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Welcome to Car Talk.

It's Tuesday night here at 90.

It's me, Matty J, in the studio with Mr. Alamedip Singh, Mr. Scottie Doe Johnson, Mr. David Prince

and the one and only, the man, the myth, the legend, the automotive God himself.

All right.

That's enough.

The king of Tarragos, the king of all things vehicular in nature, Mr. Edward Tom Bonting,

ladies and gentlemen.

Oh, I mean, when I said a little more, Pep, I didn't just mean about me.

I was meaning in general, you know, for the group.

Were you?

Now that it's happening, let's move along, let's do it.

Yeah.

We don't have time for anyone else.

No, very good.

Good to see you.

Hopefully that introduction was a bit better, Edward Bonting, for you.

Well, it's better for me, but like I said, I wasn't meaning it in that way.

Meaning just for the group.

But, you know, now that you've done that, I mean, thank you.

That's it.

Thank you.

You'll take it, obviously.

Absolutely, you'll take it.

Have you met Edward?

Have you met Edward Bonting?

Of course he's going to take it.

Good to see you gentlemen.

Good, great start to the show, let's be honest.

Let's start with some car updates.

Mr. Alan Deep Singh, I haven't seen you in a while.

You've been busy with committee.

How are you doing?

I could be better.

That's all I'll say.

Oh, Alan!

It's, we may do it an offer or a future program one day where, you know, Alan

opens.

Alan opens up.

The Alan files.

Yeah, the Alan files.

ABC Conversations with Alan.

Yeah, pretty much.

It'd be Alan after dark, not Naomi, not Car Talk after dark.

But anyway, apart from that, I've been dabbling into new stuff at work, which is requiring

me to drive to Sunshine West about three days a week.

And your boys feel in it because I went from filling up once every two and a half

to three weeks to I think once I filled up within a week, maybe at just over a week.

And I feel like that's, I don't know, given that it's mainly freeway kays, I should probably

be doing a bit better.

But.

What are you driving?

The D-Max?

The D-Max.

Yeah, I think you need to swap into the Jazz.

I really do think so as well.

I think that'll be the nice, you know, six litres per 100 Ks if that beaming along.

The only thing I'm worried about in the Jazz is, as it warms up, the air conditioning is

probably going to be a bit, you know, lax.

In the Jazz?

Yeah.

Absolutely not.

I have changed everything.

Look, the Jazz aircon is nice, but it's not premium nice.

Well, it could be because maybe I'm not, maybe I'm not taking it up all the way.

Just put on maximum overdrive, just max AC mode.

The other thing just to stop you whinging about your fuel is talk to Jim Barlow.

He fills up like three times a week.

Yeah.

It's all about perspective.

Exactly.

But luckily for me, on the way to my work, at least in sunshine, I can get off at the

Ballarat road exit and head to the Costco and just quickly fill up for a nice, you

know, non-premium price with some nice premium fuel, which is always handy, particularly

because I'm rocking up around by the time I get to about there is close to that seven

o'clock point.

So there's no cars there.

Normally Costco, Philips, you know, truck will lock, particularly if you're on the

weekend.

You know, it's not real petrol, though, don't you?

Look, the car goes.

I'll accept it.

That DMX is diesel.

Yes.

It's a diesel.

Well, I would think the diesel is fine.

It's just oil.

When you say that, David, is it like E-10 or some yuckiness?

No, it's just being because the diesel should be controversial.

OK, controversial.

Geez, David Prince.

Yeah, yeah.

But I do appreciate that fill up just at the morning, no line.

And I have, I think I pushed the DMX to about 72 litres to fill up.

Maybe close to 73.

It's a 75 litre tank.

So I was I was running close to fumes, you know, the fuel line had started

flashing as well, like the little, the fuel indicator, it was saying,

hey, I need, I need some fuel.

I'm like, ah, you'll be fine, mate.

You'll be right.

And it was fine, at least this time.

So yeah, that's, that's kind of in my commute.

Subaru literally has not been started.

I haven't even managed to put the new battery in there.

Like I've just had the battery a few times and I've just been

neglecting that poor car.

I'm hoping I have a nice weekend.

It's probably going to be the Christmas weekend at this point

where I get to just drive it into the back part of the house,

give it a proper wash and then take it out for a fun ride.

Yeah, it'd be good.

Nice.

Very good.

Good to hear all your cars are still somewhat alive and working,

which is, which is nice.

But with after I'm keen to see the WRX out in a way.

So I think the last time we took it out was with us.

I think.

Yeah, I don't think it went out after that.

Yeah, it'd be good to be good to see it go out.

How many K's that that thing done?

Yeah, it's still at about 14,000.

Yeah, hasn't much from there.

David Prince updates with you.

Well, we had a big weekend car wise.

I'm sure we'll talk about that.

We'll talk about that, surely.

Yes.

So I took the scamp to Classic Japan, which was a lot of fun.

Crude and farm, new location, different direction.

Easy to get to from my place.

Just straight down the M11 ran like a little top, which was great.

I was as I was turning just before I got on to the Digni

bypass and was about to turn on onto the M11.

I heard a sound like something had fallen off or.

Or maybe I'd run over something.

But, you know, when something kicks up under the car and sort

of rattles along and back, but didn't feel any different,

didn't sound any different.

And I was in the right hand lane.

So I just kept going and turned on the M11.

And as I was speaking to Mitchell, we'd later, you know, I said,

I was trying to hear, listen to see if there was anything.

Anything untoward that sounded different.

But of course, when you're sitting at about seven and a half

thousand revs at 60 miles an hour in a Honda scamp,

you don't hear much else.

I know you don't watch sitting a foot in front of you screaming.

It sort of lungs out.

But so now I presume it's OK.

Couldn't see anything missing.

But when like a little top, that was great.

What else have I been driving?

The Odyssey, which is sitting outside my house at the moment,

looking with its cleaner.

I tell you, the color of the water that came out of those seats,

you've got no.

Are they back to brand new now?

They're pretty good, probably in all serious,

since I should give them another go.

There's been so much rain, you know, trying to get it to a point

where you can actually leave it to dry.

Yeah, air it out.

The day, the weekend I did it, you know, I left the doors open

and stuff, most of the weekend sort of thing.

And it went up nicely.

But yeah, I haven't had a chance since then.

Took it for a bit of a run down the freeway last night,

charged the battery up a bit.

And yeah, you know, it's it's nice, very nice.

Grand Prix has gone back.

That that rear brake is still giving me trouble.

And I know, you know, I people have offered to do an Italian tune

up and all those sorts of things.

Mr. Bunting, I appreciate it very much.

But that's not the point.

It shouldn't need that.

I paid money to have that car fixed.

It can go back and be fixed.

And I was telling someone else about it.

And they said, you know, it might have been an apprentice

or someone who doesn't isn't familiar with drum brakes.

Actually, he's installed the shoes the wrong way around.

Forcing them to push out instead of, you know, normally

because literally the other day, it was in the street.

It was in neutral handbrake off.

We've seen my place that's as flat as a tack around where I am.

It would not move.

So how did you get it to move?

Well, I started it and drove it.

But I mean, that right hand rebrake is still sticking on.

And it took a lot of revs to get it to move.

And you could hear the brake sort of grabbing.

Yeah. So it's not right.

It's not right.

I've never had this issue with with another one.

So it's gone back.

Mr. Total back or did how did you get it back?

Trucked it back.

Mr. Total came to the rescue.

I thought, you know, everyone said, oh, it's only, you know,

three or four car is that's fine.

But I thought, no, we've got this.

So that's gone back.

What else?

I mentioned last week, the Accord's gone.

The 85 Accord.

Yes, you did.

Yeah, that's good.

He's very happy sailed through New South Wales roadworthy the other day.

Yeah, he's very happy about that car.

So that's good.

Yeah.

The highlight or there are a few highlights of Sunday,

which we'll go into.

But one of them was I got to drive the NSX home.

That was pretty.

Have you ever driven one before?

I've driven driven one a couple of times.

Even as far back as, you know, the early 90s,

I had a go in when we, a fellow from Honda Australia

bought one out to a concourse.

We had a black manual.

And yeah, I remember it.

I remember it well, but it was this was the most

the longest I've driven one in a while.

And it was whatever your thoughts on that car.

It's a superb piece of really is.

And the beauty of it is that it is so simple and easy to drive.

It just just like and Mitchell was saying that in the in the

in the development of that car.

And I'm sure I have heard it before,

but they wanted something that was was, you know,

usual every day to and but the the no power steering

in the manuals of the early cars.

And this is very early cars car number 27.

And actually, I was looking in the.

Well, that is an early car.

The owner's manual and the engine number is.

Two or three.

Oh, yeah.

It's a very, very low engine number.

And it turns out it was a press car for Honda Australia

originally.

So, you know, sold second hand by D'Amelian's into New South

Wales.

So no, no, sorry.

No, that's not true.

It was sold second hand by D'Amelian's in New South

Wales.

It was delivered after Honda Australia by

Austral Honda in Queensland.

That's all right.

And what sort of power do they put out?

I don't even know.

I think they did the was the whole gentleman's

agreement with those, I think.

Well, yes, because they it was a three.

It's the three litre V tech.

Oh, it's a twin cam.

Like what are they, 250 kilowatts or something?

I don't know.

I don't think quite that much.

But again, I think they were underrated

because of the whole gentleman's agreement of 206

kilowatts.

They had to be that.

It certainly feels fast.

Yeah, it'd be more than that.

That's that.

Give it a hundred in what, six point something.

I think they're in the fives, actually,

from memory because they're they're an aluminium

like chassis, like they're very light car.

Don't weigh a lot.

And does it feel very sort of glued to the road?

David. Oh, brilliant.

Yeah, really, really capable.

But it's a drive, as I said.

But yeah, in just.

The NVH was really good.

I mean, it's a 40.

Well, it's a 40 year old design.

It's 35 year old car now.

It's delivered new in 1990.

And it's done nearly a quarter of a million K's.

Oh, it's done that much.

Yeah, yeah, it's it's a high K one.

Wow.

It looks very good.

It's has it been painted?

Parts of it have a lot of it's

a lot of it is original.

But yeah, they've been they've been a few touch ups done.

Two hundred and one kilowatts are put out there.

Yeah. Hmm.

Interesting.

That's rare to have one that's done so many K's.

I don't think I've heard of another one.

No, actually, I disagree.

Like, I know a lot of them have done K's,

especially in America.

Like they all did K's like that.

Like there's some in America with like that's 250,000 miles.

Yeah. So and it's quite common on them there.

So not not here, though.

I don't most people never drove them.

No, no, that's right.

Boy, it's a real shame because I mean, they are so easy to drive.

And so, you know, capable.

The biggest thing is as on any of those cars, everything towels over you.

Every, you know, like RAV4, you've got to check the cars

that beside you that they've got blind spot monitoring.

And the driver, the driver knows how to use it in the mirrors

because you don't want to stay in anyone's blind spot

because they would not see you.

Yes, you get squashed.

Yeah.

You know, that was a lovely, lovely way to finish up the day.

So drive down there and back to back to the

how to recent suburbs.

And then from there on, drive it home.

Nice. Nice.

Good day. Good day.

Never driven one of those.

Yeah, neither have I.

I don't think I've ever sat in one.

Oh, really? Yeah.

I've sat in one.

Yeah, no, I've sat in one.

Yeah, lovely thing, lovely thing.

Scotty Doe.

I have nothing.

Moving on.

Houston's song.

Yes, I have nothing.

Nothing, nothing.

If I can't have you, Scotty.

Edit bunting.

Well, I haven't been on for a little while.

Been a while.

It's been a bit of a...

Yeah, I think I've told you a few of these stories,

but I don't think the listeners have heard this.

And of course, they're on the edge of their seats

wanting to know what they've been up to.

Did we get to the big girl breaking down?

The first time.

Correct.

The first time.

So the big girl got fixed.

The tappity tap from the top of the motor

was the rocker hitting on the camshaft lobe

without enough oil.

So it was getting worse and worse.

So it went in to have the timing chains done,

but also, hey, can you investigate this tick-tick noise?

And that's when it broke down on the way.

Now, the tick-tick noise turned out to be

not enough oil spraying from the oil tube

to spray things in the head onto the cam lobes.

Hence, rocker goes slap, slap, slap on cam lobe

and starts to destroy that.

So it required new camshafts on both cylinder banks.

It required new rockers on both cylinder banks

as well as the timing chain detentions and the chain rails.

So another little home loan deposit later

the Benz was running nicely.

So, and of course, the breakdown,

the cause of that was that electronic module,

that spark plug amplifier module

that's by Bosch that sits under the bonnet.

So I said, yes, give me one of those please.

So you've got to change over one of those.

Anyway, I picked it up the morning before work.

I was driving at home in traffic,

just thinking, oh yeah, it sounds pretty smooth now.

And you know, if we go,

I got one kilometer from my house and it died again.

And it was just like the first time

whereas as if someone's turned it off,

you know, just bought just complete nothing.

So thankfully again, I was in, you know,

I was rolling at the time just.

So I sort of managed to roll it to the side of the road

and just slot straight into a car park there.

And I went, all right.

Well, now I do have our ACP total, yes.

Bit like David, I ranked nice tow truck people

and said, come and get it.

And I just walked home.

So they towed it back to my mechanic.

He plugged his module back in

and of course it fired straight up again.

So we said, well, I know it's the module.

He can only assume that the change over one was rubbish

and wasn't done properly.

So he sourced me an aftermarket Hitachi Japanese module.

I picked it up at lunchtime today.

I fanged at home.

I've just given it a wash

and taken it for a little fang to dry

the water droplets off.

Does anyone else do that?

Whenever I wash a car,

I drive it around the block to get the water off.

Yeah.

Out of the nooks and crannies.

See, Matt is a fancy man.

He's got himself a big boy blower, doesn't he?

Oh, wow, that's getting very spesh.

Jealous, Edward?

Not really, because I actually quite like driving

everything up this time.

He's jealous.

Yeah.

So no, there's something nice about driving down the street

and watching all the water runoff.

As long as you don't forget that your brakes are wet.

Yeah, I know.

I'm always at the end of the end.

And the end of my street is like a sharp knife.

It is, yeah.

So you don't want to miss that turn.

So yeah, the big girl,

I'm going to take it out for a decent fang

after this podcast.

And it's finally at a point where it's drivable.

I've bolted the club plates on after work today.

And I'll gradually start sort of sorting out

some of the other little things that I want to do.

But on club plates with a roadworthy tap-tap fixed,

it stays on transmission rebuilt.

Here we are.

Nice.

I could have almost retired on the amount that all that's.

So theoretically, have you spent enough money to make it?

You could have bought one.

That was fine.

Or is still, still.

Look, I still think that car's worth more

than what it owes me.

Because it's so.

You wouldn't have had another one like it.

Not like it.

It's a cracker.

So I'm still happy enough to be where I am.

No one likes sort of unexpected car bills.

But I think if I was to sell it, I'd still be ahead.

So that's the big girl.

What else is there?

We're in service month, of course.

Everything has had a service except Terago's in at the moment.

City's been done.

Merc Diesel's been done.

What else? What else?

MX-5 has been done.

The ones that's only really the little cars that are left,

the Mini is left and the Scamp is left.

And on the Moke, yeah, those three.

So I'll keep chipping through those over the next couple of weeks.

What about the Renault?

Has the Renault been done?

Oh, the Renault.

No, of course, the Renault.

That's poised ready for pickup.

That'll get done as well.

OK.

So and they're all getting break fluid

and they're all getting coolant this year.

So, you know, it's a Christmas miracle.

So, yeah, we're and I'm enjoying driving them, you know,

because when you when you sort of have an excuse to bring them out there,

you know, you you you realize again why you like it.

Why they're in the collection.

Why they're there. That's right.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I'm turning through all of those.

I sold the Volkswagen Polo.

I had the little black Polo that went to someone for their first car.

And good luck.

I wish them all the best.

I did get a speeding find the night I picked it up.

I saw a flash in the I said to the previous lady who I bought it off

just send that through if you get a little something in the mail.

And she did. So that's.

But I've still got them.

We're going to go to the fact that it ignores it like was me.

Well, no, I mean, it was me.

So I don't know quite how fast I was going in the diesel Polo, but we'll see.

The Pajero 03 I'm picking up Thursday night that I actually took down to

Mr. Floyd, who is now a regular listener.

Hello, Floyd.

Everyone's Floyd's 123.

Hello, hello, Floyd.

So I took it.

It's so worked.

You see, when it does realize the microphones cut each other off.

Yeah, yeah.

I took it down to Floyd because everything had been done on it

like windscreen, shockers, control arm things,

oil pressure switch, engine mounts, you know, all of that was done

but the stuff that was left was sort of fiddly stuff,

like it's ordering the dash cluster to make the gauges work.

And we know what it is.

It's a common problem.

You know, we all know the theory of it.

But my mechanic was like, oh, I can't do it.

My early auto electric can't get on to him.

You know, it's just everything's just dragging.

Can't do it. The boys go can't do it.

Can't do it. Can't do it.

So Floyd was like, yeah, I do that sort of stuff.

And I'm like, well, he's two hours away.

But if it actually gets it done, I don't care.

I will drive it to you.

So he's had it for a week and he's played around with it

and fixed all of the things and I'm picking it up Thursday night.

So great. That's all I want.

And then that'll go for sale.

It's funny because he's got a Pajero

that's extremely modified but pretty much the same year

and you know, series.

And he goes, wow, yours are so quiet and refined.

And I was like, I don't think that's condition based.

I think it's the massive array of modifications.

Like he has a pipe out the side of his,

like a three inch pipe that doesn't go out the back of the car.

It goes out the side of the car.

That gives you an indication of the level of mods

that this thing has.

So yeah, that's Paj.

Little C classes.

I've been accumulating parts like sort of like a bower bird

for that, you know, buy this online, buy that online.

So I've got all the things

that the roadworthy man said he needed.

So that's going in Thursday morning

to get all its things done.

And then I'll put them for sale.

I think that's about it.

Lovely.

Yeah, that's all the cars.

There was a purchase though, wasn't there?

What else did I buy?

Oh, yes, sorry, big update, big update.

I purchased, I forgot about that,

with my friend Nick, sometimes listener of the show.

Let's just call him Volkswagen Nick

because he does have a Volkswagen.

We purchased a Ford laser off esteemed,

sometimes guest on the show, Mr. Jim Barlow,

who was going to have it towed away from his site

because he didn't like it anymore.

And Nick and I said, well, we can do something with that.

So we per-faced it.

And that was a bit of a fun resurrection, actually.

If you've got a minute, do you want to hear that?

Absolutely.

OK, I mean, it is a car show, I suppose.

So we went down to Phillip Island,

where the car was residing last Saturday to resurrect it.

The idea was that we'd buy a brand new battery,

we put it in, we start the car and we drive it back to Melbourne.

But of course, things don't always go to plan with old cars.

So new battery goes in, half a tank of fuel registering on the gauge,

laser cranks over beautifully, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, you know?

But no fire.

So fortunately, I'd taken my can of Start Your Bastard,

which is a fantastic product.

It's basically pure ethanol, I think.

And if there's the most minute spark anywhere, it will fire.

Yeah, boom.

So so I I sprayed that copiously down the car.

And it did sort of splutter for a second or two

and run and then and then die again promptly.

But that can was quite old.

It sort of had a rusty top on it.

And I thought, I don't know how potent it was.

So when it wasn't sort of spraying like a jet

and it was dribbling out of the can, I said to Nicky,

I think we need a fresh can.

So fortunately, in Phillip Island, right near where we were,

is the autopro store.

So we go and get a fresh can of Start Your Bastard.

We go back and I sprayed a bucket load of that down the car.

And then it started and it idle.

It wasn't blowing smoke.

It was actually running really sweetly.

And I went, all right, that's good.

Just I said to Nick, don't touch anything.

Don't touch the choke. Don't try.

Just let it run, let it run, let it run.

So we did that.

And then, of course, I want to drive it.

So we put the trade plate on and fanged it down

to the local servo to pump the tyres up,

got to the servo, OK, let it running

while we're pumping the tyres up and then it died.

And then it would not start again, even with the new Start

Your Bastard spraying down the car, it would not start again.

And I was like, this is not good.

I thought, well, the only thing we know the spark fine in theory,

the only thing it could be is maybe the half tank of fuel

and it is absolute rubbish.

You know, it's been in there for years.

So we pushed it from the tyre thing around

to the actual fuel pump thing and topped it up with some 98.

And the guy next door was very nice.

He said, oh, you got some trouble?

You OK? And I said, yeah, look, it's this.

It's that's been sitting, you know, we'll be all right.

He said, oh, it's obviously got spark.

I'm like, yeah, that's what that's what we thought.

So, you know, but nice to have someone with a bit of knowledge,

you know, having it having a yarn.

So then while Nick was in paying, I was just relentlessly

cranking laser, cranking laser, cranking then suddenly fires into life

and then it didn't stop.

It was great. Oh, we took it for a fang

around Phillip Island, took it to the car wash, blasted all the crap off it.

And then it went all the way back to to Melbourne without a hitch.

So laser drives well. Nice.

I mean, that's done 163.

It hasn't done a lot of work really.

And the roadworthy list on it that Jim had done was it was a comprehensive list.

But it wasn't anything horrific like it was no oil leaks.

You know, it was basically rear tires older than 10 years.

You know, it was things like, you know, front brake discs and pads

and rear brake wheel cylinders and just sort of, you know, DIY kind of stuff.

So I said to Nick, well, those bits are not, you know, for lasers

are not expensive, you know, we can probably get it roadworthy

for not insane amount of money.

And then at least if it gets on sold, it's it's sold with a roadie.

You can either put it straight on club plates or you could just go and register it.

Yeah. You know, that's that's quite a selling point.

I think a roadie on a car like that.

So yeah. And it's my first ever laser.

I can't believe that I've never owned another Ford laser in my entire life.

I don't think. Welcome to the club.

Thank you. And I was I was I was actually impressed with it.

I was like, oh, it's quite solid.

The doors are quite solid and the seats felt good.

Like they were they weren't just horrible, old, thin, yucky seats.

They were quite, quite supportive.

And I said to Nick, the styling even on these is quite it's sort of taught.

You know, there's not a lot of excess overhang or silliness about it.

It's got a it's got a purposeful, taught little body on it.

And I was like, yeah, yeah, I get it, Ford laser.

Is Robert three to three says Rob.

Well, yeah, it kind of is.

And I was the assembled through to three on the assembly to three.

But yeah, yeah, you could say the same comments about either, I think.

So that's the new purchase.

Yeah, the latest purchase we are joined by Rob.

How are you, Rob?

Good, thank you. How are we all?

Very good, mate. Welcome to the show.

Up to you.

But got me transit service, but 60,000 K service,

the 12,000 Ks that it's done.

So I've got the transit service, the local dealership.

Drove in there with, you know,

apart from the diff noise, no other noises and come back with a extra noise

in the firewall. You're kidding.

Yeah, so it's got another rattle in it now.

You think it's cursed, mate?

You need to get rid of this thing.

It's like that.

So basically, I tried to call them yesterday.

They said they'll call me back today.

They didn't call me back.

So I'll call them back again.

But it's like someone left a socket in the air box or something

or a bit of why you're hitting the firewall every time you go over

a bump or a bit of a corrugation on a road or anything.

It'll start knocking against the firewall or that's what it feels like.

And then it goes, oh, you're exaggerating.

You always complain about things and I go, drive it.

Have a listen to this.

Yeah, you know, I just I don't know.

It's I'm at the end of it.

Yeah, end of my temper with that one.

But so anyway, so left that park.

That we done a nice trip road trip up to the Geelong revival on the weekend.

Not many cars showed up because a lot of them got turned away from the bad weather.

Yeah.

There was a big smash and then five crashed on Saturday into the concrete barrier.

So it'll be on one of the Facebook or YouTube pages.

I've seen it learn BMW one.

Yeah. Yeah.

Motorcycles were good to watch that they sort of were sliding a little bit

till it was a bit cold and wet at times.

But yeah, not many people out there.

So it was a pretty quiet one.

So we got through there pretty quickly.

We were only there for maybe three hours, four hours and headed off

and then went to the caravan and camping show, which was on Geelong as well.

Oh, nice.

So they actually had a Ford Transit fitted out in Snowy River Campers.

That is a Julie, a brand new one.

Yeah, I'm hoping they won't have as many problems with the transit as they do with mine.

You said, do you want another one to have?

I did offer another one that said no, we don't want it.

No, we don't want that one.

Don't listen to the joke, but it sounds a bit apart from that.

Now, just repairing trailers where just packing ready to fly off to Abu Dhabi tomorrow.

Abu Dhabi. Wow, nice.

So that's pretty much it.

Lovely, lovely updates with me.

So obviously it was close to Japan this weekend.

So I was trying to get my cars ready.

Got the Camry, PDR and the rear quarter that come up a lot better.

That looks really good.

Yeah, I was really happy with that.

Big shout out to you, Dennis, for doing that from it was a tap tap.

I think it's cool.

Yeah.

Yeah, so he's he's a bit of a he's a bit of a magician.

So a couple of the guys are super cheap when they saw it.

They're like, geez, that's pretty good.

So I gave him I gave him his number.

Then we got we are talking and he owns his own some really cool cars,

including a KHTX Returbo full drive, which is I didn't know that,

which is one of, as you know, my list of dream cars to get.

So we got talking about that.

And he's like, yeah, I bought it years ago, whole south of 17 grand.

And he's like, what are they worth these days?

I'm like about about that for an OK one.

It was a bit taken back by that, but that was quite it was quite funny.

It was it was worth it was worth listening to.

Then.

So yeah, so so that was the Camry getting getting a bit of love,

gave it a good clean, spent a little bit of time

just detailing all the looks and crannies and bits and pieces

and come up really, really good for the show,

which we'll get to in in a in a little bit.

Then I went to on Friday night to pick up the MR2.

So I drove my fiesta out to my friend,

Mary's place where my car stays and hopped in the MR2,

parked the fiesta, like just just did the old garage swap,

driving the MR2, got about a block down the road.

And I saw the temperature start to creep up.

And I was like, oh, dear.

Then I saw the the revs just because I came to a stop

and the revs were hunting was gone.

It's up and down, up and down.

They're like, this is not good.

This is cause never done anything like this before.

So I pulled over, turned it off

and I turned it back on to hear if the fan was coming on

and the fan wasn't coming on for the like, you know,

the radiator fan.

So I'm like, that's interesting.

So I started the car up again,

flicked the air con on the air con fan flicked on.

But the temperature was still climbing.

And I'm like, OK, because it's a front

the front radiated mid in like mid engine car

might take a little bit longer to get there.

So I put the heater on as well, just to, you know,

get a bit of extra coolant to run to run through the car.

And then about a couple of seconds

I had the temperatures just came back down to normal.

So with the fan kicking on.

So I'm like, OK, so could be a fan issue,

could be an idle air control valve issue,

could be a could be a whole bunch of things,

but it didn't explain the overheating.

Well, but I mean, it could have

because if the fan was kicking on, there's that there's that reason.

So yeah, a little bit disappointed.

I was like, you know what, best be safe than sorry.

I don't want to blow it up.

Don't blow a head gasket.

That's all, you know, that'll be all I will I need.

My wife will not be even more happier with me at that point.

So I decided to just let it cool down,

kept the air con drove it all the way back to my friends house.

Parked, you know, swapped it over, parked it up again

and then left to feed it and took it to and took the fiesta home.

Which didn't let me down, Rob.

So that's a modern for that's actually somewhat OK, Rob.

There you go.

Then so, yeah, I was a bit disappointed.

But it is what it is.

It was driving the Camry all week and all weekend, actually.

It's it's been it's been great.

It's been the more I'm driving, the better it's getting, which is

like the starting issues are pretty much nonexistent anymore.

It's just it's just it's just running really nicely.

I think because I put a I put

probably put a three or four tanks of fresh fuel in it now.

I think that's really cleaned it out.

I did give it a boot full on the freeway and all this rusty smoke.

Well, not smoke, but just rust come out of the exhaust.

So the people behind me, I don't think we're too pleased with me.

But I think the exhaust needs a bit of it needs a bit of a cleaning up.

But yeah, I think nicely.

Aircon is icy cold, cruise works.

Like everything works in that car.

The electric aerial, it's going to get the little control panel.

What tells you what gear you're in?

I think one of the they might need to be resold in some parts

because like the normal light and the overdrive button light

aren't activating.

So I think they need to be have a look.

I mean, they flicker sometimes and then they go away.

So I think that they're they're probably a little bit dodgy, but that's OK.

We can that's a kind of a that's a bit of a nothing issue in comparison.

So I'll get round to doing that.

But yeah, that was great, which leads us to classic Japan.

First time at Crude and Farm, new location,

which was which I didn't realize until speaking with with with

good listener of the show and good friend Kenny.

Who I believe he said to me it was bought by the Murdochs for his wife, I believe.

That's that's which I had which I had absolutely no idea.

I thought it was just some old old farm that people are like,

oh, yeah, that's kind of cool. Pika Garcia.

No, no, Dame Elizabeth Murdoch, the group at Murdoch's mother,

I think lived there pretty much her whole life.

Yeah, exactly right.

Well, OK, she was.

And there's this I remember years ago, there was some gardening show

and she was driving around in a perjo sort of on camera, you know,

just sort of talking about the farm and stuff.

So yeah, it's quite a well-known property.

Yeah, I honestly I never I hadn't even heard of it until then

until this event was was was being put there.

So yeah, I am drove out on the Sunday morning

all the way to the meeting location for the Honda Car Club,

which was at a pub like about two minutes away from the from the event.

Yeah, Beretta's Languaron Hotel.

That's the one.

And got there, got there super early because like I

me being me, I checked on my phone

on a Friday afternoon, how far it is to get there.

I'm like, oh, Jesus, it's going to take me two hours to get there.

Me not thinking didn't factor in.

Oh, that's just good with with traffic.

I got there in under an hour.

So I was sitting there waiting at about seven o'clock.

So then I drove over to the local McDonald's

and got a McMuffin meal for breakfast with an orange juice

and then waited for the next car to arrive, which was Edward Bunting.

Yes, I to ragged my way there, which was

yeah, also an early start, not quite as early as you made.

But and then and then they started to pile in a little later.

I think it was then Mr. Prince survived.

And oh, no, we didn't see you and we didn't see David.

We saw David driving the episode way.

Andrew and Laura rocked up in the Magna and their Camry

and and then Mike Doubledane, a few other Honda people rocked up.

And and then we thought, oh, we've got to get in

early to our little showroom-esque display.

So we off down the road and that sort of worked.

Yeah. So so we we kind of nicked off up, excuse me,

for some context, David Prince, they were a bit apprehensive to leave you.

Oh, we didn't. Yeah, we wanted to wait for you.

But then I just remembered Morris from the from the tour.

Like get there early if you want to do this stuff.

And I'm like, oh, I'm glad I'm glad we did, though,

because because I think we got a good spot by the water.

Yeah. And even though we weren't able to fully set up the way we wanted to,

we still we still set up pretty, pretty well, which we'll get to in a second.

But we drove down down there.

I took the wrong entrance as I as I wasn't thinking.

And I was just following other cars on the car.

They're going here. Must be going there.

So I followed them wrong entrance, drove all the way back around

to the other entrance, which is fine.

Yeah, driving, driving through a bit of a weird one

because like you're driving and like down this little gravel road

and you kind of just covered in trees and you're like, where am I going?

And it just kind of opens up into this broad kind of like, you know,

Homestead-esque kind of location.

And I was like, OK, I get this now.

So then we so Ed got in front of me and then I was following them

and the SV 21 wagon by a good friend, Andrew,

was worth yes, he owns other cars besides Magnus.

And for our listeners who are like, oh, he owns the Toyota.

I'm here, they actually owns two and so he.

So yeah, so we parked them up.

We got we got to shoot really nice spot.

They were they didn't allow us to do our kind of like our three way set up

with the van in the middle and you know, on the side and stuff.

So it is what it is.

But we still got in there.

We weren't allowed to bring our plans out

because they might have contaminated the other the other plans.

So I wanted to thank you again on the show, Edward, personally, for for just pick them up.

I drop them off.

You know, so thank you for doing that.

It is it is appreciated.

I brought the bunting to you did bring the bunting

and we set up with the bunting.

We set up with David's lovely table, which I think you got back today, David.

I did. Yes. Yes.

I was saying, oh, yeah, we got back to the car.

So like, oh, crap, these bloody table.

And then Andrew was like, I'll give it back to him.

Like, OK, so which David Prince kindly offered and he offered us

like a nice little nice little towel to go over it.

And then we brought it out brochures when it was sunny

and we did fake deals and we did the jump in the air.

The Toyota, I what a feeling.

Yeah, what a feeling.

Yeah, what a feeling Toyota jump.

But it actually kind of looked like a pretty cool set up like it looked.

It looked it looked really, really cool.

You know, a real plants, Rob, they weren't plastic.

That's that's all we got.

We got a bit of a bit of strife with that.

You got plastic ones.

But I put signs on the windows, which I think come up all right.

They looked pretty good.

Yeah, that was that was probably the best part,

I think with the great big window banners that had the full drive away

price with the features with the features that are on that car looked great.

Did you copy them off Toyotas from the era?

No, I just I just made it out.

Yeah, yeah, that's really good.

And people sort of liked it

because we had the three cars next to each other with the, you know,

twenty one, three, ninety, you know, on the windscreen

and whatever they were, thirty one on your Camry Matthew and

yeah, people kind of walked up and saw the flags around it.

And I think they they were like, oh, wow, this is something a bit different.

Yeah, I thought it was I thought it was pretty cool.

Like, I think I think I worked really, really well.

I think we should definitely do that again.

And Ed Matthews Toyota was in full was in full flight.

I think that should they had the number plate covers

Ed Matthews Toyota as well.

We did the stickers as well, which which thanks to Mitchell Mitchell Prince.

It was incredible, son, which I'm going to thank him again

in a minute for something else.

But yeah, you know, you organized those stickers for us.

And that was that was fantastic.

So they they went on the back of the

almost anyone make an offer.

We joked, Rob, on the day that if anyone came up

and offered the price on the windscreen or close to that, we're all selling.

Absolutely. Like if someone gives me twenty one grand for that, Tarago, OK, bye.

Yeah, it's been fun.

It's been great. Good to see you later.

Yeah, it's I think I think I mentioned that to you as well.

I said, if someone offers me thirty one, whatever it was, sixty three.

I said, believe me, you can have it.

That's please take it.

I will I will I will follow you to the bank to get the money.

And so so I think it looked kind of cool.

You know, you know, the idea was there.

Andrew was dressed up for the occasion.

He had his coming chicken tie, which was which was bloody epic.

And, you know, and we did a we did a deal of old out your hand with a key.

And, you know, the the old

which is what we sell for Farah bread, Farah bread.

Mike, you're making yourselves laugh.

That's the important thing, boys.

We made ourselves laugh.

We did. And I think it was like I think it was quite a clever idea.

And I think we should definitely do that again for like a car's on a coffee or something.

And and but yeah, so so so that was that was a corolla.

We somebody we need one of us needs to buy a corolla at the showroom.

Rob, that's you.

I think so.

Yeah, you're up.

Like a nice.

Be a sex or a secret.

Yeah, just a little late 80s or something.

Yeah, I've got to get a seatcap.

Is it my first corolla was a Toyota Seeker?

And mine was too.

Yeah, I like that Seeker. Eureka.

It's a Seeker.

So yeah, so that was it. Matthew's Toyota did.

I think it was it was quite popular.

A lot of people were happy to see the three

toilets from that similar era together again.

So that takes us to the rest of the show.

So there was so it was it was a decently sized event.

I think the turnout was was better than expected for for the weather

because it did typical Melbourne things.

It was more bipolar than my ex partner.

Yeah, it did those things.

But for the most part, it was quite good.

So let's let's let's go ahead.

Let's cover the day.

So David Prince, you rocked up next to a lovely red NSX,

which Mitch Mitch brought around.

Yes, I did.

I really wanted to park next to him

because there's only 20 years between those two cars.

So the scams of 1970 model and the NSX was delivered in 1990.

So for for a manufacturer, you know, if anyone is in doubt

about Mr. Honda and how much he loved his cars and stuff,

you know, that's that's how much he loved his cars.

He went from something like the scamp in in 1970 to the NSX in 20 years.

And it's I don't can't think of another company

that's had a had a progression like that really.

It's a it's a big leap.

Yeah, very big leap and not yet 20 years sounds like a long time.

But sort of isn't really when you talk automotive development.

No, it's not at all.

If you look in 20 years ago, like that's, you know, B series Falcon,

your VY Commodore, it's in and they still feel kind of relatively new.

But if you look at the development from from here to then

from now to then that was big.

But then you look at the development from like the 70s to 90.

That was that was huge.

So it's it's from a different world, the NSX, David Prince.

It is. It's like something from out of space in compare and 360.

I mean, obviously, they were built for different markets

different requirements.

But, you know, the NSX is really such an iconic Japanese car

through the development of it.

The fact it's aluminium, they built a special factory to build it in.

And of course, you know, the the legacy of Ed and Senna

doing a very famous test drive in his on his slip on slip on shoes.

You know, they just happen to have a camera in the foot well.

Luckily.

And they basically threw the keys back to them and said,

yeah, no, it's too loose.

It needs to be tighter.

And so they went back and they made it tighter.

And as a result, it was a stunning car.

So you brought that.

Jim Barlow brought his 500,000 K.

EK Civic, which which got a bit of attention, actually,

people like, I can't believe how clean this is for its case.

So that did he did really, really well with that.

Good friend of the show, David Day brought his FD RX7.

Yes, that's the first FD I've ever sat in.

And I actually fit in it quite nicely.

I was like, oh, I could get used to this and then I looked at

I did some research on the prices and like they have gone absolutely ridiculous.

So I won't be getting one of those, David, anytime soon.

What if someone gives you 31 for the Camry?

We could possibly start.

Yeah, you could put a deposit on it.

I don't agree with that, maybe a deposit.

Issue with me is I want the specific one because I'm an idiot.

Like I wanted the specific V6 Camry and I wanted an SR2

and I wanted a Typhoon.

Like I'd want a Spirit R like that.

That'd be there well over $100,000 these days.

And I'm just like, I can't justify that kind of money.

So but anyway, I'm sorry.

So David Day brought that.

There was some who was brought other things.

What I was going to say about the FD, David hasn't had a long

off just sent it through to the the chat, Scotty.

You can see it's pretty pretty out there.

It certainly attracts attention.

It's bright yellow and that's a factory color.

Yeah, he was quite literally he was quite literally

Keisuke Takahashi from Innisfree Day.

So, you know, in the early RX7, like early, early FD RX7.

So, yeah, that's I was like, I was like, I was like,

I was like, Keisuke's arrived, which was pretty, really cool.

And then David Day got out of it.

That's hilarious.

Yeah, right.

He kept it very, very stopped.

Does he drive up much or?

He's just got it on club plates.

So OK, OK.

Yeah, it's an F&E, so it's an it's an import, obviously.

And he's had a couple of years, but he bought it.

It had a couple of it was unregistered.

It had been imported and complied and had been registered in Victoria.

So he knew he could get it on club plates easily.

But it took a bit longer.

He's got a few cars to deal with.

So, yeah, but he cracked on in the last couple of months

and got it sorted out.

So, yeah.

But he had another vehicle there, too.

I don't know if you noticed.

There was also a bright yellow Honda motor compo.

Oh, that was his.

I did know that's also David Day's.

Yes. So one of the guys,

Morris, who's a member of the Toyota Club, as on the committee there,

as well as a member of the Honda Club for many, many years,

he contacted David and said, I need something to get around the side.

He said, I'm coming to pick up a motor compo.

So.

And of course, David Day's got a couple of Honda cities,

which the motor compo is designed to follow a bike that fits in the back.

Interestingly enough, I don't think there was one city there.

No, there was not.

There was not.

So how do I take in mine?

It would have been the only one.

Someone tried to tell me when I was talking to them about

Hondas that there was a red one over over in the far paddock.

It was right on the end of the line next to the NSX.

I said, no, that's actually not a city.

Honestly, that's my car.

That's a scam.

Yes. Oh, oh, really?

Yes. Yes, really.

Yes. Yes.

Yes. And I own it, so I should know.

Yes, it is Scotty.

Oh, OK.

It's a twin turbo,

which is pretty good for something that age.

Yeah, the way that they the way they made that twin

turbo system work was like a maze of tubes and hoses

and actuators and everything.

So tubes and hoses when they, you know,

when they haven't been driven and used for a while.

Yeah, especially when they're plastic.

I mean, I said, I said, I said that to you, that's cool.

I said it to the other day.

I was like, I was like, have you had all the tubes replaced?

Oh, no, everything seems OK.

I'm like, I'm like, if you ever do my God help you,

that is just that is a horrible job.

Like, I've seen people do it online and the profanities used

is Scott level of profanity.

So so pretty high, pretty high.

So that's insane.

I would, yeah, I wish you were with that.

That's all I'm going to say.

So yeah, so so David brought his and Laura Andrews,

lovely wife, brought the tea.

The elite elite.

Yep, great. Yep.

He that's right.

Jesus, a lovely car.

And that was the only Magna, I think.

Yeah, it was.

There was a bit of a park next.

It wasn't really on a man.

There certainly weren't any other first gens.

I don't think a second or a third gen either.

No, that was the only one.

And right next to Maggie was a lovely Sigma.

Yeah, which was totally random that it followed followed.

Yes, seems like that side by side.

The same color and everything too,

which was pretty cool.

So so yeah, that that that fit in really, really nicely there.

And I think overall, you know, it was a nice

part because I parked next to my next to my Camry

and the Louver on the back of the elite

matched the Louver on the back of the Camry.

So I was like, I was like, you know,

longer on Anga, longer on Angus back.

Louver love.

So I felt like a DeLorean for for about five minutes.

So yeah, that was pretty cool.

So, gentlemen, your picks of the day and

how did you think the event went?

I think it went very well.

And my pick of the day was I chatted to the owner of this for a bit.

An eighties Navarra in Cab.

I spoke, I was there with you.

Yes. So it was a silver King Cab, I think.

And but it had these beautiful red and orange decals down the side.

And he'd bought it from some farming

kid up in the country.

It had a I think a canopy on it, he said, and the wrong wheels.

And, you know, a few things that weren't quite right.

The tourner was missing, but but he could see that the bones were really good.

So he paid five grand for it, he said.

And then it probably owes him 15 now.

But, you know, got rid of the canopy, got the tourner made up for it.

Just all those details that we like to do to a car

that's that the bones are very good on.

So he's done all of that.

And it just looked really sharp.

But it was the original red gel on it, be something, something still on the plates.

And I looked at that and just went, yeah, I'm down with that.

I really like those eighties youths, the simplicity of them.

And the the if you get the right

that I was saying to him, the tub in this thing is huge.

You know, it's way bigger than any modern dual cab you.

So you actually use them for purpose, put stuff in it.

It's a totally square, big tub.

And it was a four wheel drive, Navara.

So it was sort of useful being a four wheel drive.

And I was like, yeah, I like these old things.

They're just simple.

Was it actually a Navara or was it a 720?

No, it was a Navara.

It said Navara on it. OK, OK.

I know what you I'm sure it said Navara on it.

Maddie, do you remember? I can't remember now.

That's that's I had a chat to him at the the Sakura picnic

Yeah, Maddie, was was that the one that we saw at Sakura picnic?

Yeah, I think we did.

Yeah, it was Nissan.

It wasn't it was definitely Nissan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, the commercials were usually Nissan, not the not not Datsun.

It's funny in America at the time that they were like,

Nissan, you know, come alive, come and drive at your Datsun dealer.

It was so they were still kind of confused.

But that was that was that was my pick of the show.

I read I just really resonated with that with that you.

And the other one I thought was quite good was there was a shovel nose corona.

It was a bit of a bit of a rat rod, as in it had a bit of a patina look to it.

But that's for sale at six grand and it looked looked really tidy.

And I thought for a nice little simple classic for six K

it was a floor shift manual, which I don't think shovel nose

coronas, wherever floor shift manuals, I think it might have been converted.

But I thought they were only give a column shift.

No, no, you could get in the SE.

Ah, could you see I think was for shift here in a shovel nose shovel nose.

There you go. So that might be factory.

But I thought I walked around and I thought, God, it's it's not rusty.

It's it's a bit patina, but that was almost good.

It looked really cute.

Yeah, it was you figure how small I mean, like you look at the scab,

it'd be like everything's bigger.

But like even like even like every day cars like like a corona back then,

like they weren't big, they were quite small.

Yeah, they're quite a team.

I'm detecting a bit of a theme because my pick of the day was parked just near

us, actually our friend, Rowan.

Oh, and Nimbus.

Oh, yes. And along in his beautiful Mitsubishi Nimbus.

The only Nimbus there as well there.

But a friend of his Karen came and she had that since 1600 and Karen's

parents came and they were in a burgundy, two door sedan, Datsun 1000.

Yes. So 60, I'm going to say seven, sixty eight.

Yeah, it was superb.

And his dad is is quite a carry and had restored it.

Yes.

Olim Schiff manual.

The interior had been done beautifully, sympathetically, looked original,

but it wasn't it had been redone.

Yeah, he said that his trimmer had gone to a lot of trouble to get a mottled

sort of blood ox blood, I think they call that color, you know, interior.

It was just an absolute little sweetheart of a car.

An interesting point, Rowan, told me about that car.

Most of it is fiberglass.

Really? When he restored it, he bought that car from Hickapart.

And it was it came from out the front of Hickapart years ago

and was really original, but quite rusty.

So he molded all of the panels after the originals as templates,

but in fiberglass. Get it out.

Oh, a lot of that car is actually not metal.

Well, that's hilarious, because David Day actually knows him

because he's in the Bowel Bowl Club, Bowl Club.

And of course, Bowel's a fiberglass.

So yeah, obviously he he worked at Bowel, perhaps.

Maybe he's got some skills in fiberglassing area.

Yeah, I was looking at it and Rowan said, oh, yeah, that's Karen's dad.

That's a speedboat.

Yeah, so I just had to be a bit lighter than the standard car.

So it might actually move.

I actually had driving lessons.

My aunt had a Datsun 1000 automatic four door.

And I used to have driving lessons as a 17 year old in that.

And it was a pretty vile thing in an automatic, I've got to say.

What if you want a manual?

But yeah, this was a column manual, little two doors to there.

It was it was a sweetheart.

Had the correct hubcaps on it, had the badges were perfect.

I know I thought that was a sweet, sweet little car.

Tick tick would agree.

A couple of my my my picks were the the.

The Sigma, I thought that like I haven't seen a Sigma like that in in years.

And what was the best part about that little Sigma was the paint was great.

I think it's had paint before, but it was the it was the P plate as first car.

Wow, that's how you do a first car.

In my eyes, you you take a shit box and you and you use it.

So yeah, I love it.

I love it. Absolutely.

Like they were like when it was raining, which it did again, Melbourne.

You know, I want to stop in and this comes in real handy when those at shows.

We all piled in the Raga.

It was great. It was it was it was Club Raga.

Club Raga. Yeah, it's been that's been the case of a few shows

where we've all piled into that when it's gotten torrential.

It had.

So, yeah, we all piled into that.

And but, yeah, that little car was real is really, really nice.

I loved the did you guys see the blue WRX GC8 wagon?

I noticed it.

Yeah, it was really clean and original, like a factory exhaust.

And it looked like it was just an original car,

a factory stereo, I think, too.

And just like all just it was just so original.

I'm like, you don't see an original WRX like like that.

But also, you don't really see many wagons

because the wagons were just just just flogged to death

and not really like, excuse me, the sedans.

So. So that one was that one was was was really, really cool to see.

The MR2 that made mine look really bad

because it didn't mind and show up was there was that red one.

That was that's I think, you know, who who owned that one, David?

That was a really, really clean, you know, lots of case, but fully restored.

You know, the paint was flawless on it.

That was that was that was a red M2 there on the gen one.

Gen one. Yep.

Who don't, you know, I think I think we mentioned on the podcast before.

The guy from the Honda Club, David.

Yes, I think it is the garage.

Yeah. OK, did you see him there?

I saw his car there because I remember it with this

with the case and how good the paint was like that's the car.

But my favorite car of the event was

yeah, you ready to drum roll, please?

The Datsun Stanzer triple S.

Less. Yeah.

With the dog leg first gear box.

So my my boss in my in my area work had had one as his first car.

And it's the car he regrets selling.

He always tells me some stories about it and factory LSD and all that sort of stuff.

And he reckons it was a great thing.

I hadn't seen one that that clean and original in a very long time.

Yeah, I had enough to make a wheel on it, but that didn't bother me.

But yeah, you know, white over black, they only came in three colors.

I think with the whites, the red, the they came in a yellow, I think in.

And it was but like I didn't recognise it until like I didn't recognise

the little features that they had.

Like they had a I remember that was two time white of a black, for example.

But they had like a little blue stripe right right around the side of them.

And I didn't I could never remember that.

And it was cool.

Like I was like, I was really taken taken aback by it.

I was like, this is this is cool.

So I spoke triple less fabric in the seats to the inserts would sit triple

less, triple less, triple less, triple less.

So cool.

Like it's yeah, it was like it was like I I assume a lot of them

were just rallied to death.

Like they were probably a good little rally car.

They were just rallied to death and just killed that way.

All rust got them.

But yeah, I just remember looking at it.

I was like, wow, this thing's so cool.

You know what color was that car?

It was white, white, white of a black.

I'll send some pictures to the group chat, actually.

It was yeah, it was just it was the right color.

Like I've seen I've seen one at another class in Japan in the in yellow.

But this one was in this one was in white.

I'm just sending it.

I'm sending a 3D guys in the L.

There you go, guys, you should be receiving that any second.

But yeah, the I just think like, when was the last time you've seen one?

Yeah, they just they just don't exist.

Like they're all gone.

So for me, that was that was kind of my highlight of the day that the triple S.

Don't look, there was always some lovely cars.

There was some there was some really nice, you know,

what's it called?

Salik is as there as there always is.

But what was cool to see also was how many ratty

300 ZX's there were like all the all the 300 ZX shipbox rally cars.

Like I was like, this would be well, Chad mentioned this as well.

He's like, you know, full props to you for driving this car.

One of this is arguably most interestingly reliable in vertical commas

in by interesting, you know, cars that they made,

which is not easy to work on and you're taking them on these these

trips right around right around Australia.

But yeah, I thought it was I thought it was pretty cool.

And I think the other car, the other favorite car there,

which is not as good as a triple S this time around was the was that lovely.

And I saw him on the freeway and we gave each other a thumbs up,

was the Mazda three to three, you know, turbo.

You know, it was like the little familiar.

Yeah, but I wasn't familiar.

It's it's because of, you know, Aussie delivered one,

which is it, which is our TX three turbo four wheel drive turbo.

It was it was so nice and original and clean.

And every time I see that car, like this is a good car.

So they were my they were my top picks of the day that were a bit unique.

Well, what surprised me this time was like there wasn't a lot of, you know,

one certain car that was there was kind of like ones of kind of a lot of cars.

And I think because usually you go to an event like that and there's like

a hundred, you know, Skylines or a hundred this or a hundred that.

But, you know, this time there was one to bless Danzo.

There was, you know, one WX wagon.

There was one MR2 AW11.

There was, you know, one Camry wagon.

You know, there was this one to one to I go, besides the Toyota one.

You know, I mean, that was, you know, it's.

You know, there's usually two because they they Morris and his son

use that other one as a Toyota club car and it's all signed written up

and it takes all the banners and people and stuff.

That's usually a regular.

Yeah, that was me.

Yeah. So yeah.

So it was interesting to see the wide array of cars.

But yeah, I think overall great event, the Toyota Club.

I think they do some really good events, just putting it out there.

Like they're very like the way they organize it, plenty of

plenty of vendors, plenty of options to eat and things there.

So yeah, I think the day went really well.

I think I think for them, it was probably a good chance to

to spread their wings over that side of town and have an event over there

and have an event closer to home.

So I think let's see if we're at Cruden Park next year.

It's probably probably a big chance of that.

I think that's the plan.

I think they want to separate the two events.

Yeah.

And keep Sakura Picnic at

Bandura Park.

Yep. And and concentrate on Cruden Farm for Classic Japan.

Yeah, it's nicer.

Are we quizzing tonight, Matthew?

We are absolutely quizzing tonight.

Thanks to the wonderful David Prince, who

kindly offered to to do our quiz for us.

He'll be taking the quiz tonight.

So David Prince, you've got a few players tonight.

You've got poor Alan had to duck out for a committee meeting.

So David Prince, the floor is yours.

You may take it away.

It's a committee meeting like every like a committee meeting.

Yeah, it seems like a lot of committee.

OK, so we've got a Japanese inspired in Classic Japan,

Japanese inspired event quiz tonight.

And so we've had nine questions because Matty's already given us

the answer to one of them.

Good on him. Sorry.

I didn't realize I did.

No. OK, so happy to score.

I've got it ready to go for you, mate.

You're a Honda legend.

Question one.

How many versions of the Toyota Camrys sold in Australia

were fully imported?

Matthew, Matthew.

So like you have to like the generations

or how many like actual models, specifically.

Just tell me which ones.

How many were imported?

It Matthew.

Matthew didn't answer the question.

Yeah, I think so.

Correct. Yeah.

So yes, the first hatchback were all fully imported.

The first and Matthew's V6 model fully imported.

Correct.

That's the bonus question.

It's a bonus.

No, no, that wasn't the bonus question.

The bonus question is what does Kamuri in Japanese mean?

Matthew, Matthew.

Oh, Matthew.

Small crown, I think.

Incorrect.

Oh, OK.

I'll give you, I'll actually give you half a mark.

Give yourself half a mark.

Oh, I'll take that. I'll take that.

Partly correct, but not correct.

You've got your cars confused.

Anyone else?

Someone's told me before, but I can't remember.

Anyone else? Anyone else?

Rob, small prince, as in David Prince.

I wouldn't say I'm a very big prince, Rob.

Just put it in there.

They should have called it the Mitchell.

The Mitchell.

No, Kamuri, which is where Camry is derived from, means crown.

Small crown is Corolla.

So she just means crown.

Just means crown.

Which is what, because they've got a crown.

So there you go.

Correct, yeah.

Bonus, bonus question.

In the 1991 update of the SV-21, so the final iteration of the SV-21,

the Ultima spec offered a feature

that was the first for an Australian-built car.

What was that feature?

Matthew.

Oh, Matthew's on fire.

But I think the first to offer,

like you couldn't lock the keys in the car.

It wouldn't let you do it.

There was a feature that it would know,

and it wouldn't allow you to lock the doors fully,

like with the keys in the car,

like in the ignition or something, to lock yourself out.

Incorrect.

Not incorrect, but not the answer I'm looking for.

OK.

And I don't know how that could be,

because you could override that easily.

Well, it wasn't electronic.

It wasn't electronic, so.

That's true.

I did read it in the brochure that I had.

I was like, it's like, in the Ultima,

you cannot lock the keys in the car.

I'm like, wow, OK, that's interesting.

Sure.

We had the option to buy an Ultima user

go through someone through Dad's work.

You know, their father was getting rid of it or something.

So we had it on loan for them to try it out.

And I remember it was a very nice car.

It had the rear headrest, the yellow wheel, power windows.

It was a nice spec.

But I don't recall anything sort of specifically

amazingly unique about it

in terms of the first feature in a Australian car.

OK. OK.

Well, this was actually from Wikipedia.

So, you know, might not be completely correct,

but it did strike a chord with me.

I seem to remember that that was the case.

Anyone else?

It was Ed.

Was it a CD player?

Correct. Wow, there you go.

It was a CD player. Get it out.

And I remember seeing one in a showroom

and thinking, wow, that car's got a CD player

and being amazed at it.

There you go.

Which is funny because Toyota are typically stingy with stereos.

Yeah.

So it's weird that they have that.

Well, there you go.

That was the answer.

Question two.

So this is possibly a three point question.

If we don't get it with the first.

So there are three specs I'm going to mention.

If you can pick what brand, what make of car,

make and model of car was offered as this limited edition.

The first with the first clue, then you get three points.

Second one, you get two points.

Last one, you get one.

OK. Cool.

Which model, make and model car offered

limited edition models by the name of Vagabond.

Oh, Vagabond.

OK. Sounds like the finger boys.

Three points are out.

OK. Ventura. Ventura. Ventura was Bluebird.

Incorrect.

Yeah. It was available.

It was available as a Ventura.

Well, then it's something.

No, no, but the third one will give you the answer.

So OK. OK.

No. OK.

That's what I was thinking, Bluebird, but yeah.

So one point.

Is that the third limited edition is Reebok.

Thank you.

Oh, I think it got it.

Oh, Reebok.

So yes, the Vagabond, the Ventura and the Reebok word.

I remember Ventura. Vagabond in a Pulsar.

Yep. Yep.

Really? What era?

So the locally assembled from will drive one.

So 88, 83, 84.

Oh, OK. I've never heard of a Vagabond.

There you go. OK. Thank you.

Bonus question.

The Pulsar based seven seater that went on sale in Australia in early 83.

Yeah, they did it.

The next Prairie.

A Prairie. Correct.

Anyone else on the podcast and on anyone answering?

Sorry, Rob. Sorry, Scotty.

I was thinking a little house on a Prairie, but it was close.

It was close.

OK, question three.

What generation is the new Honda Prelude

that's being released in the middle of the next year?

Ed. So what was the question?

So, yeah. Generation prelude.

Generation. Oh, OK.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You see, I'm going to go with it.

Falling shenanigans from the week.

I'm going to go the seventh generation.

Matthew. Matthew.

Matthew. It would be the sixth generation.

Correct. It is the sixth generation.

I mean, I was close.

You were not close enough.

I did a bunting and.

That's a good.

OK, question four is the closest to

question for still on Hondas next year in 2026.

Honda Australia is releasing its first full electric car.

It's that little one with the flat out guard.

It's based on the N1.

It's not the question. OK.

The question continues.

The Honda Super 1 has an expected range of how many kilometres?

Two hundred and thirty.

Hose is two. Ed goes two thirty.

I'm going to go with two hundred and eighty.

OK, Scotty.

Yeah, Rob, two sixty.

Two sixty.

I think you guys are being a bit harsh on Honda here.

Like, I know they've done some pretty poor mileage

on their previous attempts, but I'm going to say three fifty.

Three fifty. OK. Scotty, you're on the board.

It's two fifty five is what they're expecting.

How many is it?

Two ninety five. You nine five.

That's not too bad.

You're on the board, Scotty.

Five.

Mazda will also be releasing a full electric car next year.

What's it called?

It's used to me.

Mazda boring.

Oh, harsh.

Now, I've seen the ads for like that.

They've put the instead of Zoom, Zoom, they're putting.

You see?

Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz.

There's like another there's like another name that they're using.

It's been on their posters and their billboard advertising.

I can't remember what what it's called.

Anyone? Anyone?

No, no points.

It's the six E. Six E.

Sounds like it's a it's a bloody classroom.

I just go down to see.

Bonus question.

Where is it made, Matthew?

Matthew.

I'm going to say because of cost cutting

and because they don't want to blow up the hofoo slash

Hiroshima plants, it's going to be made in the plant.

That's is in Thailand, where they're making the other masses.

I would have said.

Yes, incorrect.

Oh, Rob, Rob Malaysia, incorrect.

And in Japan, where it should be, incorrect.

Well, that outsourcing all the way to

Orno, maybe Korea.

Incorrect. It's being made in China.

Yeah, I was going to say China.

You know what I was going to say, China thought, no,

they're not very good friends with them at the moment.

Well, that's what I was surprised when I read it.

I thought I don't know that that makes much sense.

But anyway, there you go.

Honda and Nissan and Mazda

and all these Japanese companies are doing weird, weird things.

They are correct. That is correct.

Interesting time in the market.

Question six, friend of the podcast, Jim

Bullos, Honda Civic VTI sedan has just turned over

500,000 Ks, as mentioned on the podcast.

How many kilometres had that car

travelled when he bought it?

Ed, one hundred and ninety three thousand.

OK, we do it closest to.

OK, yeah, so one ninety three thousand and sixty five.

Oh, Jesus Christ. OK.

You've had that discussion with him.

I listen.

I can't remember, but I would say two thirty.

No, it's all right. He got it in one.

Sorry, Rob. Well, that's all fair.

He should be out of it.

It's four four.

Should any of you got it right around the guns?

Where's Ellen?

I only know that because Jim said it

on the podcast the other week.

There you go.

Are you going to memory?

Question seven.

There were three examples of the beautiful

Isuzu one one seven at Cruden Farm on the weekend.

Yes, who designed it?

Matthew, Matthew.

I'm going to get this wrong.

Was it Pinnaferrino? Incorrect.

Ed, I think it was Giugiario or that thing.

See, yeah, the correct, correct.

I think it's Giorgio Giugiario.

Giugiario. Yeah, however you say that.

It was actually badly injured in a car accident recently

when he rolled his land Rover Defender off a mountain road in in Italy.

Well, he shouldn't have been driving a Defender.

No, correct.

Well, luckily you were.

If the super select four wheel drive, he'd be fine.

Question eight was was going to be there was a Datsun

stance at Triple S at Classic Spanel as well on Saturday.

What was significant about the pattern of the gearbox?

Oh, the gearbox in this one leg.

Thank you, Matthew, Douglas.

No, we're not scoring on that because we all knew.

Question nine, friend, friend of the show, Ron Cornelis,

body's lovely, gold Mitsubishi Nimbus to Classic Japan,

as we've discussed, how many generations of Mitsubishi

Nimbus were sold in Matthew, Matthew.

There was three.

Correct. Correct.

Bonus question.

What model succeeded Matthew, Matthew, the grandest.

Correct.

Yes, that's me.

You're on fire.

Not really.

Ed still winning.

Do we have a score check, please?

So I check.

Rob's yet to score Scotty on one and on one, two, three,

four, five, six, myself on one, two, three, four and a half.

Oh, OK.

Well, interestingly, it is still anybody's game.

No, how?

Last question is potentially worth 10 points.

Oh, Christ, OK.

This is what happened.

I know, I know it's a first start, first time, one off, one off.

Wow.

Question 10, get ready, Scotty and Rob, get ready with your little, you know,

the super liberally.

You're still flying.

Yes, I'm pretty matured.

The Subaru Liberty RS featured a sticker on the rear doors.

Ed, it said it.

OK, can.

Oh, yeah, OK, tell me what it said, Ed.

Well, maybe that means I'm out.

I just wanted to get ahead of to get the 10 points.

You're probably going to say something like how many letters are in it.

This two gets it right.

It was like double overhead cam, four wheel drive turbo.

And I think it might have said ABS on it as well.

OK, give me those words again.

COHC, so double overhead.

Oh, I think it was turbo, four wheel drive, ABS.

OK, is that your answer?

Yeah, you have two points.

Matthew, Matthew, I'm going to say it said

because you're not going to tell us which words, which words he got correct to do.

Yeah, 24 valve.

Oh, yeah, intercooler.

Oh, yeah, as you really mentioned, turbo and four wheel drive.

So that those ones are gone.

25 intercooler, four wheel drive you mentioned or all drive water to air

because they were water to air intercooler on those.

So I want to say water to air intercooler 24 valve turbo four wheel drive.

I'm trying to think what else it could be on there.

You've mentioned the other ones.

Yeah, I think I think that's that's what I'm going to say.

OK, can we have those again?

So if you give it to me one at a time, 24 valve incorrect.

OK, that's a bad start.

What else does it say 24?

Actually, actually, I'll give you one because valve is on it.

OK, valve.

I said water to air intercooled.

One more intercooled is on it.

OK, what else? What else did I say?

24 valve intercooled.

I think you actually said four wheel drive, two, didn't you?

I did, yeah.

But I already got that.

You really got that.

So I think I'm out two.

I'll let the other guys have a go.

Definitely says RS.

Incorrect. Really?

Oh, that's an RS.

It says RS underneath the the indicator

on the quarter panel, I think.

Yes, yes, very sexily.

Yeah, I've never seen it.

I've never taken any notice of it.

Think of some car words, Rob.

Just think of some car words.

You know, actually, the sticker itself is actually about.

Oh, that long.

It's about 80 or 90 cent

millimetres, centimetres long, like it's long sticker.

Because when I brand new, I went to the super

dealership and I actually got the sticker and I actually

fitted it to the bottom of the windscreen at the scamp.

Oh, that's so cool.

So anyone following the scamp would read this sticker

and it took up the whole width of the window.

Does it say all wheel drive instead,

all that symmetrical drive and it's got 4WD?

No, just as forward.

So I think what else I could say on there?

It's like we've got some crazy Japanese words

like like translation, emotion and vibrations.

But all factor to do with what was in the car

like D O H C 24 valve turbo turbo into cooled.

They've been used. Okay. Put us out of that misery, David Prince.

It's Queen Cam. Sorry? Queen Cam. No, you're all back up the wrong tree. Oh, sorry, Cam.

I'll give you one, Cam. There we go. Boxer. Bring me to two. Boxer? No, it doesn't say

Boxer. What did it say, David? It says constant four-wheel drive, quad cam, 16 valve, fuel injected,

intercooled turbo. Well, Jesus Christ. Yeah, we're a couple there on the day and I always look at

that sticker quite fondly because I remember it on the scan. Yeah, but I think that's probably

one of the longest stickers that's ever been standard equipment on a car, I think, ever.

I think you're right. Can we have a score check, please? Rob, zero, Scotty, two, myself, on two,

four, six, six, point five, and tonight's winner on one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Point five is Mr. Edward Bunting. Well done. So close, so close. Thank you all.

Edward? It's actually a good seven out of ten questions, but the fact there's about 40 questions.

Yeah. David Prince, can you do the honors of asking the famous question?

You know, how do you finish up a podcast? Who do you want to thank?

I didn't win. Oh, Ed, who do you want to thank? I want to thank Subaru for making such a good car

in that RS2 of mine. It was a good car. Fuji Heavy Industries, that's who I want to thank.

You probably drove them new, did you? Were you a Polk then? Yes, I was, but no, not when they

were new. They were in sort of 93, 94, so they were a bit older. But two of my colleagues at

Polk at the time, Mr. Justin Lacey and Mr. Stuart McKinnon, both owned that exact car.

Wow. Now both Burgundy and Justin had the update with the FBT217, with the

indicator front lenses. And Stuart's was ERZ-881 that was slightly older with the non-curve front

indicator. Justin's had ABS, Stuart's did not, because ABS came in later.

That was better as a wagon too. A wagon. I mean, at that time, I wanted my parents to get a new

car while they were sniffing around. I think we ended up with the 626 Turbo second hand,

but I was like, please, can we buy a Liberty RS wagon? That was my dream.

Oh, shall we send strip to the shop? Sort of being quick in that, wasn't it?

Yeah. And they just looked so good, but they were quite subtle. They were a real sleeper.

A real sleeper. Yep, just that subtle bonnet scoop. No one really needed to know what it was.

I think they were quicker than a VN Group A. They were genuinely a quick car.

And both those guys who I know who had the RS Turbo sedans ended up trading them and getting

the new WRX, of course, which, you know, they got late 90s WRX. And both of them said the same thing.

Yes, the Rex is a quicker car, but it's tinier. It doesn't have the sound deadening of the

Liberty was just such a nice car in its own right as a motor. And they both said, yeah,

you know, in hindsight, the Liberty was nicer. I was at Bunnings very early in

in Warrigal Road in Hederton there a couple of few months ago now, and there was a red RS wagon

in the absolutely original and immaculate. And I've got a couple photos somewhere on my phone

because it was just a stunning looking thing. I think that's probably one of the nicer

shapes Subaru has done. Yeah, yeah, I'd agree. Yeah, it's my favorite. It's my favorite of

their wagon turbo wagons that they've done. So yeah, big fan of those. That's the podcast,

gentlemen. Okay, let's do some plugs. Rob's doing it. He's firefighting. He's electricaling.

He's neighbour hating. He's transit punching on with. He's all the above. Rob's doing it.

If you want anything, go see Rob. He's no Rob. Yep. Trail building as well now.

Trail building as well. Go see our friend Rob. Edward, you might need to see him

to replace your car. Your car trailer one. Our trailer? Yeah. Oh, that's long gone.

Yeah. I said you might need Rob to build you on. Yeah. Well, with the amount of breakdowns

we're all having, I think we do need a trailer somewhere. Absolutely. Yeah, we should all

chip in. They're only about three and a half grand from A1. It's all been going wrong

recently. Scotty does Golf Tip of the Week. I'm not sure if I talked about this one before,

but you're the shaft. The right shaft. The shaft flex. So you can have stiff. Yeah. Regular. Regular.

There's regular as well. Well, there's even extra stiff, but anyway, you can even have a little

bit softer too. And that's for your seniors. It's got to do with the flex of the shaft. So when

you're swinging, and it's all to do with your swing speed. So the faster that you are when it

comes to the swing speed, the stiffer you want. I've always said that. So, you know,

if you're at that stage of golf where you're a little bit unsure, I mean,

regular is where you tend to go with just the regular flex. But, you know, if you're

really getting into your golf, you might want to see how fast your swing actually is. And you

might need to change your shaft. Good. That's some good advice there, Scotty. Like that one.

Bicewap and sell. Yep. C180, classic sedan, almost ready for sale.

What are you after, Edward? I had a curiosity. That's going to be like a seven grand car.

It's very clean, 129Ks. Can you send me some photos of that, please?

When I have it with me and I take them, yes. Yes. Thank you. The other one is obviously

Pajero 03, nearly ready once Floyd just finished his things. That'll be on the market soon.

And I feel like there's something else I haven't sold. Oh, the Magna, the VRX. It's still around.

I'm going to reduce the price on that when I get back from Interstate tomorrow and we'll,

yes, we'll hopefully move that in the next days. David's wisdom.

Following on seamlessly from Scotty's golf tip, a wise man once said nothing.

Let's end the show there.

Well, it seems like I'm not a wise man, David Prince.

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And I'll see you next time. Take it easy.

See ya.

Safe trip, Rob. Safe trip.

Thank you. Have a good one. See you all.

Bye.

Classic Japan 2025

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