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Having seen the buzz around the Commonwealth Car Club stand at Pride of Longbridge last year, Brian and Andrew felt that this matter needed further investigation. The invite went out and was accepted - Jonathan and Cat from the Commonwealth Car Club join us today to explain all.

We hear about word being passed around Longbridge on a 'need to know' basis that 60 cars would be required for a secret "stunt" at a certain location: the chosen few and their cars were in fact to be part of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Experience our guests sharing with us what being part of this tremendous event was like from inside the cars.

Unbeknown to all at the time, the ceremony also heralded the beginning of the Commonwealth Car Club, a club which has grown to more than 8000 members in just 4 years, with two NEC classic car shows in the bag already, and staging their own celebrated events.

Listen now and find out how it all happened.

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Following on from last week's podcast with the guys from Crossley Motorsport and their Jowett Jupiter, this week Brian and Andrew remember that other stalwart of the classic motor racing scene, the Austin A30/A35. If you want to find out more about these cars there is, of course, only one place to go and that is the Austin A30/A35 Owners Club.

We are pleased to welcome Melanie from the club, who shares with us that this year the cars celebrate their 75th birthday, with the club itself starting in 1970, when the last of the A35 vans were just 2 years old.

We find out how an Austin A30 or A35 comprehensively beats an Aston Martin, even without a tuning kit from Speedwell or being driven by Graham Hill. It was Melanie's first car but she didn't have it from new, obviously!

Going home sideways in the snow and, if you had an inflatable A35, how would you blow it up?

We've seen the Lions of Longleat, let's go camping... and why a sunroof is always desirable.

An A30/A35 - it's hereditary thing - once in the family, always in the family.

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Having seen a beautiful Jowett Jupiter classic racing car on the Crossley Motor Sport stand at Race Retro this year, 3 On The Column Classic Car Podcast just had to find out more.

Edward, Jack and Manny from Crossley agreed to join us and tell us what it is like to restore and race this classic Jowett: from the lads' first meeting on the Formula Student project at Birmingham University, to the restoration, the race preparation and the competing in the Lemans classic, as well as a full-on season of classic car racing. This is also a story of the support received from the Jowett Car Club, a classic car club that has the foresight to appreciate how important it is to get young people interested in, and ultimately to secure a future for, these classic Jowett cars.

Plus why is the classic Mini Cooper such a brilliant racing car? If you can restore a Mini, you can restore an Aston DB4: yes, it is that simple! Here's the story so far of the barn find DB4 that was featured in the Bangers and Cash UK TV programme.

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