Ep 231 Steve Erlichman - Working for Hall of Famer Al Holbert and His Family Starting the SEMA Show скачать в хорошем качестве

Ep 231 Steve Erlichman - Working for Hall of Famer Al Holbert and His Family Starting the SEMA Show

Subscribe ‪@classicautomall‬ Visit Classic Auto Mall - https://www.classicautomall.com Get The Classic Auto Mall App - https://classicautomall.appimize.app Get a Deal on Sports Car Market Magazine: https://sportscarmarket.com/testdrive6 Read Keith's Blog: https://www.sportscarmarket.com/blogs... 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:29 Steve Rolex 24 at Daytona 00:03:44 Working for Al Holbert 00:08:45 Holbert Car Sales 00:11:10 Porsche 924 Project 00:15:50 Writing for Magazines 00:17:20 Porsche Controversy 00:26:26 MSRP Meaning 00:27:05 Diecast and Automobilia 00:31:41 SEMA 00:33:30 Daily Driver 00:38:05 State of the Market 00:41:33 ’95 Hummer 00:42:08 ’63 Polara 00:42:55 ’56 Vette 00:43:26 ’86 Mustang 00:43:57 ’64 Chrysler 300 00:44:33 ’61 T-Bird 00:44:58 RIP Bill Borneman 00:47:38 Keith Martin Joins 00:56:50 40th Anniversary of Sports Car Market Stewart’s special guest this week is Steve Erlichman who has had an exciting life as a car enthusiast. Steve was a Salesperson at Holbert's Porsche-Audi and part time gopher for the Al Holbert ace team and man servant for Al running errands. He was a crew member for the 924 GTP at Daytona 24 Hours in 1981 for drivers Al Unser, Doc Bundy and Rick Mears. He was a part time crew member for the 924 DP program with Doc Bundy, Tom Seabolt. Including involvement in the build process. From 1977 – 1988 Steve was a free lance writer contributing to Porsche magazine: Gmund and Porsche Year annuals. He is the Co-author of the ‘History of the Trans Am series from 1966-72’ with noted author Al Bochroch. He has also been the lead trainer for AMG Retail Performance Initiative setting up Performance Center dealers, developing and delivering product training at AMG Performance Center dealers around the US. Working very closely with Mercedes AMG in Affalterbach, Germany. He is also a collector and dealer of model cars and automotive books and literature. Steve’s grandfather started the SEMA Show. Steve tells Stewart about going to the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona every year and working the race when he was with the Al Holbert Race Team. Steve tells Stewart about the first time he went to Daytona when he was working at the Al Holbert Dealership and they asked him to come to the race in Daytona, but he had to drive a car down to Florida and a camper back to Pennsylvania. He drive a Porsche to Florida and it broke down and he arrived late to see Al Holbert and Doc Bundy heading out to dinner. He talks about being at his first 24 Hours of Daytona and it was the year Danny Ongais was driving the Interscope Porsche when it quit right before the finish line so he stopped and waited for the race to end because he had a big enough lead he could wait and then got the car across the finish line on the starter. Steve tells Stewart about being a salesman at the Holbert Porsche Dealership in the 1970s and 1980s and the number of cars they sold. He talks about Holbert being the 3rd largest dealership in the country and that they sold about 3-40 cars per month. At the time Brumos was probably selling 50 cars per month. Steve tells Stewart about running errands for Al Holbert on his days off. He also talks about selling Porsches for Al Holbert and selling 924s. Al wanted to push the Porsche 924 and got them onboard for a racing program. Porsche would sell a kit that could be assembled by Al Holbert and sold as a turn key pre-production car. He talks about Holbert buying a high mileage Porsche 924 and building it into a DP National Champion. He talks about putting the Porsche on a rotisserie and scraping the undercoating off the bottom and getting it to bare metal and putting a roll cage in it. The engine came from Caldwell. Doc Bundy won every race he entered in that Porsche 924. The dealership then started selling the race kits to other race teams. Rick Mears drive for the Porsche 924 team. They discuss Peter Gregg being in a car accident and having double vision and it ending his racing career, which led to Derek Bell driving in his place. They discuss when Porsche and Audi split in 1984 when Porsche decided to take ownership of all their dealerships, which isn’t legal in the United States. He tells Stewart about going with Al Holbert to the headquarters to tell them it wasn’t legal and they’d get sued. Porsche sent termination notices to all dealers. They talk about the Shah of Iran commissioning Daimler Benz to produce a vehicle to go off road int eh desert and carry six people. He paid for the design and then Mercedes decided to produce and sell it as the G Wagon and have made improvements. MSRP was started in 1958 due to dealerships using price gouging techniques. The Automobile Information Disclosure Act of 1958 also known as the Monroney Law for the made dealers include the MSRP, options and fuel economy and destination charges on the sticker to prevent fraud. They had to place the price even if the dealer wasn’t charging that price – it could be higher or lower. #classicautomallshow