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Being Tony Thunder
Automotive journalist, author of literally hundreds of books, former director of the NHRA Motorsports and World of Speed Museums and all-around fascinating guy and friend of the Gearheads, Tony Thacker stops by. We talk about the wild and crazy 1970’s car mags, trading cookies for access to the Ferrari plant and design studio, and make some Monty Python references, too.

A Car Show Saves Carson’s Life
Our good friend, mentor and guide in the industry, Carson Lev, shares a very candid tale of his experience with prostate cancer. Having been tested at the Cruisin’ for a Cure car show, he was one of the fortunate to have been detected early, and receive life-saving surgery and treatment. Join us for that and some other amazing stories on this special edition of the Round Six Podcast!

Chip and the Lamborghini Miura Meltdown
Chip Foose tells the tale of a freshly-painted Lamborghini Miura and a nine year old him. You’ll really have to see it and hear it to believe what happened.

Stories n’ Steel: Chip and the GTI
We Gearheads love a good story, and our guests bring them in spades! Industry icon Chip Foose sat with us on episode twenty, and one of the great stories he shared was of some late-night (and mid-day) time trials in his Volkswagen GTI along San Marcos Pass. Hearing it is one thing, but seeing him tell it is better. You can do that here.

The Story of Goldie, the 1992 Nissan Pathfinder
Have you ever owned a “normal” vehicle that had a special place in your heart? Most of the time, these vehicles are the ones that are the least valuable and the least exciting. It’s like going to the dog pound and rescuing the best dog you’ll ever own. Maybe it’s Grandpa’s old farm truck, Aunt Joan’s 4-door Valiant, or that beat-up Chevy Sprint that got you through college. Whatever it may be, these vehicles didn’t win your heart by their looks. They did it by providing you with experiences that stayed with you for the rest of your life.

Shipwrecked: The Story of the Chrysler Norseman
When I get exiled from the living room, I either go out to the garage and tinker on the hot rods or grab something to read. On one particular night last week, the garage was too cold to paint the parts I was working on. I went back into the house to my mini-library of all of my car books and picked out one on Concept Cars. I had read this particular book many times before, but there’s one car in that book that has always intrigued the heck out of me. It’s the 1956 Chrysler Norseman.

Art of the Hot Rod: Weaving a Tale With Cars
There’s always the drive to take the subject that extra step… to get something to move in the image, to put it over the top. Some time back, I experimented with backgrounds in my renderings that included scanned and reworked splashes and splatters. They had that ‘frozen in time’ feel I was looking for, and allowed me to play with contrasting colors to get some visual pop and movement…