Car-Chum

Send Car-Chum a Text For more information on what this Golden Hour lark is all about, please read the description of Golden Hour 1.  Or Golden Hour 2.  Thank you. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text But wait...there's more.  As if that wasn't HOT enough (uploaded during Heatwave), there's also 'information' on handling characteristics, Pot Holes and driver weight.   Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Can't imagine what inspired Tony and his Car-Chum, Mike, to think about economy and efficiency.   And in the spirit of economy, I will write no more here. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Tony ditches his BMW motorbike and is left with a load of lids, while Mike sniffs leaky lines on his BMW car.  This quick Car Share from Car-Chum is brought to you by Mercedes Benz.   Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Car-Chum - big in Japan?  Massive.  But that's not quite what I meant.  Instead, here's an episode all about...err, Journalist, Mike Renaut joins Tony to explore the land of the rising (Dat)sun.   Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Who knew Mazda makes a Six?  What other cars manage more than four bangers?  And if you've never heard of 'The Camfather', Ed - listen and learn.  Fun and fact in equal measure: welcome to this edition of Car Share from Car-Chum. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Just like episodes History 1, History 2 and History 3, but about the 1920s.  And a bit longer.  And a little more fun than History 3.  I'm not writing any more for fear of overselling! Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Like buses - they all come at once.  So it's been for Tony's Car-Chum Mike this week.  A BMW/Audi/Mercedes spotting fest.  Do tell us more.  Do. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Dedication is what you need.  And a trumpet.  And this episode of Car-Chum, where Tony and Mike the-car-journo truffle out 'interesting' automotive record breakers.  Don't expect the usual stats... Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text This week on Car-Chum's Car Share quickie update, more continental road tripping, Bonneville record tribute and a cat in a sphere.  Catchy, eh?  Add wet timing belts for good measure, too.  It makes more sense as you plough through the episode. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text CarShare quickie:  more driveway congestion at Tony's, a quick excursion to the Sahara and Mike's mate splashes the cash on a C3.  In truth, the episode is probably more interesting than that, but better to under-sell and over-deliver, surely? Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Sometimes I'm so pleased with the title I forget the episode.  Jokes.  Join me and my Car-Chum Mike Renaut - yes the classic auto-journo - as we head to the Continent for a French Fancy or two.  This is Car-Chum's French edition.  In English. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Car-Radio hosted this year's Podcast Lounge Cafe and Stage at the NEC Classic 2025.  Join Tony and his Car-Chum Mike as they're make space on said sofa for Sheldon and Will - The Dream Car Fixers. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Flipping Bangers' Gus Gregory and Will Trickett are treated to unsolicited car facts by Tony and historical stalking by Mike.  That's Car-Chum for you. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text One in, one out:  that's Car-Chum's new mantra.  Not Tony and his Car-Chum, Mike, obvs - rules!  Make a new one; get rid of an old one.  And please, please, please make sense of Road Tax and City Emissions rules; they're both madly complex and self-defeating.   If you read that, you just saved yourself 27 minutes of listening. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text In this episode, the Car-Chums offer you the chance to experience the decade in realtime with them.  Find out all about hand-cranking, ghosts and vixens.  It’s a jam-packed, fun-filled frolic through the decade that gave us the Model T and an hour of Car-Chum.  Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Give Car-Chum twenty minutes of your time and it will give you the collective noun for a group of Woodlice.  Add to that, some design language, no bad language and some learned discourse and you have this fortnight's quickie catchup with the Chums.  We call it Car-Chum's Car-Share. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Do you love cars?  And do you love the thought of Etymology?  Great!  You've come to the right place.  Tony and his Car-Chum Mike - noted car writer and something else - take a deep and intellectual dive into the world of car naming.   Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Do you like exhausts?  Do you like listening to two people talk about exhausts?  If that sounds like you, join Tony and his Car-Chum, car-journalist, Mike as they talk about...exhausts. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text The title I've carefully crafted there says enough, I think.  Join me, Tony, with my Car-Chum and auto-author, Mike for this fortnight's CarShare quickie.   Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text If History Lesson 1 wasn’t enough…  Tony and his Car-Chum, Mike, take a meander back through pioneering times just after the turn of the century.  Who knew they had hybrids and four-wheel steering then? Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Who knew Alignment could be so interesting and so much fun.  Listen to this and find the answer.  Tony and his auto-author Car-Chum, Mike, talk Toe in this fortnight's quickie Car Share update. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Recorded in 2024, this episode sat abandoned at Car-Chum Studio Park and Resort...until now.  With the passing of Gene Hackman, the content took on a some sense of purpose, so I dug it out and gave it the briefest of polishes.  It's a bit raw, but timing is everything.  Tony - that's me - is joined by his Car-Chum and auto-author Mike Renaut.  Mike takes his research...

Send Car-Chum a Text Tony’s been to the F1 Experience and his Car-Chum, Mike, has had an experience.  In a gutter.  On the plus side, he got a badge for doing it. Support the show

Send Car-Chum a Text Tony has totally lost confidence in whether this is actually the 100th episode.  And his Car-Chum, Mike, has no idea either.  Regardless, the chums treat it with all the reverence you would expect.   Support the show