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Northwest Exotics' Tom Fathi and Will Melfi · That Car Show

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  And I look to my right and the first people I see are Gordon
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  Murray talking to Gordon Ramsay. I was like, OK, that's how this
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  evening is. Today on that car show, we
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  welcome our friends Tom Fathy and Will Melfi of Northwest
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  Exotics. You know, the show, NW Exotics
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  has become one of the top events of its kind in the country.
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  And it was all started by a 15 year old.
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  Tom's a few years older now and he's learned a lot in that short
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  time. And truthfully, there's a lot to
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  learn from this conversation, from Fiddler Cars and letting
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  people down gently, to learning to love conflict and asking for
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  what you want. This is a really insightful
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  conversation and a real template to running a successful
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  automotive enthusiast event. Also, that Gordon and that one
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  too. It's Tom Fathy and Will Melfi
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  from Northwest Exotics, and it's that car show.
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  Tonight we are joined by some of our car friends from the Pacific
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  Northwest for a change, Tom Fathy of Northwest Exotics and
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  Will Melfi of 1 Drivers Club. Hi guys, Thanks so much for
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  being here. Thanks for having us.
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  Excited to be, very excited to be here.
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  So Tom started NW Exotics when he was just 15, and it's now in
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  its sixth year. It takes place on the shores of
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  Lake Washington at Carillon Point, which is an absolutely
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  beautiful venue. Northwest Exotics presents a
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  curated display of exceptional vehicles.
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  Last year there was a Senna. Just in case there's any doubt
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  of the level of caliber of the cars, they're fantastic.
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  The vehicles span pre war classics to modern hyper cars.
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  Each car is intentionally selected to highlight an
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  important aspect of automotive design, engineering and history.
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  The event attracts both collectors and enthusiasts from
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  across the region and beyond, offering a rare opportunity to
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  experience the world's most notable automobiles in the
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  Pacific of West. And it is a lovely event.
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  So congratulations on year six. Will Malfi is currently the
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  General Manager of 1 Driver's Club, which is a beautiful car
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  storage and social club in Redmond, WA.
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  Will comes from a car enthusiast background on the East Coast and
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  we met when we were both working for Haggerty.
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  Will was managing the garage and social and I would work there
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  frequently. So definitely we got to be
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  coworkers at the time. And I'm lucky to consider I'm a
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  friend now. And Will is definitely the
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  heartbeat of 1 Driver's Club. And Will and Tom have teamed up
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  for something they're going to share about tonight.
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  So welcome, guys. We're so happy you're here.
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  Like I said, great to be here, great to be here with Will.
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  Thank you guys. I know we're fitted in on a
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  Monday. Like I said, I just came from a
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  video shoot, so that's why this is on me.
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  I'm not always just wrapping my brand, but here we are.
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  Nothing wrong with that though. So will, if you can share a
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  little bit about your kind of career path and background, you
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  know, before you landed in Redmond and then Tom will hear
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  about your background and then we can sort of jump into the
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  events. Yes.
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  Absolutely. Sounds good.
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  I'll go first time. I guess.
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  I am from New York City, Rockaway Beach, which is like
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  the southernmost tip of New York City, made famous by the Ramones
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  and kind of grew up in that era where cars were a big deal.
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  Hip hop in the 90s and 2000s and you know, big wheels and things
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  of that nature. And so after college, just
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  wanted to get into the scene and I started working at, I guess
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  it's like the equivalent of car toys here in the Pacific
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  Northwest. I don't know what that would be,
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  you know, but you know, kind of a 12 Volt shop, you're doing
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  stereos and alarms, things of that nature.
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  And that's where I got my start. A couple years later, started my
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  own place, my own shop called The Custom Shop, New York City.
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  Shout out to those guys, They are still around and doing very,
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  very well. Did that for a number of years
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  before getting into online auctions with the Pecar Market
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  and doing some private collection management on the
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  North Shore of Long Island, which if you know, you know, is
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  home to some of the best car collections in the world, and
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  found my way out here to Seattle.
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  Was lucky enough to get that job, like Lindsay said through
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  Haggerty where we became friends and yeah, very lucky.
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  I get to take care of some of the best cars in the area.
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  I've met some incredible people through the club.
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  It's just been an overall great experience.
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  So Tom, obviously you've been doing this for six years now,
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  but you started at a young enough age that there might not
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  be a tremendous work history, as it were, but sort of tell us
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  your background in terms of, like getting into cars and then,
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  yeah, I mean, how did you ultimately decide to start your
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  own Cars and coffee? Absolutely.
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  Yeah. So it was, I mean, one of the
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  quintessential stories. But I did not come from a car
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  family. That's like the one distinction.
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  I just loved Hot Wheels. And it was always, it's now a
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  joke, but I had so many Hot Wheels when I was a kid that
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  whenever I went to Fred Meyer, I would try to sneakily somehow
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  buy with my few shillings. I would have Hot Wheels without
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  my mom knowing. So she didn't know that.
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  I was. Oh yeah, Oh yeah.
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  And now it's like quadruple, like my room, it's bad.
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  It's down onto the floor still. Like I have 2000 Hot Wheels in
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  my room either way. So it's starting to know that,
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  Tom, I've known you for some time, this the first time I'm
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  hearing about this just. You should see it.
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  It's. Bad, but you owe me a picture.
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  Stick with that will, you're going to learn all the secrets.
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  There you go. So that's where it started.
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  And then, of course, mixed in that with that was Top Gear
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  guys, and watching that on YouTube.
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  And then I got to, you know, like 6th grades of aged 11/12
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  and got Instagram. And then I started to see these
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  photos of really cool cars. And I was like, Oh my God, like,
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  no way that exists. Yeah.
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  And so and then I started to just try to take cool photos of
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  cars. But it was with an iPod Touch,
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  which is like a microwave. And and then when I got to 8th
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  grade, so like age 14, my mom gifted me a camera of hers.
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  I started to go to like the Redmond Town Center car show and
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  take photos. Still don't know what I was
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  doing. And then freshman year of high
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  school when I just turned 15, I was just starting to take more
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  and more photos of cars, was becoming so much more enthralled
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  with them. And had this idea one night
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  laying in bed. I was like, I want to start a
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  car show. Don't know where that came from.
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  Went down the next morning to my parents at breakfast and I said,
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  I want to start a car show. And they said, well, that's
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  cool. How the hell are you going to do
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  that? Because again, it's not like
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  they were connected to anyone with cars or anything.
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  And I was like, I don't know, but I guess I'll figure it out.
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  And through so many people taking such major leaps on me
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  from two months into high school until now, it's become kind of
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  one of the big things in the Pacific Northwest.
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  And then hopefully, especially after three weeks from now with
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  our upcoming event. So that's like the Spark
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  SparkNotes. I currently attend College in
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  California in Los Angeles at Love Illinois.
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  Now I study business entrepreneurship.
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  And so that has kind of gone hand in hand with realizing like
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  how you can grow things and how how you run a business and
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  different things like that. And so I'm going into my senior
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  year of college as well down there in 4 weeks.
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  So I get to do the car shows, my full time job, I take for car
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  photography on the side for extra cash and I get to be in
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  school and it's freaking awesome so.
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  Where do you start? I mean, yeah, where do you?
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  I mean, how how do you find a place?
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  How do you start getting people to come?
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  And does it start with one car? I mean, what?
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  Take us back to the beginning. Absolutely, yeah.
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  And I'll, I'll try to keep it brief here because I could draw
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  it out, but I've gotten pretty good at keeping it short.
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  Like I said, I just had this idea and knew no one.
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  And so I've been to 1 car show at Carillon Point, which is this
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  beautiful place, as Lindsay mentioned, right on the water in
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  Kirkland, WA. And they, they did a Porsche
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  show there. And I was like, oh, like that's
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  the place for a car show. And so I went to their little
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  message request box on their website and I would send a
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  message, send a message again. And I didn't hear back.
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  And This is why moms are awesome.
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  My mom, after like 2 months of me trying that, called them and
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  was like, hey, my son is trying to meet you guys, can you just
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  respond to him? And this this gentleman
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  responded to me and said, hey, we'll take a meeting with you.
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  And so two months into my freshman year of high school,
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  went in there like their boardroom, you don't hug any
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  table, leatherback chairs, the whole thing.
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  My mom helped me make like an agenda, but I, you know, led the
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  meeting and just kind of explained my vision and they
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  were like, OK, so are these going to be like your friends
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  cars? I said no, no, no, no.
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  These are cool cars. For reference, I'm 15.
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  Yeah, and so and she said OK, I don't see why not, but that was
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  the profit manager at the time at Carillon Point.
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  Wow. And looking back now, I mean,
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  I'm only 21 now, but I would not even say yes to a 15 year old.
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  Like 15 is so young. I mean, it's insane.
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  So I have no idea. And it's not like I had a
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  history either. Like I didn't have any work
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  experience. I had nothing.
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  But she said yes. And so from there, that was in
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  October of 2019-2020 was coming around.
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  You know, car season picks up here around March and then we
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  know what happened on March 11th of 2020.
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  And that was the biggest blessing in disguise.
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  Like I think this we will probably not be here if COVID
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  hadn't happened because it didn't know anyone, as I
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  mentioned, but I thought I could do it over COVID.
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  We couldn't have our first show, but I started to get to know
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  like just enough people that by the time we exited COVID and
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  like we were talking about I it all started with just DM ING
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  people on Instagram and there was this guy who our logo is a
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  career GT. It's on the back of the shirt
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  along with Northwest Exotics. And I was always enthralled with
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  that car. And I found the guy on Instagram
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  two days before this promo shoot we were doing in the middle of
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  COVID. If we could not do a show, but
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  we thought we'd do the photo shoot.
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  And he had a courage ET seemingly and was seemingly in
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  the Seattle area. And I was like, hey, man, I
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  don't know you, you don't know me, but we're doing this photo
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  shoot. Would you want to come?
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  And he said, sounds fun. And because I think like his
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  involvement in a few other people's involvement at the
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  beginning. By the time we then had the
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  first show, we had a courage ET there, which in Seattle like
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  kind of a big deal and it was a very much so a local cars and
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  coffee at that point with maybe 80 people and then we can get
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  into it more. But it now it's gone far beyond
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  that. So that our first show was in
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  June of 2021 and now it's August 2020.
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  Six. Yeah, yeah, it's.
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  Our sixth season. Yeah.
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  Wow, wow. Was it that CGT that you know,
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  really, you know, you knew you had something?
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  It was that and then a different buddy who again, there's some
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  serendipity things that are just crazy to happen.
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  My dad got a new job right at that exact time in 2021 right
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  before our first show. And one of his new Co workers
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  husbands is one of the biggest car collectors in Seattle.
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  Can't make it up. And that just happened.
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  And he owns the fully exposed carbon fiber Ford GT, which at
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  the time was brand new to the area.
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  And so it was the four GT in that 4 GT next to each other.
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  And at that point, everyone had been so deprived of cars because
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  of COVID. Well, I say it was like just
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  enough people and just enough cool cars to like be somewhat
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  legitimate. And then you know how you build
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  something, it's just brick by brick.
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  And it's been brick by brick for six years now.
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  And it's, I pinch myself every day.
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  It's crazy. It's crazy.
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  That's awesome. Well, and so you guys are now
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  working together on something that I'm really excited to hear
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  about. It's a weekend destination event
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  after Car Week every year. This is the second year.
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  So we would love to hear like, tell us about the event.
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  Tell us what made you decide to build the event in addition to
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  the show. Like, just tell us the story.
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  Totally. And this is where Will kind of
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  comes in the story more because as I mentioned, Will and I met
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  each other about 3 years ago. I think Will right and then you
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  know, just hit it off because you know you're at that, you're
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  in the same industry and then you kind of know a lot of the
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  same people. You know how that goes.
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  And so you. Say, Tom, you were you were at
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  one point, not anymore. But Tom was a lowly car spotter.
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  You know, guy. You're.
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  A leaper and leak in and out of wherever he could and get photos
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  wherever he could. And you know, the joke among the
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  industry is that Tom is the, you know, 40 year old, 21 year old.
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  So he he absolutely, you know, came in and made a great
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  impression on both myself, a lot of our clients, you know, that's
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  how he has all the connection with these collectors and what
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  not is because he carries himself very well.
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  But you know, Tom and I instantly clicked.
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  I was really impressed Tom with your knowledge of pre war stuff.
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  You know, most guys his age are all about Kona Sags and you
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  know, Paganis and Hyper cars and GT3 RSS.
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  And, you know, Tom shows me well, hey, you know, what about
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  this, you know, Alpha 6C or, you know, the Bentley blue train or
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  one of those things. And that's just really
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  incredible. I think that, you know, he has
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  such knowledge and passion for cars.
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  But I figured I'd throw that in there, Tom, because that's
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  really the, the, you know, the foundation of our relationship.
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  And from there, you know, Tom has deduced me to people that I
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  can only have thought I would have met my wildest dreams.
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  So yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's like I
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  said, it's been crazy how it's all progressed and how quickly,
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  like where Will manages and like Will is one of my best friends
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  and all these things now. It used to be like the forbidden
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  place as I mentioned, but. What do you mean by that?
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  It was just that exclusive. Yeah, it was, yeah.
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  Yeah. It was originally built for a
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  private families collection. And then, yeah, Lindsay, when
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  when you and I kind of started to come around there, Haggerty
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  had tried to open it up to a, you know, regional group of
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  people. But they what they didn't
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  realize is like the Haggerty clients and the type of clients
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  that we have, they intersect somewhat, but not your average
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  Haggerty client, right? So you're not really having the
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  guy who has a 69 Mustang or a 68 Camaro, he doesn't really need
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  storage. And so they kind of, you know,
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  fumble that. But in doing what they did is
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  they opened it up to the community.
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  And I think that was one of the best things that happened with
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  the place is that more people had access.
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  And I love sharing the cars with, you know, those that are
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  respectful, a car person, whether you drive a, you know,
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  Hyundai Lantra or a, you know, or a 250 GTO, we all love cars.
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  So it's kind of a cool thing. And that's another way having me
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  and Tom connected so much because we wanted to take that
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  that sharing thing to the next level.
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  Well, I just want to give you a shout out because you the
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  facility there is fantastic. I got to see it about a year ago
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  and came around a corner or whatever.
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  And so how well what was there and there was just some amazing,
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  amazing stuff. I mean really of of all eras,
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  just high quality stuff. The, the place itself is really
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  beautiful. She has a great vibe.
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  You know, it's, it's, it's a place you want to hang out,
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  which is I, I think a big challenge for places like yours,
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  right? Sometimes you just don't feel
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  that welcome, right, even if you're renting a spa, right?
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  And, and your right place has a really nice, nice vibe, so.
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  No, thank you, Thank you. And I think Lindsay could attest
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  that at one point it wasn't like that.
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  It was kind of cold. It was like a museum almost in
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  some ways. And you were like afraid to make
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  a sound, but you know, now again, like we have people of
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  all, you know, ilks we have, you know, 10 figure clients that
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  have 20 cars, you know, down to a guy who, you know, his pride
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  and joy is AI don't know midnight 7 Carrera, right, or
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  something like that. And that's all cool.
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  Like again, we treat everybody the same and we're just all in
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  it for the love of the game. And I think that's how it also
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  relates to Northwest Exotics or any of the shows that we're
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  involved in is just we want to do it for the culture.
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  Seattle definitely has a lot to show.
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  We have a lot of cars here. We have a lot of collectors
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  here. And I think it's kind of just
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  not really looked at the same as the other West Coast cities, you
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  know, primarily like Los Angeles and even some of the stuff in
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  North Cal. I mean, you know, right, Tom, I
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  think you would agree. We have some pretty heavy hitter
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  collectors and cars up here still do even after some of them
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  have left. Yeah, it's a, it's a really
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  special collector community up here that I kind of say I like,
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  I've grown up in, in a way and I I'll speak on it more in a bit.
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  But it's a really special community up here that people
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  obviously like don't really know exists on a broad scale.
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  But the people here who make up this community and will and I
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  will, I'm with some of them today.
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  I've met with hosted at at their place.
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  They're some of the biggest names in the industry.
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  You know, we're talking ex chairmans of Pebble Beach, the
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  chairman by the name of Glenn Munger.
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  He was the chairman of Pebble Beach for about a decade.
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  He started the preservation class, which is now a major
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  thing, right? They had a best of show in 2024.
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  That was a preservation car, which no one ever imagined that
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  would happen, right? All these folks who they're,
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  they're here like this is their place and getting to know them
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  has been really, really cool. And I feel very like a bit like,
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  you know, they're also all, you know, a bit older.
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  And so I feel like they're done getting to meet, meet them,
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  being part of their lives. Well, Tom, it's 21.
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  Everyone is older, Yeah. Just a little bit.
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  I envy your youth. He was hanging out with a bunch
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  of octogenarians. They were.
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  A. Lot older.
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  They were older. I'm almost 40.
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  They were older by my standards. So, OK, right out.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good way to feel young.
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  You'll accept that standard. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Glenmunger is a long time Colorado grand partition and
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  that's, that's something that I'm involved with.
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  And yeah, I, I want to come back to that down, down the road.
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  But, you know, we were talking about just getting this thing
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  started. I mean, because there are things
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  that that someone like, you know, me sitting here just has
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  no idea that goes into the planning or, or just, you know,
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  the, where do you start? I mean, do you need insurance?
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  Like, you know, how do you vet the cars?
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  You know, people on the grand, they always ask us what, you
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  know, why does one car qualify to get in the other dozen,
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  right. And I'm speaking about NW
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  exotics now, right? So what are your criteria and,
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  and how have you handled some of the maybe the people that you
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  know, maybe get a little, you know, a little pissed off when
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  their car isn't welcomed or Yeah, yeah, all all these
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  politics, right? How do you?
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  Handle. I would imagine he's in the
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  middle of it given his expression right now.
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  Yeah, well, yeah. So, you know, it's strange
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  because as I mentioned, it's not like I started this as a Cars
• 18:31
  and Coffee and it's still a Cars and coffee and where it's it has
• 18:34
  not remained the same over the past six years.
• 18:37
  And so that's an interesting part that I think there's had to
• 18:39
  been some, there's been adjustment in the community as
• 18:42
  it started from me trying to get, you know, with a certain
• 18:46
  standard, anything I could share because I wanted to put
• 18:48
  something together. And then it just naturally grew.
• 18:51
  You know how you know people, if people like something, they
• 18:53
  introduce you to other folks and then it just grows and grows and
• 18:56
  grows Until that was the first four years was kind of a higher
• 19:01
  end. Cars and coffee.
• 19:02
  We do it two to three times a year.
• 19:04
  I would take kind of any exotic or classic I could get with a
• 19:09
  certain standard. And then as I mentioned, I'm in
• 19:12
  Business School right now and I started to get more and more
• 19:15
  involved in the world and realize like what this could
• 19:17
  become. And for one, how much I just
• 19:20
  love it. I mean, that's why I can never
• 19:21
  stop thinking about. It's what I live and breathe and
• 19:23
  love so much. So my freshman year of college,
• 19:28
  excuse me, my sophomore year of college, I've realized I want to
• 19:31
  kind of take the next step, which is making a place a
• 19:34
  destination, right? In a bigger way than just
• 19:37
  locally. Because for the most part, cars
• 19:39
  would come from within 30 minutes.
• 19:41
  I was like, wow, Seattle doesn't have many shows that are big at,
• 19:46
  at a certain caliber of car. And I'm at this kind of
• 19:51
  inflection point of, oh, it could become something a lot
• 19:53
  bigger. And I, I'm lucky to know a lot
• 19:55
  of a lot of folks who have some really cool cars.
• 19:57
  And then this is where I'm a, I'm a firm believer and just
• 20:00
  like throwing the line out there, seeing where it lands and
• 20:03
  then just figuring out how to get there.
• 20:05
  There's if you sat, you could sit here all day long.
• 20:08
  They're like, oh, well, there's a million reasons not to do that
• 20:10
  or wait, do this or do that. And I've realized like the
• 20:13
  beauty of entrepreneurship is just making shit happen.
• 20:16
  Yeah. And it's simply that, and
• 20:20
  there's a million things that go wrong on the way there and so
• 20:22
  many things don't go your way. But I, I'm a firm believer in
• 20:27
  failing above everyone else's successes.
• 20:29
  So working so hard and having a vision that's so big, that
• 20:32
  failure for me is still one of the best.
• 20:37
  Until last year, we got to a point where I want to make it
• 20:40
  more of a weekend of events. And so we added on a private
• 20:43
  event at a gentleman's collection on a in an evening.
• 20:47
  And then the next day we moved over to Caroline Point and did a
• 20:50
  bigger, bigger public show. And that last year was this big
• 20:54
  step of we brought in cars from 4 different states.
• 20:58
  And Pagani sent a car up from California, a friend sent their
• 21:04
  F1 car from California. Ford sent out one of their brand
• 21:07
  new GTDS at that point out from Detroit.
• 21:11
  And then, you know, the caliber was rising locally, too.
• 21:15
  And so we kind of got to a new level last year.
• 21:18
  And I was a bit more intentional about the cars I was inviting
• 21:24
  and selecting. And so it was kind of this other
• 21:27
  stepping stone. And then after that, I was like,
• 21:30
  oh, we're going all in, all in. And so now for the last eight
• 21:34
  months, I've been, if I'm not in class or not hanging out with
• 21:38
  friends often, but also I'm very selective with that because this
• 21:43
  takes time and so much work to execute on what I want to
• 21:47
  execute on, which I'll get into in a second here.
• 21:50
  But you know, you make a lot of sacrifice to chase your dream.
• 21:53
  And like I said, if I'm not doing other work, I'm doing this
• 21:56
  work. And this summer, I mean, I'm on
• 21:58
  a college summer, but I'm working 12 to 16 hours a day on
• 22:02
  this because it's one of those like the To Do List is eternal.
• 22:06
  There's always a million more things you could do and the
• 22:08
  beauty of entrepreneurship is it's up to you to make it happen
• 22:10
  and no one else. Well, but then there's also a
• 22:14
  team that comes with it, which has also been a major learning
• 22:16
  point of mine. And that's where Will comes into
• 22:19
  play. And this year, last year, Will
• 22:23
  was very on hands on with our events, but not the planning.
• 22:28
  And Will, I think kind of shared the same vision of what this all
• 22:30
  could become. And so for the past kind of 6 to
• 22:33
  8 months, Will has been so much more involved and just boots on
• 22:37
  the ground because I'm in in LA for part of the year for school,
• 22:40
  boots on the ground here, obviously knows a lot of people
• 22:42
  as well. And then again, just making
• 22:44
  stuff happen. Like that's the biggest thing.
• 22:45
  You just have to get stuff done. Will understands that more than
• 22:47
  anyone else. And so Will has been integral
• 22:51
  into this year. I'm just being that guy who's
• 22:54
  making those last minute connections, you know, whether
• 22:56
  it's with a transporter, a collector, an owner, and just
• 23:00
  facilitating it. And then really, you know,
• 23:02
  getting those little details and figured out as well.
• 23:06
  Because, and I haven't really gotten into like what this all
• 23:08
  entails and like what I work on probably 16 hours a day.
• 23:11
  But I don't know, Will, if you want to sustain anything up
• 23:13
  until that point of kind of how you've gotten more involved and
• 23:16
  what you saw with the events and such.
• 23:19
  Sure, well, thank you Tom, That was some very kind words from
• 23:22
  you. I appreciate that what I had
• 23:24
  seen and I can tell you from my perspective coming to I think
• 23:27
  your what, second or third show, right was the first one I ever
• 23:30
  went to came to it's the 5th, the 5th show.
• 23:33
  Wow, OK, well they're good. But you know Tom, I showed up
• 23:36
  and I remember talking and I was like, wow, this is great.
• 23:37
  You have some good stuff, but do you remember Tom?
• 23:39
  One of the first things I said to him, I said, well, you have
• 23:41
  some filler cars. You have some cars here that are
• 23:44
  really, really crazy and then you have some stuff here that's
• 23:46
  just, you know, it's OK, it's cool for a car show, but what
• 23:49
  are you looking to do? And the evolution that I've seen
• 23:52
  since then made it where after the show we did last year, if
• 23:56
  you remember, Tom, I said, how are we going to top that?
• 23:58
  Because, you know, we had the first and only Ferrari SP3
• 24:03
  Daytona that was delivered to Washington.
• 24:05
  We had the Bruce McLaren can amcar.
• 24:09
  I'm blanking on the exact name here.
• 24:11
  But there was just some stuff that obviously a lot of
• 24:13
  attention went into and only someone can pull off with the
• 24:16
  connections that, you know, Tom and, and myself and other folks
• 24:19
  on our team have made. So, you know, this year when we
• 24:21
  were thinking about this, I think that the obvious intention
• 24:25
  for myself and Tom was just let's give them the best car
• 24:29
  show that Seattle has ever seen in history.
• 24:32
  And we're going to do our best to work on that.
• 24:34
  And so far, I think that if we, you know, we're still planning
• 24:38
  and moving today with 20 days to go.
• 24:41
  But if we stopped working today on getting stuff, I think that
• 24:44
  we would still have probably the best lineup of cars that that
• 24:49
  any show is shown in Seattle. Not to pat ourselves on the
• 24:53
  back, but I think that think we've gotten there.
• 24:56
  One of the biggest things I think being that we're going to
• 24:58
  get together the Ferrari BIG6 in Washington and in one of the few
• 25:04
  times in the United States that it's been done.
• 25:06
  And for, you know a couple of guys from the area that are not
• 25:09
  a dealership or not a big organization, that was quite a
• 25:13
  task. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:15
  I'm, I'm curious because you mentioned it.
• 25:16
  You talked about the filler cars.
• 25:18
  When I was a kid growing up at Christmas, my my late Grandma
• 25:21
  Betty would always give the best Christmas gifts, like a
• 25:24
  skateboard, like a Santa Cruz skateboard or a boom box.
• 25:27
  But then she'd have what she'd call filler inners between.
• 25:29
  It'd be like a colouring book or a matchbox car, right.
• 25:32
  So what were these filler cars? Like what?
• 25:34
  What? You know what?
• 25:35
  Yeah. So this is.
• 25:38
  As an enthusiast, they're awesome cars, but let me give
• 25:40
  you context. OK.
• 25:41
  You would walk into the show and you would see a, you know,
• 25:46
  Ferrari 166 Millimiglia, right, which is car #10 built from the
• 25:50
  time with Ferrari factory. Tom, am I referring to that car
• 25:53
  correctly? Yes.
• 25:54
  Yeah, the the 16 MMM, Barketa. And it's yeah, yeah, serial
• 25:58
  number number 0010. So it's yeah.
• 26:00
  So like the 10th, the 10th Ferrari ever built.
• 26:02
  Yeah. And you're gonna go around the
• 26:04
  show and you have this insane stuff and then you'd get to a
• 26:06
  row and it's, and this is please no hate, a bunch of C8 Corvettes
• 26:10
  and Cadillac V cars. Now, as an enthusiast, I think
• 26:14
  the CA Corvette is an amazing car, best friend for the buck
• 26:16
  you can probably get. And the Cadillac V cars are
• 26:19
  amazing. You know, good on them for
• 26:21
  continuing to make a rear wheel drive V8 manual sedan, which is
• 26:24
  amazing. But there was definitely a
• 26:26
  disjointed idea where like, I see where Tom wanted to go and I
• 26:29
  see the connections that he had, but he can only pull so many
• 26:32
  cars from those people, you know, for maybe they have one
• 26:35
  person working that collection, right?
• 26:37
  So he still wanted to have a full parking lot and and that
• 26:40
  was kind of the filler car. So again, great cars, but for
• 26:43
  the caliber of what he was trying to do.
• 26:45
  And I think that I identified that early on.
• 26:47
  It was one of the first conversations that you know, him
• 26:49
  and I ever had. And I hope that he appreciates
• 26:52
  that I was candid. That was the roots though, and
• 26:55
  that's why I'm like, I'm that was like where it started,
• 26:57
  right? Exactly.
• 26:58
  And those cars like through GT and the Cadillac V Club would
• 27:00
  show up and show out for me and. At the same club.
• 27:03
  Yeah, exactly. And that was the community,
• 27:04
  which I give a lot of respect for.
• 27:05
  But as an outsider who just came from New York, I was like, oh,
• 27:08
  this is interesting. I see he's got one thing here
• 27:10
  and then he's got one thing here.
• 27:11
  And I think here in 2026 at this show our I'll make a joke on our
• 27:17
  filler cars. Tom and I have made this joke.
• 27:18
  Our filler cars would be headlining other shows.
• 27:21
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, there's something to be
• 27:23
  said about situational awareness too.
• 27:25
  If you're a Corvette driver. I mean, you know, take a look
• 27:28
  around if there's, you know, a car like that Ferrari, you know,
• 27:33
  time to take your new balances and and you know, go a couple
• 27:38
  blocks down the road. Right.
• 27:39
  Yeah, right. I love those cars too, just.
• 27:41
  For contrast. I I know the car behind me.
• 27:44
  I love it, but it's probably not getting in your show.
• 27:46
  I accept that, right? You know, but, but how do you,
• 27:49
  how do you break the news to people?
• 27:50
  I mean, I suppose now that you've done this for a while,
• 27:52
  people kind of know what to expect.
• 27:54
  But you know how? How do you let people down
• 27:57
  gently? Yeah, it's I hate, I used to
• 28:01
  hate conflict that has. Changed last year.
• 28:03
  Used to hate conflict. I'm learning all kinds of life
• 28:06
  lessons from you. Yeah, man.
• 28:08
  Yeah. But then you learn again, if if
• 28:11
  you want to actually do stuff, you're going to make people
• 28:14
  unhappy. And it was, it's never my
• 28:17
  intention. I never want to make someone
• 28:19
  unhappy. But when you have a vision and I
• 28:22
  have a major issue like with complacency, I always want to be
• 28:24
  getting better no matter what it is in my life.
• 28:27
  And so you have to make decisions.
• 28:30
  And like we talked about, there's a decision with getting
• 28:33
  it to a certain caliber that I want and then also making it a
• 28:35
  ticket event, which this is the first year, it's a ticket event,
• 28:39
  which we'll get into in a second.
• 28:40
  And there's, you know, there was a lot of intention behind that
• 28:42
  and it wasn't, Oh my God, I'm going to start this charge 60
• 28:46
  bucket ticket and pocket it all. I'm going to most likely
• 28:49
  actually lose money on the sucker even if I sell the show
• 28:52
  out. Yeah, Tom's not getting a career
• 28:54
  GT everyone. Just so you know.
• 28:56
  It's just not. A quick ticket.
• 28:57
  To the career. Yeah, well, if the prices keep
• 28:59
  don't stop going up, none of us ever will, right?
• 29:04
  And I don't need to make money off of this.
• 29:06
  And this is not my intention. I'm also lucky enough that I'm
• 29:08
  still in college and I'm still supported by my parents right
• 29:10
  now. So I don't my life is not
• 29:12
  relying on the show, which I feel very lucky to have that.
• 29:17
  But to answer your question then get into that ticketing thing,
• 29:19
  because it's very relevant to one of the biggest things I'm
• 29:21
  dealing with right now as we speak is I think to your point,
• 29:27
  a lot of people understand, they can see what's happening with
• 29:30
  the event and they understand that it, it is growing and
• 29:32
  changing. Now there's the folks that see
• 29:34
  that and I think don't understand.
• 29:37
  And like we had some backlash when we kind of announced that
• 29:39
  we were taking this year that our show was elitist.
• 29:42
  And I, I don't really know what to besides the fact that if you
• 29:48
  go to Tom, 6 year old Tom's bedroom, which is still right
• 29:51
  above my head and it has all those same Hot Wheels.
• 29:54
  You will see that the cars that were on my shelf since I was a
• 29:57
  kid, of the cars that are at the car show though, the just my
• 30:00
  passion, just like someone's passion might be JDM or I mean
• 30:04
  you name it. My passion has always been the
• 30:07
  nicer things, whether it be a classic pre war car or Pagani.
• 30:11
  My license plate on my Volvo I-60 is Zonda.
• 30:13
  My favorite car is a Pagani Zonda.
• 30:16
  Yeah, I've had that since I was 15.
• 30:18
  That's just my interest. And so that's why that's why the
• 30:20
  show has always been what it was.
• 30:22
  It's called NW Exotics because the only show I went to at the
• 30:25
  time of starting end was Exotics at Roman Town Center.
• 30:27
  So that was the only name I could have it had in my brain
• 30:31
  was Exotics somewhere. And my Instagram handle
• 30:35
  personally at that time was NW Exotics.
• 30:37
  And so people in middle school would call me NW Exotics.
• 30:41
  And so when I got to high school and then I was starting this, I
• 30:43
  was like, oh, well, that makes logical sense to name the show
• 30:45
  that. And now it's just begin with.
• 30:48
  That. Yeah.
• 30:49
  So anyways, telling people no is hard no matter what it is in
• 30:55
  life. But it's just, you know,
• 30:58
  explaining where we're at and that we're growing and that we
• 31:00
  also have very, very, very limited space.
• 31:02
  We can show about 65 to 70 cars in that lot small.
• 31:05
  And so that's always been a big part of it as well.
• 31:09
  And then also having themes, I think that's a major thing for
• 31:12
  Europe. You can work within a cool round
• 31:14
  to curate something. And for example, our our theme
• 31:17
  of this upcoming event is card cultures from around the globe.
• 31:20
  And where that came from was that I, I had a certain theme in
• 31:24
  my brain for this year when I was, I was studying about in
• 31:26
  London in the fall, from September to December and got to
• 31:30
  experience car culture there, which, Oh my God, is it cool and
• 31:34
  so different from here. And I go, you know, I've grown
• 31:37
  up here in this car culture. And then I experienced this, the
• 31:40
  LA car culture because I go to school full time there.
• 31:42
  And so I made it to three different car cultures and I was
• 31:45
  like, whoa, they are so vastly different from each other,
• 31:49
  people, dealerships, businesses, the cars that are produced
• 31:53
  there, just the overall vibe. And so I was like, that's the
• 31:56
  theme for this year is celebrating different car
• 31:59
  cultures and highlighting different parts of those
• 32:01
  cultures. And so that's.
• 32:04
  Super cool. Fitting cars into those themes,
• 32:06
  whatever the theme may be, right, as part of that curation
• 32:08
  process as well. And I'll get into that in a
• 32:11
  second of like this year and what we have coming and kind of
• 32:15
  the reasons why cars are there, right?
• 32:16
  It's knowing their history, knowing the history of those
• 32:18
  cultures and how those cars are significant to those cultures.
• 32:21
  And so that's part of the explaining that to people as
• 32:23
  well as, hey, you know, we're full all ready for one.
• 32:27
  And also we have folks from the from out of town and it's giving
• 32:29
  them an opportunity to show their cars here.
• 32:33
  It's kind of a whole. There's a whole mix of reasons
• 32:35
  and and most people don't, once I explain that, they totally
• 32:39
  understand it. You're curating it as a museum
• 32:42
  would do. Exactly.
• 32:43
  Right. You know, yeah, it's and that's
• 32:47
  that's the secret. I think, you know, it's it's,
• 32:51
  it's intentional, right? And I think that's something
• 32:53
  that's missing from a lot of these a lot of these events,
• 32:56
  but. And in life too, like you, I
• 32:59
  think you go places with intent. If you know where you're going,
• 33:02
  it's easier to see an opportunity going in front of
• 33:06
  you. If you don't know where you're
• 33:07
  going, that opportunity will just walk right by you and
• 33:10
  you'll never see it. And so it's being aware and
• 33:13
  they're like, I got to look at that or that or that person just
• 33:16
  said something and they know that person.
• 33:17
  That's like, oh, interesting. OK, I think we should.
• 33:20
  Tally up all the life lessons at the end of this episode.
• 33:24
  I heard the people listening because I mean you, you started
• 33:26
  with, you know, you found something you loved, right?
• 33:30
  And you ran with it. You know, you, you, you didn't
• 33:32
  take what was what was tossed your way.
• 33:34
  You know, you, you learn to say no.
• 33:36
  And you went after the things you did want, right?
• 33:38
  And you mentioned the, the, the, the admission.
• 33:42
  Lindsay, you know, I, I've never been to a show like this where
• 33:45
  that charges admission, right. What, what was the, I guess the,
• 33:50
  the, the tipping point for you or the inflection point?
• 33:54
  And, and talk a bit, if you would, about, you know, the
• 33:56
  reaction that you've gotten. I mean, Lindsay, would that
• 33:59
  scare you off? Or would that, would that, would
• 34:02
  that set a bomb for you? And please.
• 34:04
  Yeah, like what? We can handle it.
• 34:08
  Right. I know you guys are tough.
• 34:11
  I think it depends perceived. Value kind of thing.
• 34:14
  Yeah. And it's like how it's
• 34:15
  presented, I think the show has like it's clearly moved beyond a
• 34:21
  cars and coffee and it's not presented that way.
• 34:24
  And a lot of car shows, the way the show has been presented, you
• 34:30
  know, especially last year, it's sort of the level of caliber of
• 34:33
  it. I don't think it's that unusual
• 34:36
  that you need to buy a ticket for that type of event.
• 34:40
  Obviously, if it's if somebody says like, hey, I'm doing a cars
• 34:43
  and coffee and I'm charging admission, that's not something
• 34:45
  any of us have experienced and would take a little bit more,
• 34:49
  you know, sort of education, if you will, PR whatever.
• 34:54
  But no, I think that this level of event you think about like,
• 34:58
  you know, the Quail has an admission fee, Pebble has an
• 35:00
  admission fee and other. Yes they do.
• 35:04
  They do. Yeah. 1595 this year, is it
• 35:07
  Lindsay? I believe.
• 35:08
  I believe so. Yeah.
• 35:10
  Ballpark, you know, give or take, yeah.
• 35:13
  And I know that's what you guys are building this event to be.
• 35:16
  Is that type of like a destination event.
• 35:18
  So I think it's the context. Like it makes sense in that
• 35:21
  context. Yeah, yeah.
• 35:23
  And we'll all just kind of get this going and you can just
• 35:25
  speak to it because you're just so attuned to everything that's
• 35:28
  going on right now. To answer your question, Ryan, I
• 35:32
  realized last year as I tried to punch into this new level and we
• 35:35
  were so lucky to have a few folks send their cars and pay
• 35:38
  for it, find out that's not the norm.
• 35:42
  It's usually on the event organizer to pay for it,
• 35:44
  especially at this level when you're kind of you're not Pebble
• 35:47
  and Pebble still does pay for cars, but also people want their
• 35:49
  cars to be a Pebble, etcetera, etcetera.
• 35:51
  So last year that was like the first little inkling and then I
• 35:54
  had some, some cheap event insurance and then literally 3
• 35:59
  days, five days before the event, this thing came to
• 36:03
  fruition from a Ford and they were like, hey, just send us
• 36:05
  your COI. That's why I sent them my
• 36:06
  certificate of insurance. And they're like, dude, this
• 36:08
  isn't even close to what we need to send a car.
• 36:12
  And so this was a crazy story. In 88 minutes, I went from not
• 36:17
  having an insurance policy or having an insurance policy using
• 36:20
  ChatGPT to find a new person in 88 minutes.
• 36:24
  I don't know how this happened. This guy who I found online, I
• 36:28
  connected with him, he got in touch with all the people that
• 36:33
  he needed to and I had a policy underwritten from nothing in 88
• 36:37
  minutes to meet. For he was using ChatGPT too.
• 36:41
  Probably, and I don't know how it happened, but that cost alone
• 36:45
  was $4000 and I don't have money.
• 36:49
  I'm in college. I have a little bit, but that's
• 36:52
  not even that much. And so it's a lot of money yeah.
• 36:54
  My, my dad was kind enough to cover that last year because it
• 36:59
  was 5 days before the show. Literally we got that that box
• 37:03
  clicked and then that GTD got on the truck the next morning it
• 37:05
  came out here from Detroit. And so just those little touch
• 37:09
  points exactly. I was like, oh, if I want to do
• 37:13
  this and grill this to where I want to, we need money because
• 37:18
  we live in a capitalistic society and that's how things
• 37:20
  actually happen as I learned. And I didn't really think about
• 37:23
  that. And before that, and it was all
• 37:27
  sweet and dandy. And then that changed.
• 37:29
  And then I realized more and more as I just with the vision
• 37:32
  of what I had of what I want this to be, I was like, oh, I
• 37:35
  like really need money. Like you can't, I can't rely on
• 37:38
  people's goodwill to spend 5000 bucks to ship one car from
• 37:43
  California, let alone 10 or something like that.
• 37:47
  And and then with the other, just little, right?
• 37:51
  If someone's going to pay, they're going to need value
• 37:53
  beyond just the cars. And so it's all these little
• 37:55
  details to add up so fast, like our owner's breakfast that, you
• 38:01
  know, we like to treat the owners because they're being
• 38:03
  very kind and donating their vehicles and time time that's 10
• 38:06
  grand. A truck from California, that's
• 38:09
  a few 10s of grants, The insurance 5 grand, security, 5
• 38:14
  grand, all the event rentals, 10 grand.
• 38:16
  So we're already up like 45 right now.
• 38:18
  I don't even want to say the number that the number has
• 38:21
  gotten to of all of our line items on our budget or our
• 38:24
  expenses. And like I said, I don't have
• 38:28
  this money, bills not going to shell out this money.
• 38:31
  I'm not going to go to, you know, some big car collector and
• 38:33
  be like, give me 100 grand, although you could you're.
• 38:37
  You're very charming. Yeah, I guess so.
• 38:40
  Yeah, he could. I mean he definitely he gets, he
• 38:42
  gets cars worth in the, you know, 20 to $40 million.
• 38:45
  Well, I think one of the big things in Tom, I don't want to
• 38:47
  interrupt you, but I just want to add this to what you were
• 38:49
  saying. The show went from a a budget of
• 38:51
  4 digits to 6 digits very quickly.
• 38:55
  And so we realized, you know, there was only going to be one
• 38:57
  way, as Tom said. And yeah, I mean, we kind of
• 39:01
  knew that there would be a little bit of backlash.
• 39:03
  But, you know, I'm welcome to the opportunity of outside of
• 39:05
  the Peterson Museum and a few other shows like you mentioned,
• 39:09
  like the Quail, which is, you know, a lot more than we're
• 39:11
  charging. You're probably just not going
• 39:12
  to see this kind of stuff. And so I think it was just born
• 39:14
  out of necessity. But that was really for Tom's
• 39:17
  ambition. We just needed a budget that
• 39:19
  matched, you know, his, his vision.
• 39:22
  And it's still not even close to like the ultimate vision, but
• 39:24
  it's a big step. It's a big step something
• 39:28
  something about charging. Yeah.
• 39:30
  Yeah, Lindsay knows the story. Years ago, I was living in
• 39:33
  Chicago and we lived in an apartment building next to a
• 39:35
  bar. It's kind of a bike or bar.
• 39:36
  It's kind of a dive. And I think it was every Monday
• 39:38
  night to bring people in on a Monday night.
• 39:40
  They did $0.10 chicken wings, which seems like an incredible
• 39:43
  bargain in retrospect, but at the time it was kind of the
• 39:45
  going rate. This was years ago and but it
• 39:47
  brought in the wrong crowd, right?
• 39:49
  We had people pissing on our front door of our building,
• 39:52
  trash left behind, You know, we'd find weird things on the
• 39:54
  ground. You know, eventually, I guess
• 39:57
  $0.10 became too little to charge and they, they, they
• 40:00
  upped the price to $0.25. And like that, people stopped
• 40:04
  pissing on our front door. We stopped finding trash, you
• 40:07
  know, I mean, so it's just there's, there's something
• 40:09
  about. Upping the the the the admission
• 40:12
  cost right and and and retaining the right people I guess and.
• 40:17
  I I think it. Seems counterintuitive, but.
• 40:19
  Yeah, no, I, I don't. But I think in a way also it
• 40:21
  goes back to something Tom said before is that you're showing
• 40:24
  intention. So our guests know that if
• 40:26
  they're paying a little bit of money to see these things, it's
• 40:29
  because it's meaningful enough to them to want to go do that.
• 40:32
  The same way if you go to a, you know, a nice museum or
• 40:34
  something, even if they don't charge, maybe you donate because
• 40:36
  you say, hey, it's a pleasure for me to be able to look at
• 40:38
  this Rembrandt or Monet or whatever it might be.
• 40:40
  And these cars are no different than that.
• 40:43
  You know, one of the cover cars for our our poster is probably
• 40:47
  the most famous pre war car of all time, you know, the Bentley
• 40:50
  speed 6 blue train. And I think that it's explaining
• 40:54
  that to my girlfriend then what the quality was or the level of
• 40:57
  that car. I said this is the Mona Lisa of
• 40:59
  cars. It's definitely up there.
• 41:01
  And so I think that, you know, for what we're asking, you're
• 41:03
  not necessarily overcharging. You're supporting the community,
• 41:07
  You know, you're allowing things like this to happen continually
• 41:09
  into the future. And I don't know, I I agree with
• 41:12
  what you guys are saying, but sometimes there has to be a
• 41:14
  little barrier of entry to keep out the riffraff and to make
• 41:18
  sure that the people who are coming are coming to appreciate
• 41:20
  it. Yeah, I was.
• 41:22
  I'm kind of used to that at my job.
• 41:24
  Sometimes we got to do do that once in a while.
• 41:26
  So. Yeah.
• 41:26
  Yeah, and it's also, I wish it could be free and I wish
• 41:30
  everyone could come at no cost, but we.
• 41:33
  Tried to make it that way, Tom. Right, we did try.
• 41:35
  Exactly. And on that up until this point,
• 41:38
  we looked into it this year, you know, because you can get a good
• 41:41
  amount of money from sponsors, but not near to the amount we
• 41:44
  needed. But there's also a side of this
• 41:49
  to your point, Ryan, of control. And that is a major thing that
• 41:56
  we also almost learned our lesson on last year when there
• 41:59
  was some kids again, young enthusiasts.
• 42:01
  I'm so glad that they're there, but they're on their E bike in
• 42:03
  the show when there's a $40 million, two 75 yard Spider
• 42:07
  Ferrari sitting right there, that's an issue that cannot
• 42:11
  happen and nothing happened, but that there has to be control.
• 42:16
  And so there's that's also and then there's a safety aspect
• 42:19
  side of it too for people and the cars.
• 42:21
  And so that was also just a natural evolution.
• 42:23
  It's like, OK, you know, if this is where this is going, this has
• 42:26
  to be more controlled for everyone's sake.
• 42:30
  And so that was that's, that was a, a major part of it too.
• 42:32
  And, and for the property too, They don't want an event getting
• 42:35
  out of hand. And so selling tickets with a
• 42:38
  limited number because of our literal capacity for that space
• 42:40
  too. We'll have to see how many
• 42:42
  people are coming, but we know how to figure things out way
• 42:44
  better than, oh, now we're bringing in a Pagani and F1 car.
• 42:47
  Who knows what could happen? Which that why I wasn't even
• 42:49
  thinking about what could happen.
• 42:50
  And our show from our June show last year, that August show with
• 42:54
  that Pagani and F1 car, our tenants doubled from 500 / 1000
• 42:58
  people. It's like, OK, we're there now
• 43:01
  time to figure this out. And so there's, there's a
• 43:04
  million expenses that go into it, all the little details.
• 43:08
  And then also just like getting the cars that we're getting.
• 43:11
  And so a really special car that we have coming that's one of our
• 43:14
  headline cars with the Bentley Blue train is the Aston Martin
• 43:17
  Valkyrie AM RLMH. And so it's one of the Lamar
• 43:22
  Hypercars races in IMSO here and in WEC in Europe.
• 43:27
  There's two chassis in North America.
• 43:29
  And you know, we have some very kind people who are allowing
• 43:32
  that car to come up from Arizona for the weekend, literally in
• 43:35
  between races, in between race weekends.
• 43:37
  That's a car you cannot see unless you were at an IMSO race.
• 43:42
  And that's also part of this is like we're getting value by pain
• 43:47
  to see these immensely special things you would not see
• 43:50
  basically anywhere else, especially at a car show.
• 43:53
  And so we're very lucky to have some very generous people
• 43:56
  helping us out getting those cars here.
• 43:59
  But it's we're, we're there at this new level and it's just
• 44:06
  part of it. And I again, I hate, I hate to
• 44:07
  have to charge, but that's where we are.
• 44:09
  And like I said, sure, my margin is razor thin.
• 44:11
  And with like one more car getting transported up here from
• 44:14
  California, I, it goes overboard and I start to lose money.
• 44:17
  So. Yeah.
• 44:18
  That's that's where we're at, yeah.
• 44:21
  So can I also, can I also throw in teams just while we're
• 44:23
  talking about the, the Aston Martin there that chassis races
• 44:27
  for the harder racing, which is a basically charitable racing
• 44:32
  team where they, you know, use all their proceeds to go towards
• 44:35
  cardiovascular research at the Seattle Children's Hospital.
• 44:38
  And so we are donating a fairly large portion of the ticket
• 44:43
  revenue to the heart of Racing's initiatives, I guess you would
• 44:49
  say. Yeah, with, with Seattle
• 44:50
  Children's, which is obviously, you know, really near and dear
• 44:53
  to both Tom and I as Seattle residents, but also to a lot of
• 44:56
  our, our, our clientele and that our, our drivers that are
• 45:00
  showing their cars there. So, you know, it is for a good,
• 45:03
  a good 'cause as well. There is a good reason behind
• 45:05
  that. But a lot of what the owners of
• 45:07
  the cars have asked is that, hey, I'd like this to be a
• 45:09
  charitable thing. I'd like there to be a, you
• 45:11
  know, philanthropic aspect. So that way we're not just
• 45:14
  parading our, you know, hyper cars around over here.
• 45:16
  There's gonna be some good out of this.
• 45:17
  And so we also wanted to make that part of the show because
• 45:21
  Tom, right, correct me if I'm wrong.
• 45:22
  And there just wasn't an aspect of that before.
• 45:24
  And not because I don't think anyone wanted to, there was just
• 45:26
  no money being collected. So yeah, it was kind of just all
• 45:28
  goodwill of of owners. But in bringing it to that
• 45:31
  level, I think there's going to be a double benefit that yes,
• 45:34
  people are going to get to experience these very special
• 45:36
  things, but it is also going to go to a good cause and bring
• 45:38
  people together. Yeah, absolutely.
• 45:41
  Absolutely. If you can, if you can enjoy
• 45:43
  some cars and to do some good at the same time, like that's a
• 45:46
  pretty perfect event. So tell us a little bit about.
• 45:50
  Yeah, well, I would say you have hit the nail on the head.
• 45:54
  Tell us a little bit about sort of you mentioned like the
• 45:57
  evening portion of the weekend and just kind of like what
• 46:02
  that's like for, you know, those who haven't been before.
• 46:05
  Yeah. So we a kind of a different side
• 46:08
  of this that's emerged last year and we've taken a big step this
• 46:11
  year is more private events for the the show car owners that are
• 46:15
  showing at the show, again, making it a destination for
• 46:19
  people to want to send their cars.
• 46:22
  And we've gotten access to some very beautiful properties in the
• 46:26
  area to host these private events app.
• 46:30
  And I can't really say much just because of privacy and
• 46:34
  respecting that for a lot of people.
• 46:37
  But it's become this other side of it that again, there's like
• 46:40
  no money in that. We're not.
• 46:42
  Well, we are charging for some of those events, but all those
• 46:45
  proceeds, 100% of them go. 100% of those proceeds.
• 46:48
  To charity. And so this year we're
• 46:49
  benefiting the Lemay Museum, which is a pillar of our
• 46:53
  community here. And, you know, it's they, they
• 46:55
  can always, you know, get the help wherever they can of just,
• 46:59
  you know, helping support their mission of being our place here
• 47:02
  in Seattle. And then we're doing a Dr.
• 47:04
  aspect as part of the weekend as well.
• 47:07
  And so we're benefiting Josie Rimmer over at Dirtfish.
• 47:11
  She started the Woman in Motorsports Summit and that
• 47:15
  issue of of helping women get into motorsport.
• 47:18
  And we love the Rimmer family, you know, over here at my place.
• 47:22
  And so we're having to drive fully benefit her fund and we're
• 47:28
  taking part in their opening ceremony of the summit because
• 47:31
  it is the same weekend this year, which we sat down and it
• 47:34
  was like, this is perfect, literally because we're going to
• 47:37
  have our drive go out to dirt Fish and we're going to flank
• 47:40
  their stage for their opening ceremony with all these hyper
• 47:43
  cars and then cruise out after the opening ceremony.
• 47:47
  And so, you know, a really cool part about this all, especially
• 47:50
  this year has been getting to be involved with the pillars of the
• 47:53
  industry here, whether it be the Lemay dirt fish, Grios motors,
• 47:59
  who else am I? I mean will bright.
• 48:01
  Who else has written you a check so far?
• 48:05
  Literally. Yeah, but it's, but it's.
• 48:08
  But it's right though, That's why these people want to be
• 48:10
  involved for that reason, because we all do lean on each
• 48:12
  other. And not to sound cliche or
• 48:14
  corny, but the car community is only as good as the people.
• 48:17
  It's made-up front. You know, the cars are great,
• 48:19
  the events are great, the locations are great.
• 48:21
  But really, at the end of the day, a lot of this hinges on
• 48:24
  people donating their, their money, their time, their
• 48:26
  vehicles, their employees, right?
• 48:28
  Like that's what makes it special.
• 48:31
  Yeah, yeah. What are you guys into
• 48:33
  personally? Like what really does it for
• 48:35
  you? Like for me, you know, it's when
• 48:38
  I see AD type right on the grand, right?
• 48:40
  That's just like, wow, you know? So what is it that just you
• 48:44
  know, what are those matchbox cars like right.
• 48:46
  You said those are the cars that you you know, that you still
• 48:49
  love. Like what?
• 48:50
  Yeah, what doesn't? For me, for me, it like I said,
• 48:53
  Pagani has always been my shit, excuse my language as from a
• 48:59
  young kid, from from a young age, it was like Piani, Pagani,
• 49:01
  Pagani. I don't know what it was.
• 49:02
  So Bazani specifically, like I mentioned, that's my license
• 49:05
  plate in my world. And so, and that was where my
• 49:08
  passion really started was with the more modern things.
• 49:11
  OK. And then once I started going to
• 49:12
  Pebble Beach, I was like, Oh my God, these old cars have so much
• 49:17
  character to them and the stories are incredible.
• 49:18
  They are works, true works of art that, you know, blood,
• 49:21
  sweat, tears went into whether they raced, they didn't race.
• 49:24
  They're all hand built, right? And so my passion is slid back
• 49:27
  in time so fast and that's I think kind of represented.
• 49:30
  So my other favorite car, my two favorite cars, it's Zonda in the
• 49:33
  1959 Ferrari 250 Tester Rosa, which is specifically the
• 49:36
  Fontuzzi body. It's closed Fender cards, not
• 49:39
  your pontoon Fender cards, only three of them.
• 49:42
  And that car is like the embodiment in my mind of what a
• 49:45
  car should be. And you know, my lock screen on
• 49:49
  my phone and has been for four years and I don't think I'll
• 49:52
  ever change that. That's that's like the ultimate
• 49:54
  dream. And then that's reflected in the
• 49:56
  show, I think perfectly with the duality of the Ash Martin
• 49:59
  Valkyrie race car, which we're also going to have the road car
• 50:01
  there. So we'll have the road car and
• 50:02
  the race car back-to-back. And then fantastic.
• 50:06
  The duality of the Bentley Blue train which, as Will mentioned I
• 50:09
  don't know if you guys are familiar with this car I know
• 50:12
  pre war cars are getting more and more less so anyone's then
• 50:14
  they're very much so my thing they're.
• 50:17
  Going to come back I I'm telling you because they're just too
• 50:19
  cool. They're just.
• 50:20
  Exactly, I hope so. It's a it's a one off card they
• 50:23
  built. It's one of the most legendary
• 50:25
  stories of all time in the pre war world of and I won't go into
• 50:29
  it but one of the Bentley Boys Wolf Barnato famously raced
• 50:33
  Latren Blue, the blue train across France to London and the
• 50:37
  Bentley Speed 6. It turned out it was a different
• 50:40
  Speed 6 not this famous 1 the Guney Nutting Coupe which is
• 50:43
  this one on. The Mulliner saloon, I believe.
• 50:45
  Yeah, just like this. Regular speed 6 at the time, but
• 50:48
  the car that got famous became this was the one off car that
• 50:52
  didn't actually do it but became it's just this raked roof.
• 50:55
  It's just stunning, it's this huge.
• 50:57
  And it was from the painting Tom correct is what actually people
• 51:00
  thought the Speed 6 was the Bentley car because I.
• 51:02
  Believe it was the same as panting.
• 51:04
  It was just the Lord then came to be.
• 51:06
  And then there's this painting of the the the blue train
• 51:08
  Bentley next to the blue train, which I don't think either way
• 51:11
  any show goes to it. This is 1.
• 51:13
  You know, it's been the star car Hampton Court.
• 51:16
  You know, obviously Pebble Beach, one of Amelia Audrain
• 51:20
  like wherever it goes, it's the car.
• 51:22
  And so having it be let out to our van and show that duality of
• 51:26
  in this in this example, British engineering of almost 100 years
• 51:29
  difference. It's really special.
• 51:31
  And I'm the big thing I care about is educating the your
• 51:33
  generation like myself, about these cars like the blue train,
• 51:36
  because it doesn't really get. Better than the.
• 51:38
  Blue Train and it's just I mean, it's a sexy, sexy car for so
• 51:42
  many reasons with with its story too.
• 51:44
  So shows a little more to your your answer, but I just don't
• 51:47
  like to tie that in of the vision is the show too is the
• 51:50
  duality and having it all to help tell that story and fuel
• 51:53
  that passion for folks like myself.
• 51:56
  You know those old Bentleys, those 90 year old cars are
• 51:58
  incredibly tractable on modern roads too.
• 52:01
  We had five couples from Ireland join us on the Grand last year.
• 52:05
  They decided cheaper to just, you know, bring the cars into
• 52:08
  LA, then drive them all the way to Colorado and then drive 1000
• 52:12
  miles on the Grand. These are all 1930s Bentleys,
• 52:14
  right? Wow, totally probably put 4000
• 52:17
  miles on these things in in two weeks, you know, and you know,
• 52:20
  how many cars from the 30s can you do that in?
• 52:22
  They're they're, they're wonderful, they're wonderful,
• 52:24
  they're fast, they're, you know, they're everything you want a
• 52:26
  car to be like that, a vintage car.
• 52:28
  But what about you? Will I'm I?
• 52:32
  Have different flavors of the month.
• 52:33
  My, my growing up, I was really big into like vintage BMWs and
• 52:37
  Mercedes-Benz. That's still kind of, you know,
• 52:40
  what I own, That's what I'm into.
• 52:43
  You know, my dreams go far beyond my tax bracket.
• 52:46
  But I I love Vincent Ferrari's like, you know, Colombo V12 aero
• 52:50
  cars, 250 GT Luso is probably my favorite from that era.
• 52:56
  As much as I hate to admit it, I do really like air cooled
• 52:59
  Porsches. I know that's kind of cliche at
• 53:01
  this point, but with working around them so much, lucky
• 53:04
  enough to be able to drive a singer and to be around it a lot
• 53:07
  really kind of made me understand why people are into
• 53:09
  that stuff. And I also have a real soft side
• 53:12
  for custom cars. That was my beginning.
• 53:15
  That was what I started doing and did up until 2020.
• 53:18
  And so, you know, I love it all. Like, you know, Lindsay, I know
• 53:21
  like your vintage Bronco. I think the rest of mods, that
• 53:24
  is really cool. You know, I'm big into 4x4 ING
• 53:27
  myself, so I like that aspect. You know, I like the JDM stuff.
• 53:31
  I like low riders. Anything that someone has a lot
• 53:33
  of time and passion and undoubtedly money into I respect
• 53:38
  because I I know that that person really, you know, really
• 53:40
  loves the car. And for me, one of the coolest
• 53:42
  things is seeing like a car on the road that you're like, wow,
• 53:47
  someone really kept that 2001 Oldsmobile aero in great
• 53:50
  condition. And it's just like an
• 53:52
  interesting story, right? Because this is not a car that
• 53:54
  should have been saved, but there it is and there.
• 53:56
  It is, yeah. Yeah, and I think that's really
• 53:59
  cool. So then when you see that, you
• 54:00
  know, when you go up with somebody and they're like, yeah,
• 54:01
  I have my, you know, Shelby GT350 or my old 442 or, you
• 54:07
  know, something like that. And there's been love and and
• 54:09
  years of time and maybe it's a a car that was passed down.
• 54:13
  That's the stuff I love. And I know, again, it sounds
• 54:14
  cliche, but the the stories behind cars are really what
• 54:16
  really gets it for me. So it doesn't matter if it's a,
• 54:19
  you know, $50 million car or if it's a guy who really just loves
• 54:22
  his Oldsmobile arrow. You know, those are all cool to
• 54:25
  me. So that's yeah, that's that's
• 54:27
  really what doesn't. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:29
  I love that. I know.
• 54:30
  Well, I mean, that's how we all ended up here, right?
• 54:32
  As we all are interested in the people like you said and the
• 54:35
  stories and we're, you know, we're all connected through the
• 54:39
  Internet and now we know each other in person and you end up
• 54:42
  with this amazing partnership and Tom and Will and this
• 54:46
  wonderful event and all because we like cars and driving, right?
• 54:50
  Yeah. The thing that really sticks out
• 54:53
  to me, and I think it's, it's, you know, everyone says, and
• 54:57
  it's kind of become a cliche thing to say, it's not the cars,
• 54:59
  it's the people. And that's absolutely, it's
• 55:02
  something I've realized that's a step beyond that and that this
• 55:05
  was really put into my brain after I went to London.
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  I go to a new city where I know no one and it's on the other
• 55:10
  side of the world. And within two weeks, I had like
• 55:16
  good friends already because I met some guys at the Hampton
• 55:19
  Court Concorde. And within 5 minutes we were
• 55:21
  somehow talking about the one off Ferrari.
• 55:23
  This collector in Reno, NV has that.
• 55:26
  It's a cat. It's APF cab Series 1 250
• 55:31
  Ferrari and the the first owner got a little cut out in this
• 55:35
  door for his elbow to rest in. So instead of resting on it, it
• 55:38
  rested just in this little cut out.
• 55:39
  And it's a one off because you know that stuff.
• 55:41
  And we both knew about that car, which I've never talked to
• 55:43
  anyone else who knows about that car.
• 55:45
  And the point I'd make here is I'm in college right now and I'm
• 55:50
  in, you know, a mass of a lot of people, thousands of people.
• 55:53
  And I, you know, I'm very extra rude.
• 55:54
  So I love being around people. I love getting to know new
• 55:57
  people. We in the car community are so
• 56:00
  lucky to have this community because we have a community like
• 56:04
  no one else. That's where I see the step
• 56:07
  beyond. It's just not the cars.
• 56:08
  That's the people. It's we are blessed to have
• 56:11
  this. And then you can go across the
• 56:13
  globe and make a friend like that because of this shared
• 56:16
  interest. And sure, there's shared
• 56:18
  interest like sports and different things that you can go
• 56:20
  anywhere in the world and bond over.
• 56:22
  I've never seen anything like this with anyone that I know.
• 56:27
  And this, my friend said this recently and I've been saying
• 56:29
  it. I think the car hobby is the
• 56:31
  greatest hobby on earth because if you know, you know of how
• 56:34
  special it is and how you can bomb with people anywhere on the
• 56:37
  globe and it's really damn special.
• 56:40
  It's really cool. It feels like you're living
• 56:42
  life. I wanted to throw in a little
• 56:44
  bit of trivia. So I wake up 1 morning, Tom got
• 56:46
  so ingrained in the UK car scene that I wake up to a photo of Tom
• 56:51
  and Gordon Murray at the Joe McCarty holiday party.
• 56:55
  And the caption said, you know who this is and Gordon Ramsay
• 56:59
  took the photo or is behind the camera or something like that.
• 57:02
  And I'm. Like no Tom.
• 57:03
  Where do you go from here? At this place.
• 57:05
  But Tom, we should we should definitely display that at the
• 57:08
  show somewhere. You and Gordon Murray at that
• 57:10
  night or whatever that was. That's very.
• 57:11
  And then with like a little Photo, Credit Gordon Ramsay.
• 57:14
  Yeah, Yeah, right, yeah. Was it Gordon Ramsay took the
• 57:16
  photo or did I? Did I mess up that part of?
• 57:18
  The story very quickly, because I know we're wrapping up here,
• 57:20
  but no, no, you know, you just meet people and something
• 57:22
  happens and another thing happens.
• 57:24
  I met a guy at Hampton Court as well my first week in September
• 57:27
  in London and, and you know, we bought it and he was like, oh
• 57:31
  mate, like you got to come to Uncle Joe's Christmas party and
• 57:34
  this was in September. But, and that was the second we
• 57:37
  got to love. It.
• 57:38
  So I saw him at, I saw him at a few more events throughout the
• 57:41
  semester. And then, you know, he was like,
• 57:43
  sure enough, he was like, you know, you're my guest for the
• 57:46
  party. And so it's like my third to
• 57:48
  last day in London and I walked into Joe McCarron and been all
• 57:53
  done up. And I look to my right and the
• 57:55
  first people I see are Gordon Murray talking to Gordon Ramsay.
• 58:00
  I was like, OK, that's how the TV is.
• 58:04
  And so I'd go and meet the guy that I was meeting and he was
• 58:07
  talking to John Mcginnis's family, the legendary Island man
• 58:13
  TT, a motorcycle driver, and they were lovely.
• 58:17
  And so we're talking like, oh, Dad's talking to the Gordon's.
• 58:19
  And so we all go over there and Gordon or Gordon Ramsay was
• 58:23
  like, hey, I'm Gordon. And I was like, I know.
• 58:27
  And then, but I was much more interested.
• 58:29
  To pretend. Yeah, exactly.
• 58:32
  But he was a gentleman, He was lovely.
• 58:33
  And Gordon was standing right there and I was a bit more
• 58:36
  interested in talking about the car Gordon.
• 58:37
  And so him and I shadow for probably 15 minutes and, you
• 58:41
  know, we're all just people at the end of the day.
• 58:42
  And it's it's a beautiful thing. And he's such a TrueCar guy,
• 58:46
  right? He just loved talking about his
• 58:48
  creations and different things and you know, the T50 and how
• 58:51
  that plays into all those different things.
• 58:53
  And, you know, pinch me, what the hell that how was that
• 58:56
  happening? I don't know.
• 58:59
  And so again, a lot of really special moments that I get to
• 59:01
  experience through this world, and it's damn cool.
• 59:06
  That enthusiasm is currency. It really is I.
• 59:08
  Was going to say that is something that's a like theme in
• 59:12
  my family is we'll look at each other and go like, how did we
• 59:14
  get here? Like all these amazing moments
• 59:17
  and experiences that we've gotten to have and we look at
• 59:19
  each other and we're like, we're not supposed to be here, but
• 59:22
  like, don't you know, just go with it and you're going to have
• 59:25
  these incredible experiences. Absolutely.
• 59:28
  That's. That's the secret, I think,
• 59:30
  right. You got a car week and you think
• 59:31
  you're the only one thinking that, right.
• 59:34
  And you you know, at least half the people in the room are
• 59:35
  probably thinking the same thing.
• 59:37
  And and I love you know that, you know, Gordon Murray or
• 59:40
  Gordon Ramsay. They don't need anything from
• 59:42
  you as as wonderful as you are, Tom.
• 59:44
  I mean, but the fact that, you know, that they did that, I'm
• 59:47
  always, I'm always just shocked at the, the generosity, right,
• 59:51
  the willingness to to sit and share because they pick up on
• 59:53
  your enthusiasm and, you know, you can't fake it, right?
• 59:56
  And, and thank God for cars for those of us who weren't natural
• 59:59
  born athletes or whatever. I mean, this was like our, you
• 1:00:02
  know, what about you guys? But this was, this was, this was
• 1:00:04
  my guy thing, right? This was the thing that that I
• 1:00:07
  could, you know, hang my hat on right, at parties and that kind
• 1:00:10
  of thing. And and of course, now it's
• 1:00:11
  gotten. To the point, Lindsay.
• 1:00:12
  We've yeah, we've talked about this.
• 1:00:14
  It's like if we go to a party and you know they don't pass the
• 1:00:16
  car test, you move on to the next, you know, the next.
• 1:00:19
  Whatever. Oh yeah.
• 1:00:20
  No, always. You're like, love that journey
• 1:00:23
  for you. This has been delightful.
• 1:00:24
  I'm gonna. Yeah, so.
• 1:00:26
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think what's funny too
• 1:00:29
  is how often, like, there'll be times where, believe it or not,
• 1:00:32
  I am not trying to bring up cars.
• 1:00:34
  And it still comes up anyway. And I'm like, I mean, at a
• 1:00:38
  certain point, you can't fight it because you're like, the cars
• 1:00:41
  just find you or like, other people will bring it up and then
• 1:00:44
  you're like, so sorry for them because now I'm going to be, you
• 1:00:48
  know, super animated. I'm so excited to talk about it.
• 1:00:50
  But yeah, I mean, it really is like just such an amazing
• 1:00:54
  community to be part of, like you said, Tom.
• 1:00:56
  I was just going to say the touch points that non car people
• 1:01:00
  have too, if their dad owned a Mustang or something.
• 1:01:02
  And it's like that little thing, that point of connection which
• 1:01:05
  opens up. I'm the guy who like will
• 1:01:07
  probably talk to you if you want to talk on an airplane.
• 1:01:10
  And so, but so many conversations and it always
• 1:01:13
  starts with cars in some fashion that I've talked to people the
• 1:01:17
  entirety of a flight to LA and back or New York and back that
• 1:01:21
  starts with cars and then goes across the journey of life,
• 1:01:24
  right? There's such an integral part to
• 1:01:25
  everyone's life. And some people have those just
• 1:01:27
  slight touch points. Or how a Pagani, the company
• 1:01:32
  ended up sending a car to the show.
• 1:01:34
  I will not bore us with that story, but it came from one of
• 1:01:38
  my advisors at school. I was wearing a Pagani shirt one
• 1:01:40
  day. She was like, oh, I know someone
• 1:01:42
  who knows someone who knows someone who knows the CEO of
• 1:01:45
  Pagani America. Wow.
• 1:01:46
  Then through this chain of things that happened, he was
• 1:01:49
  sending a car to the show and it was like, don't know how that's
• 1:01:52
  happening, but Oh my God. So again, it's like.
• 1:01:55
  Even the not A part picked up a different shirt.
• 1:01:57
  Exactly. And so it's, it all plays into
• 1:02:01
  itself. And again, I think it's because
• 1:02:02
  there's such an integral part of our our world.
• 1:02:04
  It's how we get around so. Yeah, I.
• 1:02:07
  Agree. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:09
  Both of you guys, you know, there aren't too many people
• 1:02:11
  that really find, you know their place in life, right, like end
• 1:02:14
  up doing the thing that was designed just for them.
• 1:02:17
  And I feel like both of you have have found that.
• 1:02:19
  So hope you both realize how how fortunate you are.
• 1:02:22
  It's pretty cool. Absolutely.
• 1:02:24
  Thank you. I think so.
• 1:02:25
  I mean, I thank God everyday. I'm not a religious person, but
• 1:02:28
  I'm just like, you know what, this kind of just worked out and
• 1:02:31
  I don't know, I don't know what else I'd be doing.
• 1:02:33
  And I guess that's kind of when you realize that you found your,
• 1:02:36
  your calling in certain ways, right?
• 1:02:38
  But like Tom said, they're. Great.
• 1:02:40
  And we're like you said, Lindsay, cars are magnetic, I
• 1:02:42
  mean figuratively and literally, but people definitely like to
• 1:02:45
  discuss them. It brings people together and
• 1:02:48
  you know, I'm sure we've all talked to people that you're
• 1:02:50
  like, wow, it's, you know, it's so, and so this big, famous,
• 1:02:53
  rich, powerful person, you sit down and talk with them and they
• 1:02:56
  just want to tell you about their car, right?
• 1:02:58
  They just want to ask you about your car.
• 1:02:59
  And it's just, they're just a guy or, or a woman.
• 1:03:02
  And you know, you, once you start to realize that and you
• 1:03:04
  realize that these things are just hunks of, you know, metal
• 1:03:07
  and glass and rubber and plastic that we love so much.
• 1:03:10
  But it goes far beyond that. It's not just a physical item
• 1:03:13
  anymore. It's a, it's a state of mind.
• 1:03:15
  It's an expression of yourself. It's a lifestyle, violence, all
• 1:03:18
  these things. And, you know, if we can choose
• 1:03:20
  to embody that in, you know, our show and beyond, I think that
• 1:03:23
  we're doing a good thing. Oh, awesome.
• 1:03:26
  Well, I'm so I'm so excited for both of you with what you've
• 1:03:30
  built, what you've done so far, and what you're going to
• 1:03:32
  accomplish in a few weeks. So tell people if they want to
• 1:03:36
  learn more about the show or if they want to join you, where can
• 1:03:39
  they find information about the event?
• 1:03:40
  And then where can they find the two of you online?
• 1:03:43
  Yeah. So and then this is something I
• 1:03:45
  guess I was going to speak a little more on, but didn't have
• 1:03:47
  like kind of hold breath of everything they have come in.
• 1:03:49
  Well, you got to come back. You got to come back.
• 1:03:51
  So as Will mentioned, we have these kind of curated displays
• 1:03:55
  that fit these different car cultures out of my brain.
• 1:03:57
  So it's my interpretation and with what I could get.
• 1:04:00
  And so as we'll mention this part of one of the displays,
• 1:04:04
  we're assembling the Ferrari BIG6, which to our knowledge has
• 1:04:07
  only been done twice in the country as of yet.
• 1:04:09
  So we're going to have one of the newest F 80s delivered all
• 1:04:12
  the way down to the 288 GTO. So 6 of Ferrari's best hyper
• 1:04:15
  cars. Like I mentioned, we're going to
• 1:04:17
  have the Bentley Blue train, we're going to have the Aspirin
• 1:04:21
  factory AM RLMH, which is the second time to my knowledge it's
• 1:04:24
  ever been to a show and it's life as well as a road car
• 1:04:27
  Valkyrie, which those both Valkyries never been shown.
• 1:04:30
  But alone 2 in Seattle, we'll have an Aston Martin Valhalla,
• 1:04:33
  the first one that was delivered here.
• 1:04:35
  We'll have the Holy Trinity assembled technically of we also
• 1:04:38
  have AP one and a 918 coming. We might have a few McLaren
• 1:04:42
  Senna's. We'll have a Gordon Murray T50.
• 1:04:45
  We have two Konigs eggs coming up from California.
• 1:04:48
  We have a Pagani coming up, Ford sending out a really special
• 1:04:51
  concept from Detroit and a lot more.
• 1:04:54
  So it's going to be fun. It's going to be worth the
• 1:04:58
  money, I think, and hopefully my time that I work my freaking ass
• 1:05:02
  off for. And so you can find all this
• 1:05:06
  information on the show and tickets at just Northwest
• 1:05:09
  exoticspelledout.com ticket links in there on Instagram.
• 1:05:15
  I couldn't get the Northwest Exotics username, so it's NW
• 1:05:18
  Exotics Car Show. And then that's where you can
• 1:05:21
  probably just find me this through the e-mail on there and
• 1:05:26
  we'll I'll let you speak for yourself.
• 1:05:28
  But yeah, the show's from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Carillon Point
• 1:05:31
  on August 23rd, 2026. Be there.
• 1:05:35
  There you go. I'm not a huge social media guy,
• 1:05:38
  but as Lindsay and Ryan mentioned, I work for one
• 1:05:40
  Drivers Club, which is a four location multi national, I'm
• 1:05:45
  sorry, multi unit national company and we store cars.
• 1:05:49
  And so again, give us a look one drivers club.com and if you can
• 1:05:53
  meet, you can find ammo on there.
• 1:05:56
  Perfect. Well, thank you both so much for
• 1:05:58
  being here. We look forward to having you
• 1:06:00
  come back and share how this year's event goes.
• 1:06:04
  And for our audience, thank you so much for liking, writing,
• 1:06:06
  reviewing, and of course leading five star reviews.
• 1:06:09
  We are so appreciative of everybody being here.
• 1:06:14
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• 1:06:16
  see you next week.