03.23.25: UberSexy Vintage Benz Racer @ the Block, Fresh Recalls @ Foreign & Domestic OEs (Broken Batteries & Worn Wiring - Oh My), Making Electrics Worse w/ AI and/or Bureaucracy, Grounding in the Garden, + Sun Tea in Growlers & John Paul Jones
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Release Date: 04/22/2025
08.22.25 (MP3): Fun Gun Talk... M18/Sig 320 Hubbub, 1911s Cocked & Locked, Do All Four-Wheelers Carry?, Trannies Are for Cars (Don't Blame the Hammer), Is the NRA Waiting Out the Crazy?, Conference-Calling your F-35, + Some Excellent Weirdo RIPs
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
There's some strange things afoot at the Circle K, amongst them some sideways situations for American firearm owners and Second Amendment supporters (which means everyone, in a fashion). What's going on with the unintended acceleration from M18s? Did Sig Sauer make a mistake or is this something worse? What's better for our fighters to carry - an M18 or an M14? Did we have these problems when US warfighters carried their 1911s cocked and locked? Do all off-roaders carry a sidearm? How about a frontarm? Meanwhile, what's afoot and ahand with the...
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08.22.25: Fun Gun Talk... M18/Sig 320 Hubbub, 1911s Cocked & Locked, Do All Four-Wheelers Carry?, Trannies Are for Cars (Don't Blame the Hammer), Is the NRA Waiting Out the Crazy?, Conference-Calling your F-35, + Some Excellent Weirdo RIPs
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
There's some strange things afoot at the Circle K, amongst them some sideways situations for American firearm owners and Second Amendment supporters (which means everyone, in a fashion). What's going on with the unintended acceleration from M18s? Did Sig Sauer make a mistake or is this something worse? What's better for our fighters to carry - an M18 or an M14? Did we have these problems when US warfighters carried their 1911s cocked and locked? Do all off-roaders carry a sidearm? How about a frontarm? Meanwhile, what's afoot and ahand with the...
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08.14.25 (MP3): Carmakers Stealing Performance (from You), Right-To-Repair (for You), Camping World's FU, NPR Discovers Tractor Pulls (Duhh, You), Illegal Truckers Could Kill You, Filipinos Give China a Screw You, & Excellent Weirdo RIP to Terrence Stamp
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Are you a maker or a taker? We've made nothing but the good stuff on this episode: automaker OEs forgetting who owns the cars they sold (you) and taking away the performance over the phone (and forgetting the rules of Right-To-Repair as outlined by champs like Steve Wozniak and the federal case against John Deere). Speaking of tractors, we've got a study of the big-head elitist media whackos at NPR who are either pretending they just discovered tractor pulling or they're actually that clueless. There's also the new measurement of horse-pounds (when HP and FT-LBs ain't...
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08.14.25: Carmakers Stealing Performance (from You), Right-To-Repair (for You), Camping World's FU, NPR Discovers Tractor Pulls (Duhh, You), Illegal Truckers Could Kill You, Filipinos Give China a Screw You, & Excellent Weirdo RIP to Terrence Stamp
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Are you a maker or a taker? We've made nothing but the good stuff on this episode: automaker OEs forgetting who owns the cars they sold (you) and taking away the performance over the phone (and forgetting the rules of Right-To-Repair as outlined by champs like Steve Wozniak and the federal case against John Deere). Speaking of tractors, we've got a study of the big-head elitist media whackos at NPR who are either pretending they just discovered tractor pulling or they're actually that clueless. There's also the new measurement of horse-pounds (when HP and FT-LBs ain't...
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08.09.25 (MP3): High-Mountain Four-Wheeling @ JFSummit3 - Go Do Stuff! Grenadier VS 4Runner, Eddyline VS Elevation, Skids VS Rocks, History VS Bureaucrats, Camping VS Cabinning, GMRS VS CB, Fox VS King VS Bilstein + 'Froading MVP = Chainsaw
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
The Garage Hour: home of microaggressions (plus the other kind) - your favorite gearhead goons got lost in the good stuff (Collegiate Mountains above Salida, Poncha Springs, Buena Vista and St. Elmo) and their trucks will never be the same. Cohosts White Mark the Diversity Hire and the Walkin' Dude came along, and dragged FOB cohosts Papa Smurf and Mike the Gimp along for the fracas. Trails? Tomichi Pass and Hancock Pass (so many rocks), the Bonanza Mine complex (so many options), Mt. Antero (so many feet above sea level), Taylor Mountain (so many llamas), and Billings Lake...
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08.09.25: High-Mountain Four-Wheeling @ JFSummit3 - Go Do Stuff! Grenadier VS 4Runner, Eddyline VS Elevation, Skids VS Rocks, History VS Bureaucrats, Camping VS Cabinning, GMRS VS CB, Fox VS King VS Bilstein + 'Froading MVP = Chainsaw
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
The Garage Hour: home of microaggressions (plus the other kind) - your favorite gearhead goons got lost in the good stuff (Collegiate Mountains above Salida, Poncha Springs, Buena Vista and St. Elmo) and their trucks will never be the same. Cohosts White Mark the Diversity Hire and the Walkin' Dude came along, and dragged FOB cohosts Papa Smurf and Mike the Gimp along for the fracas. Trails? Tomichi Pass and Hancock Pass (so many rocks), the Bonanza Mine complex (so many options), Mt. Antero (so many feet above sea level), Taylor Mountain (so many llamas), and Billings Lake...
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04.14.25 (MP3): Traffic Jackassery: On-Ramp Stoplights VS Reality, Control VS Improvement, Hurry VS Slowy, CO's Lane Spitting Fail, Sunday Drivers VS Fat Chicks, Merging VS Traffic, Breaking Down Safely, & Honoring the Social Contract
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Don't get traffucked - it's up to people who think, who see, and who comprehend to deal with the state of cars and trucks around us (instead of being ground into quivering sheetmetal jelly by the incompetence of the four-wheeled troglodytes and chuds who seek to drag us down to their level of base idiocy). What makes it worse, bad bureaucracy compounds the failings of the flabby halfwit shoveling breakfast into her face in the hybrid in the next lane by adding ineffectual laws, dysfunctional lanes and obsequious lemminglike expectations like a blanket full of smother. The...
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04.14.25: Traffic Jackassery: On-Ramp Stoplights VS Reality, Control VS Improvement, Hurry VS Slowy, CO's Lane Spitting Fail, Sunday Drivers VS Fat Chicks, Merging VS Traffic, Breaking Down Safely, & Honoring the Social Contract
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
Don't get traffucked - it's up to people who think, who see, and who comprehend to deal with the state of cars and trucks around us (instead of being ground into quivering sheetmetal jelly by the incompetence of the four-wheeled troglodytes and chuds who seek to drag us down to their level of base idiocy). What makes it worse, bad bureaucracy compounds the failings of the flabby halfwit shoveling breakfast into her face in the hybrid in the next lane by adding ineffectual laws, dysfunctional lanes and obsequious lemminglike expectations like a blanket full of smother. The...
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05.05.25 (MP3): Hefty Fabulous Shop Raid w/ Chris Hefty - The State of Off-Road Bumpers & Custom Fab, Market Trends, Four-Wheelin' Customers, Neighbor Shops (Keeping Each Other Going), + Bridging the Gap Between Bolt-On & Custom Goodness
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
The Garage Hour does good interviews (whether or not Hostus Maximus Justin Fort is any good at interviews), and we did a semi-sneak beer attack on Chris Hefty at the eponymously named Hefty Fab last month. Unfortunately, with the hillclimb and about a gajillion client to-dos on the front burner, we're a little late with the upload. Sort'a sorry! No matter: it's worth the wait - we puzzle out the doin's of keeping a serious shop going when times get tight (as our hero Hunter S. once opined, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."). Chris details the art of...
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05.05.25: Hefty Fabulous Shop Raid w/ Chris Hefty - The State of Off-Road Bumpers & Custom Fab, Market Trends, Four-Wheelin' Customers, Neighbor Shops (Keeping Each Other Going), + Bridging the Gap Between Bolt-On & Custom Goodness
Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
The Garage Hour does good interviews (whether or not Hostus Maximus Justin Fort is any good at interviews), and we did a semi-sneak beer attack on Chris Hefty at the eponymously named Hefty Fab last month. Unfortunately, with the hillclimb and about a gajillion client to-dos on the front burner, we're a little late with the upload. Sort'a sorry! No matter: it's worth the wait - we puzzle out the doin's of keeping a serious shop going when times get tight (as our hero Hunter S. once opined, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."). Chris details the art of...
info_outlineIt's not hard to make fine gearhead talk (TM) when the world lines 'em up like this: wicked and nasty Mercedes W196R Stromlinienwagen nets $54 mill on the block (and why modern go-fast cars can't hold a candle to the brutal elegance and sexual attractiveness of the classics), more failures of modern OEs as they try to avoid testing their hardware before selling it (and why WE aren't going out like a guinea pig), how BYD's going to use AI to make their customer experience ever worse, another story about how nothing makes things worse than the government, and how to avoid letting bad writers ruin good opportunities for gearhead behavior.
While we're at it: cyborgs versus robots, STi versus 911, securing your home with smart children (and a kid from Kentucky who did just that), gardening for the head, sun tea for the old growlers, John Paul Jones on "Zooma", and an Excellent Weirdo R.I.P. for Air Force ace Bud Anderson.