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It's me, Maddie J in the studio with Mr Chad, The Bell online with Mr Scotty O Johnson, David Prince and Edward Bunting, but also in studio. Hello, just puts the head up

with Julian Petain. Welcome, Julian.

How you doing? Yeah, great guys.

Thanks for having me. Thanks.

Thanks for coming, Julian. Probably haven't heard the show

much, but this is, this is Ed, this is David, this is Scotty.

And you've you've met Chad in the studio.

Alan's out there. He's got he's got committee

duties tonight, but so he's doing a David Prince with committee, Judy says Hang. On Matt, what do you mean Julian

hasn't heard the show much yet? What?

Isn't he a long time listener? He's a he's.

AI can't say I'm a long time listener but I have listened to the show ever since it was introduced to me.

OK, so. 10 minutes ago no. No, no, it's been longer than

that. I've listened to, you know, the

last probably I'd say maybe 8 or 9 episode.

Cool people take just so get a bit of a that's.

What I've listened. Back to that's.

Very good. Here we go.

I've seen it. It's definitely been going for a

very long time Yeah, which is which is great.

And I was just saying to the guys, I'm actually a local of of the area and completely didn't even realise that the radio station was here. Literally I probably walk from

my house. So I I brought I I was I am I am

able to see a car person. That's why I'm here.

And I brought my A 86 in because I figured if W comes worse it doesn't start, I can sort of walk.

So yeah, we're we're sort of all good there.

Just for just for AG things, right?

Yeah, that's pretty much. Just we actually had an inkling

that might have been your car because we got a message before the podcast started to the chat from a very excited Chad.

Yeah, yeah. Before I was on the show, I was

like the N 86 just rolled up to the car park.

What the Hell's going on? Then I yeah, obviously that we

met. And then, right.

So yeah, bit random, you get lost.

And Angelina, how did you hear about the said show?

Through mutual friends of that, yeah.

So a good friend of mine, he's his fiance, works with Matt.

So yeah, just sort of connected us that way.

And yeah, then obviously started listening to the pod and that kind of thing and. Well, once you're in, you're in.

There's no going back out now. Yeah, it's a secret society,

apparently, Yeah. There's a secret handshake and

come on. It is it is the secret Society

of Car Talk hearing in the suburbs of Hadfield.

But welcome Julian, Good to have you on board man.

We caught up a few weeks ago just as a catch up to, to get, to get to know you as as I said, I work with, I work with your, your good friends, you know, fiance, lovely lady.

She's like, oh, I've got, you know, I've got, you know, my partner's friends really into cars.

He does really cool stuff with cars.

You got to get him on your podcast to have a chat.

And I'm like, yeah, sure, why not?

And then, you know, it's here you are.

So, yeah. So it's all it kind of takes

really just to come with the podcast.

I mean, just for some context, Chad came on the podcast because we met through super cheap. He's coming to, he's coming to

work a few times. Yeah, I was trying to ask for

discounts at the OR whatever, and then I'm like, oh, is that your MR2 out there? Yeah, cool.

And it now, now he's part of the show.

Edward I met at A at a car show. Scotty I met through work.

We talked about cars. David I I met through Ed.

So it's you kind of just build this family called connection of people through, through, through the automotive industry.

And there's not many industries that do that, you know, like the automotive industry. No, but that's and I was going

to say actually just one thing to that to further cement that is we've also, we also have a connection through another super cheap auto alumni as well. And also I'm also a super cheap

auto alumni. So I used to work there while I

was going through uni, high school, that kind of thing.

So I was talking about a secret handshake, some of the same stores as Matt as well. Yeah.

So I think we just didn't cross paths when I finished up, when I then went into my yeah, first like full time professional sort of job. Which is, which is, which is

crazy because this is, it's like I've been at super cheap so long. And you were, you were there for

quite a while. And but we, we know, we know

like the same people that we've worked with, like we both knew Tarabi, we both knew all these people that have been in that industry for such a long time where you're just like fire, like, like, you know, you know this person and you know this person and you know this person. And it's just one of those, you

know, it's, it's, it's just a weird kind of, you know.

How did we crosspads? Working there when I was working

there. Sorry, sorry, what was that,

Scotty? I wonder if he was working there

when I was working there. When were you there Scotty?

Because because you were there performing, you brought me over.

So so fun fact of the show, Scotty brought me over to super cheap because we still work together at Target.

Post the post me. Yeah, sucked you in.

What? You were there what, 20/20/11?

Yeah, probably it was. What stores did you work at,

Scott? No, it was just the SNN.

So I was Broadmeadows primarily. So I actually, so funnily

enough, I actually used to work for, well, I when I was employed Supercheap Auto had just bought Marlow's.

So I actually worked at Marlow's in Broadmeadows, but OK, next door to Supercheap. Yeah, yeah.

OK Started there when I was like 16 or 16, yeah.

And then, yeah, started, you know, Broadmeadows at being Roxburgh Park, Essendon. I do like 3 IC stuff, that kind

of thing just to help out in that sort of region.

So yeah, we probably may have crossed paths at some.

Yeah, could have. Yep.

It's yeah, it's it's but it's such a small world.

Like, you know, when you think about it more like, like everyone. The the first question Chad

asked me when when when I bought my Scamp was do they they?

They just told me you bought a scamp.

I'm like, oh, hang on, do do you?

Yeah, 'cause it's the only person I know who owns.

The Scamp. So it was like, do I know David

Prince? It was, it was just like, it's,

it's such a small, tight knit community, the the car industry.

And it's just, it's such a yeah, it's, it's, it's kind of an enigma in itself, isn't it really?

Like there's, there's, there's nothing really like it in terms of what, you know, like the, the length of the space that, that this, this field, you know, kind of kind of engulfs people.

But no, it was really cool to meet you that, that the other night when we're having a discussion about and discussion about you, about your cars and what you've owned and stuff.

And and that night you brought out your your daily, which is a crown. Yes.

Nice. I've got a as a yeah, daily

drive family car. I've got like an O8 GRS 2O4

athlete crown. So about the 5-6 years now, that

kind of thing. So it's been really good and

from before they were cool. So what was that, David?

From before they were cool but. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, now it's kind of yeah. They're kind of getting a bit of

a reputation, I guess that the undergrounds it's it's starting to be the. I think that the P played a car

of choice now that it is. Yeah, VESV sixes and stuff like

that. Maybe a few and far between, but

I get up for that for. A while, as long as it doesn't

become the G35 like this United States that the sideshows.

Yeah, as soon as they become that, you'll be fine.

Exactly right, Yeah, exactly. But you know, I've got that

we've got the a 86 as as my that was my first car.

So that's basically being the long term project that I've had since I was 16. So it's.

Such a cool first car. Fantastic find it back before

the Tokumi tax and that kind of thing.

So like, you know, I I picked it up.

It was from just out past winter.

No, it was a Winton car. So what's the sorry?

I'm just going to play. Yeah.

So it was a banana car. It was in.

So this was back in trading post days.

The guy had advertised in the trading post and then because it was in banana, I was 16, I couldn't go see it.

But then it got advertised again and it was in North Coburg, the same car, like same car. Oh, right.

And I'm like, oh, cool, got my brother went and checked it out and yeah, it was an Adm car at the time.

So saying to Chad, you know, there were yeah, 1.64 AC carby

slow as, but you know, basically standard pretty decent from a rust perspective. Which is hard to.

Find back then now is a different story and yeah that's just progressed over the years. So you know I've done a four AG

a big port, you know conversion coil overs.

I've got like a Hilux differ. I've got AW 55 gearbox got a

turbo setup for it yeah got all these things for I've actually got even like ATID wide body kit, the original bolts on group end style kit. I've got all that.

But again, it's one of those things that as life's gone through, you know, family, all that kind of stuff, the the car just gets pushed to the side. So, you know, now hopefully I

can dedicate a little bit more time to actually working on it and getting it to where it should be.

But yeah, one thing is, you know, the old, as you guys would all know, you know, 80s Toyotas, but they, you know, rust like them for that too. And that is one thing that,

yeah, I need to get sorted because I, I sort of picked a bit of a rust scab a couple of weeks back on the lower wheel arch and I've kind of got like a gaping hole now in the wheel arch. It's such a descriptive, yeah.

Descriptive a Rust. Scab.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that's what it was.

We've all been here. You know, just just, I was like,

I'll just, I'll see how where this goes.

And yeah, it went a bit too far. So I do have some side skirts.

So that will be covering it, covering that for a little bit and until I, yeah, until I actually get that fixed.

But I actually just today, one of the guys that I used to work with in another role, which I'll, I'll bring that in shortly. He actually just got his

century. I've cleaned up a little bit of

rust that had formed and actually just didn't.

Glenn Royce. I know that, I know that.

Guy. Oh, there we go.

I know the guy with the same one is oh, you know the guy that was. I know exactly what you're.

Talking about. So there we go Yeah.

So yeah, I'm going to give him a call and maybe take it around there and just sort of say what we're looking at and then yeah, plug away at that and go from there.

Because, you know, reality is I'd love to do it myself.

I'd love to be able to do that. It's sort of that thing of

opportunity cost and it's like how, you know, there's only so much time on the weekends and stuff like that.

It's yeah, it's kind of like maybe I've just got to give it to someone and let go that let go that part of the build and get someone to do it and then I can actually enjoy it.

Especially as you're saying, like with family and stuff, like, you know, you've got, you've got a young family and everything and you get a house and everything.

It's those things come into play and you know, it takes your time, you know, and and by the time you finish putting the kid to bed, put an IST on that. I speak to my brother.

What was talking about? Like he wants to play with his

cars, but he's like, I'm wrecked.

Like I come home from work, you know, come home, feed the kid, you know, bath the kid, play with the kid, put the kid to bed. And then and then now I'm like,

I'm exhausted. So like he's like, I'll go to

bed. No, that's it's just yeah, just

rinse and repeat. So, yeah, it's, it's a bit, it's

a bit like that. And that's why a lot of projects

stop. And and Chad, Chad sent me a

funny, funny video the other day.

What was it today? It was, it was like, you know,

one in every 10 projects. So sorry, like only gets

completed or something. And it's like you can help solve

this probably. It was like, it was like a

world, it was like a World Vision ad, but for for like project cars, you know, donate today.

It's like. It's like exactly made like

World Vision or you know. Save the Children.

Translation The project car, Save a car, save a car or whatever. Yeah.

You have to send that through to the chat, dude.

Like it's, it's just, it's a, it's a brilliant video and I always like to show you where do I donate?

But yeah, I, I, I, I get it, man.

I I. Yeah.

And one thing I'll add to that, I'm sure that we're all guilty of this. It still doesn't stop us from

constantly looking at Marketplace and.

Seeing. As I'm going, Oh yeah, that I

could totally see myself. Yeah, there we, there we go.

This is like a sickness. Yeah.

I mean, you can't help it. Like Matt, you said the G35

before and I've like legitimately been looking at G30 fives only because they've got the backseat.

It's like. OK, cool.

I can get back into a manual, can have a backseat.

You know, I thought I can go in the back and I can drive that as a as a daily. Yeah.

And obviously, yeah. And then you know that the

aspirations and get into the track and all that sort of thing may happen, but probably won't. But still it's not to have.

Yeah, it's like that, yeah. Exactly.

So, but yeah, I guess I'll just, so I'm not talking too much about myself, but I'll just sort of give you guys a bit of a back story. So yeah, I worked at Supercheap

Auto, you know, went to uni, studied marketing, stuff like that and then first job out of the university worked for a company called Harrop Engineering.

So a lot of people may or may not know what, you know, Harrop, the company, the staple of the automotive performance in Australia, especially for, you know, V eights, you know, LS, GM, Ford, yeah, Holden, Holden, Type V eights.

Now they're doing other stuff as well, getting into Japanese cars too, with GT86, stuff like that. So yeah, at the time when I

actually started there being I was a, you know, I will say I was a bit of a Japanese car purist at the time.

I was, I was never one to go, I'm going to own AV8I, get Commodores on my thing. I was, you know, always, you

know, had the 86. I had a 82 twin Cam.

I had an AE1O1 GZD supercharged 11 as well.

Cool car. So yeah, a.

Few different cars, RA 60 Silica for a brief moment in time.

Yeah, so couple of bits and pieces like nothing flash.

But you know, I was, yeah, very much Japanese.

And when I saw the ad pop up on seek, I was like, oh, who's this? And I Googled them and they're

like, oh, sweet, these guys, you know, they do some cool stuff.

Superchargers, diffs, you know, VA supercar parts, all this sort of stuff. I'm like, yeah, this was for a

sales role. So it's like, you know, yeah,

hey, it's not specifically marketing, but there was marketing elements to it. So like, yeah, this would be

cool. And yeah, basically, you know,

went into that, you know, for I was there for 11 years.

I, you know, I, I sort of became, I guess like the senior sales team leader there heading up the sales team technical.

I was a bit of AI was a bit of a because I've been there for so long. And at the time, you know, their

systems, their training stuff wasn't that great.

I was very much learning by, you know, through the engineering team. So whenever there was a

technical question regarding a product, whether it be an installation issue, whether it be, you know, just a general issue, whether it be a, a real technical, you know, element to it, I'd constantly be speaking with the engineers and sort of going through it. So really, really sort of

cemented, you know, my my knowledge in in that field.

And the thing with Harrah is that they make a lot of different products for a lot of different vehicles.

So you're not just talking superchargers, but they were doing manifolds or doing brakes. They were doing, you know, the

VH supercar components, which not so much, but there was a bit of like, you know, the support categories because they moved to car in the future and stuff like that.

So yeah, it became a bit of a staple there.

And that really, you know, with that obviously speaking out, you know, and we would get people that would want to, you know, supercharge their car at Harrop and, and for a period of time, they never had an installation workshop.

So set up a workshop. So then it was sort of, you

know, doing like a workshop performance advisor like you sort of get nowadays where people come and, you know, they're like, I want to make 400 kilowatts because this was back in, you know, 2012. So that's kind of where we're

at. That was the number, yeah.

That was sort of the number. That number's growing

substantially, you know, like, yeah, when I first started there, 400 kilowatts, that was like nuts.

That was nuts. And 400 kilowatts is still nuts

regardless. Like you look at that, that's a

lot of power. And and that's, you know,

nowadays I've got, you know, people that I still deal with that are contacts through Harrod that, you know, LS type stuff, supercharged type stuff. You're getting into the the six

5700 hub kilowatt figures for these kind of cars, which is pretty crazy. Have you been in a car with that

much belt? It is.

It is not fun. Yeah, you know, it's terrifying.

It's I've, I've, you know, obviously driven a few different customer cars, but obviously being customer cars, you're never driving it like your own and you're never driving it like you would, you know, on the streets, that's for sure.

But yeah, like some of these cars, you kind of go, what's the point? You can't.

It gets to a certain point where you're like, this is just such a handful. It's not actually that

enjoyable. But you know, a lot of people

it's bragging rights. It's, you know, that kind of

thing. So, you know, when people want

to do it, you know, you just advise them.

And that was always my thing. You know, I always enjoyed the

thing of helping, you know, really getting to the bottom of like, OK, what does someone want to achieve and how can they achieve it? But also doing it in a way where

they're not, you know, if they want to do this and they want to do it in stages, sort out a sort of Ave to do that as opposed to going, OK, I want to do, you know, someone comes in and they go I want a big lumpy Cam, but then I want to supercharge it later. And you're kind of like, well,

that doesn't really work. You know, if you have a

massively lumpy Cam in an LS, you will then like boost when you do a supercharger. So sort of varies.

But yeah, so you know that that was good.

That was great. And yeah, you know, after a

period of time, I sort of thought, well, what's next?

Sort of getting a bit, you know, a little bit stale, that kind of thing. And yeah, was working on on seek

again. And this isn't about for seek it

just what I was looking on. And yeah, you know, a position

came up for a product manager at a company called Clutch Industries. Beautiful thing about that was,

you know, being a local to the area, I would drive past where the workplace was every day to go to my, you know, to go to Harrick. And I was like, oh, wow, that's,

you know, how close is this? That's going to be great.

You know, I'm sort of like 10 minutes away from work.

Not even and yeah, and kind of just, you know, from there went into the role, you know, clutches watch being.

So it's really interesting and wanting to discuss at work.

You think of a clutch and go, oh, it's just a clutch.

Like you press it, it opens, it releases.

That's pretty much it. But the idiosyncrasies of the

product and of the actuation system and everything like that is very unique. And, you know, I've learned so

much about clutch product that I'd never experienced in the entire time of, you know, being Arab because we weren't really doing much of that. Obviously, if someone came in,

they needed a clutch yet cool with, you know, spec one out to suit the power that they needed, that sort of thing.

But yeah, like, you know, clutch is a very involved product and with that came, you know, one thing with that is standard clutch or aftermarket replacement heavy duty stuff, performance stuff. It's it's like it's one of those

things that you have to have, you know, different products for different people. So you get, you know, nowadays

everyone uses stages as a, as a, you know, stage 123 tunes packages, whatever it is. We had that, you know, with

clutch in one of their brands and you would have, you know, 5 different stages of product depending on what the person was doing. So you know, someone that just

had a mild streetcar that might want to run a stage 1 clutch, which is just basically, you know, a heavy duty diaphragm.

So people clamping force organic, organic plate and you can go to like a stage 5, which would be a TVG diaphragm, but then you've got like a rigid button style ceramic clutch.

So it just varies and, and one thing you know, I also came into yeah, clutch industry the time at a pretty good spot because we were just about to bring in a new brands called Uni Clutch, which effectively Uni Clutch sort of helps bridge the gap with all of those products and it's a modular clutch system.

So, so now you've started at Uni Clutch and again, we've got a mutual friend that works at uni Clutch, which is just showing all the different, you know, avenues of, of, of the people we know. Shout out to you Damo who also

works at Super Cheap. Becoming like a bit incestuous

or something. I don't know what's going on

anymore. Funnily at that, I also he

actually worked at Harrap as well with me for Yeah, so that that's how I know that that's where when I was looking for someone, he messaged through and came back to uni Clutch.

Yeah. So, so, so Uni clutch is a new

brand from Clutch Industries, correct?

Yes, that's right. And you offer a like a clutch

solution from what I from what from my research and what we've discussed before. Yeah.

So, so basically it's it's a, it's a modular clutch solution.

So effectively, and it's, you know, it bridges the gap between a performance clutch and an OEM clutch effectively.

So you've got, it's a twin plate clutch.

So it's obviously got 2 clutch plates.

But with that it gives you, we, we've sort of been able to design it and development where you've got the torque capacity coming from the, the 2 clutch plates, but without the heavy pedal that you would generally get from a, you know, a heavy duty clutch. So it gives you the ability to,

to run, you know, a, you know, a clutch that's got a torque capacity. We've got, we've got two in the

range, but an 8 inch and a 10 inch.

So our unit clutch track in the 8 inch, you can get a peak torque of 13120 Newt metres. And then so that's in smaller

so, and it's the thing with clutch that's in smaller vehicle applications. And what I mean by that is just

physically the actual clutch size.

So depending on the vehicle, you know, like some notable things like a, you know, S55, like M3M4 BMW, they would run like an 8 inch style clutch. They say like an LS or a Ford

Coyote, they run out 10 inch which we've got up to 2000 new metres. Oh my God.

And then just to to scale it up again, we've actually got a quad plate. So that's, you know, two of the

10s spec together and that off. And I should know this, it's

about 3500 new metres. Oh jeez.

Hold. On yeah, that that one there is,

is dedicated specifically for V8, you know, American application, so LS, Coyote, Dodge, that kind of thing, because that needs to go with our ultra flywheel as well to make that work. But yeah, you know what one

thing with the product that really does make things a lot easier for, you know, the the car enthusiasts out there is the the modularity factor. So you've got a system where

you've got a sealed clutch core. So by sealed it means it doesn't

rely on the friction surface of the flywheel, so it's got its own inbuilt friction surface. And then you've got a flywheel

mount and an interchangeable spline, so and.

That's how we change between cars.

Yeah, and that's between cars. So like we've got we've been

able to, we've been able to set it up where we'll have, you know, you could hypothetically someone that's doing, I don't know if you know, we don't want to enter conversion like a real drive K swap in with a, you know, Nissan CD double O 9 or something like that. One thing with that would be

that you would need to get like a custom clutch or you'd be relying on, you know, some of the manufacturers that have done those adapters where they then sell you into their flywheel and their clutch system and you can't really get out of that with unique clutch. You're able to you're able to

basically mix and match. So one thing that's done, you

know, obviously great for all those sort of weird and wonderful conversions, you're able to get a a high torque capacity clutch without the driveability compromises a lot of the time. And we've also got a spacing

system thrown in there as well. So with clutches, you've got

your clutch finger height will vary depending on the vehicle and the amount of throw that the actuation system has.

So you're able to basically set your finger height up to suit your particular conversion. So that's one thing that we get

a lot of like a lot of people that have, you know, we've had guys with just recently a guy with a Lambo Gallardo hit car.

That. Has got a turbo 1UZ FA with a 6

speed STI box modified as a transactional setup.

OK, so we were able to work with him to be able to have a unique clutch solution. So so how does that?

Hang on, is the Lambo the kit car?

Is it the kit of the Lambo or is the Lambo the basis of the kit car? No, it's I, I don't know too

many details about the actual kit car itself and what it was, but it was effectively what he was saying was it was pretty much insured for as much as like.

Like. The equivalent car, it was a

really good job, was engineered, all that sort of stuff.

But yeah, it was like a, you know, a space frame type car.

Yeah, I saw the photos, you know, underneath that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, it's all right. So.

Used to be like a sleeker or a beetle or something.

Was it done? Yeah, wasn't it not a beetle?

More often than not, yeah. So will they bring the car to

you guys and say this is the gearbox, this is the engine, make that work. No, no.

So one thing, our team, you know, we've got a team, two engineers that work on the technical side of things that deal with, you know, this sort of more technical stuff.

And we, we really rely on the people that are providing, you know, that have the cars they need to do some work.

So they need to take some measurements.

We've got a sheet that we've developed, you know, over a couple of months years now where we were finding it constantly to make it easier. So effectively, you know, people

need to take measurements that bell housing, measurements of their flywheel, stuff like that. And then we can have a look at

all of that and go, OK, we've got, you know, we have this particular flywheel PCD, so we can do that on this mount.

We do have that spline and now we look at the setup part.

Is the setup part going to work? And that's, and that's the

finger height basically. So effectively we can do it, but

it does take groundwork from the person, you know, that's that's undertaking the project and it's vital that we need those people if they want us to help them effectively they need to provide that information because there's a lot of stuff there.

We can't, you know, you need the car there.

We can't do that. And there's a lot of variables

that come along with that 100%. So, all right, so, so then when,

OK, hypothetically speaking, so someone comes in with that, you figure something out, is there a lot of trial and error or is like, yeah, it's not going to work, have you or is it?

No, it has to be right before you send it out the door.

No, no, it's, it's, it's often, you know, often the main things that we look at. So First off is do we have a

spline for the gearbox? So that's the first thing.

Because if we don't have a spline, generally the reason we don't have the spline is that we just haven't had, you know, enough interest in that particular vehicle or that particular spline to go, OK, we need to make that.

So that would be one thing or the next thing is can we physically fit? So that's probably a big thing

with our uni clutch product in the 8 inch, the smaller top one, we've got a minimum PC the flywheel needs to be to actually fit it. So they my a 86 with the four AG

8, they the earlier ones had a 200 mil flywheel and the later ones had like a 212 mil. So I had to get the 212 mil

flywheel to fit the unique clutch to that.

So because the, the the minimum bolt up of the flywheel needs to be within that's about core size.

So like there are some cars where we just can't fit because it's just physically the flywheel and the factory clutch is too small. So like notable ones like D

series civics, Suzuki, Yeah, like, because, because because we're global, like so many people do do it for D series.

It's just crazy. And it's just like, no, can't,

can't do it right now. You know, D series, civics, the

Suzuki genies, all those, all those sort of generally what I sort of as a general fund for myself when I'm sort of sorting through inquiry, sorting through Facebook comments, socials, all that sort of stuff. It's like if we don't have a

particular car on file or look at what's the factory clutch plate size? And generally if it's about a

215 mil or lower, then it's kind of like we're not going to be able to help you out. We won't.

It's physically too small. And then the flip side of that

is anything bigger than like a 13 inch sort of cover, which is quite we're talking verging on not light truck, but like 2500, you know, sort of American full size trucks, that kind of thing.

With Virginia, we're probably it's a bit too big for the clutch. So you got that, you got that.

Then there's other variables. One thing that you know people

may or may not know, you know, again, going back to clutch being very, very idiosyncral actuation methods.

So majority of cars run a push style clutch system where you're pushing into the diaphragm with the bearing.

But a lot of cars also run a pool, so you're pulling away from it. Notably, you know, Subarus,

STI's, Mitsubishi, Evos, 1J2J, Toyota's, they all run pool.

A lot of Porsches run pool. A lot of odd sort of

applications run a pool style clutch because it saves on space and valve housing. So that's how they get around

being able to, you know, save on space in certain applications.

One thing with that, you know, is a unique system where it changes the diaphragm, changes the way the pivot of the clutch is working and everything like that.

So if it's a pool style clutch, we can only fit to like a Subaru style bearing or Mitsubishi style bearing.

A lot of the old Nissan actually as well, sorry, notably I32 GDRS, the 334, they were on pool style as well.

So I'll be 26. But yeah, a lot of instances

it's very common to run a pull to push conversion.

So, you know, there are a lot of aftermath companies that will make pull to push conversion clutch actuation systems for their clutches because you run into issues with the pull style clutch to a certain point when you're making really big power or in certain applications. All people go to an internal

style concentric slave. So and also hydraulic slave and

you run that push. So that's another thing, you

know, where we have a hard cut off if it's a particular one, it's kind of like, oh, hi, you have to run a conversion.

If there's a conversion available for your car, that's easy. You know, R30I did an install on

an R33 GTR. We've filmed some content.

It was up on our YouTube channel, which that runs that conversion to convert it from pull to push is really simple.

It just runs OEM Nissan parts and you're just literally changing over the front, the front input shaft cover and converting it over and then just tapping drill and tapping two holes in the battle housing. They're kind of already there.

You just got to tap it and then mounting this the external slaves or slaves cylinder in your.

Yes, OK, so it's. Really easy, but then there are

other ones where it's a lot more convoluted.

It's, you know, you're running other brands actuation conversions and that can then lead to, you know, potential need to check, you know, heights of bearing carriers and all sorts of stuff. So yeah, you're going back to

that. You know, if, if there are

people that have got random things, you know, working on random projects where it's like they need something specific this yeah, the UNI Clutch product really does allow you to mix and match and customise to what your project potentially is. And also then offering, you

know, the talk capacity benefits, the driveability benefits, all of that sort of stuff where you know, you'd be going a custom clutch effectively.

And nowadays as well, you know, the fact of the matter is another part to all this is obviously clutch, you know, manual cars, new manual cars, a few and far between.

You know, every year goes by and there are less manual cars available from manufacturers from new.

We're seeing a bit of researchers now, which is cool.

You know, got the I30 and the I20IN, GR, Supra, GR, Yaris, Corolla. You know, the whole GR range was

great because that's breathing a bit of life.

Yeah, thanks for that. And sort of, you know, seeing

manufacturers go back to that more mechanical element and away from, well, not away from it, but less, you know, they wanted to bring the, yeah, they're wanting to bring, you know, have their performance offering as an actual performance offering instead of an EV performance offering.

I guess that kind of thing, which is, you know, good, good for us because being, you know, we, we look at punches and that's the great thing about the product too.

Actually, just from a development perspective, our development time is super quick. So like a new car comes out like

the I30 N had a guy down the road that had one from work and he's like, he burnt his clutch out.

It's like you guys do 1 because admittedly he was sort of like, Oh yeah, I haven't really driven manual for a while.

Not drive, you know, driving habits, stuff like that.

He's burnt it out and I'm saying he's burnt out the factory clutch. So I'm like, yeah, sweet take.

You know, he was a mechanic. So I'm like, listen, take your

flywheel off, bring your clutch in and we can just measure it up. And we did that and like perfect

that we happened to have a flywheel mount that was already suitable for his flywheel rather to measure the finger height where we got the setup part right.

And we had a spline for the gearbox.

So it was literally a OK, cool, here you go, go and fit it and yeah, put it together, see how it goes.

And, and we're good. So effectively then we've got,

you know, where where traditionally if you were having to develop a product from scratch, you would be, you know, you'd either be buying the OEM components, getting them in, viewing them, cadding them, changing them, all this sort of stuff. Yeah, yeah.

The the beauty of this product is it saves on development time.

So like effectively, you know, I 20 N I've got a yeah, a big, you know, end specialist in New South Wales that I'm working with that I'm waiting to get an I-20 N clutch and flywheel in so we can have a look at that and see whether we can do something.

Yeah. So it's.

Interesting because like obviously it's owned by the Clutch Industries, you know, brand and clutch industries do exactly what you just explained, which is like get the car in, do development, you know, like from base up basically.

And without having this sort of, you know, level 1 sort of kit to start with. And then to build on how does

clutch industries sort of go with almost like competing with unique, unique clutches like their own product, but also they obviously own it. And then or how have they that

completely completely cut out some of the old school in inverted commas way of developing?

Yeah, no, no, great question. So effectively, yeah, we've kind

of gone, you know, where we would have previously, you know, if say, you know, the you know, I30 in because you've got one that kind of easy to talk to, you know where where previously we would have gone. OK, we need to get, you know, we

need to get a car or we need to get a clutch.

Well, I will review it and then go, OK, we're going to have a standard replacement clutch. We then need something that, you

know, someone's going to do some, you know, a little bit of work too. They need something.

So you go HD then you sort of go into, you know, the the stages system. So it's like, OK, we need to do

a stage two or three. So a stage two or three was

generally like heavy duty diaphragm with a ceramic organic mixed, that kind of thing. And then it might even be OK,

we'll do a twin plate option as well.

So we had a previous brand that we did twin plates too.

So we've we've been doing twin plates for a very long time.

This is the Uni clutch is like the next evolution.

So where it changes for for Clutch industries is that.

We kind of look at, OK, what's the demographic of that potential vehicle and what are they going to want to do or have the, you know, have the aspirations to do as well.

That's the other thing because often it's like, you know, people get cars they won't have aspirations to do stuff.

Will they do it will they won't don't know.

But then also can we give them a product that they can drive it just like the OEM style clutch that have the ability to go further in the future? So yeah, so, so for example, our

unique clutch track products, that's a that, you know, the 13/20/2000 uni metre options, they're ceramic based products, but we've got them in a few of our development cars.

So we've got like a, you know, a GR Supra manual, one obviously VASTI, the last of the Polo GTI manuals then, you know, like Damo's got him in all his cars, Yeah.

He does, yeah. They're all daily drive cars,

they all get driven daily, but they've got ceramic clutches in them driving around daily. So you've got that ability, you

know where you're not compromising on the drivability.

Factor because that's always been a big issue with clutches, right? Because I want to put more power

and the first thing is, are you going to upgrade your clutch?

And then people just put these most heaviest duty clutches in there and then they're undrivable.

They're so hard to drive and they're peak to drive.

My brother had an extra 6 turbo years ago and it just had a few upgrades and it wasn't the most part.

There was, you know, quick enough, 300 kilowatts of the rear wheels. But this person put in this

Melwood stage 5 crazy equal 3 whatever high end clutch and it was you could never drive. It's moon.

It was an absolute pig to drive because you just you'd be doing leg day every day. Yeah, with that, with that

clutch. And every time I got every time

I drove that back to back with my with my car, I was like, Oh my God, like, why? Why is that even necessary, you

know? And just on that one thing I'm

leading to with, you know, actually to both of your points, which is really good. So the fact that we have a lot

of the data because we make the original clutches, Yeah, we know what the factory torque capacity is, what the factory bearing loads are. So what we've got on the unique

clutch side is when you look up your car and you get your installation instruction, it will actually tell you what the torque capacity of the clutch is over the OEM.

Oh. Cool and.

Also tell you what the expected bearing effort so pedal feel.

Feel. Like, so whether it'll be

lighter, whether it'll be the same or whether it'll be heavier. Some instances we have somewhere

it will be heavier and it's just, it is what it is.

But in general, we haven't had specific feedback unless there's been something going on with the setup and it's like now something's not quite right. You know, we haven't had

feedback that's like on your clutches, you know, the pedal if it's ridiculous. We've had a lot of instances

where people have actually purchased them and put them into cars because they've had other clutches that have been quite heavy. And, you know, some people it's

just it's they can't drive a heavy clutch anymore.

It's it's just not possible now. And you know, they want to stay

in the manual. Yeah.

So they don't want to go to an auto.

So it's like, oh, well, let's look at this.

So yeah, there's a lot of that in the background.

There's a lot of tech in the actual product.

Another thing that we have is that each each unique clutch has got AQR code on the bottom of it, so.

That. You can scan that and you can

see all the test data for that. Oh cool.

So you can see, you know, the finger height, the release spec, when the parts were manufactured, all that sort of stuff. So you've got that ability, you

know, we sort of thought like, you know, people will like that kind of stuff where they can check it.

And then also we know that, you know, another thing is from a perspective of we know that that clutch was working when it left us. So if potentially someone has an

issue, it's like, OK, we'll clutch is releasing.

So is there something going on with your hydraulics?

And there are a lot of instances where that can be a problem.

People don't realise that, you know, the hydraulics might not be leaking, but internally can be bypassing and you can have issues with release. It's not throwing as much as

what it would expect. So it's not releasing or it's

maybe releasing the clutch, but the clutch is actually dragging.

So you get like potential, you know, we've had some situations where people are my clutch is burned out and you get it back and it's like, yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't releasing.

So it's just been dragging and dragging and dragging is building up hate and hate and hate, but it's because the the actuation system wasn't actually releasing it.

So just sort of berries. Yeah.

And that goes back to that, you know, idiosyncrasies.

It's pretty full on. But I'm yeah, overall it's, you

know, being being really good. Yeah.

It's given me, you know, wait, wait, wait.

Global. So you know, obviously we, you

know, selling Australia and New Zealand, but we also selling America in the UK, Southeast Asia, Japan, yeah, Southeast Asia, you know, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, all that.

Yeah, a lot of that region and we're going further into, you know, into Europe as well. So we're in the UK currently,

but we're sort of working in with a few companies over there too. So it's really becoming a real

global thing. And another thing, you know,

from that side of things, not a part of the modularity factor of the product is for these large distribution companies that we're working with, from an inventory perspective, it works in their favour because, you know, and this is kind of boring part of it, but it makes sense. You know, you're not having to

have a clutch, 1 clutch for every single car in the car park that you think you're going to sell to.

You can have a clutch core, you can have, you know, 14 fitment kits and you might be sorted for, you know, if you're a performance specialist and you only deal with a certain car rather than have and someone comes in, needs a clutch and needs it urgently. You could effectively have every

single clutch that you need on the shelf and literally have a clutch and a couple of different kits and a way, you know, whereas traditionally you would have a clutch for every single vehicle. Yeah, some, some vehicles that

share clutches, like a lot of Toyota share clutches, a lot of Nissans, they'll they'll share them, but it's only to a certain extent. Whereas yeah, you know, this

product affords that. Another thing, you know, a lot

of people may or may not know, but you know, in, well, geez, from the 90s, you know, dual mass flywheels.

Dual mass flywheels are a big thing.

A lot of newer cars coming, you know, out with dual mass.

But one benefit of the product is being that it's a sealed unit. You're not relying on the

friction surface of the flywheel.

So if your dual mass is still fine, that it's got a bit of burn, that kind of thing, you can installed the.

Way you have. To replace the dual mass.

So yeah. One thing that that did interest

me when when we're talking last and and I know guys, this would be probably interesting for you guys too, is I was asking about his Tom and Harry and you were saying the legalities.

This is this is a really interesting point.

So this is a guy that knows about legalities and modification. So it's to an extent, to an

extent he's pretty much what you said to me was that was what I kind of figured out was as soon as you really do anything, you should really take technically need to get it plated, right.

That's on a town of technicality levels, like for example, people camming their cars, supercharging their cars, exhausting, you know, doing all that sort of stuff.

Technicality level? Do they need to mod plate the

car? Effectively, how far I can go

into this without No, no, effectively really.

Obviously the vehicle design rules and ADR rules are in place. So effectively you just need to

be sure that you're meeting those requirements that they've got in place. And, and one thing that you'll

have, you know, the easiest way to put it is, you know, the putting big wheels, like that's probably the easiest one that people know is you know, you've got a car that came out with four teens and you want to put seventeens on.

But then there was a factory option that had the tyre placard that ran 15. So then you've got the two

inches, that kind of thing. So you do that sort of stuff,

you can get around it. I'm not saying that you should

do that. You know.

But yeah, yeah, there is, there is, there is an element where, you know, technically, yeah, doing, you know, that sort of stuff. You know, you need to make sure

that it's meeting emissions and stuff like that.

You know, sound is a big thing to effectively.

Yeah, I used to play, you know, people would pull through and it'd be like, hey, I want to do this.

I generally didn't get too many people that would actually not ask that would question what it was sort of like an unwritten rule. They just knew that, hey, if it

happens, it happens, you know, that they're going to have to put the car back to standard and get it cleared.

Away you go. And I think for the majority of

people out there that modify their cars, even if it's modifying it, you know, to a retro mod spec sort of car that's sort of know, well, you know, if I'm the, the, the disadvantage of having a loud exhaust is that I could potentially get pulled over. So it's sort of like if you

want, well, if you, if you've got a car that can benefit from a larger exhaust from a power perspective, then you kind of got to go, well, where do I draw the line?

You know, if I want to have a blow valve, that's going to draw attention. If I'm going to have wheels

sticking out the guards, that's going to draw attention.

So it's always that thing of like I just used to say to people, hey, I've not had people pull up that had problems, but also they're not drawing attention to themselves.

Yeah. So Dr respectfully, don't be

Yeah, take out on the road and I think it's fine.

And like, you know, I think I know that there is talk about unifying like the engineering requirements and stuff like that across states. Because one thing that you have

is like up in Queensland, the they can engineer cars really easily or, you know, a lot easier than here when they just have people come out mod plate the car sweet done.

So there is talk of that and try well, not, I won't say it's specifically talk of that. It's specifically talk of

unifying the states right now. Every state has different

engineering rules, different compliance rules, different admissions rules, stuff like that.

And they're talking about, you know, unifying that.

But yeah, it was it was one of those things that, you know, luckily never had any issues. So it.

Was, you know, touch wood. Touch wood.

Having. Oh no, personally, yeah, been

defected once. OK, the time is super cheap.

Not not for anything. Went went to Maccas and one of

my tyres was a bit bulls and the cops saw that Easy done.

Yeah, just tyres, you tyre. I was like, yeah, no, it's

definitely needed to be replaced.

Admittedly, the, the front, yeah, I've still got the front set on that car. That's the, the years later.

I, I don't want to look at the, the tread or the tide, how old they are, because, yeah, that's why I, I have not allowed my daughter to be in the car yet of, you know, one thing being a, you know, I guess a bit of a wheel hoarder.

I've got a whole heap of different wheels and.

You're in. You're talking to the right kind

of people. Yeah, they're.

Like you know, need to need to choose a set and stick with it.

That's the problem. So no.

That's ridiculous. Why would you do that?

Just go one on each corner maybe to do something like that.

Yeah, it's been done. It's just about to say it's it's

been done. No, you sound like you.

You've got a pretty cool gig at at your place and yeah, at uni clutch and or clutch industries with, you know, promoting this, promoting the uni clutch brand. Last question that I've got for

you guys. I like, I know you guys might

have some questions, but what's next for uni clutch?

So like what's what's happening with that brand?

Like what's happening with products?

So, yeah, like right now we're sort of working on some things in the background, looking at like a couple of different, you know, sort of like different so vehicle application thing for me. So, so part of my role, which I

didn't really explain it, you know, I'm product manager and brand manager. So I do the technical side of

things, but then also, you know, the branding side of things as well. So like, you know, if you hit up

the unique clutch socials that'll you'll get me, unfortunately, you'll get me. And depending on how many, how

many messages I've had and the tone of the messages, you'll, it will depend on the answer that I give you.

So because you know, this day and age, one thing and, and Matt, you'd probably attest to it, but the changing landscape of social media and the demands of people are quite significant.

So like there's an expectation a lot of the time that, you know, our brand is 24/7. Yeah.

And and that's one thing that can be difficult because, you know, we're we're a global business, but we're still a small team. So it's like, you know, I've had

people that are like, oh, how come you haven't responded that are messaging from, you know, overseas and it's the middle of the night here. Yeah.

It's like, yeah, I mean, not online, yeah, but get back to them the next day, that kind of thing.

And that's all good. You know, everyone's fine when

they realise that, but that that's, and that's kind of one of those things where it's actually a bit of a, it's a, it can be fluttering because it obviously shows that, you know, some of these people that have seen what we're putting out, they obviously like they think that we're where we are a global brand, but they obviously think that we're much larger, have a much larger team than what we do have right now.

Yeah, that's it. So, yeah.

So as far as like what's next, we're constantly, I'm constantly looking at vehicle applications and getting more vehicles onto our catalogue. So yeah, anyone out there if you

know, if you go to our site and you can't find your car, send through a message. Just going to have a look at

that on the back end. And sometimes and also actually

call out to everyone, have a look at our website.

Tell me what you think. Yeah, cool.

I want some user feedback because that's another thing making the website user friendly, user friendly.

And often the difficult thing with that is when you know, the back end data and how to find stuff and it can sometimes, you know, put, you put the blinkers, not blinkers on, but you can kind of go, Oh yeah, this is easy because you just look this up. Then that's because yeah, like,

you know something. And it's like, Oh yeah, I know

that, you know, sometimes our search system and the data that we have, you know, like a 4A GE might be catalogued.

There's 4A dash GE. Yeah, yeah.

So there's stuff. And some people might go, oh,

I've looked up my car and I can't find it.

And then I'll look it up and I'll go, oh, no, it's this.

It's just you need to search for, you know, 4A dash GE, not 4A GE. And there's some stuff like that

usability stuff, quirks that I want to work through and fix.

So it makes a lot more of a user friendly experience.

So yeah. Anyone out there you know, let

me know. Your feedback could take it on

board. Coming from like a design

background, I worked, I was on a team that helped readers on the Melbourne Uni Law Faculty website.

Just seeing how user friendliness is such an important thing cuz we'll all be guilty of this going on a website and doing 2 clues like I can't get to this.

Yeah, I'm out. Yeah, I'm out essentially.

Yeah, It's a bit, It's a big thing.

It's a bit, it's definitely a big thing.

And especially with today's TikTok Society of, of, of brain, brain wave of 15 seconds. No more.

You know, it's, it's, it's a, it's a really, it's a real thing. Yeah, yeah, no, 100%.

And like I said, it's, it's, you know, always looking at it, you know, even at Harrop, I have the same thing because it's like, I know, you know, I know the product so well.

I know the website so well. Like I know how to find stuff

that you kind of then try and put yourself in a place of someone that doesn't know the product, that doesn't know the website. And it's like, how how's that

flow work? Can they find stuff easily?

Is it user friendly, all that sort of stuff.

So yeah, that, that's definitely one thing, you know, cataloguing website, obviously socials and stuff like that.

Like today I went out and did some filming out in Port Melbourne area and stuff like that.

Got one of the guys that's got a 2019 Mustang which we've been meaning to do some rolling drops and stuff like that.

And we we did that today finally, which was good.

But then yeah, from product development side of things, we've got a few things we're working on in the background, specifically looking at some, you know, like buy out talk capacity and more race orientated product.

So like right now we've got, you know, uni clutch track, which, you know, we kind of geared towards.

It's a it's you know, your car is a street registered car that you want to take to the track sometimes and stuff like that.

And you know, in some elements, you know, there are some cars, track cars out there that dedicate track cars that do have the product that there's a teetering line where you might have, you know, something that's, you know, getting.

And this is the thing, you know, like K series especially, you're getting higher and higher in the horsepower and driveline loads and, you know, all drive and sticky ties and all that and all that has an effect on the clutch as well.

So looking at ways that we can, you know, go to the next step and offer a product that is, yeah, you know, a bit more tailored to that, where it's not just the OK.

Now we, we sort of don't recommend it, but yeah, that's kind of where at the moment we do also have a new product which I'll probably probably shouldn't talk about, no.

Don't you there is something. Coming which which will yes

slotting next year so so yeah, definitely as as time goes through yeah, I can. We'll get you back on the talk.

Yeah, come back on and talk about it.

Yeah. And, and yeah, so that's that's

probably where it's at the moment.

Another thing actually I didn't touch on is our flywheel range.

We've got, we've got a range called ultra flywheel, which effectively is a, because mentioned earlier, we don't have a friction surface on the flywheel.

So I've actually section cut the friction surface out on the flywheel, right. So it's taking that rotating

mass out of the flywheel because it doesn't need it.

So you can go super light on the flywheel, have the clutch on it and you end up being lighter than what you know, the equivalent OEM clutch would be. So I'm just looking at expanding

that range, doing one for like, you know, golfer, that kind of thing, dual mass replacement type stuff and K series stuff, actually amalgamating those all 1 to 1 flywheel and what else?

Yeah, a few other bits and pieces.

Yeah. So yeah, again, you know, anyone

out there listening, if there's any suggestions, stuff like that, feel free to reach out because.

And yeah, if you know, again, there's some stuff that, you know, going back to, you know, getting measurements from people and stuff like that. If there's stuff that we don't

have on the website and you've got a clutch of flywheel available to measure. You know, whether in Melbourne

you can always message in and, you know, come in and drop it off and we can measure it up or we can send out a sheet that you can take some measurements on and we can have a bit of a lookout. So yeah, if people are

struggling to get, you know, a performance type product for their car, then yeah, there are solutions there as well.

Yeah, awesome. Let's go.

Julian, I've just been to the website.

I'm pleased to say the rego lookup worked well and it found my Pajero but no products to suit.

But good thing it's an auto. There's no Renault 16 you know

in the model look up. Disappointing.

No, he's got, he's got to go through his whole, his whole car is the whole car. Yeah.

Yeah, it's funny. And I think the rego look up, I

don't think you're using us. We do that at my work and I

don't think that's us in the background for uni clutch.

So are. You at liberty to say where you

currently work? Yeah, yeah, a company called

Blue Flag and we're brokers of that government Rd authority data. So, you know, if you're paying

someone else for that, we can switch you out, maybe save you money here we. Go maybe?

Well, you've got a, yeah. Yeah, we could talk after the

pod man. Yeah.

I. I need to find this for you

gentlemen, but just put it over there.

Just a. 2nd. You might not be high high

enough volume for us. But yeah, yeah, no, The Reg look

up Australia, New Zealand, that's probably one thing I've had people from overseas say, oh, my rego doesn't work.

And I we've got the note that there's Australia, New Zealand, like, yeah, that's not going to work, but all good.

But yeah, we're sort of looking at ways that we can get data from overseas and stuff like that.

But it's hard because, you know, you've got so many different, you know, so many different vehicles, so many different rail authorities. Also, model complexity is crazy.

You know, like I had one the other day, a VW Rabbit.

I'm not a VW person, but a VW Rabbit might.

What the Hell's up? It's a Golf and it's a gold.

And I'm like, oh cool. Yeah, there's a 2.5 litre.

Gold. OK, so I'm like, I've never

come. No, this was Europe somewhere.

Yeah, Yep. So but yeah, there's a lot of

that sort of stuff, you know where where we the other thing is to our site, we might have cars catalogued, but we might not have them cat. We might have them kind of the

Australian version, not the, you know, Japanese version or not the, you know, European version, that kind of thing.

So there are ways around it and I've got resources on the back end where I can sort of do some cheques and cross references and stuff like that and and sort of try and find, find products for people. Yeah.

So, yeah, yeah. I was wondering on the website

side of things, are you thinking of going and using some AI to help out or? It's it's something that it's

something that's come up, you know, like we, we've had it, we've we've spoken about it, you know, do we have like an AI chat bot or something like that? Do I, you know, feed it all of

my emails and all the tech emails and everything like that and train it? And you know, AI is definitely a

tool that's becoming obviously like businesses are using it more and more, no denying it. Profile.

Yeah, yeah. Like Copilot, stuff like that.

Just GBT. It's that it's that human

element that I think in this industry you need though.

There is a level of that too. Yeah, you can't, you know, the

the the thing, and I don't think I touched on it, you know, at the very start. But one thing, you know, that I

really enjoyed when I was at super cheap was when someone would come in that would have a car, you know, a Jack car or have a performance car, stuff like that.

Like even though you sell on the Philtre and stuff like that, I would always enjoy that interaction.

It wasn't just an ER Falcon. It wasn't just a, you know, a VL

Falcon probably get that a lot. In the old rego.

In the old rego label days. I had a guy come up to me with

a, with a, with, he had a, he had a Vt Commodore and, and he's always like, I've got a 1998 VL come on.

I'm like, they didn't make them in 1998.

He's like, he's like, I know my car.

I've owned it for 10 years and I'm like, I'm like, but that does the, Are you sure it's not 1988 or like an 87?

Oh, you think, you know, I'm like, no, no, I'm, I'm, I generally it's a completely different car.

I'm like, have you got the car here?

He's like, yeah, I walk outside. It's a Vt Commodore and he's

like, but it's this veil on the sticker.

And it was, it was the registration video for a very long vehicle. I'm like, sorry, I'm just like.

And then he was, he's like, he's like, oh, so, So what model is it? I'm like, oh, it's a, you know,

it's a Vt Commodore since before we had all redo like redo search. We had VIN search.

We did a redo search back then and he got his back up like crazy. You would have believed it was.

I'm just so I'm like, I'm trying to help you here.

I'm not trying to, not trying to say you're wrong, but I'm but you're wrong. It's just so that was so that

was a bit of a funny one, Yeah. I would constantly have to walk

outside. I'd just say just just show me

the car. Yeah, like it's just just show

me What Car you've got. All good.

I'll sort it out, you know? Yeah, that was that was a

constant thing, you know, back in the day.

And yeah, the old yeah, Holdens and Fords were definitely yeah, a staple. VL Falcon Throw.

Throw a Camry and a magnet in there and yeah, we're pretty good. Got it sorted mate.

Yeah. It sucks.

They come in and just say, oh, I've got a Toya Corolla and leave it as that. You're like, oh, OK, well.

That's a wide range. I've had people come and say,

oh, I'd like to get, you know, some oil from like, Oh yeah, well, what type of car is it? It's red.

Genuinely, I've, I swear to God, I've had people coming.

I'm just looking at. I'm like.

Red. You need the premium stuff for

red I'm. Just looking at him like.

Betting the other way I'd go is how many K is it on 200,020?

Sixty. Is it leaking 4070 get to that.

It's like, yeah, All stop Lake. When you start it, can you see

out the back window? We had this guy I used to work

and used to work with us and Scottie, you might remember him, starts with L and ends in K. He was.

So cool. And you said that now?

Yes. Anyway, this guy came up with

him with a brand new BMW M5 like F-10 thing like it was this is, you know, it was quite literally, you know, not even not even a year old or anything. And he's like, look, it's

getting service next week, but the oil lights come on for top of like BMW things. But anyway, I didn't say that to

him. So I I was like, yeah, but

before he asked me. So what happened was he came to

the he came to the counter with with 2060 and I saw he pulled up in it in the M5 and I'm like, I'm like, Oh yeah, is this for the your car? He's like, yeah, the guy

recommended it to me. I'm like, no, it's just not for

your car. He's like, but he said it was a

2050. I'm like, believe me, this car

does not take 2050 this. So I looked up for a minute and

he's like, oh, the oil was like almost three times the price.

I'm like, yeah, because it's not it's, it's yeah, it's, it's a special. He's like, well, he's like,

well, lucky you checked it for me because the other guy just said, Oh yeah, 2050, you know, just quiet.

Zero cares in the world. Yeah, That's, that's that's that

was that was a good time. He was, he was a funny dude,

wasn't he, Scotty? If you're needing to do stock

take, he can do it very, very fast.

He. Could.

For a certain reason. With a match I was.

Thinking of the person that you guys might be talking.

About, We'll talk after the show.

But he also used to, he used to also go out and clean his car and shift. Will I, will I be the only one

in the store? That was that was a lot of fun

too. He just looked at the front and

he's like, I'm just cleaning the car, guys.

And he'd be like dusting his mats out, throwing his rubbish in the bin. I'm just like, oh God.

Like this is, yeah. He just did that so he could

have a look because we're right next door to the gym.

Yeah, he did that for a perv, Definitely.

That's that's absolutely. And he would have maybe the

first one to admit that as well. Oh yeah, happy to.

Yeah, jeez, that was a that was a funny time, Scotty, funny time back in the old back in the old days with super cheap, but cool.

Anyway, so plans for yourself and with your cars.

So like, what's you plan on? You say you've mentioned your

G35 because we're about to get the car updates because as you've probably heard the show, like we we were talking about our weekly update, but plans going forward with your cars.

Anything in particular? So yeah, I'm, I miss serial.

I'm a serial pest when it comes to like looking at, you know, marketplace and stuff like that. And I'm kind of like, I'm in

this stage where I'm like, I kind of, you know, I want a new car. I need a new car, I want a new

car. And obviously, you know, with

the brand when you get into a manual.

So it's actually Speaking of Chad when we just met about, you know, the I30 ends and sort of been looking at them or the I-20 ends, something like that. But then the, you know, the, the

polar opposite of it is like, oh, do I sell the crown and get, you know, AG 35 or something? And I, I have, I have the, the

forever struggle with that because the Crown's really reliable, you know, 2 GR or your motor basically very reliable, not had a problem with it. And I go from this very reliable

thing to this unknown thing that's probably not going to be reliable and probably going to piss me off, to be honest, because you know, when you, you need to go drop off, get to work, you just want to gain something and work and work.

And then I kind of go, you know, I don't want another project car because I've got the 8/6 and that's, you know, that's been neglected for quite some time. So I sort of need to give that

some love. So yeah, yeah, potentially like,

you know, thinking about like an I-20 and I think I need to go and take one for a test drive and.

Yeah, crossing a drive. Like that's, that's probably the

thing. But you know, yeah, when we met,

you know, we're talking Focus STS and stuff like that because we realised we got the 2.3 litre ones here.

Yeah, we did. Because that's something that

wants to have a look at too. So yeah, I've got to, you know,

a few sort of different things in mind.

But then yeah, for the 86, really we've got 86 they coming up soon and one of the guys in the 86 club was going to organise meet up the week before.

So I'm kind of hoping that that just runs and drives and is good. Probably need a service and

stuff like that because give. A birthday.

Give it a little bit of a birthday, check the plugs completely fed up from sitting around all that, just all that sort of stuff I've had so so with that I've had wiring, you know, old Toyota wiring gremlins that the last couple of years of, you know, changed starter motors.

I've upgraded to a Honda starter motor now chasing these wiring issues. And then finally, you know, one

of the guys at work was like, I've you checked the resistance on the ignition, you know, the, the, the main wire going to the starter and also your negative terminal and they were both completely corroded. So massive, massive resistance.

And I never thought to check it. So replaced those and then just

did the relay mod as well to give it a bit more power.

And so far it's been good. It's, it's been starting every

time and the battery's not dead, but it's been starting.

So again, you know, hopefully you walk outside and and it's good. We're not, we're not.

We're not push starting it, I think.

We need to do it like cross to the car park.

Yeah, I was going to say you've made David very happy.

He's always like, because David's a staunch Honda man, just just letting you know. And you said putting a Honda

part on a Toyota, which is which is?

I just let it slide right past. I didn't say a word.

I didn't. And you're thinking it, David?

So, yeah, do that. And then just, you know,

reliability stuff, just have a look at, you know, I need to do tyres, I need to do, you know, look at the rust, that kind of thing. And then it's sort of like,

yeah, pretty, yeah. Where it goes from there.

So. Yeah.

Nice before you get to the quiz, which you you're more than welcome to join in on because because you know, it's always a bit of fun. Quick updates guys.

We'll do a quick round of updates.

Scotty, anything with you this week?

Nothing. David.

Grand Prix Civic Fixed, fixed fixed for the Yeah, brakes.

Brakes sorted out again. What was?

The issue. Oh, it was adjusted all out of I

think how he was a bit disgusted with the guy that did it, thankfully. OK, yeah, undrivable but

driveable now. Picked the red accord back up

from my youngest son. That's.

Gave it a good. Wash and took her for a long

drive on Sunday and fell in love with it all over and so it's not going anywhere just at the moment got to give her.

Some red accord. Yep, Yep.

You had a, you had a weird word a few like a few weeks ago and it was, it was like, hang on a minute.

I saw no uncertain stand terms only days ago I said do not give up on the red chord. No, I can't.

I can't give up the red chord. It's lovely up thing.

And yeah, looking forward to getting out in the end.

One a bit on the weekend, going to the Fox Museum at the car club actually, which should be interesting.

Yeah. So that's about it for me.

One thing. Wasp work happened last Sunday.

Jacked up rear shocks out, new rear shocks in.

David has done his little contribution of wasp work, you know, driver's seat slight repair, carpet slight repair, wipers painted back to black. I picked up two ties at the

Wrecker and had them fitted yesterday lunchtime.

So the rear end of the Wasp is a lot better, and the driver's seat. So next trajectory of that work

will be front shocks out and new front shocks in, and then I've got to get onto the engine rocker gaskets and spark plugs and things. So yeah, you know, chipping away

at. Wasp.

It's improving by the week. What else?

Renault 16? I don't know if I talked about

that a week ago or two. I put the master cylinder on

myself, bled the brakes with the help of a friend back on the road, so I've been driving that around on the weekend.

It was nice to put a few KS on it.

And take it back to where where you were.

Yes, I took it back to the IMLUX.

Some of you would have seen that post I put on Instagram.

I took it back because IMLUX is closing for good, as we know, our favourite wrecker in the in the southeast, which is very sad. And that's where I bought that

car. And it wasn't out the front of

him Lux. It was out the back of him Lux

up on wheels, you know, ready to be picked apart.

And this was this was 22 years ago, so.

I have you had it that long? I mean, really.

Yeah. I've had it that long.

I know, I know. I started, I started trying to

work back and I rang my friend because I had it.

I had it towed to my friend Roland's house.

He's, he's been on here once or twice.

And then we, we filled it with oil and started up at his place.

And I thought I rang him and said, when, when did you live in that house? Like when did you leave that

house? Because I know we had a toad

there. He said, oh, we left in like 05

or 06. And then I went, well, it was

before that and I was working here and I was trying to sort of, you know, time stamp it. So yeah, it was, I think 2003.

Which is too impressive. I just I I love that it came

from the actual yard. Literally hard.

Yeah. Yeah, that's where.

The cars are still good, I. Know and I it was very hot.

Must have been the summer of 22 or early 23 somewhere.

Number of 22. Yeah, so I remember I was

wearing a black T shirt and I was frying, but someone mentioned it on a French car for him.

It's called Aussie Frogs where it's still going, you know, Aussie Frogs with French, Peugeot, Citron, Renault chat and whatnot. And someone said oh there's very

clean 16. It's just been sort of out the

back at, you know, Centre Rd wreckers or whatever.

And I was like, and I thought, no, you've got enough cars there, don't even think about it, you know, dah dah dah.

So I left it for a week and thought, oh, someone will go and, you know, save it or something.

And of course a week later I was a bit bored and went, I'll just steal, just pop in for a little glance.

You can't hurt. Can't, can't hurt.

And, and I walked around and just thought, shit, this thing's very original. I, I think I need to buy this.

And so, yeah, they, they couldn't believe it.

They sort of were like, you're gonna the tow truck driver literally said to me, you're gonna, you're gonna restore that, You know, like he was very, very disparaging about my choice of yeah. Where's he 22 years on?

Where's the tow truck driver, 20?

Who knows? Who knows?

The low balling people for broken down, kind of.

The irony is I really, I didn't even restore it.

Like I polished it and put oil in it and a battery in it and it's still still running. I had the wheels.

I did comment on Instagram, I I had a set of the Renault Dunlop Sports wheels put on it, of which it's the right optional wheel for that car. So I did that.

So the wheels look sort of new that the rest of it's as I got it, yeah. So anyway, I thought a photo at

the front is worthwhile because IMAX is soon to close for good.

So I thought a nicer time. We had a nice little snap of of

one that escaped from the cracker many, many moons ago.

Doing God's work Edward Bunting Doing God's.

Work well, as I said, I've saved a few cars from there and then I was trying to run through them. I've saved a skyline from out

the front. Yes, I bought I bought a Magna

GLX manual first Gen Magna from out the front that was about to go out the back the Mercedes 230 E that Matthew you and I found there. Yeah, out the but that was going

to go out the back and I of course, yeah, No, no, I'll buy that. So I think there's what was a

cracker. Car.

That one, it was unbelievable. I know Renault, Mercedes,

Skyline Magna, that's 4I reckon that might be it for that.

When you've kept the imlarks afloat all these years, probably. Nah.

Hardly. There'd be people that are far

more serious than me. But but yeah, those cars,

certainly the Magna, the Merc and the and literally the Renault were, were going into the jewels of death.

So I've saved those 3, Chad. Not a lot.

I wasn't on last week, so I think I just did a little bit of car cleaning on the on the last week and then I bought a bunch of service items for the Tarago, so I'm gonna get that done this weekend. Yeah, no, that's probably about

it. Yeah, it's been pretty quiet.

Easy. What about you man?

Well, I helped. I just finished installing your

Edwards Brothers stereo on his Pajero with the rear.

Oh, is that all? Is that all finished, Maddie?

Yeah. I finished the last night,

Edward. Wow.

Jeez, you're pretty efficient. Mate, we're not here to do what?

Do something to spiders, as the kids would say.

So rear camera when you put in reverse comes on the Bluetooth thing. It does.

It's all there. Hold on.

Streaming of the streaming of the Spotify.

Well, I haven't connected to my phone, but that, that'll works.

It should all work. So I want to trial it tomorrow,

you know, make sure that all works.

But it's, it's all, it's all all running or working.

I did run into a bit of a snag. That's what we That's why I went

to bed at 2:00 in the morning 0. Matthew, what are you doing?

Because, well, I'm going. To, you know, you've got a week

to do this like this. No, actually.

I kind of don't and I'll explain to you why in a second, but the steering wheel controls, every time I programme it into the head unit it'd work and then it all of a sudden it just give it revert back. So I spoke to a few mates of

mine who do stereo installs and they've said they've said there has to be a factory reset it and go from try again.

So I'm going to do that again and try and get that to work.

It it should work, but everything else works.

Florida State. So I'm going to have to have a

sauce for that. But the reason why I finished

that car last night was because Steph officially cracked it about the Forest Star because the the coilovers are just, they're just shot like they're, they're 130 or 40,000 KS old and they're just, they're the front ends that it's so stiff at the yeah, bitch just a little bit firm and firm and a bit and very knocky in the 2 front shocks. She's like, she's like my

family's coming. So her brother and his wife,

their two kids are coming on Thursday and they need a car.

And she's like, we cannot give them the car like this to use.

So I went on to marketplace because that's that's what you do. And the guy upgraded his forest

at the coils, but he's he took out of it.

He only had them in for 30,000 K is a set of Pettit shocks and springs and lowering springs. So it it won't be as low as it

is in coils, but it will still be this will be nice.

I got there for a steal. Like I just lowballed the guy

and he's like, yeah, done. So so I went to pick him up

yesterday and Chad, you're gonna help me give him put them in tomorrow night for me. And then so.

So that's tomorrow night's job. So and then the laser is about

200 KS away from 3:50. It's almost there.

But yeah, that's pretty much it on my end now.

Carter car quiz. So join you obviously listen to

the show. Yes, yes, I I have.

I have heard this. And basically, we battle it off

as supremacy for the weak, just for the incredible award of bragging rights for the, for the, for the weak, which which really doesn't count for much because, well, Alan's not here to, to defend himself about, about shenanigans and things.

So, so we can, we can say things about him, but.

Yeah, so. But yeah, same questions plus

some bonus questions. Now David Prince has kindly

offered to to write the quiz today.

I was stuck at work and wasn't unable to get out of there until late. So, David Prince, Are you ready

to go? Actually, in the interests of

transparency, a number of the questions came from this book that I found the post office the other day.

What book is it? Just as a display, total wheel

spin, it's called. It's a series of little books

and this one says car culture quizzes, myths and motoring madness. So I thought that's written all.

Over everyone has read that book.

Please out yourself out of this quiz because I ain't read.

It I ain't read it. I have not.

I have not, so I'm happy to. And it's matching competitive

total leadfoot. Just motoring backfires,

burnouts, rattle traps and rarities.

It's amazing what you can find in the line of the post office.

That is quite good. So we've got 5 plays tonight,

myself, Julian, Chad, Ed and Scotty.

David Prince, your quiz, you take it away that before you start, you buzz him in your name and then most with the most points at the end wins for the week.

And then if you win and you know, coming for ages, you still got bragging rights. That's that's kind of the rule.

So I'll keep the mic in between, in between you guys so, so you guys can just jump to it. But David Prince floor is yours.

Thank. You very much so you actually

learned some. I did learn a few things

actually. So whether they're or not

they're actually true will be interesting, but I'm presuming they are. Book has to be.

True. It's a very authoritative volume

in this scene. Question one Maddie, the Ford

Ltd. We, we all love a Ford Ltd and

this we do, some of us have actually owned them.

What does Ltd stand for? Matthew.

Matthew. Oh.

Lincoln type design. Correct.

And you? I didn't know that.

Well, I knew that. I knew it, but I wasn't quick

enough. No, I'm not quick enough here.

Lincoln buy design. Where?

There you go. Lincoln type design.

Actually, me. There you go.

Everyone thinks it's limited or something.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah.

All my life, basically. So.

There you go. You can learn something on the

catwalk pod. You're trying to hire me

something? Boy, that's.

Yeah, OK, so question 2, the Bugatti Veyron is famous for having a 16 cylinder engine, but an engine with even more cylinders was originally contemplated how many cylinders Ed engine have Ed? It had 24.

Incorrect. Yeah.

Matthew, trying to think of that, yeah.

Matthew. It's Tiktok, Matthew.

I know. Yeah, I'm.

Doing it? Yeah.

Tiktok Allen would be happy with this.

Shenanigans, shenanigans. 18. Correct.

Oh, so it the first the the concept the EB118 show car which was unveiled by the 98 Paris Motor Show.

It was powered by 6.3 litre W 18 comprising of three banks of 6

cylinders. Imagine, imagine working on

that. Like that'd be the, that'd be

and it and it'd just be. Horrific.

I want to do a rocket cover gasket on that.

Yeah, the middle 1 needs doing all right.

Right. You're just gonna change the

plugs? I don't know if it was like the

Mercedes style, the twin like. That where the.

Cylinder had the 2 spark. Plugs 2 plugs.

I, I once got, I once got picked up in a success, organised me a, a drive in a, in a Maybach and it was a like AV 12 Maybach twin turbo thing. And it was a beautiful car,

right? He's like, yeah, we've just

spent almost like 6 or 7 grand just on basic maintenance on the car. Yeah, 2 spark plugs per

cylinder, coil packs all round. It was just it was and I'm like

my God. And then I was complaining the

other day about how cheap the the AED.

So the the MR2 was in Toyota past to to do the clutch in every league. So.

Perspective. Terrific.

Question. Next question.

So Sanyo but continuing with the Musso name.

So the original Sangyongs that were released in Australia back in the low 90s but not late 90s. I think Sangyong Musso and now

the dual Caveux, the Sangyong Musso.

What does where does the name come from?

Not Sangyong Musso. Where does Musso name come from?

You say like the origins of it or like.

Yeah. What does it mean?

Is it? Julian, I'd be a real stab like

in the dark, but is it something to do with like the Italian name for mouth like? Sorry, I can't quite hear you.

The Italian name for mouth is muscle.

Muscle, muscle. So no, interestingly, you're on

the right track. They had an interesting face.

That's where it's arrived, you know, interesting.

I designed those old Sagans. I like what you think.

That's actually quite, that's actually quite good.

He's really thought about. That's more than any of us do,

really. No idea, but that was just.

Yeah, and even more technically, he's on the right track.

Is that is that .5? No.

No, not quite. Not quite OK.

No, Chad. Anyone else?

I'm going to say it's some sort of variation of like muscle, like strength. No, no.

Ed. It's named after Mussolini.

Mussolini, you know. No, that's not right either.

Surprisingly. Got.

His Matthew Sumo like but they they just they they got the only because it's a yeah, it's a big truck instead of sort of like.

Musso sumo. They'll just swap the letters

around. Is that is that where they go

from? I like your thinking.

Again, no incorrect. Scotty on you, you gotta.

Have something that's that's that's it.

No, all your guesses are kind of kicked off all mine that I was thinking of. Russo.

Russo. Nah, can't even have a guess.

OK, got to think of the origin of the car.

It's the Korean word for rhinoceros.

Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah. It looks like a rhinoceros.

In metallic grey particularly. Exactly right.

Hey, it's a Mercedes. Got Mercedes guts guys.

Mercedes engine. Ain't no poachers after that

one. No, they can all go extinct.

OK. The next question is related to

it as well. So the Rhino interestingly was

also the design inspiration for another car.

Can anybody name the car? Japanese car?

I'll give you that much. Not a.

Korean Car. David, Matthew.

The Suzuki Samurai. No.

OK, this is a Rhino was the inspiration for another brand of. Design language?

No, no, not the name, sorry. The design language.

So we know, we know about photo design and we know about, you know how what influences some of the designers of Japanese cars over the years? The rhinoceros.

I'm trying to think of a Jack car that looks like a rhino.

Specifically a jet car? Or could it have been a truck

SUV? Halfway between.

I was thinking like, for some reason, was it like Hino that was using rhinos and their advertisers?

Yeah, look, I'm, I'll, I'll that's where.

I was going with that, yeah, yeah.

That's good, that's good. He's very analytical.

He must be an engineer of some sort.

He's putting us to shame, boys, in terms of how he's thinking.

No, no. Anyone.

Anyone. I just can't think of a car that

looks like a rhino. When when I tell you what it is,

you go see that. Maybe Sanyong Stavik?

I think, I think that's degrading to to rhinos everywhere. Yeah.

Think of something maybe like Boxy or yeah, the thing I can think of and I'll just say the pro box.

I saw one, saw one on the road the other day.

Oh, did you? Yeah, yeah, With some really

nice sealies. It was really cool of me.

Yeah, like a pro box. I assume that's the wrong

answer. David, I might.

I might just have a stab. I'm not sure if I've had a guess

yet. No, no, I was.

Just yes, Chad, it'll. Be blank.

Go ahead, Chad. The famous went to Chad about 3

minutes ago. TikTok, Chad.

TikTok. I've completely blank.

I forgot what I'm never mind. You're too young to be having

those moments, buddy. No, Done no good.

It's all done to. I jet or something like that,

like a random K truck. I like that too, but no no, it

was actually a Honda of. Course one more guest, David,

like I have already gone but the Nissan Duke.

No, no. But I I see you thinking it's.

Just ugly. This is ugly.

Yeah, well, maybe Rhino West. Honda actually were inspired by

the rhinoceros in the design of the MDX.

The. MDX.

Really. That's quite an MDX, Nothing

like a rhino. Yep, it is, according to Honda,

in the same way that the flounder fish inspired the EG city. Well.

Well, then I can sort of see. No.

Well, I'm I'm going to say it. David Honda, you're wrong.

Sorry. It's.

I don't know what they were saying I.

Don't know what they were smoking about what?

Do you mean when you say found? It have a look at the.

Chat, I found it. That's very cool, Scotty.

A blound of fish. Scotty's what?

What's the basis of that, do you reckon?

Looks like? Oh gosh, no, I'm sort of.

Yeah, yeah. How nice or something?

That's the car, isn't it? Yeah, no, that's not MDX.

Next question. Next question, Hang on, let me

go back. I was busy depicted this this is

a bit of an easy one. I think an upgraded version of

the Mini minor released in 1969 was called the Mini.

K Yes, Ed. Ed.

It was an 1100 CCK, stands for kangaroo, was a round nose, the newer door handles and the newer tail lights.

It was an Australian only edition.

Is there anything I haven't covered off?

Would would you like the rest of the question?

Would you like to answer the question squarely in all of that? It had a little badge on the

front quarter panel. It ran back to the kangaroo.

Surely in all of that I've covered off your question.

I didn't really quite get the question.

David made a statement. It did.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I gave information that

covered the question. I did think that would be a

ladder and mazir for you actually that one, and I was right. So there you go, the mini.

The K stood for Kangaroo because it's an Australian only model.

Chick Well done, Ed. Yeah.

Go ahead. Thank you.

SO. Much next question which which

Australian car has had a movie named after?

It was released in 1977 and it started Sigrid Thornton and Paul Cousins. Matthew.

Matthew. Charger.

No. OK.

No, I know. I know 77 years before some of

you were born, not all of you it rebounding.

As per my jump up. No, I missed it.

I'm sorry. The the The Adventures of Ford

Fairlane. That's completely wrong, but I

just have to. That's a good one, I like that.

I keep thinking of the goddess of 1967, but that I mean, that's a French castle. I know the answer to this, so

that's alright. Go, Matthew, Go.

But I've already I've already answered, I've answered it wrong. But I don't know that.

When you guys answer it and and just before it, I'm not pretty sure I got it right. I want to make sure I am I am

right. Well, I'm I'm out.

I don't know. Movie was it?

Yeah. Go and think of ATV show.

Remember Kingswood Country? Yeah, Kingswood, Yeah, not

taking the Kingswood. Yes, very well.

No clue. You guys are all out.

It's it was the P-76, wasn't it? No it.

Wasn't no they the movie? Was called FJ Holden.

Oh, right. OK.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And was it about it?

Was about FJ Holden and it was a sort of a surface sort of, you know, like punky sort of thing. Not really good or.

I don't think it won any Baftas, any Oscars, the Oscars or anything. Well.

David I'm pretty sure I saw I, I, it's a, it's a terrible film, but they, they did a, they did a like a promotional movie for the P-76 and it was, you know. Oh, they did.

I'd like to see it. I've seen bits of that online

recently, I think, yeah. Yeah, actually that was quite

common with when they released, you know, to do a sort of movie style thing. I've got one of the the Torana

hatchback with Gil Tucker who was in cop shop for years and it's like an ad and it goes for like 3540 minutes and they're camping in the back of the the Torana with the Hatch hutch.

And it's very cool. But no, there was a movie and it

started Secret Thorn, Australian movie royalty and was made in 1977. And the theme song was sang by

Frankie J Holden from Old 55. So I mean FJ Holden.

There you go that. Makes.

Sense it was a synergy, it was a synergy.

Total sense. Next question, the successor of

the we'll, we'll just change gears here.

Literally and figuratively. The successor of the Porsche 356

was to be known as the 901 model Ed.

Matthew. Ed Oh, I did get it first on

yes. Yes, it was to be known as the

901, but Peugeot had the copyright of the O in the middle of the zero in the middle, so Porsche had to call it the 911.

He's absolutely correct, yes. I've got deja vu, wasn't that a

question recently? It was.

Yeah, I. Was going to say I think I was

literally listening to this today.

Might have been one that I was. I do listen.

Oh, wow. OK, OK, baby.

You're rehashing. I wasn't on that episode.

I don't think this must have been a.

That might have not been my quiz.

That's fair. That's why I knew what the EDS

was. And my guy, he's going to ask

that. OK, thank you.

Oh, it's the book's fault. And I had, like, 40 minutes

notice, so, you know, come on, give me a ring.

Yeah, you did. Doing well, Very well.

Following the successful success of the relaunch of the Renault 5 as an electric car, what's the next model Renault that has been reborn in a new generation? Ed.

Ed. Is it the Renault 4?

Correct. It is the Renault four that

little 5 speed hatch and next to you there actually bringing out a 4 by 4 version of it of. Course they are like that.

Of course they are to fill a segment that doesn't doesn't actually need to. OK, Question 9, which is the

latest manufacturer to an oh, very topical tonight actually given our discussion, which is the latest manufacturer to announce that the manual gearbox is dead to their range announced this week? Everyone's looking at at Julie

Vodka. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Get to their range. They've had manuals since the

car was released in 1959. I think manual gearbox has been

offered. Jesus, Ed, is it the Mini as in

BMW Mini? Correct.

Well, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, many manuals are gone.

I mean, I don't, I don't think many people took it up, but they were available, but especially in the JCWS and the sort of things no more, no more in the in the the new incoming generation. I guess there's no point making

if no one's buying it and. Where are you going to find a

clutch? Oh, I know.

Yes. OK, last question it better

news, which manufacturer has just announced that manuals will continue in a new version of their popular small car again this week? Chad.

Ed. Chad.

Chad, I think, I know Ed might have not heard that, but.

Ben here, you guys did Chad he off you go.

Chad. Is Ed Mazda?

Incorrect. Ed is it Kia?

Incorrect. Matthew.

Matthew. Is it Toyota with the Yaris?

Incorrect. OK, so see what Scotty and

Julian. Is it Ford with the Mustang?

Incorrect. I haven't been online much this

week, so I haven't really kept up with the news, but I feel like I'm I'm trying see, I'm trying to think back to like the Instagram feed. Yeah.

And, and no doubt I would have. Passed it.

Somewhere because obviously it's very topical that I keep an eye on this sort of stuff. But yeah, it hasn't been the way

this week. I'm just going to throw Mazda

like this, yeah. Incorrect.

Incorrect. No, the answer is Fiat.

Fiat. Fiat have actually reengineered

the the new, the newer bigger, a bigger chassis, electric 500 to take a petrol engine. Oh cool.

And as part of that, well a petrol hybrid engine and as part of that reengineering is going to be a 6 speed manual gearbox.

That's cool. Which?

Would actually make it an interesting and and worthwhile kind of drive especially. Yeah, it could be.

It's the electric one I'd say. Now, is that 9 questions or 10?

Oh yeah, that's 10. Oh, OK, OK, I had another one,

but that's all right. We've got a tiebreaker 1 so.

Cool. There's there's no need for it

because Edward was cleaned us out today on for Well done Edward, do you win? Oh, the grand.

Well done. Yes, Edward is on fire.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Edward, is anyone you want to thank?

Just myself. I'm turning into Scotty.

Yeah, I like it. Here's a goal, Here's a golf

tip. Take up a different sport that's

more fun, No? Such thing.

Well, that's the end of the that's the end of the show.

Let's do some plugs. Let's go in the room, Julian,

things are coming on. We'll, we'll, we'll plug you

guys when what you do. Yeah, yeah.

So yeah, just jump on to, you know, yeah, Uni Clutch website, go to our social stuff like that.

If you're a listener, you heard heard me talking.

If you've got any questions, just start reach out on our socials and yeah, you know anyone that's listening, you know, and said through an email PR at uni clutch com, you'll get me there. So if you've got any feedback

for the website or just in general questions, stuff like that, yeah, feel free to reach out and just mention that you, you know, heard the pod and and yeah, give some positive criticism or negative, I guess. Hopefully positive, but you

know. Criticism, whatever, we all will

learn stuff like that, so that's all good.

It'll be a critique. Yeah.

Critique. Yeah, that's it.

Perfect. Yeah.

Awesome dude. Scooty's golf tip of the week.

Golf tip of the week is how to give your backswing more power.

So as you start with your club going back, what you want to do is make sure that your your hands are as far away from your right ear as possible. So that means that you're

stretching out. You're stretching out a lot more

with that arm. So that means you're, I guess

your swing arc is going to be a lot, a lot wider.

Everyone's doing it. Yeah, far as you can like feel.

Like I'm hurling a hammer, yeah. Because a lot of.

People. Elbows too much, Scotty.

A lot of people bend their elbows and go in like this.

You want to keep it out. The club's still going to aim

out here towards your head anyway.

You don't want to like that, Select that and then come in.

The arc is a lot better, more power off you go there.

You go nice. Interesting.

Do you play golf? Julian no, I haven't.

I haven't played, even though I'm right around the corner from Norman. You are.

I I go, I, you know, walk around it and jog around it quite a bit. But yeah, I haven't diverted in.

But I feel like with time. And we've got his tips.

Probably, yeah, we've got his tips.

Yeah, let me know how it goes. David Prince and Edward Bunting,

anything you'd like to plug? I've got a Suzuki Swift coming

up for sale in 2005 auto and I've got a 2006 Mercedes E350 Elegance coming up soon as well. Spokane, the Gale.

Japanese economy. German.

Luxury. Luxury.

Chad's deliveries delivering to a place near you.

As is Penal. Yeah, he'll bring it.

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