Cocktails and Crankshafts: The Podcast

Coming off a stellar 2000 Autocross campaign, 2001 goes...good and bad all at the same time. This episode has some unique production value as I end up narrating over some old miniDV footage, that has in-camera narration provided by my camera-woman "Sophia". You'll actually hear cars on the Auto-x course as I'm describing my car's trek amongst the cones.

A quick rundown of my weekend competing in the July 2009 Redline Time Attack event "in" St. Louis.  This wasn't my first time on a road course, but it was my first time with unrestricted passing, a transponder, and cars that could close up on my at ungodly speeds. 

This episode is based on a day spent at the IHRA 1/4 mile drag strip in Rockingham, NC. I do sort a play-by-play voiceover of my test and tune and competition runs during a spring 2005 event (might have been Battle of the Imports). 

This episode describes my 2013 trip to the Pike's Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado.

Once again I've recorded fresh audio for what was originally a very video-centric episode produced for YouTube.

My relationship with HO Scale Tyco and Aurora brand slot cars dates back to 1980. This is a short trip through that history.

The video version of this episode included some poorly read historical content on Hot Wheels and Mattel and me doing voiceover as I dumped out my 400+ car, Hot Wheels collection on the bed and carefully arranged the various blister cards. This was done time-compressed. Obviously that doesn't work on a podcast, so I recorded fresh audio (June 2020). I talk a little about the history of Hot Wheels as a toy, my personal history with them as a child and how and when I became an adult collector. 

Originally recorded as video voice-over, I was able to extract portions of the original audio, as well as add a new prologue and epilogue.

These are just my general feelings on the how's and why's and an overview of the event, not necessarily a travel diary.