Car Guy Confessions

By Auto Revolution

What's Car Guy Confessions about?

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope & Cam Benty

Presented by ARP

From custom car stories seldom told from the wild adventures of magazine editors to the latest custom car builds and the future of performance and hot rodding.

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Car Guy Confessions episodes:

06.17.2024
E86 Mike Ruth, Midwest Nostalgia Pro Stock Drag Racing, Saleen, Ford Performance
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Legendary drag racer and all-around performance guy Mike Ruth joins in to share projects he has worked on with Ford Performance, Heidt’s Suspension, and Saleen including a drag race between Jay...
06.03.2024
E85 Kevin Oeste of V8 Speed and Resto Shop, Power Tour Memories, TV Hosting
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Kevin Oeste takes over the podcast bringing up memories of his start at Hot Rod magazine after a last minute Power Tour run in the mid 1990s. That led to a...
05.21.2024
E84 Squeeg’s Kustoms Doug Jerger, AMBR Winning Hot Rods
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Doug Jerger of Squeeg’s Kustoms provides insight into the judging and history of the AMBR competition. Having won the award in 2011 and been a part of winning roadsters since; the...
05.06.2024
E83 Hot Rods by Dean, Custom C-10 Builds, Muscle Cars, Roadster Show
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The Car Guys welcome Dean Livermore of Hot Rods by Dean in Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2001, the shop has crafted many award-winning hot rods, muscle cars, Kustoms, and trucks. Their latest creation...
04.22.2024
E82 Builder of the Year Ron Cambra, Kustoms, Drag Racing, Cambra Speed Shop
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Ron Cambra and his team at Cambra Speed Shop in Orange, California are the Grand National Roadster Show’s 2024 Builder of the Year! They celebrated bringing out several builds including a...
04.08.2024
E81 Troy Trepanier, Rad Rides by Troy, F87 Camaro
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Iconic street rod, muscle car, and land speed builder Troy Trepanier of Rad Rides by Troy joins the Car Guys to share his journey from pro-street-inspired builds to winning the AMBR...
03.25.2024
Pro Street Pioneer Rick Dobbertin, Surface Orbiter Trip Around the World
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Next on our Car Guy Pro Street Pioneer Series is the one and only Rick Dobbertin. Rick’s iconic Pontiac J2000 “Most Famous Pro Street Car” is now in the good hands...
03.11.2024
Pro Street Pioneers Matt & Debbie Hay, Dorito’s Super Bowl Commercial
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Next on our Car Guy Pro Street Pioneer Series is Matt and Debbie Hay! The couple have continuously looked to keep Pro Street heritage in the spotlight. Their famous Tbird saw a...
02.26.2024
Pro Street Pioneers Rod and Tina Sadboury, Outlaw Drag Racing Records
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The first of our Car Guy Pro Street Pioneer Series, and the first door slammer to break into the 6-second 1/4 mile, Rod Saboury and his wife Tina sit in to...
02.12.2024
Pro Street Display, GNRS Awards, Most Expensive Cars and Skillet Tossing
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The Car Guys are all back together! Did another winter in Iowa turn Jeff Smith into a true snow farmer? Did he trade his high horsepower builds for skillet tossing and...
01.29.2024
Best Moments From Grand National Roadster Shows Past
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP We will be recording from the Grand National Roadster show again this week. We took a look back at the last few years and the amazing guests we have had...
01.15.2024
Sean Smith Designs 2 Kevin Hart’s Roadrunner, Custom Sneakers, Toy Design
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Sean Smith Designs joins the Car Guys again at the Petersen Auto Museum, this time with Marcel Venable from behind the scenes. Sean and Marcel reminisce of the early mini truck...
01.01.2024
Sean Smith Designs, Twisted GTO, Custom Muscle Car Design
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Award-winning car designer Sean Smith joins the Car Guys at the Petersen Automotive Museum to share his Art Center journey and designs behind his latest creations. Including the Twisted 67 GTO debuting...
12.18.2023
Strope Debates Performance EV Tesla Racing, Unplugged Performance
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The Car Guys are joined by Ben Schaffer, co-founder of Unplugged Performance and Bulletproof Automotive at the Petersen Auto Museum. Naturally sparking a debate over EVs. Ben shares his journey from building...
12.04.2023
E72 Best of 2023, Grand National Roadster Show, Petersen Auto Museum and More
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The best and worst of 2023 Car Guy Confessions! This year, the Car Guys hit the road. Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty brought guests from all over at the...
11.20.2023
Tony Thacker, Car Book Author, Racing and Hot Rod Photographer, Auto Museum
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Tony Thacker, famed hot rod and racing photographer, journalist and author joins the Car Guys at the Petersen Auto Museum. Tony’s career path started with delivering Hot Rod magazine on his...
11.06.2023
E70 Outlaw Porsche Builder Rod Emory, Hot Rod Legacy, First Baja Bug
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Outlaw Porsche builder and custom hot rod legacy Rod Emory of Emory Motorsports joins the Car Guys at the Petersen Auto Museum. Rod’s lineage dates back to the late 1940s when his...
10.23.2023
E69 Autotopia LA’s Shawn Davis, Petersen Auto Museum, Roadster Shop, Joe Rogan’s Nova
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Autotopia LA’s Host Shawn Davis joins Steve Strope and Cam Benty at the Petersen Auto Museum to share his love of pro-touring cars and trucks, including builds by Steve with Pure...
10.09.2023
E68 TMI Products Ross Berlanga Talks Custom Interiors, SEMA Trim Awards, Motor Masters Engine Builders
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Ross Berlanga from TMI Products joins the Car Guys at the Petersen Automotive Museum to share memories of Jeff helping judge for the Best Engines at SEMA and PRI with the...
09.25.2023
E67 Movie Car Coordinator Geoff Abadee, Aussie Muscle Cars, UTE
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Australian movie car and logistics coordinator Geoff Abadee joins Jeff and Cam at the Petersen Auto Museum. Geoff shares tales of working on big-budget movies and commercials all over the world....
09.11.2023
E66 Project X EV to Big Block, Smokey Yunick’s Creations, Ironman’s Car TV Show
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The Car Guys are all back together again at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Cam opens the podcast up about the TV show where Robert Downey Jr. converts several...
08.28.2023
E65 Joe Rogan’s Nova, NASCAR Beats Le Mans, Next Gen Performance Cars
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The Car Guys are all back together at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Steve shares his recent delivery of Joe Rogan’s custom Chevrolet Nova to Austin, Texas. Chevrolet brought...
08.14.2023
E64 HRE Wheels’ Alan Peltier, 3D Printed Titanium Wheels, Throwback Wheels
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP HRE Wheels President/CEO Alan Peltier joins the Car Guys at the Petersen Auto Museum’s Vault to talk about custom designing and engineering wheels including their work with 3D printed titanium wheels. Alan...
07.31.2023
E63 Petersen Auto Museum Director Terry Karges, Hot Rods Meet Hypercar History
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Terry Karges, the Executive Director of the famed Petersen Automotive Museum invites the Car Guys to tour the museum and share its history, his own past with Roush Performance and his...
07.17.2023
E62 Wilwood Brakes’ Mike Hamrick, UTV & Off-Road Brakes, Roadrunner IRS Suspension
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Mike Hamrick from Wilwood Brakes joins the car guys to share their company history from outfitting race cars, drag cars, drift cars and off-road brakes to custom cars and autocross. Recently, years...
07.03.2023
E61 Nitro Revival, Steve Gibbs NHRA History, Nostalgia Drag Racing
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Steve Gibbs was Director of Operations for NHRA drag racing for over 40 years, seeing the motorsport grow from hot rod racers and icons like Mickey Thompson to the modern top...
06.19.2023
E60 Car Designer Larry Erickson, Cadzilla Concept, AI Design
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Famed automotive and industrial designer Larry Erickson stops by to share the behind-the-scenes and design cues of Boyd’s Cadzilla built for Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and other hot rod creations....
06.05.2023
E59 Secret 300MPH Pontiac Car, Compressed Air Supercharging with Karl Staggemeier
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Karl Staggemeier from Compressed Air Supercharging joins the Car Guys to share his story. It begins with a secret GM Motorsports Pontiac Firebird project stashed behind the wind tunnel. Built in...
05.22.2023
E58 Movie Car Builder Dennis McCarthy, Fast and Furious X Movie Cars, Stunts
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP If you have watched any of the Fast and the Furious movies, and many other movies in general; you have seen the handy work of Dennis McCarthy’s Vehicle Effects. Dennis tells how...
05.08.2023
E57 Tim Strange Talks Street Machines, Kustoms, TV & BMX
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Legendary hot rod and kustom builder, TV host, and BMX racer Tim Strange of Strange Motion stops by…not automotive photographer Tim Sutton. Tim started his automotive journey at 14 going to the...
04.24.2023
E56 Shelby & Ken Miles True Stories, Origins of Drag Racing, Lola T70 Supercar Build
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The Car Guys are all back together at the Grand National Roadster Show where Steve Strope shows off his latest Chevelle build and an upcoming iconic Lola T70 supercar program. Jeff shares...
04.10.2023
E55 Ring Brothers Mike Ring, Indy Inspired Truck ENYO, SEMA Winner
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Mike Ring from the Ring Brothers joins the Car Guys at the Grand National Roadster Show coming off their SEMA Battle of the Builder’s Win with the Indy-inspired, open-wheeled classic truck...
03.27.2023
E54 Hot Rods by Boyd, Chris Coddington, Retro OBS Trucks, Billet Wheels
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Hot rod legacy Chris Coddington joins the Car Guys at Grand National Roadster Show. Chris has been in the wheel game for decades and shares his experiences growing up at his...
03.13.2023
E53 Builder of the Year Pro Design, Ridler Contender Kustom
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Grand National Roaster Show Builder of the Year Mike Filion of Pro Design joins Jeff alongside Rider Great 8 Contender and Kustom of the Year owner Jeff Hess. Pro Design built...
02.27.2023
E52 AMBR 2023 Winner Jack Chisenhall, Vintage Air, 200MPH Bonneville Studebaker
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Jeff Smith sits down with Vintage Air founder Jack Chisenhall while at the Grand National Roadster Show. Jack’s ’32 Ford Roadster, the ‘Champ Deuce’ won the title of 2023 America’s Most...
02.13.2023
E51 – Best Of (So Far) Part 2 – Van Halen Guitar, Hollywood Hot Rods, Hot Rod Garage Host & Space Jumps
With Jeff Smith, Cam Benty and Steve Strope Presented by ARP The final installment of our favorite stories, moments, and bloopers. Stay tuned for more episodes and confessions! Undisclosed Podcast Locations Roast of Pete Santini Eddie Van Halen’s Guitar Birth of Pro Street Hollywood Hot Rods’ Troy...
01.30.2023
E50 Best Of (So Far) Part 1 – EV Rants, Stunt Driving, Model Saves Life on Set
With Jeff Smith, Cam Benty and Steve Strope Presented by ARP In honor of 50 episodes of Car Guy Confessions, the Car Guys take a look back at some of their favorite stories told so far. And a few bloopers and rants...
01.16.2023
E49 Sean Ramage of Empire Fabrication, Metal Magician of Mini Trucks to the Mulholland Speedster
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Metal fabricator Sean Ramage of Empire Fabrication joins the Car Guys to talk about metal fabrication including spending 6 years hand-crafting the AMBR-winning Hollywood Hot Rods’ Mullholland Speedster Packard. He shares...
01.02.2023
E48 Pro Surfer Turned Sprint Car Racer Tyler Hatzikian
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Custom surfboard maker, pro surfer and now West Coast Sprint Car Rookie of the Year Tyler Hatzikian joins the Car Guys. Tyler traces his roots in surfing and classic cars and...
12.19.2022
E47 Funny Car Racing Champ Fast Jack Beckman, Wally Trophy Misconception, Speed Records
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Record-setting NHRA funny car driver “Fast Jack” Beckman sits in with Steve and Cam to discuss his racing career, the history of the Wally trophy, NHRA’s first drag race, and what...
12.05.2022
E46 Carl Casanova of VaporWorx, Pro-Touring, Racing a Tornado at One Lap of America
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Car Guys Jeff and Steve sit down with Carl Casanova from VaporWorx who shares stories from pro-touring his Camaro all over the country for the One Lap of America race, including...
11.21.2022
E45 Auto Edits Jason Lewis, Stunt Driving, Space Jumps, 500,000 Mile Vette
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP YouTuber and Videographer Jason Lewis from Auto Edits shares his journey from news cameraman to videographer and producer filming stunt drivers on 2-wheels, MotorTrend, Dirt Everyday, and being a test dummy...
11.07.2022
E44 Garage Built NHRA Top Fuel Funny Car Racer Alex Miladinovich
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Professional NHRA Top Fuel Funny Car racer Alex Miladinovich stops by. Alex races the Hot 4 Teacher dragster up against the likes of John Force. The difference is, his funny car...
10.24.2022
E43 EV Battery Fires, Racing a Camaro on an F1 Track, Goodwood Festival
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP EV Electric Vehicle battery fires, F1 lead changes and evolution. Steve shares stories of racing a new Z28 Camaro on the F1 Circuit of America Track and his trip to the...
10.10.2022
E42 Gary Kollofski’s Wild Engines, W24 Twin BMW 57 Chevy, V12 Marine 55 Chevy
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARPFormer math teacher and wild engine innovator Gary Kollofski joins the Car Guys with Marcel Venable jumping in for the episode. Gary shares what it took to fit two, yes two...
09.26.2022
E41 Custom Gauges with Redline Gauge Works, and Steve Hates Resto-Mods
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Jeff and Steve are joined by Shannon Hudson from Redline Gauge Works to discuss restoring and modernizing classic gauges and building custom clusters for builders such as Pure Vision, Chip Foose,...
09.12.2022
E40 EV Dodge Charger’s Fake Engine Sounds, Sneaking onto Universal Studios Backlot to Shoot Ghostbusters, CA 2035 New Gas Car Ban
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP With new California guidelines requiring no new sales of gas cars in 2035…the Car Guys give their input while getting flex alerts reminding people not to charge their cars during peak...
08.29.2022
E39 Car And Driver’s Elana Scherr Talks Hot Rod Magazine, Ramp Trucks & Racing School
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Automotive Wordsmith Elana Scherr tells the Car Guys how she bought a classic Mopar muscle car and started rebuilding the engine in her living room before she could even drive. This...
08.15.2022
E38 Lucky from Hot Rod Garage Talks Overhaulin, His LS Chevelle & Twin Engine Impala
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Lucky Costa, co-host of Hot Rod Garage joins the Car Guys to talk about filming and working on Overhaulin’, Roadkill and his new HRG co-host Alex Taylor and her quick ’55...
08.01.2022
E37 SEMA Person of the Year Sara Morosan, Leno Bronco, SEMA Crunch, Auto Shop
With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP SEMA Person of the Year and Co-Owner of LGE CTS/Baja Forged Sara Morosan joins Jeff and Cam to talk about building trucks for the SEMA show, Jay Leno’s Bronco, the SEMA...

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Car Guy Confessions episodes:

E86 Mike Ruth, Midwest Nostalgia Pro Stock Drag Racing, Saleen, Ford Performance

E85 Kevin Oeste of V8 Speed and Resto Shop, Power Tour Memories, TV Hosting

E84 Squeeg’s Kustoms Doug Jerger, AMBR Winning Hot Rods

E83 Hot Rods by Dean, Custom C-10 Builds, Muscle Cars, Roadster Show

E82 Builder of the Year Ron Cambra, Kustoms, Drag Racing, Cambra Speed Shop

E81 Troy Trepanier, Rad Rides by Troy, F87 Camaro

Pro Street Pioneer Rick Dobbertin, Surface Orbiter Trip Around the World

Pro Street Pioneers Matt & Debbie Hay, Dorito’s Super Bowl Commercial

Pro Street Pioneers Rod and Tina Sadboury, Outlaw Drag Racing Records

Pro Street Display, GNRS Awards, Most Expensive Cars and Skillet Tossing

Best Moments From Grand National Roadster Shows Past

Sean Smith Designs 2 Kevin Hart’s Roadrunner, Custom Sneakers, Toy Design

Sean Smith Designs, Twisted GTO, Custom Muscle Car Design

Strope Debates Performance EV Tesla Racing, Unplugged Performance

E72 Best of 2023, Grand National Roadster Show, Petersen Auto Museum and More

Tony Thacker, Car Book Author, Racing and Hot Rod Photographer, Auto Museum

E70 Outlaw Porsche Builder Rod Emory, Hot Rod Legacy, First Baja Bug

E69 Autotopia LA’s Shawn Davis, Petersen Auto Museum, Roadster Shop, Joe Rogan’s Nova

E68 TMI Products Ross Berlanga Talks Custom Interiors, SEMA Trim Awards, Motor Masters Engine Builders

E67 Movie Car Coordinator Geoff Abadee, Aussie Muscle Cars, UTE

E66 Project X EV to Big Block, Smokey Yunick’s Creations, Ironman’s Car TV Show

E65 Joe Rogan’s Nova, NASCAR Beats Le Mans, Next Gen Performance Cars

E64 HRE Wheels’ Alan Peltier, 3D Printed Titanium Wheels, Throwback Wheels

E63 Petersen Auto Museum Director Terry Karges, Hot Rods Meet Hypercar History

E62 Wilwood Brakes’ Mike Hamrick, UTV & Off-Road Brakes, Roadrunner IRS Suspension

E61 Nitro Revival, Steve Gibbs NHRA History, Nostalgia Drag Racing

E60 Car Designer Larry Erickson, Cadzilla Concept, AI Design

E59 Secret 300MPH Pontiac Car, Compressed Air Supercharging with Karl Staggemeier

E58 Movie Car Builder Dennis McCarthy, Fast and Furious X Movie Cars, Stunts

E57 Tim Strange Talks Street Machines, Kustoms, TV & BMX

E56 Shelby & Ken Miles True Stories, Origins of Drag Racing, Lola T70 Supercar Build

E55 Ring Brothers Mike Ring, Indy Inspired Truck ENYO, SEMA Winner

E54 Hot Rods by Boyd, Chris Coddington, Retro OBS Trucks, Billet Wheels

E53 Builder of the Year Pro Design, Ridler Contender Kustom

E52 AMBR 2023 Winner Jack Chisenhall, Vintage Air, 200MPH Bonneville Studebaker

E51 – Best Of (So Far) Part 2 – Van Halen Guitar, Hollywood Hot Rods, Hot Rod Garage Host & Space Jumps

E50 Best Of (So Far) Part 1 – EV Rants, Stunt Driving, Model Saves Life on Set

E49 Sean Ramage of Empire Fabrication, Metal Magician of Mini Trucks to the Mulholland Speedster

E48 Pro Surfer Turned Sprint Car Racer Tyler Hatzikian

E47 Funny Car Racing Champ Fast Jack Beckman, Wally Trophy Misconception, Speed Records

E46 Carl Casanova of VaporWorx, Pro-Touring, Racing a Tornado at One Lap of America

E45 Auto Edits Jason Lewis, Stunt Driving, Space Jumps, 500,000 Mile Vette

E44 Garage Built NHRA Top Fuel Funny Car Racer Alex Miladinovich

E43 EV Battery Fires, Racing a Camaro on an F1 Track, Goodwood Festival

E42 Gary Kollofski’s Wild Engines, W24 Twin BMW 57 Chevy, V12 Marine 55 Chevy

E41 Custom Gauges with Redline Gauge Works, and Steve Hates Resto-Mods

E40 EV Dodge Charger’s Fake Engine Sounds, Sneaking onto Universal Studios Backlot to Shoot Ghostbusters, CA 2035 New Gas Car Ban

E39 Car And Driver’s Elana Scherr Talks Hot Rod Magazine, Ramp Trucks & Racing School

E38 Lucky from Hot Rod Garage Talks Overhaulin, His LS Chevelle & Twin Engine Impala

E37 SEMA Person of the Year Sara Morosan, Leno Bronco, SEMA Crunch, Auto Shop

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