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Kris Clewell / Overcrest

Automotive culture, history, and the people who live it -- hosted by Kris Clewell and Jake Solberg. 500+ episodes exploring the intersection of cars and life: interviews with industry insiders, collectors, designers, builders, and thinkers. From the philosophy of analog driving to forgotten automotive history to the business of car culture, Kris and Jake bring a journalist's eye and an enthusiast's obsession to every conversation. For people who #takethecar.

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  • April 16 · 1 hr 51 min

    Forgotten Explorers of America / Pt 2

    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

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  • April 9 · 57 min

    Betim Berisha / What the Mountain Takes

    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

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  • April 2 · 1 hr 33 min

    The Forgotten Ones: Lost Explorers of the American West / Pt 1

    At one point, all the maps had foggyedges. Past those edges, nothing. No roads, no forts, no names for anything. Just grass and sky and silence stretching until it hit mountains that were further away than they looked. The men who walked into it were broke, forgotten, and had nothing behind them worth staying for. Most of them died young. Most of them died alone. A few of them came back with stories that should have been famous a long time ago. Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest

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  • March 26 · 1 hr 19 min

    Chris Ashton / Ruffian Cars

    Chris Ashton is the founder of Ruffian Cars, one of the freshest and most innovative custom car shops in the country. What you may not know is he also co-founded the game development studio that worked on Counter-Strike and built the legendary Left 4 Dead. Thirty years building worlds you can't touch, and then he decided to build ones you could.

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  • March 19 · 1 hr 17 min

    Being Bald / The Most Important Top 10 List Ever Made

    This episode covers 4,000 years of baldness from ancient Egypt to the modern era. We talk about pirates, wigs held together with bobby pins, a reform school kid who became champion, a man who fought an empire without raising a fist, and the most famous silhouette in history. New episodes every week. Subscribe and join the Overcrest Driving Team for exclusive content drops. 🔗 LINKS Overcrest Driving Team: overcrestproductions.com/driversclub Mobil1: https://www.mobil.com/en/lubricants/for-personal-vehicles/our-products/motor-oils/ FCP Euro: fcpeuro.com Nokian Tires: nokiantires.com Onx Offroad: onxoffroad.com Common Gear: thecommongear.com

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  • March 12 · 1 hr 23 min

    Vin Anatra / The Cost of Loving Cars

    Vin Anatra is a former Hoonigan SVP turned independent creator who spent nearly a decade helping build one of the most influential brands in automotive media before walking away to start Driver Era — a YouTube channel and small car operation built around buying, experiencing, and selling special cars one at a time. He's a lifelong car obsessive who came up through the Volkswagen forum scene, built his way into dream-level cars he had no business owning, and is now figuring out in real time what it means to do the thing you love for a living when doing it for a living is slowly changing how you feel about the thing you love.

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  • March 4 · 1 hr 20 min

    BMW Celebrates 40 Years of the M3, Then Kills Everything It Stood For

    Kris and Jake on the Grand Tour's new hosts, the death of start-stop, China banning flush door handles and steering yokes, Lamborghini killing its EV, the RS5 outweighing an F-150, BMW ending the manual and rear-drive M car era, and a billion-dollar fraud. Support this show: https://www.overcrestproductions.com/driversclub 0:00 Intro 0:30 Open 2:24 The Grand Tour Returns 12:40 The Death of Start-Stop 18:24 China Bans Flush Door Handles, Yokes & Touchscreens 23:45 Porsche 718 EV in Development Hell 29:50 Lamborghini Kills Its EV 42:06 StopTech Fraud & Shutdown 50:20 The E30 M3 Turns 40 52:33 BMW Kills the Manual & RWD M Car 1:01:08 The Audi RS5 Weighs More Than an F-150 1:13:00 TPMS Tracking 1:16:16 Your Car Thinks You're Asleep

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