Auto Off Topic
Auto Off Topic is a weekly podcast where we talk cars, adventures with cars or anything that might be related to cars. We’ll even have the occasional guest.We’ll share the highs and lows of old car/project car ownership. We’ll tell cautionary tales about rusty bolts, blown head gaskets, snapped timing belts, spun bearings, janky wiring and how we fixed them. When not wrenching, we enjoy back road driving and our local Cars and Coffee. The hosts Brad DeSantis and Andrew Pascarella are two car enthusiasts who have been best friends for over 30 years. Auto Off Topic is based in Peabody Ma and Phoenix Az. Our closing song is part of ”Z/28” is graciously provided by the band Z/28. Follow and support them here:https://www.facebook.com/nobodyridesforfree/https://nobodyridesforfree.bandcamp.com/album/z28
Episodes

4 days ago
4 days ago
1 hr 6 min
Fun show here, Brad and Andrew actually got together over the weekend. Andrew got to drive and ride in the Starion while on the Arizona Rising Sun Rallye. What a fun group of folks with some really great cars on some super beautiful roads in Northern Arizona. While visiting Brad and Andrew also hit the NASCAR Cup series race at Phoenix Raceway. Listen in while we recap the rally, some project car updates and a little race recap.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Oct 9, 2026
Oct 9, 2026
52 min
We have a Brad project car heavy episode. Williams Route 66 show and just a lot of broken Mitsubishi talk. So an average podcast for us. Brad did win best in show for the Starion but we completely forgot to mention that. Andrew blames the cold medicine he took before podcasting because he's been under the weather.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Sep 25, 2026
Sep 25, 2026
59 min
We are not doing project car burn outs, just burned out on project cars. This episode is project car heavy. Andrew's Volvo is close but running yet. Brad's beige Cressida took a turn for the worst and the 944 is acting up.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Sep 5, 2026
Sep 5, 2026
1 hr 14 sec
We're back for another episode. Not to many project car updates and we get into some R/C talk. Also, why is car towing so expensive?
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Aug 28, 2026
Aug 28, 2026
43 min
Brad is back from the wide open expanses of Alaska. So we have a few project car updates and we talk the recent NASCAR race at NHMS that Andrew attended.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Aug 21, 2026
Aug 21, 2026
1 hr 14 min
Audio is fixed on this one. We want to make listening to this podcast like old car ownership; a frustrating waste of time, but we do it anyway because it's fun. Brad is on vacation, but rather than deprive you fine folks of an episode. Listeners Scott (The Stylus Guy) and Miles (Judge Mills) invited themselves on as guests. Honestly it didn't take much convincing. It's nice to hear from folks that enjoy our show and gives us some different content this week since we discuss their automotive origin stories and some current projects.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Aug 7, 2026
Aug 7, 2026
54 min
Here we are again with some project car updates. Slow, but some progress on the Volvo and Brad continues to work on the 944 to get it ready to sell. We've got a little bit of motorsport content and some sound scape talk.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Jul 31, 2026
Jul 31, 2026
1 hr 13 min
Hey we're back, we had some very busy times and weren't able to record. But we've got some project car updates and some scale project car updates. Some much needed movement on the Volvo and the Starion is even closer to being 100%. Then we talk some scale car stuff.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Jul 3, 2026
Jul 3, 2026
1 hr 5 min
We had a little summer vacation with a lost episode the other week. But we also went to NASCAR at Coronado Navel base. Then we've got a Patriotic topic for this week since it's 4th of July and talk about a few things that we covered on the lost episode.
Which Bicentennial car would you have purchased in 1976?

Jun 11, 2026
Jun 11, 2026
59 min
Andrew got the Volvo to move under its own power and it's another week of it being painfully close to being done enough to drive. Meanwhile Andrew is continuing to chase the Coolant temp issue in the Galant, classic Mitsubishi issue. Brad has the Merkur listed on Cars and Bids. We talk some R/C with Scale Auto Cast and then discuss a little NASCAR.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!







