The Clutch Basket Cars, Bikes & Trucks Podcast

This episode we picked three trucks each. Big, medium and small. Fairly straight forward formula.

We cover some wildly unusual stuff from Piagio Apes to a truck that weighs 360,000kg! That is not a typo.

Tons of info on some weird and wonderful stuff because we love trucks!

Free For All Episodes are off the top of our heads, so facts are only as accurate as our memories permit. We love to be contacted by listeners if you feel like we have missed something/gotten it wrong!

So much in this episode! In a nutshell we have, Fiat 131's, Lancia Stradale 037's, Porsche 917's, and the GT40. Brooklands, Monza, Nascar, The majestic Ford Supervan, Type 2 ring taxi's and Reliant Kittens...

If you can believe, there is more that is not included in this description so have a listen!

These episode are always a lot of fun and cover the most eclectic stuff!

This episode takes us to Italy for two of the most storied manufacturers in motorcycling history. We cover from the earliest days to some of the most iconic motorcycles to come out of the later half of the 20th century.

Free For All Episodes are off the top of our heads, so facts are only as accurate as our memories permit. We love to be contacted by listeners if you feel like we have missed something/gotten it wrong!

This week we have the usual oddities for you in a new Free For All episode. Limousines, custom bikes and even Messerschmitts get crammed into this episode along with a bunch of other stuff in between!

These episode are always a lot of fun and cover the most eclectic stuff!

We pick up where we left off with the previous episode, so please start there if you want the full story!

We delve into the Esprit and its storied 25 year history, as well as the radical M100 Elan. Our episode comes to an end with the design and release of the Elise, a car that helped save the company and was an absolute masterpiece of engineering and ingenuity.

This episode covers the history of Lotus road cars from the early days including the Lotus 7, through the original Lotus Elite and Europa. We go on to cover the world renown Elan as well as the Eclat, Excel and later Elite. Let's also not forget the Lotus Cortina! There is lots of information about Colin Chapman, Lotus's founder, and the engineering that went into these wonderful vehicles. 

There is so much to cover, we split the episode in 2 and we covered the rather wonderful Esprit and later Lotus cars in part 2. 

Free For All Episodes are off the top of our heads, so facts are only as accurate as our memories permit. We love to be contacted by listeners if you feel like we have missed something/gotten it wrong!

This week starts at the VW UP! Gti, and takes us on a bizarre trip through 2 stroke bikes, Lovely old Volvos and some how ends up somewhere near 6 wheel Land Rover Discoveries. When you listen, I am sure you will understand why. 

These episode are always a lot of fun and cover the most eclectic stuff!

This week we look at the wonderful period of time in the early 80's when each of the big 4 Japanese bike manufacturers had a go at turbocharging production street bikes. 

Honda had their CX500 and CX650 Turbos, Yamaha had their XJ650 Turbo. Suzuki had the XN85 and Kawasaki finished up this rather odd experiment with their wonderful GPZ 750 Turbo.

Loads of bike chat and turbo fun!

Free For All Episodes are off the top of our heads, so facts are only as accurate as our memories permit. We love to be contacted by listeners if you feel like we have missed something/gotten it wrong!

Over priced classic's start off the show and as usual, that brings us to Matt's favourite topic, air cooled VW's! Old Mercedes, Ranchereos/El Caminos and Series Land Rovers are among the massive list of stuff crammed into this episode.

These episode are always a lot of fun and cover the most eclectic stuff!

Slight piece of self indulgence in that this episodes is all about some of our favourite Porsches! 

4 and 6 cylinder, light weight stripped out models, turbos and things most peoples bank managers will not allow you to dream about all make appearances!