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 restoration teams, father-daughter automotive adventurers, and families passing down car culture across generations. From first car stories and forgotten beaters to vintage car dreams and car 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.
Every Tuesday is #TorqueTuesday with new brand episodes..
Check out our website https://carsloved.com and listen to us on your favorite podcast platform or https://buzzsprout.com/2316026/episodes
Episodes
$500 Skoda to Multiple Miatas: Driving Instructor's Car Evolution
The Secret 1997 Viper GTS Surprise: HH Wheels' Father-Daughter Journey from Soft Shell Crabs to Dream Cars
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
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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
500 Miles in a 1967 Dodge Coronet: Dad & Brothers Never Doubted It
Detroit Basement, 1963: The Wiper Invention That Beat the Big Three
Flipped My Honda CR-V; Survived; Now Building a 1969 VW Baja Bug
