Bonus Episode: NEC Classic Car Show 20+ clips from around the halls

As well as recording live shows in the Podcast Lounge, we chatted to lots of show goers on the Saturday and Sunday at the NEC Classic Car Show. 
Enjoy plenty of earliest car memories and our summary of the weekend too. 

Our thanks to all those who gave their time to speak with us. 

Transcript

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Welcome to My Dad's Car. Enjoy. Welcome to My Dad's Car. A podcast discussing our personal relationship with automotive nostalgia. And you know what, it doesn't even have to be about your dad's car. It can be your mu's, your grands, your parents, guardians or even a neighbourss if it made an impression. Let's talk about it. Hello sir. Hello. You re right. Yeah, too bad. Sorry it was s a bit late. That's right. Needs must lunch and that. Yeah. Did a good journey back. Yeah, not too bad. yeah, I have interesting moment. I think it was the M M40. I was driving back and the traffic kind of came to a bit of a standstill. I was in the fast lane. I put my hazards on but my hazard light had kind of pushed into the dashboard a little bit. So as I pressed it, you press the bottom of the switch to turn it on and the bottom of the switch was still clipped in so you could turn it on. But when you push your finger in to turn it off obviously it then pushes the switch further out into the dashboard and you've got nothing to push it back in again. So I had to perform one fingered sort of open heart p hole surgery. Oh God. To not only turn the switch off but sort of pull it back again. Yeah. I thought you're going to say you had to drive home with hazards on the whole way or something like that. Well, at one point I was kind of thinking it's going to be a case of I'm gonna have to go onto the hard shoulder or pull over at some point to turn this off. Yeah. But not quite sure how I wasnna do such a thing but just fashioned up some sort of bracketry to hold it in place and it seems to have done the trick. Good. That's the wonders of taking the Monday off after the show. Yeah, exactly. You got back all right. Yeah, well yeah, eventually first two trains were canceled for some reason. So yeah, it's about sort of 40, 45 minute wait at the station there before I could get going. So now I starting to get a bit sort of concerned about how busy the train would be when it eventually arrived given that two had been cancelled. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Place sardines on the way home. Yeah. And I was thinking oh this platform'snna start getting busy. But to be honest it wasn't too bad. Wasn't too bad. Could have putugh one of a little pop up seats you saw you made a joke about for the train. Yeah. Would have Been ideal wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah. There was definitely the carriage that I got into. Someone had definitely been sick somewhere in that carriage. Oh really? You know when that smell just comes over you. Yeah. and you can't open windows can you these days on trains so. No, no. did'have quite a useful blind on my window though which I didn't really. Trains had. Yeah. You know like you're getting an aircraft. Quite a big one. I was watching something on my phone and the sun was being quite annoying. Yeah, yeah. I suddenly thought oh there's a nice little blind there. Have a bit of that. Yeah. So u yeah we are back from the NEC classic car show where we spent two days. It was quite a nice weekend wasn't it? Very nice, yeah. And not often phrases kind of associated with Birmingham. It was a fairly pleasant trip. I want to offend r black country based support. Indeed. Yeeah. It did what it needed to do. It held a massive car show. Yeah, it was really good. I spoke to lots of interesting people, didn't we? As usual and definitely worth the trip. Yeah. Met up with a few people we'd had on as guests. We saw Sam didn't we from What's her company? Southern Cars. Yeah. Is that right? Yeah, that's it. So yeah we saw her. She kindly came along and watched some of our performance on Saturday. Matt from the Tie Kickers was there. Yes, we saw him. Yeah. Caugh up with a few other people. Saw Paul Cow One day we will get him pinned down and we'record him. Think we need a big hammer and some nails to pin pull down that way. Yes but like Gulliver's Travels. Yeah. Just on the floor of the nec. He's a busy man, it's not his fault. Yeah, that's fair. One day we will we'have this conversation. We. Yeah what else did we get up to? Yeah, we ran around didn't we? Recorded probably 20 or 30 little audio clips. People giving us their earus car memories. So some nice stuff there. We we'll play that in a minute. So yeah if you've tuned in to listen either to yourself or just to see what crazy stories we've managed to uncover. We will share those with you shortly. Yeah thanks to everyone that took part in that because yeah quite a lot of people do run away don't they when you see the microphoneeah. I think on Sunday as well people were less inclined to run because they were so tired from Having done sort two or three days already alough they'had. A few shandies the night before. Glasses of wine. Yeah, exactly. Birmingham Casino. So yeah, the podcast studio I think was a really great addition to the show to be honest. I think there s was obviously quite a lot of automotive content available as podcasts so it was a nice little platform for Yeah, those of us who sort of squirrel away making these things. Obviously we've not got the profile of your mic brewers or your auto Alexs S etc. But yeah, it was nice to be able to share what we get up to, invite some people to join in and Yeah, I think that was really good. What do you think your favorite thing of the weekend was John? Favourite thing you saw? I think yeah, doing both of the recordings probably. Yeah, because we've never done that before. We are live recording. No, we did obviously we recorded Danny didn't we? But in his garage. We didn't have any sort of audience there. So yeah, so it's very much a first for us but it's a good experience. yeah, it was nice to sort of just do the usuals like speaking to various people like we did on Sunday and Saturday just getting those little 30 second, 60 second clips. Yeah, I think it's always nice as well that when people discover what we're doing for the first time they always seem to kind of embrace it, don't they? And sayh, that's a great idea and you can see it unlocking memories as you start speaking to them. So kind of makes it all worthwhile, I suppose. Yeah, it's nice isn't it, to get that almost visual feedback straight away when people kind of start understanding the concept and M kind of feel that yeah, they joined in. So let's play some clips from the show John and we'll come back to you in a minute after we. Played these Sounds good. We were David from the Marcus owners club. David, what's your earliest car memory? My earliest car memory was a 1957 Morris Minor which my father bought for £50. It didn't work and he said if you want a car that one needs a clutch. If you can fix it, you can have it. And did you fix the clutch? Absolutely fantastic. Hi, my name is Adam Gompertz. I'm known as the Rev. My earliest car memory is my dad's Digestive Biscuit coloured fraud escort 1.3 estate which seemed massive to a little kid when I was that small. but I have many memories of Traveling around and bouncing around in the back of that. Hi, I'm Helen. So my earliest memory of any kind of cars is actually a memory of a tractor because I used to live. In a farm in Estonia. Whose trackactor was it? It was actually my grandfather's. Fantastic. Thank you very much. Okay, we're at PWR Advanced Cooling and we're with James. James, what's your earliest carory? It's a Porsche 928 S4 manual, which I was in Niagara Falls with my mum saw it just on the side of the road. White, fallen in love. And I've actually spoken to the guy over there about his. See if I can buy the guards red one. That's pretty awesome. But he won't sell it to me, so it's not very awesome really, is it? A bit disappointed. Had a little tear in my eye. But it's on your hit list. You want one? Absolutely. If I could find a really nice one, which is difficult. I definitely, definitely have one. A manual as well. Has be manual. Yeah. The aut tools. I'm not, I'm old, but I'm not that old. Thank you very much. I'm some from some'detailing and my earliest car memory is a red Porsche 993 that I saw at the NEC motor, show. Fantastic. How old were you, you reckon that sort of age? I'm pretty sure that was like 1996, 1997, something like that. Fantastic. And who did you get to the show with? My dad and my brother. And I distinctively remember because there's a picture of me in front of the car with my brother and we're wearing matching outfits. Thank you very much. Sam. Good morning. My name is Yaska. I'm here on behalf of Matt Miln. We're very grateful to be here. It's been a wonderful show. You guys are amazing. My earliest car memories, I think it was a Ford of some sort. Whose was it? It was my mum and dad's. It was white. Thank you very much. We're with Steve from Auto Legends. Steve, what's your earliest car memory? Oh, probably my dad's company car. It'probably showing my age now, but I remember he had a dolomite it as a company car, a green one. And, we used to drive past the actual factory in Coventry and that was the first thing I remember to we say this car was made there and that's why I kind of remember that. Thank you very much. Leve we're at Project J Preservation Group. What's your Earliest car memory. The earliest car memory is a orange. Tot Avenger that my mu and dad used to have. I ah was probably about four or five at the time. Fantastic. We've landed at Paul. How's Art? And Paul, what's your earliest car memory? I reckon it's probably my mum's Hillman Imp that she had her first car as a family car when we were, when we were little. Yeah that and the 1.3. Dx Dats and Sunny as well so yeah fantastic. Crazy to think that the Hillman in was a family carn it. Yeah they're brilliant. And then I had one was my. First car so it kind of yeah. It ran in the family. Thank you very much Paul. Here we are at the MG Owners s club and we've found Debbie. Debbie, what's your earliest car memory? A read convertible Mercedes Ratling around the back of it and my dad telling me I've got K out of it. Fantastic. Was he taking you out for a drive or you're just at home or. Playing on the drive inn't it? Thank you very much. We've got Nick here at the nec. Nick would like to tell us your earliest car memory please. So yeah it's a little bit of an interesting story. So my dad was a bit of a petrolead and it's probably where I get it from but he was visiting my mother who was actually in hospital having given birth to me and in his Escort Mexico and somebody in a Mini Cooper coming the other way lost it and sideswiped him on a corner so that car sat on our driveway rotting away and I can remember that was a four or five year old still there slowly ebbing away into a pile of dust unfortunately. So that is not the happiest car story but partially your fault. Partially my fault, yeah, yeah it's a good story, thanks. Cheers. Okay we've got John from the Alfa Romeo Owners M club. John, what's your earliest car memory? I can distinctly remember being in my dad's standard eight would you believe it as a tiny child sat in a metal chair holding a steering wheel as we drove from Leicester to South Wales and I am told that I drove every single mile steering and with a little plastic gear stick. Brilliant. Fantastic. That's great. Thanks John. You're welcome. Okay, we're at the Morris Marina Owners Club and we found Matt. Matt, what's your earliest car memory? So I guess kind of feed into why I'm standing here behind the Desk on the Marine Owners club stand. Before I came along my dad had a chirpper van and decided that wasn't the most practical thing for carting small children around in. So he chopped it in for a mo morri italis state. so I could just about remember being piled in the back of said Morris Italisate with the family dog and driven down to my grandparents In London little 1300 a towel that was thrashed down the M4 mercilessly and back again. And then later on when it got a bit too rusty to stay on the road it was abandoned at the bottom of the drive and replaced by a Montego. And I can remember sitting in it and pretending to drive it as a sort of four or five year old. And I can also remember the rust hole in the wing that you could put your hand through. Even an adult, not just a small child. It's probably a bit of a health hazard really having it part there, you know. But I survived and I say sort of memories of that car and sort of was what inspired me to buy one actually. And they're not as bad as they're made out to be. Thank you very much Matt. Hi, I'm Tim, known as our Tim. I'm a classo show ed videos this weekend. and I've been asked what is my earliest car memory. My earliest. One of my earliest car memories is my mom's Mark 3 Astra. It was gold I think or it might have been grey and she had a aftermarket immobilizer fitted to it. It cut out on a roundabout. She loved that car. It was like a tank. It didn't have power seering but I was sat there, little young kid in the 90s. It got out on a roundabout, wouldn't start again because see mobilize wouldn't start and she sold it and bought the then new course of B in purple and I was furious. I said I really like that mark. Sorry Astra. Fantastic. We've found Steve here. Steve, whereabouts are you from? What's your business? So I'm Man K Var. I'm from Gosport in Hampshire and I do fronts and rears of cars and just really memories of our pastimes. And our childhood right up our street. What's your earliest car memory? So my earliest car memory was when I was 5 years old, lived in Singapore. My father used to race an AC base. Wow. Yeah, exactly, wow. He was in the, in the navy. So we, we had cars all around us all the time he used to auto sport a MG Midget, and auto test a Zephyr. Fantastic. That's really cool. Thank you very much. Ok. I'm Charles Freestone. I run a company doing graphic design mug m mats, wall art, 3D designs and so on. And what's your earliest Kmen? I think my earliest car memory. My mum had a Lanceier Beta Spider and my dad had a Triumph Stag. I remember the number plate was TWM1K and we always said because we lived near Kettering and my mum's name was Mary and we always said twm1k meant trouble with Mary in Kettering. So we remember that. Mum had a Dolomite sprint, she had XR3s one after the other. So at an early age I was driving cars that were really nice in their day in the 80s. Fantastic. Thank you very much. Okay, we've got Rick from Fixate. Rick, what's your earliest car memory please? my earliest car memory is when my mother in my dad's Classic Cartina when I was a child. It was a two door carn really long doors and I leant on the door and fell out of the car. My mother didn't even notice I'd fallen out of it until she got to the destination and turned around and realized I wasn't there. My memory is looking up at a tree and I'm pretty sure it was raining at time the same time. That's my earliest memory of. Fantastic. Quite a harrowing story. Where was your mum traveling to if don't mindm me asking. The other end of the village. So it wasn't too far but yeah, it was still far enough for a small child to be slightly worried. Fantastic. Thanks very much. We're here with Steve. Steve, tell us where you're from and what's your earliest car memory? I'm Steve working for Hamilton Classic. My earliest car memories and dad had a Marki Granada. I remember that one when I was younger. And a Austin Allegro or something like that. So yeah, fantastic. Thank you very much. So we've popped by and found some lovely photographs here. Lou and I won't pronounce your surname. you can do that for you sir. Lou Bou Bo. Wonderful. What's your earliest car memory, Lou? my ear car memory is my. Grandfather gave me Willy par or left me is Morris Minor, traveleer with the wooden panels down the side and Yeah, happy days. Unfortunately I was only 14 so I hats keep it for a couple of Years. so I could drive it. Yeah. But I kept it for five years. It was just beautiful. I wish I'd never got rid of it. Beautiful. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Take care now. So we're here with John Staveley at the bigathioners Club. Tell us John, what's your earliest car? Marory. My father had an 1172 upright Ford Anglia and that's the earliest car I can remember as a small child. And it was, interesting. What color was it? A very dark colour. I can't remember exactly, but it might have been black, but I don't think so. I think it was probably a dark grey. Fantastic. Thank you very much. My name is Joel Clark. I am the artist behind Speed Icons, the automotive art collection. And I guess my very early memory of what got me into cars would have be my dad's Mark 1v6 Capri, for which you couldn't really think of a better car. Sort of late 70s, which he got slightly customized a little bit. The wolf races the side pipes, rear. blinds on the window. And so black bonnet, of course, bumperless. So from then on I was like cars, classic cars, modifying cars a little bit and I was hooked. Fantastic. Thank you very much, Jay. Okay, we found Ian here does something with gears. What company from it? It's Neeeve Engineering family company. Wonderful. And what's your earliest car memory? My earliest car memory is my father's maxi 1500 cc because he always wanted the 1750 cc. And what colour was it? Purple. Oh, lovely. Thank you very much. We're with Julian from Classico competition and collector cars. Hello, how are you doing? What's your earliest car memory, Junior? My earliest car memory is, my grandfather's Jagger XJ6 back in Dublin in the 1970s. Okay, cool. Tell us about it. What color? well, he had two. He had a silver one from 1969 and a green one from 1972. he wanted to trade in the silver onend they gave him so little that they decided to keep both cars. And you go for a ride with him minute. Oh, yeah. When we would visit from Holland K, I'm a Dutchman and he would take us out in the car and as a little boy I was allowed to sit on that centre console to get a better view of the walnut dash. So yeah, that was always fantastic to sit there and see the car, hear the engine. Fond memories of, the big Jags. Wonderful. Thank you very much. So I'm James from the SV club and MG CARC Club. Young members. my first memory of my dad's first car, was a green l registered Rover 600 with a beige veloor interior. Lovely. And after that car he got another Rover 600. So it was a company car at time. I remember going to the seaside and it basically. And that's probably about all I remember Patric. Rusted actually. Fantastic. Thank you very much. We're at the Damler 250 Owners Club with Chris. Chris, what's your earliest car memory? It was my granddad's Triumph Herald, the one I remember. Okay. And tell us a little bit about it. Well, if I remember rightly, it was gray with a white stripe down the side. But the interesting thing was he had PVC covers on the seats for the whole of its ownership. Unfortunately some idiot went and wrote it off for him and he was gutted. Okay, we've got John from the Mercedes Benz Club. John, what's your earliest car memory? My earliest car memory as a child driving around was a friend of mine's mother, who had a for test 1600 which was the most gorgeous sounding six cylinder car I've ever been in as a child my father always had a Volkswagen Beetle which was really noisy old air cooled thing. So this for test was like a wonder from a different world. Alas, I've never owned a, a test. I've taken the engine out of that particular car a number of times in the later years. Fantastic. Thank you John. That's great. Okay, we're here with Jan from the BMW Car Club. What's your oldies latestt car memory, Jan? it was my dad's Ford Capri Silver with a nice black vinyl roof. Lovely. And who was traveling in it? me, my m momm, my dad and my sister we went up to to Scotland once and we put a boat on the top of it as well. A small boat, so that was a bit different for Capri. A boat on the roof for Capri. That's a first. That's fantastic. Thank you very much, Jan. We are joined by Gus Brooks. Gus Brooks, where are we and what is your earliest car memory? We are the enthusiasts of British motor vehicles actually built before 1985. Very specific. That's a long sticker. Okay, what's your earliest car memory? My earliest car memory? Good grief. my father always told me I was an SS100 Jaguar which he actually swapped for a Moggie miner and I've never forgiven him for it. Would you get one if I had. Hundred or a couple hundred thousand pounds? Spare then? Yeah, for sure. And would they let you in the club with a long name? absolutely. Fantastic. Thank you very much. We found Ian at the Vintage Sports Car Club. Ian, what's your earliest car memory? Would you believe it's a Ford Anglia that my father used to own that he wrote off because of me. Oh. Oh. as a child and still as an adult, I don't sleep. My father going to work one morning, drove his car straight into a bus. Wrote the car off and didn't do the bus much good either. Because you were asleep or not asleep? No, he fell asleep driving to work. Because I'd kept him awake all night. Oh no. Oh no. he was alright though? He was fine, yes, wonderful. No fathers or bus passengers were heard making in this story. Just a written off Ford Anglia. Thank you very much. We're joined by Jason and we're sort of in a Nigel Mantle paradise here. how you doing Jason? What's the company name? Yeah, signature store. So ww.theignaturetste.co.uk and what's your earl car memory? Well, basically my first car I ever drove was a Renault for van with the funny gear or coming out of the dashboard. And also one of the other cars that I can remember driving is about a 6, 7 year old was a BMW Threelyiter Si but not the Alpina version. You drove a BMW 3 lit Si at 6 or 7 years old? Yeah, yep, yep. Hopefully che. And whose car was it? Oh, my dad's. Fantastic. Thank you very much. No problem. I'm Jeff Love and I'm the M. MD of Hothouse Publishing. So we publish Octane magazine and Magneto. Great, thanks Jeff. so what is your earliest car memory? Well I think my father was a used car dealer so he was always bringing back quite, a lot of actually British Leyland, trash to be honest, the, in the 70s and, and the early 80s. But my earliest memory was, and probably one I favourite cars that he used to bring home was he had a Triumph Dolomite Sprint and that was, that was an awful lot of fun actually. It was one of the few cars from that era and certainly from that manufacture which was enjoyable to drive and a lot of fun. Great. What colour was it? It was yellow. Excellent. It really stood out and yeah, it was a great car. Fantastic. My name's Carl, I've worked for Rmanros now for far too long. Dad's actually worked for Rimmer 30 plus years. Yeah, very much a family affair that sort of Background. and obviously for that reason, my earliest memory is dad to try and stag, 1976 Wedgewood Blue. before him it was owned by a doctor and sadly it caught fire and just there's pictures of this poor doctor at the side of the road sobbing his eyes out at the s of his stag on fire. But dad bought it cheap through rumours and I was about 8, maybe 9 years old, I think, rebuilding it in the garage. Obviously. I'PRESS the pedals, do the buttons and all of that nonsense. And yeah, my earliest memory. Memory, you know, not pictures up here. down a backcot country lane at night. Van Morrison Brown Eye, Girl on the radio, Blair Interest Cruising V8 Burbal. I close my eyes, I can still see it. And yeah, I've been stuck with Triumphs ever since. There's now nine in the family and we won't stop buying them. It's ridiculous. So I'm here today on the triu, exhibiting m my 1978 Triumph Spitfire. I bought that five weeks ago and I've been just tooth and nail nights. Any opportunity I get putting it back on the road and just a massive sense of achievement to take it from rect to slightly less reckon here. Fantastic. So, yeah, that was the best part of 20 or so clips from around the NEC on Saturday and Sunday at the Classic Car Show. Some crackers in there. Any favourite, soundy? there's a few, really. There's one chap who. His dad had an accident in a Mark 1 Mexico escort, then left it on the driveway, which then, yeah, sadly, that turned to dust. Any from you, boy? Falling out of car is my favourite. Oh, yeah, Falling out the Cortina. Yes. Ye. Yeah, it's great, isn't it, when you, When we start talking to people about these and then just those little memories which actually otherwise would. Would just sort of remain in someone's head. But we've had the pleasure of being able to sort of unearth them and, and share them with people. Yeah. It's funny when you ask the question and someone, they kind of look a bit blank, don't they? And then they go, oh, actually, no, I've got something really good. Yeah. Yeah, the cog start where it was. We still. We still kind of fall into the. Like, what's the first car someone bought? Yeah, and I'm sure, yeah, there was a couple in there where people kind of give us things from when they were in their teens. Like, there must be another memory beyond that. But I suppose that, ah, it's easily done though, isn't it? When you think of first car memory, maybe people will interpret it as your first car memory. Yeah, either way, some good stories there. so, yeah, thank you to anyone who, did give us sort of 30, 60 seconds of their time. Absoutely with us putting a microphone in their face. some thanks to Anna and Phil who joined us as guests in the podcast lounge. Yeah. And we'll put their episodes out as separate standalone episodes. yeah, thank you to the organizers for putting on really good show. Thanks to Steve. Absolutely. Yeah, thanks to Steve. But also legends, who, very nicely looked after our stuff. Just a stone throw from the podcast lounge. He also gave me two very nice snack bars over the course of the weekend, which I'm forever grateful for. He knows it as well. So, yeah, wonderful. Thank you very much, John. It was an enjoyable weekend. Good fun, pleasure. And, yeah, we look forward to, next year. Hopefully we'do a few more events. Absolutely. Yeah. Lovely. Okay. Have a good afternoon. Thanks, mate. Yeah, you too. Speak soon. Yeah, indeed. Take it easy. Roll the credits. Thank you for listening to my love. cart. I hope you enjoyed the show. Please support us. Buy a coffee and subscribe and tell all your friends. Bye.