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Before 1912, starting a car meant standing in front of it and pulling on a steel handle while the engine decided whether to cooperate. Sometimes it cooperated. Sometimes it broke your wrist, your jaw, or worse. Doctors had a name for the injury. Insurance companies had a category for it. And a whole class of automobile existed for people who wanted no part of the fight. This is the story of how that ended. Support Overcrest Get Cool Stuff: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Connor McGovern spent nine years as an offensive lineman in the NFL. Before that he was a kid in Fargo getting into his dad's truck at five in the morning to go look at potato fields. He's back in those fields now, running one of the largest commercial farming operations in the country, and his garage holds two R34 GTRs, an RWB, a Kelly-Moss 964, and a C8 Z06. Check out Reborn here . Support Overcrest by signing up for the Driving Team !

Clay Croft is the founder of Expedition Overland — seventeen years of driving to the edges of the map and filming what's out there. He's crossed the Greenland ice sheet, run the Road of Bones through Siberia, and this year closed out a circumnavigation of the globe the hard way: top to bottom, the roof of Norway to the southern tip of Africa, 25,000 miles across three continents on a single oil change. We had him on to talk about exploration — how you work your way up to something that size, what the world is really like past the places people warn you about, and whether there's anything left out there to find. Find more xOverland here: https://loveofdriving.mobil.com/aroundtheworld Support this podcast: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Kris and Jake work through Car Week: where the McLaren name actually came from and who spent ten years asking for the car, what happens when a Singer 911 crashes into Louis Vuitton handbag, and a Ferrari that broke three auction records in a single night Also on this one, California is not banning your tires, and the tire industry is the reason anyone is talking about it. Support Overcrest: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

In May 1987 an eighteen year old West German rented a Cessna 172 from his flying club and pointed it east towards Moscow. This is the account of what, and how this cold war fiasco happened. Support this show and join THE DRIVING TEAM Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest SPONSORS Mobil 1: https://www.mobil.com/en/lubricants/for-personal-vehicles Nokian Tyres: https://na.nokiantyres.com onX Offroad: https://www.onxmaps.com/offroad/app Reborn: https://rebornbuilds.com FCP Euro: https://www.fcpeuro.com FOLLOW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overcrestproductions Website: https://overcrestproductions.com

Ferrari's marketing director answers for the reaction to the brand's first electric car, and the paddles behind the wheel raise a question about what counts as real. The 12Cilindri shows up with a gated shifter and a clutch pedal, and how those parts actually work sets off the longest argument of the episode. Toyota tests a two-door mule in Japan wearing borrowed headlights. Audi hints at more Avants for the United States. Car and Driver runs the electric Cayenne down the strip. Volkswagen Group takes ten models off the board. O'Reilly puts ten billion dollars in front of Napa, and the store-count math explains why the FTC will care. Support this show. Get Cool Stuff. Https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Part 1 (really this time) of our chat with John Ludwick, a New Hampshire-based YouTuber and serial project-car addict who runs Ludwick's Garage, the channel where he rescues dilapidated, left-for-dead vintage cars, does the work himself, and slams them to the ground.Check out John here: https://www.youtube.com/johnludwick Support Overcrest: https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest

Part 2 of our chat with John Ludwick, a New Hampshire-based YouTuber and serial project-car addict who runs Ludwick's Garage, the channel where he rescues dilapidated, left-for-dead vintage cars, does the work himself, and slams them to the ground. Check out John here: https://www.youtube.com/johnludwick Support Overcrest: Https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Kris recaps scouting Northern California's Lost Coast for the fall Overcrest Rally on remote Emerald Triangle backroads, small-town characters, and a 1983 Mercedes R107 280 SL on some of the most isolated roads in the country. Plus, Jake on Teslas, soul, and whether a new car can ever earn one. (it can't, probably) Support this Show: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Magnus Walker is the man who turned air-cooled Porsches into a movement. This is a podcast about letting it go. He sold 18 cars from his personal collection this spring and kept the 16 he couldn't part with. Three months on, he sat down with us to talk about what's left when you stop collecting: feeling lighter, the worthless van he misses more than the Porsches, and the 356 that found him on his way out the door. Support Overcrest:https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Tommy Thomas spent high school talking about the Cannonball Run and the next four decades not doing it. A career driving fire trucks will do that. Retirement changed the math. Now he crosses the country with a co-driver, a trunk full of countermeasures, and a Cadillac built to look like nothing at all. We get into the laser jammers, the truckers who help and the ones who don't, the cops who go either way, and what it takes to get from one ocean to the other before most people finish a weekend. Support Overcrest, Get cool Stuff: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Jake and Kris get into rally prep, a project truck that keeps finding reasons to stay parked, and the the guys debate the Ferrari Luce release that has everyone online wondering if it's a parody. Mrs. Producer brings a story off the wire. and chats her own unrealistic project car desires. Support this show, get cool stuff: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Kris and Jake catch up on projects, boats, and bad decisions. Then Jake says something we did not see coming. Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Bailey Clayton is a sign painter who taught himself the trade before he knew it had a name. He started with calligraphy in a school notebook and now points squirrel-hair brushes and oil-based one-shot at the sides of race cars, recreating historic liveries by hand. He stands for permanence in a world that re-vinyls everything every five years, and for the belief that a number painted by hand outlasts the business that commissioned it. Support Overcrest: https://patreon.com/overcrest

Coming off a six percent grade in 1955, your brakes were a countdown. By the seventies, they were a backup system. The story of the man who built the thing that took the death out of the descent. Support Overcrest. Get cool stuff. https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest

Buddy Levy is the author of Labyrinth of Ice, the definitive account of the Greely Expedition. In 1881, 25 men were sent to the Arctic. The government forgot about them. Only six came home. What happened at Camp Clay is one of the most harrowing survival stories in American history. Part 3 of The Forgotten Ones. We talk about what drove men into the unknown, what happens to the mind in 137 days of darkness, and whether anything like this is still possible. Check out Buddy's work: buddylevy.com Support Overcrest: patreon.com/overcrest

The guys chat Jake buying the dumbest of all cars, and Kris buying another grandpa car. Also, some interesting and obscure news on dealership models and bear fraud.

Paul didn't set out to run a dealership. He set out to build a clubhouse for car people, and AutoKennel is what happened along the way. In this episode, I sit down with Paul, the driving force behind AutoKennel, the Southern California shop that has quietly become a gathering place for enthusiasts as much as a licensed dealer and brokerage. We talk about how a passion project turned into a real business, what sets his approach apart from the typical consignment outfit, and why the people around the cars matter as much as the cars themselves. Paul also opens up about his cancer diagnosis and the road through recovery, and how the experience reshaped his perspective on the business, the community around it, and what actually matters when you strip everything else away. It's an honest conversation, and one that goes deeper than the usual shop talk. Find more on Paul here: Autokennel Shifted Opinions - YouTube

Past the edges of the maps were mountains that killed ten men at Christmas. A bridge in New York where a man became someone else every night for thirteen years. And an Arctic camp where twenty five soldiers were abandoned by their own government and left to eat whatever was left. These are the stories nobody tells anymore. Not because they aren't worth telling, but because the men at the center of them have faded into memory, replaced by time.Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest

Betim Berisha is the founder of BBi Autosport in Huntington Beach, California. Porsche tuner. Engine builder. Pikes Peak veteran. He and his team at BBi built the Hoonipigasus for Ken Block, developed the new Project Evo, launched Type 99 as a coach-built 911 program, and have taken cars up the mountain for over a decade alongside drivers like Jeff Zwart and Loni Unser. This is his second time on Overcrest. The first episode is the origin story. These two belong together. Start there if you haven't heard it. Check out Type99 here . Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest