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The Overcrest Rally spent years swearing off California. Then it went anyway, to a corner of the state plenty of Californians have never seen. The locals call it going behind the redwood curtain.Jake stayed home for this one. He followed it on social like everyone else, and he has questions. Kris and Jeff have answers.Support Overcrest and Get Cool Stuff:https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

On July 10, 1969, a cargo ship in the mid-Atlantic found a small white trimaran sailing along with nobody aboard. The logbooks were on the table. The case for the ship’s clock was there, and the clock was gone.

The boat belonged to Donald Crowhurst, who was supposed to be weeks from winning the first race to sail alone around the world without stopping. Kris tells Jake the story of the 1968 Golden Globe from inside the cabin: the contract that would bankrupt him if he quit, the house he’d put up to back it, and eight months alone at sea with what he’d started.

Fifty-seven years later, an Oregon man who learned to sail on YouTube is out there right now, headed around the world alone with his cat.

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Further reading: The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall

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Nick Dimbleby is the photographer who shot the last four Camel Trophies and then wrote the book on them. He has photographed Land Rovers for nearly 30 years, in close to 90 countries, and he’s the author of Camel Trophy: The Definitive History.⁠https://www.coolnvintage.com/shop⁠Check out Nick's book when it comes out!Support this show:⁠Https://www.patreon.com/overcrest⁠

You've seen them on hoods, door handles, and dashboards in every parking lot in America. Kris looked it up hoping to find something dumb enough to make fun of. He found a story neither of us expected.

Then GM teases the biggest diesel ever put in an American pickup, the same week diesel hits a record, and Kris breaks down how the oil economy actually works. And More

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Dune Casu is the founder of Funselektor Labs, the studio behind Absolute Drift and art of rally, and one of the few people who has built a driving game that car people actually respect. His new one, over the hill, arrives October 14 on Steam with 1.2 million wishlists behind it. It's an open-world off-road game built to explore and play with friends.

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Before 1912, starting a car meant standing in front of it and pulling on a steel handle while the engine decided whether to cooperate. Sometimes it cooperated. Sometimes it broke your wrist, your jaw, or worse. Doctors had a name for the injury. Insurance companies had a category for it. And a whole class of automobile existed for people who wanted no part of the fight.

This is the story of how that ended.

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Connor McGovern spent nine years as an offensive lineman in the NFL. Before that he was a kid in Fargo getting into his dad's truck at five in the morning to go look at potato fields. He's back in those fields now, running one of the largest commercial farming operations in the country, and his garage holds two R34 GTRs, an RWB, a Kelly-Moss 964, and a C8 Z06.

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Clay Croft is the founder of Expedition Overland — seventeen years of driving to the edges of the map and filming what's out there. He's crossed the Greenland ice sheet, run the Road of Bones through Siberia, and this year closed out a circumnavigation of the globe the hard way: top to bottom, the roof of Norway to the southern tip of Africa, 25,000 miles across three continents on a single oil change. We had him on to talk about exploration — how you work your way up to something that size, what the world is really like past the places people warn you about, and whether there's anything left out there to find.

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Kris and Jake work through Car Week: where the McLaren name actually came from and who spent ten years asking for the car, what happens when a Singer 911 crashes into Louis Vuitton handbag, and a Ferrari that broke three auction records in a single night

Also on this one, California is not banning your tires, and the tire industry is the reason anyone is talking about it.

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In May 1987 an eighteen year old West German rented a Cessna 172 from his flying club and pointed it east towards Moscow. This is the account of what, and how this cold war fiasco happened.

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Ferrari's marketing director answers for the reaction to the brand's first electric car, and the paddles behind the wheel raise a question about what counts as real. The 12Cilindri shows up with a gated shifter and a clutch pedal, and how those parts actually work sets off the longest argument of the episode. Toyota tests a two-door mule in Japan wearing borrowed headlights. Audi hints at more Avants for the United States. Car and Driver runs the electric Cayenne down the strip. Volkswagen Group takes ten models off the board. O'Reilly puts ten billion dollars in front of Napa, and the store-count math explains why the FTC will care.

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Part 1 (really this time) of our chat with John Ludwick, a New Hampshire-based YouTuber and serial project-car addict who runs Ludwick's Garage, the channel where he rescues dilapidated, left-for-dead vintage cars, does the work himself, and slams them to the ground.Check out John here:

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Part 2 of our chat with John Ludwick, a New Hampshire-based YouTuber and serial project-car addict who runs Ludwick's Garage, the channel where he rescues dilapidated, left-for-dead vintage cars, does the work himself, and slams them to the ground.

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Kris recaps scouting Northern California's Lost Coast for the fall Overcrest Rally on remote Emerald Triangle backroads, small-town characters, and a 1983 Mercedes R107 280 SL on some of the most isolated roads in the country. Plus, Jake on Teslas, soul, and whether a new car can ever earn one. (it can't, probably)
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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 on his way out the door.

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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 either way, and what it takes to get from one ocean to the other before most people finish a weekend.

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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.

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Kris and Jake catch up on projects, boats, and bad decisions. Then Jake says something we did not see coming.

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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 outlasts the business that commissioned it.

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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.

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