Garage Hour

11/08/2024

Has a year passed since the last Garage Hour post on this thing? Sheesh… New episodes are dropping all the time, including from - down the uploads while you can.

It's an afternoon at AutoVos with Brown Caleb, White Mark and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort.  There's a good chat on recoloring your coach with the new SVG dry PPF (SVGIP.com), tinting technique (using XPel), and a secret tint job for a Porsche that's heading for Kansas, and a visit from the Boys in B...

05/07/2023

Crashy Crashy (or, Don’t Be a Menace in Virgina While Crashing your new BMW in High School) - this Garage Hour’s got snap-lift oversteer and some sort of Dukes impression. Get it too.

Geeks don’t want politicians taking away their freedom to roam, nor ruining their gearhead life (geek powa!), and the skill-set guys (aka: geeks) won’t let snap-lift oversteer derail an otherwise enjoyable 120mph joyride in the 3-Series daddy just bought ‘em.  Meanwhile, back at the garad...

05/06/2023

Is this thing on? Gearhead salad, covered in awesome. Yes, have some (because new episode):

Thoughts from the gearhead planet...  Sticky tires and Bilstein PSS9s, Doc’s Elise and Ryan’s Alpina, pie-faced ditzes and Porsche mugs, Teslas trying to burn down mid-race, BMWs and their airbags, electric STis won’t hunt (or go hillclimbing, or all day), new and used car prices up about...

03/04/2023

All new episodes, all the time (but rarely posted here)... Now what the duece is going on with used-car prices?

We’re busy building things and fixing stuff, so have a rundown: - used-car prices gone crazy (again), w/ financial pressures, interest and inflation hikes, shortages of cars/parts/money - misbegotten gov’t overreactions making the aforementioned worse - manufacturer costs inflated by electric ca...

31/01/2023

Some wintry gearheadventure would be juuuuust about right: http://traffic.libsyn.com/garagehour/HWGH121222.m4a?dest-id=171714

12/09/2022

While we’re at it, a freshie:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/garagehour/HWGH080822.m4a?dest-id=171714

12/09/2022

Love the smell of irony in the morning... Ford raises the prices of its four-wheeled farces by about exactly how much the feds just kicked back to taxpayers per e-mobile fraudopted

Ford is reportedly raising the price of the 2023 Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle by as much as $8,000 just a few weeks after increasing the price of its planned electric pickup truck the F-150 Lightning. Although the company blames inflation, supply chain problems, and "rapidly evolving market condi...

02/07/2022

Post-race goodness from the mountain: da Garage Hour does Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (Official Site) - !
http://traffic.libsyn.com/garagehour/HWGH062622.m4a?dest-id=171714

Too much good stuff:  with the Pike's Peak International Hillclimb done (full-length, too!), it's down to the whos, the whats and the hows. Racecar: Mustang, Camaro, Bronco, Wolf, 911, Cayman GT4, Evo, 935, Taco (spaceship), Tesla, Sierra, M3, NSX, WRX, STi, Audi 4000, Charger, 'Cuda, Boss 302S...

29/06/2022

History, man. ...And it was a spicy fight that sent this champ ALLLLLL the way to the bottom:
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-deepest-shipwreck-wwii-ship-philippines.html

A U.S. Navy destroyer es**rt that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest sea battle of World War II in the Philippines has become the deepest wreck to be discovered, according to explorers.

29/06/2022

While we’re still cleaning up from the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (Official Site) and mixing up some post-race coverage, have an episode about international gearheads cleaning up hills:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/garagehour/HWGH061622.m4a?dest-id=171714

Our friends at Focus on the Forest have built a grassroots non-profit that picks up trash just like we all should, and because the Garage Hour runs what we brung and hauls what we brought, we got together so you can too. Whether you're out in the woods for some four-wheeling, biking, shooting or cli...

22/06/2022

Meanwhile, that’s a nice business you’ve got there. Be a shame if some bureaucracy happened to it.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/06/14/j-b-pritzker-loses-another-illinois-company-caterpillar-moves-to-texas/

22/06/2022

Oooooooo, it’s that time of year... is on this weekend, and the Garage Hour goons will be on-site. !
Have some pre-race sauce to whet your whistle:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/garagehour/HWGG060422.m4a?dest-id=171714

12/06/2022

Spend an hour with some gearhead reality.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/garagehour/HWGH030522.m4a?dest-id=171714

Don't let the progressives regress your success: it's a brand new Garage Hour, complete with 16-Volt, Sepultura and Metallica, plus why your new Maverick, Mustang and Blazer still ain't an El Camino, plus the upside of a Samurai still being a Jimny (ladder-frame, bitches!).  Because cars have t...

12/06/2022

Pesky facts, always getting in your reality.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/hilariously-awkward-moment-for-gm-ceo/

Kristin Zimmerman | 95% of the power comes from coal                

08/06/2022

Late-night gearhead analysis: yes, have some.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/garagehour/HWGH040222.m4a?dest-id=171714

When you've got too much to do but no daylight to do it, be the night owl. With syrupy tracks and big thoughts, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort pours on the goodness: why Ukraine's war hurts your auto parts (neon!), how mental environmentalists' tire-slashing campaigns aren't making them friends, how pay...

08/06/2022

Seems problematic...
https://fee.org/articles/a-gallon-of-gas-now-costs-more-than-the-federal-minimum-wage-in-these-us-cities/

As nearly 40 million Americans prepare to travel for Memorial Day weekend, they’re confronted with an unpleasant reality: gasoline prices are through the roof.

28/05/2022

History, Schmistory...
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cannons-found-in-georgia-river-believed-to-be-from-british-ships-during-the-american-revolutionary-war

— News —Cannons Found In Georgia River Believed To Be From British Ships During The American Revolutionary WarBy Leif Le Mahieu•Apr 30, 2022 DailyWire.com•FacebookTwitterMailmicrogen via Getty Images. Nearly 20 cannons found in a Georgia river are believed by archeologists to be from Britis...

28/05/2022

It’s all ball bearings nowadays.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/garagehour/HWGH050322.m4a?dest-id=171714

Holy freakin' sequel, Batman - the Garage Hour goons gathered up the Chi-town hustlers for another armpit-adjacent gearhead free-for-all, and spicy meatballs happened. What's it? Cutting cars in half in auto shop, why electric Jeeps still aren't going to four-wheel (but the Gladiator is semi-driveab...

25/05/2022

What’cha know! This is still a thing.
The Garage Hour certainly is.
Have some thinking:
https://www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/experts-question-green-claims-for-electric-vehicles/article_394d8422-c259-11ec-9d48-f37fb0928fb9.html

(The Center Square) – Some experts this Earth Day are questioning whether electric vehicles (EV) are actually as environmentally friendly as initially claimed by automakers and government officials.

03/08/2021

The Garage Hour likes busses powered by dinosaurs. ...And semi-on-bridge violence. Grab the episode at GarageHour.com and on your favorite syndicator - thousands do every day.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/garagehour/HWGH071421.m4a?dest-id=171714

03/08/2021

The pending electric bus fire (can you fit a bus in that dumpster?) being spawned by government cronyism at the highest levels does not a good transit department make. Remember, crony capitalism isn’t bad capitalism, it’s bad socialism.
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/proterra-bus-fire-prompts-california-agency-to-consider-shelving-electric-bus-fleet/

A nearly $1 million electric bus manufactured by Proterra caught fire while charging in a southern California city that is now considering taking the fleet of electric buses off the road, according to government records.

03/08/2021

Automakers are famous for going which ways the politics are blowing (witness directional shifts by the likes of Ford and GM after an America-last Asterisk admin took office), so don’t put tooooo much stock in claims like this beyond their momentary PR value. However, leave it up to fancy and self-absorbed Mercedes audiences to be susceptible to this sort of horn-footage.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/mercedes-sketches-out-all-electric-scenario-by-decades-end/

Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz is stepping up its move into electric cars Mercedes sketches out all-electric scenario by decade's endBy DAVID McHUGHAP

15/07/2021

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, have some hillclimbing. ...On-mountain race coverage from PPIHC 2021. Down the upload.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/garagehour/HWGH062721.m4a?dest-id=171714

15/07/2021

What’s the saying? ...Something Something Something, need new conspiracies because the old ones keep turning out to be real... “Right to Repair” is a real issue - one more time, the Garage Hour calls it, years in advance.
Hat-tip to the Woz and Just the News, too.
https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-endorses-right-repair-movement

Advocates believe consumers should be able to undertake their own repairs and modifications.

14/06/2021

Hereyago - Copart: an excellent way to blow hours of your day.
https://www.copart.com

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