Muscle Car City

welcome to this special edition McGuire's car crazy we proud with the Punta Gorda Florida to show you what may be the largest collection of muscle cars in the world gotta have the power to be in musk our city rig tree were Jeep has rewritten the book of American Muscle ok how many Corvettes you have we've got approximately 80 80 Corvettes in here he has his own definition of muscle that he backs up with a sea of every genre GM muscle you can date I got to tell you your Camaro collection is worth the trip all by itself we ended up with the best of the best i movie have a haul and muscle car city has never been a TV until right now on Maguire's car crazy we traveled the world the dock with men and women who are passionate car guys to find out what makes people emotionally connected to their car it's time to get to the heart of the car guy this is card raised everybody woke up another very special edition of ours car crazy weren't Punta Gorda Florida in this fabulous 48 woody Chevy woody what a great car but just the tip of the iceberg Richard Korres owns a muscle car city and it really doesn't matter if you're a bustle car lover or not what you're about to see is gonna blow you away located 100 miles south of Tampa Florida the seaside town of Punta Gorda has become the regional headquarters for car guys thanks to the rig tour jeez muscle car city whose cars are overflowing a former Walmart store and it's giant parking lot is often filled to capacity as well we come here a couple times a month just for their events yeah for the car guys yeah it's just a great place to be we're always together it's like every third Saturday is the car show for Sunday swap meets I mean it's really great this is the bet the best thing to ever happened to Punta Gorda sparser I mean I hang out here I eat breakfast here I'd sleep here you know it's easy to see why the museum is such a draw two acres of cars from the Golden Age of GM performance and they all look like they just came right off the showroom floor we're at a sea of cars I don't even know where to begin well for me this all started in the 1955 Chevrolet's my collections based on the performance end of these cards more than any else for instance this one is a two four-barrel three-speed car it would have been the hot rod of the day Bailey those real rear in 1956 there on a 265 block not a 283 and they were only built like the last four or five months the years those are really a rare cars yes it's the engine that matters most of us lekars Eddie I've never been to a museum with so many open hoods and Rick has his own definition for what he classifies as a muscle car how do you define muscle cars for saying because terminologies are all over the place to me a muscle car is a midsize car with the biggest engine manufacturer made you don't see it in a particular era of time you see it on going oh yeah there's still muscle cars being built today yeah I actually have an affinity for this car here a black pick yourself of bel-air my first car and I still drive it today and every time I do you know how it is I'm 16 years old all over it yes but I think that's the beauty of these that's what it does to you there's also two four-barrel three-speed overdrive car this one a lot of national trophies over the years always looking for the next addition to is already thoroughly Rick scours the papers magazines and auction houses looking for another perfect specimen which requires diligence and relentless passion how does one get from liking muscle cars to all this happy how did that happen oh well various it's one of those things I I don't know if I can explain it I call it kind of a lack of sense for 45 years help people understand the GTO why was it the iconic car that started all this well it was the first car that they actually put the bigger motor in the mid-sized car John DeLorean was really the head of all of that it caught on real fast they refined it in the 65 s they were a really fine looking car and they did nothing but got better over the few of them sitting here tripower for Speed cars which are what the ones you would have wanted when the day was there this 65 GTO is a mint condition and of course we have to look under the hood it's progressive linkage so a GTO is always a kind of a neat car cause those carburetors kick in one at a time as you hit them and it's a different feel than you know most stars kids just fell in love with these cards they were the king of the hill in the day hot you'll find your cars I find them one at a time just from every source you can imagine they come into the shows here at the Museum I find him in the publications I buy some of the big auctions when you have as many cars as I do I'm drawing the inside straights I have exact cars I want but I'm out there generally looking all the time too yet another variation of GM's a body was the oldsmobile 4-4-2 a different class of muscle well any self-respecting muscle car collection has to have a 4-4-2 but you have a collection of 4.2 442 was kind of the the doctor's muscle car if you would they were a little bit more money a little bit more refined than the other cars but they were fully as fast and they're very popular cars the 64 is one people don't hardly know this car exists it was the first year remind our viewers why 442 was that designation was well originally it was for speed four-barrel and positraction rear end yeah so do you remember when you saw your first 442 I sure do I had a buddy that his older brother went to service and left his car with me end up finally totaling the car but it was a fantastic car we had a lot of fun in that car being a four-speed car you know that's what you always want and that color is extremely fast we've just scratched the surface here at bustling car city next we'll check out Rick's hot rod and Paula's this an LS drivetrain in this little car it's up to like 400 horsepower these were about 270 when they were new just his collection of Chevelles and Camaros deserves a museum all of its own stick around welcome back to requires car crazy we're in Punta Gorda Florida where Rick George's muscle car City is not only a tourist attraction it's a hangout place for car guys from all over Florida and beyond no matter what they drive I think it's important to point out that this is the local hangout place really the regional hangout place for all car guys that's just muscle car guys Auto Jacobs is a great example of that you're not a muscle car guy you're a European car guy really aren't you yes that I am and I love Porsches but this car I couldn't resist it yeah we had to look at this eh okay that's not exactly muscle car no it's not fast it will do maybe 88 miles mellough and everybody loves unbelievable you have a lot of fun driving this around I mean you guys have crowds wherever you go yes talk about this place right quick I mean these are not necessarily your kind of car guys but they're car guy isn't nonetheless and you get any car guys together it doesn't matter the love for cars I don't think it's important which kind of car you driving it's the passion the passion is our I think with us John we like that it was definitely Rick's passion for GM cars of built bus lekar City and Rick has something for everybody here for instance if you're an Impala fan Rick's got them all for 1958 to 69 and everyone's built for performance you're a purist but you're also a hot rider you got all these hot rodded impalas and not everybody Hot Rods impalas know maybe the side of unique I like them both ways to be honest I if they look pure they are but I like a hot rod just as well and I'm not afraid to hot rod when I mean great looking cars of course the car that started all the 58 Impala this was a 1 year car and it's like it's become like the icon of the impalas over the years it's really well come he was a you know a long ways all the lead sleds all the chrome came out in 1958 this an LS drivetrain in this little car it's up to like 400 horsepower these were about 270 when they were new so it's quite a difference this girl we found the highway like it audit now these are more fun if you get them out on the road they're more fun with the newer parts they're just a little more dependable and not quite as antiquated there are a lot of Impala lovers but I don't see too many Impala collections that's kind of the truth and a lot of your Bella's weren't these performance cars well no so that's another thing that when I started this collection I'm looking for the fastest the fast and the four speeds in these cars Chevy's alchemy was first built in 1959 but the Chevelle line didn't start until 1964 when he became an unlikely hit for Chevy you think he brought it out knowing that it was gonna be the hit car that it was with car guys yeah I don't know it's been a joke questions the cars of the truck it's like it's a guy that almost didn't need a truck but he had to hold something now and then I have L commands from 64 to 72 now 64 and 5 weren't big blocks I've got a big block as a hotrod but from 66 on you could get big blocks in now you could buy them with a six-cylinder those cards got work to death you know where the big block cars get revered a little bit better than what the ravers you're hoping they'll bring it back something yeah why don't they bring back the El Camino there's a lot of things I think it'll happen then right behind you have all these goobers yeah we've got Nova's from 63 through about a 70 same thing mine are all big-block four-speed car so gotta have the power to be in Moscow City 1964 is a great year for American Muscle doing no small part to the 64 Chevelle SS Chevy's entry in the battle for muscle car supremacy there's almost like flexure within a collection look at all these feathers gosh there's a lot of Chevelle Z I guess I think chevelles were probably my favorite is I've grown out that right a little more stately car than what the Camaro and shiho bus' were up a matched set here his-and-hers if you will the iconic 70 SS help us understand the sweet spot for Chevelle was from window in 64 to 71 where the performance end of it they made him again in 72 and they made him in 73 but they kept power was going away at that point you still get big blocks in them but they ss that's round who's the designation that's right the SS was the car you wanted out powered by what were the stock white is really they started out as small block cars overrun 283 s and 327 s by 66 they started putting 396 and then yeah that build up to like 396 375 which are no slouches that was 69 those were fast cars technology from 68 up get better and better by the time get to this car this was a good driving today right you can take you can take this car cross-country well the Chevelle is a legend in its own right Chevy's eventual answer to forge popular Mustang may be the king of the mall I got to tell you your Camaro collection is worth the trip all by itself we do have some significant Camaros every significant cavero I could think of is represented here help our viewers understand first off why so many people love Camaro it was a it was a follow up to the Ford Mustang is what they started them they needed the pony car for the kids a low priced car with a little bit of power and the Camaro did a good job of doing that and Camaros were powerful cars right from the get-go yeah they were you could buy a Camaro in a six-cylinder you buy it all the way up to 396 375 in these years they were extremely powerful cars then from there we went into the 69 telecom about the Cobo for a moment well Yenko started putting 427 in the Camaro in 67 68 well Chevrolet thought and we have them why don't we do that who was a dealer and they started doing an aftermarket line so central office production order with that Vice the dealer could just order the car without a motor we can get in some of that action people want that we exactly and some people didn't want the branding of the ginko on the car so it gave him a chance to have the car you have worked so hard to get all the right cars is actually amazing then it's been a 45 year process we've called and kept buying better and you know moving around so we ended up with the best of the best I really have a long I mean you really do we tried this is so much fun I'm ever blast thank you there's something about the 69 we've got different front ends you got rally sports get z28 you've got there's so many different ones we got 69 s just lined up to 969 say you got a hang-up 169 I kind of hiccup when I got the 69 Camaro on it and Rick's interest in Camaros didn't end in 69 this particular car has the c5 our race motor in it which was only made for the Corvette they put it in a real small handful of these cars and they're pretty well coveted cars have you driven this we've played with this little car this little girl will turn a little like a high nine and a quarter mile he's not a Matic are likely lifts front wheels off the ground it's like it's a it's a complete burner it's gotta be quite an experience it's a lot of fun there's so much more to see here muscle car city including an unparalleled collection of Corvettes I start 54 and I work up to the newest c7 and Rick's amazing collection of muscle-bound hot rods all ahead on wires car crazy welcome back to the gwark gark crazy say that richter orgies muscle car city has a lot of Corvettes would be an understatement his Corvette collection is even bigger than the Corvette museum's collection so we now find ourselves at a sea of Corvettes ok how many Corvettes do you have got approximately 80 80 Corvettes in here I start 54 and I work up to the newest c7 so we've got every example I've got every car at least one example all the way through 75 except for a 53 I sold that whenever I saved enough money to buy 53 I can buy one of these first so I'd rather have it for 35 car any time you stopped at one point for a period of time no I didn't stop I just quit buying the series of all of it didn't make sense to keep buying all the years cuz they they weren't real performing seventies and early eighties waned your interest Wade right so these are muscle cars in your estimate I would say these basically with the 427 don't know how you get knocked I don't know he could not call them wasn't cars I know what else if he'll argue with this Oh dad no no there's a sports car I know you're right does it get any better than that tell me doesn't get much better that car that car is everything you could possibly want oh my colours or is she bought on perfect so why is the 67 such an important year well I think the mid years in general the three through seven were one of the more popular cars and some of the better cars they built in that generation they're way ahead of themselves I myself got a little hang-up with a 6767 you have actually have 20 okay I just have to drive one of these 6070 so of all your 67 does the one you drive the most this one it has air conditioning it's just it has absolutely never has problems this is one of the cars you depend on so I grabbed this quite frequently wow what a car and by the way anyone who visits muscle car City can drive away in a collector car there's so much cool stuff in the store and you get these diecast cars then you move in this area where there's a little larger cars this is pretty cool what a great place to sell cars almost definitely I let you get their appetite whetted on next right next door now they just have to have one of these baby exactly add it so they walk in here you Lala so what might the prices range for cars in this area here 15,000 to really a couple hundred thousand you can actually find cars in this little collection here oh well yeah I'd be a great starter car that would have the credibility of being loved by Rick ever yes and if you can't find a part for your collector car you definitely need muscle car city so how many car museums do you know that has his own speed shop I mean this place has everything Harold Wilke hi Harold how you doing there runs this place we got a lot of car guys coming over you're a busy guy here yeah we are what takes place well we sell everything from Model T to new car parts and drag racing stock car racing hot rods street rods so would you have like a to belt pulling for a Saginaw power steering pump yes we do a few years ago I discovered firstly how valuable this place is with a Thomas flyer I was driving broke down speed shops are getting more and more revered throughout the years they've always been kind of a hangout place for car guys does that take place here absolutely we have people come in from all over the different areas of the county in the state come in and hang out with us yeah it's a fantastic thing like I said muscle car city is a mecca for car guys all over and some of them have to go to great lengths just to get here this is Mark Hall and Mark I saw you coming down the highway here with a big smile on your patient you having fun oh don't know I'm having so much fun I bet you're from where yeah I'm sure yep a long way to come down here yeah but I made the trip how this happened my wife warned me happen Lauren this is a gift from her yeah yep Wow so how long you been want to come about two years two years yeah so now you're here what do you think is it as good as you expected it to be I'm flabbergasted this place is so incredible I don't know what to say place is just enormous it just lets me out how long you been in a wheelchair ah about 10 years 10 years we're still enjoying cars yeah can't give it up yeah you can see my blood berry is coming up it's Rick's jaw-dropping collection of classic hot rods got a little Willy's over here that's got a 468 big-block and a few old timers with the Chevy catalog when park racy returns welcome back to the guards guard crazy well Rick's collection of GM muscle is nothing short of stupendous that's not all he keeps out of the bus lock our city roof he has some Chevy's for the very beginnings of the brand I know you love Chevy's but now we find ourselves in the whole area of free muscle car Chevy's right yes sir what up when I started this collection I found that if somebody come in this museum and see something that was from their ear they're gonna like the rest of my collection better this is a very rare car I've got seen this car before this car they built seven of them in 1936 seven only South total of seven and this as far as I know is the only one exist since American car is a 36 1936 Everleigh feature it will not show in your books but it is a production Chevrolet car was building America what makes it a fate no windows in the four-door convertible it had roll-up windows that goal and outfit so it's so or a Cabriolet another highlight the gazebos rick's extensive collection of hot rods at the center which is this mint green tablet there's got to be a story of this one you got to have just a toy here and there I love the hot rods just as much I do my muscle cars this does run a 500 cubic inch at like some 35 Cadillac to door Victoria 1935 35 caddy it's kind of a gangster car you know a little bit a little bit with the color no it's kind of an elegant gangster car an interior so you'd oh yeah that's leather with six-way power seats anywhere I've been with this car I can go to a Stock Show a hot rod show and they welcome me and it's like a real postcard car throws onions for we're in such a purist you are equally so a hot rod I loved I loved the street rods equally as much this whole carpet is full of nothing but altered vehicles one way or another they're late-model drive trains the loof if t nine Corvette is gorgeous it's got an lt1 drivetrain in it the 66 and LS one we've got a little Willy's over here that's got a 468 big block party earth right 692 blower that's an all steel car which you don't see too much there's a lot of fiberglass one but you don't really don't see the steel ones that much this beauty this is a little 63 Nova this car actually won the Detroit Auto Rama a few years ago this little car is probably one of the most straight ahead little street rod you'll ever see it's air ride suspension they didn't fool you with colors or anything else it's just a nice honest beautiful build can you even give us a glimpse of what it's been like to build this collection I think I learned early on that you when you find the right car you better buy it because it's never gonna be there when you go back and so I found my nicest cars by being fast enough when I want them I've eaten SpaghettiOs and everything else early days so I have to ask the question forgive me but do you make any money at this we try hard Barry it's not it's not a moneymaker you wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't tell anybody invest this kind of money in cars and showroom prolific doesn't make sense you're not doing I guess that's what I'm trying to get at it you're not doing this to make a lot of money no I'm a commercial contractor I own some restaurants I you own a lot of commercial buildings this this is my this is my vent right here is one didn't make it as a non-profit but it's a pain that ends up being that's exactly right a lot of car guys around very few would pay the price and every way to put together what you put together here muscle car city is definitely another venue to add to your car guy bucket list a very special thanks to Rick for allowing his passion to get the best of him so he could make all of us just a little bit more car crazy this has been great but you still have to have that one last ride Barry we just happen to have a little 32 faced by the halfway there are y'all ready for me the daily driver look at Ivan look at this car this is such a cool car you know it's elegant you know is this little cars been built to be driven Oh Rick what a fantastic experiences of it you are the best it's a wonderful place you created for car guys it speaks what you are totally car crazy we're coming back here that's what I want all right you will see all of you next week

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Published: Tue Nov 11 2014