TMCP #549: Jason Chandler of Auto Metal Direct – How to Make Brand New 50 Year old Cars!

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Robert Kibbe

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week on The Muscle Car Place is a great interview with Jason Chandler, Director of Marketing at Auto Metal Direct (known in the industry as "AMD". As of late I noticed that AMD had released some of the "un-ob-tanium" parts for '68 and '69 Charger restorations, nearly to the point that a person could build an entirely new car from scratch. This peaked my interest, so I asked Jason for the details. It turns out that you nearly could build one of those cars now.....as well as a few others (and trucks), all from new metal! '69 Camaros and Square-body Chevy trucks are both good to go, and a few others are close as well. I needed the details!

Listener mail: Rob, A few years ago I shared with you my goals and plans for my Tesla powered 1940 Chevrolet. Well, after a lot of work, set backs, and strange gremlins, I finally got to the track this summer. I put together a video summarizing the track test, and wanted to share it. https://youtu.be/wnPICDZmv3M

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place online podcast episode number 549. This week, a feature interview with Jason Chandler from AMD and a look inside the magic box of a place that makes all the sheet metal. This interview has been a long time coming. As you know, AMD makes metal for restorations and more than that, it turns out, and they're constantly adding to their catalog. They try to figure out what the customers need and what the customers want.
0:23.6	Well, there's a significant demand for certain cars and trucks,
0:27.6	and as of late, they have added enough pieces to make three specific models all from scratch, if you want to.
0:33.6	Probably the closest overall would be a six-night camera. Second to that would be a charger,
0:40.3	and then really third in line for what you could build from scratch would be a square-body
0:46.4	Chevy truck. This is the Muscle Car Place online podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot. This is the
0:57.3	weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. If you're buying,
1:04.2	selling, restoring, 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 Muscle
1:15.3	Car Place podcast. Well, here we are, second week of August. And I haven't slept since the first week.
1:21.0	But Jason Chandler is here from AMD today to talk about restoration and sheet metal. This is an inside
1:26.5	look. I love these type of
1:28.3	interviews. I'm really glad that we got to do it. We recorded this way back in June, in fact.
1:32.3	I've been sitting on this one. This is a good one. This is how they make it. This is how they
1:36.7	fulfill it. This is how you can go ask them for the parts that you want them to go make next.
1:42.1	And here's the big one. How to figure out if I can
1:44.2	finally make a Coke bottle 68, 69 charger from scratch. And I'm not talking about putting a body
1:50.1	on top of a Ford Crown Vic chassis. I'm talking about making an all-new charger from scratch,
1:56.2	from brand new stuff. Now, obviously, there's some legalities there, but don't sweat that right now.
2:02.1	He's going to answer all of that. You can do that with a 69 Camaro right now, square-body
2:06.5	Chevy truck. You probably knew both of those. The charger pieces have been missing. There are some
2:10.6	other makes and models that they're probably pretty darn close on. They make a lot more than I
2:14.7	ever truly understood until preparing for this interview.
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