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Foods 2000 CEO Rick Ueable poses with his Chevy Camaro ZL1.
My Ride Foods 2000 CEO Rick Ueable talks about his special set of wheels Story and photo by Alison Bailin Batz Rick Ueable is a real estate broker and CEO of Foods 2000 Inc., which owns and operates 40-plus Subway Restaurants across Arizona from the comfort of its Airpark digs. With Subway, he has led local leadership positions on the market’s Subway Franchise Advertising Fund Trust, overseeing the multimillion-dollar marketing budget for the brand in Arizona as well as on the market’s franchisee board. Nationally, he has served on the board of directors for the Independent Purchasing Cooperative since 2000, a franchisee-owned and -operated purchasing cooperative that works with Franchise World Headquarters. He is a founding board member of Subway Kids & Sports of Arizona, a nonprofit dedicated to helping local children get access to sports, and serves as director of African affairs for Partners in Action, a nonprofit that manages orphanages and schools in Africa. He also is a member of Christ Church of the Valley, where he serves in several capacities. Tell us how your ride – a 2013 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 – is special? That year, they produced only a limited number of the ZL1s, so there aren’t many on the street. I customized mine with red leather and trim details. There is a 675-horsepower V8 under the hood with custom long tube headers and exhaust
by B&B Exhaust of Phoenix. The car rides on Pirelli POS wrapped around Savanna polished aluminum wheels. Tons of power and lots of fun! You’ve invested internally in your people as much as your ride. Tell us more. Our focus is on helping our team live their best lives, not just making the best sandwiches. Early on, we developed a training program as well as workshops and continuing education opportunities — some mandatory and some optional — for every single employee with the goal to empower them to make their own decisions, as well as to be accountable for said decisions. We’ve expanded the trainings to include life skills seminars, leadership boot camps and programs on professionalism. In addition to giving out grants to local nonprofits, through Subway Kids & Sports you outfit local children with their own sweet rides? We do – though the rides are bikes, as the kids don’t have their driver’s licenses quite yet! The program is called Cycle for Success. Through it, we “ride” into a school each month, surprising two students who perform random acts of kindness with new bikes, helmets and locks, as well as Subway lunches for their classes.
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but the history: Hines says Arrow Lane’s team spends an enormous amount of time researching where their expensive finds came from, along with who drove them and what races were won with the vehicles. “It was the first car built in the latter part of ‘89 for the ‘90 Trans-Am series, and Scott Sharp finished second in the championship in that car,” he says of the Cutlass. “It’s really extremely rare.” At any given time, you can find between 30 and 40 rare sports cars under the roof of Arrow Lane’s 10,600-square-foot garage just east of the Scottsdale Airport runway. Started by Edie Arrowsmith, one of vintage racing’s pioneering women drivers (who now lives in California, where several of the largest annual races are held), the shop houses many of the historically significant sports cars that its clients – primarily wealthy business magnates who travel the vintage racing circuit as a hobby – keep at the shop between competitions. “Basically what we do is we take our clients racing all over the place, and we maintain and take care of their cars when they’re not driving them,” Hines says. “Most of them fly in and fly out, they drive their cars for the weekend and then we bring their cars home at the end of the weekend, go back through them all again and get them ready to go for the next time.” As the man in charge of, as he says, “bringing these cars back from history,” Hines gets to drive all of the multimillion-dollar collector’s vehicles that Arrow Lane maintains. “Whenever we restore a car, the first guy that drives that car is me,” he says. “I’m kind of like the Arrow Lane test dummy. I make sure it’s operational and actually does what it’s supposed to do before I put someone else in it.” When he’s not hitting Firebird Raceway to test-drive pricey gems like the 1968 Lola 270 Spider that Scottsdale homebuilder Steve Hilton keeps at Arrow Lane and the “pile” of ’65 and ’66 Mustang Shelby GT350s the facility boards, Hines also maintains an impressive fleet of his own classic sportsters. “I’m currently campaigning a 1983 Firebird that was raced by [retired Sports Car Club of America racing champion] Rob Dyson in period,” he says. ”I also have some fun street cars that I drive. I have a 1968 Chevy C10 truck with a 550 horsepower LS3 engine in it that we call Goldilocks, because of its gold exterior. That’s my little daily driver. I also have one of the new 2017 Dodge Challengers that’s been completely upgraded with crazy suspension, crazy wheels. It’s 575 horsepower, 600 foot-pounds of torque, and it’s a car I drive back and forth to work. And I’m currently in the middle of rebuilding