THE GEARHEADS UNWIND AND TALK SEMA, SPONSORSHIPS AND PROJECTS. AND BROWN DIAMONDS.

Episode twenty-six goes all sorts of places as Brian, Brad and Alex discuss projects of the artistic and four-wheeled sort. They preview the SEMA Show preview, talk churros and racecar sponsorships, and then it all goes weird with kit car talk and celebrity tribute parts.

It’s been a while since we just sat and talked, and thought it was a good time to lay back a bit prior to the buildup to SEMA madness.

 

THINGS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

* Brian goes all “Show Host”

* Brad talks streamliner sponsorships

– The Salt-O-Masochist

* PR disasters

* A blurry blue lightning bolt

– Terrible racecar sponsor team-ups

– …and some memorable ones

* Things that rhyme with “six piston”

* “Don’t worry; it’s not you.”

* Brian runs out of side effects

* The SEMA preview, well, preview

* Bacon-wrap and pumpkin spice all of the things. Except for the churros.

* Alex’s ’64 Chevy project

– Finding the truck

– Then come the bees and spiders

* Alex talks plumbing and wiring

* Brad steals the truck and lowers it

* How patina won on this truck

* Checklists on a project

– Brad calls back to his Dad’s el Camino

* Customizing a car is a slippery slope

* Restoration meets hot rodding

* The joy of wiring and plumbing

* Alex’s first project

* The infamous 1969 Camaro

* The lowest production number ’71 Camaro RS

* The guys go all kit car

* “The Lisper”