JEFF STERNS CONNECTED THROUGH CARS

https://www.innovativeautohr.com/

2019 TAMPA BAY HR CONSULTANT OF THE YEAR

2:38 diversity, equity, and inclusion 7:23 better to fire quicker (for the employee's sake) 9:25 affirmative action

15:47 Women: barefoot... and in accounting 23:18 applicants interviewing to continue receiving unemployment 24:02 Jeff: "...I've always worked hard to bring a female in... the reason I wanted females was not to be inclusive or diverse. The reason I wanted females is whenever I got a good female she just frickin' creamed everybody else..."

29:00 use what God gives you. 30:36 rice bowls and silos 31:22 the people that suck at paperwork are really good at getting a deal made 33:54 pay plans where everybody gets paid on the bottom line 35:08 Sandy: "...all of a sudden something came in the mail. It was a wage and hour lawsuit..." 38:44 Sexual harassment lawsuit in Tampa Bay- $500k 40:25 Sandy: "...what I learned is that there's always more to the story..." 45:57 "...when you're a manager, you are an HR manager..." 53:44 Jeff's interview question to car sales candidates: "How long will you stay if you hate the job?" 1:04:41 right to work state? 1:08:42 the offensive group email sent from the company email 1:20:17 the automotive technician shortage

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1:18 it doesn't have to be a Ferrari or a Lamborghini

2:53 Project cars, new parts, new old stock parts, rebuilt parts and we offer services right alongside the parts

4:16 automotive flea market

4:23 car models and dinky toys and all sorts of posters and cool stuff

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0:23 daily driver is a 1974, Alfa Romeo Giulia Super 0:58 1989 Ferrari 348 1:27 Maserati 1956 300 S

4:13 Movie: Cannonball Run 5:50 Indy 500 on Wide World of Sports was a national holiday 6:39 Watkins Glen or the Pocono Raceway 7:15 Porsche 928

0:00 These were the flashiest vehicles. That's a problem during the Great Depression when people are standing in food lines 1:11 during E.L. Cord's time with the Auburn automobile company that he started the Cord Corporation with a list of over 60 companies. American Airways (later American Airlines). Stinson Airplanes. New York Shipbuilding Corporation. Real estate, television studios and radio stations, uranium mining, railroad transport, Checker Cab and the Yellow Cab, Safety Cab company, National Transportation Company. 2:38 Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) was established, in 1936, one of the first they were investigated was E.L. Cord and the Cord Corporation 3:07 Beverly Hills 56 room mansion 3:58 Cord 810 and 812...hidden headlights..." coffin nose" grill...louvers..fuel filler cap...Bendix transmission...semi-automatic transmission

https://automobilemuseum.org/

2:48 saved the original Auburn Automobile Company building that housed Cords and the administration for Duisenberg Inc.

2:55 International distribution.

4:37 National Historic Landmark in Indiana.

5:36 History, science, technology, art museum

6:38 2nd to Detroit?

14:34 Cord was a serial entrepreneur

18:09 Speed records at Bonneville

18:41 Frank Lloyd Wright had two

25:36 built for the .1%....during the great depression

32:45 $250,000 grant

35:04 BRANDON IS ABLE TO DRIVE THE VEHICLES

36:30 Amelia, South Bend, Hilton Head, Greenwich, Cincinnati, Michigan

Find Jim Donnelly- legendary automotive journalist at: https://www.speedsport.com/ http://www.jimdonnellyonwheels.com http://www.hemmings.com http://www.inthepitsmedia.com https://www.crankshaftmagazine.com/

Show notes:

0:00 Flemington Speedway, the most magical, unforgettable, exciting, compelling, filthy, dangerous, loud, eternally mobbed weekly racetrack

1:18 Doug Wolfgang who I saw both win there and hit the wall so hard, he broke his sprint car completely in two

1:53 a blizzard of dirt being propelled at you by a gale force wind that's what being in the stands of Flemington was like, people came there wearing goggles

3:29 when Flemington closed all those people just disappeared

5:11 I was wearing a Fleming t shirt that night, I had people coming up to me and said, Wow, you've been Flemington?

5:19 it's one of these things in life that falls into the category of too good to last.

Find Jim: https://www.speedsport.com/ http://www.jimdonnellyonwheels.com http://www.hemmings.com http://www.inthepitsmedia.com https://www.crankshaftmagazine.com/

7:08 reading STOCK CAR RACING since I found my very first copy of it in a news stand underneath the elevated train line on Fulton Street, Brooklyn

7:26 Dr. Dick Berggren encouraged Jim to contribute articles to his magazine and later to pick up the camera for the first time

9:02 Past senior editor of Hemmings

11:09 in Bennington, THE BLUE BEN is a great diner that bakes tremendous triple berry pancakes

11:59 born in Brooklyn. Identify as a New Jersey

12:56 at Phoenix international raceway, I got to drive one of the last Buick GNXs ever built. I got to get taken out a lap around the track in the Grand National with Jim Crawford.

14:21 7 laps with Rusty Wallace in an IROC car 20:50 4 laps to the mat in the passenger seat of an AUDI 90 QUATTRO...and the prayers begin

21:32 no brakes at 140MPH in a Corvette Grand Sport

29:57 "...in many cases a shorter course tends to produce more readily digestible racing that you can consume all at once with a smile on your face"

30:09 Derek Bell to be grand marshal at the upcoming LeMans

30:44 earliest exposure to auto racing was in Brooklyn, which had a famous sports Speedway in Sheepshead Bay

36:31 Stock car racing at East Windsor Speedway was a destiny moment

40:23 found Langhorne Speedway completely by accident

41:56 Pine Brook Stadium used to exist on Route 46. The guy who placed second in the 3/4 midgets feature was Mario Andretti

41:50 Flemington Speedway magical unforgettable exciting compelling filthy dangerous loud eternally mobbed

More on Mark (+support his retirement!) : https://carshowsafari.com/ https://www.carprint.net/mark-stehrenberger http://www.potatointhepants.com/ https://carart.us/products.aspx?x=2&f=artistID&v=98&t=i&ttl=artistName&tmp=2&menu=C11799 https://www.instagram.com/msd_auto/?hl=en https://www.motortrend.com/staff/mark-stehrenberger/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-stehrenberger-19322b26/ https://about.me/stehrenber Audio jeffsterns.com Show notes: 2:33 Jeff's good friend Mark Walters (who studied under Mark Stehrenberger) designed the Tomahawk (dual front wheel motorcycle) that Chrysler COO Wolfgang Bernhard rode out onto the stage at the 2003 Detroit Auto Show. 3:48 http://www.potatointhepants.com/ 5:59 Mark illustrated for Road & Track for 25 years (1st cover: Porsche 928 prediction) 8:02 Mark's illustration's opened the door for going into auto design 11:08 Mark's favorite car THE FIAT MULTIPLA 13:30 A lot of personality for a German border Swiss 14:09 The Swiss Germans. They are very conservative on the outside but inside they are as kinky as you can imagine 16:21 The '59 Cadillac that brought Mark 17:53 The Cadijaguar and John Dinkel 19:17 Where Mark met Bertone 20:34 Same way Malcolm Bricklin met Henry Kissinger 22:37 Gas vs Electric vehicle expense test 27:12 The car that brought Mark to the US 29:00 Mark is usually connected with the Geneva Auto Show 31:09 What you don't know about Mark 32:17 The Ford Phaeton story 33:20 Mark's daily driver (Italian?) 33:44 How do you know when you've been robbed by an Asian woman? 34:15 Mark's father: "...Don't be impressed by titles because when they're on the pot, they smell like everybody else..." 35:38 Jeff and Mark on how to make the famous comfortable around you 40:15 Mark as an Art College teacher

Jeff Sterns was a new general sales manager at a Cadillac and Land Rover dealership that needed a vibe boost. Enter Sean Marra, met through Michael Sterns....Jeff's brother. Sean was a creative guy at a local weekly newspaper. Charged with "make us relevant to the hip crowd", Sean came up with an ad campaign that included headlines like PLENTY OF LEG ROOM, PLENTY OF HEAD ROOM and LEATHER OPTIONAL using models that were local influencers in the hipster crowd. Finally after a weekly run, on week 12 the blond woman in the leather outfit (holding a whip) was replaced with a new unknown model.....and the ad would never be forgotten.