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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

Release Date: 07/21/2025

10.20.25 (MP3): 911s New & Old, Grenadier T-Cases Working & Popped, Trail Rigs Pricey & Parts, & All About the Sauce - Real Deal's Bloody Mary, Pizza Port's Chronic Amber, + Adam Duce from Machine Head & Dennis Combs (Luckiest Man in the World) show art 10.20.25 (MP3): 911s New & Old, Grenadier T-Cases Working & Popped, Trail Rigs Pricey & Parts, & All About the Sauce - Real Deal's Bloody Mary, Pizza Port's Chronic Amber, + Adam Duce from Machine Head & Dennis Combs (Luckiest Man in the World)

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

Between so many interruptions - the politicking and the Chinese food, phone calls from friends and parts percolating in the garadtch - White Mark the Diversity Hire and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort were lucky to get through this one at all.  What's in it?  Skyrocketing values of old 911s and the cost of our buddy the Doc's new pistachio GT2; strange new clunks in the new Grenader; comfortable old clunks in a 300K 4Runner.  Then it's all about the sauce: the Real Dill's Bloody Mary mix, Pizza Port's Chronic Amber Ale, Stone Brewing in Pt. Loma, and the return of Gilark Bourbon with...

info_outline 10.20.25: 911s New & Old, Grenadier T-Cases Working & Popped, Trail Rigs Pricey & Parts, & All About the Sauce - Real Deal's Bloody Mary, Pizza Port's Chronic Amber, + Adam Duce from Machine Head & Dennis Combs (Luckiest Man in the World) show art 10.20.25: 911s New & Old, Grenadier T-Cases Working & Popped, Trail Rigs Pricey & Parts, & All About the Sauce - Real Deal's Bloody Mary, Pizza Port's Chronic Amber, + Adam Duce from Machine Head & Dennis Combs (Luckiest Man in the World)

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

Between so many interruptions - the politicking and the Chinese food, phone calls from friends and parts percolating in the garadtch - White Mark the Diversity Hire and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort were lucky to get through this one at all.  What's in it?  Skyrocketing values of old 911s and the cost of our buddy the Doc's new pistachio GT2; strange new clunks in the new Grenader; comfortable old clunks in a 300K 4Runner.  Then it's all about the sauce: the Real Dill's Bloody Mary mix, Pizza Port's Chronic Amber Ale, Stone Brewing in Pt. Loma, and the return of Gilark Bourbon with...

info_outline 10.15.25 (MP3): Curvy Roads & ATVs Necessitate Skills & Brains (...& They're Not Always Enough), Car Fads' Functionality Fail, a (VW) Buzz No One Wants, Big Boy 4014 Thunders Back for 2026, What's the Guardian of Liberty?, Sunken Treasure, + Amon Tobin show art 10.15.25 (MP3): Curvy Roads & ATVs Necessitate Skills & Brains (...& They're Not Always Enough), Car Fads' Functionality Fail, a (VW) Buzz No One Wants, Big Boy 4014 Thunders Back for 2026, What's the Guardian of Liberty?, Sunken Treasure, + Amon Tobin

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

Some marginal catching up going on here; more episodes in the queue...  What's in it?  Car fads like the BMW 3-Series, Audi 5000 and SAAB 900s versus electric cars, and how the electric car fad is coming to grief over its feasibility issues (couldn't help ourselves); a microcosm of plug-in car failures in the Volkswagen Buzz (and why no one's buying the hype because it doesn't match the myth - or reality - of the original VW Bus).  There's curvy road fun (and failure) with Colorado's fabulous, famous and frightening 550 - a nice job by Zebulon Pike - and why you shouldn't try to...

info_outline 10.15.25: Curvy Roads & ATVs Necessitate Skills & Brains (...& They're Not Always Enough), Car Fads' Functionality Fail, a (VW) Buzz No One Wants, Big Boy 4014 Thunders Back for 2026, What's the Guardian of Liberty?, Sunken Treasure, + Amon Tobin show art 10.15.25: Curvy Roads & ATVs Necessitate Skills & Brains (...& They're Not Always Enough), Car Fads' Functionality Fail, a (VW) Buzz No One Wants, Big Boy 4014 Thunders Back for 2026, What's the Guardian of Liberty?, Sunken Treasure, + Amon Tobin

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

Some marginal catching up going on here; more episodes in the queue...  What's in it?  Car fads like the BMW 3-Series, Audi 5000 and SAAB 900s versus electric cars, and how the electric car fad is coming to grief over its feasibility issues (couldn't help ourselves); a microcosm of plug-in car failures in the Volkswagen Buzz (and why no one's buying the hype because it doesn't match the myth - or reality - of the original VW Bus).  There's curvy road fun (and failure) with Colorado's fabulous, famous and frightening 550 - a nice job by Zebulon Pike - and why you shouldn't try to...

info_outline 09.15.25 (MP3): Geek Out w/ Purpose & Get Stuff Done - Dad's Duck Decoy, Opening New & Old Roads, Burning Electric Cars & Batteries, Cyber Attacks on Beer, Dude Food & Lying Burgers, + Revisiting Amelia Earhart's End & Fighting Paralysis of Analysis show art 09.15.25 (MP3): Geek Out w/ Purpose & Get Stuff Done - Dad's Duck Decoy, Opening New & Old Roads, Burning Electric Cars & Batteries, Cyber Attacks on Beer, Dude Food & Lying Burgers, + Revisiting Amelia Earhart's End & Fighting Paralysis of Analysis

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

Holy frijoles - mind the gap and pardon the delay.  Too many doins are afoot and we owe you a few (episodes).  Right here's another one from the pile, with a caffeine rodeo on the back of projects getting done.  Point is, figure the next step and do it - dudes do, after all, and geeks get it done.  There's tales of fine woodworking, failing lithium-ion deathpods, a decent beer 'n burn, and when it's all done, strategies for a righteous nap.  Plus that up with a Garage Hour Reload that digs back into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan and why...

info_outline 09.15.25: Geek Out w/ Purpose & Get Stuff Done - Dad's Duck Decoy, Opening New & Old Roads, Burning Electric Cars & Batteries, Cyber Attacks on Beer, Dude Food & Lying Burgers, + Revisiting Amelia Earhart's End & Fighting Paralysis of Analysis show art 09.15.25: Geek Out w/ Purpose & Get Stuff Done - Dad's Duck Decoy, Opening New & Old Roads, Burning Electric Cars & Batteries, Cyber Attacks on Beer, Dude Food & Lying Burgers, + Revisiting Amelia Earhart's End & Fighting Paralysis of Analysis

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

Holy frijoles - mind the gap and pardon the delay.  Too many doins are afoot and we owe you a few (episodes).  Right here's another one from the pile, with a caffeine rodeo on the back of projects getting done.  Point is, figure the next step and do it - dudes do, after all, and geeks get it done.  There's tales of fine woodworking, failing lithium-ion deathpods, a decent beer 'n burn, and when it's all done, strategies for a righteous nap.  Plus that up with a Garage Hour Reload that digs back into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan and why...

info_outline 07.13.25 (MP3): Bad Driver Cone Murder (What If It was a Guy?), Bad Product Recalls (What If It Worked?), Bad Strap Roof Racks (What If It was On?), Bad Media Facts (What If It Mattered?), & Bad Traffic Progress (What If We Had to Get Somewhere?), + Bowie show art 07.13.25 (MP3): Bad Driver Cone Murder (What If It was a Guy?), Bad Product Recalls (What If It Worked?), Bad Strap Roof Racks (What If It was On?), Bad Media Facts (What If It Mattered?), & Bad Traffic Progress (What If We Had to Get Somewhere?), + Bowie

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

...Getting to the episodes left over from this summer - so much to mix.  The Garage Hour's trying to keep you from being a Carl (TM) with everything from keeping spacers off your 4Runner to keeping you from making the cold-snap sprint (TM again...).  Add to that the lady who killed cones (which hand was on the wheel?), the reporter who ruined the story about what could actually be a problem with electric cars (duhhh), the dude who destroyed his roof rack (by not attaching it to his roof), the carmaker that stepped on its reputation by not making products that work (ahem, Toyota,...

info_outline 07.13.25: Bad Driver Cone Murder (What If It was a Guy?), Bad Product Recalls (What If It Worked?), Bad Strap Roof Racks (What If It was On?), Bad Media Facts (What If It Mattered?), & Bad Traffic Progress (What If We Had to Get Somewhere?), + Bowie show art 07.13.25: Bad Driver Cone Murder (What If It was a Guy?), Bad Product Recalls (What If It Worked?), Bad Strap Roof Racks (What If It was On?), Bad Media Facts (What If It Mattered?), & Bad Traffic Progress (What If We Had to Get Somewhere?), + Bowie

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

...Getting to the episodes left over from this summer - so much to mix.  The Garage Hour's trying to keep you from being a Carl (TM) with everything from keeping spacers off your 4Runner to keeping you from making the cold-snap sprint (TM again...).  Add to that the lady who killed cones (which hand was on the wheel?), the reporter who ruined the story about what could actually be a problem with electric cars (duhhh), the dude who destroyed his roof rack (by not attaching it to his roof), the carmaker that stepped on its reputation by not making products that work (ahem, Toyota,...

info_outline 09.11.25: Where Were You on 9/11? Keep It Real - A National Holiday, a Personal Memory, a Sincere Ritual; Remember, Honor & Teach... More That Matters: Saving Bagram, Losing Charlie Kirk, New & Old Nations' Problems, & a Bunch of Megadeth show art 09.11.25: Where Were You on 9/11? Keep It Real - A National Holiday, a Personal Memory, a Sincere Ritual; Remember, Honor & Teach... More That Matters: Saving Bagram, Losing Charlie Kirk, New & Old Nations' Problems, & a Bunch of Megadeth

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

You can't let time erase history, because without knowing where we're going we're just a spec in time.  You're just a piece of starstuff if you don't have a vector - got to know where we've been.  9/11 was one of those points in time that everyone has/knows/remembers, and without that memory (and comprehension), so much of what is afoot now (from warfighters and conflicts in the Middle East to Big Gov't miseries and threats aplenty) makes no sense.  Get a grip, people, and help those who've not come to understand what 9/11 means grasp its consequence - and the loss of it all. ...

info_outline 09.11.25 (MP3): Where Were You on 9/11? Keep It Real - A National Holiday, a Personal Memory, a Sincere Ritual; Remember, Honor & Teach... More That Matters: Saving Bagram, Losing Charlie Kirk, New & Old Nations' Problems, & a Bunch of Megadeth show art 09.11.25 (MP3): Where Were You on 9/11? Keep It Real - A National Holiday, a Personal Memory, a Sincere Ritual; Remember, Honor & Teach... More That Matters: Saving Bagram, Losing Charlie Kirk, New & Old Nations' Problems, & a Bunch of Megadeth

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

You can't let time erase history, because without knowing where we're going we're just a spec in time.  You're just a piece of starstuff if you don't have a vector - got to know where we've been.  9/11 was one of those points in time that everyone has/knows/remembers, and without that memory (and comprehension), so much of what is afoot now (from warfighters and conflicts in the Middle East to Big Gov't miseries and threats aplenty) makes no sense.  Get a grip, people, and help those who've not come to understand what 9/11 means grasp its consequence - and the loss of it all. ...

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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 shifting the lift when retail production took a hit post-Scamdemic, the intense and varied demands of the "Please make my truck work" customer, and what it takes to chase the market when the market takes a left turn at Albuquerque.

Because it's the Garage Hour, we've got more: bicyclists who just don't get it, whether cleaning soap is a procedural singularity, Nate's efforts to reinvent the Brady Bunch, how you can ruin a good message with too much creativity, the Hefty Internet Café, and dropping $40Gs for serious parts that don't get serious use.  There's also shock rebuilds, F-150s, Cherokees, an F-350, 80-Serieses in a big pile, Miatas versus S2Ks, and of course, 4Runners.