BACK TO THE VIDEOS!!!! SO GOOD TO SEE YOU GUYS TELL THE STORIES! I feel like "seeing" your studio time is half the podcast! I love your interactions with one another. GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN!
Video past gas with an all-star cast! I hope you guys aren't overexerting yourselves for this high quality, multicam edit, but I really appreciate the work.
Fun Fact: The failure of a Mid Engine Viper gave rise to the Ford GT. In that mid-2000's, Chris Theodore was the Chrysler General Manager of the small car platform for Chrysler engineering and was the man who the Viper team reported to. The story started in the mid-1990s when the Viper was the Dodge halo car. Theodore says that some of the execs at Chrysler had Corvette envy, and Chevy had tried a few times to build a mid-engine Vette. That envy meant that Chrysler kicked off a packaging study for a mid-engine Viper in May 1996 with Roy Sjoberg as the chief engineer. Due budget constraints and some folks on the Viper team were averse to the mid-engine idea: tradition. "I was dead set against this whole thing," Herb Helbig . "I’m an American hot rod guy and I thought this was not the right thing to do with our icon". Eventually, when Daimler-Benz purchased Chrysler in 1998, the project died altogether. Theodore eventually left Chrysler for a job with Ford noting that when he left Chrysler, he was still frustrated over not getting to do the mid-engine Viper. Theodor said that the Viper was a rip off of the Cobra and that Chrysler ripped off Ford’s heritage for the Viper Coupe, the thinking at Chrysler was that the GT40 was Ford’s best heritage and that the mid-engine Viper would be ripping off Ford’s best. He said the best place to build a new GT40 was at Ford and that Ford had tried many times to make a homage to that original iconic car, but the project was always canceled. Theodore eventually pitched the idea on a plane ride in 1999 as part of a team sent to close the deal where Ford purchased Volvo. He says that Former Ford CEO and president Jac Nasser, Richard Parry Jones, the former VP-Global Product Development, CTO, and head of Global R&D Operations, and the entire executive management team were on the flight and that when the GT40 idea was pitched, they all got excited and said “we need to do this.” That pitch led to the start of the modern GT40 and let Theodore finally fulfill his mid-engine sports car aspirations.
Another fun fact: Viper have also helped to create SLS AMG. Dodge was planning on making the next generation Viper, when Daimler came in to the deal. They also wanted to co-develop their own car. Then Dodge was hit by financial troubles, and Daimler took over the project and turned it into SLS AMG. There are some pics floating in the web of an early prototype, with mostly Viper parts and new front parts in development.
Fun fact. There WAS a V8 Viper. The Viper GTS was destroying competition in the early 2000s VLN Nurburgring racing series so they limited the engine capacity to 6.2L. The dominant team, Zakspeed then decided to PLUG up two of the cylinders to make it essentially a 6.2L "V8", even though the whole V10 was still under the hood. Needless to say it still destroyed 😎
The coolant bottle was from an old square Ram, I put one in my 95 S15 as I took the fender wells out so it would lay frame on airbags, the OEM coolant bottle was on the passenger side fender well and I worked at a Dodge dealership at the time.
Thank you guys so much for bringing back the video editing for the pod. Maybe you can sneak adverts backminto donut media content. Cause this format deserves to be top podcast view status. I love you guys so much!
Yay video! But I would argue even more important would be having pics of the cars discussed. Maybe not all, but some episodes mentioning obscure or old cars could really benefit from this.
Let's play a fun alternate reality game. Let's say that in the early aughts, they introduced a "base" Viper with the hemi V8, and then a mid tier with the 6.4 hemi version. Before you start screaming "V10!!" and throwing tomatoes, this isn't really too radical. The V10 was "above" the Corvette in price and performance. The V8 could've gone head to head with the Vette and others. These lower priced models would've allowed for a much broader audience and more sales. Perhaps, had this been done, the Viper might still be slithering today. Maybe, even after the V10 died, it'd still be around in Hellcat, Demon, etc. forms. Just a thought.
I know it's a much bigger pain in the ass to produce, but this podcast works so much better in video form. Maybe add some photos of these cars/subjects ya'll are talking about? Not to make it an even bigger pain in the ass lol
Im just not sure what rereading things off the internet is teaching anyone. I think people want to see cars, not laptops.. I fast forwarded through over .20% of the show, see nothing. Im not really sure any of these people can teach me anything
BACK TO THE VIDEOS!!!! SO GOOD TO SEE YOU GUYS TELL THE STORIES! I feel like "seeing" your studio time is half the podcast! I love your interactions with one another. GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN!
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I'm so glad videos are back.
Video past gas with an all-star cast!
I hope you guys aren't overexerting yourselves for this high quality, multicam edit, but I really appreciate the work.
I love Joe’s sticker on his laptop 😂 thinking about buying another donut sticker just to make that on my bumper 😂
Love the chat about the T56 gearbox. Put one in my Soarer/SC400 to survive track days and have the strength for a future supercharger.
I wanted to put a T56 in my SC400 so bad
Past gas with video makes my life complete again
Fun Fact: The failure of a Mid Engine Viper gave rise to the Ford GT. In that mid-2000's, Chris Theodore was the Chrysler General Manager of the small car platform for Chrysler engineering and was the man who the Viper team reported to. The story started in the mid-1990s when the Viper was the Dodge halo car. Theodore says that some of the execs at Chrysler had Corvette envy, and Chevy had tried a few times to build a mid-engine Vette. That envy meant that Chrysler kicked off a packaging study for a mid-engine Viper in May 1996 with Roy Sjoberg as the chief engineer. Due budget constraints and some folks on the Viper team were averse to the mid-engine idea: tradition. "I was dead set against this whole thing," Herb Helbig . "I’m an American hot rod guy and I thought this was not the right thing to do with our icon". Eventually, when Daimler-Benz purchased Chrysler in 1998, the project died altogether. Theodore eventually left Chrysler for a job with Ford noting that when he left Chrysler, he was still frustrated over not getting to do the mid-engine Viper. Theodor said that the Viper was a rip off of the Cobra and that Chrysler ripped off Ford’s heritage for the Viper Coupe, the thinking at Chrysler was that the GT40 was Ford’s best heritage and that the mid-engine Viper would be ripping off Ford’s best. He said the best place to build a new GT40 was at Ford and that Ford had tried many times to make a homage to that original iconic car, but the project was always canceled. Theodore eventually pitched the idea on a plane ride in 1999 as part of a team sent to close the deal where Ford purchased Volvo.
He says that Former Ford CEO and president Jac Nasser, Richard Parry Jones, the former VP-Global Product Development, CTO, and head of Global R&D Operations, and the entire executive management team were on the flight and that when the GT40 idea was pitched, they all got excited and said “we need to do this.” That pitch led to the start of the modern GT40 and let Theodore finally fulfill his mid-engine sports car aspirations.
Dude, thanks for taking the time to write out that comment. Learned something new!
Another fun fact: Viper have also helped to create SLS AMG. Dodge was planning on making the next generation Viper, when Daimler came in to the deal. They also wanted to co-develop their own car. Then Dodge was hit by financial troubles, and Daimler took over the project and turned it into SLS AMG. There are some pics floating in the web of an early prototype, with mostly Viper parts and new front parts in development.
Thanks for going back to video format!!!! So awesome to see/hear more of the Donut crew on the podcast!!! Keep it up
Fun fact. There WAS a V8 Viper. The Viper GTS was destroying competition in the early 2000s VLN Nurburgring racing series so they limited the engine capacity to 6.2L. The dominant team, Zakspeed then decided to PLUG up two of the cylinders to make it essentially a 6.2L "V8", even though the whole V10 was still under the hood. Needless to say it still destroyed 😎
The coolant bottle was from an old square Ram, I put one in my 95 S15 as I took the fender wells out so it would lay frame on airbags, the OEM coolant bottle was on the passenger side fender well and I worked at a Dodge dealership at the time.
I find I can only listen to podcasts with videos. So happy you're doing this again
Touche. The viper-mule "hiss-HAW" killed me.
Thank you guys so much for bringing back the video editing for the pod. Maybe you can sneak adverts backminto donut media content. Cause this format deserves to be top podcast view status. I love you guys so much!
This is what I am talking about finally the videos are back can’t believe that you guys got to drive every model of the viper
Videos are back!! I can finally enjoy the podcast again
binging these podcasts. please keep it up! love listening to these while working!
Sounds like y’all have a special place in your heart for Viper. Maybe an idea for a future Stocky?
PAST GAS WITH VIDEO FOOTAGE LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO 🎉🎉
Yay video!
But I would argue even more important would be having pics of the cars discussed. Maybe not all, but some episodes mentioning obscure or old cars could really benefit from this.
Thank you for bringing back the videos! Finally! I will subscribe again.
Watching these on my road trip from ohio to arizona no complaints
Listening to these while gaming is also great
Haha we get to stare at you guys for a hour every again. Just looking at ya and like listening and stuff.
holy crap, they covered the king of Nürburgring, awesome!
I love you guys video. Keep up the good work you guys❤
Love my Gen2 Viper!
Nolan's German sounded so authentic 😂
I love the face cams!!!!!!!!
Get a Gen 1, those are freaking cool!!!!
Yaaayyyy the cams are backkk!!!❤😂
Rick Rubin can't play instruments but he's a masterful producer
I love how they all get distracted by the Honda starting up in the background.
The snake thing, Red on yellow you're a dead fellow, red on black you're ok jack.
Red next to black is a friend of Jack , red next yellow is a deadly fellow
I took that video of the Integra race lol. It was honestly tragic 😭
I laughed so hard at 27:19, I listened to that like 5 times.
One of the funniest episodes in a while
21:36 did James just have a stroke?! 😂😂
P140 and Cala also had V10, both prototypes.
And Jerry has joined the Past Gas party at last...
Thank goodness lads, couldnt stand not seeing my beautiful boys faces 😂❤
Let's play a fun alternate reality game. Let's say that in the early aughts, they introduced a "base" Viper with the hemi V8, and then a mid tier with the 6.4 hemi version. Before you start screaming "V10!!" and throwing tomatoes, this isn't really too radical. The V10 was "above" the Corvette in price and performance. The V8 could've gone head to head with the Vette and others. These lower priced models would've allowed for a much broader audience and more sales. Perhaps, had this been done, the Viper might still be slithering today. Maybe, even after the V10 died, it'd still be around in Hellcat, Demon, etc. forms. Just a thought.
yes!!
Hooray Ford Video!!!!
The Viper story is from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!
And weirdly, animated in an episode of GI Joe in the 80s.
Dodge need to bring out a viper redeye
Viper mule needs to be a shirt
Recording level is really quiet. I have to have AirPods at max to have it sound at a medium level.
the algorithm just put me on to this
I know it's a much bigger pain in the ass to produce, but this podcast works so much better in video form. Maybe add some photos of these cars/subjects ya'll are talking about? Not to make it an even bigger pain in the ass lol
I missed the video so much
You can’t tell me Weber isn’t TJ Miller’s nerdy little half brother
Ripping off a GI Joe cartoon episode, Joe? LOL
Joe stole that from Animaniacs! I remember that skit! I'm da vindow viper, vant your vidows viped? 😂
damn Nolan, you have to put some work in your body
KENTUCKY COBRA
So they could have made a LESS safe Viper if they went with the lambo engine 😂
Boy have I missed your faces
Im just not sure what rereading things off the internet is teaching anyone. I think people want to see cars, not laptops.. I fast forwarded through over .20% of the show, see nothing. Im not really sure any of these people can teach me anything
That person laughing in the back is so annoying 😢
Hehehaw
PAST GAS. PODCAST. IT’S ALL ABOUT CARS, IT’S NOT ABOUT FARTS!