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Car Guy Confessions

Jeff Smith, Steve Strope & Cam Benty

Presented by ARP From custom car stories seldom told from the wild adventures of magazine editors to the latest custom car builds and the future of performance and hot rodding.

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50:08

E85 Kevin Oeste of V8 Speed and Resto Shop, Power...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2024/06/03

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam BentyPresented by ARP Kevin Oeste takes over the podcast bringing up memories of his start at Hot Rod magazine after a last minute Power Tour run in the mid 1990s. That led to a career of TV and event hosting for SEMA, Speed Channel, and more! Kevin, his wife and their team at their shop V8 Speed & Resto have crafted muscle cars and custom rides for enthusiasts and the automotive industry for decades. See more of Kevin Oeste and, V8 Speed & Resto at

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44:37

E84 Squeeg’s Kustoms Doug Jerger, AMBR Winning Hot Rods

Car Guy Confessions ·

2024/05/21

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam BentyPresented by ARP Doug Jerger of Squeeg’s Kustoms provides insight into the judging and history of the AMBR competition. Having won the award in 2011 and been a part of winning roadsters since; the crew at Squeeg’s brought out their latest creation to compete again. The Foose-designed Brookville body highlights custom rods from the early 1970s and completed the scene with a Trosley illustration inspired garage scene display. See more from Squeeg’s Kustoms

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55:48

E83 Hot Rods by Dean, Custom C-10 Builds, Muscle...

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2024/05/06

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The Car Guys welcome Dean Livermore of Hot Rods by Dean in Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2001, the shop has crafted many award-winning hot rods, muscle cars, Kustoms, and trucks. Their latest creation was up for the Slonaker Award at the Grand National Roadster Show. It’s not just a cookie-cutter Chevrolet C-10 on air but features custom and innovative metal work, carbon fiber bed slats, IRS suspension, and subtle mods. See more from Hot

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50:59

E60 Car Designer Larry Erickson, Cadzilla Concept, AI...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2023/06/19

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Famed automotive and industrial designer Larry Erickson stops by to share the behind-the-scenes and design cues of Boyd’s Cadzilla built for Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and other hot rod creations. All while designing for the likes of Cadillac, GM, and Ford. Larry breaks down how different the look and style of a car built by hand, stamped at the factory, or created using CAD design software would be. And how AI would work for automotive

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51:13

E59 Secret 300MPH Pontiac Car, Compressed Air...

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2023/06/05

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Karl Staggemeier from Compressed Air Supercharging joins the Car Guys to share his story. It begins with a secret GM Motorsports Pontiac Firebird project stashed behind the wind tunnel. Built in attempts to be the first production car to go 300 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Later, after being Chief Engineer at NOS; Karl began building supercharging systems that use compressed air for consistent, massive amounts of power. Checkout CAS

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53:46

E58 Movie Car Builder Dennis McCarthy, Fast and...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2023/05/22

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP If you have watched any of the Fast and the Furious movies, and many other movies in general; you have seen the handy work of Dennis McCarthy’s Vehicle Effects. Dennis tells how he failed a job application for Hot Rod magazine. And how he turned being a stunt driver into replicating and building movie cars as the Picture Car Coordinator on several movie franchises including Batman, Avengers, Ghostbusters, Fast & Furious, Transformers,

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52:43

E57 Tim Strange Talks Street Machines, Kustoms, TV & BMX

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2023/05/08

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Legendary hot rod and kustom builder, TV host, and BMX racer Tim Strange of Strange Motion stops by…not automotive photographer Tim Sutton. Tim started his automotive journey at 14 going to the Street Machine Nationals. Starting with classics, muscle cars, and pro-street cars, he found his style in the kustom space and blended his influences together with detail becoming the youngest National Rod & Custom Hall of Fame inductee. He

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51:32

E56 Shelby & Ken Miles True Stories, Origins of Drag...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2023/04/24

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The Car Guys are all back together at the Grand National Roadster Show where Steve Strope shows off his latest Chevelle build and an upcoming iconic Lola T70 supercar program. Jeff shares how the term drag racing came about and with Ford returning to F1, classic stories and fact-checking the Ford vs Ferrari movie reveals the truth behind the history of Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles. Cam takes you behind the scenes of the epic movie set,

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E55 Ring Brothers Mike Ring, Indy Inspired Truck...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2023/04/10

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Mike Ring from the Ring Brothers joins the Car Guys at the Grand National Roadster Show coming off their SEMA Battle of the Builder’s Win with the Indy-inspired, open-wheeled classic truck ENYO. The story of how the Ring Brothers shop started is shared from simple collision work to full-blown custom, innovative muscle cars, and trucks. Visit www.arp-bolts.com for all of your engine fastener and hardware needs. For transmission kits,

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43:40

E54 Hot Rods by Boyd, Chris Coddington, Retro OBS...

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2023/03/27

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Hot rod legacy Chris Coddington joins the Car Guys at Grand National Roadster Show. Chris has been in the wheel game for decades and shares his experiences growing up at his father Boyd Coddington’s shop, seeing Cadzilla, the Alumacoupe, and Chezoom drive on cross-country road trips. Chris shares why it is paramount to measure wheels twice before the billet is cut. The guys talk about memorable Boyd builds and the old-school comeback of

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51:26

E53 Builder of the Year Pro Design, Ridler Contender...

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2023/03/13

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Grand National Roaster Show Builder of the Year Mike Filion of Pro Design joins Jeff alongside Rider Great 8 Contender and Kustom of the Year owner Jeff Hess. Pro Design built ‘Olds Sled’ as a modernized, high-level classic kustom. Mike Filion shares what it takes to build a car to that level and research into the world of car show judges (with ‘alleged’ bribery). Jeff Hess tells of his first custom car, in the late 1950s and convincing

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41:23

E52 AMBR 2023 Winner Jack Chisenhall, Vintage Air,...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2023/02/27

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Jeff Smith sits down with Vintage Air founder Jack Chisenhall while at the Grand National Roadster Show. Jack’s ’32 Ford Roadster, the ‘Champ Deuce’ won the title of 2023 America’s Most Beautiful Roadster and we hear why. Jack also shares the journey of building and racing a Studebaker that hit over 200MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats, with A/C. Visit www.arp-bolts.com for all of your engine fastener and hardware needs. Checkout

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35:44

E51 – Best Of (So Far) Part 2 – Van Halen Guitar,...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2023/02/13

With Jeff Smith, Cam Benty and Steve Strope Presented by ARP The final installment of our favorite stories, moments, and bloopers. Stay tuned for more episodes and confessions! Undisclosed Podcast Locations Roast of Pete Santini Eddie Van Halen’s Guitar Birth of Pro Street Hollywood Hot Rods' Troy Ladd ARP Genuine Corinthian Leather Working with Jessi Combs Scamming McDonald’s First Time Monster Truck Driver Hot Rod Garage’s Lucky Costa Remembering Marlon Davis & Smitty Smit Sleeping on a Dodge

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44:07

E50 Best Of (So Far) Part 1 – EV Rants, Stunt...

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2023/01/30

With Jeff Smith, Cam Benty and Steve Strope Presented by ARP In honor of 50 episodes of Car Guy Confessions, the Car Guys take a look back at some of their favorite stories told so far. And a few bloopers and rants were thrown in. Stay tuned for part 2 and then we will back to our regularly scheduled programming. Intros Meet the Car Guys Story of Cadzilla Photoshoot & Spaceballs The Rossi Rule Model Stevie Lorentzen Saves a Life on Set Jeff Smith Flies F16 EV Racing & Rants Tesla

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54:44

E49 Sean Ramage of Empire Fabrication, Metal Magician...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2023/01/16

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Metal fabricator Sean Ramage of Empire Fabrication joins the Car Guys to talk about metal fabrication including spending 6 years hand-crafting the AMBR-winning Hollywood Hot Rods’ Mullholland Speedster Packard. He shares his techniques and design ideas for twin-turbo engine bays with Nelson Racing, how to properly chop an OBS truck, the unique metal work on Banks' Lockjaw C-10, and the hot rod tricks done to a SEMA-debuted Toyota

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E48 Pro Surfer Turned Sprint Car Racer Tyler Hatzikian

Car Guy Confessions ·

2023/01/02

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Custom surfboard maker, pro surfer and now West Coast Sprint Car Rookie of the Year Tyler Hatzikian joins the Car Guys. Tyler traces his roots in surfing and classic cars and how they have inspired his classic inspired surfboards that he still crafts by hand. Recently, his dream of racing sprint cards has become reality, winning a race, and placing in the Top 5 in his rookie year while racing alongside some of his heroes. Tyler also shares

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1:06:05

E47 Funny Car Racing Champ Fast Jack Beckman, Wally...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2022/12/19

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Record-setting NHRA funny car driver “Fast Jack” Beckman sits in with Steve and Cam to discuss his racing career, the history of the Wally trophy, NHRA’s first drag race, and what it takes to go 334 mph in 3.873 seconds. Fast Jack was an instructor at Frank Hawley’s and a champion funny car racer with Don Schumacher Racing. He has also dedicated himself to honoring veterans and others' loved ones while racing, literally. Visit

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E46 Carl Casanova of VaporWorx, Pro-Touring, Racing a...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2022/12/05

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Car Guys Jeff and Steve sit down with Carl Casanova from VaporWorx who shares stories from pro-touring his Camaro all over the country for the One Lap of America race, including driving alongside a tornado. His company VaporWorx allows performance cars to use the latest fueling technologies. For more information on VaporWorx products, visit www.vaporworx.com. Visit www.arp-bolts.com for all of your engine fastener and hardware

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53:44

E45 Auto Edits Jason Lewis, Stunt Driving, Space...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2022/11/21

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP YouTuber and Videographer Jason Lewis from Auto Edits shares his journey from news cameraman to videographer and producer filming stunt drivers on 2-wheels, MotorTrend, Dirt Everyday, and being a test dummy for the Red Bull Stratos space jump. His passion for custom vehicles of all kinds, from a V12 Viper Ford Maverick, to an off-road Jeep Wrangler and a 1965 Corvette with over half a million original miles. To watch Jason Lewis’ videos,

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E44 Garage Built NHRA Top Fuel Funny Car Racer Alex...

Car Guy Confessions ·

2022/11/07

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Professional NHRA Top Fuel Funny Car racer Alex Miladinovich stops by. Alex races the Hot 4 Teacher dragster up against the likes of John Force. The difference is, his funny car was built in his two-car garage with the help of racing legends and friends alike. For more on Alex and his Hot4Teacher funny car, race schedule, and charity information, visit www.hot4teacherracing.com. Visit www.arp-bolts.com for all of your engine fastener and

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