Hello and welcome back to the Car Throttle podcast where Ethan Jack and I read out your emails, act as your automotive agony uncles and discuss unpopular opinions.

Oh, every time. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. Does that hit you? That's great singing. Thank you very much. I didn't expect that.

This week, we're joined by a man who's best known for sleeping upside down, as well as being

top gears, not longer serving stick, but you did eight years. James Bond stunt driver,

racing driver and author, Mr. Ben Collins. Thank you very much for being here. Great to be here, guys.

Very, very well, thank you. Yeah. How are you feeling? You feeling good? You're feeling pumped.

I feel strong. Yeah. You feel like you look strong. I don't know if I can take on three of you.

Well, it depends what kind of fight you're going to be doing. If it's naked wrestling,

then we're there. Right. Anyway, Ben, I said in the intro there that you are a published author. Yes.

And you have a new book. So let me just quickly whip that out. Here it is. Aston Martin.

Yeah. Tell us about it. Well, it was a, this is, yeah, this is the latest book. It's the history of

Aston Martin. Over 100 years of fast-paced history making. And I, this is, yeah, this is the latest book. It's the history of Aston Martin, over 100 years of fast-paced history making.

And I suppose, I mean, I love stories about people more than anything else.

So obviously a petrol head like you guys, but I didn't just want to write about cars.

I was more interested in the, I suppose, the passion of the people that were behind them.

So fortunately for me, because actually before going into this sort of research project,

my only knowledge was of driving these things in the movies and getting hold of them on top gear

and rinsing them, basically.

So in fact, I didn't really know a huge amount about the history other than watching

Bond movies as a kid.

So I really got to dive into the detail, went down into the

archives at Aston and picked out all this fascinating research and went through this sort of a series

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