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Car
Volkswagen Bora
The Volkswagen Bora is a Volkswagen sedan, meaning it’s a regular four-door car rather than a hatchback. It’s built on a platform related to the Golf, depending on the version. In the podcast, it’s mentioned as the basis for a particular project or build.
Car
Volkswagen Caddy
The Volkswagen Caddy is a small van made by Volkswagen. People use it for carrying things, but it can also be modified for projects. The podcast mentions it as the van that was brought over for a custom setup.
Car
Audi SQ5
An Audi SQ5 is a sportier, higher-performance version of the regular Audi Q5. Here, the host is mainly discussing wheels that fit the SQ5 and also bringing up an earlier battery/electrical problem they had on their Audi.
Term
20s
“20s” here means the wheels are 20 inches across. Bigger wheels usually mean different tires and can affect ride comfort and replacement costs.
Term
budget tire
“Budget tires” are cheaper tires. They may not grip as well or last as long as higher-end tires, even if they look similar.
Term
four mil left
“Four mil left” means there are about 4 millimeters of tread remaining on the tire. Less tread usually means worse grip, especially in rain, and it’s a sign the tires may be due soon.
Term
fully refurbished
“Fully refurbished” wheels have been repaired and refinished. Instead of buying brand-new wheels, you’re getting wheels that have been cleaned up and restored.
Term
battery issues
“Battery issues” means the car’s battery or charging system wasn’t behaving correctly. That can lead to starting problems or weird electrical warnings.
Car
Audi Q5
The Audi Q5 is Audi’s popular SUV model. The host says they once had battery or electrical problems with their Q5, which can cause starting/charging headaches.
Car
Nissan R32
The Nissan Skyline is a series of sports cars made by Nissan over many years. Some versions are especially popular with car enthusiasts for modifying and working on. The podcast brings it up while talking about working on an R32 Skyline.
Brand
Kia
Kia is a car brand. Here it’s just mentioned as the make of the earlier car the speaker is comparing to.
Term
bleepy thing
The “bleepy thing” is the annoying beep a car makes to warn you. It’s usually for safety features like reminders or driver-assist alerts.
Term
SSRs
SSRs are a brand of aftermarket wheels. Enthusiasts often choose them because they look right and can be lighter or better suited to the car’s setup.
Car
Chevrolet SSR
The Chevrolet SSR is a vehicle that looks like a pickup truck but has a special removable/retractable roof. It’s meant to be a fun, showy style vehicle rather than a typical work truck. The podcast mentions it as something that may have been part of a custom build.
Term
RB30
RB30 is a Nissan engine type (an inline-six). People build these by changing internal parts like the crankshaft stroke to make more power and torque than the smaller RB26.
Term
RB26
RB26 is a well-known Nissan engine used in the Skyline GT-R. A “stroked” RB26 means builders change the crankshaft stroke to make the engine bigger and usually stronger.
Term
20 inch wheels
This means the car has big wheels—20-inch rims. Bigger wheels can make the ride feel different, so it’s relevant to why the host is talking about how smooth (or not) the car feels.
Term
static low
“Static low” means the car is set very low while it’s just sitting still. That can make the ride harder and can cause clearance issues, so it’s a big part of the host’s curiosity about how it drives.
Part
coilovers
Coilovers are upgraded suspension parts that let you adjust how low the car sits and how stiff/soft it rides. They matter a lot for ride comfort, especially on a car that’s been lowered a ton.
Term
BHNRs
“BHNRs” appears to be a specific coilover brand/model or suspension setup nickname. Without more context from the transcript, it’s unclear exactly which product line it refers to, but it’s being used as a shorthand for the exact suspension hardware on the car.
Term
ultra deeps
“Ultra deeps” is a slang way of saying the car is slammed—set extremely low. That usually affects how it rides over bumps, so it’s relevant to the host’s surprise that this one can still feel smooth.
Term
Mark tune up
This sounds like a “tuned” version of the car—basically a specific setup someone built for Marty’s Mark 6. The host is saying people think it’ll be fine, but then they get in and react to how it actually feels.
Term
ground clearance
Ground clearance is how much space there is between the bottom of the car and the ground. If it’s too low, you can hit or scrape the underside when the road gets bumpy or uneven.
Term
Mark twos
“Mark twos” sounds like a specific older version of a car. The point is that this version tends to scrape more easily—especially at the front—because it sits lower or has a less forgiving shape.
Term
rubber band tires
“Rubber band tires” usually means low-profile tires with a small sidewall. They can make the car feel more connected, but they also make bumps feel bigger because there’s less cushioning.
Term
solid motor mounts
Solid top mounts are suspension mount components that use little to no rubber isolation at the top of the strut/shock. Compared with softer mounts, they transmit more vibration and impact into the chassis, which can make the ride feel less compliant over bumps.
Term
tire tank sloppy
The speaker is basically saying some cars feel a bit out of control or unstable over bumps. It’s usually related to how the suspension is set up and how it absorbs impacts.
Term
heated leather
Heated leather means the seats are made of leather and they warm up. It’s a comfort option that some trim levels include and others don’t.
Term
sport line
“Sport line” is a car trim level—basically a package of features and styling. They’re discussing different Sport line versions and what comfort options each one includes.
Brand
Bose
Bose is a well-known company that makes high-quality car audio. They’re saying the car has an audio system built into the headrests.
Car
Skoda Superb
Skoda Superb is a bigger Skoda car with lots of room inside. The hosts mention it to compare how it feels to move from a bigger Skoda to a smaller one.
Car
Skoda Octavia
Skoda Octavia is a practical Skoda that’s smaller than the Superb. The hosts are talking about what it feels like to switch from a bigger Skoda to the Octavia.
Term
boot
The boot is the back storage area of the car—what some people call the trunk. It’s the space you open to put luggage or gear inside.
Term
sub boxes
“Sub boxes” are enclosures built to hold subwoofers for a car audio system. The box shape and internal volume strongly affect how the subwoofer plays (especially bass response).
Term
partial shelf
A partial shelf is a panel in the back of the car that covers part of the cargo area. Builders use it as a shape/fit reference when making custom speaker boxes.
Term
hidden door
A hidden door is a concealed access panel built into the car’s custom interior. It lets you reach something inside later while keeping the outside looking clean.
Term
press fit
A press fit means one part is pushed into another so it stays tight by friction. It’s a common way to make panels removable but still snug.
Term
valve block
A valve block is a part that controls flow—basically a hub with valves inside. It directs air or fluid to different parts of a system so it can operate correctly.
Term
hard lines
Hard lines are stiff tubes that carry air or fluid. They’re used instead of soft hoses when you want a cleaner, more stable routing.
Term
VU4 style manifold
A manifold is a part that routes flow to different directions. “VU4 style” here likely means a particular design of that routing piece used in their system.
Term
circuit board
A circuit board is the part that holds electronic components and connects their wires together. It helps send the right electrical signals to the solenoids.
Term
plug delete
A plug delete is when someone removes or bypasses a factory electrical connector. The goal is usually to make the wiring simpler or hide/relocate the connection.
Part
solenoids
Solenoids are small electric devices that act like switches for fluid flow. When they get power, they move to let fluid go where it needs to go.
Term
remote plug
A remote plug is just a connector moved to a different spot, usually so the wiring is cleaner or easier to access. It keeps the electrical connection but changes where it lives.
Term
Mega low miles
“Low miles” just means the car hasn’t been driven very much. People like it because it can mean less wear, but you still want to check how the car was maintained.
Concept
building a chop
A “chop” is a custom modification where the roof is cut down to make the car look lower and more aggressive. They’re saying the car would have been a good base for that kind of project.
Car
Porsche Boxster
The Porsche Boxster is a small, sporty car made by Porsche. It’s designed to feel quick and fun to drive, and it’s built with the engine placed closer to the middle of the car. The podcast mentions it as a familiar example of a true sports car.
Car
Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 is one of Porsche’s most famous sports cars. Here, the host is using it as a quick comparison point to explain what kind of car they mean.
Car
Cayman type
The Cayman is a Porsche sports car that’s similar in spirit to the Boxster. The host is basically saying the car they were talking about feels like that kind of Porsche.
Car
1200cc Harley
This means the bike is a Harley-Davidson with a 1200cc engine. “1200cc” is the engine size, and bigger numbers usually mean the engine can make more pulling power.
Term
fully comp
“Fully comp” means you have the most complete type of insurance. It generally covers your bike if it’s stolen or damaged, not just damage you cause to other people.
Term
named rider
A “named rider” is the specific person the insurance policy allows to ride the bike. If someone else rides it, the insurance might not cover them.
Term
3000 mile a year
This is how many miles the rider expects to use the bike in a year. Insurance companies use that estimate to guess how likely you are to have a claim.
Term
tax
“Tax” is the yearly fee you pay to be allowed to ride the bike on public roads. It’s separate from insurance and can be surprisingly high or low depending on the vehicle.
Term
smoked indicators
It means the turn-signal covers are tinted dark, like a “smoked” look. It’s mostly an appearance change, though it can also make the light look a bit less bright.
Term
smoke tail light
It’s a rear light with a dark tint on the lens. People do it to make the bike look more custom, while still having brake/taillight function.
Part
fork seal
Fork seals are the rubber seals inside the front suspension. When they wear out, the front suspension can feel bouncy and may start leaking oil, so replacing them restores proper front-end feel.
Term
front wheels
This is just describing the process of taking the front wheel off so you can get to the front suspension parts. It’s a normal step for front-fork work.
Term
1200 customs
This sounds like the bike is in the 1200cc class and is being referred to as a “custom” version. It’s basically telling you what size engine it has and that it’s a custom-styled variant.
Term
bigger front wheel
It means the front wheel is larger than usual. A larger wheel can make the bike feel different—often smoother over bumps and sometimes slower or quicker to steer depending on the setup.
Term
chrome
“Chrome” is the shiny metal finish on parts of the bike. If it’s in good shape, it usually means the bike wasn’t neglected or exposed to corrosion.
Term
18 inch front wheel
That means the front wheel is 21 inches across. Bigger or smaller wheels can change how the bike steers and what kind of tires it can run.
Term
torquey
“Torquey” means the engine feels strong when you accelerate, especially at lower speeds. It’s the bike’s “pull” rather than just top-end speed.
Term
big twin
“Big twin” is a nickname for a larger V-twin motorcycle engine. People use it to talk about how the bike’s power and pull will feel compared to smaller V-twins.
Term
1340
“1340” is the engine size—about 1.34 liters. The speaker is saying the bigger engine doesn’t necessarily mean more horsepower, but it can feel stronger when pulling.
Term
horsepower
Horsepower is a number that tells you how strong an engine is. Higher horsepower usually means the engine can push the vehicle harder, especially when you’re going faster.
Term
factory aftermarket
“Factory aftermarket” means upgrades you buy that are still made or endorsed through the brand, not just generic add-ons. They’re meant to fit well and look right for that model.
Brand
110 screaming eagle
Screaming Eagle is a Harley-Davidson brand for performance parts and accessories. People choose it when they want a more aggressive sound and a more “official” upgrade.
Term
pipes
Here, “pipes” means the exhaust pipes on the motorcycle. They change the sound a lot, and sometimes can affect how the bike runs.
Term
hand grips
Hand grips are the rubber or leather parts you hold on the handlebars. People swap them for comfort and style, and some brands make them as part of a matching custom look.
Term
foot pegs
Foot pegs are the spots where your feet rest. People often change them for comfort and for the bike’s style.
Person
Willy G
“Willy G” is a nickname for a real person the host connects to the custom Harley world. In this segment, they describe him as a tattoo artist and someone tied to the founders.
Concept
kettled for rallies
This sounds like they’re talking about getting a car ready for rallying. Then they say it might not be allowed because of what’s been put in the engine area.
Term
400 brake
“Brake” is shorthand for brake horsepower, which is how much power the engine is making. It’s measured in a way that represents engine output rather than what the tires end up receiving.
Car
Temerario Lamborghini Temurario
The “Temerario” here sounds like a custom project where the car’s outer body has been changed to look like a specific Lamborghini-style model. That means the car may not be the original factory version, but it’s built to match the look. The podcast is talking about it as a rebodied car concept.
Term
re-bodied
“Rebodied” means the outside shell of the car was changed. The car may still be based on the same underlying parts, but it looks different on the outside.
Car
Audi R8
The Audi R8 is a famous high-end supercar from Audi. It’s used here as a comparison for the shape and styling of the car they saw.
Term
electric presence
They mean the event had a lot of electric cars and electric technology on display. It’s basically saying EVs were a big part of what you’d see.
Topic
holy grail of the Jap world
They’re using “holy grail” to mean “the ultimate prize” for Japanese car fans. In this segment, the prize is an R34 GT-R shell that’s supposedly being sold with special documents.
Car
R34 GTR
“R34 GTR” refers to a specific Nissan Skyline GT-R generation. It’s a very collectible Japanese performance car, and the big point here is that the seller claims it can be registered like a brand-new one because of the documents.
Term
body in white
“Body in white” means the car’s metal shell is built, but it’s not fully finished yet—no paint and not all the final parts installed. Think of it as the bare framework of the car.
Term
Japanese registration papers
Registration papers are the official paperwork that proves a vehicle is legally recognized. Here, the claim is that the documents are strong enough that the car could be registered like a brand-new R34.
Car
GTRs
“GTR” usually means the Nissan GT-R, a high-performance Japanese sports car. The speaker is basically saying that the asking price is so high it’s in the same ballpark as what some GT-Rs cost.
Term
e-coat
E-coat is a factory method for applying paint that helps it stick and protect the metal from rust. Saying it’s “original e-coat” is basically saying the car still has its original factory paint protection.
Concept
reshell
“Reshell” means taking the good mechanical parts from one car and putting them onto a different body. It’s a way to save a valuable drivetrain when the original body is too far gone.
Concept
rally shell
A “rally shell” is basically the body/frame of a rally car without all the finished parts. People buy them to rebuild a rally car from scratch, especially if the shell is clean and straight.
Concept
concourse vehicle
A “concourse vehicle” is a car that’s restored to be perfect for car shows. The speaker is asking whether you’d build it to look brand-new for judging, or use it for a different kind of build.
Concept
die-building
“Die-building” means going all-in on making the car as perfect and accurate as possible. The speaker is saying you might be torn between making a flawless show car versus building something you’ll drive and enjoy.
Term
narrow body
“Narrow body” describes a car configuration with a slimmer body width compared with a wider “wide body” version. On models like the Porsche 911, this affects stance, wheel/tire fitment, and often how the car is perceived in terms of rarity and collectability.
Brand
Throttle House
“Throttle House” is referenced as a car-media brand, associated here with “the GTR, the M2 guys,” meaning the hosts are known for covering performance cars. The speaker is using it as a comparison point for the kind of car enthusiast content and personalities the audience might recognize.
Car
BMW M2
The BMW M2 is a small, sporty BMW coupe made by BMW’s performance team. It’s meant to feel quick and nimble rather than big and heavy. The podcast mentions it as an unexpected pick in the performance-car mix.
Person
Francis Bourgeois
Francis Bourgeois is referenced as a “train guy” who is also apparently a car enthusiast. The host is discussing a new set of podcast hosts and the personalities involved, using Bourgeois as an example of someone with automotive interest outside the usual car-media circle.
Car
BMW M3
The BMW M3 is a performance-focused BMW with a stronger engine and sportier setup than a regular 3 Series. It’s meant for people who want a fast, responsive driving feel. The podcast brings it up as the beginning point for the current M3 direction.
Term
six cylinder petrol version
“Six cylinder petrol” means the car will use a gasoline engine with six cylinders. More cylinders often helps the engine run smoothly and can make power delivery feel more refined.
Place
narrow ring
The “narrow ring” is the Nürburgring track in Germany. Car makers use it to test cars because it’s very demanding and shows how well a car handles in lots of different situations.
Term
S58 engine
The S58 is BMW’s performance inline-six engine family used in recent M models. Saying the prototype uses the S58 implies it’s not a brand-new engine concept—it’s based on BMW’s current high-performance six-cylinder tech.
Term
turbo straight six
A “twin turbo straight six” is a six-cylinder gasoline engine in a straight-line layout, with two turbochargers. Turbos help the engine make more power by pushing extra air into the cylinders.
Car
RS6
“RS6” is Audi’s very fast performance model. They’re describing how a super-powerful RS6 can feel totally different from a less powerful Audi RS3, so you shouldn’t expect the same sensation when you move between them.
Term
tunable
“Tunable” means you can change the car’s settings to make it behave differently—usually by adjusting the engine computer. The host is saying some cars are easier to modify for big power than others.
Car
BMW M5
The BMW M5 is a fast, high-performance BMW sedan. It’s designed to be powerful while still being practical for normal driving. The podcast mentions it when talking about how easy or flexible these performance cars are to modify.
LIVE
Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Reload Podcast. My name is Lee Maxwell
and I'm joined as usual by Nigel Lamont and Connor McCann.
And the energy you're hearing from me right now is entirely fake because I am hungover.
And Nigel's not far behind you. I had a work leave in do last night, so my voice is actually
Barry Manilow. Sorry, not Barry Manilow. It's a deeper octail or two. Yeah, we're out for
food earlier. And funny when you were talking, I could hear it in your voice. This is that wee bit
bass here. But anyway, this is episode 158. Previous episode was 157 because that's how
numbers work. We talked about the Vaggie show. We talked about players. And this time, we're
going to talk about some more stuff that's happened in between recording because we missed a couple
of weeks again. It's been like... Well, it missed one week. 84 years. All right, throws the heart
of the ocean over the side. Yeah. And yeah, we're just going to see what happens because we're not
really particularly on our game, but Connor's fine. I'm all right. I'm 100%. So we'll start off
with what's new with us. So Nigel, apart from hangover, what's new with you? What have I been
doing? Well, at Euro Traffin? We did indeed. Go for it now, everyone. Yeah, so at Euro Traffin,
on the, what was it, 4th of July, Independence Day? Was indeed. So we'll have it down at
Blue Circle. And the birthday market. Blue Circle Seattle Club, as usual, our little
private paradise just off the road from Whitehead to Lawn. Everyone seemed to have a really good
day. Yeah, good feedback. Yeah, it's, I enjoy Euro Traffin because it reminds me of Casa Well
in a bit. Yeah. And I feel like it's kind of the show that we do, but we also kind of get to enjoy.
Yeah. As opposed to double check, which is just not. And the other thing about Euro Traffin is
the people that are there are there for the show. Yes. With Casa Well and the people from the
campsite walking in. You get the randomers. Yeah. No, it's good for that. Yeah. We have,
if you haven't been to Euro Traffin before, it's a summer show and it's European cars only.
And it's just a great vibe show, just chill out show. We have a drive on stage and we bring
people up on stage to have a chat to Connor. Cars are parked in circles for you can throw
deck chairs out and chill out with your friends. And Simon has his pizza oven going. He does indeed.
The illegal pizza oven. And let me say, I had a bit of that at the end of the day because I
was joking with him about our previously going, Oh, where's my pizza? Where's my pizza? Oh,
I'll get you one. The man stuck to his word. We were clearing up and he came over to the pizza
and my word, that man should start his own place up. We were out last night and his pizzas were
being talked about and not by Lee and I. That's, yeah. So it made quite an impression. Good man.
Yeah. Drive on stage was actually pretty successful this year. The concept for me works very well
because you're in a secluded field. There's nothing else to do. We may as well have a chat
about cars, but where it falls in his face is most people from Northern Ireland don't want to talk
about their cars or very humble yet or don't want to get on the stage. Sort of. Yeah.
But this year, we actually had quite a few. We're more than happy to come up and thank you
to everybody who did come up because I'm pretty sure most of the ones who did come up are our
listeners. Which was pretty cool actually. Yeah. Yeah. I would run the door and up with his cadet.
I was also brilliant of you. Really enjoyed that. Really, really enjoyed that. And what was nice as
well was when it is hard to get people on the stage, it's hard to get different stuff then
because sometimes if it's if you're struggling, you're just kind of taking what you can get.
But this year, the interviews were all very different because like Ronan's car was a
ground up rebuild of a classic with like almost like a motorsporty theme onto it.
And then we have Paul Glennon, who had his Mark III Golf, which was a US import car.
So we're kind of talking about the differences in that. Then Graham Holmes came up with his
Bora, which was basically a lesson in hunting down rare parts, 25 year old rare parts from
all around the globe, which was great. And then we had Omar Guara up with the Vento,
which is a ground up rebuild show car or 32 swap for a brilliant car. So it's nice to get that.
Again, it's always the thing that we're always like, Oh, that was great, but I would do this,
you know, if we could get like other mix up, you know, somebody with rare Reynolds and things
like that stuff that I don't know about because I kind of want to those other guys, I know all
them. So it's, um, but yeah, I really enjoyed doing it a few pounds on stage.
Well, thought of the weather. It was really bad day on the Friday when we're setting up.
And forecast was just a bit, um, and what a few heavy showers, but
nobody really noticed that seemed to be what like another too long.
Yeah. It's fine. And of course, when the show was over, the sun came out.
Oh yeah. I'm pretty sure that happened last year as well.
Yes. I remember sitting at the golf club looking at it. It was just pure sunshine everywhere.
Maybe do an evening show sometime.
I was just saying to, who was it talking to about Castle Elm?
Forget who it was. One of the older people on the scene.
Who would remember Castle Elm?
And, uh, I was calling McCabe in the BMW, that's what it was.
I said, do you remember a wet Castle Elm? Well, the summer show was always the first
Saturday in July. I says, no, I've seen ones where it's nearly rained.
And I don't know what's going on with the weather.
There was a year that Lee and I camped with you guys at Castle Elm.
And it rained all night, like Monsoon torrential rain.
And I remember you'd been worried that morning.
And then there was this slightest peak of sun through your new took a photo of it and went
perfect weather here in Castle Elm and what by nine o'clock
just bright sun all night dry.
So we, before we knew you guys, Lee was taking her event to up way back in the day, the gray one.
And it was leaving my mum and dad's house in Craig Alvin and it was lashing.
It was cold. It was wet.
And you know me for short, I pulled jeans on.
I pulled my boots on hoodie.
We got to Castle Elm and it was a hot sunny day.
I remember that one because that everybody arrived in the car park and went, what the hell?
Everybody was driving from everywhere in Northern Ireland and Ireland and said,
it's raining everywhere apart from here.
And you could see clouds a couple of miles away going past big dark clouds.
Because you're in the mountain, you can see from the mountains.
It was this is like a sweet place that the rain didn't get.
I don't know how that area operates like, but it does well for weather.
Great show over for another year.
And thank you for everybody that came and supported the show.
It's great to have you along.
We're a guy over from Edinburgh this year.
Yes. We had Mr. Patterson.
So he came over, so Gary brings his van over.
It's a Caddy van.
He brings over for dub shed.
And then he mentioned that dub shed, come onto Castle Elm or Castle Elm.
He beat the, there's the thing.
Attention seekers, their alarms are broken lately.
Not as early as it used to be.
Gary was there at eight o'clock.
I could see he got off the boat.
Lauren for you.
Yeah. It was like six in the morning or something.
I went to his dad and then got the boat home that night.
And from what I was talking to him, he was talking about going,
getting off the boat and going to Bristol for a show on Sunday.
That's right.
And then driving.
I was like, you're a mob man, but man loves it.
Loves it.
So it's good to see something different over as well.
Yeah. Right.
I think he really enjoyed it too.
He was certainly.
That's nice.
Because I had said to him, I was like, Gary,
this is not a show you come from Scotland for.
This is a nice show.
Local chill back.
I kind of was expecting him to be expecting dub shed,
if you know what I mean.
You know, a bigger show, but he was seemed to enjoy it.
So that's good.
Next up then for us will be Titanic Dubs
then in September, where they're betting.
Yeah.
Panball.
Funny, someone messes me though.
I think I actually might have been Graham Holmes.
And he was like, is there any shows at the moment?
Cause old school and new school was last weekend.
And I was like, I don't think there is.
See normally after.
You know, you'd have old school, new school, and then Vaji.
And then move forward.
Bit of a gap.
And then there's Titanic Dubs.
But there's basically.
Now there's this big gap.
Yeah.
So yeah, I don't know what.
Maybe it'll give us time to actually work in cars.
Yeah.
I might be.
Not for a bit.
Not for a bit.
We'll do something.
Yeah.
Apart from shows, put the clubs board through NLT.
That was fine.
Done a bit of wheeler dealing with wheels.
Because a set of wheels they have on the Q5.
They're SQ5 wheels.
They're a bit cocky.
I bought them cheap last year.
They're genuine 20s.
But they had budget tires on them.
The tires are probably about four mil left on them.
So I've been watching a set of fully refurbished Q5 20s, SQ20 wheels, SQ5 20 inch wheels.
And they have nearly new good years on them.
I just my head went, I've got a few hundred for mill wheels.
Rather than refurbish these ones and spend those five or 600
I'll do these already.
So don't deal there last week and fire them on.
Happy days.
But apart from that, nothing major as usual in my part.
You've had all sort of.
Maybe you were having the battery issues or the electrical issues with it.
With?
With the Q5.
Battery.
A long time ago.
Did you have the last year?
Is that what it was?
And then what was it in the end?
It was something stupid, wasn't it?
Flip.
Was it?
Like something simple.
No, it's just a dead battery.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But then obviously reeks have it because it's not in the right position.
All the computers just go, what's going on?
What's going on?
The joys of modern motors.
Yeah.
Wasn't cheap either.
No, I want them on.
So yeah.
What about yourselves?
Not much correlated with me.
I've been working away, getting new tattoos.
Just.
You were at a show last weekend.
Falling over in the heart and my knee because I'm old as fuck.
I'll tell you the stupidest story of anything that's ever happened to anyone ever.
So we got home from old school last Sunday night.
It was late.
I was getting up to go to bed, went into the bathroom,
and there was a slug in the shower tray.
Must have crawled up through the drain.
So I went back into the living room and said to Connor, I was like,
there's a slug in the bathroom.
And then I was like, right, I'll go get it.
I'll put my big girl pants on.
So I got some kitchen roll, crouched down, lifted up the slug.
As I pulled my arm back, I just fell over.
I just toppled over and whacked my knee off the corner of the shower tray,
hit my arm off the glass wall of the shower,
and just went down onto the floor like a sack of shit.
And all while still holding a slug.
I'm just sitting thinking about an old Parker Knowles seat advert here.
I heard this noise and I was like.
I was like, what the fuck was that?
I got up and I was like, what happened?
Yeah.
Because I thought she'd slept or something.
You were sitting in her knee or whatever.
And she was like, I don't know.
I was like, what do you mean you don't know?
You just fell over.
I just lost my balance.
I have terrible balance anyway.
So you do.
Yeah.
So I've been limping around for the part.
Well, it's all right now,
but early in the wake up was definitely having difficulty with moving my leg properly.
So yeah, I have a little slot on the calendar that I pointed out to Connor
a couple of weeks ago of like, this is my window for working on the R32.
Because if you look all around that window,
it's like out here, work stuff here, doing this, going there, whatever.
And it's like, this is my little window that I'm planning to work on the car.
So hopefully that will happen.
I think since last we spoke, I was in Newcastle.
With work.
Never been there before.
It was nice.
Surprisingly nice.
I drove down through the town centre one night and it's all,
the weather was lovely, which probably helped,
but loads of bridges and just looked like a really nice town.
It looked a bit like Porto, except I'll say not in Portugal.
So that was nice.
And I was driving a Yaris crossover, like a big tall Yaris,
which was fine, better than the last.
Satisfactory.
Have met the standard.
Kia or whatever I had.
I still did the bleepy thing, which I didn't like,
but it wasn't as obtrusive as the last car I had.
Yeah, that's about it.
Other than old school, new school.
So I guess we could talk a bit about that now, if you want as well.
Can do.
You've been down the Saturday days.
Yes.
Can't follow us.
For the second weekend in a row,
I attended a car show in my daily driver because, you know, life.
But it was fine because aircon is a great thing,
considering the hot weather we're having at the minute.
So it wasn't too bad.
And because my car's so big, we can give all our friends lifts,
which is quite nice.
Richie built him with us and then James Crow, he jumped in too.
And then we met Marty Mim in Cavern.
And then he can't avoid down the rest of the way with us,
instead in the same hotel, him and Victoria.
So feed of pints, good feed.
And just talking shy to be one in the morning.
Excellent.
And to be honest with you, that much fun in the bar and chillin' out.
When we got up the next morning, I was like, I can go home.
You know, I was just like, I had a good night with my friends.
It's all good.
Marty have enough beer that night?
He had beer.
I wouldn't like to specify the number of pints that he had,
to which he replied then afterwards going,
I wouldn't like to say I'm drunk, but I can feel loose.
But it might have been two.
He had a great night.
Good.
So yeah, no, a great time.
Went to the show in the next morning, caught up with everyone.
Craggin' the weather.
On real weather.
Oh, so hot.
It was really hot.
Yeah.
A lot of the MLVW guys were there.
Limitless guys were there.
Again, Graham Holmes was there.
Just bumping into the most random people.
It was funny when you walked into the show,
right at the very front.
First car you met on a podium was, how do you describe it?
Like a candy apple red, blood red.
R34?
I think it was, if it wasn't a GTR, it was GTR-bodied.
Skyline, but like massive, I don't know if there were 20s on it.
Oh my, I'm drawing a blank now for what brand?
The, there were a job brand.
The wheels were out, but it was like a proper show build.
SSRs?
Might have been SSRs.
What works as a...
The might have been SSRs.
But like the bay, it was an RB30, so it's a stroked RB26 in it.
I guess it was a high-end build.
A guy from Australia owned it.
It was still on Australian plates, but he lives in Ireland now,
so he borrowed a cross with him.
It ended up taking car to the show, but it wasn't shocked by that.
Well deserved.
It was absolutely the right choice.
German prize given.
It was like, it hadn't been called,
but even from like one or two and you're like,
that has to be car to the show.
Like it was incredible.
Just above everything else.
We had a mix of cars there as well, which was nice.
And we got our usual school dinners out as well, which is good.
That's right, the county.
He literally gets school dinners.
We eat chicken curry, although it's the hottest county in the world
because there's glass either side.
Sounded pretty nice.
Yeah.
Chottin' an owl on Saturday then, going in as well,
and everything seemed to be going well for them, which is good.
Short ship.
That must be going 10 years now, I'm sure.
It's bound to be, yeah, working the far off it, yeah.
Cause we recorded on it back in the very early days,
and it was well established at that point.
So now it's a great show, great mix.
And it draws like a real nice mixture of cars
because you've ever been there from like OEM plus,
you've got like the Ford guys and the owners clubs,
which is like, you know, like concourse level stuff
through to heavily modified.
And it's just nice to see everything.
And it's a very accessible show.
You know, it's in the middle of Longford,
but it's well set up when you're leaving.
There's like place directing and, you know,
it's getting in now, just what you would imagine
and end of the middle of a town is not difficult.
You know, imagine it should be a lot harder than it is.
And I can back up the road to cabin in Marty's Mark 6.
I was fascinated by Marty's Mark 6
cause it's one of these ones with like the
20 inch wheels, mega low static low, like static low, you know,
and I can't remember what coil overs he's running on that,
but I know they're not cheap.
The BHNRs.
Oh, they're out there, like ultra deeps or something?
Ultra deeps, yeah.
And I know he's put a lot of work into setting that car up.
So I was always curious how it rides
because people are always like, you know, oh, it's fine.
Cause you get into my mark tune up like it's grand
and then most people get in and go, this piece of shit.
Marty's car at one point, Lee took us a back road
and we were Marty's car.
And I was like, this is like sitting on a standard car.
I couldn't get over it.
Each and all know what they're at.
I run for two years, my audition 30.
The biggest compliment I could get is when Andy Maxow's
in the car and he goes, I can't believe how smooth this is.
I literally, if he had took me a hundred yards up the road,
I'd have been delighted.
We drove for about an hour.
That's what you're paying the money for.
Yes.
Oh, development and R.D.
Like I like my suspension cause I like the car to be usable,
but I can fully, if I bought a car with that in it,
I would struggle to take it out to put it out.
Because as long as I ground clearance to get over things,
which most of those modern stuff,
the modern stuff doesn't seem as bad as the older stuff.
Mark twos are particularly bad as you'll know.
From the bumper.
Yes.
Or like.
And when you stick a VR in the mix, it's actually worse.
The cells sit quite high, but underneath everything hangs kind of low,
where the modern stuff I think is more of a flatten level.
So you do get away with it,
but I couldn't get over how good that car is on the road.
Like he's on twenties, he's rubber band tires,
you know, solid top mounts, the coilovers.
It should ride terribly, but I,
because I swatted on Lee's car,
I get out of shape when bumps know they're superb.
And everybody has a superb says these that they can get a bit tank sloppy.
Yeah.
So they're a bit booty on boggy roads.
Yeah.
If you get on a road that has like multiple bumps on it,
she gets about out of shape.
Marty's car was just eating it and I was like, how does this do this?
It's a very, very impressive.
There was another superb at the show that I would like to show out.
Older shape than mine.
Like a dark, nearly like dragon green, like a dark green on LMS.
What a lovely car.
Just really nice.
Don't know who owns it.
Don't know anything about it.
Other than I just went,
you don't see one of those done very often and it looks really well.
That's cool.
What do you call the special edition superb?
Lorton Garnier or something?
Yes, I, it is something like that.
Something sort of, yeah.
They're, see if you can get a hybrid between that and Lee's sport line
because they don't do a VRS on the superb, which I think is ridiculous.
But if you could get a lot of the,
because that one that you were talking about has like heated leather and stuff
where the sport line doesn't have heated leather.
It's a Bose headrest with whatever that name is.
Yes.
It is something.
But the lesser model in the sport line,
which is like the SE or whatever has heated leather.
TJ used to have a sport line superb, didn't they?
Or is that an Octavia?
Oh, I don't know.
He had a red one.
Have you ever, have you ever got into an Octavia
after having get out of a, out of a superb?
You think you're getting in a polo?
Yeah.
Like it is the difference in them.
They are no discipline smaller.
I remember when suburbs came out, I guess how old I am.
And myself and the good lady were standing in a hotel and saw this bridge
and we got a taxi in the middle of Belfast.
Every taxi in Belfast.
And I jumped into the back of it.
I thought it was getting into the limo.
Yep.
Yeah, they're on the map.
It's just like, there's so much room here.
Everybody gets into that car.
Cameron Taggart, I give him a lift back from the show field
to end of the middle of the town.
And he could only just went, holy shit, look at the room in here.
Like Marty was in the back and he's 6'5", no problem at all.
Yeah.
It's the ultimate transport bus like.
Oh wow.
The Czechs know what they're up.
Sorry, the German Czechs.
I mean, most of the time absolutely wasted on me
because I'm the only one in it and I'm not very tall
and don't really require that much space.
But when you need this base.
When you need to move a dishwasher.
Ten a lot, that's great.
Good friends gave you.
I keep forgetting you had a sport cup before that.
The Sorago.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
Now you went from one extreme deal there.
You done then?
Yeah, what's new with you?
Lock in.
Strap in folks.
Mark II for my last was on here has come out greatly.
I don't think, I think I've been working on it,
but I don't think I'd finished it was the storage box
on the right hand side.
Back then I don't even think I showed you it finished.
So when you open the boot, looking in the sub boxes on the left,
which follows the lines down from the partial shelf.
So it kind of encloses it in.
And I kept looking at the right hand side thinking,
ah, it looks so not right.
And I didn't want to put another sub in.
So it basically built the exact same thing on the other side,
but with like a little hidden door that there was a press fit in
with two like pull tabs on it.
And I think my last video had that on it.
And basically got it trimmed up,
but I didn't show much of it in the video
because the process was pretty much the same
as doing the sub box.
So once I got that button up and I was nice and happy with that,
I started to turn my attention back to the center box
where the valve block and stuff was.
So I had all the hard lines made,
but the VU4 style manifold has the manifold block.
And there's like a circuit board on top
with a plug on the side and all the wires going to it.
And it always bugged me because of all the wires
are hanging out one side.
And I've seen guys online where they do like a plug delete,
but there's like no information about it online.
And I said, right, I'm going to work this out.
So I ended up pulling the valve block apart one day in the house
and was like, it was funny because it was just wires
and solenoids and shit everywhere.
I was like, well, I hope that goes back together.
And I ended up the easiest way to do it was the circuit board on top.
The solenoids are soldered to the circuit board
and then there's retracts in the circuit board
which go back to the plug.
So all it was really doing was transferring the power across.
So I took the solenoids wired them directly
to another longer leads, just a little wires,
ran them out the back of it down the back of the V stand
where you can't see it and then put a remote plug on it
out of the way and then it worked.
So at my video, the time this goes out,
my new video will already be out a few days,
but it's going out in the morning.
Where I bench tested and had it set up
and you can see the error working and stuff.
So it was like, well, that's good.
That actually works after all that.
And then a 3D printed the V top plate to replace the circuit.
So it's more symmetrical looking.
And I was sending you off our, I did like a V trick
which is seen online, but then we're done where you can like
trace or take a photo of the thing you're doing
as long as it's flat with a ruler beside it,
scale it up in the cab model
and then just draw around what you want.
And it worked like 95% of the way.
That really explains how you do stuff to me.
Like I was always figuring out how you're doing that.
That's good.
If you watch this video the more I've put a few screenshots
of doing it and you'll see it in it.
Cause it was what you said when you asked me about it
on the podcast, I thought, well,
fuck if Nigel's asking somebody else might not know,
so I'll include it cause I just kind of assumed you do know.
So if it all buttoned back up and I got the compressor
bolted down all the wire and run and there's a whole lot
of had to do off camera, which would have been
very boring on camera, but needed it all done
to film the out through.
So it's like two days of work flat out
to fill on like a two minute.
Oh, look, that looks good at the end.
All done.
Yeah. And it was absolutely roasting.
And then I'm not going to much,
but it bricked my laptop remotely.
And I now have one coming from Germany or no,
from California.
I don't know why it's not come from Germany
cause that's where I work.
But I ended up then rather than trying to find me work,
it just took two days off there.
I was off yesterday and Thursday.
So that's what I was doing, getting all the bits
buttoned up.
But it's been so hot the last while then
cause that's a steely garage.
It's an oven.
That's the thing about them sheds.
They're brutal.
So I got up in the morning and went out about nine o'clock
and was working away till about 11.
And then took my latest purchase out.
Yes.
And then just came back in the evening and did a bit of that.
So you're now Mr. Easy writer.
That's it.
Brother.
Crank in my hog.
So as usual.
As always, I've been practicing that for years.
So yeah, I've been talking about it back again
for an absolute lifetime.
Marketplace struck again.
Oh yes.
So it's going to get you more.
Lee claims I'm having a midlife crisis because
my choices were a 9-11, a Harley or a Mark one.
And I see you nodding, which means yes,
she leaves were correct.
Ironically, I can't argue that that is a stereotype
of the midlife crisis, but this is not.
That's you were talking to somebody about it one day
and you said, oh, I was looking at 996s
or I was looking at Harley's and whoever it was,
I can't remember said, well, those are two
quite different things.
And I said, no, they're absolutely not.
They're the same thing.
They're a midlife crisis purchase.
What age are you calling her?
Beyond midlife for my lifestyle.
I'm 37.
If I see next year, you are midlife.
There's no 38 is midlife.
Sir, if I've mouth, you shared that and depressed me
last year, a year before.
If I see what do you say was 38?
38.
If I see 76, I'd be a very happy one.
I don't expect to see it, but there's a target set.
That's been nice to see.
At least granted, the turn 90.
They're recently, I remember I was looking at him
and I was like, fuck me.
If I got 20 years from that, I'd be fucking delighted.
One of my father-in-law's friends is 92.
And he looks 72.
That's her granted.
Yeah.
He golfed three days a week.
And it gets out of the chair.
He doesn't go.
Nope.
I'm the wrong.
He's the same.
Fed as a fiddle with a pair of them.
Yeah.
Incredible to see.
I love seeing it.
Nobody loves whiskey.
Yep.
Sounds familiar.
Whiskey and good food.
My granddad was the same.
Not rich food, just proper.
Granddad smoked like a train, drank like fucking fish
and lived, he was 84.
My granny, she lived in her 90s.
All her side, our sisters and brothers,
lived in their 90s.
And they ate butter by the ton.
That's why.
Butter is probably one of the reasons why I'm fat.
I love butter.
So do I.
Butter and everything.
So yeah, when I went on up and talking about bike for years,
I grew up with bikes.
A lot of people seem to think that this is a very new thing
for me.
And there was a few comments about, oh, I didn't see this.
Common as like.
I have always known you used to as a biker.
Yeah.
Like the folks mainly because you've done the Route 66.
Yeah.
And their families and your dad in the bikes as well.
Well, you've seen, we at least, Dad's Funeral.
Yeah.
I, like I was a proper biker funeral.
Yeah.
It's funny, we were talking about Route 66.
One of the fellows in work is sort of hoping to do it someday.
And he was telling me about it.
And I said, he said, have you done it?
And I said, yeah.
And he said, oh, what car did you get?
And I says, no, I did it on the bike.
And he was like, what?
And he couldn't, he was like, I never thought of you
with a bike or knew that you had bikes or anything.
And I was like, yeah, I'm just, I guess I'm just more into cars
these days, but I still like bikes.
The funny thing is the, I think I've said this in podcasts before was
people get into motorbikes to rebel against their parents.
Or I feel like I kind of get into cars to do that
because I grew up with motorbikes, you know.
Do you have one tucked away?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll be there.
I was going to say the next thing you're going to buy a new one, but no.
You have one tucked away.
So yeah, I was looking and looking and looking.
And I was looking, I feel like I've looked at every,
I was looking at a very specific era of Harley from the nineties.
And I wanted, I originally wanted a big twin, which is a 1340 CC EVO.
And they're made from mid 80s to 99.
But because I'm going to chop this eventually,
I wanted a very specific model with certain things on it.
Couldn't get one.
Like there were a fucking disaster.
My next option was a sports shirt, which I bought, but I couldn't.
I wanted the big one.
That was the thing.
And I couldn't see past that.
And then if a sports shirt came up in Plymouth in the south of England,
which I went, oh, that's really nice.
Mega low miles.
It actually would have been better for building a chop
than what it was originally looking at.
But it was still a sports shirt.
It'd be like 9-11 versus Boxster.
That kind of thing.
Not to that extreme, but same kind of thing.
9-11 KM, I'm sorry.
Cayman type.
Yes.
Yeah.
That kind of is probably the easiest way to describe it for people in the cars.
And I contacted the guy and I was like, I can't contact him.
And he says, he says, I'll phone you in the morning.
I went, happy days.
I forgot that we're doing urethra from that morning.
So that was grand.
I was in the middle of parking some guy's car.
My phone rings.
And I thought it was one of you guys phoning me.
And this number answered.
Well, hey Connor.
I was like, oh, hello.
Told him I couldn't speak to him,
but I would speak to him the next morning.
And he was like, yeah, that's no problem.
No problem.
But as soon as then he caught on, I was from Northern Ireland.
He freaked out.
Oh no, I have a guy coming.
He says I have a guy coming on Wednesday.
And he is pretty good chance he's going to take this bike.
And I was like, well, I'll buy the bike right now.
I can't say it.
All I can do is go on the information you're about to tell me.
And it'll be here's for grand or not.
You know, like I'll buy it now.
But I didn't even get into that with him because I knew rightly.
I've been, I went to look at a TT or tried to get one or to bring them
before to the exact same thing.
So I was like, right, whatever.
So they don't seem to understand that Northern Ireland works
under the DVLA the same as them because I tried to explain that
to the TT people to be like, there's no difference in selling
this car to me as to your neighbor.
The advantage that you have is if I come from Northern Ireland
and fly across, there's not a lot of bargaining room for me.
Yeah.
I'm here to get it.
Exactly.
So your mom was a fucking blowout.
I have been looking at this other one then.
Looked a really nice clean bike, but it was covered in skulls,
like bolt-on, tacky.
It is skull-fest.
It is.
And is that standard to that mom?
Oh, no, no, no.
Someone's done that.
He's skullized it.
Yeah.
So it's like watching the Punisher.
Like it's fucking brutal.
That's exactly what it was like.
And I was making fun of the bike to Stefan and Lee.
And Stefan said to me, he was like, that looks like a good bike.
Otherwise it looks clean.
And I was like, it does.
Yeah.
And I was sitting thinking about it.
I was looking at it one evening and I was like...
It's a term of thing.
It's got the bones of a good bike.
Too many bones.
So I said, fuck it, I'm going to contact this guy.
So I messaged him and he put on it that he was 71.
He had a bad hip.
He was getting out of bikes.
And so I dropped him a message and he phoned me within half an hour.
And from the moment he spoke, I was like,
I got sort of a good feeling about it.
Good vibe.
Yeah.
And he was clearly an older guy.
Chatted about bikes and he told me all the bikes he'd had over the years.
And he bought this because it was smaller.
Thought it would help his hip.
Didn't.
And I come off the phone anyway.
And I says, look, can you send me a video?
Cold start video.
Just stick your hand on the exhaust.
Show that it's cold.
Start her up.
Let me hear it.
Let it warm up.
Send me another video of it running.
Rev and warm.
And he says, I can't and I went, oh shit.
He says, but my wife can.
He says, I don't have WhatsApp running.
I was like, right, no problem.
So there come through this video and like I'm not no offense to them.
It was clearly two old people filming.
You know, they weren't very technologically savvy.
It's given me a bit of a confidence boost there as well as if they're not hiding anything here.
This, you know, and so I spoke to Lee and I says, I think this is the one and I phoned him.
And I says, yeah, I need to say, but get a transported.
But I'm very happy.
I said, I'm willing to take it.
Like, you know, can I speak to you tomorrow?
Yeah, no problem.
Couldn't have been nicer.
And then I phoned him the next day.
I did the deal.
Give what I give 3,750 quid for it.
And I transferred it to him.
And then when I transferred it to him, I went, I've just sent him on.
I've never met money for a bike I've never seen.
Fantastic.
I could be fucking robbed.
And to be honest with you, I've had to get any sort of dodgy vibes about him at all.
I probably wouldn't have sent him any money.
I probably wouldn't have went over.
But then I put it out on Instagram.
Not really expecting many people with bikes to build my Instagram.
And it turns out it was quite a few.
And I got nine different business recommendations
for transporting the bike over from a load of people.
So thank you very much.
Because there was a lot of listeners who was messaging me about it.
And I think it cost me 420 quid to get it brought over.
It was lifted on the Monday afternoon and it was with me on Wednesday afternoon.
Good service.
Ensured it.
Insurance.
Now I have not a bike on the road in nearly 20 years.
It's a 1200cc Harley.
I kind of expected because it was a Harley.
You know, certain car brands can be difficult.
Harleys are commonly stolen and stuff.
I think that's about quite expensive insurance.
Fully comp.
3000 mile a year with Lee as a named rider.
I think that's a ring.
Oh yeah.
156 pound.
And the tax is 120 pound for the year.
I'm more surprised with the tax than on the insurance.
Yeah.
It's so cheap by my pet.
And then I said to him, I was like,
there's obviously no wiggle room in the price here.
Because he had already dropped it from four and a half as well.
I was like, do you have any standard bits with it?
And he goes, yeah, yeah.
He says, can I have them?
And he went, yep.
And he goes, that's happy.
He says, I feel like I'm getting something out of you then.
And he says, look, I'll send you whatever I have.
And when that came, there was a bag.
The tax book was in it.
He had filled it off.
He sent it to me.
He slept over a Haynes manual fort,
which I was going to buy.
So they're 20 or 25 quid.
Couple of the standard parts to cut,
to replace the skulls.
I was like, yes.
What else was there?
I think we'll call you Skeletor.
Fuck me.
I wish it looked like Skeletor.
There's like smoked indicators on.
They sent the standard ones for it.
There's a smoke tail light.
He set the standard one for it.
A bike cover.
Loads of bits and service items and stuff.
And I was like, fair play.
Because he did say he was like, it's no good to me.
I'm getting out of this because of his age.
So I thought that was pretty good.
So I think I got very lucky with it's a good bike
and it was a good seller.
Now it needs to do fork seals on it.
It's just a bit bouncy in the front end,
but I can do that over winter.
Like a good, a solid afternoon, pull the front wheel out,
pull the forks off, replace the seals.
Like it's not a mega thing.
So I've just been putting miles on this last while
and really enjoying it.
So I say it's 1200 customs.
There's loads of like different bits over a standard.
Sports are a bit more like bigger front wheel and
for a 26 year olds, a fresh bike.
Yeah. I was really, really happy with it.
Like the chrome's in really good order on it.
That was my thing.
I wanted a 21 inch front wheel and good condition
and the chrome and good condition
because the rest, I will literally cut that back in half.
So like the rest can get fucked.
But those are the important parts for me.
And obviously mechanically, it's a good bike,
but like it's torquey.
I was surprised because it wasn't the big twin.
They're actually that smaller.
That's the 1200.
The big twins are 1340.
They have less horsepower, which is weird,
but they've more torque.
So I kind of expected this to be a bit torqueless,
but it's not at pulls, right?
But yeah, like that's,
Stefan couldn't get over it.
He was like getting in the bikes is a lot cheaper
than getting in the cars.
You know, you can buy a nice bike for a lot cheaper
than a nice car.
The insurance is nothing.
What sort of horsepower is that?
Oh, 70, I want to say.
And a bit 70 or 80 foot pound of torque.
Okay, the torque would be the thing then.
And they're not heavy.
Yeah.
You know, they're not heavy at all,
but now it's nice.
There's a lot of nice like factory aftermarket.
The guy described you, there's screaming eagle is basically,
I think it's like Votex for Harley.
So like there's pipes on it.
The pipes sound really nice,
but I don't really like the look of them.
So eventually I'll take them off and sell them,
but they'll sell well because they're sought after.
Same with all, believe it or not, the skulls,
the hand grips and foot pegs and all are a brand.
I didn't realize this, but that was something called Willy G,
which is a guy who was.
He's a tattooist from the white head.
He actually is.
He's the, actually.
Yeah.
This guy is, I think he's the son of one of the founders
of Harley Davidson and he worked with,
he worked for Harley through like 2012.
And then when he left, he started this brand saw
for like aftermarket parts.
So apparently they're sought after and expensive.
So again, if you don't get sold and I can cover the cost
of what I want on it, which is nice.
So that's fun.
That's good.
It's nice to turn your brain off
because you're too busy watching every art hole on the road.
Am I going to get fucking taboned here?
And you've no access to your phone because it's in your pocket.
You know, and it's nice that you can go out and just switch off.
And it's something that I think I've talked about in the podcast.
I really struggled to do is turn my brain off with things.
And we were out last night with Matt and Lucy,
and I was explaining that to her when I explained to Lucy was,
if I go to the cinema,
or sorry, if I go to watch a film at home, I'm on my phone.
But if I go to the cinema, you don't have your phone out.
You're immersed.
Everything's dark.
You're looking at the screen.
And that's what I need to turn off.
It seems, and that's kind of the same way with the bike.
So it's good.
You put your light on and that's shut everything else out.
Just escape.
I tell you what, though,
see that weather and you stop in traffic.
Because that thing, they're not water cooled, they're air cooled.
It's hot.
It's like somebody cooking your balls.
You got a new lid as well.
Yeah, got a new helmet.
Bought a, it's actually out there.
Bought like a real retro looking helmet.
I describe it as like the Lego man helmet.
I didn't want anything fancy looking.
And I find that brand, they're like a fairly new-ish brand,
but they're safety rating.
They actually meet the highest European standard safety rating,
which was like, well, I can't buy that bad.
Well, you consider a lot of helmets I had over the years.
I can guarantee you did not meet probably very many safety ratings.
It's a lot better and it's comfortable.
And it was like 240 quid.
Yeah, it's real nice.
If Fogo was telling me his helmet was near 900.
And I was like, yeah.
Yeah, I was chatting around with a bit bikes there
and he was going through some of the stuff about his bikes.
Like it's sorry, buying a bike.
But when you get leather, boots, good helmet,
like how important is your head to you?
Yeah, exactly.
Just buy a good helmet.
Well, that's what I'm learning is genuinely,
if I could ride in shorts and t-shirt,
I would because you know me, I'm always roasting,
but I'm also not that stupid.
You're a Florida man that wasn't born in Florida.
Kind of, yeah.
I would genuinely love, if I could get away with not
dragging myself up the road at 60 mile an hour
when I come off the bike someday,
I would ride in shorts and t-shirt,
but there's no guarantee of that and you'd be destroyed.
But as you say, you have a helmet, but then you need gloves.
You need a jacket.
You need trousers, boots.
No, I'm not into leathers.
It's not really my thing.
But I, you can buy jeans now that look like normal jeans,
but they're like Cavalier line,
so they don't wear through and stuff like that.
So we'll buy them, but you're talking like 200 quid,
maybe you know that kind of thing.
So it's a bit of a bollocks in that regard.
And all my gear now, my gear is like,
it's in good condition.
It just doesn't fit anymore because it's 20 years ago.
So that's the problem.
But no, it's good.
I'll get bits.
I went down with Dad's Wild 4 Band,
like he'll have a pair of gloves.
I'll get an all-proud gloves and I'm like,
you only got one pair of hands, you motherfucker.
Like, you know, but he could down there
and he has like five pairs of gloves,
and you know, I'll take them with you.
And I'm like, no, I'll get my own.
No, no, you take them.
So I'll have a pair of gloves at least, which is nice.
You need to have good gear.
You do, that's the thing.
I never ride a bike without a right gear.
In fairness, I would ride in jeans and a jacket.
Well, when I met you.
If it's hot.
When I met you.
I would ride in jeans.
I would have been common for me to ride on the bike
in a t-shirt.
Yeah.
Yeah, there are probably a lot of ways to go down,
but it was in a t-shirt.
Where when you get that bit older,
you kind of go, maybe that's not the move.
And then we were talking about some of the States in America
that they don't have a helmet law.
And I just, that just boggles my mind.
I couldn't think of getting on a bike without a helmet on.
Like it's just insane to me.
I would take a bike down the street,
like, or see if you were going around the reapotic.
I'd say they're on a wee scrambler or something.
If you're fucking around.
Yeah.
Now you're doing them wrong.
You still get wrecked.
But to do 70 on the road with no helmet or,
and to be honest with you, it's not even that comfortable.
Because my dad, I grew up around trikes as well.
And you don't, you legally don't need a helmet on a trike,
but it's not comfortable.
They give a lot of wind noise if your glass is on,
but that's about it.
So like we, if I was going a couple of miles down the road
or taking it for a run out to test ride it,
yes, no helmet would be fine on a trike for me.
But like I was going on a road trip.
Nah, stick your helmet on.
Mm-hmm.
Even the wind around your ears and something
noise, it's a pain in the arse.
Yeah.
So yes, cracking the hog.
New chapter.
That's it.
So that's good fun.
That's nice.
It's the title of the podcast.
New chapter.
Cracking my hog.
Cracking, should be actually.
Oh, that's easy.
That's good.
Thank you very much for that one.
So I'll not do anything to it for a while.
I might buy parts and stockpile them.
Three hours later.
I'm fucking time.
What I will do is I'll get rid of all the skulls
and I will, I'll probably just stockpile the parts.
I want to build, I have to build a chopper.
And if it takes me a year to do it,
I'm genuinely happy riding around on it.
Like in just getting the note and that kind of thing.
It was nice as well because I haven't,
I haven't been riding a bike with my dad in nearly 20 years.
And then it was the first night, I think it was.
I was coming home to here and I was going to the shop
and he was going to Guilford anyway.
And he says, I'll show I'll go out with you.
So me and him ride together.
And I was like, oh, that's nice.
We hold some moment.
I think that is me though.
Do you know what I forgot to talk about?
Ha.
The black ball roller was on.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
Give us that.
So the Saturday, last Saturday in gin.
It was a week before your trip.
Yeah.
It was a black ball charity run.
So Andy Johnson of Blackwater Graphics.
He's been organizing this for a few months now.
And what an event.
Not going to lie.
I did not know that that was Andy's surname
because I just call him Andy Blackwater.
You think I was his name, are you?
No, I've never really thought about it before.
But so it was him and his brother.
His brother now works in the company.
And they organized this charity run.
And I think there's 150 cars in the end.
So what a variety of cars.
There's super cars, the hot hatches, the classic cars,
just half road rally cars, race cars.
I'm started off at Ravenhill, which is now called Kingspan,
or something else.
Something else called.
Is that rugby grounds?
Baldas.
Yeah.
Also, rugby grounds in East Belfast.
And then we went up into County Down.
And we had proper motorcycle assistance,
you know, a team of...
Like outriders and stuff.
Outriders, that's the word.
Yeah, blocking the roads.
They were blocking the roads and stuff.
Oh, for them.
And with several stops along the way,
I stopped at Old Florida Manor in Kilmood.
They went down to White Rock.
And then we went across where we go.
Kilolay.
There was Kilolay.
We did, didn't we?
We did but not.
I can't remember.
Anyway, we headed down towards the moorns,
around the moorns.
And it was really cool because he was well organized
and advertised.
So some of the towns you're going through,
there was crowds of people out watching.
I noticed that there was a lot of social media presence
without loads of crowds.
Now, he wasn't sure if they'd organized that or what.
But that's cool.
But then we'd have lunch at Raffer Island,
Presbyterian Church.
So Kyle, it works the Blackwater.
That's his church, that's where he's from.
And they put on a spray at lunchtime.
It was fantastic.
Presbyterian Tribex.
Correct answer.
Freshly made scones.
Yum, yum, yum.
Get it, mate, Tom.
And off we went again.
And up towards the moor, went into Gil Hall.
Just a quick stop there.
And then off we went then.
Now, there was a bit of sporty driving,
but me and a group of cars, from that point onwards,
it turned into very spirited.
And it was very much a lot of fun.
See, going through Seinfeld, there was a massive crowd out.
Yeah.
It was just like people laying the streets.
Yeah.
So it was.
And how long do they take yous to do it?
What's about the whole day?
There's half nine start in the Ulster Rugby Grounds.
And I think we've finished at four.
So the timekeeping was brilliant.
Happy days.
Stop for full on, Raphael.
Ah, yes.
But I was in a wee group.
There was an RS3, an RS4, Golf R, myself in the club sport.
And then I think I've probably talked to yous with this,
the Railway Drive Old School Starlet.
Yes.
That came behind me in the queue for whatever reasons.
Just getting caught up in stuff.
I remember seeing them excited.
A few times I went, that thing has some serious on it.
Ah, like ridiculously quick.
And yeah, we had a lot of fun on the way home.
But when I got to talking to him,
so it's a Starlet, basically, fully rally spacked out.
You know, kettled for rallies,
but not be eligible because of what's in the engine bay.
Yeah.
So it's an SR20 putting out 400 brake.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
Ah, that's why it was sitting with you boys in.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was sitting with us.
I'm a bit of a straw, yeah.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
And he could drive.
Mark from Newcastle, my hero.
That's cool.
He's such a cool guy.
And those things are worth a fortune, right?
Yeah.
Probably because rally men bought them up for years
and destroyed them.
You know, they got less and less and less.
I don't think you could buy one now for the price of them.
That's cool to see.
You could actually,
like I was driving along out of the window down,
when you could hear them accelerating behind you.
That's cool.
It was just all noise.
That's cool.
You know.
Then finish was in Blackwater headquarters
and then they put on a barbecue for you to charge for everybody.
Oh, happy it is.
And they raised 7,000 odd pounds, I think it was, for charity.
I forget the name of the charity.
But it's basically a foundation charity
because of something happened to a wee fella.
And they're just basically gather money every swan
divided out amongst cancer charities and stuff out there.
So yeah.
That sounds good.
Well done, Andrew.
Good call as well.
If you get the chance to enter next year, please do.
It was so much fun.
Is it like an application thing?
Because I was going to say, because there's so many cars,
obviously you're trying to not filter it down for like quality,
but just filter out the number of people that you need here.
Because like, if you said there was 150 cars in that,
you could probably realistically get 300 entries for that kind of thing.
It was meant to be called the Backball 100,
but it was Blackball 150.
All right, good.
Good time.
Absolutely fantastic.
Well done.
Excellent.
I doth my cap.
Okay, we'll move on to news news then.
Just before we do, sorry.
Oh, apologies.
I'm very bad at this.
I was chatting back and forth with a listener
and famous internet guy, John Bell.
Back and forth, he's been to Goodwood.
He's going to Goodwood again this year.
And he's also the Formula One.
I just sort of chatted to him.
So he basically went over, done the Grand Prix,
British Grand Prix and stayed on for Goodwood.
And then done Goodwood afterwards.
That'll be cool.
So that's quite a week of motoring.
Yeah, he seems very expensive.
Yeah, I'm asking, sir.
British Grand Prix is very expensive in the end.
Goodwood, I think is 90 pounds a day.
I think any Grand Prix is expensive.
And then you see that like in the head and cost of like,
you have your ticket, but then you've always like,
if you want to buy a bottle of water, it's a tenner.
You know, it's like festival prices.
Well, one of the things that I actually had as part of my news,
because somebody had posted on Facebook about the parking
at the British Grand Prix.
I heard of it.
You want to hear?
Yeah.
Thursday parking, 80 pounds.
Friday parking, 150 pounds.
Sunday parking, 150 pounds.
Sunday parking, 150 pounds.
That's nuts.
It's not mental.
That's not.
Even if you car a shirt and split that with four people,
it's still 40 quite a head.
Disney's 40 quite a day.
And you think that's expensive?
It doesn't have to be saying that and put the prices up.
But I just reached out.
The John is done before.
And I says, could you say a few words?
Slip away voicemail down here.
So I'll just play for that for you now.
Yeah, go for it.
Hi guys, John Bell here,
just back from Goodwood Festival of Speed 2026.
The show again was tremendous.
It was there for the Saturday and the Sunday this year.
So twice as many days compared to last year,
able to get around and have a look to see what
has changed from last year.
It's always good to see the motor sport cars up close and personal.
The F1, the rally, NASCAR, all that there.
It's the access is pretty decent.
You can get within touch and distance all these machines.
And notice things that maybe you don't see when you see them on TV or stuff like that.
So it's definitely good.
In regards to a new car that have been released in the last 12 months,
there really isn't that much worth talking about in terms of stuff that
we as a car enthusiast would be interested in.
And a lot of it's just that massive Chinese can go on and recognize that
there may be only one or two manufacturers,
but there's a whole different sub-brands of Chinese cars.
And to be honest, for me,
at least a lot of these cars look like if you asked an open AI to generate a car 12 months ago.
This is just what all them cars look like to me.
Looks like they've been designed by AI and they're just all very forgetful.
One interesting supercar that I did see was the Audi Fulturni, possibly.
And it's just a rebodied Lamborghini Temurario.
I probably pronounced both of them wrong.
But that was interesting to see it kind of look like an Audi R8 with PS1 graphics.
I sent Nigel a photo of that, so maybe he can go into that a bit deeper.
But more from that, it was a very good show as always.
I would recommend getting to it if you're thinking about going,
because like everything, it's just getting more and more expensive year on year to attend.
So it's probably something you want to do sooner rather than later.
And most of the shows here at home, if you don't support them,
they won't be around for much longer.
So get out there, get your tickets booked.
And thanks for having me on again.
All of these are keeping well.
I'll see you soon.
Bye-bye.
So thanks very much for speaking up, John, about your trip.
When he was talking about the electric cars and the manufacturers now,
it's very that electric presence.
That's a small part of the show.
So don't let that put you off.
And John was trying to put that across too.
Like there's a small half an acre of field with the new car stuff in,
the very small element of the actual event.
And then you have Singer and yeah, all the other ones.
Plus you do get a bit of the EV stuff doing runs up the hill.
But if you're anything like ourselves, you put there for like the 90s touring cars and that kind
of thing, you know, that what he said, they're a bit like getting to see like the touring cars
and then ask cars that would be as you come in.
If you come in from the supercar parking entrance of Goodwood,
I don't know what entrance you call that.
You're walking down towards through the pits.
There's always a theme every year.
And that's my favorite part that changes every year.
There's hundreds of pet parking spaces that are going to be going up the strip.
And it's just magical how good it is.
Always have different themes.
Last time I was there, it was Formula One.
Okay.
Yeah.
And then two years prior to that, it was 70s and 80s DTM, which was.
Yes.
Fantastic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You weren't there this year now.
No.
Robin was.
Hi, there was a fella I followed for years, a bike builder, Carter Horace.
He had a load of choppers and stuff out.
But he was there under like, what's that big famous brand like fashion brands,
Cartier or something you call them?
He was there as part of the Airstamp, which I thought was really weird.
But he's about my age and he's been built in bikes from like his late teens kind of thing,
which is cool to see.
That's the super car he's talking about.
So that's how it is.
Yes.
I've seen something about this online.
Nuvulari.
Ah, yes.
So Nuvulari's, I think he's X, he's like in the 20s or 30s.
Designer or mechanic or something, it's legacy to him.
See, I think they've done a Nuvulari.
Do you remember the car that was in iRobot?
The concept Audi?
That one.
That was a Nuvulari because they've done reps of the wheels.
So let's come back literally 20 years ago, that Nuvulari rep wheels.
Because Ryan McDonnell locally had a set on his Toledo.
That's how he knew.
But they were supposed to pick the reps of the wheels from iRobot,
but they'll see the Nuvulari.
Probably somebody not out there will tell me.
What it actually is.
John wasn't spot on with basically it's a rebass Lamborghini.
They've just re-shelled one of them.
To a certain extent.
I think it took 12 months or 14 months.
So that's not a four-year project.
Like that's just a.
So is that a that is going to be a road car?
Yeah.
Yes.
I think it's going to launch at the end of this year.
Right.
Starting next year.
It's a four liter.
It's the Lamborghini engine.
Four liter.
But it's a plug-in hybrid.
1000 horsepower.
Okay.
Yeah.
Just mental.
When you say it's a four liter, I was like,
I must not be that much.
But obviously if it's a hybrid.
Well, with the EU legislation, I have to have there.
Plug-ins.
Very good.
But yeah.
It took some weather as well.
Like it looked like I would die out there.
It is ridiculously hot and dusty when that places like that.
It's quite south, isn't it?
Yeah.
It's basically about 20 miles up from the coast.
Actually, yeah.
Sarah McClemmons went over that with her brother Carl.
And when she asked me where I got the bike,
she was like, why was there?
I want to look that up.
It was about 30 miles from Festival Speed.
Put the other land of money down there.
Aye.
And good weather.
Yeah.
The thing is like good with your,
you're walking about two vlogs and you're,
oh, there's such and such a car journalist there.
There's that racing driver or there's that noble man.
If you were tuned up on people that got to you, boo.
If you needed your looking for, you go, holy smokes.
It is just a mecca car show for the whole world.
Aye.
Well, even you consider like even in like Hurdingen stuff,
which you're imagine Hurdingen is very far removed
from a lot of that world there.
We're flying cars over for it and themselves.
It was a big deal 10 years ago even.
Yeah.
Thanks, John.
Thanks for that.
Yes.
Thank you.
News then.
Yes.
Do about a news.
So the holy grail of the Jap world has been found.
So body in white, R34 GTR, body shell has been found.
And someone has put it on Japan auctions.
So this thing comes with like Japanese registration papers
from Nissan, so it can be registered as a brand new R34.
So which Americans want to buy it?
Exactly the first thing I thought.
So it's up for 7 million yen, which is around 35 to 40,000 pounds,
which when you consider the prices, some of the GTRs are making,
like it's probably not, would I pay it?
No, of course I wouldn't.
But it's incredible.
Like it's in the original e-coat.
Comes with papers, as I say, as you can register it.
Like someone out there is going to have,
someone will have a rotten one and a lot of money
and they'll just go, well, reshell that.
And there you go.
But I sort of got to thinking I was like,
what's that equivalent for us?
You know, for me, is it like, well, I'm not massively into rallies,
but maybe for you, is that like someone finding a rally shell?
Yeah.
Brand new on registered and you go, so what do you do with it?
Shiny unicorn stuff.
Do you build a totally concourse vehicle with your brand new shell?
Or do you take it and build a car you always wanted,
but know that it's totally clean?
Like if that was a mark one for me,
you're kind of torn between die-building a pristine example here,
because you have the opportunity to, or do you?
Boring.
Exactly, still do what you want to do.
And I hope our staff probably butchered like, but yeah.
That's cool.
On what a car to find.
Like, you know, that could have been a normal GTS,
narrow body or whatever, but it's the actual proper GTR,
but that'll sell like someone will buy that no problem.
The folklore of it, it'll sell a half of it.
News then from me is basically grant her ended there not so long ago.
That's revives again.
Under different people.
Yeah.
So basically down the top here then.
Yeah.
Who's doing that?
Starting September 4th with three new hosts.
Have you ever heard of throttle house?
Yes.
The GTR, the M2 guys.
And this is the curveball.
Francis Bourgeois, you know, the train guy.
I did see this eye.
Yeah.
So apparently he is actually a car guy,
but he's also incredibly annoying.
Yeah.
But he's also a character.
I've watched some of the Instagram clips of what he's doing.
And I'm just going, this is not.
It's not going to work.
Is this one of these nerdy dudes who?
Like a trans spotter.
The train guy with the camera.
360 camera.
That one.
And he runs by going, oh.
Ironically, I think I have turned into a play-in spotter
because when I was flying over the Newcastle.
Welcome to my world, Lee.
I saw an Antonov.
Did you go on Flight Radar?
And I was like.
Antonov sent out a huge Belfast, quite regularly.
Oh, that's what she was.
It was massive.
Yeah.
I work.
They had two of the, you know,
like the Beaties, Crayon Lorries loading it.
And when you, I took a picture of it,
when you see the Crayon Lorries beside it,
you're like, holy shit, look how big that thing is.
I work in aerospace and have for eight years more.
I don't even remember.
I couldn't give a fuck about planes.
Like literally people and I used to work with people
who would have told you this, that, the other,
and there were Uber nerds about it.
And I would be like, but like,
what do you think?
And I'm like, honestly, I don't care.
It's a plane.
And if it takes me to America to see my friends.
Yes, sir.
But Lee sent me a picture of Antonov.
And I was like, oh, yes.
Now that's cool.
But for me, it's more an engineering thing
where it's like that shouldn't fly.
Yeah.
I'm not that interested in them either.
But when I saw that, I was like, holy fuck, look at that.
And that's not even the biggest one.
Yes.
The big, big, big lad one.
Is it the 225 is the big one or something?
Got destroyed.
Yeah.
You would see US cargo planes
and now they're quite often.
Maybe tax the next thing for the binoculars on comes flying.
There you go.
The, some of that sort of stuff or military stuff
would interest me more than standard passenger jets as such.
And like helicopters.
I, I don't just don't trust them.
There's only one way in that story.
Yeah.
Have you ever been on one?
Once.
I've been on a couple of times with you, Lee.
No, I'd love to.
I just don't really trust them.
I've got that anyway.
Plane you can glide.
Yeah.
No, it's my line of work.
I've seen the other end of that.
Oh, OK.
Where they're glides too, but I can't glide.
Yes, correct.
It's still coming down.
Control crash.
Because yes, we're fucking...
Slaughter on the Hudson, no problem.
Buzz Lightyear said we're following the style.
Yeah.
I put her in the Hudson.
She's all good.
Yeah.
The...
Yeah.
September 4th, that's relaunches.
So we'll see how that goes.
It'd be interesting now.
Yeah.
The heat would put me off it alone, to be honest with you.
Yeah.
One of the two throttle house guys will probably be fine.
It's one on German or something.
I'm not sure.
There are a channel that I dip in and out of.
Yeah.
There's a few.
It's like big time.
There's another one I was in.
Lee the day.
I like their stuff, but I don't watch it religiously.
I don't know what it is about that algorithm,
but YouTube's buried big time with me.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
That's weird.
You know, sometimes you'd be watching something.
That's the boys in bed big time.
And then you go and realize they have dropped 20 videos
that I haven't seen at all for you.
That's weird.
What's another one I have?
So the M3.
So it was started then that the current M3
will be the last petrol one.
And then we go on to EV next.
But BMW have confirmed that no,
there is going to be a six cylinder petrol version
alongside the EV model coming up.
So the prototype was out hammering
around the narrow ring recently and test not.
I think it's the current S58 engine.
I think it is the twin turbo straight six.
It's not revised in the new car.
Isn't it saying how tunable the M3, M5, RS6 is?
It's not.
They're so restricted.
Yeah.
And M5s, I think Stevie Allen was at EuroTrap
and he's a big M5 guy for very little,
not very little, but comparatively,
you can tune as M5 was 900 brake.
Yes.
And he says, there's nothing that I can compare to you.
What do you do with that?
You know.
And the other thing is,
where do you go from that when you get rid of that car?
Well, what do you do?
I remember being over in Scotland
and Carter Robinson let me drive his 700 brake RS6.
And it's just insane, that amount of power, insane.
It has to be the sort of thing where you have to just accept
that the new cars, well, unless you buy something similar
or more powerful, but if you're coming from that to them by an RS3,
you would just have to accept that this is a different car.
Yeah.
You know, this will not feel like this.
The only thing is, there's reports that this new M3 will be,
like, was it there's DSG DCT only?
No manual version.
So.
That's probably the deal with transmission.
And then I wonder, are there missions, are you thinking?
No transmission.
For, again, part nine.
No, you'd kill a transmission.
Aye. Well, my thinking was then is this kind of like,
when a lot of these current, like performance models
that have been around for years, like your RS4s and things like that,
when stuff like this starts to go away,
where you don't get a manual version,
does that previous model that was the last of it,
is that like the future classic?
You know, like the way a 993 is like the last of the air cooled
before the one water cooled,
and they're sort of the grailed cars because of that.
So it'd be interesting to see what they do.
I just find it very difficult to think like a current M3
is going to be a future classic.
They see the launch of the new X5?
No.
They've got axes in their headlights.
Oh, no.
And a good wearable, right?
It actually looks.
It's all right.
Yeah.
They've got away from the big glitzy grill thing,
and they're going in a different direction now.
That's nice to hear.
I don't think it was too bad looking compared to previous abominations.
There's been more solvus there then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ah, there's stuff, even some bad ones now.
We were behind a camera where we were,
and we seen a car on the road,
and it might have been like an X3.
And a current model X3 is like the same size as the original X5.
You know, they're from, to say, 20 odd years ago.
So are new Polos like a Golf 3?
Well, Lucy's a brand new Polo GTI,
and Matt had a Mark V Golf, your old one,
something beside it.
And I was like, they're the same size.
It's crazy.
When you see an old X3 now, you're like...
It's tiny.
Oh, that's tiny.
Yeah.
Aye.
No, there's nothing to them.
Local brand, Driver's Club.
Yes.
AKA ILB, AKA I Love Bass,
AKA whatever they're calling themselves these days.
I'm pretty sure it's Driver's Club now.
Thanks to Driver's Club, yeah.
Friends of the show, but all before.
Friends of the show have teamed up with Pierre Gasly of all people.
Didn't see that coming.
No, they did, aye.
And I thought it was pretty cool.
I just thought fair play.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Like a couple of boys from Northern Ireland
who started this company and are now...
In their bedroom.
Hobnobbing with the F1 teams and stuff.
Adam put something up, I got it.
He was like, in 2008, we were taking car park pictures of cars
in Kirkford's car park.
Now we're taking photos of Pierre Gasly.
So they've launched a new range of clothing
in conjunction with Gasly.
It's kind of themed around him and...
His dog?
His dog.
I think it's supposed to be on his day off,
like his downtime kind of thing.
But I think all the shoots of the model and stuff
that was all done at Lake Como and the photos are amazing.
And it looks awesome.
And they don't pop up in central London
during the Grand Prix weekend as well.
For the launch of the collection.
That was cool.
That was quite smart.
So absolutely, fair play to them.
It's good to see.
So the last one for me is...
There's a new road sign put up in our mail recently.
Okay.
And you might think why you're telling us this.
That's boring as fuck.
Who cares?
But turns out the Department for Transport
did not dot the rise and cross their t's
because there were not one but two spelling mistakes
on this road sign of town names.
Right?
Which you'd think, you know, presumably the old sign
was there to copy from.
So tell me, let's hang on.
How many words are on this road sign?
Four.
And how many words are spelled wrong?
Oh, that's 50% success rate, yeah.
So it's a directional sign.
So it's two arrows pointing to the left,
two arrows pointing to the right at like a t-junction.
And the sign's pointing to Arma,
Dunganon, Rich Hill, Ben Byrd.
Ben Byrd.
Ben Byrd.
Which would be Ben Byrd.
Ben Byrd.
And Lachol, not Lachol.
L-O-U-G-H-E-L.
Yeah.
Sorry, I didn't prefere these.
Yep.
What am I talking about?
It sounds like SIP member to me.
SIP member.
How do you do that?
And this article says,
pictures of the signs for publishing social media
by those quick enough to notice the mistakes,
but the blame, like the signs,
is being pointed in all manner of directions.
Councillor Dominic Malloy said,
there's a long list of mishaps that led to this.
Dominic Malloy is definitely an Arma man.
That's the most Arma name.
There was an issue with the sign in Cumber,
so it's now called the recycling centre,
it's not called the dump.
Aha.
But they used to be in the middle of Cumber.
Then the council acquired ground about a mile outside Cumber,
and it was multipurpose.
You had the recycling centre, and you had a graveyard.
Okay.
That's the best.
And there's both there.
Well, the sign, I can't remember it word for word,
but it was busy like, busy look like...
Dump your humans in here.
Dump your humans in here.
I forget what way it was worded in the sign,
and I immediately had to cover it over and redo it.
It's the multipath and bring out your dad.
Yeah, it was just like graveyard recycling site
or something like that.
I forget what it was.
You know, it was meant to be graveyard and recycling centre,
and a busy red as one word, and people went,
what the hell?
Punctuation is important for us.
Yeah, I like that.
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So, listener questions, it's been a while.
It's been a while.
That's it, as Stain told us.
It could be a bit longer if I could get my second phone
to work here.
That's what she said.
Always could be a bit longer.
So, start with Sean Barre 650 says,
if you were to only have one brand,
and it couldn't be in the Viag Group, what would you pick?
I've seen this earlier on.
There's two ways to look at that.
Are you thinking old school, are you thinking new cars?
If it's new cars, there's only one option.
What's that?
Toyota, because they have the drive at the moment.
They're really pushing the GR series.
They're enthusiast, directors.
They're one of the few, what I would call, R level of cars
who are still pushing.
Yeah.
You know, your new Porsches and stuff
is generally out of our reach for brand new stuff,
but like Toyota, if we really wanted to do that.
I just love the fact that they're going,
no, we're not saying goodbye to enthusiast cars.
We're still in that.
We're sticking with it.
Yeah.
If it was older cars, what would you be?
Like if it was your enthusiast cars, say, what are you?
Because I know Lee would be Voxel.
And I'd say him.
And I'd probably be Honda.
Yeah.
Ford?
No.
And I have a Ford upbringing in this.
You do?
I probably would be Ford.
It would be Ford or I loved the 205s rallies.
Your friend stuff.
Friend stuff.
Really good handling, high-revvy stuff back in the day.
I like.
205 GTI, sort of.
You're a driver.
You get your enjoyment mainly from driving cars.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
I get most of my enjoyment.
I'm pretty sure from building cars, I like to drive
and I do have no problem.
So we were laughing and Lee was like, oh,
you're going to hardtail that bike.
It'll be a bastard ride and a little bit uncomfortable.
And I was like, yeah, but you know me,
it's form over function every day of the week.
I will suffer and it's fine.
But I do genuinely enjoy working on cars and problem solving.
And we're, you're a driver.
And that's when you're cinematic.
The Peugeot stuff, that really makes sense
because those are proper e-driver cars.
And that's where they have their cult following.
I love the way Ford's in the 80s and 90s.
Very blue collar.
A really good car for the price range.
You know, the Jeep or the RS range and the,
you know, just a real good, well built motor.
Well, Ford like the hometown hero.
You know, it was the working man, super car.
I always thought of the interior of a Ford back in the day.
It was always a lovely place to be.
Well, you think of what you had.
Your factory were cars and the RS Turbos and the Escorts
and there were proper seats.
Even right up to, well, they're a wee bit old hat now,
but Mark 1 Focus RS, like the Sparko seats,
but we looked around one at Old School New School last weekend and
yeah, the seats look slightly dated,
but the rest of the car for me has not dated.
A Mark 1 Focus.
They still look as good.
As a car, Mark 1 Focus has aged really well.
And I think it's actually aged better than the newer Focus.
The one after that.
Yeah, there was two RS models there,
but even like the lesser, like it was the 170, S10 and stuff like that.
Great looking car.
Really good chassis too.
Handled like it's on wheels.
You had one on Ritchie at one and both of them said there were great driving cars,
but then there were fully independent suspension, I'm pretty sure,
where our Volkswagen stuff was a solid.
Solid rear beam.
Yeah.
But I think you're right, Nigel.
It's hard to go past Toyota.
The new stuff for the Volkswagen, I'm turning their back on, it's easy actually.
Oh, 100%.
No, it's, they really have.
And especially in America, which is weird to me because here,
I think I had this conversation with Paul McGrath.
He says, obviously he lives in England, now he lives in America.
He says in America, it makes more sense and it's easier to own a brand new car or a new car
than it is here.
So he was like myself, he lived in England, he drove Shedders, he ran about,
and then when he moved to America, it made more sense than to buy a, like a market,
I think they had a market TTI and stuff like that.
But you,
Volkswagen wouldn't care if it alienated you and I or later,
because we're not going to out and ban brand new Volkswagen's, but in America, they are.
Like many people we know that have marked two goals that also drive a market,
you know, and they're the ones that are actually going back to modern stuff.
Yeah, or not less, or something for their family car.
Yeah, and it's weird to alienate those people.
We're not the target market, but that enthusiast is, it's very strange.
I generally don't think they know what they're doing.
Like they don't, I think the,
they went down a cul-de-sac with electric and they were going to go that way,
and then they realized, oh crap, what do I want to do?
They were a hundred percent on that, and rightly or wrongly, they were committed to it.
But now that they're, the rugs kind of been pulled, they're like,
we don't know what to do.
Yeah, they're a bit of financial trouble.
I've spoken about it before, like there's,
and you know what, they're not the only one.
Yeah.
That's, that's the thing.
That's the Chinese electric market doing that damage.
Hammering them, yeah.
Um, MAV90G60, Danny Mercado says, uh, if you see this and remember,
congratulations, Colin on the bike.
Thank you very much.
Does it have the same effect if you park it and take pictures like the TT?
Probably more leather involved in that approach, so I would imagine.
Put the asses chops on.
Limited slip differences says, why has 2026 been a really tough year for consistency?
We're feeling it too, it's not just yourselves.
It really has.
Yeah.
We just had a lot of life shit happening.
Yeah.
ITN's job then the last year, and I've definitely been busier.
Yeah.
I have a lot less free time, but this year in particular,
weekends have been really, really busy.
Um, and I can't really pinpoint what it has been in particular or just an
amalgamation of everything.
I think it's the starting reactor.
Turned off is really screwed up.
We're a Harambe, shooting Harambe and fucking 2016.
Change the timeline.
Yep.
We're a different reality now.
Tony Stark as a superhero.
That fucking kid.
You ruined us.
There's one for you, Nigel.
No Iran 07 says, what coilovers and tires are best for Mark 5 GTI?
I'm thinking KWs and PS4s.
That sounds like a lovely combo.
Nice combo.
Yeah, but PS4 is hard to go by there.
Brilliant tire.
KWs, BCs and Bilsteins in my one stage.
Coilovers.
Yeah.
Very, very good.
I suppose you've had quite a range of different ones.
Yeah.
Um, depends if you want to do as well.
I'm assuming if you're talking about PS4s,
he's not on a big one, mega low.
You want something that'll handle well.
Yeah.
For the price range, BC are hard to look past.
Would you suggest possibly speaking to Martin at Ober for a 10% discount before August?
He will, he will advise you because he did with mine.
Yeah, actually, it's out there.
I know he's, he keeps me sweet like.
And he knows Mark 5, Mark 6, Mark 7, like the back of his hand.
So he'll know what you ask him.
Are you telling him what you're wanting in this person?
He'll, he'd stare you.
Yeah.
That's a good point, actually.
My golf is slow, says, and that's not a statement from me,
says, are you coming to unity?
We are not, unfortunately, not this year.
No, sadly not.
Um, but.
These are doing doubles under, aren't these?
Yes, we are.
Doing low ones.
What did?
First two weekends in September.
Aye, class.
So I'd actually like to do unity.
It's the end of September, I want to say.
So it probably classes with Titanic Doves, the thing.
But it was quite funny.
So their show I've described before is in their local time.
I think that's amazing in America.
We didn't just kind of work the local time because like,
I wasn't trying to do that in Oregon or Cumber.
It just wasn't entertaining.
But, um, a sinkhole opened up a bit a week before their show,
where the show pretty much is.
And just swallowed the grind.
It was like, hmm, that's something that happens quite a lot in America.
Like it's not uncommon.
Is that because of the main shaft?
I have no idea.
It's weird.
It's the lizard people tunneling.
Um, S14 OCP, Simon the Pizza Man.
He says, if you take a deep breath and try talking at the same time,
you sound like Stephen Hawking.
Go on the head color.
I will not.
And I guess the one for Lee.
That's a hangover cure I heard.
I don't think so.
Go on, go on, go.
So you talk on the in breath.
Yes.
So you breathe in, breathe in and say, I am Lee at the same time.
I can't even talk when I'm breathing in.
I, you sound like Stephen Hawking.
He's been smoking 40 a day.
That's correct.
I don't believe him, so we have to try that himself.
He also says, Guru Traffin was great show of the year.
That's good.
That's a great compliment.
That's the thing.
And it's something you can put on the best show like technically the best show.
But if it doesn't have the right failure vibe, it doesn't have the people and that's the thing.
It was the same thing we said about Casualen.
Casualen, we looked back at Casualen with fucking rose-tender glasses.
But would you really look at it?
It was a car park with a tree in the middle of it, in the middle of a forest park.
And everybody goes, so that was the best show ever.
And you look at what your Traffin is.
And your Traffin is 10 times the show.
And while everybody appreciates your Traffin, they still look and go with Casualen.
It's fantastic.
It's the pure rose-tender glasses.
Absolutely.
But it had the right vibe.
That's the thing.
It's a different time in our life.
We look out through rose-tender glasses.
Oh, 100% yeah.
Those were better days.
Less complicated days.
Level of step differences would not have been matched then saying,
what the fuck's going on with consistency in these days?
Saggregated, okay.
Oh, forget you're talking about Megal and Connor there.
They made it on the grass man.
What's the farm flexor grass man?
Sorry, Megal, I can't remember.
But a message on the bike.
That's a big deal.
Yeah.
That's cool.
The video was downright doing a bit of salage.
What was the farm flex?
Sorry, Megal.
I completely forgot.
But it was an old moor and broke down basically after 10 months.
Oh, nice.
But it was very funny because no wet man from the camera.
Well, I was going to say, if you went out and everything went smoothly,
there's nothing really to fill them.
Or if something goes wrong, it actually creates something to talk about and something to do.
So after what's that, I didn't realize that.
Saggregated MK,
Megal says, what's the best way to get rid of factory sound in an undersale hammer and chisel
takes ages?
That's over to you.
So if he's talking about the undersides, there's a few ways you can tackle it.
The simplest way is an old grinder.
Don't use your good one because it destroys it.
But your old grinder with the knotted wire wheel on it and a combination of those and just go for it.
Put a fucking mask on and you'll be there for a while.
It's horrible.
The shit gets everywhere.
But it takes it off.
What I did see a few things online, and I actually want to try it,
is you know, there was multi tools you get to vibrate back and forth.
Yeah.
You use a wood blade or a blunted blade of that.
And basically shave most of the bulk of it off.
Yeah.
And it's like, it reminds me of the guys in the Indian,
suppose they're not really Indian restaurants, like the kebab shops.
They shave the big cylinder of meat.
It reminds me kind of that.
But the advantage is that it doesn't go everywhere.
That's the thing.
And if you get the bulk of it off, then you can take your wire wheel and remove the rest of it.
And it obviously, using a blunted one or a wooden one,
doesn't eat into the metal because the metal ones can go through.
If you're on about the interior stuff,
which is your more bitumen-based sound deadening,
dry ice is supposed to be one where you can like flood it with dry ice.
But I think dry ice is kind of hard to get and it's expensive.
I think Adam Elsie, he has videos a year or two ago.
He was flat out with the dry ice.
He made things so much easier.
Is this the dry ice machine?
Yeah.
So this is different again.
This is literally like if you lifted your carpets,
just dump dry ice into it, let it sit.
And then it actually like freezes.
Turns it's brittle.
You hit it with a hammer and just cracks off.
Like meth.
Yeah.
Hi.
That's over here.
And but the other way you can do it is,
do you ever see the the freeze spray cans you get for freezing the pipes in the house?
You can do it with that.
If you saw it with that,
I frequently had it with a hammer.
And then you can clean it up with a bit of petrol and a rag,
takes the sticky bitumen type stuff out of it.
Cool.
Um, but I assume he's talking about the outside one, which is quite difficult.
Is it Stefan?
He's kerosene?
Kerosene on the inside for you to clean up or not.
You end up high as a kite, but it does the job.
A good time.
Working a well ventilated space, folks.
Cars are not here.
You're not well ventilated.
The, and then the price of kerosene now you can't afford to do that.
You can look down your project as you float in the space above it.
It's like watching yourself on YouTube.
Our cartel says deadly news.
The C Connors joined the Hell's Angles and a protractor after it.
Yes.
And that could be a spill mistake.
That might not be known to a girl.
And then lastly, we have no poke, no love from Canada.
Says summer is going too fast, which it is.
It's midday.
It is.
It's nuts.
Yeah.
Somebody said something the other day about September.
It's like, oh, we're not doing that September.
And I was like, that won't belong far away.
Nope.
A minute ago it was dub shed.
Ah, yeah.
And a minute before that was Christmas.
Bye.
A damn certain reactor.
Security times, folks.
Cause we're all old as fuck.
Well, I've kind of come to the conclusion
of not have to mark two in the route this year.
I was kind of going to do it for middle of the summer and then,
but I was like, I'm not going to rush it.
Just get it done.
It's fine.
But what it will be is I'm on track to have it finished,
say to autumn time, which means if I want to do a wee bit over the winter,
I can, but there's no real pressure to do much.
But it means I can get an MWT'd and come the start of the year for dub shed.
And it's already ready to go.
It's ready to go.
But you'll probably be too busy collecting more skulls for your bike.
Oh, fuck me.
The only collecting skulls I will do is collect them in a bag
and fuck them over the edge.
Every time I count them on it, I find a different number.
Because I was dreaming about skulls.
I told somebody the other day I had 11 on it and then it counted and was
stepping on my side 13.
So it was like, is someone adding the skulls this?
I'm just pranking him.
I just go out every night and putting new one on.
Do you know what the other problem with banner Harley is?
I need to buy new tools.
Imperial.
A lot of the fasteners.
It's a weird mix of metric and imperial.
Right.
And torques.
Right.
So the front forks are made, I think it's Showa make them.
They're a Japanese brand.
They're metric.
The front brake caliper is Italian.
I assume Rambo.
metric.
metric bolts and that.
So your brake caliper on the front, one of the forks metric,
your forks themselves metric,
the bolt that holds front axle in imperial.
It's made of make sense.
So I need to buy a few tools and stuff.
So I think probably.
Where would that bike be assembled in America?
Yes, that one.
I actually thought it was in New York, Pennsylvania.
It's not read the phone number.
It was in Kansas.
Yeah.
If you look at the chassis number, you can kind of decode all about it.
It's quite good that way.
But yeah, that one come from Kansas.
I'm pretty sure.
There's none made outside.
There's no European.
I think there is because the first digits of the new Volkswagen here are.
Is it WVW?
WVW is for Europe and then a Mexican stuff.
They're all different.
My bike is one HD one.
But I think it's either one HD five or five HD one.
One of the ones changed out five is built in another part of the world.
But I don't know if that era was ever built outside of America.
I don't know if they were built in America and then shipped out,
or now they're built more locally.
But I never come across one that era that has the five in it,
but it hardly is an option.
Yeah, so I'll hit Harbor Freight.
None of my mark again.
Absolutely.
I don't need to buy a full range of Imperial tools,
but I need to buy what I need to buy.
So I'm thinking of buying an Allen key set.
I'll buy a three eighth socket set in Imperial,
and I'll buy a select number of spanners in the common sizes.
That should see me through with most things.
I don't think I need an Imperial flathead screwdriver or anything.
So it should be all right.
Or a left handed one.
A left handed one.
Then left handed threads.
So there we go.
We made it.
We made it.
Well, I made it, and I just made it too.
Connor was so fine anyway.
I will probably be recording for no more months
because I'm going to America here next week.
You are indeed.
That's right.
You're making a wee trip back to Helen.
I'm going to Helen for a day or two.
I think that's class.
Yeah.
I think it'll be because you've seen it at like,
well, I'll say peak madness.
It was peak madness in the previous shoe form,
but like you've seen it very busy in car wise.
No, you're just going to see it in normal life.
But then a lot of things happen in Helen.
Are you going to weekend?
I am going to do, I think it's a Friday.
Okay.
So a lot of things happen at say weekends.
There is other events and stuff
because you have bike week and muscle car week and stuff.
So you could go there and it's very normal.
Or you could go there and there's something on.
Because there's a big notice board that sort of lists events in there.
Yes, there is I.
So it'll be interesting to see what you're going to find.
Can we get?
So yeah, we'll not make any promises
about when our next episode will be,
but we'll try our best.
The best surprise.
Yeah.
And thank you very much for listening,
for people who sent in questions.
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for various reasons.
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And that Conor McCann.
And we'll see you next time.
Bye.
Cheers, folks.
About this episode
Euro Traffin kicks things off: it’s a summer show with European cars only, and the hosts trade hangover stories while recapping standout rebuilds and rare-parts hunts. The conversation then bounces between event logistics (Castle Elm weather, Bristol plans, upcoming “Titanic Dubs”) and practical ownership talk—wheels, tread, and even a dead-battery computer panic. Later, it shifts into deeper DIY mode: 3D-printed parts, valve-block wiring fixes, and sound-deadening removal methods. The episode ends with more motoring chatter, including Goodwood and future-spec BMW M3 debate.
110 screaming eagle
18 inch front wheel
20 inch wheels
20s
3000 mile a year
400 brake
air cooled
battery issues
BCs
big twin
Audi Q5
Audi R8
Audi RS 3
Audi RS4
Audi RS 6
Audi SQ5
BMW M2
BMW M3
BMW M5
BMW X5
Chevrolet SSR
Ford Focus
Lamborghini Temerario
Nissan GT-R
Nissan Skyline
Peugeot 205 GTI
Porsche 911
Porsche Boxster
Porsche Cayman
Skoda Octavia
Skoda Superb Combi
Tesla Model 3
Volkswagen Bora
Volkswagen Caddy
Volkswagen Golf
Volkswagen Polo
Original notes
On EP158 we recap OSNS 2026, Nigel attends the Blackball Rally and Connor becomes a brotherrrrr!
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