Bonus Episode: Jon and Andy are off to the Practical Classics Show at the NEC

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[00:00:12] Welcome to My Dads Car, a podcast discussing our personal relationship with automotive nostalgia

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[00:00:19] It doesn't even have to be about your dad's car.

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[00:00:33] So yeah we're excited to go up to the practical classic show at the end of March.

[00:00:40] We've managed to secure some media passes, isn't it?

[00:00:43] We have, you know, on the black there are a little bit of some ice but we can't say that.

[00:00:48] We're seasoned professionals in the media industry.

[00:00:52] Well, we've got four seasons.

[00:00:54] Yeah, so yeah that should be good fun.

[00:00:56] Obviously, Danny Hopkins who we had on season two I think is the editor of the magazine

[00:01:01] and it'd be nice to catch up with him up there.

[00:01:04] I'm sure we're going to bump into a bunch of other people.

[00:01:07] So we're going to be there on Sunday.

[00:01:09] Oh, wait.

[00:01:10] That's the plan with our Zoom pod track machine which means we can record in person on the

[00:01:15] fly.

[00:01:16] It's starting here.

[00:01:17] So Sunday 23rd of March I believe it is.

[00:01:19] Yeah.

[00:01:20] So yeah if you're at the show then look out for us wandering around.

[00:01:23] Hopefully not becoming too much of a nuisance for people trying to ask them about their

[00:01:27] ideas, calm memories.

[00:01:29] And yeah if you're going to be there then yeah let us know we'll try and put this out

[00:01:32] with a little bit of time to spare so that people are aware of our presence and then whatever

[00:01:38] we manage to record up there will then put together in a little bonus episode I suppose

[00:01:42] to go out after the show.

[00:01:43] Absolutely.

[00:01:44] Yeah, hopefully it should be a good little mingle event for us.

[00:01:47] Yeah, we've not done a kind of a proper event if we really since bangers and cash that

[00:01:51] was our sort of debut.

[00:01:52] So that was their debut show as well, I was not think so.

[00:01:56] Yeah, it would be interesting to do this sort of established show and see if we can meet

[00:02:00] yeah.

[00:02:01] Got a whole load of business cards toward her make sure I can work the machine.

[00:02:04] Yeah.

[00:02:05] And have a proper test on that.

[00:02:06] Full-ass fails we've got our iPhones in the way.

[00:02:08] Yeah, true.

[00:02:09] Yeah.

[00:02:10] I've got some little microphones actually that plug into iPhones as well.

[00:02:12] Okay.

[00:02:13] Which we could take but we can do it on the proper thing then hopefully the audio quality

[00:02:16] will be up to scratch and we can put it out.

[00:02:19] Yeah.

[00:02:20] I've invested in a chap actually called we blog any car.

[00:02:24] All right, which is a nice little pun and he asked whether we were going to that and

[00:02:30] a possibility we may bump into Paul Cowland who was the chap that's.

[00:02:34] Oh yeah.

[00:02:35] Helen recommended as well.

[00:02:36] Yeah.

[00:02:37] So he may well be up there so his sort of scene.

[00:02:40] Yeah.

[00:02:41] So yeah, even grab so minutes with these sort of people.

[00:02:44] Yeah, yeah.

[00:02:45] And it's face to name isn't it as we found with bangers and cash when we start talking

[00:02:48] into people you start meeting them maybe kind of touch base with those guys again.

[00:02:51] Yeah.

[00:02:52] And go look, yeah we're still doing this.

[00:02:54] Yeah.

[00:02:55] Amazingly year on we've not run out of energy and yeah, when you come onto our show and

[00:02:59] talk to us.

[00:03:00] Yeah.

[00:03:01] So yeah, that would be good.

[00:03:02] What else do you need to know?

[00:03:03] They do a well they used to use to do a car show in Bromley I think it's called like

[00:03:08] the Bromley.

[00:03:09] The Bromley pageant.

[00:03:10] Yeah close it up isn't there because they you let and shut it down.

[00:03:13] Yeah.

[00:03:14] It's always been a my to do list to go up there because obviously it's not far from

[00:03:17] here, but that's not going to happen.

[00:03:20] Yeah, it's just the Tesla owners club have signed up for this year.

[00:03:23] Yeah.

[00:03:24] Yeah, it seems a bit extreme to cancel.

[00:03:27] It's only one day isn't it to take your car there so yeah, I suppose I guess they're

[00:03:32] just trying to make a point perhaps.

[00:03:34] Yeah, I guess either that or I don't know whether you had to pay to go or whatever, but

[00:03:38] it's obviously costs involved with putting that thing on like a venue hire or staff and

[00:03:43] security and yeah, adding £12.50 to the ticket prices.

[00:03:47] It's a bit of an ask isn't it?

[00:03:49] Yeah, I just need to relocate it's own then or hold it on Christmas day.

[00:03:53] Then they get it for very true, very true.

[00:03:56] Yeah, yeah, Mr Trick there.

[00:03:58] Yeah, yeah, have to put that idea forward Andy.

[00:04:00] Could be on the summit there.

[00:04:02] A Christmas day classic car show.

[00:04:05] Yeah, formally Bromley pageant and for you know in a year's time because there's so many

[00:04:09] car shows going on in central the U Les charge or triple or something on Christmas day

[00:04:13] only.

[00:04:14] Yeah, I'd be quite fun wouldn't it imagine if that happened and then yeah obviously a bunch

[00:04:18] of restaurants all opened up so you could just book into all these different sort of restaurants

[00:04:23] in sort of central London.

[00:04:25] The only people would be there are the people who are going for a car show.

[00:04:28] Exactly.

[00:04:29] Yeah, and yeah, you just park up bank holiday so potentially you've not got to buy a parking

[00:04:33] ticket.

[00:04:34] Yeah, I think that's probably the case.

[00:04:35] I'm sure they'd have a parking warden out wouldn't they naturally just yeah, yeah,

[00:04:39] in the Santa's outfit just to sort of lighten the light and the mood.

[00:04:44] You get a Christmas card on your windscreen and then you open it up and ever surprise and

[00:04:49] you open it up with fines or 120 if you don't pay within three days or something.

[00:04:55] Yeah, a wheel clamp with flashing LED bulbs and tinsel at the edge.

[00:05:03] And if you don't pay it he hitches it up to like five reindeer but no drag your car off

[00:05:07] to the compound.

[00:05:08] Yeah, that'd be good, wouldn't it?

[00:05:12] Wonderful.

[00:05:13] Okay, I didn't tell the story but there's a story that my eldest half brother got the

[00:05:18] same dad basically.

[00:05:21] He told a story years ago dad used to be in a job of repossessing stuff.

[00:05:25] Okay, including cars.

[00:05:27] Yeah, and he said once he repossessed a Porsche Targa, it probably would have been around

[00:05:32] the 70s.

[00:05:33] Yeah, yeah.

[00:05:34] And he said he picked him up from school in it and it was bright yellow.

[00:05:36] Oh nice.

[00:05:37] He said that it was a very vivid memory in his mind sitting in the back of this Targa

[00:05:41] with dad driving.

[00:05:43] And actually he said that inspired him to want to get a Porsche when he got older.

[00:05:47] Okay, we did actually have one for a short period and you were Porsche obviously.

[00:05:50] I'm fantastic.

[00:05:51] Yeah, that's cool isn't it?

[00:05:52] That's what we found with all of this.

[00:05:54] You start having these conversations and just little memories do sort of just unlock

[00:05:58] it.

[00:05:59] Yeah, yeah.

[00:06:00] I could like, cool.

[00:06:01] Oh no, I'll leave you to it.

[00:06:02] I will speak to you soon.

[00:06:03] Yeah.

[00:06:04] Cheers buddy.

[00:06:05] See you later.

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