The Weekly Driver Podcast

The Weekly Driver Podcast


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#264, Chris Miller: Vehicle sculptures in stone
June 22, 2023

Chris Miller has been a friend of The Weekly Driver Podcast for three years. An artist who lives Maples Corner, a hamlet outside Calais, Vermont, Miller began made his sculpture career nearly 50 years

#263, Megabus returns to California market
June 11, 2023

Megabus, the discount city-to-city bus system, debuted in 2006. Marketed as having served more than 50 million customers in more than 500 cities, the express service features tickets between metro cit

#261, Vintage buses, pub crawls, one crafty Santa Cruz woman
May 17, 2023

The citizens of Santa Cruz and the surrounding oceanside towns and tree-lined hamlets may hold an unofficial record for their entrepreneurial ways. Creativity rules small businesses, from bespoke bicy

#260, Cheap SUVs, racing icon dies and more
May 03, 2023

From time to time during the more than five years of The Weekly Driver Podcast, co-hosts Bruce Aldrich and James Raia catch-up on automotive news instead of having a guest. This week on Episode #260 w

#259, Reverend Gadget: preaches for EVs
April 25, 2023

Greg Abbott, an ordained minister for nearly 40 years, is also a steel fabrication artist, craftsman, prop builder and television personality based in Los Angeles, California. Mostly, he's known as

#258, NASCAR at 75 detailed by four authors in new book
April 07, 2023

Jimmy Creed, born and raised in Talladega, Alabama, is a decades-long journalist whose interest in motorsports and specifically NASCAR racing began when he was a young boy. - Creed knows the city's fa

#257, Data reveals public hasn’t embraced EVs
March 28, 2023

Divya Sangam, an industry expert at ValuePenquin.com, the LendingTree.com insurance division, is immersed in EVs, the Electric Vehicle segment of the automotive world. In a recently released survey, S

#256 EagleRider expands global motorcycling rental reach
March 15, 2023

EagleRider is a California-based motorcycle rental, touring and subscription company addressing the increasing two or three-wheel needs of experienced and novice motorcycle riders. - Shawn Fechter, Se

#167, Honoring Steve Casagrande and the family’s Bel Air
March 14, 2023

A REMEMBRANCE - Stephen Casagrande was my dentist for about 35 years. His office was in midtown Sacramento, a few blocks from my office and a restaurant we both often visited called Cornerstone. Like

#255 Pacific Coast Dream Machines celebrates 30 years
March 06, 2023

After a three-year hiatus, the most varied collection of automobiles, planes, boats and exotic machinery and their equally varying owners will again gather for the daylong Pacific Coast Dream Machines