The Muscle Car Place online podcast, episode number 603.

This week, Rick Schmidt is here for the Ask Rick segment, and isn't the timing of this interesting?

In February, Rick spent some time in Taiwan with many of the vendors that produce and source several of the high-quality restoration parts you can buy from NPD,

stuff that we've all come to take for granted, just part of normal

life now. We likely do not know how much we count on a global economy for restoration

parts, but especially Taiwan. So we're going to tackle a lot here. Like, why don't we just make

everything here in the United States? And isn't the quality of things suspect when they're made

overseas? And how in the world did Taiwan ever get into restoration parts anyway?

We're just going to cover all of it.

Many of those manufacturers who had all this machinery

and all this capability of pulling up and creating parts

was looking for something to fill in the gap

that the dwindling collision parts market was creating.

And the answer to that was restoration parts.

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Well, here we are, everybody.

Rick Schmidt is here for the St. Paddy's Day Special, and also a little lesson in running

a national company using internationally sourced goods, especially restoration

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