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Crew Chief Brad: Oh, welcome to the drive through episode number 51, but instead of our regularly scheduled ranting and raving, we’re back with the ultimate holiday shopping guide for the petrol heads in your life that might not have everything yet. So let’s pull up to window number one or some great gift ideas. [00:01:00]
Crew Chief Eric: And we’ve got a packed sleigh tonight, joining our standard drive thru crew of Crew Chief Brad, Executive Producer Tanya, and myself.
We are visited by Don Wieberg from Garage Style Magazine as Santa Claus, and William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace as his helper elf, and our, what’s the word, most returning est guest host ever. Right, William?
William Ross: Seems to be, yeah.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, like all holiday drive thrus gone by, we will be visited by three ghosts.
The ghost of drive thrus past, the ghost of Christmas presents, pun intended, and the ghost of break fix guests yet to come.
Crew Chief Brad: That was a terrible dad joke. I’m done. Bye. I’ll see you later. You cringe? Yes. My heart grew three sizes then.
Crew Chief Eric: How big is that? Cause you’re a big guy. So if it’s three, nevermind. On top of that, this is one of my favorite episodes because this is when we get to do a little bit of show and tell.
So if you’re watching this on Patrion behind the scenes, you’ll get to see us actually [00:02:00] demonstrate some of these gifts if we have them with us. So I’m really excited to see what we came up with in typical GTM tradition. Let’s kick it off with some general gift ideas. So Brad, what do you got for us this year?
Crew Chief Brad: Well, I fall victim to the Instagram marketing campaigns. All the time. And this one came across my desk. It’s a GT glow car lamp, mostly different Porsches. And then there’s like a, an F 40 and you know, some other different things. E30 M3. Don’t know why that is part of this list, you know, with all these better cars.
But anyway, if you’re interested, it’s a vernia. store.
Crew Chief Eric: I have also seen these on the Instagrams and have clicked on it many times, but what’s special about this is they’re running basically a 50 percent sale right now. You can pick up one of these. GT glow lamps for 54 bucks and who wouldn’t want a black nine 64 turbo for 54.
That thing looks awesome.
Crew Chief Brad: I think they’re pretty sweet looking. Yes, I agree. 54. If you’ve ever been down the lamp and [00:03:00] lighting aisle at your local target, well, maybe not Walmart because China. You’ll see that this lamp is actually reasonably priced compared to the other crap that they’ve got there.
Crew Chief Eric: And to use your phrasing, this lamp identifies as a Porsche,
Crew Chief Brad: except for the weird one that identifies as an E30 M3,
Crew Chief Eric: that does not fit
Crew Chief Brad: this.
That lamp is just confused.
Don Weberg: Did I make a Yugo version?
Crew Chief Brad: You go somewhere else, Don.
Don Weberg: No, the beauty of it is you don’t need a light bulb because you know, every time you turn the little thing, it won’t start.
Crew Chief Brad: The E30 M3 one just blinks.
Don Weberg: The hazard
Crew Chief Eric: lights.
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, the hazard lights just blinked the whole time.
Crew Chief Eric: Speaking of that Yugo lamp, Don, you might not find that on Avernia’s website, but you might find that at an auction out of somebody’s garage.
Don Weberg: In fact, you might just get the whole full size Yugo and just attach a whole bunch of lights to it. Then you have your indoor lighting. You hang it from the ceiling like a chandelier.
Crew Chief Brad: I would think you just light a match and you light it like a candle. One time use, you go. Yeah, you could do that.
Crew Chief Eric: [00:04:00] So, Don, you’re the guru of garages and auctions and classic cars and things like that. Why should we think about an auction for holiday shopping?
Don Weberg: I mean, if you’re referring to Meekamontime.
That is an excellent place to go because Mecham on time is the newest and the latest and the greatest from the Mecham auction company. Have I said Mecham enough times already, Eric?
Crew Chief Eric: The algorithms are still processing it.
Don Weberg: No, what’s fun about going to something like an auction and it could be Mecham on time.
It could be eBay. It could be any of them, but you know, you get a lot more. Personal when you go to an auction, because I can go to an auction and let’s say, you know, a Knight writer guy. So you think to yourself, well, what do you really like? Let’s key in Knight Writer and see what the search brings up.
You have this whole smorgasbord of Knight writer things that you can choose from, and then when you’re buying that little Knight writer piece for that, somebody they think to themselves, wow. This is really awesome. They put a lot of thought into this. It’s not like we just went running off to Walmart or Target or wherever and just bought whatever was on the shelf.
No, we actually put a little thought into this [00:05:00] and went out of our way a little bit to buy it at an auction. And some auctions, they have the buy it now price. So you’re not even dilly dallying with bidding and outbidding and all that stuff. You just. Go in there and pay the fee and, and you’re done.
Crew Chief Eric: And you drew that parallel between eBay and Mecum there just to use two names, but on time, as we learned from Melissa Smith, when you and I got together with her, that’s their online version of a in person Mecum auction.
So you don’t have to worry about cause Simi’s in January. So that’s too far away to buy a gift. And I just missed Dallas and Las Vegas and all the other ones on time. Is it 365? Seven days a week operation. And you could be shopping there year round for gifts for people. So I think that’s pretty awesome.
Don Weberg: Yeah, it’s a lot of fun. And I mean, you know, the brainchild behind it, the Genesis was meet them. Just speaking to them specifically, they always have a lot of clients that come to them and they want to sell entire collections and they have a garage full of cars and they have a garage full of stuff that goes with the cars, not necessarily going with the cars, but you know, you have your [00:06:00] little collectibles all over the wall.
That stuff was always really, really hard for them to move. Yeah. With online capabilities, they decided, why don’t we just bring this in house? We’ll handle it exactly the way we handle our cars. We’ll control the auction. We’ll take the pictures. We’ll put it up online, promote it. And it’s been going pretty good.
2025 Mecham has a lot of stuff lined up for their own time and they’re devoting more resources to it. They’re beefing it up. They’re getting more people on board. They’re promoting it more heavily. They really are giving it much more of a serious consideration because when they put it out there. At first to the Meekins, it was kind of just a, yeah, we need this little side effect just because it’s a natural evil that we have to take care of.
But as time rolled on, they realized, boy, people like this, they’re selling here. They’re bringing us their stuff and they want us to sell it. And a lot of die cast goes to, as I say, sell a lot of die cast stuff, but it’s ranching out. They’re getting a little bit more automobile, which is interesting because, you know, they have their road art division, which is their.
Fancy term for automobilia. It’s [00:07:00] interesting to watch the Meekam on time and the automobilia division kind of cross paths a little bit. It’s like watching the two circles go over each other. So you’re getting more and more interesting, really interesting stuff coming to Meekam on time. It’s really fun to watch that division grow.
Crew Chief Eric: I need to check that out. I need to go there because to your point, you never know what you’re going to come across, but. Like other online auction sites, you can set up reminders, you can set up triggers, you can set up alerts, this kind of item appeared, all those things that you’d be accustomed to, like with eBay and YouBid and some of the other places.
They’ve got everything you’re looking for, but if you’re a petrol head, it’s definitely the place to check out. So I can’t speak highly enough about it, especially for the holidays. If you’re in a bind and you’re looking for something interesting, there’s always something on, on time. So switching gears to, A section of shopping that I think is near and dear to all of our panelists here.
We’re going to talk about model cars, Legos, and the virtual world. So Tanya, what’s on the list this year?
Executive Producer Tania: First one on the list is a set of Lego like cars. It’s actually [00:08:00] the Lego competitor mega previously known as mega blocks, which is now all owned by Mattel. So they were kind of the lesser known Lego competitor, but they’ve got a set of Hot Wheels and Fired racing cars, compete with speed champions of Lego, and I found two of the four offerings, which happened to be an Audi R eight and an RS six concept.
I found them at my local grocery store, ,
Crew Chief Eric: and I happen
Executive Producer Tania: to have
Crew Chief Eric: them right here. They’re super cool. I don’t
Executive Producer Tania: recall what the other two are, but I believe
Crew Chief Eric: the back of the package does say. It is a Corvette C2 Stingray race car followed by the Cadillac CTS V race car.
Executive Producer Tania: There you go. I think you can also find them at Target and Amazon if you’re looking.
Don’t have to go down the grocery store toy aisle.
Crew Chief Eric: Oh wait. Oh wait, there’s more. They have a bigger size of these things and I picked one of these up when I was with William. And this is the basically one 18th scale. There’s only a handful of these in terms of [00:09:00] models. This is the Audi 90 GTO that Hans Stuck and Hurley Haywood drove back in the early nineties, but there’s also a Corvette stingray version.
And then they also show a hot rod and then another. Cadillac. So there’s four different models in this larger size as well. And this is a almost thousand piece model that you put together. So pretty cool. Also available at target.
Don Weberg: No, no. I was just going to ask, do they have a price for a TC? No, that’s where they made the mistake,
Crew Chief Brad: but they have a Cadillac.
So it may be in a long day.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, we’re getting there. Yeah. That’s a little Walker in the back. I heard those smaller sets, Tanya, what do they run? Like 14 bucks. Something like that. And this bigger one was right around 80, which is not a bad price when you compare it to Lego. So they’re trying to kind of take a bite out of that market because Mattel can take a swing like that.
Really curious to see what additional designs they come up with and who they can get licensing from, which you think wouldn’t be that hard considering they own Hot Wheels.
Executive Producer Tania: So earlier [00:10:00] this year, Lego actually had an announcement on a future partnership with F1 beginning in 2025 seasons. So it’s not actually a new partnership because you can actually already get F1 Lego cars.
They’ve got the McLaren, the Mercedes, and they’ve got the older Senna. Now they’ve got a bit of a cloak and dagger announcement that there’s. Quote, a new signing for the 2025 F1 season. We’re bringing the thrill of Formula One to LEGO fans of all ages with builds featuring all teams on the grid, plus loads of exciting extra content.
They say drive back to this page for future thrills right from their website. You’ll be able
Crew Chief Eric: to buy a LEGO Haas.
Executive Producer Tania: And then you can crash it. A hundred percent.
Crew Chief Brad: Well, Haas is already using Lego Haases.
Crew Chief Eric: I want the rich energy version of the Haas Lego rich energy. That’s what I need. So we’re still talking about Lego here.
I picked up two this year to add to my burgeoning collection of these things. I don’t know why I keep buying them. I love
Crew Chief Brad: how Eric’s already bought all these gifts.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, I gotta have something to show for the episode, right? So I’ve got the [00:11:00] Countach. Last year, I talked about the Ferrari that I bought.
I’ve got a couple other ones in the box. But this year, I picked up the Ken Block Audi e tron Speed Champions set. This came in at 25 before they raised the price on them. They were 20 for the longest time, and then they went up to about 24. So I grabbed this one basically at the beginning of this year after the holiday season.
And then Day one, I went and stood in line and I got myself the F40. Oh yeah. I bought two. I mean, it’s awesome. It’s not as nice as some of the previous F40 stuff that Lego has done with Ferrari. But I think this is really cool because it’s been a minute since they’ve done something Ferrari and hoping for.
Testarossa, I’m hoping for something else, right? Cause they’ve done some other Ferraris in the past.
William Ross: Fingers crossed. Yeah. You know, and one tip for everyone out there that’s listening is don’t just look on the shelves, look up on the top shelf, look behind stuff. Cause stuff gets hidden and put in places where it shouldn’t be.
So don’t get discouraged if you walk in the aisle and don’t see it right away through. Start digging through [00:12:00] everything because you’d be surprised at what you’ll end up finding hidden and whatnot. Yeah. You can
Crew Chief Brad: also ask and see if they have anything in the back too.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, there you go. For the real Lego files out there.
I will remind you that if you’re not what they used to call VIPs, now it’s called Lego insiders. Sign up for free. You can order this today. stuff off Lego’s website, you get all these points and then the points turn into cash and you can get stuff for free and all that. But there are deals with Walmart and Target that if you purchase kits there that you can then take your QR codes or whatever it is that comes with the box and still get points towards your VIP and then get free cool stuff.
Check out lego. com, sign up for an account, get all that stuff done because it’s definitely worth it if you’re a collector because you might be able to buy that F40 or some other kit for free. But I also want to remind people, don’t forget to look at the blockzone. com. These are guys that post a lot of their designs up on rebrickable.
com and you can order all the parts necessary to build, let’s say Marty’s Toyota four by [00:13:00] four or. The Falcon XBGT from Mad Max, you know, other cars like that. They don’t have traditional names. You can’t go and look up Ford XBGT. It’s called like the interceptor or whatever. They got all these made up names to kind of avoid the licensing and all those kinds of things.
But there’s some really, really cool kits on the block zone. Some really interesting stuff that you won’t find. At lego, but it’s mostly lego parts that you’re ordering and then get the instructions and build your own little collection that way. So it’s pretty cool and their prices are really reasonable and they run promotions and sales all year long.
But especially during christmas time
Executive Producer Tania: shifting gears to video games. There’s a new installment in the test drive unlimited franchise That’s Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown. You know, one of these free roaming racing video games trying to compete with the likes of Forza Horizon. This particular one takes place in Hong Kong and features some sort of street gang rival situation where I think at the very beginning of the game you gotta choose your side and then you’re racing to essentially win [00:14:00] the Solar Crown and I guess to have all the glory of your street gang.
But it’s available on all the majors, Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.
Crew Chief Eric: Jimmy Broadbent. Did a two and a half hour review of test drive, silver crown, which I don’t recommend watching the TLDR the too long. Didn’t read is I might still buy it. Anyways, Don, we should talk about real model cars. It wouldn’t be fair if we didn’t give a shout out to Rick shod, the Pope of plastic.
Don Weberg: Yeah, that guy’s amazing.
Rick Schad: You want to find me, please. Don’t be scared of Tik TOK for crying out loud. Don’t believe all the hype. Go to at the pope of plastic on TikTok, at the Pope of plastic on TikTok, also on Instagram at the Pope of plastic. On, on, uh, LinkedIn. You can always find me at Rick Shad.
R-I-C-K-S-C-H-A-D. I’ve usually post all my models on LinkedIn. That’s kind of where I got my start, my first commission. came, believe it or not, from LinkedIn and I build anything. It doesn’t have to be cars. I build anything, planes, boats, tanks, cars, it doesn’t matter. So if you’re [00:15:00] interested in having something really special, please reach out to me.
You can also email me at the Pope of plastic at Gmail. Love to have you all come and visit me. If you come and watch me and tick tock live, just tell me you saw me. I’d love to say hi and feel free to ask me any questions and I need to do a model for you guys. We need to do a Kootosh and a Porsche.
Crew Chief Eric: Have you bought anything from our friend Patrick Strong at Model Citizen?
Don Weberg: You know as well as I do what I bought from him and it was a little while ago that I bought it so I don’t know if it still qualifies for your show. Does it still qualify? You gotta buy it in this calendar year. Then I haven’t bought anything from him.
Crew Chief Eric: That’s okay, I made up the difference for you.
Don Weberg: I figured you
Crew Chief Eric: would.
He posted on social, and I hate this word but I’m gonna say it, it was serendipitous because I just got done a project with Professor Summers, the motoring historian. The next day, he posts. I’ve got Ari Vatanen’s Peugeot 205 Turbo T16 in stock, and I had to have it. Immediately was like, boom, buy it now, send it to me.
He sent me a personal handwritten [00:16:00] message thanking me. He was like so surprised. It’s one of the first people to buy it from him. And he said he had me in mind when he’s been looking at more Group B rally cars to have in his inventory. Because remember, he curates everything that he has in stock. So I thought this was super cool.
I could not resist buying it. It looks awesome. It opens in every which direction. It’s extremely detailed. It’s an absolute joy to have in my ever growing selection of cars here.
Patrick Strong: I typically do a kind of a low key Black Friday, Cyber Monday sale in that I just put a lot of stuff on Markdown. I don’t do a special promotion with, you know, here’s your percentage discount or buy two get one free or anything like that.
It’s just things get put into the sales section. So week after Thanksgiving, I’d be looking for that to happen. The best way to find out about deals like that is to get on our mailing list. We’re not spamming. We only send emails out to let people know about new products or events where we’re going to be.
Whether you are a veteran collector with very finely honed [00:17:00] taste, or whether you are new to the hobby, modelcitizendicast. com is a great place to find a Very tightly focused selection of exquisite model cars. And if you are new to the hobby, my contact info is readily available there, and I’m always happy to answer any questions you might have.
Model citizen die cast.com is a great place to start or continue your journey as a die cast model collector.
Crew Chief Eric: So model citizen die cast for your one 18th scale and. high end 164th scale. Now that’s something else that Patrick is carrying in his inventory is 164th scale cars. And I wanted to show off some that I got this year, which I thought were super cool.
So Hot Wheels, as we know, and we talked about with Patrick, they’re doing these premium collections, very expensive for the size. You’re talking 12 Hot Wheels. And it’s like, who’s the hell is going to spend 12 bucks on Hot Wheels? Well, this idiot does stuff like that. This is one of my favorites. I’ve got the Fiat race car carrier with an [00:18:00] Abarth 131 rally car and the homologation version, all in premium.
I mean, this in my hands is probably, I hate to say, it’s 40 bucks worth of car in my hands, but extremely detailed, sticky tires, you know, really cool wheels. Everything’s almost looks like it’s hand painted versus the way they stamp things out. This is super cool. All the actual livery from back in the seventies and whatnot.
So they’re producing some really, really high quality stuff right from Mattel.
Don Weberg: You know, it’s funny you say 40 bucks, like it’s expensive and I guess it kind of is for such tiny little cars. But if you can appreciate the quality. I think all of a sudden that 40, it just kind of goes away. The
Crew Chief Eric: problem is it snowballs, especially with the one 18th scale cars, because I have a big enough, let’s call it garage for my one 18th scale cars.
But I realized I was missing something, the service stand. I thought this was so cool. Oh yeah. You gotta have that. So this is the shells oils [00:19:00] version. They have a bunch of different ones of these Exxon and VP racing and whatnot. I really like this one. The color scheme of the yellow and red of the shell, but this holds pretty much any one 18th scale car and you can lift it.
You can park another car underneath of it. So if you want to really kind of maximize your space or make a really cool display with multiple cars, it is die cast as well. So it’s actually quite heavy, fabulously painted and detailed. It even has the alignment racks and stuff. I found this online. I hate to say I bought this on Amazon.
I can’t remember the manufacturer off the top of my head, but if you search one 18th scale. Stands these come up alongside of like the acrylic cases and some of the other stuff that’s out there So for the same kind of money as a plastic box, I thought this was really cool
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, those stands are a lot of fun.
It makes changing their imaginary oil a lot easier, too
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, and you know, what’s funny? I have to park the nine 11 backwards because otherwise it doesn’t align right on the way these plates are made. Cause it’s all kind of set up for a front mount car. It’s [00:20:00] really interesting. Again, the detail is really, really cool and very lifelike.
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. Speaking of premium high end ways again, Instagram, you know, marketing campaign. This company play forever. They make these really nice premium children’s toys. They’re all cars, you know, designed after some of our favorites. Obviously, as you mentioned earlier, you know, to get around the copyright, they can’t call them, you know, what they actually are, but there’s a very nice Porsche look alike, a nice Lamborghini looks like a charger or a Mustang.
A lot of race cars and things like that. They’re made with very durable, high quality plastics painted with UV proof paint. So it’s all child friendly. They’ve got soft rubber tires, really nice toys. They say they last a lifetime. You know, I believe it looking at the quality of these things and they’re actually quite large.
You know, they’re not one 64th scale. They’re probably one 43rd or in between maybe one 32nd, but they’re really nice cars. I’ve been looking to get a couple for the boys for Christmas. You should definitely check them out. It’s play forever. us.
Crew Chief Eric: I like this Malibu [00:21:00] Ross. Did you see that William? I saw that one.
Crew Chief Brad: I think that should be his new nickname. Sadly it’s sold out. My favorite one is the UFO Leonisa.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Which is basically a Lamborghini. Coontosh.
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. It looks like a coontosh. I really liked the scaling. It looks like some of those graphic shirts that are like spray painted and stuff. It, it’s like one of those brought to life with the really oversized wheels and everything.
It looks to me, they look really, really cool.
Crew Chief Eric: Model cars and Legos. Aren’t the only things you can fill your shelves with. If you’re a collector. The other thing that we always like to bring up during this episode is the books, especially those of us that are automotive historians. I don’t think there’s enough books that we can get our hands on.
There’s always something. There’s something new coming out or a new way to look at history or a particular story or driver or event or, you know, situation or crash, you know, that happened. There’s just a plethora of books and we always have the distinct privilege of having many authors on the show throughout the year.
We had author Leanne Patterson on the show [00:22:00] who wrote a children’s book based on the true life events of another break fix guest. Anita Milliken and her husband Howard. And so it’s all about their adventures, actually adopting a baby skunk, and making it part of their race team, and how it was involved in the paddocks, and they would take it around with them, things like that.
So the book is called The Trouble with Howard, but I’ll let Leanne tell you a little bit more about the book and how you can get a copy of it.
LeeAnne Patterson: Who wants to get into trouble? And just in time for Christmas. Before you gift the Trouble with Howard to your favorite little racer, be sure to fill out your pit pass. There’s a place for your crew member name, a team affiliation that you can make up, and then you’ve issued the book to them. So make sure that you sign your name there.
And then once they’ve issued that pit pass, they can go through the gates and into the story. The end sheets are also filled with fun racing bits. For instance, at the start of the story, Anita and Howard are enjoying pizza from Maria’s, but at the end of the story, it’s Aldo. Now, what [00:23:00] famous twin brothers do we know named Mario and Aldo?
There are 27 other things that are different. Perhaps you can find them all. Roger Warwick is an amazing artist. And he loves racing, too. You’ll find that throughout the book, things look just like they do with the racetrack. And just in time for Christmas, you can use the code GETINTOTROUBLE. With the purchase of a book, that code will give you any two other items, including trouble, including trouble.
We’re 15 percent off and as always orders over 50 are always free shipping. So get into trouble this Christmas and your little racers will be inspired to always dream big.
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There’s also an even deeper discount if you become a member of the ACO USA. And here’s a couple of words from David Lowe. President of ACO USA about why you should become a member of the club.
David Lowe: You definitely want to take advantage of what the members club has to offer. Got a lot to offer, like you talked about the ACO Tribune 1718.
That’s my go to tribune. Purchase access to La Chappelle, which is an incredible hospitality facility located there just beyond the Dunlop Bridge. It’s [00:25:00] an incredible, um, facility. viewing of Tetra Rouge cars coming through the Dunlop. It’s a great place to view as well as the hospitality tense area.
Honestly, big screen TVs give you the best. They’re just these huge screens and you hear the sound right there and see him right now on the big screen. So it’s a it’s a wonderful place plan to go for a week. If you only go for the day of the race, you’re gonna miss a lot. You need to Kind of watch the race come alive.
The pits get built out and you want to get a paddock pass might cost you a few extra dollars. You want to do that with the club. So you’ve got access to La Chapelle and the members areas there at T17. So, but in the meantime, throughout the year, as we build up, you’ve got these events that we’re putting together around the country, got the zoom meetings each month evening with a legend.
Which absolutely are incredible. We’re open to suggestions. A lot of the ideas we get come from volunteers that actually set it up for us. We have a lot of past presidents from other car clubs that are members that provide good sound wisdom and guidance for us as we grow
Crew Chief Eric: [00:26:00] our wings, if you will. If you’re not a member of the ACO USA, did you know that you can purchase the entire behind the scenes collection of Evening with the Legends?
and get continued updates for a one time fee by visiting our Patreon. We have a special price just for the Evening with a Legend collection. You can see the sessions that we recorded with Lynn St. James, with Mario Andretti, with Andy Pilgrim, the Camaradi Corvette team, and countless others that have Grace us with their stories on evening with the legend.
So check that out details in the show notes.
Don Weberg: We have a few books here that we’ve thrown out there that have been great last year. I think it was Rodney Kemmerer brought about his tales from the garage, which of course is all of his columns from inside garage style magazine. He took all of them.
Turbocharged the already very colorful, beautiful art and put him in his own book. And part of the fun thing about it is he made the book so that it was roughly the size of vehicle owner’s manual. So it’ll fit in your glove box. So you can have this thing [00:27:00] wherever you go. You can show it to your friends, et cetera.
If you haven’t read any of his stories, he’s a fantastic writer. He tells some wonderful stories. He’s got some great stuff there. So tales from the garage. You can find that on Amazon.
Rodney Kemerer: Thanks Eric and Don for having me on your podcast. We talk about tales from a garage, everyone has a car story, these just happen to be mine.
These are personal stories of mine mixed with the stories of others. Part memoir, part the memory of other people. Each story stands alone, each chapter has its own graphic language that runs through each story so that nothing is repeated. It is designed with the shape and the feel of an automotive ownership, so it fits into your glove box so you can take And I’m hoping you do take a visit.
It’s available at tailsfromthegarage. com and it’s available on Amazon.
Don Weberg: Next up, something from our very own, again, Matt Stone. He’s written a spectacular book about the DeLorean automobile. He’s spent a lot of [00:28:00] time researching this book and looking into the nuances. He brought to light some various photographs and information from Italdesign Studios, where the car was actually designed by Giugiaro, called DeLorean, the rise, fall, and rise.
And second acts of the DeLorean motor company. Again, you can find it on Amazon brand spanking new. It literally just got off the press. Another one would be from again, our very own Lance Lambert. We’ve spent years writing for Garage Style. As a matter of fact, he was our very first columnist, tremendous storyteller.
He wrote a series of books. One of my favorites is Gears, Grins, and Gasoline. Very similar to Tales from the Garage, except Gears, Grins, and Gasoline. It’s all about Lance’s personal little stories. Some of them have very little to do with cars. Some of them have a lot to do with cars, but all of them have something to do with cars.
And he takes you down that sort of Mayberry and trip down memory lane, which is always fun for car guys. Cause we’re always kind of [00:29:00] nostalgic. And of course, one of my favorites, the godfather of the movement, ultimate garages written by Phil Berg. Now he has three of these, but so far I’ve only been able to actually get ahold of.
Two. Ultimate Garages was pretty much the first major effort of putting in print collections of garages that inspire people to make their garages even better. He has some of the best garages that have ever been seen in that book. It is an older book, but it’s really definitely worth checking out. Again, find it on Amazon.
Crew Chief Brad: So I have a book from a former guest, Dr Jacques Dallaire, the book is called performance thinking and basically he takes the reader through how people in competitive environments and just in life in general, they sabotage their own success. He works through steps on how to first recognize this sabotage and then gives you the tools you need to overcome these self imposed obstacles to become the best versions of yourself.
He’s got the performance thinking version and he also [00:30:00] has one called helping kids perform, which is more how to help your children and younger kids that are in your life perform. He’s also got one for law enforcement. So you can go to his website, performance prime. com to learn more and purchase some of these books.
So he’s a past gas, a great episode. If you want to go back through our catalog and listen to a great person to talk to, please buy his book.
Bryce Kenny: Hey guys, this is Bryce Kenney driver of the great cliffs Mohawk warrior, monster jam truck, and the author of geared for life. And if you’re like me and ever get to that point, your head hits the pillow and you think, is this really all there is to life? Then maybe all you need to do is not be given some secret formula or some secret to success.
Maybe all you need to do is. Find your next gear. That’s what gear for life is all about. I would love and be honored if you would pick up a copy anywhere books are sold, go on Amazon, pick up your copy, and I’ll see you down the road at [00:31:00] Monster Jam. I’m a break fix fan. So let’s keep it rolling. Thanks guys.
Crew Chief Brad: Obviously, I’ve got a young kid, so a lot of the things that I have on here are purchasing gifts from my kids Mode, Motorhead Garage, children’s books. They’ve got a series of different children’s books getting them interested in, you know, the automotive world. What are things that dad and mom might say when they’re talking about their cars?
T is for Turbo is one of them. The sprocket rocket is about a motorcycle, the whiny supercharger. I mean, it’s all just a lot of fun books to read with your children at night. So it’s MHG productions dot com. It’s Motorhead Garage Productions.
Crew Chief Eric: Speaking of previous guests, author J. K. Kelly was on the show to talk to us about the first in his series with his character, Bryce Winters, and that was called Deadly Driver.
And then he released. The sequel to that called Switchback. So that’s available and he’s got a couple other books and a new little intro into his latest book. So let’s take a listen to that.
If you feel the need, the need to read, perhaps The Lost Bird is a [00:32:00] book for you. Check out J. K. Kelly’s other book as well, Deadly Driver.
Crew Chief Eric: And also on our Goodreads, we’ve got William Walker’s The Last Lap. This was presented at last year’s Argettsinger Symposium. It’s all about the mysterious demise of William Walker’s cousin, Peter Kreiss, at the Indianapolis 500 early days of the Indy 500. So there’s some speculation as to was it sabotage?
Did something break? Was it suicide? So there’s a whole episode on that in our catalog, but the book itself goes into tons more detail and you can find this on Amazon. It’s called The Last Lap by William Walker. Now let’s hear from future Brake Fix guests, Corvette Hall of Famer and professional racing photographer, Richard Prince.
Richard Prince: I’ve written five books, three of them are in print. The C8 Corvette book was published this year. I wrote a 70th anniversary Corvette book that was published last year, and a C3 Corvette [00:33:00] Restoration Guide book that was published 25 years ago, but it’s still in print. So, with the Christmas season coming up, it’s in the works.
The, uh, people hearing this want a, uh, nice gift for a car lover in your life, particularly a Corvette enthusiast in your life. They can contact me and I’ll be happy to ship out a signed book to them.
Crew Chief Eric: And one more on our Goodreads list. Racing While Black by Leonard T. Miller and Andrew Simon. This is all about the story of an African American stock car team that made its mark on NASCAR.
If you haven’t read this book, and if you’re a NASCAR fan, you ought to check this out. This is one of those stories, Unsung Heroes. NASCAR is still one of those sports where you can really shake the tree and you can make things happen. And stories like this are awesome. Definitely check it out. So Racing While Black, also available.
On Amazon and this along with a bunch of other books that we recommend are in our goodreads which are linked in The show notes along with this [00:34:00] episode and the last book I have but it’s also a transition into Artwork a little bit of both friend of the show one of the custodians of the green grand prix for over 20 years Painter bob gillespie wrote a book.
It’s called one track mind And it’s part memoir, part art collection where he describes the evolution of the Watkins Glen area from the early days of the first track, through the interim track, through the current Grand Prix track. It’s full of really interesting stories, quotes from very famous race car drivers, people that he’s met, people he’s painted for.
The painting section of the book alone has 84 of his over 100 and some odd paintings and we’re going to do an episode that follows along with this to dive deeper into Bob’s story and you can learn all about One Track Mind, where the inspiration for these paintings came from.
Bob Gillespie: Hello, I’m Bob Gillespie and for 2025 instead of producing a calendar [00:35:00] I’m offering a book I’ve completed containing 84 of my best paintings, 25 drawings, and 4 of my murals whose subjects span nearly a century of American road racing. This is not a book of racing statistics, but an entertaining celebration of racing moments, primarily at Watkins Glen, captured in paint.
Numerous quotes and recollections by drivers of the original Watkins Glen road circuit directly to me appear throughout the book. Additional quotes by artists relating to the creative process lend further insight and food for thought. This is a uniquely personal and sometimes humorous tour through American road racing history.
One Track Mind also describes how the encouragement and advice of well known race drivers and artists shaped my life from an early age. The book is available for 35 plus 5 shipping at my website, www. glenspeed. com. And I’d like to [00:36:00] wish everybody Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season.
Crew Chief Eric: Absolutely gorgeous book. It’s a wonderful read. It’s a lot of fun. And it gives you a lot of insight into Bob and his lifetime in motorsport. And one other little bit of trivia. Did you know he’s also the artist that drew the cover art for Burt Levy’s The Last Open Road? You’ll find more interesting stories like that in One Track Mind.
Don Weberg: Okay, so for artwork, got a plethora of places to go for. One of my favorites though is garageart. com. There’s a company that’s grown leaps and bounds over the years. It has a multitude of products for the garage, the home, the office, all largely related to the autosphere. Or the enthusiast’s desire just to enjoy a little nostalgia.
One of our favorites is the winged Honda neon sign. Nicely priced. It’s a great piece that’ll bring home some cool vibes in basically any room.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, speaking of artists, guests of the show, Kelly Telfer is running a [00:37:00] holiday sale on his art.
Kelly Telfer: Eric just asked me, what are we doing for holiday promotions and sales?
I’m going to double my retail price and give you 50 percent off everything. Including free. You might get a good painting for 500 bucks. Well, it’s an okay painting. I don’t know. You can’t see all the stuff I have. You want artifacts? Come here. I’ll give you a bunch of junk that’s really cool, but sorry UPS FedEx Love you guys, man.
You’ve saved me a million times. You’re the best. Go Raiders! Out.
Crew Chief Eric: He’s got a promo code KT441. So that’s KT, the number four, F O R 1. And the promotion goes like this. November the 1st through December the 18th, buy any four 14 prints at 60 each and get one 16 by 20 absolutely free. He’s got all sorts of really cool Porsche stuff, Volkswagen, Jeep, et cetera.
I’ve seen a lot of Kelly’s work. It’s beautiful. It looks great hanging up on the wall. My kids [00:38:00] have some Kelly tell for art in their bedrooms, which is fantastic. So again, discount code K T four for one. Transform your living room, office, hallway, bedroom, garage, or workshop with a stunning motorsport art and make this Hollist Day season one to remember.
Don Weberg: Another great place to pick up some art from is car art us. These guys handle some original commissioned art pieces by professional artists. Pete Alet, the owner of Car Art. It’s a good friend of mine, but also he can hook you up with some amazing stuff. He is a petrol head through and through. He was a designer for years at Mazda.
What’s really cool about him. Let’s say you’ve got a really cool picture of a special loved one with their special car. You can give that to Pete and work with him to find the artist that would be best. Turn that picture, turn that Polaroid into a one of a kind piece of art from a real artist. That’s really something special.
Granted, we’re edging in here on the holidays. So this [00:39:00] might be something you want to hold off for a birthday or maybe next year for Christmas because obviously the artist needs a little time to paint it. But if that’s not up your alleyway, he can also hook you up with all kinds of really cool stuff. So again, that’s carart.
us.
Crew Chief Eric: And Brad, we had pinstripe Chris Dunlop on the show. Let’s hear what he has to say.
Pinstripe Chris Dunlop: I post new stuff every week on Instagram and usually the new stuff is also listed on the website at the same time. Uh, art of chrisdunlop. com and pinstripe underscore chris on Instagram, showing new videos as regularly as possible, new artwork, and that’s usually the best way to get ahold of me.
Either contact me through the website or straight through Instagram. I’m still one of those weird people that tries to respond to every message and every comment that I can.
Crew Chief Eric: Thank you for responding to us. Yeah, I think that’s how we got connected. Yeah. Sometimes you do commissions. It’s very rare. I do that, but you will entertain ideas, but you start with always, I’ll always hear
Pinstripe Chris Dunlop: somebody out.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I, it’s just simpler that way. [00:40:00] There’s not enough time in the day to say yes to everybody. I would like to, but for the time and the expanse, I want to make sure that artwork is going in the hands of people that are like, I realize they’re just paintings of cars, but for some people, this is like part of their family, or it’s a really important part of them.
Or it’s an aspiration car. And it’s not always easy to find those types of people that are interested in artwork. But to me, there’s not one type of car person. I think there’s a lot of like passive people that enjoy cars, but there’s some really diehard car people. And I just really want to make sure that if I’m putting the effort into It’s for the people that are really serious about it.
So
Executive Producer Tania: what
Pinstripe Chris Dunlop: we haven’t
Executive Producer Tania: talked about is how does one go about acquiring some Samantha Zimmerman artwork?
Samantha Zimmermann: So for commissions, if you go to my website, you can hit a contact form and you can fill out all the information and send me an email with that, or you can send me an email directly. It’s samzimmermanart at gmail.
com. If you’re looking at buying an original for me of my produced works, I have them all listed on my website as well. I do have prints of the [00:41:00] majority of my work. Just get in touch with me and I’m more than happy to assist from there. If you have any inquiries about things I have listed on the website or prints, anything to that effect, like I said, you’re welcome to get in touch with me.
I’m more than happy to answer any questions you may have.
Crew Chief Eric: William, you’ve been awful quiet, but you’ve got some art on the table.
William Ross: You want to talk about for a man cave, but this would be someone I would say that has a rather large collection of vehicles. Those of you who don’t know who Gerald Lang is, I definitely recommend looking him up and doing a search on him.
He’s a great guy. Fantastic guy, very interesting guy. I like to tell people it’s kind of more of a modern Warhol type situation. Very big into cars, loves motorcycles. Did some trips across the U. S. on his bike. Definitely recommend checking him out. But I have a couple of his pieces he did towards the end of his life.
When he first started doing his pieces, he was very heavily into cars and motorcycles. And then he got into other things and towards the end he got back into what his passion was. Drag racing and specifically Don Garlitz was one of his muses, I guess you could say, [00:42:00] and he did two pieces that I have available.
We have a few others, but these are the ones kind of made me focus on, but the one is rather large. It’s over 20 feet long and almost six feet high, so I mean it’s a big piece of him and the Swamp Rat. I have another one smaller, but They’re very statement like pieces for wherever you may put them up again.
You know, you’re talking mid to high six figure range on each piece. These are some of some deep pockets, but they’re outstanding pieces. And if anything, I said, check out Gerald Lang, look them up online. He has with any artist. You can always buy the stuff. That’s just the copies of it and everything like that.
But he’s got some really cool pieces and he does. He’s got some stuff on Jim Clark. Delves in F1s and some of his pieces and that. So he’s got some really cool stuff. So I highly recommend checking out Gerald Lang. You
Crew Chief Eric: see, William never forgets. Money presents to the party.
Crew Chief Brad: I feel like this should be under rich people things.
Crew Chief Eric: It’s right there. My man,
William Ross: I had the same thought, Brad. It’s like, where’s this fall into
Crew Chief Eric: since we’re talking about rich people things. How about some limited edition prints that are now up for grabs signed by the man [00:43:00] himself? Juan Fangio.
Executive Producer Tania: How many thousands of dollars do these cost?
Crew Chief Eric: So what it says here, they’re in the hands of the guy that did these original prints and got them signed or whatever.
I don’t know how many he has, and this is over on Exotic Car Marketplace.
Executive Producer Tania: It was valued 500 10 years ago, so it’s not 500 today.
Crew Chief Eric: So now they’re two grand, three grand each. Okay, let’s say it’s a thousand. That’s still Fangio. Put his sharpie on it. That’s history, right? So to get a signed print, now granted it’s going to cost you 500 to ship it from Australia.
500 bucks for a piece of artwork signed by Fangio? Add that to your Christmas list. If you’re interested in getting one of these, the contact information to reach Kevin Waite in Australia is at Exotic Car Marketplace. Just search for Limited Edition Prints.
William Ross: We’re coming across and starting to get some really cool artists that are reaching out to want to get on the website.
I highly recommend checking it out. We’re really expanding what we have on the site in regards to, we’d say memorabilia. You can’t just have your cars over there. You [00:44:00] got to have the posters. You got to have like that. So we’re really trying to expand what our offerings are because once you get your car, then what do you do?
You got to buy all the trinkets and everything that go along with it to, uh, put things on your wall and everything like that. So you really need some real good ideas. You talk with Don. Now he knows all the people and get some really good ideas for your garage. I know a few
Crew Chief Eric: guys.
William Ross: We’ll come back
Crew Chief Eric: to that shortly.
But Brad, you got a couple of art pieces on this list.
Crew Chief Brad: The first site that I found is canvas for the number four walls. com. They’ve got a whole section dedicated to cars, mostly Porsches and things like that. There are canvas prints. Not quite 20 feet wide, but you can get them up to five feet wide, which anybody that’s going to put something in their house, that’s a pretty large piece of art.
They’re reasonably priced, 160, 170 for something that at large, a lot of different Porsches, a lot of overhead views of the Porsche is some F1 stuff. It’s pretty cool stuff on this site. And then the next website, as I’m sure everybody’s seen, is Petrol Vibes. They make these metal silhouette frames of vehicles.
I’ve been eyeing the Porsche 911 [00:45:00] Turbo and the GT3 RS. A lot of really cool stuff on their site. They’re all reasonably priced, less than 100. Everything’s on sale now, almost 50 percent off. Got track maps as well. They’ve got the Nurburgring. Some of them light up. They’ve got neon lights underneath. Check their website, see what they got.
You’ll definitely find something for your wall.
Crew Chief Eric: You gotta get the 9 64 silhouette to go with your 9 64 headlamp. Come on. I mean, you gotta have the matching. Of course. Of course,
Crew Chief Brad: of course. And you gotta go to that mecu on time to find your 9 64 service manual.
Crew Chief Eric: Nine 60 fours are hot right now. That’s all I’m gonna say.
Crew Chief Brad: So hot right now, . And then the last thing I have tuner cartoons.com. You basically, the way this works, you send them pictures of your vehicle, they will turn it into. Art. You can choose a couple of different styles, more like a lifelike digital image, or they can turn it into more of a cartoony image. They will send it back to you and then you can use it for making custom stickers, for phone cases, t shirts, or hoodies.
If you’ve got somebody that loves their car and you want to do something nice for them, take a picture, create a [00:46:00] t shirt for them, go to tunercartoons. com and they can go ahead and hook you up.
Crew Chief Eric: This is really cool.
Crew Chief Brad: I thought you might like that.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, that’s cool. Well played. Well, we got a new section on our holiday shopping guide music.
Well, where did this come from? Don, what have you done to music? What is this about music and cars? Those don’t go together. Wait, what is this?
Crew Chief Brad: No, it’s not like we don’t have a podcast episode about it. Not at all.
Crew Chief Eric: Brad
Don Weberg: music and cars go together hand in hand, depending on who you’re talking to. A lot of times I’ve noticed race car drivers don’t particularly agree with me.
That’s why we put speakers in our
Crew Chief Eric: helmets. You see,
Don Weberg: so, you know, for those of us who just loaf around in our Chrysler DCs, we listen to music, we have a nice time. It’s enjoyable. We have a glass of wine. It’s wonderful. But going into that, nothing goes better than just chilling out in your garage, doing whatever it is you do in your garage, and maybe having a few tunes in the background.
If you’re not streaming it to your headphones and looking like some 15 year old punk, you probably want something that [00:47:00] fills the garage space with a warm and a charm of nostalgia. And for that, I highly recommend basically anything from the Crosley company. They’ve been making radios forever, and yes, they are related at one point to the Crosley car company, but that being said, my favorite at the moment, which is.
Perfect for a garage because it’s the right size. It’s not too big. It’s not too small. It’s got great sound reproduction. It’s the Crosley Fleetwood radio CD. And the reason I love this, not only just because of its size and its quality, but it’s got two cars in the name, Crosley and Fleetwood. Perfect for the garage.
It’s a compact stereo. It’s a CD player with an FM and of course, Bluetooth in case you want to stream something from your private collection. Again, you can find it at Amazon. Just look up the Crosley Fleetwood radio CD and it shall be yours
Crew Chief Eric: for what they used to call a high five back in the day for 149 95, compared to some of the other stuff that’s [00:48:00] out there.
This is a super versatile, got all the options, AM, FM, Bluetooth. Like you said, CD player, all that. This is a really good deal. That’s a good find.
Crew Chief Brad: Not bad. Right. Don opened up the door, so I’m just going through it for a lot of us that have older cars, you know, we can’t really add a navigation to it or, you know, a lot of these newer stereo systems just won’t fit.
They’re all doubled in our cars have singled in. You can get the CarFlix portable CarPlay Android auto screen. Basically it looks like one of those Garmin GPS devices you put on your dash, except it’s a wide screen, adds CarPlay and Android to your vehicle. Connects to either Bluetooth or it can be a wired connection through aux cable.
You can also connect through FM transmitter, Tanya. I don’t know if it’ll do the cassette connection, but you can always use the FM transmitter if you have to connect to any modern phone and it will allow you to use your CarPlay or Android auto right there from the screen.
Executive Producer Tania: The FM transmitter doesn’t work very well, unless they’ve [00:49:00] made better ones.
Crew Chief Brad: I know. I think the aux cable, you can probably get it to work with the tape deck. I know the tape deck is always the best option. I had trouble with the FM.
Don Weberg: You know, I remember a time I had a Lincoln and I had an eight track player and I had an eight track converter for it to set. So I put that in there.
And then I got the cassette converter for CD and I put that in, in the eight track converter. And then I was able to run my CD player, you know, in my Lincoln. I felt so cool.
Crew Chief Brad: It’s audio and such
Don Weberg: a string of stuff coming out of the eight track. You know,
Crew Chief Brad: the last time I saw an eight track player was when my dad was throwing one out the window because it ate his eight track.
Crew Chief Eric: We’d be remiss if we didn’t talk about watches. I know this is Don’s favorite thing to talk about. You know, I went back and I listened to previous holiday specials that we’ve done, especially once we got together with garage style and started combining our shopping lists and things like that. You know, some of those watches Tag Hauers will blow your mind in terms of how expensive they are and things like that.
But I [00:50:00] found one I’m over the top. I’m macho man, Randy Savage. I’m coming in with the elbow. I’m coming in with the Bremont Isle of Man TT. Watch. Have you seen this? This is a killer watch for the Lolo bargain. Rich people. Thanks. Price of 6,
William Ross: 600. That’s actually not that bad.
Crew Chief Brad: Eric’s like, Oh my God. It’s the sexiest watch live.
William Ross. It’s not that bad,
Crew Chief Eric: man. And the price is a big money Ross. Watch here, man. Come on now. Malibu Ross.
Crew Chief Brad: It doesn’t look big money though,
Crew Chief Eric: but it’s Bremont. It’s a high end brand. You’re talking Swiss movement. You’re talking all the stuff that you’re supposed to have on the internals part. It’s a chronometer.
If you’re a motorcycle enthusiast, if you’re a fan of the Isle of man, That speaks to me. I think this is cool.
Don Weberg: Yeah, I actually really like the watch. I prefer the white face. You’re right, it doesn’t scream 6, 600 watch. I kind of like watches that are a little more subtle. I mean, come on, I wear a swatch every day.
It’s just black with a stainless face. [00:51:00] Wonder why I wear that watch. But anyway. Yeah, I like this Bremont though. This is really, really a nice looking watch and you’re right. You really can’t go wrong with a Bremont. These are tremendous watches. And they are limited production.
Crew Chief Eric: So you do have to reach out to them for availability.
Crew Chief Brad: The white ones where the black one is.
Crew Chief Eric: Either way, that’s like, oh, that’s good looking. All right. Moving on. Don, what do you got for us in the watch department?
Don Weberg: Okay. So I’m going to go from rich guy stuff only to China, rich guy stuff only. Cause I still can’t afford these things. Well, it’s one of those things almost anybody can afford one of my watches.
It’s just a question of. Are you cheap? So the first one up on the list. Nothing like a nice timepiece, especially when it’s inclined to motor sports. The Farrell and Company Watch Story is the stuff that dreams are made of. And one of their products is the Race Master Chronograph. Measuring 39 millimeters, the brushed 316 stainless steel case and domed crystal construction are remarkable.
German made with [00:52:00] Japanese movement. It features a C3 illumination and soft Italian racing style straps. And then if you don’t like that one, they have a ton of other motorsport related watches. One of which I’ve got, which is the 356 and it is a watch that literally Face of it looks like the speedometer of the 356 Porsche really kind of a cool watch.
I really like that watch
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, this is in line with the old gulf livery thing that was in vogue for the last couple of years It’s a nice looking watch. I really like the wristband the blue stitching it and everything and 39 millimeter That’s a little smaller than I think a lot of folks are used to anymore So almost a good unisex watch in that sense that it’s not too big for a lady’s wrist also Not too small To where every day versus some of these 50 plus millimeter watches that are out there.
Nowadays,
Don Weberg: one thing too, that I learned just recently talking to a couple of watch aficionados. They’re saying that they’re really big. Watch faces are actually starting to lose traction. People are buying smaller and smaller. [00:53:00] They want a little bit more of that subtle look. They want something that doesn’t might stand out as much as maybe they used to.
One of my buddies is a dealer. He’s actually having trouble moving. These heavier, larger watches, he’s having a lot of trouble selling them on the used market. Nobody wants them anymore. So at 39 millimeters, it definitely does step in line with, you know, what modern people are looking for.
Crew Chief Brad: I like the British racing green version.
Yeah. That’s that one speaks to me with the cream band.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. So moving down the list. You’ve got another brand that you’re pretty fond of. I do, DePansel. Is it DePansel or Depan sel?
Don Weberg: That I don’t know. Depan sel, Alpine versus Alpine, however you want to say it. They are a maker of fine motorsports inspired watches, and one of our favorites is the Allure line.
Available in a multitude of colors and faces. Our favorite features, the performance blue leather strap. It measures 39 millimeters, got a Sapphire crystal and a blue face assembled in France. You can find out all [00:54:00] kinds of cool stuff about the DePansel watch company. Again, at the DePansel website. Like Ferro, they too make a ton of different styles of motorsports inspired watches.
So if you don’t happen to like the Allure or you don’t think the person you’re going to be buying it from might be a fan of it. They should have something there that’ll tickle your fancy
Crew Chief Brad: again. The allure stradale that a day is really speaking to me. I’m, I’m a huge fan of British racing green right up my alley.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, you know, what’s cool about these? It’s the little details that you have to really focus in on. Like the watch bands between. The Depencel and the Faro and company are very similar, but if you notice that the Depencel, they have this extra little bit of stitching, it’s like a red, white and blue for, you know, the French flag or whatever it is, and I think that’s neat.
And when you really start to focus in on it, you start to notice other little details like that, that they’ve added in as accents to make it stand out. And it’s not something ostentatious, you have to look at it like three times to go. Is that what I think it [00:55:00] is? So I think that’s really cool. And for the price, you get all those little extras and those little Easter eggs, if you will.
That’s neat. It’s something to talk about. And when people look at your watch, like, wow, that’s, I’ve never seen anything like that.
Don Weberg: Yeah. One of my favorites, I’m looking at it right now. It’s called the Elegance 24H Panda. If you don’t run your cursor over it, it’s just a white face with the black chronograph and then black straps with the perforation.
I think that watch is absolutely stunning. It’s very simple. It’s. 40 millimeters. So just a little bit bigger, but I look at that watch and the simplicity of it, the beauty of it. And it’s just a stunning looking watch. But to your point, Eric, yeah. When you really start looking at it, you do see the little details like the little red stripe in the crown.
Yeah. If you look at the stitching, it’s just a beautiful watch. The whole family has gorgeous watches. You want something
Crew Chief Eric: sub a thousand dollars. You should definitely be looking at this.
Don Weberg: Well, I mean, look at that one, that Panda I was talking about, it’s been cut from 650 to 395. That’s a hell of a cut, [00:56:00] it really is.
And
Crew Chief Eric: there’s some rebadged fossils out there for that price, if you want to go in that direction. So why not get something unique like this, a little bit more boutique. Especially, they’re making their own components now internally, so that’s kind of cool. But, you can’t just go out of the house with watches.
You gotta have some fashion to go along with it.
Crew Chief Brad: One of the sites that I posted, the Cafe Leather site, they’ve got like those overnight bags and those small road trip type bags.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, I’m glad you brought that up because another place to shop for stuff like that, fine leather goods that are motorsport inspired, is actually the Le Mans store.
And again, going back to David Lowe talking about, you know, the discounts you get and things like that, becoming an ACO USA member. I mean, the discounts are pretty steep. You can get upwards of 50 percent off, but if you go to the lemans. org and go to the store, which you can look at the French version, but switch over to English, you’ll see the leather jackets that they have.
They have some really, really cool stuff. 1959 Le Mans inspired Shelby jackets. They’ve got the bags, they’ve got the purses, they’ve got the backpacks. I happened to [00:57:00] see their leather goods in person when I was there for the 100th. And you would walk into the booths. You knew exactly what you were buying.
You knew what you were getting. That was that rawhide smell. It was real leather. It’s really nice. And so when you look at it, you don’t go, Well, that’s some Chinese knockoff stuff or whatever. This is really nice. So when you look at the price, You go, I’m getting graded leather for that kind of money, plus your membership discount, it’s well worth checking out the LeMans store.
Don Weberg: Who is the company building on what you’re saying about the 1950s Aston Martin racing suit? William knows then. Shu Teal. Because I know they
William Ross: have a lot of that stuff. I first discovered them when I was at Pebble Beach. Sterling Moss wearing their one polo, but yeah, they make all that retro and stuff like that.
They got some really neat stuff. They don’t have like a ton of product, but the product they do have is really cool.
Don Weberg: Wow. These guys aren’t just making bags. They’re actually trying to cater to the motorsport community. So I thought that was really nice too.
William Ross: Jordan bespoke’s got some really gorgeous leather bag wear and that, you know, they do the inside linings, like they’ll take like a golf logo or [00:58:00] Lotus or something like that, they do some really nice stuff.
Don Weberg: And car people are known for throwing a few clothes in a, in a nice bag, throwing it in the trunk and going away for the weekend. The point’s unknown.
William Ross: It’s kind of like along the line with like watches, but also with the bags. But I’ll still look at something and say, Oh my God, I spent how much on this?
But a nice bag, a nice watch. That’s something that’s going to last you, you take care of it your lifetime, especially on bags. You start getting that patina to it and the wear. I say that from just getting tossed around. I need to get that really cool look that just over time, you get it. And that’s one thing you look at this stuff.
We have someone that’s got to wear with all the pay 1500, two, three grand for a bag. So we didn’t get the guy only can afford something that’s, you know, 50 bucks. So the problem is, is the guy that bought the bag for the higher price, he’s only going to buy that one for, to have that forever. Another person, you buy a bag.
Two, three years later, it falls apart. They buy another one. Two years later, they buy another one. You spend those few extra dollars, you’re going to have something that’s going to last you a long time because it’s just built better. It’s made better. The quality is better. Everything like that. It’s just, it’s a lot nicer product.
Crew Chief Eric: And I think a lot of this is culminating into this whole trend that we’re seeing of dress like your [00:59:00] heroes. And we sort of alluded to this last year without really knowing about it. There was a lot of Steve McQueen stuff and a lot of other things that were surfacing in our world. And we’re kind of looking at Fashion and bags and attire and accessories like watches and things like that.
But now we’ve got the Shelby collection, the new Lamont’s fall collection, which has other dress like your heroes type of thing. And then we take it to a whole nother extreme, right? William with the whole Tazio Nuvalari collection.
William Ross: Yeah. I mean, you’re getting very specific. And again, though, the nice thing though, it’s not stuff that you might’ve seen to say 10, 20 years ago, it’s just a complete knockoff type cheap crap.
They’re getting made over in China or something, you know, this stuff is very nice quality. product. Tying in with using Tazio Nuvolari’s name. What’s great with these guys, especially the magazine as well, they’re working together. The magazine, Tazio Nuvolari Collection Clothing line, but then also the museum, they all kind of work hand in hand, and they’re great guys.
Oh, me and Eric done some stuff with these guys. They’re really great people. Plain on the name, whatnot, but it’s a name people know, and the [01:00:00] people that know the name are the target market that they want to go after too. People that really love racing and know the history of racing, they’re going to go after.
And knowing who Tazio Nuvolari was, it plays a big role in it.
Crew Chief Eric: Porsche is getting into that game too. They just announced two weeks ago, the Andiol collection is now available through Porsche. com. Have you seen this stuff? We’re talking retro, motorsports inspired Porsche collection. One of the more famous, Privateer Porsche builders is Andy all it looks so cool.
You got to justify the price, but it’s like, man, this stuff is pretty awesome. And I know Brad is a fan of Brown. Brown is back again, but they’ve also contracted with major suppliers like Puma and others to be able to put the Andy all livery on all this attire. And again, this is dress like your heroes type of stuff.
And I think this is really cool. Talking about falling prey to the Instagram gimmicks and whatnot. My wife got me a gift. I consider it an accessory. I consider it apparel. And I got to shine a little bit of light. [01:01:00]
Don Weberg: She got you those. That’s awesome.
Crew Chief Eric: So basically they’re working gloves or you put them over your gloves and they have little LED lights on your pinky finger and your index finger.
So you can shine light. Where you’re working. Don’t look like for someone who’s got an issue with porn. They are very S and M like I don’t get it, but you know, I do have the glasses with the LEDs in them, which are pretty cool because then again, you’re shining light where you’re looking and it’s not that goofy headlamp.
Look like you’re like a minor in the old days of Pennsylvania or West Virginia or something like that. So these are kind of neat. I don’t know how they’re going to hold up because I worry that they’re just going to get dirty. They’re kind of cool. They’re super lightweight. They’re pretty easy to put on.
So I’ll give them a try. Worst case, I’ll use them for something else. I also want to highlight, my daughter and I, we were at this year’s Comic Con. We have a collection of art from a local artist, Ben Leung, who does this sort of almost caricature style. He does these really cool recreations of like the scene from Friends, where they’re all together, but it’s like comic book characters.
[01:02:00] And he does Darth Vader with Luke and Leia as kids, you know, giving them ice cream and they’re on like the Tilt A Whirl, and it’s a really good Fun way to reimagine some of the classics. My show and tell for this one is the t shirt that I’m wearing right now because when I was at Comic Con I went to his booth to check out what he had and I could not pass up buying his interpretation of the classic drift anime series Initial D.
So he did the RX 7 and the AE 86 together drifting down Mount Akina in his style. The shirt’s awesome. It’s a very nice Heathered black kind of almost jersey material very breathable. I love wearing this shirt. It’s a lot of fun I thought it was 39 bucks well spent for something unique done by an artist rather than done by a machine or done by ai So I thought this was really cool And you can pick up stuff like this by visiting his instagram page and we’ll have the link to that in the show notes as well
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Executive Producer Tania: And don’t forget about Blipshift as an alternative for car design t shirts as well. Not just shirts, but go to Heeltred if you’re [01:04:00] interested in socks. There’s a little bit of a partnership on Blipshift. So when you go to their website, you will see Heeltred socks on their site. So you can order them through Bloopshift or go directly to Heeltread.
Crew Chief Eric: And I got one more t shirt for you guys. These we had designed for GTM’s 10th anniversary. These are Sparco inspired. These are limited edition. We do have limited sizes both in men’s and women’s cut. In black and in white. Celebrating our 10th anniversary, starting in 2014. So these are the Grand Touring Motorsports Enthusiasm shirts, 10th anniversary, again, a lightweight, breathable t shirt, machine wash, all that kind of stuff.
We put the design together based on a vintage Sparco design that we saw. So I really liked these. These were a lot of fun. We had these when we were at the Argent Singer Symposium earlier in the fall. But if you’re interested in getting. Any of these give us a shout crew chief at gtmotorsports. org or sign up for patreon and we’ll send you one if we have a size that matches and if we have enough demand maybe we can do a second run or something like that [01:05:00] but we’ll be posting more details about the 10th anniversary t shirts on the clubhouse website so that’ll be over at club.
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Crew Chief Brad: circling back to don’s point about the bags and everything a cool website i found cafeleather. com They’ve got some pretty neat car inspired things. What really drew me to the site was their leather racing gloves or leather driving gloves. Uh, and then they’ve gotten overnight bags, general apparel and watch straps and, and various, you know, leather and canvas, you know, items and stuff.
But the leather driving gloves are what really got me. They also have a relationship with Audi because they do a Audi RS inspired leather racing glove is really just got the RS logo on the racing glove. So that’s kind of cool. So check them out at cafeleather. com.
Crew Chief Eric: Again, you’re the guru of garages, so we need to talk about tools and other fine garage gadgets and items.
Executive Producer Tania: So if you’ve walked around your local Lowe’s recently, you would have seen them debut already earlier this year, these mini cobalt tool chests. So [01:06:00] imagine your big tool chest in the garage, but this is a two drawer, 10 inch by six by six toolbox that On the surface, you’re going to go, what am I going to put in there?
And maybe it’s not great for the garage, but I could see this going in an office. If you had the desk space to be supplying pencils, pens, whatever else, you know, little notepads comes in a variety of colors. I’ve seen the blue in the store. I’ve also seen, they’ve got like a pink edition, I guess, trying to cater to, you know, ladies or whoever likes the color pink coming across all the colors, red, silver, green, black, blue, pink, so on and so forth.
So if you’re interested in like a little mini mechanics toolbox tool chest in your home, check out your local Lowe’s. They’re only about 20 bucks.
Crew Chief Eric: Did you notice that they released the second version? So now you can stack them. There’s a topper. And the bottom. So you can have a double high one. Nice.
Crew Chief Brad: Do they come on little caster wheels?
So you can wheel them around your desk. You can buy those at Harbor Freight.
Crew Chief Eric: I did see these in person as well. I, and I literally had the same thought that Tanya [01:07:00] says, like, what am I going to do with this? But then I kept playing with it. I’m like, I got to find a reason to have this. There’s got to be an excuse to have this toolbox.
Cause it is pretty cool.
Executive Producer Tania: Be cool. If you’re a crafter of some sort and you’ve got like a craft area and maybe you stack a couple of them and that’s where you’re putting supplies for. Scissors and knives and things like that.
Crew Chief Eric: How many brick separators can fit in that? That’s a
Executive Producer Tania: lot.
Crew Chief Eric: To go with that, maybe to put inside of that mini cobalt tool chest there is these new style ratcheting screwdrivers.
I’m sure all of us has tried different ratcheting screwdrivers at some point. They’re good for about five minutes. And then you realize that they kind of suck, whether it’s the handle turns or the top turns, or it’s this and that. And take a standard ratchet and put some sort of screwdriver bit in. I mean, there’s all sorts of weird combinations.
The latest one I’ve seen is a tap and die style. ratcheting screwdriver which I thought was actually kind of interesting and I’m willing to try out especially if you can pick it up somewhere like a Harbor Freight or Lowe’s or whatever. Again this stuff kind of comes across [01:08:00] on Instagram from time to time so if you’ve ever played with the tap and die you know it’s got a long t bar style handle and then you put the bit in through the center and it locks in and then you just rotate it.
In this case, they’ve made the rotation pin, then ratchet the whole piece and then use that T bar for additional leverage. They call it a 24 in one magnetic screwdriver set clocking in around 40 bucks. DeWalt
Executive Producer Tania: actually makes a gyroscopic screwdriver. And so with the turn of your hand, it’s variable speed, that motion will initiate the screwing or unscrewing.
And then the more severe your hand movement is, the faster it will rotate. So that does exist. You can actually go to your local Lowe’s or local Lowe’s website and order one. I have used one before. It was surprising. Because I’ve never used something like that before, but it does work.
Crew Chief Eric: Will it torque out of your hand, or is it pretty good about when it slows down or stops?
Executive Producer Tania: It might have an anti overtorque to it, I don’t recall.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, speaking of [01:09:00] overtorquing and Brad’s favorite torque specification, Gutentight. Brands like GearWrench, even Snap on and Craftsman, they’re all stepping up. You’ve seen the number of teeth escalate in ratcheting wrenches over the years. I think we’re now finally into triple digits.
I was reading the other day, I forget which brand it is, it has 128 teeth. tooth wrench now. And I always joke that I live my life a quarter turn at a time. And basically that quarter turn movement can now rotate a bolt head almost 360 degrees with very little input. So I’m a little bit of a skeptic. I’m a little bit apprehensive because I’m sure something like that is going to be expensive, but I am willing to try it because there are some jobs that It just takes way too long because you have no space.
So anything that saves space and saves time, I’m willing to give it a go, which is why I have like 13 different size, 17 wrenches. All right, Brad, you got a couple of things for the garage.
Crew Chief Brad: Just a couple that came out of like necessity from just recently working on my own vehicle. Realized that inside my [01:10:00] garage, I did not have enough light.
So I found the Nyko rechargeable cordless under hood work light. It’s got soft hooks that wrap around the edge of the hood. So it hangs there while you’re doing some work on your motor and everything. It’s cordless. So you don’t have to worry about tripping over the extension cord when you’re running around looking for your 10 millimeter.
Crew Chief Eric: Those things are a game changer. Once you buy one of those,
Crew Chief Brad: you
Crew Chief Eric: throw all the other lights away, basically. Except for those finger lights I showed you guys earlier.
Crew Chief Brad: And since my next job is going to be under the hood specifically, one of these is definitely going to come in very nicely. And then next on the list for me is the Fluid Evacuator from Tool Discounter.
The next couple of jobs I’ve got is the DSG service and the Haldex service. And being able to extract the fluid out of the transmission is definitely going to be key. So one of these be pretty nice sitting in my garage next to
Crew Chief Eric: my new light. You can do your oil this way too. If you run it down through the dipstick, that way you don’t have to get under the car and strip the oil pan bolt anymore.
Crew Chief Brad: Well, there you go. No more, no more from auto
Crew Chief Eric: valve. That’s right. If you have a top Mount oil [01:11:00] filter, you don’t need to jack the car up. But in the case of the older cars, especially, you know, the old VWs with their aluminum oil pans that you pray to whatever you believe in, every time you take that bolt out that you don’t strip the pan, putting it back in, this is a great way to not have to deal with that ever again.
Don Weberg: Getting out of tools, going into stuff you can slap on the walls. Some of the finest reproduction signs in the business I’ve seen come from Reedyville Goods. They aim to please with a huge selection, ranging from the food and beverage industry, to humor signs, to the automotive signs, to circus signs, to tobacco signs, to the gas and oil signs.
Literally, the sky is the limit. If you want to create your own sign, ReadUVeil can make that for you. In fact, Garage Town Magazine’s Garage Tour Award signs were made by ReadUVeil Goods. One of our favorite signs right now is the El Mirage sign. We have pictured On our website, it’s very unique. We’ve never seen anything like this before.
And again, El Mirage, if you don’t know that, that’s kind of the desert [01:12:00] version, the dust bin of the salt flats. It’s where guys go to run hot rods, run experimental vehicles, see how fast they’ll go, El Mirage is really, really a cool place. Next up would be Busted Knuckle Garage, with a plethora of items to choose from.
The BKG brand has become synonymous with humor and good times in the garage, with a touch of nostalgia. Their barstools are second to none. I think I promote these every year because I really do like their barstools. They are terrific. Each one features great designs. Our favorite is the Winged spark plug, but you can find your favorite one at Busted Knuckle Garage’s website.
Same with Reedyville Goods. Just look them up on the web and you’ll find whatever it is you want.
Crew Chief Eric: Hey Don, you know what? You always talk about what belongs in the garage and this and that, but how about garages in general? Our friends at New Jersey Motorsports Park are now introducing an off season winter storage program and I think this is actually really cool because they have these big garages that they use during the year in the paddock.
And they [01:13:00] can be entered from both sides and they’re generally empty when the track is closed. So what they’re doing is they’re making them available from December 1st through March 1st, before the season kicks off, and you can park your car, your trailer, whatever you want. You can store motorcycles, all sorts of power sports equipment, and whatever you have inside of their garages there at the track.
It’s actually kind of cool because they’re selling per bay for a thousand bucks. So to store your car, your trailer, your rig over the winter to get it out of the snow for a thousand bucks. I think that’s a pretty good deal.
Don Weberg: Yeah. I like the idea. That’s really good. But can you decorate it or is it just, you put your car in there and shut up and go away?
Well,
Crew Chief Eric: you only get it for three months.
Crew Chief Brad: Can you put your car on jack stands and constantly take your tools over there to work on it?
Crew Chief Eric: I think you could. They say that electric is included. I mean, why would they include electric other than for the winter? I guess for battery tenders, verified access, they’re locked and they’re secured.
And they say it’s ideal for vehicles, boat, trailers, power sports equipment. And the base size is 15 by 26 [01:14:00] with a 10 by 20 doorway.
William Ross: Well, it looks like they got three different options on this. The way it looks like on the site, you got shade tree garages, VIP garages and event garages. It looks like the two options are your own garage, but.
It doesn’t look like it’s amenities, so to speak, but then your event garage is where you’re there. Then obviously they have those full blown garage condos that are all the rage now that are going up all over the country. Obviously depending on your budget, it can be basic or be full blown garage malls.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, the holidays are also a time of giving. Like we’ve done in the past, we want to give some shout outs to some charities.
Don Weberg: Yes, you’re right, Eric. There are a lot of charities and tis the season for giving back and supporting those who are looking for a little bit extra love this year and who isn’t.
One of our favorites comes from Deb Pollack. She established Drive for a Cure, which is raising lots and lots of money for Parkinson’s research. A disease near and dear to her heart. If you go to her website, she explains all about it. So you can always make a [01:15:00] nice donation there, help her and her paws, even get a little tax write off if you want to.
Bill Warner’s book, On the Other Side of the Fence, it’s a wonderful pictorial of his history running around, literally the United States, taking pictures at different motorsports events. Interesting thing about Bill’s book. He put this all together himself. He got it published himself. 100 percent of the proceeds go for Spina Bifida research and support.
Near and dear to Bill’s heart.
Bill Warner: Hi, this is Bill Warner in Jacksonville, Florida. And I want to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And I’m also here to promote a book that I did on six decades of motorsports photography from my first race at Sebring, Florida, 1960 to the present. So if you like photo books, this is it.
Each one’s got a little story behind it. To be honest with you, it’s my life from the time I was 16 years old to today. This includes a story from when I did a story with Andy Gibb. On a Gimbala Avalanche Porsche [01:16:00] down at West Palm Beach, Punty Story. I have to thank my friends, Jokin Moss, David Hobbs, Brian Redman, Hurley Haywood, Roger Pinsky, Mario Andretti, Derek Bell, Peter Brock, for the lovely liner notes they did for the book.
They were great to support it and they’re in the book too, so. Each photo has a story behind it. It’s more than just a photo book. So if you’re interested in me, a nice Christmas present for anybody who’s into auto racing and into photography, the book is available through Spina Bifida Jacksonville, or you can send an email to me at Bill Warner at bwracing.
net. And I’ll vector it over to them and we can get this book to you by Christmas. The price is a 100 donation to Spina Bifida Jacksonville, so it’s completely tax deductible. All proceeds from the book go to Spina Bifida Jacksonville to take care of those people born with a terrible birth defect called Spina Bifida.
Drop me a note. Have a Merry Christmas. And thank you so much.
Crew Chief Eric: And William, you’ve got some that are near and dear to your heart. Yes, I do.
William Ross: I help out a couple entities [01:17:00] in my area. One is aluminum cans for burned children. And what’s beautiful about this, we work with over 100 local fire stations. And at those departments, we collect aluminum cans.
And also with fundraising events, donations and whatnot, we help support pediatric burn survivors. We send them to a couple summer and winter camp. So twice a year, you can send them off to a camp and we do it ourselves. They may need started doing something else that we started doing raffles throughout the year and currently right now Don’t buy some raffle tickets.
We are raffling off two half cases of Buffalo trace whiskey So if you’re a whiskey person, you can win yourself six bottles whiskey Acbcohio. org and you can go into the event section you’ll find under there
Crew Chief Eric: and William a little birdie told me you’re working on a Slot car track with David Beattie from Slot Mods Raceways for charity as well.
David Beattie: And for the listeners out there in 2025, William and I are going to work together in bringing a track for a donation to raise some funds for his charities, a charity of his choice. Cause I’m at a point where I really want to give back in any way I [01:18:00] can.
William Ross: But my other thing that’s near and dear to my heart also is I’m a big animal advocate.
I volunteered a couple of animal shelters in my area. Go there, walk dogs, what have you, but I also foster dogs and cats. One thing to understand is a couple hours a week. You could go one day a week for two hours. You don’t have to adopt an animal. You can foster, you can donate. There’s so many ways you can help support your local animal shelter.
Just look into it. Like I said, you’re not looking for 40 hours a week. You can just go there for an hour or two a week. To help walk the dogs, play with the cats. There’s so many different things you can do. They need people just to go in and interact with the animals. What workers you want to do is go for two hours to play with some dogs or puppies or some cats and kittens, and just give them some exercise and give them some entertainment.
Wherever you’re at in this part of the country, look into your local charities. There’s many, many ways you can help out these entities, not just financial, but time, whatnot. There’s a lot of things you can do to help. So just look into it. It’s a very rewarding to help out.
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org. We support cannabis prisoners, non violent. If you haven’t heard of us, [01:19:00] check us out, freedomgrow. org. We do it all through volunteer efforts on our own time. And we support these non violent cannabis prisoners and their families. We do holiday gifting. We do it all through donations. So please check us out, freedomgrow.
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Crew Chief Eric: All right, switching gears for your ride. I know Tanya loves these. I’m gonna get her a set. This is gonna be in her stocking. I bought a set for myself, and I have to blame John Summers, the motoring historian for this, for the Auxedo replacement LED headlight bulbs.
Jon Summers: I’m watching Furious, driving that YouTuber.
Probably too annoying for you. He’s in Kent. He has what you would describe as shit cars. Let’s just cut straight to the chase. But I do like him. I think it’s because I’m just attracted to these YouTubers who have large amounts of terrible vehicles. That they nobly try and keep going, or maybe idiotically try and keep going.
But look, he has this, you know, MX 5, whatever. He has this [01:20:00] relationship with this company called Quartzito, who do H E V life. And it put me in mind of remembering the days when it was cool to do business and travel. When I drive home, I, uh, left late at night. I was running not that fast, but fast enough, you know, a number that I don’t really want to mention on the pod.
And certainly it was fast enough that we came over a rise and over the rise, the road changed direction and I was in the decimals. I was off the road in the desert, literally a cactus up against the nose of the car. Anyway, long and short, having got going again, I realized that what had happened was I had been running too fast for the throw of the headlights.
So in that moment, I was like, I want proper lights. Always wanted HID brighter lights. Surely be able to get the bulbs, right? I don’t want spotlights to make the car look like a rally car at the front of it. I just wanted better bulbs to go in the same. This is what Orbzito do. And this [01:21:00] is the interesting shtick.
I, uh, mentioned it on a previous poll. And what I mentioned was the furious driving advantage. I had bought some on the back of that, on the back of me buying. They mailed me and said, did I want a discount code? I said, yes. My discount code is Motoring Historian. It gives you 15%. That’s awesome. Awesome.
Crew Chief Eric: And you can use promo code motoring historian to get 15 percent off your order of these drop in, no hassle, no fuss, no muss, no ballast, LED replacement bulbs.
I think they’re awesome. It sucks for everybody else on the road that has to see them as I’m coming toward them, but I am not blind. I do not travel by braille at night with a candle out the window like I’m Paul Revere. It’s awesome to be able to see at night. And if you could see Tanya’s face right now.
Executive Producer Tania: I’m restraining
Crew Chief Eric: myself.
Crew Chief Brad: Don’t hold back. Not to go down a [01:22:00] rabbit hole of what we discussed last drive thru. You are why. You are the problem. Why people are getting their windshields tinted. It’s because of these HID lights.
Crew Chief Eric: Think about taking an old crappy headlight and making it awesome. That’s the whole point.
No, they were fine. They were bright enough.
Crew Chief Brad: It’s good enough for a race car on a racetrack. It’s good enough for me on the street.
Crew Chief Eric: Fine is the enemy of great. These are great.
Executive Producer Tania: Can you put these as just the high beam so I can blind everybody else who has these as a regular light? Then I’m into this.
Crew Chief Eric: So if I can’t convince you to buy some oxido headlight bulbs, then I guess we should talk about car care.
We should really clean our headlights. Maybe we should use buffing products or something like that. I
Don Weberg: just did.
Crew Chief Eric: The
Don Weberg: headlights on the Honda with a Griot product, fan bloody tastic. I cannot believe how easy it was to restore the headlights on the Honda. It really had some fogged out headlights. Griot’s [01:23:00] garage ceramic headlight restoration kit.
A real life kit. It comes in a box complete with the, uh, nitrile gloves, the oxidation remover. And the ceramic headlight coating, as well as handheld little circular sanders that you just stick it on like Velcro and you go to town following their instructions, literally to the letter. I was amazed at how easily it ate up all the fog, made them clear.
They literally look very, very, very close to new headlights. So if you or your loved one are in cleaning headlights, or there are some headlights in the family that need to be done, Rio’s Garage Ceramic Headlight Restoration Kit.
Chuck Bennett: Is car wax the perfect holiday gift? I’ve been asked that many, many times. Many years. Somebody wants to give something to someone who loves cars and you don’t know what to give them. Most holiday gifts say you bought something sophisticated or cool. But do they say, [01:24:00] Hey, I know what you love and I love that about you.
Where cars are concerned, there’s a passion involved. There’s fun, there’s thrills, but we need to remember that loving a car is a big job. You’re right. Giving somebody a 16 can for the holiday can be hard to understand. Sometimes it’s not the car that you need. It’s the car that needs you. So let’s talk about a real gift.
Zymal was created because of a love for cars and the exciting people who share a passion for them. We strive to make the best products based upon what kind of fresh ingredients we can find available in nature. This brings the highest quality and absolute best products that any collector or enthusiast could want.
We want people to understand that we’re part of that love for the automobile. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s a grass buggy or a brand new Ferrari. It’s the love of the automobile and the reason why we’re here. When you think [01:25:00] about the holidays, think about that person that really loves that car.
What would bring a smile to their face? It could be something as simple as a card, or it could be some Zymol. We want to wish a happy holiday to everyone from Zymol.
Don Weberg: Number one on the list is Root66, a new wax product by Zymol. Lending their love of natural ingredients and the open road, the Zymol wax company recently released their all new Root66 product line. The complete kit is packaged in a special box and contains the wash, spray wax, and the microfiber. Take care.
Very, very cool for the holiday season. This kit can be personalized with a picture of your favorite car on the box. So if you have a loved one who had a really nice car or a great picture, they love of the car. You can send it to Zymal and have it emblazoned on the Route 66 box. So that’s kind of fun.
Well,
Crew Chief Eric: better still, you use that link that Brad had to get it all cartoonified and then put it [01:26:00] 66 box.
Don Weberg: That’d be fun.
Crew Chief Eric: Absolutely.
Don Weberg: Find that at Zymal. com.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, Don, since we’re still on the topic of DIY and detailing and things like that, and I know that’s a topic that’s near and dear to your past as a professional detailer yourself.
You and I sat down with Dan Williams from Owner’s Pride, and he reached back out to us and he was excited. Excited to let us know that they are kicking off their holiday season with an exclusive early black Friday deal. So for the entire month of November, you can get 25 percent off their premium 16 ounce and one gallon detailing chemicals.
No codes are necessary. The discount is automatically applied to checkout and it applies to favorites like eco wash, which we talked about on the episode with Dan, their ceramic detailer, their ultra wash as well as their bug blaster. So you can learn more about the sale. And all the owner’s pride products at owner’s pride.
com. And don’t forget to tune into the break fix episode that we did with Dan earlier this year. So you can learn all the details about how it works in his own [01:27:00] words.
Crew Chief Brad: I’ve got a list of things that I’ve just been eyeing over the last couple of months for my various vehicles. To start, anybody that has a full size pickup truck, if you’re not exactly my size, it can get difficult to reach things in the back of the truck sometimes.
Rough Country makes a pickup bed cargo storage box that straps into the end where the tailgate is, and you can basically slide it in and out. It creates a nice little bucket, essentially, for you to put your stuff in so it’s not rolling around, doesn’t roll all the way up to the cab and you can’t reach it.
It’s reasonably priced, only 180. So if you’ve got a full size truck and you have trouble reaching things, or even if you put your groceries in the bed of the truck, this is a nice to have. That’s pretty cool. Adding on to the truck bed cargo box from Rough Country. If you’ve got a little bit deeper pockets, you can get the decked truck bed drawer system.
I’ve been eyeing this for years. It’s hard, thick plastic with big drawers that slide all the way back to the cab of the truck. You can put anything in there pretty secure when you lock the tailgate. They don’t take up too much [01:28:00] space. Yeah, you lose some bed height. Fairly expensive, like 1, 500 to 2, 000, depending on your truck and stuff like that.
But they sell boxes and stuff that fit into the sliding drawers and everything. And I think it’s really cool. I’ve been eyeing these for a couple of years. I just haven’t been able to drop the money on them. My truck came with both seats and they’re getting a little weathered now having had the vehicle for seven years.
Been eyeing, you know, catskin leather interiors, but a much more affordable option. I found Seat Cover Solutions. They make luxury looking seat covers that are custom fit to the vehicle. And they’re fairly, uh, reasonably catskins, which can be well over a thousand dollars. These are in the few hundred. So check them out, SeatCoverSolutions.
com. Next on my list. Having just worked on my car and had it on jack stands for a couple months, obviously the battery died, could not get it started, it would not jump, trickle charger didn’t work, I ended up picking up a Noco Boost Plus GB40, put it on the car, hit the exclamation point button, it [01:29:00] started the car in seconds.
From a dead battery. 100 on Amazon. Best 100 I’ve ever spent. Leave it in the vehicle with you. It’s amazing.
Crew Chief Eric: Amen. I’ve got one of these too and it has been a lifesaver. It is awesome. You can charge it with a cell phone cable. I mean, it’s incredible what you can do with this very small lithium power pack.
Yeah. And you can jumpstart, not one car, but multiple cars off of a single charge. And it’s really, really good. It’s worth the money. I haven’t found anything quite like it.
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. The noco products are really, really good stuff. This particular one, the GB 40 will charge gasoline vehicles up to six liters and diesel engines up to three liters.
So it’s a very wide range of vehicles that this little box can handle. And it’s compact, it’ll fit, you can charge it right in your other vehicle if you have it with you for emergencies. Next on my list, anybody that’s been on a road trip with Eric, no road trip supplies are complete without your Target or Big Lots plastic bag as your trash bag.
Crew Chief Eric: I thought you were going to say 11 hours. With no music or NPR.
Crew Chief Brad: [01:30:00] No, that’s what the Sirius XM, uh, subscriptions for now, but we’re going to replace those plastic trash bags hanging off your glove box with the Duluth trading trash commander or compact portable car trash bag. It’s cloth throw your little trash in there.
You take it and you dump it somewhere else. When you’re done, it. Takes up about as much space as the plastic bag, but then it’s always with you. So,
Crew Chief Eric: you know, what’s good about this, Brad, this is really helpful because where I live, it’s really hard to get plastic grocery. You got to pay for them.
Crew Chief Brad: They’re 5 cents
Crew Chief Eric: if you can find them, but you know, what’s even more difficult is hanging a paper bag from your glove box.
So this is ideal.
Crew Chief Brad: So there you go. Yeah. Duluth trading. This next one’s just for fun. You know, everybody’s got a car. Winter’s coming up.
Crew Chief Eric: You’re going to be a jabroni if you buy this.
Crew Chief Brad: We don’t want our cars to get cold. We don’t want our gear shift levers to get cold. So one more funny has a hoodie car gear shift cover.
Jabroni. I don’t need to say anything else. It’s basically all I’m going to say is, uh, it’s a hoodie for your gear selector. They come in multiple colors. [01:31:00] They’re 17.
Crew Chief Eric: They are kind of cute though. You’re coming around still jabroni. And one last thing for your ride is a reminder that as we’d like to say on the show, everyone and every car has a story.
So don’t forget about a great stocking stuffer for the petrol head in your life. How about picking up an auto bio tag? That way you can tell the story of your vehicle when you’re at the next cars and coffee. But let’s hear from Paul and Katie Ruprai about how it works and the promotions that they got going on during the holiday season.
Paul & Katie Rooprai: Autobio tags are 49 and that’s a one time fee. It’s yours for life. You can edit it as many times as you want. There’s not a subscription. That is actually the most gratifying thing to share with people is that you are getting your own personal webpage. that you get to customize and you get to tell the story for 49.
We do offer group discounts. So if you have a club or a large collection or something and you want to call us, we’re happy [01:32:00] to work with you on that. And around the holidays, we do offer a buy two, get one free special, which is very, very popular. It’ll be coming up around Black Friday and running through the holidays.
So if we show up at a show, it’s always a buy two get one. It’s a show special as well. They make really good gifts for the car lover and you, you know, you know, you’re going to give it to somebody who is not going to be afraid of the technology. Really nothing to be afraid of. They do make good gifts.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, guys. Wouldn’t be a drive through if we didn’t have some rich people. Things.
William Ross: You gotta put yourself in a new Ferrari. You got some bunch for sale, or a nice Porsche, gimme a call. You wanna get the ultimate Christmas gift for yourself? Get yourself a nice car.
Crew Chief Brad: I’ll have my wife reach out William .
Crew Chief Eric: But if you can’t put a Ferrari in your garage, how about some miniature Porsches?
David Beattie: Right now I’m deciding to release these new, um, half scaled Porsche nine seventeens. They’re art cars, which would be a fiberglass shell, which would be airbrushed, hand painted with rubber wheels and everything, and it would be similar to the 917 that we did. You flip a [01:33:00] latch, the track opens up, and then you, there’s a miniature Le Mans raceway in there.
In 143rd scale, instead of on 132nd, you could actually have, in your office, thing would be about, maybe 7 feet long, 3 feet wide, 917, that opens up and it’s got a miniature raceway in it. And you can race slot cars. And when you’re not racing it, you just click a button and it closes. Looking to bring to market in 2025, there’ll be limited editions.
There’ll be the Steve McQueen, uh, number 20, the winning Salzburg Porsche, the red with the white livery. If
Crew Chief Eric: you’re interested in these hideaway slot car tracks, be sure to check out slotmods. com for more information. Oh, look at this. We have more rich people. Thanks.
Executive Producer Tania: Make sure you put down this winter. If you’re one to ask Santa for presents, maybe you want to ask him.
Ask for this if you’re expecting a little bundle of joy in the future. How would you like a Lamborghini for your baby?
Crew Chief Eric: Wait, wait, wait. Are we talking like Bugatti Baby 2? Because that’s been done before.
Executive Producer Tania: No, we’re talking about a limited [01:34:00] edition baby stroller.
Crew Chief Eric: No!
Executive Producer Tania: Yes. A Lamborghini baby stroller could be yours.
Is it named after a bull like all the other Lamborghinis are? There’s only going to be 500 made. The price isn’t revealed yet on it. But the basis of this stroller costs a thousand dollars. So expect it to cost more than a thousand dollars. Is that all?
Crew Chief Brad: It’s actually not terribly outlandish for a baby stroller.
Crew Chief Eric: Do you know how loud Lamborghinis are? This would frighten the child. We’ll go down there. You know, you know, that V10 sound that they make.
Crew Chief Brad: That trooper that pulled you over would give this person a ticket. 100%.
Crew Chief Eric: I do like the orange stitching though, that is super nice.
Crew Chief Brad: I’m gonna do that to my baby stroller that I probably won’t be using once Adam starts walking.
Boom, done.
Executive Producer Tania: Bring out some Lambo stickers, put them on.
Crew Chief Eric: Yep. So much cheaper.
Executive Producer Tania: Feel like I have a
Crew Chief Eric: Lamborghini. We have to do a holiday update.
Executive Producer Tania: There is news on the front [01:35:00] of the Bugatti Baby 2. No!
Crew Chief Eric: No.
Executive Producer Tania: As if the original Bugatti Baby 2 wasn’t enough, there’s two new things for you to check out on their website.
First is new liveries being released. Nation colors. There’s a blue and white livery. There’s also USA, Monaco, Germany, France, Netherlands, and Belgium grouping. So check out all those different colors. But the most exciting addition
is
Executive Producer Tania: The Carbon Edition Bugatti Baby II. Inspired by the W16 Mistral Roadster, been developed in partnership with the Headley Studios, and each of these are hand built to customer specifications.
The exterior and interior detailing mimics that of the W16 Mistral. The ideal addition to your collection.
Crew Chief Eric: For the low, low price of Enquire. Too much. If it says Enquire, we know the rule, right? You don’t want to know how much it costs. Carbon fiber, it’s got a [01:36:00] way less than the original Bugatti BB2. So now that takes your speed key, you got to be able to squeeze a couple more mile an hour out of this thing.
Executive Producer Tania: You know, it doesn’t talk about that. So we know the top speed of the Pursang and the Vitesse are 45 miles an hour.
Crew Chief Eric: It’s got to do 50.
Executive Producer Tania: Power to weight ratio. Maybe one or two mile an hour more.
Don Weberg: I guarantee if you put me in that thing, it won’t do 45 miles an hour.
Crew Chief Brad: There’s no way. We’d love to focus on the Bugatti Baby 2, but this company, Headley Studios, they make a Bentley.
We make the Bugatti. They have a Ferrari Testarossa J. They’ve got the Aston Martin DB5.
Crew Chief Eric: That’s like the Harrington Go Karts then, right? They do the same thing. We talked about those the last time.
Executive Producer Tania: Well, I believe we did this on a past episode where we each chose from the other models which one we would get.
If it wasn’t the Bugatti and the
Crew Chief Eric: prices were all the same and quiet
Crew Chief Brad: more than you can afford, pal.
Crew Chief Eric: Exactly.
Crew Chief Brad: Baby Bugatti.
Crew Chief Eric: [01:37:00] Well, it’s time we go down South for some eggnog and reindeer.
Executive Producer Tania: All right. So Florida, man.
Crew Chief Eric: Wait, wait, wait. Before we get into that, how do you plan to defrost your Turkey this year?
Executive Producer Tania: I mean, you could just put it in a Tesla and wreck the Tesla.
William Ross: You buy some of those led lights and put those in and just. Park your turkey in front of those lights. That probably does.
Executive Producer Tania: I like that.
Crew Chief Eric: We’ve learned in the past the recommended ways to throw it in your pool, but you know, I’m gonna leave that where it is.
Executive Producer Tania: You could also put it in your Malibu with some candles. Speaking of that, I saw something on Facebook that was an interior shot. Imagine that sitting in driver’s seat looking through the windshield and there were three lit candles on the dashboard and it was defrosting.
It was [01:38:00] defrosting the windshield actively.
William Ross: That’s outstanding.
Crew Chief Eric: Boom. Now we understand. Going back to drive through number one, it has taken us 50 episodes to figure out why somebody put candles. In their car. You’ve solved the mystery. It’s over. We’re done.
Executive Producer Tania: Except I think that person was in Florida. So what they were defrosting, I don’t know.
But back to present day. So we’ve got a good one here.
Oh boy.
Executive Producer Tania: And there’s a video. Florida man smashes porch pirate’s getaway car with rental cyber truck.
Steve & Izzy EILFM: Wait,
Executive Producer Tania: what? It’s a lot. So what happened is random dude, apparently through this company, puts his cyber truck out for somebody to rent. So his Cybertruck is out in the world.
Random dude 2, he’s driving around in rental Cybertruck. He’s on his way home, he strolls up his neighborhood street. What does he see? He sees some guy hurriedly running down his front property. Jumping into a Genesis G80.
Crew Chief Eric: Because he’s stealing the [01:39:00] Christmas presents off of his porch.
Executive Producer Tania: The porch pirate, and this guy finds him.
So what does he think to do? Floor it. What does he want to do? Catch this guy. So watch the video. Watch what happens. Wait for it. Wait for it. Wow. I don’t think he intended necessarily hit him, but he intended to block him because you could only make a left turn at the end of this street. Wow. He couldn’t stop in time.
So not only did he do a good maneuver here, that he got the guy into a tree, But then, unfortunately, he also wrecked the Cybertruck, and in the beginning photo, the whole article, that’s extensive damage on the Cybertruck.
Crew Chief Eric: Didn’t look like that much of a hit. I thought he was gonna pit maneuver him. Angle he was going in.
Now, I will say, he went into warp drive. It was like Picard. Engage maximum warp, right? I mean he just flew up on him. I was like damn that thing can scoot
Crew Chief Brad: watch the other video I did not
Crew Chief Eric: expect
Crew Chief Brad: him to hit the
Crew Chief Eric: tree
Crew Chief Brad: the video from the ring camera You see the guy running a second later. You just see the truck just shoot past
Crew Chief Eric: [01:40:00] whoa Dude, that guy was going back to the future.
There should have been fire underneath those tires. Luckily,
Executive Producer Tania: there wasn’t after he crashed into the back of the Genesis. Great Scott,
William Ross: Marty.
Executive Producer Tania: Wow. That’s going to be covered on Arturo’s rental agreement. Supposedly, they are covering it through the insurance. That’s what the article is saying at that time.
Crew Chief Eric: See, he was a vigilante, self deputized. It’s Florida laws, right? What’s it called?
Crew Chief Brad: Stand your ground.
Crew Chief Eric: Is it stand your ground?
Crew Chief Brad: This is not stand your ground.
Crew Chief Eric: Robbing his Christmas presents off the porch. That’s a good one though. I like that.
William Ross: Elon responded to it. Elon’s got to have said something about it.
I’m sure he’s seen that. I’m sure he’s got a good quip about it.
Crew Chief Brad: The department of government efficiency needs to weigh in. The doge, the doge department needs to
Crew Chief Eric: weigh in. Well, folks, it’s time to quickly go behind the pit wall and talk about motorsports news. In this case, we’re not going to talk about news.
motorsports gifts.
Executive Producer Tania: Don’t forget that you can become an ally of Women in Motorsports North America, WMNA, and also you’re still in time to [01:41:00] sign up for their annual Women in Drive Summit. This year it’s being held right before PRI, the week of December 9th in Indianapolis.
Lyn St. James: I would appreciate that you promote Women in Motorsports North America because that’s ongoing and obviously a lot of your listeners are probably women or young girls or females.
You know, I do have a book out that’s been out for a while, so it’s not new. If people just go to my website, they’re in my garage and I ship them out. And if you tell me you want me to autograph it, I’ll autograph it. Love going to the races. Just go to the races, man. Just go to the races. Have fun.
Crew Chief Eric: Dave Peters and the crew from hbdejunkie.
com would like to extend some discounts to all of their followers. You can use code HBDE junkie at checkout or call Linda and mention HBDE junkie when buying from apex performance to receive 10 percent off. And you can also save 10 percent at G lock breaks by mentioning HBDE junkie when you call 1 844 9 breaks for [01:42:00] your next order.
Crew Chief Brad: Did you know that you can buy track days or gift cards to track events for the petrolhead in your life? Organizations like Hooked on Driving, Chen Track Days, David Murray Track Days, and many others offer you the ability to buy track time for others.
Jason Kennedy: Every year, uh, Auto Interest sells promotional value gift cards for Black Friday.
So if you check out our website in the weeks leading up to and right through Black Friday, you can buy a gift card and pay less than face value for it. So that’s our annual promotion to check out for the holidays. And that’s auto interests with the nasa. com.
Chris Cobetto: Well, the other thing from NASA is I would say that at hyperfest, if you want to come out, if you’re not exactly sure whether you want to get on track, it’s something that you just want to try.
We have something called hyper drives, which is basically a single session HPD E cause we start with HPD one right from the very beginning and have a ladder up through time trials and racing. And if you’re just not sure if you want to get out, if you want to try a sort of low impact [01:43:00] time, but with one of our certified instructors, for 80 bucks you can get on the track and do a 20 minute session.
And it’s a taste test of what we do, and it’s very low impact. So if somebody wanted to check that out, they would just need to come to any one of the NASA events actually in Mid Atlantic, run Hyperdrive sessions. We have a lot of them at Hyperfest. At VIR
Crew Chief Eric: and for the HPDE organizers out there, Joey O’Hara from Track Rabbit, the Motorsports registration platform reached out and he wanted to let HPDE organizers know that they’re offering a 3% deal across the board on their platform for their system.
It’s a 2% credit card fee and a 1% platform fee. So if you’re looking to revamp your HPDE registration system for your next track season, be sure to reach out to Joey at 3 0 2 7 5 7 7 4. Do
Crew Chief Brad: you love garage sales? Do you need to stock up on equipment for next season? Project motoring has some clearance items like undergarments and 2024 production belts good for [01:44:00] five years and you can check it out at projectmotoring.
com forward slash collections forward slash garage hyphen sale
Crew Chief Eric: And we mentioned NJMP earlier. Well, guess what? Not only can you get some garages for the winter, they’re also having their annual Black Friday sale. And instead of things from the pro shop and this and that, they are now offering 50 percent off their private track memberships.
So this is your chance to step up and live out the driver’s dream and secure an exciting
So I got to frame it for you guys. The NJMP drivers club standard memberships are generally available and priced at 20, 000 for the year. So for a limited time, only November the 12th through December the 1st, you can pick up that driver’s club membership for a cool 20, 000. 10, 000 bucks. With that membership, you can receive professional instruction from experienced drivers to master each of NJMP’s two road racing racetracks, Thunderbolt and Lightning.
And don’t forget that Thunderbolt, not [01:45:00] only was it just recently repaved, but is being expanded. Again, you’ll be able to race on the new track before everyone else. You’ll gain access to pro driver days where seasoned professional drivers will lend one on one advice to you as a member. They’ll do track walks, they’ll look at your data, all those kinds of things.
Not only that, you can enjoy delicious catered breakfast and lunches at the finish line pub and relax by the exclusive outdoor pool with your family and your friends, because you’re hosting them as guests as part of your membership. The driver’s club is perfect for those who have a need for speed, looking to improve their driving skills while enjoying the company of the motorsport community, and you can learn all about this exclusive package at njmp.
com. And learn more about the driver’s club benefits and discounts and how to apply before the sale ends on December the 1st, we recently had a Paul Ragsdale, the founder of the autoverse on break fix, and he has an affiliate program and you can get and give 10 percent to you or your network of friends.
If you use the [01:46:00] code GTM 24. When purchasing a paid membership to the autoverse, the way it works is they’ll get 10 percent off the base membership currently valued at 33 bucks, and you get a 33 referral commission. So all he needs is when you sign up for the autoverse use code GTM 24. In addition to that, the IMRRC’s Corvette Sweepstakes is continuing through February of 2025, and it is your chance to win a 2024 Corvette Z06 with a Z07 package.
Details on the Corvette are available on racingarchives. org. If you don’t want the Corvette, that’s okay. There’s always a cash option, and we talk about a really awesome Christmas gift. The proceeds from the sweepstakes go to benefit the continued operation of the international motor racing research center in Watkins Glen, which is a 501c3 non for profit organization.
All right, Brad, we’ve reached that point. Take us home.
Crew Chief Brad: Uh, William, honestly, I didn’t realize you were going to be on the show. So the [01:47:00] gift I have for you is a free membership to our Patreon. So I hope you enjoy it. Eric, of course, for you, a triple A membership for the next time the van breaks. Oh,
Crew Chief Eric: wow.
That’s a good one. Damn.
Crew Chief Brad: Those are my gifts to you all. I hope you enjoy them.
Crew Chief Eric: So, Don, any Christmas gifts or wishes for someone on the panel?
Don Weberg: I wish you all very well. I’m gonna buy you all a copy of Matt Stone’s book about DeLorean so we can all speak intelligently about it.
Crew Chief Eric: Tonya, did you select gifts for anybody?
It doesn’t have to be everybody. Did you select any gifts for anybody on the panel?
Executive Producer Tania: No, I forgot we were doing that.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, that’s okay, because I’m getting you some Oxido LED headlight bulbs, so it’s all good. Guaranteed, you’re getting this. Oh, Bradley, I don’t know. What should I get? The man who has everything.
I don’t have any. Lies, lies. I have to think about it. I have to think about it some more. I want to be sneaky about whatever you get. It’s just going to show up, and [01:48:00] then some cyber truck pirate is going to take it away, unfortunately.
William Ross: Exactly. You know what? There’s always something out there to float your boat.
Talk about all this stuff, and that’s the thing. There’s so many Entities out there that produce stuff, depending on what you’re looking for. If you want something to reproduction, what have you, but all the way up to the full blown custom artwork pieces. And that there’s some really, really cool stuff out there that you can collect and whatever you’re going for.
It’s really interesting when you start looking into it, you can go down that rabbit hole pretty quick and go down pretty far to find some really neat stuff. And again, you got something that won’t break the bank. You find stuff in there for, you know, 20, 30 bucks. You can find stuff for 20, 30 grand. So, Hey, what are you trying to find?
And what are you trying to do with what you want for? I mean, you’re just looking for something for your office. to put on the shelf there to stare at or you’re looking for something to put up on your wall to take up an empty space in your garage because you know next to your car and stuff like that.
There’s just so much cool stuff out there. Hopefully people check out things that we’re recommending and start looking at stuff because they said there’s a lot of cool stuff out there. It says I go on the website as well. Got a lot of cool links for a lot of cool stuff to go hunt down. So there’s a lot of neat stuff out there.
Just go out there and look and go [01:49:00] shop.
Crew Chief Brad: As a reminder, you can find tons of upcoming local shows and events for the holiday season at the ultimate reference for car enthusiasts. Collector car guide. net. We also want to remind people, if you’re looking for that extra special, something to make your garage office, den, or man cave, just a little bit extra, be sure to check out garage style magazine.
com for a list of upcoming auctions and events, along with a curated list of items going up for sale all over the country so that you can make your space unique.
Don Weberg: While we’re still biding our time to get back into print, the digital realm has been very rewarding and interesting. That said, we have a number of back issues still available, and while many have been sold out, lost forever, a few remain.
Check our website for more details on garagetownmagazine. com
Crew Chief Brad: Because after all, What doesn’t belong in your garage?
Executive Producer Tania: It’s been an amazing year for our team. And up to today, we’ve already beat our goal for the year, producing over 100 episodes in a season on the Motoring Podcast [01:50:00] Network, which includes shows like Break Fix, The Motoring Historian, The Ferrari Marketplace, Evening with a Legend, What Should I Buy, and of course, The Drive Thru.
There’s tons more to come as Season 5 concludes in February. We head into all sorts of new and exciting programming for the 2025 season, so stay tuned to Break Fix Podcast and our digital magazine at gtmotorsports. org.
Crew Chief Eric: You’ve probably heard us say many, many times that you can sign up for our Patreon for free and there’s lots of great extras and bonuses on the free tier and this and that, but there are folks in our community, friends of the show, that have gone the extra mile and signed up.
For one of our sponsorship tiers. And we want to acknowledge those folks personally,
Crew Chief Brad: Ashley McAnally, and it’s all in the cards. Podcast
Crew Chief Eric: Bob Barr from the society of automotive historians,
Executive Producer Tania: Mark Shank,
Crew Chief Eric: Mark Hewitt said with such grinchy sarcasm, Bob Gillespie and the green Grand Prix corporation,
Executive Producer Tania: Romano Conti,
Crew Chief Eric: Nicholas Matthews, Janet and Brian were [01:51:00] still
Executive Producer Tania: Andrew Maureen,
Crew Chief Eric: Brett and Michael Sonnerby American muscle.
com
Executive Producer Tania: Brian Young.
Crew Chief Eric: David Scherf. John Caffeci and Project Motoring.
Executive Producer Tania: BJ Harrington, Harper Holmes, Michigan.
Crew Chief Eric: Sean Roberts. Harry Brill.
Executive Producer Tania: Rebecca Griffith. Ryan
Crew Chief Eric: Compton.
Executive Producer Tania: Ron Richter. Dr. Gordon Bell.
Crew Chief Eric: Embracer Ron Sherry. Mike and Chrissy, Storytime, Crutchfield. Additionally, we’d like to thank all of our sponsors who helped us this year.
Start off by saying a huge thank you to William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace,
Crew Chief Brad: Garage Style Magazine,
Executive Producer Tania: the motoring historian John Summers,
Crew Chief Eric: our team at ACO USA,
Crew Chief Brad: collectorcardguide. net,
Executive Producer Tania: hptejunkie. com,
Crew Chief Eric: Our friends at the international motor racing research center
Crew Chief Brad: and project
Crew Chief Eric: motoring and many, many others.
Executive Producer Tania: And remember for everything we talked about on this episode and more, be sure to check out the follow on article and show notes available at gtmotorsports. org.
Crew Chief Brad: And a thank you to our co host and executive producer, Tanya. Along [01:52:00] with our other co hosts for this episode, Don and William Ross, thank you so much for coming.
And to all the fans, friends, and family who support GTM, without you, none of this would be possible. Happy holidays, everyone! Ho, ho, ho! And
Don Weberg: we’re out. Please stand by. As the idiot you’ve invited to your show, Is trying to screw everything up.
Crew Chief Brad: I thought that was an actual voiceover.
Don Weberg: That’s cool. Thank you.
Crew Chief Eric: Are you guys ready for this?
This is my favorite drive thru of the year because we get to do show and tell. This is pretty awesome.
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah.
Crew Chief Eric: Okay, I guess I’m the only one showing.
Crew Chief Brad: So, so excited.
Crew Chief Eric: So hot right now. All right. All right, Brad. If you’re ready, let’s rock and roll.
Crew Chief Brad: Am I saying, do you have any Christmas? No, no, no, no.
Crew Chief Eric: That was, that was the other part.
And just, you can skip over that.
Crew Chief Brad: You know, I read literally everything that’s on Ron Burgundy folks. Yes.
Crew Chief Eric: Do you want Don to do the ho ho ho? He is Santa Claus in this particular episode. I
Crew Chief Brad: mean, it doesn’t matter. Ho ho ho. See, that’s
Don Weberg: good. You should give [01:53:00] it that Tom’s Groover. Ho ho ho. Don’t you remember that?
How does that go? Now I have.
Crew Chief Brad: I don’t think we need the rest of the intro. I think we just start with that. Yeah. We’re good. Uh, does everybody have the document up first of all, so they can see unlike you,
Crew Chief Eric: we came prepared.
Crew Chief Brad: Oh, Oh, I’m always never prepared. It’d be nice if I actually read through the show notes,
Crew Chief Eric: try to
Don Weberg: arrange that stuff.
What website is this? You guys are on.
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, I put a, I put a hyperlink in there.
Don Weberg: I’m not that tech Eric, come on now. I’m going to write it down and send it to Carrier
Crew Chief Brad: Pigeon with the website for you.
Executive Producer Tania: I tried to click on it and like a couple other links, my antivirus got angry with me with the big thing in the middle of my screen saying, I was under attack, so.
Don Weberg: Actually, Eric, I want to interject something because you made me think, which you know how bad that hurts me. I don’t like doing that.[01:54:00]
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The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), partnering with the Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), presents the annual Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History. The Symposium established itself as a unique and respected scholarly forum and has gained a growing audience of students and enthusiasts. It provides an opportunity for scholars, researchers and writers to present their work related to the history of automotive competition and the cultural impact of motor racing. Papers are presented by faculty members, graduate students and independent researchers.The history of international automotive competition falls within several realms, all of which are welcomed as topics for presentations, including, but not limited to: sports history, cultural studies, public history, political history, the history of technology, sports geography and gender studies, as well as archival studies.
The symposium is named in honor of Michael R. Argetsinger (1944-2015), an award-winning motorsports author and longtime member of the Center's Governing Council. Michael's work on motorsports includes:
