Overcrest

Nick Dimbleby / Shooting The Legendary Camel Trophy

Nick Dimbleby is the photographer who shot the last four Camel Trophies and then wrote the book on them. He has photographed Land Rovers for nearly 30 years, in close to

Ducks, Jeeps, Diesel Disaster, and a Bear Named Backpack

You've seen them on hoods, door handles, and dashboards in every parking lot in America. Kris looked it up hoping to find something dumb enough to make fun of. He found a

Dune Casu / How Over the Hill Was Built

Dune Casu is the founder of Funselektor Labs, the studio behind Absolute Drift and art of rally, and one of the few people who has built a driving game that car people ac

The Kill Crank / How One Man Dying Saved Us All

Before 1912, starting a car meant standing in front of it and pulling on a steel handle while the engine decided whether to cooperate. Sometimes it cooperated. Sometimes

Connor McGovern / NFL, R34s, and Praying for Rain

Connor McGovern spent nine years as an offensive lineman in the NFL. Before that he was a kid in Fargo getting into his dad's truck at five in the morning to go look at p

Clay Croft / XOverland / Driving Around the World

Clay Croft is the founder of Expedition Overland — seventeen years of driving to the edges of the map and filming what's out there. He's crossed the Greenland ice sheet,

Hey Man Nice Purseche & Other Car Week Tales

Kris and Jake work through Car Week: where the McLaren name actually came from and who spent ten years asking for the car, what happens when a Singer 911 crashes into Lou

The Kid Who Broke Soviet Air Defense

In May 1987 an eighteen year old West German rented a Cessna 172 from his flying club and pointed it east towards Moscow. This is the account of what, and how this cold w

Broken Promises, Fake Ferrari Things, and the Death of the Auto Parts Store

Ferrari's marketing director answers for the reaction to the brand's first electric car, and the paddles behind the wheel raise a question about what counts as real. The

Pt 1 (Actually) - John Ludwick & The Gospel According to Dick Johnson

Part 1 (really this time) of our chat with John Ludwick, a New Hampshire-based YouTuber and serial project-car addict who runs Ludwick's Garage, the channel where he resc

Pt 2 - John Ludwick & The Gospel According to Dick Johnson

Part 2 of our chat with John Ludwick, a New Hampshire-based YouTuber and serial project-car addict who runs Ludwick's Garage, the channel where he rescues dilapidated, le

Scouting Overcrest / How to Break Everything

Kris recaps scouting Northern California's Lost Coast for the fall Overcrest Rally on remote Emerald Triangle backroads, small-town characters, and a 1983 Mercedes R107 2

Magnus Walker / What's Worth Keeping

Magnus Walker is the man who turned air-cooled Porsches into a movement. This is a podcast about letting it go. He sold 18 cars from his personal collection this spring

Tommy Thomas: A Fraternity of Lunatics

Tommy Thomas spent high school talking about the Cannonball Run and the next four decades not doing it. A career driving fire trucks will do that. Retirement changed the

Is This the The Prius of Ferraris?

Jake and Kris get into rally prep, a project truck that keeps finding reasons to stay parked, and the the guys debate the Ferrari Luce release that has everyone online wo

Benzes, Boats, Trucks, and Jake Has Something to Tell You...

Kris and Jake catch up on projects, boats, and bad decisions. Then Jake says something we did not see coming. Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

Bailey Clayton | Hand Paint vs. Vinyl. Why It Matters Who Wins

Bailey Clayton is a sign painter who taught himself the trade before he knew it had a name. He started with calligraphy in a school notebook and now points squirrel-hair

The Death of the Runaway...

Coming off a six percent grade in 1955, your brakes were a countdown. By the seventies, they were a backup system. The story of the man who built the thing that took the

Buddy Levy | Dying in the Arctic and the Humanity of Exploration

Buddy Levy is the author of Labyrinth of Ice, the definitive account of the Greely Expedition. In 1881, 25 men were sent to the Arctic. The government forgot about them.

Kris Buys... The Grandpa-est of Grandpa Cars?

The guys chat Jake buying the dumbest of all cars, and Kris buying another grandpa car. Also, some interesting and obscure news on dealership models and bear fraud.