Fuelling Round podcast: Kevin McCloud on his love of Grand Designs and delightful vehicles – Cyber Tech

TV royalty Kevin McCloud is the most recent big-name visitor to look on Fuelling Round as the favored motoring podcast returns for a ninth collection.

The presenter of the long-lasting Channel 4 present Grand Designs, which not too long ago celebrated its twenty fifth birthday, joined co-hosts Jason Plato and Dave Vitty to disclose extra about his time fronting the nation’s favorite homebuilding programme.

He additionally shared equally fascinating insights about his love of gorgeous vehicles, his ideas on the way in which they’re constructed and the way forward for driving in the course of the episode.

Kevin McCloud on his unconventional first automobile 

Through the podcast, the TV star joked about his first automobile having greater than a few design flaws. 

“My dad stated ‘I’ve purchased a automobile on your birthday’ and I believe it had price him £40,” the designer, author and family title stated in the course of the episode.

“You need to hear very fastidiously to determine this automobile. It was a Bond 875 three-wheeler. It’s not the Bond Bug, that seemed prefer it might need been designed by Marcello Gandini for his child son. My Bond three-wheeler had a Hillman Imp engine, an excellent little engine over the again axle, and seemed like a cross between a bumper automobile and a coffin.

“It had dark-green fibreglass, it was simply terr(ible)…it was actually good-looking [said sarcastically]. When my dad stated he purchased it for my birthday, he really purchased it for his three sons as a result of he thought it might be a factor we may all drive – and we did certainly. I drove it for about three years, I went to school, then my brother drove it. He managed to do nice issues with it and managed to show it over right into a ditch within the snow.

“My youngest brother took a rotary noticed to it and turned it right into a convertible, which you may do, in fact, with the fibreglass. It was an incredible automobile since you may take the spare wheel off the entrance, put it on the again seat, push the driving force’s seat proper again and you may do a wheelie down the street.

“The 2 sliding aspect home windows you may not open each of them on the similar time. In the event you did, the air strain was such that the again window would come out and disappear down the street.”

Lots extra episodes of Fuelling Round to get pleasure from

The lights have turned inexperienced for collection 9 however there’s an entire host of nice episodes to wrap your ears round in case you haven’t listened to the present earlier than.

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