Overcrest
Overcrest
Kris Clewell / Overcrest
Automotive culture, history, and the people who live it -- hosted by Kris Clewell and Jake Solberg. 500+ episodes exploring the intersection of cars and life: interviews with industry insiders, collectors, designers, builders, and thinkers. From the philosophy of analog driving to forgotten automotive history to the business of car culture, Kris and Jake bring a journalist's eye and an enthusiast's obsession to every conversation. For people who #takethecar.
John Ludwick & The Gospel According to Dick Johnson - Pt 1
Part 1 of our chat with John Ludwick, a New Hampshire-based YouTuber and serial project-car addict who runs Ludwick's Garage, the channel where he rescues dilapidated, left-for-dead vintage cars, does the work himself, and slams them to the ground.Check out John here:https://www.youtube.com/johnludwickSupport Overcrest:Https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
Jul 24
2 hr 39 min
Scouting Overcrest / How to Break Everything
Kris recaps scouting Northern California's Lost Coast for the fall Overcrest Rally on remote Emerald Triangle backroads, small-town characters, and a 1983 Mercedes R107 280 SL on some of the most isolated roads in the country. Plus, Jake on Teslas, soul, and whether a new car can ever earn one. (it can't, probably)Support this Show:https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
Jul 17
1 hr 7 min
Magnus Walker / What's Worth Keeping
Magnus Walker is the man who turned air-cooled Porsches into a movement. This is a podcast about letting it go.He sold 18 cars from his personal collection this spring and kept the 16 he couldn't part with. Three months on, he sat down with us to talk about what's left when you stop collecting: feeling lighter, the worthless van he misses more than the Porsches, and the 356 that found him on his way out the door.Support Overcrest:https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
Jul 2
1 hr 7 min
Tommy Thomas: A Fraternity of Lunatics
Tommy Thomas spent high school talking about the Cannonball Run and the next four decades not doing it. A career driving fire trucks will do that. Retirement changed the math. Now he crosses the country with a co-driver, a trunk full of countermeasures, and a Cadillac built to look like nothing at all. We get into the laser jammers, the truckers who help and the ones who don't, the cops who go either way, and what it takes to get from one ocean to the other before most people finish a weekend.Support Overcrest, Get cool Stuff:https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
Jun 25
54 min
Is This the The Prius of Ferraris?
Jake and Kris get into rally prep, a project truck that keeps finding reasons to stay parked, and the the guys debate the Ferrari Luce release that has everyone online wondering if it's a parody. Mrs. Producer brings a story off the wire. and chats her own unrealistic project car desires.Support this show, get cool stuff:https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
Jun 10
1 hr 7 min
Benzes, Boats, Trucks, and Jake Has Something to Tell You...
Kris and Jake catch up on projects, boats, and bad decisions. Then Jake says something we did not see coming.Support this show:https://www.patreon.com/overcrest
Jun 4
1 hr 3 min
Bailey Clayton | Hand Paint vs. Vinyl. Why It Matters Who Wins
Bailey Clayton is a sign painter who taught himself the trade before he knew it had a name. He started with calligraphy in a school notebook and now points squirrel-hair brushes and oil-based one-shot at the sides of race cars, recreating historic liveries by hand. He stands for permanence in a world that re-vinyls everything every five years, and for the belief that a number painted by hand outlasts the business that commissioned it.Support Overcrest:https://patreon.com/overcrest
May 28
57 min
The Death of the Runaway...
Coming off a six percent grade in 1955, your brakes were a countdown. By the seventies, they were a backup system. The story of the man who built the thing that took the death out of the descent.Support Overcrest. Get cool stuff. https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest
May 21
50 min
Buddy Levy | Dying in the Arctic and the Humanity of Exploration
Buddy Levy is the author of Labyrinth of Ice, the definitive account of the Greely Expedition. In 1881, 25 men were sent to the Arctic. The government forgot about them. Only six came home. What happened at Camp Clay is one of the most harrowing survival stories in American history.Part 3 of The Forgotten Ones. We talk about what drove men into the unknown, what happens to the mind in 137 days of darkness, and whether anything like this is still possible.Check out Buddy's work: buddylevy.comSupport Overcrest: patreon.com/overcrest
May 14
1 hr 7 min
Kris Buys... The Grandpa-est of Grandpa Cars?
The guys chat Jake buying the dumbest of all cars, and Kris buying another grandpa car. Also, some interesting and obscure news on dealership models and bear fraud.
May 5
55 min
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