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Amelia Island Adventures, Porsche Surprises, and Boutique Dealer Gold · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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As part of Ferrari Fridays, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace
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will be discussing all things Ferrari and interviewing people that live
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and breathe the Ferrari brand.
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Topics range from road cars to racing, drivers to owners, as well
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as auctions, private sales, and trends in the collector market.
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Hello everyone, and I'm back.
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So I've been a couple weeks, but hey, I'm back.
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I was doing a little traveling and today's episode is what we are
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going to talk about in my travels.
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I was down at Amelia Island.
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For one, went to the concourse.
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Two, went to a bunch of auctions.
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Um, so we're going to kind of discuss the auctions.
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We're going to discuss the concourse itself.
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Hagerty has, uh, taken over.
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So, you know, obviously they're kind of gaining some ground.
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But, you know, there's a few other events they got going on.
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I just appreciate everybody listening and like I said, Hey, you know, share
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this, put it out there in the world.
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We have to try and spread the word and let's try and grow this as much as we can.
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And, uh, we got some exciting stuff coming up.
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Uh, I don't know if any of you have gone on to the website,
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the Ferrari marketplace.
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com or if you go to exotic car marketplace.
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com, uh, we have some exciting things coming up.
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We're partnering up with a few other entities.
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I do a bunch of stuff with and we're going to kind of create this big,
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I want to say conglomerate, but big media type company that, you know,
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parent company oversee everything.
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We're going to kind of combine all this stuff and help everybody out.
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We're going to try and create more content, more articles, um, you know,
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have a lot more fun with this and see what we can do with everything.
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Uh, and from exotics to classics to garage style, you know, people,
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you know, that's big thing.
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It's happening now is, you know, people, I mean, people always have, you
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know, personalized their home garage, but you know, the big thing now is
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everyone's purchasing these garage condos or getting these, you know, garage
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condos at these private racetracks.
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And if you're the 1 percent or 1 percent or whatever that can
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afford to do that, God bless you.
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Uh, some of these ones, I mean, they're doing some fantastic stuff and
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these, uh, private tracks and whatnot are popping up all over the country.
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Um, I don't know if it's all over the world, I don't know about
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over in Europe and whatnot, but.
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I'm sure they are too, but I know over here in the States,
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there's a bunch popping up here in the next couple of years.
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There's gonna be quite a few opening up.
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Uh, I know there's the one down in Columbus, Ohio, um, the Resolute,
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uh, down in Tennessee itself.
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There's actually two.
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Uh, there's a really nice one.
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If you go down to our website, you'll see it's Flat Rock, uh, Motor Club.
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They have a, that's gonna be an outstanding facility.
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Uh, there's one down in Florida.
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Uh, I believe it's just outside Ocala, something like that.
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Uh, a good friend of mine, uh, Mike Pipitone is kind of, uh.
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Helping out there heading up some sales and marketing for them.
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So check that one out.
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I'll have you know more info I can get I will pass it along to everybody.
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So but anyway, let's dive into this So my travels they started on Tuesday of
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Amelia Island week weekend or whatever I call it So on Tuesday, I traveled down
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to Atlanta very early in the morning I got one caught one of the first flights
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here out of Cleveland and got down there and I actually met up with my good
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friend Mike, uh, he lives in the Atlanta area and we went and checked out the
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Porsche Experience Center down there.
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So I, something I highly recommend, now I will say this, there's an awesome
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restaurant that overlooks the test track or track or however you want to call it,
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uh, the food I had, I had this salad with this chicken breast on it and the chicken
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breast basically was like shoe leather.
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Um, I don't know if the cook was having or the chef was having an off day with mine.
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Uh, food or what, but from what I've told, you know, the other stuff's pretty good.
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If you get a big heap of portions of it, uh, the wiener schnitzel or
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the chicken schnitzel or whatever the heck it's called, um, I highly
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recommend and you get a big, huge ass piece of meat on your plate.
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Um, but I will say this, it is not cheap to eat there, uh, for two
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people, especially if you're having a couple of cocktails or you have
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one beer each or something like that.
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With tip and everything you're gonna be pushing probably if you get main meals
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close to probably 80 to 100 bucks You know with including tip so I mean it is
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not cheap, but you can't beat the view so anyways They have some really cool things.
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You know it's not like There's not anything crazy.
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It's not like this massive museum.
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Um, but what they have is they have the heritage centers.
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I definitely recommend.
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Hey, when you go there, it's, it's free to go.
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It doesn't cost anything.
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Um, I don't forget to set up an appointment or what, um,
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you know, to schedule to go through there and do everything.
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Um, but you can just do the tour and walk around and they have,
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they have this really cool wall.
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It's got all from the beginning to current day.
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Of all these, like, uh, what say one 18 scale models, one 14 scale models
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of all the race cars and cars, uh, that Porsche is built throughout the years.
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So basically starting from the first one all the way to the most recent one.
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Uh, so I have this big wall.
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What's on there?
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If you check out my YouTube channel, uh, I got it.
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Some great video from being there.
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Uh, but so you go in that they have a cool gift shop.
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Now if they, one thing they have and I, why I didn't test it out.
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I don't know.
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I just.
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We were going there and I was waiting on Mike and I told him, I
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said, Hey, you got to come back and check it out, but he didn't do it.
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But they have this awesome simulator room that has got, I think it's like
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six or seven simulators that you can test out and try out different
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tracks, everything like that.
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You can race against your buddy or just, you know, race against yourself,
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try and set, you know, best time against, against ones that have
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already, people have already gone.
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So, um, I want to say it was like 50 for like 30 minutes or for 45 minutes.
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It was a good deal actually for what you got to do, um, you got to spend a lot of
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time doing it so actually it wasn't that bad price to do it, um, but for whatever
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reason it's kind of, I didn't go back and do it, why I don't know, but hey,
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that's just me, so, but, you can test it out, they have a cool little gift shop,
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again, stuff's not cheap, uh, they got some really cool merchandise, uh, it's
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not a lot, it's not a big gift shop, you know, it's not like you're gonna have
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like Porsche overload, uh, but they have some really cool stuff, but again, hey,
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the stuff is not cheap, You'd always hit on the sale, hit up the sales rack.
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They have some stuff that's usually on sale.
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Uh, they had some like cool shirt stuff like for like, you know, 30, 40 bucks.
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So it wasn't too bad, but, uh, majority of the stuff was you're closer to
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a hundred, starting adding that.
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So jackets, shirts, t-shirts, button down shirts, polo shirts, everything like that.
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So now the one thing I was kind of surprised is they did not
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have that many newer model cars.
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You know, the 20, 23 miles on the floor.
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They had a couple, uh, but they normally, they have more, but I don't
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know if they're just in a transition or what, but they were lacking.
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New model cars on the floor area where you come walking in at so I was a
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little bit surprised by that now They also have this really cool interactive
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wall That kind of goes through the history and stuff you pull some off
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pictures videos stuff like that.
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That was really really neat They have this really cool sculpture up in the
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air like you stand underneath it.
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You look up.
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It's a kind of a cutout So it's really neat stuff But again, the one cool thing
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was the heritage centers where they got all the cool old cars older cars race
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cars, you know 959, um, yeah, 917, um, 904, 908, um, which I remember off the
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top of my head some of the stuff they had a 959, um, older 911s, 911 RS, um,
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they had a Carrera GT, you know, so they had some really, really cool stuff, but
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again, not massive, you know, not like they had hundreds of cars there, you
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know, I think they had maybe 20 cars, 15 to 20 cars in total, but, you know,
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significant stuff, and they all had kind of displayed very nice, everything like
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that, so it's really neat to check out.
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But I mean, the thing you're going there to do, and again, it's, again, on the
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cheap side, but hey, it's an experience.
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I just didn't have time to do it that day.
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As you go take a car on test track.
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Now they have various different levels of cars you can try out.
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Uh, and so the price varies.
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It starts, I 300 and you actually get a lot of time.
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You get like 45 minutes or something like that, or over an hour.
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Um, if not, maybe a little bit longer.
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So, I mean, you get your values with money worth and you can just
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do as many as lap as you want.
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So it's just timeline.
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So, you know, they have the.
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The one track going, you know, on the outside and they have like a
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skid pad, um, they have the other one where it kind of kicks you
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sideways, you know, the wet track.
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So they have really, really cool stuff.
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And, like I said, you can do everything from, you know, a Boxer or a Cayman
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all the way up to, uh, a GT3.
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So, I mean, it goes all the way up, the Turbo S.
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So, I mean, you can have a lot of fun and do it.
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So, now they also, it's opening up April 1st, so it's coming up.
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Uh, they actually expanded the track, basically doubled the size of the track.
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So now, I don't know if that means they're going to double the amount of spaces that
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are open that you can go and do this.
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Now, because when I was there, it seemed like you could probably just walk in and
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just, you know, get, you know, hey, can I do some driving and you can go do it.
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Now, normally I say, hey, you got to call ahead, set up your time, make a
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register, you know, register for it and everything like that, make a reservation.
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And so, I don't know, because from looking at it.
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I wouldn't say it was identical, but it was pretty close to, it was very, very
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similar to what the current track offers.
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Now the design and the layout, they have a cool carousel turn
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that mimics the Nurburgring carousel, which is really neat.
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Um, and it's got more undulations and more heights and stuff like that to it.
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So it's really, really neat track.
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Um, so I, again, I don't know if they'll let you do it where you can,
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Hey, you can do the long course where it takes you, you know, it'd be.
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Couple miles long or you know, hey, they're just split in half where they
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can have they can double them out of people They're out on the track doing it.
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So again, it's all about that So but anyways, I know one kind of just
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a side I know we're talking about Porsche's a Ferrari podcast, but I'm
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just telling you about my jet ventures down a million I so we checked it out
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and did that so that was a lot of fun.
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It was cool We kind of you know hung out there for the day, but then from
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there we went to check out one of these cool There's a lot of cool little
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dealers down there to land it because obviously it lands a massive market I
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mean Land is big, so if you've ever been to Atlanta and tried to drive around
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Atlanta, it takes you a long time to get anywhere because it's pretty massive.
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I mean, it's spread way out, so I mean, it's pretty damn big.
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Uh, and they have a lot of construction going on, so it kind of takes
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you a little bit to get anywhere.
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But anyways, we went to check out this other dealer, uh, and kind of, let's say
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a, kind of like I say a boutique dealer.
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Because, you know, you go in, um, there's Miller Motor Cars, um,
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And you go, you walk through and it's appointment only to go in.
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So fortunately Mike, you know, knows people there.
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So we're able to just kind of go in and call the head.
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Um, so yeah, it's not like you just walk in off the street and just,
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Hey, I want to look at some cars.
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Anyway, so you walk in and show them four there.
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I mean, they got, I think, six cars on the floor there, maybe only five.
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Um, so they had a Testarossa 308, um, or 328.
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Um, so they, you know, and an old Model T, which is a really cool car.
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Uh, they had their old Model T racer.
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But like I said, they didn't have much of a thing, but then they had a massive, you
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know, uh, shop, you know, doing service work and from what my understanding is,
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it's something they just really started expanding into is doing the service work
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due to the fact is, hey, you know, the demands there, hey, and there's, you
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make a lot of money doing service work.
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And if you got the guys that know what they're doing, it's a great thing
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to get into to service those cars.
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So, I mean, you can charge, you know, you charge a hundred some dollars an
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hour just to labor and then you got your parts and everything like that.
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So, but the cool thing was is, You know, out back, they had a lot more
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cars that they had available for sale, but the owner had his own private
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vault, as he called it, collection in his barn out back, garage, whatever
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you want to call it, where he had a whole ton of cars back in there.
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Um, now these are all ones that I want to say not bought on speculation, but bought
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under the, you know, guys that, hey, because they will, they'll go up in value.
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I mean, because the majority of them are Ferraris.
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Um, had Testarossas, had some Vital TRs.
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Uh, but he has some nice Porsches in there too.
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Older Porsche, new Porsche, Acura NSX.
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Um, you know, he had a lot, a lot of cool stuff that, yeah,
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they're going to go up in value.
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So it's more kind of an investment thing.
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And as the kid that was still walking us around said, Hey, the guy's, the guy's
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got some kids headed off to college soon.
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Right there's your college paying for your college education.
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So, but again, you know, hey, you get a special client.
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They're looking for something.
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You have it in stock.
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It's right there.
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It's kind of an off market, private sale thing.
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You don't put it out there.
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You don't advertise much.
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Again, these guys don't put all their cars out.
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And that's something you're going to find for all you people out there shopping
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around and it's kind of one of the things, you know, a lot of these boutique
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dealers and that do not advertise all the cars that they have available for sale.
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And that's where someone like myself comes in.
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And what I do with finding these off market cars is I know these people,
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I know these dealers, so I can give them a ring and they'll, if I ask
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for something specific or I say, Hey, you know, what do you got good?
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That's kind of off market.
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I got a client.
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They'll let me know.
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Now, it ain't just Joe Schmo calls up there and goes, Oh, no,
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we don't have anything like that.
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No, everything's on the website.
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Blah, blah.
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So it's kind of, you know, it's a close knit network of individuals that, Hey,
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you know, we're looking out for the client and we want to make the client happy.
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But the fact is, you know, Hey, you bring more clients, sell more cars.
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Hey, everyone makes more money.
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So it's kind of like a rub my back, rub your back type deal.
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But anyways, so anyways, that wrapped up the first day.
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Then Tuesday morning was the big, we went over to Merit Partners.
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Now, I don't know how many of you guys, you know, watch on, you
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know, Shmee150 on YouTube, old Tim.
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He was actually there a few weeks ago, did a nice video on it, but, uh, I know
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the guy's there for a little while, so I wanted to go there and meet these
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guys and just check out the facility.
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Again, they're another one where they have a very small amount of
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cars on their website compared to what they actually have in inventory.
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Now, where they're located, you would not know that that's where it was there.
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You would drive by it.
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A thousand times not realize that there's an exotic car dealership tucked
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away back in this industrial corner, uh, where all these buildings are at.
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You have no clue.
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I mean, it's, they have a small sign, but it's not like they got all these cars
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parked out front or anything like that.
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You'd have no idea.
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It's behind the gate.
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You got to get buzzed in.
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So you go in and they just spent, God, he told me, it was like, you know,
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excess of a million dollars in regards to, uh, remodeling and refurbishing
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this building that they're in.
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And it's.
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Gorgeous inside and you know, they still had a few little touch up
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things here to do, but they had to put it into one bar top and everything
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like that, but absolutely gorgeous.
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You know, it's gonna be perfect.
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I, I, from my point and what I would do if I was always saying, you
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know, have events there, you know, whatnot, you know, bring people in,
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you know, do kind of stuff like that.
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It's gonna be perfect for it.
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But as soon as you walk in, they had an F 50.
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You had a couple of Carrera GTs, a Ford GT, a new Ford GT, the newer one.
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Um, you know, and just some absolute beautiful stuff.
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But again, you go out into, I want to say the warehouse, but where they have A
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little majority of other cars because they also not only the cars that they have for
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available for sale that they own They also do consignment So they just they have a
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plethora of cars available and I mean some very very very unique Very rare stuff.
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So if you're looking for something unique and rare Give me a call and I'll
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hook you guys I'll hook you up with the guys at merit and I'll help you
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guys out I said they had some really really cool stuff and very rare stuff.
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So I highly recommend if you're looking for something unique,
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something rare, get a hold of me.
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I'll get you hooked up with the guys at Merritt and, um, get
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you guys, get you taken care of.
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So that was really cool meeting those guys.
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So then on Wednesday afternoon, since I was in Atlanta and Jacksonville, it was
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only a little over a five hour drive away.
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I was like, well, screw it.
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No, I'm just going to drive there.
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Why, why fly?
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I didn't want to deal with the hassle of the airport because
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Atlanta airport's a nightmare.
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I was a flight through there and at the end of this podcast when I
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left it was a fucking nightmare.
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Pardon my French, but.
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Um, so I had read it, actually, I don't know if anyone's, you know,
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heard of Sixt, S I X T, car rental.
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Fantastic.
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If you're at a, uh, a major city that has Sixt as a car rental company, use them.
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They have nice, yeah, BMWs, Mercedes, uh, I mean, they got nice cars and
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they're very, very reasonably priced.
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I was going to rent a 5 Series, but I had got, I got in about 4 hours earlier
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than I was supposed to be and the car that I was supposed to have, you know,
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wasn't back yet or ready or whatnot.
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So.
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The kind lady behind the desk said, well, I got a seven series and you
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know, it's supposed to be about another 30 something dollars a day, but
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I'll only charge you $20 more a day.
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And I was like, all right, so what's my total?
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Basically for that Tuesday, all the way to the following Monday, which was basically
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seven days, cost me $782 for a BMW seven series, unlimited miles, everything.
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So it worked out perfect.
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And what's better than a seven series to go on a nice little road trip from Ja uh,
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Atlanta down to Jacksonville and back.
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So.
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Wednesday afternoon, I hopped in.
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Now, unfortunately, traffic was a little bit kind of crap on the way out, but
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for some reason, I could not get the phone and everything to sync up to work
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right, so I could talk hands free to the phone while I was driving, so I kept
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getting a couple phone calls, important phone calls, so I kept having to pull
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over, turn off the car, and then make my phone call, and talk, and then get
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back on and go on the road, so five hour driving, I'm taking almost seven
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hours, and I had to keep stopping.
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Now, the one was, you know, a very important one, but there's a funny one,
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because At one point, I just pulled off, got off on an off ramp and just as I got
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to, you know, halfway off the off ramp, I was going down, I, I just pulled off
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to the end of where the guard rail's at, you know, so it was nice, out of the way,
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so one of the AAA guys, like, within five minutes was up behind me, puts a sign,
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whatever, I'm trying to wave him, hey, no, I'm, I'm good, I'm just on a phone call,
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so then I had to get going and I had to go drive, you know, around the thing, so
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it was kind of, it was kind of humorous, I felt bad for the guy, didn't know he
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thought he was going to come and help me and everything like that, but anyways,
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so I got down to Jacksonville, I got in a day early, so I was able to rummage up
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a hotel room, actually on Amelia Island.
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It wasn't bad, it was only 130 for the one night.
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And, you know, if you drove past it, you would think it was some shit box motel.
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You know, um, it was a decent size, but it was one of those, you know,
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your, your, uh, entry to your room is outside, so it's a two story job.
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One of those, you know, motel six type situations, or red roof inn or something
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like that, I guess you would call it.
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Um, but they, I tell you what, it was completely redone and kudos.
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My one good friend, Andrew, you know, he's the one that said, Hey, there's still
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rooms available on Amelia actually itself.
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So, um, I went and checked out now.
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And the funny thing was, is they had rooms available for the whole weekend.
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And, but the problem was, is on Friday, they jumped up to almost 400 a night.
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Now, what's the person behind the desk saying?
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Look, you have rooms here.
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Why not?
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Just give me the room for the 140.
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I'll take it.
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So it's all the way through till Monday.
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I mean until Sunday because I got I had to drive back up Sunday night
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back to Atlanta, but no, no You know, there's a Concord Square this weekend.
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Well, no shit Sherlock.
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That's what I'm in town for So my guy fine no money compared to some money.
19:23
I don't know.
19:24
I take some money over no money So hey, then the room sets are empty.
19:28
No skin off my back So I end up staying, you know out by the Jacksonville Airport
19:31
because it's only It's about 25 30 minutes from, you know, Jacksonville over to
19:35
Amelia Island to get to where the stuff's at, you know, because of traffic and
19:38
I don't know if I've ever been to it.
19:40
You know, once you get onto the island itself, there's a lot of two lane
19:42
stuff, so, and, you know, there's a lot of traffic going on, so it
19:44
takes a little bit to get anywhere.
19:46
So, anyways, so, but it was really cool because, you know, I got to,
19:50
uh, you know, I got up early, uh, on Thursday morning, went and watched the
19:56
sunrise, everything like that, and, you know, just kind of relaxed and
19:59
chilled and went to the first auction.
20:01
Now, I went to the Gooding Auction, you know, did the preview and everything
20:04
like that, because it really didn't start until 3 o'clock that day on Thursday,
20:06
but they had all the preview stuff, but I got there right at 9 when it opened
20:10
up, so basically there was nobody there.
20:13
I think there was maybe 15 of us walking around, checking all the
20:16
cars, so it was really, really cool.
20:18
Now, here's the stupid thing.
20:20
So, I go in, I paid to get in, it was 40 to get in.
20:23
Now, I have my GoPro with me, because obviously it's a little
20:26
more, you know, easier to handle, have it on the handle, you know,
20:29
go around and do it to shoot video.
20:31
Well Since I didn't have a media pass, I got asked to not film with the GoPro.
20:38
And now here's, here's the stupid part.
20:40
Oh, you can use your phone though.
20:41
Use your phone.
20:41
All you want is shoot video.
20:42
But I just, we can't have you using your GoPro.
20:44
You know, you're looking professional like that.
20:46
If you don't have media credentials, I'm like, whatever.
20:49
I'm like, does that make sense to you?
20:52
I mean, it's one half of one or the other.
20:54
Either I'm filming with my phone or the GoPro.
20:56
There's no difference.
20:57
So I find, so I broke out my handle for my phone, mounted on that, and just
21:01
used my phone to do everything Then.
21:03
So I shot all the video on my phone.
21:04
So I was like, fine, you know, don't use my phone to do it.
21:07
So now here's a cool thing.
21:09
They had some really nice stuff this year at Goody.
21:11
Now they're, you know, they're David and his crew.
21:14
They curate quite a nice selection of cars, but this year they did very,
21:20
very well in regards to, I guess you'd say the selections they had,
21:24
you know, normally you have kind of a lot of, you know, leaning towards one
21:28
genre or something like that and you know, in years past, it's like they
21:31
had a lot of like more pre war stuff.
21:34
Uh, like Duesenbergs, Packards, that kind of stuff.
21:36
Now, this year, they had like one Duesenberg, they
21:39
had, I think, two Packards.
21:41
Um, they didn't have that much old pre war stuff.
21:44
Everything else was, you know, from your, uh, 50s on up.
21:48
They had some 40s stuff like that, but basically everything was, I
21:51
would say, newer, post war stuff.
21:54
But, man, they had some awesome stuff.
21:56
They had one of my all time favorite cars, a 500E.
22:00
I mean, I absolutely love those cars.
22:01
One of these days, I'm gonna have one of those.
22:03
I mean, they're just They're getting priced ridiculous.
22:05
I mean, I should have bought one five, six years ago.
22:06
They were about 40, 50 grand, because now they're about 80,
22:08
90 grand, depending on miles.
22:10
Trying to find one with low miles.
22:12
I just got offered one.
22:13
I'd love if I had the money.
22:15
If I have one, it's got 47, 000 miles on it.
22:18
It's a 94, so it's an E500.
22:21
It's the one I want.
22:22
It's been the last year for it.
22:23
Anyone that knows what that car is, you know, it's a collaboration
22:27
with Porsche, um, and Mercedes.
22:31
It was kind of, you know, you want to have the sports sedan, but it
22:33
kind of helped out Porsche in a way financially, um, kind of giving that
22:38
project games, a nice influx of cash, but this, those cars are phenomenal.
22:42
I mean, they're just great.
22:43
I mean, talk about a sleeper.
22:45
I mean, granted back then, but you know, in the mid early nineties,
22:49
322 horsepower was a lot, especially at a sedan like that from Mercedes.
22:53
So, I mean, still, but this day to day, 320 horses, it's not nothing to sneeze at.
22:57
So that car get up and go, but that's a little cruise.
23:00
At, you know, 90, 100 miles an hour, no sweat.
23:03
I mean, that thing is a grand, one of these days, I'm going to have one.
23:06
So, some things come to fruition in the coming months here with
23:09
some deals I'm working on.
23:10
I'm buying one, after I get my Ferrari though.
23:15
I'm on that hunt for that 430 manual.
23:16
So, anyways.
23:18
So, but here's the interesting thing though.
23:19
Going through, they had a nice selection of, you know, obviously awesome cars.
23:22
They had an awesome, cool selection of motorcycles too.
23:25
You know, not a lot.
23:26
I think they had like 15 motorcycles, 20 motorcycles maybe.
23:29
Um, they had some gorgeous Ducatis.
23:32
Um, But it's funny because a, a buddy of mine, Paul Jason, uh, he's
23:36
kind of a big time motorcycle guy, motorcycle broker over in the UK.
23:40
I actually had taken some photos and sent it to him and he was actually, later,
23:44
he was actually on the phone bidding and one of the bikes came across and I
23:48
had sent it to him when it came over.
23:49
Oh yeah, that was me actually on the phone bidding.
23:50
I thought that was you.
23:51
So I was kind of humorous.
23:53
Here's the interesting thing.
23:54
I was checking out the estimates, you know, they, they give you a range,
23:57
you know, if you've ever gone to an auction, you know, they have their
24:00
estimated range, you know, they have the low end, high end thing and all
24:03
right, this car will sell between, you know, 250 to 350, 000, you know, they,
24:08
they kind of put an estimate to it.
24:10
Um, so people can have a general idea what they think it might be
24:13
going for, uh, to give them an idea.
24:15
But here's the crazy thing.
24:17
I would say not every single auction item, car that went across, you A majority
24:25
and I mean majority, I'm talking 90%, maybe even a little bit more than that
24:29
all went for below the low estimate.
24:33
So I don't know if that's a sign of market adjustment or just what's
24:38
going on because of the economy.
24:40
But this is kind of, this is at all the auctions.
24:44
Now some of them, a couple of them did a little better in regards to,
24:48
you know, hitting that, you know, high estimate or going above it.
24:51
But those are for some very special and very unique, very
24:54
rare cars, very desirable cars.
24:56
So it's like, hey, that's understandable.
24:58
But in a majority of these auctions, all these cars were going for below the low
25:04
estimate and not just by a little bit.
25:06
A lot of them are pretty significant.
25:08
There was a, a 355 GTS Brunetta that it had the, uh, their price
25:16
estimated price range on it was, I think it was 220 to 250.
25:20
Uh, something like that or 180 to 225, something like that.
25:23
But anyways, it only had 22, 000 miles or 27, 000 miles, gorgeous
25:28
silver with this tan interior.
25:30
You don't see that often, but silver with tan and I, I, I'm not a fan of
25:33
light colored interior tan, but this thing looks sharp in that color combo.
25:37
Uh, a six speed manual, 150 grand.
25:39
So all in, you're about 168, 000 with your fees and everything.
25:43
That was a steal.
25:44
And another one at another auction, same thing.
25:47
It went for around the same price, way below the low estimate.
25:50
So people were getting deals at the auctions down at Amelia Island.
25:55
So, I mean, if you had a pocketbook and you had, you know, deep pockets, it was a
25:58
time to do some buying and to sit on some of these cars, you know, and come back
26:03
with them, you know, bring them to market, I don't know, a year or two, I don't
26:07
know, anyways, you know, down the road.
26:09
I mean, that's one of the situations where, so I had a boatload of money or I
26:12
had won the lotto or something like that.
26:14
I was one of that, one of that lucky bastards that won like the billion dollars
26:16
or whatever and walked in 700 million.
26:18
God, I would have had a hay day down there this year.
26:20
I mean, they had some awesome stuff.
26:22
Um, you know, you had your obligatory, you know, F50s, F40s, um, you know, 280 GTOs.
26:28
But they had some Bugatti EB110SSs there.
26:32
They were stunning, absolutely stunning.
26:33
Um, but they had some just gorgeous, gorgeous stuff and very neat stuff.
26:37
And then the, um, Broad Arrow had a fantastic, another one of my
26:41
favorite cars, the RS200 Evolution.
26:45
Now you get, you know, the standard RS 200, I believe it had 260, 280
26:50
horsepower, something like that.
26:52
You know, they had to homologate X amount of cars, but they did 24, 26 Evo cars that
26:59
were basically the ones they used for the Group B rallying that would have been, but
27:03
these things pushed out 700 horsepower.
27:06
This is a tiny little car, and I don't know, maybe if you're Ken Block fans.
27:11
Uh, he had one that he absolutely loved, you know, I rest his soul.
27:16
That was such a sad tragedy that he passed.
27:18
But anyways, uh, that's another one of my all time favorite cars.
27:21
Uh, another one, an F40.
27:23
So, um, my goal, kind of as a side note, cause I said I'm trying to
27:28
get more content, do these podcasts more frequently, but also I'm
27:31
trying to grow my YouTube channel.
27:33
Now the YouTube channel, the general one is Garage 65.
27:38
Now you spell 65 S I X T Y and the number 5.
27:42
So if you look up at Garage 65, you'll find all my content.
27:45
Now I do have some of the ones broken down where I'm going to post to it
27:48
just as Ferrari or just the Porsche Marketplace or the Ferrari Marketplace.
27:52
Uh, we're trying to expand more, but then again, you know, like what
27:54
we're doing with our media company.
27:57
We're going to have these garage tours.
27:58
We have a lot of things we're going to be doing that are
27:59
going to be super, super cool.
28:02
Keep informed keep in tune and hey, you know, we're gonna have a newsletter coming
28:05
out that you can sign up for it It kind of keeps you up to date what's going on
28:08
because we're gonna also be doing like events stuff like that So we've got a lot
28:11
a lot of cool stuff that we're getting in the works here Hopefully by mid and summer
28:15
we'll start having some of these and then for 2024 We're really kind of start
28:19
rolling out with a lot of cool stuff.
28:21
So stay tuned a lot of cool stuff coming But anyways back to the auction
28:26
Now, like I was saying before, there was some really, really cool stuff.
28:30
You know, you could have gotten some great deals on some, you know,
28:33
very, very nice cars, you know, uh, very, very well maintained.
28:36
Now I am not a big fan of people are buying cars as auction.
28:42
Cause here's my pet peeve is.
28:47
You can have all the information you want, you can do your research on
28:49
the car, you got the VIN, everything like that, but you're basically
28:52
only getting the description that the auction house is giving you.
28:55
You can't get in the car, unless you know one of the people and they're very
28:59
kind and say, oh yeah, go ahead, you can't start it, you can't drive it.
29:03
So basically you're going on the word of the auction house and the current
29:07
owner telling the auction house, hey, yeah, the car's great, oh, it's
29:11
got all the stuff, blah, blah, blah.
29:13
You know, so you have to really scrutinize the car.
29:17
As it just sits there, so I mean, the only time you hear it run is when they
29:21
drive up to the auction block and normally then it's so far away, you can't hear
29:24
it, so there's no way of knowing, so to me, I don't think it's a great way
29:30
to go about buying and plus, the other aspect of it is the fees you have to
29:34
pay, now some years ago, they used to crack you on both sides, the buyer and
29:41
the seller had to pay fees on top of what it costs to put your car in it.
29:45
So it was like the buyer, I mean, the seller was having to pay like 10
29:49
12 percent of whatever the selling price was, then the buyer was
29:53
paying like 15 to 18 percent fees.
29:56
So they were cracking basically almost 25 to 30 percent on top of what the selling
30:01
price was that would go on top of fees.
30:03
So imagine that.
30:04
So if you bought a million dollar car, it's for easy numbers, you were having to
30:09
pay another 250, 000 just in fucking fees.
30:14
I mean, that is obscene.
30:15
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I just don't get it now with the advent because
30:19
of COVID came around and all these online auction houses came online.
30:23
Obviously, BAT was the forerunner of this, you know, they broke the barriers.
30:28
So you have all these other ones that have come out now.
30:31
But you know, they broke it down to okay, like BAT is 5, 000 maximum.
30:36
That's what your cap is.
30:37
And you know, you have to, you know, pay X amount of dollars.
30:41
I think it's 100 bucks.
30:42
They might be free now because I know cars and bids.
30:45
It's free to post what not and if there's is a four and a half percent cap You know
30:51
the max we pay but the maximum pays 4, 500, but you'll pay up to 4, 500 It's
30:56
four and a half percent of what the selling price is So Doug DeMuro's put
31:00
together a great thing over there now But you have so many other ones out there
31:03
that are following that pattern or that business model is We're only going to cap
31:09
you at a maximum of four to five grand.
31:11
That's it And your fees, you know, up to that are, you know, four and a half,
31:16
five percent, you know, so, hey, 100, 000 car, hey, you're capped 4, 500 bucks.
31:22
So, I mean, it's fantastic.
31:24
So, I think these auction houses realize, hey, you know, we're going
31:27
to have to cut our fees and do it.
31:29
You know, they're trying to say, oh, it's the atmosphere, oh, this, we have the
31:32
selection of cars, blah, blah, blah, blah.
31:34
Well, you know what?
31:35
I don't buy that.
31:37
You know, that's just not me.
31:38
I just, I'm not going to pay.
31:40
An extra, you know, 20, 30, 40, whatever it may be in fees, just
31:44
because of the ambience, you know, that's your, you put that together.
31:47
I can go find these cars somewhere else.
31:49
I don't need to come out and cap it here.
31:51
No.
31:52
Now, the one thing is these auctions usually kind of sometimes do is kind
31:55
of set market rates and everything.
31:58
You'll have clients and deal with them.
31:59
They'll be like, well, that car just sold for X at, um, Amelia at a, at XYZ auction.
32:04
And, um, and why are you asking so much more?
32:07
Well, it's like, okay, well that car there, which wasn't disclosed, what
32:10
not, had been an accident or what not.
32:11
You know, again, not knowing the whole story.
32:14
And this is an uneducated consumer, not doing their homework and
32:17
not, you know, believing in what something is and not just listening.
32:20
They just talk.
32:22
You know, they don't know the full story behind what that car, why it's sold for,
32:26
what it's sold for, why you're selling your car, what it's for, you know, so
32:30
it's just, it's sometimes like pulling teeth and these people just don't get
32:33
it, you know, so it can be really, really fricking annoying sometimes with, it's
32:37
an uneducated consumer and You know, it's just, it's just very, very annoying.
32:42
But anyways, back to the options.
32:44
So, as I stated, there's a lot of these cars, a good portion of these
32:47
cars, we're going for below estimates.
32:49
So, I mean, again, it was some really nice stuff and it was
32:52
just kind of a head scratcher.
32:53
I said, man, some people are getting some great deals and we're
32:55
going home with some great cars.
32:56
And that was the thing is, normally when you have your low estimates
32:59
and that stuff, that's usually about where the reserves at.
33:02
So these reserves that these owners had in these cars were very, very low.
33:07
Because these cars were selling.
33:08
They were hammered.
33:09
And which was absolutely crazy.
33:11
That was the other baffling thing was they had super low reserves on these cars.
33:16
Normally, you know, the reserves up there by the low estimate.
33:18
So if it's not even getting a little less, but I had a car ain't
33:20
moving, but people didn't either.
33:22
They needed them cast.
33:24
They needed the room.
33:24
They don't want to take the car back home or what, but these cars were selling.
33:28
So the transport companies were having a heyday.
33:30
That's for sure.
33:31
So, and there's another one that make out either way.
33:33
Cause Hey, the car didn't sell.
33:34
They got to take it back home.
33:35
Hey, they're double dipping.
33:37
So, but I mean, if you've never been to Amelia, I highly suggest you go.
33:41
The auctions are really, really cool.
33:42
Yeah, it costs a little bit to get in, but it's really neat because
33:44
you kind of get up close to the car.
33:46
Now, let's talk about the concourse itself.
33:50
Now, on Friday, they had the Porsche Works Reunion.
33:54
It's a Porsche event, you know, and this year is the 75 years of 9 11, so kind of
33:57
last year was Ferrari's total 75 years.
34:01
You know, um, the 9 11 was 75 years of, however it is, anyways, of course, I don't
34:07
know, anyways, it wasn't their anniversary years, I could be mistaken, I don't know,
34:10
anyways, this is onward and upward, right, but anyways, so it was kind of cool, not
34:16
very big, but it seemed to be there was more, better action over in the car park
34:21
where people were parking, you know, all the Porsches were, you know, all the
34:23
Porsche Club members were parking than actual cars that were out on the lawn.
34:27
They had some neat stuff, you know, uh, very interesting stuff, and luckily, we
34:31
were able to get in for free, cause, you The event is free to get in but it's 40
34:36
to park so there you go So it's it's kind of a joke like so basically it's 40 to
34:41
get in But anyways, we were able to snag a free parking to get him for free as a
34:45
volunteer So it pays to know people right?
34:48
So we got in checked out.
34:49
There's some really cool stuff there.
34:51
Obviously all Porsches Some really neat stuff some cool booths set up,
34:55
you know for buying some I guess trinkets and memorabilia and stuff
34:58
like that They had a really cool one.
35:00
We could buy that scale models, you know from Here's the real small stuff
35:05
all the way up to some bigger stuff, uh, which is really, really neat.
35:08
Then Saturday, uh, they put on and if you buy your ticket for Sunday, it
35:14
gets you into Saturday's event also.
35:16
So you might as well just buy it because if you go on Sunday, buy it.
35:18
So, but Sunday's tickets, it's 175 and it's gone up dramatically in price,
35:23
especially since Harry took it over because now they're about making money.
35:26
Now, when Bill Warner was running that, It wasn't about, I mean, yeah, they needed
35:29
to make money cause, but it was more about making the money to put the donations
35:32
to the charities they were supporting.
35:34
So they're, they dumped a lot back in and I've had some great
35:37
conversations with Bill and uh, he always tells me you're nuts.
35:40
If you ever want to put that kind of course, I'll pay him the ass.
35:43
But I, he had told me, I mean, it was like eight, nine years before
35:46
he even could like kind of pay himself anything out of it for all
35:49
his work and effort and doing it.
35:51
So, I mean, it took a long time.
35:52
They started that, what, 95, I think it was 96, something
35:55
like that in the mid nineties.
35:56
So it really has been going on.
35:58
All that long, I guess you could say I compared to Pebble and stuff like that.
36:02
But anyways, so Saturday they have the Radwood event, which is, as everyone
36:07
probably knows, is, you know, your 80's cars, uh, from my genre, when
36:11
I, you know, was in my youth driving my cars, you know, when I was 16 in
36:15
1986, you know, I had my Fiero GT.
36:18
Well, I started with the Mazda GLC, then I went to a Fiero GT, I love
36:22
that Fiero, I think it was so cool.
36:23
Then I had a Mustang GT, so, um.
36:26
I connect well with that stuff.
36:27
They have some really cool stuff.
36:29
It's stuff that you know back from your youth that you see that kind of stirs up
36:32
old memories and everything like that.
36:34
So they have that set up and then you go over to the actual show field
36:39
where the concourse takes place.
36:40
You know, that's where they have a lot of the, I guess you'd say, nicer
36:43
stuff for the Radwood type stuff.
36:44
But they have other things set up that are, you know,
36:48
oriented towards that genre.
36:50
Uh, they call it Cars and Community.
36:52
So it's kind of bring whatever, you know, what you drove and, and I,
36:57
I'm not sure how you register that, but you, you come in, you know,
37:00
you park your car, check it out.
37:01
So it's not no judge or anything goes down, but just walk around.
37:04
And there's a lot of people for that because obviously if you're going
37:07
Sunday, you're going to that Saturday because your ticket got you in.
37:09
But now if you just want to go Saturday, which actually is not too bad.
37:13
You just go Saturday because you, you can see a lot of stuff that, you
37:17
know, they really don't have to worry about seeing on Sunday, but anyway,
37:19
it's only 35 going on Saturday.
37:21
So if you just go Saturday.
37:23
You're fine.
37:23
You don't really need to go on Sunday.
37:24
It's all, you know, all personal preference.
37:27
But, uh, they had some really cool stuff up, you know, which was neat.
37:30
You know, they had, um, the cars from Jeff Gordon set up.
37:33
Um, you know, Ed Bullen was there with his stuff.
37:36
And, uh, the guys, you know, Tavarish was there.
37:38
Uh, so was, uh, Mr.
37:40
Tyler Hoover was there.
37:41
You know, they had brought some stuff.
37:43
Uh, what was really cool back over in the one corner they had, on Saturday
37:46
they had five 9 5 9's lined up because it was kind of a separate class.
37:50
Now Sunday they had seven 9 5 9's parked there, which That's a rare day itself,
37:54
seeing 7959s parked all over the place.
37:58
Now then you go around, you know, um, Saturday.
38:01
Again, a lot of cool stuff, a lot of neat booths set up.
38:03
You know, it's a lot more casual.
38:04
You know, t shirts, shorts, kind of thing.
38:06
Now Sunday, obviously, is the Concourse event itself.
38:09
Now that's when it gets really packed.
38:11
Um, and obviously you kind of want to dress nice.
38:13
And now it gets pretty warm, so you kind of got to dress.
38:16
But like, I just wore a short t shirt, but I wore some nice pants.
38:18
You know, got to, got to look to roll.
38:20
Uh, got to meet Jeff Gordon, which was really cool.
38:22
Talked to him, you know, uh, briefly.
38:24
Brought up our Freerback project.
38:26
Uh, talk to him real quick.
38:27
Super nice guy.
38:28
Super nice guy.
38:29
Very approachable.
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So if you ever get the opportunity, he'll chat you up.
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He's a super cool guy.
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Um, so anyways, go into there, you know, you check out.
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This is now where they have the judging goes on.
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They have all the, you know, classes broken down in regards to what cars
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are which group, everything like that.
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So they get all judged by their class, you know, their car
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itself, but then in that class.
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Um, gorgeous Ferraris.
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Oh my god, they have some gorgeous, gorgeous Ferraris.
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Um, some really cool stuff and they had some old, old stuff.
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There was a 59 Pininfarina, uh, Cabriolet.
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Uh, there was a 195 Inter or was it a 212 MM?
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Um, I'm trying to remember off the top of my head.
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Check out my videos on YouTube channel, Grab65.
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You'll see all the stuff in there.
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Um, they had some gorgeous, gorgeous Ferraris set up.
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Um, absolute outstanding.
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They had, you know, Porsche had a really nice set up with a lot of their cars.
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They had a lot of cool Porsche race cars, uh, going across the years.
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So it's a really, and again, what's nice is you can get right up on these cars.
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These things aren't like behind velvet ropes or anything like that.
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You know, check.
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It's really, really cool.
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So, but I mean, you get there, you know, does it pay, you
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know, they have an early entry.
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It starts at 930, but you can get in for an extra 50 bucks,
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get in at 830 early entry.
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They limit it.
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But if you see how many people do the early entry, I don't even know it's worth
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it because it's pretty busy as it is then.
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So, but anyway, I didn't do it.
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I would have read nine 30, but.
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I need to drive back Atlanta.
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So I put it down to the right one o'clock.
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I was leaving and I'll honestly from 9 30 to about noon, 12 30.
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I I've seen everything.
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I walked around, checked out what I think, did all my videos, talked
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to, I needed to talk to, you know, and you know, got everything done.
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So, I mean, the judging and stuff like doesn't have until later in the afternoon.
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So, I mean, it goes late into the day.
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So, I mean, it can be for a long day, you know, but Hey, we're staying there.
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God bless you.
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I had to get back to Atlanta because I had an early, early flight,
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uh, in the morning on Monday.
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So, I needed to get to the airport early, uh, and thank God I did
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because TSA was an absolute nightmare.
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It took me over an hour to go through TSA, and luckily I got there early, got
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an early flight, and got home in time.
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But anyways, so, but the big thing is, like I was kind of talking about,
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you know, this is the second year that Hagerty has owned the event.
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Now, last year going, you know, you kind of see a big difference
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in regards to the quality of cars, the amount of cars they had there.
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And again, this year too.
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They don't seem to get the amount of cars that Bill was getting.
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Because here's the thing, Bill Warner did not charge you to
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have your car in the event.
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Didn't charge you.
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Haggard is charging you to bring your car and have it in the event.
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So, there's a big change there, so that's why a lot of people said screw that.
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And, and it ain't, it ain't cheap.
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I'm not exactly sure, but, normal concourse, you're talking 150, 200 bucks.
41:11
I think they charge five to six hundred dollars, maybe something like that.
41:13
And I could be wrong, so if I am wrong, shoot me an email, correct me, you
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know, I haven't really looked into it.
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But it ain't cheap.
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So they're charging people down to have their cars in the show.
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So there's a big change right there So but you notice the big difference is there's
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a lot less cars there and I won't say by half But pretty close to half the amount
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of cars that um now the qualities there.
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That's for sure I mean, there's no doubt about that but it's just you don't have
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the same amount of cars as you go around look and You know, again, they're,
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they're, they get kind of heavy with the pre war stuff, and those cars were
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absolutely gorgeous, don't get me wrong, the craftsmanship and watching what the
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hell those things, I mean, absolutely beautiful cars, brilliant craftsmanship,
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you know, you get up and look at these cars, I mean, it's unbelievable what they
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did back then with just hand tools, doing everything by hand, you know, they didn't
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have, you know, all this stuff that they have this day and age, everything was done
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by hand, so absolutely stunning stuff.
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So, but I mean it's getting there.
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It's going to take them some time, you know, a few more years I think they'll
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get in the groove But I think they're gonna have to tweak a few things to
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bring back the amount of quality and quality of cars They got some work to do.
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But hey, you know, they're getting you know, they're doing all right
42:24
They you know, they've acquired a few other events around the country.
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So they're getting a lot of practice.
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That's for sure So but anyways, the one other thing I did not mention I
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forgot to mention because Saturday morning we were gonna go early, but it
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was raining So we said, well, we were going to go to the Brumos collection.
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So we did that first and said, now, if you're ever in Jacksonville,
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I highly recommend, go to the Brumos collection and check it out.
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Absolutely phenomenal facility.
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Dan Davis, the owner, he, you know, he owned Brumos Porsche in the dealership.
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He sold them a few years back.
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He kept the Brumos name.
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He kept all the vintage race cars and all that, and stuff like that.
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He has a lot of them.
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Uh, so he built this gorgeous facility.
43:06
And, uh, it's kind of They took off a reminiscent of the Ford
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plant that was in Jacksonville.
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Super cool.
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Exposed brick.
43:13
It's a gorgeous facility.
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If you're in Jacksonville, please go.
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In a lot, a good two to three hours to go through it.
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Super nice people to walk you around with.
43:21
Kind of go over everything, but nice interactive displays.
43:25
I mean, it's super cool.
43:26
Definitely, definitely go to the Brunel's Collection when
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you're down in Jacksonville.
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Anyways, that's a wrap it up.
43:33
I know this was kind of a thing about talking about everything.
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Seemed to kind of, you know, talk about some Porsche, talk about
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some Ferrari, stuff like that.
43:38
But this is more about, hey, just what I did over in the meal guy weekend.
43:41
Talk a little bit about the auctions, uh, and that kind of stuff.
43:44
So, you know, kind of a mismatch.
43:46
Hey, this is kind of actually one of the longest episodes I've done.
43:49
I wasn't sure I was going to even get 10 minutes out of this, but look at that.
43:51
It's almost 45 minutes long.
43:53
Hey, so if you got stuck in traffic, this is a good one to listen to, right?
43:56
But anyways.
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Again, I really appreciate everybody listening and doing the downloads.
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Um, you know, we're getting up there, we're creeping up there.
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You know, um, we're getting there.
44:05
So I really, really appreciate it.
44:06
So spread the word, put it out there.
44:08
Again, check out the websites.
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So, um, sign up.
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I can't sign you up for the newsletter, but it's coming.
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So once we get that kind of up and going, just keep an eye on it.
44:24
Check out the YouTube channel, uh, Garage 65.
44:27
Very simple because it kind of just covers everything.
44:29
Now I got the subset ones for the Ferrari Marketplace, the Porsche Marketplace.
44:32
Where those will be, you know, brand specific.
44:36
I can get that out.
44:37
But Garage 65, we're going to do a lot of cool stuff.
44:39
I want to go check out museums.
44:41
We're going to check out fabricators.
44:43
check out a bunch of stuff and just have some fun with it.
44:45
And here's our goal with all this.
44:48
Now we're going to acquire cars and whatnot to drive and have some fun with.
44:51
Go to Cars Coffee and kind of do, have those interact with it.
44:54
But and also what we're going to do is to help support.
44:57
I'm a big advocate for Make A Wish I'm a wish granted Make A Wish
45:00
and also a huge animal advocate.
45:02
I volunteered a few animal shelters So we're going to try and coordinate and
45:06
help do we can with the cars to help these, you know May help Make A Wish help
45:11
these children, you know, get what they want help them out But also help these
45:13
animal shelters and find these, you know, these beautiful animals are forever home
45:17
So we're gonna try and make this, you know beneficial to everybody involved.
45:21
So try and raise money, but Our big goal, we want to buy an F40, because
45:27
what we want to do with this F40 is we're going to drive it, we're
45:29
going to drive the shit out of it.
45:31
We're going to take people for drives, we're going to go all over the place,
45:33
we're going to take these kids from Make A Wish, take them for rides.
45:36
So we're going to do a lot with this car, so if you can, please like and
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subscribe, pass this around, because the more we can get, we can generate
45:43
the revenue, we can get up there, we can get this F40, and go and have a lot
45:46
of fun with it, and just have everyone else enjoy it, and do everything we can
45:51
to not only Help these kids, you know, have some fun with it or, you know, uh,
45:54
go into probably, you know, the worst times of their lives, you know, battling
45:58
these diseases they have, but also help raise money for these animal shelters
46:02
and find these animals are new forever.
46:05
Again, I really, really appreciate everybody listening.
46:07
Um, sorry, this is what kind of rambled a bit, but hey, you know what?
46:10
I hope you guys enjoy it Uh next week new episode coming up.
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Uh, not quite sure what i'm going to talk about next week
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I haven't thought about it.
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So maybe something fun and exciting.
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So we'll see.
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So guys, I appreciate it.
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Everybody.
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