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Welcome to Car Talk.

It's Tuesday night here in 98.9, Northwest FM.

It's me, Matty J, in the studio.

By myself tonight, no Alan here.

But online with Mr. Scottie Doe-Johnson,

Mr. Edward Bunting, and Mr. David Bunting,

and Mr. David Bunting, and Mr. David Bunting,

and Mr. David Bunting.

Mr. Edward Bunting and Mr. David Prince,

how are you gentlemen?

Very well, thank you.

Hello everyone, yes, good.

Hello, doing well, thank you.

It's good to see you guys.

How are you, Matthew?

I'm doing very well, thank you, Edward Bunting.

Very good, it's good.

Good to hear.

I'm doing very, very well.

As good as I can be, Edward.

As good as I can be.

Good as I can be, good.

So yeah, that's always good.

Let's crack on with some car updates.

Edward Bunting, it's been a while since we've seen you.

Yeah, a couple of weeks.

You've been in the abyss.

Yeah, been on on Tuesday nights,

but car updates, where were we last time?

I sold a few things.

I don't think I've been on since I sold a few things.

So the Ford Focus, the little 33,000K hatch,

went on car sales, I put that on,

and marketplace.

The first couple of days, nothing,

very quiet, and I thought,

I might have this for a while.

And then all of a sudden, bang, bang, bang,

a few decent inquiries came through

all in one hit from both mediums,

and a bit of Facebook.

And yeah, first to see, we'll buy, you know,

guy from the country bought that as his little run around.

And I actually drove it down to sort of Seaford

and met him there near his relative's house

and handed it over and got the train home.

Oh well.

The only problem was,

slightly before that I'd been at the wrecker

getting a grill for the CRV

that is currently in stock.

And so I was carrying this big grill

and my friends were laughing at me

when I was talking to them on the phone,

like, so you're traipsing around Seaford Station

with a grill in your hand.

I'm like, that's right.

Yeah.

Probably didn't look at a place, I'm guessing.

Probably didn't look at a place in Seaford.

You know, that's how they roll.

Was that one of the fancy new stations?

No, this is a very old station.

Oh, okay.

No, very old school, but nice.

I like the amenities there.

There was a cafe nearby that I did dine at

to getting on the train.

So I sold the Focus.

The next day I sold the Kia Rio that I had in stock,

the little 17 Rio with 35Ks on it.

That was very fortuitous.

I really, I had a couple of inquiries on that,

but not as much as the Focus.

And the guy that rang me up on that,

he had the exact same car that had just been written off

and he's just replacing it.

Oh really?

Except he's done double the Ks

and so that worked out quite nicely.

I was like, yep, you can have it.

What else did I have floating around?

Well, the CR-V has been...

We've talked about that, I think, on another podcast.

So I'm driving around in that.

Currently it's had a new windscreen in it.

The Wasp Varada has had both

rocker cover gaskets done and the distributor seal done.

It's had a wheel alignment.

It's had a new windscreen yesterday.

So it is looking, and I gave it a wash,

it's looking pretty good.

Pretty good.

It has developed, I think, a leak

from the left-hand steering rack boot.

So we'll see how we go with that.

It might need some more surgery before it gets a roadworthy.

I just was like, oh, I'm in so deep with this thing now.

I just have to keep going.

You can't stop now.

I drove the Mooc.

Oh, that had its new fuel pump fitted away

by my Mooc friend.

So I paid him some money to come and do that.

So I drove that on the weekend in sunshine.

So that's, you know,

driving as well as it ever did.

However, it is leaking

reasonably from,

I think it's the rear main seal

because it's coming out of the hole in the bottom of the gearbox

and the rear main seal is the only seal up above that.

So, yeah, the Mooc guy had to look at that

because there was a little puddle on the ground

and I was like, oh, it doesn't usually do that.

But it is now.

So I was hoping taking it for a drive

would sort of, you know, reseal the seal

and you wouldn't need to pull the motor and gearbox out.

But yeah, it's like you can still drive it.

It's just got a half decent leak.

So it's joining some of my other cars

that have got half decent leaks.

Leaky friends.

As you say, David Prince.

Safety feature.

Anyway, that's that.

I still haven't pulled the petrol tank

send unit out of the Merc Coupe.

I've just been dealing with these other things,

but I'll get to that this week, I think.

And the and the wasp will go in to have its rear bumper

and mirror caps painted this week as well.

Maybe tomorrow morning I'll drop that off.

Yellow.

In Lalo.

I did put the said grill from the 29th

that it was carrying on to the CR-V.

Replace the front fog light on the CR-V

with the one I got from the Wrecker.

Oh, what else?

I think that's it for car news.

Actually, another box of parts arrived for that today.

Another three parts.

I thought that all were what you picked up the other day.

Wow.

But another box arrived with, I think,

Swayba Link.

Well, I'll be needing those, David.

I'll be dropping them in tomorrow, Edward.

Oh, thank you so much.

You're coming past anyway.

I'll be in the area.

Oh, good, good.

Okay, thank you.

Was that from Rock Auto, David?

It was.

I had a delivery from Rock Auto this morning as well.

Our new best friends.

They've always been good friends.

I know.

Love it.

I did a job for a workshop even more than the other day,

and they had a Lexus SC430 in.

Oh, yeah.

Electric hardtop roof thing that looked a bit like a bloated

Porsche Boxer.

I remember them.

And he said, oh, you know, the guy wanted the seats done in

this car.

I said, oh, yeah, that's fine.

I can do that.

He said, he's throwing some money at it.

I've just given him a bill for eight grand.

Oh, and he's doing that.

I said, all the bush has gone.

Everything's gone.

You know, there's so hard to find bits for.

I said, have you ever tried a place called Rock Auto?

I don't know what you're talking about.

I don't buy parts from America.

You know, I don't want to do that.

They'll be the wrong person.

They sell in America compared to here.

I mean, they saw bucket loads over there.

So I said, oh, yeah, that's up to you.

Oh, no, so and so from Petters source me something

and rather than the worst, you know,

so yeah, I just thought, okay.

Who is this, this customer?

Oh, we'll remain unknown moment.

But but yeah, I, it's, it's not worth, you know,

what's that expression casting pills before swine?

You know, like, it's just, yeah, yeah.

We know that we know where to go here.

I advise and educate people the right thing to do.

And but at least some people don't want to be educated.

So that's all right.

Hey, more.

Yep.

Lucky.

I mean, it's all, but also too, like, you know,

I suppose, gentlemen, we're kind of in the fray.

Like, like what we, we know where we can,

we know where we can get, you know,

decent pricing from and how to get parts.

But like, but there's some, there's some mechanics

that just like, like, I can't get it.

Sorry, mate. Can't do it.

Yeah.

Can't get it.

Can't do it.

Am I pretty?

That's what we said.

I can't do it.

Yeah.

Covid.

What was it?

Covid.

I can't.

It's the line.

That's the line I get.

So yeah.

But anyway.

So yeah.

So that that's your car updates.

That's me.

Yeah.

No more for me.

We also joined by Rob's die.

How are you Rob?

Rob.

How are we all?

Good.

Thank you.

With the CEO.

We just started car updates.

David Prince updates with you.

Okay.

Get this right.

Okay.

We're getting this.

Yes.

So Ed's seen it.

I don't know any of you.

Others have seen it.

I had my garage in 85 under a cord hatchback.

Belonged to a good friend of mine.

We found a new car.

I've been offered to help get rid of the other one.

So I thought I'd better check that for a road worthy.

That car has is 40 years old.

It's done 105,000 K's for road worthy.

It needs wiper blades.

A clutch rubber.

On the pedal.

Yeah.

A rubber on the clutch pedal.

Yeah.

Oh, damn.

One more thing.

What was the other thing?

One more thing.

It comes to me.

One more thing.

So insignificant.

It's ridiculous.

Wow.

And an engine wash because they recommend doing the

rocket cup, the sump and the dizzy seal.

That's fine.

They're simple.

Yeah.

I could also then paint the rocket cover.

But how is that for a 40 year old car?

Also, I recommend doing it, but you didn't have to do those.

No, no.

They didn't have to do it for a road worthy.

But they'd want the engine washed out.

I can tell that there is an oil leak somewhere.

But obviously they're leaking oil on the ground.

No, no.

It's a safety feature.

That is very good.

I mean, it's been very well serviced that carpet.

As we know, servicing doesn't equate to being road worthy

necessarily.

Correct.

So they've just given me the report.

Yeah.

And it's three items that are required for road.

Oh, damn.

I'll have to look up on my phone in a sec.

What the other one was.

But, but yeah, I just thought that was nuts.

Yeah.

Yes.

I was already to, you know, bang on a rock order

again and try and find if they've got anything for 85

which is going to get it will be.

Yeah.

But yeah, I thought that was pretty impressive.

Very impressive.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

That's, that's, that's remarkable.

I don't know what the, what the thing for what the

regulation around the age of ties is.

I think they're about seven years old.

The tires on this.

Oh, that's fine.

That's fine.

Yeah.

And of course they've done no case.

You know, it's only done 105 in 40 years.

So, um, yeah.

So yeah, I thought that was pretty cool.

I thought.

But still no, no sale on that car yet through the.

No, no, no.

We've still, still in.

But, you know, I said, well, look, I'll check and

find out what it needs.

Yeah.

And, and just so we were four armed as four

warned, you know, then we know what we've got to do.

Yeah.

So when I picked up the 88 accord from the

neighbor's garage, I mentioned that one.

That's, that's gone to have that have the

work done on that.

We would.

That's also a rock order.

Because I sold a gazillion of them over there.

Is that running?

Not yet.

No, no.

There's a couple of cars ahead of it.

But it's, it's, it's in the, in the queue.

Okay.

Cover.

That's the main thing.

But, um, but because that we extracted the car out of

that garage, that I had some lovely garage space.

So I negotiated to have two cars in there.

I was in there.

One for two.

Uh, so the Grand Prix Civic is in there and the N1.

Cause they were the easiest to sort of pop over there.

But unfortunately they're not all in there.

And I didn't have access to the garage.

So, um, now the accord's been dropped down to,

cause the 85 accord was in the garage.

So now that's been was going down on Monday on Sunday

afternoon.

I saw my neighbor was at the house.

So I quickly messaged him and said, Oh, you know,

I should get those cars out of your garage.

He said, Oh, no, hurry at all.

I said, Oh, well, can I, he said,

I can leave them here as long as you like.

We don't need the garage.

And I thought, Oh, oh, oh.

And then I thought, I missed the N1.

I want to drive the N1.

You know, you need a key to the garage.

Just get a key.

I haven't got a key to the garage.

Why won't they give you a key?

You met them.

Security.

Security is very important.

Oh, of course.

Is it okay if I just get one out and leave one in there?

He said, yeah, no problem at all.

So he used the key.

Open the garage.

I got the N1 back into my garage.

Yes.

So now I've got it back and all is right with the world.

The world feels a better place.

If I want to take the Grand Prix for a fang,

we've got to wait for the planets to align.

Correct.

But they will.

They will.

I mean, he's there most weekends and he said,

anytime just ring me and I'll come over and,

and he's in the same sub of probably,

you know, for two, five minutes away.

That.

Oh, okay.

But yeah, I mean, I don't want to just,

you know, disturb it anytime, but there could be,

you know, if there's a chance of a long term,

long term rental is what you need there.

Correct.

Anyway, so that's good.

Oh, and I was working at a Eastern dealer in the eastern suburbs

today at the Honda dealer, Eastern Honda.

And I was working on a car, which was actually a cherry,

which is a bit of concerning.

They're now cherry Doncaster as well as Eastern Honda.

So I was working on this cherry and this guy came

and said, oh, what are you doing?

Mechanic guy, Asian fellow.

I thought incorrectly that he was Chinese because I said,

oh, you're cherry tech.

He said, oh, no, no, no, no, Honda Honda tech.

I said, he said, I'm Japanese.

I worked at Honda in Japan.

Oh, wow.

Did you really?

He said, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So he said, I love Australia and I've come

and I've found this job.

And I said, oh, you know, do you like Honda?

Oh, I love Honda.

I said, what do you have?

Do you have a Honda?

He said, oh, yes.

And he has a first gen Civic RS.

Oh, wow.

And so he showed me all the photos of his dark metallic green

first gen Civic RS with a boot.

Two door with a boot.

That's a special car.

That's a really interesting car.

Serious, serious one.

And I said, oh, I have, I have a Honda.

I have, well, I have a few Hondas.

I said, he said, oh, really?

I'd love to see them.

I said, this could take a while.

Yeah.

I just started scrolling.

Yeah, there was lots of sagoy going on.

It was, it was very.

Oh, yeah.

It was, it was a very funny.

He liked your Hondas.

He did.

He was very impressed.

And I saw the N1 and the, and the scam together.

His eyes nearly popped out of his head.

It was, it was funny.

He didn't put this with what was in the phone.

You know, it didn't sort of figure that.

Well, you wouldn't.

I mean, you're driving a Volkswagen Caddy repairing a

Cherry.

And I looked like that guy.

That guy's into Hondas.

It's not, you know.

It's, it's correct.

Correct.

So, yeah.

It's good.

It's like the time I was on it.

I was on a zoom call with a work colleague.

In New Zealand.

Well, a loose work colleague.

They're sort of, you know, sister company sort of thing.

And I'd met him on quite a few calls.

He's a young guy.

He's 20 sort of thing.

And he's, he's got a Porsche and something else.

He's quite into his cars and is imported a few from Japan.

And somewhere about the third phone call on there with a

mutual colleague.

And this guy goes, oh, you know, you're a bit of a car guy.

You know, you went to cars.

I'm like, I suppose you could say that, you know?

He goes, oh, do you have any cars?

And I said, yeah, I've got a few.

Oh, well, what have you got?

And I just went, I got this.

And by the time I got to sort of the fifth one, he's just

like looking at me like, um, yeah, I think you're a car guy.

I was like, thanks for the accolade.

But same sort of thing.

It is very, very funny.

Like we just hadn't talked about that topic.

So it hadn't come up.

And he's like, what?

Yeah, we're not car guys.

We're just hoarders.

Yeah.

Collectors.

No, no, no, no, no.

Rob, you're great.

I've got to correct you.

We're not hoarders.

We're collectors.

Hoarders collect everything.

Collector.

They collect.

We just collect car stuff and cars.

So I'm particular even about what cars are.

Collect and car stuff.

Okay.

You know, a hoarder sees a bit of plastic in the street

and goes, oh, use that one day, you know,

and sort of way at their house.

And they have goat tracks, you know,

to walk through the house through goat tracks.

I've gone down that deep hole, Rob.

I'm, I'm, I'm holding onto that explanation.

Yeah.

All right.

Just as long as I don't see our garages.

We all have our guilty pleasure garage.

Yes.

Well, who are we up to?

So I think we're up to Scott.

Me.

Um, before I jump into my updates,

I noticed David, you were away last week.

From the podcast.

Yeah.

True.

Was I?

No, no, no, you are.

That was the previous week.

Previous week.

Previous weeks.

The previous week.

Where were you?

Oh, Scott.

That's a bit personal.

David can't talk about his mistress live on air.

Um, I was at a car club committee meeting.

Hmm.

You're the president.

Oh, that was the.

Yes.

I was elected the president again.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

Oh, my relations or.

Well, it was.

I had someone on it.

I had someone on the inside that was there and was listening

into some of these policies and things that you want to bring in

is pretty radical.

Oh.

So.

To start off, he wants everyone to call him El Presidente.

I don't know what's going on there.

Um,

he wants stickers and caps made up that all say make Hondas

great again.

Which was.

I thought they kind of are great anyway.

So I don't.

But hey, he wants everyone to have those.

It's not it's it's it's a mega.

It's matter.

It's not.

Yeah.

That's like the name of the Middle Eastern restaurant.

It does.

It's my grandma.

It's my auntie's name actually.

And he's got you need to bring offerings to your leader

every week.

Whoa.

It's a big sonic orange.

Preferably Honda related or Japanese related things.

So you've got to bring offerings to him as well.

Kind of weird.

The power's gone to his head.

Yes.

But he's thinking about keeping people fit.

So on Fridays he's bringing in jazzy size Fridays.

Which would make sense because.

The fit in Japan.

So there you go.

Yeah.

He wants to bring in some jazzy size Fridays.

And bring in the accord accord.

A binding treaty that all disputes in the club must be

settled inside a Honda Accord.

Yeah.

There's a few things that he's doing.

So.

And that's just a preview.

Yeah.

Wait for his final concerto.

Yeah.

Where are they made in Kyoto?

Where were what mate?

The Hondas.

The main ones.

They're not in Kyoto sadly.

I wish they were.

Perfect city then wouldn't it.

So that's just a few things that he's been up to now.

Right.

I'll keep you posted if there's anything else new happening.

He's got his snitches at it again.

He's back.

Yeah.

He's back.

Ladies and gentlemen, he's back in a while.

Have you been working on that one all week, Scotty?

It's thought of it a while ago.

It just came back to me today.

David Prince, your comments please.

Yes.

Comments.

No comment.

Solid.

My people will get back to you.

Oh, to have people.

That'd be great.

He's got his little minions now.

You can just do things.

Not much changes I don't think.

I think I was doing the same stuff.

I guess I can move into my car updates now.

Yes, Scotty.

I had my fun.

On Sunday, I did something that brought the weather today.

Oh.

I washed the car.

I did.

Just don't bother.

I wasn't going to, but I've got this.

I'm pretty sure it's a first world problem,

but there's this tree at work.

And even if I don't park near it,

I'm pretty far away from it,

but somehow I still get like sap that will drop on it.

And also it's starting to bloom and gets covered in pollen

and stuff on it too now from this tree.

So it's just kind of bugs me.

I did.

I parked away from it.

It still happens.

I don't know how it's getting over there.

It's just travel.

Drives me nuts.

But yeah, first world problems, I guess.

I mean, my solution is to chop down the tree,

but I don't think they'll do that.

Well, I mean, I mean, let's be honest.

That's like the, you know, that's the melee solution.

Just just just get rid of it.

So you can definitely do that.

And then I thought,

I better go over and see how the 31 is doing.

It's just sitting there chilling.

And I did have an idea of what I wanted to do.

And that was actually fix that side mirror properly

because I was going to get the tech screws

and put it in there properly because it's where it snaps.

It's all plastic and plastic sucks.

It gets old.

And I just got completely sidetracked,

which happens quite often and I completely forgot to do it.

So it's still kind of sitting there

and not really held on very well.

I ended up just kind of letting the car run for a bit

and fiddling around with all these other things.

And I got that thing I told you last week

for the Fenders, whatever it's called.

I don't know. I can't remember what it's called.

Guard Roller.

Yeah, Guard Roller.

I don't know why I keep forgetting.

I keep getting Fenders stuck in my head.

Fenders like American.

Fender.

Well, Fender, sure, yeah.

Yeah. I'm like, what the hell?

But anyway, that's stuck in my head.

And then I opened the box

and I see you got to assemble the whole bloody thing.

I'm like, what the hell?

And then the instructions isn't even like instructions.

It's just a picture.

You know, when you get the,

it's when you get a picture of, say,

a brake caliper and they expand it,

like break it apart.

So you can see all the different part numbers for all the bits.

That's the instruction was that.

So I've got to try and decipher this in the expanded form

and shrink it down to realize and figure out

what part goes where because none of the parts

and bolts in that were labeled.

So it gives you a picture and you go,

okay, and then you see it down the bottom

and it just says what it's called,

not the length or anything.

And there's like multiple ones of very similar lengths.

What the hell?

That was quite fun.

I can imagine you sweaty doing the whole leg grill.

What the hell is that?

Yeah, it's just so stupid,

the picture that they gave you.

That's a nice looking car roll.

Why does it look like that?

It's all upside down and wonky.

It's just like, what the hell?

That's not going to roll anything.

It won't even roll down my driveway.

So that was that.

But I finally did it and then by the end,

I just put it in the passenger seat for now.

It's like, that's another day now.

I've built it.

I'll roll it out later.

So then I don't have to worry about the scraping

and stuff anymore.

And then I was driving home and I realised,

oh yeah, the whole reason I was going there

was to do the side mirror.

Yeah.

You need a list in your phone.

Yeah.

I thought my brain was good enough

but it gets distracted too easily.

ADHD.

E.

The reboot sorted.

No, not yet.

Yeah, I like that idea.

Thank you very much for that.

That is what I shall do.

Thank you, Scottie.

Rob, what goes with you?

Well, my colleague

went to Noosa for holidays.

She used her house up there and she had to get rid of her car.

And it was a golf

for convertible.

And she couldn't get rid of it.

So she gave it away for $200.

Oh, wow.

And it had low Ks on it.

Just on 100,000 Ks on it.

She was the second owner.

She's had it from,

the only thing it needed was a set of tyres

and some brake pads.

And she got rid of it for $200.

So I missed out on the bargain, I thought.

And what year was that?

That's 2003.

Invertible golf.

So they looked a bit round and blunky.

Yeah.

They were a nice looking car.

Yeah.

When they had decent wheels on them,

the factory wheels were too small.

So I'm kicking myself or not.

And I missed it out on that.

But anyway, obviously,

she didn't let me know.

She let everyone else know,

but I wasn't in the meeting that morning.

So anyway, missed out on the car.

The VWGC, you're probably better off without it, Rob.

It was a manual too.

Oh, that's a shame.

Yeah, I know.

Anyway, so I'm still driving my range around.

I went for a trip down in Geelong in my range.

My range of sport.

This is about 12 points,

something liters per 100

on the highway.

Which is not very good, I thought.

Did you feel the anger

starting to kick in?

No, not yet. No, no.

It's okay. It's all good.

Is your case manager good back to you?

Anger comes from Ranga.

Ranga.

I don't feel the anger from the Ranga.

But I've been driving that around.

It's actually an alright car.

It doesn't make any noises.

There's no diff noises, no squeaks.

It's

quite comfortable to drive.

But

when to get the Mercedes

out on the weekend.

The 380 SCC

so that a guy can start painting it.

But he

still hasn't done anything.

So that's pretty much my disappointment with cars

this week.

What happened to the transit?

Well,

they said they replaced a diff twice.

And when I got a third time

it still winds when you decelerate

between 95 down to about

70 kilometres an hour.

So you can hear that whirling noise

as you let go of the accelerator.

They reckon that's normal because I've removed the barrier

so I can hear it.

If you put the barrier back up, I can't hear it.

So I said, well, if I put ear plugs in, I won't be able to hear it either.

But that's

that's typical of that car

and that's what they do.

But you're going to sell that anyway, yeah?

Well,

I'm not happy with it.

So yeah, I'll end up selling it.

I'm not going to fit it out.

I need to have problems with it.

And the diff slips

when it's cold, but it's not the diff.

The gearbox slips when it's cold.

And they're saying that the gearbox

is usual with intolerance

of slippage when it's cold.

And that's fine.

That's a joke. That's ridiculous.

It shouldn't slip.

It's a gearbox. They're not meant to slip.

Yeah, well, it does.

It's probably a

variable transmission

or something. It's one of those

Nissan gearboxes in it or something.

I think you need a Toyota, Rob.

Yeah.

Toyota don't make vans that size.

I think it'd have to go.

They don't make the high roof vans.

I want a high roof van

that I can fit out.

But you can die starier.

You know what?

I've actually went to

Jayco a few weeks back

and I saw a

Fiat Sunny

here in a half-old.

Sorry?

No.

It's not warranty.

Yeah, it still doesn't make it good.

Vans that had a warranty too.

Yeah, it doesn't make it good.

Just go buy a good car.

That's three times as much.

It's not necessarily good sometimes.

It's not being a tight-ass or buy a second-hand camper van.

Well, with

300,000 or 400,000 kilometres on it.

That's all right.

Land Cruiser 100 will do

800, 900 a minute.

That's a Land Cruiser. That's not a camper van.

There's good camper vans out there.

Surely there's one out there that's already been done. That's good.

Yeah, and then you're paying

130,000.

Then you might as well buy a new one for 150.

I've got a better idea, Rob.

Stop it.

It's just

disgusting, David.

It's a constructive

criticism.

You drive your 380 SCC

and you stay in motels.

That's some fun.

King of the Roads.

Out in the middle of nowhere, we're going to sleep in the 380

SCC.

You stay in the motels.

You don't always have motels.

The road anything could happen.

People could come and attack.

Yeah, I could Wolf Creek or something like that.

Exactly.

Okay.

380 motel.

There's your answer.

Or 380

with roof racks, factory roof racks.

You can get them.

The hardshell rooftop 10.

I've already got the rooftop box for all 10.

Done.

I do.

Cars and coffee would win cars and coffee.

It's like having a 9-11 Porsche

with a tent on the roof.

Exactly.

I've got some ideas now.

I'm going to get

something more reliable.

A caravan.

Just buy a caravan.

What sort of caravan

are you going to buy for 5 grand?

You'd be lucky to find a 6x4 trailer

for that price.

Yeah.

You just buy a caravan

on the ranger and you're done.

Yeah.

True. I've got the ranger

rock.

I can steal off my son.

That's

actually not a bad car. It's been going real good.

He's clocked up close to 40,000

kms on that in 2 years I reckon.

Touch wood.

Made in Africa.

Yeah.

It seems to be going alright.

I'll see what I do.

If I can sell it,

I'll sell it.

It's handy. It's great to have a van.

I really enjoy having a van.

You could just go down the bunnings

and put your strips of timber in

when you're doing a bit of a Renault

and pick up all your stuff around the house

and take it down the tip.

It's so handy.

It's one of the best things around.

4K trucker would be awesome.

4WD one.

Not awesome on the highway though.

Yeah, I know.

It's the journey, not the destination.

Okay.

I'll give you a call

four hours into your trip up to Sydney

and see how you go with that.

Get me out of here.

I want my 380 SEC

with a rooftop dam.

I was okay

with the Jimny even.

I went down the highway

but my wife, my son hated it.

I like you and Jimny.

I thought you and Jimny was alright.

I thought it was alright.

I didn't mind it.

You can't have too many cars.

Currently I've only got seven cars

in the driveway and another three inside.

That's enough.

Surely one of them will take you around a straight

trip.

That's right, Amarok.

There you go.

I think I might take you C63.

Yeah, do that.

I reckon that would be awesome.

Get there fast.

There's not enough fuel across the null

where you'd have to carry fuel.

His car's pretty good on fuel actually.

Is it?

Yeah, it's not bad.

If you start going fast

it starts burning a bit.

Cruising along I think it does less than 13 litres,

isn't it, Holly?

About 13 litres per 100.

Yeah.

It's not bad, I guess, for that.

It's not bad for a V8.

Matthew, what about your cars?

What are you doing?

Update with me.

I got my Camry Roadworthy yesterday.

It is

roadworthy and we'll get

plates on Friday.

Who are you going through Club Ridge with for that?

Just the standard one that I normally

go with.

I don't have a Honda in my name yet

so I can't go through the Honda car.

They've got very strict rules

and the president would uphold that.

Not with Al Presidente.

Yeah, exactly.

Lucy Goosey, no more belly who?

It's because of you that the rules

change.

That is true.

I broke the system.

You did.

That's going to get done on Friday.

Mum's got a day in lieu

so he's going to do that for me.

Thanks, Mum, for that.

Going to take that down.

It didn't need too much.

They were quite

impressed with

the car that sat for so long that it didn't need

super amounts of work.

The bill got the bill.

It wasn't the cheapest

but it wasn't expensive.

$1,800?

$1,800.

It was $1,100.

It didn't get in my air-con fix too.

I got freezing cold air-con.

Air-con fix.

What was wrong with the air-con?

It just needed a gas.

You bought the guy out and the guy tested it.

He had no leaks.

He just needed a gas.

I think they converted it from one to the other

to the new gas.

So I did that

and then obviously

all the little jobs that needed.

Yeah, it's good.

The idle

air-control valve

is not great.

On a cold start it doesn't really like one of those

so I have to get one of those at some point.

I ordered a new one.

Just needed a cleaning?

They cleaned it out but it's still

not all right.

They said that to me.

We can clean it and they did but

it's not great.

I've got a new Dizzy cap

and

that came in today from the States

because you cannot buy them in Australia anymore

because that's just...

I ended up buying two rotors

because when they took my distributor

apart to replace the seal

they gathered it once over and said

you need a rotor button because it's pretty

had it.

I've got to put that in.

I can do that.

That's not too hard of a job.

What else?

Wind shield which got done

it drives really really well.

It surprised me how good that car drives.

I drove it home last night

after picking it up and then I drove it today

to drop it off to my mum so she can get it

sorted for Friday.

It just wafts about really nicely.

It drives really really well.

I had to put a thermostat in it as well

but as I mentioned last week on the show

I've ordered hoses for it

so heater hoses and radiator hoses

just because they're really old and crusty

and they decided to show a bit of staining

he's like look we put new clamps on it

it'll be fine but

for your piece of mind just put some new hoses on it

just to be safe and

happy motoring essentially.

Nice.

I've ordered those through my work

they had to get custom made because

they don't carry them so

you just tell them which ones and they'll make them for you

so they should be here at some point

this week but yeah

that's ready to go

I'm going to take it for a nice burn on Saturday

to the wreck is somewhere I haven't decided yet

but I'm going to give it its

first christening of a bit of a drive

to Dany Nol

Pick me up on the way.

Yeah, sounds good.

You're all more welcome to come in the Camry

I also got my Camry Chicken

if you guys remember

from the old Camry ads

You ordered those?

Yeah I found one online

a good friend Andrew Rigsworth found one

and now he's in a seatbelt in the back of the car

so he's

I've got a feeling indeed

I've got a feeling chicken

it's even got on a Toyota Motor Company

of Australia and then underneath

Made in China but still it's

it's a genuine piece

from the late 80s early 90s

so yeah I think

that's a nice little kind of addition

getting it ready for

Classic Japan which Edward

we can talk about tonight because you weren't here last week to discuss

I wasn't here last week

Matthew's had this silly

harebrained idea

of parking our three

Toyotas

in some sort of group formation

before with Andrew Rigsworth he's in

Rigsworth is in okay so four Toyotas

to recreate a showroom

circa 1989 I think

so you know my

Tarago was still the shape in

89 the

Camry Matthews Camry

has just got tick the MR2

in 1986 so no

88 so that

sort of fits in and what's

Riggles is one the Camry Wagon

she's a 90

or 91 maybe

might be 89

89 or 90 yeah

so we could have those

four in a bit of a formation but then Matthew's going

a step further and wants to

have a sign on the front of each car

that says the dealership name which is of course Ed Matthews

Toyota

absolutely

when he said it I was like it actually sounds like a

dealership yeah it does

Ed Matthews Toyota yeah

I've made the logo

I made the logo yeah

and then I said well if you're creating a bit of a

dealership we've got to put up some flags so we have to

get those and then

I said well

you need the Mingmole

someone who's going to have big 80s here

and sell you window tint and stuff it's

sort of a desk

and he goes yeah we'll roam around dressed like sales

consultants in like bad grey suits

with thin ties

and then

shorts with long socks

and then Steph has

agreed to be our

aftercare consultant

we're a big

wig

with a low cut top

and promote the window tint

and this is all happening when

December or November sometime

last day in November I think it is

yeah last Sunday November

November okay

so it's being held it's at a different place this time isn't it

the Crud and Farm

Crud and Farm yes down at

Damond with Murdoch's property yes

Sunday the 30th of November

Crud and Farm

well that will be a joyous event

it'll be fun like

we're going to try and put some table

like a couple tables and some pot plants

I reckon we can get a couple of big

rubber plants from Raffi

yeah rubber plants yeah

you might have to arrange it Matthew

Raffi doesn't probably want to deal with me anymore

after last time

when some of his plants didn't make it back to the nursery

oh okay

yes not my fault

okay I will

figure something out there

so yeah that is

that's the idea so Ed Matthews Toyota

it's got a ring to it

I think it works I think it sounds like a

dealership so

if it's got a motor bring it to Ed Matthews Toyota

is that our slogan? I think we can make

that work sure it's got a motor

bring it to Ed Matthews Toyota

I've just been collecting some paraphernalia

and stuff so I'm planning to

photocopy some of the brochures

and things of the cars of that era

you need to have a brochure giveaway copies

correct yes correct

so that'll be part of the event

so yeah

it should be a bit more fun but more details

to come on that as it happens gentlemen

I've been pretty much in on my car updates gentlemen

yeah tonight's topic

I know Edward loves these

who bought that new

is a topic that we're becoming quite

familiar with

I know Edward's a bit of a

not a stereotype

a stereotype

in terms of

who bought that

extreme personality vehicular profiling

correct

I've now started following this guy

on Instagram because

he's a car dealer himself

but he

profiles all these customers that come in there

and he's like you want this car

and a best price of course

yeah

so it got me thinking

we haven't done it in a while so we're bringing it back

so the first one I'm going to bring today is

someone that part of the crew has

he's not on tonight is a Ford Territory

Turbo

so they were quite expensive when they were new

they weren't cheap

I remember when we were looking at

Territory and I was like to that

oh just wait for the turbo it's coming wait for the turbo

we waited for the turbo

and then he freaked out at how expensive it was

he's like I don't need a turbo what for

what do I need this for

faster

so then he proceeded to say no we're not buying that

and because it was quite a substantial amount of money

more for a Territory gear

how much more was it like another 10 or 8?

I think it was almost 10 grand it was

quite considerably

I think it was close to 10 I think

from memory after double check that

it was a big jump

it was a big jump to

my dad's gear

so that was

again it was another step up from that

you gotta stop somewhere with this stuff

so

what year did the turbo come out?

06

that's when the turbo came out

so who bought out of like

they didn't sell many of them

that's actually quite a rare car

even more as the F6 Territory

which is like

good luck finding one but

who bought them when they were new

I mean I've got my idea

well

it surely would have been someone who had an XR6

turbo

but needed the extra room

I had another baby

gotta get the 7-seater

yeah that is true

but they didn't want to get out of there forwards mate

I'm with you

I'm with you on that

I think they would have said

I really like this drivetrain

and I want to stick to a Ford

but also I think

the type of person that bought a Territory turbo

also liked to kind of drive

because Territory didn't drive like you stand at SUV

they drove like a car

yeah correct

so I think

I remember seeing a lot of people

in some more affluent areas

having them when they were new

and I had a customer come in

and he had just given it to his son

but the dad was like

he had some really nice stuff

and he's like this has been my daddy for the last

15 years I've owned the car

I bought a new best car

I've ever had

and this guy's got Porsches and stuff

and the fact that he was saying in the Territory turbo

was a bit

kind of surprising

he was like I'm giving it to my son

I'm with you on that one David Prince

what about you Ed?

I think the buyer would definitely be a bias

towards a male buyer

I think

out of suburban

somewhat cashed up

any type

it may have been

the partner that drove

the car but

I feel like it was the husband who chose

the car

David Prince is on the money

he probably had a history

with Fords

and

you're not getting someone jumping over from a hold

necessarily to that

it's probably a Ford history

and maybe wanted the XR6

but you can't fit the family

so hey this is a perfect thing

it's a bit of something for everyone

bit of a compromise

Shane from Wheelers Hill

that's who would have bought it

a cashed up electrician

Trady

aged 45 and up

yeah

or maybe a bit younger

aged maybe 38

spot on

so Scotty would you agree with that

there that does have a personable one

yeah I was thinking

I can't picture a business person

in one

no yuppie would be in it

it would be mainly towards you

it cashed up

Trady probably

as you said it could be

I could easily see

a family

a dad that's just all of a sudden

figured out that his wife has got twins

on the way

he looks outside and goes

the XR6 turbo has to go

yeah

and makes that beautiful compromise

because of a sudden he sees on TV

the Territory Turbo ad

do you guys remember that

that was a great ad it was like eating sports

cast for breakfast

that was a great ad

imagine a mileage on those things

that would have been fantastic

that guzzle like you wouldn't believe

yeah they weren't exactly fuel efficient

Rob

that's what Turbo Terry says

absolutely

but again he puts his foot down a lot in it

does it make a difference

put a jet ski on it and it's even worse

didn't that come with a jet ski

on the back

that's right they did

standard

standard accessory

jet ski at the back

I want to add to that I also think

they would have bought that

Territories in general were

bought by everybody

they were very popular when they were new

a lot of old couples bought them to tow their caravans

and things

but they always bought

your base TX or TS

in terms of the turbo

specific model I think you guys are right

banging the money someone that had an XR6 turbo

had to upgrade

wanted to buy a car for the misses

they could drive on the weekend

I think that's a great choice

next one

who bought

a Veloster Turbo

single mum

they're quite

proxy I don't think single mums could afford a

Veloster Turbo

they were married

they got a payout

and they went I'm going to buy a sports car

and they got a Veloster Turbo

and it's really cool

because it's got three doors

it's like

a coupé bit of sports car

but it's still a hatch

it's still practical

it's really sporty

and no one knows what it is

and I really like that because I'm individual

and so the car needs to represent me

100% absolutely

there you go yes bang on again

no wonder why you sell cars

you know your target

and what's her name

Shane in the territory

Sally

and where does she hail from

in Melbourne

Kaiburg

from Kaiburg

he didn't even

we're just like Kaiburg

what colour did she buy

yellow

that's funny

the Veloster Turbo

it's an interesting car

because

I think it's a car

with a bit of an identity crisis one

but two it's not really a sports car

it's kind of like a warmish hatch

you know

it's not even a little hot hatch

in the grand scheme of things

but I think

the same buyer that bought that later

would have bought the Hyundai Tiburon before

that

you reckon Tiburon

they traded up to the Tiburon

now the Tiburon is before the Veloster

yeah that's what I mean

they traded up to the Vols

yeah yeah yeah

they really wanted like a

what was this

a Seleaker the last of the Seleakers

they really wanted a Seleaker

but then trading was appalling

on that

I went back to Hyundai and got a Veloster

I know a person that bought one brand new

and she

a Veloster Turbo brand new

she's a young professional

single

no kids

bought the dual clutch one

because she thought it was a bit of a sports car

and then that got ridden off recently

and now she's bought a new Kona

but the Veloster

now would you explain this

it's an ugly bucket of shit that no one should buy

besides that

it's

I just feel like it was a car that was made

for people that wanted

image over care

and

that car personifies that

and people who want an image

look at my fancy Veloster with

two doors on one side

they wanted to have that

that kind of impression

but it's not really a good car

they don't really do anything well

but in their defense

it was an interpretation

there are lots of other manufacturers

doing the same thing

absolutely

a package that was deemed sporty

but it wasn't particularly sporty

for me

I'm thinking of who they would have marketed it against

and like CRZ comes to mind

but then again CRZ was

a bit more techy in the form of like

hybrid

so I'm like well it wasn't going against that

the hot hatches at the time had moved on

so there was really

you know like your GTIs and stuff

were a bit more pricey

your Polo GTIs and stuff

were a bit more focused

so it kind of was in a

league of its own really

it was just kind of its own thing

but they sold tons of them

and

99.9% of times you see a woman driving

which I'm not stereotyping or anything

but it is the case

so Sally from Coburg

bought a bright yellow

Velociturbo

yep

so Edward and Rob are on board with that

we're in agreement

David and Scotty you agree?

I can't say no to that

I would have thought the name

might have ended in Ian

like you know

Aileen

Rayleen

but I'll go with Sally

I'm happy to

and the only other thing I'd say is

red, no yellow

I would have said black

oh black okay

alright who's next Matt

what's the next car?

the next one is what I've just bought

who bought a Camry V6 one then

and in my eyes I think they were all old people

I think the president

of the bowling club would have bought one

correct

wanted the Cressida

in a dream scenario

but just no need for the size

you know this is basically all the features

of the Cressida in a bit shrunken down

and a bit more modern

oh not necessarily near sorry

no 89 was

89 was a new Cressida

which was real that was beautiful

glamorous machine but they would

have just gone which just don't need the size

of it so let's how about we go

the V6 Camry

and it's fully imported you know they would have

they would have banged on to their neighbors about it

being fully imported whereas the other ones are made here

yeah that's right

the fully imported Japanese one that's the better one

but like

still to like I remember

this years ago when I was a kid my dad was trying to

get insurance for I remember this phone call like it was yesterday

and he's like I don't know what it is

it's just this V6 but I think it's an Ultima

because it's got all the Ultima stuff

and the lady on

Amy who was speaking

she's like I don't know what it is you have to bring the car down

so we had to drive the car down to their

head office in

it was you know

pressing at the time

and they didn't even know what it was they come out with that

with that you know they're

they're book of cars yeah

and they're clipboards and

they're looking at it they're like

yeah we don't know what this is like it was

it was the weirdest thing I remember sitting in the car

it was a bit of a family housing we all went in

we all went in

but seriously that glasses guy back there didn't have it logged

but they

so alright so

you're the president of your bowls club

who's retirement

didn't want the size of the crusader

doing pretty well for themselves

but wanted

wanted people to think they were being sensible with their money

but went for the expensive one

because most people wouldn't have known

that's right and you know wanted to buy

Australian made maybe

support the industry even though this one's imported

but yeah

so it was a bit for

look's sake you know like you wanted to look on the down low

but he wasn't prepared to forego that

I sort of extra features

and the

control on the cruise control on the power windows

yes yes

totally opposite

every sales rep and their man had

a camera back in those days

yeah but not this one

not your top of the line V6

no no this is the top of the line V6

this wasn't a sales reps car

no the base can be

made here sales reps car absolutely

well yes

but not the V6 to Dan

right

Rob were you working at Toyota at that time

I was working at Toyota at the time

do you remember when they were new

I do

I remember going out in the company cars

on Friday night doing a few skids

and these were the guys

in the office too

they're the ones who got all the cars

they're the ones who brought all the cars home all the time

did you only ever drive

the plane jainers you know the four cylinders

yeah pretty much

what was made here

yeah so stuff that we used to

drive they used to give out to the

the managers and

their cars within the plant

yeah

cause that's the thing you know these things never went near the plant

you know they came in and

went to deals and sold and

they seemed that many like they would have been pricey

and they wouldn't have

like we said week I think they're 31 grand

I think new

just over 10 grand more than a base model camera

than a base yeah it's a lot

it's another third of the car again

to get the V6

so I'd love to know how many

they ended up selling here but I don't think it'd be

that many

I don't think so either

yeah definitely someone

that was the owner of a bowling club

um

and

you know you'd see on the back

parcel shelf will be these hats

and a box of tissues will be there too

absolutely

that's what I can picture

Frank Sinatra and Billy Holiday

tapes maybe in the console

yeah definitely

saying you know I remember eight tracks

but you know

Martin

yeah

luxuries

so went for the top of the range

and you don't need three litres so they went

2.5 litres

because three litres is too much

for a car

and it's ridiculous

but you still want a bit of overtaking power

when you're on the freeway

you get your V6

but here's the question

Mitsubishi sold a crap ton more veritas

of similar era

early 90s

which was pretty much a similar size

but they always marketed

that car towards you know the professionals

in their suits and things

but every time I saw one being driven it was by

an old couple as well

do you reckon that was the same demographic

for that car

I think Verada

had more of a

I think Verada had a younger demographic

Verada was a bit more edgy in the styling

and a bit more contemporary

because you didn't have veritas

well you didn't have them in 89

it was still only magna

and it was magna elite was as high

as high as you went

so Verada only came in with the next shape

in like 91 I think

and

it was Verada 92

yeah late 91

92 yeah that's right

91 I was there I remember

and the

I think it was just such

a really cool modern swoopy

you know

what's the word I want

you know a sinuous design or something

the little SV 21

Camry with a V6 slept in it

was pretty boxy and old and conservative

that had come out in 87

and so

you know this is 5 years newer

or 4 or 5 years newer

and

Verada was sort of a bigger wider

more luxurious car so I think

I think it appealed to younger people

it would have been real conservative buyers

buying that Camry

versus a Verada buyer

but I think too

the Mitsubishi they were

like more shop keeps

like Commodore and Falcon

the size of them, the relative size of them

which is what spawned the wide-bodied Camry

but in 89

you know

there was no wide-bodied Camry

there was no Verada

you're in those smaller

sort of more petite cars

and I think

if anyone was looking at a popular line

Magna Elite versus your Camry V6 Matt

the size

of the Magna, the interior space of the Magna

maybe would have won over a younger

demographic the Camry

is probably bought by people who didn't

mind the narrow body or the

slightly less legroom and stuff you know

I want to add to that

I'd say so David

I'd say hence the older demographic

hence it left home

and we didn't need

we came out of a

Mazda 626

from

83

Kingswood

89 Kingswood buyers were still

buying Commodore, they're in a VN

VN Termina

I think they had a Kingswood from new

their kids have had kids in there

I'm with you Robyn

I think that's a good point

but I want to say that the Magna

or Verada always had a cool

factor in comparison to a Camry

Camry's never been called like ever

which is

I hate to say but it's true

a bit daggy

yeah so

I think that's where the Verada

and the Verada always looked

good

you know like a first gen

I didn't face a Verada

they were a good looking car

they still are quite handsome

you know

it's whereas a Camry

you know

what did the Magna V6 have

like a different front and rear

bars

and a lip

and some badging

otherwise you wouldn't really be able to tell

so I guess they did try to differentiate them

a little bit more

the last one for this evening before we get to the car quiz

is

who bought

a

Holden Monaro

the remake Holden Monaro in

2001

well that's easy

you reckon?

it was your

massive cashed up Bogan's

they were frothing over that

as soon as that came out

they were

quickly sold all their SS's

and got rid of those

and like I've got strength to a Monaro

it was your FIFO workers

yeah people

hands on

it was your other

your other collectors

that liked

I guess your little bit older demographic

that

collected

social editions of cars

and things and when they saw that kind of Monaro

jumped on it

it was your ones that probably

reminiscing when they might have had one

when they were younger as well

you know could have had the HQ

HK whatever it might have been

back then

yeah and kind of saw

new Monaro bang jumped on it

so I feel like it's more than one demographic

that jumped on it

now remember this was a world car too

yeah so this got sold in the UK

and it got sold in America

it was a

hideously

Chevrolet or Pontiac over there

it was a Pontiac in

the United States of Freedom

and it was a Voxel

in the UK

and

but I think in each of those demographics there were all different buyers

so like I don't think in America

you know it was sold to

like a redneck over there

like our equivalent

to Alberg and I think they were more marketed

towards you know a bit more of a driver's

car because like

at the time America could go through the American stuff

it's a great driver's car

yeah and that's

but

I remember reading a thing

it was Bob Lutz

he tried to bring it over there and there was a big catastrophe

about bringing it over there

and

and it wasn't

a big seller it wasn't a great seller

but in the UK

it was marketed as like a cheaper version

of a M3

or something a lot more power

for a lot less money

so yeah

I don't think it did well

in England and America

because I know America didn't like it

because it was under the

Pontiac GTO name

and

they didn't want a bar of it

and then

it was Vauxhall VXR

and I think

the Vauxhall name

isn't that great over there

and they're all kind of

I guess European

snobs

yeah

which it would be because I mean

the prices over there

aren't that bad compared to here

for what they can get

and they just stuck with their

M3s and things like that

then going for a Vauxhall

because of the name

a mate of

my son-in-law's daughter

who looks over there, G'day Sean if you're listening

hi Sean

he loves his VXR

alright okay he's got one over there

yeah he loves it

it'd be like

nothing else on the road there really

because they didn't really have anything else that was similar

I remember Topki used to love them

and they used to rave about them over there

yeah they do

and they're like well would you buy anything else

when you can buy this for a quarter of the price

it does everything those can do but better

so yeah

they always got a good rap over there

but they were never a big seller

in my memory of when who bought them

when they were new was

because I remember

I graduated primary school

the first year they came out I believe

and

one of the graduation cousins

was a bright yellow

Manaro and the guy that got out of it

was a full gym junkie

tatted up but like you know like full tanned

you know what I'm talking about

the ones that

have moved into AMG's now

the ones that are at the moon

absolutely in AMG's now

yeah

he sold his

he's no longer a part of that fraternity

but he just tatted anyway

that's another story

and yeah

I remember standing next to him

looking up at the guy and the guy was like

400 feet tall and I'm like oh my god

and he got out of it and he had to like

hunch out to get out of the car and he was just standing there

with his arms to the side like this

so they were kind of

that's the person that bought that car

as

as my memory would serve me but

anyone else for that one or that

or we're moving on to

that color was called yellow devil

very

British Leyland also had a 70's color

called yellow devil

there you go, everything old is new again

mm-hmm

I've got one more which we can do real quick

who bought

to the five people that actually bought one in Australia

the first gen Honda Insight

I can answer that, no one

that is correct, they really struggled

right

they actually loaned a lot of them out

to um

to councils and stuff to

you know to trial hybrid vehicles

because it was the first hybrid that went on sale in Australia

mm-hmm

well it was like a week or two weeks or something

it was like it was like some

be the prayers by a couple of weeks

but the um but yeah they

they sold so few of them

because they were in next hour about $55,000

only a manual

and a two seater

really and a hybrid

technology people weren't familiar with

so very niche market

very niche

so I think in total they sold 47

I think I had this discussion

with someone the other day who has two

and he's one

and I actually contacted

Honda Australia my contact there and said you know what

I know you're not into buying cars

but it would be remiss of me not to

let you know

this has come up for sale because

you've actually used it in marketing

uh and with your push on

hybrids now you know like with

they talk about how you did it

in 2000 and whatever

correct correct good story

they were very they

thanked me profusely and said

we will discuss this and get back to you

so

um so well okay so

they sold 43 of them or whatever

was 44 of them

they sold a lot more in Japan and America

they were quite popular in America

and for me they were like

the people that bought them were like

well I don't think they were your celebrity types

because they all ended up in Priests

like your Brad Pitt's and Angelina Jolie's

they all ended up in Priests

but I just couldn't picture

who actually forked out the money to buy

to buy one

because like

you know the hippies did

went went always for a Priests

like like no no

I can't picture who actually

and I don't know what he bought them but like who actually would have bought

well in America I think

the people that bought them were

I think hippies is

a good example

people who were environmentally

minded because it was a hybrid

they looked like nothing else on the road

except a Citroen

friend of the show David Day's got one

he always gets people saying

oh is that a Citroen? No it's not a Citroen

because

it's because of the spats, it's because of the wheels

that's right

and you know it had more

the passing resemblance to a CRX

if you squinted you know

there was that sort of

thing about them but one of the

biggest the most popular

renovations of them in America

is putting a K20 in them

quite an industry putting it

two-liter K series engine in them

but they go very well with that

because they're all aluminium they're actually

good on the same production line and in the same factory

as the NSX

I think he would have bought

that new would be

Nigel from Fitzroy

he's an engineer

but in a very niche

sort of form of engineering

he was coming out

of something maybe

like a first gen prelude with the

lucky dash or something

and tipped himself into

an insight because it really was advanced

in a way that a lot of other cars weren't

and Nigel's single

collects clocks

and restores

spare time

and the Honda insight was his vehicle

of choice because it's good for getting off the back

laneway into his Fitzroy garage

he's living

in the house that his mum

used to live in

and he's done a minor extension on the back

of that

and he engineered it all himself of course

what about you Scotty

that's just brilliant

no siding with Ed I love it

I do Lee engineer

do you want to know what Chad GBT says for this

I typed in

who bought a first gen Honda insight

the first gen Honda insight sold from

1996 was a very unusual car

so buyers were a pretty specific group

early adopters of technology

who are people excited

by the idea of driving the first modern hybrid

eco-conscious drivers

engineers and thinkers so you're on the money there

hahahaha

engineers and thinkers

communities

bought it as a purely cheap to run

commuter car especially with those long high driver

he's spending 55 grand to get it

oh I've grand like it's cheap to bloody run

and collectors and enthusiasts

because it was a quirky two-seat hatchback

it wasn't a mainstream success

you don't say

Honda only sold about

about 17,000 of them in the US

17,000

17,000 in the US

so

I don't think there was many like how many markets

did it get sold in David was it us

Japan

they were sold in the UK

not a lot I don't think

the whole thing of parts back up

and all that sort of thing would have been pretty extraordinary

actually having said that

I'm pretty sure I've seen left hand drive

ones in like

France

Germany Netherlands those sort of places

where they're like quirky things

yeah

would you agree Rob?

I agree

so engineer names

what was his name?

Roger

Detroit North

inherited the house from his mom

did a renovation, engineered it himself

and he tells everybody

he engineered it himself too

and now he used to work for an engineering firm

but now he lectures in engineering

a few days

at Melbourne Uni

hangs out with the academics

oh I've got it inside it's got an aluminium shut

it's the same production line as the NSX

he won't let you forget it

no partner will go near him

so it doesn't matter that it's a two seater

it's got room for him

and he's pet blue tongue lizard

interestingly

there's one at the museum

I'm broken Scotty

thank you

the blue tongue lizard

the blue tongue lizard got me

that's the best thing I've ever heard

yeah she's called Phoebe

when he was 30

not realising they lived quite so long

oh jeez

anyway

that's another good reddition of

who bought that new

let's get into the car quiz

gentlemen shall we? 10 questions

plus some bonus questions

we're going to continue on from last week

where we talked about songs from Carad

so you need to name

the car or I'll let you know

if it's just the brand or the car

and the brand for two points

alright so first one

car brand used the song

you get what you give

by the radicals

David

I'd be in trouble if I didn't get this

Mitsubishi

it was Mitsubishi correct

what's that song, how does that go?

1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4

don't look back

I've got the dreamers

that's the one

that was in another car company

he said

2000's

early 2000's

Black Evo 6 was in that add too

yeah, yeah

Paheros

and

when we have Mr. Reelsworth on

we will ask him to bring along

his acoustic version

of that song

that he composed

does he play that song?

he does it on the guitar

and it's amazing

does he sing the words to that song as well?

just an acoustic backing track

does he sing words about

Mitsubishi on it?

he may well have put words to it

by then

I've got the magnet disease

oh no

question 2

which car brand

and car

used the song by

a flow writer called Good Feeling

is this the low

rider?

no

the artist is called Flow Rider

how does it go?

well, sometimes I get a good feeling

I get a feeling that I never never never

yeah, that's the one

BMW

incorrect adverts

that's a great one

anyone else?

take a stab

the song and I can hear it

but I just can't remember

the car or the manufacturer

Scott? Rob?

nothing

alright, what is it Matt?

we're all failed

you guys got no idea?

we had a Corolla

really?

we had a Corolla, absolutely they did

Google, sometimes I get a good feeling

question 3

which car brand

had the song

and car

used the song Thunderstruck by AC DC

think about it

it's in the name of Scott

Scott was in there first

Jesus, two options

I'm stuck on

I am going to go with the

was it the Ford U?

incorrect

David? David?

with the

Holden Commodore U

was it the Holden Commodore U?

that was my two options

I should have gone with the other one

there was a Thunder version

yes, yes

because Marlou is actually aboriginal

it means Thunderstorm or something

as opposed to Barlu

who was the bear from the jungle

question 4

which car brand

had the song I See You Baby

by Groove Armada

Ed

I see you baby

shaking that ass

is it Renault with that horrible McGahn?

they had that in

Europe but not in Australia

oh come on that's a point

I'll give you a point Edward

but I'm off to an Australian one

last week is this adding to it

do you think the background

soundtrack or?

need the soundtrack

I think I should have learned my lesson

everybody out?

first Ford Fiesta

we got in Australia

it was the

engineers

I remember that

question 5

what car brand

which currently is on sale

and the car is currently on sale

has the song Baby I Got You On My Mind

by Powderfinger

baby I got you

on my mind

great song

dunno

the media marketing is great isn't it

guys I mean it's ridiculous

no idea

okay Ed I'll take your guess Ford Ranger

absolutely

wow maybe it

did sink in somewhere when I watched

the program

next one

is the last one for the music questions

for the evening

I think we're going to make a lot of people happy

which car brand had the song

I like the way you move

by the body rockers

is that BMW

it was BMW they did

I was there in that era I think

like the way you move

that's a good song

alright score check David on 3

Ed on 4

anyone's game

question number 6

the new Civic Type R

is sold out

they've finished their allotments

you can't even go on their website to get it

but they did

announce a price increase

what is it now available at

I'll do close to

I'll pay that

I'll go 80k

80 grand says David Prince

I'll go

84 990

84 990 says

so Scottie

81 9

81 9 says Rob

87 6

that's a big jump

87 600

$79,000

David is closest to

quick question on the Type R

you had the first of the new

Type R's which is

that was 72

that was like 5 years ago or something

2 years ago

in 2023 they came out

no it was longer ago than that

2022 they were

released but in Australia we got them in 2023

David that Type R

that I borrowed from you for the day and it was raining

and I drove around whatever whatever

the press car thing

was that only 3 years ago 22

or 23

that was the older model that was an FK8

I mean that shape it's still that hatching

oh yeah yeah

how much were they

no no I mean that was the first

of those hatchy Type R shape things

no that was towards

the run of the end of that FK8

the FL-5 is the current one which came out in

2003 but the update

has just been released that's what Matty's talking about

23

okay

so when you say the words

Honda Civic Type R

and you say four door hatch

like the big body four door hatch

thing that shape when did that

come out

16

similar

and then they've just done an update

of that as we said

and that's all sold out that's what you're saying

they've done a new model

in 2023

new model yeah yeah you shape

that form

update is just sold out

the update is just sold out

but it is an ongoing model like they'll bring in more of them

or is that

I don't think so but it's

they like to keep the

exclusivity around them

but yeah I'm sure if you

waived enough money at them I'm sure you

yeah it's not like the model stopped it's just

it's all about supply

I mean they are in demand because

they're one of the few performance cars you can now

buy with a manual gearbox

yeah true

actually they're

in demand

my mum was thrilled when she heard about the price like

no I wouldn't have

especially with

probably she could make a profit on

yeah well

Honda did try to buy it back from her

that when she went for a deal

like should I get you into a CRV

she's like I don't want to see her

we have he

she was actually really annoyed

I see an RV

she's like I want to type out

I want to see her be similar

they tried to get her into a CRV

I can't tell that story

question number

7 according to

the Australian Bureau of Statistics

this has just come out recently

they say a car is

pinched in Australia every how many

minutes Ed? 4

4 minutes as Ed is

I'll give closest to but it's

so hang on let me give you one second Scott

7

7 minutes as Scotty

3 minutes

and David

I'll say 4.5

4.5 the answer is 11 minutes

Scotty gets the chocolates there

Scotty's on the board

anyone fold

question number 8

according to

sorry which model in the

Honda line up has been

outsold by Ferrari

David

the Honda Accord

that is the Honda Accord

that is a sad sad thought

considering

where that car was

wow

not that long ago

when you price the car

out of the market that's what happens

people stop buying sedans

because they wanted SUVs

or did people only buy SUVs

because there's no sedans for sale anymore

I think Rob's on the money

yeah price down the market

why would you buy that

and I really like the new Accord

but the Hyundai Sonata

for so much cheaper

it offers a lot more

and it's way cheaper

why would you do it

question number 9

Uber is offering

discounts of up to 15%

on which brands

this is new cars

so if you got an

Uber like gold or platinum

you're eligible for up to 15%

off

I'm not blocking a car

they're four brands

and there is a point for each Rob

Polestar

Polestar is incorrect

I'd like you thinking though

but it isn't correct

no

I don't understand

so they're offering on new cars

15% off

so Uber don't sell cars

they've got a

they've done a deal with this brand

so if I go

and it doesn't make sense

so if I go to say one of these brands

let's just say one was Polestar

so I rock up to Polestar to buy a Polestar

and I mention what code word Uber

and I get a discount

like how does this work

I think you gotta go to their portal maybe

to their portal

on buying a Polestar through Uber

do they have a membership

so you gotta have like Uber membership

I don't even know dude

I'm not an Uber driver but like I think

the more you've done with them

the better your discount is

it sounds like if you're an Uber driver

and you want to get a deal

on a Polestar you can put through Uber

and get a deal with that one

okay I'll shut up now

alright so who was in next

so Polestar was in

David was next

incorrect

Ed

I will say

Toyota Camry Hybrid

that's what I thought it would be

but no it is complete

wow

I will say Cherry

Cherry is incorrect you're all back in

for one more guess each

Val is incorrect

what was that David

Tesla

Rob

Geely is incorrect Scotty

obviously a car company

that wants people to use them as Uber

but they're currently not using

they're quite desperate at this point

they're very desperate all still aren't

a screw probably Jeep

Nissan

incorrect I like your thinking

no it is

VW, Audi, Kupra

and Skoda

these drivers are gonna go broke

no good

you can't tell me

any bloody Uber driver is gonna be like

give me a new

Passat to be an Uber driver

it won't last about 5 minutes

they'll stick with their hybrid Camrys

doesn't matter if they've done

3, 4, 500 it doesn't matter

I was in an Uber

too long ago

it was a

Toyota

it was an import

it was a Prius

it was a Toyota

a plug-in hybrid Prius

from Japan

it had done

580,000 km

to be fair the car was mounted

and it smelled like absolute

ass but

but

he's like the battery is perfect

it drove really well

I'm like yep I can see why

they're becoming an Uber's favourite

that's funny that discount

thing on the Vag Group

will not work because they will take premium

and let it as well

I mean

why would you put yourself in a petrol

car that's not hugely

economical with the runs on premium

no good

you're not gonna go and pick up a Kupra

no

but anyway

last question

MG

it's bringing you to Australia in 2026

because everybody is at this point

what is it called

I

saw this today someone was showing me this

bloody thing this morning it's got tail lights

on the rear that look like a passenger car

does

is it something ex-U7 or something

no it's like a mantra

or something like that

incorrect

Scottie and David

I don't know I haven't seen anything

so enthralling the

that's just so dull

it is you're all out

it's called the U9

the U9

why

how about I'll change that to the Uron

yeah

Lamborghini Urus

MG

now a Uron

and that Alfa

Maya what's that

toenail

and that's

your car quiz gents

I'm looking at the interior

and like the shifter that they've got

for it

is it very phallically

objected

no it's kind of

you got to grip it like this

it's all down on it

yeah it's almost kind of like a

throttle

oh the size of it

the size of it David

the size of it

you'd never get it down the driveway

hey Rob

I think you fend your replacement for your transit mate

oh no

I'll get the shark before I get the U9

I don't mind the shark

not going round Australia in the bloody shark Rob

I'm going in a shark

you can go in a shark but not

round Australia not going touring in a shark

I can plug in the fridge

use my induction stove

you won't be able to move

what it's a rolling generator

it is quite literally a rolling generator

it's all it is

he's a rolling generator

I'm with you

I'm seeing sharks everywhere too

yeah but they just want to be builders

who drive around with a laptop

and don't actually do anything with it

well it's exactly what

ranger up the drivers are

exactly the same drivers ranger up that's fine

but Rob is talking about going around the country

you know being self-sufficient that's not your car

why not

you need a nice

turbo diesel

with a caravan on the back

no caravan just a rooftop tent

that's it mate 380

380 is what's where it's at

I love a rooftop tent but it's tight up there Rob

it's not you know

the wife won't like it but you know

this is going to be cramped up there

it's fine for me you know

Debbie will be like I'll sleep in the tunnel

caravan where you can sit and play cards at the table

can't feel the seats in the 380

come on like that's not the month

the 380

one

score check gentlemen

put a towbar on the 380 and tow a little 5 grand caravan

it's perfect

I think it's got a towbar on it

I think it does

this story is writing itself

it's on gas too

even better

so nothing can get gas in the country but

the way you can get it you can do a bit of gas

absolutely

they're cracking a 380

with a little blight weight pop top on the back

you can get those little A-vans

they're up

they're about 10 grand

this is a cheap way to get around Australia

I'm with you

it's being 780 on these

behemoth vans you can't park

you're unreliable or all european

no good

380 SCC rooftop tent

in the way van

is that where you can play UNO

scrabble with a wife

fantastic

many hours of fun

well what do you think you're going to do in the van

it's the same thing

yeah alright

I can't take the push bikes

and tow the motorbike and all that sort of stuff

I'm just going to throw it out there and just say

dodge ram

TRX

I might win that

there's your answer

and that comes with a caravan 2 to TRX

happy days

happy days Rob

score check from the quiz

Rob didn't get the score tonight Rob

Scotty on 1

Edward on 4

and tonight's winner on a grand title of 5 is Mr David Prince

well done

some interesting

trivia and

now you know that powder finger

back on the screens with the Ford Ranger

so there you go that's a

it's a wonderful world

and that the

Ferrari as a brand has outsold the

chord

when I saw that today I blew my mind

I was like what the hell how does that even

happen

changing automotive landscape

yes let's just say that

certainly is

I think that's a podcast

thank you mate yep yep

thank you

let's do some plugs

Rob's doing it

he's firefighting electrical neighbour heating

380 restoring

camping

Ford paint punching on with

Ranger driving

what else have you been doing recently Rob

the neighbours moving out across Australia

hopefully they have a 3 we'll move out and I'll be right

yeah that's it 100%

you're getting rid of them Rob I like it

you

absolutely

imagine being in a

street

I can see it now

that would be

sick

hop over to borrow a cup of

sugar and maybe an 18mm

you know high tensile socket

absolutely

hoist

hoist there

can I borrow your hoist

can I bring it over

I can eat

please

right a iconic store

out in the street no one's going to complain

we will be happily

letting you put that car on the street

you walk out to your car and it's got

all this over spray on it and you are

Rob's being angry

what's that midline

on your car

he's painting

something there fella

oh there's another fire

he's been welding

another LTD

on fire it's alright

we'll be out

street so we'll just block it off

100%

it'll be a good Christmas party too

imagine the block parties we could have

imagine

winning the block you know the one that you know

flip on where all the house

yeah yeah do that

I can see it now

David Prince's Wisdom

or

do I want you to die

but on all the others we're not

that is true

yeah good one like it

live your life

I heard one recently which I've heard before

but it resonated with me I liked it

life is not a dress rehearsal

it isn't a practice run

if you want to do it do it

it's a bit of Ed Wisdom

it is

anything you guys want to plug

Honda CRV

seem to be for sale low case

your mate didn't want

oh he's thinking about it which means no

low case

sorry low case

low case if you ignore the first digit

yeah

it's a half thousand

cracker

yeah not bad

what are you after for that Edward

three and a half

yeah it's fair

but with road we're still in December

timing belt just done

alright

belts just done radiator

just done

what did you think about that Mazda 6MPS

I

had a look at that

I quite liked it

I thought true you could bring that back

but then as per the question I asked

what's a cracker worth are they

12 are they 13

are they 9

it's so hard because

there's not that many

pop up and

and it's done 200k which is not

crazy case but it's still something

if it had done 140

or something a bit more

you might be able to ask 12,990 for that

and maybe it's worth doing

if it's only an 8 or 9 grand

or a 10 grand

it's like oh you're getting tight

not much enough to flip it

yeah I get you

that BMW that I

sent to graze the little 320i

I lost money on that I lost like four or five hundred dollars on it

anyway

it went to someone and sure enough the next day

popped up on facebook

marketplace for four and a half

and then it was four two and now it's three

eight I saved it it's going down by the day

good luck with that

I did

I think it was about 320

you think it will get down to 320

is that what you said David

I don't think we heard about the 320

oh it was just a little

a white 320i

it's down to three eight now

you know

the E90 shape

2006 it's

the one that I sold to

my work colleague five years ago

so I ended up buying it back

but it's a bit more bashed around now

and I just sort of cleaned it and sent it to graze

because there were just too many things

ironically it drove really well

like the motor and the trans and the aircon

it was actually a very good driving car

and as it was when I had it

but I sold it to him with 90 on it

it's now done 158

but just you know

it had a bit of a life

it's a sort of a shame

with a few weekends on it

and fix the bumper and put a new interior

mirror and do this and give it a service

and you know it still drives so well

but they're just worth nothing

those early 90s now

they're really sort of

four to five grand cars

so

as I said I lost money on it at graze

so

what do you do

got his golf tip of the week

so

without having trouble hitting the golf ball

don't picture it as

a circle

picture it as just a

like a flat object

because it's easier when you think about it as a flat object

when you're coming down to hit it

so kind of like

picture it as like a rock

or a piece of wood or something

and just don't think about

all those thoughts

of your YouTube clips that you watched of how to swing

just think about

hitting it

and most of the time you're probably not going to miss

like that one Scotty it's a good one

see those thoughts

see you like a beach ball mate

just teeing off

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you keep saying that

we can probably do a Saturday

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