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Magnus Walker is the man who turned air-cooled Porsches into a movement. This is a podcast about letting it go. He sold 18 cars from his personal collection this spring and kept the 16 he couldn't part with. Three months on, he sat down with us to talk about what's left when you stop collecting: feeling lighter, the worthless van he misses more than the Porsches, and the 356 that found him...

Tommy Thomas spent high school talking about the Cannonball Run and the next four decades not doing it. A career driving fire trucks will do that. Retirement changed the math. Now he crosses the country with a co-driver, a trunk full of countermeasures, and a Cadillac built to look like nothing at all. We get into the laser jammers, the truckers who help and the ones who don't, the cops who go...

Jake and Kris get into rally prep, a project truck that keeps finding reasons to stay parked, and the the guys debate the Ferrari Luce release that has everyone online wondering if it's a parody. Mrs. Producer brings a story off the wire. and chats her own unrealistic project car desires. Support this show, get cool stuff: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Kris and Jake catch up on projects, boats, and bad decisions. Then Jake says something we did not see coming. Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Bailey Clayton is a sign painter who taught himself the trade before he knew it had a name. He started with calligraphy in a school notebook and now points squirrel-hair brushes and oil-based one-shot at the sides of race cars, recreating historic liveries by hand. He stands for permanence in a world that re-vinyls everything every five years, and for the belief that a number painted by hand outla...

Coming off a six percent grade in 1955, your brakes were a countdown. By the seventies, they were a backup system. The story of the man who built the thing that took the death out of the descent. Support Overcrest. Get cool stuff. https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest

Buddy Levy is the author of Labyrinth of Ice, the definitive account of the Greely Expedition. In 1881, 25 men were sent to the Arctic. The government forgot about them. Only six came home. What happened at Camp Clay is one of the most harrowing survival stories in American history. Part 3 of The Forgotten Ones. We talk about what drove men into the unknown, what happens to the mind in 137 days of...

The guys chat Jake buying the dumbest of all cars, and Kris buying another grandpa car. Also, some interesting and obscure news on dealership models and bear fraud.

Paul didn't set out to run a dealership. He set out to build a clubhouse for car people, and AutoKennel is what happened along the way. In this episode, I sit down with Paul, the driving force behind AutoKennel, the Southern California shop that has quietly become a gathering place for enthusiasts as much as a licensed dealer and brokerage. We talk about how a passion project turned into a rea...

Past the edges of the maps were mountains that killed ten men at Christmas. A bridge in New York where a man became someone else every night for thirteen years. And an Arctic camp where twenty five soldiers were abandoned by their own government and left to eat whatever was left. These are the stories nobody tells anymore. Not because they aren't worth telling, but because the men at the cente...

Betim Berisha is the founder of BBi Autosport in Huntington Beach, California. Porsche tuner. Engine builder. Pikes Peak veteran. He and his team at BBi built the Hoonipigasus for Ken Block, developed the new Project Evo, launched Type 99 as a coach-built 911 program, and have taken cars up the mountain for over a decade alongside drivers like Jeff Zwart and Loni Unser. This is his second time on...

At one point, all the maps had foggyedges. Past those edges, nothing. No roads, no forts, no names for anything. Just grass and sky and silence stretching until it hit mountains that were further away than they looked. The men who walked into it were broke, forgotten, and had nothing behind them worth staying for. Most of them died young. Most of them died alone. A few of them came back with stori...

Chris Ashton is the founder of Ruffian Cars, one of the freshest and most innovative custom car shops in the country. What you may not know is he also co-founded the game development studio that worked on Counter-Strike and built the legendary Left 4 Dead. Thirty years building worlds you can't touch, and then he decided to build ones you could.

This episode covers 4,000 years of baldness from ancient Egypt to the modern era. We talk about pirates, wigs held together with bobby pins, a reform school kid who became champion, a man who fought an empire without raising a fist, and the most famous silhouette in history. New episodes every week. Subscribe and join the Overcrest Driving Team for exclusive content drops. 🔗 LINKS Overcrest Drivi...

Vin Anatra is a former Hoonigan SVP turned independent creator who spent nearly a decade helping build one of the most influential brands in automotive media before walking away to start Driver Era — a YouTube channel and small car operation built around buying, experiencing, and selling special cars one at a time. He's a lifelong car obsessive who came up through the Volkswagen forum scene, b...

Kris and Jake on the Grand Tour's new hosts, the death of start-stop, China banning flush door handles and steering yokes, Lamborghini killing its EV, the RS5 outweighing an F-150, BMW ending the manual and rear-drive M car era, and a billion-dollar fraud. Support this show: https://www.overcrestproductions.com/driversclub 0:00 Intro 0:30 Open 2:24 The Grand Tour Returns 12:40 The Death of Sta...

Harrison Schoen is a Navy veteran, content creator, and full-time vehicle dweller. He's lived in a Porsche Cayenne, built out a 1985 Mercedes Unimog, and appeared on MrBeast's Beast Games as Player 251. This is his second time on the podcast. Check out Harrison's adventures on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harry.schoen/ Support this show: https://www.overcrestproduction.com/driv...

Brian Scotto is the co-founder of Hoonigan, the creative force behind the 400 million view Gymkhana films with Ken Block, and one of the most influential voices in automotive media over the last 15 years. Before Hoonigan, he was the editor-in-chief of Zero to 60 and Rides magazines, shaping car culture through print well before YouTube existed. He's a filmmaker, a Volkswagen kid who grew up in...

We talked to Dr. Eric Wachsman to get the real story on solid state batteries. California wants to tax you by the mile and track your car to do it. The House voted to keep the federal kill switch mandate alive. We break down how the tech works and why the architecture already exists. Support this show! https://www.overcrestproductions.com/driversclub

Aaron Ross is a BMX OG, a builder, driver, and a guy deep in the middle of creating something big. We talk about building Manual Focus with friends, what bikes still give him today, and what it actually takes to stick with something for the long haul. Come to Manual Focus with us! Feb 6th and 7th, 2026 https://manualfocusshow.com/ Support Overcrest and Get Cool Stuff: https://www.overcrestproducti...

In this week’s news, Cadillac enters Formula One running Ferrari power, Ford and GM trade shots over what “real involvement” actually means, F1 locks testing behind closed doors ahead of 2026, and the new hybrid era reveals a future that sounds nothing like the one people miss. Special Guest: Charles BradleySupport this show:⁠https://www.overcrestproductions.com/driversclub⁠

Paul Potratz is the founder of Helderburg, a bespoke Land Rover Defender builder known for craftsmanship, style, and intentional design. He is also a longtime connoisseur of style and ritual, and the author of A Gentleman’s Guide to an Intentional Life: A Modern Philosophy of Meaning, Ritual, and the Well-Made Life Check out Paul's Book here and Helderberg here

We're discussing Porsche’s latest global market updates and why some legacy brands are seeing shifts in customer loyalty. We explore the rising costs of modern cars, the engineering challenges of new product lineups, and the psychology behind how we drive today. Plus, our automotive industry outlook for the rest of the year and a look at where car culture is headed. Support this show: https://...

In complete flip flop fashion Jake bought a new truck. That turns into a running fight about what trucks are actually for, how often they are really used, and why buying capability for hypothetical lives has become normal. From compact pickups and Kei cars to diesel versus gas, bench seats, chicken taxes, bricked Porsches, and Ferrari insisting a V6 is superior to a V12, the episode circles one qu...

Joshy Robots is a copywriter turned maker and designer, the person behind Earth to Robots, and someone who refuses to let good ideas stay theoretical. In this episode, he and Kris talk about honesty, friction, and why the best things are usually the hardest to make, moving from advertising and design to driving, autonomy, and what gets lost when the world tries to make everything easy. Grab a pull...