TMCP #621: The Moparty 2025 Spectacular! Paul Rossi – Direct Connection Drag Racer Legend, Steve Sparkman – Holley Performance Products, Dave Swearinger – Rust Bucket Restorations, Blake Anderman – Sublime Technologies
The MuscleCar Place
Robert Kibbe
4.5 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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While Rob stayed back to support Dallas’s racing season, the Kibbe and Friends crew stormed Holley Moparty 2025 to capture the best stories on the grounds. From drag racing icon Paul Rossi sharing his trailblazing Mopar legacy, to Dave Swearinger’s track-ready “ZomBEE” Super Bee build, to new tech insights from Holley’s Steve Sparkman and Sublime’s Blake Anderman — this episode is packed with passion, horsepower, and the future of Mopar performance.
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place online podcast episode number 621. |
| 0:05.0 | This week, it's the recap from Holly Mop Party 2025, done in conjunction with the Kibby and Friends Show gang. |
| 0:12.5 | Now, if you know anything about these Holly events, they put the fun on everything. |
| 0:16.1 | But Mo Party is just a little unique. |
| 0:19.3 | It does have all the normal stuff. |
| 0:20.6 | It has a car show. It's got a swap mate. It's got a drag race. Got an auto cross. Got the stuff. But it also has monster trucks. And it has mullet contests. And over on Kibbein' Friends this week, we had Dylan McCool and Tommy Bolshers of YouTube and TV fame. We had a kid named, I think his name was Skidwell. He had a straight axle jeep with a straight sex out of blower and he was auto-crossing it. |
| 0:41.3 | On Muscle Car Place this week for you, we have Steve Sparkman from Holly, |
| 0:44.3 | Dave Sweringer with Rust Bucket Restorations, Blake Anderman with sublime technologies, |
| 0:49.3 | and we will start out with legendary drag racer Paul Rossi. |
| 0:52.3 | He gave us all a lesson in that you win at your |
| 0:55.6 | strengths, not at your opponent's strengths. You can win races with Torp. Because I could not outpower |
| 1:01.2 | the Cobra Jets or the 454s. They've just made more suds, period. Their heads are bigger, |
| 1:06.5 | they flow more air. But they don't make more torque. Not at these speeds. This is the Muscle Car Place |
| 1:16.3 | online podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot. This is the weekly show dedicated to people |
| 1:23.5 | worldwide who love American muscle cars. If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, |
| 1:31.2 | this is the place for you. Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed I am Rob Kibby and welcome to |
| 1:39.1 | the Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, here we are. The final episode of September is here. And by the time you hear this, |
| 1:46.4 | it may actually legitimately, legally be fall of 2025. And what it also means is that Mo Party |
| 1:53.9 | 2025 is now done. It's in the rearview mirror. It's over. It has happened. So if you listen to the |
| 1:59.3 | Kibian Friends show gang, you already are in the loop. |
| 2:01.9 | But the entire Kibbe and Friends gang, the whole staff, the whole bananas, minus me, unfortunately, went down to Bolling Green, Kentucky and had the time of their lives at the biggest ball party that's happened to date. |
| 2:15.9 | We kicked off our coverage over on Kibbian Friends this week and we're going to finish it here. So here in this show, you're going to have Steve Sparkman from Holly, Dave Sweringer from Rust Bucket Restorations, Blake Andrew Minow's Sublime Technologies. Blake is the coolest. He has a lot of very elegant and simple little techie ways to accomplish motorswaps with his company. We're going to start it all out, though, with legendary drag racer Paul Rossi. And that was an interview put together in a range for by Jimmy Day himself of FM3. Really nice that he did that. So on Kimby and Friends, we had Dylan McCool and Tommy Boshers, and you'll want to check all that out as well. So I'm just telling you, listen to both shows this week. |
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