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With the prize for the 'Best Live Stand Demonstration' at "Practical Classics Restoration Show 2026" going to the Citroen Car Club for their live demonstration of the Citroen DS Hydropneumatic suspension, Andrew and I needed to find out more. The solution was to talk to legend of the club, Nigel Wild.

The key to a successful demonstration at the NEC is making it accessible to the audience. Nigel can get an explanation of the difference between constant spring rate and infinitely rising spring rate across to Andrew and myself so well that we will think we have an engineering degree!

We also discover the cars from other manufacturers that have been influenced by Citroen and find out what car Alex Moulton drove.

How about restoring a bus? Easier than you might think! We take a look at the Boris Routemaster and compare it to the original and learn about the design and engineering that made them so fit for purpose.

Do we need to fix Stellantis? Are there reminders of British Leyland? Should we be worried? And where do the Chinese fit in?

All will be revealed...

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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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