Automotive culture, history, and the people who live it -- hosted by Kris Clewell and Jake Solberg. 500+ episodes exploring the intersection of cars and life: interviews with industry insiders, collectors, designers, builders, and thinkers. From the philosophy of analog driving to forgotten automotive history to the business of car culture, Kris and Jake bring a journalist's eye and an enthusiast's obsession to every conversation. For people who #takethecar.
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: https://www.youtube.com/johnludwick Support Overcrest: https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest
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. Check out John here: https://www.youtube.com/johnludwick Support Overcrest: Https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
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) Support this Show: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
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. Support Overcrest:https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
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. Support Overcrest, Get cool Stuff: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
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. Support this show, get cool stuff: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
Kris and Jake catch up on projects, boats, and bad decisions. Then Jake says something we did not see coming. Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
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. Support Overcrest: https://patreon.com/overcrest
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. Support Overcrest. Get cool stuff. https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest
Buddy Levy is the author of Labyrinth of Ice, the definitive account of the Greely Expedition. In 1881, 25 men were sent to the Arctic. The government forgot about them. Only six came home. What happened at Camp Clay is one of the most harrowing survival stories in American history. Part 3 of The Forgotten Ones. We talk about what drove men into the unknown, what happens to the mind in 137 days of darkness, and whether anything like this is still possible. Check out Buddy's work: buddylevy.com Support Overcrest: patreon.com/overcrest
The guys chat Jake buying the dumbest of all cars, and Kris buying another grandpa car. Also, some interesting and obscure news on dealership models and bear fraud.
Paul didn't set out to run a dealership. He set out to build a clubhouse for car people, and AutoKennel is what happened along the way. In this episode, I sit down with Paul, the driving force behind AutoKennel, the Southern California shop that has quietly become a gathering place for enthusiasts as much as a licensed dealer and brokerage. We talk about how a passion project turned into a real business, what sets his approach apart from the typical consignment outfit, and why the people around the cars matter as much as the cars themselves. Paul also opens up about his cancer diagnosis and the road through recovery, and how the experience reshaped his perspective on the business, the community around it, and what actually matters when you strip everything else away. It's an honest conversation, and one that goes deeper than the usual shop talk. Find more on Paul here: Autokennel Shifted Opinions - YouTube
Past the edges of the maps were mountains that killed ten men at Christmas. A bridge in New York where a man became someone else every night for thirteen years. And an Arctic camp where twenty five soldiers were abandoned by their own government and left to eat whatever was left. These are the stories nobody tells anymore. Not because they aren't worth telling, but because the men at the center of them have faded into memory, replaced by time.Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest
Betim Berisha is the founder of BBi Autosport in Huntington Beach, California. Porsche tuner. Engine builder. Pikes Peak veteran. He and his team at BBi built the Hoonipigasus for Ken Block, developed the new Project Evo, launched Type 99 as a coach-built 911 program, and have taken cars up the mountain for over a decade alongside drivers like Jeff Zwart and Loni Unser. This is his second time on Overcrest. The first episode is the origin story. These two belong together. Start there if you haven't heard it. Check out Type99 here . Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
At one point, all the maps had foggyedges. Past those edges, nothing. No roads, no forts, no names for anything. Just grass and sky and silence stretching until it hit mountains that were further away than they looked. The men who walked into it were broke, forgotten, and had nothing behind them worth staying for. Most of them died young. Most of them died alone. A few of them came back with stories that should have been famous a long time ago. Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest
Chris Ashton is the founder of Ruffian Cars, one of the freshest and most innovative custom car shops in the country. What you may not know is he also co-founded the game development studio that worked on Counter-Strike and built the legendary Left 4 Dead. Thirty years building worlds you can't touch, and then he decided to build ones you could.
This episode covers 4,000 years of baldness from ancient Egypt to the modern era. We talk about pirates, wigs held together with bobby pins, a reform school kid who became champion, a man who fought an empire without raising a fist, and the most famous silhouette in history. New episodes every week. Subscribe and join the Overcrest Driving Team for exclusive content drops. 🔗 LINKS Overcrest Driving Team: overcrestproductions.com/driversclub Mobil1: https://www.mobil.com/en/lubricants/for-personal-vehicles/our-products/motor-oils/ FCP Euro: fcpeuro.com Nokian Tires: nokiantires.com Onx Offroad: onxoffroad.com Common Gear: thecommongear.com
Vin Anatra is a former Hoonigan SVP turned independent creator who spent nearly a decade helping build one of the most influential brands in automotive media before walking away to start Driver Era — a YouTube channel and small car operation built around buying, experiencing, and selling special cars one at a time. He's a lifelong car obsessive who came up through the Volkswagen forum scene, built his way into dream-level cars he had no business owning, and is now figuring out in real time what it means to do the thing you love for a living when doing it for a living is slowly changing how you feel about the thing you love.
Kris and Jake on the Grand Tour's new hosts, the death of start-stop, China banning flush door handles and steering yokes, Lamborghini killing its EV, the RS5 outweighing an F-150, BMW ending the manual and rear-drive M car era, and a billion-dollar fraud. Support this show: https://www.overcrestproductions.com/driversclub 0:00 Intro 0:30 Open 2:24 The Grand Tour Returns 12:40 The Death of Start-Stop 18:24 China Bans Flush Door Handles, Yokes & Touchscreens 23:45 Porsche 718 EV in Development Hell 29:50 Lamborghini Kills Its EV 42:06 StopTech Fraud & Shutdown 50:20 The E30 M3 Turns 40 52:33 BMW Kills the Manual & RWD M Car 1:01:08 The Audi RS5 Weighs More Than an F-150 1:13:00 TPMS Tracking 1:16:16 Your Car Thinks You're Asleep
Harrison Schoen is a Navy veteran, content creator, and full-time vehicle dweller. He's lived in a Porsche Cayenne, built out a 1985 Mercedes Unimog, and appeared on MrBeast's Beast Games as Player 251. This is his second time on the podcast. Check out Harrison's adventures on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harry.schoen/ Support this show: https://www.overcrestproduction.com/driversclub
Producer's note
Steal the structure. Not the show.
Keep the useful structure, then change the audience, point of view, and voice until the idea is unmistakably yours.
