Lefty works as an aircraft mechanic and lives in western Oregon with his wife, two kids, and one very large dog, often heard in the background of the podcasts. He’s been into cars for as long as he can remember, but growing up as a military brat meant moving every 2-3 years, so he never really connected with local car scenes. At 15, he started wrenching on his first car, a 1981 CJ-7 Jeep that had served as a farm truck at his grandfather’s for many years. The whole B squad spent countless summer hours rolling around the ranch in that Jeep.

Since childhood, his favorite thing has been building, with the medium mattering less than the challenge itself. In south Texas, that meant rebuilding ’70s-era motorcycles and getting his airplane back in the air. Now in Oregon, he’s working on his ’38 Hudson Terraplane and honing his carpentry skills. After buying the Hudson, he searched for a podcast that dove into the nitty-gritty of restoration without requiring mountains of money but came up empty. Knowing Woodchuck was working on his own rebuild, he gave him a call, and together they roped their brothers into stepping up to the mics and starting the show.

Colton lives in the heat of south Texas with his wife and son. He began working on cars as soon as he was able to understand what wrench his dad was looking for. Work continued on the beginnings of a used car lot that was the family driveway. Where the basics of automotive mechanics were laid down. Voluntary and involuntary maintenance was performed on vehicles including 1986 Ford F250 4×4, 1981 Ford Bronco 4×4, 1984 Honda Accord, 1975 Stingray Corvette, and more than a few non-ground vehicles. A 1990 Toyota 4×4 pickup was the vehicle of choice for a budding driver and mechanic for many years rolling through college and after. Current vehicle in maintenance is a 1992 Ford F150 4×4.

After settling in south Texas, Train got a part time job restoring a car for a local company while in school for firefighting/EMS. The project was a 1979 MGB, handed to him as a freshly mounted engine and body on a rolling chassis. The rest of the project was a jigsaw puzzle of parts scattered around the shop with no labeling or organization. Low and behold a few months later and a bunch of seek and find in boxes the car was driving and off to the paint shop for a fresh coat of paint. After this the love of the restoration was born.

Brad lives in Colorado on the front range. He got into cars by having to do “involuntary maintenance” on “multiple instances” on his college car and later being voluntold to be on the BSquad podcast. His dream project is a Stingray Corvette.

Brad currently drives a 2010 Chevy Pick-up as a daily driver with Rough Country suspension and Bilstein shocks. His current listen count of the show remains at a single partial episode (by force on a long road trip with Woodchuck).

His life has gotten busy and limited the amount he is involved wth the podcast, but he remains a founding member.

Brett is a guest host on the podcast who joins in from time to time to support events we attend. He lives in Arkansas with his family and owns a ’77 Cordoba purchased specifically for one of BSquad’s events. Among his other projects is a short bed International pickup. Brett has been a great addition to the BSquad family, first as a listener and now as a contributor. Interestingly, all of his projects are flat black, proof that there’s something to be said for keeping it simple. (No, he doesn’t own the Charger in the picture.)

After writing in several times and then taking BSquad up on an interview request, Daniel has become a regular on the show. He joins us as time allows and usually keeps us on track once a month as we talk about all things metal working.

Daniel is BSquad’s Welding, Fabricating and Manufacturing expert. He owns a fab shop (DPP Manufacturing) in Kansas. He works on his projects, a 68 GMC C-10 and Miata with a SBC with his son.

Jim is one of those who believes in the “get it running first” theory of cars… then get it right, because they are no fun without progress. He started young with model cars and moved to real machinery as soon as he could. He has been called an instigator/bad influence by his wife, a voice of reason by some, and hard of hearing by most everyone. Speak directly at him if you think he will care what you say. Occasionally he even has good advice on getting cars going.

He and his wife Gail have what most would say are too many cars, and most of them are old enough to be classics. He is currently on a quest to make those that are not as attractive look better by better learning body and paintwork.

Gail lives in Wyoming with her husband and a couple of cats. She started working on cars around the age of 6 because she was hanging out with her Dad and had hands small enough to change the tail lights on a 70 Buick LeSabre. That 70 Buick eventually became her first car, or ¾ of a car, as it had a significant rust issue. While scabbing scrap metal onto the frame to keep it from breaking in half the attitude that things didn’t need to be perfect was born. This has carried through on many projects with the occasional desire for perfection just often enough to make her husband crazy that the goal has changed without notice.

Over the course of a couple decades, she and her husband have collected an assortment of classic cars, mostly by buying them and never selling the previous ones. The collection spans from the 1930s to the 2010s.