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Get everyone welcome back to PorscheTalk Radio Show. Thank you very much for joining us again
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this week. We've got a guest. He's a regular guest. In fact, he might actually be as regular
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as Argemall and I are on our podcast. Welcome, Jeff, home-built by Jeff, to the show again
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How are you going, guys? I don't think I'd be quite that common. I think this might
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be my third time here, but yeah, anyway.
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Yeah, but that's more often than us two, honestly, the way we've been lately.
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You have been sporadic. I have noticed.
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Yeah, yeah. Life gets in the way, doesn't it, Argemall?
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Don't must not be. We've not been good this summer. It's our holidays are kind of topotailed
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Well, over here. Over here. I don't know if you know, there's been like a drought.
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It's been two months of zero rain. Obviously, all the lawns are scorched. There's a hosepipe
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ban. You can't use hosepipe because all the water is running dry. Reservoirs are running
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dry. But for the last week, it's been nonstop rain, nonstop every single day.
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Firstly, listeners, let me interrupt this by saying, prior to our last episode, where
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we went a good solid nine to 10 minutes before the Porsche talk where the channel started.
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We've got into it like within moments because all Argemall could talk about like a good English
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weather because they've had to go into the sunshine when spraying with the weather. We
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got to get that out of the way. It's one of those things that bobbles under the surface
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and you just got to get out of the way. You got to pull the, you know, plaster
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Well, I'm going to say as a West Aussie, right, and Jeff's Eastern based, right? He's
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got the worst of both worlds, in my opinion, where he's located. He's here. So he gets
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your winters and my summers.
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Particularly where I am. I'm at a much higher elevation than most of Australian cities.
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So yeah, it does. Like it has snowed here twice in the 10 years I've been here. You
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know, like it still gets cold. But yeah, anyway,
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I'm cold enough to paint not to stick to panels. Maybe that may have been a reason
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We were in a coat and there's ice and I've seen the one where there was ice in the background
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on stuff outside and I'm like, where is Jeff? Like it gets to sort of cold morning here.
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The coldest I get is about minus six Celsius. So it gets cold.
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It's regularly, I mean, two days ago it was one. So like it's still, you know, it's almost
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spring, but it's spring. Sorry. It's the second day of spring.
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Yeah. Jeff, you mentioned elevation earlier. Just for listeners, you are South West of
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Yes, South West of Sydney. I'm about, my elevation is about 700 meters above sea
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It's the New South Wales, Southern Highlands is where I live.
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Yeah, it is, yeah. A lot higher. I mean, it's not high as far as, you know, a lot of mountain
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ranges go, but look, Australia doesn't have the highest. It's as it is. So it's pretty
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high for Australia.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's why I was quite surprised at the number you said. Tell me, I think
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the last time we spoke, you mentioned, do you no longer live on site where your shed
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is, where you do your work?
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Actually, my viewers didn't know this, but yeah, actually I didn't for the last three
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My shed was on a vacant block for a long time.
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Are you building your home there, have you?
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Yes. So I'm currently, I'm now back and there's a brand new, in a new house.
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My viewers have not known any of this. This is probably news to them, but yeah, like for
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three years I was living about two kilometres down the road and I had a little electric
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scooter that I could just sort of ride to and from to the shed.
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Sitting on a vacant block.
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When you say electric scooter, you mean the little wheel ones that the 12-year-olds
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go and do their pizza delivery?
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It was a bigger wheel one, but it was still, you know, just an e-scooter because
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it was too short to drive a car because it wouldn't warm up.
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So, like it was literally two kilometres away, so it was two, with no lights, no traffic.
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Yeah, so yeah, I did get a lot of comments in my videos going, Jeff, maybe you need
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to spend a little less time in the shed and a little bit more time on your driveway.
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Because the driveway was looking pretty shabby, but they didn't realise it's sitting
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So, it was pretty long in my house.
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It was just this shed on a vacant block.
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So, now I am back there, but yeah, we'll see for how long.
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Yeah, I do have plans in the wings for a bigger shed.
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Everybody needs a bigger shed.
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No matter how big a shed it is, you always need a bigger shed.
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That just means you're not throwing shit out, doesn't it?
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Like when I move, I'm dreading having to move the shed because there's so
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much stuff in there.
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I go back and look at my, if I go back and look at my earliest videos.
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Then I go, holy moly.
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There was nothing in the shed.
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And now it is absolutely packed to the rafters and it's going to be a nightmare to move.
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We recently had a bulk rubbish collection opportunity over the weekend.
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I'm sure everyone has a version of this in various parts of the world where the
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local council or Shire or city department say, bring your rubbish outside.
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We'll bring up a truck and we'll pick it all up.
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That's what I'm talking about with bulk rubbish collection.
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And I'm going through my garage and I look at stuff and think, what if I need that
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material for something?
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Now, when I do that, I think I reckon Jeff would keep this.
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Actually, I'm getting better.
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My wife, I call her a chuck chucker.
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She doesn't want any clutter in the house.
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I joke with people that we have two glasses because there's only two of us.
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So why do we need any more than that?
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It was not bolted down and it gets thrown away because it's like, why do we have
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And I think I agree.
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When I go through the garage, there's big things that need sorting out and they
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just sat there, like the elephant in the room.
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But sometimes I'll see and I'll think this screwdriver that I've had that I've
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got off my dad doesn't actually work properly because I filed the end of it.
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Should I throw it away?
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And my wife will walk in and go, what the hell are you doing?
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What about that shit in the corner that you haven't sorted out?
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Why are you sat there discussing this screwdriver?
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I often contemplate the life choices of people.
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I've looked at all these self storage places these days.
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It's such big business and how much people have got total junk in there that
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they're paying more per month to store it than it is actually worth.
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Like just get rid of it.
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Let's bring up that subject for a moment about storage.
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I'm in the unfortunate slash privileged situation that I have more cars in
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I want them stored inside.
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Car storage in the last 12 months, my car storage costs have doubled.
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Now that's because of the number of people who've got shit in a really normal
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I'm deading it out.
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So the supply and demand, right?
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It's all I can bring it down to.
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So everywhere I've gone thinking, oh, that's too dear.
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I'm going to go somewhere else.
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I just can't find anywhere more reasonably priced.
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Well, I've been to your storage place, your car storage place.
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When I came over and visited you.
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That's now triple stacked.
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So that the, because it was quite a nice location that you were at.
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Convenient, like, you know, car guy running it with nice cars and
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sort of, you know, you come and get it when you, when you please.
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It has changed ownership that business since you came over.
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However, look, still good car people that own it.
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But the supply and demand situation, the, one of the reasons it was
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convenient that you are unaware of is the warehouse directly
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behind it was my warehouse.
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For business that we rented there.
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But it was a business with a facility without space for vehicle
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storage because it was a full.
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You couldn't squeeze a couple of cars in the corner?
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No, definitely not.
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It was to the rafters, but I no longer have that business.
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So I no longer have that warehouse that part besides the fact
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it was its proximity to the airport.
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It was also convenient for me afterward to swap motor vehicles.
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However, I still use that facility, but the costs to do so
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are now becoming prohibitively high.
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And this is not, I'm not saying this is a detriment to,
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I don't think it's price jabbering.
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I just think it's the state of the market at the moment.
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And by look, you know,
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comparing it to other car storage places here in Perth,
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I'm almost the point where I'm looking at other like minded
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people and wondering whether or not we should just form
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a syndicate and buy something and use that for storage.
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If I can find half a dozen other people with a couple
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of cars, all of a sudden the math sat up pretty quickly.
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Or you just do like I did and move to the boonies.
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No, I'm not doing that.
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Well, so that is that's a good point because I live kind of
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no, I'm a train station.
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There's a train station really close.
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I can catch trains to London in less than an hour.
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But I'm also quite rural.
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There's 700 people live in my village.
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But two villages down, which is about four miles away,
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is where the storage facilities that I used in it.
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I'll tell you how much it was.
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It was like 120 pounds a month, fully insured,
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secure, cars on a trickle charger.
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And the great thing is it's an old boy who runs it.
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He does classic car trailering.
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He's the guy I ring up when my car breaks down.
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And he's great because he lives in the next village.
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So when I want to go and pick up my car,
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which when it was in storage,
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he would come and pick me up.
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So he'd pick me up, take me there,
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or I would just leave my other car there.
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And then when I went to pick it up,
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I would just phone him and he would go and open it up.
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He would open it all the time.
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He would just open it for you.
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But the problem is if you left your car there.
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It was obviously open all the time if you're using his services
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because your cars are always breaking down.
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Always breaking down.
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Most of the time they limp somewhere and then die.
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It's like the last throws they get me there.
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But the great thing,
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and the thing with these facilities is because
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he's constantly got turnover of regular customers.
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If you don't go, like I was,
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I had my MGB there and I left it there for years.
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It gradually goes further back into the unit.
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I need to go and get that car.
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He has to take a day to like jigsaw puzzle,
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rearrange everything so he can get out.
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But it's great because I'm not,
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But if you're in a city,
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it must be so expensive and so difficult.
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Friend of the channel, Matt Farah,
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actually his living is made out of doing exactly the subject
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we're talking about right now.
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So we looked at it as a business proposition here,
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particularly in the part of Perth that we reside,
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which is, you know,
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there are a lot of people with a lot of cars
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and a lot less garage space.
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So the cost of the storage on this side of town
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is significantly higher than where I'm currently storing
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because that's a good solid 35 minutes away from my house.
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So anyway, that's a diversion topic
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that was brought up.
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Jeff, what's going on?
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We've got a lot of listeners that you have as viewers.
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So most people are up to speed with what's going on
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with you building a truck.
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Yeah, basically, yeah,
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I've been flat out building this truck
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and it's actually getting,
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like it's been a long time to get to the stage
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where now my truck is actually running and driving
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and moving and is working as a truck
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there is no bed on it, there's nothing like that,
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but, you know, all the rust is repaired
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and all that sort of stuff, which was the tedious part.
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So, yeah, I'm getting sort of close to,
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I'm sort of going backwards and forwards on designs
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for the bed for carrying cars.
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For those who don't know,
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I basically have a 1954 Ford F600 truck,
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which looks like a Ford F100 from the 50s,
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but it's actually the same cab they put on a bigger truck.
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All the trucks had this exact same cab
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and I actually got a Toyota Coaster bus,
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which is a little 22-seater bus
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that I cut the bus off, threw the bus away
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and basically kept the chassis and wiring
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and the running gear,
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and I've now made it look like an old truck
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that I'm going to have a tilt tray bed.
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Out of curiosity, the pre-tilt tray part,
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you know, before that bit,
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just putting the cab over situation you've got going on
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because it was all Coaster bus before.
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Has the engineering been pretty straightforward?
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I had to move the engine back 240 millimetres
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No, to make it fit the...
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When I say engineering, I'm talking about
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to get it registered when I say engineering, sorry.
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To get it registered, like that,
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I mean, the rest of it,
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like my engineer that I'm using,
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I'm converting it from having to be on a truck licence
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to being on a car licence.
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I mean, I have a truck licence.
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In Australia, generally,
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up to four and a half tonnes is the...
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Like GVM, gross vehicle mass,
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so fully loaded up to four and a half tonnes
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is the maximum you're allowed to have
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to drive on a car licence
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on a fixed vehicle.
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The bus was like 49.90 or something?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
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And I could drive it, but then my wife couldn't drive it.
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None of my mates could drive it.
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If a car breaks down and my mates want to borrow it,
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it's just easier on a car licence.
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So that is my plan is going,
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okay, well, it should be able to make it under that
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and I'll probably only have a payload
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of being able to carry a one and a half tonne car.
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That's plenty, let's face it,
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for the type of cars that you're interested in, right?
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For my cars, it's fine
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and it's only got a four and a half metre tray.
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That's the length of the bed on it,
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so it's not super long.
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I mean, if the butt of the car
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hangs over a little bit as long as the wheels are on,
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then it should be, but yeah,
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it's not going to be a huge tilt tray.
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It's going to be relatively lightweight,
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but that's fine because again,
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my car's a little, so that's the plan.
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The golden question I've got,
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I'm sure you've been asked a thousand times
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in your YouTube comments, right?
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Aside from the project for the channel,
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what's you really thinking of using this thing?
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look, I mean, I'll potentially just drive it to work.
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It's going to be an extra car.
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At the moment, we have one normal car.
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That's my wife and I share.
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Well, we have a 10-year-old Porsche Macan
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that's the only normal car we have.
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Do you have an old Ford Merc?
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I do have an old Merc.
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The trouble is that since I got it
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and I've had these issues the whole time,
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it worked fine for about a week or two sort of,
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but for some reason it's automatic and it won't idle.
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So you have to drive it with two feet,
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so my wife can't drive it,
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even if I'm slowing down coming up to a roundabout.
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If I don't keep one foot on the accelerator
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while I'm braking, it will stall.
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So then I have to cycle the key
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and get it in neutral again to start
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and it's a whole thing.
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So it's not easy to drive.
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It's a pain and I don't know what I'm going to do with it,
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but again, that was another...
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It's not a normal car.
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Surely for our generation, that's really normal.
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Sort of, but in an automatic, that's weird.
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All I'm thinking right now is about you going to a wrecker,
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finding a gearbox and doing like a backyard manual conversion
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on this car to try and make it usable.
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It's more, I've been looking at just doing a complete engine
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Well, I was looking at probably a Barra,
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basically like a buy an old Ford Falcon.
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It'll be naturally aspirated.
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The issue is that I just, I'm still torn.
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I don't love the car.
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I bought a cheap car that was just over 30 years old
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so I can put it on our historic regio.
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So the registration instead of costing sort of $1,000 a year
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It's, but you can only drive at 60 days,
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which is plenty for an extra car.
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Ashmal, do you have those types of registration
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historic registration in the UK?
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So over here you can, so it's road tax, right?
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So you pay road tax when you're driving a car normally
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and it's normally based on up till the year 2000.
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It's based on the engine size and after the year 2000
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it's based on emissions.
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So to mine 996 is pre-s 1999.
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I probably pay 300 pounds a year to tax it
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so I can drive on the road and to tax it
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you've got to have a valid certificate
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say it's road worthy and you've got to have insurance
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and then you get the road tax.
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But after, but then if you bought like a 2005
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96, 97, whatever it might be, then it goes up
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quite a lot or if you bought an Aston Martin Vantage
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like Mark and I were talking about the other day
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they get into 700, 800 pounds.
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So you're talking about 80 odd pounds, 90 pounds
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just to park it outside.
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But with the historic ones and it's a rolling 40 years.
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You don't pay anything.
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So you so when your cars that old
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you've still got to get the
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you actually they've also exempt
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from the road worthy certificate.
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So you don't need an MOT either.
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You don't need an MOT.
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Imagine some of the cars that are out there.
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I know and that's the thing because a while ago
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when they were really old cars
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obviously they needed a lot of maintenance
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they didn't get a lot of use
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and classic car insurance is normally limited
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by mileage but it's not that limited
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it's kind of limited to you know
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three to five thousand miles a year
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which is quite a lot for a classic car.
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But then we're now getting into the era of 40 years ago.
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You could have an 80.
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You could have an 85 Golf Mark II
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that's going to go to the moon and back.
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And someone's driving and thinking
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I don't need to get an MOT sticker.
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So what if it's a falling off it?
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So hopefully no one's going to abuse that system
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but it's got to the point where
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and big cities there's ultra low emission zones
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so you need to pay a daily charge
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if you drive in and your car doesn't fit
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the low emission zone.
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Is that exempt from that as well?
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Yeah exempt from that as well.
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So it's getting to the point now
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where you can have a daily driver
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that's 40 years old and it's totally reliable
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and you're also getting to the point
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where cars were galvanized and zinc coated
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so they're less likely to
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well they're still going to be rusty
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but less likely to be as rusty as they were before
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there's going to become a tipping point
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where there's going to be some title rules around it I reckon.
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I'm sure there is footage out there
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on TikTok or some social media
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of old flogged Mercedes
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diesels from like the 70s
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that is pumping out black stuff
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like it's going to our style going through these low emission zones
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in London right here
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because they're fully exempt.
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Yeah because my 2009
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2009 diesel cars were promoted
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because they were supposed to be cleaner
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and more efficient and it turned out they weren't
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on my 2009 Audi that's got
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203,000 miles on it
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is 20 pounds a year
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because that's how it was
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promoted as back then so they can't
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suddenly go to 500 pounds.
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So they grant father a top thing so until
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it's dead it'll always be
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that much money. Exactly but the thing is
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it's never going to die
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and it drives like it always did and it's got
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203,000 miles on it
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but it's not exempt from the ultra low
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emission zones so if I lived
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in London I'd have to bin it.
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any city I go and visit
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my mum lives up in the midlands I go to the big city there
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I have to pay 10 pounds a day
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to drive into the town. Or drive the 996.
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Or drive the 996 isn't exempt yet.
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What I did get distracted from
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a moment ago from that
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conversation was Jeff
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you said that you don't really
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Are you collecting cars you don't love?
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I can't just check it because it sounds
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like there's a bit of a pattern here at the moment.
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Half the cars in your garage might be on the wrong side
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of the love and hate relationship.
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What was the tipping point on the Rockstar?
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Hang on I've still got a question before you move on to the
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Rockstar because I've got big questions on the
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The question about the Merc
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is you know when it's driving
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when it's on the move is it driving absolutely fine?
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Look it's immaculate
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it's a four cylinder petrol
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so it's a 2.2 litre four cylinder
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petrol with 400,000
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that still runs like
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original engine, original gearbox runs fine
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it just won't idle and I've tried to do all sorts of
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I've paid four grand for it.
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What if it was a great car with an OU wouldn't it?
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I looked at it and thought it's
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a Merc and I've tried everything
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to get this thing to work but it's this sort of
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EFI type setup so it's an electronic
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is a cable throttle but it's got like an electronic
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idle control inside that
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that's sort of a little electronic motor that does the idle
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Tronic or something like that or some early
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pursuing because it's so gutless
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like the reason it's lasted so long
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is because even when you floor
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it really it really goes over like
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three and a half thousand RPM
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in a four cylinder petrol like
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the red line is six but like I've never taken
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it anywhere near that.
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So when you ask the question it says what?
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I bought it off a couple in the 80s
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who had it since almost new so
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it's always been looked
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after and well-serviced and it's just
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it's nice and neat it's just
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gutless and I'm like I can do
24:28
an engine swap on it but do I care enough
24:30
to do the engine swap on it?
24:32
If you know as your little
24:34
mate there at Link not got a solution
24:36
here look I could put a link in it again
24:42
for a really junk engine
24:46
gutless little thing
24:48
that you don't love
24:50
that I don't love so it's like
24:52
well what's the point
24:54
of frogging a dead horse I don't know
24:58
in some ways I don't want to quit on it
25:00
because it's neat and it's like well
25:02
it's worth almost nothing if it doesn't
25:06
do I care enough to do the engine
25:08
swap that's the other thing
25:10
I think it might be time to go and visit
25:12
your mate who does the engine
25:14
rex over in Adelaide there and find a nice
25:20
I don't love the car enough
25:22
and just leave the rest of it as it is
25:26
that's why it's looking like a bar
25:28
I could buy an old running
25:30
Falcon for two grand
25:32
and then all the parts are there
25:34
and it's a free swap
25:46
honestly this should be a conversation
25:48
topic that would actually
25:50
generate a lot of algorithm
25:52
work on YouTube for you if you threw this
25:54
out to the audience
25:56
I have I've mentioned
25:58
it a few times like
26:00
because I've I never planned on
26:02
that actually being on the channel
26:04
I just sort of thought I will I'm buying this
26:06
basic car I'll just do a video on it
26:08
just saying look I've got this as
26:10
a cheap extra daily
26:16
and I've got four or five episodes out of
26:18
me trying everything
26:20
hanging your head against all
26:22
I used every suggestion I could
26:24
I've talked to every Merc specialist
26:26
I could could everywhere and nobody has
26:28
an answer and there's no
26:30
there's no end in sight
26:32
yeah besides that it works
26:34
fine like air cons nice and cold
26:38
it's immaculate it's still got the
26:40
original like first aid kit
26:42
and warning triangles in the boot
26:44
normally sort of things that came with
26:46
it is an immaculate old car
26:50
it's just very uninteresting
26:52
yeah it was a wagon
26:54
I would swap it for sure but it's not a wagon
27:00
I'm partial to a fast wagon
27:02
and there may be something like in the future
27:06
what my next boots gonna be in a fast
27:08
I know the UK audience love wagons
27:18
stopped making estate cars as we call
27:20
them over here have they
27:22
I think they're about to stop
27:24
making them because everyone's buying SUVs
27:26
XC90s or whatever it's a new middle
27:28
class car of choice
27:30
so I think they're about to stop making
27:32
them but over here I did see
27:40
like you know pure beige
27:44
with brown interior
27:46
it's manual as well
27:52
it's like £7,000 or something
27:54
and I thought do I want that
27:56
we didn't have air conditioning so I thought no
27:58
for those three days
28:08
is like people who buy an SUV
28:12
with off-road capability
28:14
who live in the city
28:16
but the thing I don't understand is there's so many SUVs
28:18
without off-road capability and you go
28:20
what's the fricking point
28:22
there's so many of them
28:24
it's because you can't buy
28:26
sedans and wagons anymore no one makes them
28:32
that was the issue with my 911 for
28:40
like I said I get mornings here that get down to
28:46
no heater you don't even have radiant heat coming off the engine
28:48
because the engine is behind you so I would actually
28:52
and gloves and a beanie
28:54
and I'd still be freezing
28:56
driving the car in winter it was terrible
28:58
I can't believe you didn't fit
29:00
SSI heat exchangers or something like that to it
29:04
they didn't make them in the size that I
29:06
I've got aftermarket headers on it
29:10
I think they're two and a quarter inch
29:12
or something in an odd size
29:14
and like two and a half is a bit big
29:18
so it was this weird size
29:22
I made my own heat exchangers
29:24
so I've made boxes over the headers
29:28
the trouble is that they don't
29:30
they're a bit small
29:32
and they don't create enough heat
29:34
if I'm sitting on the highway
29:38
but if I'm on it in the twisties
29:44
you're talking about the orange car here are you
29:48
haven't you got that retro
29:52
does that not have heat as well
29:56
he's developed a new thing
30:00
so that's the same system they use
30:06
the issue is that you actually have to
30:10
the opposite direction
30:14
so you actually have to
30:18
a switching valve on the pump itself
30:20
which I know he's just
30:22
developing but yeah at the time
30:24
because the aircon works quite well
30:26
well it's interesting to say that
30:28
Roof and Singer use it
30:30
because in the last two weeks
30:32
or so actually since car week
30:34
when all the new cars
30:36
have come out and they've all got
30:38
the same aircon system
30:40
which I assume is a retro air
30:42
I can't remember the name
30:44
classic retrofit and they're all
30:46
winging that it's just not cold enough
30:52
but it might be because of the size of the glass house
30:54
in these cars or whatever it is
30:56
well the 911 obviously
30:58
is really quite a glass house
31:00
because there's tiny little pillars
31:02
and you're right next to the windows
31:10
but it's almost clear
31:12
so it doesn't look like I have window tint
31:16
just for the paparazzi
31:18
you can see straight through it
31:20
I need them to be able to still take photos
31:32
that might be the part of it then
31:38
and it was sort of low 30s the whole time
31:40
and I was regularly turning the aircon off
31:42
because I was getting too cold
31:44
because it was sort of on and off
31:46
I didn't have it on a thermostat or anything
31:50
but it doesn't blow
31:52
like the blower is really
31:56
and I know he's got a better one
31:58
but I'm sure it's still probably not as good
32:02
and that is one of the big things
32:04
is getting the vents and the blowers to be as strong
32:08
so when it can actually blow on your face
32:10
when you're hot you feel like you're cooling down much quicker
32:12
but it still kills the cab down
32:14
can you just remind me
32:16
I think you even fitted the more modern vents
32:18
in your Porsche didn't you
32:20
I had basically no vents in mine
32:22
mine's a 74 so I had
32:24
those two tokens in the middle
32:26
no I didn't have anything in the middle
32:28
I had these tiny little slots
32:30
smaller than my little finger on either side
32:34
that's actually what Ajmal's got in his car at the moment I think
32:36
I think it's the same one
32:38
I've just got the ones at the windscreen
32:42
but Ajmal do you have
32:44
do you have the quarter glasses that turn open
32:52
so I didn't have any
32:54
I didn't have those quarter glasses
32:56
those quarter glasses are fantastic
32:58
I love them, I'm going to remember 356
33:00
you flip it completely the other way
33:02
it doesn't have to do at any speed
33:04
just don't have a crash
33:06
mine was one of the first years
33:08
I think it might have been the first year that they made them solid
33:10
but I still do have
33:12
the opening rear quarter glasses
33:14
so before I actually
33:16
fitted the aircon I worked out at one stage
33:18
that I could put the missed events on
33:22
and if I opened the rear quarter glasses
33:24
then it would get airflow through without the noise on the highway
33:26
the trouble is that
33:28
with the rear quarter glasses you have to stop the car
33:32
and no one opens them that often
33:34
so the rub is always really tight on the glass
33:36
when you open it right
33:38
yeah so they're always
33:42
which is one of the reasons why on my
33:44
Ferrari I made them electric
33:46
so the rear quarter glasses open
33:48
they've got the same type of rear quarter glasses
33:50
and they open with electric actuators
33:52
do you have an aircon in the Ferrari?
33:54
I do but I haven't actually
33:56
plumbed in the gas yet
33:58
but everything is there
34:00
the compressor is there
34:02
the aircon unit is there
34:04
is that the Alfa system or the Ferrari system
34:06
or aftermarket system
34:10
classic retrofit the same guys
34:12
make a system for the Alphas
34:16
I had to make the tunnel bigger
34:20
so there's no space for it
34:22
so I actually have two separate systems
34:26
I have the aircon system in the center
34:36
but then I have a heater
34:38
behind the passenger side
34:46
so you go from cold to hot
34:48
I set that up with a micro switch
34:50
so when you put it on cold
34:56
the one fan switch will run the fans from the aircon
34:58
but as soon as you turn on any heat
35:00
it will start opening the heater valve
35:06
over to running the fan on the heater
35:10
at the moment you just need to gas it
35:12
and find out if this whole thing is going to work
35:14
it already works at blowing
35:20
that works but I haven't actually
35:30
from anybody I just bought
35:32
the electronic compressor
35:36
you can buy a 12 volt
35:42
just made my own unit up
35:48
I haven't had to use it yet because I haven't really
35:50
I haven't driven it enough
35:52
to need it, particularly not in summer
35:54
it's only sort of now that it's actually
35:56
finally getting to the stage
35:58
where it's actually a comfortable usable car
36:02
I'm surprised at how quickly the shakedown
36:04
I'm sure it's different because you're the owner
36:06
but considering how long you've actually
36:08
had it on the road, the shakedown
36:10
I got the impression, I did watch
36:12
I think I watched your most recent video on the El Ferrari
36:14
I get the impression
36:16
it's now the point where
36:18
it's a pretty nice car to drive
36:22
it's so much better
36:24
when I first built it
36:26
the engine mounts I used were polyurethane
36:30
and with a flat plane crank engine
36:32
I didn't really know this beforehand
36:34
but flat plane crank engines inherently
36:38
because that's why they develop
36:40
cross plane crank engines
36:44
with the flat plane crank
36:46
the firing order is sort of basically left
36:48
right, left bank, right bank, left bank, right bank
36:50
so the whole engine wobbles
36:54
whereas cross plane it's like
36:56
left, left, right, right
36:58
left, left, right, right
37:00
that wobble vibration
37:08
now I swapped those
37:10
I completely changed the engine mounts, put much bigger rubber
37:14
the vibrations are 10% of what they were
37:16
when I first had it
37:18
when I first had it it would
37:20
like just particularly idle and low revs
37:22
it just felt like the whole car was going to rattle
37:24
apart it was just shaking
37:28
of the quality of worlds at that point
37:30
but as to whether or not the cars stay together
37:32
it was just absolutely
37:34
horrendous, it was just
37:38
a comfortable thing to drive
37:40
and I was like what have I done
37:42
and now it's actually
37:44
because I didn't want it to just be a youtube build
37:46
like so many youtube builds
37:48
it looks pretty and it
37:50
moves down the road so it must be
37:56
a car that was actually
37:58
a real thing that you could actually use
38:02
see I need to do that with my 912 because
38:04
my 912 the engine mounts
38:06
it's just a youtube build
38:08
there are any engine mounts
38:10
it's literally just straight bolted through
38:14
no you got the big bar across the back
38:16
yeah the big bar across the back
38:18
that's got rubber things in it
38:22
on the ends it's supposed to have mounts
38:24
there as well but it's just bolted
38:28
because normally underneath that big
38:30
big bar on either side at least if it's the same as the 911
38:34
little rubber mounts that that sits onto
38:36
that bolts through it so
38:38
it's not a mine it's not a bar
38:40
like I've seen on another 912
38:44
massive really thick flat plate
38:48
to the ends I will say this though
38:52
they're very smooth motors
38:54
they're very well balanced motors
38:56
so it shouldn't have too much vibration
39:06
before we finish on the Alfarari
39:10
I haven't seen much content
39:14
there's going to be a lot for a bit there
39:16
and then it's all gone quiet all of a sudden
39:18
when you end up with the make and the noise
39:20
actually like I sort of did that
39:24
it had wiring issues from the whole
39:26
from the start I sort of
39:30
basically when I started the car
39:32
for those who don't know what it is
39:34
basically Alfarari is a
39:40
2000 model Ferrari V8 in
39:44
didn't have a wire in it so I made
39:46
the entire body wiring loom
39:50
and I thought I thought of everything
39:52
I put a couple of spare wires into the loom
39:54
and things like that and of course I still didn't think
39:56
of everything and then it was all sort of
39:58
cobbled together and there were things
40:00
that weren't working properly when I got it going
40:02
even it's got electric
40:04
electric power steering
40:06
and that would only work
40:08
every other time you started it so sometimes
40:10
it was like trying to wrestle with it
40:12
sometimes it didn't get enough
40:16
I swapped over the fuse box and I put
40:18
a PDM a power distribution
40:20
module in it so like an electronic
40:24
and it was off the road for the last sort of
40:26
two and a bit months or something so
40:28
that's where it sort of stopped is I started
40:30
trying to make it sound
40:32
better because it doesn't sound like a Ferrari
40:34
it almost sounds like a four-cylinder still
40:40
my list of things to do
40:44
I actually had a company in
40:48
I want to say they're in the Netherlands
40:54
might have been Denmark
41:02
I scanned my engine bay
41:04
and they actually designed up
41:06
a set of equal length headers
41:08
that would fit in the tiny
41:10
amount of space I have
41:14
they are the most bizarre looking headers
41:18
but I actually 3D printed them and fit them
41:22
a few loops going on
41:26
but the issue is that
41:32
it only had like sort of two millimeters
41:34
of clearance everywhere
41:36
including like the steering shaft went through
41:38
a hole between the headers
41:40
that only had two millimeters of clearance
41:42
so things like that
41:44
I couldn't actually be used like that
41:46
but that was an initial run going
41:50
in theory is possible
41:52
and that was with using off the shelf
41:54
bends that I could actually
41:56
sort of calculate and well
41:58
but I could actually
42:02
as they were discussing
42:04
potentially use some 3D printed
42:08
so maybe the pipes overlies in some sections
42:10
so you keep the same
42:14
but they could actually get more clearance
42:16
in spaces where you needed them
42:18
so that is something
42:22
but the only other issue is that
42:24
I don't know if I could actually
42:28
and as my engine mounts are
42:30
I couldn't fit the engine
42:32
with the engine mounts
42:34
so I couldn't fit the headers
42:36
with the engine in the car with the headers on
42:38
there's no way it wouldn't fit
42:40
but with the engine in the car
42:42
you can't put the headers on because you can't get to it
42:44
so like it was sort of
42:46
there was no way to actually
42:48
you would have to come up with a way to fit them as well
42:52
I think you have to do the whole
42:54
Hoonigan type thing
42:56
and just put the exhaust straight out through the top of the bonnet mate
43:00
the thing is you can't even get it out the top of the bonnet
43:02
because you can't get it past the spot
43:08
or just cut the car in half and widen it
43:10
by about three inches you'll be fine
43:12
I could probably put two exhaust headers
43:14
out the back of the engine
43:16
and two out the front
43:18
and just fucking out from underneath
43:22
a couple coming out from underneath the front of the car
43:24
I get what you're saying
43:28
how are you going to fit the turbos in there?
43:30
I've had lots of people ask for that
43:34
it's not the fastest car in the world
43:36
there's plenty of supercars that are faster
43:38
but it is far too fast for a car like that
43:40
it's already scary fast
43:42
it is a very very quick little car
43:46
it's 310 horsepower
44:00
it's lighter than the Ferrari it came out of
44:02
and it makes the same power
44:06
and it's still pulling
44:08
all the way to 9000 RPM
44:10
and even on the dyno
44:12
the power was still going up
44:14
at 9000 we were about to go for
44:16
9250 and keep revving
44:20
trigger wheel that I made for the front
44:22
of the engine broke off
44:24
just before we did it so
44:26
I haven't been back to the dyno
44:28
it happily revs to 9
44:32
and it just keeps pulling
44:34
it just doesn't scream the right tone
44:36
that people are expecting when they hear Ferrari engine
44:42
so there is more work there
44:44
and I will be doing more
44:46
particularly now that it's actually working again
44:50
I've got your solution for you
44:54
it might be time to just convert
45:02
the gearbox is already back
45:04
I know you've got the Subaru gearbox
45:06
it's in the transaxle as well
45:08
get one out of the Ferrari
45:10
it's already got a Subaru bell housing
45:12
I'm sure I could get a WX gearbox
45:22
I've got a mate in Queensland
45:24
who had less in his 911
45:30
change the pinion wheel on the WX gearbox
45:32
but if I did it mid-engine
45:34
you wouldn't have to change the pinion gear
45:38
just connect up a standard WX gearbox
45:40
I feel like you've already
45:46
I don't want to do it
45:48
have I not mentioned it
45:50
I'm sick of mid-engine cars with a rockstar
45:54
that's a front wheel drive gearbox
45:56
in the back of a Boxster
45:58
that's what they are
46:00
they're an Audi gearbox
46:02
what is it, five reverse gears and one forward
46:04
I'll hang on the other way around
46:08
the gearbox is facing the same direction
46:10
everyone thinks it's
46:14
instead of running on the front wheels
46:16
the Audi's are a very
46:20
that sit way past the front axles
46:24
basically Porsche thought
46:26
that gearbox looks good
46:28
we'll put it in our Boxster and that's what they run
46:30
they run an Audi gearbox
46:32
which is why I put an Audi V8 in my
46:36
that has been sitting in my yard for a long time
46:38
which I was going to ask you questions about
46:42
so I watched the last
46:44
video where you put paint on it
46:50
and I watched the previous video as well
46:52
when you went into the track
46:54
when the lights fell out
46:56
and I felt like that was the video
46:58
where I just saw the change in your face
47:00
going off just flipping
47:04
and then when you start putting the paint on it
47:06
it was literally like I'm throwing paint at it
47:10
you were like yeah it hasn't gone properly
47:20
when I bought it I was really thinking
47:22
I was going to build a time attack car
47:24
that was my ultimate goal
47:28
and the more I've sort of
47:30
well time attack is coming up this weekend in Sydney
47:34
it's a huge event over here
47:36
and the more I look at that
47:38
the more I realize that
47:40
I just don't want to throw that money
47:44
there's no such thing as a low budget time attack car
47:48
millions of dollars
47:52
and I wasn't even expecting to be competitive
47:54
just go and have fun
47:56
but like it's really
47:58
you need massive power
48:02
and yeah it's got to be
48:06
and if I just want a car
48:10
I have my 911 which
48:12
I can just run around all day
48:14
without complaining
48:16
and the tail lights will stay in
48:18
and the tail lights will stay in
48:22
the tail lights on my box
48:24
fell out on the track
48:26
because I did not realize that the previous owner
48:28
must have pulled them out at some stage
48:30
and never actually bolted them back in again
48:32
so they had no bolts they were just sitting there
48:34
and so they eventually just fell out on the track
48:36
can I expect pedal a second time attack
48:40
time attack youtube videos
48:42
especially Japanese stuff love it right
48:46
you said big power big aero
48:50
and you see there is big aero on these cars
48:54
I just don't know how well
48:56
tested or proven some of this aero is
48:58
a lot of it looks a little bit backyard to me
49:00
when I look at the size of some of these
49:02
wings and front splitters
49:06
diffusers and stuff
49:08
I'm thinking I don't know
49:10
I don't know whether you actually you know whether or not that works
49:12
well you know the CFT that's got into that
49:14
this little CFT that's got into that
49:18
I don't know if it has been as much
49:22
there's some of that that definitely hasn't
49:24
but the high end guys are using
49:28
you know F1 engineers
49:34
but Jeff that's six people
49:36
out of the 200 runs that are happening
49:40
there's probably a lot more than that
49:42
actually there are a lot of people who are like
49:44
you know you're already spending
49:48
50 to 100,000 dollars
49:50
on an engine at least
49:54
and they're spending that again
50:00
such a difference if you want to be even
50:02
close to being competitive
50:04
there are listeners out there that
50:06
love and time attack
50:08
that are obsessed with it
50:10
that maybe even drive
50:12
let me know what sort of research you've done
50:14
let me know how you've developed your aero
50:20
I know there is an Aussie
50:22
guy in Sydney somewhere
50:24
who has his YouTube channel
50:26
who worked for Mercedes
50:30
a few years and is now
50:32
doing time attack aero designs
50:36
I actually think there's probably more money
50:38
in time attack aero work
50:40
than there would be in Formula 1 because there's only
50:42
20 Formula 1 guys that would be doing it
50:44
versus time attack there could be
50:46
150 jobs out there globally right
50:52
there's a lot more than one guy on there
50:56
yeah you might be right
50:58
but yeah so basically
51:00
with a rockstar I just sort of realised that
51:02
it's so much easier having
51:10
I enjoy a track day but I don't
51:16
and it's generally as part of another event
51:20
I just don't get there enough and I'm like
51:24
yeah I just realised that I went into it
51:26
with one intention and realised that I'm not actually
51:30
I really wanted to do the build
51:34
I love building cars
51:38
if not more than driving them so
51:42
yeah I don't think it's a mystery
51:44
so I've got home drive by built
51:48
home drive by built
51:52
well I chatted with
51:56
Stanceworks and I think he's sort of
51:58
in a similar boat that
52:02
I think he loves driving
52:06
I'm sure he'd be similar situation to me
52:08
that if you could only drive or build
52:10
for the rest of your life I'm sure he would do the build
52:12
rather than the drive
52:14
is that the guy doing the f40 v12 thing
52:26
I'm not watching a 45 minute video
52:28
oh my god I can't believe the video is already over
52:30
yeah it's that type of
52:32
video he's got just by those hypnotic voices
52:34
as well you know where he's
52:38
process driven it's
52:40
great listen, great watch too
52:44
but that's Jeff's frankenhall video
52:46
I've got no interest in trucks
52:50
Jeff's like I'm about to start this new project
52:52
I'm like oh he's gone to trucks
52:54
I'm like I'm no interest in trucks
52:56
and then I'm hooked
52:58
I'm like every week I'm waiting for this video
53:00
what's he did this week
53:02
I don't know how it happened
53:04
I've got a complaint about your latest video
53:08
here it comes and I'm sure you've
53:10
heard it in the comments
53:12
I got clicked by it
53:16
the front flip the front end
53:18
I thought whole guards and everything were coming up
53:20
I thought I'm looking
53:24
I can't wait to see
53:26
oh he's just done the bonnet
53:28
just looks like a 240Z
53:32
why is he doing this
53:34
he's just put the steering column
53:36
through the side fender
53:38
I was just going to work
53:40
I was exactly the same as him
53:42
I don't remember putting a curve in that cut
53:44
that he had to put in the side guard
53:46
to make this thing flip
53:54
I'm not the greatest YouTuber in the world
53:56
which is because I just don't plan
53:58
things out very well
54:00
if I actually planned out
54:06
maybe even didn't do a weekly video
54:08
and did a video every few weeks
54:10
when they had like a
54:18
scrabble around and go
54:20
what am I going to do this week
54:24
it's working for you
54:26
you've got plenty of people that love watching your videos
54:30
whilst it may not be perfect
54:34
it fills a spot for us
54:38
just thinking you've made a few videos
54:40
where you've kind of gone back to the Alpharare
54:42
and done a little bit of
54:44
I like the shakedown stuff
54:46
and the exhaust and a little bit where
54:48
you've done the wiring or the power steering bit
54:50
and what a lot of YouTubers are doing
54:52
is they're having a like a two channel
54:56
and at first I was like why are they doing that
54:58
but it's to work the algorithm isn't it
55:00
it's to stop the algorithm working against you
55:02
on your main videos because if you put out
55:04
secondary video that's not a big video
55:06
that's in a big build that everybody's waiting for
55:08
it then affects your big video
55:10
because you've got fewer people
55:12
you're a little tweaking at something
55:14
have you thought about doing that
55:20
it's starting again and it would
55:24
but like things like most of my rockstar videos
55:26
are like a bonus video
55:28
there's a second video for the week so they don't do
55:34
my videos always come out on Sunday over here
55:38
the fact is that I'm lazy
55:40
I don't think that much is true
55:44
I never planned on being
55:46
an inverted commerce YouTuber
55:48
it just sort of happened
55:50
I started doing videos
55:52
when I'm building my 9-11
55:54
wait, wait, wait, let's backpedal it
55:56
weren't you doing some house rental stuff or something earlier
55:58
I did some of that as well
56:00
I was just sort of filming everything I'm doing
56:02
I'm like well if I'm working I might as well just film it
56:04
I did about 10 episodes
56:10
three years ago I knocked that house down
56:12
and that's when the new house is built
56:16
that could have been a whole different channel you could have killed it
56:20
I didn't want to advertise the fact that
56:22
my shed was on a vacant block
56:24
you get visitors you don't want
56:26
yeah that was it so now I'm living back there
56:30
do you think there's a
56:32
YouTuber out there that produces less content
56:34
than that is more successful than
56:40
at least not in automotive
56:46
he must have probably about one video a quarter
56:52
but he makes sure that they're going to
57:00
I know he's copped a lot over the years
57:02
because he's had a lot of projects
57:04
that he sort of got and then never finished
57:08
does finish projects
57:12
you get the most views from the new project video
57:14
so if you're always announcing a new project
57:16
you're getting it more views
57:18
it's just what it is
57:28
my Alpharari build was on up to
57:30
233 episodes on one car
57:32
it's not good for YouTube
57:36
the first 10 were amazing
57:46
Matt Armstrong is really killing it
57:48
he's the one who's really just
57:50
absolutely nailing it
57:52
everyone loves a crash car come good right
57:54
look it's really entertaining
57:56
and I've had people put them forward
57:58
people said why can't you
58:00
do stuff more like Matt Armstrong
58:02
I watch all these videos I love his content
58:06
I compare his stuff to what I do
58:08
he's putting together
58:10
reassembling Lego cars
58:12
and I'm making the Lego pieces from scratch
58:18
his stuff is fantastic
58:20
but it's a very different thing
58:26
and creating every single part
58:30
he takes back to what it was
58:36
square or whatever but basically
58:38
it's repairing a damaged vehicle
58:42
the parts and whatever
58:46
he's doing a great job
58:48
and everyone loves to know there are a million dollar lamb
58:50
beginnings out there with 7 dollar parts on them
58:54
that type of content everyone loves that stuff
59:00
because if you look at the latest Tavaresh video
59:02
that was dropped yesterday I think
59:08
you don't know he bought from Canada
59:14
to avoid the tariffs
59:16
so he took the engine out
59:22
and it dropped yesterday
59:24
it was just tearing down the engine
59:26
it went live yesterday
59:28
and he's got 750,000 views
59:32
whereas Matt Armstrong
59:36
with his Revolto video I think
59:40
and he's cobbled all of them together
59:42
to make it a much longer video
59:48
and that's 2.7 million views
59:56
he's just really likeable
00:02
he really does a great job
00:04
I wonder what he's going to spend that 11 dollars
00:12
the difference is I like a restoration
00:14
where I like somebody resurrecting
00:16
something that's old and been neglected
00:18
we all have a taste
00:20
I do like Matt Armstrong's videos
00:24
interested in driving
00:26
a high-end Lamborghini
00:30
Uros or something like that
00:32
I'm not massively interested in those things
00:38
feel the same way as a kid
00:40
I think we all love the latest supercars
00:42
they were the most amazing thing
00:44
and now as I'm older
00:46
I sort of look at it and go
00:50
I could sell my cars
00:52
and buy some nice new supercars
00:54
but even if I had the budget for new supercars
00:56
I'm just not interested
00:58
I'll be much more interested in that
01:02
then Hoovey I think has just bought
01:08
I know that's crazy
01:10
that is so much better than a Bugette Bugatti
01:14
interest in Bugettes
01:16
but it would definitely be
01:26
when you were young
01:28
you were very interested in supercars
01:30
now the supercars you liked when you were young
01:34
I hate to break into you
01:36
because you're at an age
01:38
same with you Oshma
01:54
anything after you've turned 25
01:56
is no longer interesting
01:58
as anything under 25
02:00
I'm curious to know when is that actual number for us
02:02
like my thing of myself
02:06
when I think supercars after about
02:12
supercars I still get a little bit excited
02:14
about it you know but after 2000
02:20
and is the number that
02:22
tied a bandwidth that we can actually predict it
02:24
because you see in car values like at
02:26
Monterey car week all the
02:28
old cars super soft
02:30
auction prices like the arse
02:32
is completely falling out of classics
02:34
and 1990s and 2000s cars are going through the roof
02:38
that is an age thing that's absolutely
02:40
an age thing because the super
02:42
old car like you know the DB5s
02:44
the e-types the gull wings
02:46
they are those people are dying
02:48
those people are out of the money
02:50
or they've got no they're losing interest in that kind of thing
02:54
let's say suddenly we were given a black check
02:56
you do whatever you want and you know you're going to kind of sway
02:58
towards the cars that were on your
03:00
you know on the wall when you were a kid
03:02
the 959 the Diablo is the F40s
03:08
they're always Italian
03:10
they're always Italian exotics
03:16
you've got that that's a super high end
03:18
that we're all interested in but then
03:20
we're also of a certain age that when
03:22
there's cars that we would want to now buy
03:24
which are probably the cars that we coveted
03:26
when we were 17, 18, 19 that we
03:28
saw everywhere and everyone else driving
03:30
they might be hot hatches
03:32
they might be you know some performance car
03:34
that was readily available
03:36
and anyone could buy
03:38
some of them disappeared because
03:40
they weren't cars that would last forever
03:42
others are classics and really
03:44
expensive so you know I was looking
03:46
at the other day a Cleo
03:48
Renault Cleo Williams
03:50
hardly any of them left
03:52
and they cost so much money
03:56
it's a lot of money for 115 horsepower
03:58
yeah and it's ridiculous
04:00
right so but then when you think
04:02
of you know the Peugeot 205 GCI
04:04
the Renault 5, the Golf GCI
04:06
whatever they might be
04:08
there's small cars that were everywhere
04:10
and as a 17, 18 year old you would have thought
04:12
oh my god that would be amazing if I had one of those
04:14
and now you go could I probably
04:16
I could probably afford one and you look at it and go
04:20
the reason I've been at the age
04:24
current purchase of that Gullwing
04:28
you know a lot okay for me
04:30
it's definitely a top five if money was
04:32
I think it would be in the garage for me
04:34
I love them right, I love the design
04:36
I love everything about them
04:40
not to give away too much on the channel
04:42
but who these like 15 years younger than me
04:46
I'm surprised that cars
04:50
at that bigger age gap
04:52
that's nearly a generation
04:54
yeah but aren't some cars
04:58
timeless don't you know
05:00
why who's bought one
05:02
because the values are falling on the cars
05:06
well I mean I love that
05:08
car and that's way before my generation
05:10
as well like really
05:12
yep um yeah so I wouldn't make
05:16
you'll appreciate what a good car is right
05:20
that would still be yeah probably on my
05:22
top five money no object
05:26
so yeah I don't know I mean
05:28
for me I think that when you're saying the
05:30
time thing I think it's sort of
05:32
it's sort of got to a stage and then it stopped
05:34
it's like you see some old people
05:36
with the same haircut they had it
05:38
at 30 and then it's
05:40
the same haircut that forever
05:46
yeah I'd love to say mine was by choice too as well
05:50
all the same music choice
05:52
you sort of keep listening
05:54
to new music and then it's like oh all this new stuff
05:56
and can you just want to listen to the same
05:58
classics like you sort of get to an age
06:00
and then it just stops yeah where is my Adam in the
06:08
I think after miles points partly relevant
06:10
where some cars transcend generations
06:14
clearly one of them like
06:16
you know 250 California because of Ferris
06:18
Bueller you know what I mean there's some cars
06:20
that will always be
06:22
you know on the dream
06:24
list for a lot of people but
06:26
I was just really surprised
06:28
that he bought that car
06:30
but he has had a lot of cars that would have been
06:32
on his list but he has had a Diablo
06:34
he has a Qantas he has had a
06:38
there's a little bit
06:40
so the YouTubers you know
06:42
you see a ton of stuff where they go I've bought this
06:44
blind and that's the clickbait right
06:46
I've bought this kind of blind and then you
06:48
go they don't buy cars
06:50
blind like I buy them blind
06:54
when they turn up and you go
06:56
oh my god what an absolute
06:58
heap of shit they don't
07:00
do that you've misinterpreted
07:02
the term blind you've just had 18
07:04
prosecco's when you've been on ebay
07:06
that's the type of blind you are
07:08
I've only done that twice
07:14
no you can have a Boxster at some stage
07:18
it was the worth Box turn
07:24
when you see them and they go I bought this blind
07:26
but then you find out hang on
07:28
it's been in storage it's been really looked after
07:30
like the Qantas and the Diablo
07:32
that who have you bought
07:34
they were cars that were unused
07:36
but they were in fantastic
07:38
condition and of course he had to spend money
07:40
to get them going but
07:42
they were instantly worth almost double what
07:46
and that wasn't oh I've just taken a chance
07:48
on a defensive car he's
07:50
done something who's gone I cannot lose here
07:54
he's also his whole business model
07:56
is buying and selling cars
07:58
so like he's bought that going
08:00
and it doesn't mean
08:02
that he's going to be keeping it for the next
08:04
you know till he dies
08:08
yeah exactly like he buy and
08:10
keep it for a while make a few videos and then
08:12
when he can't make any more videos on it it may
08:14
like I don't know if it's a stream
08:16
but he may just move it on
08:18
it has to pay for itself
08:20
do you think he's going to get to a point
08:24
he's going to run out of people in Kansas that don't own
08:30
because of how quickly he churns through
08:32
anyway enough about a YouTube we don't know
08:34
hasn't been on the channel
08:36
we need to get him on
08:40
yeah I'll talk to him
08:42
okay give me a chat
08:48
Jeff we really appreciate you taking the time
08:50
and having chat with us great to get an update on
08:52
how things are going
08:54
you know a little bit of
08:56
chatter outside of what your normal
08:58
posts and videos are like
09:00
it's nice to get the
09:02
a bit of information that would be on the second
09:04
Jeff channel if you made one
09:12
grander things moving forward but
09:14
yeah everything's still in the
09:16
in the pipeline at the moment so
09:20
I'm always impressed by how
09:22
slightly I wanted to ask you this earlier
09:24
how you get your wife to get involved
09:26
like sometimes I have to get
09:28
my wife out just to pump the pedal so I can
09:30
leave the break like she's like
09:32
FML why are you making me do this
09:34
yes why don't you buy a better car
09:40
she's really good sport she has
09:42
very little interest in cars
09:46
she doesn't like going on spirited drives
09:48
with me like she gets
09:54
are you dropping a bombshell here she does not
09:56
do the fun facts but
09:58
herself do the research and all of that
10:02
which is maybe why they were always bloopers
10:04
and everybody always
10:06
asks why don't you get a teleprompter
10:08
I'm like where would the bloopers be
10:10
if there was a teleprompter
10:16
look I've been in a fortunate position
10:20
and she is a good sport
10:22
and I think that as long as it keeps
10:24
Jeff happy I think she'd be okay doing it
10:26
yeah look I think she's happy
10:28
sometimes she's like oh I'm exhausted
10:30
and we still have to film this
10:32
for today I'm like we've got to film it
10:36
I've got to get edited and get it posted
10:38
on the weekend because I mean I'm very strict
10:42
I'm very routine based so everything
10:46
ready at a certain time so
10:50
Hajmal any more questions
10:52
I have loads but we're
10:58
thanks for having me guys
11:00
we really appreciate
11:02
you taking the time
11:04
to have a gas bag with us
11:06
listeners you're actually going to get this a better week
11:08
after this conversation so
11:10
if there's any bombshells Jeff wants to drop beforehand
11:14
I will have seen you at time attack
11:24
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11:26
who Jeff is but in case you don't
11:28
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11:30
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11:32
and I'm a mark and market cast gentlemen
11:34
thank you very much for your time
11:36
and we hope listeners you're listening
11:38
from behind the wheel thanks guys