He made MILLIONS betting on the Countach market!

and the dealer tells me you can't sell that car for 100 grand if you put 50 grand in the trunk in cash and like, no you're wrong and I saved all these emails because I knew I love to be historically correct. being that it might be a little bit, you know, when you're negative to me, I'm like, okay, I want to prove you wrong in 98. On July 7, I opened my business outside of an IOC car auction and within 6 months I became a 40,000 foot fenced property 10,000 foot building 20 employees we got Uli and Blackburn from Scott als anyone was anyone in the exotic car wholesale world driving cars in a KO we got his business Scotty came to my house one day and told the reason why The one I chose out of all the Recon retailers and businesses that love us is because his store looked like a dentist's office.

I mean, we were proud of it. Mom, dad, sisters, brothers-in-law, they all worked for me. I am the youngest of four. All my dream. Leaving Philly was doing that, so we put a lot of passion into setting up cars and getting acclimated to the world of exotic cars. Mine was when I was a kid. I wanted to buy and sell powerful Lamborghinis. I saw a cannibal run when I was 6 years old. He went crazy. In the middle of my mom and dad at the drive-in, my dad kicked me out of the Cadillac and I watched the opening scene from outside the car because it was like a BB in a boxcar everywhere from that moment on. my life I knew I wanted to buy and sell Lamborghinis I didn't know it was a business I thought you had to be like Prestige or a big dealership.

I'm like wow, it's going to be a lot of work to get there then. I watch Tom Cruz's opening scene in Rainman where he's on the phone ripping off cars. My dad said no, that's a business, it's a wholesale business. You can buy these cars used, so that was eighth grade. Ten years later, I moved to Florida. I built a Recon. The business of getting all the Lamborghinis with the goal of having a Recon business was not because I was passionate about cleaning cars. I don't come from this line of business. My dad sold Chevrolets. He taught me how to sell because my dad and I were. the apple of their eye growing up, you know, I listen, I ask questions in '068 years in the business, they saved me a couple million hours of work, 20 hours a day, Christmas, Easter, you know, being the youngest of four was the black sheep, uh, but successful in my family. making a paycheck, you know, I felt, I felt like I had accomplished something.

I bought a Ferrari Roa tester for when there was nothing. I bought it at a KO auction. Everybody tell me. Oh, no one wants those cars. Nobody wants those cars. What are you doing? I buy the car. I'm taking it to the Celebration car show where Jeff has, uh, the owner of the Cannonball Run car, bring it. I'm cleaning the car. I look like the retailer. This dentist approaches me. He's like 50 60. I have a girlfriend, she's like 20 years old and he tells me to call the owner, tell him I want to buy the car because it looks really good, I told him it's not for sale, he says, I told him I called the owner, I said, okay, I'll call the The owner got up the next morning.

I saw it. I told him the owner said it is and I give him the number. It's like $774,000. Well, let me. I said: Oh, then you don't have the money. I insult them, you know, and the girl smiles. to me, his little girlfriend, I said, so you don't have the money, he says no, no, I have the money, he buys the car, I write a check for 3 months by this time, I have a property of 880,000 feet and 51 employees, so that's my first taste of Roa. I sell the car quickly and make a lot of money. I'm like the holy cow took two years to close my business.

I don't want to have more than 50 employees now. I'm like, "Okay, this was the goal." get to the buying and selling of cars close the business finally the store part I still kept the cleanliness of the auction on the site which was a fortune you

made

a fortune making that store it cost me money when you looked at it so I bought the trial RIS to finish that, I start buying, I said this is what I want to do. I buy 10 348 for about 25 to 30 big nice cars, at least 15 38 for under $25,000 without miles, tan red, cream red, boxer finish 10 rois test for about 33 Grand each.

You know, approximately, I'm paying pantas. I was buying for 25,000. I can't find a Kosh anywhere, so from 2006 until October 20th, I never found a Kos online that

made

sense. I did not find it. I don't even think I've seen one online. My house has black mold I get sick I can't understand what's wrong I have breathing problems I'm sick all the time I don't go out I always say God knows what he's doing because if he did I wouldn't get sick, I wouldn't have found any of the cars. I'm in my office 20 hours a day so I go to Autot Tempest somehow end up on Craigslist and start in alphabetical order Bakersfield California What are the chances of finding AOS four? bad photos call the guy he says he's 80 years old he bought it new and he can't get in and out of the car so he decided to sell how much you want $75,000 I never want to say yes because then they think they left money on the table so I said add the shipping, no problem with them at 75 grand, this car shows up, it looks like we painted it with a brush.

I'm fine, I could dial this car in, but I'm a little nervous going into it. It's like my legs are shaking. I remember that day. I kept the car. Find another one. About 3 weeks later. Find another one. I'm buying these cars for $75,000. Now Peter Kamar has a car with an 835,000 carburetor. In perfect state. How much is $75,000? The freight is the same with the third car. I ended up with 14 of them. I probably would have never sold those cars because I made enough money selling the other stuff. My dad tells me that he sits in the Countach.

He owns a meat store. He owned a meat store at one time and he can't get out of the car and says, What did you pay for this car? I told him 75 thousand dollars. He says: You're an idiot, he can't. I said I can go out. You can't take the car why am I the idiot if my marriage is going to ruin after 24 years together I decide to put the car on the

market

my dad tells me Anthony what makes you think that these cars were two 300 Grands? I said because There is no way I can afford 14 of my dream cars.

Our generation. The guys I buy them from are all 70 years old. 80 years. They said they bought them new. Those guys don't know how to use the Internet like we do. Hagerty said the cars were 50 thousand dollars, that's all they said they were at this time when I put the car on the

market

, I put it on there, I don't remember it was like 200,000. I sold the car, but in all form. The guys came up to me, who is this Monday morning quarterback, Johnny, complaining about why all these people are so negative. I couldn't believe what that world is like when they don't know you and you walk out and say, oh, you bought the car. for 75 who do you think you are?

I say that's what the car is worth, I mean, I know what their cars are worth. Generations moved the needle, remember when Cobo Camaros cost a million dollars, when our parents passed on and left us the cars we had. We don't want that car, we're not going to pay a million for that car, the price is going down again, well, our generation, the guys from the former generation, posters on the wall, we have money now, so we're going to fight for these cars , so timing the market was easy when you looked at it that way when you saw these tester rois selling so cheap like, oh, it's just a matter of time because I got all my money around age 38 39, that's where I made it, so that I started making a lot of money so I acquired these cars all at that time, it makes sense when the first one came on the market and there was nothing before that and then the second and the third you heard the same story.

Now I'm older, I can't get out of the car, that's how I ended up with all those cars, so the first ones that went on sale were the 83 5000 that I bought with running engines for $75,000. In perfect state. I couldn't believe how cute it was when the car showed up. because the one I bought at Bakers Field was tough for the same price, the car goes on the market for a premium phone rings, it's my birthday, I get up at 5:30 every morning, it's not my birthday, I slept in I think I had some tequila. the night before so it's like 10 11:00 the phone rings I thought it was a joke I'm interested in buying a car he said Someone is playing a joke on me I remember the TV on in the living room, the vacuum cleaner was on, so I walk into my closet and I'm trying to negotiate the deal holding the phone silently holding my ear and he for 105 minutes is trying to get like 50 thousand dollars out of the car, then 15 thousand dollars out of the car and I won't negotiate.

I said this is the price, it's like bread when you go to 7-Eleven, whatever's in the bread, you pay when you get to that counter, he says, I'll take the car, he gets a phone call, hello Tony, this is the exchange rate of money for the purchase of the kage and he says, you know who? You sold the car to I said no, to a guy, to a guy, I don't know, he's abroad, he said he was the ruler of the guitar, that guy negotiates everything and he said you were the toughest negotiator with him. that you have ever tried, he did not accept. a penny off the car and he knew you paid for it, you know the crazy part about this was how you sell the Kos on your birthday, the car of your dreams, you sell it for a record price to the ruler of a country on your birthday , so for me it's so easy to say this had nothing to do with me look when it comes to Blessings like that there's no way I'm not that smart I just thought when I was a kid I remember lying in bed dreaming about the lines of that car that didn't It didn't have a magazine.

I couldn't afford to do the Pont record in Philadelphia when I was a kid, based on a cannibalistic race in a Matchbox car. He would put me to bed at night and think about the lines of the car and talk to God about these things. So the fact that I was able to be a part of these cars on the market, to have so many of them to sell one on my birthday to a country that rules, just shows that it's a blessing from above. I remember calling a large Lamborghini dealer. dealer and saying hey why don't you put the car on consignment at your own pace, I'll take 150 and you should ask for 200 and the dealer tells me you can't sell that car for 100 grand if you put 50.

Grand in the trunk in cash and like, no, you're wrong and I saved all these emails because I knew I love being historically correct, I love being historically correct, I might be a little bit, you know, when you're negative about me, I'm like Okay, I want to prove you wrong, The last two I bought were the Boob downdraft and the Roy Cat series 2 low body for 155, that was a great story. The guys called me to tell me I'll give you 80 grand for the car. like 80 grand when I was buying the 75 grand cars, where do you get 80 grand?

I'm asking for 200, well I'm not going to let you make that kind of money on me, oh is that how this works? I'll let you make five thousand dollars, what if my dad gave me the car that would shut them up right away because they're like, oh what are you going to give me five thousand dollars for the car right now, so I think when I started? Putting the first 12 on the market was when the last two went from 155 to 160. I don't even think the downdraft at that time was worth it, but when the distributors saw what I was asking, they said, uh, let's say it. there and ended up buying Roy Cat's car and Gary BFF's car, who would have kept those two cars if it weren't for the divorce.

Yeah, time in the market for me was about watching the generations make money, it was pretty much a million dollars invested in all the cars and then when it was all said and done we turned it into $3 million, so which was a 200% return from 2012, when the split started, to the last one I sold in 200. I sold all of them in 2012. I think all the cars were sold in one year because I bought the first one in October 2011 and I had all 14 by 2012 and then I started selling them in 2012 and sold them all before moving to Palm Beach in 2013.

I had two left, I had the low body car and a side pull car that I had left, but then as things, I said: I can't, you know, I didn't want this to get ugly. I got a call from the guy. Who buys the I don't want to say who he is but he has 25 of them he has one of each year and he says son of a bitch right I'm leaving in fact I got into a fight with a car dealer who who was disrespectful with my divorce said something that my wife was in the auction, he said, you know, Tony has a new girlfriend or something and it upset Feathers, so I went to his office and told him why would you do that, we got into it. and he owed me money I told him why don't you pay me the thousand dollars that you owe me then he pays me the money and then I'm a person of God I put everything in the hands of the Lord he told me something like I'm going to ruin your name in this business.

I wonder why you would say something like what I did to you. Sure enough, I ended up on the cover of Ferar Market Letter because I had a 348 police car, so I'm on the cover. Jim Weed writes a nice story and says, Hey, Tony made all the kids get in.to the car at the Celebration car show, well, that detailer at that dealership calls me and says, man, you pissed off the owner, I said what. Now he says you're on the cover of the Ferrari Market letter and he's at his desk and he's in a bad mood and I know that's what's going on, shortly after my phone rings on Sunday, I'm leaving church and it's this big collector of Lambo and he said son of a bitch you were right I said what do I do he said Aunos just sold it in Monteray for a million dollars and it wasn't running they pushed it to the other side of the block Tony how did you know this?

He bought me the pair. I sold him a pair for like 360. I bought Roy Cat's car for 155. I sold it for 225. I didn't trade that car and I told him: see if you want to buy the pair. I'll sell you the pair for 360. I'll make a few dollars on it. I think that was the only car I swept. I made 20 grand.maybe on that, but I said the body down I want the 70 grand profit on the car. I don't do it, otherwise I'm going to wait and save it for 300 grand, so he buys the pair and I spend an hour on the phone. with him and I tell him that it's going to be a million dollars in 5 years, it wasn't until a year and a half later when he called me and told me, first of all, you're on the front page of the market. letter second, how did you know this?

With these cars, the car just made a million and that's who we are. He called me Kos King, so when Ashkash King was floating, I understood who do you think your name is and said me. I didn't call myself that, the guy that listened to me and bought a car, he called me that, but you know, it all comes down to this. I am all about the Lord, I am not a saint, but I am everything that has happened, it is the blessing of God. I loved that car as a kid, as we all did, and the fact that it was part of something like this, the rising prices and the timing of the market, just means that's why I said I had to go through it. hell to get to heaven at the moment.

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