JEFF STERNS CONNECTED THROUGH CARS

0:00 Kevin is a big give-back kind of guy. 0:28 Kevin collects and brings a literal truckload of toys to the children's hospital because parents aren't there overnight. 2:16 Kevin has sick kids sign his race car. 3:28 A mom tells Kevin that her son is given a week to live. 3:53 texting and driving vs telephone pole 5:52 Child deceased prior to race is in photo at wreck scene?

Kevin was an intern for Dr. Brown in Clearwater, Florida. Kevin was sent into a treatment room to treat a patient. When he walked in, he had to swallow hard and decide the angle to attack this 500lb project! Priceless story.

Dr. Kevin Butterfield reveals what made him an advocate and protector of special or different people. He hit bottom when he spoke to a childhood friend and realized that he himself was a bully. This was the basis for founding ANDY'S TRAMPOLINE

2:26 The Phantom mock up car in a secret room in an industrial warehouse with a sheer cover being raised to opera music... a client cried one time! Client got to sit and speak to the car's designer, Marek Djordjevic. 5:17 sometimes to meet a client's time schedule on an ordered car, Rolls-Royce would fly the car from England to USA. 5:48 Rolls use Amex Black Card staff to assist Rolls-Royce owners who pushed the car's "assist" button. This could help with hard to get tickets or restaurant reservations! 6:49 one of Jeff's Rolls clients planned to don a waiter's outfit to get into a white-tie event that was out of space! 9:00 George shares a little known complex legal story between Rolls and Bentley. 9:41 Volkswagen paid $790,000,000 for R-R and Bentley and $50,000,000 for Bugatti and didn't obtain the Rolls-Royce trademark Flying Lady and Grille. 10:41 BMW owned a portion of Rolls Royce PLC. Rolls Royce PLC is the aero engine company. At the same time, it was part of the agreement with Vickers and Rolls Royce PLC, who control the name Rolls Royce. That in their contract with Vickers, it said that they ever wanted to sell Rolls Royce Motor Car Company, that they had to sell it back to the company Rolls Royce PLC, who licensed the name to them. So that's in essence, two most significant things that almost required Rolls Royce PLC, to sell it to BMW. 12:09 BMW had an agreement to supply the engines to Volkswagen for Crewe built cars, 12:28 They knew that if we (BMW) didn't agree to the deal, that they couldn't build cars. 13:17 culturally, when something like this happens in a German company, the first thing they do is decide who's going to get the finger pointed at them.

Volkswagen and BMW were bidding for Rolls-Royce and Bentley. VW had just "won" bought Rolls-Royce and Bentley from Vickers for $780m....oops!... all but the Flying Lady and Rolls-Royce Grille trademarks! BMW came in behind and bought those trademarks from R-R Aero (Jet engines) for $66m. So VW owned the name and BMW supplied engines....BMW had yet to be able to use the name...how did Rolls-Royce build an order bank of new Phantoms for production? George Walish, General Manager of R-R North America tells the shocking story! (includes secret warehouses and mock up cars) 

Also in this episode, George's interest in cars and the business through a neighbor in Penn who managed a Cadillac dealership, his (doing) time at Chrysler, his step off the path with IBM- George as a senior executive at BMW on the intro of Infiniti and Lexus into the USA and the underestimation of them, the creation of the ad tagline THE ULTIMATE DRIVING MACHINE, the (non) brand awareness of BMW In USA, his getting tapped to head up Rolls-Royce...

Watch the full episodes to hear the Iron Mike Tyson pre production car story, the entanglement between BMW and VW over the Bentley and Rolls-Royce brands and the ingenious way that George Walish secretly marketed the new Phantom to get new orders and production begun when he was not yet allowed to advertise the car, use the name or the famous grille and Flying Lady! Amazing!

Massive rolling estate. car graveyard, barefoot Iron Mike, heavy romance in the back seat of a pre-production car. Mike's pressure to sell this pre-production "not-for-sale" car. The first delivery in the Bethesda market....and what happened to it about a week later! you can't make thus stuff up!   THANK YOU.

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to hear this direct from Malcolm Bricklin is a treat in itself. whether you were into this car, or into cars, or just into amazingly persistent and creative people....this is a must watch or listen  

6:37 Malcolm: "Now things are going really good with Subaru. I'm hearing all this stuff about safety. And they're talking about putting rules that you have a five mile an hour bumper with no damage to the car, and the car companies are fighting it like crazy, because at five miles an hour, you get a couple $1,000. But the damage, that's parts and service the dealer can make. That's parts that the factories can sell. So they were fighting it."  

7:22 Malcolm: "I am going to build a gorgeous car is going to be the safest production car in the world."  

10:29 Malcolm: "Instead of two cents, gonna cost me a couple million dollars to get my prototypes" 

14:22 Malcolm: "nobody will give me the door I want"  

16:36 Mr. Bricklin, we have a problem. American Motors said they are not going to sell those engines.  

20:17 Is it possible to get the 351 Windsor? 

22:25 Mr. Bricklin we have a serious problem. Yeah, what's the problem? I'm in Scottsdale. I've been driving the car in 114 degree heat. I came out and the acrylic body is on the floor. 

26:51 46,000 backorders.   

31:45 (politician) "I'm closing it down".  

24:10 they did a musical about it. BRICKLIN AN AUTOMOTIVE FANTASY

Malcolm grabs an opportunity to get with Bertone and Pininfarina and bring X/19 and Spider bodies here from Italy and install engines, great paint jobs. Pininfarina makes a deal with Cadillac and ....

0:00 I get a call from Tony Seminara. And he used to work for Fiat.

0:04 Did you know that Fiat is going to pull out the country? 2:46 How many were you selling a couple 100 a month? I'll sell 1000 a month3:20 one day I get a call from Sergio Pininfarina. I hate to tell you this... 

4:30 Crap. Now what am I gonna do?

4:34 Tony, you got six months. You go around the world and find me the goddamn cheapest car in the universe. Comes back from Yugoslavia. Where is that??

0:00 Malcolm gets a terrible call from Sergio Pininfarina that will kill the Fiat X/19 and Spider in N. America 

1:12 Malcolm gets Tony Seminara to go around the world and find the cheapest car on Earth. 

1:27 Where the hell is Yugoslavia? 

2:11 some dealers were making $3k over list on a $3900 car 

4:17 "I was in Zurich VIP room, taking a leak and taking the next to me was Henry Kissinger. He handed me a card over the partition." 

6:49 I'm selling the company.