“The Bronco’s perfect,” Richards says. “It’s the greatest. I take the top off of it for the summer, and because I live in Southern California, it may never go back on. I’ve enjoyed having it off so much.”
He’s had it for years as his daily driver to get to work. “I put air conditioning in it so that I could get to meetings and not to be sweaty,” he says. “As I was taking my kids to school more often, I didn’t feel comfortable driving them in it, so I had not been driving it as a much. I don’t think it’s that safe to drive the kids in.”
Richards had always wanted a Bronco since he was 12, and he got this when he started executive producing The Price is Right and Let’s Make a Deal. “I remember a guy that went to high school with my sister, someone had one with the top off of it,” he says. “I was like, ‘That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.’ It’s one of those cars that people who know it love it. And then other people go, ‘What are you doing in that thing?’”
The Bronco still has the original paint, a light green, and Richards points out that mechanically, it’s perfect. It’s got a manual transmission and is four-wheel drive.
“But I’ve left the paint the way it was, so to some people it just looks like a really old tired car,” he says. “To other people who know what it is, they’re like, ‘That thing’s really cool.’”
Car he learned to drive in
Richards grew up in La Canada, California, where he learned to drive in his mom’s 1989
Quick Stats: Mike Richards, GSN host/EP “Price is Right”
Daily Driver: 2012 Maserati Quattroporte S (Mike’s rating: 7 on a scale of 1 to 10)
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