Chris Harris talks Cars with David Edmonston

The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris

Jonny Bunyan

Leisure, Comedy, Motoring, Classiccars, Chrisharris, Collectingcars, Cars, Automotive

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This week Chris Harris & Edward Lovett are in conversation with PistonHeads founder, David Edmonston (@PetrolTed).

They chat about the birth of one of the best known automotive brands on the internet, encounters with the police, and legendary threads from the forum.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Collecting Cars.
0:02.0	podcast with Chris Harris and Edward Lovett.
0:16.0	Hello and welcome to another Collecting Cars Podcast.
0:19.5	I'm Chris Harris, that's at Harris Monkey.
0:21.3	I'm here with Edward Love it at Edward Love it I'm here with Dave
0:25.6	Edmonston that is at petrol Ted and that last name that handle will give you
0:30.3	a clue to who he is now I'm excited about this because Dave founded piston heads and piston heads is I think the biggest single influence on the car media area certainly in Northern Europe of the last 20 years. So Dave, welcome to our
0:45.6	podcast and please allow me to now prime you for information about this
0:50.7	incredible beast that you created.
0:53.0	So from the start, what was piston heads?
0:57.0	And was it piston heads from the very start?
0:59.0	No, it wasn't.
1:00.0	It was born in December 98th as Petrel Heads Co- UK.
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:06.0	I'd recently got into the TVR scene.
1:10.0	I bought a S4C. I had that a few months and this was obviously around about the time
1:17.0	the internet was going mainstream. I worked in IT, as did most of the other TVR owners I knew at the time and I played with the internet
1:29.6	a bit put some stuff up as everyone did at the time you sort of create your own personal
1:33.6	website and mine was car related and I just thought I could see a sort of bit of a
1:41.4	window of an idea in that my frustration was I couldn't
1:45.2	get car news quickly enough. I've been reading or take over 30 odd years now that
1:51.0	was my fix I'll get the monthlies I'd be on various
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