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22102020 #BCGBulletin – Headed over to the Festival Place shopping mall over in Basingstoke to check out the British Motor Show Pop-Up Motor Show event there – free entry and it’s on till 24th December 2020 – plenty to see and do!
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Continue reading “How much of a Petrolhead are you?”‘Brown Car Guy & Buddies’ – Abdulla Jaafari has gone from covering illegal street racing / drifting on the strees of Amman, Jordan, to shooting the Pininfarina Battista in Dubai. Plus dune drag with the Mercedes AMG G-Class 4×4 Squared – a video that’s got him nearly 8 million views on YouTube, and of course drifting… lots and lots of drifting. In fact I first met him at a drift event at Umm Al Quwain, where he was coverinng Jordan’s drift king, Ahmad Daham. https://www.instagram.com/abdullajaafari
Hilarious chat with former Dubai Eye radio host, Podcaster/YouTuber and full-time university lecturer – the Jeep-driving, Hawaiian-shirt wearing, irrepressibly energetic Canadian – Prof James Piecowye.
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Another episode in which I catch up with a friend – but this one is different. Farrukh Ahmed, based in the UAE, is himself a podcaster – check out FarrukhTalks! So he took the lead on this one, and turned the spotlight on me! We covered more of my journey as a Brown Car Guy and the obstacles in the career path I obstinately choose, plus overcoming shyness and advice for those looking to follow in our footsteps.
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A very special, and hilarious, episode in which I talk about the unique challenges, particularly for me, in being a car guy as a brown or Asian person, and then on top of that, to actually (through blind determination and ignoring all the naysayers) choose to forge a career in automotive and motoring media and journalism, and still be struggling with that choice to the present day. I reveal funny episodes involving a Ferrari F40 and Samosas and ponder what I’d look like in other professions.
Continue reading “It’s Not Easy being a Brown Car Guy!”Following up from yesterday’s conversation with Imthishan about the Cannonball Run record being broken during this lockdown, I try to balance the ethical and moral dillemma of doing what all us petrolheads would love to do, against doing the right and responsible thing – which is to stay home, protect the medical services and save lives. There’s reports of nutters behaving badly on British roads from GEM Motoring Assist.
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Continue reading “Cannonball Run Sequel, Lovliest Lotus Ever & McLaren, stop launching Supercars!”You can either only use your car for essential journeys or not at all – how can you look after it whilst it’s not being used? I reveal the best tips and advice in this video. Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this.
