Cult cars, and leaving the best Aussie car for last

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That the Tuesday night, more car related topics for the community. I'm joined with James from a

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Hang on, not bad, not bad. Hey, how are you?

And I've been about what you been up to man.

You've been you've been out of the game for a while but now the game had an operation sir. Couldn't do much.

Yeah, that's fair enough. All those songs you back on the

mend? It.

So I took that would be a good thing.

I'll be doing skids in that time.

It's not that. It's, it makes.

Yeah. That's what I could show.

By the way, James always impressed with with that because my missus wants to see Wonder Woman so it's worth watching.

It's just like people are hyped it up so much that when you go in the cinema you're like always going to be the best movie ever.

Yeah. And it's not but it's good.

It suffers the same problem as other, you know.

She speaks big-budget superhero movies.

Yeah. They all kind of have the same

problems. So this point same kind of

issues. Yeah, yeah.

Well, um, till tomorrow, we'll talk about some of some cult cars, like mu because all cars have been like got really big because of well I guess your move.

These but also just because of what they were.

So we're going to delve into like some some other cars and some you know some Japanese cars movie cars especially because you know people will cars become a cult car from me from movies, usually like I mean looking at the obvious ones always.

Yeah. So yeah, sometimes your balls.

Yeah so definitely definitely we will be covering that but we got to get to our first time on the night.

We need to a song by sneeze has some songs called.

I need you. So we'll be right.

Back after this, you back on Kotaku manage a but talking cult cars. But first, let's give a big

shout-out to my uncle, be up, in up in Grafton.

He's just bought himself a new 335 GT aspect.

So big UPS to him. Congrats, it's so many pictures

does look tough. I showed you was in a studio.

It's very nice looks good. And she, it's being a being a

big Supercharged V8. It'd be faster than your.

You'll be a GT. So enjoy and have a lot of fun

with it and I love to get you wanted to show.

I think we're talking about possibly next week doing a phone link then you. Yeah he's gonna he's gonna we're

going to hook that up with him and he'll give us a rundown on and it but it's exciting times for him so he should get it next week. It's on its way.

So congratulations. Yeah.

And aspects of pretty rare car, you know, it's one of those one-on-one built out of 350. So, you know, keep a hold of it

and and you'll enjoy it. So it'll be a nice match in the

garage for your, for your behavior.

Okay, so you got you got GTS coming out everywhere now.

So big UPS to you. Uncle be get back onto on to

tonight's topic of coal cars. Now, there's a few cars in

particular that that have that have, you know, been big for a long time. I mean, like, if we're talking

movie, well, eyes, I mean, you got the Supra from especially from the faucet from the first Fast and Furious series.

Yeah, it's everyone, what your submission before everyone wanted a super after that movie. But then you get the like the

34dd on the second one. Hmm.

And everyone's also 34 gdr for you know for that reason so and people think online that's Colin's pretty much been anything heto can't lose feeling.

Yeah. Skylines kind of took over the

Iran's obsession with like Japanese inputs.

Yeah. Like it's just Skyline.

Nothing else. Yeah would you feel the same

about the Eleanor 160 seconds? I mean I don't know if that was

because it was only a once-off and I like Regardless of the older movie, but then you're mine, it was sort of like a once-off. That didn't like blow up into a

series of 12 films and, you know, like, but still, that was like a hero cupboard. And no one went nuts to go get

gt500's. You know what I mean?

No, 14. Original uniforms and everyone

went from mock-ups and but mock-ups like the Illinois and the actual believe it on the when I made Eleanor for that movie they shall be actually sign off on a run of to build them. So they did make a bunch.

They did make a bunch of Allah and like, based on the movie, based on the movie, cut your cool.

So there, I believe that people are still do that.

They still mock-up the movie one, in the state's not probably not the other in the states. They mock them up to exact

standards, that's pretty cool. Yeah.

But sheep, you're saying the action you and Ginger and they just bought a Look, Kelly said I put them into lemons limes, lemons, Fastback, Mustang.

I won't even ask GT500 nothing but they they made them telenor spec for the movie, and they actually got shall be built place to put on them because they were like classified as a rebuild of a Shelby. So the who made him did she'll

be building more? It was a company that made him

but shalt Thou shalt be approved approved.

So they will technically Shelby's at the end of it by the end of the process, which is really, really cool.

And people are, people do make muck on mock-ups of the exact specs as well, which is really cool to see.

I mean, it's one of those cars out, I mean, like, you see a lot of other movie cars, but there's not many cars that they make, that's still kind of Timeless in its design for, you know, as I had a lead or whatnot, they'll drop out as a driver.

I mean like I mean if you look at some of the cars every done for Mike near The Fast and Furious and stuff, they're not you can't even put them on the road, the way they were in the movie. Exactly, right.

I mean, so compared to the competitor that like, you look at the look at the GT500. That's a street legal car.

It's yeah, so it's sides night. Chris.

But yeah, the go. But yeah, that's it.

But yeah, people definitely went nuts for that movie and they wanted that car. And yeah, it's a car that as I

was saying there's a Timeless. So you can really, you can

really drive that and it kind of won't go out of fashion.

Because I'm gonna be like, you know, it's that's pretty dope.

Your Mustang kind of shape is kind of stayed.

Yeah, if you love her. Forever since.

Yeah. Yeah.

It's a stupid question. I should know this, but which

caused the time? The Knight Rider.

It's a fiber. It's a transient.

Yeah. Okay transitions are pretty

popular too. I mean not so much here but

generally pretty big. Yeah, I know it's that they do

make a lot of mock-ups that as well.

Like, you can actually bother with the full.

Yeah, the lights red light and the full interior as well.

Pretty, pretty I've seen a few of them around but another car that's, you know, it's terrible. I just terrible but it's just it

is what it is and everyone loved it is.

Is the DeLorean. Yeah, that's a cool car.

Yeah, that is cool. It's cool.

The concept is cool, it's not a great car.

It's like harder but it is a cool car and it's different.

It is like I think in the original script it was a like red Mustang convertible Mustang lucky.

That's like that would have been so boring.

Yeah yeah. I mean the DeLorean had so much

more character. Yeah, it's like futuristic but

like retro the same time it had going doors and stainless steel body panels like Let me know the videos.

I was just a professional stainless no stainless because it was a had the brush rush. I'm pretty sure.

Stainless steel this stainless body as incredible as a pretty cool car. Me is pretty cool.

Car. You can cook on its Bonnet.

It's nonstick don't know. It's it's yeah.

Definitely the DeLorean to meet to honestly like as as good as a movie, they are like that. You know it's I love them to

death. It's the DeLorean for me that

makes that movie that penny that much better.

Yeah, it's different. Like, you don't see a DeLorean.

You see a Mustang like every other day DeLorean?

I've never seen one in person. I think you're gonna, I don't

think they really, they're really cool.

Yeah, it sounds. I wouldn't I wanted a mock-up of

actual the yeah. And it was it was even had the

Mattel pink. That guy is he, it's the most

driven one in Australia. She drives it all different

shows and little kids are you? So sure that's my big UPS to him

because like, he he a lot of people just put them away and don't let people even go near her, but he's all for.

There's a lot of people who do like just charity, the charity runs, charity drives. Yeah, there.

There's like a, there's a documentary.

I think it's called back in time about like the legacy of Back to the Future. All right.

Okay. And there's like a whole segment

on all the people. Who mock up the replica cars and

then like driving around two shows and that's cool.

And like do charity drives and stuff.

It's really cool. Yeah.

Like yeah, like it's not just the movie, It's the car as well.

Yeah, well that guy that he was there.

He did it for our McHappy Day. Yeah.

And like you know, just to raise money and if you type in the car, you can give it. Look give a dollar.

Whatever was in that goes towards though, you know, to the find him. I was like, I put five bucks in

the, I was, I guess this is don't, this is I put more if I had money. There's kids waiting.

To get in. You're like, no, no.

But I'll push you out of the way but yeah.

Definitely, the DeLorean is just one of those cars.

I like it's everyone knows what it is and and and when you see when you like that's so cool. No one else is a cool car from

that movie? The black Ford.

Oh yeah. No the highlights, I love that,

that's enough. But not that the Ford that Biff

drives, the black Ford convertible, highest father, 1957 and 58 was whatever it was. That thing is not a nice car,

either sick looking car, but it wasn't really the hero car or the theme of the movie, but it was it is a cool physical.

That's the one who wrecks into the manure.

Even the DeLorean, at the end of the third, one comes back to school, the trains, not called train scary if anything but like for me the third one's, the biggest letdown because of that moment. Yeah, the license plate spinning

and that's something I haven't seen on a Cup, I haven't seen that exact light on the Maca. Left a number plate.

Yeah, out of time. Yeah.

You see at a time when I let him be done, see that sort of barcode looking on either. Barcode one is from the future.

It's a, I'm assuming if, if you mocked up a version of The Back to the Future, 2 1 with the mr. Fusion, I think a lot of mom

walked up with mr. Fusion though, aren't they?

Well, not necessarily anyway, it's still don't as they're probably still very probably. Yeah, they're probably used the

the out of time license plate but on The later version so it's like not accurate but yeah because in the second it's from the future they have the bark. Oh yeah.

Fair enough. Actually, getting back to the

previous guy that had the had the mock-up on I've been in, he had it set up for, for all three versions of the movie.

He can just try to change. That's a really good idea

depending on what you want to do.

You just you just get it ready for you.

So in the old school one like the one we're in the west and he had the train wheels on and that big thing on the Bonnet.

Yeah, the resist. This is that whatever was Drops

hold. Yeah.

Yeah. So he had everything.

I'm School Circle one. And when he when he parked it he

put like on the wheels. You know.

How like deaf old? I followed.

Yeah. He will just attach them to it.

So it looked like after show you guys a picture on the Facebook page because it is it is something some really cool to look at but because of those people that that that be about and you know much respect as I do.

How much time and money to do it is to do for them, but he especially in Australia, like in America, you can probably find one. Yeah, yeah.

It's like, yeah, no way. Yeah, I mean, yeah.

But like this guy still drives it and like, yeah.

He's, he's put a lot of miles on it, but he enjoys it so and as I said, it's a car needs to be driven so I more and more for that. Mmm.

Yeah, like other cars, I mean, a lot of people mock up Bullitt Mustang as well. Yeah to gt390.

Yeah, just take out the gear in the printing, almost Grill in the Grain and that's always cool.

But what I mean what other company because of their one about the is that the AE86 from initially?

Yeah, that's what that's called car.

If it wasn't for the show that that's kind of like a dodgy looking car like it's just a crappy ass crack.

Yeah, it's like a bomb. It's a pretty cool looking a

little hatchback it isn't. It is a cool little here but

it's like the shows what makes it and with the with the riding, the Knees. Fujiwara tofu shop?

Yeah, I mean, it gives it that aura.

Mmm. Because like, like the 8086.

Yeah. Get this was just a couple of

probably 10 10 15 years ago in Australia's cars were with peanuts. These guys were like these will

throw away car here. People just throwing away now to

find one with. That's just pretty terrible.

You're looking at 15 grand kid. You not 15 grand for just a

crappy Levin even and I thought even with a for AJ engine.

But you know that move that that show.

Manga and Anime whatever really just reinvented that car and it gave it like a status because I'm, you know, one of those rear wheel drive or it was not the last of the real Drive controls and to. It was light and fun to drive

and in Japan that was so universally loved that when it came to the rest of the world. We didn't really see it in that

in that yeah, that their life. But when it came to Initial D

and your bones like this crappy little cars, In Harry seventh, gdr, there was just like, this is pretty freaking awesome becoming really cult thing because it's like it's a very specific to one thing it is and it's like you see one of you know that it's from initial day. It's not from anything else.

Yeah. And it's also come become like

an icon of the drifting culture as dude.

It's it is drifting culture. Yeah, it's like that.

Like, you can see other Japanese cars and go.

Well, that could be drifting but it's not necessarily mean to Drifting but that can mean. He means you it's built to go

sideways and he says real real. Really.

Yeah, so yeah. That's why.

Yeah, that's why I was so universally loved.

I mean, as a technical Pace it was a pretty basic.

I didn't even have IRS. I hadn't had a live axle, you

know, but I had a really like really little engine like that, you know, 1.64 a GE. And you just basic mean by

engineering, 5-speed manual, and a real driver strap on some individual throttle bodies. And I think antibes, yeah, big

time and they really suck to be you, but that was just a really cool, really cool card. Now they fit the total debacle

of the tofu tax. Yeah.

Cuz they can so so expensive after after, you know, I think yesterday which is which is such a shame because like so many of them just destroyed and people now be like crap.

I should have one of those and you know now it's just too late happens at all of them. Yeah it sure does sure what I

was. I mean like another another

popular one in probably be like the charger is like from yeah.

Ruff choose a juice fast weeks, has it?

That's it? Yeah.

There's tons of mock-ups of them like you.

There's just there everywhere. Kind of overdone.

I mean, I With sound bad by saying nobody's got.

It's almost over done that. You see so many of them but it

is still cool. It's probably.

I mean, I don't want to make anyone.

I don't want to make light of anyone's effort, but it's probably easier to do that. My yeah, it's really in paint

job and a number on the side of the car, especially in the states. Like I'm like, I'm just going to

assume coming across a charger. Isn't that difficult in the

states? I don't know.

Well, I don't know like here would be a there's there's tons of it. There's a lot of them there, but

You know, actually when they'll when our filming like the show and stuff, they destroy, they destroyed that many of them, what the actual charges, I think probably wrong about this.

But I've heard this somewhere that there was like there was like a waiting list because the show bought that many of you know it's getting sent straight to them just not even think all the registers to jump to their death.

Wow, yeah. So that's that's that's

ridiculous. That's all for ratings.

We're getting off the movie car topic, I guess.

We can, we can we can move on a bit one.

Car in particular, in Australia was the beginning of a change and giant grass in. Those are going to get with this

the veil turbo. Now I know I just clicked is

another one and I you said, vo, what else comes to mind when you think of a VL? R XE / X?

Yeah, that's what I was going to get to the Rex.

You beat me to it, but Rick sees in it, just before you get to the wrecks. That The altar.

I mean there's a lot of time when it's, it's the mid-80s. 86

is holding a struggling. Yeah, gonna tend to listen.

Let's say 10 a mission for an engine because their previous, you know, motor won't wouldn't it would have cost too much to get it to meet emission standards.

So they just like screw it, we'll just get a missing engine.

Something that's already done, they took it off them and then they come here to 31 divided. Arrived engine, isn't it?

Well, it was made for it was beginning to get before the 31 but He's the he's the funny story while the turbo got.

So famous is because Nissen were developing their rb30e tea and miss, an Australia said we don't want it so holders just like will take it and then they put it in the car and I became the veil turbo and I saw how popular.

I think they say how popular that was, they sold?

I heard they was 160,000 VL turbos and I've which 2,000 exist today. It's five exist today. 160,000

built a I made it was 160 thousand videos of that year.

I can remember, I've got, I've got it in, you know, it was populating it was probably there was a lot of them made but nice and kind of turn that away because I didn't know that they said, oh no one's going to know what's going to buy it but with the VL they kind of did. So this is not a time when the

80s was like turbo time was kind of like really starting to come up, coming, Leaps and Bounds because before, then V8 would be had been neutered by Emissions laws.

So that was just pretty much just talky, but no power.

So people turning to smaller engines, small displacement, but with turbochargers and that's why it's just you see a lot of 80s on aspects that you teach 3 turbos.

Your pulse 80 turbos, your extra turbos, come with turbos because they were, you know, they were able to give you tons of performance. It's going away from like, bulky

muscle cars and going towards like turbo Japanese econ.

Yes, exactly. Right.

And And people were saying that people saying the performance at that one is because you're having but but not only that, the reason why the real Toby got so big because of his to nobility and people just making massive amount of horsepower out of them blowing them up, but making a mess of metal horsepower than having the intercooler.

Drag Crossing Graham Bell special, having to wrap your a see you in a plastic bag but believe it or not.

This is true. That's legit, isn't it?

Oh, it's legit. Well, we for those of you always

like, what the hell is guys talking about, There's a website that had a fix like a little problems with the cars and we stumble upon that was back in high school just stumbled upon it and it was just like, yeah, if you detect moisture on the the computer, which is, I think in the passenger wheel, well, your foot well and it's because the car rusted through, which the water it was comments, was it?

What windscreen was underneath? Remove the windshield common

spot apparently and the water would drip drip onto the ECU and cause the cards. Like not work.

Yeah, so the fix James in this class but Jack went out.

Um, I would love that idea which PCS elves.

Love me. The fix was not to fix the rust

but dry out. The computer.

Wrap it in a plastic bag tape, the endings and then plug it back in. And this guy was selling it for

a, pretty high amount. Considering this is like, this

is what's gonna work? I would have probably did work,

that's the funniest part. Yeah.

Then they would have had rust coming into the floor pan.

And other issues. But anyway, that's a quick and

easy. That's your fix James up that

that's that's a, that's a, that's a VR fictive ever seen one. They like realize that these are

just the beginning but I mean if you look at a cal a turbo, these days, an original Kelly turbo. You look at verse 30 says an old

plus. Yeah, and if you can find the

legit bt1, if Abby can't find the legitimate beat, everyone's had inverted commas, a BT. Everyone's had a BT wine.

Everyone knows someone that's had a BT 1, but the Human BT ones that haven't been canary, yellow, dad and all that fake, fake your load fake yet. Actually pretty cool cars.

There are some legit bt1, still out there and we do canary yellow come from. All the canary yellow was

Victoria's highway patrol car car car, sort of like their patrol cars now. They're so like they also had

beaten ones in white as well. So yeah, there were your Plain

Jane but they still had the lights and stuff like that was still be 21. So they'll still be 21 but the

old ones in particular, I believe that with the with the specific High patrol cars and now and they were just, there isn't bt1, was so popular is because it was a primitive published by car. It would had no weight in it

because it was just, it was an exact but worse than exact it just had earlier, had the Fe 3 suspension, had your other little things, but it was Finding tiny things compared to what an exact would have you. But it had pretty much.

I had wine. Laughs just the bare minimums in

the East Haven at the 5-speed manual.

And like, just just a basic thing.

That's why they'll the quickest of the vale do be arranged as IP when people want to be able to both OBT ones with the fastest.

Because excuse me, they had no wait.

And you know, there were there were pretty pretty line and inverted nipple in the kind of aspect.

Yeah. Overall realistically they're

not that special besides the stamping of bt1 on the plate.

Really. They're not, that's just the

popover pack. Yeah, but they've got the booty

one plucker. Yeah.

So which which became Which became a cult following.

Yeah, like as you're saying so that's what I mean.

Moving on from that. Then obviously the turbo cries

of the the late 80s to 90s them. Now, I mean, that's when it

really started to take off. So like people like you, I was

just going to mention the WRX, which is a massive coal car.

I mean, this is this was a car that people bought these two ram-raid with them. Basically, because one of the

ways, the state changed a lot because of the Rick sees in Australia. Oh yeah.

And like the police couldn't catch him in the late nineties and then in 2000. So like what do you do when you

can't beat them? Join them.

So they ended up using WRX and and because that the old 5-liter gear Commodores and the I just couldn't keep up what they couldn't keep up in the corners, but to, I couldn't keep up even on the streets like that, these guys would play with them.

So I'm, you know, it was, it was pretty cool.

Funny, an ex-cop WRX would be a really cool fun.

I've never even heard of an ex-con marik's, rare, as hen's teeth like they just, they just did their unicorn.

If you can find one, grab a, hold of it.

Because I want to learn even see things like they are, they are super rare. But look, we gotta go.

To a quick break. We're going to get to a song

called by Dixie now now when I when I say with the name of the song is Adams going to get it. It's called release the mothers.

Yes this is the is also known as Teal color, you should do this.

I've probably done that a name of the veil to my song.

I is it's called release the muscles, but I do know is that as the veil talk about song. So I'll be playing that right

after this, we'll be right back, that was Dixie with release.

The mothers hectic, as hectic, it could be acting, Habib, they can be hectic. A people to prove that of that.

He's not a canary, like he's gonna carry the old Toby T1 as well. Let me sell it.

No, it is only a sidearm. He had a few cause he sold.

It was a vs Kelly as well yet. I think so.

And then got some sound something, but yeah, but yeah.

I have never probably but Habib approved of this message getting back to WRX. Has now, what about during the

break? Everyone's kind of had one and

they say the population is Cheyenne enough.

That I don't know if you'd call him a cult car or not.

Well, I think I think so. I mean, like, I need any going

off the top of my head, I remember watching your Top Gear episode where the Healer Rexy coming from the distance and he's like, I can hear the rumbling of a junqueira, something like that. So it sounds like it's a

universal Hoon cast. Like it's good, that it's good,

that, that character about those are the, the exhaust, right?

Yeah. And it's um, yeah, it's just one

of those cars that everyone, you know, universally will either love or hate or, for various reasons, but I love them because when they were, when they were really different, to what Australia was used to show was used to such a big V8.

It's not really Nimble, four cylinders.

Well, we always had me before cylinders here, but they weren't, they weren't popular mean, like your taste sweeter was just never sold stuff like that.

Like, that all around, but they just weren't as popular as a WRA. So, they'll be ready.

As word would they took, you know, the Japanese cars, like performance wise to a whole new level especially in Australia and I think that's why there's such a cool car here.

Could you imagine if the laser take straight overall Drive took off like a Rex? Yeah, well, though a quick taste

sweeter words. When they say that, they weren't

good back in the day but imagine if they just kept making him.

So today let's put that. That's your iris over today,

though. That's your iris.

Yeah. Having said that we could have

got the escort RS, Cosworth, as well.

We could have, we could have but we but they chose They chose to stay with the tasty turbo, which was, which is a bit of a bit of a shame because they did make the escort RS, Cosworth the in right hand, and right, and left hand drive and then our with a bit too and they worth of there with a lot of coins.

So but in terms of cult classics for us, like to me, I'd love one but it wouldn't, it wouldn't equal didn't have the card status and that are gonna do, we are actually in Australia, but in the UK causes are like, they are God's there.

So they've got a massive massive contest called status for being a blue-collar. Workers car but that could keep

up with like performance here performance cars.

So that's why they that's why the causes are really really popular. But um do you like some moving

on to a bit more recent times? I'd say the that the realtor of

the love the 2000 was definitely the ex SX Turbo holding couldn't keep up. Let's try it with the VRC.

It was at vvr. See?

That was the ex you actually see success is their tribe of the xc6 and then I just back down kept the 5 L will ya.

So yeah, then and Then they turbos from be a onwards.

Be a series 2 was almost that there.

Be a excesses thermostat on this.

And serious ones. Okay.

In 2002. So so they'll definitely it

definitely there. But they've been really popular

and people will like, remember the ex SX Turbo very fondly because it was, you know, it was one of the realtor was time but to actually handled compared to compared to the build the Altar Boys and three. You know, they really shook up

the performance car market. It left, it's written in the

show, like was spotted hands, because everyone's back and back and back on v8-powered is that V is the best, you know, then you get then fpv kind of put their foot in it with the typhoon and then you had the excessive turbo which was really cold.

Got a cult car going to a Next Level.

So the Ford Barrett over in general was a really, really it's a cold engine. So you know, and when people

think of like longevity and strength, but carried it for what like 17 years now. Yeah, that the barrel did the

but the barrel has quite a while.

Actually it was about minus 15 years.

So, Then they still, I mean, not now, but when they making the bear up until the last minute. Yeah.

Yeah. So pretty much it had like a 15

16 years. Yeah, it's pretty good.

I mean, in different variation. I mean, like yeah, this is the

basic skincare and you know, inline-six but just tweaks here and there obviously over time to make to meet emission standards you. Yeah but yeah I definitely think

the the express exterior was a really was in his is a cult classic. So it look it made an impact on

on everything. Then holding have to step up

their stuff with the SVC cases, which this step up a lot from what they were like, it makes you seeks or anything from that time. But yeah.

They they definitely dominated in terms of the power side but just on back. What you said, I'm coal cars

make a statement like that. Coal cars may have an impact.

Yeah, and you know, that's why the WRX was so popular.

That's why they reveal turbo so popular.

By the end of excessive turbo. So popular for the Mustangs been

popular for a bazillion years. That's why I stand out from the

crowd, they do they do. And, and, and people in a know

we'll always love like, you know, you go and see like, a really clean original G. CAW is to be like, that's,

that's killer. Yeah.

Yeah, I love that. Yeah, that's, that's a rare car

to it is nothing as well, but that's like GTA chose any type of them. There's more now than what

rolled off the factory line. But there's that that's that's

got a cult following. People that are crazy for him.

Yeah, that was to run, is charges.

Whatever excetera you know, I mean there's a lot of them out there but they all made their own statement in time.

Anyways, it's just the ones that that people remember that make him a cult car. Yeah.

And did you I guess the GT hatches had that because of baathist. Yeah.

So yeah. So yeah, I would agree with you.

A lot of people would be a bit if you about that because I'm you know you get your your charges and stuff.

Yeah, they probably would have won.

But anyway, that in The end. That's what happens.

They did win. And that's why they are such a

popular car, but it's funny, like, everyone loves, you know, like everyone. Everyone knows what a GT H. 0

is. Yeah, well, especially if I do.

We face three. He mention to anyone yet.

Anyways you know and don't know shit like I'm sure it is but secretly what their favorite car that was the XB X ax e hardtop stay with a to be honest, this is what?

I don't understand. I mean I don't care what your

opinion is xaxb with the best-looking Falcons I've ever.

Those just how they just they just look like a proper muscle car, the xy's and all that XY. Xw.

They look cool but they just they weren't the same as an x, a XB. I don't know.

They're just completely change the style together between the two cars. There were just fat man like

yeah and they filled out the guards and they they looked over at tough-looking car. They were so yeah.

Look we will move on and we'll move on a little bit but there's tons, more coal cars, you know, that that are at it.

If you know good cold car and you know, but one that we've missed over tonight, just send it through to our Facebook page at scar talked with many J 2R Q UE and while you know, Senator me and I'll mention it on the show.

A few weeks ago, I was talking about the HSV GTS rw1 and it's the funnel as you must. Of course, we knew about this

James is the finalized yet muscle car ever made.

You know, this this is it, this is it was our last hurrah.

Now I'm in, in recent, in murdering.com that I use Recent

Australia's best drivers car competition.

Basically there was a uh it was a hot competition.

It was a lot of real good performance cars.

Now I mean like you've got cars like the Porsche Cayman S our family. Julia quadrupole quadrifoglio

BMW M3 competition. Listen gdr Focus RS.

Audi S5 Quattro mercedes-amg C. 43 AMG you know you GDI 40th

anniversary and you know just tons of Tons of real performance car stuff, and GDs are kind of beat them all, and it got first place, which is just a fantastic effort.

But people all these people like, just, you know, all these people complaining about it saying or it's a bit it's a bit just because it's the last one you're giving it the award.

It's a bit. It's a bit of a fairytale, isn't

it? Like did it really kick their

butts in the lap times? Okay, you you're gonna fall off

your seat. It was, they had the fastest lap

time out of all the cars there. How about how fast lap time?

Then I'm going to listen GTR. Then paddle fast lifetime, the

Porsche Cayman S had the fastest time of the day.

So if that doesn't say something about even on a car, built on an old platform where the Zita performer from, the ve is quite an old puffer. 10 over 10 years old, it's pretty damn

impressive. And it's such a shame to see

that end, you know, right. When we were on the Pinnacle of

performance yesterday. Yeah, that sucks.

I mean, he really does. This is, I mean, look, it's

great because it's the last Let's last one got with a bank.

Sweet noise. That sucks because this is what

we could have had as an everyday car.

Yeah. You know what I mean, it took

until the end until they got it, right?

Get it right in the end, I guess.

I mean, to be the GTR and attract especially is just insane. I mean, look, this guy's got a

crapload of power but it's got the suspension and match.

It's good. But it makes also has the price

tag to match as well. I wrote Every resident, it's a

lot for a Commodore but, you know, when you it's more than the sum of its parts and the hotel going forever, 2K 200k, or some people are watching them. Over there.

Yeah, I mean like it had this car was it scary?

Special. It's got an LS.

Your Ellis 9V a lot of arm out of a Corvette.

So it is just a special. I think we talked about last

week of the week before. It's like it's the last of it's

a collector's. It's basically a collector's, so

it's never going to be driven. So none of you will be driven.

Yeah, exactly. Right.

We made 300. That's not so if you go one of

300 hundred about 100, then we have 100 PSI if you have 170 Grand. I mean it You know, it's a

collect as a good investment. Yeah.

It's a different legal visit like they have that money.

Not complaining. Anyway, I'm just gonna be like,

dude, much it kind of sucks in a way that they're just gonna sit there. Well, yeah, that that's my

point. Like, I mean, you know, this is

a car that's at the Pinnacle of performance.

You should give one away like in a competition.

Yeah, that would be cool. Like a raffle very lot or

something. I mean for did that with the

with the gtfs because that way You get, you get a guy who's not a millionaire, who's a really car lover.

Yeah, but then again some rich guy will probably win.

Yeah, his name in and he put his name in multiple times different aliases. Well, for card did a similar

thing with the gtf but they didn't auction.

So and the money, the proceeds went to the charity auction.

The prices went to like, what was breast cancer stuff.

So, that's cool. That's a cool way of, you know,

I like the day they was on the first car in the 500th car and I think holding one do that. Well.

Yeah, I mean like, what all of us are anything.

Are they gone? And I said, do the they So the

the that's what was your first reaction was immediate and stuff. Made me open Sasha production

cars, there's a few of them hanging around and they says this test me was, yeah, so like they'll probably have to be have a few cars on a little bit bait but now they'll be rough as well there. But you still beginning in GT s

RW 1. I mean, you you it's legit there

might even be that little bit more special because it wasn't a general a scar. Yeah.

Is there a four-door Holden Museum where they have all the models? Kept one of each?

Do they even do that here? Board in July.

We had a had the the Ford kind of the Fordham was like it's like a Ford Museum gone. Oh yeah but yeah they shut it

down and went all those cars. So there have been auctioned off

shocks and off what a lot of more and less from actual people. Yeah, they would mean there are

there are there are museums around like the Gosford.

One is precise words? Real?

I guess they're all privately owned.

Yeah. Yeah.

But a lot of them there are privately owned in some even for sale in the museum. That's pretty cool.

In the got a gus-gus forgot something.

It's pretty cool. There's a lot of cars in there,

but that's, that's for example where they'll probably end up.

Mmm. If they don't buy him themselves

and keep them there as their own cars.

I mean like, I'm yet to see gts-r w-want on the road.

I'm never going to my someone on the back of a truck.

Don't listen, you won't, you won't, you won't see it driving for sure. So that's kind of why I'm a bit

disappointed because, like, you know, it is, it is the Pinnacle of our engineering and, you know, we're not going to be able to see on that's it. And it's, yeah, it's a shame,

but it just shows what we could do as I was using we look, we still keeping our design and Engineering teams here because we are we are world class but it was just a big middle finger to all those people who said as you cars a boat and they can't handle. Well, that can't be the

colleague. No one can beat inverted commas

a GTR because because, because, because I can't be to Julio's be honest. Of course number.

How many times it has? He cars smash a lot of American,

and yeah, and Jab. Cars and Euro Cars.

Yeah, that's true throughout the years.

I'm not talking like last 20 years.

I'm talking for years. There's a lot of innovations

that we've brought that we've I did hear ya.

But anyway, I guess it's the stigmatism like that.

Well, the stigma about about Ozzy cars.

I'll be home by bogans and stuff as well.

Like, that's that. That was what really kind of

hurt the industry. That's why they've got different

trim. Levels Kelly, classy Burger,

it's all good luck. We can eat our final break in

the night. We'll be right back after this

with a quiz. That was Martin solveig with

places you back on, 98.9 Northwest FM, it is officially

Do you like a quiz time? So Adam you ready for a quiz?

Not really, but okay. You say that every time you do

this and it was every time I do it it's like opening Pandora's Box. You don't know what you to what

to expect. Well they're gonna be expecting,

plenty of built over questions. I swear I think a normal man,

I'm kidding. What is the famous cattle car

quiz? You'll be studying that in once

I get my music ready to get the dramatic music.

There we go. Miss the last thing I forgot my

own. I took the wrong, he was be, it

felt so weird. Like this is nice.

About the music. It's odd question.

Mark, the HSV GTS is named the what the UK.

GTO then GTO now GTO cheese. I know it was I've seen in the

Top Gear. Nah, I was just possible.

Just no. Can I have it here?

Look, do I read it? I can't.

I just give up vxr8 VX. Jeez.

I should know these anyway so that every time soon the BMW 4 Series has how many doors for series?

Yep. Toodles it's a $2.

Great question 3, some time coming.

For some new boss has a false news is he's going to put but it's green cooing group. Yeah bring him out Kitty.

What modeled was the last Liza ever made?

Okay, it's okay. I don't know.

KL, I don't know. Ke you were close, KF the

alphabet. It's que que.

Que que. Wow.

Okay. Opal based cars have Easter

eggs. Placed in them.

What is this Easter egg? Well, holding badge, opal based

cars as in holding badged, cars putting these these little symbols in these cars. What are they out of Opals?

Lightning bar, like the low know you've got, like an Easter eggs.

That the, on the interior, on the interior, that they usually place a little something somewhere else, somewhere on the car. It's easy behind the glove box

or something. It's like a little thing people.

Like when they like, what the hell.

Is that like a little Insignia or something?

You've you've shown me this and then I've looked into it on my card. You've got in your car.

What the hell am I kinda? Besides the Adam Opel on the VIN

plate? I don't, I don't remember.

Give up. Yeah, to shock their put a

little shocked. I remember the shock on my car.

Sometimes on the inside of the glove box, we're about on the only Edge on the, on the Outer Edge that's visible from the asthma. So don't have to This is

whooping outside. Yeah, I can't remember.

This is a shock and what that shows is true or false, Meza had a hydrogen rotary engine. Yes, true.

That is true. I remember that I was freaking

cool. True or false.

It was put in an RX-8. Know, it's true.

Huh? Really?

That they made? They made a few Concepts.

Okay. And they actually they sold to

so that it stays true. Who created the Avalanche?

The Avalanche like the adventurer ever Lynch who created it as in? Well, yeah, I know holding

holding holding it was a whole. No I'll take hold my age of me.

That's fine. Sw20 is a model code for what

car is w24 model cars. Chassis code for what car?

Now give up. Yeah, Mr. To seriously - is that

between? Okay, and another one, I think

shock Works have been used shock.

Works shocks of your site. Will who make performance

performance shots for race cars? Have been used in which

performance car released this year, then uh is very real Judy as I can remember, its name. But yeah, let's go back up here

that I could just imagine a question 10.

The Toyota Camry body shape was Generally, what shape?

Station wagon. Oh no.

I had backed it was hilarious. Correct.

I just had a picture of a station wagon, my head.

I don't know why actually went especially work.

Is just a long hatch hatch. I sucked at this one.

This time. I think if we got to cross 11.

Yeah I don't nobody talk to me when I saw her.

I was watching in the paper 5 out of 10, not bad.

Okay. So that's pretty good.

Pretty good though, some hot ones in there, not bad, mr.

Grant show. Not bad at all.

Mate, not bad at all. Look house on.

How is your child you're going with?

Before we end up on the show? Yeah, good dumb recently because

of my up and everything. I've been a bit now bored.

So I I've just been keeping my mind busy, I bought myself a new car before it with an electronic choke.

So this time I don't have to just sit there with different accelerator for about 10 minutes.

Yeah, so yeah, that's gradually being put together as I We're doing things with. Yeah, it's um, yeah, it's

happening slowly. And there's hopefully, I'll be

able to start it and just walk away and let it warm up.

Yeah, nice nice. Very good.

Very good. Very good.

Well, thanks for coming on, anyway, I'm sorry.

I know you've been really busy and injured and hurt.

But yeah, this recovery and out of action but but I appreciate you coming on the show tonight so thank you.

I'm good, that's it. Come on again in a few weeks

which would be good. I'll hopefully be driving then

so I won't have to be chauffeured around.

Yep, definitely. And And thanks again James V.

Come on upcoming show for coming on the show.

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