What It Really Takes to Build a Dream Business (Supercar Edition)

Matt August and Mike Hall have been the guys behind August Motor Cars from the beginning — and in this episode, they're finally telling the whole story. 

From bidding on a foreclosed building their families thought was a terrible idea, to sneaking into the Indy 500 pits, getting dressed as pirates at a supercar rally, crashing a Radical at track, and eventually taking a McLaren 765LT across America on the Gumball 3000 — this is the unfiltered origin of one of Canada's most recognized exotic car brands. 

But more than the cars, this episode is about what it actually takes to build something real: the doubt, the roadblocks, the police pullover that wasn't their fault, and the guy who traded two Clydesdale horses for a supercar. If you've ever had a dream that people told you was too crazy, this one's for you.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to August After Dark, Mike. Welcome to August Motor Cars. I'm excited to be here again. Um it's gonna be really cool. Um we've I think we've got some pretty cool guests to start this off. And I think I think what we're gonna share today is the conversation on like the start of August Motor Cars. Oh, we've got some stories for that. From the beginning to where we are today. Um I think there's uh a lot of fun content we'll share and we'll we'll put up as well that uh so we people know what we're talking about, and we'll we'll go back all the way down the timeline. And uh so yeah, I guess let's start in, let's dive in. So 2015. 2015 is where it started. Well, I guess slightly before that. So um a little bit of history on myself, I guess, for those listeners. Yeah. Um, our family had a Mazda dealership in Kelowna since uh 1945 is when we began selling cars in Kelona, my grandfather uh called Kelowna Motors. And uh so in 2014, 2015, I guess. Um used cars in the Mazda dealership was like a big part to me. And I I actually have always loved used cars, and and uh we were doing lots of trucks and and different things. It was always like different product for sale. It wasn't the it wasn't just Mazda, it was everything. It was all brands, all brands, but just a lot of different stuff too. And um uh at one point I remember I went to the auction and I bought a yellow Lamborghini Gaerto Spider.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

I remember that.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

And I remember bidding on the car and Mark Bergman from Odessa, who's still like a very close friend to ours and who does all of our auctioneering for all of our events and stuff. He um I asked, like, what's the buy fee? I don't know, I've never bought one of these before. And and his comment to me was uh, well, when you can afford it, you'll find out. And I was like, Or didn't he say if you had to ask, you couldn't afford it, something like that? Something along those lines, and and him and I always joke about it still to this day. And uh um, so anyways, I bought the car and he apologized to me later because he's like, I thought you were someone else. I'm totally sorry, whatever. And uh actually me and Abe drove the car back from Vancouver, and and at that point we had that was our first one, and then we got a Turbo S and we had a a blue uh F430 Spider. And I remember a lot of the conversation of people that were interested in those cars, were like, you know, I just I'm not really sure. I want to, I don't really want to buy it from a MAS dealership, whatever. And uh I was like, okay, well, whatever. And so at that point, your wife Kelly, yeah, uh, who began in selling insurance insurance, road insurance, she's a road agent, yeah. Um, we moved her into finance, obviously got to know you through her working for us. Yeah. And at that point, you were working at Value Mitsubishi.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Yeah, I was there for 12 years.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

And like the best salesman in the I was the top salesman in the country.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

Then I went into finance, and then I started running the store at one point there too. And I dabbled into in high-end cars because that I loved cars just like you did. So I would buy my own cars and sell them on the side. And then Rick let me buy cars through the store where I didn't have to pay the tax, and then I could sell them through the store, and we just split the profit. But I got to drive, it was like my own demos.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Yeah, and I remember calling you and was like, hey, I have this idea, there's this building that uh is like in foreclosure. And I remember saying to you, like, hey, like, would you be interested in us going together and and building this business? And and now today, obviously August Motor Cars.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

I remember we were thinking about the names.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

We were so many different names. It was actually my dad who was like, Why don't you just name it after what people know in the car business locally?

SPEAKER_01 4:04

Well, I'm glad we went with that because of some of the other names we had. I can't I wish I could remember them, but they were I remember them. I'm not even gonna say, are you? No, they're so bad. I wish I remembered because I would say.

SPEAKER_00 4:14

It was it was so bad. Like I think one was like Excalibur Cars or something. And it was just, I I think it it ended up working out great, obviously. And and uh it was my dad who was like, you know, why don't you guys just name it after your last name and our our history in the car business?

SPEAKER_01 4:31

People gotta understand too how young we actually were when we started August Motor Cars. Like you were 25 years. And I was 35. So we're 10 years apart. So I was 35, and still that yellow Lamborghini, I still remember the first story you told me about that car is when you bought it. This was you, you're just dabbling in supercars, and you're driving with the top down. When you're with your sister, and that little tiny piece of glass at the back took a rock and smashed out, and you and you went to replace it.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

And how much was that little it was like 11 grand or something, and it was literally a piece of glass this big.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Yeah. Yeah, that's still that's that's so funny. That just it still blows my mind how much that piece of glass was.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

It blows my mind every day when something breaks on these cars on the cards. On some of them, yeah. Um, so also too, like back to the people don't know, obviously how old we are. Yeah. And then a lot of people on the internet think we're brothers.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Yeah, everyone thinks we're brothers.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

So at his last name is Mike Hall. Yes. And my last name is August. Yes. So we're not brothers, but we pretty much are now.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

Pretty much are, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Um and so we the re how we got the building is it was in foreclosure, and you had to go to um court and you had to like put a sealed bid in for because there's leasehold improvements and so on and so forth. And uh um I went in and kind of put my business plan together, and this is what I could afford to to pay for the leaseholds and and everything else. And I know my my dad too at the time was like, you know, we're really good at selling Mazas in town and everything else. And you know, I don't I don't know if it's worth us kind of going into a whole different realm of vehicles and stuff. And and uh he was in Arizona or something at their house down there, and and of course, as my personality, I went out and just did it anyway, and uh surprise. Actually, I didn't I didn't even tell him. I think I think he got saw an email come through from our insurance company that there was another building that was added to our insurance policy, and he phoned me and was like, What is this? What are you doing now? Yeah, so anyways, I guess uh it's it's funny when you look back at it and you still you know people always thought, like, how are you gonna do that in a town? Like, for those who don't know, Kelowna is like 250,000 people. And back when we started, it was even smaller, it was even smaller for sure. And uh it's funny, it's just always been like, you guys are crazy, there's no way that's gonna work, so on and so forth.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

Well, Kelowna is a big retirement town. There wasn't that many supercars in town when we when we started. I remember the hate we got just driving them. I had people pull up beside me. I was driving a bright orange Lamborghini, and I had a guy pull up beside me, and he points to roll my window down. I roll my window down, he goes, Nice car, asshole. Uh and I I didn't know what to say, but thanks. Like, what else do you say? What else do you say in that situation?

SPEAKER_00 7:29

Yeah, it was funny actually, because when we first opened, every time someone would go on a test drive, remember? Yeah, we would always the police would pull them over. Yeah. And it was we would get pulled over all the time, and we had to have conversation. And and I think it was because of what business was being done in that building before, which was like really hard to overcome that locally, too. Of of we're not them. Yeah, totally. So um again, just roadblock, roadblock, roadblock, always something, right?

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

And uh I remember we'll show a picture of our showroom when we first moved in there. It was like uh a 2011 R8 V10 Spider, which we've we just sold not long ago again. It was like we sold that car four.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

I got the car actually, I got the photo right here. So there's you and me right at the start in the showroom. And uh, we look like we aged probably 35 years in 10 years.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

That would be what the car business does. That's the car business for you, yeah. But everybody says, Oh, it must be easy. Uh yeah, look at the picture of us 10 years ago.

SPEAKER_01 8:34

But in the background, you can see we got a Jeep Cherokee, a uh Dodge Challenger, an SL, a Porsche, and then the R8. And then right here, that F-430, that first with that your dad's car. Yeah. That was the first supercar we sold here. The F-430.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

And he I remember him looking at it at Mazda and wasn't sure. And then when we opened the new building, he came in and and uh again, still like another great client who's still a friend of ours.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Which is funny because that car we sold it to him, he sold it, we sold it again later for him, and he made 30 or 40 grand on it. Then the next guy bought it and owned it for a while, and then it sold for even more than that guy paid for. That just shows you what supercars can do.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

That car's still worth the same as what we sold it for back then. Yeah, it is like 100%.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

Um, and then from from there, I think we added to the fleet quite quickly. Like we added, I think soon after that was the Orange Inventador.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Orange Inventador I got sworn at.

SPEAKER_00 9:36

Yeah. Um, and then one car that I will always remember and never forget is that white Mercy.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

Yeah, that was the one you drove.

SPEAKER_00 9:44

Show a picture of it. Yes, because if someone owns it, I'd love the opportunity to buy that car back. I would just for nostalgia. Um it it was white car, black stripe.

SPEAKER_01 9:55

The loudest Mercia Lago hands down on the planet. So loud that we had 22 cars in our showroom, we'd pull them all out. The mercy would go out first, and we had to warn everyone so no one had a heart attack in the building when we started. And there was times we thought it was gonna blow the windows out of the place. We'd get it outside, we'd fire, we'd fire up the rest of this, and they're all supercars, I'm tanya. We'd pull them all outside, and you could only hear one fucking car running. It sounded like only one car running. That was that Mercy logo. Yes, that's how loud that car was.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

It was an amazing sounding car. I remember we I took that car to that rally in Vancouver. You were in the McLaren. I was in McLaren. And I remember us coming home, and you guys were behind me, and you guys had to like slow down and like get some distance because your eyes were watering because of just the fuel, the smell of the car.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

We were uh seemingly hung over, too. Yes, so like I was holding my hat, my puke hat, which is another story to tell you why why that is a thing for me, I guess. We'll tell you a little later. But I had my hat in my hand as I'm driving, and all I could smell is fuel and burning my eyes, and just it was off, it was hot, it was awful, and we're doing this windy road because Matt's like, we're gonna go down the Pemberton way and come back to the Duffy Lake Road, Duffy Lake Road, and hung over, guys. I could tell you that is the worst road to drive down hung over in a supercar.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

Yeah, that's very true. Um going from there, so that I mean, I think we're still in 2015 at that point. Yeah. And uh Pirate Rally.

SPEAKER_01 11:28

Yeah, and everyone remember 25 and 35, we're young, cowboys with super cars. Now, now we have all these supercars at our fingers.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

Yeah. So um I can't remember how that came up. It was someone I knew who was like, hey, we're holding this rally in Vancouver. I couldn't make it for whatever I can't remember the reason. And you went, yes, and we decled the car, we put a big August motor cars on the side door, and big, like four feet on the doors, four feet across the hood, August billboard.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

Totally. And then you tell me that it's it's the pirate rally, and you have to dress up like pirates. It's everyone's in in character, which was not the fucking case when I got there. But I didn't know, so me, I took my brother-in-law because I needed to have a co-pilot. So me and my brother-in-law went out. We get to the hotel, we we go to the Halloween shop and buy pirate costumes, which we'll show you a photo here. And we show up to this rally, all supercar guys, we're new to the supercar business, and we got this August Motor Cars billboard on our car, and we pull up, we get out of out of the car, and I'm looking around, and I'm like, you fucking asshole. And I call Matt, he's laughing, and I said, This is not a costume rally, like we're the only two dressed up like pirates, and he's laughing on the phone, but it was good. We ended up winning best dressed or best costumes. Yeah, I bet. Yeah, it was the only ones wearing costumes, but that that was just some of the games that we played. We had fun all the way through.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

Yeah, and then we we added to the showroom quite quickly. Remember, we put the hoist in? Yeah, so we had the triples or the doubles um double wide hoist, yeah, which we have here, which that showroom would house as many cars as we have on the back wall here.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

Yeah, it was 27 cars in that showroom.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

Yeah. What car other than the Mercy? Because I think that car both stuck out to both of us, that like kind of pivoted the store. And like because the the thing is, is you don't just you can't just start this. I mean I I guess you have to start somewhere for sure, but you we had to kind of show Canada and and Kelowna and and and people who are interested in these cars that we you know we have the inventory, we have the knowledge, which which we do have the knowledge. We did have the knowledge for sure. We were both big into cars. Car car guys from from the very beginning. Um and uh so what car kind of showed up for you that you think kind of pivoted the brand and and kind of like changed the trajectory of of what we were doing.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Still, still to this day, it's that orange Aventador. That was the first crazy supercar that we got. And I remember it coming off the truck and uh just the color, it just sounded crazy, looked crazy. Um, that was probably my favorite car back in the day when that when that happened. Obviously, there's more that we've progressed that have come come out that like the one sitting across from us right now, or the Revington.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

Yeah. Um what what do you think what do you think made us different than anybody else?

SPEAKER_01 14:45

Like we're true car guys and we love what we do. So it's not like we're not selling cars because we have to. We we're selling cars because we love them for one. So it's it was more of a hobby for me. I've always loved cars, as I know you do. I always read road and track. I I bought a DuPont every single time I was anywhere. I would read about every car, all the builds. And you know, you don't get that in a lot of deal a lot of dealers. People are selling cars because they're providing for their family, or they just it's they need a job, or we're selling cars because we love them. We still have to provide. We still have to provide, but we're lucky we get to provide doing something we love. For sure. We kind of became friends with all of our clients, like going to their weddings, you know, going to events. So I I don't know if it was just more of like we became real friends with our clients.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Well, that too, but I'm more or less saying that just on the marketing side of things, too. Like we we did things different. We I remember down in Penticton, remember I closed that road right along the water.

SPEAKER_01 15:43

That was one of our first videos. One of our first videos we had a helicopter flying beside us.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

Yeah, we had Alpine helicopters came out and and uh had drones in the air and and stuff like that, and had and that's how we were filming our commercials. And we had uh uh all the cars in one of the hangars at Alpine at one point. Um that was like, and I still think it is. I know it is actually because it's my favorite, one of my favorite parts of the business is is the marketing part and the content. Yeah, how creative you can be with marketing, yeah, and and building on that, I I think it shows who the brand is and who the people are by how much work they put into the content that they produce. And you know, we we didn't we didn't skip out on it, like we put all of the effort in. We always to this day, it is my number one priority that we come out with amazing content, cinematic. It I want the viewer and the person watching to, you know, feel it and get goosebumps from it. Um you know, and I think I I think I mean, look around it, look what we're doing now. Yeah, I mean, it's uh it's a huge part of of our business. And arguably I think the the biggest part of our business is is what we do with content and and how we advertise our cars and how big of a reach we've got and and you know how many people have become big fans of ours. And um, you know, a lot of that too is is we've had a really cool relationship with Dave and Damon at DDE and Daily Driving Exotics, yeah. Yeah, and I remember the first car they bought from us was the R8. Remember, we went down and Damon bought it to surprise Dave and we unveiled it. Remember, we did it on the water, kind of? Yeah, I'm sure we can pull a YouTube video up and and show everybody. We all look really young. I actually watched that not long ago. We all look so young compared to the.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

But that was the second video we did with them. The first video we did with them was when we went golfing, we used your Ferrari and my golf GT3RS. They didn't buy a car from us yet. That was the first video.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Was it?

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Well, I'm pretty sure that was the first. It was close. We did a few videos with them right away, but I I'm pretty sure it was we went golfing with them, and Dave is like never golfed before, and I don't know if he's very sports, like like you yeah, his his uh coordination golfing wasn't the best. And we showed up at Predator Ridge, beautiful course, very prestigious course, and here we come with a fur uh Ferrari 488 and a loud Porsche GT3RS, and we pulled right up to the putting greens, and we were right up on the right up on the driveway.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

We have the golf bags out the side window, they were our like golf carts, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

And how pissed people were because no one knew that we were coming except the manager of the course, and all the players there were like giving us dirty looks and pissed right off, and we're pulling up beside the greens to finish our hole, and people are pissed off and looking at us because cars were loud and we had to cold start them every time we we went to the next hole.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

Yeah. And then I remember I surprised Dave and Damon by we had Okanong Mountain helicopters. Yes, because at that point I was getting my license, like in the middle of of starting to learn how to fly helicopters. And uh I remember phoning George and being like, Hey, I think this would be cool. It's a it's a cool YouTube channel, and I think it would be a neat addition to the video we're shooting. So Dave and Damon flew back. Remember when we raced them back? We we drove the cars, and it was like the first one back to the airport. We lost.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

We we lost, yes, definitely. Yeah, but the best thing still, I remember. So the hole that the guy landed on was the one right behind us. We're finishing filming on a different hole, and there was another guy coming up to tee off. And he's looking at us, just shaking his head like we're a bunch of assholes with two supercars on the grass. He looks down, he doesn't even look down the fairway yet, and there's a helicopter 200 yards out sitting in the middle of his fairway. So he he's looking at us, shakes his head, gives me a dirty look, looks, puts his ball in, and I'm I'm looking, I'm waiting for him to notice the helicopter sitting in front of him. And he looks up and he looks, he finally sees the helicopter, he's so pissed off, he kicks his ball, throws his club and walk and storms off. But which I just thought was was funny. And we only did what three holes. Yeah, it was like we weren't there very long. But it was just funny his emotion that he was so pissed off, and he wasn't even supposed to be on those holes because that was the closed area.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

Yeah, yeah, that's when they were redoing that back nine.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

I didn't feel sorry for him because he's not supposed to be there anyways, but it was quite funny to see how pissed off he got.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Yeah, it's lots of cool stories with Damon and Dave and lots of fun stuff.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

And I mean they ended up living with me for quite a while, and I've got lots of stories to tell you guys about that.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

Well, we'll have we'll have them on the chat on the on the podcast here and yeah, and go through like what that was, the the three of us or four of us, and and and how how the evolution of DD and August Motor Cars and stuff kind of climbed climbed and climbed together, which was really cool.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

Yeah. Um because when we met DD, they only had about there was about I think there were about 400,000 followers back then. And um, you know, they've like Damon and Dave done a great job. They've taken off um one of the best automotive content creators in the world for sure. Yeah, um, and it's a lot of work. Like I've helped do it a lot of times with them. I've gone to LA with them. Um, it's insane what they what they do and all the effort they put in. Everyone only sees the videos or sees the this, you know, the 30-minute clip that they cut out, but they filmed probably eight hours to get that 30 minutes. Totally. And trying to come up with something everyday creative and exciting, and to do that for they've been doing it for like 10 years, which is which is insane. Well, more than that. More than well, 10 years with us, yeah, pretty much. Yeah. And Dave Damon did it a few years before that. And it's funny watching, if you guys are DDE fans, go watch some of the original videos. There wasn't much talking in it until Damon got obviously really confident. He started he started and he's awesome when he's talking, but Dave, you can see Dave in the background. He was very quiet. He didn't really talk, he wasn't really part brought in as a um a co host. Yeah. And then he then he started doing it and he crushed it. Uh it's just funny to watch them grow as well. Same as us.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

Well you have to start somewhere. And I think that's that's a big thing with everybody listening, is you know, everybody's allowed to dream. And I've always said dreamers uh people need to dream and dreamers eventually achieve. And it doesn't matter how crazy your idea might be, and and just you keep you keep doing it day in and day out. I mean, like us, and you know, we've when we first started, there was um there was no luxury tax, there was nothing.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

And it was HST when we started.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

So it was 13% across the board, didn't matter how expensive the car was.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

Yeah, now it's 26% in BC. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

Like it's and on new, it's 36% on anything over 150.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

Yeah, it's wild how I mean we've still been able to and I think that's why like the the content and the marketing and and the way we've done it has been able to make us a you know globally known brand that we're able to sell cars all over the world is is is is because of that because we we can't just rely on our government to make it kind of easy to to do business, especially.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

We've had to get very creative, very creative. Yeah. A lot of the social media stuff that we've done. Uh you're great at coming up with ideas for that. Um we've had motocross guys doing flips over supercars. We've had crazy track days, we've had so many experiences through, and we'll go through a lot of that.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

Speaking of track days, when we first became corporate members of Area 27, you bought a radical, yes, and I had a Formula Mazda. Yeah. And we hadn't even taken those cars to the racetrack yet. We had them, we had them wrapped and all decled and stuff like that. Yeah. And we were getting the service guys to go through all the cars and make sure they were good because we were going to the track like a a few days after we were doing this. Yeah. And where our store used to be was like a loop, and it was called McCurdy Place. And it was laid out, there was none of the businesses were open, and we would test the cars on that loop. We weren't like it wasn't like it wasn't in danger, but it was we were safe. Yeah. I mean, probably not allowed to do it, but um and shortly after that, I think. Well, after it was part probably because of us working there and the the cars and stuff. There's a lot of people. Supercars would come around there, yeah, and things like that. But um those cars, I remember thinking like this is gonna be the best idea we've ever had. This is gonna be so much fun and everything else. And it's so much work to run a race car.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

Like I if I was to go down there by myself, I would need to bring two friends to help me get the car in and out of the trailer. They're so low, they're so hard to get in and out. And once I'm in, I have to get the the whole like surround to put me in. Because I was an open wheel, Formula Mazda, and and then you had to like clip your Hans device in and everything else and get all buckled in. And you couldn't do that by yourself. No. So you'd have to try to like convince people in the middle of summer, it's like 50 degrees out there and to come to come help you run this race car. But we would we would do it on our track days where we would host our guests and our clients, and we were able to run with the advanced group, which was super cool. And I think our our clients in like a Ferrari and stuff thought it was pretty neat to have these little race cars, and you know, by the time we'd got around them and the how fast we could go through those corners and stuff. Um, but still, a core memory of mine that I'll never forget from that racetrack is me and you out there, and you were chasing me by ourselves. We were by ourselves. Yes, I remember we weren't used to slicks. Yes. Um, we obviously knew enough, but like enough to be like pretty dangerous with them, too. Yes, yes. And uh so yeah, I guess go through that day with me when we had our your wife was at the track. Yeah, so it was Kelly's first time being there.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

Kelly's first time being there. I take my radical out, me and Matt are out, and we were out a session before everything was good, and we were out with the group, and then we went out by ourselves, and and I and I'm and I'm seeing Matt just not that far ahead of me, and it's our it's our maybe second lap. And I'm like, wow, the tires still feel sticky, they feel warm. And we're coming up to turn six, and I was like, you know what, I'm dropping the hammer. So I dropped the hammer, I'm like, I'm gonna catch Matt, because we're very competitive, us two. So I dropped the hammer and I'm trying to catch Matt. And I come up turn seven, and I can just feel the whole car lift up, and I could just tell, you know, like that meme where it's like at this moment he knew he fucked up, and that's what went through my mind, and I could just feel the car start to slide. My tires weren't warm enough, and I started into a spin and I hit the wall in turn seven, just smoke everywhere, and um yeah, it was I didn't get hurt, thank God, but uh it did pucker my asshole, and my eyes were the size of uh baseballs coming through turn seven, so I really respect that quartered out area 27.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

I bet you do. I remember coming through turn nine and they were waving the caution flag and everything else. So um I quickly made my way into the pits and jumped out of my car, and obviously you weren't behind me. I knew had something had happened. Yeah. And the tow truck was leaving the pits, the um the their their fire truck was leaving the pits, and the ambulance was leaving the pits, and I'm like, oh my god, what's happening? I remember jumping out of my car and like getting to a radio and trying to find out, making sure you were okay. And at that point, they had said you'd got out of the car and everything else, and Kelly was like losing it because obviously it's always been something you know your husband's in a race car, yeah, and it can be scary, and I don't think she really expected that. I don't think any of us did.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

No, because um, but yeah, that was it was uh it was an eye-opener that day. Now I really respect the tires, and I make sure I do a few hot laps before I push it any at all. Um it's definitely changed my way on uh my my look at race car drivers, and it's crazy how much G's those car pull and it's crazy how much work it is. Like it's so much work. Like we would only go out for 20 minute sessions. And I felt like I was a hundred-year-old man when I got back in.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

Well, yeah, and you're like you you're thirsty, you're like you're your mouth's like sticky.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

Your arms, the pump in your arms from steering and holding on to the street.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

Yeah, it's a lot to hold on to. I I you know, out of I don't know all the athletes, like I think Formula One drivers are the ones who should be paid the most. Like it's you're out there risking your life every day and and everything else.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

And it's like any fat Formula One drivers, like they're all in good shape.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

You have to be, yeah. For sure. So Dream Rally of it was 2016, was the first ever Dream Rally. And I remember that actually kind of planning on being a small event that we put on in the city, and it wouldn't be, you know, it was it was gonna be a because that at that point my uncle had passed away from with brain cancer, and we did that first fundraiser at my house uh for the Central Canadian Hospice Association. And uh I remember my sister and I saying that you know, we're gonna do these events, we're gonna start our foundation and give back to the community that's been so great to us and and things like that. And um we had said that the dream rally was gonna be one of our small events of the year. And and it was only it was we and we were gonna do a big event, small event, and the small event being Dream Rally. And after the first Dream Rally, it was 110 cars. We um I want to raise, I'm gonna say we raised like 60, 70 grand, something like that. And we had everybody back at the old dealership, um, under a tent and just had like a small little auction. We auctioned off a few little things.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

Yeah, we had a little live music inside.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

Yeah. And uh I think at that point we knew that that event was going to be the backbone of this business. And I think I think it has been. I it's it's the it's the time of year that I look forward to the most. Um, you know, now we're doing it every two years. So this year coming up July 25th. Yeah, I'm excited. Um, it's it's turned into I don't know, the most amazing experience I've ever been a part of. And I and I think a lot of the drivers too in you know uh have had the same feel. And I remember convincing people like, hey, you know, please come, you know, these kids um would love to be able to pat be a passenger of yours. And and you know, their comment sometimes was, it's summer, it's this, I have family in town, I have all these things, right? It's like and I and I I asked for a favor to me. And at the start of every rally, I run up the start line and give all the kiddos a high five and stuff, and and it's cool to see kind of all the the drivers that are like they got their sunglasses down, they're wiping tears away and stuff, because they're just so happy to be able to share their passion and their car with with these kids that you know have gone through a really tough time in their life. And for those of you who don't know what the Okanagan Dream Rally is, it's a it's a rally we put on in Kelowna. We put kids in the passenger seat, uh, kids who've gone through a tough time in their life. They've um either battled for their life at BC Children's Hospital, um, spent time at Ronald McDonald House, and um, or or kids who've lost parents and grandparents and and kids who are just going through a really tough time and just need a good day and need that day. And it's uh it's been so cool to see the car community, our community, the leaders in our community and our country, because it is our country has backed us. We had you know Harjee Sajin and Stephen Fuhrer and um the Air Force comes through and does a fly pass for us to start the rally and the mayor, uh the mayor and all of uh all these amazing people that that make this happen. The the BCRCMP uh coming down with all the bikes and stuff, because we have to we have to do this in a very safe way. There's there's these you know kiddos in the passenger seat. So um this year I think is going to be the biggest year. I I think there's been a lot of uh kind of hype over the past year that that uh people who have heard of it but haven't done it yet.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

A lot of people from Vancouver, a lot of people from the United States, a lot of new clients over the last two years that have bought cars from us that are excited to come. So I'm excited.

SPEAKER_00 33:16

Me too. What do you think you're gonna drive?

SPEAKER_01 33:18

I don't know. That's the thing. We gotta pick something this year and um have a little fun with it this year. Like I want to do up something, I always do I I people have seen my dream rally cars. I always do something special every year, as I know you do. I tried doing it myself a few times, which I do not have the patience to wrap my own car. I learned that in my first few. But I don't know. I'm I'm last year I had the Aston. The last Dream Rally I had a 488. What did you have last Dream Rally?

SPEAKER_00 33:46

SV, Aventador.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

Oh yeah, you had the Aventador SV the white SV. That was that car was beautiful. Um I don't know. What do you what are you thinking?

SPEAKER_00 33:55

I'm in the same boat. I'm not sure. I know. I think it's gonna be McLaren for me.

SPEAKER_01 33:59

Yeah. If you do McLaren, I will do either Lamborghini Ferrari or I don't know. But yeah, we should we should we should um do something special this year for our cars.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

I think we will. I think we've got some time to to spend some time on it and you know get sponsors and things like that and get some wheel companies involved and and some um well we we I guess we do have a little bit of a challenge, I think we're gonna try to come up with.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

Yes, we do.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

Um and I think that that could probably be a different video. Um but I think we're gonna have a pretty cool conversation. Yes. Uh competition to two of them. Competition. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Little healthy competition's always good.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

To see who can build the cooler car and have everybody vote on it. Um yeah, we're gonna pass over five million dollars raise this year. Which is amazing, which is gonna be super cool.

SPEAKER_01 34:52

Which has got to be one of the biggest charities per day, like how much we raise in one day and how short of a time.

SPEAKER_00 34:59

Yeah, so was it four years ago? Four or five years ago, I think it was the biggest um raised charity event in in the Okanagan. Um was 1.7 million or something. And uh Yeah, and and it's not just the money, and those people who are listening who want to get involved and things like that too. It's it takes an army of us to do this great thing. It takes volunteers, it takes um, it takes everybody to come out with their car and and spend that time and and the kids too, too. It's nerve-wracking for them.

SPEAKER_01 35:37

Yeah, jumping in with a stranger they don't know, and the parents letting their kids jump in with strangers.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

Yeah. Yeah, it's uh I'm excited for it. Um again, July 25th. Um Gumball.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

Gumball, yes, we should we could get into Gumball. Gumball was an amazing experience, definitely took some years off our lives, but it was definitely a bucket list item that we we wanted to do and we always wanted to do. I remember the movie Um there was the Gumball 3000 movie Cannibal Run. That was one of my favorite movies as a kid, just watching that. Um, and it was pretty much like that. 100% pretty much like that movie, yeah. Like crazy. So much, it's not it's not a race, quotation. Yeah, it's not a race.

SPEAKER_00 36:28

But very cool experience. So I I can tell you one thing. Gumball 3000 does an amazing job of the setup. Like unbelievable. It is so well done and just great people too.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

Do you have a fame a favorite point in that rally that we did?

SPEAKER_00 36:44

Like your favorite Well be Teladega. Teladega. That was so for those who don't know. So we did we did uh Toronto to Miami.

SPEAKER_01 36:53

It was supposed to be Cuba, but what our hotel blew up or something, and it was something to do with the missile crisis. So, like, you know what, we're just gonna go to the tip the tip of the Florida Keys and back to Miami instead of all the way to Cuba, which was cool. I'd never been in the Florida Keys.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

That was cool. And and I we had our we stopped at Indie 500. Yes. My first time at a big oval track like that. I've never been to NASCAR um or anything like that, but Indy 500 is the biggest sporting event in the world. Um, we we rolled in and it was actually pretty cool how Gumball set it up. They put us that morning, we all got downstairs, they put us in buses, they had a full police support and police escort all the way to the track.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

Because the the traffic the amount of people in Indianapolis was crazy. Crazy. All these people trying to get to the track and stuff. So that was really cool. They did a really amazing job, and we spent we spent the day at the track. And we I remember we me, you, Damon, and Dave somehow got our way into the pits. Yes. Remember, we were walking around the pits, and then we found the trophy. Yeah, we kissed the trophy. You kissing the trophy, and then uh we got our pictures with the with the trophy, and I think we at that point we were pretty much getting kicked out because they found out that we didn't have the right passes to get in there. And Steve Aoki was there, and he was getting we had got pictures with him and beside the trophy and stuff, which was cool. Um and that was that was neat watching Indy 500.

SPEAKER_01 38:25

Yeah, that was awesome. For the blink of an eye that you got to see the cars pass through at for uh 200 miles an hour.

SPEAKER_00 38:32

That's the point with that's the whole thing with with watching races.

SPEAKER_01 38:36

Like Formula One Formula One Like holy Jesus, you're what you're sitting there and cars come and they're gone within a half a second, yeah, and then you wait till they get all the way back around. Thank God they got big TVs in front of you so you can still watch the rest of the race.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

Yeah, and Gumball had it set up pretty cool. They had that room for us, and it was very, very well done. Um, and then we went to Nashville.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

Nashville was wicked.

SPEAKER_00 38:57

Nashville was cool. They had that the whole main road in Nashville closed down, and um that's one thing. Like, if if you've never heard of Gumball before, they set up the coolest arrivals, and there are so many people in every city waiting for us, and and just they have the whole roads closed down and we park. Speaking of cars parked. Yeah, I know where you're going with this one. Was that Atlanta?

SPEAKER_01 39:23

That was no Atlanta. We were in Might have been Atlanta. No, I think you're right. I think it was Atlanta.

SPEAKER_00 39:31

Where it and so gumball is you drive all day, party all night, drive all day. And uh, so that was a late night, and we got up super late. And not that we were not that we had to really be out of the hotel at a certain time, but there was kind of like a cutoff where they would start removing the barriers and things like that.

SPEAKER_01 39:51

Because you gotta remember when they where they park us, it's part of a main road that they're closing off, and then they they need everyone gone by like eight, nine in the morning, so they can remove the barriers and open the the whatever main road that they're using.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

And we were driving the 765 LT. Yeah, and we rolled out of there like an hour late, and our car is just sitting smack dab in the middle of the road, and all the cars have to go around it, these people trying to get to work. And I I I couldn't imagine what some of those conversations in those vehicles of people trying to get to work and they have to drive around as some asshole left their McLaren in the middle of the road. Well, now you just told them who what assholes did that.

SPEAKER_01 40:33

So anyone that's listening, we're probably gonna get a lot of hate mail now. Thanks, assholes, for leaving your McLaren in the middle of the highway.

SPEAKER_00 40:39

Uh it's funny. I mean, I guess if they had no idea what was going on the day before, yeah, they'd be like, what the heck is going on? Parking there.

SPEAKER_01 40:46

Yeah, you can't park there, sir.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

And then we went to uh Tall Dega, which is cool because our car was fully decled. That was our we knew we were going there and we wanted to like put a livery in our car. We had that theme, we had that theme for sure, and the shake and bake on the bumper. And um, we got to go in the passenger seat of the NASCARs around the track, which was super cool.

SPEAKER_01 41:13

That was an awful experience for me because uh, as you guys know, or if anyone watched me on any DDE videos, I'm the worst passenger. I hate being a passenger. I love going fast, don't get me wrong. I love fast cars. I just like being in control. I do not like being a passenger. So if poor Matt had to be my passenger for all of Gumball, I started as a passenger and Matt's like, I can't do this, you're driving.

SPEAKER_00 41:34

Yeah, it's the worst. It's like having your girlfriend in the passenger seat and telling you, slow down, stop, break, do this. Like it's uh I was like, you know what, you just drive, I'll hang out in the passenger seat. And you wouldn't even do anything in there. You wouldn't even like most co-pilots are there giving you direction, looking at the text and seeing like if there's police ahead or listening to the conversation everybody's having. I was too scared. You did nothing.

SPEAKER_01 41:57

I was too scared. I was watching and I was yelling him to break, and I was air braking half the time because Matt liked to go really fast and then jam his brakes on last minute because he liked to see the air brake come up. And there was times where I thought we were gonna pile into the back of the car in front of us, so I couldn't do what I was supposed to do at all. But Matt was a great co-pilot. He was he started having some fun because we bought some Nerf guns for the trip. Yeah, like pretty big guns. We've we bought so many Nerf bars.

SPEAKER_00 42:23

We just pull up beside people, and I'd reach out the side window and like shoot Nerf guns at people, and it'd be the best when the windows were down and their ball was bouncing around in their car.

SPEAKER_01 42:32

I got a sick a sick photo. We got a sick photo of you. Um we're I don't know, we must have been doing 100 miles an hour, and you had your you're you were out the window with the gun shooting the car.

SPEAKER_00 42:41

That's still the photo, like that, you know, when you set it up on your profile on your phone and you share your contact. That's that's that's what that's my picture. That's my favorite photo. And uh, but I remember we had Shmi and DDE and everybody else, and we were all ripping down the road and and firing the nerf guns at them. That was fun.

SPEAKER_01 43:00

Yeah, we we we had a lot of fun on that. We were quite characters on there. I remember doing a fist bump. Um in a 765 fist bump. Yeah, it was a good one. R765 and another group with the 765, and we were we were cooking, we must have been doing 100 miles an hour, 80, 80 to 100, and we did a fist bump at that speed on the highway.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

Yeah, and that's like bringing a car's the mirrors were this far apart from each other.

SPEAKER_01 43:26

It was crazy. But that was a that was a cool experience. And the concert we went to, there were so many unbelievable events all the way through that. Like every day, one up to the day before.

SPEAKER_00 43:36

Yeah, if you're listening and have the means to do it, if you can ever do a gumball, I would highly suggest doing it. It's uh it's be an experience that you just won't forget and take someone that is close to you like who we are and and go make that memory.

SPEAKER_01 43:51

Because you have to live in close quarters with them. Yeah. Throughout the experience.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

Yeah. We only got pulled over. Once?

SPEAKER_01 44:01

Uh well twice. Uh yeah, once we got pulled over, I got pulled over thanks to my uh buddy, uh Mr. Damon, decided to do a stonet at the intersection and then take off down the road and passed me after he did it. So the cop saw it from a distance, we couldn't tell who it was, and he came flying up behind me and pulled me over. And I was driving a white car and they had a black car. So obviously he didn't see the color of the car that did it. It had no clue. He was really nice. He was super nice.

SPEAKER_00 44:37

And he and we got out of a photo with him and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

And we did a photo with him, and it was it was it was still it was still funny that to get pulled over. I thought for sure I was going I was getting arrested. So I thought like I didn't know how how tough they would be. Because you know, sometimes in Canada you get pulled over in a supercar, they can be a little more aggressive because they they don't like the fact that you're driving a supercar. But these these southern boys, these guys were awesome.

SPEAKER_00 45:01

Yeah, they were really cool.

SPEAKER_01 45:02

Really cool.

SPEAKER_00 45:03

Yeah. And then we ended in Miami at the Hard Rock. The Hard Rock. That was a really cool uh entrance and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 45:09

They just they just dialed it every single time, every event and Atlanta, the rooftop party, top of that skyscraper. It was unbelievable.

SPEAKER_00 45:18

Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Yeah. We will do another one for sure. We will for sure.

SPEAKER_01 45:23

I heard the next one's coming around. I forget where it's where it is, but I heard it's gonna be it's Miami to Mexico City. Yeah, that'd be a good one.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

Yeah that's soon though.

SPEAKER_01 45:37

We're not going on that one, but oh that's this this year, isn't it? Yeah. We'll wait for another one to come around closer again.

SPEAKER_00 45:43

And it was just the same year of Gumball is when we moved into this building. Yeah. It was kind of around COVID, so this used to be a sound studio. Yeah. Now it's a studio again. Yep. Um, but uh we we were running out of space when we had two buildings. Yes. We had two buildings on McCurdy, cars just jammed everywhere. We ended up getting a third warehouse. Yep. Remember, we were down on Enterprise, and so it was time for us to kind of get a big building, and and this just came up and this just ended up working perfectly.

SPEAKER_01 46:23

It's but we did have another spot before that you ended up getting the land, and we were gonna build this motor cars. Remember that?

SPEAKER_00 46:30

Right across from their store. Yeah. I went through development permits, we rezoned that property. We had the building design. I spent so much money doing that. Yes. And then this came up and it was so perfect. It was it was far enough out of town, it was close to the airport. It's great for for us when clients fly in and and it's easy for us to go pick them up, the hotels down the street. And it's a nice neighborhood out here, too.

SPEAKER_01 46:51

We've got lots of room and we build our very commercial, it's so different. People don't expect walking through that door. And I love where my office is because I get to see every time someone walks through that door, you know, this what they say, how they're blown away, just the look on their face, because they're not expecting to see what's back here.

SPEAKER_00 47:08

Well, and and pictures on the internet don't do it justice, no, not at all.

SPEAKER_01 47:12

And just walking back here and seeing the cars and the flags, and it's just it's amazing. It's every brand make, model, classic cars, muscle cars, exotic cars. Um, it's just amazing to see when you walk back here.

SPEAKER_00 47:27

Yeah, it was cool building this out. I think it was, you know, it was so weird before. Like when we redid the front. Yeah. Um, even back here, it was like plywood walls and things like that. So we did a lot to kind of make it special in our own way and different. And um, you know, I think there's maybe some changes and some things we'll add here in the next little bit. I mean, we've got the garage and we've got customs, and um, you know, we've got an idea to build another building beside us and another another kind of twin building for for those two businesses, which will be fun to have everything on the same same piece of property and an automobile strip mall of cars, garage, customs, kind of a little bit of marine, yeah, marine.

SPEAKER_01 48:18

Yeah, it'll be cool when that's done.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

Well, you know what was you know what was a lot of fun too, is remember how I had Eleanor, which was one car that I still to this day love. That was a one of 65 commissioned by Carol Shelby. Um it was I don't know, it it always broke down, but it didn't upset me because it was just I just loved the car so much.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

Remember the first time you took it, you're like five minutes later you call me, Hey, can you come pick me up? I'm like, why? Don't you have Eleanor? You're like, Yeah, it broke down.

SPEAKER_00 48:49

So always always broke down. I was always on a tow truck. But we we've we worked all the kinks out of it and and it ended up being a great car. But we had that video where we came in here and where I was doing donuts in here, and and that was like our announcement, our like V2 August version 2 uh announcement and stuff. And it's uh it's become internet famous. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:12

So yeah, this building is something else. A lot of memories in this building.

SPEAKER_00 49:17

And a lot more memories to make. Yes. So what do you think? What's next?

SPEAKER_01 49:23

For us? You hopefully there's no more businesses we're opening. Is that what you mean? No, no, okay. No, no.

SPEAKER_00 49:30

Well, I think we've we've got everything we need, and we've got amazing people who work for us. Great team. Great team. Yeah. And uh, you know, I think uh expanding on August Global and being able to look after people from um with leaving their cars at their house and and us sending our photographers and and doing what we do best and marketing their vehicle to to as many people as we can.

SPEAKER_01 49:55

Take away all the headache that people go through trying to sell their own car, which is nice.

SPEAKER_00 50:00

Well, I mean, everybody's tried selling something on Facebook Marketplace. Oh. I don't think many people have a great experience. Yeah. So much fraud nowadays. Well, we deal with it all. I mean, we deal with some odd things.

SPEAKER_01 50:13

Some odds, yeah. I remember some the funniest thing I've had to appraise, you know, because we get we get people wanting to trade in everything from boats to cars to condos. Still to this day, the funniest thing I've ever appraised was two horses.

SPEAKER_00 50:26

The the two Clydesdale.

SPEAKER_01 50:29

You know, I I they measure them by hands. That's something that I learned. And it was just funny, like trying to find a number on two horses, which we did. We ended up finding a home for the horses to do a deal. Um, it ended up not being what he was hoping to get, which which happens, but it was still something that's the craziest thing that I've ever had to appraise was two horses.

SPEAKER_00 50:50

I would I would hope so.

SPEAKER_01 50:52

Yes. Still to this day. No goats or anything else, but two horses.

SPEAKER_00 50:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:57

We've had condos, we've had lots of boats. Lots of boats. Um, but yeah, two horses is probably the craziest thing.

SPEAKER_00 51:08

What about stories? Is there a is there a customer story that resonates with you the most, like that you have always remembered? And and in a fact of like, you know, someone's dream car or or anything like that?

SPEAKER_01 51:23

So so many. We've had I I've had we had a young guy that came in. Actually, you know, the very f one of the very first cars that we sold was still um still cool to see. Like we customer came in with his dad looking at cars, younger guy. And here we've taught people not to, you know, you never judge a book by its cover, never take, you know, think people don't have money when they if they do or don't. We he came in, we ended up doing the experience for this guy was he got to buy his dream car and then do a video shoot with us. We took him on that video shoot that we did, and we shot at the hangar at OK Heli, not OK Heli, Alpine. Alpine helicopters. And we used his car in the video. And uh he thanked us, and he was he still to this day, still, we still talk to him and still has the car. He still has the car.

SPEAKER_00 52:17

Yeah, and we get to see, you know, and there's so many experiences like that throughout the last 10 years that we get you know, we get to be part of these stories and one of my favorite was just as as of late, actually, was um the gentleman who was in his late 70s or early 80s, actually, and he bought the Rolls Royce. Yes. And he had a bunch of buddies who were in um care homes, some in Kamloops and some here. And he bought that car because it was a dream car of his, and now he spends his time picking up his buddies at the care homes and going out for drives with them. I think that I don't know, that is just such a neat story. And um, you know, he just kind of said he's like, you know what? I'm I'm getting I'm old now and I want to have my dream car.

SPEAKER_02 53:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:10

And and we were able to help him through that. It was a really cool story.

SPEAKER_01 53:14

And there's so many great stories like that. Like I the guy that just bought the McLaren 650. We did a video with him. Amazing guy, bought that McLaren 650 um dream car again. And that's one of the things we get to be part of is selling dreams, which is nice. You know, not like every other dealership, they're selling cars that people need just to get to work in back. We get to sell actual dreams, which is amazing to be part of.

SPEAKER_00 53:39

Yeah, it's cool. A lot of a lot of the clients, it's like that was on my wall when I was a kid, or my dad had that car.

SPEAKER_01 53:46

What car was on your wall?

SPEAKER_00 53:49

Kuntosh, Diablo Mercy. Mine was a Diablo's.

SPEAKER_01 53:53

I remember a bright red Diablo black background said Diablo and red. That was the car on my wall. I still remember like the poster's still on my wall.

SPEAKER_00 54:02

And then you got to drive a red Diablo.

SPEAKER_01 54:04

I got to drive a red Diablo, went and picked up one with another good client of ours. We bought it out of Spokane, went and drove there, picked it up, and brought it back.

SPEAKER_00 54:12

How's that experience?

SPEAKER_01 54:13

It was an experience. It was an experience, it was a great experience. It was an amazing experience, actually. I was passed out part of the way back, but it was a good experience. Was that car hard to drive? That car, you know, they always say you don't want to meet your heroes. It was kind of the same thing for me driving that car. Like, um, by the time I drove that car, I drove so many other supercars, you know, more modern tech and you know, Hurricons, 488s, 458s. When you jump into a Diablo, the first thing you notice when you sit in, the pedals aren't straight, they're off to the side. So your hips are kind of off when you're driving that car. And um it was a convertible, so with the roof on, I didn't fit in it very good. So my head was put against the roof. Um, it wasn't the most comfortable car to drive. Now, different the Diablo SV we have being a hardtop, that car I fit in. That that car is a nicer driving car for me. But my first Diablo I drove, I was I was unfortunately disappointed. Um what have you had a car that you drove it? You're like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

Like disappointed and thought that it was gonna be way better. Kuntosh, for sure. Like I I love that car. I still do. I would still, given the opportunity, I would still buy a Kountosh.

SPEAKER_01 55:36

Same with me with the Diablo. I love the car. Don't get me wrong. It's just when you so used to driving something different, you jump into that car, you're not expecting it.

SPEAKER_00 55:42

Like, I can't even fit. I remember we had one and I can't even I can't even get in it to move it. It's I know that's it's way too small for me, but I love looking at the car. It's a gorgeous car. Yeah. So I think we're gonna sit around this table often with uh some pretty amazing people and amazing clients, and you know, we'll have Damon on soon.

SPEAKER_01 56:01

And we got lots of stories too, like sad stories, happy stories. We got a ton of stories too.

SPEAKER_00 56:07

Yeah, I think it'll be I think it'll be cool um going forward, and you know, there'll be the like I said, there'll be a few people that we will we'll talk to together. And uh um I guess one question I'll ask you, it's gonna be different than the rest of the questions I normally would ask a guest. Um where do you see August motor cars in the next five years?

SPEAKER_01 56:36

In the next five years? Um well with how fast we're growing. Oh my god, that's uh a tough one. I'd like to see us obviously raising a ton of money like we are, being involved in the community even more than we are. Um, and I'd like to see us have more locations. You know, maybe start something up in the US. I know we've had a lot of people reaching out wanting to see us in the US, which would be nice to be able to have a store out there.

SPEAKER_00 57:13

I see us building on global and building a a different way, a different marketplace. Uh-huh. A marketplace that that the world hasn't seen yet. And I think we have the um I think we have the ingredients to to do something like that. So I think we have some pretty cool um goals and things that we want to do as in in August Motor Cars and where we want the business to be and where we want the business to go. Yep. And so I think if you're listening, you're watching, subscribe, uh, find us on Apple Music and Spotify and YouTube and our social media at August After Dark, and uh follow along with this journey. Uh all the information will come here. We're gonna be talking to some amazing people who have done amazing work, um, entrepreneurs, athletes, uh, a whole bunch of different stuff. We're gonna be talking cars, we're gonna be talking just what the entrepreneurial, what that path looks like, because a lot of people think, you know, that this all just happens.

SPEAKER_01 58:14

Everyone's path is so different.

SPEAKER_00 58:16

It is very different, and and we wanna we wanna be different. We want to uh we want to p give people hope. We want to give people, you know, the idea that uh people need to dream and dreamers eventually achieve, and to don't forget your goals. And your goals don't have to be what you see on the internet. Your goals could be something that are yours, those are yours to to hit, those are yours to follow, and hopefully lighting a fire for for those who are listening that that uh they can dream and that to never forget about your goals and and just never stop fighting for it. We've been we've been kicked down many of times and we've gotten up bigger and better and stronger.

SPEAKER_02 58:53

For sure.

SPEAKER_00 58:54

And uh I I I want everybody listening to know that whatever you do, whatever you put your mind to, stick with it, trust yourself, trust the process, and you will be successful.

SPEAKER_01 59:08

And everyone measures success so differently. You know, to one person might be having 10 supercars in their garage, and there's nothing wrong with that. To the next person, it might be having a ton of money in their bank, to the next person, it might be just being able to spend time with their family and friends. Whatever's important to you, that's what success is.