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Welcome to TALK. It's Tuesday night here.

It's me, Mary Jay, online with Mr. David Prince, Mr Scotty

though Johnson and Mr Brian Hyatt.

How are you, gentlemen? Good mate, doing well, thanks.

Mate, doing good. Thank you very.

Much well Brian Hyatt is actually my uncle Uncle Bee is first on the show. So for everyone else, you guys

are you guys are Brian. For me, it's Uncle B.

So yeah, he is a big car fan and we're gonna get into the stuff that he owns and and stuff that he has owned shortly.

But thanks for coming on the show, Aqua Bay.

And you know, it's I'm glad to have you on board.

But we usually start the show with our without like your car updates of what we're doing with our cars.

And but before we do that, we have to we get to your cars, Uncle Bay. So what do you currently own and

what have you owned in the past? Well the daily drives to see LBA

RV which is only carpets since brand new and.

Many people have no sense brand new now.

Yeah, I know, but it's pretty. I I don't treat it with much

love. I should.

It's a it's my farm car and it's probably had more birthdays than washes, but it's reliable as you know before letter barriers there, there is, there are strong engine that that they gave forever, Yeah. So for people who who might not

know what that is, well everyone know on our TV is.

That's probably not. Probably not, yeah.

It's the high riding BU doesn't it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Terrain vehicle, is that what?

It's talking, it is. Yeah, you can lock the lock the

rear diff pusher button on the dash.

OK. Real drive.

But it's yeah, it can get you out of trouble in, in different circumstances. Yeah, yeah.

So, so I remember the ads for those.

The the guys were on the motorbikes and he's like flooded up, mate. Yeah, yeah, that was a good one.

Ford was doing some fun advertising, but let me what made you buy that one? Not uncle be like out of

curiosity like you could have a normal or you bought that.

One for me, I I guess being a few guys don't know I'm in a wheelchair so I drive with hand controls and most of the four drives are too high to get into for me.

So the RTV was slightly higher than a standard Falcon yet, but had the added advantage when I was going like driving through the farm, I could lock the rear diff and yeah, hopefully not get bogged. I mean I have been blogged.

Quite a few. Yeah.

It's good. And so you've had that since

you've had that since new. Remember when you got that car?

I was, I was still a kid. But yeah, you got, you got that

and you got the and you put a J It was it.

Was it the same time you bought that car or?

Better month apart. Yeah, I had the BG FPV 913.

That's it. That's now now my son's car.

Excellent. Still in the family.

That's good. For the family, yeah, that's it.

It's his pride and joy now. But um, I replaced that with the

FG GT aspect. Which was?

Good number 247. And that's a very fast car.

It's like if the GT was quick. This thing is just, it's, I

remember when I spin that I took it.

I was like this. This thing is ridiculous.

I mean, I guess you can do so much more with them, but off the shelf it's got plenty of power. I mean, I had no reason to

modify it or do anything different to it.

It's yeah, it's it's pretty for me.

It's scary fast. Yeah, yeah, I remember when they

when they did the rotors, I think it's still holds the record even when the Sprints came out like they they tested, they tested an aspect with an aspect manual or aspect will cover what it was. And it was it was the quickest

time ever got a Falcon to 100 on, you know, with the Vbox timer. And I was like, that's, that's,

that's pretty cool in that, in that spec that's that's suspension setup. So that was the, you know,

that's the one they tested. But yeah, yours is really,

really nice combination. So it's the white with the black

stripe stripe package which which a lot of them were black with red. Yeah, that was a common ones

that with the Panther cars, Yeah, yeah.

So I think half the those, I think half the cars were with the Panther cars and then they have a cars might have a white with black stripes, blue the blue with black stripes or red with black stripes. Yeah.

So what is that? 2012.

OK, OK. Yeah.

They brought out a Falcon like AJ's look after that.

It was supposed to be more powerful and quicker, but when they tested it against the 2012 aspect, the aspect was they don't know why but it always had better numbers so obviously just built better. Well, they were still building

FPV because the, the series twos and stuff, they, they were built back at, at the Broadmeadows plant.

Yeah, before they before they, they, they shut up shop there.

But so, yeah, so they, they are two current cars and and you've had a bit of an interesting, interesting run of cars too though, like you know, throughout your throughout.

My first ever car was a 1976 HX Kingswood 202.

Hey there in the tree. Or three speed.

It was a yeah, 3 speed auto. It was, yeah.

But they still try that expecting.

I think they were traumatic. Yeah, yeah, it was.

It was a good car. That's my one mainly Holden I've

ever owned. So the HX was the stopgap,

wasn't between the HJ and then the Hz, So it was only to make the emissions rigs make it pass emissions regs.

So they're probably not highly sought after these days, although they'd be rare because there aren't many of them left.

Yeah. They're pretty stylish car I

guess. Yeah, it was a dark green with

the Ronald roof. Real of its period, then then

what did you get into? After that I had the XF panel

van which unfortunately end up in a tree dodging a kangaroo and yeah just hey don't wanna country Rd and end up here trying to climb a tree but didn't work.

Seeing the photos that you were lucky to walk out of that that's that's it was pretty nasty Shunt.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't good, but after the XF

I wanted by then I had a X30 Fairmont, just the 250 in it and then I had the. After that I got a XD Fairmont

for 3:51. That was beautiful car which I

sold it to a younger brother, Jason.

Did did did did he get that? He did.

I started to him I think it was for $2000 yeah and then you reason I sold him is because I had young Zach on the way so neither the family car so trade or didn't trail insulted to Jason. Then I bought a better.

By then it was a EB waggon, so a major backward step there.

And after the eBay waggon I had, that's what I had my accident.

Then I my first car, I drove them with hand controls was my what was it made you know? It was an EF, wasn't it?

A Falcon. Yeah.

Yeah, that, that was. It's funny, it's still one of my

favourite cars I've ever owned. All right, OK, really wasn't.

So much better than the previous.

Ones, I don't know, it's just a good card.

It just felt good. Handled well.

It was only the six, but it had you had plenty of power and it looked quite stylish. Yeah.

But then I I sold that to my older brother Mark and then that's when I got the the RTV and the the BA GTK.

EF was actually a really successful facelift, wasn't it?

Because it it it maybe. For sure.

Yeah, the A's and the ECB's, it just, it really tidied up the styling a lot, I think. And then they went backwards

with eight years. I mean the look the Exiles like

in the you know, I used didn't look too bad because it's a different headlights, but and then having having the spoiler on the on the boot. But just show your dog stop

Falcon. I would just didn't look good.

Yeah, yeah. You you had one for a while that

was like an ex taxi or something.

Some like over 500,000's and it was one of the few taxis that was on running on petrol not gas.

All right. They had the big summer Bubba on

the front driving lights and you probably know Maddie.

We we drove to Melbourne a couple of times and yeah, yeah, it is Tamar race car. When I was back when I was, I

was, I was driving Speedway. Yeah, we're going to speak,

we're going to circle back to that in a minute about about Speedway because I actually wanna, I wanna talk to you, talk to you more detail about that. But so use that to toe then, but

you've also got a couple of project cars which you've had along the way, right, so. Well, actually sold the Cortina,

so it's not there anymore. Sorry, Maddie, that's.

Alright, that's OK. Yeah, like I come along enough,

need somebody and I, as you know, I'm in the process of moving and building, like going to build new home and stuff.

So I got nowhere to put things in.

It was just sitting in the paddock.

I didn't wanna see it rust away. Yeah.

So I think the guy who bought it, he's going to turn into a hill climb car. Oht cool.

Wow. So what would?

You call what model? Cortina.

RT Cortina. TE Yeah.

I guess I had had the flash. Nice wheels and the bluewood

tree. And and also had a vinyl roof as

well. So it was it was beige with a

brown, brown roof. Yeah, it's, it's the, the, the,

the the best, the best colour, uh, colour choices.

It was the 70s. Come on.

It was when I started doing what I do.

One of the jobs we used to do early on is paint vinyl rules when they'd get a bit burnt and all that.

Because I do vinyl and plastic repairs.

The guys that trained me how to do it, we're all like, you know, 626364 and stuff. And they had this incredible

reach so they could get nicer, even sort of spray across the roof and put all their lines up really nicely.

I'd spend hours masking the car up, only reach halfway across the roof with any pillow, and then they'd never looked right.

They always look patchy and horrible, so I gave up.

You are 180 B which had vinyl roofs as well.

But the the big cars were no good.

No good. You have a project I have, which

I haven't really started much on yet.

We stripped it down and it's still sitting at the farms.

Gotta move. I've got to move down here to

Maxwell. But it's their XC panel van and

it's got a 302 and it's got actually got the tailgate rather than the the the barn doors on the back.

OK. Looks looks pretty good but it's

got a little bit of I've got to cut the rust out and one day hopefully get it on the road. Do a sundown.

A replica Ray. Yeah, well.

Yeah, yeah, I guess so. Yeah, the sundowners are always

nice, Yeah. Well, that's gonna ask me before

we get to talk to you about your, your, your, your racing history, but also when you're, when you bought your cars, especially after, after your accident.

Was the, was it hard to get the steering wheel controls fitted?

What would companies would companies available to do those things? And how, how did, how did that

happen? How did that?

How did you manage to to get all that sorted?

Well, Ford was good that Ford used to come up with a they called a disabled drivers pack and it was an option to buy a new Falcon and you could actually get the drivers hand control option for it. OK, yeah.

So when I bought the the GT, obviously it wasn't this is the the BGT. Obviously it wasn't brand new,

but they they did a deal with someone buying another car and I said I'll we're gonna put down on your side of the United hand controls. But don't worry you leave them

you'll get a letter. You'll get a letter from forward

saying asking you how they hand controls are going.

But just so yeah, no, it's that's all good Hank trolls in the Fords. But for the for the aspect I had

to get hand controls in that myself.

So with with the race car, so you, you did slots of Speedway and you did it for quite a few years and your uncle way.

Yeah, probably five or six years, Yeah, Yeah, yeah.

I always wanted the race because as you know, you're, you're 2 uncles, Mark and Jason, both both races in sedans.

And we had the opportunity to then like we had a new class started in Grafton and Grafton Lismore and and Brisbane and it was limited Sprint cars. So basically same chassis, same

tyres, everything as a, as a big boys running and like the four 10s and stuff, but just limited class limited like to like 6 cylinders. But then towards the end of it

they actually brought in eight in our class as well.

So they took it out to I think 360 or something like that.

But but I still raced 6 because I I think it's only so fast you can go on a track. So you you had so like just out

of curiosity, they're all the same chassis.

You just put whatever mode you want as long as long as it fits the regulations. Yeah, that's it.

Yeah. Yeah, mine.

I raced the Ford Engine 250 Crossflow and then we modified it to we got a motorbike throttle and cut a piece out of the steering wheel and attached a throttle to the steering wheel. OK, so will not start racing.

I started my hand right, right around to the side.

But of course when you're racing then you sort of around here cause you're going sideways and you have like a quicker on the steering so you're not having like do these things.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

But no, it was pretty successful.

They all Scooby Doo #18. What did they, what did they

weigh those those cars? OK, I can't remember now, but

yeah, I think cause I they were pretty light.

You know, it's not like to them. Even running a like a like a six

cylinder and with a normal sump and stuff like a lot of guys had like. Dry soups and stuff.

Yeah, they, yeah, they try and get like the really lightweight sumps and things are getting lighter.

A lot of it on the big black bloggers name Maddie, but she got around the track pretty well and I won probably more races than I was probably in total to win because yeah, I just, I was always pretty determined and I figured any in the end up in a wheelchair once. Well, there is that.

The very first I wanna race actually in the future I saw I rolled the car and the feature race.

Oh. And everyone thought, well,

that's it for him. You won't race again.

You know, he's that's, that's scary.

But two weeks later, after he rebuilt it all, I was back out there again in the first season in the NSW title, I got second.

That's awesome. Yeah, yeah.

So this. Day you off.

But not at all that. Like if when you're strapped in

nice and tight, actually get hurt is if you don't have your belts tight really movement where right.

I was extra cautious. I like in the shoot.

I'd always pull my guts up tight.

Then on the warm up laps I pulled tighter again.

So when I was racing, like you don't really feel at the time when you finished the race, you it's your belt so tight you can't wait to get him off. But yeah, it's.

Definitely worth having time. And I'm going to roll over like

multiple times. Like it's just feels like a ride

of the show. Really.

You? Yeah.

Or no noise and banging. But yeah, the wing on the roof

sort of cushions the rolls as you're rolling over.

Yeah, but so. Yeah, so I was gonna say so, so

you so you did six, six seasons, six years of that or yeah about.

That, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And like I said. Wales were down here.

NSW and and like it was Grafton, which is northern NSW and Lismore and and Brisbane, Brisbane, Brisbane, Brisbane.

Yeah, OK. One night they married in in

Brisbane or rolled the car right in front of Zach.

It caught on fire, yeah. But yeah, I got out there pretty

quick. I could almost walk then.

It's a very cool. Fire to fire on the on your on

your house here. So, so did it just, did it just

catch up or did it just start to start to catch fire like it was just like, you know. Bit of fuel that sort of spilled

on the on the on the manifold and just caught fire and it didn't last long, but it was enough for me to get out of there. You probably would have.

So Zach for those other things is my is my cousin and your son Zach probably would have like no seen dad move so fast.

This is just. That's right now that rolling

keys and and and where it happened was, like I said, right in front of them. Oh well, yeah, down the track.

I'm I'm not that many. And yeah, luckily, luckily the

car when it rolled in the back on its wheels.

So, OK, but easier to get out, yeah.

Yeah. That was one of the things to my

spirit licences. I had to prove that I could exit

the car on my own without without assistance.

OK. Yeah, Yeah, OK.

Yeah. So they sort of have to, I'm not

sure the time requirements were they sort of had a stopwatch on me in the pits making sure I could get get in and out of the car and in a certain time. Yeah.

Did they, was that specifically in your car or did they have a car that they said no, If you can get, you can get out of this, you can get anything. Or is it?

My car, yeah. OK, cool.

Actually, it's when I was racing, like as you know, I'm pretty ultra competitive and most sports and things I do.

But I had guys when I beat them, they'd always want to make them make up excuses because no one wants to get beaten by a guy in a wheelchair obviously. And one guy was 111 feature

race. It was a bit of a rough track

and he told me I had an advantage on on the rest of the field. And he said because you said you

because you can hold the shirt like the throttle on, on the steering wheel and it doesn't bounce like because you said because we're bouncing, our feet are bouncing on the accelerator and we can't get proper throttle control.

So did. You just did, you just look at

him and laugh and be like OK mate, no worries.

But that was pretty lame there. Yeah, yeah, it gets pretty

hectic when you're when you're racing, especially when you're a big pack of cars and all you're using is your hands to do everything like accelerate brakes, do you?

Like I was going to say like it's more of a skill to do that because like you, you, you you kind of doing, you know, doing a lot more with your hands. You know, it's yeah, especially

you've only got a certain range of movement, you know, with the wheel as well. So you know, you don't have that

in common though control like you would have on your foot on the pedal. So um, yeah.

So if anything, if anything, you should be like, mate, I've gotta gotta way harder than you and I'm saying I still fogged you so. You're going with that argument

with someone that's just been beaten though.

But how long to take hand the trophy mate doesn't matter, does it? Exactly right.

So with those cars, so you've got your obviously yours was, was was a four 250? What transmission did they?

Were they just straight to the diff or or how did they, how do they work? There's always.

You always wanted that. In our class we had to be able

to start under our own steam. So with like the apron class,

they get push started. Like on the track, they get like

little four wheels go out and they push them so they can actually look like as far as like crushed up.

They actually put them in from the gear and like like pushing along to life. But that class had to be able to

start on the iron steam. It didn't matter what you got on

the track. What happened after that?

But I think they might have changed towards the end.

But at the time I finished, you had to have a have a have a clutch in in the car. So with my clutch, you probably

wonder how I use the clutch would not be able to use my legs and only having two hands to drive.

But we figured out we had a the motor out of a cordless drill and had like a like a worm drive to move the clutch fork in and out. So I'm on my break lever.

I also had a button then I could like pull the clutch fork in or out. Yeah.

Yeah. And yeah, so pretty busy with

the hands Mat model, all of your helmet, you got to pull tear offs off as well. Yeah.

So taking one hand off the wheels to do that as well.

Yeah, no, I, I've, I've seen you raised Uncle Bill.

I saw you win one night too, actually.

Yeah. And you know, you you're

virtually sideways the whole track and just just flat stick.

It's actually, it's funny, they're actually easier to drive the faster you go. Oh, really?

OK. Yeah, well, I've never from

being in the wheelchair not but it just in the in my car felt like I was one with the car, like yeah, every bump of earning or feel through the car like it, I don't know.

It just felt like an extension of me.

So I guess in the in the end, if I didn't win, I was disappointed. Yeah.

That's pretty much how any any able bodied person would describe it. You know the best part?

Wouldn't It would feel like a part of you anyway, you know?

Yeah. We're missing out.

We should all be speed by driving as well.

Actually had a drive. It's, it's just some, yeah, it's

you see a lot of like a lot of love.

Cars these days are so easy to drive.

And when something goes wrong, people just slow panic because they don't know what to do. I think everyone should have a

crack on my play around the dirt.

Like, we're lucky we grew up on a farm, so we're always driving cars and putting them sideways through the Bush and, and and and racing around. But yeah, that's the best way to

learn how to drive just somewhere you can be unrestricted and just get, you know, go berserk.

I presume it's the same up in where you are, but in Victoria your kids can get a camps licence from Walk Motorsport Australia now, licence from 12. And one of my sons was smarter

cartering not long after that. He couldn't wait to get in that

when he got a learner's permit and got on the road at 16, my goodness, it was, I mean, he knew how to drive and he was so hyper aware of every other, everybody else on the road because. Yeah.

He the motorcars and the like he'd been doing are controlled environment, but once you're on the road it's not a controlled environment, so it's hyper aware of everybody else and.

What's funny to say that I always felt more vulnerable driving home from Speedway than I did when I was on the track.

Because when you think when you're driving on the highway, you've only got like your lap sash belt and there's no crash crew waiting for the crash. There's no email that's on site,

there's no fire crew on site, you know, wearing your fireproof underwear. And everybody's going the same

way on the track, too. They're going towards you or

across you. And even you did crash within,

you know, 2030 seconds that they're there with you anyway.

So that's right. That's right.

Like I always felt like telling my car home from the Speedway, I felt more exposed than I did when I was actually on the track. Yeah, understand that

completely. Yeah.

Far out so over wanted to ask you this question.

You said you had a few crashes now was there one in particular like all that hurt like that was not a fun, that was not a fun time. All of them kind of like that

didn't happen. There's one night in Grafton,

nights of mates come to watch, watch me race and the very first corner of the very first race of, of the night, I got bounced into the fence, got airborne and yeah, just totally wrecked my car. And it just like every,

everything that could break in the car very broke.

Yeah. And.

Did you make task for their money back?

They should have, yeah. 1st. Two warm up laps and then, you

know, crash on the on the very first corner of the on the 1st lap. Yeah, yeah.

So that that night I said like everything broke.

Like Sprint cars, like the bolt on parts are designed to break off easily so you don't sort of damage yourself or damage the car so much. And yes, I always beat you

though. Yeah, they were straight in the

trash. Is it is it an expensive form of

motorsport or is it is it hard to get into it or is it or is it actually a good good call? It depends on like for the

higher gathered more expensive it is, but then there's there's more sponsors. I suppose I was lucky I had a

few sponsors but not not enough. But yeah, if you keep it on all

four wheels in the United crash will then it's it's affordable.

But when you start tripping over and being open wheel, it's, it's, it's so easy to trip over another car because you put wheels and you get airborne or, or or you can roll.

Reads a lot like like how, how quick are you going?

Like out of curiosity, like in terms of speed, Like are you you, you know, 70K now? No more than that.

Like on A for them all to track your averaging.

Well, it's well over 100K an hour even in our yeah, which when you first start, you think, I know it doesn't you, you don't think you get to go that fast or not, You know, like like a wet dirt or clay track. But yeah, when the adrenaline

starts kicking in, you you wanna go faster and faster and you're doing things you don't think you wouldn't think you'd you'd be able to do. But that because it is going to

do that. Yeah.

It's only when you sort of you get the hesitate that it's probably more dangerous, like the hardly a driver, the better it sticks. Which is, which is kind of it's,

it's, it's weird when you, when you get past that mean I've seen lots of interviews with people like you driving cars with, you know, super high end, you know, aerodynamics, like Formula One cars that the harder you push it, the more, the more they stick to the ground, the more air they've got.

And it's just, it's, it's kind of, it's like a mindset shift.

You need to really make any like, no, I gotta push as hard.

Otherwise the car is just not gonna turn.

Exactly right. Yeah.

And even being a limited class, only six cylinders, that wing, it's pretty massive. And those sort of speeds, it's

it's pushing you like on the track and giving you heaps of grip. But it's, I mean, even like

grip, you're still driving sideways.

I like I used always from the whole like from the gecko essentially like is it or is it? Are you wheel spinning or you is

just controlled just control sideways around the track?

Well, yeah, there's always, there's always wheelspin, I guess unless you're sort of drawing on, on on the straights.

But even then you're sort of is sitting out the next corner and you you're always trying to throw it sideways to, to drive around the corners. It's much easier to drive around

the corner like drifting satisfied then it is to try try and just drive without spinning or sliding.

And I I've never like yeah, like Mark and Jason, my my brothers, they both raced in the street stocks and everyone says like driving us sedan on the dirt track.

So much different to driving open wheel car.

So I never experienced that. So I I can't compare the two,

but I know, I know like driving I I felt really comfortable driving the the screen car around the track.

Yeah, well. If if you do do a stock car and

you do get people complaining, Oh yeah, he's got the stereo controls again, you can just be like, I'll be I'll beat you in Sprint cars and I'll bet you in this as well.

So no, so you you said towards the end of the towards the end they introduced V eights into into your class and were you competitive against those or were they just too powerful?

Pretty much they used to start. It's funny, they always started

those guys in front of us, the slow cars, but I tend to be right on on the back of all the time or or even get past some of the back markers and they're gonna even occasionally I've I've beaten them on occasion, yeah.

And are they all in your same class or are they like like are the first of the V8 gets distance and first of the six hours gets this? Yeah, it.

Was but it was one fast. We raced, they had a like like

crossovers. I I grind by grinding in in our

division and I'm not sure why, but they always put me in a graded when I first started driving.

OK, I I think they thought they thought I had I drive it like a Speedway history before that, but I never did.

Yeah. So I never got to race in in the

migrate. Yeah.

So it was always in the in the in the upgrade, yeah.

So, and so you obviously like you know, you've moved on from there, but would you, would you consider getting back into it again or one day or? Yeah, it might be a different

class. Yeah, something different, maybe

something that doesn't cost as much when I roll over.

That's that's kind of hard. That's gonna have the battle.

We know your limits already, haven't you?

I mean, if you drive to Slim and then you end up rolling, you figure, OK, we just got a little bit under that and I should be.

Right, 9/10 as a good, better place to be, isn't it?

Yeah, OK, good. I guess better on the pocket

anyway. But I guess, I guess when the

when the red mist, yeah, sets in, you're just like, I gotta win. So you just sitting out?

I've had nice mat when I've been there.

I said, Oh no, I'm not gonna push tonight.

I just wanna I'm just gonna circulate be one of the one of the pack. But you, you can't do it.

You got it, you say. You can't Funny and you just

want to get past it. And yeah, that's when you're in

front. There's a clear track in front

of you. It's so much easier to drive.

Yeah, because you can see. Sorry, if that's what it, that's

why. That's why I had to be in front.

Yeah, like even even as a spectator, like I don't know if you, Scotty and David, if you've ever been to, you know, to, to, you know, to those tracks that you just hit with the, with the mud when they come around the corners.

It's fun, but it hurts. First of experience.

Like it is. Yeah.

The methanol was burning, it's stinging your eyes and.

So, so that was it was methanol powered.

How much power did did did it end up making that car with with what you did to it? I'm not sure because as you

know, your uncle Mark, he was pretty good engineers.

So he he built the racing engines for me and we always just tell the girl was only 200 horsepower.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure what it had.

We never actually tested it on it one hour at all.

So on on. Not sure what it was producing

but. Front didn't really matter, did

it? That's.

That's it, yeah. We had a good camera.

We had a really good talk curve in it, so it didn't matter what speed I was doing, I always had plenty of acceleration.

Was it a single speed or did it? Was it?

Was it a like a like a three speed?

Just single. OK.

Yeah. What you're doing here to change

your ratios, you, you change the gears in, in, in your, in your death. So depending on tracks you you

can play around if you're different like the ratios.

So, but I, I found one that was suitable for race tracks.

So I just stuck with that. Anything I really changed was my

tyre pressures depending on the track was they're going slick or whatever. It was a wet track.

You know, if it was it was wet, you have a little bit slightly higher pressure, so you get a bit more bite on the on the on the dryer tracks, you know, take the pressure right out.

So when you say right out what around what PSI?

OHS that 667 pound on the right rear?

No. Well, OK.

Doesn't sound like much, just like.

It sounds like much. Like a big balloon, but

obviously as driving that's going to pick up my make pressure as well as it gets hotter.

Remember many, many years ago, and I reckon that was one of the reasons why Volkswagens is to roll over on the road so much the early cars because the the the handbook said the pressure should be around 18 lbs per square inch.

So they go into a corner and they just peel the tyre off the rim and the room like a beach ball.

So. I reckon 6-6 or seven or eight

or that might have had that effect on it too.

But that's why we had blade locks on the on the tyres so you can pull it off the rim. Said that so yeah.

But they said that's soft too. You can dig your finger into the

into the the tread. So yeah.

No, I, I remember when we were talking about years ago and, and you used to go watch it obviously and some of the cars that which are now worth like a lot of money were just stripped out and just use them on those tracks.

Yeah, hey, beautiful XC cups and stuff and getting getting trashed and like like, well, some guys used to have, I'm not sure if they were Cobras one day, but they used to be like Cobra replicas and they they raise them on the track and.

Yeah. Yeah, you get the money that

like they were beautifully straightened my first start racing. Then after a few minutes, yeah.

Maybe you're saying all of the Japanese stuff like the lower class stuff, like there was like Toyota sprinters, like, you know, like like a 86 sprinters like that were used and just just because they weren't, they won't really know what they were worth, you know, and you'll just be, you'd be, you'd be kind of like, oh, geez, I wish, I wish I didn't strip that one out and put the cage in it. Right.

Yeah. No, it's just, it's a good

insight into, into, into how that works.

And you know, it's, it's, you know, I was, I'm still, I'm proud to say that my, my uncle was a, you know, was, you know, did that. You know, it was very, very,

very cool. You are, you are a very driven

man. You were, you know, you've got

you've got a few titles to your name and all sorts of things, you know, very, very, very impressed with the uncle day it.

Was it was funny? Yeah.

Maddie somewhat. Titles and stuff.

Imagine I used to play lawn bowls and I would often be running late to get to the track.

So or have someone take my my car to the track and then I what what rock up, you know, in my lawn bowls gear and then up in the back of the involvement my my race shirt on.

It's been an extreme last night, from long balls to anyway.

You wouldn't want to get the two mixed up, would you?

No, no, no. Get stuck in the mud and the

wise they'd be going really fast down there.

Properties or what you're wearing?

Yeah, my. Or all that.

False claims with Montague after the.

No, it's, it's good Uncle Bay. Yeah, I'll again, really, really

cool that you that you've done that.

And it's it's cool inside because it is a it is a form of motorsport that doesn't get, you know, the the praise that, you know, that wasn't really known as much, you know, compared to what some other forms of motorsport.

So it's actually it's actually nice to see somebody that's done it, somebody that's that's that's been in it somebody that's one that's been competitive, you know, right the way through. So, yeah, yeah, just thanks

again for, you know, for going to settings or uncle because it's, you know, it's good. And if you were to to, to say to

anybody that was wanting to get into it like a couple of tips, what, what would you do from your experience?

Don't crash foreign. Now you gotta everyone's gonna

crash at some stage. I mean, if they want to get into

it. You mean like anybody or

disability or? Any anybody like anybody that

that's that's, you know, that's what's wanting to get into it like. That it's it's a good, fun,

cheap sport at the lower levels. Like I could just get out there

and do it. I mean, when I first started, I

I didn't want to be one of the also rans and I just didn't wanna be embarrassed because I didn't know how I was.

I was I was going to go and maybe that's why I was overdriving on the first night I raced.

And then maybe that's why I crashed and rolled in the face because I didn't want to be that local.

Everyone was going to lap and you know, and just be there for that, you know. Yeah, like he had good only each

having to go sort of thing. I want to be actually.

Yeah. Recognised as a driver, not just

as a bloke who said for the novelty.

Novelty factor of him being in a wheelchair racing Speedway.

Yeah, it's, yeah. And something you should be very

proud of, Uncle Bella. It's, it's, you know, it's, it's

an incredible fate and you know, it, it's one of those things that you know, it, it, it doesn't matter.

You can, you can give it a go. And and you, you and you know,

provided you got, you got the right mindset, which you which you have Uncle Bill, you just were competitive.

We have in the dirt mat. Well, that's good, mate.

It's I've I've, I've, I would have loved to have, Yeah, had had that, had an opportunity like that, which is, which is pretty cool. But yeah.

OK. Still, you're still OK.

Maybe one day. So would you like one?

One day we should get we should get a podcast car going.

Because I'm just getting in the in the stockers or something like this. Get out there, have a crack.

I'll have to find like a a cheap 80 or something just.

For laser. Thanks.

That's not true. Broadcast got greater than that.

Yeah, they would. They would.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you haven't been on a race

track yet, have you? Haven't driven on a race track.

I have, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, of course, yes. Nuggets.

Yeah, I didn't. I did.

I did Nuggets for a couple of years, still haven't done I haven't driven about this. Have you driven around Bethesda

just just as a as a as a passenger or like a driver uncle back? In the RTV.

Yeah, yeah. Like the GT Runner, but I took

the tell you what it is. So sleep as you're coming over

like Skyline and coming down, down, down the hill.

It's Tony doesn't just doesn't do it justice.

Yeah, everyone says that. I really want to see it in

person. Everyone says that it's.

Really, it's scary. I haven't stopped doing 60.

I mean, like what these guys are like.

Then again, like you said, the red mist and the adrenaline.

But yeah, it's, it's scary, like coming down over, over the top, yeah. Cause so you've done it in an

RTV and David's done it in as CRV.

So, you know, we should, we should all meet up in a, in a cool car and, and, and just just drive the drive thing.

I mean, I've done, I've done the course in Forza and Gran Turismo millions of times, you know, like, but it's yeah, but until you, until they actually there, you don't get to see the elevation. You don't feel the elevation.

That's right. So obviously.

Offered interviewed at the first time he went around, he looked left going across skyline and he said that's the only time I left. I never ever on any other lap of

bathers did I ever please. So no, that's yeah, we should,

we should definitely do a pilgrimage, Scotty.

I'll take the blade up there as well.

Yeah, take the blade, that'll be alright.

Yeah, that would be good. It's interesting with race

tracks, even with even with like dirt tracks and you know people like trucks don't make that much of a difference, especially if you're racing on dirt. But I guess the different like

how how wet the truck is and and how long the track it make all sorts of difference wouldn't? Even the banking on the track

too. So Archerfield to me was a

boring track because it was just two straights and two corners and where Grafton? If you imagine you get the 50

Cent piece in your bed with a hammer a few times, you get a rule draught and track if you can.

If you can write graph and Sprite track, you can write any track. There you go.

There's a challenge, Maddie, that.

That's it. Yeah, I'll have to ask her to

try try that. Yeah.

But now I remember, you know, watching an interview of some someone on Laguna Seger in in in America and and like our racist track for years on all my all video games.

And it's like they got they got the the Corkscrew, which is like it's like a like a left into a right that's that's coming down.

And I'm like, oh, it's not that bad.

And you And then he was like, it's six stories.

It's a six Storey drop like, and and it's in the space of like, you know, a couple couple seconds left and right and you're right down. You just, it's just stuff like

that. You wouldn't see unless you're

unless you're actually doing it. So it's interesting that you

both have said this. The elevation on Bathurst is

just nuts. So yeah, I'd love to, I'd love

to, I'd love to do that one day. That'll be, that's all that's on

my list of of places to go and and things to see.

Yeah. They're pretty cool to do a

hopper on this anyway. Yeah, right.

It it'd, it'd be pretty bloody unbelievable.

Just just just coming, just coming down through this is it would just be enough just to be like, you know, and the speeds are there, they're going 200 kids in an hour, you know, 150 kids in the hour, 300 down Conroy.

It's just it's a yeah, it's pretty, pretty hectic, hectic track. But I guess that's why it's so

revered and so and so. Pretend like doing 200 K's on a

straight Rd when there's nothing else around is scary.

But like Gary Force, top of the mountain there, those speeds are there more than Yeah, that's really scary.

Yeah, that's, yeah, that's a I I'd feel like I'm I, I feel like I'd be the red mist would have to settle for me to be like, OK, I gotta go down. So.

Yeah now, but when they're administered set for me when I when I was racing on at at Winton this one time in particular I was it was it started to rain and I was battling this guy you know he had a Suzuki Swift GTI and and and we saw these 1.5 litre here little.

Cars, yeah. No, it's that's exactly right.

But we had we had a total per say.

So, but at the end of the day, like it's not super fast, but you know when you it's super fun when you doing those speeding, bundling for a few and finally overtake him and like yes, in the back straight. And then I gotta hit the brakes

and I lock up and go straight off.

After all that work, sorry I was at it.

We get back to the pit and the guy, the guy just comes up and has a lot. We have a laugh about it.

He's like, he's like, mate, you, you, we battled for like 2 laughs and then you finally take me on the corner and then you screwed it up. That's.

Called doing half the job Manning.

Being I it's, it's, it's, it's definitely a cool thing to do, but just want I loved, I loved your inside Uncle Ben and, and, um, just wanted to again, thanks for thanks for thanks for thanks for saying that this was really, really cool.

The next part of the show is we, which we're going to do some car up there. So basically uncle is what we

what we just talk about updates that we've done over the last few weeks to our cars. If there's any difference, and

then we get into quiz. We've got a quiz at the end of

the show. So we'll have to have you on for

the quiz. But David Prince updates with

you in your cars. Anything happening?

I've started everything that's on the property in the last few days, which is there's a few, but been been been lying a bit low with the spiky cough for a few days.

But thankfully I'm feeling much better now.

So I didn't want to go go out too far or.

And the weather in Melbourne was been pretty rubbish really.

Sunday was OK, Sunday was OK actually.

But it's just really, we just really said hello, I'm here now.

So, yeah, but now I've done a few jobs in the garage.

I've I've sold the Scorpion, I think, I'm not sure if I mentioned last week that I've sold the scorpion.

It hasn't been picked up yet, but that will happen this week, I'm assured. I will be this, this, this

scorpion is the nicest one in the country.

It's it's pretty cool. It's a beautiful car and he

said. I was selling for a friend at it

belonged to a a friend whose husband passed away and it was his car. He had it from you and it's not

77,000 K's. So it's a pretty crazy, crazy,

crazy tidy. So that's been good.

But that's meant one of them has been sitting outside and I've discovered today that actually has a leak because the cover blew off it. So I'm going to look into that

and find out where the water is getting in.

I'm sure you know 50 year old frameless windows, you know, and and hard rubbers. That wouldn't have anything to

do with it, surely? You're entitled to lake and

those are you. Yeah, that's right, 100%, yeah.

So that's been about it. I've just found out tonight I've

gotta look for something for my younger son who's got cleaned up on the way to work a couple of weeks ago.

They've just given him 4 Grand Prix Civic Coupe, so which is pretty good considering he's had it eight years and he paid 3 for it. So that's the pretty good and

320,000 guys, I think it on the clock.

So it was probably, you know, not long for this world anyway, although it's. Like as I've gone to the big,

big graveyard in the sky. Will it will, I think, yeah,

yeah, yeah. So he's got the room for it and

he's got other things going on the moment.

So just got to look at something a bit newer and a bit more family friendly, though that's a job for this week I think is about eight I think. No update sadly yet on my power

from Japan. That's still sitting on the dock

in Nagoya, as far as I know. So as one of the things sitting

at home doing nothing that I really wanted to do, pulled over photos of that on the weekend and picked up a few other things that I didn't realise about it, like the fact it's kind of mutants muffler. I didn't realise that until I

got Google Translate onto the auction report, so yeah.

So I'm eagerly anticipating that now it's gonna happen, so we'll make up some. That can't wait to see it Scotty

updates with you. And so by washed the blade

yesterday, which was kind of pointless actually.

Your. Fault but.

You know, it was really, really filthy and it gave me something to do because yesterday it was kind of a nice day.

So I did that. I washed my partner's car too.

So the Honda Insight gotta wash at the same time.

I've purchased two things for the blade that were cheap.

I've got the cruise control stalk that's just the basic Corolla one that from what I've read, I can just plug in and or work. So we'll wait and see when that

arrives. And I bought a traction control

button. Oh, cool.

Because I've read and seen pictures that you can.

There's a pin that you can follow along, run your wire through and then hook it up to that, which will go into the stock. The stock spot there that comes

in some of the other the 2.4 litre blades and stuff that came

with traction control in that spot there and you hold the button for five seconds and it turns it off.

OK. Which should be good because

sometimes that just kicks in that stupid, stupid points and it really stuffs you up big time with acceleration.

So and that is about. It updates with me.

I saw Mr. David Prince kept out, kept our distance on on the

weekend because he he had finished my my roof racks for my laser and picked up my laser on Friday.

Yeah, Friday. So picked it up and with the

roofs all done, it looks really good.

So Uncle someone backed into my car and into the roof.

Yeah, they backed into the back the back quarter, but I just the roof was cooked anyways. I was like, well, it's there.

I'll get the the roof painted and and then I was like, well, I put my racks on now that it's painted and and I got David to fix the racks and so they're on the car.

They they look good. Ceramic coated it yesterday.

So I bought a ceramic coat from just just from just from work and Autoglym one. Would you recommend it got good

reviews for like a home. You know, it's it's a genuine

ceramic coating. Probably not like it's not like

a high end really expensive one, but for what it does, it'll be, it'll be it'll be perfect. And today was a perfect day to

test it because we went outside and the water would beating off everywhere. And as soon as I started

driving, just all gone. So.

So that shows that that's working quite well.

Did you do the windows? I didn't you can do the windows

and I'm like I'm I'm still I'm half tempted with doing it actually. So I'm I might, I might be the.

Same stuff Or do you have to get a window?

Well, I'm not too sure because on my typhoon in the Fiesta that's been done and then they're they're fine.

So like, so like on the typhoon, I was driving it today in the rain and the water just was just just beating off.

I was barely having to use any, any windshield wipers because it didn't need it. So yeah, I'll, I'll read and

read a bit more into it cause I don't want to like, you know, if I, as soon as I put my wipers on there, they just streaks across and then I've done, then I'll do an Uncle Brian and go into a wall and then so I don't, I don't wanna do that after, after it's just building on fixing and looking all fresh and tidy again. So yeah, I will, I will read the

instructions and let you know how, how we go with that.

So that's the laser. Yeah.

It looks 1,000,000 bucks and Steph was like she's like, wow, this actually looks good. It takes a lot to impress our

intensive it it does. It's like wow, it actually looks

good. So I have to I have to kind of

laugh at that. Well, that's why I done now the

typhoon went today to hack on to see how good friend Reed.

Big shout out to him. He's a he's a legend in the

suspension game. Just got this like even you

notice that there was like a little bit of a knock in in from coming from the rear. And you know, I I took it so

specific in my brother and he's like, I'll take it to take it to this for this Ford dealership, because this guy there is a specialist and with all, you know, rear end diffs and things, and I took it there. Any drivers like make your diffs

cooked, you know, as I mentioned before on the show and it just didn't see it just didn't sit right with me.

Um, so when I was at blue power last and they're like, yeah, look, this spherical bushings are on the way, but it shouldn't make that noise. I was like, you know, I'll take

it to a guy that that knows his stuff and, and and raid was a full tech for for a very long time and he worked on these when they were new. And we're actually talking about

Uncle day. He drove a brand new manual GT,

you know, back BA GT back in the day.

And he's like, he's like, I remember they were always a bit little bit clunky, but they didn't really, they weren't super duper like, you know, crazy.

So he found out that my so it's like when you move the tail shaft, it's all fine, but he's like he's like the actual Dr shafts off the diff. They're, it's like, they're,

it's like they're, they got playing in the, in the CV.

So he's like, I haven't seen one do that before.

It's a bit weird, you know, but he gave me, he gave me a few places to, to call and see if I can get, you know, get them rebuilt or just get some other ones put in next time around.

But yeah, he's a legend for looking after me for that.

And so I wanted to give a big shout out to him on there.

So that's that update with that, uh, scamp, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully very, very soon. It's I've been saying that for a

while, but the, it's actually at the Roadworthy shop right now, which is good. So, so that's good.

So it's, it's finished from right now.

And he's he's he's like, yeah, I just wanted to get it in.

It's in there. And it's it's hopefully going to

get a tick of approval or it'll be getting a big fat F and then off to figure out what else to fix with it.

But runners like, he pretty much looked over and he's like, look, it's fine. So he's just gonna, yeah, see

how we go if there's any last minute things I need to do because he's done everything that he, that he sees and, um, that would need doing. Sorry.

It's just that last kind of thing to get it over the line.

So yeah, I think that's, I think that's pretty much it in my car.

Those gentlemen. I think that's, that's, yeah,

that's pretty much it. Now, Uncle B, I've got one more

question before you before we get to the quiz.

New South. Do you guys have to, you guys

have to pay every year for like a custom plate, right?

We do, unfortunately, yeah. Why is that?

Like that makes no sense. Because our states are rip off.

Yeah. They they text everything

everything they can. Yeah.

Well, OK, they so so did you have to is the plate cheaper to buy or is it still it's still like really expensive to buy the despite the fact that. Well, had was to buy.

So like in a, in a like in Australia, like sorry, in Victoria you mean? Yeah.

Um, it depends. Like they usually about 600

bucks or 595 for a for a for a custom custom setup.

Well, we'd probably that sort of money then, you know, like my plates. I've got my aspect there, 500

every every year. Well, you'll be.

Top of the cost of the registration.

On top of the cost of Regio, Yeah, right.

Well. What?

What plates are RSPC 7? So it looks like respects and

um, yeah, it's every year $500. Is your is your regular cheaper

or is it is still around 800 bucks?

Are the results. So it's, um, the more it's

probably around, around the 400 I think.

OK. Plus plates, then, then plus

your green slip. Yeah, so by the time I had all

that together, I'm up for probably how it was.

My maths. I love for him probably 13-14

hundred every year. It's it's it's just crazy, Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. So like in Melbourne or

Victoria, we you, you get the plate and then you put it on the car and then that's just attached to the car and then you just pay your standard 860 bucks of bridge over.

And yeah, we're getting ripped here in New South Wales.

It's it's expensive and we never have to have a roadworthy until the car changes hands. Yeah.

So that Scorpion, for example, has never had a robbery.

Folks like, I don't mind getting the roadworthy, but like a new car, I think it's five years you've got before you have to get one. But yeah, it's, I don't know, I

think we're the most tax state in Australia.

Yeah, it's just, I just couldn't believe, I honestly can't believe it's 500 bucks each year just to have the plate on the car that that's that's crazy. Some of them depending on your

configuration, but because mine isn't your standard, you know like 3 letters, 3 numbers. It's it's more expensive, but

we're not the plates on my on the TV.

Yeah, my snowflakes, there's no 69.

They back then you only had to buy the plate and that was a one-off feed. So I was lucky.

But if I change those plates of different cars, you know that have to pay a fee every year. When we saw personalised plates

over the battle. 130 bucks I think.

Yeah. But that's paying for them every

year. That's crazy.

Tell anyone else. Just keep it between us.

That is, it is crazy. That's yeah, that's just, I

just, I couldn't, I thought it be like a couple 100 bucks only be $500. That is a lot of money.

But this for those plates, I'd like some I think if you just got like, yeah, 2 letters or numbers or something, but it's personal letters. I think you it might be cheaper

the air like maybe couple hundred a year.

But when you got like a word or something going to configurations, it's, yeah, around 500, yeah.

Well Kartik, top tip, if you want to have custom plates in your on your car in NSW, register it in Vic.

I have my addresses, your, your address, Maddy and Victoria and I can have one in place. Absolutely.

You can do that. Like me.

I'll, I'll, I'll put it in my name as well.

You know, in New South Wales. Yeah.

Very good, well done. How about we get into the quiz

and finish on the quiz as we normally do so could be hellish.

Works as 10 questions I ask I'll ask 10 questions plus some bonus questions. Each question is worth point.

Sometimes though, if I'm generous and you kind of half right, I'll give you a .5. If I'm being generous, I'm.

Not Buddy. What was that like?

I said no good quizzes, I'll get a mental block all the time.

You're right. You should see us in the show

95% of the time. It's it's, it's all of us.

So basically just buzzing with your name.

So you know, David will be David.

You know, Scotty was got in and you'll see, you'll see Brian and, and basically just you have a buzz in first gets first dibs and and then we just kind of go from there.

So question one is the cultural Coquis question. 1A young lady

called Meg has been in the Aussie news this week because of her car. What type of car is it?

David. David.

Suzuki mighty boy. It is a Suzuki Mighty boy.

Yes, it is correct. Actually cheesy NSW.

Solitudes of special interest plates.

OHS. What happened?

There's an article in the paper the other day about everyone if, if you know, you know. But I mean, obviously it's

putting it out to the general public that if you join a car club, you can get a special interest plate and if you the limited use, you don't have to use, you pay for the full registration fee. So she's got a mighty going to

about 808584 or something like that, which is a tiny little Suzuki car with A550CC engine. And yeah, she was just saying

how much fun it is to drive an old car and not have to pay for registration. Basically.

That was the story you were referring to.

Many wasn't. That is exactly the story I'm

referring to. You know I've never seen an auto

one. I've only seen manuals.

That was the first one I didn't I.

Didn't know where I was available.

You could. I couldn't believe I couldn't

think of anything slower than in an automatic than that wouldn't be wouldn't be ideal. Question two around how many 124

chassis Mercedes Benzes did they make?

I'll give I'll give the closest two and I'll give you a hint it's over a million. I was gonna say too many.

Both lucky and someone he'd be. Brian says too many.

Oh, this is usually closest to, isn't it Maddie?

Closest. I'll give it closest to.

I'll give it closest to. The 124. 124 chassis, Yep so.

8680. Six to 90s, yeah.

I'll go 2.75 million. 3.75 billion.

I will go 2.4 million. 2.4 and so.

It's either a million. I'll tell you what, I'll give

you a hint, uncle, because. OK.

Million and one. I see what you did there.

Well, I'm million and one it's actually they made 2.7 million

of them. Sorry David Prince, you are

closest to it. Well done.

Said it was a good case. Question 3 This is for you.

Incubate the NSW club permit scheme.

So like, what would that Lady Meg who has the mighty boy allows for how many days of driving each year?

No idea. Is this a place to stay?

All all, if you give it a guess and I'll see if you're right out of the way. I'm gonna say 90. 90 is

incorrect but guess I'll I'll give closest to if you if you guys don't get it right. I think it is different to ours,

which is 9060. 60 is absolutely correct.

I would Prince, they have 60,000 views.

He is unfired. Would like a score check.

David, just just out of curiosity, how question 4, the movie Cars by Pixar was the final movie released by Pixar.

On what format? Scott.

Scott. VHS.

VHS is correct. Well done.

Bonus question, what's? The score What's the score?

Check ready. I could be.

I don't think you wanna know right now.

It's so bonus question, this was also Pixar's first release on what other format? So there's a lot of people they

released on VHS and there's their first movie released on what other format? Can anyone guess?

Yeah, jump in quickly. Here you go.

Brilliant. David.

David is incorrect. David is a Blu ray.

It is Blu-ray. What on?

Yeah, yeah. So it was the last one they

released on on VHS and the first one they released on Blu Ray I.

Thought it might have been that competitive one that they had Blu ray and that other one that that.

Would be Yeah, I. Thought it might have been that

one. Yeah, that's that's actually.

Remember what it was called, But it didn't last long.

Peter. Yeah.

Question 5. Murcielago, as in Lamborghini

Murcielago. The word Murcielago means what?

In English? I found this out today.

He's got you guys remember Crazy John?

Yeah, it's his. It's his old car.

He's just which is pretty cool. Gated manual too, which is kind

of special. No idea.

I'll go. Well, I'll go for have a point

in Alagoas Lake, isn't it? Incorrect.

It's an animal to talk about. Animal.

Yeah, I'll give you guys here. It's a flying animal.

Really. Yeah.

No, not at all. Not, not a Falcon.

Uh, Ford would be suing them very quickly.

No idea. No idea, Scotty.

Eagle. Eagle.

No, it's actually a bat. Yeah, a bat.

So. Largo in English is bat.

Is bat? Yep.

English can be economical with their letters, can't they?

So the the plate on on this certain car is BLK BAT cause it's black black bat. So so so this is pretty cool and

and he doesn't have to pay $500 extra year.

I could be just just just. The shape cause he could

probably afford. Equally Question 6 kit from

NARITA is an acronym for what see Alan was that Alan was that packs I think on the weekend so he he he took photos of it were you were not right a fan could be.

Yeah, I was, and I used to know this, but my, my, my brain can only handle so much information, so a lot of things get pushed out. I'll tell you what, if you give

me some part of it, I'll give you .5.

Is, is it the IT part something like intelligence technology or something or technologies? Yeah, it's.

It's it's not. No, I know, I know.

Yeah, but is it not not Industries 2000?

That is correct, Uncle. Very well done.

Industries, 2000. I just came back to me, Maddie.

Not Industry 2000. That is absolutely correct.

Question 7. You don't really make me.

Yeah, well, I I could beat you on the board.

Alright, you're on the board. So there we go.

Question 7. The Ford Mustang is in its 7th

generation. Where does a place in in Ford's

top ten cars sold of all time? So it's in the top ten out of

all of out of all their console sold, it's in the top 10.

Where does it place in that top 10?

Scott. Scott. 8.

Eight is incorrect. And.

Ryan. Ryan.

Who? Who is also incorrect.

I'll say. 6 ohm. You're close.

It's fifth. Fifth of all time car sold Isn't

is a Mustang question 8 on which model?

RX7. So I'm after the model

designation code like the FSC or whatever it is.

Did twin turbochargers get firstly installed?

Twin timer changes. Is it David?

Is it the FD? FD is absolutely correct over

Prince William. Alright, next one is an A.

So what I'm gonna write you now, Uncle Bay, is I'm going to read to you A, an advert for a car that was sold in Australia, and you're gonna have to guess What Car it is.

Alright? Always respected as providing

good returns in the field of spaciousness and comfort, the blank name also represents A level of engineering finesse that brings along with smooth ride.

Safe Rd holding an excellent fuel economy alloy had two The respected 4.1 litre alloy head engine has a two stage

carburetor that provides highly accurate fuel metering under normal and steady driving. Only the first stage or venturi

is used. When rapid acceleration is

required, the second stage comes into operation.

The net of this feature is the engines many and many other sophisticated components. It's significant fuel

efficiency, excellent performance and quiet running.

So they they were dreaming with their figures put here 13.5

litres which is a nice joke. So these figures are provided to

assist you in comparing the fuel consumption of Fairmont and Fairmont gear sedans with other vehicles.

The actual fuel consumption you achieve will depend on however many factors including your driving habits etc.

Ford Ford is proud you offer electronic fuel injection, developed David. Would that be the Ford Fairlane?

Not well, it's it's the failings.

It's included, but I'm after I'm after actual actual Brian.

It wouldn't be for me like a 85 XF, is that right?

Why you're so close? I could be, but it's it's you.

You're really like a couple years off.

Uh, so it's basically before the XF is the model before the XF.

So Scotty, it's all the hints you can get.

The EFI engine is based on the successful alloy had two 4.16

uses Bosch Allie Jetronic fuel injection Scott.

So it's X. EXE correct?

That is absolutely correct. Sorry, hold on.

Then I was singing. But is it the the gear?

Girl family would have taken either either or the alloy had two came on the EXE and because they they first brought the alloy head on the XD I believe so it was yeah quite different.

Who? Designed it, Maddie.

The actual XE, the body style. Alloy.

It's. A Yamaha head I believe it was

on that. OK, I'm off Honda.

Oh, that's, yeah, we, we have. We have discussed that, yeah.

Just making sure you remembered, which you obviously didn't, so I'm glad. That's all.

I'm so sorry. I know, I know.

I had a Japanese head. I wasn't sure.

Yeah, Brian, just for just for some, some context, David, a massive Honda guy and, and the probably the only reason you won in your car was cause I had a Honda head on it with the four.

.1 Yeah, so that's why. Alright, next one I was going to

do a Honda question but now I've had enough so I'm gonna.

I'm gonna tell you wouldn't make up another one.

Would have changed it, yeah. So the blank GLX designed to

send film on gear back to the drawing board.

It's features include power windows, Central power steering system, all areas air conditioned louvres, fully adjustable lumbar support for driver seat power, power antenna powerful 3.5 litre, sorry 3.8 litre V6 MacPherson struts,

front and front suspension all rounds and caused suspension all rounds. I should say front assisted rack

and pinion steering all round speaker system and it is not David. Is it Toyota?

Toyota Toyota Watt. Toyota.

Lexus. Toyota Lexon is correct.

What I'm there you go. I like how they're trying to say

that I archived better to send forwards drawing, but when it was a Holden in the first place, that makes absolutely zero sense. General.

I think that's a quiz. That is all 10 questions, score

check, Brian one, Scotty two and tonight's win a grand total of seven is Mr. David Prince. Well done, mate.

Thank. You in defence, I think it was a

bit, you know, like being thrown in the deep end never happened.

But actually seeing the some of those egg ones are pretty obscure. That's, that's fair.

Uncle Ben, thanks for coming on the show tonight.

All good, mate. Yeah, that was fun.

Hopefully we didn't make you say archies.

I never want to do that ever again.

We'll do some with some plugs. David Prince, you also do a

podcast. Yes, I do and I do a podcast

called Auto retro that everyone who listens to show knows about, I think, and we've got a great one coming out very soon with Ying the 100 nugget Nationals and from recently from mighty car mods fame. She's almost part of the team.

They all can't say that too loudly.

I did ask her the other day if she's actually the the the new Stig, but she did. She would be far off to be

honest. She's very, very talented behind

the wheel. Scotty's golf took the week.

Off tip of the week I'm looking at putting this week.

See, a lot of times if you're up very close to the whole, you tap it very, very lightly. Don't do that because usually if

it's on a bit of an angle it makes it even worse, so it will lean in and you'll miss it. Hit it with a bit of force so it

goes in properly dead straight. So in other words, if you're

gonna do it, hit it properly. Exactly right.

Yeah, good tips, Brian. He he does golf tips every week

because he's an avid golfer. So I.

Didn't even know how it started but now all the time.

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Uncle Brian, thanks for coming on the show first time and and we'll talk to you next time. Take it easy.

Thank you. Yeah.

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