Could Top Gear Even Exist Today? Topic Roulette With The Ballast Boys
5/27/20262 hr 32 min
The Ballast Boys are Back … again! Who doesn’t love a hang with the boys and quickly becoming regulars on Very Vehicular, Ron Zaras and Vin Anatra are here to play a little Topic Roulette with Scotto. Without giving too much away, the gang dive into the issues facing car culture, reveal some lukewarm takes (his own words!) and as ever, give each other a healthy dose of shit-talk. Enjoy!
Mentioned in this episode
Why British Plugs Are the Best
Partners:
Vyper Industrial
FCP Euro
Heatwave Visual
Wera Tools
KW Suspension
Producer: Nick Rutter @nickrutterarts
Music: SlikSound
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00:00 - Welcome & Introduction
00:37 - Sponsors: Heat Wave Visual & KW Suspensions
02:17 - Return of the Ballast Boys
04:48 - One Car, One Track
15:53 - Is California Car Culture Dying?
29:08 - Perfect Day as a Car Nerd
38:37 - What Car Sold Today is a Future Classic?
53:06 - Sponsor: FCP Euro
55:33 - Good Tires / Crap Car?
01:01:46 - Does the Manual Transmission Still Matter?
01:22:05 - What Car Do You Wish Your Favourite Automaker Made Today?
01:37:01 - Sponsors: Vyper Industrial & Wera Tools
01:38:18 - Flock Cameras Vs Car Culture
01:47:15 - Are Muscle Cars Still Cool
01:57:48 - Silver Cars, Yes or No?
02:05:39 - Could Top Gear Exist Today?
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsBrian Scotto· Host0:00
What's up, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Very Vehicular, brought to you by Viper Industrial. As always, I'm your host, Brian Scotto, and today we have a really, really fun episode. Joining us is none other than the rest of the Ballast Boys. That's right, Vinny Anatra, Ron Zarrella, all of us together, and we, we're doing something a little bit different today. I don't know, it's kind of like a topic roulette. We got a bunch of topics, put them in a hat. That's right, they're all right here. We run through all of them. Some of them we get pretty deep into. It's a great show. Enjoy it. I did. Everybody knows wearing sunglasses at night is for douchebags. Fortunately, Heatwave Visual also makes apparel. They've got great designs on everything from hats, hoodies, T-shirts, and even socks, but what they really kill at is their collabs. For example, they have an ongoing series with Chevy that includes the Heartbeat of America shirt I'm wearing now, plus a rad series with Chevy Trucks. They've also worked with my friends at Eisenhower Racing, and who knows, maybe one day there'll be a Scotto edition. And if you want to see that happen, head on over to their Instagram @heatwavevisual and get to pestering them. Thanks. What's that old saying? Don't ever meet your heroes. Unfortunately, this applies to cars, too, as my buddy Ken Block discovered when he bought his Ford RS200. To say it politely, the suspension sucked. So we went to KW to fix it on their seven-post suspension rig. Some say it was misappropriated