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Classic Auto Mall - #208 - Stewart Howden with Guests, Tobey Ross and Mike Tillson of Radnor Hunt
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About this episode
Stewart Howden hosts a lively discussion with Tobey Ross and Mike Tillson, co-chairs of the Radnor Hunt Concorde Elegance. They delve into the upcoming event, highlighting featured marques like Mercedes-Benz and AC cars, and a special focus on the rare Moon cars. The conversation touches on the challenges of organizing such a prestigious show, the importance of car preparation for participants, and the unique blend of elegance and competition at the event. Listeners will also hear about notable guests and the significance of community in the classic car world.
Topics:
radnor hunt concours
moon cars
mercedes-benz
ac cars
event organization
car preparation
community involvement
classic car culture
motorcycles
fashion awards
Cars:
Ac Cobra MkIII
Cadillac V16
Chevrolet Corvette
Citroen 2CV
Dodge Super Bee
Ford Mustang
Land Rover Defender
Mercedes-Benz G-Class
Plymouth Barracuda
Pontiac GTO
Shelby Cobra
Show #208 airdate 08-27-25 Stewart welcomes Tobey Ross and Mike Tillson, Co-Chairs of the Radnor Hunt Club Concours d'Elegance the weekend of September 5-7, 2025. Topics include the history of the event and the many featured marks including a rare collection of Moon autos from the 1930's. Also noted are the various segments of the show including a Saturday Road Rally, Motorsports Park, vintage and classic Motorcycles, Station Wagons and horse drawn Coaches and Carriages. Steve joins Stewart in segment #2 to discuss new arrivals and the upcoming CAM Absolute Auction, September 19th. https://radnorconcours.org
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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 here we are, show number 208.
It's just hard to believe.
Yep.
We're slowly inching toward, we'll be 300 by what, two years from now?
Something like that.
Next week is our fifth, begins our fifth season.
Wow.
September.
Well, I guess that's right because if you do the math.
Yeah.
And I got a C minus in math.
Pretty good.
Glad to hear it.
So, before we get to our two wonderful guests joining us here live in the studio,
we're going to decide how many cars we have in inventory right this very moment.
JR, go.
Speaking of math, 988.
Yeah, that's weird.
We're going 940.
Bingo, bingo, bingo.
We hit it right on the nose.
Oh, hey.
That's never happened.
940 cars is what we have in inventory right now.
I have no idea what you're going to get for it, but I'm going to give you something
cool.
Because nobody's ever guessed.
Y'all are always so far off.
It's not easy.
Yeah.
So, just got back from Monterey, we'll talk about that a little bit later.
But joining us in the studio this morning is Mike Tilson and Toby Ross, both executives
of the Radner Hunt Concordi elegance and co-chairs.
I like co-chairs.
Sounds better.
So, welcome gentlemen.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We're coming.
It's coming.
It's here.
It's next week.
You know, it's funny how we have these, we have a once a month meeting and I'm
on the board as well too, full disclosure.
And we had this meeting and it's like, oh my God, it's forever.
You know, this is so far off and then all of a sudden you go, oh, wait a minute.
It's not this weekend, but next weekend.
Right, right around the corner.
Right around the corner.
This is the, what, what, what, 28th?
28th.
Did you really, I mean, when you started it, did you think I'm going to do this
for four or five years and then that'll be it or what?
I thought it was going to be a small annual garden party.
Right.
30 or 40 cars from close friends and I was on the, the planning commission for
the Rudder Hunt Club.
Right.
And after we had the first event, they said, can you make it bigger?
I said, well, I guess.
If I have to.
And here we are.
The first event was sick, all of us bringing our own cars.
Right, right.
Maybe 25 cars or something.
I always describe it as, it was my dream and everybody else's nightmare.
Right.
Well, because you know what, it's a lot of commitment to put on a show, but
it's also a lot of commitment to bring your car to a concert.
You've got to get it prepared properly.
You've got to get it there.
You've got to make sure it's nice and clean.
You've got to make sure it does all the things it's supposed to do.
It's a lot of pressure.
I mean, you see people nervous about it because they want it to be right.
And they, and they should be.
I mean, that's what it's about.
It's celebrating elegance, right?
It's a competition.
Right.
Yeah.
It's like many other things and the entrance take it very, very seriously.
They want to win a lot of work for them to come, which is why the
entrance are really the honored guests of the event.
Sure.
Sure.
Obviously, that we have, and as you said, all of the participants are honored
guests, but we have some, some kind of legendary known people in the hobby.
David Hobbs is one of our featured guests this year, which is, he's a character.
He was on the show.
He's amazing.
And his talent was off the charts.
I mean, those guys were in a different realm of driving as we were talking about
earlier.
Right.
You know.
And then Eric Buell, who we had on the show just recently is our motorcycle
guest and he's had a cry to career.
Now he's doing music stuff.
Yeah.
So yeah.
But it's interesting that a guy can just start a company, a motorcycle company.
I mean, you think, how?
How would you do that?
Yeah.
I mean, you got Harley-Davidson.
You got Suzuki.
You got Yamaha.
You got Honda.
You got all these companies.
And oh, I'm just going to start my own company.
And he did really well.
It wasn't like he was a slouch and sold one or two bikes a year.
He was selling quite a few.
And he had a good, had a good in with Harley-Davidson, which didn't
hurt.
So, so let's go through Toby, some of the featured marks this year coming
up.
Sure.
We're featuring Mercedes-Benz.
Right.
We're featuring AC cars and station wagons, panel vans and shooting
brakes.
Right.
And then we decided to feature moons.
Right.
Why not?
Because everybody's heard of them.
Everybody's heard of moons, right?
Yeah.
No.
But it is a great story and it actually has emerged to be probably
the best feature of the year because of the way this has developed over the last
six months.
Sorry.
It started years ago when Mike Tilson inherited a shaving mug from his
grandfather.
It was, I think, the only thing you inherited from your grandfather.
A picture of a car on it.
Duh.
Yeah.
That didn't start you out on the wrong foot.
Right.
Many years ago, he determined that that car was in fact a moon.
Didn't know it for a long time.
He told me it was a moon.
Oh, got you.
He told me it was his favorite car.
Right.
He loved his moon.
Right.
And he wanted to be at, I was a chief judge at the Concord in
Chattanooga.
Right.
And I was checking the field and I saw a moon.
It was the first time I ever saw one in the flesh.
Right.
And I introduced myself to the owner and I said, what's your name?
He said, Gary Moon.
Really?
He said, yeah, I'm related.
I said, would you be interested in helping put together a class of
moon cars for the next Radner on Concord?
Sure.
Yeah.
I'll work on that.
And his partner, the head of the moon club, they put together a
class of moons and we have every model coming.
Wow.
How many total cars?
We have nine moons coming.
And we thought, when we started this, we maybe get two or three.
Maybe four.
Three.
Four would be awesome.
You know, we would really.
They're coming from all over the country from Missouri, Texas.
Wow.
Yeah.
Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana and Texas.
This is probably a big deal for them too.
It's a big deal for us, but it's a big deal for them.
It's a very big deal for them.
Jeff Buckley is the president of the moon club and he and Gary
were at Amelia Island as well.
Right.
We got to speak to them down there.
And they have turned this into a very, very big moon event.
Sure.
And we, the moon car company had three different brands over
the years.
Right.
They, they moved into the Windsor and then the Diana
and then the Ruckston.
Oh, really?
Everybody knows the Ruckston.
Yeah.
But Ruckston's were actually part of the moon company.
Right.
And according to Jeff, we don't think there's ever been one of
each of the four brands together at the same time.
Wow.
Because they weren't manufactured at the same time.
Right.
Right.
They were manufactured in series.
So we have all four coming.
We didn't have a Ruckston until the last minute.
And our good friend, Tom Lee, who is chairman of the
board of the Auburn Cordusenberg Museum has made
arrangements for us to borrow their Ruckston.
Nice.
Ruckston and Superchar, where they, where they say they were
Superchar for, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They were quite powerful cars back in the day.
Right.
They were.
They were.
So we're very excited.
This moon feature is going to be great.
The Moon Club is coming in force.
Some other moon owners that don't have cars ready to
show are coming.
A young novelist who has written a book and it
features the main character driving a moon Diana is
coming so she can actually experience being in and
driving the Diana.
Wow.
Wow.
So all these little peripheral things have come together
to make this feature really special for us this year.
Now will the moons be judged or are they just on
display?
They will be judged.
They will be judged.
So.
They will be judged.
Yep.
Tom Lee will judge.
Phil Neff.
Phil Neff, the chief judge from Greenbrier and
Aldrin will be judging.
Sure.
And Tom Lee will also be participating.
Oh, great.
I imagine they're all doing their homework right now
because there's a lot to learn about.
Something you haven't seen before or seen much of,
maybe you'd seen one before at Chattanooga,
as you mentioned, Mike, which is a shame that
that's no longer an event for at least this year.
We hope it'll come back next year.
Hopefully it'll come back next year.
Hopefully it'll come back.
It's a lot of fun.
That was a fun event.
It's a great venue.
Mm-hmm.
Late back and, you know, some of these
things get a little stuffy.
I mean, you know, we get it.
I mean, Pebble Beach was fun when I was there,
but it was unlike any other one I'd been to,
and I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way
or a good way.
It just was, it was a little more formal.
Yes.
And I think that you've got to be careful
not to take the fun out of things.
Mm-hmm.
You know, it's still got to be fun.
Well, that's the way I feel.
When I started the Ratner Hunt Concourse,
I wanted it to be a garden party.
Sure.
And relaxed, and people have a nice time
and not be stressed.
Sure, sure.
And if you win an award, great.
Yeah.
But you can't help the nature of competitiveness
with people is that, you know,
no matter how informal you make it,
if they're judging, they won't win.
Exactly.
And tell the judges to tell the owners of the cars
that you're already a winner by being here.
That's exactly right,
because we don't just accept anything.
Right.
You know, we don't accept Plymouth Fury Station wagon.
Well, maybe we do.
Well, maybe we'll have one around somewhere.
We might have one somewhere
as long as we can get it back to wherever it belongs.
Now you're going to have to tell that story.
All right.
Yes, I know.
Let's tell it afterwards.
Okay.
When we know all the full details on it,
Toby and I somehow ended up with a Plymouth Fury Station wagon
that was really kind of a cool car,
and we want to use it as, because station wagons are one
of the featured marks that we have this year,
we wanted the station wagon to use as kind of our
concourse central area where we can stuff all of our stuff
that we need to hand out to people and all that.
And this car is really interesting.
It's family owned it, drove it.
It's all original.
It's an AACA winner.
It's got a manual transmission, which is bizarre.
And it'll be interesting.
I think it'll get a lot of attention.
I really do.
I think it's one of those ones, especially on your way home today
when you're...
It's going to be fun.
I hope I remember to take my phone off of silent
because I know you may need to reach me here shortly.
Right.
So the moons are going to be amazing.
And Mercedes-Benz, of course, is always stellar
at these Concorde De elegances.
They always are just over the top that you see.
A lot of people don't realize the first Mercedes
built in the 1800s.
Great story about that.
And they built the replicas that they built
back about 20 years ago.
And those were hugely popular.
A little one cylinder, belt driven,
just a crazy little car that...
So it's interesting that you see these replicas,
which are, I don't know, it's hard to call them a replica.
It's almost like a continuation more than a replica.
Whatever, you know, I don't...
People think they know what all that means
and it means whatever you want it to mean, I think.
The original real car is in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
Right.
And it doesn't move.
Right.
Because it's very old and fragile.
Of course, 1896, I think.
1896.
Yeah, it was 1896.
But there are about 20 or 30 of the reproduced
copies of it.
Most of them built by Mercedes-Benz.
Right, right.
And gave...
Or the Mercedes dealers actually had them
in their showrooms for many years.
And they're quite valuable.
They are, they're quite valuable.
Yeah.
I would imagine that it would be interesting
if the one in the museum is worth
if it ever went on the market.
Probably wouldn't be, you know,
millions and millions,
but it would be an interesting to see that.
It might be surprising.
Yeah, I think it's a treasure of the country.
Sure.
Yeah.
But we have one of the replicas coming.
Awesome.
And there's a great video
that you can access on YouTube.
And we posted it on our social media
telling this,
recreating the story of Bertha Benz
recreating the 1896, I think, car
and setting some records for long distance
driving in a car of that age.
And the problems that she had,
it's a very entertaining little film.
And if you're interested,
look it up on YouTube
or follow it on our social media.
Sure.
But Bertha Benz's family
were buying some of the first cars
and that's where the Benz part of the name came from.
Came from, right.
Yeah, I mean, and Mercedes Benz
have always been known for quality
and for reliability
and for hardiness
because they were in Germany
and it was cold and bad weather
and all of that.
But some of those,
I mean, the pre-war 30s stuff
that are just amazing.
And some successful racing cars.
Oh, absolutely.
And, of course,
at Pebble Beach this past couple of weeks,
they had a MyBock from 19 to 1930s
and it was probably the most elegant car
I've ever seen in my entire life.
And they're beautiful.
They are really Gordon Black
with this art deco-y chrome.
You could park it in a Duesenberg next to each other
and you wouldn't even give the Duesenberg
a second glance.
And the most beautiful Duesenberg
it was just really one of those cars.
It was actually a runner-up to Best in Show.
And then, of course,
Best in Show was the Tulipwood,
which is actually not Tulipwood.
Nice, right.
Spanish Fano Suiza.
It's one of those things
that I had to be careful
when I was asking Doug questions
about things because I didn't want to say,
so actually made from Tulipwood,
was it? No, it's mahogany.
8,500 brass rivets
pulled the way again.
It was an unbelievable car.
And it's funny, you and I talked
like three days before it
and you said,
the buzz is that's going to be the Best in Show.
And it was already, it was almost a given
that the guy paid nine million for it
and then restored it.
In 2022, I think he bought it at the RM sale.
Yeah, I was there actually.
And that was huge at the time.
He said he was going to send it to RM
for restoration and it would be back
and it would win.
Yeah, it did.
That's like pointing at the, you know,
the old Babe Ruth thing where he pointed
and said, you know, I'm going to win this.
I mean, you talk about a difficult, you know, win
is Best in Show at any Concorde elegance is,
it's because how do you, you know,
you got 20 cars and they're all
or 10 cars or whatever, they're all perfect.
You know, how do you differentiate
between one and the other?
Well, part of it's elegance, right?
And I mean, it is, it is elegance
in the beauty and the eye of the beholder, right?
You know, in any other day, it could be
one of the other cars.
Sure, sure.
It just could vary.
I have to do a little resource because somebody
called me and said that they think that
Hispano that won was at the sale
at the original Kirk White auction
in Cabrini College, Cabrini College.
Wow.
And I know in my archives,
I have the catalogs, I have to check.
I have the catalog from the second
Kirk White sale that somebody
gave me.
A guy brought in a stack of stuff,
which usually I would just throw on a shelf
and say, thanks, we're going to make a library
someday.
Well, I don't know when someday ever is going to be.
But I actually happened to go through this one
and there was one of the Kirk White catalogs
and we had the AC Bristol that sold it
the second one that was here
and the lady who bought it,
who bought the Bristol,
bought it to drive back and forth to school
and they were going to buy the Goldwing,
but it was too expensive because it was $5,000
and the Bristol was $2,500.
They wish they could trade that back.
The easiest moment in Pebble Beach was
driving down the street
and seeing a Goldwing parked
and a parallel parked on the side of the street
and the next morning it was still there.
I mean just $1,000,000, $5,000 or $2,000.
Car melon, car week.
Crazy.
So back to the featured marks,
another one AC, which is a favorite of ours
because there's so many great AC cars
that are out there.
The AC Cobra, the AC Bristol,
the, you know, the ACCA
and probably the Frua,
I think there was.
That was, yeah.
And there were some really interesting AC cars.
How many of those do we have coming, Toby?
We have a full class of about eight or nine cars.
We have four pre-war ACs,
which is exciting, yes.
Great supporter, Doug Stewart from Indiana
is bringing three cars for us
from his huge AC collection.
But we've got a 1910 AC sociable,
a 1913 10-horsepower light car,
it's called.
Oh, wow.
And 1938, 16 slash 90
and a 1939, 16 slash 80.
I know nothing of any of those, but it sounds good.
Right, so come to the show
and you'll learn a whole lot about them.
So in that class, or we're in the AC mark,
can you have an AC Cobra
or does that go outside the realm of it?
No, we, I think we can and we do.
We have an AC 289 Cobra.
Oh, gotcha.
427s, not really ACs anymore.
They were designed to build in California
by Shelby.
Yeah, they weren't just taking the chassis
from England and bringing it over here.
Right, 289s were English chassis
and then built here.
So we do have a 289 Cobra coming
and we have an ace Bristol Roadster
and an ace engine Roadster
and an Asika.
So we're covering the full gamut.
And the date's coming up
September 5th through the 7th
which is just around the corner.
Yeah, hard to believe.
We start off with a welcome barbecue
at the club,
Redner Hunt Club on the 5th.
And that'll be, that's always a lot of fun
because it's a casual affair
that kind of gets the ball rolling
in a nice linear way, right?
You meet people and get to know them.
It's amazing the people that you meet
at these things too.
All the honored guests will be there.
Yeah, and you know,
people don't realize if you live
anywhere close to here
and I'm talking about even 500 miles
from here.
This has got to be on your list
to come to.
It's one of the greatest car shows
in this area.
It's world class.
It's as good as any that you'll see
anywhere.
And I'm not just saying that.
We get cars that are
Pebble Beach quality cars
that won't go to Pebble Beach
because of the distance.
It's far.
And they're here in our backyard.
Yeah, I think that's a...
They'll come.
And it's getting more and more
that because the cost,
even though, you know,
it's a lot of wealthy people
are on this hobby obviously
when you have these cars
of this caliber
you're, you're,
you've got a little bit
of a net worth.
But even they are saying,
hey, I don't want to spend
$5,000 to send my car there
and $5,000 to send my car back.
And then the hotels are expensive.
And before you know it,
it's become a $25,000 weekend.
Easily.
And if you're right here
on these coasts
and you don't have all the
expense and all that,
how perfect.
And it's one of the most
unique settings
in all the concours that happen.
Yeah, we're not on a golf course.
We're not on the ocean.
We're enrolling
hills of horse country.
Chester County.
And speaking of horse country,
we celebrate the
coaches and carriages.
Yeah, we're the only
concours that does that.
And it's coach work.
Right.
It's started.
What started the pre-war type
cars?
Roses and the Roses.
Is that his word?
Roses?
I don't think so.
I guess it is now.
Yeah, it is now.
And I forever proclaimed
to be that.
And our good friend,
we've got a good friend,
Harry Tussi,
he's got a great collection
of carriages that Toby
and I saw not too long ago.
Was he bringing one this year
or did he bring one last year?
He did.
Yeah.
And I'm not sure
if he's participating
in the carriage drive
or will come in at our show.
But he is a regular
at all of the events
with his fabulous collection.
Oh, these Belgian carriages
are...
Well, you see the thrust
for what became
the car coach builder
from that.
Sure.
Well, and a lot of those
carriage builders went into
the cart.
Sure.
Durham.
I have a Durham Packard
and their original business
was building carriages
for horse-drawn carriages.
Sure.
Well, and Studebakers
started out as wagons
way back in the early
1800s, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's interesting
the more you delve into this,
the more you think you know
about this hobby
the less you know.
And I still don't know
why it's called a hobby.
Right.
Because it's so much bigger
than a hobby.
And I say that
just out of habit.
You know, we've always just
called it a hobby
and it's an industry.
It's a...
Yes.
I think a hobby
is collecting stamps.
Yeah.
This is...
Yeah.
Our coins
or whatever,
these are a little bit
different.
Although, you know,
right.
And you know what,
guys will tell you that
collect motorcycles.
They say,
I like anything motorized
and I realize that I could
collect a hundred motorcycles
in a building the size
that I can only put 20 cars.
So I can have more
and enjoy.
And the featured mark
for motorcycles this year
is what we've got
Eurosport
Mm-hmm.
Made in America
and Paddock to podium.
So racing bikes,
European bikes
and American bikes.
And John...
There's over 40
Wow.
coming this year.
It's going to be
a huge...
John,
John knows where
all these great bikes are
and some of them are
so, so rare.
Yeah.
He did such a fabulous job.
And you know,
you really have to...
If you're like me
who never really paid
attention to motorcycles
other than they were fun
when I had dirt bikes
when I was a kid,
but the road racing
bikes and all of that.
But some of the design
and the intricacy
of these bikes
Mm-hmm.
are over the...
off the charts.
I mean,
they're just amazing
what they did
and how they engineered them.
They're beautiful.
We've had some million-dollar
motorcycles in the show.
Yeah.
People go,
that can't possibly be.
Absolutely can be.
You know,
and I think that...
John Lawless does a terrific
job putting our show together.
A great guy
and a great curator
of the hobby
and a great guy
who will just continue
to perpetuate
and actually
contribute to this
because I think
what happens
at these events
when you feature
these motorcycles
that people have never
seen and never heard of,
it sparks an interest
in some people
to say,
oh, I want to learn
and I'd like to be in that hobby.
It raises awareness.
Absolutely.
And that's what,
you know,
with our industry,
not hobby,
that we want to continue to do
because we want to make sure
that the kids
perpetuate this.
We want...
We'd like the Radnor Hunt Concorde
to continue going on
in perpetuity, right?
Sure.
We'd like to hand the baton
to somebody
that at this time
is maybe 30 years old
or something
that wants to move forward
and seeing that
at all the concours
where they're having
kids judging
and all of that
which I think is important
to involve them.
We're also bringing more women
into the...
Sure.
...to the industry hobby
or whatever you want to call it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then of course
we're doing a fashion award
and I think that's great
because nothing better
than seeing people
in period correct
dresses or hats.
That's what the original
Concorde elegance was about.
It was about fashion and...
Right.
You know,
to dress elegantly
with your elegant car.
We've got some
serious fashion judges
coming too.
Oh really?
I've kind of...
I've been paying attention
but not enough apparently.
Leaders in the current fashion
industry
are going to be wondering
our field looking
for the best dressed man,
the best dressed woman,
the best dressed couple
and the best vintage clothing.
So we have to eliminate
Mr. Tilson
because he's always
best dressed
so that's a given.
I'll dress down.
And you and I
they don't give an award
for khaki pants
and butt-down shirts.
That's too obvious.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you took a picture of me
and my dad
and you know,
look,
the exact same dressing
and this was 40 years ago
that he had the exact same
thing I had on today.
Oh yeah.
And it's not amazing though.
It's funny how some things
just don't change.
And style in automobiles
is the same way.
Sure.
I mean,
they're timeless.
I mean,
to see some of the cars
that you're going to see
at our facility
or at the facility
or Radner Hunt,
it's just amazing
that these cars
survive because
if you look at the parts
and all of the things
that go into making
one of these things
and if you find one
that needs restored,
even begin for a moon,
where do you find parts for a moon?
Exactly.
You have to make them.
Yeah, make them.
I've been talking to
the moon club guys,
particularly Jeff Buckley
and he has some great stories
about what they're doing
to get these cars here.
They're sharing parts
and making parts
and helping each other
move things around.
Sure.
And he went
and picked up a car
and brought it to his place.
Oh my God.
So we're really grateful.
Well,
and we do a
Memorial Road Rally
on September the 6th,
which is Saturday
from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
and that's the Bill O'Connell
Memorial Road Rally.
Will any of the moons
be in the rally?
Oh, yes.
Oh, nice.
The oldest moon
that's coming is a 1908.
Right.
And the club is
very generously
trying to build
their rally
around that car's ability
to participate.
Right.
Obviously it isn't just
fast or as reliable
as the other.
So we've organized
a shorter route
for them.
Right.
Gotcha.
A little bit more direct
from the Roger Hunt
to the finishing
location
and they will know where
the finishing location is.
Right.
The rest of the rally cars
it's a surprise.
Right.
They have to figure it out.
They have to find it.
They have to follow directions.
Go 1.2 miles, turn right.
Yep.
And not where
the old Man Smith's barn
used to be.
Well,
we couldn't do that in
there.
Yeah, we like that.
We have some great stops
too.
Fantastic.
Yeah.
And that's always a big,
people really enjoy that
rally.
I mean, you get participants
that come back
year after year after year
to do that
rally.
I mean,
what Pat Oliveto does
in mapping out these
roads is
it's not easy to do.
We have people like
Kip Vasanko is one
who lives
Detroit.
Detroit, yeah.
And he's,
when he comes here
he said,
I've never seen countryside
like this.
He said it's absolutely
gorgeous.
He's used to
grass and steel
and I mean,
steel and concrete
and, you know, brick.
Yeah.
And that's not
what we have around here.
I mean,
if you,
and the interesting thing
comes away
and you think you're
in another world,
I mean,
I feel like I'm
in East Tennessee
with rolling hills
and farms
and all of that.
You think,
I can't possibly be
20 minutes from downtown
Philly,
but here you are.
Well,
that area
is on the
the tracking
to the
Philadelphia
International Airport
and the
pilots know
they're on course
because they call it
the black hole
because there's
wide open spaces
and very little light
and they hit the black hole.
They know they're
they're close.
They're close.
Wow.
That's interesting.
I never knew that.
I mean,
there's a lot of
large farms
and states
in the area
that you would
never see
from the road.
Yeah.
You can see from the road.
Yeah.
That's the interesting
thing about these
Google maps where
you can go and
look at things
and kind of get
an idea of what
the layout is
because I know that
just driving through
there you'll see
what's back there
and there's
some amazing
states that
probably have never been
on the market
and maybe never will be.
They just stay
within family members.
And there's a lot
of money down there too
obviously.
Old family names
and heirs
and all of that.
And so
car people too.
The Ford
heir
and
Chrysler
and then
car collectors.
Look at all the
car collectors that are
just in that
part of the world.
And I would argue
that you know
we're happy to do it
because it's
a win-win for us.
And it's our
core audience
and I would say
to anybody else
listening if you're
in anything
classic cars
or cars in general
of any time
special interest
or Ferraris
or anything
this is your audience.
Well there's
some serious
horse breeding
operations there
that have been
successful around the
world.
Kentucky Derby
and
Preakness
winning steaks
and that's one
of the other
organizations.
And when you're
fox hunting
and the hounds
get going on a fox
you're going to
ride into some
incredible estate
that you didn't
even know was there.
Right, right.
And hopefully the guy's
not waiting with the guns.
Well that's
happened a few times.
Well that's
happened.
Just once or twice
and you get
edged a little
far on to the
maybe the
some kind of
drug lord maybe
you never know.
But people don't
realize what
the car culture is
in this part of
the world which maybe
I should shut my mouth
because it's like
if you tell people
what a wonderful place
this is to live
all of a sudden everybody
is moving there to live
right?
But the amount of
cars and collections
that are within
a hundred miles of
where we sit
is staggering.
It may be arguably
as good as
anywhere in the world.
I mean I keep
learning of new
collections every year
that I didn't know
were there.
Exactly.
It's amazing.
Eastern
Pennsylvania is
the center of
gravity of
whatever you want to call it.
Yeah.
It's amazing that
all these people are
right here
and it's funny
that not everybody
always picks up on that
that they realize
that there's
so many guys
that are into it
and if you just look
at the event list
of the things that go on
around here
from the cars and
coffees that we go to
and all of that
I mean
they're as big as
they get anywhere.
I mean the cars
and coffees
that the local
kid puts on
and gets
2000 cars
on a Sunday.
That's crazy.
That's a lot of cars.
The one good thing about
the Ratterhunt and Conqueror
is there's something
for everybody.
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
We've got the
new car area.
We've got some wonderful
merchandise.
We've got merchandise
and something for
the ladies.
The rally on Saturday
morning but simultaneously
we have a cars and
coffee too.
Absolutely.
Sponsored by
my classic
animal.
Imagine that.
I'm a donut guy.
I like to buy the donuts
and then of course
Saturday night
it really is
a lot of fun
and you always meet
interesting people
and so many people
that I've met there
that have become
part of either
helping us here
or
we just become friends.
Judy Stropis
is a great example
who's a wonderful person
and helps with
lots of different things.
People we only
read about
and suddenly
they're your friends.
David Hobbs
right there.
Oh yeah.
Oh no big deal.
Just me and
Hobbo.
We're just hanging out.
Judy will be with us
who we had on the show.
Cadillac designer.
Yeah.
Who is the rebel
of his era.
You know
he fought for everything.
One of the stories he told
was the
stainless steel grill
on the CTS.
He wanted to be
stainless steel and it was
going to be $980
and they finally
he fought
and fought and fought
and had to fight for it
because he said
that plastic will not work
it'll ruin it.
You know
and it's funny how
those designers
get something in their head
like that
and they don't let it go
and it's always
engineers versus
engineers.
That's beautiful.
Well they were designed
by an individual.
Today's cars are designed
by a committee
or even probably
by a computer.
With lots of regulations.
With lots of regulations.
Very strict on that.
Those cars in that period
were true art.
Yeah they didn't
worry about fuel mileage.
They didn't do
anything they wanted.
They have to work
in such a limited
envelope
that it's
very difficult.
I still say
Formula 1 cars
should be
just unlimited.
If they can go
400 miles an hour
then make them
the capacity
of the human driver.
They have to become
you know
RC cars.
Right.
Which is
probably what's next.
That's where it's going.
Yeah I don't know
if I'm interested in that.
Yeah I'm not sure
that I'm interested in it.
Hopefully I'll be long gone
like that.
But you know
I mean the e-cars are
apparently very popular.
Can you ever see
an electric car
category at a
Concorde elegance?
I guess well we have
them on the old ones.
I'm talking about newer
stuff.
Yeah.
As long as I'm around
we're not having
because it doesn't fit
what we do.
No.
It's like when they ask
Jay Leno what do you think
about electric cars.
He goes I'm a car guy
don't ask me.
And I'm the wrong
guy to ask.
Yes I'm sure there's
practicality for electric
cars in some form
or fashion for people
and that's great.
If that works for you
then you know
my grandmother
would have been
perfect for that.
She went to the
grocery store
to the hairdresser
and you know
to the post office
and that was her loop
and she went
two miles every
day.
It was like
I'm getting elegance
and I don't have yet
to see an elegant
electric car from
the modern era.
Now the older
electric cars
early 1900s
we featured those
as feature markets before.
We had those.
Yeah.
Of course.
This is an
interesting discussion
about where we are
where we're going
and what should
be included
and what shouldn't
be included in a
concourse.
We we
sort of subscribed
to the idea
that the golden
arrow was
design was free and clear. But we also need to appeal to everybody else. So we, like every
major show, we have what we call a Motorsport Park. Others call it a Cars and Coffee or Cars
and Community or lots of different things. But that expands the cars that are there
for the day to much newer, more modern things and younger enthusiasts.
Not only will you see a hundred great cars on the lawn, but you'll see 40 motorcycles
and you'll see how many cars in the 200 plus in the Motorsport Park. And serious cars, serious
horsepower.
Well, I've had people that came to the Conqueror and they ended up in the Motorsport Park and
they thought that was the Conqueror.
Right, exactly. And that's how good it is. Yeah, that's a testament to Brian and his
team that put together that and just stay on.
A phenomenal job.
Oh my God, they work on that hard.
Yep.
And it's a very successful financially as well.
Oh, sure. Because the cars we have for the Conqueror, there is no entry fee.
Right, they're invited.
They're invited and it's an honor. We invite them. The Motorsport Park, they pay a nominal
fee.
Yeah, and you can bring what you, you know, whatever you want. So, and I think that,
but it's good for the younger generation to see the newest Ferraris and to see all
the cars like that, the Lamborghinis and things like that, that may not, certainly
they fit somewhere into what we do, but they're not, you know, a modern, you know, a 575
Maranello Ferrari is not really a Conqueror car. It's just not, not what that was in
the theme of things. You know, if you want to start another show that's not a Conqueror,
then absolutely feature those and they do that.
Right.
There's lots of show. Mota Miami is kind of like that, where they celebrate cars
that are not just old cars, you know. But I still think that it's hard to
see a winner of a Conqueror to elegance not be in the 30s or, you know, 20s or 30s. It just
seems like it's the right fit for that. And we can have different classes and we can have
all these different things.
That's why we added the racing class, the best of sport, because they don't get
the proper attention because the Conqueror to elegance takes away from, but some
of them are as rare and as beautiful as the Conqueror.
Just last year was the Shelby GT350R, and it had war wounds on it. And then that
was supposed to.
It was supposed to.
Yeah. If that thing was perfect, you'd think, well, that doesn't make sense. I mean,
it's just like at the Simeone with the Cobra Daytona in as-race condition.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's the way it's better never to change. Ugly is beautiful, right?
With the battle scars.
So for those of you who want a little more information about the upcoming
event, you can go to Radner Hunt. No, let's see.
RadnerConqueror.org, right?
And it'll be September 5th through the 7th.
And we're really excited.
I think and please weather guns, please look out for us.
And it's always our fingers crossed and we have a meeting Thursday
night and we're going to the last official meeting.
Last official meeting.
We're all going to be nervous and excited emails and texts will be flying.
Yes, yeah, absolutely.
Well, so when we return, we'll continue with the classic autumn on show.
Gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us.
And we'll see you tomorrow night for the meeting.
Thank you very much.
We'll be back in just a couple of minutes.
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mall studio in Morgantown, Pennsylvania.
It almost sounded like an entourage leading to entourage.
That's a great show.
Car guys and guys hanging out with their buddies in LA
and meeting girls and partying and all that stuff.
Yeah, that was Steve's life.
I lived it, man.
I did, too.
I was out there as well and did my thing.
So great to have you.
But you lived at Steve's.
Yeah, that was Steve's dream.
Mike and Toby, great guys, the concord that they put on,
they put a lot of effort into it.
It's a lot of work to put on these things.
And they've been doing it for a long time and hats off to them
because it's not always easy.
And especially if you get rain or, you know,
some kind of something beyond your control, COVID,
they had to cancel it in 2020.
And a lot of things got canceled in 2020 and never came back.
Yeah, especially events.
Events probably took it harder than just about almost
the classic autumn mall, but not quite quite.
We were we were surprised, as we've said before,
we were, you know, locking the doors
and laying everybody off.
And the next thing you know, people are still calling
and wanting to, hey, you still got that Mustang for sale.
Well, yeah, I still got that Mustang.
No, I can't go out.
Am I going to as well work on it?
I'll work.
And trucking firms were still allowed their essential
business, even though they're hauling classic cars, which
is kind of maybe a great order of that.
But trucking is trucking.
You're right.
So they said.
And so anyway, September 5th through the 7th.
So it's next weekend if you're
listening to this on Saturday, August 29th.
That's right.
Or August 30th, excuse me.
So if you get a chance, you got to check this place out.
It is as cool as anything that they
do on the West Coast or this in the South or wherever they do
Concorde elegance.
This is in the top, at least top five.
And that was my opinion before I was on the border,
before I even knew these guys just put on a great show.
And it's wonderful.
So if you get a chance, go see it.
Go to their website, RadnerConcord.org.
And it'll give you all the information
and how to buy tickets and all that good stuff.
So where did we sell cars the past three weeks?
Three weeks?
Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, Eagle, Idaho, Cardina, Australia,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lexington, South Carolina,
Wild Missing, Pennsylvania, Media, Pennsylvania,
Sandy Springs, Georgia, Georgia, Elverson, Pennsylvania,
LeMaine, Pennsylvania, Hamburg, Pennsylvania,
Antioch, California, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania,
Hansville, Washington, Winter Park, Florida, Peole,
Pennsylvania, South Boston, Virginia.
That's an odd name, South Boston, Virginia.
St. Charles, Illinois, Bardo, Pennsylvania, Houston,
Texas, Mesa, Arizona, South Amboy, New Jersey,
Supply, North Carolina, Downingtown, Pennsylvania,
New York, New York, Culpeper, Virginia,
Meadville, Pennsylvania, Newcastle, Pennsylvania,
Grafton, Wisconsin, Martin, Tennessee, Waverly, New York,
Tiver, Tom, Ontario, Canada, Rutledge, Tennessee,
Quakertown, Pennsylvania, Pequea,
is that right, Pequea?
I don't know, no idea.
P-E-Q-U-E-A, Pennsylvania?
Never heard of it.
Never heard of it either, Pequea.
That might be the place to buy lottery tickets.
Never heard of it.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada,
Warren, Michigan, Newport, North Carolina,
Armington, Illinois, Bell, Forch, South Dakota,
Hamilton, Ohio, and Los Cruces, New Mexico.
Oh, Moly.
Wow.
It was quite the list.
A round of applause for...
Yes, it's for the sales team.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the writers of all those cars.
And the writers.
The writers sold those descriptions.
Holy cow.
He's really good at that.
People who weren't here could tell
exactly what the car was.
That's right.
If you're not here, but you'll know it
because we'll tell you everything we can about it.
Good or bad.
I wonder if other people do this.
I have a tendency to nod, yes,
whenever I recognize a town that you call out,
I mean, Reading?
Yep.
Yeah, I've heard of that, Reading.
Elverson?
Yep, been there.
Once or twice.
My friend lived in El Paso.
Los Cruces right across the border.
It's in Mexico.
Anyway.
So, new arrivals this week in three weeks.
Okay.
1930, International Six Speed Special,
one ton truck.
Green and Black Over Black.
Family owned since 1967.
Great for parades.
Not unlike the Army trucks that we have
out in front of our building.
If you've ever driven by our building lately,
you're going to freak out.
It's a wow.
Where are you going to find three Edsels
for absolute auction sale?
No reserve sale for whatever they bring.
Lots of Army trucks, lots of different stuff.
There's some Cadillacs or GTO.
There's, you know, most of the stuff
Barn Find, no title, Dunrun, no keys, no gas.
Yeah, I just saw a really pretty white BMW coupe.
What is the deal on that?
Yeah, you don't want that car.
No, you don't want that car.
Somebody got their eye on it.
You don't want that one.
That one's no good.
I appreciate it if everybody said no, no.
It's what I think all of us like here,
but that in the Edsel station wagon.
Yeah.
Anyway, other new arrivals,
the International Six Speed Special one ton.
This is a parade veteran, three speed man.
We've got a two speed rear end,
which gives it a little more go down the highway.
The 1966 Ford Mustang convertible.
Yeah.
Vintage burgundy over parts,
but this is a good driver quality.
It's got some GT add-ons that are not factory.
It wasn't a factory GT car,
but it's got some of that on it,
the 289 cube against two barrel with a C4 automatic.
So it's a driver.
It's a fun driver and you don't have to have a four barrel
and you don't have to have a manual transmission.
As a matter of fact, I'd argue
that driving your Mustang around town,
it would be more fun with an automatic
than it was for a four speed.
For sure.
So with a four speed,
if you go over about 45, 50 miles an hour,
it's going to feel like you need another gear.
Why?
It doesn't do that.
So I think you would get much more enjoyment out of it that way.
Nothing wrong with the four speed or a five speed
or whatever you decide to do,
but as far as enjoyable and the two barrel
is plenty of fuel to the engine.
It works just fine.
And it's convertible.
And it's convertible.
And it's burgundy over parchment.
Very nice.
Oh, parchment is a fancy name for white.
Yeah.
So how about the 1947 Lincoln continental
convertible Cabriolet?
Now this is an interesting car.
It needs work, but it's priced really right.
I was going to say that.
I was going to say it really is.
A lot of car for the money.
A lot of car for the money.
Grotto blue over dark blue, 33,000 actual miles,
292 cubic inch V12, three speed manual with overdrive,
power windows and top.
It's a diamond in the rough.
It really is.
This could be a fun restoration project
that I think you'll see done.
I think it's worth.
It's one of those ones.
I don't always recommend restoring cars.
And certain cars,
especially if they're not terribly valuable,
you're going to just put yourself so upside down
when you try to restore them.
Something like this is kind of one of those ones
that I think you could restore, spend some money on.
And when it came time to sell,
you could at least get your money back,
if not a little bit more.
And not that it's always about getting your money back.
Listen, but that's the number one question we get
if guys buy projects is if I restore it,
where am I going to be?
How much am I going to have in it?
How am I?
And same with these auction cars that we have.
You know, what makes sense to restore
and what makes sense just to part out?
Now, most of these auction cars that we have
don't have titles.
So that that pretty much limits you to what you can
and can't do.
And if you use them for parts, that's one thing.
If you use it for if you want to get it roadworthy,
then you're going to have to go through whatever
your state requires you to do.
We don't know how to do that.
We don't we're not going to tell you how to do it
because we don't know how to do it.
And we we don't we're not going to learn how to do it
because it's just it's not what we're going to do
for this collection.
They want to sell this absolute.
They don't have the wherewithal to get titles
for all these things in a timely manner
and has to be settled by the court.
And so, you know, their their loss is your gain.
So now, if you had a dealer license,
you could drive that on a dealer tag
if it didn't have a title, correct?
You had a bill of sale, probably could.
If you had one that was roadworthy and stuff, etc.
Possibly, you know, from another state, not certainly here.
Yeah, don't do it here.
And don't say that I said to do it here.
No, that was JR.
He lives at 107.
No, it's that's an interesting question.
I don't really know the answer to that.
It might be that that is exactly the answer
that you could do that.
But again, check with your if your goal
is to buy it and to restore one of these cars
and then check, you know, figure out your options
and maybe that talk to a buddy
who knows something about it, who's done it in the past.
Maybe there's options that are out there
that we don't even know about.
So I'll just leave it at that
and you figure it out from there on your own.
Another new arrival, the 1986 Citroen 2CV6 Club.
This is a neat little car, Rouge Balero over gray and plaid.
Very rarely seen model.
You just don't see these.
Plus, when you do there,
aren't they the sort of maroon over black?
Mostly a lot of maroon over black
and this is a red over gray and plaid.
It's really, really a striking little car
and it's a lot of fun to drive.
So other new arrival, the 1987 Land Rover Defender.
Defender, those are cool.
Yeah, that's my vibe right there.
Yeah, it's kind of a go anywhere, do anything.
Oh, I can make it up that hill.
Oh, I can make it over that log.
Oh, I can make it up to the Wawa.
That's like one of those.
It's like almost like a G-Wagon.
They were once military vehicles and now they're...
Yeah, very heavy duty.
Yeah, yeah, heavy duty.
That's the thing about a G-Wagon is that,
and I was telling my wife this the other day,
one came in for sale and she wanted one,
but they are more heavy duty industrial
than they are luxurious.
That's what they are.
That's what they were built for.
That's what you're looking for.
A lot of people just swear by them.
They love them because, you know,
they feel safe in them.
If you're driving down the road,
you got a lot of steel and a lot of protection.
And if you're, you get in a mucky situation,
they'll about climb out anything.
So they'll practically pull themselves out.
So if you get a chance,
and it's something you're interested in,
check that one out.
It's got a 2.5 liter diesel four cylinder.
So, but very torquey.
Yeah. Very, very torquey.
So how about the 2007 Chevrolet Corvette 3LT
Pace car convertible?
Atomic orange over ebony.
18,000 actual miles.
Six liter 400 horsepower V8.
And if you think 400 horsepower is light,
go drive that car and tell me how light it is.
Cause it's not.
400 horsepower is nice in that car.
It's got plenty of go.
I can tell you that these cars
with six or 700 horsepower,
I would venture that if you could put a computer
on everyone and tell how far
that the gas pedal was pushed down on these cars,
unless it's just a guy who's a lunatic,
they never get pushed past half throttle
because that's plenty.
It goes like stink at half throttle
and way faster than you can ever go anywhere on a street.
Now, if you get it on the track, different story,
but 400 horsepower, plenty.
400 horsepower in a fiberglass car is pretty good.
Yeah, one of 500 built in this thing is showroom fresh.
So if you get a chance,
check those out in some of our other inventory
on our website.
I just read that the AACA awarded the Zenith Award,
which is their top award that they give out every year.
And it was won by a 1970 Pontiac GTO judge convertible.
Which is really cool.
And it really is, I think, kind of a transference
or sway from what they normally would pick.
Cause the runner up was a 1938 Packard 12, 1609
Rolston town car.
How about that?
Which would fit more into what you would think.
But as the AACA lives like the rest of us do,
is that the new generation is coming
and muscle cars from the 70s are becoming
more and more respectable in the hobby.
And therefore value is going up in those
as well as collectability.
And great to see them awarding this car like that.
You would, like I said, you normally see a Ford
or a Packard or a V16 Cadillac when these awards.
So it's nice to see that.
And the car looks spectacular.
Yeah, and they're pretty rare, 70 GTO convertible.
Yeah, yeah.
Pretty, pretty.
You come to judge.
What made that famous?
Laugh in.
And who said, who said it?
Right on a Ruth Buzzy.
No, it was Sammy Davis Jr.
Yeah, that's right.
No, it was Flip Wilson, wasn't it?
No, the courts in session now.
Here come the judge.
Here come the judge.
All right.
So as we've been talking about our auction coming up
and we're still talking about it,
cause it's still now a couple of weeks away
when you first, this first air September the 19th.
So you can get registered.
If you go online, you can pre-register
and we'll send you an email with the registration form.
Or if you want to bid online,
you send us an email through our pre-registration
and we'll hook you up with proxy bid
to you'll set up an account and you can be able to bid there.
Even starting now, people are already bidding on stuff now.
One of them has a $1 bid.
Hey, it's a start.
It's a start.
Yeah, it's better than a $0 bid.
And these are all selling absolute or no reserve.
We're going to have, I think the numbers,
the final number is going to be about 79 or 80 cars
in the sale.
We pulled out a few that were for whatever reason
we couldn't sell and, but we're adding
a couple of more.
We should be pretty locked in here in the next couple of days.
Are you open to other entries?
Yeah, but it needs to be pretty quick.
Yeah, in order to give it a fair shake marketing wise,
that's the thing that you want to make sure of.
If you can add a car on the last day,
but you really don't want to because it's
going to have had no pre-exposure
and maybe it does OK and maybe it doesn't.
So I would recommend that if you want to do something,
do it sooner rather than later.
And then if you buy a car from us,
it's an 8% buyers fee if you're in person, but no minimum.
So if a car sells for $1,000 and you owe us $80,
and we don't have a minimum commission
like we do when we sell retail just because it's
a little different animal here.
If you buy online or via telephone, i.e.
not in person, then it's a 10% buyers fee.
And like I said, we should probably have 70 some cars.
And like I said, absolute no reserve.
The highest bidder wins it.
And and do your due diligence if you're looking at a car.
Make sure you know whether it has it.
Some of them have titles, some of them don't.
Some of them run, some of them don't.
Some of them have issues and no keys.
Some of them make sure read the description, read everything.
Look at the pictures.
Make sure you realize what you're getting may not
be perfect by any stretch.
And most of them aren't.
Most of them have war wounds and some of them
are worse than war wounds.
And some of them are scrap metal
and some of them are pretty darn nice.
Got some military stuff that's really cool.
Most of those don't have, I think, one or two have a title.
Most of them don't have a title.
But we do verify and check that all these cars are not
stolen and they're not they're not owned by something else.
Nobody has a claim.
There's no lean on them or anything like that.
So we check all that before.
So but go to our website, classicautomall.com.
You can find all the listings on there
and you can see all the cars and pictures
and all that good stuff.
So what else we got going on?
Anything exciting?
Well, before we get off that subject,
I just did a search of how to get a title
for a vehicle on a bill of sale.
Doesn't mean it's always going to be right on the internet,
but there are lots of places you can look to give you idea
of what you might have to follow through and check out.
Yeah, there's ways on the bonds and court and attorney
and things like that.
It all depends on where you want to go with the car.
And then there's that big red truck
with all the big tires in the back of it
that I think is probably junk.
But man, the amount of steel in that,
they just for scrap metal.
You might make a buck or two off the steel, you know.
You just got to transport it.
You just got to get it out of here.
And you got to get it out of here within about 10 days
or so we'll give you.
And then we'd like you to get it the heck out of here.
Because it's, you know, listen, I understand
some of these things are difficult to haul.
And that's another thing.
We'll have haulers on site
who can haul these bigger items.
But bigger items, make sure you do a little pre-planning.
If you're planning on buying something large,
one of these large Army vehicles or whatever,
the large Mac wrecker,
make sure that you've made some kind of arrangements
to get it shipped because the local rollback
may not be able to handle it.
Yeah, or you might find out,
well, it's going to cost me $10,000 to ship it.
Exactly.
So you got to make sure and know all these things
ahead of time.
That's what we sell cars to guys on the West Coast.
We always try to tell them, look,
you know that if you're shipping this out there,
it's going to cost you probably $2,500 or $3,000
to get it there.
So factor that into what you can and can't purchase.
That Mac wrecker is pretty cool.
It's pretty darn cool.
Restore that and put it in the Allentown Museum
where they have all the Mac travel.
It would be awesome to have it there.
It would be.
You know, and I think that a lot of those things
are like that.
A lot of things, these will go into collections
that will never be driven
and they don't really care if they have a title or not.
Exactly.
I know that my business partner
has bought many cars without titles over the years.
Lots of, you know, early teens and 1920s and 1910s.
Stuff that just for whatever reason never had a title
and it's not, you know, to go spend any money
to get a title really is not cost effective.
So it is what it is.
Yep.
Some of these get lost over the years.
People don't forgot how important it was
to hang on to this stuff.
So that's that.
And next week, we've got another wonderful guest
and I don't remember who it is.
I think it's Don Prudone.
If it's not next week, it's the week after.
All right.
Don the Snake Prudone.
How cool is that going to be?
And I will not be here, Doug.
Darn the luck.
And Don was asking about you.
Yeah, he was.
He was.
So I don't know if that's next week
or the week after, but anyway.
Keep an eye out on that.
Subscribe to the YouTube channel.
Subscribe and stay tuned and all that good stuff.
We'll catch you next week on The Classic Automall Show.
We'll see you then.
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