Garage Heroes In Training

For our main topics, Alan, Vicki, and Bill go over where we are with the Capri resuscitation progress and Bill's recent NASA HPDE event at Pitt Race.  Additionally, we talk about a how Alan's Yankee ingenuity has "helped" in mocking up the Capri build, his "free" source of "new to us" metal, wheel spacers.  We also have a detailed explanation in how to alleviate the potential pressure involved wit...

Bill reviews how his first day with NASA Great Lakes went at Pitt Race.  It was hot, but the instruction in the car and in the classroom was excellent.  Chris was able to be his instructor.  The day ended with another few laps on the kart track.  An excellent day one.  Really looking forward to day 2.

Bill is going solo this weekend but going to cover what he is expecting at the HPDE event with NASA Great Lakes at Pitt Race.  Having raced here earlier this year, it may have helped, but we shall see.  Hopefully the brakes will not catch on fire this time.  Bill is driving a 2017 Toyota 86 TRD this weekend for the third time ever on a track.  And hopefully home after Sunday, lol.

On this episode, Benny and Bill review the most recent Superhero movie Spiderman Far From Home.  We also cover the entire Spiderman movie history including the three Spiderman movies, the two Amazing Spiderman movies, the most recent two Spiderman "Home" movies, as well as Venom and Into the Spiderverse.  Our discussion also includes a deep dive into both end credit scenes and their implications m...

Randy Pobst is a well known professional racing driver for many series, organizations, and manufacturers including the testing driver for Motor Trend on the endlessly entertaining "Head to Head series" for many years.  During this interview, we cover a good amount of Randy's extensive racing history as well as many other topics including our Lucky Dog Honda race car and front wheel drive car setup...

Alan, Jennifer, Vicki, and Bill with a few drop ins cover our race weekend with the Lucky Dog Series at Portland International Raceway.  It starts with a review of practice Saturday morning, then our 7-hour endurance race Saturday and our work to get back out late Sunday.  We compare Lucky Dog to our home series the 24 Hours of Lemons.  While similar, there are differences, pluses and minuses for...

Here is how our day and night have gone.  Its got a good, bad, and ugly, but what would you expect from us after all.  Its live and unedited from the paddock, so sound quality may be less than stellar.   Any questions, please let us know on our Instagram.  We will try to cover them tomorrow or tomorrow night if we finish fixing the car.     Thanks again.  

Well this episode started out as a quick update and we intended to show you some of the planning that goes into a race weekend when you have to travel a significant distance.  What we ended up with was a bit of what we intended plus a whole lot more.  We go over a training session using go carts, new ear plugs for racing and a variety of other things.  Technical issues in the background abound as...

With the Dark Phoenix movie released, we took this opportunity to review the entire Fox X-Men movie series, in depth and SPOILERS aplenty.  We cover each movie, as well as the three animated series and the two current X-Men related television shows (Legion and The Gifted).  As usual, we digress and wander around the subject matter and related areas.  We hope you enjoy this latest episode of our Wo...

Our 2019 NJMP Lightning Race Review with the 24 Hours of Lemons series includes:  Quick review of the Lightning track Review Alan's many visits to the Black flag area this weekend Some flagging issues we saw We had a few self-induced incidents and a few outside influences during the race It was Kate's first race Podcast Reviews finally, Thank you.  Arrival with two not fully working cars set us ba...

On this episode, the whole gang reviews the recently ended HBO series Game Of Thrones.  We hope you enjoy the episode.  Benny, Alex, Vicki, and Bill get into the various characters, highs, and lows of the series and books.  

On this episode, we were joined by Nick Pon from the 24 Hours of Lemons HQ.  Nick is a car enthusiast for the vast majority of his life and worked with the Lemons team since the inception.  During this interview, we were able to go over Nick's history, both with Lemons and personally.  Highlights included:    Thoughts on how you Lemons has gone so far, the Good, The Bad and The Ugly What is planne...

Jeff Wakeman from the Three Pedal Mafia racing team and the Everyone Racers Podcast joins us for this week's episode.  We had a wide ranging discussion covering many topics including:   Jeff's first car Some of Jeff and the Three Pedal Mafia early history The Wartburg vs the Trabant Past few seasons results, and challenges Building two new cars for this season Team Goals for 2019 Summit point led...

For this episode, we wanted to look back on our team's first year racing Lemons and what we did, what we did well, what we did poorly, and begin to refine our plan for the coming year.  Alan also covers his recomended tool of the week.  

For this episode, we wanted to look back on our team's first year racing Lemons and what we did, what we did well, what we did poorly, and begin to refine our plan for the coming year.  Alan also covers his recomended tool of the week.  

We received a ton of questions from you and reconvened to answer all that we could.  Thanks for asking!   PS We are planning our summer and have some ideas but would love to hear from you on what would be of interest.  Please drop us a line at garageheroesintraining@gmail.com  or even better give us a review and include your ideas there within the review.  

If you think you have the driving itch or may have an interest, how  can you try racing to find out if its for you?  We also cover what is a preferred path towards your personal driving greatness.  As always, the biggest key is safety and safely progressing up your individual  learning curve.   During this episode, we also cover various ways to get out on track, how to progress with many options g...

Jennifer, Liam, Vicki, and Bill attended the EVO School for Autocross this weekend in upstate NY near Seneca Falls.  It was Bill's second time and the first time for everyone else.  We all agree that the instructing staff was awesome and the structure was excellent.  We all learned a ton and would recommend it to anyone interested in trying to push their driving limits in a safe environment for th...

On this episode, Vicki, Alan, and Bill discuss race weekend preparation using this week's EVO School race day and our next Lemons race at NJMP as examples.  In addition. Alan covers his tool of the week, a Quickjack 5000.  No relation to Sunblock 3000.  

We tried to get everyone together but it ended up being only Benny and Bill.  We may have following episodes reviewing the movie but there is our first one that several of you have been requesting.  Thank you for your patience.  We did manage to keep it under the running time of the movie.  Barely.    

Avengers Infinity War Spoiler Heavy Episode Alex, Benny, and Bill welcome in the new Avengers Endgame movie that opens tomorrow with a review of the first part Avengers Infinity War with our comments.  We also give a few predictions for Endgame.  We will return after we all see Endgame this weekend with our review.  

Another Way Off Our Topic episode featuring Benny, Vicki and Bill Reviewing Shazam.  It is a spoiler review, many attempts were made and the episode was somehow lost and not released for unknown reason.  Despite rumors to the contrary, I did not mess this one up to avoid releasing it We initially review some basic Shazam history and then we disagree on the quality of the movie.  Bill has a lot of...

We reviewed our first race of the year at Pitt Race with the 24 Hours of Lemons series.  We had some issues during the weekend that prevented us recording at the track so we went into some detail during this race review.  Including: Tech inspection Greasing palms with lots of fake money Virtual Track walk Practice schedule at the race The awesome race track at Pitt Race (We will be back) Brake fir...

We are midway in prepping for our first race of the season and wanted to review some of the details involved with preparing for a race weekend.   We also cover several of the lower cost options that are available to get anyone (meaning YOU) out on the track if you wanted to try it out.  These included high performance driving education/events (HPDE), autocross and autocross education events, drivi...

This week we welcomed Ann Deane to our podcast.  We met her at NJMP a few weeks ago when she was participating and also instructing at the Hooked On Driving event.   The discussion covered many topics and areas including: Racing and learning to race cars, things we could have done and still could do better Wish list items and plans for the coming season How to approach a new track and what to do t...