The One-Year Garage: 1997

In this latest installment of our popular One-Year Garage game, Alex, Beck, and podcast newcomer Cameron reveal their favorite cars, trucks, and wild cards of 1997, but not before explaining to young Cam the horrors of the Star Wars prequels he grew up with. Also: Schumacher and Villeneuve; the WALKinshaw Porsche WSC-95 at Le Mans; all three are old enough to be irritated by the vagaries of Google AI; wishful thinking about the availability of a manual transmission in the US-model Volvo 850R; a burnout instead of friendly wave; and a wilder wild card than usual.

Links for items discussed in this episode:

14:38  Current live listings from 1997

18:46  Volvo 850R

21:47  One of the Rarest and Most Gas-Guzzling Shooting Brakes Can Be Yours

25:39  BMW E36 M3/4/5

29:21  1988 BMW M3 Evolution II

30:40  4,800-Mile 2001 Acura Integra Type R

33:26 Mr. Bean’s Twice-Wrecked Daily-Driver McLaren F1

34:12  Triumph Italia

35:12  Porsche 993 Turbo Model Page

42:46  150-Mile 1993 Ford F-150 SVT Lightning

44:52  Toyota Mega Cruiser

47:44  Porsche 993 911 Model Page

50:36  BMW 850 CSi

52:02  Euro 45k-Kilometer 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello

54:18  Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion: Road to Track and Back

57:28  26-Years-Owned 1997 Aviat Husky A-1

1:00:38  1997 Honda Accord British Touring Car

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