Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This is a re-run of one of our favorite conversations — originally Episode #39. Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman joins Jason Stein for Part 1 of a wide-ranging talk on the passions behind the music: a life in classic cars, an engineer's obsession with how things are built, and the collector's "disease" that fills his garages, shelves, and archives.
Guy opens up on trading a mechanical-engineering path for a record deal at 19, restoring his father's Triumph TR3A into "the most expensive TR3A in the world," why he sold his Bugatti Veyron, the case for the Porsche 911 as the one car to own, and how his love of mid-century design led him to co-found The Road Rat magazine.
Part 2 drops next — subscribe so you don't miss it.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
2:43 Back on the road: first tour since 2017
5:59 The COVID years and reinventing how a band creates
11:36 The engineer who almost wasn't a rock star
13:53 His father's Triumph TR3A and the birth of an obsession
17:30 First collector car: the E-Type (and the Spitfire that got away)
25:11 The Bugatti Veyron — and why he let it go
28:38 Five Porsches and the case for the 911
38:06 Founding The Road Rat magazine
#CarsAndCulture #GuyBerryman #Coldplay #ClassicCars #Porsche911 #JaguarEType #BugattiVeyron #TheRoadRat
This is a re-run of one of our favorite conversations — originally Episode #39. Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman joins Jason Stein for Part 1 of a wide-ranging talk on the passions behind the music: a life in classic cars, an engineer's obsession with how things are built, and the collector's "disease" that fills his garages, shelves, and archives.
Guy opens up on trading a mechanical-engineering path for a record deal at 19, restoring his father's Triumph TR3A into "the most expensive TR3A in the world," why he sold his Bugatti Veyron, the case for the Porsche 911 as the one car to own, and how his love of mid-century design led him to co-found The Road Rat magazine.
Part 2 drops next — subscribe so you don't miss it.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
2:43 Back on the road: first tour since 2017
5:59 The COVID years and reinventing how a band creates
11:36 The engineer who almost wasn't a rock star
13:53 His father's Triumph TR3A and the birth of an obsession
17:30 First collector car: the E-Type (and the Spitfire that got away)
25:11 The Bugatti Veyron — and why he let it go
28:38 Five Porsches and the case for the 911
38:06 Founding The Road Rat magazine
#CarsAndCulture #GuyBerryman #Coldplay #ClassicCars #Porsche911 #JaguarEType #BugattiVeyron #TheRoadRat
