The Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast

This week Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick talks to Mike Stark. Mike's 3.8 litre Busso-engined 156 GTA was a big hit among AROC members at National Alfa Day and on the Club's stand at the NEC Classic Motor Show. Mike talks about his history in motorsport, the history of the car, his record-breaking runs up Shelsley Walsh - and provides some useful hints and tips for anyone interested in gett...

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with 105 registrar Stuart Taylor to talk about the register, the cars, the owners, modifications, celebrations and drag coefficients. Among other things!

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick caught up with Alfa Romeo's GTA and GTAm Brand Ambassador James Browning about his role, the car and the process of building and buying the best sports saloon ever made.

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Club Chairman and East Midlands Section Secretary John Griffiths, Club Manager Nick Wright, Board Member, MiTo Registrar David Faithful and newly elected Board Member, Thames Valley Section Secretary and GT Registrar Kirsty Hodson to talk about the recent Section Secretaries and Model Registrars meeting, the Club's General Meeting, the upcoming...

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick talks to legendary pre-war Alfa restorer Jim Stokes about his business, how he got involved with Alfas in the first place, some of his most interesting and challenging projects, the Tipo 158 he ran at the Goodwood Revival this year, restomodding and the future of both Alfa and the automobile itself. It's a little bit longer than usual - but it's worth it.

In this week's Episode, Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick talks to Somerset Section Secretary and Alfa Romeo Driver Section News Editor Clive Baker about his ownership history, his time in the Club, South West Alfa Day and the upcoming Registrars and Section Secretaries' meeting.

In this week's Episode Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick talks to Ian Jephcott about the process of restoring some of the less popular Alfa Romeo models - the challenges involved and the workarounds - as well as trying to figure out just how he does it to such a high standard so quickly!

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with Yorkshire Section Chairman John Scott ahead of Autumn Alfa Day at Yorkshire Wildfire Park in Doncaster to talk about the Alfas he's owned and the future of the Section.

We're halfway through a fantastic Summer of events and to celebrate, Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with Club Chairman John Griffiths, Club Manager Nick Wright and Board Member David Faithful to talk about the events that have gone (Silverstone Classic, Cotswold Alfa Day, Festival Italia and MITCAR), events that are coming up (Autumn Alfa Day and Auto Italia at Brooklands) and one...

Geoff Gordon made quite an impact with attendees at National Alfa Day in June with the roar of his Giulietta - a car already familiar to fans of the Goodwood Revival, where it has raced with Geoff, Emmanuele Pirro and Steve Soper behind the wheel. Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with Geoff at the Silverstone Classic where he'd brought along his immaculate Group 2 Alfasud Sprint to talk about both ca...

Just over a year ago, the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - with the generous backing of Bianco Motorsports - began looking for a Future Alfa Racer from the ranks of our Virtual Racing Series. After an epic battle over six months, involving 30 races at 20 circuits and 5 cars - Colin Cunniffe emerged victorious. After a couple of delays - for the usual reasons - he passed his ARDS test and, last weekend, go...

In this Episode, Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Autolusso Bournemouth proprietor Laurence Preston to talk about his introduction to the motor trade, how he started and grew his business, his plans for the future, the cars he's owned and the cars he'd like to own. Caution: Contains bad language (in particular, the names of German car brands).

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with Club Manager Nick Wright, Chairman John Griffiths and Board member David Faithful to look back on the biggest event in the Club's history at Bicester Heritage - and forward to some of the other events the Club is involved in this Summer.

This week Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick chats to Fifth Gear presenter Vicki Butler-Henderson about her career, National Alfa Day, MiTos, 4Cs, 8Cs, women in motorsport and in the motor industry and her new YouTube channel.

Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with Club chairman and East Midlands Section Secretary John Griffiths, Club manager Nick Wright and board member and MiTo Registrar David Faithful to talk about their memories of National Alfa Day at Bicester Heritage in 2019, the plans for this year's event, the packed programme of regional events over the summer, the latest rumours from Stellantis and the huge range...

This week, Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with best-selling crime fiction author James Oswald who makes his return to Alfa Romeo Driver in the June issue with the story of the restoration of his 156 GTA Sportwagon. James is no stranger to the magazine, having been a regular contributor as GT Registrar in the noughties and he talks about the Alfas he's owned, the Alfas his characters have driven an...

To celebrate our first anniversary, we thought we'd do something a little different, so Editor and Model Registrar Guy Swarbrick, Chairman and Section Secretary John Griffiths, Section Secretary and Model Registrar Kirsty Hodson and Model Registrar and Board Member David Faithful have hit the books and the interwebs to find some - hopefully - quite interesting facts about Alfa Romeo. We've also in...

This week Guy Swarbrick chats to Andrew Banks who, along with his brother Max, runs the legendary 105 performance parts and restomod specialist Alfaholics. They talk about the firm's GTA-R 290 - as featured in a recent episode of Top Gear - the history of the business, racing, waiting lists, carbon fibre, titanium and the future of Classic Cars.

Section Secretaries and Model Registrars are the Club's unsung heroes in the best of times. Over the last year, they've played a crucial role in keeping us all informed and involved in difficult circumstances. This week Guy Swarbrick talks to Pre-War and Vintage Registrar Carol Corliss, Goodwood Section Secretary Mel Westwell and Kirsty Hodson who is both the Thames Valley Section Secretary and th...

This week Guy Swarbrick previews the 2021 Formula One season. He looks back at 2020, looks forward to the new look, twenty-three race calendar and reflects on what we learned from Alfa Romeo Racing's car launch, testing programme and the Friday and Saturday sessions from the opening round at Bahrain. Featuring Fed Vasseur, Jan Monchaux, Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi.

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick talks to Paul Plant about the Alfas he's owned, the ones he still owns and the ones he'd like to own, about motorsport - real and virtual - and about Bianco Auto Developments, 

In the latest of our Meet the Board series, Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with social media supremo and serial model registrar Duncan Langford to talk about Facebook, forums, MiTos, Giuliettas, Giulias, string and pre-war 8Cs. Yes, string...

For our 25th Episode, Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with Club Chairman and East Midlands Section Secretary John Griffiths and board member and MiTo Registrar David Faithful to discuss the recent FCA-PSA merger and to speculate on where Alfa Romeo will fit in Stellantis' new 14 brand portfolio. These issues are also explored in the February 2021 issue of Alfa Romeo Driver, out thi...

In this week's Episode, Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick talks to Jamie Porter - Alfa Romeo Driver and owner of the Alfa Workshop about cars he's owned, cars he's worked on, his business, his racing MiTo and the future of Alfa Romeo - and the future of the car itself.

In this Episode - the latest in our 'Meet the Board' series - Guy Swarbrick talks to John Timms about his Alfa history, his role as Finance Director, the challenges of Covid-19 and his thoughts on the coming year and beyond.