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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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Speaker 2: I'm Hannah Elliott and I'm Matt Miller.

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Speaker 3: This is Hot Pursuit.

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Speaker 2: Coming up on today's podcast, we have the one, the

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Speaker 2: only Alex Manos from Beverly Hills Car Club with us.

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Speaker 2: He shares all of his secrets.

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Speaker 3: I can't tell you how excited I am to talk

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Speaker 3: to this guy, like I care a lot about the

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Speaker 3: Hills Car Club.

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Speaker 2: We talk about sort of famous and infamous cars. He

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Speaker 2: is very well known and sort of like a lot

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Speaker 2: of famous people. Surprising amounts of famous people have bought

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Speaker 2: cars from him, But I didn't actually realize.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and he was kind of a famous person

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Speaker 3: right himself because he grew up in Beverly Hills. He

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Speaker 3: was a model, he was an actor.

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Speaker 2: So it was in my favorite I will go on

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Speaker 2: record saying my favorite and best show on TV Beverly

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Speaker 2: Hills Housewives, best show. Everything else is Mid, Everything else

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Speaker 2: is Mid.

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Speaker 3: Don't say that I had so much respect for you

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Speaker 3: before this minute.

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Speaker 2: Do not knock it until you watch it. It's a

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Speaker 2: social commentary. And if you watch a lot of the

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Speaker 2: other schlek that we're being fed right now from all

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Speaker 2: the streamers. It is superior. I watch a lot, and

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you it's quality.

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Speaker 3: I yeah, I can't say that I watch. I can't

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Speaker 3: think of.

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Speaker 2: Anything's a social commentary TV shows.

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Speaker 1: You can't.

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Speaker 2: It's sport. It's sport, got it. You can't take it seriously,

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Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 3: So we'll talk to him about all the cars that

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Speaker 3: he has, and I've spent the last couple of days

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Speaker 3: going through his inventory and I know it like the

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Speaker 3: back of my hand already. I'm at it to Austin

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Speaker 3: after we get off that I'm going to the Moto

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Speaker 3: GP at the Circuit of the Americas, and it's I

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Speaker 3: think a really important weekend for me as a Ducati fan,

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Speaker 3: especially as a Mark Marquez fan. Marquees is racing, yes,

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Speaker 3: and he's he didn't podium last weekend in Brazil. He so,

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Speaker 3: first of all, the Aprillias are doing better than the

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Speaker 3: Ducatis right now. It's so Ducati's were dominant for the

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Speaker 3: last few years of Moto GP, like the last four

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Speaker 3: years of Moto GP, and this year, for the first year,

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Speaker 3: Ducati just can't keep up with another bike and it's

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Speaker 3: the Aprillias. And that's exciting to see because like you

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Speaker 3: don't want the same people to win all the time. Sure,

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Speaker 3: but I thought even if the Ducatis aren't as good,

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Speaker 3: since Mark is so much better than all of the

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Speaker 3: other pilots, he could still win on the Ducatio versus

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Speaker 3: a better bike. That proved not to be the case

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Speaker 3: last weekend in Brazil. It proved not to be the

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Speaker 3: case on opening weekend, and even another Dukati kid on

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Speaker 3: another Dukati, Fabio di jan Antonio, beat Mark in the

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Speaker 3: race on Sunday. So this weekend so important for Mark

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Speaker 3: to prove himself against a the other people riding the

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Speaker 3: same bike as he is, and then b because he's

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Speaker 3: the king of Codo, like he has won I don't

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Speaker 3: know six or seven times in Austin, it's important that

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Speaker 3: he wins out right. So it's it's a really important weekend.

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Speaker 2: I have a question about that. How much can a

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Speaker 2: exceptional pilot makeup for a run of the mill bike.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that's the whole question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 2: You can difficult for a bit a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Mark is an alien. He's like possibly the greatest motorcycle racer,

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Speaker 3: certainly in the modern era, you know, so he can

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Speaker 3: do it a lot of times, but not every time.

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Speaker 3: And but someone like a Fabio Quartraro who's also incredibly talented,

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Speaker 3: but he's on a horrible bike. He's on the Yamaha.

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Speaker 3: He'll have he'll qualify really well or he'll do be

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Speaker 3: in the top ten sometimes, but he just can't turn

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Speaker 3: that Yamaha into daid.

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Speaker 2: No. Yeah, yeah, it's tough.

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Speaker 1: It's tough.

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Speaker 2: Cool. Well, I hope you have some really good text

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Speaker 2: mex and barbecue while you're there, and like go boot

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Speaker 2: Oh you should go boot shopping. Are you gonna like

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Speaker 2: buy some or get a jacket? Come on, Matt, because

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Speaker 2: it's part of the fun.

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Speaker 3: So the bests, the best boots for me, the best

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Speaker 3: boots to buy are out of the Pacific Northwest. So

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Speaker 3: I'm looking for west Coat or Nick's or Whites, you know,

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Speaker 3: or maybe something Japanese.

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Speaker 2: You should check out some to Kova you got. You

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Speaker 2: gotta get some Texas boots. It's not my things, Casey,

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Speaker 2: get in there.

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Speaker 3: No, No, I don't. I mean, I'll look, I'll look.

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Speaker 2: I don't really cost anything to try them on. You

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Speaker 2: got to make time.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be at the track. Dukati is gonna

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Speaker 3: got a new bike. In fact, I think because we're

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Speaker 3: so we're recording this on Wednesday, but it's not gonna

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Speaker 3: go out till Friday. I can say that on Thursday night,

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Speaker 3: Dukati will reveal the new super Legierra. So their new

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Speaker 3: like pinnacle superbike, and it's gonna be like a two

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Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars motorcycle. So what it's a pretty serious

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Speaker 3: piece of kit. Why why I think there's gonna be

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Speaker 3: two versions of it. Obviously the the news isn't out yet,

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Speaker 3: so I'm just on speculation. I think one of them

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Speaker 3: is gonna be one sixty, and then there's gonna be

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Speaker 3: this special edition that's like two twenty.

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Speaker 2: Why honestly, why where's that price coming from?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's gonna be all titanium.

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Speaker 2: You know, titanium. You could cut that whole thing out

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Speaker 3: It's uh what things are getting more and more expensible.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, two wheels and some crowbars.

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Speaker 3: Just wait, just wait, you're gonna be like, wow, you

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Speaker 3: might not get that price, but you're gonna understand. Mean,

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Speaker 3: in the past, super Leagaras have gone for you know,

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Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars or more so, but this will

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Speaker 3: be the first time they've cost Okay, wait.

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Speaker 2: Last question on this. Are the limited? Are they making

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Speaker 2: like three of them? So that's part of the appeal.

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Speaker 3: They're definitely limited. I don't know they.

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Speaker 2: Fit to size for the person buying them, so they're

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Speaker 2: like bespoke. They're not even bespoke to your exact measurements

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Speaker 2: like a suit.

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Speaker 3: I mean that would be very difficult to do. Someone

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Speaker 3: like me who doesn't fit on.

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Speaker 2: You need it. You actually would be a very good

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Speaker 2: candidate for a bespoke.

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Speaker 3: I love it bespoke.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine how much better that feel?

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Speaker 3: By the way, that's why I really need to go

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Speaker 3: to Beverly Hills Car Club, like I want to sit

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Speaker 2: Honestly, I honestly think so many times, and for myself

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Speaker 2: this has happened a lot where you kind of get

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Speaker 2: oh no, I don't like how this fits me. And

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Speaker 2: sometimes it just has to do with the seats. Maybe

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Speaker 2: they're overstuffed, maybe they need to be moved or adjusted

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Speaker 3: Apparently, Magnum p I you know Tom Selleck thing I've

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Speaker 2: I've seen them stats.

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Speaker 3: Famously had a three to eight in the show, and

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Speaker 3: he's too tall for it. So they had to take

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Speaker 3: padding out of the seat, and they had to move

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Speaker 3: the tracks, you know, under the seat back. I've always

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Speaker 3: loved the Mercedes, the AMG gts that you know, they

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Speaker 3: new GT and the original SLS. And but every time

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Speaker 3: then I forget about it for a few months, and

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Speaker 3: then I'm thinking, wait, maybe I could fit. Maybe I

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Speaker 3: I know, what do you got going on?

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Speaker 2: You know what I think this? You know, Magnus has

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Speaker 2: to sale and it's closing today, Oh my goodness day.

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Speaker 2: So I think, honestly, this weekend I'm going to be

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Speaker 2: helping like ship things out. Maybe you know, Linda hand.

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Speaker 2: Obviously there's a whole team that are will be shipping

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Speaker 2: things out, but I'll probably be there for moral support

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Speaker 2: and maybe i'll tape a box or something.

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Speaker 3: Well, the cars, I guess some of the cars are

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Speaker 3: going to get shipped. I hope some of it. I

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Speaker 3: hope some of the bidders are like, dude, I'm coming

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Speaker 3: to LA to pick that up.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'll report back on that. I mean, it's all

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Speaker 2: very exciting, but yeah, I think this weekend is going

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Speaker 2: to be like getting rid of getting rid.

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Speaker 3: Of cars and a lot of parts.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of parts in there, you know what?

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Speaker 3: You know what, there's like a fender collection.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. The crazy thing is I don't even

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Speaker 2: know if it's I guess it'll make a dent, but

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Speaker 2: I don't even know. This isn't like this is like

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Speaker 2: less than half of the stuff he has.

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Speaker 3: I can tell. You can tell when you look at

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Speaker 3: the lots that you're like, h it clearly pains him

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Speaker 3: to get rid of this. But who's no on eight

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Speaker 3: nine to eleven fenders Like who's been.

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Speaker 2: Actually a lot of people who have shops, A lot

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Speaker 2: of people who have shops. That's actually because you want

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Speaker 2: the original parts. If you want original parts. That's the

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Speaker 2: beauty of older Porsches. All the parts are interchangeable. So,

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Speaker 2: at least in southern California, there are lots of shops,

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Speaker 2: restoration shops and mechanical garages that don't want those parts.

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Speaker 2: I'm not making them new, you know. Yeah, so there

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Speaker 2: is a market for it. It's kind of surprising, but

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Speaker 2: there is a market for it.

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Speaker 3: Are you driving any new cars?

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Speaker 2: Actually? Today, I'm good. I'm getting a Pollstar, which I'm very.

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Speaker 3: My heart sunk when you said that.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm actually excited because I haven't had one for

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Speaker 2: quite a while. It's the V sixty. Oh wait a second, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's evolvough. Well you know what. Sorry, So I'm just

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Speaker 2: looking at this. They're calling it a Volvo V sixty

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Speaker 2: Polestar engineered car. I haven't. They haven't dropped it off yet.

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Speaker 2: I'm supposed to get it later today, so this is

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Speaker 2: really interesting. I'm looking at the exact wording in the

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Speaker 2: document that they sent me. This is interesting. So I

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Speaker 2: will report back about this because yes, right, it's a

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Speaker 2: Volvo V sixty, but they're calling it Polestar engineered. I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure what that means.

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Speaker 3: My heart leapt. My heart leaps.

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Speaker 2: Now, wait about the Volvo part.

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Speaker 3: Yes, because so a Polestar. I expected so much from

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Speaker 3: them after the Polestar one.

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Speaker 2: I know they were good. They were Honestly, it's such.

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Speaker 3: A cool car. I mean the pull the pole Star

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Speaker 3: one is one of those vehicles where I drive it

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Speaker 3: around and people, you know, like BMW kids at a stop,

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Speaker 3: like it'll be like, hey man, what's that car? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: or they'll know they'll be like, oh, it has adjustable

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Speaker 2: You know, they did good.

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Speaker 3: And but they but that's the only one that's good.

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Speaker 2: I'm not getting wagon. This is a this is a

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this, and we're back with

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Speaker 2: Alex Manos from the Beverly Hills Car club, our favorite

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Speaker 3: I'm pumped. I've been following you guys for many, many years,

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Speaker 3: and Hollywood Reporter and LA Times and well, really, Hannah

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Speaker 3: I've been looking through your inventory and it's just like

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Speaker 1: We have on the website right now, we have four

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Speaker 3: Everything that's so cool. You have a lot of stuff

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Speaker 3: Well, what do you think who's coming in and buying those?

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Speaker 3: I mean in Hollywood, I would expect to more no offense,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it can it could be, it

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Speaker 2: Alex, how do you without giving away too much of

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Speaker 1: All of the above. So we look for cars, We

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Speaker 2: So I want to go back in history because I

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Speaker 1: you're having fun, you're just it just it brings out

436
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 1: the joy in and at least in me and I

437
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 1: think a lot of people. So that was at an

438
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,719
Speaker 1: really early age that brought me to cars. Then I

439
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 1: was just telling a story the other night actually, and

440
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 1: then my auntie who lives in Australia, who she had

441
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 1: a she had a nineteen sixty seven Ford Mustang Coop

442
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 1: and wow when she when she picked us up at

443
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 1: the airport in Australia in a Mustang Okay and she

444
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: she had a she had a Dalmatian named Zodiac Okay

445
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,480
Speaker 1: and that dog would sit in the backseat and put

446
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 1: its head out the window and if she would take

447
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 1: me down to the beach, he just felt so cool.

448
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: Classic cars they just there's there's just something about them

449
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,399
Speaker 1: that you can't understand unless you experience them. And this

450
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 1: was really young, this was very very young. And then

451
00:22:54,240 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 1: we came to America and I always wanted to have

452
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 1: a classic car, but I didn't know, if you know,

453
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: it's it's a task. Only a classic car is more

454
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: than just only a classic car. It's an experience.

455
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 2: It's sometimes in a relationship.

456
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, because because you might be on your way,

457
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 1: you know, getting in the car, you're gonna go from

458
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 1: A to B and it ends up being, you know,

459
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 1: a long way of getting there, but you might get

460
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: You'll still get there, but it don't be a long

461
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 1: extended route. And so I found this Lincoln. It was

462
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 1: actually nineteen sixty two. It was a Lincoln Continental and

463
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 1: it was a sedan and I bought it from the

464
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,399
Speaker 1: Lincoln Mercury service manager in Marina, del Rey. And so

465
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: the car mechanically was flawless. So it's a great car

466
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: to start with. They needed cosmetic work, but it was

467
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 1: a great car to start with. And it was black

468
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 1: with parchment interior, and of course they had the suicide doors.

469
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: And I would just drive that car around. It was

470
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 1: so fun. And I mean, if you're ever in a

471
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: bad mood, you get in that car, you just go

472
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: around the block and you're cured. I mean it's a

473
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: therapy session, you know. I said, you know, on turn

474
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: on the key. Yes, and but in my mind, you know,

475
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 1: you were you kind of made it in America if

476
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 1: you had a convertible. And so this was a hard topic.

477
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: That's all I could afford. And so but everybody wanted

478
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: to yes, right right, and everybody, everybody wanted to buy

479
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 1: this car. They were like oh and everyone I went.

480
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: I was like, I can never, How could I sell

481
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: you know, my my holy grail of happiness? And then

482
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: one day I finally did. I said, hey, I'm going

483
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: to take the leap, and I sold the car and

484
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 1: I bought a convertible and maybe one of the most

485
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 1: inexpensive ones I could find that needed everything. And then

486
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: I spent a year restoring it, learning how to you know,

487
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: what to do, where to go, where to get the

488
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:51,360
Speaker 1: best prices, you know, doing it on a budget. I've

489
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: had the car. I didn't do the mechanic work myself,

490
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: but my friend who became my friend, was my mechanic

491
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,200
Speaker 1: at the time, and so we did the last that's

492
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,679
Speaker 1: piece of the puzzle on this car. And I'm taking

493
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: it out for a victory lapdown Sunset Boulevard in this

494
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: nineteen This is in nineteen This is in nineteen sixty one,

495
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: and it's a convertible and the tops down and it's

496
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: black on black on black, triple black. And we pull

497
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: up the Crescent Heights and Sunset, and the guy pulls

498
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: up next to us in an escalade. It's two thousand

499
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 1: and two. There's no such thing as uber. Nobody has drivers. Okay,

500
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: I mean people do, but it's very unusual. And this

501
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: guy sitting in the back and the window comes down

502
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 1: and he says how much? And I just, I like

503
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: start dying of laughter inside. I just I couldn't believe it.

504
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: And I said, you know, I just threw out a price,

505
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: said fifty five thousand, and he says, no, not, what

506
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: year is it? How much do you want for it?

507
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I said fifty five thousand,

508
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: and he goes pull over. So I literally pull over

509
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: in front of the Chateau Marmont and we sit there

510
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: for I don't know how long, maybe even two hours,

511
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: talking about the car and its history and plastic cars,

512
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 1: et cetera. And next day I go to his house

513
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: and he cuts me a check.

514
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 2: Wow, who is this guy? Who's the guy?

515
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: It's this guy. Sam Ne's Aarian Oh, oh.

516
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 2: That's a that's a name. I recognize that name.

517
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: He's an entrepreneur.

518
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 2: That's amazing. And so from there is that when the

519
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 2: light bulb clicked and you just kind of realized, wait

520
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 2: a second, people want to buy old cars. I mean,

521
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 2: how did you go from there to now having six

522
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty cars and never fewer than have one

523
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 2: hundred Porschas at your dealership.

524
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 1: You know, it's been such a journey. It's been so

525
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: much hard work and effort and diligence. I mean I

526
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: still work now seven days a week.

527
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 2: You seem like a worker.

528
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's you know, it's just we came

529
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: here with nothing and we work hard. And that's just

530
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,719
Speaker 1: kind of the journey that I've been on. And I

531
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: love what I do and it's a lot of work.

532
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: But you know that, I don't know, sound cliche, but

533
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: it's like when you love what you do, it doesn't

534
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: feel you know, for me, the weeks go by like days,

535
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 1: The months go by like weeks. I mean, every time

536
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: I blink, it's a new month. You know. We do

537
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: a staff meeting every month at the beginning of each month,

538
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: and it's like it just I feel like it was yesterday.

539
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: I mean, there's gonna be another one, I like a

540
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: week or so. I mean, they just it just it

541
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: just goes so fast because it's so exciting. We get

542
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: new cars coming in every day and buying new cars

543
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: and looking at them and what are we gonna find?

544
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 1: It's it's exciting.

545
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 3: By the way, you're still Alex, Do you still love cars?

546
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 3: Because I remember, well, it's happened to me a lot

547
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 3: where I've been hanging out in the Ducatti dealership and

548
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 3: I'm a massive fan of of the brand. And I

549
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 3: always tell the owner like you're so lucky, you know,

550
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 3: And they always say, look, if you if you love Dukatti's,

551
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 3: now don't ever buy a dealership, because when you buy

552
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 3: a dealership, you're not going to have that love affair anymore.

553
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 3: Do you still get super pumped if you if you

554
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 3: get a car in inventory that that that you've been

555
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 3: dreaming about, or if you get to drive one that's special.

556
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: So I would say to the Ducate line, I would say,

557
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: the guy who owns a Ducati store, and which store

558
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: did you go to? The one on line? Are you

559
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: in La No?

560
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 3: No, I'm in New York. So I would go to

561
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 3: rock Wells all the time. I like Hudson Valley Motorcycles.

562
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 3: I sometimes go to the one down here and soho.

563
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 3: But they all say the same thing. They're like, Yo,

564
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 3: you're you're an enthusiast and you're in love with the brand.

565
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 3: But if you own the dealership, it would kill all

566
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 3: of that.

567
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: I would say, I would might come back to that

568
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: would be maybe they're ordering, maybe they're able to order.

569
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: And I'm sure they saw both new and used, but

570
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure they bought. They order new bikes, yeah, meaning

571
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: you know, they hit a button on their computer and

572
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: they say, I'll have six of those or five of those.

573
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: This is like, this is such a hunt. This is

574
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: like I just can't explain it to you. Yesterday we

575
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: found a nineteen sixty four Ferrari three thirty GT two

576
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: plus two nice had the same owner since I think

577
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: it was the seventies or a very late sixties. He

578
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,719
Speaker 1: had a two fifty s el Mercea and a nineteen

579
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: sixty seven Fiadino Coup. And I mean, I mean yes,

580
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: and I get just as excited yesterday and as I

581
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: am sharing it with you today. And I would have

582
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: the day before thinking that would even happen. So so

583
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: it definitely hasn't killed the excitement for me, and if

584
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,959
Speaker 1: it did, I would probably have to slow down on

585
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: the amount of work.

586
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 3: That I do. So for you, it's just because it's

587
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 3: always the chase. And that's every car lover knows that

588
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 3: and motorcycle lover for that matter as well, that the

589
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 3: chase is like the most exciting part. A lot of

590
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: times after I buy a bike, it's not as much

591
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 3: fun as the year that I spent researching it and

592
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 3: looking for it, And so you have that all the time.

593
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: Ye, That's what keeps us going, right, That's what keeps

594
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: me going, is that is that chase I bought On Saturday.

595
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: I bought a nineteen fifty three asked to Martin dB

596
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: two vantage and I've been talking to this.

597
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 2: Gentleman, sorry, Matt, Matt's been talking about aston Martin's and

598
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 2: we both have so sorry, keep going because we want

599
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 2: to hear this.

600
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: No, No, I mean I've been I mean, I've been

601
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: talking to this gentleman since twenty fourteen. It's twenty twenty

602
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: six about.

603
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: The same car. Yes, oh gosh, so when you.

604
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: Talk about the Yeah, No, I mean, I mean like

605
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: like with me with the Lincoln. You know, my first Lincoln,

606
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: I had a million offers. I didn't want to let

607
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: it go. It's like these cars bring, you know, there's

608
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: a emotional connection and joy and happiness. And sometimes it's

609
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: not always about the money, you know. Yeah, and it

610
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: could be. It could be. It could be a five

611
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: thousand dollar car or a fifty thousand dollar car. We

612
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: sell both, you know, we sell cars for five thousand

613
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: dollars and we sell cars for one hundred and fifty thousand.

614
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: It isn't about the price of the car. You know.

615
00:30:55,320 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 1: They both bring so much joy, and they have their

616
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: own quirks and you know, issues along the way. That's

617
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: but like I said earlier, I mean classic cars are

618
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: an experience. If you if you need to get to

619
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: the doctors, that if you if you're having a baby,

620
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: I would recommend, you know, maybe you go get a

621
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: Toyota priets. I wouldn't say, you know, let's try, you know,

622
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: try yeah, right right, you might make it animating make

623
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: actually makes for a cooler story. But you need to

624
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: be willing to go with the flow.

625
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 2: I bet sometimes you feel like you're playing therapist a

626
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 2: little bit to some of because people put so much

627
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 2: emotion and onto the car, right, I'm assuming you see

628
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 2: that quite a bit.

629
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: See I've had I've had men and women. I'm over

630
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: fifty of them on my shoulder when I'm at their

631
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: house and there we're hugging and they're crying on my shoulder.

632
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so I and I get it, and I mean,

633
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: I'm ready to cry with them. And even I'm buying

634
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: the car just because I understand. I understand where they're

635
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: coming from.

636
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

637
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it could have been their dad's car,

638
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: or there could have been their mom's car, or their

639
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: mom or dad had one, or my auntie, for example,

640
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: had one. So you bought one to emulate that experience.

641
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: And then life, you know, takes turns. Maybe you're moving

642
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: to another country or you know, maybe whatever it is,

643
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: so so you go through an array of emotions.

644
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,959
Speaker 2: I want to ask you how the market is doing

645
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 2: now compared to ten years ago. How there's so much

646
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 2: happening in new cars in terms of tariffs and economic

647
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 2: volatility and just crazy stuff happening. How do you see

648
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 2: that affecting your business? And part two of this question,

649
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 2: how has the rise of online sales affected what you

650
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Speaker 2: guys do too, Do you see any effect there?

651
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Speaker 1: So I want I wanted to I wanted to ask

652
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: you and I'm having I'm gonna gladly answer that question.

653
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: What do you see?

654
00:32:58,840 --> 00:32:58,959
Speaker 2: Uh?

655
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: What do you think the differences between today and ten

656
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: years ago? Well, how do you see the difference from

657
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: your perspective?

658
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 2: Every leader of a new automaker brand and Matt you

659
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 2: can chime and here. First of all, they say, it's

660
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 2: of course very challenging, but the challenging thing for them

661
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 2: is that the target keeps changing that they feel there's

662
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 2: no consistency. It's all talk about emissions, evs and where

663
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 2: we're going with autonomous driving. So on the new side

664
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 2: of things, people are saying, we have to move forward,

665
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 2: we have to be progressive, but we don't have a stable,

666
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 2: solid target, and so that makes it really challenging. And

667
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 2: then there's another contingent that splits into two different groups.

668
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 2: One the people that love the V twelve stick shift engines,

669
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 2: who always will and want more of them and will

670
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 2: buy them instantly. And you have the automakers like for instance,

671
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 2: Asin Martin who makes the Allure, who in that car

672
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 2: has both of those things. The second thing is just

673
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 2: how important the rise of bespoke customizable, making the car

674
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 2: reflect your own personality and identity. That is a huge trend.

675
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 2: Everybody's talking about it, and in terms of the new automakers,

676
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 2: everybody wants to capitalize on being able to make cars

677
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 2: very customizable.

678
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 3: Matt Well, I mean so, I talked to mostly new

679
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 3: car manufacturers on my show, and I think from them

680
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 3: I hear this business is just getting more and more difficult.

681
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 3: The regulations, the hoops they have to jump through, the

682
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 3: moving target of tariffs, you know, globalization and the reversal

683
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 3: of that. It just makes it more difficult for them

684
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 3: to make a good product at a good price. And

685
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 3: things are getting so much more expensive. I imagine it

686
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 3: drives customers to you more than anything else, Alex, because

687
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 3: a people want the good old days of a gas

688
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 3: powered analog driving experience. Be you probably don't have to

689
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 3: deal with tariffs as much, right I don't imagine you're

690
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 3: getting cars a lot from around the world compared to

691
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 3: what you get in the US, and then see. I'd

692
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 3: be interested to hear what the regula regulatory side is

693
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 3: like for you, but I hope it's not too difficult.

694
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Speaker 1: The difference is I would say, I would say that

695
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: so it's I would say when I would say, we're

696
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: in a great place that right now, because we have

697
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: customers who are buying cars from the fifties, the sixties, forties, thirty,

698
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: you know, the old old classic cars. But we have

699
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: a new group of people now that have that have

700
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,959
Speaker 1: that have come out of nowhere really buying stuff two

701
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: thousand and forward.

702
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 2: Are these younger people? By a younger I mean like

703
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 2: forty and aer.

704
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't they I don't the age. I don't

705
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: know exactly the age range. But now, but yeah, you knew,

706
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: there's just a new community of people that have have

707
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: have come out of nowhere that there that you know,

708
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: are buying a two thousand and ten Porsche. That's a

709
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: manual transmission that they wouldn't have maybe chased or sought

710
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: after so much before. So I don't know when what

711
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: year was, but they came out with the with the

712
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: digital watch years ago. You know, it probably was in

713
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: the eighties or something.

714
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 2: You means Porsche.

715
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, is that right?

716
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 2: Who Who did I'm saying who?

717
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: No, No, just in general, they came out with it.

718
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: You know, they came out with a digital watch was

719
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: going there.

720
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 2: You're saying the first got it.

721
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: So they came out of this digital watch, you know whenever.

722
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: That was seventies, eighties and the you know, I've heard

723
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: about and talked about this before that. You know, the

724
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: world's over role ax, all these companies, they're going to

725
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: go out of business. I mean, who's gonn However, who's

726
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna want to car? You know watch the one you

727
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: have to wind and you know it takes this is digital?

728
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Well, you know the watch hasn't gone away,

729
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 1: and so classic cars there's so much emotion behind them.

730
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I'm I'm willing and happy to

731
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: drive a Tesla. You know, if you said, hey, here's

732
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: a Tesla, I'm going to sponsor you here, take it

733
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: and have it for the month. Great. I like my friend.

734
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: I was just hung out with my friend on Saturday.

735
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: He said, I got to your house. I jumped in

736
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: my car, put in your address. I talked to chat

737
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: EBT on the on the computer. I had a conversation

738
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: with the robot on the way to your house. I

739
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: didn't even drive. I didn't. It was crazy, it was

740
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: it was I mean the way he explained it was crazy,

741
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: so I'd be willing to try it. However, where's the emotion,

742
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: where's the power? Where's the smell? Get in the A

743
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: friend of mine visited me that I went to high school.

744
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: They came to the dealership. He opened the door of

745
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: a portion ninety sixty four. He almost fainted, he was

746
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: I can't believe he almost fainted. I can't believe that smell.

747
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: It's the same smell from the nineties. I mean, the

748
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,280
Speaker 1: smell on these cars is the same it was back then. Yes,

749
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: where how are you getting that in the Tesla? How

750
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: are you getting that in any of these cars? There's

751
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: no emotion, there's no feeling, there's no there's nothing there

752
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: who I mean, yeah, sure if you like. Again, I

753
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: have a housekeeper. She cleans my house amazing. You know,

754
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: I see her. I give her a hug. We have

755
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: a great relationship. Would I hire a robot to do

756
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: to do her job? I don't know, Probably not. You know,

757
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: like I have a great thing, you know, we we

758
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: I have a love for her, I mean we, you know,

759
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 1: like you exactly. There's you just can't get and so

760
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: so newer cars are losing that connection. Yes, they do

761
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: the job, But where's the fun.

762
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 3: I totally By the way, Alex is saying he would

763
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 3: be willing to drive a Tesla for a month if

764
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 3: you paid him enough, that's what he said. If they

765
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 3: stayed here, you said, if they sponsored me, I'd drive

766
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 3: it for a month. But no, you're totally right, dude.

767
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 3: I my one of my uncles when I was a kid,

768
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 3: had a convertible bug and I will never forget. You know,

769
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 3: the leather and the stick shift and everything had this

770
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 3: smell and it was like, I don't think it was

771
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 3: like a pungent, like a strong scent, but it was

772
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 3: just a smell that I'll never forget. And to this day,

773
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 3: I'm I'm hunting for that smell. It's so funny in

774
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 3: a car that I'm hunting for a smell, But it's

775
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 3: totally It's totally true. On that note. You know, I'm

776
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 3: going through all of these cars, and a lot of

777
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 3: them have, especially the Alpha's some real patina. I guess

778
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 3: A good way to put it, how do you how

779
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 3: much road worthiness do you want in a car before

780
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 3: you sell it, or will you sell like a project

781
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 3: car that won't even drive? Like? Do you have different

782
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 3: levels we.

783
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: Do everything under the sun, so we can sell a

784
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,439
Speaker 1: I'm just probably you know, it could be a five

785
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 1: thousand dollar car, could be a two million dollar Ferrari.

786
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 3: But you don't say, like, this thing has to be

787
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,760
Speaker 3: able to drive and turns have to work like anything.

788
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: So we could be selling a car that doesn't have

789
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: an engine.

790
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 3: Do you do you do like because from your from

791
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,720
Speaker 3: the bios that I've read about you or the stories

792
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 3: that I've read about you, it seems like at first

793
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 3: you were restoring cars and then selling them, and now

794
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 3: do you still do that at Beverly Hills Car Club?

795
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 3: Do you do you get a car and you say, Okay,

796
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 3: I want to I want to make sure this thing

797
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 3: runs because I'm going to get a better price for it,

798
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 3: or do you sell it as is?

799
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: So a lot of the cars we sell as is.

800
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: Some cars I'll do a full reestoration on myself that

801
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: might we might not sell, that I might hold on to.

802
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: And yes, if a car needs something, we'll we'll address it.

803
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: Of course, we make sure everything is roadworthy and we

804
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: do a nice twenty point inspection before it leaves and

805
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: make sure everything is up to snuff. And each car

806
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: is different though, if a car doesn't have an engine,

807
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: obviously we're not going to do that. If a car

808
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: is a complete project and doesn't run, then it's going

809
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: to be sold as is. It just depends on the

810
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 1: vehicle and what kind of what your expectations are too,

811
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: so it depends on the customer in the car. Everything

812
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: of course is sold.

813
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 3: But this is interesting you have well, I'm just I'm

814
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 3: what I took from that is one little piece. You

815
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 3: have a stash. So if sometimes when you're out buying

816
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 3: a car, you'll be like, oh no, this one's not

817
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 3: getting sold, like I'm keeping this. Do you have a

818
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 3: garage of your own that you found throughout the years

819
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 3: that you've been building up a collection that you're sitting

820
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 3: on us.

821
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 1: Yes, Unfortunately there's been there's been many cars that I've

822
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: sold that I regret selling, but you can't keep them all.

823
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the fun of the business too.

824
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: Like you said, sometimes the chase, you know, you chase

825
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: this car, this asked the Martin I chased for twelve years.

826
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: It hasn't arrived yet, but you know, it was such

827
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: a chase and it's going to be sold. So I've

828
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: put together a collection of cars.

829
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 3: Yes, I see because I was looking for it, because

830
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 3: I only see one DBS on your site right now.

831
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 3: It's the white right hand drive. By the way you

832
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 3: denote left hand drive and right hand drive, do people

833
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 3: actually want to buy a right hand drive car? I

834
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 3: would have thought that's something that. Okay, we talked to

835
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 3: Dave Lee last month. He bought a left hand drive Gto.

836
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 3: He bought an expensive right but I thought I figured

837
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 3: most people would shy away from that. Do you have

838
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 3: people coming in They're like, okay, right hand drive, I'll

839
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 3: take it.

840
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: So it depends we sell globally. Yeah, so if they're

841
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 1: in Australia or in England, they're going to want to

842
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: right hand drive. Some people in America, I mean, what

843
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: how much cooler can you be to pull up at

844
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: the traffic light in the Ferrari on the other side

845
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: of the It's already you're already in. I mean, speaking

846
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: of that Gto, he's already in like the craziest car,

847
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: thirty eight million dollar Ferrari. And now you're as well

848
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: as that. You're on the other side of the road,

849
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: you know, on the steering wheel.

850
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Yeah, yeah, I saw the Pebble Beach too.

851
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 2: So good for him, is he? Yeah, he's put on

852
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: his Instagram he got in, so he's going there.

853
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: Oh wow car. Yeah. So I mean so I think

854
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: I think right, not everybody wants the right hand drive car.

855
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: Well, maybe get some of a deal and.

856
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,760
Speaker 1: Not too depending on the car, depending on the car.

857
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: And I guess if someone, for example, is buying a

858
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: pink Cadillac, let's just say they're buying a fifty nine,

859
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: you know, Cadillac Eldorado Brits convertible and it was a

860
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: right handre and they would make the right hand drive,

861
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: but it was a right hand drive too. I mean,

862
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: it's just like, oh my god, the car's persian said,

863
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: it's a fifty nine Cadillac, it's Eldorado Burrits and it's

864
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Speaker 1: a right hand drive. I mean, it just adds to

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Speaker 1: the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: All right. More with Alex Monos from the Beverly Hills

867
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Speaker 3: Car Club on the other side of this break, This

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Speaker 3: is Hot Pursuit on Bloomberg. We are back with Alex

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Speaker 3: Manus from the Beverly Hills Car Club.

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Speaker 2: How are you seeing the demand for restoration projects in

871
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 2: light of the fact that now we're dealing with tariffs again,

872
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 2: and like are people buying cars from you and then

873
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 2: deciding they may want to have them restored in a

874
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 2: cheaper country like Poland or Hungry some of these countries

875
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 2: that may be a bit less expensive to bring the car.

876
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Speaker 1: That's been happening for years. That's been happening.

877
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 2: For so that you see that not changing necessary. I there,

878
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 2: I kept I keep thinking maybe that is going to

879
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 2: actually increase, just with everything else that's going on right now.

880
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: The classic car community is you don't need you know,

881
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,399
Speaker 1: you don't have to have a fifty seven T Bird,

882
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: you know, I mean you don't have to have it, right,

883
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: So I mean it is essential, you know it. I

884
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: mean it builds its essential. But so I feel that

885
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: that some people might buy the car today, they might

886
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 1: think like I did with that Lincoln, and you do

887
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: a little bit of the time. You know, you can

888
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: do this when you can afford this, or you can

889
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: change the bumper at that point to her. You know,

890
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,280
Speaker 1: if you buy an on running car, now, you first

891
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: you get it running. If that's what you want to do,

892
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: you do it. You get it running first. Maybe some

893
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 1: people are able to, you know, do some work themselves.

894
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: Maybe their neighbors can help them with the interior people.

895
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: It all seems to figure itself out.

896
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

897
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: You know, if you're that person, if you're that woman

898
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: or man or woman that wants a Camark, like you said.

899
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 2: Earlier, Yes, I am that person.

900
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: Right, and I mean, how absolutely fantastic and cool is that?

901
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 1: I mean a Rolls Royce Camark. It's just what a

902
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 1: fantastic car. And if you want it bad enough, you're

903
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: gonna figure out how to get it on the road.

904
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: You first you can figureut how to find one. Then

905
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: you're gonna figure out how to pay for it, and

906
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: then you're gonna figure out how to if it isn't running,

907
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: get it running. This one we have isn't running, so

908
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: you figure out how to get it running, and you know,

909
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: then you then you're gonna be driving to to to

910
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: work and they're gonna you're gonna be you know, oh

911
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: my god, that your friend jumps in the car and

912
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: that needs new seats and now you're gonna do the seat.

913
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: You know, just it's very slippery.

914
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun you.

915
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: The slippery slope and it's but it's fun along the way.

916
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 2: Yes, how I've been in the back the back lot

917
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 2: of Beverly Hilla's Car Club, and you it always seems

918
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 2: to be swarming with guys working out there. You know,

919
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,720
Speaker 2: how many people do you have working under your umbrella

920
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 2: and how many specifically are in the back lot like

921
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 2: repairing cars, restoring cars, that sort of thing.

922
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: We have about sixty employees, and you know we have,

923
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, we have six hundred and fifty

924
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: cars here. So just just moving one car from inside

925
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: the dealership, inside one of the showrooms to bring it

926
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: outside for a customer, it's a task.

927
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 2: Yes, I've seen that.

928
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: I mean it's a whole operation. So I mean that

929
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: can take ten people on its own to get a

930
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: car outside. No really, I mean because you know we're

931
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: stitching the cars out. You got to move cars out

932
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: to get one out. And you know, of course the

933
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Speaker 1: person that comes in that you know, one of mine

934
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Speaker 1: before we close, one's the one that sticks back in

935
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Speaker 1: the back.

936
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Speaker 2: It's like Tetris in a way, correct.

937
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it takes it takes an army. It does

938
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Speaker 1: take an army.

939
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Speaker 3: How do you find a good army? I mean, especially

940
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Speaker 3: when you have to have people who can work on

941
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:17,280
Speaker 3: everything from a pre war Bentley to like a computerized Ferrari.

942
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 3: You know, British cars, Italian cars, American cars. Do you

943
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 3: do you find enough talent? Is that a tough part

944
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 3: of the business.

945
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Absolutely. I would say that heart termination and drive

946
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: goes a long way, and a lot of people are

947
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: interested in classic cars, and so if you can help

948
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: teach people and show them what to do along the

949
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 1: way because they just want to be around the cars themselves,

950
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: and it just kind of you know that, it makes it.

951
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,879
Speaker 1: You know you if you want something to learn how

952
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: to do it or to be a part of it,

953
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna do your the best you can to be

954
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: in that situation, whatever it is.

955
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 3: So yeah, you find everybody with shift basically.

956
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 2: Yeah.

957
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean you look, you guys have a super successful

958
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: show and we're here right now talking and you know

959
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I mean, you didn't just show up here,

960
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: you're just appear here. You got up in the moment.

961
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: I mean, this was a journey to get to this

962
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 1: place where you guys are now. I mean got people

963
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: setting up the sound and you know it. But you

964
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: guys had a passion for them to drive and it

965
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 1: got you to this point here even with the I mean,

966
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 1: I have guys that were washing cars for me that

967
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 1: are now salesman. I got guys that are washing cars

968
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: for me that are photographers. I've got a you know,

969
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: we always try and hire.

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00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 3: Within Alex, how how transparent are you in this business?

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00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 3: Like I see all the time, you know, people selling

972
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 3: nine nine sevens, but they don't do any borescoping. And

973
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 3: you know that everybody, any buyer wants to know. Or

974
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 3: if you have like a three oh eight, I want

975
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 3: to know how recently the belts were changed. I see,

976
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 3: by the way, you have a pretty gorgeous eighty three

977
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 3: to three oh eight GTS quatro Valve.

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00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 2: So this is a bit of a personals.

979
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 3: Well, no, I'm just sad. I'm as an example, right,

980
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:11,399
Speaker 3: I'm looking at this car. It's it looks beautiful and

981
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 3: it's only seventy grand. Like if I come to you

982
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 3: and I say, Alex, like, if I buy this car,

983
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 3: can I can I take it off the lot and

984
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 3: like daily it? Or do I need to put another

985
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 3: fifty grand into it? Or how transparent can you be

986
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 3: with the buyer?

987
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: So we try and we're very diligent in getting all

988
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: the history and service records before we've owned the cars,

989
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: so we share them on the website also to show

990
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: the history of what's happened with the car. So for example,

991
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: if I just had an engine out service. It happens frequently.

992
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 1: People that sell cars to us, they want to make

993
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: sure the car is ready to be sold, so they'll

994
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: have the car gone through and we buy the car,

995
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: and then we share all the information that we have

996
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: on the car.

997
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 3: So then we're this nineteen eighty three Ferrari three eight.

998
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 3: What do you think would I be okay taking that?

999
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 3: If I want to come over there and buy it?

1000
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 3: Can I drive it back to New York?

1001
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 1: Are you single?

1002
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 3: No?

1003
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 1: Not a good idea that his wife's.

1004
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 2: Pregnant at the moment with.

1005
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 3: Our third kid. By the way, I wanted to ask

1006
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 3: about Rolls Royce's first of all Hollywood favorite topic. The

1007
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 3: Hollywood Reporter says, the how did they put it? I'm

1008
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 3: gonna look it up here. They say the camarg an

1009
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 3: angular oft derided formal.

1010
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 2: That was my buddy Brett Burke who wrote that I

1011
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 2: take issue.

1012
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 3: With an odd duck cult following that's weird. So you

1013
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 3: sold this one, I guess to Tyler the creator. But

1014
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 3: I noticed that you also sold a Rolls Royce to

1015
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,320
Speaker 3: Jason Momoa. You also sold a Rolls Royce to Justin Bieber.

1016
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,919
Speaker 3: Uh who else was Ben Affleck was interested in one?

1017
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 3: Like do stars gravity and Hannah obviously and Magnus have

1018
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 3: a couple. Do stars gravitate towards Rolls Royces?

1019
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: I would say they gravitate to walk. I think it

1020
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 1: just depends on the on the person, you know, it depends.

1021
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: It depends on who they are and what they've experienced

1022
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 1: in life or you know, what they've seen or what

1023
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:13,240
Speaker 1: they've been been growing up with. Like for example, Ben Affleck,

1024
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,959
Speaker 1: he wanted, uh, this Rose Royce fanom we had because

1025
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:21,839
Speaker 1: he had one before. So both celebrities make a very

1026
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: good living, so they're able to afford nicer stuff. So

1027
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: in that scenario, he had that Rose race years ago

1028
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: and now he's we had one and he wanted to

1029
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: buy you know, that same car used obviously now. But

1030
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: but if you talk about Justin Bieber, he saw that

1031
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 1: car and just was like, oh my god, I've got

1032
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: to have this car. This is like it's like a

1033
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: piece of art. I've got to have it. So there's

1034
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: a it just I don't think you can say, oh,

1035
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 1: celebrities just want Rose races. I think you can say

1036
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: Rose Races are incredible, especially the older stuff. And they're

1037
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: not all expensive either. You can buy Rolls Royce for

1038
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: twenty thousand and have a great, a great car to

1039
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: cruise around it. So it's not just about the price

1040
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: or that. But it is a Rolls Royce. I mean,

1041
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: how cool is that? I mean, we have a nineteen

1042
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: twenty five Rolls Royce Silver Ghost now at the dealership.

1043
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: It's a piece of art.

1044
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean red one. It's so gorgeous. It's fire red.

1045
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 3: I said, I love that. So Springfield Silver Ghost left

1046
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 3: hand drive, three hundred fifty grand. It looks beautiful.

1047
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 2: I mean, but it's a Pinnacle car. The value remains

1048
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 2: long after the price is forgotten.

1049
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: Matt.

1050
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 3: That's a good tagline, Hannah.

1051
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 2: Correct, it's the truth.

1052
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 3: What's the by the way, what's the rarest or? What

1053
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:46,360
Speaker 3: are among the rarest cars you have? Alex? Right now

1054
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 3: that we have.

1055
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: A nineteen sixty Mercedes three hundred SL Roadster had the

1056
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 1: same owner from a fifty years super original car.

1057
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,839
Speaker 3: But that's your car, isn't that your car?

1058
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:00,439
Speaker 1: And that's my car, and that's how the abou that's

1059
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 1: my next line. I was about to be.

1060
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 2: But you would sell it for the right price.

1061
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I got offered the right price like

1062
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: literally a week ago, and I said, no.

1063
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 2: Is that that's not your daily that that can't be

1064
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 2: our daily?

1065
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 3: No?

1066
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: No, no, don't dragged. I drag the car frequently, but

1067
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: I don't drive it every day. And we have I

1068
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: have that car the dealership so and it's on display,

1069
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 1: so when you say what cars you have, it's there.

1070
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: And I welcome everybody to visit us. I always say

1071
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: that if you if you want to get into the

1072
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: classic car world, you don't need to buy a car

1073
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: from us. Come in and get inspired, you know, see

1074
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 1: the cars, you know, because there's so many options here,

1075
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: so many colors, so many different variations. We need the

1076
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: car culture to keep growing and creating new audiences. So

1077
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: I always say, if you have kids and they're young,

1078
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:52,879
Speaker 1: bring them by. We wanted to see the cars, learn

1079
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 1: about them, see what they are. And this Mercedes three

1080
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 1: hundreds our roads so we have is sitting there so

1081
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: you can look at it. We have this for fifty

1082
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: years and it's it's the car is not perfect, the

1083
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 1: seats are torn up, and but it's so cool to see.

1084
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: You won't be out, you just won't see them like that.

1085
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: The only the only person I know that has one

1086
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: like that is Jay Leno has a going that that

1087
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 1: was like it used to be raised and is you know,

1088
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: he drives around also, So come over see the cars,

1089
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 1: look at them, see what you like.

1090
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 2: I love that you say that, Alex, because a lot

1091
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 2: of times it's easy for us to see photos and

1092
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 2: videos of cars, but and to sort of become obsessed.

1093
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 2: But until you sit in the car, until you're around it,

1094
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 2: until you sort of inhabit it as much as you can,

1095
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:44,479
Speaker 2: you don't really know and sometimes don't forget the smell

1096
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 2: and smell it and smell it. And oftentimes there's a

1097
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 2: case of never meet your your heroes, where you can

1098
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:54,879
Speaker 2: become obsessed with how a car looks, and then when

1099
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 2: you get in one, you realize, oh no, this is

1100
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 2: not what I thought it was going to be. So

1101
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,240
Speaker 2: I do love Beverly Hills Car Club because you guys

1102
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 2: are always so welcoming and it's so good to just

1103
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:09,959
Speaker 2: if you got kind of a car that you think

1104
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 2: you might like and you might want to see it

1105
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 2: or sit in it or drive it.

1106
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 3: Can you can you test drive them as well? I

1107
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 3: remember I wanted an M six for so long, and

1108
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 3: when I finally drove one.

1109
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,840
Speaker 2: I didn't get it. See, yeah I didn't.

1110
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 3: It didn't pay out. So do you happen? Do you

1111
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 3: let people test drive these cars? Too?

1112
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna answer that I got. I got like

1113
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: multiple ways of answering this stuff here. When I was

1114
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: a kid and I didn't have any money, and I

1115
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 1: would go I'm talking young, I mean from from you know,

1116
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 1: twelve to whatever twenty, and I would go to any

1117
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: classic car dealership or place. You didn't really feel so welcome. Yes, agree,

1118
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: you know you felt uncomfortable there. I agree. It was like,

1119
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: you know, who are you? Why aren't you you have

1120
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: I don't see the check You're check book in your hand.

1121
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: You know you need you know you have a check

1122
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: made out to us. Just help me. That's that's how

1123
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 1: the feeling was. We're I like that here, come check

1124
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: us out. Enjoy the experience. Sometimes we even have barbecues,

1125
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 1: Grab a hamburger, you know, enjoy what we have here.

1126
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: I started this with passion, with love, with you know,

1127
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: the chase of the next classic cars, and now we've

1128
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: got six hundred and fifty of them. Come and look

1129
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: at them and experience them. You asked me, do we

1130
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: let people test drive cars if you if you want

1131
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 1: to buy a car, Yes, we're gonna let your test

1132
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: drive a car. Would we let you test driber Ferrari? No,

1133
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:39,839
Speaker 1: even if you want to buy the car, you need

1134
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 1: to buy it. You know, we're not going to have

1135
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 1: some sixteen year old kid come in here and want

1136
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: to drive test drive a test Rosa. Of course. It's like,

1137
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: if you're serious, serious about buying a car, put a

1138
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: deposit down and let's go from there. But we welcome

1139
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: everybody to the dealership and we're helping. We're happy to

1140
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: help answer questions. And and you know, my mom works

1141
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: at the dealership with us every day, okay, and she

1142
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: kicks ass. And if she walks around the dealership and

1143
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: someone isn't being helped or taken care of, we're gonna

1144
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: all hear about it because she wants to make sure

1145
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 1: as well that people are welcome here. It's it's you know,

1146
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: it's you come through its magyea. I don't know if

1147
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: you have you been to Beverly's Car Club.

1148
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 3: I have not, but I tell you it's I cannot wait.

1149
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 3: I cannot wait to come. Like honestly, on my list

1150
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 3: of things to do. If I the next time I

1151
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 3: do visit La, it's gonna be I gotta visit my

1152
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 3: brother Luis Hotel. I gotta visit Hannah and Magnus and

1153
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 3: Beverly Hills Car Club is my number three thing. Like,

1154
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 3: I can't wait. I'm gonna spend the whole day there.

1155
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: I want to answer, it's it's, it's And the reason

1156
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: the reason I wanted to know if you've been is

1157
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: because it's like you you pull up, it's like an

1158
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 1: industrial area. Yeah, you go, you're writing on the script,

1159
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: you know, no flashy signs, you know, you go through

1160
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 1: a small little door, you don't know what you're expecting.

1161
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: And then it's just like it's just it's just it's

1162
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: my work of my whole life. So it's it's I

1163
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 1: help you love it. It's what I'm trying to say,

1164
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 1: and I love you to check it out. I mean, Hanna,

1165
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: you know.

1166
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 2: Yes, Hanna, oh yes, oh yes. I want to hear

1167
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 2: more about Mom because you mentioned she's on the floor

1168
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 2: she seems like if she was in England in the

1169
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 2: sixties and seventies and eighties, potentially hanging out with musicians,

1170
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 2: she must be a very cool person. What is her

1171
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 2: car of choice? What is she like? What does she

1172
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 2: get into?

1173
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 1: She has been twisting my arm for fifteen years to

1174
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: give her a Porsche three five six.

1175
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 2: Come on, what's the hold up?

1176
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:41,959
Speaker 1: There's no hold up. There's no hold up. So that's

1177
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 1: I think that's one of her favorite cars. I'll share

1178
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: with you guys a story when we were growing up.

1179
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: Our dream her night together was to buy a car

1180
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: Magia and at the time they were like six thousand,

1181
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: nine hundred sixty seven hundred was there was the going price?

1182
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: And we used to she We used to walk to

1183
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: the bus stop and it was a long walk, and

1184
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: we used to have to go through this nice neighborhood.

1185
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 1: On the way there there was a man and here

1186
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: was a doctor that had a white Porsche three five six.

1187
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: It was a coop. So we would we would, we would,

1188
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 1: we would look in there, plassified together and I would

1189
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: do all the looking and then I would say, look

1190
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: look this Carmegie, that is so much go look at it.

1191
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: What do you think, and we would see this Porsche

1192
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: and we would walk by the Porsche and it was

1193
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 1: just like I was like the Messiah coming out of

1194
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: the desert. Okay, it wasn't It wasn't real. It wasn't

1195
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: a real thing for us to actually to to do

1196
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: anything other than admire. Okay, and now I probably sold

1197
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: I don't know, two thousand and three five six Porsche.

1198
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: So it just goes to show, you know that you

1199
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 1: kind of put your mind to something and it can happen.

1200
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 3: I see seven on the website right now. Yeah, I

1201
00:59:57,680 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 3: got to get give one of those.

1202
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 2: Like she has very good taste in cars.

1203
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 3: Absolutely, dude, I can't. First of all, I can't thank

1204
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 3: you enough for joining us because it's been such an

1205
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 3: amazing conversation and I can't wait to come to your shop.

1206
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 3: I'm like cruising through your inventory. I've been doing it

1207
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 3: for the last four eight hours. Basically. I see a

1208
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy five Carrera sunroof coop that I kind of

1209
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 3: want to check out, seventy six nine to eleven s

1210
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 3: and in like Viper Green, There's just so much to

1211
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 3: choose from here. I don't know if you said I

1212
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 3: could have any car on your lot. I don't know

1213
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:35,959
Speaker 3: which one I would take because I keep going back

1214
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 3: and meltdown.

1215
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 2: Your brain would melt down.

1216
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 3: But it's awesome. By the way, do you have a

1217
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 3: daily driver? Is there a beater that you like, is

1218
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 3: your that you fall back on, or are you just

1219
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 3: always driving something new, something you picked up, something you're

1220
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 3: working on.

1221
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 1: All of the all of the above. I go the

1222
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:55,439
Speaker 1: three hundred sel I have is the one I drive

1223
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: the most frequently. But otherwise I'll grab whatever we have

1224
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: that's cool, it's fun, and it doesn't It's not about

1225
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: the price. It's about, you know, what it looks like

1226
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: or the experience. And I prefer a car that isn't

1227
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: perfect because you can kind of let loose on it

1228
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 1: and enjoy it.

1229
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:12,920
Speaker 3: What if you're what if you have long term employees,

1230
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 3: like a guy who's been there, a woman who's been

1231
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 3: working for you for years. Can they be like, uh,

1232
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 3: you know, Alex, I'm gonna take home this target tonight.

1233
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 3: Is that cool?

1234
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: We we do have. We do have one person who

1235
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 1: who who drives a lot of the cars he takes.

1236
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: He takes home a car almost every night.

1237
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 3: In case anybody wants to get a job. That's a

1238
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:36,439
Speaker 3: SWEETENERA definitely right on. Dude. Well, thank you so much

1239
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 3: for joining us.

1240
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: Hey, you guys are awesome. Thank you guys.

1241
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 3: Cool.

1242
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 2: He's cool. Yeah, I mean.

1243
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 3: I love that, dude. This clearly is his main thing.

1244
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:50,439
Speaker 3: Like he's yes, it's his baby, I know in face

1245
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 3: and yeah, I just love that. I mean the story

1246
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 3: about his mother, I know, walking to the bus stop

1247
01:01:57,840 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 3: and she wants a car and Ghia. But there's something

1248
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 3: that just impossible to imagine. You know, that's like ten

1249
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 3: steps above Carmen Ghia and now they've sold two thousand

1250
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 3: of them.

1251
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 2: I know, Wow, I think it's cool.

1252
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:13,959
Speaker 3: It's amazing. Honestly, that's what we all want in life,

1253
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 3: is something like that.

1254
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 2: I know. And the thing is, like, I just I

1255
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 2: love it's so true about the fact that anyone can

1256
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 2: go in and walk around. No one's gonna bother you

1257
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 2: or hassle You'll to help you. They will help you

1258
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 2: if you need it. But that is it is really rare.

1259
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 2: And it's not fun to go to car dealerships. I

1260
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 2: haven't been in years. It's not fun because you get

1261
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 2: hassled and you are it feels weird and it's not

1262
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 2: like that, and it is really true that it's nice

1263
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 2: to just be around the cars in a very low pressure,

1264
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 2: low stakes environment and be able to explore for yourself

1265
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 2: what speaks to you.

1266
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 3: I also like that he doesn't sell the ridiculously unobtainable

1267
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:59,959
Speaker 3: like supercars. You don't see the no you know, there's

1268
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 3: know GT three's there. There's none of the flipper cars.

1269
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 3: But people who don't care about drive and buy and

1270
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 3: sell on bat all the time, like, no, that's not.

1271
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 2: This, and I and I think it's we should say,

1272
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 2: of course, buying an old car period is a caveat

1273
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 2: empter experience. You have to assume there will be things

1274
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 2: that go wrong. There probably already are things wrong with

1275
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 2: the car, will you There will be blood. That's just

1276
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 2: part of the experience. And you know, I think sometimes

1277
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 2: people say the car is not doesn't have this, or

1278
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 2: it was I thought it was going to be good

1279
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 2: because it looks so pretty, and then you take it

1280
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:44,000
Speaker 2: home and something happens. Well, of course that's an old car.

1281
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 2: And I don't think you know, the Beverly Hills and

1282
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 2: Alex are very very upfront about this car needs work,

1283
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 2: this car is a project, this car doesn't run. It's

1284
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 2: kind of you get what you see and you get

1285
01:03:58,360 --> 01:03:59,160
Speaker 2: what you pay for.

1286
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 3: Crazy. They have five Gentsen interceptors.

1287
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 2: I mean these are these are these like you know,

1288
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 2: these are a car that you just don't see. There's

1289
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 2: some very ropey cars, you know, but it's kind of

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Speaker 2: like you're you're going to get what you see.

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Speaker 3: They get a nineteen seventy one interceptor in like navy

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Speaker 3: blue for under twenty grand, and it looks beautiful. I

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Speaker 3: mean maybe it's a five foot car a ten foot car,

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Speaker 3: but I mean for twenty grand.

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Speaker 2: Well, I also think and not to speak for Alex

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Speaker 2: but you know there's some uh you can you can

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Speaker 2: make an offer.

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Speaker 3: Oh, there's some that's the beauty leggle room.

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Speaker 2: Of course. Why not a trade? Why not a trade

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Speaker 2: for something else? You know, this is used car dealing.

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Speaker 2: There's you always should make an offer. Wow, I don't

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Speaker 2: think you should ever pay what they ask.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if he'll take a couple of Ducatti monsters in.

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Speaker 2: Trade for oh yeah, get them into motorcycle.

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Speaker 3: For this threeh eight.

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Speaker 2: Sure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I could go through website all day. So that's

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Speaker 3: very cool, very cool. Yeah, I guess. By the way,

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Speaker 3: what's his there's some kind of connection to the Real

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Speaker 3: Housewives of Something? Is that? Is he on it? Right?

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Speaker 2: Is he? He has been on it? Yes? He at

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Speaker 2: one point was in a relationship with Kyle Richards and

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Speaker 2: Mauricio Yumensky's daughter, but I don't know who. They're no

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Speaker 2: longer together, but he is.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad I didn't ask him about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. I'm sure he would have been very diplomatic.

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Speaker 3: It's also it's it's very Beverly Hills.

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Speaker 2: That's like, of course, well this is you know what.

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Speaker 2: This is a really small town. Really it seems like

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Speaker 2: it it really and and Beverly Hills is like a village.

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Speaker 2: I get the feeling everybody knows everybody in bev Hills.

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Speaker 3: But to be clear, they're not in the Beverly Hills.

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Speaker 3: Car Club is not in Beverly Hills.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no. It's in a very industrial, down

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Speaker 2: and out area and it's.

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Speaker 3: Very non a script you can signing nine nine sevens.

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Speaker 3: I thought earlier because I was searching for poor shows

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Speaker 3: and I put nine to eleven in the dropdown menu.

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Speaker 3: I saw there's like thirty of those. But I thought, wow,

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Speaker 3: it's weird that he doesn't have any nine nine sevens,

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Speaker 3: but you actually get to pick nine nine seven as

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Speaker 3: a specific subcategory. They have nine ninety six nine niney threes.

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Speaker 3: But you know that I loved the nine ninety seven.

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Speaker 2: That's my that's your baby, that's my choice. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: get it.

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Speaker 3: That does it. For this week's show, Remember to follow

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Speaker 2: Elliott and.

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