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How are you mate? Good.

Thank you and yourself. I'm very good, buddy, very good.

Just last two tonight, mate, just for the prize of greatest Car Talk person in the world and I think, I think you and I make that make that claim quite strong.

OK, you are pain. But how you doing mate?

How's your week been? What's new in your world?

Just still working on that 8430 Mercedes.

I'm just trying to get that roof sorted out where the paint peeled off. So I just been, I'm sending that

back and then I have to sort of primary it and and and high Phillip and then block it all back.

So it's primary at the moment, just need to block it back and hopefully the paint will go nicely and it'll be done.

Then I can plug it off and get a carry out of my garage and so yeah and then I end up going to a you know the the modern Mustang club that we're in, the Pony 6G club, they had a get together at a company that does paint protection film and and and vinyl wrapping. So we spent the Sunday morning,

they're just talking about cars and and going through the workshop they got a real nice setup.

They're just down the back of German there.

OHS so Ravenhall really and very expensive.

I didn't realise how expensive wrapping is.

What's the What's the place? Called Showman Auto Styling.

OK. OK.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, sorry.

With the showman. Like I said, they had some very

nice cars there and no, look at that.

Look Bally's. Here.

Hi Holly. How you doing mate?

No one else is on today, Holly. It's just nice mate.

Yeah. So yeah, went to Sherman, done a

lot of work just trying to clean up my Mustang, having clean it for a while and lot of swirl Marks and whatnot.

So I gave it a nice buff and staying home ceramic coat so it's not too bad. The water beads off quite nice

through all the rain that we've had, and that's gonna go to the Geelong revival. But I heard the weather was

pretty bad on a Saturday, and then Sunday I had the other car show. By the time that was over, it

was sort of rained on and off. Then it's Geelong, so I didn't

get the chance to get to that, but I did actually speak to a couple of the club members whilst we're at that, the vinyl Rep place. And they the few of them end up

going to the the the Bright Rod run to bright.

Yeah, and I'll send all you got to have a ride.

You know, I've got a Mercedes. You, Doug, you'd be surprised

what sort of cars are rolling up these days.

It's a lot more diverse than what it used to be.

It's not just, you know, rat rods and rods at Bright anymore, and it's a bit more open to all sorts of cars now, so I might go next year like. You're gonna bring the the F100

or? Well, I should take the 100

down. I've got it.

I need to change the starter motor on that and I've been meaning to do that for about like, you know, three or four months now. But there's always something.

I've got to tap it to start it and and I just can't trust it.

So I don't drive it anywhere and it's got no air conditioning of course. So it gets pretty hot and no

power steering. But apart from that I've been

cleaning up my workshop down, that's a real stormy cars and going to concrete out a section and and we've got actually access to our spray booth that I'm going to set up.

Hopefully all the parts are there.

So can actually do some preparation work in the spray, but if it's not a high end spray booth, but it's better than no spray booth. So we're going to do that.

So I'm just looking at, yeah, just sort of setting it up so I can. There's two more mercs on the

door and I promised myself Harley and make sure you hit me before I do. I'm not buying any more cars.

All right. That's it.

Alright, that's it. No more, right.

So the the CEO and the SEC and that's it, you know so not from that just been buying a don't know if you talking a bought a motorcycle CBR1 sorry not CBR, it's AS1000R BMW.

Yeah. So it's a nice fast sort of box.

Yeah, yeah. So that Holly's been driving the

Tesla and Mercedes to his new place to workout and hoppers, so he's enjoying the freeway traffic these days.

So and what has been happening with our cars got the the Mustangs due for a service on Friday so I'm taking that in.

I'm not. It's spoke to a few people about

changing all on a Mustang you think would be relatively easy, wouldn't you Might spoke to Toyota for 30 years and he went to change gears and he gave up starting to the dealership to get it serviced or to one of our friends, actually.

But it's so hard to get to the oil philtre and change your oil on these new Mustangs that it's a, you know, if you don't have the, you know, the patients and a hoist, I probably can give it a go. I have got the horse, so I'm

halfway there, but yeah, decided to just take it and get them to the service that there's a recall on the and the warring living, the boot or something for the camera, the back camera.

So they're gonna do that. We're talking about maybe

getting a another Tesla Model Y, OK?

And so we'll see how it go with that.

Depends what Harley wants to do, whether he wants to drive the three every day to work, or whether he wants to get something else. So if he's gonna drive the

three, he'll we'll end up just buying a Y.

Yeah he can take over and drive the three.

Yep. It's just I think it's a bit

more relaxing than drive believe it or not driving an electric car than what it is is even though combustion car to work everyday. It's just it's there's no it's

boring but there's no trauma about it.

Driving actor site it's it's like a non event you almost being taken like a taxi. Yes, I yes.

Apart from that I haven't used any other car shows.

I know we missed out on it. We spoke about it last week and

Mercedes car show, which I totally forgot about, so I would have liked to have gone to that, but maybe next year, I don't know if there's any other car shows on.

See, there's there's classic Japan this weekend, but I think that's that's pretty much it. What about you, Holly?

What you been up to? Not much.

Just working. That's pretty much it.

Drive back and forward every day on the road.

Journey work in. Yeah.

Hope is OK. Yeah, pretty well, wouldn't you

marry? I would absolutely.

Can you give him any tips on which roads you should take?

Is it back roads or the Ring Rd? Look, the ring Rd is the

quickest way, but it's when it's working as the keyword.

Yeah, it's better than what it used to be when it was 2 lanes.

It used to be shocking, but now it's it's mainly for all the way. But as soon as there's one thing

happens, forget it. You're done.

You're cooked. So best thing to do is I checked

my phone in the morning, please don't say like how about the truck was bad in the field go back way.

So that's just the way to do it. But I mean, the phone will tell

you the quickest way to go there now anyway, so, so yeah, probably just stick with that. Halley's new boss is into cars

as well, isn't? He like the races like these

little buggies, like he like came first in his class in the draw revival. OK.

Honestly, he's like, he's like, he bought some like a GSXR Suzuki motorcycle engineer. Yeah.

From Spain or something like. Yeah, yeah, What's the name of

the bank? The other thing?

KKK or something? Like, yeah, something, yeah.

So they they they're nice little niche market that he's got there with these cars. So there's sort of a you can do

sort of like rallycross driving and also bitumen driving with them. That's.

Cool. Depends on how you set them up.

So and I think they're coming out for G6650 motor, but you can also get G 61000 motor in them. That would fly.

Yeah, Yeah, absolutely. The power power to weight ratio

is like the 80s and some sort of.

Yeah, something like I think you said during the other cars, like anything, other things fast and him were like the motorbikes.

Yeah, well. Hmm.

Yeah, the one side or two single.

The single saving. Yeah, well jeez, that thing

would fly. Yeah, so there's a few guys.

They've got things in common. And another guy that works at

his new place. I used to work with him and he

would be the Chief Financial Officer at HSV.

Fuck you. Help.

Yeah. So, and now he's working as a

financial officer at his new place of work.

So what are you doing now, Harley?

You change because you're working at your last place for years, so you just you just recently changed.

Same thing, basically. Just maybe a bit more room to

grow, learn more stuff, learn more skills.

Something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Very good. Yeah, yeah, so that's it.

What about you? If you are and I we're we're

still working on laser the lasers.

We've got a front spoiler for it.

We have to buy aftermarket spoiler because it didn't really like and we couldn't really find a factory Rs spoiler spoiler on it. Found a one on eBay that he

really likes. It's about $350.00.

It wasn't a cheap one and so it's going to have its side skirts, front and rear spoilers and and red skirt as well.

Kill all just the front bar. No, just the front bar.

That's gonna be a slightly different to the IRS, Yeah.

Or front section. So then it's a matter of us

blocking all of that back and painting that up and then just reassembling it all So we've got all the parts.

I straighten out all the radiator panel, support panel.

Yeah, So that's exciting. So they're not going to build

them a carport so they can keep it out of the weather because the old cars and they need to be kept outside especially and that, you know, it's just they're not far from the water, really. No, no.

Yeah, that's there's that car. Yeah, but that's pretty much it

on our end. But all your cars, Maddie, what

are you up to? Typhoon is going in on Thursday

to get brand new tyres and a service and service the diff.

Like, I know the diff needs to get probably rebuilt but I've got some like some additive I want to try to see, but quieted down a little bit because it's just like it's got a little bit of knock when you take your foot off the clutch it's like it's like it's the was told opinion opinion, real stuff.

We just they got to play. It's still LS and everything

fine in Mexico. I figured that out.

But you know the it's just, yeah, it's not right.

And I said I'll give this a try. I'm not like, you know, I don't

drive it everyday so it doesn't really annoy me, but it's, you know, you do notice it after a while, see when the flood gets really warm in the dive, so. Deep city different to just the

stock XR6XR6 turbo. Yeah, there.

I think there are different ratio in the F6 from what I've heard and they're quite hard to get.

So it's probably just easier to rebuild it.

Well, one of the look at getting that done, I was quite, it was quite an obscene amount by one place and I was like, yeah, I'll think about it, but another place, we're going to do it a lot cheaper. So but I'll have to shop around.

I was obviously, how this goes. I said, you know, 50 bucks of

oil to to try it, see if that makes a difference is better than, you know, a big amount of money.

But it was, it's due footage anyway.

So I was like, you know, I may as well just getting to get it all done. So that's happening.

Mum's getting her car either Thursday night or Friday new car so that that's she's really excited.

It arrived the dealership today, so yes, we gotta be we.

We've had our bin for awhile and everything and if she gets to be a Type odd Type R owner very soon, which is kind of.

Cool, I know you mentioned what colour was it again?

Red or white? White.

White. Championship White Yeah.

So it's funny, everyone else said to mom was getting like, your mother's getting a typo, Like, like, yeah, like they just said, well you're right, she is she on the crack.

But no she's she's getting Type R and so I ended up buying her a few little bits and bobs like I bought her Robert bookmark for for for like as a congratulations president and and I bought something else for the car which will give for Christmas. But yeah it's it's an awesome

bit of kit and can't wait to commit to to go for a spin and are going to be a lot of fun a lot of fun did the fastest problem drive car on the Nurburgring apparently and I don't know if my mom's gonna go to a no big ring but this is a yeah at least she can say I've got the fastest probably drive car. We should do it remembering.

We should We should definitely do the pilgrimage one day.

One of these days would be a bit of a bit of fun.

What you did in Japan, but in the in Europe, so we got all the car factories, yeah, got a couple of races.

I'll have to get a spa I love to go to.

I love, you know, I'd just like to go to all those different places are gonna be super cool. But I've got kind of the bug

now, so I'm going to start, you know, so going.

And is it the the revival is a that's what they call it, the the English one. Yeah, good would be cool.

Would be awesome to do. So yeah, so that's that's

happening with that my laser is getting still getting repaired.

Good. A few little things like I'm

gonna get done other than my end of things.

I think that's pretty much it. On my car.

On my my car updates. But John singers only us three

tonight. Like you know we don't really

have a chance to really have a chat.

You know like to just just have a good car chat.

You know, good discussion. Because the people I listen to

this show like they're you know and you know who you are and and you do, you do. I've had people come up and

said, oh, it's just like when I talk to you in life already know all about you and you don't have to say anything.

It's it's kind of weird but but with you guys like Rob, I mean we know you got your P-76 which is your first car.

Can you, could you possibly name all the cars you've had like, like, you know, like the ones that you've actually had, not ones that are flipped cars like the ones that you actually owned to to drive. And I mean if you had to look

back on it which which ones you would say, you know I'd love to get that one back and and or or you know, that one was, yeah, I stink. I didn't really like that one or

you know, basically how you would go about getting another car because I know you're you just said you don't buy another car but you're buying it and then you just said in the space of like 30 seconds later I might get a model.

Why? That's not my cats, the wife's

car and it's Halley's. I'm not my car, alright.

And a lot of cars that are bought over the years with the kids growing up, it's more of a necessity than a choice of what I would have bought over the years.

So and they're pretty much a car that my wife needed to drive and to pick up the kids and take the kids as well.

And so we had the cars that were quite flexible over the years and we've got and pickers had a mortgage and interest rates are 18% back in the 90s, early 90s we used to sort of borrow cars off the in laws. So I drove a little my mom's

little Suzuki Swift for a little while until probably the gearbox up on that. They don't get the WRX.

But between all of the Suzukis we had a Toyota Crown or Christa Christa that I actually put the the Conrod out through the side of the block on the way to work. I was just driving along and

went bang in. The Conrad was out the side of

the block. Oil Level Rd.

Down Murray Rd. Geez.

Yeah. Yeah.

So I had to do a engine transplant on that one and give it back to the barrel. Here you go.

Thank you very much. Yeah, so couple pieces, 76ers.

I had a few of those, but probably my main one.

But then I've had ones in between.

So I had to Aspen green one that my deputies to drive.

She used to drive the manual and I had the other manual, other manual V8. So we had two V eights that were

driving at the same time. Then was building a house.

I bought a Mazda van back in the sort of the late 80s, early 90s Dinah, the borrowing going through that part, we have to sort of borrow cars going up, buying a Commodore VR Series 2 Commodore from my boss at work. It's his lease car and I thought

9 grand was a lot of money back then.

Martis Granger We sent to buy that and in a few years after that we bought the Excel 7 again for family reasons.

The Commodore Waggon too VR Series 2 Waggon was quite a nice car. And umm, after the Commodore or

the Dexel 7, we traded that for what of golf didn't?

No you solma I. Yeah, I I gave it to my mom.

We don't swap season. We with the journey was too big

for something in. Dodge.

Yeah, something like that or something.

Happened so yeah, so, so def drove the Dodge.

I don't know what I had maybe the WRX or the golf for a little while right. So called maybe Yeah.

You know so. And then once it got after the

golf, we bought a we even bought that little Mirage, Mitsubishi Mirage. It wasn't.

It was the Gets. Gets gets once too.

Yeah, the the gates, the Mitsubishi Mirage.

Yeah, it's a golf key box blew up.

And that's where World Mirage again.

Yeah, we had a push, Kate. Cayenne, Yeah, Yeah, yeah.

Cayenne for a little while. It'll be that broke down.

That was in the garage every day of the week for the 12 months I owned it now head well Jeep commando.

I had that for about 3 or 4 years, so 2000 7 model.

How was that? Was that good?

It was also, I love it, absolutely loved it.

It had the the diesel V6, the Mercedes V6 diesel motor in it.

Never had a problem with it, not a, not even a little sort of like, you know, stall or anything.

It just ran faultlessly for the four years I had it because I've done about 80,000 case on it. It wasn't a big case.

But awesome car. Awesome car.

Then I flipped it for I bought the XR6 turbo drive that for a while to work car. They was driving a couple of

other Jeeps. We had a 2010 5 Jeep, 2002 Jeep

or 2000 model Jeep, 2002 Jeep, and I can't remember what Grand Cherokee, whatever it was, whatever model it is, I can't remember the model names. And then we bought a later model

One Drive that for a little while, then flipped that for a Porsche and then flipped that for the Pajero Sport, then prove that for a little while and the Pajero Sport went and then she got the Tesla. So, but yeah, it's sort of you

do lose track of cars that you buy over the years.

I think I wrote a list once, so I think we spoke about this once before and I wrote up a list and all the cards I had between OK, the Ltd local Landau, MMM, they had an LDB as well that was a that Leyland. Death Vehicles is another

Leyland. OK, so that that wasn't.

I only had it for a short time. I there's a good car for all

around and as a worker, but I wanted more if I was going to have a forward drive and you wanted to have diff locks and everything else and the stock. The base model LV didn't have

that so and then I sold that for you know good money.

And then recently yeah I bought the the chimney the start of the year and stole that, sold that not long ago for more than I paid for it drove around for a little while but no one was really happy with that as a cute little car.

And it's great to go to shops and back but anything further than shops or drive to the local state forest, even that it's yeah it's a bit too much but he Toyota are going to make a Jimmy killer they're going to make it a little bit and cruiser.

So I'd like to see how they handle and drive and and go.

It'll still be $95,000. 9500 thousand Who cares?

You know where they work and then you order one.

They'll put the price up on your whilst you're waiting for two years. Exactly.

Yeah, that's that's just Toyota. I can do whatever I want, you

know, Um. God, Rob, you know what would be

the what would be the worst trip you ever took a car online?

Like you'd be like, oh, I hated that trip and I hated that car, or you're hated that trip and but I loved the car or.

You know the first trip I had, believe it or not, was in a A450 SER Mercedes and W 116197473 model Mercedes S class.

That was one of my cars. I was driving between the P-76

and other cars and so always had sort of two cars like between with Danny S like we used to share a Mercedes.

Between him and myself we had an SC280S manual, 4 speed manual Mercedes. Class.

All right, import from Singapore.

He had a 280SC and I bought a 450SL.

And that 450SL is probably one of the worst cars I ever, ever had. It was a British import.

Yeah, Rust. Rusted to the hill, all covered

up quite nicely. They put retread tyres on it.

Well. And gonna trip up to the Melly

who were more wife comes from up in the air and sea lake and we decided to do it was 3839° day said let's go to Mildura and we'll go up the river and driving from basically a into Mildura and the back tyre blew out which is a a retreat um and the spare tyre was stuffed so you had to hitch and get a lift to back to and to get a tyre changed and put an avatar on it

but it took all day in 38° heat. It was a shocking day to just to

to get to Mildura but we got there anyway.

In the long run, I don't know. We've had some eventful trips

like the P-76 to the snow melt. Mount Hotham, actually.

How was that so? So alright, some some context.

When was that and how was that? That was back in the 80s.

Did my girlfriend at the time he making his girlfriends girlfriends. Oh wait, no, that was yeah it

was one of these girlfriends. Anyway at the time was we're

driving up through to half of my head. 23545 fourteenth on it on

modular rims with Yokohama. Yokohama AAA back then is to

call them and so there's a big tyre but I had snow chains, believe it or not that fitted so speak.

Like it went around a wheel real pretty, pretty good.

Anyway. Chain.

One of the chains fell off and it just wouldn't stay on the wheel for some reason. It was freezing cold.

I just couldn't get it tightened up properly.

It was just so cold and dirty and everything else, and we end up going sideways into a hill, sliding into hill with the snow drift because there's that much snow on the road.

We got towed out by the local ski patrol for drive and was just slipping and sliding everywhere all the way up to the mountain as they towed us all the way to the gains.

It was like a #10K's up the road, snow everywhere.

It was just that much snow, but had a lot of fun driving the P-76 in the snow over the years. So because we used to go skiing

quite a bit, we stay even drive updates.

Mazda, yeah, that one of those E 3200 Mazda vents that look like a Bongo van, yeah. And we used to camp out down

below bottom of the mountain and then just drive up to the top and go skiing all day and drive back down and camped out, camp out in a little Mazda van. So we'll doing van life before

van life was even the thing. So we the only good memories

driving. You know one year we drove up to

Bathurst and the P-76 and we're up the, I think it's the Newell Hwy and um this truck overturned was full of margarine so we're collecting margarine containers for backfist.

It's OK. But yeah yeah the car used to

run so smooth at night time. Like I said, just purse at night

in the cold weather it just yeah runs through all the V8.

Hey Icon, I am not putting power steering in it as well.

LSD different from the target. The target, what else do they

have in it. It had all the luxuries for that

era in it. So I was quite comfortable.

Had a ball with debonair. Drove that car to Queensland one

year with not and uneventful for you know the car just ran perfectly up there and back from Queensland.

Went to Sydney and back with it be mates a couple of times and also drove to Queensland and back with mates and never not even like I said a glitch in a car.

It just ran so smooth. So done a lot of big trips to

Queensland, two big trips to Queensland, to NSW just to go snow all the time with it and Deb and I drove it to Alice Springs and back. 26. P-76 back in those days there's

a few dirt roads, back roads to the back of Flinders ranges and wash ways and stuff like that and I've bottomed out one of the wash ways. Oh that was a bit harsh.

Anyway, I had LP gas and petrol. I was running the car on both

dual fuel back in those days and so I sort of mixed, used to mix it up a bit but went to the Olgas, there's Rock Springs and went to all the, you know, Glen, Helen Gorge and all the places and drove around house Springs. But before I left I changed.

I think I might have mentioned this once before.

The alternator on the car put a brand new bottle on it cause I reckon Lucas alternators are no good.

So I'll put a Bosch alternator on it, change the thermostat and hand on the way up. The light started coming on and

off, on and off, and the alternator was playing up so it wasn't charging system. So we had to turn the icon off

and turn radio off and turn everything we cared off to get to make sure we don't burn the battery out or flatten the battery, but it survived. So still sort of charging but I

wasn't really you know sort of confident and it was it's a couple of times it sort of was hard to start so but we made it back and on the way back it overheated thermostat, stuck open or stuck closed brand new thermostat before I left.

So faulty part wasn't the Leylands fault so that so and then like I said we went through these wash ways.

They had dirt roads back then through defenders ranges and I didn't sort of take much notice over the car.

Ran alright, went alright all the way home.

Just end up being a bit of a knock, knock over certain bumps would be a bit of a knock at the back and I thought about the right shockers for they said that all the right shockers for the car. So I put brand new shocks on it.

Um, I think the travel is just a bit longer than normal and and the and the cars are allowed to actually break off the lower shock of bracket mount off the diff, OK.

I mean, I think even with the stock shock is that they used to break them off because if they weren't set up right, the shockers got old and they bottomed out and you put too much load in it, too much weight, um, you could actually break the bracket off. So I had to Weld that up and put

new shoppers on it of blown up probably 1 different that we had like 1212 inch tyres on it. Yeah.

Like in the massive you know I think there are like 265 you know 45 twelves the message month, 45 the the yeah yeah 45 profile about 2651. 1. Yeah.

And so that we've done a try to do a burnout in Mexico and and bleed to death. Apart from that it was only

stripped things that you know, dips and clutches of blue.

Maybe I've changed 2 clutches in that car over the years that I had it on the road and drove it. What else did I happen to that

car? That's pretty much it.

And then I packed the outside and the Gumtree and started a rust away. So that's when I decided to

strip down to bare metal and it's been in bare metal high heels ever since. So if I ever going to do any

other cars that, that would be that one.

But I just can't be stuff. I don't know got to to do it

because I know I can't do it to the standard.

I want to get it done it and to pay someone to do it.

I'm there's not many people out there that will do it for you at a reasonable price and I don't want to be throwing, you know, 10s of thousands on it at it. The car is probably worth 20 or

30 maybe if it was restored. So I don't mind spending 10 to

15,000 on a, you know, a restoration job, but not much more than that. What is the plan with the

colour? Like you, yes, he said.

He's getting done, You know you finished his 430.

That'll be out of the garage. Why don't we push it back into

the normal garage and start working on it?

I should I should? I think we should.

I think that should be a New Year's resolution.

I think this car, it's got too much history wrong.

It's a very important part to you.

Yeah. So like I I think.

I think it's Akala that should be to be brought back because obviously it means a lot to you like we can pull the motor out we get rebuilt and get everything done and then put it back together and just be like you know what and this the small you have on your face the draw Tommy everybody out it'll be it'll be worth it. You know I I remember seeing

that car in any garage and saying like actually even in high field kind of look because I think had the front grill on all I was a good looking car it's you know it's it's asking it was looking it wasn't looking So like sometimes when you see a car in a in a garage it's just going in a back shadow or under a top and they they look sad. This car was like, no, fix me,

come on I'm ready to go and. I know and I've got to a point

where I was actually making it even better than what it was from Factory because the on the the beat pillar the door used to that used to rub on top of the B pillar and that was for Factory.

So I actually cut the door frame back up a little bit and realigned everything so all the all the gaps are.

Consistent. Yeah, so I've learned a lot of

the door gaps and and redone all the the the common rust areas under the lower radiator, lower front guard in the inner seal itself. So fixed a lot of things up on

it. It's still got a little bit more

bought, more repair work actually, believe it or not, because I put Lavelle Lavelle's race rings on it at and the heaviest stabiliser bar on the on the front and it put a lot of low handled real well, and the weight distribution on those cars were 5050. Well, OK.

So they're pretty good handling cars for especially really drop rally driving. They actually done real well on

rally crosses and UM, because I'll put beefed up the suspension, done up the Maya little bit extractors and bigger carries and got the car going a bit harder.

Used to have a bit of chassis flex in it or it'll it stiffened everything up so put load on the chassis so there's a bit of a hairline crack in the front chassis rail believe or not.

So that's going to be reinforced and done properly and it's apparently it's a fairly common thing and also a hairline crack occurred on the top back the back quarter panel near the seat pillar. It used to sort of crack out

from the boot where they actually joined the the quarter panel to the top radiators, not the sorry, the what do you want to call the rear panel, the the parcel shelf panel, so where it joins up. So but I've reinforced that and

fixed all that up and and so all the little common rust spots around the petrol cap also was fixed up.

So it was done well. But there's still a bit more

work to do on that one. But yeah, you're quite right.

I'd like to see it on the road before I can't drive anymore.

Are you still a long way from that role but but I I generally think I'll think about this car could like cause I knew it was just gonna be us tonight and I was like I really want to know the story behind this car like it's you know it's you you've told us currently where it's up and and and I've said to you like I think after you you get rid of that you know that 430 garage and and have the SEC done.

I think I'll even come help you push it back and I hope you start working on it because it it'll be, it'll be cool to see to see that come back to life. Absolutely.

I think so too. I reckon that would be awesome.

Yeah, I've stripped out LP gas out of it too and all that stuff. But that car I bought that I

paid $1500 for that car. So tell us a story behind that

car. So what made you get a piece 76?

Why that particular car? Where did you find it?

And I'd love to know the because it's such a special card to you that every time I say P-76, I see you see your eyes light up here like I am One Piece. 70 Yeah our first piece 76 in the

family was back in 1976. OK dad couldn't tell us if we

went to buy UK bought a brand new just went out and bought a car picked us up from school. I was in grade 6 my sisters

stool. She didn't even start school yet

I think she was in prep and but dad rolled up in this new car.

I can never forget that the brand new Leyland sticker anything but average on the back of it and the the books and and just jumping into this brand new car with T bar auto and console and and the weight is it was like a car that I've never like we've always been in grew up with Exp Falcons and HT Holdens and stuff like that and this car was just next level at that time and so we had that for quite a few years that car until we had a bit of a bingle with her got it fixed and then with the

insurance that for some reason it was either hating was a six cylinder and we did found a it's called Bitter Apricot colour it's sort of a sort of a sort of a cherry red sort of not cherry red it's orangey red And so he bought the V82 bar auto same car and so my mom used to take us to school with it pick us up and I grew up with Ryan's pretty much from 1976 until I got my licence

and and then some you know so being part of London car club.

So So what? Wait, what?

Take a step back. What made him buy buy by the

piece 76 after all the other cars he owned?

You know, I don't know. I don't know what made him by

land. I think he thought it was good

value. He looked at the mechanics and

it looked like it was easy to work on as well.

And my dad always was tinkering in the garage, changing gear boxes on his Falcons, blowing up gearboxes and knocking, overheating and all sorts of things.

Just happens that Falcon but he bought the land and and we had pretty much trouble. Three runs with the land.

The first one and two got smashed and then they head gasket went on the six cylinder. But when we got the V8, the V8

was a great car and we drove that for years and my sister's boyfriend ended up restoring it and painting it and driving it until he smashed it. So what happened?

You just got rid of it after. They gave it to me uncle, Uncle

drove it and trashed the motor. So we sold it and but then I've

always had the apricot one and I drove that for awhile and then I had my butt off 17. No it's raining when I got my

P-76 so I didn't even have my licence and found in the training post me dad and I went and had a look at and I fell in love with it. It was a bright blue and I

didn't like the blue on the paint at midnight blue I wanted dark blue you know and I was going to respray.

It was adamant to respray it but it never did and it's colour grew on me. Everyone knew me from my blue

piece 76 at the time and all me mates at the time and I always said oh like I should have bought it.

XA GT or an XP would be worth a fortune or you know, you know, or Monaro or something like that.

But my mates Red, Maros and XD, ESP, Filkins and HT and HQ's, states, even the states, one of the most out of statesman and I would. Yes, we know.

We go on trips and we go on each other's cars and for some reason we always end up going in my car because it had more boots, space was more fuel economy, economical.

It just did. They were thinking.

They were thinking you could square these people in and for everything in the book 2/10 two eskies and you still have space to throw someone in there. You're gonna draw, you go mark

cause we two or three people in the boot.

So things like that. The car was just so I had a lot

of cars in between and like I had the PC 26 was my daily, then I had the the the 450 CL 280SC Mercedes.

I drove on the weekends, yeah so I always had two cars anyway, but my daily was the P-76 even weekend so if I go out mates or whatever will always be in the P-76, not the Mercedes.

So I found it in training post pay 13 I think $1300.

It wasn't even 1500. I'll put some nice I got went to

Mullins wheels in North Melbourne and put some modular wheels on it with this steelies with the round holes in it.

They locked the 12 slotters but ten slot rat holes.

Put big tyres on it had radial TA on it.

Just slide everywhere in the wet case and then I've got some better ties. The Yorkies were good tyres and

like I said just the car just did everything that it needed to do so I never bothered not having that as my main car and I. But then I've had so many cars.

I had two Targa Florio and my mum smashed one and then the other one was rusted out to a point where I just parked it and never drove it again. And those targets, the the two

target floors are still sitting with dad's workshop rusted to the hill is nothing is grass growing over him and he's everything thrown over the top of them.

But there's two Tiger Florias sitting there.

Then we had between that Debs good friend who comes from Nelson call Ryan up. That way their family people

owned a Leyland dealership in OK up there and they closed down years beyond bland went downhill.

But they still had the mechanical workshop.

So all the spare parts they had brand new OEM parts, disc brakes, headlights, switches, all the rubber pedals.

You know that they had so many parts that they still have theirs new old stock on the shelf and I clear them out.

I bought all the new old stock. I bought new rubber pedals, new

headlight surrounds, new Chrome strips, new headlight switches, bits and pieces, anything I can buy.

Bought off him and I end up buying her dads or moms car and was a six cylinder Aspen green as a metallic green beautiful colour piece. 76 is A4 speed 6 cylinder manual with a black

interior with real rare car and it drove that the motor was blown That much smoke when we're driving home at the motor needed to be rebuilt. It was just as a six cylinder

motor. It was gutless.

It's blowing smoke and I had just happened to have two or three spare V eights laying around.

So I ripped all the V8, got the extractors put in it there.

Was pregnant with Harley at the time actually when we put the motor in debt. Help me put the motor in SO we

drive that around wall and we end up taking Harley to hospital on that and not when she was pregnant with Harley and picked up Harley with that piece 76 and then that piece 76 set outside because I didn't have a carport, didn't have room in the garage.

I was building the house and its rusting away and probably again was the 80s or 90s and interest rates.

So end up selling that car which I would have loved to have kept and if I know where it is I'll actually I'll buy it back because it's more just as much history with Aspen green card as I have with my blue one that's sitting in the garage.

So yeah that was a regretful sale that one but I I needed the money at the time and I only got 1200 bucks for it and I spent something like I just I had the Pistons and rings already because mate used to work at Repco.

Got brand new Pistons and rings and bearings begin bearings sitting off the engine guys engine place and got the the the crank cleanest and got the the the boards down honed everything else and put the most put the motor back together and it was a far as a quick motor. It was a super it was just

everything I did to it. I tried to make sure it was like

blueprinted, so make sure all the clearances were identical to the the with the bearings. I actually match ported intake

manifold and exhaust manifolds. So make sure that there's no,

you know, overlap too much with the intakes or anything like that. Everything is all ported match

ported. Would have went well.

The car went so hard to light them up in the first, second, third gear, but there was a reason behind that.

It still had the six cylinder dip in it but it just flew at this car and the problem was it was so high strung I didn't can't remember. I've had the valves done in the

headstone because there were they heart and valve seats and whatnot in them because their alloy heads and block allow block but it was still used to ping in pre detonate.

I couldn't get the the ping out of electronic ignition extractors. It was the heads to show had to

be blocked, to be shaved head at to be shaved, because there's all the motor needed rebuilding it and work on it.

But I should run higher octane fuel in it and I wasn't running high octane fuel. I didn't know enough about.

You know what I should be running what sort of octanes?

And let's get out of it to a point where it probably, you know, car probably should have been running on ethanol or something. I don't know, super fast, super

hot. But I spent probably $3000 back

then rebuilding the motor. Yeah, doing everything and

building it myself and putting together myself and the car just like it would run so hard. It was an awesome car, yeah.

So just sort of there, are easy to work on.

They've always been great and I think a lot of the even the Aussie cars are fairly easy to work on, but I think the lawns were just that little bit easier.

You can get into the engine back quite easily and and do what you needed to do. Yeah it was just everything was

so easy to work on when you needed to you know to change the the points or you know the dizzy cap or plugs.

You can get to the plugs, you can get to the points.

Everything was just easy to get to.

Is not hidden hard up against the firewall like some of the Chevys or you know even some of the Fords are real hard to get to the plugs. It was just easy and.

So that's a piece of music. So what?

OK, my name is Christian is what's the plan for it?

If you do the rebel, would you go away?

Would you, Would you restore it, or would you hot rod it?

Or what would you do? Like what?

What would you would you make it a hot version?

Would you make it your ultimate P-76?

All I would love to make it the ultimate not P 76.

And I love love to do sort of a partial restore mode and a lot of guys are doing that. One particular guy, he's

actually got the original target rooms and he's actually grafted on a 15 inch diameter rim and and 10 inches wide, 15 inch diameter, but it's still the original target rims.

So obviously you know someone who can actually fabricate and and and make them solid enough to not to fall off and break but he actually genuine looking wheels on it and beef up the suspension. There's a couple of guys who

balanced their cars now and one guy always had a 350 Chevy was in the club in his and he's got 9 inch lift that that that's roll cage 9 inch deep 350 Chev motor in it.

Beautiful looking car beautiful spray job and that was sort of what I wanted to get to. You know, a lot of guys have

been putting disc brake rear ends in them as well, so I'd love, I'd like to get to that point, but I want to get on the road. Would you go LS or would you

rebuild the original, the original motor and keep that But like like like obviously do modern suspension, modern brakes, you know, modern bushings here and there, but like you know keep them all. Would you go complete just do

the ultimate make go go LS or or.

I'd love to go LS. I really would that way.

It's sort of just going to start first time every time and drive.

It's just that little bit stronger than you know what the original matter and the original matters Gotta ruin Nice um note to it they're gonna be their square minus so don't quote me on this like a 3 1/2 inch ball and 3 1/2 inch stroke and just got a real nice note to it so and a bit it's got a bit like analysts note to some extent so and they are a Buick motor or a Buick. Licence.

Matter. So even though that, you know,

several generations after that Buick motor, but yeah, I think they're the only ones who really got the motor right out of all that because they tried to build that motor in a few cars over the years in the Rovers and and the Range Rovers and stuff like that. And they never really got the

castings as well as they did here as they did with the Australian built V8. 4.6 is it? It's a 4.4 269 or 279.

I can't remember CC, but the rivers were 3.5 litre, so yes,

just short. Was it smaller ball?

Yeah, but yeah, I think LS nice Bluetooth sound system in it.

I've got the power steering, you know, put the air back in it.

Of their concern, it's just a they came out with factory air, but all rares, hence teeth, and they're integrated into all the controls within the dash and built into between the dash.

In the lower dash pad there's sort of vents and two extra vents for the air conditioning and I've got two of those sitting at the in the other cars at the workshop.

So the ideal thing would be is to put the integrated air conditioning into it rather than having just a under dash air conditioning. That I've got a lot of work but

it can be done so that that would be ideal that elicit nice breaks and nice suspension. That's it.

You got the same colour. Would you completely change the

colour you got the midnight blue that you wanted to do?

Everyone says yeah it's like they're fairly again, they're a bit like a grabber blue or red colour and it's sort of we gravitate to that blue. But I would try to maybe

modernise the colour a bit, maybe throw a bit of metallic in it but the same colour. So it's got a a light sky blue

and it's got a Violet colour in it.

So at night time it almost looks purple.

Alright. Under the fluoro lights.

But during the day it's that sky blue, yeah, so it's got a a fairly nice colour to it. So I was thinking that that

Violet with the blue and then fry some metallic for it to see what that comes up. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll do

a few colour samples 1st to see if I like it, but that's that's what I was thinking. Otherwise, I'll go solid blue

and I might even go grab a blue to match the Mustang.

That would be cool. Because it's close to the

original blue, but it's more of a modern blue.

Or even go for the there is a grabber.

Metallic isn't there. Bread flour has got the metallic

fruit, and it's a similar sort. Of focus.

It's called Nitrous Blue. So I was thinking of going that

sort of that focus blue or the Mustang blue, but it's and but it's still reminiscent of the the original colour, yeah.

So this thing is you got always knew that all those brand new Chrome pieces, the car look brand new.

That was the other thing. Would I put the Chrome pieces

back on it? Because the the Deluxe it's it's

actually a Super V8 so I had every Chrome piece you can think of it on it over the wheel arches, the long the top of the door trim, the build and then they also had the they all had a rounded roof cutter and but I'll stick it might be stripping it back a bit and getting rid of a bit of the Chrome.

You're like a brushed metal finish then or.

It's down still, so I can brush it quite easily.

OK. Yeah.

Yeah. That that.

Would be the middle all the middle work.

All the Chrome strips are all stainless steel, so they're easy to give it that brush effect. If you if I wanted to so that

that's one option, do that or still do the top strips around the top of the doors, but not due to wheel launches.

So I'm sort of you know I was even thinking once you know and I don't know how it'll work out but do a fade of the blue up the door up from the lower, seal up the door a little bit so make it dark down below and then go lighter, a real slight fade and that makes the car look a bit sort of skinny.

So I was thinking of if that would be great if I could do a someone could do a good fade just to change it up a little bit. So because they look bit bulky

at the back and down the side a bit, so if you can make it look a bit more slim line through a bit of trickery with paintwork, I reckon that'd be good too. Yeah, absolutely.

If those used to be called the Chip Foose fade.

And what we what would you put? Would you put like like modern

like like a like a large larger Jelly Bean on it, or would you Would you go some a bit different?

No, You know, I've seen a whole lot of different wheels and tyres. You know what they look the best

with. I reckon Simos.

Just the the old genuine Simmons.

Alright, OK. That look real good with a nice

big dish and you can dish them quite a bit and big offset.

So Simmons, I think I'll just go Simmons so I can get him off the shelf and they look good. You can put some nice, you know,

by now, maybe nineteens or 20s on it.

Would be cool. Yeah, just something.

And you don't have to modify anything to really do it.

So it's sort of there's that much room underneath the rear wheel well that you can fit some nice decent rubber behind it without having to tub it. Yeah, so you can fit almost like

I said, I used to fit 12 inch tyres on the back of that with 12 slotters that like you know 11 inch 12 sliders or 10 inch 12 slides, 12 inch tyres and used to fit underneath the Garlock and next say XB Coupe. So if it's the same size wheels

and tyres on it, because we used to with my mates, that's that's pretty much it. So it would be good to be pretty

exciting for to get it going and got it to that point.

It would be nice to find a the motor.

I like a donor car to get all the stuff out of it.

Well, there's there's plenty of like, yeah, this is around.

I mean you could probably even find like a, you know like a Vt Series 2 Berliner that's got a factory option V8 and the the car stuff, but you just want the V8 pull, the motor pull, would you get manual, would you go auto in it?

That's the next question. OK, I see.

So you put the auto out of it, slap that in as well and I think you'd be good. It's over the years I've gone

manual, auto, auto manual again and I'll swap.

Like I said I had a actually manual, so for years and years I love the manual. And then I got I was driving to

work everyday with her for years so trucking and auto and drove drove with an auto in it and I hated it.

I just having an auto and it just killed me.

Glasses maybe a year and a half and I've took the auto out and put them in your back in it because I thought they would be easier to work everyday. But I just didn't like it, did

not like it. So the the manual still sitting

in at the moment. But I don't think that yeah, if

I was going to do LS I'll just order it with the order as much as you know is another guy in the Mustang Club.

He's got a HQ or MHz, I can't remember exactly what what sort of unit is, but he's actually put this massive motor in it.

It's turbocharged and he reckons it used to be a manual and you just couldn't get the power to the ground and all that and stuff and so you end up putting an auto behind it and he's he's liking it. So you know, I think as you

start playing around the pairing and power to into it or whatever, I think the autos just a bit more livable.

Yeah, fair enough. I mean because you definitely

get a manual behind it like you get like at 56.

Yeah. Put a hydraulic clutch.

Make it light. It's considering it's not like

you'll be driving every day. You can probably get it.

Probably get away with it too, cause I think the fact that you put it back to a manual, I think it should stay manual.

I think it's. I think it's to the point I was

like, oh, has to be a manual. Yeah, yeah, you're right in

that, you know, having, you know, it was originally a manual. Keep it a manual.

You're quite right. I don't know.

I just. I don't feel that having an LS

in it and putting it manually in it's going to put the power to the ground as good as an auto. Fair enough.

Fair enough. Especially maybe then, you know,

you might wanna turbo it and or. I'd love to.

I'd love to see how many turbocharged LS P-76 they're on the road. I doubt there'd be any.

You know, I was really and people have spoken about and mentioned about it, but I don't think there is any out there yet is a a Burrito, Turbo Merk, Leyland.

Yeah, that would be cool resolution.

Done in the Merck, so why not but that that would be Nate.

Yeah, it it it it, it would go. Well as he car it'll fit in

quite well I there'll be plenty of room in there and does light car will just light up having a Barrow turbo in it.

Fly. So yeah, I just, I I want, you

know, sort of it's it's not a V8 and it was originally a V8 and it's just. Now if I would probably keep it

V8 if it was my car because it's an it's an original V8 car and everything and I just think that the history behind that guy should should stay V8 and so. But I found my 6 cylinder one

that I turn into there did afraid of the burrito.

With that, that makes sense. That could be done with that

car. They sound, they looked a bit

suss at the end. They seem to be genuine.

Buyers are going to say yeah, we'll look after it and, you know, make sure you know it's kept on the road and lots of stuff and I never heard or seen it again.

You know, say that never. You're not joining clubs or, you

know, being in the club and I've never saw the car again.

So I reckon I stripped it for the motor, put it in a boat for what they paid for it. The the 430 out of the garage

gone and sold into the into into the traffic as Edward say and then this P-76. I'll help you wheel it out.

It's a bit of work filling it out and getting the shit around.

That's fine in your garage and you to enjoy it again, because it's. Keeps telling me that you're not

the only one, believe me. I mean what does Deb said about

it does what I'm back or? Yeah, she'd love it.

Yeah. I mean, like I said, we we met

each other, you know, when I was driving it and the, you know, kids got married, you know, was out.

They they, they actually trashed my car, my wedding night with, you know, eggs and confetti in toilet paper and shaving cream and all sorts of things that actually done quite a bit of damage to my Duco. It wrecked the car.

After that, it just whatever the shaving cream reacted to that covered the whole shaving cream. OHP You're kidding.

Reacted to the the paintwork, but I painted over the oil paint work. I didn't strip it down to bare

metal, so this time it's stripped down to bare metal.

So I had to because it was great all the way to the to the bottom. So, yeah, it's a lot of

memories. And so Deb will be pretty happy

to, I think, see back on the road too, yeah.

I think that's the car you need to bring back because it's it's it's a car that you can take out every so often and be like, yeah, just bring back all the memories will come flooding back and then you'll be like I'm gonna take it to me.

I'm pulling, go sideways all Matt Hoffman, go sideways up the up the hill again. That's it.

Yeah. Yeah, it would be good.

Be good fun. I'm just, I'm disappointed.

I didn't really put my mind to it and get it done sooner because there's been some milestones with the P 76ers over the last few years. It's been.

I think it's so 1973. I think this year was 50 years

the piece M6, so they had the big get together up in parks up that way and I should have been there.

I was going to go there because we mate took his Ex W update because the actual the Ford Ute Owners club were up there at the same time, but that's sort of happened to be at the same place as the P-76 club, so he should have gone.

Out of the piece of 6 club or. I Everything's on Facebook now.

So you used to have newsletters. You have to be paid membership,

being the club to get the the newsletters done and you know to know where the next event was yet and you needed to get the newsletter. And then one year it didn't pay

my membership and lost touch with the club and didn't know who the new president was or where to send the money to or how to join up. So I never join up again until

social media over the last maybe seven or eight years where I've sort of really connected with some of the the the club pages and what that around the country now sort of brought the whole country together. Whereas rather than being

victorious, Victoria centric or South Wales, it's it's national now. So it's it's a lot better and

there's a lot more info out there and a lot more updates about what people are doing for cars and and what not.

Being on Facebook with the club rather than waiting on the newsletter that you might not get.

I'm going to give you a date. It's we're going to have to

come. I'm going to come there and

start moving some stuff in your. Let's do it.

Let's do it. Because I know you motivated me

to do the Mac and and I'm like, I'm like, alright, I'm OK, sure that's happening. Now is happening.

You know, bring it over, let's start it and then I will.

But I'm going to do the same thing for you.

I'm going to come to your place, we're going to move all the stuff and we'll probably have a beverage or two and then push the car out. Awesome Dan.

I'll have to move the dog kennel, the cafe blinds, the fans, tables and chairs, get the dollies to get it around the hoist into the garage, but we'll get there.

What happened? Is gonna be a big day.

That's. All will do will do.

Working day I'll I'll I'll pull some friends also like English cars like Edward he's obsessed with English cars and believing in David on boy Scotty on board we get Alan Tyrone will all we'll all do working be one afternoon one day and and move all the stuff and pull it out and get it started.

The plane it won't get started because I pulled out was on LP gas and I pull out of gas stuff out off it.

And at the same time, I'll pull out the the Holly fuel pump and all that sort of stuff and and I'll put a nicer, more modern fuel pump in it and whatnot Because had a mechanical fuel pump that kept on running when you used to put it to gas and the pump will still run one year coming back from the snow, it actually filled the entire block up with petrol.

Yeah, so Clinton the moderate. Real nice.

Real. Have been very clean after that.

Very clean but I think it didn't damage the motor but still drove it for quite a few years after, so I was lucky I didn't do too much damage. So I've got the whole fuel

system needs to be redone on it and.

I mean, if you want to get back on the road, like would you, would you, would you just get it right, get it to a point where you can get on the road and then then do the LS?

So what would you do? LS 1st and then?

I'll try. I'll get them out of started.

It should run get get it all fired up and cleaned up and get it on the road and then Alice it, yeah.

Exciting times. I'm looking forward to this

role. I think this would be great.

Yeah, well, you know, well, I'll be pretty excited to see you back on the road. Yeah, absolutely.

A sight to see, I think. I'm saying because like I I

can't remember, I'll be honest with you.

Remember the last time I seen a piece 76 on the road?

Like I haven't seen one in years.

Even a car show is not really there.

Like they're like cars and coffees.

I haven't seen one there. I haven't seen, I haven't seen a

piece 76. I was gonna say good piece of

this, but I've seen a piece, 76 in general in a very long time.

Which lane? Australia Day events.

Sometimes they come out and on those weekends and various car shows and whatnot, but NSW, Tassie and Queensland seem to be pretty even WA real strong ups. And then they have a lot of

outings and probably more so than what Vic does these days.

Even though a lot of the the Victorian members are based out in the eastern suburbs, so you don't see too many guys out and there's a couple guys from Daylesford out that way and then based on them are out in Gippsland way out that way.

So that's what we don't see too many sort of cruising about, but I'm looking forward to it now. You got me excited.

I'm glad. I'm glad I have.

It's a I wanna say it's either the symbol or early January.

Let's make let's, let's pull it out.

Let's make it. Happen.

Let's make it in. Jen, Jen, Jen.

I've got early Jen off as well that, you know over that week or two we can pull some stuff out, get some stuff out of the way, wheel it out the front, wash it down, clean it up and start blocking it back. You know how I feel it again, in

places where it needs high field, block it back and then detective might surprise you if you get sprayed because I told him about it and I said I want you to spray it.

So at least I'll get sprayed. OK, so that's a bonus.

So so he, his brother, has he started?

Have you have you given the the nudge or the extra slab of beer to? Get because he's Highfield and

sprayed that but he hasn't blocked it back and painted it yet so I was going to pay these other guys to do it 2 grand.

I'm going to block it all back. But you reckon I wouldn't trust

him so well, I'll do your car because don't I don't want it to be, you know, looking shit. So he wants to make sure it's

done right. So sounds good.

So we'll just, um, yeah, they say that that will happen.

He'll do that and I can work on this one and get this one sorted out and get it ready to spray. So the sort of hopefully one

after the other and it'll be sprayed up and done the the body straight. There's a couple of, like I

said, little sections that need to be still welded up and reinforced, but it's not. They're not.

If I got stuck into it, I haven't done you know, 4-5 days all done. So it's not.

It's a lot less work than your scant was.

Lot less work. Well, well, Rob, I think, I

think early Jan, let's make it happen.

That's all. I'll give you a date 15th of

Jan. OK, done. 15th of Jan that is.

It'll be out. I'm going to put it in my

account. I'm doing it in my.

Phone. I'll move the two cars, the four

bikes and tables, chairs, dog kennel, cafe lines and we should be able to work it out. I'm putting it in my calendar

now. The 15th is a Monday.

Monday, Monday. Monday, Rob Pay 76 day.

Yeah, I mean, does it. OK, done.

It's. It's in there.

Rob, right. 376. Day I can see, yeah, yeah, but I

could see it. Thanks mate.

Thanks. It's happening.

That is the day the P-76 begins its restoration and back and comes back to life. That would be awesome.

I actually would be. You would love it actually.

I think you'll be surprised how well they drive.

I should actually. Next time there's a club event

up we'll go to a club event. I know still make some at the

club and get you to go for a driving one of.

Them. Would go wow.

Yeah, that would be really cool. Especially again I still compare

them to a, you know a well Commodore than anything back in in that area. It just, it's the car just

drives so much better than anything else of the time.

You know, unless you, you know driving European car, but you know and they, you know, almost. I could tell you right now.

I think that the cars that started catching up were like the E30 BMW's. Yeah, we're the ones that

exceeded that. Like before that they were just

crap. And then they just started

really handle and drive. Well, he's 76.

Like I said, 5050 weight distribution call.

McPherson Strats rack and pinion steering, monocoque chassis with a crumple zone. The car just was fought through,

just made a designer, wasn't there.

But you know, the the looks, but the actual engineering it was, you know, bonded panels, glued panels, you know, spot well the panels, everything that they do today and even the windscreens were glued in and they had struggled to get the, the, the companies to the make the right glues to hold the windscreens because the Blues were structural to the chassis.

Yeah, yeah, The windows so well advanced for their time.

Like I said, until The Commodores and the later model cars started coming out with that sort of stuff, yeah, so there you go. That's pretty much it.

Now you really got me excited. Well, if you got some time, go

out a little bit, like I can see behind you go, go start moving some stuff. Anyway, take it up with Robin.

So I'm excited for you mate. This is, this is a car that I've

seen over the years. I've probably seen it three or

four times since I've known you and and you know, like I've seen it just, you know, put away, put away, put away.

And I've always asked you, are you like, yeah, I'll get around to it when I. When I get, when I get it right,

When I want to get it right, I get it right.

But you're right now like that's it.

Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

Just get it done. It's never going to be right.

Right. And I know that and I wanted to

be like almost a show car, but it's not going to happen.

So just make it nice and there's good daily that I could, if I wanted to, drive it as a daily sort of like I could and not be worried about it either, so. Cool.

Well, I think that's a podcast, mate.

I was actually really nice talking about your 76.

Thanks, mate. Yeah, that's.

I'm glad I got you excited. Yep, Yep.

I just, I just really been pretty keen on the Mercs over the last few years and and the Barrow Merk effects to you getting that one. Some kind of just putting out

that that was that was a good flipper for you.

Yeah, it was a good flipper. But at the same time, you know,

that was a 1/2 like a a spray job that I was a spray job that I had to do to sort of make it half presentable because it didn't do it justice, just having that motor and having the body so bad. And I was really disappointed

when I bought that car, how bad the body was and hailed damaged from front to front to back, every bonnet, every guard, roof, boot, everything was just dented.

And then the rust from the floor all the way up to, you know, the quarter panels in the back of it was all rusted out.

And you know, but I got it all carried out and got it all done, fixed up all the rust in the doors and the floors and replaced the entire boot floor in it.

So there's a bit of work in that and quite done better, but it come up good anyway regardless. So good.

SIA, you know, it's always said, you know that preparation, Jesani Funny, I spent a bit more time there and a bit more time, more time. There could have been just that

next level again. But you know, for not saying

anything but for SCA paint. Alright, alright.

It curly every acrylic. Yep, again.

But it was it was a very presentable car like it.

It's it's a car that will now live on for a while longer you know and it'll it'll be great. So.

So I think you you saved it. You definitely did.

Yeah, sure did. So anyway, thanks again Mandy.

No worries mate. If you wanna see Rob and his and

his panel beating, his firefighting, his burglary, alarm systems, his electrical work, you know robos.

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I'm actually I'm really excited for you so can't wait to come out to see it start and and all coming down the days.

YouTube video Thank you, take it easy.

How do you said it should be? It's, yeah.

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