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It's me, Maddie Jay in the studio with Mr Chad the Bell and online with Mr Edward Bunting. How are we, gentlemen?

Hello, good. Hello, Matthew.

Good. Yes, good.

How are you? Very well.

Thank you, mate. Very well.

Good to see you guys. Good to see you guys on the

weekend, which we're gonna talk about very shortly.

Yeah, Sakura Picnic. Allison's probably like seeing

you guys on the weekend. You must have had like a date or

something. But no seeing.

We caught it, but I think the whole crew was there, you know, even Adrian was there to to. Pretty much which?

Was good to say. Adrian was there.

Adrian was there. Oh sure, I saw him.

Yeah, I yelled at him as he drove.

Out. Yeah, he was there and then we

proceeded to have a fun. I know.

Yeah, Adrian, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we had a bit of fun

on the on the freeway home, which which was which was which was a little bit of a little bit of fun.

But yeah, it was it was good to see you guys.

It was great to see all the different cars there and, and and the like. So let's Carrot crack on with

some car updates. Chat updates with you my friend.

Trying to remember last time I did something on a car.

I worked on the civic last week. Mm hmm.

I had a couple of days off sick from work, so as I was getting better I decided I'd do a little bit of.

Thing you weren't You weren't quite sick enough to not go to the garage. From workers listening, I was

sick anyway so I I thought I'd give the bar the brakes on the Civic and other go up bleeding them.

So I did another bleed and I just made sure that I did an extra long one this time. So it was, you know, more, a few

more pumps than usual per corner.

And I had my wife help me to do that.

And it seemed to seemed to, yeah, finally give me a bit of pedal pressure. And it was, yeah, it, it, it's

working now, but I have brakes. I have brakes and it and the car

stops under its own power. To turn out it was a couple

along. It was what?

The couple. Along well, I think maybe it was

a mixture of the cap and also doing a really good blade.

OK, like really like it took me like 40 minutes to do the whole car. And I think that that the

combination of those two things helped.

And so I drove it to work on Thursday and I dropped it off to get a wheel alignment as the steering wheel was like 90° off centre since I replaced some steering arms.

And now, yeah, it's driving right.

Really I'm going to dial a bit of suspension in on the weekend.

I think just get some like, you know, some rebound settings and stuff, right and just yeah, make it make a drive good and maybe lower the rear a little bit is sitting a little high and and yeah, it's another time to hit the truck.

So yeah, a couple of weeks time. I reckon I'll I'll get onto a

truck day and sweet. Yeah, I'm, I'm started.

I'm ecstatic because yeah, the car drives great and it's just, it feels good now and it's got headers as well and it sounds good and yeah, it actually does sound really good.

Yeah, now it's like sounding a bit more racy than usual.

So yeah, what else have I done? So does it, does it feel more

firm and does it feel more? Yes, and it feels more direct.

It's yeah, it's like the the amount of pressure you put on the pedal directly correlates with how much like the car wants to stop. So it's like there's no, there's

no cushion, you know, there's no like air assisted feeling where it's like, you know, your, your pedal goes in and it's eventually gets harder and harder.

This is like, it's already like kind of hard to start with and it just gets harder from there as you push more fluid into the through the cylinder into the 1st.

Track thing will be a lot of kind of modulating throttle.

Yeah, learning how to brake again, basically.

Modulating braking because you're not gonna have that assistance, absolutely, and you're probably gonna flat spot your tyres. Oh yeah, yeah look, yeah, my

tyres are already like 6 track days old so it's like it's nearly time to get a new set. So it'll be a good test to be

able to find the limit of the brakes and you know, how much they can lock up and yeah, how much I need to work on my braking now. So yeah, it's, it's, it's a

little bit more testing and then yeah, we can do a little bit more sort of competitive time stuff eventually.

So yeah, I think that's it for me.

I didn't really touch any other. Oh, I did drive, drive the

Sylvia on the on the weekend secure picnic and it's been giving me some issues with the alarm and doing a flat battery for some reason. So I'm still in the middle of

trying that out. I've fully disabled the alarm

for the moment, so it's just, you know, anyone listening, please don't come and steal my car.

But it's yeah, I'm just trying to figure out what's what it's doing. And yeah, I think I've basically

cooked a battery like it's, it's drained too many times and it's yeah. So I've got to, I'm going to

figure out what's going on with the gremlins and yeah, but otherwise the car drive. Awesome.

Yeah. And as usual, yeah, that's it

for me. Awesome.

We're also joined by Mr Scotto Doe Johnson and Mr. David

Prince. How are you gents?

Really good. Thank you.

Can't hear you, Scotty. Yeah, he's he's he's giving us

the. Nothing.

Scott Crickets 1 moment please. We'll come we'll we'll come back

to you. Scotty in a.

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Got you there, we. Go it's it's it's new new laptop

at new school. So I haven't done it set up for

Zoom. So I just had to change to a

proper microphone to set that up so.

Well, you're here. We're all.

Good. I'm here.

I'm doing well. Thank you very much.

No worries. How's your first two?

How's your first two days been at your new school?

Yeah, pretty good. Done a few classes of of English

and got to actually teach. Wasn't really much behaviour

stuff so. Oh wow.

Haven't had that for quite some time.

Yeah, it. Would.

Be years. I got sevens and eights.

Nice. Nice, Edward, I'll do this with

you. It's been a while and I do

apologise. Yeah, my Tuesday nights have

been elsewhere over the last few weeks.

But you know, back to normal regular programming.

As I said today with Prince, I think yesterday, so I can't remember where we got to car wise last time, but I can run through a few updates, the most recent being the the yellow Wasp Magna. Sorry, it's not a Magna, it's a

Verada. I keep calling it a Magna.

I'm down grading it. It's a Verada that did go to

Sakura Picnic on Sunday. It was nice to join a bunch of

fellow magnet drivers. We're not we're not.

We're not totally taking over the Honda Car Club, but there was a a few crossovers. There they will.

So I think we had eight or nine cars.

They're a nice mixture of your early TMTP moving into TRTS moving into, you know, KRKS or whatever.

Mine is a K J2 I think. So, yeah, we had, we had, we had

three out of the Magna shapes very well covered, I think from that bunch. So that was good.

Look, the Wasp is still driving. It looks better than it drives

at the moment. The shockers are all stuffed and

it's very wiggly on the road. You know, you go over a pothole

and the rear end feels like it's sort of twisting out from under you. It's it's not happy in the

suspension. Fortunately in my garage are 4

brand new shockers. Thank you, Maddie J for sourcing

those and rocker cover gaskets. So it's going to get that stuff

done on Sunday. Still needs a driver's drive

shaft and two rear tyres. I'm being real tied ass with the

tyres. I'm waiting till they're at

IMLAC second hand for a pair of 2 to 550 seventeens.

If it gets to a week before Magna Fest and I still don't have any then all right, I'll shell out for some more expensive ones. But. 5017. 5017 Keep an eye out

for a pair of those. I've got a few people on the

hunt. I'll speak, I'll speak to my

tiger. He always gets the second hand

ones. In yeah ideally like, you know,

40 bucks each or something would be lovely so but you know, engine wise and driving wise otherwise that car is fine.

You know, everything's working and, and it's not overheating or doing anything nasty or belching smoke or, you know, it's interesting. At that event, Sakura, I, there

was one of the Magna guys there who's got like, he's got like 7 of them or eight of them. And I, he kept reeling off.

He's got this VRX and that VRX and this like amazing collection. He was there in that TMR, which

is the last of the three 80s, but done by team Mitsubishi Valley or whatever and 1:20 and yeah, quite a rare thing.

You're you're starting your own 1 of 20 clubs.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. So mine's one of 20.

Yours is 1 of 20. I was chatting to him and he

said, oh, I could start yours up.

So I started it up and it, you know, it sounds very healthy.

It's not an unhealthy. And he goes, oh, that's the

sound. That's what it should sound

like. I was like, oh, that's good.

He knows these He. Knows them.

Yeah, yeah, that's that's nice. So that's the WASP.

What else have I? I spent a fair whack of time in

the 300 coupe over the holidays on one or two days particularly that's driving very well. Other than the fuel gauge on

those old 80s nineties Mercs, it's they can get very flickery and basically, you know where it, it's not a smooth sort of up and down of the gauge. It'll, you'll turn the key on,

it'll go going to a particular level and then it'll sort of jump down really fast. And it's not a, it's not a

smooth up and a smooth down. I did a bit of huge so mine now

is stuck on 3/4. It's basically the.

I had that exact same thing. Happen, and I know what it is.

Yeah, the float runs up and down in the tank on these two sort of wires and they get very gummed up over the years.

And I saw a YouTube clip where the guy pulled the thing out of the tank, cleaned them with acetone, basically nail Polish remover and then his fuel, you know, the float flows really freely and then your gauge is accurate and doesn't jump around. So that's exactly what's

happened to mine. The floats just got stuck up at

3/4. And so my gauge is just reading

constant 3/4. It's not, you know, coming down

because I kept thinking, geez, just cars getting better and better for economy wise. It's great.

And I was like, oh, no, that's that's busted.

But yeah, it sounds really easy. You can get to the tank from in

the boot and you can pull out the thing.

And so I'm actually going to give that a crack myself because I'm just so God damn handy with cars these days.

I I. I did that exact thing I did and

it was. It was pretty easy.

Did you clean it with? Acetone, is that what you did

with on the? Wires I did that, but then I

realised that one of the parts was was broke inside internally on it. So it was it was stuffed, but

but I just I just replaced it with another one and they they're not cheap if it's if it's broken into, no, I.

Look, you can buy them for sort of 200 and something dollars.

That's pretty much what I paid for it, yeah.

Yeah, but I I think I can probably fix it unless something snapped or. Yeah.

Like it's 90% chance. It's that sometimes they do,

they do break there. There is a chance that they do

break in mine. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Then then the car was. Completely had it it that was

broken in my own, but it's I can give you a hand with it.

So I did it before I took it out twice.

So I had to put it back in when I realised I couldn't fix it, sorry. I put it back in the order 1 and

pull it out and did it again. Yeah, yeah, it's if you want a

hand with it, I'm happy to give you a hand with.

That. Thank you.

Yeah, That could be a fun little afternoon project one day.

Absolutely. So that's the red car.

Otherwise driving? Well, it was the steering wheel.

It'd be similar to you, Chad, after an alignment.

I actually had it aligned because it had a new front right tie rod end in it. So the steering wheel was

aligned by the the tyre shop that the mechanic chose to use down the road. And I got it back and it was

slightly to the left and it was annoying me on those long drives I did. So I took it back to them.

I said, oh, no worries, you know.

So they realigned it. Now it's slightly to the bloody

right and I'm just, that's nice. Do you drive the cars after you

do this? Like within a minute down the

road? I'm like no it's not straight.

And the 124 Mercedes is very easy to get straight because the top of this 2 is dead flat. It lines up with the bottom of

the dash. You can see when it's off.

So anyway, now we're up to the right rather than off to the left. Other than that, that's fine.

The I bought AI sold my little manual swift hatch.

Finally I found someone from Britain who knows how to drive a manual so she bought that. What else did I sell?

Recently I sold the 280 E the red Merc that I had.

That went through the auction. That went through the auction,

so I believe it went to live in Coburg.

I purchased a 2015 Swift and sold that to a friend of a friend and traded in her 05 Swift.

So I've sort of had a trifecta of Swift.

My friend who's a dealer was like, you should just become the Swift guy. And I'm like, well, it's not a

bad guy to be. They're a great car.

They're. Very popular.

I'd be quite happy. Being just the Swift guy myself,

yeah, so I've tried it in this little auto from 05, which mechanically is sweet, but it's copped a bit of hail.

There's a Ding in the right front panel, you know, the front bumpers. Seen better days, but drives

perfectly. The auto and the engine are very

healthy, good service history. So I think what we'll do with

that one is to bring it back fully cosmetically is going to be too expensive. You know it's not worth it, but

nor is it worth me just sending it to the auctions.

I think because of how well it drives, I'll probably get it roadworthy because I don't reckon it will need bucket loads for roadie and then just sell it as a cheap turnkey roadie car.

You know, not ask 5 for it, like ask, you know, four or three eight or something. And someone at that money would

surely just want a turnkey transport Swift.

It'll be it'll become like your QA and Uber Eats car.

Yeah, exactly right. It'd be something like that.

But there are no issues with hail damage and roadworthy.

No, a good question, Chad. Depends where it is.

If. It's just in the middle of the

room and the bonnet fine. If it's big enough, dense on

structural three quarter panels and A pillars then they'll ping it for. Right, okay.

So this doesn't have any there. It's literally just roofing a

bit of bonnet and even the doors are fine, you know well.

You probably do a little bit of PDR just to improve.

It good. But yeah, I've seen, I've seen

them before where if the dents right on the A pillar or there's a few and right on the C pillar like because it's the structural panel they'll they'll make, they'll say no to that.

OK. So that's the current transport

is that Swift Pajero's had an oil change.

I did a lot of case in that over the sort of 10 day break we had recently. That's running well.

The tyres I'm happy with. My Geo Landers still haven't put

shocks in it from our good friend Reed Reed.

Oh yes, icon. Yes, I haven't done that yet,

but that's on my list. The Scamp is currently on

charge. What else?

Nothing much else, I don't think.

Yeah, unless anyone else can remember my cars.

Oh, Windows 15. The the Reno 16 Yellow is at my

house. I removed the brake master

cylinder. I ended up sending that to a mob

in Adelaide called Power Brakes. And if you go on their website,

they are very comprehensive. They rebuild slave cylinders,

master cylinders, everything to do with brakes.

They manufacture rekit, rehone, re sleeve.

They do all of that. A mob in Melbourne I used to go

to, you know, don't anymore do a lot of that stuff.

They're more sort of selling parts.

They're not so much rebuilding, but yeah, I rang the lady over there and she was like, Oh yes, the twin piston 1 and I'm like yeah, it is. And can you give me some photos?

There you go. She said Oh yeah.

So that's been recently before and I'm like bloody hell, this this it is on to it. Like yes, it has been recently

before. So not by me, but so we, yeah, I

was very confident sort of sending it to them.

And she said, Yep, we can get the kit.

They don't get the rubber kit just from one place that sometimes they'll source them from.

You know, this seal comes from here and that seal comes from here and they'll make it up from different suppliers.

So yeah, she said that's what they're doing in that case.

Then look, it's not mega cheap, but I'm like, if it comes back brand new and working and I can bolt it to the car and look, there was some online overseas that you could get but I'm always sceptical. They put like 18 different

master cylinders in that car because they had a long production run and I just thought, oh, I could order 1 and it might be a smidge cheap, but then you get it and then the bolt holes aren't the same. And yeah, I'd just rather have

the original 1 rebuilt. Yeah, that's right. 100% yeah,

especially when it's on everyday car, you know it could.

Doesn't matter if it's off the road for another.

No, no, no, no, no. It's sitting in my garage for

two weeks sitting there. So doing that, oh, I bought a

little EG Civic as well. So you know, the 92 good shape,

EG 150 KS in an auto. So you know, a neat little car,

a few Dings in it, one of them in particular quite large behind the driver's door, which is a bit of an awkward spot.

It's not like a, you know, front panel you can bolt on and off.

So that needs, it's not unhealthy and it's certainly very original, but it needs too much for me to go any further with it. So that's at the auctions coming

up, probably tomorrow, if anyone's interested in EG Dibic coupe with 150 KS. Captiva Blue.

Yeah, Captiva Blue. Is that the name of that blue

terrible name for a given Holden?

It's been allied. By the Holden Calabrex down.

But yeah, that little Civic will it actually had a, a problem where it was dying at traffic lights and, you know, hazards flashing and things. And it really was a combo of two

things. The battery was cactus and it

was getting really hot, you know, as she drove.

And if I put it on charge, the battery was just physically getting really hot. There's something not, not happy

about it. So I, I got rid of that and got

another battery from the wrecker for it for 40 bucks, which was good. So that solved the starting

issue and the battery going flat issue.

The second one was this dying at the lights, which we sort of honed down to being the immobiliser was doing something funky. So I took, took it to the auto

Alec. He ripped the whole immobiliser

system out of it and he said the way they'd actually installed it was all through the ignition switch.

And he said it shouldn't be putting that much power through that kind of switch. So he said it's probably a combo

of things, but yeah, just get rid of it all.

And and it didn't die at all. Once it was gone, it it, it was

driving fine. So, you know, moral story there,

kind of right person, right job, relatively simple.

The mechanic where it had been at was talking about rebuilding carbies and things like that. And I was like, yeah, I don't

think so. They're pretty 150K.

They don't generally need that sort of work.

So it's a carbie model Ed. It's the last of the Carvey

models. Yeah, it's a nice.

Twin carb. Awesome.

Yeah, yeah, twin carb. So yeah, that car stop starts,

drives nice. So now I was comfortable sort of

sending it to the auctions. You know it needs a muffler and

it's got the Dings in it, but other than that?

You know how many people that that that do cars up to make them comfortable enough? For the auction, I mean, I sort

of wanted it, you know, like I couldn't have sent it out there like it was because the battery dies overnight.

So I thought, well, they're not going to be able to start it and then if it if it dies on them, then they'll they'll list major engine faults or something and it just it didn't have that.

So I thought I've just got to have it turnkey, you know, idling, driving fine. OK, good.

So I think it was worth spending a little bit of money on that.

There you go I'll shut up. That's all the car news, I

think. Very.

Good. We've been joined by Rob.

How are you, Rob? Good.

Thank you. How are we all?

Good mates, good. Next on the list is Scotty Doe.

So what I was doing was getting the 31 ready for sucker picnic.

I was making sure it was scrubbed up and looked nice and tidy. So I just gave the rims bit of a

Polish, got them shining again. We got rid of some of those dirt

marks that are kind of on there that's blended its way into the paintwork. So everybody get rid of that bit

of a wax to seal over the top. Drove it round to fill it up.

That was $120.00 later it took 55 litres.

So it was fairly. Yeah, it was fairly empty

because I've just when I did drive it, the last time I filled it up was with the 20 litre drum.

I just filled up and then just poured it in there because remember like ages ago I was going through that trouble of I think I went through 2 fuel pumps and that before I they just kept getting clogged up. But yeah, I fixed, fixed that

issue, scrubbed it up. I had some rubbing issues on the

rear, pumped up the tyres. They're actually very, very low,

which makes sense. I mean, it's been jacked up for

over a year and that, so they're going to go flat when they've been sitting around for so long. Don't scrub as much anymore.

Just on that back on the back quarter panel.

I've just got to kind of bash it up a little bit more just the way the lip is, because I'm pretty sure it's probably meant to have the plastic in a guard or something on there, which it doesn't have the plastic in a guard.

So now you've just got a sharp piece of metal that's kind of sitting there. So when it goes down, it

catches, it catches on that and just rips up chunks of your tyre on the side wall. Not ideal.

So yeah, still it's a comfy ride.

I mean, that's, that's what you get for something that doesn't have the really, really hard shocks where if you hit a bump, your kidneys move and that's about it.

That's the only thing moving. So it's kind of a bit softer.

Was Absolutely Fabulous to drive, had no, no faults of it, cruised nicely. Not really much of a vibration

in it. It will need a wheel alignment

with everything that I've that I've kind of fiddled with, I've probably bashed those things around so.

But other than that it was actually very smooth, went into gears very nicely, temperatures were a OK from what I could see and from what it read. I don't know how accurate it is

because on the way back the fuel gauge decided to work.

And then when I nearly. And then when I nearly got home,

it fell down and died again, so I was empty tank again.

So I'd say the drama with that is the the dash itself, yeah, is the cluster itself. I don't think it's the the float

or anything. They've got a problem where the

the soldering starts to crack because it's that old in it and people pull them out and try and resolder and stuff like that.

So. Yeah.

Either do that and see if that works or I just buy a second hand one, see how I go. Mine's forever on 250,000

kilometres anyway. Doesn't travel any more than

that. That's just how much case is

always on it. But I think what I noticed was

super funny was everybody with an old car, RR 31 all had Agps, Speedo on it all did everyone. Had one that'll work.

Yeah. Or it's off.

Yeah, that was hilarious. Are they known for that?

Are they the clusters just die or something They.

Are actually, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

OK. I.

Think I can remember my my uncle's Pintara was like that, I think and very similar. It was, it was a bit funny in

the dash, so. Yeah, so the odometer reader

breaks because the little plastic cog wheel.

Yeah, gets brittle and snaps. You can replace that.

You can buy the little parts. You see, I get them from Jaycar.

You can buy the little. The little spigot wheel and

replace that. So the gauges that do work on it

is the battery Revs and the oil pressure.

OK. Oh, and and temp I guess, too.

Yeah, which isn't too bad. Cool.

That it has an oil pressure, That's a gauge, yeah.

They were. Called a comprehensive dashboard

in those. And.

Implementation. And I only stalled it once when

I was leaving in front of everybody that.

Time to do. It I was, I kind of, I thought I

had it in first and I was like I was, I was looking and then I was about to go and then I went and then died.

I went, oh crap, it's in 3rd. I said no, quickly put it in

first and disappear. If anybody notices.

Yeah. But oh, well, that's, that's my

update. Just the car was great, ran well

and I had I had a lot of fun with it to actually get out there and experience it. That's awesome.

I couldn't believe it, Scott. I thought it was a mirage.

Finally, the R31 being driven somewhere.

Yeah. Oh, and shout out.

Thank you to David for the idea with the rubber pedals.

Oh. Yeah, because I had brand new

rubber pedals and I couldn't get them on.

And he said just on the floor. Yeah.

And he said put them. Yeah.

And he said put them up on the dash so they heat up, so they get more flexible and bend. And that worked perfectly.

Yeah, Wolf. He's an interiors man.

He's a girl for a reason. Absolutely.

It's funny, as I was standing there talking to Will, the guy with that TMR 380, you know, something came up about interiors or something and I said, oh, you just got to talk to David about that. He said, oh, something's come

unglued today and he goes, oh, why David?

I said he's new life vinyl and leather, like, you know, he's your interiors man. He goes, oh, his eyes just lit

up. He was like, oh, he he thought

it was really stuck with something.

I can't remember it was, but there you go.

You might get a call from him, David.

Or there you go, I. Think at some stage, very.

Good David Prince. Biggest car update was the crew

picnic obviously, which I think we'll probably talk about later.

We'll. Get to that in a second, yeah.

The Yeah, I only got back from the Land of the Rising Sun on Thursday at Thursday lunchtime, so I had Friday just to just tidy up a few things before I went back to work yesterday.

It didn't involve meeting meeting Mr Rigglesworth down at IMAX because there's another TR magnet down is.

That the white sedan. Yeah, white elite sedan.

Yeah. Yeah, that's the one.

Yeah, I I saw that. So I did grab something out of

that because I do have an elite radio and with the graphic equaliser from the TR. But in the lowest spec cars,

this is really ultra geeky. Some people will tune out

probably during this, but the lowest spec cars actually have a have a single gin unit and then they have a little pocket underneath. But the the moulding for the the

surround that the fascia surround actually has a has a piece across it. So whereas the elites didn't

have a piece across it because they had a double gin unit to start with with the graphic equaliser.

So this Elite just happened to still have that piece in.

So I grabbed that in case we want to do a bit of an upgrade to the TR. Where?

They didn't just leave a hole in it, David.

No, Yeah, that's right. That's right.

That was the we'll talk about that story in a little bit.

That was the funniest thing I've ever seen.

That's that will make sense soon, everybody.

OK, OK, good. I'm glad about that.

OK. So, yeah, so that was good.

And then the Friday morning, actually, I went out and jumped in the van, which had been three weeks since it had been started, and it was dead as a dodo. So I thought, oh, 4 1/2 years,

I'm sure we can just charge this up.

So I had a couple of jobs to do and one of those involved driving down to Hampton Park to pick something up.

So I drove down to Hampton Park, down the freeway, gave it a good Fang relieve it, relieve it left it running while I was at Hampton Park back to Mount Waverley.

Turned it off, went to start again, absolutely nothing did as a dodo again. So I jump started again.

Got it home rang the RACV on the way home.

Now I know I could have gone to my friends are super cheap or or anywhere and but I thought Nah you know what you join these this will work. What did you pay for your

battery? 40 bucks and in Lex yeah yeah

well the Patty of course I paid 10 times that for my battery cuz it's a fill me in it's an. AG.

Which is a second language. Yeah, it's a stop start battery.

So they've got, they've got different cells and all different. Okay, well now the guy explained

that to me. I just had three letters on it

which I thought was or something like that.

It would be an AGM battery where the OR an EF.

I think they got it EFS batteries as well like the.

EFS, that was it. It started with E definitely

started. With E so, so yeah, they,

they're they're made for stop start, then they're made for a lot more cranks and turnovers. Yeah, OK.

This one, it's for and a half years old.

It's not even working. Yeah.

There's a Car Talk top tip, ladies and gentlemen, if you car has stop start, switch it off because you'll get a lot more battery life and it's less pressure on your on, on your, the rest of your components, you start a motor, et cetera.

I hate it, I would always switch.

It off yeah, so for that reason and it will save you a lot of money in the long run because they do they can last quite a long time, but not as much when you stop studying all the time because they they do burn out a lot quicker but yeah, but they are also they also pretty much double the price of any other battery so yeah they can be they can.

Be Yeah. Well, I, you know, I figured,

yes, it's a, it's a Volkswagen, so it's going to be dearer, but I didn't think it was going to be 450. $4.00 or wherever it

was. Anyway, it works fine.

Now that's interesting because you can, you can override the stop start in the goal in the Caddy.

The only other car I've got with stop start is the N1.

But as soon as you take it out of eco mode, the stop start disabled. So it doesn't spend a lot of

time in eco mode. That car not going to be an

issue, I don't think in that car, but but yeah, so the Caddy's back and running like as it should.

But The funny thing was, of course, when it was dead and I tried to start it, you got all these lights and I had, you know, error warnings come up on this and something else.

The windows wouldn't go up. Look, wouldn't the, the one

touch function didn't work like the you had to inch them up and all these things. And then I got into it when when

the I said, Oh no, there's all these warning lights on it.

The guy said start it and he said now turn the wheel all the way to the left and then turn the wheel all the way to the right. Yep, turn away all all like

black magic, you know, I mean, how can that?

Possible like reset something? Yeah, we, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you said turn it off,

turn them all on. Everything was fine.

Everything. It was like a yeah reset sort of

motion or something, but Yep. I said correct, it was EFB

battery. EFB.

EFB. OK, OK.

But not. Yeah, which has nothing to do

with stop start. So I mean, it's not one of those

letters that's got an S in there anywhere.

So just for good measure. So yeah, no, I mean that was I

haven't driven anything else I don't think.

Nice. Since that time I went to move

the Civic and I was reminded by the that I've got to take it back to get the brakes, I think because it won't even roll in the garage. So that's got to go back and

have the because I had a new wheel similar to put on it and it won't it's dragging that jammed.

On. It is, it is.

I'm not happy about that. The only other thing I did get

to see the 94 accord the other day after it was in an altercation with a rubbish. Truck.

Oh no. Yes, my well, my youngest son

had it was was driving it and loving it and went to a private home that where he gets his hair cut and came out and the side behind the the driver's side guard behind the rear door was caved in. Oh.

Jeez. So we was there.

A note on it. No, no, no, no.

But the, the rubbish truck had been up.

It was in a court, it was parked in the bowl of a court.

He didn't notice it in the morning, but he wasn't looking for it obviously either. But as soon as he walked up to

it after he came out. So he got onto the council and

they, they said, oh, we've got, we'll have the footage from the camera from the from the truck, you know, and they said, they said, oh, no, it wasn't us. So they've sent him a photo,

which I haven't seen yet because I only saw him again last night.

I haven't seen the photo yet, but I had a look at the damage.

It's yeah, it's a big, it's a nasty bit of damage on that rear quarter. So if we can't prove who did it,

yeah, I don't know that it's going to be worth repairing.

Oh, David, half a million KS. Yeah, David, I know, I know, I

know. Send me a photo.

I will send you a photo I'll put in the chat.

You're too much work into that car.

We'll bring that back. Was it like punctured the metal

or something? David.

No, but it's, it's pushed it in far enough.

It's a double skin panel obviously just above the wheel arch. Yeah, and it's pushed it in so

much that the the door doesn't shut.

Like it's, it's sort of pushed, pushed it in under where the door shuts against it. So there's quite a gap now where

the door should shut. So the panel's really skewed out

of out of and of course it's high enough it could, it obviously looks like, like a bump up from a truck.

You know, it's not, it's not down low on the door.

It's above the wheel arch. So anyway, so we'll, we'll keep

plugging away with that. But yeah, disappointing.

What does one do with that car? If you don't fix it, what do you

do with it? I don't know.

I don't know. Suggestions Give it away as a

raffle car maybe, maybe. And sadly the the I've got the

renewal to for the, I've had it a year now on club plates, so I've got the renewal to be put in this week.

So I'll put it in. I'll still put it in, still

completely drivable, but it's just looking a bit like an old truck. And because it's been left

outside and the pain in the bonnet's gone.

Yeah. I.

Was on the bonnet. Yeah, the it's the only paint

that it was starting to peel early on.

OK. And that's the only panel that's

been resprayed that it was when she hit the kangaroo.

So I mean, it's the local paint that's no good.

The rest of the paint's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it.

Must be something with red Hondas and getting backed into isn't that. Right.

I know. Yeah.

Awful Rob updates with you my friend.

Firstly, Scotty brought back some flashbacks on my BMW with the fuel gauge not working and the abdominal.

You know, I swear if I hold your describe in the D30, you know to the table it's not working. Anyway, that's one thing.

We can use your card Dave for a variety bash car or something.

Maybe it's. Not a bad idea.

I'm clutching my pearls. Anyway.

It'll make it. It'll be it'll be one of the

cars that actually make the distance.

Yeah, it's done this thing. It's come this far.

Exactly. So after the picnic, your nephew

comes around, he goes, oh, you just do a few things to my E4430. He got these wing mirror rubbers

because he wasn't happy. They're all sort of perished and

cracked on the A pillar between the mirror and the frame.

The A pillar, they're all cracked and they look pretty crappy. You go.

So we had to take the mirrors off.

The rubbers weren't exactly the same.

So I had to modify the rubbers to fit onto the A pillar, put the wing mirror back on, but then the spring basically went loose, so the mirror flapped. It was floppy, so I had to pull

the actual part of the the cover off the mirror, try to get the spring back on and then try to screw it back onto the car.

But as you flex the mirror it actually broke the casting on the mirror frame. Oh no.

So now it's really floppy, isn't it?

Anyway, so I can fix this something else.

So I've got a, a self tapping tick screw and screwed that, cleaned it up and got the got rid of the self tapping part of it and then screwed it back in and put the spring back onto the screw and everything holding back back on.

All right, so, so all the rubbers are back on, the mirrors are back on. I said don't call me, here's

your car back. So fix that up.

What else do we do to the car? Oh, radio, Yeah.

So you bought a cheap Apple CarPlay radio off eBay for $60.00 and I'll go, oh, this is going to be difficult to fit

because you've got to change the connections, believe it or not, Unplugged it, plugged straight in, everything worked with the ignition straight away, everything was all working.

But soon as you turn the car on, everything turns off.

So something's wrong with the wiring.

I've got to find out. The ignition wire or something?

Isn't it? Isn't it?

Is it an autotor like like LMD users or?

Yeah, I don't know, but it's a good, it looks pretty good, but everything connects real well. Yeah.

So it's all working. Yeah.

When it's on ignition, on, on, you know, on auxiliary, but soon as you turn the ignition on and turn the car on it and yeah, so I have to work out what's happening with that wire when it goes to ignition. But then probably crossed or

something. Something's not right.

It did that pick up Harley's scarf.

You've got a detail today. So that was pretty good.

It come up real well. You see 63 you got a second.

It was only going to be sort of like a single stage polishing clean up, but you end up doing it going a bit deeper and getting out all the swirl Marks and all the scratches so that the C63 come up real good. Now you can see the dents.

So I've got the dent guy coming around on Friday to fix the little that it's got tiny 2 tiny little dents where the seat belt buckle must have flipped out on the.

Basically on the B pillow, if you want to call it on the coupe and it sort of just left 2 little dints on the top of the panel and you could you got to like go looking for it, but I know it's there so I have to get rid of it.

Yeah, you got to do it. So did that.

So cars come up real well. I'm going to put the Mustang in

to get that also detailed because he does a pretty good job. He cleans the wheels and

everything. You've got cleaned the steering

wheel. The Alcantara come up real good,

$400.00 wasn't overly expensive. It wasn't the cheapest diva

maybe. Can I talk top tip for Arcantara

steering wheels? Do you want one?

Yeah, absolutely. Diesole, a toothbrush and a

chamois like a. What bristle a bristle?

No, no diesole. Oh, diesole.

OK, yeah, diesole. A old toothbrush and a shammy.

Shammy. Yeah.

Very well, that's enough. Yeah.

Yeah. So that came up.

All right. So, yeah, so we're going to get

the dints taken out of the Z 36. There's one little dint on the

guard and then the three little dints on the C63.

So we'll get that sorted out. Apart from that, not much.

Oh, put my Ford Transit into Ford again.

You got it back. No, no, I got it back.

But I got it back instead of having the the real whining noise at up between 110 and 90 and now it's between 80 and 70 and it's even worse than what it was between 100 hundred.

And 10 What was the noise? What did they say?

It was the cause. The the Crown opinion, the

backlash did did it, but not machine right.

Something's not right there. So it's just making it like, you

know, a big bus when Vance sounds like a bus.

That's sort of bad. Yeah, so they're getting another

diff in for me, third one. So but they they came up to me,

you know, the real sort of defensive and I go, what's going on here? You're the one who gave us a

real bad survey. Yeah, survey plots because can

you fix that up for us? I said.

Well, you guys. Did you fix my car for me?

My God damn transit and I'll give you a good.

Survey, I said if we work together and you get my car fixed and you communicate what's going on and make sure my car is fixed properly the first time, I'll give you a good survey result. What do they say to that?

He goes, all right, fair enough. You know, so they're pretty.

They're very nice to be after that.

How's the nerve to call you out though?

That's Oh yeah, that's pretty bad.

You must hit their KPI's. They must be based on bonuses if

they're if they hit the targets on these surveys, there's.

Plenty of. People.

I bet people would cave. In as well 00 OK, all right.

Yeah. I said you, you book my car and

get it all fixed and I'll fix it up for you.

Yeah, yeah. So that that's pretty much it.

So the car's going to go back in eventually, probably within the next if. I don't know if they imported a

couple of extra diffs or whether they will have to wait now for another one to come from Turkey. Jeez.

Yeah. I'll put a call in mate.

And please. Yeah.

So yeah, we'll see how the the third diff goes.

Hopefully it'll be better than the other the 1st 2 that's.

A joke The. The van the the loader that they

gave me was real good. It had no noise whatsoever, but

it was a front wheel drive. Yeah, that's probably reliant,

yeah. Could have ordered the pro wheel

drive transit. The reason why I was thinking

that if I was going to use it as like which I am building it as a camper van, what you can do. And I've seen some YouTube clips

where they've actually put a starter motor to the wheel to make it all wheel drive to get them out of the snow when they're stuck in snow and stuff like that all.

Right. So imagine that you can put some

gears in the back, put some starter motors to the back, wheels off the axles and. If you.

Get If you get stuck in the mud or sand or whatever, you just flip the starter motor and it pushes you through it's.

A Tesla. It's an absolute Tesla.

Basically, it's not that. How's that?

It's like a. Temporary all wheel drive.

Yeah, temporary all wheel drive only when you need it.

I like it, Rob. So.

Yeah, someone else has already done it in Russia, but hey, seem done. Be there, Larder.

Most. Likely, yeah.

So yeah, that's pretty much it. No, that's good mate.

Updates with me. I spent a bit of time cleaning

the laser, getting ready to screw a picnic.

I then went to did a wrecker run.

I got, I managed to get a grill, which is, which is good.

You're getting that. So I, I, instead of costing me

online over $100, I got it for $20, which is pretty good.

I got some little bits and bobs and things here and there.

And then I, and then in this, in the typhoon, it's, it's been like this for years when on, on my younger years, when I was a lot younger, I, you know, I like to have my music loud.

And I blew out the subwoofer, the factory sub years ago.

And, and, but like, but I could live with it because like, Oh yeah, I didn't, I didn't turn up as much anymore.

So anything under like 25, it was, it was fine.

Anything more pop, pop, pop, pop pop.

So I had a fair line there and, and fair lines come with premium sound. So I took the speakers and the

sub out of that, ditched out of the repository shop and popped that into the, into the typhoon. And now that's perfect.

No more popping, no little things.

So just quick all done as I was putting it back together one of the seat belt clips has snapped and I'm like great.

So I went to the records and got another one and that proceeded to break as soon as the one I took that one out of as well.

It took me 6 attempts out of like 4 different cars and I eventually got one good one, but I'm too afraid to put it in now because you got to put it through the buckle of the, of the, of the seat. And that's how they were all

snapping. So I'm like, how the hell did

they get them on there in the 1st place?

Like it, it makes no sense to me.

So I'm going to, I'm going to figure out how I want to do that. Or I might just because it was

only one of the, one of the like the clips of the one in mind break. So it's a, it's a touch bit

loose. But I did, I did take the other

ones that I broke with me. So I might be able to make

something work by glueing something and I'm not taking it off and just keeping it there. But I might have to speak to Mr

Prince about that. He'd he'd be the guy in the in

the know. You can't.

Tell. But are these plastic?

Yeah. Plastic.

So it's because they're old and brittle.

Correct. Yeah.

OK, Yeah. I mean, the car's 20 years old

now, 20 years old, so yeah, you'd expect.

What was that, Rob 3? D Print it.

Well, people do 3D printing, so I want to see how I go with this. If it doesn't work, I'll just 3D

print one and pop it in. What else have I done?

But yeah, like it's still, it's still on the car.

It's just, it's just a touch. It's a little bit loose and then

you know me, I'm a bit of an anal person about my cars, so I'm gonna have to get that sorted.

Find me a little bit. Just a little bit.

So yeah, that one's pretty much it for for my car updates.

Sakura Picnic Sunday. It was May the Fourth.

It was Star Wars Day, One guy dressed up in Star Wars paraphernalia. That's why he was like that.

Yeah. Yeah.

I was like, OK, just like robes or something you'd.

Think the same thing. Did not put those.

Things together, do you think the same thing in the start?

But I was behind him in the sausage sizzle queue and I was chatting and and he was saying how Oh yes.

And then I remembered on the invite, it did talk about, because it was May the 4th, May the Fourth be with you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also with you and.

But I mean, turning up in a white Magna Alante dressed up in that gear, I mean, I said, did you think the stormtrooper said, look, I did think the stormtrooper.

I thought I would go down that path but he said the the outfit was a lot, a lot dearer And he said and I said, but with your hair mate and your beard you could totally rock that.

Oh yeah, yeah, he. Looked like a Roby, sort of a

guy, you know? Sure.

Like a Norse God or something. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, you know, that's the the the here.

I got that vibe. So yeah, if.

Ever there was a stormtrooper car?

A white Atlante is it? Exactly right, all those angles

and bits and. Yeah, And, you know, just total

white hubcaps and white spoilers, and you could really picture a Stormtrooper in that car.

Yeah. What would Chewbacca, Dr The.

Car from Dumb and Dumber. Dumb and Dumber.

Yeah, the man. Yeah, the dog.

Yeah. What about Darth Vader?

He'd have to be a black on black.

Yeah. He's a Buick Regal G&X in the,

which is that's, they call it the Darth Vader car for a reason. Yeah, but yeah, Segura picnic.

So the day for me and and for probably half was on this podcast began meeting up at Macca's and Heidelberg where I drove in and I was shocked to see so many magnas there with magnet. It was, it was this sort of

pandemonium was magnumonium, and they were there everywhere.

Can I explain that? Can I explain that?

Absolutely the. The effervescent Andrew

Wrigglesworth, who we know is the the Magna Guru of Lovely.

Individual. He, he's also a member of the

Honda car club because they have Honda HIV as well.

So he said, oh, I'm trying to get a few Magnus together for the 40th anniversary in Victoria because, you know, not everyone will probably be able to come to Adelaide Rah, rah, rah is I said, well, you can join us at our meet up, you know, like that'll be fine. Just at the magazine Heidelberg,

not realising that it's actually not a huge car park, but it's quite a small car park. So yeah, I got there about

ordered tonight, put tonight I suppose.

And there was a couple of cars and then the Magnus just kept rolling in. It was fabulous to see.

I think, I think the Hondas it was very close.

We picked up a few on the way on the drive to the to the event itself who were made us so the sort of near tribuni there.

But yeah, it was we were nearly outnumbered as far as the the meet up. So yeah, but it was, it was

brilliant to see and there was a real camaraderie, I reckon.

And you know, Honda guys were talking the Magna guys and the Magna guys were talking the Honda guys.

So it was good. It was a good meet up to begin

with. Racial stand off over a land war

or. Something, you know, like we're,

we're all. Up in these cars.

No, yeah, well, that's the thing.

And that's that that young Edward is, is one of the key differences with that cohort, I reckon.

You know, like you wouldn't be getting certain European makes or British makes that would feel the same.

Same way about rival make sort of thing, yeah.

Correct. I think the only drama that

happened was they let a Ford in. Yeah, they.

Really, didn't they? Saw a topic guys.

The other person we picked up at the start there was young Giorgio from Sullivan Kerr, who was the guy that bought my Red N1 And, you know, he he was going by himself and he said, oh, you know, you know, it'd be great if we could go together.

I said, oh, McDonald's, you know, it'll be great.

And he did what he hadn't told me.

He told me that he had a surprise for me.

He'd actually had the M1 wrapped.

So it actually is now a Harlequin M1, like a Harlequin golfer for polo of the 90s. I think they were 90s, early

2000s. So basically each panel has been

wrapped in one of four or five colours and the things bright blue and bright green and bright red and bright yellow and attracted a lot of attention. Yeah, it is quite distinctive

and the wheels on it are all different colours.

Yeah. As well.

Yeah, did you pick the car, the wheels wrong?

No, I didn't pay much attention to them.

Isuzu Piazza. Oh, don't.

Yeah, you are. That's.

What they were. Yeah.

Now that you mention it, that does sound very familiar, the look at those. I saw those.

I'm like they're Piazza wheels. Like they're so distinct, like,

like they are just absolute. There's circles.

There's a couple of different things going on with those.

How random that someone would have a set of Piazza wheels that. They would prevent it is more

random that someone actually still has a Piazza like that's Yeah. What does?

That mean? What about that there's two

Aussie guys that wrote a book on the search for the Holden Piazza. I do have a copy somewhere that.

'D be a good read, yeah. No, that's not really.

They just talk about how they ate meat pies and drove around looking for all the piazzas in Australia.

It's not exactly the best work of literature you've ever read.

It's. Not kind of win a Pulitzer

Prize. No Win a Pulitzer.

Prize, you know, but if you're into a quirky car things, why not? Yeah, So, yeah, met up at the

Mac is Chad rocked up in the in the S13, Edward was there in the Wasp, David was there in the N1 Rs.

Mr Rigglesworth came in the TR waggon.

It was just, it was just cars of of all Magner and all Honda 2 NS XS. It was, it was, it was a really

eclectic car park, that's for sure.

It. Was in a Magna that you can't

get the opposite. No, you can.

But the variation of magnets is really cool, like all the different models. And also, you know, there was

that purple fully wrapped one that was supercharged.

It was just like cool. It was really cool to say such

different types of Magnus. I said to Andrew he was wanting

to arrange us all in in oldest to newest and I said no, no, I do it by colour. Look at the colours you've got

here, which we didn't do because you know, it all gets hard once you're in there. But I said you know, you could

have gone burgundy. No black, then burgundy.

Then what was the next? The purple, I think, then the

probably the yellow, the beige and then the light or the your misty rose waggon David, then the yellow, then the beige.

Just say like you darkest to lightest.

Yeah, being quite a cool display that way anyway.

But you know, like it was just it was really cool to see like, you know, I just want to give Mr Riggs some credit, like one man mini Magnus. But he's also done like he's

he's quite literally single handedly saved.

Yeah, the Mitsubishi Magna. Where are you buying them?

Sorry. Working with Chad at the moment

for working on a deal in the background.

You know, it's, it's there's a yeah, there there is, there is discussion, but well. That was the other car from my

car that that ties into that. I bought another one from the

auctions a a Kianti red SE sedan in ATR 140 KS.

You know, quite a clean original car, but needs some cosmetic love and you know, a few weekends on it.

I sold that to our friend Nick, who's known from the first Type 3 waggon and he's going to bring that to Magna Fest.

So he now has a Magna Fest car as well.

He didn't come on the weekend, but it's because it's not ready.

But you know, that's another one to add to the pile.

Okay, so Scotty, Chad, Rob, come on.

Well, Chad will have one by the end of this week, I would say.

Yeah, I reckon. He's he's, he's 90% there.

The seller's keen, the prize keen.

I'm just the middle man. So that leaves he, just he.

Just wants his cut. Just just yeah.

What a good. Cut is I'll tell Tom to buy me a

sausage roll. Yeah, a good handshake.

Good. And then now we need Robin

Scott. Yeah.

Magna up, boys, Magna up. Well, so he's.

He's gonna run. Rob's looking.

I think I I think I saw that. Is that done 180K?

That would be alright. 2K. No, but it's done 180.

I don't know how. Many KS it's done on it.

It was one my friend sent me, the done 180.

That was that colour, that shape 5.

K. No, it's not that one.

Well, Rob did say he's coming, so that's yeah.

And also you got till October, you got a while.

Yeah, 8. $100. There you go.

It's not an expensive. That sounds worth it for the

wheels. It's got the nice.

It's got the nice TR optional 15 inch alloys.

Oh is it the the tear droppy ones?

Yeah, no, not the that's the TS. These are, these are sort of

chunkier. Oh OK in wheels but.

Yeah, I know those, yeah. Nice wheels.

They're on my original waggon. I bought brand spankers.

I couldn't afford the 700 bucks. I could afford the 700 bucks for

the alloy wheels but not for the V6 engines.

How? Much more was the V6. 700 bucks.

Really. Is that all?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Why didn't people buy the V6

more? Online.

Online good. How?

Tight and magnifiers very. Very.

It's. An opportunity cost you've got

to understand, you know? Believe that 700 was all it was

for the V6 over the four. Yeah.

Yeah, and you? Picked up you picked up lumber

support and better trim and all that I.

Mean 700 Why didn't you do that I.

Know, I know, I know. Did you think about doing the V6

at the time? I actually hadn't driven the V6.

The four seemed fine. I thought we don't need a six.

We don't need a six. We don't need 6, which the

four's fine. We're going for an SV 21 Camry,

so we're getting a bigger engine A. 4 to a four.

Yeah, yeah. So anyway, I'm.

Really. I've got one now so it doesn't

matter. So yeah, the the Magnas were

were in full force, probably the most magnets ever seen ever in a in a, in a gathering the same place outside of a Mitsubishi dealership and. In the 80s.

Then we drove in together. So yeah, we got in and obviously

they'd set us, they'd set us all up.

And then there's some great cars that that we saw that we saw.

Scotty was there. Scotty got there earlier.

You got a really nice spot next to a Hakuska Skyline.

So Scotty's car isn't a lot of photos.

He's. In a lot of photos.

And he'll just be like, you're raising the the boxy scarlet out of it and keeping his one there. So that's, that was pretty good.

That was that was cool to say that had that had some really, really interesting stuff. My my pick of the day was

obviously you know it was Besides, Scotty's car was opposite Scotty's car underneath the in the shade was a first Gen XA turbo. That was pretty cool.

Then in what I. Said Turbo.

Yeah, that was pretty. Cool.

Yeah, the 2 door, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

First Gen, super cool 80s dashboard we all we all like.

Agreed. I think with Scotty, you were

there and Chad, you were there. We were like the dash.

Are we all? Yeah.

Yeah, we're like, oh, that. Was a dash but to get a photo of

it? And then we went.

Then we saw we had a good, good look at David Prince's and Mr Andrew Wurth's TR waggon. To which the, to which point I

asked, you know, about the, the air con and stuff.

And then Rigglesworth's like, well, there's a lot of space underneath the bonnet and, and he's like, oh, well, I'm like, oh, you have to replace anything for the dash.

I believe that was the question I asked.

And he's like, no, it's just, it's just got a hole in the dash to which we walked into the car and there's a giant hole in the dash where the air con, you know, switching button would be.

And I'm like, so they just quite literally didn't give you the just gave you a hole in the dashboard, which just blew me away. I was like, that is

unbelievable. Yeah, there was no and non air

con version climate control that they made.

So they just instead of making a different climate control, they just took the air con button out of it and you get you just got a hole in the. Dash, which I've never I've

never seen before. Like usually they go like a

black blanking plate or or something.

Not no Mitsubishi. Yeah, like they just kept the

hole in. That even my civic has has no

air con and. Instead of yeah, I mean, yeah,

instead of like, it doesn't even have a blanking.

It's like a moulded, oh, right, piece onto the like where the button should be. It's just like this raised bit

of plastic that's like part of the actual climate control.

And civic would have been way cheaper than a Magda at the time as well. Like what the hell are?

You sure it didn't have something and someone's pushed it thinking it's got important and they've punched it into the maybe? I'm not convinced that it I.

Think that's more likely? Not something there, but it's

the I think it's literally the only TR I've ever seen without air conditioning. Yeah, I don't think I've ever

seen a lot, especially like they've ordered the V6.

I'm assuming the power steering would have been extra or or.

Would have kind of that was part of the exact package.

Exactly. OK, yeah, power steer.

OK, so but they would they would have ticked the V6 box tick and crossed the air con box. Well it's funny you said it

because when we bought Mum's waggon in 94 that was a 93 TRV 6 manual waggon, same as what you've got David that had air con because the car existed and we bought it when it was one year old. But Dad was literally about to

order a dark red waggon in with manual V6 with no air because I said at the time stupid me as a kid, I said mum never uses the air like why pay more money for air just don't even you know.

And daddy was not fair enough. So he was about to order and I

said fair enough, let's just look in the trading post.

Even back then it was was the guru of the family as far as a little bit ordered. So then I said.

No, let's look in the trading post to see what we can get.

And then I found the one year old TR for seven grand less than the new one was going to cost with air con with the body colour bumpers that the first owner had done.

So it was a 12,000 KS like 1 year old car 12,000 K and you save 7 grand and you get more. I was like this is a no brainer.

That's amazing. Which is what we got, but.

But like on that topic of Mitsubishi being tight ass or whatever, in my Pagero has the exact same stereo in the GLX which is my base model compared to the next one up the GLS.

Same stereo, same face, same buttons.

They get a stacker in the GLS. Mine doesn't have a stacker but

it it says multidisc on it so. When I bought it.

I put in a CD who I'm going to load all my favourites in.

No, you get one, the other five, it's just not there.

Same resident. Same stereo face and everything,

and it even says 6 disc whatever and you're like hang on a minute. And I had to go on the forums to

work it out and the guys like Oh my God, yeah, super tight ass.

They just don't give a team. That's awesome.

Rude, Very rude. So I thought so we we all had a

good chuckle at that. We looked at the wasp.

The wasp was cool. Then we bumped into Robin Harley

and your and your nephew Rob, who it was there.

We took, we took the the obligatory Car Talk, you know, team photo, which was which was good to see.

So, yeah, overall it was it was a pretty good day.

It was. It was actually nice to catch up

with everybody. Good to good to see someone

listening to the show. Jim, big shout out to you.

Yeah. Well, good to see.

Good to see. Listen to the show.

Good to see Adrian. Good to see all the crew there

It was. It was actually a nice.

It was. It was a nice day.

The weather held out really nicely.

Yeah. I thought it was quite, quite a

successful, successful, you know, day in, in, in tow now the. Great.

The great thing for Jim on on Sunday too was that he he got to drive Andrew's TM Elite. The Beautiful.

Car. Yeah, fantastic car.

And I'm not sure that it was the first magnet he's driven, but he certainly hasn't driven a lot of them.

And yeah, he just loved it, you know, It's fantastic.

That the seats in that are unbelievable, by the way, they're so nice. And yeah, like that whole car

was, it's just a beautiful example.

It was, it was, you know, it's a really early cartoon, so it must be one of the one of the first ones.

Yeah, but the pain's unbelievable on that.

So. All right, so let's talk about

our favourites from the show. Let's Yeah, for for me, it was

definitely was the extra turbo because I, you know, I, I grew up, you know, thinking those were so cool.

And so I really was happy to see one of those, the TMR that was parked next next to you. Edward was was pretty cool.

Well, like I was saying 1 of 20 and I didn't know, you know, it's always a good learning thing.

These customers. I did not know what it was.

I knew it was A380 Mitsubishi. So the last thing I ever made

here, but I didn't know how it differed from a normal 380 and that it was actually a Toyota. Sorry, not Toyota God, the

Mitsubishi rally art, you know, branded vehicle.

And then you know, I spoke to will about he told me all about it. I'm like, whoa, this is, this is

an interesting car. And yeah, and the big chromy

wheels on it, I'm like, oh, surely they're not original.

Yes, they are. You know it's.

Yeah. It's a factory thing, so a rare

beast. So so picks the the best ones in

the highlight. We'll go with that.

I always. Struggle to remember them all.

Yeah, it was a lovely green brumby that the mighty Calm mod guys had done, I think, and given away or something.

Yeah, that was there. I enjoyed looking at that.

There was a Sigma GSR waggon. Megan yeah, that was cool.

Yes. That was pretty original.

I I thought wow you don't see AGSR Sigma waggon every day.

What else did I like? A very original Corolla like Ake

20. I think it was like a little

cream coupe 1971 ish that was just pristine.

You know, the tools and the mat in the back and like the tyres were cross plies. I think it like it.

It was very, very original car being restored, you know, partly restored, but but still a very nice attention to detail on that was very good. I've got to say a shout out to

Sam from the gang of Magnus that came with us.

He has a TR V6 sedan in Chianti red.

Oh, it's a beautiful car, it. It's literally showroom, you

know, that car, you know, since they were new.

I have never seen one that looks like that.

Yeah. And I like, I thought the one I

just bought from the auctions and sold to Nick was was, you know, like that's one 40K and oh, it's pretty tidy and that'll clean up well. And then you see Sam's and

you're just like, holy shit, this thing's this thing is the gloss on the paint. I don't know what he used on it,

but it it had that wet look and it just everywhere you looked was was perfection. You just think you can't get any

better than this absolute grandpa spec.

And he was saying he bought it with 68 KS on it and it's now done sort of 119. He's run it up to Bathurst and

back quite a lot. But yeah, given the the KS and

the years on it, you just think, wow, that thing's mint, mint, mint. So is that your highlight?

That's that. Is one of the highlights until I

remember more cars that I walked around looking at.

I think mine that stood out the most was a 180SX.

Yeah, this one here it was a 2. Tone.

That was probably the cleanest 180 I've seen in a very long time. Incredible.

Yeah. I mean, I don't remember the

last time I've I've seen one so, so clean and had all the little rare bits and pieces added on. The on the body kit fitment of

the wheels was spawn. It just stood out so much.

It was a beautiful car. Yeah, it was such a good

example. Like everything was done so well

on it. It was.

Just yeah, not not Drift spec or anything.

It was proper like Street St Spec, something that you would have seen, I'd say, back in the 90s.

Yeah, absolutely. Another shout out to A to a

crown that was there that just, you know, looked like a nice old crown, but it was packing an LS. Yeah, that was crazy, I saw.

That, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, and it fitted in there like it was, it looked like it, they've done such a nice job. And it was like a, it almost

looked factory because like, yeah, it looked like it could have been like that from the factory.

It was just. It was.

That nice and live, Yeah, Yeah. So that was that was up there.

I really really liked that one and when it was leaving I heard it idling. Sounds pretty tough.

Yeah, I see it sound sound good. Yeah, that sounded good.

And I was actually a bit of a fan of the Magna Elante, the white one, The white one. Yeah, Yeah, I like the I like

the boxy look, but also how they've kind of sported it up with the little add ONS, the little side skirts, the little rear pods on the corners. And yeah, that's that's kind of

my pick. If I was to get a Magna, that

would be it, yeah. It was very, it was a very cool.

Yeah, that's that's my pick would be one of those.

Mine was this triple S. Yeah, that was a good that was.

183 triple S. Mate 1 I had one of those in red

and it was a fence magnet so every time we come around a corner he'd run into a recycling fence.

Barbed wire fence. Jeez.

He. Used to lose control.

Any any bitter rally we used to do, it would lose control, spin out and hit a fence. Yeah, we used to do quite a bit

of rallying in it back in the 80s down the back paddocks, which is an outer ring Rd. No, no way.

That would have been that would have been a really nice car back then, Rob. That would have been, it would

have been still very, very new and well, not new new, but like would have been quite a tiny little.

He's a little rough around. He just has beaten up a little

bit after hitting all these fences.

It's. Had it's time, yeah.

Yeah, they had a hard time. We actually hit a a farmer's

post down the old Sydenham Highway.

Sydenham Rd coming back from Calder Park one weekend.

Come up over a Crest and the car crossed up.

Took that entire farm fence right down.

That poor farmer. They're all rotten.

There was no farms anymore back there.

They were just starting to put houses up around for some reason. Always used to lose control of

that car. It's for some unknown reason.

Drive era. Drive era, bull tyres, all the

above. Probably, yeah.

But that was my, that was my favourite because it brings back memories. Yeah.

Therefore is memories. Yeah.

Very nice. David Prince.

You see, that's the key, Rob. We're, we're at that age, aren't

we? We're the one car other than the

that I took a photo of was as it was leaving was about a 73 two 40K coupe coupe yeah yeah with just had alloys.

It didn't have it wasn't trying to make it a pin Mari you know GTR replica or anything. It was just plain not even

protection moulds. Nice alloys had a very period

pop up sunroof like a little glass pop up sunroof.

But yeah that was good. Still had the 240 KGL badges on

my best mates when when we got our licences.

Had a red coupe which was a lovely, lovely thing.

Still have the rust bubbles on the side till I.

Saw the rust bubbles on the side as as it drove out they all.

Do they all I. Think I think that's pretty

standard with them. It's a faction unfortunately,

but that King's still probably worth 40 or 50 grand, so if only you knew the cars to keep up, you couldn't give them away for a while back. There was also the vicar at the

local church had a manual 77 four door I think like your grandfather had a head. What colour was that?

Silver, silver, so that manual ones had like a the 70 sevens had like a pressed steel rim rather than the hubcaps.

Yeah, my, my. Grandfather was his, was a 75

and that had the press deal, sort of black and grey wheel.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they came with AC2 pack and

I think the C2 pack was the auto and the cassette player.

My grandfather had a manual but he had an auto before that for about a month. Hated it, swapped it the

dealership. For him, yeah.

So in 75, he was his last car and he didn't know that, I suppose, but he probably thought the idea.

But he he ordered an automatic because he'd never driven an auto in his life. And the everyone he said, well,

you know, all his friends and family were like, I'll get an auto getting all that very good. Now you know, you're old, you're

old, you want an auto, you want, it's easier, it's easy, all this. And he, he really liked driving.

He, he, it's probably where I get it from.

And he, he bought the auto and I've got the log book that he kept for the, the subsequent manual car, but it's also got the auto car in it. So he writes the mileage and the

fuel and whatever it was about a month, maybe a month and a half and it stops. And then it said 240 KGL manual

I think. That.

That kept going and going for the for the rest of his days and then my uncle took it over. Chaos to him, like saying yeah,

not doing this, yeah. Not for me.

So he drove us and it was a 5 speed too.

So he drove the 5 speed till he died.

But yeah, respect. He just, he, he'd always driven

manuals and he loved driving and it like, why would you do it to yourself sort of thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The other car, two cars parked together and I took a photo of was 2 CD. We do love a waggon now.

I'm a waggon guy as well, two CD accord waggons packed together, so the CD is mid 90, so that's the same shape as the red car I've got, but in a waggon. So yeah.

Like the VCR 10 waggons? Yeah, they they're all built in

America, very expensive, new when they were here when new and didn't sell a lot of them and a funny looking thing, but time's been friendly to them I think. I think they look nicer now than

they than I remember. And seeing 2 together was pretty

rare. I haven't seen one for a long

time. Near the entrance was like 3

silicas that were there. Did you see like they're in

different colours, the blue, the red and the Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

They would they, they, they're very cool.

They're very cool. They, they just stayed.

They look, they look super 80s and, and I wanted to give, to give that a shit. I was, I was going through the

photos, you know that from, from what was there.

So that there was some really nice examples of all, all, all sorts of cars there. But yeah, those three in

particular, they, they worked really nice as a set.

Yeah, I think, yeah, there's a couple of 80 sixes on like tow trucks, yeah, as well, which I'm not sure why, but I mean they're called cars. Another interesting one was the

Corolla Cabrio, which you always bought.

Yeah. Oh, really?

Yeah, so, so, so we want Chad's like I always bought this car and like, well, I was like, wait, what?

And then? Red.

Car yeah, there's a red, red AE 92, I think 92, yeah, Corolla sedan that had a cabrio conversion from the like the back seat to the, you know, to the boot sort of thing.

And yeah, like I've seen that car a couple of times at the show. And but I remember yeah, before

I saw the car out the show a couple of years ago, I saw it on marketplace and I messaged the guy.

It was a lady. Sorry.

I messaged the lady and, you know, she was like, yes, you know, I was like, I'm very interested it's very cool and I want to come to check it out and.

And she gave me her address and then I was arranging a time to like, you know, to take time off work because I think it was like, not Interstate, but it was like a bit far away from Melbourne. And, and yeah, all of a sudden

it just sold this guy who had it at the show bought it and yeah, he just put a deposit down. And then, yeah, obviously that's

the key with the car for him. Yeah, without him seeing it.

And yeah, now he now he brings it to like to classic Japan and Sakura picnic every time. He's a was a big turtle Nutter.

And yeah, it's super cool car. Glad, I was saying.

I'm glad that you can see, Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing.

Very special. Another 2 for me were the 323

familiars, the 22 wild ones. They're gorgeous examples.

Really, really clean cars. They come to pretty much most

shows, but they are always super duper clean.

Yeah, they're incredible. Yeah.

Which is which is always good to see.

I was a big, big fan of those. But yeah, there was there was

quite a lot more 30 ones than I expected.

Scotty, like you, you blended right in there with your with your 31 like you, you seem to you seem to fit.

It's a pretty good turn out. Well, yeah, absolutely.

Like that, the one for the fire brigade was pretty interesting.

That was, that was cool. Yeah.

So, so so the one from the fire that had all S was an SVD.

You know, it was pretty much AGDS it.

Was AGDS 2 so it had all that, all those the running gear from the engine in it, so the cams had work and everything done to it to make it that bit more powerful for the fire brigade.

And obviously a bit more powerful so like the stand ones what 114 or 17 kilowatt they. 17.

And these were 140. So that's just from head head

work and, and, and a tune really.

It's quite a bit of power just, you know, back in the 80s as well, like, oh, maybe in the early 90s.

But but two like that was, you know, especially being in an exec spec car as with all the power that that's pretty cool.

Yeah, that was cool to say. So there was that.

Just going going through a few more, the list that we saw plenty of, plenty of Crusaders, RX Sevens and stuff.

I'm always a sucker for an RX7. There's like 1,000,000 Blaze

there in a row, you know? That's Scotty, Yeah.

And at the end, they all got together and did a nice little photo shoot. That's good.

There was, yeah, there's just some really, really interesting cars. A lot more Subarus than I

thought that would be because I don't know if you guys have noticed as well, but like the Super guys, they don't really show up to these shows like they're like and so.

Silver Vortex That was very original.

That was very original, yeah. There's been a guy there a few

times. Wasn't there?

Who's had a white vortex? You know, we've seen him a few

times, but I don't think I've ever seen that silver vortex.

No. And it was a manual whereas the

I think the guy, the white guy one is an auto.

Yeah. I think he's got a couple

actually, and I think they're both autos.

For me that that light blue evo 6.

Yeah. With the with the white wheels,

I don't know if you can see it, but that's that one there.

That was a beautiful car. So I like I just was in order.

Every time I see that car, it's just, it's so good.

It's a gorgeous car that so there were some really, really cool cars. Any other last ones before we

get to the car quiz, gentlemen? Yeah, I found this.

I I glanced at it, but I didn't know what it was.

And now that I look at it closer in photos, it's a Isuzu Gemini, but like a early 90s one. I think that.

Yeah, yeah. That's the.

Japanese is a strange little coupe or the square boxy.

One, Yeah, it was like a it was just like, it's a sedan.

And now? They they will all drive turbo

as well, yeah. Which is such.

Oh, there you go. Wow, that's yeah, that was a

pretty special one. So it was that was pretty.

They were a pretty special car. Yeah, it was absolutely.

Do you? Remember seeing one Maddie at

the Fukuyama Clock and Motor Museum dude.

That was cool. That was very cool.

I wish. I wish Holden kept selling the

Gemini. Yeah, that would have been that

would have been, you know, instead we got other trash from from Natty Rabbit. Got.

The cruise mate. The cruise Yeah, got the.

That was one car that was nice. There was the Suzuki Ignis Sport

Yellow, the original Ignis, which was the same as the Holden Cruise. The Cruise was a rebadged Ignis

back in that very first Gen. So whenever anyone says Holden

cruise, I'm like, Oh yeah, is it the good Holden cruise or?

The. Subsequent bad Holden cruise.

Well, as as David and I've said numerous times in this podcast, that first cruise is the one to get if you want to dig this because you got all that drive. It's it's the better car.

Actually, it's a. 100% better expect.

The three best cars was Scotty Skyline next to a GTR and a 240Z. Yeah, that was pretty cool.

It's a good liner. Yeah, it's like.

Every sort of generation of car was fantastic.

It was good. I was telling the boys when we

looked at the Ignis Sport, Anthony, Mr Turbo, Terry and I always bought 1 to take two Nuggets because there was a blue one. We said yeah, we'll, we'll buy

it. And well before we had to pick

it, I said this is how we ended up with the Paseo.

Before we ended up to pick it up the day before we went like we was, we were due to go pick it up.

The guy crashed. He stacked it into it.

He stacked it really badly. He's like, I'll still sell it to

you, but for half price. And we were like, you know, so

so then we ended up we're getting getting a Paseo.

But yeah, I always kind of liked the the Ignis Sport.

It had the really cool fishnet stocking esque.

Yeah, yeah, I was wearing those on on Sunday.

Yeah, it's they're a cool car. They're really, really very.

Cool, Very, very cool guy. Kit, you'll get one of those.

Yeah, maybe you should. They're they're, they're a good

drive. They're fun.

I didn't, I didn't, I didn't have a close look at it, but in the distance it looked pretty good, was the the IT must have been wrapped the light blue FDRX 7.

I did walk past that, Yep. The wide body thing, yeah, yeah,

that was pretty loud. I had a couple of spirit hours

there too, I think, Scotty, I think.

Yeah, Like they're yeah. There's that blue one, but.

Yeah, with the bonnet open, that was tough.

That was very plain. That's a that's a lot of money

these days for spirit hours. But beautiful things like

that's, yeah, that's one of my dream on my list of cars that I know I want. But most likely we never get one

because I get divorced, but two, I will, you know, be broke for the rest of my life. So.

So yeah, overall a good day. You know, everything went well

except for my entrance, but we'll cover that another another day. And yeah g'day.

G'day all around, gentlemen. Looking forward to the next one.

Absolutely. Now it's time for the Cartel car

quiz, gentlemen. So you know the rules. 10

questions plus some bonus questions.

You can say, you can say that I'm just going to, I'm going on my phone. So 10 questions plus some bonus

questions. I've also got some, I've got 2

at the end questions of two brochure questions at the end.

So we'll, we'll cover that very shortly.

Question #1 What does Ecotech stand for?

So Ecotech as in the Holden engine?

Eco. Edward.

Edward. Or it stands for Economy

technology. It doesn't.

I'll give you a .5 because the tech stands for technology.

I'll thank you. So much.

Give you a .5. So you've got that bit.

But but what does the eco Bitcoin?

I'll give you a hint. It's 3 words.

Oh, OK. So as I said, I said a few

episodes ago, I've been, I've been on a on a rabbit hole of looking at these old videos, you know these.

Yeah, yeah, the hole and stuff. So I, I, I, they, they were,

they were talking, talking this up like something special.

The Ecotech, it stands for No, no, no, no.

David. David.

Electronic controlled operation. Incorrect.

The like what you're thinking, but not quite.

OK, so we've still got Chad, Scuddy and Rob to go.

And his walk in the Black Forest.

Should I just guess the first letter or emissions?

Emissions is the first letter. Well done.

So Chad, I'll give you a .5 because.

What is that emissions? It's emissions blank, blank

technology. Message control optimization.

Well, you got the, you got the third word, Edward.

All right, I'll get another chunk of a point there.

Yeah, I'll give you .5. Yeah, all right.

So. But there's one more.

There's one more word. That's not control.

Not control, no. So Scotty and Rob still got a

chance. Crickets.

What do engines do? Oh, no, Scott.

Combustion. Oh, close, they also do

something else. Like crap.

What was that, Rob? Kill them, pop.

No, it's they consume so it's emissions.

Consumption optimization technology is what Ecotech stands for, no? That's.

But see, that makes sense. That's a mouthful.

You don't consume emissions. No, it's silly.

And you don't optimise the consumption of the.

Yeah, it's yeah. I mean it's no VTEC now is a

David Prince, No question #2 Colin McRae, the famous rally driver had a series of video games named after him on which console did his first video. Chat chat Sega.

Master drive incorrect. Oh so.

Was it the first PlayStation? It was the first PlayStation.

Yeah, that's right, Scotty. Well done.

Quick bonus question, after he passed away tragically in the helicopter crash, the games got renamed out of respect.

What did they get renamed to? I thought you were talking about

Shirley Strawn. Chad.

Chad. Is it dirt?

It is dirt. Well, no, no, they called it

dirt. That's it.

Yeah. Well done.

Score check, gentlemen. Edward on one, Chad 1.5.

Scotty on one. David and Rob yet to score.

Question #3 The Ford Capri was known as the what in the United States of Freedom. David.

The Mercury Capri. The Mercury Capri is absolutely

correct. Weird.

Not to be confused with Mercor, which they sold as a Sierra XML TI and Scorpio. Yeah.

Question #4 the Honda Integra is sold in China yet again.

What is it based on this David? David could.

Be the civic. It is the Civic.

Yeah. Well done.

Whoa. That's weird.

It's basically the same thing, so.

It's a Civic, but it's just called a Honda.

Yeah, pretty much. It's what, Yeah, I, I was

looking it up and I was like, it looks like a they.

Don't like the name Civic? It's it's probably too close to

CCP, so this. It's got two seasons.

Correct question #5 What Car succeeded the Holden Rodeo?

Ed. Ed.

Well, the Colorado. Is that your?

Hang on, I see red The Yeah, I think it was the Colorado.

Was the Colorado was its actual proper successor?

That's correct. Well done, Ed.

Well done, Ed. Were you going to say that,

David? No, I thought you I was going to

say the predecessor. I thought you said what preceded

not no, no what came after. Succeeded.

OK, bonus question, how many generations of the Redeiro did they sell Redeiro name planted so I completely.

Ed I. Think David got it?

I yeah, I think, I think I heard David, just I don't.

David Fine. You didn't because I didn't say

my name. Oh.

OK, well, what's that? I heard David David too.

That's really weird. Well, Edward?

Well, wait a minute, she's not even talking.

Edward. Edward Go.

Alan would hate me. I'm counting, yeah.

Come on, Ed. Oh, she.

Knows. I think there were collusion.

Tech Talk. I think there were. 4.

That is incorrect. Edward, David.

David. Let me count.

He's doing an LM as well. Here we go.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah 5. Incorrect.

So Rob, Scotty and Chad still in the game?

Chad, I'll guess 3. Three's correct, Chad.

Well done. They had many, they had many

facelifts in in each generation. Yeah, you're right.

In terms of generation, there was three question #6 the Hyundai I30 replaced the one vehicle in Australia.

Chad, Chad the Elantra. Elantra is absolutely correct.

Chad, you're on fire. The score check.

Edward on 2, Chad on 3.5, Scotty 1.

David to Robbie at the score. Come on, Rob, I need you on the

board here, man. A bit slow having dinner.

Question at #7 the mid. This is a bit quite funny

because the autocorrect changed my my word to veranda in inner Mitsubishi veranda verada. Besides GTV like those limited

edition will spare edition ones, what was their highest level of trim Ed Ed? Verada XI.

XI is correct, XIXI is correct. Yes, well done.

Question #8 what series of Toyota engines had their first iteration of a twin camshot head?

So I'm after the generation, so you can you can say it like it's. I know it codes.

A engine or an M engine, I'll take it in.

I'll take any any either of those.

I'll Rob. I'll.

Guess 3A. 3A is incorrect, David.

David 4A incorrect. Wasn't 4A.

Rob, you got the first, you got the first number right.

But I it will give it away if I tell you anything more, Chad.

I'll let you guys go. That's a guess.

I know what it is, I think. It's your guess, Chad.

Yeah, I don't know. No, I was going to say something

else, so I don't know. I was going to say 5 M but.

I'll give it to you. I'll give you .5 because I'll

give you, I'll give you a rob .5 H.

It was the three M. 3M. Three M so point 5H. 3M.

So the the M series of engines. So I'll give you .5 H.

That was the first M series. Yep.

Yeah, interesting. Honest question, What Car did

that car come out and What Car did that engine come out in?

Ed. Ed.

Or a koala. Incorrect.

It's a David. David.

Is it the silica? Incorrect.

Rob. Rob.

Camry. Camry.

Incorrect. Scott.

Scott. Did it come out in the early

crowns? It it a version of it did, but

not not that's not when it first came out.

It wasn't the first car, OK? Chad.

Chad Proceda. Correct.

Damn 2000GT. Oh, what?

Yeah. Oh.

Really, that was a three. M Oh wow.

OK, I. Mean Max Wow from the James Bond

movie. All right, new levels of luxury,

safety and performance. The all new Blank Blank is a

result of the biggest body project at Blank in 20 years.

Blank engineers set up to design the blank from the ground up.

Yeah, it's a result in superb vehicle that has set the standard for for for Australian built cars.

Ed OK, who was that this time? That was hard.

I heard, Ed, I heard. That I'll give it to Ed this

time. Ed, I think I did hear.

That too, I think I'll. Probably get it wrong.

I was gonna say Toyota Camry. Incorrect, David, you guessed.

I was gonna say the TR Magna. Incorrect.

Let's finish the question. Yeah, OK.

You can't rely on that Chad. You can't rely on that Chad.

You got to. You got to jump in when you and

you get it wrong. Blank is recognised within

General Motors as a world leader of in engineering and hence to be more their only of. AK Tech.

The new Blank Blank so you know, you kind of know the brand.

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legroom front and rear. The body is sleeker and stylish

while many smart features make it look forward.

The wider track for example gives brilliant turning in the corners. The interior has been completely

redesigned. There's headroom array to

comfort people of all sizes, intelligence, safety and convenience enhancements. The wrap around style plaster is

is drop orientated whilst whilst.

Listen to. I know it's, it's, I can't read

it. It's so, so tiny.

So it's a whole. It's loaded with smart thinking.

Loaded with smart thinking, it's it's an.

It's a Holden, is it? Is that what we know?

Well, GM and GM. It is a Holden from the 90s,

I'll give you that. OK.

Well, how many are there like many mates like?

Computer trip computer. A Commodore add that might be a

Commodore. It is Commodore based.

Hold the Calais. Maybe it's.

A based. Yeah, it's a, it is the Vt

Calais when that first came. Oh, the Vt.

Calais. No one gets that.

Next one which is hopefully a bit easier to read because that one I swear I looked at it earlier and it looked fine.

I don't know what happened with that time around.

This one be sure your contacts are in maybe?

There, this one. This one's a lot easier to read,

believe me. The right of your life is

smooth, predictable, and immensely exciting.

The heart of a sports car is its engine.

But today true driving pleasure looks beyond raw power to the availability and delivery of that power.

The Blank is powered by a large displacement 2.2 litre twin Cam

multi valve EFI engine on an extremely rigid body.

Refined McPherson struts were used from the rear.

The suspension and geometry counters nose dive and lift caused by breaking head. Under a cord.

Correct. A Rotary valve power steering

pump gives linear, spontaneous fuel for safe sure stops.

To match the impressive power, new Blank boasts a large capacity disc on all four wheels.

Ventilated at the front, Blank boasts comprehensive active and passive safety measures. Active safety starts by

optimising drop control. The adjustable driver's seat

belt, shoulder and ankle tilt steering will allow you to tailor for the perfect driving experience so.

Far my guess of Honda Accord rings true.

It's very Honda record ish, but it's not at night your your way is lit by two extremely bright main beams and two driving lights that should That's a bit of a hint.

Fog lamps provide additional illumination in adverse weather conditions. ZR model The front disc brakes

are ventilated for fade free and stable braking performance.

New compact ABS gives reassuring control on slippy roads and in emergency brake situations. Optional on Essex.

David. ZR, David.

Toyota Celica. Toyota Celica is absolutely.

ZR ZR. Yeah.

And that is the car quiz 2. The 2.2 was should have been

100. .22 point 2. Sri to begin.

With. Yeah, yeah, also Sri 2.2 Sri.

Not to be confused with score check Rod .5.

Scotty won, David 3 and we've got a tie for first place.

I've just had Edwards on 3.5 apiece. 3.5 it's a verada engine

mate, it's. A Verada.

It's meant to be Ed. You want to battle it out or do

you want? To buy 2 point.

Chicks. Astron.

Astron. Astron.

Astron Astron Mate, my Verada motor trumps 2 point shigs.

So we've got a tie now. I'm happy to do the tie, a

tiebreaker or you guys can even at the points.

It's up to you. I'll give.

You a tiebreaker? We always want a tiebreaker.

Tiebreaker, All right. I don't want to lose the end of

that tiebreaker. It is.

All right, I was happy to go either way, just for the record.

I'm never. Happy, Chad.

I don't win that. Sounds sad.

I'm never happy, Chad. No, I'm happy.

I just don't. I don't like listening on a tie.

I'd rather lose than have a tie. He doesn't like losing.

He doesn't like losing. Let's just let's just fight it

out. If you win, that's great.

So the tiebreaker question is when did Holden release the LS1V8 on which Commodore? Chad, Chad, the Vt Commodore and

you want a? Year I was hoping well, you're,

you're, you're almost correct with Vt, but it wasn't just AVT or what I need a bit more than that.

Need a bit more than. AVT I need a bit more than Vt

because Vt it. There was a few iterations of

Vt. In fact, I'm giving you a hint

here. And I come in now well.

Well, you've given, did you say series one?

Yeah, it's incorrect, Chad. Oh, really?

It was the HSV. Incorrect.

It was the V it was the Vt series. 2 is when.

No way. So there was no V8 in Vt series?

It was. They still had the iron line.

No. The five litre.

That's crazy. So.

I think I'll give it to you, Chad, because you did get Vt and that that is that's OK. I'm OK with that.

Edward, you OK with that? Yeah, I'm OK with that.

Well done. Game.

Well, yeah, she's shaking. Shaking.

Yeah, Yeah, Air shakes. Well.

Possibly your TS just went up. So, Chad, is anyone you want to

think? I'd like to thank Edward for

putting up such a good fight and letting me, you know, take the reins, I guess. Absolutely I.

Think it's a podcast, gents. Yeah, good work.

Excellent work, man. It is.

Very good Scotty Doe. Gothic Week.

Tip of the week pretty easy one that I'm going to start for this week is practise your short game.

Simple as that. Practise the short game I.

Think there's something in that for all of us?

I'm wearing shorts, does that count?

Why not just practise it? Perhaps as long as you practise

wearing your shorts, you're good.

Rob's doing it. Whatever you need.

Firefighting, electrical, neighbourhooding, punch ONS.

Punch ONS with. Yeah, he's doing it.

He's absolutely doing it. He's fixing side mirrors.

Fixing side mirrors. Chucking on mouldings?

Yep. All sorts.

There's your guide, Chad's delivering to a place near you, Edward Bunting. Anything you want to plug today?

Bid on my Stevic at Grey's 92 GL.

Hatch it's it's swift. Yeah, auto swift, soon to be on

the road. Roadworthy gonna be about 4

grand. Yep, absolutely.

David Prince. Anything you want to plug?

Look, I'm evidently according to the Magna chat that's been going on during the podcast, I think plastics in everybody.

'S Magna chat going on. And it's going to to Magna 40,

so I'm going to be busy. Yep, absolutely.

Come to Magna 40. Yep, be there will be.

What's a bad Mitsubishi? Most.

PSX. Eclipse cross?

Eclipse cross. Yeah, that's bugging Hybrid.

That is a. Horrendous.

Yeah. Eclipse cross crap?

Yeah, I think. ASX is up there too.

Like that is a. That's a shocking bit.

Yeah, not good. Yeah, terrible.

Sold well for some reason it. It Yeah, yeah, kudos to them.

None of us on this podcast would probably buy one, but we probably all rented one when we've been in Cairns.

And that, that that thing's been running now for 14 years, I think. Yeah, since the first shape came

out. And they just keep redoing.

Actually, it's no longer available because it couldn't be upgraded to the new rigs, new safety rigs.

So that's one of the cars that got cut, sadly.

But we can hear Hertz and Budget absolutely crying into their pillows as we speak. Bloody safety.

That's the whole thing. I mean, I've had a couple of

people ask me recently about, you know, cars and they've said, oh, but they're not safe. You know, they're not, they're

not allowed to sell them anymore.

I said they're perfectly safe. It's just they've moved the goal

posts. That's right.

Regulations, yeah, yeah, they're still allowed to sell the stock they've got in Australia and you'll get it discounted because you know, they've got to clear it so.

So they keep moving the goal posts.

It's like I had this argument with someone the other day, you know, I said, you know, a 1985 Mercedes S class meets not one of the of the current goal posts.

You know, there's no, there's no lane change whatever.

But if you're slamming into a wall at 80 or 100 kilometres an hour, I would rather be in that than in a a new ASX.

You know, like like yet it gets zero stars if it was put through the current. You know, and not even an 80s

bends it. And like that one I had that S

class, the early 2000s S class, you know, one of the safest cars in the world of its time, you know, engineering wise wouldn't pass any of the current stuff. And you just go, well, it's kind

of they're they're they're focusing on the wrong things here, I think. Yeah.

Because they're too busy concentrating on it, having lane assist and stuff like that. That's, that's not a safety

thing. That's because you're not paying

attention. It's because we're getting done

with our phones. But it was just only saying

about the class because he remembers this is the Miller family. The Miller family drove.

Yeah. Going up a Crest, that's a.

Brilliant ad. That's a good ad that is bad.

Have you guys ever seen that that Mercedes they.

They hit another car at the niece family.

It was they hit another car it like head on at 100.

The front of the car was absolutely mounted in the 80s S class and the rest of it was completely intact.

You know, they all walked away and.

All the doors had been to think 2 doors but that's.

Just safety cell, you know, and they talked about it in the end, they said in all there's 120 safety features built into every Mercedes Benz. You know, the drivers pedals

dropped away from the feet, the pre tensioning seatbelts worked.

You know, the the passenger safety cell remaining intact, the burst proof door locks, all of those things, you know, and they they didn't they spooked about that stuff, but not like now it's not like a little tick box that you've got to meet to get a five star crash rating. You know, it was just built into

those cars, which is my point. You know that would not pass one

star in the current system, yet that is a very, very safe car.

Yeah. It's like they're, they're all

safety systems, but they don't tick the box for what you need the status for. That's right.

Let's just say most people these days, they as soon as they're hop in their car, they all that shit on noise and the beeps and bongs and things. But also the cars are met.

The cars are built to meet the five star criteria, not necessarily be a great safe car criteria that they're designing them around the law. They're not just sitting out to

design a safe car, They're designing it to pass the star test, you know, which is not the same thing.

It feels like a whole other topic to.

Talk about Yeah, it's a whole other topic.

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