TMCP #646: Ask Rick – Memorial Day Muscle, Summer Flip Strategy, and Parade-Ready Classics

The MuscleCar Place

Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.5 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this episode of The MuscleCar Place, Rob Kibbe and Rick Schmidt kick off May with a thoughtful look at Memorial Day—balancing its deeper meaning with the traditions that bring car enthusiasts together, from local parades to community gatherings. The conversation then shifts into the latest Dallas Kibbe Racing update, where steady progress on the track is matched by a big off-track milestone: a new presenting sponsor stepping in behind the program. From there, Rick delivers his signature straight talk on topics ranging from whether giving a car as a gift is a great idea or a logistical gamble, to the future of continuation builds like Revology and whether the Camaro comeback rumors hold any real weight.
The episode wraps with two fun but strategic car-buying segments. First, the guys pick parade-ready classics under $50K that can be enjoyed all summer without losing money. Then, with the budget removed, the focus turns to real profit—analyzing a ’92 Corvette ZR-1 as an undervalued opportunity, a 2000 Saleen Mustang as a niche play, and a ’71 Chevelle as the safest bet for consistent return. As always, Rick cuts through the noise with practical insight, making this episode equal parts car culture, market reality, and smart enthusiast thinking.

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place online podcast episode number 646. This week, Rick Schmidt is here for the first show of the month, and we will cover the landscape of the automotive industry yet again. Plus, shop for some cars to use for the summer at parades, flip, and make little money on. And we're going to talk about all sorts of things. Like, is the Dodge Durango sales thing really making money, or is that just smoke?
0:22.6	Seems real.
0:23.7	And is GM really bringing back the Camero yet again with all of the EV models going away?
0:28.4	Or is it just battery smoke?
0:30.6	And with Rick's take on the Ripology Mustang, is there any other model muscle car he thinks could have legs doing the same thing?
0:37.2	But I think that he could do a killer job and do either a first generation or an early
0:43.3	70th, second generation, Camaro. I think done the Revology wig just really, really be slick.
0:49.3	A 1970 and an RS split bumper Cam Camaro. Mm-hmm.
0:54.8	Done the Rosology wig.
0:56.2	That'd be a hell of the car.
0:57.4	Plus, some big news here.
0:59.0	A brand new sponsor is joining the network, and I can't wait to tell you about it.
1:06.5	This is the Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot. This is the Muscle Car Place online podcast. Brought you by National Parks Depot.
1:13.2	This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.
1:19.5	If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you.
1:25.8	Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed. I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, happy May, everybody. I don't know if you do May Day where you are, but we do here in the Midwest, or really, we did it when our kids were little, and I did it as a little kid. So you take a solo cup. You know,
1:44.3	like those red cups, you get like a party, and don't fill it with beer. You decorate it. You fill it with homemade popcorn and candy, and then you drive your kids to a friend's house. You leave it on the doorstep without a name on it, so they don't know who it's from, you ring the doorbell,
2:20.4	and then you run like hell to not get caught. Now, if you haven't heard of that, Google, it's called May Day. I don't even know why we do it, but it's really fun with little kids. Anyway, happy May. Rick Schmidt is here to kick things off, as he does for the first show of every month. We're going to cover a lot here.
2:23.3	One thing that we tried to do starting this month that we had to bail out on was do Rick's interviews on video.
2:24.9	That's something we want to do and have wanted to do because I really think that Rick's
2:29.7	take on video shorts will be very fun.
2:33.6	Because he has some lines and some zingers that will have a lot of punch.
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