Classic Auto Mall Show #185 - Steve Austin of Steve Austin's Great Vacations and Keith Martin of Sports Car Market with host Stewart Howden

Show #185 airdate 03-19-25 Stewart welcomes Steve Austin, art dealer and creator of incredible vacation packages with a focus on #Formula1 and other racing events. Talk includes his youth as a "red cap", setting up his first #Monaco trip and looking over a wall at #LeMans and the rooftop test track @Fiat.  Plus Keith Martin's #SportsCarMarket blog about bonding with a car, the rise of auto quality and his special offer: https://www.sportscarmarket.com/testdrive6  https://www.steveaustinsautomobiliaandtravel.com/ @Hyundai @Kia @ Toyota @Honda @F1

Episode 185 brings us guest Steve Austin of Steve Austin’s Great Vacations. Steve is also an avid art collector and dealer with more than 40 yeas of experience giving tours around the world with auto-related themes.  Steve produces the ‘best’ automobile-related tours. These programs are designed for travelers who want exemplary hotels, food, and variety for an experience of a lifetime. Steve’s knowledge of the events, the history, the racing celebrities, and event highlights are second to none. Each tour is designed to offer travelers highlight moments impossible for them to arrange on their own. Whether it’s a Hospitality Suite at Monaco overlooking the start/finish line, a celebrity dinner on the Le Mans Mulsanne Straight or a private celebrity-filled cricket match and Spitfire display on the grounds of  the Duke of Richmond's Goodwood House, they are all part of Steve Austin’s Great Vacations. 

Steve Austin discusses the tours including Goodwood in England which he said has become a great event and is in an amazing location. They also discuss the rising prices of events and hotels and tickets and if F1 would grow faster if it was more affordable for everyone, like NASCAR.

Steve takes vacationers to the Alfa Romeo Rooftop Test Track at the Fiat Lingotto manufacturing plant, where they actually had a functioning race track on the roof of the building where they would test the cars before driving them back down through the building and onto the street.

 The 50th Anniversary of the Long Beach Grand Prix is going to be a great event and the IMRRC is honoring Brain Redman who won the first Long Beach Grand Prix, Mario Andretti who won it four times and Al Unser Jr who won the Long Beach Grand Prix six times, more than any other driver.

 Sports Car Market Publisher Keith Martin joins the show for his weekly segment - Keith’s Blog Comes To Life – and this week they discuss making sure you drive your car when the weather is nice because sitting isn’t good for cars, and you need to enjoy them.  They talk about driving old cars vs new cars and how you needed to actually drive an old car, especially one without power brakes and without power steering and with a manual transmission.

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