To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Classic Car Restoration, JDM, and Automotive History

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Welcome back to To All The Cars I've Loved Before ! This week, Doug is sitting down with his friend and ultimate gearhead, Tony Funk. Over the years, Tony has owned over 35 different vehicles, and he brings some of the most unbelievable automotive stories we've ever heard into the garage. In this episode, Tony sha...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! A Father’s Day Special: The Unbreakable Bond of a Racing Family Happy Father’s Day! This week on To All The Cars I've Loved Before , we are celebrating the ultimate father-daughter racing duo. We’re sitting down with Sabré Cook—a mechanical engineer and professional driver for JDX Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Nort...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! What happens when a lifetime of automotive passion becomes a 40-year career? This week, Doug goes solo from Myrtle Beach to sit down with luxury car sales legend Mike Maurer . Mike has been navigating the high-end automotive world since the 1980s, working with legendary dealerships like Brumos Porsche . In this episode, Mik...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Welcome back to All the Cars I've Loved Before , the podcast where we park the data at the door to focus on the stories that matter 🎙️. In this episode, Doug sits down with Brad Phillips, a globally recognized collector car expert and hardcore gearhead who firmly believes that classic cars are meant to be driven 🛠️. Br...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! C7 Corvette track days and Porsche 930 history. Matt Jones on launching Towlos , the "Airbnb for car trailers"... In our newest episode, we sit down with Matt Jones , an orthopedic surgeon turned entrepreneur and the CEO/Founder of Towlos (towlos.com). Matt shares his incredible automotive journey, from learning t...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! How do you transition from a "utilitarian" view of driving to chasing the perfect analog feel of a 20-year-old BMW? In this episode, Doug sits down with Ryan Williams , a software engineer who discovered his passion for cars later in life while searching for a hobby that would get him off his "daily ride&quot...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! 2011 Subaru WRX cross-country trip and 1986 Honda Accord memories. In this episode, we welcome Ethan Banks to the virtual garage. While the IT world knows him as the co-founder of the Packet Pushers podcast network, we’re turning back the odometer to explore his lifelong obsession with car culture and automotive history . E...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! AMC Gremlin restoration and Mercedes AMG history with Matt DeLorenzo . Inside the birth of the Dodge Viper and the Honda CRX ... In this episode, we sit down with automotive journalism royalty, Matt DeLorenzo. With over 45 years in the industry—including serving as the Editor of AutoWeek and a founding juror of the North Am...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! 1985 Mazda RX-7 restoration and Hudson Hornet history with Zack Pradel . In this episode, we sit down with the founder of the Shooting Cars YouTube channel to discuss the logistics of filming over 1,700 car reviews and the "soul" of the machines that made us. Zack shares his personal automotive journey, from blowi...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Air-cooled VW culture and women in classic car restoration. Restoring Volkswagen Beetles and the "Muth" Super Beetle... “Every car tells a story, and those stories reveal exactly who we are.”  In this episode, Doug and Dave welcome professional corporate and lifestyle photographer Marla Aufmuth into the virtual ga...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Classic car restoration of a 1998 Acura Integra. How a father and son rebuilt a "Teggy" to climb Mount Evans... "We sat on a rock in the driveway, stared at the car, and thought: What did we just do?" 🛠️🧩. What happens when a father humors his son’s "crazy idea" to buy a $5,000 project car dur...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Automotive restoration of a '69 Camaro SS . Learn how Christina Lardie built a 383 Stroker engine for the SEMA show... What do you do when you inherit a classic car shell and a garage full of mystery parts? You buy a ticket to SEMA just to ask the manufacturers, "What is this and how do I install it?" In this...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Automotive engineering and 1963 Mercury Comet repairs. Behind the scenes of a NASCAR race team woodshop... What do you do when you retire from a corporate career but still want to build things? If you're Mark Freibaum , you buy a 24-foot NASCAR auto hauler and transform it into a mobile woodworking shop for kids. 🛠️🏁...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Hot rod restoration and custom builds with Riley's Rebuilds. A father-daughter team rebuilding Edelbrock carburetors... What happens when a 13-year-old girl wants to buy her first car but can't legally work? She starts rebuilding carburetors in her dad's garage—and accidentally builds a national brand. 🔧😲 I...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! JDM legends and Euro classics including the Nissan Skyline R34, Toyota Supra Mk4, and Porsche 996... Is it possible to start with a $3,000 budget and trade your way up to a $60,000 JDM legend in less than a year? 🤯💸 In this episode, we sit down with Jon Khlok , founder of Kent Island Cars and Coffee , to hear one of the w...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! What happens when you live by the philosophy that "you make money on the buy"? You end up with a $900 1970 Chevelle Malibu Convertible that funds your future Ferrari... and a fleet of 28 other cars that might just be owning you . 🤯🚗 In this episode, we sit down with Ivan Katz (aka Drivin' Ivan ), a car revi...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Classic car restoration training and automotive education at McPherson College. Meet students restoring a 1928 Model A... Would you daily drive a 95-year-old car to class? For Cash , a student at McPherson College , his 1928 Ford Model A Sport Coupe isn't just a showpiece—it's his ride, complete with a golden retr...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Automotive journalism history and MotorWeek with John Davis. 45 years of testing cars like the De Tomaso Pantera... How do you keep a TV show about cars on the air for 45 years? You make sure "the cars are the stars." 🌟📺 In this monumental episode, we sit down with John Davis , the creator, host, and executive p...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! In 1975, before he became MotorWeek 's trusted voice for 45 seasons, John Davis had a purchase decision to make: Jensen Interceptor or De Tomaso Pantera ? Both were exotic cars with American engines he could actually work on. He chose the Pantera—specifically a two-year-old 1973 L model he found in Norfolk, Virginia. T...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Supercar track days and exotic car fleets with Xtreme Xperience. Driving the Ferrari 458 and C8 Corvette... Can you build a multi-million dollar business by simply asking, "Can I borrow your Ferrari?" For Adam Olalde , that audacious question was the spark that launched Xtreme Xperience . 🏎️🤯 In this episode, we...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Italian classic cars and collecting Enzo-era Ferraris and Lancia Delta Integrales with Next Generation Classics... What is it like to learn how to drive a manual transmission on a 1930 BMW the day before driving it across the podium at Pebble Beach? 🤯🏎️ In this episode, we sit down with Colleen Sheehan , founder of Next Ge...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Land Rover Defender custom builds and Tesla EV rentals. Exploring the future of electric vehicle sharing and tech... What happens when a college student buys his dad's Tesla Model S with no income and decides to rent it out to strangers to pay the bills? (Hint: It involves a bank robbery). 🏦🚔 In this episode, we sit...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Performance tuning and first car stories from a Skoda 135 GLi to a 500HP track-ready racing machine... What was your first car experience ? For Nigel Tunnacliffe , it was a $500 Skoda 135 GLi —a rare, mid-engine Czechoslovakian oddity that he bought with his own savings at age 15... only for it to be totaled by his brother...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! What happens when a father and daughter start filming their garage projects during lockdown and accidentally build a YouTube empire with 34 cars? 🎬🚗 In this episode, we sit down with Caroline and James , the dynamic duo behind HH Wheels (and HH Wheels Productions). Broadcasting from their "man cave turned studio&quot...

Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Porsche 911 track driving and air-cooled handling techniques at Watkins Glen with instructor Dirk Dekker... What does it take to master an air-cooled Porsche 911 on one of America's most iconic road courses? For Dirk Dekker , a driving instructor with over 25 years of experience at Watkins Glen International , it takes...