TMCP #505: Chasing the Dream with Zip Simons – 10 Years of Building Elite Rides at Street Metal Concepts!
The MuscleCar Place
Robert Kibbe
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Many years ago I was in the middle of a surreal experience of realizing the dream of building my parents car, that I grew up in, into an auto-cross machine that was made better than I ever imagined. I met lifetime friends that donated time to make the dream happen. Street Metal Concepts turned the metal handiwork of Jeff Allison, into the gleaming, flawless paint, perfectly gapped, SEMA Show car that it became.
Almost 10 years later my Chevelle is back at Street Metal Concepts for a few tweaks and updates so I wanted to check in with Street Metal Concepts to see how things are going, what life lessons they have learned, and to catch up with my buddy Zip Simons!
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place online podcast, episode number 504. This week, Zip Simons from street metal |
| 0:06.6 | concepts is back. Zip and his pal Don Indineau formed street metal concepts almost 10 years ago. |
| 0:13.3 | My Chevelle was one of the first, or maybe the actual first, car is in the door. In 50 days, |
| 0:18.0 | they took a car from rough metal to finish metal, marble-gapped, and painted, ready to go to Seema 2013. |
| 0:24.7 | My Chevelle is back down there now for some touch-ups and a couple of mods. |
| 0:27.9 | We'll talk about that. |
| 0:29.2 | But also, how they have grown this business by doing one thing really well. |
| 0:33.3 | Amazing work. |
| 0:34.4 | Classic cars are their first love, of course, but Zip keeps it real. |
| 0:37.6 | These classic cars are just amazing and phenomenal in how you can make them fit, how you can |
| 0:45.7 | make them function in comparison to how they were, but not in comparison to a 2022 Toyota |
| 0:53.7 | Corolla. |
| 1:00.4 | This is the Muscle Carplace online podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:07.3 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:13.6 | If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:19.9 | Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. |
| 1:23.4 | Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. |
| 1:27.4 | So welcome, everybody. Zip. Simons will be on here shortly for a little Chevelle update and Street Metal Concepts update. Shop owners, you're going to listen to this one twice, maybe more than twice. It's so cool that these guys have pulled it off. We're going to talk about a lot of things in here. We're going to talk about hiring and firing. |
| 1:44.7 | How about that one. |
| 1:45.7 | How to acquire good talent. |
| 1:47.5 | How to communicate to your customers when you're billing expensive stuff. |
| 1:51.3 | And oh yeah, how to do 99.9th percentile work. |
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