My Dad's Car : Nostalgic cars of our childhood

Send us Fan Mail Prepare your ears for 10 minutes or so of bonus MDC content based around car parking… After a recent trip to the town centre, Andy’s found the multi-storey carpark now demands you pay in advance rather than upon return to your vehicle. It’s a cash grab, and a pain in the backside!  Jon’s pet parking peeve is people leaving shopping trolleys in the spaces, we discuss whether you sh...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined today by Katie Ramsay-Gough, a car enthusiast and Director of Driven Minds, a support group promoting mental health awareness in the motorsport paddock. You can find out more about Driven Minds here: Home - Driven Minds Katie, by her own admission has a terrible memory, but with some pre-show reminders from her brother she recalls a green Rover saloon as her earl...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a 5 minutes of bonus chat about utilizing Cockney Rhyming Slang in reference to vehicles of the past.  A VW Jetta could  be a Red Setter, a Hans Solo a VW Polo, a Nelson and Winnie a Mini. Trying to get further ideas we turned to Chat GPT, but sadly the magic of rhyming slang is lost on AI, and its suggestions were all laughable for the wrong reasons... Pretty pony and...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are joined by Nathan Tregonning, the man behind the Mental Health Car Club, and in Jon's absence, we welcome a special guest host (and previous guest himself) Paul Gardner from Speed Broker. Nathan's earliest and fondest car memory was travelling to Whitby in his Grandad's Sierra Cosworth. From memory it was a navy blue 3 door, although that was based o...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined this week by Paul Medhurst, the man behind VW workshop, classic car showroom and now destination coffee shop Type 2 Detectives.  Paul recalls telling people his Grandad used to drive an Aston Martin - however, his Mum corrected him one day when she overheard him telling some friends... It was actually an Austin Maxi! His Dad had an Austin Princess, then a Ford Co...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined by Adrian Brannan, an automotive photographer from Glasgow.  He learnt his craft following his father around (who was a wedding photographer) and taking photos of the family cars, and anything interesting he saw on the street. His Dad learnt to drive late, so Adrian remembers him learning, and also his first car... an orange Chrysler Horizon. It was an early one,...

Send us Fan Mail We know you enjoyed the episode with Jonny Smith... so here's a little conversation we kept back for you to enjoy all about lawn mowers and car washing. Jonny's first job was mowing lawns for neighbours, and as it happens, that is what Jon does for a day job too.  It's silly, its a little rough around the edges, but we hope you enjoy it!  Normal service resumes next...

Send us Fan Mail Our latest guest is the one and only Robbie Knox! If you’re familiar with @meggarobbie you probably first saw him on cult football morning show Soccer AM, but if you missed the 90s/00s he can now be found trading as an influencer extraordinaire. Robbie was kind enough to spare us an hour or so as we attempted to pick his brains on all things cars and car nostalgia. Naturally this...

Send us Fan Mail A first for our podcast, an intergenerational episode, as we welcome Elliot Mitchell, who came to us after hearing his Dad on Season 2 Episode 8. We had a great time on that one, and remained in contact with the family afterwards as Rob is a personal friend, so it made sense to hear what his eldest son had to say about his memories of cars growing up.  Some lovely tales of Grandpa...

Send us Fan Mail It was a real pleasure to have Motoring Journalist, TV and You Tuber Jonny Smith join us for a full fat chat about cars of yesteryear. His story starts with a couple of British classics. A Harvest Gold Austin Allegro belonging to his Grandparents, and a Hillman Avenger that his parents owned from 1979 to the late nineties, perhaps even beyond the millennium!  We take in an Austin...

Send us Fan Mail After a fantastic day out at the 82nd Members Meeting at Goodwood Motor Circuit, Andy is joined by his brother Mike for a chat about the event, and comparing it to the more mainstream Revival event.  A quick plug for Mike, if you need a Videographer for a business or personal project, look him up - www.mikebdesigns.com  Normal episode service will resume, with another full episode...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined by Stuart Weaver for today's episode. Recommended to us by previous guest, Jamie Orr's mum no less, Stuart is a survivor of male breast cancer, and met Sally Orr through her work in this field.  Stuart's parents have had their fair share of MG's - and some of them are still in the family now. His Dad beat Adam Faith to a red MGA, and was due t...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined this week by John Marcar, the host and driving force behind the driven.site podcast, and website.  We met John up at the NEC at the end of last year, and whilst we didn't manage to sync our watches to record at the show, we sat down a few weeks later to have a proper chat. From a chocolate brown Ford Cortina, to a K10 Micra, gifted to his Mum by his caring A...

Send us Fan Mail Recently whilst clearing out my loft, I've found lots of old car books from when i was a kid.  Rather than take them to a charity shop, for another 40-something guy to buy for a quid and stash in his study, i chose to give them to my kids school, in the hope they might just inspire the next generation. So, if you've got any old car books at home, please do the same - the...

Send us Fan Mail It's a pleasure to bring you this episode with Ed Foster, a farmer, a motoring journalist, a racer, and perhaps most familiar to you as the (tall) face and voice in the Goodwood Paddocks during the Revival, Festival of Speed and Members Meeting.  He grew up on a Farm in Scotland, although boarded at a school in London. His Dad was into racing, and owned the last ever E-Type l...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Tom McCooey, a journalist and author onto our podcast to chat about his parents cars, and in particular an MG Magnette called Maggie. The car had previously last been used in 1983 and was his parent's wedding car.  After his father passed away in 2016, his mother offered him the car and he set about restoring it. Financially it should never have been saved, but the...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined by Faye Hatton, an Automotive PR specialist who just so happened to answer a social media post by Jonny Smith with a memory of her parents cars. Naturally, we hijacked that post and got in touch, and shortly afterward had this chat. Faye’s earliest memories are of the cars she used to walk past on her way to and from school. Not a long walk, 300 yards, as she liv...

Send us Fan Mail Andy went along to the historic Brooklands Museum (home to the iconic banked race track of the 1930s) for their annual New Year Classic Car meet.  It should have been the 1st January, but bad weather saw it postpone till the weekend.  Meeting up with friend and automotive artisit, Steve from AutoLegends  Autolegends.co.uk they spent the morning enjoying the sites and interviewing...

Send us Fan Mail In the second of our full length live podcasts recorded at the NEC Classic Car Show we were joined by Phil Weeden, the MD of Kelsey Media and Classics World. We have a great chat about his earliest car memories, what got him into the industry, his time editing Car Mechanics magazine, before taking the helm in charge of all Motoring titles at Kelsey Media. From his first memory sat...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined by Andy's friend Martin Hackett who has plenty of great stories to share. His earliest car memory is a Ford Granada belonging to his Grandfather, who used to drive down from Scotland to see him on the South Coast, then take him back again to spend the school holidays. His Mum drove a peppermint green Mk1 Fiesta Sport, and was a bit of a girl racer. His Dad h...

Send us Fan Mail A special festive bonus episode with Andy’s eldest daughter reading a Chat GPT generated take on the Nativity story (Chat GPT is only as good as the prompt, and I’d like to think this came out pretty well!)  Journey across Northumberland in a Ford Escort van, back in 1984 and join Joseph and Mary for a roadside birth like no-other.  Perhaps this could be the start of a new religio...

Send us Fan Mail This episode was recorded in front of a live audience in the Podcast Lounge at the Classic Car Show at the NEC in November 2024. Our guest, Anna Bebbington is the events organiser for the VW Golf Mk1 Owners Club, and told us some brilliant motoring tales from her childhood. From a 3 wheeled van, a Reliant Robin, through to a Mk1 Golf, a Mk2 Golf GTI and several Volkswagen camperva...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined this week by Ian Robertson, an enthusiast of Peugeot 405s, and publisher of Classic Retro Modern car magazine, an independent title that celebrates many of the same cars we discuss in each of our shows. Join us for a journey through Simca's, Talbots, Peugeot 405's, a history lesson on the loveable (but not strictly) Peugeot 309, and Ford Sierra.  His Dad wo...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  We're pleased to say the guys from Viking Covers are staying on as Sponsor for My Dad's Ca...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by Sam White, co-Founder of Apiar Watches, and Porsche 911 owner. In fact this episode is pretty 911 centric, as his father bought the yellow 1971 Targa model the week Sam was born, and always promised the car to him when he was old enough. True to his word, the classic coupe is now in his ownership, complete with its uber-rare 6 pipe exhaust system, which is somewha...