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Let's welcome back our listeners from all over the world.
Get ready, Doug.
We're going to go around the world.
It's one of my favorite parts of the show here.
Frankfurt, so these are the people that have listened in the past week to any of our
clients.
Well, wherever you get podcasts, they've listened to the podcast there.
Our YouTube presence, different stories.
So here we go.
Bern, Switzerland, you've heard of that one, right?
Frankfurt, Germany, Stockholm, Sweden, Canada, Italy.
Los Angeles, California, which you talk.
Kansas, Toronto, Canada.
And welcome back to everyone in New York, New York, and Brooklyn, New York.
So let's see.
A lot of repeat listeners over the past week in Switzerland and Germany.
Maybe it was we did that chocolate-themed car show.
What do you think?
You remember that, the old Toblerone GTS?
Love that.
Oh, and I have one for you.
Check this out.
OK, so we had listeners over the past week.
We've never had this kind of need in Zurich, Switzerland, and also Lake Zurich, Illinois.
Do you think those two are related?
Related by marriage, by what?
By boat, by something, wouldn't you think?
Some transplants.
Some transplants.
I love that.
Old York, New York.
Love it. Dig it.
So anyway, welcome back, Doug.
How you doing, partner?
I'm doing great.
Great to be back here with you.
Yeah, indeed, indeed.
And what is with the...
So how much time did you spend in the garage over the past weekend?
With one or many or all or none of your automobiles?
Pretty much none.
But I spent a busy couple of weeks, I know.
I do. I do have a quick story about a garage.
So as all our listeners know,
I own a DeLorean.
So I had to pick up my DeLorean from somebody in New Jersey to transmission repair work.
So I drove it back to my DeLorean buddy who lives in Northwest of Baltimore.
And he had the authority because DeLoreans are stainless steel.
He had the world wide authority.
Be sure I get his name right.
Chris Nichols in from Australia in to Regrain.
Yeah. Regrain the stainless steel on cars.
So there were probably 15 DeLoreans there.
Now, they had to leave before I left, but I got a lot of pictures.
And my friend had just finished this huge garage.
I think the garage itself can hold about 15 cars.
Man, that's big.
Huge.
OK, so very interesting.
And before we bring in today's guests, all right.
So the regraining there of when you get very close up on your car.
There's just this very, I guess, very characteristic or very unique detail to the stainless steel.
So what does regraining mean?
Did you see the machine that did it?
Is it some sort of upstanding or what?
I think it's called a wolf's wheel is at least the type of pad that's used.
And it's really it's just a process.
And somehow this Chris Nichols is just he's renowned for it.
He knocks things out.
He knows how to do it.
But, you know, it's very he takes away just a very thin amount.
And he just has the recipe to success so much that people.
I mean, people from Maryland, DC, Virginia and Pennsylvania were
bringing their cars to this one location to have their cars worked on.
By Chris Nichols.
And what's interesting is supposedly his he's so well known,
I've actually seen it advertised.
They say that if you have your car regrained by him, it actually adds value to the car.
How interesting.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK, so so have you communicated with him at all?
Do you think we could get him on the show?
It's possible. I did. I did meet him.
I shook his hand.
Well, oh, man, that's great.
I didn't up bomb them.
So yeah, we can talk to him.
He's back in Australia now.
So right, right, right.
But just in town for the work and maybe a quick visit.
Wonderful. OK.
So you got pictures.
Do we have them up on the website yet?
We don't. But we will.
But on this comes out.
Lovely. OK. Fantastic.
What else are we going to get into?
Let's say it's OK. What's going on with the shirt?
What's you always have the best wardrobe?
What's happening with that shirt?
I'm always always in honor of today's guests, obviously.
Yes. So it says Tahoe Road Rally.
It is a Ferrari, some kind of a Ferrari Daytona.
I think probably not the Daytona not being the real name.
But we have our expert on who will.
And she'll set us straight.
But, you know, you get these shirts at Old Navy
and they say, you know, the Topeka, Kansas, Maserati rally.
And it's a bunch of goofball baloney.
There's no such thing.
But it sounds so interesting.
It pulls people in.
And what do you expect for a nine dollar shirt after all?
Oh, so we have a new news page on the website
for our press releases that come out.
I'm sure we're going to be picked up
in the Wall Street Journal in the day now, correct?
It's it's in the works.
Absolutely.
We're the Main Street Journal.
One of the two. What else do we have?
I think that's I think that's all the housekeeping.
Oh, what else?
You were going to ask me about a color.
Oh, yeah. So what's what's up with the car?
Did you choose a color to paint your dream car?
Your dream car from high school
that's now your nightmare car sitting in your garage.
Let's hear all about the color choice.
So the 1990 Nissan 300ZX.
So it is black or was originally black.
As you know, I'm a fan of silver cars.
Yes. So I spent a lot of time thinking about it.
My kids are like painted silver.
Somebody else said painted back to black.
So I decided to go totally the opposite direction.
So there was a yellow when those cars came out.
I had to look it up before the show.
It's called a yellow pearl glow or a yellow pearl.
And it's just a beautiful color.
You don't see it very often in the Zs.
At least I don't know that I've ever seen one in the last
since I've owned the car, at least.
OK. And occasionally I do see Zs, but.
So, yeah, it's like a pale yellow.
Now, it sounds very distinctive.
Yeah, yeah, it's going to stand out.
And, you know, it's funny in the past,
I never would have owned a yellow car or red car.
Ever because of speeding tickets.
But now in my fifties, I don't drive that fast.
So I'm OK with that.
Beautiful. Can't wait.
Can't wait to see it.
We'd like to see some swatches of the color moving on.
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And with that, I think we're done with all of our housekeeping
and mindless banter off to the green room we go.
So, Doug, how did today's special guests make it to our virtual garage?
Yeah.
So in a rounded battle of way through all the social media and YouTube
and and the fact that Ferraris are awesome.
We and as it turns out, some mutual people in the industry
who work on Ferraris and restore Ferraris.
We found Colleen Sheehan.
Yeah.
Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.
Well, how are you doing, Colleen?
Welcome.
Hello.
Great to be here.
Thank you.
Leave it to me to step all over the introduction,
but fantastic to have you here.
And wow, please continue, Doug.
So what?
How did you reach out?
How did she respond?
And and.
Yeah, I think I think it was just via email and, you know,
just sometimes you get people on the right day
and she responded right away and we did some coordination.
And here we are.
And we're talking to Colleen live from California from her shop
with a for those of us who who see it on YouTube.
There is a beautiful, beautiful fish tank behind her.
Yeah.
Yeah, cars, fish, dogs, you know, simple person.
Anything with wheels.
Yeah, for sure. Love it.
And I'm sure that during the interview, I'm going to get caught.
Just sort of.
I endlessly looking at these hypnotic, beautiful can Adam.
So if complete silence, which you absolutely don't want
in any interview show, it is due to me.
That's all right.
We we rolled with it.
Yes, fantastic.
So what are you?
Yeah, what are you up to these days, Colleen?
What's your latest project?
What's what are you doing these days?
Well, so I've always been around cars my whole life.
And I've been in the sales business for over 12 years, 13 years now,
I think.
And I last year, I started my own dealership
called Next Generation Classics.
So, you know, that's pretty much my
not nine to five, like seven to ten.
But, you know, easier to sell the hours that you don't work
running your own business, I imagine running your own dealership.
So what kind of cars do you specialize in?
What kind of clients do you specialize in?
Do you take on new clients?
Do you have a book of kind of a closed book of business?
How does that work?
So my specialty has always been Enzo era Ferraris,
basically kind of like the 70s and older Ferraris.
But that's just my my real specialty.
I sell all kinds of stuff, newer Ferraris.
Currently, I have like a Ford Model A, a couple of Panterras.
I just sold a Porsche Turbo S.
So, you know, all kinds of stuff, a fairly wide variety.
So do you have a showroom?
Do you will you broker things virtually?
How does that work?
Yeah, I have a showroom and basically there's kind of three
different ways that people normally sell cars.
Like when they're in the industry, you're a dealer or a broker or you consign.
And so I do a little bit of all of it.
You know, I'm a licensed dealer, but I also which most dealers own their own inventory.
So I have some of that, but then I do some consignments.
I have clients, you know, just recently I had another client.
I sold him a 1966 Corvette and he's sending it back to me to sell.
And then a little bit of brokering where, you know, somebody says,
I want a F40 and so I find them one and just kind of the middleman in the process.
Yeah, it's it's amazing to me just not not just how connected people are,
but just for instance, and I'll go down to the simple thing.
But I have a friend on the eastern shore of Maryland who's he's a Z guy.
He's got tons of Z's.
He's got a tractor trailer full of parts and he always hears about Z's.
Why is that?
Because all his network knows that he is the Z guy.
So he'll find out about cars that just aren't for sale.
And and I'm sure it's like that for you with these exotic cars, including Ferrari.
And all around the world, too.
I mean, I sold a Lamborghini Diablo SBR from Australia last year
and just random guy email wanted to sell his car and happened to know
who might be looking for one.
And, you know, so it's it's when you have that real specialty, you know,
you get all the people calling you about it.
Yeah, yeah.
And that niche and I did want to ask you so you find these cars,
some of them are some of them may need some work, right?
When you find them, how do you how do you get them repaired?
It depends.
So there's a few different shops in my area.
And it depends what it is, too, right?
So if if it's a new Ferrari versus an old one, you know,
there's definitely two different shops for that.
So, you know, and if it's a Corvette, it might be different.
If it's, you know, so each one there is a different shop that specializes in them.
The nice thing about where I live in Southern California is the car mecca.
You know, we we have no lack of cars and exotic shops to work on them here.
So there's pretty much a shop for anything around here.
I mean, even with with your DeLorean, there's a guy who specializes
in DeLorean's out here and I've been to his shop and he has like 30 of them there.
And it's kind of crazy to walk in there and it's just a fleet of DeLorean's.
But there's a specialist for everything.
Is that in Huntington Beach?
OK, yep, I haven't been out there, but I know that I know the guy or no of them.
So, yep. Yeah.
Have you ever had to ship a ship a part in from somewhere, let's say Italy?
All the time. OK. Oh, wow.
Yeah, yeah. And yeah, you know, I'm just coming from my knowledge of we had
we had that past episode with Tom Young and I know you know Tom, but just
the amount of the perfectionism that is involved in in that craft
that you see the end result of he's restoring cars for people.
You're selling them and just like a scratch in the window that couldn't be buffed out.
He had to have the window recreated, not just the window, but the stamp in the window.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's when you get into all the the real details, it's it's crazy.
It's cool when you know all the little details too.
Yeah. I mean, I know a lot, you know, I'm still learning, but it's
that's part of the fun is learning all the new little fun details like every single day.
So. Oh, sorry, I just want to hop in here.
That is so interesting to me to supply chains ever get snarled.
You ever get stuck waiting for a part and somebody sort of stamp in their feet
and their deadlines in your line of work or can you kind of put people off?
What how does that how often does that happen?
Well, luckily, because I sell the cars.
Usually, I'm not overseeing too much of the restoration process or service work.
Although sometimes I am and that like right now I have a Dave's Masso Pantera.
I'm selling that's having some engine work done and some of the parts got
caught up waiting on them and ended up the potential buyer found a different car.
In the meantime, just because it took too long to get the parts in.
So that definitely happens and that is never fun.
Yeah, I have.
So what are my personal cars?
I have a Lancia Delta intergralle and that the cam belt snapped a while back.
So it's a whole top and rebuild and getting parts for that.
Luckily, you can find them, but they're overseas and got to get them shipped in.
So part of the chaos of exotic cars.
Yeah, and the challenge and the fun, right?
Oh, yeah.
And I started asking you about getting the cars repaired.
And so we talked about parts.
But we've been Christian and I have been fortunate enough to have people interview
students and instructors from both Weber State College.
They have an automotive repair or automotive tech program.
And then most recently McPherson College in Kansas when their auto restoration program.
Do you ever do you ever seek out those type of candidates for car repairs?
Or have you seen that done where this guy came out of McPherson and I got to have it?
So I have.
Right.
And I have seen some of the shops are definitely looking for because it is getting
harder to find qualified mechanics for these kind of cars.
If you think of any mechanic working on modern cars, mostly computer work at this point.
Simple oil change and like the kind of basics.
So the kids coming out, the people coming out of these colleges that specialize
in these classic automotive cars, it's very desirable for shops because you're
getting somebody who you don't need to train them from the bottom up.
They've already learned a lot and are qualified.
And each whether you're going to like a Porsche specialty shop or a Ferrari specialty shop,
there's some finesse for each that you're going to have to learn, you know,
the little many details of the different kinds of cars.
But in general, if you're coming out of one of those colleges, then you are leaves
and bounds ahead of anyone else they could hire.
Good point.
Yeah, that's such a good point about Weber State because their program is actually
co-located with the IT of the computer science program.
They share the same building as because as you rightfully said, you know,
working on a car now is like working on a computer.
So it's just very different from some of the some of the early models.
And then you have MacPherson, who's on the totally opposite scale, right?
We're, you know, early 20th century cars, right?
We had cash on, right?
What is cash as daily driver?
I think it was a Model T or Model A.
And when we saw something like that, yeah.
And Chris had a family of Model T's like he used to go on family trips
where they would tow the Model T behind them, the family.
He got a Model T. His daughter has a Model T.
It's just so incredible to talk to them.
And they had a great win about two years ago at Purple Beach, actually,
with their, I want to say, it was a 30s Mercedes.
It was a big win.
So that that really put them on the map.
But it's I love here.
53 bins, right?
What's that?
1953 bins, I thought.
Yes. Yes. 53. Thank you.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So Colleen, before we go back in time and start talking about your your earliest
automobiles and the ones that made a great impression on you,
is there a way for our listenership to find out what cars you have for sale?
How can they learn more about what you do and what you offer?
Is that public knowledge?
Definitely.
So my website is nextgen-classics.com.
And I have some of my inventory on there and my contact information.
But I also post a whole bunch on social media.
Yeah. And so you'll see a lot of stuff on my Instagram.
If I get a new car in, you'll definitely see it on Instagram long before.
You'll see it on the website, because when I get a new car in,
I like to do a full video for YouTube on the course.
And I don't want to do sales pitchy videos.
You know, if you want to buy a car, you're going to call me with questions.
I want the videos to be informative and to go over like the histories of the cars
and what makes each car unique and special.
So that takes some time to get done.
So it takes a while to get a car up on my website.
So most of my new inventory, you'll see on my Instagram or TikTok
or one of those social medias.
Yeah. And a big shout out to your YouTube channel.
I love how you kind of play with the format in one of them.
I don't know if it's the the Morocco where you're kind of driving.
They call you just get to listen to it.
And it's only a minute or so long.
It's just a wonderful little piece of film as well as you.
I love that they're almost like little documentaries where you give a history
lesson and the difference between these two.
And these sold this many units here versus its next model successor.
So I think that's very well done.
So I would and you'll see this in the show notes if you're listening to podcasts,
but it's really compelling content.
Go check out her YouTube channel.
So what do you think, Doug?
Are we ready to to to to Plopper and the Glory and and take her take her back
to the future? What do you think? Yeah. Yeah.
And we're going to take her back to age 11.
Although I think she owned the car before then.
Yeah. Yeah.
So my my first car, I mean, you know, my whole car history is definitely not
your typical, you know, first car story.
And I so my dad, my dad, the reason I got into this business
and when I was a little kid, he was selling a large collection of cars.
And most of it was more, you know, the like Lamborghini's, Ferrari's, that kind of stuff.
And one of the cars in the collection was this little 1930 BMW.
And the buyer of the collection was like, I don't really care about that car.
You know, it doesn't really fit.
And so that's like, you know,
I'll take it as part of my commission. My kids love it.
So I got the car when I was eight years old.
And when I was 11, Pebble Beach,
the Concourse de la Danse was doing a exhibit with Austin Sevens.
And BMW had bought the rights to basically recreate the Austin Seven.
So the very first BMWs were they look a lot like the Austin Seven.
So it fit into this Austin Seven class.
And so when I was 11, the car was entered in the Pebble Beach Concourse.
And I ended up driving it across the podium.
We got third in class, which has a fun story behind it all on its own.
But so I ended up learning how to drive in that car.
And your twin brother was with you, right?
As well. I think I saw that I saw the picture.
Did he he learned to drive it as well?
No, actually, so funny enough,
my brother never really was super interested in cars.
You know, he thinks they're cool, but he's more into technology
and computers and that kind of side of the world.
Whereas, you know, I always wanted to get my hands dirty
and learn how to wrench on cars and drive cars and anything
that smelled like rubber and gasoline. Yeah.
Yeah. And it just, you know, just you saying that and talking to you
reminds me of our talk with Kat DeLorean where Christian,
what did she say her her veins were full of gasoline?
Yeah, I think so. I think that's right.
Maybe it was just fiction fluid. I don't know. Yeah.
Trent, yeah. I just think it about the very special, you know,
father, daughter bond, right?
And how wonderful it is. And I'm just, you know,
hearkening back. I wish my kids, both of my kids were interested in cars.
They're really not. But yeah.
They know. Well, I mean, at least I was.
And that was one of us. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And I do have to ask, so 1930 BMW,
what was it like to drive that because, right,
it didn't have any modern advances, right?
Probably had an electric starter, but beyond that.
So basically, if you could drive that, you could drive anything.
Including a tractor, probably.
Oh, yeah. Probably very similar.
Hey, if you could drive a Kuntas, you could drive a tractor.
So, you know, that's not saying a whole bunch, but
I think so when I learned how to drive in that car,
I had already been racing go carts and stuff for a long time.
So I had a basic idea of driving,
but I didn't know how to use a clutch.
And so I learned how to drive manual that day,
the day before the concourse.
And basically that car, and I still have that car to this day.
I'll never give it up if, you know, it's just too special to me.
But so that it doesn't even have drum brakes.
It has cable brakes.
I mean, everything about that car is so crude.
And when you're going down the street, you kind of dribble
and you're just working as hard as you can just to keep it in your own lane.
And it's fighting you, trying to bounce this way and that way.
And it's so much fun.
It's just it's exhilarating.
And, you know, it has a top speed of like 35 miles an hour.
And that's if you're brave, right?
Because the whole frame of it is wood.
And so if you, you know, hit a possum, the whole thing shatters.
But and then the possum is angry at you and, you know, walks away cussing.
But I mean, it's just like this silly little car that is.
In no means is it like utilitarian or easy.
But that's part of what makes it so much fun.
How many of those are left in the or in the States, even?
Well, I know of two.
Both of them are in my garage.
OK.
So I've only ever heard of a couple others.
I actually haven't seen another one in person.
Basically, mine was the oldest BMW in the United States.
And it might still be.
I think there's rumors somebody imported one that could be older than mine.
But I haven't seen it yet.
But basically, they they made quite a few thousand of them.
But the problem is they were made in the very late 20s and early 30s
and they were German, so a lot of them were destroyed in the war.
So not too many survived.
You'll probably find a few back in Germany and Europe.
But in the US, there's, I mean, probably four or five of them.
And I don't know that for sure.
I know for sure there's two.
Yeah, but I don't know of any others, certainly, you know,
but there probably are a couple.
Pretty rare.
And that that's really in contrast to I know it's not your second car,
but it's your handle on Instagram and TikTok.
The you have to tell me the year, but it's a Ferrari 365 GTB4C.
So we'd love to hear about it.
I I think I know what the C stands for.
But I think our listeners and Christian would like to understand that whole line
and what the significance of that model is.
So that is the Daytona, so the Ferrari Daytona, but the competition version.
So it's the Comp Daytona and those were basically 1969 to like 73.
So the Daytonas are so interesting.
They're one of my favorite cars.
Basically, there were about 1300 Daytonas made
and they Ferrari only made 122 Daytona Spiders,
but they only made 15 Comp Daytonas.
And there was a prototype and then there were a few conversions done in period.
But original, there's only 15 and it was five each year.
So there's three series of them.
So the series one, two and three have some slight differences,
all alloy versus alloy, you know, doors and hood, that kind of thing.
But they're just the most incredible cars, I mean, in my opinion.
And what year is yours?
Mine, I wish I had one.
Oh, I thought you did my bad.
But that is your dream car, then we kind of jumped ahead.
Yeah, yeah, I would I would love.
I have six cars and sadly, none of them are Comp Daytona,
but I would love to I would love to have one.
Wow. And have you have you dripped?
Actually, this is more the broad question.
What's it like to drive these for I'll say Ferraris just because.
But, you know, I love the exhaust note and the sound and just in your videos.
But what's it like to drive those cars?
I mean, you look like you're having a great time.
But, you know, there's more to it than that behind the scenes, I'm sure.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
I mean, I love them.
So it depends on the car.
They're all so unique.
And that's part of why I love them so much is they have their own personalities.
And so some cars, so like the Comp Daytona, for example,
the Comp Daytona is a front engine V12 with no power steering.
So it's very heavy.
It's kind of a freight train of a car where if you need a parallel
park or get around slow, you're getting a workout.
It's it's a brute.
But when you get up to speed.
That's where you really feel connected.
I mean, first, you feel the power of it.
It's a bigger car, but you feel just, you know, it's it's a lot more agile
and it just comes to life.
And the no power steering gives you a really good sense of connection
to the car of the road.
Just you feel everything.
And so I love it for that.
But a lot of people don't like the Daytona because of the lack of power steering
because it is a difficult car to drive around town or at low speeds.
It's, you know, it's a GT.
It's a grand touring car.
So, you know, those cars are definitely a certain kind of feel,
but it's like a more masculine kind of car.
Whereas if you think of like a three, five, five, six speed,
those are a lot more light and nimble and kind of go-karty.
And they they have less of a aggressive, masculine sound to them.
They have a much more kind of that high pitched,
you know, like you just feel like the speed and everything from the sound of it.
Just I love them both, but they're opposite kind of spectrums.
So driving a Ferrari isn't like a one fits all.
It's each one is so unique.
And that's part of the fun of them.
Yeah, that's so beautiful.
That's that's so interesting, the way she just explained connection
and the different the different kind of souls and outputs and nodes of the car.
That's really neat.
We I've never heard it described that way, which that was great.
Yeah. And I would say
having own two rear engine cars, like there's just something different
about having the engine in front of you versus behind you.
And I'm not saying one's better than the other,
but it's just so if you're used to having engine in front of you,
like ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of everybody else.
When you have it behind you, it's just a different experience.
It is. Yeah.
It is especially with how some of the cars are done, like the the Dino.
It's not a very fast or powerful car.
But because the engine is right there behind your head,
it sounds amazing and it's just it's right there.
You really feel connected to it and then it has a shorter shift to it.
So while you're not actually going that fast, you feel like you're going really fast.
And I would rather drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow
any day of the week.
So driving something like a Dino and just when you're sitting at the traffic light
and it turns green and you're in a Dino and you can really just stomp on it and,
you know, just go through the gears and try your hardest.
And you're still not getting in trouble because you're not going that fast.
So much fun.
Love that. Oh, so we we have a Ferrari story.
We didn't get a chance to tell you about.
Oh, boy. Was it what year was it, Christian?
The faithful year to 2004.
We were each married in 2004, but luckily it was two different women.
But yeah, just continue.
So so Christian's wife wanted to get married in Vegas.
I think it was her idea, not yours, right?
Correct. Correct.
And so Christian's like, let's do a batch combined bachelor party.
We just did it all.
And we the problem with a bachelor party is that only two people will fit in a Ferrari.
But please continue with the story.
But that was just perfect.
So yeah, we rented a 1994 Ferrari 348
Spider, which was an awesome car to drive.
It was incredible.
I don't recommend one without air conditioning in August.
Correct. In Vegas.
Yes. When you've had a night of drinking before.
I could not wait to return that car.
I hate to say it.
I just good morning was phenomenal.
Oh, man, I forgot all about this.
But we went, yeah, we picked it up, paid an outrageous amount of money.
Yes. Overinsured it.
But that when then we drove it to Hoover Dam.
That was awesome.
That was such a wonderful.
So we should get pictures of that up on the website.
Do we do? Yeah, yeah, we should.
But that was really a lot of fun.
Boy, everybody was talking to us at Red Lights.
We pulled up to the Venetian and we looked like superstars.
Too bad, the license plate bracket said dream car rentals,
which sort of blew the hole, you know, for those that checked out the rear.
But I forgot all about that.
Good times. Good story.
Yeah, yeah, I want to talk about the funnest automobile in history to say its name.
The Lancia Delta Intergrale.
Yeah, let's hear about it.
What was it like? How did you get it?
What did you do with it? Where is it now?
Uh, so I got it, um, actually off Brigha Trailer.
Uh, look at you.
I've sold a few of them, uh, the works cars, you know,
so the the factory grew Bay cars and I fell in love with them.
The Delta Intergrale and then the Lancia 037 were two of my favorites.
I mean, you got a lot of stratoes, obviously.
That's, you know, an icon car, but there is something about the 037
and then the Delta Intergrale and the S4,
which is kind of in between those two.
I just loved it.
But the thing about the Delta Intergrale is when Group B rally racing was banned,
the Lancia already had the Delta Intergrale
homologated and basically ready to go.
And so when Group B was banned and they went to Group A, Lancia was like,
here you go, we got you.
And all the other manufacturers didn't have anything ready.
So the Delta Intergrale was and still is the most winning rally car of all time.
And it's just awesome.
It's such a fun car.
They made four basic variations.
The eight valve, 16 valve, EVO one and EVO two.
Mine is a very basic little eight valves,
but you don't have to spend a whole bunch of money to have a whole bunch of fun.
And so, you know, this is on the less expensive end,
which means I could just romp around and enjoy it and not worry so much about,
you know, having a super collectible EVO two.
But these are also cam belt cars.
And so it has it's belt driven and it's a interference engine
and the belt snapped and it did.
So it's at the shop right now, getting a whole top end rebuild.
Mama Mia, which is not not cheap.
But, you know, by 80s Italian car, they said, it'll be fun.
They said, but your face lights up when you talk about it.
So there is that fantastic.
And you do. Yeah, I was just reading that.
It's the Italian version, because you said either it made me think
Italian version of a Subaru WRX or Lancer Mitsubishi Lancer, either.
So I guess it gets a lot of comparisons from that group B rally.
Yeah. Yeah.
And I mean, it's a homologated rally car.
And it's just so much fun.
It's I have it's funny because, you know, I specialize in
classic Ferrari's and all that.
But I have a very eclectic personal collection of cars.
And most of them, besides the Lancia, most of them are
extremely slow and just you kind of wouldn't expect it.
But that's some of the most fun, you know, it's like, I mean,
you know, I prefer it that way.
I drive fast, exotic cars for a living all the time.
And so slowing it down a little bit.
And like one of my cars I'm working on right now, I have a 1950
Willie's pickup truck. Oh, jealous.
Very awesome.
You know, I have it pulled apart in my driveway right now
because I'm doing the front brakes.
But, you know, it's just a granny gear.
Just, you know, plunder down the road.
And everyone stops and loves it.
And, you know, I just love driving it.
Nothing like a unique car to put a smile on people's faces.
It just happens everywhere around the world.
It just happens.
Well, Colleen, this has been a treat as we guide the podcast
gently to the off ramp.
I have one last question for you here on the way out.
Your first car, the 1930 BMW, had a nickname.
What was the nickname?
Why did it have that nickname?
I call it Sputter.
So I I name all my cars, my personal cars.
And just kind of the way it.
Runs and drives, but yeah, it just it.
Names just sometimes come to me for these cars
and my BMW had to be Sputter.
The other one is called Putter.
You know, my my lunch is Guido.
Perfect. Oh, that is perfect.
What was the Nissan Maxima?
We didn't even talk about the Nissan Maxima.
But what was was its name, Max?
Well, I had that for three days.
So that didn't that didn't last long enough.
Yeah, OK.
But I mean, I have a O5 Tahoe.
Her name is Betsy.
Perfect. Yeah, just and it fits.
I love it.
Well, thank you for sharing all of that and in for sharing some of your day with us.
This was a real treat. She is Colleen.
Check her out at NextGen-classics.com.
Her social media.
So the Instagram, the YouTube we talked about.
And if you look at that site again, NextGen-classics.com,
you can look at the inventory and learn more about Colleen,
who is a walking encyclopedia for all things Italian automotive.
She's sitting right now, but believe me, this is wonderful.
And we could sit here and talk to you all night.
But we know you have to feed those fish and then you have to have dinner yourself.
So Colleen, thank you for making time and spending a little bit of your day with us.
We really appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
It's been great being here.
Thank you. Indeed.
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We appreciate you taking a laugh with us and we'll see you next time.
About this episode
Colleen Sheehan shares her unique automotive journey, starting with her first car, a 1930 BMW, gifted to her at age eight. Now a Ferrari dealer specializing in Enzo-era models, she discusses her dealership, Next Generation Classics, and her passion for classic cars. Colleen highlights the intricacies of car restoration, the thrill of driving vintage vehicles, and the challenges of sourcing parts. With insights into the automotive industry and her eclectic collection, including a Lancia Delta Integrale, this episode is packed with nostalgia and expertise.
Learning manual transmission is nerve-wracking. Learning it the day before driving your first car across the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance podium at age 11? That's how classic car dealer Colleen Sheehan started.
Her first car was a 1930 BMW—nicknamed "Sputter"—that her father took as commission when a collection buyer said, "I don't care about that car." Colleen got it at age 8. At 11, she earned 3rd in class at Pebble Beach.
Sputter is extraordinary: wooden frame, cable brakes, 35 mph top speed. "If you hit a possum, the whole thing shatters...and the possum walks away cussing." Possibly the oldest BMW in America. She owns 2 of the estimated 4-5 in the US.
That passion led to Next Generation Classics, her California dealership specializing in Enzo-era Ferraris and exotic cars. While her twin brother chose computers, Colleen chose restoration, sales, and the collector car world. She names all her cars: Lancia Delta Integrale rally car "Guido," Tahoe "Betsy," second BMW "Putter."
Her dream car? Ferrari Competition Daytona 365GTB4c —only 15 ever made.
Philosophy? "I'd rather drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow."
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