metallic over white and black, 74,000 next month.
It's a survivor, basically.
I mean, it's basically as it came from the factory, very little recent brake work and
things like that.
But a five-speed manual, 2.8 liter inline six, which is...
It didn't have a lot of power.
I don't think the horsepower is probably 160 or something like that.
Yeah, probably.
Yeah.
Somewhere in that range.
Definitely sub 200.
Yeah, sub 200.
But fun to drive.
They were even back in the day.
And you got to remember, 1977 was not the pinnacle of horsepower of the car.
That's right.
Again, you could go back to the Corvette.
Probably had 165 and 77.
170, maybe.
All the smog.
All the smog and all that stuff.
That's a cool little sporty car and people are looking for them.
Yeah.
They seem to be very, very popular.
And listen, even we're getting nowadays, even with toys and hobby cars, people are a little
bit concerned about fuel miles, even with that stuff.
It used to be that it didn't matter what gas prices were because you weren't going to drive
your classic car that much.
But when they did over $3 and $4 a gallon and you got a car that gets 8 or 10 miles to
the gallon and the local cruise end is 40 or 50 miles away.
And so that's 90 miles in a day and that's 10 gallons of gas and that's $40.
All of a sudden it becomes maybe a little bit of an issue.
You know, something that you're more concerned about than you would have been when it was
a dollar.
I think that's a slow demopart sales, though, at all.
I think gas ought to be capped at a dollar a period.
That'd be good.
That would be it.
Wow.
That would do something for the economy.
It wasn't that long ago that it was a dollar a gallon.
So what's the cheapest you ever paid for gas?
Driving in your own pumpkin to your car.
I can't remember $1.20.
Oh, come on.
Yeah.
You're the best.
Yeah, I think so.
You're young.
Yeah, I am.
Well, I'm not young.
Youngish.
$0.59.
Really?
Yeah.
And the cheapest pack of cigarettes I ever bought was a quarter in North Carolina.
Cigarettes were really cheap in North Carolina.
Apparently.
Apparently.
Well, they grow them there, don't they?
They grow cigarettes.
Tobacco.
Tobacco.
Yes, they have a cigarette farm and they grow the filters over on them.
It's kind of like when oils cheaper in New Jersey or something because that's where the
refineries are.
You know that gas prices are always almost a dollar a gallon cheaper in Missouri.
Oh, really?
Than they are here.
And I don't understand that because we do have refineries here and we have oil that comes
in here and yada, yada, yada.
Another new inventory we got as we sidetrack into.
Neverland.
Never, never.
The Vortex.
2001 Porsche 911 Turbo scrambled eggs, the headlights, silver metallic over black, 39,000
actual miles, which is kind of high for a turbo Porsche, but not high bad.
I mean, it just it's been used, which is good.
I mean, a lot of the things have been sorted out.
A lot of things that can go wrong have gone wrong.
And so, you know, you've got an opportunity to drive something that's been vetted and
sorted.
And that's a good thing.
3.6 liter twin turbo flat sack, six.
Service records galore all wheel drive six speed manual checks all the right boxes.
And a lot of, you know, the 996s, which are of this era, were a lot have been overlooked
for years because they had the same headlight covers as the box.
And a lot of guys are like, I don't want to buy, I'm not buying a 911 if it's got boxed
or headlight.
It looks like a boxer.
And I don't want to look like a, you know, well, okay, but it's still a great car.
First of the water cooled porches, which were, you know, for years were air cooled, which
is interesting because, you know, you got to wonder why they didn't overheat more at
stop.
Why didn't you have more overheating problems?
Because forced air is what keeps the engine cool.
You just never stop.
You just, well, there you go.
I mean, you can't go wrong with a Porsche 911.
Well, no, no.
In any way.
Turbo, I mean turbo.
Turbo Porsche of any ilk.
And they make kits for the headlights.
I was looking that up because I was, you know, soft shopping for cars and some of those
are, you know, not affordable, but they're less than sort of normal headlight 911s.
And there are kits you can get that make it look somewhat brown, but I think it looks
funky.
Yeah.
I think that, I think it's something that people are starting to kind of get at.
Exactly.
And realizing that it's a really well built car, number one, and a lot of car for the
money.
You know, I mean, you know, the, the 2000 and I think five was the last year they kind
of had a crossover year when they went to the, the round headlights.
And of course those are, you know, double the price of these.
So, you know, which is funny because, I mean, it's all just some weird little aesthetic
thing that kind of got out there.
And I think that what you'll find a lot of times is people don't even know why they
don't like them.
They just don't like it because they were told not to.
That's right.
But, you know, it's funny.
I had a whole thing to talk about air cooled horses and the difference between, you know,
a water cooled versus an air cooled portion.
So, we might get to that today.
We might not.
We've got a special guest on, we hope in segment four, Miss Pennsylvania, Alyssa Bainch.
She's back.
She's back.
She's been off the road.
A lot of hiatus.
She's been doing her Miss Pennsylvania duties.
She has traveled on the stage.
And every time I turn around, I see her somewhere, Punxsutawney, Phil, or at the Billy Otto show,
or everywhere.
We'll talk about all that in segment four.
Coming up on segment three, we'll talk about my article that I wrote when we return to
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windy, whatever else I can say about it.
It's not snowing.
We have had no snow this year.
No winter at all.
And next year is next year.
Next week is going to be in the 70s.
Is that right?
Yeah, so I'm anxious.
And, you know, because I get to get out in the yard again.
It's fun.
Yeah, boy.
I know the grass is already starting to grow a little bit.
I'm like, yeah, it's going to be ready to be mowed soon.
And we, of course, have this guy who comes out and makes our grass grow more.
That was a brilliant idea.
I used to, I used to, you know, cheer the day in July when it would just die because
it was just brown end of season, the end of season is brown.
He didn't have to cut it anymore.
No, we're not that.
We don't have a guy who comes out and invigorates our lawn and therefore
makes it grow faster.
I don't invigorate anything.
I just let the weeds grow.
Fortunately, I keep my lawn is not visible by other neighbors.
Ah, so you don't have to keep up with the jumps?
I don't really, I don't really have to.
Oh, that's cool.
So as we were talking earlier, the article I wrote for the
AACA speech, which is their newsletter, if you don't get it, it's pretty fascinating.
It's going there and sign up for that as well, too, as well as.
You don't have to be a member to get it?
No, I think you can just get it.
And of course, I'm probably wrong.
I don't know.
I think you do.
Do what?
I think you have to be a member, but I'm not sure.
Well, you don't have to be a member to read my article, which I'm going to read to you now.
I'll tell you about it.
Okay, good.
So the article, the name of the article and what they've asked me to do is
write generic articles.
You know, they don't want me to write an article that says classic
automa was the greatest place in the whole entire world.
You just never buy a car anywhere else but there.
That's already known.
That's already a given.
That's a known entity.
Um, they asked me to write generic type stories about different things in the
hobby and segments and things that we've done a lot of, it's been fun.
It's, you know, some days you go, oh, crap, I got two days to get this thing done.
But I always get it done.
And this one was you've bought it dot, dot, dot.
Now, how do you get it home?
Mm hmm.
And that's a good, a darn good question because, you know, you, you get excited.
You bought your new car and like, Oh, I gotta get it.
Well, I'll just drive it.
Well, by the way, I had no idea this article was coming.
And we were talking about it earlier today.
So what a brilliant segue that was unplanned.
Stop that.
I need a raise.
I knew that was coming next.
Always.
So you bought it.
You're excited.
It's like, how do I get it home?
There's options.
Just pick the right one for you.
You may have a buddy.
Um, and if you're an old pro at it, then I've told everybody stop reading that.
You know, if you, if you got your own truck and trailer and you, you know,
there's no reason to go on.
Sure.
But you can always go down to the truck rental place and rent one of those
little U-Haul trailers and, but nothing good can come of that is if there's,
there's free things that you got to answer.
Okay.
Do you really know how to load a car on a trailer?
You know how to strap it down properly and you know how to drive a, a truck
and trailer or a car.
And if you hesitated on answering any of those questions, then that's a bad idea
to go do that.
I admire people who can do that.
By the way, I can't.
But I, I've seen people do it and you got to know how to load the weight, right?
You got to know how to load the weight.
I mean, but, but if you ask yourself those three questions and there's even a
micro second of hesitation, don't do it or no, no, because there's lots of bad
fishtailing stories that you see again on YouTube and Facebook of guys who
unloaded too much weight on the front of the tongue, too much weight on the back.
You've seen that little exercise where they have the little model truck and
trailer and they just tap the back of it and it's loaded properly.
It settles right in real quick and if it doesn't, it goes crazy.
So, you know, if, if you've got a buddy who can help you, if that's fantastic,
that's great.
The guy who knows how to load trailers and all that by mistake, dinner and, you
know, be on your way.
But how about using a professional shift?
Well, there's a novel idea, you know, somebody that actually does this for a
living and the reason we don't encourage you to drive your car home, get to know
your car before you just go out on a embark on a, even if it's 50 miles, long
way to go in an unfamiliar car, you know, you get out on the turnpike and maybe
it doesn't keep up speed wise and you're just uncomfortable, paid a little bit
of money to get it home, start driving it in your environment where you're
comfortable.
Um, but so you hire a professional shipper.
Now that's fantastic, except what if the shipper doesn't know how to drive a
manual transmission and we have that happen.
Is that right?
I figures that would be a prerequisite for the job.
I would think so.
We, we had, I remember when I used to run a, or work at a dealer auction and run
their classic car show, I was also in charge of the safety.
So, um, you know, so one of the questions that we ended up adding on to
the application was, do you know how to drive a manual transmission?
You just assume everybody, that's, that's not the case.
And certainly the younger crowd doesn't know how to drive it and no
fault of their own, there's not many cars out there that have manual
transmissions.
Right.
That was, I actually learned to drive with a neighborhood older kid at like
nine years old on a manual transmission, Vega, right in a parking lot on a hill.
And he taught me how to let the clutch out and that anyway.
So, so you got to find out, make sure that the guy understands classic cars.
If you've got a high dollar car, then pay for one of the high
inches, pay for reliable or passport or inner city or one of those guys who,
you know, that's what they do on a daily basis.
They drive high dollar cars on to these little, narrow, tiny trailers and
they treat them like bait.
Because if a guy doesn't know how to drive a manual transmission,
tries to load your car, it's going to be trouble.
And, you know, again, reputation and reputable and familiar with old cars and
the way that they work and, and all of that.
Um, and do you want an opener and close trailer?
Um, enclosed is nice because there's no elements that are going to get on your
car when it's going through a storm or a rocky area or whatever.
Um, but there's two different kinds of enclosed trailer.
There's the hard sided enclosed, which are great and let nothing in.
And there's those soft sided trailers, which when the car gets to where it's
going, especially if it's going across the country, it's usually dirtier than
when it's a lot dirtier than when it started.
It lets dust and dirt, you know, because they're not hermetically sealed.
There's my big word.
Yeah.
Um, they don't fly.
I see him flapping, but they don't really hit the car.
They're tight enough.
Although I did have a guy one time I told you the story where he sent a car
open and he put a car cover over it, you know, kind of halfway strapped down.
Probably not a good idea.
It pretty much.
That's a whole other story.
I'm so thankful that you brought it up.
Oh, I think I brought it.
Well, don't cover your car if you're doing an open car.
Just because I think it's going to be safe.
Yeah.
It doesn't get much different.
So make sure obviously they're bonded and insured.
Um, that's very important.
And most haulers are, most, I mean, unless you get some rogue guy who, you know,
a buddy of a buddy of a buddy tells you about, um, if they have, if they're
running down the highway, they're DOT certified, which means they've been
checked out and subject to inspection.
They have insurance.
They have a bond.
They have all that, but I tell everybody when you buy a car, the minute
you agree to buy a car or pay for a car, get it and put it at it to your
insurance policy and you don't have to have the title.
You don't have to have any of the paperwork or you have to have
as the VIN number and the year making model and you just call your insurance
agent and say, Hey, uh, I'm, I want to put this on my policy because you
can't be over insured.
Trust me, um, because if something happens, you know, obviously you want
to have protection.
You want to know that the car is going to either get fixed or you're going
to get paid for it, whether you have provided the insurance or the, or the
shipper has, but either way, it's important, uh, to do that.
So, and the other thing is, is always ask for preload inspection and photographs.
If they can, a lot of the shippers will take pictures of the car before
they loaded on the trailer to show what damage there was or was not, uh, before
the car left, because things can happen.
You know, some car could be loaded on the bottom of a trailer and there
could be a bolt on the car above that falls on the hood.
I mean, oil leaks onto the hood.
Uh, something happens that could cause some damage.
So, and, and just rolling down the highway, even though it's not rolling
on its own power, things can go wrong because it's bouncing down the highway
at 70 miles an hour and it's going 2000 miles across the country.
You damn sticky that things can go wrong.
You know, a million, a million different things.
A million different things, a gazillion different, but just lots of things.
Things can come loose.
Electrical connections can come loose.
Uh, fluids can leak.
Uh, a bolt can come undone.
Um, there's just a lot of different things.
So, um, make sure that, you know, ask lots of questions of the shipper.
Make sure you know what you're doing.
If you don't talk to a buddy who does know what you're doing.
And, uh, and that's my words of wisdom.
You know, we, uh, um, we see lots of shippers in here and most of them
are very respectful of our, but every once in a while we see one and usually
that, you know, not so, um, respectful.
And we'll usually call the buyer and say, Hey, this is, this may be an issue.
And we want you to be aware that this guy is loading his car on the trailer and
he doesn't know what he's doing.
And I'm concerned and, you know, then, then you got to make your own decision
at that point as a buyer or as the owner of the vehicle, what you want to do.
Because once it leaves our hands and, you know, it becomes their, the shippers
responsible for yours, if you own it, uh, if they don't have the correct kind
of insurance or credentials, if you will.
Right.
And I would say that just caution people against using a broker.
Yeah.
Um, because some of those fly by night shippers are just not what I speak from
experience, probably not the one you want to go with.
Well, here's the problem too.
You load it onto a big nice pretty truck and it leaves and guess what?
Maybe it goes a hundred miles down the road and they offload it into a gravel
parking line to wait for another truck that's going the next leg.
And before you know it, it's been on five or six different trucks.
And when can the damage happen?
The most on shipping the car, unloading and loading, you know, when you're
moved, putting it on and when you're taking it off.
And so, or, you know, if they get to a place that they've got to move, they've
got to move your car out to get another car out this before you, then you got a
guy driving your car out onto a dark city street and, you know, God knows where
God knows what hour of the day.
You know, there's just all kinds of things that you need to know.
What you want is a guy who's going to pick up your car, bring it directly to
your doorstep without ever unloading the car from point A to point B.
And if they're going to unload the car, make sure that you're comfortable.
Now, you can use an enclosed or an open trailer and if the car is not a high
dollar car or if it's a restoration project or something like that, or one
that you don't care if it gets a little bit of dirt or dust or whatever on it,
then, then, you know, certainly an open trailer and in a good time of weather,
you know, if you're going from here to, you know, Allentown and it's sunny and
80, then who cares if it's on an open trailer and a rock could still get it.
But for the most part, it'll, it'll arrive unscathed and it's cheaper to
ship a car open versus enclosed.
So sometimes twice as much almost.
Yeah.
Sometimes depending on where it's going.
Very well.
And to your point, you can request, especially if it's going cross country,
something like that, the front position.
So it's not being taken on and off six times.
And they love it when you do.
If they can arrange it, if you can arrange it, I think the top front is the best spot.
Well, the top front is absolutely the best because anything else on the bottom
is going to have something above it.
Now, the good shippers will put a layer of plastic over your car that on the
lower level ones.
And so, and they also will put a steering wheel cover and a floor mat and a
seat cover and they wear gloves and they put booties on their shoes.
And I mean, it depends on if you get white glove service or if you get not so
white glove service, just all depends.
Yeah.
But, but anyway, just make sure to do your homework, do your due diligence,
ask all the right questions, make sure you know exactly what it is they're
planning and when they're planning on doing it.
Because like we said earlier, you know, we can't call the shipper until we're
fully funded because he wants to know that it's ready today forward at any
given time between right this minute and two weeks from now.
And, and if it's not fully paid, then you can't tell him.
So that's why we wait until the vehicle has been funded.
There's my words of wisdom for the day.
And, you know, go to go to break now if you'd like.
And then we'll go early, but we've got to listen in the, in the green room,
in the green room, is the room green?
No, is the carpet green?
No, are the donuts green?
Coffee green, green tea?
We do.
Okay, good.
That's good enough.
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Our special guest in the studio with us today is our, is the classic
automobile spoke person, Alyssa Bainbridge, who is also Miss Pennsylvania.
And who's we were just talking about off the air.
Your term is coming to an end, right?
Yes, I'm sad.
I have about two months left.
Well, I'm sure they'll keep you plenty busy.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it seems like every time we read about something you're doing,
you are all over the state.
You're everywhere.
Yeah.
Is it, is it, I guess so.
Your business manager just sets it up and you go and you just say,
hey, I'll whatever I need to do today.
That's where I go.
Yeah.
That's so cool.
Do you, what's the favorite thing that you've gotten to do that you were
just really surprised?
Punctual Tony Phil.
Yes, actually, I was not expecting to love Groundhog Day as much as I did.
And it is a whole event.
Like it's a whole three days of events back back.
I got to meet Punctual Tony Phil.
I was right up on the stage when he made his prediction.
So that was what was it this year?
Did he see a shadow or he didn't see a shadow?
He predicted long, a longer winter.
A longer winter.
And we've had a mob lucky here anyway.
He keeps us wrong.
Well, I guess you can't be perfect.
You didn't hear that from me.
All weather people are wrong anyway, right?
So Punctual Tony Phil can be no different than any of the rest of the
weather people.
So I saw you the last we saw, he was at the Filly Auto Show.
And that was a neat event, wasn't it?
I mean, you know, what's crazy is that not all the manufacturers participated
this year, but it still was packed down.
I mean, but they had some cool ride and drive stuff.
Now, did you get to do any of that where you ride on the Jeep?
Yes, I was in the Jeep on the little obstacle course.
Yeah, that's kind of cool.
It was fun. Yeah.
I mean, it's not something that most people do on a regular basis.
So it's nice to say that you've done it.
Yes, I've been to a couple of auto shows.
I was at the Lehigh Valley Auto Show last weekend.
Oh, that's right.
I forgot about that.
And then, of course, we did the Harrisburg Show as well, too,
done in Harrisburg this year.
We participated down there.
And and it's not quite as big a show as the Filly Show, but, you know,
it's more of a regional type of event or whatever.
So so still in school.
Yes, grad school, part time online.
Nice. Nice.
How much near the end of that to probably graduate by the end of the year.
Right. And you can pretty much control that, right?
Is how much? Yeah, that's been super flexible.
My son's doing that.
And he loves it because he's got a full time job and he's married.
And, you know, it's not like, you know, he just got all this free time to go to school.
And so he's doing it part time online and everybody says, do you worry about online?
I go, no, I go in 10 years, who's going to care?
Nobody's going to say, oh, you only got your degree online.
Yeah. Nobody cares about that stuff anymore.
What matters is you learn the subject matter and you're hireable because of that.
And you're doing some broadcasting stuff.
Are you is that your goal is to continue doing that?
Yeah. So I'll be looking for a job here soon.
Right.
If anyone's listening in the Philadelphia area.
And within a circle of 75 miles of here.
So that's the goal I want to be in Philly or the greater Philadelphia area closer to home.
And would you like to be a reporter out on the street?
And I mean, what position in there would you love the most?
Ultimately, I'd love to do some like kind of lifestyle entertainment type of role,
whether that's a lifestyle reporter or long term,
I'd love to have my own like lifestyle show.
Right. Right.
Well, and we talk about, you know, podcasts and different things
where everybody can have their own show.
But you really got to do something that separates you from the fray
because there's so many podcasts out there.
I mean, everybody, every time we turn around, there's another podcast.
So we've decided that we're going to make our podcast,
hopefully a little different by doing more, you know, stuff like that,
lifestyle type parts of the car business.
So it's fun to do that because then you learn more about your own business,
you know, and learn more about things that would be interesting.
So ideal job would be like News Channel Six and Philly.
And once a week, you do the lifestyle segment and they.
Yeah. OK. Lifestyle reporter. Yeah.
I like that. I like that.
Well, I'm also trying to find an Excel spreadsheet wizard on here, too.
So between these two things, we've got to we've got to get some help up there.
I know. So but prior to being Miss Pennsylvania,
were you Miss Pennsylvania Outstanding Teen?
I was. So back in 2016.
So it's the sister program to Miss America.
So the teen version of Miss America is it's now called Miss America's Teen.
Formerly Miss America Without Skinning Teen.
But really, it's just to get young women started in the program
and prepare them for the Miss program.
So we have that teen program.
So I was Pennsylvania's teen back in 2016.
Was great preparation to start competing.
It's not easy. All this is not easy, right?
No, it was a journey.
It's been a several years long journey.
But it's life lessons.
You probably learned with it as well, too.
As far as just being in the spotlight, obviously,
with your career that you want to do.
Interview, experience, public speaking and life skills.
You know, I find that doing this is that if I can take it.
My problem is, is I have the hardest problem speaking
when I can hear echoing of my voice like at a stadium or something.
That's really, really difficult. It throws me off.
I don't know why. Some people are great at it.
And don't you have respect for people
that you see on new broadcasts who are just smooth as silk?
Yes.
God, how do you do that?
You know, but it's like anything, practice and more and more and more.
So but I read that your your skill that you did was lyrical dance.
Yes. What the heck is that?
Everyone asked.
So it's kind of it's like a combination of ballet and jazz, I would say.
It's just a style of dance that goes with the lyric.
So that's why it's called lyrical.
It's typically slower, like more emotional.
Right. My dance was to a song called Somebody Someone.
It was slower and it went along with the message of my personal impact.
That's what I didn't expect.
So so you're you tell us a little bit about your social impact.
So that's a big part of what I do as Miss
Pennsylvania is the main part of my job is to advocate for my
we call it a service initiative now.
But mine is all about mental health awareness and substance
abuse disorder awareness, because I lost a brother to an opioid overdose.
Brother Tyler, right?
Yes. And I have a younger sister who also struggles, lives with mental illnesses.
So I wanted to set out to end the stigma and just just educate people
because I saw the vital role that early intervention played in my sister's life
and that my brother didn't have.
And it's why his path ended up the way it did.
So doing a lot of education.
I'm on a school tour right now teaching kids about how to take care of their
mental health, how to take care of each other and how to stand up to stigma
in their schools and in stigma and bullying and all that stuff.
That you see in schools, which is terrible.
You know, it's funny, times are different these days.
And, you know, we always used to say that, you know, back in the day,
we couldn't you didn't understand people that were different.
So it was just like they kind of just got pushed aside, right?
You know, and such a shame because so many of them, their their life path
was either drugs or or jail or whatever.
There was just so many different things that they did.
So it's great that we're making awareness of this because, you know,
listen, everybody deserves an equal chance in life.
And, you know, if you don't get it and if you've got some kind of
handicap, then that's what we need to address.
You know, it's not it's not a that's the thing about school.
Not everybody's on the exact same page.
You know, how do you teach 50 kids the exact same thing?
Exactly exact same pace.
I had an elementary school and sixth grade teacher and she would give us
all of our assignments at the beginning of the day and you had all day to get it
done, or if you could get it done sooner than you did.
So the people that were, you know, maybe, you know, better at school
and better at taking tests and all those different things would finish
early and got to do whatever during the rest of the afternoon.
The ones that struggled got more help from her and they had the whole day
to get it done and they got everybody got it done just at different times
of the day, some earlier than others.
And and it was interesting because I thought it was really a great way
to teach because now nobody's the same.
You know, you can't expect people to all learn at the same level in that kind of.
So so would you ever consider teaching?
Would that ever be something that you would like to do?
I don't think so.
So I visited a lot of schools as Miss Pennsylvania.
I have so much respect for teachers more so, you know, going into schools,
spending full days there.
I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do.
I love kids. I love interacting with kids, but I am just at the end of one day.
I don't I don't know how teachers do it.
So much respect.
They are just amazing.
They're a different breed of people that teach.
And my daughter's special kind of our daughters like this.
She has three kids, five, four and one and two at home.
And then she teaches kindergarteners all day long.
Oh, my gosh. How do you do that?
It's just so much of, you know, it's it's hard.
It's not easy. And it's hard to be consistently good.
You know, being a parent is very difficult because especially nowadays, you know,
parents aren't at home waiting for the kids to get on school.
Mom's not there anymore because she's working and everybody's working in.
Because we all got to have thousand dollar phones or whatever it is, right?
So so anything next in the beauty pageant world, would you or pageant world?
Would you go to Mrs. America someday?
I don't know. I'm not assuming anything.
No, I'm done. I mean, Miss America was always my dream since I was little.
I had my eyes on Miss America.
So I went to Miss America. I achieved that dream.
So that I didn't really, you know, think past that in the world.
Maybe there's other systems, you know, there's the Miss USA, Miss Universe system.
So maybe down the line, I could find myself there.
But are you finding that?
Well, you won't know for a couple of months that you have a little free time
or if you're missing things or if you're kind of a break from pageants.
Sure. Yeah.
A couple of months at least been a part of your life for how many years?
Oh, my whole life. I was born into it.
My mom ran a pageant. Right.
So I just I was just always around.
Yeah. And I love it.
And I still want to be involved in some way.
Is there a coaching of that or whether I do it, you know,
as a coach or a mentor to girls or as a director or a volunteer in the organization,
it'll definitely be a part of my life, even if I'm not.
Right, exactly.
So where's the next one?
Is it still going to be the last ones in Mohegan Sun in Connecticut? Right?
Yes. So Miss America next year, I believe, is going to be held in Florida.
Oh, nice. Yeah. Well, you could go see. There you go.
I'll go watch.
Yeah, you'll go watch and not have to worry about keeping the pressure.
Yes. And be able to breathe and it's got to be a lot of pressure.
Is it I mean, is it nerve wracking?
Are you nervous when you go out there?
Or no, you're not just focused a little.
I actually wasn't very nervous at Miss America.
And I I don't I didn't feel a ton of pressure to win Miss America.
My my dream was to be Miss Pennsylvania and to go to Miss America.
Right. And if I won Miss America, then that was an added bonus
and amazing and I was ready for it.
But I don't know, I didn't have this pressure to win Miss America.
So I kind of just enjoyed it.
And I did the best I ever have. Right.
I performed in every category, the best I ever have.
Fantastic. Yeah.
You know, that's the thing about it is I think people put
too high of expectations on ourselves and sometimes it can lead
for disappointment and failure, you know, and and people can force themselves.
I mean, we all know people who are so hell bent on saying that, you know,
somebody's going to tear up this or this is going to happen or something bad is
going to happen or I'm going to buy this and it's going to fall apart.
And usually it happens to those people that, you know,
because it's like it's almost as if they will it on themselves.
So we get that with guys with cars.
They're like, I'm just so afraid.
You know, in the course of cars stops running the minute it gets out in the
parking lot, you know, we have to go out and you know, we're like, OK,
come on back in, let's figure this out, you know, we'll, we'll, you know,
you've willed it to happen.
It's not our fault, but we're going to help you anyway.
Yeah. So all right.
What's the news channel that you work with now?
You're working with or we're working with out of Delaware.
Was that that was before I won Miss Pennsylvania.
I was working at a station in Delaware.
So any eyes on anything here now?
Are you going to be working now?
Once you get done with this two months, what I need to start thinking about now.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Ask a question.
Yes, you may stay.
Thanks.
In line with your mental health stuff that you're doing,
you have to be are the organizations that you point to specifically.
I mean, put you on the spot.
Yeah, no.
That you recommend people with the resource.
Absolutely.
So I actually run a nonprofit organization in memory of my brother.
It's called Tyler's Triumph and we work to directly support people who are in
recovery from either mental illness or substance use disorder through
financial assistance, scholarships, whether that be to every house
or go back to school, whatever that is.
So we help to provide that support here in the Berks County community
and the Pennsylvania community, at least for now.
But typically I point people if they are struggling with their mental health
and they're looking for resources, places to turn.
NAMI is a huge one of the largest mental health organization in the country
is the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
And there's a chapter in most counties.
I know there's one here in Berks County and you can reach out to them
and they can point you in the right direction for getting treatment.
And they also have tons of different support groups tailored to different situations.
And there's nothing to be ashamed of when you have.
Mental health is for all of us.
They say it all the time.
We all struggle sometimes.
Of something.
Well, there's all something going on your head.
I mean, there's things that you think about and things that you do
and things that you know that are kind of seem a little off
and just because you're just used to doing them that way.
And that's OK.
Listen, people have all kinds of things,
whether it's a drinking problem or a gambling problem
or a mental health issue or all that.
And it's OK.
You know, nobody's people always have this misconception
that people are looking down their nose at people.
That's not the case.
We're usually looking at them and saying, how can we help, right?
You know, and you see people that can use help and, you know,
they don't always necessarily ask for it or want it.
Sometimes, you know, they've got to be told about places
like Tommy and things that you can do and go through.
So I applaud you for doing that.
Well, congratulations.
I know you're going to enjoy a little bit of a break
with the summer and yes, I'm going to enjoy my summer in Wildwood.
My family has a house there.
Nice. That's where I will be.
Awesome. Well, I'm looking for a job and looking for a job.
And if anybody knows of any, I get 10 percent because of my show.
Anyway, Alyssa, thanks so much for being on the show today.
And yeah, any time and we'll bring you back on
and keep us posted on your career updates.
Oh, absolutely.
All right. Thanks for listening.
And we'll catch you next week on the Classic Auto Mall podcast.
See you then.
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About this episode
Stewart Howden hosts a lively discussion with Miss Pennsylvania Alysa Bainbridge, covering her experiences in pageantry and her advocacy for mental health awareness and substance abuse recovery. They delve into the logistics of buying and shipping classic cars, emphasizing the importance of proper documentation and choosing the right transport services. The episode also features insights into the classic car market, showcasing new inventory at Classic Auto Mall, including notable vehicles like a 2007 Corvette Z06 and a 1986 Rolls-Royce Corniche. Listeners will appreciate the blend of automotive passion and personal stories.
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Archive Show #082 04-01-23 Stewart and Steve discuss all things automotive and again welcome Alysa Bainbridge, Miss Pennsylvania, Classic Auto Mall Spokesperson and 6ABC Philadelphia TV Traffic Reporter as she gives and update on her travels (prior to joining 6ABC).
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