Most Mustang and/or Ford owners who are considered “in the know” have a favorite repair shop and mechanic – especially if their Ford-powered ride happens to be collectible. Living in and around The Motor City is no different. For fervent Mustang owners in Southeast Michigan, few shops carry a more trusted reputation than a small auto service center in Livonia, Michigan, just a few miles outside of Detroit. It’s called Oval Auto, owned and operated by master Ford tech Jeff Schembri and family.Schembri earned his Blue Oval stripes as a Ford dealership mechanic – but he soon learned that his quality work ethic, attention to detail and love for classic Fords could only meet his personal standards if he owned and managed his own shop. So he opened Oval Auto and, over years of hard work, built a loyal following that has owners driving from hours away just to get their ride repaired right. Highly skilled, knowledgeable and honest work at a fair price is Oval Auto’s calling card – and it’s a place where Jeff appreciates the cars as much as he does his customers.

While Oval Auto says it specializes in Ford, Lincoln & Mercury, its service bays are always filled with classic and high-performance Mustangs whose owners will gladly wait their turn to have their ride at a shop that can do just about anything for any year Stang. Podcast co-hosts John Clor and Mike Rey both have had their personal Mustangs worked on here, as well as their daily-driver Ford cars, SUVs and trucks. Schembri is more than a friend – he’s also an enthusiast owner who participates in the local Mustang community hosting cruise-ins and sponsoring clubs. But once year at the end of summer, he invites his loyal customers to a private car show that he holds on his home’s expansive backyard property – complete with a food truck, free event tees, custom trophies and hundreds of dollars in prizes. It’s his way to say Thank You.

This year, both John and Mike (along with their wives) were able to stop in at the event, as well as photojournalist Bill Cook, who is also an Oval customer that happened to bring his camera to the show. In this episode, you’ll get an inside look at some of the great customer Mustangs that we saw at this private gathering, as well as be amazed at the sheer number of SVT “Terminator” Mustang Cobras that seemed to outnumber just about any other model that Bill had photographed on that sunny fall afternoon. Enjoy!

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Road-trip warriors who are familiar with driving in “The Mitten State” – or even billboard spotters who travel up and down the I-75 corridor – have likely either been to or have seen signs for Frankenmuth. This Bavarian-themed little town in The Thumb area of Michigan is well-known as the home to Bronner’s, “The World’s Largest Christmas Store” as well as the mega family-style restaurants Zehnder’s and Bavarian Inn, where you can get their “World-Famous Chicken Dinners.” But for enthusiasts, the big attraction is the yearly Frankenmuth Auto Fest, held on the weekend following Labor Day.

It’s actually a three-day event full of food, fun, music and cars that draws some 2,500 vehicles and 150,000 people. It began nearly four decades ago as a main-street fundraiser for the Frankenmuth Rotary Club, Lion’s Club, American Legion, VFW and the Michigan Heroes Museum, but has now grown into a huge event managed by over 500 volunteers and now spilling into and filling the town’s sprawling Heritage Park.

If classic American Iron and pre-1987’s are your favorites, then you’ll want to head to town on either that Friday or Saturday. If you’re more into modern-day muscle, the show field opens up to all makes and model vehicles up to current model year on Sunday. If you can manage to pull yourself away from the car show, downtown Frankenmuth offers plenty of shopping, dining, and entertainment for the whole family. With a population of just over 5,000, it’s small-town quaint with big-time appeal. In addition to Bronner’s and the chicken dinner restaurants, there a local brewery, specialty stores and even a wine-tasting shop.For show-goers, the Big Block Party is held Friday from 5-10 p.m. on Main Street. Saturday is the BIG car show, and on Saturday night there’s a live band under the pavilion with dancing, food and beverages. (Frankenmuth is the home of rock band Greta Van Fleet.) On Sunday they have another car show concluding with a 1 p.m. people’s choice awards ceremony where some 60 German Steins are the “trophies.” The event closes with a tribute to Veterans.

In this episode, John and Mike take us through the Mustang photos from the event taken by noted Ford car-show photographer Bill Cook. We couldn’t help but notice that this fall’s Mustang show-car footprint was dominated by the 1971-73 “Big Horses” – more and more of which seem to showing up on the show circuit. So check out the Stangs seen at the Auto Fest – without having to walk miles to see the Mustangs or gain all the calories from eating one of Frankenmuth’s world-famous chicken dinners!

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Mustang people “in the know” already know that we’ve lost a major player in our hobby with the passing of Ron Bramlett. For those active in the Mustang show and club world, Bramlett was bigger than life, thanks to his years of appearances in various Mustang magazines. But his work inventing “Restomod” versions of the Mustang and his efforts in the building of his family’s Mustangs Plus restoration parts business helped turn Ron Bramlett into a household name among enthusiasts.Insiders will tell you that it was more Bramlett’s many friendships and key roles with the Mustang Club of America that made him such an icon in the Mustang hobby. With this episode, John and Mike wanted to get you some of that insider perspective on the life of Ron Bramlett, and to do that, they had to “Get Smart” – as in get Bramlett’s lifelong friend, famed Mustang journalist Jim Smart – to come on and offer up some unique insight. Listen in and see why all Mustangers should know about and appreciate what Ron Bramlett meant to the Mustang world.

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