TMCP #536: The Ring Brothers: How Two Brothers from Wisconsin Went from a Gas Station to Battle of the Builders!
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Robert Kibbe
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week we are joined by car building royalty, the world famous Ring Brothers! We typically interview the Rings each year at SEMA, but at SEMA 2022 they had a "surplus" of vehicles on display (4)....and they were so busy accepting accolades and competing in the Builder of the Year competition (which they won) that we were never able to connect onsite. This is the long overdue follow up! As with all things, it was worth the wait. For the first time we were able to have a discussion about not only what they had a SEMA 2022 but how the two brothers from Wisconsin went from working construction, to owning a small gas station (for 7 months), to where they are today.
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place online podcast, episode number 536. This week, it's the one interview from |
| 0:07.1 | Seema 2020 that we just couldn't get until now. We have car building royalty on the show, |
| 0:12.5 | the world famous Ring Brothers, Mike and Jim. They're both here, and we're going to talk about |
| 0:16.9 | the cars they brought to Seema 2020, some, but we're going to focus more on how these |
| 0:21.9 | two brothers in Spring Green Wisconsin have positioned themselves as the top car builders in the world. |
| 0:28.0 | They just won battle of the builders again. It's not just the cars that they're working on. |
| 0:31.5 | They developed an entire parks line for the Ring Brothers. They still to this day operate a |
| 0:35.5 | collision repair business, and you may think they had all of this figured out from day one. Well, guess what? |
| 0:41.4 | They didn't. |
| 0:42.7 | I ended up working for a construction company, and Mike came back and he started a little |
| 0:47.4 | gas station. You know, there was a lot in between from what Mike was doing and what I was |
| 0:53.2 | doing, and then we just kind of got together and |
| 0:55.6 | decided to start building some cars. |
| 1:00.5 | This is the Muscle Car Place online podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:07.4 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:13.6 | If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:19.9 | Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. |
| 1:23.5 | Yes, indeed. |
| 1:24.0 | I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. |
| 1:27.2 | Well, man, fun show today, everybody. |
| 1:29.9 | We have the world famous ring brothers on Mike and Jim together. Like I said in the intro, this was the interview we had scheduled at Seema 22, but actually had to cancel. |
| 1:38.7 | Well, I just kind of indefinitely postponed because they brought four different cars to Seema. |
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