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The Intercooler

How Australian journalists changed car magazines forever #159

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8868 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined this week by Ti contributor Gavin Green. A former editor of Car magazine, Gavin has been writing about cars, motorsport and the car industry since the early 1980s. One of five successive Australian journalists to sit in the editor's chair at Car magazine, Gavin knows better than most how a small band of Aussie journalists rewrote the car magazine rulebook.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.

0:06.7

Welcome to episode 159 of the Intercooler Podcast everybody with me Dan Prosser and Andrew

0:12.2

Frankle my co-host and we're joined this week by a guest

0:15.2

Gavin Green who is an eminent Australian car journalist been living and working in the UK for a few decades now, former editor of

0:25.9

Carr magazine and now contributing to the intercooler.

0:29.9

He's a fantastic writer.

0:32.4

We are delighted to have him on board and in this episode he explains he

0:36.4

talks about his early racing career and the crash that pretty much ended it all. He also

0:41.8

talks about how he got involved in car journalism, how and why he came

0:45.3

over to Europe and he talks about editing car magazine. It's an interesting discussion and we

0:50.5

also talk about what's going on in the market now that it's

0:53.9

three years since COVID hit and caused all sorts of issues in the car market.

1:00.1

Before we get into that though please let me remind you all to rate and review the

1:06.0

podcast it's really important it helps us a lot and while you're doing it just open

1:09.7

up the app whichever app you're using to listen to this podcast and hit the follow button or

1:13.9

hit the subscribe button it really helps and it doesn't take you more than a couple of

1:17.9

seconds so please do that and enjoy the episode we're joined this week by one of our

1:22.2

newer writers but also one of our most illustrious writers,

1:27.0

Gavin Green.

1:29.0

Gavin, good to have you on the podcast.

1:31.0

Now, it's a good time to have you on the podcast because as we record this we've just published

1:35.8

your most recent piece for the intercooler which is about the skyline

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