My Dad's Car : Nostalgic cars of our childhood

Andy Gregory and Jon Recknell
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Join Andy and Jon, two friends who have discussions with invited guests about their personal relationships with automotive nostalgia and family history. Each episode kicks off with us asking our guest “what’s your earliest car memory?”From there it’s a journey back through time towards the modern day, but generally focusing on vehicles we remember from childhood.We ask about siblings, neighbours, music, smells, smoking, breakdowns, selling, buying, accidents and more. Despite the podcast title, we don’t discriminate against cars belonging to other people, such as Mum’s, Gran’s, Uncle’s, Aunts, friends, or even a neighbours. If those cars made an impression, we want to talk about them.  Season 1 - February - May 2023Season 2 - July 2023 - November 2023Season 3 - November 2023 - March 2024Season 4 - April 2024 - September 2024Season 5 - October 2024 - March 2025 Season 6 - April 2025 - August 2025 Season 7 - November 2025 - Hosted by Andy Gregory and Jon Recknell. Want to be a guest? Get in touch mydadscarpodcast@gmail.comEnjoying the podcast? You can support us with with a one off or monthly donation. www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscarVisit our website: www.mydadscar.co.uk 

  1. FEB 10

    Gracie Haddon - StarterMotor Charity: My Dad took us around Europe to meet car owners for a book he was writing. Triumph Herald, Austin Healey Sprite, Porsche 912 S7 E8

    Send a text We're joined by Gracie Haddon, from the StarterMotor Charity, an organization that helps young people to create careers in the classic automotive 'ecosystem'.  We chat about Gracie's upbringing - her Dad's work as a writer of Classic Vehicle books, and how they would travel around Europe, with a photographer, to meet and document owners of rare and cherished vehicles.  Family holidays were taken in a Jeep Cherokee, and spent in an Airstream Caravan kept just outside of Horsham. She was meant to visit JayKay from Jamiroquai's house for the book, but sadly he had to cancel. She has since met him though.  We speak about her shared Austin Healey Sprite that she owns with her Dad, but she really wants a Triumph Herald, because of a lady they met on their travels who owned one. Gracie encourages us to visit both Bicester Motion, and the coveted Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional, which we have only heard great things about. We really hope you enjoy this one, and please look up StarterMotor both to support their vision, but also as an information source for the young people in your life.  Homepage - Startermotor Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional | Hagerty UK A big thanks to our new podcast sponsor Viking Covers. If you are looking for quality and customizable indoor or outdoor vehicle covers please go check them out.  www.vikingcovers.co.uk We'll be telling you more about these guys soon - stay tuned. Support the show We’d love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media. www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcast www.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcast www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscar If you’d like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee’ which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom. Get in touch with us direct - MyDadsCarPodcast@gmail.com

    35 min

  2. JAN 27

    Nick Whale - Iconic Auctioneers: Dad's Camaro, Brand New Rolls Royces, Aston Martin V8, Gerry Marshall and Vauxhall Firenza. S7E7 Recorded at NEC Classic Car Show

    Send us a text We recorded this live at the NEC Classic Motor Show, in the back of a Land Rover Campervan! Our guest is the founder and CEO of Iconic Auctioneers - the massive auction at the show, Nick Whale. Nick's Dad was a Car Dealer, so its safe to say cars are in his blood. His Dad imported a Camaro when he was young, and then as a the CEO of a successful chain of car dealerships, would buy a brand new Rolls Royce each year, and did this for many years on the bounce. Sadly, his fellow classmates at boarding school took his Dad's flash car as a reason to pick on him.  Nick recalls being a VIP guest at the Vauxhall Firenza launch - he got to meet Gerry Marshall, and later became good friends with him and now owns an ex-Gerry Marshall Firenza road car.  We chat about auctions of course, motorsport and Nick's love of racing, and also the enthusiasm some of his kids are showing for cars too.  A great episode, which we thoroughly enjoyed recording  - we hope you enjoy it too.  Please  check out Iconic Auctioneers here if you are searching for a top quality, best in class classic car.  Iconic Auctioneers | Classic Car & Motorcycle Auction House A big thanks to our new podcast sponsor Viking Covers. If you are looking for quality and customizable indoor or outdoor vehicle covers please go check them out.  www.vikingcovers.co.uk We'll be telling you more about these guys soon - stay tuned. Support the show We’d love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media. www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcast www.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcast www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscar If you’d like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee’ which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom. Get in touch with us direct - MyDadsCarPodcast@gmail.com

    35 min

  3. JAN 20 · BONUS

    Bonus Episode: Boxing Day Meet at Madeira Drive, Brighton and Christmas Holiday Wrap up

    Send us a text Jon shares Christmas Holiday tales from his trip to France and Andy shares 20 or so clips recorded at Madeira Drive, Boxing Day Classic Car Meet. A big thanks to our new podcast sponsor Viking Covers. If you are looking for quality and customizable indoor or outdoor vehicle covers please go check them out.  www.vikingcovers.co.uk We'll be telling you more about these guys soon - stay tuned. Support the show We’d love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media. www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcast www.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcast www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscar If you’d like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee’ which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom. Get in touch with us direct - MyDadsCarPodcast@gmail.com

    19 min

  4. JAN 13

    Andrew Robinson: My Dad never sold his cars, he just let them rot on the drive. Rolls Royce, BMW 6 series, Alfa Romeo, My Brothers Beach Buggy S7E6

    Send us a text We're joined by long time listener of the podcast Andrew Robinson. We first spoke at the NEC in 2024, when he gave us a taster of his car story, but we finally scheduled some time to do the full episode properly, and what a fascinating set of vehicles he recalls.  A 30's Rolls Royce, a classic Alfa Coupe, BMW 6 series, Mum's 2002, and his late brothers' Beach Buggy.  A big thanks to our new podcast sponsor Viking Covers. If you are looking for quality and customizable indoor or outdoor vehicle covers please go check them out.  www.vikingcovers.co.uk We'll be telling you more about these guys soon - stay tuned. Support the show We’d love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media. www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcast www.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcast www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscar If you’d like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee’ which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom. Get in touch with us direct - MyDadsCarPodcast@gmail.com

    35 min

  5. 12/30/2025

    Barney Dines - Heritage Parts Centre: Live at the NEC Classic Car Show. Mk1 Escort Mexico to France, Nan in Sportscars, Teacher in a Cossie! S7E5

    Send us a text Barney was the first of our live interviews at the 2025 Classic Car Show at the NEC. As Andy's boss, he's known Barney for 18 years, but this is the first time he had interviewed him.  We start things off with a bucket and a gritty sponge, with him helping to clean his Dad's yellow Mk1 Escort Mexico. We stay in that car for drives to the South of France, including knocking the exhaust off on the ferry with some frequency.  There was a teacher at Barney's school with an RS500 Cosworth, and a sixth former with a Beetle.  Naturally, as the CEO of Heritage Parts Centre, we spoke about how Barney got into VWs - it was the Bug Jam coverage on TV, which he saw at school that set the spark inside him.  Elsewhere, there's mention of his Nans interest in British sportscars, and how she almost got a Morgan, but by the time her name came up on the waiting list, she was too old to get in and out of it! Find out more about Heritage Parts Centre here: www.heritagepartscentre.com or follow Barney online at www.instagram.com/barneyceo A big thanks to our new podcast sponsor Viking Covers. If you are looking for quality and customizable indoor or outdoor vehicle covers please go check them out.  www.vikingcovers.co.uk We'll be telling you more about these guys soon - stay tuned. Support the show We’d love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media. www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcast www.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcast www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscar If you’d like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee’ which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom. Get in touch with us direct - MyDadsCarPodcast@gmail.com

    30 min

  6. 12/16/2025

    Jez Hayter - Mythron Cars: Grandfather’s Wolsley, Norway in a Renault 18, 3 door Range Rover and building Austin Healey Sebring Sprites for the modern day. S7 E4

    Send us a text We’re joined by Jez Hayter the founder of Mythron Cars who produce a bespoke,  reinvented modified Austin Healey Sebring Sprite for the modern day. Discussion starts with the charm of playing Action Men and moves into a 50’s Wolsley which belonged to his Grandfather - complete with fold out rear picnic tables.  Later we speak about their family Renault 18 estate, which took the family to Norway for two years, Jez would sit in the middle, something he was particularly proud of.  In Norway they had a neighbour with a classic 3 door Range Rover in powder blue, with a tan interior, with no seat belts to restrict them, they could fit 6 kids in the back!  We wrap things up with some talk about technology and safety improvements.  We hope you enjoy this episode. Please do look up Mythron Cars here https://mythroncars.com/ A big thanks to our new podcast sponsor Viking Covers. If you are looking for quality and customizable indoor or outdoor vehicle covers please go check them out.  www.vikingcovers.co.uk We'll be telling you more about these guys soon - stay tuned. Support the show We’d love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media. www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcast www.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcast www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscar If you’d like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee’ which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom. Get in touch with us direct - MyDadsCarPodcast@gmail.com

    38 min

  7. 12/09/2025 · BONUS

    Bonus Episode: Bburago from QVC, petrol station model cars and using Dad's camcorder

    Send us a text A few minutes of ramblings about Bburago models, Scalextric, big head football characters and making your own videos with Dad's camcorder! A big thanks to our new podcast sponsor Viking Covers. If you are looking for quality and customizable indoor or outdoor vehicle covers please go check them out.  www.vikingcovers.co.uk We'll be telling you more about these guys soon - stay tuned. Support the show We’d love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media. www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcast www.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcast www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscar If you’d like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee’ which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom. Get in touch with us direct - MyDadsCarPodcast@gmail.com

    7 min

  8. 12/02/2025

    Mike Brewer from TV Wheeler Dealers: My Dad built custom cars, and even modified his diesel Ford S-Max S7 E3 Recorded at NEC Classic Car Show

    Send us a text It was a real pleasure to sit down with the legend that is Mike Brewer at the NEC Classic Car Show. We recorded this live, in front of lots of people, so please excuse the blip in sound quality - we've done the best with what we had.  Things start off with a real 'one off' hat flying out the car and back in again earliest car memory, before we hear about the custom cars his Dad built, including the Ford Pop called 'Pinball Wizard' which has been replicated a number of times in tribute.   In later life Mike recounts the tale of sourcing a sensible car for his Dad to drive his Mum around in. He delivers a Ford S-Max, but his Dad isn't impressed.  However, it only takes a few miles and he's smitten, a few months later he's modified it... lowered on split rim wheels, carbon bonnet and mirrors! He just can't stop it!!  We hope you enjoy this episode, and please do take a moment to look up Mikes TV program Born Dealer which we reference a number of times whilst chatting.  A big thanks to our new podcast sponsor Viking Covers. If you are looking for quality and customizable indoor or outdoor vehicle covers please go check them out.  www.vikingcovers.co.uk We'll be telling you more about these guys soon - stay tuned. Support the show We’d love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media. www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcast www.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcast www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscar If you’d like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee’ which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom. Get in touch with us direct - MyDadsCarPodcast@gmail.com

    28 min
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Join Andy and Jon, two friends who have discussions with invited guests about their personal relationships with automotive nostalgia and family history. Each episode kicks off with us asking our guest “what’s your earliest car memory?”From there it’s a journey back through time towards the modern day, but generally focusing on vehicles we remember from childhood.We ask about siblings, neighbours, music, smells, smoking, breakdowns, selling, buying, accidents and more. Despite the podcast title, we don’t discriminate against cars belonging to other people, such as Mum’s, Gran’s, Uncle’s, Aunts, friends, or even a neighbours. If those cars made an impression, we want to talk about them.  Season 1 - February - May 2023Season 2 - July 2023 - November 2023Season 3 - November 2023 - March 2024Season 4 - April 2024 - September 2024Season 5 - October 2024 - March 2025 Season 6 - April 2025 - August 2025 Season 7 - November 2025 - Hosted by Andy Gregory and Jon Recknell. Want to be a guest? Get in touch mydadscarpodcast@gmail.comEnjoying the podcast? You can support us with with a one off or monthly donation. www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscarVisit our website: www.mydadscar.co.uk 

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