Classic car talk from inside the garage.
Driven Radio Show is an automotive happy hour with a strong classic-car heartbeat. It moves from Thunderbird carburetor trouble to Amelia Island, Pebble Beach, Ford GT sweepstakes, World of Wheels, and collector-market chatter without sanding off the garage-floor texture.
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Driven Radio Show is a weekly classic-car conversation shaped by banter, restoration stories, collector culture, and the kind of practical detail that comes from people who spend real time around old machines. It is not polished showroom talk. It has the rhythm of a garage, a car show aisle, or a late conversation after an auction event. The show moves fast, often opening with project updates before the guest or main topic takes over. A Thunderbird that finally runs, a carburetor that refuses to behave, a fuel-line puzzle, or an idle speed problem can become the emotional center of an episode for several minutes. That is part of the appeal. The show treats those small mechanical headaches as real car culture, not filler. Recent episodes pull in Amelia Island car week, concours presentation, Hagerty Price Guide analysis, Shelby American Collection fundraising, World of Wheels in Kansas City, and McPherson College’s long restoration push toward Pebble Beach. The conversations are thick with models, parts, options, and event references. A Ford GT can lead to a quick test of option knowledge. An NSX can spark a collector-market tangent about tactile, mechanical cars and younger enthusiasts finding their way into older machinery. A discussion of HushMat and ZyCoat can turn into a practical case for making a Corvette convertible quieter and more comfortable. The guest list gives the show reach, but the hosts’ own garage-life continuity gives it shape. It feels like a regular table where the same people keep returning to unfinished projects, favorite events, shops, museums, and the cars they cannot stop watching across a parking lot. The tone is warm, direct, and occasionally rough-edged. It is made for listeners who enjoy the detours as much as the formal interview. Driven Radio Show stands out because it lets automotive expertise arrive through stories, teasing, corrections, and specific memory rather than tidy lecture. The result is car talk with local color, collector knowledge, and hands-on obsession all running at once.
Made for: For classic-car fans, collectors, restorers, auction watchers, and mechanically curious listeners who enjoy detailed shop talk. It especially suits people who already speak in model years, parts, events, and favorite marques.
What sets it apart: The show blends collector-market access with messy, affectionate garage conversation. Its interviews matter, but the running project updates, event-floor observations, and fast insider banter give it a lived-in identity.
This hour-long car talk show is hosted by Brett Hatfield, automotive historian and Senior Auction Analyst for Sports Car Market magazine, and 35-year radio veteran Mark L. Groves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed car talk meets garage humor, collector-market insight, restoration knowledge, and the lived pleasures of choosing, fixing, and showing automobiles.
Driven Radio Show turns car enthusiasm into an easygoing conversation between Brett Hatfield and Mark L. Groves, with garage updates, good-natured needling, and guests who bring firsthand detail.
A Thunderbird carburetor gets the kind of attention your own garage project deserves.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Museum fundraising, a 435-mile Ford GT, and loose factory-option banter.
The 400th Driven Radio Show plays like an easygoing automotive reunion wrapped around a fundraising conversation. Brett Hatfield and Mark Groves welcome former co-host Corey Pratt, who explains how TapCat supports almost 600 nonprofits while running more than 100 sweepstakes at…
A relaxed, specific collector-car discussion with a useful focus on younger buyers, JDM interest, and the earlier NSX.
Driven Radio Show frames collector-car enthusiasm as a bridge between a fast-changing automotive world and drivers still drawn to machines they can see, hear, and feel.
The Pebble Beach win counts, but the student team forged over seven years is the story that stays with the episode.
Seven years of student restoration work lead to Pebble Beach and a win, but the episode is most interested in the quieter weight of getting there. When the team hears the news, the documentary catches a wordless reaction, with no smiles or celebration.
A garage-level conversation about a Thunderbird startup, quieter cars, and insulation made to fit the machines people actually restore.
Driven Radio Show works best in the space between a Thunderbird that is almost ready to fire and the quieter, more livable car waiting on the other side.
A lively collector-car value conversation where market logic runs into memory, celebrity, and the practical matter of fitting inside a Pantera.
Driven Radio Show turns a collector-car value debate into a look at why prices climb, sink, or simply leave people wondering what just happened.
A loose Monterey Car Week hangout sparked by seven Koenigseggs ripping through a tunnel.
Driven Radio Show frames Monterey Car Week as the rare kind of spectacle that can still break through exotic-car overload. Brett Hatfield's memory of seven Koenigseggs stacked at an intersection beside a roughly quarter-mile tunnel, then launching when the light changed, gives…
Car reviews with the fine print left in.
Real car testing, plain-spoken buyer advice.
Fast car talk with lived-in opinions.
Car reviews with garage-floor honesty.
Hosts Brett Hatfield and Mark Groves welcome Hagerty Price Guide experts Dave Kinney and Greg Ingold to analyze recent major collector car auctions.
Brett Hatfield and Mark Groves introduce the Driven Radio Show, discussing the weather and a funny story about selling a car on Facebook Marketplace.
Brett Hatfield and Mark Groves introduce the Driven Radio Show, discussing cold weather in Alaska and teasing an interview with Rob Ida of Ida Automotive.
Hosts Brett Hatfield and Mark Groves open by discussing a wildly customized 1973 Vega with a dragon paint job and crushed blue velvet interior, hoping to interview its builder Bruce.
["Driven Radio Show #349 brings Brett Hatfield and Mark Groves back with Andy Reid and John Saccameno after a three-and-a-half-year gap.", "Andy and John cover Amelia Island, Pebble Beach, and the Chrysler Superdart 400 by Ghia from the museum collection, which won preservation at both shows.", "The middle of the conversation tracks a dead Pebble battery, a forgotten tour sticker, and the museum's plan to sell 10 cars and buy one while adding rarer pieces like a Hudson Italia, Iso Grifo, and Porsche 914-4.", "They finish by comparing auction heat, including Carrera GT and Miura numbers at the top end, a 1974 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce at $13,000, and collectors shifting toward GT3 RS Touring, GT2, and GT3 cars that start every time."]
["Steve Volk connects dental school, hard drives, and Shelby cars, moving from fiber-optic dental lighting to the first 2.5-inch hard drive and the 1.8-inch drive used in the iPod.", "Brett Hatfield, Mark Groves, and Corey Pratt frame the conversation around Driven Radio Show's 400th episode and Volk's role as executive director of the Shelby American Collection in Boulder, Colorado.", "Volk says TapCat Solutions grew from a Shelby Museum sweepstakes into a platform that now serves almost 600 nonprofits and processes 2,000 donations a second.", "He also walks through the collection itself, including CSX 2000, the Daytona Coupe, about 14 Ford GTs and GT40s, and a tungsten-gray 2006 Ford GT with 435 miles."]
Driven Radio Show #347 features Greg Stanley of the Collector Car Podcast giving direct advice on how to buy and value collector cars, starting with his own 1968 Mustang Coupe story.
Live from the 66th Annual World of Wheels car show, the hosts discuss the venue, vehicles, and thank sponsors.
Brett Hatfield and Mark Groves discuss Mark's recent success getting his Thunderbird to idle properly after fixing undisclosed issues.
Amanda Gutierrez says McPherson College's auto restoration program is marking its 50th anniversary while preparing a May car show and a fundraising launch for new facilities.
Tim McCarthy says Zycote's Zyclear can keep stainless headers from turning blue and reduce wheel polishing for 2.5 years.
Brett Hatfield and Mark Groves discuss car maintenance and interview Dave Kinney and Greg Ingold from Hagerty Price Guide about classic car valuation.
Brett and Mark discuss Mark's recent purchase of a 1958 Thunderbird via Bring a Trailer and the issues with using Caramel for payment.
Brett Hatfield and Mark Groves discuss the current collector car market, noting price drops, and introduce guest Dave Kinney from Hagerty Price Guide.