Episodios

  • What Ever Happened To Pininfarina?

    What Ever Happened To Pininfarina?
    Nov 24 2025
    Thanks to Allstate for sponsoring today’s episode! Click here [https://bit.ly/463GZoO] to check Allstate first and see how much you could save on car insurance. This week on Past Gas, we’re telling the story of Pininfarina — the small Italian coachbuilder that became the world’s most iconic design house. Before their name appeared on Ferraris and Peugeots, Battista “Pinin” Farina was just a kid in his brother’s shop dreaming bigger than Detroit. From turning down a job offer from Henry Ford to creating the MoMA-worthy Cisitalia 202, Pininfarina quickly rewrote the rules of car design. And after one legendary lunch with Enzo Ferrari, they’d go on to shape nearly every iconic Ferrari for the next six decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • How a Racing Loophole Made Tom Walkinshaw a Legend

    How a Racing Loophole Made Tom Walkinshaw a Legend
    Nov 17 2025
    Thanks to Allstate for sponsoring today’s episode! Click here [https://bit.ly/3VhqAH3] to check Allstate first and see how much you could save on car insurance. Also thanks to Hankook for sponsoring today's video! Click here [https://bit.ly/3ZWwwYL] to learn more about Dynapro tires! This episode is also sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/PASTGAS and get on your way to being your best self. This week on Past Gas, we’re diving into the unbelievable life of Tom Walkinshaw — the Scottish farmer-turned-racing powerhouse who built one of motorsport’s greatest empires. Before he became the mastermind behind Jaguar’s return to Le Mans and Holden’s dominance at Bathurst, Walkinshaw was just a tough kid from Midlothian hustling his way up the racing ladder. From controversial disqualifications in the British Touring Car Championship to pushing homologation boundaries with Holden, Walkinshaw earned a reputation as the guy who’d do anything to go faster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • The Million-Dollar Porsche That Got Its Maker Killed

    The Million-Dollar Porsche That Got Its Maker Killed
    Nov 10 2025
    Thanks to Allstate for sponsoring today’s episode! Click here [https://bit.ly/4gmCSHD] to check Allstate first and see how much you could save on car insurance. Also thanks to Hankook for sponsoring today's video! Click here [https://bit.ly/3GjjL3S] to learn more about Dynapro tires! This week on Past Gas: one of the most insane tuner stories ever told. In the ’80s and ’90s, Gemballa turned Porsches into wild, million-dollar supercars for sheikhs, rappers, and rock stars. But behind the gold interiors and Testarossa body kits was founder Uwe Gemballa, a perfectionist whose obsession with luxury led to his disappearance — sparking one of the automotive world’s strangest mysteries. How did a man who built the wildest Porsches on Earth simply vanish? And how is his son rebuilding the brand today? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    48 m
  • The Gas-Station Kid Who Outsmarted Dodge and Became the Mopar King

    The Gas-Station Kid Who Outsmarted Dodge and Became the Mopar King
    Nov 3 2025
    Thanks to Allstate for sponsoring today’s episode! Click here [https://bit.ly/47IpOdG] to check Allstate first and see how much you could save on car insurance. This week, when Dodge said a 383 big-block wouldn’t fit in a Dart, a Chicago car guy proved them wrong — and forced Detroit to copy him. From selling 50 Dodges in a snowstorm to building the first dealer-tuned muscle cars, Mr. Norm turned a local dealership into the birthplace of Mopar performance culture — and changed how Americans bought speed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    41 m
  • The Crash That Changed Drag Racing Forever

    The Crash That Changed Drag Racing Forever
    Oct 27 2025
    Thanks to Hankook for sponsoring today's video! Click here [https://bit.ly/4ewUjVf] to learn more about Dynapro tires! Thanks to Allstate for sponsoring today’s episode! Click here [https://bit.ly/4mcrYFS] to check Allstate first and see how much you could save on car insurance. This week, before it was America’s fastest sport, drag racing was pure anarchy — street duels, homebuilt death traps, and war vets chasing speed wherever they could find it. Wally Parks stepped in to bring order to the chaos, founding the NHRA to make racing safer and more legit. From outlaw origins to organized empire, this is the story of how the NHRA was born, and the crash that changed drag racing forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    59 m
  • The GM Madman Who Built the Stingray in Secret

    The GM Madman Who Built the Stingray in Secret
    Oct 20 2025
    Thanks to Allstate for sponsoring today’s episode! Click here [https://bit.ly/3GSyliQ] to check Allstate first and see how much you could save on car insurance. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/PASTGAS and get on your way to being your best self. Meet Bill Mitchell, the hard-drinking, womanizing, design genius who shaped General Motors’ golden age. From the Corvette Stingray to the Buick Riviera and Cadillac Eldorado, Mitchell’s fingerprints are on nearly every iconic GM car of the ’50s through ’70s. He defied bans, built secret studios, and literally climbed trees drunk at company parties. It’s the wild story of the man who made American cars beautiful — and himself impossible to ignore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    57 m
  • The Race So Dangerous They Had to Ban It

    The Race So Dangerous They Had to Ban It
    Oct 13 2025
    Thanks to Hankook for sponsoring today's video! Click here [https://bit.ly/3Tif5OF] to learn more about Dynapro tires! Thanks to Allstate for sponsoring today’s episode! Click here [https://bit.ly/4jROVOr] to check Allstate first and see how much you could save on car insurance. This week, we’re headed to Sicily for the Targa Florio—a road race with 6,000 corners, zero guardrails, and drivers doing triple digits past goat farms. Launched in 1906 by one rich guy flexing his new car, it became a death-defying playground for Ferrari, Bugatti, Maserati, and Porsche—and the reason Porsche named the 911 Targa. This is the wild story of the race so insane, Italy finally said “enough.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • The Guy Who Took Drag Racing Off the Streets

    The Guy Who Took Drag Racing Off the Streets
    Oct 6 2025
    Get After It! Enter for a Chance to Win a Custom Car Co-Built by Donut and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. All brought to you by NOS Energy. For more details visit: https://bit.ly/3Jb9w2LThanks to Allstate for sponsoring today’s episode! Click here [https://bit.ly/4kk8WwW] to check Allstate first and see how much you could save on car insurance.Also thanks to Hankook for sponsoring today's video! Click here [https://bit.ly/44p5YAF] to learn more about Dynapro tires!This week on Past Gas, we’re talking about the man who took drag racing from outlaw chaos to legit sport: Wally Parks. In the ’40s, hot rodders were crashing on city streets and scaring the hell out of cops and civilians. Parks had a crazy idea — make racing safer, organized, and bigger than ever. From Hot Rod Magazine to founding the NHRA, Parks didn’t just save drag racing — he gave it a future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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