http://passionate-about-cars.com How to survive the world of modern motoring Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:40:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 © andy@wireworldmedia.co.uk () andy@wireworldmedia.co.uk() 1440 Just another WordPress weblog andy@wireworldmedia.co.uk No no http://passionate-about-cars.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://passionate-about-cars.com 144 144 http://passionate-about-cars.com/2009/12/water-under-the-bridge-steves-rv/ http://passionate-about-cars.com/2009/12/water-under-the-bridge-steves-rv/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:11:03 +0000 admin http://passionate-about-cars.com/?p=92 http://passionate-about-cars.com/2009/12/water-under-the-bridge-steves-rv/feed/ 0 16:49 Steve talks about his personal challenges during our hiatus and shows us his new project, an RV Andy: Hello everyone. Wersquo;re back with lsquo;Passionate About Carsrsquo; ... Steve talks about his personal challenges during our hiatus and shows us his new project, an RV Andy: Hello everyone. Wersquo;re back with lsquo;Passionate About Carsrsquo; and with Steve. Alright Steve? Steve: Yeah, hi Andy. Seems to have been a while doesnrsquo;t it? Andy: Yeah, wersquo;ve been kind of off air ndash; sorry Steve you lead the way. Wersquo;re just going to the back. Wersquo;ve got an exciting project to talk about. Itrsquo;s kind of my fault and I do apologise wersquo;ve been off air for a year, wersquo;re back now with a vengeance. And the exciting thing is wersquo;ve got a new website, which if yoursquo;re listening to this on the website yoursquo;ll know about because yoursquo;re on it. But if yoursquo;re listening to it on the feed, through iTunes or something like that take a look at passionate-about-cars.com. You donrsquo;t need the www but you can put it there if you want. Thatrsquo;s the new website for hosting this wonderful podcast. Quite a lot of waterrsquo;s passed under the bridge the year wersquo;ve been off hasnrsquo;t it? Tell us whatrsquo;s been going on. Steve: Yeah well apart from motor trade, I mean therersquo;s always an awful lot going on in the motor trade ndash; business wise therersquo;s been a fair bit going on. And personally, I mean, as yoursquo;re aware Andy like I had a little bit of a scare a couple of months ago now, it was a heart attack actually. And it happened here at the garage and I think probably a lot of that will be down to stress of running a business, you know I mean some people might say diet and all this sort of thing like. But I used to smoke; Irsquo;m not a smoker now I gave that up quite a few years ago. Drink wise, no I used to drink years ago, you know in my sort of service days when quite a lot of us used to drink back then. But now therersquo;s really not an awful lot of alcohol passes the lips sohellip; So itrsquo;s not really down to that and the only thing I can put it down to is probably more the stress of running businesses, you know particularly in this day and age. Things get a little bit awkward from time to time. Therersquo;s an awful lot of things to sort out and whether you like it or not you find yourself getting stressed out and it happens. And I guess it happens to most people that are running businesses as I say particularly at the moment because things are quite sort of tough out there for people. The heart attack as I say happened here at work. Bit of a strange thing, wasnrsquo;t really what I expected, you know. When people talk about heart attacks the first thing you think about is chest pains. I didnrsquo;t really get chest pains. I had a little bit of what was seen to be a bit of indigestion and I know a lot of people have the same thing leading up to a heart attack. This was a little bit in the morning when I woke up. One of the main things I noticed at that time, that morning was my shoulders ached, particularly my left shoulder. I put it down to being in the gym. The previous day Irsquo;d had a bit of a workout in the gym and thought may be Irsquo;d overdone it a little bit so I put it down to a little bit of sort of may be muscle strain or something like that. But obviously it wasnrsquo;t and I came into work just feeling a little bit out of sorts, couldnrsquo;t really put your finger on it. Just felt a bit under the weather. By about sort of quarter past ten that morning I started to feel really nauseous and had to go to the loo in the garage and thought I was going to be bad but I wasnrsquo;t. I then just started sweating profusely. It was like someone threw a bucket of water over me. I was just totally soaked in sweat. Had to sit down and I felt really short of breath then, started struggling to breathe. And I guess I sort of suspected it was something to do with the heart at that time but I didnrsquo;t have the chest pains. So again I was like thinking like I gues... buying,a,car andy@wireworldmedia.co.uk no No http://passionate-about-cars.com/2008/03/3-mazda-rx7-with-rusty-a-frames/ http://passionate-about-cars.com/2008/03/3-mazda-rx7-with-rusty-a-frames/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:00:43 +0000 admin http://passionate-about-cars.com/?p=10 http://passionate-about-cars.com/2008/03/3-mazda-rx7-with-rusty-a-frames/feed/ 0 10:44 Steve shows us a 1985 Mazda RX7 with a rust problem on the A-frames revealed when the windscreen needed replacing. Listen out for a few ... Steve shows us a 1985 Mazda RX7 with a rust problem on the A-frames revealed when the windscreen needed replacing. Listen out for a few things to look out for when acquiring an older car. buying,a,car,,corrosion andy@wireworldmedia.co.uk no No http://passionate-about-cars.com/2007/11/2-get-a-cadillac/ http://passionate-about-cars.com/2007/11/2-get-a-cadillac/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:00:18 +0000 admin http://passionate-about-cars.com/?p=7 http://passionate-about-cars.com/2007/11/2-get-a-cadillac/feed/ 0 19:58 Steve shows me his pride and joy - a Cadillac, and talks about what can sometimes go wrong with air conditioning. Steve shows me his pride and joy - a Cadillac, and talks about what can sometimes go wrong with air conditioning. buying,a,car,,faults andy@wireworldmedia.co.uk no No