Who actually bought that part 2

There's a professional radio. There was this front wheel drive

so. Have you got anyone you want to

thank? Just myself.

And now I do the after hours, gentlemen.

What would you go for? They see us in there, OK, And

because it's not a super duck. What?

It is. It's not automatic.

Perfection comes in the form of 2 letters A&U.

Long live my Ltd. Welcome to Car Talk.

It's Tuesday night here at 90.9 Northwest FM.

It's me, Mary J online with Mr Scotty Doe Johnson, Mr Alamdeep Singh, Mr Rob Zadai and first time on the show.

First time, so long time listener, first time caller, Mr Jim Barlow. How are you guys?

I'm good. Thank you very much.

Good. Thanks.

Happy to be here. Good.

Thank you. No worries Jim, welcome to the

show. Thank you very much for having

me. Thanks for coming on.

We we we've been discussing you coming in the show for a while in terms of like in been passing, but but I was like, you got to come on the show at one time.

So you've you've you've come on the show now.

You've met all the guys because you you met him at Sakura picnic. And it was funny when, when Alan

and and Scotty, you know, when you guys walked off, I think there was chatters was there as well.

You were like, go, just close my eyes.

It was like I'm listening to the podcast, like just hearing you guys hearing you guys talk. So nice to have a listener of

the show who's actually keen to to jump on and, and and have a chat. So, so welcome.

Thank you very much. No, it's it's so good,

especially when I'm I'm committing to work and stuff can just go Yep, new podcast. We can just settle back and

relax and enjoy the the banter and the quiz at the end and all the discussions. All the all the alum entries

where he says shenanigans and all and all the above and.

The only one here trying to keep the quiz you know above above reproach. Too many rule Breakers around

here is what I'm saying. Too, too, too many rule, too

many rule Breakers, he says. OK, you got.

Mr Edward Bunting just yelling at his name and then taking 20 minutes to answer the question. Well, actually on that, I've

often wondered why you haven't maybe introduced some elevated music whenever he answers the question.

We should, we should do that. We should.

Sorry, hang on, we can play that or the Jeopardy theme music.

Just just hang on, guys, sorry, just before you answer that, just press play. But yeah, look, it's be prepared

for shenanigans. It's Scotty's quiz tonight.

So, so, so Scotty's written a quiz for us.

I got kept back at work. I had a big, big afternoon, so I

wasn't able to to get it done. So, so thank you, Scotty.

And we'll get to that towards the end of the show.

But before we get into our car updates, let's let's introduce you, Jim. So Jim, again, long time

listener of the of the podcast, member of the esteemed Honda Car Club in Victoria, owns a few cars himself.

So tell us a little bit a little bit about your Jim and about some of the cars that you own so our listeners can get a grasp of who you are and, and the and the cars that that you that you drive. OK so I've probably been a

member of the Honda Club for about about 8 years now.

My first car was an EG civic sedan dual car.

I currently own 4 civics, prelude, Ford laser and cheddar highs. And I'm also another fellow

educator as well. I've got a lot on this podcast,

so. Scotty would be enjoyed.

Yeah. So, so you've got.

OK, so, so you've got a prelude. You've got 3 civics you said, or

4? Just try and count.

Hang on one 2-3. Sorry, 3 civics and a jazz.

I forgot the jazz. Yeah, so 3 is currently 3 civics

and a jazz. You you know when you're into

cars, when you've got to remember how many you've got, and you've got to start counting when you've got a fair few.

Yeah, I should start chromologically, otherwise I forget, but yeah, it's it's quite funny.

I've got one for every day of the week so.

Absolutely. But you mainly drive your Ek,

correct? Yeah.

Yes, that's my daily driver. That's the one that this my my

workhorse, Yes. And, and this, this E this Ek

you've put on a bazillion miles like it's, it's, it's quite, it's quite the story. It's quite the car.

We're talking about it. And it's, it's quite a, it's a

weird, it's like a Japanese import, isn't it?

This one? It's a bit of a jump so.

So my my first my first car was Japanese import.

That's that was the EG. Yes, EG yeah, but my, my Ek is

actually has been in the Honda Club for 22 years.

So it was actually owned by the father of friend of Mr Prince and I bought it when that previous owner passed away.

So I've had it now for six and about 6 1/2 years.

I bought it with 193,000 KS on it.

When I spoke to it secure it had 474 and now it has 476.

Well, it's always at 4:50 that's see, see Rob and and you and you say Hondas. Well, Hondas that that's they're

the best. I'm hoping to have 500 by

Classic Japan in December, so yeah.

Just just a little context. You do a lot of driving in it.

Yes, so I do. I was doing about 1000 K's a

week but then now I'm also attending TAFE on weekends so it's about 11-12 hundred K's a week.

Yeah, Yeah, you should probably get there, I'd say.

Yeah, no, very, very good. And when we got you into cars,

like were you always into cars or were you you're?

Pretty much always into cars, like when I was younger it was more into like locally made stuff in Big V eights and stuff like that as well. But I spent most of my life

living near Phillip Island and watching a number of races where, you know, V8's always funded to the and then watching them as their breaks start to glow red hot and they run out of traction and they go backwards. And then you go, okay, that was

fun for a few minutes. So I think and then obviously

when you're young, a lot of the car is sort of aspired to you can't afford. So it's looking around.

But it was actually quite funny because I had the relative I I spent a lot of time with was very anti Honda actually, but her very trusted mechanic recommended to me as a first car. And when his daughter was moving

into a BMW, he offered me the Civic and I became rusted on after that. And my relative had to very but

gradually accept it when they could no longer drive and they were stuck being in my Honda. So that was really funny.

Well. You're not, you're not just a

Honda man. Like, yeah, out of all the

Hondas you had, you did. So you didn't mention you got a,

you got a laser. So you're definitely welcome on

this side of the podcast. And Rob's just like off.

Yeah. Yeah, no, I have good memories

of being given to school in a KB laser gear manual, and it, that was so cool. Unfortunately, mine's an

automatic, but still, I love it. Not the same build quality as my

Honda, but yeah, I enjoy nonetheless too.

And I went to drive in a car without new power steering, so that doesn't faze me at all. Yeah.

So, so that that's a KB GL correct?

Yes. Yeah.

And that's a. That's a automatic 1.5.

Yes, yeah. I'm not sure exactly of the

colour colour, I need Mr Prince for that, but it's green.

It's like a brown interior. There will there will yeah, a

lot of them with with that combo.

But yeah, they've they've held the test of time.

They're they're they're definitely a good thing and I'll be interested just to see that car one day actually that that'd be that'd be really. Really cool.

Absolutely. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's one of

the many projects on on the list of the Moment 2.

And yeah, it was a bit of an impulse purchase.

I have learned the hard way that, you know, I probably shouldn't spend as much time on grades as I do.

I end up buying too many cars that way.

But hey, we're only live once, so.

Absolutely 100% and you you're probably what what generation probably do you. Have that's 3rd and probably so

that's the first one with four wheel steering pull up.

Headlights. That's a cool car.

Yes, I bought it from my optometrist so I've seen it near me and I've often wondered who owned it.

And then one time around Christmas time about I think it was 2022 or something, I start being driven and then I went Oh my pub trust is driving it. And then when I saw him I said

to him, if you ever want to sell it let me know.

And then he said Oh no it's fine at the moment.

And then I had just bought my Ed Civic and about 3 days later he goes, oh remember when I spoke about the prelude and I'm like great, here we go. And then he said, Oh, yes, well,

I want to sell it now. OK, great.

And you know, being a teacher, it's they.

Don't really have like. Money growing on trees anyway.

But anyway, so I've got that. So I've got 160,000 KS.

It's been in his family since new.

His father bought it originally, but one of his sons I think when they're going to like parked it out on the street.

And so it's quite sun to bake, sun baked.

And when I've driven it, it's quite fun watching, but paint literally flake off while I'm driving.

So yeah. But it's only got 165,000 KS and

I think so it's pretty low really.

Is that registered that one or is that on a club plate or?

It's still registered, but it's currently in storage at the moment, yeah, but yeah, not the ongoing project.

And is that a manual or is that an order?

No, it's not a medic. Unfortunately nearly all of my

cars were American, but yeah. Boring, but it's it's still full

of steer prelude and you know, a lot of people don't realise like that was that was a pretty hot car back in the day like that was. Absolutely.

I was so straight away with the rhino height just went, yeah, that that's perfect. Yeah, none of this is climbing

up into a tree thing. Oh, lovely.

And I asked our first time guests on the show, always this question, if you had to get a car with, you know, that you really, really want, what would it be?

I can never answer it because it's just like, oh, there's so many to choose from so. There's there's so many and also

being neuro spicy too. It just completely changes every

few minutes. But probably at the moment I'm

going to be a little bit left field and say something like and I'm strong, Sydney 346 I think. Yeah, classy car like that one.

That's a good choice. Well, welcome to the show, Jim.

You know how our show works. We do our car updates and then

we get into our overarching topic of the evening.

So let's begin with some car updates.

Let's start with Scotty. Me, yeah, nothing exciting.

All I did was gave the blade a wash and I don't know if it's if any of you are the same but not a fan of washing cars.

I love it. I thought it was therapeutic.

I don't, I just end up with a sore.

I just end up with a sore back and and then black rims.

Oh, don't get me started. Black wheels are the worst.

And the other thing that I complain about is when you wash it. That's when you start finding

little new stone chips and Nicks and things like that in it.

And I just found a new tiny, tiny din and a mark on the side of the blade as I'm, you know, I hate it.

I hate it. So when you find all that stuff,

that just makes you sad. Yeah, Yep.

And I like being sad. I don't like being sad, but I do

like having a clean cut. It's nice.

There's there's a balance to be had between the therapeutic part and the you needing remedial therapy afterwards part.

And I think I always managed to crossover and for that second part, most of the time, and I'm like it's gonna be a quick wash.

3 hours later, I'm still out there.

I'm like, all right, you done it again.

Why you do this? You know why you like this.

Yeah. Why couldn't it just be a wash?

Why did I have to do the whole process?

Yeah. I I find it like I I love it.

I I could spend all day in a car and just I got my little brushes for my for my vents and and things and, and Steph will be like, where is this guy? And I'll be in the garage and

you know, just just polishing and and just brushing and I always said also, is it clean? No, no, is it as clear as it

could be? No.

So then I go back and clean it even more.

I get out my, my, my, my steamer.

You know, I get I I go to town now I love it.

It's full day event for me. That that for me.

Is like money come round. Yeah, I'm back.

I was. Happy you can do your car, Yeah,

and I'll shat your BBQ or whatever you want.

You can come clean. Dodd, I'm over.

I just remember the day we did the MR2 that.

Was a good day. Yeah, I think we spent like 3

and a bit hours by the end of it and there was no polishing.

That was just decontaminating and then just coating it with it was a hand protectant, but still, like it was nice.

It popped. I still have that picture of a

misty Edward Bunting doing the, oh, water feeling Toyota jump.

Yeah. That was good.

That was fun. I do remember that.

So you gave the gave the blade a clean.

Scotty regretted your decision. Need to see an osteopath and

that's that's where you're at. Yeah, yeah.

That's it. Alan Deep.

Unfortunately, yeah, not a huge amount of exciting stuff on my end either. Finally got the Dmax booked in

for the, what do you call it, that recall.

Much to my chagrin, there was another recall that I just hadn't been informed about. So I can get the two in one

service at least. Which is good combo.

Yeah, I think I'm taking it or my dad will be taking it.

And next Tuesday I just booked in a time that was convenient for them to wake up later on in the day rather than why, you know, get there at 7:00 or something and wait for them to open. And then I would just take one

of the other cars to work. But so they they do that.

What is it? The oil dipstick and the fuel

delivery hose might be entangled or rubbing on each other, leading to a possibility of fire.

So they'll have to deal with that.

That's the most recent recall. Apparently there's also an ECM

flashing that needed to take place and that's been since like August last year. And you know, I didn't get no

paperwork about that. So it also it would have

happened right after I got the car serviced.

So it wouldn't have been done during the service either.

So I've been running the car with at least, you know, recall issue since then. Maybe it's a lower tier recall

that's why it's then send out the notices or something.

But basically I think they described as the car can, in some situations lose power and stall, leading to a dangerous situation. So I can't tell if this is like

a high, like you're on Hwy speeds, that sort of thing because that's never happened to me.

What I have had it happen a few times in the D Max is when you're moving off at a slow pace, but then let's say it's a roundabout, you're trying to kind of edging forward and you get an opportunity. So you kind of put your foot

down a little bit more. I've had a few situations of

where the car's kind of almost died on me for a second or it seems like it's kind of about to shift up in a second and then it's like, Oh no, I can't do that.

And it's confused. So you kind of like bog down for

half a second and then it picks back up and gets going.

So it might be that that they're talking about.

I'll probably get more information when they drop off the cargo. I'll meant to ask a few

questions, but they probably won't give any decent answers.

But it's it's it's still weird to me that I've never got any contact about that recall. So at least, you know, two birds

with one stone. I think she was she was going to

go for the traffic that she was like, oh, you know, your service is coming up. I was like, I still got another

5000 KS lady. Like let me wait till the end of

July. You know, you can have your $680

or whatever it is. Cap price my ass.

It's like cap price servicing. But would you like an AC

service, you know, or whatever it was?

I think they wanted like 180 bucks for that and then they want to sell me tyres for like 1500 bucks.

A dollar wiper blades. Yeah, yeah.

So I'll have by the time it gets there, I'll have a new cabin Philtre, I'll have a new fuel Philtre.

I've already had the new tyres put on what, a month and a half ago? I'm looking forward to what

they're trying offer me. But that's that's for I guess

future, future episodes. So in the meantime, it'll just

be the recall and then that should be it.

I think I gotta get the the Honda booked in for a service because it's been about a year since I purchased that off.

Misread. Yeah.

So I might just take it to the old rat man, or he'll just give me a lot of book service. Yeah, very easy, very nice.

We're also joined by Mr Turpitary himself.

Mr Anthony Falk. How you doing?

Anything. Eric guys had the little one

crying. I didn't think you did that in

the background. No.

How you doing mate? Yeah, not too bad, guys, Not too

bad. Good to see everybody again.

Good to see you too, mate. Good.

We're just doing just in car updates at the moment.

We'll come, we'll come back to you.

Rob updates with you. Just got the couple of dints

taken out of Harley's C63 that was passed on to us from delivery from North Shore Mercedes when we got it.

Finally got all the densol, fixed it and straightened out of the the quarter panels. So that looks good.

Booking my niece's car for a service.

Harley's car has been serviced. I'm getting mine detailed on

Friday. So yeah, just sort of just

general things. But getting the cars detailed

and washing the cars is the best time to do all the wiper washer fluids, check the oils, make sure it's all OK, and if you want a good paint, a paintless dent remove guy, just let me know Scotty and I'll put you on to him.

Will do. Rob's pity.

No, I won't do it. I've got the little PDR kit.

You can try it at your own whim. But yeah, you can.

Yeah, you can definitely try it, but it's very difficult to try doing it yourself. I haven't had too much success

trying to do that. The dent removals myself with

the glue guns, it's some of it's worked if some of those into panels in some cars. So other cars it's just it keeps

on popping off because it's just the metal's too strong.

Even though you try to heat it up a little bit and glue it on and and then try to pop it, it doesn't always pop.

Yeah, pedia, especially at the highest level is such an art.

Like you just see them go at it and you know, you're like, I don't even see anything there in the 1st place.

The next thing you know they're like Nope, there it is.

I can already tell that if that little weird thing with the lines in it reflecting and they're going at it to poking things and whacking it. And I'm like, just that is like,

you know, a lot of witchcraft. Yeah.

A lot of automotive services are like, you know, some Hogwantry and stuff. But that is some you can see

where your money's going, like in in a level of skill that a person's built up over the years.

Yeah. Absolutely.

With the with the with my old Volvo, the S60 that had one of the hailstorms got hit and got got sort of with PDR and again, guys did a did a killer job with it.

Yeah, couldn't recommend anything else higher if you're not looking to race spray or anything like that.

Again, definitely black magic going on there.

So yeah, I had five dinks removed, $300.00.

It's pretty good. Hey, that's good.

I've got to get my laser done. It just, it just seems to

attract all the hits. So that, that'll, that, that'll

get done at some point. Cindering they charge you to do

like to fill a crack or something in your windscreens already like a couple 100 now to do that job.

You know, I've done it myself and I, I don't think mine is any worse than the professionals to tell you true.

Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. You buy the kits.

Well, we sell them at work and we, we, we.

See those? We've got a German at work that

does it on the side and I've seen some of his repairs and I'm like mate, I'll get better repair out of $30 kit from Supercheap. To be fair, he didn't, he didn't

have the full vacuum machine. Yeah, but he did have like,

we'll call it pro ish level of gear that I think he stole from one of those old joints. I think it's sometimes it's just

the crack. The crack ain't, you know, it's

not going to cooperate with you. It is what it is.

Yeah. But yeah, those like the kids

that you can kind of get retail, especially if the crack is just really also the ship is really, really small.

I would just go with that. Yeah.

I think even he he's like it's a side hustle job, but he still charges like I think $108.00 plus GST.

Yeah, OK. Wow.

Anthony, updates with you. Well, nothing too crazy, I

probably didn't mention this one here ages ago, but back in end of Feb after one of my nights I did have a have an incident in the territory where I overslept and was then running late to work and end up reversing into my mum's car that was parked on the street. So yeah, again, very minor

damage, but it was more just do an insurance claim to get mum's car fixed more than anything else.

But that was a. That's the tail light on both of

our cars and sort of scuff off the bumper.

As interesting as I got as I got that repaired the other leg from a Capital Smart lovely establishment and they're pretty average work to be honest. Had to had to bring it back to

them. Oh sorry, first time I brought

it back, the bumper was too light and clearly a different colour in that instance. So they then resprayed the

entire bumper again. They got the colour better, but

there was a couple of scuffs that need to be polished out and then had to go back this week, went back on Friday and they they polished out those couple of scuffs.

But yeah, again, it's, it is sort of what you expect for, for the service. But you know, in the end we we

got there, that's probably about as exciting as we sort of get for any sort of car updates with me that's more to speaking trial updates being made for the last little bit.

Yeah, and how is the little 1 going?

Yeah, yeah, she's going good. She's going good.

She's 8 weeks 8 weeks old now as of as of Monday.

Which again, where does the time go?

But now she was asleep on me for probably the last 2 1/2 hours after a feed. So she's due for another feed

soon but thought screw it, I'll try and transfer her to A to the bassinet and Chuck the baby monitor on and get onto the show for a little bit. So in case I do have to dart

off. I've done, I've done what I can

with what I can, but we'll see how we sort of go.

But yeah, for the most part, everything else is good.

Otherwise, man, just that's good.

And eight sleep, work, repeat and watch her.

Gladly. I've got another two weeks off,

so I've been able to look after her a bit more and help Jess out a bit more. Yeah, nice.

But that's quite familiar overall, guys.

Yeah, sweet Jim. Anything new with your cars that

you've done recently in the last week or so?

Especially I try and wash mine every week.

I did make the mistake of putting some alloy wheels from an EUCV come on mine which look OK but break dust.

My God I think I'm gonna have nightmares or get a nervous twitch and have to clean it off every week.

Far up and I think it's due for its next service in.

Well. Probably next week with me.

I'm driving. I do I do quite enjoy,

especially with Honda dealers when I bring them up to book inner service. I've not for a while with a

Honda dealer perfectly and I'll tell them what the mileages and they go, Oh, what, what what month interval is that?

And I go, I don't know, 4,000,002 like you can't go by month interval when it's got only 500,000 KS guys.

But anyway, it's so it's probably yeah, so I'll book that in again soon. And I think it's got a bit of a

slack sort of cable because it's getting a little bit very sluggish to respond to input. I don't think it's like

injectors or something else. It like it genuinely feels as

though it's sort of like loading sort of a little bit like when you've got a virus on your computer sort of thing.

So hopefully it doesn't there will help and yeah, but otherwise, no, it's it's, yeah, doing what it usually does, starting every day without any dramas at all.

It's being a Honda, which is a good thing.

Typical, yeah. Thanks with me.

I've had a busy week so I've been driving the MR2 all week, which has been good. I've been driving, I've been

driving the crap out of it just to enjoy it.

I got some parts that came in the other day that I ordered from the UK because the UK seemed to be the best part place to get all part, you know, secondhand parts and stuff for for this thing. So I got my new oil cooler with

secondhand oil club. It looks to be in good nick.

And I got a whole key, whole key set for the car.

So I was like, yeah, you know, I can install these.

So we're started working on that.

Put the boot instant, put the boot one on 1st.

That was easy to 5 minutes go to do the at the driver's door and because someone had tried to break into the car before, so that they're just kind of like they plugged up the hole like, Oh yeah, I'd assume that they just, you know, broke the key barrel and they've just covered it.

So no one tries to, to put the key in the ignition.

Took the door handle out, took all the covers off and everything pulled the door handle, door handle off and there is nothing behind it. So it was just quite literally a

hole. So I was like, great, that

that's, that's interesting. So then I put the new key barrel

in and then put, put the door handle back into the door and said, where does this click into?

There's like a rod inside the door that opened, you know, that unlatches and matches the, the, the locking mechanism on the door missing. I'm like, oh God.

So, so, so when they've taken out the, when they've damaged the key barrel, they've just removed the whole thing.

So then I was like, OK, we'll have to open the passenger side.

So as it went to the passenger side, took the door off, replaced it, took the, took the rod out of that one and had a spare piece of rod. And I was just bending and

trying to make it work and I kind of made it work and it works OK. So I'll put the other one back

in and, and as soon as I was tidying everything up, you know, I was doing it in a pretty good time.

You could I have to use A10 mil spanner in there.

And of course it's a 10 mil for this next bit and tightening, tightening. And then it like the spanner

like flicked off and it went into the abyss of the door, but it went where so like, and I was just like, oh man, like I, I can't get it. I, I tried for 3 1/2 hours last

night to get it out. I got, I went to bed at 1:30 in

the morning because I was trying to get this damn thing out of the, out of the pool. So it's, it's, so, you know, how

cars have got like, you know, impact, side impact, like the, the, the, what are they called the side impact protection, you know, strengthening bars in the, in the doors.

So in the MR2, it's kind of got that, but it's kind of got like a like a corrugated roof kind of style and it's going behind that and that's kind of welded to the skin of the door.

So for 3 1/2 hours just trying to get it out.

I couldn't get it out. I can't even really see it.

So I decided that has now become one of one with the car.

So I put this. So Maddie.

Have you lost just the socket? No the the actual 10 mil

spanner. The spanner.

I was going to say, can you hear it?

Well, I haven't driven the car. I didn't.

I didn't take it to work today because I was so pissed off at it. I was like, this is just insane.

Then stuff's like, where the hell have you been?

It's 1:30 in the morning. I'm like.

I don't want to talk about it. Funny story, you've asked I'll

I'll go to the zoo. You need to do a Jeremy Clarke

to where you spin the car for a tunnel upside down.

Yeah, yes. And get it out.

Of that'll that, that'll do it. But I was actually half tempted.

I'm like, I want to take this freaking door off.

I want to I'm going to take it off and I want to shake it upside down and just I'm going to I'm going to take off.

So if because I'm going to drive it tomorrow, if the rattle is prominent, I will be taking the door off this weekend and shaking the door out and trying to get it out it.

Would absolutely lose your mind if there was a rattle in there and I kept doing it like I I could picture you stripping that whole entire car or just like, I'm just going, I'm buying a new door. No, he likes it original as

possible with, you know, the OEM plus style.

So he's going to drill out the spot welds.

Flipped it off. I kid you not.

I was like, I was like, oh, it's tight.

I'll give it, give it one more for good luck.

And then it like flipped up because it's like where the where the bloody nut is. It was right.

Honestly, it's, it's a bot. Actually, it goes, it goes into

the back of the back of the head backwards in the on the other side. It's behind the glass.

So you, you got to kind of like you can't, you can't fit a ratchet in this. You have to use your spanner and

they're like tight, tight, tight, tight, tight.

And then I was like one more for good luck and, and I was like, Oh, no. And I saw it because I had about

the torch on. I just see it go straight,

straight down. I was like, oh, and I was like,

no, it's gone. It's, it's, it's physically

gone. 3 1/2 hours, gentlemen, 3 1/2 hours last night.

I'm trying to get. This down the $1,000,000

question, Maddie. Sorry, Rob, go ahead.

Did you try wire magnets? What did you do?

Rob, I used the magnet tool. I used the claw tool.

I used the trim removal tools. I used pieces of sheet metal

trying to trying to jiggle it in there.

I used what else did I end up using?

I was using other different sides of types of magnets I used. I used a couple more things.

I kind of what I used screwdrivers I used.

I used like a I even used the stud fighter to see where to try to find out where I was, but that didn't really help.

That was just that was that was no girl.

I was like maybe this might work maybe, but I don't know so.

Around about the 1:30 mark, wasn't it?

So I got to it got to like 1:20 in the morning and I'm like, this is what am I doing with my life?

This is this is it. So I, I was like, Nah, I'm done.

Like I'm like, it fought me for, for, for that time.

I put the door panel on door cut.

I'm sorry, put, you know, timed it all up close the door and then I when I went to lock the key, I realised I didn't click in the the the the last rod that I was that I had to make.

I'm like, oh, you're kidding. So now the title is going to

come off again, but I'm, I'm kind of done with it.

So I'm like, you know, it's, it can stay like that.

It, it didn't, I, I didn't have a key in it in the last five years I've owned it. So it's, it's going to, you

know, I can, I can, I can live without for a little bit longer.

All I have to do now I've got one more, I've just got to change the ignition barrel and then I can, I can have a full set of, you know, you know, brand new keys that'll, that'll work for the car. Because I, I did get for

Christmas AMR two key like a, like a, like a, like a proper replica, like original, you know, really nice key.

And I've been planning to use it like once I get once I get a new, you know, a full new set. So that's so losing my 10 mil

span has kind of put a dampener on that like, and I'm like, what am I saying? What am I trying to find this 10

mil span a bit in my head? I'm like, it's going to rattle,

it's going to annoy me, It's going to ruin my experience with the car. I'm I need to get it and I

couldn't get it. Even if you don't know, don't

hear it, you're going to know it's there A. 100.

Percent. And that part will just hurt you

spiritually. I think now the really normal

question is, do you know somebody with a scoping camera?

I do not actually. Well, Rob, have you got one?

That's gonna be your best friend in this, I think, given the amount of tools you've already exhausted in this pursuit.

Get the scoping camera in there. I think I've got a bit cheaper

and it just plugs into your laptop.

Bang, yeah, you are right. I mean, I do know a guy that

works there. I could probably, but yeah, I

might have to get you boys over to give me a hand with it because I'm, I'm, I was, I'm quite literally about to take the door off If, if I can't see what the scope be coming, the doors coming off like I'll, I'll drive without a door for for a bit if I have to like it's. Tipped a car, six of us.

Well, we could. It's, it's pretty light.

You can lift it up and just put it upside down.

Otherwise, the next step, get some expanding foam and just spray it in there and then it won't rattle because it can't.

Go anywhere that's a good idea. Actually, I don't mind that

idea. I don't mind that idea at all.

FD. I'm gonna see how it goes

because I'm gonna drive to work tomorrow and I'm gonna see.

And if it rattles, I'm gonna, yeah, yeah, yeah.

If it rattles, I'm quite literally going to drive it home and I'm gonna take the door off and I'm gonna, I'm gonna begin.

It's gonna be it's gonna be the process of me yelling at the car profusely. So yeah, but that was my evening

with the the MR2 last night. But I'm half of that's been

driving really, really well, dropping a little bit cooler because they've they've obviously just bled the system and there's a bit of, you know, overflow until that all you know settles out because it's just had the the whole system redone.

But totally fine. Driving really nicely feels a

lot way more smoother, smoother to drive now that the you know, the gearbox and everything's all all sorted with the clutch and that so yeah, really, really enjoying it.

Except for last night. That was that was a bit of that

was a bit of a pain in the ass. But who am I?

Who am I to say anything? That's just just another thing

to add to my life of cars. But but that's your point, Rob,

sorry and and Scotty of of finding a little, you know, a chip and a din on your car. I was giving the typhoon a clean

and it's got a bottle protector right on that car.

I've got a chip that's just above it and it's a it's a fresh one too. Like you can see where it must

have been the last one I've driven the car and I was just like, I'm like, this is just story again.

So I've didn't have a, didn't have a great car week, but the car's driving well. So stay tuned and find out next

week for for more adventures with Maddie and the rattly door.

But we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll discuss, we'll discuss that.

But anyway, that's my updates, gentlemen.

Moving on to tonight's topic. So a few weeks ago we discussed

The Who bought that, you know, so who actually bought a, who bought that car when they were new?

And I think we, we all just, we all loved the jackaroo story.

I think the jackaroo was Alan had had convinced that it was, it was the the the guy that one of the Land Cruisers but couldn't afford it, bought the Jackaroo to to save his marriage. And there was the the financial

strain that broke the family's back.

That's it. It's the on the way to becoming

a low income single dad car it. Is so to continue with that,

I've got another six cars we're going to discuss tonight that we'll we'll go through and see who bought The Who do you think bought these new? So the first one is the Toyota

Lexan. So who bought a Toyota?

Listen now, Rob you. Yeah, I believe you were a

Toyota at this time when this when these were new, Correct.

You were, yeah. So who bought Alexan over a

Commodore? And for what reason would you

have bought Alexan over a Commodore?

Can I that's, I think it was a guy who just retired who plays lawn balls. Yeah.

And bought a new caravan. What at the tow?

One at the tow. But why did you go to it?

Because it's, it's a, it's a Toyota.

It's it's reliable. Yes, no, I.

Don't mind that one. That's a good one.

Yeah, I, I agree with you now, like every time I've seen a Lexan, it was especially as a kid, it was always owned by older people. It was never owned by, by, you

know, the people that owned Commodores and they were always in a lot better. Nick, like we've always said on

this show, if you had AVN Commodore on your on your driveway, you made bad life decisions.

But when you had a Lexan on your driveway, everyone's like, Oh yeah, that's right. You know, it was, you know,

it's, it's, it's a solid car. So they never got that stigma to

that that stigma that the old, the old VN had, which is which is interesting to see. Yeah, I I can't think of any

other reason other than someone that's gone.

Oh yes, it's a good sized, good sized car and Toyota reliability. So they've gone with that.

That's that's kind of what I was going to power on.

Like the whole idea of like, yes, I'm buying a Toyota.

It it it's the same kind of person that would buy a Holden and Polar, But obviously the Toyota version of that.

It's like, Nah, mate, I'll buy Holden's over here and then, you know, they buy a Camry. I'll make Daniel had had a

Holden and Polar in his household as well.

It's just like, I don't know, maybe some people actually got convinced that they were buying a Toyota.

I'm sure you know, or whatever happened at the dealership happened at the dealership. But like, you had to have known,

right, that you're buying a Toyota badge Commodore?

Like Rob, were they more expensive than the Holden counterpart? Like were they more pricier or

were they virtually same price? I.

Think they were touched? Deer on recollection, I remember

when they launched it because I was actually working at Toyota at the time they actually launched it and that the big who are about, you know, Lexan and you know how we won America's Cup and all that sort of stuff. Yeah.

So that's what they sort of based it all around and they had the nice little, I think a little sticker on the side and some other little things that sort of changed it with the actual interior and some little trim, exterior trim bits.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't really know.

Yeah. I can just imagine the Sorry, I

need to cut you off there, just being like an older person who somebody's like, oh, nice Commodore mate.

And they're like. It's not a Commodore, it's

Lexan. Yeah, you see.

That Toyota bench, yeah, You know, you sit there for an hour and be like, please, man, I gotta go to my family.

You don't see too. Many around because I think

everyone's converted them back to a Commodore.

That was quite that was done quite often.

Actually, it was it was done quite often.

I went to school with with a kid who, I mean, you probably you might, you might have known him Allen, but I won't say his name.

He was a storage holding man. And and he's like, even if I

bought a Camry, it's becoming an Apollo.

I don't care. Like he was, he was that he was

that kind of guy. I remember him saying that, that

that line to me because because he saw my mom dropped me off in the Camry one day and he's like, he bought a tomato.

I'm turning into an Apollo. I'm like, you're an idiot.

But anyway, that's another story.

So, yeah, but were they, were they better equipped for more money? Because I'm just trying to

figure like, why would you spend more money on the Toyota version of it? Like that's that's the they

would have had to have had more factory kit standard, right?

So apparently according to this is again Wikipedia knowledge, so I don't know if it's correct. They were only available with AV

six and only automatic. Correct.

Yeah. So it's like realistically,

again, you'll not be able to get.

I'm not saying you know a manual wouldn't necessarily be a window, but definitely the lack of AV 8 you know you're not getting. I would say the prime example of

the car then. Imagine a imagine a VN Lexan

with like an A1 UZ like the like a proper VNW.

Oh man, that would have been that would have been special.

That would have been a cool car. I.

Might so suggest too that there might have been a demographic, especially as we've discussed being older purchasers who might have being reluctant to try something that wasn't Australian made in their eyes. And, you know, getting having

more of their older friends stepping into Toyotas rather that eventually felt reluctant and then sort of went, Oh, well, you know, kind of a bit of a bridge maybe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I I can, I can see that, you know, it was an it was an affordable bridge into AV 6 powered car.

You know, full size luxury car, not luxury, but full size like full size sedan. So yeah, I can see how they that

that decision could be made, you know, and and you you probably would have got better service at at your Toyota dealer anyway and you would have got better you know, you probably better warranty and and and stuff like that.

So I remember went forward so the the XF Ute to to Nissan and and Nissan, we're using it as the the the Nissan mute.

I think it got a better, I think it got longer warranty than what Ford offered. So like, yeah, it's, it's, it's

stuff like that that they did weird, weird, weird things back then. But I can see how that that

that'd make sense. You know, I remember as a kid

seeing Lexan's quite, quite often, especially when we'd go to church and there'd be all the old gays in their, in their Lexans and all the younger guys in their, in their Commodores.

So, so it'd be, you know, it was, it was, it was the car for the, the, the more esteemed gentleman.

He wanted a bit more prestige in their, in their badge than, you know, Toyota over, over a Holden.

So All right, so, so if you had to pick it, it'd be an old man wanting to tow, meaning, you know, played lawn balls, wanted to get into a Japanese brand, a proper brand, but didn't want to quite fully commit to an Australian car.

And that's where they ended up with the Toyota Lexan.

I like that one. I think that's a good, I think

that's a good, good outcome. Great.

The biggest thing I'd say would be that bridge between Commodore and and Toyota. Yeah.

Reluctancy. Yeah, I agree with that.

Next one is your sangyongs. So I've got 2 sangyongs tonight.

You're saying young Musso, the original Musso that came out.

Do you remember those though that the big, the big, the big musos. Now I remember when these were

new and I remember the ad forum. I don't know if you guys

remember the ad forum, but they were always told about how the Mercedes reliability on my Mercedes engines.

Musso. It was it was always the ad

probably said Mercedes like 10 times and I'm not even I'm not even kidding. It was it was all you know, I I

loved I loved my Musso. It's, it's got my Mercedes,

Mercedes power car. And then like with Chevy badges

on Commodores, we're seeing Mercedes badges on musos.

Do you guys remember seeing the Mercedes badges on musos?

They were coming out everywhere and I'm like, there's not a Mercedes. It's a muso.

It's a Sangyong. But, but you know, it was, it

was kind of they did sell quite a fair few of them though, to be fair. And they were everywhere for a

short amount of time and then they all vanished.

Like I I haven't seen one in years who bought a muso brand new. Is the same person that bought a

jackaroo or they had a slightly bit more money than the people that bought a jackaroo? I would suggest it might be sort

of a bit like now with the really, really new Chinese brands coming in, the people go, oh, it's a brand new car with a warranty and it's cheaper than the other brands.

And then they would have probably read into the Mercedes part and thought, oh, see, it's great because I heard people at the time discussing that too and just thinking, well, you do you.

But like, you know, try and educate yourself.

Yeah, absolutely. I like that, Jim, because I was

going to say it's, yeah, somebody's just like, I'm going to buy a new car and this is reasonably priced and they don't know any better. They're just like, maybe they

buy into a bit of that advertising puffery and they're like, yeah, I guess I can see the murkiness to it.

There's no murkiness to it. But it wasn't a bad looking car

like it wasn't terrible like like I mean, it wasn't a great looking car like it like. It's not winning any awards.

I guess compared to the stavic. We're going to cover the Stavic

in a minute, by the way. Generally that's that's that's

that's the next one because I would actually want to know who bought that car. But the the Moose are in OK in

comparison, like for like like an 8, let's say an 80 series from the same period daily series is a much more handsome car, much more, much better built car.

Yeah, I would have said like what you said, Jim.

I think that I think that's a good ugly outcome.

But I also think people that wanted badge snobbery but couldn't afford badge snobbery, if that makes sense.

So, so yeah, it's, it's Mercedes guts, but it's.

Not a Mercedes, the yuppie that just bought a place in Carlton or that's trying to make it big at his farm that hasn't really taken off yet. Look, if, if, if I was in a bar,

right, and somebody's like, yeah, I've got a sag, I'll move.

So it's basically a Mercedes Benz.

I would literally laugh this person out of the bar.

You know, call me cruel, but it's, it's deserved.

You'll be there flashing your muso key with with a stuck on Mercedes badge on it. You'll be like got a Merc baby

like that's that's. Actually think about the

language of of that particular period in time.

Pretty raw and rough compared to what was provided within the Saiyang. Wasn't it like?

Yeah, the kid, the kid in the in the Saiyang was actually pretty reasonable for it. Yeah, comparative.

Yeah, comparatively I would agree.

Like you got a lot for your money and then and they weren't super duper expensive like that. They weren't cheap cars, but

they weren't expensive. So like like I guess if you

bought you bought a toy, if you wanted the, you know, live axles, the proper 4/4 wheel drive, you know, kind of kind of action, but then you bought the the the moose.

So if you if you were like, well, I can go off road too.

You know, I can do what you guys can do.

I can do it better. I can do it with the Mercedes.

So I think that, yeah, I agree with you, Rob.

You know, a bit of a bit of yuppiness, a bit of like, oh, you know, I don't want to buy Toyota.

I'm going to buy, I'm going to buy this this new brand from Korea. You know, Korea's taking over

like like the Japanese took over.

Korea's taking over Korea's turn.

Look at look what hang on XL are doing.

They're they're selling, they became the best selling car in the country at one point. So if they can do it, moose, I

can do it. And then proceeded to have

hideous reliability. Somebody who was about to be

filled with a lot of regret, Yeah, is somebody who would have bought a moose or brand new. I like what Rob's saying.

He's someone that's started out on his own construction business, maybe tradie, but on his own.

I was just about to actually just chime in on that one there, and I'd say the best way I can describe, I think even for the modern, I actually saw there was a clip that went around.

It was pretty amusing and pretty accurate of describing each sort of you and the Musso came across as your handyman who has a Ryobi kit and doesn't actually know what's actually going on.

He's probably going to be your client for a Musso.

But when he gets, when he gets out, he's wearing this.

He's got a collared shirt on. He's got his collared shirt on

though when he gets out and his phone's clicked to his belt.

Yeah, yeah. I take offence from that.

I have a Ryobi drill one. Do you?

Have a Moussa. No.

And would you get out of a car with a collared shirt when you're doing, you know, some, some hard man's work?

I know you're a man that has some high vis in the wardrobe.

Rob definitely does. Real men wear high vis, you

know. No, he's having a go at us, boy,

he's having a go at us. But all right, So would you guys

agree that the Moussa wasn't a great car?

Yeah. I think we're all in the grants

there. Have you guys actually seen a

Moussa recently? I haven't seen one in years.

I think they'll just disintegrate it.

Yeah, I think they all just fell apart.

And because I have not seen one, I have not seen one in years.

I yeah, kind of like, can I remember the last time I've seen, I've seen, I saw a mousse. Well, I mean, the only thing you

mentioned that one is they actually I was having a look before I was like, I wonder what whether any of them are still for sale or exist and they they do and they actually have newer Senyong muso they. Do Yeah, they do, yeah.

And I have a feeling actually, I don't know whether it's, I actually have a feeling one of the guys at work who is a special guy in my office and I'm pretty sure he actually drives a senyong muso. So I do actually have a feeling

that that they do exist. And I'm pretty sure I see one on

the regular. I just choose to ignore the fact

that that exists in my office. I used to know a guy with a sang

Young Rexton and he, he loved his Rexton.

He's always like the Rexton's best car I've ever bought at the standing. I'm like yeah, man, Cool.

Yeah, yeah, you do you, bro. That's a yeah.

If you're happy, I'm happy for you.

And then you delete on my Facebook.

I'm probably gonna have to jump off guys a little 1 so due for a feed. I might try and jump back on a

bit later on, but if not, have a good night and talk to you guys soon. Yeah, you too.

Worries mate. Yeah, So sticking with, you

know, Sangyong because, because we're we're not bashing Sangyong here. You know, we're not, we're not,

we're not, we're not doing that. We, we're just.

We're just. Sticking I am, but we should

continue. What the guy is the Stavic now?

It's a car we got to talk about because the options when the Stavic was around were your Tarago, your Kia Carnival, your Grand Voyager. I'm trying to think what else in

terms of like big, like kind of ish people movers like that because like your Odyssey's a bit too small.

It's a bit of a small size people mover.

So I'm not going to put Odyssey in there.

And your second hand esteem is because they because they're all estimates, because they were just everywhere and you're stabbing. So that's kind of your that's

kind of your five really. What made you say no to all

other of those options to buy the stabbing?

What? Why did you do that?

You were trying to start a funeral business and this car is going to double, double as your hearse.

It's got the, you know, it's got the bubble part of the baggage ticket, the seats. Just throw the bloody coffin in

there. You know, like, otherwise it

makes no sense. I'm trying to give this person

an out. You know, maybe they had dreams

of starting a funeral business and they're like, you know what?

I've got to bounce the family car and the hearse.

I can't afford both. Screw it.

I'll get you know this Stavic. Like I'm just, you know, and,

and believe me, the other options aren't great.

Like, like, I mean, the carnival and Toyota are probably the ones you'd go for, but like even over a, a bloody Chrysler Voyager or a grand Voyager, you've you've taken a stabby like that's it must have you must have got a real good, good price on the day because when you went and picked up, you'd be like, Oh my God, what have I done? What did I buy?

What? Picture the people that actually

own or drive them because I even the larger families, you know, like the Islanders and stuff, they always have a large families and stuff. They don't even go anywhere near

them. They're in Tarago.

This is where. This is where they're at.

They're in. Reliability is is key.

Reliability is king man reliability they're.

Not going for something like that.

I saw, I saw I saw like a reel the other day and this they'll talk about their dream cars and this the island guy's like, man, my dream cars are Tarago. And it was that was the best.

It was I I laughed. But yeah, like even even they're

in Tarago. It's like who bought a stabbic.

I'm wondering if maybe it might have been an art teacher.

An art teacher. Yeah, I'm saying that because

I've, I've had some that have made some bold car choices over the years and I'm wondering if they were like, I'm not driving one of the other bricks. I can't for one anyway, this

thing looks different and you know where whatever outfit they're wearing as well doesn't really make any sense to anybody else. But then and so they're like,

I'm just going to go with it and make a whole personality so.

So you're saying they're making a statement with this car?

Oh yeah. 100% because like I guess she was blind and couldn't

drive. They're just like.

I like it. So as an art teacher myself, I

know, I know Artie teachers can be, can be be an arty farty.

I know I worked with them, I went to uni with them, I went to art school. I know what it's like.

That's a big stuff, That's a big call.

But I will agree with you because one of my art lecturers, she drove a PT Cruiser. That was her car.

I won't prove it. So, so now that you've said

that, I'm like, you know what, I kind of get it.

I kind of get it. But they've bought OK, so, so

the art teacher's bought it because it's got a lot of room to configure your, your, your big canvases and stuff in there.

Well, I was also thinking that, you know, when they looked at a Tarago or at a Kia, they sort of, you know, start yawning and falling asleep and then they sort of went, you know, maybe this is sort of like Picasso before the C4.

Picasso, it's very cubist, doesn't it?

It's a cube on wheels. So while you're having dreams of

looking at Guernica in when looking at the the Sangyong Stavic, but surely you would you'd have taste like like there's there's so. People bought that Mercedes

Navara, so no, they don't. Well, that is, that is, that is

true. But also.

But I mean, here's the thing, right?

Like there's, there's something, there's some things that are so cute, so ugly that they're cute, like a pug, like pug pugs are cute. Like, you know, they're, they're

so ugly that they're cute. This is just, it's everybody

I've spoken to. Now, I'm not saying it's, I mean

it's probably up there with the most hideous cars of all time.

But everyone I've said spoken to about the stomach, if I sort of imagine they go like they get that chill of like, like that of the stain. There's not many cars that I can

say that people have had that that feeling towards.

Maybe some desperate businesses or family owners saw a bargain and they were, I think, very competitively priced.

They were they. They definitely were.

And you would have had to have gotten a good deal to get to get one. Like, yeah.

Apparently a lot of them were used as airport taxis because obviously if the extra seating in the space for luggage.

OK. So I guess there's utility in

it. I wouldn't get into a taxi.

That's you know. No, thanks.

I'll walk. Yeah.

I'll take my bags and move. I think it comes down to there's

so many people out there that don't don't care.

Yeah, yeah. You know, they just see it as

something that gets them from point A to point B, and they don't care how ugly it is. And people just don't have taste

well. The.

The care. Factor I feel is always like I

don't really like care about cars or whatever.

You still buy something that's normal looking.

This is again going on to the gym thing like a hipstery choice in a way. Yeah.

I feel there's there's there is a choice in this.

Well, you'd have to. You'd have to walk into the

dealership in the 1st place like you're making that conscious decision. I'm going to go look at this

stomach. Dealership comes to you.

I'm knocking. On the door.

Yeah. Well, are they like Kirby vacuum

sales with like? Maybe they just targeted a bunch

of people with cataracts. If you find out like incidents

of cataracts with like people that bought the stomach and it's like 1 to one, it's like, Oh yeah.

But Jim, I'm actually with you on this one, though.

I think, I think people bought that car just to say something like that's it's such, it's a polarising vehicle to look at like it's, it's, it's. Up in life.

So while we've. Given up in life?

Yeah. Look, whatever they're saying,

I'm not interested in hearing it.

I'll tell you what. Yeah.

Sorry, sorry. Maybe.

Maybe it was a not so subtle way of saying.

Hey, separate bedroom at this point.

It was a cry for help it. Was a cry.

So what was that, Jim? I said maybe it was a subtle

sign to say I think we need separate bedrooms at this point.

Well, I mean, I mean, at that point, you, you know, if you're, if you're a devout Catholic, you're, you know, you, you've had so many kids, you need to put them somewhere like, OK, we definitely. And that'd be the final straw.

We're we're definitely have, you know, separate bedrooms.

Yeah. Because I, because I, I don't

want to have any more, anything more to do with this.

So yeah, look, I'm, I, I get all, all points of that.

But what we've got, we've got to pick, we've got to pick a, a demographic. So a final demographic.

So Jim's saying an Artesia, Rob's saying a person that's given up on life. Scotty's just like a blind

person, a blind person alum's like with cataracts.

So if you put them all together, you can, you can get, you can get some. There's your demographic.

There you go. You've said no.

You've said no to the Tarago, you said no to the to the Carnival, you've said no to the even the Grand Voyager.

There you go. That that that's your stomach

bio the right. You know what it is?

It's an it's an art teacher that's been teaching for 40 plus years and she's just, she's done.

She hates the kids. Like I mean with a passion.

She just goes in and just lets loose on these kids.

And she drives up because. She doesn't let the kids go to

the toilet. They're like missing.

No, no, no, no. She's like, you just went to the

toilet three hours ago, you're not going now.

She doesn't have any at home either.

And she bought. She's got, she's got 10 cats.

And she's bought this car because she just hates everybody at this point. She's like, she's like, you

know, I want to buy the most vile things so people don't want to see me coming and. She can take all the 10 cats to

the vet at once. Each of one seat does in the

basket every. She doesn't use the basket, she

just throws them in the van. Just.

The vet just covered it at here. Yeah, and fur.

Balls all she talks about. I'm I'm with her.

I'm, I'm, I'm with, I'm with Mavis.

I'm with you. I'm with you, Mavis.

Yeah, we've. You've been teaching for a long

time, Mavis. And I I get it.

I get your pain. She.

Quits like the family thruster. You know, National Lampoon's do

a dealership, 40 bucks, he comes out with that.

You think you hate it out, just wait till you're driving, he says, I think I think he says that is the one that that the guy uses now. Speaker staying with hideous

cars. I'm going to I'm going to give

you one that's a precursor, the Kia Tasman.

Who do you think is going to buy the Kia Tasman?

Because that is polarising to say the least, Rob.

Who's been hanging on to replace their Austin Tasman?

No one or a business manager or a business that wants one of their sales reps to leave the company.

Yeah, I I agree. Did you see how much you how

expensive it is too? It's like it's over 70 grand.

It's it's OK. I get that they're trying to be

different and and that's the whole, that's the whole idea.

But my God, like if the stomach's bad, I don't know what this is. This is this is not another one.

It's. It's 100% site managers for like

construction type businesses that are going green.

Yeah, OK. Yeah.

You'll be, you'll be the ones that would have normally gone for the Raptor just just because, you know, because it's what everyone goes for, but they're going to go for this instead and have all the attachments and stuff on it and it never goes off road or anything.

And he just goes up to the business sites and has a look and that's it. And off he goes.

For the the company newsletter they have a picture of him with a high vis vest on the hard hat. It'd be like, you know, Jim from

general man, like here from decisions.

Yeah, regional manager Jim here, you know.

Sorry, Jim, I'm using your name there.

It's totally unrelated, but just.

Yeah, as all the sites ensure safety is up to check and this and that. And immediately he throws a high

vis off. He throws a hard hat.

You know, he's just got his collared shirt.

That's nicely been impressed. Neil Gates.

Genie's Tasman too, while he's at it.

Yeah. He's got all the gear and no

idea as they would say that's that's a.

That this car won't be, you know, even be gone in two years or they're updated in two years. I think it'll be gone in two

years, Rob. I I think that it's going to be

such a sales flop. I mean, I could be wrong.

It could be like kind of like a cult classic, like a like APT cruiser, which is somehow, you know, it got cold status where, you know, they'd be like it's so ugly that, that I kind of want it. Yeah, that's a that's a that's a

tough one. It's a tough, it's a tough one.

Who's gonna buy it now? I I I'm in agrees with you, but

I also think it's hear me out. It's your, your mum wins the

Lotto and knows you've been trying, working so hard and, and you're, you're, you're an apprentice on an apprentice wage and you're driving a, you're currently driving like a mom's hand me down VY Commodore waggon with all your tools in the back of it. And the Arson's on the ground

and it's struggling and it's on it's last legs with 450,000 kilometres. And your mom knows you wanted

to, wanted to buy a Ute and she, she goes to, she goes to a few dealerships and they're, they're, they're all out of stock. But here there's like 6 in the

lot because nobody bought them. She's like, I want to get that.

And that's, that's the, and then she's like, look, son, I've, I've won the Lotto. You know, I'm, I'm going to, you

know, the boys are at work are going to make fun of your Commodore. Now here's your new Kia Tasman

son. And then he's going to be like,

the boys at work are going to make, make my life even worse.

So I think that's that's going to be your, your potential, your potential. It reminds me of that of the

meme with the kid and the mum and the kid goes, but in this instance the kid goes, I want to, I want a Ford Ranger, she goes, but we got a Ford Ranger at home and it's one of those.

It's the. It doesn't, yeah.

If my mum won the lottery and didn't get me a bloody Silverado or around 2500 mate, I'm getting disowned myself.

Well, she, she see my mum wouldn't say them and be like these American things are too big, but I know he wants a Ute and you know, key is a good brand.

They've been around for a while. You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna go

to go to care and and here, son, I've got this on a great deal on a you know, it's all paid in cash.

So the. Government might have some

sympathy and and scrap the utex on it as well because it's really an ugly you, so maybe they'll sell a few without the tax. Well, question, do you think

it's going to be here in, in the next two years?

That's the big question. No, no, Jim.

I think they will. It might because I think they

might decide to with a corporate facelift.

Yeah. That's what I was thinking.

It'll be around, but it's going to look different.

Right. I think they have to be quick to

bring in their hybrid version slash.

I think they've got EV on the plan as well for it, but the very least the hybrid and I think that'll keep them going if they just keep it as the diesel kind of system as it is, probably not. I think they're, they're too far

into it to back out now. Like they've invested way too

much money into, into this programme to, to kind of back out after two years. I mean, I mean, they're probably

looking at Mercedes with what they did with the X Class and said, well, then the Max house on there said what, 3-4 years?

And then they pulled, they pulled the pin.

So I think they're like, well, we can't do that.

We can't be a Mercedes X Class. We need to have a product that

we're going to have to just push.

It's kind of, it's kind of like the, it's going to be the AU Falcon of utes isn't it really? It's but they're getting the 80

Falcon sold, so that's that's a bit of a weird thing.

Hard to compete what's already out there.

And you? Compete with the Ranger.

But dude, it doesn't compete with the Chinese stuff like, you know, like the the BYD Shark 6 is is a far better vehicle, you know, and it's actually you know, and you're getting getting quite a quite a good, quite a good car for the for the money.

I don't know man, like. Yeah, like if if you're going to

have one of them, you might as well have the T MU F-150.

Correct. Yeah.

You know, like nice and easy. It looks the part like.

I don't know if it goes apart but.

Plus, if you want a fleet, you're not going to get a fleet of them. You just get the base model for

ranges and you get a whole bunch of them.

Yeah. It's way cheaper and easier than

getting a whole bunch of Casmans.

Yeah, and and I guess they don't have the the pedigree or the slash, you know, known reliability yet in that space.

So, yeah. But then again, they'll be like,

but the Chinese, we just come out with all these, all their cars. Yeah, that's because been priced

accordingly and they don't look like a toad.

So it's going to be, you know, it's going to be an interesting, interesting time for for Kia. I think.

I think they're I think they're too far in that they've just got to commit. They've got to be all in now.

Like that'd be, that'd be a buyer.

I can, yeah. But I definitely think they're

best finding ground if they're going to make it succeed will be in that hybrid to electric kind of range.

Yeah. Yeah.

And you're right. And maybe a corporate buyer

might buy if they throw in free servicing, free this, free that, guaranteed buy back after three years, they might sell a couple.

Yeah. Maybe what's the space A?

Fleet manager who already buys a lot of Kias and stuff might just kick the box and add that to the list as well.

Yeah, Yeah, that's an option, yeah.

They'll try flogging it off through your corporate lease plans through Maxi or something like that.

Yeah, they'll do you a special deal.

Who next one who bought a Volvo 850R?

So this is their hot, hot Volvo, you know the the turbocharged flying brick, the cool one that everyone remembers going around race tracks. But who bought that car,

especially in Australia, like who was who was The Who was the buyer for that car? Because you had to turn down

BMWM threes, you had to turn down C 36 AM GS.

You had to turn, you had to turn down a few other European stuff to buy A5 cylinder front wheel drive, manual waggon or or or.

Sedan. That's an easy 1, isn't it?

Well, you're going to say like graphic designers or Oh no.

It'd be sort of fairly very well off in a suburb, like a in a city suburb family of, you know, 2-3 kids where it's this second car that the wife drives and they've got a pretty good business going. OK, that's a fair.

I'm going to riff off that, Rob, and say, yeah, well, off Eastern European immigrants who were maybe looked out upon by some of the more luxury dealers and decide to take their money.

Oh. OK.

Yeah, you know, see, I. Like more Aussies?

Yeah, I've seen a couple of my fair share of, we'll call it.

Yeah, well, Eastern Europeans would be the nice word driving these around, but then again, they could have been second earnest. My first was sinking the die

hard touring car people because I guess even during that during that era of touring cars, even Aussies were out there buying new Fords and Holdens and that's what was pushing those brands big time. And I was thinking those kind of

people watching this waggon hammering around and racing, not sure if it was televised much because it was mainly in the British touring cars. So I'm not sure in Australia if

it was televised or if they were able to see much of it back then, but I was kind of leaning towards that.

But then Rob brings up a pretty good point too, where it's more of because it is a waggon, but it's like top of the range waggon. It's going to be not the guy's

car, it's going to be the woman's car.

Because it kind of reminds me that I've seen previously is the the male that makes all the all the money, I guess sounding sexist as. But anyway, he buys the wife a

car, but doesn't buy like the base model version of something.

He always gets the Top Model of something, but it's a practical version of it. So it's not going to be a 2 door

M3 or anything. It's going to be the four door

M5 or the M5 touring or something instead.

You know, it's not going to be Yeah.

So I feel like, yeah, we need a waggon, we need the room for the kids. He's got his own sports car, the

BMW M3, that he drives to work, and this is what she gets.

Yeah, I don't mind that one, Jim.

I was thinking that might be purchased by a chiropractor who's just moved into a suburb. It like, oh, I don't know, maybe

Brighton or something. And there Mrs Is the president

of the private school Parents and Friends Council.

Yeah, yeah. And.

Need something to show off because she's fallen a little bit behind in the currency with her friends.

Yeah, I, I, I think that's a good one.

Yeah. She's she's she's head of the

parents of friends. She's on school council.

Yeah, I'm, I'm, yeah, I'm all the board and all the board with that. Yeah.

Thinking out like the people that bought those cars new, because I got a friend who who bought AC-70 convertible recently, like a 2000 and one C70 convertible 5 cylinder turbo thing off the original owners in BRAT and you know, and they've had it since new and, you know, they were, you know, quite well to do massive powers, etcetera. You know, and they're and

they're like full car was really well looked after and they were that very much that type of they finished their their their words with an extra syllable kind of kind of people, you know, they they they're you know, they're they're a bit more they they look down at us northern northern folk.

So yeah, it was it was I can see that they're the people that people that probably would have bought would have bought that car brand new. Yeah, I think that I think

that's AI think that's a good, good guess.

Now my last one for this evening before we get to the quiz is, you know, I'm not having a go at you Alan, but who bought a Suzuki SX4 brand new? And I know your parents did.

Yep. But besides your parents, who

were they? Who was that car marketed

towards? Because it it was not a good

crossover. It was not a good hatchback.

It was just a car that didn't really fit in any category.

And I don't know who would have bought that car over, I don't know, you know, a Corolla or a Mazda 3.

Well. My great aunt also bought one,

although she lives in in Texas and she is a Catholic convert, but she only goes to Mass in Latin and she'd driven her last car into the ground and needs something.

I think it was to do like the three hour return trip to get to church. And so that was just convenient

and she couldn't care less about what it was as long as it went.

And I think that's I think that's the way that came out of her mouth. So that's very.

Important. It's an auntie's car.

It is. It is such an auntie's car.

You're absolutely right. It is absolutely Auntie's car.

It, it gives you that it's, it's this is a crossword feel of it's high up enough that it kind of lets you feel like you're not sitting low to the ground. And you can, as my parents

describe it, you can just slide into it rather than have to sit, you know, or climb, which especially as you get older, you know, that starts to matter. Hopefully that doesn't matter

for me. But, you know, you're my kid.

It already matters. But yeah, so it's because I

guess the seat's so close to hip level, it really helps out there. And then, you know, it's not so

large that, you know, especially given it's era of no cameras, that sort of thing, it's difficult to park.

And while you're foregoing kind of any other benefit, you know, you're losing the rest of the benefits from the SUV of the large size of storage capacity. You know, you're basically

trading that off for good parking ability.

And then you're trading away everything from, you know, a sedan or something smaller as well with the extra weight.

You're kind of trading all those for that little, little benefit.

And I guess it's worth it for those people.

It was worth it for my mom. She's very happy.

She misses that car sometimes. She's like, I want my car back.

Tell your friend Nathan I want it back.

For me, this car to use, like you said, Scotty, definitely an auntie's car, definitely a person's, you know, a person like that who wants something easy to get in.

For me, it's a person's last car they bought.

It's like, you know, your kids are gone.

You're a grandparent, you downsize your home.

You don't you or, or you're recently widowed and, and you've, and you've, you know, you want to get rid of the big old bends that's in the, it's in the garage.

So you move that on and you want something small that's easy to park and easy to get in your garage.

And it's, you know, easy to sit in, you know, because because you can just slide into the car yields, as you said, you don't have to like hop down or hop up into it to slide across.

You know, I think that people, you know, these, these particularly, particularly women, I'm not, I'm not being having a go or anything, but I think that would have found this car, you know, really good value, plenty of cup holders, plenty of this, plenty of that slide into it.

Easy to go cheap, cheap to run, cheap or cheap ish to run because they were quite heavy on fuel, but cheap to fix because it's a Suzuki, you know, and just as a last car, like, you know, it's, it's a car that ends up with your in your estate and it goes to the local guy that sells that's using it for Uber eats as an Uber eats car. That's where it meets us.

Device, it initially goes to your grandkids and like I don't want this shit. It's funny you say that as like

the last car, because obviously they don't sell the FX4 anymore.

Yeah, I feel like in a lot of ways the Subaru XV has kind of picked up that mantle. Yeah.

Because like the amount of, especially when I lived in Canberra, nearly, I'd say 90% of the old people I saw were driving those. Yeah, I'd agree.

With that, and they're very much, I'm not saying they're on their last car, but if anyone's gonna be on their last car, it's probably them. Yeah.

It was just that easy to get into kind of that big enough to, you know, make things easier and then also not too big that you're you're crashing into people because you're already going to do that in parking lots.

Yeah. What I really wonder though is

who bought the SX4 as a sedan? Yeah, they did have a sedan

version of that. You are absolutely right.

Like sociopaths. Well, there you go.

And there you go, Jim. There's your answer.

Now. That's your.

I feel that's pretty no no. That being said, I've never met

anyone that bought an SX4 sedan so I could be wrong, but that'll be my guess. Just starting out.

Well, that is. That's tonight's rendition of

Who bought that? Tonight's rendition of alum

insulting people that bought cars.

Cars, yeah. Well, I mean, that's the you

kind of, you kind of, you kind of have to, it's not discriminate, but discriminate because there's a time of people that bought their car, like essentially like, you know, you're not, you're not saying you know who, who, who didn't buy the car. Like, yeah, that's the

demographic. That's, you know, it's like,

it's like whenever the time I see like, you know, you know, old people driving a Ford Fairlane or something, or an Ltd or a cow or a Caprice, that's, that's the demographic right there. They didn't need a big car, but

they've got one and they're like 105 years old.

They're still driving. And the and the edges of the

bumpers are so scratched up because the cars are so long they can't see the edges of it. But that's the demographic you

bought. Yeah, You let me know, Sir.

You, you, you kind of hit that car on the way and he's like, huh, Drive off. Well, actually I'll, I'll make a

disclaimer on that. The Ek I got, that's what

happened to it towards the end of its life as its last owner, every corner was really scratched and his son said, dad, please put a camera in. So I was reversing camera in but

the last owner drove until he was 98 so.

That's impressive. That's that's, that's, that's a

good innings to to be driving a cartel.

Yeah, yeah, I, I again, I feel bad for anyone that was in parking lots with them because the Lord knows that didn't happen at home. So I think we've established the

people that have that have bought these cars new.

Now if you guys had the pick one to to own out of out of the list that we've covered today. So let's let's cover them, the

Lexan, the A50R, the Essex 4, the Stavic, the Musso and the Kia Tasman. What would you guys have if you

had to pick 1A? 50 RA. 50R Scotty.

Yeah, same. Yeah, Rob.

Geez, the Lexan. Lexan, Jim.

I reckon I'd buy the Stavic and then go to Sakura and just watch all the hate I get. Yes.

At your own club, even if it's just one member you.

Yeah. Because I hate them too.

But you know, might as well steer the part.

Absolutely. The So Good, the founding and

only member of the Sangyong Static Appreciation Society.

But it'll be, it'll be a stabbing gate, whereas I had, I had laser gate earlier this year.

But we'll do it. We'll talk about that.

Yeah, Nah. But anyway, can we can we all

buy a stabbing? Can we just go in and buy a

stabbing and just bring it to secorific thing next year?

Like just and I want to see the look of that guy's face when I drive in. Hey, it's Asian mate.

Like you know, you didn't let me in last year with my laser almost. You know you're not going to

you're going to let me in with this.

You want to put the Mercedes badges on it first too?

Absolutely. AMG badges too.

It's an AMG. Imagine that there's an M156 out

of AC 63. You know, 6.2 in a stabic.

That'd be that'd be something cool.

Yeah, I was going to say put the C63 badge on as well.

Why not? Why not?

Well, they did do an R63 so you know the R class that are that are the big waggon. That'll be kind of you people.

They didn't R 63. So so that is you could put it

R63 AMG badge on it. That would be funny.

But anyway, it is time for the Car Talk car quiz made by Mr Scotty Doe Johnson. So we've got four players, Jim,

Rob, myself and Alan, Scotty Doe, the floor is yours.

I'll say that Maddie's already bribed me so.

Yeah. He already knows all the

answers, just so you know. I will say, Jim, you're, you're

well versed in the rules of the game.

I was going to explain to you the rules, but I think you know the rules. Yeah, Jim, no shenanigans are.

Right. No shenanigans.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to buzz in with your

name. So you can you say, you guys say

Jim and then you know, you know, obviously Scotty will, will, will will hear whoever calls 1st.

And if you've called, you'll, you'll be first to to give an answer if, if it's wrong, everyone else gets to go.

And then it's up to the quiz master if he chooses to, I guess, you know, let everybody back in if it's a, if it's a tight question, but. And I'll do my best to not do an

Ed Bunting impression as well. Yeah, and then we'll, we'll,

we'll have. Well, look, my goldfish's cat

bought it new. And then my, you know, it was

this, this, this, I'm pretty sure.

Talking about Australian delivery or oh boy.

Poor Red Noddy to defend. Himself, he's not even to defend

himself. Sucker.

Do I love you guys? You guys love me.

Live every Tuesday. All right, Scotty down.

Take it away. It's a good mix of just some

random questions with some motorsport questions and stuff.

And then to finish it off, I got a brochure question.

Lovely, lovely all. Right question #1 An F1 driver

used the pseudonym Franz Herman. Who was it?

Franz Herman. Yeah, it's just recent been

popping up everywhere. Rob, Rob.

Rob. Rob, Rob, Rob.

Max Verstappen. Correct.

Now this happened at the Nurburg Ring.

What Car was he testing? Oh, the Lego car.

Matthew, I'm going to say he was in a.

Car the the. The reason why he changed his

name because he was in a car that he shouldn't have been in.

So I want to say he was testing a a BMW3M3 or something.

No, Alan, you're on the you're. On the right.

Track as in thinking of a. Different kind of manufacturer

car, Alan. I reckon he was testing some

kind of Ferrari, yeah. Can I get half point?

For it, I'll give you half a point.

Yeah, .5. Yeah.

So Jim and I think. Rob's still got a chance to to.

Answer. I'm stumped.

Yep, you're you're out. So it's a Ferrari?

Or some description, Rob, I don't know which model, got no idea. Well, it's not a model that you

can just buy off the shelf or anything.

It's a 296GT3 race car. So he just, he flew in, went

down a full tank of gas, went around, did one lap and got like a lap record and then just left. Of course he did.

That's what. He did so See, if that was me, I

would have changed. My name to Phil in.

That would that would, that would be, that would be my name question #2 the 2025 Cooper. Tavascan, I hope I say that

right. Tavascan got four stars on the

ANCAT rating. What was it missing to get 5

stars? It was missing a feature which

made it not get 5 stars. Lane departure warning Matthew

Lane. Departure warning?

No, it's going to be one of those wanky little things that that all new cars have to have and what I call them warnings.

For rest, rest break. Warning.

Not one of those, Jim. Jim Yeah.

Was it speed? Sign recognition.

Yeah, it was. Yeah, really.

Speed sign. Recognition didn't have that.

That's a. Safety feature, Yes, now.

Geez, I mean. We've discussed this.

My. DMX one occasionally says 130

and I'm like I don't know what you saw that sign but if the car says if the car says it I. Guess go check Jim.

And Rob are winning on one element. .5 myself I get the

score 3 *** tell me the the manufacturer.

Who made the naked? Oh, Matthew.

Matthew, OH. It's a Japanese car.

Was it? Daihatsu.

So what's it was a Daihatsu naked?

The the Japanese do not get the English language at all, do you think? Let's be honest.

So good. Yeah, it was.

Succeeded. By the Daihatsu streaker, you're

an idiot. All right, for engine code nerds

out there. What's the engine code for the

BMW E46 M3? Matthew.

Matthew. That would be.

The S. 50 SS 54 S 54, correct. I was going to get S 52 but.

I think that was the E36 so so I'm not sure I just remember S 54 we're. Going to move into a couple more

motorsport questions. Question #5 Which F1 driver was

recently sacked? Matthew.

Matthew, just I think. I think I heard Rob before I

heard said my name. Oh, did you?

Give it to Rob. Yeah, OK, doing.

Yes, it was. Jack doing, he's not doing too

well. So you did that?

Yeah. Well done.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well done. Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thanks for that, Maddie. Yeah, it's all good, mate.

I I. I want to win fair and.

Square, because Alan will will inquire.

I would have called shenanigans on that one.

Yeah, there you. Go.

You would have called it too. Question #6 The supercars.

Raced on the weekend. What track?

Matthew? Yeah, Matthew I.

Think. Were they in pukukoi overseas?

It's the name of the track. Probably the name of the track,

but it. Was it wasn't in Pukukoi?

Though was it? I don't think this track is in.

New Zealand. No, OK, I'm out.

I thought. I thought they did new.

Zealand recently. Not the name of the track, but.

Yeah, I I don't think it is. Missed it on the news?

Didn't get to hear about it. That's the thing, supercars.

There isn't much about it anymore, not nothing like you.

You barely hear about it at all. And I used to be.

Obsessed with it now. I don't know.

Yeah, no, nothing. The track is definitely

Australia. I know where it is.

Let's closest state or I say QLD.

No column, I say. Tasmania.

It's Tasmania, but what's the? Name of the track.

I'll take a closest state. I agree to that.

I'll give you a .5. Done.

I'm living on these point fires, does anyone want to?

Say what the track is that's in Tasmania.

It's as soon as you say I'm going to be like you idiot, how did you not? Remember, it's not.

It's like it's not MEC Park. Or I don't even think they race

in Ormond Park name I think. Ormond Park's gone.

I'm gone. Yeah, it's closed.

That's in New South Wales. MEC Parks is.

SA Mount Cambier, been passed it several times. 2 words wheel

out. Out, yeah.

Women's planes. Oh.

Simmons Planes. That's where they were at.

Yeah, I know I'm a tough one because I mean, you don't hear about that very. Often.

And I thought it'd be a tough question and I just wanted to go to show that supercars ain't popular anymore.

Yeah, yeah. It's a shame.

You need to do something they do.

And here's. One's for us.

It'll be. Their hype man.

Racing or something? They've got to do homework.

At cars again. They've got to, They've got to.

You know, make it interesting because it's just been, I mean, they've dropped the touring car name because they're not even.

Touring cars. Touring cars?

Yeah, they're not. They're bespoke, yeah.

It's trash, yeah. So they should.

Get like you know? C60.

Threes and M Threes and and just put roll cages in them and and go for it. Yeah, that'd be great.

Would be fun to watch, yeah. All right.

Question #7. The first.

Chevy Camaro to come off the factory line was which colour?

I'm going to go for it, Rob. No black.

You'd be all right. Yep.

It. Was black.

Well done you champion. My guess would have been blue,

yeah. What is it?

A blow? I guess.

Yellow. Is that a white?

Black, white or yellow? One of those I was going to.

Say blue with a white stripe, but that's a.

Question #8. What auto brand?

'S name is an Italian acronym. Auto brand's name is an Italian

acronym. Is this like a?

Car manufacturer's name, huh? Yep, it's a car manufacturer.

Italian. Itself, you'd say.

OK, so. Matthew, Matthew, is it Fiat?

It is. It's Fiat.

Fiat is an acronym. I did not know that.

There you go. No, neither did I.

If you have a look and type in Fiat.

Acronym. It says that it's it's Italian.

I'm not even gonna bother but yeah, you can do your search and have a look. Fix it again, Tony.

That's what I. But yeah, I didn't know that.

Fiat is an acronym. Question #9 Mr Ralph Teeter was

a blind mechanical engineer who created this car feature.

What is it? Oh, Matthew, Matthew.

That's. Cruise control, isn't it?

Yes, it is. I.

Remember reading that? That's the guy that was blind.

Did cruise control. I'm like, well, at least you

wouldn't see what was going to hit him if that's if that's the case, pretty clever of him, I must say.

Very just kind of. Bring up a question just so I

can read it, because it's a brochure question.

Blank is the blank for the driver, who is a bit of a purist at heart. Your first glance will tell you

this is no ordinary family car. Alloy mag wheels, flared

skirting and front and rear spoilers give a hint of the performance capabilities of blank.

Under the bonnet you'll find the famous blank 2.6 litre astron 2

ohc engine with eci fuel injection that adds a lot of excitement to every drive. Matthew, Matthew Magna elante.

It is the. Elante that.

Was it the engine that kind of gave it away?

It was. Because like because.

The skirts and stuff only came on the.

Alante So I was like, I was like, oh, that's yeah, that shows how sad I am that I know what Magnus came with skirts and stuff. It's no Wi-Fi as well, but it's

good. It says like I was getting to it

goes Mitsubishi. Balance shaft technology

delivers smooth flowing power and amazing level of quietness.

Mitsubishi's balance shaft technology is so good it's used under licence by Porsche in their 944 range.

Did they know that? No.

Now Jim, you're the last person on this show to have driven a a first Gen Magna engine. Smoothness.

Yay or nay? Yeah.

Next question Yeah, no, to be fair, like it is Carby fed too the last one I drove so yeah, yeah, but.

The I mean, I mean Porsche. Has taken it off them they're

they're Pandit Mr Andrew was worth you know that that question is for you I think and I'm hopefully we did you proud on on Car Talk so that's the quiz Scotty that is the quiz how. How'd we go?

How much did you win by 5? I don't want to brag, but.

Jim and Allen on on. One Rob on three and myself on

five tonight. Rob's just shaking his head.

Everyone's just called someone. We can't even call it

shenanigans. No, we can't.

Nothing you're not. You're not sitting.

Next to him to. Call it shenanigans.

I know. Yeah, I know there's.

I did say at the beginning that he bribed me.

So I did. You know I, I said to him.

Look. You know, I, I want to put a

good impression for Jim, who's first time on the show.

I want him to to see my prowess in his pure dominance, pure dominance of the quiz. Used to know it all.

I wanted to. Show him that I'm the alpha.

So there. There you go.

Jim, you've you've heard about the collusion on the on the show. You've seen it first hand.

Now you can, you can now yell at your your your radio when you're hearing this one back. You, you'd be like you bastards.

It was all collusion. It was all this all bloody

collusion. Well, you've got first hand.

I didn't understand. Yeah, first hand of it.

It's absolutely. You've.

Done is combined. Our scores, Ellen.

You and I and we would have been a draw.

That's true. Let's do that.

Yeah, Dad, I'll, I'll. Taskmaster, yes.

I'll, I'll take the, I'll take the.

Draw. I'll take the draw.

I think that's a podcast, gentlemen.

Yep, that was a lot of fun, Jim. Great to.

Have you on board for tonight? Man, did you enjoy yourself?

Oh, I had so much fun. Way cheaper than therapy.

Yeah. It's it's free mate.

I'm glad that you're more than welcome on anytime.

Good to have you on. Glad it's again good to have our

listeners on the show. You know, we've got a few more

guests coming on in the next few weeks.

We've got a, we've got a new, we've got a guest coming on from Clutch Industries who works for Uni Clutch next week.

We work in the industry. So we're going to find out about

him and his product. He wanted to to discuss his

product, so we're going to have him on the show.

Give us some free clutches. I'll let him know if they would.

Yeah, but absolutely, I'll, I'll dump the clutch a few times and then. If they if they ask, they'll

yeah, yeah. Just just make sure he offers

lifetime warranties. How good is this?

Clutch Yeah, well, yeah, it's pretty good.

It's it's truck test. It isn't now.

Oh man, I'll be the I'll be the judge of that.

Speaking of. Of uni.

Clutch. Actually there was.

When was it? A couple years ago, You know,

Moti video? Yeah, they did a whole thing on

the UNI Clutch. It's really cool.

YouTube video, they're actually. Very.

Good. The whole kit that comes with

and the way it's packaged and everything, the way you can pick and choose the bits and pieces that you want to make it.

Well, uni as in Universal, yeah. And that's what keeps the costs

down and up to yeah. Pretty good.

So yeah, it's. Very interesting.

So I hope people tune in for that one.

Yeah, absolutely. It's it's it's definitely good

listening so. We'll see.

His name is Julian Petain. We'll be discussing with him

next week on the show. Again, thank you Jim for coming

on the show. Yep, thanks.

It was so much fun. Really enjoyed it.

My discussion was great too. Thank you gentlemen for us.

As always, let's do some plugs. Scotty's golf tip of the week

Golf tip of the week is tempo. Work on that tempo, A lot of

people will. Go.

Really, really quick with their swings.

Or they might do a slow up swing and then really fast.

Just keep a nice tempo. It's no different than when

you're playing the piano. You got the metronome, the

tempo, the temper that comes after.

Oh, that comes after you miss it.

Yeah, tempo first, then temper. After Yeah.

That sounds about right. Yeah.

I I. I like that.

I'm gonna take that into consideration, Jim, as a listener of the show, I, I'm gonna ask you, yeah, 'cause you know, you know, our listeners don't come on very often.

Could you reckon you could be a good golfer after listening to all these these golf tips? You know, the golf tip of the

week potentially 'cause last time I tried.

Golf in front of the Nets I managed to completely miss the net and almost hit somebody that was walking past so hopefully I would so well subconsciously subconsciously you're.

Aiming for that person. So good shot.

Yeah, yeah, True, true. They.

Were driving a late. Night as Mercedes, another good

one. So yeah, it's probably fair

Rob's doing it. He's doing everything.

Firefighting, electrical panel beating, painless dent removal.

Well, what else did we say you were doing tonight?

We we said something to start watching.

We'll call it scope. Oh, yeah, yeah.

But. Ball scoping so.

I would have to use you once I cannot get this bloody spanner out of my door. Ball scope and if things look

rough, even an interscope. We'll do it all.

We're all there to watch. That one, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, now. Moving on, moving swiftly on.

Thank you very much. LMD if you'd like to lock

yourself in with. An EV and then get buyer's.

Remorse a few weeks later when a new EV comes out.

Yeah, our good friend Rizzy [email protected] dot AU, also

found on Facebook on facebook.com/carloop AU.

He's a man in the know when it comes to electric car space in Australia. And you know what?

He might let you know that it might be a better time to wait or buy, depending on what's coming out.

Because you can. If it's coming to Australia, you

can bet he's been in it, he's tried it out.

He can let you know what's real. What's the real deal?

Probably can't be on the show. Yeah, he's gonna.

He just can't see in a new. One, because they're just

flying. Out the doors.

That's it, everywhere. We're gonna we're gonna get him

on in the next few weeks because I.

I spoke to him the other day. He's been in Shanghai for like

the last, you know, month and a half testing all the new cars.

He's like, you wait and see what's coming.

It's gonna, the market's gonna be a big shake up.

So the legacy brands that we know and try and love might not be here in a few years. Let's just put it that way.

From what he's saying, yeah, he's also the main in the know when it comes to. New car pricing so hit him up

before you buy. Make sure you don't pay too

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Were there videos after that? No, I'm, I'm filming, well, the

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I'll be filming that now. So that'll so.

So as soon as, as soon as we get the spanner out of the door, you'll be looking. Forward to a lovely MR2 ASMR so

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