Shifts and Grins

This week, Adam, Cody, and Mac welcome Tim Neely of Tim's Enthusiast Garage.  Tim explores his car history, talks about his passion for automobiles, and discusses his hit YouTube show.  The guys play Shit Car Showdown, reveal their finds of the week, and answer listener questions on a funny and entertaining episode.  You can watch Tim's automotive content by visiting the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSHC8vHIPzE5EaYjHgx1Tmw

The boys are back after a short absence to bring you that podcast you so badly crave.  Cody spent some time at Monterey and brings us some of his best memories from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.  It's the inaggural episode of the Shifts and Grins Shit Car Showdown.  A couple of listeners bring forward some car debates, the guys reveal their online finds of the week, and answer listener questions after displaying a small amount of prejudice toward Italians

Live from Los Angeles, it's a Shifts and Grins!  Did you know that Maserati made at least one Quattroporte hearse?  Mac is in LA visiting his mother and has cleared out a day to hang out with Adam and Cody.  The "bois" took a trip to the Petersen Automotive Museum, had lunch at Swingers in Hollywood, and then headed back to the Hilton at LAX to record a podcast and pay $34 per car for two hours of parking.  The guys detail their trip to the Petersen and discuss Mac's observations about LA traffic. They replace their find of the week with their favorite cars from the museum, answer listener questions, and have a great time being all together for the first time.

This episode starts off with a strange story of a fish in a car.  Then Cody talks about his time in a Ford Escort Cosworth, Mac expresses his excitement for his upcoming trip to Los Angeles, the boys discuss the mid-engine Corvette, cool '80s and '90s concept cars, share their online finds of the week, and answer listener questions.

This week, Adam, Cody, and Mac are graced by the presence of Patrick Strong of Touge California and Model Citizen Diecast.  Patrick tells the guys about his car history, his career path, road rallies, and helps them answer listener questions.  You can find Patrick’s company at modelcitizendiecast.com (@modelcitizendiecast on Instagram) and you can read about Touge California on japanesennostalgiccar.com.

Cody drives another car to add to his list of options, Mac sells his car and buys a new one, and Adam professes his love for the Renault Clio V6.  The boys channel their inner Doug DeMuro (and Alex Jones for some reason), reveal their finds of the week, and answer listener questions.

This week, Adam shares his horror story of spark-plug-related maintenance on his 500 Abarth, Mac narrows down his car search to a final four, and Cody test drives a Cadillac ATS.  The boys also discuss Buick’s place in GM’s lineup, esoteric llama videos, and answer listener questions.

Adam bought a new car.  Mac finally had his race with the "smallblock" Lumina.  Cody and Adam have found a man with 5 928s in front of his house (5 that we know of anyway), leading to a game of "what shitbox would you own 5 of?"  Mac expresses his bewilderment at the fact that California doesn't have Quick Trips, and therefore has never experienced the Spicy Chicken Taquito.  The show, as always, concludes with the guys answering your listener questions.

This week, Adam forgets what podcast he's on.  After that, the guys debate the value of Corvettes in the future, discuss their favorite race tracks in the virtual world, petty F1 drivers, their own version of automotive legos, and answer listener questions.

It's an all-listener-question episode!  Adam, Cody, and Mac answer questions from their audience...unless they're stupid.