Driven Radio Show Dec 13, 2025

Driven Radio Show #332: Live at Mecum Auctions Kansas City

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Chevrolet Express

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Chevrolet Corvettes

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Dodge Challengers

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Pontiac Trans Am

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Chevrolet Impala

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Chevrolet Chevelle

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Pontiac Torino

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Ford Torino

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Ford Mustang

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Lincoln Continentals

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Welcome to driven radio show.

This special edition was recorded live

at the Meekum Auto Auction in Kansas City

on Saturday, December 6th of 2025.

Brett Hatfield and Mark L. Groves

wanna thank Dave Morton and the entire team

for letting us come invade their space at Bartle Hall

while they talk to cool people and drool on amazing cars.

Enjoy this special edition of Driven Radio Show.

So we just had Rick Hunter on the show this week

from Hot Rod Express, and we're down at Meekum, Kansas City,

and saw Rick walking around.

So why not tackle him and force him to come on

and talk to him again for a little while?

Rick, how you doing?

I'm good, man.

How you guys doing?

You got a prime spot right here,

right in front of a nice speaker.

Yeah, well, we've got a great spot for traffic.

Everybody can see us.

But Meekum in the morning brought their speakers,

and we didn't bring ours.

And so we're hearing a lot of their show.

Well, the morning's almost over, so it

ought to be quiet here in a little bit.

I asked Mark a little while ago, you know,

in half an hour, did they shut off?

Well, we'll have to wait and see.

Man, they got a lot of crowd down here today, though.

Yeah, well, a lot of cars.

Oh, yeah.

They got a lot of cars.

I didn't get an exact count, but I

think they're probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 700

cars.

Oh, wow.

That's a lot.

That's a ton of stuff.

That is a lot of cars in this room.

That's got a maxed out.

But now I just came down to visit with some friends,

looked at a few cars, helped out a couple guys.

You added to the cars, didn't you?

Pardon?

You added to the cars, didn't you?

A little bit.

Friend of yours brings home?

Yeah, yeah, we've got several friends

that come down to help them out with stuff,

getting them ready for the show.

And hopefully they sell them.

What have you been working with this morning?

I haven't been working much this morning.

I come down to look at a couple Corvettes

just to kind of look at some ideas on some stuff.

Oh, good.

And then just wander through and see which cars I

need to look under and over.

You know, there's a lot of cool stuff down here.

Kind of generate some ideas.

Yeah, I'm surprised Mark doesn't have sweaty palms

with the Mopar sitting behind you.

Oh, dude.

Oh, I haven't even looked behind me yet.

Dig engine challengers and stuff like that.

I did do my walk around and took a look earlier

before we started recording.

But the fact that I have a 58 T-bird that needs some love

sitting in my garage right now, my wallet

keeps poking me in the butt every time I look at something

going, oh, that'd mean.

And it's like, no, not yet.

Get the T-bird straightened out,

and then I can start looking.

You act like I don't have the same problem,

but I never quit looking.

Oh, yeah, you can't quit looking.

Yeah, there's a lot of ideas down here.

There's so many cars, man.

I mean, if you're into cars, this is a good place

to come see them.

It's nice out today.

Temperature's nice in here.

Yeah, it's not bad.

I mean, have you guys got to go look around yet?

Have you been out cruising the auditorium yet?

I've gotten to look at stuff as I was going back

and forth, getting passes, and went over to the stage

for National Anthem with all the veterans.

And I haven't gotten a chance to really look around.

I've just seen stuff as I've walked by.

Yeah, but there's a.

I haven't stopped and crawled in, or excuse me,

under anything yet, but that'll happen.

There's a black 78 or 79 TA over there,

a Y-84 special edition.

Yep, dude, when I was loading in.

I passed three of those already coming in.

When I was loading in stuff, it drove by, and it just purrs.

It was just blub, blub, blub, blub, blub, blub.

I mean, not like the massive rumble,

but you could tell there's good stuff going on under the hood.

And it just, oh my god, it was so smooth and kind of quiet,

but with that little beefy rumble.

And I was like, hell yeah.

Well, there may or may not be an alleged event that

goes on in late winter.

Yeah.

In the South that involves driving from Atlanta to some place

in Texas and back for which that car would

be absolutely perfect.

I want to go eyeball that because that thing would

be just ideal for that particular alleged event.

Oh, there's a lot of cars that'd be great for the curves

in the coast going wherever you want to go.

Yeah.

Mark and I got here, well, I got down to the warehouse

to pick up Mark, and I may or may not

have broken a few speed laws on the way down.

I didn't see any members of the local constabulary,

so I didn't see any reason to go slow.

I wouldn't call it broken.

I would merely call it somewhat dented.

Going with the flow is what you were doing.

Yes.

Going with the flow of the traffic, sir.

Airstream at 20,000 feet, sure, but the flow this morning

may have involved three digits.

He left a jet trail.

That'll pick up runs.

That's OK.

If you got it, spend them.

So anything down here you're bidding on or you want?

No, not this year.

No, nothing bidding on, nothing selling out,

helping anybody sell.

Just this kind of actually snuck up on me.

Time seems like everything's in fast motion anymore.

Well, you are a busy guy.

I forgot all about this until about two weeks ago.

But anyway, I'm just happy to come down today

and kind of look around.

It's kind of pretty cool.

I think these sales are always a good place.

Somebody's wanting to get into this.

You can come down here, kind of have a budget figured out,

maybe bring along a tech with you or somebody that

can kind of take a look at stuff and assess things.

They have people on staff down here

that can give you a little assessment of a car

too if you pay them a fee, I think.

And you go home with a pretty cool car.

That 61 Impala, Vlad the Impala, the red one with the black stripe.

Did you sell that here?

That came from here.

Oh, it came from here, OK.

That's why I'm no longer allowed to bring my dad down here.

He saw that thing and bid on it.

And it was a 409 dual quad force.

It was the Beach Boys song.

And he immediately says to me, I'm

going to put an automatic in it.

And I said, no, you're not.

And he said, well, I don't want to drive a four-speed.

I said, yeah, this car's perfect.

Leave it alone.

He said, you want to buy it from me?

And that's when we got into a deal

about how I wound up owning that.

And you wound up owning the car anyway.

Yeah, well, and I wound up owning that one

and had a 63 convertible Impala at the same time.

And then the red Corvette and then

the blue Corvette came out.

Yeah.

That's OK.

You're not going to run out of room.

I can't own it.

Boy, the room is not the issue.

You're not going to run out of room.

But you see a lot of people down here like your dad, man.

Bruce Springsteen said, you know, the glory days.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, you get a lot of people down there

remember the glory days and remember all the different cars

that things probably happened in.

Oh, yeah.

If you got it, spend it, man.

I mean, that's just the deal.

You can't take it with you.

So, you know, if there's anybody listening to this

at the next sale, you know, get your ducks lined up,

come down here and buy something.

And you want to be thrilled that dad keeps doing that

because some of that stuff headed your way for paint.

That's right.

It all works out.

That's what I say.

It all works out.

It absolutely does.

Thanks for having me.

Thanks for inviting me, getting me in and all that stuff.

So that was awesome.

Absolutely thrilled to do so.

And make sure you stop back by.

I will.

Keep us posted.

Let us know what you're up to.

I'm going to be upset by the buyers table up there

and watching some cars go through.

Well, come back and tell us if you have a week moment.

Oh, I purposely left everything I could buy with at home today.

I didn't buy my debit card.

Well, come back and know if you need me to finance

one of your week moments.

You're going to be the first guy to look up.

See if you and Mark.

OK, we're going to need to get our money together here.

No, it'll be a fine.

Oh, we're always happy to see you, man.

Have you talked to them this morning?

And what's the couple of the big hitters down here?

Cars, cars today.

Actually, we're just about to find out.

We've got the studio coming on.

And we're going to stick around and we'll find out.

Yeah, well, the gentleman standing in front of us

with the David name tag on him.

That's the guy who lets us get away with murder down

here.

OK.

That's David Morton.

He's their, I think, big cheese.

Number one.

Yeah, he's he's the head cheese.

Oh, good.

Good.

Number one guy.

Looks like he's not waiting to come in to see you.

But no, I'm just going to see what they they got a what

the big car is going to be for the sale as far as the one

that sells for lots of money.

It's always I think they got some fun to see.

This is the last day of the auction.

So they ought to have some good stuff a little bit

later in the day.

Yeah, they should.

I mean, that's it's good.

I like to see things bring really good prices.

It kind of sets the market kind of kind of levels things out

a little bit for for guys like us, you know, that kind of don't

want to tank on things.

Yeah.

Well, hey, tell you what, get a look around, come back,

tell us what the coolest thing is.

I'll do that.

All right, I'll do that.

Good to see you, Rick.

Thank you.

And you guys have fun.

You need anything?

Yo, you got beverages.

You got candy canes.

And you ought to see their little displayed little.

We all get look for the pictures on Facebook.

Impressive.

You know, Christmas isn't that far away.

We got a giant tub full of free candy canes.

All they do right in front of a big screen.

Man, you got it all right here.

But anyway, all right, man.

We'll talk to you after a while.

Thank you.

I appreciate it, Rick.

All right, bye.

We're recording live at Meekum auctions in Kansas City.

Joining us right now is an on-air personality

who gets to talk about Meekum and cool cars

practically every day.

It's Matt Avery, who is a host with Meekum in the Morning.

Matt, welcome to Driven Radio Show.

We're glad to have you here.

Hey, good morning, guys.

So excited to be here.

So Matt, tell us about Meekum in the Morning.

What is this cool broadcast?

We've been listening to it quite a bit this morning, too.

Yeah, thanks for asking Meekum in the Morning, man.

It's hard to believe that we are a year and a half

into this project of producing this live on-site

morning show.

And it's so exciting.

Oh, now pushing 75 episodes before the start of each auction

day.

And as I like to say, it's the best way

for our fans and followers to get up to speed with what's

in store crossing the block.

So you're going to have a break here after this sale

to go through the holidays.

And then come Kissimmee, your book's solid.

Solid, solid, solid.

But I mean, there's no place I'd rather be.

And we will have so many hours of content

coming out of Kissimmee.

But it's a great platform, guys, because what we do

is we're able to, again, pull back the curtain on what

goes on at Meekum auctions.

It's not always spotlighting these great collector vehicles.

It's meeting the people behind it.

And that includes the consignors, builders,

and also Meekum staff members about folks

from Meekum Finance, Meekum Transport.

I know some of that might sound a little administrative,

but it's actually pretty fascinating to see all

of the pieces that go into this big machine that's Meekum auctions.

You know, that's something we've talked about before, too.

We talked about last year.

And sometimes on the show, when we talk about Meekum auctions

coming up, is the amount of work

that goes on behind the scenes, the amazing things

when you've got thousands of cars rolling across a block,

that is tens of thousands of pages of materials

that have to be filled out, that have to be done,

that have to be legal, that have to be followed up on.

And without a crew that takes care of that,

it would be a hot mess,

but you guys have gotten it to an art.

Well, I appreciate that.

I will say I'm just the guy in front of the camera

a lot of times, but it's so great

to be able to shine the spotlight

on some of the people behind the scenes on staff

that make this such a well-oiled machine.

So I love that Meekum in the morning is a way to do that.

And we have a lot of fun along the way.

Again, everything from even a Christmas-themed episode,

which I think is your guys' favorite so far

of the ones that you've seen.

Certainly the jacket.

That jacket was fabulous.

I want to know where you found it.

Yeah, and for the listeners, it lit up, too.

What?

Yeah.

It even had little blinky lights.

It did have blinky lights.

Dude.

That's the level of fun guys that we bring to the show.

One of those.

But you're not wrong about the people.

The cars are fantastic, and generally,

that's what I write about.

I'm writing about the cars and their history

and everything else.

But it's really the people behind the cars,

the owners, the restores, the shops that work on them,

and everybody at Meekum who helps present this.

And like Mark said, keeping all the paperwork straight,

you all move more cars than a weekend

than a medium-sized dealership does in six months.

And getting all that work compressed into just a few days

and getting it right, making sure everything's ready

to roll.

That's an unbelievable undertaking.

It really is.

The amount of logistics that goes in is truly mind-blowing.

It's so exciting to see fans when they, especially here at Kansas City,

come up the escalator right behind us, and you see their face.

Oh, yeah.

And you can tell that for them.

It's kind of a dream come true to see it in person,

because we have so many fans and followers that watch,

of course, our live TV broadcasts and follow us on social media,

but to see them experience it for the first time.

And then I think it's when they realize all of this packs up

and moves to an entirely different state,

an entirely different town.

That's, it's pretty wild, and it's like you guys have been saying,

it's a lot of pages, both literally and metaphorically,

of logistics and administrative, but it all works out so well.

And something else that you mentioned,

of course, it's the people behind these cars.

That's what keeps us all coming back, right?

We love the high horsepower.

We love the bright colors, but it's the people.

And I got to say, guys, that rung true this week,

just last night, some of our friends down at Meacon Finance

tipped us off about a story about a father and son

that came out last night, and he bought his,

I think it was his father's vehicle

that had been off the grid for 30 years.

Oh, cool, like the original, you found the,

he found, yeah, it was his early 70s Corvette.

Oh my God.

But I mean, it's just one of those,

Uh-oh.

I know.

And even I didn't hear all of the details.

I heard enough to maybe be like, man,

I can't wait to hear that full story told

on the next Meacon in the morning

like a semi, but it's just so exciting

to be able to document that, you know,

for us in the media to be able to be around

these cool cars, but of course to hear the stories,

that's what makes this job so special.

Cars bring us together in more ways than one, right?

And it seems like, you know, every car has a story.

Everyone has a connection with something here.

You know, something else, guys,

that I've really enjoyed this week

is seeing the local ties to the Kansas City area

and also having that spark conversation.

So for example, just two of the great muscle icons

we've got, we've got a 70 Chevelle LS-5

built just down the road of the Kansas City plant.

Nice local ties there.

You can see that on the build sheet, of course.

Is that the Astro Blue?

Astro Blue, or Fathom Blue.

Fathom Blue, okay, yes.

Fathom Blue.

And then we kind of did a piece,

not comparing it per se,

but just putting it up against of 1970 for Torino Twister.

Okay.

You know, another regional promotion

here for the Kansas area.

And it was so fascinating to see both these cars

and see local residents either remember

or be excited to kind of discover

that piece of local automotive history.

The Mustang and Torino Twisters

were all Kansas City dealerships.

And for those who don't know,

the Twister Special, because of the region,

and yes, we do have tornadoes,

but really cool, not very many of them around.

No, I think the Torino is 90,

is the total of how many produce,

and then that was one of 30,

I think with a four speed,

but you got that big 428,

but I just, I mean, I love the pedigree of that car,

but again, I just liked, it could have been a six cylinder,

it could have been a four cylinder,

it's not about the performance per se,

but it's just cool to see people

have that vehicle bring back memories.

Again, I heard several conversations about people like,

oh, I remember these and it's really neat.

I know a girl whose dad had one,

and always kept it tucked away in the garage for all.

I know that it was bright orange, Mustang Twister,

and as far as I know,

it's still sitting in her dad's garage.

Wow.

And that was back in high school,

which was an awfully long time ago.

Now, Matt, you hinted at a new project

that's gonna launch like in just a couple of days.

What is, what's cooking with that?

Yeah, we are right on the verge

of something exciting guys on Monday.

We are kicking off a brand new series

called On The Move with Matt Avery.

It's a video series documenting my travels,

literally coast to coast, telling stories from the road.

It's gonna be attending some of the biggest events,

checking out some of the top collections,

meeting some of these peoples and personalities

that make car culture so exciting.

And I've been working on it now for over a year.

We've already been shooting a full backlog of episodes.

We've got content ready to rock and roll

and it all comes out Monday.

That's Monday, December 8th.

And now, is that gonna be through the Meekum website?

Yeah.

Or where did we go to find it?

Yeah, so the show is produced by Meekum auctions

and it's another way for us to engage

with the automotive community

and the best way for people to find that

will be to head over to Meekum's YouTube channel

and also possibly some other of our platforms

in the soon near future, but YouTube for sure.

Nice.

So have you had a chance to walk around

and look at everything that's here today?

Yes, but no, have I walked around?

Yes, have I seen everything?

No, you can't, you know,

we have a great assortment of stuff

here at this year's auction.

We've got everything from high performance,

the muscle, I loved all the trucks.

We had a lot of those big American luxury barges

from the 60s.

I love those, the Lincoln Continentals,

the Cadillacs, Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds.

Thunderbirds and those mid-60s Chryslers,

early and mid-60s, man.

If those ridiculous wings starting at 1960 and 61,

oh, hell yeah.

Okay, so we got a couple of questions for you

that we ask everybody.

One, what's in your garage at home?

What's in your stable?

Durango Hellcat.

There you go.

You can smoke all four tires.

And I do.

That's awesome.

Fantastic.

And second question, and think about this for a sec.

What's the dumbest thing you've ever done in a car?

Okay, while I'm thinking of that,

can I also add to my first question?

Absolutely.

I will say, in addition to that,

just showing some contrast,

I also have a growing collection of Schwinn Stingrace.

Awesome.

How's that for eclectic?

Two ends of the spectrum.

I will dig it for the name alone.

I love the Muscle Bikes from the 1960s.

I just brought one down to the Muscle Car

and Corvette Nationals,

and just because Bob Ash and the team down there

have a great display of the Muscle Bikes,

but that's another one of my passions.

Muscle Bikes.

I'm gonna have to hang on to that.

They came with a squared back tire,

small front tire.

Some of them had the Springer front suspension,

and you also had a shifter mounted

on the crossbar up front.

Ape hangers, banana seat.

Very cool.

You drive a hill cat in a hill kitten.

Got it.

I love it.

A lot of times I'll actually put the bike in the back

because when I get out to events,

it's just too big to walk around,

so I tool around that.

But you're exactly right.

That's what kind of classified

this era of vintage bicycle,

and they are really big time with collectors bringing,

and we see them here at auction,

but anyway, another passion of mine.

Dumbest thing I've done in the car

was at the, was that the question?

Yes.

Dumbest thing you've ever done in a car.

Dumbest thing I've done in a car.

Oh man.

And the more absurd, the better.

The more absurd, oh man.

Just make sure your statute of limitations is.

Yeah, yeah, let me make sure my parole officer

is not listening.

You could say allegedly.

Allegedly.

Oh man, I mean, there's been a lot.

I mean, man.

Why don't I give it some thought,

and if I can come up with something crazy

that will shock you, I will, I will.

Yeah, stop back by, we'll be here for several hours.

I'll led you off the hook.

You're, you're fine, that's okay.

Matt, we appreciate you taking the time with us.

Oh, do you have a favorite yet?

You need to look around a little bit more?

All right, well, as always, I need some parameters.

You're saying from here at Kansas City.

Yes.

On the worldwide.

Yeah, here at KC.

I don't know, just this, this venue, this sale.

Yeah, here in KC.

Yeah, I will say, I like a lot of the,

we've got some great blazers that are crossing the block.

Yeah.

The, the OBS body style just continues to gain popularity.

Well, you do have a brick nose Ford pickup

four wheel drive on your shirt.

And when you walked up, I thought it was a blazer

and I, or a Bronco and I got all squishing.

But yeah, obviously a truck guy.

Yeah, I'm, I do like the trucks

and I like the more capable, the better.

I love the Raptors, TRX's, all that kind of stuff.

But I do love, we've got some great builds here

and I do like seeing how we're continuing to see LS.

There you go.

Sorry, we had to stop.

There's a LeBaron, a 64, 60, yeah, 64 LeBaron

in beautiful condition being pulled.

Right in front of your nose.

That dog will hunt.

Except that dog won't fit in your garage.

No.

We have a squirrel moment.

I see, I see it.

It's only downside of recording

in the middle of an auction.

It's like loose interest too much.

Yeah, you bring us down here, Chrome squirrel.

We're Chrome squirrel, there you go.

Yeah, back to trucks,

back to our regular schedule program.

So some blazers.

So some blazers are always good.

I love the C10s.

I think what the community is doing

with that model is phenomenal.

I mean, the trend has not cooled off,

you know, just in terms of dropping them low,

upgrading power trains,

but keeping a lot of them modern.

The CR Grands, all those trims.

I think that's great.

I don't think that's going to wait anytime soon.

We've had a lot of muscle.

We talked about that,

that's like Clown or the Tornado or the Tornado.

The Twister Special.

Man, I was saying all the weather terms.

You're going to get there.

I will say guys, I'm a little disappointed

as a big time Camaro enthusiast.

We didn't have as many Camaros as I like.

Yeah.

I've seen a couple first and second Gen Camaros,

but again, I haven't had a chance

to walk around a whole lot.

We got here and set up.

But there is a banded edition TA right over there.

Oh man, I got to go look at that.

There was what, a 74?

I think it was Camaro just over there

when I was walking in.

And I was keeping my eye peeled

for the split bumpers from the earlier 70s ones.

Yeah, there's a blue and white,

I think split bumper on Craggers.

Yeah, hell yeah.

And I know that's your weakness.

So I'm going to find that car and drag you back.

Well, we always have a great assortment of,

and we do have some good Camaros.

I will say I'm very excited guys.

I know we're here in Kansas City,

but Fast and Furious coming up in January,

we've got our Kissimmee auction

and I'm going to be in heaven

because we have a great collection of Yanko Camaros.

But my favorite, game back to KC,

it did click with me.

We have an awesome 77 Ford F-250

airport transport vehicle.

Oh, I want to see that.

Oh my God.

If you haven't seen it.

What a monster.

So it's the F-250 and it did see use at an airfield.

So it still has the staircase in the bed.

Oh, that's cool.

And it sold yesterday at no other show.

Oh wait, I know somebody who needs that.

My dad needs that so he can work in the house.

So he'll quit backing his truck into the garage

and putting a ladder in the back to get to the attic.

Yeah, there you go.

He needs that airport truck, that'd be fantastic.

That's what he needs.

I saw it and I geeked out because it's all original.

It's got the patina there.

I just love seeing those old workhorses

because as you guys know, the municipalities,

the airfields, they get those kind of vehicles

and they use them.

And they beat them to death.

They beat them to death and then they hope

to get the newest version that the city pays for.

But this one, I posed it to my social media

when I did a video on it.

I said, I'm just curious, where would this end up?

You know, a museum collection or I'm hoping

a picture cart coordinator?

Because this thing has like, catch me if you can,

sequel written all over it.

Oh my God.

I don't know if they'll do a sequel to that movie,

but you know what I mean, so.

Absolutely.

That's a fantastic connection.

So Steven Spielberg, if you're listening,

if you're making a sequel to that movie,

if he gets out of prison, that gentleman who is at,

you know, have him, you know.

Frank Abagnale, got out of prison and went to work for the FBI.

Right, well if they want to tell more or something else,

but it's a great piece, I love checking out

and I do encourage you and your viewers

for the coming out, get a look at it.

Final note about that, 63 miles on the odometer.

Oh wow.

Yeah, because how are you going to take that home

and go through the Burger King drive-thru?

I mean, I'm saying it had to have lived at the airfield

since 1977.

That was probably 63 very rough miles.

That's true, I guess.

I'm not saying it was babied, but it's got low mileage.

Airport employee really gives a damn about the condition

of the time.

I'm just going to get in and drive it.

Yeah, doing donuts on the tarmac.

Wouldn't that be fun to watch the stairs go around in circles?

That's right, who can hang on the longest?

Oh no.

I love it, I love it.

And that's why he won't answer the worst thing he's

done in a car.

Maybe I was alluding to it, I guess.

The guy's got ideas.

He's an idea, man.

Matt, we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us.

And I think the saddest thing about this,

about you being here right now, is that's probably

the last time you'll get to be in front of a camera

in that jacket this year.

Correct, but you know the good thing

is Christmas comes twice a year.

Oh really?

No, not twice a year.

Every year, that's what I meant.

Oh, there you go.

Wow, man, I am really dazed and confused here.

It was like Christmas in July?

That was, I'm 56.

What the hell, if I don't miss it, it was smooth.

That's what I meant.

Exactly, for those that really enjoy the season,

it comes twice a year.

Thank you, yeah.

For Matt Avery, Christmas is every day of the year.

That's right.

You keep the spirit alive.

Matt Avery, water skis and that blazer.

I was going to say, I'll break it out next year,

but maybe it'll make an appearance

during the summer as well.

Now Matt, it's meekam in the morning

that you could broadcast and live along with pre-recorded.

And tell us again, coming up Monday the 8th,

the name of the show that we need to look for.

Yeah, on the move with Matt Avery, first episode drops,

and then tune in.

We'll do them weekly after that.

Can we find that on the Meekam YouTube channel?

You sure can.

Yeah, find that across social and across,

and of course, we'll be advertising on Facebook

and Instagram and other links to get to that playlist.

But it's going to be really exciting, guys.

Congratulations on that, too.

That's very cool.

I really appreciate it, guys.

It's been such a blast chatting cars with you,

and enjoy the rest of your day here at Kansas City.

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Steve Garrett with 101 The Fox,

who is also the host of Corvette today.

Steve, welcome.

Great to be on the show, guys.

Thank you very much for having me on.

And surprisingly, Steve and I have known each other

and passing for, God, a hundred years,

maybe something like that.

Well, Corvette Club stuff, Corvette shows,

we keep passing each other.

And occasionally we stop and talk for five minutes.

And that's, we just keep seeing each other

at car related stuff.

And Steve's here today,

lucky enough to be able to put him in the hot seat.

Now, one of the things about Steve

is that he has been on the radio forever.

I came up to Kansas City in 2001

and was working with Ettercom that became Odyssey

and finally left radio 21 years later.

Now, you are still in and still on.

When did you start and give us a quick lineup

of what all you went through the permutations?

I'm the idiot that never got a rid of radio, you know?

That's the hard part.

Well, we were talking about that earlier

and I've told classes,

I taught some radio production classes

over at Johnson County Community College.

And those poor white-eyed students that would come in.

God love them.

I gently told them that radio is the herpes

of career choices because every time you try

to get out of it, you'll be out for a while,

but then it breaks out again

and you've got to get your fingers back onto buttons.

Wow, I thought it was building.

But you've been able to stay in.

I've never heard, but quite like that.

Delicately.

Yes, delicately.

Anyway, I started guys in 1977.

I was at Q104, KDEQ from 77, 78, or yeah, 79.

In 1980, I went to KY 102.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

KY was gargantuan, wasn't big, wasn't huge.

It was gargantuan.

I've been telling my wife 102 stories forever

because she didn't grow up here.

If you didn't listen to KY 102, you weren't legit.

Yeah.

So I was there from 1980 to 1990,

and I started at-

All the glory days too.

Yes, exactly, exactly.

And I went to 101 The Fox in 1990

and I'm the longest tenure jock at The Fox.

I'm the longest tenure jock in Kansas City Radio right now.

Yeah.

Continuously, continuously.

That is actually pretty awesome

because there's, you know, with the way radio,

the industry has changed.

Being able to stay in, stay on, and stay motivated.

Right.

The three of those is a hard, hard toss these days.

And I got nothing but props for you

for being able to do it all and keep it rolling.

Thank you.

I'm just wondering if Max Floyd ever calls you

and says, what the hell are you doing?

I see Max from time to time.

I really do.

It's great to get with those guys

and relive old days

and talk about some of the good old days.

Oh, yeah.

At some point, we're gonna have to tell Mark

about the rock and roll army and all the other stuff.

Oh, you don't have to tell me.

I worked with them.

Max, Dan, and Moffitt.

Yeah, I worked with them for years.

Did you really?

When I first started working there,

yeah, they had been a pretty recent change.

What was it, KYYS?

It was 997.

Yes, 997, because that thing's been everything

but cream cheese.

Well, those 102 dropped them like hot rock,

but they landed so well at our stations

and kept it going.

And just recently, within like the past three years,

Johnny Dare, and now we're all,

sorry, we're talking Kansas City Radio.

But even Johnny Dare lasted for, what,

two and a half, three decades?

Yeah, I think it was about 23, 24 years,

something like that.

You know, I do weekends, so I keep my head low

and stay out of the line of fire.

Okay, good.

Which has allowed me to keep doing this.

But, you know, I guess, you know,

the funny thing is, is I graduated

from University of Missouri here in Kansas City.

And my mom would say, I was on the radio,

mom would say, honey, when are you gonna get real job?

You know, this radio thing is not a real job.

I was like, mom, you're killing me here, you know?

It's like, what do you...

Dude, I hear that.

My mom wanted me to be a lawyer, so bad.

My dad just wanted me to be not at the house.

So, in one fell swoop one day,

we all got let go from Q104.

And they said, well, Steve, we're not firing you,

we're just letting you go.

We're taking the radio station in a different direction.

In a different direction, yeah.

You're not part of that new direction.

And I said to myself, damn it, mom was right.

So I got into sales and marketing and advertising,

and that's where I made my money,

but I stayed on the radio on weekends

for the majority of my career.

But literally, that's how I've been able to stay on the air.

So what is your weekend show?

Saturdays from 10 to three in the afternoon,

Sundays from noon to six.

Okay, yeah.

And apparently prerecorded,

because we're in your block on Saturday.

So about 2005, we were able to start prerecording shows.

Voice tracking.

So I literally worked seven days a week from 1977

to about 2005-ish.

So that's like, what, 37 years of working seven days a week?

So I was able to prerecord today

to come to Meekum Auction.

I'm the president of the Corvette Club of Kansas City.

We had a big thing where we brought a bunch of members

in, we got a behind the scenes tour,

the TV host for Meekum Auction,

Scott Hoke is also a good friend of mine.

He came by to say hello to everybody.

And you know, they got stars in their eyes

and they're starstruck.

It's Scott Hoke, you know, we watch him on TV.

And then I was able to stay for the auction.

So it was great.

It was great.

Well, Steve's been a member of the Corvette Club

of Kansas City for-

Since 2013.

Hey, there we are, looky there.

And I've been an NCRS member for,

I think it's 35 years.

I'm an NCRS member too.

And that's how we keep bumping into each other.

I tend not to go to NCRS meetings.

Up until the last few years,

I didn't go to NCRS meetings

because I got tired of being the youngest guy in the room.

Well, that is-

But that's not true anymore.

That's amen to that, right?

Yeah, no kidding.

I have enough white hair that I can show up and be okay.

I don't have any new balance anymore.

Amen.

Ha ha ha ha.

I want to make this official.

I have declared on my own.

Yes.

Of my own authority.

We are changing the Corvette owner uniform.

You are no longer allowed to wear jean shorts

and new balance.

We are going to cargo shorts and Tiva sandals.

God bless you, my son.

Ha ha ha ha.

And just barely out of style,

but that's what we're sticking with now.

Close enough for rock and roll, right guys?

That's right, by God.

And besides the sandals, you can get a tan on your feet.

Exactly.

So what was the Corvette that you first got

that made you join and become part of the club?

So part of my childhood growing up

was that 63-split window.

Oh, yeah.

So that's what got me into Corvettes.

I got my first Corvette in August.

No, October of 2013.

Oh, wow.

So I graduated college, paid off the house,

put my daughter through college.

Everything was paid off, no credit card debt.

I said to my wife, I want a sports car, two seats,

lots of power.

And went through a bunch of stuff.

I used to play hockey.

I was the public address announcer

for Kansas City Hockey from 1990 to 2022.

Oh, fun.

So three plus decades.

I was getting dressed.

I was a goaltender.

Talk about being a crazy guy, right?

Wait, wait, wait, smile.

How do you have all your teeth?

Well, I've got a big mask with a cage on it

so nothing can get through it.

I was lucky.

Probably tougher to do radio

when you're missing some chicklets.

Right, right.

So in January, 2013, when the new C7 was introduced,

I was in the locker room getting dressed

and I said, man, have you guys seen that new C7 Corvette?

That's a Corvette I would love to own.

And one of my defensemen said, I can get one for you.

I said, how can you get one for me?

He said, I'm the new car sales manager

at Hendricks Chevrolet.

Oh, dude, yeah.

I said, I never knew.

You're in.

So I got my first Corvette from him, never look back.

Been president of the Corvette Club of Kansas City.

I think this is year number nine or 10.

Wow.

And started the Corvette Today podcast.

So we're about to get to the Corvette Today podcast,

but I'm kind of curious,

when you're president of the Corvette Club,

how much work is that?

What's that entail?

What do you have to do?

You know, it's a lot of work,

but I have a great executive committee staff.

We have an executive committee

with a vice president, secretary, treasurer,

a guy that does the internet, our website,

a guy that does our newsletter, which is phenomenal.

And it takes a village to really run the.

To run the Corvette.

To run the club.

And like this, I'm connected with Meekum Auctions

with David Morton and Scott Hoke.

Every year we come down,

we have a little behind the scenes tour.

We used to meet John Cramon.

Yeah. Oh, yes.

We're just John.

And John, I miss John like crazy.

I'm still trying to figure out what happened there.

But anyway, Scott Hoke came over.

So we do this every year.

I mean, we're car enthusiasts at the base.

And the Corvette is the icing on the cake.

We had John on the show,

his last appearance with us was just over a year ago.

It was November 30th.

Yeah. Yeah. Good guy.

And knew everything like crazy.

Oh my God, he just knew everything.

Yeah. He was a walking encyclopedia.

And a huge Corvette guy.

Yeah. Huge Corvette guy.

So it worked out great.

So just the one Corvette, what else have you had?

I've had a C7 and a C8.

Okay. So my C8 is a 70th anniversary Stingray Coop.

It's the white pearl metallic.

And I wanted that because the white pearl metallic

was the first tricolor that they've used on a Corvette.

And that color got retired.

It's the only color that will never ever be used

on another Corvette.

And the plant manager that does in charge of all the color

and that's his favorite color.

Oh, fantastic. Yeah.

So how do you like the way,

how different is it driving the C8 from the C7?

It's a totally different drive guys.

You know, with the C7,

you've got that engine underneath your feet.

It's in front of you, you know?

And mine was an auto, mine was a stick.

It was a manual transmission.

So you really feel that engine underneath your feet.

Well, you're involved.

Yeah. And you're raking through the gears.

With this, you know, it's pulling you forward with the C7.

With a C8, it's pushing you forward.

The engine's behind you.

Your paddle shifting, you're not doing this.

You're not gear shifting.

So it's a completely different drive.

As a matter of fact, when I got the car,

it took me about 100 miles of driving the car

to actually feel comfortable in it and driving it.

How do you like that instantaneous shove

when you hit the gas?

Guys, it's phenomenal.

It really is.

The C8 is a game changer.

Even the Stingray is still a super car.

It really, really is.

It's sub three seconds, 0 to 60.

Yeah.

And I've got friends that have done it way under three seconds.

They're 2, 4, 2, 5.

So you know, you got to know how to drive it and drive it

right, but it's a game changer.

That's fantastic.

Now, Corvette Club Kansas City.

Yes.

Do you do events?

How many events do you have a year?

We do.

We do lots of events.

We are almost 400 strong.

No kidding.

Yes.

I had no idea it was that big.

It's that big.

As a matter of fact, people are amazed.

The Corvette Club of Kansas City

is the oldest and one of the largest clubs in the Midwest.

We do events all the time.

We have two big Corvette shows, one in May, one in September.

The one in September is at our corporate sponsor, which

is Hendricks Chevrolet of Kansas City.

A bunch on a mission parkway.

Exactly.

And the other one is over at Constantino's Market.

Oh, cool.

Yeah, at 160th and Antioch, I guess it is.

We do that on a Saturday.

We can't do that on a Saturday over at Hendricks Chevrolet.

But we have a lot of different events, one of which

is coming to the Mecom Auction.

We have a holiday party coming up in December.

Guys, we're hot.

Knock on wood.

We're hot.

The Corvette Club is doing well.

Well, I may have to ask you for an application.

I would love to have you do it.

CorvetteClubKC.com, buddy.

You can register online.

It's $45 a year, and it's $15 for your wife

or a significant other.

OK, well, I might have to bring Ronda.

I got two Corvettes and a third that's kind of on loan.

You're in.

And it's C1 and two C2s.

That's awesome.

I don't have anything new.

You know what?

You'll meet all sorts of people in the Corvette Club.

We've got C1s through C8s.

I like my old Corvettes.

They're stone simple.

They're awesome cars.

All right, now, tell us a little bit about Corvette today.

Corvette today was born out of COVID.

I got furloughed from my day job guys in March of 2020.

And I thought, well, shoot, now what am I going to do?

It was my 30-year-old daughter.

She was 30 years old at the time in March of 2020.

She said, dad, you're a radio guy.

Do a podcast.

Yep, it's like, well, shoot, I could.

You got the equipment, the stuffs at home.

Well, and I said, well, what do I do it on?

She said, do it on something you're passionate about.

You know, everything about Corvettes,

you're the president of the Corvette Club of Kansas City.

Back then, Brent, I was the moderator for C7 and C8

on CorvetteForum.com.

She said, do a Corvette podcast.

I thought, you know what?

That might have some legs to it.

So the first thing I did is I googled Corvette Podcast.

In March of 2020, the newest Corvette podcast

was six years old.

What?

Yes.

Oh, wow.

Brand new.

Yes.

And I thought, that was so smart.

You know what?

Maybe it's like, you're running back in football.

If the line opens up, you run right through the line.

They opened up and I said, you know what?

Let's do a Corvette podcast.

OK, Steve, hard left.

What's driving by?

There you go.

Nice.

Bright yellow.

C5.

Ford.

Oh, wow.

It's a racer.

It's a nice little roll bar.

93 to 96, judging by the side vents, roll bar,

a little kick tail on it.

Looks good.

Somebody set that up to go quick.

Yeah.

Somebody likes to play.

We like it.

They won a 0-60 time on that car.

0-60 in hell, yeah.

So anyway, in April of 2020, mid-April of 2020,

I started Corvette today.

It's a weekly show.

It comes out every Sunday night

at midnight Eastern, which is Monday morning, which

in the central time zone is 11 PM.

It's a weekly show.

It's been going almost seven years.

I will celebrate 300 episodes in the middle of January.

Fantastic.

And we're just going strong and never looking back.

How do you find your guests?

You know, I know so many people in the Corvette community

that I started out soliciting people saying,

hey, would you be on the show?

And they said, sure.

In September of 2020, Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com,

if you've never been on that website,

he does a daily email to almost 30,000 people

talking about what's going on in the Corvette community.

CorvetteBlogger.com.

Keith is a friend of mine.

I said, hey, what if we did, since it's called Corvette

Today, and I wanted a name that didn't ever expire

or didn't grow old.

I said, you do news.

What if we did like a news and headlines show?

And if it goes well, maybe we'll do it once a month

or something like that.

He said, sure.

So in the middle of September of 2020,

we did this first news and headlines show.

It was so popular and so well-received.

I called Keith back and said, dude,

once a month ain't gonna hack it.

We're gonna have to do this every other week.

So we've been doing our news and headlines show

every other week for six and a half years.

Oh, cool.

Wow.

So what's the latest?

What's out now?

What's new news for the Corvette?

What's the new news for the Corvette community?

We're waiting anxiously for the ZR1X to make its appearance.

So that's a big deal.

We've had people on like Peter Brock

who designed and drew the C2 Corvette.

We've had Peter on a couple times too, yeah.

As a matter of fact,

Peter keeps emailing me all the time.

He said, hey, one of my new reimagined

63 split windows was at McCacken, got a big award.

We're selling one at Meekam Kissimmee.

Well, I'm glad we're talking about this, buddy,

because we do every year at Meekam Kissimmee,

a Corvette day where people can come meet Keith and I,

Keith Cornette from Corvette blogger and I.

We wander around.

We look at Corvettes.

We talk to different people.

We'll talk to everybody at Blooming and Gold,

Guy Larson and everything.

And we look at cars and we have giveaways

and goodies for everybody.

So that's going to be the first Friday

of Meekam Kissimmee,

which I can't remember.

That's January 9th, I think it is,

something like that.

That sounds right.

So we're doing another Corvette day this year in Kissimmee.

If you want to get out of the cold and beat winter,

come on down to Florida and join us.

Well, I've been telling Mark we need to go to Kissimmee

just for the size of the sale.

It's amazing.

But yeah, I wrote up at 63 Peter Brock

studio concept yesterday for GM authority.

That's awesome.

And I screwed my editor this weekend.

I wrote him up three Corvettes.

It's okay, but it's a gorgeous car.

There's no trim on the split windows.

The windows are bigger.

We've got side pipes.

All the functionality of the vets.

Well, the accentuated the spine going back,

made the back windows bigger.

And it's riding on an Art Morrison chassis

with that cad-ass LS engine in it.

Yeah, 725 horsepower.

That's too bad.

It's a beautiful thing.

So anyway, Peter's been on the show a couple times.

We talked about his new Reimagine 63 split window.

I've had people on like Corey Peterson

who found number one, Corvette number one from 1953.

They came out of Oklahoma, didn't it?

Or is that the shop that it went to?

That's where the shop, it was in the shop.

Right.

I've had people on like Reeves Callaway.

As a matter of fact, Reeves Callaway said, Steve.

Oh, cool.

The best Callaway cars interview I've ever done

was on Corvette today.

That's fantastic.

I'm glad.

Come on, Reeves.

I'm really happy that you got the interview before he passed.

Yes, yes.

That's fantastic.

And as a matter of fact, I had his son on

soon thereafter and.

How's his son?

Good.

Very nice.

OK.

Is he like his dad?

Does he have that same passion?

Yes.

Absolutely.

Very cool.

Very logical, very straightforward thinking.

Just a very logical guy.

One of the best things about Callaway

is they continue to service and maintain the B2K Callaway

Corvettes that they made in the 80s.

Amen.

And you see, there's one on Bring a Trailer right now.

It's a Y convertible with a red interior and a dimag wheels.

And they update the cars as they go.

They update.

And one of the things we're going to run into with those

Callaway Corvettes is the electronics are going to age.

They already are.

And Callaway continues to support that and update

the electronics in them.

It's fantastic.

Reeve's son, Pete, has been on the show.

It's been great.

And now I'm really getting to the point

where I'm getting people come to me and saying, hey,

I got an idea for your show.

And if people say, hey, have you had so-and-so on,

it's like, yeah, he's been on twice.

Have you talked about this?

It's like, yeah, we've done three shows on that already.

So what's the newest thing?

I mean, what are you looking for?

What kind of information and what type of interviews

are you looking for if people want

to be able to contact you?

Actually, anything.

As a matter of fact, we did an interview coming up here

real soon.

We're going to do an interview on aftermarket extended service

policies.

We'd like to talk to you about your car's warranty.

Exactly.

We've done an interview with radar detector company, Escort

radar detectors, you know?

You're going to need them.

Yeah.

So I'm getting people coming to me saying, hey,

I'm available.

So it's been great.

They're finally starting to have things

that are exceeding what Mike Valentine did

while he was alive, and Valentine 1,

and then the second gen Valentine 1.

And those are still fantastic, but other companies

are finally starting to catch up and surpass that.

Exactly.

So it's really been a great run.

I don't see anything stopping me or slowing down.

Like I said, we're going to celebrate year number 7

coming up in mid-April.

We'll have episode number 300, 300 regular weekly episodes.

There are already over 300 episodes.

We have Corvette Today Extras and things like that.

But we're doing that.

Here's another example.

A Corvette Today Extra, the National Corvette Museum

called me and they said, hey, we've

got this big announcement we want to do with you.

It turned out to be their 66,000 square foot

expansion of the museum.

Oh, cool.

Yeah.

Did they check underneath at first?

Yes.

Oh my god.

Did they peer that thing like just tomorrow?

Yeah, no kidding.

So I said, that's great.

I'd love to do it like a Corvette Today Extra with you.

Who else are you doing it with?

We said, we're going to do it with you and Corvette Blogger,

Keith Cornett.

Oh, perfect.

I said, who else?

And they said, that's it.

They said, we consider Corvette Today and Corvette

Blogger the two main resources for news and information

in the Corvette community.

Well, if we're looking for that, where do we go?

Where do we find you?

And where do we send information if we're like,

oh, you need to talk to this person?

You can contact me.

I've got a website, CorvetteToday.com.

My email is very simple.

It's Steve Garrett DJ, being a disc jockey.

Steve Garrett DJ at gmail.com.

We have a YouTube channel.

You can get Corvette Today wherever you get your podcast,

you can get it on your phone.

A lot of people don't know how to get it on their phone.

And if you just, there's a underneath the dock,

you know, where the three or four main apps

are on your iPhone.

There's a podcast app.

There's a podcast app, but if you don't have that,

there's a little search bar right above that dock.

If you type in the word podcast, your app will come up.

Obviously you tap that and you type in the word Corvette Today

and...

Bada bing bada boom.

You're there.

There you go.

Simple and easy.

Now, part of the reason that I've postponed

having Steve on the show is he and I are going to nerd

out and you're gonna go to sleep.

I will drink coffee and look on Facebook.

It lets you guys talk.

You're gonna be on Facebook.

Make sure your levels are all right.

Scroll through your phone.

There you go.

Now, guys, I've been blessed.

It's been great.

And it was my daughter I have to thank

for Corvette Today.

Well.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

I have Mark to blame for the show.

I have my wife to blame for writing for magazines.

Yes.

Yeah.

Remember who shoved you in the right direction.

Exactly.

But it's done you well.

I mean, you're a resource that everybody knows, Brent.

Yeah.

I appreciate that.

Wrote my 800th article yesterday.

Wow.

Mazeltov, congratulations.

650 of those for GM authority.

That's amazing.

Yeah.

And a couple of years ago,

I actually fooled those guys into making me

their automotive historian.

There you go.

So anyway, Steve, we really appreciate

you sitting down with us and spending the time.

And you and I are going to have to go walk around

and hurt out on everything.

Guys, thank you so much for having me on the show.

It's an honor being here with you.

We'll be listening to you more on 101 The Fox.

Thanks.

It's a beautiful day for cars.

And we are here recording live

at Mikamoto auction in Kansas City.

We've gotten this opportunity once again.

And we are so thankful to Dave and everyone involved.

I know, right?

There are vehicles driving right by us as we're talking.

And what is that?

Is that a 57 Chevy?

Is that the Nomad?

That's a Nomad.

That's an Omad.

Yes.

And with the Bel Air badging.

I might need a moment to myself.

That's beautiful.

And now a Mustang that's, oh, and it's a fastback.

Okay, I gotta stop.

I'm getting completely off track.

One of the cool-

You just bought a car.

Damn it.

There's never enough.

This is why I own a warehouse.

Here at an auto auction,

what is one of the most important things

besides the amazing vehicles?

It's amazing people who put it on

and there's somebody that's got a ring lead.

Somebody's up there putting up the bids,

talking up the car and bringing you

into the excitement of the auction.

And speaking in a way that neither of us

is capable of doing.

Now, the only time I talk like that is when I'm drunk.

And unfortunately it makes no sense.

Oh, there's a second time,

but I can't talk about that.

Matt Moravec has spent 26 years with Mikam.

He looks like he's 26 years old.

I know, right?

How the hell is that possible?

Shill in the cars.

I was literally born here.

In the back of a Wagoneer, much like that one.

And Matt, we're so excited.

Thank you for joining us here on Driven Radio Show today.

Pleasure to be here.

Now, we've had some questions shared with us

that we're gonna get to that we have to ask about,

but first and foremost,

how did you get involved with Mikam?

Doing the auctions here?

Long story short, my family has been in the auction business

for a few generations.

My dad's an auctioneer.

He started bringing me to the car auctions,

the wholesale car auctions,

when I was maybe 12, 13 years old.

There are a couple of auctioneers there

that worked for Mikam at the time.

And I worked with them

on those wholesale auctions in Omaha, Nebraska.

And they says, well, they told me,

well, as soon as you're done with high school,

you're going on the road with us

and you're gonna travel with Dana Mikam.

And so for years, Dana Mikam was a faceless figure

in my imagination of who this person would be

when I was 19 years old.

I met him.

I worked my first auction up in Minnesota.

And...

How did that go?

Actually, pretty good.

It was hotter than the Blazes

and it was in June of 2000

and worked an auction up there at the Fairgrounds.

And that was for MSRA,

the Minnesota Street Rod Association, good guys.

We had a two-day auction up there

and it came home and that was it.

Now, were you doing auctions beforehand,

like smaller ones around town, et cetera,

to kind of get your chops?

We had, we do farm in real estate and household

and all kinds.

I grew up in a, my dad was also a cattle auctioneer

and a livestock pavilion.

So I sorted cattle.

I'm still part-cutting horse,

but I can go up and sell cattle.

The old time period down to here to two,

35 in the period of two,

37 in the period of 140.

And down to the period of five,

period of having to do 180.

So...

The next topic's question is,

have you been to auctioneer school?

Yes, so I was...

You would have to have been.

I was introduced to the new owner of the auction college

in Mason City, Iowa at the time.

I went there when I was in high school

and now that the college has since moved to Des Moines, Iowa,

I'm now an instructor there in my third year.

Oh, no kidding.

Wow.

Okay, so, and how old were you

when you went to auctioneer school?

16.

Oh, wow, early.

Super early.

How long is it?

How long does it take?

At the time, it was a 10-day course.

So when over the summertime it was a 10-day course,

it's not really not as much the length of the course,

it's the number of hours that they generate

through the course in order for you

to get licensing in different states.

Got it.

Okay, so 10 days, but I'm guessing they're long days.

70 hours is what is required for.

That's pretty fair.

And I know we were 10 days,

but they were 10 long days,

so I'm pretty sure we went over the 70 mark.

I think the question that everybody would wanna know

is how do you learn that pattern?

How do you learn to do that?

I listened to my dad when I was little.

My dad, you know, when I was-

Could you do that before you went to school?

Yes, absolutely.

That was the reason why I went to school

is because I was already an established auctioneer.

The owner of the school heard me

at the National Auctioneers Association Convention.

He goes, have you been to school yet?

I said, no, my name's Bill.

You mind coming to, between now

and when you graduate high school,

I would like you to come to World Wide College

of Auctioneering, and so there I went.

I had to wait a few years

because we were too busy doing auctions at home.

Mom and dad couldn't, wouldn't let me get away,

so by the time I was 16, well,

well, we got a break in July when you go next to-

Well, of course you need somebody else who can do this.

You can't do that for eight hours at a shot.

True, you could, but it probably ruined you.

Yeah, actually not really.

I've gone over eight hours straight on.

No kidding.

Wow, wow, that's gotta be tiring.

Not really, it's more mentally than it is physically.

Yeah, I would think so.

So what did you get out of auctioneer school

that you didn't already have aside from the license?

A certificate, and I made some friends.

Okay, yeah.

So when you're training somebody

who's not done this before,

let's say they're total noobs,

but they're like, this is really cool

and I want to do this.

What do you tell them is the key

to getting that pattern down, that rhythm?

Knowing your numbers forward and backward.

The rhythm, the chant,

everything that you put in between,

it'll come in time,

but really it's knowing your numbers backwards.

It's amazing how people can, in this setting,

not, it can count by fives to a hundred.

Yeah.

But put them up in front of the crowd

and go five and now 10, 10 and now 15, 15 and now,

and they have to think about it

because you're throwing so much at them at a time.

So they think so really, I tell them speed is nice,

but there's no need for speed right off the bat.

First one must crawl before one can walk,

one must walk before they can run.

So that's the order which it goes.

So what do you guys think of like Sotheby's

and the British style of auctioneering

and where it's, thank you, sir.

Varieties of spice of life.

Not everybody needs to go,

and not everybody enjoys going to a speed auction

where we kind of, we use momentum as something to,

you know, carry on the auction

and speed and momentum and everything

and that's really what our auction's built on.

There are other auctions that slow things down

and give people time to think about it

and there's all kinds of different styles for everybody,

but you know, we just do it a little bit better

over here in the States.

And does it also help push it?

Of course we do.

Does it also help push it forward

when you've got this many vehicles going through?

Like how many are going,

or do you happen to know how many

are going across the block today?

Today we over 200.

Good God.

And then how many hours?

The three days combined, how many?

There were, would we have over 700 cars here?

Wow.

See, I guess, but I was pretty close.

Yeah.

I was guessing 700.

You're going to have to do speed auctioneering

to be able to get that many across the block successfully.

Yes.

Wow.

So when you are doing that back and forth,

five, 10, 15, 20,

what is the filler to the pattern?

There's all kinds of filler words.

There's millions you can use,

but really the basic is $5 bid and now 10,

$10 bid and now 15,

but then you just kind of throw in some rhythm

and some pop with your 10, $5 bid here,

$10, $10 of it, $10 of it, $10 of it, $10 of it,

$10 of it, $20 of it, $20 of it, $20 of it,

$30 of it, $30 of it, $10 of it,

$10 of it, $10 of it, $40 of it,

$10 of it, $15 of it, $16 of it, $70 of it,

$80 of it, $100 of it, $100 of it, $100 of it.

So are you sprinkling in just syllables

or do those pieces actually stand for?

Some syllables in just the way you make a filler word,

a filler phrase, roll off.

Nice.

It doesn't necessarily need to always mean everything,

you do form a question middle bit, 25 is bid,

you bid, I'm here to bid, get 30, 25 is bid,

are you able to buy them at 30?

30 is bid, now you bid, I'm here to bid, get 40,

$100, if you don't want to get five here,

you want to get 45, you're on 50.

That's just amazing, that is really cool.

After you do this for a few days,

like you've been here for a sale,

do you find yourself speaking more quickly?

Do you have to slow down mentally?

You do.

It's kind of funny, Jimmy Landis and I

talked about this once.

When you're up on the block and you're going,

you're 400,000, 450,000 to 500,000 on a bid,

and if you want to stop and mention something

to the crowd, it's hard.

It's kind of like coming from sixth gear

and you're downshifting to first,

and sometimes I find myself so tongue-tied,

just trying to say, okay, this car is this of this,

or consider something, and it's hard to make it come out.

Then I can go right back to 500,000,

but if I'm kidding, I'm going to get 70,

and I can go back to that, that's not the problem.

It's slowing down as it becomes my problem.

Do you have a phrase or anything that you say,

and I ask this for a specific reason,

but a phrase or something you say

that breaks you out of that mindset?

Not really.

Mark was in radio for 35, so you don't have to.

I was an actor out at the Renfest,

and when you're doing that fake British accent

for eight, 10, 12 hours in a day,

it becomes really hard to break out of it.

Because you're stuck in it,

and one of the things I learned from Pete-

Did you do a white British accent?

Oh, very.

Very much, yes.

And they, one of the people that had been there

for like 20 years before I even started,

they said, okay, here's what you do at the end of the day

because you get stuck in it,

and you're sitting at a bar after hours,

and you're still talking like this,

and they're like, stop it!

There was a phrase, and I kid you not, it worked.

You would stop and go, the beer is in the truck,

and you had to say it like that,

and I swear to you by all that's holy, bam, you were out.

Really?

So I don't know if it's like,

I gotta slow the verbiage, or anything like that.

Give it a shot, and then let me know if that worked.

The beer is in the truck, okay.

The beer is in the truck.

If it doesn't work,

it's gonna get the entire crowd's attention.

What did he just say?

Well, you gotta bring that heavy Southern flag.

The beer's in the truck.

There you go, but you gotta sit slow.

The beer is in the truck.

Glad I could help, tips from a pro.

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As we were talking before we started the interview,

I'm a third generation auction junkie.

So if you start doing that,

I'll sit and listen to you for the next six hours.

I'm fine, I love the sound of it.

When I get to a sale,

when I hear the auctioneer's like, I'm home.

I can work now, I'm in my element.

So, what is the most expensive car you've sold?

It was a LaFerrari in Monterey, California.

Okay, was that this year?

No, it's been a minute.

Couple years back.

Oh, probably close to nine or 10 years.

Oh, okay.

It was one who's an all carbon fiber bodied one

called the Dark Horse.

Wow, I'm guessing what?

Five and a half million.

Was it really?

Wow!

Yeah.

How long did it take you?

That's a front of Jack.

Not very long.

Really?

Yeah.

Well, five and a half million with a 10% VIG,

that's another 550 on top.

Yes, sir.

That's a six million dollar car.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, it was, it didn't take long

because there was like one-on-one that was made.

That, you know, that sort of.

Was it two guys in the room or three or?

Two.

As two guys?

Two, one guy on the front row that was

I know he's from Europe,

I don't exactly remember where it,

and then this one guy over on the end,

I'm gonna call him a kid,

he looked like he was 40 years old,

but he's just over there like, yeah, no problem,

no problem, no problem.

What did it start at?

Probably a dot-com schmuck.

Do you remember?

Yeah, maybe three or so, two and a half or three.

Well, just the regular law Ferrari

was a million in change, brand new,

and with limited production.

Now, would you take that up at 500,000 increments?

Yes.

Wow.

Yeah, at first, absolutely.

I'd be so sweaty.

At the end, I think we broke it

to $100,000 increments at the end.

So, knowing how these things work,

you usually start really high

and then back it off until you catch them.

Where'd you start, do you remember?

I think we probably asked for six or seven to start.

Yeah, and then you came down

with three until you hooked someone.

Just back it down and let them play,

that's really the best way.

If you want people to participate in an auction,

put it down there in the dirt and let them play with it.

What is coming?

It's something, I think, to the right here,

and I think it, is it the red hot rod?

Or is it your truck?

I think it might be your truck.

I don't know.

I still haven't gotten over there to see that 32.

Your big honking battle wagon there.

I like it.

That is a monster.

What's your favorite thing to sell?

I mean, is it cars or cattle or what?

I do love, actually, I love getting at a livestock auction

and just sell way up cows in the morning.

Okay.

Just get three, four guys up in the stands

and it's a relaxed environment.

And like I said, you get that relaxed rocking chair chant.

You just enjoy yourself.

Okay.

Yeah, I don't have to be six a year.

So is the rhythm different for a cattle auction

than a car auction?

Absolutely.

Yes.

What's it like?

Can you give us a sample?

So I'll go sell way up cows in the morning

and I'm going to be a little bit,

guys still sipping on their coffee.

They're still sipping on their coffee down here

down, down here, down to the back of how the pinup

and doesn't here the till of it having $1.05.

Yeah five here, down Saveth having a dollar 10 here

down 12 and have $1.15.

Down of here, down to here, down to here, down to 17

and have 20 turn to down five, $1.25 down

Saveth having a dollar and $1.30 here,

down, down here, down to here,

to sell $1.27.

Least of 15 and 85.

Wow.

Go to cars.

gonna sell the GT 500K R now, 90K, 200,000.

Get two, get a bit of that, get a bit of that,

get a bit of that, get a bit of that,

get a 100,000 on our band, 110,000 on our now.

Get one 10, get a bit of that, get a bit of that,

get 20, get a bit of that, get 30, get a bit of that,

get 40, get a bit of that, get 50, 100, 50,000.

140, 50, 100, 50,000.

So we're up in in tone quite a bit too, so.

And it's, yeah.

It's a cool science that you've got going on behind

that now, what you need to do is make your own

website.

Again, Mark.

It probably has one.

No, no, no, wait.

Make your own website so that you can do

personal greetings for people,

whether it's birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs, whatever,

and then do the whole greeting.

I don't know what time I'm trying to figure out

how to turn the TV on.

I'll be your first customer, call my dad.

Let's see, today's the sixth, you got a week and a half.

That would be, that would be so fun.

Anyway, that is a side note.

Okay, so we were given some questions.

Dave Morton wanted me to make sure to ask these

because they were important and pertinent

to the Mekum auction today.

Why do you have such a big belt buckle

and what's it all about?

Oh boy.

So, here in the last year.

He's trying to snag a buckle bunny.

Leave him alone.

Yeah.

Oh gosh.

One, so there's a few auction contests around.

There's some good, pretty good,

well, some of us guys called Price Fights.

And there's one called the Texas Loan Star Open

that happens at the Fort Worth Stock Show in Rodeo.

Back in early part of February.

Yeah.

I was blessed to win that here in this last year in 2025.

So, it comes with a, came with a very nice purse.

Not the kind of purse we're talking about,

but prize money, belt buckle, trophy saddle,

and a lot of other.

Now, is it kind of like a rap battle

where you insult each other, but you do it in the,

I doubt it.

That would be neat.

It would be, but no, it's just to go up there on stage,

sell three items, and just impress the judges.

And there's a live crowd, and you do,

you sell three items to a vast audience.

What were the three items?

You're actually selling things.

Any kind of tool sets to purses, necklaces, you know.

It doesn't really matter.

Yeah, it doesn't really matter.

Just regular items.

It wasn't necessarily cars.

I won the World Contest in 2022 for selling automobiles.

Wow.

There was a team contest there that day too.

And I mean, another guy won the team contest.

So I was the auctioneer, and he was the ringman.

And so they judged both the auctioneer and the ringman

on how well they work together with one another

in communication and rounding up bids,

getting three cars sold.

And so.

For the uninitiated, who is the ringman?

What does he do?

The ringman is that bit, it's a more common term too,

is bid spotter that's out in the crowd,

bidder assistant that takes bids from you sitting

in the 37th row and me being up on stage.

I may not be able to ask you face to face,

would you like to give 35,000 on this car?

But they'll come up to you and say, hey,

the bid right now is 34,000.

Do you want back in at 35?

And as soon as they bid, they give that, yeah.

You know, thank to the auctioneer.

It's a communication device for us.

Yeah, yeah.

And so they judge you on how well

you work with your ringman or ring person

that particular day.

So I won the World Team Contest

and the World Auctioneer Contest the same day.

So it's a very useful hype man.

Yes, squad.

Absolutely.

That is awesome.

I love it.

And the fact that you get a big bell buckle now

is Meekam like sponsoring you as a person going there

or have they done any video on it?

I've heard there's a great show coming on now

for Meekam with Matt.

I've heard, but no, I think they sponsored me enough

throughout the year.

You're working for the company.

I'll go on 26 years.

I get enough sponsorship there.

They've always been supportive of me.

I actually left our motorcycle auction in Vegas

a couple hours early to catch a plane

to go to this particular contest this last year.

Nice.

That sponsorship enough for me.

As long as we're talking about items of clothing

you're wearing.

Yes.

Let's talk about those damn boots.

Okay, so my name's Matt.

My mom and dad, my grandparents

were all huge fans of the Gunsmoke.

That was on for a number of years.

And James Arnest starring James Arnest as Matt Dillon.

Well, James Arnest went to the Cowboy Stuntman

Hall of Fame Museum in Moab, Utah years ago.

And the museum, there's curator and owner

was a guy by the name of John.

His last name escapes me right now.

John has passed on.

But before he did, he took a lot of items

from that museum to an auction

that Mekum had in Santa Monica, California.

Okay.

Out on the pier we did a celebrity memorabilia auction.

Oh, cool.

And so these boots along with a bunch of others

from that museum, the Cowboys would come in there

and they'd do that plaster mold thing

where they'd step their feet.

And the tradition was for them to leave their boots behind.

Well, I bought James Arnest's boots that day.

And they fit you.

Like they were made for me.

They're a custom made pair of boots.

There's no maker on them.

And I took them back to the room.

They were in pretty rough shape

because I think they'd sat somewhere

inside a case for a while.

So the leather's pretty rough.

I actually had some Big More Number 4 with me

and leather conditioner.

Conditioned them up that night,

wiped them off the next morning,

wiped them off the next night,

and then put them on the third day

and I wore them around

and they felt like they were made for me.

That's awesome.

For a minute, I'm gonna name drop

only people who have been too into their cowboy boots

who are gonna recognize this name.

I thought you were gonna tell me,

you sent them to Errol Shippler and El Paso.

Who retired two years ago?

His son took over his business.

But you know who I'm talking about.

I know who you're talking about.

Okay.

Yeah.

I honest to God thought for a second

you were gonna say you shipped them to Errol

and he reconditioned them for you.

No, I shipped them to a gentleman in downtown Dallas.

Okay.

And he resold them for me.

Redid some of the stitching and they came out great.

I was hoping that they would just come out

something I'll wear just every once in a great while.

Actually, they become a nice daily.

Yeah, daily.

No, I wouldn't say daily.

I mean, I'm being easy on them.

Okay, okay.

Well, special occasions.

I thought they are a little famous.

Yes, they are.

And I like the old school style of them too,

the square toes.

Yes.

I used to wear Dingo's all the time with a little ring

and they've got that square toe look to them

that I think is pretty cool.

And that walking heel, everything nowadays

is that roper heel and they've got that look

from the 50s or 60s to them and they're kind of a retro look.

And now to bounce off of famous guy's stories,

what's the Hulk Hogan story?

Okay, so Hulk Hogan was involved with the charity car

that we brought to Meekum six or seven years ago.

And I am a huge, even more of a fan than I am of Westerns,

I'm a huge wrestling fan.

Really?

That's awesome.

There was no Saturday night's main event or WCW

that we didn't miss back in the day.

I grew up watching it.

But so I got to meet Hulk Hogan.

I sold the auctioned off the car for the charity

and the gentleman who started the charity was a wrestler

who lost his leg tragically in a motorcycle accident

and now the charity was for prosthetic legs.

It's called 50 legs in 50 days.

And so his main audience that he caters to

is kids that have survived bone marrow cancer

or any type of cancer were their amputees.

And so he tries to fit in with legs.

And Hulk was a huge supporter of 50 legs.

So we got to meet him and then we exchanged information,

stories, things like that.

And we kept in touch.

Over the year, we'd go down to Florida twice a year

and I'd always go see him or go over to his house

and hang out or something over the Hogan's hangout.

So he's a really cool guy, came to a lot of our auctions,

bought a couple of cars here, sold a couple of cars here

and everything.

And he's got some, Hulk has got some friends that are,

we've got a lot of mutual friends as well.

But he was a great guy.

We're gonna miss him.

So I've got a lot of his sign memorabilia at home as well.

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, that's really cool.

Actually, the day before he passed away,

we were serving his real American beer up in Pennsylvania.

I just saw that.

And Harrisburg, it's actually pretty good.

Is it?

They send me a few cases every once in a while

and say, here, Matt and Joy, they're a great company.

But I took a picture of it.

I knew he was feeling poorly that day before he passed away.

I took a picture of the tap and texted it to him.

Oh, nice.

I think he knew that we were serving it

in our gold lounge here at Meekam.

Oh, very cool.

It is really, really neat.

Very cool.

So what's the next step in your career?

I mean, are you gonna just do this as long

as they'll have me here?

Well, everybody already knows you're the best.

Well, let's just keep that between us.

You got the belt buckle to prove it.

We'll keep that between us.

I think I work for the best company, honestly.

It's very cool.

I have like a twig on the shoulders of a mighty stream.

I have come so far being involved with Meekam

and all these stories that I tell you,

I wouldn't have these boots if I didn't work here.

I wouldn't known Hulk if I didn't work here.

I wouldn't have the buckle if I didn't work here.

Very cool.

It's a career that, like you said,

are there any benefits or any sponsorships or anything.

I think my sponsorship is just working

for this company in general.

How many sales do you do a year?

Cars, livestock.

I mean, how many auctions do you think you do a year?

Oh, God.

How many days do I auction a year?

Probably, I don't know, probably 60%.

Wow.

In a year.

That's pretty impressive.

Yes.

Do other auctions back home to wholesale auctions?

Farm machinery.

Who knows?

Whoever calls and say, can you be here this day?

Sure, I'll be there.

And then how often do you teach?

Just one to two days per term when they're there.

So they're there.

Now it's shortened to seven days.

And so I'll usually come the first day or two.

I like working with them the first couple of days

and, okay, let's get everybody in still.

Let's start slow and give them a good foundation

to work on.

So they can find a chant that works for them.

For people who haven't grown up around this,

who haven't been in a family that was involved

in the auction business, what's the toughest thing to teach?

How to shake hands.

You're kidding.

Your hands are wiser than your head's ever gonna be.

It's not what you know, it's who you know.

Because working here, it's who I've known

and that's something I think that's probably

the most important, you don't have to be

the best auctioneer up there on the block.

But if you're knowledgeable of your product,

you're knowledgeable of your crowd

and your clientele and everything,

you can be successful.

And then just try to do the best you can.

And if that means working on your chant better,

doing something different in your auction,

within the auction profession or your style

or your cadence or something like that,

the rest of that's up to you.

But first and foremost, it's who you know, definitely.

And like I said, I knew a couple of auctioneers

when we first started with this conversation.

I knew some guys, because I was 12, 13 years old

and high Paul, high Mike, and wow, okay,

well let's see what you know.

And I was working the ring.

I was a ringman for them guys at them wholesale auctions

when I was a teenster.

And I'm like, you know what?

I'm gonna look through for you though.

This kid actually knows something.

Hey.

And yeah.

And then puberty.

Hey.

That's, yeah, that's, truly that.

It's a little deeper now.

It's a lot deeper now.

At first it was, well, let's see what the kid knows.

Well, okay, now we know the kid and we know what he knows.

Let's bring him on the road with us and here we are.

Nice.

Very cool.

This is Matt Moravec, 26 years with Mecom,

even more of that family, doing the auction business

and a world champion auctioneer.

Where would a person go to have you guys come

and do their auction?

Do their professional auction?

Where would a person go to have-

Yeah.

Yeah, would they go online?

To hire you, yeah.

To hire me?

Yes.

Oh, I'm pretty easy to find.

Just come here.

That's a good start.

Just go to Mecom.

Yeah, just come to Mecom.

Come do the Mecom experience.

We're all very approachable.

My brother's an auctioneer here too.

He's also a world champion.

And we're all very, very approachable.

This is a family and-

Do you two work together?

Yes, we do.

I'm sorry.

Does he ever work as ringman

while you're auctioneer and vice versa?

Oh, vice versa.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

Oh, cool.

How fun is that?

Yeah.

It's a big business and it's still in the family.

I'm eight years older than him,

so obviously I had the start,

but yeah, he was bringing for me when I'm so long.

I'm 13, 14, 15 years old,

and you think I was high here?

Yeah.

Very cool.

Can we have one more taste?

Oh, we can.

I'm here.

I'm here to get five here to 10 here.

15,000.

Are you human?

I'm here to get 20.

I'm here to get 30.

I'm here to get 40.

I'm here to come to Mecom and enjoy the experience

as I have.

Matt, thank you very much.

Thank you guys.

It's been a pleasure.

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Thank you very much to David Morton down here

at Meekum Auctions at Bartle Hall in Kansas City

for supply notes with so many interesting interviews.

There were a lot of folks here today.

It was so fun.

Our friend, Rick Hunter, who was down here anyway,

got to talk to Rick again, got to talk to Matt Avery,

got to talk to Steve Garrett.

We got to speak to Matt Moravec, the auctioneer.

Got to talk to a lot of interesting folks here.

We missed, we missed Dave Majer.

Yeah.

Who took one look at us and said, those Jack O'Leaks again?

No.

Oh, look, I've got somewhere to be at no o'clock.

Yeah, I hear my mommy calling me.

Dave, we'll have to catch up with you

somewhere else down the road.

But we've got, had a chance to talk

to a lot of interesting people and also

see more than 700 really cool cars.

And, oh, look, way down there.

Look at that X caliber.

I didn't even see that thing earlier.

Oh, my god, that thing, yeah.

It's just, it's fantastic.

And need we say, won't fit in your garage,

won't fit in my garage.

Wouldn't fit in my lifestyle.

I'm pretty sure that thing's longer than my F-150.

Yeah, pretty sure.

Well, what was probably your favorite car

that you saw today?

Oh, easy answer.

And I can go one, two, three.

First one has got to be that 66 Corvette convertible Nassau

blue over blue sidepipes, knockoffs, goldline wheels.

Looks just like my 65, except for the big, fat

Harry 427 under the hood.

Oh, baby.

Yeah, big block mid-year Corvette.

Oh.

Second place got to be that Fathom blue 70 Chabelle SS.

Oh, yes.

That drove by a couple of times.

That was really hard to keep talking.

Is that blurbled by?

Well, and it's got the chambered exhausts into.

Yeah.

That one.

And then I think third place going

to be a two-way toss up between the medium blue 69 Chabelle

SS that's been by a couple of times.

And again, sounds really fantastic.

And that 32 Ford Highboy that's right over across the way

I've been staring at all day and haven't had a chance

to go look at yet, but God, is it sexy.

Yeah, it just looks fun sitting there.

Sitting still, and it looks like it's already kind of going

fast.

Yeah, but look at that thing.

What do you think it weighs?

2,000 pounds, maybe?

Maybe.

Maybe?

What do you think is under the hood?

You don't think it's going to be a forebanger?

Not even at this distance.

That thing has dumb fun written all over it.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're going to be buying a lot of rear tires, I know.

Yeah, you are, and you're going

to have trouble keeping it in a straight line.

Cops are going to know your name.

I still want to go look at that thing.

How about you, favorite car?

All right, I'll do my top three.

The 34 Auburn hands down.

Oh, yeah.

I would just sit in that and enjoy life

without even driving it.

It's just, God, what a beautiful piece of art.

What you would have to do is put a big TV in your garage.

With the road.

Yeah, no, no, no, not with the road.

No?

No, and just watch Great Gatsby while you're

sitting in the car.

OK, yeah, I could do that.

Yeah, I could do that.

It may not be, it may be a little anachronistic,

but I think that that might be the way to enjoy that car best.

OK, second car.

Second car, this might surprise you.

There was, I believe it was a 73 Mach 1.

It was silver.

That doesn't surprise me.

It was an incredible, it was a big, heavy, fat one.

I saw that one.

Yeah, and there was a guy that was looking at it too

that, uh.

Silver with black stripes, it was pretty.

Everything about that was clean and beautiful.

And I even was chatting with a guy,

because that just happens here.

You just end up talking to people.

And the guy is looking at it, and I just saw him.

And he was by himself, and I saw him kind of nod.

So I'm gregarious and stupid, dangerous combination.

So I just turned to him, and I said, just do it.

Just pull the trigger.

Just buy it.

And he looks at me, he's like, you know,

I had one exactly like this in high school.

But it had a 351 in it, and he took me up to the hood.

He's like, you know where it says, you know,

I think it was 427.ada.

And he's like, had 351 blah, blah, blah on it.

Would you look at that?

I know, that Corvette, that is beautiful.

Oh my God, it's glossy and shiny.

I want it.

And we had a real nice chat.

Apparently, his was exactly like it's same color,

same, you know, black interior, the whole nine yards.

And I'm like, dude, you know, you live once.

I really thought that you were going to, well, first of all.

My third one's a 62 T-Bird convertible.

Well, of course it was.

Yeah, the bullet nose, the black one.

Yeah, that was a good looking bird.

He's a really good looking bird.

Okay, third shot.

No, no, wait.

You said Auburn, Mustang, T-Bird, T-Bird.

Okay, when you said gregarious and stupid,

first thing that pops in my head is, okay, lousy spy.

Yeah, it limits my work for the government.

Yeah, well, you and I both, probably not very good.

But you know, that's just the three top ones.

There is somebody I would be proud to have in my garage.

He has a tendency to fold under questioning.

And then I, you said you started,

you walked up to the guy and told him, just do it.

I'm thinking the guy's going to turn you into.

My wife has cancer.

Oh God.

And you would have really stepped in.

I'm much happier that it turned out the way it did.

Yeah, I would have found a way around it.

You know, she would enjoy this car.

She would want you.

I would have found a way.

She would want you to have it.

They call him the enabler.

But yeah, what a day, fun people and the folks

that make them have been nothing but nice to us.

They're always fantastic to us.

They're always great.

David Morton, we can't thank you enough.

And everybody else, Matt Avery, Matt Morovic,

both of you, we appreciate the interviews.

We appreciate you taking the time to talk to us.

And Joe, the golf cart guy.

Oh, golf cart Joe is awesome.

He was the best.

He is awesome.

The son of a gun is like a quarter mile, half a mile long,

whatever it is.

Oh, look at the Ford GT.

Oh my God.

The white Ford GT.

Yeah.

Really nice.

No, you forget when you get here.

Bartle Hall is a quarter mile long,

where you have to unload stuff

is almost a quarter mile away.

And your co-host here is Cripple.

So Joe, wherever you are.

Blake's no workie yet.

Golf cart Joe is awesome.

He carted us back and forth, and all of our crap.

Golf cart Joe is the bomb, man.

I love him.

So thank you to everybody here at Meekum.

There's so many ways.

You start looking around.

You think, yeah, the kids can go to community college.

It's OK.

I don't have to go out of state.

Johnson County Community College, very good school.

Absolutely.

Yeah, and much less expensive.

When I brought home the 61 Impala years ago,

my youngest daughter was just starting

to get her heart set on going to Kansas City Art Institute,

which is not an inexpensive proposition.

And I got it in the garage.

And Jaden's not a car person.

She kind of thinks that my hobby is a little obnoxious.

And she came out and was looking at it with Rhonda and I.

I looked at her.

I said, this is why you're going to community college.

Oh, she was mad at me in that car for about two years.

Did not see the humor.

Yeah, yeah, you know.

Did not see the humor.

And that's the kind of crap you can do to your kids

when you've got a car addiction.

So we thank Meekum, thank all the people who came by to talk.

And we thank you, most of all, for listening to Driven

Radio Show.

Oh, by the way, if you have a story you would like to tell

or somebody you would like us to interview,

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What the hell are you doing?

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