The Kibbe and Friends Show

The final points event of the 2026 season brought the OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car competition to Indianapolis Motor Speedway! Rob Kibbe welcomes USCA co-founder Jimi Day to recap the class winners, close finishes, and final opportunities to earn an invitation to the OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Invitational. Ron Scott's purple 1978 Chevrolet Corvette delivered an outstanding 490 out of 500 possible p...

This week, Rob welcomes longtime friend, former podcast co-host, and Kahn Media founder Dan Kahn for a preview of SEMA 2026! Dan attended his first SEMA Show in 1998 as a teenage automotive magazine editor, and this year his agency celebrates its 18th anniversary during the show. He shares what builders and automotive content creators can do to turn a trip to Las Vegas into lasting opportunities....

Welcome back to Hazzard County—and happy 66th birthday to Producer Bernie McPartland! It's the perfect automotive birthday for a guy whose favorite Chevelle is a '66. We celebrate with repurposed birthday decorations, questionable snack cakes, embarrassing pictures, and birthday messages from friends including Clay Millican and Mike Finnegan. Bernie even gets a trivia game built around himself. Su...

Rob Kibbe welcomes OPTIMA's Jim McIlvaine to recap the Ultimate Street Car Association's weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. From creative engine swaps to close finishes, the event delivered plenty of stories as competitors chased season points and invitations to the OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Invitational in Las Vegas. Class winners included Danny Weller in Outlaw, Rick Ray in GTV, Walt P...

The Muscle Car Place returns to Holley MoParty in Bowling Green, Kentucky! Kirk Hansen, Jimmy Morrison, and Nathan Warren bring home five interviews with the creators, builders, and enthusiasts behind some of the event's most memorable cars and stories. Derek Bieri of Vice Grip Garage discusses rescuing forgotten cars, keeping his videos authentic, and his plans to turn a historic Chevrolet dealer...

Welcome back to Hazzard County! This week we're reviewing The Dukes of Hazzard Season 2, Episode 8, "Hazzard Connection," and this one is exactly why I love Season 2. Real driving, hard hits, wonderfully sloppy production details, and a plot where stolen racing engines are apparently the criminal currency of choice. What more could you want? Bo and Luke need to make some money, so they take jobs h...

Rob Kibbe and USCA co-founder Jimi Day recap Barber Motorsports Park and preview the final points event of the season, October 9–11 at Indianapolis Raceway Park and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Barber delivered plenty of seat time and standout performances, including Austin Barnes' record-setting 1:30.8 road course lap in his 2003 Corvette. Rob and Jimi review class winners, specialty awards, and...

It's October, and Rick Schmidt of National Parts Depot is back for a Halloween edition of Ask Rick! This month, we tackle the business case for SEMA, explore the automotive career Rick would choose if NPD didn't exist, and put his collector-car knowledge to work with two Halloween buying challenges. First, is SEMA worth the trip? Rick and Rob discuss the expense, preparation, and potential return...

Welcome back to Hazzard County! This week, we start with Cale Yarborough's famous fight after the 1979 Daytona 500 and a more recent NASCAR confrontation. That leads us into a conversation about racing, the headlines it makes, and how a new generation of drivers builds an audience through video. Bernie takes us to Pennsylvania for the story of an early automotive tire and inner tube patent. Then R...

The Ultimate Street Car Association returns to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca October 2–4. Rob Kibbe and USCA co-founder Jimi Day preview the event and walk through the schedule from Friday registration to Sunday's awards ceremony. Competitors should plan for a few venue-specific details. Camping is available on site, but not in the paddock. Paddock parking opens Friday at 9 a.m. and will be dire...

What if I told you this drifting General Lee didn't begin life as a Dodge Charger? This week, I'm joined by Nathan Warren of Warren Customs to discuss one of the wildest General Lee builds we've ever featured. Created for professional stunt performer Kevin Waterman, this purpose-built drift car started as a former police-package Ford Crown Victoria. Nathan removed nearly the entire Crown Vic body,...

The Ultimate Street Car Association is heading back to Barber Motorsports Park, and Rob Kibbe is joined by USCA co-founder Jimi Day to prepare competitors for an action-packed weekend at one of the most impressive racing facilities in the country. Presented by Forgeline, this episode walks through the complete event schedule, including Friday registration, tech inspection, the road rally, course w...

Mike Finnegan sent us something that none of us had ever seen—or even heard of—before: a forgotten 1983 television adaptation of Six Pack. Intended as a pilot for a weekly series based on the Kenny Rogers movie, it starred a pre-Miami Vice Don Johnson as race car driver Brewster Baker. Markie Post, Jennifer Runyon, Billy Warlock, and a very young Joaquin Phoenix rounded out a surprisingly recogniz...

Finding racing sponsors can be one of the toughest parts of building a motorsports career. Drivers often rely on cold calls, emails, sponsorship decks, and personal connections—but what if there were a better way to connect racers with the brands looking to support them? This week, Rob Kibbe talks with Heidi Bandish, founder of RacerShip, an online platform connecting racing athletes, mentors, and...

Posting more content isn't always the answer. To grow an audience, racers, sponsors, and automotive brands must understand what stops the scroll—and why the "social" part of social media is just as important as the content itself. This week, Jimi Day and Rob Kibbe are joined by Tom Bevins and Ana Anile, the team helping shape the Ultimate Street Car Association's television, video, and social medi...

Welcome back to Hazzard County! This week, we confirm that Days of Thunder 2 is officially moving forward and discuss whether Tom Cruise can convincingly put Cole Trickle back behind the wheel of a NASCAR Cup car. We also share an update on our uncertain Moparty plans, the people representing K&F at the event, and why my General Lee will probably remain safely at home. Bernie brings us the latest...

This week on Ask Rick , we're celebrating Labor Day with a collector-car challenge built around the old rule about putting away your white clothes. Rick has $35,000 to choose between three very different white performance cars: a 1975 Pontiac Trans Am, a five-speed 1994 Ford Taurus SHO, and a 1989 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z. He must drive his selection for one year and then sell it—so which car offer...

This week on the Kibbe and Friends Show, we remember two enormous pop-culture icons, Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. Dolly's passing leads to stories about her music, movies, generosity, faith, and universal appeal—followed by an AI-generated Dolly Parton quiz that somehow results in a perfect score. We also look back at Tim Curry's unforgettable career, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clue to...

This week on the Ultimate Streetcar Podcast, Jimi and I continue our Summer Interview Series with longtime Ultimate Streetcar competitor David Carroll of NorCal Garage. David is already qualified for this year's OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Invitational in his twin-turbo Chevrolet Blazer, but he isn't slowing down. With a GTT class championship in his sights—and an even faster "Blazer 2.0" coming—Da...

Bridney Jordan returns to The Muscle Car Place to take us behind the scenes of the tire industry and answer some questions most of us have probably wondered while shopping for tires. Why can a factory tire rated for 60,000 miles be worn out at 30,000? Are expensive name-brand tires really better? Why can two seemingly similar tires have dramatically different prices? And does it still matter where...

This week on the Kibbe and Friends Show, I have a new mission: save The Dukes of Hazzard ! With Coyote vs. Acme finding new life after sitting on a shelf, could somebody do the same thing with the Dukes while John Schneider and Tom Wopat can still climb through the windows of a Charger? Bernie and Corndog naturally help turn my perfectly reasonable idea into something completely ridiculous. We als...

This week on the Ultimate Streetcar Podcast, Jimi and I are back with an important mid-season update as the summer break winds down and the final stretch of the 2026 Ultimate Streetcar Association season comes into focus. Following the cancellation of Road America, we wanted to clear up any confusion, explain what happened, and—most importantly—assure everyone that the remaining events at Barber M...

This week we lost a true member of the Dukes of Hazzard family. Ben Jones, forever known to millions of fans as Cooter Davenport, has passed away. In his memory, we're stepping away from our regular format to revisit something we're incredibly grateful to have in the Kibbe & Friends archives: our full 2019 conversation with Ben himself. We originally spoke with Ben ahead of the 40th anniversary of...

TMCP #656 hits the road with six interviews packed into one episode. Rob starts at US Car Tool with Ryan Renadette, where the big news is the creation of brand-new reproduction 1968–69 Dodge Charger bodies built from AMD sheet metal. From there, Scotty Stapp takes over from RoadKill Nights 2026 with Mike Finnegan, David Kruk and his yellow Super Bee, Dodge's Sam Barbeau, Jeff Turk from Blackbird P...

This week's Kibbe & Friends Show is dedicated to the memory of  Ben Jones , the man who brought Cooter Davenport to life on The Dukes of Hazzard and spent decades helping keep the show and its fan community alive. Rob, Corndog, and Bernie look back at Ben's life, his career before and after the Dukes, his time in Congress, the creation of Cooter's Place, and the lasting impact he had on generation...