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!

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.

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.

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 😎

Past gas with video makes my life complete again

I love Joe’s sticker on his laptop 😂 thinking about buying another donut sticker just to make that on my bumper 😂

Touche. The viper-mule "hiss-HAW" killed me.

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.

Thanks for going back to video format!!!! So awesome to see/hear more of the Donut crew on the podcast!!! Keep it up

Rick Rubin can't play instruments but he's a masterful producer

PAST GAS WITH VIDEO FOOTAGE LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO 🎉🎉

Videos are back!! I can finally enjoy the podcast again

Sounds like y’all have a special place in your heart for Viper. Maybe an idea for a future Stocky?

Haha we get to stare at you guys for a hour every again. Just looking at ya and like listening and stuff.

I love how they all get distracted by the Honda starting up in the background.

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

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!

binging these podcasts. please keep it up! love listening to these while working!

I find I can only listen to podcasts with videos. So happy you're doing this again

Nolan's German sounded so authentic 😂

Thank you for bringing back the videos! Finally! I will subscribe again.

holy crap, they covered the king of Nürburgring, awesome!

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.

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 love you guys video. Keep up the good work you guys❤

The snake thing, Red on yellow you're a dead fellow, red on black you're ok jack.

I love the face cams!!!!!!!!

I took that video of the Integra race lol. It was honestly tragic 😭

Love my Gen2 Viper!

Yaaayyyy the cams are backkk!!!❤😂

Get a Gen 1, those are freaking cool!!!!

Watching these on my road trip from ohio to arizona no complaints

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 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?! 😂😂

The Viper story is from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!

Thank goodness lads, couldnt stand not seeing my beautiful boys faces 😂❤

You can’t tell me Weber isn’t TJ Miller’s nerdy little half brother

And Jerry has joined the Past Gas party at last...

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

Dodge need to bring out a viper redeye

P140 and Cala also had V10, both prototypes.

Viper mule needs to be a shirt

yes!!

Hooray Ford Video!!!!

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

Ripping off a GI Joe cartoon episode, Joe? LOL

damn Nolan, you have to put some work in your body

I missed the video so much

Joe stole that from Animaniacs! I remember that skit! I'm da vindow viper, vant your vidows viped? 😂

So they could have made a LESS safe Viper if they went with the lambo engine 😂

KENTUCKY COBRA

Hehehaw

Boy have I missed your faces

That person laughing in the back is so annoying 😢

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

PAST GAS. PODCAST. IT’S ALL ABOUT CARS, IT’S NOT ABOUT FARTS!