To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Classic Car Restoration, JDM, and Automotive History
The ultimate automotive history and classic car restoration podcast exploring the motoring memories behind iconic vehicles. Hosted by Doug and Dave, we trade technical specs for the unfiltered stories and family car history that reveal the soul of car culture. Join us every #TorqueTuesday for a deep dive into automotive nostalgia with restoration junkies and vintage vehicle enthusiasts. 🏎️🛠️
Episodes
166 episodes
Mianna Wick: Vintage IndyCars and Grassroots Racing
How do you go from driving a homemade go-kart built out of lawnmower parts to piloting a 1996 Lola IndyCar originally driven by Eddie Lawson and Davy Jones?In this episode of To All The Cars I've Loved Before, Doug sits down wit...
Flipping Alois Ruf's Turbo & Ultra-Rare Porsches w/ Bill Patel
How do you go from buying a broken-down $3,000 Porsche 944 to owning hundreds of air-cooled 911s and flipping some of the rarest vehicles in the world?This week, Doug goes solo to sit down with Bill Patel, an automotive broker and Porsch...
Off-Roading the INEOS Grenadier, Land Cruiser Memories & Wrenching with Anastasia
From surviving a scary collision in a massive Toyota Land Cruiser as a teenager to swapping out suspension springs on a 7,500-lb INEOS Grenadier in her driveway, Anastasia Kim Carpenter proves that taking the path less traveled is always the be...
Prototyping EVs, 115 MPH in Grandpa’s Cadillac & Building Rivians with John Gravelyn
What is the difference between engineering vehicles at a 100-year-old legacy automaker versus a high-speed EV startup?In this episode of To All The Cars I've Loved Before, host Doug sits down with former Ford and Rivian engineer...
From Karting to NASCAR Late Models with Kaeden Ballos
Welcome back to To All The Cars I've Loved Before! This week, Doug is going solo in the garage to sit down with 18-year-old racing phenom Kaeden Ballos. As a fourth-generation racer, Kaeden is currently making waves in the NASCAR weekl...
The Lost 1983 Turbo Mustang & Mopar Restomod Nightmares
Welcome back to To All The Cars I've Loved Before! This week, Doug is sitting down with his friend and ultimate gearhead, Tony Funk. Over the years, Tony has owned over 35 different vehicles, and he brings some of the most unbelievable...
The Racing Gene: Pro Porsche Driver Sabré Cook & Hall of Fame Dad Stacey Cook
A Father’s Day Special: The Unbreakable Bond of a Racing FamilyHappy Father’s Day! This week on To All The Cars I've Loved Before, we are celebrating the ultimate father-daughter racing duo. We’re sitting down with Sabré ...
911 Barn Find & 40 Years of Porsche Sales Secrets
What happens when a lifetime of automotive passion becomes a 40-year career? This week, Doug goes solo from Myrtle Beach to sit down with luxury car sales legend Mike Maurer. Mike has been navigating the high-end automotive world since t...
Brad Phillips on The Great Race, Ferraris, and Vintage Porsches
Welcome back to All the Cars I've Loved Before, the podcast where we park the data at the door to focus on the stories that matter 🎙️.In this episode, Doug sits down with Brad Phillips, a globally recognized collector car expert...
C7 Corvette, Porsche 930 & Car Trailers with Towlos
C7 Corvette track days and Porsche 930 history. Matt Jones on launching Towlos, the "Airbnb for car trailers"...In our newest episode, we sit down with Matt Jones, an orthopedic surgeon turned entrepreneur and...
BMW E46 inspires Building an AI-Powered Podcast Platform for Car Junkies
How do you transition from a "utilitarian" view of driving to chasing the perfect analog feel of a 20-year-old BMW?In this episode, Doug sits down with Ryan Williams, a software engineer who discovered his passion fo...
2011 WRX & 1986 Honda Accord: Ethan Banks on Manual Transmissions
2011 Subaru WRX cross-country trip and 1986 Honda Accord memories. In this episode, we welcome Ethan Banks to the virtual garage. While the IT world knows him as the co-founder of the Packet Pushers podcast network, ...
AMC Gremlin & Mercedes AMG History: Matt DeLorenzo on the Dodge Viper 🏎️✍️
AMC Gremlin restoration and Mercedes AMG history with Matt DeLorenzo. Inside the birth of the Dodge Viper and the Honda CRX...In this episode, we sit down with automotive journalism royalty, Matt DeLore...
1985 Mazda RX-7 & Hudson Hornet: Zack Pradel on 1,700+ Car Reviews
1985 Mazda RX-7 restoration and Hudson Hornet history with Zack Pradel. In this episode, we sit down with the founder of the Shooting Cars YouTube channel to discuss the logistics of filming over 1,700 car reviews...
Air-Cooled VW Culture: Women Restoring Classic Volkswagens 🍃🚗
Air-cooled VW culture and women in classic car restoration. Restoring Volkswagen Beetles and the "Muth" Super Beetle...“Every car tells a story, and those stories reveal exactly who we are.” In this episode, Doug and Dave wel...
1998 Acura Integra Restoration: Rebuilding a 'Teggy' for Mount Evans 🏎️⛰️
Classic car restoration of a 1998 Acura Integra. How a father and son rebuilt a "Teggy" to climb Mount Evans..."We sat on a rock in the driveway, stared at the car, and thought: What did we just do?" 🛠️🧩.What happens when a father...
'69 Camaro SS Restoration: Building a 383 Stroker for SEMA 🏁🔥
Automotive restoration of a '69 Camaro SS. Learn how Christina Lardie built a 383 Stroker engine for the SEMA show...What do you do when you inherit a classic car shell and a garage full of mystery parts? You buy a t...
1963 Mercury Comet Repair & The NASCAR Wood Shop 📎🚙
Automotive engineering and 1963 Mercury Comet repairs. Behind the scenes of a NASCAR race team woodshop...What do you do when you retire from a corporate career but still want to build things? If you're Mark Freibaum, you buy a 24...
Riley's Rebuilds: Father-Daughter Hot Rod Restoration & Custom Builds 🛠️👧
Hot rod restoration and custom builds with Riley's Rebuilds. A father-daughter team rebuilding Edelbrock carburetors...What happens when a 13-year-old girl wants to buy her first car but can't legally work? She starts rebuilding carburet...
JDM & Euro Legends: Trading Nissan Skyline R34, Mk4 Supra, and Porsche 996 🇯🇵🇪🇺
JDM legends and Euro classics including the Nissan Skyline R34, Toyota Supra Mk4, and Porsche 996...Is it possible to start with a $3,000 budget and trade your way up to a $60,000 JDM legend in less than a year? 🤯💸In this episode,...
Porsche 928 vs. C3 Corvette, Lancia Zagato Fires & The Reality of Owning 29 Cars 🔥🇩🇪
What happens when you live by the philosophy that "you make money on the buy"? You end up with a $900 1970 Chevelle Malibu Convertible that funds your future Ferrari... and a fleet of 28 other cars that might just be owning you....
Classic Car Restoration Degree: Inside McPherson College's 4-Year Program
Classic car restoration training and automotive education at McPherson College. Meet students restoring a 1928 Model A...Would you daily drive a 95-year-old car to class? For Cash, a student at McPherson College, his 192...
MotorWeek: John Davis on 45 Years of Automotive Journalism 📺🎙️
Automotive journalism history and MotorWeek with John Davis. 45 years of testing cars like the De Tomaso Pantera...How do you keep a TV show about cars on the air for 45 years? You make sure "the cars are the stars." 🌟📺In this mon...
45 Years of MotorWeek, John Davis' Unforgettable Pantera:
In 1975, before he became MotorWeek's trusted voice for 45 seasons, John Davis had a purchase decision to make: Jensen Interceptor or De Tomaso Pantera? Both were exotic cars with American engines he could actually w...
Xtreme Xperience: Supercar Track Days and Building a Ferrari Fleet 🏎️📈
Supercar track days and exotic car fleets with Xtreme Xperience. Driving the Ferrari 458 and C8 Corvette...Can you build a multi-million dollar business by simply asking, "Can I borrow your Ferrari?" For Adam Olalde, that...
