TMCP #441: It REALLY IS Possible! Chris Holstrom Customs on How to Create a PROFITABLE and FUN Custom Car Shop! – Ask Rick, How To Choose a Catalog Cover Car

The MuscleCar Place

Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This weeks interview is with Chris Holtrom, longtime friend and many time repeat interviewee dating years back to TMCP Episode #50. Chris is also famous as the owner and namesake of Chris Holstrom Concepts and the creator of many show winning automotive creations at huge venues like SEMA. Just recently we asked him on The Kibbe and Friends Show (K&F Episode 159) to discuss the experience of his entire family contracting COVID-19! It was a remarkable insight into his realities of it all. At the end of that long interview he dropped a tiny comment about changing his entire business from a fun but (at times) consuming job into a highly profitable and life-fitting business! And then "with that bombshell, goodnight!" the show ended. I knew in that second that Chris was coming back on to explain himself. This is that show, and believe me it is amazing! If you own a shop, a business, or would like to this may just be revolutionary for you.

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 441.
0:04.0	This week, our guest is Chris Holstrom of Chris Holstrom concepts.
0:08.9	If you heard a recent episode of the Kibby and Friends show, we had Chris on, and he was sharing his experience with getting COVID-19.
0:15.4	His whole family got it.
0:16.9	But then he let it drop that he had completely transformed his business into something that was, well, a profitable business that could run without him.
0:25.3	He has an award-winning hot rod shop.
0:27.6	They put cars in Seema.
0:29.1	They're in all the magazines.
0:30.3	They do all the stuff.
0:31.8	But the old saying is, if you need to be at your business, yourself employed.
0:36.5	If it runs without you, you got a business.
0:39.5	This is the story of the whole thing, 10 years in the making of building this crazy business
0:43.7	and 1.5 years on the transformation.
0:46.6	If you own a business, you can relate to the pain.
0:49.0	You know, we took this big nose dive in November because of SEMA, everybody concentrating on one car,
0:55.8	then the P&L would come out at the end of the year.
0:58.6	You know, my accountant would say, you know, here's how much money he made.
1:01.3	It's like, man, I can make more money at a job.
1:09.0	This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast.
1:13.1	Brought to you by National Parks Depot.
1:15.8	This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.
1:21.7	Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you.
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