253: Sunsilk getting ready for Bathurst
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breathalyzer
A breathalyzer is a tool that estimates how much alcohol is in your breath. It’s used to guess whether you’re over the legal driving limit.
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over the limit
“Over the limit” means you’ve had enough alcohol that you’re not legally allowed to drive. The device uses colors to show if you’re above that legal threshold.
Car
Tesla 13 Model
The Tesla Model 3 is an electric car, meaning it runs on a battery instead of gasoline. The podcast mentions a specific older model year and that it didn’t have certain features. That’s relevant because different versions can include different equipment.
Concept
Bathurst
Bathurst is a big Australian motorsport event. People gather to watch race cars go around a famous track.
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six hour
A six-hour race is a long event, so it’s not only about speed—it’s about keeping the car working well for hours. Teams do extra prep so brakes, tires, and the car’s systems don’t fall apart mid-race.
Term
shakedown
A shakedown is a “make sure it’s all good” run after you’ve changed parts. The goal is to find problems early, before race day.
Concept
podium finish
A podium finish means you place in the top three. It’s usually the best result you can aim for in a race.
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Nürburgring
Nürburgring is a well-known race track in Germany. It’s famous for being tough, so experience there usually means the driver is very capable.
Term
electric
They’re talking about whether the vehicle runs on gas or electricity. With electric, you don’t fill it up—you rely on battery range and charging.
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battery
The vehicle uses a battery to power the motor. If the battery runs low, you either need to charge it or swap batteries so it can keep going.
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range
Range means how far it can drive before the battery runs out. They’re worried it might not have enough power to finish the trip.
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shorted out
A “short” is when electricity takes the wrong path. In a car, that can damage wiring and sometimes cause smoke or a fire.
Term
full torque at zero RPM
With an electric motor, you get strong pull right away, even when the car isn’t moving yet. Gas engines usually need to rev up first, but EVs don’t.
Brand
BYD
BYD is a Chinese automaker known for large-scale EV and battery production. The segment suggests BYD’s recent impact on the EV market and also comments on differences in battery quality across cheaper models.
Term
time-lapse cassettes
Time-lapse means the camera records over a long time, but the playback is sped up. “Cassettes” here means it was recorded on tape, so you had to change it.
Term
number plate recognition
Number plate recognition is a camera system that reads a car’s license plate automatically. Instead of a person typing it in, the computer reads it and records it.
Term
cool suit
A cool suit is extra gear drivers wear to stay cooler during long, hot races. It helps reduce heat so you can stay focused and not get worn out as fast.
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race suit
A race suit is the special outfit drivers wear at the track. It’s made to be safer in a crash or fire and to fit properly with the racing harness.
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diesel
“Diesel” is a type of engine that uses diesel fuel instead of petrol. It can change how far you can drive before refueling.
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one lane
“One lane” indicates a roadworks setup where traffic is restricted to a single lane in at least one direction. This typically increases congestion and can make travel during peak periods—like race weekends—much slower and less predictable.
Concept
practice run
A practice run is just a test drive before the real trip. It helps you figure out how long it takes and what parts of the route are annoying or slow.
Company
Waze
Waze is a phone navigation app that shows traffic in real time. It can help you guess how long your drive will take based on what’s happening right now.
Concept
long weekend
A long weekend is when people have extra days off. More travelers means more traffic, so getting back can take way longer.
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tunnel closure / shut down
Sometimes a tunnel gets closed if something looks unsafe or isn’t working right. Then the authorities stop traffic and spend time figuring out how to make it safe again.
Term
tunneling
Tunneling means digging a passage underground—usually for roads or trains. They’re talking about whether Sydney’s ground type makes it easier to build tunnels there.
Term
convertible
A convertible is a car where the roof can be opened so you can drive with the top down. They’re saying he bought a BMW with that kind of roof.
Term
rust
Rust is corrosion of metal, and it’s especially important on older cars and convertibles where water can get trapped. The speaker is reassuring that there’s “no rust,” which usually indicates better long-term durability and lower repair costs.
Part
painted brakes
“Painted brakes” usually means the brake calipers are painted to look nicer. It’s mostly for looks, but the paint has to handle heat and be applied carefully so it doesn’t cause problems.
Part
lug nuts
Lug nuts are the bolts that hold your wheel onto the car. Painting them is usually just for looks, but you still want to make sure they’re tightened correctly.
Brand
BMW
They mention BMW as another car brand in the conversation. It’s basically another example of what kind of car they’re working on or buying parts for.
Concept
fleet news
“Fleet news” just means car updates for a company’s fleet—like what vehicles they sold, replaced, or bought. It’s not about one person’s car, it’s about a whole group of cars.
Term
16,000 kilometers
16,000 kilometers is pretty low for a used car. Lower mileage can mean less wear, though you still have to check the car’s condition.
Concept
factory wax underneath the chassis
Some cars get a waxy coating underneath from the factory to help prevent rust. If the original coating is still there, it can suggest the car has been well protected.
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into bag. What is it? Breathalyzer. You're breathalyzing yourself now. What do you buy that for? I
want to say white end. So you blow it out, you push the bag, you're pushing a bag now.
And what's it doing? Oh, maybe you take the end off. Do you read the fucking instructions? Air flow
bag using both hands softly and thingy. You should take around 20 seconds. It's normal
for the tester to become warm. Do you have to take the capper for? Oh, yeah, it does. Fuck an hell.
Do it.
The police took this along. The bag's not, yeah, you've got the results are in the tube.
Well, what's it say? Can you fucking read it? Fuck me. Fuck. Okay, one, blow here. You've got that
part, right? You're fucking full of hot air. Two, snap off caps at ends of tube. Oh, discard crystals
in bin. Three, insert white end of tube into neck of airbag. Four. Hell, where do you snap it?
This is far. If you're drunk, how are you supposed to do this? How do you do this? You don't.
This is far. What do you snap? Snap both ends and white crystals go into the bin.
And the other end? The other end and then insert white end of tube back into neck of bag.
Oh, so then it reads your own breath.
What if it says I've got bad breath?
Is a breath smell? And I don't know, you've taken the bag. Grab that one, the wrapper. It says what?
Grab this off. I know, that just says the rule like over the limit or near the limit.
So if it goes into green, which is dumb, the red line, then you're over the limit.
If it's in yellow, it means you're fine. That's fine. So where's the red line?
Yeah, you were drinking last night. What? You're in yellow. Yeah, you're fine.
That's bullshit. You'd never be able to do that drunk. How are you going to do that fucking drunk?
You're probably trying to pop it like a little kid in the saloon. So what'd you do?
So did you use it? You saved it to use it? Yeah, I've been saving it. No, I brought it for the staff
once we had a guy that used to come drunk and I said to him, I'm going to breathalyze it
when you come from that one. How much does that thing cost? I don't know. Fuck, it's been there for
years. It's probably expired. It is probably expired. It's probably expired. But you're still drunk
from last night, I'm guessing. Yes, but apparently I'm immune to it. You're immune to alcohol?
No, going over the limit. Because once in Canberra, I've been dispatched to the next day,
we've got pulled out and breathalyzed. And so we move along. Yeah. That was the end
of his shift. He didn't want to fucking do the paperwork. Yeah, then it happened the next day
again. Yeah, it was the end of his shift. It was about the same time. Yeah, that's what it is.
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Listening to the oil talk, car podcast,
two person team, a duopoly, hosted by Peter Ramis and joining me is Tom, the raving reporter.
Hello, hello. I'm just testing the mic and playing with it. Had on stereo work. The stereo
content worked all right last time. It was a big room. It was echoing. Now I've got it on
just the two of us. Just the two of us. Will make heaven in the sky. Just the two of us. We've had
a big couple of weeks. We haven't recorded in a while because we've been fucking busy. We've been
so far as banned from some places. A lot happening. Bad. Fuck day. No way. No.
So that's right. It's a story. It's at your own discretion. So we started, when we started,
so we started my birthday. We had a big bash. Yes, we did. We did what we usually do.
Eat a lot. Eat a lot. We ate well. I ate too much. I couldn't sleep. You liked it?
Yeah, I couldn't sleep. The steak was mad, wasn't it? Yeah, but service was shit. Shit service.
Took them an hour to bring drinks. Mad food. We all sobered up before the drinks came back.
The food was awesome. I'm not going to name the place, but let's just say we went to a casino
in Sydney, which is not a very good sign when you go to Vegas every year. I don't even go to the
casinos in Sydney anymore, but it's a it's a it's a birthday casino with rules. It's yeah,
it's a birthday tradition. The casinos in Sydney are getting really strict with anti-money laundering
and shit like that. So they got the shits because the birthday tradition is we all pull our money.
Yeah, it's one person to one person. Person plays roulette and birthday boy or girl keeps the money
and somehow ended up getting money back the next day. And what happened was we got the four grand
this year. No, the beginning when I was giving. I was two. Giving the money so they could play.
Yep. Right. The guy. I'm the birthday boy. So the guy pulled me out. I'm out of this.
The guy pulled me out. Oh yeah, you had the shits. And he started freaking out. So I go,
I'll take my money back. I pretended the money in the bag was money. You know what I mean?
And and that was that. But hey, how about when I went to play the the pokies on your like, I
couldn't get a card. So I had to use this card is not a good name at star. And we're talking
from 25, from 25, 30 years ago, I got a way of playing roulette and the pokies. So you need to
register. Yes. So we all queered up or some of us did. No, we all did. No, you didn't. No, I did.
Yeah, but give it to me. The machine will give you to under your name. So you thought I'll
better stop now. I'll stop now. I put my face really close to the camera. So all you see is my
face, no hair, nothing else. And I passed for it. And then you all got my card. I'm a junior gym.
And it worked. Junior gym. You just say you're our brother anyway. Yes. And it worked. So
it's anyway. Don't tell him I kept his card. Oh, yeah, I never got it back. Oh, Jesus,
it's a shame. But I've got the best card for Vegas anyway. And my card opens a lot of doors in
Vegas. Yes, yes. And we've got to because I'm not going until the end of the year again, we've
got to pump it. So we've got to maintain that or else we're not welcome the next year at the rates
we go. So yeah, it was a good night. So we did win that the formula worked. But because there's a few
non-usual starters, and who was in control of the money, my brother?
I don't know. Who distributed the money? I don't know. All that I know is the next day I got
a couple hundred dollars. You got money from the audience. Traditionally, I didn't care.
I don't know why I didn't go straight to you. You guys paid for dinner. I didn't give a fuck.
But I don't care. No, no. That's the second time now on my birthday. That's happened. Yeah.
Yeah, it was yours last time. Two eight. Yeah, we're with people that work. We have four grand
and we split it like 800 bucks each. It was still a piece. It didn't bother me. But this time, I'd
look, it went back to those who paid and everyone had a good night. And yeah, that was a good night.
It was a good night, good feed, good company. No Southern comfort, but I had to drink wine.
Yeah. Well, funny the next day. You felt like you were in Vegas. No Southern comfort. No,
Vegas, we always ended up coming up with Southern comfort. That's like last night where we went.
The guy goes, oh, no one's drank these bottles for two years or something. So let me let me go back
a step. So everyone knows the last night you went to a 21st. Yes. And the theme was Mexican.
And what did you go dressed up as? Trump. I went as Trump and I was the doorman.
If you didn't have a Mexican passport, you couldn't get it. Yes. You were the gatekeeper. Yes.
How fucking apt was your role? The first hour I was all right. I done my job well.
About the eighth drink into it and about the sixth shot. I was shot because you got it.
With fancy dress. I don't like fancy dress parties. I mean, I like them, but
No, you look good as bloody Steve Irwin. Steve Irwin. That's Halloween.
But the since I think I got scarred when my wife opened the invite and it said dress white.
It was a white party. So my wife, my wife went, oh, fancy dress.
Why don't these? I went as a chef. Oh, yeah. Mary went as a nurse.
We turn up, everyone's dressed in white. The island, it was Greek islands in the backyard.
And we're the only ones dressed up up. Oh, everyone was wearing white, white shirt, white pants.
And now I get it. And I turn up as the, we're pre kids, but the mini back then I get out of this
mini, put the chef's hat on. There was a, the, the coast was at the door with the security guard.
And he's like, um, shit, what's the chef turning up now? I hope the food's ready.
And then half the crew thought my wife was a stripper because she was dressed in the nurses.
Yeah. Lucky me that they thought that I didn't have to pay. No. So I said to her,
you can't read invitations anymore. So I was, I was saying earlier, you want to think outside
the square and getting dressed as Trump at a Mexican party is fucking good. Cause everyone's
got a suburb in a fucking hat. Well, you've got a suburb when you came in because of those who
didn't dress up. Yeah. Yeah. But no, it was, it was good. It was the most I've ever had photos.
People wanting to take photos with me, even driving there, driving there, everyone will do
a double take. I was in a white bar. Cause you look good. Yeah. In the hat, original hat and
original hat. Oh yeah. Original hat. The ones we bought. Yeah. Yeah. My son said to me, if I lose
it, I'm dead. I get just buy another one. Buy another one. We'll stop again. He goes, no. We
know, we bought him out last time. We made his day. Yes. So I suggested this year we're there for
Halloween and it's a wives trip this year. So there'll be, but now I'm starting to get a bit
scared dressing up as Trump there. Cause I remember just wearing the hat, all the people who wanted
to kill us. Yeah, but he's a president. We were there. So I decided I can either go with Steve
Irwin like I usually do. Yeah. It's the best. Or me and security dress up as security. We wear
black suits with, um, everyone wears a black suit with dark glasses. Whoever wears a black
suit, black suit, dark glasses with earpieces, just with the coil, like an earpiece with a
thing running. I wonder what would happen walking into a casino. But what do they do? It's Halloween.
You might have to take the cap off though when you're playing because you can't sort of wear a
cap in disguise. Oh, you know, last time with the wig, you look like Trump. You know what
I wouldn't let me say. Like, um, I could take you back to my island.
But I thought you're Ireland. No, my mate's island. He's got Malalinga.
Yeah. But I'm just saying that they, uh, every time I'd go to talk about
21 year olds were freaking out. No, just the host. No, don't say that. There's only one guy who I
know is a bit, you know, a bit dirty, who was knocking jokes for that. You can't crack jokes
anymore. It's, it's like, you can't be funny, are you? Offensive funny. No, you can't be funny
until you're a bit, uh, drunk and then you could just be offensive. Like we always say, you know,
Irish jokes, you know, how many years have we said Irish jokes? Do you have any of the Irish
being offended or? No, back in the old days, uh, Paul Hogan and all that, all his, you know,
racist and all that would now be. It's Benny Hill. Come on. Coon, Coon Cheese was taken off.
But the guy's name was Coon. Yeah, well. Um, but remember Benny Hill used to chase the women
in lingerie because that's what that's how police officers used to dress apparently. So
I don't know, do we get down that wokeness? Um, my daughter, you know, my daughter's got a beetle.
Yes. It featured it at Karad. There was an advertisement for a Broadway shopping center
and they're pushing the parking and they filmed the, it's who else has got a sky blue beetle like
hers. When? Yeah. Yeah. Just recently they were advertising the parking and they just
filmed her car, but they blooped, they bloated out the number plate. So it was quite funny.
Cars gone up in value. They've held their value, those cars. They're all right. We bought a cheap,
bought a 16, 20, 13 model. That one, that one didn't have the daisy on the window, did it?
No, that's the model before the push me pull you. The one that looks the same backwards, forwards.
Doesn't look the same. Like I actually owned the Vdub once, an orange one. I made an orange
convertible. It was a cheap magnet and the number plate was to bug you. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. And
it was a cheap magnet back then. Oh, yeah. In thing that back then was making them. We saw our
friend of ours on the Ferrari, so he's promised me a drive in that Ferrari. And we saw him this
morning and we'll talk about when you're 20. Who owns the boat? No, that's when the girls are 20.
But when you get older, it doesn't matter. No, it's the size of your wallet. It's the size of
your wallet, not the size of any of the girls. It's just like that clip, who owns the boat. You've
got all these babes and bikinis. Mate. Then underneath you've got like old blokes built for
comfort. Yeah, in speedos and things with mad, dark tans and the capsule, don't forget who owns
the boat. Yeah, you remember that clip? We put our faces in it. Yeah, you supervised it. Yeah,
we faced it. What's true? We don't own a boat, do we? We own a boat. No, it's bad enough having a
racing car. Yeah, racing, Bathurst next weekend. You've been busy pretty much every weekend. It's
been taken up. We're recording before Easter. We're going to Bathurst. We've organised a round table
at the bar like we did a couple years ago with the drivers. So we'll do that. Down at Bathurst,
we'll have a few drivers coming in and out and talking with a, it was a live audience, a real
one. It was. It was a good, good, and then you hear the cars racing. I'm trying to remember what
the bar was called. No. It was in Ridges. It's probably a pit stop bar. No, the name. Some
Conrad bar or pit stop bar or something. So it was a good set up there. So we're going to do the same
again this year, but I have the little mic. At least I'll show Tom how to use it. Yeah. Reds off.
Reds. No, Red means it's recording. Reds off there. Fuckin' hell. You're still fucking it up.
It still killed me, mate. So we're doing shows from Bathurst next, next show. So that'll be
interesting. But you guys have been trying to get the M4 ready. So it's production,
six hour production. It's on Fox still, I think. I don't know. It's on Fox. Is it? Yeah. Oh, that's
good. So I think I saw an ad for it. So usually it's live on YouTube, but I think it's on Fox
issue. That's better. So it'll be a big turnout. We've been practicing, spending a lot of time,
a lot of money, and everything, testing the car and getting it going. So what's testing
involved? I mean, for those that don't know, I mean, you don't just turn up. It's like any sport.
You don't just turn up ready to play a game of football. Your liability. You're warming up,
you're training, you're doing moves. Is it more the car or the drivers? What are you
practicing on for a six hour? How do you prepare for a six hour? The car. It's all about the car.
Setting it up to handle better sway bars, springs changing. We went testing on Thursday at
one way at Goldman. Yep. The old Wakefields. Yeah. We put new set of rotors and pads. First thing
was to go out there, bed them in. We bedded them in, came back in, took them off, put an old set on,
and put box them for the race on Sunday. So you tested that part, that part works, put it away.
And then just went trying to adjusting sway bars, shocks, bits of pieces, you know, just
seeing what else is wrong with the car. Cause we just put new turbos. We just put into like a whole
heap of new shit in it. And we're just testing everything. It was good. It's a shakedown. Like
we still got things to do. And then I thought the, you know, a good thing would be to add more work
to the pile. And as every time it came in, I'd unpeel a panel of sign writing on it. So we'd
get the car rewrapped and it's at the wrappers now. We're panicking. Yeah. Cause we've got to have
it ready. Tay trucks going there tomorrow at nine o'clock. It's been paid. It'll be ready.
It'll do it all night. I think he's a fuck. It's not your problem. Not, but he's, he's
unreliable. Yeah, but the truck's turning up at nine a.m. And he knows it too. Then when's that,
then that goes to Rick Schrupp. Mate, by the way, as much as I don't like praising Rick,
Rick Schrupp. Rick's not going to say he's so he's been on the show heaps of times and he's
a fucking driver. I'm telling you now, Rick Schrupp could drive. Well, 60 or other look
like he's, like he's 49. Oh, he's booked himself in for a haircut Monday morning. He might be late
to work. Yeah. Yeah. He goes to get a haircut because it's getting towed there. So what,
the mullet's going there? No, I don't know. But he goes, I'm booked in for a haircut and I'm thinking
myself, fuck, how long would it take to get a haircut? What do you have to book yourself? Is he
getting ready for the podium? I don't know. Is he? That's what we're working on, the podium finish.
He reckon, he reckon he's, he's going in for the podium. I don't know. It wouldn't be on fucking TV.
What do we call him? Sunsilk. Sunsilk. Yeah. And every time, even at the track, I'll say out loud,
fuck, he can drive, bubba. And his wife would lift her head every now and then I'd go, don't you
repeat it to him? No, because he can. No, he won't. I mean, he won't talk to him. Like, he's a,
he's a good driver. He's been around the world. He knows cars. He knows cars. He knows Rotaries.
He runs the RX 8 Cup. He's raced at Nürburgring. We've got Cox. He's got a lot of international
friends coming in to help out. He's not going to say he's a fucking top driver, but you've seen
it first hand. After the, uh, Thursday, because one way was the opposite way. Yep. And watching
other people breaking into some of these corners and Rick, mate, the hardest corner became his
favorite. You could just tell, he just, like a liquid, like water through the plumbing, just,
just takes a corner and gets flowing. Yeah. I gave him, why are you so close to the wall,
you know, down the straight, you know, because everyone else is further and I'm thinking of
picking up all the rubbish. It goes cause you can hit that corner bubble. So he's getting ready
for the next corner. No one else was driving like that. Yeah. And he was driving there and
he was taking that corner fucking perfect. And he's comfortable at Bathurst. Yeah. He likes it.
He's comfortable everywhere. Yeah. You know what I mean? But he's drive, it's, it's, Zach was here,
Tom Shaw and Rick Shaw are our three drivers for next, next Sunday's main race. And we are,
we're aiming for a podium. We're deadly serious. We're not, we stopped fucking around two races
ago. So if you look up the website, Bathurst six hour, I'm sure there'll be live, live scoring
where, where you're managing the VSB security BMW M4. So that's the kind of look out for with,
yeah, with Zach, Tom and Rick. So good luck to the boys and we'll be down there. So I'll be,
we'll be there for practice and qualifying and then I'm going to leave, but you'll be,
you're, you're managing the whole team for the whole weekend. So yeah, not as much Bathurst.
We've got Adam, he's looking after the car of Bathurst. Oh, you're not, you're just helping
it out. It's too, too thingy. I'm just one of the, I'm the golfer. I'm the one that's just running
around. What have you bought? No, I didn't buy it. The, which one, the golf buggy? Yeah. No,
because we found them overseas and they're cheaper to buy a brand new one, big screen,
everything. So we thought we'll just wait till after these. I didn't get the golf buggy. No.
Oh, I thought you bought it. No, we're going to buy the one here. And then the girl ranked to see,
you know, what's going on. Cause I said, I was going to send the tow truck down,
I negotiated and then I go to, listen, if you do it for five grand, I'll take it.
She goes, oh no, my father, my father, my father, my father, my father, my father, my father, my father.
Was it shit or was it good? Yeah. It needed all the shitload of work.
And then by then we started looking them up. So how much is that for a Chinese one brought in?
Man, like four and a half, five grand and to do what we want, like a trade the back.
Oh, like it's already customised. So it's already customised. Yeah.
I've had screen in there. It's fucking mad. Okay. Right. And I go, fuck, we'll buy one of them.
And then I started looking into the extras. You can buy for them. We're going to get one of them.
Yeah. Then Zach goes, don't worry about it now. For Easter. It's just another headache that we
don't need. I agreed. Then the next day the girl rings me back. She goes, oh, my father said we'll
do it for five. And I go, no, I go, we found him overseas brand new now, landed and all that
between four and eight grand, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bad luck. I'd rather get a new one.
No, that's it. It's funny how people are out of it, but no, no, who's going to buy a fucking golf buggy?
People buy them. Yeah, but not that one. They rang you back. Yeah. Cause the photos were a bit
thingy. So I asked her to send more photos. Yeah. Cause I was going to send it straight to the sign
writer. And then when she sent some more photos, I started in the large. Was that petrol powered
or was it? No, battery, electric. I had to, I was going to have to repair the body before I went to
sign writing. Yeah. No. I said, fuck that. You won't have time. But the new one, the new one's
freaking mad. Yeah, really? iPad, electric. It's just that's got a trace. It'll be a two-seater
with a, like a Ute. Yeah. The other one we're going to buy was a four-seater and a Ute, but this,
this one we're going to buy from overseas is a four-seater. But if you want to drop the back
seat down becomes a tray at the back and it's a two-seater. Oh, cause then you can convert.
Yeah. Cause we just want it to run up tires and all that. Or for me, like 20 meters away to drive.
I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to register it so I can drive to the hotels.
Can we make a lap around Bathurst? We'll see the thing is we'll make it up the hill.
They walk around. They have walk around, I think Thursday morning.
I see you can take the golf cart and the walk around. I would have taken it.
I would have taken it because you can have serious... And then I've been looking at you
like these guys aren't fucking around. Yeah, but I wonder who else does it.
With a golf cart? Yeah. I imagine halfway around it, it hasn't got the electricity to make it back.
That's what I'm saying. You'll have to push it. Or park it. Yeah. Or change batteries. Or get
everyone to help push. Get a few AAA batteries and just change it. Yeah. As everyone walks past
after you're broken down, ha, ha, can you help us push it? So speaking of logistics,
I've been fucking thinking how the fuck... We got rid of the Tesla, you mean? Everyone's friends
with me again. No one calls me that other word. I buy a diesel and then diesel goes from $1.50
to fucking $3.20. Yeah, you should have, you should have had the electric car now. Now is when
you should have had the electric car. So petrol prices have gone up. No need to go into politics
with the war and shit. So all of a sudden my economical diesel is fucking costing a fortune
of filler. Oh no, it's from $80 to $1.50. Hey, $20 petrol that gives you five litres.
Not only that, you top up your customers' cars, like just to... Delivering back sometimes. Yeah.
And not only that, you're putting in a fucking supercharger in your house. Are you putting in a
Tesla charger? Yes, I am. Why are you doing that now? I don't know, because I've just... I had the Tesla
for three fucking years. Now you're doing it? I'm redoing the front of the house. I want to
recess a quick fast charger in the wall for the future. I bought a lead the other day for Tesla.
So you're convinced someone in your family is going to have an electric car?
Yeah, yeah. I'd like to have one. They kick ass. I bought a lead the other day off Team U,
because we have heaps of electric cars and sometimes I've got to lead them to deliver them
back. So if you took them home, you could charge them at home and then take them back?
No, for me. But we bought a lead for here, for work from Team U. Man, I think it was $15.
But fucking lead. Yeah, is it Australian Standard though?
I don't know. Is that a place to fucking burn? If I care.
You heard it here first, Mr. Narrow, mate. Oh yeah. It's just like once my wife was in a car and the
back camera shorted out in the tailgate and it started a little fire. Oh, bullshit.
Well, she rang me up. I said, just walk away from the car, let it burn. But then you had these two
great Samaritan people stop with bottles of water and put them on the phone.
Tell them to stop. Tell them to stop. Do gooders. Yeah, they put the flame out.
They put the fire out of your wife, huh? Yeah. Yeah, it was out a lot of time ago.
But you know what I mean? I'll spew them. I'll burn down.
So you're going to get an electric car? Oh, I like them. I'm going to have to change
what we call you, what you guys were calling me. And they're quick. They are quick.
I don't think they're quick. They're probably the quickest thing.
Electric motors are the fastest motors in the world.
Mate, it's full torque at zero RPM as soon as you hit it.
It's just like diesel trains, right? Everyone thinks they're diesel,
but they're making electricity to run the trains. Yeah, the engines are generators.
It's not a diesel because electric is smooth. Yeah, you're right.
You know what I mean? They're generators running.
Imagine how the electric sales of cars, I remember many years ago,
1% of the market was Tesla. Yeah. Imagine what it would be now.
Well, BYD sort of clouted in, but... They're nice, man.
So nice electric cars scooting around. Well, I mean, we had that X-Ping for a while.
That was quite luxurious. It was quite good for the money,
but they're getting cheaper and cheaper now. BYD really.
But you've got to be careful. I mean, they're getting cheaper,
but the battery technology and the cheap ones are shit.
People are scared to buy a second-hand electric car.
There's nothing wrong with it. That's right.
Mine was two years old.
But in saying that, there was a car, let's say the brand, right?
The guy brought it to go to Canberra, right? Brand new.
And it would make it to Canberra.
And then slowly within the six-month period,
it discovered it wouldn't... Yeah.
It started struggling, then it stopped short.
And I looked at that car, that dealership getting fixed for like,
fuck, I can't even remember how long. It sat in there for a long time.
To replace the batteries.
Yeah, probably.
Yeah. Now, if you look at... I look at the alternative,
if you look at a Prius, the original ones still go with their battery power.
Yeah, that's right.
It comes down to how they get charged.
If you're zapping the fuck out of it like the Tesla Supercharger every day,
your battery's going to get killed.
Those fast chargers kill the battery.
You only meant to do it on certain occasions driving on the freeway.
Well, the charger I'm putting in at home is a 40-minute charge or something.
It's a fast charger? No, can't be.
That's what VSPs got me.
Okay, so I'll have to check with Zach when he puts it in.
I put cameras into my house over the weekend.
Cameras?
After 10 years of having wiring dangling down there.
Yeah.
So you can check what time the kids come home.
No, just because I'm... Anyway.
And put the new cameras in, night time becomes daylight in colour.
Oh, the quality of the camera.
They are fucking sensational.
So that there's...
We've come a long way.
There's no light that comes on.
Yeah, there's a light in the camera that comes on the movement.
You can set it the way you want, but mate...
It's like fucking looking at a window light.
It is fucking beautiful.
It is unbelievable.
It's funny you say that because I've got the camera in the beamer.
When we're driving at night, we've taken a lot of muckery our photos.
It looks like black and white, your eyes are shiny,
but during the day it's crystal clear.
I'm telling you, the night photos are fucking sensational.
Like you could see everything.
So what did you see?
When I moved into my house many, many, many years ago,
I've had cameras up, right?
Big fucking massive cameras around the house, you know?
And I had cassettes, time-lapse cassettes
that I'd have to take every day to record.
Oh, you had to change the tapes?
Yeah, every day.
And if I knew, if I saw something was different,
then I'd look through it.
Yep.
Now, mate, you could programme Follow Man in blue shirt
or follow him everywhere.
You could just...
Some of the shit, like...
AI.
Yeah, it's just unbelievable.
Like, I was spitting out...
I learnt me when Man on Bike turns up, like a poster or something.
Yeah, you could tell, anything.
You could tell, you could make them do anything.
And there was clear as frickin' day.
I've got to update all these ones.
See if we put your daughter's number plate in there.
So I learnt me when this number plate turns up.
Well, that's number plate recognition.
Yeah.
The cameras I want to put out the front,
but now they're outdated because I haven't put them up.
Yeah.
I've got to change it all here.
I tell you, it is fucking that unbelievable.
Shit.
And that's one of our sponsors, I believe,
on the race car now, too.
Not the...
I've changed VSP.
Oh, so VSP's not the main sponsor.
It is, but we've put the sponsor...
Of the new cameras, who are they?
Camerawoman.
Oh, okay.
All right, all right, all right, all right.
Fill in the space here next week.
Yeah, it's a surprise.
Insert here.
We'll pretend it's a surprise.
Insert here.
Mark it at the 33-minute mark.
Yes.
No worries.
Well, and this morning I was talking to Rick Feynman, Rick.
You know what, this year, I'm going to have a run in the RX-8.
I'm going to have a practice in it one night,
and then I'm going to tell Rick to put me in a race.
I just put you into one of the RX-8 cup.
Into the...
I'm going to go.
I'm going to actually have a race.
So you've got the racing bug.
After all this being manager and fixing,
you now want to drive.
Yeah, I'm worried about if I get bored driving.
Not the cost.
Everyone worries about the cost.
Yeah, not much cost in RX-8.
That's the beauty of it.
But the thing with me is it'll eat me up how slow it is.
And but the thing is with me is...
I mean, you've driven fast cars.
You've done a bit of racing.
But I'm scared that...
I don't know.
I've got...
Like I've still got balls in me and all that,
but because they're a bit slow,
maybe it might frustrate me.
Maybe I'll get bored of it.
Maybe I'll get the shit because it's so competitive.
People might be into me.
Well, I don't care because I can fix a car,
so I might fight back.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I don't know, but I'm going to do it.
I bought my suit.
I've got my suit.
Enough fit.
You fit?
Yeah.
Is it the wetsuit?
No.
The what's...
What was the suit you guys were talking about?
It's...
What's it?
Not a wetsuit.
Not wetsuit.
Wetsuit things are diving,
but I had water running through a cool...
Cool suit.
We've got them for Bathurst too.
You've got the cool suit.
Laster drivers, what they've found.
Yeah.
When I bought a race suit,
because all my old ones,
you know, wouldn't get a leg in them now.
I can't wait for Bathurst.
It's going to be good.
It will be.
So, yeah.
So, yeah.
Going back to the diesel,
I'm thinking,
I'm going to have to fill up before we go there.
My car's got a range of a thousand
when it goes on the highway.
They've blocked the old fucking bridge.
Did it collapse?
Actually...
Did it collapse?
Did the road collapse?
No, cracked open.
Yeah, but I...
I'd seen a picture or was it AI?
Probably AI with a freeway next to it.
Yeah, with half a freeway...
No, probably AI.
A little made the news.
So, for those of you who don't know Sydney,
there's only one way out over the mountains,
and they use a 200-year-old bridge
that the convicts built.
And that's still the main gateway in and out of Sydney.
And the roads started cracking open,
and they shat themselves.
Like, seriously, man,
200 years old fucking make a new road.
Is that...
Like, I'm not...
That's where that bridge is with all the bricks and...
Yeah, Mount Victoria with all the beds.
Why wouldn't they make another fucking road after all that?
Mate, I don't fucking know.
Imagine all those businesses now along that road?
Yeah, they're gone.
The lolly shops.
They're all fucked.
They're all fucked.
You've got to go on the bell lines of road,
and that road's fucked.
Which is getting worked...
Fithos went on it.
You're getting...
It's getting worked on.
It's one lane.
Long weekend.
Coming back's going to be a fucking nightmare.
Well, I'm going to leave really early in the morning,
so I'm going to fill up.
So, one, we've got no fucking fuel anywhere.
And two, it's going to take forever to get there.
I did a practice run.
Get there should be a...
Not too bad, but coming back's going to be a fucking nightmare.
I did a practice run on Waze,
and it was still two and a half, two hours, 40.
So...
You're coming back's going to be a nightmare.
Yeah. Long weekend.
I know. I know.
For you guys, let me leave early.
People are going to be at...
What's the, Three Sisters or whatever, and Blue Mountains?
Yeah, that's good to...
It's still busy.
That road's busy.
They've fixed the Sydney part,
but the back part, Pascua Tube, they still fucked.
Anyway.
It's going to be a trip.
Welcome to Australia.
In Europe, they would have fucking tunneled the fuck out of that.
It would have been a 40K tunnel,
from Pendrith to the other side.
I'd be mad.
That's what Europe does.
Well...
Yeah, but they've been working on those roads.
They're making a drill carriage.
They might as well just build the tunnel.
They left that fucking bit.
It's rock.
Just fucking drill through it.
They're not digging.
Anyway.
Like the M6 that's sinking.
Which is the M6.
The one that's going to go down to Wollongong through...
Sutherland.
Through Brighton.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's sinking.
That can't open it.
That's right, yeah.
And so they've shut it down.
Hey, that's fucked.
They've got three years to figure it out.
Well, you know, Sydney is the best country in the world for tunneling,
because we're built on sandstone.
Yeah, but not through there.
That's Botany Bay sand.
Yeah, sand.
They didn't go deep enough.
Oh, fuck.
Because it's more expensive to go deep.
I'm not an engineer, and I fucking know that.
Man, you've got to meet, for the last past 20 years,
our roads have changed.
As in shit?
No.
As in...
Other highways?
All the tunnels, all the...
Yeah, but to get to the city, it's like fucking 50 bucks a day.
Yeah, but it's changed.
Like my mate Anthony lives in Western Australia now.
When he comes, he hasn't been here for like 15 years.
He'll freak out.
Well, they're about to open the last bypass.
There's Newcastle and there's Koff's Harbour from Brisbane to Sydney.
And they're advertising that Brisbane to Melbourne...
What's wrong?
Dang, I want to say something.
I've got radio.
Hi, boys.
You're nervous.
How are you going?
This is gubbado.
Yeah, he's here to fix cars.
That's gubbado.
He's...
I just quietly wanted...
He's...
His Porsche broke down, and he brought a BMW as well now.
And that's broken.
Those kids that are...
Can barely even ride a bike.
He went and bought them a convertible BMW.
Now, I'm still around, you know?
Is it convertible or the roof rusty?
Just cut it off.
No, it's a good one.
Gubbado went and saw it.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Was it 3C?
From the Northern Beaches.
Northern Beaches.
Oh, no rust.
No, no.
No rust.
No rust.
Northern Beaches.
And because, you know,
one lady owner...
Who ain't all about his cars.
Yeah.
It's up on stands.
Just like Michael Butler.
Painted brakes, painted this.
One lady owner.
Yeah.
One lady owner.
Wheels are all we've done.
Now we're going to paint the lug nuts.
Always garage.
So we're going to paint the lug nuts.
Yeah, well...
Just hit them with a can.
Say to them what I taught you about cars to be...
Gubbado has taught me to live with things.
It's a safety from doing the work to fix it.
Yeah.
It's...
Yeah.
Oh, there's a scratch here.
You can't be here.
I live with it.
Yeah.
You've got to learn to...
The man who bought a 355 Ferrari 20...
How long ago?
20 years ago.
Longer relationship I've ever had with anyone.
Parked in front of my workshop
and I gave him a roll of tape
to put a bit of tape on what he wanted fixed.
And he ran out of tape.
Yeah, about an hour later he came in and he goes,
man, you've got another roll.
And we go, what happened to it?
I walk outside and the fucking thing looked like a porcupine.
And you're thinking that's a $20,000 check?
20 years later things have changed.
So there's a bit of...
He learns to live with things down.
There's a bit of...
There's a crease in the leather, ah?
Yeah.
No, the...
Yeah.
To live with things down.
We even marked those things up to...
The spongy buttons.
Yeah.
Yeah, we went...
I went to Adelaide to buy what Merck was it?
Yes, class.
He was spoken about it.
One of the episodes.
You know, far out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because, you know, it's too hard to go to Mercedes dealership
and buy what.
And now he brought a BMW as well to add to his story.
Beautiful car.
Beautiful.
I didn't know your place was open on a Sunday
for you to come in and do your own jobs
to save a couple of dollars.
You're...
Oh, I'm allowed.
Yes, I'm allowed.
He's allowed.
At least they offered you food.
I'm allowed, yeah.
Yes, that's right.
We know what payments are required.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
So...
Walker Butter makes mad chips and eggs.
Yes.
And pastichio.
Without the um...
Vegetable sauce.
Gurbada has a better relationship with Gurbado than...
I put cinnamon in her brother.
Yeah, she put cinnamon in like...
I know.
What kind of Greek is she?
Hey, what's cinnamon?
See, George.
Who does that?
I don't know.
Brick Island, I don't know if I'm wrong.
I think she's from Brick Island.
Brick Island, for a bit of coconut.
Yeah, see?
Makes them want to have a weird taste.
But we fixed it up last time we had the cinnamon.
We've cut it out.
Yeah, cut it out, yeah.
Because...
We've told her how to do her job.
The cinnamon challenge put us down to that.
So, before we wrap up, we've got a few fleet news.
The Rockwood Shore is gone, the W-427.
Yeah, yes.
Who bought it?
I don't know, someone bought it.
The Auctions.
And it went...
In the state?
I'm not sure.
It was on a trailer, on a semi-trailer.
Car carrier.
Car carrier.
That was a nice car.
That was a nice car.
Those lights were flashing.
Each time you change gears and even through a year,
the traction lights flashing its head off.
So, he bought a new family car.
He bought an X-5.
He thought he bought...
He did buy a brand new car.
But you know, on my dash, you know, the X-5s,
you've got the petrol gauge and above it's got distance to empty.
But it just says kilometers.
So, he bought a three-litre diesel X-5.
He rigged up the dealer and goes,
I thought it was a brand new car.
How come it says 950 kilometers on it?
That's...
He goes, George, you're ridding the distance to empty?
Out of everyone here, mate.
No, no, he don't want that.
Out of everyone here.
He thought he bought a 900 kilometer car,
but it was the distance to empty.
Because it doesn't have the odometer anywhere
until you turn the car off.
It just shows you...
So, that was quite funny, but something else turned up.
I'm not going to announce it yet.
I'm probably going to have to drive.
Just wait.
Did anything else go?
Any number plates?
No, yes.
Yeah, we have to plug some gaps.
So, yeah.
So, plates are going and...
Yeah, this...
Next show you're going to announce.
Next show we're going to announce or we'll just drive it.
I don't like them, but anyway.
He's been looking for 20 years for this car.
You finally found one.
You should keep on looking.
And it's got 16,000 kilometers on it.
Oh, that's nothing.
And it's got the wax from the original,
the factory underneath the chassis.
I don't like them.
And it's like a...
What is it?
No, no, I can't say it.
I can't say it.
No, we'll show you a picture.
But you can't say it.
No.
You can see it.
You can't say it.
No, I won't.
Rate us, review us.
Bathurst next week.
We'll be recording from Bathurst
with some people that know their way around a road one way.
Just make sure you turn the mic on.
I know how to turn the mic on.
We don't have the big mic anyway.
If we're at the bar, we'll put in stereo mode.
It sounded good last time,
but I put it in two-way mode today.
So, rate us, review us, follow us on Instagram,
and bye for now.
Bye, yassas.
How are you, Peter?
I'm good, mate.
Good to see you, man.
I'm good.
Good, good.
About this episode
A chaotic, banter-heavy catch-up turns into serious Bathurst prep talk. The hosts riff on breathalyzer “self-testing” gadgets, birthday casino stories, and fancy-dress mishaps, then pivot to the VSB Security BMW M4’s six-hour shakedown: bedding new rotors/pads, dialing sway bars/shocks, and wrapping the car while logistics scramble. Rick Schrupp is praised for cornering confidence as the team targets a podium with drivers Zach, Tom Shaw, and Rick. Fuel prices, electric-car charging, and camera tech also get a run-in before the next Bathurst recording setup.
Original notes
Tom tries to use a home breathalyzer kit. Peter talks about his birthday bash. Tom is recovering from a 21st fancy dress party. We discuss our upcoming trip to Bathurst.
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