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The Autoshift
The Autoshift episodes
- So You Want to Buy Your First (Old) Car
Say you're 15 or 16 years old and you want to get an old car as your first car. How can you make sure the experience is a good one? The Autoshift Team takes a look at that this week and offers up advice on how to go about it, including what to look for and what to avoid.
1 hr 8 min - Monterey Car Week 2025 Moments that Mattered
Change is a constant, even during Monterey's annual Car Week in August. The Autoshift team takes a look at 2025's Car Week events as compared to years past, and dives into some specific changes that really stood out to them — both at the auctions and beyond.
1 hr 5 min - Tracking the Market at Mecum Tulsa 2025
The Autoshift Team — Jim Pickering, Chad Taylor and Chad Allan Tyson — takes a look at some of the highlights from Mecum's Tulsa auction, held June 6-7, 2025.
1 hr 10 min - Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach 2025!
The Autoshift Team looks at Barrett-Jackson's Palm Beach 2025 Auction — what was hot, what was not, and what we can learn from this year's results.
1 hr - $100m in Classic Cars at Mecum Indy!
This week, the team takes a look at Mecum's MASSIVE Indy sale, where over $100m in classic cars traded hands in May, 2025! What do the details there tell us about the market? www.theautoshift.com
1 hr 4 min - Who and Why and Daily Driving Collector Cars
Allow the guys to more formally introduce themselves. Yeah, it’s three white guys talking about cars, but they want to help you understand the what, the why, and the how of the collector-car market. There are over 40 years of experience between Jim Pickering, Chad Taylor and Chad Allan Tyson in covering and participating in the action. Plus, how do they manage at daily driving collector cars?
37 min - Pickups Are the New Hot Rods
Join automotive journalists Jim Pickering, Chad Taylor and Chad Allan Tyson as they discuss the state of the collector-car market in 2025. The main topic of discussion is how pickup trucks and SUVs have become this century’s customization sensation, just like hot rods were for most of the 1900s. They give a few predictions as to where the market might be headed, too. Plus, Jim reminds us that Unique Performance used prison labor to build Eleanor Mustang replicas.
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About The Autoshift
From the publisher's feed
Cranked over in 2025, The Autoshift highlights the best of what’s evolving in the classic and collector-car world. Our job here is to be topical and real, and to bring focus to the collector car…
community as it’s changing. Why? Because change is a constant!
Founders Jim Pickering, Chad Taylor and Chad Allan Tyson all come from an automotive media background — one that took them to auction and concours events from Hot August Nights in Reno to Rétromobile in Paris, with quite a bunch of trips to Monterey Car Week, Arizona Car Week and Amelia Island thrown in between. For years, the focus at a number of these high-end events has been on cars from a certain few generations — from Pre-War through the 1980s — both in the marketplace and beyond. Of course, at the very same time — and at the very same events — participants and players have been crying that “young people just aren’t into cars anymore.”
The way we see it, they’re wrong. They’ve just been looking in the wrong places.
Yes, change is a constant, but the car world is just as vibrant today as it has ever been. We’re on the cusp of a generational shift — one that will redefine what’s collectible and why, as well as how people interact with those vehicles in ways that resonate with them. We’re here to talk about that, and to give you a better picture of the vehicles, the players and the trends as they exist in today’s world — not as they’re viewed via yesterday’s sentiments.
It’s not about new cars and it’s not about old cars. It’s about people and how they interact with the cars that matter to them.