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The Tire Kickers, Classic Car Chat, with Max and Matt. Hello there and welcome to another edition of the award-nominated Tire Kickers. I'm Matt, he's Max and today we're out here on the mean and plenty noisy streets of London. No, we're not trying to hotwire old cars in the back streets, instead we're in town for the independent podcast awards. Yep, we're in the running for a podcast prize and in a few hours
we'll find out if we're going to be winners or just a pair of losers. I think I know which one coming up will need some fancy wheels to get to the award show tonight. So we'll shortlist the best classic limos to drop us off on the red carpet.
Plus while we're waiting we'll take you to one of London's most unique classic car places, somewhere that mixes pizzas with Porsche's.
It's a show on the hoof and you're invited along, so come with us as we wear out some shoe leather and bring you episode 42 of the Tire Kickers.
Finalists at the independent podcast awards, this is the Tire Kickers.
So it's the big night tonight, in a few hours time we'll be finding out whether we won an independent podcast award.
Yeah, we're finalists for the second year, we didn't win last year either. For the best lifestyle podcast. Now who knew this was a lifestyle?
Apparently so. Yeah, the event's happening just up the road from us where we're sitting now at King's Place here in London.
It's just round the back of King's Cross, so if we don't win, at least we can do a bit of street work max for our cab for home.
Well, it's a very short cab ride turns and tricks. Let's be optimistic and work on the basis we're in with a chance.
It's not often we get invited to an award show anyway, so let's make the most of it.
Yeah, we're going to need some wheels though to get there. I was going to mention this to you Max. I mean neither of us fancy probably going in our 10 year old Toyota Prius with no MOT.
So let's put together a list of, I don't know, classic stretch limos.
Yeah, something for the red carpet. It's going to have presence, isn't it? It's got to actually when the snappers are taking our photographs, we come out of it. It's got to look impressive.
So what do you think? What do you reckon?
Well, I don't know, it's a difficult one because Britain's not really famous for until very recently. We're not famous for going to show busy cars, are we?
No, there's not been any. So look, we've got a few here. What's this first one you've found?
Well, so this is, I suppose, this is at Britain's only limo. Do you remember where ages ago we talked about the Jaguar Mark 10?
This is basically what the Jaguar Mark 10 became. The Daimler DS420. Now amazingly, these were made up until the 1990s. If you were a mayor of a provincial town, this is what you went to a ceremony with the Gold Train of Office.
They look very old, don't they? I mean, this is a 1988, but it looks like something out of 1968.
It's a 60's car effectively, but it had a big kind of lotus space. And bizarrely, you could buy them as a business man's express. You could have a kind of 1980s computer and a dot-matrix printer installed in one of them.
So they're big cars, the Daimlers, and they were used for state occasions. Two people, I know, used to have them, won the Queen Mother and two Alpharoads in Weatherfield.
When he was the mayor of Weatherfield, he got a Daimler DS420 with him in order to drive around.
So let's describe this one. It kind of looks like a fat XJ6, doesn't it? It's got double headlights at the front. It's two-tone. It's a cream and a brown. I think it's rust.
How is it rust, yeah? With the big grill, it looks very, very dated. This is sitting on a derech. We found this one in the classifieds.
Going inside, it looks like a wedding car. It looks lovely inside. It's that classic kind of well-trimmed leather interior plush carpets stretched. But it looks very, very dated. And I was thinking actually looking at this.
I remember that, do you remember when they made the band-aid records back in the 80s? That'd been like 84.
Yeah. And all the arrivals, they're all turning up around. Yeah, with a big hat.
But they're all the 80s new romantics turning up. These claps out old limos because we didn't have like swanky limos in the 80s, did we?
They sort of, America had those stretch ones, we had nothing.
Oh, do you remember if you were a government minister in the time, you basically got an XJ6 long wheelbase or a Rover P5B?
Yeah, so we had this sort of stuff which was like a hangover from another time, really.
So this is 2.995. What's the reason? It's less than 3 grand for a day.
It's on the miles. You know people just fill in anything. It says 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
But according to this, it's got 1.2 million miles on the clock for 2.995.
So it's a Dame the DS420 black over white with a gray interior. We'll seat up to seven passengers plus a driver.
It needs to be us, doesn't it? And this we like win tonight and we bring back a few friends around after show.
I think we're maybe going to need it. Yeah, well, maybe. Let's see.
It can be driven on a standard car license, MOT until February 2026.
Chrome working nice condition.
Previous owner has disconnected the near side fuel tank.
But the off side fuel tank does work.
Because I remember they've got the 20 fuel tanks like an XJ6.
We'd be filling that up quite a lot. It's where you've got rust in it, so it'll be screwing up.
It's not doing it, it's not doing it for me.
As soon as I saw the pro, I mean, it's a wedding special car, isn't it?
It's even got the wedding bows on the front and it's got some flowers, some fake flowers in the back.
So yeah, the next choice I've got for you is even better. You will love this.
Is it more like more, more, more like ostentatious, more swanky?
No, but it's exactly the same price. So for 2.995, a five or under three grand.
I've got you a vandal plant.
A what? A vandal plant.
What this thing?
But you don't know which vandal plant.
No, I'm looking at the pictures now.
It's an allegro.
It's a fantastic grill on the front.
It's got the vandal plant, a wheel trims and it's got the picnic tables in the back.
Oh my God, I'm not going, I'm not going out to an award show with that.
It's not very you. It's not very me, I wouldn't.
It's under three grand. It'll probably get you there. It's got the vandal plant steering wheel.
It's got the nice headlining. It's got the wooden dashed, wooden inserts in the doors.
I mean, that is a cool car, the vandal plant.
It could turn up in an ironic way in this, but it's not a show business way.
When I was at sixth form college, there was a librarian who had one of these.
And I was kind of, it was a bit of a curiosity.
I remember sort of looking at it and thinking that's a bit weird.
But it was in the 80s, it had a bit of cash aid, didn't it?
Yeah, it did.
Because it was ridiculous.
I think they were quite cool.
Wasn't it twice the price of a normal one or something?
It wasn't quite so. It was quite a lot.
I remember they did the vandal plant version of the 1100 or the 1300 as well.
And that was quite a cool car.
I remember people in retirement people in kind of seaside results.
Because they were done being executives and they still wanted that bit of executive glamour.
So they got the vandal plant.
If we turned up in this though tonight.
Cool.
Well, no, it looks like a clown car.
People would say there's a couple of clowns getting out of that.
You'd expect.
You'd expect.
Well, you'd expect to slam the doors to fall off.
Oh, yeah, they would do.
It's pretty.
Yeah.
I think those vandal plants are quite cool.
They're very rare.
I think I could only find two of them.
That one's in Northern Ireland.
The rest of the rest of the rusted away.
Yeah.
A nice genuine example would make a great starter classic.
If you can get it started.
Dry stored and used sparingly.
Well, that's because nobody wants to be seen in it.
If you go through the pictures, not a single panel matches each other.
They've all been sprayed, hand sprayed, and that kind of bluey color.
But fandom flowers are cool.
You know, that's a cool.
Yeah, like you said, ironic.
I'm not sure.
I'm looking for something a bit more wow.
What else have you got?
Well, you can't get much more wow than this.
Is it?
This is a Lincoln Continental, a 1967 Lincoln Continental.
Now, all I've got to say to you is JFK.
Because this is the car of his final trip.
Well, yeah.
That's not done bowed well, does it?
Well, obviously, you can have the roof on these.
Which is possibly what he should have had in the day.
Because they did do on his limo.
They had a bulletproof roof for his.
But he had it removed a wave to people on that day.
Which is probably the worst thing in the game.
So this is a big black long.
It's amazing.
Like American 60's car.
It looks a bit like Cold War Mafia-type car, doesn't it?
It's got that kind of hint of menace around it, isn't it?
Yeah.
It's not despotting some dodgy regime type of car, isn't it?
It's almost like Mercedes Grocer, isn't it?
Yes.
Well, it's the kind of Lincoln version of it.
The Lincoln Continental.
You know, that was the government car of the time.
So it does look quite sinister.
There's lots of mafia gangsters in Chicago
in the 70s tooling round in these.
Yeah, I bet there were.
I think they're very cool cars, the Continental.
I'd love to have a driver one.
Let's get into the pictures here.
I mean, it's black and chrome.
It does look really mean.
You know, two double headlights at the front
and a very stark grille with Continental written across the top.
You know, you were saying early,
would look like a couple of clowns in the Allegro.
Would it look like a couple of mafia hitmen in this?
That is more, I think, sinister.
That's the look we're going for.
Well, we want to be taken seriously, don't we?
We're serious car journalists.
And we want people to respect that when we turn up tonight.
So I think this is more kind of the thing.
Let's try and I'm trying to scroll the pictures.
Or hitmen.
So take the pictures.
We can fit your body in the boot.
It's when you get out and everybody takes a step back.
I'm trying to get into the pictures.
There's lots and lots of pictures on the outside here.
I've got to the boot inside.
Power everything.
Power everything.
Kind of prints.
Power seats. Power windows.
67. So that was a big thing.
So lots and lots of dark, black ribbed leather
and then these kind of wood inserts and lots of chrome everywhere.
And you just say, look at all these windows switch your stuff.
Yeah, I mean, it's loads going on there.
I think they're very cool at Continental.
And of course it's all good electric.
So that'll all work.
Won't it?
Not.
So yeah, can I add the window down there?
Doesn't work.
Oh my god.
The law.
The law on the door.
Is that what you were after?
Yes, always.
This is better than a Prius.
It's not more showbiz.
That is fantastic.
I would like to cruise through London in that tonight.
So I think our first choice, the Daimler.
It's just too boring.
A bit too fasty.
A bit too old.
A bit provincial.
Yeah, the clown car.
Allegro.
I'd love that.
A friend, but no.
Literally we'd turn up in that and we'd get laughed at.
Well, we'll get to his laughter.
Well, this is true.
But this is this.
This I can have a bit of this.
That's got coolness.
It has got cool.
So I vote for that.
So can you order that on it?
Does that come on Uber?
Sure it can.
Uber, Uber X, Uber.
Uber cool.
Uber continental.
It's episode 42 of the tire kicker.
It's the very big episode of are we going to win anything?
Probably not.
Special edition live from a noisy London street.
Yes, I'm random street corner.
Still to come.
We'll get your comments and corrections on previous shows
and take you to one of London's best kept classic car secret locations.
Now, loads of you have been in touch since the last couple of shows
talking about the stuff that we normally talk about on the episodes.
Stuff we've got wrong as well.
And also just some random crazy stuff.
Yeah, David dropped us a message to say he's enjoying the show,
calling it nonsense but sensible.
Well, which one of us is nonsense and which one is sensible?
I think I know the answer to that.
I don't think either to be honest.
He also says I've got a TR6.
I've had it a long time but probably prefer my 80s 90s classics.
He's got a Golf Mark II and an E30 318 ISBMW.
He says they're much easier to drive a more usable.
The 318 IS, that's the GTI rival.
It's not the 325, not the 320.
They were six cylinders.
318 IS was the four cylinder.
It shows what I know.
I thought that was a typo.
Right.
A few messages about our last show.
Classic thrills for winter chills.
We talked about our classic picks for driving through the autumn and winter
and we ended up having a bit of a row about it if you want to go back and listen to that.
Now, these are cars that we reckon would be great to drive
and enjoy through the grubbier seasons.
Now, you picked a disco, didn't you?
Well, the problem with this is, and I've got a bone to pick with you about here
because you live in Surrey.
So, the biggest challenge you've got is you're pub running out of flavoured mixes
and the winter.
Well, as the rest of us live outside of the kind of southeast.
Oh, dude.
We have proper winters where we need proper winter cars.
So, I picked a first generation Discovery 1, disco 1, as my personal favourite.
350 Monroe agrees with me.
He says I love a disco 1 but not a dirty diesel.
Well, they were all dirty diesels, weren't they?
They did the V8 but it was expensive.
Yeah.
So, again, dirty diesel and a grubbier disco.
No, thanks. You're not got it for me.
Darren Pendleton, though, came up with another pick.
He suggested a 1990 Citroen BX GTI 4x4.
Did they do it 4x4?
I didn't think they did but he sent me a link showing it, so they did, yeah?
All right.
Mark Dempsey says he'd go along with our picks of a Panda 4x4
and an Orange 70s Volvo, yes.
We picked a Saloon Car Volvo, but he says he'd go for the Volvo Estate.
I thought that Orange Saloon Car was just a bit more kooky.
I like the Saloon because it's that kind of brick shape
and everybody likes the Volvo Estate.
I think the Saloon's one cheaper and two a little bit more special.
And Rera, yeah, that's right.
My classic wheels says, what about a Mercedes 1, 2, 3 surely
that's got to be in the mix?
Well, yes it would be, but we talk about it every other show.
Dude, we're doing those all the time.
In fact, Pazali, we're standing opposite one.
We found in the street, we'll put some pictures on Instagram.
That a W123 coupe and dirty brown.
It's a really weird car because it's not posh at all, is it?
It's got the seats.
It looks like a couple of Labrador's about to fight in inside of it.
The seats were all ripped.
It's got some socialist worker posters in it.
It's like something out of it.
It's like a Tracy M in artwork.
Yeah, have a look at the picture on Instagram, but that's a good spot.
So that's why we're here standing on this random corner in a traffic jam
because there's a nice car across the road.
Looking at some other sort of audience picks, Max Grumpy Simian?
Yeah, he picked up on your choice of the Jaguar XJ6.
He's a six.
Excellent choice.
Which is a rubbish choice.
How is that?
My god, it's a JCB.
It's a JCB in pride colors.
You don't see that very often.
Here we go.
Right. So he picked up on your choice of the Jaguar XJ6,
which was frankly rubbish.
He says, I was out in mine earlier.
It's cozy and comfy inside until they start throwing salt on the roads.
It's the perfect autumn car.
I think he's right.
Exactly.
Sam from Southern Cars agrees as well and says,
I'm team Matt on the XJ6.
They're perfect winter smokers.
Exactly what I'd say.
Mark Palmer is correct.
He says the XJ6 would be great,
but does point out when you break down,
you'll be able to hear it rusting.
I mean, it's salty roads.
That's the worst thing you could drive.
You just hear it.
You'll be like...
Going while he's sitting there in the traffic jam.
Now moving on to something I spotted out in southern Spain recently.
It's a sort of classic car graveyard.
I saw it.
I was driving along, actually, down in Andalusia.
And it was just there on the side of the road.
And I thought, what is that?
And I did that thing.
You know when Al's turned the neck ground.
I did that.
So I stopped and went back and got some pictures
and put them up on Instagram.
I'm going to have a look on Instagram.
Real random mixer stuff.
There was an old Bentley,
some sort of GT40 kit thing,
and a Trabant police car.
Now how would that work?
There wouldn't be a high-speed chase, would it?
What also, how did it get there?
I mean, a Trabant police car,
is a kind of like an East German thing.
So how did it end up in southern Spain?
Coming back to the police chase thing.
If they were trying to chase the criminals,
what's the top speed in that?
35?
Maybe like slow motion, wouldn't it?
Anyway, somebody, I put those pictures up
and my dad's car podcast said something about that.
That GT40, because it's a kick car, wasn't it?
Yeah, a Beetle-based kick car, he says.
Yeah, Bentley GT.
Yeah, have a look at that.
It's on Instagram.
There's some really random stuff in there.
Bonus trade talks episode.
You did that recently,
and there's been some pickup on that as well, isn't it?
Yeah, I went to the classic motor hub in the Cotswolds,
kicked the tyres of a few sexy, gorgeous classics.
Web AB says, gorgeous Lotus Elan,
and the Brute in the Suit Bentley Continental T.
The perfect two car garages, right about that.
Yeah, give that a listen.
It's a podcast, a couple of podcasts back.
Have a listen to that.
Max goes around and gives those good kicking
and there's some pictures on Instagram as well.
Episode 41, we also talked about the MGA being a great buy
at the moment with prices softening.
Chris B says, yeah, it's a design classic,
and while we're remaining,
the prettiest sports car to emerge from the UK in the 1950s.
In criticised, this was the golden era of sports car production.
Kevin Bryant's been on though.
He's a bit of a TR fanboy,
and he reckons there's a better choice with a TR.
He says, the TR2, TR3 and TR3A are all better cars than the MGA.
Controversial.
Leah Sain also chipped in on this saying he's a fan of the MGA,
and thanks both the MGA and the Austin Healy
are two of the prettiest British classic cars.
Thanks for all your comments on Instagram.
Some good car bands are going on there.
Go and have a look at that.
I put a shot, Max, of my stag covered up in the garage,
with just those famous twin tailpipes sticking out.
And I asked people to guess what car it was,
but it had to be wrong answers.
So people put some quite funny answers
or what it could be on there.
So go and have a look at that on Instagram.
I like the fact that people have criticised
your garage floor for not being painted.
They know how anal you are.
Benjamin Mulpey has said that it's not painted.
Although Benjamin Mulpey did actually send me some information
about how he painted his garage.
So as I said to him on there,
if I hold out long enough, he might come on offer to do mine.
But yeah, thanks for all the likes and comments on Facebook
and things like that.
There's some extra bits and pieces on there as we spot them.
So if you're not yet following us on Facebook,
do go there and like the page as well.
And here's how to find both.
You can get in touch with Max and Matt via our socials.
We're at the tire kicker's UK on Instagram
and the tire kicker's on Facebook.
Now we've come a bit further north,
we're in North London now.
A place called Finchley.
I had to shove Max in an Uber
and bring him up here from the centre of town.
Are you okay?
Well, it was a care.
And I don't really know anything about cares.
But I knew it's electric.
Well look, I've got something better for you.
I brought you here.
I didn't really tell you much about where we were coming.
But I say we're in Finchley, East Finchley.
And I've brought you to somewhere that's a bit unique.
It's for a pizza basically.
Okay.
Come on in.
There's a bit more to it than that.
I'm neat selling on this.
It's a kind of pizza restaurant with a difference.
So if we, if you could just pull the door there.
So walking in, it's called 67 sourdough.
So pizza restaurant, they make brilliant pizzas.
But here's the kicker.
Look through this glass wall here.
What do you see?
All right, I've seen a GT40.
Okay, come on in.
Because it's part of also, it's a classic car showroom
and a pizza place all in one.
So this is hexagon classics and 67 sourdough.
Oh, that's nice.
Serious one-e type, DB6.
Porsche 911 Turbo in Martini colours, I think.
So we've come the other side of the glass.
On one side of the glass is a pizza restaurant and a bar.
We're now down in a restaurant that then leads into a classic car showroom
and what a showroom it is.
This is my kind of restaurant.
I like this.
So let's step into the classic car bit and tell me what you can see.
So two R30 Mercedes SLs, and those are the V12.
They're the SL63s, aren't they?
Two BMW M5s, I think they're the E39s.
Is that Ferrari Daytona?
That's nice.
What's right in front of us as well?
Oh, well, this is gorgeous like light blue.
Serious one-e type, that's very nice.
Oh, yeah, that's fantastic.
It's a sea red.
That's beautiful.
Aston Martin DB6 is that?
DB6 year Porsche Speedster 911 Turbo Cabriela.
Come further in, there's more, there's more, there's more.
Yeah, we are surrounded by these beautiful, I mean this is beautiful.
Mercedes coupe.
Stop that, stop that.
BMW Z1.
Look.
Oh, wow.
That's the one that the doors drop into.
They're really nice.
There's some big numbers in here.
That's 59, got 60,000 that one.
This one I really like.
The Mercedes 280 SE 3.5 V8 Cabriela from 1970 with 56,000 miles on it
in light blue.
Wow.
That's a, that's quite a motor isn't it?
This, this is for me.
It's absolutely beautiful.
So yeah, all these cars are sort of sat here.
Hold on, he's telling me to come over here.
What have you found?
365 GTB4 Daytona, 1972, 82,000 miles.
Now I've just been reading the details on it
but the main detail on the screen is the price, $475,000.
How much are the pizzas?
They're going to bankrupt us.
Yeah, so there's loads of cars in here.
We're actually going to do a special on this which will be coming
a bonus episode that will be coming very soon.
So we won't go into more of these cars but safe to say
there's probably about what?
15, 20 beautiful classics in here.
Next to some hopefully really good pizzas.
So let's go and grab some pizza and then we'll give a final thought on this
but we will be doing a bonus episode going round with the guys
from Hexican classics looking at some of these cars because
they are absolutely stunning.
You hungry?
I'm just lost in this Porsche Turbo.
Martini colors, so it's white.
Martini colors, gee red.
Oh, that is a 930 Turbo with a sunroof.
That's absolutely gorgeous.
Can I eat my pizza off it?
Off the tray at the back you can.
Yeah, let's go and get some.
Okay, we've finished our pizzas.
I've had a really nice pepperoni with hot honey.
What do you have?
I had a margarita which is really nice.
I noticed on your pepperoni with hot honey and onions,
you haven't finished it.
No, I haven't because I'm not greedy.
That's because it will give you indigestion.
I know you sitting next to you with onions and pepperoni
is not going to be a great idea.
Yeah, we've still got the night to go but we have been sat here
looking at the, I've got an e-type and this DB6 in front of us
and all the cars behind which has been great.
It's been a really good little little pit stop this but
we've got other places to be max so we need to go.
We have, there's an award with our name on it.
Whether we'll actually be given it, I don't know.
We'll make the most of it.
Let's go there now.
Well, it's now 7 o'clock in the evening.
We've just been dropped off by our Lincoln Continental
and on where's the Ric Carpet right outside the venue?
What's going on?
There's a slight absence of buzz here, isn't there?
There's no photographers.
I'm kind of thinking it should be like the Oscars.
People should be asking me what I'm wearing.
Nobody seems to bother.
Well, you normally have that paparazzi from Saga magazine
following you around so where's Egon?
Just any paparazzi at all would be nice.
It's quite low key outside.
I think let's go inside and see if there's a bit more buzz going on.
Okay, we'll give it a go.
Hopefully there we might get recognisers from the tyre kickers everybody.
So no red carpet but we've got an escalator.
This looks a bit more like it, Max.
I wonder how many people in this building will want to talk to me about the difference
between a Mini Metro HL and a Mini Metro HLS?
Well, as I don't want to talk to you about that,
I think there's probably very, very small percentage.
There is some sort of photo board there that we're coming down.
It's a big FOIA full of podcasters.
Let's see if we can noble some of the people in our category before they get in.
Oh, I've got them drunk.
Sorry, they're not here.
We'll take it though.
Okay, we found the bar, cheers.
Cheers.
There we go.
Congratulations.
Here again for another year running.
Yeah, I'm not sure we'll be having one of these after.
What do you think our chances are?
I'm just looking around the room.
And interestingly, because you can't tell whether anybody else is a car fan.
What I can tell though is there's no other middle-aged men.
No, so we might get the award for that.
They're a bit younger than us, aren't they?
They aren't quite young and they're quite...
I don't know what the trendy word for trendy is, but they're quite trendy.
And we're not.
Do you remember we got that review that said they're quite funny for older fellas?
Yeah, that was probably one of the nicer reviews.
Not written by anybody in this room.
Actually, to be fair, thank you for all the reviews.
We don't get that many haters.
But if you want to leave us an Apple review, that'll be great because that gets us up the algorithm.
Actually, we get a lot of haters, I just don't show them to you.
That's probably for the best.
Right, well, across our fingers, as you say, it's a bit of a younger hip or crowd than us.
Well, we're the only car podcast here, though, to be fair.
So that's not a bad thing.
But that's for a reason.
Because they're generally quite boring.
Well, let's drink our drinks and cross our fingers and see how we go on.
Cheers.
I'm a short listar.
Good time, everyone.
Great!
We have a highly commended award here.
And that goes to the tyre kickers.
The tyre kickers.
Right, it's over.
And we have nothing in our hands apart from the words highly commended from the judges.
Yeah, there's no, we're not holding a gong.
No, essentially, how do you feel about that?
Are you happy with that?
I'm quite pleased.
I mean, somebody said highly commended to me.
And that's better than everything I've got at school.
So I think I'm quite pleased.
It's great, actually, to put a positive spin on it,
essentially, our topic is a bit like talking about model trains, isn't it?
So the fact that we were even noticed was great.
Yeah, the only car podcast in the whole event.
Yeah, this is true.
And classic cars, which are slightly more boring.
So it's like the most boring part of the most boring category.
So I think to be highly commended is good.
I'm taking that, I'm taking that as a win.
Okay, well, that's good.
So we were finalist last year.
We were finalist this year with highly commended.
Next year?
Dead.
So that's it.
From the Independent Podcast Awards 2025, Max and I are going to go and get a beer
and look at our highly commended thing.
We're in the book, actually.
That's pretty good.
That's quite good.
It's like being in the school year book, isn't it?
Yeah, slightly less good.
Yeah, exactly.
Coming up very soon, actually, is a bonus episode coming soon
where we give you a full look grounds that piqued her and car,
classic car place that we were earlier.
That should be good.
We had a good look at stuff, didn't we, that?
There's another bonus episode coming with Sam from Southern Cars.
I'm going up to Manchester to talk to her in a couple of days.
Actually, to see what stock she's got in and talk about her career in the motor trade.
It's getting a bit feisty here.
So, let's get out of here.
Until next time.
See you later.
Bye.
Leave it. She's not worth it.
About this episode
Max and Matt take to the streets of London as they await the results of the Independent Podcast Awards, where they are finalists for the second year. They discuss potential classic limousines for their red carpet arrival, exploring options like the Daimler DS420 and a quirky Allegro. The duo also visits a unique pizza restaurant that doubles as a classic car showroom, showcasing stunning vehicles like a Lincoln Continental and a Ferrari Daytona. The episode wraps up with their experience at the awards ceremony, where they receive a 'highly commended' recognition.
We’ve got a hot date at the podcast awards in London, where we’re in the final. So we’ve taken the show on the road. Come with us as we pick the best classic limo to rock up in. And join us for a pre-awards dinner at a place that mixes pizza with Porsches. Will we win? (possibly) Will we find the free bar? (definitely!). Press play and come with us on the journey to the red carpet!
