Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns

You know what to do, so do it!  It's all about the skillset today: remember to smile when you pull a fast one (or a perfect one), because that's the sort of geeksauce that makes life worth doin'.  Did you save some cops from a deer-blood shower?  Did your old buddy Baris from Turkey pull a neato Euro-style brakestand to get parked in the snow?  Did you use your bumper and a little bit of tire-drag...

Alright, so there are a few things on your plate today that may involve the fate of America, but the Garage Hour is nothing if not distracting (with all the cars, trucks, beers, guns, parts, fixing, kerplosions and awesomeness) - let us help you escape, if just for a minute: lithium battery fires don't just kill people, they kill fire departments, household spies hiding in your vacuum, how diamond...

Alright, so there are a few things on your plate today that may involve the fate of America, but the Garage Hour is nothing if not distracting (with all the cars, trucks, beers, guns, parts, fixing, kerplosions and awesomeness) - let us help you escape, if just for a minute: lithium battery fires don't just kill people, they kill fire departments, household spies hiding in your vacuum, how diamond...

We'll trade you a four-pound sledge and a twitchy STi for the time to get more episodes published...  This one's full of traffic thinking, with a knobby-tired look at why good alignment matters (and dying end-links don't).  There's an in-depth analysis of how it's essential to be in an offensive state of mind when commanding your place in the flow (and why bubbling yourself off from those selfsame...

We'll trade you a four-pound sledge and a twitchy STi for the time to get more episodes published...  This one's full of traffic thinking, with a knobby-tired look at why good alignment matters (and dying end-links don't).  There's an in-depth analysis of how it's essential to be in an offensive state of mind when commanding your place in the flow (and why bubbling yourself off from those selfsame...

...A data-heavy slacker-upload episode for you - too much to do, so go do it. We did: wrasslin' animals and eating' bears, recalling Fords and Fords and DEIs and Toyotas and Fords and GMs and pickups and some junk in the trunk, as well as recalling a run from El Paso to Wisco in one of BFGoodrich's fleet of jacked-up Suburbans, and revisiting the Garage Hour rule that if you dig two holes in Engla...

...A data-heavy slacker-upload episode for you - too much to do, so go do it. We did: wrasslin' animals and eating' bears, recalling Fords and Fords and DEIs and Toyotas and Fords and GMs and pickups and some junk in the trunk, as well as recalling a run from El Paso to Wisco in one of BFGoodrich's fleet of jacked-up Suburbans, and revisiting the Garage Hour rule that if you dig two holes in Engla...

Be the geek and improve the you: the Garage Hour is here to help (everybody, apparently)... The lovely Pam called needing info on detailing a dashboard and cleaning seat fabric, so the Gearhead Consultancy went to town with everything from car care on the Front Range to the beauty of factory headlight plastic - it's all about the sincerity of your detail.  With our old buddy Craig and special appe...

Be the geek and improve the you: the Garage Hour is here to help (everybody, apparently)... The lovely Pam called needing info on detailing a dashboard and cleaning seat fabric, so the Gearhead Consultancy went to town with everything from car care on the Front Range to the beauty of factory headlight plastic - it's all about the sincerity of your detail.  With our old buddy Craig and special appe...

Don't let the compunannies and digidistractions make you less of a (hu)man - it's time to think before you sink (into the mud and unpacked dirt at that job site, Mr. Cement Truck Driver)... It's an episode full of whatever got in the Gearhead Consultancy's way, because we're too damn busy.  How about cops and their Exploders?  Good and bad strap technique for fun and disastrous truck towing and ha...

Don't let the compunannies and digidistractions make you less of a (hu)man - it's time to think before you sink (into the mud and unpacked dirt at that job site, Mr. Cement Truck Driver)... It's an episode full of whatever got in the Gearhead Consultancy's way, because we're too damn busy.  How about cops and their Exploders?  Good and bad strap technique for fun and disastrous truck towing and ha...

You asked for it...  Well, technically, White Mark's wife got called in for double surgery so we just ran to the garage and started pouring powder and Gilark Whiskey (version-four rye AND version-five bourbon).  What resulted?  Hot .308s for the M24 (Nosler + Hornaday +Winchester + Vargit = 2500fps), a bunch of shaped and cleaned brass, and a wide-ranging chat about what goes into making good ammo...

You asked for it...  Well, technically, White Mark's wife got called in for double surgery so we just ran to the garage and started pouring powder and Gilark Whiskey (version-four rye AND version-five bourbon).  What resulted?  Hot .308s for the M24 (Nosler + Hornaday +Winchester + Vargit = 2500fps), a bunch of shaped and cleaned brass, and a wide-ranging chat about what goes into making good ammo...

Straight from the no-math Greek-'froading bipedal-maintenance intro, it's a full hour of gearhead supremacy.  Two big topics loom: tech versus you (and two of the nastiest manifestations of the threat, including what's being done with your data and what the Chinese are doing with self-driving cars), plus a chaser about carmakers having to lie about electric car sales numbers because no one wants t...

Straight from the no-math Greek-'froading bipedal-maintenance intro, it's a full hour of gearhead supremacy.  Two big topics loom: tech versus you (and two of the nastiest manifestations of the threat, including what's being done with your data and what the Chinese are doing with self-driving cars), plus a chaser about carmakers having to lie about electric car sales numbers because no one wants t...

It's an afternoon at AutoVos with Brown Caleb, White Mark and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort.  There's a good chat on recoloring your coach with the new SVG dry PPF (SVGIP.com), tinting technique (using XPel), and a secret tint job for a Porsche that's heading for Kansas, and a visit from the Boys in Brown (trucks) carrying the new dealer kit from SVG for Caleb.  As per the usual, the gearhead goons g...

It's an afternoon at AutoVos with Brown Caleb, White Mark and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort.  There's a good chat on recoloring your coach with the new SVG dry PPF (SVGIP.com), tinting technique (using XPel), and a secret tint job for a Porsche that's heading for Kansas, and a visit from the Boys in Brown (trucks) carrying the new dealer kit from SVG for Caleb.  As per the usual, the gearhead goons g...

Phew!  We'll get back on track ASAP - there's a few episodes waiting to be put together, and the Garage Hour goons are on it.  This show's pretty gearhead: a prayer for John Force, whose funny car wasn't very (just add kerploding), a chat w/ our old buddy David Lozeau about how Jap cars, trucks and bikes parts were freakin' perfect in the '90s, how Toyota's fighting with bureaucrats about testing...

Phew!  We'll get back on track ASAP - there's a few episodes waiting to be put together, and the Garage Hour goons are on it.  This show's pretty gearhead: a prayer for John Force, whose funny car wasn't very (just add kerploding), a chat w/ our old buddy David Lozeau about how Jap cars, trucks and bikes parts were freakin' perfect in the '90s, how Toyota's fighting with bureaucrats about testing...

An out-of-order episode from Gearhead Consultantcy - blame the psychic iPod: hillclimb and mountain details for race fans attending this year's 102nd PPIHC… This is a special thing, and thanks to the officials, organizers, racers and crews that make it possible (with a little help from the Garage Hour), you can better sink your teeth into one of America's most iconic motorsports to-dos. …Spots to...

An out-of-order episode from Gearhead Consultantcy - blame the psychic iPod: hillclimb and mountain details for race fans attending this year's 102nd PPIHC… This is a special thing, and thanks to the officials, organizers, racers and crews that make it possible (with a little help from the Garage Hour), you can better sink your teeth into one of America's most iconic motorsports to-dos. …Spots to...

…Lots of parts to this episode, but they fit:  with Faith No More on the soundtrack, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort does everything from excellent Dude Food (fine sirloin and the only way to enjoy fish tacos), a revelation of historic WW2 Jap tunnels under Okinawa by NHK, scary details of federal bureaucrats trying to double the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (and send taxpayers to the poorhouse), and...

…Lots of parts to this episode, but they fit:  with Faith No More on the soundtrack, Hostus Maximus Justin Fort does everything from excellent Dude Food (fine sirloin and the only way to enjoy fish tacos), a revelation of historic WW2 Jap tunnels under Okinawa by NHK, scary details of federal bureaucrats trying to double the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (and send taxpayers to the poorhouse), and...

So much episodery coming… This one's a deusie - everything that's going on to mess with your gearhead and geek existence.  From GM torpedoing the Malibu to Kalifornistan blowing up your right to roam, it's in there.  Remember, just because you don't care about politics doesn't mean politicians don't want to screw you. There's some good stuff to be heard on this episode, though - longtime contender...

So much episodery coming… This one's a deusie - everything that's going on to mess with your gearhead and geek existence.  From GM torpedoing the Malibu to Kalifornistan blowing up your right to roam, it's in there.  Remember, just because you don't care about politics doesn't mean politicians don't want to screw you. There's some good stuff to be heard on this episode, though - longtime contender...