ZF, Drifting Tundras, Baja Adventures, and the Shocking Quad Mishap

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.

Uncle Mark’s Life South of the Border

Other Topics covered on this Episode:

• Ford F250 diesel 4x4 manual
• Ford F450 Shortbus
• Baja Street Dogs
• Buzzed By a Trophy Truck
• Yamaha WR 450 and riding in Baja
• “Mustangs to Todos”
• Argentina bike road trip; heavy vs. light off-road bikes
• A Eulogy to Heated Seats and Grips
• “Personalities” in modern Nascar
• Indy vs. Grosjean
• Modern Motorsport and Money
• Mark’s 1966 Mustang GT
• The Gasser Vision
• “The Thing I Most Want Is My Own Stuff To Work”
• J’s Pontiac Grand Prix
• Mark and J can’t “thin the herd” of their non-functional cars 
• Toyota Chinook
• Mark’s Mustang SN95 Track car
• J’s hypoglycemia
• "Quad into an electric fence"
• ZF and Fly By Wire Steering - “you can’t get the staff”
• Sim Racing Games, pedals and steering setups, VR motion sickness
• J’s Mustang SN95 Track car
• "A Historian, Not A Mechanic"
• Harley-Davidson Fast Johnnie
• The Death of the Sportsbike 
• Alpine A290
• Freightliners
• Taycan Turbo S vs. Bullitt Mustang
• Eulogy to Steve B, the consummate Ford Guy
• Pebble Beach class-winning Bob McGee '32 Model A Roadster
• The Cobra Bigblock mule
• Crocetti Speciale
• Tundras I Have Known
• New Cars I Have Bought
• Seat Leon Cupra R
• Mercedes E63 wagons 
• M6 Gran Coupe
• Daimler-Benz M156 engine Eulogy
• Mark’s Dad’s ‘40 Ford Coupe - “a blown Cad with a La Salle rear end”
• The “Business Coupe” explained
• Mark’s ex-Police Harley
• '80’s Thunderbirds as an Investment
• A moment’s silence for J’s Mondeo ST24
• Tony Angelo’s Lincoln MkVIII

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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