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Nos vamos unos años atrás. Eras joven… soñador… ¡y estabas enamorado! Pero tú amor, tú sueño, era imposible… no, no te quitaba el sueño una persona, sino los coches, y sobre todo los coupés. Ahora, ese amor imposible, ese sueño inalcanzable… lo puedes hacer realidad… Vas en encontrar coupés para todas las edades, porque los elegidos solo deben cumplir estas 3 condiciones: -Tienen que ser coches bonitos o especiales. -Su edad debe ser igual o superior a los 25 años. -Y con un precio asequible… Y vamos ya con la lista: 1. Audi Coupé. 1988-1996. Nos referimos a la generación B3 aparecida en 1988. Lo puedes encontrar desde 4.000 € 2. Alfa Romeo GTV. 1995-2006. Uno de los coupés más bonitos de los años ‘90 más bellos. Las 4 cilindros de 144 o 150 CV las puedes encontrar desde 6.000 € 3. Ford Probe. 1989-1997. Lo puedes compra en España desde 5.000 € el de 4 cilindros. 4. Honda CR-X. 1992-1998. Evidentemente hablamos de la tercera generación. Una compra muy recomendable desde 6.000 €, salvo el VTEC de 160 CV. 5. Mazda MX3. 1991-1998. Uno de los coupés más interesantes de los años '90 y lo puedes encontrar desde 3.500 € 6. Opel Calibra. 1989-1997 Uno de esos coche para soñar que podrás encontrar desde 6.000 € o menos. 7. Rover Coupé. 1992-1998. Rover, ¡quién te ha visto y quien te ve! Este modelo lo puedes encontrar desde 4.500 €… salvo el turbo de 200 CV 8. Seat 124 Sport 1.800. 1972-1975. Es el modelo más antiguo del lote. Este regalo tiene un precio, más o menos desde 15.000 €… 9. VW Scirocco MkI. 1974-1981. Un modelo muy recomendable que puedes encontrar desde 6.000 € 10. Volvo 480. 1986-1995. El Turbo, con motor 1.7 litros y 120 CV daba mucho juego, era un motor agradable y un coche bien acabado… y lo puedes encontrar desde 4.500 € Conclusión. ¿Soñasteis con algunos de estos coches? ¿Son bonitos o no? ¿A que son asequibles? Y además una buena inversión. Así que si la respuesta a estas preguntas es afirmativa, he cumplido mi objetivo. Coche del día ¿Creéis que voy a elegir uno de estos 10 coches? ¡Pues no! Porque aprovecho para “meter” uno más, el Mitsubishi Eclipse de la segunda generación, la que se produjo entre 1995 y 1999, un coche que puedes encontrar desde unos 10.000 € y que vale la pena.

Click here to send a text to Christian and DougEver wondered what it's like to reignite a friendship over a shared love for classic cars? Meet Chris, a car enthusiast living on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, who found an unlikely camaraderie with our past guest, James McCrea, over their mutual admiration for the Porsche 911. Listen as Chris transports us to his East German roots, where he was gifted a Wartburg by his grandmother—a car that became a symbol of cherished memories and unique challenges. Together, we're back after a short break, and excited to connect with our expanding podcast audience.Chris's story is more than just about cars; it's about the journey and the bonds forged along the way. We'll explore his daring restoration of a mustard yellow Wartburg in Florida, a sentimental nod to his first car. As he opens up about the joys and quirks of owning such an unconventional vehicle, Chris invites listeners to witness his eclectic car collection. We also detour into the thrill of driving on Germany's Autobahn and the meticulous engineering that makes these high-speed adventures possible, while reminiscing about the Ford Probe and its place in automotive history.Shifting gears, discover how Chris's business initiative in Finland supports environmental conservation through rewilding efforts. From a green Singer 911 to reintroducing wildlife, our conversation proves that passion for cars can also drive meaningful change. As we wrap up, we celebrate the dynamics of car-loving couples like Amy and John, inviting listeners to share their own stories and connections. Whether you're an enthusiast or just beginning your journey, join us as we celebrate the cars—and the people—that shape our lives. Happy driving!#911 #wartburg #finland #redkik #autobahn #fordprobe #wildlifeconservation #carsloved #podcast #everycartellsastory #everycarhasacultureRemember to Follow/Subscribe and visit https://linktr.ee/carsloved to find all of our episodes and latest content.

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Nov. 11. It dropped for free subscribers on Nov. 18. To receive future episodes as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoDustin Lyman, President and General Manager of Copper Mountain, ColoradoRecorded onOctober 21, 2024About Copper MountainOwned by: Powdr, which also owns:Located in: Frisco, ColoradoYear founded: 1972Pass affiliations: Ikon Pass and Ikon Base Pass: unlimited access, no blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Frisco Adventure Park (:15), Keystone (:19), Vail Mountain (:21), Breckenridge (:23), Loveland (:23), Arapahoe Basin (:30), Beaver Creek (:32), Ski Cooper (:34) – travel times vary considerably depending upon time of day, time of year, and apocalypse level on I-70Base elevation: 9,738 feetSummit elevation: 12,441 feetVertical drop: 2,703 feetSkiable Acres: 2,538Average annual snowfall: 305 inchesTrail count: 178Lift count: 25 (1 6/8-passenger chondola, 3 high-speed six-packs, 3 high-speed quads, 5 triples, 4 doubles, 2 platters, 1 T-bar, 6 carpets – view Lift Blog's inventory of Copper Mountain's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himImagine if, rather than finding an appropriate mountain upon which to build ski area, we just identified the best possible location for a ski area and built a mountain there. You would want to find a reliable snow pocket, preferably at elevation. You would want a location close to a major highway, with no access road drama. There should be a large population base nearby. Then you would build a hill with a great variety of green, blue, and black runs, and bunch them together in little ability-based kingdoms. The ski area would be big but not too big. It would be tall but not too tall. It would snow often, but rarely too much. It would challenge you without trying to kill you. You may include some pastoral touches, like tree islands to break up the interstate-wide groomers. You'd want to groom a lot but not too much. You'd want some hella good terrain parks. You'd want to end up with something pretty similar to Copper Mountain.Because Copper is what we end up with when we lop off all the tryhard marketing meth that attempts to make ski resorts more than what they are. Copper is not Gladiator on skis, you against the notorious Batshit Chutes. But Copper is not one big groomer, either. Copper is not fur shawls in the hotel lobby. But Copper is also not duct tape around a pants leg. Copper does not serve passenger pigeon eggs in its mountaintop eateries. But Copper is also not frozen burritos and a plastic sleeve of powdered donuts. Copper is not angry, or haughty, or cloying, or righteous, or overwrought. Copper does not call you “Sir.” Copper fixes your refrigerator without having to come back with another part. Copper, quietly and without a lot of hassle, just works.What we talked aboutThe new Timberline six-pack chairlift; why Copper upgraded T-Rex before the mountain's much older lifts; how much better a 2024 detachable lift is from a 1994 detachable lift; why Copper didn't sell the lift to another ski area; that one summer that Copper installed two gargantuan frontside lifts; why new chairlift installations are so challenging; Leitner-Poma; the challenges of installing mid-mountain versus base-area lifts; installing American Eagle, American Flyer, and Three Bears; how Copper quietly offered skiing for 12 consecutive months from October 2023 to September 2024, despite an official May closing date; whether year-round skiing will become an official Copper activity; why Copper builds its halfpipe entirely from snow each season rather than constructing an earthwork base; The Athlete's Mountain; why Copper continues to build bigger and more advanced terrain parks even as many big mountains back out of the space; Woodward parks; how many crew members and snowcats Copper devotes to maintaining its enormous terrain park network; why the Union Creek high-speed quad became Woodward Express; why Copper doesn't compete with Keystone and A-Basin as first-to-open for the skiing public; Copper's World Cup ambitions; how to get a job running a ski resort when you've never worked at a ski resort; why it's so important for a ski area manager to ski every day; counting ski days; mad love for ski areas; potential candidates for lift replacements; how to get a ski trail named after you; retrofitting old lifts with safety bars; expansion opportunities; $99 Thursday lift tickets and whether that program could expand to additional weekdays; Copper's amazing season pass benefit; why Copper Mountain access is unlimited with no blackouts on the Ikon and Ikon Base passes; and why Copper continues to sell its own season pass that doesn't cost much less than the Ikon Base Pass.  Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewCopper is a curious bloke. Copper sits within 30 minutes of four Vail Resorts, one of the toughest draws in North American skiing. So Copper is an unlimited-access member of Alterra's Ikon Pass even though Copper is not owned by Alterra. Copper also sells its own season pass that only costs $60 less than an Ikon Base Pass. Copper sells $99 lift tickets on Thursdays, but $264 walk-up lift tickets if you show up on certain Wednesdays or Fridays. Copper sits atop I-70, observing the antlines of inbound vehicles and saying “I'm flattered.” Copper greets its guests with a halfpipe that could launch an intercontinental ballistic missile. Copper just offered year-round skiing and didn't bother bragging about it until the whole thing was over. Copper lets you cut the line. Copper has quietly become some ninjitsu November training ground for the global ski-race community. Copper is parked in the middle of the most important ski county in the most important ski state in America.If anything is happening in skiing, Copper is dealing with it: expensive lift tickets, cheap season passes, easy access that may be a little too easy, ferocious competition in every direction. Because of its naturally divided terrain, ordered black to green as you sweep west across the mountain, Copper is often referred to as a nearly perfect ski area. And it is. But because of where it is and what it's chosen to become, the resort also happens to be the perfect thermometer for taking skiing's temperature. How we doing up there past 10,000? What's your story? What makes you special? Why should I drive past Keystone to ski here? Why shouldn't I just keep driving 20 minutes to Vail instead? Why, I'm asking, do you even exist?What I got wrongI said that certain old chairlifts had not yet been retrofit with safety bars; Lyman clarified that Copper had in fact updated the carriers on all of those lifts.Why you should ski Copper MountainHere are some things I remember about skiing Copper Mountain in 1995:* Riding a high-speed quad. Probably American Flyer but I can't say for sure. Four of us on the lift. My buddy Andy and two middle-aged fellows of indeterminant provenance. “My cat sleeps 22 hours a day and can catch a bird out of the air,” one says to the other. And I've never been able to stop thinking about the truth of that and how it's possible.* My room at the Foxpine Inn came with an underground parking space, which I declined to use until a New Year's snowstorm buried my poor little four-cylinder Ford Probe beneath an igloo. Rather than clean the car off, I leaned my head out the window and drove down the ramp to my parking spot below. Then all the snow melted. Easiest snow removal job ever.* Near the terminus of the long-gone B lift, a double chair displaced by Super Bee, a lightly treed knoll stood above the trails. I watched, awestruck, as a skier materialized from the forest depths above and trenched the newfallen snow and blasted down the fall-line with superhero poise and ease.* My first attempted powder turn, three minutes later, ended in a yardsale. This was in the flat just off of the lift unload. That ended up being a very long run.Modern Copper is more polished, better-lifted, more expensive, better known than the version I encountered on my first western ski trip 29 years ago. There's more ski terrain and a little pedestrian base village. I'm not certain that two eighteen-year-olds could still afford a room at the base of the chairlifts (Foxpine rates are not listed online). But what struck me on a return visit last winter, as much as the six-packs and the terrain parks and the base village that used to be a parking lot was how much Copper, despite all that investment, had retained a coziness that still makes it feel more like a ski area than a ski resort.Some of this humility, I suppose, is anchored in the mountain's profile. Copper doesn't have Breck's big exposed peaks or Vail's endless bowls or Beaver Creek's Grey Poupon trim. Copper doesn't give you cookies or promise you The Experience of a Lifetime. The mountain's core lifts are fast and modern, but Copper runs nearly as many fixed-grip chairs (9) as Vail (3), Beaver Creek (3), and Keystone (4), combined (10).  But it works. Rather wonderfully, really. Go see for yourself.Podcast NotesOn Copper's masterplanCopper's most recent comprehensive Forest Service masterplan dates to 2011. A 2015 addendum focused mostly on summer activities. Here's an overview of what the 2011 plan imagined:A 2021 addendum added a new trail, which we discuss on the pod:On Copper Mountain's halfpipeI mean this thing is just so damn extra:On Summit County ski areas by sizeThe four Summit County ski areas compare favorably to one another, stats-wise. I'm going to go ahead and throw Loveland in there as an honorary member, since it's like two feet from Summit County:On the Slopes AppBeing Stats Tracker Bro, I am a loyalist to the Slopes app, which recently updated their static map with a zoomable version:Slopes is also handy in real-time, when I want to ensure that I've hit every trail on a mountain. Here's my map from Giants Ridge, Minnesota last winter (the big unskied trails in the middle were closed for racing):On SilvertonWhile I would expect Elvis to rise from the dead before we see another Breckenridge-style megaresort built in Colorado, developers have had some luck creating low-impact, low-infrastructure ski areas. The now-defunct Bluebird Backcountry, near Steamboat, operated with no lifts on private land. Silverton, in the state's southwest corner, operates out of a small parcel of private land and runs one double chair, which in turn opens up huge swaths of land under permit from the Bureau of Land Management. Any future big-mountain western developments will likely hinge on some version of a Silverton/Bluebird model. Here's Silverton's trailmap:And here's Bluebird's:On expansions Colorado ski areas have had great success expanding existing operations in recent years. Since 2012, nine large expansions have added more than 3,000 acres of high-quality terrain to the state's ski resorts. That's the equivalent of opening another Breckenridge, without all the outrage.On Snowbird's Freeloader PassCopper's adult season pass includes a free season pass for one child up to 15 years old. Sister resort Snowbird one-upped them last year by rolling out the same benefit and raising the age to 18. Lyman and I discuss Snowbird's move, and whether it will inspire a similar deal at Copper.On Copper's unlimited Ikon Pass accessOne of the strangest alliances in all of Megapass-dom is Copper's status as a stowaway unlimited Ikon Pass partner. Alterra has transformed the Ikon Pass into a season pass for all of its owned mountains except for Deer Valley and Arapahoe Basin, but it's also a de facto season pass for Powdr-owned Copper and Eldora. To confuse things further, Copper sells its own season pass that isn't much less expensive than an Ikon Base Pass. We discuss this whole dynamic on the pod, but here's where Alterra-owned mountains sit with Ikon Pass access, with Eldora and Copper slotted in for comparison:On Powdr owning Eldora “at least for now”Park City-based Powdr has owned Eldora, just under two hours northeast of Copper, since 2016. In August, the company announced that it had sold its Killington and Pico resorts to a group of local Vermont investors, and would soon put Eldora – along with Mt. Bachelor, Oregon and Silver Star, B.C. – up for sale as well.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 74/100 in 2024, and number 574 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

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Jonny has an idea for a new stadium show. Also in this episode, inflation is at a familiar level, pigeons saying a catchphrase, a listener has an alarming moment in an Audi Allroad, only going to the Isle of Man twice, a motorcycle with a visibly tiny engine, unbranded biking safety gear, a celebrity scooter sighting, having a strange dining experience in Shropshire, the lost art of the lorry driver thank you, and sad news about the Ford Probe concept. For early, ad-free episodes and extra content go to patreon.com/smithandsniff  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest has loved cars since her dad taught her to drive at an early age! She is definitely a savant in terms of knowing a lot about all of the cars of her past and present - not to mention planning for her next car.Listen as we (Ford) probe like Woodward and Bernstein for the story behind the story, digging deeper into the Datsun details. This episode has it all, so don't miss it: intrigue! And even another Dodge Dart!---If you're in the Cedar Park/Austin area of Texas and in the market for a personal tune up, please check out Piel Aesthetics  - you won't be disappointed. Just ask Christian  how he maintains his youthful image and you'll know!Piel Aesthetics on the WebPiel Aesthetics on InstagramPiel Aesthetics on Facebook

Our guest on episode 106 of Inside ChampCar is Adam Johnson -- he's the team captain for TATR Racing's BMW E30 team. We talk about his journey from VWs to a Ford Probe and now the BMW. Inside ChampCar is the weekly deep dive into the TireRack.com ChampCar Endurance Series. Hosted by veteran sports broadcaster and producer Brian Bielanski and ChampCar's director of marketing, Bill Strong. We will discuss the races and their happenings each week and talk with team owners, drivers, and crew. Episodes are released every Thursday morning on the Racing Wire Podcast Network on your favorite podcast platform. ChampCar Endurance Series is for people like you who have always wanted to go road racing without all the hassles, giant rulebook, or obscene expense. All you need is a valid driver's license, some safety gear, and a race car, which you can rent from arrive and drive teams or build your own vehicle! Brought to you by Candelaria Racing Products and Better Call Kaul. https://candelaria-racing.com/ Eric Kaul - 5G home and Wireless Expert Call 01-508.834.3311 eric.kaul@wireless-zone.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/racingwire/support

In this eye-opening episode of the Mutrux Firm Injury Lawyers Podcast, we pour over the infamous McDonald's hot coffee case that scalded public opinion and brewed a storm of controversy in the world of personal injury law. Join us as we unravel the misconceptions and reveal the startling facts behind Stella Liebeck's lawsuit against the fast-food giant. Our journey begins in the passenger seat of a 1989 Ford Probe, where Stella Liebeck experienced a life-changing accident with a cup of coffee that was served far hotter than any beverage ought to be. We'll explore the agonizing consequences of the spill, including third-degree burns and extensive medical treatments that followed this seemingly mundane incident. Dive deep with us into the heart of the lawsuit, where Liebeck's initial plea for her medical expenses to be covered was met with a cold shoulder from McDonald's, leading to a landmark trial that highlighted not just one woman's suffering but a corporate policy that put millions at risk. Hear from legal experts and insiders who shed light on the 700 prior complaints against McDonald's for similar injuries, the trial's outcome, and the aftermath of the case that continues to influence personal injury law and corporate accountability. This episode isn't just a recount of events; it's a call to action and awareness. Whether you're a legal professional, a consumer rights advocate, or simply someone interested in the truth behind the headlines, this episode promises to change the way you think about the legal battles that shape our society. Don't miss this steaming hot episode of the Mutrux Firm Injury Lawyers Podcast. Tune in to learn, reflect, and engage with the scalding truth about the McDonald's hot coffee case. If you've been affected by similar negligence or are navigating the complexities of a personal injury case, reach out to Mutrux Firm Injury Lawyers at 888.550.4026. Our team is dedicated to fighting for justice and ensuring you receive the compensation you deserve. Contact us today to schedule a consultation and take the first step towards your legal resolution. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mutrux-firm-injury/message

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on July 27. It dropped for free subscribers on July 30. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe for free below:WhoJared Smith, President and CEO of Alterra Mountain CompanyRecorded onJuly 26, 2023About Alterra Mountain CompanyAlterra is owned by a joint venture between KSL Capital and Henry Crown and Company. Alterra owns and operates the following properties:The company's Ikon Pass delivers access to these resorts for the 2023-24 ski season:Why I interviewed himIf I could unleash one artifact of 2023 skiing on the winters of my teens and twenties, it would be these passes. Ikon, Epic, Indy, Mountain Collective. It doesn't matter which. They're all amazing. Punchcards to white-capped horizons. The kind of guidebook I could have spun a winter around, sating those impulses for novelty, variety, constant motion.Not that I mind them now. For anyone, especially families, that lives near skiing and vacations to skiing, they basically saved the sport. Day trips to Windham, weekends at Stratton, a spring break run to the Wasatch: a tough itinerary – perhaps an impossible one – without that plastic ticket secured the previous March.But man I coulda used one of those little Ski Club cards when I was untethered and unmoored and wired at all times on Mountain Dew. And broke, too, by the way. Teenage Stu's ski circuits followed discount days more than snowstorms. Fifteen-dollar lift tickets after one on Sunday at Sugar Loaf? I'm there, rolling three-deep in a red Ford Probe, the driver's-side passenger seat dropped for the skis and poles and boots angled in through the hatchback.I would have preferred a membership. In my 1990s Indy Pass fantasies I roll the Michigan circuit early winter – Nub's and Caberfae and Crystal and Shanty Creek and Treetops. Then 94 to 80, popping into all the snowgun-screaming High Plains bumps along the route west. Chestnut and Sundown and Seven Oaks and Mt. Crescent and Terry Peak. Then the big mountains and the big snows. Red Lodge and Lost Trail and Brundage and Silver and 49 North and White Pass. Or I skip the Midwest and roll Ikon, spend a week circling California. Another in Utah. A third in Colorado on the way home.It's weird how much I think about this. Alternate versions of winters long melted away. I'm not one to dwell or regret. Or pine for the lost or never-was. But that's the power of the multi-mountain ski pass. I never re-imagine my past with an iPhone or the internet or even the modern skis that have amped up the average skier's ability level. But I constantly imagine how much more I could have skied, and how many more places I could have visited, and how much sooner I would have discovered the ski world outside of the destination circuit, had the Ikon and Epic passes arrived 15 to 20 years before they did.These passes are special, is my point here. As a catalyst to adventure and an enabler to the adventurous, they have no equal that I can think of in any other industry. It's as though I could buy some supper club pass and use it at every restaurant in town for an entire year without ever paying again. And among these remarkable products, the Ikon Pass is currently the best of them all. It's hard to dispute this. Look again at the roster above. What they've built in just six years is remarkable. And it keeps getting better.What we talked aboutThe sudden passing and legacy of Aspen managing partner Jim Crown; why Aspen is not part of Alterra; from entry-level salesman to CEO at Ticketmaster; the dramatic evolution of Ticketmaster and its adaptation to the digital age; skiing's digital transition; entering skiing at a high level as an outsider; “we don't make it easy at all for people to come enjoy our sport”; how to better meet consumers on their Pet Rectangles; balancing affordability with crowding and capacity; could lift ticket pricing be more like baseball or concerts?; finally some sensible thoughts on lowering lift ticket prices; $289 lift tickets; filling midweek ghost towns; “we're on the front end of our pricing and product-packaging journey as an industry”; why Alterra bought Snow Valley; rethinking the mountain's lift fleet; chairlift safety bars; Snow Valley expansion potential; housing and bed development at Snow Valley's base; considering a lift connection between Bear Mountain and Snow Summit; whether Alterra could purchase more city-adjacent ski areas; why Alterra bought Schweitzer; expansion potential; how Ikon Pass access may evolve at Schweitzer; the Ikon approach to adding new partners; whether the Ikon Base Pass' value is eroding over time as high-profile partners exit that tier; comparing Epic and Ikon prices; and Alterra's Impact Report.  Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewSmith pinned his CEO nametag onto his shirt almost exactly one year ago, on Aug. 1, 2022. He's had a busy year. The Ikon Pass has added five new partners (Alyeska, Sun Peaks, Grandvalira, Panorama, and Lotte Arai). Alterra purchased its first two ski areas since Sugarbush in 2019, scooping up Snow Valley, California in January and Schweitzer – the largest ski area in Idaho – last month. And the company acquired gear-rental outfit Ski Butlers and released its first Impact Report. A setback, too: while Ikon has still never lost a partner, Taos jumped off the Ikon Base Pass for next ski season, making it the seventh resort (along with Sun Valley, Snowbasin, Alta, Deer Valley, Aspen, and Jackson Hole) to exit that product.Meanwhile, check out the growing price differential between the Ikon and Epic passes over the past several seasons:After three years of relative parity, Ikon prices blew past Epic when Vail Resorts slashed prices in 2021. So this isn't news. But what's interesting is that Alterra has been able to hold that premium price. Vail lobbed its discount hand grenade three weeks after Alterra had locked in 2021-22 Ikon Pass prices. Rather than follow Vail into the basement, Alterra raised prices again in 2022. And again in 2023. Stunning as those early-bird differentials are, the gap is even more pronounced now: the current sticker price of a 2023-24 Ikon Pass is $1,259, a 36 percent premium over Epic's $929 pricetag. Ikon Base currently runs $929, which is 35 percent more than the $689 Epic Local Pass.So what? A Porsche costs more than a Ford. But when did the Ikon Pass become skiing's luxe label? For years, no one had an answer for Vail. Now it's hard to imagine how the Epic Pass will ever catch up to Ikon. Since 2020, Ikon has added Alyeska, Mt. Bachelor, Windham, Snow Valley, Schweitzer, Panorama, Sun Peaks, Chamonix, Dolomiti Superski, Kitzbühel, Lotte Arai, Sun Valley, and Snowbasin to its roster. Vail has added three ski areas in Pennsylvania and two (really one) in Switzerland, while losing Sun Valley and Snowbasin to Ikon. The Broomfield Bully, which spent the 2010s gobbling up everything from Whistler to Park City to half the Midwest and New England, suddenly looks inert beside its flashy young competitor.For now. Don't expect the dragon to sleep much longer. Vail – or, more accurately, the company's investors – will need to feast again soon (and I'll note that Vail has invested enormous sums into technology, infrastructure, and personnel upgrades over the past 16 months). Which is why Smith's job is so enormous. It won't be enough to simply keep Alterra and the Ikon Pass relevant. They must be transformative. Yes, that means things like terrain expansions and $50 million gondolas and new tickboxes on the Ikon Pass. But it also means the further melding of the physical and the digital, a new-skier experience that does not feel like Alaskan bootcamp, and more creativity in pricing than a $5 season pass purchased seven years in advance and a $4,500 day-of lift ticket.It's 2023. The Pet Rectangle has eaten the world. Any industry that hasn't gotten there already is going to die pretty soon. Skiing is sort of there and it's sort of not. Smith's job is to make sure Alterra makes it all the way in, and to bring us along for the run.Questions I wish I'd askedSo many. The most obvious being about the recent death of 50-year-old Sheldon Johnson, who fell out of a Tremblant gondola after it struck a drilling rig and split open. The photos are insane – it looks as though the car was sliced right in half. My minivan goes apeshit with sensors and auto-brakes if I'm about to back into a fence – why does a gondola, with all the technology we have, keep moving full speed into a gigantic piece of construction equipment?I also wanted to check in on Crystal's decision to jump off the Ikon Pass as its season pass, get an update on the new lifts going in at Alterra's resorts this summer, and ask when Deer Valley was going to get rid of that icky snowboard ban.Podcast NotesOn the sudden passing of Aspen managing partner Jim CrownPer the Aspen Times:Billionaire philanthropist Jim Crown was driving a single-seat, open-top Spec Racer with a 165-horsepower engine on June 25 in Woody Creek when it struck a tire barricade backed by a concrete wall that was surrounding a gravel trap.His son-in-law, Matthew McKinney, drove the Spec Racer a few hours before Crown drove it that day. McKinney remembered the car handled normally, although the brakes “were somewhat stiff, and the brake pedal had to be pressed somewhat firmly.”Aspen Motorsports Park staff told McKinney the brakes were new.These are some of the findings in the Pitkin County sheriff's report, released on Thursday, investigating Crown's death at the 50-acre park last month.A beloved Aspen and Chicago resident, he was not a racetrack rookie. The managing partner of Aspen Skiing Co. and adviser to former President Barack Obama, he enjoyed the Aspen tracks and once owned a Ferrari. He celebrated his June 25 birthday with family at the park.Around 2:20 p.m., deputies were alerted to a crash at the park's eighth corner wall. Dispatchers relayed that the 70-year-old driver was conscious, breathing but bleeding badly from head injuries. And his pulse was weak.McKinney and his wife told the officer in charge, Bruce Benjamin, that they never heard brakes screeching before the crash. (Benjamin noted skid marks near the crash). Crown's car hit the tire barricade “with such force, that it came off the ground a few feet.”Sheriff's deputies, Aspen Ambulance, and Aspen Fire Protection District first responders cared for Crown at the crash site. The report says they took turns giving him CPR chest compressions, but they were unable to save him. Crown was pronounced dead, with daughters Hayley and Victoria nearby.On why Aspen is not part of AlterraSmith and I discussed Aspen's decision to remain independent, rather than become part of Alterra, of which it is part owner. Former Aspen CEO Mike Kaplan told the full story on this podcast two years ago (49:28):On acquisitionsHere are my full write-ups on Alterra's purchase of Snow Valley and Schweitzer.On the evolution of the Ikon Base PassThere's little question that the Ikon Base Pass was underpriced when it hit the market at $599 in 2018. As the pass gained momentum, flooding some of the coalition's biggest names, resorts began excusing themselves from the cheapest version of Ikon. While the coalition has added more partners since inception than it has lost from the Base Pass, losing marquee names like Aspen, Jackson Hole, and Alta contributes to a sense that the pass' value is eroding over time, even as the price continues to climb (the Ikon Base Pass is currently on sale for $929). Here's a look at how Ikon Pass access has evolved since 2018:On Snow Valley's ghost lift fleetSnow Valley may be home to the most abandoned lifts of any operating ski area in the country. A Snow Valley representative confirmed for me earlier this year that lifts 2 and 8 have not run in at least five years, yet they remain on the trailmap today:Even more amazing, when I skied there in March, lifts 4 and 5 are still intact. Lift 5 hasn't been on the trailmap for 20 years!I also referenced a long-cancelled proposal to expand Snow Valley – here's where it sits on old trailmaps (looker's right):On Schweitzer's masterplanSmith alludes to Schweitzer's masterplan. Here's a look:And here, for reference, is the resort today (this map does not include the Creekside lift, which is replacing Musical Chairs this offseason):On Alterra's 2023 lift upgradesAlterra is at work on six new lifts this offseason:* The biggest of those projects is at Steamboat, where phase two of the Wild Blue Gondola will transport skiers from the base area directly to the top of Sunshine Peak. This 3.16-mile-long, 10-passenger gondola will be the longest in North America.* Even more exciting for skiers: the Mahogany Ridge high-speed quad will open an additional 650 acres of terrain looker's left of Pony Express, transforming Steamboat into the second-largest ski area in Colorado:* Mammoth will upgrade Canyon Express (Lift 16) from a high-speed quad to a high-speed six-pack:* Winter Park will upgrade Pioneer from a high-speed quad to a high-speed six-pack with a mid-station:* Solitude will upgrade Eagle Express from a high-speed quad to a high-speed six-pack:* Snowshoe will replace the Powder Monkey triple with a fixed-grip quad:On Smith leaving TicketmasterI referenced a Q&A that Smith did with Pollstar in 2020. You can read that here.On Alterra's Impact ReportSmith and I discuss Alterra's first Impact Report. You can read it here.More Alterra on The Storm Skiing PodcastFormer Alterra CEO Rusty Gregory appeared on the podcast three times, in 2020, 2021, and 2022. I've also hosted the leaders of several of Alterra's ski areas:* Palisades Tahoe President and COO Dee Byrne – May 4, 2023* Deer Valley President & COO Todd Bennett – April 20, 2023* Solitude President & COO Amber Broadaway – March 5, 2022* Steamboat President & COO Rob Perlman – Dec. 9, 2021* Crystal Mountain President & CEO Frank DeBerry – Oct. 22, 2021* Sugarbush President & GM John Hammond – Nov. 2, 2020* Sugarbush President & COO Win Smith – Jan. 30, 2020I've also hosted the leaders of many Ikon Pass partner mountains and related entities, including:* Valle Nevado GM Ricardo Margulis – July 19, 2023* Sun Peaks GM Darcy Alexander – June 13, 2023* SkiBig3 President Pete Woods – May 26, 2023* Snowbasin VP & GM Davy Ratchford – Feb. 1, 2023* Aspenware CEO Rob Clark (Alterra purchased Aspenware in 2022) – Dec. 29, 2023* Loon Mountain President & GM Brian Norton – Nov. 14, 2022* Boyne Resorts CEO Stephen Kircher – Nov. 21, 2022* Sun Valley VP & GM Pete Sonntag – Oct. 20, 2022* The Summit at Snoqualmie GM Guy Lawrence – April 20, 2022* Arapahoe Basin COO Alan Henceroth – April 14, 2022* Big Sky President & COO Taylor Middleton – April 6, 2022* The Highlands President & GM Mike Chumbler – Feb. 18, 2022* Jackson Hole President Mary Kate Buckley – Nov. 17, 2021* Boyne Mountain GM Ed Grice – Oct. 19, 2021* Mt. Buller GM Laurie Blampied – Oct. 12, 2021* Aspen Skiing Company CEO Mike Kaplan – Oct. 1, 2021* Taos CEO David Norden – Sept. 16, 2021* Sunday River GM Brian Heon – Feb. 10, 2021* Windham President Chip Seamans – Jan. 31, 2021* Sugarloaf GM Karl Strand – Part 1, Sept. 25, 2020* Sugarloaf GM Karl Strand – Part 2, Sept. 30, 2020* Boyne Resorts CEO Stephen Kircher – April 1, 2020* Sunday River President & GM Dana Bullen – Feb. 14, 2020* Loon Mountain President & GM Jay Scambio – Feb. 7, 2020 * Boyne Resorts CEO Stephen Kircher – Nov. 21, 2019* Killington & Pico President & GM Mike Solimano – Oct. 13, 2019You can view all archived and scheduled podcasts here.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 63/100 in 2023, and number 449 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

In the big 9-8, Coyne has discovered a new way to change your car's oil without jacking it up into the air.. The method MAY surprise you. Also, Garrett updates everyone on his latest car purchases. The BROS show off the latest examples of the worst car for sale ads they've found on the internet. Also, it's been raining here in CA, and let me tell you that potholes suck. Coyne finally admits the new Mark V Supra actually isn't that great. Remember the Ford Probe? How do you think the Dodge Hellcat will age? Is it the next Cuda? And finally.. proper parking ediquette when leaving enough room for other cars.

¡Hablemos de los años ’90! Fueron buenos tiempos y había muchos modelos coupé. ¿Buenos tiempos? Pues entonces muchos aficionados decían que eran un timo, que esos coupés, denominados “industriales”, eran berlinas “disfrazadas” con una carrocería mona y un motor ligeramente potenciado. Muchos de esos coupés están ahora a precios asequibles. ¿Timo u oportunidad? El concepto de deportivos industriales se comenzó a acuñar en Europa sobre todo con el Ford Capri… que a su vez no dejaba de ser una versión “a la europea” del Ford Mustang. ¿Por qué esa denominación? Muy sencillo, porque sobre el mismo chasis-plataforma del Ford Cortina, una berlina media, Ford propuso una carrocería coupé muy bonito y que fue un acierto. Un verdadero coupé, sí, pero ¿un verdadero deportivo? Si tenemos en cuenta que las versiones más vendidas eran las de motor de 1.3, 55 CV y la de 1.6 de 88 CV para un peso de más de 1.000 kg… pues muy deportivos no eran. Para mí, con excepciones contadas, los coupés son los coches más bonitos. Para mí y para mucha gente que se los compra por imagen y por su belleza y no tanto por sus prestaciones. Por eso, para mí, muchos de estos coupés de los 90 más que un timo, por no ser verdaderos deportivos, son una verdadera oportunidad para comprar coches clásicos o pre-clásicos muy interesantes y a veces a mejor precio. 1. Alfa Romeo GTV (1995) Lo vi en su estreno en el Salón de Ginebra de 1995. Sí, es cierto, es tracción delantera, ¡como todos los de esta lista! Pero con un interior tan bonito y con el motor V6 de tres litros, 24 válvulas y 220 CV, ¡no me digáis que no os gusta! 2. Audi Coupé B2 (1988) Confieso que me gusta más el B1, para entendernos, el coupé en el que está basado el Audi Quattro. Pero es de 1981 y el B2 se fabricó entre 1988 y 1997. También confieso que, estéticamente, puede que sea el menos atractivo, pero es un coche fiable y bien acabado. 3. Fiat Coupé (1993) Este diseño del estadounidense Chris Bangle no deja indiferente. Unos lo adoran y otros lo odian.. Confieso que ahora me gusta más que cuando salió. El que cuenta con el motor 5 cilindros, 20 válvulas y turbo, de 220 CV es un verdadero tiro y una compra recomendable. 4. Ford Probe (1988) Otro caso de un coche que fue y quizás siga siendo todo un “patito feo” … Este modelo, fruto de los acuerdos de Ford con Mazda, contaba con la plataforma nada menos que del RX7 y estaba bien terminado y con buenos ajustes. 5. Ford Puma (1997) Ya sabéis que yo no os engañó nunca… me puedo confundir, pero digo siempre lo que pienso… y ahora lo voy a decir… ¡no me gusta nada el Ford Puma! Y es que creo que, para lucir, todos los coches, pero los coupés también, hay un tamaño mínimo. Y, lo sé, el Puma no es pequeño, mide 4 metros de largo, como otros coches de esta lista. ¡pero parece encogido e hinchado! 6. Opel Calibra (1989) El Calibra sí que ha salido del purgatorio por el que pasan todos los coupés generalistas, por la puerta grande y ahora es un modelo cotizado…. Y con razón. En su momento toda la prensa dijimos que era el Opel de tracción delantera con mejor comportamiento de la historia, y es que este Coupé, supuestamente derivado del Astra iba mucho mejor. 7. Peugeot 406 Coupé (1997) Peugeot tenía ya tradición de hacer coupés derivados de las berlinas y diseñados por Pininfarina. Me encantaba el 504 berlina y más aún el 504 Coupé V6, diseño de Pininfarina. Con una buena base, el 406 ,y un buen diseñador… 8. Volkswagen Corrado (1989) Iba a llamarse Typhoon y situarse por encima del Scirocco. Pero no se llamó Typhoon ni llegó a situarse, claramente, por encima de su antecesor y a la vez coetáneo. Era claramente más pesado que el Scirocco y eso se notaba. 9. Volkswagen Scirocco II (1982) Es un coche fantástico pues, aunque está basado en el Golf GTi MK1 su bastidor, por explicarlo de forma sencilla, está a medio camino entre el Golf MK1 y MK2 y su comportamiento solo puede clasificarse de fantástico. 10. Volvo 480 (1986) Me encanta el P1800 Coupé de 1961 y este personalísimo 480 con tres puertas que pude ver en primicia en el Salón de Ginebra de 1986. El Turbo, con motor 1.7 litros y 120 CV daba mucho juego, era un motor agradable y un coche bien acabado… no me importaría nada tener uno. Coche del día. Cuando hablo de coches de los 80 y 90 me acuerdo de mi etapa de probador. Y recordando estos coches me he acordado de un coupé, muy especial, que me encantó: El Mazda MX3. Era, y seguramente siga siendo, el motor V6 de coche más pequeño del mercado, un V6 de 1.8 litros y 136 CV.

Today I have THE LEGENDARY CHAD HOWEY! Chad's love for land speed racing begins with his Grandpa Roger Howey's ventures racing various cars in the 50's in California at the dry lakes & Bonneville. Grandpa Howey's land speed career ended in the 70's when he decided he was going drag racing. The drag racing circuit is where Chad developed a need for speed. In honor of Grandpa Howey, the Howey's eventually returned back to Bonneville with his old belly tank for the 50th Anniversary of Speed Week. This is just the beginning for Chad as he moved on to building and racing a Ford Probe in quest of 200 MPH. He was deployed to the Middle East before he could obtain the record he was seeking. Chad took a break from land speed racing and began working on a couple of motorcycle projects with his sons. But land speed racing came calling again, literally, when he received a call from THELEGENDARY DALLAS VOLK asking if he would like to come help with a rebuild of amodified roadster they were going to run. Currently Chad crews on the 590modified roadster and is building a rear engine modified roadster with hisdaughter Emily. Get ready this is going to be as gratifying as watching yourbackyard engineering set a record!  

It's the end of Season 2, and what better way to celebrate than by answering real questions from real customers. J.R. and Eric cover a range of topics from car and home audio to vehicle warranties to whether you should buy or rent a modem. Here's a full episode breakdown: - Why do your holiday shopping now? - What's a good way to compare speakers when shopping online? - Will buying a router improve home internet speed? - What's the best way to build a home audio system around one component you love? - What's the best way to wire a sub (for your home and your vehicle)? - Can you add a new stereo to a '17 Wrangler Unlimited on a budget? - What should you keep in mind when matching car amps and subs? - Will upgrading factory audio gear void your vehicle's warranty? - What should you keep in mind when matching car speakers and stereos? - Will you lose your factory USB and aux inputs when installing a new car stereo? - What are J.R.'s and Eric's ideas for outfitting a '94 Ford Probe? And, of course... the links! - Check out J.R. and guests every other week on Crutchfield Live, streaming on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/crutchfield/videos)and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/crutchfield/videos). - Make shopping home and car speakers easier by using SpeakerCompare™ (https://www.crutchfield.com/r/8VR). Thanks for listening and talk to you again soon in Season 3!

¡Que daño están haciendo los SUV! Por ejemplo, los coupés asequibles, desaparecen. Te propongo una cosa: Haz una búsqueda en Google del tipo “que coupé compro por 20.000 euros”. No te aparecerá ninguno. Luego haz lo mismo con 30.000 euros… y no te aparecerá ninguno. Y si subes a 40.000 euros… aparecen sólo 5. Si te quieres comprar un coupé tienes dos opciones: Preparar alrededor de 50.000 € o comprarte un Youngtimer o un clásico. ¿Por qué? Porque los coupés asequibles son una especie en vías de extinción. Quizás su lugar como coche de ocio o con un atractivo especial lo han ocupado los SUV más dinámicos o con tintes deportivos… los mal llamados SUV-Coupé. Os doy unos datos: En 2007 se vendieron en España casi 10.000 coches de carrocería coupé. En 2019, cinco veces menos, 2.000 unidades. ¿Por qué? Hay quien dice que las marcas no los fabrican por que los compradores no los quieren. O a lo mejor es que los compradores no encuentran coupés accesibles y por eso no los compran. ¿Dónde están coches como los Alfa Romeo GTV, Fiat Coupé, Ford Puma, Opel tigra, Ford Probe, Honda Prelude, Hyundai Coupé, Mazda MX3, Opel Calibra, Peugeot 406 Coupé, Toyota Celica, ¿Rover 200 Coupé? Coches con carrocería Coupé y comportamiento deportivo, pero a precio asequible. Ahora, en 2021 y 2022 los alternativas coupés comienzan con el Audi A5 Coupé, el BMW serie 2 Coupé, el BMW Serie 4 Coupé y el Mercedes Clase C Coupé, todos con precios alrededor de los 45.000 euros. Pero antes de seguir, ¿Qué es un coupé? Según Wikipedia “un tipo de carrocería de un automóvil de dos o tres volúmenes y dos puertas laterales”. Esto define lo que es la carrocería. Un coche coupé es evidentemente un coche con carrocería coupé pero que, además, ofrece unas ciertas dotes deportivas por encima de la media de otros coches equivalentes. Y eso incluye un tamaño y peso contenido, porque los auténticos coupés son coches manejables. Porque, en este vídeo de reflexiones, vamos a reflexionar un poco: ¿Cuál es el tipo de coche más práctico y eficiente? Sabéis, los que me conocéis, que siempre revindico que los coches más sensatos y prácticos son los Familiares o Break. Si comparamos un SUV con un familiar equivalente vemos que el SUV ofrece básicamente tres ventajas: Una estética que gusta más a los consumidores; una mayor altura al suelo, aunque no siempre; y una facilidad de acceso que cierto tipo de usuarios agradecen mucho. ¿Y que inconvenientes tienen? Mayor altura y peso, por lo tanto peor comportamiento rutero y mayor consumo. Sí, mucho diréis que los SUV actuales tienen muy buena estabilidad… ¡hasta Porsche ha hecho un SUV para tandas en circuito! Os lo contamos todo sobre este coche en nuestra Web: https://www.garajehermetico.com/novedades/un-porsche-cayenne-para-circuito/ Pero volvamos a los coupés. Si buscas una lista de los 10, 20 ó 30 coches más bonitos de la historia, ¿Qué te vas a encontrar? Pues que la inmensa mayoría son Coupés, seguidos de descapotables… os diría que, salvo excepciones como el Citroën DS, todos los coches de esas listas son coupés o descapotables y, desde luego, todos de dos puertas. Algo tendrá el agua cuando la bendicen. Los coupés siempre han sido coches de ocio, coches algo más caros que las berlinas equivalentes, pero con tres cualidades: Un atractivo especial, mayores prestaciones y un plus de agrado de conducción. Analicemos estas cualidades: Hoy día, entre la persecución a la velocidad, el precio de la gasolina, la densidad de trafico y la educación de las nuevas generaciones, dos de las ventajas de los coupés como son su mayor agrado de conducción y su mayor deportividad, ya no se cotizan. ¿Qué queda? Un atractivo extra pero, eso sí, con un alto precio a pagar en utilidad. Porque, seamos sinceros, un coupé, como un Roadster o Spyder no sirven de mucho, son biplaza o con malas plazas traseras, con escaso maletero y son coches en los que poner una baca de techo o un remolque … pues, que queréis que os diga, parece un pecado mortal. Así que, como en los monólogos, acabamos por donde empezamos. ¿Quieres un coupé a estrenar? Pues prepara como mínimo unos 45.000 €. Y si no llegas a ese precio, piensa en uno de segunda mano, en un youngtimer o directamente en un clásico. Coche del día Y hablando de “coches de verdad” he elegido como coche del día a un BMW que he tenido la posibilidad de probar ampliamente y hacerme con él más de 2.000 km. Os hablo del BMW 420i, un verdadero BMW. Bueno, es cierto que con 184 CV para 1.600 kg de peso, es dinámico e incluso deportivo, pero no es un tiro. Pero además de que tiene unas prestaciones más que razonables, hay otras cosas que valoro mucho, como la calidad percibida y real, el comportamiento o el placer de conducción.

We continue to take suggestions for words other than "penetrate" for basketball and discuss what adjustments the Bucks need to make in Game 2 of The Finals. Have you ever heard of a Ford Probe? Bad spellings during Top 8 at 8. Are the Bucks dumb? Is Chewy disgusting?

In the early morning hours of January 14, 2016, a white 1997 Ford Probe was found near the Bloomsburg Municipal Airport. The keys were in the ignition, but no one was in the car.  A set of footprints led halfway across the snow covered bridge over the Susquehanna River. What happened at the end of those footprints? Listen as Grace explains the story and Amanda, Chelsea, and Sarah comment. Stay tuned to the end to hear Sarah talk about "The Girl with the Turquoise Jewelry" found skeletonized in Perry Co. PA in 1979. Sources and photos can be found on our website: kccpod.com

Question: How did you TOTALLY OVERREACT when you got broken up with when younger? Or have someone lose it when you broke it off with them? (eg. Mahoney got dumped and hyperventilated until he passed out, Dave started crying in his periwinkle blue Ford Probe and almost rear ended someone, you got so mad you lit all their clothes on fire, your ex tried to get you expelled from school after you broke up with her, etc) Show Features: Cover Your Ears, Tipsy Or Toddler, Karen Chronicles  Socials: @DaveandMahoney Voice Mail: 833-Yo-Dummy https://www.twitch.tv/daveandmahoney Additional Content: daveandmahoney.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeff Sterns, I'm connected through cars with my good friend Alan Moore, and I'm really looking forward to this episode. I hope you enjoy it. Alan had an illustrious career from selling German imports and Ferrari before joining DuPont registry, and then running Boulevard customs customization for exotics for celebrities, including some world known pieces in SEMA. And finally at the Tampa Bay auto museum. He's got a fabulous history, United States, France. Take a look, I hope you enjoy. 3:47 Alan went to France as a kid and was mesmerized. 5:23 So like I drew a bunch of 911 turbos, so 911 turbos with that big whale tail. You know, the 930s like the 76. 6:35 I realized there was a lot of a lot of innovation that occurred. And you know, even in the early early 1900s, late 1800s, early 1900s in France, of course, Germany as well. 8:33 Citroen two CV, which is the French version of the Volkswagen, ....it was an air cooled two cylinder horizontally opposed front wheel drive car, with just tons of room. You can seat five or six people in it, and get 40 to 50 miles per gallon and they never broke. There's no coolant. There's, there's really it's such a simple car. So they made you know, 9-10 million of those cars. 9:23 Alan as a young man was general manager of a fast food restaurant. The owner and general manager of actually at the time, came in and recruited him to sell Honda. 12:15 Alan moves to Mercedes for the next eight years. 14:30 Alan's love of the car helped him sell the remaining Peugeots after the brand left the USA. 14:30 Alan also sold Ferrari. it was a 2.0 or 3.0 Testarossa Correct, i12:15 Ferrari 456 looked like a Ford Probe. 18:28 Dealer gives up the Ferrari dealership due to Ferrari's pressure to get into teh Challenge racing program. 19:46 Ferrari salespeople! Listen to this in case you ever have to go back to selling to get models out the door! 22:00 Jeff and Alan discuss the ethics and dynamics of "above MSRP" sellers and buyers. 28:10 Jeff proves that his 27 years in dealerships and eight years as a consultant to the business knows everything about cars... (nothing) 28:16 Alan left the retail carbon assignment to work for DuPont publishing and DuPont registry. 32:06 Carrera GT, which were the V 10, carbon fiber, mid engine, Porsche, they listed like $450,000, sticker price. 38:12 (Porsche Cararra GT customer: "How do I get out of this car, I'm gonna kill myself in this car." .38:54 Jeff: I've called surgeons, and they said, Doctor, whoever's in surgery, and I've said oh, you know, I'm just the car guy with this turbo or he was looking for, oh, he said, If you call to interrupt them. I know you've been there. I mean, I can ask any guy and and, and I'm like, Well, I hope it wasn't a heart transplant. You know, he's doing yours and the guy would just come on for a minute. 43:16 Good job getting 100 grand deposit from the European on the super America. That's not a deal. And good job getting the $550k or whatever we got for the Daytona that's not a deal even though the car is shipped already. And we got the money already. 50:06 let me let me get dealers off the hook around the world that customers get frustrated about shipping. (Jeff tells some crazy transport stories) 55:41 Audience! with Alan you've got a guy in a museum for the same reasons that he got into the business you love. 56:22 Well, so the the finance manager needs to take your car deal. And find a lender, whether it's the manufacturer or a bank, that will agree to the interest rate and terms necessary to make your deal work at the numbers that you've agreed to with the customer. 1:00:48 you and I met through DuPont registry. Right, who's gonna look at the web, 1:07:53 (origin of cars and coffee) Tom duPont came back from California. And he was out there at some event that he said, Hey, I was stopped into Starbucks on the way to the airport Saturday morning and they're having a car show out there in the parking lot of Starbucks, like Lamborghinis and Ferraris and muscle cars and all kinds of cool stuff. And apparently they do this every week. 1:08:36 Vinnie (Russo/from another episode), you know, we were doing events. And then he was running our most of our events at that point. And so we all sat down and came up with this idea for this cars and coffee and came up with a logo This was oh five june of Oh, five. I think I think you were there. That one or one of the first? 1:09:25 Jeff: I was there early. 1:11:45 "Floridians and weather" 1:12:26 Jeff: I probably even brought my 31 Ford hot rod (to cars and coffee) 1:13:08 we had one car that that left the road and bent itself. a really nice restored 440 charger, that when he left and he jumped on it got a little sideways, he overcorrected, and nosed it into the ditch and bent it 1:18:38 I have a little Smithsonian Museum of my past cell phones. 1:26:43 a museum. And I walked in there and I'm thinking, this is just incredible. You know, these, this, this is right here in Pinellas Park. There's, I don't know that there's another museum like it anywhere that has the kind of innovation that they're that they're so enthusiastic about right here in front of us. Yeah, the Honorable disco bar scene. 1:29:09 why would you want your dad to bring home a 38 Oakland for the kids to look at at night when you could bring, you know a waitress in cocaine? 1:30:41 the most interesting car we just got. You will appreciate is a 1913 wait for it. Sterns, knight, 1:34:07 Roy Jones, a fighter Phantom when that car came out. And he couldn't take delivery of it until we put the televisions in it we used to send a lot of stuff to Boulevard. Shaq with the Superman. . 1:35:33 SEMA tuner challenge 1:38:40 one of the great projects was a company called Davidoff of Geneva. And they wanted to have a mobile cigar lounge 1:41:40 26 inch wheel... $40,000 in stereo 1:46:01 Johnnie Cochran 1:48:27 Billy Mays So you get a million bucks. For would you get Stinger Porsche? 1:56:15 the Porsche Carrera GT, F 40, an Enzo McLaren f1 1:59:07 Alan, you're a legend. am really honored. I appreciate it. I think it was a great conversation. 1:59:40 I appreciate you saying that I'm I'm not a legend. The nice of you to say that it. I am a car guy like so many others.

On this episode, we had Greg Birch on from the SilverSleeves racing team from the west coast.  We first met the team at Laguna Seca earlier this month but both of us had less than ideal racing weekends.  It was great to catch up with Greg and we look forward to racing with them again.    Highlights for this episode include:  1)  What is a Wolseley Hornet, its history, and how to get one onto the track, as well as future plans 2)  Greg’s Mini fascination and history with both classic Mini’s and modern Mini’s 3)  Canada is a great place to get low cost cars for racing due to insurance rules and where Bill and Alan are going soon, very soon 4)  Where the Magic Bus nickname came from and its full history 5)  Some of the driving rules for their team and perhaps how they should be our teams 6)  a reasonable place to get driver training in the pacific northwest 7)  The SilverSleeves car assortment, like the Austin 1800, and MG 1100 and the Barbie Corvette 8)  Getting to hear the words competitive and Ford Probe engine in a sentence 9)  What is a Hydrolastic Suspension and its “advantages” in racing 10)  Racing in Lucky Dog and the 24 Hours of Lemons series 11)  We come up with a way to expand upon their primarily British car themes 12)  Bill’s idea to limit speed creep win low cost endurance racing and fortifying Class C cars 13)  Discuss the mini as the predecessor to all transverse front wheel drive cars that are so prevalent today and its racing heritage 14)  Team fastest lap punishment ideas and a discussion on speed creep in low budget endurance racing 15)  Tire wear versus tire growth, lol 16)  Waterford Hills Race track 17)  Dialing in our new JCW Mini Cooper with as much cater as we can get 18)  Too many cars and a way to possibly limit the issue with your significant other 19)  One of the best team mantas we have heard 20)  A very helpful the Good, the Bad and the Ugly 21)  The inherent greatness of in race racing with a friend on the track, like when Greg raced with Todd of Everyday Driver that may be in their upcoming tv episode on Motor Trend 22)  Best west coast tracks to add to our list We had no luck getting any info on the new theming ideas that SilverSleeves is working on but look forward to the big reveal.  Hydrolastic suspensions for everyone!! Here are a few videos where the SilverSleeves team and cars are featured.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lata9v4SUkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NLSdQDQWF4 https://youtu.be/tGccAVdWo98 Best regards, Bill, Vicki, and Alan Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast and team members in the GHiT Immature Endurance Racing Team

Creep Records began as a record label started by Arik Victor in 1993 and has since expanded to a retail space, recording studio, and screenprinting.  Their roots are in punk and hardcore, putting out releases in our early years from the likes of The Bouncing Souls, Plow United, Violent Society, All Else Failed and more.  The tales of the Creep House in West Chester have become that of legend, building a bond and community that lives and grows to this day.  However, they have always been a label that puts out the music they truly love, regardless of genre.  I heard of Creep Records when I was in my late teens because my friends found out about this band called Plow United. Plow would be on heavy rotation in my buddy Lucc’s silver Ford Probe when we would drive from Jefferson, NJ to either the Rockaway mall, Jefferson Diner, Greenpond, Flipside Records or the many shows we attended. Alan Rappaport mentioned Creep Records in episode 24 and it made me think, well shit, I need to interview Arik. So I did and this is what we talk about: 80s hip hop NWA and 2 live crew The scariness of metal shows How he started recording bands Using a house party to get bands to record with him Creating Creep Records because of Plow United Getting taken advantage of by distributors Passing on the first Bigwig release His process for signing a band Why bands can’t reunite after 20 years and make it a full-time gig Tower Records having a positive effect on the music industry Hopes of punk rock saving the country Opening his record store And a ton more   Check out my comic and my book. If you’d like to support the podcast you can donate as little as $1 a month through Patreon by going to thiswasthescene.com and click on the button at the top of the page that says Click HERE FOR BONUS MATERIAL. As a Patron you get access to bonus material that regular podcast subscribers do not.  OR you can do a one time donation by click the DONATE button. OR you don’t have to donate shit and just keep listening each week.

Chris solves his garage problems, and Kevin has just driven the 2019 Mazda Miata in the Pacific Northwest. They review the 2001 Chrysler Prowler and 1995 Ford Probe literature. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/new-for-96/message

This week, the guys are joined by Kris' wife, Jess.We reminise about their past automotive adventures, including a pink Ford Probe, a Focus that never had an oil change, and 'Jersey', the award winning VW that they built. We also answer a listener question, and hear about the 'wild, wild west' of self-driving cars. Lastly, Jake gives Kris grief for insisting on wearing driving gloves in his Porsche.    Thanks for listening to Overcrest: A Pretty Good Car Podcast   Notes:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-09/uber-car-death-doesn-t-faze-kasich-from-making-ohio-wild-west  

This episode starts with a call on a 99 Silverado that turns over but doesn’t fire - answers an email on an 06 GMC Yukon with excessive tire ware - takes a call on a 2010 Honda Accord that burns oil at an incredible rate – takes a call on ridding an engine of sludge – call on a 97 Ford Probe GT with a bad fuel pump – call on a 97 Ford Probe where the fuel pump died. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

The solar car race across Australia happens in August, and Ron talks with Matt Goode of Iowa State University on progress with the Prisum Solar Car Project : a caller, who won an Intune I2 Performance kit on the show calls to describe what he found with it : a caller asks about using synthetic oil in an 89 Buick : there are questions on gaskets and an oil leak on a 97 Ford Probe : and a caller asks about using synthetic oil in a 15 Equinox. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

On this episode of Inside the Triple F, we talk about the Orange County Cruise-in and Ford sponsored Focus RS unveil. This event took place on July 2 at the Orange County Fairgrounds.  We will also talk about our experiences at the show and share with you, two fantastic interviews.  We talked with one of the first ever owners of a NEW Ford Focus RS and hear his opinions of Ford’s latest sports coupe: an all-wheel drive, 2.3 liter 350HP tire shredding monster with 'Drift Mode' standard. I also got to talk a good friend of ours, a friend to everyone who loves Fords and one of the greatest guys you could ever know, John Clinard, who also happens to be the Ford representative for the Fabulous Fords Forever car show.  He has helped to bring some of the most beloved Fords to market, including a personal favorite of mine, the Ford Probe. Be sure to check out some of our pictures from this event in the album section! Please give us a like on Facebook if you have not done so already.  Tell people about us! Please follow us on our Twitter feed - @OEMInsidethefff - for more posts on what we are doing, notifications when new Podcasts are released and much more. We are also on Instagram at InsidetheFFF.  We are working on having a website up very soon, so stay tuned and THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!