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Well the interviewer has become the interviewee as we hand over the reins of Three Car Garage to Simon Coulson. This time, to ease things in gentle we get to delve the thoughts of David, the usual presenter for Retro Rides. With choices ranging from Japanese rarities, through to stylish grand tourers and a very practical family car we arrive at a three car garage that should let David enjoy all aspects of his car life in comfort and/or style.  There is also a bunch of discussion about what wasn't picked, which feels like cheating...

Exciting new Podcast format time for us.  Today we ask car illustrator, Retro Rides admin and all round car dude Simon Coulson to pick his three car garage, money no object, but these are the only three cars you can have forever more. Did you enjoy it?  Head to the forum and tell us what you thought : https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/215375/  

We're very pleased to have grabbed an hour of Chris Pollitt from Car & Classic and his own Not 2 Grand blog to chat about cheaper older cars, misadventures, surprisingly good cars, Morgans, Limp Bizkit headlamp violence, never learning and, fixing a car with a Pepsi can on a campsite.  Such is the life of our friend Chris.  Hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we did recording it. We even managed to edit out the pre-record stuff at the start this time... *cough*

Today we're talking to a man who celebrates the average, Mr. Hubnut himself, Ian Seabrook. A long time friend of Retro Rides our conversation meanders through how he got started doing Hubnut, cars that have surprised him in both good and bad ways, the decline of the British car industry, the misunderstood gem that is the Honda Prelude, as well as road trips, those average and not so average cars. Hopefully you'll enjoy the conversation as much as I did. His channel (if you don't know already) is  @HubNut  on Youtube. If you fancy some more old car chat drop by https://forum.retro-rides.org

Super pleased to joined by Dave Smith, editor of the relaunched Street Machine magazine and previously editor at American Car Magazine.  We chat about how he got in to cars, his route to American cars, relaunching Street Machine, content for magazines, electric vehicles, Max Power, the future of modifying and all sorts of other stuff.  Always a lovely time chatting to Dave.  

Iain Kelly (aka Marv) is an automotive writer from Australia, working with the likes of Street Machine magazine as well as authoring the Mighty Car Mods book (and lending his skills with a spanner to them occasionally).  He has a great depth of knowledge of the Australian scene as well as a deep well of stories to pull from.  A very enjoyable chat was had covering cars, meeting your automotive heroes and the changes in what is an acceptable amount of power in a road car. Find Iain on IG at : aka_marv Retro Rides Forum for more car chat : https://forum.retro-rides.org ... yes we're still very active!

In this episode Simon and David chat to Dan Haines about car projects, where to start (and where not to start!), how to complete them, where our ideas come from and some of our favourite future builds.

Rob Richardson also known as Racer86 has a catalogue of modified cars under his belt that helped defined the retro scene in the UK. From Minis to Vauxhalls to Porsche and classic British tin, Rob has turned his hand to it all and created legendary cars. Well worth an hour of your time to get in to the head of a car builder who we will always look forward to seeing the next project from.

Darren is a wealth of knowledge and experience which he communicates via his excellent Reallyloudcars Instagram account.  A long time associate of Retro Rides his interesting car life starts a long time before we existed though and covers a wide range of cars from aircooled VWs to the fledgling Japanese classics scene in the UK. We talk his car history, the current state of cars, photographing scrap yards and why an electric Ferrari 308 isn't a bad thing.  Find him on instagram at @reallyloudcars

Really pleased to get the other half of Smith and Sniff on to the podcast, for a fairly lengthy chat as it turns out.  We cover how he got in to cars and how he ended up script editing on Top Gear, with some behind the scenes tales of the relaunch.  We chat Sniffpetrol, weird TV editing decisions, how poor gear changes ruin cars and swanning around in Rolls Royces, among other things.  Grab yourself a cup of tea (or two) and enjoy. Richard's new book can be found here : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Medium-sized-Book-Boring-Car-Trivia-ebook/dp/B087BC6RTD/ for some delicious car trivia.

Our question for Simon from Amy arrived after we'd recorded our podcast interview, however we managed to get Simon back to pose the question and talk a bit about selecting photographers for magazine features.

Simon Woolley is the editor of Classic Ford magazine and the man who launched Retro Cars magazine way back in 2004. A long time friend of Retro Rides he brings an interesting perspective on magazines and car media.  We chat about his early car life, his route in to the magazine industry, launching Retro Cars and the state of play with magazines in the current climate.

This week we're talking road trips. Joining us is Andy who you may have seen on our SEMA videos, a regular organiser of road trips, here to give advice and top tips for making the most of your trips.  So whether you are thinking of a big international road going adventure or just heading a little further afield for events, jump on in and hopefully we can inspire you (once we're allowed out again!).

Amy Shore shot to recognition with her more candid approach to car event photography and a very identifiable style.  Now firmly established as one of the UK's most in demand automotive photographers Amy is enjoying the challenge of road trips, the atmosphere of events and embracing the opportunities presented to her. In this podcast we talk about how she started out, what makes a good road trip, nerd out about photography and chat about her cars. I also repeatedly get the date I first became aware of her work wrong, so you can enjoy that too.

Larry Chen is a world renowned photographer whose work has appeared in Speedhunters, Motorhead, Super Street, as well as for manufacturers like Toyota and now is firmly a part of the Hoonigans family with his own Autofocus channel.  Here we chat about cars, the life of a photographer and of course the photography itself. Catch him at Hoonigan Autofocus : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuGuOqcXsgzL3YrguODoGXw larry_chen_photo on Instagram https://www.larrychenphoto.com/ Come and check out the Retro Rides community : https://forum.retro-rides.org

Retro Rides catches up with Cal at Retropower to discuss building incredible cars for incredible people, and how that all started.  We also have a little chat around form over function, how ridiculously fast some of the RP cars are driven and what Callum enjoyed at SEMA.  Recorded over Skype via a telephone so audio quality is adequate, but not great, however the conversation more than makes up for that.

David and Simon take a run through how winners are decided at Retro Rides events, the difficulty of judging cars, the difficulty in building cohesive cars and what makes its way in to the Retro Rides *Oooof* thread now days.

Long time car journalist, now video producer with Outrun Films, a true retro car fan from way back, we chat to Bryn Musselwhite about how he got in to cars, his career in journalism, a brief stint as a children's TV presenter, going 240mph with Juan Pablo Montoya and all the bits in between.

Retro Rides podcast caught up with retro car enthusiast and general all round good guy Jonny Smith, to chat about old cars, the journey to being a journalist, a bit of tv and electric cars.  Always a man with an interesting story and interesting take on things, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.   Check him out at: www.youtube.com/carpervert www.youtube.com/smithandsniff   Or on the social medias: Twitter: @carpervert Instagram: @jonnycarpervert

David and Simon return to podcasting with a mildly rambling episode that covers the history of the forum, a weekend trip to Japan for a car show, early days of Retro Rides and some insight in to the running of it all.  Our first episode back after a 4 years break, so be gentle. Hit up the forum at : retro-rides.org