The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 509. This week, Rick is here for the

Ask Rick segment as we all kick off the second half of the year together. So here in the

states at least, gas prices are kind of high. Inflation is kind of really high. Vacations are

getting reduced, some are getting eliminated, but the restoration parts market is still smoking

right along. Well, for now at least. There's a lot to learn in this episode here. For you business

owners, though, if you're in the restoration parts business or not, maybe you can relate to what

Rick is doing at NPD. You can't absorb 20% increased costs to goods, leave your retail's

where they're at, you know, as some sort of

humanitarian gesture. Watch your cash reserves go like that. Then what have you accomplished

for your customers and for your employees? This is the Muscle Car Place online Podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot.

This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.

If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you.

Now here's your host, Rob Kibby.

Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast.

Happy Independence Day, everybody.

This should release on July 1st, the kickoff of Independence Day weekend.

Also, my older sister's birthday.

Happy birthday to Jen.

Rick is here for the Ask Rick

segment. Yeah, we're going to kick off the second half of the year today in this show.

This is a good one for Rick. Every now and then he just feels the need to unload both barrels,

and he did. So this is a lesson in business, the economy parts, choosing classic cars,

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