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Nick Skeens is a freelance journalist who lives on a barge that he helped build in Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex, UK. He is an author who started writing about creativity for the UK’s Design Council covering subjects ranging from design education to creative thinking. He is the co-author of Future Present, Creative Island, and Creative Island II, books that celebrated British design genius by focusing on the creative process. His latest book, The Perfect Car, by EVRO Publishing, is a biography of the incredible John Barnard, who revolutionized motorsport across the world. Barnard introduced aerospace technology to the sport and designed game-changing innovations such as the first use of the carbon-fiber monocoque chassis with McLaren, and the paddle-shifted, semi-automatic gearbox with Ferrari. Nick’s past includes time as a news editor and producer in television.
SHOW SPONSORS
Covercraft • MetronGarage • Christopher Kimball Financial Services
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE
If you can’t explain it to a 6-year-old, you can’t understand it yourself. – Albert Einstein
FIRST SPECIAL VEHICLE
VW Beetle
BEST AUTOMOTIVE ADVICE
It’s safer with a manual gearbox.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCE
RECOMMENDED BOOK
The Far Side Of The World, by Patrick O’Brien
PARTING WORDS OF ADVICE
Whatever you do as a job, enjoy it. If you’re doing what makes you happy, then you’re rich, whether you make lots of money or not.
WHERE TO FIND NICK
The Perfect Car: The Biography of John Barnard, Nick’s new book (available for pre-order on Amazon and will be released 9/11/18)
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If you enjoyed this show, please go to Apple Podcast and leave me a five-star review. That would help tremendously in getting the word out and help others to be inspired by Cars Yeah.
A super book about a hero of mine. A book so packed with detail, it needs reading at least twice. Nick’s writing
captures the fever of JB’s work in the blast furnace at the very pinnacle of motor racing. Even the photographs have not been seen before. Having met JB I can confirm that Nick portrays him exactly.
Well done.
Pat Doyle