BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Podcast
Break/Fix Podcast is all about capturing the living history of people from all over the autosphere. From wrench turners, to artists, authors, racers, designers and everything in between. Our goal is to inspire a new generation of petrol-heads that wonder ”how did they get that job? or become that person?” The road to success is paved by all of us. #everyonehasastory
Episodes
4 days ago
4 days ago
Jon Summers is the Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. On his show he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, motoring travel.
Jerry Reed - East Bound and Down
J & Son attend the opening of the world’s first big rig hydrogen station, with associated government and electric truck razzamatazz
The Press Conference and a digression on nomenclature
What colour is “pickle”? An existential discussion
The First Element dude
The Carb Lady
The Hyundai dude (with the waistcoat that rode up)
A Good Question from the LA Times; how clean is the wrap around technology?
The Cummins rep and people who leave the rock show before the encore is over
J’s digression on getting stuck in muddy car parks at Silverstone, and sleeping in the company Vectra
O’s digression on his favorite car - Texaco/Havoline Porsche 962 and Joe’s Soft Serve
“The Science Bit”, which J didn’t understand “A dude with a beard and no hair…..and a bunch of pipes in a shipping container”
O operates the Actual Gas Pump for Hydrogen
O mocks his father’s skills with Podcastle
True Zero
Hyundai
Nikola - which requires a different pump attachment to “hydrogen up”
J chat’s with Hyundai rep: “why now?”
Hydrogen is not competing with Diesel, rather with BEVs for last mile/fixed routes, because -
400-500 miles range (diesel trucks might do 800/day)
Better Payload
Faster refueling
Better vs. natural disasters
The hydrogen station as a single point of failure; may work for some fleet applications, but not right for over the road owner driver truckers
Visual bait and switch - looks like a cabover sleeper truck, but actually what looks like the sleeper hides the hydrogen tanks/. Which “look like missiles”.
“If California is to meet it’s zero emissions goal in 2046, hydrogen must be part of the solution”
So how fully baked is this? J was less convinced after a drive around the Port of Oakland and chatting with real truckers
O reviews the two trucks; Nikola seemed far more wholistic, next generational design, while the Hyundai felt more of the parts bin special it is.
The game changer of one pedal driving; O feels he could drive it, J feels we are very close to autonomy
The challenge is clearly around the delivery of hydrogen, not the trucks
J feels soon the smell and noise of diesel will soon be like cigarette smoke in bars - recently gone, and already forgotten
Rainbow - Man On The Silver Mountain
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5 days ago
5 days ago
Preston Lerner is a freelance writer who has covered racing for the past four decades. For many years, he was a regular contributor to Automobile Magazine and Road & Track. Lerner is also the author or co-author of six books, most recently Shelby American: The Renegades Who Built the Cars, Won the Races, and Lived the Legend. The material used in “Television Turns Its Gaze on Motorsports” is drawn from his upcoming book, The Deadliest Decade, which examines the safety, commercial and technological developments that transformed racing from 1964 to 1973.
Lerner’s presentation covers the early – and often controversial – efforts of TV to bring automobile racing into American living rooms. In 1961, a segment from the Indianapolis 500 time trials was broadcast as part of ABC’s new Wide World of Sports program. During the next few years, racing coverage was expanded to include Formula 1, Le Mans, NASCAR and even USAC dirt-track races. Television dramatically expanded the reach of the sport, which, in turn, attracted major commercial sponsors. By the 1970s, racing had been transformed into the global commercial engine we know today. Yet from the beginning, enthusiasts had a love-hate relationship with ABC. On one hand, TV coverage confirmed that racing was a legitimate sport rather than a tawdry carnival sideshow. On the other, serious fans found the broadcasts puerile and sensationalistic. The camerawork was shaky, the commentary insipid and the focus on accidents infamously morbid. Coverage of the fatal wrecks of Lorenzo Bandini and Roger Williamson inspired widespread disgust that led to improvements in safety. This was an unintended consequence, but it was a product largely of television’s unblinking eye.
This episode is part of our HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS SERIES and is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family - and was recorded in front of a live studio audience.
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7 days ago
7 days ago
The Gentleman Driver gives an inside look into the lives of four extraordinary businessmen who moonlight as race car drivers at the highest levels of sports-car racing.
You might be asking yourself right now? Am I having Deja Vu? Didn’t Break/Fix already cover the Gentleman Driver documentary? Well… you’d be partially right, we’re actually rewinding the clock all the way back to Episode 4, of Season of 1, but this time instead of a panel of critics, we’re joined by brothers Toni & Santiago Calderon who were involved in the making of the Gentleman Driver to get their behind the scenes view on the who/what/why and importance of this film.
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Thursday May 02, 2024
30 years after Tamburello... Celebrating the Greatness of Aryton Senna
Thursday May 02, 2024
Thursday May 02, 2024
Jon Summers is the Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. On his show he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, motoring travel.
On this episode of The Motoring Historian, Jon Summers reunites with Crew Chief Eric from Break/Fix Podcast, and William Ross from The Ferrari Marketplace Podcast to unpack, discuss and celebrate "the greatness" and the legacy of world renowned Formula 1 driver Aryton Senna, on this 30 year anniversary of his tragic (and accidental?) passing at Tamburello corner at Italy's Imola circuit. Jon covers Senna's history in racing, the highs as well as the lows, and attempts to answer the question "Is he still... the Greatest of All Time?" (GOAT).
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Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Drive Thru News #44 - It's a slow news month... but we're still gonna #sendit!
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Episode #44 of the Drive Thru! Break/Fix podcast's monthly news episode containing automotive, motorsports and random car-adjacent news.
Showcase: IT'S A SLOW NEWS MONTH! - BUT WE'RE STILL GONNA #SENDIT.
Reviewing the 2024 Green Grand Prix at Watkins Glen
BMW unveils the first fully color changing car!
It's illegal to build the Alfa Romeo Milano outside of Italy? Huh? What?
Thoughts on the Maybe/Not Maybe... Aprils Fools: Acura Integra Convertible?
Stellantis sold NEGATIVE ONE Chrysler 200 last month!
Cybertruck production halted for accelerator pedal cover issue
Dealership Employee Reportedly Wrecks Ferrari F40 in Tunnel
Let's talk about the Ultimate Ultimate Highway Hoopties
Moonshine Cave found under Turn 1?
Did you all hear about the new “F1 Arcade” in Boston?
Covering the latest in WEC and Formula 1 news along with...
Community News, brought to us by CollectorCarGuide.net
HPDEjunkie.com Track Side Report
With hysterical Florida Man stories and much, much more!
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Friday Apr 26, 2024
Company Cars Running Wild!
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Jon Summers is the Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. On his show he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, motoring travel.
Judas Priest - Running Wild (intro)
Furious Driving, A Mustang in the desert and Auxito, our first show sponsor
Our Auxito Discount link 15% off with code MOTORINGHISTORIAN
Running Wild - Free Wind Rider (intro)
Owatrol - not sponsored, but improve old headlights without needing polishing tomfoolery, as recommended by Chops Garage
Xan Clan - Go, Go, Go
Nismo 400 launch party at Z Car Garage
Group C and IMSA of the eighties; an awesome spectacle
Judas Priest - Running Wild (break/2nd verse)
Gerald Laing
Running Wild Freewind Rider (chorus)
The why of our Company Car Episode
A potted history of the British company car, and its unusual foibles
Sunroofs. Rooves.
The Rise of the Car Allowance
J’s first company car, a white Ford Mondeo
The Importance of the 2.0 Ghia vs the 1.6 L
The Ford Granada 2.8i Ghia X
M”s red ‘97 Renault Laguna RN(?). Base.
M’s silver ‘00 Ford Focus 2.0 Ghia, a eulogy to Richard Parry-Jones
The nineties/noughties requirement to meet customers face to face meaning 50,000+ miles per year (!!!)
Cars with low horse power, but low weight too
Company car policies and bending the rules; M’s Seat Leon Cupra R
Hooligan behaviour on the way to Le Mans (neither M or J driving)
Living in the car; the value of the face to face meeting, especially if the deal doesn’t go your way, because at least they used to tell you why you lost.
J’s “Annus Horribilis”, in 2000.
J’s Vauxhall Vectra S202BVT, understeery as hell
J’s Ford Soapbox. Are you listening Ian “Hubnut” Seabrook?
J’s 2000 Subaru Impreza Turbo, which he never drove (go me)
J destroys M and J’s shared Sierra Sapphire 2.0 Ghia crashing into a ditch
M’s ‘07 Nissan 350Z and ‘09 Honda CBR600RR
M’s Nissan 350Z and 370Z
J’s Stinky Subaru
After the power metal special, today’s Running Wild special
An early and very effective traffic avoidance technology
A wrecked Citroen Saxo VTS
The Uffington White Horse and a rolled car
Not Sierra but Slayer, on the bootlid of E773NKV M’s Sierra 2.0 L
A Red J-plate Subaru Legacy wagon; Gary Lineker, beloved British soccer player, calls J a Motherfu**er.
J’s misses the Green Vectra SRi sedan, dark green V-plate.
Vauxhall speke: SRi vs GSi
J mourns J191RBH, a grey Mk2 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi
Slow cars fast vs Fast cars slow
J has Toyo Proxes on his Fiesta ST. Now it sounds like a Stuka. But the grip is unholy.
M's Fiesta ST now has a Mounttune catback exhaust
J’s business idea flipping French hot hatches becoming US-legal thanks to the expiry of the 25 year rule
Renault Safrane Biturbo / Monaco
Peugeot 309 GTi, 106 Rallye, 306GTi-6, 306 Rallye
RIP Marcello Gandini, the designer of the Renault 5 Turbo 2 and Cizetta V-16. Among many others.
The Bertone Pirana
J on the dodgyness of Car Consignment; the car the money and the title - at no point should one person have all three
Will J’s ‘77 Lincoln sell ? Or more accurately, will it be picked up?
The rise and rise of the Porsche Carrera GT, compared to the Ferrari Enzo and Mercedes-McLaren SLR
M’s eulogy to the Carrara GT; peak analogue?
Running Wild - Riding The Storm
Sportsbikes were bikes when M and J learned to ride. J hadn’t realized sportsbikes were a flash in the pan!
M is tired out by naked bikes and wants some wind protection; J appreciates the artificial speedlimit
BMW S1000R and S1000RR; M’s ‘09 Honda CBR600RR is better than him, and might remain that way
J cannot speak highly enough of Gran Turismo as a virtual preservation and introduction to the world of cars, driving, and motoring culture as a whole, while retaining a Japanese flavour
J’s white Sierra Cosworth RS. In Gran Turismo
J and M do not like mudflaps
Renault Laguna BTCC car
M’s digression on difficult computer games
Quickfire
Favourite company car; M’s handbrake turns
J’s black Mondeo, limping up to Worcester using zipties in place of an alternator belt
Car guy reading 101: J: Enzo Ferrari - My Terrible Joys; M: Matt Oxley, a very clever motorcycle writer
Running Wild - Wild Animal (Outro)
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
TL:DR - Legendary Super-modified "The Purdy Deuce"
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
On this episode of Too Long, Didn't Read, we're joined by Kip Zeiter from the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), who explains the significance of Oswego Speedway's legendary super-modified, the Purdy Deuce.
This episode is part of our HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS SERIES and is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family - and was recorded in front of a live studio audience.
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Thursday Apr 25, 2024
The Steel Palace: Oswego Speedway & Supermodifieds!
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
The Oswego Speedway, located in Oswego New York, was built in 1951 when original owners Harry, George and William Caruso converted the one time Wine Creek Horse Track into a 3/8 mile dirt auto racing facility. The track was paved during 1952 and remained a 3/8 mile track until 1961 when it was enlarged to its current 5/8 mile size. The Oswego Speedway has been a continuously run weekly race track since it opened in August of 1951.
Joining us tonight is Camden Proud - Public Relations Director - from Oswego Speedway to talk to us about its history, importance and evolution in the world of Motorsports and especially, Supermodified racing. We also have a special guest with us as well. We welcome back Kip Zeiter from the IMRRC, who’s been going to events at Oswego for over 50 years!
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Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
A view from behind the Microphones (Racing Announcers)
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Over the years I've become a real good spectator. But what appealed to me about racing from day one is the same stuff that appeals to me now. It's the whole visceral approach to racing. It's the image of the cars, both on the pace lap as they come around the grandstand, as well as flat out racing. And it was also that voice from above, the announcer, the guy who was telling me what was happening on the track, but probably equally as importantly, what was happening off the track, the fellow who was weaving this whole storyline for the balance of the day or the evening, whatever the case may be.
We have with us tonight... Joe Morata, the voice of Syracuse for 44 years at Super Dirt Week. Roy Sova, with over 50 years at Oswego Speedway. Gary Montgomery, who for several years was one of the voices, on the Motor Racing Network. Mike Paz, who announced nine different NASCAR tracks over the years. Frank Del Vecchio, our racer turned announce, and last but certainly not least, Greg Rickes, the voice of Lime Rock.
We don't have six good announcers up here… We have six great announcers up here!
This episode is part of our HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS SERIES and is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family - and was recorded in front of a live studio audience.
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Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Midgets & Big Cars in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1951
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
The chance gift of a small magazine archive to the Society of Automotive Historians (SAH) led Jon Summers to research midget and sprint car racing during the immediate postwar period around his adopted home of the San Francisco Bay Area. This grassroots history charts the rise of great names in racing, such as Kurtis and Vukovich, yet was over in under a decade. Less than a century later no trace of the tracks remain. Summers’ presentation offers a glimpse into this already-lost world.
This episode is part of our HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS SERIES and is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family - and was recorded in front of a live studio audience.
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