Hank Watson's Garage Hour - Cars, Trucks, Beers & Guns
50,000 watts of gearhead terror. We’re the talk radio blowtorch you want, chock-full of cars, trucks, beers and guns since 2009. We'll be your go-to for gearhead get-some, full of the sliciest canyon carving, dirtiest off-roading, biggest calibers, hairiest sasquatches, loudest explosions, plus the best epic fails, smoking rubble and blue-collar awesomesauce since Top Gear full of beer.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 819
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
09.21.20 (MP3): Road Trip to Chi-Town & Attitude Performance -Project Trucks, FEADs, Lasers, Broken Driveshafts & Melted Pistons, Plasti-Dip Miatas & Retro Paint, SEMA Fails (& China Invasion), Jeep Suspension & SAS Kits @ the New Bronco, +Bad Computer...
Put professional gearheads together and good tales from the crazy old days (back when SEMA was still business and not a car party) flow, with the Gravedigger, OE rules for dollar trucks, and all the …
09.21.20: Road Trip to Chi-Town & Attitude Performance - Project Trucks, FEADs, Lasers, Broken Driveshafts & Melted Pistons, Plasti-Dip Miatas & Retro Paint, SEMA Fails (& China Invasion), Jeep Suspension & SAS Kits for the New Bronco, + Bad Computer...
Put professional gearheads together and good tales from the crazy old days (back when SEMA was still business and not a car party) flow, with the Gravedigger, OE rules for dollar trucks, and all the …
09.12.20 (MP3): What's Happened to Used Cars & Trucks? Value Drives Worth: Increasing Prices, Tons of Selling, w/ Good Stuff Going Fast & Great Deals for Gearheads, Using Craig's, Bring-A-Trailer & Online Forums +The Night Stalker Social Convention (WTF?)
Used cars and trucks - tons of fun get-theres and gearhead entertainment from the candy stores at Craig's List, Bring A Trailer and 100 other used-retail platforms... Americans and geeks of all strip…
09.12.20: What's Happened to Used Cars & Trucks? Value Drives Worth: Increasing Prices, Tons of Selling, w/ Good Stuff Going Fast & Great Deals for Gearheads... Using Craig's, Bring-A-Trailer & Online Forums, + The Night Stalker Social Convention (WTF?)
Used cars and trucks - tons of fun get-theres and gearhead entertainment from the candy stores at Craig's List, Bring A Trailer and 100 other used-retail platforms... Americans and geeks of all strip…
09.09.20 (MP3): Buying Guns in a Seller's World - Can't Find Firearms & Ammo? Refuse to Freak Out? Waiting for Pew Pew Bits? Market Signals Making You Angry? We Can Help; + Frankenphones & a Motorhome Parade
The Garage Hour goons know where to go when your favorite gun store tells you that nice new Glock you ordered will arrive some time in 2021. It's all about the private sale - which forums and web pla…
09.09.20: Buying Guns in a Seller's World - Can't Find Firearms & Ammo? Refuse to Freak Out? Waiting for Pew Pew Bits? Market Signals Making You Angry? We Can Help; + Frankenphones & a Motorhome Parade
The Garage Hour goons know where to go when your favorite gun store tells you that nice new Glock you ordered will arrive some time in 2021. It's all about the private sale - which forums and web pla…
09.01.20 (MP3): Race Recap @ Pike's Peak Hillclimb - Stories from George's Corner & Glen Cove, w/ Vahsholtz (Winning Open-Wheel Ford), Donahue (Wrecked Porsche GT2), Schranz (Turbo'd Stock-Car Threat), + More Exotic Road-Race Awesomeness
So much good (hillclimb) stuff! The Garage Hour supported this year's PPIHC as a race official and, like usual, lending a helping hand also provided one of the best seats in the house for this iconi…
09.01.20: Race Recap @ Pike's Peak Hillclimb - Stories from George's Corner & Glen Cove, w/ Vahsholtz (Winning Open-Wheel Ford), Donahue (Wrecked Porsche GT2), Schranz (Turbo'd Stock-Car Threat), + More Exotic Road-Race Awesomeness
So much good (hillclimb) stuff! The Garage Hour supported this year's PPIHC as a race official and, like usual, lending a helping hand also provided one of the best seats in the house for this iconi…
08.28.20 (MP3): Pike's Peak Hillclimb Hangout, w/ Danger-Close Hard Launches by Schranz's Open-Class Stock Car & Schmidt T-A Mustang, PPIHC History & Perspective, Tales of the Pavement, + Chats w/ Road/Race Engineering (Supporting the Kobayashi 911 GT3)
#Becauseracecar! It's hillclimbing season (when isn't it?) and the PPIHC is running its chop fluey-addled rescheduled race. It's a little weird being fan-free ('cause kung flu), but the racers are …
08.28.20: Pike's Peak Hillclimb Hangout, w/ Danger-Close Hard Launches by Schranz's Open-Class Stock Car & Schmidt T-A Mustang, PPIHC History & Perspective, Tales of the Pavement, + Chats w/ Road/Race Engineering (Supporting the Kobayashi 911 GT3)
#Becauseracecar! It's hillclimbing season (when isn't it?) and the PPIHC is running its chop fluey-addled rescheduled race. It's a little weird being fan-free ('cause kung flu), but the racers are …
08.16.20 (MP3): Distracted Driving/Don't Be That Guy - Facts & Figures from Crap Driver Failfest, w/ Devices VS DUIs, Selfish Justification & OE Enabling, Car & Driver Theories, Bad Factory Designs, + Dad's Secret Barbecue Sauce Recipe
Don't be a Carl - or any other guy (or gal) like the ones we've all run across. You know the type - paying more attention to the phone than the road, devicing all over the place, less there than Joe…
08.16.20: Distracted Driving/Don't Be That Guy - Facts & Figures from Crap Driver Failfest, w/ Devices VS DUIs, Selfish Justification & OE Enabling, Car & Driver Theories, Bad Factory Designs, + Dad's Secret Barbecue Sauce Recipe
Don't be a Carl - or any other guy (or gal) like the ones we've all run across. You know the type - paying more attention to the phone than the road, devicing all over the place, less there than Joe…
08.04.20 (MP3): Ammo Prices, Buying VS Practicing, Safety Blanket Shopping VS the Panic Plateau, w/ Small-Arms Rounds Like .22LR, Ammo Storage, Historic Bullets & Bombs, + Fatso Jetson for the Win
The Gearhead Consultancy has determined that 2020-hindsight is coming to get you, too, so you may as well stock up (you prepper you). More pistols, more gun food, more practice, more burying (nothing…
08.04.20: Ammo Prices, Buying VS Practicing, Safety Blanket Shopping VS the Panic Plateau, w/ Small-Arms Rounds Like .22LR, Ammo Storage, Historic Bullets & Bombs, + Fatso Jetson for the Win
The Gearhead Consultancy has determined that 2020-hindsight is coming to get you, too, so you may as well stock up (you prepper you). More pistols, more gun food, more practice, more burying (nothing…
08.10.20 (MP3): Summer Gearhead Season w/ Care & Feeding Tricks for K&N Filters, Popped Radiators & Blown Bearings, Podcast Logic, + Introducing Garage Hour's Explosion of the Week
You don't crawl, carve, peel or plink your way into the dog days of summer without a little preventative maintenance (and some expensive new parts). The Gearhead Consultancy took a few minutes to br…
08.10.20: Summer Gearhead Season w/ Care & Feeding Tricks for K&N Filters, Popped Radiators & Blown Bearings, Podcast Logic, + Introducing Garage Hour's Explosion of the Week
You don't crawl, carve, peel or plink your way into the dog days of summer without a little preventative maintenance (and some expensive new parts). The Gearhead Consultancy took a few minutes to br…
07.30.20 (MP3): Is How You Drive Who You Are? What You Do Because You Forget It's Not Just You, Traffic Physics & Driver Psychology, Necessary (Partial) Conformity, Moral Narcissism, Auto Isolation + the Zen of Traffic
There's plenty of theory and reason supporting the hypothesis that how you drive is a good look into the issues that you haul around with you (or don't). When you descend into a trancelike state-of-…
07.30.20: Is How You Drive Who You Are? What You Do Because You Forget It's Not Just You, Traffic Physics & Driver Psychology, Necessary (Partial) Conformity, Moral Narcissism, Auto Isolation + the Zen of Traffic
There's plenty of theory and reason supporting the hypothesis that how you drive is a good look into the issues that you haul around with you (or don't). When you descend into a trancelike state-of-…
07.21.20 (MP3): Steel for Shooting & Targets for Testing (w/ Bullets), Blasting Brake Rotors, Ripping Up Rebar, (Don't) Hold Your Own, More Reasons Not to Buy Things Made in China, + Announcing the Freedom:30 & Garage Hour Range Cleanup
The firearm retailin' folks from Freedom:30 joined the gearhead consultancy for a chat about what to shoot at when you're shooting, including pieces of AR500, hanging targets (like Freedom:30's new m…
07.21.20: Steel for Shooting & Targets for Testing (w/ Bullets), Blasting Brake Rotors, Ripping Up Rebar, (Don't) Hold Your Own, More Reasons Not to Buy Things Made in China, + Announcing the Freedom:30 & Garage Hour Range Cleanup
The firearm retailin' folks from Freedom:30 joined the gearhead consultancy for a chat about what to shoot at when you're shooting, including pieces of AR500, hanging targets (like Freedom:30's new m…