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It's meeting Matty J online with Mr Edward Bunting, Mr Alamdev Singh, Mr Scotty Doe Johnson and Mr. David Prince.

How are we, gentlemen? Hello Matthew Halliwall.

No, thank you. Thank you.

Good. I've got sore throat, but you

know we're working. For you Alam no.

I thought it was just allergies but no, it's getting rougher.

Is it is. Catalina Villarous.

It's a cover. Is it the vid?

No, no, I don't ever test at home.

I'm not paying $5 for tests anymore, no.

One tests anymore. Yeah, that is also true.

Remember. When you couldn't get him, you'd

go to the servo or the the chemist and that was sorry, you got none, got none. You're like, well, you're

desperate to get a tie. I need to get some, I can't.

Remember we had a few people in in my house were sick and they had this site. They just someone popped up

where you can find rat tests and I was, I was on that site and it said there was a few near me. So I went to I was flying to

these, yeah, to, to, to, to these, to these servos.

Just saw the last one. Just saw the last one.

And I'm walking out and the, and the people are asking me, have they got rats here? I'm like, Nah, it was quite a

chilly, like an apocalypse. Rats got rats.

The rats. Wow.

Anyway, there's one, there's one guy's like, Oh yeah, there's one at the Astron servo about, you know, about a block away and me and this guy just ran. There's some like factory

location where they had like, it was like you're buying like illegal cigarettes almost. Yeah.

Like, you know, Van come in, people lined up and you know it was just a. Black market rat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's.

Unrelated to cars, but my sister was one of the 1st 300 people in the country to have COVID. It's pretty cool.

She was real early on, came back from overseas.

Real. Assuming she's OK and, you know,

recovered fine from it, then pretty cool.

He did, yes. True.

She. Ages though, didn't it?

Like Like it took her months. Took her quite a while to to

come good, but she lost a certain taste.

Things were weird tastes. She had taste, but it was weird,

you know? And things that she used to

love, like yoghurt and white wine, she's like, can't touch them. Yeah.

Just taste. She's like, Nah, don't do

Madonna anymore, Sorry, just. Exactly.

And it's like, how could you? I mean, to Billy Irish, you

know, whatever. Anyway, that's just a random

fact. Well, you know, she's what, the

the 1st 300? She's like the movie 300, you

know? Yeah, she's like.

Really, really early. On did did she get like a

special plaque or anything like seeing as she got it was like one of the first ones, did did she get any special treatment or any kind of any kind of thing? Not the sort of treatment anyone

would have wanted. I would.

Have No, I mean, there was no vaccines back then.

It was like, all right, yeah, just you just stay home and do what you do. Did she have to quarantine?

Because I knew she was coming back on the flight, right?

Didn't you say no? Yeah, it was right before it was

really cuspy. You know, it was right on that

cusp of no every you could still fly and people were still doing everything. And it was literally like, she

got back a week later. It was like, right, this is a

thing. Bang, you know, you, you shut

down. So yeah, she was locked down

when she got home. Like in isolation, isolations,

isolations, isolations. Anyway, keep going.

Let's talk about cars. No, I'm, I'm enjoying cover talk

with money, Jay. Hopefully we're gonna get to the

conspiracy talk now. It's like it was done by China

as a bi weapon and. I'm not saying anything except.

Just gonna put this out there. I mean, guys, Scotty usually

mentioned this, but he will supply the tinfoil hats and then he's always, he's always like, I've got my tinfoil hat on here and. Because we were, we were still

permitted to, to work in the run our businesses because we could do that in isolation, but we had to get the head office got masks in. So we had to all, all wear

masks. So we all had to get, you know,

get to head office and actually get the masks to actually use.

And I picked up the box and they were made in Wuhan.

Made in Wuhan. I said are they having a laugh?

Like. Now all we'd heard in the news,

you know, for the month. Wuhan, Wuhan The.

Wuhan wet markets, Yeah, it was like virus.

Market. Oh, but here, here you go.

You wear the mask, you know, that's, that's that's what that's great. PR great way to boost sales.

Wow, it's like years ago my boss was telling me about a toothpaste company now wanted to work out how they could sell more toothpaste and someone in the meeting who wasn't part of the executive team said just just make the hole bigger.

And they were like, then they went, actually that's not so stupid, Make the hole bigger, more toothpaste comes out, you use more, doesn't matter, still more toothpaste.

Here's another one that is related to cars, the Michelin calendar. Do you know how the Michelin

calendar came about? No the Michelin star, but I

don't know mission calendar. Oh, sorry, sorry.

That's what I mean. The Michelin star.

It was a scam. Well, it is a scam now.

No, it is a scam now. It used.

To be well, maybe it's a scam, but it it was again a marketing meeting by Michelin where they were like how can we get people to buy more tyres get them to drive further.

What will get people to drive somewhere?

Let's start rating restaurants so that they travel to go to these restaurants. Like kind of crazy.

I don't know how many Michelin guys got worn out because of it, but it's an out. It's an out there, left of field

suggestion. And and that's how the Michelin,

this whole whole thing started. It was it was quite a humble

idea because the main thing was like, hey, this restaurant's worth a bit of a detour. This one, if you're in the area,

this one, you know, if, if, if you've got nowhere else to eat, well, not really. But, you know, our star at least

made it was worth going to. Yeah.

The three stars were like, you should go out of your way to get to this restaurant. You should burn your tyres out

all the handbrake and, you know, get a square tyre.

So you need a new one. Yeah, I mean, if all the people

were running around on good years, well, you know, I might not have helped them, but. See, I'd love if there was like

more of a conspiracy. I was like, and then those

restaurants had three stars. They'd like put like nails on

the road and in the parking lot of those places.

Yeah, sell, sell, sell more tyres, get people to drive more.

Get a I'll I'll get I'll get a Goodyear star and a Pirelli star and A and a Continental star. You can.

You can. That's right.

That's how the Michelin star. Well, hopefully, hopefully

you're feeling better and it's not the big alum.

Hopefully. Oh, that's right.

That's where this started, wasn't it?

Yeah. Yeah, it was.

Hey, thanks. How are you?

Yeah. Oh, I'm well, thank you.

Yes, yes. Started off a busy week getting

getting ready, got a time limit with out of the country in a few weeks. So yes, getting stuff done,

kicking things off. Kicking things off and Scotty

Doe, how are you mate? Oh yeah, just plugging away,

doing my thing. That's about it.

Just the huge. That's the most Aussie answer

ever. Oh yeah, yeah, no.

Yeah, no, yeah. Yeah, it's the vibe.

This is the vibe. Yep, it's it's Marbo.

It's the vibe. Well, let's get into some car

updates, gentlemen. Mr. Day, Mr Edward Bunting.

Your first answer We'll oh. First on screen.

OK, what have we got going on, fool?

There's been a bit. Last week we witnessed live the

sale of the ex Alan Deep Singe sports car.

Yes, we did. So that has gone well.

I mean, they haven't paid me for it, so you know that that's one thing about these auctioneers. They take their time to pay you.

You know, the stuff, it goes under the hammer.

But then it's another two weeks. We're getting money out of it.

So, hello, Rob. Rob.

Hi, Rob. Good.

Thanks. Sorry about that.

It's. OK.

We just just up to car updates so don't stress.

So yeah, that's the MX5, the truck that I got.

The little, you know, Isuzu, NPR truck drove very well.

That truck. I've taken that to the auctions

and we'll see what that does. If it gets the reserve, it will

sell. If it doesn't, I'll go pick it

up. And Maddie, I believe you have a

contact who does truck roadworthies so that that would be handy for me should it not sell the Hyundai I load that I bought alongside the truck. I've been driving around in that

a little bit. But here's a story for you.

I hadn't driven that for about a week and suddenly I was sitting at my desk one day and I, I carry around a big lumber keys, one for every one for every car that and not every car I own, but every stock car. You know, there's one key on

there and I always separate off the spare key because you know, you know, all your keys and all your eggs in one basket.

So I suddenly picked up this big wad of keys and thought, where's that Hyundai key? It's not on there.

And I thought, hang on, I didn't pull that off.

I didn't have the car in a mechanic or a panel shop or anything. I, you know, I didn't, I didn't

have any reason to get rid of that key.

I thought the bloody thing's gone missing.

I searched every pocket. I searched every normal place a

key would be in my house. It is gone.

And I thought that's not the end of the world because I've got 2 spare keys. However, the one I lost was the

remote. The two spares are just normal

key keys. The driver's door on that car

does have a door lock in it, but the door had been replaced by the previous owner and the lock not changed over.

So I couldn't go in the door. But I thought no worries, I'll

get in the passenger door. No door lock on the passenger

door. The two sliding doors, no door

lock. The only other door lock is on

the boot. So thankfully it's a big open

van. So, you know, I opened the boot

in the street and the alarm goes off, which I didn't even know how to add being here in the street with the key going wow, wow, God. So I screamed through to the

ignition, started it, and then thankfully that turned off the alarm. So then I was coming in out of

the boot for a few days and I thought, what do I do?

Do I ring Hyundai or, you know, where do you get a key?

And I thought I could probably buy a blank online, but then you got to get a coded to the car and this whole rigmarole just goes through my head. In the meantime, my brother

rings me. Can I borrow that van?

I've got to pick up a skate Ram. Yeah, no worries.

Well, I said there's just one catch.

You got to crawl in through the boot.

When you lock it, he's like, oh, you're OK, I said.

So don't back up to any walls. You know where you start.

That was my prerequisite. So in the end I got onto a guy

called, what's his name, Mike's car keys.

I think he is. Mike's Auto.

Keys, Mike's Auto keys. Recommended by an auto elect

around the corner here. And I was like, oh, OK, I'll

give him a call. So I rang him.

He said, yeah, come to your house.

I can do that Tuesday morning, no worries.

It's like 295 key cut, delivered, coded to the car on the spot and I'm like, done, done and done.

How? Long did it take?

Oh, 10 minutes. Sweet.

Wow. Yep, not long.

There's a new business idea for you, David.

If you're sick of doing trims that take two hours and get into key cutting, maybe you could do both.

Maybe a good? So that now has a replacement

remote control key, which makes life a lot easier.

My brother borrowed that van. He goes, I really like the van.

I put my mountain bike in the back, opened the the sliding door. I sat on the step, put my shoes

on. This thing's amazing.

And I'm like, it is good, you know, that's.

And everywhere I look now, I'm seeing NPR trucks and I'm seeing eye loads everywhere. I'm noticing them everywhere.

It's sort of stupid. Actually drove was in Scoresby

Rd out near basewater the other day and drove past to like a little dealer and I reckon he had ten islands there in the front. He's a specialist.

He's a van man. A van guy, not a Van Gogh, a van

guy. Van Guy Van Gogh So that's the

island. What else have I gotten?

I bought a Subaru Impreza 2014 hatch, Pearl white with alloys but a base two litre normal cloth seat car but 41,000 K's on it. Beautiful K's, really nice

history, 2 keys, floor mats, nothing missing.

So that's currently for sale at 15,800 drive away should anyone want that. Would you take a trade in for a

Honda Jazz? Sure.

I like that jazz. I'll have that back.

It's exchange. Exchange.

Yeah, what else have I got? The little Peugeot.

I'm still tinkering along in the little Peugeot.

It's going in next week to the panel shop.

David Prince very kindly took a rear door trim to do an amazing job of re glueing the velour or re trimming the velour.

But alas, it's French, and the French like to do things not quite the way other people do it.

So. I make that 2 hours of my life

back poor. David peeled off the velour and

then the glue stuck to the back of that and then stuck to the back of the the panel itself. But then you got to drill out

plastic rivets to get the whole thing.

So we're just going to put that back together and sort of reglue it, put it back in the car. We're not going to go too far

with the saggy door trims. So Car Talk top tip if you've

got a Peugeot three O 6 or four O 6, you've really got to re trim them and spend a lot of money probably doing that, which is why none of them have been done that's.

Right. Oh, Passat, I had that Passat V6

waggon. I sold that to a work colleague,

which is probably a really bad move because it is a Volkswagen and this guy I will have to see again.

So, but the saving grace is, and the reason I was sort of OK with it, his wife has a Passat with the same engine.

He has just sold a Golf R32 with the same 3.6.

So I'm like, all right, mate, you know these cars, you know what you're in for. This is not, I'm not, I've never

gone to your head with this. This is like, yeah, so I'm sort

of OK with that because he knows what he's getting into.

Did you say the most important legal words, Ed?

No taxi vaccines. No, it's got the concrete, the

warranty. Once you drive off of the

concrete, it's no warranty. Yeah, that's exactly how.

I that's that car. What else have I got?

I think that's about it, Carl. I don't think there's I might

have a little bid on something on greys.

I might have you know, Finishes tomorrow night.

Little little tidbit. We'll see.

We'll see how we go. Don't tell us because we'll up

the bid and we'll just keep on. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Don't tell us. Don't tell anyone.

No, you know, do you know what, Rob?

I bought a car out of spite once because this guy was on, this guy was on a Renault forum and he was crapping on about, oh, I'm going to buy this Renault. It was a Renault 12 of all cars.

You know, he's like, I'm gonna buy this Road 12 auction.

Oh yeah, I'm gonna bid on this. And he was making such a fuss

about it all. I thought, no, you're not

sunshine. So, you know, I had had a little

bit out of spite and then and then I bought.

It for like 3 or 400. Dollars something and I was like

shit, where is this thing and it was in Albury.

So I had to, I got a lift up with someone, might have been my brother, and then, yeah, drove it back from Albrey and I pumped up the tyres, put fuel in it. The thing ran like a top.

It was beautiful mechanically. And then my brother ended up

driving that for a couple of years.

It was a great little car. The Spike purchase turned out

all right. That's hilarious.

Did you make sure to rob it on that guy's face appropriately though? I took it to a couple of shows

and stuff. I don't know if he ever found

out, but yeah. Hell, he is.

Yeah, you should have I'll. Send on the podcast, like here.

Yeah, you should have the licence plate.

Spite SPI. Yeah, right, LMD.

Right. Not a whole lot Newswires

happening on my front. My front.

I did drive the Honda on Saturday, was Saturday and Friday basically. Do you have to join the Honda

car club now? Mate, You, you're a Honda guy.

Look, I'm really, actually really enjoying the Honda.

As much as I joke to trade in for the Impreza because I'm a Subaru. Man, that Honda is damn

economical. You've been rocking the jazz

album. Oh because my my sis, my sister

had to take no my brother wanted to take his car for a service so they stole the D Max. D Max.

And I was going out to a non workload thing and I was like, I'm not taking the STI just because of street parking and it's a very narrow St. So I took the Honda and you

know, I was, I was looking at the little, the gauges in the real time fuel economy I think it was he was hitting like 3 litres for 100 KS on the freeway.

And yeah, we caught the shackle because, you know, it dries very smoothly. Just the only thing I think I'd

change on that car is get a new style Android head unit with the biggest screen. Not one of those ones that went

in that MX5 that was terrible. Hey, you just didn't use it

properly. Alan It was awful.

It had no ergonomic merit whatsoever, that thing.

He just gets Siri to do it all anyway.

It's not a hit or there, but I'll probably get one that I think. Get a better one, get a better

one. I'll get a better one all right,

but more importantly, because it's already got a built in reversing camera, that's something that'll link into that camera system rather than me have to fish a new line through.

I know, I know a guy that knows a guy that that can get those factory kits and stuff. So yeah.

Yeah, no a Toto, no, a Toto all. Right.

No, a Toto it'll be hey, harm at best.

Yeah, so it really did enjoy the drive Nonda just it's it's basically very, very similar to the Suzuki and overall kind of feel and dimensions, except it's just a little bit not as high, but a much better car overall. So you know, in terms of like if

I assume that we replace the Suzuki with this, I'm very, very happy. Good to hear, Alan, good to

hear. You got a satisfied customer

right here. Tick tick tick.

Now find me a buy for that Subaru.

I'll try Scotty. Do.

Sorry a quick one, how did you go with the MX5?

The glove box and all the interior all sorted now all.

Yes, the glove. Are you asking Alan or me?

Do you know I bought that car? Did you buy a car?

I didn't know. That.

I I traded in on the Honda. No way.

Oh, OK, so I'm, I'm a week or two behind here.

OK. The MX5 went, yeah, traded on

out the Jazz that Alan's parents bought.

And then I ended up sending the MX5 to Grey's classic auction.

And but yes, the glove box was repaired by David Prince.

The interior had a few little touch ups to the upholstery, but really it didn't. The car didn't eat a whole lot.

You know, it's a very nice little machine.

I drove beautifully. Like whoever has bought that,

once they're behind the wheel, they'll they'll love it.

Scooby Doo. Me actually got some car updates

for us. So on Sunday, Father's Day, I

went around to my parents and it was such a windy day that I thought why not go out in that wind and work on the car?

So I went out and had a look and I thought, you know what, I've bought the new garage creeper. I thought, oh cool, it's a long

ago. You know, instead of laying on

the concrete, open up the box and find out I've got to put it together. I was like so.

Put that together and like, yes, get ready late, down, go to go under it and the car's not up high enough, no.

Maybe he's got your stomata at too much a Big Lunch had.

A big lunch, big head. Maybe you need to eat more salad

and then you feed. And my in the end I couldn't use

it because the trolley Jack that I've got is a low profile one.

I won't Jack up any higher. Sweet.

Baby. Jesus.

So I've jacked it up as high as it goes.

Obviously I've got Jack stands under it, safety first.

But yeah, it's as high as it could go on the front.

So that was that was a nuisance and I'm like, OK, so yeah, obviously wasted a bit of time. So crawling under there.

I've just got the front the front lifted up, but I need to take the tail shaft off 1st, so I go down to the back and trying to undo that. It's one side right?

So you got the bolt and then the nut.

So I need to hold hold both with spanners Spanners is the only thing that's going to fit ratchets uh uh it's too tight.

It won't fit on there with ratchets.

SO2 spanners, one side 15 mil the other side 14 mil.

So I was like, OK, OK, weird, weird.

But anyway. And the nut side, all I have to

end up doing thanks to the R31 forums is actually just hold, get that nestled in somewhere and have it gripped.

And then the other bolt is to get that turning and then you're all good. Because originally I thought,

OK, hold that bolt side and actually try and move the nut.

But no, it's the opposite. And that actually made it a lot

easier. Still took a bit, but I mean way

easier. Got them all undone, took that

off, moved up to the middle bit, took those two bolts off there and slipped out the whole drive shaft.

And then I moved to the transmission mount and where the transmission mount is, there's connects.

It connects to the exhaust, so there's another mount there.

So I undid that bit. This is all thanks to a YouTube

video, mind you, another guy that's done the whole process like his video goes for almost an hour.

Hats off to him. Thank you so much.

He goes into so much detail and video of it fantastic.

So I did that and then he mentioned to not put strain on the exhaust studs at first because when you drop the transmission, everything's going to sag and the engine and everything's all going to sag. So luckily the exhaust has been

done not too long ago. So after the cat, I was able to

undo those bolts nice and easy because I tried the ones where he tried it, which was which was before the cat and might have rusted. There's no way I'm trying.

It started to move a bit and then it didn't move and I'm trying to move and it's like squeaking.

You're like, Nah, that's kind of snap or something.

Nah. So I moved backwards.

I thought there's no difference, I'll just move backwards and undid that and just Chuck the trolley Jack under under there to make sure it's stable. And those bolts came out super

easy for the transmission. So now the transmission's been

slanted and dropped. So I'd done that bit.

Yeah. The next step will be there's 4

bolts up the front of the transmission to undo that will drop a plate that will come down and give you access to the rest of the bolts that go around it. So that'll be the next step,

which I'm hoping you'll do this weekend.

But now I'm hearing this weekend's going to be trash weather. So yeah, I get through that hard

bit and I'm thinking, yes, progress.

You're halfway. It is.

Good progress, Scotty. Progress.

I just want to drop this transmission and then I'll be I'll be happy. 100% Well, it's exciting.

I'm glad we're we're on the we're on the move.

Yep, same here. I got those bits that I thought

well, especially towel shaft. I thought Oh my goodness, how am

I going to do this? It was just so tough with just

basic spanners as all you could use.

But, you know, perseverance and some swearing and we got there.

It's got. Will it be ready for classic

Japan? When's that?

December. 1st Sunday in December. 1st Sunday in December

I think. It's the first actually this

year I think. September, October, November and

then you're there. The Chamber.

I couldn't see why not. I may need some help to get the

transmission in, though I'm not going to be able to do that by myself. So.

Matt, could you help Scott with that, please?

Yeah. Would you like to come, would

you like to come in with you and and give us all a hand?

I'll bring some. Audio out from the house, you

know it's. Getting more like a Teams

meeting now than. I'll bring some, you know, some,

you know, cookies or something. Oh, that's all right.

That's fine. Yeah, cookies.

If there's cookies involved, I'm happy to lend a hand.

Cookies, that is. Evening look.

We won't let the weather get the best of us.

I'll bring my marquee around. Oh mate.

Nice. And we can work rain, hail or

shine there, Scott. Yeah, that's good.

And I like that. I like that don't.

That look a bit like a crime scene then.

Especially when the the transmission inevitably drops on somebody's head and there's blood for it.

It's like a bit of blood. Runs out the corner of.

The I can stand out the front and just be like move away.

There's nothing to see here. Move away.

Just put the transmission on the grounds.

A good thing because you can get the another trolley Jack underneath it and sort of just wedge it up there and and sort of wiggle it with the trolley Jack and then slide it out and lower the trolley Jack. I've done a few gearboxes well.

We're going to have to get Rob. I think, I think, I think, Rob.

Done a lot of gearboxes by myself too, trying to get it up there on me chest and yeah, changing clutches and stuff like that. Done it all.

I mean, I've, I've done that with just exhausts and stuff and that's heavy enough, let alone you having an exhaust, having a transmission on your chest and trying to wiggle that because I've had my legs outstretched holding up, holding up an exhaust and stuff underneath the car to get after I get the bolts in and everything. But with the transmission.

Oh my God. Well, here's.

What we do, Scotty, we after the show, we'll make a date and we'll, we'll be there and we'll and we'll.

Yeah. We'll have it out in in an hour

I reckon. Done.

Yeah, wow. That would be absolutely.

You're in on this too, David. It will.

Oh, goes without saying it. David will have a committee

meeting that. It's.

One of those weekend ones. And that's one you're going to

want to go to. And it'll be, it will be.

It's going to be like, oh, can we do it next weekend?

I'm like, oh, yeah. Well, we should all be free.

David should be for the. Oh look, you know Mike, the the

committee got moved to the week after as well.

What a shame. And.

So much committee stuff. Wagering the brochure and road

tests from 1988. Have you tried those wretched

Spanish too, by the way? They're.

Great. Yes, I do.

I do have a set of those. What was it?

I used the which one? I think because there was,

because I think it skipped 15 mil or something.

So I went from 14 to 16. So I used the 14 site, but it

didn't have the 15 mil. Luckily I had a set that did

have it because for some reason it kept skipping 15 mil.

A lot of them it was just like even numbers.

I'm like, well come on, there's odd numbers, you know?

Yeah, there is. That's good, Scotty.

That's good progress, David Prince.

Dates with me I I had introduced Maddie to the M1 on the weekend.

That was a bit of a highlight for the weekend for me.

And Sunday after the appropriate Father's Day festivities were completed, I fitted something to it that I was given last year.

I'll put a photo in the in the chat.

Oh, the the IT was the Geek Gator, wasn't it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So David Dave, a mate of mine

gave me when I said, oh, I saw it on Instagram about a actually it was a year ago because the date was on the packet.

It was August 19/19/2023. I've received it.

So it's an Alcantara gear boot with orange stitching to match the orange highlights of all the other bits and pieces in the in the interior. So I saw it on Instagram, a guy

in Japan that had one of them and had the link to the the thing. It was like 20 bucks Australian

or something. So it that finishes off nicely

makes it a little bit more type R orientated that.

Looks real nice. Yeah, yeah.

So it suits the car very well. So that was good.

Not much else really. Oh no, actually there is one

thing the the the Red Accord. Sunday morning I was driving the

Red Accord off to to brunch and looked down.

The temperature needle was in the red, which is never a great thing, but so I pulled over straight away.

Had a look under the bonnet. There was nothing untoward,

nothing dripping. I I was only a few KS from home.

I don't that was part of the problem.

I'd only driven 3 or 4 KS. So I lived home very gently and

keeping an eye on it and got home cooled down that afternoon.

It was coolant was all there, nothing nasty under the oil cap.

So I think it's probably a thermostat.

So I have to look into that this week, getting that.

Sorted. Is it the dash?

Did you try punching the dash? I did try punching the dash, I

did no. No, I'm punching my issues, I

always think. Animatedly, we'll say, let's

just say tapping animatedly, but funny because that's how the illumination on the on the instruments works at night.

Just give it a little so yeah best case scenario, I suppose in a way it could be the gauge, but I don't think any any harm has been done. So we'll when I get a chance

we'll fiddle around with that and see if we can someone said feel the top radiator hose compared to the bottom radio, Radio to hose yes make sure the fans engaging actually too.

I didn't haven't done that yet, so.

Mind you, if you're 3-4 KS down the road in this weather and you're not sitting in traffic it the fans are not going to be going nuts. No, no, that's right.

That's right. Yeah.

Just make just make sure you test it properly.

Not like so Ron had a had a apprentice once and, and before before you put in a thermostat, you usually test it.

You you put it hot, you know, boiling hot water on it and you see if it opens up and he's like, he's like, he's like, where's the thermostat? He's like, oh, it's almost done.

He's like, what do you mean almost done?

It's in the. Kettle in the kettle.

Was it? Was it at least like a workshop

specific kettle just for that? Kind of like boiling water for

like that stuff? It was like the tea room kettle.

It was a tea room kettle I think I I you can imagine Ranley would have used some colourful language to.

I would have burst out laughing, I think.

Like a left handed screwdriver. Yeah.

Well, where's the thermostat? Oh, it's, it's always done.

It's boiling. Yeah, it's, it's Yeah.

And the only other car related thing today I I I sent a video ran in the chat earlier in the day, but I did determine that the BYD door trim actually does play the introduction to smoke in the water. So smoke so.

Yeah, it's a guitar in a car. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So we discussed that last week a little bit, that it looked like guitar strings. Actually, it works as guitar

strings too. So here you go.

Yeah, that's probably that's the coolest part about that car.

Absolutely. About the coolest part on that

car, Yeah. Rob updates with you.

Glad I'm last because there's not much to say.

All the cars are just sitting on charge.

Tip started up the a 4/30. Had a tinker around.

I'm looking at hoists or car park hoists for me my garage, so apart from shopping around for one of them and starting one or two cars, not much from. What I've seen Rob, those are

about 15, sixteen, 1800 bucks sort of thing.

I wish. Oh, really?

One for $1800. So they A4 car, A4 poster car

hoist. Yeah, yeah, about 3 1/2 new, the

cheapest I found. Really 'cause if?

You can find one. And these are not hoist for

working on cars. These are parking.

These are just parking. Yeah, there was some Chinese

ones that were used in a cafe in town.

And they were like I think someone said they paid 1300 each or 1400. Oh, that's good.

That's a good price. I'll be buying two of them.

I'll have a look. Yeah, let me know.

That would be great. So yeah, I just want to get some

cars tucked away nicely, just do a bit more work around the man cave and just sort of get that sorted out.

I was thinking of putting one on top of each other within the man cave actually, so that the E30 could sit on top and then they'd have the Mercedes underneath with the LED lights that I'm I've got to set up. So just little things like that.

Not much. Been trying to get out a bit

when I can with all that stuff going on around family wise.

So just went out for a dirt bike ride so been riding the the motorbikes a little bit. So on the weekends which has

been good. So not not too much in the cars,

but more to motorbikes at the moment.

Updates with me. So this Saturday I went and saw

Mr Prince to adjust some stuff on my on my laser with my roof racks. He kindly he gave me a hand with

that masked up the car. He gave it a little bit of a

paint and then I drove I think the coolest car I've driven ever. The the That's a big.

Cool. Matthew, it's cool.

It's it's so cool, like it's such a cool little car.

The the N1 RSI kind of want one now.

So for people who know me, who are listening, you know I'm not buying one, not at all. Not.

At all. So, yeah, it was so really cool

to drive. So planted.

I, I, yeah, I, I didn't know what I was getting into.

I thought it would be similar to the other one.

But this one with a manual and everything is just so much more engaging. And the engine's really torquey.

It's, you know, it's, it pulls in 3rd gear like a train.

So yeah, really, really surprised me.

Really cool car. And I've been telling everybody

about it, which has been quite funny.

Just don't tell where I live. You know I won't.

That's OK. Everybody who lives now, I'm

king. So yeah, really, really cool

little car. I think that's pretty much it.

So now, gentlemen, I wanted to talk to you and ask you guys a question over time where you've had to eat your words.

Now I'm having to save up for something because I've said something live on air that if the Hyundai envision 74 actually does get green lit and it does come out, I would buy one because I knew it would never happen.

And then Hyundai come out this week and say, Oh, it's coming out. So because I think it is the

coolest looking new car in the last or concept car in the in forever. Really it is.

It's a bit of DeLorean. It's a bit of it's a bit of

Lancia delta. It's a it's a bit of everything

really, but and it and it looks superb.

Like, I don't know if you guys have seen this car.

It is as a concept it I mean, but even as a concept car, they said it was virtually very close for production if they if they really wanted to. So Hyundai is kind of kicking

goals at the moment and they're like, yeah, we're going to green light, green light that. And I mean, they haven't

announced what engines or anything anything are with them or anything yet, but that is, I think a very, very cool looking car. So yeah, I have to kind of hear

my words. Look, I, I don't think we buy

one, but, you know, is there been a, there's been a time like we in, in the automotive space, we're like, yeah, you know what, I'll take it back. I'll I, I, I either like this

car or, or you know what, I've said something and now I have to kind of back it up. I mean, Edward said he was going

to buy a car at a spot and he did.

So he, but in terms of, in terms of things like has there been things that you've driven, you'd be like, you know what, I should take it all back. This was this was a this was a

good experience. The one that immediately springs

to mind for me was the FG gas. My Eco LPI Falcon.

Eco LPI, that was, that was, yeah, Yep, Yep.

With 446,000 KS on the clock. And I, I hadn't, I hadn't bagged

them mercilessly, but I'd never given them much thought.

I, I think I've said on the podcast before, I grew up in Holden family, so we had each model holding after the next one and yeah, never had much to do with Ford's at all and always thought, well, they're usually yellow on taxis.

That's mostly it seems I, I should have, I should have, I should have thought that I, I would rethink after driving the Typhoon, the the velvet glove Typhoon.

But yeah, when you, when you're faced with a car that's obviously not being loved and with all those sort of KS on it, you, you don't expect much. And I, I can remember getting

home and thinking, wow, OK, I I rate that, especially given given that I had never before. So I was not cheating my words

but. What do you mean obviously not

being loved? They were reasonably well looked

after. Well, that reason, but they were

company cars. They were they they weren't some

anything like sort of typhoon. Mind you, there are probably not

many FG Falcons like no, it's Janina's car that that get loved quite as much as that. So, but yeah, I mean, certainly

there's a there are enthusiasts followings now for different models, but just to, you know, an eco LPI gas powered XR6, not the stuff that dreams are made of usually I wouldn't have thought. But yeah, great car.

That story, when you said it the first time, you're like, yeah, shock and horror. I actually didn't mind it.

I was like, I was like, oh, there you go.

Well, that's that's that's a good start.

What what other stories? Guys, have you said?

You know what? I'll I'll take my I'll leave my

words. Yeah, I I was I'll take it all

back. I was wrong.

Yeah. This is a this is a, this is

this is cool or Yeah, I will have to do this now that I've that I've said it. Well, like my Tarragon, I was

ready to, I was only sort of rescuing that to then sell it again initially. And it only took me 10 minutes

of driving in Canberra and I was like, all right, no, we're keeping that. So that was a pretty quick turn

around, you know, in terms of, yeah, I expected, I don't know what I thought. I just thought, oh, yeah,

whatever, old Toyota van. Yeah.

But then on, you know, 10 minutes down the road and I was like, wow, it's smooth. And it's actually quite quiet.

And I'm quite comfy up here looking at the IMAX screen.

And, you know, you just sort of sometimes cars, yeah, they surprise you a little bit. That was one.

I'll go with the C43 AMG like obviously I hadn't driven 1 and I just bought it from what I saw pictures of and did a swapsies with the M3 and good. Decision.

Good decision. Very good decision.

And, you know, I was, you know, kind of excited to see what it's like. I didn't have huge high

expectations, but I think getting in it and driving it for something that was like a 98 model it had.

Oh. About 150 a 160,000 KS on it.

My goodness, that car was solid. Far out, just the door, solid

everything. There was no squeaks, there was

no rattles. There was nothing with this car.

It was just bulletproof. Never driven something just felt

like you're just at home. It was comfortable, easy to

drive. For something that was an AMG,

it still was very comfortable. It wasn't harsh or anything like

the cars out like the cars are nowadays.

Small V8, but you know it still. It still went alright, I guess

for its time was pretty good. Yeah, I was pretty surprised

with just how solid of a car it was.

Yeah, a 2O2 I think is a future classic in in a lot of ways because, you know, it was for me, that's kind of like the last, you know, real, you know, proper, properly built.

No, in a way like, you know, in a way like a a really good.

Every generation people say that I that's why I'm laughing.

It's just. No, but the.

Last of the good Benzes. That was the last.

That was the last. We've been saying it's the last

for 50 years. No, but genuinely because like I

can't think of anything after that that that that feels as good as like a 2O2 like in terms of solidity.

Next one that comes close is the two O 4.

You know, they're a well regarded sort of solid driving car. The two O 3 was a bucket and two

O 4 was was back on track. I think so, yeah, I don't know.

I don't know. So I agree with you.

I love A2O2, but I don't know in 10 years are we going to be saying, oh, those 2O fours, that's the last of the proper bands. But.

I don't think we will do it because, you know, yeah, you know, as well as I like those those 80s and 90s, you know, over engineered, you know. Very good.

Money no option. Good, good cars and you still

see a lot of them on the. Road yeah, I saw it in traffic

this morning I saw 2 W 124 sedans just driving to work in my short commute and I was like oh there's a 124 sedan that's clean then two minutes later I'm like there's another one that's clean yeah random I'm surprised by little cars like I had a.

Mirage a while back. You know those 90s Mirages that

were everywhere because they were like 13999 grand or something. I thought they were ugly when

they came out. I didn't like the tail lights

that were pointy at the top and I thought they were tin can Mitsubishi. And when I bought that car and

cleaned it up and started roosting around in it for a bit, I was like, this is actually quite solid and it actually feels quite nice. And it surprised me in the the

refinement and the quality for what is a very cheap car.

And another one along those lines was years ago when I drove the Daihatsu Sirion, the very first Sirion they ever did, which is the one litre 3 cylinder, little 5 speed manual.

And I thought 3990. No, they were 11990.

They were I think the second cheapest car you could buy, the cheapest being the cure that I used to have which was like 8 or something like that, or not 8 or 9 maybe.

Anyway, 11990 got you a Sirion back in the day and we had a Matisse at the same time at at work to press cars and they're both sort of real cheap, similar price.

They're both 3 cylinder. The Sirion was A1 litre, the

Matisse was an 800CC or thereabouts and you couldn't get two more different cars. The Matiz was wheezy, lethargic,

terribly put together, awful panel gaps.

You know, it was Daewoo at their finest.

And the Sirion was revy, sweet, engaging, refined in it's in it's manufacture for what is a very cheap car.

And that just kept surprising that I had four people in it going up the hill near Chadstone with the air con on, and it was still pulling and revving, you know, And it was fun.

You know, it had that lovely note that the three cylinders have. And I just stepped away from

that and went. And it had power windows and

dual airbags. And I think it had to have dual

airbags to meet the crash safety, but wouldn't without them, probably. But yeah, just you just think,

how can you build this for this money?

How is that possible, was my thought at the time.

And if you ever get a chance to drive one, there's still a fun little thing now that that punched above its weight.

Oh my, go, I'm the Mitsubishi Mirage.

Never thought I'd buy one. And yours is the, yours is the

newer 1. The newer 1.

Yeah. It was 10990 when we paid for

that it was discounted equity. 10990 I mean that is nuts.

For a car. Absolutely nuts.

And that was 90. What was that, 2000?

And. 17 maybe? Yeah, it.

Wasn't that long ago when you got that?

No, and great car, never missed a beat.

Right on fuel, drove it everywhere.

It was just a car that you'd just jump in and drive to the shops. Easy to park, easy like just

it's the best runabout car we've ever had.

I think we just just done what it needed to do.

Haven't you still got that? No sold it just during COVID and

I got end up selling that for I think 9 or 10 grand.

Which I mean you only paid then like it's.

Yeah, it was 9, I think 98I sold it for or something like that.

That's. Nuts.

And we've done something like one knows 80,000 KS on it or something. 80,000 that's a lot in a mirage in like two or three

years. We drove it everywhere,

everywhere, you know, and after the disappointment of the Porsche, the KN I, I was impressed.

How many people actually sold their KNS and bought a Mitsubishi Mirage and were impressed?

That's that's, that's pretty impressive.

It's that thing about expectation.

You know, when you, when you paid, not that you bought the Porsche new, but when you paid big money, there's a lot of expectation that comes with that.

And when you pay no money, there's sort of no expectation.

So you're always happy. You know, my friend bought a $30

DVD player from Audi back in the day when everyone else was spending a grand on DVD players. And he said, Ed, every time it

works, I'm like, wow, what a great machine.

Where's the other one that does 1 little blip or stuff up?

You're like, I paid a grand for that now.

I mean, Oh. Yes.

You know. That translates to cars, too.

I mean, I, I talked to someone recently and their $300,000 Autobiography, Range Rover lasted a week, I think, you know, before it actually had to be towed back to the service department. You know, the owners were not

too impressed, evidently. Well, you would be, wouldn't

you? You know, you wouldn't be.

So they. Yeah, it, it works the same

whether you're buying DVD players, I think.

Yeah, yeah. It's anything I should.

Have ordered Mitsubishi Mirage obviously.

Just low expectation and. Exactly.

You're always happy, yeah. Can I just say that Mirage saved

me one night? Not many people have ever said

that, no. No, it seems.

I'd like to see the difference between a Mirage killed me versus mirage saved me saved. Me.

Well, Rob, Robin knows this story, but it was the night before my wedding and well, yeah, anyway, the day, the day before I went to my dad's to borrow the territory because territory had, you know, big boot space.

We had to put all the stuff in to drop to the to crown where where where we got married. And so I'm in the loading zone

and and backed it in and lived at the tailgate and, you know, imprim to the stuff out the car. The car was chalkers.

So anyway, go to start the car and it's got a dead battery.

And it was like, I think the second battery in the car was it was pretty tired. And so this is the, yeah, the

night before, the night before my wedding.

So it's like 4:00 in the afternoon.

I call RACV to come, to come find me there.

You know, two hours later, they, they, they drive past.

I'm like, I'm here in the loading zone.

And they, they drove off. My God, they come back around

for sure. They saw me, they didn't see me

because I, I called him up 40 minutes and I'm like, hey, they drove right past me. They're like, yeah, they

cancelled it because I couldn't find you.

Then I then I like, we'll send another car.

They send another car. The guy comes there with his

with, with, with, with his jump pack.

The jump pack doesn't start the car because it doesn't have enough juice in the jump pack to start it.

He's like, I'm like, what kind of RACV services is?

So by this time it's like it's 10:00 PM at night.

I'm like, I'm freezing in this, in this, in this car park and I'm like to him. So what do you do?

Like I wanna call a tow truck. I'm like, but you already said

we just just jumped me. Like you jump a lease or, you

know, it'll start the car. He had a big, you know, big

diesel. He's like, Nah, we can't do that

this Daniela. And I'm like, this is this is

great. So he just drives off and leaves

me there. He's like, I'll order your tow.

Meanwhile, my phone has died because I at this point, no, nobody knew where I was. Rob, I think you, you were

trying to contact me because you were driving one of the cars the next day. Yeah.

And I think you called my mom and mom.

Mom's like, I don't know where he's either.

I think he's kind of stuck in, he's stuck in the Crown.

Then I get I get a knock at the window because I'm just sitting in the car freezing. And it's a security guard from

Crown. He's like, oh, can you move your

car? I'm like, mate, the car's like

the battery's down. Like I can't move the car and

he's like, we have to push it out of here because we have to shut the gate. I'm like, well, you're gonna

help me. He's like, no.

So here I am pushing a pushing a 2 1/2 bit tonne car out out.

Like it's like kind of in an incline where because where the, where the dock was, it was the car was here and it kind of goes down. So you could, you could lift up

and put things. So I'm pushing it uphill and

then I pushed it too far and it started going onto the main road. So I had to run after the car

and jump in and RIP the handbrake.

It's like almost, it probably would have been almost midnight a Rob and and so a tow truck comes to pick me up and it's and it's picking the car up. And as soon as the tow truck's

picking the car up, I see, I see him.

I see, I see Rob in The Mirage with a battery.

Rob's like I got a battery. It's like a mirage.

And and and and I'm like, oh, so, you know, it can, it can be, you know, I'm confused. He's like, it's already in the

tower. It's already on the truck.

Yeah, I'm going to take it home. Great.

So, so Rob, so Rob picked me up in The Mirage, saved me.

I'm like, how do you find me? He's like, I just just drove

around around. Yeah.

So he's driving around. He finds me in the middle of in

the middle of the city. Anyway, so we we end up going

for a for a beverage and a burger because I hadn't eaten since like dries that day. Oh.

My God and. That's right.

That was that was one of the worst days of my life.

Anyway, it dropped me home. So just back to my parents and I

asked the tow truck job. Can you can you put the car in

the driveway because, you know, don't leave it on the street because I can't lock it because the, the all the electrics were gone in the car. And he's like, yeah, no worries.

He leaves it in the middle of the road.

So here I am at like, you know, 2 in the morning, pushing a car into a driveway the day before my, well, the day of my wedding essentially. I mean it would have been better

if you just missed the whole wedding ideally.

Yeah, I would completely agree with you, but but that was that.

Is wonderful, isn't? It it is I, I think, I think it

was God telling me like he was trying everything not to make it. Do not do this.

That the combi being, you know, being squashed, yeah, which which again, you know, but. Then.

But then I wouldn't be on here. You wouldn't know me, which

might be a good thing, but you wouldn't know David.

That is also true. That would be a tragedy to not

know David. So yeah, that, that is so, yeah,

I was going to have a combi van for my for one of my wedding cards. And then we had some strong

winds and a tree fell on it and squashed it in half.

So they had to give me probably another, another combi again.

It was, I think, I believe it was divine intervention trying to step in and and don't, don't do this.

But then this other combi, you know, I met the the guy Brett, who then I went to a Cars and Coffee with.

Cars and Coffee where you met me, then I introduced you to David. Here we are, and now parents

have got a jazz because of it. It's true.

Yeah, it all works out for Alan. What in a bad stuff happens to

Matt, the equal good stuff happens.

The universe works in mysterious ways.

Who am I to say you know? Moral of the story is though,

moral of the story is 1 Rob's a great guy for coming to save me in the and The Mirage is The Mirage saved my life.

The Mirage was a noble Steed. There was a noble.

Steed it. Was it was a good little car,

That wasn't it, Rob. It was.

It was. Like for what you paid for it,

what it did and what it was. Great car.

And that's that's what is hard to comprehend with expensive cars or you know, that are 1 two $300,000 a car that's 10 grand.

Like you could probably put 300,000 on that mirage with regular servicing and it just won't miss a beat ever.

And you go, how can I buy something for 10 grand that just works And you spend 200 and it's in the shop every month.

Like how I know they got more complex stuff in them, but you see it, it's like more money doesn't necessarily mean better.

Is it better Rd holding? Yes.

Is it better safety? Yes.

You know, it's all those things, but but how can you in any, in any other world when you buy things that are like if you went and bought a sofa that was a $30,000 catch, it's going to be much better put together the fantastic furniture couch, you know, it's going to last longer, the materials going to be better quality and all those things with cars it, it doesn't sort of work that way. It's, it's, it's interesting

that you say that because you know that that mirage actually felt remarkably solid, Like it felt, it felt good.

It felt good on the road and and I'm like, like this doesn't feel much. It doesn't feel much better

than, you know, some less better than inverted commas.

Then some of our stuff that's way more expensive than it like, yeah, it was it was remark. It was remarkably good.

And the quality, I mean, being a, you know, a Mitsubishi made in India or wherever it was made, I think it was India, yeah, The quality wasn't bad. It was a great little car put

together. Well, it really was.

We're going to look up how much they are now.

Rob getting excited about Mirages.

But I mean, Rob, you told me. That the same thing.

You you're looking. Got it too.

Your mate looked up, sorry it worked for was it or bought a brand new brand new Range Rover and it didn't make it out.

I even drove out the out the door.

I'm picking up and died halfway up the street.

And then was it your mate that that he went back and can you go pick up my car? It's broken down.

I think it was it was I. Believe the story though it.

Was I, I? That's how it was.

Stories like that. Yeah.

My mate worked at the concierge at the Range Rover dealership and he he told me some horror stories there.

Oh yeah. Yeah, Oh, mate.

It's just, it's just, it's just surprising.

I remember I watched a YouTube video.

I have to send it to you guys in the chat afterwards, but these guys bought a brand new Defender, like the new one and the first one, they took it back and after like a week or something because it had some issue and they couldn't repair it. So basically it got scrapped and

they gave him another car. I had to wait three months for

another car. They, they're like, OK, well

with this one, can we get the, the bull bar and stuff fitted?

They got to fit the bull bar and the technicians accidentally cut, cut around one of the wires in the loom.

And then they couldn't replace the whole loom.

So they had to give him another new car.

So they got, so they got three, they got two or two and we got essentially scrapped and they got, they got one, They got, finally got one that yeah, I was just like, that's what you pay.

That's just, that's a joke. I'd rather give me a, give me a

$10,000 mirage any day of the week.

That's that'll work. I wish they had a hot mirage.

I wish they had like a hot version of it.

They do have a sport version of them, but not a super hot hatch, but a sporty version of one. Better bucket seats, alloy

wheels. Yeah, sort of.

Yeah, spruced up a little bit, but it's not worth the rally up around. It's not it's not worth the

extra $5000. Yeah, by the.

Way. Well, back then.

Now it's probably a $26,000 car. A new one.

It would be stupid. They had the ES and the LS.

OK. Models, I think.

By the looks of it, I think. Auto rob please.

Auto yeah, but it was fine. I was happy.

Yeah. Oh, that's another on along

those Icos auto. Three cylinder little Modi.

You think, oh how does that work?

That cure I had David gave me a tip off one day about a white one in an auto. Mine was a little silver manual

and so I went and bought that from Picapart.

Wreckers, wasn't it? Yeah, from Picapart in Kilsyth.

It was out the front. It had done like 80,000 K, It

was auto with air con and I hadn't driven the auto one.

I'd driven my manual 1 and I thought Oh no good.

I pulled out a pick apart wrecker, you know, again, pump the tyres up, put some fuel in it, drove it back to my place, which is a good 45 minutes maybe.

And I was like this thing's a cracker, you know, like it just it worked really well with the auto.

It was just smooth and I thought you could commute in this every day. It it just it, it belies belief

how something so tinny and enlightened with such a pissy motor as an auto can work. And yet it did.

And the guy who bought it off me drove it straight back to Sydney deck, pulled the rear seats out and decked it out as a little, you know, work a little work car.

Because he had a Ute and he said I can't, I get all these contracts in the city buildings. I can't park the Ute in there.

So he wanted like a little Citi card that he could just zip into his car and Billings and do his job.

And it was perfect for that. And it cost him.

I don't know what I sold it for like 1800 bucks or something or two grand. It was a cracker.

And so now I'm like, I would rock an auto in that car, whereas normally you you wouldn't.

Can we just something totally different And I, the son just caught up with my relatives in Europe and my uncle drove across Europe and he's 300D. I love a 300D.

Or maybe a two Sorry, a 250 D 500,000 kilometres on it.

Manual. No air conditioning in the

middle of summer in Europe. Love it.

Sorry, 800,000 kilometres. Sorry, Deb just said 8. 100.

1800 thousand kilometres so. That 2.55 cylinder will be the

same motor that's in my 190. Yeah, it would be, yeah.

Motor non turbo 2.5, yeah, yeah. Sort of hard to see that.

Great car. Yeah, wow.

I could not believe it. But did he just drive his 83, I

think my uncle, or 86, I think 86 and he's been driving that for the last 30 years. Well.

Well, we're already 20 something years.

Way to? Do it.

So I do it. You've got to maintain your

diesel, yeah. Unbelievable car.

Yeah, it's going to say. I was going to say, oh, here

goes Matt Withhold, they were the best, but they were mate.

They just weren't. It was the lots of the proper

Benzes. Lots of the proper Benzes Ken

Berksman would agree with with me.

OK, he would totally agree. Only if you maintain them,

Matthew. These old Hirshman radios going.

To do a million miles, but they won't do it unless you maintain them. If you haven't listeners, go and

look up Kent Bergsma on Mercedes Sauce on YouTube.

He's a character and he knows a lot about old Diesel Benzes.

He's a legend. Worth worth a watch, yeah.

Really. OK, so you had AW124 Mercedes,

correct? I did.

And you got that car for? Free, correct I.

Did. And that car had a myriad of

problems, correct? It did.

So I feel like I was well placed in my mind to see that that car's a ship box. I was like, damn, any getting

hustled and getting a free car and then, you know, paying, yeah, God knows how many thousands in repairs.

We don't talk about that. That kind of existed, if you if

you ask me, yeah. Look, I again, I always just saw

it around when I, whenever I'd come to your place, you know, we do a lot of Car Talk things, you know, behind scenes in that time period and I just see it there. I'm like, I know why he's got

the ship box. And until we went to I think it

was Afghan kebab in Camberfield. And you're like, you know what,

we're taking the benzo. I'm like, you want to get there?

OK. And you had me drive back.

I'm pretty sure I. Did.

And that was a remarkably smooth ride.

How? How good are they to drive?

When they work, they're unbelievably good.

I had, you know, a lot of preconceived notions about how, you know, the car's going to, you know, just clunk out on us and just, you know, we're going to walk home, we'll get an Uber.

But the car was very solid. Like obviously it was old, you

know, granted, but it, it really did give you that sense of this was like a pimp mobile in its in its heyday.

Like this was you'd buy this car if you're a pimp or, you know, a kind of a, a richer person living on the outside of town.

Well, for all its faults and constant breaking down, that car, you know, was really, really smooth and like really relaxing to drive. It's just, you know, you're

going somewhere. You don't want to think about

it. You're just on your way.

And as long as it works, which you did, you're in that drive.

It was, you know, it made me my words.

I was like, it's not complete ship box.

You know, while while it's working.

This is a pretty damn fine car. Can I just can I just add to

that OK, when before you drive that I had a myriad of issues getting it to run right because it would it had it had a few you know, it had a few issues it it was running too rich.

It was failing out the plugs. It was it was just it was until

I got it right. I put as you know, I've got on

that dyno and they and they tweaked a few things adjusted the mixtures of that that the guy that used to do those old marks after that it was solid. It was completely solid.

The guy that bought bought off by my uncle got a drove it from here to there without without a single hiccup still drives it every couple every couple weeks drives it all the time.

He's like he's like never let me down.

I'm like, of course as soon as someone else gets the card and now that it's. It's while the car's under your

chair. It's like no gonna gonna gonna

do everything wrong as soon as it's moved along.

It's like now I'll behave because with you and you can misbehave now it knows that your uncle will probably crush it if it misbehaves. And it's like, no, not got to.

Go keep going, Matt. Would you, Christine?

Christine. Yeah, it felt like it sometimes.

It was like this car's going, this car's going to kill me at some point. But another one for me was was

my LTDI think, which was another free car and I expected absolutely nothing from that car.

Like I was like this is this I remember when I got you.

You had learned your free car less than by the I.

Did I did at this point and then remember getting it towed to ratners and and runners like can you, I won't use the language you use, but he's like, can you get this into a pick a part now get it out of here. This is this is this is a

workshop. This is not a car for, for this

had rust hadn't been, hadn't been driven in 20 years.

And and he's like, look, I'll do I'll do a deal, hook a battery to it and see if it starts. And if it starts, you know,

I'll, I'll, I'll change my, my mind, hook the battery to it and 1st crank bang on old fuel. It came to life and I and I just

looked at him and he just, he just shook his head and walked off. And then he proceeded, It's not,

it's not working out. It almost burnt Rob's house down

it. It's what else did.

It do didn't it? Spray water all coolant all over

retina like he got he got. Did, yeah.

Up on him or something? Because the coolant and somehow

just sat in the car, the the heater didn't work.

So he had to clean the heater box out.

The heater core was just completely clogged and and I got around there to do it because I'm like, yeah, I'm not doing that. And then he did it and he's

like, it's not working. And he and he put more hope, put

more pressure in there and it just banged and hit him in the face. This old cool.

And he's like Evan Matthews bloody belt.

Hands. Not the house.

You. Went transmission fluid

everywhere as well. It did, yeah.

When we did the transpan, that that was, that was fun.

My, my arms and hair and face were covered in transmission fluid. But that's but without that.

Just just quickly, I thought this was a story about how we're positively eating our words. You know, but.

Any great picture here Maddie? Just just I.

Am my words well run the 80s words because he said it wasn't going to start and it started on the 1st crank bang.

It came to life and I am my words because when I drove it, I'm like this actually drives really well and it and it drove it and it drives it was like this is unbelievably good for what it. Is very smooth and very quiet,

that car. So I was, I couldn't believe my

luck. It was a car that wanted to

live. And yeah, it, they actually

never left me stranded once. It was a it was a, it was a

cracking little car, big car, I should say.

Big car. Big car.

Yeah, it was a big. I wonder what it's doing now.

Yeah, I wonder what it is doing now.

I have, I have thought about that.

I wonder where it where it went. But you know, it's probably

probably been used for parts because because it was complete, but it just was rough. Might see it on the street with

a Barrett Turbo in it one day. One day, one day and it'd be

like, well, that'll be cool. And you know, I wish, I wish I

was able to do something like that.

But anyway, any last ones gone before we get to the quiz?

I guess I thought you know BM WM3 would be great but.

That's the opposite sky, as would what do you.

Think, oh, well, I mean, I thought it was going to be good.

And you know, I ate my words. It's it was shitty.

It wasn't. That's funny.

It is time for the for the quiz. So we've got Edward, Scotty alum

Rob and Mr. David Prince all vow vying for tonight's grand prize

of. Bragging rights.

Bragging rights. Thank you very much.

All right, Question 1, So 10 questions plus some bonus questions now, First ones are closest to a 1994 Toyota Celica GT4 rally was in Australia. How much new back in 1994?

Rob. Rob. 27500. 2750 He's he's very,

he's very keen. 27500, OH. It's always really.

For the GT4, we're talking about the like the all wheel drive turbo version down here. Probably more than sorry.

Yeah, I'll give you, I'll give you another guess because I think you're thinking of the the rally, the rally.

Yeah, yeah. So I'll that would have been

around the 48 grand mark, I'll say. 4848 cases Rob Scotty got

in the next Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say 54990.

54990 No more no more to pay, drive away, drive away, No more to pay. David Prince, Alan Deep and Mr

Edward Bunting. I'll go 83,990. 83,990, Edward.

What was Rob's guess 48? 48.

I'm going to go 58. 58 and alum. Let's go with an even 60. 60 It

was, believe it or not, in 1994. Eighty 5560 dollars.

No. Why big?

Money. Big money.

No. Yep, I can show you an advert

for one if you like. I couldn't believe it or not.

So I went I went on Red Book and it was like, Yep, that's that's what they were. So I was like, wow, that is

incredibly expensive. 80 series, like like a top 80 series wasn't

even that. Like this wasn't a very

expensive car. 30 years ago it was pretty cheeky of Toyota to

actually even sell them I reckon.

That's 180 grand in today's money.

Yeah, yeah. I wonder how many they sold in

Australia. Like they couldn't have been

many. Like they couldn't have sold

that many. No, I wouldn't have thought so.

Bonus question, in comparison, how much was a standard SX silica? Oh. 31. 31K, says Edward.

Well. Off was around a 26 grand mark.

I'm gonna say 6, says Rob. 94, I'll go 34990. 30 grand What I'm

gonna do 990 Scotty. 33 Five. 33 Five and Allen.

This is a Toyota Celica. Yeah, base model manual SX

poverty pack Celica. What's the lowest guess so far?

Lowest guess is 26. This is a pretty good guess.

Let's go with 23499. 23499 They would have said a lot more if

they were that price. They were $37,241.

Closest closest to is David again at 34919.

What? David knows he's Salikas.

At least just call him the Shalika man.

Shalika man. And.

Shalika, Shalika. I can't believe in.

Awfully expensive for that kind of a car in that era.

Well, it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a Camry in a fancy dress, really, let's be honest. It was, it had the Camry engine

in it. So question 2 score check.

David, you're winning by the way.

You're you're you're 2 and everyone else is 0.

The animator behind the spider verse movie of the spot of Spider Man was influenced by which car show.

Don't know, don't know, and don't know.

So who's seen the spider verse, you know?

No. I have.

Yeah. What year is spider verse?

It's recent. It's not a very old.

Recent. They're influenced by Top Gear

Ed. Ed Top Gear is incorrect.

Scott. Scott.

Initial D. Initial D is correct.

Scottie Scott. Initial D Question 3A Drive in

is a limited edition of which performance orientated vehicle Ed. Ed.

Hyundai. Hyundai What?

Edward. Hyundai I30 drive in.

Yeah, I'll give it to you. Hyundai I30 and that is that is

correct. Question 4.

If anyone gets this one I will give you 2 points.

This is a bit obscure. So the Ford Taurus SHO which was

which appeared only in the United States in its original film, was quite a fast car. Ford entered it into into a

racing series where they entered four of them.

So that's a hint 4 based off characters from a popular 90s children's cartoon. Ed.

Ed. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Absolutely, it is well done. Each of the cars was it.

They got two points for that. Each of the cars was a different

Ninja turtle and the drivers all wore an outfit that looked like the turtle suit with the helmet with the bandana, like in the shape of the bandana. That's so cool.

So yeah, I'll, I'll send you guys the video.

It's it's it's pretty cool. Make sure I get 2 points for

that. Don't skip.

Here, Edward, look, there's the camera man are.

You gonna show the questions? Oh, electronic, I'm good. 12

points 11. Points already.

Sorry, I put him on. I put him on the wrong person.

I've got 9% battery left so you gotta hurry up with this quiz.

All right, next, next question. The famous bugger ad for the

Toyota Hilux. So the Hilux caused some damage

around Australia. Which animal was it trying to

get out of a ditch? Ed.

Ed Ed got in there. I think it was a sheep.

Incorrect. Rob.

Rob. It was a cow.

It was a cow. What?

And he chokes it and he's pulling out and he's like.

Yeah, bugger as. You hear it, It goes.

Murrow, Murrow. I remember that now.

Question 6 Sticking with Toyota, the Sr sticker under the bottom of many a Toyota from the 80s was in relation to what David?

Super responsive. Correct.

Well, Sonia's question, it was to do with the valves.

There was no. Question.

Sorry, just. In case.

Super responsive. Super responsive.

Engines. That's that's what they're going

with. I just got a hunch there might

be a bonus. Score check David.

The the the little thing that develops is the O2 advantage.

O2 advantage correct? That is correct.

Yes, I'll have that point if that's a question.

I'll make sure to put that in the quiz for next for next week.

Making up your own questions, that's kind of -1 point once.

Again score check David 3, Edward 3, Scotty and Rob.

I'll let. Me get the score Question 7 The

Blues Brothers drove what? Ed Ed A big American black and

white car that was an ex police car.

Yeah, but what type of car is it?

Dave Edward Bundy. Oh God, was it a?

Oh. A Lincoln.

Incorrect alum. It was technically called a

Blues Mobile. It was technical, you know.

I'll give you. I'll give you .5.

Yes, I'll take it. That's all I know.

It was called the Blues Mobile but.

It was a Ford, wasn't it? It wasn't a Ford, no.

No, OK. David.

David was next. Was it Chevrolet?

Chevrolet. Caprice.

Incorrect, Scotty. Up to you my friend.

Was it a Cadillac? Incorrect.

It was a dodge. Monaco Dodge.

Yeah, Dodge, I say. Buick maybe?

Dodge. Dodge Monaco.

Sure. Yeah. 8% laptop question.

You're working on it? Working on it.

What vehicle did Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor drive for his boss Harry in the first Fast and Furious movie?

Scott. Rob.

Scott, he drove that F-150 Lightning.

Absolutely he did what on F-150 Lightning?

The proper lighting, not the new electric one.

Yeah. Question 9 Days of Thunder is a

movie about what racing series Rob got in there.

I heard. What was that, Rob?

NASCAR. NASCAR is correct, Rob.

Well, I got him. 1st that's how. Does the.

Paul Higman bonus point. You're really.

You're really. 1990. Alan, there's also an Indian.

Report take. My breath away.

Alan, there's also a Bollywood RIP off of this movie.

There is bonus question, what is the main character's name?

Oh fuck. That's that's your final answer.

Rob I. Don't know, Rob.

Ricky Bobby. Ricky Bobby.

Go on, Scotty, you can get this one.

Scotty, come on. Look, I mean, did he keep his

original name? Is it Tom?

Tom Cruise? He just.

Plain himself. David.

David. Was Maverick his actual name or

was that his nickname? No, that was in Top Gun Top.

Gun. Top Gun.

Oh, we would. Days of Thunder.

David Days of Thunder set. Me off on the cruise, Top Gun.

So who's still in for this question?

I think, I think Alan still in No one.

We don't know. I got nothing, so move.

On his name, his name was Carl Trickle.

It's Carl Trickle. Oh, that's right, Carl Trickle.

Yeah, Carl. Trickle, trickle.

And he doesn't know anything about cars.

He just knows how to drive. Know how to drive?

That's right. So just quickly, because I

obviously watched the Bollywood RIP off of this, does he have like an accident? And then he's like too scared to

to go fast again and he has to be able to his courage up.

Oh, an accident. Not an accident.

Accident. It's.

Been a few, this is a similar are we?

Oh sorry, Bollywood movie you might have.

I feel not be going any faster. Like, can you just make a joke?

Oh. My God, this.

This episode's going to Kroger nuts.

Seven percent, 7% laptop quick. Question, Ted.

Well, you're stop making us laugh then.

Question, Ted. Ford has been in the news

currently. Why?

For everything. For.

Everything Elm Elm I believe. What is this worldwide or is

this Australia? This is worldwide like it's all

over all the big all the big Automotive News news things as to. All right then, I've got it.

This is a 90,000 vehicle recall. Incorrect.

What? That doesn't make news.

How's that on Newsworth? That is Newsworth, so I'm taking

halfway every. Week there's one of those I'm.

Taking half a point. Rob Is it their reverse cameras,

Their climbing belts, their gearboxes, their oil pumps?

Pick engine lights. Pick engine lights.

Check engine lights. I I wish I could give it to you

for all those points, but that is incorrect.

Oh, David. David.

Is it the losses that the electric car division have made?

Correct. I'll pay that.

It's they're cancelling, they're cancelling the EV production at the moment. Why?

So that's bonus question is why? Because the electric division

lost, oh, $2 billion or something.

Yep, in so, you know, I'll give that to it.

They're doing it because it's like they're trying to keep in more profitable internal combustion engine vehicles because they realised that people aren't buying their electric vehicles. I'm.

Calling bullshit, I get half a point at least because it was an article recently about 90,000 vehicles being recalled.

Yeah, but there's an article about every car company that has that's having that. Yeah.

But it's you said why they're you.

Know. OK, All right, I'll give you .5.

You don't. Get whinging and you get a .5.

It doesn't happen. There's the guy trying to make

up questions. And trying to get extra points

you won't see. Kick this up and your battery's

going to be 0. Edward Buting.

I'll tell you what, he still comes last anyway, so that's that's fine. No.

It's only golf rules I won. It makes you sleep better at

night. Down.

That's fine. Yeah, one. 01 in golf rules.

You'll suck. I made par.

Squat. Check Alan.

One end of the day. Alan 1.

Rob and Scotty on 2A piece. Edward on three for getting the

getting the two. Points David's one now Edward.

'S on one. He got 2 negatives for

questions. Tonight's been on a grand total

of 5. Is Mr. David Prince well done?

Well done, well done. But yes, anyway, I'll have to

send you guys the Ninja Turtle racing car versions of the Taurus SHO, which had heads by Yamaha, engines built by Yamaha in Japan and shipped back to the States.

Let's do some plugs. Mr Edward Bunting and Mr. David

Prince, you guys do a podcast. Your turn, David.

I've done it the last few times. OK, OK.

Ed and I don't know if you know, but Ed and I have dabbled in the podcast area and we have a podcast called Auto Retro where we talk to people about because of their lives.

You can find it on iTunes and Spotify and all the usual podcast places, and it's a lot of fun to do.

It is, It's a great listening. There's more episodes coming

soon for them. Scaudos Golf Tip of the Week.

Off tip of the week, a great thing to do is a set up, a pre shot routine, something to get you into that mindset before you hit the golf ball. It could be something simple

like, you know, a couple practise swings or you know, just looking ahead where you're aiming and then come up to the ball. Wiggle the hip, Scotty Wiggle.

Yeah, you could do that. Flipping off your opponents.

Yeah, why not? Yep.

Whatever. Whatever gets you focused and

then back into that zone and into the mindset.

Like it, like it, Scotty. Rob's doing it if you're

firefighting electricals, neighbour.

Punching on with what else? No, no, we're all good with the

neighbours at the moment, you know, it's all under control.

I. Don't actually know what you do,

Rob He. Does everything.

He does everything Rob. Rob's doing it.

What do you do? So I'm a fabricator of bullshit,

but now I can sort of like put my hands to anything just so I know it's it's not the best but it works.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, what Rob is saying in a

few words is he launders money and so keep on the download.

Is that what you do? You do this stuff, Make stuff.

I'll make stuff. Yeah, I could.

I could just make anything. Yeah, just do it.

Rob's doing it. It's not his day job.

Like Rob actually has a job. I do have a real job, sort of.

I think I I sort of look after contractors.

He lost his money. He's a spy.

He lost his money and that's what the other side of business.

Saying, well, look. He's he's made stuff, but also

he's made sure that his neighbours shut up.

He's made them a. Deal.

He's not an ideal. They could have refused.

Made. A few deals but yeah being a

toolmaker by trade, the fitter I can machine up any part and make a part, you know, for a car be working on cars or mechanics for yeah, since I was a kid with my dad so yeah I'll.

Remember this? And I used to make a lot of

parts, Jet ski parts as well. Motorbike parts, yeah.

P-76 Parts. P-76 Parts machine nut flywheels

made it A6 bolt flywheel instead of three bolt flywheel.

Stuff like that. What's up the shutter?

Yeah, 5%, five. Percent Oh I can't all.

Right. You asked.

Dude, come on. You asked?

Yeah. Thank you.

Alan Deep. All right, so if the wonderful

news about electric cars has not turned you off buying an EV, Yeah, but good friend Rizzi [email protected] dot AU or

Facebook Tom forward slash carloop AU, he's the man in there. He's driven basically every

single EV that's available in Australia, possibly others that haven't been made available yet. He's also the man in the know

when it comes to the new car prices.

So hit him up. Absolutely.

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Absolutely. So yeah, it's the first of our

series of our ASMR series which which we've been filming.

Alan and I have been been filming these these episodes we've got we've got another two in the next couple weeks coming.

We've got a blue set coming. Yes, we do.

And then we've got more. So if you want your car to

feature in it as an ASMR, I think, I think we're gonna organise a few from this. Podcast stand for again.

Audio sensory something. I've got to double check that

now. Hang on, I'll I'll tell you.

Why are you saying that time video other than just a video?

Autonomous sensory median Meridian response.

There you go. That's it's, it's, it's

something that you get when when you when you, when you hear noises and things. So, but we do it for cars,

making sure that you see all the different intricacies of the different vehicles we are putting on there, in, in, in.

Laymen terms. I think it's called an ear

boner. Yeah, pretty much, yeah.

We're giving people ear boners. Is it like those ones I've seen

where they, they go to the car and they, you know, they're open and shut the glove? Box or the door locks.

And they do the switches and it's like like very sensory.

It's like you're. In the car.

So yes, we invented that. It's totally original idea.

We did. We did.

So yeah. Everyone else copying us.

Let one with my Reno see how many people.

Puke. Yeah.

Now I want to do one with the Reno and and even the Tarraga would be very cool I think. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

We're gonna run a hand over the blue carpet.

This you. Know.

Oh yeah. And that side, you do that,

Yeah, yeah. We're gonna do that one, bring

it in town and we can, we can, we can start doing that one.

That'll be good. Gentlemen, honour as always,

Love your work, love having you guys on.

Love our listeners. Thanks for listening and thanks

for keeping us going. We will see you next time.

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