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It's me, Maddie J on line with Mr Edward Bunting, Mr Scotty Doe Johnson, Mr Robs the Diet in studio with Chad the Bell and Alan Deep Singh. How are you, gentlemen?

Hello everyone. Well, thank you.

We've got a bit of a packed house today.

You've got to be at packed house.

Chad's breaking mics. Sorry.

Here's Rob. There he is.

His screen's just coming through.

How are you, Rob? Yeah.

Come sit down. Can you hear us, Rob?

He's having a moment. I don't think he can.

Well, we can't hear you either. He's not even talking at.

Least it's even. He's working it.

He's he's, he's working it out. We'll get back to him.

Tonight's topic we'll get to very shortly.

It's about what are the most conservative cars and why do car companies do conservative cars? We'll come to that later in the

in the piece, but let's get in with some car updates.

Edward Bunting. Hello.

Everyone car updates. What have I done?

Well, this morning I told you about the Hyundai Getz I bought, right? You have.

From the auctions and it has the littlest amount of clutch left that I've ever felt. So it was a bit treacherous

getting at home from the auctions, you know, over the Westgate. But this morning I had to make

the second trip in the gets from my home to the mechanic who's replacing the clutch. And I left early, you know, I

was, I was on the road by sort of seven or a bit past 7 and I had to go from my place to Carlton, which is maybe I don't know what's that six or seven KS, maybe bit stop start traffic here, a couple of hills there to negotiate Punt Rd.

You're bragging, man, Than me it doesn't.

Really go above 40 unless you're going down hills and I don't want to do any hill starts on it.

You know, I was, I really had the radio off.

I was really concentrating like come on, come on, keep moving, keep moving, keep moving. What are you doing, dickhead?

You know, I was really commentating the whole drive, but I made it there and then said please do not give this back to me without the clutch being done.

So yeah, he reckons I'll have it back tomorrow night.

So my sweet. That's I'm very good.

Be a fun drive home. I can really Fang the 1.6 with

the new clutch. The big block.

Big blocker mate. So that's that.

What else did I do? Can I can I just add before you

get in there, you know who else had a had a had a get manual Getz? Rob, you had a manual Getz.

Oh, Rob had a manual Getz. Yeah, good.

Car. Good car.

Went all right. I think the gearbox is a bit,

yeah, iffy, but apart from that it was good.

Oh my. Gearbox feels all right, just

just clutch. That's no good.

Yeah, I well, all right, Clutch. Yeah, yeah, other than that I

haven't sold anything or bought anything.

I really think I shouldn't buy anything else until I sort of deal with the Gets and the Triton and the E Class.

That's what I sort of need to do.

Took the E Class up to my brothers yesterday and it's a lovely highway car. He had a drive, took it down the

shops and back. He was oh, that's nice.

Than I thought Ed and I'm like yeah, there.

It's a lot of car for the money though.

I don't dislike it, no, but no, I don't think any other car news. Other than that.

Very good Scotty though I. Should let Ed do it.

He did a pretty good job when I was away.

But have you, have you listened to that episode?

Yeah, I did listen to it. It was hilarious.

But are you OK? Or did I?

Did I? Yeah, 100.

Percent. In the IT was.

Funny as. In the famous was a Chad.

It's like he was here in the room with us.

It really was, yeah. So Scotty, tell us, did you

actually laugh when you heard your voice?

Like I would have pissed myself. Yeah, Ash did as well.

And she's like, you know what? I've heard you a couple of times

and that's exactly what you say and sound like.

Well, that's the idea. Nailed it.

I tried to do it. Yeah.

I haven't listened back to that one yet.

I'll I'll have to do that all. Right to our listeners.

Great job. To our listeners, we're going to

do what we're going to do back to back, and we're going to see if we can tell them, tell them apart.

So #1. So with the R31 I haven't really

done too much at the moment. Hold it there number 2.

So with the 31, haven't really done too much.

Wow. Very good, very good.

You'll never know who it was. Start a new segment called Ed's

Stolen Identity. It's.

Like there's reverb going on or something.

You know that bank? You know my ANZ bank up?

It's like you say my. My voice.

I could. I could do all Scotty's banking.

You know it, probably. This thank goodness there won't

be much you'll get, so that's all right.

And told me the story once he and, and you know, we aren't the first radio show he's been on. By the way, he he was the voice

of of many, of many a radio show.

And and you were doing voices on on certain radio shows a long time ago. So like he's a man of many

voices. Edward Bundy.

Not many. I mean, I, I mean, yes, there's

many voices, but not many radio shows now.

There was one years ago. I remember Chrissy Dicko and

who's the Other one? Chrissy Oh, Dave O'Neill,

Chrissy Dico and Dave O'Neill. They were Vega FMI think before

it came smooth 91.5 was Vega. So they had a who do you do

segment 1 morning and I was driving to work.

So I ran in rang in and impersonated like meet the voice of a guy from Channel 9 and Dame Edna Everidge and and then they got me on to do, you know, ring back again or whatever.

And then they wanted to, they wanted to, they had a live show where you could go and, and like try it voices or yeah, I won the live show got 500 bucks. So I was like, that was my, that

was my claim to fame. Yeah.

It's a real talent, dude. So I did that.

Oh, and once Josh Thomas was on the radio with, you know, the comedian Josh Thomas is a whiny little guy.

He has an he has an unusual accent.

And he was on the radio and they were asking for people to call in. So I called in and was Josh

Thomas to Josh Thomas. And and he goes, is, is, is that

an impersonation of me? You know, and I.

Was. Like I was like, yeah, baby.

And and he goes, you can, you can come in and do all my early morning radio interviews. You know, I I'd love that.

You know, he talks inside. Anyway, that's my only claim to

fame. And you go.

So, so Scotty dough. You you're, you're impressed

with his, with his Scotty dough. Oh.

Very much so. Very much so it.

Was great. Number. 2.

Was just when I was listening to him I was like Oh my God, I am so monotone. No one likes listening to their

own board listings. We all.

That's why I do everyone listening.

I I prefer listening to my inner monologue, it sounds better.

I always sound so much cooler in my inner monologue.

Scotty, I think your voice is totally fine and, and it's, it's appreciated. It's it's, it's, it makes for

good listening and for for good repetition with bunting.

So that's that's always a good. Exactly.

I guess my real I'll do my real car update.

It won't. Be very long there's.

There's not much to it. There's not much to it.

So I hadn't started or run the actual R31 since our sucker picnic. So it's been sitting there for a

while and I thought, but we should take the covers off and see if that battery's all right. I do have the battery

disconnected, but the battery's pretty old, so I thought Chuck it on, see if it wants to fire up because sometimes if I leave it for a bit it won't crank. But snow was all good.

It started just like it's any other car really.

It just cranked over and then idled straight away perfectly.

So I had no dramas with it. I was actually quite impressed.

Oh. Awesome.

Sorry. So it's it's did you take it?

For a spin, no, it's too wet. Yeah, that's the best time the.

Weekend. Sucked.

The The weekend was terrible, actually.

It's it's free horsepower, Free Horse Rd.

Yeah, I'll skinny cobbled Falcon and they'll tell you it's free.

Horse helicopters, your foot slipped off the clutch.

Yeah, whoops. Free.

Free horsepower, Scotty. Yeah, and then found your car

and you know, today, tonight, sorry, A Current affair comes because tonight doesn't exist anymore.

They're impending your car, they're taking up on the on the the tow truck. And you're just like, I just

want a figure. I'll be perfect for my R31 soap

opera, wouldn't it it? Would be.

It would be the. You know, Andrew Greensworth

said to me when, when we caught up, this is before he saw the 31. That's a, that's a crow picnic.

He's like, you know, I'm, I'm just, I'm on the edge of my seat Every time he talks about this buddy 31 and he's like, I can't believe it because you know, it's been for years.

It's been getting on the road, got on the road, transmission blew up. And then from there was the

gearbox where he's like, it's like it's a never ending soap opera. And then that's why we're

calling it the soap opera of all cars.

But it's it's complete, it's done.

It's it's good. You've got working air con,

which is which is good. So.

Yeah. Air con, heater, it all works.

Yeah, yeah. I could, it would be funny if I

did. I reckon if I did get caught

losing a bit of traction on the road and I'll, yeah, everyone has that excuse of, oh, my foot slipped off the clutch.

It would probably be actually true for me.

See how my icon was off? I had all this it.

Really, really did. I don't want this car impounded.

You just want a fair go Scotty. Really been on the road please.

Good to hear that it started straight up.

So did you install your Game Boy?

No, I've got to still sit in here.

I forgot to bring it with me. Yeah, but I still got to get a

the 12 Volt to USB. Oh.

Yeah. Yeah, I just got to grab one of

those. They're pretty cheap and slap

that in and I should be all good.

Happy days Rob updates with you. Just repairing flat tyres on a

run, flat tyre on the on the nephew's car, getting the niece's car serviced. I actually went to Geelong, the

rode up there on the motorcycle in the rain and wet on the weekend so that was fun. Was that terrible?

Like look like, was it as horrible as that sounds or?

Pretty windy. Yeah, yeah, it sort of rained on

and off. It wasn't too bad.

You got the right gear. So it's, it's pretty good.

So I got to Geelong, I got my E30 up in Geelong.

So I started that up and took that for a spin like on the actually on the way up to Geelong first on the bike I come across. A whole lot.

Of a lot of Hondas, a lot of Civics and that there must have been some JDM mate on on the weekend on on Saturday, but there was 63 wide Japanese cars going down the Princess Highway.

Fantastic. It looked cool, looked

brilliant. So I was on my bike.

I just went, went around and went off I went, but I was slowing down the entire traffic right down the Princess Highway, like 90 kilometres or 95 kilometres an hour, freezing down the freeway. Anyway, so I got around then got

got to Geelong, started up the BMW, the the the E30 they went for. I thought I'd take for a bit of

a spin, top it up with some petrol, drove it down to Bunnings. And as I was walking back,

there's a whole lot of people standing around my car.

These Asian guys, they go fantastic, we love your car and all that. I said, yeah, it's not too bad,

a bit rough he goes, but that, that's what gives it that, you know, that sort of, I don't know, sort of patina or whatever. So they really loved it.

They stood around and asked me questions about it for about 10 minutes, I reckon. And they're all wrapped, you

know, they wish they had one themselves.

So it's, yeah, it's a good car. It's sort of actually a lot of

people do sort of sort of put the thumbs up when you drive it.

And so it's one of those sort of cars that sort of attracts a lot of attention. An E30 is definitely that sort

of car, isn't it Like yeah, people people like E 30s especially like in yours, like a coup and Emmanuel like that's that's a that's a cool car. Yeah, and it is fun to drive.

Every time I hop in it, it sort of yeah.

It puts a smile on your face. It feels like a go Kart so.

What colour is that, Rob? Is that red?

No, it's sort of that deep dark blue.

Oh yeah, yeah, Navy. Sure.

Yeah, sort of like. I've seen the colour.

Yeah, that's nice. Yeah.

So look, it needs a few dints. So I was thinking again that

maybe the the paintless dint repairs done on it, because there's a couple of dints here and there, people open up the doors on the onto the car and whatnot.

Yeah. So just try to clean it up a

little bit and yeah, it'd be good.

Be good to. Yeah, just sort of go out a bit

more often with it, I think. Absolutely there's.

One for sale actually at the moment stored on marketplace.

I want like 26,000 for it or something coins.

You're on to money. You're on to money there when

when you got yours years ago. Yeah, we paid like 2, I think

2300 for it or something right there.

Wow. How?

Long ago, was that Rob? Well.

I think it's a bit around about 2014 ish.

Yeah, OK. Wow.

How did you you came across that at a server or something, that card, didn't you? I was in Albury, son and I were

down there. We went to super cheap because

someone slashed me tyres and me on the Jeep while I had to park outside my friend's place. They knive the tyres, all three,

all three, three tyres and left. The 4th one.

They didn't touch it but they're about 3 puncher like punches through the side walls, a pocket knife.

It's an Easter long weekend. Nothing was open.

They didn't have the tyres to fit the car and they wouldn't fit the odd size tyres on the car to the at the tyre joint that it was open. What am I going to do?

How I'm going to get home? And luckily they sort of

punched, punched it on top near the tread.

It wasn't sort of like the full side wall puncher.

So I, I, I thought, you know what, I'm going to give it a go.

I went and bought myself one of those four Dr puncher repair kits and popped in all the, the things, glued them all in and pulled them out and trimmed them all off.

Drove all the way back to Melon. Wow.

Beautiful. So then.

What did you see the the E30 so. Whilst I was at the we were at

the Super cheap in Albury, we saw this guy back into an E30, beamed over here and then took off.

I took you, I took the guy's retro down and as I was walking back across the guy was walking to his car and go, hey, I've noticed someone back into your car and smashed the front little grill bit the, the kidney shape and they hit the top of the, the bonnet. And I, I gave him the, the

registration. He goes, ah, no, I'm not going

to worry about it sort of thing. Anyway, I said, look, if you

ever want to sell it, right, please give me a call, you know?

And he goes, Oh yeah, I'm thinking about selling maybe in 12 to, you know, 12 months or so.

Anyway, about 8 months down at the track, he rings me up.

He goes, so do you want to buy him a BMW?

And I goes, but he goes, but I want 2 grand for it.

I got sold. You're done.

Done. He had about 3 or 4 of them.

He actually is an engineer and he used to build race cars for this guy who ran the bus company, the Aubrey Bus company.

All right, so he actually raced D 30s but not.

This one, not this. 1. No, this one was.

The beta. The beta.

Yeah, the the Delhi nugget so. Yeah, he rang me up and he said

do you want to buy it? And he goes, but I've got new

bridges on it and I've just done a suspension.

I want 2/3 for it. Fine.

All right. Yeah.

All right. I'll take that.

That was still. Cheap back then, wasn't it?

Oh, it was. It was still cheap back then,

yeah. Yeah, that's.

Crazy. What is it like A318 or A31?

84 speed, A5 speed, yeah, yeah, nothing.

That's so good. It runs, drives well.

It had a bit of a oil leak at the oil at the actual oil philtre housing at the engine at the front.

And yeah, that's. Common Life.

Cylinder was leaking oil too, so I just replace the seals on that and replace the slave cylinder, the clutch cylinder, and it's all up and running. Yeah.

Very good. So, yeah, I took that for a

drive, so that was good. So then parked it up again,

disconnected the the negative on the battery and put it back on a trickle charge. This battery seemed to last a

long time on that one. It's been pretty good.

Yeah. I've only replaced the battery

once in the the the 10 plus years I've had it.

Yeah. So no, it's been good.

But you could smell I've got drive more often and swap the fuels out and I think I'm thinking maybe put 95 in it instead of premium because you put premium and it goes off too quick. OK.

So I think 95 might be a better, better bet.

Apparently they reckon it doesn't go off as quick. 90. 5

is better than 98, is that what you're saying?

Yeah. It's it doesn't go off in.

Terms of like shelf life, yeah. Shelf life.

Yeah, yeah. Actually, it's a bit.

Longer from what I what I've been told, I don't know, I need to do a bit more research. And what's the bit of fuel?

Well. There is a fine establishment

that sells, you know, fuel stabiliser that makes it last a bit longer. Yeah, well, you're supposed to

put that in straight after you fill it up or straight after you fill in it and then pack it up, because if you leave it for a while, it's not good to put it in after.

Yeah. So that's.

What I've been told by the the guys from the is the Molly stuff yeah, yeah. So yeah, but I need to do that

to all me cars. I just it's hard to keep on top

of them just just with the fuels.

I think I'm going to start off loading some cars.

I and just have 1-1 maybe one nice car instead of four OK cars. Oh, you got?

To keep the E30 when'd you get to?

Sell Rob. I don't know the XR6 turbo, the

Mustang 300 SC, the E30. What's the three?

100 SC? Which one's that?

Oh, the coupe. Coupe, Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. There's a couple up there that

they're asking big money for them, the good ones.

There's one that's a barn find. I think they only wanted

something like 40,000 for the Barn fine one well that came out. Recently, didn't it?

Yeah. A marketplace I saw.

That is, that the Burgundy. One Yeah, I.

Think it was. Yeah.

Yeah, I saw. That.

That's. Sold pretty quick.

Yeah, it would. Have that's already gone?

Yeah. But yeah, there's another one

there for 106,000. Jeez.

So I'll give you 20. I'll get 80 or 9080 or 90 for

mine. I'll, I'll think about some of

it, yeah. Fair enough, adds low.

Ball low balling, so 20. Is not.

I'm going to. Offer 50 bucks in a pack of

dairies for the XR6 turbo. That is.

The nicest X turbo. In the country you have it on

me. Friend Rob about. 44,000 KS on

it and it's the original 1 owner out.

Allen, you buy all your cars off me, I'm going to buy it first, then I'll sell it to you. All right, he's going.

To make us 50 bucks for you. So you're going to get it for.

Just a pack of dairies then I got 450.

So you're at the XR6 LM, is that what you're saying I'm.

Interested, but I don't have the money, Rob, unfortunately, that sort of money. Yeah, I don't have.

The Keep. I I probably should have got rid

of it when it was I probably could have got 40 plus for it, but now they've gone down a bit. So probably only get the sort of

like high 20s, low 30s for it at the moment.

Yeah, it's it's a. Very good car though.

Yeah. Oh, it's.

More with those KS though. Sounds like a.

Brand new car still is it? Yeah.

It's a. Pretty pretty clean car even

though because it's on a hoist all the time.

Every time. Every time I walk at a garage I

go. I go and grab my detail and and

wipe a little bit more. Gas.

Sea and all the suspension, it's a, it's a clean car.

It's clean, yeah. And yeah.

But apart from that, I, I don't know it just I don't know what to do with my cars. I'm sort of getting to a point

where with mum and you know, life in general, you don't you don't know what to do with your cars come second to life at the moment. Yeah.

So you sort of go, well, what do you want to do?

Do you want to travel? Do you want to, you know, if I

go around Australia for 12 months, what do I do with my cars? He's.

Going to look. Up battery and keep.

Them all, Yeah, I know. But you got to park them up in a

way that's they're going to stay all right.

So you probably have to drain all the fuels out or or I don't know, maybe change the fluid out.

No, not. For 12 months I.

Don't know you're going to find. Trustworthy people like myself,

Rob, you can store, you know, a couple of cars at my place and a couple of Maddie's or something. Give them a bit of.

Exercise. You know, can I drive it once

once every four weeks or talk about for a?

Walk. Yeah.

Walk, Yeah. Get them.

Watered and stuff, you know, driven on.

Sundays. Yeah, that's just.

The church. Just the church, yeah.

We won't come back with not cold air and taking the tune or anything like that. No, I would.

Never would dream of that. I'll keep my cars original safe

that MX. 5 wasn't original, it had that sillier Toto head unit

that. Changed the game Sir and the

original was it changed? It for the worst.

It was terrible. I'm.

Sorry you missed old man. Can't use technology that's.

A stupid thing I was mashing my finger at.

It didn't do what I wanted once you did.

You don't need to make your finger.

It's a touch screen. That's why I.

Sold. It couldn't.

Deal with it the whole. Car.

The Toto. Was a terrible.

It was great. Is.

It a Toto or a Toto? A Toto A Toto Amazon brands

cheaper. I'd.

Rather have a Toto from the Wizard of Oz dog in that car I.

Was thinking the band, you know my original.

Plan with that was I actually bought a module that you could use and it would plug into like the minidisc input and you just connect that to Bluetooth. So the the outward presentation

of the the units fully original and now it just has Bluetooth.

But it took me such a long time to get it out.

That was the worst with Maddie. That was like, this game is not

going back in. Yeah, it's pissed me off to get

the. Original one out.

Yeah, that. Was the one of the worst things

because somebody had. Taken it out prior and they had

stopped yeah like bent the pins and everything else not cheers.

So we we bought like to disassemble the car to get it, you know, that was. Terrible that that.

It was shocking, but anyway, we got it done.

That's it. That's all that matters, LM.

Updates with you. I don't really have any car

updates. I did drive a lovely Kia

Sportage in Townsville when I was there for work.

It wasn't under my name so I gave it the beans.

It was like Co workers credit card or somebody card that was.

Like a top spec one or? No, it was not a top spec and I

think it was at least a generation old.

OK, because the new ones don't have the printable anymore.

They've got the. Yeah, they've got.

The little dial. Yeah.

So the the previous channel on that didn't really go particularly fast and I don't think it was meant to, but and the air conditioning was nice in the in the Townsville heat.

Yeah. Yeah.

So all right, All right. Run there.

Apart from that, didn't do a lot of car business.

Was around a lot of buses, as is the nature of my work.

Didn't drive a bus, unfortunately or fortunately.

Yeah. So saw a lot of a lot of beer

bellies and drank a few beers myself.

Very good. Yeah, as you do.

That's my. Semi car update you're doing.

You're doing the board's work. That's it, Chad.

I haven't done a whole bunch of my cars.

I just been trying to find out why there's a faulty battery in my Sylvia. But I'm just basically got like

a reconditioning, like a battery charger that reconditions the battery and I seem to have sold it, but I don't think that's going to be a long term fix. There's something still going on

with the alarm. I think that's draining it

somewhere somehow. But I did help a friend out this

weekend, a friend of some of the show.

I guess most of us here. My friend Kieran's got a

Daihatsu for he's been. He's been.

Repairing for quite a while, he's ran into a couple of issues. He first got it and then it was

like overheating on the way, bringing it home.

And then turns out he, yeah, had blew a head gasket on it.

So he'd pulled the head off, you know, levelled it and all that and put a new gasket on. And then he's now, yeah, put it

all back together. And on the weekend we did the

last bit of it, which was putting the clutch fan back on, which she had to get like a part from Poland or something for she's no one makes them for the one.

Anyway, he got the part and still turned out to be the wrong part. And so you just had to pull some

of the bits off it and you for your work what he already had and sort of make it work. Anyway, we got it going and we

just couldn't get the temperature like the, the temperature wouldn't come up all the way.

Probably there was that. He said he replaced the

thermostat, so we thought maybe just the air pocket or something in there. So we ended up driving from

Cranbourne, from a friend's farm to his place in Malden.

And yeah, like he seemed to drive fine and didn't have any issues or anything. It was, you know, keeping up

with traffic and all that sort of stuff.

And it was obviously pouring rain as well on on the Saturday as well. So yeah, so that car's good and

ready to go for the most part. I think is just waiting for a

little couple of bits here and there.

It's already on the road like it's registered and he's on club, club perm and whatnot. So yeah, we just did a little a

little mini 4 wheel drive excursion Saturday and what else I. Just.

Cleaned some cars on the weekend I think just to did some little detailing in here and there and yeah, that was pretty much it for me. Yeah.

What about you, Maddie? What's going on?

Just. Quickly on that, Chad, what do

you do when you know you get to fan whatever it's and it's from Poland and it's the wrong one? Do you?

Do you return it? Do you?

Well, it's through. EBay and you know, the the the

part number that they like say is what it is.

Yeah, but it's clearly not like it's different to the photos.

So I think he's just going to try and do a claim on eBay.

I don't know if it's worth even paying the postage back to the place. So it might be worth just, I

don't know, hanging on or somehow getting rid of it somehow, but don't even have. Like a like a like a guarantee

on the parts or something or like it might be with eBay.

Plus, but I'm not sure, I think it might still depend on the seller. So I don't know where he got to

with that, so I'll have to check in with him.

But yeah, it was like $90.00 for the part, $90.00 to ship it

because, like, it's all the way from the other side of the world. And but, yeah, like, I think he

still took the bits off it that he needed, and then he just sort of like, made do with it, Yeah. Worth.

Annoying like you can't get it locally and then you try and get it from where you should, where it should work and still wrong.

Kind of annoying, but yeah, so a little little convertible for those fun top thing on the road, which was very cool fun.

Yeah, a quick one. On the eBay thing, I I bought a

lot all the the bushes and lower control arms for the E 430 and the fitment was shocking. It was real bad.

They were rubbing on the wheels, all sorts of things.

They just didn't fit properly. It fitted, but it didn't fit, if

you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah.

Weird, right? And.

I rang up the cellar and told them what was going on and they said, look, you know, that we really needed to know what was going on so we can fix the next lot they come out because I think they're all from China. Yeah.

Anyway, they, they refunded me. All right, Yeah.

So they're pretty good about it. And they said to keep the parts.

Oh no. Way yeah, so it's pretty cool

and. And I've done that with spray

cans and, you know, the old damage and stuff like that and just sent me another lot of spray cans like, like, you know, for when you do top coats or, sorry, primer coats and you want sort of like a guide coat. And so it's a guide coat paint.

It was all spilt and broken and within the box packaging.

And they just sent me another, another tin for nothing.

Yeah. So it's pretty good, yes.

I played with me. Your.

Updates Matthew, What have I done?

Driving the MR2, I drove it a bit last week and then it got really, really rainy and I was like, no, sorry.

I drove the laser for the rest of the week.

It's it's got a winter coat on at the moment.

The laser is just the dirtiest has been in a very long time.

So it's as Scotty would say, when you had the Liberty, it was, you know, it's it's it's been a coat.

So it's a the lasers in it's as the as the young kids would say, it's in it's a dirty girl era. So, so that's that's the laser

currently been been very good. I took a trip to imlux, which

we'll talk about very shortly because we, we got a power of specs in, in a moment to to get to get A to get a seat.

I've got an idea of of wanting to build a build a chair out of a, out of an, you know, an old back seat from a car.

And when I was there last time, they had this fair lane in there 2004 BA fair lane only had 130,000 K on it and it let's been side swiped and yeah, written off The front seats were gone, but the back seats were mint, like really, really good.

They're just just dirty. So I was like, would it be cool

to make like a, you know, like a leather, you know, a black leather couch, you know, before you know, for the garage.

So I went there, pulled it out. The people were were savages and

vultures that day like that. That was that wasn't like I, I

was walking with this trolley and people following me.

I need the trolley. I need the I'm like, no, like

I've someone's already got it, you know, before you.

They followed me to my car and said, can I have the trolley now? I'm like, no, I just said no

four times, you know, leaving the place.

But anyway, that's said last day things.

So I got picked up this, you know, black leather interior, you know, say about about rear seats or the, the base, the, the 6040 split and the, and the two side, you know, kind of bolts, the things that, that go on the, on, on the car.

And I've took it to work today and I sent it to my friend who I work with, who's he's like a, you know, a wood specialist.

And, and he, he kind of dropped for me a frame, the design of what we're going to do. And he's like, this will be,

this will be really easy to do. And he's very good.

Like he does all the school props for like the musical and stuff. Like he makes everything and he

drew it up and like I like before I got to work, you had it on my, you know, had it ready to show me and was like, look, I've, I've got it here for you. I'm like, Oh my God.

So that's going to be my job on Saturday morning.

We're going to, we're going to put it together on Saturday.

Sorry, I took it in today. I gave it gave the interior

clean bit of this old bit of Oakwood.

And then I put a bit of, you know, leather conditioner in it and it just sucked it in because it was pretty dry from sitting in a wrecking yard for a long time.

And it's just now it's all nice and supple and soft and 50 bucks of course means that. And you couldn't, you couldn't

get the leather for that. A few people have said that to

me. Can't get the leather?

Can't you just, you just can't get it for that.

So I I can't, I can't do it. Edward The the the the was the

boys got COVID COVID. I can't do it.

It's an inside joke. Anyway.

Mechanics we. Like to frequent, yes, yeah.

Anyway. So that's.

That's at work. I've dropped it off at the, in

the, in the, my, my work area, in the woodwork area.

And, and I'll put that together on Saturday.

But I also got the VIN. So I'm going to like engrave on

the back of the, the wood panelling the, the VIN number from the car it came from as like a, you know, kind of a, like a nice little finishing touch.

And if I do this, I'm like, I might say, oh, I can probably, I can probably make these pretty easily.

And and, you know, go find some nice, you know, rear couches and so you know, receipts and. So I see.

Lounge rooms for everyone, That's it.

That's it. Ford Fairlane lounges for

everyone. L Ltd Lounge is fairly happy.

Your wives are about this. Oh bro.

Steph. Came with me too.

She came with me to the she didn't go out of the car.

And anyway, she just sees me like lugging this trolley with this back seat and she's just like, Oh my God, what have you done? And I'm like, I'm going to make

a chair. I was like really happy.

And she's like, she's like, she's like, I'm happy for you, but she's like, where the hell are you gonna put this?

I'm like, in the garage, obviously.

Like, you know, we'll go with space in there.

Yeah. Garage.

Chair garage, she just. Shook her head and was like, OK,

so I'm, I'm yet to convince her that this is a good idea, but once the chair car arrives and she'll be, she'll see how, how incredible it is. And I even took off the, the,

the hinges and stuff from the chassis of the car so I can probably make the, the seats flip down and, you know, make it easier for storage. So I've taken that and, and

yeah, hopefully it, it all works.

And yeah, from, from what I've seen it, it's, it should work pretty good. But that is, that is my, my

little, my little car job for, for the next little bit.

I did get to order the oil philtre housing gasket for the, for the MR2 because that's, that's the only thing that's still got a little bit of a leak and you can't get it in Australia. So I was like, OK, I'll get

online. I found a place that sells it

$9. I'm like, oh, easy.

Went to buy it. So it was $70 shipping.

And I'm like, that is ridiculous.

I refuse to pay that much for shipping for eBay.

No, it was from a, it's from a, an MR2 specialist.

So then I've went to another site and it's like $50 shipping.

So I want to just keep looking around and see if I can find it.

It's just, it's just O rings. It's it's essentially a rebuild

kit for it. So I just refuse to I got a rule

usually and it's like don't if it's if the shipping is more than the product, don't buy it because it's a bad, it's a bad financial decision. Yeah, but I might have to kind

of, you know, so just watching maybe a.

Barbecue bonnet A. I'm like.

I said an engine block. Coffee table.

You know where the coffee? Table.

Yeah, I'm generally. Thinking I could make I could

make car, car furniture, you know, especially if we did a chair yeah, I've, I've done a chair like, you know, well in the process of doing a chair, but let's just see how this goes. If I'm not completely hating it

by the end of it, We can we can do some car furniture for hopefully one day the cartel headquarters that that will that will eventually happen one day and.

Startalk headquarters, which we're going to break into Rob's factory and clean that up. He's.

Going around. Australia, you know, it doesn't

matter, yeah. We're going to take a set of

keys to, you know, keep an eye on the plane.

Absolutely. Rob, that's you can have.

A working bee and build a mezzanine and then we can have the studio up in the mezzanine in a yeah.

That's a good idea. That's sick.

That's a cool idea. Look at the cars.

Yeah, I like. That.

Yeah, just don't let you know any of the the council surveys come in. Yeah, because nothing's going to

be up to code. No dwellings.

Nothing tough to see. Here.

Do our own. Wiring get matched by the sign

off on it absolutely we'll get. In this sign off, he's still a

qualified Spiky. Sorry.

He'll be like, does it work? Yeah, she'll be right off.

Off you go only. Sparks occasionally.

Just occasionally. Yeah.

Maddie with the O rings, they you can't like match the diameter and the thickness, but anything else, that's what I.

Thought, but they also come with it, so it comes with O rings and it comes with copper like like it's like copper bands as well with like it's like a weird kind of design thing from what I saw in the pictures. Oh sure, I'll send you guys the

link and I mean I could probably could be made.

I could probably do it here, but at least I know that our kids, Yeah, made do, you know, do. You know what country these are

in from the. States that's coming from so I

was going to give you a. Find a friend of the States to

buy it, ship it to themselves and ship it off to you.

I mean, that's. Probably the cheapest way to do

it because, like, it's quite, well, take a holiday, you know, but it's quite literally, you know, like a little plastic bag that big. Yeah, it's you put it in an

envelope. I don't know why.

Shipping 60. There are some like shipping

forwarding services, yeah, obviously I don't know how close you'll get shipping wise when you're already shipping it to them and then beyond. But if they, you know, get the

the item and they're willing to ship it for cheap, you could potentially get it done for like 30-30 bucks.

I'm happy with that because like I, I just found it like I went to press buy and it said, OK, shipping options Click to Australia, Bam, like 70 bucks. I was like, what?

I'm not spending 70 bucks extra on a $10 piece of seals, You know, like that's I got a little bit pissy at it.

And but anyway, that's that's a that's a whole another story.

So, so, yeah, but I'm been driving the driving the MR2 bit driver today. The Fiesta goes into Ford

tomorrow to get it serviced. And I'm going to have a chat to

him tomorrow about a few things. And then I think that's pretty

much it on my car updates. Gentlemen.

Now before we get to the main topic, I want to talk about Imlox self Serve, which has served the the country for 45 years I believe Edward. Something like that, Yeah,

that's what they, I think 19. 80 to 2025.

So it is centre, it was centre. Edrick is in.

It's not Clayton. It's it's, it's just out of

Clayton, isn't it? It's Spring Vale.

Or it's South or Spring Vale officially, yeah, now.

This place in particular, it's, I think, I think we've all taken a trip there at some point in, in, in our automotive lives.

And Edwin and I had a chat about this the other day and you, you, you know, you made some good points, Ed, like it's, it's a sad day. It was, it was a sad day for

the, for one, the car community, but also, you know, for the many hours you spent there, like the friendships we've made and, and the things. And and then I got talking like

we bought that, we bought that 238 from there that time, but that was going into the that was going to be put into the yard.

And yeah, that's. Right.

You know, it was. It was.

Kind of like a hub for us people.

You know, it was, it would, it really was.

And it's not just us, but like a lot of people have, you know, been saying, you know, it, it is a, it is a real sad kind of kind of moment. It's it's like a kind of like a

bit of a death, you know, like it's, it's, it's, it's the end of the year. It was.

My happy place, you know what one of but I I just was thinking about it afterwards thinking I've never been to IMAX and not been happy like. Like.

And I think it's that, as I said to Matt, look, there's other wrecking yards. Yeah.

And I feel the same in the other ones.

It was just that one particularly handy.

I suppose it's a close one. But you know, you walk, you pay

your two bucks and it's the best 2 bucks you ever spent because, you know, you walk in and you just don't know what you're going to see. Really.

Like, like you're thinking, OK, what?

What am I going to come across today?

It's a lucky. Dip.

Yeah, it is. Yeah, a lucky.

Dip, I mean, yes, they had a website.

It wasn't that up to date, you know, it was it was more it was more random than that. And you know that sometimes the

guys would say to me, oh, what are you after?

You know, and I'd say don't know till I see it.

You know, it's like and. And.

By that I. Mean, you know, I'll see an

Immaculate Subaru Liberty and go, oh, my mate's got one of those. I wonder if they need that or,

you know, seeing cars, triggers. Oh, hang on, that person's got

their that, you know, I'm not walking in with it.

Sometimes you walk in with a bit of a list of what you want to get. Yeah, sure.

But I just was like, no matter what was going on in my life, I said to Matt, I was happy at IMLUX.

I could not be happy there. So for an hour, for half an

hour, 15 minutes, for two hours, however long it was wandering around, tinkering, get grabbing bits of cars, seeing how that attaches to that. I was just, I couldn't be

happier, you know, And I just thought that it's really sad that I won't be able to go there and have that, you know, Saturday morning I'll just dip down to Imlux and just see what I've got now spare, just see what they've got, You know, like you, you won't, you don't have that anymore.

I mean, you can go to other wreckers and have that, but there's just further and maybe not quite as random as that one, but do you get your? $2.00 back if you buy something

I don't. Think.

You do no but. For me there's there's.

Ways around getting your $2.00 worth, but I won't go go into

too much detail for the. The pockets aren't empty cars.

That's that's. The best 2 back to spend.

Clips if you can fit down your pants right I.

Like how it's you honestly and. Then because.

Someone's got. A high metabolism, Let's just

say that. Well, look at the cars.

That I've bought from me I've I've made some money on those cars Yeah, I've told this story before.

I think that I went to Apple at Chadstone once to get a new phone battery. They had a deal 148 bucks.

And so my phone battery was dying.

They said oh we'll need the phone for a few hours.

Oh OK so I walked out of the Apple store and thought do.

I walk around chatty. And then I thought, no, I'm just

going to buy shit and you know, I hate chatty, so I thought I'll just get into in like. So I went down there and came

across a fresh Skyline, you know, sedan like the the the successor to the 240K. Well, they scored.

Yeah, that was Scotland. Even early.

Like an early Nissan score, I suppose.

Early. 80s. Skyline.

Yeah, no had. Just been.

Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah.

Put out like an R? Like an R30, No.

It's the C10, just just. Before that, I think, yeah, I

just. Went forward.

Twin headlight thing. Yeah, yeah, quad headlight sort

of thing I think called twin headlight, not quite.

Yeah, sorry, but that had just been put in the C the.

C like the C210? Yeah, C2. 10 that's it, C210 and

the guy goes, oh, you're like the 15th person to ask about the car and I'm like, oh, I'll go in for a wander and price it up.

He goes, by the time you come out, we would have priced it.

OK, so I wander out. How did you price the thing?

And he goes yeah, 1800 bucks. So I'm like all right.

And then I thought I'll just just ring someone and double check like if that's good. I think it is now I can't ring

anyone, don't have my phone. So I just had to go with my gut.

I went, Yeah, I reckon that's worth it.

Yeah. All right.

Yep. I'll take it.

Anyway, I brought it home about a week later, vacuumed it, did some research, thought, oh, these are actually worth a bit.

I sold that car for seven and a half, $1000.

Holy moly, I made. 5 1/2 grand and I thought so, yeah, you can

take all my $2.00 you want, you know, like I've done it right

out. And that was all good my.

Phone was stuck at the Apple store is the only reason I went there. She's.

Good. You know well when.

We bought that 2:30, you know, it was like we were leaving the yard and we hopped in the. Car.

And we drove it and it's like, stop.

And I was like, Oh my God, it's and he's like pull over.

And like Ed's got this uncanny ability to to just pick a diamond in the rough and and like when you walked up to it and it had a had a dig in the quarter, the lot they had the indicator was missing or broken and the the bonnet, the bonnet I was. Gone.

Yeah, the the. What's it called the the emblem

was gone, but then you had a look at him like this things meant then, then then we had a look.

I only had done like 114,000 K's was something.

Ridiculously. Low.

Yeah, they've. Done that 116, I think, yeah.

Because. We did about four in it.

I did 4IN it. But yeah, you know, and there

were telltale signs. And The funny thing was it had a

big fat sign on the windscreen. It said not for sale, not for

sale. Yeah, so we.

Walked around this for sale, he said.

Not for sale on the windscreen and it literally from when we went into when we came out, it had been shoved to the side, brought in on a truck or whatever like it was.

Still the engine back the engine was still warm you.

Feel the bonnet was still warm and there there are certain things with well with any car that you know we would all sort of be able to walk around and go well that's pretty original, but and that was one of them you know like original Coco mats, original stereo. The wood wasn't totally peeling

off the gauge said 116 and I looked at the wear on the steering wheel and those old benders go very smooth and it wasn't smooth and you know you just walk around and go this thing has not had a hard life. You know, it's got a little bit

of a Ding in the front quarter and the stars missing and the bonnet's a bit faded. But other than that, I reckon

that's genuine. And so then it was like, you

know, we walked inside and said, said, can we have the key?

And they, oh, you know, it's not for sales going out the back.

And I said, oh, could I? Could I just have a look at it,

you know, and say, yeah, all right, so, you know, go out and started it up. And it ran smooth and sort of in

and out of gear. And I thought, this is OK.

And then I said, well, what would you know?

What would I know? You want to put it out the back?

But what would cause you to perhaps not put it out the back, you know? What sort of dollar?

Figure would would save you from doing that and they came back and said I think it was 1400 bucks and it was like give it to me now you know we drove we. Drove it home that day we drove

it. Home, isn't it crazy and and you

know the 1st Dr of any car is, is is very telling you know always the the 1st 5 minutes you know by the time I got from him Lux down to sort of East Malvern where we went to the car wash.

I think we blasted it down, yeah.

The. The pressure hose, I was like,

I'm not selling this car, you know, like.

This. Is a genuine car, so it didn't.

Regretfully, it didn't have books.

But it had a. Current service sticker on it,

or you know, a service sticker from a specialist.

So I traced a bit of this history through that guy and he knew the owner, he knew who'd had it.

You know, they worked at a cafe down in Mornington.

I tried to contact them but never could.

But I did go to the cafe a couple of times.

But yeah, I suspect that car was sort of a, a family car, like it had been that the granny's or the aunts or something and down to the youngest son who'd had it a few years and then he'd got something newer with Bluetooth and whatever.

And, and this had just been towed away.

But really. And, and so, you know, I had the

bonnet painted and the guard painted new indicator lens and put the star back on the front. And I mean, you guys all saw

that car, you know, really nice, original 2:30.

And to think that was going to go out the back, which is just criminal or. Sort of getting rid of their

cars. Don't they realise the value of

it? Or do you think they just had

enough and they just couldn't be bothered?

People don't care. Rob No.

I think it's both Rob, I think they they don't know like and also like on this podcast, we can get stuff done.

Yeah, we're all reasonably handy and we have a network of people that we know that can do stuff. Looking at that bins, you know,

Oh mate, that's 5 grand worth of panel work, you know, and to someone, someone else, it probably is cars only worth 2 grand, not worth it. Send it to the wrecker, you

know, realise what it could be. And I think it's, I think it's

that, you know, what's a 5 grand repair to someone else is a is a $1500 repair to her and, and you've got a car then it's worth 10, you know, like. Yeah.

They they, they're not aware of that.

They're not in car circles. They don't have the networks.

And it's all just too daunting. And that's kind of what I, yeah,

I love bringing cars like that back.

And, you know, the other one that comes to mind from IMAX was a Magna, you know, and that was David Prince on this podcast.

He said, oh, there's a really clean Magna down at IMAX.

And I'm like, oh, yeah, what is it?

And he took a photo, showed us a photo afterwards or something.

And I'm like, that looks amazing.

It had done 80,000 K. It was a manual GLX Gen 1 Magnus

sedan at the front. I think they had 1400 on it or

1500 on it. And I went down the very next

morning at like I was there when the gates opened at 8:00 or 8:30 or whatever. And the guy said, oh, if you're

interested in that, we'll do you a bit of a deal.

Otherwise, that one's going at the back.

You know, maybe they just say this to me to get me to buy everything so I could. Smell you from a while away.

Exactly. And I said, oh, is there any

reason why you're putting it back?

You said we're just we're just out of room.

Like we've got more coming in. Like it's got to go somewhere.

And, you know, at the backs where they end up.

So I bought that for like 1200 and drove that home down Dandenong Rd, you know, that day or the next day.

And I was just like, jeez, these are quiet.

These are smooth. These these are really, you

know, class of, but they were a class above back in the day, those Gen 1 magnets. And that was I cleaned it up.

I. Don't think I ended up getting

that roadworthy. I think I just cleaned it and

repaired a few little things and sold it to a guy who had learnt to drive in that exact car. He wanted a GLX manual sedan,

you know, so I sold it to him for, I don't know, 3000 and something dollars, you know, like there wasn't massive money in it, but it was enough. And the car, more importantly,

the car got saved. You know, it wasn't it wasn't

getting pulled apart. And this is 80 K Magna.

Like you don't you don't wreck that.

You know, it wasn't busty or anything.

And then you got your which you still have and.

Of course, yeah. Yeah.

That was that was in the yard. That.

Yeah, that. One was different because that

was actually at the back. That's the only one that was up

on blocks in the yard that I've ever saved.

And they sort of were just shaking their heads like what you what are you going to do, store this?

How did you convince them? Well.

Yeah, it was it. Was probably a bit more loosey

goosey back then. It was probably not as quite,

you know, tightly regimed or whatever, I don't know, but.

It's just downplaying his salesman charm, no?

No, yeah. Screwed, but I remember.

Arguing. Negotiations.

Are you just? Looking or are you?

Yeah, looking. Or Draymond.

I remember arguing with the guy on the counter back then.

Now the truth comes out he wanted.

Three, I think I said how much just to buy that whole car and I think they said. I think they.

Said 400 and I wanted 300. And.

We went round in circles for a bit and it broke.

This man down, yeah, it broke this man down to like his childhood traumas and everything.

Hang on, this was. Like 20 years ago though, this

is. Like 2003 or somewhere there.

Yeah. So it's like.

Yeah, A. Long time.

Ago. 1200 bucks Australian. Yeah, yeah.

So. I ended up paying poor man.

Down. Yeah, the guy got new therapy

after that and it's like, yes, I've saved the 100 bucks.

Paid 400 payment for the night. He's like, like, I'm not, I'm.

Not gonna have. I'm gonna have to eat bloody

eggs on toast. Eggs.

On toast what? Are you rich?

It's beans on beans on toast. Beans on toast.

I'll tell you another story after.

This one so $400.00 later and then they had to forklift it out

and the truck driver literally said you're not going to restore this, are you? Like couldn't believe why this

was coming out of the yard and so much so they didn't give a shit about it. They dragged that, you know, the

chains, things they used to they, they dragged it over the, the roof in the bottom of the car.

It's still got scratches where the chains got dragged over.

And then I had it towed to a friend's house because I had no space. And, and I went out there that

weekend and we put a battery in it and put oil in it.

And it was the thing just fired up and idled beautifully as it still does. And that's 2020 something years

ago, you know, so and I traced the whole history of that car.

You know, those who would have seen my Instagram post about it, you know, the sticker on the windscreen led me to the mechanic who'd serviced it, who I knew, the guy that worked there. So he printed off the service

stuff for me. I rang the the lady's phone

number. She'd owned it since new with

her husband. She'd only, she had quite bad

dementia, but just had it, just had it towed away like the week before. And and she gave me all the

service papers for it, like right back to day one in the spare keys. That's correct.

Amazing story. So that one literally was from

the jaws of death. The other ones were sort of all

only threatened the jaws of death.

But yeah, so, you know, the $2.00 entry fee's been well

covered by the money. I've yeah, years.

Ago. Mightily.

On top. So if you're short on stock with

cars, you get just go straight down there and loiter around.

For what? Yeah, just loiter.

Around for one or two hours, Something's it.

Plays. The IT plays a $2.00 lottery.

He's going everyday. Put your two bucks in, go look

around and then you see some bam.

Is there any particular? Particular value than.

Sky or Friday? Or.

I think it's just random. Well, even that my Renault, I'd

left it for a week because someone put on the French car for him. Oh, there's a there's a really

quite an original 16 out the back down there.

You know, great parts on that da, da da and I thought I'd get enough cars. Don't even go look at it, Ed,

You're not going down there. So I told, I convinced myself

not to go down there. I waited a week and then I sort

of went just, you know, I would have to just have a look.

Surely, man, surely it's. Not still in that good condition

surely. Surely.

And then when I walked around, I'm like, Oh no, that is actually really cool. So it's like.

For you guys, it's been like such a right place, right time.

Yeah. Just bargains to be had.

Yeah. I've never seen a good car for

sale at any wrecking yard. Like, we've never come across

one that's been like, oh, man, you know, this has got to be saved. Like they've always been

buckets. And there's a reason they're

they're. Usually, you know, yeah.

And then? Even the good ones, like good

quotation marks, the ones they put like right at the front or like just the outside. I'm talking about any wrecking

yard. But like, yeah, they're.

Not basically they're. Just trash.

Yeah. But yeah, you guys have just

found these gems. Gems.

It's unbelievable. I'm so jealous.

My. Biggest.

Tight ass moment though, just talking about haggling or whatever here we here. We go this is for you, this is

for you. I.

Was looking for. A car for my sister and at that

stage I was big fan of the Renault.

I still am big fan of the Renault 12.

Very simple, robust, comfortable.

Little cars and they were. Very cheap for a long, long time

and quite a few of them out there.

So I'd had numerous Renault twelves and there was one in the trading post that had just had new wheel bearings and something else done and something else done like 6 months earlier.

And then the, the, the kid who was leaning to drive in it, you know, didn't want anymore or something.

Got a, got a normal car and it was advertised for $60.00.

It was like 500. Then the next week it was 400,

then it was 300 and then it was just 60.

And I thought, OK, 60 bucks I've got, I've got to go and look at this thing, right? So I went out to like furniture

galley somewhere and it was actually a pretty original old thing, You know, it, it, it was cosmetically a bit Thai like being a bit bashed around and Ding, but mechanically it was sweet as pie. So I offered the guy 40.

He doesn't think he goes. Mate, the car's 60 bucks.

And I'm like, yeah. Fairpoint.

Fairpoint, we just couldn't not, I couldn't not haggle, you know?

You've never paid asking price, haven't you?

He's not anything. Never.

He's a man. After my own heart you know

against never paid full price my.

Sister had personified. That.

My sister had that Renault 12 for six years and at the end of six it was still running beautifully.

That motor was sweet as pie. It leaked oil, it clunked, it

groaned, it did it. But my God, it always started,

you know, and. I pulled.

The mirrors off it has because it had the genuine French proper Chrome mirrors. The later Chinese in imitation

ones are nowhere near as good. So I pulled the mirrors off it

and sold it for $120.00. Doubled our money six years

later. Just for mirrors, what year was

that? I kept.

I kept the. Mirrors.

I've still got the. Mirrors.

Oh, that would have. Been like 1998 or 9 or 2000 when

I came out somewhere there crazy and it went to a guy in Sydney who really wanted that model. So it look who knows that might

live on that car. That's that's.

That's crazy. Yeah, that's. 60 bucks.

Hagger for 20. Hey I.

Respect it. But I'm also, you know.

Just I'm concerned deeply. Concerned it was a.

Principle, and I mean I wouldn't do that now.

I would probably you would. What's like this is getting a

little off topic, but what is the most like lowball tyre kicker off? If you've ever given somebody

like someone's asking for five grand, you've got like, I'll give you 1500 or something, you know, that sort of thing.

I probably haven't been that off.

There's been a couple of cars where I really didn't work like I've just gone get Nah like you know, I've said thanks for your time, but look for me there was one another Reno 12 ironically, and she wanted 1200 or 1300. I said look for me I only pay 40

bucks and. It'd have.

To be real cheap for me to do it.

But thanks for your time here. Not a bad car, but it's not for

me at that price. Okay, so just because I was

nice, she rang me back two weeks later and said, Ed, cars gotta go. You were nice, you're obviously

gonna do something with it. How about 50 bucks?

And I was like, okay, well. You.

Didn't go for 40. I didn't know.

For. You made what she?

Asked for that one. I did go out once with a friend

to help him buy a car. You know, you get roped in like,

oh, can you come with me to look at cars, Ed, no worries.

And if it's if it's a good friend, I'm more than happy to.

So we went out to look at cars for him and we looked at two or three and that none of them were quite right or they had something wrong. You know, they weren't weren't

for him. But in the meantime, I got

talking to his sister that Arvo and she said, oh, my friend's getting rid of this mini. So I ended up going around and,

and buying this mini for $200. And so I ended up buying a car

and I came home and mum said, oh, did you, did you help Dave get a car today? And I'm like no.

But I bought 1 so. I'll tell you what.

You should do is get the, like an old clunker, like a real old Magna and drive around the western suburbs or the far northern suburbs or eastern suburbs and people come out from the houses and say you ought to take mine off the nature strip and you'll get them for nothing. Yeah.

We should do this, I do think. Yeah.

My. Read Good friend of the show.

That's how we got a lot of his cars.

Like he, he, I went there when he had this Camry there like like my mom's camera, like a 2010 ish Camry.

They're like, oh, when you get the camera, he's like, oh, I don't think he paid anything for it and he was just giving it to it because like it had a flat battery on the other side of town and they were just like flat battery.

It's a right. It's it's.

Too much to deal with. Just just take.

Take the car. No, he took the he put a battery

and it's fine. Like, you know, dude, we need to

go to that area and just just just just just just loiter where the old. Wogs live, Yeah.

My my son's fast. I don't.

No, I can't. I can't pick.

My son's boss gave away one of those W116450 SLCS.

What? Gave it away, told the, told the

guy. Just take it.

Oh my God. Yep.

Wow. Had it from you?

That's. Crazy talk.

Take it Well, I mean. I mean, people do wild things at

wild times, like my my mom was telling me when she worked there for another place, this guy, a regular customer that that comes to that workshop came in with it with like a really at the time brand new S class. And she's like, oh jeez, you've,

you've stepped up your game. And she's and and he's like, oh,

not really. But it's, you know, it's it's a

beautiful car. Like it was like a year old.

It's a year old S class and she's and she's like, oh, you know, but it's what do you want to do?

What do you want to do? He's like, I'll be here to get,

you know, come in looking for a Rd worthy and he's like, guess how much I paid for it? And she's like like $150,000.

He's like how about $1000 and she's and she and she's like, she's like, wait, I'm I'm sorry, what?

Anyway. He was.

Like so it was in a it was $1000 or $10,000.

It was one of the two. It was, it was a ridiculous like

it was $150,000. Car anyway.

He's like he saw it up in the, it was in the, you know, the last years of the training post. It was in there and it was like,

you know, 22,000 and six or whatever S class $10,000 or 1000. I can't, I can't read the exact

number, but it was, it was 10 or one just showing up.

But I'll call it, it's probably just a type of probably just like $100,000 or you know, and he's like a lady picked up and she's like, Yep, come get the car today if you want it for that price. And he's like, I'm on my way and

he and he gets there and then he's like, I'm here to pick up the car. And she's like, yeah, no

worries. Give me a second.

He just hears in the background, you are like this guy just going off at this, off at this woman. And he's just like signing the

paperwork real quick. And it turns out he cheated on

her and he put the car in in in her name.

So she's just to get back at him, sold the car, it's her.

It's it's her car. Yeah.

So you. Can sell it, you can sell it so

and like he's like fool like he's like I could hear in the back and he's like, you know, just swearing carry on.

And he's just like selling the paperwork as quick as he could to get the car out of there and see you later.

So that's if. You bought a car under your your

wife's name and you signed all the paperwork even though it's registered under her name. It's really your car, isn't it?

Who's it registered to? Just real, that's what.

I say, who's the registration? Doesn't mean you own the car if

you've bought the car and you've got the contract of sale.

Kind of does, doesn't? It.

Yeah, if. There's no contract of sale then

that is the ownership form. Who's the?

Registered owner of the car. She is.

She can do it. That's it.

Yeah, OK. So.

Unless there's like a bill of sale that predates it or, you know, yeah, after the, yeah, the the car's being received, It's an. Unregistered car and you could

prove ownership papers then yeah that's yours but it's registered. It's kind of like, well, that's

yeah, she has. Full rights to sell it.

I think the trick is if you have put assets under your wife's name, probably don't cheat on her.

No, it's a top. Tip but if you are.

Cheating on her. Don't get caught.

I mean, how about? You just put them under your own

and don't cheat. And then second, if you do,

don't, don't. That's the other name, Car Talk

Top. Tip cars in your name always

that's it that's it. I think that's what we've

established from from that little story.

But there you go. That's how you get a really

cheap S glass. But yeah, look, it's it's an

odd, you know, ode to team Lux Thanks for all the years of of going there and cars found and and it making money on but also thanks for all the memories of going there too.

Like, you know every time I went there there was it was always something interesting and something there was an MR2 there like like a southwest 2998 up. But I was like, this is the last

time I went. I was like, oh really like what

the Hell's that doing here? And you do get cars, like there

was a Rolls Royce there at one point I remember seeing.

It was a silver shadow. For a long time, right up the

back. Under the power lines, yeah.

So, yeah, they've had they've had some interesting stuff there and, and yeah, there was always, it was always a cool place to go again, Sad. That's what's one more, you

know, gown for us car guys. But the memories will live on.

Ed will have to find somewhere else to scatter your ashes.

Yeah, exactly. Right.

Yeah. Exactly.

Yeah, what's your? 2nd favourite wreckers.

My second favourite is probably, I do like pick a part Kilsyth because it's up on the hill. So you get a bit of a, that's

quite nice up on the hill and they've still got some old weird stuff out there. Probably Harvey's, you know,

down at Lang Warren is, is quite nice.

A bit of a, these are all a bit of a drive though now you know.

And then Jollies is very organised, but there's something about being very organised that is less appealing to me.

Yeah, I found. Joey's interesting because like

they charge different part for the same part on different cars, different parts, I know. Different prices, I know.

That's annoying, and also like if you're there to look at Honda CRVS, there could be 5 of them all scattered in totally different locations. Yeah.

That you've got to kind of wander the entire yard to find the car you want. I mean, they do give you a, if

you get the car number, you can look it up here and find where it is. But I find that annoying.

It's sort of nice having all the Mitsubishis in one spot where you can just go. Oh, the Honda's in one spot

where you just go. Yeah.

And often there's things on one model that will also fit another model. And if it's right next door,

I'll just grab that off that because that's the same or you know, something so. Yeah.

You know, probably you kill scythe, you kill scythe.

Pick apart would be my my next. That's where I used to go before

I even knew about him. Like so that.

Oh right. That's what that's.

Still there, but that's not open on Sundays.

Now they're only open on. Boger yeah, so.

There's I'm being. Really hamstrung by all of this,

you know, we'll support. Each other survive and live.

We'll support each other through this.

It's yeah. It's yeah, but it.

Is like, you know, it is sad, but.

Yeah, we can think of all the good things and all the good, you know, parts you've you've bought and cars you've found and things you've done there and you know, let's let's keep that going with with the next with the next few places.

But thank you remarks for all your support for the car community over the last. 45 years.

Do do they? Do you know what?

It's turning into I think. It's public apartments.

Yeah, they. Sell the land.

Yeah. Well, I just.

Like, is that land so? That land the.

Factories or. What?

Look that you you won't be able to do.

Anything. With that land for quite a while

because it's it's had so much contamination of what stuff?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, right.

It's going to take. Forever.

To clean all that, it has to be like totally cleaned out.

And then they've got to do soil testing, probably anyone that builds on it. And, you know, like, before it

can be sold and legitimately sort of given the green light, it's got to go through a lot of recommissioning, I think.

Yeah, a lot of a lot of corruption, you know, Yeah.

Like when you've got a. Whenever you've got a service

station. That's had tanks in the ground

and stuff. Yeah, those sites have to sit

for quite a lot of years before they can become something else.

And you can build on it, you think, with a lot of this, these land taxes and all the taxes. The government's putting on all

these owners that they're, they're having to get out because there's not enough money in it anymore.

By the time I think that's part of it, I mean that's.

Not a place of residence. So you would be paying land tax

on 10 acres, you know, that is. So the land tax bill's probably

huge. The insurance bill's probably

gone up, like all our insurances have gone up.

Public liability. Public liability's probably gone

up. So it's and.

The fact that they're all getting older and probably want to retire, I think it's probably a melting pot of all of that and you're so screw it, you know, Yeah, sitting on 1,000,000 and 1,000,000 millions of dollars of value here.

It's it's time to go. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm talking.

To a lot of friends at the moment.

Who have had assets to build out the wealth over the years.

They're all just selling up and just.

Cutting their losses or wherever.

They can. The the land taxes are killing

them left, right and centre and everything else.

It's just yeah, to that point, Yeah, exactly right.

Have the land taxes gone? Up that much like.

Like have they just? Skyrocketed recently, I've heard

like you're not the first two people I've heard the sailing few few other people are saying that they're it's an and it dependent the ones I feel sort of a bit.

Sorry for people who've inherited properties that they paid. You know, you might have

inherited a property through your parents or your grandparents, you know, maybe it's down the beach somewhere or you know, some of the countryside or something.

And just because of where it is, you know, grandpa might have bought it for £60,000 back in, you know, 1958.

Now it might be worth 2 and a half million or three million, but you know, you didn't pay that for it.

You know, you sort of inherited this thing and now you're slapped with this. You know, you might be paying 20

grand a year, 30 grand a year, land tax.

Jesus. And so, you know, it's like well

worth. It Yeah.

Not everyone's got that to just sort of frivolously throw away at nothing that you already own. It's not like you don't own it,

you know? You might know even probably not

even paying it off, you know, so they're sort of wanting to hurt people who are buying a $3,000,000 beach house and got plenty of cash around to pay land tax.

But there's they're they're a family that hurts others in the in the long term property. Ownership there that that.

Didn't pay anywhere near that for it and they're being slapped at them. I think that's unfair.

Yeah, but agreeing. But.

Yeah, that's just, that's the. Government for you, that's the

tell that's how yeah, just buy shares, you know yeah.

Live in a. One bedroom apartment have 10

cars and buy shares. That's it.

Car Talk Top tip. And then Donald Trump, you know.

Who runs the market? You lose, you know, all your

Tesla shares what is going on with Elon and they were like, that's, that's. It's the foot off on these

things. We've seen they're having a bit

of a row, aren't they somehow? It's all a distraction, they

say. Yeah g'day.

Aliens are here. Whilst there's riots going on in

LA, Yeah, hey. There's a peaceful protester.

Right. Doing throwing peaceful bricks.

Imagine how many police cars are going to be up for.

Auction. Yeah.

Well, that's yeah. You want to get a.

Get a cheap interceptor anyway moving.

On now I want. To talk to you about car

companies being conservative, do you think native the car companies are being? Conservative with their.

With their designs and what if? If so, what are the most I

should? I'll ask this first.

What are the most conservative cars that that are on sale or have been right now? Yeah, I was going to say the

Toyota. Avalon, but that's.

Not right now, that's. Not right now, no, But.

That's why Toyota. Starts with the sales, because

they're too. Conservative.

They'll yeah. Well, in in a sense.

They're still a. Conservative company like.

They're very conservative with, with what they do and, and their designs and like you, you're trying to be better, you know, and yeah. They're trying to be better.

You know the big. The new head guy.

Was like we don't want to build boring cars anymore and you know, you got things like Chr Yaris Cross is a bit edgy.

Rev 4 you know's got to be a spunk about it like they're they're not as bad as they were. You know, they're I think

they're going in a in a reasonable direction, but you're hoping on modern Hilux and it's. Not great like it's it it's Alex

is probably more of a recipe I. Suppose, but I don't know what

is the most. Conservative car out there now?

What's I reckon Mazda is up. There.

I reckon I'm I'm agreeing with you.

I reckon. Yeah, they're pretty.

I don't have any crazy new designs.

Like a like a CX5 is pretty pretty conservative looking.

Well near the SUV lineup. They all look pretty much the.

Same. Front on their whole.

Range. They haven't really done

anything crazy. Yeah, interiors are pretty, you

know, there's nothing crazy about.

The interiors are very basic looking inside.

Well, it's weird that like there was a.

Company there, they've just kind of plateaued like they haven't really done anything, you know, like they're, they're kind of just like, Yep, this is it, this is what we do.

There's no innovation or anything anymore.

No innovation. They've they've got nothing of

interest. Really, I mean, the MX5 is the

only kind of interesting that they sell for well for us and the enthusiasts, but like even they're even the Mazda 3 like like it's a good looking car, but like terribly like economics terrible in terms of like, you know, blind spots and everything. It was it's a it's not a nicely

designed, it's not a well designed car in terms of in terms of everything. But as a company, I think, I

think they're quite conservative.

They're they're you know, we do this, we sell OK cars in Australia. Let's just let's just stick with

that. They're not really changing.

I think, I think they're quite conservative.

I think the Chinese companies are not conservative.

I think they're, they're really trying to push the envelope and they're, they're being, I mean, BYD is, you know, designing things after animals, like sea animals.

So like quite literally. So, you know, and, and they're

selling quite well. But then again, when you go too

far down the other end of like a Kia Tasman, which I don't think I haven't even seen one on the road yet.

Like that's, that's just shows people.

You. Know.

Turning oh, that's a bit too far gone so like you know in that in that instance, all cars from like SUV's and stuff like if you look like a modern you know CX5, they're kind of all all cars from that from that era look the same, don't they but they're like sorry from that like classic car they all look exactly the. Same, you know.

All you know, if you painted them all white, you'd be.

Unless you're one of us, you'd be hard pressed to tell.

Tell them apart. Why do you think that's the

case, boys? Like, like, do you think they

can't come is just the sheep, they're just trying to be safe.

Or do you think that that is the the one way that they're gonna keep selling cars? They get too big and too fat and

it's too hard. For them to change and retool

like they used to, like they used to, like back in the 90s, I would say even the 80s, there's a lot more work involved.

But every three years there'll be a whole body change and then and things would move along. Now it's they seem to hold it on

for a bit longer. I don't know that that style or

that chassis line. Yeah.

Hold on to them a bit longer. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, Mazda. 6 went The last

generation's gone. Over 10 years now, I think so,

yeah. It's pretty incredible.

Yeah, but. That that's like a really good

example of a safe sort. Of boring.

Car that will just sell, right. It's just they've they've got

this recipe, it works and they just kept flogging it.

Yeah, absolutely. Some of the other cars, I mean.

Especially Mazda. They.

Do like like really smooth like what's it called?

Like edgeless design? Or whatever like the.

Mazda 3 Basic, Yeah, it's cool, but yeah.

It's. Again, it's like really safe in

terms of other parts of the car. Yeah, I know.

But see, that's your point. Like we, we, we bag on.

BMW for the current lineup of cars and to be fair, they're terribly looking like, but like they don't they're not a good, but at least they've gone and done something different.

So I can't knock them for that. But like on on the the.

Contrast to that, you've got something like a cyber truck, which is completely, literally edgy.

Edgy. Yeah, it's completely.

Unsafe. Literally and metaphorically

cutting fingers off. Yeah, cutting fingers off.

You know, knocking people's heads off if you hit them head on. So.

And that was a struggle from day one, like approvals and sorts of things. I'm pretty sure it's still

banned in Europe. I don't know, probably.

But yeah, just just all. Sorts of things.

And it's how is he, given what's happened with Elon and how it's all gone down, it's hard to be like why?

Well, what was the real reason for the flop?

Is it partly Elon ISM or is it, you know, just the side track being an overall poorly, really poorly designed and built vehicle? So you see that a lot of car

companies will see that this they took a big risk and there was a lot of Hoo ha about it. But in the grand scheme, they

didn't really translate to a lot of sales.

No, but then again, like the rest of the Tesla range is.

Is very mundane, very safe, very conservative like like you can't tell me you're 3 or why is not conservative designers it's just a BLOB No, they're pretty conservative but yeah like but they. Also sell reasonably well.

Yeah, again, notwithstanding the current market situation, they, they, they sold pretty well. And whereas the, the wild one

that everyone like it did draw headlines.

But, and at the end of the day, it's not selling too well.

And I don't even know if how many they're they're putting out factory wise considering, you know, the, the different issues they've had. But still, it's like, you know,

do you take that risk? Are you going to put all the

tooling in and everything else in place for people to be like, oh, it's a bit too wild. I don't know how I'm going to go

about the resale because that's for a lot of people that is in your mind. What about the resale?

That's why a lot of people don't buy wild colours.

It's true. You've just got your basic

colours, your silvers, your blacks, your whites.

Deals like, well, resale. But see, that's not necessarily

true because. On the contrary, people that buy

like like a cool colour and a rare colour, like in a bit of an outlandish colour, they sell for more usually because like wow, that's like a 911 in that purple.

Yeah, but a 9/11 versus a Toyota Camry that.

Somebody's got that is also true, like a red Camry.

You're. Pink, yeah.

So he's got like, you know, one of.

Those matte, you know, matte green, like raps on it.

No one's going to buy that Camry.

I mean, somebody's going to buy that Camry, but you know, that's not a person I want to hang out with.

It has to be a hero. Car, doesn't it?

The hero car. Yeah, I'd agree with that.

I'd agree with that. So, all right, so, So what is

the, what is the answer here then?

So do you think car companies should stay where they are conservative in terms of what they're doing or do you think well, and do you do you think it would too?

We're at the stage now where card is on is at that point of where everyone's just doing the same thing and have done for so long. And when you try to go against

the Grand Tasman, you get knocked and you get destroyed and it basically doesn't sell. So is that is that the reason

why companies are just like, no, we're going to do basic designs, clean designs. We're not going to, we're not

going to push the but then again, BMW sell a crap tonne of M twos and, and stuff like that. And you know, the new, the new

buckteeth threes in and fours and the hideous X7 things they've got now, like they're still selling them whether or not they're holding. It because of the name.

That is, that is true. And they've, they've, you know,

they've got. Their reputation, I suppose you

can, you can, you can say that, but also in the same token too, you know BYBY. BYD have come out of.

Nowhere in Australia anyway and have got these wildish designs, crazy interior colours, you know, guitar strings on the, you know, on the bass and they're and they're selling remarkably well. So I don't know is it, is it, is

it, is it something that we're not seeing here in terms of is it, is it not design? Is it more of like, oh, what

this offers us? If in terms of like a can you

afford to be more, you know, crazy with your designs when you, when you when your car's at a more reasonable price, Do you reckon it comes to price? If that's the.

If that's the case, I think you probably need to.

Do need to do? Both you.

Need that conservative, conservative, I don't even say the word side. So then they can make that

money. So then you can have all those

different ones that they can try out bread and butter cars.

So yeah. You got to have the ones that

sell, yeah. And make the money and.

Then yeah, you can see. That you can sell the MX5?

Yeah, that's true. You know, without.

Those you're not going to. Have all those crazy.

Cars like Toyota start to dish out now Yeah, you wouldn't have had them start to dish out and have a crack at the Super again or the GR Yaris and the Corolla. They never would have appeared

if it wasn't for selling basic Corollas all the time.

And, you know, keeping it, keeping it simple, you you've got to have those cars. So then we can have something

outlandish. Whether it works or not is I

don't know. I don't know how.

How you can tell what works and what doesn't.

It's a crazy market. Yeah.

Yeah, I do think you have to do. Both I think.

Those like main companies, like the ones that have been around, but you know, quite a while, at least in Australia, they do do both because they need to retain that like market share with the vanilla sort of cards and so they can dip their toes into the fun stuff. But then I think the players

that are breaking into the market just let's just specify specifically they have. To do something different.

They're like almost there. Their hands are forced to do

something that stands out from the rest of them.

And you, there are some Chinese cars that just look like GTA cars that are just part of the traffic that like you can't even tell the difference. Like I saw a Jaiku yesterday.

Oh yeah, I don't even know that was.

The thing but. From a distance, I thought it

was AI don't know a jolly or something like that was just, you know, it was really unremarkable.

But again, like the, I think, yeah, BYD is probably as good as that, but that's where the price comes into play, right?

Because if it's a cheap car. It's a cheap car.

People sometimes just don't care what it looks like.

Then. Yeah, that is a good point, I

think. Yeah.

Sometimes it is just a cheap car and there's a car that needs to get things done and that's where the price is valued more than the looks of it or what not. And I guess, you know, it is a

safe design. So it's like, yeah, I'm buying

some. I'm buying a Rav 4 from team You

basically right. Yeah, like it's yeah, it's

probably built on AI, don't know, some other platform just slapping you and that badge on it and make the exterior look a little different to what it was. And that's a safe car.

But yeah, I mean, as car guys, I think all of us would like cooler looking things. I don't know how cool, you know,

everyone wants a car to be, but like, I think it's just like having not all of us are going to buy new cars.

You know, that's that's the. Other thing, but yeah, it's like

you want to see something other than GTA looking cars and like weird looking. I think also that the longest

thing he's been around that the higher.

The stakes are, you know, like if you look at you know, BMW example like X3X5, you know, the recipe of a current X5 is very, you know, in the lineage. You can very much be where it's

come from in the original, but the stakes are high.

Very popular car for them they don't want to offend anyone that's bought it. They so they just tweak and

modify and you know you know they don't want to go insane with X5 design because a why would you because it obviously works and people like it but B it costs a lot of money to do that or more money and C you don't want to come out with something that's so whack job. It might appeal to some new

buyers, but all the loyal ones that have bought the last four models might go, look, I'm going to buy Merc.

That looks horrible, you know? Yeah, because a lot of.

Because the goal is to. Make the person that's got the

previous model feel like they're poor now.

No, you're right. If the goal is to make them buy

the new. Car you know.

If you want them out of the old one into the new place, if you've still got the old one, you're poor, so you've got to quickly trade. This in, get the new one and

then, you know, show it off to your neighbours me like a hug, you know? What I hate is to like I've got

my. Bought my Ford Transit only

what, a year and a half? It's going on to two years soon.

It's been in a deal. It's more than it's been in a

it's still there at the moment, but I it had some good features.

It's got a normal handbrake on it.

It hasn't got keyless start. It's missing a few things and

they've given me a loan transit, a brand new one, push to start electric E brake. So it's got all these little

things. So people go, oh geez, that's a

nice to have. I I might just go for it because

it's got all. These little.

Updates in it and they try to give you these incremental updates and Ford and Toyota have been real good and give you those little updates to try to entice you in three years time there's probably enough updates for you to say oh I might get this now because it's got you know car play it's got this it's got adaptive cruise control even the lane keep assist on this new transit it's better than mine yeah what they're not doing is changing the. Fundamental.

Design of the transit it's still very much abandoned by for you know it's still that one of the cars I I think it did a major shift was the Santa Fe like the Santa Fe for years it's.

Pretty well. Established model now in this

market and for years it was fairly conservative updates, but this new one was a big Oh my God sort of jump away from that design we had. It's a lot squarer and those

funny rear lights and blah blah and seemingly they've pulled.

It. Off and enough, enough.

People have jumped across into it, you know, it's it's getting a good rap. I don't like the design of it

personally, but I enough people obviously do.

But that was that was sort of a bold move to to take an established SUV like that and really shake things up with it.

Yeah, like I said it to people. Today when I when I talked about

this was going to be the topic and they're like, like people just buy anything. I'm like, no, if you're buying a

car, it's an emotional purchase. If you're going in there to buy

a car, you like ferocities, but not for, you know, there's a lot of. People that don't give it rats,

like surely you want to have some sort of pride?

I don't know, for a lot of people I feel just the new car.

The new car experience everything.

The new car. Experience as long as the.

Guriel's. Wedding.

You've got no dignity, Muriel. You know, it's it's you've got.

No pride. People.

Buy certain cars have. Given up in life as far as.

I'm concerned. I mean, we, we did discuss what

brands. We did discuss the.

The Ford Proko. Being the.

On this way to low income single dad.

Yeah, we did. But it's it's yeah, for a lot.

Of people I would feel. That as long as you're getting

into a new car that eclipses all other feelings.

It's about you're going to dealership, you're the first person to drive this thing. It doesn't matter that you're

going to lose 10% of value as soon as you're off the lot.

Yeah, all that's cool because you get to be in that new car.

Yeah. And, you know, you could be

buying something that's incrementally better, like the the Isuzu dealer that was like, Oh yeah, no, we got the new ones in the 2020 fours of the D Max. I'm like, so I get a new set of

rooms. I can just find the rooms, you

know? Yeah, I'm not going to lose 8

grand on this car just for some rooms.

The wheel alignment's a lot better than the new.

Ones also they say. Yeah, yours is a different case.

Yes. I want to.

I want to tell. You as this car.

The Hyundai XL when it like after the box you when the 13 the one everyone remembers the 13990.

You know, that was a car that was cheap in terms of design compared to the original 1 was very different and it kind of changed the game for them. Neil, the original excel was a

very cheap car anyway, but this one was was more expensive, but it looks kind of a bit more funky had funky hubcaps, had, you know, you know, a bit more style and it sold it took off Well, would you have considered that a non conservative approach or a conservative market? And then then that's why they're

in. That's why I Hyundai is

commonplace in the market now. Do you think that that that same

thing's happening to the Chinese car companies like BYD and that's how they're getting into this market?

I think that was non that was a fairly you.

Know a fairly racy little design for its time, but it was yeah, it ought to probably take risks. Because it was 30. 990 like

yeah, I think I think the price was 8000 grand car yeah yeah you know like. The the the.

Designers of a Mercedes S class are very, very cautious and I think they do a great job. Pretty much with every

generation they've they've nailed it with that car and they've sort of kept with the times.

But not. Crazily out of whack with, you

know, S class buyers, whereas a a new entrant like a 3990 with an XL relatively new back then you could afford to be a bit like out there because the stakes are so low, low, yeah, yeah. And again.

People when? You're at that price.

Bracket you're buying for the price versus anything else that's your most sensitive topic is your price.

Yeah. So you're willing to put up with

a bit more shit, right. As As for the the second or

third earners, I don't know. Especially when they got bullied

hard like our friend Andrew, we gave it to him relentlessly and he's like, oh, it's a good car. Like, no, it's not.

It's a hard excel. It's a piece of shit.

You should feel bad your car is bad.

We had to upgrade. From our Porsche.

Cayenne to a Mitsubishi Mirage because the Cayenne was in the Volcanics too often. Yeah, I remember.

I think that was a good. Upgrade all right. 1.

Conservative car. Each you got to mention before

we get to the quiz. So what's a conservative car,

and why MG3? MG3 like the.

First, the first generation or the?

Or the new one. Yeah, they're pretty smart.

I must. Say.

Yeah, do something. That's very.

Cheap. And it's a brand new car, and

everyone wants to be in a brand new car, as you're saying before, I think Alan was saying before, yeah, perfect.

People didn't care about what engine was in it.

They didn't really care that much.

They just looks like any other kind of hatchback out there, just blended in and it was all about technology inside.

Does IT technology technology? Rob.

Yeah. Mitsubishi, I reckon, or.

A bit like that. Yeah, the whole lineup.

Is is. Banned.

And it was like their their lineup was old.

When it. Came.

Out it was, yeah. And nothing has really.

Changed with the current model. Lineup.

Yeah, Yeah, it looks a bit, you know, edgy.

Oh, you're sex. They they.

Yeah. But they were.

We still got cassette players. So.

So Rob's saying the. Whole Mitsubishi line up.

It's probably on sale. I I agree with that.

Actually I think I agree. Yep, I agree with Rob Nissan.

As well. Oh gosh.

Grandpa. Boring old things they are I.

Can't name one model that I'd want to own as a Nissan.

Maybe AZ. Yeah, it's yeah, they made some

awesome. Cars.

And how? Just.

How could a car, a company like that go from what they'd be to now? Yeah, yeah.

They have. They have had some cracker.

Models. But crackers all the way.

They've had some very. Dull.

Cars. Tita Almira.

Their whole lineup currently maxima at the start was.

Good. And then went.

Real dull. Yeah, the Maxima was pretty good

to begin with. It wasn't to begin at the start

they were good, but then. They went real dull.

And Blobby and the the Ultima was such a boring car like.

That was just a Andara, yeah. Last time I could.

Have been better if I had better.

Engines to. Choose from I agree I'm.

Going to go Nissan. Just just all Nissan.

Well, listen, I've got the haval.

H6 they never. Lent as a car.

They didn't, but also it's still.

Such a basic. Family SUV, but see the HX GT is

a good looking car. Yeah, but.

Fine, the GP virtually the same. Car just different money, Yeah,

but. The H6 basic like it's.

There's nothing special to it. It's like any other SUV you see

on the road. I agree with that.

Yep, so so. You're you're having a dip.

At have all because they. Didn't give us a car, yeah.

Now, if you don't want to get into the good books, give us a tank or something, yeah? Upset we still won't be happy,

but you know, we'll deal with it.

Can be older, it can be. It doesn't have to be new.

Yeah, conservative. I, you know, I think out of the

Mercedes lineup, there's one car that's just like, I don't even know why it's here and it's the GTB.

It's like like. Sorry, is it GTB?

GLBGLBG. LB.

Yeah. So it's the.

Not the smallest SUV, but the second size and again, it just looks like a car out of a GTA. Yeah, what is the point of that

car? I.

Really don't get it just by GLA. Or by GLC or anything else that

they offer, which is essentially the same thing.

Yeah, GLB, it's like a boring like.

The my friends. Got one.

It was like a. Shoe.

It doesn't look. Like a shoe next time you see

one. And again, I think.

Simple design or? Simple enough in.

Their design? Language.

They probably thought, yeah, this is a safe bet.

Yeah, like when they had the B. Class.

What the hell was that? Oh, they're little people,

Mover. Type thing.

Yeah, yeah. Weird.

So when they made the A class hot hatch is that when they made the B class as they're like weird, weird.

Yeah, old people's many people. It became weird.

And then no one wanted it. And like, yeah, it's.

Gone, you know. Yeah, I think it is too.

My father in law had one. And he was like he used.

To talk it up like he was like, oh, it's got the AMG package and I'm like, come on, man. It's it's such a, it's it's such

a nothing car, you know, like AV6C class.

So it was kind of cool, I guess. But still, yeah, I want to give

it to VW. Audi group both VWS and Audis.

They have designs of minimal change.

They really are boring, boring and more boring.

There you go. You say that about Porsche.

It's hard because Porsche do it. Right, like.

You know the pause there. It's hard the.

Quietness. It's hard.

Because. Like that's a good point.

That car has not. Changed that you you are right,

Chad, like it's the. Designs identical, essentially.

It's so good right from the get go, you know it didn't.

Need to. The things that will kind of

matter, I'm just playing devil's.

Advocate. That's the only question.

You're doing Scotty. Scotty nose.

Scotty nose. So OK.

Not to change if you, just if you're good.

But if you're boring and then you don't change, that's bad.

Yeah, but aspects that'll make up for it is also.

Features like paint to sample, yeah, you can literally have the most unique paint shop on that car.

And that is again, when you've got the the basic 7 colours, which are all, you know your black, silver, blue, maybe if you're lucky, that sort of thing, you're paying for the privilege. But anyway, versus versus, yeah.

Like you've got you've. Still got your amazing paint

jobs which are far from conservative in most cases unless you're one of those people that buy like just the dark green and my brother drove a 911 today a bright.

Yellow brand new like it was the first person or first second person to drive it like as as a rental car today and and I was like bloody hell. Like they put like.

It was like Limelight Yellow, that's on a charger on, on on a thing. I was like, well, at least

they're at least they're a bit fun.

Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah.

Well, and that's part of it. That's not.

Conservative. Yeah.

Yeah, I'll, I'll agree with you on that.

Yeah, Yep. So hang on the options that you

can. Get with a car.

Can also make it not conservative.

If you can get an A4 in any colour, any engine package, any interior, does that then not make help concern.

It helps. It helps, absolutely.

It helps it kind. Of brings it.

To the interesting sort of area somebody like you can STI wing on a camera which. Is that someone you want to be

friends with all exactly. What?

Somebody want to get with? I'm not.

I'm just looking at the the Volkswagen Golf.

GTI colours that's about that are available in a in like AG and did you guys that think they they offer a good they offer a red they. Offer a What else do they offer?

Well, blue car. Yeah, they have a blue.

Oh jeez, Grey the. Lemony greeny yellow.

Yeah, yeah. But yeah, like they they have

they. Have some cool colours, but like

not as not as leirish as your other colours and it's supposed to be the hot version, you know. So anyway that is that I'm going

to say with those car quiz time car quiz time with you, it is time for the car quiz. Scotty Doe is yeah, quiz master

Scotty is wrong. We can say seated, then you can

say seated I'm. Going to get the scar.

Scotty Doe, We've got a few. Players tonight, it's a full.

House. We've got Eds, We've got

shenanigans. Shenanigans.

Yeah. Chad.

Chad. Master.

And. Matthew and we've.

Got Rob. All right.

Scotty, though, 10 questions. What's the man's questions?

Your time starts now. Spanish questions.

Actually, I was on fire. Making this quiz Oh very nice.

I feel like it's really good but.

If I feel like it's. Really good it's probably going

to be just trash. The questions are going to suck.

They're. Either be like.

Way too easy or just way too high?

R31 skyline or the answer? How many exhaust bolts exhaust

hangers are on? The R31 Skyline.

Sharp, Ed. Hey.

It's. How many days did it take Scotty

to? Put in that manual transmission

too many 2 million. 700. And.

Something I think. You're pretty good there, Rob.

Yeah. Close closest to you closest.

To all right. Let's start it off.

We are starting off over. In the American.

Market question one. What Car outsold the?

F-150, which was #2 and it outsold them by more than 10,000 units. In what time frame?

Like forever. This year.

Well, yeah. Last year, sorry, at the end of

last year, Chad, Ed, Ed, Tesla Model 3, was that right?

Model Y was up there, but that. Was the only.

Tesla, that was closer. Chad Buzz, the next Chad I'm

going to. Go Chevy Silverado.

No, no. Chevy.

Rob. Rob.

I think it was a Toyota but I'm not sure which one.

Is that a .5 might need to take a might need.

To take a stab in. The dark if you want tundra,

full point tundra. No Rav. 4 Rav. 4.

Rav 4. Yeah, all.

Right, you get the full. Point.

Toyota Rav. 4. The Rav 4 outsold F-150.

The F-150? That's insane.

Wow. Oh my.

God Rav 4, don't they? Like it's good, but like.

Definitely no truck, yeah. I know my friends got one right

as a company car Rep 4 hybrid. Current 1 whatever and he said

it does everything well. Well, yeah, yes, it's a inverted

commas. Good.

Car. But he said the minute you ask

anything over and above normal of it, he said that's when you see the floors like it doesn't accelerate fast enough, it doesn't hang on in corners, the seats are unsupportive and the foam's crap. Like he said, if you if you just

dig a little, if you scratch the surface more than you know, most people won't scratch the surface If you said if you just do that, you see it's flaws. And I'm yeah, I get that.

It's still all built to a recipe, you know, not upset.

Question #2 hopefully you've. Been checking out your.

Social medias What did the hoons do?

Going over a bridge recently in Brisbane, There's a bunch of hoons going over. A bridge in Brisbane they do.

Something Chad. Were they letting off fireworks?

Yeah, they were. They shouldn't my.

Works out of the car. I thought that was in Melbourne.

Apparently like I thought I was in the Ring Rd or something but no apparently they said I was in Brisbane.

Was it? I thought it was until I looked

at the news singing and. It said Brisbane.

So is this all like the the signs in?

The video and it was like the. Blue and yellow, like it's the

big video. Yeah.

Yeah. Did you see the video?

No, I haven't seen the video. They are trashed.

Falcons and Commodores, and they're just shooting Roman candles into the sky. It's too serious.

Yeah. Jesus Christ.

Funny. Well.

They're playing mixing. It's.

Joan, I didn't hear. It.

That's number three what Ford car has.

Now been. Axed Matthew.

Matthew. The focus.

St In. Particular correct focus.

St is no more. My bonus question, so St is

almost gone except for two cars have still got the St on it.

Only available overseas. Matthew cars?

Are they alum? I have fierce.

AST. Nope.

Bastard. No, that's all I had, Matthew.

I want to say the. Puma AST that does exist still.

Yep, that's one. That's half a point.

That's half a point I'll take. Half a point.

And I don't think what else has got an St badge because the focus is done, Fiesta is done, just what else has got an St badge? Over there.

Surprise me like like an. Escape St.

Nice. Chad.

Chad, what was the first one you said?

I said Puma OK. Is it the?

Cougar. Cougar.

Is it the? Explorer.

St So it is Explorer, Yeah, Hey. Point for me, full point.

Yeah, it is. A bonus bonus.

Question if they aren't. Hatchbacks.

What are they called? So so.

What was that these Puma? And the explorers and that

we've. Got there's no more hatchbacks

anymore. So what are these cars called

then, Matthew? They're crossers.

No, Ed. I call them something different.

Rob, Ed. Rob.

OK. Go Rob.

Go Rob. Can I go?

There you go. Before Rob Watch backs no SUV's.

It's got SUV. 'S in it, but that's the end

word. LM.

LM. Compact SUV.

Correct. I get half.

A point I get half a point for SUV.

Bullshit. You do.

Yeah, I'll give you .5 H, no. I'm not taking that some

bullshit, Alan. I've.

Already SU don't start don't. Start.

Shenanigans. Take your shenanigans.

You give him my pointer. You.

Got your pointer right? There you go.

It's called shenanigans. Never called shenanigans.

That's how serious this is. Alan, you can.

Move to question 5. Let's put.

This jump to question 5. The new minis have been.

A bit of a let down. What has the new Minis added in

their cars when it comes to sound?

Chad, Chad, have they got? Like the?

Fake car sound that plays. Through the speakers more

specific. Like engine sounds.

Bit more specific. Race car sound.

Matthew. Alum got in.

First they got engine sounds. From what's the one of the end

performance? Cars.

No what? Car has it, it got engine

sounds. With the snap, crackle and pop.

Correct. Really.

Really. Yeah.

So if you're. Outside the.

Car It just sounds like a. Normal Raven carpet inside it?

No, no, that's when it rests down you.

Can hear that makes popping banging.

Sounds that's how inside it. Are we sure it's not like a?

BMW. Mini you know, wiring hiccup

just speakers Scotty. How do you want?

To how do you want to point out anyone give the points out because Chad said speakers and then Ed said what the noise was Easy point Ed, that's really .5's come on point.

Five's voice. I think .5's fair.

I think .5's each fair. Here I get 4 point.

You'll push it. For the .5 before.

Ed, what's going on? Eh, don't upset.

Me. Alan, I know.

You live. I know where you live.

I don't. Make me bring my garden.

Around and put it through your good door.

I'm gonna bring some peaceful. Bricks to this protest, this

peaceful. Protest just like an ally.

It's my quiz. Done your quizzes?

Cause. Mayhem is my friendly quiz.

Of the programme now. No one's going to get this one.

Question #5. Byd's new supercar was spotted

in ounces. What is it called?

Jeez. Ed That's the funniest name

ever. Ed.

Ed. Octopus there's.

Going to be something from the ocean.

No, no, it's it's not an ocean. Thing at all, Chad, that's

unusual. I think Chad.

Chad yeah. Is it called like the cyber?

Star or something like. That Nah, I'll.

Bring everyone in. Think I mean, to me, it's like

racist. The Chinese.

Whoa, Alan. Was next on this year hang.

On. Hang on, speed racist?

I'm not sure. We can say that on the race,

he's gonna, he's gonna have his. He's gonna put his.

Racist head on. Shouldn't he text you the

answers? It's just.

Against which nation? The thing?

Is as a Chinese company, the. Matthew, I want to say the CCP.

Scott, move on to the next question, please.

Can we get the answer? Can we get the?

Answer this is going this is. Getting bad.

No, it's cut. It's 2 words put.

Together the second. Word is another name for your

penis. Octopus.

I told you I'm. Sorry, what?

Another name for you? Oh no.

I did see. This it's.

Matthew, are we going to go? Are we all out cock?

No, it's. It's something, it's something

Dong. Isn't it the?

Second word Dong Nah, not Dong no Chong.

Wang No. Yes, no Wang.

Oh, is it? Oh, is it the Ying Wang or

something? Or close.

Yang Wang. Yang Wang.

It's Yang Wang. Yang Wang.

It's the Yang Wang. Jeez, that's like half.

A point. That's like 8.

Kisses in one that's. So funny.

Yeah, it's. The good old BYD Yang Wang.

Yang Wang Yep, that's interesting matching down the.

Freeways. Puss.

Yang. Let's quickly move on.

Question number. 6. Europe's emissions has hurt a

great Japanese car that won't be sold over there anymore.

What is it? Matthew?

Matthew type aruf. Yeah.

Correct. Oh wow, no more specific.

Type are over there because of their stupid.

Emissions and Europe sucks, we'll still have it, so that's good, but it's a big screw you to them.

Great time, oh guy. Question number Shevan put.

Your movie hat on. Oh, and the remake of Gone In.

60 seconds with Nicolas. Cage in the end scene.

He is chased by the main. Undercover cop in What Car?

I want the make and model. In the in the final chase, is

that what you're, is that what you're saying?

Yeah, I'm. Trying to think What Car it is.

Matthew. Yes, Matthew.

It isn't a Ford car, Victoria, is it?

No, no. Alan, it's a police helicopter.

Now he's. Not in a police helicopter.

Well, somebody's. In the helicopter.

David don't have to put. Rob.

Yes, Rob. Was it a Dodge Challenger?

What? Was the car it?

Was a dodge. Charger.

No, it's. It's before, so it's in a

remake. In the remake, Yeah, the remake

Cage. And the two.

Cops are in that car, aren't they?

There's 2IN that car. Yeah, that's yeah, I do remember

that. I can't remember What Car was

though so we still. Have here we can still we still

have Chad and. Buntington, I guess.

Now I haven't seen it I guess. Was on holiday, what were you?

All out. Yeah, all.

Out it was. The BMW. 540I That's right, it

was too. I'm picturing it now, like

trying to catch up. Yeah, that's that's right.

Question #8. Wangan Midnight.

Was. Inspired by What real race is

you, Matthew? Yes, Matthew.

That would be. The Midnight.

Club. Yeah, correct.

That's it. Pretty interesting actually.

Their story crazy. A lot of them were just rich

people. They were doctors or lawyers and

they'd go out at night and race as fast as they could.

Just wanted to go fast. They'd do it at night time, make

sure it was. Safe.

Well as safe as possible and just try and get over 300 kilometres an hour on the freeway.

NSX and GDRS hitting 300 on the. Streets of wild cooked cooked

Porsche put the old Porsche. Turbos.

As well, back then a little hammering down there hitting over 300. That was their aim.

Nuts. It's pretty cool question.

Nine we. Near the end.

What festival is held every year in December at Mount Fuji Raceway? Oh, you got char, You got no.

You got you're in first. Is it chattering?

Nismo Festival. Yeah, Nismo.

Festival one day I'd like to go one day that'd be good.

OK, question #10 now I'm. Going to say this first.

Because in case someone quickly buzzes in, but I want the full title, name, model, everything of this car all right badge.

So if you're buzzing and you. Can't give me that then.

Like I'm not even going to. I'm not.

I'm not even going to. Give you half a point.

Oh Gee, that's the. You're out, Ed.

And this is for. Two points because.

If you can give me the the whole title and everything of this car, you can get 2 points. That means a lot of people are

still in it. According to the Chad, I'm.

Here. Come in, I don't need gear but I

want full. Everything about it, you got it.

Are we ready? Yeah.

Let's do it. OK.

In Transformers. Rise of the Beasts What part is

Mirage? Rob, not ROB.

Well, I don't know what it's a nine. 11 Porsche, but I'm not

sure what badge number or model number it is.

It's an early model. Is there an like an?

Is. I'll just guess, put it out.

There as like a 906 no, no two points.

Did I get one? Point.

No, you don't, Scott. Made that very clear, Is your.

Unfortunately, I didn't even. I didn't even know very.

Strict I'm being. Very strict with this one.

It's the one with the. Monkey in it, isn't it?

No, I don't think I've seen. This one, it's the last one.

Yeah, it's. It's like light blue, yeah.

My latest one. Yeah, it's light blue.

It's I don't know. Matthew, I'm going to say

Porsche 930 Turbo. I'm out.

It's going to take a guess. It's even rarer.

Than that, well, OK. Porsche. 9/11 tago no I think.

Rarer, Eduardo? Well.

Happy, Ed. Was it a?

Towards the like a Carrera 3 or something like that.

Horse 9/11. Carrera 3GT3.

Nah, it's not the Carrera. We got the Carrera bit.

Is it a I'm? I'm honestly wondering.

Not the Carrera bit, we got an Rs bit.

Right. But yeah, it's a.

Is it a 2.7 Rs? No, not 2.70.

OK, bigger. 3.6 bigger. 4.1. Lower. 4.0. 3. .83 point. 2.

3.7. No.

Did you say? 3.8 just a second ago. 3.8 Yeah

yeah 3. .8 so it's the. 9/11 Carrera Rs 3.8 It's a 964 model

964 OK. OK, very.

Very rare on the Queen, I'm sure.

He gets the 2. Points though, yeah.

I'm gonna say one point. No, no one gets any points.

No, no, no one. Gets any points Scotty?

Who's Does anyone get the? Points there no, because.

Scotty made the rules at the start.

He's gonna live by No. I've got to stick by my rules

unfortunately. And no shenanigans or Czech.

Gentlemen. Unless, unless if I give a point

to. Rob and he overtakes then it's a

yes so. Yes.

That's a bullshit. You take that back, you.

Push that backspace right now. He's gonna.

Get it done out Scorch. Some jokes.

Robin Allenburg. Or what a piece Chad and Edward

on 2.5 each and I am you're you're winner this season 3

points. Thank you.

Well done, Matthew. Well.

Done. Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank. You.

I'd like to thank you guys. Thank you, Scotty, for your

future. I'll let you blow to settle

down. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I think that's a car. I think that's a car quiz, and I

think that's a. Podcast, gentlemen, let's go

around the room with some plugs. Eduardo, I'm going to have a

gets for sale real soon. With a brand new.

Clock. 51,000 a great service that is really low.

It is really low. Get your.

Money and come and get it. Yeah, what are you after

bouncing? I don't know yet, but I'm.

Sort of going to have to ask like about. 6 grand to make that

work, I think. Yeah, that's fair.

I'll just offer you. 60 bucks. No 404040.

I'll not. Move the inside.

I'll go. Down.

What is your? Nice, Scott, I might think about

it. Swap season.

Swap season. I'll swap.

You an Xbox, Rob? Your firefighting.

Electricals, everything. Rob's doing it.

He's he's he's desire Changing, changing.

No tyre fixing, puncher repairs. Yeah.

Puncher repairs, he repairs. Start at.

Jim's. Brand of companies.

Rob's doing it. Rob's doing it.

Yeah, Rob's. What do you call it?

Rob's lobbying. Brand choice.

We can. We can all.

Buy a van each and flap your head.

On the side of it, they'll all be transited.

They'll all be broken. Lobbying, lobbying.

Yeah, lobbying the government. Rob's Riot.

Rob's Riot. It's Rob's peaceful protesting.

And riots on the sidebar. Geez.

Scotty's golf tip of the week Golf tip of the week.

Is drive your? Knee toward the target, so you

want to move. Your body forwards.

Towards the target and that's your back.

So I'm talking about your back leg, so your back knee towards that target. So you're.

Pushing because you want to push all that body forward and that helps with the power and the swing so you can get the distance. Absolutely good tip, thank you

for filling. In that golf tip a.

Week. Too.

Ed That was marvellous, The Big Bertha.

Yeah, did my. Best.

That was that was good Chaz delivering to a place near.

You so, yeah. So Chaz.

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