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Throwin' Wrenches Automotive Podcast

Throwin' Wrenches Automotive Podcast

By: Daryl Scott & Eric Stahl
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  • TW 107 – A Very Wrenches Christmas 2025

    TW 107 – A Very Wrenches Christmas 2025
    Dec 20 2025
    https://traffic.libsyn.com/thebeerreport/TW_107_christmas_2025.mp3 A Very Wrenches Christmas On this episode of Throwin’ Wrenches… Its Christmas… You know we have something up our red velvet jacket and puffy white sleeves… Cars? Christmas? Its like peanut butter and chocolate! What will be our top 3 christmas movie cars in our annual festive lists? Thanks for listening. Thanks for being a fan. Spotify Wrapped… For podcasters Spotify Comments: Projects Eric: Toilet! Went to Italy. Drove a Renault Clio with more buzzers and alarms than any car I have ever driven in my life! Ubigi for Cellular… Love that. No texts or calls… but I had data Daryl: Highlander got fixed after my parking lot ding. Body shop didn’t clean the dust and there were footprints on the seat. Zero pride? Moment of Musk: Elon’s head was exploding Favorite Christmas Movie Cars Eric: Taxi Cab from Scrooged… The taxi cab in the movie Scrooged belongs to the fictional Belle Cab Co.. The vehicle itself is an iconic 1978 Checker A11 Taxicab (though some sources mention a 1970 or 1974 model year, the A-series ran largely unchanged from 1959-1982). This car zooms all over the skyline and slides through time in a decently fun twist on the ghost of Christmas Past. RIP Buster Poindexter aka David Johanssen of the New York Dolls. A role of a lifetime to be sure. I rode in one of these back in the early 80’s… Took the plane from O’Hare to LaGuardia and had a taxi driver who I am pretty sure was Bob Hoskins. My brother and I talked big stuff and declared that we would be running this town before our easter week was over. Sat behind Dan Rather at Sunday Mass BTW… I love these cars because of the jump seats. They are so damn big, but at first glance, you think nothing of them. Get in, and you will be shocked at the space. 2 Chrysler Town and Country K CAr from Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The car driven by Neal Page (Steve Martin) and Del Griffith (John Candy) in the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1986 Chrysler LeBaron Town & Country convertible, not a Dodge Aries K. While the LeBaron is built on the same Chrysler K-car platform as the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant, the specific model in the film is a LeBaron. This car is dead on what people were driving when I was a kid. My great uncle worked for Chrysler from the 60’s tothe 90’s… His Mom, my Grandma Giancarli, drove a 1985 Airies K Car after she drove my 1978 Volare. I got the Volare, my brother got the Aries. HE took it all the way to LA to go to MIT… Eventually driving it back from LA to Fort Meyers. That car was pretty decent. I recall the back suspension collapsing from him hauling drums all the time. 3 Debate this It was going to be the Camaro from Better Off Dead, but Angela did not agree that its a Christmas movie… she obviously had not listened to our older Christmas shows! OK… How about this… George Bailey’s car from It’s a Wonderful Life? “The main car in It’s a Wonderful Life is George Bailey’s 1919 Dodge Brothers touring car, a black, open-top vehicle used for everything from family moves (with a goat!) to the iconic scene where he crashes it into a tree before contemplating suicide. The same car, with a specific studio tag (789), also featured as Ernie the taxi driver’s vehicle and remains a famous movie prop, now owned by collectors and occasionally shown at events. “ Classic, iconic, and I would totally pull this out for a chug around the block during parade season. The images I see online are morose and depressing from the black and white view… but this car is what scoots the story around Bedford Falls The main car in It’s a Wonderful Life is George Bailey’s 1919 Dodge Brothers touring car, a black, open-top vehicle used for everything from family moves (with a goat!) to the iconic scene where he crashes it into a tree before contemplating suicide. The same car, with a specific studio tag (789), also featured as Ernie the taxi driver’s vehicle and remains a famous movie prop, now owned by collectors and occasionally shown at events. Daryl: Scott Calvin’s Ford Taurus SHO – The Santa Clause (1994) The first-generation Ford Taurus SHO was the real deal. Manual trans. Yamaha-built V6 with a crazy intake design and beautiful exhaust note. Tim Allen being a car guy helped make sure Santa had a cool ride in addition to his sleigh. I saw this film in High School gym class one day before Christmas Break because Mr. Petty was phoning it in. This car is the only thing I remember from that movie. Billy Peltzer’s 1967 VW Beetle – Gremlins (1984) In the beginning of the film Gremlins, our hero Billy Peltzer is portrayed as a mild-mannered young bank teller who drives a responsible car, a classic 60’s VW Beetle. Only it doesn’t want to start on the cold, snowy morning in Kingston Falls. This leads to a ...
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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • Episode 107 Preshow – Christmas 2025

    Episode 107 Preshow – Christmas 2025
    Dec 13 2025

    Eric and Daryl sit down a few weeks before Santa comes to visit to chat it up. We share some nice chunky beers and talk about the normal gambit of Preshow material.

    The opening of a Raising Cane’s restaurant in the Peoria area stirs some ire in both of your hosts. Eric tries to decide whether leaving Spotify is worth it for world peace. Daryl cannot find a decent floor jack, and Eric wonders if those old cars are just too big for Harbor Freight tools.

    We set the Patreon/ITunes Premium to “free” for a month since Eric is still a slacker, and we will be sharing this episode with everyone in the spirit of Christmas Cheer.

    Thanks again for all the support in 2025 and into 2026. Car culture and car news are our favorite things to talk about… Glad to have you along for the ride!

    Eric and Daryl

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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Episode 106 – 5th Gen 4Runner Mods and SCC 2025 with Jacob

    Episode 106 – 5th Gen 4Runner Mods and SCC 2025 with Jacob
    Nov 22 2025
    https://traffic.libsyn.com/thebeerreport/TW_106.mp3 Episode 106 Welcome to the automotive podcast that is talking 5th gen mods and SCC 2025 On this episode of Throwin’ Wrenches… A Chinese Range Rover Knock-off… Knocks On “Heaven’s Gate”AI Wrote our introsThe USA makes a better robot than Russia… so, we have that going for us. All of that and more on this episode of Throwin’ Wrenches. Thanks for listening. To join in on the fun of the show, just email us at info@throwinwrenches.com or post a review on itunes to be heard worldwide! SPOTIFY COMMENTS and polls – New got some! Check us out on YouTube, before we are banned for copyright! Sponsors Fort’s Toyota of Pekin, find them at http://www.toyota-pekin.com PATREON – Thanks to our Patreon supporters. Welcome new members! I need to do the rundown with the magic mirror-like romper room! Itunes Premium – people love it! Full integration into your Apple Podcast app. On this show we will spend a bunch of time talking to Jacob and learning about his 2024 5th Gen 4Runner build along with the annual Southern Cruiser Crawl trip he and Eric took this past October. NEWS: Chinese Car Attempts To Drive Up ‘Heaven’s Gate,’ Crashes Through Guardrail Source: Newsweek Chinese Range Rover’ SUV Dragon Challenge Failed – Chery Icar 03 (Chery Fulwin X3L ) A Chinese automaker has issued an apology after a publicity stunt staged on China’s Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park went badly wrong. Chery Automobile, one of the largest automakers in the Far East, was filming a video for its new Fengyun X3L SUV on November 12 when disaster struck. The plan was for the company’s new SUV to be filmed ascending Tianmen Mountain’s famous 999 steps up to the natural arch known as Heaven’s Gate, located in Zhangjiajie, Central China’s Hunan Province. Known to many as the “Stairway to Heaven,” in 2018 the steps had served as the setting for a similar stunt staged by fellow car manufacturer Range Rover to promote its Range Rover Sport range. Whereas the Range Rover Sport successfully surmounted the steps, thought to be just 30 centimeters [12 inches] wide and on a gradient in excess of 60 degrees, the Fengyun X3L struggled with the ascent, ultimately losing momentum and rolling back down the hill. A video, posted to X by @CollinRugg, captures what happened next, with a yellow version of Chery Automobile’s new SUV shown crashing into a protective guardrail, causing damage to the iconic tourist spot and shocking bystanders in the process. National: New Fear Unlocked: Windshield Washer Fluid & Legionella Bacteria https://respiratory-therapy.com/disorders-diseases/infectious-diseases/other-infections/windshield-washer-fluid-may-be-source-of-legionnaires-disease/ Windshield washer fluid may contain bacteria that cause the deadly form of pneumonia known as Legionnaires’ disease, according to researchers who say the study is the first to detect high levels of Legionella in automobiles or aerosolized by washer fluid spray. Legionella bacteria, which are naturally occurring and typically found in water, are transmitted to people through mist or vapor from water containing the bacteria. For example, air conditioners and hot tubs can be sources of infection. The bacteria do not spread from person to person. Most people exposed to Legionella bacteria don’t become ill, but some develop Legionnaires’ disease. The bacteria can also cause a milder illness similar to the flu. Researchers found Legionella bacteria in the windshield washer fluid of 75% of school buses they tested in one central Arizona school district. The investigators also discovered that Legionella bacteria can grow in windshield washer fluid and maintain stable populations in the fluid for up to 14 months. “Washer fluid spray can release potentially dangerous numbers of these bacteria into the air. These results suggest that automobiles may serve as a source of transmission for Legionella infections,” study author Otto Schwake, a doctoral student at Arizona State University, said in a society news release. Moment of Musk: Are we past the 3rd rail phase with this guy? Elon Musk says Tesla’s Optimus will have superhuman surgical skills Technologie By Jessica Hagen During a talk with Ron Baron, founder of asset management firm Baron Capital, Elon Musk said Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus, will one day perform surgeries with better precision than a human. “Imagine a world where everyone has access to the best surgeons, literally everyone,” Musk said. “Optimus will have the level of precision that is frankly superhuman and will be able to do medical procedures, very sophisticated medical procedures, any medical procedure, perhaps things that really humans can’t even do because they’re too difficult, and that will be available to anyone.” Musk stated that people often talk about eliminating poverty and providing great medical care but ...
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    1 hr and 56 mins
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