The Muscle Car Place online podcast episode number 626. This week, we're still at Seema 2025 as you hear this, but that doesn't mean we're just kick it back this week. Rick Schmidt is here to give you a preview of the 2025 Macacken Show. That's the muscle car and Corvette Nationals. Come out up in Chicago in just a few weeks. This has become the Monterey, or the Pibble Beach, if you will, or muscle cars.

Everything is by invite only. Everything is about seeing unique and curated stuff you may never see again.

Like this year, Oldsmobile W-41 cars get their own section even. There's even something more.

A top of the top, best of the toughest, Vintage Car Certification Program

that is now the most prestigious thing out there.

5,000 points are available, and this is what it takes to get it.

It's right down to it has to be not an OS service replacement of oil filter.

It has to be the factory, the assembly, the oil filter. And if you don't have that,

you've got to come up with it. 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. Well, here we are now,

in November, Thanksgiving month here. And yes, if you're hearing this the day the show releases,

we're still at Seema 2025 right now. But Rick Schmidt is here to help us get a preview and

rundown for the next big thing before the year's over. and that's the McCacken show in Chicago.

It's called the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. We're also going to take a look at some cars for sale that McCacken might want to consider in the future. That'll be in our car review section with Rick. More on all that in a second. So the whole gang is in Vegas right now. And I mean the whole gang. The whole gang that put together my Chevel for its debut at Seema 12 years ago at the Seema 2013 show. I'll never forget it. Well, we're all just going to be there again and it just kind of worked out. So I'll be there. Jeff Alson will be there. Zip Simons will be there. Danny Giustino will be there. Kirk Hansen will be there. Burnham at Partland will be there. The only one short is my high school buddy Aaron. Aaron Jaden is the one,

if you don't recall that he and I were run a load of Chavelle Parts home from Jeff Allison's shop,

New Mexico to Iowa, and somewhere across Colorado in the middle of the night, we hit a bunch

of free-range cattle and killed his truck. And three cows.

That happened. So it's going to be quite the reunion. We got a VRBO this time and everybody

but Jeff is staying there, but not all on the same night. It's kind of classic, I guess, but it should be really fun.

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