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This week's guests are Craig Ranson and Rob Harvey of Bridge Classic Cars. 

In this episode of Future Motoring, And enters  the world of Bridge Classic Cars, where classic car restoration meets innovative sustainable practices meets community and authenticity. Craig Ranson and Rob Harvey discuss their passionate work on classic cars, the integration of synthetic fuels, and their engaging media presence. They share their mission to bridge the gap between the past and future of motoring, highlighting their initiatives, including a delightful children's book 'Riley' that educates about classic cars and sustainability. They also emphasize the importance of community, authenticity, and evolving practices in the world of classic car restoration.

00:00 Welcome to Future Motoring
00:23 Introducing Bridge Classic Cars
01:20 Sustainable Fuel and Classic Cars
04:25 The Bridge Classic Cars Team
08:27 The Journey of Bridge Classic Cars
11:11 The Passion for Classic Cars
16:16 Building a Community Around Cars
20:21 Challenges and Successes
40:32 Technicians' Passion and Authenticity
41:36 The Rilee Restoration Journey
45:43 The Radiator Discovery
51:31 Introducing the Children's Book
55:33 Future of Classic Cars and Sustainability
01:00:52 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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In this episode of Future Motoring, EMI enters the world of Bridge Classic Cars as our host Andrea Hiott speaks with Craig Ranson and Rob Harvey. Bridge is the place where classic car restoration meets innovative sustainable practices meets community and authenticity. Craig Ranson and Rob Harvey discuss their passionate work on classic cars, the integration of synthetic fuels, and their engaging media presence. They share their mission to bridge the gap between the past and future of motoring, highlighting their initiatives, including a delightful children's book 'Rilee' that educates about classic cars and sustainability. They also emphasize the importance of community, authenticity, and evolving practices in the world of classic car restoration.00:00 Welcome to Future Motoring00:23 Introducing Bridge Classic Cars01:20 Sustainable Fuel and Classic Cars04:25 The Bridge Classic Cars Team08:27 The Journey of Bridge Classic Cars11:11 The Passion for Classic Cars16:16 Building a Community Around Cars20:21 Challenges and Successes40:32 Technicians' Passion and Authenticity41:36 The Rilee Restoration Journey45:43 The Radiator Discovery51:31 Introducing the Children's Book55:33 Future of Classic Cars and Sustainability01:00:52 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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Philosopher Andrea Hiott talks with Maximilian Funk, a key figure in the motoring world who is the brains behind several significant events and places like the first electric motorcycle festival in Berlin, the Reload Land Festival, and the community garage and co-working space, Craftwerk. The interview touches upon Max's life, influences, his interest in cars and motorcycles, entrepreneurship with Craftwerk, his passion for motoring, and involvement with e-fuels
 
Instagram for Max

Chrome and Flames

Moto Raver

Craftwerk

Espresso GT Cars & Coffee

Craftwerk Instagram

Vice Magazine Berlin

Classic Remise Berlin

gestalten

The Ride

Fly Fishing Book

Reload Land Festival

Flat Track Racing

superplus Media

Craftwerk Berlin

E Fuel Today

Super Plus Media

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Saorise Fitzpatrick is a delightful human being and the 2023 winner of Screen to Speed and we are posting this conversation with her on the eve of the Screen to Speed Holiday Invitational, a very special event where star real life racecar drivers compete with sim racers.

Saorise won the Sim Racing competition first,  then got to race for real at the Las Vegas speedway in a Porsche with Sabre Cook of Kelly Moss there for support.  Before driving the Porsche, she had only ever driver her mom's car in the parking garage.  Saorise describes it all here for us and for those not yet familiar with sim racing, she gives a good overview of what it is, and how it feels to be a virtual racer and then become a real racer on a real track.

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Watch the conversation @moveusforward https://www.youtube.com/@moveusforward

Watch the documentary of the first event.

This Episode goes along with a post on Forever Motoring called Simulated Motoring.

And it is broadcast in honor of the Screen to Speed Holidays Invitational, a special event that pits real female race care drivers racing against female sim racers. 

More at www.screentospeed.com. 

The Screen to Speed Holiday Invitational: https://www.screentospeed.com/

iracing: https://www.iracing.com/

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Formula 1 Sim Racing Championship

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Hugo Eccles, co-founder of Untitled Motorcycles and designer of the XP Zero and the Hyper Scrambler, discusses the imaginaries of industrial design and how they might take flight, if only we can unleash ourselves from past constraints and open to new relations with what we use and make. Our objects should not be one-night-stands, Hugo says; they should change together through space and time. Quite often we build first and write the script after the fact, but as Hugo explains, the real job is "to write the play, then build the props".

Hugo and Andrea also talk about the addiction of torque, why electric designs don't need to look like petrol, exploding B2B (business to business) and B2C (business to consumer) models, the conceit of gravity feed, and why using old methodologies to create something new may not be beneficial. 

Hugo gives us some insight about what forever, sustainable motoring might mean-- “You can’t build for where they are now, you have to build for where they're going to be.”

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The blog post we discuss, first published in Meta Magazine and 'reprinted' here:
https://www.advrider.com/electric-dreams/

The XP Zero:
https://www.untitledmotorcycles.com/umc063-zero-xp-experimental

The Hyper Scrambler on Jay Leno's Garage.

More cool videos:
https://vimeo.com/hugoeccles

The art of Marcello Gandini.

Cover photo @ErikJutras

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“Glenn Curtiss was more important to modern flight than the Wright brothers,” says this week's guest, Lawrence Goldstone, the award-winning author (or co-author with his wife Nancy) of more than twenty books.

We talk about Glenn Curtiss, the Wrights brothers and early flight; Lefty Gomez stopping the 1937 World Series to watch a plane, and the daredevil Lincoln Beachey. We also talk about what it means to have a healthy disrespect for authority; law, language, and ideals; justice, and why "wisdom is the willingness to look at things differently.”

Of his books, here we focus mainly on this transportation trilogy--

Birdmen: The Wrights Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies.

Drive! Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age

Going-Deep John Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine.

Find his other books on his website.

We also mention The Drunkard's Walk.

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Leona Chin is one of the most famous motorsport athletes in the world, a reality TV star in China and Malaysia, and a mentor to young women in Asia who want to go into motorsports. She's also a world class Drifter. It all started when she convinced her mother to let her buy a Nissan 180 SX...

Watch the opening spoof with over 20 million views here on the video version of this podcast.

Leona Chin on the Porsche EV trip.

Here is the Student Driver spoof, the first of her commercials to trend with hundreds of millions of views.

The fall and the Chinese reality TV show we discuss is here.

Full subtitles are here, too.

You can find out more about Leona Chin on her website.

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This episode is about the feeling of being alive, and the flow of time, style, and sensuality. Looking back at the ways we've moved means looking back at what matters.  Paul d'Orleans is an exceptional traveler and guide along these paths. As an artist, author, entrepreneur, rider, motorcycle historian, and curator, he has found ways to connect and inspire us, way-making towards greater potential and understanding, saving exceptional stories and images from being forgotten. His work and the work of his team at The Vintagent and the Motor/Cycle Arts Foundation are treasures towards forever motoring.

Link here to an article about Paul in Classic Driver.

Read some of Paul's Cycle World articles.

Watch the panel discussion of Electric Revolutionaries here.

Find the Vintangent and Paul on Instagram.

Check out the film Impatience that we discuss.

Here's The Sex Machine, the first article written about the experience of having an orgasm while  on a motorcycle.

Gestalten's gorgeous books The Ride and The Current (in collaboration with Paul).

Taschen's incredible Ultimate Motorcycle Collection (in collaboration with Paul).

Here is the NPR episode on parking he discusses: How Parking Explains the World.

Watch the following videos to learn more about two extraordinary humans we discuss, Richard Vincent and Samuel Aboagye.

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Our website is Forever Motoring.

Link here to the Motorcycle Arts Foundation.

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Jordan Cornille, the calm, composed, creative co-founder of Curtiss Motorcycles, opens us to the dreamscape of motoring. We talk about the ways dreams come true, how motoring has become the terrain of his own career as a designer and motoring strategist, and the importance of reframing the role motoring plays in our lives. We also discuss how all this might move us towards a more sustainable global future.

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More about the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Celebrated journalist and racer 'Sir' Alan Cathcart brings the many worlds of motorcycling together through his riding and his writing.

In this episode, we talk about the power of translation, "your thrill & your enjoyment", a shocking sensory experience from the Isle of Mann, and what it means to make your hobby into your livelihood. Alan also tells us why the answer is electric, but the longterm also has to include hydrogen.

Check out the Bike Talk Alan Cathcart Interview.

Read some of his writings by finding them at Muck Rack or in The Motorcyclist.

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