The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast episode number 335.

This week, we're talking Oldsmobile 4-4-2s, restoring cars as a profession, and making licensed GM parts,

and that's not even the half of it.

Our guests are Richard Thornton and his mother, Lisa Thornton, on to talk about their shop Thornton Muscle Cars.

While they do it all,

they really do specialize in the Olds 4-4 too, and they manufacture a lot of year and model specific parts for them too, and those are licensed by General Motors, and the process of doing

that is just fascinating. He reached out to him and said, look, I got these parts I want to make,

and as long as it's a GM part that's not being made by GM anymore, that's when you can get the licensing for it.

But first up is Rick Schmidt on from NPD. And for you Ford owners, have you ever heard of a Marty report, maybe you bought one? Guess where the paper documents were? After Ford, that's right, they were at NPD's warehouse.

Not a joke.

I'm Jim Ring.

I'm Mike Ring.

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Well, hey, good show for it today.

I got choked up on my own words.

It is jam packed, just like the jam I may be having my mouth.

It's so full, I am basically going to go right to our interview segments because they have three.

I don't know that we've ever had three before, but they're all really cool.

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