We Judge Your Cars, Fake Recaros & Field Car Memories | Redline Republic Podcast Ep.26
Redline Republic | Automotive and Car Culture Talk
We Judge Your Cars, Fake Recaros & Field Car Memories | Redline Republic Podcast Ep.26
Redline Republic | Automotive and Car Culture Talk · Jul 21, 2026
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Term
fake Recaros
This means someone might be using fake copies of Recaro racing seats. The concern is that the fake seats may not be built or tested to the same safety standard.
Term
seat buckled
It means the seat got bent or collapsed during the crash. If the seat back moves backward before the final hit, it can make the crash more dangerous.
Term
bucket
A “bucket” here means a bucket seat, the kind of sporty seat that keeps you from sliding around. The point is that you shouldn’t drive while sitting on something like that in an improvised way.
Term
brakes
Brakes are what slow the car down. The speaker is saying people often upgrade power first, but brakes matter just as much for actually driving safely fast.
Term
Volkswagen tune and scene
This means the community of Volkswagen owners who modify their cars. The speaker is saying that group often chases more power, but forgets that stopping power (brakes) is just as important.
Term
PD
“PD” is shorthand for Volkswagen’s “Pumpe-Düse” (unit injector) diesel engine technology. The host is saying the PD platform can be tuned to make more power relatively cheaply, which can tempt people to ignore brake upgrades.
Term
horsepower
Horsepower is a number that represents how strong the engine is. The speaker is using it to describe how much power tuned cars can make.
Term
twin pots
“Twin pots” means the brake caliper has two pistons pushing the pads against the rotor. More pistons can help the brakes clamp more evenly and feel stronger.
Brand
Brembo
Brembo is a well-known performance brake brand that supplies calipers, rotors, and pads for road cars and motorsport. In this segment, the hosts are debating whether “Brembo” pads are actually better or just a name, including the idea that cheaper Brembo-branded pads may be produced in the same factory as budget options.
Term
brake pads
Brake pads are the part that actually rubs against the brake rotor to slow the car down. Better pads can make braking stronger and more consistent.
Term
airbag
An airbag is the safety cushion that pops out in a crash. If you remove it or replace the steering wheel with one that doesn’t support it, the car may not protect you the same way.
Term
Aftermarket steering wheel
Aftermarket steering wheels are replacement steering wheels from other brands. Some racing-style ones don’t have an airbag, so you may lose the factory crash protection unless you use an airbag-compatible setup.
Brand
OMP
OMP is a company that makes aftermarket racing-style parts. Here, they’re talking about an OMP steering wheel that may not match the car’s original airbag setup.
Car
EP1 Civic
An EP1 Civic is a particular older Honda Civic model (identified by its chassis code). Here it’s mentioned as an example of a very cheap “field car” that ended up failing inspection because of rust.
Concept
field car
A “field car” is a cheap, beat-up car you don’t mind using in rough conditions. People buy them for fun and practicality, not because they’re in perfect condition.
Term
failed test
“Failed test” here refers to a vehicle inspection failing—typically because the car doesn’t meet safety/environment requirements. In this segment, the failure is specifically tied to rust and the absence of a handbrake, which are common inspection deal-breakers.
Term
rust
Rust is when metal corrodes and gets weak over time. Inspectors care because heavy rust can make a car unsafe.
Term
handbrake
The handbrake is the parking brake that keeps the car from rolling when you’re stopped. If it’s missing or not working, the car can fail inspection.
Car
BMW E90
The BMW 3 Series is a smaller luxury car made by BMW. The podcast is talking about a specific version of it (the E90 generation) and how people can tell which front add-on parts it has. It comes up a lot when owners customize or repair their cars.
Term
BBSs
“BBSs” means a set of aftermarket wheels from the brand BBS. People upgrade to them because they can look better and sometimes help the car feel more responsive.
Car
MX5
They’re talking about the Mazda MX-5 Miata. It’s a small, lightweight sports car that drives the rear wheels, and it’s often considered “fun” even if it’s not the fastest thing around.
Term
rear wheel drive
Rear-wheel drive means the back wheels get the power. Many drivers like it because it can make the car feel more engaging to drive.
Car
Nissan 180SX
The Nissan 180SX is a classic Japanese sports car that’s popular with tuners. People like it because it’s rear-wheel drive and there are lots of performance parts available.
Car
Subaru Impreza
The Subaru Impreza is a Japanese compact car that’s famous for having all-wheel drive. That helps it grip the road better, especially in rain or snow.
Term
all wheel drive
All-wheel drive means the car can send power to all four wheels. That usually helps it grip the road better, especially in wet or snowy conditions.
Car
Lexus IS 200
The Lexus IS 200 is a Lexus sports sedan that people sometimes recommend as a smarter used-car choice. Here, the host is basically saying it’s a better deal than an older 1980s/90s sports car because it’s easier to live with and can feel quicker in real life.
Car
AE86
The AE86 is a classic Toyota from the 1980s that car fans love because it drives in a fun, balanced way. It’s also a common starting point for custom builds, so when someone says it’s “the nicest AE86,” they usually mean it’s been built up to a high standard.
Term
20 valve
“20 valve” means the engine has 20 small openings (valves) that let air and fuel in and exhaust out. Engines with more valves can often breathe better when you rev them, which helps power at higher RPMs.
Term
high revs
“High rev” just means spinning the engine faster (higher RPM). Some engines are more fun or make more power when you keep them revving, rather than shifting early.
Car
Nissan S13
The Nissan S13 is a specific older generation of the Silvia/200SX that became famous with car tuners. People like it because it’s a common, mod-friendly platform and it has a strong reputation in drifting and street builds.
Term
TRD kit
A TRD kit is aftermarket-style body parts made under Toyota Racing Development. It’s mainly for changing how the car looks (and sometimes how it channels air), not for changing the engine.
Car
Toyota AE86
The Toyota AE86 is a classic Toyota sports car that became famous with car culture—especially drifting. Here, they’re saying that for pure fun, the newer Lexus IS200 might be the better pick than the AE86.
Car
Volkswagen Crafter
The Volkswagen Crafter is a big van made for work, like carrying tools or people. The podcast is talking about how comfortable the driver area is, including having armrests. It’s the kind of vehicle you’d use for longer trips while working.
Term
round of rock
“Round of rock” sounds like a slang way of saying they’ll go do another off-road drive on rough, rocky ground. It’s basically “another trip out” for the kind of driving their car is built for.
Car
Volkswagen Passat
The Volkswagen Passat is a mid-size car made by Volkswagen. In the podcast, it’s brought up as part of a group of similar Volkswagen models, where people are trying to tell them apart. It’s basically a regular family-style car, not a sports car.
Car
Volkswagen Bora
The Volkswagen Bora is a sedan model from Volkswagen that’s sold under that name in some regions. In the podcast, it’s mentioned because people are mixing it up with other similar Volkswagen cars. It’s a regular car meant for everyday driving.
Term
TTE kit
A “TTE kit” is an aftermarket set of body parts from a tuning brand called TTE. It usually adds things like lips and other exterior pieces to make the car look more aggressive.
Term
TTE lips
“Lips” are small add-on pieces at the bottom edges of the bumper. They’re mostly for looks, and sometimes to slightly improve airflow around the front of the car.
Car
Nissan Bluebird
The Nissan Bluebird is an older Nissan model that was sold in Japan for many years. Car fans like it because it’s a classic “JDM” car that people often modify for style and driving feel.
Part
aluminium oil cooler
An oil cooler is an extra radiator for your engine oil. It helps the oil stay cooler, which can protect the engine—especially if the car is driven hard or sees track-style heat.
Concept
Japan spec
“Japan spec” means the car was made to match rules and equipment for Japan. Other countries sometimes get slightly different versions, so enthusiasts use this to identify what they’re looking at.
Car
Suzuki Vivio
The Suzuki Vivio is a very small Japanese “kei car.” Those cars are designed to be compact and use small engines, so people often talk about the engine size (like 600cc) when identifying the exact version.
Term
bad boy bonnet
“Bad boy bonnet” just means an extra-aggressive-looking hood. It’s the kind of hood shape people add to make a car look more sporty or tougher.
Car
Mark VI Golf
This is a Volkswagen Golf from the sixth generation (Mk6). People often modify these cars heavily, and here they’re talking about a lowered, show-style version with a sunroof.
Term
bagged
“Bagged” means the car has air suspension. That lets it drop very low for show, and then be raised again to drive.
Brand
Momo Arrows
Momo is a well-known car parts brand from Italy, especially for wheels and steering-related gear. The hosts are saying the wheel design looks like a Momo style.
Brand
Land Rover
Land Rover is a car brand most people associate with SUVs. Here, the hosts are talking about Land Rover wheels being used on a different car.
Term
spoiler
A spoiler is a piece on the back of a car meant to affect airflow. It can help the car feel more stable when you’re going faster.
Car
Skoda Octavia
The Skoda Octavia is a practical car made by Skoda, which is part of the Volkswagen group. In the podcast, people are trying to figure out whether a car is an Octavia or a Super B because they look similar. It’s generally an everyday family-style sedan or hatch.
Car
Dodge Super B
The podcast says “Super B” while talking about a Skoda, and that name usually refers to the Skoda Superb. It’s a bigger, more family-focused car than the Octavia. In the conversation, the main issue is that it can be hard to tell the two models apart.
Term
concave
Concave wheels are shaped so the rim curves inward, like a shallow bowl. It’s a style detail that can make a car look more aggressive or custom.
Concept
bad boy era
“Bad boy era” is just a way of saying the car looks like it belongs to a certain time when people built cars with a more aggressive, flashy style. It’s about the vibe, not a specific car part or model.
Term
CB aerial
A CB aerial is the antenna for a CB radio, which lets you talk to other drivers using a short-range radio. The host thinks this car shouldn’t have that antenna sticking out.
Car
Peugeot 106
The Peugeot 106 is a small, lightweight car that many people find fun to drive. If it’s an older one, rust can be a big issue, so it’s worth checking the underside and hidden spots.
Car
300ZXs
The Nissan 300ZX is an older sports car that many car fans recognize. Even if you don’t know the details, it’s famous for its style and for being a car people like to modify.
Term
sun roof
A sunroof is a panel in the roof that can open so you get more light and fresh air. Some people care about it because it can change how the car feels structurally.
Term
Speedline
“Speed lines” are a visual design—often stripes or graphics—that make the car look like it’s moving fast. Here, it’s being used to help identify the exact car/build.
Term
cherry bomb exhaust
A “Cherry Bomb” exhaust is an aftermarket muffler brand. People recognize it by the loud, raspy sound it gives the car.
Term
red top engine
“Red top” is a nickname for an engine variant that’s identified by a red-colored cover. They’re saying the car might have the red-top version instead of a different “black top” version.
LIVE
Just a quick disclaimer before we start. Any stories or opinions
shared in this podcast are for entertainment purposes only.
Nothing discussed should be taken as advice or encouragement to
replicate anything we talk about. Right, let's get into it.
Hello and welcome to the very 26th episode of the Red Line
Republic podcast. My name is Badger.
Name Dan.
And today, literally quite literally is six months.
Yeah, I know we've said it now for the last three weeks.
Three weeks, yeah?
Yeah.
But today it actually is, yeah. We called it six months on
episode 24, but there you go.
So technically, technically, technically, this is six months
on one week.
Yeah, well, I mean, if you want to look at it that way, yeah,
but I mean, we missed the weeks.
Yeah.
So anyway, next week, stay tuned for next week, because next
week we're six months in podcast.
Yeah, so there we go.
Um, shit, we didn't even think about fucking, uh, we're
going to keep this in like, well, yeah, you know,
think about topics.
I did, right?
So there was one thing during the week.
Yeah.
Um, it was a post I seen on Facebook, and it was someone
that took a screenshot of seats.
And I'm sorry if this is you, but you did a shot of seats.
Yeah, for sale.
Like our seats.
Yeah, right.
Okay.
And I'm sorry if this is you, but in fairness, he did post
put the post up asking for opinions.
They were fake.
S or three rick arrows, I think.
Right.
But the screenshot was from like Alibaba or some of them.
Yeah.
And he asked for opinions.
And basically all the comments were, do not ever buy them.
Yeah.
I tell you what's worse, right?
And I would ideally like to remember who the fuck said it to
me first, because guaranteed I'm going to speak about this now,
right?
And I'm going to be friends with the person who said it to
me, and then they're going to fucking hate me forever for
saying it, right?
But on the whole topic of like seats from Alibaba.
Yeah.
Do you know they sell wheels as well?
Oh God.
They sell wheels.
And somebody who the fuck was it?
Please don't tell me, you know, someone at the bottom.
Somebody was going to point them and sell them.
Yeah.
Like actually, like they actually did sell something like
actually, I think so.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Well, I don't know if they did or not, but they were talking
about it.
And so they convinced me to do it.
Like, man, you lad, never mind hit a pothole.
If you hit over 30 mile an hour, that thing, it's buckling to
fall off the car, die, flames, everything.
Yeah.
Like the one thing.
And I think a lot of people don't realize how important seats
are, just like car safety.
Man, Jesus, imagine you on the motorway and you dropped the
boot.
Next thing you did you force, puts your seat into the boot.
You're done.
You're finished.
Yeah.
Cause I actually, I remember seeing a few videos a couple of
years ago of a lad on track.
And now I actually don't know.
He had some former carers and I don't know if they weren't, if
they were fakes or if they were real, but he was on track.
I think it was a Civic and he crashed it and the back of the
seat buckled when he crashed, like flopped back.
Yeah.
So once, like the second it flopped back before his final
impact.
So on the final impact, he had nothing behind him.
Yeah.
But that is guaranteed to happen.
I think they were very cheap.
I'll see if I can find a post and see how much.
But I mean, like in a car, there are some things right that are
like very important.
Yeah.
Right.
You can't really scrimp on them.
Like you can't cook corners with certain things in cars.
One of them being wheels.
Okay.
Yeah.
Like now, bear in mind, I'm not saying you can't go on to
Facebook marketplace and buy a set of OEM wheels for a hundred
euro.
You can, they'll be grant, right?
Yeah.
You can't go and boy, does knock off alloys online off of a
fucking Chinese website and put them on your car.
You can't do like it's, man, you're asking for trouble there.
It is.
You also can't buy cheap seats.
As you said before about the steering wheels, man, you're right.
So you're sitting in a seat.
All right.
Oh, for me, I think it's wheels.
Breaks.
Yep.
Seat.
Seat belt.
Yep.
And a steering wheel.
Yep.
Everything else you can quite like.
No, that could be wrong, but more or less everything else you
can kind of cut corners on if you really want to take a little
bit, but like, man, if, if you get into a tip, you're fucked.
Yeah, man, I don't know.
Cheap seats.
Yeah.
I found, I found the post here.
So the minimum order was two pieces at 129 US dollars.
Oh, yeah.
And when you have to remember, you know, right?
I have a love hate relationship with my memory loss.
There's times I'm really glad that I don't remember some stuff, but I'm
just after remembering.
Here's me giving out about, um, giving out about not, not cutting corners
with seats and stuff, right?
All right.
Do you know one time?
One time I had a Mark II Leon, right?
And it had an F4 interior.
Really nice interior.
Yeah.
Right.
I had an F4.
So something happened that I got another car and I decided to try to sell
the Leon wooden cell.
Uh, so I decided to break it for parts, sold the F4 interior, decided to
drive the car.
Oh, do you know what I was sitting on?
Bucket.
A bucket.
Did I send you a video?
I don't even think I knew you when I had the Leon, but oh man.
Yeah.
So don't sit on buckets when you're driving.
And actually that's allegedly as well.
Oh yeah.
That was a dream that I had one time.
Um, but see actually when you set it there and one thing that people really
take for granted in cars is your brakes.
Yeah.
Like an awful lot of people, especially in like the Volkswagen tune and
scene, an awful lot of people that'll push big power out of a PD because you
can do it now.
Like you can do it relatively cheap.
Like you can push 253 in the horsepower of a PD 130 now without that
meant like, without costing you an arm and a leg.
Yeah.
And you know what's mental is the point that you're about to get to now?
Oh, you've never once heard of somebody flaunting about how they've
upgraded their brakes.
Neither of what, look, I'm sure they do.
I'm sure there is people that will upgrade Volkswagen brakes, but it's not
like a common thing.
Like you often hear about people in the job scene that will get put bigger
brakes, twin pots on cars because they're upgrading the power.
Yeah.
Like, but even the likes of fucking Brembo brake pads.
Remember or shite?
Are they shite?
Yeah.
Are they actually?
Very bad.
So it's just a name.
Yeah.
Now, like I'm fairly sure you can go like spending balls of money on some
Brembo stuff, but I remember seeing that recently.
Um, I'm pretty sure now I could be completely wrong on this Brembo.
Don't come for me.
Um, but I think.
Like you can get like budget-ish Brembo's that are still a little bit more
expensive than like your budget, budget ones, but they're made in the same
factory as the budget, budget ones.
Okay.
The best pads in my opinion, and I've ran them for years.
E.B.
E.B.C.
E.B.C.
Yeah.
Um.
The yellow stuff, yellow stuff and green stuff.
I run yellow stuff in the front of the Corolla and green stuff in the back.
Yeah.
And I have never once ever had issues with them.
Yeah.
And even a lot of people say that they're a little bit squeaky from cold.
The yellow stuff, I've never really found that much.
And I think is the blue stuff is the one up from that then, but they're more
track-oriented, like them, the blue stuff ones, if you were to hop into a car
and drive and some pull out in front of you until they're up at working
temperature, they won't actually work properly.
Right.
So they're not very good brakes.
Well, yeah, because once you're up at work, I prefer track use possible track
use.
That's what the website does say.
I don't know.
I don't, I think it's blue stuff, but the yellow stuff and the green
stuff are perfect.
They're expensive.
Yeah.
But so anyway, moral of the story is if you're upgrading your power, upgrade
your brakes as well.
Yeah, it's like it's all well and good going quick.
When you need to stop on a pin, you have to stop.
Yeah.
And like you'd be surprised how much like you don't have to go upgrading
your carriers and your calipers and putting bigger size brakes on it.
Like you'd be surprised how much difference really good quality pads will
do to a car.
Yeah.
Well, another thing that you said there as well about the steering wheels, like
I can't really say too much about like being safe in a car because
allegedly I took the airbag out of the Corolla.
Yeah, but a lot of people do though.
Yeah, when you get an aftermarket, like you see so many different steering
wheels that just don't have an option for an airbag.
Yeah.
Like majority of the aftermarket ones, they don't have airbikes.
But that's granted.
You get away with that as long as your seatbelt is on.
Yeah, but like when you go putting so I had an OMP steering wheel in an
older Corolla, the red Corolla had an OMP steering wheel and that it didn't
fold, but you could.
I don't know if I said it on the pot.
I definitely said it.
You definitely said it on the pot.
But yeah, like the personal steering wheel now, there is no giving it.
But it's things that people just don't realize.
But whatever you do, whatever about buying a cheap steering wheel,
you might get away with it.
Cheap wheels, not ideal, but they probably won't kill you in a crash.
They fucking they could cause you to crash, which would kill you.
They could cause you to crash.
Yeah.
So yeah, anyway, we're going to stop being so safe now.
Yeah.
Wouldn't be like us to be safe because it's not the RSA that we're
looking for a fucking response.
Well, I mean, we take what we take it.
Yeah, anyway, I actually got in shit for something that I commented on
someone's post about the RSA.
Are you giving people shit online?
Yeah, but I can't say it on here.
I'll show you it after.
But someone on Facebook had called them.
It was one of them RSA checkpoint groups.
Yeah, they said that the orange order were on the summer in Mullinger
because they were orange jumpsuits and I may have replied to someone's comment.
But yeah, you might as well just say what it was now.
Go on ahead.
Well, so your man, your man replied to it and he said something along the lines
of this isn't funny or something like that.
And I just replied spot the Protestant.
Oh, my God.
Your man wasn't happy.
So you're getting really political as well.
That's yeah, that's horrible.
That's really bad.
How dare you?
He had a comment.
Yeah, so we're we're not going to get too political.
We're not going to get too safe.
No, what are we going to speak about, Dan?
Do you know what we have to speak about?
Fucking heat in the shed.
Right.
So I literally had my leg rested like that for what?
Five minutes.
Lift it up.
Soaked.
So absolutely.
I can feel the back of my neck on these rubber chairs.
Yeah, rubber rubber.
It's a leather chair.
You know, we've got some rubber chairs in the shed.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, it's warm.
It's really fucking warm.
It's extremely warm.
Very warm.
So for those of you that don't know, usually before we sit down to the pot,
me and Dan discuss topics that we're going to speak about.
And today we didn't.
Oh, I think because I completely forgot it was the heat that got to me way too warm.
And now I'm sitting here, am I having a fucking clue what we're talking about?
Do you know one thing that I actually, because this is just off the dome now.
So on the way into the shed, me and Dan were speaking.
And so, so Dan loves getting hate comments, right?
Yeah.
But supposedly he doesn't count the ones on TikTok.
No, I looked on TikTok and I got really excited because I was looking through the comments
and, um, I seen somebody give us some hate and I clicked into it.
Zero followers following 00 light, fake page, fake name.
Yeah, user, bloody, blah, whatever.
See, them ones take no effort.
Yeah, TikTok ones don't take any effort.
But right, who's taking their time out?
Yeah, have a fake page to go around giving people go flick.
If you're going to be a troll, just be a fucking troll.
Be a man about it.
Like, don't be a little bitch.
No, because at least the person that did give us hate that could a whole episode
dedicate to him, he commented on his actual YouTube.
Exactly.
If you have to respect it.
Firm it, boys.
Yeah, don't be a little fanny and go and, like, make a fake page and comment hate
on people's stuff, like, do you know what I mean?
Don't do that.
Yeah, because I was actually talking, um, whenever Michael Skullon rang me the other week,
we were talking about that and he was like, yeah, I just get bigger.
He was like, wait till you see, people will just make fake accounts to give you shit.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But see, right?
I do get that.
I have been getting that on my Snapchat for quite some time.
But the way that I filter that out on Snapchat is anytime I get an ad or a friend
request or something, I checked their SnapScore and now I get that there could be
some legitimate pages there of people that have just made a new account and whatever.
But chances are if you've got a genuine Snapchat account,
you're going to have more than 10,000 of a SnapScore.
Yeah, you're going to.
Yeah, unless I suppose unless you've made a new account.
Yeah, yeah, unless you made a new account.
But anyone that adds me will like a couple of hundred of a SnapScore.
You know that that's a fake account.
Yeah, so I just blocked them straight away.
Yeah, it's the best way to do it.
But, um, yeah, so since the last recording,
I went and we're talking about Lee's Trooper last week.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
And he updated on that.
None yet.
It's been too hot to look at a trooper.
Yeah, it's been too hot to look at anything.
By the inside of your eyelids.
Yeah.
And even at that, when the inside of your eyelids, I let it start sweating like.
That's about where it's been.
Jesus Christ.
Um, but we.
Yeah.
So it was in, it was in the yard of the house at my house
and I had to be brought to the shed where the proper shed.
Yep.
So when grabbed the trailer, lifted the shed, just dropped it off.
And then he goes, he said, oh, I'm after buying or I am buying, um,
a golf off my cousin.
It's going for scrap.
There's loads of scrap in the shed.
It's going to fill the car with scrap and then get it weighed in.
I went to pick it up with the trailer and he hopped into it and it started.
So the two of us kind of looked at each other.
And, uh, we were like three of us think we're thinking the exact same thing
at the exact same time.
Yep.
And so it's a 1.4 petrol mark for his golf.
Jesus Christ.
And there's been hay caught at my house recently.
Right.
Um, and there's the lane.
Yep.
So there was cattle in the field where the hay was caught.
So that wasn't really much use, but the lane was there.
So we had a very temporary field car again.
Oh yeah.
Field cars.
See if, if someone has never experienced a field car before before, go make
a friend that has a farm and convince them to get, was he can't even do it anymore.
200 euro cars don't exist.
Did you?
Rarely.
Did it very rarely, but it is possible.
I've, I personally know some lads allegedly that buy cars for.
100, 150, 200 max 300 euro and sell them cars.
A little bit more than that for a lot more than that and they actually sell.
See, right?
This is what I used to drive off of, right?
A lot of boys don't know how to sell a car.
I know we're going off on a fucking tangent here, right?
But a lot of boys will take blurry photos from six miles away of the car.
Yeah.
In the dark.
Yeah.
Right.
And like you'd nearly swear some of them, they were doing like fucking
jumping jacks or something as they're like, but you talk about blur and like dark.
And they, oh man, they don't know how to advertise.
It's kind of like car for sale and then give a price of fucking whatever.
And they wonder why it doesn't sell.
Oh, the amount of cars that I've bought, like that advertise like that,
I'd buy them for fuck all cleanest.
There was some people don't even watch it before selling it.
Watch the car, take decent photos, it will sell.
Yep.
You know?
Yeah.
But yeah, where did that tangent come from?
Oh, yeah, I was saying you can still get the occasional 200 euro car.
Yeah, you will find them.
Like when we were getting field cars first, you could go on a done deal
and there was multiples to choose from.
Yeah, yeah.
Of 200 euro cars, like I spoke about here before, but the first field car
that we ever bought was an EP1 Civic.
And I'm pretty sure it was 150 euro with tax.
And the car was min.
Yeah.
But you know how people are doing that, right?
I know you're saying that you can't find them anymore.
You won't see cars advertise for that price.
But you know, there's lads out there that will literally like bid
somebody a quarter of the ask.
Yeah.
So it is possible.
How do you know anyone like that?
Do you?
I know quite a few people like that.
Done.
Um, yeah, so go go and experience a field car in a field and enjoy it.
But the one thing that I realized with this field car is so it failed test.
Basically, that's why it was going for scrap.
And it failed test on rust and there was no handbrake in it.
Whenever you're looking for your field car, it needs a handbrake.
Has to have a handbrake.
Has to have a one.
No, that is fun.
And yeah, yeah, I think like genuinely, if you have never, it doesn't
have to be a real wheel drive, doesn't have to be fast.
Ideally, you don't actually want it to be fast because they get fucking scary.
Like, I don't think you'd want a real wheel drive.
If I think you get more fun out of me, I think, I think if you like, you take
them or leave them, but I do think like, if I seen two field cars, one
with front wheel drive, one was rear wheel drive, the rear wheel drive one.
They're the same price.
I would have better crack.
But oh, and when you're buying your field car, the first thing you have to do
is disconnect the airbags because the last thing that you want is to get the
punch into the face by an airbike when you eventually crash it.
Very true.
Very true.
Dan, please, can you just fill me in on some fucking topics, please?
What are we going to talk about today?
Just why, because like, right, what happens is we stay on a subject for too long.
And then I don't have an input and I get bored of it.
I feel like the listeners are going to get really bored of it too.
Right.
And then I'm thinking, what else are we going to talk about?
But then I don't want to zone out from what you're talking about because I
want to have a response and imagine if a question comes in.
It's like sitting in class and you're on your phone, next thing the teacher's
like, what?
Yeah, well, there's a question.
Answer that and you're having a clue what's going on.
You're like, 12.
So what are we going to talk about?
And you sit in English class.
I know, yeah, yeah.
French, wee, wee.
Well, don't escalate your poor for four.
So, but yeah, we'll move on to some comments here, right?
Yes, Royce, jump into the fucking comments, Dan.
So Kevin Mann said, appreciate that one, boys.
Kevin Mann deserves, he's the one who gave us, well, he's the one who gave us
kicking the ass to start reviewing cars.
Yep.
We didn't know what lip was on his E90.
Oh, yeah.
Blue E90.
It's an AC schnitzer lip, which are really cool.
Yeah, that's cool as well.
He said she did have full tints at one point, but the NCT man didn't approve.
So must get them done again soon.
Do you really know anyone that has tints, do you?
It is good lad, I don't work as...
Sorry about the delayed air lads, there was no delay at all.
So I don't know why I'm saying sorry for the delay, but we kind of, we caught
there, if you noticed, so I could take a poo.
It's also very warm in here.
And so I could get some air going to the back of my body.
Yeah.
I also went when you were having your poo, I went and stood against the back
while behind us, it is a bit cooler.
Is it?
Yeah, you got me that now.
Yeah, so.
Yeah, so we ended some of our comments there.
So Jake Burnham Hand, it's all his fault that we were late with the last
recording because his video grew up there.
It was actually my fault because I streamed recorded it, but.
It's his fault for having such a cool car.
Yeah.
He says, yes lads, I'm glad you love the old B5, aka the piss rat.
And he's rat.
And yes, I still have her and don't plan to get rid of her anytime soon.
And the Mark 1 MX5 is the way getting a full respray.
So once it's back, we'll definitely send some photos through.
Hopefully we'll have a back in seven to 10 days time.
So hopefully, hopefully after the next pod, keep up the good work, boys.
Yeah.
I'm excited to see that.
Do you know what, I'm excited to see it too.
Do you know why?
It's because judging by the B5, that man knows how to build a car.
He's a man after my own heart.
And you never see them MX5s, the Mark 1s never.
You never see any Mark 5.
Actually, do you know I'm a lawyer because there's one lad from Rukhuri.
What is fucking name again?
I can't think of his name.
He probably listens to this.
He's boss.
He's one of Bosco's friends.
He has an MX5.
Right.
And it's quite a cool one as well as a black one.
It's on BBSs and.
Yeah, there used to be a few nice ones knocking around now then.
But another technical difficulty.
Yeah, an actual one this time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But we're not technical difficulty, but a difficulty.
Yeah, a difficulty nonetheless.
Yeah, we were talking about Jake's MX5.
You're saying like there used to be a few knocking around now then.
But they were always a very rare hurdle.
Yeah, I can honestly say I've never seen two together.
I probably have a cash shows and stuff, but yeah, of never.
I think there was like an MX5 like owners club around now
for a while.
There was at one time there was like a handful in now then.
See, they're so small.
They're not a car for everyone.
Like would you ever own one?
I wouldn't put it past saying, yeah.
I mean, they're not a car that I would like specifically go looking for.
Yeah, but I can't say that I would never own one.
Yeah, I suppose that is fair.
I don't. Yeah, I wouldn't go out of my way looking for one,
but if one came up at the right money, I was looking for that sort of car.
Yeah, probably won't say no to one.
That's what I'm saying.
I can't say that I would never like if somebody if I had a car
that I put up for sale or something, somebody was like,
would you swap for this?
And it was a cool. Yeah, I probably would.
Like they're cheap ish, rear wheel drive fun, little bit slow, but yeah.
Do you know, actually, just to go off on a bit of a tangent here, right?
Not like us at all.
It's a related it's a related tangent.
So I was in a quarry yesterday and I was talking to the quarry manager
and turns out that your man is mad into his cars.
OK, basically as a dealership full of cars at his house.
And does he? Oh, you told me about this before.
No, I don't think he did because I literally found out yesterday.
Well, you told me a story about one similar that you went to his house
and he showed you the cars. Oh, no, not a slut.
Did I? I don't remember that.
I was talking to him yesterday anyway.
And oh, sorry, I'm going to ask, does he listen to the pod?
Don't think so. Well, why didn't you fucking say it?
I probably should have.
He was gone. He was gone away.
And I was like, fuck, I should have told him to listen.
But yeah, good promotion there, Dan.
Yeah, no, I'm great at that. Thanks.
And yeah, we were chatting away there for a while.
And I don't know how it came up.
Something about cars come up and he was chatting about cars
and he was telling me I can't even list all the cars he had.
He has currently seven or eight of them, I think. Oh, yeah.
But he also.
So he's got some really nice job cars.
I think he's got like a 180SX.
He's got a pretzel, I think.
And another like a Sephiroth or something along them lines.
No, it's not even that.
Fuck, I can't think of the name now.
But really cool, like high spec, turbo, rear wheel drive,
all wheel drive for the Impressa.
But he also has a really cool IS 200.
Oh, yeah. And we were chatting and I was I was telling them that I'm.
I'm looking to ship the Jeep on shortly.
Yeah. And I was saying how I kind of looking at S13's that kind of
and then I was saying about a sixes and he said.
And I hadn't thought about it like this.
He said you'd be better off to buy an IS 200
than an 86 in this day and age.
Right. They're faster.
And I asked you 100 is faster than another car.
Yeah, you're joking.
That's how slow a sixes are.
Like they're only like 120 horsepower.
Yeah, yeah, fair.
They're faster, they're cheaper, they're more comfortable.
They don't they don't look as nice.
Yeah.
Dan, see the day that I see you and Alexis, I still wonder.
Yeah, like I won't go out and buy one.
I'm going to piss myself off.
Yeah, but it did send me in like thinking about them.
And I was like, he is right.
I would I'd be wasting my time buying an 86 buying a twin cam.
Yeah. Was he right?
I have to agree there.
Not that I'm never going to shit on a twin cam.
I'm never going to shit on one.
No, I can honestly.
Say I wouldn't have one.
I will.
I'm going to say I will have one at some point in my life.
Yeah, I wouldn't.
I do like them.
I appreciate them.
They do look really nice.
They're cool hair.
I would never own one.
Yeah.
I'd have no use for them.
Yeah, I suppose that's not.
No, they're really old.
Yeah.
And not that not that really old is a bad thing.
But I'm just like a few that I've been in the presence of.
They just give that old car for you.
Yeah, I just.
Yeah, they're not quick.
No, very slow.
Yeah, the only reason you'd have one is to do hoops.
And there's many other cars that you could do hoops in.
Yeah, like you can do a little bit more of them.
Like there was so much done with them and they're so light.
Like the the GTA PX ones, the whole idea, like they're lighter than a normal one.
They've got less bits in them.
But at that, they're still just they're just a slow old car.
Yeah, like I've got like toys.
I feel like everybody has toys to a certain like handful of cars that like when they first
came into the scene, they were kind of thinking or when they first got into cars and stuff,
they had their eyes on some of these cars or they wanted to have some of these cars.
And so they'll always have toys to them.
So I feel like the people that have the twin cams and our twin cam mad.
I feel like they're the ones that when they were coming into the scene, they really wanted to have one.
Yeah, like first person comes to mind is Neil Sheehan.
Yeah, because he even specifically said, now don't get me wrong.
I fucking love the car that he built.
I love that car.
That car is beautiful.
It's the perfect day.
It really is hands down the nicest AE86 to life ever seen.
Yeah. Right.
And we've had the privilege of seeing that car in person.
Yeah, I still wouldn't own that car.
No, no, sorry.
I'm a lawyer.
I don't know.
Yeah, I would own that car, right?
But he even said himself when he was growing up and getting into cars, everybody had them.
Yeah.
And so he really wanted to have one.
And so that's why he went out of his way to build one.
Yeah.
I think if he didn't have toys to that car, he wouldn't have built one.
But if you think about his one, you'd have his one.
But that took years to build to the level and the spec or the engine like this.
That's got a 20 valve in it.
Yeah.
So it's not 25 engines aren't as they're not a quick engine.
Yeah, like I've got one of the Corolla, but they're also not slow.
Yeah, they're quite happy.
Like there's the high rev and all that.
Yeah. So right now that it would meet even just me talking about that.
I'm kind of thinking to myself, the whole idea of spending years building the car.
I see this is a contradiction.
I wouldn't go out and buy one.
I'm not going entirely against the idea of building one though.
Yeah.
I think I find it very, very hard to build one over the amount of time that it took him to build one.
Yeah.
But see Roy, even just because I watched that whole series religiously.
Yeah.
So for years, I was a part of that build like in mind.
Yeah.
Do you get me?
And so like I would love to do that at some point.
But I just I can never imagine myself owning an AEA tips.
There's a kind of care I will have at some point 100%.
I will I'll have to own one because for the money that they go for for the money that you'd spend on one.
There's so many other cars that I would have before.
Like you're getting a really nice job spec.
Mightn't be the cleanest one in the world.
Yep.
Or between 16 and 18 grand.
Yeah.
That's not bad money.
Yeah.
And it's actually another thing I was saying to him because I said that exact thing and I laughed.
And I said, it's a bad job when you're saying 18 grand is not bad money for a twin camp.
Like lads couldn't give them away years ago.
But yeah, because whenever whenever he said that, it just it immediately put having a twin camp out of my head.
Yeah.
It has to be tough.
It has to be an S13.
Really, it does.
It has to be for you.
It has to be because I know for a full fact, if you go off on your boy in AEA tips,
you're going to be sitting in a month's time.
You're going to be thinking, why did I buy this?
I should have got an S15 or an S14.
S13, I think is what I'm going to go.
I don't mind S14s and I don't really like S15s.
But I think an S13 or possibly a JZX81.
Yeah.
But I'm not just sad.
I want to watch it.
But there was an extra car.
JZX will really suit you though.
They are cool car.
Yeah.
But there was last week, I would have said, and I did say AE86 was the car I was looking at,
but they're not anymore.
And he is right.
Yeah.
Imagine being in the cars and being very indecisive about what car you want.
Yeah.
It's tough.
Like everybody just listens to this and it was the same.
Yeah.
But yeah.
Yeah, it's just something.
I think the cars he has are crazy.
Yeah.
It's meant and he showed me.
What does he work at?
Quarry manager.
Big money in a chair.
But the IS200 that he has, it's a silver one, but it's got a full plastic TRD kit on it.
Nice.
Very, very nice car.
Yeah.
But he is right and it's a thing I thought I'd never hear myself saying.
But he is right if you wanted a car to just go out and just have fun in.
The IS200 is a better pick over an AE86.
It makes me feel.
But it's horrible to say it.
It makes me feel ill saying that.
Yeah.
It's horrible to say that.
But yeah, I just thought it was mad when I was thinking about it.
But we've got a weekly dose of Walltune in as well.
Oh, yeah.
And it was him taking the piss out of me.
Very unlike him to be putting a comment into our podcast.
Yeah.
We're saying Facebook as Facebook.
Yeah.
He said Facebook spelled B-U-K-E says Dan.
Oh, my word.
We'll have a Luke.
Of course, we'll have a Luke.
Yeah.
Walltune, you don't spend enough time up around here to fully understand it.
But there's a lot of people that pronounce words like that up around here.
You'd nearly like...
Oh, another thing I almost forgot about.
Well, I was on my travels this week at work.
Oh, yeah?
Oh, yeah.
On Monday, I was down in the fine city of Limerick in a little place called Moiras.
And if you don't know it, it's a beautiful little kind of house in the state.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know, I was working, so I couldn't spend too long there.
But it's like a free petting zoo or something.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, I'd say or something.
Yeah, there's just loads of horses there.
And I presume you can go pet them, probably feed them as well.
Yeah.
And it's like a holiday village.
There's just people walking around the streets like you're in Spain.
Yeah.
Because it's also hard working.
All right.
Dan.
But I'm just going to stop it there in case I have to go back.
Do you know why I haven't said too much since you mentioned the word Moiras?
Because not only might you have to go back there at some point,
but also you could possibly meet somebody from there at some point in your life.
Yeah.
Might be the last time you ever seen me in this podcast.
Yeah, fuck I love Moiras.
Yeah.
Anyway.
It was a nice spot.
Yeah, I drove through there at speed.
I've actually took a photo with there's a big fucking sign thing there, isn't there?
Kind of from a rust thing or something, yeah.
I was too amazed.
Yeah.
I've never seen somebody that before in my life.
I'm not going to say it as a good thing or a bad thing.
It's like a different world.
It really is.
Yeah.
Anyway, yeah.
Harry said, looking forward to the mechanic pod
because I'm going into sixth year this year and I'm thinking I'm getting into some sort
of apprenticeship or even auto styling or remapping, but I'm kind of torn getting into
mechanics as I'm guessing you'll fall out of love with working on your own cars
as you're working on the people's cars as well.
First off, stop listening to us because you're going to actively, you're going to,
we'll be the reason you fail the leaving search.
We are literal versions of brain rock.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Another thing, right?
Love the idea of doing an apprenticeship, especially straight out of school.
Yeah.
Auto styling, however, just do a small bit of research.
How many different auto styling spots are after opening up in the last couple of years?
Yeah, there's a lot.
Wait, how many?
I started three years ago and I mean to say when I started, you could count on one
handy amount of like one stop shops that were in the country.
If any, there was very few for you.
You had your places that were doing tints.
You had your places that were doing kits and kits and tuning.
You had your tire shops that were also doing tuning.
You had your tuning shops that were selling wheels.
You had, get what I'm saying, you had some people were mix matching, right?
I don't think there was any window tinters that were doing kits, radios, maps,
fucking all of these other different things, right?
There's loads of them now.
Yeah, loads everywhere.
I think it's my own fault.
Possibly.
Because I was doing like a daily vlog on Snapchat from day dot.
What I would say and I'm actually looking forward to for that podcast.
Yeah.
Um, when so I can speak from experience now I'm different.
I don't do car mechanics.
I couldn't do car mechanics.
Yeah, it's just, I just hate working on cars.
Um, it is a real thing.
You do get sick of working on your own car.
Yeah, like it's because when you're spending all day fucking turning spanners,
the last thing I do when you go home is turn more spanners.
Some people love it.
Like some people, just all they want to do all day and all night is just mechanics.
Yeah.
But the off-cylinder is not a bad way to go into.
I'd get an apprenticeship before I go.
Yeah, I would.
But the reason why I'm saying do your research and look into how many places
there are out there is because, right?
Auto-cylinder is a good gig.
It's what I do.
It's what I, it's what I wanted to do.
I had a dream of doing it.
Uh, and so I'm well on the way.
I'm in business now three years.
Yeah.
Um, and I'm constantly adding more services to it.
Reason why I'm adding more services to it is because the Tintum was great when I
first started.
Now there's loads of people doing it.
And I love that loads more people want to get into it.
But if you think about it, right?
The more people that are doing it, we're all going to be fighting for work.
Yeah.
You're going to be trying to undercut the next person and it's going to take the
goodness out of it.
Yeah.
And before you know it, you're going to spend years building up a business to
make fuck all.
Yeah.
But that's why I'd say go for the apprenticeship first.
Either go mechanics or if you've got an eye for detail and you're good enough at
metal, then go into a panel, beat the apprenticeship.
Yeah.
If, if you have that, that eye for detail and you've got the interest in panel
beating, that's what I'd recommend over mechanics.
Yeah.
Cause there's so few panel beaters out there and there's good money in it.
But then that also gives you the option.
If in five or six years time you're, you're still looking, you still want to make
it open, not a silent business.
It's the thing that he can do, but then he doesn't have to rely on Tintin.
Yeah.
Like if he, if he has a slow week because wherever he is in the country is just
saturated window tinters, he can book in a load of cars for services.
Yep.
That's very true.
Like, yeah.
Like you're not too bad here because you got established before everything started.
Yeah.
I got established.
I got my name out there, thankfully enough.
And now it's a tough gig.
Yeah.
It's a very tough gig because you're not only are you dealing with customers
every day, but because it's such a saturated, it's, it is a saturated market.
It's getting at that point.
Especially around here.
I know further down the country, there's not as many, but around here, if you're
looking for a car play, you can throw us down and hit six car players.
And each of them are trying to undercut each other, right?
Window tinters, the exact same thing.
Now for me, I actually enjoy the fact that there's so many out there because it
keeps me on my toes because I know if I do a bad job, I'm losing that customer
straight away.
Do you get me?
And so the rest of the people that are starting up, I enjoy it because if they
can't make it, if they can't deal with a particular customer, if they can't deal
with a tricky customer, they're not going to continue doing it.
Like there is some really picky people out there.
Yeah.
You know, I can't fault them.
You're paying for a service.
That's, yeah, but I would definitely say start looking into partnerships now,
even this summer, if you can get a job.
In a garage and it's one thing I was regretting and I didn't start my
apprenticeship when I left school.
I worked in another, I was a store man for six months and then I went driving
tractors for a year, but then that ended up leaving me later in life, actually
starting an apprenticeship.
See, even me, like, man, I was thinking about apprenticeships when I was
finishing school, never went for it.
Done a couple of PLCs, started working a normal nine to five in factories and
different things worked for a few years, got to the age of 20, like mid 20s.
And I even then considered starting a, starting a, an apprenticeship at that
point.
Yeah.
I was like, um, I was, I was second guessing.
I was like, am I too old now?
Yeah.
Mid 20s starting a podcast or start an apprenticeship.
Yeah.
Like, look, people do do it at older in life, but I think this sooner, if you've
got interest when you're young, that's the time to get it done.
Yeah.
Um, we'll move on to Reese.
Uh, well, as I've been watching the podcast since the very beginning and
I've never left a comment, but bumped into Walter unit this morning,
and certain almost weekly plug here.
And it reminded me of a question I wanted to send in.
I don't think it's been discussed yet.
Uh, you both, you spoke briefly about, uh, some things being habits.
If you had to reset the driving test, but drive the way you drive it, the way
you do now, what would you fail on purely based on what you're driving on,
on what you do when you're driving, allegedly real, or even if you had a dream?
Yeah.
Well, I suppose only you could answer that one.
Yeah.
I would 100% fail.
Yeah.
I can drive.
Yeah.
But I find that extremely uncomfortable to have two hands in the
steering wheel.
Yeah.
Man, I'm the exact same.
Are you one of the bastards that hold the steering wheel to the top or are you
one at the bottom?
I went the bottom.
Yeah.
Which is, it's a pin to hold because someone waves at you and then your hands
at the bottom.
So by the time you get it up, they're already past you.
So it's handy when you're at the top and you just,
Yeah.
Just sort of finger up.
The two fingers like that.
But, uh, yeah, no, 100% fail.
I'm not too bad with like, like I checked mirrors probably more now than I did when
I was starting to drive because when you're driving double and you've got no fucking
choice in the matter.
If you don't check your mirrors, you're going to hit someone.
Yeah.
That's it.
But, uh, yeah.
And I would have done that, I think, I think I'm fairly good at that.
I don't know.
Do you know what, it'd actually be a good YouTube video.
It would want to go back for a driving lesson.
The two of us going back for having a mock test.
Oh, right.
Yes.
How would I get along with that?
Great.
Anyway.
Um, yeah, we've got one more in.
I don't think we're going to get to the YouTube comments this week, but we'll get
to them next week if we remember.
Yep.
Um, Podge Halloran says, my crafter has two arm rests and you can sit like a
king and don't sell the Jeep.
He's very, that's my uncle.
He's very, yeah.
He's, he's very much against me selling the Jeep.
That's because Roy, for a very long time, for the, for the majority of your
ownership of that Jeep, I've been in love with that Jeep.
Yeah.
And I told you, don't ever sell that Jeep.
And if you do, you're selling it to me.
Yeah.
Like, oh yeah.
But like, it's the idea of what's coming next.
It's, that's what has me.
It's a great Jeep and I probably will miss it.
Yeah.
You will, you definitely will miss it, but I can always buy another one.
Yeah.
Like, and I probably will buy another one at some point in my life.
You definitely will.
I reckon you're going to go and buy this car.
Going to have fun with this car.
You're going to buy your, your, your other Jeep.
Um, and a year or two down the line, you're going to go and buy another
round of rock.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Joe, I think we should go on to now.
And it's something that I've been looking forward to since it went out.
Are we writing the cars now?
I think we should.
Oh my God.
So, right.
So I, we talked about it last week in the podcast.
So our regular listeners will already know about this, but we might have some new
listeners.
So we talked about reviewing cars last week.
It's something we've talked about literally since before the first episode
was even recorded.
Cause when we were speaking about doing like starting a podcast, we were like,
yeah, but what will we be talking?
We were bouncing ideas off of each other about what we were going to do.
And one thing that kept coming up was writing cars.
Yeah.
And, and we were terrified to start writing cars because we were afraid that
people like, if we were to alienate so many people at the start, it wouldn't do
well, but now we're six months in, we don't give a politics about none of you
anymore.
If you drop the fuck off, we're going to alienate every single person.
Now I don't care.
You spend your entire life building a car.
I'm going to tell you it's shit.
All right.
So I posted a tech talk of that little bit of us saying we're going to start
doing it, the response that we got from that.
Yep.
Blew me away.
I cut and believe it.
Man, we even got messages on Instagram.
We're not very active on Instagram.
I say we are not.
No, I'm not.
If Dan had his way, the Instagram would probably be way more active than any
of the rest of the socials, right?
The Instagram isn't very active.
I, I drew up one link to the new episode on the story.
And, oh, that's a sure thing.
Let's talk about it.
What is it?
I have to apologize to everybody for being like 12 hours late.
We need to apologize, Dan, because it's, yeah.
But anyway, it is what it is.
I'll tell them what happened.
So it's all, I can't think of his name, but he did leave a question.
And so I'll say his name.
Then I tried to put a video in of a B5 with a hot exit.
I might try it again this week because I don't know.
I'll see the video needs to be seen.
Yes.
It's so cool.
It's class.
Basically that corrupted and it didn't tell me it had corrupted.
And then I tried to post it and it wouldn't post.
And yeah, but we got there eventually.
We did.
Thank God.
So another thing that we were thinking of.
We were going, we got, we got that many cars in.
We literally can't get through them all.
We'd be here.
It would be an entire episode of us rating cars.
And I think we'd just get bored of it after.
Yeah, we would.
We'd, we'd, well, personally, I don't think I'd ever get bored.
No, neither would I.
Judging people and telling them exactly what they're doing wrong.
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
And calling people and just fucking cars shit because I don't have one.
But yeah.
But then, so try it the week then whenever we were thinking, we were like, what
we're going to do, we don't want it to just be us reviewing cars.
So then we were going, guys, only today I thought about it.
I was like, remember Top Gear had the cool wall.
Yeah.
So we're going to try and put our own spin on the cool one.
As you can see, we don't currently have a cool wall.
That wall is fairly cool.
It is pretty cool.
I wonder, is it, is it cool?
Is it cold?
Could I go lie up against it for a while?
If I even thought that that wall was one degree colder than I am right now, I'd
strip down to me bollocks and I'd rub myself against it.
I'm not messing it.
Man, I'm so warm right now.
It's too hot in here.
But so we obviously don't have it this week.
Hopefully we're going to have it next week.
So what we've done this week is we went down through the comments and the
cars that were sent in to us.
I picked ten, you picked ten.
Well, I set out with the intention of picking ten, yeah, I didn't actually
because there was so many like nice cars that I wanted to pick that I was
trying to make, I like limit it down to ten.
I've decided that I'm just going to go on to the, to the TikTok and I'm going
to scroll down through the, the images.
Yeah.
So I managed to get ten out that I have and I, the quality of cars that were
sent in, I was expecting it not to be bad to anyone.
Yeah.
A lot of shit boxes.
There wasn't.
No.
And it goes back.
We said at a couple, a right few episodes ago about how the quality of
cars in this country is insane.
And we actually got a lot of fuck, not hate, but people kind of hate people.
Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
It's all full of boras and passats and like four girls.
It's not.
Yeah.
There's so many cars people don't see every day.
Yeah.
There, there is.
And you know what it is, right?
I've seen, cause I'm just open and there was some people sent.
Oh my God.
It's so cool.
I'm going to wait to show you this, right?
Uh, cause I want to get your reaction live.
Um, yeah, there was some people sent in messages to Instagram.
So I'm kind of just going through them now.
Uh, but what we don't like is, I forget, I forget what we don't like.
What do we not like that?
We don't like similar cars.
Like what I mean by that is when there's a car, take a Marxist
call, for example, because I don't want to give any other examples.
We've shit on Marxist is already they're all the exact same.
Yeah.
So if you're sending us a car, that's either standard.
Or it's the same as every other type of that car.
It's not going to get a good right.
Yeah.
To know it actually another car and as much as I like them, you do see a
little bit too much.
Well, um, E11 Corolla's litch on E11.
I do like them, but they're, they're really rare now.
They're getting rare, but a lot of them are very similar to each other.
Yeah.
Do you know?
Oh, I'm going to say this and you're going to completely disagree.
I'm not a massive fan of the saloons at all.
Yeah, I have to disagree.
I know.
But right to E11 saloons, they're too done out.
There's too many every every person now that says that they've got an E11.
It's a saloon or is now where's the hatchbacks?
Yeah.
Well, see, remember when I had mine?
Yeah, all you see was hatchbacks.
Yes, there was none.
And that was, that was cool.
And even when you got your second one, they were more hatchbacks around than saloons.
But now everybody's got a saloon.
That's why I feel like I disliked them.
Because when you had your saloon, the red one.
Yeah.
Fuck, I love that car.
Yeah, there was no other saloons around.
No, but so, yeah.
So as soon as the car is too played out, I don't like it.
Yeah.
I'd always have a soft spot for saloon.
Yeah.
But yeah.
But anyway, right?
So see the first car, right?
That I, I came across on this.
Yeah.
Is in the 11.
Right.
But the way before you even get into that.
So today it were rating system on the cars.
So I don't, I didn't really like the idea of doing like a pass or a fail or a one to 10.
Yeah.
Cause like some cars, you're going to say they're a 10, but they're not actually a 10.
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
This car.
It's very hard for me anyway.
Yeah.
But the other side of that is like, once you get an average of the two of us,
because I might say it's a 10 and you might say it's a four.
Well, I suppose we could do that.
We're going to have to sit down and think when we get our, but anyway,
that's why this week is going to be different because throughout this week,
we're going to try and figure a way to make a board.
Yeah.
Hopefully have a board here and we'll have a proper rating system.
But strictly for today, we want to get through some of these today
because the was an influx of people.
Yeah.
And some of these will need to go on the board.
Yes.
This one that I'm looking at right here.
So this week, we're going to pick out what we like and possibly what we don't like.
This C11 came from Jacob.
Okay.
I followed Jacob on the podcast page because I like to see 11 so much.
I showed you.
Oh, I think I've seen this one before.
Yeah.
It's a silver hatch E11.
Okay.
Like.
Have you shown me this one before?
It's the one with really cool interior.
We have.
Man, do you know what it is?
I'm a massive fan because it's a hatch.
It's a hatch.
Do you know, right?
There's not very much done to this at all.
There is quite a bit when you look into it more.
The more you look at it, the more you'll notice.
Right.
So for me, ideally, I should know more because I own an auto selling business.
But like for me, what I can see is like the TTE kit that's on that, the TTE lips and stuff.
They're on the majority.
Almost all of them.
Yeah.
The majority of all of the saloons.
Oh, hatchback, shall I say, right?
I like the job plate that's bent in.
Yeah.
The grill has either been replaced with a decrom'd one or it has been decrom'd.
It's black.
It's sprayed.
They're all black, I think.
I don't, for something's telling me that usually they have some, I don't know.
That one looks after market anyway.
It's got eyebrows on it, on the lights.
It's got, yeah, it's got, it's got a good few bits on it.
Like before, it just kind of looks a little bit, it's cool.
Don't get me wrong.
It's a really cool car.
I'm a huge fan of it.
Just looks a little bit plain.
No, the more you look into it, you think the wheels in that car, you can't see them
in that picture, but the wheels in that car are.
That's what I'm saying.
Maybe it's a bad angle.
Crazy.
Cool.
The wheels in that car make it.
Yeah.
I'm a huge fan of that car.
I think it could be the top, see if you look at the top half of the car.
Yeah, it's kind of just.
Would you know what else I like in it?
Well, it's got a single wiper.
Well, yeah, yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to be brutally honest.
Yeah, single wiper.
Do you know, I don't know why I just don't like them.
I think they're really cool.
Yeah, I'm not a massive fan of them.
And he's got the, he's got the right amount of stickers on it.
Yep.
Like, I do actually, I do know what it is.
I was trying to be a little bit harsh just because I don't want to be saying
every car is cool, but that is a really cool car.
I am a huge fan.
Oh, so nice.
Right.
Going from that one.
Can we now go on to, uh, I'm going to say Sean.
Hugh, how, how you, I don't know how to pronounce your name.
I'm very sorry.
Uh, he messaged into the Instagram with this and I want you to.
Right.
So for those of you that are listening, it's a Nissan Bluebird.
Yeah, I will.
It's just going to be an absolute ball.
Like for me, cause I'm going to, I will throw pictures of all these in.
That is so cool.
That is magnificent.
I love that car.
And like, there's very little done to that.
Yeah.
Dust is, they don't need much.
That needs nothing.
Yeah.
I love a boxy car.
I'd much rather a boxy car than a reindeer one.
Yeah.
But like, I knew you were going to love that one.
You know, perfect.
Isn't it?
Well, I don't know.
He's falling in love with your car.
I can't blame him for falling in love with it.
It's a really, really nice car.
Sean, look at the engine as well.
Is that a bit of work to do it?
Yeah.
Do you know what I really love about them type of cars?
It's shown me the fault because I didn't actually really fully look at it.
See the bonnets and I don't know what you called them, right?
But see when you, I'm nearly certain it could be the oil.
So do you know the way some of them have like a little aluminium oil cooler here?
Yeah.
And then you've got pipes going up.
Yeah.
But you can see the pipes on the outside.
Yeah.
Of that.
Yeah, it is.
I love that.
That's a real old, like, not even 90s, like 80s, Japan spec.
It's even got white brought up the mirrors on the fucking wings, man.
Yeah, no, that thing's sick.
That thing is sick.
And do you know what it is?
I don't think we've mentioned this crowd before.
I on the podcast.
Very surprised juice box hasn't gone and done a feature on that car.
Yeah.
See, there's just not really like it's standard height.
It's got fairly standardish wheels on it.
Like, obviously they're aftermarket, but they're not crazy.
Yeah, but right.
If you were to see that car on juice box, like getting a feature on juice box,
you would not be surprised.
No, no.
Yeah, it is very cool.
Beautiful car.
Thank you very much, Sean, for sending that in.
Where do you think you're putting that on a cool board?
I don't know what we're going to call them yet, but I think that's going to write.
So on a cool board, how many sections are we going to have for?
So I put that in the in the third section, just simply because.
Well, the third.
Oh, right.
So the third section, not the very last section.
No, no, no.
So you said there's going to be four sections.
Yeah.
So I put this in the third section simply because there could be some more done.
Yeah.
That's right.
A small bit more.
And that's why, now, don't get me wrong, beautiful fucking car.
But if it was lowered.
You're probably going to murder me now.
But like you shock on tips.
Yeah.
Do you get me?
Yep.
And a seabee aerial.
Oh, I'm only missing.
I didn't even get up and walked off set there.
Yeah, no, there's a small bit more.
If there was a small bit more done to that, it would definitely make it in the last section.
But for me, that's in the third section.
Yeah.
Now, for the next one here.
This one came in from Mr. Stent.
Yeah.
Right.
And is that a cappuccino?
Suzuki Vivio.
Vivio.
Yeah, I don't know.
That's actually.
Is it is it is it?
Are they originally a 600cc or something like that?
Not.
I don't know anything about the engine.
I don't know anything about them.
Okay.
I think they are.
They are very small.
They probably are less than a liter.
Right.
Do you know what it is?
I appreciate them because I can honestly say I've never seen one of them before in my life.
Neither have I.
Right.
So I instantly appreciate them.
And I can tell.
Haven't never seen one of these before in my life.
I can tell that this one has got a brave amount of work done to it.
Yeah.
It's basically it's like the exact opposite of that other car.
The other car was like very much OEM.
Yeah.
Very little done to it.
Yep.
This thing has a bad boy bonnet on it.
It's got.
It's not.
Can I just say right no matter what angle you look at this car from in this photo.
It doesn't look standard.
It looks modified from every angle.
Yeah.
What do you think of bad boy bonnets?
I fucking, I will always have a soft spot for a bad boy bonnet.
So will I.
Because it brings me, it instantly brings me back to that era, that 90s era.
Yeah.
Do you know what I really like?
Not that I was around for the 90s era of cars I get like.
Do you know what I really like and you never see them anymore?
Well.
The bad boy bonnet on the Mark IV Golf.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I never ever see them anymore.
Do you know when I, when I see a bad boy bonnet, the car that all you see it on is,
I don't know why I said that because I can't even take a car and I want to try to take a bonnet.
I, I insert car here.
The with this video, I think we're going to disagree on this.
But I would put that in the very last section.
That would go in number four.
What?
The blue car.
Yeah.
I have to disagree.
I think it's, I think it's really cool.
I, I'm sorry.
Right.
We have to be brutally honest.
But I'd have to disagree.
Really?
Yeah.
I don't even think I'd put that in the third one.
Really?
I sweat.
No.
I don't get me wrong.
I like the car.
I appreciate the car.
I just don't think that I'd put it in.
It definitely for me, it wouldn't be in the last one.
I think it would be borderline between the second and third for me.
See, what I think I'd put it in the fourth section is one, you never see them.
But I feel like there has to be an aspect of would you draw,
would you want to own that car and would you drive that car?
Because me personally, I can't say that I'd want to own that car.
I appreciate it.
And I can see that there's been time and money spent on it.
Yeah.
I respect it.
There's a, there's a big level of respect there.
I don't know if I'd like to own one,
but there's a lot of cars that I think are really cool,
that I probably still wouldn't own.
And I think I'd put that into that bracket.
Yeah.
It's the amount of custom work that's went into it.
Well, you can see that, but that's what I'm saying.
I'm not shitting on that car at all.
I can see that there's been a lot of work.
Like, I'm fairly certain.
Like, there isn't going to be a bad boy bonnet manufactured for them.
He probably made that himself.
Yeah, he did, yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
There's been a lot of work put into that.
But I just, I wouldn't own the car.
Yeah.
One of those cars.
I wouldn't drive one of those cars.
Yeah.
I just, for me, it just can't go into the last bracket.
Hmm.
It can't.
It's just going to be tough.
Whenever we do actually get aboard.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I suppose we just have to meet in the middle.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That'll have to go into the third one then,
because I think it should go into the last.
You think you're maybe, maybe bordering.
I think it'll be bordering to second and third.
Yeah.
So we'd stick it into the third.
We'd meet in the middle.
Why do you think you're on that?
Oh my God.
So many cool cars there.
Wait, let me pick one now,
because you'll have to pick and,
you'll have to pick on that one.
I don't know.
I've actually got one outlier here in my picks.
Wished.
That I don't think that you would expect me to.
He's got an outlier.
Yeah, I don't think you'd expect me to pick it.
Oh yeah?
And I hope you, I hope you don't pick it out before I get to it.
Nah, man.
Do you know what it is?
I know which one it is already.
It's the borer, isn't it?
No.
No.
All right, fair enough.
Right.
So, I want to say, and I have to say, right,
I get that it's the first one that I clicked onto.
I get that we're saying this because he's been on the pod,
but I have to mention Declan Burns.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, I have to.
That is the coolest fucking car.
I actually didn't.
I didn't screenshot that one.
I must have missed it.
Yeah.
A fucking man.
Just look at that.
Perfect.
It's beautiful.
And the silver, and it's like, a lot of drift cars now are going
down the commercial route, and obviously you can understand
they need to fund their drift and project.
Like it's not cheap to be professional as a drifter,
but he managed to get the perfect blend of style,
but still having sponsor space.
I think, do you know what it is for me?
I think it's not only the car,
but the story behind the car as well.
Big respect to Declan Burns for that one.
Big respect.
I actually seen there, there was another round of the IEDS.
He's sitting sixth in the championship.
And he had mechanical trouble again in the second round.
Where are you putting that car?
Why are you putting that in the last section?
Flash, hands down.
It has to go.
Because he runs wheel wheels.
It's got that old 90s tribal kind of drift look.
It's the silver just suits it.
It does.
It can't go anywhere by the last one.
It can't.
It has to go in the last one.
What are you saying?
Do you know what?
And I even forgot to mention this.
There's going to be a few of these cars that we bring up.
A few of them that we like,
not that I don't want to give them a segment,
but there's so many cars here.
I'm just going to flick through a few of them
and give one thing that I really like
and one thing that I dislike about the car.
So which one are you picking now?
Are you going for another one or no?
I'll go for the other one, right?
So this is a car that I would own myself without a shadow of it out.
Okay.
And I think I'll fall out with you if you say you won't have one of these.
How could I not have one of them?
So that's a corolla, isn't it?
Yeah.
Just because me and Dan are looking at photos here
and there's going to be people that are driving along listening to this
and they don't know with you what the fuck we're looking at.
Of course I'd have one of them.
It's beautiful.
The only thing I'm unsure about is what engine did it come with
because I'm nearly sure it's going to be a 1600, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah, they're all 1.6s I think.
And I don't even know.
I think some of them came with 16 valves.
But a lot of them now I don't know about that.
It's going to be front wheel drive as well, isn't it?
No, really.
Is it fuck?
Yeah.
Cool as fuck.
Yeah.
A lot of them were converted to 4AG 20 valves.
Yeah.
So that's Paul O'Sullivan.
Thank you very much Paul O'Sullivan for coming.
Did I actually, I didn't shout the...
Oh, I did.
Better stand.
Yeah, so I'm going to do a quick fire here, right?
So we've got...
I'm going to describe the car first and foremost, right?
So these are comments on TikTok.
So Stephen, trying to get his name, Stephen F, right?
Drop the comment with a white three-door bagged
Mark VI Golf with a sunroof, right?
Yeah.
And I would have loved to pick this car because
although Mark VI's are outdone, right?
But so far, what you described to me there, it's winning for me.
Yeah, right.
But so the reason why I didn't pick it is because
Mark VI's are outdone.
Yeah.
There's nothing you can do to a Mark VI
that hasn't already been done.
This one does look a little bit different,
but I just, with the quality of cars
that were after being sent, I couldn't pick it.
I'm sorry, right?
But one thing that I fucking love about this car is the wheels.
Yeah, I was going to say what wheels are on.
Man, they look like Momo Arrows.
But they're Land Rover.
Oh.
I've never seen them Land Rovers before.
Big respect for that seat.
The only problem I'm going to have with them,
and I don't know what could be wrong,
they're probably way about four tonne.
Yeah, 100% to do with the Land Rovers,
but there's a full picture of the car.
Yeah, it is like, but as you say, it's...
It's a Mark VI.
Very fucking good.
That's a nice spoiler.
And it being black,
yep, kind of, it's nice with the white.
Yeah, you are going to have to put a photo of each of these cars on.
Because there's no way somebody can look at this photo,
look at this video and not.
Right, next one up, I know I said,
oh, one thing I like is the wheels.
One thing I dislike is, it's a Mark VI.
Yeah.
Right, next one up, we've got Cormac Kenny.
He's got a Skoda.
It's either Octavia or a Super B.
I can never tell the difference.
Super B, I think.
It's a distance to photo in the dark
with a heap of boys swinging out of it.
That's probably going to be for sale picture.
It looks, it looks, I can't even make out the color.
It looks to be either red.
I think it's like that, that dark red, I think.
Yeah, it is a nice color on them.
Dark red, it's sitting on concave tree SDMs.
Nice wheel.
No, do you like them?
No, don't like them.
I think they're outdone.
I think they were really nice.
They are, yeah.
Yeah, they're not outdone now
because you never see them now,
but they were really nice when they first came out
and then they kind of just...
Right, one thing I dislike is,
your bog standard number plates.
Yeah, yeah.
It depends on the car.
Man, I'm fucking struggling to say what I like about it.
Oh God, I'm sorry.
It's lowered.
I liked it, it's lowered.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I'm not a massive fan of Skoda's at all.
What do you think of this car that I picked out here?
Literally, right?
I'm on that.
That's my outlier.
So it's a Peugeot one.
I said, that's the one that you picked?
That's my outlier.
Yeah, actually.
I think it's really cool.
Wait, we need to go back now, right?
Where are you putting the white marxics on the board?
Where are you putting it?
Oh, I'm sorry, but it's going to have to go on the uncool side.
So which was first, section or second?
I'm saying...
So I'm going to say it's going to go at the very end
of the first section, so it's almost in the second.
Because I was going to say the second section.
That's the wrong point, and that is the second section.
I think it's on the line between the first and second section.
I think that's...
It is a nice car.
Yeah, but I can't put it in the first section
because I feel like...
Are we putting standard cars onto this board at all?
No, I don't.
Right, so second section for me.
Where are we putting Skoda?
I'm very sorry, but that has to go in the first section.
Yeah, I have to agree.
I have to...
Listen, this is the issue which you send in your cars in.
Because I feel like a prick when I don't mention the car
because you're taking your time out to comment a photo of your car.
But I also have to be brutally honest like.
Yeah, because we can't...
You couldn't put that on any other section.
When you're after putting Declan Burns S14 in the last section,
it can't be close together.
Right, and then straight back to Joe O'Brien's usual 106.
That I mean, you're talking about heavily modified.
Yeah.
This is from the bad boy era, right?
That is sex back.
Now, and I'm...
Goes against every grain of my body saying this, right?
That car shouldn't have a CB aerial.
Nope, I didn't even notice that.
It shouldn't.
No, I didn't even notice that.
No, it shouldn't.
Just take it off, please.
So that's one thing that I dislike.
Thing that I like literally everything else about the car.
It's so cool.
Yeah.
And I usually don't really like max power cars
that are done with the big bumpers and all.
Whatever it is about that 106, it's so cool.
It's fucking cool, isn't it?
It's really cool.
And now I've never driven one,
but I've heard there are nippy little cars for like...
What are the 1.1?
1.1?
I can...
Yeah, I'm nearly starting at 1.1.
You can get to...
Is it the same as the Saxos where you have the 1.1
and then you've got...
You can get like a 1.4 and a 1.6.
Well, yeah, like a VTS or something like that.
I think...
I'm nearly certain that there was a dark horse in the Impugios
where they put some big spec engines.
Not big spec, but big power engines.
Yeah, I'm like weighs nothing.
Even less now, I'd say, because I...
You can't see the underneath of this now, but I can only tell.
Yeah.
It's probably...
It's probably...
There's probably...
A lot of the 106s now probably have some rust
unless you've done some underbody work.
Yeah.
It's just free weight reduction.
Don't be worrying about the rust.
What do you think?
So my next one is...
So just to save me...
Hold on.
Where are we going with this one though?
Where are we going with this one?
I'm going to put this one in the third section.
Third section, yeah.
What do you think about Shawnee S15?
He has a Goldy S15.
Where is this one now?
Should be in the comments too.
Yeah, because you're making me go way down.
Shawnee S15.
Oh, Gold S15.
That's right.
That's God here.
Yeah.
That is God here.
I fucking love that car.
Not...
Shut up then.
Just shut up.
That's cool.
It's cool.
You don't like it.
I do like it.
It's...
That's third section material.
Really?
That can't...
It's not on the same level.
You know what?
I agree.
It's not on the same level of sections.
Yeah, no.
We're after a shoot in 2004 here because...
That fourth section...
Well, we put Declan's car in there.
That's...
Like...
Yeah, but...
Yeah, yeah.
But then actually, so the next car that I picked out
that was sent into the Instagram DMs as well
from Steve Kearnan.
Now, Mr. Stent sent a 300Z accident,
but I only picked one of his cars.
That's really fucking cool.
Yeah, that thing's sick.
That is sick.
Do you know what it is?
I don't know enough about them cars,
but that looked beautiful.
I know very little about 300ZXs,
but I do, and I had.
I don't know where it came from.
I have this model about 15, 20 years, I'd say.
I have a model of a 300ZX in my bedroom.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Holy shit.
Right, can I give a dark horse?
Yeah, take sure.
I want it to just...
And you're...
I know you're not good.
I almost...
Horsa B.
Yeah, I like the color on it.
Horsa...
What do you mean, man?
No, for me, Declan is perfect,
and you can see it's got a fucking sunroof too.
That car is perfect.
So it...
For anyone that can see,
I'm hoping that Dan can put a picture
just exactly just here, right?
But it's a blue Tridor Horsa B, right?
It's on a set of speed lines, right?
I can tell that there's a cherry bomb exhaust.
This is how much I love these cars.
I have a slight obsession with Horsa Bs as well.
I've never admitted it to nobody.
Yeah, I would have kept that to myself.
Why?
Man, you know you can get a fucking...
Is it a red top engine into them?
Or is it a black top?
Red top, I think, is the...
Red top.
Man, that thing could be whipper, you know?
Yeah, fuck I love that car.
Special mention to Stevie Slats,
who sent in his Horsa B.
Where are you putting that?
Because...
Fuck I love that car.
Me and you are gonna disagree completely.
I mean, it depends on what...
So we've got four slots.
It depends on what name is on them slots.
Because I get that it's not gonna be in the fourth one.
Yeah.
It just can't go there, right?
But I feel terrible putting it in the second one,
but I know that you'd probably put it in the...
No, I would go second.
I'd feel terrible doing that.
We'd have to agree to put it in between the second and third.
Yeah, see, because what you can do,
like there's a difference in the start of the second slot
and the end of the second slot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like if you're at the start of the second slot,
I hope we don't ever get a car on that it goes
at the start of the first slot.
That's bad.
We'll have to put a bin just beside this thing.
Yeah.
That's another thing.
If you're listening to this,
and you've made it this far,
fair folks to you,
but give us ideas.
So we're gonna have four sections
of where we want to put cars.
Do you know what I'm already kind of just...
I'm really self-conscious right now,
because I feel like me and you are having great crack
right in these people's cars.
But I feel like the people that are driving to work
that usually listen to our stories and stuff,
I don't think it's gonna go very well.
So I think we should like pack this in really quick.
Yeah, I feel like we're gonna have a massive drop-off on this.
I know we are.
This is gonna be a longer one than normal,
because we got that, we got 38, I think.
37 and 38 all together.
And then we were talking about it this morning.
We feel bad leaving people out.
Yeah.
But we can't get through all 38.
There is absolutely zero chance.
And I did try to come up with...
Sorry, we did try to come up with different ways
that we could get review on everybody's car.
As it stands, nothing makes sense, right?
Nothing makes sense.
I feel like next week when we get our board in,
we'll have more fun with it,
and we'll be able to put in a two or three minute clip
of us sticking the cars where we want them to be.
And then that'll be that.
So that for the people that are listening,
that like enjoy listening to our stories,
they won't get bored.
Because I feel like we're after speaking for, what, 20 minutes?
About 20 minutes about reviewing cars,
and I know that it's gonna get really boring.
People are after switching something out.
When you can't see, I obviously don't condone
looking at your phone when you're driving,
but I will try my best to put all them pictures up
of the ones that we've done.
And if we didn't get to your car, we're really sorry,
but we just, we caught and get through them all.
Do you know what I think we should do?
I think we should put the car rating in at the very end.
Yep.
It will respect for the people that are driving
and listening to the pod.
Yep.
I think from now on, it'll be five cars we'll pick.
Yeah.
So it's only gonna be a couple minutes anyway,
so you can skip ahead if you want.
But, let's do something.
Can we clip that and put it at the end?
Or no?
Yeah, I can try.
Right, we're gonna try and clip that and put it at the end.
So if you're listening to this,
and it's mid section through the pod and you've got this far,
you've listened to all of that, I sincerely apologize.
We should have had.
Maybe it'll be great.
What?
Maybe it'll be great.
Maybe it will be great.
I'm just, I'm kind of thinking right,
I'm listening to this podcast now and I'm driving to work.
And these boys are kind of just chatting shit.
Yeah.
People's cars that I can't see because I'm driving.
Yeah.
And although we've tried to describe the cars as best as possible.
Yeah.
But I think that's enough sitting on this absolute fucking laptop.
It is because I'm gonna disintegrate into nothing very soon.
My phone is blowing up.
Yeah.
Anyway, thank you all very much for listening.
If there was anything that you enjoyed or didn't enjoy about the spot,
aka the rating the cars.
Yeah, we enjoyed that bit.
We really enjoyed it.
Go fuck yourself.
But it seems to be when we have fun in here, it's a shit pod.
That's what scares me.
And so yeah, let us know what you think.
Let me know in the comments as well, she says.
Yeah.
Do you want to do another slide off this week?
No, you've got to.
Are you sure?
It's iconic.
You've got to.
Are you sure?
Oh, iconic.
Fuck off.
Anyway, chair for now.
See you for the week.
Thanks for calling.
About this episode
Counterfeit “Recaro-style” seats and cheap “Alibaba” seat listings kick off a safety-focused discussion, including a crash story where “the back of the seat buckled when he crashed, like flopped back.” The hosts connect seat safety to broader upgrade priorities: “moral of the story is if you're upgrading your power, upgrade your brakes as well.” They debate brake pad compounds, branding vs performance, and steering-wheel/airbag compatibility. The episode then shifts into field-car memories and a big listener-car judging segment with a tier/board format.
Original notes
This week, we finally start rating your cars after getting far more submissions than we expected.
We go through everything from E11 Corollas and Nissan Bluebirds to S-chassis, Subarus and some properly unusual builds, while trying to decide what deserves a place near the top of our new rating system.
We also talk about fake Recaros, cheap wheels, why brakes are often ignored when people chase more power, the lost art of the €200 field car and whether buying an IS200 now makes more sense than spending serious money on an AE86.
There’s also some honest advice on apprenticeships, working in mechanics and whether turning your hobby into a job can ruin it.
Let us know what you think of the new car-rating section!
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