You know how much I love a funny story (7 May 2026)

Marcus talks passwords, early ATMs, and whether the car you've got now is the best car you've had (or if cars peaked 20 years ago).

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Night's podcast from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings, Welcome, good evening. My name is Marcus. Here til
twelve o'clock tonight. I hope it's good where you are,
and if it's not good, I hope it gets better
by the time I go home at twelve o'clock tonight.
Today is today is all sorts of things, right, But
what today is, amongst other things, is World Password Day.

(00:38):
Now that's neither here nor there. But as I read
that today, I was thinking back to my not so
much my password, but but my pin number. And I
have a pin number that's on all my money cards
that's also on my phone that goes back to and
I'm just trying to think how far it went back to.
I think it went back to when the first money

(00:58):
machine might have been in country Wide Bank and you
mark and I think it was nineteen eighty. It's pretty
good to stick with the same pin number for forty
six That's how long I believe it is. So anyway,
I'm curious to know if anyone stayed with their whole
pin number that long. But then again, I can't see confirmation,
and I could swear black and blue that the first
ATM machine was there was country Wide Bank or something

(01:19):
like that, New Market and about nineteen I'm sure it
was nineteen seventy nine or nineteen eighty. Serious is eighty one,
but I'm not sure that, or maybe it was. Yeah,
I don't even know when it was. Maybe because it
was a building society, it wasn't got a bank card.
What the heck we building societies anyway. So I am
talking about that tonight, amongst other things. So if you

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got if you've had a pin number for that long,
I don't know what an interesting thing you'd say about that,
but I'm kind of curious. Feel free to come through
and a pine on that. The other thing I am
thinking about tonight, and I'll chuck everything at you tonight.
Do cars get better all the time? And I'm thinking
about if I asked you what was the best car

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you ever owned, would it be the car you own now?
Because otherwise, if I'm asking you the best car you
ever owned and it's a car from a long ago,
then that's in fact implying that cars aren't getting better.
I don't know where we are on that. They're certainly
getting more convenient and more economical and doing more things?
Are they getting better? So the question I'm asking you

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is the best car you've ever owned the car you
own now? Otherwise, tell me what the best car you've
owned it was? And why I don't think I know
what the best car I've ever owned was. They seem
to get progressively better, but sort of slightly more mean spirited.
So yes, that's something you could mention too. Is the
best car you've ever owned the car you've got now
a car that you owned earlier eight hundred and eighty

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ten eighty and nine two nine two to text does
remind me to of the question where the first money
machines were? I'm sure it was seventy nine, Ben says
my first My pin number is my student ID from
high school. That's twenty one years. I could double that,
David Atton re joins Dick van Dyke tomorrow. That's right,
both sintena at centenarians, along with Barbara Cartlin and the

(03:06):
Queen's mother Marcus. Yes, I had the same pin numbers
as I got my first ATM card at thirteen years
old in nineteen ninety six. Never need to change because
nobody ever would guess it. I've never changed mine. Mind's
a great number. Although we did meet a girl and
shared the same pin number because it was her birthday.
I'm not saying when her birthday was, Marcus. I went

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to Botany post shop yesterday and they wouldn't accept cash
to mail cards. I thought it was outrageous that the
government department's cutting off cash interest in what you think, Oh,
that couldn't be true. Yeah, Matt, it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening,
Good a Marcus.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Thanks for your time, my pleasure.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
Man, I'm ringing.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
I'm ringing about the car conversation.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah, So I've got a twenty twenty five Volkswagen am Rock,
which has all the bells and whistles that reads everything
out and wants to do everything for you. That's the problem.
But the best car were still own is a Ford Territory,
a Titanium, and there's a lot of reasons for that,
because it's got one of a straight six, real simple
engine for maintaining seven seeds if you want it. And

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it's not got all the fancy bells and whistles that
the modern cars have, but incredibly reliable semi old school engine,
but still looks pretty stylish and pretty nice with the
leather and everything are what you think. It's a twenty
fourteen for they finished running them out actually from Australia,

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and we're finding it really hard to actually get rid
of it because it's such a reliable still a stunt
smart looking car and it's got a lot of power
but real simple to maintain, real easy engine.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
So if you found another low mileage one would you
get that is to replace the one you've got.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Now at some.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Point we'll have to because of its age, but it's
pretty hard to give up as a family.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
I measure to be impossible of If you find your
sweet car, you'll want wonder that's just the same, ain't you.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
That's right?

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yes, it uses a ton of gas because it's one
of those old school six cylinders, but if you look
at buying a new car for sixty seventy thousand, that's
a lot of petrols with as well, So it's a
bit of a trade off, right what.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Do you do?

Speaker 4 (05:22):
But we love it. It tos beautifully TOAs both beautifully
as family and my wife used it hugely when the
kids were young, for changing the kids at the supermarket
and the boots she lifted up. She was protected by
the rain. Most SUVs can do that. But it is
a very universal car. Then we would highly recommend them,

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but you can't buy them anymore.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Why did you buy the arm Orrock because your two
car family? Is that?

Speaker 7 (05:46):
Right?

Speaker 4 (05:48):
No, this is a lovely big six cylinder one as well,
and it's got all the bells and whistles. It's work
for work more than anything. The territories the family car
that we use if we're traveling somewhere, just because it's
got such a lovely ride, and.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
How they are on the road.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
How far is the territory done on the clock.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Oh, it's actually only done one hundred and thirty thousand
k's Because my wife uses at day to day. It's
more of a wagon for running kids around everywhere. But
we do use it for our holidays because it's such
a nice such a nice vehicle.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
When will you get rid of it?

Speaker 2 (06:24):
When will we get.

Speaker 8 (06:25):
Rid of it?

Speaker 4 (06:26):
When it gets too expensive to maintain? I suppose, But
it doesn't cost us anything. It's got the same engine
that Falcons in Australia have got, that of taxis that
have done one point one million k's. When you get
in a drill and gadder and you get in one
of those old Falcons. You know they're still running them
to a million k's so you know they're a beautiful
engine and they are really nice car. It's just worn really,

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really well.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
So you think, you think if you do the old
change and stuff, you want to have that for other
ten years? Is that right?

Speaker 8 (06:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (06:54):
It is.

Speaker 10 (06:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
We do an oil change every ten thousand kilometers and
it just goes beautifully. It doesn't cost us anything. So
if listeners are listening, you can get your hands on one.
I'd highly recommend them. We've got the titanium, the top
spick one, but at the time it was really expensive,
but it certainly paid off three the years.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Let's talk thanks so much. Our car is getting better?
Have they peaked? That's the question of asking is what's
the best car you've ever owned? Is that the car
you've got now? Found that interesting? And pin numbers do
do do? The best car was a twenty eight sl
Mercedes ninety in sixty nine and loved it, sold it
so sad, then replaced it with the same model but
different color. So you might have found you forever car

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that you've gone back and owned more than once and
pin numbers. The full heat of Ford engine was the
duck snuts. Whatever that means, what a rich prick. My
twenty fourteen fort terator is old. I've ever been able
to forty things anywhere near like that. The arrogance of

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some people and he can afford a new armoroc. There
we go, car Envy two. But the best cave you
ever owned? And are they getting better? Or have they
peaked in the longest time you've had a password or
a pin number? So yeah, I recognizineteen it's nineteen seventy
nine to nineteen eighty Marcus. I've recently had my nineteen

(08:18):
ninety three a Prito short wheelbase manual devastated to a car.
Oh now there's a word missing from the text, and
understand it. But you said to we're on about eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine to
the text forever cars, and that is the best cave
you've ever had, the car you've got now, or if
it's something else, then probably cars have peaked, That's why

(08:40):
I am talking about. I don't know if they have,
but I imagine probably with the way the world economy's gone,
they've got to cut corners and make them cheaper, so
they're not as well made for them to be competitive.
Would I be right? It's probably the feel of the
doors shutting, something like that. So we're on about tonight
and pin numbers in the country's first ATM machines, where

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were they not necessarily from banks, but from building societies.
My wife still uses the same pin she was given
by Westpac in nine nineteen eighty four. Best carry of
Rome was my last one that now my daughter in
law owns MITSI rx R Sedan Getting touched you on
Talk seventeen past eight, looking forward to some lines. They're

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free South and sharks over the Taranaki ears thirty seven,
thirty five go the sharks have cars. Peake, Dan are
getting worse? Oh please discuss eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty twenty past eight. People are going to be flack
for calling it a pin number. They say the word
number is in pin. But I think it'd sound weird
if you said pin without number. After the end fight

(09:44):
me for that pin number. Always said pin number, pin number,
dB Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Well, we say asb bank yes, and don't as sir yes.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well, we wouldn't even say I'm just after the ASB,
or you might say that actually, yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well it was the ASB originally and then they became
the each Bank and I could never get that one.
I'd like to apologize to my detractors. I am still
alive and I haven't did the desk cars. The car now,
which is a Ford Cougar spell KGA, the Titanium model,

(10:25):
is the best car I've ever owned, hands down. Those
saying that to a friend of mine the other yesterday,
I was being a tour guide yesterday paid things. But
it has some annoyances that drive me up the wall,
like lane keeping.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Terrible thing.

Speaker 6 (10:46):
When I first got it, I finally managed to find
the button that turned out off. But I've owned it
now eighteen months and I am still finding out things
that it does, like if you hold the cob at
lock button down, all the windows will open. Good yes,
And it's a design thing so that in summer you

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can hear your car out and if you hold the
lock button it'll close all the windows. Now I need
you learnt that. Say, six weeks ago, I was watching
a thing on YouTube saying all cars basically after twenty
twelve or fourteen come with headlight washers. I read my

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car doesn't come with that. So next time I washed
my windscreen, I just kept an eye out, and yeah,
over the front of the bottom came two squirts for
each of my headlights.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
So how are they initiated?

Speaker 2 (11:43):
There?

Speaker 6 (11:44):
If you've got your headlights on, if you wash your windscreen,
it happens automatically. They come out of the fun bumper.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
But you could you could never see it.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
Yeah, that's right, that's I never knew they were there
until after I read that. I paid attention and I
could see the little squirts.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
How would you pay attention?

Speaker 6 (12:07):
Well, I watched my windskirt. I wondered where the extra
water was coming from.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Okay, but you couldn't see it coming out because you'd
be in the seat in the car, wouldn't you.

Speaker 11 (12:13):
That's right?

Speaker 6 (12:14):
But you could see it spread over the bonnet, and
I suddenly went, ah, I know what that is.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Now, hang on, you need to tell me. So is
the water coming from right beside the headlights? So it's coming.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
From So there's a little square underneath my headlights, which
I just thought was decorative. Apparently because I still even
managed to get anybody to do it. While I watch it.
It pops out and behind it is a squatter and
washes the headlights and then disappears again. And once you
know what to look for, you see them on most

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modern cars.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
What year is the Ford Cougar?

Speaker 6 (12:50):
My one's fourteen. I bought it completely sight I'd seen
I was listed as the turners up in Timaru. It
had everything I wanted for wheel drive, entertainment system, you know,
blue seas and all that. I went out have that,
and it was cheap. And when I went up there,
it was I Saturday, and I thought I'd gone to

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the driver's seat of the starship Enterprise.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
It was happy customer.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah and yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:17):
It's took three or four weeks just to get rid
of the normal buttons, but I am still learning what
the thing will do.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
That's the best cave. It's the best cave ever owned.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
Hands down. It's not necessarily my favorite car, but it's
sort of the best.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Nice to talk, Thank you, Malcolm, Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 12 (13:36):
Yes, hi Marcus. It's Malcolm's beginning. I worked in White
Cattle Savings Bank in nineteen seventy nine when we brought
in the first two ATMs in New Zealand and also
I think Karanaki Savings Bank brought in one at the
same time. They were through the wall, and customers used
to say, oh, why do why do we only like

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to use a machine? We like captain, we like tellers,
And it took us some nice, attractive young lady used
to do demonstrations before people would actually use them. And
those were the days. Anyhow, the interesting days they were.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
What was over the bank the Waikoto It was.

Speaker 12 (14:17):
Waycata Savings Bank, then it became Truss Bank Wayhadow and
then they took her over. Westpact took them over, took
them over and TSB is still still in existence in
New Produth.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
What was the thinking, Why were they so early to
get the machines?

Speaker 12 (14:34):
Well, we went online, you know, with computers, which was
one of the first banks to do that. So we
had were everything was connected online, so it wasn't too
much of a problem to put a self service transaction
machine beside to tell us. So we had one inside
that we could demonstrate and one through the through the

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wall at Woolworth at the time in main Street. And
the first complaint we had was liver from the from
the receipts being dropped on the floor.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
How was that resolved?

Speaker 12 (15:08):
Well, they had very good bins fit in the end
and encouraged people to put them in the bin. And
of course you had the choice of either getting a
receipt or not.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Where were the bins? It was little bins on the machine.

Speaker 13 (15:25):
Was there on the machine? On the machines.

Speaker 8 (15:27):
There's still are.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Slots you put the receipver, isn't there?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yes, yep.

Speaker 12 (15:35):
So people used to drop them, you know, just just
pack them up, look at the paper and drop them.
But we resolved that with good disposable bins. But they
took quite a while to get people in a conditioned
to using them. And now, of course it's the other
way around that people don't like to stand in the queue.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Well, it was interesting because you couldn't get money in
the weekend. You needed machines. But you've had chicks, so
you could buy things with chicks, couldn't you. The check
book was the great healer.

Speaker 12 (16:02):
Yes, Well, from what I remember, we didn't run seven
days a week because the computer system was only run
running six days a week. So there was one day
that for a very short time where they could only
operate six days a week.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, that sounds daff doesn't it.

Speaker 12 (16:18):
It does, but that was why they took so long
to come in, because they had to be online with
a computer that was running all the time.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Brilliant. Okay, I find it very interesting, Malcolm. Thank you.
You are right, Marcus. It's your pin number. Of course.
It is best car of ever run in fifty years.
Is my current twenty sixteen Ford Falcon x R six,
the last of the Falcon, same engine is the territory
brilliant to drive goodness. The best carry of ron was

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also the worst carry of row. Now we're getting it
with an F type Jaguar success of the E type
two set of V six top speed two fifty k's.
It had a terrible problem of occasionally revving up to
about three thousand revs while waiting at the lights. My
brakes only just held its stationary. Because the problem is
intimitted and not easier repeatable, I dumped it back with
a dealership who solid to me and told them to

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fix the problem. I now drive a more modest A
one Audi Marcus, the nineteen ninety three to two out
a Prada. I had it for twenty seven years and
was devastated when style I'm now driving a Super I Legacy,
and I'm feel like I'm driving sitting on the road.
Marcus should probably write for the number of years because however,
building societies went backs, that went banks specifically, then, so

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ATMs may have been quite different. Yeah, there we go.
That's the planned stand our way one hundred and eighty TA.
We're talking about the best cars you've owned and New
Zealand's first cash flow machines. I'm saying seventy nine. Did
you call them a cash flow? Did you call them
an eight? What they what were they called? They called
cash flow machines. I don't know what I mean. Now

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we call them ATMs, don't we or FT pause machines.
It seems like a weird thing to say f pause anything.
I just want to mention chuck at the Max Headle twelve.
Whatever's happening? Best car two thousand gold Toyota fun Cargo.
I guess car'd ever made because my grandfather left it
when he died. Goodness, I should have said that goes

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on the spell of the Ei Rag the car, not
my granddad. Chrostchich people too. Let me know about this
land in the red zone. It's an outsider from christ Chich.
She was so much fussy for so long for people
to get out of the red zone. Now we're getting
the back in there. How are people responding to that?

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A good thing or a bad thing? I've got no answer,
I've got no opinion. But it just seems surprising to me.
No no, no, no, no, no, yes, brilliant pin number,
pin number? How am I feeling about that? Pin number?
And ATMs get in touch? Goodness, it's a plan to stand.

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I'll keep you updated with the news. Brent Crude, all
those sorts of things. Who knows what's happening with Straightiford
moves with some excitement. Last night it was all over
in soul, But now not so much, not so much
at all. And what about the school kid that wasn't
out of the bus because they'd lost their wallet? Apparently
bus drivers should take everyone when they're young. I didn't
know that was a thing. That makes perfect sense. Doesn't
it trouble the olive industry? I see one of the

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big olive companies is shut down. Blah blah blah. Hittle twelve.
If you're a partake, good evening, Jeffrey, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 9 (19:32):
Hello, Marcus. We've talked before. I was the Oh we
spoke about my mother who had the risk Bee for
the custom Piana, remember that one.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (19:46):
This car you ever owned, Marcus was a nineteen sixty
nine Coder Saber. Now, when I own owned that car
and the early nineteen nineties, Social Credit were were an item,
there were jokes about I think his name was Beethan.

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Was it that the Social Credit people all droves Coders
and all this sort of thing. Well, I actually owned one,
and I bought it for one hundred and eighty dollars
because I couldn't afford much more at the time, and
it was the best carry overhead.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
Wow, it would you.

Speaker 9 (20:33):
Would turn the key to start the engine. You never
even heard the starto motor go. It was that reliable.
The smell of an Aori rag, well, god, even a
half soaked early rag. It was just incredible. But you
know the funniest thing about it was, Marcus, was whenever

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you sat it the traffic lights, somebody was sitting beside
you in a Morris minor or it doesn't matter what
it was, at five hundred or a big Aussie V eight.
They'd turn around, they'd look at you and they'd put
their foot down and they had to drag you off.

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And when you got to the next set of traffic lights,
I just arrived there.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
I never thought it would have been quiet.

Speaker 8 (21:27):
It was.

Speaker 9 (21:27):
It was rear engined, so no, it was. It was,
But I mean it wasn't a powerful car at all.
It was only one thousand cc, so yeah, but it
got you there every day. It was so reliable. And

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the saddest thing was Marcus. I was driving up Stuart
Street and Dunedin to go and work in my place
in Conker Valley Road, and but a sun strike must
have been the driver behind me. I stopped at the
lights and this car ran up behind me and ran
into the rear end of it, and the poor wee thing,

(22:11):
the rear guard was caught up with the prop you
know for the ear calling and the rear engine, and
the poor we thing was sitting and going, still going,
still going. But yeah, it was stuffed and funny enough.

(22:31):
They wrote the car off and two weeks later my
father saw it driving around the road. Somebody had restored it.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Do you see them on the road at all now, Jeffrey, sorry,
do you see them on the road at all.

Speaker 9 (22:47):
Oh no, no, no, they were a private import. They were,
they were important, but I think around the Muldown area.
So yeah, yeah, no, never ever seen one. Never seen
one on the road before. I'll tell you what though,
if I did, I would buy one.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah, I don't get a lot of those carts. And
I mean it's a lot. They're old, now, aren't they.
I mean that's sixty years old. They're not expecting to
see those.

Speaker 9 (23:16):
Well, you know the Chickeners of Vargain. They were actually
built by a company that originally made push bikes, and
then in World War Two, the Russians used they updated
the factory to manufacture the the mojas that drove the

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tank turrets in the Russian tanks, and that's where they
got there. That's where they started to kind of move on.
And after the war they started making automobiles. Of course,
scoder now is what our police force use is there.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Look, do you remember who made Do you remember who
made those comments about social credit and scoders?

Speaker 9 (24:06):
Oh wow, just on the day those days.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
I mean, who was famous for corning that phrase? Do
you remember?

Speaker 8 (24:16):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (24:18):
No, I'm sorry, Marcus, I don't. I don't remember who
it was, but.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
It was social credit was always aligned to compared with
crimpling suits and scot of cars, wasn't it?

Speaker 9 (24:31):
That's right?

Speaker 3 (24:33):
You called? You called about custard in twenty twenty two,
was it?

Speaker 11 (24:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (24:40):
It's interesting, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (24:42):
Okay, how do you know that.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
I've got a database on topics? Oh okay, I'm going
to have a database on topics because I'm in trouble
if I mentioned roundabouts too often, so I keep a register.

Speaker 9 (24:55):
Oh okay. By the way, there was a huge excident
at aroundabout and to lead a couple of days ago,
somehow somebody went on a huge, huge roundabout which is
one is called fullbree Corner and minister drive into a
lamp post to shut the shut shut the round about

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for an hour and a half. All the buses couldn't
get through because I'm a bus driller and it's a huge,
big round about. How the hell they are a lamp post?
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Marcus's what's your private vehicle now, Jeffrey.

Speaker 9 (25:36):
I've got a Toyota Ractus and it's it's a bit
like the size of a Toyda that Jairs. It's got,
it's got the Toyota thirteen twenty cc engine in it.
It's bulletproof, economical, un believable, how economical. I went to

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a family do almost a month ago in Central Otaga.
So when I got back, I was down to half
a tank. So I thawed it right up, and I've
only just got it down to half a tank again.
The falling up the other day.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Just got to talk to you every Thank you so much.
Maybe someone might know more about those Scola comments about
social credit. Twenty away from nine hit L twelve The
Bitter End eight hundred and eighty ten eighty catch you.
So I'm looking at that guys. Can we you say
it was trying to raptor? Is that what it was?

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I no, what was that guy's car? That last guy
that he said was like, was Azuki raptor? I find
when he says car's meant to look it up? And
I got bizzy reading someone else. Well, that last guy
says car was the one he owns Now the bus driver.
Get in touch people if you can Hittel twelve lines
free best cave of Verne. The car's getting better or worse? Marcus.

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Another evening of hot topics. We have to say fitting
pretty stinct that the council is considering building again in
the red zone. Lost our mum in the earthquake years
while she spent her final days in a broken red
stick at home. That was her most favorite place. The
land in the s running area have a memory which
should be used, shouldn't be used for profit. In my eyes,
it's tapu. Let nature take it bad, Let it be.

(27:27):
Marcus forty four years been an all claned six accounts
with three banks and three building societies, including my current
bank Stebision in two thousand, thanks for late Jamanderton. Same
pin number for all accounts, plus remote to all twenty
seven mobile phones. It's the coastal code postal code for
my small town where I was born. Marcus no a

(27:50):
young goo as four jobs at the same time while
at school and four vehicles, some better than his teachers,
including a V eight VW two rig. Currently owns a business,
houses homes in Tesla Feete. What's this about Tiota Rectus
Cam Marcus, Welcome, Hello.

Speaker 14 (28:07):
I was just calling up to give you the name
of the car the gentleman called up with last. Well,
it's a Toyota Rector. They came out about two thousand
and three. A little thirteen hundred. It's kind of like
a mini minivan, but it looks like a Corolla and
it's a little CBT gearbox and a power button and
they really go for it. A little thirteen hundred, real

(28:29):
racy little go carts like great cars.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Wow, how are you a dealer?

Speaker 10 (28:35):
No?

Speaker 14 (28:35):
No, no, My mother had one up in the Coramandle.
We used to have a Ha Hay liquor shop and
we used to use it to do runs between Cooked
Beech and Ha Hai and we'd put the back seats
down and fill the thing up with alcohol and shit.
You get a quick run between those two when you
needed some mood.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Drop down the shoppers. They'd be a good trade, the
feeble finding it on the holiday running out.

Speaker 14 (28:58):
Yeah yeah, Well, the only thing about them they've got
the CVT gearbox. If you're not used to that. It
sits at a constant rear that accelerate, so it's quite strange.
But they've got belts and things in the gearbox, so
you're going to service them really regularly.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
What they're called Arector Rectus run activity and space.

Speaker 14 (29:19):
Yeah, that'll be it. My friend used to give me
heaps about it. They sound like a dinosaur, don't they erectus?

Speaker 8 (29:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (29:26):
But from memory, it had pedal ships as well, so
it was like a Nana's car with pedal shifts.

Speaker 15 (29:31):
Now are crazy?

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Excuse me once? What are pedal shifts?

Speaker 14 (29:35):
The pedal shifts are the gear pedals behind the steering wheel,
just like you're playing a PlayStation or Xbox. It's like
a computer game. So you know it's an automatic gearbox where.

Speaker 16 (29:46):
You can shift up or down.

Speaker 14 (29:47):
Oh wow, behind the behind the steering wheel.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
There, Oh, I feel like Louis. You'd feel like Lewis
Hamilton were those.

Speaker 14 (29:56):
I don't know if you feel like Lewis Hamilton and
Erectors full of vodka? But yeah, I suppose where are you?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
I just try to work out the commute. You're going
from the bottles? Sure, the shop is in Haja. You
going from Hajey to wear Yeah.

Speaker 14 (30:10):
So the base was Cook's Beach. That's where the deliveries
would come in, and we had the other shop was
over in ha Hai. So to shoot out of Cook's
Beach around to ha Hai, it was about a ten
minutes ten minute drive quarter.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
Of now drive.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
So you'd be a license to print money, a liquor
shop and hahey, wouldn't it.

Speaker 14 (30:32):
Oh's to see it's brilliant. I mean people when it's
raining and they couldn't go to the beach, what do
they do when they want to go to the beach?

Speaker 2 (30:40):
You know?

Speaker 14 (30:40):
What do they do when they're happy? What do they
do when they said it is a great little, great little.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Liquor shop, perfect model. Thank you so much, Cam fourteen
to nine. I wait one hundred dollars. The rest have
the best best cars, Marcus. I think this go to
guy city was from Hamilton. If so, he might like
to go to Ebbitts as they have a mince Go
to Saber one thousand on display looked fabulous on Facebook.
I think he said he was in Dunedin. Could he
mention Stuart Street and you mentioned kaiker I and he

(31:06):
mentioned the roundabout at Fobury triangulate that and I think
it's swelling at Dunedin. M mind the way you better
vote in the by election? What's the names you guy?
The ex mayor? Go for home, go for gold Aaron.
I think his name was Anyway Hurdle twelve fourteen to nine,
whom I always thought it was Bob Jones that made

(31:28):
the Social Credit sCOD of comments, but I might be
wrong about that. People come through. My parents were followers
of the Social Credit Party when I was young. Leader
was Bruce Beatham. We lived in christ Church. Bruce's area
was Wigram Funny Wreathe. Scoters never knew that dad proudly
drove a Ford Falken. Someone said that's got to be

(31:49):
one of the questions for the quiz from Cam. What
did Cam deliver in the back of his rector? I
think it's a good question, Dan, What do you think
You think it's too many questions now? It's good though, Yeah,
what Cram live in the back of his rectus? Alca
pops to the kids of Hahey on going from a
Hahe to Cook's Beach. Hittle twelve people pin numbers? Are

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cars getting worse? And by that I'm saying if the
car your own now is not the best cave ever own,
then they're not getting any better are They don't smell
like cars used to smell. They haven't got their theft,
the leather or theirhift. And I don't think we treat
them as forever cars either, because they are more expendable.

(32:33):
They were expendable. Get in touch. Hittle twelve nine from
nine anything goes. I don't know that I remember that
guy talking about Custard, and I felt bad about that
because I see, yes, I did remember it actually, and
I'm normally pretty honest about that, because I normally do
remember when people but I don't or I don't recognize
what he talked about. He might have been about that

(32:54):
sesame or Custard. And as grant as mother had the recipe,
So yes, that to me, hit'll twelve oh way one
hundred eighty ten eighty get in touch. Anyone else got
a rectus with the adults? How good's cam? How good
could a guy just mention the thing and then come
through with the whole topic about it, like talk about
leaning in to the topic. That's probably the best thing

(33:16):
I've ever heard from him about the ractus liberty flip flip.
We'll check on the rat virus later on to day.
You know, I'm big on that. That touches all my
key points, pandemic on a ship, dynamic story inhaling of rats.
So yes, that's something if you want to talk about too,
Feel free eight hundred and eighty toy and nineteen ninety

(33:37):
text anything else and people moving into the red zone
and Christ Jurge, I don't know why I feel so
strange about that, just because for so long people didn't
want to leave, and now it feels like it's only
five minutes ago. Now they're sitting them back. Please discuss
O eight one hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two
nine to de text hehit'll twelve looking forward to your
pots inputs input puts here the end. Good evening one

(34:00):
of us. Marcus welcome, Old Way one hundred and eighty
ten eighty Just talking a Dan about the was the
quick before that?

Speaker 17 (34:07):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (34:07):
What was the thing about there? Oh? Yes, no, I
couldn't underhear that properly, Marcus. A car is not as good?
Or are we now too fussy? And a really high expectations?
Great topic evening, Marcus. I drive a Ford career man,
your love it. My partner's a Ford raptor. It drives him.

(34:27):
What do you think is the best driver in the
New Zealand government. That's a pretty out there question. Wow,
be in touch if you want to be good even Greg.
It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Hey, Marcus, I just.

Speaker 6 (34:39):
Thought to make a comment about, you know, the idea
of putting houses back in the red zone. So I
live in christ It so after the earthquake, there was
sometime after the earthquake there was a documentary about a
documentary that had never been recorded, maybe twenty years before

(35:01):
the earthqake, maybe even thirty years before the earthquake, and
it was regarding some engineers who had gone around and
pointed out that the dangers that existed in christ Church,
and that the council was at that time usefully overlooking
so and some of those dangers turned into objects that

(35:24):
killed people during the earthquake. And also had pointed out this,
you know, the swampy land out in the red zone.
So I would be really disappointed if we reverted back
to because it's easy, what would seem to be an
easy take to take that land and turned into housing
in so you know, all the things could properly.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
It could be a very good land for houses that
are built with wooden framing or something. I mean, I
certainly think the houses with what we know now would
be safe there, wouldn't they, But it'd have to be
built very differently.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
Marcus, have you ever been in an earthquake?

Speaker 3 (36:03):
No, That's why I'm asking you.

Speaker 6 (36:05):
Yeah, let me tell you. When the earth moves, it's
like nothing you've ever felt or experienced in your life,
Like there is no rhyme nor reason to it. It
goes all over the place. You might have the best
engineered building in the world, it can still become a
victim of an earthquake because the land moves so suddenly

(36:26):
and in different directions. So you know, honestly, you know,
I've seen it all when it comes to earthquakes. I
was right in the middle of it in the CBD.
And you know, any person who thinks it's a great
idea to use swampy land to build something, well, you know,
well they say about building houses on sand and all
that sort of stuff in the Bible. Well it might

(36:48):
have been good advice at the time, don't you think.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
If it wasn't the Bible that the wise man build
his house abond the rocks Hitdle twelve eight past nine,
Michael thinks hanging there over the news. Good evening, Mark, Hi.

Speaker 18 (37:03):
Michael, Yeah, Hey, I'm not true if you met old
vehicles or high mirage once. But I've got two vehicles,
a motorbike and a car, and they've both done over
four hundred thousand kilometers each.

Speaker 5 (37:21):
What's the car Toyota?

Speaker 3 (37:24):
What what? What? What model?

Speaker 16 (37:27):
Camera?

Speaker 3 (37:28):
It's a good run in it. Have you had to
do much to it? Pudden you had to do? Have
you changed the engineerything?

Speaker 19 (37:34):
No?

Speaker 18 (37:35):
No, it's just I didn't buy it from you. However,
my motorbike I bought from you nineteen eighty one and
it's done four hundred and fifteen thousand kilometers and I've
set on the seat for every kilometer.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Is a trailbike? Is it a trailbike?

Speaker 18 (37:58):
No, No, it's just a well X three seven fifty. Yeah,
it's done four hundred and fifteen thousand kilometers with me
sitting on it holding the handlebars.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
It's pretty remarkable.

Speaker 8 (38:15):
Oh, yes, and no.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
And the question, Michael, the question is asking is are
cars getting better? Or is the best car You've owned
a Carr on the in the past. But I guess
you have owned a recent car. Your camera is only one,
is it?

Speaker 2 (38:31):
No?

Speaker 18 (38:31):
I think the I think the old cars and the
old bokes were better.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
But have you is the camera the only car you've got?

Speaker 18 (38:39):
Correct?

Speaker 11 (38:40):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (38:40):
No, no, no, I've all got also got Evo ten
and I've got a GTR two three two.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
But the camera is the best one you've ever had?

Speaker 18 (38:53):
What does that say?

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Say it again?

Speaker 18 (38:56):
It's done four hundred thousand. The EVA has only done
twenty twenty three thousand.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Okay, copy that. Nice to have one in my I
call thank you ten pas nine. Ay, just thinking about
the guy they spoke before the news, right Greg, in
the Red zone. We'll keep talking about cars and pin numbers.
But with the Red Zone. I thought, now, once we

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learned from the Japanese, you could live anywhere if you're
built right. I thought, now you could build houses on
pads that could survive any quake. Whether people would want
to live in one, I don't know, but yeah, if
you want to talk about that, would you live in
the red zone? That's what I'm curious to know about. Yeah,

(39:48):
so if you got something to mentioned about that, get
in touch. Oh eight hundred detext and the best cave
ever owned. And I have never lived through a quake.
I've experienced quakes, but not severe ones. So yeah, I
don't know whether people would. I don't where where the
emotion would override the trust in heaven the engineers. Yeah,

(40:14):
so you get in touch on talk about that. Our
weight one hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
to detect monuments. Marcus welcome, HDDLE twelve, Good evening, Jim welcome.

Speaker 20 (40:25):
Oh hi Marcus. No, I'm an old social creditor. Not
many of us left.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
No good on you. Is this someone you can vote
for now?

Speaker 9 (40:35):
No?

Speaker 20 (40:35):
Well, we can't be registered because we can't. Must have
five hundred dollars fair enough. Most of them are gone
to a better world now. The statement about social creditors
in the eighties driving scoders goes back to the nineteen
eighty four packering a seat. Now, Neil Morrison one seat

(40:57):
for social credit was a huge upset. Now he defeated
the national candidate, Pat Hunt Now patterns of two tens
and pack oranger, and he really split the dummy after
he got beaten by one hundred and seventy two votes.
And the exact quote of Pat Haunts was social credit

(41:18):
voters are the Scoda brigade and crimpling suit contingent. That's
what he accused them of.

Speaker 16 (41:24):
Dead.

Speaker 20 (41:24):
Well, I've never driven the sCOD I wouldn't even know
what a crimpling.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Suit was, and I don't know that Neil, what was
the name Neil Morrison?

Speaker 17 (41:31):
Is that right?

Speaker 20 (41:31):
Neil Morrison. Yeah, he would have.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
He would have driven a scoter either, would he.

Speaker 20 (41:37):
Well, the irony of it was before he was elected
who was actually a mechanic. Okay, Now he only served
one term and then Mars Williamson took over the seat
Packerranger seat and he was the MP there for many
many years. Yeah, you know, did a great job, very
popular Morris.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Because I'm thinking of the I'm thinking of the type five.
We've got Bruce Breeth, we've got Gary Knap, we've got
Neil Morrison. Who else got into government for Social Credit?

Speaker 20 (42:06):
The original one was Verne Cracknell, but way back in
the course, yes, seat up that north you know, the
a lot of the farming population up there got him
behind him. I think they were the only ones John Wrightcott,
but I think that was by the Alliance.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Yep, because they changed that.

Speaker 20 (42:24):
Yeah, Social Credit merged with the Jim Anderton's Alliance parties
and were and Social Credit got a couple of members,
but you know, not on their own merit, but you
know through joining the Alliance part Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Because Garnette was on the North Shore, wasn't He was
a character. He was someone that was well.

Speaker 20 (42:40):
Liked East Coast bars. He actually beat Don Brash. That's right,
keep Don Brash and well Don eventually got into parliament,
you know, but yeah, he won twice. There was a
by election in the East Coast Bace garing Ut won
that and then about a year later or later that
year he won a three year term after that year,

(43:02):
So that was about it. But these days are long gone.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Tell me that the only because we're talking about it
the other day, and you will be the one to answer.
Before MMP came along, what sort of percentage? What percentage
of the vote was Social Credit getting? They're in the twenties,
were they?

Speaker 20 (43:17):
Yeah, nineteen eighty one was their sort of glory election.
We got twenty one percent of the vote and only
two seats carrying that and you know, Bruce Beason of
course cheer. Now. Ironically, Bob Jones's party got only just
below twenty percent in the first post election but didn't
win any seats at all. So I think those sort

(43:40):
of road results sort of led the way to a
movement to change our electrical system.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
It's kind of funny that Social Credit had so much
worked for, you know, to be that third party, such
a big third party, but by the time MMP came along.
They didn't really they didn't well, I guess it was
a single party figure with Bruce Beetham and von Krackner.
Was it that they didn't really have the they'd lost
the Yeah, they'd lost their mojo a bit.

Speaker 20 (44:09):
Oh well, exactly eighty four were from the mid eighties on.
Then you know, later the new parties emerged, you know,
like the Green Party especially Yes, and they sort of
filled the there was a vacuum. You know, we always
have had National and Labor, but there was a sort
of vacuum and various parties now Act of course, and

(44:30):
of course New Zealand first. You know, they've sort of
filled that vacuum. But was more or less only three
parties back in the seventies and eighties or early eighties,
National Labor and Social Credit. But now, you know, god
knows se many parties we've.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Got now, and they come and go to and they flex,
they change and all those sorts of things. Bruce Bruce
beetha Boys seemed to be a fairy serious. I mean,
there was nothing, there was nothing flaky or irresponsible or
I mean he was straighty one eighty. He wasn't like
the politans these days that try to hold the headlines
by saying ridiculous things.

Speaker 20 (45:03):
No, no, exactly. He was originally electric at Waking a
university I.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Think, or run.

Speaker 20 (45:10):
But then he won the ring of Tickie seats. You know,
it was a miracle because that was a you know,
all out farming sort of national type seat for many
years prior and of course it's you know, gone back
to national big time these days.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
What are he lecturing?

Speaker 17 (45:26):
Sorry?

Speaker 9 (45:27):
What was he?

Speaker 3 (45:27):
What was the history lecturer?

Speaker 21 (45:29):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (45:30):
I think so, yeah, yeah, I think it was a lecturer.
Here's something like that. Yeah, and he sort of took
an interest in the whole social credit movement and finished
up the leader god yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Oh yeah, okay, so that was the guy that was
the MP from It was the MP from Paklang that
that got beaten that called them crimpling suited scot of
driving people.

Speaker 20 (45:49):
Yeah, yeah exactly yeah pat Ham. Well he never got
back into parliament because Morris Williamson took over the seat.
So you know, Cam, you've got Calma.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
Really nice to be nice to hear you, Jim, thank
you for that on social credit markets. Marcus. Good evening.
Nice to hear from your mark.

Speaker 22 (46:04):
Yeah, a long time here I think I have to
creet them on that because I remember it being cleaned
so much. The National, not not mass Williamson here was
he was after because it was really aggressive about the scale.
If we weren't scaters?

Speaker 8 (46:16):
Are I how it was?

Speaker 22 (46:18):
And that's through and claim so much. Definitely wonder that
scene the National got it.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Yeah, I was looking at that. I was looking at
the Wikipedia as I spoke that guy who was spot
on with his facts. But that's cool, Mark, but thank
you yep.

Speaker 10 (46:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (46:30):
And with the ATM machines, you know how you said
country wide bank they didn't have their own ATM machines.
I loved for you a couple of years older than
I am, and I remember how it was.

Speaker 23 (46:44):
It was.

Speaker 22 (46:44):
It was any kind of machines excess anytime, which are
the universal machines that the building societies could use. That
United Buildings Society had their own access United and you couldn't.
You couldn't select your own pin number because it was
set on the post.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Yes, I was certainly set in the post. And I've
still got it.

Speaker 22 (47:01):
I haven't got I haven't got mine that. I've still
got the past for with the main man strap on
it for United or the country. Why they got taken
over country? Why I took over United Bank? It was
National Bank. Their names there.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Thanks for that, Mark, Karen, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 24 (47:23):
Good evening, Marcus. I'm sitting here having some fleshbacks to
my days at Hamilton Teachers College. Wow nineteen seventy. Yeah,
I'm old, but no, Brief Beetham was an absolutely marvelous gentleman.

(47:43):
He took our history classes. He would discuss American history,
he would discuss any history. But he was gentlemanly enough
not to ever discuss to credit in our history lessons.

(48:04):
And he and George Marsden, a wonderful Mardy Bloke, another lecturer,
took us way up to Wymati North and we exporlled
way up there. But no, I have a great deal
of respect for Bruce Beason.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Great and a good and you had a good career
as a teacher.

Speaker 25 (48:24):
I'm still relief teaching.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
Sound that sounds terrifying.

Speaker 23 (48:33):
No, I love it.

Speaker 24 (48:34):
I have a passion for children. I've went from pre
school to prison. I've been teaching principal, traveled through South Korea.
You're talking earlier about cars. We had an English essetbared
humber Scepter when I was first married, and there was
a funny little story there that we used to go.

(48:57):
One husband used to go to have Locknoth's Primary and
I went down to Lucknow on our bikes and when
we got the car, we used to say goodbye outside
the butchers. I didn't think anything of it at the time,
but when we got the car, the butcher said to me, oh, Karen,
you need to pay full price. And I looked at

(49:18):
him and I said, what do you mean. He says, well,
we don't get the morning romance if every morning anymore,
so let's going back a day or two.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
But no, I couldn't this, Fred, Thank you for that, Karen.
Twenty past. I keep your calls coming through. Oh twenty
three past nine, good evening, people welcome, Marcus still twelve
social credit we are talking about. That was a third
of the big political parties. Big in the day, Marcus.

(49:52):
I'd be concerned with the insurance companies would ensure a
house in the red zone. Hi, my friend Andy from Partia.
I own an Austin, a thirty five, a van and Austin,
a thirty saloon and a Morris minor all over sevent
years old. All goes well and rather than brings me
much happiness, unlike the modern cars that get stuck stuck
behind me and they get much unhappiness thanks an awesome program.

(50:15):
The moon is just risen giz, but it's bright orange. Marcus.
Would you get insurance in the red zone? That would
be a big factor current callers, so right, never ever
rebuild the red zone? Yep, love it, Marcus. That guy
has been in one earthquake, considers himself an expert in earthquakes.
I've been to my first world in course tonight three hours.

(50:35):
Don't think I'm an expert, but earthquake guy would have
spent about one minute an earthquake. Go figure. I'm sure
the council would have real building experts, engineers advising them.
Cheers Reese. I'm all into that. I mean, I like
the engineering challenge of it. If you got them on
soft you know, houses that flex designed to wobble.

Speaker 20 (50:56):
Malcolmay Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (50:59):
Malcolm?

Speaker 2 (51:01):
No, I've got a very funny story as you've been
talking about social credit, haven't you.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Yes, And you know how much I love a funny story.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Well, I go back to the years of when sort
of credit were in their prime, early prime. They used
to Oh, it used to be a standing joke. They
used to drive the original scooters.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
That's what we've been doing, that's what we've been talking about. Yes,
the column that pet Hunt made about them driving scoters
and wearing crimpling suits.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Yes, yeah, But do you know that the scooter in
those days was the only car to my knowledge that
had There were dreadful cars. I never ruined one. I
had a brilliant car earlier, which was an original FF
one Savarance, brilliant car. Anyway, Apart from that, the front

(52:03):
windscreen and the back windscreen of the original Scooters were interchangeable.
That's the only car I know that ever had that.
They were dreadful cars.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
So the front wind string and the back wind screen
were interchangeable. Yeah, Malcolm, just so can we just so
we can relax? Have we had the funny story yet?
Or is that the funny story?

Speaker 26 (52:30):
Now?

Speaker 2 (52:31):
The funny story was, have you ever seen a car
that had a bubble front wind screen and a bubble
rear wind screen that was interchangeable?

Speaker 3 (52:42):
No, that's funny, but I mean it's sensible.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Well it was, But there were dreadful cars in those days.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Then they started to win rallies and do all sorts
of stuff, didn't they had people's perceptions changed.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
No, it was before that.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
No I'm saying then, I'm saying then.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Yeah, they anyway, they were, but they were cold the
social credits time.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Yeah, malcome sorry. I don't think that was a funny story.
I think that was a ramble, the old Rodney ramble.
I don't know if they and I've hadn't done a
quick google. I don't know if they were interchange all
the winds. We'll probably a windscreen expert winning us ring
us now, Oh, I'm a windscreen expert. Marcus is there right? No,
I doesn't know what he's talking about. We might know
he's talking about interchangeable Oh and living in the red zone.

(53:35):
Living in the red zone, would you could you? Would
you go in the red zone if you're allowed? Would
you go in there and build? It could be relocatable
so that it could be time? Who knows, I don't know,
I'm not I feel the christ Church people should have
speaking rights on this because they're the ones that went
through it. That's my opinion on that. How you're going people,

(53:56):
My name's Marcus Good evening here till twelve. If you
want to partake, I love to hear from your eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two
to text. If you want to be the show, Oh yeah,
so yeah that's the plan. So be in touch if
you want to do there's something else you want to
talk about, I'm up for it and be a part

(54:18):
of it. Mainly we've talked about a car is getting better?
Is the best cave ever? In the cave? Got now
a car? Earlier? We talk about pin numbers. Who's still
got their pin number? I've still got my pin number
from nineteen seventy nine. That's the second topic. The third
topic is Bruce Betham in Social Credit, which is ray
to the Scoder discussion that is a subdiscussion, and also

(54:38):
talking the red zone. They're talking about building and look
and this is how successful christ Judge is that they're
now talking about needing more land because look, during and
after the quake, people were unsure whether christ Church would
continue to exist. Everyone was leaving, they thought, and now
look at it as soon it's going to be twice
the size. Will that be right? It's just got unbelievably

(55:00):
well and people can't wait to move there to live,
so they need more land. And that's what we are
talking about tonight, because these are things that we enjoy
planning and what's going to happen and yadi yadi a.
So if you want to talk about that, it'd be great.
How are you going people, what's happening out there on
mister land? Godness, Marcus. Those scoters did have interchangeable wind screens,

(55:23):
but it was with the Morris eleven hundred as the
British Motor Corporation supplied the screens. And thank you Crichton.
That makes sense to me. Didn't we get our scoters
with some butter deal?

Speaker 8 (55:34):
Is that right?

Speaker 9 (55:35):
We were?

Speaker 3 (55:36):
I think New Zealand did get Scoters dumped here because
of some trade deficit. That's why they were sort of
frowned upon. Yeah, I think that's right. I don't know
if that's true. You know about Scoters in New Zealand. Yes,
it's one of the oldest car manufacturers in the world
one hundred and thirty years. The Scoter's been around, started
with a bike, as they all did. But someone will

(55:58):
know about the history with the New Zealand to do
and that person is not me. And I feel that
we I feel that we're apart from the Trekker, which
we know about. I feel that Scoders did come here
a fair bit, but they're famous mainly for that guy's
comment about social credit people driving Skoders. Anyway, Yadi, Yadi, Yadia.

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The old Scoter was that good and had seven speed wipers.
Mark Estelli show as always, my granddad always rode motorbikes
that continued so well to his seventies do caddies. Nevertheless,
there must have come a point that he decided a
car might be safer from He brought a Scoder, which
was really un cool. He swore they were the best
safest cars, and that was in the early nineties. Changed up, mate,

(56:40):
you always talk christ Church. It's getting boring. Well, I
just mentioned about christ Chich because people like to talk
about christ Church but don't bring the Christchurch hate to
the texts. And I haven't even mentioned the horses tonight.
But the good news is and thank you for that.
It's like saying, don't think of an elephant. The Canterbury

(57:02):
horses are back they are practicing today, or the Crusader horses,
I guess you call them. There's shots of them at Yeah,
footage is surface shown the horses arriving outside the stadium,
followed by practice around the empty venue yesterday. So a
guy that does a show called Boomp for Vintage. A

(57:24):
website has shown footage of them Boomp for Vintage.

Speaker 27 (57:28):
So there we go.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
It's a story that never ends, never ever ends. Yeah,
someone said the horses could graze in the red soone.
I think they're polo horses. I know they're polo horses.
Straits of horn, moves, nothing much. Haven't got any late
breaking stories about that. But if you want to talk,

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that's the situation. A eight hundred eighty eight and nine
nine to text. According to a butler, the nine mistakes
people make at dinner parties turning up empty handed, asking
for the Wi Fi code, drinking too much, sitting down
to early, arriving to but he's snooping around the house,
the rulers don't, forgetting to mention allergies, not knowing when

(58:11):
to leave. Pretty straightforward, isn't it. You've got different topics. God,
nothing's set in stone yet with the horses. Scotty is texted.
A guy walks into a seeper. A guy walks into
a super cheap auto stool walks up to the counter
and says to the attendant, I'd like a petrol cap

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for my Skoda. It sounds like a fair swap, says
the attendant. Cheers Scotty, Hi, Jimmy, it's Marcus.

Speaker 28 (58:42):
Welcome KNA.

Speaker 29 (58:44):
Marcus as spoke to you last time about the roundabout perfect. Yeah, yeah, hey,
listen say a vehicles, favorite vehicles, favor it, most reliable.
I've got a ninety stick prep three four or five PM. Yeah,
just clicked over a twenty down sweet part. They done

(59:06):
try My sons and my daughters finally come back to me.
So yeah, it's got.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
So if you could buy a brand new one of
those you what a so lines is not good, Jimmy,
But thanks for coming through favorite favorite cars or and
I guess what you're saying is if you got the
best car was one you brought twenty years ago, if
you'd buy a new one, you probably could. Marcus, I
heard nothing about something about custard and an out of
my cabin remind me of MP. John biscowed at a

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rounding meeting receiving a Lamington on their head made the
news because he continued speaking with the microphone until it
until after five minutes, which she said, off his head
was his point that important?

Speaker 12 (59:47):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
I remember that guy with the Leamington on his head.
It was a very famous photo. That was when politics
was more interesting. What happened to John Biscowen, but the
Lamington was very famous. Could just sat there like a
little hat, like a port of little hat. Hello payments, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:00:05):
Welcome, h Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:00:07):
I know nobody likes the corrector, but I do want
to correct you on something you said. The Skoda cars
were no part of the butter deal. They were larder cars.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
Oh but when the skodas used for the Trekker engine.

Speaker 21 (01:00:25):
I don't know anything about their engines. I do remember
that the larder cars were made in Russia, and Russia
couldn't afford their butter, so a deal was done to
swap larder cars for butter. And they were the subject
of much derition, those larder cars. And I remember one

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joke about them was their back windows were heated so
that your hands could stay warm as you pushed them
back home.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Sure, yeah, I think there was something because there was
something with the Trekker which was the Yeah, the tricker
was trying. The trigger was built on Scota engines and
that was to do with some trade as well that
the government was involved with.

Speaker 21 (01:01:14):
I don't remember anything about that, but I do know
that the larder cass was swapped.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
For a butter brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
Thank you, get in touch. Oh, eight hundred and eighty,
ten eighty and nineteen ninety two text if you want
to come through heetel twelve, as I say, eight hundred
and eighty, ten eighty and nineteen nine tow to texts
you want to be a part of it, Yeah, Modoch
Marcus welcome, you will be reported.

Speaker 30 (01:01:41):
I'm sorry that lady that was I think there was
a joke about the rare windows being heated.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
Yes, I thought so too.

Speaker 11 (01:01:48):
Yeah, oh yeah I didn't.

Speaker 30 (01:01:50):
She didn't exactly deliver a place one. But I'll go
back to the cars. I think the best cards are
like the early two thousands. I've got a camera and
also like a hundred series Van CRUs around that era
and just honestly just bullet props. Nothing goes wrong with
you know, they got all the mod cons. Yeah, it's
the ones done about three hundred and about five hundred.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
That the case you know so.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
But so that's not the car you drive the whole time, though,
is it.

Speaker 30 (01:02:14):
Nah, I'm pretty priviloged. I get this sort of drive
lots of cars. I'm driving like one am I driving moment?
Like twenty twenty three one of those Ford Reptors. Yeah,
but they'd say, flashy, say those new car. I don't
know if you've seen them, but they should have built
them to fail, you know, the modern motors and even
though they go aloft in that, but they just don't

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seem to have that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
No, there's not a lot of Yeah, people don't have
the love for the new cars, do they.

Speaker 30 (01:02:41):
No, You're right, they don't. Like they don't have any
It's hard to get passionate about them, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
That's right, Okay, So I appreciate the passion. We're not
thank you. Eighteen to ten. The Scoda Trikker was U
Zealand's only locally produced car, famously born from a trade
deal involving cheap chicks of Arking imports in exchange for
New Zealand butter. It utilized and modified Scoda Octovia Chessis
with around two and a half thousand utilitarian boxing units

(01:03:07):
to bypass high car Import Texas. The projector arose from
a butter for scoder parts deal where chick As have
Arkie received dairy products exchange for supplying the mechanical running gear.
So I don't know to be the corrector of the
corrector pat but yeah, Pam, but that was the case.
But also with Lardest, no doubt too. But we're talking

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scoders seventeen to ten. If you want to come through,
beautiful pedtle twelve cars, social credit, get in touch. I
had a scoder in the late eighties. It was fair.
I used to leave it parked on the street with
the keys of the edition. It was never stolen. How

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about that. I'll tell us a lot of stories from
talkback that stay with me, but I think stays would
be like the guy that we're talking about losing your
car and not forget where you packed it. They go
went to the pub and Parmeston North and woke up
the next one he couldn't find his car, and he
spent four weeks on his push bike cycling around Harvest

(01:04:14):
North looking for his car and still couldn't find it.
Then brought another carry brote that for four weeks. On
the fourth week, eight weeks since he'd lost his car.
He saw it around the corner from where he lived,
with the key still in it and everything's still in
it unlocked.

Speaker 9 (01:04:28):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
Yeah, what a story anyway, and told without judgment when
they were the days. I suppose get in touch you
on a talk sixteen away from ten cars, earthquakes, pin numbers,
m H. I think it is International password Day for passwords.

(01:04:53):
I don't know too much about that. I do like
now sometimes your passwords are kept on your phone. That
just seemed ridiculously good. So welcome to the airwaves. People
here till twelve. I'm looking forward to the Mendolori in
a grogu. That's twenty one May. That's out, it'll be
two weeks. I'll check on the hent of viruses. Is

(01:05:13):
the rat one kills half the people it infects? Not
good odds, does it? But it doesn't mean it spreads
far because it kills the host. Well, those ones spread
factor on the ship. Jordan's Marcus, welcome and good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:05:30):
Yeah, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:05:32):
The skater Now the police force have replaced their fleet
with motor cars, and the Skater is now made by Volkswagen.
Since Doning ninety one. Oh yeah, but they used to
be a dog but there right.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Now, what's the best kue overhead John?

Speaker 11 (01:05:51):
Probably my wife had a Toyota Corolla is probably the
best car.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
Oh the old Corona went forever?

Speaker 11 (01:05:58):
Did it went forever? Well? I think they were more
famous than the Model eight because I reckon they went
forever to you. But I think the or and it's
different sort of shapes from Forbes. You can't really go
past it to the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
But for looks, I've always loved a Honda Civic.

Speaker 11 (01:06:15):
Yeah they're good cars too.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Yeah, and you know, for a little you know, it
was always occasionally see her on the road. Now I think, gee,
that was a smart looking car. And it's they were
that brown, great great colors too.

Speaker 11 (01:06:27):
Yeah, they're nice cars, but you know, it's hard there,
I guess if you're going to buy a new car.
I've never had a bad new car. But there's pretty
the juice from wasn't there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
They all look the same though, the old the wind
tunnels meant they're all identical.

Speaker 11 (01:06:45):
Yeah yeah, yeah, they change all the time. But I
think some of those Japanese cars that goes three or
four hundred kill and they never sees me get the
problems problems with them, go.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
And go and go and go and go. Then they
tell you when you got to fix it, which I
think is extraordinary. Nice to talk too. On Thanks so
much to that ten to ten evening, Bruces is Marcus welcome?

Speaker 26 (01:07:14):
Yes, Marcus, how are you good? Thanks Bruce, good Marcus.
I go way way back. I served an apprenticeship as
a motor mechanic in the early nineteen fifties, and it
was always said you'd never buy a car beginning with
s like Stup. Well, that's dead right. You just named

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them more. There's Scoder, there was Simpker, there were Standard,
there was Singer, there was Studie Baker. You know that's
five I think, so sCOD was always rubbish. However, in
nineteen forty nine Lee Scoder, and I think it might
have been it might have been the Octavia or the

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Atrial or something like that. One little Lemin's twenty four
endurance race for its class. Ah, yes, that's a fact.
And they have become such a good car that I
actually bought one new about four years ago. I suppose
I bought a Fabire Monte Carlo and it was a

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great car. It went like a wrap up a drain pipe.
And you know the only problem. I'd still have that
car today. The only problem was that I couldn't adjust
the seat. I could adjust the seat, but my wife couldn't.
So we sold it and got something different. But the
Skoda now is, as the previous caller said, is essentially the.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
W Fancy you going against your well earned advice from
all those years and nextly them buying your car that
began with I'm kind of disappointed by that, so was I.

Speaker 26 (01:08:58):
But yeah, but it's all on. I think the Audi,
the VW and the scot share a common platform. On
the small ones. I think it might be the Audi
A one or something like that. It's a very small Audi.
They all share the same platform and then they go

(01:09:22):
on from there, you know, just a different things. But
essentially it's all VW.

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
In those days when the cars were so rubbish, was it?
Were they a lot cheaper? Is that why people would
buy them?

Speaker 8 (01:09:34):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (01:09:34):
They were cheaper, but they weren't that cheap. I mean
those days, people bought, they bought anything they could buy.
If they were buying a new car, they'd buy a
Simka or a Scola or a standard because new cars
weren't available. This is you know, like it's less than
ten years after the Second World War. Yeah, and you

(01:09:55):
know you had to have the overseas funds and all
that sort of rubbish. That's just how it went.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
Okay, I appreciate that, Bruce. That's great. Never buy car
starting with S. There you go, that's what we are
talking about. Scoters, get in touch if you want you
My name is Marcus. Welcome, oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty nineteen nine to the text you want to
come through cars? Were going with this Marcus, one who
finds vintage cars creepy but likes Honda Civix, would hesitate

(01:10:25):
psychiatric intervention. Now that's a very good point because I've
gone back and looked at the images of the Honda Civix,
the oranges and the yellows. I love them, but I
wouldn't see that has been a vintage car. I see
a vintage car has been a creepy, old looking thing
and they still look quite modern. How long they've been
around fifty years and I'm talking about the hatchbag, not
the longer one. Great looking car, great looking car, but

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you wouldn't see that it was a vintage car. But
thank you for calling me out on that. I think
you might have I think you might have uncovered hypocrisy,
which is a great thing to uncover, because who wants
to be branded a hypocrite? But yeah, I do. And
when I say I don't I find antique cars creepy,
it's yeah, I guess it's I guess it's anything pre
nineteen sixty five. Mainly that's just me. Oh eight one

(01:11:15):
hundred and eighty saenty to talk nine to nine to
text Hittle twelve embracing what you want to talk about tonight,
looking forward to your input. Yeah, I would love to
hear from you. Yep, So do get in touch if
you want to talk about these things. And there's pretty
more stuff tonight. We're going on quite good, enjoying talking
about social credit. I reckon it would be up there.

(01:11:35):
I reckon that the original Honda Civic, the you know,
the hatchback, the squat looking one. I reckon it'd better
than a Volkswagen or a Mini. I reckon it's a
more iconic car than a Mini or a Volkswagen or Yeah,
I think it's the pick of them, but it might
be a lone voice on that one. Have you been
a lone voice? Try go make myself a cup of
coffee perk me up for the final for the final

(01:11:57):
half of the show. Oh yeah, Hittel twelve welcome and
good evening cars and social credit and pin numbers and
moving into the red zone. I don't have a problem
with it, but I just am curious, so what psychologically
what the Christians people think about it when the red
zone loomed so large for so long. Hi, Bruce, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:12:19):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
Oh good, Bruce? Thank you? Yeah? Rested in good and
form good.

Speaker 13 (01:12:25):
Very interesting what you're talking about. Here's one our left
field of an old car enthusiast. And I've owned an
old Ford for over fifty years and it's an old
V eight and it's not that economical and compared with
the modern cars today. The Greenies in that they just
don't like them, you know whatever. My daughter is a

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Greenie and she's an environmentalist, and she was studying her
masters in a university over in Brisbane, and she ended
up talking over lunch with all the fellow lecturers and
some of the faculty heads there, and they were just
discussing that she mentioned that I had an old car
and it was an efficient and et cetera, et cetera.

(01:13:12):
But when they sat down and they spoke about this
over a lunch break for a period of a week,
and they worked it out that my vehicle's still been
on the road after fifty years, and it's actually about
eighty five percent recyclable. And the modern cars made today
only last on average about fifteen years, and they are

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only thirty five percent recyclable. So every fifteen years, not
only they don't recover the resources out of that car,
but there's all that energy into it to manufacture a
new one which will only last fifteen years. So it's
a no brainer just to keep the old cars going.

Speaker 9 (01:13:56):
That was Thereof it's.

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
It's a really interesting kind of a thing, that isn't it.
So you should be getting a subsidy. You should be
getting a subsidy for driving your own heavy car.

Speaker 13 (01:14:05):
Absolutely. I just couldn't believe it. I thought I would
have taken the kicking over there.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
But Bruce, what a wonderful moment for you and your
daughter to kind of come together on common ground.

Speaker 19 (01:14:15):
I know, well, I can't believe they have it.

Speaker 13 (01:14:17):
If someone happened on a documentary or something on it, because, yeah,
the way it's going, it's not sustainable, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
It is it thirsty?

Speaker 13 (01:14:28):
Yeah, I suppose it is really, but there's nothing you
can't you can't you know, if it won't go, you
can fix it. It's either petrol, air or spark. You
can get under the bonnet. We had an instant the
other day where we needed a light bulb changed in
a Forward Ranger that I drove, and it was like
a two hour job to change the light bulb. They
had to strip after the air induction out just to

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get the light bulb changed.

Speaker 26 (01:14:52):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
So just because people have been listening, Bruce, what car
did you say?

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
What is your Ford?

Speaker 13 (01:14:58):
Well, it's a it's a V eight, an old early
Ford V eight Okay, yeah, it was a new New
Zealand one is it a Is it a truck or
it's a car? No, it's actually a four door car.
I've got a couple of others as well, but it's yeah,
it's a Ford door car and you hop in and
start go and drive.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
What make a Ford?

Speaker 9 (01:15:18):
Is it?

Speaker 13 (01:15:19):
It's a Ford V eight. That was the mott It
was the first production, so.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
It wasn't called like a falconry. It just got a
Ford V eight, was it?

Speaker 8 (01:15:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:15:29):
Ford V eight. They went through to about nineteen oh
forties through the nineteen forties at the end of the
war basically, so yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
Ah, so it's quite an old yeah, okay, I'm looking
at them now. So would you drive? Would you drive it.

Speaker 9 (01:15:43):
At all or not?

Speaker 17 (01:15:44):
Really?

Speaker 9 (01:15:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:15:46):
Nowhere drive it regularly. Our daughter got married in the
South Island and we drove it down there. She said, oh,
can I use the car for the wedding? We said, oh, yeah,
wherever you want to go, and didn't realize it was
going to be in the South Island. So we drove
it down there and that goes absolutely fine, probably comfortable
at about fifty five mile and out about ninety k

(01:16:07):
so it gets along.

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
Okay, what year did it come to New Zeland? What
year was it made?

Speaker 13 (01:16:12):
Nineteen thirty two? Oh okay, yeah. So they came out
and well, Henry Ford, you know, the Model TEA and
that went the Model AS and then he upgraded from
the Model A to the V eight, which was quicker,
and he wasn't sure that it was going to catch
on with the public, so he kept making the same

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car with a four cylinder option just in case.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
So I guess we're going to get into that territory
now when more and more cars are kind of reaching
the one hundredth birthday. It's pretty remarkable, really, isn't it?

Speaker 13 (01:16:46):
Unbelievable and still quite motorable as well. But I don't
know if the modern generations are are going to catch
on to it. I'm not sure. Interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:16:58):
Good to get a bumper stick of Bruce. Thank you
for that. Twelve past ten, Shawn, It's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 17 (01:17:04):
This car I was ever owned. It was a Humber
supers night actually had. I've actually had two of them,
and between the two of them, I've done over one
hundred thousand miles in them. And the best trip we
ever had was we went from Auckland to Envy Cargo
dragging a trailer with two plows on it for a

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plowing match. And in Vy Cargole I think nineteen sixty six.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
So when you say two what on the back two.

Speaker 7 (01:17:32):
Plows plows to compete in plowing matches, of course you did, yep.
And that I never ever got to win one to
get me an overseas trip. But they got to see
the best part of New Zealand by doing just that.
But it was it was all you had to do

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was just pour petrol down their necks. I think I
got joined tuned nicely and I got sixteen miles to
the Gallony.

Speaker 8 (01:18:00):
Out of it.

Speaker 17 (01:18:00):
Did you drive better than most people got?

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
Did you drive it the century or did you get
rid of it years ago?

Speaker 7 (01:18:07):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:18:09):
The first one I had eventually it wore out, and
I got another one, and me I eventually wore.

Speaker 9 (01:18:17):
It out too.

Speaker 17 (01:18:19):
As I said, they were both secondhand when I got them,
but between the pair of them they had done well
over two hundred thousand miles. All you did was ever
poor petrol motors just went and went and went. They
had five common motives in them, great cars.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Did you buy the second one you once you got
it once you broke the old one down?

Speaker 23 (01:18:44):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:18:45):
No, it was just another second hand one.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
Right, Okay, Well it's always it's an interesting name. The
super Snowby. Why was it called super.

Speaker 17 (01:18:53):
Well, it was the de Luxet model of the Humble range.

Speaker 5 (01:18:59):
It was actually.

Speaker 17 (01:19:01):
One of them. It was used by the Queen's visit
here when she came I think nineteen sixty three.

Speaker 16 (01:19:08):
It'll be right, yep.

Speaker 17 (01:19:10):
Yeah, and yeah they were great.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
Nice to hear from you, sure, and I live it there.
But thank you, Laurie Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:19:19):
Yeah, those super Snipes. They are a big car. Do
you say They had the five tons Comma truck engine and.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
Good Yeah that a Lassian type thing to put a
truck engine in the car.

Speaker 10 (01:19:32):
But anyway, yeah, they were certainly used for the old
executive stuff, the usually black I think even you know,
the police might have had a few of them.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Yeah, I've seen one with red lights on. The police
must have used them somewhere.

Speaker 10 (01:19:47):
We shared a mutual admiration for the old Honda Civic.

Speaker 3 (01:19:50):
Yeah, what a great car.

Speaker 10 (01:19:53):
I imported one into New Zealand and nineteen about seventy eight.
It was as a returning resident. I got shipped to
some are from Japan and then from.

Speaker 27 (01:20:04):
Some are.

Speaker 10 (01:20:06):
It actually came into Only Hunger.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
I suppose you should mention that because an uncle that
lived in Tonger, he worked in Tonger and he was
a bought a car back with him and we went
to the Wolf on Tongue. We went to the Wolf
and Only Hunger to get it.

Speaker 10 (01:20:19):
Yeah, Well it was attractive in those days, I think
you missed out on you know, duty and all sorts
of stuff. But you know, if you'd been working overseas
for a number of years and as a returning resident.
But yeah, you couldn't get it shipped directly from Japan
to New Zealand. You actually had to get it to
where you were working and then in the trendship. But no,

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although I did a little bit of regret. Actually, I
don't know if you remember the Honda Accords. They were
just a bit bigger, but they were a classy car too. Actually,
probably a resale at that time. It would have been
a better option to bring an Accord that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
What color was your Honda Civic.

Speaker 10 (01:21:05):
It was Alba and silver, and it had air conditioning,
one of the really ones with their conditioning. It's but
putting on the on the ladder, there was of the
of the there there was some the standard ladders were
brought in which were a bit clunky, but they brought
in a number of the four wheel drive ones called

(01:21:27):
a ladder Neva, and they become quite a cult vehicle,
a small four four by four and I think a
different company gotten them in New Zealand and they actually
pimped them up a bit and they become quite a
sort after car.

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
And I was, look, it's a nice looking car in
I think in I v A it looks really good.
Still some of the modern ones with the with the
off road tires look great.

Speaker 10 (01:21:53):
Yeah, yeah, no they I see there's a Facebook page
running for them with about two thousand people still. But well,
I mean technically there is a new ladder out and
the ladder, isn't it which I don't think they imported
in New Zealand because of the Ukraine situation. Yeah, you're
mentioning them.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
I suppose with the Honda Civic. It was the first
time they went from motorbikes to cars, really, wasn't it.
It was the kind of their big break.

Speaker 10 (01:22:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
Eighty thousand, nineteen seventy three. So she has a big car.

Speaker 10 (01:22:31):
Yeah. Well, actually I've gone back to Honda. Now we've
got a Honda Jairs. It's about twenty twenty. But they
just say it's got the it's got pedal shift as well,
which is bloody great for driving around. It's I mean,
it is automatic, but you can do it on the
pedals as well if you want a bit of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
Yeah, Laurie, it's an embarrassing name for a car, a
jazz fancy buker car called the Jaz. It's like the
jas airport. I'll ever buy what on principal But anyway, Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:23:01):
Hey, I was going to mention I did the trip
years ago between Argentina and the Cape Verde Islands and
tenor Reef in the and it was actually friendship but
it didn't actually gland at Cape Verdy, you know, was

(01:23:23):
although they stood off and passengers came in a boat.
But yeah, it's sort of a stranger traice and where
we ended up going to tener Reef after that and
h then the ship I got off in England. Well
it didn't actually stop it in England. It's at Portsmouth.

(01:23:43):
They seemed like a tug come out and you jumped
on that and went sure. But yeah, it's as interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
You still feel fine, got something along that. It sounds
like a terrifying trip because they're all still stuck on
that ship.

Speaker 10 (01:24:00):
Yeah, well there terrifying. The most memorable thing that trip
was actually one of the ports we called into a
Brazil was place called CentOS, which is a sort of
a port for South Polo, but a hell of a
lot of Greek shipping or families you know, tied up
with shipping there. It turned out we went ashore earlier
in the morning. Thing the head look around. We ended

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up in a Greek bar and there was a celebration
going on there and we were lighted in and one
thing led to another end up sort of all linking
arms and doings orbers done.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
It's a visital stay with Ma's ubust done. Thanks Laurie.
Twenty past ten ten twenty two. Mowits Marcus good evening.

Speaker 23 (01:24:42):
Good as Marcus better. The day nineteen eighte Idaho car
called a boss. Sorry are Hugo Yugo from Yugoslavia. Anyway,
it was in the garage the next day I thought
it a bag and because the only mileage was thirty

(01:25:05):
thousand k's right, mm hmm. Anyway, trouble the connectively that
I was driving home one day after my dancing class,
this one that came to on a red light and
hit I hit them the driver's door and the wee
bus my friends called Bosnian bus saved me because it

(01:25:26):
was like a wee tink.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
Now, can I just get you? I just turned your
riding off of it because I want to talk to
you a bit more about this. It's just coming a
little bit at the background. That's right, that's fine. No, no, no,
no worries, No worries.

Speaker 23 (01:25:39):
It's a very good story.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
What so, so the what did your friends call it?

Speaker 26 (01:25:45):
Uh?

Speaker 23 (01:25:48):
A Bosnian bus? It wasn't a bus. It was tinny,
like you know, two doors.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
So the model of car was the Ugo Ugo.

Speaker 23 (01:25:59):
Why you Geo? The only one in New Zealand, I think,
and I I was. I bought it because its low mileage,
which is fallible. It was only like seventeen eighteen and
thirty thousand on the o'clock. That mechanically it was a problem.

(01:26:20):
But it was good until it got written off by
this one bet going through a red light. And thank god,
the guy who was following these guys who hit me
had a cell phone. There was a long time ago
and cell phones were quite new, and he was a witness,

(01:26:40):
got the police blaud blah. So here I am to
tell the story. We bost the embass was like a
weed tank and yeah, there we go.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Now, No, there's a lot to unpick on the story. Sure,
where did you buy the ugo from a car dealer.

Speaker 23 (01:26:58):
Okay, oh, some unusual car dealer, not like Honda or somewhere,
just a random one.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
And in which in which city?

Speaker 23 (01:27:08):
Christ Church?

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
And was it the only you go in New Zealand?

Speaker 23 (01:27:13):
I believe so.

Speaker 3 (01:27:15):
And the warm and the warm back killer it was?

Speaker 24 (01:27:18):
It?

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
Was it dead after that?

Speaker 10 (01:27:20):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:27:21):
Yeah it was rotten enough? Yeah yeah, insurance assessor. No,
because I they went through on the red light. I
had the driver's I couldn't get out. I had to
go through the blinking boot.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
It must have been terrifying.

Speaker 23 (01:27:38):
Oh it's funny.

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
Oh it's a good story. I'm enjoying this.

Speaker 13 (01:27:43):
Okay, thats basically it could have been worse.

Speaker 23 (01:27:46):
Thus, but God willing, you know, I was fine and
get shaken, but thank Goodness had a witness following, and
he saw the whole thing, like premitive could see what's
going to happen.

Speaker 24 (01:28:01):
Yeah, do you know christ is very well?

Speaker 9 (01:28:04):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (01:28:05):
So maddress street, nextfield, the building on the corner. And
so I was stationary at a green red light, progressed
on a green and next minute A hit the car.

Speaker 17 (01:28:21):
Weird?

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
Was it the best cave ever owned? Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:28:25):
No, My best car was my hook, my wee.

Speaker 30 (01:28:30):
You know it's Turkey.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
Swift okay, because we were talk about the best cars moment.
Thank you for that. I don't know if we're spoke
to yougo owner before. Hello, Brian, Welcome Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:28:42):
Gooday Marcus, how was it good?

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
Thanks Brian.

Speaker 31 (01:28:45):
I've just sold about two weeks ago in nineteen thirty
six standard. The guy was talking about standards, but he
didn't sound like you get old enough to know that
was such a thing as actually a standard car.

Speaker 11 (01:29:00):
It looked very similar to.

Speaker 5 (01:29:01):
A Maris hat. It probably drove like one.

Speaker 31 (01:29:05):
I got it up to forty five mile now along
why Country Road here, but you wouldn't want to go
much further. And I don't know what it would have
been when it was new, but it was a one
owner car from crow Church and I just bought it
a year or so back, and I've only just sold
it off and the guy who I sold it to

(01:29:26):
is going to totally restore it back to new.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
Why would you sell it?

Speaker 5 (01:29:33):
Just a little bit too old to be mucking around
with it at the time.

Speaker 31 (01:29:38):
Yeah, but I've got I've just had honto crvsas pub cars.
But I've also owned a Lada Nivia as well. They
were Russian import and I'm pretty sure they came in
with the big Russian tractor. I've got to get the
name now. I was going to tell you about that,

(01:29:58):
but I forget. It was a butter deal as well.

Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
What's a pub car?

Speaker 31 (01:30:05):
This gave my house to the pub and back. Because
they're always silver, coppers don't see them.

Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
Oh yeah, wow, and that worked out for you very well,
very well. Why don't cops see silver?

Speaker 9 (01:30:20):
Don't know?

Speaker 31 (01:30:21):
They're probably an ugly car. The Honda CRV is one
of the ugliest cars ever built, but the most reliable
and the four wheel drive, so.

Speaker 3 (01:30:32):
You could take the beck cro How far should commute
from the pub to home?

Speaker 31 (01:30:36):
About ten fifteen k's in that vicinity through one seat
of traffic lights.

Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
Which part of the country, Brian, why kado enjoyed all
of it? Thank you, Brian calling it like it is. Welcome, welcome, welcome,
Hitle twelve. If you want to be a part of it,
we are talking. Oh, I've enjored it. Actually greatly, great,
greatly greatly. Cars hold your horses, jamielcmos get their heads

(01:31:05):
out of the way and do some other stuff. If
there's other stuff you want to talk about, feel free
to come through. Marcus till twelve, eight hundred eighty eighty
the best. The point I was trying to make out
was are cars getting better? Or have they peaked? And
there's the best cave ever in the cave got currently
or a car from days gone by? Most of them

(01:31:27):
seem to be cars from days gone by. But people
seem to love their cars, not because they go well,
but for nostalgic reasons, because they liked what they did
with them and things, I suppose. So that's kind of
what we're on about tonight. I'll be here till midnight, Jamie.
It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 32 (01:31:43):
Hey, Marcus, there you go on. I just thought I
had to ring up because I heard you're talking Hondas,
And let's right up. My early I owner, right, pink
eg Civic FOURD or what year.

Speaker 3 (01:31:55):
Would that be?

Speaker 32 (01:31:57):
A ninety two creepers.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
That's that's old now, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:32:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:32:03):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
Tell me what Honda, what.

Speaker 32 (01:32:09):
Specific eg Ford or yeah ninety two? Right, pink, it's
been painted up, big chromes on it, big body kit, Yeah,
pink interrier. I saved it from guarded the ricking gard.

Speaker 3 (01:32:25):
Is it something that you show or you do stuff in?

Speaker 32 (01:32:29):
I was driving it to work every day, got a
lot of looks. But yeah, it's parked under under a
tarp hole at the moment I need to sort of
paint it. But yeah, the young fella, he loves au
falcons and we took one to a burnout comp on
the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
Now what sort of falcon did you say?

Speaker 16 (01:32:48):
That is au?

Speaker 32 (01:32:50):
So if I could too, they're like a cult classic
now because they're so ugly. Yeah, we took it, took
it to a burn it very out comp on the
weekend and he comes third. So that was that was
a bit of fun. Such a pointless sport, but it's
so fun.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
What do you do to want it?

Speaker 15 (01:33:10):
So it's judged believe it or not.

Speaker 32 (01:33:11):
So you've got to So they have what they call
the pad, which is like when you do your burnier
and you have to there's certain things you've got to do.
But they how much smoke you make, whether or not
you pop your tires, how much of the pad you
use up, what your car say, like, what the sort
of show you put on? And then yeah, depending on
if you do good enough of the judges like you

(01:33:33):
and then you yeah, they score you, and then he
came third for his first go.

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
How much did he spend on tires?

Speaker 32 (01:33:44):
He's only sixteens undertake for them. I like three hundred
bucks of them.

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
And he used to set up on that one competition.
Or he's got some more go in them.

Speaker 32 (01:33:54):
No, no, so you get three gos. So you judged
on three go two minutes, it's to two minutes. You
get three goes two minute rounds and then yeah he
used three.

Speaker 6 (01:34:05):
Sets of time.

Speaker 8 (01:34:09):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
So how much with the tires did he spend?

Speaker 32 (01:34:14):
I had a whole heaven of old tires hanging around,
so yeah, we just got something on some realms. They
divided a couple of in so here's probably two hundred
bucks and tires.

Speaker 15 (01:34:24):
Something.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
But you run until your tire is completely weir out.
Is that the way it works?

Speaker 9 (01:34:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 32 (01:34:28):
If you pop them, if you've still got time, Yeah,
and then you just keep going and put.

Speaker 3 (01:34:32):
On a that's a great sport for a young guy.

Speaker 32 (01:34:36):
Oh he's a better driver than I am, so I
just sit in a passenger seat and watch.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
Him do it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
Here's the is the are you foulc? And has that
got the vertical grill.

Speaker 6 (01:34:48):
Uh yeah, I think so.

Speaker 32 (01:34:50):
Yeah, it's got a wagon one that's got the horrible
lights you know there are. Yeah, actually lost a lot
of money on it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:58):
Seven hundred million or something, seven hundred million dollars.

Speaker 32 (01:35:00):
Yea, yeah, but they've got a good money you can
you can like, yeah, heat it and the school goes
read for another colm next week in another month.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
Are you in the persenger's seat when he's doing the burnout?

Speaker 8 (01:35:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 32 (01:35:14):
Yeah, So because he's under they call it a young
guns class. So because he's sixteen, I'm going to sit
in the passenger seat and basically be as like either trainer.
But I just sit there and he's like, I say,
he's a better driver than I am that stuff. So
I just sit there and let him go.

Speaker 3 (01:35:32):
You brought up a real bog and haven't you.

Speaker 32 (01:35:35):
Yeah, it's got a good mullet that goes. It's pretty funny.
It's funny too because they do the burnouts at a
rally track and you've got the die hard rally enthusiasts.
They will all be sitting around the campfire while the
burnouts are on, and then all the bogers that have
showed up to watch the burnouts are all stood around
the burnout pad drinking. It's a very different class of

(01:36:00):
not a sport, you know. It's funny.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
Great to talk, Cherry, Thanks so much. Twenty five to
eleven to a live in highway and it's Marcus.

Speaker 33 (01:36:08):
Welcome our good evening, Marcus. I heard you talking about
the sCOD of vehicles earlier. Now, I was a water
sider working in the early nineteen seventies and New Plymouth
as a ship's crane drive, and I used to unload
bigply boxes and of Scoda vehicles and subaras and trekkers

(01:36:29):
now were assembled in White Toadder in the nineteen seventies
and early eighties. Wow, they had a factory in Whiteter. Yeah,
it's just out in New Plymouth.

Speaker 3 (01:36:39):
You know, I'm familiar with where that is. So it
all coming? Would they all come in boxes on the deck?

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
Yes?

Speaker 33 (01:36:48):
Yes, yeah, they were all deck cargo. Yes in those days.
That was before containerization.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
So wuld have there been more? Would have there been
more ship traffic in those days? And there would be
now in Tallahaki? Would that be right? Would there be
a lot of stuff coming through?

Speaker 33 (01:37:03):
I don't really know, of course, I transferred in nineteen
seventy nine up to Mount mong Nui and then we
were bringing them on the roll on roller ships in
those states.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
Yeah, I was, wait, I'm surprised you say that. I
thought I thought containers would have been earlier than that.
So the containers didn't really come in until though. When
did they start coming in.

Speaker 9 (01:37:26):
Or they.

Speaker 33 (01:37:29):
We had no They started in probably the mid seventies
from what I can recall, because I didn't work in
a container port.

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
Yeah, okay, m hm.

Speaker 33 (01:37:40):
But we had a roll on roll which the rover
and the road he used to drive on and drive
off in the at the Mount and I think it
was grocers and Wellington Littleton.

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
So would those cars? Would the cars for White to that?
Were they all? They're in boxes, but they're in bits.
They needed to be assembled. Is that they all?

Speaker 5 (01:38:04):
That's right?

Speaker 33 (01:38:04):
They were assembled in White Hatter Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:38:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 33 (01:38:08):
And then later on in the nineteen when I trained
through seventy nine to the Mount, and then they started
importing them into Goodsman a lot of cars, and then
there was We really enjoyed it because so one of
the best jobs was getting a job driving the news
distant sky lines and they were brilliant, all those Japanese

(01:38:32):
there was a big influx of Japanese vehicles.

Speaker 10 (01:38:35):
Is this is this?

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
Is this you or you or second hand?

Speaker 33 (01:38:40):
Were second hand?

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
Yeah, that's right. It took off, did it? All the
sky lines and everything. People couldn't believe it.

Speaker 33 (01:38:45):
Oh the sky lines were beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 33 (01:38:47):
What's the then conditioning and all that sort of stuff. Automatics.

Speaker 3 (01:38:53):
You know when they talk about all those cars that
came down and boxes that what you said, you said,
scoders and larders.

Speaker 33 (01:38:59):
And what was the other one the other car you said,
Oh the treckers, a little jeeps.

Speaker 3 (01:39:04):
Yeah, with the scoders and stuff. We know how that
was it? Just the wheels were off them and the
engines were in place. How how, how and how many
bits were they?

Speaker 33 (01:39:13):
I don't know, of course they were.

Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
He didn't look at they were in here.

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
I packed up here, but.

Speaker 33 (01:39:18):
They were soon were in white hodder. Yeah, there was
a Yeah, it was amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:39:23):
We're about saying now, Wayne.

Speaker 33 (01:39:25):
I'm in fork of tiny now.

Speaker 3 (01:39:27):
Nice to talk. Thanks so much for that. Twenty away
from eleven Steven. It's Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:39:30):
Good evening, Hey Marcus, Yeah, just the capital.

Speaker 27 (01:39:34):
But I've had a few cars in my time. So
at the moment, I drive a twenty twenty five Mayre's
the c X eighty, got all the bells and muscles,
drives nice. It's that luxury car. They've got the European look.
But my absolutely favorite that I used to own was
a nineteen eighty eight. It's a busy Sigma GSX js X. Sorry,

(01:39:56):
it was a sky Blue. I bought it from I
think it was Hammer's Auctions. Put the springs, put big
mags on it, put the boom box downs in the
back bucket seats. Ye, souped up the turbo. Yeah, drove
like a dog, but I absolutely loved it. Guess was
only what ninety five cents a leader. So yeah, you

(01:40:18):
just and at the time the year if you wanted,
because then you had ninety one year. You got these
little orange octane booster you know, to put into your
tank to give it that octane boost. So yeah, Friday nights, man,
I mean the boys in the way, I I just drive, yeah,
drive the boys around.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:40:34):
Well what a time that that mid.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
Nineties whereabouts was this stephen as an Auckland in Auckland.

Speaker 27 (01:40:40):
So that was when the guy mentioned about when the
Skylines and the Subaru's in the and the Evos and
one of those mis Abissian you know those those cars
boast onto the scene. Yeah, I had one of the
original ones, the GSA X Men.

Speaker 14 (01:40:52):
It was.

Speaker 27 (01:40:53):
It looked like one of the old you know, when
they used to have the old cop cars. You had
the police can then you had the traffic cars, the
cop traffic cars, the black and white ones, similar.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
To one of those.

Speaker 3 (01:41:03):
Did you grow out? Did you grow out of it?

Speaker 27 (01:41:06):
I had to when I had my second, our second child. Yeah,
the sounds were too loud and the rider was just
too bumpy in the wild seat.

Speaker 9 (01:41:15):
That's got to go.

Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
Did you had you were you were? You were you racing?
Had you had a lot of fines?

Speaker 8 (01:41:20):
Ah?

Speaker 27 (01:41:21):
No, I was more of a show pony. Look, you know,
I'll race a couple of dudes on Woodford Street, you know. Yeah,
just uh, you know now now and then. But yeah,
I was more responsible because purely because I did all
the driving night and I had in my mates, you know,
they were there, they were doing all the drinking. So yeah,
you know, I I was a bit more responsible back
team funny but yeah, just yeah, lucky enough, didn't have

(01:41:44):
any excellent but yeah, just yeah, race but not not
you know, hard out or like you see these young guys.
I think the scenes different now you know I've gone
out and you know, just followed a couple of guys
because I've got to mates. Still got some old Skylins
and and EVAs and yeah, they're just a different breath.
Just lot here, just crazier.

Speaker 3 (01:42:04):
Nice to talk. Thanks so much that seeing away from
eleven fourteen to eleven. Good evening. And it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 25 (01:42:11):
Oh hi Marcus, it's and here look great great topic.
You can't go wrong with cars. They have so many
stories attached to them. I would like to tell you
about my grandfather who was We live in christ Church
and he was a builder. So he had this great
big old Chevy you know of the old running board.

(01:42:33):
He was forever running over his service fask just ba
to the side anyway, so he had parked the Yeah,
he always wanted a nice flash car, so he built
a carport. The Chevy win in the carport and he
went and bought a Simka. Now the reason why was ringing.
I've never heard anyone mention a Simca before. But you

(01:42:55):
had a gentleman ring up a while ago and said,
don't buy these cars. Yeah, and I thought, my goodness,
someone else has heard of a Silka or Granddad bought
this be flash Simka. It was the eight. It was
cream colored with a black roof, and it was really,
you know, really swish, huge, huge car, and he parked

(01:43:21):
it in the garage and he went out to work.
This particular day, I had cousins down from the North Island.
I was about five at the time. My cousin and
I were bored and we went out to the garage
and it was a typical builder's garage. There was Grandad's
new car, but all around it there was you know,

(01:43:41):
wood and nails and tools and paint and plaster and stuff.
My cousin and I decided that we wanted to paint
Grandad's car red, so we opened up a tin of
red roof paint and went the zerk. I think at
some point we must have realized that what we were

(01:44:03):
doing was wrong and we got messy, because I remember
running part us the lounge and my mother and Auntie screaming.
I can remember being smacked as everyone ran out to
the car, and interesting my grandfather told me many years later,
when he came up the drive in his old Shepard,

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he thought, isn't that great? Here's my wife and two
daughters out there cleaning the car. And of course they
weren't cleaning it, they were trying to get all this
blasted red roof paint off it.

Speaker 5 (01:44:36):
Well.

Speaker 25 (01:44:37):
I don't know how they ended up doing it, but
I don't think they did. It had to be professionally done.

Speaker 3 (01:44:44):
Because, yeah, red roof paint in those days, it would
be something that would come off. It wouldn't be a
spray and get off. It would be very very hard
to remove. I would imagine.

Speaker 25 (01:44:55):
I would say so because it was. I can TheCall.
It was very very hard for it to come off us.
I remember Sue and I sitting in the bath being
scrubbed red raar. You know, someone trying to get this
red roof paint.

Speaker 13 (01:45:10):
Office.

Speaker 25 (01:45:11):
And just as another quick story, if you've got time,
We've got a nineteen eighty FOURTEENA. It's been in our
family for forty three years. It's a two point three
V six, So it's a big car or a big
motor car. When my mother first got it, she was
and I know that, you know, christ churched quite well,

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she thought she'd take it up north to visit her
cousin in North Canterbury, and she got clopped doing one
hundred k's through wood End, which back then I think
was either fifty or sixty k's And you know, my
dad said to her afterwards, didn't you realize what you
were doing? And she said it was just so smooth

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going this new car compared to her old Humber eighty.
She just put a foot down in. Yeah, it was
such a laugh. The only traffic ticket she's ever gotten alive.
But wonderful stories you can, you can, you know, attached
to these cars. And we've got that car in our

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family and still now. We took it with one past
but when we put the grandkids in the back and
took them to your car, really they just had no
idea how to open the windows in the back. They
didn't even recognize the handle of a manual window winder. Yeah,
just wonderful memories and fun like that.

Speaker 8 (01:46:37):
Love it.

Speaker 3 (01:46:37):
Thanks so much for bringing out Anne. I appreciate that.

Speaker 25 (01:46:40):
On you You're welcome, great show.

Speaker 31 (01:46:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:46:43):
Ten away from eleven o'clock. Hello, Jimmy, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:46:47):
Oh Margaret, dear well, my first tub gore there's a
oh I'm so had listen now you I've but this
rote got a Standard ten at nineteen thirty six. Stand
the ten. Oh I used to my first car as
Standard ten. We're why what why that nine? In that

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fifty six fifty seven my first time gunder you go
to the high school and it was quite quite a nine.

Speaker 5 (01:47:20):
Nice car.

Speaker 15 (01:47:21):
But the only thing wrong is when you're going uphill
to Casbere Hill at one go up further as half
way when you're back down, you've got no break breaking down.
So I had to banging down doing the U turne
to to to get to the faced up downward to
the front.

Speaker 9 (01:47:41):
See that.

Speaker 15 (01:47:43):
That's when I first heard this. Core Koy had a
nineteen thirty thirty six Standard ten and that's my first car.

Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
Was you was yours a nineteen thirty six Standard ten.

Speaker 15 (01:47:56):
Yeah, that's as a's it's a pinkment that's sort of
like a purple pigment with the radio too.

Speaker 3 (01:48:04):
Oh yeah, I can see it now, I can see
what look because they because they changed their look a
lot over the years the Standard teen. But yours was
like it was a classic old looking car with a
long bonnet and the long nose type thing. Yeah, and
a toll high grille yeah yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:48:18):
And and the best guy I had Holden Commodore roy
Air when I first come out, they got all this
goodness things. They've got a passing past appear he wiel
and eventhing. You know, a pair was really a nice car.

Speaker 5 (01:48:38):
But I took.

Speaker 15 (01:48:41):
I took to Kristis leave five o'clock in the morning
in Auckland and right right down to London and then
into Kaysis and living live and right and eleven clock
at night time all the way I think that live

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in airs. Got got back to Kys. Then when I
come back to all but again I blew my blew
they hit.

Speaker 2 (01:49:10):
The motor.

Speaker 15 (01:49:14):
Was overheated and the motive that sees cost me seven
hundred dollars to get a new motor.

Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
Which series of the Commodore was it the Royale.

Speaker 15 (01:49:25):
At a kind of like the first model order Poastiff
punstill pair Emil, you know got the sin of locking everything.
It was quite a beautiful car. But I went to
Kaiser ben Back and blew blew the mona out and

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cost me seven hundred dollars to get the repair.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
Nice story Jimmy, thank you for that. Just coming towards
the news at eleven people and it's cars and that's
a good thing. Good to get a one topic. Not
I'll get to the emails before I can while I
can not before I can. Roman will be a long
at midnight. By the way, I meant to say this earlier.
If you are an Auckland listener, the AM ten eighty

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is back on at night. They've still got work to
do during the daytime, but it is broadcasting at night.
So for those that don't know. In Auckland, there's been
two towers in Lincoln Road and they're unifying that to
one tower. It's slightly complicated story, I think, so that's
what they are doing, but it's taking a long time.

(01:50:35):
They're demolishing one tower because one hundred and fifty meters high,
which is high, isn't it. I think it'd be one
of the highest radio masts in the country. Someone will
have more information about that. You can get that on
Wikipedia the highest masts. Another ones at Titahi Bay are high.
But yeah, that's what they are doing. So they're the
big Lincoln Road ones. I'm just trying to see if

(01:50:57):
I can see them on Google Maps, marvelous looking things.
Where there they are. I don't realize there are on
either side of the motorway, but they are, aren't they? Yes, yes,
so there's just going to be one of them. Actually
look quite interesting on Google Maps because I don't know,
like the towers, because of you can almost look what
time the Google the photos were taken, because if you
can tell what time they've taken, if you use that

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as like a sundial, quite interesting thought of that before. Anyway,
we're on am and Auckland at night, not so much
in the daytime, and that will sort itself out. How
are you going? People welcome? My name is Marcus. I
hope you're good. I hope If you're not good, I
hope you get your better by the time I go.
We're talking cars. That's the main discussion tonight. It's been
for every good and long Way Long May Way, Long

(01:51:41):
Way Long May we continue with the discussion on cars.
I was trying to work out where the cars, whether
the best cave you ever owned is the car you've
got currently or in fact the cars peaked about ten
years ago. Get in touch. Oh wait on an eighty
ten n detext Marcus. In the fifties, car created from

(01:52:02):
great demand. We kids use them as playhouses. That's right.
I just want to know how this sem of the
cars were enterprise cars start in Gisbon importing Japanese cars.
How good was that guy going with his son to
the the burnout competition? Good evening. I'm lucky enough to
own a Oh Marcus. We bought a Yugo for our

(01:52:24):
daughter's first car, which you could drive to school from
our home in the porthill. She need to warm up
for five minutes before drying to get up our steep drive.
This was nineteen ninety Finney. To watch you, someone was
rolling back under the house before attempting again. Jeff Marcus.
I believe cars peaked mechanically in the nineties, then came
all the extra electronics outside of electric windows. Good evening.
I'm lucky enough to own a nineteen ninety two door

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Highlux the Crumpy model. Someone broke my mirror in the
car park. It cost me thirty dollars for replacement from
pick Apart. Same week, my mate head has broken and
a car park cost him four fifty twenty twenty three.
Yut no brains A motorist unless you're trying to look pretty.
I'm twenty seven with a nineteen eighty nine Honda Civic,

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two doors and your five speed maximum speed going up
hills around eighty k's with your foot flet to the ground.
I found my waft and couldn't get parts required for
the repairs, and Auckland Transport has now taken it as
an abandoned vehicle and they want eight hundred to release
from the towing yard. I assumed I was stillowed to
park the vehicle outside my house due to my resident
parking permit. Best carry had fat Bambina ran on the

(01:53:28):
swell of an all ragged sun roofs, tailed over the
R Taylor christ Chitch, Graymouth and back several times. No problem.
Gimmer Jimmer to a Caroola twenty fifteen hybrid. I treat
like a high lux, take it up all sorts of
farm tanker tracks and more. Friends and I bought a
seventy eight Civic for two point fifty in the early
two thousands during a lunch Forreat High School. We had

(01:53:49):
plans to share the Civic between the six of us.
The cardinally made it back to school on fotune after
a low speed crash of nose to tail. Only one
of the six got to drive it. Ooh, Marcus Beck
in nineteen seventy nine, in my Scota station wagon on
the way to Piha Beach for a surf my friend,
my dog and there's two surfboards on top of the carter,

(01:54:10):
started to spin in the air and hit the bank
on the other side of the road roof below the dash.
Luckily we had our belts on. Oh, luckily we had
no old belts on. Duck down and walked away with
a few cuts on my hand. Puppy safe and board
sweet and got off work that night when we pulled
them outside the restaurant a truck that Arvo just mister
wave but Jay Scot, I love seeing the blue scoters

(01:54:31):
from about one k Steve. There you go, Noel, it's Marcus.
Good evening, Yeah, good evening.

Speaker 8 (01:54:37):
So how are you good things?

Speaker 3 (01:54:39):
Noel?

Speaker 8 (01:54:40):
Yeah, very right, it's very good. And yeah, I think
it's just about giving them away your age. There's been
a couple of times tonight just said things. Yeah, so
I think some of those Northlounders are probably you're out
now a vehicle called a DKW again. You you give

(01:55:02):
me any idea of where they were made.

Speaker 3 (01:55:06):
No, but someone might know they were.

Speaker 8 (01:55:10):
Used as taxis and then the gable dk W.

Speaker 9 (01:55:16):
When are we talking sixties?

Speaker 8 (01:55:19):
I would say sixties?

Speaker 3 (01:55:21):
Do you know the answer? Are you asking rhetorically?

Speaker 31 (01:55:23):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:55:24):
No, No, I don't know the answer. I'm intrigued because, yeah,
it's vivid in my mind. The last time I need
for riding the taxi and it was in the sixties and.

Speaker 9 (01:55:38):
It was in the dk W.

Speaker 3 (01:55:40):
Yeah, I don't know what it. It's not a car.

Speaker 8 (01:55:42):
I know they're very small car, very small.

Speaker 3 (01:55:47):
Were they just the taxis or were the regular people
driving them around? An invert cargol?

Speaker 6 (01:55:52):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:55:53):
Yeah, I wasn't in town that much, so I didn't
I couldn't really say, but yeah, I know there was
at least two of them taxis.

Speaker 3 (01:56:03):
No, what kind of interest?

Speaker 4 (01:56:04):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:56:05):
What frequency do you listen on?

Speaker 8 (01:56:07):
Ninety one point eight? I think it is really Yeah,
New Zealand there's so many radio stations. Yeah, I've been
playing all over the place.

Speaker 3 (01:56:19):
Where these where are the heads from?

Speaker 8 (01:56:23):
Oh well, I'll say it's all your heads tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:56:26):
But what where are the places they are promoting?

Speaker 8 (01:56:30):
That's sort of I don't take a great deal of
notice of them.

Speaker 3 (01:56:34):
Are the advertising Queenstown shops or no, no, what did
you say you're listening.

Speaker 8 (01:56:40):
On it's ninety one point eight? Because you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:56:45):
We don't have a ninety one point eight.

Speaker 8 (01:56:47):
It's New Zealand, New Zealand talking and it's same here
here's you talking about it last night and I did
ever and I'm sure, well it's ninety something.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
What if it?

Speaker 2 (01:57:01):
Is it?

Speaker 31 (01:57:01):
Not?

Speaker 3 (01:57:02):
What ninety one point seven is it?

Speaker 5 (01:57:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:57:04):
I just never let another look. I'm looking at it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:07):
I just because I know where you. I know where
you are. You're in north northwest south and because we
have got a new frequency on one hundred and five
point two.

Speaker 8 (01:57:16):
It's not that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:18):
No, h have you got a bend? I mean your
your frequency goes all the way up, does it?

Speaker 8 (01:57:27):
Well, it's just on the phone. I'll just go an
old phone that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:32):
On the You're just on the phone, not a radio. No, no, oh,
that makes more that makes more sense.

Speaker 8 (01:57:37):
Okay, it's just just the radio. Yeah, and it's very
good because they take it out to work with me
every day as well.

Speaker 2 (01:57:48):
It's just brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:57:49):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:57:50):
Best cab that have had at the moment is high end.
They get three hundred and eight thousand k's at this stage,
still going amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:58:03):
What did the dk ws look like? Did they look like?
And beamers? What I look like Volkswagens?

Speaker 26 (01:58:09):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:58:10):
Well, I say is years sort of sort of something
excited about the rear engine business.

Speaker 3 (01:58:17):
Okay, I'll find out some more about that. I find
everyone's got the information about kW to get in text me.
Thank you for that, nol oh wait one hundred and
eighty ten eighty people, we are talking cars. Marcus best
car was a nine in seventy two GTR Tarana Tudor. Awesome.
Powerful car was our family car. Kids loved it. Great
in town and backcountry trips made of mine had a

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really sabarro that we needed to put it the engine
in gearbox back and after it sat still for a
long time, we're missing engine mount So basically the engine
was held in by being bolded the gearbox which did
have mounts, no waft, no region, no exhaust. Sounded like
a Harley Davidson beautiful twenty past eleven. Hello Jonats, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:58:57):
Welcome, Oh hello Marcus.

Speaker 34 (01:59:00):
I just want to say about a different sort of
a car my husband built up nineteen fourteen two cylinder.

Speaker 14 (01:59:11):
Van.

Speaker 34 (01:59:12):
He built it up from a chassis form. He did
a lot of work through, but he did have a
lot of people helping him in the vintage car clubs.
So yeah, so it was nineteen fourteen two cylinders, so
you couldn't go fast than it. It used to travel

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about thirty miles per hour, and I always used to
say to us, it's a bit of a joke just
to see your hell and slow down before we got there.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
Did you say anyway?

Speaker 23 (01:59:48):
Did you say that?

Speaker 34 (01:59:49):
He drove that from tomorrow over the South Island different
rallies we went on. We hit another car as well
for rallying, and then he drove it from tomorrow up
to Palms the North for an international rally, other time
to Hamilton for in this international rally. He always liked

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to drive it, and he used to drive looking in
the rear vision mirror because he wondered what the silly
fullers behind were doing, because he used to watch and
what happened when we're traveling along. People used to come
along and sort of just about cut off looking back
to see what make it was and all that sort

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of thing.

Speaker 5 (02:00:34):
But it was.

Speaker 8 (02:00:36):
Built up for a.

Speaker 34 (02:00:38):
Diic delivery van Russ found out that the Deic and
Donedin had a reno, a delivery van, and he actually
found just out of Dunedin and some farmer's property, the

(02:00:58):
remains of the actual body of the van, part of it.
We actually met the original driver of it. He was
in an old people's home in nomrou and so but
rustlers building it up. It took him nearly ten years,
I think, in a spare time from farming and everything else.

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And so we had another car in nineteen twenty. Hut,
my bill, that's American car. It was a tour as well.
We used to like traveling with hoodsdown, although that one
didn't put We didn't put the hood down, but we
left the side turns off. But we gave mister Wood

(02:01:42):
a ride in that because we didn't have he didn't
have the reno finished.

Speaker 8 (02:01:49):
So that was all that.

Speaker 34 (02:01:54):
So he's still there, Marcus or I'm talking to somebody else.

Speaker 3 (02:01:57):
I'm still here. But the Joe in the car you had,
was it nineteen fourteen one nine one four?

Speaker 2 (02:02:05):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (02:02:06):
Nineteen fourteen Renault van? Have I got that right?

Speaker 24 (02:02:09):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:02:09):
A two cylinder Okay, I'd like to see what that
looked like.

Speaker 34 (02:02:13):
So it used to Oh well I just about send
you a photo of it.

Speaker 2 (02:02:17):
How would we do that?

Speaker 3 (02:02:18):
I'm sure there'll be one online I can look at. Oh,
you might be able to years And it was a
delivery van for DIC Is that right?

Speaker 34 (02:02:28):
Yeah, well that's what Russ built it up as because
he found out we were done in Dunedin for a
big rally. Down there in Dunedin to Brighton they have
a rally and the veterrooms do the veterrooms were up
to nineteen eighteen and from nineteen nineteen to thirty one
their vintage and then after that the post vintage and

(02:02:51):
then classic cars.

Speaker 3 (02:02:53):
Oh it was a very it was a very old fashioned,
old looking van.

Speaker 23 (02:02:57):
Oh help you.

Speaker 13 (02:02:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 34 (02:03:00):
We had a seat that just two of us could
just and it had a little hood from the front
part of the van the band body you know, just
behind us that went over us onto the on to
the windscreen.

Speaker 3 (02:03:18):
So what is that is that van? Still?

Speaker 23 (02:03:22):
Yes?

Speaker 34 (02:03:24):
My husband died several years ago now and there was
a gentleman quite and they saw it. I had it
just advertised for once in the National Vintage Car Rally
magazine and this guy saw it and he rang me
up he said, I want to have a look at
it at Rooks beautiful because we kept it. Russ would

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start before a rally, would get underneath the cars and
clean them first. He hits the use a bit of handy, handy,
I think, you know. Yeah, So, and then we entered
what they're called concourse for the best turned out vehicle
in a certainty, and we won that a few times,

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but not that Russ was wanting awards. But you know,
he just used to like to keep it right.

Speaker 26 (02:04:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 34 (02:04:15):
Oh well other cars as well. So we had a
lot of fun in it.

Speaker 3 (02:04:22):
And did it look like event, It's hard to imagine
what it looked like at the back of it.

Speaker 9 (02:04:26):
Was it done?

Speaker 34 (02:04:27):
Yeah, just yes. They used to DIC used to have
deliveries out to farmers out of the city all those
days years ago before, you know, years and years ago,
like about nineteen fourteen, I suppose in nineteen sixteen. And

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this old guy told us where he used to go,
and they used to take swatches of cloth as they
called them. There'll be rolls of cloth and so take
orders from the farmers' wives and then they'd go back
and deliver. He got a flat tire once and he

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had to walk so many miles to get some help,
so it was interesting. But to meet the old guy,
you know, he was nice old fella.

Speaker 3 (02:05:20):
I'd love to see an image of it, John, But
thank you so much for coming through about that. Twenty
six past elevenutes to take a break, twenty hello, twenty
seven passive James ats Marcus, Good.

Speaker 35 (02:05:29):
Evening, Good day, Marcus. A couple of funny stories. Working
for a bit of a Heath Robinson outfit in the
North Island, earth moving and things like that. We had
to move kemp from fung Array down the Silverdale. One
of the things I had to do was to pick
up this sphere van engine that was in one of

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the sheds that we had and hung array were on
a trailer and take it then and we were me
and one of the other guys was on the road
and a big sweeping bean with amco on both sides
of the road, and the trailer handled really well, and
then order sudden I felt it sort of tugging. There
was a bit of a whigger and I looked in

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the mirror just in time to see this engine bouncing
right over the arm co. So we stopped and walked
around back around the bend and it was it was
right out of sight. It was quite a steep bank
and bushing that, so we just left it there. But
at the Silverdale job, one of the boss's sons used

(02:06:32):
to have an old Chevy Blazer four wheel drive and
it wasn't registered or warranted and he would just throw
it on the transport of wherever we were moving the
earth moved and use it to run around the job on.

Speaker 5 (02:06:45):
Well.

Speaker 35 (02:06:45):
It was an absolute wreck. And this guy was about
six foot two six or three, probably about sixteen stone,
and he used the was worn out, so the shock
absorbers and that were bugged. So we would get along
the hall roads and that and to be getting up
and down and up and down. And I saw them
horning the Chevy Blazer off the job one day and

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I said to one of the guys what happened and
he said, oh, Lance was going down down the hall
road bouncing as he usually does with the seat went
right through the floor.

Speaker 15 (02:07:18):
Fortunately it was still.

Speaker 35 (02:07:19):
Stuck to the floor pen which was stuck to the firewall,
so it just sort of scrapped along the grounds.

Speaker 3 (02:07:28):
They could have been quite frightening and quite dangerous to
get run over by your own car when you're sitting
in It wouldn't be nice.

Speaker 35 (02:07:36):
Oh if the front of the floor pen had gone down,
it could have been absolutely terrible. But it was just
like a bit of a sneed. But yeah, the guys
that you meet on some of these jobs.

Speaker 3 (02:07:45):
So you lost the engine, you didn't go back to
get it.

Speaker 5 (02:07:49):
Oh, we stopped.

Speaker 35 (02:07:50):
It was quite a big sweeping Ben stopped and walked
back and I had a fair idea where I'd seen
it bounce, But when you looked over the bench, it
could have been anywhere. It could have gone a couple
of hundred meters down at a steep bank that was
all heavily bushed and that so you wouldn't even know
where it was. Try and get it up.

Speaker 3 (02:08:08):
Was it not attached at all?

Speaker 8 (02:08:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:08:11):
Oh yeah it went through the bottom.

Speaker 3 (02:08:13):
Oh I see what, I see what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (02:08:15):
It sure.

Speaker 35 (02:08:19):
A bit of a Heathrow's an outfit, but now.

Speaker 3 (02:08:21):
Mine it sounds free. Heath Robertson, James, thank you for that.
Twenty nine to twelve people welcome on him as Marcus
good evening. All cars Rod that's were revereded up tonight
and I'm happy with that. Brilliant, keep it going and
got anything to add. Road trip forty years ago we
went from Auckland to Dunedin in a nineteen thirty three

(02:08:42):
Ford V eight pickup truck with canvas cover on the back.
Went great, didn't like Wellington. Husband had to last minute
repairs to the brakes. Reminded me of my father who
was a tructor of wind and always complained of the
narrow streets and tram lines. Dk W. Giman made rear
engine nineteen sixty Best car I have ever ode was
a sixty eight I FD Vauxhall Victor Estate Wagon, big
six pack engine, four speed with overdrive, guaranteed one thirty

(02:09:05):
five mile from the backstreet of Topak. He said he
missed best car eighty six trying to coroller GT hatchback
must have been limited edition as it had leather seats
and other we specs went like the absolute clappers. Chris
Aimon had a hand in the design. Apparently, thanks Mark
christ Church, I might remember the promotion of those good

(02:09:27):
eving Brooketts. Marcus.

Speaker 5 (02:09:28):
Welcome, Oh good Indiy Marcus.

Speaker 16 (02:09:31):
Nice to hear your voice and thank you taking my call.
DKW edit the German car. It is known the new
name for it today is Auto Union and the Auto
Union is now known as an Audi Okay, so there's
a bit of history for you. I was brought up

(02:09:53):
in Africa and my father had two Auto Union vehicles
in the.

Speaker 9 (02:10:01):
Late sixties and early sixties.

Speaker 16 (02:10:07):
And he imported the SP one thousand sports car which
was modeled on the Ford Falcon or the Ford one
of the forth sports cars with the wings at the back.
So if you google SP one thousand you will see

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the Auto Union. It was a two seater sports car.
There were roughly two thousand made and Dad imported it
from Germany on a business trip in about nineteen fifty eight.
It was left hand drive, a ten about of one

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thousand cc motor, two stroke, and it was a car
of the day left hand drive. We had a wonderful
time in it and Dad and Mum they toured around
Europe for about six months and bought it and then
shipped it back to South Africa. Mum also had an

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Auto Union's one thousand Spadan and later we went to
the one thousand dkw rear door and it was a
wonderful car to drive throughout Africa and those early days

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and we had very We used to travel from Johannesburg
down to Cape Town and it over a third day trip,
stop off at Colesburg, which is midway between Johannesburg and
Cape Town. And the car was faultless. It was a
two stroke motor. It just went and went and went.

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The station wagon model was just superb. We would have
two Mum and Dad in the front and three of
us sitting in the back and plenty of room with
a roof rack on and a canvas water bottle hooked
over the bumper bar in the front. When you'd stop
in the middle of the Karoo desert, you just picture

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the openness of the country and sip a cool, fresh
cup of water discarded from this canvas tank. It was
just beautiful. And as I say, the SP one thousand
with Dad's highlight of the car, I was fortunate enough

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to drive it to his business and during those early
days and I got my license. But and then my
first car was a a a Sunbeam Rapier of the
two door saloon fifteen hundred electric overdrive, wonderful car. Again,

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only reason I got one is because my sports master
school used to pick me up and drop me off
at home at night. And when I was when I
was working for my dad at his business, I said
to Dad, I said, I said, you don't pay me.
I said, how about giving me a motor car? He said, well,
go down to the motor shop and select the car

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and give me the bill. So I went down there
and I bought a second hand Sunbeam Rapier and honestly
that was a fantastic car for me. And then progressed
from that to VW Combe which I met my wife
who was a Kiwi girl on oe and we bought

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this Coombe and we traveled up through to Mozambique.

Speaker 2 (02:13:52):
And lost a.

Speaker 16 (02:13:53):
Wheel bearing in the Victoria Falls. And in those days
there was no there's hardly any flights into the into
the disc into into the area. We had to wait
for someone to come along and yeah, and we traveled
down through the whole of Sudden Zimbabwe or Rhodesia in

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those days, and then traveled on through Mozambique.

Speaker 3 (02:14:20):
I'll try to work out whether any of those DKW
cars came to New Zealand. Brook. But look, thank you
for your call tonight, and I appreciate that it's nineteen
to a twelve. You're doing to talk before the end,
I will get you in there. It's a head of twelve. Hey,
it's sixteen to twelve. The dolphins have seen off the
bulldogs like forty to twelve or something fifty of the threshing.

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So that's just happened. And yeah, hi, end this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (02:14:46):
Hey, good, good evening. Marcus. You were wondering about DKW
cars and came.

Speaker 3 (02:14:51):
To well, a guy called Noll rang up and he said,
there used to be the tax season inver Cargo, which
I didn't know about. So that was the query.

Speaker 5 (02:14:59):
Yep, that would be dead right. I think Crosbies and
Cable were the agents for them, and I recollections of
one being modified and raced at Tea, Tonga.

Speaker 3 (02:15:12):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (02:15:14):
They were definitely three cylinder, two stroke shaped a little
bit like a Volkswagen.

Speaker 3 (02:15:20):
I've seen the picture. They're like it almost a bit
like a Volkswagen or a Carmen gear but like that.

Speaker 5 (02:15:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 9 (02:15:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:15:27):
But what seems to be that happen is that car
franchises would find favorite makes of car that'd specialize and
wouldn't they because I remember, you know, if dk if
dk W were bigger than the cargol I remember Citron
cars were very bigg and you plymouth. Different areas seem
to have different popular cars, didn't they They did.

Speaker 5 (02:15:44):
P JO had a big relationship with cars and in
the cargo for quite a long time around and I
think after Borgwood closed down production in Germany, they were
still manufactured in Brazil for quite a week while later.
I remember the Bogwood is A is a Bella I
think was the model that.

Speaker 3 (02:16:05):
Was well because in my early days at university there
were several people that I knew that were obsessed about ballwalks.
Had to you know that there are a car I'd
never heard of, but people were really passionate about them
and loved them.

Speaker 5 (02:16:17):
Yeah, but there was one in Riversiale where I grew up.
I knew the guy that owned it quite well, and
it seemed to be a pretty decent sort of car.

Speaker 3 (02:16:25):
And was that was Crosby's, an invert cargo car dealer.

Speaker 5 (02:16:29):
Yes, okay, yes, I'm pretty pretty confident about that. Yeah. Yeah,
I don't know where they were, but I remember the name,
and I think one of the these sons was quite
a keen motorsport enthusiast and what.

Speaker 3 (02:16:42):
Have they been taxis the dk W because they were
cheap to run, or just because I'd get a deal
with Crosby's, or how would that work? Do you reckon?

Speaker 5 (02:16:49):
I wouldn't have any idea at all about that. No,
I've got no clue at all. I remember seeing this.

Speaker 3 (02:16:58):
Interesting how varied our car history. I think I was
going to say, it's a lot more I was going
to say, it's probably a lot more very then the now.
But thinking now, you've got all the Chinese cars, You've
got the Indian cars, you've got the Korean cars. That's
probably is. There's probably as many different makes of cars
now as.

Speaker 7 (02:17:14):
He was then.

Speaker 5 (02:17:15):
Oh yeah, well I was in China. I've had two
trips to China and due to go back just profure,
purely for holidays. I've fallen in love with the place.
First time we went over, it was quite revealing. Each
city seemed to have a brand of car that was
the taxi. They were all painted one color. One place

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had all Suzuki Swifts, and next we went to had cherries,
and the third one where they all had Toyotas. The
second trip we went over, about five years later, everything
was electric. Never saw another petrol taxi anywhere, and there's
rapidly one hundred different manufacturers of cars and China. Yeah,

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it's huge, Yeah, but they were well. We were used
in regularly over there, very cheap, very nice to ride in,
and the drivers were usually pretty good fun.

Speaker 3 (02:18:11):
What's your what where do you go in China? And
what's your what's the thing you do there that you
like about it?

Speaker 2 (02:18:18):
Well?

Speaker 5 (02:18:18):
The first time we went, we struck a budget airfare
into Chendu, where the pandas of bread and their main
place where they're bred and brought up. And from there
we took a high speed train to Xian and saw
the Terracotta warriors and then back to a place called

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chan Ching on the Yanksi River by train again thoroughly
enjoyed life over there. Met a young lady from inver
Cargle who worked for the Headline freezing company at random
when we were struggling to find a bus ticket or
a train ticket. Went back to Shanghai a couple of

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years ago and went to three or four different cities
around this that area. In this time we're going to
Tobijing and hangs out again. Will travel by hoh speed train.

Speaker 3 (02:19:17):
I look at when I look at shendhu In. Boy,
that's a long way west, isn't it. That's right in
the mountains, that's at the that really is at the
edge of the country's so that's a that's a long
way in.

Speaker 5 (02:19:29):
Yeah, it is. Yep, it's quite revealing. Quite yeah, quite lovely.
From there we went to the train to Xian I
think it was roughly three hundred miles and we went
to eighty miles of tunnels on the railway track. Ten

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tunnels totaled eighty miles of tunnel quite you know, it
meant the the infrastructure over there is quite amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:19:58):
Nothing problem.

Speaker 3 (02:19:59):
Yeah, well the tumbling for how they've managed to commit
to high speed trains and get it all done in
a very short space of time. I mean it is
extra ordinary.

Speaker 5 (02:20:07):
Yeah, someone said to us, possibly it was to move
the army around quickly, but who would know. But it
certainly moves the people and it's really beautiful.

Speaker 3 (02:20:17):
Troubles disappointingly.

Speaker 28 (02:20:19):
Sorry, Well, we were advised, we were advised to go
reasonably early in the morning, but when we got there
there was already an enormous crowd. But look we saw
a little one in an incubator. It's hard to describe, Marcus.

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It was just wonderful to see them.

Speaker 5 (02:20:43):
It really was very crowded, but it was well controlled.
People were very polite, nice and it was well worth it.

Speaker 3 (02:20:53):
Yeah, it really was lovely call in. Thank you very
much for that. There be like in be passionate and appreciative.
I guess that what it is. And yeah, get in
touch if you're talk people all the way the six
from twelve Hollo Grant, good evening.

Speaker 19 (02:21:14):
Yeah, okay, Marcus, there you got good things.

Speaker 3 (02:21:16):
Grant.

Speaker 19 (02:21:17):
I'm unfortunately traveling in a very boring Toyota, you know,
two star safety, two staff, full evility. But by back
in the nineties, my sister won the radio.

Speaker 11 (02:21:29):
Promotion in.

Speaker 19 (02:21:31):
The Talkin which was when a Skoda.

Speaker 8 (02:21:36):
And she won.

Speaker 19 (02:21:38):
It was mid nineties when I think the first of
the years the event station came on. You might have
even remembered that promotion. It was kind of quite a
big deal. But it was a horrible, ugly blue scoter
that she won. Was it you?

Speaker 6 (02:21:52):
Was it you?

Speaker 19 (02:21:53):
No, it wasn't you. It wasn't even news. But it
was unique because they were that, you know, I could
tell you what model it was, but they were those
you know, the sort of original Skoda shape.

Speaker 21 (02:22:05):
You know.

Speaker 19 (02:22:05):
It was always a big joke that it had the
heated rear window, you know, so that the people who
were pushing it didn't get cold hands. And it was
a yeah, it was a it was a pretty unique vehicle.
I don't think we could get initially any parts of
servicing for it, but it ran pretty well. We did
some road trips from Portland to wamdue in.

Speaker 29 (02:22:26):
It was.

Speaker 19 (02:22:28):
It was a hard case vehicle, but I've come a
long way since then, I think Cada.

Speaker 3 (02:22:33):
I'd like to know more about that competition because I
can't really what was the what was the the theme
of giving it away?

Speaker 19 (02:22:41):
I'm struggling to remember the details.

Speaker 3 (02:22:44):
It must be it must have been the car that
you couldn't give away. That must have been the hook
or something with it for a competition like that, to
give away a secret, But yeah, it was.

Speaker 19 (02:22:53):
It was sort of like it was really unique at
the time, you know. And and it was when I
was so the FBM stations first sort of started coming
over the ATM, and you know, there was a lot
of competition around and I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 3 (02:23:10):
What did you say it was ninety five.

Speaker 19 (02:23:13):
I'm thinking it was firing ninety Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:23:16):
Yeah, I think that might be right. That might make
more sense to me, or even the late eighties.

Speaker 19 (02:23:20):
Yeah, good, it could have been. He would have been
student radio then I think, oh.

Speaker 3 (02:23:24):
Yeah, I wouldn't have but yeah, that's right. That's or
not doing that, but yeah, that's right. So what happened
to it?

Speaker 19 (02:23:31):
She trained and and you know, he ended up with
something more sensible enough not long after. But he's still headed.
She was working as a spa four homes. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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interesting interesting times.

Speaker 3 (02:23:54):
Were you driving to Grant?

Speaker 19 (02:23:57):
I've just been to a car out, says to bucking
or keep Brick col stores just here now did you
sort it?

Speaker 5 (02:24:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (02:24:11):
Well, untunately. The the glay cold bell is the the duck.
I have to wait until we can get the fridgy
there with a new one in the morning. But you know,
when you've got a cool store of probably one hundred
thousand dolls and a.

Speaker 3 (02:24:26):
Chemic fruit in it, So thinking of it, what color
are they all there? What are the gold in the
red that don't seem to like the green ones anymore?

Speaker 10 (02:24:32):
Do they?

Speaker 3 (02:24:33):
It's all the different ones?

Speaker 19 (02:24:35):
Oh yeah, no other At the moment, the season's gold.
We've got some of the sights to sort of another
maybe another week of gold to go, some of them
two weeks and then we then then the green start.
But the green's playing a little bit part in at
the moment. I don't think the fruit's quite ready. So yeah,
just about the end of the ruby reds are right

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at the start, and then you've got the then then
gold and then green.

Speaker 8 (02:25:02):
Towards the end.

Speaker 3 (02:25:03):
It's like it's like a reverse Treffitt light order, isn't
it read orange green?

Speaker 19 (02:25:08):
Yeah, essentially easily.

Speaker 3 (02:25:11):
I'm gonna run, Grant. I'm right at a time. I'm
going home. Thank you, Thank grunt, thanks for having I
enjoyed tonight immensely. You made it very easy.

Speaker 2 (02:25:17):
People.

Speaker 3 (02:25:17):
That's always good. I enjoy it, You enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (02:25:20):
We enjoy it.

Speaker 27 (02:25:20):
They enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (02:25:21):
That's the plan. Stand long way at last, catch them
by a good night.

Speaker 1 (02:25:25):
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