Exploring the 'Mini Monaco' at Pau Grand Prix, Banger Racing Ethics, and Faraday Future's Chinese Skyline

Jon Summers is The Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing, technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. Hailing from California, he collects cars and bikes built with plenty of cheap and fast, and not much reliable. On his show, he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, and motoring travel.

Topics Covered on this Episode:

• Tommy Vance, Radio Caroline and Early rock radio in Britain
• WASP
• Four bands in one: the evolution of Judas Priest
• The science fiction theatre of Iron Maiden
• Aerosmith or Kiss ?
• Slayer - Die By The Sword 
• Production and thrash metal - to remaster or not to remaster
• Motley Crue, Backing tracks and the digitization of live music
• Mixtapes, and M’s impression of For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Listening culture 1980s vs 2020s
• WASP - Shoot from the Hip
• News - Ford/Tesla (and GM/Rivian) charging infrastructure partnerships
• M remains EV sceptical
• J loves the hybrid Chevy Volt design
• J is flabbergasted by the Faraday Future launch
• Tesla, Lucid and Faraday: redefining the car
• EV ranges: the utility of 200 miles vs 400 miles
• M theorizes that lightweight is better than EV behemoths
• The unsafety of cabover vans
• 44teeth Boothy's return to the TT
• A shameless plug for our book, The Chronicles of Halvar and Clarence
• Isle of Man TT: Hickey’s 133 mph lap
• Twenty years since the passing of Dave Jeffries
• Bullett - Stay Wild
• Pau Historic Grand Prix - A balcony overlooking the track: M’s Five Star experience at the Parc Beaumont Hotel
• Legends Racers
• M and the attainable dream of Historic Racing
• A critique of Belgium
• Three Men in a Ka
• The defeat of the Silver Arrows - and the Nazis - at Pau - by Rene Dreyfus
• A digression on Mellaha, the site of the Tripoli Grand Prix
• The Million Franc Prize
• J’s digression justifying his factual incorrectness
• A thumbnail on Hermann Lang
• Accept - Too High to Get it Right
• The Ethics of Banger Racing

Quick fire:

• F40 or 959?
• F40 or F50?
• R32 or Focus RS?
• GT2 or 488 Pista?
• Manual transmission or rear wheel drive?
• You can historic race any car anywhere. What and where?
• Eulogy to Spa

Copyright Jon Summers, The Motoring Historian. This episode is part of our Motoring Podcast Network and has been republished with permission.

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