To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Your First Car Tells The Story

Remember your first car? That freedom with the windows down, your favorite song playing, and your best friends laughing in the backseat? Every car tells a story—and those automotive stories reveal who we really are.

Welcome to our podcast, To All The Cars I've Loved Before, where we celebrate automotive nostalgia through personal car stories from everyday car enthusiasts, father-son auto restoration teams, father-daughter automotive adventurers, and families passing down car culture across generations. From first car stories and forgotten beaters to Jeep Wrangler adventures, classic VW Beetle tales, vintage car dreams, and auto restoration projects, we explore automotive memories through the vehicles that shaped our lives.

What Makes Us Different: We hold nothing back except politics, new car reviews, and focusing only on celebrities. This isn't another industry podcast—it's about automotive history told through YOUR experiences. Whether it's your first ride, learning to drive, or the car that changed everything, we share your automotive stories with classic car collectors, restoration junkies, and everyday drivers. Because automotive stories are life stories.

What You’ll Hear: Real people sharing real automotive memories—from father-daughter DeLorean projects to first-generation immigrants learning American car culture through a beat-up sedan. We feature car enthusiasts who’ve restored classic cars, students training in car restoration, and anyone with a first car story worth telling. Every episode proves your automotive history is your personal history.

Your Hosts: Doug and Christian—two friends who believe the best automotive stories come from everyday people, not just collectors and experts. We’ve loved everything from project cars to dream machines, and we know that vintage car memories and personal car stories connect us all.

Perfect for: Road trips, commutes, or anyone who still remembers that feeling of freedom—windows down, music up, going nowhere in particular but loving every minute.

To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Your First Car Tells The Story

Episodes

45 Years of MotorWeek, John Davis' Unforgettable Pantera:

From Borrowed Ferraris to 70-Car Fleet: The Xtreme Experience

First Car at 8, Ferrari Dealer at 30: Colleen Sheehan's BMW Story

Your Jeep Wrangler was used in a bank robbery? Plus starting an EV Revolution

Driving Instructor's Car Evolution: From $500 Skoda to Multiple Miatas

Secret Viper GTS: A Father-Daughter Dream Car Story

Porsche 911 Track Instructor: Teaching HPDE & Living the Air-Cooled Dream

1974 Mustang II: Defending America's Most Hated Mustang

DeLorean DMC-12 & Chrysler Laser: Curt's 1980s Icon Collection

Seven VW Beetles, Five Decades: Converting Dad from Skeptic to Believer

Why I Drove Mercedes Diesels for Decades—Then Switched to Tesla

From Honda Civic Dreams to Custom Paint Empire: The NSX Hunt and Color Secrets

Paramedic to Sheriff: Why This Cop Collects VW Beetles & JDM Kei Vans

SEMA Show Photographer: Mustang Dreams to Industry Access

The Doo-Doo Brown Truck: First Car With Dad's Logo Still Haunts Me

The 1973 Chevy Pickup From Cry Baby: Brian's Movie Car Connection and Classic Truck Tales

1963 Corvair Monza Spyder: The Car Dad Courted Mom In Came Back

1967 Dodge Coronet 500-Mile Road Trip: Ziebart CEO Tom Wolfe's Origin Story

Intermittent Wipers: Dad's Basement Invention, Big Three Theft, Flash of Genius

Record-Speed Model T Build to Wayne Carini: McPherson Grad's Path

Skyline GT-R, Supra, RX-7: JDM Import Secrets from Japanese Auctions

Car Respray Lesson: Why She Fixed the Engine Last & Regretted It

The Songs That Drive Us: Our Guest-inspired Playlist

1989 Dodge Daytona: Dad Surprised Me; My Grades Improved; Dreams Came True

First Car Was a 200-MPH Supercar: Built Track Day Empire from It