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We’re joined by car designer and writer Andy Plumb for the first episode of the long awaited season 7.

Andy wanted to be a car designer growing up so hearing from Andy Plumb as to how he made his dream a reality, was fascinating.

It turns out, writing a letter to Ford asking how he should make it happen; and Ford replying with a step by step guide was just what he needed!

We talk about Ford Sierras, Citroen 2cVs, Reliant Robin’s and the Morgan Super 3.

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We've just found out we'll be podcasting at the NEC Classic Car Show again this year. You'll be able to find us on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th November at the new Podcast Cafe in the middle of hall 3.

Our guests are TBC but rest assured we'll be digging deep for all the nostalgia, and doing our usual vox-pop recordings with plenty of show goers.

We can't wait - and we hope to see you all there.

Season 7 will start properly on Tuesday 4th November (not long to wait now) and we have recorded some great guests to share with you.

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Despite our lack of new content for a month or two, it's been lovely to still have people tuning in and discovering what we are all about.

Equally, the recording has continued and there's even been a bit of editing too - Season 7 is in progress!

For now though, allow us to entertain you with details of our recent trip to Goodwood Revival. A great event, with brilliant historic racing.

This prompts a discussion on the 100th episode (we're currently on 86) and Andy being the guest on the show... However Jon suggests we should get Jenson, or Ian Wright!!

We hope you enjoy this bit of chatter, and please sit tight for season 7 dropping this side of Christmas... hopefully October 2025.

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We're joined for this episode by guest co-host Paul Harding.

Paul is a previous guest, and was featured on S4 E4.

Today's actual guest is Gary Handa.

He's currently working with Sporting Bears supporting their marketing and media activity.

His parents are both Doctors, and came to this county from India with only a small amount of cash in their pockets. Gary is rightfully very proud of what they made of themselves, and equally, the pride he remembers his father having when he bought his 1976 Mercedes, brand new, outright.

His first memory is a VW 411 Estate, a now very rare aircooled VW with a rear engine and front boot area. They were the Passat of the day.

Gary's Mum had a brown Mercedes estate when he was a teenager, and he used to dress up in his dad's shirt and tie, and take it for a drive whilst his parents were at work. They eventually cottoned on, when the trip odometer wasn't reset to zero after his activities!

We go on to talk about previous cars of Gary's and then whether he'd like to repeat any of his parent's choices... which leads us on to his next purchase - an Audi TT diesel, or a BMW 3 series!

Please give Gary's Instagram a check here. Gary H (@zl1uk) • Instagram photos and videos

Also check out the work of the Sporting Bears here. Sporting Bears Motor Club

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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 should be able to pay for a trolley by card, and even if the cattle grid ‘anti theft’ system used to keep trolleys in their place could be used in schools, perhaps with special shoes like the bowling alley.

Coincidentally, where are all these shoes now?!!

Lastly, we talk about rubbish being thrown from cars, something Jon suggests should be punished by a 3 day stint in the clink.

Hope you enjoy this one, see you next week for a usual ‘full’ episode.

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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 earliest car memory. It was an ex-company car, not much to look at by all accounts, although treated to a slippery car valet prior to their purchase, and the greasy residue from the interior treatment remained on the door handles for the entirety of their ownership.

After the Rover came a dark blue VW Bora, followed by a VW Passat.

We later hear about an Audi A5, which had to be rescued from the Silverstone circuit paddock after a wet British Grand Prix weekend. Whilst there were 4x4's on hand to pull cars out the mud, they were also removing bumpers at the same time! Luckily the local Rugby Club had been called up to do the work by hand, and with Katie asking nicely, she recruited plenty of blokes to free them from the quagmire.

Katies husband does some racing in his spare time, and Katie is involved with the Citroen C2 racing club, so talk turns to this relatively cheap and incredibly close series, and how she crashed a C2 on a track day too!

Talking of which, her Mum once crashed her car due to a loose sandal, and her feet hitting the wrong pedals.

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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 trap to be honest.

Can you think of any good ones? Get in touch - we'll sort a mug out for our favourite!

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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 on an aged photograph. The 1982 registration must be a mistake, perhaps it was on a personalized number plate?

Everyone locally knew that car, and although his Grandad loved it, he would often take the bus, or walk to save racking up the miles.

Sadly, ill health forced him to sell it, and nothing exciting was to fill its space.

Growing up, Nathan was very much influenced by custom and modified car culture, so only really had eyes for those vehicles on the streets. In his local area at least, not much stood out.

If you'd like to find out more about Nathan's work encouraging car enthusiasts to speak to each other about mental health, then check him out on instagram here.

MentalHealthCarClub (@mentalhealthcarclub) • Instagram photos and videos

Find out more about Paul's business, Speed Broker, here

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