The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 631.

This week, Rick Schmidt is here for a look at the year that was 2025 and the year of

26 that's coming soon.

Plus, we'll take a look at the cars you hope that Santa will bring down the chimney for you,

and Rick will help you ask for the one that'll put a little coin in your pocket, maybe

in about five years. Now, when it comes to 2025, we covered a lot of ground, and sometimes a lot of the same ground. And often the question of tariffs and EVs came up. So for 2025, the question about tariffs was, what are they going to do with the prices of everything? Well, now we're at the end of the year, and here's Rick's take, but the reason

for it might be 20 years in the making. If I were really to go back 20 years and do all the math, we've had a correction, and now we're kind of back where we were. We're caught up with the rest of the world, and now we just march forward from here. And then we will take a look about his future predictions on EVs, but for our crowd,

we're going to take a look at the deep dive you really want, box-body Mustangs versus

third-gen Camaros and firebirds.

The best-looking car maybe I've ever owned and maybe the worst quality car.

The whole one, Radley Pack is.

What it was not was fast.

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

December now. The lights are up here in the Midwest. The snow is on the ground and force. The cars are put away snug until April. And Rick is here to kick things off for Christmas. I love doing these shows at the end of the year with Rick because we tackle this stuff from the year, kind of in the rearview mirror. It does help to put a perspective on everything.

This will be a really good look for all of us, and I got an education here, at what the tariffs

did to our restoration world in relation to the economy as a whole. That's what I said.

When you look at the economy as a whole, which Rick, as a fairly large business owner has to do, it does

start to put things in perspective. And he went back and reviewed his experience over the last

20 years and pointed out that some of the corrections we're having now may have been overdue

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