C.R.E.A.M. #45 Driving 100-Year-Old Cars, Confusing Model Names And More Dream Cars

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Hello, and welcome back to the Cars Rule Everything Around Me podcast.

Number 45 with myself, Edwin, Will to my left,

Benjamin behind the camera.

Hello.

Hello, we're back in the UK, in the United States of Kingdom.

We're back.

This before we start any Cars Rule Everything Around Me podcast,

we answer the question,

will the Cars Rule or ruin William this week?

What is it for you?

Is it still a rule?

And why is that?

It's possibly to do with the Mercedes-Benz logo.

You mean still?

We're just driven.

This rule will go on for a long time.

For a long time.

Outside of that rule,

McGan is currently away at Beanie Sport being set up

and sorted for potentially a track day in two days' time.

But they could call me and go,

mate, it's mashed, you're not going to make the track day.

It's actually clear.

Engine needs to rebuild.

And this is a DCI, DCI McGan at your service.

I say it doesn't matter.

I don't care.

I'm not paying.

And you go, that's interesting.

Because did you know I drove a Gallo, Ryan,

it was manual and perfect.

No, no, so it's going to be 6,000 pounds.

No, it's 6.2, 6.2.

Yeah, me correct.

But that's it.

It's still a rule.

Coming off the back of Monterey car.

It's crazy.

Sorry.

Please carry, I say.

Oh, don't worry about it.

Which carry?

Monterey car, it was fantastic.

I can't, we've come back from it.

We're all very happy.

We've all come back from it.

We're very happy and jolly afterwards.

I'd say borderline gleeful.

I would say a bit giddy.

I'd say zesty.

But that's just normal.

The UK has brought it down for me.

It's actually tough.

We were on the way back.

I then got a lift back with me at home.

And I, on the other side of the road,

saw a modified Fiesta ST on the way home.

And I genuinely got annoyed.

I was set.

I had a similar experience.

First day coming back here,

which was yesterday, driving in,

I saw like a Ferrari 250 GT.

Because we have, for reference,

we have GTO engineering, not 5M road.

So it's not regular,

but it's more regular than normal road.

I saw that and just went,

saw a GTO the other day.

So,

but I still, it's like, everything's just,

if that had sunny blue skies, beautiful roads,

I'd go, whoa, this is great.

Hell.

So yeah, just simply because of that.

It's great.

Feel very lucky to do that for work.

That's very cool.

And we're going to be very smiley

and happy and gleeful for the next 10 minutes.

Probably.

And then these two will start bullying me

and I'll feel quite sad again.

Fair.

It is coming.

I would say I am in the same.

I am a rule still.

I've been working on my E36 above.

So it's been annoying me

because the previous owner left pots

of the handbrake I'm done.

So the first drive down to what's called Goodwood

ruined my handbrake completely.

So I have to rebuild that.

But yet I can't be, I can't be pulled down.

It's still a rule.

Monterey's still, we're going back next year.

By the way, if any,

I think we might have said this

in the end of the last one,

but if anybody works for anyone

who knows anything about anything,

we'll be back.

Let us know what you're doing next year.

Perhaps we'll pitch up,

perhaps we'll pitch a tent in your,

in your house.

Perhaps you work for the quail.

Perhaps you want to let us,

perhaps you're Gordon Murray

and you're listening to this.

You're Gordon Ramsay.

And you want to cook us something up.

Or perhaps you're JK.

JK, mate.

We're still there.

You know, I know.

I'm sorry.

Well, he'll be there next year

because he'll be inviting us.

Because he'll be with us.

We still know,

we still know that you're listening.

Obviously.

Just, you know,

make yourself known, mate.

Just at some point

we'll pitch a tent in your house.

So shall we,

shall we begin?

Are there any news or are we just anecdotes this week?

There's a couple of newses that we'll go over.

This could be very old at this point.

One thing I noticed,

this is bordering on Ben's misinformation.

Sure.

Because I've only really seen this

in sort of,

sort of Nedwell website.

Okay.

Nothing trustworthy is that

Kamaro is making a cut back.

Interesting.

Cause they killed that off as

no,

an electric

crossover SUV.

Totally.

Do you know what?

I'm going to say it.

We've both said this today.

I miss the Hummer.

Yeah.

I want the Hummer.

We've, we talked about it.

We, we talked about hating it.

We talked about charging it.

Actually, well,

we never talked about hating it,

but I miss it so much.

We, we both,

I had to come and pick up some wheels from my dad.

So I borrowed my mom's old X5.

You were in your Range Rover.

And there's quite a sharp turning

to get into our unit.

And usually you have to go,

you have to swing really wide

and go around the other way.

But I was so used to the Hummer,

I just tried to turn the wheel and go in.

I had to do a three point turn.

I was like, the Hummer could never.

I miss it.

It would just go in.

It's a great car.

We've just watched the final cut of the video

for Monday, which is the Hummer

and that, and watching it back,

I just miss it already.

It's so good.

Apart from the charging,

which is a common theme throughout the video.

We did look it up.

There is one in the UK.

Yeah, UK.

It's reasonably pliced.

Pliced?

Priced at 300,000 pounds.

And for reference,

in the US, you're paying pounds equivalent

about 80 grand.

But there's a load of,

I think there's a lot of marking up there,

but importing it with fees and taxes

and whatever else.

And the weight means you have to ship it

on the world's largest ship

and make sure you don't sink said ship.

But I think genuinely,

because you're importing something that big

and the size of it,

it means it doesn't quite fall

into the same category as cars.

And also it's a premium vehicle.

They're going to go sod it.

Give us money.

300K.

I'd be interested to know what happened

if we tried to do it personally.

But it's still going to be looked into it.

And it might not even be US.

Yeah.

Because it's such a heavy vehicle.

It might fall into outside US things.

So you'd have to pay,

not even the normal US fees

to drive it around London and things.

You might have to pay like 40 or 50 quid a day

because it's part of the heavy ones.

And we can't drive it.

Yeah. And you're not allowed to drive it.

We'd have to do like over three and a half tons.

You need a different license

that goes up to seven and a half tons,

which the helmet just about gets into ridiculous.

Unless.

This is more bullshit UK stuff.

Unless you got your license before 1997,

I believe it is.

And then you could.

In which case it's fine.

Yeah. You already have it.

Drive that lorry.

Please.

Go ahead.

Fine.

After you.

So yeah, we miss the hover,

but I don't miss electric things.

No.

So yeah.

Kamaru, I thought that was a bit sad

because it's a cool name.

Yeah.

And I don't think it's definite.

It's sort of maybe it is.

By the time the podcast go out,

I've no idea.

But just now.

Hopefully the same thing happens

when as what happened with Dodge,

where they went, yo, electric charger.

And then everyone went, I don't think so.

Not.

So they've gotten out now.

Got the petrol powered.

It's still a V six though.

I believe the, it's, there's no V eight.

But I think maybe there still might be the eight coming.

Surely.

Come on now.

Last month.

We saw one of those out there.

I like the look of that thing still.

Yeah.

Quite cool.

Charger Daytona.

Yeah.

Ben looking off into the distance.

Watching the Mustang.

Which we do.

We have toka race driver two on here.

This is a throwback to early childhood stuff.

Right.

Being provided by YouTube channel called racing game archive.

Shout out Glenn,

which we put his name in the beginning.

What's we got?

Um, Ben, you've put in here the actual last W 16 Bugatti.

Yeah.

What was that about?

You see that?

No.

That was.

Get a load of this guy.

There was a Bugatti minstrel.

Mr.

Chocolate.

A mistral,

which is the wind.

What?

A Renault.

Yeah.

You think you're Renault?

Yeah.

They're different.

Same country.

Um, it's the last W 16 Bugatti a legend day.

And it's this, um,

rebodied Chiron type thing kind of a few years ago.

And they said this is the last W 16.

That was the marketing.

And then a few weeks ago about a month or so ago,

maybe they came out and said,

uh, we've got another one,

which is called the something.

Just a great thing.

We saw that we saw the green guy.

Yeah.

The green guy.

He's also a W 16.

He is the last W 16.

Bugatti.

John Pagani and said, we love your work.

We're going to do the same.

You know what?

I might do the same.

I might just keep,

that's a mistral on the,

on the convertible.

That is a convertible mistral.

I don't understand.

Cause I thought this,

this one was a convertible mistral.

I'm just going to pull up this one,

which is called the B's.

It's been B.

It is called the Bugatti.

It's called Brum.

Brum.

No, it's called the Breard.

That's the one.

Breard, which is here up on the screen now.

I'll tell you what it's, it's, it's looking,

it's looking the same as the mistral.

Is that just a coupé mistral?

Oh, sorry.

No, I got it wrong.

It's the, the minstrel is the convertible one.

This one's a coupé version of it kind of,

but they're claiming it's sort of not the same car,

but it basically is.

Interesting.

Cause I'm just going back and forth between these two photos

and that's the same car one off.

There's a few different things.

The vents, the front are a bit different.

Yeah.

And a little blower light as well.

And then the one, the intake on the,

let's call it a facelift.

Call it an LCI.

Mistral.

Those wheels are horrible.

And it's apparently the actual last one.

So yeah, we are now on the actual, actual last.

This is the tourbillon time.

This is the revels.

We've got the mistral, the minstrels,

and then we've got the revels now on the facelift.

And then the tourbillon.

The tourbillon.

Which is the Toblerone.

Yes.

Exactly correct.

Which we saw a tourbillon.

We did see a tourbillon.

It's got the Bugatti tent.

It's right here.

I've got it right next to it.

I like the tourbillon.

I think that's a very good car.

I do too.

I'm going to say it.

Here we go.

I used to not like the Veyron that much.

And I used to really like the Chiron.

And I'd never seen either of them in person.

And then I saw a Veyron in person.

Which is fantastic.

And then I saw a Chiron in person.

And I don't like it.

I agree.

I know my Chiron.

I would have.

It's pulling up Dubai spec to me.

A Chiron.

Whereas a Veyron.

There's a air of class.

Yeah, but so does a Veyron.

Yeah.

Because a Veyron as well, in photos,

it looks round.

I think it's quite dependent.

Whereas in person,

it's so much wider than you would ever think.

A Veyron.

Next to it, I can't describe it.

When you're there in person,

that guy is wide.

I think they're all spec dependent.

You can easily Dubai a Veyron.

If I'm seeing the Chrome Veyron.

Then he's, you know,

or the, if you have the red interior.

Yeah, you are.

Yeah.

It's not great.

Yeah.

Also, just if I see like an early black and blue Veyron,

I'm just seeing Knightsbridge.

Exactly.

You're nowhere else other than just Harrods, basically.

But yeah, last,

last W16 Bengati bring on,

told beyond.

We were driving any of them.

Also, Matty Romac, please.

Please.

We would know you,

but a brief note about that.

We were talking about Matty Romac

and his car collection.

I'm fetish.

I don't know who mentioned it.

I think it was me said he was in his early twenties.

Matty Romac is 37.

You know what?

You just, you just giving him some compliments.

That's all.

Fair play to the boy.

No, he looks well.

He looks well.

Yeah.

Even then, 37, not bad.

Yeah.

Not sorry.

I'm not in looks.

I will.

Would smash to be CEO like that.

Anyway, no, he's never coming on the show.

No, he still will.

This is one of the boys.

This is now away from new stuff

and more things that we've been doing.

This is actually before Monterey.

We've got Glado 550, not Glado 550,

Glado 550, Model T,

Mustang and El Camino.

Which we'd like to start with first.

What was the first?

El Camino.

Because that's gone out now, that video.

Yes.

Yeah. Let's start with those.

I don't have those photos yet,

but we had the, in the episode with Tom Lenthal,

the podcast episode before we went out,

we had behind us the Mustang GT350 replica,

which you then drove the next day.

How was it?

That was just, I've said to a few people now,

it was one of my, one of the best

motoring experiences I've had.

Even though we were only on like back roads

and, but we got a decent amount of time

with the cars, which we,

sometimes you don't get

when you sort of drive someone else's car.

And it was just great.

It was so good.

It was so much better than I was expecting.

It sounded, Christ.

That was one of the best V8 sounds I've heard.

It was full on cameras.

It was so motorsport.

It was so good.

And then on the flip side,

the El Camino was exactly what I'd hoped for,

which was just a lopie old brick.

Just every time you hit the accelerator,

it would just spin up a wheel.

It was so good.

I've not quite experienced instant talk like that.

It may, it almost matched the Hummer for instant talk,

but, but it just had a load of noise as well.

So yeah, mega shout outs,

Charlie from Sorry Rolling Road.

We have, which we'll get on to now,

another car which we'll drive his quite soon.

But the next thing we did,

which no one will have seen or heard anything about yet

is we went and drove a Model T,

sorry, not just a Model T, many Model T's.

We, we went to a, a chap called Neil Tuckett.

Neil Tuckett.

He is an absolute legend.

So basically we said to Charlie,

he had a Model T and we said,

Charlie, can we drive this?

He said, absolutely you can drive it.

Model T's are actually quite hard to drive.

I thought, that's weird.

I thought it would just be normal,

but no, they're annoying to drive.

We said, before I let you drive mine,

I'd like you to go and learn from a man called Neil.

We went and we weren't even sure if we were gonna film this.

We went and he taught us how to drive Model T's for the day.

And it was so good that it will be basically half

of the video on driving Model T,

because he just took us,

he took us out, kind of taught us how to do it.

And then said, go on then.

And made us drive his like cherished Model T

that he's driven.

He said 7,000 miles this year alone.

Just insane.

In a Model T.

The thing can do 25, 30 mile an hour max.

He's driven the entire circumference of England

and then Ireland as well.

This is a madman.

And then he was like, cool, now try a wood paneled van.

Right, now try a convertible.

Now try a dragster.

The sports T.

That was cool.

Whatever.

I don't know, maybe it has a name,

but the sports Model T, yo.

It was a Super Jarrah.

That was straight out of the mafia games.

That was crazy.

I had no body, like nothing.

No body.

I had to have dangle my leg out the side

because there's not enough like floor

for you to actually put your foot on.

The floor has one side for your inside leg.

And then your outside leg goes on like a horse stirrup.

That's like, oh yeah,

a peg that's going out the side of the car.

That was an experience.

And it's quite funny.

I never realized that a Model T is that confusing to drive.

Charlie briefly explained it

when we were doing the El Camino shoot

and it didn't go in.

But now we've done it.

I've tried to explain it to people

and they look at me like I've just spoken Russian.

Can you give a very, very brief overview

for the creamers on a half drum model?

You have a steering wheel,

which is possibly the only normal thing

about the entire operation.

You know what you do.

Steering wheel works.

Yeah.

As steering wheels work,

you turn left, it goes left roughly

and right goes right.

Other than that, everything is horse shit.

You have three pedals as well.

You have three pedals.

So you look at it and go, great car.

This is easy.

Right pedal is your brake.

Yes.

Middle pedal is just reverse.

Only reverse.

You may use it as brake.

If you keep holding it,

you'll start going backwards.

You just go backwards.

And then your left pedal is second gear,

neutral and first.

And kind of your accelerator as well.

Depending on where the handbrake is.

Correct.

Exactly that.

Which is one of the most confusing things.

So you get up to speed,

handbrake then needs to,

sorry, to even go off,

you've released the handbrake a little,

just a tiny bit.

And then when you wanna go into second eventually,

which is a pedal,

which is pushing the pedal in

and then pulling it back out,

you then have to release the handbrake

both further forward even more.

But only after you've removed your foot

off the clutch brake accelerator as well.

Yes.

Then you can go into second.

Then you must come back fully off

and it will start going quicker.

And then your throttle is,

so imagine like where your indicators would be.

So in the UK,

if your indicator was on your left side,

that's roughly where your throttle is.

Yeah.

Your throttle.

And then your,

it's the ignition and timing and stuff.

That's on the right-hand side.

So that's to do getting a start.

You don't really need to mess with that,

but the throttle you kind of do.

But if the only thing that changes

from left-hand drive and right-hand drive cars

is the position of the throttle,

and Edwin and I had a mishap with that.

We decided we hadn't been out in one

that was just the two of us in the front.

Yeah.

So we went out in one of them

and it was a left-hand drive one.

Now I had remembered that Neil said

the only difference between left-hand drive

is that the throttle switches over.

He basically said the throttle is always on the outside.

Yeah.

I never say left and right.

So I remembered that.

And I was accelerating away.

And then I accelerated with a bit more that I'd imagined.

And I was trying to rain it back in.

And Edwin's like,

no, that's the ignition.

That's the, I was like,

and I panicked.

Yeah.

And I've just cranked up the throttle,

messed up with the timing.

And we started accelerating even faster.

We shot on.

Like the worst thing was Neil was standing next to the window.

So right as he was like,

off you go.

We went, all right, Neil, see you in a bit.

And then we went, meow.

And all he would have had in the distance was,

no, no, no, Will, please.

Break, break.

There was also a bit where the whole site is,

it's like a giant farm.

Yeah.

And the roads you're driving on

is the private driveway gravel area up to the farm.

And it's very bumpy and very funny.

And there's this, but he said,

drive from where we are with the workshop is up,

down this road, up a hill and then back.

And coming down the hill,

these two accidentally got the sports one

into like, into second gear at speed.

And you could see in the footage.

And bearing in mind,

when you've filmed cars,

nothing looks quick.

If it looks quick on camera,

you're going quick.

And you just see them to just take off.

And it is so funny.

Oh, I'll keep it real.

It wasn't an accident.

Cause we, we shout at the camera.

Shall we go for second?

Because that car had a like an overdrive in it.

And the only way I could drive it

was if I've put it in third on the overdrive.

And I said to Neil, is that okay?

And he went, yeah,

but just know that like at full chat,

this will do like 50 or 60.

And I was like, oh, okay.

Yeah, it was getting,

we got to like 35 or 40 and got scared.

It's one of the most stressful and scariest experience.

I don't think we really,

or I don't think I exceeded 20 on the day.

I did.

And I was, it was peril.

See, I got quite comfortable.

I overtook Will.

Will was going up the track

and there was only space for one bottle of tea.

I strung up Birmingham, did?

Yeah.

I went on the hard shoulder.

I went onto the sheet field

and overtook Will.

Yeah.

That's seen in Ford vs Ferrari at the beginning already.

He overtakes them on the dirt.

That was that.

So yeah.

You'd be excited for that.

That's going to be a very good episode.

That was funny.

So we have one half film.

The other half is where we're going to take

Charlie's Model T and drive it on the road.

I actually couldn't be more scared.

Yeah.

But genuinely, you could offer me,

like if you offered me,

if someone said this is my one off,

70 million pounds race car,

like please don't dammit.

I'll be cool with it.

I'm, as long as it's got three correct pedals

and a steering wheel.

I don't care how wide it is,

tall it is, long it is.

I'm happy to do that.

But this fills me with dread.

Doing 15 miles an hour,

struggling to get it in second

without even being able to break.

Because it was panic there.

It was like, we're going to have traffic

and people and dogs and police

and drive-thrues.

And the drive-thrues.

Oh please no.

We're doing a drive-thrues.

Drive-thrues.

And we're going to have hand signals

and all it's going to be good.

Oh God.

I'm not looking forward to that.

So onto happier times.

So not happier times.

Easier to drive times.

We drove a Lamborghini Gallardo

and a Ferrari 550.

You know what?

TDC and cream,

we've really stepped it up a level

in the last few weeks.

The stock is up.

You know, before that,

we were TVLs with a Trax turbo on it.

Last few weeks were two Lamborghinis

at a Ferrari.

What's going on?

And a Model T.

Crazy.

And a Mercedes-Benz logo.

To be fair, we haven't.

We're not forgetting the routes.

No.

Of course we're not.

But a year and a half ago,

we were attempting 137 miles an hour

in a crossfire with two bolts in the subway.

And now we're,

and now we're driving other people's cars.

You know what?

Life sure is good.

But somehow we managed to convince people

a couple of lovely chaps actually

to, and a lady.

And a lady.

In fact, to drive their cars.

So the 550 came from-

Well, I talk about,

I've got it up on the screen.

We'll go to the Gallardo first.

Gallardo,

I spoke to a chap named Paul

who runs a company called Speedbroke

because they do like concierge.

They can do supercar source,

not even just supercar,

they do all sorts.

They've got an AutoZam AZ-1 at the moment.

All sorts of stuff.

He's very, very well connected.

So I've been speaking to him for a while

and said, do you know anyone who has a Gallardo

that I could drive?

And he knew something about anything.

And he knew something about everything.

And he said, yeah, I've got a client named Lynn

who is a 60 year old woman.

Do you know what, Lynn?

They're sex people, Lynn.

These are sex people.

And she has a Gallardo that he looks after

and would be more than happy for me to drive it.

And that is essentially identical color, wheels, everything.

Six speed manual, gated manual.

Five liter.

Five liter, which is the one.

That's the proper Lamborghini engine.

But yeah, it was just great.

Just as good as I thought.

I was a little bit worried.

I thought it would be underwhelming

because it's the first like baby Lamborghini that I loved it.

It was everything you'd hoped it was.

Everything, I think we said in the car

I would like slightly more noise.

Yep.

I want that full need for speed, most wanted noise.

We've said we might need to make a shirt that it's great

but a little bit more noise.

It could be louder, like 10%, like 20%.

It's easy when you're saying other people's cars

like you could make it louder.

You could make this way louder.

But in that car, you genuinely could have made it louder

but it was just good.

And again, that car didn't feel awful to drive.

It felt well put together.

It wasn't abused.

And that car still had 40,000 miles or so.

Well, and speaking of mileage.

So the car that I chose is my childhoods.

The Ferrari 550 Maranello

it was throughout my entire childhood.

My best mate's dad had one.

It's the first car that I ever saw.

Three year old me saw and went,

I like whatever these things are, these car things.

And I got to drive one for a very, very nice guy

called Charlie, who is a, all of the above.

He's a creamer.

He's a TDC-er.

He loves it.

And he bought this car.

Same thing for him.

It was a poster car growing up.

He actually told me it was between this,

between a 550, a Gallardo and a GT2996

which are my three loves as well.

But he went for 550.

He bought it.

It's a higher mileage car.

He bought it on 74, I wanna say.

And he's already put 10K miles on it.

Just mashing miles on the thing

and it drove so nicely.

But we said in the video, we won't spoil it fully,

but the Gallardo is perfect for you

because you want a car out the box that's ready to go.

The 550 is perfect for me

because I want something I can do things to.

And there are lots of areas to mess with

on a 550 that would make it.

And again, it needs to be 10 times as loud.

Yeah.

I was stunned at how fast that car was.

It was so fast.

And also you said when you were outside,

because we were driving together most of the time,

when I went out with Ben.

Oh, sounds like hell.

That's quite loud.

And you were a way away.

You were a half a mile to a mile away.

And it's, if someone had told me

that an Enzo was flying past, I would have believed it.

It was, everyone paused

because there was a couple of other people there

and we stood there and we went,

wow, he's really giving it some.

Sorry, Charlie.

But thank you.

Thank you very much.

Both owners, thank you very much for letting us.

And also we drove, we both drove.

We drove each others as well.

Incredible.

So yeah, just a fantastic.

Also that was a day before Monterey.

Exactly.

We are lucky boys.

We set that week up really well.

And the result of it, will you, you know,

you're on the lookout.

I have to make it happen.

Now the Mercy Lago has thrown a spanner in the works.

It really has.

I just have to be both, mate.

I drove the Glado and thought,

okay, I need to make this happen.

However, however it happens, it's going to be,

I don't know what it's going to be,

but it needs to happen.

And then I thought, I'll drive the Mercy Lago

and it won't matter.

That'd be cool.

Drove in the dream car.

No need to think about it anymore.

But all I have thought about is that car.

So we'll get on to that a little bit later on.

Moving on down the list.

We've got more Audi name bullshit.

Here we go.

We'll have to pull up some of this,

but basically we talked previously about the A5

now being a wagon.

The A4, yeah.

Which is not what it was.

The A5 came out.

It was the coupé version of the A4.

And now the A4 is no longer.

Correct.

You know a little bit more,

but the crux of it is that now the odd numbers for Audi

are the petrol ones

and the even numbers are electric.

Sorry, did I say electric twice?

I think so, yes.

Great.

Basically one's petrol and one's electric.

But they've now scrapped that.

And they've not got rid of that.

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I wasn't aware.

Oh, what?

Apparently it was too confusing, but they've kept it.

Obviously what they've done so far,

but I believe now it is just gonna be...

So it makes even less sense.

Yeah, so make this big change

and then halfway through it go, you know what?

Also, who was not in the first meeting?

Yeah.

Surely everyone went,

oh, what were you talking about?

This makes no sense.

Someone did the same thing that we did.

They went, oh, so here's the A5.

And they went, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?

What the hell? That's an A4.

I hate to rake it to you.

That's an A4.

All you have before was fine.

You had your normal cars.

You're A1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Then you just make that exact same car,

but it has an E-tron end of it.

Or maybe you could just call it an E, an A5E.

Also, EA5.

EA5, it's in the game.

Now, the thing that I really don't understand about it

is that there has been,

since what, the 70s or the 80s,

an unspoken rule that the numbers going up

mean a bigger car, the three series.

We all know what that is compared to a seven series.

It's small and big.

I can glean the fact that an A3 is smaller

than an A7.

Even Mercedes, you can work it out.

There are numbers to it.

Why mess with it?

It makes no sense.

Audi's always seem to have it quite simple

compared to BMW, because they didn't.

It was always, you have an A4

and it is a 2-litre diesel.

Then you have the RS4, which everyone knows anyway.

And then you just have the sort of designation

and then sort of what engine is.

Whereas BMW, I always liked the way BMW used to do it.

It's three series, three 30s, three four,

which is not always 100% accurate,

but you were roughly there or thereabouts.

Whereas now, no one knows anything.

No one knows anything about anything at all.

They really don't.

If you, even Merck's, I see a Merck number.

I'm like, I don't get it.

This is E400 or S9000.

Yeah.

It's got one liter in it.

What does that mean?

Stop doing.

Range Rover ones that say, oh, this is the P4.

P Scur, what does any of these numbers mean?

If you work in these bullshit meetings,

come out and tell us what your, what is it a joke?

Are you all just going, let's call it the S9890.

And then who's brain is coming out with this dross?

It was the people that were working in Nokia

in the early 2000s have transitioned over to cars.

Just whack a load of numbers on it, mate.

I don't think it needs anything at all.

Just chuck some numbers on it.

That's it.

Like French, you can get away with it.

You can go, right.

It's called a 2008.

Sure.

No, no worries.

What will the next one be?

Six.

Fine.

That's fine.

This is the five.

And then the next one's 2008.

And 206.

Again, there is possibly meaning to that, but it's fine.

They're French.

You can get away with it.

It doesn't matter.

You can explain it away, but you're German.

You should know what you're doing.

You should know better.

Next up, what we've got, we've got 1952 Bentley R-type.

TDC cap, I think you put this in.

I can't find, we may have to retroactively insert

the video because I can't find it on my laptop right now,

but someone sent in a photo or a video, sorry,

of a TDC cap, which now when you buy a TDC merch,

we've revamped our packaging.

We've got some cool little things

that come with the packaging.

And one of them is a TDC dust cap.

And someone sent a video of it.

Was it the 52 that I wrote down?

Yes.

A 1952 Bentley with the TDC cap on it.

So I'm talking about a picture,

a wedding car, 9000, with a huge, big steel wheel,

and it's got a purple dust cap on it.

That is cool.

And he sent a photo, he sent the video and said,

I bet you this is the only 1952 Bentley

with a TDC dust cap.

So, you know, if you see something cool

and you've got one of those dust caps,

let us know what it's on.

Well, you say it's the only one.

That is.

Okay.

For a second, I was like, no, there's no way.

The whole Bentley R-type owner's club is just going,

I like those purple dust caps.

That's a nice shade of white.

Cool.

It goes well with my wedding car.

Lovely.

You've also put in here, Edwin, R32 bumper on GTIs.

Right.

This was filmed, this was seen during filming

of the El Camino, we're at the petrol station.

And I saw a Mark V Golf GTI with an R32 rare bumper

and Golf R Mark VII wheels.

And for those who don't know, what does that mean?

Though it's a bumper from the V6 Golf

but put on the two-litre force in the car.

I'm fine.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

And for context, this has, a normal GTI

would have a normal just single exhaust coming out of it.

I'm going to show you right now.

This has two centre exit exhausts.

Exactly.

Here we have a Mark V GTI.

I can understand wanting to get rid of the plastic rear bumper.

Doesn't look the best.

That's fair.

Here you have a little exhaust off to the side.

Now here, here's one I made earlier,

a R32 Golf has these centre exits.

They're cool.

They're very cool.

I like those exhausts.

But what people do is they go ahead

and they put this bumper with the centre exit exhaust,

the telltale, the thing that makes an R32, an R32 on a GTI

and it drives me up the wall.

It's, I hate it so much.

I think it's my mods that I like the least.

And I know there's going to be some Mark V Golf owners going,

oh man, that's bad, that's why I do it.

That's fine.

But it's so annoying because it gets my hopes up.

Also, I think I'm seeing an R32

and I see a shady little Mark V GTI.

It's actually a tow later.

It's actually faster than the R32

because I've fitted a strong-hopper hybrid turbo towhead.

But the thing that really annoys me the most about it

and I've pulled up a guide on someone doing it

is that you have to get rid of the standard back box.

So it ends up with this horrible,

because the R32 exhaust is different.

It's just pipe.

It's just fake pipes.

They're not fake pipes.

Look at that hanger.

Is that a hanger?

What the bloody hell?

Now, maybe the Volkswagen ones, but surely not.

But I just, I don't know.

I don't know why it rubs me up the wrong way so much.

It's incorrect.

There is a...

It's like putting M-Bags on a 3.0.

Now, there is a BMW equivalent to this.

It's 335i tailpipes.

Oh, oh, oh.

Yeah, E92 tailpipes.

When people go, I've got, they either got 330 or 320d

and they go, I'm going to put those

and then just have a look under them.

Yeah.

Have a look under them.

Or same as like E39s used to be quite popular

for putting quad pipes on.

Yeah. So you have the normally, on a normal,

you thought you obviously, you know this, Ben.

Of course.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Of course, of course, of course, of course.

They have this pipe on the side

and then people go, I'm going to have some quad pipes.

And then you look underneath

and you just see this off-shoot pipe

doing absolutely niche underneath.

Or there's a big one.

When you see like a standard F80 BMW 3 Series

and they've put the M mirrors on them,

you're going to see like the little...

I think there's the little wings.

That would be an F30.

Oh.

I actually, it's an F30.

Now, hold on because you usually get us on that.

Yeah, that's fair.

My, my, have a turn to go.

The tables have turned.

Yeah, but that's the equivalent to me.

But for me, that I just, it annoys me

because I get excited because I'm like,

on R32?

No, it's not.

No, it's a Chopper and a PD.

They put also probably someone going,

it's actually not a payday.

It's the common rail diesel injection.

Shout out.

Edwin, you've also put in here

motorway rubber-necking speed movie.

What? This is my rant of the week.

The R32 was a quick warm-up.

Ben has been privy to this.

We were driving.

I believe that people who slow down on the motorway

to look at things that are happening

should have a bomb implanted on their car.

They should have, it should be the movie speed.

That is, that is what I believe.

That's why I've played in the scene.

Now, we were driving to the hotel

before we went to film the glado video

on a Sunday evening, you know, lovely evening.

And Edwin had this exact conversation with me.

But imagine this times 10.

This is level of anger.

But the movie speed will,

there is a bomb on a bus.

That's really right.

And if the bus goes below,

I can't remember what the model hour is,

30 model hour, perhaps.

The bus will explode.

That is the school bus.

That is the, that is the premise of the movie.

Now, what I propose is that everyone has a bomb in their car.

Now, I know it's a little bit,

is it, you know, it might be hard to regulate

and to get people to, you know, adopt my,

exactly, I think perhaps,

but there, there should be a requirement

that if you get on the motorway

and there is perhaps a little shunt

on the other side of the road,

if you slow down within a certain box area

at the beginning of the end

to look at this, this whatever has happened

on the other side of the road,

you will explode.

And I will feel nothing to you.

But hang on.

Because it made the issue worse.

Oh, I'm sure it was on the other side of the road.

But the fear that people will have

will, will, will stop it.

And is this the same world as the cinema

where you blow up?

It's the very same.

This is when TDC comes to power.

Cinemas and motorways.

A dangerous place to be.

We'll lose some people along the way.

We will.

But the world will be a better place afterwards.

It, it angers me so much.

Is your life that soulless and meaningless

that someone's micro bumping into someone's

mark six golf is enough to slow the whole motorway down?

That's the way to go.

I want you gone.

I want you out of here.

If I want to be a baseball ref, I want you out.

I want you away.

It angers me more than I think anything else in this world.

Just go.

I'm not trying to say I understand them.

But when it's a big crash, it's, it's odd.

You're looking, you're, you're essentially looking for death.

You're like, oh, is there a bit of blood?

I'm a bit more of a curious, fine.

But you're a little bit of that,

but you shouldn't be slowing down like,

you know, do it, do it at speed.

This is a 70.

But it's when you have this ridiculous congested in traffic

and you can, it must be a crash.

And then you get to it and it's a van on the hard shoulder.

This is a man changing his tire on his bicycle.

This is why this anger, this is what this anger came from.

We saw one, sorry, on the way up from,

from the Gallardo 550 shoot, we were driving

and there was an Alfa Romeo broken down on the, on the,

on the other side of the road.

Just in the outside lane, like in the overtaking lane,

push it onto the hard shoulder.

Everyone's sat there just waiting in stands for traffic.

That does confuse me sometimes where people break down.

I always look at it and go,

was that really your final resting point?

But everyone is really, everyone is sat behind you

in a traffic jam waiting for you to clear it up.

So what you should just do is just,

you arrive there, you put your cones out,

okay, then you get the car in neutral.

Put your cones out, do a little bit of a football practice.

In and out, in and out, in and out.

Well, in a lot of what we're doing that,

to the car in neutral and then you and a cup of the boys,

push it onto the hard shoulder and then, like,

get rid of, I don't know, maybe one lane for safety.

And then that way the traffic can still flow.

Why do we have to, why do we have to have a car

just parked now on the motorway?

I understand that people ask,

if motorway is a scary place when you're not in a car,

I can understand not wanting to get out on it.

But the, the thing that, the thing that caused this anger

in my sleep, in my soul was I was in standstill traffic

for something.

I was in standstill traffic for close to five minutes.

When I finally got going, for no reason.

Now, the other, the other lanes were flowing.

The, the one where everyone was looking,

it was a man whose canoe had come slightly, not fully,

slightly a jar off his car and was kind of leaning down.

I was about to ask, why was he driving in a canoe

on the motorway?

That answers the question.

What, what do you gain by slowing us back down

to five mile an hour to look at a canoe?

Go to a lake.

Canoes loose.

I swear, I'm sorry.

Yeah, that's my rant of the week because it got me.

I read it, that dude just ones me up.

It's just annoying.

At least make it like worthy to look at.

But if your canoe is going to just chuck it,

go and chuck it in the fast lane.

Yeah, I want to see, I want to see fiberglass threads

all over the, if it isn't a news story, don't stop.

Don't slow down.

Just go.

You're on the motorway.

That means you're going somewhere.

You're not on the motorway for fun.

You don't get on that to go, we'll just go for a drive.

I'll see you out my way.

You very rarely remember those.

And no one's going to look at this.

I don't remember the things I've said.

Well, other than the horse.

Yeah, I was going to say that was tough.

That was tough.

Rob me.

I was sitting in the passenger seat

while someone else fills up.

Now I was reminded of this when we went to go

and I think we were dropping off some wheels

and you put some petrol in the car

and I sat in the passenger seat with a seatbelt on.

And it just made me think,

is there any other moment in life

that makes you feel more like a child?

It doesn't matter how successful you are,

how tall, muscly, handsome you look.

If you are sat in the passenger seat of a car

while someone else goes and fills it up,

you feel like a child.

You just sit there awkwardly

and you watch what is essentially

Mummy or Daddy going off to fill up.

And they might say to you,

do you want anything from the show?

It's always that.

And you know they're going,

no thank you.

I just go on my phone.

I just sat there for a moment and thought,

I felt this a million times

and never thought to say it.

Yeah.

But every single time it's happened,

I feel like I'm three.

Also any time someone is,

I walk past a car that has just a passenger in it,

I look in and go,

all right, weird.

Why are you just sitting in the car?

It's like, you can just get out.

You could just go and look at a petrol station.

You have free will.

But I feel like I'd only do it in this country.

If I'm abroad,

I'm getting out and checking out the service,

like the petrol station.

Yeah.

I'll get out.

Come on, let's have a look at that.

Yeah.

I'm familiar enough with the petrol station.

I'm like, I don't need to look at that.

I know what they sell.

I know wine gums are £700.

They're too expensive.

We'll just carry on.

It just, I don't know why it reminded me of that.

And now it's, it's like,

how a youth might call an ick, perhaps.

Oh, sure.

I think about it and go,

I don't want to be that one.

Can you confirm?

I don't know.

No?

I don't.

I think that might be beyond me.

Sorry.

Do you feel a bit zesty in the passenger seats sometimes?

For other reasons.

Yeah, sure.

The service station's a little bit zesty tonight.

Next up on the list is something we,

we, we didn't get to mention,

or if you've got to mention about Monterey,

and that is, or Ben drove in the U.S.

I did.

Ben drove a Chevy Traverse.

Or a Chevy Traverse,

a E60 M5 and a Lamborghini Mercer.

Now, tell us,

now we're going to talk about the one in your favorite,

the Chevy Traverse.

When you came to fill it up at the end of the day.

Yeah.

So we had to return it with what I had.

And these two,

despite both having driven the U.S. before,

refused to help me.

No, no, no, no.

Yeah, you did refuse to help me.

Hold on.

You did refuse to help me.

That's not the point here.

The point was the point that we said,

did we not say is,

I don't know from the top of my head,

how you do it.

Yeah, of course you do.

But what do you do?

Of course you know how to fill up a car

from the top of your head.

This is something I was going to get onto from this.

Why does every single country have a different way

of filling up a car?

The U.S. one was mental.

Right. So I'm going to describe, okay?

So I pull up.

And then why I don't know what I'd...

Okay.

Okay, I pull up.

I don't know what the fuel is in the car.

I look at the rev gauge.

It revs to 6,000 rpm.

I assume petrol then.

Probably not diesel.

Also America.

Yeah, you're in America.

I thought America was all diesel.

Anyway.

Nope.

I'll pull up there.

I'm like, cool.

I open it up the car

and then walk over to this machine

and it says, would you like...

Sell the petrol.

Would you like to pay

the cashier or the pump?

And because you have to pay first.

That sounds pretty straightforward.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'll say, cool.

I'll pay the pump.

So I press pay pump.

It says, please insert your card.

So we rented it for the video.

So I put my company card into the machine.

Okay.

Then it takes the maximum amount.

It can take $150 wherever it is out of the account.

And then goes, please wait.

I waited.

And it went, you can fill in the car now.

I went, all right, cool.

Took the pump off.

Which, by the way,

the petrol pump in the US is black

and the diesel one is green.

And it doesn't, it's not labeled.

The diesel one said something about diesel above it,

but not that this was diesel.

Interesting.

Now this is an interesting development.

No.

It said something about diesel.

Like you must feel,

you must feel something to do a diesel

into some sort of truck above it.

So I assumed that's a diesel pump.

That must be petrol.

But hang on, on the pump, it doesn't say.

And then all of the octanes are different to this country.

Yeah.

Which confused me as well.

So I'm like, do I want 87 octanes?

I don't know what that is.

I'm for them 90 or 95.

This is confusing me.

So then it goes, please select it.

I press the little thing that selects it,

which doesn't press until you, until it doesn't press.

It won't work.

I'm like, that's weird.

So I'm just stood there and the machine

then starts going, please wait again.

I'm like, that's great.

Okay, cool.

Then my phone buzzes in my pocket.

I take it out and the app for the bank

that our company card has says card frozen.

Suspish activity is then.

Now, can I just make a quick side?

We were sitting in the car watching Ben for a far away

and watching Ben get increasingly annoyed at the petrol pump.

And my phone things, and I looked down and it says,

Benjamin Rogers card has been frozen.

And we started laughing.

And then I see Ben look at his phone and I said to him,

oh, he's not going to like this.

And I saw Ben just go, oh.

And then, so then I walk over to these guys

who are also filming me from a distance, obviously,

which we'll think about a mega in the podcast

and they're like, I'll have a think.

And I walk over to the window

and I say, I need your company card,

which Edwin obliges and gives me his company card.

I then look back at my phone and it hasn't reversed transaction.

It's just charged $150.

I say, okay, that's great.

So far, I focus on this first.

Well, back to the pump.

Do the whole process again.

Now, hold.

Now, why, after struggling with this the first time,

did you not click pay the cashier?

Because you don't want to go inside and speak to a human.

Probably.

I don't know.

I wasn't thinking that much.

And then I put the thing back in the machine.

Edwin's car gets charged the other $150.

I put the thing in, I put it into the, what do you call it?

The car.

That's the one.

I fill it up with the petrol that we need.

And then it doesn't give me a receipt,

which we need for our expenses and what such.

So I have to go in any way, speak to the guy,

and I'm like, listen, this is what's happened.

Explain it to him.

And he looked at me with the, like I was being,

I was hysterical.

All I said to him was like, okay, this is what's happened.

Can I please have, make sure this hasn't charged me.

I have a receipt.

And he literally went, hey, it's all right, man.

Don't worry about it.

And then like, here's your receipt.

And here's your receipt.

It says you have nothing.

And he handed me a piece of paper that had the letter,

the number zero on it.

Oh, nice.

They just said total zero.

I was like, okay, I assume it's my receipt.

I mean, it was done.

But what a stupid system.

It does sound identical to here.

No, because the machine as well, when I put the card in,

it had like, it went through like four different pages of like,

of like survey before even, maybe two.

I just want to walk ahead of me.

It does.

It sounds, anything that sounded slightly different to here is the button.

Oh yeah.

You have like, choose the octane.

You've got to choose the octane.

It all comes out the same nozzle that you just choose the octane.

But it doesn't work unless you pay.

Ben has basically just said, oh look, it's alien.

I went, I either I had to pay before or pay afterwards.

And then I had to fill the car up

and I could either pay it out of the pump.

Well, there's a cashier.

I was one of those.

There's a Cuban being who's willing to take my money.

But there are two pumps.

Only one fits.

How would I know which one that is?

They're the opposite colour of this country.

This country is green for petrol, which makes sense.

That's fine for diesel.

There's one with a weird foreign word above it that says DSL.

It didn't, it didn't say it on the pump.

It's a sort of fast and furious character.

Do you know what?

I'm sure, I'm sure I'll get a lot of views.

You know what?

Every, I think everyone will agree.

The first time you go to a different country,

going to the petrol station is a,

it feels like when you're at a school disco or something

where you just don't, you don't know what to do with your body.

You don't know where you are.

Well, it was like, I, where do I go?

Where do I stand?

What I will say though is that most other countries,

it's because of the language.

I remember feeling like trying to fill up in Belgium

and being baffled because no one gives you the instructions in English

and it's all like, oh, you have to go to a machine in the middle of the pump,

pay the pay first and then you go in there

and then you go and do a Sundance to a Belgium chap.

Whereas in America, it is all in English.

Maybe there was no instruction.

There was no instructions.

Apologies to Americans.

It's also built for Americans.

Yeah, but tough for Ben then.

Hang on, wait, wait, wait.

I've watched that video three to four times.

I just watch it and see you get quite fast.

But perhaps insert yourself into my shoes for a moment.

Oh, okay.

And think that, okay, I don't know what I'm doing.

No, I know, I agree.

And then you look down the road

and your two colleagues slash mates

who are sat in a car refusing to help you.

Would you, Ben?

I asked you beforehand, can you tell me how it works?

And you said, no.

I don't have three names around the pump.

I didn't know how it works.

Now, do you want us to, what was it?

It's not just Stuart's will as well.

What's it called?

Not Dirty Dancing.

But are we both holding the pump together?

Are we both gripping?

No, it would barely just be like, okay, it's quite simple.

If we all focus on this, we can figure out how to do that.

Got right.

Mate, I'll focus on the pump nozzle.

You focus on getting the car open.

You just drag the cash here.

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And then I'm confused about it already.

I'm going to try and work it out.

I look down.

I know the entire time.

They're going to be laughing at me.

I look up and they're filming me.

Of course, that's going to add to the situation.

Well, well, well, well.

Turn tables. Turn videographer.

On top of that, I've got to pay for it on the company card,

which is now frozen and I can't use.

Yeah, thanks for that.

And I'm five thousand miles away.

But did you pick, did you, did you figure it out?

Well, yeah, but there you go.

But that was, that was our point.

Is you, you suggested we talk about this on the podcast.

Did you not?

It's going to be good content.

Now moving on to our next bit of Ben Slonda.

Oh, great.

This is about dreams.

I had a great dream recently.

But before I get to that dream, we have...

No, you tell the dream first.

All right.

I'll tell the dream first because there's not much detail to it.

I had a dream that Peter Trander,

who's that?

on TRS performance slash rat dog,

I had a dream that he bought the nerve wagering.

Yeah.

I was listening to that.

I was in the room when he said, I know it happened.

But the best part is you said you woke up genuinely

believing that he had bought the nerve wagering.

I genuinely woke up and thought, well, why would he?

How has he done that?

That's a lot of remaps.

God, I can't wait to get there, Peter, mate.

So by the way, Peter, I mean, sick, congrats on that.

We'll be over in a bit to sample the track.

You could just get us a free,

you know, we'll just book it out for the day.

Yeah, just, yeah.

So I mean, it's perfect really for a rat dog

to have the nerve wagering.

That's an ideal purchase.

We can do some roadtuning.

Blasting around, you know.

So good.

And also speaking of rat dog, we said it last week,

but we are still very much excited for the mercy of our God.

Because Will's dream car is the 6-2.

Mine is the 6-5 mercy lago.

That's what you guys have got.

And I'm frothing to get it it.

Yes.

Cannot wait for that.

Also, it'll be a entirely different experience.

It will be in the UK.

Well, possibly.

I'll fly over to the nerve wagering.

That Peter has got some, you know, it makes sense.

Maybe he's going to change his name.

Yeah.

To the Peter ring.

You know, the Trande ring kind of goes.

The Trande ring kind of.

Trande ring kind of, I hear that.

Circuit's Randa.

But anyway, from that, we discovered from Benjamin here

that he doesn't dream.

No dreaming.

I don't dream.

Well, I have dreamt before.

Oh, okay.

Now this is where he gets contentious.

I think this is so annoying.

This is such a classic TDC conversation.

Because I made one passing comment of like,

yeah, I don't really dream that much.

No, I've never heard what I don't really dream.

You said, I don't dream.

I don't really.

Okay, fine.

I said I don't dream.

Yeah, I don't.

I'm just saying I do sometimes.

The implication of that is that

everyone dreams, but I don't really dream.

If I dream, it's very rare.

Now, Ben, tell me what's your dream car?

No, I'm not doing this.

This is a night.

I have all of these things,

but those are all not the same thing.

Okay.

So right, you're telling me you don't dream.

I occasionally will have a dream.

And what's the last dream you remember?

Well, Peter Trande recently by the Nürburgring.

See, that's weird because I had a similar dream.

And it turns out that's just fact.

That's just we didn't drink out with none of us dream.

No, I don't know.

I don't really dream.

And it became a massive thing.

And the classic thing with us three is we sat in the car,

needs to be bored or something.

And when they're bored, they like to bully me

about these stupid little passing comments.

I'd just like to ask questions.

I don't think that's great.

But the question, it's,

hi, Ben, what's your opinion?

I answer my opinion or what it is.

And it goes, no, that's your opinion.

And now I will not accept this opinion

until I am either right or you admit you're wrong.

It's not an opinion though, because you've said you don't...

I don't dream.

You made a bold statement.

You said smooth, I don't dream.

You're telling me you don't even remember a single dream,

not one, not one dream you've ever had, you remember?

Not off the top of my head.

You never woke up from a dream and gone,

well, Peter Trande owns the Nürburgring.

No, I haven't.

I have one dream which I had that was reoccurring

when I was younger and that's it.

What is it?

Was it about a V12 Vantage?

No.

No?

No, it's actually quite...

You've never dreamt that.

You've never dreamed of being in a suit driving a V12, aren't you?

Your literal dream.

I've just thought about it.

I've never dreamt it though.

I don't really drink.

Did you drink?

I don't really dream.

No dreams.

Well, we'll have to get on to...

We're Ben's psychiatrist now.

He's getting into his dreams.

But what?

Do you dream every night?

I'd say most nights.

You dream.

I have a full-on dream.

Yeah.

That's not true.

I do, but I don't remember it.

We, everyone, yeah.

I have a whole memorable dream.

But this was our next debate, which is the scientific fact

that everybody dreams basically every night,

but your brain doesn't retain that memory.

So then in theory, I do dream.

But I'm talking about dreams.

I'm talking about how you asleep, right tonight.

You get all cosy.

You're probably going to cash me a knowing you.

Oh, it's probably a lovely big old bed.

Completely naked.

So what you said was right.

Will's completely naked in bed.

As in he doesn't know how to do, mate.

No, he's just...

No, no, it's just a bed frame and he's naked, okay?

He's all cosy in that situation.

Oh, speaking of bed frame.

Still gets a bed frame.

Oh, that's that.

And you go to sleep and you have a dream,

and the next morning you go,

I dreamt last night that Peter Trander bought one of their

green.

That is your every night.

Famously.

That's your every night.

I had a dream.

There's one of the few dreams I remember from a kid

is that my mum had a Citron AX, a red Citron AX.

Will's actually told me this story.

I remember this.

I mean, possibly that this is not as accurate as

from when I was five or whatever it was.

And she had a Citron AX, and I had a dream

that we were driving through Slough near where the Queen's

Mare Centre is, if you know where that is.

CSL dreams are made of.

You would have had any dream when you chose Slough.

And then a dinosaur, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, to be precise,

stomped through the car park and picked up my mum's car

by the bonnet and sort of swung it about for a bit

and then like put it right down.

And then that's all I remember.

That's where I sort of remember the dream ending.

And then the next morning, my mum's car didn't stop.

I remember being baffled.

And it was then I believed in dreams.

No, no.

And that is why we were on the way to Denver

going to meet Pete Strand of the owner.

Now, was the AX the same spec as your mum's?

Or was it like a GTI dream?

No, it was just the same.

Was it the same car?

Yeah, red, five door, crazy.

My real current dream was that I was being,

this is genuinely true.

Oh, I should have thought it.

I was being chased by a dragon.

And the dragon would always just bite me.

And that was my dream.

Okay.

Interesting.

Yeah.

How big?

Big.

But now in my adulthood, I'm wondering why

did it just breathe fire on me?

Now, there are psychiatrists in the comments.

There are got to be some creamy HDs in the comments

who know what that means.

They mean something.

They apparently mean something.

That's the only dream that I can remember.

Also, we have got so far off track.

We are talking about dreams in the TTC podcast.

Well, next up is talking about the bed.

Talking about the bed, which we all sleep naked in.

Which, well, in fact, you didn't.

This was at Monterey.

We rented a house and

we had been to Monterey once before.

And I knew the general layout of Monterey.

I knew how far away things were.

We were looking for an Airbnb

and everything becomes incredibly expensive on the week.

Thousands, even tens of thousands in Monterey.

Yeah.

We knew someone who said they'd spent 15 grand

to stay in a house,

which they were sharing with lots of people.

And so we found a deal, a steal of a deal on an Airbnb.

Yeah. No, there was a reason for that.

It was in a place called Salinas,

which when we told people we were staying in Salinas,

they thought we were joking.

They actually thought, no, no, no, no, we are.

Oh, okay, no, that's bad.

Salinas has got quite high crime rate.

But you said it was the one author?

We went to John Steinbeck.

There you go.

But we went to Best Buy on our foot.

We went to Olive Garden, then straight to Best Buy

and as the Americans do.

And we had to buy some walkie-talkies for shooting,

wherever. Not interesting.

But as we were leaving, we heard screeching

and we looked over into car park

and a takeover was just beginning.

Just beginning, just at the right of the beginning.

And it was, yeah, so anyway, it was a tough place

and an Airbnb was, I would say not as described.

It was a little bit more rough around the edges, but hey.

But as a house, it's fine.

It was a place to sleep.

Not so much for Will, because Will, what happened in the night?

First night?

Well, wait, Ben, just the next, the first morning,

what did Will say, the first thing he said to you?

So I got up a little bit early

because I had to get camera stuff ready

and Will walks out of his room looking quite unhappy.

And I'm thinking, why is it happy?

We're in Monterey.

It's our first big day of going around.

And I look at Will and he goes,

fuck this Airbnb.

This Airbnb shit.

I hate this Airbnb.

I said, why is that Will?

He said, my bed collapsed in the middle of the night.

And my weight.

Now, now I did it collapse.

It could.

I've got a photo.

We could overlay here.

Can I?

No, I'm going to pull it out.

No, I'm not going to.

I'm not a light, lightest human being,

but I expect most beds to withstand me and, you know,

long day of traveling.

We've been out and about getting stuff.

I thought, all right, time to get into bed.

I got into bed.

Number one, the bed slid across the room

because I looked down underneath

and two of the legs were on cardboard.

So someone decided, okay, put that thing on skate.

So I've slid across the room.

And then when I finally put some weight on the bed,

I heard this noise and the bed just collapsed.

There's nothing I could do at that stage.

I looked under the bed briefly

and it had been like duct taped together.

The beam that goes across down the middle length way.

Oh, so sorry.

Oh, sorry about that.

What's that doing?

Just a little v8 vantage that we're trying to convince.

Feed well.

It had been taped together.

And I looked at it and it was like midnight

and thought, there's nothing I can do.

I have to sleep on it.

So I slept at the very edge of the bed.

So there you go.

There's the, the biggest bed.

I mean, you can see,

you can see the wear marks on the floor.

This isn't the first time it's happened

and they've duct taped it.

That's certainly not acceptable.

Now, it gets better though,

because we then, the next morning,

the office of the Wi-Fi for some reason wasn't working.

That's what it was.

And I think it mostly had to do with the fact

that it was the first thing you unplugged

when you walked into the room.

I accidentally unplugged the Wi-Fi.

It's joined on my phone.

The best part was, Will said,

this Wi-Fi is terrible.

I literally connect to it and it's disappeared.

It's gone.

It's just as we went to bed.

Then I'm fucking the router.

It didn't know it was the router.

Anyway, we messaged the Airbnb people

where they said, okay, we'll send the maintenance team

around to fix it.

And they said, we've got messaged.

It's done.

So we've had a lovely day.

We come back, we come back home.

What I think they sent out was the builders.

And we look into the bed

and they've just piled bricks under the bed.

There was a pile of three or four deep bricks,

maybe six across.

Probably enough to make a little wendy house.

Yeah.

I don't think we have a picture annoyingly,

but I mean, it fixed the problem.

You were fine?

I was perfectly fine.

So you know what?

Perhaps that's TDC if we're a building company.

If we were landlords, we'll fix it with bricks.

That was...

I mean, I appreciate the sort of ingenuity

to come up with that on the spot.

Also, I don't know where they got the bricks from.

It's not like a maintenance team turns up

thinking they're repairing a bed

and they go, well, I've got a couple of bricks out of the back.

When we get home with the next door neighbors

looking out of their wall going,

excuse me, guys, you haven't seen any bricks around here.

Because my wall's missing.

You can go to sleep with the roof caves in

because there's no walls anymore.

After that, it was quite good.

Were you... Was it comfortable?

No.

Did you out of interest?

Did you sleep like a ton of bricks?

Oh, yes, I just...

That's also the first thing that I heard

down the corridor the next morning.

Did it... Was it...

Was the bed harder after that?

No. Well, no.

Because I'm not sleeping on the bricks per se.

Okay, but it was being propped up by the bricks.

It was being propped up

because like a certain part of the bed

was stiffer than perhaps usual.

The princess and the pea.

Yes.

I could feel the bricks.

Did you feel the bricks in your bed last night?

Yes.

I did feel the bricks in my bed last night.

We also had a speaker system throughout the entire house.

Oh, that was good.

Connected... It was like speakers in the ceiling

that were connected to this cupboard,

which was... I can only describe it as like,

imagine a concert and they have like the sound people.

Stacks of...

Decks of...

Decks of machines that could run this.

And I was in my room, I'm hacking.

And I just suddenly heard...

Like, what was it?

It was mariachi music.

Just started playing loudly for the speakers.

It scared me.

It was a horror movie.

And speakers in every room.

In every room.

I clicked... I'm me.

So I started clicking buttons

because I wanted to see what they would do.

And I clicked the power button

and then that illuminated the bottom panel.

And then I clicked the power button on the top

and nothing happened.

I was like, oh, oh well.

And I walked away from it.

It turns out it was like booting itself up

because 15 seconds later,

it started blasting through the house

and then made an ultimatum.

He said, if that comes...

If that wakes me up first thing of the morning,

I'm leaving.

I'm actually...

Well, because it was...

In like a horror movie, when they put...

A song that doesn't necessarily fit the scene.

It's not like a horror score.

They put some sort of weirdly upbeat positive music,

but it makes your mind go,

okay, I'm in a horror movie right now.

So if I woke up at night time

in this weird house

in this not very nice place

hearing this faint ring of mariachi music,

I think I was gonna get murdered.

It would have been faint.

I promise you it wouldn't be faint.

It would have been in the carrier.

But do you know what I mean?

I would have...

It was like a squid game.

I did not like it at all.

I said to Evan, I was like,

if that wakes me up in the middle of the night,

I'm going to first of all,

put my hands quite violently.

And then once I'd be myself up,

I'm going to come and kill you.

After all of God and step on tick.

I think quite the opposite.

Right. So Selena's not recommended.

Shall we end?

We don't have any forums at the moment

because we're lacking behind.

Look, we're catching up.

We're catching up.

But...

Shall we end on one of the week?

Let's have it.

Oh, sure.

Then...

What's your one of the week, mate?

Why is it okay?

Because we found something quite nice for you earlier.

My one of the week is,

as it is every week,

a manual Aston Martin V12 Vantage.

Interesting.

With a very spicy exhaust system,

which world doesn't like.

Because I found this,

because the reason it's what was on the screen earlier,

is this.

It's not green.

It's green.

Your eyes don't deceive you,

but it's not an original green card.

This is an Aston Martin V12 Vantage manual,

but with green PPF.

So it looks green.

But we were saying to Ben,

come on, Ben now.

Surely, the piggy bank can be broken

and perhaps some other people's piggy banks can be broken.

And perhaps some generational debt

could be achieved.

Because these things, that's cool.

It's very cool.

It's so cool.

I still can't afford it, but it's very cool.

It's your tuxedo.

Yeah.

Would you always wear the tuxedo?

Or is that just only?

I'd certainly commit to it for the time being.

Okay.

I don't know how easy healing tells us.

And yeah, sure.

Hey, Heal and Toe.

Will's got a video of me doing Heal and Toe in a tuxedo.

Not a joke.

Then there we go.

I was sat in a room,

doing final edit bits,

doing some polishing.

The video is all,

you'll have the video.

It's all good.

I'm like,

this is a great part of the week.

Okay.

I'm here in the background.

Ben, I found a car for you.

That's great, guys.

Here we go.

It's a £60,000 after Martin.

Hey.

Look.

And then these two,

like they're trying to sell me some sort of deal,

start presenting finance packages to me

that I also can't afford.

And being like,

hey, but if you sold your left kidney

and auctioned off your left leg,

then you'd be able to afford

the monthly payments of £6 billion.

Your liver is worth something.

And that's before you,

the car, you know,

has to put your fuel in it,

or tax it,

or you show it.

Ben's not putting fuel in it.

He doesn't know how to know.

I can if it's in the UK.

Wait, what do I do?

What do I pay?

What I'm saying is,

is that I can't,

I want it,

but I can't have it.

Hey, look,

welcome back to the car.

And this was an hour before the podcast.

Like,

not sorry,

not an hour before,

as in it was the whole hour before the podcast.

It went on much longer than,

you know,

even your saying,

I think it went on for quite a while.

And it will.

And it still will.

So Mike, he was sat next to me,

went home,

because you couldn't edit,

because you two were too busy talking to me about...

See about this,

look,

some things are more important.

Where there is a will,

there is a way.

It's not a way.

You have to make things happen sometimes.

Well, I want that,

but I will not be buying that.

Look,

you could though.

Ben,

we are starting,

we are starting a gang

who are robbing banks

so we can buy our cars.

My want of the week

is a 550,

which I've said in the video

and I've said last podcast,

I think

I want a Ferrari 550,

but I want it to be crashed

or damaged

or an issue with it.

Because I want to do,

I want to do things to it.

I want to modify it.

So again,

this is a,

this is a shout.

If you know of a Ferrari 550

festering somewhere,

I will,

I will liquidate my entire family.

Christ.

She got tells for zero reason.

I will,

I will liquidate anything I own,

anything I can

to get my hands on one.

I just want,

but I want one a bit mashed.

The other thing,

is an E55 AMG.

I talked about it before,

couple,

couple, many, many times,

but we were in

a place,

where were we?

We were kind of somewhere recently.

You haven't said it many times.

We're in California.

We were,

we talked about it last week.

We were standing on an intersection

waiting for the Hummer to charge.

So we got quite familiar with those cars

and the car that stands out in my mind,

I mean,

there was a,

there was a Koenigsegg that came past

was a lovely E55 AMG.

It was just,

it was just so nice.

It was sat perfectly.

This is the black one.

Yeah.

We saw quite a few wheels.

And then we also saw one at

snow at the Porsche works.

I think it was in the car park.

That was nice.

On a set of

Nitto drag tires at the back.

The fronts were normal.

The rears were on welds at the rear,

which is drag race season.

And then there was a charge

cooler in the front.

And then there was also another one

that was parked up by the side.

And I said,

Hey man, nice car.

And he said,

Oh, hi.

I like your videos.

Say you watched the videos.

Wheel spin media.

That's who it was.

I think so.

Oh, sick.

It could be someone.

I don't know that just canes my head.

Shout out.

So yeah, E55 AMG.

I would like a black saloon

or wagon,

but I think I prefer a saloon for them

for the price.

It's not much cheaper.

Black one.

And I'd love to just daily one.

I think that would be,

it'd be really not a great idea.

No.

But it would be a great idea.

Comfy.

Yeah.

Very comfy.

And yeah.

William.

Same as every week.

It's, well, I mean,

now it's a Lamborghini

Mercilago and it's a glado.

I'd love to say I'd put out

a thing to do the same.

But if anyone does know anything

about anything at all

about Mercilago's or Gallardo's sale,

please,

because Mercilago seem like

they're going for silly money

and Gallardo's.

But when they're actually selling,

they're listed for dumb money,

but they still sell for what

they are worth value wise.

But the problem is,

is there's now less of them selling.

Yeah.

So it's harder to tell.

So I think a lot of people are

just putting them away

because they are becoming

very, very valuable.

So I can't remember if we mentioned

this in the last podcast

to do with the Mercilago,

but Blake who drove,

the one we drove,

I won't say how much he paid for it,

but it's a crash damage.

Previously, what would you call it?

Salvage title.

Yeah.

So it doesn't have a clean title

in the US, it would be,

I guess, a cat n here in the UK.

But the car is immaculate.

Yeah.

20,000 miles.

It's a manual.

It's perfect spec for me.

He said it was a hit on the side skirt.

Yeah.

But the part was impossible to get,

so they salvaged it out.

Because it's carbon and whatever else.

But I wouldn't care

if it had a...

Who cared?

If it had a,

if it was correct,

if it was cat n,

or even cat s,

if it was prepared.

TDC probably.

Pull it up and crash supercars.

I would be perfectly fine with that.

And now I'm trying to source who has something.

I want to know where they are.

I want to know where all the yellow

6.2 manual Mercilagos are.

And also Galados as well.

That's what I find.

All both.

You're getting a two for one.

Hopefully, probably not.

Probably not.

But again, I don't know how it's going to happen,

but I need to make it happen.

Otherwise, I'll be very, very disappointed with my life.

So if anyone knows about 6.2 Mercilagos in yellow,

in manual,

or you know someone who knows something

about anything at all,

please slide in and let me know.

And as we said, we met Ed Bolian.

So you're speaking to Ed Bolian.

He knows us now.

He knows us.

He's forgotten us now.

He has no idea who we are.

Benjamin.

I did it.

You've already got a whole thing about it.

Apologies.

Yes.

Yeah, you have.

Putting a will on that one.

I have one more.

Oh, okay.

There we go.

Let's go on again.

The E92 M3.

Ooh.

This is my...

What is that?

It's a pull away from Lamborghini stuff.

Well, we mentioned this before,

but we saw lots of E92 M3s out in the US.

And that has made,

that has given me a burning,

burning fire.

Just seeing them,

seeing some of the US spec ones,

which I think have done better than they are here.

That and F80 M3s.

Lovely.

Modified very well.

That's my one.

You all got BBSs.

You got T37s.

I'm very jealous.

And you're all sat absolutely ram.

Really lovely.

Well, I think that's a nice place to end.

Thank you very much for listening to this episode

of the Cars We're Living Around Me podcast.

We will see you next week with a special guest.

So see you then.

Cream, get the money.

Dalla, dalla, bill, y'all.

Broken bed.

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