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
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Friday Aug 30, 2024
Friday Aug 30, 2024
Andrew went to Gridlife and Brad recaps his new Garage life.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!
Friday Aug 23, 2024
Friday Aug 23, 2024
With Mercedes and Andy Lilienthal
They spend 16 days driving in the Superlative Adventure Club Baltic Sea rally, the northernmost rally in the world. It spanned 9 countries around the Baltic sea and above the Arctic circle with two crossings. Over 4k miles driven with no GPS only paper maps and on top of that, they did in an all electric VW ID. Buzz van. They also raised over $3k dollars for the Jessi Combs Foundation.
Take a listen as they tell us about this once in a lifetime trip.
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You can find Mercedes and Andy at crankshaftculture.com
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Friday Aug 16, 2024
Friday Aug 16, 2024
We're back from Olympic break and so is NASCAR. We hear about Brad's garage and just how far down the rabbit hole Andrew has go back into R/C.
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Friday Aug 02, 2024
Friday Aug 02, 2024
Times are tough, but apparently tougher for 3 German brands near and dear to car enthusiasts.
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Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
We have good intentions of improving project cars, but every once and a while they go sideways. Andrew messes up a project on the G20. We talk the entertaining but frustrating Brickyard 400 and Play some Craig Craig don't tell me.
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Friday Jul 19, 2024
Friday Jul 19, 2024
Brad reveals a new project vehicle, surprise, not surprised. We discuss some NASCAR and a little bit about the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
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Friday Jul 12, 2024
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Brad has some project car updates on the garage. We Talk NASCAR's Chicago street race and the mess ups and poor planning they had. Then discuss some concerning news that the Mass RMV is banning Kei vehicles and what that means for old car enthusiasts.
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Friday Jun 28, 2024
Friday Jun 28, 2024
It's the 350th episode. Andrew did some more interior work, and continued to make it rain at races. Brad learned to drive a skid steer and is totally ready to be a heavy equipment operator now.
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Friday Jun 21, 2024
Friday Jun 21, 2024
We talk the hot weather. Andrew's power cuts out and we discuss NASCAR, LeMans and all the good but also shitty ways streaming has made watching racing easier. Then cover some project car updates.
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Friday Jun 14, 2024
Friday Jun 14, 2024
Brad is looking for someone to take his junk and we talk about some fun attainable project cars using real CL posts. You can absolutely get a running and driving project car for under $10k and have money to spend on personalizing it.
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