Iain Tyrrell | Tyrrell's Classic Cars - A Life Working On Italian Cars
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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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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