TMCP #462: Ask Rick – 60’s and 70’s Personal Luxury Cars, eBay Values, and the Rise and Fall of ASC – American Sunroof Corp
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Robert Kibbe
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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It's the first show of April, and once again time for our monthly Ask Rick segment with Rick Schmidt! This time I wanted to know more about the unusual and rare vehicles in his collection. On our family trip to Florida we had a chance to stop in at NPD and were shown around the incredible collection that Rick and his father have amassed over the years. The "personal luxury car" segment of giant Buicks, Olds, Lincolns, and Fords is second to none....but the 1987 Firebird that really caught my eye was produced by a huge company in the 1980's that is nothing but a memory today!
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 462. This week's spring break is over, so we're back at it for the second quarter. Even better. Last week, my son and I went through the entire National Parks Depot car collection with Rick Schmidt and Colin Date. And we saw some cool stuff, but one thing in particular, I don't think we've ever talked about before. |
| 0:24.4 | All those cars built by ASC, American Sunroof Corporation. |
| 0:25.1 | Heard of them? |
| 0:28.2 | They built a whole bunch of high-performance cars. |
| 0:33.3 | They built, geez, convertibles, and developed them for all the car makers, all the big three. |
| 0:40.7 | But today, that third-party development and manufacturing by third parties is gone and rich smit shed the light on why don't even know that asc is a company anymore i think they've pretty much folded for lack of work |
| 0:46.3 | because it's how the big three work whenever you have good ideas they absorb them |
| 0:50.6 | this is the muscle car place weekly online they absorb them. |
| 0:58.8 | This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast. |
| 1:01.5 | Brought to you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:07.6 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:13.0 | Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you. Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed. I am Rob Kibby and welcome to the |
| 1:20.7 | Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, back at it for the second quarter, actually recording this on April |
| 1:26.8 | Fool's Day, but don't worry. |
| 1:28.6 | I don't have anything in here that's an April Fool's joke on you. I do, but that'll be the fun. |
| 1:34.2 | You'll get to figure out where the joke actually is. This is a fun show today. We do have Rick Schmidt on for Ask Rick, |
| 1:39.9 | but kind of a fun treat on spring break on our vacation, the day before we flew home, |
| 1:45.5 | we stopped by NPD, and Rick Schmidt and Colin Date treated us to a full tour of the NPD |
| 1:51.6 | collection. So my son Dallas and I spent an hour there, just going through really everything. |
| 1:57.4 | And what was really cool is Rick and Colin spoke to me, as you would guess, but they also |
| 2:03.0 | spoke to Dallas. When Dallas had a question or a comment or wanted clarification on something, |
| 2:08.7 | they talked to him. They didn't talk through me to him. That's just a little courtesy. I know that, |
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