3 On The Column

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first part of our special podcast recorded live at the 50th Anniversary of the Morris Minor Owners Club at Eastwood Hall. With over 600 Morris Minors in attendance, our Morris Minor journey starts here. First, we meet Simon, the club treasurer, and learn what makes the Morris Minor a national treasure, why you need one in your life and, of course, find out about the...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 we hear more from Andrew, the club chair, and learn of the many club  chapters so that whatever Minor appeals to you, within the MMOC umbrella, there's a like minded group of speciality Minor owners.  What are people's favourite Minor Mods?  'A' series engines from the later 1275 cc Marinas fit in Minors quite nicely, reflecting the period modificatio...

Send us Fan Mail For Part 3, we move to the Ex Police Panda Chapter to meet Emily, who is registrar for the chapter.   Emily's own Ex Met Police Morris Minor Panda has been in her family for a long time and when she was given the opportunity to drive it, she knew she had to become its next custodian. Emily has done extensive research on these vehicles and tells us their story. Support the sho...

Send us Fan Mail There are few classics which can boast of being over 9 metres long and 2.5 metres wide, and one of only twenty-eight ever produced. This week, 3 On The Column Classic Car Podcast is excited to meet Justin, the proud owner of not just one, but two of these amazing classics. Launched in 1977 at the Dusseldorf show, the Hymer 900 Liner was the masterpiece of Erwyn Hymer, owner and fo...

Send us Fan Mail It's 33 degrees on the other side of my air conditioned screen and I'm nice and cool, yet Andrew and I are dreaming of the open road and maybe a summer convertible to enjoy the best of this sunny weather. Time to call in our expert friend, Mike Renault from episode 15, who re-joins us today and gets us focused on the best of the 1960's convertible road scene and, in...

Send us Fan Mail On a recent podcast,  Andrew and I got to meet the team from Crossley Motorsport, when we were able to hear first hand about the joy, passion, skills and sheer hard graft that have been lavished on their Jowett Jupiter race car. Their successes have included an impressive 14th place, out of a field of 82, at the Classic Le Mans 24 hrs and qualifying to race at this year's Goo...

Send us Fan Mail It's time for Andrew and I to book our summer holidays, but the cost of a long haul flight to Cape Town is looking a bit steep these days so we need to find an alternative.  Let's ask Seth Scott and Ollie Jenks, as they've driven there in Sheila, a Reliant Robin van. How hard can it be? Well, in this podcast, we'll be finding out. First, choose your car.  Top o...

Send us Fan Mail Following on from the excitement of the recent podcast with Crossley Motorsports, Brian and Andrew feel the need to get back on track (as if we ever were): in this episode we welcome Christianne Ireland, the founder of Ireland Motorsports, and also daughter of Innes Ireland, a Formula One racing driver in the 1950s and 60s.   Innes started his motorsports career in 1952, very much...

Send us Fan Mail Those of you who follow classic car social media will have recently seen a blue Invacar, heading north on the M40 to Gaydon for Rustival 2026. In this podcast episode, we are pleased to welcome, Dez, the owner of this car, as our guest. Dez expertly takes us through the history of invalid carriages from their inception in the 1890's, through the peak of the Invacar in the 60&...

Send us Fan Mail Despite the title, you'll not need your glasses for this podcast since our guest, Keith W R Jones, is loud and clear.  When he shared the memory of the Vauxhall Albany with us recently, we knew straight away that we wanted to have Keith on the 3 On The Column Classic Car Podcast.  For those who have forgotten the Albany, probably almost all of us, it was a luxury Vauxhall Mid...

Send us Fan Mail From having his first XR3i aged just 19, an XR Ford has always been part of Dan's motoring life.  Now his family have also grown up with XR Fords, and shared fun times with the XR Owners club.  And what is the ideal garage partner for a fast Ford?  Well, Dan went for a Mondial, his first Ferrari and then traded up to a 360: see the stories of his Ferraris and the fast Fords @...

Send us Fan Mail With the prize for the 'Best Live Stand Demonstration' at "Practical Classics Restoration Show 2026" going to the Citroen Car Club for their live demonstration of the Citroen DS Hydropneumatic suspension, Andrew and I needed to find out more.  The solution was to talk to legend of the club, Nigel Wild. The key to a successful demonstration at the NEC is making...

Send us Fan Mail Having seen the buzz around the Commonwealth Car Club stand at Pride of Longbridge last year, Brian and Andrew felt that this matter needed further investigation.  The invite went out and was accepted - Jonathan and Cat from the Commonwealth Car Club join us today to explain all. We hear about word being passed around Longbridge on a 'need to know' basis that 60 cars wou...

Send us Fan Mail Following on from last week's podcast with the guys from Crossley Motorsport and their Jowett Jupiter, this week Brian and Andrew remember that other stalwart of the classic motor racing scene, the Austin A30/A35.  If you want to find out more about these cars there is, of course, only one place to go and that is the Austin A30/A35 Owners Club. We are pleased to welcome Melan...

Send us Fan Mail Having seen a beautiful Jowett Jupiter classic racing car on the Crossley Motor Sport stand at Race Retro this year, 3 On The Column Classic Car Podcast just had to find out more. Edward, Jack and Manny from Crossley agreed to join us and tell us what it is like to restore and race this classic Jowett: from the lads' first meeting on the Formula Student project at Birmingham...

Send us Fan Mail Today, Andrew revisits his schooldays where, fortunately for us, he paid a bit more attention to the staff car park than he did to his schoolwork!  SEE ME! Riding in the back of the school minibus at high speed through the back streets of Gosport on a loose bench seat, and getting out alive... The smell of lightly oiled rubber?  It can only be a Renault 8. This is a local, special...

Send us Fan Mail Today, the car lease is expiring and Brian & Andrew start the search for a new company car. As budgets are tight, we need to consider all bases (excuse the pun).  After dismissing the 100E Popular in 1953 for its single suction wiper and mechanical  brakes (and a plywood floor, anyone?), we tried very hard to purchase a Fiesta Popular.  But the salesman was going to make it to...

Send us Fan Mail Laurence and David from the RS Owners Club join us on the 3 On The Column Classic Car Podcast. Of course, it is 1970 and FEV1H wins the London to Mexico Rally, your day-to-day transport is a Lambretta and you really want an Escort with 4 Cibies on the front! We discover how delivering newspapers to Minster Court in West London as a kid (plus a neighbour with a tasty Escort) starts...

Send us Fan Mail This week, on our classic car podcast, Brian and Andrew are joined by YouTube sensation, Matt Richardson from Furious Driving:  https://www.furiousdriving.co.uk/ Matt gives us his insight into the tribulations of a day's work at Furious Driving, his passion for the cars and the satisfaction of bringing them back to life (and, of course, getting them off the drive before Mrs F...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, in the 3 on the Column Classic Car Podcast, Andrew Roberts and Brian Thomas meet Mike Renaut, freelance journalist, Car Chums podcast host and  American cars (especially Edsel) and movie motor enthusiast.   Move all those Vivas out of the way!  There's a Ford LTD Country Squire wagon coming through. If you drove an American car in 1960's London, you were (probab...

Send us Fan Mail For this Classic Car Podcast episode, Brian and Andrew take a nostalgic journey through the golden age of automotive brochures, exploring how these marketing masterpieces shaped car culture from the 1950s through to the 1980s and beyond. From Ford's aspirational photography to BMC's airbrushed illustrations, we discuss the art, copy, and social history captured in these...

Send us Fan Mail Brian and Andrew, this week, are really excited to have Matthew Davis and Neil Campbell from Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, on our classic car podcast We hear the stories of the Trust from its inception in 1983 to where it is today: Being part of the "Our Jaguar" program and inspiring Type 00 Taking Jaguars to Blackpool and making a noise Why people who know nothing abou...

Send us Fan Mail Our special guest on our classic car podcast this week is Andy Talbot. Andy will be known to many car and motorsport fans for his voice as part of the commentary team of Motorsport Mundial and Auto Mundial, the weekly shows on ITV4. Tonight though, Andy is here to share his passion for all things Volkswagen and the story of his own Californian VW Trekker AKA 'The Thing'....

Send us Fan Mail This week, Brian & Andrew on our classic car podcast delve deep in to the world of the cars used or driven by great (and sometimes not so great!) world leaders. From the legendary Citroen DS used by general De Gaulle to the Rover P5 built for Harold Wilson with a special holder for his pipe, although he never got the built-in Humidor box for his cigars. Top gifts to be expecte...

Send us Fan Mail After safely gargling with TCP (other gargling products are available), Andrew bravely joins us this evening as  the 3 On The Column classic car podcast celebrates the revolutionary safety research by British Leyland in the 1970's that led the way to some of the safety features that we take for granted in today's cars.  Building on the slogan "Safety Fast", BL...