Welcome to the Collecting Cars.com podcast with Chris Harris and Edward Love it.

Hello and welcome to another Collecting Cars podcast special day for me here because I'm

currently sitting near Hereford with one of my heroes.

He's called Nicky Grist, and he sat next to some of the best drivers on the planet.

He's also a raconteur beyond compare.

So you want to follow him on Twitter, he's at Nicky Griss. He's got his

Motor Sport apparel business now including Steeler helmets which is at

was that Nicky Griss motorsport? Nicky

motorsports yeah. Yeah they see I know all of those things. You see me on Nicky Grgirus motorsports yeah you see me on Nickigress.com if we're going to do a serious plug

if you go to any event you see an N.G it's not a biscuit manufacturer it's genuinely

Nicky Grish motorsports so Nicky thank you very much for

hosting us at your place of work I want to start at the beginning with you because

you're mostly asked about the people that you drove with, but let's hear about you.

We don't hear about you enough.

So let's start at the beginning.

You're born in, where?

Eber Vale?

I was born in Eber Vale, so I'm a Welsh lad through and through, spent all of my time basically

in Wales but my first real love was not cars at all.

As a youngster I wasn't interested in it. And it was golf and I started playing

golf at a very young age, introduced to it by my grandfather. And you know, when I got to the age of leaving school, you know, I left as soon as I could

because I just wanted to get into golf business and I was a system pro at Momshire Golf Club in Abigavenny

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