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The Retro Rides community podcast, discussing all things related to older modified cars, alternately interviewing interesting folk and shooting the breeze about car stuff that excites us.
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Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
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.
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
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.
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
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
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
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.
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
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.
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
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.
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
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!).
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
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.
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
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
Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 2020
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.