04.24.24: Enable Your Garage w/ Expanded Space, Better Floors, More Tools & Storage, Oil Heating & Actualy Drainage, also Porsche V Peugeot, Jeep V Grenadier, 928 V Wife, Ruger V Savage, Mace V Bludgeon, Mexicans V Kung Flu
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Release Date: 05/21/2024
03.32.26 (MP3): Lift Your Car Why, Clunk Your Truck Now, Used Car Values Do What, Earth Sounds (or Man Fans) Make AI Worse, Progress is Sonic Booms, the Historic Argument for VW Building Weapons for Israel, Phalanx for Fun & Profit, & a Shark Named Bruce
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
The Garage Hour: ignoring life's biggest questions because gearhead (or racecar - you choose). We've got everything in this one: why lift your car when you could buy a truck; why the Concorde's awesomeness was so early we missed it; why Volkswagen is building missiles for Israel (mis-Israel?) (and why Ford, GM, AM General and 100 other good manufacturers did the same); why the FTC is eyeballing car sellers, why the cooling needs of AI and data centers will make your brain hurt (and drive their neighbors crazy); why more automakers are not making electric cars; and why so many car...
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03.32.26: Lift Your Car Why, Clunk Your Truck Now, Used Car Values Do What, Earth Sounds (or Man Fans) Make AI Worse, Progress is Sonic Booms, the Historic Argument for VW Building Weapons for Israel, Phalanx for Fun & Profit, & a Shark Named Bruce
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
The Garage Hour: ignoring life's biggest questions because gearhead (or racecar - you choose). We've got everything in this one: why lift your car when you could buy a truck; why the Concorde's awesomeness was so early we missed it; why Volkswagen is building missiles for Israel (mis-Israel?) (and why Ford, GM, AM General and 100 other good manufacturers did the same); why the FTC is eyeballing car sellers, why the cooling needs of AI and data centers will make your brain hurt (and drive their neighbors crazy); why more automakers are not making electric cars; and why so many car...
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03.12.26 (MP3): Gearhead Excellence from B.F.E. - Toys in the 'Woods, Speaking Jeep, Phoneless Errands, Landau Tops & Grand Coupes, Brakes & Ball-Joints, Leafs & Shackles, Hammers & Bald Mtn (Night Run?), + Stocking Firewood, Fred's Face & 3x5" Cards
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Time for an hour of Black Forest Excellence at Dan's Burrito & Taco Emporium... With enough beer in us to speak Jeep (many F.I.A.T. jokes, plus tonned and LS'd), the Gearhead Consultancy got together in the deep dark woods to chat out the things that matter: 1UZ oil pans, JFS4, Bud Light (back when chainsaws were still funny), tire pressure, heat cycling, expensive brake pads, and keeping the leafs from bonking the frame (of a 4Runner?). There's also Fat Foot Syndrome versus heel-and-toe, rollover Exploders versus the '99 4Runner, and the value of expensive brake pads. Meanwhile, back at...
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03.12.26: Gearhead Excellence from B.F.E. - Toys in the 'Woods, Speaking Jeep, Phoneless Errands, Landau Tops & Grand Coupes, Brakes & Ball-Joints, Leafs & Shackles, Hammers & Bald Mtn (Night Run?), + Stocking Firewood, Fred's Face & 3x5" Cards
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Time for an hour of Black Forest Excellence at Dan's Burrito & Taco Emporium... With enough beer in us to speak Jeep (many F.I.A.T. jokes, plus tonned and LS'd), the Gearhead Consultancy got together in the deep dark woods to chat out the things that matter: 1UZ oil pans, JFS4, Bud Light (back when chainsaws were still funny), tire pressure, heat cycling, expensive brake pads, and keeping the leafs from bonking the frame (of a 4Runner?). There's also Fat Foot Syndrome versus heel-and-toe, rollover Exploders versus the '99 4Runner, and the value of expensive brake pads. Meanwhile, back at...
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03.23.26 (MP3): Because Racecar! Garage Hour Does Race Prep w/ Jim & Jimmy Ford, + Belts, Welds, & Never Accepting Second, 9000RPM, 6-Inch Exhaust, Yuge Generators, 1st-Gear Turns & Slap Stick Sequentials (Technology Is Finally Good For Something)
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and regular liveregulator Ryan the BMW Guy were roaming backwoods 'Springs and happened upon the compound of PPIHC Open Class contenders Jim and Jimmy Ford. These guys are so serious about homebuilt, homedriven all-comers competition in the most famous hillclimb in the world they didn't even waste time on new names. ...And lurking in the the Ford Garage Bar is one very evolved, poked and stroked Roush-Yates Windsor-powered Trans-Am TA-1 car (and all the stories that power it). ...This episode was so good we had to skip a few. (Don't worry, they're comin' up next.) ...
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03.23.26: Because Racecar! Garage Hour Does Race Prep w/ Jim & Jimmy Ford, + Belts, Welds, & Never Accepting Second, 9000RPM, 6-Inch Exhaust, Yuge Generators, 1st-Gear Turns & Slap Stick Sequentials (Technology Is Finally Good For Something)
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Hostus Maximus Justin Fort and regular liveregulator Ryan the BMW Guy were roaming backwoods 'Springs and happened upon the compound of PPIHC Open Class contenders Jim and Jimmy Ford. These guys are so serious about homebuilt, homedriven all-comers competition in the most famous hillclimb in the world they didn't even waste time on new names. ...And lurking in the the Ford Garage Bar is one very evolved, poked and stroked Roush-Yates Windsor-powered Trans-Am TA-1 car (and all the stories that power it). ...This episode was so good we had to skip a few. (Don't worry, they're comin' up next.) ...
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03.03.26 (MP3): Tactical Recall Robot Trolley Truck Mushbrain Motorist Madness... Ford, Porsche, BMW, Tesla, Subie, & a Sinkhole, a Satellite & a Starter (On Fire), + Shooting Classes, Spaceships, Samurai Cat & So Much NIN
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Ever look up and wonder what you're looking at? Well, this time it's the Garage Hour. We're too busy to pull a Strangelove, however - there's a space station (international), a satellite (train or track), and a semi that got punted into orbit by Ktulu's little brother, Bl'Slyu. Pile them in with a mess of auto manufacturer recalls from the likes of Ford, Porsche, Tesla and BMW (just in case your driveshaft is separating, your cameras are shorting, or your fuel pump ain't), a few robot semis (those that escaped Bl'Slyu's wrath), an out-of-control tram (a trolley, but for fancy people), the...
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03.03.26: Tactical Recall Robot Trolley Truck Mushbrain Motorist Madness... Ford, Porsche, BMW, Tesla, Subie, & a Sinkhole, a Satellite & a Starter (On Fire), + Shooting Classes, Spaceships, Samurai Cat & So Much NIN
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Ever look up and wonder what you're looking at? Well, this time it's the Garage Hour. We're too busy to pull a Strangelove, however - there's a space station (international), a satellite (train or track), and a semi that got punted into orbit by Ktulu's little brother, Bl'Slyu. Pile them in with a mess of auto manufacturer recalls from the likes of Ford, Porsche, Tesla and BMW (just in case your driveshaft is separating, your cameras are shorting, or your fuel pump ain't), a few robot semis (those that escaped Bl'Slyu's wrath), an out-of-control tram (a trolley, but for fancy people), the...
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07.17.25 (MP3): Trucker Builds a NYC, Monster Truck Breaks a Wheel, Ads Boondoggle a Message, Parking Garages Blow Their Stack, Bureaucrats Bulldoze Your Parking, + Good Tunes from Bebop, Elder & Plante
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Old stuff! Told'ja there were leftovers from 2025 lying around in the Garagosphere... This gem from July was special because we got about 10 years of hate off the collective gearhead chest about bad P.S.A. ads that make you wish any car guy had been a part of any of the production. On the plus side, now we know what to look out for (patronizing betaboys and their bullygirl narrators). There's better bits to be had, like a trucker from New York City (see, there's still good things there) who built a 1500 sq-ft balsa replica of the city (because why not, or perhaps...
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07.17.25: Trucker Builds a NYC, Monster Truck Breaks a Wheel, Ads Boondoggle a Message, Parking Garages Blow Their Stack, Bureaucrats Bulldoze Your Parking, + Good Tunes from Bebop, Elder & Plante
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Old stuff! Told'ja there were leftovers from 2025 lying around in the Garagosphere... This gem from July was special because we got about 10 years of hate off the collective gearhead chest about bad P.S.A. ads that make you wish any car guy had been a part of any of the production. On the plus side, now we know what to look out for (patronizing betaboys and their bullygirl narrators). There's better bits to be had, like a trucker from New York City (see, there's still good things there) who built a 1500 sq-ft balsa replica of the city (because why not, or perhaps...
info_outlineFinally, something good comes of enabling: enable your garage to do more gearhead things (and stuff)! Just Mark, Just Caleb and Justin sit down amongst the Porsches at the new AutoVos (Caleb bought out EAS and went independent) for an hour of making garages better. Stop polishing the door handles and think bigger: (tasteful) additions of more floor and door, coating and levelling those floors, getting more work underway with ramps and stools, expanding the tools available with better boxes, plus seasonal enhancement with heating and drainage, and while we’re thinking big, how about building up with a second story and a bridge to the house?
There’s so much more: a semi drag races a Rav4, Ruger makes a nice .22, the Dutchese sell a pricey Stryker, Great Divide, Big Sky, Cerviceria and Trinity brew fine beers, catwalks make a handy way to repel the hipster hordes, plus Man or Astroman, Galactic, Pantera, Dead Milkmen, Fugazi, Truckfighters and Five Horse Johnson.