Reload EP142 - A Surprise Visit

Hello and welcome back to the really low podcast.

My name's Nigel Mont and I'm joined as usual by Leigh Maxwell and Connor McCann.

This is episode 142, correct, yeah, it is indeed, 142.

So, the last episode was EGLY, you ain't getting a while about it.

Exactly, I was wondering who would pick up on that, we showed you that one.

I don't remember that one.

So, Connor went, we had a bit of chit-chat and Connor went through, what was the, some of

the, it was basically, bad designs.

Very poor, ugly cars, pre-2000, because I reckon that anything after 2000 you'd

be there for all day.

My Tesla Cybertruck, they're either absolutely bland or incredibly ugly, BMW, those big

nozzle girls.

So, this time, we're just going to do much of the same, we're going to chat about what

we've been up to, we've been to a few shows, a few events, correctly chat about those.

So, crack on guys, what's happening, what's new?

So I suppose the most recent one we were at was Friday night, all three of us were

there at the Blackwater, kind of end of summer barbecue we've been doing for a few

years now.

Great event.

Absolutely brilliant.

So well-organised, Aldi just throws his all into it.

So Blackwater, for anyone who don't know Blackwater graphics, obviously big

supporters of DubShed over the years, stickers, merch, clothing, branding,

vinyl wraps, banners, flags, what do you need?

And actual car enthusiasts.

And proper car enthusiasts who run it and work in it, so.

Who could us down to, who bought his dream car there a month ago?

The red R8.

R8 Veedhaen.

Nice.

That's so nice.

So, we were there, it starts quite early, because it's kind of evening late

summer, so they try and get quite a lot of it done before it gets dark.

I think it's because they're all in work and he's just sort of keeping

them on.

I just stay on.

But we got there, and even when we arrived, we weren't late, late, but we

weren't there right from the start.

I was only in ten months about earlier.

It was very, very fall even before we got there.

And it continued.

And it's a great variety of stuff too, like everything from classic to

modern stuff, stuff you see at DubShed, lorries, tractors, and then because

of Andrew's background with, working with motorsport teams, there's

also some really cool rally cars, race cars, race bikes, stuff like that.

Yeah.

I mean, he's the official merchandise provider for Northwest 200.

Ah, so that's the draw as well.

Yeah.

There was an Astra Coupe, like, so what, like an O4 kind of era, O3, O4.

Done like the touring car, mad needle graphics and stuff.

And I said to Richie, I was like, that's right up your street.

And he went over and he came back and he goes, I don't think that's a

replica. He says it's left hand drive.

So I don't know enough about it.

So that's just like, say, the shed or in the shed?

Do you know where we were queuing for the burgers along there?

Yeah.

So with the pull that they have, I wouldn't be surprised if it was

genuine as well.

There was lorries, there was everything.

There must have been 500 plus people there.

Easy. I was trying to work that out as well.

That it's so hard.

Yeah. Because it was rammed and the barbecue got hit hard.

It did.

That's great.

And he says, when he walked up dust, your memory says, or maybe it was

just me, I had to leave early.

He says, I won't have to try and find more burgers here.

We're 3,600 already.

Oh, I'm not surprised.

So there must have been more than 500 people.

It must have been. Oh, easily.

Yeah. Close to a thousand if you're doing 6,100 burgers.

Because your ticket got you a burger, so everybody had one burger.

There was people buying burgers at the counter.

Oh, really? Yeah.

Brennan's ice cream van, shout out.

Absolutely. Delicious.

I wasn't that much of a rush.

I didn't even notice the Brennan's ice cream van there.

And then I was seeing pictures of people eating ice cream.

And went, oh, crap.

It was, I walked up to it and I think the camera was

yourself Lee or Dave, focus RS.

It said he's a very fancy looking ice cream van.

Then I noticed that it could be car payment thing.

And I said, you guys, like, this is very clean and tidy and presentable.

He says, next thing you could tell me you don't sell drugs to kids.

But I was some ice cream.

Like it's just good.

I love Brennan's ice cream.

They had the Craig Island coaster on the go.

They did indeed.

We either.

So obviously the fly model planes this every year as well.

Yeah.

And they fastened me because they just looked like they defy gravity.

Well, they kind of do.

But like they also defy the laws of physics on them.

But did you see or hear the jet one?

How about dog shed before it was.

We were standing talking in the field.

I think it was John Billus talking to you.

And it was like, well, like, holy fuck, what is that?

Yeah. And it was so, so fast.

I was like, do you remember when you were a kid

and you had a really fast remote control car

and it's going away from your ring stairs nicely.

And then when it's coming back, you have to put your brain

and fucking mirror image mode and you have to steer the opposite direction.

What way does that work as well when you're doing that?

But also there's up and down moods as well.

I think you must just mentally put your head in the cockpit.

You have to, yeah.

And just sort of go in that sort of next dimension.

You're sort of visualising from that.

Yeah, that's not like.

Fasten me.

The the racing drone pilots, they put the goggles on VR goggles

or whatever it is.

I seen one of the guys had those as well.

Things are scary.

How manoeuvrable they are.

I was wondering, do you get like motion sickness with those as well?

I would say you do.

It's bound to be a strange thing.

Me and my daughter were down there for a day in Newcastle

and we went, of course, one of the amusements, like

there's more and more VR machines down there.

Have you ever done some of the VR rides?

Yeah.

There's big signs.

Motion sickness warning or something or something.

I tell you what, you even some of the ones now that they have at Disney

that they're all VR type, right?

You're not really on a big roller coaster anymore

because the screens and everything makes you feel like you're moving

when you're not.

The Simpsons rides, come on.

It just raises you up into this globe.

Yes.

Basically.

There's there's another one as well in Disney.

I'm thinking of the one where you're supposed to be like

floating all around the world.

Soren.

Yeah.

That's kind of like that, too.

Some cool rides.

You're talking about the variety of cars.

Like there's the rarest of the rare, but like not even kind of

what you would expect like Gav 525 had the Alto works.

Did you see it?

No.

Suzuki Alto, the white one, recently, it has

She was all over it.

Worked 003s, I want to say on it.

Pure JDM porn.

But it's also like Gran Trasmutui vibes because it's like

your starter car looks like a little toaster with 600 cc

turbo engine.

Nice.

That thing is unbelievable.

I really, really like it and Gav owned some weird stuff.

He has done all of that.

And he's probably picked with this one, I say, because I

don't know what were you going to get something more

odd than that.

Other one as well was a guy pulled in on a radical.

I was going to mention the radical, yeah.

Fuck me.

I think we were taking it down around the country, Nova.

And he pulled in and I was like, is that it?

Yep.

That's a radical.

It's basically just a race car for the road.

Are those roads out to Blackwater are not exactly great?

No, they used to be worse.

The Reservice, one of them.

They did, yeah.

We basically came across country to it and it was horrendous.

Yeah, as I said, you should just came straight to my house

and then out the Clinchy Road.

But apparently Google had better ideas.

Yes, it had different ideas.

I wouldn't say there were better ideas.

Yeah.

The roads on the way back were interesting too,

because then once it was dark,

you can't see the potholes as well.

Yeah.

And I haven't got one headlight.

So we were heading back.

Lee had sat in that van.

I was following her.

And then the whole way, it was like basically back roads

and you were pushing on as in the TT,

pushing on behind you.

And this fucking dickhead was behind me in this mark.

I could see the headlights of this Mark V Golf.

And I was like, is this some young fellow

who was caught on R32 in a TT and sort of trying

to keep up?

Then we got to Lisburne to get some food for Stefan.

And Richie pulled in behind me and I was like,

I forgot he's the Mark V who was Richie.

I thought Richie had left before us, you see.

That's like a sort of half person on race

in this young kid going like, what the fuck's he doing?

Or is he going to rob me?

He's getting called a young kid.

That's it.

It's a long time we could call that.

Richie's very young.

Young at heart.

Yeah, great I found.

I think it was the fundraiser this time

was for the Ulster Rugby Foundation.

It was, yeah.

Like that.

And most importantly, we got a nice sticker for the ramp.

Excellent.

And they had a raffle,

which I won a prize in.

Did you?

What do you win?

A Peppa Pig Pint set.

Ours are fun.

Which I donated to Ricky for his boys.

So the boys will never see it.

Ricky will be sitting out in his garage

and then they do it.

Uh, Dave, who lives locally here.

He's the guy that did our trees.

He's a focus RS.

It's like 580 horse parts.

It's not the one that was sitting in the field.

The blue one.

Oh, I didn't realize I have your neighbor.

Yeah, that's.

Tomorrow's telling me about my hairdresser.

I bought an RS6, that's her fella.

So he took me a run out in on the other night.

I've been in it before years ago,

but it's been a lot more worked on too.

So it's a full Cyvex standalone

and it's boost by gear.

But like it has 10 switchable maps.

Took me for around an hour.

Is that the face on the RS?

Yes, it is, yeah.

It is an absolute animal.

But what I was going to say was

he bought tickets at the same time as Lee.

Yeah.

And he came over with an arm full of stuff.

He won, he bought a, he won a draper ratchet set.

He won hair straighteners.

Hair straighteners.

He won a big box of Haribo.

He won either a body warmer or a jacket or something.

One of those dry robe things, you know, you get.

Well, he smokes.

Cause he's probably armfuls of stuff.

And I was like, what the fuck did you win?

He just pulled up the charity stall.

No, he had bought a couple of tickets of his own.

But then all the Ford boys who were with him

had gone home early and given them,

given him their tickets.

I think that was the crack.

So he was kind of going, I think that was Mark's ticket.

So that'll be his, I think, you know, well,

and I was like, you could just pick and choose

whichever one you want.

When he was put them into the boot of the car,

I didn't look, he didn't mention Markle to that.

That was a great night.

The one fair play that the guys were putting along.

Cause that's such a good night.

Yeah. We never even really looked at that many cars,

to be honest.

Nope.

And there was a course election there,

but we're just chatting and yeah, having the crack.

Good times.

Anything else for you?

Just one kind of strange thing.

So I got this letter from my insurance company the other day

and it's never good when you get a letter

from your insurance company.

You kind of go, oh, what's happened here?

So it says, dear Ms. Maxwell,

following an internal review,

we have identified that your renewal price

for your motor insurance was higher than it should have been.

We're sorry that this happened

and we're correcting this by refunding the money to you.

What do you think my refund was?

Hundreds of pounds.

Three pounds 72, for which they have something to check.

Now that is insane in my head.

And this is my insurance.

How I've stamped now is like one pound 80.

It probably cost them more to send me this letter.

The time you factor in admin and all the rest,

it probably cost 30 quid to send that.

The other funny thing is it's the date of the error

was in 2023.

So it's two years ago.

They've realized they've charged me too much.

I reckon they've had an audit over something

and that's been flagged and they had to do something about it.

There's probably thousands of people got checks like that.

Do you pay upfront every time or direct debit?

I usually pay upfront,

but it depends on some years I do.

Either return, go with re-send this to your account

and just put a remit on the face thing or something.

That is weird.

But see, that's the thing.

If they put it into your account, then you have it.

If they send you a check,

if 100 people get a check for three pounds.

How many of them are not gonna put them in?

Most people won't bother their ass to do it.

So they'll save themselves a couple of hundred quid there.

That reminds me of getting told,

I was about 10 years ago, a friend of mine,

was friendly with General Malanchor,

the Gallagorm Group, a big spa hotel in Ballamina.

And it was one Christmas, he said,

sold, they probably sent 10 times

this amount of vouchers every year.

They sold 850,000 pound of voucher,

which have a year expiry on them.

And only 410,000 was reclaimed.

Aye.

So it's free money.

Free money.

Because people either lose vouchers,

they haven't got time to go, you know.

Well, here's the thing.

Say somebody gives you a 100 pound voucher for Gallagorm.

And there's 300 quid.

So by then getting you that voucher

is costing you 200 quid.

So most people go,

I can't afford it.

Aye.

And then when they ask, did you go Gallagorm?

You go, oh, that's great.

That was lovely.

It's a very good point, actually.

What about yourself, Nigel?

I was over at Gravity Show with Colin.

You were indeed?

Yeah, took a day trip over,

just flew in the Birmingham.

Along with half the country by the looks of us?

Yeah, the whole Limitless crew were there in force.

They were there from Thursday right through to Monday.

It's because they're animals.

Yeah, and they really do like the party.

Limitless indeed.

Exactly, Limitless alcohol.

I don't think I actually bumped into them, did I?

It's probably that big of a show, you probably.

Yeah.

I'll describe it as probably twice the size of Dobshed.

As in size?

Aye, area.

Yeah.

Okay.

It was good.

Very trade-oriented, a lot of trade stands.

I've heard mixed reviews, and I'm very interested to hear

what you're gonna say as well.

Yeah.

The same time Got the Drop was on?

Yes.

That Marty went to?

And that was probably more my sort of thing.

But here, very well put together a show.

A lot of nice cars.

A lot of Jap stuff there,

and that's maybe not my big thing in all of the rest of it.

Which is very much the end thing

at the moment for the scene anyway.

Some really nice details to the show as a show organiser.

Just really nice wee touches.

Ian, pull ideas from and appreciate it.

Not copy at all, Connor, no.

No, definitely not.

It's called pull ideas from.

Inspiration.

Sorry, sorry.

Was it Blue Skype thinking or something?

Yup.

Something like that.

Yeah, good show.

And then they had a live action out the back.

Does the crusade Drifter goes?

Yeah.

Andy Bevin that does the Drift Taxi for us at Dobshed.

He sort of does the race control for that too, like.

But it was like a live action every hour.

There was some sort of display or, you know,

and had all the big Drift guys over there like so.

That's good.

Really entertain the stuff.

And yeah, you can fill your boots there.

Really, really good.

How would advice you to go over and take a mirror on them?

Ah, it's worth it.

Was it as handy to do as we had surmised?

Obviously from my Max Parade as I've gone over

for Max Live, like you fly in into the airport,

tram across.

50 months.

You could obviously play in 50 months here at the show.

Unreal.

Aye, that's good.

So it's perfect for a day trip, you know.

Aye, well, you can't be bad at that.

Yeah, really enjoyed it.

And fair play to the gravity team

really, really good show.

I actually, I did hear mixed reviews.

And as you say, like it depends what you're going for

and what you're into is going to be, you know,

you're saying like.

It's a sort of,

it's a different sort of thing that I would be.

Aye, you're saying like the got-to-drop one

that Marty went to is Mark 1, 2, 3, Volkswagen slammed.

Yeah, as opposed to the more in-your-face.

More modified stuff at Bradley,

is what I'm trying to say.

And yeah, that'll always dictate, you know,

what your opinion of it is kind of thing.

Yeah, so that's good.

It's definitely worth it on over, too.

That's especially when it's so easy to do.

That's the biggest show in the UK now.

Oh, really?

Yeah, you know, for modified stuff.

What used to be fitted probably was.

Fitted.

When you fit it?

Yeah.

That's good.

Anything else or anything particular stand out of it?

Oh, some funny setups.

Like Liberty Walk had a massive stand there.

And some of the stuff they had there was fantastic.

And then there was just flex stuff

with the Rolls Royce with a tow bar,

tow and a Lambo turbo.

I seen a tank inside of it.

I was like.

There's two chieftain tanks.

Aye.

See how I've enjoyed that.

They were drifting round one out in the laver,

you know, or sort of, you know.

It seems like what I call like Instagram come to life,

you know, like trying to be larger than life kind of thing.

So if that's a dream to you,

or you've got Eddie H.D. or something,

that's probably unbelievable.

There's cool wee feature points throughout the show,

like how these containers,

like Ken Bloch's old Fiesta rally car

was in one of the containers that you use.

Yeah.

Some really cool cars there.

It's nice as well.

When you do have a big space like that,

that you can utilize it.

Yeah.

Or like trying to do that at Dub shed.

You know, we have,

obviously you have two massive halls,

but they're also a set size.

Yeah.

So if you try and put a Sherman tank into it,

you've suddenly wiped out 12 show cars space.

Yeah.

And when you're up front,

a chieftain tank, you realize how big they are.

Aye, yeah.

Like they are big.

Yeah.

No, they're huge, like.

Some cool motorsport companies there, like, definitely.

That's good to see them still supporting shows though.

It's good.

Really good.

Anything else?

Myself, I talked about,

did I talk about buying new wings

for my son's car, the Mark VI?

Yes, you did.

You hadn't fitted them in that point though.

Yeah, got them and I think I talked them

and the paint match looked good.

So fitted them.

Absolute gift to fit.

Yep.

It's like just over an hour.

Ah, happy to.

Once you've one fitted in New York,

good to go to the other side.

I'm really pleased with the fitment of them.

For the money, I mean.

Just folks, I can still bond them along the top edge.

Just a point in the middle of the top

and then they're bonded at the rear

against the B pillar.

Or A pillar, is that?

A pillar.

I don't want to render see it off though.

The top was fairly well bonded on,

but it wasn't the whole way along.

Fuck, do you remember Lee trying to?

My Jedda.

One side had obviously been off before.

They're bonded the whole way along, you see.

But the Jedda was like,

and it was buried the whole along,

right along the A pillar.

Hated it.

We put a blade,

we had like a big long,

like a blade out of a wood plane

and hammered it in along it to try and split up.

Because it was, you know,

the old cars were done with like wax.

So it was just like wax and same sailor

and bond.

It was fucking horrendous.

And obviously 40 years of shite as well.

It was like.

I remember when I was breaking Mark twos,

the worst point was that bolt against the bulkhead.

Yep.

At the back.

I just sat with a burner on it for about two minutes.

Because it's buried.

And it's funny, if you didn't know those cars,

if you looked inside the wheel arch,

you would think there's no bolts

because the heads are completely covered.

Yeah.

So they've learned their lesson from that

but that's probably why they rot.

Yeah.

But a handy enough job then.

I'm really pleased with it.

Fitted, Jack's boson.

And really tidies the week hard up.

Because as you know, Mark 5 Marks out of Wings are maired.

Well, that's the thing.

Like what did that cost you?

300 quid?

290 delivered.

And a morning's work.

It was Ritchie.

Like I always sort of waffled about it

and all the rest of it was hummed and had.

And then I seen Ritchie had put the Wings from Lothian,

car parts.

It was Lothian car parts.

Really good to deal with.

They re-mailed me back and forth.

Definitely bits and bolts like that.

And they're a very really good company to deal with.

It's hard to be delivered.

Ordered on the Monday.

Out for delivery on the Thursday.

And it was actually the courier that

how was the held hold up at that point.

Took a week for the courier deliver from Scotland.

So it wasn't them?

No.

Yeah.

Arrived really well boxed up.

Boxed within a box.

You know, all the rest of it.

Not just three on and on.

They arrived perfect, really well wrapped.

No, it's not 100% fitment, but it's damn close.

Well, they're obviously at that price point.

They're going to be aftermarket Wings.

And then even the painting.

You're obviously not blanking into the doors.

The paint's completely fine.

You could correct it to refine the finish.

But it's not orange peely by any shot of the imagination.

It's a solid 8 or 9 paint job out of hand.

Like you could put it on my mom's car

and she'd be like, fantastic job.

Serves a purpose, definitely.

So well pleased with that.

Well, it's much better that than two Rotten Wings,

isn't it?

Yeah.

Golf R, it's actually here now.

And Clark Industries is going to fit my collars for me

because Mark 7 suspension is not my thing.

Fat performance.

I didn't say that, Stefan.

So Stefan's going to farm a BC collars

into Mark 7 for me.

That'll be nice.

Because, yeah, I don't have a ramp and.

And he does them all the time.

He does them all the time.

Yeah.

That man's familiar with the Mark 7, like.

Yeah.

So I'm going to get a fantastic courtesy car

to take home here.

You are indeed.

Getting a Fabio VRS, chin to the moon.

With a hybrid turbo on it.

Ronan was like 250 horsepower.

Apparently, you're not allowed to give it full throttle.

Yeah.

A melt clutch.

Yeah.

Let it get up through the gears a bit and then you can do it.

I had one for four or five years, silver one.

I didn't have it chin to the moon.

Funny when we were actually thinking of that there as well

because when he said that you were taking the Fabio,

I was like, sure, Nigel loves those things.

He had one himself, like, and off he went.

Many a Chinese delivery was delivered in my Fabio.

And the RS6.

Speak of the devil.

There it is.

And he shall appear.

The big man himself.

We're coming with you, Stefan.

We're quite literally just talking with you.

Have another mic.

You want to jump on?

A lot of ice.

And we're back.

We have unlocked a special guest.

That's it.

Unlocked, unlocked, a special guest.

Devin Clark is in the building.

He just turned up randomly.

Yes, hello.

He heard us talking about him and ran from his house going,

what are you saying about me?

I hear quite a while from you put on.

Running through hedges.

Yeah, oh I.

Terminator.

Melting through bars.

The last time you were on me be a year and a half ago

was the movie The Christmas Special

where I was absolutely hammered.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was quite a while ago.

Second Canyon arrow.

Yeah, yeah.

And there was loads of people asking for you back on.

It must have been one or two.

I was just one or two.

I'd won, but I think Gavin, maybe, was chatting to me.

I think he's just stopped speaking halfway through that podcast.

I was like, well, there's so much going on.

I just couldn't process it all.

And McCann was that drunk.

So we're trying to, like, tear drinks and notes away from him.

Stopped and saying I was well.

Stopped and getting counseled.

Anything else, Nigel, then?

Yes, this man's going to fit the coworkers

to my mark seven later on.

So that's all good.

Looking forward to that.

And the final announcement I have

is I don't think it's in the podcast yet,

but Titanic Dubs is happening on the 27th of September.

Happy days.

Waiting on a flower from a designer, as usual.

But yeah, 27th of September, I think it's open at nine.

Open to public 11 till three or four o'clock.

It's down in Thompson Dry Dock, Titanic Quarter.

And it was always a great day out.

Hopefully so.

Hopefully the weather holds.

As always, touch wood.

I will touch wood because we have been very lucky

over the years with that, considering it's

like the end of September.

Do you remember one year there was basically a storm?

2016.

A load of Scottish ones come over and it rained solid.

It was a proper storm, look.

Ed come over in the Karado and then the other red one

with them as well.

Always a good event.

Always a good crack.

The show season closure, basically.

It is indeed.

Well, actually technically not, because every time

the next day, legendary is on.

And we never get to because we're always absolutely knackered.

Yeah.

Myself then, they've been battling on with the TT,

just trying to get it ever more slightly better.

I got it aligned.

So it drives a lot better now.

The front end is pretty much spot on.

The back still needs aligned.

But the bolts that go into the chassis legs

look like they have never been touched in.

Under the seat.

Yes.

So.

Playing in the gassels, you can sort that out.

That's it, yeah.

I'm going to put it in the ramp someday

and I'm just going to dose it in panoramic fluid for the next

one.

You're going to say petrol and light it?

Oh, well, I might come to that for three or four days

and then I'll free them up myself.

And then once they're freed up, get them, get our line.

But now it's driving a lot better.

You really enjoy the TT, aren't you?

I actually really love it, yeah.

I'm still not sold on the 2012.

Although I'm reserved in Judgement.

Is that mapped?

No.

Get it mapped.

See, that's the thing I'm reserved in Judgement.

And that's the big killer, is I missed the torque of the VR.

I remember the 225 silver one I had and the difference

between standard and map, it's just like somebody's just

went give the car a shake and went, oh, right,

there's your power now.

Well, I don't want to map it twice.

So I want to do downpipe, exhaust, decats, turbo

intake pipe, and then the map all in one hit.

And the good thing is you'll get them parts

second hand fairly reasonable.

Yeah, and there's two places in England, Breckham.

There's TT shop.

Wagon Vagparks, no.

I don't even know that, I must check that one.

There are more Mark V upwards.

TT shop Barnsley, I think it is.

Yeah, TT shop.

And then there's another one that is like TT Spurge

or something, and they both exclusively Breck TTs.

James, I don't have all that stuff set on that.

He doesn't.

Well, I mean, just go.

So James is the one-stop shop for making your TT fast.

Just walk in the door, go, James, I'm taking this.

Here's a load of money.

Goodbye.

It'll probably take me, the time we come back from Roots,

I'm starting a new job.

It'll probably take me a month or two to get ready,

and then I'm just going to head it hard.

Just in time for winter.

Drifting in the ice?

Yep.

By the way, TTs are excellent in the ice.

That's good.

I'm glad.

Turn the traction control off, and it's

because of the short sassi, just.

The SM changing jobs, and I'm

going to be working from home from now on.

So I'm probably not even going to drive that that

month either, which is the weird thing.

But actually, I think that's kind of where

I was going wrong with the Bora.

Those times I got fucked off with the Bora.

You know, we were in on it every day,

and even though you're not doing a massive commute to tech,

so were that kind of specialness.

Yeah.

So if I'm not driving every day, and I can jump in and.

But then you're working from home,

so you can park it and put an axle

sound for a lot of days, or put in the left.

That's what I was thinking with it,

freeing up the back arms.

If you're really bullied, you can take the Mark II out.

The Communist Fabia is probably going to be living here

for a while.

The Communist.

Oh, is it?

The Communist Fabia.

Fabia of the people, is it?

Oh, Fabia.

Step in, tell the story of the Fabia.

What's the car's name?

Stalin?

Lennon?

There you go.

No, Lennon's too Catholic.

OK.

So tell us the story of the Fabia.

A strike one.

Oh, really?

All right, OK.

Let me see.

How long have you owned it?

Just about a year.

Done a bit of a strange old ball

deal with Richard Brown for a Fabia VRS.

I swapped an Octavia VRS that he had.

I done a ball of work to here, actually,

for it on some money for Richard.

And then it led my house.

Yeah, it led my house for a while.

He wanted it, done the deal, swapped the cars.

And then I was like, I don't want to,

I can't buy a car when I lift it,

so you can keep it at your house for a while.

I would have her drive away, I don't care.

And then Fogel blew up his Jetta or it stopped working.

So I was like, do you want to borrow the Fabia?

Yep, sure.

No waller.

So he took it for about two or three months.

And then my mate Chris, he.

A6 all-road?

What did he do?

He'd done something.

He needed a car, basically.

I think he bought an A6 all-road.

And it needed a ball of work.

Standard all-road stuff?

And I was like, sure, just take the Fabia.

Fogel's finished with it.

So Fogel ran the car over to our man.

I lifted Fogel and brought him back.

So at this point, still had never drove the car,

never done test driving the thing.

So you've only had a year at this point?

Yeah, and then Chris was finished with it.

And Polly needed a car.

He was like, well, sure, the Fabia's there, take it.

And Polly's had it for about six months.

And now I have it.

And it was very nice to leave it back to me

so I can put an MOT on it.

Give it back to somebody, him, somebody else, I don't know.

Would you have done 100 miles in that car in two years?

I took it from my house to our man back.

So about 40 miles?

About that, yeah.

And I've done our matter here.

Yeah.

And that's why I've driven it half as much as you have

and I've driven it once.

Yeah.

There you go.

You have a big kind heart, Steph.

And that's your problem.

Yeah, yeah.

A big and large heart.

Big and large heart.

Right for a car to rest.

So yes, so I then, because I drove it 40 miles,

I fell in love with it.

Oh, I'm just gonna maybe keep it.

Or give me a car.

I was gonna sell it, but I might just.

And it's not standard, is it?

Oh, no.

I'm gonna discover this in my home.

You are.

It's sharp.

It's a quick car.

It's hyper turbo and there's a front mind on it

and a downpipe.

And I think it's standard exhaust,

but I can't really be sure.

I think it is a standard exhaust,

but I'm sure it'll maybe get a...

Opened up.

Something else put on that at some point.

Big dark side job.

Oh no, big focal job.

Man loves a good pike, hot and straight pike.

Like it's...

There you go.

Like you're sounding like a Grundy pig.

So for anybody who doesn't know those are a 130 PD turbo diesel

and that thing's run on what, about 250 or so?

No, I don't know.

It's only about two, probably about 220.

Oh, really?

I was gonna say it feels more, but...

Injectors run out of Puffer 220, 230.

It's also a lot lighter than a Golf, is the other thing.

Yeah, it weighs about as much as a fart.

It's faster than my jet, I look,

because I raced Richie on it when he owned it

and it is faster.

It's a Polo chassis.

Yeah.

I had one nine mapped it, it was a Dino one nine one.

Volkswagen built those, like we would build a car

because they took the small car

and that will put the big engine into it

like we always do with Mark IIs and shit.

But when you're doing that,

there's always like compromises you'll make

because like there's no word for the ECU

and stuff like that.

That's exactly the way that car is built.

It's like, where does every...

Where are we putting this?

Wow, whatever.

Stuff it in somewhere.

Because the ECU is like jammed down the back of the engine,

isn't it, on the firewall and stuff?

Yeah, it's down the back of the battery,

between the battery and the firewall.

It's jammed in there and it's like...

For having a big, heavy diesel engine

over the front wheels, it actually handles quite well.

Yeah, on the six-speed box, no, it's just,

it's a great, genuinely one of the best things.

They're so well-specced.

Built in the mid 2000s.

I'm a certified PD file, so...

You are indeed.

I love a good PD.

This goes back to like,

I know we sound like fucking old men

shouting at the sky all the time, but like...

Camchills.

Yeah.

Do you know, like...

Absolutely.

We talk about like Volkswagen,

especially they've lost their way

and they don't build fun things and stuff like that

and like the obscure shit they built,

that's a perfect example of it.

Yeah.

You know, it's...

That was like a skunkworks type thing.

100%, yeah.

But that was more like, at that time,

CET and Skoda were like the development wing

for Volkswagen through the F2 or WRC.

Tested out where they was going.

Yeah, let's see if that works.

You know, let's not embarrass our Volkswagen brand.

Let's put it through this.

Should've took those WRC racing for a year or two,

didn't it?

That's right, yeah.

And I mean, like that,

between that and that TV,

it was the first of the quote-unquote VRS range.

Yeah.

Do you remember the Adverts on TV?

I had taken the Pestival themselves.

Yeah.

The Snake Van, I'm putting them in the,

you know, in all...

Yeah.

Out of the present.

Yeah, they're up on YouTube.

They're very good Adverts.

It's a bygone era.

The one thing about that car that I

fucking hate is that stupid gray interior.

Yeah.

There's like a light gray cloth interior.

Do you remember the SE Limited?

The blue?

Yes, they came with a black leather interior.

You can't buy them.

You can't buy an interior.

We've seen them on the other day.

The blue ones.

Yeah, we did.

They were so much dear than the other ones

at the time, I remember.

There was only like 600 of them,

maybe something, wasn't it?

Yeah.

But they were like,

was it R32 blue?

It was darker.

It looked darker to me, yeah.

It was darker.

But it was basically the same car,

but it had leather seats

and was it only in the blue?

Yeah.

The only thing I didn't like about them was

I'm pretty sure I've seen a silver one.

I thought silver was a black interior,

I think was the thing and the done black with black interior.

No, sorry.

You could speck a black interior.

OK.

Those blue ones came with black with blue stitching.

That was the difference.

Connor Brogan had the black leather interior

and his black.

Fabio.

His was a normal black VRS and it had black leather.

Yeah.

And then Enki got it for his red one.

If you it's one you both,

he stole wheels off Nigel.

Modern lines.

That was a cheap set of wheels then.

Yeah, it was all right.

Yeah.

We were joking the other day, Connor

and I were standing in the kitchen

and the Fabio was here

and we had the R32 and the TT out to go to Blackwater

and we were saying if we were like...

That's 20 years ago.

A couple of business people in the early 2000s.

This is what we'd be looking out at,

thinking we've done well for ourselves, you know.

Mark IV R32.

That would be the husband's car,

the TT would have been the wife's car

and then the VRS would have been our son's car.

Yeah, true.

And it's pretty much that, except the other way around.

Lee has the R32, you have the GATT

and our son has the VRS.

The VRS.

But thanks, Dad.

When they came out, like,

there were real high performance,

but I don't think insurance companies really twigged.

No.

And then they twigged.

They just said 1.9 DDI.

That was a diesel.

It was like the D-Turbo thing as well.

And then they couldn't have insured one.

Yeah.

Jack put one on the ditch.

He did?

You know that?

He had a silver VRS

and what did he had?

A stump, a tree stump or something?

He put it in the head and had a tree stump

and I think he drove the driver's front wheel

into the back seat.

Oh, that's such a weird job.

The windscreen came out,

the airpillar was caved in,

like it was a bad, bad accident.

A very bad accident.

And he tossed a dump on Jack

and jumped out of it and said,

hello, I'm fine.

As he does.

Jack has made a rubber, let's face it.

Yeah.

What else for me?

I got a message last week,

I think it was or last weekend.

Our friend Chris was selling his house here

because he lives in England now

and was moving his Mark III

in other parts and stuff.

And he was trying to get rid of it.

So I went and bought a few bits of them,

packed up a really nice, clean

8-valve interior.

Hard to get it out.

That was kind of the thing.

Yeah.

He told me this.

You wouldn't know what I'd be like.

He never told me somebody

was selling Mark III parts.

He don't know Facebook, that's why.

He's not in the chat.

What chat, what chat?

It's a GTNI chat from over 10 years ago on Facebook.

Oh, so it wasn't a dump chat?

No, it wasn't a dump chat chat.

So I packed up, that was the thing.

I wouldn't have,

if there was a clean 8-valve interior 10 years ago

if there was a clean 8-valve interior

sitting outside and a dog was shitting on it,

I wouldn't have went out to chase the dog away.

And now they're that rare.

I was like, that's handy to have.

I'll put that in the loft.

Yeah, that's the kind of thing.

I'll just put it away.

And then when we got there,

he just kept haunting his parts.

So got like interior trims.

Who was this?

Chris Dolly.

Oh, oh, I remember.

He's been in England.

He sold the house now.

So there was all stuff out of his Mark III anyway

that he had like replaced with like,

I think he put leather and stuff into it.

anniversary stuff, I think.

So I got lights, fog lights, gear knobs,

like there's a whole ball.

I haven't even went through

because when I went to lift it,

that was the start of me not feeling well.

And then the next day,

it was that bad I couldn't go to work.

So I just hadn't even been looking through it.

Nice wee hole.

Yeah, it was nice to have.

We, and the eight valve seats have all like

the plastic trims around them

that are all in really good conditions.

So even that's handy to have.

Good.

So when I got there,

I just threw him a few quid for,

because I was like,

you know, I'm not gonna steal

your stuff on you basically, yeah.

So yeah, that's as much as I've been up to then.

Excellent.

Kevin, what's new with you?

What's new in the last year and a half?

Yeah.

What are you working?

Just literal work.

That's all I've been doing is work.

Just flat out.

You actually have to be fair.

Flat out.

So me and him is going to America on Tuesday

and I've wrecked myself for one of a better word

to get stuff cleared up and read out of the braille.

Well, I did say you can wait after you go back.

No, no, no, no, there's a difference here.

What he's not really alluding to you is

he's getting stuff read up and shifted out,

but he's also gathering up the shackles.

Oh, absolutely.

For one away.

Man needs money to spend.

We've got a cash.

I'm scared from a bill there.

You should be.

Yeah, no, just.

I know with the courtesy car and all thrown in,

that's going to be some bill.

It's ridiculous.

50 quid a day for the courtesy car.

An hour, a mile, you know it.

That's right.

He's done for you little miles on it.

Potty's bill for one over six months is a colossal.

Enterprise clerk.

Yeah, what have I been doing?

I've literally just been working on the mark,

working on Blackline and then doing stuff at home and driving.

Laurie's driving.

Laurie's just in a big bit of a lot of driving.

Would it be a candle survive?

That's where I can sleep.

You see, I can just do you ever listen to convoy flat out

on the radio when you drive your lorry.

I don't think I've ever listened to convoy.

Do you have a dog up the road?

Do you have a dog in the passenger seat?

No.

Well, not for Jack Hill, that's his name.

If I tried to put the nine stone German Shepherd

that we have into the lorry, someone would go, what the fuck's

up on it?

But I fell in me full of coke.

Yeah.

Put me into the lorry beside you.

Yeah, yeah.

Just bounced about through the thing.

Yeah, just working away at stuff.

A lot of, I've been doing a lot of recommissioning

of old vehicles this past while.

Potty's car.

Brands mark one Caddy.

It's that for a while.

And then I've just done Thursday there.

But he's we read out 80 coupe.

Yeah, if you remember from years ago,

just put it back on the road, put it through an MOT

in Thursday.

So it was meant to be a quick thing.

And I needed a radiator.

The fuel lines had rotted out of it.

Just because purely for the fact someone had covered them

in like grease or wax oil or something,

then the water got under it and just rotted the fuel lines

out.

Only noticed it whenever it was doing the fuel filter.

And he goes, why is that leaking up there?

What a fight on.

And then I went on the fuel line.

That's why I fell the pieces.

Aye.

And of course, what's that, 80s?

Early, no, I've been 80s.

It's 84.

And then the reason, the window regulator,

the regulator, had to snap one of the cables.

And the reason being the relay was sticking.

One of you put the window down, it would just hold it down

like the motor on foot.

I was just like, just the whole thing

was just dragging the thing in the next minute.

Cable went.

So Brian stripped the door down to try and fix it.

And then couldn't get a regulator kit or something for it.

I was able to get one.

And then I had to try and work out the jigsaw puzzle

to get them back together.

Because it's the same as like an Audi F4.

We've to take the whole bloody door frame out.

Oh, with the skin or the axle?

No, the whole.

So if you take the whole thing.

It takes the whole upper half of the door.

Surrounded by the other quality build.

Because it's pillarless.

And then it's all shimmed.

So it's sales against the rubber sale.

So it was a couple of hours of.

Nigel's cabriolet was like that as well.

And he only found that out when he was putting it back together.

Did you take it apart?

Oh, well, I didn't take this one apart.

I had to.

I was like, he handed me a Chinese tub full of bolts

and shims and washers.

Because there you go.

I was like, what the fuck am I to do with this?

I don't know what happened.

But remember I told you I watched this video

how to take it out.

And then I actually found the put it back in.

And as you've marked the positions where this has been in,

just put it as it was before and I was going, oh, crap.

I didn't do that.

But by the fate of God, or luck, or whatever.

It just went straight out.

Yeah.

No, this was not perfect.

This was at least an hour of me like moving the glass up

and down because it would slide on one of the cable.

Anyway, I'll stop talking about it.

It was a traumatic time.

I didn't want to discuss it anymore.

Nice.

Well, bounce for news then.

That's us for news.

Yeah, he's going to America.

I'm sure you're buzzing for it.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to Roots Classic.

Roots Classic.

It's the Saturday of the week, is it?

Oh, yeah.

Yes, Friday, Saturday is the meet.

And isn't it?

Is the show Sunday?

Oh, sorry.

Thursday, Friday is the meet, I think.

Oh, OK.

Or is it Friday?

Or Friday is the meet.

And home visits done, the friends, I'm sure.

Hot dogs.

We're not visiting any homes,

but we'll be drinking a lot of beers in the pool

according to Becker.

It sounds right up my street.

I had a quick look at the weather forecast.

It depends.

It's the rain, and I don't care.

Well, from Ireland, you wouldn't melt.

No, I'm just going to be in the pool, in the rain.

You're going to be wet anyway.

Take a picture of him when it's raining in the pool.

We were in the pool in the rain last year.

It rained at the Mark III meet last year.

But then it was warm.

Yeah.

Warm rain's all right.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's fine.

Sixth on the show.

I'm not salty at all, but I'm not going.

I'm sure you can tell.

I've been refraining and talking about it from very far,

but here we are.

You're going to have a fabulous time at a Hendy.

Yes, I sure am.

Well, enjoy.

Let's move on to the news.

As we're just slower with Volkswagen

not doing things for enthusiasts,

AutoCard dropped a bit of a news

because they said that Volkswagen

planned to put the 5-cylinder S3 engine

into the Golf R to celebrate 25 years.

Caller me skeptical.

No, this is their article saying they're going to do it.

But at no point in this article

is there any statement from Volkswagen, Audi,

anything like that.

So is this clickbait?

I hope not, because that would be some sound off.

Because it would be awesome.

Yeah, I'd actually love to say it.

The fact that Audi actively fought against this

at the beginning when the 5-cylinder turbo stuff

was introduced for the RS3,

like there was massive internal rise over this,

I can't see them giving it up.

You know, that's the thing, because that's their...

It's basically says the model is expected to arrive in 2027.

The service is send off for the pure petrol-golf

before it's transitioned to electrification.

Boo.

It also confirms Audi's commitment

to keeping the EA 8-double-five, five-pot-ins,

and alive following suggestions

that new emission regulations would kill it off.

So they'll probably do all sorts of things

with not what do you call it, PGR?

PGR in petrol is rather an EGR, isn't it?

Ayo, and the DPF is a...

OPF?

Is that what it is?

I think it's an OPF, can we?

They'll probably do all sorts of trickery with that,

and it'll sound like not like early ones, basically.

I'd love to say it.

I think there's a market for it,

because people are doing it in America at the minute.

I hate to say it, but markets are growing me.

There was a market or a state of black water

that police had?

The police had it, yeah.

It was very nice looking.

I was trying to get a look around it

because I might be buying one.

Yes!

Well, Earl from Earl's Auto Works,

he bought his GTI or R, come on with.

What's an R he has?

And he loves it, like he's raved about it

and said it's really, really good.

They have grown on me too,

and I hate them when they came out.

When it first came out, you just think,

as Neil Chapman said, I melted astro.

Aye.

But now you've sort of,

the right wheels,

you've got a lower and stick.

I really don't like the lights

along the front of the bonnet,

like the daytime running lights.

And I don't think the markets have it,

but I saw another Volkswagen the other day.

It must have been a Tiguan or Touareg or something.

But it has like the same kind of strip

along the back in red light.

Like red LED.

And the light up badges.

And I was like, why?

If the markets have that, I can't buy one.

I just won't.

It's horrible.

But if they do release them,

they will sell like hotcakes.

Oh, that's the five cylinder?

Oh yeah.

I remember people are saying,

why did Volkswagen not put the five cylinder in?

But I think it was a sort of gentlemen's agreement

between Audi and Volkswagen.

Where are the fives on their guys?

You should work away, you're a full cylinder.

Yeah.

You know, that was the thing.

Like if you did put a five cylinder in a Golf

and it'll be cheaper in the RS3,

the public will go and get the cheaper.

Yeah.

If you want that right speed,

that's what you're going to have.

Yeah.

But I mean, the GTI is such an iconic thing.

You need to just say fuck already.

Yeah.

Take the five cylinder, go under your thing.

You're going to put a limited number of these out.

Go ahead.

I think following a statement from the financial director

of Volkswagen, it is desperate times

the next year to have a Volkswagen.

He says we maybe have two years to get our shit together.

Maybe two.

Do you have a scum fray, as they said?

Yeah.

So they need to get their shit together.

BYD and the Chinese EV is absolutely killing them.

The other thing as well, I said to Lee,

was it wouldn't shock me if the Chinese government

are heavily subsidizing.

Well, they are.

The other, yeah.

I was going to say that's what Trump was going on about.

Because to do that with obviously

all your TMU products and stuff like that as well,

to try and basically flush out.

Get you to buy them.

Yeah.

Do you know how that stuff comes in here in the cheap?

There's some lip-hold tax thing

that an item coming from China

is some trade agreement or something,

or I'd say the EU.

Comes with a certain value.

It's come through Hong Kong or something like that.

It comes in the depot

and it doesn't subject to duty.

Because it's under a certain value.

But they're eating the cost of it.

Yeah, that makes sense then.

So there you go.

So they're flying jumbo jets, flat out TMU.

But that's the thing.

The Apple in the middle of England.

If they're not playing.

Metal.

If they're bent in the rules

or working within the rules, but dirtyly,

Volkswagen need to do something or else they're fucked.

It doesn't matter whether they're

working within the rules or not.

If it puts Volkswagen out of business,

they're still out of business.

You know, that's the thing.

Judging by some of the articles are reading like,

the clock is ticking on Volkswagen.

You know?

But then they do things that you don't get,

like closing down their entire dealer network

and making them that you have to buy a car online.

And then you only go and collect it and get a service to,

say, Phillips or whatever.

That's the same Tesla model.

You know, that's the way it's going to happen.

And how's that been working for Elon?

The doctor's sitting full of Teslas, he can't.

There's a lot more Teslas in the road though.

When you start to see them in Guilford,

like the shithole villas that we live in,

you know, like that's.

It's one woke guy.

No, no, it's their right car.

They're right-wing cars in our Tesla.

All right.

And they've all got the stickers that say,

I bought this before Elon and Matt.

Just, I was just going to say,

I've lost my train of thought now.

It's just stuck around one day,

the other day, Elon Tesla Club, and I was like.

Right. Okay.

Well, I mean, we technically should be

anti-our cars founders as well.

Yes.

Because you make a point.

You do make a point.

Bit of a sketchy one.

That's it, yeah.

For a brand that lives off its own heritage,

but don't need to go back so far, doesn't it?

No, I was just going to say, sorry,

I forgot there was turning the talk as usual

because my brand doesn't work correctly.

I was talking about Philips losing the dealership.

Yes.

They made an announcement this week

to make it official.

There'll still be an authorized used dealer.

Yes.

And be able to service cars.

Yeah.

So that's good to hear.

No, that is good.

Will they be able to keep the Volkswagen

saying up in the...

I've been wondering about that.

Yeah.

I have a home for it, if not.

They should be allowed to,

change the...

Put the thing on to say and...

Used approved or something like that.

Service centre or whatever it's going to be, yeah.

I wonder how long we'll try and put up that.

Agnes will start crying saying they're still in our business.

So the next thing it'll be redacted or something,

or retracted.

Listen, if they weren't rid of the signs,

I have a home for it.

It's all good.

Only if they have the old one though

because I don't like the new logo.

I know, the new one's shit.

Another one I have here then

or my first bit of news is...

Actually an odd one.

In a time when, like...

In a time.

Well, was it last year that the South

lowered their speed limits,

like their national speed limits,

from 60 to 50 on back roads, wasn't it?

Yeah, so they haven't done it with all of them yet,

but they're phasing it in.

So the hundreds will go to 80s,

the 60s will go to 50s, et cetera.

Well, starting this summer,

drivers in the Czech Republic

will be allowed to travel at 150 kilometres an hour,

which is 95 miles an hour.

On the motorway? Yeah.

On certain sections, weather-dependent.

So they'll have...

They'll be like, variable speed limits?

Yes.

So there's signs of what when the VSE

rotated them out for, you know,

what speeds you can do.

Jay, there's common sense for wheels.

Exactly.

So currently a UK limit anywhere here is 70,

which is 112 kilometres or so.

An Ireland is 120, which is 75 kilometres an hour.

So they can do 95 legally on certain stretches of their road.

So that's pretty good.

It makes perfect sense.

You've got special lines to do 50% above the speed limit,

don't you, Leigh? Yeah.

Well, funny you say that.

So I was researching this.

It's a Northern plate.

I was researching this,

and I got onto, like, a subreddit for the Czech Republic,

and I was reading through it.

And I don't know if it translated

or they were just typing in English anyway.

And someone said,

now the average superb driver will only

will wonder why people only go on slightly slower than them now.

So it seems like you're living up to the superb.

I feel the same.

Yeah.

You big superb driver,

apparently in the Czech Republic, you fit in nicely.

Their speed increase was made possible

by legislative amendment in 2023.

The last time it was done was in 1987, 28 years ago,

where it was up from 120 kilometers an hour

to 130 kilometers an hour.

So they've obviously did that, albeit 30 years ago.

I went, well,

it's not, everybody's not suddenly dying

because of this enough to go.

I actually saw a sign in the south the other day

that made me do a bit of a double take.

It was a 65 kilometer sign.

I've never seen increments of five in the south, ever.

Because increments of 10 are already

almost five miles an hour anyway, yeah.

Although that's when I used to work in the wind farms,

the speed limits were 19 miles per hour.

And that's to make you remember them

because you look at it and you go 19 miles an hour.

Why the fuck's it 19?

Oh, it's just like a cognitive thing.

Yeah.

So you look at it.

Make you think about it?

Yeah.

It gets you talking about it and it puts in your head.

Where as well do you just be like white noise to you?

Yeah.

You see 20 signs, any where kind of thing.

Cool.

Up the checks.

Next by the news I have is Mr. Jonathan Ray

announced his retirement this week.

Six time world champion.

Seen that, yeah.

Super big champion, Jonathan Ray.

So he's a Lauren man, basically.

So he is.

Somebody need to remind the BBC when they do the sports

personality of the year.

So final round this year's championship in Spain,

October, that'll be his last race.

He has won six successive world

super big titles between 15 and 2020.

The Smilest Place is the series most successful

rider of all time.

Unreal from a guy from Lauren.

Your disadvantage coming from Lauren for a start.

I was going to say, Mark doesn't produce very much.

All right, Gatham.

There's webbed fingers and toes probably.

You think that would be more drag for him?

Well, the sick fingers help him grip the handlebars.

He has all of them that's for gloves.

I would say he's the all of them that's.

Always like tell me he comes across a real nice guy

and he interviews really well.

I listened to an interview with him

and apparently he's just right down there.

You know, he's the sort of boy that he would go

if they could get into the local pub without being

accosted by the local fans.

They would go down to the local pub

and have a few drinks and it's very normal.

You could sit down and have a conversation with them.

He's not looking to sit in the care club every night.

No, no.

So, yeah, a great achievement by Jonathan Ray

on kudos to your career.

What age is he?

I think he's 30, 38, is he?

I sort of, we have 30s anyway.

Yeah, two seconds.

38.

Very good.

I have a bit of sad news again,

talking about special editions

and the fun stuff that manufacturers do.

Bad times for Nissan fans is the end of the GT-R.

Again, does not this...

No, this is actually it.

So after 18 years of production,

the R35 is officially discontinued now.

The final car is a midnight purple premium edition

T-spec rolled off the production line in Japan

on August 26th, 2025.

So, launched back in what, 2007?

Are they not developing a new one?

No, they're...

So basically, there was a concept car called a Hyper Force

and they reckon that's going to be the new GT-R

but it'll be electric or mostly hybrid kind of thing, yeah.

Where this, you know, that's the problem,

like emissions is caught up with us.

Sales in Europe, UK, Australia, New Zealand,

roll phased out by 2022 due to emissions and safety laws.

America held on to late 2024

and now Japan has been the last hurrah with them

and that's them gone.

So basically the CEO says,

it isn't goodbye for the GT-R forever

and there will be something back

but it'll not be what it is.

What do you think or what it was before?

Because over the last 18 years, yeah, it's got faster,

it's went from what, like, low 500s to mid 600s horsepower

and the general shape has stayed the same.

Like to the casual observer, like us who aren't into them,

I couldn't tell you the difference between a 2018 model

and a 2008 model, you know,

they look pretty much the same thing

but they've sold well.

Like drag racing in the States with them is huge.

Much, much other than I,

because I remember whenever they came out,

they were like, they were cheap.

They were like 50, 60, 60 grams.

50, 60 grams, one of the first we were released

and then Nessan went, oh.

Well, see, that would be like these.

I remember the big thing about them was,

oh, the tires are filled with nitrogen.

Ah, oh boy.

Keep them stable.

They're sitting there going, well, they're only standard.

What was the standard?

400 breakers on.

Five, I think.

Or the, yeah.

They're going, why are they putting nitrogen in tires?

But now I'm three, they basically go BMW,

go good luck.

Nessan will go well with nitrogen in your tires.

Well, that was the big selling point

from them was that the punts

above their weight and their price point.

You know, they were.

I was lost later.

Yeah.

And they were going off against Ferraris,

Porsches and an Alliot and everything.

And they didn't go,

like the Japanese went full fucking PlayStation with them

and they drove like a computer assisted car.

You know, everybody said,

it was a Clarkson said that there were very numb at times

because it just did everything so well.

But it's why they were so fast.

Yeah.

Okay, it's a sign of the times.

Like we're talking about Volkswagen

going out of business.

This is part of the problem too.

You look to see luxury, you know,

productions of stuff like that there.

And manufacturers now will just have to cut their costs.

Yeah.

We can't afford to run a motorsport team.

We can't afford to develop this limited edition model.

Your Nessan micros aren't funding this.

No.

You know, as you say, it's a loss leader,

funded by everything else that they're doing.

So you're going to see less and less special cars

in the next decade.

They'll do a special edition of something

but not be based on performance.

They'll be based on the Louis Vuitton,

you know, Volkswagen Polo, you know,

that's probably the beat of Polo and shit like that.

Yeah.

The Adidas Mark VI.

Something you can put a bit of a sticker on, no echoes.

We're very lucky on what we grew up with.

You know, cars wise.

Yeah.

The Golden Era.

The peak was the 90s and the 2000s for cars, like really.

We grew up in a great time, didn't we?

Yeah.

Fantastic.

The Troubles.

Between the bombs and the boats,

there was great cars.

Do you have any?

I just have one, just a little kind of funny,

funny one to finish this up, I guess.

And of course, my phone has just reset itself.

Have another one here.

You go ahead first.

Have another one too.

Our lift have supplied our Chanser supplier.

So I don't know if you've noticed this.

Stefan, have you got any brand new kits in recently?

Yeah, we've done a couple of all before.

So I don't know how recent.

They've obviously done the new,

was it the LP4?

Is their controller set up in their management?

Yeah.

But their shock supplier has been changed.

So it was BC for years.

That's right, it was a big sale point.

And they've switched supplier now

and they've put out BSA statements saying that

nothing is changed except the supplier

and everything's staying the same.

But I watched a video by bag riders

who did a side-by-side comparison of two kits.

And honestly, like, it's not to say

the new shocks don't perform as well,

but visually they're a lot of cutbacks.

I haven't seen any new air lift kits

or these New York kits.

Why, what's the, who's making them?

They don't know.

That's the thing.

So the red.

The red anodized.

The red anodized hops.

Well, BC is teamers.

Lots of people say BC's ready, Chans.

The red anodized hops are now gone.

So it's just plain silver.

Same with the top and bottom.

The cost-cutting done.

Yeah.

And the shock bodies themselves,

like the machine them work on them,

looks a lot rougher.

Yeah.

The powder coating stuff isn't even as good.

Like, it was not a good advert for them.

They took one out of the box

with a chip out of it already.

In between, so like on a Mark II.

They would do really well in the iron down after a year.

Yeah.

Mark II slash three platform with the bracket comes off

the two bolts to go through onto the hub.

There was like basically no powder coat

in between the brackets.

And the big change as well

basically why I'm talking about this is

if you wanna like interchange parts

and I'd like to say a new bag or something onto it.

Yeah.

The thread pitch and diameter has changed.

So unless they're gonna hold stock

of the old style thread pitch

and diameter bags for to rebuild.

But if you know when you go to somebody

that knows what they're working with.

They're gonna do that.

Like Blackline, you could say,

well, that's the same shock as a BC.

Order me up BC shock.

Aye.

That'll fit it.

Knowledge is power.

That's the thing.

Yeah, average person's gonna get caught out.

That's the problem.

Gavin's a tit.

But he's a smart tit.

But he knows what he's got.

He's a smart tit.

No, you're right.

You saved your job just the last day with that one.

Oh no.

He's told that every day.

Oh, okay.

But it does make you wonder.

Just pushes it off.

Oh, he just knows this.

This point, me and Gary get them shit every day.

It's just.

Are they finally noticing the pressure

from cheaper suppliers?

Have to be.

Because Earlift used to be the big name

and for a long time was pretty much the only name.

You had Acura doing the other management

but Earlift still did the bags.

Now you have so much options.

You have like the RMX kits and MaxLoad.

Yeah, you have RMX and you have MaxLoad.

ABP if you're being really fancy

because they are brilliant stuff.

That high-end stuff will always have their buyers.

Entry level stuff.

There's so many people now,

like Blackline are doing their own kits as well.

Their own kits and their own management now

and it's significantly cheaper

than what Earlift or PuttNight.

The cost of entry for Earlift,

what's to me is absolutely the same

because it has been around for so long.

It used to be expensive

and usually anything with technology

not will either get cheaper or if it's getting better

it stays the same because it also gets better

but cheaper with technology costs.

Now with the scale, the more sold

the more you can bring the price down.

Where Earlift has done nothing but ramp up every year.

Like the apple of suspension.

Pretty much, yeah.

Seem kind of thing.

So yeah, I would say they're feeling the pinch

but it's an interesting,

if you check out, I know we're not on the YouTube section

but if you check out the bag writers video on that it's

for a company that have been selling their love

for 20 years, it's a pretty diamond video.

Yeah.

We have had a look at the new,

there's a camera where it was done a video.

Slam.

Thanks for that.

Done a video and an unboxing video that you helped for.

Thing.

There's been a few of those bag writers

and car audio security did the same, yeah.

Yeah.

It's good, but I mean.

It's messy.

It's a bit messy.

Yeah.

It looks a bit cheap.

I tell you what I wanted in our ride system.

See how I'm driving along.

Not to do it every day, adjusting it when you're driving.

When you're driving along,

you want it to be a simple, quick, easy.

Hit two buttons and it does what you want.

You want your eyes on the road.

Yeah.

And when you have to scroll through a menu

to be able to do something with the bag set up,

that is not what I want.

Yeah.

It's almost like they're trying to justify

the option of why they're so expensive, you know,

by putting all this extra features in.

And like realistically, what was their 3P?

Like the operation system that I thought was great

and the features on it was great.

It doesn't need much more.

No, it.

Like if you want the car to perform,

I think it does what it needs to do.

That's it.

What more would you want that 3P system to do?

Exactly.

Unless there was like a motorsport mode

where you could like set it to adjust

different pressures or something or,

but it's still going to have the same shocks.

Exactly.

I mean, it's.

All right.

To me, it's sort of trying to overcome it and.

So it's an update for the second one update.

Yeah.

To me anyway.

Anyone else?

Lee.

So my one is a high speed police chase

took a crazy twist when the suspect stopped

to get petrol in the middle of it.

I mean, you're not going to get far without it.

That's a smart criminal.

Started Friday night past in LA

when officers spotted a stolen blue infinity.

The driver hit speeds of 100 miles per hour

swerving through traffic

and using the freeway shoulders to get away.

Then came the shocking moment.

He pulled into a shell station,

looked right into the camera,

covered his face,

filled up the tank and sped off again

like nothing had happened.

Tidy.

The chase went on across multiple freeways

before the suspect ditched the car

under an overpass downtown.

The car rolled into a pool,

but the driver, gone.

Police think he either got picked up

or carjacked another vehicle.

So they have his face,

but they obviously don't know who he is.

Yeah.

Well, the chase went by helicopter or car.

How is he able to stop?

That's amazing that he stopped for petrol

and got away.

And then got away.

With a chase and then a bicycle?

I don't know.

The must have had him on the helicopter.

That's a weird one.

Yeah.

I need more information on that.

Yeah.

I'll have to look at that now.

I have one last one here

and I'm going to touch on it briefly

and I'm going to come back to another episode

because I want,

and I think you know what I'm going to say here, Lee.

I want more details on it.

But basically about 10 days ago,

there was an article released

or an information release from the DVLA

about changes to do with classic vehicles

and modifications and electrification.

And IVA.

And all the shit that we have to go through

are supposed to go through

with modified vehicles and older cars.

So the current situation is that

if you can do like for like repairs

and everything's good,

if you modify and it goes on a points based system,

so if you change end suspension, gearbox,

you know, all these points set up to them

having to do an IVA or what used to be the SVA.

And you possibly lose the registration

and it has to be classified as a new car.

Q plates.

And Q plates.

Does that mean it has the fall

within emissions standards for modern vehicles?

Yes, as well.

And all the stuff about dimensions and...

Graduences and all that stuff.

Allegedly, they're backtracking on it.

Good.

So, what they have said and I,

so everybody was going off on Facebook about it,

but it was to kick in on the 26th of August,

which obviously was five days ago.

And then I've, I sat yesterday

and read the legislations that were coming in

and it's still a lot of gray area in it.

So what they're saying now is

that you can do like for like repairs

if you're restoring a vehicle to its original spec.

You're not changing anything on the logbook,

like the body type or the color.

You don't need to tell the DVLA anymore.

But that's what it was.

You didn't have to anyway.

But it says major structural changes.

If you're doing something bigger

like altering the chassis,

converting to electric or doing a full rest mod,

you do need to inform the DVLA.

But the big change here is that you won't

be automatically issued a Q plate.

You will be able to, in most circumstances,

keep your original registration.

Or get a, of the correct time registration.

Yeah.

But the thing is then what it doesn't state is

will you still be subject to IVA?

So, and then say,

say I take a Mark III Golf and do a chassis notch on it,

which I've certainly never done.

That's modifying the monocoque

or the frame of the car,

which means automatically on the points based system,

I'm straight into needing an IVA

and I would get put onto a Q plate if I went through IVA.

If you were to go through your MOT

and they'd attack that,

would that mean they would flag that?

They could.

They always have been able to do that.

But nine times out of 10, the MOT boys don't give a fuck.

They really don't care

as long as it's safe by within their standards.

The other thing that really helps is the EV conversions.

So what it's basically saying with that

is that we've heard like the guy we had on

that drilled a hole in the boot floor

to pass a cable through for the battery.

And the basically wouldn't allow it back on the road

without doing an IVA or an SVA.

That's not going to be a thing anymore.

And they'll still be able to keep the registration

of the vehicle.

But as I say, I want to talk about this

but I want to talk about it in a month or two's time

when more stuff has come out and we actually see

there's a lot of gray.

I don't trust them.

I don't trust the government with anything anyway

but I wonder why they're backtracking.

You know, that's the thing.

I think it's possibly because it's becoming more prevalent

of people doing EV conversions and stuff.

And they've realized that the current legislation

doesn't work.

It doesn't account for things properly.

Well, it's 40 years since it was reformed before.

So yeah.

And EVs weren't really a thing then.

Yeah, nothing surprised me

that they covered nothing more than two or more.

Just you turn after you turn with different.

I'll tell you what they did.

That's the state though that I picked up on.

Post 2000 in the UK, your tax is determined on emissions.

Yeah.

So the likes of the TT is in the second highest band

by one gram of CO2, I will add, which kills me.

It's cost me over 200 and something pound a year.

But we've talked at length about that, right?

But say I take the TT and I go full TT

and decide to EV swap it, all right?

The tax, it states on the DVLS website,

the tax will remain as it was at first registration.

So if you EV swap it, then you still have to pay.

I still have to pay a 480 pound road tax a year.

And deer knows what that'll be in.

And that'll go up and up and up.

So it goes into the getting the money out of you.

So if I take an EV and convert to diesel,

I can guarantee you they'll soon sort it out then.

Well, I know a man who has done said things.

Yes, we do indeed.

And has had an awful time with the DVLS.

Which I predicted, yeah.

An awful, awful time to the point where he was in hold

for so long, he forgot he was on the phone.

That's correct.

He was busy getting the answers from them.

Pretty much.

And he was emailing them back and forward.

And the thing was sold.

He had done a conversion and had done three months

of rigorous testing back and forth to his own house

and round the place and dropping the kids off at school.

And it was ready to go.

Ready to go.

And just couldn't get an answer from DVLA,

couldn't get an updated tax book,

couldn't they couldn't tell him what his tax class was.

They hadn't a fucking clue.

That's the thing they don't know.

To the point where he had the more or less phone

and give them a ballerkin.

And I think he has it sort of now

because the van's sold in a way.

Yeah, I must do if he's got a way.

Yeah, but, yeah.

And honestly, that's the reason I don't trust this.

Because you should be able to phone them

and ask them accurate questions.

But you could phone and get three different answers

from three different people.

You're dealing with the low level of just above minimum wage

folks that aren't answering yes or no questions.

You don't give a fuck about it.

That's all script and they don't know.

Yeah.

Nathan, do you have one last one there?

One last one for people of my era.

Nate Boott, Nate Boott.

Nate Ryder is getting a reboot.

So anybody remember Nate Ryder, Michael Nate?

Yes, Michael.

Beep, beep, beep, boop.

So did you ever watch Boy Meets World?

You're probably too.

Yeah, I did.

So do you remember Ennet, the neighbor next door?

Was it Mr. Feeney?

Mr. Feeney.

Was his principal.

Yeah, he's the voice in Night Rider.

Yeah.

Can't really.

So it's announced that John Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg,

and Josh Heald are in development on a Night Rider

reboot.

The trio is best known for creating the smash Netflix

hit Kobukai, however they have also worked on

Harald and Kamar and American Union

reunion films in the early 2000s.

So does this mean the half's back?

I don't know.

Probably not.

I want the Berlin Wall again.

What's that?

I want him to stand on top of the Berlin Wall again.

Previous version of the film was in development back

in 2020 before it was shelled.

So there's no dates.

It's just an announcement.

I hope they don't read it because it's a good memory

in my head.

I was going to say there's a good 50-50 chance

because some of the stuff that has been rebooted over the years

has been horrendous.

And then you look at the likes of Top Gun, which came back.

And they're stuck to the original formula.

And it was actually pretty entertaining.

It was basically the same film, to be fair.

But yeah, it was decent.

Happy Gilmore, too.

It wasn't bad.

I haven't watched it yet, but I've heard good reports.

It's all right.

Yeah.

Like, it's not, I don't think it would never

be as good as the first or the original one.

They just nailed it well.

But it was all right.

It was entertaining enough.

Silly.

It's always silly.

That us?

Yes.

OK, let's fire on some YouTube's, Connor.

First one I have here is Hagerty's YouTube, Laurie Chen,

visits Watanabe Whales, have you watched it?

No.

It was very interesting.

So a whale that I've overlooked for a long time.

I've seen them in the job scene for absolutely years.

And they basically look like a glorified mini light to me,

which will probably horrify a lot of people out there.

But I've always heard they're obviously

very good motorsport whale.

But they visit the factory where they're made.

And it's the most old school process of still sand casting.

And like the guys are making the sand cast,

did they make like 11, is it like 11 or 12 wheels a week

or something?

Yeah.

Super limit.

Casting them in aluminum and magnesium.

But I'll tell you what, safety

wouldn't be a big factor in it.

No.

Following some of the Justbox videos

around these various motorsport teams,

and we hear so much about it in Japan,

most of them are wee sheds out in the middle of nowhere.

Larry and his camera guy left the building at one point

because the sulfur in their eyes, like they couldn't.

And I was like, those guys are stabbing that every day.

They couldn't breathe.

They couldn't see.

They were like, that's like a podcast for a first try.

For the first.

We had a party last night.

It was impressive.

But it was also good to see, like it is obviously

for such an old brand, very small,

still family owned and run business kind of thing.

It's meant no cost, no reproduction.

That's the thing.

Sorry.

But yeah, it was impressive.

And like the same guy, I think, the guy who drills the wheels

for obviously bolt patterns and stuff

has been doing it for like 25 years or something.

The same guy.

And has a set himself on his own car

and he has drilled his own wheels.

Like he's the guy that does it.

He doesn't even need to measure it anymore.

He's just like, man, I think it's folded.

Yeah.

He's like a CNC machine.

Yeah.

But yeah, it's a really, really interesting video.

Like it's a sand casting and things like that

is something I'm massively interested in anyway.

But I would have imagined that was coming out

of like a big production plant factory, you know,

pressure cast and that kind of thing.

Yeah.

And like they do when they're just gravity cast wheels

and once they pour them and then they cool.

You see whether it worked or not?

They take them out and break them all the way.

And like two of them hadn't taken, you know,

like those big voids and stuff in them.

They just get melted back down again.

Mantle.

Mm-hmm.

Mantle, that's a very, very strange process.

A percentage of failure.

That's the thing.

Mantle.

If you're only put like 12, 12 wheels a week.

Mm-hmm.

Off the map.

Unto them's dead.

So now it's a very interesting video.

Another one I have to mention because I'm in it

is Jack Lug's one of me fitting the spacers to a Z4.

Watch out for the toothbrush comment.

The toothbrush comment.

That's how we got it.

How do you pass yourself a lesson?

Tell you after.

You're scooby.

So yeah, Jack brought a Z4 round.

Wanted to I think it's lowered in like 35 mil springs.

He wanted to push the wheels out a little bit.

So he packed up some wheel spacers

and I gave him a hand to fit those.

I don't think what else.

Do we talk before about gears and gasoline?

Do you care to?

Part two dropped.

Yeah.

So what's the finale of that?

I actually really enjoyed it.

It was good.

Was part three out?

Yes.

It's actually about yesterday.

That was other ways in gears yesterday.

Check out when they do the shots of like the overview

of the trip with the show, the map.

Just look at Ireland on the map.

Just just look at it and come back in two weeks

and tell me what you think.

It's an interesting ship.

Oh, OK.

Yeah, it's weird.

Is it like someone's three putting it in a wall?

It's not even the same.

Yeah, it's not.

It's just splat.

Yeah.

Right, OK.

There's a massive land over here.

It's kind of like if someone described what Ireland

looked like to you and said, what would you

think it looks like on the map?

It's a bit like that.

It's like takes arm.

Pretty much.

A few counties missing.

Aye.

There's some extra counties as well.

There is.

And another one I had as well,

we've talked before about in this new video

is Peyton Concepts.

He has the 6R4 build.

Yep.

I was not messing about.

He gets it in the primer.

It's amazing how obviously he done all the body work

and got it all straightened out.

But like the visual from the start of the video

to the end.

Will you see it all one color?

One color, a coat of primer.

It just starts off, yeah.

You're like, yeah, that's getting there.

Did he make a comment at the end?

He says, congratulations.

You've stayed this long.

Now I'm going to.

Yeah.

John's about like myself.

He likes about a self-deprecating humor.

The man is a genius.

He's also.

His mind just works in ways that I can't even fathom.

But he's the epitome of showing you

that you don't need all the fancy tools to do the right job.

You just need to be able to do it.

There's a solution.

There's a lot to be said about being able to have

an ability just to do it.

To do it, yeah.

Because I wouldn't have a second to worry.

There's people like that that are really annoying

and that they'll do something once

or they'll look at something and just find a solution.

Yeah.

Necromortic.

Why did you not just do it that way?

Yeah.

I'd get balanced.

I haven't had this for three weeks.

The last one I have, then, is more than more.

Sam Dobbins released a very last video.

Then they did a three-part series, Roots Classic, last year

where they were going around him and Toby

interviewing everyone.

And they released the very last one,

which I thought was quite good a week or two

before this year's event.

So it was nice to catch up on that.

Cool.

What about yourselves?

Nate, any tubes?

Well, I actually do have one.

And I was going to lead mine on from one that I assumed

you were going to talk about, but obviously you haven't.

What was that?

Speed.

Yeah.

Oh, no, I didn't tell you.

Are you going to talk about it?

No, you'd work away.

You wouldn't.

No, no, no, no.

I've never been able to talk about it.

You talk about speed first, because mine is not speed,

but it has a link.

OK.

So James Palmfrey, SpeedTal.

Their title was VW Turn Their Backness.

Yeah, something like that.

It wasn't having lost their way.

That was Charles's one, wasn't it?

Yeah.

Really good video.

I think it's 25, 30 months long.

James just breaking down the demise of Volkswagen

and how they haven't, you know, engaged with enthusiasts,

or it's hard to describe what he's.

Well, it goes back to what we were talking earlier,

but like Steph and Fabio, these are 32.

These like kind of more special edition stuff

that was still accessible to the public.

You know, it wasn't beyond most people's reach

kind of thing, where now the cost of everything,

well, the cost of everything in the world

isn't seen anyway.

But they're not.

Like these are 32.

The wing mirrors are like 10 mil shorter

than a standard Mark IV Golf.

But I bet you the wing mirrors in your Golf

are 10 mil shorter than those on a standard Golf.

Yes.

But have you ever priced one of them wing mirrors in an R?

I would say it's insane.

They're $380.

Yeah.

And why is that?

What's the difference in them?

They're aluminium.

I think that's what was told by the body shop guy,

because he, when I was leaving the body shop,

he just never hit the wing mirrors.

He never hit the wing mirrors.

No, it was a good video.

He went through diesel gate.

He was talking about, as I mentioned earlier,

the financial officer coming out saying we have one year,

maybe two, to survive, and broke down

what they've been up to, where they've went wrong.

Demonstrated how BMW backed their enthusiasts.

Nissan, Honda, Mark.

The walkway from where they're seen.

They need to be more engaged in that way.

Yeah.

He's made a set about Volkswagen and what do you do with parts,

but there's a BMW classic catalog.

But is that Volkswagen or is that Volkswagen?

Is that a BMW classic part of Volkswagen?

Because I remember talking to Paul McCarkern

and when he was just out of Volkswagen,

and he couldn't go through the classic catalog.

Now, it isn't a full catalog,

but you can't get genuine parts.

I think it was more the fact that Nissan

do their herd of dreams, where they're actually

remaking panels.

Either in production.

GTR stuff.

And we take our Honda stock down.

Toyota are down for a load of their money.

Their models and the Land Cruisers and, yeah.

I think Volkswagen have a policy.

Is it 15 years?

They just stop.

It's obsolete.

Yeah, obsolete parts.

They just run out what they have and that's it.

So at this point, they're getting rid of Mark 6 parts.

Well, I think the classic stuff is

they are reproducing some parts,

like your badges and bits and pieces of the rubber

sails, that sort of stuff.

Yes, you can get, but panels don't think so.

I think they could have got a panel for a Jetta.

We're looking back panel for a Jetta.

I think you get that from heritage,

but or not from heritage from.

That's a bad word around here.

Classic parts.

Yeah, dirty heritage.

The W Heritage have a partnership with them.

Classic.

Yeah.

But you can buy direct from them as well.

One thing is that Chippin's probably

collaborating with some of them from Germany.

But I think you could buy a panel, but it was like a US

panel in Europe for some reason.

Something ridiculous.

It's not a big seller.

Still about 600 euro.

James has a very good point about why people

walked away from Volkswagen, because Volkswagen's

photograph really well still.

Then everybody can underdrift them.

And Volkswagen don't look good.

It's like you always talk about the Instagram

move from picture to video, and that's the thing.

The whole world went in your face and everything's flashy

and that like a lot of the Volkswagen stuff

you could spend two years building something

that to the average person doesn't look

any different than factory, you know,

where you could spend a quarter of that time

making something that looks really good on Instagram.

Putting a big drift kit on and going, you.

Aye.

But that has always been a Volkswagen thing.

It's subtly, subtly has always been Volkswagen.

But the world has changed from that, doesn't like

everybody wants that instant gratification.

People have got stupider.

I have two other videos.

First one's Ventre, formerly of Hunigan.

He went to Germany.

I went to Team Schirmer, done a factory tour.

So Team Schirmer has a lot of heritage,

building street legal race cars.

Oh, basically.

And done a lot of stuff with records

and Nurburgring and stuff like that.

And they've done a bit of factory tour

and then a nice French gentleman

that had this absolutely fantastic CSLE 46

took him out for a drive.

And then there's some footage

of him going around the Nurburgring.

That sounds like heaven.

But it could be video to watch on that one.

And the final video is Saving Salvage.

I think I've imagined his videos before years ago.

It's a guy in England and he buys pretty well-hipped cars,

usually performance stuff.

He's like mad arm strong without the big production.

Ah, yes.

And I think he's an ex Audi tech and fairly good luck.

He done a giveaway, like a dream car giveaway thing,

but it was a fixed car

with a value of up to nine or 10 grand.

And this fellow won it.

So when they won it then, he had to go and look for a car.

So he found a 15 or 16 plate, was it?

Golf R, that was a non-starter.

Long story short, it was basically summed and driven.

Oh, nice.

So he bought it and like he brought the winner in

and said, right, this is what we're doing here.

It was actually really, really clean cars.

Just the engine was away.

And they bought a second hand car

from, I forget what the company is,

but it's warranted engines and all the rest of it.

Put it in and we'll take it.

Cracking car for the winner, like.

Yeah.

The cars I got are still out there

if you're willing to put the work in.

Yeah.

No.

Good to be video.

YouTube's done, folks.

Yeah.

Do you want to release it?

Yeah, so following on from something

that James Pomfrey said on the speed video,

which was about, there's no other car

that has the following that the golfs have.

And he talked about because you can see

the progression from a Mark I golf to a Mark VIII.

You can still see that it's a golf

and it's like to have this incredible following.

And he's right.

But something that I didn't really appreciate before

possibly is something that went on in Ireland,

I think last weekend, or maybe just this weekend,

gone 86 Fest.

Yep.

So.

That's a big event.

Kind of ashamed to say that wasn't really

on my radar before.

I didn't really know that much about it.

I've seen bits and pieces about it on social media

and stuff over the years,

but I didn't know that it was as big as it is.

And so I'm friends with Nicky Hayes,

who's one of the organizers.

I've been friends with her on Facebook for years.

I've only met her, I think, once,

but we've been car friends on Facebook.

Wow.

What an event.

And I'm sorry that I'm only coming to it now

and people are probably going Jesus Christly.

Everyone knows about this and Drift Games

has done videos on it over the years and stuff,

but it looks so impressive.

They had a couple of Drifters over from Japan visiting it.

And I'm not going to pretend that I know much about it,

but Juicebox did a video about it

that I watched this morning about,

is it Wind Auto?

Who are this Japanese company?

Okay.

That these two, this couple are from their two ex Drifters.

W-I-N-N.

Wind, no, like wind.

O-S-A-D.

Yeah.

Like farts.

And they came over and visited

and went out in some of the cars and stuff,

but yeah, it looked amazing.

So apologies for those who already know about it,

for anyone like me who didn't know about it

or has a kind of passing interest in Jap stuff,

but not really into it.

Check out some of the videos,

because it looked very cool.

The following for GT86 is, or A86,

sorry, in this country is absolutely insane.

Like, yeah, it's,

and I generally don't think there's a country

in the world that would be better suited

to hold 86 Fest in Ireland.

Yeah.

Because it's just the such a cult.

Yeah.

And like the joke anywhere around the world

that that's where they all end up is here.

Yeah.

You know, that's the thing.

If you follow juice box,

like all the 86 have been pulled out of Japan

and taken to Ireland, look.

Oh, yeah.

You know.

And they have been for years even before that.

Like they started to run out of the UK ones

and just start import,

Jap import, you know, sexes.

And that was back when there were nothing,

like the cost for nothing.

1800 quid.

Ah, the good old days.

Pockets are meant to happen.

The pink pages, boys, of course.

Thursday, Thursday morning.

Don't deal, don't deal.

Thursday morning, Nigel, you know yourself.

That's us up there, usual time.

But we cut it there

because I've added this to get it out for going to Roots.

Okay.

And we've raised to watch.

We've also raised to watch.

Don't worry.

I have a lot of questions there from people

and I know it'll take us probably another hour

to get through them.

So what I'm thinking is

I won't have that time to edit this

to get it out in time as a thing.

Okay.

So thank you very much to anyone

who sent questions in.

We will have time for them.

We'll back them.

Yeah.

They're there.

Just before we go,

how a lovely message sent to me by John Bell,

an internet superstar that he is.

This could be anything.

For the global car scene.

And he must have a slow day in work,

but here, very productive.

And he says,

I hope you like this.

This is a wee dub shed song I've done.

Right.

It's a little too soon.

Oh yeah.

Under fluorescent sun.

With the steel horses gleaming for everyone.

From the low and peak dub to the JDM bass

you'll pray the car wins this and show the least.

Yeah.

If the lights go down

and we are come home till next year,

we answer the call.

Well, first of all I'd just like to say, as you hold that up, there's a picture of John

Bill in a cowboy hat.

And the other thing I'd like to say is, I know what song we're singing, drunk on the

Christmas do you this, Sam?

So he actually wrote the lyrics and then filed it in the AI GDP or whatever the hell

it is.

I'm a big fan of that.

Get that released, John.

I will get, if I get drunk enough on the Christmas episode, I'm gonna sing that.

F, F you get drunk enough.

So to all our listeners, feel free to start your music career.

AI music career.

Any entries, welcome.

That's interesting to like that.

So thanks very much, John, that made me laugh very much.

John has a fascinating mind.

I've seen his TikToks.

So that'll be us for this week, we'll come back to the question next episode.

Next time we'll be chatting to you about Roots Classic.

Well, indeed.

Maybe a step in for you.

As this goes out on Twitter.

I will build it up in New York.

Yeah, yeah, we'll.

Perfect.

So we'll leave it there, folks.

Thanks again for listening.

We are on Instagram, Facebook as Reload podcast, individually we are.

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And we'll see you next time.

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I'm sorry.

Please step.

Right here Nigel.

Sorry, I was on autopilot there.

Sorry.

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There we go.

Nearly forgot I was there.

There you go.

Apologies, Stefan.

Big Instagram.

And all the pilots have said.

Yeah, see you next time, folks.

Cheers, folks.

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