Break/Fix Podcast is all about capturing the living history of people from all over the autosphere. From wrench turners, to artists, authors, racers, designers and everything in between. Our goal is to inspire a new generation of petrol-heads that wonder ”how did they get that job? or become that person?” ... because after all #everyonehasastory
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 15 hours 35 minutes
episode 5014: Audi Club Carolina's: AJ Campo
Our guests is a force to be reckoned with, hailing from the bustling streets of New York but finding her true home on the winding roads of North Carolina. Little did she know that fate had something extraordinary in store for her. At a local cars and...
episode 5168: West Virginia Motorsports History
Grassroots and bootstraps strategies were used by early racing pioneers in West Virginia beginning in the 1930s. Tom Adamich, co-author of the auto racing entry in the West Virginia Encyclopedia and other related articles/publications will profile s...
episode 5169: Racing to the Moon: NASCAR in Space! (Mark Howell)
This presentation examines the 2023 alliance between Leidos, the international high-tech engineering firm, and NASCAR to build a “Next Gen” Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). The paper looks at the adaptation of motorsports culture by the aerospace industry...
episode 5171: An overview of Motorsports Podcasts focused on Women (by Mike Stocz)
Modern technologies have expanded our ability to share a wide variety of interests. Motorsport, primarily focusing on women in motorsport, has found social media as a medium to help grow actual participation numbers. Expanding on this theory, while a...
episode 5172: The Reinvention of the Mille Miglia in 1940
Paul Baxa is professor of history at Ave Maria University in Florida. Parts of his most recent book, Motorsport and Fascism: Living Dangerously (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) have been presented at past Argetsinger Symposia. He was privileged to have pre...
episode 5174: Midgets & Big Cars in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1951
The chance gift of a small magazine archive to the Society of Automotive Historians (SAH) led Jon Summers to research midget and sprint car racing during the immediate postwar period around his adopted home of the San Francisco Bay Area. This grassro...
episode 5179: Bill France & The Origins of NASCAR (Buz McKim)
Buz McKim, formerly historian at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, NC, is a distinguished figure in the motor sports world and a much sought-after speaker at motorsports gatherings. Buz served as director of archives for International Speedway Co...
episode 5185: Organized Labor and NASCAR: The Teamsters and the Federation of Professional Athletes
Mackenzie Kirkey’s presentation focuses on NASCAR driver Curtis Turner, the efforts of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to unionize NASCAR drivers in 1961, and the tactics used by NASCAR’s Founder and President Bill France Sr. to try and th...
episode 5187: Formula A: The SCCA’s Gift to the World
In the late 60’s New Zealand Motor Racing found itself in a bind. A few years earlier the Tasman Formula had been written to keep the local fleet of older 2.5-litre ex F1 cars in play. But now the more modern Formula 2, and even a few of the National...
episode 5243: Drive Thru News#43 - Real Talk! The Cost of EV Ownership in 2024
Episode #43 of the Drive Thru! Break/Fix podcast's monthly news episode containing automotive, motorsports and random car-adjacent news. It's our SEASON 5 kick off, where we get a little more personal, and "real talk" about the Total Cost of owning a...