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Prince, Mr Chad The Bell. And tonight's special guest with

our good friend David Prince is Sean Pocock.

How you doing guys? Doing good.

Doing good. Thank you.

Good to see all your lovely faces, Zeal.

Our first one back, I think from well, no.

So second one back, I should say first one back myself back from Japan. We've got lots to catch up with.

We've got a special guest on the show.

He's gonna tell us a little bit about himself in his cars and, and, and you know where, where he lives.

Obviously they got different cars to it to what we have over there. We'll we'll begin with you,

Sean, nice to have you on the show.

You're a long time this night. You're gonna officially say long

time. This is the first time caller.

I know I was gonna say that, but it was like, yeah, I'm not quite calling in, but no, I'm a big fan of the podcast.

I like, you know, I've been listening for years.

So no, no, that's nice to nice to be on.

Thanks. Thanks for coming on mate.

Love. Lovely to have you on.

We don't bite. We're a nice bunch of guys.

Most, yeah. I mean, Alan can be debatable

sometimes because you would just call shenanigans on something.

Hey, I bring the very much appreciated Zing.

I think the spice. Spice, spice the spice the show.

Now Sean, I don't know if you've seen what, what we all look like, but I, I think you met, you met us all a while back on classic, original, classic night, Japan day where you where you came into MX5, I believe from memory.

No, no, no, no. I didn't come into the MX5.

I came in a a Civic Type R with David, but that's.

Right. But what was there without me

knowing was my old NA MX5 that I did not immediately recognise.

And David was like, do you recognise that car?

Then I was like, oh, that's a really nice NA.

That's yeah, that's really, that looks really cool.

It was. Yours.

Yeah, and it was mine, which is really, really nice to see.

So yeah. So I, I live across in Edinburgh

in, in Scotland in the UK. Like as I said, I, I had when

when we first moved over, I had a like David actually helped me buy a like a really mint. Was it 91 NAI?

Can't remember. What year?

It was 91. Yeah, it had.

No power steering, no air conditioning.

It was like base, base back what I really, really wanted.

And then I moved overseas and I was like, I'll probably only be over here a couple of years. So I left the car with with my

dad and then after a couple of years, like, oh, I'm gonna stay here. And I was like, I don't want

that car to sit in the garage. I want it to get driven and

stuff like that. So to David, like, yeah, kind of

like sold it on for me. I think it was Bunting's.

Motors actually. Was it bunting that they

facilitated? Oh, OK.

The arrangement, the organisation of that one.

Yeah, I I just was like, please sort this a mistake me, David, it just happened. But yeah, so like, and since

then, like, you know, it's been interesting to kind of the UK car buying experience is very different to the Australian car buying experience. Like cars are significantly

cheaper there. I think when we first moved

there, like after a couple of years, we bought a, a 2000 Honda Legend and I think it was great. Awesome.

Like just like beautiful car. I think we paid 600 lbs and this

was in like 2018. It's wild 1000 bucks basically.

But the thing was is obviously like in the UK, you need to get a roadie every year. So you're getting an MOT and the

next next year in the MOT was up.

It needed about 700 lbs of work. And then about a year after that

it needed a bunch of exhaust work and was like, Nah, let's get rid of this. I, I, I don't have to keep

fixing it. Then we had a, a Honda record

waggon. We had AI think a 2100 record

waggon, which is probably the the shit boxiest car we ever owned there. It was so rusty.

I bought it off this like young Polish guy and I was like I paid about a thousand 1000 lbs. I was like, oh, I just need a

car. I'll just buy it now.

It was such a nugget, but I really loved it.

I loved it like the I remember we had a massive hole in the radiator like, you know, one day when like my when like my wife was driving to work. It was like absolute nugget, but

I like I loved it. This is something about even a

crap Honda Accord Euro is a great car.

And then with them we basically have had a few cars since then.

But now I I currently drive a focus for a while I did yeah.

I had a like just a cheap focus. I then had a a Kia proceed GT,

which was a great car. I love a very underrated car.

That's yeah, it was a really good car.

Then basically my wife got pregnant.

I was like, I need a four door car and it was like, well, time for a dad waggon. So I basically bought a, it's a

Seat Leon Copper 290 estate. So it's basically a golfer like

a like a 2016 golfer, like a state like waggon, but in manual and only with front wheel drive. So they so like it was like, oh,

like manual waggon about 300 horsepower.

I was like, yeah, let's do it. So yeah, so that's my current

car now. That's what I drive.

And yeah, it's it's great. Yeah, it's cool.

There's all the four wheel drives, kids.

You wanted to. Oh.

It's definitely a little bit. You could tell they're like this

is. Maybe a bit line?

Borderline for a four wheel drive manual car, you're not winning, you're not winning any traffic like Grand Prix's in that car. But once you get it going, it's

great and it is really fun to drive.

I reckon it I reckon it's floors make it a little bit more fun to drive than the golfer like, but that's what I think anyway.

But but yeah, works. I can put all the kids stuff in

the back and when no one, when it's just me in the car, I can have a bit of fun and yeah, it's awesome.

Yeah, actually I really like those because they don't look as boring as a golf. They actually.

Got cool? Yeah, Put.

Things in the back. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, exactly right. Really.

First top thing. It's like, is this interesting

because the UK does have all the VAG like you've got like, you know, say at Skoda, kind of like VW and then Audi.

It is interesting to see like where everyone kind of like where it all sits. And interestingly, I was looking

at an Octavia vRS, but they were more expensive than the Leon.

But the Leon has been a Spect, so it has the front diff like, you know, it's got like it has heated seats and all the winter pack where all the Octavias were a bit more expensive and I guess most people got them with like poverty packs.

So yeah, it was, it was interesting.

Yeah, they're very, very underrated car, I reckon.

So like, yeah, it's a shame that Australia didn't get them.

But I was like, if I'm living in the UK I'm getting a manual waggon while I could do it. Absolutely, because like do they

ever offer the golf waggon here as a manual?

Because I've only ever seen dual clubs.

I've only ever seen orders. I don't think it was offered

anywhere as a manual in waggon form.

I don't think OK. What's disappointing?

So it's the same. Platform as a golf bar like a

golf waggon. Yeah, it's the exact same

platform, just without the all wheel drive.

Yeah. Oh, OK.

Sure. Yeah, well.

No, that's, that's, that's really cool.

They're a good looking car too. I I think, I think they look

good. Yeah.

It's, it's like they're where they've saved money in the golf styling department because they don't change.

They're spinning. They're spinning that's at say

Adam and and and Skoda. So it's interesting to.

It's also kind of nice. The interior is a little bit

more low rent and it like it doesn't have the like it's got the like you know, it's got Android Auto, but it doesn't have like it's all manual gauge. It like it's all manual kind of

it doesn't have the LCD kind of like you know, like Speedo and stuff like that, like all the air cons like buttons and things like that. It doesn't have any of the like

doesn't have radar cruise, but it also doesn't have collision assist or any of that. It's just in that like perfect,

kind of like before all that stuff came in.

But it still has like the the like adjustable suspension so you can put it in comfort mode and stuff like that.

To me it was that sweet spot. I think I paid for it.

I paid £14,000, so about about like 28 grand.

So I think UK cars aren't as cheap now post COVID, the price of things has, has significantly gone up and there's, there only been a few things I've been looking at here.

I'm like, oh, that's a bit cheaper in Australia now, as David has discovered when we've gone to some dealers and stuff like that when he's visited me. No, that's that's great.

Yeah. They're really, they're really,

really cool. If you ever come back, would you

Would you consider shipping a car like that back?

We were just talking about that. Yeah, I don't know.

I honestly don't know because is it rare enough?

Is that like, I don't know, Like, it's cool and I really like it, but you're gonna remember that, like, being like where I am, the, like, the salt on the road just eats cars and like, I really maintain our cars.

But like, I'd probably want to put a little bit of love into it before I send it over just to protect it.

And then it's like, so you can't get any panels.

There's no like, you can't get any panels for it.

Yeah. So like that would be there's

loads of them in the UK, like they sold lots of Leons, including like the the waggon. So I don't know.

I want to I really, in my heart of hearts, I really want to like import it back when I move back. But I don't know.

We'll see. Well, here's what you do.

It's a waggon. So you put the seats down, buy a

whole bunch of like panels and stuff.

They just put it in the back of the waggon, put it in the tipping Italian, just send it back.

Yeah, put it in the set of the headlights as well, because they're there's, there's bloody LED headlights and I reckon those would like completely die and like, yeah, 100% yeah.

Look, I think look, you've I think you've got a pretty cool car and it'll be interesting to see to see what you what you do with it. And so far been been a been a

good ownership experience. Yeah, it's been great.

It does do like, you know, Volkswagen anti group things where occasionally you're like, you know, why is the volume just going up on its own? Turn the car off and turn it

back on and it's fine. Or why do they like, why do the

parking sensors phantom detect things or stuff like that?

But other than like little bits like that, it's honestly pretty good. I think it like it's been also

like the the servicing of that kind of stuff when you're in the UK is dirt cheap like comparatively.

Yeah. That, that's the key.

That's why it's good to have one over there that that we.

I don't have the heat either. Yeah, I think the heat plays

Merry Hill with them over here too.

So yeah, you don't have to worry about that.

No, and and the thing like also like I I don't have the most unreliable part of that car. There's no dual clutch.

So like that's you know, like you don't need to worry about that, but I have I have read that the clutch is the same clutch out of the GDI. So it's not you gotta, it is a

bit weak from what I've heard, but it's been fine for me.

Like I haven't had any problems with it so.

So. So no 7000 RPM clutch dumps and.

Yeah, no, definitely not. That's just the way to make

noise and smells, yeah. Correct that that that is true,

but look with your car phantom detector things.

I think you're just not seeing the ghosts that are in the area mate. Like.

Well, hey, there's a lot of ghosts, a lot of ghosts in Scotland, so maybe you're right. No, it's good, man.

Well, thanks for coming on the show tonight.

We've got a few a few things to talk about.

One more and we'll circle back to ya.

We'll go around the screens. David Prince, you're obviously

in the same room. Updates with you, my friend.

How have you been and what's happening with your cars?

I've been pretty good, thank you.

Yeah, I've enjoyed living vicariously.

Having another trip to Japan through you and some of the photos you sent back. That was awesome.

Been to a couple of car shows I went to took the N1 to Born and threads shown Bayswater a couple of weekends ago.

That was that was really good. It was a JDJDM sort of focused

Born and threads are a screen printing, you know, T shirt company and they do a lot of stickers and that sort of thing over in Bayswater. And yeah, it was good.

There would have been well probably 50 or 60 cars there over the course of the afternoon.

I met up with some, there's a Victorian K club on Facebook.

So we we met up at the the one Turner Maccas and it was a pretty cool sight to there were about eight of us sort of headed there together. So it was about, you know, about

3 1/2 litres in total engine capacity and his cars zinging down mountain highway. It was, it looked pretty cool.

So that was fun. Some really great people in that

group. There was an S 660 and cool ST10

St 30 Suzuki van and then some little K truck, Sukis and daihatsus and stuff. So yeah, that was really good.

What has done car wise Magna? No, no, no, no.

That's not a thing, I don't think, no.

There's secret. Cars, we're not allowed.

Yeah, yeah, not loud, loud in there.

There's so many the the Integra's out of the garage, the Grand Prix Civics back in the garage that got swapped over in the dark of night the other night.

I actually saw it happening on my ring Ring camera so But often you get a car stolen from your garage and replace with another one. So Mitch has taken that, but

he's got hold of, I should say, dry ice blaster.

Oh, said it and I wanted to do underneath that car because it's a what is it a 30 coming up for a 40 year old car that's done 60,000 KS. So it would be pretty cool to

get it dry ice blasted underneath and because it hasn't seen much action in that car. So that would make it even more

special I reckon. The Accord did a starter motor

but that didn't really do it. Didn't stop, didn't leave me

stranded anywhere, but it just started to be intermittent starting which after you know 474,000 KS probably you're allowed to do a starter motor that's been pressed.

Sorry, but that's that's 100 and half that's.

With Sean out here and my daughter M and my grandson, they're borrowing the ZRV at the moment.

So my wife's been relegated to the accord to drive to and from work, which I haven't heard that she hey.

She hasn't said she had. Since it's 90s luxury, I like

that Accord, it's good car. It's lush, it's it's comfy and

smells like a 90s. It does, yeah.

It's got, it's got 90s on the smell, which is a kind of, yeah, it's like a sweet but leathery smell.

David, I'd like to debate your findings, but that's we'll we'll talk after the show, after the. Show probably best I'd say.

And I've got I've got a few other I've got other bits and pieces lying around helping out some friends with their car.

So what all will be revealed in along those lines probably next week, hopefully. Yeah.

So that's about me. Very good, Rob.

How are you doing mate? Oh, yeah, All right.

Just working. No, didn't have holidays like

you in Japan, but I'll be going there in two months, so yeah.

You will be. When are you going?

When are you going? So we're going in the 30th of

April, oh, sorry, March, March, March, and we're staying there until the 12th of April. So we're going to the Grand

Prix. Yes, no, it's.

So Harley and I are we're thinking about driving.

What do you reckon guys? Driving or training at home?

Absolutely. Yeah, that's what I thought.

So we're driving it. So we're going to leave my wife

in Tokyo with suddenly I go down and we'll catch up with her in Osaka a couple days after that. Yeah, Yeah.

The easiest way it's trained down to are you going to have a rail pass? We just.

I want. To hire well, I think we can

just hire a car and drive I'll. Hire a car in Tokyo.

I was going to say it's easy to hire one in the Goya and then just head down from there, but from the station.

But yeah, I mean, yeah, it'll just take a bit longer on the highways and the toll roads and stuff are pretty not cheap.

But if you get an ATC card when you hire the car, I'm sorry, Mehdi, you can attest to this. That's probably going to be

cheaper, isn't it? Yes.

So you just get like the the rental places will do your ETC card. You just pay it at the end of

your at the end of your run. Yeah, right.

Cheaper than the phone passes. It's true it worked out.

I mean the like, obviously renting the car wasn't cheap because we we took it from one place and dropped out another.

But it was invaluable because we just get in and go and and go for a drive and then go go look at different towns and different. Freedoms.

Good, yeah. Yeah.

So, so, yeah, if you want to do that and explore, it's it's like as good as the bullet train is, you can't stop and explore different things. What's that?

You can just stop and pull over, You know you've.

Gone past it 300 kilometres an hour it looks like.

It's a bit hard. It's a bit, it's a bit hard.

So, so, yeah, well, it's exciting, Rob.

So, so in in just in just over a month, really.

Yep, Yep. So I'm looking forward to that.

So we'll be just yeah, touring around.

We're going to go to Disney Sea and a few other things and Universal and because they want to go there.

So we'll go there. But we'll try to get to some of

the the, you know, some of the car museums and whatnot and a couple of the sort of events throughout Tokyo.

If we can find something, have a look around.

Went to summon ATS. That was a disaster.

OK Flew in on a Friday night and they delayed a plane so they basically by the time I got to Canberra all the car rental companies are all closed which I booked my car through.

So I had. The car and I booked the hotel

right out of town, which cost me 100, almost $100 to catch a cab, $79. Anyway, so got to the motel, got

there that late, couldn't get into the motel.

So this is on a Friday night. I'm out in the sticks and I say

got into my Uber app and there's an Uber around.

So I caught an Uber back into town that was $30.00.

So it was a bit cheaper. And then I stayed with my son

for for the night and his mate. And so finally in the morning we

had breakfast and went out to to the summer Nats.

We caught another Uber out to Nats and Harley and his mate had a their wristbands from the day before because I was there Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and so they walked straight in. So I had to go to the back of

the queue and the queue was probably about 800 metres down the entrance gate. So half an hour went by, an hour

went by, an hour and a half went by.

Two hours, 2 1/2 hours to get into the gates.

Oh my God. Yeah, it was ridiculous,

absolutely ridiculous. One gate on that side of the

show grounds. Well, they've got other gates on

the north side and the east side and well, I think I was on the West side where the main gate is, where the trams go to.

It was just crowded as. So basically, that's great.

So finally got in, had a look at all the cars and went through all the different, different sharp sort of displays and whatnot. And then I thought, well, it was

about 3:00 and I thought I'd better start heading back to the airport because I only went for the day because I had a free air ticket. So I'll, I'll leave a bit

earlier, get to the airport, cancel my flight.

They delayed my flight anyway, so it wasn't until like 530 before I got on the plane so I could stay there and that's longer and I was rushing to get out of there, rushing to get a cab back to the airport and or Uber.

But anyway, so just turned out to be a real shitty weekend.

Yeah. And it was.

Look, it's really if you're not displaying a car or if you're not right into it, it's sort of, I think after 5-6 times it's just sort of same old thing. I need to sort of swap it up a

bit, I think, or change it up somehow.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so I did that, done a bit of work on the old F100.

Someone broke the door handle and I don't know if I tried to break into it or whatever. That broke the door handle on

the F100. So I replaced the door handle

from another F100, but I broke the bolts as I pulled the other handle off. So I had to make one handle out

of two parts. So I got the door handle all

worked and put that together and.

Then you knew a metal fabricator.

Gee, yeah, yeah, that's right. Don't know anyone.

So anyway I got that sorted out and put the door handle back on.

But the F100 wouldn't start for quite some time.

It was a starter motor. I had to knock the starter motor

in the past to get it started. So I went out and bought a brand

new starter motor and I thought jeez I'm going to have to get it out of the parking spot where it was at.

I thought it just tried a key and start.

It started the first shot. Wasn't it?

As it does. Yeah.

So and then I left the you know, I've done the door handle started again, kept on. It worked like effortlessly.

Like it started stopped all the time and I haven't started for like maybe 8-10 months and first shot Bang Bang in some gas too.

And anyway, so I didn't change the starter motor yet, but it's still sitting there on the floor.

So I'm going to have to change it, I think.

I mean, you don't want to take a risk, do you?

You never know. You never.

I might just take some tools with me and change it on the side of the road if it never starts.

Probably even have to crawl on though, yeah.

Which would be. It's high enough to crawl

underneath. So did that.

Been working on the old D430 to W210.

Someone wants to buy it but they don't want to ride worthy with it. And it's just a pain in the neck

to get a road worthy. And the the mechanic I went to

pulled the muscle on his leg. He was pushing the car out the

whole hey so he couldn't do the roadworthy and then the heater fan stopped working or the blower fan stopped working on the car. So I thought I'd better buy

another blower fan. It's actually the resistor that

controls the blower. So I ordered a new resistor.

I'll replace that and then book in the road with the road with you and get that done. So just yeah, little bits and

pieces of cars everywhere. Really.

Oh, I got ripped. Oh, big time.

I should have done it myself. I got the W112 Mercedes, the the

65 two door coupe serviced because through a so called reputable dealer, I won't mention their name, they quoted Stu stupid money to do a whatever it is AD or E service on it. I go, they go it's going to cost

you $1600. I said, Nah, not paying $1600 to

do valves and an oil change and spark plugs.

And I said don't do it. You go to what?

But they've already done it. I go, well, you know, so I

wasn't going to argue with him. I said that's fine.

Don't do anything else on it. I know there's other faults that

you've found on it and I knew I wanted to get the wiper motor done on it because the wipers weren't working and then the splines on it go or something. And anyway, I said don't touch

that and guess what? They.

Did it? They touched it, right?

So there was another thousands of dollars just to.

Do Wiper 1000. Bucks. 1000 bucks.

Wow. Yeah.

So 2 1/2 K later I've got a service and wiper and then the wiper blade's done from a reputable Mercedes repairer.

Wow. Yeah, you say The suburb

Doncaster, Oh. Yeah, what are you talking

about? Yeah.

So it's never going to happen again anyway.

Yeah, yeah. It's just I didn't have the time

be working right through Christmas and all that sort of stuff. I thought, you know, I just want

the car serviced. So I just want to work and basic

stuff, you know, just, you know, check the valves and all that sort of stuff and and do the plugs and whatnot.

And yet they charged me stupid money.

Yeah, it's. Ridiculous.

Stupid money. Yeah, you know, So yeah, it

won't happen again. We'll never go back there again.

I'll never recommend them. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so, but anyway, that was my experience with taking my car for the first time. For the mechanics, I thought I'd

do something a little bit different.

Not going to happen again. Do it again you're.

Trying to stimulate the economy. I thought, yeah, well, I've

definitely stimulated the economy, but broke my bank.

I'm bust. It's yeah, pretty.

It's amazing how costly everything is, you know?

I mean, my daughter got it. Guess what my daughter got?

She got a new car, OK. And it's her capital.

Finally clapped it the Cam chain was going she was everywhere she went was pretty bad. She I don't know how she limped

into the dealership with it, but she got $2000.00 for it.

What year was what year was that car?

2015 capsule. Capsule Capital, like I remember

when I kept what year was it 2000?

Sorry, how many KS did I have it?

Had 190,000. OK, shouldn't be doing that.

Anyway it was burning oil and then the Cam chain clapped it.

She always had a service but on the servicing interval she never got change of oil, you know sooner than the service interval so probably should have been changing between all the time.

But anyway, she tried it in for your favourite car.

My favourite car. Yeah.

That's a movable feast, Rob. We we'd need more information.

Is it a Ford Laser? No, no, no, no, no.

PSDSD. One you bagged a lot and you had

as a loan car. Oh.

I want to bag the laser. Oh, I've had some terrible cars.

This logo. Oh, NMG.

All close, you getting there? Haval.

Yes. Oh, no, no.

You got to have all jogging. You know what, I, I, I take it

all back because I, I've driven the new H6GT and it drives really well. So I, I take it, I take it all

back. But, but how about, if you're

listening, we're still taking our sponsorship.

Just just just putting it out there.

Is it? Is it a brand new Jolly on?

No, she bought it. It's it's an executive driven

car. Had 30,000 KS on it, so a year

and a half old, but they couldn't afford anything more.

Yeah, but I wanted something new with all the safety stuff in it.

And, and he's done a bit of research on it and, and he thought that was probably the best of the bad luck that that that they could afford. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They got a good warranty and

everything, so and they. Yeah.

It's. Still a six year remainder of

the warranty or 5 1/2 years, whatever it is, you know, and she loves it. The daughter absolutely loves

it. So that's all.

As long as she loves it and she's happy.

Yeah, with it. What I'm saying, so yeah.

So that's pretty much it with the cars.

That's good, very good. Scotty Doe.

Actually, wait, you've got a big one.

We'll come back to you. Need to last.

We'll go, Alan. Now I was just trying to think,

was our last episode before I went to Tassie or after?

That's a that is a good question.

It was the week before. It was the week of the.

It was about the. Bournemouth.

January, I think, wasn't it. January might have been.

Don't miss that one. Just before Scotty Maddie went

to Japan, I'm. Just trying to think, Oh well.

I think, yeah. I don't know if you'd been here.

I think I think you were. You were heading over from

Emory. OK so I'll do a quick recap on

that. I was lucky enough, I'm going to

say lucky enough because of the overtime to take some glass in the comfy truck to Tasmania. A trip that I would assume would

only take me 3 days. One day going, one day

delivering the glass and then one day coming back.

But the powers that be booked me for an entire week.

So I left on the Monday and came back on the Friday, which, you know, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

So, you know, I hopped on, I took, I took the old, I think it's a Hino truck. It's a medium Richard, not too

big now on the boat. Got on the boat, got seasick,

didn't puke. Luckily had had some ginger ale.

Got off in the evening, got to my hotel and then started my journey on the Tuesday and just had a bit of a, a truck road trip, you know, in, in the northern parts of Tasmania at the very least. So a bit of Devonport and then

Devonport to Launceston. Very similar to Mighty Carmods.

Then they just over Christmas did the the like, yeah, the Tasmania truck trip. Yeah, they, they stole it off

my, my workplace. So what royalties?

If you're listening, you know, I'm sure Abt's lawyers will be in contact now. But it was it was my first time

in Tassie and granted, a, you know, truck full of glass is not the idea of the ideal vehicle. It was still being sitting so

high up. It was a beautiful kind of

experience seeing the rolling hills and that sort of thing.

Definitely kind of geed me up to coming in in the future in something more sporty. We'll say maybe a little more

blue, you know, with some some pink badges on it.

We'll see. But that was a pretty good

experience, just, you know, being in different states, just work and also getting a chance to explore.

The gentleman at the Launceston depot were kind enough to lend me the company car so I didn't have to try to take take a truck to the hotel, which, you know, makes sense because it was in Launceston. We'll call it, I'm not gonna

call it the city of Launceston, but it was in Launceston Central. And that's not too friendly to

trucks. So they gave me a Isuzu T Max.

This one was I. Think the home.

Yeah, this one was, I think, one generation older than my current one. Not bad, not bad overall.

I can see kind of how the evolution has kind of gone through the DMX and how they've built up to a lot of more superior car. Yeah, excluding some structural

issues that occur when you put bull bars on them.

But I don't have a bull bar on wine, so it's fine.

So I went to the National Auto Museum, I believe it was David, I think the name. And you know, it's an odd place

to put the National Museum in my opinion.

But you know what, it was a nice museum.

I paid the entry fee, which wasn't too much.

Had a look, took a photo, took some photos of some lovely cars I had there, particularly ANSXI think was one of the one of the nice nicer items there. And I've got your book, David.

It's next. Next time I see you, I'll hand

that to you. So I definitely wasn't on the

clock when I was in that museum. But but if I was on the clock, I

justified it by getting Sharon, my boss, a nice little Honda Civic typer in blue. So if you check out a desk

matter, you'll see it touch the middle.

Yeah, yeah. Overall, pretty good day in

launch. The stay of the night took the

truck back to Devonport and there they once again were kind enough to lend me their company car.

Which ship box would be an understatement.

It was a Holden Colorado manual and to start it you'd have to like jiggle the keys in the ignition the right way or it won't start. Yeah, called.

Anti theft devices Device, yeah. Along with the menu Gearbox.

Yeah, yeah. And it was so sloppy.

So obviously, you know, safety, you always put your clutch in when you start in the car. You know, even if you think it's

not in gear, it's just a safety thing to do.

So anyway, put the clutch inside the car.

I waved the gear stick around and I'm like, Oh yeah, it's a neutral, Let it go. It stalls, lurches forward and

stalls. I'm thinking it wasn't in gear,

was it? That's how sloppy the shifter

was. It was in gear.

It just had that much slop to the shifter in gear.

So, you know, And then when I took it out of gear, I used.

To run it was you reckon this was like from the factory, sloppy or is this like seeing some things?

Look, it was, it was the company car.

Yeah, Yeah. So.

You'd see some things, yeah. I don't think I had more.

Yeah, like, I don't, I think it might have been around 290 or something on it, but those must have been 290,000 of the hardest kilometres a car's ever gone through.

Like, yeah. So once I actually had a

neutral, then the slop was, you know, really good.

So still, you know, a different kind of drive is always, you know, a plus in my books. It wasn't the funnest car to

park in the the hotel's, you know, underground kind of car park, but it would. Have taken you 10 minutes to

find reverse? Yeah, yeah.

I was like, is it anything? Just just figuring it out, Just

let the clutch out slowly. If it goes backwards, I know I'm

good. And then yeah, came back on the

Friday. Just once again didn't get out

seasick on the boat because I did what I coined a term, fatigue management. Some of my Co workers would say

I was sleeping on the boat, but it was fatigue management.

So that was kind of my. Was that both day?

Crossings. Yes.

Both day crossings. Yeah.

I think the night ones get too popular.

So, you know, and I would have been wary about how they were gonna pay me for the night because staying in the boat overnight. I don't know.

I feel that. That feels like work to me.

Yeah. Someone say I'm a union man.

You don't know. Terrible counts as work.

That's yeah, you're on the clock.

Exactly. So.

About the new the new fairies, the new spirit of Tasmania, Yes.

This stuff, aren't they? Because they're not too big.

The current spirit of the new spirit of Tasmania, the bond that built that was in was it Finland?

So they built in Finland. It was obviously too cold over

the winter. So right now the Spirit of

Tasmania is docked off the Port of Leith in Edinburgh.

So I can go look at it at home in Australia, I can go look at it in Scotland and be like, I saw it the other day.

I was like, holy, that's the new Spirit of Tasmania.

Yep. And you know why it's in in

Edinburgh? Because it won't fit in

Devonport. In Devonport.

Thank. You.

You've got to build a new terminal for it to dock or a new rental. Terminal.

It's not like the the draught or anything.

Yeah, it's right from the terminal.

What the hell? Yeah, yeah.

How? Big.

How big are they making this thing?

It's already huge. It's already huge.

Yeah, that's. Right.

But it's not like you. Oh no, we accidentally made it

too big, right? Like it's supposed to be a

thing. You know, if at least several

years in advance you see the plans.

It's sort of like saying instead of looking at the plans, they're like, no, let's just build it. And they see like, Oh yeah,

that's not going to fit like. Because I'm intrigued to see

what the overall dimension differences would be.

I I suspect it's got to do because the bird has to do a big old U turn inside the terminal area and that's probably where the the biggest problem might lie lengthwise.

Maybe, but I'm not a boat expert but I was just happy to be on the boat. This.

Isn't boat talk so it's yeah, sorry to talk.

Yes, yes, I digress. They they did politely ask

people to take off the turn off their alarms, you know, which they didn't. So I could hear the alarm

occasionally blaring from one car or another when the boat would rock. And then at one point I heard a

large thunk, like a container shifting and then hitting another container and I said, well, sucks to be that person.

Thankfully my truck was secure and I was actually the front of the line, which is also awesome. I was like, I think second in

line when I got off in Tassie and then first in line when I got off in Melbourne. So yeah, had a had a pretty good

experience with that. Apart from that, haven't really

done too much with the cars. I have been recently driving the

Honda Jazz to work. It's purely because my parents

are overseas and I thought try and get use out of all the cars and I've been enjoying it because you know, it's a nice little nugget, CVT and all. But it also gets you know, about

6 litres for 100 KS with the air conditioning on.

So, you know, I'm hoping to save a little bit of cash and then I like to park up next to Sharon's Type R I talk about how even though mines been in Thailand this talk, I've got the same energy. Without my wheels.

Come on, it has. The spirit of the type I got.

Give me tea. I've got the.

Spirit. Yeah, I've got the IV tech, you

know. Yeah, as a as a fellow like like

CVT Jazz owner, that's my wife's car.

I get a lot of Flack for that car especially, but there's something about a Jazz you're like pretty good.

Yeah. It just does good car things.

So like just nicely. It's yeah.

Love a Jazz? You know what CVT stands for

right Civic very true. So it is a civic really leap

down it's. Annoying.

I want to tell Charlotte. See, I was even generous to say,

hey, Sharon, you know, from 1 Honda owner to another, let's drive them back to back. And I'll be generous enough,

generous enough to to let you drive the the pinnacle of automotive perfection that is a Honda Jazz.

And, you know, I'll take on this manual thing of a jig you've got going on here, you know, with all this, you know, bawdy looking, you know, spoiler and you know, all this badging and everything else. Seriously, all you need to do is

put a red Honda badge on it and you gotta type up.

It's you. Don't wanna.

Do that. Yeah, exactly the same and.

We're gonna find a type up badge as well, just stick that.

Just cut the one off David's shirt and just stick it under.

Chad, updates with you, man. How you been doing?

What's been happening? I've been good, not like a super

amount of car stuff but I did manage to and get a little bit of work done on the bends on the weekend.

Nice. Oh good.

I don't know the panel at a bit done just prepping, you know slap some primer on Yeah, I was very surprised because I didn't start for about 8 months and it started just.

With no problem. Yeah, just slapped the battery

and it just off it went. So yeah, no, I'm very, very sort

of keen to get moving on it and, you know.

Due to the original colour, the is it, Yeah.

I'm keeping it well. I don't even know what the red

is called, but the red whatever the red is.

Red. Red.

Is this a signal red? Signal red.

That sounds right. Yes, yeah, yeah.

You guys know more than that. You're right.

Or you'd make it Soul Red like the Mazda the Mazda Red.

Yeah. It's like more like 10 times

more expensive. Than it is.

Cost of the car do you think? The red.

It's on four different layers, yeah.

What else? I did a little bit of work on

the Civic. I managed to work out what was

happening with the brakes. I put it down to a like a bend

control arm. So I replaced the lower control

arm on the right side and it seems to have eliminated the interference between the control arm and the rotor.

So seems to be good. I've just got to put a new mouse

cylinder in which is a bigger one from an Integra.

And also I need to get a proper portion valve, which just sort of like does the splitting between the front and rear brake lines. And yeah, should be good to go

and go out for a bit of a test at colder, hopefully.

And yeah, so did that on the weekend before it got too hot.

What else? Cars Otherwise, yeah, not much

really. Just been working and whatever

else, Yeah. Cool.

Yeah, Nice. You worked right through.

Yeah, I didn't have any holidays.

I just worked through. I just had like main days off

and. So is it just me or is the

traffic back to how it was now? It's.

Back to how it was, Yeah, it's definitely.

I I I found today still OK I. Really.

I found today fair. Or wherever I went into nuts.

This is a Melbourne thing, being away from Melbourne and you come back and you're like, man, everyone talks about the traffic a lot. Melbourne people who are

obsessed with the traffic. To be fair, having been away for

quite a few years, it is driving in this like Melbourne.

I know where the rest of the country, but it's so bad.

Oh, I didn't miss it and like it's driving slow and everyone is being crazy at the same time. It's.

Just it's a bad combination. Oh.

Man, like even in Japan, like Japan, in the heart of Tokyo, when I was driving, it was like easy, it was fine, it was fine.

There was like barely any traffic.

I'm like, what is? Why is Melbourne so bad?

I like, I have to get used to the speed cameras because in the UK, like basically you can't have a hidden speed camera.

They've all had big signs to give you a heads up.

And there's not that really many of them.

People say they're a lot, but comparatively, so everyone normally does about like, you know, like 10 miles over the speed limit, depending where it is on the motorway, you'll see people doing 90. As long as there's no police

around, like that's generally fine.

But coming back here, I'm like, Oh yeah, no one has like lane etiquette in Melbourne. There's no lane etiquette in

Melbourne. If you're if you were like on a

freeway in like somewhere in the UK and you're in the right hand lane and you weren't going at least 90, there was someone flashing you right at your bum. And like, but also like you come

up to someone, they'll nicely move over.

It's like it's like there are definitely parts of it that suck. Like like Rd quality is bad and

traffic around major cities is pretty bad in the UK.

But like the drivers like, yeah, I still consider it.

You consider it. Consider like, yeah, quite

consider it. Wouldn't be, yeah.

Not like the. I think we get the worst of all

of it. Bad roads, bad traffic, bad

etiquette, just all of it. The guy that hits your window

when he's Rd raging you. Yeah.

You can't break it. You censor that video.

Yeah. Why are they so I'm going.

To break it, yeah. Why are they so bad in Melbourne

in particular? I mean, I've driven all around

the world as well and I just find it so much better overseas than I do here. I think like, I think for a few

reasons before we get to Scotty I, I think, I think one, they didn't, there's constant road work and that and that constant Rd works is from their irresponsibility of not realising growth and didn't plan the infrastructure correctly.

So I think that's, I think that that's a bit of an issue. 2 Our

driver training is not, I is not as you know, high quality as as it is, yeah, but. But I did my 120 hours of

learner training well. Like what?

That was 100. I was qualified to drive, yeah.

Well, yeah, but like, but 120 hours for me, it's a bit of a wank because like you could do, you could do 400 hours, but if you're just driving around the block and you're not and you're not doing it properly, then, then, then, then.

Also, if you're being taught by your parents, they're not exactly the best teachers because they're just giving you their bad habits. Like, yeah, you know, the, the

level of entitlement I think is the biggest issue we face because everyone's like, no, I should be allowed to travel in the, you know, right lane. Even though I'm doing, you know,

they're like, I'm doing 100. You know, their speed on was

probably incorrect. They're probably doing 97 or 96

and they're like, no, I still should be able to travel there even if I'm doing 96 because you should be speeding.

It's like that's not for you to decide.

You know, if you're in the, if you're in the right lane and you need to turn left in the next 35 metres, you should have been in the left lane 150 metres ago, not right now.

So you cut across 2 lanes to turn left.

But the entitlement is just there here where everyone's like, no, I can do whatever I want.

You know, I'm going to cut across 4 lanes to make this exit because I didn't pay attention because I was on my phone.

Deal with it that. Is that is very much like a

Melbourne thing that like, yeah, I forgot about is people cutting over to the left lane from the right to get an exit.

I've seen that a couple of times.

But I do wonder if there's a part of like and maybe like because I've, I've driven like San Diego and the US, but never driven anywhere else in the US. But I wonder if it's like in

Melbourne, you kind of have to have a car or a lot of other places like Japan, there's got amazing public transport.

You don't necessarily have to have a car.

So if you don't really want to drive, unless you're really rude, you don't have to. Same in a lot of UK places

unless you're really country. And I was wondering if it's a

combination of like, there's not a lot of easy ways to get around most of Melbourne, like especially if you're in one suburb wanting to get to another.

Well, you got a bus and that's it.

So I wonder if that makes it like and it makes it worse.

I don't know. Yeah, I'd agree with you.

I'd agree with you on that a lot actually.

I think that I think that's a fair.

I think that's a fair, yeah, a Fairview of it.

But you know, all these issues like the, the immense traffic, the immense like the, the anger, the road rage, the and, and I'm going to call people out in dual cab Butte Stalham because like, because. Please do.

Please do. And no offence, but you all

drive like Dick heads like, like, like I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, they're cutting off like coming from the left and cutting you off, you know, like, you know, undertaking you and doing all sorts of weird stuff. Like it's just no wonder why no

one has patience in this in this country with even Melbourne in particular. Like I was always taught for my

like you talk about bad habits from your parents.

Like I was always talking for my for my dad.

Think your head, don't be a Dick head.

That that was his, that was his line.

Think your head, don't be a Dick head.

I'm like, OK, yeah. So, so, so don't think of the

car in front of you. Think the car, two cars in front

of that, you know, so you think in the head.

And I always thought that helped me.

But people don't do that in Melbourne.

Like, you know, they think, oh, let's put it for me.

Oh crap. Bang it again up the backside.

So, yeah, it's, it's, I think there's there's many variables, but definitely now because they're all this road work they're doing, because they're realising that, that, that they have to, because they, they, they didn't do it in the first go. It's just causing, it's causing

mayhem, it's causing more chaos. Toll roads, even taking the toll

roads pointless. Like, like you, you take, you

take the toll marine freeway, you know, in the morning, you know, through, through, you know, onto the city link.

You know, I don't know what you're paying a toll for because you're still bumping above the traffic.

Yeah. It's.

Yeah. So like, what's the point?

So, so for me, there's we've got some big issues in Melbourne.

If if, if, if you know, if you guys would agree.

But anyway, that's. There's a whole podcast in that

alone. The episode is just rants brand

people rant about driving. Just coming back, coming back

from Japan, I want to talk about Japan a little bit on this episode. But the efficiency they have in

everything that's incredible. Like the driving, the roads,

well, like you'd be going to some main roads and if they're like 4-4 lanes, you know, abreast and these are just roads in the middle of, in the middle of Tokyo.

Like I'm like, this is, you know, it might look like spaghetti, but it makes sense and, and and there's no traffic.

And yeah, just flows it. Flows like we we have we don't

have that here, you know, like at all.

And it's what was the mind. Oh, and, and but everyone,

everyone rubbing necks here like crazy.

And that's a big issue. And it's like accidents happen

on the other side of the freeway. 450 KS, 50 KS, all up

the road. And people on the other side are

still waiting because they're, they're, they're all stopping to have a look like it's just stuff like that that makes us so innovation. And but yeah, that's another

podcast. We'll, we'll, we'll touch back

on that. Scotty, I'll text you with you,

my friend. Me.

I reckon it probably needs a drum roll.

You can, you can just edit that in for me all right.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so there you go.

Just re boxes in. I'll get it in on this bit.

I got the gearbox in. It's.

Home. It fitted it's it's.

I just. Want to preface this by saying

that is an incredible thing that you've done.

Like like this manual conversion on your back in a, in a driveway on Jack stands, like, like Rob's going to be like, I've done about 10 of them. But but like, it's, it's no easy

feat. Like it's genuinely, you know,

it's impressive, you know, and you've done all yourself just watching a YouTube tutorial. It's it's bloody impressive.

And I, you know, like that's, that's pretty.

It's a very squishy spot too, so that doesn't help.

It's nice and cosy, Scotty, nice and cosy.

And it collects leaves and everything under there so messy.

Yeah. So I think last time I was

saying, you know, it just gets to a point and it just wouldn't push the rest of the way in. You know, I didn't know why.

So I actually ended up pulling out the whole gearbox again and taking the whole clutch off again and trying to centre that all over again. And I even thought maybe there

was some burrs on the spigot Bush or something.

So I even fixed and cleaned that off.

Even the end of the gearbox kind of looked a little bit not as clean as it could be. So I kind of sanded and cleaned

that so it would kind of slide in maybe easier.

Still didn't work. So I ended up, which a lot of

people will say don't do and fair enough, don't do it.

I got 2 longer bolts, put them on each side and started to just use a ratchet and see if it wanted to actually go in or if there was any resistance. There's no resistance at all.

I could just do it with a ratchet with one finger.

It was just gliding in nicely. So I thought that's fine, that

should be no dramas. You know, if it got really tight

and I'm trying and it's not working, then obviously it's not good to go in. But it glided in perfectly, no

resistance, chucked all the bolts on it, beautiful start of motor. And then I had to put the clutch

in. That was, yeah, a bit fiddly.

That was pretty painful laying on my back upside down, kind of half in the car and half out underneath.

That was. What could go wrong?

I was a bit sore the next day from that one.

I finally got the bolt up and in there too.

What else did I have trouble with?

It was just little things. Oh, the whole so the slave

cylinder and the master cylinder and the cable, it was all in one and I thought, oh, that, that'll be easy.

I'll just wiggle it down and get it all in there and stuff.

That wasn't as easy as I thought.

I thought, oh, easy. If I just pull it apart.

Obviously I couldn't pull it apart, was completely just like frozen. So I was like, Oh my God, OK,

this will be trouble. So I ended up just removing some

hoses in the engine Bay and it made it easier and kind of just dropped that in and wiggled that in and bolted that in.

And then the slave cylinder itself was, the pin was fully extended and I couldn't get it back in.

So I couldn't put it where it needed to go.

I was like, Oh my God, why isn't it pushing back in?

I ended up just slamming it on the concrete ground and I went back in. Obviously I undid the the screw

and everything that you used to. To.

Bleed it first. I did all that.

There's still a bit of dirty clutch fluid and stuff in there, but yeah, I was like, Oh my God, why is this not pushing back in?

So I kind of just went Bang Bang it tapped it on the ground and yeah, push back in. So I thought sweet bolted that

in and then I put transmission fluid in from the top because I couldn't get the filler plug off.

I get the drain plug, but I don't know what they did with that filler plug. Oh my God, I don't know what

tool they used, but too many ugga Duggars on that 1 I think.

But I mean, it said it used 2 litres and it's completely empty because it was supposedly rebuilt.

So I just put in two litres, easy as that.

And then and then I kind of left it as is because I don't have the speed sensor yet to put in there.

But doesn't matter because I just choose the speed.

I've got AGPS speed thingy in there anyway because the Speedo only works sometimes, not all the time.

So it wasn't a big deal. And then there's a, there's a

plug inside near the battery. It's just, it's just a 2 pin

plug that reads if the car's in neutral or not.

So I had to splice those together.

So all I did was just get a piece of wire and two of the little, I don't know what you really call them.

I don't know, I'm not an electrician or anything. 2

little thingies that just sit like the blades, the blade clips that just sit over on there. Put those together.

And then I thought, OK, is it going to start?

Because I swear it's probably been probably about a year since it started. So I just, I charged the battery

the day before, just sat it in there, checked the terminals on and then just wait because it's got this little blue key thing you got to stick in and then you can start it.

So it's like a safety crap thing.

Yeah, yeah. If you don't stick it in there,

then you don't hear the fuel pump white prime or anything like that. So I did that and then I turned

the key and I heard the fuel pump prime.

I was like, oh, sick. All right.

Obviously I made sure it was in neutral and everything.

Then I just turned the key off and then I tried it again at primed. I thought, all right, it's

primed. Here we go.

Started at bang first go. Oh nice.

Like it was started yesterday. It was just perfect.

Bang and off it goes. Idling fine.

No dramas. Yeah, I couldn't be happy.

I was absolutely amazed that I had no dramas and it actually started fine. So I was, I was pretty excited

that's. Brilliant.

Because I thought going through everything that I did and all the plugs that I've unplugged and part and ripped out and things like that, that there's probably going to be something wrong or you know, by now because it's been sick for so long. The fuel pumps probably screwed

up like it's happened before or you know, old fuel.

But no, it's kicked over, came to life and just idled fine.

I mean, there was no hunting or anything.

It just sat there perfectly. Can't drive or anything yet.

I just got to cut the brake pedal to turn that into a manual brake pedal. Then I can leave the clutch

properly and and it. Should go.

Yeah, and then I'm waiting on a new rubber, a new rubber boot and that for the gear shifter and also like a gear shifter cup or something they call it. Because I didn't know what was.

I knew it was missing something in there, but I didn't know what because you know, on the end of the shifter you got that little thingy that moves right on the very end, like this little wobbly piece on the very bottom and it just kind of sits in there into the linkage and that's all there was.

So obviously there was like this much play in the whole thing, Like I could move it from one side to the other like easily 10 centimetres and it would just wobble around the rear and then I could just pull it straight out.

And because I'm not, I'm not used to manual transmissions or anything, I haven't pulled 1 apart.

So I didn't know what I was, what I was actually missing under there. And the video that I was using

on the YouTube, he didn't show that bit or anything.

So I was like, oh, OK, I don't even know what I'm missing.

But I had the, I got the R31 booklet.

So I figured out that I was missing and that was yeah, what they call it. I might still have it on my

phone. I've ordered it.

It should come this week. I got it from, I don't know if

everyone uses them EFI solutions.

They're pretty good. A shifter cup.

Shifter Cup, yeah. Yeah, so I'm pretty sure that's

all that I was. I was missing this little, that

little piece there. Oh, the.

Shifter. Cup.

So that should go in there and sit in there and stop it from just moving everywhere. And obviously a new new rubber

boot because the other one was just completely disintegrating and I don't want the whole interior smelling like transmission fluid. No, you don't.

Definitely. Not doesn't smell the best.

So shall I count up the weeks to secure a picnic?

Well, if there's no other dramas, all I've that's, that's all I got to do, wait for those parts, put them in and just tidy up a little bit with some wiring that's just kind of hanging underneath. I just got to tidy that up.

Scotty, did you have to do anything to the ECU for programming or anything or? No, I can keep the auto ECU.

OK. Yep.

The only thing is that they say on D cell that it might kind of pull back a lot more and not kind of coast as much.

OK. Just to do with the fuelling in

it. Yeah.

But other than that, tonnes of people have run and kept using the auto 1 the whole time. OK, because the auto ECU itself

is separate. OK.

It's under the passenger seat so.

So that's why I had to splice those two YS together so it thinks it's always in neutral so I can start it.

Yeah, All right. So, so, so technically should be

good now like once you once you bleed the clutch, put that shift the cup in should be able to see if you've got clutch.

Obviously cut the brake pedal and you shouldn't be able to feel like you've got a clutch and then should be should be good times. Yeah, yeah.

So is that? Like the brake pedal, You

literally cut it with an angle grinder, Do you?

Yeah. Wow.

Because it's in the exact same spot.

Yeah. There's nothing different, it's

just it's smaller, it's the same size as the clutch pedal.

Yeah. Because I got both of the rubber

pieces and they're both the same size, same part number.

OK. OK, cool.

Maybe I'll just put a fire blanket under the under the pedal when you're cutting. Pardon.

Maybe put a fire blanket under the pedal when you're cutting?

Imagine setting fire to the carpet the.

Plasma cut it while it's in the car or something.

I know someone that's pretty good with interiors so.

Don't listen to this podcast before it goes to five.

It would be heartbreaking. I want, I want there to be a

podcast like at like Sakura Picnical Classic in your car.

I want it to be in the skyline. It'd be a beautiful mirror.

I want that to happen. You owe it to the to the fans,

the fans. Yeah, you're not.

They've been on this roller coaster and I can't believe they're still listening to me crap on about things not working. I was.

David So I was like, is the Skyline driving in?

He's like, oh, you've got some things to hear about that.

Yeah, some actual good news about it.

Scotty and Sean, well, Scotty in particular, the amount of listeners of the show that have actually, he's like, when is Scotty's car going to get done? Like they actually genuinely

asked me. So Scotty, your car's become a

bit of a bit of a cult hero on the show.

That and I think I think our viewers just were just, well, this is they will they will not want to listen to the show anymore after after the cars on the road.

Yeah, I I think you just realise how much of A roller coaster it is. An emotional.

You you picture everything in your head of how it's meant to go, but it just never turns out that way.

And there's always something that's either stuck, doesn't come undone, missing a part just doesn't work, or it's nothing is goes smoothly with cars. I think when you when you later

in the year, when you're teaching those Grade 6 kids resilience, I think you should play them a few of these new tasks. I'll tell you there's times and

you knew that there was times where I'd pretty much thrown in the towel. You know, I was like enough for

sale, stuff like that. Like I just, I've had enough of

it. Yep, Yep.

That's when I just have to step away and forget about it for a few days. I think the Tea Spring store

needs a Scotty Skyline T shirt to in honour of the occasion.

Absolutely, I'm gonna have. To and order the exhibition in

the bin and then. With the thumbs up.

I need you to take a photo for me so I can actually do that for you, all right? I think you should do a special

edition of the podcast when it's done just to celebrate it.

I think that in in the Law of the Car Talk podcast, I think that's that you should do it. I could record it inside the sky

inside. The sky, yeah.

It's just inside the car. He's just dropping us around in

it and we're just talking. That would be, that would be

cool. We're gonna, we're gonna do

that, Scotty. Do one of those Matty J ones

with the, you know, the Magna where you touch all the different parts. You can go through it again.

Yeah, yeah, the nude noises is Bundy.

Yeah, you can do the aerial. The aerial works.

It goes up and down the button. Yeah, it all works.

So you. Just be like this is this is the

sound of first. Yeah, this is the sound of 2nd.

I swear there better be no sound of grinding.

Have you tried like with the gifts like to have you tried been putting it again it's been going in or?

With the car off, yeah, and everything.

I just kind of moved it around in all the gears.

Yeah, yeah. Perfect.

Good. It just sort of makes sense as

you did it. Yeah, actually.

And then I put it in. Neutral and I do the whole

wiggle to everyone. You.

Have to do the wiggle. It's a record.

It's a. Record, but because it doesn't

have that shifter cup, the wiggle was more like.

You you had an alum deep. What was the Colorado

experience? Colorado experience, but my

shifter I could just like whoop, just come straight back out again and just lift straight out.

Who called it the Colorado collar That that?

Would make that would make sense.

Yeah. Not bad, not bad.

Yeah. Well, Scotty, you're so close.

I'm. I'm super excited.

I like, I don't think I've been excited for for a current channel for a very long time, but this.

You know how excited I was when it started and I quickly did that little film of it and sent it to you guys.

Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. Oh go on, listen to it it.

Lives. It lives, it lives.

That's good. It's good news, Scotty.

So I don't think we're far away now.

I'm expecting this weekend to have it, you know, at least moving under its own steam. Yeah, I should.

I've got the the bushing arrive today.

I just got to go to the post office and get that one.

I just got to wait for the cup part which I did express shipping and it was sent today so fingers crossed I might get here Friday. Nice.

Very good it. Was worth the three week wait to

hear that. Absolutely, Absolutely.

Is there a quick setup you can get for it and make it shift even tighter like? No, let's not worry about that.

Let's just get it. Let's.

Just get it working the the little bit underneath is plastic. The plastic bushing underneath

you can get a metal one supposedly from GK Tech.

And you didn't? I just want the bloody thing

running, but even if I did in the future, it's not that hard to pull that bit apart. Never happened.

It won't. Happen.

The shift's fine. I'll be like, it's all right.

Rob. Rob the Savage as he always is.

Of. Experience.

It just doesn't happen. I've got parts.

For. Well, I think you would have

been like imagining your RB30 with a with a massive dose pipe like on every VL. You would have been playing with

the and just like just like a little kid.

I could picture Scotty do with that too.

It's quite funny. Now I'm really excited Scotty.

I need to see a picture of it so I can I can make AI can make a T shirt for you. All right.

You will do. All right.

Joe So what's going on with you, Mattie?

You tell us A. Little bit, yeah.

Yeah. Going on with me, do you guys,

do you guys want the full story, which I mean, David Princess heard this story, but do you guys want the full, the full cut? I want to say Mattie J

Experience of Japan, Yeah. We need it J it's.

Experience. All right.

Well, so as you guys know, I'm not a fan of flying like I I'm yeah, I'm not the the best flyer, definitely not, can I?

Just say from experience I concur with that.

Yes, thank you. Yes, I I appreciate that.

David Prince. I I watched too much Air crash

investigation. No, I watched.

Yeah, I watched. Don't do it.

Yeah, too much of that. Snakes on a plane.

Snakes on a plane. Yeah, fucking plane.

Don't go away. Seriously, I come back 20 years

later. Anyway, so too much of that and

the fact that my dad told me like he's like, why are you scared for you? If you're on the sky, you're

dead anyway, like, but that didn't help anyway.

Like it's a typical, you know. Pessimist.

No, not pessimist, but he's a realist.

He's like, oh, well, if you if you're up there, you're dead anyway. Like what's the point?

Like just get over it. I'm like, well, thanks dad, that

really helps with my flying. I don't.

Think the crash has happened in the air.

I think it's normally the ground that.

Once you hit the ground. Yeah, that's the most the bad

part. I don't know explosive

decompression, you know you're. Playing, but they're playing to.

Feel it. I'm sure anybody watch civil

aircraft and crash investigations.

And don't watch Lockerbie. And then you see just reports

about, you know, the plug, don't plug coming out of the Boeing plane. And you check your ticket and

you're like, please don't be a Boeing plane.

Please don't be playing. Come on, Airbus.

Come on, Airbus. Yeah, he said.

Thank you. I want Boeing.

Man, I, I just, it's just hard getting on a plane.

But anyway, so so the first one of the day was three hours of length because the aeroplane that we were supposed to be on had engine issues which filled me with a lot of confidence.

Great. Great for the anxiety, you know,

at least I had engine issues while I was on the ground.

I'm not in the air thinking about the positive so.

After, after waiting two hours at one get they're like, look, we'll move you to this other plane which is ready to go.

So we'll move you to that plane, your plane that you're supposed to be going on is to going to China.

So like they mustn't care about them as much.

So, so, so they, he moved us to another gate.

Get on the plane. And I'm like, can we just get

going already? I've been up, you know, early

and then now it's like almost 11:00 in the afternoon and I'm like, well, this is yeah, we're still here.

Something left. Take off rock in the air flying

anyway the there's a guy in front of in front of Steph in particular, who's from the moment he suddenly was just having a sook like complaining about probably not getting upgraded or or what what have you.

He's like, I'm really disappointed with Qantas.

The service is terrible. I normally fly Emirates.

It was it was it was just just going up on like this is going to be a long flight. A little did I know it gets

worse, but so we so so then he proceeds to push his seat all the way back and Steph can't even have her lunch.

She's like eating like like like like a little mouse trying to you know, I'm like, you want to say she's like, don't bother, just whatever. So this is this is the first

like, you know, era of the flight.

He complained so much that he gets his food before everybody and he and he's like, you know, he's they're really trying to make his experience good male. Karen.

Yeah, male, he's being a male Karen essentially.

And and to be fair, I felt bad for the hostesses on on corners, but they they did do a great job.

So, you know, so, so, so big thumbs up for them.

Anyway, an hour and a half, almost two hours into the flight, we get a we get a notification over the over the PA. Is there, is there a doctor or

like a medical practitioner on board?

And of all people, the guy that's in front of Steph stands up. He's like, yeah, I'm a doctor.

So he's so, so he's brings, brings interaction, leaves his seat back all the way. So Steph's still stuck there

like, you know, pimp into his seat.

The, the shall we, we asked the, the, you know, the air Hostess and the airs just fixed up the seat anyway, So to be fair, the guy from this point was, was really good because because his next 8 hours were a nightmare for him.

So, so, so we, we like something, something's going on.

And, and this, this girl in, in probably in her in her early 20s, looked like she was in another bloody dimension.

Like she was she was off her face like pretty cooked in the middle of the aisle, just laying down like he was checking her out, doing a little vitals and stuff.

Basically went into the bathroom.

They went to try her sister went into the bathroom to get her out and obviously like hands getting punched and she started punching her sister and like throwing hands and then started vaping in the in the toilet. Like gets back, gets back to her

seat and vapes in her seat in the field in the main cabin, goes to the door and mind you, like we're like, so where the guy was, it's like he's at the exit row.

So he had all the egg room in the world.

She's walking to the door and I'm like, Oh my God, she's going to open the door. This is it.

I'm done. Like this is like it's.

Dad was right. Your dad was.

Right, my dad was right. We're up in the.

Air No. Dead.

You're dead. Stephanie, like what is this

like fire out, give me, give me off this flight.

And anyway, she's she passes out or what have you and she's, she looks really, really sick and she's shaking.

And so this went on for eight hours.

Speak to the pilot. I thought they were going to

stop in like Ho Chi Minh City because that's kind of where we were, you know, at some points. And I'm like, yeah, well, we're

not getting into Japan anyway. She they eventually managed to

to hold her and get her down and get her to a seat.

And and and we land and and I'm like, and Steph and I like get us the hell off this plane. This has been the longest day of

my life. But because we've been delayed

and, and everything, we missed all the trains into from narrator into into. Some, some would say, Maddie,

you got a flight and a show, you know, if you look at the silver lining of the situation, you know?

Alan Deep. Alan Deep.

The in flight movie fists were being thrown.

You know is, you know. Dude, she was punching her dad,

punching her sister. Like punching the door.

Yeah, it was nuts, man. Was she punched?

Into a beat, Yeah, Similar to the guy.

Similar. To the guy in the car just

punched the door out of the, you know.

Just so Chairman out and. Like the they do the cross

check, they put a little key. There's like a little bag.

Yeah, right. I'm like, what if she saw the

key? She's going to open the key.

Like I was, I was freaking out. Like I was like, I was like,

man, this is this is the end. Like I'm, I'm, I'm holding my

seat butt even tighter. Like I'm just just tidying up.

I don't get sucked out of the plane.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, but helps with the

explosive decompression when she opens the door as soon as she could bait because she needs the door of the plane.

So was that her first time flying?

Is that her first time on the plane?

So what was that, Rob? Was that her first time on the

plane? I, I I don't know.

I mean, I there there's a good chance that was her last time on the plane because she's probably on no fly list now.

Keep. Keep hoping.

It's gonna stay, yeah. Cuz I mean, except when I get

off and waiting for her bags and I'm like, oh God, I hope you're not on the plane with the, with them on the way back.

Because because they stayed on the plane when we walked up like like the, I think they got the ambulance and stuff to come comes us around or something. She was having all sorts of

issues. And I'm like, do you reckon

they'll be on the plane? Like, she's like stuff like

Matt, there's no freaking chance they're on the same plane, on the plane on the way back. No, yeah.

What? Yes, yes, we get into Melvin.

I don't this story, it's only a Maddie, Maddie J story.

Would this happen get into Melbourne instead of just, like, pointing at me and just like, oh, again, I'm like, yeah, I know. Anyway, you turn around and

she's just laying on the floor in the middle of, like, the baggage collection, and there's this guy pushing all the trolleys. Hi, Please excuse me.

You're in the thoroughfare. Do you mind just moving so I can

push the trolleys through? I can't even bloody sleep after

my flight. I can't even rest anywhere.

And I'm like, firing up, man. The chances of having you on the

same flight on the way back, like out of all the thousands of people that go to Japan every day, I, I couldn't believe I'm like the chances of that happening, like insane.

Like, fuck yeah. It's kids curves cooked.

It's pretty high, she. Might be a school teacher or

something, you know, like. Yeah.

Look, I don't blame you for not being comfortable flying.

If these are the experiences you have, well, like, you know, you're justified, man. The.

Second time in Japan, second long distance flying.

I was like, oh man, I get me off, get me off, get me off, get me off this thing. I'm I'm just but anyway, that

that was the flying experience. So, so that was the worst part

of the of the of the experience. The rest of the Japan was lovely

as it as it as it is, as David can attest to and and Scotty and Chad and Alan Rob, you will very shortly.

Sean, have you been to Japan? Yeah, I've been to Japan.

Yeah, I loved it. Yep, Yep, there.

There you go. So yeah, really good Steph and I

loved it. It it's so you know, we didn't

just do car related things. I mean, I was sending you guys

in the in the group chats, the the all the car related stuff.

But yeah, well, we did, we did do we did do more, more things than that. Went to Dokuki parking area with

Steph, booked an experience. So we got picked up in a on the

WRX. So it's pretty cool.

It was a bug RX and I was like, I thought you, Rob, because you had a bug eye with the loudest exhaust I've ever heard.

Like it was unbearably loud, but it was it was cool.

You know, it was like, yeah, it's, it's it's what you do when you're in Japan, right? Then we went to super Autobots,

which is which is 8, whatever it is.

It was that was that was pretty sick.

I'm trying to think all the car related stuff.

I bought a lot of car models and the little car bits and pieces here and there. Take your audits on.

That's what I'm just about to get to.

So so Steph for Christmas bought me a tickets to talk.

Take your audits on. Now.

When she she gave it to me, she was like, you don't seem super happy. I'm like, I'm like, oh, look,

it's cool. I'm I'm I'm happy to go.

This will be this will be fun. I just remember the Melbourne

ones were just a bit. Yeah, yeah, like from from a few

years ago. Japan was nothing like that.

The Japan one was on another level of like freaking awesome.

It was unbelievable. Met Maxarito, who's a is a bit

of a driving God. It was super chill.

You can just picture him just having a punching a die.

Just starting to say, yeah, just just just just talking about like the, the in car at the moment is the new Civic Type R.

Like they're all being modified there.

And and like all the tuning shops had a had a Civic Type R that had all their parts catalogued on there.

So that was pretty cool. They they had plenty of they had

plenty of, yeah, even older cars like that.

There's this group that restores all Range Rovers, which was kind of funny because the one that they had presented still had rust. So I took, I took, I took a

photo of the, of the rust. It's a.

Factory feature. It's a factory feature.

Yeah, it is. It quite literally is.

So yeah, autosun was sick. I saw the the new Hyundai Ionic

5 NDK edition. So there they brought ADK

edition to to the JDM market, which is pretty cool because Hyundai just opened up there. That was pretty cool.

The new Prelude was there the, you know, there's a whole bunch of really, really cool, cool stuff.

They had a lot of older stuff too.

They had a lot of S chassis cars and and stuff like that.

And you can start. It was pretty much just like it

was. It's like a mini SEMA from what

I, from what I gathered, Rob, like all the, all the, all the big part supplies there, you know, cars that they've modified and they're showing their catalogues, Jimneys, Jimneys everywhere there. Yeah, the orders on like there

was Mini, GS, Mini, yeah, all Mini Defenders Mini, all sorts of stuff like that was pretty cool.

So yeah, it was. Really a key car size?

You can, yeah. There's.

A Yeah. So it is AK car OK.

There are some in Australia that don't have wheel arches, they don't have the wheel arch moulds that takes them out of KK class.

OK. And there's got the bigger

engine, but the ones in the K ones in Japan six 60s.

OK, cool. Yeah, so you can still get you

can still get like a non K Jimmy in Japan, but like you can obviously get the the K Jimmy in Japan.

So so tonnes of them around saw the new STI that they that they the concept that they released, which was I'm a highly modified version of the of the current WRX, but with a CVTI.

Don't know what Subaru was thinking with that.

It's very it's a very bizarre move.

Like everyone's like what like it makes no sense.

But anyway, Subaru, sure there was.

I'm just trying to think all the big brands were there.

Your HKS had a massive stand, Top secret was there, all the big brands were there. So that was pretty cool to see

got some model cars there because what else you want?

I can't bring an exhaust system back with me.

So but there obviously did KO2 again.

But then from there from KO2, we rented a car.

We rented a Toyota Yaris hybrid. It was like 2 years old with

80,000 KS. This thing had a life, but it

felt tight, It felt nice, drove really well.

And we're wondering why we're getting past in the freeway because the the the rents that had 80 with a with a like a line underneath it and that's like the minimum you can go.

So, so when Steph read that on the on the on the Internet, I'm like, I'm like. Maybe we do something just like,

yeah, speed up. So we end up doing 220 on the

freeway. It's like, yeah, I'm like, this

should be, this should be Australia.

We should be doing this on in a. So is there a Max you can like

hit or is it just is it like an autobahn?

It's not like I think they give you 30 K leeway over the 120 K limit. From what it from what we read,

there's like like if like between over the speeds of 100, they give you a 30K leeway, under speeds of 50 they give you like A15K leeway. It's a weird system, but man,

there's no. Cameras.

There was only a few places before you saw like 3 cameras the whole trip. Yeah, interesting.

And you know, the little yards got to 150 All right, That was, it was impressive. So no, I was like, it was kind

of quick actually, because like the electric motor gave it a rubber bus boost. It was, it was, it was fun.

It was fun to kind of drive. So that was our Yaris Hilton

experience. We, we then drove to Fuji and

besides getting lost on the, on some spaghetti bits at the first part of Kyoto, we end up getting there.

We, we went on a drifting experience in the, in an RCF, which was, which was a bit of fun.

Like SRCF. The guy was drifting it that

hard that he lost control and then it stalled.

And then, then it, it wasn't happy to start again.

But then you got to start and he just just just limited bashed it all the way to back to the, which was a lot of fun.

So we end up staying at, at Fuji Speedway Hotel.

So it was the one nice hotel. We stayed there because like we,

we, we, we didn't slum it, but we're like, we, we did cheap hotels. So we could have a real nice

hotel at the, at Fuji, which is which, Yeah, which is a Hyatt hotel. It's a Hyatt.

It's a, it's got what's called, it's got a museum inside of it.

So you pay like 8 bucks and you go into the museum and you can, and, but you can go in there as much as you want.

So you pay it once and you can go in there like 10 times like the next few days. So that was pretty cool.

They had the festival of rally on at the moment.

So they got some, some of the old rally cars in there.

They had some, you know, LFA's, NSXS, supers, like all sorts of real really cool stuff and had some Fords like like they had like, you know, a really old, you know, early, you know, Henry Forde first race car. They had there like like a like

a replica version, but a replica made in 1920 or something, so like a really old replica of it. So that was pretty cool.

Yeah. That was a really cool, cool

experience. Everything in the in the thing

was kind of themed like racing, but it was done classically, not not cheaply. So like for example, our you

know, the, where the number of the door was underneath it had a, you know, 5 speed shifter, which which was kind of cool.

And and if they were, if they were making up your room, then the way that you would tell is to put a model car at the front of your door. Oh, kid.

So, so sorry. So we got back to our door and

we're like, hey. You've got another model can to

bring home. Yeah, no, I was no.

First thing I thought, I'm like, they've given me a model car and Steph's like reading, you idiot, and I'm like, read it.

And I was like, oh, this room is being serviced.

So I was like, there was like, OK, that's not for me.

Then it was a Pajero as well, too.

It was a Pajero model. There was a 118th Pajero model.

I was like, well, don't want it so so I got a little bit excited, but you know, so that was pretty cool.

Next next door to that had the had the one of the another like a Toyota kind of thing that had a hydrogen powered AE86 still 4 AG powered but can make converted to run on on hydrogen which was pretty cool. As fuel.

As fuel, yeah. So in, in, in the boot that had

that a big tank and it was like the car, like it still had the original 4AG just just made to run high pressure on hydrogen.

So it was pretty cool. So that's the, that's the future

Rob. So Rob's fabrications get get

starting mate. Hydrogen swaps.

Hydrogen swaps. And yeah, we we just see like a

mushroom cloud coming from Taylor's lace.

We'll just get an air compressor and we'll just have run on compressed air, all right? Pneumatic.

It'll be pneumatic. So, so yeah, so Fuji speak.

My hotel was pretty epic. We had awesome views of Fuji,

which I, I think I, I sent to you guys.

It was Fuji sun is is very shy, so he likes to come out in in the mornings and and late evenings.

And we just, we just drove around Fuji for the next few days. We rented a car that we're

getting here later this year. I think it's it's the new LBX,

but the the Maritza RR. So like the Yaris GR drivetrain,

you can get them in Japan with either a manual or an order.

Hopefully they they allow that with us bloody quick, like really quick. Surprised me how quick it was.

You know, it's it's based on a Yaris Dr training or off Yaris or Corolla architecture anyway, so it was kind of all worked.

I think we get that. The OBX we get here now but only

electric I think. I think.

That it's yeah, a small, small hat.

So it's smaller than a. It's about Yaris size, isn't?

It yeah, yeah, so but just jacked up a little bit higher.

So so that was that was a really quick car that was a bit of fun.

So so because Steph got a massage there, they said, oh, if you get a massage, you can you can rent one of the cars for the for five hours. So like, you know, you're

twisting my arm guys. So I got I got to take that out

that that was a bit of fun when I got lunch and that bought some more car stuff and then I went to a yellow hat and apparently that it was like it's like another car shop, like another car franchise. So so yellow hat I think it's

cool and because because we drove parcels, I'm like, what's the yellow hat stuff? Like she's like, oh, it's like

an auto box. So I'm like U turn.

Sound like a Japanese super cheap.

Kind of kind of, yeah. So we went back in there and had

a look and, and it was OK. Then from there we went through.

So we drove back to Tokyo and drove, drove on the on the Rainbow Bridge, drove. You just drove in the heart of

Tokyo, drove all around. And I thought like Steph, Steph

was like having a bit of anxiety before that.

She's like, to me, she's like, oh, Tokyo's gonna be crazy busy.

I'm like, this is easy. Like it was, it was easy.

And driving in Melbourne, it felt like easier than the Melbourne CBD. Yeah.

It's bizarre. It's bizarre, right.

Like so. So that was a bit of fun.

We returned the car. Well, I.

Saw you driving checking it was a go Kart so I mean that.

Is true, yeah. You've already done it.

Yeah, I've already done it. So.

So, yeah. So that was all right.

Dropped the car back. I was a bit sad.

It was a bit of a bitter sweet ending to sing that.

Then went to Don Quixote, which I had the damn Jingle stuck in my head for the mix. Yeah, that that was always that

was a bit of fun. Went to Ken box, which is like a

like a model car store there. There's there's a few of them in

in in the heart of Tokyo. Got got some really cool like

cars I've never seen before. So like they had a focus Rs

Tommy car, which was pretty awesome.

So I got that a few other bits and pieces.

They they knew what they had and the prices were accordingly.

But but really, really, really cool.

Trying to think I'm skimming over all the other stuff because I'm keeping it car related. Probably the the best part of

the trip, though, was when we landed in in Tokyo and and Steph and I already like pissed off at this point.

Like we were tired, we were angry, we were a nervous wreck after feeling like we're gonna like, you know, be the end of us on, you know, 3535 thousand feet up in the sky was when we got our bag. We walked out.

I hear a voice Maddie. I turn around.

It's David day. He met us in the airport.

I'm like, I turn around. I'm like, I look at Steph first

because because next thing I'm like, well, can't be her turn around. And Dave was just like waving

and I was like, Hey, buddy, I'm like, Oh my God, you're a cypressor eyes. So, so from being a negative

experience, that was the highlight of the day and probably one of the highlights of the trip because like, you know, he, he, he, he, he, he was, he was a godsend because we were screwed because all our all our trains were, you know, finished for the day. He was able to help us get onto

a onto a bus and got us into the right bus and spoke to the right people and in Japanese. And yeah, that was a big help.

So I just wanted to give him a big shout out and say thank you, David, David Day for for helping us out that day.

It was so cool. He does pop up in random

locations and that was definitely one of them.

So, so that that was good. That was, that was really,

really good. But look, overall very good

experience. Yeah, I wanna, I would, I, I of

course forced me to go back. But yeah, Tokyo audits on would

recommend. But next time if when it's on,

you guys should definitely go. It's it's a really, really cool

experience. Yeah, very did.

You come across any snow or driving snow up north or.

No, well, we thought we because like before, we like the couple of days before we got there, there was, it was snowing in Goatemba, which is near, which is near Fuji and it's snowing.

It was snowing, it was snowing in Kyoto as well right before we got there. So when we ordered our car, we

had like, well, we ought to go order it with snow, you know, snow tyres. So that was an extra fee which

we never even had to use because we never saw snow.

We did see, we did see some snow on the train and then up to Mount Fuji, but they had all the roads closed anyway.

So you couldn't really drive up there.

But Mount Fuji still had all snow on on on the top.

But but anyway, look, it was better safe than sorry I suppose. Just do it.

Everyone in the UK does. It snows like so infrequently.

Just just driving the snow on your summer tyres.

Should be right. Should be right?

You'll be right. Should be right?

What could go wrong? What could possibly go wrong?

I thought you just do the American system.

We use other cars as brakes. Now insurance are too expensive

in the UK for that. You don't want to be doing that.

It's if, if the the tyres don't kill you, the rust wheel.

So what else can I say? Since we've been back, came back

to a flat tyre in the Fiesta. So that wasn't fun.

So I got got that, got that repaired service to Forrester today. Bled the clutch because the

clutch pedal was a bit how you going?

So now it feels a lot better. So Steph's happy with that car,

and I think that's pretty much it on my on my car updates, gentlemen. Here's the top of the quiz,

gentlemen. Yeah, well, look.

I've got to say when when you when you asked someone to do the quiz, I said, yeah, I can do that.

I was then called upon to sugar my grandson and cook dinner.

So I've actually got AI. We could delay it till next week

because I've got a super cheap quiz from the, from the cards, you know, the, the Ford holding cards.

Yeah, in the view of the fact that it was Australia Day yesterday too, or over the weekend.

Great. Holding forward.

I mean, you know, with that's that time we did something holding forward, I suppose. 100%.

Do you want to do it this week or do you want to hold it up for next week and I can? If you've got the cards, are

they near or? Yeah, I've got them, got them

set out. I've got them.

Set out well, we can we you. Having to score.

Yeah, I'm just getting the notepad up right now, so if you take it so. I think you beat things from

you, Rob. You're right.

So Rob, just saying, Rob saying that it allows false sense of security, he's gonna be slamming down the answers.

Yeah, there'll be 5. Questions in He'll have 10

points somehow, you know, just. OK, so so as I said, it's a

super cheap, it was a box I found that's super cheap.

You know, car quiz questions Holden Holden versus Ford.

All right, so, so, so let's we're going to introduce it properly. David Prince This is the David

Prince super cheap auto Ford versus Holden car quiz.

That's right. So or any any errors in the

answers? I'm super cheap, OK?

And I'm not. I can't see the.

Cards can't see the cards. I'll be garbage with this

anyway, but I can't. Wait, wait, just just wait.

Alan, your queue. I'm calling Shannon and Sean.

You would stare at the card the whole time and now you suddenly can't see them. You've had.

Oh no, I just, I can't see anything.

Full car Car Talk. Experience.

Yeah. Yeah, he's called upon him.

He's been reading the cards the whole time.

So David finally felt guilty. He's like, oh, you know,

postponed to next week. The.

Question. You'll get a question like how

many exhaust bolts are on ABA Falcon OH.

Yeah. It's about 6.

Yes, you're right, but. The real question is how many

have fallen out Most of. Them.

That's the big one. OK.

So there's some true and false and there's some multiple choice and there's some years and they'll probably be closest to, won't they? Yeah, we'll do.

Closest for the years. Sounds good.

OK. All right.

Here we go. Question one.

In what year was the Calais nameplate introduced?

Matthew. Matthew.

And I was introduced on VK, so I'm going to say it was 8083.

Incorrect. OK.

Chad. Chad. 84.

Correct. 80. 4. Subscribing to the one year but.

You want I knew it was going to be a year or three off it.

Works 83 VH my SO. So what we're going to call Chad

Bradbury now, So yeah. Excellent question 2.

Actually this is a three part question.

So this is. The three the three points on

stake. 33 points yes OK so the the famous Holden Tirana this is

the first part is true or false. The name Tirana comes from an

aboriginal word meaning small and fast.

Scott Scott true. No, it's false.

Sorry mate, 50% jet, it actually means to fly, which is a bit of an oxymoron considering the HB was the first Torana, so that didn't fly anywhere. So yeah, a bit of an oxymoron.

Trick question, I'm sorry about that.

It should should have meant small and fast.

But moving on from the HB, the second part of the question, the X U1 Torana was known for wild paint colours.

Here you go Rob, this is for you mate.

Paint colours included Linamint per pull and I'll give you 3 choices for the for the name of the yellow.

OK, so the first one to buzz in with the correct one gets the point. So the three choices are Mellow

Yellow, Yellow Dolly and Sunshine.

Rob. Rob.

I'm sure it's Mellow yellow. Incorrect.

What are the other options? Let's.

Go, I'll go. That yellow Dolly.

Yellow Dolly. Correct, Scotty.

There you go, Scotty. Scotty, isn't that point out

Nice. Part 3.

Part Three What do the letters GTR stand for?

Chad. Chad.

Grand touring racer. Correct.

Can't Chad? Wow, I was.

Thinking I'm like, it can't be that, it can't be Gran Tordismo or something like that, because it's it, it's.

That would have been too Italian for the time, I would have thought. Goanna racing, Goanna Dollar.

So something we had to do, something Australian.

But anyway, I'm an idiot so we'll move on.

All right, squad. Channel. 2 Scott, everyone else

on. Zero.

OK, so what's this question 3? Question 3.

I haven't haven't ordered the questions.

I'm just going to buy cards here.

What's the name of the more responsive, powerful and fuel efficient 3.6 litre V6 engine Holden introduced with the VZ

series? Chad.

Chad. Alloy Tech.

That is correct, Correct. Well.

Done. Good work.

You should have put Holden I Chad.

Are you sure you haven't gotten these quiz questions yourself on a super cheap water pack? I don't.

Even know they existed. Hannigan It's still working for

me. No, I.

Don't call it yet, Call it. When Chad wins, turn it out at

the. Wind.

I was just growing up in the northern suburbs and, you know, hanging around Holden's mate if. He's it's not.

What do you do? Bring it to the north.

OK. Next question, What was the

first Commodore model to feature an optional engine with a power output over 200 kilometres, 200 kilowatts?

Matt. With an optional engine over 200

kilowatts. An optional engine with a power

output over 200 kilowatts. Remembering this is Super

Cheap's take on. It OK, so it oh jeez, I'm going

to say VSVS, Commodore. Incorrect.

OK. Scott.

Scotty and. Then go Vt.

That would be correct. The Vt Series 2 had an optional

engine which put out over 200 kilowatts.

Is the answer. They don't tell you what the

engine is? Yeah, I want to know what the

engine is. Interestingly, which one?

That's that's charged VC the. Yeah, it's it'll be it'll be

when they put the the Nissan, the LS1, the 1st LS1 on it, which was the Gen 3. But but what gets me is that

they they put that's that's wrong because I'm pretty sure you could get a five, A 5.7 stroked, you know, Iron Lion in

AV in a VSAGTSR and that and that was blueprinted and I'm pretty sure it was over 200 kilowatts, but I don't know.

As I said, go and talk to the manufacturer.

Yeah, OK. I'm.

Hearing that might have just been a HSV.

I bought it, do you might have? Been HSV thinking.

Yeah, you're right. I think you're right.

Yeah, that's yeah, you're you are.

That'd be that'd be thing in HSV.

And probably being super cheap, they wouldn't know about HSV except if the badge was just stuck on it, like, right, Yeah.

Yeah, they sold the badge. Yeah, they sold the badge.

And they also sold El Tezer tail lights.

Did you mix up the name? Oh God.

I mixed them all up, I'm sorry. OK, next question.

In what year did Ford replace the Festiva with the Fiesta?

Well, Sean, Oh. Now is it 1997?

No. Matthew.

Matthew. So the Festiva, they, they

dropped, jeez, early 2000s or or late 90s even.

I know it would be early 2000s, but they didn't bring in the Fiesta for a little bit. So there's a bit of a like a

couple years of crossover. So I'm going to say, oh, through

04 four they they brought in the is that.

Your answer, Matthew. Yeah, so 4.

Correct. Lucky you got that one right.

Well. I thought it would like my

sister had a Fiat like a Festiva, and it was always like, yeah, like what? I forget how big that gap is

between the two. Yeah.

Yeah, Next question. Maddie, have you got your finger

on the button? Oh.

I'm ready to go back. What year did 4 discontinue the

laser model? You know Matthew.

Matthew. That's 2002.

That is correct. Now that's shenanigans.

If there were, there were shenanigans.

Asking about a laser question. Come on, Alan, you no.

I can't believe you had a laser question in there.

Well, I figured you probably wrote half the quiz.

Oh you know the Super retail group do do need do need help sometimes so. Can't call them corporate.

Well, make a change from shenanigans.

The 4th generation Ford Mondeo which was the mark 5 overseas, but the MD series here? Where?

Where was that manufactured? Jan, Germany 9 according to

Supercheap Auto. Matthew.

It surprised me, actually, Matthew.

It's going to be one or two places that I'm guaranteed I'm going to. I'm going to get the one wrong.

Is it Belgium? Incorrect.

It's the other one. Then.

OK, Sean. They didn't manufacture those in

the UK. No, they didn't make that in the

UK. Oh, it's in Europe somewhere.

Well, it wasn't. Is it Portugal?

Yeah, incorrect. No, it was not Portugal.

Scotty, Allen and Rob yet to answer.

I would have guessed Spain. Is that your answer?

Yep, correct. Wow.

Nice. With a hatch full of paella,

we're all ready to go. Absolutely.

Well. OK.

So the XC Cobra, which was the homologated hardtop for Bathurst basically, I'm pretty sure was available from the factory.

With what engine? What size engine?

Rob got me. Rob just got me.

So did it come with oh geez, I'll say I'm guessing now 351 or a three or two 351? Well, actually I was going to

say to income full completion, there were two availabilities and you got both of them. Both, right?

Yeah. There you go.

They call it the 4.9 and the 5.8, but you and I are a similar

demographic. We'd go with the cubic inches, I

reckon. That's four point how?

Many questions you up to. I don't know because like one of

the questions had three so I go. Wrong.

Oh, OK, OK, OK, OK. I can give you a score check,

Ross. Just a.

Score check off. Two Scotty 2, Chad 3, Allen and

Sean. You have to score.

Come on, gentlemen. OK, OK, so I did have the.

I did have them sorted better than they are sorted now.

Yeah, I mentioned it. I didn't realise you had them

there. He wasn't even ready.

He was just shuffling. I could have cheated and I just

played with them and did look at them.

OK, this can be the final question.

Which car? Obviously it's a Holden and it's

a Ford. Ford question.

So which car won the 2001 Wheels Car of the Year award?

Make and model? Matthew.

Matthew. 2001 and that's oh, jeez, OK.

Oh, it's AXC Marina. Correct.

Look at you, I even had the. I remember us talking about

that. Yeah.

Yeah, I that. One kind of.

A year, Yes, yes, it. Was weird choice.

So I I the the the hit would have been if because I didn't think anyone would get that was that it was came from the same country as Ford Mondeo. Yep, Espana.

Espana question. OK, well, who?

Who won that one? Maddie.

Who won? That so score check Sean and

alum yet to score Scotty to Rob. By golf rules, me and Sean one.

Equal title. First is Chatter myself.

Oh well done. Do you want to?

Do you want a tie break question something?

You chat. I'm happy to to keep it that

would. Be cool.

Yeah, let's, let's keep. It check in no.

No, no, I never get to keep it. Come on.

You've got a whole box of questions there.

Yeah, David, you. Do one.

It's wasting the opportunity tie breaker.

Alan and Sean can break. Out pick out a rando rando.

Yeah, pick out a rando, teach them a lesson.

No friendships here. This is Monopoly rules.

OK. Closest to closest to How many

Commodore VNS were produced in total?

VN Commodores I think. How many are left in

Broadmeadows and making strips? On their sides.

Jeez, how many in total, Matt? I'm going to say it was a

successful car. I want to say 185,000 A. 185.

1000. Yeah, produced.

Yeah, Yeah, Chain. 2:50. Just 250. 1000 Sorry.

I'll say 200 and. 10. 1000. I'm buzzing over 210 even though

I'm not in part of the race. Toy.

OK, Chad, you've you've actually won by 180 cars.

Daddy said 185, you said two, 52250.

The answer was 215,180. Oh.

My God. Well done, Chad.

Thank you. Yeah, I said 210.

That's my point. Like a fight.

I I've I've. Put in.

I've put in shenanigans, man. All right, all right.

Well done, Chad. That was well done.

Well understand. I'd like to thank the Super

cheap Auto and Super Cheap auto groups.

Yeah. Lovely company, thank you for

writing the great questions. Baby, I was going to ask you,

who do you want to thank? And you and you really thank the

people. So yeah, yeah, yeah.

There you go. Sponsorship.

Thanks. That'd be great.

Yeah. Yeah, sponsors.

People who work for super cheap can't actually win the prize, can they? No, that's true.

So I I, I wasn't technically able to win this this quiz anyway, so there you go. So, shenanigans.

Let's start it again. Yeah, don't worry.

You could also win the nothing. That is the price.

You can't do nothing. You don't have the nothing.

It's all right. I mean, we do win the

illustrious, what's it called, prize of, of bragging rights for the week. So.

Bragging rights for the week. Yeah, that's that's coveted,

coveted prize. It is a very coveted prize.

I think that's a podcast. It's a long podcast.

It is a long podcast, but it was, it was plenty of, plenty of discussion, heaps to talk about. It's good to see with you guys

again. It's been a while since we've

done an episode. Allison is going to be like,

where's the latest episode? It's yeah, it'll be it'll be

here soon. Don't worry.

So let's do some plugs. Rob's fabrications, electrical,

firefighting, sandblasting, welding, body working helium engines. What else?

Council fighting. Your name.

Council fighting. Cylinders.

I just saw his neighbour punching on myth.

Put all good. All good.

Yeah, he's the guy. He's your man.

So. So if you need anything, those

of those done speak to speak to your good friend Rob.

Can I just say Simba's sitting in the steering wheel, Logs go to his desk. It looks like that meme of the

cat driving the Honda jet. It pops up on Instagram all the

time. This.

Is a lot about your Instagram? David prints you to a podcast.

Oh yeah, I seem to remember doing it a while back now, Audio Retro was called and it's still surprisingly on on Instagram, on YouTube and on YouTube and Spotify and always good internetty places. So.

Like always, good listening Scotty, you know you're golfed of the week. During the holidays I went out a

few times and played. Actually, it was pretty good.

Scotty right after a tip, not what you did.

But I just threw you in, you know?

Golf is so important. I'm going to say since we're

not, we're not so young anymore and you're walking eighteen holes. Just make sure you loosen up by

the end. My hip, it was absolutely

destroyed. I went to the osteo when he

helped me and fixed. It so you golf through the week.

Go see your osteo, in other words.

Yeah, all. Right, fine.

The exercises to help you out so it doesn't happen again.

I'll throw it down a golf tip as well.

If you have a mistress, don't get caught by your wife.

Oh thanks. Could could have a little love

to him all there. I'm just saying.

Rob, what were you about to say? I think you were just trying.

To say, Scotty, have you got an electric golf part or a you know? No, I usually do actually like

to walk it. OK.

Got it. Just stepped wrong this time.

And yeah, the fact that he's over 30 got to him.

Oh. OK, I don't.

Know. I don't see it.

Once he had 30, that's it. It's all I don't.

This is done. Yeah, Mill.

Yeah, Mill after 30. Living in Scotland, like the

home of golf, If you don't like golf, there's a bit of a saying which is like golf is a bit of is a good walk ruined?

That's a golf's for the week. Anything you want to plug, Chad?

No, just super cheap auto. Thanks for writing the Fizz

again. You know, we have that

sponsorship, sponsorship super cheap.

So, you know, hit us up. Sean, thank you for coming on

the show tonight. Thanks for having me.

Again, you can you can no longer say long time listener first time caller you you've been on the show.

We'd love to have you on again anytime that that you suit.

So just let us know and when we'll and we'll.

Thanks. I'd love to try one day.

Yeah, like I could be your, your man in the, the North, I guess.

Yeah, yeah. International Correspondent.

Yeah, correct. Yeah, I like that we're gonna

have the North correspondent. Yeah, it's bloody miserable out

there. Hey I.

Moved to Scotland. So yeah, we'll have to.

We'll have to hit you up again for that.

Alamdeep Singh. How a good friend.

Rizzi, Ross. Yes, as you may have mentioned

in or he has mentioned in one of our previous episodes, he I think he's back from China now, but he got to experience one of the new EVs that are starting in the Australian market.

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