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It's Tuesday night here on 90.9 NW of It's Me, Maja in studio

with Mr Tyrone Cabral online with Mr. David Prince, Scotty

Johnson and Mr Edward Bunting. How are you, gentlemen?

Good. Evening all.

Well, thank you. All good.

Thank you. Very, very good.

You have to say. Good.

I'm good. I'm good, Edward.

We need everyone to acknowledge that they are indeed good.

Well, Tara should be better than good because our man got engaged on the weekend. God, I didn't even know you had

a boyfriend. Yeah.

No, sorry, Edward. I'm taken off the market, off

the market. Congratulations.

Thank you. Thank.

You, hence the, hence the fresh cuts you want.

You're alluding to early? On all that I've that I've

already commented on like I did. Before the show.

So, so yes, so obviously. Hang on tight, right?

Hang up just to read, let's rewind a little bit, right?

I remember when you broke up with the last girlfriend and now in the time in this short space, you've now not only found another amazingly compatible partner and got engaged and I've got nothing. How is this possible?

You've come out of 1 relationship into another and now you're engaged in this space and like I I can't even get a date. I don't know what to say.

Edward, better start. It's not the same thing thing

for me, really was happy as I am for you.

Well, well, Edward, he's officially off the market now.

Unfortunately, we gotta, you know, grow the, grow the beard.

Yeah. Grow the beard.

Oht Really. I can't.

Well, keep going with this. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, beads are good.

Yeah. David, good to me.

Don't be the odd one out. Yeah, now that I look around in

the room. Just for some context, we are to

our listeners because they kind of obviously see us, yeah, we've all got beards and and we've all got partners.

And Edward, no beard, no partner.

Maybe there's something in the beard.

There's something in the beard. Alright, I'll.

You can work on that, yeah. It's not that hard.

You have to work on it hard. You just wait it out and it will

come. Just go to sleep and background.

Very good. So sorry Edward, he is off the

market. But congratulations Tyrone, it's

wanted. Wanted to wish you a

congratulations on the show. That's a big event.

I saw some of the pictures, it looked pretty, pretty spectacular. Yeah, it was good.

It was the hotel in Piran. So yeah, actually booked that

place because obviously of what I wanted to do, what's it called this hotel? Cullen Oh yeah.

I don't know what. So yeah.

So when was when was this event was this Saturday night?

It was on Saturday night, correct?

I was. I was down on the Chapel and

around there on Saturday night. Oh yeah.

He was hitting the clubs, yeah, yeah.

I went out to the clubs on Chapel and, you know, a few drinks beforehand. I didn't see you around there.

On the more on the commercial side, Rd.

Go down to Angus and Bond. You know it's I am.

Pretty, pretty good steak place. OK, yeah, very good.

Very good steak place. And then the day before that,

Friday, we went to Risottos in Crown.

It wasn't too bad. It was nice there as well.

So that was good. It was a good weekend, I'd say.

Also to add to that list, also did get a new job New job though yeah, so that's gonna. Be.

Starting at the end of the month.

So yeah, when things come, they come flying.

Supposed to fiance instead of boyfriend.

Ha, ha, ha. What's your new job?

Is the same. Same same role, Yeah, same role,

same field but just different company.

OK, so yeah, end of the month gonna be heading off to Brisbane for training, cuz they're Brisbane based so you'll be there for a week. I got to shake things up.

This is no good for me at all. Hunting We gotta work.

We're gonna, we're gonna win menu.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have a bit of a what

do you call it when you see a brainstorming session and.

Deposition going Look at the crayons and draw some maps that have feelings and shit. Yeah, it's it's important.

It's important, It's definitely important.

But congratulations, Time since seems like the world's that the world's all coming up. Tyrone, let's go around the

room. Obviously, Tyrone, you've

probably been too busy for car. Updates.

Yeah, nothing. Nothing.

Nothing. Nothing, nothing on my right

now. But we'll start with who was on

1st. Mr. David Prince updates with

you. Not a lot to update this week

aside from Sunday morning was a fabulous morning.

I saw half of you wonderful people at Highball at the mall in Heidelberg. Instagram seems to be full of

pictures and reels from that. Or maybe that's just my

Instagram. I don't know, but they it was a

great. White diet and it it's almost

taken on a feel a bit like picnic hanging rock that you run by the message and Rangers club that I stopped going into a couple of years ago because you seem to walk for kilometres and kilometres and kilometres and then the week after you talk to other people that were there and then say oh did you see the such and such and say no, I didn't see it at all.

You know, like you just couldn't actually see anything and and in that reminded me of that when I was looking at some of the photos and reels from from an eyeball because there were cars there they saw photos of it didn't even see on the day.

So yeah, it was it was a really good turn out.

Very eclectic collection of stuff too, SO and I.

And I hadn't talked prior to the day so I didn't know what it was bringing in. I was wondering down through the

through the mall and spied down the very end a little blue Honda. And I thought look and I

realised it was my old car. It is now the the.

Sodium of Hmm. So yeah, that was great.

So I was busy telling people about it who, you know what it was, and it was nowhere to be seen.

I had to ring you a couple of times.

He did my job for me, David. I was, I was good next to it for

a little bit. But you know, you wanna be out

there about looking around. And I was lucky to get that spot

because when I drove in they I sort of thought I was going to go on the fringes and I thought, no bugger, I'll go under the guts and see if there's a little spot somewhere.

And the man just waved me in and it was sort of a prime spot on the corner. So I think that was good for

little Honda PR. Absolutely, Absolutely.

And it was flanked by Minis. So sort of like all these minis

hang on. But that's not a mini in there.

I think people would have sort of, you know, been triggered to go. What is that?

What is that? That's.

Right, It got it. Got more love than the minis

there on the day. I think those people crowded

around your car looking at and talking about it, and then the minis were just there. So yeah, well, that's how we

roll. We like to be a bit different.

It was incredibly cool. Little Citroen 2 CV parked just

behind it too. I always used to think of the

two servers that like a French scamp.

Obviously the two seas older, but it cooled 2 cylinder gear shift coming up out of the dashboard.

It's not dissimilar. Not dissimilar.

However, I can now attest to the fact that the scamp will actually drive the rings around 2 CV.

That's that's always satisfying to know.

There's also a a saw, some photos.

There's like a collection I packed quite near, a collection of yellow cars. Now it was a bit like moths

being attracted to the light. I think there was a bright

yellow box with them. Yeah, there was a jazz.

Very clever titles car. There was a Leo, I think, wasn't

there? Yeah Cleo, yeah, I think it's

300ZX. But yeah, they were installing

this one group and then there are a couple of reels on all the other yellow cars over there too.

So I think yellow might be is being identified as a cool colour to have David yellow. Great day.

I was in in the end only because I had to.

I had a bit of running around doing the afternoon at the other side of town and anyone who lives in Melbourne and and has experienced. The M1, the other side of the

Westgate Bridge. You really wanna get your ducks

in a row for that bit of Rd at the moment?

And the thought of driving my 50 year old K car through there?

David, I know, I know. It's fine for you Ed.

I know we've had this big because I went after highball, I went to the. Exact same place where David was

and I just put my navigation on my phone and and pointed the scamp West and we zinged our way out there and singed our way back. But it was a fair bit of freeway

in it. But I like taking a scamp on the

freeway. I like to.

I don't mind taking SCAMP on a freeway, but that bit of freeway is horrific at the moment with the lanes and people not know what lanes they're in. And you know, riding did nearly

keep letting point. You know, the Land Cruiser at

one point. That's sort of my fault.

I I didn't really look as well as I should have.

Yeah, no, it was. It's good getting the scamp out

and giving a bit of bit of high revving exercise I like.

To do that, want to do this, yeah.

But there was also the other car that really stood out for me that I only saw in pictures, not in the not.

While I was there was a K 55 Corolla coupe double X, which was a very rare thing they were. That was the first time double X

was used on Corollas. There were two door coupe had

the nicer the Lord wheels, the body coloured bumpers and the lots of crush values dyed to trim those interiors.

Well that was pretty cool. Centre red with grey and think

it was beautiful car. So yeah, lots of cool stuff, so.

This is a home. David is is a Honda man through

and through, but he's very partial to an early Corolla.

Sorry, who is you very high? Yeah, to an early crawler.

So there's two cars were Corolla.

So correct. There you go.

So he's if you got any nice Corollas, you know, send them through to him, he'll be like. In fact, what I sent you before

the meeting I I sent around to the group but it didn't show up because of the through Facebook who who could control that could see it was a 1996 hatch with 60,000 cases on the clock. 21990

they want for it. Hang on, what model is that

1990? Yes, only the Essex quicker.

Not a seeker. No the Hatch.

So not not the Hatch. Yes, just a flat packed hatch,

but it is 70,060 something, a bit special that model.

It was just it's absolutely meant it's on on JDM sales and those sort of pages at the moment.

Is that an Audie car or? Actually delivered car and

mature owners from you who have just bought a GR Corolla evidently. Wow.

I mean, that's natural progression for.

The logical progression, isn't it?

Physics girl into a, you know, curology.

That's just. Yeah, yeah.

They remind me of the lady with the TX 3 Turbo.

That's my Unicorn car. She probably walked into a Ford

dealership and said I want the best lazy you've got.

Like, I want the top of the top of the range.

But it's like, I don't know if it's for you.

I want the most expensive one. That's what happened.

So I think that's happened with this, with this mature age couple. Exactly.

Brought it back to the next one. But The thing is The thing is

mint. Absolutely mint.

So that was pretty cool. So yeah, I'm not I'm partial

Look. Wrong to.

Scotty Big updates. What's going on?

Have you done any? He's blowing it up.

He's gonna gasket. God, you got me.

Yeah. Keeps this keeps dropping out

and stuff so I might have to change it to my phone, so let me know if it cuts out again. That's alright.

Well you're in WA somewhere. My weekend was an emotional

rollercoaster. Ohhh Scott.

Dude, tell us this tale of woe. Scotty Why?

We wrote it right with you. We.

Keeping you updated, it wasn't I.

It started with figuring out the problem with the car with the coolant disappearing. Ended up being a a radiator.

That was completely, completely started to separate and expanded so. The fix of the leaky

transmission fluid was easy. That was just, you know,

sometimes the the hose clamps underneath, gripping that tight, that starts to wear out and goes kind of crusty and goes through it. So luckily there's quite a bit

of that hose, so I was able to cut off that 5 centimetres and still slide on so. That was an easy fix on there.

Radiator wasn't too bad to change.

Not as easy as a 31. There's just more things plugged

into it and a little bit tighter to get to and remove things, but in the end wasn't that bad. So got that in there, Put the

hoses back on. Start pouring in, coolant

started up and I think it was like within a couple minutes and I had both of the fans turn on and I'm watching the temp gauge go up as like hmm and I haven't a feel of the bottom radiator hose and that was still cold. It's like, oh look, maybe it's

the thermostat hadn't changed that.

I don't know when that's been changed, I thought it's bound to be the thermostat. Probably I should have changed

that as well. So I went to.

So I went to Repco because I got RCB, so I get discount.

So I went there. They're like, Yep.

Got it in for you. But we don't have the gaskets so

the seal. I went, oh OK that's a pain

alright, I thought you and I'll grab it.

And auto buns on the way. They're about to have the seal.

So off I went. Went to autobahn, They didn't

have a thermostat or a gasket for it.

Nothing was like, oh that's pretty trash for them.

And then I thought I'd go out of my way and go to super chicks.

I know that they have it in stock where you can see it and all that. They had both in stock ready to

go hanging out on the shelf. So hats off to super cheap for

having everything ready to roll. Went home hard bolts.

Had to trying different fitments to get there and got the two bolts off and took that out, put in the new one, done it all up again. Started to refill the radiator

all over again and it was still doing.

It lasted a little bit longer, but that bottom hose was still still cold and that I'm like, what the Hell's going on?

Thought I filled it up enough and obviously I had the right radiator cap off and I was burping it.

Hmm. And I thought, it's not really

bubbling that much anymore. So what's what's going on?

So I put the radio cap on, let it go.

It's lasted a little bit longer, but then both fans turned on again and that pretty much stayed on the two fans.

And I'm looking in the overflow bottle and I can see some bubbles popping up and I thought.

Because dance head gasket, it's it's bugged.

And The funny thing is because the way I'm doing it is I've just got some towels and I put it around 104 in the coolant cause, you know come up and overflow.

And I'm looking underneath and I can see fresh coolant coming from the exhaust manifold where the heat shield is in a stripping from the heat shield and dripping down like what the hell Like where is this coming from?

Like, is it that stuff that's coming through the engine block or something? Like, what the hell, dire?

I thought this thing was absolutely knocking.

I'm like, Oh my God, like how am I going to get to work or am I going to do is going to be a Nightmare X.

Like, yeah, I want to look for another another.

Have a selection of cars. I wanted a bit more time when

you were car. By one.

And I'm like, oh bloody hell, I'm gonna have to try and take it somewhere, get it done. Then the next day I thought, you

know what? I forgot?

I've got my old laptop and I've got the whole.

Subaru System. So I've plugged in the OBD 2,

plugged in that, and I thought, you know, I'll just monitor it and see what temperatures is it actually getting to.

And did the radiator cap. I heard a couple blah blah blah

blah blah noises and went OK, Poured in some more, started filling it up some more, but I was just doing it really really slowly. Just learning it.

Pouring really slowly back in started it up again.

Overflow tank had dropped down so I put some more in there and what I won't put the rate of Kappa go.

I'll leave that off and just see how it goes.

Start it up, off it goes. A couple more big bubbles coming

out. And I'm just watching the

temperature go up and I'm like, it's going up awfully slow.

Like by now the the fan would have started kicking in like, geez, this is slow, this is good.

Like what's happening? Seems really, really good.

So I'm sitting there watching it.

You know, it gets to 70 degrees and it's going up.

I think it was happily sitting on about 85 degrees and this is just idling. It's not driving anywhere.

I'm just sitting there. It's it's idling away and I see

the flu come up and down and like, it's not really overheating. So I go underneath the car and

feel the bottom pipe, the bottom radiator hose that's actually hot now. And like, ah OK, I could feel a

bit of pressure in it because last time it just felt soft.

I could easily just squish. Fine.

It was hot and I could feel the pressure in it like OK.

We're on to something here. It's going up and up and up.

It hits, hits about 95 degrees. The fans kicked the one fan, so

there's two fans on it and just one of them kicks in, drops the temperature down to about 89 degrees in like. 10 seconds if

that in no time and then the fans kick off and then the fan turns off. And then slowly it will get back

up to 95, fan kicks in, drops straight back down again and I had that idling like that, just sitting there for like 30 minutes. And just now and again just

topping up a little bit more and it's overflowing and.

What I ended up figuring out when I said it was coming from the heat shield of the exhaust. On the reservoir on the top

where I'm pouring it in, there's actually a tiny hole.

And because the tails getting too full, it's dripping down that hole. And then it runs all the way

down into the underneath into the exhaust manifold.

It comes underneath. Right underneath.

And it drips from there. So that's what it was because I

was getting like, puddles sometimes.

Like, what the hell, I've got something covering it, like, where is it going? But yeah, the towel couldn't

hold much of it. So it's kind of flowing through

and dripping down that little hole and then it runs all the way down to the bottom. So that was that.

So in other words, today, no dramas.

I took it out for a spin yesterday.

No, it gets to about, I think it happily sits on about when you're driving about 85 degrees or something, which is normal from what I heard. I think between like 80 and 100

or 105 is pretty normal. Yes, we're just, we're just.

Gonna complete losing you. He'll he'll come back in a

moment. When he comes back, it will

finish his story his his updates.

But Edward updates with you. Um.

Done a David sort of covered off the Cars and Coffee event, the Scab clocked actually, David 24,000 miles over.

You. I think when I got it, it was

22, seven something something or something.

Something. So I've done, what, 2223?

What have I done? Probably 1400 miles in it or

something. That's not bad.

That's, you know, that's more than it's done in a lot of years. But not running well.

Running well adjusted the idle on it cause when it when it's hot it was idling nicely but when it's cold it's a pig and it stalls at the lights and what have you.

So I've just bumped up the idle a bit so that it's a little bit more resilient when it's cold you don't have to sort of warm it up quite as long. I I tend to be an impatient

person. So you sort of get in and go you

know, like if you if you were driving for maybe. 234 minutes

or something straight up, you know, And there weren't any traffic lights, you'd be fine and it would, it would idle.

But if you sort of go around the corner and then stop it a bit, you know, die again, you gotta and the choke on that thing, you know, it sucks itself in, it doesn't stay out.

So it's not like you can keep the car revving.

Higher. You know, it, it every other

choke I've had, sort of, you know, you pull it out and it stays out pretty much, except some of those newer Hondas will do it as well. I'll suck themselves in, but the

stamp seems to suck itself back in.

I don't know if that's a factory thing or if it's.

I don't know if it just does that.

I don't know it's meant to or not.

Anyway, why does that? Yeah, I'm pretty sure they do.

Yeah, maybe. Maybe it's meant to do it.

I mean, Mr Honda was an engineer and the later Hondas do it.

So maybe it's maybe it's just, you know, he thought it was a great idea. But I want to control the choke,

not the car controlling the choke anyway.

So yeah, that's that. What else?

The Suzuki Swift Sport that I had for sale garnered more messages than I've ever had on any car I've ever sold.

I I lost. I stopped counting over 120

something, but it would have been about 130 messages on that one. In in the one week that I owned

it, you know? It was an absolute pain in the

ass. People are incredibly demanding

and I think our recology last week with some of the messages maybe that I. Had a live action update.

Actually is messages were coming through last week.

Yeah, there you go. That's right.

Yes. So in the end I sold it.

I made a tiny bit of money on it, but it really only it was not worth my time. I think the moral of the story,

there is cars that are. Unregistered and unroadworthy

are now, in this day and age, just really hard to sell.

You know everyone wants everything handed to them on a platter. No one wants to actually do any

work or any sort of put any sort of effort in, so.

You know it just because it becomes a very painful exercise to deal with the scum of society on these chip chip, chip cars.

So yeah, I won't be diving into any more of those in any great hurry. So now the Prado, I still have

found a place to store that. So I think I'm going to keep

that until next year and I drive it to to a holiday island destination. So I think I'll just shove that

in a shared and disconnect the battery and that that can just sit there cause it's got long regio on it.

So it's not really costing me anything to have it sit there.

What else? What else?

The Berlina that I have is online that's on car sales only as of the weekend. So that's early days on that I

haven't been inundated with messages yet on that car.

Um, what else? What else?

I think I've done anything else. Karl was.

I think that's about it. Very, very good.

Hmm. Myself.

Icky, tell us about Matthew. Sunday was an interesting day.

So Mr Andrew Walsworth who's been on the show and good friend of the show came down to my end and we drove in together.

So he followed me and he's he's lovely.

Beige GLX, TP Magnus or Magna Waggon.

Manual injected. Injected, injected and type into

the event. So that was a nice day leaving.

Gonna get a message from the guy about the Ltd and he's like, I'm coming to pick it up and I'm like, oh really?

Huh. Yeah buddy time.

So it was like a month and 1/2 after putting a deposit, but anyway. He must have listened to the

show. He must listen to the show.

So, so basically he came and stood up, but I it was, it was the weirdest car handover thing I've ever done.

I reckon it was. He didn't even look at the car.

He just hopped in the car and then he's like OHF.

The seats are a bit disappointing.

I thought that would be better than that.

Didn't look under the bonnet, didn't look any pull open any of the doors, didn't look at anything.

Just handed me the cash and said see you later and put it.

Put a put what's called a permit in the window and drop it off.

And I'm like, that was the weirdest car.

Didn't want, didn't wanna talk. I'm like, you know, enjoy, look

after. It's a good car.

You just looked at me and just drove off.

I was like, Oh my God, whatever. So.

That's good. It's gone.

It's probably going to be torn apart and put into a million pieces of what I think it's gonna happen to it.

Or he's gonna, which is, which is a bit of a shame, but what can you do? I don't know that he might.

He might have been been over ordered by the the, the beauty of it. Like you might.

You know, like, I mean, I'd, I'd love to.

I'd love. To wait to get home to David.

But I sincerely disagree with you and it's.

Like club plates off it, Maddie. Everything off mate, everything

off. Everything, yeah.

Came prepared with the permit he did.

Yeah, absolutely. Wow.

OK, OK, Let's ask people to ask what the VIN was.

And I sent him the VIN and he's like, Yep, I'll see you at 1:00.

And he, he's paid you all the monies, has cashes in my, well, you paid me cash, so that's put in my bank account.

That's all sorted. Yeah, it's all right.

It was a bit of sweet in a way, like I was having to get rid of it, but like, I was just like, well, you know, it was time, I think, to get rid of that car because it wasn't a car that I wanted to have in my grand collection.

It's more of like I was happy to to do my bit bring it back and then move on to the next person to finish the job.

Yeah so like I I really I sincerely hope he doesn't and and you know it started on the button as it always does and you know it was a he he like he he I'm like he's like there's doesn't run and I'm like yeah of course runs I'm like you've come on this way to what toward home on in an extra so.

He So he turned the key in, bang on the button and he looked, he looked incredibly surprised. He's like, Oh my God, I don't

right now. And then I gave him some spare

parts that I had with it. I had a spare water pump, which

I'm never going to use because it's the other fits on that car.

And he's like, oh, and he started going off.

He's like, oh, what is the water pump stuff on this thing?

I'm like I'm like mate I'm giving you I'm giving you a spare one just be grateful otherwise you know take it and he's like oh he just threw in the back seat and he looked like he didn't care. I was I was like right over.

So it was again the weirdest buying experience I've ever had like it makes me not want to sell a car ever again Like there was it was a shocking experience so yeah bittersweet that's gone.

So yeah down through down to my collection I've gotten rid of my two 80s luxury esque cars so once you've all gone Ltd gone.

So yeah, now just just downsizing and and going to consolidated that way. Typhoon soon to come on to Club

Ridge? Well, it's already on on a club

permit. I gotta get it, gotta get the

roadworthy and put it into my. Name.

So yeah, that'll that'll happen soon once runners in the new factory, which is I think. Next was the movie.

Yeah, moving, moving, moving factories.

Yeah, but not like a block away. Sorry.

I'll call you after the show. But anyway, so that's pretty

much it on mine. But yeah, Ltd after it's been

virtually a year on sale like 348 days or something is officially sold and then and then I did the questionnaire on Castles did did we sell your car like no you didn't.

It was. It was on.

It was on Facebook. Marketplace so so yeah that's

that's gone. But anyway that's that's yeah

that's that. Moving on to tonight's topic

gentlemen. Oh sorry Scotty.

Yes. So you're back.

You're back from your base. Last we heard from you your car

must have had like an airlock in the in the cooling system and a burped itself out and now no more bubbles in the coolant.

We all We're all good for the moment.

Yeah, running fine. So I took it for a test drive

and everything and it just reaches.

And I think like you know, between 85 to 90 degrees and it just stays around there. And that's it.

And that's good operating temp. I think between like 80 and 105

is is pretty normal. That's pretty.

But yeah, mine just if it's sitting idling for awhile, it'll get to like 95 but then the fan will kick in and drop it straight back down to like 90 or 89 anyway.

So everything fine, normal. Yeah.

So the cause of all of that, Scotty, was the radiator.

Issue. Yes.

So yeah, I guess that was the radiator.

I mean it's been in there for what, 20 years?

So and they're just aluminium with plastic end tanks, so they're not going to really last long.

Course, they're going to kind of crap themselves.

But you know, I was, I was actually lucky to get.

To get her ready. I'd love him.

I'm looking for wasn't going to be able to get him till till this week, but I got it delivered the very next day through Recco. Alright, that's.

Good. They had one in stock at Water

Gardens and they delivered it to me.

Well, you're very lucky that it's not a head gasket.

I know, I thought. Oh my God, you bastard.

You've jinxed me. Like, I'm like, my God, I hate

that man. It's like.

Show me bloody VX, yeah? I could rent you the VX should

you need it as the temporary car.

I appreciate that for our viewers.

Scotty and. I'd appreciate that.

Thank. You well the all the Prado.

You could rent the Prado. Maybe It's funny.

Friend of mine made me this morning and said, oh, what cars you got lying around it. And I was like, oh, there's a

couple And he said, Oh yeah, my new Hyundai doesn't arrive for a few weeks. I might might need to rent one

off, you know, I was thinking, well the Prado is the perfect choice because I'm going to hang on to it anyway till next year.

It's got regio anyway, so pay me if you want bucks and sure, rent the Prado. But turns out he's Hyundai

giving him a car now so he doesn't need it.

Oh, that's nice of them. But good to know, you know, it's

good to have that option. He's just gotten Johnson.

I've I've seen someone who looks suspiciously like you pop up on a couple of other sites asking questions about different models of cars and body kits and things like that.

So did you. That.

You may well be getting your ducks in a row.

Yeah, that's the good thing is that I've got time now, so.

Yeah. You know, I don't need to be.

Look what's available here in Australia.

I've got more time to look elsewhere.

Yeah, with that little scare, I think it's, you know, I mean the I've got. No dramas.

This sugar has been fantastic for as long as I've I've had it and I know everyone's like head gasket issues and stuff like that. But I think from what I've read,

I don't quote me super rude people, but my engine is that little bit different and a bit tougher because it's between Turbo One. I think it's an EJ2O. 6.

Maybe. And I think the manuals are two

O. Oh, I can't remember.

It's like 207, eight or nine. One of those is the manual

version of that engine, and I think they just sat.

Built that little bit different. There's a few extra little

goodies to keep it happy. Well, isn't.

It. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I think that's might be the saving grace with that one, because it's not just normal EJ20 or an EJ25 which are prone.

1025. Yeah, when I typed in like head

gasket because I wanted to say the problems that that people had leading up to and like, it's kind of sounding the same.

And all of them were just yet 2.5, even just on turbo.

Just the Rs 2.5. Yeah, Eric, that they're gonna

ask this left, right, centre. How to do it?

The guys showing you how to do it without taking the engineer?

I was like, I'm not doing that. It's actually easier to take the

engineer like there's. No point.

Wanna hoist and just be able to drop it?

Yeah. And then do it.

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So that was my up and down emotional weekend, like a rollercoaster. The funny thing is because when

I did the coolant and everything, it's splashed up, it's it's gone everywhere underneath it because I have to change it twice. I've got the container that goes

down there, but here's the container and splatters everywhere. So I made a fair bit of mess

under there. All the manifolds there and.

The first day I took Asher's car to work because she wasn't at work on that day and she just needs to go to the doctor's appointment. I said was around the corner

take my card, that would be fine.

And when I get home I'll test it again and give it a good run.

And she got there and she calls me up and goes, Oh my God, your cars not fix this smoke coming out of it everywhere.

And I'm like, oh, I forgot to tell you, that will just be burning off all the oils and stuff on the.

Accidentally freaked her. Looks like I'm so sorry.

I should have told you, Yeah, it's just covered in all the oils and coolant and stuff is just burning it.

All of the exhausts. She's like, oh, it smells and

like, yeah. But no other.

That's all healthy. It's some, it's good.

It's running well. Good to hear it's guy scenario.

Yes, it is all good. Believe it or not, it's gonna be

in Japan. The STI that they had there,

they kept running A2 litre. So they basically we got

everyone else in the world got the 2.5 and we all had issues.

But Japan kept the two later in the studies there, and they seemed to be a lot better. So.

But anyway. It was like, sounded like it was

a good thing, you know, that extra.

Extra talk that you'd get from it from a little bit more capacity, but. I don't know.

Head gaskets. My goodness, well yeah, I I mean

I've driven both. I prefer the 2.5.

It's just I think they're nicer, nicer engine to drive cause you do get that bit of torque but in terms of reliability they're just they're just not there. So tonight's topic gentleman is

if you could out of all the kids that have happened that have been made, build your ultimate car like parts of like for example it could be a portion and 11:00 with an LS and all drive swap or what have you. What would be your ultimate car

parts being special that you could put together and be like you know what that would be the best thing I could I could have and that would work for me. That would fill all my needs and

make me a happy person. If I had this car with that

engine with this you know, steering component whatever whatever, what have you. What would it be?

And and I got thinking this because last week we're talking about we're talking to Rob about his Barrow Merck and and how that was a good money spinner for him and you know, and it was turned out to be quite a reliable reliable car.

I was like what would be the ultimate car And it doesn't it doesn't have to be a completely different branded swap or anything. It could be like for example a

Ek Civic with a B16 and you know a Type R body kit and you know a few bits up you know few bits of like you know performance suspension etcetera etcetera with with some inky RPF ones, you know it, it could be that and that's like that.

Happy days, I'm I'm a happy man. With this through having you

Manny, I, my mind works in weird ways.

Like I'm constantly thinking of all the different things I could do. So so generally live in your

capable hands. What would be your ultimate, you

know your ultimate car like that.

Your ultimate parts being special where you basically get to choose chop and change and you have to think about it realistically. What's going to work now?

LS have been put in porches for years.

Surprisingly so. They they do fit.

But like, if you like, you're not gonna say a big Cummins engine in our Fiat 500. That's just not gonna work.

So you know you need it's gonna be bigger than the car.

So you gonna need to think about this logically.

Gentlemen, I live in your capable hands.

What would you what would be your ultimate car for you?

Like it's again, it's the ultimate car that you're wanting to have that'll do everything for you with your with your ultimate parts being special. I can kick it off with the with

the. This is fairly simple one but.

Would be like a 67 or 68 Mustang fastback.

Just remove all the old suspension.

So pretty much like a resto mod, a bigger breaks and then the crate motor. Probably go for like one of the

biggest ones that you can get from Ford Ford.

I think you still get like the Ford Cobra Jet ones and stuff like that. So yeah, I believe they're

gonna, they got what's called like a 7.3.

They they call it like the Predator or something.

It's something, it's like just an animal and your bite as a crate engine. You public trading?

Yeah, I reckon that would just be perfect.

So you got the awesome breaks behind it.

It will handle well and it's still got the nice looks, so I keep the interior pretty much stock standard but get it all nicely done up. Just drop it off at David's and

go here. Go.

Would you go functional or would you keep it carbureted?

Yeah, that's interesting. You gotta keep a carbureted ohe

Tyrone Time Champs. Yeah, you gotta.

Keep it. I would love to keep it

carbureted. Just.

That sound and I just want a different sound and.

It just be perfect. Live upgrade kids, Yes.

The lane of viewing tomorrow night.

There you go. Interested party.

I'll keep you posted next week. I'll let you know what happens.

Stay tuned for more episodes. Of tuned.

Stay tuned. I love the, I love the the the

the live ceiling on on air. It's always good, isn't it?

It's interesting. We we must be good luck.

We are honest. I'm gonna have to start charging

a finders fee, but. Yeah.

That's a. That's a percentage for all of.

Us. For all of us.

We're gonna talk about your Bellina story, Edward, and how you you owed a dinner as well before.

You wanna talk about that we'll talk about towards the end of the show cause OK cause we're in the party in special stage where ultimate car that'll do everything for you now Scotty said 67 or 68 fastback Mustang all modern suspension all modern underpinnings and a modern crate engine but keeping it Carby.

So for that noise and for that you know for the kind of the feeling of an old car I guess you would say.

I mean, you've owned an old Mustang with the Carby and.

Yeah. It's um.

I was gonna say. I was gonna say Mustang as well

before Scott jumped in, but yeah, I was just gonna say yeah.

My. Even.

Like when I had the the charge I was looking at crate motors from from America was he did to bring down and they're they're just you can do so much with them and they just bolt straight on even even even just charge as well you know get that changed the whole suspension put some nice big big brakes on them and do that up and then you know just. Being a big Hemming in there and

then, yeah, he Off you go. Happy day.

The good thing about those cars, right, like like Mustangs are like anything American muscle really, is that you can, if you've got an open chequebook, you can just you can do whatever you want because basically everything's been done.

It's the only other car I can think of that can do that.

A Honda is, with all the case swaps and everything that you can buy kits for any car. It's, it's, it's, it's one, it's

ridiculous. But two, it's fantastic because

for example, you can say I want to, I want to see some Mustang, I want to put a Coyote, you know, current Gen V8 in there with a T56 manual. Different dips and be like you

need this big you know this but you know this but we said we got here on the shelf. There you go, there's a wiring

loom. There's a there's a there's an

ECU to run it. You know all plug and play and

then basically you can do it in your backyard which is crazy which is actually to think about people engineer specifics for that. Like I know what the Honda

fanboys David, this is for you and I don't know you're not the biggest fan of case swappers but there's a company called Katun and a few other case swapping companies where you can say, I've got, I've got a EG Civic with A and they're making that specific you can put it but EG Civic with a later model Integra. Integra sub sub frame that will

have the kit to make that subframe, that car engine everything work and it's just like it's just it's it's the bubbles on someone's actually done the R&D for that you know I mean like. Exactly right.

It's unbelievable. Only done it because there must

be a demand, mustn't it? You know, like.

Business thanks to America. Yeah, of course.

They love their Hondas too, obviously.

They love their muscle cars. They got tonnes of that.

They like their Hondas too, so they got tonnes of that.

Gone. And people can't be wrong.

Yeah, sure. So but it's interesting because

like you know when you think of America it's like muscle cars and then there's like, I mean like they love the Japanese stuff but they don't love the Japanese stuff.

Like they like Honda. Like like I I think for me Honda

in America is like they just they that's their that's their car that they truly. Love a lot of people in the in

America considered a Honduran American brand.

I mean they they design cars there.

They build them, they some there's a number of plants over there now and they employ a lot of people.

So I mean, they're very patriotic people and that's their brain basically since 82. Be able to cancel.

It's over 40 years now. Another swap date is really

popular over there, which would be pretty cool if you could find one. Here is a case swap into a first

Gen Honda Insight, which very popular you know, saves on having to worry about batteries replacing batteries.

But yeah, it's all, as you said, many plug and play it just, you know, all the, the subframe amounts and everything, the engine mounts all are all compatible.

And yeah, that would be a little rocket because they're mostly aluminium. They don't weigh an awful lot,

Those insights. And yeah, with decent keybox

that there's so highly geared and to drive them I've driven a manual. One of my mates has got 1A

manual one out here 60 kilometres an hour.

You really have to. You're in 3rd gear, you know

it's not worth putting into falls because it's.

It literally really, really tall and in the keys.

So there's actually also going that club who has done a K20 swap into a Jazz, into a first Gen Jazz.

I've seen that, yeah. Yeah, that's getting quite

common now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he's an older guy and just, you know, really.

Done it. Absolutely spot on and spent a

lot of money. I think I'm I'm getting it

completely right. And he said, I mean I have

driven it but he said it drives incredibly well.

It was a bit of a lost opportunity.

Those those that Jazz platform, such a great little car and they're so great in Nugget nationals.

They're very popular with one point fives in the Nugget National series, but here with a K20.

Well sorted out one of those and may be a very cool car.

What's the love affair with the K series?

It's unbelievably strong for a 4 cylinder.

That's OK. That's that's what the and they

reliable and they can make big power they love boosts they're like. They really, they're really,

really well, you know, loved. There's people doing MR2 swaps

for K swaps and everything. It's.

People are doing the the Jazz or fit swaps in America with the K20, they're saying we're making the the Fit or Jazz SI that never that never happened because.

They're right. Exactly right.

It's virtually bang, bang, bang. It's like Lego and then off you

go and they really, really happy with them.

So I mean that's really kind of old school hot hatchery really like big cheerleader engineer in a small car like that that's that's kind of that's kind of where you get your, your power from but. They always thought most people

go for the H22 back in the day. That was, that was the motor

because it had you had your talk and had VTech as well.

So that was, yeah. We're going for, but in terms of

like money for performance, K series seem to be a little bit cheaper and they're more they're more readily available these days than H22. So David, for your one then if

you had to do 1. It doesn't have to be a swap, it

could just be a car with like a certain set of wheels or something like that you'd like what would be your ultimate ultimate car that that you that you could that could do It could be, it could be a parts being Honda Special.

It could be, it could be like let's say as CV, like a lowered CRV with a with a NSX engine. Or it could be anything that you

like. I always thought I the Virgin

Odyssey, the really sort of low one with the the, the pointy nose, but they look really cool, customised and.

You can actually get the Euro 2.4 litre.

The K24 Euro engine in in those in Japan are called Odyssey Absolute so that's technically not actually doing what you suggest it's because I'm I'm just bring one in and actually was out of the box from Honda but I struggled with this topic a bit because I'm I'm I'm a stickler for I love the originality and I like the cars that actually are really good combination that you know most most cars have a sweet spot in in their range of engine choices and transmissions and stuff like that. I must say today, as I was

pulling off from lights and heard my DG gearbox making noises again, I thought I would not again.

Come on, David, you can't put any.

You cannot be serious the same noises as before.

As something going on? Something chirpy list and let's

just recap for the listeners. David had underwear.

Need to ohm? We're recapping David Had under

warranty. PSG gearbox, whatever they are.

Bloody rubber bands replaced, what, 5000 K ago?

Yeah, about 5000 days ago, yeah. So 5000 cases go underwater.

You brand new because it was chirping like a little Sparrow and now that's back. Sounds like the fan belt

slipping, but it's not as you move off and then it's going in again into second. But it's not as bad as it was.

But I'm not making excuses for it either.

But was that just after you sent through what the what the The topic was tonight so I thought he could case Swapper Kelly because the Kelly's everything about it was fantastic for what I need. And the carrying ability, yeah,

Yeah. Drives good when it's.

Yeah. Can't put put some Japanese or

Korean running gear in the caddy, yeah.

Perfect. Beautiful chefs kiss, kiss,

kiss. So.

Kate 24, caddy with a with a 6 speed out of a.

Yeah, and it's limited slip, diff and and and you're happy, man. Exactly.

Me, I've got. I've got a few.

I would love a DeLorean with a Kia Stinger V6 twin turbo swap.

I think that. Would be that.

Would be that would make the car go as it should like it'd be want to be reliable but two. And from what I've seen it's

been done a couple of like one or two times and not that hard to do but that would that would be that as as my piece of 80s reliable 80s nostalgia. But I love waggons, You know,

sticker for a waggon. And I'd love a.

From 24 chassis waggon I'd find one that's got a blown engine or or an engine missing and I'd put a you know gonna say Barry in there with a with a big snail on the side.

And I would just be I would just keep the wheel stock keep it all stock and pull up next to people in actual Excel 6 turbos and beat them and I would love that. I'd love every second of it so

and I do it with people sitting in the in the, in the Dickey seats, in the back, in the middle.

Be positive. So that is kind of that is that

is that is one for, for the books.

What about you Bunting, I think. Yeah.

Sort of like the idea of taking cars that are inherently like and making it reliable, like like the Caddy with a Japanese engine, you know, take a Jaguar XJ6 or something.

That's a beautiful car in its own right and, you know, very timeless and iconic, but make it make the electrics work and make the motor work. And you know people used to put

Chev eights in them, but I'm sure there's yeah, many more modern and I'm not a stickler for sort of knowing all the codes of the engines. But yeah, if you put like the

barrel motor you know a lovely smooth straight speaks in a Jag and put a non Lucas electric through the whole car or something great you know that that fixes that problem.

Range Rovers the same. You know I like them.

You know it's it's not that I hate the the look of them or anything you know the Big L 322 Range Rover.

But you know electrical gremlins and transmissions and put some decent running gear under that and make the air suspension go away and you gotta you gotta cracking car, you know put a Land Cruiser 5.7 or you know the big Land Cruiser diesel.

You know, put that into rangy with Japanese electrics and and navigation systems and all of that and hey, nice all rounder.

See, Edward, I'm, I'm going to agree with you there because like I think like a lot of these cars they get inherently, OK, they just get bad raps because they've got like bad electrics or bad engines. They're yeah, there are

companies, especially in the UK that will take even when they were new, but they still don't know that they took brand new Range Rovers or Range Rovers were like 10 or 15 or 20 years old and then put Chevy Corvette engines like your LS, LS motors in them. No, but like someone could do it

brand new. And just you know what, I'm

just, I'm getting in early. I've just driven out the show,

the things done 15 miles, ripping it bloody mechanics out of and putting a Toyota, motoring someone with money to just do that. And then the people, and then

you bring it in for service, you know, like, and they're like.

Wow, what is this? He was I speaking to someone,

someone I spoke to recently. They they had a, they had a

swapped something and they took it back to the dealer for service and they serviced the form and they just took it, took it, drove off. I can't remember who it was or

what What Car it was, but it was be scratching their heads.

But it's weird, but you panics. The Range Rover mechanics would

be like, yeah, we we we're on your side, mate.

We we get it. We get.

It. That's the easiest service I've

ever done. Yeah, that was just, that was

just RIP Co oil Philtre and thanks very much.

But the fact that, like a company was doing him from brand new, cooling out the BMW and Range Rover engines and putting LS engines in there and being like, Yep, they were like they were reliable. Hell yeah, yeah.

That says all you need to know. Yeah, but like companies do,

companies also do weird things too.

Like for example, there's flying Miata.

I don't know if you've ever heard of them.

They're like a big MX5 company in in America and they sell anything that unit you want or want to do to an MX5.

They can restore them with them or you can modify it to your heart's content. They made the mini Corvette by

putting LS engines that you could buy a kit and you can put less engine in an MX5 and it makes it like a mini Corvette essentially. Well, I would.

I wanna turn my beautiful Japanese MX5 Corvette.

It's it's a it's more of like a death trap at that point.

It's like all engine and then like a little car and you're going to go off into a into a ravine really quickly.

But yeah, like for me the Range Rover idea like with a with a reliable engine, with with no air suspension, actually with proper coils and a proper, proper to be cracking.

I mean, and I love to look at those L 322, you know, they were, they were a big imposing, you know king of the road kind of car, you know. But but yeah, fix, fix those

foibles and they're not that expensive to buy it.

It'll be a cracking car. There was.

There was a. There's another guy on YouTube I

watched his names. Rabbit.

That's that's that's his nickname but but Rob Pitts I don't if you guys have ever heard of him he's got the he's got the funniest car stories ever like and you could just listen he's car stories and he's like he's like you know Southern American basically you know full Texas accent you know Murica kind of kind of guy but he has the funniest car stories and and and he's like. I'm gonna be bored one day and

decided I haven't had a car payment in awhile so I went down to I went down to the to my my my local you know Land Rover slash Range Rover dealership and cause I wanted to I wanted to disco too. Anyway he he's like I get there

and he's like Oh yeah I like this one but the guys like I'll give you a bumper to bumper warranty.

It was a used car with like 20,000 miles and he's like he's like bumper to bumper. He's like bumper to bumper.

Everything or anything that goes wrong we'll cover it he's like alright so he's like he put, he pays for it he's like but before I'm taking the car you're fixing this guard you're fixing this this this leak. You're fixing this, you're

fixing that and like, yeah, OK, comes back.

Picked the car up it's got a cool like he's like he's like you give him a car my car back what a cool like he's like I don't have a car for six months and that they they spent about like I think $20,000 repairing it for him before he could take it. And it became became folklore in

that part of the part of the in dealership town where everyone knew about this story of this guy just would keep coming back and say no, my, my, my Land Rover still trash So everything eventually got replaced before he picked up the car.

So it's the kind of says, well, I've got a related story to that and it's very recent. I was driving to work this

morning down to the side street near where I live and there was a car in the front trio which was they ironbark Pajero which is that sort of you know coffee brown metallic colour.

It's not the not the most popular Pajero colour anyway it was all clean motoring along happily behind the Pajero and in front of me was a Land Rover Discovery three with their suspension that had obviously completely failed.

It was on its guts. The entire car wasn't just one

end of it would be toll thing was dumped on its own us and it was creeping over speed humps and you could see the guy going boom boom boom boom down the road just really it was very very sick and then there was me and my Prado behind you know happy as Larry. So I was like, you know, this,

this Land Rover is bookended by reliability here.

It's easy in pain in the middle. And I just had, I just had devil

laugh. I thought, Yep, that's what you

get. Pretty much, pretty much.

Any last ones before we get to the quiz?

What do you want to hear Alex's? Story the Common.

Story did you? The the video sent you of the

Tesla, they swapped and put an engine in there.

They took the batteries out of this Tesla and put Alice engine in. There and then took the service.

And they took it and they took it to a mechanic to get in service and they were getting like, what the hell it's gonna be anything. That's quite funny.

That's quite. I actually had to laugh.

I had to laugh. But yes, we'll get your Get your

Alex story. Yes.

So you guys have had Alex on the podcast a couple of times.

He's into his Volvos. He has an old 164 that's been a

little bit worked. You know it's got a bit of a, I

don't know a Cam an injection and something and something I don't know he's keeps filling with it.

Anyway we're having dinner mean our other friend Tommy one night recently and Alex goes, Alex goes or you my old Volvo 164 would beat your Commodore Ed And I said I don't know that it would and you're totally would. And I was like I was like have

you driven a 3.8 Commodore And he goes not.

And I'm like, well, they're they're quite quick, you know, like probably sort of deceptively quick for a what looks like a bit of an old man's car, you know.

Now anyway, they didn't in the day and so yeah, I bet you guys the dinner by dinner for all three of us.

You know, if if you beat me in the Commodore, I'm like, alright, you sure you want to make that bet?

Because you're going to lose, you know.

And then just before, just before the bet was being tested on a private piece of Rd, he goes.

He goes. He goes, I bet you were dinner

at Gimlet. A Gimlet Haven't Been is a

rather exclusive restaurant in Russell Street.

I think it is. I've been a couple of times for

birthdays and things and it's rather expensive.

And Alex went there with work, but he didn't realise sort of how how much it costs to go to Gimlet.

And I said, all right, Al, I'm giving you an out here.

Are you sure you wanna go through with this?

Because you're gonna lose and it's going to be an expensive dinner. And he goes, Yep, I bet you give

him look dinner. So all right, cocky, let's go.

So yes, we lined them up on the private bit of tarmac and jump and of course I beat him, but I truly, to his credit, not by that much. You know, he's maybe half a

length or 3/4 of link behind me sort of thing.

Wasn't there wasn't much in it. So I thought, oh, the old banger

Volvo did did quite alright. But nothing, nothing gets 3.8.

3.8 So when will we be dining out?

Alexa, are you book it. And then I said, you know what?

This dinner is gonna cost you out.

If you looked at the menu and he goes, no.

And I go, well, three people with few cocktails and some mains and you're probably not getting much change out of 750 bucks. Then he goes.

Oh, what? Don't make pets you can't adhere

to so you know. Anyway, so so control top tip.

Don't make bets with with. Don't make bets without doing

your research #1 and #2. Never underestimate the 3.8.

Never late, you know. Never late, you know 3.8.

That's right mate. That is absolutely right.

I think it's time for the quiz. OK, let's go.

Yeah, that's great. Alright, let me get my notepad

ready to go. So we've got a few players

tonight. We've got Mr. David Prince,

we've got Mr Tyrone Cabral, we've got Mr Scotty Dog Johnson and we've got Mr Edward Bunting. So you know the rules guys. 10

questions plus some bonus questions.

Yeah, my phones here, he can't see it.

Question one German. Which car has recently

committed, even during the upcoming electric era, to remain V8 powered? Ed.

EDD. Oh, I just thought I heard the

other day the Porsche 911 was going to remain.

Petrol power, but I think it's a V8.

No, it's not. So you gonna pass or you gonna

have? No.

Yeah. No, I don't know.

So. Scott.

Full fit COVID is incorrect. They didn't announce it.

I mean, I'm assuming they would, but they they've got an electrical there anyway so. The E right, Like, but which?

Which? Which car has committed with

Even with the upcoming electric possible powertrains to remain in V8 powered, we'll have a V8 option anyway.

Tyrone Tyrone Audi is incorrect. So they would Prince or Mr or

Mr. Really. Probably BMW, stupid.

I already have my guess. Oht How'd you guess?

Alright, we're out. What is it?

The Mustang Mustang has committed.

This thing is committed to save the agent.

Question 2A Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40 has recently been converted to an electric power plant to do what kind of David?

To drive underwater. Correct.

Absolutely. I'll pay that to drive

underwater submarine on the submarine.

Why is that the bonus? Question bone and.

Bone the answer. I think it's rhetorical really.

I mean, which would you really want to?

But anyway. The bonus question What happened

decades ago? When it was last attempted, it

sank. Incorrect bunting, but you're

you're not far off, but it's. The whole point of electric cars

underwater is is interesting in itself.

It's quite a novel concept. It's a bit weird, but it was

attempted decades. Agreed.

What happened to it? I just can't remember.

Scott. Failed, sorry.

Sorted out. No, it didn't short out.

So it's a time on you, I guess. I don't know.

It floated. I didn't.

No, they failed to proceed in fact.

Any last guesses, gentlemen? It got stuck so.

Also technically failed to proceed.

It felt to proceed. Technically, yes, it got stuck.

I was reading that because the guy who does is in that Aussie selvage squad was one of the guys.

I can't remember what channel it's on, but you know they're going to become Rick boats out of, you know, off the beach and stuff like that. Well, seven mate, I think.

Yeah, one of those, one of those.

And yeah, what the guy in that show was one of the guys on the driving it underwater? Question 3.

The excess 69 plate first appeared on Which Generation Falcon Ed El. El is incorrect.

David Tyrone got in next. Yes, EF is incorrect.

David got in there next. EBE B is correct.

Mr. David Prince EB. We're going to say that's. 1st.

Question 4. The Holden Astra Sri Turbo TS

generation. So the first turbo after we got

here had a very interesting ad campaign.

When it was first launched, it featured a dog on the back seat.

What happened to the dog, Scott? Scott.

It got thrown around by the talk, Steve, that would.

Be correct because they talked like an absolute pig, but that is incorrect. It was with the joke.

It was worth a try. Why?

Because that was quite funny. Because that's a you give .5 for

making me laugh eating. Sorry, was that it?

Was this is Ed. Did it?

Did it get smooshed against the windows, like either side in the back? You know, like throwing around

and squished. Incorrect, Mr Bunting.

Incorrect. David didn't.

Divergent fluffed up because of the Turbo.

Well, you're getting warm, but you're not just there yet.

Incorrect, Tyrone. Lucky Last.

What happened to the dog? The dog in the back seat when he

was driving the car. Soccer cartoon where he took off

and the skinless skin was still there with the dogs then.

You know what oht skin ohe I'll give it to you Tarrant.

What happened was. It was a sharp, hey, you know

those dogs with the with the rolls and I got the boost.

Yeah, I remember that now. Yeah, it it went flat.

And then he changed it back to all and it would change and it went up again. Yes.

It was actually really good. And the caption was nothing

pulls like a like an Astroturf or something.

It was. It was quite funny.

So it was a Shar Pei and. Another night, good car ads that

are being done. That's on my list today with the

bug around. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah I'll I'll pay that tonight. So score check David Tutorin won

Scotty one sorry .5 and Edward yet the score question 5.

Now, just for some context, if if you if you name any of these because there's a few options, you get .5 for each net for each

one. If I ordered a TBA Falcon Taxi

Pack waggon, what could I have? What did it come with or what

could What options could I have placed on it it?

Ed, you could have got the front bench seat.

Front bench state is not correct.

You couldn't get that on on a on a waggon BA waggon taxi pack.

Will I get any other guesses or am I out now?

You can have. You can have one more guess

before you have to get one. Wrong.

You could order the screen that blocks off the rear.

Incorrect, Mr Bunting. Wow.

David, David got in the next. Vinyl trim.

Vinyl trim. Yes you can.

That was that was taxi pack. Yep.

What about What about the taxi radio?

Next radio is incorrect. Scotty.

You're next. You get, You get the.

Did you get the metal bar things for the cargo in the back?

Well, that was just like a you could you could, you could get that with any Falcon. They didn't have it on.

There so you could do it was on everyone single one.

Yeah, you got one more guess. Oh, you could get you could get

it on gas. They all, they all were factory

guys. I'll pay that.

I'll give you .5. They're all factory gas 5.

They all they all came in gas. Tyrone, you got 2 guesses.

Spare wheel? Was that on the inside of the

book? They had it in the Egus came

like that. So yeah, that's that's one more

gas. Get a taxi back.

Squeaky suspension dry ball joints.

One he did. Selection of aromas in something

like. No, you're out.

So if you ordered a taxi pack you could have got vinyl trim or optional cloth. You could have got heavy duty

rubber floor or optional carpet. You could have got the taxi sign

wiring automatically with the holes in the roof.

You could have you got the heavy duty suspension, 16 inch steelies, jewel horns to make sure that people know that you're there. Rear passenger reading lights

which are only came in a taxi back.

Grab handles times three with coat hooks, adjustable front suspension. Which I had no idea about, which

I didn't. Which I didn't realise until I

until I researched this. A manual book release and

optional taxi yellow or or taxi orange paint depending on what state you lived in. So there you go, question 6.

What was the first Australian car to receive a 5 star ANCAP safety rating? Ed.

Edd Old and acclaimed VR. Incorrect.

Not for five stars. American.

It's gotta be newer than that. Yeah, David.

David. OK.

The V Holden, Commodore. BT is incorrect.

Scotty. I still reckon it's newer than

that. I think you're right.

I think you are right Scotty, but that's.

Awesome. I am going to say it was the VE

Commodore. Incorrect.

You're you're in the same ballpark, but not quite correct.

Tyrone, hang on. Is it the?

Viz. Viz.

Yeah, that is incorrect though. It was the FG Falcon, first

First Australian car ever to receive a 5 star Safety ring Question Seven in the 1970s. North Korea ordered 1000 cars

from a manufacturer. The cause would delivered and

shipped, but they were never paid for.

What company had their cars stolen?

So north. Korea brand and model.

Is that what we need? Just give me a brand and I'll

give you the chocolates. That's all cause it's cause of

specific model would be too hard, but they ordered 1000 cars from a specific manufacturer. NFL or just in the world?

It could be. It's a Europe.

I'll give you, I'll give you a hint.

It's a European company. That's what I'll say.

And they ordered a They ordered it from there and they ordered 1000 of them. And they never paid for them.

They got them delivered and never paid it.

Good Reynolds. Reynolds is incorrect.

Scott, Scott. Where can I got?

Mercedes. Incorrect.

I would have. Said.

I would have said that, yeah, I was gonna say that.

But it's it's incorrect. BMW is also incorrect.

Sir David Prince. I keep a brand keeps coming to

mind because I remember hearing this story back in the day.

But what brand? Is that says, well, I'm gonna go

Rolls Royce. OHP Incorrect.

It was Volvo. Volvo had 1000 cars ordered.

They delivered them and they never got paid for them.

That's annoying. I should have gone with my gut.

I had Volvo in my head, I thought.

What sort of Volvos they were? Yeah, I have to double check

that. But basically, it was the

largest car theft in automotive history.

Are they still running around in North Korea?

They are still waiting. Possibly, Yeah.

Possibly. Probably early two 40s or late

one 40s. So they're probably still going.

What year was it when they did it?

Seventies 70s. Wow.

OK. Bonus question approximately to

today, how much do you think the cars would have been worth?

So how much in total was the amount for if you had to put a dollar a dollar number on it for 1000 cars?

For bank van. So like they I think what they

did was they they estimated for today in today's money so.

If you go in today's money, if you could put a.

Number On today's money I'll give closest to.

How does SCM? Is it like?

Is it like God? That's a big figure.

It's a It's a very big feel, Scott.

Scott, Scott. I'm going to say it is.

What's my figure I've come up with on the calculator?

80 million, 80 million. Sixty million. 60 million, says

Jay, says Edward. I'm gonna get 120 million. 120

mil, says Mr Princeton Tyrone. I'll get 90. 90 million.

I'm gonna have to split the points here.

It was $70 million. So .5 to Ed, .5 to Scotty. $17

million Imagine Imagine getting that much stolen off.

Yeah, that's just crazy. That could almost That could

probably sent them almost broke, to be fair.

Yeah, yeah. So score Check David 2.5 Tyron

One Scotty 1.5 Edward .5 Question 8 The Jimmy Heritage

Limited Model Edition How many were made and sold in Australia?

I don't think I'll do closest to again, I'll do. 250. 250, says

David Ed. Edd 1000. 1000, says Bunting.

I'll stay 500. 500, says Scotty. And how many do you say time?

We'll say 350. 350 point split again, it was 300.

So basically .5 to Tyrone, .5 to Mr. David Prince.

Question 9. Still anybody's game, gentlemen.

Still anybody's game. According to BYOD's website,

under the Dolphin name. So where it says dolphin and you

click into it and it comes up, it comes up with them.

What is the model's catch phrase that says BWYD dolphin?

What does it say underneath that?

It's a, it's. It's Flash.

Or you know what? Bunting.

Ohg, I'll give it to you. It says make a splash.

So now. I'll.

I'll pay it. I'm poking.

Did you make it make it flush with the dolphin early?

School church say I haven't been on the BYOD website.

Maddie. How would I know?

I didn't think any many would, but I thought the question would be quite funny because they did, they did launch it at SeaWorld like we said the other. So I thought, I see that it

goes, where do you think they launched the BYOD dolphin?

And I just went to SeaWorld and he went, yeah.

And I was like, well, I mean, it makes sense.

What's? That.

What was that? What's that, Flipper?

What's that? Yeah.

No, no, no, no. Unfortunately, Flipper would be

like electrocuted from the electric car being put.

In there, Yeah, it. Would be very.

It would be very sad to see to see Flipper and Free Willy and all those people. People, People have animals

question 10. The TRD Hilux was a car that was

released in the noughties alongside the TRD Orion.

It had an engine size of what in litres.

David. David. 4 litres. 4 litres?

Absolutely correct. That is the car quiz gentleman.

Score check. 1.5 to Edward and Tyrone and Scotty.

And tonight's winning a grand total of 3/4 is Mr. David

Prince. Well done.

Well done. Very nice.

So I wonder. I like since it wasn't a TRD,

sadly, but I had it before letter highlights and it ham and it was a very. Good engine.

Imagine that rather than caddy. That's that's.

Even help? That's.

Right. That's right.

That would have been a weapon. I saw one.

Yesterday actually on the road, I hadn't seen one for ages, but still had all the stripes and stuff on it.

David, what about your next plan being an APV Suzuki, They are pretty cool and they got twin. Sliding those are very useful

space. They don't have twin sliding

doors, they have twin opening doors.

Opening are they are. And as a result, they would be

very hard to. Seal the load area like, which

is sort of a prerequisite for our use unless you want to breathe paint fumes all day. I said I said to David Prince

when he was in the UK, should have just.

Bought a Fiesta van and brought back with him.

You know, that's. Actually did the transit.

Connects I really liked over there.

They're everywhere there, right Bucky, little, little.

Bands and. They wouldn't look very cool

with it. I set of wheels on the head and

some some stripes and stuff. I've got to buy, swap and sell

car. Now this is not mine, but a

friend of mines partner passed away and I'm helping her sort of get a roadworthy and do a few things to this pre sale.

But it's a Hyundai I30O8 hatch in a diesel so it's the little 1.6 diesel manual done 160K S in white and I just drove over

tonight for the first time and cheer goes well you know it's it's it's a nice little thing to drive but if anyone knows anyone out for little, you know, manual diesel hatch, what's that?

Could be 160K with a Rhodian Ridge.

You know it's gonna be 7 or 8K, doesn't it?

Well, that much really. I was.

Thinking like 5K what year? 08.

Safety pack or no safety pack? You know, how do you tell that

airbags, airbags and stability? Control.

I think I'll have a closer look at it, just just driving into a wall, Edward. You'll find out soon enough.

Exactly. I'll slam the brakes zone on a

wet Rd, see what happens. German I think that's a podcast.

Thank you very much. Matthew, thank you.

Thank you. I will do some.

Plugs, David Prince and Edward Bunting Your Season 2 is about to drop. Imminent.

It's so imminent. It's really close now.

That's very clear Retro the podcast where we talked to people about the cars of. Their lives on Spotify and

YouTube and all those cool places.

Thank you, David. You're welcome, Edward Scotties

golf tips. That's quick today.

Don't play the hero shot and you lost all drop.

OK, so this is something that all of.

Us. Absolutely, Absolutely.

Actually, I heard on the. Radio today, golf players.

Golf. People who play golf are much

more susceptible to skin cancer, so don't forget to slip, slop and slap Scotty. Yes, even if it's cloudy.

Still forget that sunscreen on you can still burn so.

So Dave's Gothic for the week as well.

Good morning, Chip. It this week is Don't buy one.

Yeah, you heard it first having said that, that, that.

That that golf country was kind of very cool.

That was cool. I was like, well, that, that,

that. Was that was pretty cool.

But. But have you seen the well?

Heard actually, because on the radio, the Volkswagen Amarok ad.

No. They're talking where it's a guy

that supposedly works at. Volkswagen and he's like reading

out people's reviews and things like that.

No, I think this TV, it's a TV. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And that for its too I keep. Here on the radio, it's so.

Pisses me off. It's so.

Annoying. So annoying.

I'm still, I'm still gonna say the.

Best Car ads on. TV are.

Subarus are currently they they're killing it.

And I love the I love that campaign.

So Subaru, big thumbs up to you. I haven't seen the campaign.

What are they doing? It's basically it's been around

a while. Now that's the one you.

Mean, isn't it? Scotty Go Maddie.

Yeah, it's to the tune of the the backing track is nothing's going to stop us now, OK, Yeah. And then move through from a

Brumby sort of there's. The rally car?

Yeah, Outback and stuff. That's very.

Good quality ad, that's. How you keep your brand loyalty,

Tyrone, any things you want to say before we finish on the show? Congratulations again.

Oh, good. Yeah.

Thank you now. Nothing else.

I think we should just do a a golf day.

One day, OK. Yeah.

Go out and have a heat. I'll.

Actually, I'll actually. Be keen for that.

I'd be miserable. I've never.

Played golf for my entire life before, but I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure by all the all the gossips we've had, I'll be a pro. I'll.

It's like I've got no issue with getting paral birdies on all my shots. You easily have it with all

those. Tips.

Make sure you just gotta listen to it all and put it all together into a little. Little its own little podcast of

just all my tips, golf tips, and.

Yeah, listen to them all the time.

You'll be pro what just before before we end on that.

The. The the the listeners are loving

your golf tips. There they the one of the

pictures like the person made a meme about, you know, Lee Carvallo's putting challenge you know from and you see the caption. They put it, they change the

cabin into you, grip your shaft and.

Like you said. And they and they put.

It in the in the comment. Section of Facebook.

I tagged you in it but I don't think it works.

So no, I didn't didn't work. I didn't get it.

Yeah, you have to go back, go back and have a look.

So I was like that's. A bit of Scotty, so that's

awesome. Was that was pretty?

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