{"podcast":{"title":"The Carmudgeon Show","slug":"the-carmudgeon-show-5368942","podcast_index_feed_id":5368942,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/HGM7158837796","website_url":"http://sites.libsyn.com/410528/website","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ef65297a-780e-11ed-b613-a73ab90cd13f/image/IMG_1266wHagerty2.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Hagerty Media","episode_count":199,"summary":"Part of the Hagerty Podcast Network, the Carmudgeon Show is a comedic, information-filled conversation with Jason Cammisa and Derek Tam-Scott, two car enthusiasts who are curmudgeonly beyond their years. Proving you don’t have to be old to be grumpy, they spend each episode talking about what’s wrong with various parts of the automotive universe. Despite their best efforts to keep it negative, they usually wind up laughing, happy, and extolling their love for cars. Which just makes them angrier and more bitter. Jason Cammisa is an automotive journalist, social-media figure, and TV host with over 300 million views on YouTube alone. Jason’s deeply technical understanding, made possible by a lifelong obsession with cars, allows him to fully digest what’s going on within an automobile — and then put it into simple terms for others to understand. Also, a Master’s Degree in Law trained him to be impossible to argue with. Derek Tam-Scott still tries. He’s a young automotive expert with old-man taste in cars, and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering — which means he knows how to be civil to Jason. Or at least he tries. With a decade and a half’s experience buying, selling, driving and b…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T06:17:47.677713+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942"},"episode":{"title":"The Ugliest US Bumpers Ever Produced — Carmudgeon Ep. 245 w Jason Cammisa & Derek Tam-Scott","slug":"the-ugliest-us-bumpers-ever-produced-carmudgeon-ep-245-w-jason-cammisa-derek-tam-scott","published_at":"2026-07-20T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942/the-ugliest-us-bumpers-ever-produced-carmudgeon-ep-245-w-jason-cammisa-derek-tam-scott","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-carmudgeon-show-5368942","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HGM3883600759.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HGM3883600759.mp3","summary":"Today’s episode of The Carmudgeon Show is a bumper episode. It’s also a headlight, taillight, and side market episode - all of the above which were effected greatly in the mid-1970s to 1980s by updated US Department of Transportation regulations in 1974.===Visit http://JasonSentMe.com to get a Hagerty Guaranteed Value (TM) collector-car insurance quote! === But first, a Rover update!! The Rover is back (temporarily) on the west coast - we get some long awaited updates, new plans, and of course a new chapter of the saga which may send the car back where it just was……the project never stops! 5-mph bumpers were one of the crucial components removed from the Rover to make it tolerable to look at today. These US-mandated bumpers (and headlights and taillights) the bane of existence for many European and Japanese manufactures in period. Most of these manufactures were so perturbed by this regulation, that the bumper integration became a bit of an afterthought. Cars like the Mercedes-Benz R107 and W116 were considered some of the worst offenders given the size and integration of the bumper in comparison to the car’s raw proportions. Other cars like the BMW E21, E23, E24, E28, and E30 were also repeat offenders. Other cars mentioned include but are not limited to: Maserati Bora, Lamborghini Countach, Rover SD1, Volkswagen Scirocco (MK2) + Cabriolet, Citroen CX, Jaguar XJS, Alfa Romeo Spider, Honda Accord, Datsun Z, BMW 2002, Volkswagen Beetle, Toyota Corolla, Ford Taurus, and Ford Thunderbird. Rarely, did a manufacture decide they would go the extra mile and integrate the bumper into the design of the car - the G-body Porsche 911 and Chevrolet Corvette C3 were one of the few of the time. And if you didn’t get enough Rover air time this episode or need a recap, Jason’s just wri…","meta_description":"Today’s episode of The Carmudgeon Show is a bumper episode. 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