TMCP #579: ASK RICK – Summertime Parade Car Businesses; Evaluating a 4-Year College Degree in an Automotive Restoration; The Biggest International Muscle Car Parts Customers; OEM Retirements and a Changing of the Guard!

The MuscleCar Place

Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It is June and time for another riveting Ask Rick segment where I ask him the tough questions! The big event for the month is Flag Day! It is also the start of summer and time for vacations and traveling around to see this great country of ours or maybe another country. This month we dug into the realities of shipping to international customers (by the container load), the retirements of BIG names at Dodge and Chevy, and the value of a 4-year college degree in automotive education. The we followed it up by guessing at the best vehicles to buy for the summer - to use as parade vehicles - that you could sell at the end and make a great ROI!

It is the fifteenth year for The Muscle Car Place Podcast and it has come a long ways since it's lowly beginnings and I thank you, the listener of coming along on the journey. I have been blessed with some amazing opportunities and the connections to meet incredible people and to share it all with you The Muscle Car Place audience.

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 579. This week, Rick Schmidt is here for the Ask Rick segment to dive into a multitude of topics.
0:10.5	And like always, the first question led to something I never knew was on the menu. International Muscle Car vendors that NPD supports. And the biggest one is in Norway. And we're going to talk about
0:22.0	everything it takes to get parts into Norway. We're going to talk about where parts are and aren't
0:27.3	sourced. It's not six companies in China, by the way. And then we're going to get to the one
0:32.1	additional piece to the puzzle that isn't sexy, isn't fun, but all adds up and makes the difference to allow the
0:39.4	good people of Norway to get their classic car parts. It's the shipping cost. We can consolidate
0:45.1	all of their needs into one single ocean container. And it saves them a ton of money. And they're
0:50.1	also buying their performance parts from Summit Racing. And they get around and they've got a few different places they draw from,
0:56.2	but they have to be able to go to the supermarket and get all their groceries in one place.
1:03.9	This is the Muscle Car Place Online Podcast.
1:07.8	Brought you by National Parks Depot.
1:10.5	This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide
1:14.0	who love American muscle cars. If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the
1:21.6	place for you. Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed. I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast.
1:30.5	Well, happy June and happy summer, everybody.
1:32.5	We are off like a rocket.
1:34.2	Rick Schmidt is here for another full-blown rundown on the Ask Rick segment.
1:37.6	This is a big insight into the restoration car hobby.
1:40.8	I know for a lot of you, when we have some of these inside baseball interviews with Rick,
1:45.6	this is your favorite stuff. It's not necessarily stuff you're going to do yourself because he can't,
1:51.5	but it is fun to pull back the curtain and just see how it all works. This one took a turn,
1:57.7	not for the worst, not for the better. it just wasn't something I knew anything about.
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