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Yeah, that's, that's why I've got on the coming to just take care of the show. Welcome to Car Talk.

I'm not your host, Maddie J I'm your host, Alan.

Joined tonight by the lovely Scotty O Johnson, Mr. David

Prince and Chad. Now Maddie is present.

He will, he will be present. He's just otherwise preoccupied.

That's what I'll say. I haven't tied them and thrown

them in the back in the tech room or anything.

He will be present for the show. So, you know, stay tuned for

that. But you know, you have me, which

I think is perfectly acceptable. And I'm sure, I'm sure the

hosts, the my Co host also agreed on the threat of being kicked from the the Zoom call. How are you, gentlemen?

Good. Doing well.

Well, while we're away from Maddie, let's start with some car updates. Scotty, can you go first,

please? Oh, me first.

I don't have car updates. The only thing I've got is I

went to the air show on Saturday.

Oh, OK, the air update. Yeah.

So that's more of an air update on that one.

All right, Well, we'll take an air update.

So there was that unfortunate accident that happened on Friday from the from the air show. So that was delayed a bit.

Yeah. So that pushed onto onto

Saturday as well. So we didn't get planes up until

or. I reckon it was about 1:45

probably, I think it was. Really.

In the afternoon. Jeez, not so long ago.

Yeah, it wasn't until the afternoon, so.

I was pretty serious, so. Yeah, they were saying that they

had to keep, you know, making sure that it's all investigated properly and things like that. I'd probably say the let down

was just the communication about everything wasn't the best.

The commentators weren't that great either that you could hear. But as soon as that started, I

mean the F16 went straight up and then straight after that was some F30 fives F eighteens going up.

And the whole Royal Australian Air Force display that they did, which went for like, I reckon like a good 4050 minutes was really good the way they set up. And they did like a whole whole

scenario of the jet fighters going up.

So he had two F 30 fives going up and then 2F eighteens.

They were circling around while AI, can't remember what plane it was that came in and landed and troops came out.

So they're kind of doing what they do if they're taking over an airstrip. Yeah, well, was it a like AC17

or something or a? It was a it was a small one at

1st and that one took off and then it was the C130 came in.

Yeah, well, big boy and. Landed and there was more troops

in that one showing what they do and then that one took off and then it was the big globe master came in and landed.

Yeah, awesome. And all of those planes like for

something so massive, they stop on a dime.

Really. That's.

Crazy, yeah. It stopped so fast on the runway

and then in the same spot where they stopped, they just took off again. Didn't have to taxi back or

anything, just banged straight back up in the air again.

So that was that was really impressive.

I was so GED up ready for the F22 but it got cancelled.

So yeah, I wish I kind of went on a Sunday instead.

That was the main. That was probably the main thing

I was really hyped for was the F22, but Oh well, can't win them all. I'd advise if anyone goes in two

years, just public transport. Do not drive in.

Oh my God, we took public transport.

So we went from one train station that took us to Lara and then from there just the shuttle bus and there's not, there's tonnes of shuttle buses like. OK.

You've got six there waiting. You jump on there and you see

another 6 coming straight behind.

It's just non stop. You won't kind of miss.

Yeah. And didn't even have to wait for

being. It was much better than was 2

the 1-2 years ago I'm. Not sure this is, I hadn't been

since I was maybe still in primary school, primary school.

So I haven't been in a long, long time.

So I'm not sure about what the other one was like 2 years ago.

The one before that I heard was pretty good.

That's some the black they call the Black Eagles.

I think they're fifteens. A group of them were flying

around, so that was meant to be pretty good.

But yeah, there's definitely room for quite a bit of improvements. I think the Jetstar planes

landing all the time was a little bit annoying, like oh planes coming in, it's just Jetstar.

Like your cheap bastards couldn't go to, you know, Melbourne Airport. Yeah, that would be a nightmare

for them. Imagine landing during the air

show, then you're trying to get out that.

Would suck at. How?

How much were the tickets? For general admission was $98.

OK. Was it much to look at on the

ground, like displays and stuff? Pardon.

Was there much to look at on the ground?

Like displays and stuff? Yeah, there was.

There was quite a bit. I think what lacked what I think

because of the schedule, it made it hard for you to actually see quite a bit and go on board some of the planes because the lines were just massive because there was nothing for people to look at. So it was the thing you could

do. So you know, lines to get onto

the massive, the big globe master and that's if you want to top on that one, It was a huge line, like ridiculously long for the kids. They had passports and you'd go

to certain squadrons and that and you'd get it stamped.

That's cool. And you collect a certain amount

of stamps, you can go and trade it in for like Air Force, Air Force souvenirs and things like that.

That was pretty cool. Scotty was pushing all the kids

out of the way. He's like, get it?

Clean. Yeah, I.

Have my passport. I did have my passport and they

also had where you go around and collect badges of the planes too. I think there was about 3-6.

It was probably about 8 or 9 badges to collect.

They go around and try and find. Luckily I had my nephew there as

well because there were some of them where they must have been running out and they're like the badges.

The pins are for kids only. No, I've got to complete my set.

Which I did. I thought I got.

Around I got around and I've got to complete my set.

Good thing for you I'm also Charles.

Yeah. I identify as a child.

I am a child of good. Like, I understand they're like,

oh, we didn't want to disappoint the kids, but I'm like, what about me? I can't go around with an

incomplete set. What the hell?

I can't. Believe Scotty will be on the

corner saying hey kid, you got that badge?

Yeah, I'll give you 20 bucks. Kids want to sell your badges?

You just, you just get, yeah, the kid that's finished them all and they'd be like, oh, give us a look.

That's pretty cool. It's gonna walk away.

I know. You've got my badges bag.

What badges? Because there was.

There was one. Because.

I'm gonna give you something better, A lesson.

Trust no one, kid. Because my nephew and brother

came along too and he was collecting the collecting the pins as well and the stamps. So he he got his at one point

and then walked around and I said, here's my password with that. And he didn't really know what

was going on. He lines up and I'm standing

right behind him and he gets it stamped and then I go, oh, don't forget to grab your PIN too, your PIN, your PIN.

I kept talking before he goes, oh, but I already got it.

So I just kept like interrupting.

Grab your pin. Grab your pin.

I already. Grabbed it.

I'm not missing out on that. That's the way to do it, man.

Using a kid That's that's that's that's the actual best way to do it. That's what they're for.

That's. Exactly what they're for.

Go to rent a kid and yeah, just grab a kid for the day.

I always said to my brother, once you know, once he's, you know, he sons, you know, old enough.

I want to take him to Legoland and not not for him, for me.

I'm going to use him as my excuse to go there and and do all the fun related Lego things that I wasn't allowed to do when I was. There, how good Mary can I do

this one? You're like, no, you're ruin it.

Stop, stop the left hand. By the way, you're Lego.

ING wrong. You're Lego wrong.

Yeah. Yeah.

You let me down. You let your country down.

Get get out of the way. Yes, I I did finally get them

all. Well, after this one more, we

couldn't find it anywhere. I was like, no, I'm going

around, you stay where you are and I'm going to run around and try and find it. So I eventually did.

It was a little bit hidden, but I found it.

Excellent. I was like, yes, I've been

looking around everywhere for my nephew for these badges and I just grabbed 2, but they were fine with it.

They must have still had a decent, a decent collection or something. But yeah, so that was, that was

funny trying to run around and grab all those ones.

Got top on some good big helicopters and in the back of some of the planes you try and get as close as you can with the American jets. But I remember, I remember it

was the same when I was younger too.

They're always further away, You know, we got our F eighteens and everything up really close, like so close that I could almost reach over and touch them. The American ones they had the

F22 and the F16 like 2F20 twos and 2F sixteens, so their fighter jets were still pretty far away from as close as we could get. So they keep their distance with

those ones only get too close but.

You had, but you had a kid, Scotty.

You just take the kill to it. Like you, you, you.

Just go under the ropes. Or you do what those people did

at the Formula One, just just they see how far we can go with the high vis and they. Yeah.

Just pretend I feel like that might be a, a, you know, a, a national security issue at that stage.

Well, I do if you do it at the air show.

Right, if you can get away and get get that done in the air show, then hats off to you. All those military people.

There's police walking around, There's federal police around.

Yeah, if you're able to, then you you should be a spy or yourself. James Bond.

The funny thing was right, they a lot of people were kind of complaining about prices when it came to tickets, parking and food. The only thing going through my

mind was I don't think they've ever been to a Grand Prix before. Yeah.

Yeah. So like this, when I was getting

food, I was like, yeah, this is actually reasonable price.

This one's not too bad. You know, I'm getting a full,

full sausage, bun, lettuce, tomato, everything in there and stuff like that, and a side of chips.

And it was like 25 bucks. I was like, all right, good

price, but everyone's up. The price of F1.

The whinge about tickets being expensive I was like general admission is over 100 bucks now for Formula One so no this is cheap and I think parking was a bit expensive $60.00.

Oh, that's that's a lot of money. $60.00 and it took some

people two hours just close to the parking lot like not because freeway or anything. Wow.

In the parking spot. And you have to park there

because there's nothing else around it, is there?

There was a $60.00 parking area and a $30 parking area.

Both of them took people like 2 hours and 2 hours to get out as well. I wouldn't want to park in the

$30 one. It's still a bit of a hike.

It looked like a probably a good 1520 minute walk with all your stuff and it was a dirt field. And what I mean by dirt, I mean,

we got there, we're driving on the bus and some cars have only just got just got there and pulled in the parking spot and it looked like they've been sitting there for days.

There was that much dust and dirt on them like.

I think, I think the the crappy parking lot is the Avalon Raceway. They use the Avalon Raceway to

park up because I did that two years ago.

I made the mistake of driving and yeah it took me like 2 hours to get there and find the spot and yeah ended up parking at that Yeah the dirt spot, which was the Avalon it.

Was just a a. Raceway Area.

Dust Bowl. And then when leaving all the

cars, you couldn't even see the parking lot.

It was just dust. The people with the traffic,

traffic management stuff had masks on.

That's how bad it was. It was.

They would they would have got their danger money and they would have got their hazardous material money with the, with the, the, the dust. You know so.

Yeah, you've on it. They.

Would they would have cleaned up?

Yeah. And that was, yeah, that was,

that was it. No car stuff, just good old

aeroplane stuff. That's got an engine.

It's it's worthy. And or the sounds forgot how

great it is. Yeah.

Jet fighter flying over full speed.

You feel it in your chest. Can you do you hear them break

the sound barrier as well or or are they not going that fast?

No, I don't think they do supersonic flights.

OK. They still go pretty darn quick,

but yeah, not that fast. I was the first Grand Prix in

Adelaide when in the the first year the I think they were, were the F eighteens there back then or would they have been Miranda the eighteens? Have been around for quite a

while. Yeah, it could have been an F18.

Anyway, one came across without any warning, like sort of thing, and it was going pretty jolly quick.

And like everybody, you know, half a million people ducked when this thing went across, which was absolutely incredible.

And then there were so many complaints and the hospitals were up in arms because, you know, there were people almost having heart attacks and all that thing.

And because it was so low, it was well, it was below the height of some of the buildings, you know, in the in the city.

Lord. It was, it was absolutely crazy.

And yeah, the next year we're, we, we were back there and they, they kept, you know, any minute now, you know, within that, we've been told that within 10 minutes, you know, the, the F18 will be flying. And they just fell over

themselves explaining that it was coming and it came over at about half the speed. But the first year, yeah, oh,

let's this will be fun. Let's do this.

And it, yeah, backfired big time on them.

They did that with the the wall of fire.

OK, so they constantly just kept saying make sure you go to your plugs in, it's gonna be really loud, make sure you're prepared, blah, blah, blah. And it kept getting pushed back

further and further. So I started it at 12:30 it

starts and it's 12:45, then 1:00, 1/15, 1:30 and they're like any second now. So you know, 1:30 Will all

they've told us, we'll give you a countdown, should be a countdown soon. We'll let you know.

And then they're they're crapping on and all of a sudden just boom and it just puts all up.

No one was ready for it. No one had their phones up to

enjoy and it went like OK cool that.

Was it? Everyone had their phones out.

That was amazing. They were like what?

No one was ready. For it.

Just hurry up and put out the fire and get the F16 up will ya?

Because I'm looking over and I can see it's ready to taxi out.

Just like getting in the air, God damn it.

Did the guy die in the accident or he survived OK?

Yeah, that's. Wild.

That's incredible it. Was an insane crash so.

Did you see it? Yeah, well, not in person.

Yeah. This is on the Friday SO.

OK, Yeah. But I'm, yeah, I'm, I'm glad he

survived that. That's good.

Yeah. David Prince updates with you.

I had a call today to say the Civic's ready.

It's got 2 new rear wheel cylinders and all the unfortunately it had leaked inside the inside the drum.

So they've cleaned all the brakes.

They said the brakes are fine, you know, got plenty of meat on them and stuff. So that's ready to go and pick

up. What else have I done?

I've driven 1-2 driven the two that are currently on the property. Actually with the Civic at a

workshop being repaired. It's been so much fun.

I've got so much space in the garage to, oh, I might open this drawer and see what's in that drawer.

Oh, I forgot I had that, You know, because normally when it's full of cars, you can just can't, can't get the, the cup of doors open as easily. So I've been enjoying that.

But it look it, it will be filled up again very quick, smart. I went to, I called in on, we

did a big clean up. The car club has a a 40 foot

container of spare parts down, down in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. And we've been slowly drowning

in more of us members have been really generous.

The whole idea of it, I think I've mentioned before, is that if you've got bits and pieces lying around that you're not using or you don't want anymore, you can donate them to the club.

And then any other club members can come down and rustle, rummage through them and make a donation and take whatever they like sort of thing. So it works really well.

There's some really interesting bits and pieces and we were lucky enough to score a lot of stuff from Honda Australia when they moved out of Telamerik, where they'd been for about 30 years. But we were literally pretty

much drowning in there. So we hired a skip on the

weekend and we had a big, I won't say throw out.

We had a big restructure. We had a restructuring day and

it was meant to take up all weekend, but we actually got a dial on Saturday. So I had some time on the

Sunday. So I ordered.

Bella was on not far from home, which is the Fiat Car Club concourse up at Wesley College in Glen Waverley.

That was really good. Met caught up, Met caught up

with some mates there, some fabulous cars on display and everything from lovely classic old Ferraris to, you know, however many options and colours of the original Feed 500 you could imagine. So yeah, it was really good from

the both ends of the spectrum. That was a g'day there was lots

of cast stuff on again over the weekend and there's more coming up this weekend too. So to busy time.

The weather's been great, you know, being a sort of fairly stable autumn and there's lots to see, lots to get out and do.

I'm hoping to get down to Geelong on Friday because we're staying in Geelong, sorry, Sunday, and we're staying in Geelong Sunday night. So with a bit of like, I'll be

able to swing past and have a look at what's going on down there too. Sounds good.

That'd be for all four day, I'm assuming?

David grins. That would be, are you planning

on going? I want to go.

Yeah, yeah, I'll, I'll make my, I'll make my way down there if I've got the time. Is here and I just the only

other car related thing and I don't know I I might come across this might be a bit strange. I don't know if anybody else has

done it. I yesterday I was out for a walk

and I saw this car in the distance and I thought oh, that looks for me yeah and I got up to it and it was a it was but what the silhouette of a TRTS sort of Magna station waggon, which is you know pretty for me to determine there but it was left hand drive and it was it was had a Sigma gland badge on it obviously, you know Euro spec 1 and it was manual.

I grabbed the phone and I took all these photos and then today I I remembered oh, let's get look at those photos and of course looked in my phone. There were no photos in my

phone. I had totally dreamt it

overnight. I it was so real.

I I literally went to my phone and opened it up to have a look at these photos because I just couldn't believe I'd seen it and quite rightly I hadn't old thing, but it was.

Have you ever had that any car related dreams that are just so specific? Like I can remember ark

straight. It was just parked casually.

Gilsmist were turned on on the thing.

It was the detail in this dream just absolutely snuck up and hit me on the back of the head. I couldn't believe it.

Oh yeah. That's incredible to have that

detail of a dream. It was.

I couldn't believe this Jelly thing.

It was incredible. But.

Was it a three litre or was it a 2.6?

Was it 3 litre? Okay, there you go.

It's in the in terms of spec, because obviously you know, the the Sigma Gallant was was slightly different in terms of well naming specs. What would you equate it to as

an Australian delivered car? Well, that for there was a very

limited edition KR Verada Touring, which was a Euro spec, had the roof rails on the, the sort of the rent along the line of the roof and had the headlight wipers on the, on the bumpers and the sort of fed in, I think the bumpers were colour coded from with the euro ones. But yeah, it was, it was just

surreal. It was just nuts.

It was so vivid. And I thought, oh, oh, now I

must get those. I must send them to Andrew and,

and all. And then I looked at my phone.

I thought, you're a complete idiot.

It did remind me too. I once had a dream that I was

driving the Scamp and, and the tyre pressures were wrong because it was riding differently and I was really ticked off because whoever had been driving at last hadn't, hadn't checked the tyre pressures.

And of course that was another dream.

But you know the detail. It just freaked me out that it

was like so. You wake up and check the tyre

pressures. Someone's creeping into my

garage at night and adjusting the tyre pressure.

Ladies and gentlemen, that is Salvador Dali speaking now.

Surrealism. Surrealism is the word.

The Salvador Dali of Car Talk here.

That's actually really cool, I. Don't know whether or not to

actually, I didn't know whether to actually tell you that, but it was. I just laughed about it for a

long time this afternoon. I thought just how can, how can

you must be so obsessed? And of course, so of course, I,

I told Andrew and he just said I thought Honda was the power of dreams. Well, watch what?

Mind you, he's very proud, I think at the same time.

He's, I think he's converted to you, David Prince.

No, no, no, no. He hasn't enthusiast of of many

makes and models. You are.

You absolutely are not. Just Honda's 9 Magnum.

Just don't, just don't let the rest of the Honda Car Club in Victoria hear you say that, David.

That's. Correct, that would.

Start there. Well, that's good.

Yeah, we we appreciate all all makes and models on this car, even the the sag young static, which if Ed was here, he'd be like, no, I would. No, I don't have the secret Chad

updates with you. What have I done?

Not. My whole lot, I think small

cleaning and that sort of thing. Honestly, I can't remember.

Yeah, yeah. Any sort of.

Still waiting to hear about the Tarago to see what the update is from, from Athens. Yeah, that's well, now it's

very, very important. We can, I think, oh, there's a

new. Hyperblades on the Yeah.

Like 30. So there's all the car related.

Yeah, yeah. That's an update counts.

Long due for an UP. I think a year passed when I was

supposed to replace them, so I hope they're in the end.

Yeah, no, very, very boring in terms of cars, but could we can nevertheless. Very good, Alan dear.

I was also pretty dry in terms of cars.

I did have it because we sort of talked about the air show.

I went to a wrestling event on Friday night, World Series Wrestling. Oh yeah.

This time I promised not to get cranked because, you know, I was a bit of a menace last time because I know I had to work on Saturday. I was starting at six on a

Saturday. So I thought I'll keep it easy.

Keep it. Easy.

Yeah, I. Didn't get as cranked as last

time but we did. We did have a few.

We ended up going for dinner and the place had like these really cool cocktails. It was happy hour, $15 cocktail.

Next thing you know, I'm 4IN. You know, because I'd have a

beer as well with the dinner and, you know, so you know, we had a few drinks. I was less of a menace than I

usually am, but we got a couple of chance going.

One was we, I feel like we bullied A referee off the stage because the referees, there were two referees.

They're going back and forth. One of them had a really thin

stash. Didn't look very good.

So we just like shave that stash ref and eventually that became a chant. And that ref never came back

after the match. So, you know, we would have

laughed if he came back and then it was shaded.

Yeah, that would be pretty good. But overall pretty good event.

I've been going to MCW for the last year in a bit.

Yeah, I made every event. Damn good times.

Yeah, we're going to get you on a WCW or WSW.

Sorry, there was. From anyone that knows popular

wrestling, there's Matt Cardona, Dolph Ziggler.

Oh, Ziggler was there. And what's that guy?

He's like an big indie wrestler. He's an AWF.

He has name. But basically Julian made me buy

some merch for him. So I had to stand in line for a

friend, you know, while the matches started, just to buy some merch for this guy. But you know.

What a wrestling talk with without.

Doing Yeah. So that was my weekend.

You know the D Max. We took a maxi taxi there, but

the dude rocked up with a Kluger.

I think it was a Kluger so I've you can get.

Them clear good 7. Seats seven seats back.

Like 7 seater, yeah. You can't get the back seats and

not if you throw kids in there. We had a tough time.

You know, I should have sat shotgun, but I didn't decide to get were. You in the third.

Row Yeah. So it's basically like me and my

friend Nathan were in the back and knees were basically just like, you know, kind of like that to fit.

If you put your knee straight, you're going to fit.

So, you know, don't get a clue, guy, unless you want just kids in the back. If you actually want to do maxi

taxi work, get a damn van, please.

That's my cartel top tip. If you're an Uber and do seven

seats, do a van. They're half asset.

We don't want this. Yeah, A. 100% I agree.

Unless you got like an allogram or something maybe.

I don't know. That's cool.

Yeah, but now is. Can you?

Can you choose an or a? Something out like you get to

choose or they just send you whatever.

I think they send you whatever as long as it technically will see what you require. And because I think we had six,

we had was a six, you had 6 going to the Viet venue and seven coming back. So when we had 7 coming back, we

got a actual Max taxi so everyone was a bit more comfortable. But on the way there, because it

was six of us, I guess the Kluger fit the bill and it did not. You know, we weren't very happy.

No. SO 0*0*.

Yeah, it was a it was a semi private taxi booking service for those who are not in the know once again.

Does that work? Some insider information.

Basically a bunch of cabbies will will get together and they'll start their own little conglomerate.

And what they're trying to do is get customers to take their card rather than, you know, call 13 cabs and say, give me a call if you need to pick up and I'll sense on your way.

So you, they kind of cut 13 cabs out of the equation in a way.

So you say, hey, I need to pick up from, you know, something, something Jacana. And it was like, all right,

we'll send somebody in your way in 10 minutes.

And basically one of their associates, I'm not going to say cousins, but it's all a chance. Cousins are involved, you know,

taxiing frequently as a family business.

Take it from me, I know even though we did nothing in taxis in my family, but still we knew many a family that was all about it. So in someone, one of their

associates will come pick you up if they don't personally come pick you up. And that way they kind of you,

you basically hold customers in a way, which is kind of cool.

But it's also like you getting the best car available.

Probably not the the best part as we got out of wrestling.

Obviously you're in, what is it, the Melbourne Pavilion?

What sort of does it count? Kensington, I think Kensington,

yeah. So it's like a really relative

in Kensington. Yeah, yeah, relatively kind of a

lot of people got out. There'd be a big search on I

guess calls. We texted our guy and he sent a

car within 10 minutes. So you know, it's a bit of a

win. As a customer, you know, you get

a ride pretty quickly. You don't feel as good when you

get home and you know for what, 20 minute ride you pay $90.00 I

think it was, but we split between seven of us so I wasn't that bad. How's my car experience the

weekend? Very good.

With me. Sorry for my lateness gentleman,

I had to nature call so that. I kept that a secret, I said.

You're otherwise. Preoccupied.

No, sorry. Well, I thought I'd be.

Honest. Honest on air.

Honest on air. That's Maddie J.

You don't get that quality of be listening anywhere else.

How was the valve movement if we go into it?

Let's not talk about that. Yeah, OK.

See. Yeah, I had a lot of them this

week. And we can.

Get a new free car or something. I did, I didn't, but I got

organised these belt mouldings for, for the laser because I'm slowly tidying it up, as you know, because I'm taking off the road in January or December, Jan to get it, you know, ready for its club plate next year. So I got the, I got these second

hand bolt mouldings that the robbers were still good on them and the, and they, they went chipped or broke and all the damaged and the ones in the laser are just just 20 something years outside. They're, they're pretty cooked.

So I looked at it and I had this trim paint and I, I sanded them all back and, you know, got them all ready and, and nice to go.

And then I then I realised I didn't have enough paint in my, in my, you know, in the gun. So I was like, that's fine.

I'll, I'll in the can, Sorry. So I went and bought, I went and

bought another one, but then we don't sell that one at super cheap anymore in particular. So I was having a look at it and

all the reviews were like, get this, this replaces the, the duplicate colour trim and bumper paint.

And I was like, OK, great, cool. So I thought it was a direct

replacement little dinner. It's a, it's a textured 1.

When it dries, it becomes textured.

So I painted all four because like they're quite, you know, they're quite thin and small. So I'm, well, I'm like, oh,

yeah, it's a little bit wet. So like, you know, I'll give it

some time. And I'm like, it's not really

doing, It's not changing from being wet and textured.

And then I read on the can at the bottom is a textured finish.

I'm like, of course it is. So I had to send them all back.

My question was going to be did you use whatever you had on the can 1st and you did one and then the other ones you finished with the text? Week you.

Had a mix. I tried and I was like there

just wasn't enough in the one cans.

I was like that's fine I'll deal with the other can.

So I went super cheap bought this can.

The reviews lie online so it does.

Don't read reviews too well to make your own personal judgments. So then I had the.

Side test piece, cartel top tip test piece, yeah.

Paint test piece, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then that's. Yeah, any conspicuous here?

Yeah, and see how it drives, see if it works.

Yeah, I I should have done that, but I thought, you know, it was the same thing. Like it's.

You trusted the people. Trusted the people.

The people let you down the. People let me, the humanity let

me down. So I was not happy when I'm when

I've got I had to get out the 400 and then then the 800 and the 1200 and standing back and getting it right and flat again.

I ended up going to my competitors store and somewhere or name names to buy the the old can.

Was it in a barn or was it more of a Co it?

Was more of a Co and they had a an cheese was it was like almost double the price I used to pay for it like more than double the price actually. So I wasn't happy, but I bit the

board. I was like, well, I need it.

So I bought it resprayed them. They looked the cop really,

really good. So now I'm just, and then I put

them next to the car and I'm like, now the, the, the moulds for the, for the wind, for the, for the back, you know, three quarter, we know nowhere near as good.

So I'll have to, I'll have to mask them up and, you know, paint them before I put them back on the car and that'll, that'll make it all look nice and and good.

So, so I did that, gave the Forester a good, well, not a good clean, but like a decent clean.

So steps off in India at the moment for work.

So while she's done that, I gave her a car a bit of a bit of a spook. And so she'll have a nice car to

return to. But I think that's pretty much

it on my end now, Joan, it's a nice topic.

So David was mentioning earlier about, you know, when I asked him what what spec this this Sigma gland would would have been in his in his dream. I want to ask you with your cars

that you own now, for example, like Chad, you've got a Sylvia is yours AK or AQQQ? OK, So like, you know, that's

the Q spec. And I want to ask you with the

cars that you own, what would be your dream spec of that car or if you have it already? And what like things would you

have gotten from the factory? You know, as like if you would

have known some of the factory options with it?

Because like I was thinking about this the other day and the guy that I that that bought my Typhoon originally put no options on it at all except for floor mats.

And the reason why he did that is because he would have hit luxury car tax and he was too cheap because he's like, I'm not paying luxury car tax. On a on a Ford.

True story. So it's.

Incredible. Yeah, anyway, that's why it

quite literally came with not a single, not a single box ticked.

And the only, the only box was ticked was the FPV formats and that was it. So I've been over the years

getting all the, you know, the bits and pieces and putting it together. I was thinking, what would be my

dream spec if I was to go in back in 2004 to a showroom and and order a brand new F6 typhoon, what would I get?

And, and I was thinking about like this would make a really good topic when when we're on on the show.

So I want to leave you in your capable hands.

My dream pick typhoons. As soon as I've I've mentioned

it already, I would have, I would have just went to town because, you know, there wasn't really much you could do to it.

So you know, I would have, but you could have, you could option for the, for the four front and rear Brembos, which mine doesn't have. You could have optioned it with

the like with an optional sunroof like it's an aftermarket when it's not a factory fit. I would have optioned it with

the Momo steering wheel, the Momo gear knob, the factory factory now because factory was like a 5 grand option back then.

Which Can you believe factory now was 5 grand back then.

Yeah. And a lot.

Of a lot of money. Yeah, correct.

But in like when I added it up and even this is pricing back then. So like the Brembo's were A5

grand option back then and then you you add that and then you add five grand, that's $10,000 you know for NAV and and sort of brakes on that on that car. So that takes the $58,000

Typhoon to $68,000 plus your maths are just 250 bucks.

Yeah, plus your, your rubber boot mat.

Plus your, your rubber. Sorry, your your string.

What's it called? The the the baggage bag in the

in the boot. The net thing, the net.

Correct. Plus your your headlight

protectors, your bottom protectors.

Cool. So what was that, David?

Baggage bag. I like that much more.

The baggage bag. Yeah, the baggage bag.

Bag, bag. This is why I'm not an English

teacher, ladies and gentlemen. So, yeah, you know, I would have

put, I would have put that on it.

And those are the things that you could have got, you could have also got like the flip down TV monitor, but I'm not picking my right. I don't want that.

And you know, and I would have been like, wow, that's, that's a $70,000 car back in, you know, 2004, which is 100K today really. So, but that would have been

really cool to have the Brembo's to have, you know, all those, those little bits and bases. Now, now to be fair, I've got a

lot of those bits on the car now.

I've even got the factory stand up in the car, believe it or not, but obviously I didn't pay the five grand for it.

You know, I I found out another way to do it.

So what would be your dream specs, gentleman with the cars that you own and you know, what options would you have taken on in the in the interim if you were ticket boxes at the the dealership? Now we know like BMW stuff, we

got like the technology pack and this pack and that pack.

But you know, for some cars, like for example, like my Typhoon, it was, it was a Typhoon and you only got remember brakes like these were your factory, your factory options and the rest were kind of really, you know, get dealer fit. So yeah, it's interesting to see

what you guys would say with your certain cars.

So we'll start with Scotty. Me, I think I kind of lucked out

with the blade actually, because it quite a lot of the boxes got the nice floor mats. They're nice and thick on the

door seals that lights up and says blade.

That was an option. He got the TRD starter button,

the TRD shifter. He went with the the kind of

carpeted cloth boot mat, which I probably would have gone for the more rubber 1 instead. Is that the moment for me to

look like I got a towel? I lay down a towel over the top

of it. To look after.

It Yeah. Which Ash just thinks what an

idiot because you've got this map that's meant to protect the underneath, but I'm protecting that.

I'm protecting 2 things. You're not an idiot.

They don't understand. They don't understand, Scotty,

I'm I'm a mats on Mets guy. Like you have your mats.

I mean, you have your mats that that you don't care about on top of those that to to protect them, Yeah.

No. Protect in terms of specs, so

blade master G that's that's your top spec isn't.

It that's the top, yeah. So I can't go any higher when it

comes to those specs. But the one thing that I wish it

had and they ticked because it became an option in the Series 2, was the the cruise control, the adaptive radar cruise control. Why was it adaptive on that?

Yeah, it was radar cruise. That's cool, though.

Series One came with it just all stock.

But the Series 2, to kind of keep prices down a bit, it became an option and majority of people didn't take it because I assume it must have been very expensive.

I mean to have their radar cruise control would have been freaking cool. That's probably the only thing

that I wish I wish it had and that's probably what I would have ticked myself originally it came with the remote remote start as well, but that seems to be not connected or something or I just don't know how to use it. I think it might have had a

different remote, but I don't have that remote, so I'm unsure on that one. Yeah, that that was it because

thanks to Mr. David who had the brochure for me, I could just

like to see all the all the options that it came with.

Now 31 Scotty. 31 yeah, mine's the mid range one, which I think

most people, most people got was the GGGXE.

That seems to be the most common one that I see around everywhere and when they're on sale there tends to be that one.

TI was the top top spec for Australia.

So there was there was this clarify, there was exec, there was GXE and there was TI Yeah. And then so it was silhouette

next to TI or was that more GXE plus like you know, performance?

It was probably more GXE, plus it's more of the sporty side of.

Things and then obviously what would then go to to GTS and stuff, but we're not talking about those.

No, they're just like super special.

They're like a side thing, the way I see those ones.

Yeah. So the TI came with some pretty

comfy looking seats. No leather or vinyl or anything

like that in them, just cloth. Velour.

The The funny thing is about those seats, even when they were new, they looked like they were well worn.

The combined the way it was, it was like a big, it was like a big cushion. Yeah.

And they already look like that. You know, some very large people

have already sat in them for a very long time, but they're brand new, so. They've got nice 15 inch alloys

on them too. Yes, yes they do.

They're they're sort after now those the front grille and the bonnet was actually different in the team That was all different.

Electric windows would have been pretty good to have.

I think it might have even had central locking too.

Could you could you have gotten electric windows on the GXE or that would you have to get you have to go TI for that?

Yeah, I'm not quite sure, not 100% sure.

I'd have to look a little bit more into that one if it was an option or not. Like a Power Pack they did have.

Yeah, they had a Power Pack option on the earlier Bluebirds.

So I'm guessing, I'm guessing you you could have probably by then it will probably would have been an option.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think the TI was the only

one that came with the alloys. Everyone else was the all

hubcaps, well, that one. So even GXE, I mean, for all I

know that might have even been an option as well.

If I was to probably go for a 31, I would have gone the TI I think because I liked I liked the front more because it was more of the Japanese style front.

Yeah, it was more of the Japanese style front grill and and bonnet that went with it. It's.

Got those like inner lights as well doesn't it in the grill?

No, it was more of the the little front grill bit was like the honeycomb. Honeycomb design.

Oh. OK.

All right, So what year is your 3189?

89. So you're in a dealership in 89,

walked in and you look at Skylands.

Would you have went TI straight away straight away to TI or would you have thought about it and see see how you could have optioned up your your GXE? Yeah, I guess back then I'd be

definitely looking at the the silhouette that came with limited slip diff straight away, straight off the bat.

Supposedly it wasn't very good. But.

Back then I guess it wouldn't be too bad, seats were really nice.

No more buckety on a silhouette, weren't they?

Yeah, nice. I like the pattern too that it

came with too. Yeah, the.

Pattern on those ones was really nice.

And all those that generation, well, even the generation before were really top class. They were brilliant seats.

One especially the biggest change came with the Pulsars when they moved to local assembly that the seats were Australian designed because they found that the Japanese spec seats were too weak in the frame for Aussies.

And the locally assembled cars ended up with a with an Australian designed seat and they were they were fantastic.

They were comfortable and supportive and.

I think that's the one thing Nissan can do with seats, yeah.

No agree with. Me, they've been really good

with seats. Every skyline that I've owned is

pretty good, even to like a base model 34 seats are still being, you know, pretty comfortable for what it was.

Yeah. So I go in, I'll be going.

Oh, let me take a look at your silhouette.

Have a look at that, it's nice. Definitely would get that one in

a manual. Thanks.

Have a look at the TI. I'm not sure if TI came in

manual. Don't think they did.

I think they would just order, actually.

Yeah, that will probably turn me off, I think.

Oh, that's a bit disappointing. Yes.

I probably would wind up with a silhouette and I'll go.

Can you throw in some floor mats for me please?

And colour. Those.

Colour, yeah. Silhouettes always looked good

in the red over silver. They always doubled up.

For me. It was like, that's like the

silhouette, that's the silhouette colour.

Yeah, I do. I do have seen a few of those

ones. It would definitely have to be

at least a 2 tone. Yeah, 2 tone just does it for

me. I would probably have to be.

I like the colour that I've got, the white, the white over the greyish silver colour. Yeah, really like that.

It's clearly plain. I know, but yeah, something.

What it needs is a really fine red pinstripe just along the edge of the. Oh yeah, true, that would look

good. It does look good.

And then if it was a Series 3 silhouette, I'd probably remove the rear spoiler. I didn't like the rear spoiler

on those ones. The series 1 and 2 rear spoilers

were better because it was a little lip, a black lip.

It looked really good, but then it changed to this weird looking kind of higher up lame spoiler thing and I didn't like that that much. They are hard as hell to find,

aren't they? Those little spoilers for

silhouettes? Can't find them, unfortunately.

They're all been like, the heat's gotten to them, yeah.

They're. All WAVY.

They're all WAVY and just kind of destroyed so.

Surely someone's done a reproduction 1 Surely.

I can't believe. No one has.

Surely there's a lip killing or something or like, just no like that that that bug was the mind for a car that popular.

Yeah, they'd make a killing if they just see if someone would, but I guess for you to do that and make the make the mould and everything would just be too expensive.

All right, so we're, so we're talking dream spec here.

We're talking white over silver silhouette.

Yep, Series 2. Series 3 because that front end

yeah, just. Just move remove the spoiler.

Yeah, which I'm sure they'd do that for me.

Factory alloys, factory LSD and you're a happy man.

That's that's your spec and with obviously throwing in, throwing in floor mats because you know. Yeah, because I'm, you know, I'm

sure they'd throw it in for free for me.

They used it back then, always get it with his new cars.

Every time he'd bargain with him, he'd always say that.

Yeah, 100%. Yeah always go.

Can you get window tinting and floor mats?

There is 2 go to's. Yeah, 100% take bet.

No, I like it. I like it.

Scotty David Prince. Yeah, you've got a lot of cars.

So your choice of cars and what your dream specs would be.

Oh. Colour and colours too.

Actually we, we colours we've got, we've got a lot of colours in there too. I think I consider myself very

lucky to actually have my one of my dream spec cars and that's certainly the Sunset Orange N1, which I is really the hero colour. I think of the Rs, they all have

orange highlights in, in the interior and orange stitching on the steering wheel and all that sort of stuff.

Even the white and the black and the green and the yellow ones had that. So it always seemed odd that,

that you'd have oranges as the stitching.

I mean, most sporty cars you'd think that have have red stitching, not these, they had orange.

So it only, I thought it was only sensible.

It appealed to my the neat side of my brain to actually have the same colour trim. Absolutely.

Stitching. And thanks to Maddie Chennai,

who just bought me back from Japan, AN one option catalogue.

I've been poring over that to see what else I can put in it, and there's not a lot. There's really not a lot.

The well, I'm tossing up about the blackout panel for the bonnet, which I do like and it's only ¥8800 and it'd probably fit in a suitcase. I reckon I did get for that.

I got some it came with nice Mugen mats.

It came with quite a few little Mugen bits and pieces and also one thing I did get for it was the like a silicon insert for the centre stuff doesn't slide around like your phone and and keys or loose change or anything.

It actually that's. A Honda option.

Yeah, from the from the book. Yep, that was ¥5500 and it's got

the little N symbol in it, like cast in it.

That's. Cool.

Really cool. The one non Honda option I got

and I, I thought, well I'll allow that be the because there are so few of these cars enough. No, you see now I saw one in on

Instagram and it had an Alcantara gear boot with orange stitching. The regular gear boot's just a

black vinyl gear boot, but someone's created a kit and it's got the same orange stitching and and Alcantara boot.

And every time I change gears, I think, oh, I'm glad I did that.

That's pretty good. So I'm very lucky with that car.

Interestingly, the most customisable new car I bought was probably my 2016 Caddy that I bought the first Caddy after I had a had a Citroen Malingo for work for a few years, which was bucked all the trends. It was actually fantastic,

really good all the time I had it, but the lease was inspired expire or coming to a close on that.

So I the only other thing I really thought would be suitable was a Caddy. So the new generation had just

come out in 2016. I went into the dealership and

got a price and I said, oh, you know, and I said, I really want to lift up tailgate. Can you get lift up tailgate?

Yeah, yeah, you can get that. And he showed me the the, the

book. There was so much I could have

accessorised that car with. So I I was like a kid in a toy

shop. For a caddy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was absolutely staggered and

had far more customizability than than any Japanese car I've ever owned. You could order things like the

height adjustment on the passenger seat, you could order heated seats, you could order vinyl seats instead of fabric seats if you wanted. You could order the lift up

tailgate if you and I wanted the reverse camera, so you had to have the lift up tailgate. So that was and I wanted a

manual. So they said, Oh well mate,

there's nothing Australia like that.

You're going to have to, you know, we'll have to order you one. It'll take three months.

I said I don't care, that's fine.

The phone was still running completely fine.

So I also then I added in the there was a light and sound, a light and not light and sound. There was a a lighting package,

I think, which gave you fog lights.

It also gave you automatic headlights that came on as it got dark. And then there was also the city

package I ordered which had the like the emergency braking pack.

It also had the adaptive cruise control that Scotty you missed out with on the Blade, but it was really good on that.

I used it on the freeway all the time and it was it was actually much better than the current Honda one that we've got.

Is the Honda 1 quite a bit more severe in in how it sort of breaks and speeds up and stuff that the caddies, even though it was a manual seemed to be a lot more gentle than the the Honda 1I? Have noticed that the European

cars with their adaptive Cruise, it feels a lot smoother than the Japanese cars that I've driven with adaptive Cruise.

I don't know if that's just me, but but it's yeah.

Yeah. But now that was, I was really

surprised and I could have gone on, you know, there were lots of different options you could get. So I, when I changed that one

over in 2020 and updated it to A, to a newer 1, I didn't have the luxury that because they'd stopped building them because the new model was coming out in Europe.

So I only could go with the stock that we had in Australia.

And, and I was, I went to an auto anyway in that one.

And there are only four left in the country that had the lift up tailgate with the camera already fitted, which is not something they can option on later. You know, that's got to be built

into it obviously. And I think that's the

definition of option, isn't it? There's an accessory.

So the accessories are your key knob and stuff that can all be added, you know, locally, but for the biggest stuff you sort of engineered in. But yeah.

So this Caddy is probably not my dream spec.

I probably would have got another manual if I could have, but I couldn't order one. And with the with the other

newer cars I've bought, I've always tried to look for the sweet spot route rather than the ultimate, the ultimate spec because I mean, I love a sunroof, but to get a sunroof in in some of the cars like this last CRV we had was it was like another 12 grand on top of the model we got because it was only on the Top Model. So you had to then you got a

whole lot of other stuff that I didn't necessarily want, but never my wife's definitely not a fan of leather and series, and I'm not really a fan of them either.

And so if you want to kick with a, with a fabric type style interior that doesn't allow you to option in a sunroof, whereas you know, with all the European cars, you could probably go through and just tick that box and if you're prepared to wait and get one built for you, they'll do it.

But yeah, they're less, there's less choice with, with Japanese and Korean cars. I think you get that, get that

model and you can't actually differentiate from what you want sort of thing or fine tune it to what you want.

So, but the sweet spot of often is one or two from the base.

So you're getting a lot of value for not a lot more money, a lot more things like the ZIV we've got now picked up the heated seats, it picked up the leather steering wheel, it picked up the automatic tailgate, all those sort of bits.

And it was only it's like the second one off the off the base model, the better wheel, you know, bigger, bigger wheels which look a lot better on the car.

But to go to the go up to the next one, then you sort of you actually lost the spare wheel which I wanted.

I wanted the spare wheel. I'm still that old that I I'd

like to have the thought of spare wheel if I need one, rather than being stuck on the side of the road waiting for truck. Can of girl whatever it is.

Yes. But even then, Chad, like, you

know, the time completely blows out.

No can of Goose helping you, you know.

And that's of course. Not and and you know a good

friend of mine, George, he bought a like a few month old Havel H6GT disappointing. He had a space saver in his in

his in his H6GT. So he's So what he did, he went

on online to see if he can find out just one wheel and he ended up buying a full set because because he's like a guy was just selling a set of set of wheels because he was he was driving it to Adelaide and he drove it twice in the space of a month.

So to Adelaide. So he's like, look, if I get if

I get buddy puncher, space saver is not going to really help me.

So he bought the set of wheels, put the yeah and the toys were like quality brand new, put one in the boot and and install the IT was was trying to sell. He sold one of them.

He's still two more to sell of the of the other two wheels and he's pretty much made his money back for what he paid for the whole set. So.

Wow, that's great. So that's the way to do it.

David Prince. Yep.

Well the the the model above us was the hybrid and the battery actually is where the spare tyre would sit, so you can have a space for it. So that's a bit of a shame, but.

Yeah, not ideal. So that's that's your ZRV.

What about with your other Hondas?

Oh OK, well again, you're probably limited a bit to what they actually do if like Dream spec has got to, I'm presuming has got to be what is available from the factory, not what you do if you had. Correct.

What the claim a minute. It's it's always been the source

of some amusement that like the Grand Prix Civic and the even the indie Ek, the yellow indie Ek based on the base model of the of the local car and Taco. So they up to to nearly GL spec

with everything else, the left hand mirror and the rear wiper and the centre armrest and all that sort of thing.

But no Taco because it's space models.

That was always frustrating the Accord that the the the lovely 94 Accord. I would have liked the spec

below the VTIS because they actually had really nice durable cloth in those, whereas the VTIS has leather and preferably a manual because they are in a manual very cruisy and nice to to float around in. But yeah, the manuals, Honda

were doing really, really good manuals in the 80s and 90s.

And yeah, I always choose a a manual if you could over the auto. Absolutely, Chad.

All right, so the Sylvia, I kind of like the version I have, which is cues. So they did 3 versions.

Jax. Well, they did more than three,

but the main throw Jax Queens and kiss games are the you know, the the playing sets and yeah, the job was like banks model manual everything. It was ACA later model Sr and

yeah. So the one I have is Cues, which

is non turbo Sr and really I'm not sure if yeah, basically electric front fogs, project lights, rear spoiler.

And after 91 that came in the analysis standard as well, but mine didn't adapt because it's a well, it is annoying.

It's annoying, but it must have just not had the option.

Well, it wasn't ticked or something, I don't know.

Maybe it was like at some point, who knows.

And then the other options are like leather, steam wheel and lettuce. So I'm kind of gonna doesn't

have those the the receipts and the Silvies are quite nice.

They're they're kind of like a semi bucket fabric, a grey, you know, little gramme dotted fabric, which is kind of cool and it sort of matches the rest on the carpet as the format and the and they got like a bit of fabric on the glove box as well, which is kind of cool. And mine has a sunroof.

I kind of wish it doesn't. It didn't because it's just for

us now. So the last thing that I got,

yeah, what an amazing one it was not like 30 plus down the road.

It's just a hassle liability. So I would have to have.

Yeah, if it were and I'm talking about all that would have been cool. And you actually got a lot more

head rumours because in my, even though I've got a real like seat rail and all that, even with a helmet on, my head is touching the headliner like it's just, it's barely enough room for me to be able to drive a car with on the if I'm on track.

And so, yeah, with that, I don't know if you just get like a few mil of clearance, which would have been just enough.

Yeah. And I was just having a look

online as well. The other guys were talking and

they they've got a couple of extra models, which is old, a doctor variant and a club in. And they were basically a

variant of each, each like trim that they bought.

And some has like super high cast as like and then some and one of the other, sorry, there's a variant also it's called the mighty variant. But the front spoiler, which is

like like the same as the R31 where like flip down is that auto auto going spoiler. That's cool.

Yeah. So a lot of cool stuff.

I'm sure those were made in such small numbers.

And then there's all these, the Altec, which is a convert on which is super cool, but I don't want to they never have to do with convertible from that. Yeah, because I think they were

more prone just just because, you know, the water just sitting at the inside the world and all that sort of stuff looks cool, but you know. Was that brieta?

Very old was the S15 right? But that's.

Yeah, the S15, so S13 Nortec was fun fact, automatic only, which is why Mecca, why is sports comparable just an automatic.

But alas, that's what they did. I'm sure your dream sake would

have been the there was the Mitsuoka.

Like that full Corella de Ville version of the other.

Thing of the series so wild. We know.

Does everyone know what that is? Yeah, that's the one, Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. It's the crazy retro and thing

that it's OK decided to cook. So I kind of like the spec I

have in the yesterday and I like it's all one colour because I'm the the the sort of the colours are like the the some green 2 tone and you know, like the cream white 2 tone.

But I like a full one car, which is kind of cool and that yeah, so that's the third end. The Tarago.

I would have liked to have like just a the best 1 they did, which is all wheel drive supercharged, which I don't think we got supercharged in Australia.

We didn't, but I know we did get the old drive model which would have been cool. Kind of like something

different. I'm not sure if you could have

got that in a manual, but. Imagine it jacked up.

Yeah, with good muddies. Just jacked up with like 30 twos

and then just looking. The most unstable, most unstable

car in any space. It's a mid engine spaceship or

so it's not that unstable. It's a sports spots car.

I quite like the the spec of mine because it's manual, but apart from that it's very base model.

I mean it's got electric windows on the front, which I think maybe all of them did. I'm not sure if there was a

manual lineup version. Yeah, some sort of been cool

because you get the 2, the one that's just above you and then the one that's above the middle row.

So the dual sunroof, that would have been pretty cool to have.

Yeah, that's, you know, you can kind of like buy one of those now, but like where do you, you know, draw the line of spending how much money, right. The Civic, I definitely would

have liked to have a VTi just for that extra.

It was it was mostly just the engine like from what I have, which is a AF. So what are they called?

e.g. GLI, Sorry, e.g.

GLI to VTi? It was just a VTech single Obed

Cam engine. And I think that was that's

about it because mine has everything else like painted mirrors, electric windows, front and rear.

Not sure if sunroofs were an option.

David, do you know much about those?

The VTi wasn't the. VTi modelling, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. But wouldn't you have preferred

the SI in the pre facelift? So the 93 because that had the

the 1.6 twin Cam in it. That's true, but I did they make

an SI in a sedan? It did.

Oh, right. I didn't know that.

That would have been cool. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, it's a bit more grunt.

Yeah. No, that would have that

actually would have been cool. Yeah, no, I.

Wonder how many like solar? I don't think.

I don't think I've seen one in years.

NSA sedan? I'm not sure.

They were. That's why I didn't even think

they made the sedans. Well, yeah, obviously.

Yeah, I think I existed. Actually, when, when that guy

who I knew was working at Honda, the one of the public relation guys, when the current Civic came out and shocked everybody at the 42 and a half $1000 prize.

He, I, I did a quick conversion, went back in the SI.

It was in in 1993 when the SI came out.

It was the equivalent of about $2000.

Well, oh wow. Of course they, they had a, they

had AGL sedan as well, which was quite a bit cheaper.

But I mean, they were real premium sort of small cars back then in a sea of, you know, fairly mediocre other sort of things. So they they did stand out and

they could, they could carry the higher price.

But yeah, I messaged him. He said don't feel too bad.

I mean, the SI was this much and he, and I wish at the press release he said I would have, I wouldn't have caught nearly the shellacking that I did. Absolutely.

Yeah, so I would have been a cool, cool spec.

So just before just to hold you the chat, was that a was that a one year option only in the in the side that they that we got or I? Think that was the last year.

Was it 93? No.

Well, the EG came out very late 92, no early 90s. 91.

Was not so yeah. And then when they when the GL

got fuel injection in that was for the 90 the remodel year, yeah. So yeah, the the GLI and then

the single overhead Cam VTi replaced the SI, but yeah, it was. That's right, yeah.

Only just out. Probably buy an SI sedan.

Yeah, because they made EGS up until like 95 at some point, like late 90 fives or something. Yeah, usually.

They'd come out in the second half of the year and then most of them would be the following year models, sort of model year.

Yeah, I was just going to say with the Civic, if I wasn't restricted to what I could get in Australia, I would definitely be going over to either America or to Japan where they did an EG Fario Yeah group, which would have been just the best looking shape. I mean, it's just incredible

what they did with that. You know, this is classic black

Civic from Fast and Furious. Furious.

Yeah, the three from the start. Just an amazing looking car.

I just, I would have liked that with the SI engine, sunroof, all that good stuff in that body. That would have been the best.

So just want to clarify, David, that would have been a AV tech B16IN in that or like a form of that or would it or just been a twin Cam just to 1600? I'm fairly sure it was VTech in

those. Yes, yes.

All right, I thought they were the same as the CRX Twin Cam engines No 1.6. I think, I think the areas

you're testing me now, I could go out to the garage and open a drawer that I couldn't even know what to open to and check the brochure out probably. But I can't read Japanese, so it

won't take me a while. Well.

We'll have to come back to that. We'll we'll have we'll have a

look, but they they. Have a quick look.

And you'd get you'd go black chat, that'll be the colour and with green neons. Well, yeah, if I was gonna, you

know, rob a truck or something like that in the middle of the night, absolutely. Yeah, quite like a yellow

actually. A yellow Civic with the and you

can also get. I don't know which model but you

can get a yellow colour match seats as well.

Yeah, yeah, I've seen that. Some really quirky like

headrests. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, that but in yellow in

Australia factory with with a breeze.

Oh the breeze price price 1. I think they were like 16990

back in the day. That's so cheap.

They had a 1.3 carbi. Single carb, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, and they were not quick.

No Taco on the love, Not giving people tacos.

No Taco wind UPS on the front, unpainted mirrors.

Just yeah. The base model of all base

models, yeah. Well, they were getting up so

much in price that they sort of had to do something to make them keep them relevant. What would they have been

competing with at the time? Like a Swift, like a Suzuki

Swift or something? And.

Yeah. Well, the Mesta there would have

been Mesta 323. Yeah, Ford Laser. 323 yeah,

sure, that would have been around that.

Sorry, Chan. Around that, it's like the 30

and 90, et cetera. A bit bit pricier than than

certainly most of the opposition, but you know, they could actually sort of carry it because a lot of people saw them as a, as a, as a cheaper alternative to a European car.

That was how they were sort of characterised back then, you know, in the way they drove and, and all that sort of thing.

They were expensive. They, I was going to say they

never fared well. That's not true.

They in comparison tests with, with the, the cars that they were competing with, they always did pretty very well on on performance and driveability and and handling and that sort of thing. But the price equation that was

so price sensitive, that category that, that that will always sort of mark them down. But, you know, people who were,

I don't know, looking at what was the small Audi you could get then even, you know, BMWs, people were shopping them against that. And then when things like the

Integra came out in 86, you know, I mean, a lot of people who could have bought BMWs were buying those.

You know, those are the 2nd. And when the four wheel steer

preview came out, of course, it was just all over.

That was the car to have. What else have I got?

The I30. I've got the spec I want because

I don't think I would own I30 if it wasn't, and that's to be honest. Because a performance blue one

pulled up beside me. Oh yeah.

Did you do you not like the performance blue or do you did you? Not a fan.

No, I'm not a fan of the blue. Oh, wow.

It's all over my car on the inside.

Like there's little accents of that blue everywhere.

Yeah, which is fine, but I think it's a bit too, too blue.

Too blue? Yeah.

Hello. We'll try and make it relatively

scream line with mine. The Honda, I believe the model

that I have is the Vtis. So it's got like the alloy

wheels and. 1.5. Yeah, the 1.5, the only model

above it is the VTILI think that was sold.

Is that right? David chime in if I'm correct,

that's right. So just having a look at the

specs just before the VTIL had semi leather seats.

I think it's part leather heated seats, which is, you know, fun and the kilos entry and then kilos start, which is the button little thing that I'm missing that I can see on my, you know, I can see on my there's a button supposed to be here.

Got the blank space. Yeah, like, yeah, you let me

know that I'm poor. How do you How do you tell when

you didn't bother? The top spec, Yeah, that's all.

Yeah. If Ed had, you know, commanded,

AVTILI would have bought that. I would have been happier.

I think the difference between them brand new was about $3000 not. Really, it's not a lot of money

for a jazz. Like, yeah, so, So I think as

far as I can tell, David, once again jump in.

Those were the only main differences between the two specs. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah.

Which, yeah, like I'm not dying without heated seats, but I do like it. I've turned on the last couple

of days in the D Max. If it's only partial leather or

bow leather, whatever it's going to be, I'm like, yeah, you know, you're only halfway there. The keyless entry and stop

keyless start is probably the part where I'm like, that's something if you can have it, it's always nice to have.

Exactly, Yeah. It's just a nice to put your

foot on the brake, tap the button and you know you're on your way, on your way and you just keep the keys in your pocket, which I appreciate doing with the STR and the D Max.

So I'd probably go those. If I could get a used one I'd

probably try and get the VTIL in the dealership.

In the moment I don't know if I do it.

Because only for three grand. Yeah, Considering the total

price of the car is I think for the VTIL was like 22, that's 19 for the VTIS. So obviously if you were buying

that, you're probably more budget conscious.

You know it's not going to be like, you know, you have to go for it. But for me, like just for

leather seats, heated seats and that's pretty much it.

Like like 3 grands like not worth.

It it's not, it's not it's kind of hard to paint wise.

I think the the white is fine. I think it's got a bit of a

purple to it you. Gotta think of the the people

buying them at the time though. There are a lot of people that

would wouldn't have cared, you know they would have just an expensive 1. So it was a dollar in a fond of

that way, I suppose. Yeah and compared to the is the

base the VTi? Yeah, yeah like it's that's also

got the steel wheels and everything.

So you know, you can actually see the proper mump I feel to the IS, Yeah, well versus the L. And the and the the Vt.

Also a different engine. Yeah, that was.

Yeah, that was a. 1.3 yeah, yeah.

So you really lack it in the power.

In the in your generation, I think they're all one point fives. Were they?

OK. They were because that's the

facelift right but but left version.

So there was the GD and then the GE and I think that yours is a GS I think. Oh, OK.

And it's one of the last ones we sold in Australia.

Yeah, 1.3 and the 1.5 were available in the GED and the GE,

but I'm pretty sure they were all 1.5 so by the time they got

to the GF. Gotcha.

Yeah, doesn't add to that. Like I love Honda.

I know they weren't making a lot of money on Jazz, but that's a that's a big mistake to to stop selling it because like, people are importing them as, you know, fits.

Yeah, fits. And I'm seeing you can get the

hybrid fits. Yeah, you're pretty happy with.

Them and you know people are like well I want a jazz well you can't get I want OK well you can't get a fit from overseas and they're importing them and they're doing them that way Yeah I I still think. Yeah, Couldn't you come and do

one of those? What about a fit a few?

Yeah. I still I still think that

that's either going to be something you need just doesn't have some none of it comes a volume seller, but like a car that was popular and has been popular for for many years.

Even though you're not making a lot of money on them, at least you're getting you're getting foot traffic in New Zealand in your dealership and you're making money through spare parts and through servicing. So.

Yeah, I feel like a middle aged mum will hire.

It's like the car to be in. It's a good car.

Then that being said, as a man in my 30s going to work, I was driving that thing. I was a happy as you know.

Yeah, great. Happy as a clam.

Just I'm getting what was it? We got down to like 5.9 litres

per hundred KS and I was like driving to work in, you know, work traffic. Yeah, it's a good time.

I think the reason the real reason they stopped bringing them in with the 4th Gen was that they were going to be so expensive. That car in the UK is is nearly

$40,000 Australian new. Jeez.

It's well into the 30s and yeah, there there was just no business case for them. Well, interesting though.

I mean everything else has moved up.

I mean the Yaris, you know they are Yaris now only comes hybrid and that's well into the looking for, for Yaris.

That's why you see so few of them on the road now.

But even like the the what was the other thing that was, well, let's go to Fabia. Like that's that was that there

was another car as well as the Polo on the Gulf.

They've all moved upscale and they've all moved up in price.

So the Jazz would still compete. Interestingly there is some

current model Jazzes that we never got coming in now as grey imports and and in the low 20s, you know, so as a used car that I reckon they're Ripper value. Absolutely awesome value and and

that's why I think the Honda made a big mistake, even if they weren't making a lot of money on them, but they they were so popular and they had a loyal following.

That's right. You know, and yeah, I'm, I'm not

impressed, but also I think to us as consumers shot ourselves in the foot because, you know, the job between an FL 5 and an and an FK 8 was what, 15 grand or like 9:50 to 15 grand, I think. And everyone was complaining,

oh, who's going to pay that? But but during Covad, people

were paying 10 grand over like they were paying well over, you know, market value. And then I think the companies

got greens. Well, if they're paying that

during this time, let's just make the cars that price.

And I think that's what shot us in the foot.

Genuinely. I think people like the dealers

are, well, the companies are. Saying, well, if, if that's the

case, if they were happy to spend dealer markups and, and you know, more in the, in the used market scrum, we'll, we'll make them make sure they pay more in the, in the, you know, for the, for the next model. And, but jumping by like a big

jump, not like a one or two grand jump.

Like these are 10 thousand $15,000 jumps.

So, yeah, I, I think we, you know, as consumers hurt ourselves. But also I think I think that's

a pretty dog act, to be fair. And yeah, I wasn't impressed.

But yeah, the Honda bring back the Jazz because it has got a good following and I think, and I think it would still sell.

I I genuinely think it would sell, but who am I to say?

I'm not marketing head of of Honda Australia, so.

Nor am I. No, but I think we're at a green

state with that, that it would be competitive in in the market definitely it would be. Now, it certainly would be now,

I think, yeah. Absolutely.

Moving to the D Max, I'm going next.

Which you don't own. Yeah, I don't.

I don't own any cars. What's that moving?

On I was just involved in the buying decisions here we.

Go. So this was the DX terrain,

which I I don't know if it's still the Top Model because I don't know where the blade sits in this.

I don't know if the blade is now the top dog due to its off roadness or whatever. But the X train of the time was

the the big dog and I guess it's just it was the more the most pavement Princess of the dudes in a way.

Yeah, it had like your day to day features, but stuff like a rolling, I don't know. I don't even know the

terminology anymore. Target.

The the cover. Oh yeah, yeah, the tunnel or

whatever. Yeah, that's like rolling steel

1. So it like kind of backs up

there. That's pretty cool.

Where's my family friend who bought a he'll say Ranger Raptor didn't even get that. Oh, really?

Oh, yeah, It's an optional thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there I was, pretty happy

with that. Like my my next level buys buys

I cannot fall. Cannot fall the I think the

packs we got on was like the tow pack so it just came with your tow ball and connections for a trailer.

Did I come with a transmission cooler too?

No, I think that might have been I don't know if that was offered or not, but the basic pack was just yeah, your connection for the trailer and your your tow hook and then just other little I guess bits and pieces extra was just the I got rubber floor mats, but I'm like in the off chance, you know, I'm in the great outdoors. I don't want to carry mud into

mud until me meet me ties in days that I'm wet.

You know, I appreciate it. Yeah, the, and then the.

I know you like these, Maddie. The little things on top of the

window, rain guards or whatever. Yeah, the the air, what they

call the. Visors.

Yeah, yeah, correct. Over the windows just so you can

crack them open and get some air in without the rain.

My dad appreciates those. I, I think they cut out the

windows personally, but you know, there's the company card for the old man. So got those as an option and I

think what they were offering but they weren't offering it on the spot was the tailgate unlocking with the the key fob so along with the rest of the car.

How is that on a manager? Yeah, I don't know.

This was I guess during the COVID times of like, I guess we, we charge supply, supply, whatever.

And then soft tailgate opening. And basically I was told they're

like, look, we don't have that available.

You can probably get it done at your first service or something.

That's when we'll have stock. And they kind of gave me, I

think they were bullshit prices for both.

I think it was like 600 bucks each for each item.

And I looked online, I'm like, I'll probably just do it myself.

It's not that complicated. But I just haven't gotten around

to it because I'm lazy. I barely open the tailgate.

So, you know, it doesn't really matter when I do.

If it's unlocked one day when I find a dead body in there, then I'll be like, all right, I gotta start locking this thing until then, you know, it's it's fine. Yeah.

So those those were kind of the options I went with.

Yeah. Nothing extravagant.

The paint we went with. My parents love white, but you

always want to go for the, you know, Pearl lesson white.

And I'm very happy with that. You know it, it stays clean

enough, it doesn't show up to scratches as badly as something Blackwood. Having a look at their colours

scheme right now, the only other colour I'd possibly get is maybe the sunset orange mica. Never mind that colour too.

A couple of yeah, that's not bad.

Do they come? With the black badging.

Yeah, yeah. So that that looks all right.

Maybe one of the grey colours, but probably not.

I think I'd just do the white or the orange, the Blues.

The red's terrible, you know, That's my opinion.

Of course. I'm with you on your own.

Yeah. So, yeah, pretty.

That's pretty well kind of the optioned car we got with the STI, I guess because we bought it through a buying service.

There wasn't that level of like, oh, here's your options, whatever you want. I looked at a few things, but I

got the premium rather than the Spec R.

The only difference between the two was ours.

Sorry. The Recaro, the Recaro's and the

spoil. The Spec R automatically came

with the big spoiler. The premium didn't, but they put

it on there anyway. So, you know they assumed I

wanted it even though I said I don't want it.

It's just the requires. And while the requires look

nice, they were predominantly Alcantara in the middle.

And look, I haven't to be fair, I haven't owned an Alcantara, you know, car with with the interior.

But knowing what I know about Alcantara, if something, you know, rub your ass on it every day, that's not the best material. At least you know it's not going

to wear the best. And last and last, I'm sure if

you had somebody as also today, we're taking care of it every day, which I can't afford. It'll probably last a bit

better. But you know, he could touch up

anything that immediately went wrong.

But you know, I can't afford to have data on hand yet.

You know, we'll we'll see what's what's tight.

Tesla says yeah, absolutely. You know, it's probably me

losing 30 bucks, but still American Dream just yeah, like if it's my intention was this car would be a daily these days.

Since it's not daily, maybe I should have gone for the recarors just like yes, I've got the aspect or spec, whatever it is, but you know, I'm not that bummed out because the premium has like, you know, your sunroof and all that jazz and the heated seats and everything. So it kind of.

It's an isolated car. Yeah, it's kind of does what I

needed to do. I would have wished that there

were more options with wheels. I'm pretty sure there wasn't

really anything going on. Like nobody of all the brochures

I looked through, there's nothing really for wheels.

The dealership I'm pretty sure had their own kind of wheels that were going, but there were more for other cars rather than this. And I'm like, I guess they want

to just run the, the flagship STR wheels, whatever they are.

They look terrible to me. But yeah, yeah, the apart from

that, there was like weird little options like the Start Stop button if you want it to be in the STI kind of red room pink. That was like $380.00 for that

was like, I, you know, I think I'd stick with the standard Start Stop button. Yeah, it's ridiculous.

If you wanted a more STI gear knob than the already STI gear, that was also like 250 bucks at least.

Geez, really? Yeah, there was, there was

ripped those dumb things in there, like a little extra flap that comes out of your boot so that you don't.

Hit scratch. You scratch.

I'm like. Or you could just lift up

something and put it in properly.

You know, don't be a Weiner about it.

Just lift it up with your hands and put it in the boot.

Not that hard. Not that hard, Yeah.

Yeah, agree with my my Mugen brake booster sock.

Yes, yeah. Breakfast.

So I like that. Oh, you could get specifically

STI. It was the STI oil filler cap

and that was like 70. Yeah, they're not cheap.

Yeah. $7080 for just the cap. Maybe there's some fitting

charges in there. Outscrew the old one and put the

new. One on that's an older layer.

And I don't know if there's a old one that was also similar, I'm sure there would be. But yeah, nothing.

Nothing really struck my fancy there, so I just kind of, yeah, got the car as it was and yeah, just got my own tinting done because, you know, I don't trust dealership tents.

Not that there's anything wrong with it.

It's easier to have your warranty with your own independent guy. It's a lot easier that way.

Yeah. So that was kind of.

There you go. Yeah, I never get a dealership

coding because it's seldom done properly.

Yeah, it's seldom done properly. I.

Think it's not for the car quiz? Oh yeah, Like did we go through

your cars? Many.

Yeah, you just did the typhoon. Yeah, we did the typhoon stuff.

Just the typhoon. I don't know, I'm like, I was

waiting on like many, I got a lot of.

You guess the Fiesta is the Well, yeah, like.

Delays with my dream spec SR2, but I wanted to eat in that, that really bright blue. That's that's the colour for me

that that I forgot the name of the colour.

It's yeah, they're really metallicy light, light blue.

That was like. It's the one I posted in the

chat. Yeah, it is.

Yeah, that colour, yeah, that's the colour I always wanted one of those. They did come in like a dark

foresty green as well in SR2. So but and green is my favourite

colour, but I still would have taken the blue over the over the green. But I'm happy with the black.

Never buy a black car again, but I'm happy with the black.

I would have got the SR2 floor mats and I would have got option with the factory 6 stacker CD player, but mine's an early Sr 2, so the first few cars didn't come with six stacks.

What else would I put on? I think that that's but that was

pretty much the only things you could put because that came with everything that came with you know, Abd ABS or all the good stuff. So yeah, happy with that.

The Fiesta, my colour, I wanted mean green.

Everyone was like, you're an idiot, why would you want that colour? I'm like, it's going to look

great. And then I was like, I actually

talked myself out of it at one point.

I was like, I was like, what am I doing buying a green, bright green car? But yeah, definitely worth it.

I got a little bits of pace I wanted for it.

My carbon 5 beginner which I got as a as a genuine carbon 5 butt was only $80. That's pretty good.

Not not in comparison to what the STI.

What STI want was 2 about 300 bucks you said. 280 or some

shit. Just for that sticker.

Oh yeah. Far out.

So you got a factor in labour, you know they're gonna unscrew and yeah, she's. Yeah, out of the boss.

What a joke. No, if that was like $300.00

said no, but because it was like 80, like $83 fitted or whatever it was, I was like, yeah, well, you know, why not?

And they gave me my original 1, you know, you know, in the box and everything. Well, there's the gear knob.

David Prince. There's the gear knob.

I've got that as well. Actually, that was that's ¥7700

so. Not too bad, not too bad.

Yeah, I got I got my my rubber mats and original and original because they they came factory with the standard floor mats that they they came part of the car.

I would have liked to have had the the sensors and that was supposed to come with the car, but that that didn't happen.

So I've I've kind of yeah, let that one slide.

But yeah, I would have also liked to get the pan roof, but they they discontinued it with the update.

So slicked up for me. And I think that's better

because, you know, they do rattle over time and they carry on and yeah, not great. So no happy with my spec on my

Fiesta. I think that's, it's, it's

perfect for me. Yeah, I think that's I think

that that covers me. Gentlemen, moving on to the car

quiz now. Tonight's quiz master is Mr.

David Prince. He organised the quiz last week.

I agree. And now I I obviously did the

quiz last week and and and shenanigans and bastard laming what was called. Oh would you look at that, you

can buy a genuine Subaru WRX sedan STI.

So it's not actually for the STI, it's just branded STI.

Cherry red push button, start button for a model year 23.

Save $50. It's 298 plus postage.

You can put an STI Start Stop button in your WRX.

There you go guys, you heard it here 1st and you're saving 50 bucks at the moment. Yeah, exactly.

What a bargain. What a bargain.

Not even fitted. Not even fitted well.

David Prince, the floor is yours, you may take it away.

You know the rules. 10 questions plus some bonus questions I'm

assuming. There's some bonus questions

included. There are.

There's some question about new cars, there's some questions about Australian cars, there's some questions about European cars. There you go.

Bit something pretty, Allen. All right.

I'm not going to get anyone before Maddie, but you know, thank you, David. Here we go.

I appreciate the the sentiment. The variety.

All right, question number 10, you're happy to score for me.

Got it already done for you mate.

You're a legend. Question one What was Holden's

first turbocharged offering to the market in Australia?

Matthew, was it the Piazza Turbo?

Correct, one off the board already.

Bonus question, what was the Piazza?

The production? Oh sorry, the Piazza?

The Holden Piazza was the production version of what Jujaro design? It was quite well known at the

time. It was very, very close to the

concept car. So I'm not I don't understand

the question. Is it?

Is it What Car it was based on or what what it was?

Well, it was basically it was a Jujaro design by the Italian designer and the name of that design of that car that had a name Jujaro had given it a name. It was one of four different

designs, but this car that were all themed and it was had its own individual name and it was quite well known as that car by that name by the name of the design.

You I'm, I'm, I'm going to get this wrong.

Was it the impulse? No, incorrect.

OK. No, I got nothing, Scott.

Yeah. I have not.

What's a jar? Jar is a designer.

Is it like the wedge design or something?

Or, very well, no. Good.

Good guess I see where you went. Well, here's a little boomer

update for you. Oh no, I can't say that.

I can't. I'm not allowed to call myself

that. Yeah the but sadly I'm that old.

So Jujaro designed 4 cars and one was called the Ace of Diamonds, one was called the Ace of Hearts, 1 was Ace of Club, and the Piazza was very well known at the time as the Ace of Clubs. So that was the third of what

was to be 4 designs. All were themed around the four

four Ace cards and they actually never did the 4th 1:00 but they only got 3 in. But yeah, Ace of Clubs was the

the Piazza didn't. Know that.

Very cool question 2, which is also related to this, so good luck. The Piazza wasn't the first

Japanese car designed by Jujario.

What was the 1st? And I'll give you a hint given

given the the the give them the question.

It was by the the same manufacturer.

No, it's I'm trying to think of the the name of the, the, the car. It was between German.

It was between Gemini and that. But we will obviously we never

got, we never got this as a Holden.

Well, we we never got it in general.

It was we never was just it was just an Isuzu, forgot the name of it. We saw we saw one in Japan.

David completely blanked on the name and.

Answer the question. I'm moving along, Sir.

I haven't even buzzed in here but I I know I'm I can.

Well, think for yourself, he produced.

So, David, are you saying that there was another car by Jujaro?

Yes. On another Japanese car.

Yeah, it was another Isuzu. It was actually, it was actually

the the forerunner of the Piazza.

Can I guess? Yeah, yeah, Chime in.

Was it? Oh, I'm not it.

It wasn't a called a debt, was it?

So called a a. Cadet.

No, no, no. That was the tea car, which was

originally Yep. Matthew, it's not called the

coupe, is it? Oh, I'll give you half a point.

OK, well, got it. No, no good.

No. OK.

It was the 117 coupe. Yes, there was 1 man.

Last year too. Yeah, I thought you might have

got it. Pretty pretty car.

Gorgeous car. Gorgeous car and like most the

the early ones had featured round headlights, though they looked a bit like a Fiat Dino Coupe, who coincidentally was also designed by Jajaro. But then they upgraded and put

rectangular headlights. Not nearly as pretty, but that

wasn't as good. And then the Piazza came out.

OK. All right, let's get off Italian

designers, shall we? From the last century.

Question 2. Which Aussie car was available

in a Cartia edition? Matthew.

Matthew. Cartia, that would be a fair

land or Ltd. Sorry LTDLTD Fairline Ltd.

I'm screwed myself. Yeah, I know.

Final answer, Matthew. Ltd, It's an Ltd it is.

Correct ZFCLTD. FCLTD, correct?

Yeah. Bonus question, what was what

was different about the interior of the car?

That's going to test me now, Matthew.

Artia colour schemes, Matthew. Is like a like a it was like a

cream leather interior. Like everything was that colour,

like that cream, that cream colour.

I'll give you half a point for that.

I'll take that. No one else.

No one. Oh no, sorry about that.

It was actually it was champagne, but I'll take cream.

The colouring was champagne with burgundy inserts.

Inserts, yeah. So it was all campaign with

Burgundy and you got the Burgundy Cartier key case and you've got the Cartier. Just something else, I'll call

it map pop map, map wallet thing that went in it.

They're all gold and they I think a handful of silver ones, but they all had this champagne and Burgundy interior.

There you go. That's a piece of Australian

history that can't. Right, you might.

Try history mate. Is it cart has in the watch?

Sorry, say again. Is the car yeah, is in the

watching is that was? How do you watch company?

Yeah. Yeah, but.

It was more than the more than watches back then.

It was also clothing line and yeah, real high end sort of fringe thing. Because the brochure, I've

actually got the brochure. It'll be one of those drawers

that I can open the garage. They must, they must be Cutty on

the front of it. And then that's, yeah, they're

all gold. At least Sport Australia's

getting desperate. Anyway, moving on.

Well, then of course it's spawned the the Carlos and Patty laser, Yeah. Correct.

That's the one. That's the one we all know and

love. Let's be honest.

We'll know and love. OK, question number three, you

probably won't know the answer, but you might be able to guess.

Speaking of obscure limited editions, the VC Commodore saw the release of the four cylinder engine.

So that was basically the six cylinder engine with literally 2 cylinders cut off and it was called the Starfire 4 or the Misfire 4 as most isn't it? Shitfire 4 I've heard as well.

That's yeah. That's right.

So yeah, the, the, yeah, the VC saw the release of the four cylinder. It was a limited edition sold

through Melbourne and Sydney dealerships called the Metro.

It featured automatic transmission, air conditioning, some pinstriping, a little Metro badge.

What else did it come with? Think of the time that would

have made made it fit fit for purpose.

Mature. Alan.

Well, Alan got in first, I think.

Did it come with an umbrella? Close.

No, I tried. I'm going to say a map.

Correct. Really.

A map. It was sold through the

Melbourne and the Sydney dealerships.

So you got a Melways if you're in Melbourne or a Sidways if you're in Sydney. There you go.

I. Was gonna actually, I was gonna

say a map pocket, like some kind of map pocket.

And I was like, no, I'm gonna go map.

Good guess. Oh I was literally just asking

what? Like if it was an accessory or

something like. I was trying to understand the

question a bit more. Oh sorry mate, it was a street

directory came with it. Oh, right.

Through Milk Sydney dealerships like some, they either got a Mel ways or you got a SIG ways. Yeah, nice.

But only in the 4 cylinder. Suppose it gave you time to read

it. When you can be broken down a

lot, right? Yeah.

Or getting from place to place very slowly.

Yeah, OK, that must make us up to what's that #5 Question 5.

All right, let's move on to something more current.

The venerable Kia Cerato is no more.

What has replaced it? Chad.

Chad. EV3.

Incorrect. Matthew.

Matthew, the K4 correct name, but yeah that Korea K 4 is the Cerato replacement. OK, next question.

The Pole Star 4 has recently been released.

What conventionally accepted design feature is missing from it? Jeez, alum.

Alum. Side mirrors.

Oh, good, good guess. But no incorrect.

Not me. Literally anyone who's been

talking about this car has been talking about what is.

Matthew, Chad. Chad, Chad, you got it.

You. Got no, No, Matthew, you got it.

A steering wheel. No, no, not.

That's incorrect, Matthew. OK.

Well, I don't know, Chad. It's a rear windscreen I

believe, correct? What the hell?

Yeah, it's just got a camera. Jeez.

Rewindow. That's correct.

I think, I think Polestar is one of those companies that nobody cares about. Like genuinely like no one

cares. Remember that stuff we did with

Volvo? No, no.

No if. You're.

Talking you're cool. Polestar still cool.

Polestar still cool. If you're Polestar, do you think

that would be under Volvo or above it?

I think below because like Volvo still got, you know, contemporary design and you know, their stuff looks good and their stuff kind of works. Polestar, just like, I don't

know if they're trying to be different.

I don't know what they're doing. Yeah, they do absolutely nothing

for me. Like like 0.

I was in a Volvo dealership yesterday doing a job and I said I can't even keep up. I said what is that over there?

Is that a Polestar? And he said no, that's a Zika.

Zika. Zika is the discounter if you

like. Oh, Polestar.

Yeah, they're multi tiering now, but dare I say it, to my simple eye, very pleasing compared to a lot of the other stuff that we're seeing coming out of that part of the world.

You heard it first year. Next question, what significant

update has been floated for the 2026 GR Corolla?

Matthew, the automatic transmission.

No, that's available now. 20 Allen.

Yep, Allen hybrid engine Incorrect.

I did read that I know what this is.

I'll. Give you .5, I got .5.

Yay, he's. On the board, On the board,

ladies and gentlemen, he's on the board.

Now, by golf rules, I'm winning. So screwball.

No, no idea. No, I don't know.

Is the so just gonna? Start.

Is it gonna have like electric motor for the extra power?

No, that's incorrect. They're going to a bigger

engine, aren't they? Is that is, did you chime in,

Matthew? Well, I'm already out anyway,

but that's. OK.

Do you think Chad's answer chance answer?

I've I've tapped out, I don't. Know all right.

OK, They're replacing the three cylinder engine with a 4 cylinder engine and then going from 221 kilowatts to 260.

Huge. More competitive with the Civic

Type R. So we're going to sell it at

like 75 grand now, yeah. At this point, easy I'd say

yeah, yeah. Question 7.

What was Porsche's first water cooled front engine model?

Porsche's. Oh.

Matthew, it's a chat chat right now.

Was it a 12? And he said 928, I think he

said. No, not at all.

Anyone else? Matthew.

Matthew. Was it a 924 it?

Was correct, it was a 924. Bonus question.

It actually wasn't meant to be a Porsche.

Matthew. Oh, Matthew.

It was meant to be a Volkswagen. Correct, It was an abandoned

design by Volkswagen who were undecided as to whether to make it a Volkswagen or an Audi, but and then just shelved the project and Porsche said we'll have that thanks because it was their aim to replace that, you know, poor underselling little known car called the 911. Yeah, that's that's a crop car.

Let's let's move. Let's let's be.

Honest, glad they got rid of that.

Yeah, yeah, time will tell. That was probably not a great

idea. We're talking of nine elevens. 9

elevens. In 1978, Porsche released the

9/11 SC. What does SC stand for?

I don't know, Matthew. Matthew.

Sport Cabriolet. Incorrect.

OK, no, I'm not too sure what SC stands for.

It's supercharged. It's not.

Even though it's not up, there's hope.

The charged incorrect I'm never going to be asked to do the quiz again. I can see this is just this is a

disaster of unparalleled. No, David Prince, I've enjoyed

this quiz. Yeah, but he's really enjoying

it with his unrecoverable lead. That's not the key.

I haven't. Given a score check because I

felt bad. Yeah, good.

Keep feeling bad? I've played this, I've used this

car in like need for speed and stuff.

Is it something something Carrera special?

I'm going to go special Carrera. Or I'll give you half a point,

Scotty. Oh, you're on the right track.

Chad. I think it's up to you.

Sorry, what did you say? You're breaking up again, Chad.

Chad says something robot, robot, robot, something robot.

He's underwater. He's, I think he's lost in time.

I think we got he's going again. Oh, come back, Chad.

I thought he had it. Technology is wonderful, isn't

it, When it works? And when it doesn't work, it's

horrendously bad. Maybe Super Carrera?

Maybe quickly type it in chat? Sadly.

You. Oh, now you're back, you hear?

Me now. Yeah.

Sorry, guys, I don't know what's going on.

Is it special? No.

Sports cabriolet? No.

We've had that already. Damn it.

OK, special cabriolet. It wasn't a cabriolet actually,

no, Alan, you, you just said it, but you already had to go.

Sadly. It's Super Carrera.

Wait, I said supercharged so I get half a point for that.

For the Super part. Super part I got correct.

Think about. It give him half a .0.

Think I think. He's got to go half a point for

his Carrera. All right, All right, There you

go. Yeah, there we go.

Easy half point. That's teamwork, Scotty.

You got the Carrera, got the Super.

We got it. We got the whole thing right.

That's it. We win by default.

David Prince in disgust. Anyway, moving on.

You guys question 10. So I've already talked to my

Volkswagen Caddy on the show tonight.

How did the very first Volkswagen commercial to carry the Caddy badge differ from the current one?

Significant difference. Chad.

Chad. Was it based on the the Mark 1G

or Rabbit? It was, but what was different

about the the vehicle in itself? Oh, oh, Matthew wouldn't chance.

We'll get you'd have half a point because yes, it was based on the mark one. I know golf.

Yeah, not sure, Matthew. Matthew.

Was it a Ute? It was, it was a Ute Oh.

Yeah. I'll point I'll .5 it .5.

For that certainly mark 1G base. So it's been quite a while.

That would be that'd be 40 years.

Over 40 years now it's been. Yeah, hasn't been in a long

time. This had a long, it had a long

Ute bed on it. And there are a couple in

Melbourne, actually. They're very cool looking utes

actually very popular in the States.

That's it. I think that's the quiz.

Score check Alum on one Scotty. Winning my golf balls.

Just saying. Just saying.

Scotty and shout at 1.5 a piece and I'm your win at the time on

6.5. Hold on.

I'd like to thank David Prince for no collusion, just in case.

For a very also I say. You had a whole week, Maddie, to

look at the answers. There was none.

Stupid. We know what's up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at that.

Thank you, David. That was a good quiz.

Great. Some great, some great question

if I might, if I might challenging.

Thank you it. Was very challenging.

Yeah, it was good. It was good.

You're welcome. I think that's a podcast,

gentlemen, Let's. Do Santa quiz.

Santa quiz Let's do some plugs. Scotty's golf tip of the week.

Golf Tip of the week when you it's.

The part that everybody listens to, really like they're, they just for the whole show, just. And then the the really the car

loop. Yeah, Advert.

Oh yeah, that too. Yeah, that one's always fun.

I can't wait to hear what you're going to say.

Golf tip of the week. When you're hitting with your

driver, you're hitting up onto the ball to get the flight, so remember that. So you're kind of leaning back a

little bit. Your shoulders are tilted to aim

up so you get the height on it. Don't do that when you're

hitting with your irons. Why not?

Because you don't want to be hitting up because you won't connect the ball, you'll just end up topping it.

So you so you want so you want, you want distance not not flight is that. Kind of, well, because the

driver doesn't really have, doesn't really have loft to it.

So you're adding that loft to it with the T, setting it up on the T, setting that high and leaning back so you're swinging upwards into it. If you notice the the arc when

you're hitting with an iron, it's it's a lot different and you're hitting more, more down onto the ball.

So when you watch the golfers when they make a divot, that grass that they're ripping up is after the ball, not before the ball. Oh, really?

OK. They're actually coming down and

hitting the ball and then you're making the divot.

So your arc is coming down, hitting the ball, then divot and then up back up again. So let's go on.

I learned something new today, something new every week with your golf tips, Scotty, because I don't play golf, but I'm sure I'm sure I would go out and be better than Tiger Woods or.

Or dominate Bonnie. Dominate, but I've got a lot of

skills available. We will work in a box with a

Golf Club at work today. That helps.

Did you did you hold the grip that you?

That we did. We did.

Very good to hear our good friend Rizzy Ross.

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He is the man in the know. We'll get David anything you

want to plug today. Just your podcast, yours.

Is great. Thank you, David.

Oh nice. Man, you're too.

You're too nice, David. You were too.

Humble man. He's a gentleman and a scholar.

He's all the above. Chad's delivering, delivering to

a new place in the EU. You know, hit up our boy.

Chad all around, get it there. Yeah, he'll get it there.

He'll, you know, he'll. Well, we found out he does at

least 200 KS a day when he's when he's in the truck.

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