The Rolls-Royce Corniche V is a very luxurious Rolls-Royce, typically associated with an open-top style. It’s built for comfort and a high-end driving experience. It gets mentioned because it looks especially striking in bright colors.
Car
Bentley Corniche convertible
This is a Bentley Corniche convertible—an older, very upscale luxury car designed for comfortable long drives. The hosts are trying to identify the exact model from small visual details in a video.
Radiator mascots are the little decorative badges on the front of older cars. The hosts mention them because the mascot design can tell you which brand the car is.
Hubcaps are the decorative covers you can see on the middle of a car’s wheels. The hosts are saying you might be able to spot them in the video to help identify which car it is.
Car
Rolls Royce
Rolls-Royce is a luxury car brand. They’re basically saying the guy probably used to drive very fancy Rolls-Royce cars.
The Rover SD1 is a car made by Rover in the early 1980s. It’s the kind of classic that people remember because it represents that time period. In the discussion, it’s being mentioned as a specific model from around 1981.
The Rover SD1 is a classic British car from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Here, the hosts are trying to figure out the exact version by checking small visual clues like badges and mirror covers.
“Chrome door mirror covers” are the shiny, decorative caps over the side mirrors. In this segment, the hosts treat them as a dating/trim clue: SD1s used black mirror covers until 1981, then switched to chrome after the facelift.
A facelift is when a car gets updated partway through its production run. It usually means small styling changes, and in this case it helps date the SD1 by the chrome trim it has.
That phrase describes the engine layout and fuel system. A straight-six has six cylinders in a row, and “twin-carb” means it uses two carburetors to feed fuel into the engine.
Chrome door mirrors are side mirrors finished in chrome, which was a common styling cue on many classic cars. The hosts mention them as a visual detail that still matches the intended look, even if other elements (like wheels) don’t.
Aftermarket wheels are wheels made by companies other than the original manufacturer, typically installed as a modification. Here, the hosts suggest the car’s look is off because the wheels aren’t the correct style/spec for the SD1.
Joe Callis is the person the video was set up to have driving the car. The hosts say it was staged—she couldn’t actually drive, so the crew pushed the car and she acted like she was steering.
The Austin-Healey 3000 is an older British sports car. It’s known for being fun to drive and often comes up as a classic roadster. In the episode, it’s mentioned because it appeared in a video connected to a well-known song.
Car
1933 Ford three-window Coupe
This is a 1933 Ford coupe that hot-rodders often modify for a meaner look. In the ZZ Top video, it’s the kind of car people recognize because it’s been heavily customized.
“Flames” refers to stylized flame graphics painted along the body, a common hot-rod visual motif. It’s part of the car’s livery-style customization rather than a mechanical feature.
They’re describing a special hydraulic setup that makes the rear wheels spin even when the car is stopped. The tricky part is doing that without the car rolling forward.
In the UK, an MOT is the regular safety/roadworthiness test for cars. If there’s “no MOT history,” it means there aren’t records showing it has been tested or passed.
The BMW 8 Series is a luxury car meant for long-distance driving. It’s designed to feel comfortable while still being sporty. In the episode, it’s mentioned because a bright-colored example is memorable.
This is a Porsche 911 Turbo from the 1980s (the “930” generation) but as a convertible. It’s known for a turbocharged engine and a very recognizable classic 911 look.
The Toyota Supra is a sports car made by Toyota. It’s designed to be quick and fun to drive, and people like it a lot for performance. In videos, it often gets mentioned as a famous “90s” sports car.
The Porsche 356 Speedster is an old-school Porsche that’s famous for being light and fun to drive. It’s a classic “driver’s car” from Porsche’s early years. Here it’s brought up because the video is about Steve McQueen and the cars he’s associated with.
The Ford Mustang is a classic American sports car. It’s known for strong performance and a recognizable look. Some special Mustang versions are famous enough to be talked about like “legendary” cars.
Le Mans is a world-famous long-distance race in France where cars race for 24 hours. It’s a big deal in motorsport. The host is saying the video is referencing that race.
The Ford GT40 is a famous race car made by Ford, best known for trying to and succeeding at beating Ferrari at Le Mans. It’s a big deal in racing history. Here it’s mentioned because the video references Le Mans.
The Morris Minor is a small, older British car. It’s known for being straightforward and easy to understand as a classic. People often mention it as a favorite because it’s a well-known, everyday-style classic.
The Volkswagen Polo is a mainstream small car platform that many other vehicles can be compared against because it’s widely used and engineered as a practical, mass-market hatchback. In this segment, the host uses it as a reference point for how the MG feels “put together.”
Term
squeaked
Here “squeaked” means the car makes annoying little noises. The speaker is saying the car felt solid and didn’t make those sounds.
Term
rattled
“Rattled” means the car makes a clunking or shaking noise. The speaker is saying this one stayed quiet.
Term
Grade 2 CV
“CV” sounds like it’s referring to a specific classic car model, and “Grade 2” sounds like a way of saying how good/valuable it is. It’s not a normal car part name.
They mean the car’s modern safety features that can step in to help you stay on track and slow down. It’s not a specific part—more like a bundle of driver-assist functions.
That’s the car’s lane-keeping feature—basically it helps steer you back or warns you if you start drifting out of your lane. It’s meant to prevent lane-departure accidents.
Car
Citroen Diana
The Citroën Diana is an older Citroën car from the 1970s. The host is saying it looks cool when they see one parked around town.
A “carb car” is an older kind of car that uses a carburetor to feed fuel into the engine. The host is saying these older cars can smell like petrol because the fuel doesn’t always burn as completely.
Term
hot tarmac
“Hot tarmac” just means the road surface is really hot. The host is saying that when petrol vapors are in the air, the heat from the asphalt can make the smell feel stronger.
Catalytic converters are parts on many modern cars that clean up the exhaust. The host is saying that once these became common (especially in the late 1990s), the strong petrol smell from older cars went away.
Car
Triumph GT6
The Triumph GT6 is a classic British sports car. People like it because it’s small and fun to drive, and it represents the era when British cars were built for sporty driving on regular roads.
Renault is a well-known French car brand. The host brings it up to say you still see lots of French cars in France, even if they don’t see many classic ones.
The Citroën 2CV is an old small French car. It’s known for being simple and having a very distinctive look. People often notice it because it’s a common classic on the road and in videos.
A “misfire” is when the engine doesn’t burn the fuel correctly in one or more cylinders. It can make the car run rough and may create unusual smells after you drive it.
“Pulled to the left” means the car naturally wants to go left instead of tracking straight. That often points to alignment or a problem with one side of the brakes or tires.
“Air con” is the car’s air-conditioning system that cools the cabin. If it doesn’t work, it could be a small electrical problem or something more serious like a leak or failed compressor.
“History got lost” means the paperwork that shows how the car was maintained and who owned it isn’t available. Without that, it’s harder to know what repairs were actually done.
“Coach lines” are the decorative stripes painted on some classic cars. If they look messy or uneven, it can suggest the car was repainted poorly.
Topic
buying strategy: cheap project vs top-end car
They’re talking about how classic cars are usually a choice between a cheap one that needs a lot of work, or a more expensive one that’s already in better shape.
This means the support underneath the seat cushion wears out and the seat starts to sag. The host says it can happen after a certain amount of driving, and then people try to fix it by swapping parts.
This is a DIY/repair trick: move the seat’s supporting parts from one side of the car to the other. The idea is to use the less-worn side so the seat feels firm again for longer.
The MG MGB is a small British roadster, usually a two-seat convertible. It’s considered a more affordable classic car to own and work on than many high-end sports cars. That’s why it comes up when people talk about taking on a classic project.
The TR6 is a classic British sports car by Triumph. It’s popular with enthusiasts and is often seen as a more realistic classic to own than very expensive luxury models.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow is a mid- to late-20th-century luxury sedan known for its smooth, “big car” comfort and classic Rolls-Royce presence. The discussion here highlights a common ownership reality: even when the purchase price looks attractive, the cost of keeping a large, older Rolls-Royce on the road can be high.
Car
1985 Mini
A 1985 Mini is a classic British car that’s small and easy to drive. People love it because it’s been around forever in car culture and there are lots of parts and mods available.
“Digital detox” means taking a break from phones and screens. They’re saying classic-car ownership can help you spend more time in the real world—like actually driving—rather than scrolling.
“Analog experience” means doing something in a hands-on, real-world way instead of through apps or screens. They’re describing classic cars as something you feel and interact with directly when you own and drive them.
A classic car road trip means taking an older car on a longer drive. With classics, you’re more involved because you’re thinking about whether it’ll make it and how it’ll behave along the way.
To “overheat” means the engine gets too hot. On older cars, people worry about this more because the cooling system might not be as foolproof as newer cars.
“Cool down” means letting the engine temperature drop after it’s been running hot. With older cars, you may need to pay attention to this more during a long trip.
This phrase summarizes classic-car reliability concerns in plain terms: will the car brake safely (“stop”) and will it start reliably after stops or heat cycles (“start”). It’s essentially a shorthand for the kinds of mechanical uncertainties enthusiasts accept when driving older cars on longer trips.
The Triumph Stag is a classic British car that people often see as a stylish, old-school grand tourer. The hosts are using it as an example of a classic that some enthusiasts want in their garage.
The Mercedes SL is a Mercedes convertible/roadster model line. It’s the kind of car people associate with cruising in style, and the hosts are saying it’s popular with younger drivers too.
A limited mileage policy means you promise to drive the car only a certain number of miles each year. Since you’re using it less, the insurance can cost less.
They’re talking about a Mazda MX-5, a small two-seat roadster that’s popular with enthusiasts. The point here is that it can be pricey to insure, especially compared with classic-car insurance.
“Fire and theft” means the policy covers your car if it burns or if it gets stolen. They’re saying older, simpler coverage used to be cheaper.
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In this episode, we look at Poptastic Classics,
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I'm down with the kids to see how we can pass on our old metal
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Also, I've been driving through France and I've got a question.
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On every roux, I was hoping to see a gorgeous DS,
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We hear word from a far flung listener
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So ever since the dawn of MTV all the way back in the 1980s,
sticking a car in a music video as a prop.
I mean, it usually meant the director had no idea of what to do.
However, lots of those cars in pop have become much more memorable than the video.
So we thought we'd see how many we can actually recall.
Yeah, so let's talk about some famous wheels in pop video history.
Now, we did want to use the music for these as we mentioned them.
Thought it was actually sort of illustrated a bit better.
But due to tedious reasons of copyright max in podcasts, we can't.
What are we doing?
So people just have to imagine the songs and as we describe them, I guess.
What have you got anyway?
Let's talk the cars first and describe the videos they're in.
Do you want to sing the song?
Would that help?
I thought, hum the song, do the theme tune, something like that.
We just have to imagine it.
Now, I'm always thinking about Rolls Royces, as you know, more on that later.
But first of all, do you remember Elton John's 1980s where he hit
I'm Still Standing, I'm Still Standing Dead, the one with Bruno Tonleone in the video.
You know, the bloke from Strictly Come Dancing.
Yeah, it's like a South of France video, very, very bright.
And there was the Rolls Royce Corniche, wasn't it?
And it was cool, wasn't it?
I mean, you know, in 1983, Britain seeing the South of France was quite exciting.
And it was that lovely Corniche.
I had a good look at the video because it's only in a couple of frames.
I thought it was a Rolls Royce.
Now, after a lot of investigation, I think it's a right hand drive
Bentley Corniche convertible.
It's a silver one, early one with a tan hood from the hubcaps.
I did freeze the video from the hubcaps.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's run this slow that down and play that back in.
You've worked out what car is due to what?
The hubcaps, the Rolls Corniche and the Bentley Corniche are quite similar,
apart from obviously the mascots on the radiator.
I couldn't see those.
I could see the hubcaps and I think it's a Bentley Corniche on YouTube.
Have you read the road control?
Pause it, pause it.
Oh, no, no, back of frame.
Oh, it's up. No, no, no, there's a Bentley hubcap.
And it said B on it.
That's why I kind of got the Bentley thing.
Was it his car in the video?
Well, I think it was.
Bentley didn't make many Corniche convertibles.
I think 39 between 71 and 80.
Now, Elton did own a few Bentley Corniches.
Bonham sold his 1985 red Bentley Corniche,
which was also used in the Nikita video.
See, he's got form on this.
The Nikita video, his registration was B120WYM.
I think that was a fake registration,
because when he sold it with Bonham's,
he had the reg B20 ELT, ELT for ELT.
Bonham's also sold his blue 75 Bentley Corniche.
So obviously likes Bentley Series 1 Corniches.
So I think that's definitely Bentley Series 1 Corniche
in I'm Still Standing.
I would recommend you have a look at the video,
partly because it's a good song, video,
but see if you can spot the hubcaps.
Yeah, I think the fact it was only in a few frames
makes me think that it probably wasn't part
of the original storyboard and was shoved in
and probably he'd driven to the shoot and then they'd gone,
okay, well, can we do something with the car?
Can we borrow your car?
Because as we'll go on to talk about
in some of these other videos,
that they're much more the car was the video, wasn't it?
But this one, it sounds like maybe it's just,
he's rocked up, we borrow the car, go on then, wheel it in.
Well, I'm guessing he used to tool around
in Rolls Royces all the time.
So you're right.
And also because it's in the South of France
and it's a right hand drive,
it would make sense that he kind of drove down to it
and just featured the video in it
because he was sitting in his car,
so he just put it in the video.
And it does look good, but you don't see much of it,
but a very good video of that.
And because it's the South of France,
it's just got that sort of early 80s pop video glamour.
The thing that I thought of, first of all,
when we started talking about this,
is the Rover SD1 in the Human League video.
1981, don't you want me?
Let's play a clip, I know we can't play a clip.
Just imagine.
Everybody knows what that song is, doesn't you?
I mean, you were working as a waitress
in a cocktail bar when I first met you.
And look at you now.
Now you're talking about Rolls Royces,
but you're not talking about Rolls Royces.
In this one, we've got to talk about a Rover SD1.
And that was quite, for our generation,
I think it was quite a memorable car in a video, wasn't it?
Well, I think it was quite glamorous then.
I was looking closely at that car,
going back to forwards on the video.
I think it's a Rover 2600 SD1, not the 3500 V8.
Now, the registration on the video was GCK68M.
Now, M is a 74 range,
but 2600 SD1s were made from 77 to 86 in various S and SE
in van der Plaar specs.
So if you look at, if you want to look at the video,
44 seconds in, exactly.
I think there's a 2600 badge on the rear.
And at 1 minute 43, the badge is slightly out of focus.
Again, I think it's a 2600.
There's more clues on that SD1.
It's got chrome door mirror covers.
Now, SD1s had black door mirror covers up until 1981.
And then there was a facelift in 81.
And they got the chrome door mirror covers,
and they got chrome wheels on the S.
So I think that SD1 is actually a 1981 car in a 1981 video.
It's a brand new one, I think, is what I'm saying.
I had a good look at that video.
I can't see whether it's manual or automatic.
Because the door's open briefly.
But it does look really good.
I mean, in that video, there's lots of smoke around.
It doesn't really make sense.
There's no beginning, middle, and end.
It's just a load of kind of cool shots thrown together.
But in the background, there's also a very good car.
There's a Saab 99 Turbo.
IMDB says it was a 1978 99 Turbo.
And that 99 Turbo was in production until 84.
So it wouldn't be about right.
So two really interesting cars in that video.
Well, I mean, every day's a school there.
I've learned quite a bit there.
Well, I think we needed a feature on the SD1.
It's such an interesting car.
That 2600 straight-six twin-carb came from a Triumph unit.
It was almost as fast as the V8, but had better fuel economy.
Plus, there was an option of a five-speed manual.
Now, do you want to relive your human league years?
If you do, look on your screen now.
Because it's a 1982 Rover SD1 Gold Automatic.
And to be honest, it doesn't look quite as glamorous, does it?
It's got the wrong wheels.
The valour is a bit faded.
And it doesn't look quite as good without surrounded by that kind of like
nighttime pop smoke.
It is evocative of the time.
But as you say, it's not in that video.
It's very cinematic.
In real life, a Rover SD1 isn't very cinematic, is it really?
I mean, this is a 1982 2600S.
So it's actually, I've found exactly the same spec.
But no, it doesn't look quite right, does it?
It does have the chrome door mirrors, though, if you look at it.
But it's got some aftermarket wheels.
I love SD1s.
I'd always have the 3500 V8, because it's the most interesting one.
But the 2600 is a good driving car.
Fun fact for you.
The car actually on screen looks like it was being driven, but it wasn't.
The person who was supposed to be driving it, Joe Callis,
band member Joe Callis, was supposed to be driving,
but she didn't know how to drive.
So the production crew had to push the car from behind
while she simply pretended to steer.
So it was all fake, Max.
It's also a really weird video.
If you watch it from the beginning to the end,
there's a hint of a storyline,
then it cuts to the kind of editing room of the video storyline.
Then it goes back to the location.
Then you kind of get a strange mix of characters.
I don't have a clue what goes on,
and also it's got nothing to do with the lyrics,
but it is a really, really cool video.
And I do remember at the time watching that,
and I thinking, oh, that's like really top end, isn't it?
It just looks a bit odd now, but it's still a great video.
It's definitely worth a watch.
Well, let's talk about a more chrome-bumpered car in a video.
And again, you're going to have to hum this.
Everybody wants to rule the world by tears for fears.
Everybody knows that intro. Everybody knows the song.
But do you remember the Austin Healey 3000 that was in it?
And I think it was Roland or Lazerbell.
Is that how you pronounce it?
Or is it about...
I can't. I don't know, to be honest.
Roland.
He was driving it.
I'm more interested in hubcaps.
He was driving it.
Yeah, there was a US spec.
There's a left hooker, wasn't it? 3000.
Yes.
What color was that in?
That, well, I think it was a British racing green.
They put those kind of filters on the camera,
so you couldn't quite tell.
But I think in that video, the car is really the star,
because again, they ran out of ideas.
It looked cool. They drove around.
You know, in the 80s, there was that kind of
60s throwback feeling.
Yeah.
And it did have that kind of 60s feel,
particularly with a Healey in.
But then halfway through in the video,
they suddenly go gliding and start shooting pictures of a glider.
And then they go kind of like quad bike racing.
And then you cut back to the Healey.
So it is a bit of a, it's an odd video,
but you do get some really good shots of that Healey.
And it looks great in America.
You know, Healey's did really well in the States.
It's going along a kind of three or four lane freeway.
It just looks fantastic.
Well, I wonder what the thinking was.
Were these storyboarded out these videos?
There must have been,
because there must be money thrown in it,
but it seems like the idea is right.
We'll drive the car for a bit,
and then we'll go hand gliding,
and then we'll do this and do that.
I mean, it almost feels like it's like,
what crazy stuff can we do that runs up the expenses bill?
But there must have been a story thread to it,
but was it just visuals?
Was it just what looks cool on screen?
I think it was just about looking cool,
because it has that particular video,
has nothing to do with the lyrics.
If you listen to the lyrics,
they're completely different to somebody
driving a Healey on a Californian highway.
So I think it was just about
throwing some nice looking pictures at the screen
and hoping that would boost the record sales.
Also, a lot of these bands were trying to either
break the States or make it more in the States.
So I guess if you put some stuff on a left-hand drive car
on American freeway,
it kind of just plays into that MTV.
And we talked about the very early start of this.
This was for MTV, wasn't it?
And everything suddenly had to become very visual
and very instantly recognizable to an American market.
Which was the main MTV market?
Yeah, I mean, that's a really good point,
because they did want to sell in America.
It's no point turning up on top of the pops
and looking a bit hungover and swaying and bad lip syncing.
I think they just wanted to sell records.
And in the biggest market, and that is the States,
so why not just get a Healey, drive around California
and just flog your record?
Well, yeah, because if you've driven
an Austin Allegro round sort of Doncaster.
Which would be great, wouldn't it?
I can't welcome to my little life, you know.
Oh, no, that's mate.
I've seen your life.
Have you got a warrant?
Zeibarded.
What about some, we're talking Americans.
What about American videos?
ZZ Top had a famous car, didn't they?
Oh yeah, the Eliminator.
When I watched this video,
this song was in my head for days and days and days.
Give me all your loving.
I mean, what a great video, a great song.
That was a chopped 1933 Ford three-window Coupe.
Now it's on the cover of the 83 album Eliminator.
And that really kind of brought hot rodding back
to the MTV generation.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Billy Gibbons from the band worked with George Barris
who made the Batmobile.
And the car had a 350 horsepower Chevy V8.
It was lowered, had a lights from a slightly later Ford,
custom metal flake, and the apple red with flames.
I mean, those flames along the side are fantastic.
Chopped top, 15-inch wire wheels for lower seats.
And it had a custom hydraulic system
for spinning the rear wheels while stationary.
I'm not quite sure how they did that
because how would you put drive to the rear wheels
and not make it go forward
unless it just lifted it or put the front brakes on?
I don't know.
But it made a kind of like ZZ Top 80s icon.
And it still appears at some of their shows.
I think Billy Gibbons has still got it.
But what a fantastic car that is.
And what a fantastic pop video.
Because it has a story.
It has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
And it's kind of about what the song's about.
So I recommend you go and have a look
at Give Me All You're Loving on YouTube
because it is a great, great song.
We mentioned more mundane cars
in mundane British surroundings.
But for some songs in the 80s,
that was actually that played to their strengths.
I'm thinking of the specials and Ghost Town.
Now, if you remember that video for Ghost Town,
you'll remember the song.
The video is a car.
Is it them all driving in an old car in a tunnel?
And the car in question was a Vauxhall Crestor
from the 1960s.
And the tunnel in question was near where I used to live,
like in the 90s, a rather high tunnel.
Which, if you've ever driven down there,
very narrow and twisty,
you must have had to go backwards and forwards.
But that was such a moody video, wasn't it?
And that car kind of suited it.
It's a really good video, isn't it?
And again, it's another good song.
And actually, the car was sort of central to that video.
And they're all crammed in the car singing.
And they've got some really nice shots
of the lights of the tunnel reflecting on the windscreen.
And they had to do that by suckering a camera
onto the bonnet of the Vauxhall Crestor,
which then fell off and damaged the bonnet
and really annoyed the owner.
So he was absolutely furious.
And also, I think partly because all of them
were crammed into that car when they were filming it,
they split up pretty soon after.
I don't know whether they had a bad pop video
filming experience crammed in a car for a couple of days,
but they didn't last long after that.
But another good song and a really good video as well.
That car, by the way, is in the Coventry Music Museum,
if you want to see it.
I had a quick look at 4218RO, the registration number,
and it's not active anymore.
It is listed as a Vauxhall Crestor,
but it's no MOT history.
So hopefully, when the specials did film, they had a live MOT.
Let's talk about some other honourable mentions as well.
I'm thinking about Prince,
that was a bright yellow BMW 8-series in one of his tracks.
Sexy Emilev.
Oh, that's right, yeah.
And then in Kylie's...
There was quite a lot of car in Kylie's stuff, wasn't there?
Can't get you out of my head.
What was that in that?
A D-Temaso.
I think it was a Mangusta.
She didn't actually...
It was actually just green screen.
She didn't drive it.
She was just sitting in the kind of scenery, flew past her.
But it's very iconic, isn't it?
Really, yeah, really good.
Looks great on the video.
Jamira Kwai uses lots of cars.
In Cosmic Girl, he used a Lamborghini Diablo,
Nick Mason's Ferrari F40,
and a Ferrari F355 Berlinetta.
I mean, there's less story in that.
It's just him driving around the kind of roads
of California handbrake turning, I think.
So, less of a kind of poverty,
and more of just him showing off.
Next, get out of my dreams and get into my car.
That's not an invitation for you, by the way.
That's a Billy Ocean song.
Yeah, thanks.
Ah, I wouldn't.
Get out.
Just get out.
Some more blush turns up saying get into my car.
You forget it.
It's just some sweets.
So, yeah, there was a Porsche in that, wasn't there,
in that video?
Yeah, a 90...
I can't remember what year it is.
I think it's a 930 Turbo.
So, it's got to be kind of early 80s, mid 80s,
911 Turbo Cabrio in white in that video.
That's quite good.
Actually, another good song I found,
which I'd forgotten about completely,
is Cheryl Crowe's Steve McQueen.
And guess what the video is about?
Steve McQueen, and it's all his cars.
So, there's a Porsche 356 Speedster,
the Bullet Mustang,
which has lots of really good references to that film,
including overtaking the Green Beetle a bit,
about five times.
And they've got the Ford GT40, a reference to Le Mans.
So, that's a good song,
and actually a really good, funny video.
It makes you think you forget just how many
influential videos were made influential
by the cars that they're in.
So, that's just a few.
If you think of any more that we've missed,
do drop us a line and let us know.
We'll put a post up on the socials.
You can get in touch the normal way.
But there is one that I'm thinking of,
while you've been talking.
You know, we're talking about cars,
driving in your car, that sort of stuff.
What was the iconic car video of the 1980s?
And it was Madness driving in my car,
featuring your favorite car of all time, the Morris Minor.
Do you know, I hate Madness,
and I hate the Morris Minor.
And I don't know which I hate the most, actually,
probably.
Putting them together just actually cements my hatred.
So, it's episode 56 of The Thai Kickers,
and Max and I have been away for a few weeks
on separate holidays to get away from each other.
Yeah, we needed to, to be honest.
Just a break from you, please.
It was agreed different countries even.
You went to French France,
and I went to Almeria in southern Spain.
You drove, I flew, and I got a higher car.
I actually got an MG higher car,
which I initially, when they gave me the keys,
I was like, oh, because that's a bit of a travesty,
isn't it, using that name?
But you know what, it's actually,
I hate to say it, but it's actually really good.
It was like, the people behind MG had taken apart a VW Polo,
and then copied it and put it back together.
Nothing squeaked, nothing rattled.
But as we've talked about on this show,
new cars, all that bonging that's going on.
Every time I did something I shouldn't have,
it was honestly sounded like a fruit machine.
Was it tugging the wheel at you as well?
It was tugging the wheel, but it was just the noises.
It felt like I got two nudges and three cherries in a row.
Shut up, stop being at me.
And in Spain, they tend to drive just slightly over the limit.
If you're not driving over the limit, they're up your bum.
So, you know, the car was having to go at me.
The drivers are trying to push me forward.
So very, very annoying.
But yeah, and the heating controls again.
Let's not get into that, but tap, tap, tap on the screen.
But I saw some classics on the back roads.
I saw a Grade 2 CV, which I got quite excited about
when I saw it in the rear view mirror.
But I did lose him going up a hill.
It's not easy to lose a 2C3, I think,
even with the safety stuff trying to slow you down.
That's right. With all that stuff trying to slow me down,
keep me in my lane.
I thought, oh, that's right, I'll, you know,
I'll slow it down and he'll come up on me.
And then I went up a hill and I lost him and never saw him again.
And also sort of Citroen Diana.
I don't know what it is about old Citroens,
but there was one parked up on the curb in a village
and that just looked cool as well.
I just thought, you know, that'd be fun to wreck around,
you know, a bit on the back roads.
But it also, I've got a memory.
It was down on the coast.
And an old 70s Fiat came past, like a Fiat Saloon,
a bit like the one they sort of had in the Italian job,
the police car, that kind of look.
And I got a scent, a smell.
When the car came past, I then got that hot petrol smell
that you used to get all the time in the mid Southern Spain,
Southern France in the summer.
You know, when it's really hot, hot street,
car comes past and you get that kind of waft of hot petrol.
Oh yeah, can that unburnt petrol running through a carb car
that kind of then bouncing off onto a hot tarmac?
And it's that sense, that memory sense thing,
it flashed me back to sort of the 80s, the 90s.
Because you've got that smell until probably the late 90s,
didn't you, when the catalytic converters came in
and cars sort of changed, but that old carb smell.
It just flashed me back to that memory.
That smell has gone now, hasn't it?
Because petrol cars are quite clean smelling.
They don't smell of petrol really anymore when they drive about.
But yeah, it was that sort of,
all it needed was some like Galois or something,
you know, smell of cigarette smoke and petrol.
But that's what life was like, wasn't it? And it's gone.
Yeah, that was a really evocative smell.
I know exactly what you mean, because it's the heat
that you didn't get in Britain and that unburnt fuel.
It just was quite a heady mixture.
And also all those carb cars of the kind of like 1970s on holiday,
they were always running around.
You know, they didn't really go that quickly, did they?
They were going up and down through towns and ticking over.
And it just didn't make, it made a kind of natural smell
that you automatically associate.
A bit like getting off a plane in America.
There's a kind of smell of American cars that you get.
Straight away when you're going to New York, for example.
So those are the cars I saw in Spain.
We alluded to it in the headlines of this, of the show.
You're moaning about being in France and not seeing any cars.
I'm furious. I'm absolutely furious.
Because I did a driving holiday from the UK,
all the way down to Provence in the south of France.
And I was hoping to see some good French classics.
And I didn't see a single one.
Now, where are all the French classics?
I know they're for sale,
because if you look at the kind of various websites,
you can see French classic cars for sale.
But they just don't seem to be driven.
And this isn't, I know what you're going to say
when you're on the motorways all the time.
I wasn't. I kind of came off the motorways.
And I didn't see a single one.
What was interesting at the port in Portsmouth,
I saw lots and lots of Brits in classic cars going over.
There were loads of MGPs.
There was some Spitfires.
There was a Triumph GT6.
There was a stag in the queue that was overheating.
I'm not kidding, with a bonnet up.
Waiting to get on the ferry.
And when I was over there, I saw a UK MGA.
It was 38 degrees.
And I had the hood down in a white MGA
and was driving through France.
And I thought, congratulations,
because I was sitting there with an air con going,
it's too hot, it's too hot.
But you know, it was really bizarre.
And the only other thing is,
I saw loads of two CVs for hire in France
as kind of tourist cars.
And they were all driven by Brits.
So where are the French classic cars?
What is it about classic cars that the French don't like?
Because they've still got their own car industry.
You know, there's loads of Renault's and Citroens around.
But no classics.
Where have they gone?
Well, I don't know.
Because I always see them when I go to France.
I think maybe it's just a timing thing.
Perhaps it's, you know, the wrong time of year
or perhaps you're driving on the weekdays.
I mean, if you think about in Britain,
you don't see that many classic cars during the week.
It's only at the weekends you see them.
It's only usually on the back roads you see them.
And it's only on the weekends as well.
1600 miles in France, I did.
Not a single French classic car.
But you were moaning in all the way as well.
Absolutely.
No, I always sort of see them.
I mean, they do run their cars around.
I mean, you always see old Renault 4s and 2CVs
and old Peugeots and that sort of stuff.
I think you just got around lucky
or just looking the wrong way.
You know, it's like when you point to your kids,
look at that cow and you go, oh, what is it?
I want to see, when I'm travelling in France,
I want to see the French come out on the roads
with their classic cars and sort of clap my past
as I come past to say, look, monsieur, here are our classic cars.
They won't be clapping.
They'll be doing that thing with the arm.
The tyre kickers, classic car chat with Max and Matt.
Well, yeah, as we said, it's been a few weeks
and I'm sure while you were away in France
and in between that time as well,
you've wasted more time looking at yet more silver shadows.
Yes, am I right?
I even had a silver shadow inspected while I was on holiday.
I wasn't even there for the inspection
and sent an inspector round to have a look at it
and it was necessarily.
And the spectacles.
And it was quite bad.
Yeah, I've looked at five in total now
and I've decided that I'm in a kind of wrong area
because I'm looking at silver shadows
for less than £25,000 and they're all rubbish.
I mean, I've seen five.
I drove one just before I went away on holiday,
really tatty shadow too, and I pulled up
and I didn't even stop the car and I had a look at it
and I was about to drive on
and then the salesman came out and made conversation
so I had to stop.
So I did a test drive.
I kind of went, you know, right?
It smelled of damp, it misfired, it pulled to the left.
There was a really strong smell of burning after the test drive.
The electric seats didn't work, the air con didn't work.
It had lots of history, apparently, that had got lost
so it didn't have any history.
And it just was just wrong.
The coach lines looked like they'd been painted by a brush.
And it's just one of those things that I looked at and thought,
I've kind of had enough of looking at tatty shadows.
I think you either got to really buy a cheap one
and accept there's lots of work, which is really expensive now,
or you've got to buy a super expensive one at the top end.
I don't think there's that middle ground.
And that one I had inspected when I was on holiday.
I'd seen it at auction bizarrely a few weeks before.
Hadn't bought it, missed it, thank goodness,
because it looked nice on the surface,
but the inspector came back with two pages of faults,
including just bizarre faults, and a very good point
that he said that shadows always go on the seat squabs.
The seat bases collapse after about 60,000 miles.
So usually people swap the seat bases
from the driver to the passenger side.
And then you get a kind of fresh seat squab
for another 60,000 miles.
This car had had 30,000 miles on it, from new apparently.
But both seat squabs on the passenger and driver side were soft.
So it'd probably done more like, you know, 230,000.
I have this recurring dream that I'm stuck in a silver shadow
and all the blocks go down like that,
and then suddenly I'm in the back seat
and you're in the front just talking like this.
I can't get out.
It's reality.
Oh, no. I've told you, you just need to buy one
and accept how it is and just run it and enjoy it.
I can't accept a tatty shadow because they just look sad.
You should have bought that gold one.
I saw it at the historic auction.
I can't buy gold one as well.
It was in good condition.
It looked all right, walking around it.
Nobody would have said any more.
Inside was nice, and you could have done some weddings.
The trouble, you're not the only person who said that.
The trouble with this is that it's so expensive
to get work done at the moment.
So buying a cheap one is just not really a sensible thing to do.
And also, I've been taking quite a long time on this.
I don't know whether you've noticed
because I'd forgotten how long I'd been looking.
And then my annual subscription came up
for the Rolls Royce Enthusiast Club.
And I remember joining when I started this hunt.
So I've been looking for a year.
Going through all of this, it does make you realize
that the reason you don't see that many at car shows,
because what we're talking about,
you're talking about buying a car between $10,000 and $20,000,
which is the sweet spot for a lot of classics.
That's what I thought.
Yeah, but a lot of people turn up in classics at car shows
in that price range.
But you don't see a lot of Rolls Royces.
And this is probably precisely for these reasons
because the ones that are that price,
people are scared to take them on.
If you take on something like an MGB or a TR6 or something,
it's manageable cost-wise.
Where people don't want to take on these big bulks of cars
that are going to potentially bite them really hard.
So yeah, maybe that's why there's not much love
for Silver Shadows.
Because on paper, they look like great buys.
For all the reasons we've talked about,
you can get four up in them.
I've driven one in an earlier bonus episode,
and you do get that feeling that you don't get
in another car at all.
But they are just expensive old birds
to keep on the road, aren't they?
Yeah, and that's the problem, isn't it?
I don't want to buy one cheaply
and then spend a load of money keeping it going,
and it still looks a bit rough.
So I might have to rethink this search, I think.
I'm not quite sure where I'm going at the moment with it.
So while Max thinks more about Rolls Royce Silver Shadows,
a couple of you have been in touch since the last studio show.
It's been a while since we sat in talk like this, isn't it?
It's been a relief to be honest.
It's been really nice, and now we've come back
and I've had to listen to you all over again.
And it's like, oh, God, here we go again.
We did.
We got some good feedback after the pub chat episode.
Do you know what I really enjoyed doing that?
Not just because it was in a pub,
but it was quite nice to do some just quick five questions,
wasn't it?
Yeah, it was interesting.
And I did find out a bit more about you,
which is not always welcome,
but it was nice to do in the sunshine as well, actually.
That was really good.
So we should do more of those, actually.
We should take the show on the road or take it outside.
Do you remember when school lessons went outside in the summer
and it was just a bit more exciting, wasn't it,
to learn history when you could look at things going on,
not just the classroom?
Now, one of the popular trends is to do Q&A.
Listen to Q&A.
Is you up for that?
Would you, if people wrote you?
We'd have to get some people to write in first, though.
And normally, it's kind of slightly abusive or rude,
so it'd have to be polite.
We'll see.
We'll see.
We can filter some of them, Chris.
Some of them are going to be,
when is he going to shut up talking
about Rolls Royce Silver Shadows?
That would be my question.
Nobody will ever want that.
They just want more of it.
More Silver Shadows, please.
I'll plant that.
But after the pub chat episode,
we got a note on Spotify from a listener
in a very far-flung place.
It was Will Youngman.
And he said,
Gents, I'm putting my hands up.
I'm your Taipei listener.
I think we must have name-checked it last time.
Thank you for the shout-out a few episodes ago.
Hilarious show, he says.
That was the one you weren't on, Max.
What did I say that was funny?
Because it can't be mad.
He said, I laugh so much,
I've got really strange looks on the Taipei underground.
As it's summer, hope you do more pub chats.
Well, I think we should.
We should.
But thank you for listening over there.
I mean, we do wonder, actually, sometimes,
when some of you are listening in far-flung places,
what your story is.
And we've had a couple of things.
We'll get some in future episodes of people
who are out in different parts of the world
that look slightly unusual on our stats
and the stories of why they're there.
But we're glad that you've got this to kind of listen to,
if it brings a bit of sort of joy into your week,
then happy days.
We're really, really glad you're listening along.
Lots of people commenting on our posts as well recently.
Thank you for getting involved in that.
We do see them all,
or even if we don't read them all out,
there was a TV show that used to say that, didn't they?
We do read all your comments.
Tears was.
Or was it Tears Was?
Oh, I know.
Was it Tony Hart?
Tony Hart used to say that.
Tony Hart, yeah.
It wasn't Hart to Hart.
What was that show called?
It was, what was it called?
It was an art attack, was it?
That was the other one.
That was the ITV one.
No, I'll have to Google that.
Hold on a minute.
Tony Hart, can you just go?
I'll read some other stuff out when you Google that.
We've had another five-star review on Apple Podcast too.
Thank you from new listener Rusty Wreck.
He says the podcast is a great listen
and he likes how we have different opinions on cars.
One of us is right and one of us is wrong.
Often he says he sees both opinions.
Great work, keep it up.
It was Take Hart.
Oh, Take Hart, that's right.
That was brilliant, wasn't it?
With Morph.
And you do remind me of Morph a little bit.
I think the reference was to do with the gallery, wasn't it?
They used to have the gallery.
Oh, that's right, look at that.
And we do see all your pictures,
but we don't put them all up.
That's probably what it was.
Talking of sort of previous shows and stuff,
but lots of clips have gone up on our socials recently,
I don't know if you've noticed,
but we're talking about stuff like,
well, rambling about stuff,
as wide-ranging as about modding classics over originality,
because I think that's okay.
He doesn't.
Oh, wrong.
Picking up junk from car shows
and also talking about this ridiculous conversation Max and I had,
whether he claims that if his car was being exhibited
at a fancy car show, he wouldn't wash it.
I mean, that was just absurd.
Of course you would.
I wouldn't.
I like cars that have been used,
and I like dirty cars that look like
they've been driven fast across a continent.
Well, those clips are on our Instagram,
at the Thai Kickers UK,
also on our Facebook page as well,
the Thai Kickers, three separate words.
If you've been telling a mate about the show
and you want to give them an example
of the sort of nonsense that we talk,
do sort of forward one of those clips on to them
and share that clip and they'll be appreciated.
Hopefully it will explain what the hell you're on about to them.
And we also hit kind of a momentous listener figure target thing,
didn't we, as well?
60,000 downloads.
Now, 60,000 of you have been daft enough
to download this show and listen to it.
So thank you very much,
because that's quite a lot for a podcast about something,
which isn't really that mainstream,
is it, two blokes talking about classic cars?
It's also quite a lot for an audio podcast,
because I mean, lots of people scroll reels
and watch a bit of YouTube.
But it takes a bit more commitment, doesn't it,
to hit play and then listen to a podcast episode,
an audio podcast for a good 40 minutes or so.
I mean, it's a real commitment to do that.
So thank you for listening.
Lots of you talk about listening to this
while you're doing other things as well.
So it's always interesting to know where you are
and what you're doing.
Well done for getting through it,
because you feel my pain now,
having to listen to very detailed information
about Vox or Crestas.
They're probably going slowly mad.
That's what they're doing while listening to it.
That's true.
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At some point Matt and I will get old,
and shuffle off to a nursing home.
Our car keys will be taken off us,
and we'll be left driving mobility scooters
or maybe a stair lift.
But who will we leave behind
to keep this great classic car hobby going?
Is there a new generation of classic car fans
coming up behind us to keep the spark plugs burning?
Yeah, it is a bit of a worry, isn't it, this?
Because especially for the older chrome classic cars,
you know, less kids are into cars.
And if they are into cars, it's usually super cars.
And that's just for the aspirational side of it,
not even driving it really.
And they're seeing them not in real life, but on a screen.
The reason Max and I are talking about this
is that recently I went to a classic car meet for people under 30.
Now, it was organised by a traditional newspaper,
if you like, Trey Paper Classic Car Weekly.
But the word actually spread on socials.
So let's play a couple of clips of some of the guys there.
Here's Will, first up.
He's 25 and he drives a 1985 Mini.
I think it's just exposure, really.
I mean, today, I didn't notice what's going on
until I saw it come up on my feed.
So if it wasn't for TikTok, I wouldn't be here today.
So there's pros and cons.
You've got to balance it.
But again, it's just about exposure,
getting in front of the people.
And currently, that's where it is.
It's digital.
But if you can take from the digital world
to the real world like we are today,
I don't see why they won't come back.
So that's Will with his Mini.
Kira is another person I spoke to.
She's a Genzi who realized classic cars are fun.
She's nearly 21, but she drives a car 20 years old.
It's a convertible, a Daihatsu one she found,
and she found it on TikTok.
So I was looking for first cars.
Didn't know what I wanted.
And then this came up and it was someone saying,
this is the ideal first car for a 19-year-old.
And I was like, wow, that's a really nice car.
I absolutely loved it.
I started researching it and I was like, that's what I want.
Now, Max, both of those guys mentioned social media
as being where they got their info from.
I think that's really, really crucial.
And both talked about, like you were saying,
the digital detox thing, the analog experience
of owning and driving a car.
And you know what, I think that's where the future lies.
I think that's how you get people to like it.
You talk about where you show the road trips
and the engagement of driving a car,
because there's nothing quite like driving
a classic car, is there?
And I think it's just a case that it's sold
in a very old-fashioned way through print media,
through car meets, through old blokes talking
about driving cars.
If you make it a bit more real-based
and a bit more sort of sexy and a bit more cinematic
and a bit more relevant,
that's the way you push it, what do you think?
Well, honestly, when you think about your classic car
is a kind of detox in itself.
So it is that kind of escape you get from it.
It's not really any point,
apart from when you break down, you need a phone.
But it's not really any point having a mobile phone
in a car, is it?
So I think that's a way you could actually sell it
as a kind of box that's a mobile-free zone.
It's a screen-free zone.
There's no screens to look at.
You are engaging.
And unless you're looking at a screen,
you might actually be looking out through the windscreen
seeing what's coming at you.
And then all of a sudden,
you're kind of escaping that digital community
and you're getting out and you're having a real experience.
I think there's a couple of things
we've got to be aware of here, though, that have changed.
I mean, you and I still get subscriptions
to classic car magazines.
And I've got to admit, I open them and go,
oh, I must read that and then never read it
because you're glued to your screen.
The other thing that you and I do
is watch a lot of YouTube videos.
But here's the thing, long-form YouTube videos,
you know, they're popular with.
They're popular with our age and older.
They're not actually popular with younger people.
They're watching Reels and stuff like that.
So I think there's a real challenge
for classic car magazines and traditional media
that they're barking up the wrong tree.
They're talking to a demographic that's dying off.
You know, they need to keep their thing going.
They need to get on more socials.
They need to put more Reels on Instagram, TikTok.
I mean, Reels are the thing at the moment.
Reels are the thing that are getting screen views.
Everybody's doom-scrolling.
But it needs that more short-form content
and it needs to be less reviews about cars
and more about what the experience can take them.
I'm seeing in my head, basically,
a sunset and a triumph spitfire driving through it.
You know, and a couple of kids talking about the fantastic journey
they went on and, my God, this car's really fun to work
and that sort of stuff.
That's what sells it.
And I think just reviewing cars on YouTube
or reviewing cars in classic car magazines
and talking about the old days,
I don't think that's a strong enough sell.
And I think also the things you can do with cars,
you know, I mentioned a road trip.
A classic car road trip is fantastic,
particularly if you do it with somebody else
because you've got a shared experience
about, are we going to get there?
There's no doubt your electric car will get there
and it will probably drive itself and park itself.
You're not even involved in the journey then, are you?
You're just passengers, literally.
But actually, with the classic car, you're driving it there.
Will it get there? How will I get there?
Is it going to overheat? Is it going to cool down?
Will it stop? Will it start?
That's part of the fun.
And I think people see that with classic cars as a drawback.
Oh, you're going to break down or it's going to be noisy.
Yeah, but that's also why we do it
because there's a bit of jeopardy, there's a bit of fun.
You've got to be interested in it
and you've got to engage with it.
And I think that's what we can sell classic cars as.
It's something you can engage at.
You can switch off your screens and enjoy something,
something tactile that you can get involved in
and it'll take you places and you'll meet people
like you and I meet hundreds of people
in this great classic car hobby.
It'll take you and you'll meet interesting people.
Yeah, and that's a strong sell for young people
because they want to be part of something.
So that's a strong sell.
But I think the nub of this is,
and the really interesting thing is how...
They're both the guys that we spoke to there,
talked about exposure.
You just need to expose it more to that generation.
And here's the thing, they're not seeing classic cars.
They're not looking for them.
They're not going to shows. They're not reading magazines.
You know, it's how do we expose them to that?
Because I think once you do expose that,
you either fall for like me,
you fall for the prettiness of the car
and the design and the things you can do with it,
or you fall more over the engineering side.
Like you enjoy that originality,
that what's under the bonnet,
how it all works, that sort of stuff.
So you can fall in that.
But at the moment, I just think there's this world
of classic cars that we exist in,
that if you're under 30, you just don't even see.
It's not on your radar,
because you're not watching traditional TV,
you're not reading magazines,
and you're not looking in the places
that we look at cars,
and you're not going to classic car shows.
So I think the opportunity
that the classic car scene needs to graph,
and it's really important they do, to be honest,
because otherwise, all these old cars
are just going to get forgotten about.
You know, the people who want to put a triumph
stag in that garage in a Mercedes SL,
you know, well, actually, the SL is a good point, actually,
because I think that is one car that's crossed over,
because I think young people do get that.
And if you go onto Instagram,
you do see cool young people driving SLs around,
because they've sort of...
Like me.
No, despite you.
These are not old Gits in Panama hats.
I think, but honestly, you know,
I know sometimes we're flipping on the show,
but I think it's going to be really,
really important in the coming years,
that classic car media certainly gets onto online digital media,
and just pushes, pushes, pushes stuff,
and they're going to have to do it in a different way.
They can't do the same old thing.
People, you know, generations,
isn't interested in the main fixing old cars,
but they're interested in the experience of it
and the digital detox of it.
The other thing as well is the economics,
we should mention that, you know,
when you and I were, you know,
picking up old cars and driving them around,
you know, insurance was cheap, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was.
What were you paying on that, that, um,
Jagi type back in the 90s?
Probably, you know, a hundred quid or something.
I kind of, I was cheating slightly,
because it was on my dad's motor traders policy,
which is why I could get away with driving so much stuff.
You said you were a vicar.
You only drove 1,000 miles.
So I kind of cheated, but I mean, even now,
classic car insurance for younger drivers
is relatively cheap on a limited mileage policy,
so you still can get away with it.
You know, it's going to be a lot,
our friend of mine's son got a Mazda MX-5,
which is quite expensive to insure,
but I think a classic car might have been cheaper.
Yeah, yeah, you know, we've got,
insurance is so, so expensive,
but you know, we used to get away with like third party,
didn't we?
You know, even fire and theft,
and you know, we're not bothered if it catches fire.
I just want the cheapest insurance.
Nobody was going to nick it because it was too rubbish.
There is all of that,
but I think the reality is most people under 30
are not interested in the mechanics of a car,
but you can sell them on the aesthetics,
and that's the way to do it,
but you've got to put it right in front of them,
put it on TikTok, Instagram,
put it on Facebook Reels,
make it really, really in their face,
and make it really appealing and make them want to do it,
and that is the future, I think.
And also, I think every time I show my mate's kids my car,
they want to have a picture of them sitting on it,
sitting in it, and on Instagram,
because it does look different,
so I think we can kind of sell it as a lifestyle as well.
And also, anybody who's ever interested in cars,
I'll talk to them, I'll bore them to death,
and then they can start,
they can start to take up the hobby
and bore other people as well.
When they ask for the picture,
they ask you to get out of it.
Excuse me, can you just...
Oh yeah, get the old bloke out.
What do you want him in?
If you want to hear more on this, by the way,
scroll back to the episode just before this one,
and you'll hear more from the people that we spoke to,
and the meat I went to,
it was near Birmingham,
it was organised by Classic Car Weekly,
who are keen, really, to do all this sort of stuff.
We talk about how and why the young people who are on that
do what they do and why they do it.
It's a really interesting listen,
and it's given us something to talk about here as well.
Go and find it, scroll back, and let us know what you think.
Think they're right or think they're wrong?
Shoot us a note on our socials and let us know.
We're at the TireKickers UK on Instagram,
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Well, that's it for this episode.
I hope you've enjoyed it,
and I hope, unlike Max,
you don't bother rewinding videos to look at Rover SD1 wing mirrors
and wheel trims.
And apologies to our French listeners
who might love Classic Cars.
Please get in touch and tell us what you drive.
Now, coming up next time,
we're at the Footman James Coffee and Crone Meat
at Prescott Hill Climb.
That's on Sunday, June the 21st,
and there's a special report coming from that show,
and maybe some special news about us.
All right, are we going on holiday together?
You must be joking.
See you next time.
Bye.
Did you see my on-the-fly ad lib there?
No, I didn't actually.
No, you weren't even listening.
I was only concentrating on my bits.
My profits are way easier.
We know that's true.
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About this episode
The Tyre Kickers dig into how classic cars show up in pop videos and why spotting the right model can turn into detective work—like narrowing a grainy car to “right hand drive Bentley Corniche convertible” and identifying the “Rover SD1 in the Human League video. 1981, don't you want me?” They also connect classic-car culture to today’s audience: TikTok and short-form clips help younger fans find the hobby, while road trips, “digital detox,” and even “carb smell” keep the romance alive.
We’ve been on holiday (not together by the way) and we’re back tanned and ready to talk cars. In this episode we look at poptastic classics. Which cars featured in pop videos and stole the show? Plus - how do we attract the next gen to liking classic cars when they only seem interested in their screens? Max has been driving through France and is moaning about the lack of classics. While Matt has been in Spain, breathing in the smell of hot tarmac and petrol and having a flashback. So hit play and hear us debate and disagree on the great world of classic cars.
