The Motoring Historian

RPLA - City of Angels

Michael Mann’s Ferrari movie positioned; as with Ford vs Ferrari, this will define, immortalize the story

Big capacity ‘50s Ferrari V12 sports racing cars: the pinnacle automobile

Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini

At Maranello when Michael cliched 6th(?) F1 Championship

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Ferrari - My Terrible Joys / Brock Yates - Ferrari

Why Ferrari never went to the races

A bad marriage, an affair and a second family

J’s visit to Linda Lardi’s village; the road up the hill from Maranello; J’s passion, driving in Ferrari’s wheeltracks

Luigi Chinetti

Stratovarius, Picasso, Ferrari

Lifelovesexdeath: the 1957 Mille Miglia

“Designing Emotion For Reactive Car Interfaces”

A Park Bench in Turin

“I am one who has dreamed of what it is to be Ferrari”

Ugo Sivocci

The end of Ferrari’s race driving career

Ferrari’s Memoir’s as therapy

Collins, Hawthorn, Moss

Nashville Pussy - Struttin’ Cock

Formula 1, a sport which cannot exist without Ferrari

Ferrari 412; the best sounding Formula 1 car?

A flight with a Marketing manager

R Hudson-Smith on the Ferrari 330 GT. The kind of Ferrari owner J wants to be.

Ferrari’s three Ambitions

Francesco Baracca and the Ferrari badge

Fred Kern, Blackhawk Museum Docent

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Italian Futurist Motoring Art

“Cars bearing my own name”

“For me, the racing car is like a son”

From Modena to Maranello

“I fell in love with the V12, and have never got divorced”

“I have killed my mother”

Ferrari callous? The death of Alberto Ascari. 

D”Agostini bio of Giuseppe Farina, "Il Primo Iridator"

Road car customers

Pebble Beach-winning Roberto Rosselini Ferrari 375+, “The Perfect Storm of Provenance”

The Mona Lisa car

Ferrari’s role in the creation of Detroit Muscle Cars

The North American Mille; Alain de Cadenet 4 wheel drifting Chassis #0625

“I am an Agitator of Men”

Spotting a Columbo V12 vs a Lampredi V12. It's the plug location doncha know?

1988 Italian Grand Prix

Identity vs Brand Values

Saxon - Rock With Tommy Vance

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Warlock - Signs of Satan (intro)

J’s exploration of the neolithic sites of southern England, by Gixxer

Warlock - Signs of Satan (break)

German power metal, Warlock, Doro Pesch, Scanner, Running Wild

Warlock - Hateful Guy (intro)

The Chronicles of Halvar and Clarence, another shameless plug for M and J’s Dungeons and Dragons novel

Warlock - Hateful Guy (break)

Musings on Rhetoric 

Scorpions - Don’t Stop At The Top (intro)

Musings on Remote Conferences 

Just Go Drive and Jeremy Clarkson rip offs

Clarkson/Wilman, Summers/Gammie, Beavis/Butthead

M is uncomfortable with Clarkson or 44teeth as ugly Brits abroad

44teeth’s Baron von Grumble and Mental Health

The Right Turn On Red Is Threatened

Warlock - Burning the Witches (intro)

RIP Cale Yarborough

1979 Daytona 500

Nascar Legends Youtube

Dale Jnr Podcast

J’s discourse on Hooters (with hindsight it seems Hardees was the sponsor - whoops;-)

JHS Racing, friends of 44teeth and Gixxer builder extrordinaire

Over wheelieing the press Gixxer thou

Monster Magnet - Dig That Hole (x2)

The Bitcoin Spot ETF Is Approved

D.A.D. Makin’ Fun of Money

M’s BMW M2 is a Lemon

Chops Garage, Car UK and the sub $5k used car market

The Revival of the 1000HP Sunbeam - please donate

Goodwood to Celebrate Can-Am in 2024

Scanner - Retaliation Positive

The lawless grey area of the electric mountain (motor)bike

Scanner - Grapes of Fear (break)

Bird and Revel go busy

Helmet laws

Quartic steering wheels, Mr Silly and the Nonsense Cup

M does not like the Volvo EX30, nor SUVs in general

M does not think supercar performance is applicable for most EV buyers

Lucid circling the plughole?

Tesla Beta Testing on the Public Highway

J’s tribute to the Jaguar Mk2: a properly fast car for 30 years

Scanner - Grapes of Fear (outro)

J and scratch built slot cars

Scanner - Killing Fields (outro)

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Special Guest Dinsmore Greep

Slayer - Altar of Sacrifice

c.2010 Mercedes Sprinter 2.2 litre turbo diesel, 5 speed manual

In praise of Mercedes cruise control - stalk

C.2015 Mercedes Sprinter Supermarket refrigerated delivery van, automatic

M beats the governor with a neutral drop

Sprinter vs. VW Crafter 

A fiery Sprinter and a ten mile tail back on the A38

A fiery Ford Orion

Slayer - The AntiChrist

A Fiat Ducato, a lost crabstick and a Cornish dry stone wall 

Slayer - Die By The Sword

Dukes of Hazzard in a Citroen C35

Driving 7.5 ton trucks on a car license in England; U-haul rentals in the US

Mercedes 308

The white/work van “get out of the way” effect

2010 Fiat Ducato

2010 Renault Master

VW Crafter, “shat nav”, and narrow Devon lanes

“Floor it and get throught, that’ll be the answer”

“At Dagenham and Dartford”

A can of beer in a Ford Transit

J’s brown ‘93 Ford Econoline

An unintentional burnout on California Street, San Francisco

Judas Priest and Steel Panther in San Jose

J’s bespoke fitting of a velour driver seat from the Econoline Chateaux

A bachelor party LDV duallie taking up 8 parking places

A Ginster’s pasty

Early noughties Ford Transits - fast!

Gated communities of Cornwall

Slayer - Spirit In Black

Turning in Driveways

Memories of a Rental House in Reading; an Alfa 33 on the lawn; strimming the lawn  

Greep’s Corsa VXR

125mph Mitsubishi

M’s BMW M2, Nissan 350Z and Honda CBR600RR: fettling required

Slayer - Behind the Crooked Cross

A sidebar on Slayer

Slayer - South of Heaven

Vauxhall Cavalier SRi

Peugeot 309

Gixxer and potholes

M’s Fiesta ST Broken Throttle body

Dio at the Hammersmith Odeon and Pee in the Radiator of a Ford Sierra

Fixing Overheating by running the Heater

Mad Max Falcon

Ronin Audi S8

Sux 6000 (Robocop) 

Toyota Yaris and Corolla GR

Greep experiences a Tesla

BMW CE04 electric moped

Revel (who have since left San Francisco)

J needs 50mph, not 30mph from his e moped

Slayer - I Don’t Want To Hear It

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A Florida Roadtrip; 

A Prius Digression;

J impressed by hybrid torque and 50mpg;

Prius not impressed by J’s driving;

Daytona Track Tour is worthwhile to see the banking’s steepness from the actual track; J drives where Dale Earnhardt met his end; 

J’s recent Sprint Car research project - Midget racing in the bay area in the late 1940s/50s

Hall of Fame Museum at Daytona;

Campbell’s Bluebird;

Marshall Teague’s “Fabulous” Hudson Hornet;

Automotive sites in Daytona Beach - Smokey Yuinick’s shop, Marshall Teague’s shop

Early Nascar and the rise of the SuperSpeedway;

The North Turn Restaurant

VINWiki Curated Lamborghini in Miami

The Green Diablo Jota in the Kitchen

1981 Lamborghini Countach - the Monaco Grand Prix Pace Car

The Estrella Warbirds Museum

California History - Hunter-Gatherer societies and aeroplane graveyards 

- the most awesome sprint car collection

Motorhead - Deadmen Tell No Tales;

Pebble Beach 2023 - 

Structured a different way - first time in a decade didn’t watch the start of the tour;

Stayed in Soledad - good roads but the distance an issue;

The People Of Pebble Beach, and the McLaren Millenial crowd;

If last year was McLarens this year it was lots of Rolls Royces;

Familiarity makes them “less off-puttingly ostentatious”

J has made his peace with the Cullinan

The Yellow Crypto Lambo

J is cynical about Audighini’s baked in understeer

Iron Maiden - Sun and Steel

Big day at RM; Lancia LC2

Manowar - And The Gods Made Heavy Metal

8 litre Bentley

Siata

RMs Barn Find Exhibit and the 1954 Mondial

Exodus - Metal Command

JDM at Pebble; but who are Spoon?; The white 90’s tuner Civic as a classic car; 

Are drift cars attaining collectibility?

Ratt - Dance

Seeing the Quail show at the end of the day, while the cars are being loaded

How Daimler and Benz came to merge in 1926 and the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, designed by Porsche

Type o Negative - We Hate Everyone;

Monterey Historic Races from Laguna Seca; Group C cars enjoyable from the Corkscrew; The build-up of Turns 3,4,5,and 6 - a rhythm and style which British club circuits lack. All like Copse Corner at Silverstone - simple fast, challenging; J loves Historic Formula 1; RIP Phil Reilly, Ford/Cosworth DFV Guru

The Ragtime Racers,Classic car auctions as Performative Theatre

Kreator - Grinder

J’s new logistics for Pebble ‘23; the show itself remains the Best Car Show. But only until all the people arrive.

A Beautifully Curated Balance of Cars. J particularly enjoyed Senna’s 1988 McLaren Formula 1 car. A fresh appreciation for Daimler Benz as the featured marque.

Prong - Who’s Fist?

J’s tribute to Don Williams, the man who wanted to “touch every car”, seller of the first $1m car, and the first $10m car; the origins of the Blackhawk Museum; Don said “I don’t like crap”, but J does! 

Blackhawk Museum, jewelry store display case vs. J’s desire to tell rich stories around artifacts

J appreciates Don for elevating cars to antiques

Dope - You Spin Me

3 Awesome Black Mercedes - #1 - The Trossi Mercedes SSK owned by Ralph Lauren, J’s Best in Show, image car for this episode

J’s tour for some Mercedes Benz visitors leading on how the concours works; pleasingly ended the tour on the winning car, #2 a black Mercedes 540k; 800 miles in two weeks in #3 my black ‘02 Mercedes E55 - great old car despite a cracked windshield;

Cadaverous Collectors and the cars of Pebble as Avatar

J’s favourite YouTuber of the moment - Car UK

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M’s Goodwood Festival of Speed report

The Allure of the Metro 6R4

M on The Value of Being a Goodwood Member

McLaren P1, Marlboro livery

Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, a EV with gears, and the comedy touch in performance EVs

Not racing, but burnouts and crashes on the hillclimb up Lord March’s drive

J’s interest in Leyton House

Cathedral - Hopkins, Witchfinder General

A Nissan Altima rental

J forgives the CVT, if indeed it has one

The aggressive nose of the innocuous Altima

J wants to Fight The System in New England, don’t judge me by my flip-flops!!!

An E-plate Aston Martin V8 Vantage at home in New England

A cheap MG EV - is this a milestone affordable-and-practical EV, as J thinks?

J worries about the longevity of today’s EV cars

Le Mans: the TV experience - J is impressed

M moans about UK Formula 1 coverage, and the new Murray Walker, David Croft

James Hunt and Martin Brundle Commentators Above Reproach

J’s five minutes of Formula 1 in the last five years - Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton crash at Copse

J doesn’t like Max

M doesn’t like Red Bull

M respects Adrian Newey

Spa deaths at Eau Rouge / Radillon

Door hits are always bad - Keith Odor, Mike Hawthorn

The Halo on F1 Cars

NASCAR Chicago street race; Shane van Gisbergen wins his first NASCAR race

Type o Negative - These Three Things

Automotive Storytelling - Fast Five. Panteras jumping off trains, Hokosuka Skylines in a Rio favella

Celtic Frost - Dance Sleazy

Mission Impossible bike stunt and movie review, including plot spoilers

M recommends John Wick 4 for its Epic Imagery

3d botmaker 1:64 scale Hot Wheels diecast car racing updater

The A-Team roll

Fastest Hot Wheels castings; Sierra Cosworths, Nissan Maxima Wagons

Practical Sportsbikes, the son of Performance Bikes magazine is dead. The End of Days for print media.

M considers the tablet as a shareable alternative to magazines

Quick Fire

US road trip - $ no object what do you drive? Broadly T70

The rental F250XL used for the Route 66 road trip discussed in Ep11

“High Four” is J’s new happy place

An Epic Drift

Best driving music?

Metallica: short hair or long?

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Cricket and the Englishman

The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh

Poker

A Porsche Digression - 

The rise of the 993 4S

J’s 964 experiences

J’s 968 CS test drive

In praise of the Cayenne GTS’ interior

Porsche choose their customers like Ferrari. Anecdotally.

The appeal of a base model Boxster

J rebels against car models always bloating

'15 and '16 Fiesta ST running reports

A revolution in car cleaning products, by YouTube

'17 BMW M2 running report - A/C and brake juddering, and a not great dealer

J’s app for surfing beater cars in Europe - AutoScout24

Renault Clio 182

1914 Grand Prix Peugeot

Peugeot 205 GTi

Sierra Cosworth (Sapphire)

Citroen Saxo VTS

Citroen C6 and Up N Down

Renault Fuego GTX

2002 Mercedes E55 AMG running report @ 158k, “cut roof off”, a broken hood ornament but mechanically sound; central locking pump and battery change

Battery strategy when letting cars sit

Hubnut

Vain - Whisper

Plans to Pick up the Free Motorcycle

Vice Grip Garage

Western road trip - Coloma, where they found gold in California

X-15 Major Michael Adams Memorial

Seligman AZ: the real Radiator Springs from the Cars movie

Death Valley at 124 degrees with no A/C 

Thanks to United Rentals, and their Ford F250

J retells the story of the discovery of gold in California

Highway 395

Route 66 - all kinds of awesome, Seligman to Victorville especially

Gentrification and Shelby - an LA story (as seen in Ford vs Ferrari)

Newton’s bad behaviour on a Honda XR650 Supermotard

Paradise Cove reprised

Bruce Junor and his book

PCH and memories of the CBR

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Tommy Vance, Radio Caroline and Early rock radio in Britain

WASP

Four bands in one: the evolution of Judas Priest

The science fiction theatre of Iron Maiden

Aerosmith or Kiss ?

Slayer - Die By The Sword 

Production and thrash metal - to remaster or not to remaster

Motley Crue, Backing tracks and the digitization of live music

Mixtapes, and M’s impression of For Whom the Bell Tolls

Listening culture 1980s vs 2020s

WASP - Shoot from the Hip

News - Ford/Tesla (and GM/Rivian) charging infrastructure partnerships

M remains EV sceptical

J loves the hybrid Chevy Volt design

J is flabbergasted by the Faraday Future launch

Tesla, Lucid and Faraday: redefining the car

EV ranges: the utility of 200 miles vs 400 miles

M theorizes that lightweight is better than EV behemoths

The unsafety of cabover vans

44teeth Boothy's return to the TT

A shameless plug for our book, The Chronicles of Halvar and Clarence

Isle of Man TT: Hickey’s 133 mph lap

Twenty years since the passing of Dave Jeffries

Bullett - Stay Wild

Pau Historic Grand Prix - A balcony overlooking the track: M’s Five Star experience at the Parc Beaumont Hotel

Legends Racers

M and the attainable dream of Historic Racing

A critique of Belgium

Three Men in a Ka

The defeat of the Silver Arrows - and the Nazis - at Pau - by Rene Dreyfus

A digression on Mellaha, the site of the Tripoli Grand Prix

The Million Franc Prize

J’s digression justifying his factual incorrectness

A thumbnail on Hermann Lang

Accept - Too High to Get it Right

The Ethics of Banger Racing

Quick fire - 

F40 or 959?

F40 or F50?

R32 or Focus RS?

GT2 or 488 Pista?

Manual transmission or rear wheel drive?

You can historic race any car anywhere. What and where?

Eulogy to Spa

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Uncle Mark’s Life South of the Border

Ford F250 diesel 4x4 manual

Ford F450 Shortbus

Baja Street Dogs

Buzzed By a Trophy Truck

Yamaha WR 450 and riding in Baja

“Mustangs to Todos”

Argentina bike road trip; heavy vs. light off-road bikes

A Eulogy to Heated Seats and Grips

“Personalities” in modern Nascar

Indy vs. Grosjean

Modern Motorsport and Money

Mark’s 1966 Mustang GT

The Gasser Vision

“The Thing I Most Want Is My Own Stuff To Work”

J’s Pontiac Grand Prix

Mark and J can’t “thin the herd” of their non-functional cars 

Toyota Chinook

Mark’s Mustang SN95 Track car

J’s hypoglycemia

"Quad into an electric fence"

ZF and Fly By Wire Steering - “you can’t get the staff”

Sim Racing Games, pedals and steering setups, VR motion sickness

J’s Mustang SN95 Track car

"A Historian, Not A Mechanic"

Harley-Davidson Fast Johnnie

The Death of the Sportsbike 

Alpine A290

Freightliners

Taycan Turbo S vs. Bullitt Mustang

Eulogy to Steve B, the consummate Ford Guy

Pebble Beach class-winning Bob McGee '32 Model A Roadster

The Cobra Bigblock mule

Crocetti Speciale

Tundras I Have Known

New Cars I Have Bought

Seat Leon Cupra R

Mercedes E63 wagons 

M6 Gran Coupe

Daimler-Benz M156 engine Eulogy

Mark’s Dad’s ‘40 Ford Coupe - “a blown Cad with a La Salle rear end”

The “Business Coupe” explained

Mark’s ex-Police Harley

'80’s Thunderbirds as an Investment

A moment’s silence for J’s Mondeo ST24

Tony Angelo’s Lincoln MkVIII

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Goodwood “Revival” vs. “Members Meeting” vs “Festival”

Aston Martin Kia Sportage, Lamborghini Anus, The Man Whole Had Three Cayenne Turbos

Selwyn Francis Edge

“Ten Years of Motors and Motor Racing”

The 200hp Darracq

J’s Gasser vision - the Hound Dog

J’s confessional

A dented Triumph Dolomite

BTCC vs DTM

M’s Best Car Park spot

J en France - 

Traffic calming in French villages

Paris’ 19mph speed limit

An Awesome Parisian Cabbie

24 hour bike racing at Le Mans, Ozzfest Meets Sportsbikes

A Typical Le Mans Traffic Jam

“Wow, that was FAST”

Historic race - more than a couple of bikes like ones in J’s collection in the field

A digression on Peage Rest Stops

A Small Boy Determined to see The Race At Night

J frustrated by a “green” multi-storey carpark with small spots

Le Mans in the small hours - Europop Disco and France’s answer to Linkin Park

“I think I’ve had enough, we can go home and sleep now” 

J’s explores French Garages, dreams of resucing - Renault Safrane Biturbo, 19 16v, Clio 16v, two Mazda Mk2 RX7s

Old Renault dealer on the main road to Le Mans - pranged Peugeot 206 sw, Megane cabrio, Mk2 Laguna 1.8 16v petrol

J’s Mk1 Laguna V6

M’s Mk1 Laguna pool car

BTCC Renault Laguna, built by Williams

Salvage Rebuilds UK question if a Renault Laguna Mk1 is a bona fide classic car; we believe so, as endorsed by TOCA Touring cars

Britain’s unique and awesome club circuits, e.g. Thruxton, Cadwell Park

Ross Chastain and “Wall-running” in NASCAR; J wants to shake Chastain’s hand

J’s Fiat 500X rental; an unfair comparison with the Fiesta ST

J pines for Chop’s Garages Jaguar despite living 6000 miles from it

App for buying European beaters - Autoscout24

Renault 19 16v collectibility

We “can’t bear some sh1tty rental”

Eulogies on: Fiesta ST, Renault 21 Turbo, Sierra Sapphire Cosworth, Renault 18 Turbo

The Noble Sacrifice of a Volvo 740 Turbo, in service of Outstanding Bacon Sandwiches

J’s favourite SUVs: 100k Tahoe PPVs and Mercedes ML63s

“Dukes of Hazzard” in a Westfield

Nearly being run over by Bruno Saby’s World Rally Escort Cosworth

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The Cursed ‘78 Yamaha XS650 

• Fleet week 2005 (?)
• MotoGP Laguna Seca 2006 (?)

Guest John rides a homemade electric bike

Buying a custom Yamaha DR125 (yes, dirt bike to race bike)

Memories of Nicky Hayden

Joey Dunlop

Is this the end of real road racing in Ireland? Does this have implications for the Isle of Man TT?

The TT in the future

The “End of Roadracing” article J refers to

Riding in England vs California vs Philippines 

Skaggs Springs Road

De Havilland Beaver

Some LA stories - 

Snake Shopping in the San Fernando Valley

Riding: Topanga Canyon (Highway 27), Angeles Crest, Mulholland,

J’s CBR race bike on the Pacific Coast Highway

A ZX10 in a Canyon

The Upside Down Harley

The Fireblade in the Tree

John - Honda CB or BMW?

Quick Fire -

First bike

Last one you bought

The “one that got away”

Best bike 

Worst bike

If l could ride like anyone, it would be…

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