S10 Ep9: Simon Gregson – Owning a Renault 5 Turbo at 18, lit the fire for my love of performance cars!
In the final episode of this series of Fuelling Around, Jason and Dave are joined by actor Simon Gregson who's played Steve McDonald in Coronation Street for the last 35 years! When he's not been out on the cobbles or propping up the bar in the Rovers Return, Simon has clearly been busy buying and selling cars, as he's certainly had plenty of stock over the last 3 decades! From a Renault 5 Turbo to a Ferrari 328, Simon's had them all and his car collection shows no sign of slowing down, as is apparent, as he walks the lads through his varied and eclectic garage!
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S10 Ep8: Justin Hawkins: The first time I did Top Gear, The Stig said I had a natural talent on track!
He's the ultimate rock 'n' roll frontman, but Justin Hawkins from The Darkness also possesses a penchant for performance cars, and like his catsuits, he likes them to be exotic and flamboyant! This is a brilliant episode as Jason and Dave take a walk down Justin's memory lane of motors, and talk about his future days on track, now that he's passed his ARDS racing licence!
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S10 Ep7: Brilliant world records, crazy inventions and a constant disregard for health and safety with Colin Furze!
He's without doubt one of the biggest stars of YouTube, and has built a following of galactic proportions! Colin Furze is an engineer, an adventurer and a real life inspector gadget! He's built a secret bunker in his garden and an underground tunnel that links said bunker to his house, plus there's also a subterranean garage that will house his prized Delorean! Oh and he's a bit of a petrolhead as well, although Colin's approach to cars is like his approach to most things in life, ever so slightly unconventional! This is a brilliant episode and one to certainly watch, like and share, while not worrying too much about the lack of a traditional risk assessment!
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S10 Ep6: Buying and selling the finest cars in the world, with Tom Hartley Jnr!
He was brought up in his father's prestigious luxury car garage, but Tom Hartley Jnr had plans to create the ultimate car dealership trading the world's most exquisite classic and performance cars, and that's exactly what he's done from his base in the midlands! When you've sold individual rarities for more than £60m each and have your eyes set on several trillion pounds worth of future business deals, then this is clearly no ordinary garage, as Tom explains to Jason and Dave in this jaw dropping episode!
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S10 Ep5: Inside Dario Franchitti’s garage and his insane car collection!
This week Jason introduces Dave to his old mate Dario Franchitti. Jason and Dario raced together when they were much younger, before Dario moved to the states to become a big name in Indy Car. He won the championship four times and the infamous Indy 500 three times, and despite some terrifying crashes, is still around to tell the tales. These days his life is a much more sedate one, and his success has afforded him a fantasy garage of automotive exotica, which he's happy to give the lads a tour of, 'provided it doesn't make me sound like a dick' he says, which of course it most certainly doesn't!
This is the podcast for Petrolheads. Join professional racing driver Jason Plato and lover of all things automotive, Dave Vitty, for some quality car chat, and some very famous passengers joining them for the ride. Fuelling Around is powered by Adrian Flux.
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