C.R.E.A.M. #44 Monterey Special, Lamborghini Murcielagos and Smart Watches

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Hello, and welcome back to the CREAM podcast number 44, this time in the United States of America.

We are in a Hummer.

We're in a Hummer EV sitting in a Tesla supercharger car park.

And why would we be doing that?

Weird, because we decided to rent an electric car for Monterrey Car Week, which is what we're at

right now. We'll do a quick explanation in a minute. But the byproduct of that is that we've

been sat in this exact spot, I'd say upwards of six hours over the last week, maybe longer.

We're quite familiar with this spot. We've been to other spots. It didn't work. So this

is our spot. This is our only spot that works.

Last night, we went to dinner parked here, got an Uber, sorry, we tried to go for dinner,

couldn't get there, charged here, got an Uber to dinner, then an Uber back.

That's just not things I've ever had to do.

Ridiculous. But it's been very good. We are here at Monterrey Car Week. If you don't know what it is,

there is a town just south of San Francisco and a little bit north of Los Angeles that every year

for one week is taken over by cars in the best way possible. I'm not talking about takeover,

spec, I'm not talking about 350z and what such. I'm talking about Ferrari, you know,

Ferrari 250 GTOs and McLaren F1s and what such. So this is going to be a bit of a Monterrey special

cream podcast. We're going to talk through what happened this week, what we saw. But as with

every cars were moving around me, because we have to start with the road, whether it was a

rule or a ruin, will. It's the greatest rule yet. It is. And we can't talk about why yet.

We'll get into it. We will get into it. It's the rule of rules that this rule cannot be topped.

Can't be beaten. Yourself. It's a rule for me for a very similar reason. What about Ben? Oh,

hi. I am here. Oh, so sorry. I'm just behind Will. I'm sorry. Maxi passengers. It's Will

to my right. And Ben behind the Maxi. Oh, hi. There you go. That's the one. Is it a rule?

No, I'd call it a rule. It's for a similar reason to you. It is. We will get on to that later in

the podcast because it happened just today. But shall we start? Perhaps let's rewind back to

swear at the airport still. We're at the airport. I don't know. Before we've even been on the plane

or at the airport, Edwin is just about to throw a drink all over the floor before they get on

the plane. We'll get to that in front of some important people. Yeah, we'll get on to that.

But first, we'll get on to just a really funny... I'll remember this for a long time.

We're at airport security. Oh, this is a car podcast. I don't care. This is a Monterey special.

And people want to hear. Look, if they're hearing about my drinks billage, they're hearing about

you. Joe is the Ben bully of the week. Let's do it. Okay, fine. This is the real one.

The first of many for this week. Sure. We're at airport security and the gentleman

at the X-ray machine is saying, right, you know, the belts on the table, please,

laptops out, that sort of stuff. And he says to Ben, I'm standing next to Ben,

do you have a smart watch? And keep in mind, Ben, you have a mechanical,

quite nice looking watch. Is it you wearing right now? No, I'm wearing a different one right now.

But okay, but you've got another, you know, it's a normal, it's an old style watch. It's a 1970s

watch. Okay, lovely. And you said to the man, I think it's quite smart. Yeah.

And I, I looked at Will, Will looked at me and the security guy looked at all of us as if,

why am I getting, why am I getting shit from this kid? Why am I getting flippant responses?

And but then that was just your answer to the watch off and put it through the scanner.

So you actually thought he meant like, is it a smart, is it a nice one?

I thought he meant, I don't know, you can like smuggle drugs with a nice watch.

Can you take the back of a nice watch? Maybe in the movement or something? There's a,

I don't know. I don't mind the electronics. Also, in my defense, he did say,

is it a smart watch? He said it's a smart watch.

No, no, no, no, no. I think you're possibly the only person who would say no that way.

He said, he said, is it, you said, do I need to take my watch off? He said,

is it a smart watch? And you went, I think it's pretty smart.

It sounded so sark. I was being deadly serious. I thought it was quite smart.

So anyway, we then got, we made it through without being detained because of Ben's flippancy.

And then got to the gate at which point I decided I'd found some drinks and what such.

I have, there's Purdy's energy drinks, which are, they don't have any caffeine in,

which is for me very key because I can't have caffeine. So I bought one of those,

put it in my backpack, got a Starbucks. And as we were sitting in Starbucks,

we heard some frankly quite posh voices beside of us. And we didn't take too much of a mind,

but after a while, a man came over and said, hi, I worked for RM Sotheby's,

which if you don't know Will, what's RM Sotheby's?

RM Sotheby's auction house of, of, of great prowess and value. Yeah.

They, yeah, for instance, this week, they, this week we were there,

they sold a Ferrari Daytona SP3 for $26 million, quite dumb. But a gentleman came over and said,

hi, my name is Will Smith, not the one you're thinking of. Who else?

Instead, I'm the one who works for RM Sotheby's. I'm a, a watcher of TDC. Do you want to come to

the auction? But it's happening at Monterey. And we said, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And then I

promptly got up at my backpack on turned around too quickly. My bottle fell out of my bag and

smashed all over the floor in front of the gate. So that was great. And then we

were struck off the list of our RM Sotheby's. They said, can I get my business card back?

But we did it. We went there yesterday. Yeah, that was yesterday. That was yesterday. That was,

that was quite cool. And but being in an auction house or an auction room like that,

arms bolted to my side. Not, not trying to do anything. Not even, I'm not even blinking in

that room. Meanwhile, Ben was throwing the camera up above his head. I was thinking he was

just throwing out bids. It was quite scary. We were in a room with Schmi. Which Schmi was

there? Ed Bolin. Also, Schmi did come up to us and say, I've got to have a chat with you at

some point about my Ferrari XX spec and then walked off almost quite angrily. So that was a bit

worrying. We saw Ed Bolin there. We went and introduced ourselves. I don't think he gives a

shit who we are. But we've at least shook his hand. You might remember something. I don't know.

Frackets. No. Who else was there? That's it. That's it. I can remember. Yeah. So we saw

what Doug DeMiro out about. We did see Douglas. Douglas was out. And we didn't even know

we'd actually spotted him that night or the night before. We didn't even realize it was him.

We saw a white contestant. We saw a white contestant. And then we said, Ben went in detective mode and

went on that second. Someone DM me. Someone DM me and said, is that Doug DeMiro? And I was like,

hang on. And I went into detective mode, looked up the video and then referenced the plate to

like his car. And it's him. Turns out it was. Next day. There he is. There he was. We went to a

basically for context in Monterey Car Week. There is kind of events started all over.

There's Laguna Seca, which is the famous racetrack is here in Monterey. And there's all

sorts of other bits and golf courses around for rich people. But for the week, they put cars on the

lawns and that sort of stuff. But outside of that, there are cars just around. You turn up to a

lay by that would on any other day of the year be empty. And there was, as we found out 10 minutes

ago, a P1 GTR and a McLaren P1 in green, just parked up. And on that same road, we saw

GM A250, White Cuntash 177. A T50. Yeah.

Did you say that? Yeah. Very sorry. Apologies. T50. A GM A250. A Gordon Murray automotive.

And you're here with Edwin Edwin in Edwin. So there was T50. There was no way.

No, not a T50. I missed that one. Get down to T50.

So well, the biggest thing was the first day we got here, we decided to,

well, firstly, when we arrived the night we arrived, for our esteemed American listeners,

Ben decided to send us to Olive Garntman for dinner. Unlimited breadsticks. I'm going to

say it right now, Americans. I don't ever want to hear any jokes about English food again.

Your stuff is whack. Soups and salads. About soup and salads.

I'd never heard of this before, but they offer you soup and salad, which has already weighed

enough. And then it's unlimited refills of soup. I'll shake your curiosity. I said,

yes to a soup. Sorry. And this is to go along with my pasta.

What? And I finished my soup and he went, can I get you a refill of that? Excuse me?

I've already had a meal. You don't just say, do you want more? You don't finish it.

You don't finish a steak or a pasta and they go, can I refill that for you?

You want some more? It's on the house.

So, but no, since then that was weird. But the first day we actually came into Monterey,

the first thing that happened, we turned up behind a McLaren F1 and a P1, which we reacted normally to.

Yeah, there was screaming, tears, people clambering at the wind. That was just cool.

That to me is the best thing about Monterey so far is the events, they're okay, they're cool.

There's lots of cool stuff. But just driving along and an F1 pulls, also we pulled over to

let it in front and then let that and the P1 in front just so we could just track behind it.

That's the best part about this week. Also, we skimmed over quite an important detail,

which is our rental car. Do you want to tell us about our rental car and also what we told Ben?

So, we're in a Hummer EV, which references a 1000 horsepower, 4.2 tonne ridiculous piece of American

metal. But what we told Ben is that we were renting a RAV4 or similar. So Ben was quite

looking forward to our RAV4 or similar. And then we turned off at the airport.

Where's our all similar? It actually became a running joke about this that we said,

I hope it's not the RAV4, I hope we get the all similar. So all week we're like,

God, I hope that all similar look good. That should be good.

And then we're just going up the car park and there's a Hummer and Ben actually said,

and he's like, oh, that's a Hummer, you may have it. We're cool if we had a Hummer.

And they're like, Ben, that's our rental car. And then we proceeded to sit in San Francisco

airport car park for about a half an hour. Jesus Christ. Well, firstly, Ben, what was your reaction

to it? I haven't seen one before in person. So I walked out of the airport and I was like,

yo, that's cool. And then I turned around and we was filming. I think you were filming with your

eyes, with my eyes and my phone. Yeah, you're filming with your eyes and your phone. And

there it was. And here we are. And here we are sat in a car park for a charge. But it's

fun though. It is. It's just this car is dumb. It is incredible. We said on the video,

there is going to be a video coming to the top of the center channel where we lived with it for the

week. And my honest, my honest conclusion is I would own one. It's, it's hilarious. It's so dumb.

It's a pantomime car. It really is. I was just saying, I should have said it in the video,

literally when we pulled up here, that electric cars take themselves so seriously. They're all

like, I'm so smart. Hey, God, yeah. No, I'm good for the world. This thing is just dumb.

Like it's not trying to do that. It's just trying to be allowed, which is, which is TDC

through and through the launch mode is called WTF mode, which is what's to freedom.

They just said, Hey, man, it needs to be calm. WTF figure something out. Watch the freedom. Hell,

yeah. And it is unbelievably fast. We're fairly sure. So they claim a three and a bit second

060. We are 100% did a sub four second 060. Oh, easily. It's unbelievable. Three up as well.

Yeah. Crazy. Ridiculous. 11 and a half thousand pound foot of torque, which are like to the actual

wheels is apparently 1200 pound foot. It makes no sense. Also, over four tons, which if you're,

if you're in the UK means you can't drive it on a normal license, you need an HGV license.

Yeah. Yeah. Insane. I'd like to drive one in the UK. I also wouldn't. Yeah. I wanted to

see what how this feels in the UK. Shall we get onto where you've got the, you've got the list?

We have a list of many things to go over from that. This will pretty much be all Monterey related.

Now, before our, well, the beginning of our trip, we met, we met a Kramer of the week.

Yo, we were on the plane, which is quite a long flight. It's about 10 or 11 hours

from the UK. And right towards the end of the flight, one of the flight tenants came over

to me and sort of kneeled by my seat. I thought I was in trouble. I thought so. I was, I was to the

left of Will and I saw him kneel down and I thought it was in trouble. So I went like this. I went,

I just kind of turned to the left and pretended I didn't know Will. I thought, God, they're

going to know about my handwritten passport. God, no. And he had like a white bag in his hand.

I was like, what's happening here? And then he said to me, man called David,

he said, oh, I just, you know, I've got a question. I'm sure you haven't been asked

this question yet today. What was the name of that Chinese in Northampton?

I was baffled. I was like, okay, right. Either you listen to the podcast or you followed me where

I live or where I used to live. But it turns out David is a Kramer. Hey, aren't we all?

Gave us some cans of beer and some champagne and a card as well. David officially Kramer of the

week. Genuinely started the trip off. Absolutely. Amazingly. Also made note to

which I, you know, I appreciate to not say anything until the end of the flight, because

when I walked through and I was standing awkwardly outside the toilet, he went, oh,

there's another toilet. You can go up there. Otherwise I would have felt really bad if I

had have known. I was just standing there going, just, just waiting for, just waiting for this.

Just going to shit in that. Let's do again, destroy that one if you don't mind.

So yeah, David absolutely Kramer of the week. US car park is on our list. This is what

I just mentioned now. So we picked up the hammer, Ben surprised. We're all gleeful. We're

all going, wow. Look at the four wheels staring. We're kicking our legs with our pinkies.

We are at the beginning of our week. Also, we've just had a long flight though as well.

So we kind of want to get out. Nothing can bring us down.

Nothing. It was just, let's get on the road. We've got two to three hours of driving ahead

of us. We tried to leave San Francisco airport. We have to pay to get out. So you pull up

to a booth. There are three, four lanes. Some of them don't have people on. Some of

them do. The one with the person on said, what was it? It was cash.

That was cash only. It was cash. So we thought, okay, well, we will have cards. Let's go to the

card one, which is like an automated non-human one. Did that. We tried possibly five different cards

and it said no, can't do that. I'm afraid whatever. So Ben had to jump out, go and find a person

who came over and was none the wiser. Yep. Absolutely no idea. They didn't know what

was going on. They kept going, put your card in as if we were the idiots. And you put

the card in and you go, that's not working. Hold on. Put the card in. You got your card and then

the card got eaten by the machine and the machine just died. So then he said, at this point, we are

forming quite a queue. And we are destroying the car park. This is not, this is all, it actually

felt English. Yeah. Like the bottom of the multi-story car park where you're looking out

the window trying to make sure you're not curving a wheel. It was that tight. It's not

a hummer shaped sized car park. So then the guy says, can you reverse back? Just reverse back and

go to the next one. We reverse back, just about. They have to stop everyone from moving. We're

doing four wheel steering, all sorts. Go to the one he just told us to. As soon as we pull

up to the booths, the woman pulls out of her, just opens the door, leaves, and just goes

through a door into another room and leaves. Yep. And the guy who was helping us before

just went, oh, she's gone on break, huh? So where's there? Like, okay, so do we need to go elsewhere?

And then the booth we just came from, someone started working on.

I think the best part was that we then, we then reverse went back to the other booth

and then went, God, what's going on here? As if, as if we were causing the issue. I was,

Ben, how, how was it in the back? Were you, were you tense? Yeah, were you tense? It was tense.

Yeah, yeah. I thought we'd never get out. Yeah. I thought that was it. We're going to miss everything.

We're just going to be at this gate. Six days of moving from booth A to B.

That was easily 20 to 30 minutes delay. Yeah. Just there. But we got out in the end,

did two, three hours down here to Salinas. Yes, which is, sorry, sorry. Just let us off as well.

It's $7. It was also half an hour. It took so long that the price

went from $8 to $12. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Next up on the list,

we've got another Kramer, not Kramer of the Week quite, but you had it not been for David,

you might, you might have been. That's 106 man. Yes. He's like, believe his name was Anthony.

There we go. Yeah. We went to a show called Sports Car Vacation Land, which I'm going to be real,

was actually a little bit disappointing. Yeah. It was their inaugural one.

So I'm sure it'll get better over the years, but it was, it was quite sparse.

Yeah. But we walked in through the gates and there was, you know,

you could see like up a canyon sort of thing. Yeah. And in the very distance, I was like,

what's that? Is that a Mark III Fiesta? Now it can't be. And then you went, oh,

that's the only one. 106 rally in America. It's insane. Like, well, what is it doing?

Yeah. I mean, we'll get onto it. There are a bit more French things here this week

that we haven't been used to, but, and then we were admiring said 106 and we were just about

to film in front of it. And then a guy came over, introduced himself and said,

I'm a Kramer. I'm a Kramer. This is my 106. He said he imported it and drove it

something like a thousand miles back. And if you're not familiar with America, America's highways,

it is, it is, it is fast speed. It's not small little city, you know, hairpins and things,

which is what a Peugeot 106 is built for. It's, it's hard on a car like that. And he just drove

it back. Yeah. This is full. Like it was, it was left on drive and stuff. But again, the 106

has not got, it's not going to have great air con. It's not an automatic and it's not

going to be comfortable long journey. But nonetheless, there it was looking completely

out of place. Yeah. Ridiculous. That was a really cool setting that place. It was really,

really cool. And then the final Kramer that we met, who is a Kramer that we've spoken about on the

podcast before is Greg. Greg. Greg owns a white Mercielago LP640, but in Washington DC,

which is all the way on the other side of America, he said, you've been speaking to him,

right? And he said, I'm not bringing it, but I will see that. He messaged me and said,

I'm going to be at Monterey. I was like, I said, I have interest. It's like, how are you getting

that? Are you driving? Would you like us to drive it for you? And in Venice, he did say, I would

love to do it one day, but that's a long way. Yeah. And then LP640. So he didn't. But we met him

today. Actually, quite a funny story. When we went to another show called Radwood. That was

right here. It was the paddock with Radwood attached. Radwood. And then we're walking along

this sort of golf course and lovely setting there. And a man in a golf cart pulls up and says,

hey, man, you want to lift? And we're like, yeah, sure. Why not? So me and Ben sat on the back. Ben,

Edwin was in the middle. So me and Ben are facing straight out the back.

And we're powering along. So that's taken us in a golf cart. And Greg, who we just mentioned, walks

past and goes, oh, hey, Will. And we're just powering on away from him. I was like, I can't

stop. Will, I mean, I think the exact quote was, oh, sorry, I'm being taken away.

So that was your first in person interaction with Greg. First interaction. He was,

he was very nice about it. He wasn't too bothered. We saw him the next day

when we went hunting for some Mercy Lagos, which we'll get to very, very much get on to. But

I was going to say, should we talk about some spots or is that on the list?

Let's have some, what have we seen? Well, we would not see exactly. That's what we were

just talking about on the way here. There are very few things that we haven't seen. Ben,

what are your best spots? We saw, we saw a Koenigsegg Jesko Jesko Absolute,

yes, which is Zach's garage. And we saw him in the distance. And he went on to this,

there's a big toll road called 17 mile drive, which is, goes past all the golf courses along

the seafront. People bring their nice cars there, pull in laybys. And he went on to one

section of that. And we were given a left or a right. And we took the left. And I believe

he took the right. Yeah, we lost him a distance. I don't know. I actually really

enjoyed the, the RM Sotheby's auction. I liked watching that LaFerrari get auctioned off.

That was cool. So top five cars. Jesko Absolute. Oh, I don't know.

Okay. Great. Yeah, it's all right, mate. We're just on podcast. Don't worry about it.

What about the E92 and 3? Oh, do you like that? That was good.

We haven't seen any. You haven't. I was looking forward to seeing one with that,

aren't any, but there's none. No, do you want to explain that?

Come to Monterey car week. It's where every E92 M3 is. And I'm going to say

E92 M3 is a cool car. We've seen one before. I think they're genuinely

really cool. They look great, but I don't care when I've seen 400 of them. And these

guys will turn around every two seconds and see one as if they'd never seen one before.

And they're all either white or gray or blue. And they're all lowered and they're all the same

wheels. And granted, it's a nice car, but it gets so tedious. Do you know what it is?

They're all modified so well. You'd be okay with it if you weren't with us,

because it wouldn't register in your head. They would just go past and you're going to,

but we would go, oh, Winter Lagos on the apexes. All those are nice.

Oh, nice fit. Oh, they're eating on that. Oh, he's got end-performance seats. Those are

good. That's good. I'm not joking. We've seen, I'm going to call it 30 a day.

And it's now became a joke where every time one comes past us, these two point it and go,

oh, Ben, what's that car? What's that car? And then we all go, oh, no.

I have interest, Ben. What's that just behind you over there?

That's like a 322. Yeah, exactly.

E46s, E92s, and FATs and GT3s are hundreds and hundreds of day. If you aren't aware and you

aren't aware of Monterey Car Week, when we say it's a, the cars take over the town,

they really do. If you, if you stand, we actually, because we've been charging this car so much,

we go and stand on the corner. There is a crossroads, what do you call it? An intersection

between a four-way intersection. And we just go and stand there and wait. And I,

I guarantee you there's no, no more than 15 seconds between something very high value

or cool coming past like minimum GT3. I don't think I'm not aware of any other event on

Earth that does this. I mean, like, I always thought Goodwood was good as in Festival Speed,

not even close. Goodwood is, is perhaps all 5%, not even, not even 5% of what this is.

Stuff everywhere and the range is just ridiculous. I've realised as I've, as we've been going,

that I, you guys are a bit more choosy with your photos. I take photos like a dad.

I just pull my fan out and click and just shoot. How many do you think you've taken?

I've taken 500 photos since we left England. No, I was just looking through because you're

off my top five. I can now give you that because I don't take very many photos

of stuff, but the ones I have taken photos of are my favourites. So I'm going to give it,

sing a DLS. Good one. Number one. Yes, go absolute. Okay. These aren't all of these,

it's just my five. A, whilst we see, I'm a Clarene F1 up close. Lovely. In Sotheby's.

SVJ. Now that's your guy. I've entered SVJ. Just, I sound so good. And then number one car

is a yellow Mercilago. Oh, okay. Interesting. Maybe we'll get on to that in a little bit.

Also, the thing I want to mention on the podcast is you, you took a video and you posted a video

which will overlay on the screen right now. If you're a viewer, if you could just describe

it, it's Pacific Northwest feel. Oh yeah, foggy. It's gloomy, but it's, it feels nice

with an SVJ, SVJ doing an acceleration with some flames. It looks like Instagram spec.

Yep. What I'd now like to do is overlay the video that I got, which is the reality,

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it, but if you're a not a visual viewer, what it is is me filming from the back,

the flame goes off at all three of us go, oh, it's not as polished as it's seen as you've made it

seem. But yeah. Okay. So that's a good top five. That's a good top. Yeah. And I don't want to mention

Ferrari 350, 250 GTO, 250 GTO. That is going to be in this video on Muhammad. We were just

filming an intro and a Ferrari 250 GTO drove past. That is absurd. That doesn't happen

anywhere on that please. Well, the last one I think I saw was 40 or 50 mil, something like that.

Ridiculous. Yeah, that was like most expensive was like 50 something. Yeah,

William, mercy logo, yellow mercy logo. I think it was. Yeah, that makes sense.

It's been fair. We've seen many mercy. Actually, just over there as well, you've

got Starbucks and a mercy logo just pulled up outside and that's that's how I want my life

to be. Also go to coffee shop. Mercy logo fills up. The cool thing is anybody that

brings a cool car here, you know the game. You know that everyone's here for cars.

So he was at Starbucks, just pop the engine bay for people to take photos of just look around them.

That's cool. I'm going to say mercy. This is a mercy logo, yellow 6.2 manual, my absolute

dreams back. That is my number one. Choir R, which we saw just parked inside the road.

That's cool. There's more. I'm going to also say the Zonda.

Nice. The Zonda F. It was a C12S. I think it was. McLaren F1.

And I had one more thing. Please think about yourselves. Was it a yellow mercy logo?

It might have been. We did see an SV. That was cool. F40. That's not quite on my list.

Hummer. I'm just looking through my photos, which are mainly mercy logos.

We did see a clear V6. Yes, we did see a clear V6. I feel harsh saying that that's Enzo.

Enzo. Now that yeah. Oh, we did the Enzo spot with the SV. That was incredible.

It's going to sound like ramblings of three mental people, but actually we did see that.

That's my five. Your five, sir. Now, Tide first for me is McLaren F1

and the other McLaren F1 we saw. For me, it's the car of all time.

I'd say it might even be just the car. It's the best car. It might be a car. It's car.

It's car. It's objective best car. For me that is the car. So yes, any time I get to be within,

I'd say a couple of thousand miles of a McLaren F1. I'm quite happy. That's what gets my day going.

So McLaren F1 first, the Enzo number two, because Ferrari Enzo is childhood growing up car.

Number three, I'd say is a yellow Lamborghini Mercy logo, which I'm sure we'll get onto.

Number four. Oh, I just had them. I had it in my head and I can't remember. Please

wait one moment while I scroll through my photos and what we've got.

500 of them, is it? There's literally billions of those.

So I'm just going to hold up to the camera now. This is what my camera roll looks like.

What color Mercedes logo is it? Well, it's just this one here. The yellow one.

Okay. Why is that? I'm sure we'll get there.

Oh, you know what? It's not top five, but the 177. We saw a McDonnell.

A Aston 177. Just chilling. I'd like to replace one of mine.

Okay. I'd like to replace. I can't remember my list. I have no too many things.

I'm going to add a sixth, the CCX. The CCX.

The CCX we saw in the Sotheby's car park.

There is something about the early Koenigseggs that are simply perfect. They don't age.

They have like that Carrera GT quality where they're stuck in time,

but the time is perfect. I don't have the words to explain it better.

Time is right. Now, there was something that's quite special for me

is that we walked into the Sotheby's car park and we've been talking recently.

And we're going to get on to it next podcast because there's too much one trade to get through.

We recently drove a Ferrari 550 and a Gallardo, our attainable maybe one day dream cars.

And in the parking garage was a Ferrari 550 on the exact wheels I want,

but right below it on the next level, which you could see through,

was a Ferrari 355. And all week I was staring at 355s going,

is that better? I don't know if it's better.

It's crazy first-world problems they have, but I can't decide which one I love more.

And I keep staring at that photo. I keep going, getting better and just going,

I can't, I can't. Zonda is my fourth, the Zonda F.

And then finally, it could be the Sport Quattro that we saw.

Oh, that was also sold for just a pretty penny.

Just a Ferrari Sport Quattro.

A Ferrari Sport Quattro?

Is that a new one?

A SFRA Sport Quattro?

That's a new one.

Sorry, I was looking for my photos. I saw a 550.

An Audi Sport Quattro is something that you just don't see.

No, that was the red one.

F40LM.

Yes.

F40LM.

Yeah, that was cool.

Very cool.

Also sold for a lot of money.

Sold for many, many millions.

So those are our picks.

What else have we got on the list?

Ben, you've put in here Lexus LFR concept.

That's something that was sort of revealed.

There's an event at Monterey called the Quale.

It is the event.

We went to that one.

Yeah, I think it was it.

Is it two and a half grand a ticket?

It's something like that.

And it's basically a big old golf course with all of the

new cars.

If you ever see Monterey coverage with cars being announced,

cars being shown,

then you've got a Murray stuff was shown there.

The new Ferrari, Lamborghini, Fennel, whatever it was.

Fentanyl.

Fennel.

Because of where we are in the world.

Okay, interesting.

Fenty Ferrari.

All of that stuff gets announced there.

It's a big lawn.

It's very fancy.

We couldn't go there.

But there was the Lexus LFA successor.

Yes.

Now it's not the actual final car, I believe.

No.

It's not actually called the LFR,

but apparently the thing will be called the LFR.

And that is some sort of V8.

Skip.

Skip quite a few letters.

Throw in LFA, LFB, Nah, R.

LFR.

It's a cool name.

But when you told me about this, Ben,

and I said, does it have what engine is it?

And you said a V8.

Well, I don't really know.

I believe it is a V8.

Okay.

So is this misinformation?

No, no.

I'm pretty sure it is a V8.

Surely we're not getting misinformation of the week.

No, I'm not.

Really?

In a different country.

In a different continent.

Not even in my country.

No, I'm pretty sure it is a V8.

And if it's not, it's not.

That's fair.

Yeah.

On that subject, you just mentioned it.

Yeah.

To Gordon Murray.

Oh.

Man like Gordon Murray.

There he is.

We love Gordon Murray.

Now, he revealed, or the company revealed, a new car.

And actually, we speculated on this.

We did.

We're going to take a little bit of credit.

I want commission.

We want, we need our royalties, if we're being honest.

And I'll take my royalties in the form of seeing a T50.

Is that we heard about, or we found about,

or they announced that there's going to be a sort of special division of

GMA that are going to make some one-off or very special versions of their cars.

And we said, please, God, make a T50 that doesn't have the fan.

It looks more like the F1.

And what did they come out with?

Gordon Murray heard us and went, boys, I've got you.

I'm a creamer.

Let me get the sketchbook out.

God, he gets creaming that mustache.

Surely.

He really does.

But this thing is literally, it's an F1 restome.

Even you said the mirrors in the place where it's where he wanted them.

And he called it the, is it completely like a unique sort of name?

Yeah, like, so it's nothing like, like an F1, like an S1.

S1, that's the one.

Okay.

S1.

So it's called the S1.

There's another name after that.

I can't remember.

GTR?

Could be that.

GTR.

The other thing is a Le Mans, which is based on the smaller one.

But it's just perfect.

It is great.

Perfect.

No fan, quad pipes at the back, quad tail lights.

The front is, wow, it really is cool.

It is, again, now that is now something that I just want to see.

But supposedly it was a custom commission built for one person.

Five cars were built at a reported value of 11 million each.

So someone has spent 55 million to have all five examples.

But compared to five, the current of ones.

Hey, great deal.

It's like half price.

Great deal.

Also, buy one, sell the other four for inflated money, have one for free.

It's the Brunei way of doing things.

And there's no, there is no confirmation, but supposedly it is a collector that

isn't the South Brunei or anyone in the family.

But someone who apparently already owns two G50s.

Okay, fair.

So they, I think they're good for it.

Jamiroquai.

Hey, man.

JK.

JK, buddy.

Also, the other thing I wanted to say, if you are perhaps a Will Smith, again,

of RM Sotheby's, not of...

To be fair, if it is actual Will Smith, we'll take that too.

If actual Will Smith too, do you not?

There's only Will Smith.

There's only one Will Smith to me.

That's fair.

And he's the one that works for RM Sotheby's.

Big shout out.

But if you are someone who works for a brand that perhaps is going to be at Monterey next week,

next week, next year, it's going to be, it's been a long day.

Is that Monterey next year?

Let us know, because, you know, we're coming back,

coming back big, and I want to go to the Quail next time.

The Quail has to be done.

It has to be.

Really must be done.

Do you want to change that?

I love it.

Oh, we're not, we don't want to go to the Quail.

We need to go to the Quail.

No, we will be attending the Quail.

We just need to weigh in.

Yeah.

Because I want to just like, no matter what happens,

we'll be rolling off at the gate.

Yeah, that's true.

You know, if you have to work security.

Oh yeah, I wouldn't mind that.

Come on in.

And it's just you two.

I'm letting you.

Quick, yeah.

Yeah, these guys have got tickets in the cup.

Ben, you for here.

Stop signs and slow people,

which I think Edward is going to have some strong opinions on.

Now, Edwin has been, has been raging about this all week.

And do you know what?

It's warranted.

And I'm going to say no more than that.

I'm going to take it away.

Please.

Well, no, you've driven today.

You're driving.

I have driven today.

That's true.

In what?

Because you had a, you were driving something quite special.

Big, yellow Chevy Traverse.

That was the one.

Absolutely dreadful machine.

And yeah, I drove in this country for the first time.

I was quite scared to see it.

Why was it that you had to drive that, by the way?

Because you guys would, I had to do tracking.

Yeah.

So we hired a Chevy Traverse for me to drive.

So we hired a Hummer Reveal,

which can fit all of us, to drive around.

But then we had to hire a second car for Ben to drive

because he can't drive the Hummer

because we need to film the Hummer.

So only in YouTube land

would there be a second rental car.

And it'd be a Chevy Traverse for Ben.

Which costs eight.

We get the Hummer Reveal, Ben gets the Traverse.

It cost $85 a day.

Also, we had it for possibly four hours.

Yeah.

And then handed it back to him.

The guy was really confused.

He was so confused because we pulled up in a rental car

and then the three of us, and he said,

so what you guys up to?

And I was like, you know, I didn't, we just,

we didn't lie to him at all.

But I mean, it's tough to explain

that we're making a YouTube video

that we did a tracking car.

Oh, I'm just renting your car to make a video with.

Huh?

Yeah.

You what?

I mean, it's actually just driving a car

and then the camera is attached back about it.

It's not a big deal, but still.

But yes, the point here is that

if you're an American listening to it,

what's wrong with you people?

Why are you so slow?

Why do you not understand junctions?

Why do you sit for upwards of 20 seconds

when you have a free road just going,

But there's a reason for that.

Could I make it out?

There's a reason for it though, isn't it?

And that's the stop sign, the humble stop sign.

It, ridiculous.

Yeah, I mean, well, you can talk about the stop sign,

but it's, there's a couple of rules

in this country that work,

but they are unfortunately negated

by some really, really dumb people

and other dumb road rules.

Turning right on red, fantastic rule.

Wonderful.

Only something a logical mind could come up with.

Of course.

And then someone came along and said,

Hey, have the humble stop sign

and you must stop.

And if you don't,

a police will come after you.

You can't roll through.

No.

Rolling through a stop sign, not allowed.

You can't slow.

We asked an American about this

and said, why, why do you have them?

And the response was, it's not,

it's not a stop sign.

It's a, well, sorry.

It's not a roll through sign.

It's a stop sign.

You must stop.

Why?

Because some of them are, again,

I can kind of understand it if it's,

in the UK, there are lots of blind junctions.

I could understand it in the UK.

Whereas here, we come to,

there was a stop sign that came to you the day.

You could only go right.

On the left was someone's house.

Oh, literally every time we drove past it,

we were joking.

Is the house going to pull out on me?

The point here is that a junction works fine

because a logical person rolls up to a junction,

you look left to right if it's clear

and if it is clear, you carry on moving.

Whereas here, no matter what,

you have to stop and stop sign.

And we have stop signs in the UK.

Sure.

But they're only in places where you have,

where you like safely need to stop to look.

Whereas a junction, let the world self govern.

It makes no sense.

The fact that when four people are approaching,

or three people are approaching a junction,

and it's a race to see who can stop first

so that you may go first next, ridiculous.

But I'd say that we've been obeying those.

Oh, 100%.

I'd say I think we've all, we all saw us all stop.

Well, I stopped.

I saw break lines.

You stopped then?

Yes.

Yeah, that's the one, that's the one.

Yeah, we did stop.

Find the answer.

Today, when we drive here,

as I've been in the back of this car

most of the week watching,

and you know what, I have at times been like,

you know what, maybe we've been a bit harsh

on the stop sign.

Maybe they know something we don't.

I drove today.

I found it so frustrating.

It's ridiculous.

What's the point?

I'm just stopping to start again.

It is absolutely ridiculous.

Also, no one indicates here.

And also, who's what?

Absolutely none.

There are maybe three roundabouts here.

And as soon as you get to it,

you go, oh, well, it looks like I can pull out.

That guy looks like he's going straight.

Nope, he's going to be all the way around.

Whoa.

You have them.

Also, the whole joke about BMW people doing it?

No, it's yours.

All of you.

Every single one of you.

Rites of way as well.

We're in Carmel, which is a local town.

It's a very, very nice little town.

It's built as well.

All Americans are on blocks on a grid.

But every single junction to stop sign.

So everyone comes to a stop.

It's four ways.

Comes to a stop.

And then it's just a battle of who's going to go first.

Yeah.

It's one person just going.

And the next person put them going,

I'm going.

You wait there.

And then you just got to cut someone up.

Why not just have a right of way?

Also, if my light goes green,

why is the pedestrian crossing

that I'm turning into also green?

Are you stupid?

Pedestrians are brazen as hell.

Yeah.

It might just be Monterey Cartway.

It feels like almost like what it'd be like

going, being in London.

Yeah.

When people just walk out in front of a car and go like,

so I don't even care if you kill me.

Like, it's cool.

Which in the Harmo we keep joking,

it's going to happen.

You are dumb.

Brother, we wouldn't even feel it.

If you're small enough,

we wouldn't even know.

You just be chewed up in the tires.

Now talking of Carmel, Ben,

there's a little section here called Ben Pizza.

Oh, you're such,

every single, no, that wasn't my side here.

Because they'll go, oh, that's so funny.

Do you know what?

Okay.

No.

Shall I tell a story?

No, you can tell a story.

Because you're the one that's the.

Can I just, I think the crib's going to be on your side, Ben.

I think.

Yeah, I'm totally fine with that.

Because it's more and more.

It is funny, but it's also in the moment

was not funny for me.

So we were in Carmel, lovely area.

We thought, it's very busy,

very hard to park.

We don't really know what's around.

So we thought, we want some dinner.

We all fancy pizza.

Sounds like a good idea.

Okay.

So we're driving around trying to find a car parking space.

We're also going, where's the pizza?

These two are telling me,

find a pizza place, but I have no signal, whatever.

They say, why don't you ask these two guys?

We'll just drive them, by the way.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, yeah.

That's very important part here.

And you're, and I'm in the backseat.

Yeah.

Ben is in the passenger seat.

I put these guys, two American guys,

and to be fair, what we'll say,

Americans, very polite and very nice.

Genuinely really nice.

Really lovely.

And we pulled up beside them and I went,

hey guys, so sorry, do you know any good pizza places?

I'm also a little bit, I'm a bit of a shy person.

So for me, it was like, I was a bit like,

you know, I'll ask this right person.

And as the man went, like really nicely,

to try to help me out.

And as he opened his mouth to respond,

we'll launch the Hummer into the distance.

And all he would have seen is we just,

look at him like, oh, thanks man.

And then just disappear in three seconds.

It was.

And as someone who was in the back

and had zero idea this was going to happen,

I was just expecting a lovely earnest interaction

between Ben and a local of the town.

It was the, it was, we pulled up to a junction,

we were just waiting at the junction.

And it was literally as Ben said,

do you know anywhere that's got a pizza around here?

The guy went, ah, and it was exactly the moment.

It was just, it was just a pull away.

But the worst part was that Ben was leaning out

of the window.

So all he would have seen is Ben's entire body

just leaving, just going out the way.

But I hope, and I felt, I actually closed my eyes for a minute.

I didn't breathe for about five seconds.

I felt that cringed out.

Ben had his head in his hands for what felt like five minutes.

Quite a lot.

There are a lot of expletives.

Now it's a horrible thing to do.

It's horrible.

It was like funny.

It really was quite funny.

And also I'm more annoyed that I didn't know

it was going to happen because otherwise I would have filmed it.

So we would have had it for the podcast.

Sometimes there is a moment.

Yeah, exactly.

7000 RPM.

Everything fades.

Anyone wants to know what William Chandler is like off camera?

It's that.

Hey, look, no one was harmed.

No.

And look, it's something for them to talk about.

I was harmed.

They can talk about it.

What are you talking about?

I was the sixth in this whole thing.

That poor guy was harmed.

We have worked out as well that as lovely as Americans are,

you can say absolutely anything for them

and they will simply give you back a greeting.

Because it feels like an instant response.

Will, you hit the other day.

What did you say?

Hey there to a guy.

And he just went, oh, no worries.

No worries.

It is NPC.

It's instant.

It's Greek, Greek, Greek, Greek, Greek.

And they just hit like a generic set of reactions.

No, no worries.

Oh, hey there.

My bad.

Well, yeah, we were in this very spot.

We pulled up and a man got out of a Hyundai just over there

and he came over to the window and looked.

He looked quite angry.

He was quite upset.

He looked quite upset.

He goes, just so you know,

I'm waiting in line here.

And I thought, I was like, have I done something wrong?

Have I done, well, I don't know what's going on.

The space was open.

And then he sort of walked and wandered around,

not really knowing what was going on.

And then he managed to find a space.

Well, I get out and he's like,

I just, great rig you got there.

How are you finding it?

And it's all very lovely.

To a Brit like us, we're like, we don't.

It feels sarcastic.

Let's not speak.

Yeah.

Another example of Americans just being nice to each other.

We were, what we said on our first day here,

we went to film an E60 M5 manual.

Peter.

Lovely guy called Peter.

And one of his friends, I actually have forgotten his name,

had a nice L405 Range Rover.

And he said, we said, let's all go to lunch.

We finished filming and Edwin jumped in with this other guy.

Me and Will jumped in with Peter.

And we were going down and they said to each other,

these American guys, they said,

let's just head into town for some food.

Go grab some food, Tom.

So we're in the A60 and we get a phone call

from the other car for the L405.

The guy goes, oh, hey man, I'm so sorry.

Your idea of going in the sound of mine,

they're just, they're not aligning here, man.

And they just started apologizing.

But in the nicest way, Peter was like, I'm sorry, man.

It's just a miscommunication error on my part.

If that was me calling Will, I go, oh, you're doing it.

Yeah.

Well, where are we going?

You're wasting my time.

English people do not use that sort of,

and they're like good friends.

They know each other well.

Yeah.

I'm so sorry, man.

Oh, dude, that's okay.

And then listen, it happens.

At the same time, I don't understand what the thing is with

everyone says that our Americans aren't very nice to each other,

or they're not very nice in general.

They're way nicer than we are.

It's just very, very lovely.

We've had to explain multiple times, people,

about how English people, we seem quite polite and posh.

But actually, to each other, we're horrible to each other.

English people pick three other people in their life

and go, right, that's it.

Yeah.

That's all I speak to.

I hate you all.

Everyone else, fuck you, fuck you.

If I had been in that same situation

on the side with these two,

I would have been borderline scared of the response.

Yeah, exactly.

It would have been something along the lines of,

you're an idiot.

Do you not think, this is in town.

What are you talking about?

But yeah, it's weird how they treat their friends

with a different air.

Yeah.

Maybe we could take a leaf out of that, but we won't.

I think so.

We won't be doing that.

No.

But we can.

Speaking of that, though, as you just mentioned,

the E60 and 5, worth a mention.

So that will be a second channel video

at some point soon.

Manual E60 M5.

Incredible.

Just amazing.

I mean, I've never driven an E60,

so it was my first time driving one.

Left hand drive manual was a little bit bizarre,

but it was sold.

Yeah.

If you aren't aware, American Market

got the V10 M5, the E60, in manual.

That's sort of the M6.

We didn't get it in Europe at all.

There's people converting them here,

but there's no one got them originally.

So we tried one.

Peter very kindly said,

hey, you want to try mine?

You've tried DCT.

You've tried SMG.

And to the end of the video,

we won't spoil it fully, but manual.

Yeah.

That's the man.

That's the guy.

That is the man.

I thought I was going to go in to it and say,

nah, don't know what the hype's about.

I do.

I understand it.

I get it.

The other thing we should say

is that it's something we said on the day,

is that I now get why manufacturers fly people out

to Monterey, California to drive their cars,

because yeah, in the sunshine

and the beautiful twisty carving Canyon roads,

I think I could have been in the Ninky Donk and go,

oh yeah.

This thing is absolutely sublime.

I really do love this thing.

It could have been a 520D.

And I'd have gone, how?

This is the answer to cars, buddy.

This is the one.

But that was very, very cool.

That was cool.

You can try that.

Well, that's an incredible thing.

Peter said, and as we'll get onto in a moment,

people are very willing to share again,

something not an English person would do.

But yeah, he very kindly let me drive it,

let we'll drive it, and then said to Ben,

go on then, Ben, you've got to drive it.

Oh, so scared.

And what was your first response?

No, I think.

Yeah, you literally said, nah.

I said to him, I was like,

I don't think you should do that, my friend,

because it's not that I can't drive.

I'm actually a good driver.

Oh, a bit of a driver.

A bit sturdy.

Fastest man alive.

I'm fast and will, so I knew I was pretty comfortable with it.

But it was...

Yeah, Ben Collins doesn't know who we are,

but he knows who Ben is.

He looks in the mirror.

He's another Ben.

He ain't Ben.

So fellow Ben to Ben, you're pretty quick, mate.

No, I'm not, I mean, I'm quick.

I just mean that I can drive a car.

But...

Like, quickly.

No, I can drive a car.

I can operate a motor vehicle.

If you could stop it, you can drive it.

We've got to get on to it next week.

We'll get on to it next week.

That's very good.

Yeah, I was going to say,

yeah, I drove it.

I was so scared.

And the thing is right, is that I would have been

quite scared, but then Peter said,

I'm going to get in the car too.

So I had the owner of this car,

which is quite rare.

We were fine.

Very nice.

Yeah, Will and I, thankfully, he said,

just go down the canyon.

And there are some incredible roads around here.

So amazing.

Again, it's for the Hummer video,

but we were filming some tracking shots

with the Hummer of the M5.

And then I thought, wouldn't it be funny

if we film the Hummer from the M5 then?

And I said to Peter, well, actually beforehand,

when we were tracking, Ben,

do you want to explain that story of...

Oh, this was so dumb.

So me and Edwin have worked together for many years now.

And we have, on many occasions,

been me filming, Edwin driving a tracking car.

When we were at Castrol,

he used to drive a tracking car a lot.

It was all good.

We're very clued up on where we need to be

and how to do it.

Okay.

So we got on these canyon roads

and Edwin went, it's not fast enough.

No, we need to...

The shots weren't good enough.

I was like, it's fine.

Like, we've got enough motion blur.

It will look good.

So the camera's chasing us.

The camera's not low enough.

It'll be fine for the video.

Don't worry about it.

Edwin goes, no, no, we need to.

All right.

He goes, I'm going to go...

I'm going to overtake this person.

I overtook him like this.

Open straight.

M5 follows.

And then he went, okay, cool.

We'll get some speed up now for the shot.

Proceeded was for five minutes

of just a car in the distance

whilst the Hummer was bombing at speed,

with tire squealing speed around corners.

I literally looked at one point and I went,

Edwin, we're not getting any shots right now.

You've lost them.

It was because we were on these roads.

I was like, this Hummer's great.

Like it's got a thousand horsepower

with instant torque.

You're quick in an electric...

Anyway, it's four tons.

So I was like, this is quite...

Let's see if we can get a quicker shot.

But then the best part was that you...

I was in the passenger seat of the M5.

And I said to Peter, I was like,

look, you might get as close as possible to the Tesla.

You know, be relatively, you know, taking it easy.

He's like, okay, cool.

And then the Hummer just flies away,

just absolutely like beams away down the road.

And then...

So Peter's mate in the Range Rover,

the L405 that we mentioned earlier,

is coming the other way at some point.

This Range Rover goes past,

and then Peter gets a phone call on the car.

No one says anything.

It's not even a hello.

He just goes, dude, that Hummer was freaking mobbing, dude.

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Peter's like, yeah, that's the camera car.

I'm trying to keep up.

So yeah, it was after that.

So we pulled over.

Ben was very unhappy.

Ben was really unhappy.

Well, because we're just a pointless experience.

It was quite fun.

Although Ben was in the back.

So Ben was in the back trying to control the camera while doing it.

Yeah, because I'm a gimbal.

And you know what, Ben?

That's my bad.

That's just a communication area.

I'm sorry about that.

Listen, your idea of going quickly

and my idea of going quickly are a totally different dog.

So anyway, we then swapped and decided

I would chase the M5 for the video.

We do a little piece of camera.

Will and I chasing the M5.

That was an experience.

That was quite incredible.

I don't get ill or I feel like travel's

safe or anything like that in cars.

That made me...

That messed me up for the rest of the day.

Which I knew there was a couple of hours

after we kept just going.

It's what I imagine being in a cement mixer is like.

It was quite unpleasant.

It is good though.

It's quite funny.

It is.

This car is hilarious.

So yeah, thank you very much, Peter,

in a very roundabout way for letting us drive the M5.

Also, he's here with a bunch of other friends.

We were there with a guy with a 458,

Diablo, Bentley Conti GT.

A wide body, rough, flat nose.

That was cool.

He was one of his mates.

MGT-S.

A GT-R as well.

And yeah, just a load of other stuff.

That's cool.

So a load of his friends,

they all just rent a house,

which renting a place here is very expensive.

When we know about it,

we stayed in a very interesting area.

We stayed in an area that we weren't aware

had the reputation it did.

When we told people what we were staying there,

they thought we were joking.

Because no one stays there.

People were like, oh, yeah.

Oh, no, you're actually saying that.

Oh, so we'll see you tomorrow then?

Cool, great.

And when we booked it,

we still winced at how much it cost.

Exactly.

So they get a load of friends together

and all turn up in their cool cars,

which is very cool.

And also, Peter, just nice guy.

Very, really nice guy, afterwards.

Shall we get on to the yellow elephant in the room?

So now, we have got...

No, this is not a listener.

So before Monterey Car Week,

I was doing some research, seeing what's about.

I came across a reel from a guy called Blake Sandberg,

and he has a Yellow Mociologo manual, 6.2,

and a Gallardo 5-liter manual.

Both your dream cars.

Both my absolute dream cars.

Perfection.

But I saw the reel because he said

he's going to Monterey Car Week

and it was some tips on things to do, blah, blah, blah.

I was like, that's it.

I'm sliding in those DMs.

This guy needs to know we're going to be there.

And I was asking him, and to be fair,

he's actually quite useful.

He said, you should go here, go to the auctions,

go to 17 Mile Drive.

But I don't care about any of that.

I was like, you got a car.

Literally, I was stalking this guy.

I was like, what car are you taking?

He said, I'm going in the Mociologo.

I was like, we will be meeting you there.

Oh, that's great.

So when can we come to your house?

So while we're out here, I sent a message and said,

yo, where are you going to be?

And on 17 Mile Drive, which Ben mentioned earlier,

it's like a tall road, really, really pretty along the beach,

near Pebble Beach, blah, blah, blah.

Lots of stuff going on there.

People parking up for photos.

And we came across him there.

We also saw him at one of the events,

but we properly saw him for the first time there.

And we just befriended this guy.

Yeah.

And it's like genuinely a really, really nice guy.

This isn't just some rich guy who's just bought a Mociologo.

He had the Cletus McFarland LS swapped one,

which you know about.

Yeah, which was a competition car

that Cletus McFarland a very large YouTuber in Florida

who I religiously watch every day.

He put up as a prize for a race.

And the person who won it didn't want to sell it to him.

He then finally got in contact with the guy

and the guy agreed to sell it to Blake.

And then after a while, Blake decided,

you know, no, I need the full.

I need a V12, not an LS, what V8.

And it's got this yellow.

It's the color.

It's honestly like, if there is nothing,

I would change about that car.

So I thought, I need to see it.

So we've been hanging out with him a fair bit.

We went for a Chinese with him the other day as well.

Great.

Him and a friend.

Also, Chinese in Monterey wasn't on my bingo list.

No, not at all.

But at the same time.

But not at all.

The toilet's not been the same since.

Really not at all.

We'll be honest.

Fragrant chicken on pile of chili.

That's the one yet.

Yeah, always good.

Really, really ruins the vibe, that one.

The toilet in Selina's will never be the same.

In fact, I sent a message this morning while I said,

I'm quite TMI, but I had to send a message

while I said, I've got to run into Starbucks quickly, guys.

I had to send the guys off for a while

because I said, you guys go out ahead and work without me.

It was all about picking up the rental car.

We went to pick it up and we were about to be late.

And we got a message from everyone saying,

can you just go get the rental car in the middle

and come back and get me a bit?

Yeah, it was tough.

I was tough.

So anyway, we went for a Chinese with him

and we thought, no, we were leaving in a few days.

And he said, as we were leaving,

do you want to have a drive in my car?

No, sorry, he actually said to you, Will,

he said, I'll see you tomorrow, come and drive my car.

Yeah.

And I always will do a double take.

Yeah.

And the best part was that he said, come and drive my car.

And then went, I'm going to be here.

I'm going to do this at this time.

I'm going to do this and this time and this and this time.

And then got in the car and headed off.

And Will went, I've got no idea what he said after.

I can drive my car.

I was like, I had nothing else other than that.

Because also I had to, it was a, I've never had that offer before.

Obviously we've got the rat dog thing,

which we'll talk about very, very soon.

But so we had to do some,

finish up some filming this morning with the Hummer,

which I wanted to make sure was done ASAP.

So the Hummer video will be maybe five minutes long.

Will was militant this morning.

He was like, right, okay.

So intro, I've written this intro fully.

Which are you going to do this bit?

I'm going to go to this location

and anything that took more than five minutes,

he was like, right, yeah, let's just go.

No time for lunch, no time for pissing, let's roll.

Usually we spend all day on those videos.

We wrapped filming this morning at 10, 27 AM

and we started at half nine.

We just drove from one place to another, to another, to another.

And then just I was in the car thinking, right,

what's next like scene section?

And then we're done.

And I was like, cool, in the car, off we go.

There was a point where we went for,

we went to stop in Carmel.

And the video idea was we were going to stop and eat lunch

and do a little bit of walking around.

We literally parked up,

did the thing where we jumped out of the car

and we're like, right, lunch.

And we went, no, no, we're not actually having lunch.

Now we're like, let's get back in the car and go.

Let's carry on.

You're not hungry, right?

I'm hungry.

Like, you can't be hungry, right?

So I messaged Blake and said,

look, we finished up filming.

Are you around?

He said, yeah, I'm around.

Meet me here.

And we went there, met him at a petrol station.

Basically, Blake was on his,

this is the end of Carl Beach now.

He was three or four hours away for him to get home.

He said, look, I can come meet you.

We can sort of film on my way home.

And I still don't think this was real at this point.

I'm like, he ain't going to turn up

or I'm going to get beaten up or whatever.

Not that Blake is actually a genuinely nice guy anyway.

So it rocks up and drove a Mercy Largo.

I didn't just drive a Mercy Largo.

Well, the first thing was we pulled up at the petrol station

and we were just chatting for a bit.

Like he leveled us into a false insecurity

where in my head I was like,

I was just meeting up with him again.

We're just chatting.

He might want to go to lunch.

And then he just went, right, well, let's go.

And handed you the keys.

And it was, Ben, would you say you've ever seen Will

as half in your life?

No, Will enjoys things.

But there are times where Will likes them,

but he just likes them, right?

I don't know if I've ever seen Will

that satisfied with anything in my entire life.

Yeah, you're like going really well is most people's eh.

Sorry, the other way around is your reaction

to something you're really liking is like, it's okay.

I'm not American.

No, exactly.

You're like, this is cool.

But this was this is 20 years in the in the in the waiting

for this video.

And again, because it's this is this is the mercy logo to me.

I said to earlier, this is like, I like lots of cars.

But for whatever reason, the mercy logo to me

is my McLaren F1.

Exactly.

I'm just somewhat fortunate enough

that a mercy logo is at least not a 25 million yet.

Exactly.

Blake said you can drive it

and we've filmed part of a video with it, which will be

well, we'll see when we're going to do the rat dog stuff as well.

But honestly, because Will's Will's dream car is the 62.

For me, it's the LP640, which is what the rat dog guys have.

So Will Will's dream car is driven is that mine is is driving

the rat dog one.

So we're still very much excited to drive that.

But Ben and I were literally talking the car

and Ben said, like, do you do you want to drive it?

I was like, yeah, but I'd rather Will gets to drive this on this one.

And then after we filmed, we finished, we just turned up at a target car park.

And he was like, yeah.

So I'm going to head off and I was like, all right, cool.

And he was like, I actually do want to do some tracking shots.

Yeah, cool.

He's like, I had one.

You can drive it then.

And I was like, of, of what I couldn't.

And it didn't because I there had been nothing like you

where you'd been thinking about it for like all night.

It instantly hit me.

And I was like, nah, nah.

So I drove it then to get tracking shots, which meant I got to lay into it

quite hard on the motorway.

And that was that was quite fun.

Yeah.

If it's sub miles now, it was good.

But then Ben, you tell the end of the story.

Well, then we pulled over and it was great.

We were done.

We got some lovely tracking, genuinely some lovely tracking shots.

Lovely guy.

Everyone was getting on well.

It was great.

And then he looks at me and he hands me the keys.

And he says, well, I can't offer it to those two and not offer it to you.

I looked at him.

I went, you absolutely can.

You can.

And he said, no, you need to drive it.

So then then proceeded the next sort of possibly actually even longer than you guys

will drive it for 20 minutes.

Yeah.

I just drove Mercilago.

Ben spent up Ben Rogers.

Yeah.

Video camera man, Ben.

Ben's stock is through the roof.

Through it.

Yeah.

It's going up because you drove the Mercilago and look,

we've got to say it.

You hit a crispy downshift.

Oh, wonderful.

Just think about that for a second.

You hit a downshift in a Mercilago 6.2 manual.

Truly an unbelievable experience.

Genuinely, we are, we said to Blake at the end of it,

we would have flown over just for this.

Oh, 100%.

Without Car Week.

So, so thank you very much.

Thank you.

He has a, do you know what is Instagram?

Instagram is Blake Sandberg cars.

He's posted a lot about cars, basically.

There's some other stuff as well, but for you guys,

it's going to be the car stuff.

And so maybe we'll put that on the screen or you can just go and search it

or just go on any of our Instagrams and you'll just see it everywhere.

He's now an official sponsor of me.

I'm the official sponsor of him.

Because the thing to note here is that this wasn't someone that we've known.

This was a stranger two days ago who threw nothing other than talking about cars

and chatting and just being cool with each other when you can drive my car.

That is the definition of a car person who has achieved their dream car

and then has let other people have a go in it.

He's not like one of the billionaires driving around in a GMA who's like,

I don't care.

I'm here to spend a couple of mil on a watch or something while I'm here

and then piss off home.

He's here to experience car week, but in a cool car.

He said to me, he was like,

because what's the most mental thing to me was that,

right, he let me drive his car and that's an expensive car, number one.

It's important to him and also I'm a 23 year old.

That's a mental thing to offer someone.

But it wasn't even like he was sat there watching my every move.

He was just chilling.

He was chatting to me.

He was asking me about a car for always asked about TDC,

having a really nice conversation.

I forgot what I was going to say.

And then every now and then we'll go,

yes, he'd be like talking about like videography stuff.

He'd be like, so you guys are also floored here.

This will be fun.

This year, do this bet.

I was like, please say you can give it some.

So, okay.

I remember now he said, he said things to me.

He was like, the thing is,

is that I want to offer people to drive it

because he's not like a billionaire or anything.

He's not got 30 cars.

He's like, when I was your age or when I was,

when I didn't have these things,

no one was ever going to offer me that.

He's like, I want everyone to experience it

because it's something to experience.

And that is cool.

That is the sort of person that is into cars

that is really into cars.

I just want to share it with people.

That has made 12 year old me's entire life.

Yeah.

It felt like my entire life built up to that,

but I wasn't expecting it to happen on this trip.

No.

Not at all.

It came in the period of about 24 hours.

I genuinely, I said this to Ben,

because Ben said to like, how was that afterwards?

And I don't get emotional with cars,

but genuinely the first time I've ever felt like,

not sad, I was about to say sad,

but like tears.

Yeah, like tears.

That's 20 years of going, oh God, man.

One day someone will let me drive it

and it won't be just moving it in a car park.

It will be driving, driving.

Yeah.

And yeah.

If you know well, which none of you do.

But if you did know well.

That's a very big praise for Will.

We'll say it.

Will got on the car and said to me,

said to me, I could have cried

and I almost fell over.

I said, what?

What are you talking about?

I had to not, this is going to sound

like I'm trying to be macho or whatever,

but had there not been a camera on,

I probably would have.

Yeah, yeah, fair.

Had I been on my own in that car,

I would have just sobbed all the way down the freeway

and then set his car into a railing

and gone, that's it.

Life done.

Cheers, Blake.

I did it my way, flag of a radio.

Beginning of the Italian job for no reason.

The only way I'm ever topping that is by buying one.

That's it.

So Will, you were, well,

we'll talk about it next week,

but there is, not well,

I'm not going to say I must log on the horizon,

but there was, there was interest in something

at some point.

Oh, yeah.

But that is thank you.

Thank you, Blake.

And thank you, Peter.

You guys are incredible

for letting us use your cars like that.

Shout out to the Americans.

Shout out to the American Creamers.

You know what?

You don't need to do it anywhere else.

The nicest, the nicest people we've met.

Also, every creamer that we met in the street

was like, oh, what's TDC?

Just so nice.

Yeah.

We reported out, there was an E55 earlier

that Edwing flagged down and said,

mate, I love your car.

And he went, thanks, man.

I love your channel.

And then he drove off.

Really weird interaction.

It's bizarre.

We thought we'd come out here

and we, you know, we'd just be,

well, we're not,

we are nobody's out here really

in like the scheme of things.

But the, you know, the sort of 5,

10, 15 people that have spotted us

is like, yo, TDC is, TDC and Cream are worldwide.

TDC abroad?

TDC on tour.

You know what?

We cream in abroad.

We cream in everywhere.

We're creaming in the home of Creamers.

So I think that's a nice little summary of Carwick.

I don't think we've got anything else.

We are now charged.

We are finished.

We're now incurring fees

for still being in the spot,

but not charging,

which is great.

That makes sense.

Thank you very much for listening to this Monterey

special edition version

of the Cars Will Everything Around Me podcast.

We will see you next week back home

talking about what sits and what such.

And probably driving Renault Clio.

And driving here and buying 84 pound cars.

Brackets, I'll remember this week.

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