TMCP #634: The Ultimate Reunion // How 6 People Who Never Met Built a $400K Chevelle for SEMA on Friendship, Grit, and Faith!
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Robert Kibbe
4.5 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re doing something a little different, and honestly — something really special. For the first time ever, the original team behind my Chevelle build all sat down together to revisit the journey from 2011–2013. This wasn’t a “sponsored” build or a corporate project. It was a leap of faith between friends who believed we could pull off something big long before we knew how. We started in basements and small shops, fought rust, deadlines, wiring headaches, and fatigue — and somehow ended up rolling into SEMA together.
In this episode you’ll hear Jeff Allison, Danny Giustino, Zip Simons, Kirk Hansen, and producer Bernie all share their side of the story — the wins, the failures, the sleepless nights, the road trips, and the moments we’ll never forget. If you’ve ever dreamed of doing something way beyond your comfort zone, this one is for you. It’s a reminder that passion + good people can move mountains…and cars.
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast episode number 634. This week, a very special edition of the show, |
| 0:07.6 | a very non-traditional episode, just to tide you over the holiday break before the new year starts. |
| 0:12.4 | This is a roundtable discussion with all of my friends who I built my Chevel with from 2011 to 2013. |
| 0:18.6 | Jeff Allison is here. Kirk Hansen is here. Danny Justino is here. Zip Simons is here. |
| 0:23.6 | And the producer who joined us during the build of the story, Bernie McPartland is here. |
| 0:28.5 | We all got together the Thursday night of Seema this year with a couple of pizzas, some wings, |
| 0:32.6 | a few frosty beverages. And I got to ask them all to share their piece of the puzzle altogether. |
| 0:37.6 | To my knowledge, we were never once all of us in the same room at the same time until this |
| 0:41.9 | recording. |
| 0:42.9 | If you have ever dreamed of doing something big and beyond you, this is what it takes. |
| 0:47.6 | I was willing the whole way, you know, I was excited the whole way. |
| 0:51.1 | I had friends coming in the shop and helping us, some volunteering. |
| 0:56.9 | You know, it was trying to do what we wanted to do. And something came over me and done. |
| 1:02.8 | And we just pushed. |
| 1:08.2 | This is the Muscle Car Place Online podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:15.0 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:20.8 | If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:30.5 | Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. |
| 1:35.8 | Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, I hope you had a Merry Christmas, everybody, and very soon I hope you have a very happy new year. |
| 1:39.9 | This is a very special edition of the show, very non-traditional. This is just to tidy |
| 1:43.5 | you over that Christmas break before our new season officially starts on January 9th. This is a very special edition of the show, very non-traditional. This is just to tide you over that Christmas break before our new season officially starts on January 9th. This is a roundtable discussion with all the people who put my Chevelle together with me, 2011-2013. I dreamt of getting to do something like this one day, and one day finally happened this year at Seema 2025. So you'll hear Jeff Allison, Kirk Hansen, Danny Justino, |
| 2:02.7 | Zip Simons, and Bernie McPartland, and you're going to hear who all of these people are, what they did, |
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