BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Podcast

Pinstripe... Chris Dunlop

Passion for vehicles comes in many different shades and colors. Custom cars, hot rods, and exotics- there's always a variety of artwork to keep things fresh and is never limited to one genre. Chris Dunlop is an automotive design and render artist based out of Southern California. He started out as an automotive painter that specialized in custom paint and high end restoration work on Classics & Exotics in Rockville, Maryland. From there he began airbrushing, doing sharpie art, and pinstriping. Soon after he was doing his artwork nearly full time, and some of you might have heard of him, he’s been dubbed "Pinstripe Chris" and he joins us tonight on Break/Fix to share his journey from Paint & Body work to full-time artist!

The Drive Thru #30 - What’s Hot! & What’s Not? in 2023 (Winter Recap)

The Drive Thru is our monthly recap where we’ve put together a menu of automotive, motorsport and random car-adjacent news. Tune in for Episode #30 where we talk What's Hot and What's Not in our winter recap for 2023! 
Showcase: THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES)
Every New Car You Can Still Buy with a Manual Transmission Today
Discontinued cars this year
10 Best Cars for 2023 picks
AC Schnitzer is back with a POLIZEI BMW and an aftermarket company aims to address the BMW “grille issues”
2023 Ford Super Duty Can Tow up to 40,000 Pounds, More Than Any Truck in the History of Trucks
Corvette to launch as a brand with 4-door, SUV and talk of the new E-ray
Homemade GMC Canyon Dually Wasn't a Great Idea, So Now It's For Sale
#teslagate - Tesla lied about autopilot in 2016!
Amazon Reportedly 'Likely to' Drop Jeremy Clarkson in Response to Markle Column
Andretti & Cadillac in F1?
Community News, brought to us by CollectorCarGuide.net
HPDEjunkie.com Track Side Report
With hysterical Florida Man stories and much, much more! 
Behind the Scenes content, along with video available through our Patreon. Check out the follow-on article for all the pixs and links to items talked about in this episode. The Drive Thru is sponsored in part by: HPDEjunkie.com, Hooked On Driving, AmericanMuscle.com, CollectorCarGuide.net, Project Motoring, Garage Style Magazine and many others. Learn how you can become a sponsor today. 

Fuelin’ Around with Deadly Driver’s JK Kelly

Jetting off to Monte Carlo…speeding through the tight turns of a mountain road en route to an evening at the casino…what could be more exhilarating? After racing in a grand prix, Bryce Winters boards a luxury yacht to bask in the limelight and mingle with celebrities, only to find a gun to his head…
From the rolling hills of Vermont to some of the world’s most powerful cities, Winters is thrust into improbable adventure, riveting intrigue, and elusive romance. The question remains: can he navigate around the dead-ends in a maze of CIA manipulation and entrapment—or will he fall prey to the sinister forces of underworld intelligence?
While studying journalism at Penn State University our guest traveled to auto races on weekends where he took photos he was able to sell to racing magazines. One of his editors suggested, “You’re taking the pictures so write the feature stories that go with them!” 
After a stint with the Darrell Waltrip, Gatorade #88, NASCAR team he spent the next thirty years traveling the world for VP Racing Fuels. But that passion for writing never left him. Following the advice of James Patterson who said “give readers what they want,” - six novels later, from his debut title FOUND IN TIME to his accounts on the road with VP in FUELIN’ AROUND through to his latest thriller DEADLY DRIVER, author J.K. Kelly has striven to do just that.
This episode was recorded on-site at the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing in York Springs, PA.

Pit Stop: Romeo, Romeo... wherefore art thou, Alfa Romeo? (Patreon Special Re-release)

If you couldn't get enough of our What Should I Buy? Italian Cars antics, we pull a #tbt and revisit our Patreon Pit Stop minisode when we catch up with Chris Bright from Collector Part Exchange (CPX) and discuss the past, present and future of Alfa Romeo. #ICYMI - Be sure to check out the original episode on Break/Fix.

What Should I Buy? - Italian Exotics!

For petrol heads of a certain age - the poster on our bedroom wall, the dream car, the exotic, the temptress if you will… those cars are the ones that corrupted our souls and invited us into the enthusiast world for the first time. They are defined by painstakingly passionate craftsmen. Vehicles with luscious curves, exaggerated features, spicy accents and fiery red paint schemes from manufacturers with names that end in vowels… 
But thanks to misconceptions, myths and limited availability it's not often at the top of collectors' minds unless they’re willing to “take that risk or make that plunge!” into the worlds of Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo and others.
With the help of returning “What Should I Buy” panelists and Italian Car Owners and Experts such as William Ross from the Ferrari Marketplace, Chris Bright from Collector Part Exchange, Don Weberg from Garage Style Magazine along with petrol-head extraordinaire Mark Shank from the 90’s WSIB episode, we aim to prove the nay-sayers wrong, and find YOU the perfect Italian Collector Car! 
Get behind the scenes access and outtakes exclusively on our Patreon!

Through her heart-shaped sunglasses (Elizabeth Blackstock)

We all have passions, desires, and interests that keep us moving and help us get through the monotony of day to day life. If you’re lucky, you may be able to combine your passions and turn them into a successful career. Our guest has taken her life long passion for racing and found a way to combine it with her love for the written word. 
You’ve probably seen our guest roaming around a paddock near you, wearing her signature heart-shaped sunglasses and “emotional support TransAm crop top”. Her work spans automotive outlets like Jalopnik, A Girls Guide to Cars, Donut Media Podcast, The Drive, RACEWKND and many others. Joining us is writer, editor, journalist, podcaster and novelist Elizabeth Blackstock.
Go behind the scenes of this episode, exclusively on Patreon! 

Celebrating 42 years of MotorWeek, with John Davis

As MotorWeek's host for the show, now celebrating its 42nd season, John Davis has the opportunity to put all of the new car models through extensive road tests and to judge their practicality for buyers. He also acts as final editor on all of the new car road test segments and writes many of the test opinions as well as other portions of the program.
John started as mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate, and has been on commercial radio and television programs nationwide for over 4 decades. His weekly program offers him that rare chance to bring the enjoyment of a hobby to his professional life, and to use his broadcasting, engineering and analytical expertise to supply information and insight to those who enjoy cars. Tonight we are proud and honored to share John's story with our audience!

From the other side of the Fence to Amelia Island, the Bill Warner story.

Tonight’s guest has been around automobiles his entire life.  On weekends, he worked as a “gopher” for the dealership racing team and became enthralled with motor racing. His photographs and writing have appeared in Road & Track, Car and Driver, Autoweek, The Atlantic Monthly, Automobile, Automotor und Sport, Classic & Sportscar, Porsche Panorama, and Forza to mention a few. 
He has competed in the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash known to many of us as just “The Cannonball Run” as well as the Firestone/Firehawk series, winning the IMSA Media Challenge (for racing journalists) in 1984-1986. And if that wasn’t enough he also restores and collects interesting cars.
Who exactly are we talking about? Acclaimed author, photographer, racer, car collector and all around petrol-head… none other than Bill Warner, who in 1996, also founded the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance near his home of Jacksonville, Florida. And we welcome him to Break/Fix to share some amazing stories with all of you. 
Go behind the scenes of this episode, exclusively on Patreon! 
This episode is sponsored in part by Garage Style Magazine. Since 2007, GSM has been the definitive source for car collectors, continually delivering information about Automobilia, Petroliana, Events and more... because after all, what doesn't belong in your garage?

Two Girls 1 Formula (Crossover)

They started a safe space for F1 fans who felt marginalized in male dominated spaces to connect, make friends, and discuss races, drivers, team drama, future goals and aspirations, and everything in between. Their specialty is connecting Formula 1 to pop culture and exploring the lighter, more fun side to the world's most elite motorsport. 
Kate & Nicole of Two Girls 1 Formula podcast fly their fangirl flag loud and proud, and are never ashamed to get the label. They understand that you can respect the technical side of the sport and think the drivers are cute, and they’re joining us tonight for a special Break/Fix Crossover episode! 
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Formula 1: From Circus to Media Spectacle

James Miller's engagement with Formula 1 includes chatting about race strategy with Nikki Lauda at the 1977 US Grand Prix, where Lauda won his second world championship. Now it involves at-home viewing of real-time, in-car camera images on a flat screen TV. 
Has Formula One left behind its gritty, dangerous and somewhat esoteric past to become a cross between the World Cup and Disneyland? How much of its new global popularity can summed up as (perhaps merely) "media spectacle?"
Dr. Miller is professor emeritus of communications at Hampshire College. He has studied new media as a Fulbright researcher in Paris and a visiting professor at MIT's Media Lab.
This episode is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family - and was recorded in front of a live studio audience.