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Welcome to the official Kibbe and Friends Show with myself, Justin “Corndog” Cornette, and Show Producer Bernie McPartland! With this show we’re basically setting up the Boars Nest for the entire automotive media world to swing through for a couple watered down beers, stale popcorn, and fantastic waitresses. You can find every episode here on The MuscleCar Place as well as iTunes, Pandora, iHeart Radio, and Google Play. From time to time we’ll also be posting video clips and full shows to The Kibbe and Friends YouTube channel.  If you click the “Download” link at the top of this post you’ll be able to stream it on your phone directly. You can also pull the RSS feed as well.

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Have a question for the show? Just hit is up:

Kibbe E-mail: robert@themusclecarplace.com

Thanks!

-Rob Kibbe

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Join the KF Patreon Only Show!

As most of you know, our Patreon audience has the INSIDE access to the KF Show. The year 2025 will be an important one for Patreon specifically and if you’d consider jumping up to the $5 level it would sure help. The $10 level will remain and we now have a brand new $20 level as well! All members who join at that level will receive a sticker swag pack in the mail, you’ll be IMMEDIATELY entered in the monthly prize grab, and you’ll receive a phone call from one (or all) of us to chat up whatever you want for 30 minutes!

Thank you SO MUCH to those of you who have joined in for the extra content that is only for Patreon supporters. To get in on the action and support the show with a minor financial contribution just click the link below to sign up.

Join up via Patreon at patreon.com/KFSHOW

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Presented with Holley – Back for 2025!

Phase 3 of Kibbe and Friends is officially here, and Holley is back for more fun, foolishness, and flying orange Chargers! Once again we’re proud to be associated with the historic name that has made cars fast for years and years, and their innovations continue forward (as always)!

Make sure that you visit Holley.com to place your speed parts orders – and THANK THEM for continuing on as the Title Sponsor of the KF Show!

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Thanksgiving Movie Review:

“Planes, Trains, & Automobiles”

This is a special edition of the K&F show! The gang is off this week, so tune in for a re-broadcast of our world famous (and annual) review of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles!

If you’ve ever had that one “boat anchor” friend — the person who makes your life harder, louder, messier, and somehow becomes the one you love the most — then Planes, Trains & Automobiles is your Thanksgiving movie for life. This year, we dusted off our legendary review from Episode 314 and brought it back for Episode 346, because some traditions are too good not to repeat. Steve Martin stars as Neal Page, a tightly wound executive whose only goal is to get home to his family for Thanksgiving. Standing in his way is Del Griffith, played perfectly by John Candy — a lovable, unstoppable, endlessly talking traveling salesman who treats personal space like a myth and chaos like a lifestyle.

What follows is one of the greatest road trips ever filmed — planes, trains, buses, rental cars, burning cars, frozen train platforms, and a friendship that sneaks up on you when you least expect it. The movie somehow layers crude humor, unforgettable profanity, and heart-punching moments all in the same breath. There are hands shoved into wrong places, an F-bomb scene so perfectly executed it can make your mom cry and your dad howl with laughter, and a car that achieves cult-level status. The now-legendary green “Dodge LeBaron from hell” was so iconic it later showed up again in Deadpool & Wolverine. This movie is funny, thoughtful, sad, ridiculous, quotable, and endlessly rewatchable — and for us, it earns a permanent 10 Turkey Rolls out of 10.

Movie Car Glory – The “D” Car That Lived Forever

The chaos-green convertible from the movie wasn’t a real Chrysler Town & Country at all. For filming, the studio used six 1986 Dodge 600 convertibles that were modified to look like wood-sided luxury wagons — complete with fake LeBaron grilles, taillights, and oversized wire wheel covers used purely as a visual joke. Chrysler wanted nothing to do with the car, so the crew swapped all factory emblems with special “D” hood badges, creating the fictional “Gran Detroit Farm & Country Edition.”

John Hughes himself chose the eye-searing shade of green, intentionally pairing it with the woodgrain trim as a visual gag and as a nod to another Hughes classic — the infamous Family Truckster from National Lampoon’s Vacation. Only one of those cars survived the shoot, later repainted cream, and last spotted in Los Angeles in 2009. The legacy lived on when the same style of car appeared in Deadpool & Wolverine, proving once and for all that this rolling disaster is one of the most iconic comedy cars of all time.

Legit Movie Info
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
November 25, 1987

Directed by, Produced by, and Written by:
John Hughes

Starring
Steve Martin
John Candy

Distributed by
Paramount Pictures

Music By
Ira Newborn

Edited By
Paul Hirsch

Budget $15 million
Box office $49.5 million

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National Parts Depot Presents: Bernie on the News

The good people at National Parts Depot present the award-winning newsman
Bernie McPartland in his (self-proclaimed) award-winning segment, Bernie on the News.

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Ron Francis Wiring: The Celebrity Automotive Birthday

The good people at Ron Francis Wiring present our award-winning game,
Celebrity Automotive Birthday. Call them for advice on your project or race car—they’ll help you with both!

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