September 8, 2023 • 7 mins
Big Trev used to love the tv show MacGuyver in the 80s and recently saw someone attempt their own MacGuyver moment!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
One nine hot Tomato.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
So I was driving on the M one heading towards Yatlert,
and as I was driving along, I thought I'd just
switch right off and just have a little bit of
silence for a bit. But as I did that, I
heard this flapping noise.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Was like.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
As I was driving along, I was like, oh, great,
there's something wrong with the car. So wound down my
window had looked but it was non existed. It was
like lighter on that side, on my right side. But
then as I wound my window back up, I wound
the passenger window down. It was so loud. I was going,
what the hell is that? And then I looked back
in my vision mirror and there was a red little mini,
(00:38):
probably like a just a two door mini, and was
flying along. I was like, it's coming from that red car.
And as I slowed down and it moved up beside us,
his back passenger side window behind the driver's seat, he'd
wrapped glad wrap around it, so it had been smashed out,
but he's wrapped glad rap like cling wrap around the
door to protect the window so no one could get
(01:00):
in there. But the flapping bit.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Was, Oh, I can't get through that.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh what am I going to do with this lighter?
Put it in my buck. But the flapping bit was
the little bit of clean wrap that was like acting
as a cape. I was just flying down the road
and that's that's using your initiative, but also really stupid.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Really yeah, it was really unless he was driving to
go and get it fixed.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No, not tho.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
This was it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Therefore it was so the bit of plastic that was
coming off was probably a good meat and a half long,
and he was just happily just cruising down the road,
not worrying about it. He's probably used to their flapping noise.
From now on, we want to know your mcguy for moments.
When did you have to improvise on bits of your car?
(01:49):
You know how people used to get coat hangers and
put them in their antenna to get the radio working, to.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Break into them when you could do that, Oh look,
if you look at keys, it don't look at me
like that.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm not a criminal, has he? When you leave your
keys in the car and then you.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Get the the what what come on?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You used to break in the cars?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm not No, I'm not breaking into cars.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I'm just saying that maybe when I'd locked my keys
in the car and locked the car.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Then you can use a coat hanger.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'll stop it.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You're a numpty. Does that work on other people's cars? No? Actually, Ben,
it doesn't, doesn't it. It only works on my car.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Doesn't you've tried on different cars?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yes, I have stoffish both of you.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
What the one said I was breaking in the car?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
We can go back and listening. No, so we want
to know you mcgiva moments, Eddie form ashmore, what's yours.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
One of the last trips we did to Fraser is
then somebody decided to do a snatch recovery for us,
and in the process of doing so, they managed to
pull the brake line out from under the front left
corner of the car. So, given a toe back from
Fraser Island, having done it once before is not a
cheap exercise. We decided to crimp over the brake line
(03:12):
stick a screw in the end, and having dumped all
the brake fluid on the floor, the only thing we
could come up with that was even close to it
was a bottle of canola oil, so it actually bled
the brakes with canola oil. We had a rather rather
ginger drive back all the way from Fraser Island to
the Gold Coast. You didn't want to. Yeah, well, I
(03:35):
mean you wouldn't want to. You wouldn't want to stop
in a hurry. Every time you stood on the brakes,
the car tried to throw you into the into the barrier.
So yeah, it was a bit of a ginger drive home.
But hey, I saved a couple of grands, so win, win, win, win.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Cooked chips at the same time.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, you're doing dodging girls, Yeah, that's fantastic. Man came
from pac Pines. What was your MCGUI for the moment?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Okay, so you seventy six model Sley car and it
had a sun and I had a sun roofs it
was my first car had a sunroof. The sun roy
fell out. It fell out, Okay, well, I'll be honest.
We took it out and put it next to the
(04:17):
car where we were dark gazing one night up it
with shit. We forgot We forgot it. We took it
out and put it next to the car, and then
we reversed off and heard the glass car and realized
that we drove over it. So anyway, that's how I
got rid of it. But I solved the problem by
(04:39):
putting an umbrella up. Umbrella if it rained. If it rained,
I had a hole with my roots. If it rained,
I was not going to get wet. I had an
umbrella up, and when I talked to my car, I
used to troll my umbrella to the handbrake. Oh my god,
(05:03):
far away and I can't even try and be kind
of locked up.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But if a wind gusta wind got the umbrella and
put the handbrake on.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah, no, that was only tied to the handbrake when
I was broken.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Sounds so aerodynamic.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Rob from broad Beach Waters mcguiva moments. What's yours?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, I've got two and they both relate to my
annual pilgrimages down to Sydney back in the old day.
The first one was an old XCA Falcon and had
a windscreen that shut it part cracked, so bullet dealer
we slashed the windscreen on a Sunday, putting a new windscreen.
So me and my mate we both went in the
(05:49):
surf station, bought some safety goggles from Balladella to Sydney
and we've we've swapped the goggles out while he wants
the bugs off and sitting there just in time, and
another and another version. I did a fan belt on
(06:10):
the way down, doing the same trip, and I pulled
into a service station I think Kemsy or something like that,
parking for a placement fan belt. I didn't have one.
The lovely girl behind the cow bo went and took
the candy toes off that I could make ship a
because that's that's the old Washman Street. She went off
(06:30):
so I could make a Jerry riger fan bet and
they are true story.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Really, how does that work? To stand belt?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
That's the last on these too with something with a
fan belt with panty host, I don't know he talked
about it wees.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Was that just why he told you needed to buy
them all?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I got him the wrong size of it. The dog
host only live and Tomatoes
One nine hot Tomato.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
So I was driving on the M one heading towards Yatlert,
and as I was driving along, I thought I'd just
switch right off and just have a little bit of
silence for a bit. But as I did that, I
heard this flapping noise.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Was like.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
As I was driving along, I was like, oh, great,
there's something wrong with the car. So wound down my
window had looked but it was non existed. It was
like lighter on that side, on my right side. But
then as I wound my window back up, I wound
the passenger window down. It was so loud. I was going,
what the hell is that? And then I looked back
in my vision mirror and there was a red little mini,
(00:38):
probably like a just a two door mini, and was
flying along. I was like, it's coming from that red car.
And as I slowed down and it moved up beside us,
his back passenger side window behind the driver's seat, he'd
wrapped glad wrap around it, so it had been smashed out,
but he's wrapped glad rap like cling wrap around the
door to protect the window so no one could get
(01:00):
in there. But the flapping bit.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Was, Oh, I can't get through that.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh what am I going to do with this lighter?
Put it in my buck. But the flapping bit was
the little bit of clean wrap that was like acting
as a cape. I was just flying down the road
and that's that's using your initiative, but also really stupid.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Really yeah, it was really unless he was driving to
go and get it fixed.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No, not tho.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
This was it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Therefore it was so the bit of plastic that was
coming off was probably a good meat and a half long,
and he was just happily just cruising down the road,
not worrying about it. He's probably used to their flapping noise.
From now on, we want to know your mcguy for moments.
When did you have to improvise on bits of your car?
(01:49):
You know how people used to get coat hangers and
put them in their antenna to get the radio working, to.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Break into them when you could do that, Oh look,
if you look at keys, it don't look at me
like that.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm not a criminal, has he? When you leave your
keys in the car and then you.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Get the the what what come on?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You used to break in the cars?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm not No, I'm not breaking into cars.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I'm just saying that maybe when I'd locked my keys
in the car and locked the car.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Then you can use a coat hanger.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'll stop it.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You're a numpty. Does that work on other people's cars? No? Actually, Ben,
it doesn't, doesn't it. It only works on my car.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Doesn't you've tried on different cars?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yes, I have stoffish both of you.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
What the one said I was breaking in the car?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
We can go back and listening. No, so we want
to know you mcgiva moments, Eddie form ashmore, what's yours.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
One of the last trips we did to Fraser is
then somebody decided to do a snatch recovery for us,
and in the process of doing so, they managed to
pull the brake line out from under the front left
corner of the car. So, given a toe back from
Fraser Island, having done it once before is not a
cheap exercise. We decided to crimp over the brake line
(03:12):
stick a screw in the end, and having dumped all
the brake fluid on the floor, the only thing we
could come up with that was even close to it
was a bottle of canola oil, so it actually bled
the brakes with canola oil. We had a rather rather
ginger drive back all the way from Fraser Island to
the Gold Coast. You didn't want to. Yeah, well, I
(03:35):
mean you wouldn't want to. You wouldn't want to stop
in a hurry. Every time you stood on the brakes,
the car tried to throw you into the into the barrier.
So yeah, it was a bit of a ginger drive home.
But hey, I saved a couple of grands, so win, win, win, win.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Cooked chips at the same time.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, you're doing dodging girls, Yeah, that's fantastic. Man came
from pac Pines. What was your MCGUI for the moment?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Okay, so you seventy six model Sley car and it
had a sun and I had a sun roofs it
was my first car had a sunroof. The sun roy
fell out. It fell out, Okay, well, I'll be honest.
We took it out and put it next to the
(04:17):
car where we were dark gazing one night up it
with shit. We forgot We forgot it. We took it
out and put it next to the car, and then
we reversed off and heard the glass car and realized
that we drove over it. So anyway, that's how I
got rid of it. But I solved the problem by
(04:39):
putting an umbrella up. Umbrella if it rained. If it rained,
I had a hole with my roots. If it rained,
I was not going to get wet. I had an
umbrella up, and when I talked to my car, I
used to troll my umbrella to the handbrake. Oh my god,
(05:03):
far away and I can't even try and be kind
of locked up.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But if a wind gusta wind got the umbrella and
put the handbrake on.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah, no, that was only tied to the handbrake when
I was broken.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Sounds so aerodynamic.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Rob from broad Beach Waters mcguiva moments. What's yours?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, I've got two and they both relate to my
annual pilgrimages down to Sydney back in the old day.
The first one was an old XCA Falcon and had
a windscreen that shut it part cracked, so bullet dealer
we slashed the windscreen on a Sunday, putting a new windscreen.
So me and my mate we both went in the
(05:49):
surf station, bought some safety goggles from Balladella to Sydney
and we've we've swapped the goggles out while he wants
the bugs off and sitting there just in time, and
another and another version. I did a fan belt on
(06:10):
the way down, doing the same trip, and I pulled
into a service station I think Kemsy or something like that,
parking for a placement fan belt. I didn't have one.
The lovely girl behind the cow bo went and took
the candy toes off that I could make ship a
because that's that's the old Washman Street. She went off
(06:30):
so I could make a Jerry riger fan bet and
they are true story.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Really, how does that work? To stand belt?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
That's the last on these too with something with a
fan belt with panty host, I don't know he talked
about it wees.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Was that just why he told you needed to buy
them all?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I got him the wrong size of it. The dog
host only live and Tomatoes
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