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

Some Garage Hours are just a free-for-all, with parts and nuts and sockets and rockets and blowing up bad guys, while Colorado windshield death comes for us all.  The Walkin' Dude cohosts this one while Hostus Maximus Justin Fort stabs a transfer case into the revitalized third-gen trail pig (a.k.a. Mr. Miyagi).  There's also some junkyarding, good installation tricks and Dude Food. What else...  ...

Some Garage Hours are just a free-for-all, with parts and nuts and sockets and rockets and blowing up bad guys, while Colorado windshield death comes for us all.  The Walkin' Dude cohosts this one while Hostus Maximus Justin Fort stabs a transfer case into the revitalized third-gen trail pig (a.k.a. Mr. Miyagi).  There's also some junkyarding, good installation tricks and Dude Food. What else...  ...

Don't get us wrong - if people drove as well as flying cars deserved, the Garage Hour goons would be all about Jetsoning to the hardware store for a 2x4, but as long as geeks like us can't get straight answers about liability and licensing and small details like power provison, controls sans computer, and when we can fly our car up a canyon like Clint in "Firefox", we'll stick with the backyard he...

Don't get us wrong - if people drove as well as flying cars deserved, the Garage Hour goons would be all about Jetsoning to the hardware store for a 2x4, but as long as geeks like us can't get straight answers about liability and licensing and small details like power provison, controls sans computer, and when we can fly our car up a canyon like Clint in "Firefox", we'll stick with the backyard he...

Of course, we could not have known that the little sub that might've didn't (R.I.P., gents), but a thought or two about trusting your geek instinct and self-preservation...  There's also a few thoughts about how automakers are attempting to (or desperately want to) capture and sell your data, from face-recognition to fingerprints and banking records to who you know.  ...Sound like what you signed...

Of course, we could not have known that the little sub that might've didn't (R.I.P., gents), but a thought or two about trusting your geek instinct and self-preservation...  There's also a few thoughts about how automakers are attempting to (or desperately want to) capture and sell your data, from face-recognition to fingerprints and banking records to who you know.  ...Sound like what you signed...

Now, with less hoit and toit...  The Gearhead Consultancy has a few gems for you:  handy PPIHC pre-race details (false peak but real info), excellent tales of service from the Leatherman multi-tool people (some warranties are worth more than others), thoughts on what (not) to say when the law is at the door, why political garbage is now even less welcome in your beer, tech and radio (and speaking...

Now, with less hoit and toit...  The Gearhead Consultancy has a few gems for you:  handy PPIHC pre-race details (false peak but real info), excellent tales of service from the Leatherman multi-tool people (some warranties are worth more than others), thoughts on what (not) to say when the law is at the door, why political garbage is now even less welcome in your beer, tech and radio (and speaking...

Is Bubba Wallace the new Danica Patrick?  Way to ruin what little credibility you had left, schmuck.  We prefer Jim Brown - R.I.P., big guy.  We also prefer Richard Jewell (speaking of R.I.P.), whom this episode somehow commingles with the Unabomber (who will probably not be resting peacefully, if you catch our drift).  Then it's all experts and flying SFPD patrol cars and NYC suing carmakers who...

Is Bubba Wallace the new Danica Patrick?  Way to ruin what little credibility you had left, schmuck.  We prefer Jim Brown - R.I.P., big guy.  We also prefer Richard Jewell (speaking of R.I.P.), whom this episode somehow commingles with the Unabomber (who will probably not be resting peacefully, if you catch our drift).  Then it's all experts and flying SFPD patrol cars and NYC suing carmakers who...

Geeks don't want politicians to take away their freedom to roam, nor ruin their gearhead life (geek powa!), and the skill-set guys (aka: geeks) won't let snap-lift oversteer derail an otherwise enjoyable 120mph joyride in the 3-Series daddy just bought 'em.  Meanwhile, back at the garadtch, we dipped our toes in a collection of indestructibility for your driveway (this topic will return - the schw...

Geeks don't want politicians taking away their freedom to roam, nor ruining their gearhead life (geek powa!), and the skill-set guys (aka: geeks) won't let snap-lift oversteer derail an otherwise enjoyable 120mph joyride in the 3-Series daddy just bought 'em.  Meanwhile, back at the garadtch, we dipped our toes in a collection of indestructibility for your driveway (this topic will return - the sc...

That's a spicy meatball - everything from killer whales eating your rudder (still not sure of their MO) to godless commies dredging up sunken WW2 wrecks for scrap, this episode's got it.  ...It's all gearhead, though - don't 'fraid dat.  On top of the usual suspects, however, we've piled plumbing parts, protecting your peep, new steekers, old lamp oil, Curtis Sliwa and a Marine in New Yawk City, a...

That's a spicy meatball - everything from killer whales eating your rudder (still not sure of their MO) to godless commies dredging up sunken WW2 wrecks for scrap, this episode's got it.  ...It's all gearhead, though - don't 'fraid dat.  On top of the usual suspects, however, we've piled plumbing parts, protecting your peep, new steekers, old lamp oil, Curtis Sliwa and a Marine in New Yawk City, a...

When the gearheads get enthusiastic, the geeks get going:  the new-car connectivity albatross and its threat to AM (as well as your seat heaters), why new cars and their general state of suck is making a mess of the used-car market, and some F!ed up fun from Kalifornistan, where the police can't chase you and the earth is swallowing up off-roaders.  Then it's turbos, bugeye WRXs, EVCs, own-versus-...

When the gearheads get enthusiastic, the geeks get going:  the new-car connectivity albatross and its threat to AM (as well as your seat heaters), why new cars and their general state of suck is making a mess of the used-car market, and some F!ed up fun from Kalifornistan, where the police can't chase you and the earth is swallowing up off-roaders  Then it's turbos, bugeye WRXs, EVCs, own-versus-r...

Holy carp, if you ever may use a gun to protect your person, people or property, this is an episode for you.  We dug into a great interview of a gent who came out on top during a parking lot throwdown with an armed criminal.  Colion Noir did a good job and let the winner (hey, he's not dead) talk about it: the boon of practice (practice, practice...), the bane of tactical doodads, why round-limits...

Holy carp, if you ever may use a gun to protect your person, people or property, this is an episode for you.  We dug into a great interview of a gent who came out on top during a parking lot throwdown with an armed criminal.  Colion Noir did a good job and let the winner (hey, he's not dead) talk about it: the boon of practice (practice, practice...), the bane of tactical doodads, why round-limits...

Thoughts from the gearhead planet...  Sticky tires and Bilstein PSS9s, Doc's Elise and Ryan's Alpina, pie-faced ditzes and Porsche mugs, Teslas trying to burn down mid-race, BMWs and their airbags, electric STis won't hunt (or go hillclimbing, or all day), new and used car prices up about 20% since Sniffy Joe got into office (and the electric-car price distortion), Lamborghini's slightly challengi...

Thoughts from the gearhead planet...  Sticky tires and Bilstein PSS9s, Doc's Elise and Ryan's Alpina, pie-faced ditzes and Porsche mugs, Teslas trying to burn down mid-race, BMWs and their airbags, electric STis won't hunt (or go hillclimbing, or all day), new and used car prices up about 20% since Sniffy Joe got into office (and the electric-car price distortion), Lamborghini's slightly challengi...

Do you want alien archeologists to brand Earth the T-shirt and cardboard planet?  We neither, so let's get to work quelling the free-farce zone built upon by bumper stickers, bad governance, idiot officials and ideology that can't get past its first foot forward.  Expand your inputs (think from the firehose) - AM is a part of unexpected reality, and that's good.  Challenge the bubble - Car & Drive...

Do you want alien archeologists to brand Earth the T-shirt and cardboard planet?  We neither, so let's get to work quelling the free-farce zone built upon by bumper stickers, bad governance, idiot officials and ideology that can't get past its first foot forward.  Expand your inputs (think from the firehose) - AM is a part of unexpected reality, and that's good.  Challenge the bubble - Car & Drive...

You're the geek, so you understand the importance of the Second Amendment (probably to the point of being obnoxious).  Good - we too.  This piece gathers the bits, including the massive growth of ownership, all the new (and novel) firearms owners, the importance of training - don't buy 10 guns, buy one and ten boxes of bullets.  ...Or maybe 100.  Then the Gearhead Consultancy flubs the Constitutio...

You're the geek, so you understand the importance of the Second Amendment (probably to the point of being obnoxious).  Good - we too.  This piece gathers the bits, including the massive growth of ownership, all the new (and novel) firearms owners, the importance of training - don't buy 10 guns, buy one and ten boxes of bullets.  ...Or maybe 100.  Then the Gearhead Consultancy flubs the Constitutio...

So much good stuff:  why Johnny Cab is planning to kill you, why nobody wants electric cars, why gov't choices aren't, why electric cars are a social contagion too, why gov't action is an inverse penalty, why more CO2 is a good thing, why 60% of new cars can never be electric, why artificial intelligence isn't, and why robot cars are causing new and innovative traffic jams. Also, F-16 flyovers, ho...