{"id":7508,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:25:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"meet-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micksgarageblog.org\/meet-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First things first, MicksGarage isn&#8217;t actually a garage<\/strong>, it&#8217;s\u00a0an online car parts and accessories retailer set up by a chap called Mick. From humble beginnings in Micks bedroom back in 2003\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MicksGarage.com<\/a> has grown steadily year on year. We now ship thousands of parcels every day to every corner of the globe. There&#8217;s over 60 of us working here now, between IT, data, customer service, warehouse, accounts and marketing. At its core MicksGarage is driven\u00a0by a team of individuals passionate about technology, e-commerce and all things automotive. Here&#8217;s\u00a0a\u00a0handful of the more photogenic ones \ud83d\ude09    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7596 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/img_9864-150x150_1cca40.jpg\" alt=\"Meet The Team\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/elvedin-150x150_429935.jpg\" alt=\"Elvedin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7592 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/img_9859-150x150_ad9dcf.jpg\" alt=\"Meet The Team\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/tom-150x150_8f2d46.jpg\" alt=\"Tom\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7577 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/img_9839-150x150_4d1157.jpg\" alt=\"Meet The Team\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/ciaran-c-150x150_dc8f7a.jpg\" alt=\"Ciaran C\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/img_9866-150x150_ef67bc.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9866\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/colin-150x150_433c73.jpg\" alt=\"Colin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/img_9854-150x150_b0bed6.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9854\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/gary-150x150_ad2340.jpg\" alt=\"Gary\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>    <strong>The blog<\/strong>\u00a0(where you are now) is a different story though and that&#8217;s powered largely by <em>Team Rob<\/em> &#8211; Rob King writes most of our stuff and he&#8217;s the lad in most of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/micksgarage\" target=\"_blank\">DIY videos<\/a> (don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m referring to him in the third person, it&#8217;s me\u00a0writing this!) Rob Hunt is the other half of the team and is our technical guru.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7658 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/img_9962-214x300_0c2c96.jpg\" alt=\"Meet The Team\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imagetin.com\/images\/micksgarage-ie\/646jk67ggt\/rob-h_11e063.jpg\" alt=\"Meet The Team\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/>    We also feature regular articles from Completecar\u00a0and occasional guest posts from bloggers, racers, adventurers and\u00a0anyone else who comes along with an interesting story to tell. Our ethos here at the MicksGarage Blog is to try and provide our readers with genuinely\u00a0useful and interesting car\/motoring related stuff. We specialise in making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/micksgarage\" target=\"_blank\">our own DIY videos<\/a>, designed to help those with a passion to learn,\u00a0work on their own cars. We generally avoid news and clickbait &#8211; if that&#8217;s your bag, head on over to CarThrottle! :https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/micksgarage)    We&#8217;re always on the lookout for interesting content so if you&#8217;ve got\u00a0something you&#8217;d like us to feature, have an interesting story or are a first-class product reviewer, why not\u00a0give us a shout via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micksgarage.com\/blog\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contact Form<\/a>    &nbsp;    &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet The Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meet The Team - 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