@@justinx9892 TRUMP 2024...The franchise system failed, but my original store carried on for another 20 years. After selling my last store, I became a commercial landlord and own several retail properties and help my small business tenants. To this day we host several large Cruise Nights throughout the year!
Search for "The Fantasy Girls: 1985 "Ms. Fantasy" Beauty Pageant" and the video should come right up. I got permission from "Fantasy" Jim himself to restore and upload the video.
Great St. Louis memories here. My buddy and I entered the first Fantasy Coachworks "Run for the Sun Road Rally" in 1984 (I think), I was the driver, he was the navigator. They gave us a route around STL with various stops and questions that you had to answer at each stop. Lots of cool sports cars in the rally, and here we are in my four-door Buick. Most of the pack took off and was trying to get to each location as fast as they could. But my buddy and I quickly figured out the winner would be whoever answered the most questions right. So we took our time and tried to do that. I distinctly remember one of the stops was a Pantera's Pizza out in Maryland Heights or St. Charles, and the question asked how many hot air balloons were pictured on one wall of the restaurant, so we went in and counted them. We ran the route and finally came to the end of the run at Laclede's Landing (STL riverfront tourist area). We were one of the last, if not the last, ones to arrive. Turned in our sheet, and after all the scores were tallied...we WON the race, because we had the most correct answers of anybody. That was a shocker for both me and my buddy, and probably Jim Smoot too, but he was very nice about it and gave us the award, which is still buried somewhere in my basement. And that's how the first Fantasy Coachworks "Run for the Sun Road Rally" was won by two nerdy teenagers in a blue 1980 Buick Skylark with houndstooth seats.
That is a FANTASTIC story and SO TRUE...This was a "Fun Rally" and not a race! Best score WINS!! So happy that you have great memories of this event, makes me smile!
@@jimsmoot2985 You know what is funny. I remember the custom vans back in the "good old days" at your shop. Really neat vans (and cars, and trucks). About 13 years ago I became a church van driver for our church on Barracksview, just down from Dave Sinclair Ford. Doing it still today. Polar opposite vehicles...just typical 15 passenger vans with lots of "quirks and features", lol. That teenage kid in the race never would have thought I'd be doing this, yet wouldn't trade this ministry or the people I've met for anything. Turns out vans have played a major role in BOTH our lives.
Man I remember that place....My family would travel to STL every year for a few days to take us to the STL Zoo and Six Flags, We always stayed at the Ramada Inn hotel on the right as you got off i-55... I remember always looking for Fantasy Coach works on the right on our way to McDonald's....One time I remember seeing a Ferrari sitting there
Here are links to several of Fantasy Coachworks' commercials; digitized, restored and uploaded with permission from "Fantasy" Jim himself. 1980: ua-cam.com/video/Xploi3UBZmo/v-deo.html 1983 #1: ua-cam.com/video/nPEzF1j0lDU/v-deo.html 1983 #2: ua-cam.com/video/leyigVHXBP4/v-deo.html 1985 #1: ua-cam.com/video/pkLu1srECYo/v-deo.html 1985 #2: ua-cam.com/video/LOT62vQBKzw/v-deo.html 1985 #3: ua-cam.com/video/RY-z9pjZJAs/v-deo.html 1986: ua-cam.com/video/Jsgdet43XIg/v-deo.html 1987: ua-cam.com/video/46qTZmlglMo/v-deo.html
While he might not have realized it at the time, the marketing he did in the early days was genius. It was an easy yes for local bars and restaurants if he could bring in traffic on what’s typically a slow night.
Always heard the Fantasy commercials growing up. I saw the guys from Fantasy show up to a car show we attended with their Mazda Mini Trucks and pulled the convertible top. I saved every penny I earned to do that to my mini. 1989 or so.
I’d love to see a video from someone that knows the history on Chattanooga Choo Choo customs. They were a huge deal in the 90’s especially in our area. You didn’t have a nice car if it wasn’t done by them
I installed car audio in quite a few of those back in the 90's. God they were awful. Wood inserts screwed into the plastic dashes with deck screws, lots of stickers and rope lights. It's hard to describe just how tacky those 'custom' cars were. And that's during the tail end of the 80's. For those that's never seen one of those cars, trucks, or vans in real life, it's pretty much impossible to describe just how horrible that ''custom'' work was. On the upside, I made about 4X the money on repairing faulty wiring from them as I did on the stereo work I was there for. So I didn't hate seeing them show up.
So many guys have told me that they remember Fantasy as a kid growing up in St. Louis and that they got their love of cars from these commercials & events.
The bookkeeper scamming him is the reason why anyone in the finance sector has to take one or two weeks off, so their replacement see's any scams getting pulled.
This guy had many ups and downs over years and almost lost it all, and yet somehow doesnt come off as bitter as Doug T, who still runs a thriving bussiness. Imagine Doug T if half this stuff happened to him...
It was only 900 sq. ft....Room for a small sales counter, some parts on display and a single car garage...We did most of the work on the parking lot (in the early days) and remember that's $500 in 1984 money (which is more than $2,000 today).
Panteras Pizza had a location in my town in Illinois....they used to bring in one of the owners Pantera cars occasionally (a black one).....I have wanted one of those cars ever since.
You all have to do a follow up with Jim at some point, he has more stories than this. I used to hang with some younger guys that worked for him in the fat and lean years and they had a crazy ride. Women in the back room with his young employees doing god knows what people did back in the 80s. If I remember correctly Jim and his brother did the Cannonball too. There was a big circle of guys around St. Louis that did it. Some guys that lived down the street from me, in Fenton, did it in a Lotus Esprit and the Fantasy guys did it in that orange van. We all used the same mechanic, The Sports Car Centre. I had a Datsun 510, a Mazda B2000 lowrider and eventually a Saab 900 Turbo. I think that Fiero in the picture was my friends. He eventually took all of the springs out of it and drove around on the bumpstops. He lived right by where I went to High School, Lindbergh HS in Sunset Hills MO.
Myself, "Radical" Randy Shekell & Mike Giaffino (Both VP's of Fantasy), did the Four Ball Rally, from Boston to San Diego in 1984. Our team mechanic was Bill Burns, owner of Burns Auto Service. That red Fiero was mine, but your friend may have bought it used (after I sold it).
That was the last store that we ever opened and it was our Super Center! Really neat place with a large showroom & huge service department. Sold that plaza, years later to a Doctor.
@@alanprobsten2858 We customized 1,000's of mini trucks! I'd go to the Mazda dealer and buy 6 trucks at a time and totally trick them out and then resell them as a Fantasy Eurotruck. Full ground effects kit, lowered 3 inches, sun roof, sound system, Recaro seats, short shift kit, bed cover, stripes & graphics kit and 10" wheels all around, plus a "straight pipe" exhaust system.
that was great! the high flyin ‘80’s! And if you don’t get any life lessons learned out of that story, then nobody can help you! Thanks, Ed! It’s definitely in the top 10
I was always wondering what happened to them. I grew up watching his adverts and getting his newsletter. For a 13-year-old kid what was not to love. Pretty Girls & Cool Cars.
Another HUGE compliment, and somewhat true...We were customizing Datsun Z's, Mazda RX-7's, Toyota Supra's and many muscle cars (like Camaro's, Firebirds, Mustangs, etc.) way before the Fast and Furious franchise.
@@jimsmoot2985 Somewhat true!?! Dad, have you seen the way I drive these days? Growing up with Fantasy Jim taking me for rides to school in his Porsche 930 put octane in my blood!!! 🔥 Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift 🔥
@@PowerSports I've seen you drive...And quite the "wheel man" you've become!! Congrats on that 2nd place finish in your first Road Race with that Road Warrior Porsche 944 with the LS motor!
As a native Saint Louisan, can confirm these guys were all over the place in their heyday. The vehicles they built looked positively stupid in period, but we're talking about an era where Chrysler K-cars sold like hotcakes, so it's hard to fault Jim for that. He knew his market and catered to it flawlessly. Loved the reference to Pantera's Pizza and the owners' stable of Panteras. Their north county location was across the street from our store and a Pantera was generally backed in to the parking space in front of the door every weekend night.
We customized more than 50,000 cars, vans & trucks in 32 years. Most were Vans, Mini-Trucks & Sports Cars! A "Chrysler K Car" might have slipped in there...LOL!
Good old days.. feeling invincible.. I mentioned before.. some of these stories should be filmed re-enactment.. this would be a great one.. not just because of hotties in swimsuits..
We did a lot of custom work on Mazda RX7's, Datsun Z's, Toyota Supra's & Celica's in addition to all of the domestic sports & performance cars! Thousands of mini trucks too!
No...nothing even close to a "scam"...We had 2 very successful stores (that were built from the ground up) when we started franchising. Everything was documented, and with registered trademarks and legit.
Craig, you are definitely confusing this with something else??? These guys actually customized vehicles for customers every day, nothing they did was a scam.
At 19 year-old borrowed money from his girlfriend and today she’s his wife, now that’s a keeper!!
No shit shes his wife
She stuck with him the entire way, too! That's a SOLID bond❤
Funny how that works out like that sometimes.
maybe she made him marry her to ensure the debt was paid back 🤔
@jessihawkins9116 if he's happily married to her, I'd say he won the lotto.
Rags to riches to rags, but… you did what a lot of us have dreamed of but not acted on. That’s a WIN in my book.
Livin' the Dream and Livin' the Fantasy!
That’s a VIN in my book
Nah he failed. He’s not like Trump who knows how to adapt and succeed. He’s probably a lib.
@@justinx9892 TRUMP 2024...The franchise system failed, but my original store carried on for another 20 years. After selling my last store, I became a commercial landlord and own several retail properties and help my small business tenants. To this day we host several large Cruise Nights throughout the year!
Now this by far has been one of just the craziest stories yet. The pageant topped the cake!
48,000 people attended the final Ms. Fantasy Beauty Pageant in 1986 (at the Cervantes Convention Center) in downtown St. Louis, MO
@@jimsmoot2985 That’s neat! I used to live about 15 min away from stl. Never even heard about this till now.
Search for "The Fantasy Girls: 1985 "Ms. Fantasy" Beauty Pageant" and the video should come right up. I got permission from "Fantasy" Jim himself to restore and upload the video.
We uploaded a restored video of the pageant. Try searching youtube for: The Fantasy Girls: 1985 "Ms. Fantasy" Beauty Pageant.
Great St. Louis memories here. My buddy and I entered the first Fantasy Coachworks "Run for the Sun Road Rally" in 1984 (I think), I was the driver, he was the navigator. They gave us a route around STL with various stops and questions that you had to answer at each stop. Lots of cool sports cars in the rally, and here we are in my four-door Buick. Most of the pack took off and was trying to get to each location as fast as they could. But my buddy and I quickly figured out the winner would be whoever answered the most questions right. So we took our time and tried to do that. I distinctly remember one of the stops was a Pantera's Pizza out in Maryland Heights or St. Charles, and the question asked how many hot air balloons were pictured on one wall of the restaurant, so we went in and counted them. We ran the route and finally came to the end of the run at Laclede's Landing (STL riverfront tourist area). We were one of the last, if not the last, ones to arrive. Turned in our sheet, and after all the scores were tallied...we WON the race, because we had the most correct answers of anybody. That was a shocker for both me and my buddy, and probably Jim Smoot too, but he was very nice about it and gave us the award, which is still buried somewhere in my basement. And that's how the first Fantasy Coachworks "Run for the Sun Road Rally" was won by two nerdy teenagers in a blue 1980 Buick Skylark with houndstooth seats.
That is a FANTASTIC story and SO TRUE...This was a "Fun Rally" and not a race! Best score WINS!! So happy that you have great memories of this event, makes me smile!
@@jimsmoot2985 You know what is funny. I remember the custom vans back in the "good old days" at your shop. Really neat vans (and cars, and trucks). About 13 years ago I became a church van driver for our church on Barracksview, just down from Dave Sinclair Ford. Doing it still today. Polar opposite vehicles...just typical 15 passenger vans with lots of "quirks and features", lol. That teenage kid in the race never would have thought I'd be doing this, yet wouldn't trade this ministry or the people I've met for anything. Turns out vans have played a major role in BOTH our lives.
@@RailRover65 That's very cool and I'm glad for you!
High school girlfriend became his wife. Rare story to tell these days. Love to hear it
Was love at first sight for me!
Miss seeing the old shop on Lindbergh. Good memories cruising Lindbergh
The "new kid" on the block (5616 S. Lindbergh) is Richline Motorsports! Plus we own the building, so there is a "Fantasy" connection.
I would have loved to go to Jim's pageant! That would have been one hell of a time!
We need more of this guy! I’ve always loved the 70s-90s custom car and truck scene
That's a huge compliment...Thank you!
Being born an raised in St. Louis. In the 70's and 80's spent a lot of money at Fancy coachworks.
Really appreciate your business...Hope you're doing well!
Bringing back the memories of cruising Lindbergh. Driving right by the shop multiple times a night. Thanks for another great video 😎
It sure does! $10 put gas in the car and got you 6 jack in the box tacos
We have hosted more than 15 Cruisin Lindbergh events in the past 3 years...Always a great time!
Man I remember that place....My family would travel to STL every year for a few days to take us to the STL Zoo and Six Flags, We always stayed at the Ramada Inn hotel on the right as you got off i-55... I remember always looking for Fantasy Coach works on the right on our way to McDonald's....One time I remember seeing a Ferrari sitting there
Here is a video of the 50th Anniversary Lindbergh Cruise that was organized in part by "Fantasy" Jim: ua-cam.com/video/aR0T2ukAuWE/v-deo.html
Some great entrepreneurial lessons here
You learn a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes!
Here are links to several of Fantasy Coachworks' commercials; digitized, restored and uploaded with permission from "Fantasy" Jim himself.
1980: ua-cam.com/video/Xploi3UBZmo/v-deo.html
1983 #1: ua-cam.com/video/nPEzF1j0lDU/v-deo.html
1983 #2: ua-cam.com/video/leyigVHXBP4/v-deo.html
1985 #1: ua-cam.com/video/pkLu1srECYo/v-deo.html
1985 #2: ua-cam.com/video/LOT62vQBKzw/v-deo.html
1985 #3: ua-cam.com/video/RY-z9pjZJAs/v-deo.html
1986: ua-cam.com/video/Jsgdet43XIg/v-deo.html
1987: ua-cam.com/video/46qTZmlglMo/v-deo.html
Well that screams all 80s St. Louis it brings back memories. Custom cars and vans. Girls night, KSHE and Panteras pizza.
KSHE radio was always a "go to" rock station that we used to "cross promote" these events!
Great to see Jim. It was so much fun to work for him.
Hi Mike...Always one of my best Store Managers! Hope you're doing great!!
One of my uncle's worked for a coachworks franchise in a small town named golden in illinois he use to tell me about it and how much fun it was.
Man I remember this place off Lindbergh blvd
So glad to be a part of the reunion this weekend 👍👍
Ill be there!
While he might not have realized it at the time, the marketing he did in the early days was genius. It was an easy yes for local bars and restaurants if he could bring in traffic on what’s typically a slow night.
Cross promotions were a tremendous success and we ran with it! Still works in today's market, but the media is different.
Always heard the Fantasy commercials growing up.
I saw the guys from Fantasy show up to a car show we attended with their Mazda Mini Trucks and pulled the convertible top. I saved every penny I earned to do that to my mini. 1989 or so.
We customized 100's on mini trucks, they were really FUN to drive!
I’d love to see a video from someone that knows the history on Chattanooga Choo Choo customs. They were a huge deal in the 90’s especially in our area. You didn’t have a nice car if it wasn’t done by them
I installed car audio in quite a few of those back in the 90's. God they were awful.
Wood inserts screwed into the plastic dashes with deck screws, lots of stickers and rope lights. It's hard to describe just how tacky those 'custom' cars were. And that's during the tail end of the 80's.
For those that's never seen one of those cars, trucks, or vans in real life, it's pretty much impossible to describe just how horrible that ''custom'' work was.
On the upside, I made about 4X the money on repairing faulty wiring from them as I did on the stereo work I was there for. So I didn't hate seeing them show up.
Great tale! This is Vinwiki
As a highschool kid in the 80's in STL Fantasy coach works ads were all over radio and TV. Made a lot of guys want the bed / party on wheels .
So many guys have told me that they remember Fantasy as a kid growing up in St. Louis and that they got their love of cars from these commercials & events.
The bookkeeper scamming him is the reason why anyone in the finance sector has to take one or two weeks off, so their replacement see's any scams getting pulled.
I should have known better!
I'm from St. Louis and Fahtasy Couchwokrs brings back some memories
So glad to hear that!
This guy had many ups and downs over years and almost lost it all, and yet somehow doesnt come off as bitter as Doug T, who still runs a thriving bussiness. Imagine Doug T if half this stuff happened to him...
When you can only "blame" yourself, it's hard to be bitter...My motto is "No Mistakes, only Lessons Learned".
When I started seeing vans being modified in Japan, I thought there might be a small chance of this trend coming back. I was wrong 😂
I guess the "Dodgeyban" experience is strictly a limited market.
One of my uncle's worked for a coachworks franchise in a small town named golden in illinois he use to tell me about it and how much fun it was.
Late night Saturday commercials in St. Louis back then.... Fantasy Jim followed by an ad for The Waterbed Store.
Believe it or not...We still have our hand carved canopy bed with mirrors from the Waterbed Store...But just a regular mattress now!
Holy cow.. I haven't heard "Barbazon modeling" in a loong time
That first model cost me $150. But that led to the model search & beauty pageant promo, so $150 well spent...LOL!!
What a time to be alive
Spent many weekends in the St. Louis store. Always fun.
I’m stuck at rented a storefront for $500, $500 gets you a back room with 1 outlet these days
It was only 900 sq. ft....Room for a small sales counter, some parts on display and a single car garage...We did most of the work on the parking lot (in the early days) and remember that's $500 in 1984 money (which is more than $2,000 today).
Panteras Pizza had a location in my town in Illinois....they used to bring in one of the owners Pantera cars occasionally (a black one).....I have wanted one of those cars ever since.
I've got photos of his Pantera's and their hot air balloon when they were props in some of our TV commercials.
You all have to do a follow up with Jim at some point, he has more stories than this. I used to hang with some younger guys that worked for him in the fat and lean years and they had a crazy ride. Women in the back room with his young employees doing god knows what people did back in the 80s. If I remember correctly Jim and his brother did the Cannonball too. There was a big circle of guys around St. Louis that did it. Some guys that lived down the street from me, in Fenton, did it in a Lotus Esprit and the Fantasy guys did it in that orange van. We all used the same mechanic, The Sports Car Centre. I had a Datsun 510, a Mazda B2000 lowrider and eventually a Saab 900 Turbo. I think that Fiero in the picture was my friends. He eventually took all of the springs out of it and drove around on the bumpstops. He lived right by where I went to High School, Lindbergh HS in Sunset Hills MO.
Myself, "Radical" Randy Shekell & Mike Giaffino (Both VP's of Fantasy), did the Four Ball Rally, from Boston to San Diego in 1984. Our team mechanic was Bill Burns, owner of Burns Auto Service. That red Fiero was mine, but your friend may have bought it used (after I sold it).
I'm originally from St Louis and this brings back some memories. Pantera's pizza was really good pizza.
Amazing video jim. Can't wait for cruising Lindbergh tomorrow 😍
Love your style, keep rocking it!
Epic story. Thanks for sharing
To have those recaros from the 70s nowadays, in good condition would be insane!
I've got two in my Orange Quest Rally van and a third spare in the garage...Super sweet!
I used go to the one in Fairview heights Illinois
Me too man, I had totally forgot about that place. Remember the red Mazda truck? I do
That was the last store that we ever opened and it was our Super Center! Really neat place with a large showroom & huge service department. Sold that plaza, years later to a Doctor.
@@alanprobsten2858 We customized 1,000's of mini trucks! I'd go to the Mazda dealer and buy 6 trucks at a time and totally trick them out and then resell them as a Fantasy Eurotruck. Full ground effects kit, lowered 3 inches, sun roof, sound system, Recaro seats, short shift kit, bed cover, stripes & graphics kit and 10" wheels all around, plus a "straight pipe" exhaust system.
that was great! the high flyin ‘80’s!
And if you don’t get any life lessons learned out of that story, then nobody can help you! Thanks, Ed! It’s definitely in the top 10
WOW...Top 10? That's an amazing compliment, Thank you!
I graduated HS in 1985, so I kinda lived it with you. Even in Maine, we heard of you.
Love it
Great story
I've also owned five or six Vans years back
Great story!
Good to see you Jim!
Thanks...Love those old Bricklins!
@jimsmoot2985 cant wait to finish mine and show it to you at a cruisin lindbergh
This is the type of content I'm looking for !
I was always wondering what happened to them. I grew up watching his adverts and getting his newsletter. For a 13-year-old kid what was not to love. Pretty Girls & Cool Cars.
Pretty "spicy" newsletter for a 13 yr. old...Guessing your Dad signed you up??
Have some great memories from the North County location. Was friends with a couple employees at the time. Definitely had some perks.
That was our store in Florissant, Mo
Omg. St. Louis resident here. This takes me back to my childhood.
Good memories I hope!
The car washes were great. 😊
I used to work for pantera's on South Broadway
Finally a cool story after many duds
Awesome story.
Man, Pantera's was the shit back in the day- the original $5 extra large carry out deal
Great video Ed
This story was insane
Always a great show
Jim is one of the coolest guys I know!
Child-“Grandpa, What were the 80’s like?”
Gramps Holds up this video- “Watch this.”
Who are you calling a Grandpa?...LOL!!
@@jimsmoot2985 Me!!!! 😂
Bro this guy started the fast and furious idealism in the 80s
Another HUGE compliment, and somewhat true...We were customizing Datsun Z's, Mazda RX-7's, Toyota Supra's and many muscle cars (like Camaro's, Firebirds, Mustangs, etc.) way before the Fast and Furious franchise.
@@jimsmoot2985 Somewhat true!?! Dad, have you seen the way I drive these days? Growing up with Fantasy Jim taking me for rides to school in his Porsche 930 put octane in my blood!!! 🔥 Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift 🔥
@@PowerSports I've seen you drive...And quite the "wheel man" you've become!! Congrats on that 2nd place finish in your first Road Race with that Road Warrior Porsche 944 with the LS motor!
I don’t normally say this but his life story would make for a pretty decent movie.
Can I choose Brad Pit to play "Fantasy" Jim? LOL!!
Jim is the man!!
Marketing prior to the internet was the Wild West! Bigger, bolder, sell more…
And none of it was "free"...We had to BUCK UP for print, radio & TV. And that's why the "cross promotion" technique was so successful.
Never let anyone sign your checks folks. The 80s were wild times!
YEP...Another lesson learned!
I dig this guy.
OMG!
Where is Jim Curry today? The Van Attic!
this that new new
Literately the Miss Howard Stern BEFORE Miss Howard Stern
Howard called me for advice!
Great Fuckinn Story The Real American Dream
This reminds me of Wayne’s world
LOL...But in real life!
This is the most 80s thing that ever happened
We defined the '80's...Just kidding, but we did have a lot of FUN while working hard.
Holy $@#& this guy knows how to throw a party!!
Love it, absolutely Looney Toons event
As a native Saint Louisan, can confirm these guys were all over the place in their heyday. The vehicles they built looked positively stupid in period, but we're talking about an era where Chrysler K-cars sold like hotcakes, so it's hard to fault Jim for that. He knew his market and catered to it flawlessly. Loved the reference to Pantera's Pizza and the owners' stable of Panteras. Their north county location was across the street from our store and a Pantera was generally backed in to the parking space in front of the door every weekend night.
We customized more than 50,000 cars, vans & trucks in 32 years. Most were Vans, Mini-Trucks & Sports Cars! A "Chrysler K Car" might have slipped in there...LOL!
@@jimsmoot2985 You guys built some absolutely wild stuff back in the day. There should be a business school case study on your marketing genius.
Because of the implication
Where is your spaceship Bob Lazar
“Because of the implications”
Got phone calls and letters from upset females (which was hilarious) since it was just a TV script.
@@jimsmoot2985 didn't the local PTA also come after you or something? LOL!!!
God Bless the Bimbo Era!
The accountant always screws you mark my word
Good old days.. feeling invincible.. I mentioned before.. some of these stories should be filmed re-enactment.. this would be a great one.. not just because of hotties in swimsuits..
Definitely have to include the "Babes"!!
That's a 924 turbo...
the one in the 1987 commercials was a 930 Turbo
First!
This dude related to Rabbit 🤷♂️
Anyone can do it… ya just need to have money..
But if you do, be careful, because people will rob you..
Or so I thought...ended up not even close to the reality of running a small business (sadly).
pretty girls next to cool cars, two things that go good together. VERY looked down upon these days.
Sad isn't it! Woke culture trying to make it a "no no" for guys to like pretty gals! Let nature run its course!
people dont understand what scaling your company means.
Sounds like it could have been a lot worse.
And built some nasty looking imports along the way!
We did a lot of custom work on Mazda RX7's, Datsun Z's, Toyota Supra's & Celica's in addition to all of the domestic sports & performance cars! Thousands of mini trucks too!
80s women had NO buns tho😂
Some did, but most were fit!
so what do all of these " grand mothers" look like today?
9:33 - a rare photo of Mike Lindell with Hillary Clinton
Nay not be suitable 😂
So his franchising plan was so bad, he knew he could rob you is crazy
And you came to that conclusion...How?
This would be considered a huge scam in todays age. Snake oil car builders,but they were very successful in the beginning 😮😊
No...nothing even close to a "scam"...We had 2 very successful stores (that were built from the ground up) when we started franchising. Everything was documented, and with registered trademarks and legit.
Craig, you are definitely confusing this with something else??? These guys actually customized vehicles for customers every day, nothing they did was a scam.
Such a boomer story. Starts business with nothing but $500 and makes bank 😂
"Made it" then lost most of it and had to start all over!
They have been using hot dudes for "female" bikini models for a long time...😂