The Muscle Car Place, episode number 575. This week, an exclusive. Our guest is John Cremon,

and John is one of the on-TV commentators for the Meekam auction company. Yep, that Meekam.

We'll learn all the risk to know about the auction business and find out what it takes to grow a family company into a hammer

pricing giant. So what I don't want to be is the guy that's promoting information that's incorrect

and it's being carried forward. At least as I have some control over content and keeping facts

straight of car collecting spanning over 100 years, That's sort of my life's work.

This is the Muscle Car Place online podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot.

This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. If you're buying, selling, restoring,

even racing them, this is the place for you. Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes indeed,

and normally right here, you would hear the voice of Rob Kibby, but instead, it's me. I'm Bernie, you're a humble

show producer, so welcome. Rob is out today and asked me to fill in, so we're going to have a fun

show. We're going to have a good time together. Today's show is something that I've been hoping to get to

for a while. I'm only sorry that it's me doing the wind-up here and not Rob. He's so much better at

hosting this thing. I'm just a spoke in this wheel of a program, so bear with me. We're going to get

through this. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, I took the company helicopter and headed for Houston

from my home in Dallas and landed at the Houston stop of Meekam auctions.

And you know me, I'm cheap.

So before then, naturally, I started scrounging around for media passes through their company

website.

I found him, and a few days later was contacted by David Morton.

David is Meekam's communications manager, and David asked me what my

plans at the auction were, and I told him about how we typically do things at Seema and the other

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