To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Your First Car Tells The Story
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Remember your first car? That freedom with the windows down, your favorite song playing, and your best friends laughing in the backseat? Every car tells a story—and those automotive stories reveal who we really are.
Welcome to our podcast, To All The Cars I've Loved Before, where we celebrate automotive nostalgia through personal car stories from everyday car enthusiasts, father-son auto restoration teams, father-daughter automotive adventurers, and families passing down car culture across generations. From first car stories and forgotten beaters to Jeep Wrangler adventures, classic VW Beetle tales, vintage car dreams, and auto restoration projects, we explore automotive memories through the vehicles that shaped our lives.
What Makes Us Different: We hold nothing back except politics, new car reviews, and focusing only on celebrities. This isn't another industry podcast—it's about automotive history told through YOUR experiences. Whether it's your first ride, learning to drive, or the car that changed everything, we share your automotive stories with classic car collectors, restoration junkies, and everyday drivers. Because automotive stories are life stories.
What You’ll Hear: Real people sharing real automotive memories—from father-daughter DeLorean projects to first-generation immigrants learning American car culture through a beat-up sedan. We feature car enthusiasts who’ve restored classic cars, students training in car restoration, and anyone with a first car story worth telling. Every episode proves your automotive history is your personal history.
Your Hosts: Doug and Christian—two friends who believe the best automotive stories come from everyday people, not just collectors and experts. We’ve loved everything from project cars to dream machines, and we know that vintage car memories and personal car stories connect us all.
Perfect for: Road trips, commutes, or anyone who still remembers that feeling of freedom—windows down, music up, going nowhere in particular but loving every minute.
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Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Ever daily drive a car from 1928? Cash does. And his golden retriever rides in the rumble seat. Doug and Christian sit down with Cash and Chris from McPherson College's automotive restoration program, and what starts as a conversation about classic car education becomes something much deeper. There's a reason Cash bought his 1928 Model A sport coupe right after high school and made it his everyday driver. There's a rea...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Join hosts Christian and Doug as they welcome automotive television royalty—John Davis, creator, host, and executive producer of MotorWeek, the longest-running automotive magazine show in television history. For 45 years and over 1,900 episodes, John Davis has shaped how generations experience automotive journalism. Discover how a young producer at Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser had a vision in 1978 to brin...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! In 1975, before he became MotorWeek's trusted voice for 45 seasons, John Davis had a purchase decision to make: Jensen Interceptor or De Tomaso Pantera? Both were exotic cars with American engines he could actually work on. He chose the Pantera—specifically a two-year-old 1973 L model he found in Norfolk, Virginia. The catch? A family bought it for their son's high school graduation. The son promptly wrecked it. They h...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Fifteen years ago, Adam Olalde knocked on every supercar dealership and exotic car owner's door in Chicago with an audacious pitch: "Can I borrow your Ferrari? I'm putting together this cool thing." Enough people said yes. His first track day event? Pure comedy. No helmets, no walkie-talkies, just people in borrowed supercars told to "go that way." Most spun into the sand and never made it back around. He charged $150 ...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Learning manual transmission is nerve-wracking. Learning it the day before driving your first car across the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance podium at age 11? That's how classic car dealer Colleen Sheehan started. Her first car was a 1930 BMW—nicknamed "Sputter"—that her father took as commission when a collection buyer said, "I don't care about that car." Colleen got it at age 8. At 11, she earned 3rd in class at Peb...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! What happens when a 16-year-old buys a doorless, topless Jeep Wrangler with Bar Mitzvah money, then inherits his dad's Tesla with no way to pay for it? Rei Vardi turned a college student's nightmare into a thriving business. His 1995 Jeep Wrangler—complete with red rims, no airbags, and a top speed of 50 mph—taught him to love driving. But when his father's 2015 Tesla Model S became his problem to solve, Rei discovered...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Three days before his 16th birthday—days before he could finally get his license—Nigel Tunnacliffe's brother totaled his first car. The Skoda 135 GLi he'd saved $500 to buy. Gone. Most people would give up. Nigel bought a Mark 1 Toyota MR2 and proceeded to blow through FIVE engines. Yes, five. The first one ran out of oil. The engines from Japan had ticking valves. The Suzuki Forsa track car with the Subaru turbo? Ble...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! What happens when a daughter secretly buys her father's 27-year dream car—a 1997 Dodge Viper GTS with 140,000 miles—while he's on an RV trip across the country? Caroline and James from HH Wheels (200+ YouTube videos, 33-car collection) join us for one of the wildest father-daughter automotive stories we've ever recorded. James has wanted a Viper GTS since 1996. Caroline made it happen in 2023—without telling him. Then...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! What happens when a kid rebuilds a rare British Berkeley B.95 for £15 and grows up in the shadow of Silverstone Circuit? Dirk Dekker's childhood was unlike most—living near the legendary Silverstone meant rubbing shoulders with F1 royalty. But the story of how a teenage Dirk actually met Jim Clark? That's something you need to hear in his own words. From that £15 Berkeley to becoming a Porsche 911 track instructor at...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! At 14 years old, Jeremy and his father tackled a project most mechanics wouldn't touch: a complete 1974 Ford Mustang II rebuild. What started as grease under fingernails and late nights in the garage became an ASE certification, an IT career, and eventually entrepreneurial ventures that would surprise anyone who knew him as "the Mustang kid." Most people remember the Mustang II as Ford's controversial answer to the f...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Every car enthusiast has THE car. For Curt Bellotti, it was always the DeLorean. But before he could afford his dream, there was a 1984 Chrysler Laser XE Turbo with a digital dashboard straight out of Knight Rider. That car taught Curt something crucial about the relationship between desire, patience, and finally getting what you've always wanted. Fast forward to 2024: Curt finally owns a 1981 DeLorean. But is the re...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Some car enthusiasts are born. Others need convincing. Dave's father was definitely the latter when it came to VW Beetles. Growing up with a dad who didn't understand the appeal of air-cooled Volkswagens, Dave faced a challenge: how do you make a skeptic fall in love with a car they've written off? The answer involves patience, persistence, and one very specific Beetle that changed everything. This episode explores t...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Croom's first "car" was a Ford 1000 Tractor. His second was a 1984 Mercedes 240D diesel that he drove into the ground—and kept driving. Most people see a Mercedes diesel from the '80s as just another old car. Croom saw it as a philosophy: build something right once, maintain it properly, and it'll outlast everything around it. That same thinking would eventually guide him from farm life to the cutting edge of healthca...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Matt wanted a Honda Civic. He ended up building Top Coat Garage, where paint jobs "swim in depth" and customers bring cars you'd see at SEMA. The journey from dreaming about an affordable Honda to running a custom paint shop specializing in show-quality finishes wasn't linear. It involved learning hard lessons about spray gun selection, paint booth operations, and why some paint jobs look flat while others have that m...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Most law enforcement officers drive American muscle or practical trucks. Deputy Dave dreams about importing Japan's tiniest, most impractical vehicles: JDM Kei vans. His automotive journey started with an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme—as American as it gets. But somewhere between patrol duties and car shows, Dave discovered a whole universe of miniature Japanese commercial vehicles that most Americans don't know exist. N...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Rob's first car was a Mustang. Today, he's the guy photographing the most expensive, rarest, and most modified cars at SEMA. The gap between "kid with a Mustang" and "professional automotive photographer at the world's biggest car show" is wider than most people realize. It's not just about getting a good camera—it's about understanding car culture deeply enough that you know which angle tells the real story. SEMA is...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Krystal Proffitt's first car was a hand-me-down truck from her dad. It was brown—"Doo-Doo Brown," to be exact—and it advertised his business on the sides. Try being a teenager when your vehicle is literally a mobile advertisement for your father's company. Every time you drive anywhere, you're representing the family business whether you want to or not. Every parking lot becomes a potential networking opportunity. Eve...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Brian's first car was a 1973 Chevy pickup. Years later, he discovered it had appeared in the John Waters film *Cry Baby*. Most people find out their first car has some quirky history—maybe it belonged to someone interesting, or has high mileage, or survived a minor fender bender. Brian found out his truck was in a cult classic film starring Johnny Depp. That's a different level of automotive backstory. The question b...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Some cars get sold. Some get scrapped. Justin's 1963 Corvair Monza Spyder has been in his family for three generations—and counting. When a car passes through multiple generations, it stops being just transportation. It becomes a living timeline of family history, mechanical evolution, and the question every generation asks: do we keep it or let it go? The Corvair has a controversial reputation (thanks, Ralph Nader),...
Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia! Tom Wolfe's first car was a 1967 Dodge Coronet 440. Today, he's the CEO of Ziebart International, the company famous for rust-proofing vehicles. The connection between a '67 Mopar muscle car and a career protecting vehicles from corrosion isn't obvious at first. But when you understand what it means to own a classic car in rust belt territory, the dots connect. Every classic car owner knows the enemy: rust. Tom built ...
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