Send us a text

We welcome Tom McCooey, a journalist and author onto our podcast to chat about his parents cars, and in particular an MG Magnette called Maggie.
The car had previously last been used in 1983 and was his parent's wedding car.  After his father passed away in 2016, his mother offered him the car and he set about restoring it.
Financially it should never have been saved, but the vehicle lives, and was the basis for a book which is now available to buy.
Maggie – A Lifelong MG Love Affair - Scratching Shed Publishing

Beyond this car we chat about a Mk2 Fiesta with no rear seat belts, mini disc players and ipods, a Montego Estate with the 'vomit seats' a pair of aging BMWS which sounded posh, but Tom assures us really weren't.
These were later replaced by the Zafira, and then a Vauxhall Agila, which he learnt to drive in.

In this episode we also discuss how Tom's father passed away, likewise what led to Andy's Dad and Jon's Dad's checking out early, and what we would have done given the opportunity to take on our Father's cars.

Hope you enjoy this one. 

A big thanks to our new podcast sponsor Viking Covers.

If you are looking for quality and customizable indoor or outdoor vehicle covers please go check them out. 

www.vikingcovers.co.uk

We'll be telling you more about these guys soon - stay tuned.

Support the show

We’d love you to hear and share your stories, please tag and follow us on social media.

www.instagram.com/mydadscar_podcast

www.Facebook.com/mydadscar podcast

www.buymeacoffee.com/mydadscar

If you’d like to support the podcast and are able to, you can ‘buy us a coffee’ which will help towards costs of hosting and purchasing equipment to allow us to record guests in person, rather than just on zoom.

Get in touch with us direct - [email protected]