Jonathan Ward (Icon)

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2014

⏱️ 96 minutes

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This week Jonathan Ward founder of Icon joins us. Most people know Icon for the absolutely insane attention to detail in their signature FJs and Broncos. We get the story behind Jonathan's move from life as a working actor into the automotive world. The Icon order backlog is deep and for good reason as Jonathan outlines the great lengths he his wife and their crew go to ultimately producing a product with few equals in quality.

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0:30.0	Good? Yeah, we're good now. Cool. How about it? What was that? That was like a fucking rabbi or something?
0:42.0	I don't know. That's my day. It's a smoking tire podcast. We're here. I'm trying to get over friends giving from last night.
0:50.0	So I'm like residual carbs. It's a bit crazy. We made way too much food last night.
0:58.0	I'm like, you're like high on gluten. You're like, oh, I'm so carbonyzed. I was done last night.
1:03.0	It was dinner, dishes, sleep. My girlfriend hated me. We got Jonathan Ward, founder of Icon in studio.
1:10.0	It's finally, it's good to finally have you, man. I tell you, I must say I agree. Thanks for bringing me down.
1:14.0	You're digging the bottom of the barrel by now. Well, we are. We are. That's true. But you're the first guest to roll up in a Ferrari, which is excellent.
1:23.0	I know what. 75 to 80 depending on the market.
1:28.0	Wait for years. We said how to manual that should give me some redemption. Yes, it is. I've been looking for those for a while.
1:35.0	And I want one with the manual, but they're a little hard to find and good shape. They're hard to find, but they're way undervalued.
1:40.0	And I think they're going to flip and climb. Oh, yeah, we're on. I told my wife to talk to her.
1:46.0	She'll be happy in about three or four years when you get a really nice vacation and then some extra cash.
1:51.0	The barcadows are really skyrocketing right now. Yeah, but they were never a factory, right?
1:55.0	They were. They were 250 of them factory. Yeah, they're already like quarter mile.
2:00.0	Yeah, they were, they were at 120 for five years. It's, it's, it's going, it's going crazy right now.
2:05.0	I guess all the stuff that I thought would be able to buy cheap. I can't. Well, apparently a 360.
2:09.0	There's a lot of talk on the car streets that that's the next, the next chisel. That's the current of the bargain. Yeah.
2:15.0	That's 75 for a nice, the 360 is a nice looking car. Yeah, they work mostly.
2:21.0	Are they reason? They're reasonably well built compared to earlier ones. I found 360 challenge car for sale.
2:27.0	A race car? Yeah. Yeah.
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