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From Model Cars to Custom Classics: The Art of Randy Borcheding

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Randy Borcheding of PaintHouse offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of high-end custom car creation, where artistry meets engineering in spectacular fashion. His latest masterpiece – a 1970 Mercury Cougar convertible finished in a custom "Short Bus Pearl" yellow – recently claimed Best Custom at the Craig Bierman show and is headed to the prestigious Triple Crown event in Nashville.

What makes Randy's approach unique is his blend of traditional craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology. The Cougar represents a "what if" concept car that Mercury never built – a convertible version of their Eliminator performance package. Beyond its flawless paint, the car features extensive 3D-printed components including the entire dashboard, console, and trunk panels. This revolutionary technique allows classic cars to integrate modern conveniences while maintaining period-correct aesthetics, fundamentally changing restoration possibilities.

Behind every build lies a deeply personal connection. As Randy explains, many clients are "rebuilding a memory or something, a hole in their life they never had or could afford." These emotional investments transform projects from simple restorations into rolling tributes that fulfill lifelong dreams. After three decades in business without formal training, Randy now focuses on mentoring young talent, emphasizing that passion and desire form the foundation upon which technical skills can be taught.

Ready to see automotive artistry at its finest? Follow Randy's work and join us every Saturday from 10 AM to noon for our live show across Facebook, YouTube, and InWheelTime.com to discover more incredible stories from the automotive world.

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Show Introduction

Speaker 1

Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am. This is the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show Just ahead. Randy Borcheting with Paint House Plus, jeff will have the crews in on events calendars and I'll bring you stories making automotive news headlines this week. Howdy, along with Mike out of this world. Fix it Mars. We always need more. Jeff Zekin, I fix nothing.

Speaker 3

I break it, he fixes it.

Speaker 1

Chief Engineer, david Ainsley. Thank you, david, we love you. I'm Don Armstrong, glad that you could join us on this live broadcast. If you're at 1030 on a Saturday morning, if you're listening on a podcast, well, we already had this show, yeah.

Speaker 3

And if you're looking behind us, this is all going to change here in the next few weeks.

Speaker 1

Yes, this is the last time that you will see this backdrop, because we're going to be moving, we're moving, and as I build up to this move, it reminds me of how much I really dislike moving. Yeah, but I'll tell you what Along with moving, there's a huge purging in my life, yeah, yeah, of stuff that I haven't used or needed in years, and actually most of the stuff that is in the studio.

Speaker 3

I don't use Like a 13-inch type 2x4 that you think you're going to use next time and you have that 2 by four for 20 years.

Speaker 1

That's the one that I strapped to my rear end, so when I'm falling through the hole it'll kind of catch me.

Speaker 4

Yep.

Speaker 3

There's that Interesting Cell.

Speaker 1

Block 42 is where we're moving to. Yes, very good.

Speaker 4

Well, let's head over to the. Not yet. Not yet. We're making some. We're tweaking. Oh, head over to the. We're tweaking versus twerking. You can do both.

Speaker 1

He's done both and it's not a pleasant sight to see.

Speaker 3

I've seen video, not in person. I think we're good now. Next time you do that, wear a belt.

Speaker 4

Ew.

Speaker 1

Let me get him to unmute. Unmute yourself there, randy Golly, look at that that's a cougar.

Speaker 3

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1

Is that a cougar behind you? Let's bring him up. That's a cougar behind you. Here we go. Is that Jen? Behind you? The cougar.

Speaker 2

It's not the first time Jen's been behind me.

Speaker 1

I'll bet, bet yeah through your entire life, thank god. Look at that car so how have you been my friend?

Speaker 2

I'm good guys, I see, uh, you got the woes from last week figured out, or a couple weeks ago, whatever it was no, we haven't no, no, you just can't see him today.

Speaker 3

Yeah, we were tested before you joined us new woes.

Speaker 2

Just moved on to new woes.

Speaker 1

That's exactly right. Moving woes now, yeah.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

So it's good to be with you. Paint House is the name of Randy's business out there, and Randy does paint jobs. When I first met Randy, I was looking for somebody to put a paint job on the Corvair. He looked at me and he said, don, you can't afford me, and I've never had anybody say that to me. But now that I've known you for a number of years, he's right, he's right, I can't afford him Because Randy does it.

Speaker 2

I'd like to think I was a little more diplomatic, but maybe I wasn't. No, it was all good it?

Speaker 1

I'd like to think I was a little more diplomatic, but maybe I wasn't. No, it was all good. It's a car, guys, we get it. But I will say this, and bragging about you, I don't believe I've ever seen better paint jobs on any vehicle in my entire life. This guy is top-notch and 110% on paint jobs and it may take him a while because he's going to do it right.

Speaker 2

I appreciate that.

Speaker 1

Yes, sir, and one of those obviously fine automobiles that you're working on right now is right behind you. Tell us about that.

Speaker 2

The 70 Cougar. We had it at SEMA this last year. It was just at the recent Craig Bierman show, texas Auto Elite One best custom there. And we're on our way to Triple Crown in Nashville a week and a half from now.

Speaker 1

Now, this is not your car. This is a customer's car.

Speaker 2

This is a customer's car. Yeah, the car that's mine is out in the driveway not getting paid attention too much, and it's a truck.

Speaker 1

I got that, but you know, I I find it interesting that, uh, you do these super builds, if you will, uh, all of them from the ground up and beautiful paint jobs, and these guys that own these cars obviously are putting a lot of money into them and they actually want you to go and show these cars for them.

Speaker 2

Absolutely. I mean, in some ways that's where they get their payback. You know, a lot of times they're rebuilding a memory or something, a hole in their life they never had or could afford, and now they can afford to get what they couldn't get back then. And, yeah, they want people to appreciate what they've done and what they've allowed us to do.

Speaker 1

Yes, exactly, I was bragging about you to somebody this week and the Studebaker pickup truck, hudson, hudson. I knew I was close. The.

Speaker 2

Hudson.

Speaker 1

Hudson pickup truck and that was absolutely spectacular because of all the work that you did on it and that really is your shingle on your front door, right there to me, and when I see that in my mind I'm going. I've never seen anything quite like it.

Speaker 2

It's definitely unique and it needed a lot of things to be done to it, and presently it lives in the Museum of American Speed up in Lincoln, Nebraska. It's a beautiful museum. If anybody has never been, you should go. It's owned by the Speedway Motors Group, and man, what a piece of history. That place is full of everything, and to be invited to park it in there and let the public see it is kind of exactly what it needed now, when you, when you trailer these cars around for your customers um you trailer them yourself, I assume yes, almost always yeah, because you really can't.

Paint House Plus Specialties

Speaker 1

You know, you got, uh, you know, half a million dollar car and and to give it to somebody else. Not that there are responsible people out there that do this sort of thing, but it's kind of like oh, I don't know if I want anybody else messing with this.

Speaker 2

Yeah it's, maybe I'm a helicopter builder, I don't know. You know I just can't, can't let go, but I just like the process of being on the road. That's something I enjoy, so it doesn't bother me to drag a trailer around and get to go to some fun places and see friends and get out of this heat and humidity.

Speaker 1

Do you still have the toy trailer?

Speaker 2

Not the one we lived in. We now have what I'll call a semi-toy trailer. It's got a bathroom and a sleeping space, but it's not a live-in trailer like our last one was.

Speaker 4

Yeah, that's that modular one you were showing us, I believe.

Speaker 2

Yeah, you could call it that. It's got some neat features in it. Atc Trailers built it for us and they've got a really neat system of things you can add and subtract and just do what you want with the trailer very quickly and easily.

Speaker 1

So I want to know about the rig you got now. Have you got you a Freightliner or a Kenworth?

Speaker 2

No, no, I did, I did buy an F450, though.

Speaker 1

Did you?

Speaker 2

And it's always been sort of my dream truck. And I'll just tell you this it's a rough riding truck.

Speaker 1

There's no way around well, especially without a load on the back of it exactly.

Speaker 2

I've done a few things to minimize that issue, but I don't think you can get around it. It's an f-450, no matter how you color it do you have to have a cdl for that? No, no that you can drive it and insure it normally.

Speaker 4

That's a one-ton correct.

Speaker 2

Well, technically, it's more than that.

Speaker 4

I was thinking one and a quarter.

Speaker 2

They downrate them. The stickers on the door jamb say 14,000, which is the same thing a 350 says, but it's capable of far more. But they put the number on the sticker so that guys like me can get regular insurance on them.

Speaker 1

Is it a diesel?

Speaker 2

Yes, the Power Stroke.

Speaker 1

Yeah, and how does that work for you? I've always wanted to ask these questions, but now that I know somebody that actually has one of them, how does it work?

Speaker 2

I wouldn't tow with anything but a diesel number one, especially when you're dealing with a lot of weight. Anything but a diesel number one, especially when you're dealing with a lot of weight. The problem with diesels and it's true of all the brands is they are so clogged up with the emission systems that they can't breathe and you can't idle them for more than 20 or 30 minutes or they will shut themselves off. There are just so many things that have taken away some of the advantages of a diesel, which is efficiency and, obviously, power, that it's still the best way to do it, but they have really made it difficult on us to control our costs. These trucks, you know they're $100,000 these days.

Speaker 1

Yes, we're well aware of that, yeah.

Speaker 2

It's crazy what they cost. They're beautiful pieces of equipment. I love the truck, but my God would I love to give it a weight loss program, so to speak, and take off some of those things that clog it up.

Speaker 1

Now, does the same hold true when you buy a Kenworth or a Freightliner? That's got the big living quarters on the back of it, but it can also haul a double stacker from. You know all the way back to your mama's house.

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they all have emissions now. Yes, Interesting.

The Challenge of Diesel Trucks

Speaker 1

Okay, so besides the Mercury that you've got behind you, what else are you working on?

Speaker 2

We're working on a 68 Cutlass convertible. It's in assembly right now. We've got a 67 C10 truck working on. We're working on a 68 Cutlass convertible. It's in assembly right now. We've got a 67 C10 truck. We're painting body working and painting for the guys up at Hammer Fab in Austin. Beautiful truck, a lot of custom metal work. There's a couple in upholstery right now a 55 Chevy Sedan, a 67 Firebird convertible and we've got a 69 Corvette uh uh T top car that is about to go to upholstery. So there's several of them in here and varying States of disrepair.

Speaker 3

You mentioned you've got a vehicle over in in a upholstery. The last time we talked to you you were looking for an upholsterer. You were traveling out of state to get it done at one time. Yeah, yeah, at the moment.

Speaker 2

I forgot to mention. We've got a 68 Roadrunner. You may see a pink fender over here. That's part of that car. That's also an upholstery. So the Roadrunner is at a shop called MTI in College Station. They're doing a beautiful job, an amazing use of 3D printing. Almost the entire interior has been 3D printed, less the seats and the carpet. It's just unbelievable what they're doing now, and that whole game has changed.

Speaker 3

If you're not keeping up with that technology, you're going to be left behind, I'm afraid so you could get in a classic vehicle that maybe a part is no longer made for the dash or maybe a door panel or an armrest and recreate it. They could recreate that.

Speaker 2

I'll be darned this cougar is a prime example of it. Uh, brent at sculpt garage he's in San Marcos, texas did this one and it's about half 3D printed. The entire dash is 3D printed, the console, pieces of the door panels, the whole trunk decoration, the trim panels in the trunk. It's amazing what they can do in a computer print it and for the most part, just fine-tune it a little bit and cover it and they're done. That's clearly oversimplifying it, but it has changed the game because you can make the radio that's in this Cougar look like Ford or Mercury. Put it there instead of like an add-on. It's really interesting and trend-setting the way they're changing this whole industry.

Speaker 1

Not to change the subject, but what kind of motors that thing got in it behind you?

Speaker 2

It's the 4.6 Terminator, so it's a supercharged V8 out of the 04 Cobra Mustang, which was a two-year power plant. It's very unique, makes a lot of power, but it's a bit tricky to get parts for the customer. We put this. We came up with this engine years ago. At one point we decided are we going to stick with this or are we going to go to the more modern Coyote engine? And he decided to stick with the 4.6 Terminator because it is so unique. So it looks big when you open the hood, but it's a tiny little engine. Cubic inch wise it's 281 cubic inches Wow. But it makes a lot of power.

Speaker 3

But it's not the Eliminator, it's a Terminator.

Speaker 2

It's called the Terminator. Correct Right. The car is our emulation of an Eliminator Gotcha. The car is our emulation of an eliminator Gotcha. Back then Cougar had that as their version of the Boss 302. Exactly, a trim package, a performance package. They never made a convertible eliminator. So we decided with the customer's input well, let's make something they never made, as if it's a prototype or a concept car, and we called it Top Eliminator. Just because it's got a top, you eliminate the top when you put it down and it's an eliminator. So a little play on words.

Speaker 3

I had a Nova in high school. Best friend of mine had a Cougar. His dad bought it for him. He painted it a silver. It had a black interior and it was a pretty car. It was a nice car.

Speaker 2

What year? Nova 72. My first car was a 71. I love those cars.

3D Printing Revolution in Classics

Speaker 1

You know if I couldn't see the front end of that car and the actual nose of it? Looking down the side, it has the crease that goes from the fender through the door to the actual nose of it. Looking down the side, it has the crease that goes from the fender through the door to the actual rear quarter panel. There it looks very similar to the Buick Skylark.

Speaker 2

Yes, yeah, I can see that the jam lines.

Speaker 1

It just struck me as odd. I really never noticed it, but you know, you just don't see that many Cougars around.

Speaker 2

True, true, and they're neat cars. They were the gentleman's hot rod, the upscale Mustang, whatever you want to call it, but a neat car.

Speaker 1

Well, when I think of Mercury, I always think of upscale interiors, nice seats, nicer seats than a Ford? Yeah, right, and I think that they did it right.

Speaker 3

It's a shame that brand went away. What was the step above the Cougar? It was the Mercury Marquis Marquis.

Speaker 2

That was a big car yeah.

Speaker 1

I like to refer to that as the Marquis, but didn't the Cougar actually had a step up.

Speaker 3

There was three levels of the Cougar. There was a base.

Speaker 2

XR7.

Speaker 1

Yes, that's it. Thank you, xr7.

Speaker 2

Well, randy, it's always great to talk to you, my friend. Yeah, yeah, thanks.

Speaker 4

And tell Jen we said hi, I'll do it, I'll do it, and we need to talk more often I'm thinking about every six weeks or so we get sidetracked talking to him about these beautiful cars he's building.

Speaker 2

I thought we were going to have a subject matter, but this is fun too.

Speaker 4

Well, that's it. We always get sidetracked, because I'd still like to.

Speaker 2

That's all right. When you're ready, holler.

Speaker 4

Yeah, his story about how he got started and how somebody else some of these kids that are coming out of high school was kind of our target, but we'll have to do that at another time.

Speaker 1

Well, no Let.

Speaker 2

No, let's kind of brush on that right now. So how did you get started, randy All humor aside building models, right, as a kid I loved building models. Yeah, and I hate to say it this way, but I'm just building bigger models and sometimes glue is required.

Speaker 1

Yeah Well, I mean, did you ever work at a dealership?

Speaker 2

No, I have no formal training in this.

Speaker 1

Whatever I've learned, I am still learning the hard way. And how long have you been doing it?

Speaker 2

with your business. Oh gosh, We'll just call it 30 years, somewhere in that range.

Speaker 1

Liar, it's longer than that, but you know I will say this that I learned about Randy is the fact that people come to Randy and say, well, you mix me a special color, and that is really his specialty in my world. He does beautiful work in the garage, but mixing those paint colors truly is outstanding.

Speaker 3

I don't know anybody that can do it like you do. I'm interested in a nice brown we have one called Hot Chocolate. There you go, there you go. It matches me this color on the cougar.

Speaker 2

They had a color like this in that day, yep, and we mixed it up. I did my spin on it's got a little pearl in it. They called it school bus yellow. I call it short bus pearl short bus pearl which we've all taken

Speaker 4

you should recognize that color.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know it spoke to me and I know exactly where it came from.

Speaker 2

Yeah, Don't lick the windows.

Speaker 1

And you know I'm good at that oh my gosh. But let's get more into that next time that we talk. I want to talk to you about, you know, schooling youngsters that are really into paint and body.

Speaker 3

Oh we need them.

Speaker 2

Huh, we need them. We need young blood in this industry.

Speaker 1

Yes, yes, most definitely. And have you ever had anybody in the shop that you're kind of grooming?

Speaker 2

I do. Now We've got a couple of younger fellows that have the passion and the want, which is a whole lot of the equation. That's the main. Yeah, we just have to fill in the gaps with the skills and techniques.

Speaker 1

And the know-how. Yeah, exactly, all right, so we'll get more into that in our next conversation. What about four or five weeks from?

Speaker 4

now yeah, yeah, that'll work out really good Sounds good.

Speaker 1

Randy, god bless you, thank you.

Speaker 2

It's great to talk, Thank you sir.

Cruise-In Events Calendar

Speaker 1

Hey, be sure and join us for our live show every Saturday. In Wheel Time airs Saturdays at 10 to noon on Facebook, youtube and inwheeltimecom. Thanks for joining us today. We've got the cruise in and events calendars and headlines just straight ahead, so stay with us.

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Speaker 3

No, I was just pointing at people out there. One of them wasn't paying attention and I see you out there.

Speaker 1

Your x-ray vision. You bought those glasses when you were a kid, didn't you?

Speaker 3

Because they told me.

Speaker 4

Out of the back of the comic book.

Speaker 3

That's exactly I sent three box tops and a quarter in, and that's what I got, and there's always, did you remember?

Speaker 1

they always showed some girl in the picture. Oh yeah, In a nice dress, X-ray glasses.

Speaker 4

Exactly, yeah, that was the hook.

Speaker 3

No, you need to send four box tops in for that one.

Speaker 1

Oh, I see that's the upscale model yeah, All right time now for the cruise in and events calendars, jeffrey.

Speaker 3

Yeah, caffeine and Chrome Gateway. Classics of Cars. These are for next Saturday, the 30th, from 9 am to noon, right about the time we're on the air so you can listen to it over there. It's at 1910 Cypress Station Drive in Houston. Got classic cars, got a lot of pastries, coffee. It's a good car show 9 to noon.

Speaker 1

Get out there and enjoy that I haven't been there in years. I remember when they first started that and I went and it was a brand new venue. I'm going wow, this is cool.

Speaker 3

There's no admission fee, open to the public, pet friendly and everything. And then we got another Saturday event. Next week is the Benefit Car Show and Barbecue at Marshall's Tavern in Conroe Good for them, 1717 North Fraser. It's a benefit car show. Country Custom Fabrication is putting it on, so there's a registration of $35 if you want to show your vehicle in the event. All kinds of stuff going on. They've got food. They've got best car, best modern car, all kinds of things. Best rat rod. So go out there and enjoy that. One more. For Saturday of next week You've got Caffeine Chrome Again. Another one. This is at a different place. This is in New Braunfels for the Gateway Classic.

Speaker 3

Oh we've been there on the Hot Rod Tour, exactly so. That's in New Braunfels at 679 Holkin Drive, suite 105. It's a big place. Go out there and enjoy that. Again, a lot of stuff. There's no admission pet-friendly good stuff. The 31st, which is Sunday, you've got Brazoria County, cars and Coffee. It's in Lake Jackson. Been there, lived not too far from there when we first moved to Texas. Enjoy some stuff. It's 9 to 11. It's at 221 Parkingway Street and it's last Sunday of every month, parkingway, parkingway. And then Saturday, the 18th of October, we got Spring Branch from 10 to 1. That's a remote out there. And then we've got one. What is that? The?

Speaker 1

Gulf Coast Auto Shield.

Speaker 3

Gulf Coast Auto Shield yeah, we've got another event going on there for those folks as well. So if you're looking for an event, you can get on Facebook, YouTube, all that stuff they do post it. Get a hold of Bobby Sparkman. He's got a lot of stuff that he's got going on.

Speaker 1

Matter of fact, they zeroed in on the dates for the next Hot Rod Tour. I think it's April 23rd through the 26th.

Speaker 3

Sounds right.

Speaker 1

Sounds right, yeah, so pack your bags, we're going. Yeah, and my suggestion is, if you're going to go or making plans to go, get the hotel room in Victoria now, because they wind up selling out every place around there.

Speaker 4

It's a great event, but I think that's the best part, to be honest. I mean it's nice to go for the cruise, but that environment down there at the park that they work with the city on is just.

Speaker 1

And I'm going to make this announcement today. Here we are going into Labor Day weekend, right that I'm not going to have anything to do with in real time other than look pretty and take my car. It's going to be on you. Yeah, what he said it's all on you. Yeah, so I can't wait to see your walk around from Victoria Square down there. I'm sure it'll be great. You can take Becky, hold her by the hand. Jeff could be your cameraman. It's going to be wonderful.

Speaker 3

I just need to get a car, because I already look pretty Well that's true, I got half the battle already done. Half the battle, yep.

Automotive News Headlines

Speaker 1

All right. Some of the news headlines this week Start off with this one Humpy Wheeler has died.

Speaker 3

Yeah, you mentioned that. Yeah, humpy.

Speaker 1

Wheeler, who helped usher NASCAR's presence onto the national stage back in the 70s with imaginative, often over-the-top pre-race shows and a completely new vision to racetrack facilities, has died. He was 86. Wheeler spent 33 years at the helm of Charlotte Motor Speedway, a one-and-a-half-mile facility that, under his supervision, became one of the sport's first show places. You ever been there? No, absolutely spectacular.

Speaker 3

What was it again? The Charlotte Motor Speedway? Oh, yes, I have been there. I thought you said something else. Yes, I have been there.

Speaker 1

Have you been smoking something? No, no, extravaganzas, unbelievable in the pre-race world, just as often as they were parts of the whole series, really. They ran the gamut from school bus vehicles leaping row upon row of junk-bound cars to Robosaurus, the towering fire-breathing, car-crunching mechanical robot, to recreations of numerous military operations, including the invasion of Grenada. He did all of that On the infield. On the infield before the race. It was absolutely spectacular. Charlotte was the first track to build condos on the site, offering fine dining in a restaurant overlooking the racetrack and, most telling of all, the first speedway of its size to feature racing under the lights. It's kind of a given. These in a restaurant overlooking the racetrack and, most telling of all, the first speedway of its size to feature racing under the lights. It's kind of a given. These days. You're going to have a nighttime race. You've got to get it ready for TV. What's tonight? Daytona's tonight, daytona, which is what?

Speaker 3

two and two-thirds miles Two and a half miles.

Speaker 1

Talladega's two and a two-thirds. Anyway, yeah, under the lights, can you imagine lighting that thing? Wheeler was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2006 and Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009. In his more than 30 years on the job, he's never failed to entertain us. He's always put the fans first. Team owner Rick Hendricks said upon hearing of Wheeler's departure from CMS Charlotte Motor Speedway Humpy's contributions will go down as some of the most significant in the sports history. Under Wheeler's direction the track became the gold standard by which all other racetracks were built and how they were measured, said seven-time series champion Richard Petty. And I will tell you and remind everyone that the mile-and-a-half track was kind of unique to Charlotte at the time the one in Dallas, the one in Las Vegas. They're both kind of carbon copies, kind of cookie cutter.

Speaker 3

That's what the whole point of the mile-and-a-halfs In the very beginning. Why are they all the same? But he was the Barnum and Bailey of NASCAR.

Speaker 1

Yes, he was Very creative and very imaginative and I will say that that mile and a half formula worked, because it's big enough that you can get up to speed, but it's also small enough that you can get close to the action.

Speaker 3

Well, and you also can put five turns in it, because you got the dog leg. Yeah, you got a dog leg in there.

Speaker 1

Yep, yep. I thought this was an interesting story that came out yesterday. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is dropping some retaliatory tariffs on American products but not auto duties to match US tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement. So that is still in place. Carney says the decision will take effect September 1st. Carney says Canada and the US have reestablished free trade for the vast majority of goods. Carney had a call with US President Donald Trump on Thursday and Carney confirmed that Trump assured him the move would help kick-start trade negotiations with the US.

Speaker 1

Stop ripping us off. Yeah, ford is looking to develop a supercar for off-road racing Until it's recalled as a follow-up to its new $325,000 Mustang GTD high-performance sports car. My God, a Mustang for $325,000. Lee Iacocca would be turning in his grave. Yeah, ford CEO Jim Farley, the recall man, said he envisions the vehicle as a dirt-loving, high-performance machine that could compete in the Dakar Rally Desert Endurance Race in Saudi Arabia. No one's ever built a super car for gravel, high speed, sand dirt. Farley said. I'm thinking really deeply about it, and usually that turns into something. Automakers have a history of fielding limited production, pricey trophy models to cast a halo over their broader enterprise. Somebody's calling me Uh-oh and I am not going to be able to answer that.

Speaker 3

You mentioned Dakar Rally surprise somebody's calling me uh-oh and I am not going to be able to answer. You mentioned the car rally there's been. Jaguar and porsche have always have entered in that. The car rally with suvs years, yes, absolutely so what is making this so special?

Speaker 1

well then, that they're not showing their hand on this ford is also stepping up its racing activities, including a return to the formula one circuit. All right here to burnish its motorsport credentials. Here comes Cadillac right behind them. Hertz Global Holdings says its sales unit is partnering with Amazoncom automotive retail platform, amazon Autos, to sell pre-owned vehicles. The collaboration, announced August 20th, builds on Amazon Auto's recent expansion into used vehicle sales.

Speaker 3

I take umbrage with that. Cadillac will be in front of them. They'll be behind Cadillac. Thank you, Jeff. Yeah, appreciate that.

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