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The Motoring Historian

The Motoring Historian

By: Jonathan Summers
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Wherein English automotive historian Jon Summers and school friend Mark Gammie talk about new cars, old cars, motorbikes, motor racing, driving and motoring travel. Both were company car thrashing technology sales reps in the 90s, and later fairly inept sports bike riders. Jon lives in California and collects cars and bikes with plenty of Cheap and Fast, and not much Reliable. Mark plays computer games and writes novels.


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  • #16 On Ferrari, Part 1
    Mar 10 2024

    RPLA - City of Angels


    Michael Mann’s Ferrari movie positioned; as with Ford vs Ferrari, this will define, immortalize the story


    Big capacity ‘50s Ferrari V12 sports racing cars: the pinnacle automobile


    Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini


    At Maranello when Michael cliched 6th(?) F1 Championship


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    Ferrari - My Terrible Joys / Brock Yates - Ferrari


    Why Ferrari never went to the races


    A bad marriage, an affair and a second family


    J’s visit to Linda Lardi’s village; the road up the hill from Maranello; J’s passion, driving in Ferrari’s wheeltracks


    Luigi Chinetti


    Stratovarius, Picasso, Ferrari


    Lifelovesexdeath: the 1957 Mille Miglia


    “Designing Emotion For Reactive Car Interfaces”


    A Park Bench in Turin


    “I am one who has dreamed of what it is to be Ferrari”


    Ugo Sivocci


    The end of Ferrari’s race driving career


    Ferrari’s Memoir’s as therapy


    Collins, Hawthorn, Moss


    Nashville Pussy - Struttin’ Cock


    Formula 1, a sport which cannot exist without Ferrari


    Ferrari 412; the best sounding Formula 1 car?


    A flight with a Marketing manager


    R Hudson-Smith on the Ferrari 330 GT. The kind of Ferrari owner J wants to be.


    Ferrari’s three Ambitions


    Francesco Baracca and the Ferrari badge


    Fred Kern, Blackhawk Museum Docent


    Sponsor Spot: Summers & Son Used Cars


    Italian Futurist Motoring Art


    “Cars bearing my own name”


    “For me, the racing car is like a son”


    From Modena to Maranello


    “I fell in love with the V12, and have never got divorced”


    “I have killed my mother”


    Ferrari callous? The death of Alberto Ascari.


    D”Agostini bio of Giuseppe Farina, "Il Primo Iridator"


    Road car customers


    Pebble Beach-winning Roberto Rosselini Ferrari 375+, “The Perfect Storm of Provenance”


    The Mona Lisa car


    Ferrari’s role in the creation of Detroit Muscle Cars


    The North American Mille; Alain de Cadenet 4 wheel drifting Chassis #0625


    “I am an Agitator of Men”


    Spotting a Columbo V12 vs a Lampredi V12. It's the plug location doncha know?


    1988 Italian Grand Prix


    Identity vs Brand Values


    Saxon - Rock With Tommy Vance

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • #15 Neolithic Gixxers, German Power Metal, the 1000hp Sunbeam, Cale Yarborough, Jaguar Mk2s and a Screaming BMW M2
    Feb 13 2024


    Warlock - Signs of Satan (intro)


    J’s exploration of the neolithic sites of southern England, by Gixxer


    Warlock - Signs of Satan (break)


    German power metal, Warlock, Doro Pesch, Scanner, Running Wild


    Warlock - Hateful Guy (intro)


    The Chronicles of Halvar and Clarence, another shameless plug for M and J’s Dungeons and Dragons novel


    Warlock - Hateful Guy (break)


    Musings on Rhetoric


    Scorpions - Don’t Stop At The Top (intro)


    Musings on Remote Conferences


    Just Go Drive and Jeremy Clarkson rip offs


    Clarkson/Wilman, Summers/Gammie, Beavis/Butthead


    M is uncomfortable with Clarkson or 44teeth as ugly Brits abroad


    44teeth’s Baron von Grumble and Mental Health


    The Right Turn On Red Is Threatened


    Warlock - Burning the Witches (intro)


    RIP Cale Yarborough


    1979 Daytona 500


    Nascar Legends Youtube


    Dale Jnr Podcast


    J’s discourse on Hooters (with hindsight it seems Hardees was the sponsor - whoops;-)


    JHS Racing, friends of 44teeth and Gixxer builder extrordinaire


    Over wheelieing the press Gixxer thou


    Monster Magnet - Dig That Hole (x2)


    The Bitcoin Spot ETF Is Approved


    D.A.D. Makin’ Fun of Money


    M’s BMW M2 is a Lemon


    Chops Garage, Car UK and the sub $5k used car market


    The Revival of the 1000HP Sunbeam - please donate


    Goodwood to Celebrate Can-Am in 2024


    Scanner - Retaliation Positive


    The lawless grey area of the electric mountain (motor)bike


    Scanner - Grapes of Fear (break)


    Bird and Revel go busy


    Helmet laws


    Quartic steering wheels, Mr Silly and the Nonsense Cup


    M does not like the Volvo EX30, nor SUVs in general


    M does not think supercar performance is applicable for most EV buyers


    Lucid circling the plughole?


    Tesla Beta Testing on the Public Highway


    J’s tribute to the Jaguar Mk2: a properly fast car for 30 years


    Scanner - Grapes of Fear (outro)


    J and scratch built slot cars


    Scanner - Killing Fields (outro)

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • #14 Vans On Fire Down Steps Through Walls, Slayer, a Burnout on California Street and an Alfa 33 Rewilded
    Nov 30 2023

    Special Guest Dinsmore Greep

    Slayer - Altar of Sacrifice

    c.2010 Mercedes Sprinter 2.2 litre turbo diesel, 5 speed manual

    In praise of Mercedes cruise control - stalk

    C.2015 Mercedes Sprinter Supermarket refrigerated delivery van, automatic

    M beats the governor with a neutral drop

    Sprinter vs. VW Crafter

    A fiery Sprinter and a ten mile tail back on the A38

    A fiery Ford Orion

    Slayer - The AntiChrist

    A Fiat Ducato, a lost crabstick and a Cornish dry stone wall

    Slayer - Die By The Sword

    Dukes of Hazzard in a Citroen C35

    Driving 7.5 ton trucks on a car license in England; U-haul rentals in the US

    Mercedes 308

    The white/work van “get out of the way” effect

    2010 Fiat Ducato

    2010 Renault Master

    VW Crafter, “shat nav”, and narrow Devon lanes

    “Floor it and get throught, that’ll be the answer”

    “At Dagenham and Dartford”

    A can of beer in a Ford Transit

    J’s brown ‘93 Ford Econoline

    An unintentional burnout on California Street, San Francisco

    Judas Priest and Steel Panther in San Jose

    J’s bespoke fitting of a velour driver seat from the Econoline Chateaux

    A bachelor party LDV duallie taking up 8 parking places

    A Ginster’s pasty

    Early noughties Ford Transits - fast!

    Gated communities of Cornwall

    Slayer - Spirit In Black

    Turning in Driveways

    Memories of a Rental House in Reading; an Alfa 33 on the lawn; strimming the lawn

    Greep’s Corsa VXR

    125mph Mitsubishi

    M’s BMW M2, Nissan 350Z and Honda CBR600RR: fettling required

    Slayer - Behind the Crooked Cross

    A sidebar on Slayer

    Slayer - South of Heaven

    Vauxhall Cavalier SRi

    Peugeot 309

    Gixxer and potholes

    M’s Fiesta ST Broken Throttle body

    Dio at the Hammersmith Odeon and Pee in the Radiator of a Ford Sierra

    Fixing Overheating by running the Heater

    Mad Max Falcon

    Ronin Audi S8

    Sux 6000 (Robocop)

    Toyota Yaris and Corolla GR

    Greep experiences a Tesla

    BMW CE04 electric moped

    Revel (who have since left San Francisco)

    J needs 50mph, not 30mph from his e moped

    Slayer - I Don’t Want To Hear It


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    1 hr and 15 mins
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