TMCP# 607: Griffin McGrath of Legends Direct; Bringing the Professional Dealership Mentality to Legends Racing; Debut of the Dallas Kibbe Legends Direct Development Driver Program!
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Robert Kibbe
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🗓️ 11 April 2025
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Griffin McGrath of Legends Direct; Bringing the Professional Dealership Mentality to Legends Racing; Debut of the Dallas Kibbe Legends Direct Development Driver Program!
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 607. This week, a full inside interview with Griffin McGrath, the owner of Legends Direct in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
| 0:11.5 | Now, Legend Direct is one of, if not the biggest, legends car dealerships in the country. |
| 0:17.1 | The Legends Car Racing Series is this spec series meant for young and old alike, but many, many NASCAR drivers today started in Legends to learn the ropes on a twitchy and hard-to-drive little car. |
| 0:28.5 | Griffin's family background is owning and operating car dealerships, and he has formed his approach to this business accordingly. |
| 0:35.3 | But his journey in life has directed it. |
| 0:37.8 | He's going to share his entire journey, including why he left the family business to get |
| 0:42.3 | his personal life on track, and then later opened Legends Direct to fulfill his mission |
| 0:46.9 | of helping people in the thing he loves most, racing. |
| 0:50.0 | You longtime listeners will know that my son Dallas is racing Legends cars with hopes of something bigger. |
| 0:55.4 | And this year we're doing something we've never done before, getting coaching. |
| 0:59.3 | In fact, Dallas will be the Legends Direct Development driver this year, and it's going to be fun. |
| 1:03.5 | Just a passion of mine is just to see kids progress into finding that thing that they're like, oh my gosh, this is what I'm doing. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.1 | This is what slow me down. |
| 1:15.6 | And that I know the reason that you guys went this route. |
| 1:21.0 | And I appreciate that because I appreciate your faith in us in that because I know we can get to that point. |
| 1:31.7 | This is the Muscle Car Place Online podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:38.6 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. If you're buying, selling, restoring, |
| 1:47.5 | even racing them, this is the place for you. Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed. |
| 1:55.3 | I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, here we are, everybody, second |
| 1:59.5 | week of April 2025. |
| 2:05.9 | A very unique episode of the show for you today. I'm going to tell you up front, if you are here for the weekly muscle car topics you are known and accustomed to, today's going to be |
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