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

Fixing the Crack

Oct 18, 2024

Oct 18, 2024

1 hr 34 min

We have a few project car updates, Volvo work. More car show annoyances and we talk some NASCAR before sneaking in a little scale auto cast.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Oct 18, 2024

1 hr 34 min

Oct 11, 2024

1 hr 11 min

We are back with some show reports. Garage updates and Project car updates. Andrew's is disappointed by the Audrain YoungTimers event in Newport and Brad is delighted by the Route 66 Classic Japanese Car show. Then we talk some project car updates about the Volvo 142. 
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Oct 11, 2024

1 hr 11 min

Oct 4, 2024

58 min

Another week, Another episode, Brad's garage creeps closer to being finished. Andrew did a little work to the Volvo. We talk the 23XI NASCAR lawsuit and why Pitbull and T-Pain need a race team. We also discuss some upcoming events. 
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Oct 4, 2024

58 min

Project Car Guilt

Sep 27, 2024

Sep 27, 2024

1 hr 8 min

Do you suffer from project car guilt? Is it just us? OK fine. Andrew visited Brad in Az, checked out Brad's on going garage project, thhe new and significantly cleaner RAM50, and we hung out Parc Expose for the Prescott rally 2024. We also talk some scale project updates. 
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Sep 27, 2024

1 hr 8 min

Always Chewing

Sep 20, 2024

Sep 20, 2024

1 hr 3 min

Project car updates alert. Brad's got ANOTHER project truck and Andrew moves Volvo. We also talk the fantastic Walkins Glen Cup race.
 
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!
 

Sep 20, 2024

1 hr 3 min

Yo Yo effect

Sep 13, 2024

Sep 13, 2024

1 hr 53 sec

We're back with a rental car review, some project/car garage updates and a Scale auto cast segment. We also talk the first race of the NASCAR play offs. 
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!
 

Sep 13, 2024

1 hr 53 sec

Aug 30, 2024

1 hr 17 min

Andrew went to Gridlife and Brad recaps his new Garage life. 
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Aug 30, 2024

1 hr 17 min

Aug 23, 2024

1 hr 27 min

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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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Aug 23, 2024

1 hr 27 min

Midlife R/C

Aug 16, 2024

Aug 16, 2024

1 hr 22 min

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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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Aug 16, 2024

1 hr 22 min

Aug 2, 2024

1 hr 1 min

Times are tough, but apparently tougher for 3 German brands near and dear to car enthusiasts.
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Keep your cars analog and Aim for the Roses!

Aug 2, 2024

1 hr 1 min

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