Episode 68: JG Francis

Spike's Car Radio

Spike Feresten

Leisure, Automotive

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The king of vintage diesel Mercedes JG Francis joins the show to talk about how his work got started, Seinfeld finding him out of the blue, the criteria for what to restore, and the even more strict criteria on who he sells to. Plus, recapping Spike and Zuckerman's time in Monterey!

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0:28.8	A downloadable Cars and Coffee hosted by writer comedian and automotive enthusiast
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0:35.9	Now here's Spike.
0:39.6	All right, here we are.
0:41.1	Welcome, Spike spikes car radio
0:44.4	It's good to be here with all of you. We haven't been in the studio for a while. I'm I weirdly I slept well but I'm also sleepy at the same time what is that all about
0:54.1	zuckerman just walked in he's he's got he's got bloodshot red work eyes
0:59.4	he whipped off his jacket and demanded that the AC be turned up.
1:03.4	And it's only 11 in the morning and we have a great show for you folks today.
1:08.0	We're going to have our old buddy J.G. Francis from Mercedes motoring.com. Go to Mercedes motoring.com right now. This guy is the king of
1:18.1	diesel vintage Mercedes and you know what we're going to get to the bottom of?
1:22.5	We're going to get to the bottom of whether he actually sells these cars or finds them and keeps them for himself.
1:28.5	So I'm excited about that, but first, The Duckerman, we have, uh, I'm trying to go back now through our catalog of shows.
1:37.0	We've, we've posted a lot of shows, we were up in Monterrey for a while.
1:40.0	Did we ever recap Monterrey you and I?
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