Reload EP143 - Roots Classic 2025

Hi, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of Reload Podcast.

My name is Lee Maxwell and I'm joined as usual by Nigel Lamont and Connor McCann.

This is episode 143.

Previous episode was 142 because that's how numbers work.

We had a surprise guest unplanned and...

Invasion in the form of the Fatman.

Great to see him.

Hi, how are you?

Hi.

Stefan joined us.

He had just called around our house to watch the F1 and got roped into chatting on the

podcast.

You couldn't actually scripted that because Nigel was talking about him and he just

walked in and was like...

It was like a spady sans cacti and they just went...

Say his name and he appears.

The Candyman.

So the Candyman.

Say Fatman three times.

They just opened some sort of food and he appears.

So we have a bit of chat today about some trips and shows that we've been to recently

and we'll do the questions that we missed from the last episode.

So but we'll kick off as usual with what's new with us.

So Nigel, what is new with you?

Not a terrible lot.

Just a few things.

I think I talked about the fact that I was doing the driver awareness course the

following day.

No, you didn't.

You certainly did not.

You've been a bull boy.

I thought I'd mentioned this.

Yeah, I got caught speeding in May.

Oh.

By a van.

Bastard.

I'd definitely talked about this.

Nope, nope.

Well, our reaction there, as soon as you said that I went, oh sorry, what?

So Bank Holiday Sunday morning at 20 past seven at Stormont.

On the way to work.

That's even worse.

The money box was sitting.

Now, what aspect of saving lives does that represent?

Save the 7 o'clock on a Sunday morning.

So got caught doing 37 and a 30 and a 30.

You bull boy.

Yeah.

What were you in?

Gullfire.

Oh, the new one?

No, it wasn't.

It wasn't the black GTI.

Oh, because I hadn't done the Gullfire at that stage.

So then a week later I got a new, I've seen the van, I knew it was caught and got

the letter and they can offer you three points or do the driver awareness course and

I had done the driver's awareness course probably 10 years ago.

That's how I was going to ask it.

You already done it?

Yeah, but you're allowed to one every three or five years.

I think it is.

OK.

So there's 90, 92 pounds for the driver awareness course and you get no points.

That means you don't have to declare anything to your insurance unless they specifically

ask for it.

Which some of them do now ask that have you had a speed awareness course?

Yeah.

But I genuinely think I'd take the points from what I've heard of the speed

awareness course.

Well, I was when I was probably a couple of years after the introduction years ago when

I took it.

And it was all about looking at this horrific crash.

Hi.

You know.

I like trying to shock you and then I'll do it again.

And there's a few arguments started because people, you know, just.

This is on the previous one.

Yeah.

But this one I done this time, I decided to do it online at home.

So from 9 o'clock to 12 o'clock, you have to do all this pre-register stuff and come

in the Zoom meeting room and wait.

I kicked off at half nine and to be honest with you, it flew by.

It was fine.

The first hour of it was educational.

I don't defend what speed you should be doing by what things there are.

I found it quite interesting.

I was going, all right, OK.

I was going to say that's good because that's the sort of thing you were told

in your driving test 20 odd years ago where it was like, isn't it something to do

with the lamppost?

Yeah, it's 30 unless stated otherwise.

I didn't realize that stuff you'd have forgot in all those years.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was basically it was straight.

It was an education course.

The first part was education.

And then there was the consequences, how it affects people, blah, blah,

how it affects you.

And then it summarized up into how are you going to identify risks

and hazards, adopt your driving, blah, blah, blah.

And then it's sort of a question, why do you think you're caught speeding?

Why do you do these things?

What would you change and your mission statement color?

You know, I felt like saying, why do you do this?

I felt like turning around going, because I love driving fast.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

You can't solve that.

I just said, I'm have you ever owned an RSX?

Yeah, but it was a it was a Jordy fallow down it and it was a nationwide.

Oh, very good.

I wasn't just like, I assumed it would have been.

So local.

Yeah.

With people from Wales, England, Scotland.

Interesting.

Did you know there's 20 mile and hour limits in Wales?

Yeah, there's 20 mile and hour limits here.

Is it not in the city?

In Belfast?

Belfast, yeah.

Where?

In the city centre.

Is there?

That's good to know.

I was going to say, you might go back to that course.

So because one of the guys, he was a he was a transporter,

sort of courier, but he drives a Jeep in a trailer.

He must deliver different things.

It's like fucking Santa.

But he got caught out because he was doing 30 and what he thought

it was 30, but it was 20.

Yeah, the 20 zones have been in here for years.

Yeah, but we don't have many.

It's a city thing though.

I'm kind of like, I don't know.

I've seen them outside schools, but I don't just think that's

like a flashy light thing.

I think there was that I have a conspiracy theory with the 20 mile

and hour school zones is that it was forced by pedophiles.

So you could slow down and look at the kids longer.

Oh, very good.

There you go.

I'm not familiar with that color.

That's it.

I'm not familiar with Belfast massively, but when you come around

the back of city hall and turn right at the bottom, is it where

the courts are?

I think that's 20 along some of that.

I don't know how they'd afford it.

Like every other speed limit, they don't really until you're caught.

Yeah.

So I'm highly educated.

I'm highly educated and a safer driver, one might say.

I love it.

Colors are fitted in the golf bar.

Yes.

Happy boy.

Yeah, happy boy.

I need to soften a wee bit.

Are we a bit harsh?

Are they easy to adjust?

I know the fronts will be on the top.

I haven't been underneath it yet to be honest with you at that time.

Aye.

I've done nothing in the cars this week, basically.

Better coilover than what come out of it, though.

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, that's good.

There's less, well, obviously they were tired coilovers.

But yeah, going around corners now is much more pleasant experience.

Nice.

It's setting a wee bit better too.

You knew you raised the back.

Yes, I was rubbing a wee bit at the rear there, basically

because I run spacers just for that nicer stance.

Stance boy.

You know.

But yeah, apart from that, I've done sweet FA in cars.

I will say we were under that car when it was being the coilovers

were being swapped as a clean car.

Yeah.

Have you been under it?

Yeah.

It's that's what I don't want to buy it.

Yeah.

Flashlight head torch.

It's Mark Sevens or Rusty Boys.

That I went under to see because I laughed.

I was like, let's see how you're fucking robbing this thing

is because it's a Mark Seven.

I went out and everybody, myself, Lee, Stefan and Richie

were all going, this thing's solid.

Like it's a good car.

Yeah.

You've got a good one.

Thanks.

I'm using a lot.

There you go.

Listen, if anybody was going to give you a shit over a bad

end of a maze, would you buy that dog for?

It's a good car.

No, that's me.

One thing I'd noticed about the Mark Sevens

and I was actually shocked.

But I said, I don't know.

I assume Mark Sixes are not like this.

And again, I'm not a massively familiar with modern stuff.

Was the front arms are all pressed one piece.

I assume like the old, like the Mark Three style arms

are like two pressed pieces and then welded together.

I didn't realize that the Mark Sevens are all one piece.

And the rear trailing arm is the same.

Where like the T-T and the R32 and the Bora

is all a big head cast piece.

Yeah, but then I suppose it's easier to manufacture it

probably later as well.

Costing, costings.

I was surprised by that.

No, your T-T is near of quality over cost.

Oh, wait, your car is probably, I would say

your Mark Sevens lighter than the T-T.

It's like it's 1450, I think I'd call for.

It's definitely not heavier than the T-T and I'll say that.

And it's what 20 years in a year with a lot more technology.

I see two cars that you think, oh, the T-T's lighter.

Oh, yeah, and the T-T's physically smaller, too.

Have you ever lifted the T-T boot lid off a car?

No, rough.

They are heavy.

I'd say the bonnet's the same.

The way it kind of like hogs down over the wings and stuff.

That ring looks bulky on them.

Not too much new with me.

I've been on holiday and, well, when I was away,

I saw a lot of old cars, which was really fun,

like little old city cars.

I was in Porto in Portugal.

So lots of the cars that are small

and obviously they survive a lot better

because the weather's better.

But I saw Renault Twingo's, Mark I Fiestas, old Clio's.

That's amazing, Mark I Fiestas are still kicking around

because was it 76, 83 there where Mark I was?

And no rot on them, either.

No rot.

Mark III's, 6N Polo's.

They're all a wee bit like sun-bleached

or a little bit scabby, but not rusty.

I would take burnt paint over a rot any day.

We used to go to the Canary Islands many times

over the last 20 years in holiday.

I used to love going to see old golfs,

old Novas, 106s I got.

Novas, I've noticed.

The seater bathes everywhere, like...

I've noticed in the Canary Islands now,

you'll see them any more.

There was a scrappy scheme.

Oh, really? Ah, fuck.

Well, that would make sense.

Also, a lot of the left-hand drive Novas

that come into this country all come from Portugal.

From Portugal?

Mm-hmm, that's a big catchment area for them.

A lot of the old taxis are still the old Mercedes.

Like the painted cream and so that was cool.

Stefan kind of told me what they were.

I didn't really know other than they were Marks.

I'm going to guess you didn't carry there.

I mean, it was nice to see them, but...

But yeah, a bethahs.

Loads of Renault 4s, so loads of Renault 4s,

which I thought was a bit weird.

That is weird.

Two CVs.

Then I saw a car that I don't think

I've ever seen before in my life, a Renault 9.

I've heard of them, but I don't think I've seen one.

Which looked a bit like the Renault version of my Jetta.

Yes.

So that was fun.

And the only other news with me apart from that

is I booked a Moté for the R32.

It's on Halloween.

Ah.

The Moté will haunt you, Lee.

I fucking hope it doesn't.

Because if it haunts Lee, it'll haunt me too.

I had an apple on come around.

What's that?

I know, scary.

Five, six weeks.

I probably should do something with that.

One might say spooky.

Spooky.

We're looking right down the barrel

at Halloween and Christmas now.

We're mid-September.

Cheap or so.

Dub shed was yesterday.

I know.

And then Titanic dubs is what?

That's clicker fingers here.

By the time this comes out, it'll be 10 days.

Oh.

Myself then, I was at Roots Classic.

Yeah.

While I was there, we did the,

Stefan and I did the annual Harbor Freight Hall,

which is now the biannual Harbor Freight Hall.

When I was chatting to him,

he was saying he had the best time

in Harbor Freight.

Oh, man loves it.

Bought a load of toes.

He did, aye.

He bought a swivel,

swivel impact sockets in the icon range,

which is like basically their

professional lifetime warranty range.

A set of, I want to say 13 was equivalent of 105 pounds.

And when he got home,

the snap bomb man had a set of seven on offer

for 336 down from 450, I think it was.

Which was interesting.

So I packed myself up.

Stefan getting the snap on drop ends now, is he?

Oh, he's, he's snap on.

He's been snap on for a long time.

And the boy drops on the resource.

Let me tempt you with some of my products.

And I'll tell you what.

Open your ass.

And open it, he does.

Cause every time they, it's a run and joke.

Now, every time he has a new tool,

I'm like, what was that?

And he's like, I'm not telling you.

I was like, how much was the tool?

And this goes on until I found out

and I'm at your deck.

I packed myself up.

I think the last time I was over,

I picked up one of the icon three eighths ratchets.

Yeah.

And I fancied a longer one

for doing the next suspension working stuff.

So I picked up like a 20 inch long one.

Got that, a peck set, screwdriver set,

couple of parts of the vice grips,

like the big open mouth ones

for clamping sheet metal together for welding.

And we set our flush cutters.

Stefan and I is bag.

We had a bag between us, which was 23 kilo allowance.

It was, I mean 23 kilos on the news.

And then our hand luggage was full as well.

So we got as much as we could.

When I was over there as well,

Toby, who you would have seen on Sam Dobbins' videos

during the interviews, he had parts for Lee and I.

That's right.

So he had the US markers for me for the Mark II,

couple of sets of those, and the radio blank for Lee.

The Jetta radio blank, which I've wanted for so long.

So shout out to him, I'm so excited.

He's been holding those parts for nearly a year.

He refused to ship them.

He says the shipping's colossal.

And I was like, look, you're giving them to us.

Like, well, pay the shipping.

He's like, nope, not doing it.

And then he gave them to us at Rich, which was lovely.

Very good.

What else have we been up to?

Oh, PVW feature.

I was talking with that.

Kudos.

I wrote the PVW article for our Helen trip,

which was good.

And they used a load of our photos.

We're all in as well.

First time PVW guys.

My second time,

first time on my clothes on.

If you know, you know.

Yes, the...

Yes, that was cool.

It was actually really something I've always wanted to do.

And I got to write a bit about my friend's show,

which was pretty cool.

That was really well written too.

Did you read it?

Yeah.

Excellent, thank you very much.

And no spell mistakes, I will say.

I would expect nothing less.

Lee definitely.

I was just going to say the Lee spell checkered for you.

It's either going to be Lee or Gethnan

going to send it to me.

Yeah, so without talking about roots yet,

that's as much as I've been up to.

I've been away for quite a while.

I've been wanting for my back.

I've been wanting to get in the garage and fucking reset it

because it really needs it.

And I've just been jet lagged so badly.

And I spent more time just finding about around the house

than doing anything.

Very good.

That is myself.

OK, so news, news then.

News, news.

I'll go first, I'll jump in because I have it here.

The first one I have is Volkswagen

are renewing their naming strategy.

Have you guys seen this?

No.

So the full electric range obviously is all the ID range.

So it's ID one, two, three, four.

Yeah, it's just dumb.

Yeah.

Well, they have agreed.

So Volkswagen is moving away from the purely numeric ID

names on this electric lineup.

Instead, per familiar brand and model names with the ID prefix.

I have actually seen ID Polo.

Yes, that's the first one.

It's just a Polo.

Just call it a fucking Polo.

Aye, it's just electric Polo or Polo-E or something.

What does the ID stand for?

I don't actually know.

Intelligent, dynamic or some bollocks.

Probably no Volkswagen.

It might be something in German.

Possibly.

Yeah, so as you said, they're the upcoming EV compact.

Formerly known as the ID two will become the ID Polo.

I should give us a performance.

Polo, just call it Polo.

Yeah, because like the performance version

is going to be called the ID Polo GTI.

No.

So it's obviously just the fact that it's for electric.

Also don't call it a GTI.

So there's talk that they will adapt like the Golf

and the Tiguan and Passat, eventually.

So it's like a soft switch over to electric,

I would imagine.

Wasn't there already like a Golf E?

E-dice Golf.

And the GTE, which actually didn't sell very well.

But I knew one guy that had one

and he said it was like probably sharp.

I think there were like a small engine

and then the electric motor back on them up kind of thing.

The floating center caps, didn't they?

Yes.

I do like that.

It was one of the first of them.

But yeah, Volkswagen with the weirdness once again.

Just so you know, what does ID stand for?

Intelligence, design, identity, and visionary technologies.

You were correct.

I'm glad they shortened it to ID

and not the rest of those letters.

What a joke.

There we go.

News I have came out this week,

a story about the Phantom F1 driver.

Yes, the car.

Checklist Levac, yeah.

So we had been spotted doing blasts up and down the motorways

in a Formula One type racing car.

I think we talked about this years ago on the podcast.

The Manhattan, this guy for years.

2019.

So, full Ferrari livery was followed properly

in the village of Buck, Buk, 37 miles south-west of Prague

after the latest, I think, was reported to the police.

Video emerged on Sunday morning showing the distinctive car

driving on the D4 motorway, stopping for fuel.

The driver was a 51-year-old man who was arrested at home

and taken into custody after briefly refusing

to get out of the vehicle.

Video footage captured by local media

showed him sitting in the car in front of his garage,

arguing with officers and saying they were trespassing

in private property.

Eventually he relented, went for a questioning.

According to media, he refused to answer any questions

he got there.

So, this is the basis around the house for vehicles.

It was a quote I seen from his son.

It basically was a use of excessive force.

They sent helicopters and everything to the house to get him.

The car is a Dallara GP2-8, a racing car developed

by the Italian manufacturer Dallara for the GP2 series.

It's not going to be a slow car, either.

I've seen a few videos of it on the motorway and stuff,

and it's so weird to see in normal traffic.

Yeah, that was an F1 car, it sounded good too.

There's been no formal charges in this report anyway,

but he will be getting done for driving

motorway without headlights, indicators, and number plates.

At the very least, yeah.

So we'll keep you posted about how that develops, basically.

Fair play to him, like why not?

Do you remember a getaway in Stockholm?

Oh, have you ever seen that one?

Did they ever catch him?

I don't think so.

There was two of those videos, wasn't there?

Yeah, there's just two of them.

There's more than two.

Oh, there's just two.

Well, he done won a Porsche, he done won an...

Was it him who did the one on the bike as well,

or was that a separate one?

I don't know.

But it was the Porsche one.

That must mean it was early 2000s,

was they ever just came out?

The problem with doing that now is there's so many cars,

and you can't get away with it.

It's like a roller-stay, it's like, mm-hmm.

But yeah, I like that article.

I did see that he had been...

Well, I think it was him who was a suspect before for this case,

and because he had a helmet on, they couldn't prove who it was.

And it basically went round in circles, kind of thing.

But it kind of reminds me too many people

have those, that same car and that livery either.

His neighbors would have known who he was,

like presumably he would have had to drive past them.

Oh, there's a Jeffrey way out for a blast in his F1 car again.

And I love him, the driveway.

Max Verstappen has been racing this weekend,

even though there's been no Formula One on.

I've seen that, yeah, yeah.

So he's making his debut in the GT racing at the Nürburgring.

But there's been some interesting

rules in chat about, have you seen this?

Is this because it's his first race?

So yeah, so he's technically classed as a rookie,

even though he's a four-time F1 champion.

Yeah.

So he had to follow certain restrictions

in order to be allowed out.

So he had to do like a certain number of laps

behind the instructor.

That's really interesting, yeah.

And then his car was restricted

from like 430 horsepower to 300 or something.

Aye, the knock 150 horsepower or something of it, yeah.

Yeah, it just, it's funny.

Like, and he has taken it all stride

and been like, whatever, this is what I have to do.

Other people are outraged on his behalf,

saying like, why the fuck,

he's not an amateur driver, like, let's be honest.

I, first up, and I sort of didn't really have a clue

about what he was like until I watched that

Chris Harris thing.

It's just changed perspective over really, so it has.

He's, yeah, I think he's very chill and very focused

until he gets onto the racetrack

and it's not going his way.

And then he's less chill and more focused.

But like that, the Nordschleif series that he's racing in,

I would say would be good to watch.

I think he finished sixth,

even though he was in a restricted car.

Yes.

And was like massively ahead of the other rookie,

I think 20 seconds ahead of the other rookie kind of thing.

I'm more, I think, yeah.

But yeah, I did, I seen that as well.

I've been interested and see,

I don't know how much longer he'll spend in F1

because he seems to have a,

he seems to be enjoying him when he's not,

he doesn't care.

And he's massively into sim racing

and other types of racing.

So if he'd made the jump to do other stuff,

like I wouldn't be shocked.

The good thing is though,

it's probably good for that race series

in that it puts a spotlight on it.

You know, if they want fans following it

and that kind of thing,

but people, I'm like, we're sitting talking about it

where we wouldn't have been if we're stopping wasn't enough.

So it's good that way.

And as you say, like,

he's just following the rules and doing this thing.

And like there's no point in coming in

and being like, I'm a world champion, you know.

You're not Nesmit, yeah.

Not yet.

No, no, not yet.

Another one I have here on the headline,

simply states, shocking moments,

a speeding car flies off an unfinished bridge

and explodes in mid air before plummeting into a river.

Sounds like something out of the Simpsons.

Was it a hybrid or electric car?

It could be either option that just gave there.

And

unbelievably, the guy driving it survived.

On which country was he from?

Russia.

Because only in Russia could you survive that.

Hard to kill.

Yeah.

The man's probably full of vodka.

There's a video of it, which is,

if you basically Google what I just said, it'll come up.

And it is quite literally a guy shooting off

the end of a bridge and hitting something

like midway down and it just explodes.

Gets to the bottom and he's,

fine, like he's a bit injured, but I mean, he lived.

This is very impressive.

Wanna be stuck, love?

What kind of car was it?

It didn't actually say.

It's a ladder.

It probably, Joe, what it probably is.

Deriva.

It comes after another miracle surviving.

It comes after another miracle survival case

in Russia involving 80-year-old granny

who plunged from the sixth floor of a building

and crash landed on a car.

I think there's a video of that.

Yeah.

CCTV footage shows the grand falling six floors

and crashing into Hyundai hatchback

with a men's force and survived.

She was reportedly cleaning the windows in her apartment

when she suddenly lost balance and fell from the building.

Good thing I was Mrs. Doyle.

That's nice, don't I say?

Not much of a fall though.

So it seems the building differed in Russia.

Yeah.

It's very impressive.

The last one I have is just a wee note about Mercedes.

There's reports now that they want

to use BMW engines in certain models.

They're close to the deal with BMW to start using

their four-cylinder petrol engine from 2027.

Likely use the B48 two-liter turbo engine,

which can be a dub for plug-in

and hybrid range extender options.

So Mercedes is turning to BMW

because it's new M252 engine made in China

and civil for these roles and also faces US tariffs.

So they're saying that production will take place

at BMW's stair plant in Austria

with possible US factory to avoid tariffs.

Logically, the partnership would lower R&D costs

meet Euro 7 emission rules and expands hybrid range.

For BMW, it means higher production volumes,

extra revenue in the prestige of supply and engines

to show rival.

That's what I was going to say, yeah.

Talks are on an advanced stage

with official announcement coming very soon.

Yeah, there's a lot going on there beyond money.

Like there's the reputation that's obviously

like Volkswagen and Ford have shared models

and engines and stuff for years, you know,

but there isn't that massive like legendary rival

between Ford and Volkswagen

that there is between BMW and Mercedes.

So it's, is that a win for BMW?

I think so.

Financially, it certainly is.

Yeah, I know.

So it's a big one for them going, huh?

We make engines for use.

Yeah, not the other way around.

The last one I have here is just a bit

about our old favorite, the manual gearbox.

So new car models are down 57%

for manual gearboxes in the last 10 years.

The only ones that are manuals now,

realistically, are the budget cars.

Yeah, so it's...

Everything else is automatic.

Cargoers revealed that there are 80,

there are just 82 models available

with the manual gearbox in the UK

as top manufacturers in 2025 versus 192.

So it's pretty sad.

Yeah.

That's the reason it's not that people aren't buying them.

It's that you can't buy them.

Aye, yeah.

It's, it's that age old debate of is it supply or demand?

Are they, is that what people want?

Or is it people are bound up

because that's all they have the option to do?

Yeah.

But at some drop, like it's halved in the last 10 years.

But in fairness, I can understand

because realistically, I'm going to buy a new,

well, new to me car soon.

And it's going to be DSG.

It just makes sense for what I do.

Well, that's the thing in the last 10 years.

DSG and Treptonic, whatever else you want to call them,

have got so much better.

It's not like driving an old slash automatic.

It's, you know, they're very, very good.

I love the DSG in your superb.

It's so good.

And it's nearly 10 years old.

The DSG and the diesel Volkswagen works so well.

I'm still not, it just makes sense.

That's what I'm going to say.

I'm still not sold on it in a petrol.

Because the diesel works,

the torque on the diesel works so much better than the DSG.

It's the gearbox not superb.

It feels like I could read your mind.

Yeah, I'm convinced it does.

Yeah, we're in the petrol stuff.

Elon has a mind link, brain link, things like that.

Yeah, so you can see why people want them

and they are getting better and better.

And then with more traffic on the road,

you're sitting in traffic more often,

which it just makes life easier.

But yeah, give me my manual option.

I always tend to be 20 years behind

without any driving anyone.

But for, yes, I totally agree for performance cars

and stuff, absolutely.

But not for your daily diesel estate.

No, but I actually, I think,

now he doesn't, oh, it's better than the Toyota.

She's just going to show it to me.

Get that door closer.

Oh, hang on.

There's a small dog.

Least reaction to that.

Let's go.

So, I'm glad.

No cars, keep talking.

Short dog break.

Anybody else going to lose before we move on?

All done.

I read an article about possibly Europe.

We're going to allow small petrol cars

against EV emissions, blah, blah, blah.

But I don't think it's going to happen.

So there's not much point.

Until it actually happens.

Until it does.

That's a reminder.

It seems unlikely.

That's a reminder of the conversation I had

with someone in the bar the other night.

Sir regular comes in and she works at the council.

North Down Council.

And I don't know if you've been following some of the guns

on a banger, the redevelopment of the marina.

I've heard of some places.

She's gone for 30 years, basically.

So the green light's lit.

So do you remember the bottom car park at the marina?

Where everybody used to cruise, yeah.

That's getting paved over.

There's no car park anymore.

OK.

So I get chatting to her and just fairly senior

up in the council.

And she's a bit of a, how do you say this?

Green eco.

OK, yeah.

Lefty, you know.

Not our stuff.

Flower park, you know.

And she was talking about the development in the front.

I says, yeah, yeah.

I says, there's no car park anymore.

Just get out of your car and get a bus.

I says, have you been in the bus now?

Yeah, I use the bus every day.

Where do you go?

From Cumberland, Newton-Ords.

I says, yeah, that's very convenient for you.

So me, no car park in the middle of Bangor's fine

for somebody that lives in Bangor.

But the council has put on regularly festivals

and attractions all the time to bring in people

from outside Bangor.

So where are they supposed to park?

So I live in Cumber.

You say, get a bus.

So for me, my wife and my two children who are adults

will get full fare to go across there.

I worked it out after I got talking to her.

I know I worked it out in my head when I was talking to her.

I said, I've been just shy of 30 pounds return.

Because it's 3 pound 10, 3 pound 10.

I was 20, 25 quid.

Worked it at 25 quid.

To get there and back?

To get there and back.

I says, a favor of fuel gets me there and back?

Yeah.

And she was just like, oh, you know.

Yeah, that doesn't make sense.

I, yeah, shit like that doesn't make sense.

And it's been clearly been a long time

from I was on a bus because I nearly shit

when you said it was 25 quid for four people

to get two times over and back sort of thing.

So.

Okay, the Belfast bus,

I would use it quite regularly when I'm going,

I'm going for a night out in Belfast or whatever.

And I find it very convenient.

But it's no good to me in my work.

Aye, no.

I have to be at Belfast at airport at three o'clock

for me to do that.

I don't even think there's a bus early enough.

To go from Cumber.

And I'm going in the middle of Belfast

and then I have to get the airport shuttle bus.

I would have to get up at five o'clock in the morning

to get into work for five o'clock.

Yeah, no thanks.

You know, it's all good and well

to say get in your bus.

But unless you have the infrastructure and the costings,

like the government's taxing you out of your cars, right?

That's okay.

You truly want to get people out of their cars,

make public transport next to nothing and better.

See, this is the thing.

You go to Europe, you go to Germany, you go to Holland.

And even if you go to England,

the public transport is phenomenal compared to here.

Dublin's good.

Yeah.

Apart from when you're staying in a hotel.

Ah, that's a different story.

But like, that's even to say even in England,

it works much better than it does here

where our network's like, I hope my go-to statement

is two places, Kilkeel or Oma.

Sorry, not Oma.

In a skill.

Like, there's no forms of public transport.

You can get a bus to it at a varying convenient time,

like you've said.

There's no trains.

There's no other options for these places.

You know, they're just a fucking nightmare to get to.

But Northern general is a basket case in every aspect.

Oh yeah.

So here is now just a laughing stock of the whole world.

And that's the problem is we kind of get lumped in

with England, Scotland and Wales,

who obviously a lot of them don't want it either,

but they're more set up for it than we are.

You know, it's, we, like the three of us

actually live in quite convenient locations for it.

And it's still shitty for us.

So if you live outside of that, it's worse again.

Yeah.

There you go.

There's my two pins.

Hashtag round.

And the other bit that I had was kind of

heavy rumours at the minute that both

Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton

are looking at buying MotoGP teams.

Oh, the two of themselves?

Together or individually?

Individually.

So that's been an interesting point.

So Gunther Steiner, I think,

already has bought into it.

And I think these two are looking at

investment opportunities and stuff

and they're looking at MotoGP.

There must be something that they're raising

from MotoGP, if boys are getting,

well, you know, getting into that.

Well, Hamilton is a big bike fan.

You know, he's husband.

And I'm not sure about Max,

but it would be good probably for MotoGP

to have, again, their names attached to it

to bring more people in.

Unless Netflix are doing

drag or survive MotoGP and they're going here.

We get on this.

Let's get in here.

I'm sitting and recording them on

Drag or Survive and this producer

happens to say, here boys,

we're doing Drag or Survive MotoGP.

Could you sit on this?

Yeah.

But that's me out of news.

So does anybody have any YouTube's for us?

I have a few here.

I haven't seen very much because I've been away.

The first one, though, is Vinny, ex-Hoonigan.

Yep.

He's just about to say that one, yeah.

So for a long time now,

he's had the Ferrari 360

and old man beigey gold color on the L.I.M.s,

which I thought was.

Silver.

Is it?

Silver.

I thought it was like a light beigey

silvery gold color.

Was it?

Silvery gold?

I like a real, like off silver,

if you know what I mean.

Silver was?

Right.

A color that should be horrible.

Champagny kind of.

But somehow he works with the L.I.M.s.

And then when he said he was painting it

and going about it as I go,

I know this is going to be terrible

and it is absolutely class.

And I love the way he bought a cheap Ferrari

and a BSE 300K on it.

Yeah, it's not a cheap Ferrari anymore.

So it's Porsche,

Oslo blue, I think.

Yes, Porsche car.

Went for color-coded wheels.

Color-coded headlights.

Color-coded interior.

And I was like, this is going to look terrible.

And in the end, when it all come together,

I was like, this looks unbelievable.

And it works so, so well with it.

The other one was the Jimmy Oaks video,

Fluid Ampar, the guys from Fluid Ampar,

which is like your crank dumpers.

They're an aftermarket version of that.

They're developing them for the SR20 engines.

So they went to Jimmy

and BSE were showing how they work

and what way they work.

Kind of controversial in some realms.

Boys have had good results with them.

Guys have had results where they fly off

and destroy the engine.

But quite cool to see how they work

and I think the fluids in them and that kind of thing.

It's quite in-depth, which was nice.

And then the last one is a guy in America

called Matt Rad.

His YouTube is RadwellsTV.

Matt is big in the Mark 1 scene

and does a lot of like nice parts

and fabrication and welding and roll cages and stuff.

And he's starting out now.

And if his first video is going to go by,

it'll go quite well.

A guy who's a lot of contacts

and a lot of really good projects.

So it'd be interesting to see you follow that along.

What about yourselves?

Just my regulars.

I watched them when I enjoyed it.

All my regular stuff watching that.

Harry Garry's dropped another video there.

It was one with Clarkson, where Clarkson

or Harry drops by with his,

Harry drops by with his,

what do you call it, the project that he has.

And they're talking about Jaggers and the rebrand,

talking about electric cars.

Clarkson explained the Jagger rebrand very well.

I read about this and I haven't watched it yet,

but I would like to watch it.

And what was that?

Because I,

they weren't selling cars.

Their seals were in the bin.

So it's easier just to...

They're targeting LA car sales.

Okay.

Basically.

So they're switching to like a higher market sort of thing,

like a very nice thing.

That'll be low volume then.

Yeah, I don't know, we'll see.

But I found out just when we're talking about electric cars,

because I think Clarkson said at the end of the grand tour,

basically, I don't review cars anymore.

I'm quitting it because I can't review

white good cars, just electric cars.

And they're talking about electric cars

and all the rest of it and discussing it.

And you can just see Harry going,

yeah, but, yeah, but, because he has a magazine.

I need to review the new cars.

At least you can always see him almost trying to defend.

The car scene.

That's my bread and butter there, Clarkson.

Just you calm down a little bit.

That's a good point actually, yeah.

You know, so yeah, that was good.

Chris Harris dropped a video

reviewing the new 992.2.

So it could be, I guess, a 20-month video.

Watch that too.

992.2.

Touring.

That's obviously the latest Porsche, isn't it?

So a GT3, it's of length.

That's the tone down of the smaller wing and stuff.

I quite like those.

Very subtle, very subtle.

For a quarter of a million pound car

that I'll never get to see or touch.

But yeah, that's, I would have that over the normal GT3s.

Oh, absolutely.

They're a bit too larry, the GT3s.

Although, I wouldn't say no to them.

Oh, of course not.

But, yep, that's for me for YouTube.

Broke, thank you.

Right, Connor, would you like to regale us

with a few teals of your travels?

Yeah, so Lee, or Lee and I, no, you weren't there.

No, sadly not.

I headed off to Roots Classic this year.

Stefan hasn't been over for a few years now.

He hadn't been to Roots before he'd been to Helen.

And we went out on,

we had a bit of a disaster at the start

because we went out on the Tuesday

but our flight got cancelled.

So we did what any two young fellas would do

and we went and got hammered in Dublin.

So they put us up in the hotel in Dublin

and we went and done the Guinness Tour,

which was incredibly disappointing.

So to make up for it, we went and done basically a pop crawl.

Did you own Guinness Tour?

We did.

And out of 10, what was the Guinness like and could double?

In the Guinness Tour part itself was fantastic,

like genuinely a good solid nine out of 10.

I could not fault it.

Did I have a Guinness anywhere else?

I don't think I did.

I was on Beer Moretti and then I switched

to Zara Solid.

I switched to, I found some random bar

that was turned out to be a bit of a hipster bar.

Perfect for you, Colin.

I was and it was full of Zara beers

and I was like, I'll have that.

And then I said to Steph,

and at one point I was going back and he says,

what do you want?

And he goes, you peck and I was like, for fuck's sake.

I hate that. I was like, right, whatever.

So when I, and I think-

That's how you end up with Peach Labs,

Peach Snaps and Blue WKD.

Oh God.

You say surprise me, that's what you get.

Well, I seen this thing on a tap

and some woman got it as I was coming up.

And I went, fuck, I'll get him that and see.

And I sat it down.

I was like, there you go.

He goes, what is it?

I was like, no idea.

And I looked at it and he goes,

do you mind if I try that?

And he went, yeah.

And I took one sip of it and went,

oh fuck, I've made a mistake.

He says, you're not going to like that.

And he just drank it out of sheer ignorance.

It was horrible.

It tasted like you'd washed the dishes

and then drank what was left.

A beer or a soror?

No, a beer, like an ordinary beer.

But it was flat.

It was like, do you know one of those like

English style ones that's like pumped?

Yeah, it was cloudy as well.

Absolutely dog shit.

So yeah, next day we we got our flight

as normal, which was good.

We'd lost our day in New York.

So I got off the plane and Mark James,

who is loving loving and dubbing on Instagram.

He he's the 13th on Mark one die hard.

So Jonas from Germany had come over

in a mark to Polo bread van

and was going to Mark's house

and Mark put up an Instagram

saying if anybody wants to come

we're having a bit of a get together.

Shoot me a message and I'll send you the address.

So I messed him and he sent me the address.

Turned out he was like 20 minutes

from the airport in New Jersey.

I was like, works for us.

But we were about four hours early.

So being the educated gentleman we are,

we had it for Princeton University.

Absolutely.

And had a walk around it.

It was class really, really nice old built.

And it's probably like probably close

to being some of the oldest buildings

in what is modern America.

And then we had it back up to Mark's.

And it was quite funny because when we got there,

Garret and Olivia were there

with the supercharged Beowindu bus.

They were two liter 812 supercharged Beowindu bus.

And we jumped out of the hire car

and he looked and he went, holy shit,

what the fuck are you doing here?

Cause he would expect to see us at a show

but not something like that, which was funny.

So I got chatting with them.

And then I heard this thing come in

which I was convinced was a bike.

And Nigel, it was a road legal Mark I golf drag car

with an 800 horsepower, a 20 valve turbo on it.

And I was just like, explain this please.

Yep, just drives it in the road.

800 horsepower, 20 valve, a huge turbo on it.

Does drag series in it.

Another guy came in and a wide body Mark I

and like an army green color with an ABA turbo in it

which is the two liter 812 turbo slapped onto it.

And it was just Mark I and II galore arriving.

I was like, this is absolutely class.

Nevermind what Mark has tucked away as well.

Mark has quite a collection of stuff.

At one point I was looking around on Mark II

and then it only, I only twigged on

after a couple of minutes of dander

around this Mark II when I looked inside it.

There was a VR6 engine in the back of it.

I was like, yep, as you do, that'll be a bit right.

And then do you remember, do you remember a guy in America

that's gone back 20 years?

In fact, if you have the stack of PBWs about here

I can guarantee you the issues here.

On the cover, there was a black Mark II Jetta Coupe.

A guy, Mike McCoy built it.

RS is mega stretched and the interior

was a cream leather with the Porsche GT3

like alien head seats on that.

Like it rings a bell.

Like chrome VR6, Mark has that car.

And it's like stripped basically

and he's rebuilding it as it was 20 years ago,

which is quite cool.

So that was good to do.

And then we headed down to Atlantic City

and we stayed the night.

Atlantic City, the next morning was an interesting venture.

Went to one of the casinos just to basically dander around it

and I come up with two things that it's designed to do

is keep you inside and take all your money.

Yes.

Yeah.

Have you ever been to anything like that before?

I was in casino in Birmingham

the way home from players one year.

Same kind of idea.

This thing was so big

and I can only imagine what the ones in Vegas are like

is where it spans over the road.

So it's built over the road.

There's basically tunnels underneath the casino

and there's food, drink and everywhere.

You imagine if you get up from the casino part

to go to get food or drink, there's another casino.

So it's always within sight.

And I was like, this is designed to hold you here.

It's like a fucking prison.

Not my idea of a holiday, I will say,

but it was interesting to see it.

To see it, yeah.

So we got down into Roots,

got into the hotel where we were staying

and one of the first things I seen was our friend Tony

has a, it's a Mark 1 caddy pickup

with a 20 valve turbo and it's recently changed

to an America in the Jedis.

2016 Jedis got a 1.4 turbo that we didn't get.

Right.

And they've got really cheap.

I think you can pick up like a whole engine, loom,

everything they were saying for like $300

and a couple of them have cracked

how to make this work in older cars.

That must be the Polo engine then.

Presumably.

I'm not a hundred percent sure

if it's exactly the same thing we got.

1400 turbo.

Because they were kind of like a base model over there,

they're worthless.

So boys are putting them into pretty much anything

that moves now.

And Sal's truck has just been finished

with this 1.4 in it.

I think with a map on them,

they seem to be like 210 horsepower

with a standard. That's early power.

I like to realize, see, do you want much more than that?

You know, it builds up to an O2A or O2J gearbox.

So everything all works on the transmission

and driveline side of things.

All good.

Custom engine mounts on your wiring and off you go.

It's very interesting to see you can get a nosey around it.

I did laugh then because across the street,

Donnie, Ran, Heather, Earl and Scott Norton,

all those guys were all staying in this house.

So we took it down around to see them.

And Earl and Donnie were away

and Donnie's B3 Passat, which is a supercharged G60.

G60 is the pro charger on it.

Syncrew was up in the air

and it would have been problems with one of the sensors

that was flooding the injector

and basically washing the board.

So we got it sorted, was looking to change the oil.

So they couldn't get the oil filter off

and it was mega tight.

And I think at one point, both him and Earl had four hands

on it trying to like open it, couldn't get it.

So when we went over, they were a way to harbor freight

or wherever to get tools to take it off.

So we're starting anyway.

And I asked where they were and they told me

and I laughed.

And I was like, fuck a bit of Stefan could get it off

because he's the hands on them.

Stefan has hands.

I'm not kidding.

Like vice grips.

So when Connor was telling me the story,

the first thing I said before he told me was

about Stefan got it off.

And no joke.

So Ryan was like, yeah, give it a go.

So Stefan's sort of sheep as he walked over.

It didn't get under the car.

Just reached down from the top,

which was giving him disadvantage himself.

Didn't even struggle just straight off.

And I was like, oh, I'm proud of my boy.

Honestly, this grip strength is fascinating.

The breed them different over in Bambridge.

So that's all that friar talks.

So I was proud of him, I have to say.

All that fried chicken put to use.

And then we done our usual head of a tacos

and then hung out and chilled out.

Friday was the autocreak dub and grub,

which is a big meet up at the zoo, which is good crack.

That was the first of really getting to see everybody

and hang out.

And then basically for that day was dub and grub.

And then back to the pool

and then onto the boardwalk for dinner.

Saturday was the main, was a big kickoff then

was the meats.

See the Mark I meat, which was absolute class,

just lined to Mark I's everywhere.

I like it.

And then all the Mark twos and threes

parked on the other side of the street.

Yeah.

And you can kind of see everything.

All the organs.

The Mark two meat, a bump into Brett Sloan.

Do you know of Brett Lee?

Do you know of Brett?

Brett owns what I think is the biggest

are called Porsche dealership in the U.S.

I think he's Connecticut.

When I went over with Shane there recently,

he had invited us to come and see.

And then turned out he was on vacation with his family.

So I didn't get seeing him.

He is an absolutely beautiful Mark two golf.

The interior, Nick Kramarczyk redid it

with Brett, I know Brett Lessons

and he's probably screaming

what the actual name of the pattern is.

But do you know that you see

like the black flourish looking pattern

on the older Porsches

with the white pinstripe through it?

He is that in the Mark two.

And then he has a set of like the,

I think they're the ABT or apt,

the five spokes, which model number they are.

But obviously it's like what I said

and was it was like someone with a lot of money

built a car in 2008.

It was all the writers, the strict intake

and the ABT wheels and the interior recaro's.

You know, it's so period looking.

I was like, that's on it.

I think that's what he was aiming for with it

when he sort of described it afterwards.

Did the Mark three meet bumped into Paul McGraw

got a usual shit talk with him.

I got some sectarian banter going with him and Stefan.

That was always good.

Oh, that's always warm.

It was the heart that that's it.

And then who went back to the pool?

And then we were back at the pool

while organized to get a tattoo sorted.

So ended up getting,

do you know the the Mark one rabbit logo?

Yeah.

So they got that done.

Which is good because I haven't had a tattoo

probably two years.

So it was nice to add.

It was also nice to get something

from when you're away as well,

which is pretty cool.

I'll just chime in here and say,

I got a tattoo when I was away too.

You did?

It's on my arm here.

Oh no, my hoodie's too tight.

Which is a hard point.

It's a hard point.

So it's kind of an inside joke,

but I'll tell you the basics was

we were sitting at a bar one night

and we were all doing like cheers.

And somebody said, you know,

you do on Instagram like a boomerang,

the picture that reverses itself,

but she didn't know the name

and she was like, do one of them hard point things.

So you got a tattoo.

So it became a joke of the weekend was,

you know, smiling for a photo.

It was like instead of saying cheese,

everybody say hard point.

So that night we went and got a feed.

We kicked about around the pool

and the pool is just, I send the staff

and like I can't imagine anywhere here,

like a group of all of us that we know

all hanging out in a hotel together

and drinking beer in the pool and chilling out.

It just kind of doesn't happen.

You know, as much as we're all very close

to a whole lot of people in the car scene,

I just can't imagine it happening.

It's kind of weird.

We're over there.

None of us have a powder for a star.

We went to a hotel.

On our claim it's crap.

I hear our claim has been good this summer.

Oh, well, that's true.

Our claim it was fucking great.

Some might say it was too good.

But across the street is the ice cream place, which...

I think I see the pictures

of you eating ice cream.

The massive ice cream.

This was a small ice cream.

Stefan ordered what they described

as a single scoop tub

and had to tell the woman to stop after four scoops.

And we were like, at what point is four scoops one scoop?

That's the math I'm mathin' like.

That's a medium one.

That is mental.

That's the size that guy's had.

Yeah, so that was...

I wanted an ice cream

and I ended up eating half of that

and then throwing it away,

which I kind of felt bad about,

but I was just like, I can't eat anymore.

That ice cream you had in the hell

was one of the best ice creams I've ever had.

That's the bourbon one I had.

That was so good.

This place is really good.

And the usual thing in America

where there's like 40 different flavors,

like it takes you the entire length of the queue

to decide what you actually want.

I think my words were,

I'll never eat all this.

And I did.

You did?

Yeah.

And then that night,

the DCI guys,

there's like Becker and Escher and all those guys,

that's their club inducted me into their club

by beering me in the Decisive Photos Lab.

So that was incredibly unexpected

to the point where I started to laugh

when they did it

and I inhaled the beer up my nose,

which made things 10 times worse.

Yeah.

I got the advantage of being inducted in

per staff and didn't,

but I still got the beer over.

So unfortunate.

So that was good.

I wasn't expecting that.

They're incredibly good bunches,

the sort of bunch you'd look at and go,

I'll avoid them ones,

but when you actually get to know them,

they're actually very decent people.

And then the next day,

obviously it was the main show day,

which was absolutely hammering down.

I think Lauren might've taken some inspiration

from DCI for her back club.

I was showing her the photos when we were away

and she was like, hmm.

Oh God, there were a lot of beer wasted.

Some, one of the beers.

That was her only comment

was a bit of a waste of beer though, wasn't it?

Well, most of them were PBRs,

except someone had some sort of IPA

that I could smell.

You know, it was like,

is it distinct smell difference between the two?

And I probably would have preferred

if it was all just fucking

some sort of generic PBR style beer.

Yes, Millerlite.

Budlite?

I do be honest with you, most of the beer I drank over there

is Miller High Life, which is champagne beers.

Well, that's all I really liked.

I keep drinking the blue.

When we were in Helen?

Aye.

Oh God, what was it?

Oh.

Macaloupe.

Yes, I like Macaloupe.

Yeah, the ultra.

That was nice.

That's, Joe, what?

That's Berlin for when you're away and the heat.

A nice frustration beer.

You want to drink water,

but you don't want to sober up.

I remember the first time when I had off seals.

Ah, what'll I buy?

And you went, Macaloupe's nice.

I bought it, went well covered.

Correct.

I like a little XR beer

since you couldn't drink that all day.

You OK, Liz?

I had a Budweiser first time

in a long time, about three weeks ago.

It gives me a wild hangover.

It's very sweet.

Like very sweet beer.

It is, yeah.

It kills me the next day.

Miller used to kill me.

I love Miller, too.

Oh, Miller used to give me a headache off.

Maybe the 20 bottles was part of the problem.

I could have been this year volume of it.

When we're at the show, then

the standard of stuff is incredible.

And you do get both.

You get like the patina cars

right through to the out and out show cars

like Kyle Walensky's blue mark three is

absolutely insane, insane.

Favourites for mine was in the Mark one camp.

There was a guy Matt Euler has a red cabriolet

with a supercharged two litre red valve.

Do you ever see the new speed chargers

which is like built into the Manifest?

Yeah, yeah.

And everything around it.

Stefan was looking around it

and he was like there's loads of like details.

And when we were talking to him, it was very obvious

like he's owned the car for well over 10 years

and you can see that.

And it was just refined and refined and refined

where it's not something that was put together

quickly over a year.

You know, everything's touched on it.

And then there was another guy, Joe,

had a Mark one Soroko.

No, sorry, Mark two, Mark two Soroko,

which is usually the ugly child.

And it was red on RMS, I want to say.

Gold chrome plated RMS with some form of 16 valve.

I'm not sure if it was a two litre or 18 on ITBs.

And the whole thing was done satin black chrome

and genuine gold plated stuff as well.

And it was gorgeous.

Like really proper show car level stuff,

which was pretty cool.

And then our friend Nick Kramarchek with a brown golf.

He got car of the show.

Did you see the prizey one?

No.

So the whole thing was based on video games

and it was like an old Nintendo cartridge was the prize.

But I'm not, I'm not joking when I say it was four foot

tall and four foot wide.

It was massive.

I did see the photo.

Sorry, sorry.

Cause I thought it was like AI generator or something.

No, no, it's actually, that was the thing.

And I was, there was a running joke that there's a couple

of photo shops of it, like on the back of a flat bed.

Laurie, I said, oh God, just seen the roots prize

going home to the winner and stuff.

I was fucking stupid.

Who was it used to do the ridiculously tall trophies?

So a show in England.

And I was like, there's all the dubs.

There's all the dubs.

And we were like, there were six foot tall trophies.

Was it an audition?

Was it one of the audition prizes?

I think it was like, I'm picturing it on the stage.

Small.

Aluminium built things.

Oh, like machined eye.

You're right though.

There was one of them was like four or five foot tall trophies.

Maybe fitted.

There's maybe fitted, I think.

That's like something else.

Oh my God, it's this kind of thing.

Yeah.

Yeah, they're like the ones with the columns.

And then there's karate powder or something on top.

Here, have the Stanley Cup, you know.

It's, and then the round that day off

is the usual sad goodbye.

It's nighttime, everybody's hanging out.

And it's a big group of like 20 years.

And you can just see the group get smaller and smaller

and smaller as everybody goes to bed.

And that's the last supper, so to speak.

So we had the road the next day.

And we'll wait a bit of time to kill.

So Stefan and I found an old army barracks,

which is abandoned up in Sandy Hook,

which is like, if you know that one,

not the shooting.

I just wanna say, right?

This was different shooting.

But it was an army barracks from,

I think it was 1922 through to 75.

And it's right out there, like at the E-pill in Chile

below New York, where the water in that comes

and separates New York and New Jersey.

And there was like a mortar battery,

where basically all the cannons are set into the bank

and they're shooting out into the water

for ships and stuff like that.

But it's just all open.

You can walk in, round up.

And apparently we were like, why is this so well kept?

Like the roads are a bit shitty,

but they've been like the big potholes

have just been filled in with stone.

Somebody obviously is looking after it.

And it turns out there's like some of the,

I think it's some of the Coast Guard

or the National Guard are based there.

And they do like marine research from that area or something

kind of thing, or that's what the government are telling you.

And, but it was cool because you could just walk around,

but it's so abandoned,

like there's just deer roaming around everywhere.

But you walk up to the buildings

and it's like, oh, this building was used

for this during the war.

And this was the gymnasium during the war.

And it's cool to say it, you know, that kind of thing.

It's one thing I like more in America

is you can sort of do weird shit like that too,

which is cool.

Especially staffings, right into like

right where we're going, what are we doing?

Doesn't like any downtime.

Shaddle, shaddle, shaddle.

It's good, good times.

I would go into more depth,

but we've done it a few times now,

but those are kind of the highlights for me.

It's, as always, it's the people that make it.

You know, it's getting the hang of your friends

and see the people that you haven't seen

in six months or so.

Like I was bumped into people,

two guys that we hadn't seen from 2019,

from Vag4, you know, so that was cool.

And it's just nice catching up with people.

The shitty thing is you're not going to see them now

for eight months till hell and kind of thing.

So that's good, but well worth the trip.

A few people mess with me about,

oh, I need to get over and need to get over.

And the usual thing you get every year,

but nobody seems to do it, just fucking do it.

Do it.

Aye, so it's good fun.

It was good laugh.

A week well spent.

Yeah.

Per Stefan.

I haven't seen Stefan since.

He probably got me as full of me for a week.

Is there no homing pillow?

Aye.

Oh, speaking of Nick Grimarchek.

So him and Rachel do a show in their local times.

I think Slas, they can like,

they basically rent two streets off the local town

and shut it down and that's where their show is.

He put up a thing the other day.

A sinkhole opened up in the middle of the road.

Yeah.

Where their show is supposed to be.

And just fucking the road just collapsed.

Well, two things I thought was,

holy fuck, that's nuts,

because we don't get that sort of thing.

And you're like, that's weird.

Second of all, imagine that was like a few weeks later

and the show cars were sitting there.

Bye-bye.

Or anybody just driving along.

Is your old mains underneath the street?

I don't know.

I must talk to him about it,

but I just thought it was fucking wild to see.

Just the road just disappears.

Welcome to America.

Okay, will we round off with some questions then?

We will indeed.

So these are a mixture of new ones

and ones from the last time.

I haven't seen these for a while.

All fresh.

Let's see.

First one, Jake Loog says,

super proud stalker moment, of course.

Seeing the dub shed boys and PVW, well done, people.

You too.

Well, you're one of the boys here.

We're the leads.

Ricky underscore VWT2 says,

if you could buy back one car to use,

or sorry, that you used to own,

what would it be and what new mods would you do?

I'd have a white mark to you back again.

I love that car.

It's the one I painted the wheels on.

The TH lines.

Aye.

LIW.

LIW 79, 79.

It went a good home though, doesn't it?

It's sitting on one of the Maxwells last year.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

It's having trouble with the brand,

but it's got a brand now, so.

Very good.

It should be on the road and I'll get that range back.

Oh, you're getting it back?

Oh, I sold it in the pretense.

I want to keep that range.

And what is it LIW?

79, 79.

Nice.

I like that.

It wasn't 69, 69.

Well, no.

Nice.

It's your old Mark V from the first one.

It had a 69 plate.

Did it?

The black one.

69, 69.

Like that.

Did you put that on or was that on?

No, it wasn't.

That's even better.

So what would you do with the white one then?

I would probably do an engine conversion.

Ooh.

What'd you do?

VR.

Solid choice.

Yeah, I think so.

What would you do?

I wouldn't be able to buy back my original move

because I'd went to the big skyscraper in the sky.

It's now a washing machine.

Yeah.

My Swift.

Your Swift.

I used a soft spot for that.

I wish I could have it back.

What would you do?

Probably not much.

It's fun week or as it was.

But we just lowered.

We lowered a bit and took track days and have fun.

There's a good chance that could be a track day car

because there's a race series for them now, them Swifts.

They're all going to be on the Swift Sports.

I remember the Swift GTIs were just bought

by Club Monroeys.

Oh, really?

The old boxy ones?

No, you know, it would be late 90s ones.

Ah, yes.

1316 valve.

Yeah.

Real sharp like a weak car at the time still are.

But they get bought for Club Monroeys.

Yeah.

Well, that's what's happening with them

newer ones now as well.

I don't know what I would do.

I tried to buy back my white mark too.

You've never sold any cars.

So like.

How dare you?

I have sold my white mark to you and my yellow.

Where is it now?

Rotten on a driveway.

There you go.

So I tried to buy that car back.

Three years ago, yeah.

Like had the money in my back pocket

and wouldn't be sold even though it's not driving.

The owner crashed a classic Mini

and then didn't want to drive older cars

but just let it rot in the driveway.

And it's in worse condition when I sold it to Richie.

And then painted it like that car was

like really well looked after.

Was that indoors on your double chin?

It was, yeah.

On the Lotus of Clare wheels.

Done and gray.

It looked really, really good.

Honestly, I'd like to buy back

my old yellow Max Power style Corsa.

And what I would do is I keep it

with all the period correct stuff

but I would lower it better

because obviously it was just like 40 mil springs.

So with them being more accessible now

probably coilovers or maybe air

and have it sitting nicer

even if it was the same wheels

with like slightly more stretch cars

and just kind of update it a wee bit more

but keep the same kind of vibe with it.

Cause that's to me, it's still like

I'll throw back to the days

when modifying was a lot more creative

than trying to find rare parts now.

Yeah.

Very easily.

Mr. Bushy Evo 2 says,

heading to Bigger Staff's Barn tomorrow afternoon.

Can't wait.

That'll be good.

Yeah, they do tours in there too though.

Yeah, that'll be really good.

Michael Skullin says,

that was a good one with Michael.

Congrats Michael.

Yes, indeed.

I was away when he got worried.

Yeah.

The cars dipping out were fantastic.

Of course.

I mean, it's real good.

There's no going to Calvin Kirby's.

The V8.

Oh my goodness.

That thing's class.

Calvin, do you remember my car quit

on the way back from DB and the key?

The coil pack was given bother

and Calvin I'd said was one of the guys

that actually stopped and pulled over to help.

And he took off on launch control with the V8 Lexus

and it sounded unbelievable.

He says, when has a gearbox got too many gears?

I went and test drove a Ford Ranger this week

with my cousin as he's looking to buy one.

I thought my Amarok was doing well at eight gears.

The Ranger also is four low and a four high option.

So does this mean technically there's more gears

if there's another reducer in the transfer box

for crawling like with the tractors, et cetera.

You start off with a full manual,

then you want the splitters

and now it's either straight up ranges or full auto.

Feels like cars are nearly going the same way.

And I don't know why a 10 speed box scares me, but it does.

10 speed.

I feel like it's more to go wrong.

That's the option.

For auto boxes with the side of things going wrong,

just from general driving day to day,

I don't see an issue with more gears.

It's probably, it'll be more changes,

but the belas jumps between.

Smoother transition between, yeah.

I wouldn't like to be rowing through it

or 10 gears manually,

but like trying to drive it out fucking lorry

when I'm out of Kenworths to see an Amarok or something.

The big thing is obviously more gears is more weight

and it's more to go wrong.

That's the scary part.

But then it's a bit like the superb,

like if anything, everyone's wrong with that gearbox.

Like I'm not touching it.

You know, it's, it's going to get rolled off a cliff.

I, you know, it's, I don't touch manual boxes

as a general, so I don't know where you would even begin

to start with that.

The other thing is to getting,

if those boxes are more expensive,

second hand, they're going to be more expensive too.

The other thing is, I think it's to do with emissions too.

Cause.

I'd keep them in low revs at all times.

That's it. Yeah.

You think of a four speed,

like an old four speed mark two.

You were revving that out to then get at the drop

and a suitable range for the next year.

It was a big jump between them.

Dathie Dunn, speaking of DB Daily says,

small rant of the day,

but up the north a few times over the last while,

work related, I'm wondering two things.

One, what radio station do you listen to up there?

Cause I could find fuck all worth listening to.

I would agree with them.

BBC Radio 2.

Radio X digital.

I listened to Spotify cause honestly,

if I had to listen to Northern Ireland radio,

I would crash the car.

I find Radio X takes a lot of boxes for me.

Is that a Northern station?

No, it's a UK.

Oh, like a digital Christmas.

Okay.

So it's all like Rocky and the sort of

some number to your radio.

90s, 2000s music.

I don't listen to the radio here.

No, I don't really either.

But if I have to, it's Radio 2.

If I have to listen to Pete Snodden go,

what did you do yesterday?

Oh, I had curry for dinner.

I eat curry too.

Does anyone else out there eat curry?

And you're like, oh my God, fucking kill me.

Radio 2 is good, but there's so much talking

because it's BBC and they don't have to do ads.

I don't mind a bit of talking if it's intelligent,

if it's fucking mind numbing shit,

like what you had for dinner or your dead dog's name.

You know, like I don't care.

The other one is actually ironically,

and he's from the south,

the southern stations of Better Crack.

Southern stations, yeah, more than I did.

They're a bit more loose than the northern stuff.

When Laura was doing work experience down at Galway,

I used to love listening to the 2FM.

2FM, he's super brilliant, yeah.

It used to be really funny when people had a sense of humor.

Yeah.

Now you just can't defend anybody or your counsel.

Well, the northern ones are brutal for that.

Yeah.

This is number two.

On the Jewel Carriageway before Lisburne,

how is it a good idea to have

Arctic Trucks crossing over two lanes of traffic

at 70 mile an hour, so you shouldn't be doing it,

to cross over the road,

let alone blocking a lane on their own side?

Or is that?

He's talking about the A1, aren't he?

Must be the A1 on the Jewel Carriageway,

it's the A1 before Lisburne.

How's it a good idea to have

Arctic Trucks crossing over two lanes?

Like coming out of junctions, crossing.

Oh, yeah, because it's not a motorway.

Aye, yeah.

And it should be, and they've been working,

apparently, to do it for years, and then...

The number of accidents on that road as well is scary.

Yeah, they've been talking about making that a motorway

with proper slip roads, where at the minute,

you have some slip roads,

but you still have like old farmer roads coming out on,

where you just join on and hope for the best.

And we used to live on...

It is carnage-like.

Like I'm a confident driver,

and I do not like pulling onto it from

without a slip road, basically, it's scary.

Because you've stopped on there.

Especially if you've crossed the middle and go...

Yeah, if you want to go right,

you have to get across the two lanes,

sit in the middle to then double back on yourself

and do other lanes.

Yeah, no, that is a bad idea.

We're talking about lack of infrastructure.

Oh, exactly, yeah.

I like to have been talking about making that a motorway

over 10 years ago.

They had sent out the plans and stuff

when we were still living in Corbett.

And that's nearly 10 years ago?

Yeah.

And it was, you know...

They were saying they're going to close these roads,

coming onto it and make the green stuff roads.

Residents have objected, blah, blah, blah.

You just need to fucking man up and do it.

It wouldn't be done if the A5 was getting closed

because of the greens, you know,

the climate action policy thing, whatever it was.

The...

Opposing the A5, stuff is a lot of bollocks as well.

It's done.

You just need to say, tough shit, fucking Mr. Farmer.

You'll have to drive an extra two miles to get onto the motorway

instead of pulling out of the hole in the hedge.

The best of it is it's probably not even

the farmer's complaint about it.

No, probably not.

It will be the residents.

People who live in ex-farm houses?

We moved out here and look at what you're doing.

It's like people that build a house beside Albert Race Track

and they complain about it.

Yep, exactly.

Zach Hallday, Zach 0.057.

I don't know why I couldn't read that.

It says, apart from the lift,

what is the one thing in your garage you couldn't do without?

Socket set.

I have a really good blue point socket set

that does everything I need when I open it.

I don't have to go hooking.

More or less, it does everything I need.

That's actually really nice.

It's like a, I forget how many pieces it is,

but it has like quarter, quarter, three-eighth,

and then the sockets, spanners, screwdrivers, bits.

It's just, it's got 80 to 90% of what you need

when you're working on something.

A big one for me, and it seems kind of obvious,

is a good bit set.

They call your...

T185.

Yeah, and your torques and your multi-splines

and stuff like that.

That one in the garage is what?

Ten-year-old now.

And it's, I think there's only one piece missing out of it,

but it's great when you go to go to anything

and you just open it up,

and it's a bit like your semi-ear blue point one.

It's just all there.

I'm going to go a slightly different route.

Electric roller shoulder doors.

Actually, yeah.

Fucking game changer.

Yeah.

And we hemmed and had whether to put the electric rollers on,

and I'm so glad we did.

Well, not much extra because we used the same company.

It was much extra to put the electric motor.

300 quid or something, and they sorted it all for you.

Yeah.

And it's the sort of thing if you said yourself,

actually, we'll fit them down the line.

You never would.

You never would, no.

Murph underscore VW says,

our piece lot wheels as rare as they're made out to be online.

I have a set in storage waiting for the right car.

Nigel, you're probably the man for that.

I haven't seen piece lot in years.

10, 15 years ago, you had tripped over them.

And you couldn't give them away.

Yeah.

Yes.

14-inch or the more common one.

Yeah.

It's sure it is.

It's probably one of those things of like they're very rare,

but also how much of a demand is there for them.

That's the thing.

Not around me.

I have like old Castel wheels

and 14-inch Mark II wheels.

See, they fall into that category for me.

He is like, they all got scrapped

because nobody wanted them.

Now there's less of them.

But unless you're...

But does anybody actually still want them?

If you're restoring a car, yes, but...

Otherwise, who wants them?

I, yeah.

You know, nobody wants to get a Mark II

and slam it on 150-pound coilovers

and put them over those 14-inch...

14-inch.

...that deuce to it.

Yeah.

Kind of the go-to first mod.

Because the cars are more expensive

than doing that now.

Yeah.

He also says,

old-school hot hatch non-German.

Personally, for me, it's a Starlet GT Advance.

That's a pretty strong choice.

GT Advance?

What's a GT Advance?

Is that the four-wheel drive one?

I think it's the older one.

The more...

Is it an EP82, I want to say?

Starlet?

Glanza Turbo.

There's a thing.

They used to be everywhere.

Everywhere.

And you never...

Not say you'd never see them now,

but they're a lot more rare.

The one thing that used to annoy me

was everybody spoke to you one.

300 horsepower.

Not 300.

Everything was just 300 horsepower.

That was the fully-carried one today.

I'm...

Oh, I have my air blower on.

My air blower on.

I'm partial to about a jab on the Formahonda

for stuff like that.

You're a big civic guy.

Mm-hmm.

I always like the Accord Type R's.

Accord Type R's?

Ah, yes.

I always thought they were nice.

And then they do like a...

The newer one,

like it's a Mugen edition,

the white one.

Mm-hmm.

I thought they look really well

for a jab car.

Ah, there we go.

Yeah.

So the advance is the two-tune one.

There's one comes to the dub shed.

It's like the dark gray on the top

and the like gray on the bottom.

Ah, right, right, right.

And it is the P82 model.

Right.

The...

Yeah, some form of civic.

Probably like a B18

or maybe a KSwap EG,

something like that.

I do like EG civics.

To me, the Honda's are just the Volkswagen's

of the jab world.

Like noisy and slow.

Tree.

William's Clio or...

I'll get you.

...Focus RS.

That's the...

Focus RS is your big one, isn't it?

Yeah.

106 rally.

Yes.

Wayne Douglas is white one.

Yeah.

All this time for me.

Phase two, phase two.

Or my Swift Sport,

but it's probably not really old school.

Ah, it's not old enough for that.

Although, that car might be 20 years old

if I had it now.

Cheap or so.

That's not.

I knew both of that pretty much.

We're getting old very fast.

Art Cartel says,

pick a death row meal for the person to your left.

The worse, the better.

Oh, didn't see that question there.

I mean, it's not going to be that hard

to pick something bad for me

because I don't really like anything.

Well, it's pretty much the same for me.

Some sort of Eastern European goulash

for you, Leigh, I think.

Or what do you call it?

What do you call the tins of fermented fish?

Oh, God.

Hi.

There's a name for that,

but I can't remember what it's called.

It's quite the easiest one for Leigh.

He's just given her some vegetables.

Some broccoli.

Ah, fuck nice that you're a hard one

to pick for her.

I like it.

That's what I'm going to say.

I think I'm internationally culinary.

Death row meal.

You have to give you like a fucking shovel full of gravel

or something.

I'd eat anything.

Go go.

That's an impossible question for you

because you will eat anything.

I'd give it a go.

And if you don't like it,

you'll try it anyway.

Yeah, at least I've tried it.

Yeah.

Saying that,

I wouldn't touch jelly deals.

They turn me.

I like that.

That's very specific.

Yeah, just just this.

So our friend, Paddy Nelson,

obviously, you know him, Nigel.

His family used to fish for meals.

And they always,

anytime I was out at their house,

I'd take a bit of eel,

tell you this,

and I was like, oh my fuck,

looks like a snake.

And I remember one night,

I was absolutely steaming.

And I was like, give us a bit of that eel.

Do you know what?

Absolutely lovely.

What does it taste like?

Fish?

Yeah, kind of fishy,

but it has like the bone up the middle of it.

Quite flaky.

And it has the bone up the middle of it,

like, you know,

imagine a snake would.

But I remember waking up the next morning

in bed and was like,

oh, the urgal,

the urgal, the urgal.

That sort of thing.

It was totally fine.

It was lovely.

What are you picking for me?

You should know what he hits.

Yeah, I do.

There's one very obvious one.

They're orange.

The common I can.

Big beans.

Yep.

Oh yeah.

I would,

I would honestly rather start a death.

I wouldn't even say what I would do.

I love big beans.

There's nothing you could do in this world

that would make me eat a ton of big beans.

Really?

A thousand percent.

Absolutely stinking.

Disgusting.

The smell of them.

Beans on toast.

We've got a mature cheese.

After those beans,

if I ordered a fry and come with beans,

and it was on the plate,

I couldn't eat the rest of stuff right now.

Yeah.

And I'm not even really like that

with any other stuff.

No, beans are disgusting.

You can go in the bin.

So we can't start the debate.

Branson or Heinz then, no.

No, definitely not.

Neither.

Both can go in the bin.

Ronan still point on our score.

Good for the heart.

The more you fart.

You must be on them right.

Says,

which car park on Oxford Island

wasn't asking for a mate?

Oh, here I go.

Over the first ramps on the left.

The mask has slipped, Connor.

The mask has slipped.

Your double life has been revealed.

I see he's shooting over at Goodwood

as well this weekend.

He is.

Ronan, the cadet.

Yes, yes, yes.

Very good.

Jack Logan again says,

has anyone else noticed

a few more new beatable builds

kicking off or just me?

Jack's big trendsetter.

He is.

He's trying to be anyway.

Although it did see

one of James Pumphrey's videos

or he talked about doing one.

Yes, he did.

Just after Jack got his.

He's talking about a V5 or something?

Was that a good video?

Yeah.

I would like one of those

new beatles, the 1.8 Tarot.

I genuinely would like one.

There's no better time to buy one

because they have good value

in the markets.

And they're at that point

where they're still kind of worthless,

but they're going to rock it

at some point when there's less of them.

What else have we got?

Aiden McGuire says,

German, Italian,

Jap, British, American.

One car from each,

but you can only choose one of the following.

Daily, tow car,

track car, weekend type car

and classic.

He says, I'll go first.

German would be his daily.

Do we not do this the last time?

No.

Joe, actually,

I'm going to come back to this

because this is one you need to sit

and look at.

And I apologize, Aiden,

but that's too good of a question.

OK, we're going to go in research.

I'll send it to you

and then you can go through it.

That's my fault

for not throwing them in.

Aiden Heffernan,

who is currently at the Mark 1 meet

because he runs it

or the Mark 2 meet

because he runs it in Tipperary,

says, talk about how B-star

and strong wheels are the devil.

Dot, dot, dot.

They fall into that.

Well, not so much strong,

but B-star fall into the category for me

of like reps or shit.

But are they reps because

they're their own thing?

Yeah.

Because B-star wheels are 16 inch

version of a wheel.

That was iconic.

Yes.

But they also never made it in the 16.

So it's a weird.

Yeah.

This was the same thing

when the People's Car podcast

had your guy on that

done the RML Snowflakes,

the bigger versions.

And it sparked office debate.

And I'm somewhere in the middle

of fuck rep wheels,

but also this doesn't exist.

So is it a replica?

It's not like you're trying

to fool anybody

and say it's a BBS RA or anything.

Then the other thing is too,

if boys wouldn't hoard

all their air wheels

that you just can't find anymore.

Exactly.

Some people don't have an option.

Where are you going to get it?

And then it could be a gateway

purchase for something

that's getting in the VW2.

Exactly.

And then that's from that.

Always look at the positive.

I quite like the B-star wheels.

Yeah, I do too.

J-Rice283 says,

Jack says,

what was your first core memory

that you can remember

that would say

engage your interest in cars?

Mine would be my dad

and my dad and me

in a poverty spec 205

jumping off the line

beating a Cleo Williams

for all of two seconds.

Sorry for the split up message.

I have a few ones like that.

Mine goes back to

like being taught to drive

on Betty's time beach

in my mom's Ugo.

Like sitting on dad's knee,

just staring.

Staring on the beach,

sports church round.

Yep.

You're probably the same way, is it?

Something similar.

We're going to Raleigh's

when we're done.

Yeah.

Pretty much all

Novo related stuff.

I think I talked with this before

was when we used to go out shooting.

Like when I was young,

like I had been six

when I was pigeon shooting.

I needed to park the van

maybe a mile away

in a different field.

My dad used to give me

the keys of the van

and tell me to go get it.

But it was an old column

chains of Zuzu.

I think it was a WRF van

and I couldn't reach the pedals.

You had to stand against the seat.

So I just like

put my arms against the seat.

Get it in the first

and just let the clutch out

and he didn't touch the throttle.

You just break

or steered your way over to him

kind of thing.

That's basically how I taught

to drive.

Yeah.

And of course,

it was one of those ones

you were always told

go along the ruts, you know.

And then you were never told

why you didn't go across the ruts.

And then one day

you try that kind of thing

and then you realize

this van's going to fucking roll over.

So you soon learned

to shut your mouth,

but also, you know

why you're telling

not to go across the ruts.

That's

I think my dad was

a big believer

and just sort of

lumping you into it

and working it out.

I remember my dad

taking my clutch control

and stuff and then

in a GAA

pitch car park

and dundrum

and

I was fascinated

because he was showing me then

like you can drive

the car on the clutch

you don't need to

actually accelerate.

You can

eye for walking

and I was like

this is very interesting.

That is weird

and you'll probably

lose that now

with going forward

as you said like less manuals.

Here's the other thing.

So in Northern Ireland

I assume

the rest of the UK is the same.

If you do your test

on an automatic

you're restricted to have

an automatic license.

Yes.

Or if you do it in a manual

it covers you for both.

Yeah.

When it gets to the point

where there's fuck all

manual cars left

are they going to change

that rule?

Because

it'll be like America

where like no one knows

how to drive stick

and that's the

running joke of

some kid comes along

and he learns

in an automatic

because that's the only option

but then he wants to buy

a classic car

in the shape of a Mark 5 Golf

because at that point

it'll be a classic car

and it's a manual

1.6 petrol

can he drive it?

Probably not

not on the current system.

That's weird isn't it?

More cars for us

fuck all the kids.

You're going to buy up

all the Mark 5s?

That's Nigel's territory?

That's Nigel's territory

I'll leave them for him.

Another one of the

Dunners

or VWDunner

underscore DB Dailies

says

is off-brand air components

making a big push

or just me?

Ivan Ali Express manifold

I think they have been

for quite a while.

From everybody kind of caught on

that

was the OCD

Bagsby OCD

was air maxed

bought in from China

and everybody sort of

banned at the end separately.

And the mental cause

of airlift now?

And yeah?

We talked about this

on the last one

like the cost of entry

for airlift is insane

and that's

not

you know

three times better

to be

three times the price

or four times the price.

It's not four times better

than

the Chinese stuff.

The bags on my

Mark 2

or the bags from my Mark 3

which were Chinese bags

put onto other coilovers

and like

they're

eight years old

at least

maybe nine

and there's not a single crack

in the bag.

Like there's been

no molly coddling of them

like they're just

they're just doing their thing

and

we've used

and fitted a few

of the Chinese

managers now

again no problem

everything's good with them

so like

yeah I don't see

the big difference like

all in the

massive cost saving.

Another one then

some C.M.

auto detailing

says

Nigel's thoughts on gravity

this is one of the older ones

which you

talked about in the last

episode.

I was surprised how small

a show it is

and I thought it was going

to be bigger

with hype about it

still a good show

plenty to see

good to see a few and I

fuck with our cards over

for the show too

seemed like half an

other island was at the show

and it was alright

I

yeah I would agree with that

I was expecting to be bigger

don't get me wrong

it was a massive show

but as you say

all the hype

you expect to be a lot bigger

um

but

no it's worth going

to visit for

like it's

I was a good show

good put together show

some of the cars

were

not the my taste

but they were definitely

the other people's taste like

you know

plenty for everyone to see

sort of things

plenty to see and do like

Gary Heasley again

says not a question

but I've got near the

haven't got near the

evil in several weeks now

it makes me sad

my work diary is blown up

and just can't get him

into kill on track

which is

good to see

good and bad

Lorcan Martin

says

if you could choose

one thing

you cannot live without

what would it be

a car or tool wise

one thing

you could not live without

a decent toolkit

going very generic

I think

for me

because the mileage I do

a car I must have

is something that's

half fun to drive

yes

I don't do the

boring daily car

life's too short

mm-hmm

we were two months

in the extreme one that way

in

my daily

aircon

I

gotta have it

I would rather have it

in a realer car

I own too

I can live with it

not being there

point in

the old cars

but

in the daily

gotta

I don't care about it

in older cars

but I love it now

it's in the TT

hard to beat

mm-hmm

my first thought

was the lift

but nah

I could still

I could go back to

working on the floor

I would hear it

but you could do it

but like

halling

like a decent ratchet

and decent socket set

is

the winner

because

even that

good quality stuff

like stops you

just

not much sweeter which is good

Bluetooth audio

in the car too

I don't know if I can go back to the old

radio transmitter

or

tape deck

Ty go Connor

says he'll be down

the mark two meters as well

says with the

show season

2025

slowly coming

in the end

what shows

do you consider

doing for 2026

would love to do gravity

I don't say

I would say

the usual American ones

I fancy doing

it's not called racing

as I remember

already called

Altress

I want to do Altress

the fact that they changed that show name

from racism

Altress was just

just no difference

really didn't help

they did not

yeah

as he was saying

but doing gravity as well

obviously

what you were talking there about as well

I would say

for me

I'd like to do that

all the time we're traveling

seeing that

they'd look good

quite like the pictures that Marty

took of

got the drop

actually that too

I just went

that's a bit

bit of me there

smaller shows

but more

concentrated on what we're looking for

kind of thing

the quality looks so high there

yeah

see to be honest with you

it's a tag isn't it

yeah

go to Rollhard man

Rollhard is another

Rollhard a solid show

I'd like to go back to Rollhard

the one thing I will say

and we've said it every time

is

it ends quite quickly

get there first thing

get there first thing in the morning

and it'll

like it starts clearing out

by two half two

so

you still have stuff

it's about two

it's really weird

you still have stuff kicking around

but you'll have people who want to get home

so

get there early

I wonder do they have a site

exit time to be

head here to in the Sunday

and that's why they do that

maybe it works in their favour

that it gets

you know

possibly

strange one

and lastly then

Keith5D

Keith Rutherford says

here's a question for the podcast

what's the weirdest concession

you've made

to your other half

to do car stuff

nothing

never give an inch

I don't need to

I think

there came a point where I was going

to a lot of car events

just

as long as the kids got a holiday

sort of thing

that was the sort of

that was the thing

I've always said

like

good relationship reminds me

of my mum and dads

where it was always the same thing

as

do whatever you want

as long as everybody else gets

their current kind of thing

which is perfectly normal

in a normal healthy relationship

we live with another large car

in a tech

it's kind of different

but no

I don't think

I've ever had to make any concessions

or

no because you're normally like

I want to do this

and you're

I'm like I want to do that too

so let's do it

and if you don't want to do it

you don't give a fuck

and just double checking

last here for messages

but

oh yeah

well one last one

Michael Canfenich from the last time

as well says

I love in the content

for your YouTube slot

have you watched Super Run

a very good YouTuber

we've actually talked

about Super Run

he's doing a lot of

older like Mark 1, 2, 3 stuff

engine swaps and stuff

quite in depth

with Scooty

a few good guides

for doing things as well

he did do

RS6 stuff

which I didn't watch

very much of

but he's back with

another Mark 1 caddy again

yeah

so there's a pod dog again

pod dog

that's it

thank you very much folks

for your questions

just a quick reminder

when this comes out

it'll be the following weekend

27th of September

down at Thompson's dry dock

open to all German cars

it's a great day out

and it's fantastic fun

I'm looking forward to it

I would love to see you there

it's our last show of the year

awesome location

chill vibes

sadly I won't be there

again

if you hit Lee

come to the show

she's away partying again

folks don't feel sorry for her

just party party party

it's really cramping my social style

if Lee puts you off

coming to the show

now is your chance

right

see you there folks

yeah

see you all soon

follow us on social media

etc

see you later

bye

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