Specialists

He Started Vigilante 4x4 To Build The Best Jeeps You Can Find

Daniel Van Doveren is the founder of Vigilante 4x4, a Jeep Restomod Company based in the USA. Here is an excerpt from our longer podcast which you can find on your podcasts platform (apple, spotify etc.)

Audio Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/daniel-van-doveren-vigilante-4x4-restomodding-iconic/id1432553826?i=1000652490521

https://www.vigilante4x4.com/

Enjoy,

Sam

A Life Working On Italian Cars w. Iain Tyrrell

Iain Tyrrell is the founder of Tyrrell's Classic Cars. Iain joins me to talk about his journey to date working on these incredible Italian machines. He's handled everything from engine tunes to full restorations but specialises in getting the mechanical parts right. Iain now has a very popular youtube channel where he deep dives into some of the cars he works on. We also cover Iain's other passion music and you can find his latest single "Take Time Out" on spotify, itunes ete.

https://iaintyrrell.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/@UC2pQT90JBqbMHSVLtbJBvyw

"Take Time Out" - Iain Tyrrell

https://open.spotify.com/album/3u0b36j8M3FX482Oss4Zmk?si=NeSNbPiiS9m3lWykSs9I1A

Enjoy,

Sam

Show Notes:

00:00 - Intro

06:07 - Starting his own business

09:40 - Is it getting harder to work on old cars?

16:01 - Racing replicas, crashing 250 GTOs

23:45 - Restoring Italian cars

30:52 - The dream restoration

31:53 - Stand-out models to restore

37:21 - EV Chat

40:00 - Youtube success

42:47 - Restoring a boat

46:39 - Tuning a V12 by ear

53:35 - Iain’s music career

1:00:30 - Noises in cars

1:03:18 - Sourcing parts

1:12:29 - What is “right”?

1:14:52 - 5 questions