A Thumb and a Half Away: Shine Speed Shop

The Round Six Podcast

"TWO STEPS FORWARD, NO STEPS BACK."

Jimmy Falschlehner, better known as Jimmy Shine, the man behind Shine Speed Shop joins the Gearheads on a freewheeling episode loaded with road trip tales, hot rods, history and a re-imagining of where the brand as a whole is headed into the future. Oh, and an explosive Conan O'Brien set. There's that, too.

THINGS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Talking projects in the shop
• Jeff Allison concepts for shop projects
• Early days and getting into the industry
  – The "Shine" nickname
  – "Flesh Hammer"
  – The first car, nearly thirty-four years to the day
• Exercising restraint on a build
• Billy Gibbons' Whiskey Runner
  – The 24V landing light
  – The SEMA Ignited traffic story
  – The Conan O'Brien explosion
• The '56 Monterey New Orleans road trip
• The new shop
• Future projects in the wings – A lakester
• The red hat at Bonneville with Tony Thacker
• Surfing and hot rods
• On taking the hot rod thing seriously
• The TV years
• Getting a foot in the door at So-Cal Speed Shop
  – The interview with Pete Chapouris
  – A tattoo bond
  – A veritable who's who of hot rodding at So-Cal in the 1990's
• Taking a bigger hand in the business side of things
• "Losing him is like gaining two good people"