Bonus Episode: Many guests! Plenty of your earliest car memories and reflection from the NEC Practical Classics Restoration Show

[00:00:00] Welcome to My Dads Car, Enjoy!

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

[00:00:17] nostalgia.

[00:00:18] And you know what?

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

[00:00:21] It can be your mum's, your grand, your parents, guardians or even her neighbours.

[00:00:26] If it made an impression, let's talk about it.

[00:00:28] Jon Recknell Hello, you're right.

[00:00:37] Yeah, not too bad, thanks.

[00:00:39] Super duper.

[00:00:40] That's the weak bed.

[00:00:42] Yeah, alright I think.

[00:00:45] Just a bit crazy, really, and tired.

[00:00:48] Probably all that travelling from Sunday, take it out of you.

[00:00:51] Alright, took me ages to get home as well.

[00:00:53] Yeah, I left up probably 10 to 4 and got home at 8 o'clock or something ridiculous like

[00:00:58] that.

[00:00:59] It was horrible.

[00:01:00] She's a crawl mistress.

[00:01:01] Yeah, 40 wasn't it?

[00:01:02] Yeah, yeah.

[00:01:03] Basically they closed the motorway, sent us off and then it was just a free-for-all.

[00:01:07] Fortunately I had ways running.

[00:01:09] So I kind of just followed that, shouted at me and I kind of ended up on some backstreet

[00:01:14] and...

[00:01:15] But yeah, threw me out at the next junction so we could join back onto the motorway.

[00:01:20] Good.

[00:01:21] And you're in a traffic jam, I mean just wish there was like a teleport button.

[00:01:24] Yeah.

[00:01:25] Yeah, get me out.

[00:01:26] I've just listened to the recording.

[00:01:28] It's really good.

[00:01:29] Yeah, it's come out okay isn't it?

[00:01:30] I think there's a little sort of segue between each one.

[00:01:34] Yeah.

[00:01:35] I think it works quite nicely with a little drum.

[00:01:37] Yeah, yeah.

[00:01:38] The stuck in like that.

[00:01:39] Yeah, it's either that or...

[00:01:41] Yeah, we kind of intro each one which I think is just going to be...

[00:01:45] It was about 20 clips I think we got.

[00:01:48] So...

[00:01:49] And I think I've put them all in there.

[00:01:51] Yeah.

[00:01:52] Some varying, obviously levels of quality.

[00:01:54] The last one, there's quite a lot of background noise.

[00:01:56] That last one I think is actually the first one we recorded.

[00:01:59] Right.

[00:02:00] And we were quite near the stage weren't we where they were talking so...

[00:02:02] Yeah.

[00:02:03] Yeah it was just the luck of the draw whether we were in a place where it was noisy or not noisy

[00:02:08] and I imagine how far they put the microphone into their mouth or not but...

[00:02:12] Yeah exactly.

[00:02:13] They're all listenable and I think as when I upload them it'll sort of edit them a bit further

[00:02:17] it'll polish them a little bit.

[00:02:19] So yeah, what did you think of the show?

[00:02:21] Yeah it's really good.

[00:02:22] It was I think I said to you on the day all this stuff there...

[00:02:26] If I'm going to go to a car show that's kind of the sort of stuff I want to be seeing

[00:02:30] really.

[00:02:31] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:02:32] A nice mixture of evolved stuff really.

[00:02:35] But obviously you know, that's what it says in the tinnus and practical classics rather

[00:02:39] than stuff that's...

[00:02:41] We didn't sort of stumble across I don't think Ferrari's and Lamborghinis it wasn't

[00:02:44] that sort of show.

[00:02:45] Yeah, exactly.

[00:02:46] But yeah plenty of Fords.

[00:02:50] I don't think I saw a BX.

[00:02:51] Yeah, you're right actually.

[00:02:52] No.

[00:02:53] I think somehow they eluded us.

[00:02:56] Yeah.

[00:02:57] Twice obviously I saw that white Citroen XM once on the way in and then just massively

[00:03:00] coincidentally.

[00:03:01] Yeah.

[00:03:02] In almost the same place it was driving out the car park.

[00:03:05] Hunting you.

[00:03:06] Hunting me but...

[00:03:07] No, no BX is.

[00:03:09] What did you think about the show in general?

[00:03:11] Yeah, I enjoyed it.

[00:03:12] We were only there for the day weren't we?

[00:03:14] And I think it'd probably be quite fun to be there for I guess a weekend you could

[00:03:18] moot around especially if you've got a car on display or something.

[00:03:20] Yeah.

[00:03:21] Moot around have a chat with people.

[00:03:22] Yeah.

[00:03:23] Very easy to kind of see someone once and you know, I'll catch up with you in a bit

[00:03:27] and then you don't because...

[00:03:28] You never see them.

[00:03:29] Yeah.

[00:03:30] That's three or four holes and yeah, you just don't see them again.

[00:03:33] Obviously we managed to get media past which was great so we kind of sort of had a

[00:03:37] little bit of a bolt hole didn't we?

[00:03:39] Complementary coffee for yourself few free biscuits.

[00:03:41] Two free Nescafe.

[00:03:42] Yeah.

[00:03:43] A few biscuits.

[00:03:44] Long way to go for a free coffee but...

[00:03:46] Yeah.

[00:03:47] So yeah, we had that obviously we had a bit of chat with the guys in there.

[00:03:51] So yeah, we met some kind of new people didn't we caught up with Paul Cowell and we met

[00:03:57] him in person didn't we after Helen had sort of tipped us off and said we should have

[00:04:01] a chat with him.

[00:04:03] And that was sort of scheduled to go ahead but I think obviously being a famous face he

[00:04:07] was getting Paul Pillar to post.

[00:04:08] Yeah.

[00:04:09] So we managed to capture that interview then but yeah, that's hopefully coming up in

[00:04:14] the future so that'll be good.

[00:04:15] Yeah definitely.

[00:04:16] Um, bumped into...

[00:04:18] I think it's Sheldon from Dreamcarf Fixers.

[00:04:21] So yeah nice to see him.

[00:04:23] Yeah, he was one of the chaps who again, famous face and we kind of missed him.

[00:04:28] Well saw him once and then yeah, I'll see you when...

[00:04:30] Yeah.

[00:04:31] Bumped into Lewis from Tacona.

[00:04:33] We did.

[00:04:34] Yeah.

[00:04:35] And who else do we see?

[00:04:36] Becker from the passenger seat podcast that we had in?

[00:04:38] Series one I think.

[00:04:39] Yeah.

[00:04:40] First time I think for you meeting her, I think it was.

[00:04:43] Yeah.

[00:04:44] And then we managed to grab her friend who's something to do with the Rolls Royce owners

[00:04:47] club who you're here in the clips.

[00:04:49] Yeah, yeah.

[00:04:50] I think as shows go in terms of us going to a show that that was a good one for us to

[00:04:55] take off just because of the sort of attendees you've got there because we spoke to numerous

[00:05:00] people didn't we that said my dad had one of these and it's my dad's fault that or whoever

[00:05:05] you know, influences got them into stuff and the way they go.

[00:05:10] Yeah, I think so it was some we had a couple of people who'd actually heard of us.

[00:05:13] I know.

[00:05:14] Yeah, yeah.

[00:05:15] Which was kind of wonderful isn't it?

[00:05:16] It's a wrap my eyes.

[00:05:17] Yeah.

[00:05:18] Sign a few autographs.

[00:05:20] See how that's good.

[00:05:22] And yeah, I really enjoyed hearing all though.

[00:05:25] Obviously when we do the big episodes and kind of the main episodes, I enjoy hearing all

[00:05:29] those stories.

[00:05:30] So just to have kind of a rapid fire almost off all of those and listening back to them

[00:05:34] just yeah, I guess it does get your head wearing doesn't you?

[00:05:38] You do want to know more but when we were recording them on the day, you have to stop yourself

[00:05:42] asking the next question, the next question because actually you could just be stood there

[00:05:45] for half an hour.

[00:05:46] Yeah.

[00:05:47] With one person sort of the aim of the game was to get a sort of a real mix cross section

[00:05:52] of people on the mic talking about their memories and most people understood it.

[00:05:57] Amusingly actually I am wants you to head off I could sort of loitered with intent with

[00:06:01] that and stood and ended up kind of giving him a card.

[00:06:05] And I said to him, I do a podcast called My Dad's Car we talk about kind of memories

[00:06:09] and everything.

[00:06:10] And then he went into the beginnings of a story about his dad's car but from a period

[00:06:15] of time probably when he was late teenage and dating right.

[00:06:18] Okay.

[00:06:19] And I was like no, no, no, it's not that type of My Dad's car.

[00:06:21] Yeah.

[00:06:22] You got up to it.

[00:06:23] We don't need someone more than know that but that's not what this one.

[00:06:26] My Dad's back seat.

[00:06:28] Yeah.

[00:06:29] That's another franchise spin off there.

[00:06:32] That's not what this one's about.

[00:06:34] So yeah, who knows?

[00:06:36] He was obviously running around like a lunatic.

[00:06:38] Yeah.

[00:06:39] Yeah.

[00:06:40] Kind of handing out prizes and talking on stages and things.

[00:06:43] But yeah, one day maybe you could kind of tell where he was.

[00:06:47] Couldn't you in the venue because it was sort of a swarm of people around him.

[00:06:51] Yeah.

[00:06:52] A big crowd around him.

[00:06:53] Yeah.

[00:06:54] So yeah, sadly I guess because I didn't sort of stalk him I didn't get that on film

[00:07:00] or a microphone but probably because of that he spoke to me rather than just what you

[00:07:04] do in loitering around with.

[00:07:06] Yeah, exactly.

[00:07:07] Candidly get photos of me.

[00:07:09] So yeah, that was cool.

[00:07:11] Yeah, seeing him.

[00:07:12] I've met him once before and had dealings with him through work so yeah, really nice guy

[00:07:16] out.

[00:07:17] No, there's definitely, there's a handful of people who are listening back to recording

[00:07:21] just sort of thought, oh, they would actually make it genuinely good.

[00:07:24] Get them on for the full hour job, wouldn't they?

[00:07:26] There's some the beginnings of quite a lot of stories and tales I think.

[00:07:30] There was the guy who wasn't there with the Volvo, who was who was a real fluke.

[00:07:34] We kind of walked past it.

[00:07:35] I think back on the way to the medium room, didn't we?

[00:07:37] He spotted my t-shirt and kind of said, yeah, that's cool.

[00:07:40] A little bit like that.

[00:07:41] Yeah.

[00:07:42] And just on the off chance we asked him if he'd got any stories.

[00:07:45] And yeah, turns out he's driving a Volvo because he's parents did.

[00:07:50] Yeah.

[00:07:51] The lady from Northern Ireland with the Daimler Dart was cool, wasn't she?

[00:07:54] Yeah.

[00:07:55] Reluctant at first.

[00:07:56] Yeah, we didn't know whether we were going to get that one but yeah, she had a few stories

[00:08:00] to tell us about that car that belonged to her father and then yeah, she's now sort

[00:08:04] of showing it off having had it all restored.

[00:08:06] It looked gorgeous, really nice.

[00:08:08] Yeah, did look really good.

[00:08:09] It was dark blue colour, wasn't it?

[00:08:11] And she drove it to the show as well, but it wasn't trailered, it was driven.

[00:08:14] Yeah, that's what you want to hear, isn't it?

[00:08:15] Yeah.

[00:08:16] I think most of the stuff there, there wasn't anyone really

[00:08:19] trailering, was there?

[00:08:20] It was all, well, it's the impression I got.

[00:08:22] The stuff was being used, maybe with the exception of a few bits and pieces but.

[00:08:25] Yeah, there was probably a few being trailered and I guess the other ones which would have

[00:08:29] been traded with a barn finder which were kind of complete wrecks, weren't they?

[00:08:32] Yeah, it's funny.

[00:08:33] You said I saw when I got home, Derek Drinkwater had been in there at some point on the weekend.

[00:08:39] I think he had that big American thing.

[00:08:41] Yeah, I think it won an award.

[00:08:43] Yeah.

[00:08:44] You must have some sort of trifle room at home, he gets quite fair share of awards, isn't

[00:08:48] he, Derek?

[00:08:49] Yeah, and that was, I guess like a big massive Ford or saloon.

[00:08:53] It was like the length of two volvos, wasn't it?

[00:08:55] It was huge.

[00:08:56] Yeah, it was.

[00:08:57] But someone had moved the roof forward, hadn't they?

[00:09:00] And basically created sort of a bit of a DIY pickup truck out of it.

[00:09:05] Yeah, it was a mess to be sure.

[00:09:07] It was, yeah.

[00:09:08] Well, I hope probably won't be offended by it's saying that but it wasn't a bit of a mess.

[00:09:13] Is struggling test guys, wouldn't you with that one, I think?

[00:09:15] Yeah, you need four spaces.

[00:09:17] You mean to be fine for sort of carrying 250 shopping bags?

[00:09:21] Yeah, as much coal from the petrol for court as you possibly could in a back at there.

[00:09:24] Yeah.

[00:09:25] Yeah, it needed some love and I'm sure kind of the conversion was fairly hasty.

[00:09:29] Yeah, not a reflection on his workmanship, I'm sure.

[00:09:31] I don't think he's even touched with a spanner just probably pulled it out of a barn somewhere.

[00:09:35] Yeah, exactly.

[00:09:36] But yeah, there was some real wrecks, wasn't there?

[00:09:38] Yeah, that's quite charming really.

[00:09:40] You kind of see that stuff and potentially someone will rescue it or they'll, maybe they

[00:09:44] wrap them all back up again and then just bring them out to another show.

[00:09:48] It's exactly the same way someone with like a hundred grand show car would.

[00:09:52] They've got kind of a wrecked Morris Milo that's completely covered in moss and whatever.

[00:09:56] Just a new collection of leaves from autumn.

[00:09:59] Yeah, they just wrap it up, drive it home in a covered trailer, put it in the garage

[00:10:04] to get a bit worse and then bring it back next to you with a hope that it will be bad

[00:10:07] enough to win an award.

[00:10:08] Yeah, maybe I could do some sort of collaboration and offer some of my sucked up leaves from my

[00:10:14] day job and see if they would have.

[00:10:16] Yeah, grass cuttings.

[00:10:17] Use them for you.

[00:10:19] I got this collection of mouse droppings that I rescued from someone's cellar while I was

[00:10:24] doing a clear ad job and what about just a job?

[00:10:26] Yeah, I think they've got a 60s aroma to them.

[00:10:30] Yeah.

[00:10:31] So yeah, that was the NEC, a practical classic show which was great fun.

[00:10:36] Thank you very much for having us, practical classics.

[00:10:38] Thank you very much to everyone who came on and spoke to us.

[00:10:41] And yeah, I guess we should play this run of interviews for you all to listen to.

[00:10:46] Hopefully you'll enjoy them as much as we enjoyed recording them.

[00:10:49] Yeah.

[00:10:50] And I suppose one thing to add is this is the first sort of live outing that we've had,

[00:10:55] isn't it, with this new equipment?

[00:10:57] So if it is a bit clunky at times then after it's skews.

[00:11:01] But I think it's pretty good.

[00:11:03] Yeah, go easy on us.

[00:11:04] That is very true.

[00:11:05] See, we've been, yeah, we've run kind of the buy us a coffee so for people who enjoy

[00:11:09] the podcast, I felt they've got some value out of it.

[00:11:12] You're able to donate a little bit of money towards us a bit like you throw a coin in

[00:11:16] a busker's hat and yeah, with kind of the proceeds from that and denying our families

[00:11:22] food and days out we've managed to, we've managed to scratch together enough funds to have

[00:11:27] some machinery to go out on the road.

[00:11:30] So yeah, it was a debut for the machine but it seems to have done it quite well.

[00:11:35] There is a little bit of audio bleed between kind of microphones but yeah, I think that

[00:11:39] will come with when we get a bit more money we'll buy some better microphones.

[00:11:43] But yeah, for the time being it records voices and that's the main thing really.

[00:11:47] My name's Alex.

[00:11:49] Alex Phillips, I'm here this weekend with my friends Allegro's State and I'm doing a few

[00:11:54] little jobs for him on it.

[00:11:56] Excellent.

[00:11:57] So let's jump straight in.

[00:11:58] What's your earliest car memory?

[00:11:59] Oh, well funny enough, my earliest car memory was with my mum and her or a student

[00:12:03] girl and I remember being so small, I could fit under the sort of wheel arch shape of the

[00:12:09] rear back door or the rear door should I say.

[00:12:12] I remember opening it to get things out and I'd sort of be under the arch of the door

[00:12:18] and yeah that's sort of my earliest memory of being with the Allegro, that's why I like

[00:12:22] them so much.

[00:12:23] Freddie, what car was it?

[00:12:24] It was probably yellow.

[00:12:26] My one's bright orange but and this one I'm stood next to that you can't see is very

[00:12:31] very brown.

[00:12:32] So I assume you obviously got into Allegro's because of your mother.

[00:12:36] Yeah, sentimental reasons really.

[00:12:38] Yeah, just I was looking for a second classic car and I was on eBay and this bright orange

[00:12:45] Allegro just shone out to me and reminded me of my mum and me being little sitting in

[00:12:50] it and she actually had a brown estate later on in my life but the yellow one sticks out

[00:12:56] to me the most because I'd say it looked huge to me because I was so small.

[00:13:00] Yeah and as it lived up to the memories.

[00:13:02] Yeah, yeah my car's a bit earlier than hers and it's got vinyl seats, hers were cloth

[00:13:07] but I really don't want to sell it because yeah it's just got so many memories because

[00:13:12] it's got my own memories with it now.

[00:13:14] Of course.

[00:13:15] Throwing up with my earlier years.

[00:13:17] Brilliant, excellent thank you very much.

[00:13:20] That's all right nice to talk to you.

[00:13:22] Hi I'm Jim McGill.

[00:13:24] I am from the GCCG which is a gay classic car group and I'm also on Twitter as the also.

[00:13:29] Thanks so nice to meet you Jim.

[00:13:31] So let's jump straight in what's your earliest car memory?

[00:13:34] earliest car memory is obviously until by my accent I'm not particularly local and from

[00:13:38] Belfast and I had an experience when I was very very young where my this is talking about

[00:13:45] the troubles in Northern Ireland so it's a little bit dark but it's one of those things

[00:13:49] where you suddenly realise that later life your parents are very human so lots of civil

[00:13:56] servants in Belfast.

[00:13:58] One of our distant relatives was you know in a little bit of difficulty the shankle

[00:14:03] on the falls just to have all these streets that run between them and it was a very mixed

[00:14:07] area but when the troubles started obviously there was a lot of conflict and people had

[00:14:11] to make quite sudden moves got a little bit like balls there some of them people get

[00:14:15] burned out of each other so I told you this gets dark really quickly.

[00:14:19] And I remember my dad had a Ford Cortena and I was put in the back of the Cortena and

[00:14:25] taken up to this and like I'm looking like the window and it's just like hoses on fire

[00:14:31] horses and cards people loading stuff onto the back of you know cold trucks like furniture

[00:14:37] and I go why am I here and it's only in later life I kind of realised my dad did that

[00:14:42] because they wouldn't burn out his Ford Cortena with a child in it and that's the point

[00:14:47] you realise hmm I'd probably have done the same and that's my dad and car story.

[00:14:53] What's your name sir? My name is Stuart and where are you from?

[00:14:57] I live in Dudley West Midland and who are you here with?

[00:15:00] So we are motor clan limited so we are a British classic car parts supplier.

[00:15:05] They're still Birmingham. Cool cool and what's your earliest car memory?

[00:15:09] My earliest car memory would have to be getting in my dad's Mark IV, Escort, Fordore

[00:15:18] and taking road trips up to Norf Wales with the Eagles playing on cassette.

[00:15:23] A favourite song? Wow it's got a really obvious one isn't it? Hotel California.

[00:15:27] Yeah. Lion eyes are also a favourite. Cool. Any memorable smells from the car?

[00:15:33] Just 80s, 80s car smell. Fantastic. Thank you very much.

[00:15:38] No worries.

[00:15:40] So we are joined by Leslie who has got this gorgeous Dame LaDarte. Do you want to tell

[00:15:45] us a little bit about it Leslie?

[00:15:47] So my father bought the car in 1973 and I was seven and apparently I absolutely loved it

[00:15:53] from the beginning so straight away he said right that's your car.

[00:15:58] When I was 18 he told me and said Leslie somebody wants to buy your car do you want to sell

[00:16:03] it?

[00:16:04] And I said well unless you need the money no, so he did it so it's been mine ever since.

[00:16:10] And here is a new restored it? Yes we restored it in 2016 took two years.

[00:16:16] What's your radius car maybe?

[00:16:18] My earliest car memory in this car is so we lived in Belfast but my father was from Bush Mills

[00:16:24] in the North Coast of Northern Ireland and we used to travel up every weekend to Bush Mills

[00:16:29] and I had to sit in the back seat. Which isn't very big?

[00:16:33] No there really isn't one. And back in the 70s in the troubles in Northern Ireland there

[00:16:38] were BCPE's checkpoints every few miles so it was a long journey.

[00:16:43] Thank you very much.

[00:16:44] You're very welcome.

[00:16:45] So we're here with Paul from the Opel Mancer owners club so let's just jump straight

[00:16:51] in Paul what's your earliest car memory?

[00:16:53] So earliest car memory I'm lucky I've got it captured in photographic format. It's me

[00:16:59] pictured on the the bonnet of my dad's HA Viva when I was probably I don't know a baby

[00:17:07] in arm still I would like to say how odd I was and I can vaguely remember the car I can

[00:17:11] remember sitting in the back and climbing into the rear parcel shelf and going to sleep

[00:17:16] on journeys.

[00:17:17] We've got away with that now dude.

[00:17:18] We might get away a bit once.

[00:17:20] Yeah exactly yeah.

[00:17:21] Now we were a voxel family. We went through various sort of voxels from Viva's to early

[00:17:27] modern Cavaliers and Chivets and I guess that's how I ended up getting into the Opel Mancer.

[00:17:33] My name's Graham I today I bought a Volvo State which is the same as the one my parents

[00:17:38] bought back in the 70s.

[00:17:40] Early as calm memory really is of Mum and Dad's Renault 10.

[00:17:45] Parents are obviously quite adventurous because in 1968 we drove over to Portugal in a Renault

[00:17:51] 10 camped all the way because dad had a maid not who lived in Portugal and he hadn't seen

[00:17:56] her for many many years so we drove to Portugal which people just didn't do in the 1960s but

[00:18:02] the RAC then could provide you with a route on paper obviously and it was literally drive

[00:18:09] through France, get to Ruan and turn left or right whichever it was.

[00:18:13] So that's probably my earliest car memory yeah a Renault 10.

[00:18:16] Quite unusual to go for something French in the 60s as well.

[00:18:19] It was when Dad was first looking at cars he told me looked at a Ford Anglia and a Renault

[00:18:25] Ophine and he said he just didn't like the Anglia so he bought a Renault Ophine instead

[00:18:31] so he went French then he had a Renault 10, a Renault 12 and that wouldn't handle the

[00:18:36] caravan very well so we bought the Volvo 145 which is the car I've now got all the same

[00:18:42] year and model as the one that they bought in the 1970s.

[00:18:45] There we go my earliest memories perfect.

[00:18:47] Thanks very much thank you.

[00:18:49] My name's Lydia Chapman I am head of marketing at the Rolls-Rose and Bentley enthusiast club.

[00:18:55] We are here at the NEC as part of the classic restoration show with the car that won the Rolls-Rose

[00:19:02] and Fusie S Club Concord Delegance Award, the Douglas Wood Trophy last year for personal

[00:19:08] restoration.

[00:19:09] So that's this car here which is a 1934, 2025 and we've also got Nigel Sandal and his team

[00:19:15] on our stand to work at the En Sandal garage in London and they have brought with them

[00:19:21] a Bentley Concentral and a cup of engines as well.

[00:19:24] Brilliant, yeah and for the benefit of the tape they're currently sat on their hands

[00:19:27] and these filling with a W12 engine on the floor making the car fit quite oily so that's

[00:19:33] very good.

[00:19:34] So let's jump straight in what's your earliest car memory?

[00:19:38] So my earliest car memory is being a child in the backseat of a car and I believe we were

[00:19:44] in America couldn't begin to tell you what the car was but I remember being with my mum

[00:19:49] and dad and we were travelling across the States and we were playing a game where I would

[00:19:54] ask them whether my eyes were open or closed and they would guess and they were always wrong

[00:19:59] so that's why that's my earliest car memory.

[00:20:03] Brilliant, and is there any sort of memories of your parents' cars that sticking your heads?

[00:20:08] My dad had a very early high-end I too song and it was in a really horrible burgundy colour

[00:20:17] and I remember I went to quite a nice school and all of my friends' parents were driving

[00:20:23] out these and you know really cool bent leaves and really nice cars and there was always

[00:20:27] a sense of embarrassment as my dad came to pick me up in this horrible high-end I in its

[00:20:32] awful burgundy colour so that's probably the worst memory I have of their cars.

[00:20:38] They didn't really ever have anything particularly nice so my interest has really come through

[00:20:43] working with the club and I've been with the Rolls Royce and Pizzes just a couple of

[00:20:47] years now and I've probably spent more time in bent leaves and Rolls Royces in the last

[00:20:51] year than I have in my life put together but made some amazing memories this year with

[00:20:57] the club you know driving into Hampton Court Concours in a brand new Rolls Royce ghost having

[00:21:02] it back massage from the passenger seat because that apparently is an option and being picked

[00:21:08] up by one of our members in a silver cloud and driven in as well so yeah it's been a really

[00:21:13] amazing year of learning to love classic cars really.

[00:21:16] Okay we've bumped into Ed he lives up the road from me and sells classic cars I might

[00:21:22] not live up the road but you worked.

[00:21:24] What's near enough?

[00:21:25] Ed what's your earliest car memory?

[00:21:28] earliest car memory and my childhood was a little bit of an unusual one with cars because

[00:21:32] my father he used to import a lot of the Japanese cars such as Skyline Supras I'll say the first

[00:21:40] memory was stood in his unit looking on the ramp with a black Pulsar GTI order and that's

[00:21:46] when I was sort of fell in love with cars it was just an incredible car and about 20 years

[00:21:52] after that I managed to purchase one.

[00:21:54] Did it live up to expectation?

[00:21:55] Way better than I thought everything could it was an incredible car everything about it

[00:22:00] was how I remembered and it was just one of those things where it was just a nice full

[00:22:04] circle moment to own one of those again.

[00:22:07] Awesome thank you very much.

[00:22:08] Yeah so I came here with my father my name is Hannah the one behind me obviously for my

[00:22:15] truck I've been up and down the country with car shows for my father over the last 20

[00:22:21] odd years because I am still quite young myself and the earliest one I can remember was going

[00:22:28] out in a voxel limousine up to Scotland on the Centenary run I have even been on the front

[00:22:34] page of a magazine with me sat on the bonnet of this car and we still have the magazine

[00:22:39] even today.

[00:22:40] Was it your dad's limousine?

[00:22:42] Yes it was.

[00:22:43] What colour?

[00:22:44] It was a lovely perlish grey white.

[00:22:47] Okay nice so you've got here for the benefit of the tape is that a voxel frontera?

[00:22:52] Frontera isn't it yeah excellent so how come you've got what got you into fronteras?

[00:22:57] Well when I was growing up my father had a voxel Monterey and I loved that growing up

[00:23:02] lovely seven seat of vehicle times changed and we had to get a different car it was getting

[00:23:08] it was too big for us to store originally at the house.

[00:23:12] And as I grew up I had a couple of other little voxels about courses I even ended up with

[00:23:17] a voxel I could be too and I thought do you know what bigger car I needed for a tow in

[00:23:21] my motorbikes I needed to tow in everyday stuff and I thought right I'll try and find

[00:23:25] a Monterey I couldn't find a Monterey so I thought okay I'll go with it, show them

[00:23:29] the sister frontera and they happened to cross on this one after two years of looking.

[00:23:34] Good stuff perfect fantastic thanks very much cheers.

[00:23:38] My name's Adam I work for Longstone Tays we're in Valtteri South Yorkshire and yeah good

[00:23:45] stuff you've been here all weekend I should.

[00:23:47] I haven't just lost two today a couple of other people yesterday and the day before but

[00:23:52] yes we've been alright so far today not too bad.

[00:23:54] So let's just jump straight in and watch your earliest car memory.

[00:23:58] My dad is a driving instructor I'm 33 so he yeah it's not that old but he had a purple

[00:24:04] voxel course of B we used to drive around him because that was his teaching car.

[00:24:09] That's class A driving instructor material that is.

[00:24:13] That's yeah top quality and then Nissan Micros after that so yeah top quality cars.

[00:24:18] Taking all the driving instructor bucket list cars there with those two.

[00:24:22] Yeah everything was like a one liter or a 1.2 with all plates on it permanently so yeah.

[00:24:28] So presumably he taught you to drive.

[00:24:30] You did teach me to drive yeah and now I didn't pass first time either.

[00:24:33] I'm forgivable.

[00:24:34] Not a good advert for the company.

[00:24:39] No still going now actually but yes yeah it's a good laugh.

[00:24:44] So if you've got any sort of any cars that your dad or anyone you grown up that you kind

[00:24:49] of enjoyed seeing or would like to have when you get old.

[00:24:52] Yeah my great granddad had a white cimeter so yeah remember him that and that was only tiny

[00:24:57] and then we had all sorts of stuff.

[00:24:59] Boxel Cavaliers stuff like that.

[00:25:01] Yeah.

[00:25:02] Cook cars to me but then done how old you are in generation or spouse.

[00:25:06] Yeah yeah there's a few here today isn't it I think.

[00:25:08] Yeah yeah boxel stands over there and I'm going to go and buy a boxel nova this week.

[00:25:13] You are very good excellent.

[00:25:15] Yeah each to the rim but that's what I like.

[00:25:18] That's a nice stuff thanks very much.

[00:25:20] No problem.

[00:25:21] Hi I'm Pete from California in classics and you're here with your car my gear.

[00:25:25] Yup and what's your earliest car memory?

[00:25:28] earliest car memory is probably my stepdad having a Ford cult classic I think.

[00:25:36] Cool and what sort of ear is the Ford cult that was probably early 70s something like

[00:25:41] that the car was a bit older than that it just reminded me of the Batmobile.

[00:25:47] Is it just you in the car or you got siblings of?

[00:25:50] At the time it would have been me and my mum.

[00:25:52] That's cool thank you very much.

[00:25:54] No worries.

[00:25:55] So we are joined by Dale from the hillman in club.

[00:25:59] Hello Dale.

[00:26:00] Hi yeah.

[00:26:01] Do you want to tell us what your earliest car meant?

[00:26:03] Right so back in the 80s this was a car used by well for every day car it was an orange

[00:26:12] still I tell we had various imps throughout the years and we did never like them and

[00:26:19] it used to work for a car dealer and they were stuck for a car and this incoming part

[00:26:24] X and it's about 70 pound for it and got it on the road and thought it's been a fun

[00:26:31] this so that's where it all started back in mid 80s and then gradually brought up with

[00:26:36] them all throughout my life.

[00:26:37] Fantastic so it's all your dad's fault?

[00:26:39] Yeah all my dad's fault yeah this is why me today because when we dad?

[00:26:42] Fantastic thank you very much.

[00:26:44] Thank you.

[00:26:45] On way with my son this is my son's car Mark on MG mixture and this was his first car

[00:26:54] and he was driving it around quite happily and it was a tidy car however little few scouts

[00:27:02] were starting to appear and then it was too good a car to let go so then he took one

[00:27:09] that off took another another off and then after a few months every nut and bolt was

[00:27:14] taken off it and it was too a bear shell.

[00:27:18] Fortunes for this particular car it didn't need require any welding it's 1984 and it's

[00:27:26] stood for four years I've been driven for 40 years and it's got just what I say now

[00:27:30] but it was one tiny passionately it's got any self-reliant a metro is quite unique

[00:27:34] I would suggest and yet it's been coming in for the past seven years now it's been on

[00:27:41] the road again Metro's after the first MLC they were firing MOTs and seven years I need

[00:27:48] to still pass the MLC every time it's excellent so I didn't catch your name.

[00:27:53] I'm Martin my son he's been.

[00:27:56] So yes for the benefit of the tape Martin we just walked past he was under the bonnet

[00:28:00] of this MG it's his son's car so what we normally do on this podcast is to start

[00:28:06] us what's your earliest car memory?

[00:28:08] My early sick car memory is my dad's Mark 1, 14, 681 DDA.

[00:28:14] Now why remember that I've got several motorbikes I don't know any registration of motorbikes

[00:28:20] but 681 DDA was a Mark 1, 14, two door green and then from that he went to a Mark

[00:28:30] 3-coldsina and just the thought was a sick minute now I feel troubled sick.

[00:28:35] Oh really?

[00:28:36] Is that sick at the back of that?

[00:28:37] Sifting the back soft suspension while owing around.

[00:28:40] Is he a Ford man then you're a Ford man?

[00:28:43] I think we just let the go to cars, you know what we're working man could afford in

[00:28:50] those days each time we're bought second hand.

[00:28:53] Yeah and then we're just going to see Mark, Mark 3-coldsina is there I can just imagine

[00:29:01] sick in the back with an AI book, the yellow AI book, the smell of the AI book and I'm

[00:29:08] feeling nauseous.

[00:29:09] Oh yeah, we're stopping talking about that before seeing it and moving on from that.

[00:29:15] Was it just your dad that drive?

[00:29:17] Yeah my mom again working class and she used to go to work on a little Honda.

[00:29:23] C90 and then because as you go now all my brothers said well why don't you have a 3 wheel

[00:29:30] reliant and eventually we talked to her in again that reliant and I think change them

[00:29:36] with the laws and she had to pass the driving test then.

[00:29:40] But she went everywhere in the little 3 wheel, a little pasty pig we always have a

[00:29:46] go and that was the mom's first adventure into driving.

[00:29:50] But predominantly he was mad at you to drive in the Honda's etc.

[00:29:54] Fantastic, that's brilliant.

[00:29:57] Hi my name is Chris Hume I'm from Stockport part of the independent Porsche I do just club

[00:30:03] here with a few Porsche's today.

[00:30:05] Thanks Chris nice to see you.

[00:30:07] Yeah so what's your earliest car memory?

[00:30:10] I think my earliest car memory is my dad's Simka heading to Holidays in Abysok and

[00:30:16] breaking down on a fairly regular basis heading there and back.

[00:30:20] What kind of was it?

[00:30:22] Metallic blue, it looked great but maybe didn't go great.

[00:30:26] And how old would you have been on those sort of first memories?

[00:30:30] Six, seven maybe something like that early holidays to Abysok and year after year from

[00:30:36] there.

[00:30:37] Was it your dad that did the driving?

[00:30:38] My dad did the driving my mom tried to keep us quiet in the back and occupied with games

[00:30:42] and things and sitting at the side of the road with a picnic whilst we were waiting for

[00:30:45] recovery trucks.

[00:30:46] Nice.

[00:30:47] Would you say your dad's potentially responsible for getting you into cars or is there something

[00:30:51] else that's sort of triggered that?

[00:30:53] No I think it's a teenage years of 18, 19, mm it makes weekends wrestling gearboxes off

[00:31:00] perjure 205s.

[00:31:01] Playing about with four to Ryan's and all that kind of thing and getting back into it now

[00:31:06] it's just that fun that you can play about with the car.

[00:31:10] You all not some bolts at the end of the day no matter what the badges that's on them.

[00:31:14] Yeah, nice.

[00:31:15] Cool so what's your name and what are you doing here this weekend?

[00:31:19] My name is Sham Shab but everybody knows me as Sham Lord Locksery we run the autonomous

[00:31:24] group and many other groups as well and what we're all about is we started because of

[00:31:32] COVID to get people back out again and I use the car community and motorbike communities

[00:31:39] to raise funds for charities and individuals in need.

[00:31:42] Excellent.

[00:31:43] So just jump in straight in what's your earliest car memory?

[00:31:46] We started off with the Austin 1100, we had a shop in Bedford so we had the Austin 1100

[00:31:54] as they run about and my dad had a four transit because of good steering to pick up and

[00:32:01] everything else so that's what it was and then we ended up also buying a more three

[00:32:08] quarter-tina so remember a state it was orange but yeah good fond memories in that sense

[00:32:14] so yeah good stuff.

[00:32:16] Thanks very much.

[00:32:18] So we have made it over to the McGuire stand and I'm joined by.

[00:32:21] Grant?

[00:32:22] Cool and Grant what's your earliest car memory?

[00:32:25] My earliest car memory is my dad's Renault 5 Turbo.

[00:32:30] The reason that he sticks in my head is because I remember it's at the end of the drive after

[00:32:36] it had come off of a trailer because it had broken down.

[00:32:38] Yeah I think that's a pretty standard thing for those isn't it?

[00:32:41] So you don't record ever going in it?

[00:32:43] No, no I'm pretty sure the earliest car memory is it being sat there and I'm pretty

[00:32:47] sure it disappeared shortly after that.

[00:32:49] Okay thank you very much.

[00:32:50] Not a problem.

[00:32:51] Hello there so I'm Jack Jesse, I'm the founder and owner of the Young Retro Motor Club.

[00:32:57] Our website is yrmc.co.uk and we've been running club now for 10 years, been a long

[00:33:04] long.

[00:33:05] Great to ask you all.

[00:33:06] Good stuff.

[00:33:07] Thanks Jack.

[00:33:08] So what's your earliest car memory?

[00:33:09] So my earliest car memory has to be, my father was very interested in heelmanims so this

[00:33:15] was probably going back to the early 2000s now getting it in a, probably as a toddler that's

[00:33:21] what I mean as far back as I can remember.

[00:33:23] I mean growing up as a kid I was always given all should I say for.

[00:33:26] So like you car toys and bike machines, hot wheels, that's what that's about of course

[00:33:32] but yeah so many heelmanims on the drive.

[00:33:35] I mean when they're back by never scrapped that thing, it's just not in I-8 to 2000 and

[00:33:39] I was living in Bournemouth at the time.

[00:33:41] They had a pretty big drive, you know a little bungalow with a big drive, I don't think.

[00:33:44] And yeah heelmanim had some instant lettuce, you know a small one of sport like that

[00:33:50] of the big.

[00:33:51] So all sorts of things are piece of the aden, spare cars for as one car that you can run

[00:33:55] in all the time.

[00:33:56] But my earliest memory has to be just you know the smell of these cars, the vinyl, the

[00:34:01] stuff, the oil that everything that you can relate to kind of early, 60-50 cars are

[00:34:06] so well up on your 70's as well, British lady stuff I get.

[00:34:10] And but I was born in my earliest memory but ever since then I've loved every one from

[00:34:14] Japanese cars and that's not so British lady.

[00:34:18] But at the moment I have the key of pride which is just over there.

[00:34:21] So that's where we don't drive at the moment.

[00:34:23] The young British motor club is the key forces Moses.

[00:34:26] It's actually a few young people to drive the cars to use them.

[00:34:31] But yeah it's been great, my classic cars.

[00:34:34] Thanks, Derek.

[00:34:35] You're really good.

[00:34:36] Cheers.

[00:34:37] Okay we are here with Alex from the 94 A and his club.

[00:34:40] Hello Alex.

[00:34:41] Hi, good afternoon.

[00:34:42] What's your earliest come, Henry?

[00:34:44] Well I can remember my mum and stepdad had various old cars because they didn't like

[00:34:48] having new cars anyway and they had an Opel Manta A. Oh yes in faded cream yellow with black

[00:34:54] vinyl interior.

[00:34:55] And that was also the first car I ever experienced doing a real wheel drive drift.

[00:35:00] A stepdad wanted to show me what that was all about.

[00:35:03] We did that round our housing estate but the particular form of memories I have of

[00:35:07] that car because it had no working sound system and me probably aged 10 or something like

[00:35:12] that, had to operate the portable tape player on the back seat of the car so the Sony

[00:35:18] ghetto blaster and I was in control of the music.

[00:35:22] And what were you listening to?

[00:35:23] Or probably Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon.

[00:35:27] Maybe some 80s shred guitar like Joe Satriani because there are things that were listened

[00:35:32] to in my house.

[00:35:33] My music influence is another story.

[00:35:35] Fantastic.

[00:35:36] Thank you very much.

[00:35:37] I am the pre 29 representative coordinator for the National Street Road Association.

[00:35:43] My aim is try and get more youngsters into the hot rod, classic car street rod, seeing

[00:35:48] choosing an alternative to a modern car.

[00:35:52] Nice.

[00:35:53] I kind of meant so we're just going to go straight in.

[00:35:55] What's your earliest car memory?

[00:35:57] My earliest car memory, I would have to say, well my dad's always had cars.

[00:36:03] So I remember he had a Volkswagen Bay window many, many years ago.

[00:36:08] I was probably about five, six but my real car memory is when he had a Morris J van

[00:36:15] when I was about, I would say, eight to ten that's on the time and it would take me

[00:36:20] out to show him.

[00:36:22] He had sliding doors.

[00:36:23] So the J van they have sliding doors and I remember driving down the road and we could drive

[00:36:29] with the doors over.

[00:36:31] He took it to Good River Vival and he used it to take all the bands from A to B around

[00:36:38] the site for Good River Vival.

[00:36:40] So he's like their little career bands sort of thing and we did like a parade tour around

[00:36:45] the track.

[00:36:46] I think it was on the Sunday or whatever.

[00:36:47] I got to go in the van with him and we're just cruising around Goodwood on this parade

[00:36:53] lap with all the classics and all the other restored cars.

[00:36:57] You name it, you know some of the race cars as well so that was like a big core memory for

[00:37:02] me and that's actually what got me into classic cars.

[00:37:05] So my first car was a Ford 100E because I can't have anything else other than a classic

[00:37:11] car.

[00:37:12] And then from there I've just grown and grown and I'm actually into it more than my

[00:37:16] dad is now.

[00:37:17] My dad's got an older, he's got a he stepped away a little bit.

[00:37:20] It's past the bad thing.

[00:37:21] Yeah and then I've got as I've got an older, I've actually taken over like you said past

[00:37:26] on the batting.

[00:37:27] Now you've listened to all those lovely recordings.

[00:37:31] Yeah thanks to everyone who gave us a couple of minutes of their time and recorded something

[00:37:36] for the podcast really appreciated.

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[00:37:55] Bad yeah yeah worst podcast I've ever heard.

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[00:38:00] Yeah some some shock tactics you don't want to listen to that with Robert.

[00:38:04] Oh I wonder what it was like.

[00:38:06] How could it be that bad?

[00:38:07] It's so offensive.

[00:38:08] They can't say things like that in public never.

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[00:38:13] Yes um so yeah that was our trip to the NEC practical classic restoration show.

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