Radio DJ and tv presenter Trevor Nelson seems as the primary visitor on sequence 10 of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Round.
Nelson, who has been a daily on the airwaves and TV screens for greater than 4 many years, is on the pod to debate his love of all issues four-wheeled, together with the Mercedes-Benz 280SL, additionally dubbed the Pagoda.
The 61-year-old, who hosts a present on BBC Radio 2 on Monday to Friday afternoons, is finest identified for his stints on BBC Radio 1 and Kiss FM, in addition to presenting on TV for the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and music community MTV within the 2000s.
Trevor Nelson tells comic story about Jamiroquai proudly owning ‘his automotive’
Throughout his chat with the boys, Nelson detailed his love of the enduring Mercedes mannequin.
“I fell in love with the TR6 first as a result of I beloved the form of them,” Nelson revealed.
“My mate purchased a Triumph Dolomite after we have been at school, which we pushed greater than we sat in. The Stag was positively the native aspirational automotive in my space.
“However I fell in love with the 280SL. I can’t keep in mind when however I had a want from the early 90s. I simply had this factor of: ‘Oh man if I can ever get that automotive’. I used to be only one dimensional about it.
“That’s the automotive, if I might ever have one automotive, that’s the automotive. At the moment I used to be driving a pink (Vauxhall) Astra, it was my first firm automotive, after which a Jeep Cherokee which was nice in a straight line, however couldn’t take a nook.
“After which I fell in love with this automotive (280SL) and the primary particular person I noticed driving one was Jamiroquai. I used to be working in Holland Park. I noticed him driving a white, I believe it was a cream or white one.
“He received his deal, he was Jay Kay, Jamirquai, and the crux of it’s, I performed his report first on nationwide radio on Kiss FM earlier than he was signed, ‘Whenever you gonna be taught’. So I used to be his primary champion.
“Then I see him cruising on this automotive. I keep in mind pondering: ‘He’s received my automotive!’ I used to be going mad. ‘He’s received my automotive!’. Actually I used to be dropping it inside my head. But it surely additionally reconfirmed how cool that automotive is.”
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