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TMCP #527: The 2022 Christmas Show…..Featuring Santa Claus with His Need, His Need, For Speed!! The post TMCP #528: The 2022 Christmas Show…..Featuring Santa Claus with His Need, His Need, For Speed!! first appeared on The Muscle Car Place .

SEMA Show 2022 Special Finale! Holley Performance, Legendary Interiors, Meguiar's Car Care, Send Cut Send (One Off Hot Rod Parts), and THOR (Electric Tesla Mufflers)! The post TMCP #527: SEMA Show 2022 Special Finale! Holley Performance, Legendary Interiors, Meguiar’s Car Care, Send Cut Send (One Off Hot Rod Parts), and THOR (Electric Tesla Mufflers)! first appeared on The Muscle Car Place .

Ask Rick - Hilton Head Concours Car Show, Small Town Dealership Ford Collections, and Choosing the Best Parade Car For Santa Claus! The post TMCP #526: Ask Rick – Hilton Head Concours Car Show, Small Town Dealership Ford Collections, and Choosing the Best Parade Car For Santa Claus! first appeared on The Muscle Car Place .

TMCP #525: SEMA Show 2022 Special #3: Ron Francis Wiring Pro-Touring Update with Larry Callahan, Rick Love-New Gen 5 Vintage Air, Acme HP Lab with Solid Axle LX Conversion, Dave Smith Factory Five Racing PreRunner Chassis for Ford F150! The post TMCP #525: SEMA Show 2022 Special #3: Ron Francis Wiring Pro-Touring Update with Larry Callahan, Rick Love-New Gen 5 Vintage Air, Acme HP Lab with Solid A...

TMCP #524: SEMA Show 2022 Special #2: Finale Speed - Carbon Fiber 1970 Charger, Chad Seymour - High Horsepower from Direct Connection, Kevin Hellman - Dodge Last Call Special Editions, Mike Musto - Hemmings Hellcat Durango "Track Support Special!" The post TMCP #524: SEMA Show 2022 Special #2: Finale Speed – Carbon Fiber 1970 Charger, Chad Seymour – High Horsepower from Direct Connection, Kevin He...

TMCP #523: SEMA Show 2022 Special #1: Hydrogen Powered Coyote 5.0 with Mike Copeland and Charles Moore from Bosch, Trent McGee on Autocross, Drag Race, and Rock Clawler Centerforce Clutches - NPD's Matt Laszaic on the SEMA ARMO Committee - Stephen Wynne, DeLorean Motor Car Company The post TMCP #523: SEMA Show 2022 Special #1: Hydrogen Powered Coyote 5.0 with Mike Copeland and Charles Moore from B...

Ask Rick - Evaluating ROI on Creating vs Sourcing Restoration Parts, NASCAR's Broken Finance Model, and Best Thanksgiving Pies! The post TMCP #522: Ask Rick – Evaluating ROI on Creating vs Sourcing Restoration Parts, NASCAR’s Broken Finance Model, and Best Thanksgiving Pies! first appeared on The Muscle Car Place .

Clay Millican at Texas Motorplex LIVE Interview - Competing at the TOP, Earning (and Keeping) Sponsorship, And Side Project Hot Rods! The post TMCP #521: Clay Millican at Texas Motorplex LIVE Interview – Competing at the TOP, Earning (and Keeping) Sponsorship, And Side Project Hot Rods! first appeared on The Muscle Car Place .

YouTube Star Dylan McCool, Worlds Worst Cuda - Mike Copeland, Viable Hydrogen for the Future - TORR The Off Road Revolution Racing Trucks for Fun! The post TMCP #520: Moparty 2022 Special Feature – Dylan McCool, Worlds Worst Cuda – Mike Copeland, Hydrogen for the Future – TORR The Off Road Revolution Racing Trucks for Fun! first appeared on The Muscle Car Place .

TMCP #519: Ask Rick; The 2024 Mustang, Attending the SEMA Show (Or Not), and The Reality of Fake "Flash Parts Sales!" The post TMCP #519: Ask Rick; The 2024 Mustang, Attending the SEMA Show (Or Not), and The Reality of Fake “Flash Parts Sales!” first appeared on The Muscle Car Place .

This episode has everything! First up, a Pro-Touring Update with Larry Callahan complete with a recap fro UMI King of the Mountain, a look at upcoming Good Guys Fall Events, and a New Garage Studio for Larry! Also included, a Moparty Sneek Peek - Vanishing Point Challenger and Hemi Gen III '65 Coronet. The post TMCP #518: Pro-Touring Update with Larry Callahan: UMI King of the Mountain, Good Guys...

This week marks the return of friend and listener favorite Mike Finnegan! Mike is an all around great dude, loved in the automotive entertainment industry, and was the original co-host of the Kibbe and Finnegan Podcast Show (which became Kibbe and Friends in 2019). This week marks the end of the second phase of our sister show "The Kibbe and Friends Show" where we reviewed the final episode of all...

Happy September! Football is here and we can let the Fall celebrations begin. I once again got to catch up to Rick Schmidt from National Parts Depot to ask the burning questions that are on your mind to get his opinion on the burning questions we need to know most. Specifically, pulling VIN tags off of clunkers for a restoration, and Rick's take on buying a 2023 HEMI car as an investment hedge! (T...

Welcome to Part 2 of our 2022 Dodge Reveals and Roadkill Nights coverage! We had so many great opportunities to speak with Dodge insiders that a second *Bonus* show was required to fit it all in. As with Episode 514, if you love inside OEM info on Dodge cars and marketing, this episode will leave you a little mind blown. Dodge insiders from the marketing brands and vehicle designers give great inf...

In this weeks show we sent The MuscleCar Place staff writer Scott Stap to once again attend the ground shaking Roadkill Nights event plus an additional three nights of Dodge reveals inside the all new Event Center at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan! If you love inside OEM info on Dodge cars and marketing, this episode will leave you a little mind blown. The title photo you see above is that...

This week I spoke to Rick Katzeff, CEO of ExoMod. Their company is creating all new "1968 Charger bodies and applying them to brand new Hellcat Dodge Challenger shells. The end result is a new creation that drives and performs like a new car, but with the looks of the classics. Seems easy enough, right? The post TMCP #513: Rick Katzeff, ExoMod’s 1968 Charger Inspired, Carbon Fiber Bodied 2021 Hell...

Ask Rick: As the electric offerings from car makers increase, we couldn't help but discuss the fact that Ford, GM, and Chrysler all have unbelievably higher performing new"real engine" offerings. Ford brought the V8 back to the 2023 Raptor, Chevy just released their first flat-crank engine ever in the new Corvette Z06, and Dodge is continuing to rank #1 in customer satisfaction for their HEMI vehi...

This week I have the honor of interviewing Branden Leeb and Mike Carnahan of Elite Tuned and Elite Tuning School to explain the process of remotely - and iteratively - tuning fuel injected engines. Their specialty is GM Gen III, IV, and V engines and they recently they have added in both MOPAR and Ford tuning capability as well. Recently I had Elite tune my Chevelle when Zip Simons at Street Metal...

Holley Performance puts on some amazing events that people look forward to every year, all of which kicked off with the "OG" event called LS Fest. At that event any vehicle that had a General Motors LS engine was allowed, regardless of make, model, creed, color, or religion! Other events soon followed including LS Fest West in Las Vegas and this year LS Fest Texas at the Texas Motor Speedway! Luck...

Happy July and Happy Independence day! It is finally time to spend lots of money and blow up stuff in celebration of this country's birth! Rick Schmidt is back again for an all new Ask Rick segment and this time we dive deep into Rick's thoughts on the economy, inflation, and government rebates to the upper class on electric cars. This is one of those episodes were Rick unloaded both barrels, relo...

The official start of summer is next week and what better time for a new Pro-Touring Update with Mr. Larry Callahan! This week I get to find out what he has been up to over the last three months. It is always an education in technology and fast cars and I look forward to each quarterly get together. The post TMCP #508: Pro-Touring Update with Larry Callahan – Event Schedule Updates…and PT.com is H...

Brian Gade is the creator of the American Iron Racing series here in Iowa, a series that specifically puts old style oval dirt track cars back on the track to compete again. The goal of the series to to be cheap, easy, and fun with an emphasis on utilizing plenty of American iron! The post TMCP #507: Brian Gade – Racing Vintage American Iron on the Oval Tracks first appeared on The Muscle Car Plac...

Happy June and Happy Fathers Day! Rick Schmidt is back again for an all new Ask Rick segment and this time it is a smorgasbord of questions regarding all aspects of the automotive market. When got into everything from OEM stock trading to understanding which car is his personal "spirit animal!" The post TMCP #506: Ask Rick – Ford Selling Rivian Stock, 69 Mustangs are the Best, and Old Ferrari’s ar...

Many years ago I was in the middle of a surreal experience of realizing the dream of building my parents car, that I grew up in, into an auto-cross machine that was made better than I ever imagined. I met lifetime friends that donated time to make the dream happen. Street Metal Concepts turned the metal handiwork of  Jeff Allison, into the gleaming, flawless paint, perfectly gapped, SEMA Show car...

Every spring, when the weather starts to get warm, I like to talk to Rick Love, President of Vintage Air about new cold air products and technical details of the add on systems. Rick is an amazing resource and a leader, not only in air conditioning but in the automotive aftermarket as a whole. At the 2021 SEMA show he was inducted into the SEMA hall of fame for his lifetime of work in the industry...