Route 66: Roadtrips Beyond the Third Wall

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.

J attends the International Motor Racing Research Center Conference on Motor Sport History

• J breaks down the Third Wall
• Watkins Glen road course, and Big Bend
• Just Go Drive revisited
• Bringing hobbyists and academics together; Conference attendees; Don Capps, the case of confusing Maserati serial numbers; Lord Brockett
• IMRRC Conference Live Stream
• Fireball Roberts and Smokey Yunick’s Catalina; did it have a supercharger? Is there an upside to investigating cheating in NASCAR?
• J’s preso - the power of YouTube for motorsport history; anyone can do history, the sources are there for everyone to research; Allan Grice in Europe; the rise and rise of YouTube car guys like Hoovie
• Midget and sprint car dirt oval racing in the San Francisco Bay Area; Joe Leonard, of Racemaker Press
• The crossover between Motor Racing and Rock and Roll

The Drive Home, along Route 66: 

• M and J’s Roadtrip Experience in the mid nineties in our ‘79 Lincoln Town Car
• Route 66 exploration and found it in spades - hundreds of bypassed town, thousands of abandoned cars, derelict buildings; a sense of the continual evolution of the road; 1926, and the designation of Route 66, was just one iteration of the continually evolving road west; more like The Ridgeway than the M1
• Cadillac Ranch vs. Stone Henge
• Cannonballing vs. low speed
• M’s vacation explorations of the American West, by Mustang V8 rental

Quick Fire:

• Favourite YouTube channel at the moment?
• Favourite car or bike at the moment?
• Most scared you've ever been in a car or on a bike?

Other Topics Covered on this Episode:

• Miles Collier’s The Archaeological Automobile. Cars as art. If you care even slightly about cars, buy it.
• Sherlock Holmes and the Cthulhu Casebooks
• Plug of our satirical Dungeons and Dragons novels, The Chronicles of Halvar and Clarence, and hence our sponsorship of 44teeth’s Mike Booth
• San Francisco City College’s Motorcycle courses reinstated
• M’s discursive analysis of Ewok society

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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