The cars that have a special place

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Long away of my Ltd. Welcome to Carl took its shoes
on here in 98.9 NW FM. It's me, May J on line with Mr
Scotty Doe Johnson, Mr. David Prince and Mr Edward Bunting.

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How are you gentlemen? Hello everyone.
Thank. You doing well.
Thank you. That's.
Good, yes. Very good to hear, very good to
hear and good to see all you lovely gentlemen on the show.
And, and thanks to our listenersfor listening in for the last
few few weeks. We've had some comments, which
has been really cool on some of some of the episodes.
What are what are the comments, Matthew?

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Believe it or not, talking aboutthe Ford Taurus.
Really. What did they say?
Defending, defending the Taurus.Defending the Taurus.
We've got to get these people on.
We, we, we need to, I think I'll, I'll, I'll read you what
they said about the about the. Taurus, please do.
Please do. So you know.
Like letting. The editor do you it is first

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slash. Madam Classic and Clunker says
Interesting chat. I bought a mint low kilometre
Taurus from the auctions of 2019for $500 plus fees.
Wow. I was the only bidder.
The dealers weren't interested. It had been owned by a farmer's
wife. I kept it for a few months and
sold it to a retiree who owns who whose own tourists had

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developed a transmission problem.
And since then I've found a friend of mine, a former Rep who
had one as a company car from new.
So as we answer to get back to that, we said the person that
would have bought one, we have areps.
Card, we did say. That so so there you go Scotty,
your your old mate or you know, phone clipped up to his to his
belt and. That's right.

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And no, no, his his his pager. His pager correct?
And he was selling vacuum cleaner bags.
That's correct. He's selling vacuum cleaner
bags. And he was, you know, chatting
up the, the Ming lady. And so he's clearly exists.
He does exist. Scotty, you're, you were.
I think that's probably the mostaccurate description we've had.

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I think we also mentioned, you know, the, the, the, the wife's
car when the Fairlane and the Ltd were a bit big.
Yeah, yeah, it was a premium product.
A premium product. Premium, especially the Taurus
gear. Well, I think they're the only
ones we. No, I was gonna say hang on now
that I said that. I said hang.
On yeah yeah Yeah helicopter. Gear, I think it was.

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There may not have been a low and a high spec, there may have
just been one. Spec you could get your your
lower spec with cloth and your higher spec with.
Oh really? With leather?
OK, leather. But I think that was still gear.
I think that. Was still gears.
Yeah, correct. Yeah.
Yeah. OK.
There you go. Interesting.
He would have, I mean, the salesRep didn't, you know, didn't
want to stretch food, leather, you know, you don't need.

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Were there any other sort of comments on the on the extreme
profiling we did in that episode?
Not as on on that one, but I'll have to go trawl back through
some of the older episodes, but because like I, I've been going
back through a lot of them and saying, oh, people have been
writing comments and I and I haven't even been responding.
Seth I. Had an offline comment on it.

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You've got a. Friend of the show Michael
Green, who drives an Alpha GTV. What is his name?
Poor Michael. Well, he.
He sent me a message after the after showing and it came
through as his name and number in my phone, but he signed it
Giovanni as a suggestion. No, he'd be Michelangelo from

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Michael. Michelangelo, See, you see.
I even said, though in that episode, I even said, now this
is not a derogue. We're not saying anyone that
owns one I. Don't know, not at.
All not at all. He took it in good.
Form We're just running with a nice funny idea.
It's, you know, and, and there'll be plenty more of those
episodes to come. You know, it's I, I think Edward

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Bunting gets gets a lot of enjoyment out.
Of those, Oh yeah, I love it. But.
I can't wait till till the episode where you have who would
have bought a BMW Active Toura 2series because Ed has an opinion
on that, but we'll save that forthe episode.
I know exactly who bought those.Yeah, I sold it to them.
We'll discuss those as well as we'll discuss the the Subaru

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Liberty Xesia, whoever bought those.
So, so we'll have to discuss in a, in a, in a future episode
too. In the next few weeks or so.
We'll, we'll have to bring it back because it's becoming, I
think, quite a, quite a popular,popular discussion.
Point. It's a popular segment, Matthew,
you're better at listeners. They might hate it.
Oh, well, you know, it's probably for us and that's, I

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guess that's kind of what matters, right?
So. Yeah.
Exactly. So I think we've had two very
accurate ones, though, you Scotty with the Taurus and
alum's the Jackaroo as low income single dad car Jakaroo.
So I think they're probably the most 2 accurate, like perfect,

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perfect ones that that we've hadover the over the journey, as
they would say over the journey.But yeah, let's crack on with
some car updates, gentlemen. We'll start with Scotty Doe.
Scotty Doe was that. Nothing this this weekend, but
the previous weekend I did go around to take the R31 out for a

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bit of a drive because it had tobe moved anyway because my
parents were painting. So I was like, OK, good
opportunity to take it for a spin and just you know, because
I hadn't driven it since since the the car show.
So I thought, Yep, starter up starts up beautifully.
Something good, good, good startgoing for drives, you know,

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drive down, drive down the streets and come back up and
then head down on one of these other roads that little bit
bumpy in that and then all of a sudden my side mirror goes and
pops off. Let's just hang in there.
I was like, oh, so turns out it's it's held together with

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like it's pretty much plastic and screws go into the plastic.
So something that's that old. Obviously what happens to
plastic deteriorates cracks. Yeah, so was.
It a really. Cold comment as well when you
drive. That was cold as today.
But no, no, no, today's pretty feral.
Yeah, it already was kind of starting to hang there a bit and

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I was looking at going, Oh yeah,I'll probably just, you know.
Sick of flex it itself. Well I was thinking I was sick
of flex it at some point it was a future me problem, but it
ended up being a me problem quicker than I thought.
That's a that's a thing that happens.
People think, oh, do we just getfixed?
You know, and that especially with cars, yeah, You know, I, I,

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you should be right. It'll it'll fix itself at at
some point and then two minutes later it's on fire.
But. I had a run this week on on
trims like the the the accessoryfitters and dealerships and the
window tinters and they're pulling the door trims off all
the recorded trims out for tow bar installation.
Oh mate, we've just cracked thisquarter trim on a because they

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wrenched them to get the clips out and the environmental area
in the workshops are so cold. They're all running up beanies
and all that. But yeah, they just wrench them
and they just ping because it's too, too cold.
Too cold? Yeah.
Sorry, I interrupted. No.
Car top tip, if you're wanting to adjust something with
plastic, give it a bit of heat, bit of warmth would would that

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be the Car Talk top tip, David? Yep, absolutely.
Even a hair dryer better a heat gun, but you don't want to melt
what you're working with. But.
Well, it's a pretty common thing.
They kind of the the Japanese ones used brass fitting.
So it was brass fitting that went into for the screw, but we
didn't get that. We got plastic for the screw to
go in, but then there's talks that even some of the Australian

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ones got the brass, so it was a bit of a mix.
There's. Talks.
That there's got. So that was interesting.
I was like OK, so some of them got this and some of them didn't
and I was like OK whatever, wellmine's all plastic so I'll just
get some self Tapper screws and just a little longer and bring
it all the way through a bit further and that should that

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should fix it 3. Yeah, I reckon that probably the
early ones had the same fittingsand then it was one of those
things they to increase local content probably they just had
done here and yeah. And Australia's like what?
Brass. No, plastic all the way.
Plastic. So that's what we ended up

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doing. Plastic.
Yeah. Other than that, it, it drove
nice. I got the the new Speedo put in
there and much easier to read. All works nice and good.
Yeah, I assume it's, yeah, it seems fairly accurate.
And it seems to update more frequent, like it doesn't skip

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as much. So if I'm cruising at 100 or
something and I've, you know, put my foot down or something,
it doesn't all of a sudden jump up to like 110 or something.
It it gradually goes up with it.So I guess what I'm trying to
say, it refreshes quicker. The refresh rate is quick, you

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know, Gave the blade a wash and then it rains and now it's
filthy and then gave it another wash and it happened again.
Rained again, yeah. So I decided just to clean the
interior instead. At least I keep that one looking
schmick. Absolutely.
So that was easier and that is it.

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Lovely David Prince. I've I'm trying to think I've
driven most of the cars in the garage recently and.
They're all good. They're all like, actually I
didn't drive the Scamp, The Scamp, the battery is a little
too low. It's been a little while since I
drove that. I want to order.
There's a guy in America that does bits for them and he does a

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bushing kit for the the gear shift, which comes sort of
through the through the firewalland up with a series of
universal joints. And over time they all go go a
bit daggy and horrible. I think I've mentioned this on
the podcast before, but I still haven't got the kit, but I must
get on to that. But I have sourced another rear
engine mount. So I'll do the kit and the rear

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engine mount and that car shouldbe back and up and running.
Did have a you? Just hold the Sorry, do you just
hold the engine when you do the engine mount?
You just hold it up with your hand and then change it and then
just place it. Back down again, even.
One of those it's. Yeah, yeah, I actually replaced
it when I first got the car, which is now 35 years ago.

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I think I've had that car and I actually did it on the floor of
the garage without a hoist. I think I I, I jacked up one
side and basically, yeah, basically worked my way up to
what if it had a drive shaft where the drive shaft would be
up to the back of the engine. Oh, there it is.
And dropped it out and it'd still have a couple holding it

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in place, so I was able to replace it without moving the
engine very much at all. That's good.
Is it the car? You've had.
Mechanical David back then. I was a little more mechanical,
yes, yes. Very good is.
It the is it the car you've had the longest?
Oh yeah, by a long shot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Tried to get rid of it a couple of times but can't bring it
myself to do it so I think it's going to stay around then.
I've been using the N 1 of it because a couple of reasons I
find I don't get to drive it as much as I'd like.
Number second reason got heated seats so.
This is a. Good time of the year to have

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heated seats so. Game changer.
Yeah, exactly right. Had a great run on the weekend
with a group of friends with Mr Bunting.
Was long on that run. Probably the most eclectic
collection of cars I think I've ever seen on a car run.
Was a bit. Random.
It was very random, from a Renault 16 to a Porsche GT3.

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I think that black. One was the GT3 GT 3RS.
Ferrari. Ferrari.
Boxer. Roller Hearts.
Type 3 Volkswagen Yeah, Corolla CSI Corolla hatch, which was not
the Chinese smartest. The best example you've seen,
but you know the best. Example.
But. All about participation.

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It was about participation and it was brilliant playing being
chased up Arthur's Seat by the Ferrari.
I found out I think he was driving very carefully on on
wheels that tyres that certainlyaren't fresh.
And yeah, thankfully the N1, youcan use every little bit of the

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ECU boost that it's got up that hill, although you were in front
of us said. And then there was a Jolly
Pathfinder, I think there was there.
Was a Prado in front of me that was slowing me down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were crawling around
the corners. I couldn't even, I mean, I'm not
a fast car in that Renault, but I certainly would have been
punting a bit harder than they were.

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Anyway, what do you do? But then I'd forgotten how some
how great some of those roads are.
Sort of from Arthur's Seat we cut across to Belnarring and
then on via Shands Road and Red Hill South and places like that.
Beautiful, sinuous, smooth, lovely roads.
So that was great, really good drive so.

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I. Think that's about it for me.
Lovely. We're also joined by Jim Barlow.
How are you, Jim? Travelling with the heat today.
You would be the only one. Jim, you were a long time
listener, first time participant.
Is that what we're witnessing? No, no, second, second time.
Oh, second time, but I wasn't onthat one before when you were on

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the other one. OK.
That's right. Yeah.
Welcome back. Welcome back.
Thank you. Welcome back, Jim.
Thanks for coming on again. Thanks for putting up with us
for the next, you know, hour anda bit.
I'm looking forward to it. Should be fun.
We'll move on. We're in the middle of car
updates, Jim. We'll start with your car
update. We'll get with yours.
OK, so I recently had the car service which include a new fuel

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philtre, and it was interesting because I got about 100 metres
down the road and it was as though before I had that the
throttle response was overdosingon Valium.
In comparison, it's much more responsive now.
But also what was quite a pleasant surprise is that I had

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arranged with David Prince to goto his house after the car was
serviced to have a piece of the rear driver's side door trim re
attached because it come loose. And then when I got to his house
I went, oh, they must have fixedit.
And then he said no, I called Bobby a car with being serviced.
So I was really awkward and thenthe other day went back to get

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new spark plugs put in and they should be going again in the
school holidays to get some new front drive shafts.
So. Oh, nice.
Yeah, it's. Really like painting the Harbour
Bridge. It just sort of, yeah, the stop
it just keeps. Exactly like that.
Exactly like that. I'm sure you're on a first name
basis with them all. Pretty much, yeah.
You know, the writing joke is sort of like how many days will

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be in the front back again. So but it did give me a chance
to ask what they're thinking of their how their experience with
selling Mahindras is going because you know, it's kind of
hard to sort of find dealers that sell Mahindras.
So that was heading to discussion about that, so.
Yeah. Did did you see when you were in
there the other day? The new baby one that they just

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released? I did.
See the new baby one? Yeah, Oh my.
Goodness. It's a little bad.
It's it's, it's cute as a button, I've got to say.
It really looks it. It's quite funky.
It's it's A1 litre, like a key of a canto really.
Googling it now. With a panoramic sunroof and

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clock works loaded up. Sorry, is.
It is it called the thar? No.
No. The the. 30X No, not the 30X
that was the Unos. That's the UNOS.
XO3 or X30 or something? I think it's called the Mahindra
algorithm from memory. I think from, from memory two,

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yeah, Turbo triple talk converter automatic.
So yeah, it'd be interesting to see what price point that comes
in for people. But yeah, I don't.
I still don't see it being a massive player, but who knows,
it may suddenly make Mahindra more palpable for more people,
so we'll see. If they offer a 6 speed manual,
they could join the our illustrious club it.

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Could it could. So, but we'll, we'll have to,
we'll have to see. Tibo Triple manual club.
You know, it's funny, I'm a big fan of of Matthew Hayden, who's
a very famous cricket player. I don't know if you guys are
aware who who that is. He was a big ambassador for four
years ago, like massive like he was, you know, he's Ford's
biggest fan. He was in all their magazines
and had a territory and had an had an F-150 like this is years

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ago. And and I saw him recently he
was advertising Mahindra's so that yeah, that's you're just,
you're just, you know, it's like, it's like you mean
Mahindra or something, somethingthat wasn't the tagline.
There you go, Matthew Hayden. There's your, there's your one
plug from me. Anything else with any of the
other cars, Jim? At this stage, no that that's it

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really. I've been, I've been quite sick
lately. I think it's changing schools.
I seem to catch like quite a strong bug.
So I haven't been particularly actively other than just
studying. So nothing else to report.
What? About what happened to Civic.
I sold you, Jim. That nice little grey Ed.
That's the storage at the moment, Ed.
OK. So that's that's still with you.

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That's good. Yes.
That was a tidy car. How many KS are on that?
2/23 had a. Little nudge bar on the front,
the Chrome nudge it. Did.
Yes, it did. But those are rookie numbers,
Jim. There's the get those numbers

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up, Jim on. That one, yeah, on that one.
So you just sort of. Warmed up.
But also true that was that was sort of I think the last of the
line Ed. So it had the bigger rims and I
think the. Yeah.
Preferred interior and that realsort of fishbowl visibility out
there, the windows and stuff. Through which is fantastic.
Yeah, if we like that car. Yeah, I.
Remember going in one years ago?I was like, wow, it was, you

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know, it was so greenhousey. It was.
It was. Really.
Yeah. Yeah.
Very glassy only. One the last time I went into Ed
civic would have been 2007 and my next door neighbour bought 1
and he drove the crap out of it and it was smoking and it was it
was it was he bought a bucket version of it, but it it went

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good and I was like, Oh, this is, you know, this is kind of
cool. So that was my that was my first
and kind of I think only. It might be time to get back in
one. I think Matthew have another
rear point. I do like an Ed and of the of
the civic kind that is. And so yeah, I'm a fan.
I'm a fan bunting. We'll get to yours last because

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you've got a bit of an interesting story.
There's a tale. There's a tale and you can strap
yourself, strap yourselves in gentlemen, car updates with me.
I've haven't done anything with my cars as per SE, but I've done
car related things. So as you guys know, I went and
bought, I went to M Lux and before they shut down, rest in

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peace. Moment of silence everybody.
Moving on. And I bought, you know, a rear
seat out of a, out of a Ford Fairlane BA Fairlane.
They had 130,000 KS on it, really tidy.
It looked like a really tidy car.
I took the reset out. I was like, I want to make a
chair. So I ended up making the chair
and I've shared it to you guys on online.
Yeah, no, it's, it's pretty cool.

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Mr. David Prince is sorting me out with my upholstered
armrests. And then once they go on, it'll
be be it'll, it'll all tie together really, really nicely.
An Ltd. Catch.
Yeah, well, fair lane, fair lanegear.
Fair lane gear. Fair lane gear.
So you need the gear badge on the on the on it somewhere.
Yeah, but you could get that from a record and sort of put it
on light or something. Yeah.

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Well, I'll do you one better. Oh and I so I got the VIN from
the car and because it's, you know, it's original, I, I remade
the sticker like the, the VIN sticker.
That's cool. So, so that'll go on to the back
of the chair because like, yeah,it's as a nice, as a nice
little, you know, homage to where it came from.

(21:17):
And pay my respects to the to the old to the old.
It's very. Funny if the original owner of
that car sort of got to know that their receipt is now a
couch. That's sort of.
Very, very bespoke, limited edition.
Very. One of one gentleman, one of
one, yes. So no, I, I actually surprised

(21:38):
me how good it turned out. I didn't expect it to, to, to
look that as good as it did. So I put, you know, I had some
speakers and I had this old headunit which I which that actual
old head unit, believe it or not, came out of one of Edwards.
That came out of Edwards, I think.
Was it your 190 D it came out of?
Oh, is that that head unit? That's the head unit.
You you like, just just take it.I'm like alright so.

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Yeah, no, I wasn't just, it was,it was like you just spent hours
putting the original style head unit back in for me.
The least I can do is like, you want the old one and you're
gonna have it, you know? So.
Go for it. And it used to light up blue and
it would really burn my retina and it and it did not suit my
car at all. With a Bluetooth, you know, USB

(22:23):
in sort of head you. Yeah, yeah.
Absolutely. So it's up connected to my my
phone via Bluetooth. So, so it plays all, all, all
the tunes. I'll put some ambient lighting.
Underneath you can make it so that whenever a bum sits on it,
it goes. Have you?
Have you? Lately.
I should do that, shouldn't I? You totally should.

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Absolutely. It's instead of a whoopee
cushion. Do it have it do that?
I, I have you driven a Ford cushion.
So, so yeah, I was really happy with how it came out.
And now I'm like, what else can I add to this?
I'm like, I don't think I can add anything else, but I, I do
want to make a, a foot stool to,to go, to go with it.

(23:03):
So, so, so that'll be the next thing.
If I find some more black leather that's out of a, out of,
you know, failing or something that's like the, if the rest of
the scene's mounted, I can just RIP off the leather and make
like a little foot stool. And I think that'll just finish
it off. That'll be very good.
That'll be good. But I had to get cup holders for
it because the someone had, I didn't realise, but when I got

(23:24):
opened I was cleaning it up likesomeone had actually taken the
cup holder out of the centre armour.
And so I went to the records andgot one of those of.
Course he did. And that's where I, yeah, and
that's where I saw my first Taurus in a very long time,
which I sent you guys in the group chat.
So, but yeah, that's, that's pretty much it on my car.
Updates made a chair. So that's super exciting.

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Very. Cool.
Edward Bunting. Now we had a chat yesterday
evening after I was after I wentfor a run at the gime and we had
a chat and you told me the wildest story I've heard in a
very long time. So, gentlemen, strap yourselves
in all. Right.
Well, David has already heard this of course I saw him on the
weekend. But yes, Saturday was a very

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full and eventful day. Just in in in loose other Car
Talk news to tidy up some things.
I did buy Ford Focus, my first ever Ford Focus, so I picked
that up from Mannheim. It's a 2004 auto 4 door hatch in
white with an original 33,000 kilometres on the clock.

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So Needless to say, this car hassat around for a while.
So as I like to do, run the gauntlet, pick it up from
Mannheim and let's see what happens on the freeway.
So the first thing is that the the power steering on that car
is not currently operating. I think all the fluid has leaked
out. So I need to get that tended to.
And the tyres I think could be the originals.

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They're real old. David, you would not be happy
with the price. There's a lot of age cracks in
those. Needless to say, you know, got
me home. So yeah, that's in my garage.
And after a bit of a clean up, I'll, I've got a friend of a
friend who might be interested in that.
So I'll, I'll certainly show it to them.
Moke's still waiting on a fuel pump.

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I sold the get that went within a day up to Bendigo.
So that's got a happy new owner.Great car.
Yes, great car. Yep, David has done some
wonderful steering wheel work onmy Triton today.
So I'm I'm yet to go and look atit David, because it's, you
know, just too cold. But, but I will.
But I will anyway. Saturday morning I thought, you

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know what I need? I don't need to vacuum or clean
the bathroom. I might need to go and look at
another car. So I went out to look at a
Mercedes Benz 380 SEL, which I'dseen come round Marketplace a
couple of times. And ironically, a mechanic that
I know rang me and said, oh, this guy wants to sell this

(25:53):
murky, you're interested. And I said, describe it to me.
And he did. And I said, I've seen that car,
you know, and I actually saw it in the street near David's
house. That's where it was living.
So it sort of came to me in a few different ways.
This car. Anyway, eventually it was back
on Marketplace at a cheaper price because it needed some
transmission work. So I thought, look, I I just
want to eyeball this thing. It looked really original and

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when I got there, it is really original 1 owner still on full
Garden State plate rego, you know, books, keys, factory mats,
factory radio Thistle green on Palomino.
This is this is a very untouchedcar.
Every pamphlet and tag in the books that it that it ever could
come with. And despite the transmission

(26:39):
issues that the condition of therest of it is clearly a very
well loved and and sort of garage car.
So I thought, yeah, I think I better have that.
So anyway, I bought that that's getting truck tool mechanic on
Friday and we'll try and sort out the transmission later that
day. On Saturday, I needed to get a
bumper bar for my E350. The back bar had some scrapes on

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it and it had a crack on the topedge that that just wasn't easy
to fix. So normally the the panel guys
will be able to work with what you've got sort of thing.
But he said, look, you're probably better finding a second
hand bar. And there was a guy down the
peninsula who had one and I've been toing and froing with him
for a few weeks about it. He wasn't home.
I wasn't around, you know, it just didn't line up.
Finally he said come down Saturday at 1:00.

(27:24):
Great. So I bought this Miss Merck in
the morning. I jumped in my car, drive down,
drive down to the peninsula. I meet Wolfgang.
He's an older German guy. And Wolfgang shows me the bumper
bar. Yep.
There's your 100 bucks done Chucky in the Triton.
And he had an ML sitting sort ofin the carport.
And then he had a veto van sitting near that.

(27:45):
And I thought, oh, he's obviously a bit of a Merc guy.
So even though they're not particularly collectible models,
either of those, but I sort of said, oh, you know, you like
your Mercs, Obviously Wolfgang said yeah, yeah.
You know, I've worked for Mercedes Benz for 37 years and
I'm like. Wow.
That's, that's a long time what we're doing there.
And he said he worked at head office, I think for a bit, but

(28:07):
his main role was at lanes and and lanes to anyone in the
1960s, seventies, 80s was the distributor for Victoria, for
Mercedes Benz cars. And they were a dealer in their
own right, but they were also sort of the distributor.
So they were down in Johnson St,South Melbourne then and then
they moved to Sturt Street around the corner in South
Melbourne. Not that.

(28:28):
Yeah, in the later 80s maybe. So I said, oh, that's cool, you
work for Lanes. Yeah, yeah.
What did you do at Lanes? And he said oh I was the like
pre delivery manager, sorry. We need the accent.
Oh sorry, I was the pre deliverymanager there.
Thank you. Thank you I.
Said and I said, oh, that's cool.
I said, well, my little Mercedesdiesel 190 that came from lanes,

(28:51):
maybe you pre delivered my car. He said, Oh yeah, maybe.
He said, you know, I have a Ledger of all the cars that came
in in that time I was there. And I said, can I see that
Ledger? And he's like sure, come next
door. So I go into his garage, he
produces this big, you know, A2 sized binder with Immaculate

(29:16):
cursive writing, you know, as inone car per line on this Ledger.
But each page in this in this giant book was 1 shipment of
cars. So he and it was all dated all
in chronological order. So he said, what's the serial
number of your car, which is thelast 6 digits of the chassis of
the V number. You know, it's the chassis

(29:37):
number or the serial number. So I looked quickly jumped on
Vicroads and got the serial number from my club Reg, you
know, permit, permit thing. And we're flicking through the
pages. Bang.
There in February 1987 is my car.
I'm like. That's cool.
What the actual path? You know, like.

(29:58):
I. Thought I did not come down here
and think I'm going to find a Ledger of every Benz that came
through Mercedes Melbourne in the in the 1980s.
So then it had the dutiable value of what my car was.
You know, the stamp duty was paid on.
It had the date when it came in on and the name of the ship.
So I've since Googled the ship that it came to Australia on and

(30:20):
it was it was called the Barber Perseus.
And it was built by Mitsubishi ironically in the in the late
70s and that ran till 2009 that ship.
So that was around a long time. And it was built as a roll on,
roll off car car carrier, sort of the latest and greatest.
So that was. Pretty cool.
So then later on Saturday I wenthome and got the books out of my

(30:46):
190 diesel and sure enough thereis Wolfgang's signature on the
pre delivery page. So he he did indeed pre deliver
my car. Wild.
Then I thought, because I said to him, look, my coupe came from
Neville Lindsay Mercedes in essence, and it didn't come from
lanes. And he said no, because we did
with a distributor. They all sort of funnelled

(31:07):
through that, that port, you know, or that that point of of
contact before they went out to the other dealers.
And I was like, interesting. I get out my coupe books.
Wolfgang had pre delivered my coop as well.
That's so crazy. How's that?
I was just like, this book is like Holy Grail to me.

(31:27):
I I want more. Now.
I haven't checked the books on the 380 SELI bought on Saturday
morning, but that too is Elaine's car and.
Wolfgang Signature. I reckon it will have Wolfgang
in the book as well. So I actually sent him, I sent
him photos today of the the books with his signature and the
two cars. I said, Yep, as we, as we

(31:50):
thought, you delivered both of these.
But like it was really fascinating looking at the, the
page in the book, like if I lookat it now, the paid the shipment
that that my car came in on it had like this is the array of
cars that were on that ship, right?
You've got 12345190ES. So the petrol version of the

(32:14):
baby Benz 191190D which is my car.
Yours was the only 190 D on that.
On that shipment, it was the only 190 diesel, yes, the
previous, previous pages that hehad of the other ships, there
were sort of three or four or five of them sort of thing.
But on that shipment, yeah, thatwas the only one, 230ES123456789

(32:36):
to 11:00 on that shipment, 1230 TE waggon, cause the waggons
were a bit rarer obviously and abit expensive.
And then there's about 123456. So probably 10300 ES.
And then the last ones were someSS, his fingers covering up that
in the photo. But that they would have been
like 300, sorry, 380 S ES or 280S ES back then.

(32:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It might have been 420 SDLS
actually, or, or 300 SDS 'cause they upgraded the motors.
But yeah, just fascinating to see that, you know, these cars
really were limited. You know, there's just there
were, there were, you know, capson how many you could bring in
at the time, aside from them being very expensive, there were

(33:18):
sort of caps. So, you know, these shipments
are not like, Oh yeah, there's 1000 cars, there's 500 cars.
It's like there's, there's 40 cars like and, and that's it
until another, you know, four months when another ship comes
in sort of thing. So yeah, I, I thought, I want
to, I want to reference that book again and again and look,
look at it, look at anything in it.

(33:41):
So yeah. The.
Chances of meeting that guy and and of all the people in
Australia you could have met? Well, I mean, he was selling a
Mercedes Benz part, so I supposethat narrows the chances, but.
And then the fact that you, you say, oh, you know, you engage
you in conversation, you could have said, thanks for that.
Off I go. By.
David, I, I could have just said, oh, thanks to the bumper.

(34:02):
Haven't, haven't I? I know I had a really busy day
that day. You know, I could have just
said, thanks, see you later, have a good day.
And just by asking one question and saying, oh, so you like, you
like Benzes and, and that leads to another question.
And suddenly I'm, I'm viewing a Ledger with my car in it like
from 1987. Like that just blows my mind so.

(34:23):
I'm staggered. Would he have been the only
person pre delivering each one of the cars?
Like every single. Car.
I don't, I don't know. I've got to ask that's.
Insane. I've got to ask him more
questions of it. No, there there would have been
obviously people working in the pre delivery area, but pre
delivery manager. He he might have been the one
that signed it off in the book. You know, like, like I've

(34:43):
checked over these five cars that have been de waxed and what
have you And, and I'm signing itoff as, Yep, we've done
everything. And he was saying that they all
came in with wax on them, you know, underside in the in the
top topside. And that had to be sort of that
had to be sort of hot washed, you know, to get the wax off.
And but the solution they'd use would bugger up the rubbers.
So he said we're often taking out wiper rubbers and things so

(35:07):
they didn't get affected by the the dewaxing solution.
So yeah, just just, and as as I said to him, well, you need to
come on a certain podcast with David Nye, tell these stories
because this is this is to us now.
This is fascinating info. Absolutely.
And he said when, when he left, you know, he said something

(35:28):
about the ledgers and they said,oh, no, we're gonna just throw
those out. And so he's like, oh, well, I
have to take them. And so I'm glad.
He did, because it certainly. Did, yeah.
Great rolling history of the shipments of Mercedes benders
into this country, certainly into Vic in golden era.
I would love to go through that book and put in the Vins and see

(35:50):
which ones are still on the road.
That would be. That would be so cool to do.
Yes. Well, in theory you could.
He's only recorded the last 6 digits, which is the unique
serial of each car, but the prefix part you could work out.
Yeah, it's awesome because they were all for the same model.

(36:11):
They were. All you could.
You could like WDB 126 is a 126 series Mercedes.
Then there's a couple of other characters and then you've got
your serial number. Yeah, Yeah.
So you could work that out. Yeah.
Imagine that. Yeah, imagine.
Imagine. That I, I reckon I'll, I'll go
out and pick up those books maybe, maybe later this week
before the car gets towed to themechanic and I'll, I reckon I'll

(36:32):
have 3 Benzes that yeah, yeah, all wolfganged, which is sort of
nuts. They've been wolfganged.
Ganged, yeah. That's.
It's that's my little Funny Car story for the week.
It's. Freaking wild.
Like it's it's. So great.
Wild, wild. That is, I mean it begs the.
Question how many of these people are out there like, you

(36:53):
know, my mini Moke or something like like who sold Mokes back in
the day or who worked on Mike? There's got to be people still
alive that that worked at the dealerships and great, you know,
I knew about them. And it's just like, oh, we need
to just tap into these people and ask them some questions
because that's cool info. And it all gets lost.
You know someone like that passes away and you you, you
lose that that cool info. That legend needs to somehow

(37:17):
make it's way to the Bunting collection, I think.
Well, I, I said to him because he's like, oh, I got this old
stuff, you know, And I said, well, he said, I, I actually
offered this to the Mercedes club.
They didn't seem too interested but he said.
I think it should end up with the club and.
I'm like, I'm like I. Agree that should be with the
car club and be preserved. But failing any interest from

(37:38):
the club, ring me. Even if I could just spend an
evening with that Ledger, you know, take some phone snaps of
that Ledger, then at least you'dhave.
Yeah, exactly. Buy the drink, take take it out
for a nice meal. Just be in the Ledger.

(37:59):
We could call it Heath. Yeah, I would be very happy in a
rainy cabin. Just just pondering that for a
few hours. No, that's that's.
One day, one day. Anyway, I know where it is.
I know where he is so I can I can access the Ledger again I'm
sure. What a what a crazy story.

(38:21):
I I. Just.
Blew my mind that you found the guy that you know that signed
off in your cars and. Yeah.
I I got goosebumps when he was talking with the stuff.
I know and he's. Just asking questions.
He's going to ask a few questions and Yep.
Correct. You find out?
Shit. Yeah.
What else are you talking about?Sorry, David.
Go. I was just going to say just on
that code thing, I sent a photo around the the group today.

(38:43):
I was talking to a guy at a dealership and how you can
identify cars, particularly Benzes are really good with that
coding and it'll give you so much information.
Yes. And this guy I know not pretty
similar to my age and I know he has an Evo, Evo 6, Evo 5,
something like that. Anyway, that wasn't there today

(39:03):
at the place that I did the workand and now I was downstairs and
he came down and showed me the job and he said, oh, you've got
the Hondas, haven't you? I said, yeah, that's right.
He said, oh, I said you've got the Evo.
He said, yeah, it's not here. I've just got the got the old
bend here. And I looked over and it was a
very quite down at the mouth 123sitting over in the corner of
the workshop. And I looked at it and I said,

(39:26):
oh, I said that's an unusual one.
I said that's not an Australian delivered car.
He said, how do you know? I said, well, I can see it's
only got a short badge on it. So it's a 200 badge on the
bootleg. No E no, yeah, I injection.
Injection. Yeah, I injection.
No, I injection badge. And it had the little D sticker
on the next to the number plate,like a like identifying the

(39:47):
country. I said he said yeah, he said
it's an unusual 1. He said it's he said it's
manual. I see get out of town.
I sort of so again, confirming it was a new import.
I said was it the UK import? He said no from the VIN decoder
and stuff he could. We worked out it was delivered
right hand Dr new to the Netherlands in Gulf state spec.

(40:10):
So all of the Gulf, Arabian GulfArabia or whatever, all those
little countries there and I think some of them were right
hand drive. I think Bahrain is one of them,
I think. Is there some British interest
over the years and that was usually what determined right
hand drive as opposed to left hand drive?
Yeah, but he can tell from this VIN number that it was.

(40:31):
Yeah, Norwegian delivered right hand drive Gulf state spec at
with a tropical battery. Yeah, the the tropical code is 1
and Australia has that code as well, often because it it means
bigger capacity radiators and fans because it's going to a a
hot. Climate or?
Particularly a hot not that all of.

(40:52):
Australia's hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, no. So if it's going to those
markets, yeah, they often spec the the cooling systems, you
know, and maybe the battery's slightly differently, yes.
Wow, OK so this he, he has no idea how it ended up in
Australia, but he, he's worked in the trade for quite a while
and he said it came in in as a trade in and the best they could

(41:14):
get a a wholesaler to pay was $700.00 for it.
Sounds about right. Yeah, he bought it for $700.00
and they've had it 20 years and it, you know, it's pretty down.
As I said, the paint's faded. The interior is filthy.
I said I saw your eBay the otherday.
Can you not bring this car to work again until you clean it?
I said look at the interior. Oh, fabric.

(41:34):
Interior fabric. Seats.
Yeah. Fabric.
OK. Fabric seats.
Wind up windows? Yeah, no sunroof.
Base base Base spec base Base Base base.
And it's a actual 4 cylinder Carbi, yeah.
Actual 4 cylinder Carbi 200 he said goes better than most 230
easy he's ever driven. He put it he had to put a
diaphragm in the kabi. That's the only thing he's ever

(41:54):
had to do with the kabi. But, and I found myself saying
it out loud, I say, is it for sale?
You look quite aggre with the import.
Oh, I was. It, it, it, it had, I think he
said it had. It had the bunt alloys on it,
but they were. He said.
They were. From a later car, maybe a. 126

(42:16):
he said the the offset was. Wider.
They actually fitted them that they look great on the car the.
1-2 threes, the later ones and the 1-2 sixes did both have that
design of bunt or Mexican alloy.But yeah, you're right, maybe
the ones on the S were a different size.
Yeah, yeah. So he, he, he commented that
yeah, they, they, they looked really good on the car because

(42:38):
they were probably fifteens actually, rather than fourteens.
That's one of the things maybe yeah, yeah, but but yeah, I I
was quite taken with it. No sunroof and two wipers like 2
of my Mercedes requirements totally out the window.
What do you mean 2 wipers? Oh yeah, you need a sunroof and
a single wiper. Yeah, yeah.
Like a single wiper. What colour is this Benz?
Oh. I said, is it called Manila?

(42:59):
Manila Beige, you said? No, it's light ivory.
A light. Ivory.
Yes, I know that. Yeah.
So it's it's yeah, colour of a Manila folder, basically, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I know with the. With the Palomino trim, they
love fabric and the fabric was really nice in it so yeah, yeah,
I'll keep in touch with him about that.
Needs a little bit of body and there's a little bit of rust in
it, which probably belies the doors and stuff, but they.

(43:23):
Can be rusty. They can be rusty old girls and
probably what it's like an iceberg, isn't it?
What you can see is probably what's there.
But anyway, that was interesting.
Just talking about the codes. That's what made me think of.
It well, the other thing Wolfgang said is he said, So
what colour is your 190 diesel? And I said, oh, it's diamond
blue. He goes code 355.

(43:46):
He knows all the colour codes onfire.
In fact, in his in his, you know, stash of parts that he
had, he had some old boxes and Isaid, oh, what, what are these
parts? That was all the wood trim from
around the gear shifts that theywould pull out when the cars
were new if it had a small imperfection on it.
And he kept them all because. And right now, that's 20 times

(44:08):
better than what's in not comingaround, you know.
But when they were new, he said,oh, you know, sometimes we'd
have to change them for customers and things and, and
yeah, he kept them. So I said, what are you doing
with those? You know, you know, catalogue it
all and yeah, probably end up selling some of it.
So I'm like, yeah, stay in touchabout that.
Actually that was the only otherthing this guy had done on this
Benz today. It had a wood grain surround

(44:30):
around the the, the gear shift. Yes.
And he said I found that he saidwith no electric window controls
or balance control holes cutting.
Yes, yes. And he said I am denied about it
through a few days. It was $100 on on eBay or
something like that. And he thought, what am I doing?
I've got to have it. Never got to find this.
Yeah. Exactly the part that I need for

(44:50):
that car. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, 'cause all the all the Aussie delivered cars had the
the Becker radios which had the balance controlled cut out down
around the gear shift, which is a bizarre notion, why they did
that. But yes, that's how they work.
Now were the Becker stuff was that put here in Australia?
It was right. They were they.
Were they were? I'm not 100% sure on that.

(45:12):
I I think Wolfgang would know that.
Do you on the podcast, Edward, just call?
Them, they may have been fitted here, yes they may.
That stuff may have been done here because different markets
would have demanded different radios and things and.
Already different frequencies. Yeah, different frequencies.
Exactly so. So that might have been a local

(45:33):
fitment thing. Yeah.
Also some euro manufacturers around there to try and get
under the luxury car tax would make it yeah, an option.
So then you can choose the levelof Becker you wanted.
But the was it the E12318 came out the 1st 318 that was priced
like $10 under the limit had thespeakers fitted to it.

(45:55):
Yeah, but low radio, yeah, Yeah,I have heard that.
They were very bare bones back then.
Even the Bends 180ES I think were similar.
They'd come in, you know, nothing, and you'd fit your or
the dealer would fit the radio for you.
Yeah. But you could choose whether you
wanted to consider a scene. Yeah, that's.
A That's a really cool story andI like how he knew the the paint

(46:16):
code just. Like.
Yeah. Yeah, knows the art, knows it
all. That's awesome.
Well, he's, he's, he's, he's oneto to know.
It's that's, that's one of thosepeople like, oh, I've got a
question. I know who to ask.
They're always good to have those kind of people.
Exactly, exactly right. Yeah, definitely.
And then it made me want to drive my car and my car more.

(46:38):
So I went and got the 190 D after the nice drive down Sunday
and yes, drove that all the way home and I was like, oh, what a
good car. And I was like, I know the boat
that you came on. Were you talking to it all the
way home? I know who pre delivered you.
I know you signed off on your pre delivery you naughty diesel.
What else? Do does that make Wolfgang a bit

(47:00):
of an automotive midwife then? Kind of does.
Yeah, it's sort of. I mean, he didn't make the car
at the factory, but he. He's I was like, yeah, yeah,
maybe he's. Yeah, so, so pre delivery people
are called the the automotive midwives.
You've coined them Jim. Well done.
Call the midwife. Call.

(47:21):
The midwife moving on to tonight's topic, gentlemen, Now
we're look, David and I had a bit of a chat earlier today and,
and we thought we'd discuss the point of cars that hold a
special place in your heart. Now these cars could be the cars
that you've owned, could be carsthat you want to own, could be a
could be a car that I went in that one time and I was like,

(47:43):
oh, that was such a great car or, or car that you just admire
from a distance that you've really always wanted.
Now I want to leave in your capable hands, gentlemen, of
discussing what cars and and yougot to give us some back story
and and as to why they they holdus such a special place in your
in your automotive heart of hearts.
For me, obviously, my my main 1 is my laser, which I still own,

(48:06):
which you guys know, and I'm notgoing to go all the fool,
though, but that it's it's it's the it's the noble state to for
me. I drive it every day and it's,
you know, I've, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I would tell, I know, mark my words, I would sell everything
before I sold that car. So that is that is why that car
is so special for me. But I I won't delve with myself

(48:27):
here to to hear from you guys. What are cars that are that hold
a special place in your heart? I kind of own them all.
There is an element of that. Yeah, I sort of haven't.
I mean, all of them are there for a reason and I haven't.
I haven't sold. I mean, I've.
Sold a lot of cars, but I haven't sold any of that core
group for a long time. But there are two cars that that

(48:52):
I'm yet to attain. That's still a bit of Lucy.
You know, 1 is the Pagoda, whichwe spoke about before that, you
know, the 60th Mercedes SL. And I think the reason that is
on such a pedestal for me is I had a model of one when I was a
kid and I just thought the shapewas really nice.
And I yeah, I really like cars of that era, particularly Benzes

(49:16):
of that 60s era. And the closest I ever came to
the Pagoda was the owning the four door, you know, W one O 8,
which was, you know, pinned by the same designer, Paul Ruck.
And yeah, same vertical headlights, same interior
layout, sort of, you know, it's,it's very, very similar, just in
4 door form. And yeah, it's worth, you know,

(49:37):
a lot, lot less than the Pagoda.So that was my first ever Benz
actually when I was 19 at West one O 8.
And it's been a string since then.
But yeah, I think it's that as of as we've said before, it
stems from, but you know, when you're a kid, what, what floats
your boat or what are you exposed to?
And yeah, my model Pagoda, I used to love driving that
around. I just, I just always thought it

(49:58):
was such a pretty car. And the other one I'm yet to own
is a Morgan Roadster from the well, yeah, she could say from
the 60s, seventies, 80s, nineties.
They, they're still making them.So they haven't changed.
And that was because our neighbour down the road had one.
He worked for GMH Holden and he was in the sort of engineering

(50:21):
department, so he would always be bringing the latest Holden
home. I remember that seeing the
Camira when he had it for the first time.
And I remember this distinctly, like, OK, everyone in the car
and I got in and I said, oh, this thing stinks.
You know it was it was the new blurry clothy smell and the
plastics it it really did stink that Camira so that didn't

(50:42):
remember it didn't the name of the community me but.
The supercar as was. Known.
Yeah, the supercar. But anyway, the wheels.
Magazine in my car at the momentthat have that car.
Mack had a Mack had a Morgan. He's ever since I knew we knew
that family as kids. He still has it.
I believe they, they moved up tothe country, but I believe he
still has it. And yeah, I, I always ask him

(51:05):
about every time, you know, we might see him wants to be five
years or something, but I'm always like, how's that Morgan
going? You know, his was a 4/4.
So it was the, the frumpy looking 4 seater version, which
is OK with the top down, but when the top's up, it's a weird
looking top. You know, it doesn't, it doesn't
look particularly nice, but silver with the dark blue mud
guards, very pretty car. And I just loved the swoopy

(51:30):
guards and the cutaway doors. And we used to play in it as
kids. And I just remember sitting in
that convertible in the garage down down the street just going,
oh, you know, this thing's this thing's nice.
So I've owned other convertiblesand you know, I still have the
MX5 and I've had the MG and I had another MX5 and I don't
know, maybe that's the only convertibles I've had but but

(51:53):
never had a Morgan yet yet. Yet.
Yet, yet. Yet.
Yeah, probably the main 2. All the rest I own.
You know the cars I own? Yeah, I love them all for
different. Reasons.
Well, I can always attest to thecar that got me into the mess
that I'm in today. Metaphorical mess.

(52:13):
My my my first two cars contrary.
It may come as a surprise to some people, but we're Corollas,
so it's not Hondas. 78 Corolla accessory nursing Corolla.
Then I had an 81 CS 5 speed KE55in centre red with the stripey
seats. Cool.
Which wasn't wasn't half as gooda car as the 78 SE, but anyway,

(52:35):
you've. Said that a few times.
You've said that. Yeah, it was disappoint.
I don't think it was a good example.
I don't think it was a good example.
The 5 speed gearbox wasn't as assyrupy smooth and lovely and
smooth as the AE 3035 yeah so anyway, but when I I came to a
point in my life where I still owe my mother some money and

(52:57):
well this is very personal. This story still owe my mother
some money and but I'm. Getting that Sonny David, You
still owe me for that bloody car.
Yeah. Yeah.
You know what? Just shaved Hungry Jacks.
I. Don't think Hungry Jacks were
the thing back then. Maybe not the and I put, and I

(53:18):
was going to ask my wife to marry me and I knew that I well
didn't I wanted to be debt free before I did that.
So I advertised the Corolla, thethe CS 5 speed and I got think I
got 4 1/2 grand for it might have been 5 grand.
This is back in 1984 and I decided there were two cars that
I, I wanted to replace it with. I had to, I paid it back, you

(53:41):
know, 1000 bucks or 1500 bucks, whatever it was.
And I had like 3 grand left. So it was either going to be a
Mark 1G which made from school it had, which was a cracking
little car or a Honda Civic. And I'd always, always liked
Hondas and I'd always liked because they were little cars.
I think that's where my fascination started.
I was like, and there was a Honda dealer not far from where

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I grew up. And yeah, so I found out I
looked at a number of Golfs and I looked at number of Civics and
I found I could get a better Civic for the for three grand
than I could a Golf. The Golfs were all a bit ratty,
so I found this very low mileagebit like your Focus had 30
something thousand KS on the clock and it was a 76 three door

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manual in Highland blue, which is that light metallic blue.
So and I bought that. So that was my first Honda, and
yeah, that set me on a path to which I haven't been able to
veer off, shall we say. That's the better choice between
that and the Golf. I know the Golf's worth more
probably now, but the the Civic is a better car.

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Yeah, yeah. It was a great, so much fun to
drive and yeah, of course, greattime in my life, fabulous
memories of of that car and thattime.
And then I sold it when I went into business to buy the a Ute,
which is in about 80. 686 I think it was.
Bought a gloppy old or it wasn'ta gloppy Mitsubishi L200 sport

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Ute which had Sun Raysia wheels and that was like a truck
compared to the Civic to drive but yeah, sold the Civic to A to
a young girl in another warning.Never seen it again.
Sure it's probably well and truly off the road by now.
BWH eight O 7. So yeah, I that.
And whenever I think I'm throughthe civic stage of my life now,

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you know, because they, they're tiny little cars and they're,
you know, they're 4050 years oldnow.
One will just sort of pop up andyou'll think, oh, gosh, I don't
think I've including through that stage of my life.
Yeah. Well, someone asked me on the
weekend that, you know, like about that 380 that I've, that
I've bought Saturday morning andthey said, oh, you know, were

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you after 380? And I said, no, I wasn't after.
But I've always liked them. You know, I've owned them
before. My father had one for 10 years.
You know, that was, that was thefirst fence that he'd had.
And the, you know, cars, they earn a place in your heart for
sure. So would I always, and I said
it's like going to a restaurant having a great meal.

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Would you always go back there and have that same meal again?
Well, yeah, you might not be there every night, but but
you're quite happy to go back there on occasion and and have
that amazing roast or that linguine.
I'm quite happy to always own A380 Benz if it's the right car
at the right price, you know, and at and at the right time,
you know, just as you would be with a Civic, David, you know,

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someone puts a good Civic at theright.
If someone put a Highland blue, one of those in front of you
today and said, oh, it's really original.
It's 2 grand, David. Well, would you buy it?
Of course you would course. You would.
You'd believe that for a time, and then you might end up
rehoming it to someone, but you'd you'd certainly jump on
that chance. Correct.
Correct though. Sometimes they, as I say, they

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find you rather than going searching for them.
Correct, correct. Yeah, I can relate to that.
With our Camry V6, we had the BZV 21 Camry V6, full import.
Remember our dad was ordered a new car or wasn't a new car, but
new for us at the time. And we had we had an old XF

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Fairmont which was on its last legs.
And that that was to be mum's car because, you know, dad gave
that to mom. And then we got this Camry,
which was only four years newer because the XF was 87 and the
Camry was 91. And.
So the Camry wasn't new when yougot it?
No, no. It was like, Gee, it's probably
10 years old when we had it, 2001, we got that car.
What did what did, what did he pay for that when it was 10

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years old? $11,000 I remember I.
Remember 11,000. Remember the place in, in, in
Strathmore where where we got itfrom.
I remember the I remember up thehill and around the corner and
there it was, was in the driveway.
Is that? I mean how much would that have
been new being the V6 full import?
They were pricey. They were they.
Were 30. No, they were in the 50s I

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think. No, no they're not not they
weren't that much. They were very They weren't.
I actually looked that up. I don't know if I checked that
they. Were.
Yeah, if I checked that right, Ireckon, I reckon I saw one in a
dealer and it was something like31 or 29, you know, 'cause you
got to remember the standard Camry of that, you know, was
like, how much was the standard Camry, David?

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A base base model. C21 Yeah.
Like like, were they? Now mid 20s I reckon we put we
bought. One, was it 18 for a base basie
or something? Yeah, I'd say, I'd say that we
bought a waggon in 89 with an 87waggon.
And it. Was $19,000.

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Yeah, I reckon base bases were sub 20 or or around 20.
Therefore the top was about 31 or two.
Something like. That I think you're spot on Mr
Mr Bunting 31761. Hey, you fucking guy.
I don't. I don't remember, but I remember
that. Excluding government charges.

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So yeah, 30. One so, so 10 years old to be
down to 11, it's, you know, it'sa third of the price after 10
years. That's that's about right.
Yeah, see, ours was in white andI'm never being devastated
because. And I was like, oh, you didn't
buy a Ford, you know, like because, because we had a Gemini
before that. And then and then, you know, me
being a kid, I was obsessed withcertain brands and.

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Did you not want a Toyota? No, I, I like Toyotas because
because all of my grandfathers and aunties and all that, they
all had Toyotas because Toyotas are a good car.
And and I was like, oh, we're being like, damn, we're just
getting a Toyota. Like we're like we should.
And then I remember going in it and saying this thing felt so
nice. It was well appointed, it was

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good, it was smooth. It was.
It was. It blew my mind and how nice it
was. And this was an old car at the
time. And dad's like, well, it's
pretty. It's pretty, you know,
technologically advanced, Scott.When you put your, you select
your, your gear comes up on the the little plane on the.
Dashboard, yeah. I was like, that's, that's cool.
It had cruise control. It had, you know, air con that

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actually worked it. Was and the graphic equaliser.
Too. Graphic equaliser Equaliser.
It had It could, apparently. There's much room in the back
seat for the three Jenai children.
No, there wasn't. But true.
But my sister would have been, what, 2001?
So she would have been 9797. What's that?
Four years old. Five years old.

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So she was still quite small. She was in the middle.
She was in the middle. Yeah.
And I remember we, we, we used to play corners in that car and
she didn't have a good time. But yeah, I just remember, I
remember how like it was, it was, it was beautiful.
Like the, the, the velour felt not like the whole car.

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It, it, it was like, this is a nice thing.
And then I remember Dad launching at one time and I'm
like, this thing flies like this.
It was way quicker than the XF ever dreamed to it it would have
been. And it was, you know, it was
just, it was a nice car and it got under my skin to the point
where I, we had it for that longthat when I got my, my pee
plates, it was one of the first guys that I, I, I went to drive

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in that car And you know, I would love another one.
You know, I, I think, you know, I after letting it go, I'd, one
of my biggest automotive regretswas to, to let that car go.
Where did that car go? What happened to that?
We got rid of it, it went run. I took it and sold it on and
went to the records I think after that.
So, so yeah, it was, it was, it was pretty sad.

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It was, you know, because it still started it never, it never
broke down. The transit went.
Through 2. Trans 2 transmissions, thank you
very much. It was they weren't a very good
transmission. The early it was actually pretty
much the same as the as the fourcylinder transmission, just
electronically controlled and a few other bits and pieces on it.
So it didn't really last with the talk, but yeah, that car got

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under my skin and that holds a very special place in my heart.
That B6 Camry. It was it was, you know,
electric windows plot. We didn't have electric windows
in the XF. You know, it was all those
little things that, you know, and I remember I still, I could
hear that car start from anywhere and be like, that's,
that's that car, you know, and it looked good.
It had the little chin spoiler and it looked a bit sporty,
double exhausts. And, you know, I was like, this

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is yeah, it was a it was a classy kind of car.
It was a classy kind of car. And I always said to myself, you
know, one day, it's like, it's kind of like your kind of David,
like every time you see one comeup.
Oh, that's yeah, that's a bit ofme.
I'd love to, I'd love to go backand, and I'd just like to, I'd
love to drive one again. Like, I really would love to
drive one again just to just to,you know, be 18 year old me

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racing my friends in their Commodores at the satellites and
beating them and, and their Falcons and beating them and
them them getting very angry when we pulled into McDonald's
for, for about for a while afterwards saying, oh, no, I, I,
I didn't launch properly. I didn't because they were too
embarrassed. At least to a Camry.
It was, it was, yeah. Moments like that, they were
just, you know, it holds a very special place in my one, for the

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nostalgia factor, but two, because I think it got under my
skin because of how good the carwas in the end.
And yeah, I, I do miss that one.That's that's what I do miss.
Yeah, mine else I've been thinking the whole time It's
it's. Not the M3 BMW.
I'm going to go no. Definitely not, I reckon my
mine. I need a a therapist.

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Yeah, how is this going? So it's sitting above you right
now. It is.
It's just above my head. That was probably the one that I
probably love the most, the way it popped up and the way I
bought it. For anyone that doesn't know, it
was 34 GDR. Yeah, probably.

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Yeah, because it's so expensive now.
Like even if I could get one or something, I wouldn't want it.
Yeah, because it's so expensive to drive around.
And because of that, I don't think since then, like I haven't
had a connection to another car.Like I'm happy to sell them off.
Yeah. Like even the two that I've got

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now, the blade and the R31, I'd sell them.
You know I don't have that. Connection.
Like you'll never love again. Yeah, that's what I mean.
I need a therapist. Like your partner's passed away
back then and you'll you'll never love again.
You need to you need to open your heart to another, another
lover. That's why I just keep going
through and wanting to try different cars and.

(01:04:39):
You'll see if I get automotivelylost.
Yeah, see if I get that connection again, but I I
haven't. So have you found anything
that's come close to getting a feeling like that?
Like like, I knew you were really happy with the EVO when
you got that, but I, I think it was, it had something missing.
And I think you've said that before.
It was just a bit, it was quick and it was quick.
It was probably quicker than theGTR, but it probably was just

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had something like, you know, asyou said, so something nothing
has made you feel the same way. Yeah, I was missing something.
You know, would have been great to keep it, but that was when I
had a really bad back and the seats were not great for that.
So I did have to let that go. And yeah, I mean, ever since

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then, there's just been no car that I've really bonded with.
You know, I was happy to let it go.
The, you know, the Mercedes was great, but I didn't get a
connection with that one really.I was happy to let that one go.
Was it 32? The connection wasn't there
because you were just like, it would never be as good as the 34
in your eyes. Or or or did did it ever?

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Did it ever grow on? You I think it was probably
because it wasn't a great example.
OK. Of 1 You know it it needed, you
know it would have been better if it was a better example and
was running perfectly. Then I would have been more
happier with it. You know, if I get my hands on
one now, I'd be absolutely wrapped.

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You know, if I get a 32, I like the shape, everything about it.
And now with more of my knowledge, I'd be happy to
tinker with it, you know, if I needed to.
That's fine. But yeah, I just.
It sucks. I just haven't had that
connection with anything ever again.
That's sad it. Is sad.

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It breaks my heart. I just, I want that again, you
know, something that you just connect back with again.
But yeah, I haven't, you know, I've had, I've had cars even
before the 34 GDR that I really enjoyed and was connected with.
Like even. When I if I had the my first

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one, well, the first one that I actually owned myself was the
four door R34 non turbo skyline.Before that my parents had they
had two cars and then kind of a third one that they were kind of
selling and I was using that onefor a bit and that was a EB

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Falcon that had done like head gasket twice.
And so I still kept going. It was good.
And then they got rid of that and they had a 99 Subaru RX for
a bit. So that was nice.

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And then I was able to put away a bit more money and get what I
had then. And then 34 GTT, the black one,
RIP, that one got smashed. Oops.
And that one was interesting. I still had a connection with
it, but I always felt like it was out there to try and kill

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me. It was like the Widowmaker.
It's not the good connection to have.
I've got to. Say, yeah, but I was still happy
with it because it still had a personality, you know, it still
had something. So did Christine in Stephen
King's, Yeah. Scotty, I believe what you're
talking about. It's called Stockholm syndrome.
You know it's, it's trying to kill you, but but you but you
fall in love with it and you want to and you want to stay

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there. It was fine.
It had it had a personality and that was great.
I was like, it was just it's doing what it does, you know,
it's spinning out and whatever it was trying to do when he was
in an accident and nearly did kill me, but you know, it's it's
saved me. If I was a little bit further up

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than the other car would have hit right to my door, but it hit
the front front quarter panel instead instead of me, which was
lucky. And then during that time, the
34 GDR was already on its way anyway.
So I already went through that whole process of finding it and
everything. And it was pretty much my first,

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first manual car because before that it was all autos.
That was kind of, I already kindof knew how to drive manual, but
I wasn't great because we never owned 1, you know, So it was
just now and again. So I just had a rough idea how
to do it. So it was almost like the first
one I properly learnt to drive manual and drove it around and

(01:09:23):
as soon as I got it, I jumped. As soon as I got it straight
home and stuff, it was already. Was it registered yet?
No, I still don't take the Vicroads and stuff, but I wanted
to get it out straight away. I was like yes, yes, I mean I
want to practise because it was pretty much the very next day.
I had to go up to Brodie to get it to Brodie Vicroads and get it

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registered and, you know, just learning how to clutch and
everything was like, Oh yeah, it's really easy.
This is great. I think that was the best thing
about it. It was the most easiest clutch.
It was just like perfect for me.Never stalled.
It felt like it was impossible to stall.
And it had its own kind of personality where cold mornings

(01:10:06):
just didn't want to go into first as grumpy.
It didn't like cold mornings. So it will go into first for a
bit and then when you come to like a dead stop and you put in
a neutral and you want to put itback into first, it'll take a
couple of goes before it goes, OK, I'll go back into first for
you. So I kind of liked that about

(01:10:27):
it. It was it was funny and yeah,
so. That's that's definitely the one
we're going to have to find you a car that you're going to have
to build that relationship with the end.
Oh. I know I just I don't know what
what it would be now if. I'd.
Get back I'd. Buy you another one.
I think, I think if I could, I'dprobably go for like a 32, even
if it was just a GDST now back into a back into an import from

(01:10:53):
the J pans and see if I can bondwith that.
Yeah, I think you could bond with an ISA.
Oh, couldn't we all? Yeah, that was interesting.
I wonder if I if I could bond toa point that I would want to
keep it, or is it a car that I'denjoy for a bit and go, oh, this

(01:11:15):
is great and then be happy to sell and move it on.
It's. A special engine.
That engine though. Very it is.
It is. I mean, you know, I like the
blade and everything, but if someone wanted it, like, yeah,
I'd sell that, yeah. How much?
18 I'm. Gonna give you a 10.

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Not that tempted. Depend what you do with the car
though. Like I've had cars where I'm I'm
happy to move them on, you know,but then there's others that
you, you do stuff with it, go onholidays with it, you know, you
know, it's what it represents. Like it it it's LinkedIn more
than than another car. Like even my Pajero, there's a
billion white Pajeros out there.But it where that car has taken

(01:12:01):
me in. You know, our friend Tommy gave
it a name Simpson, like a washing machine because he said
it's an appliance. So Simpson has done all manner
of things and had so many good weekends away and towing the
caravan and stuff. It's you know, it's just ever
trusty, reliable Simpson. I'd be I'd be very sad if that
ever breaks. Such would.
It won't. But yeah, I'd be, I'd be sad to

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see that car going. Could I get another white
Pajero? Absolutely.
But it's not that one, you know?Yeah.
Yeah. And you know what else it comes
down to is how the car found you, Not necessarily you finding
it. It's kind of how it found you,
yeah. I agree with.
That sometimes you go searching for it like we with the pajera,

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I went searching, I wanted a pajera, I was looking around for
one and sometimes they just fallin your lap and you're like, oh,
OK, then that was sort of meant to be, you know, and.
When you are searching, you get that feeling when you know you
found the right one. Yeah, you're excited.
You're like, you're good. It's like.
It's something you're like, that's the right one.

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And that's when you go in and check it out if it's still
available. If it's not available, then
you're kind of like, OK, it wasn't the right 1.
And I had someone looking at oneof the cars that I ended up
buying. I saw it up there for sale at
the dealership. I was like, oh, cool, awesome,
you know, bothering dad, dad, dad, dad, come on.

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I want you to come along, have alook, have a look with me.
And we go down there in the morning and someone was already
looking at it. It was sitting there and they've
started it up and everything. I was like sitting there
waiting, waiting, waiting. I was like, he's probably going
to take it or something. And then he goes, Oh no, this
guy always comes in and cheques out and starts it up, but he's

(01:13:50):
got no money. And I was like, oh sweet.
I'm in just. Come in.
Yeah, I come in. Take it through a test drive.
I go. You got mine.
Yeah, I remember the first car Iever bought was a Morris Minor
1958 Model 4 door for those playing at home.
And I went harvest with my school friend.
We were in year 8 and you know, we were desperate to get an old

(01:14:10):
car to play around with. So finally we the parents sort
of said, OK, you can get one. And my grandmother luckily had a
a big garage that wasn't all used.
Well the cat, the caravan I now have was in it and the mini I
now have was in it but there wasstill a bit of space and so it
used to live there. Anyway we went and agreed to buy

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it from this guy down at Jeff was his name down in Ormond Rd
in Ormond and we did the deal ona Saturday but it was a week
until we could pick it up on thecar trailer.
You know which was involved my dad getting a car.
We had to go hire a car trailer,put on the put it on the back of
full drive and tow it home and whatever.
That week was the longest week of my life, you know, because it

(01:14:54):
was like, I want it now, I want it now, I want it now, I want it
now. I'm so excited.
Anyway, the finally the day comes, you know, and I'm like
like up at 6:00 AM and you know,let's go, let's go, let's go,
let's go, let's go. Dad's like just having my coffee
and he's flicking through the. I felt like at.
Glacial pace. You cannot be serious.
Come on. I'm just gonna have my

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breakfast, you know? And he was just.
Swinging this out and I'm like I'm.
Dying inside waiting for this car.
So, yeah, it's an exciting time,you know, so those those cars,
you know, that elicit that sort of response have a, you know,
they, they tend to stick for a bit a lot.
Of stories like that. Yeah, that's always take
forever, don't they? This was deliberate, though.

(01:15:39):
This was just all right, Ed, come on.
Gotta get this car. No, this was like, I'm gonna
milk this. You know.
Watch my son in being in a frenzy.
Well I had to wait two weeks formy SR2 when I when I said yes to
getting it for the roadworthy. Why 2 weeks so long?
Yeah, it took, it took three days to get it in and then he
had to order the parts and then it took him another week to fit

(01:16:01):
him. So.
And I'm just like, like, come on, come on.
And he then he called me Friday afternoon.
I'm like, yes, we're going. And you all jumped in the car.
It was a family event. And we, we all went and my
brother, my sister, my mum, my dad, and they're like bloody
hell. The whole tribe is getting out
of the car and. Used to pick it up from the
cellar. From the cellar.
Yeah, it was a it was a family event and you know, it's but

(01:16:25):
honestly the longest two weeks of my life.
I'm like, I think, I think in that, in that two week space, I
read every SRT review online. I went, I just, I did every
single thing, you know, that I could have done that wasn't with
the car. So that was yeah.
And again, again, that's yeah, it is a special car.

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What about you, Jim? Oh, I was trying to think during
that as well, and I think I've got probably 4.
So 1 is because as a kid I was obsessed with the movie Herbie
used to watch it thousands of times.
But I was really, really obsessed with the villains car,
which I then eventually googled and it was a very, very low

(01:17:07):
production. Sort of.
I think you could order the chassis in the body and then you
chose your engine. So usually they went with a
winners V8. I think so and obviously you
don't have to worry about whether that's going to live up
to my dreams because they're so rare.
You can't buy them anyway. But I just thought it was really

(01:17:27):
beautiful with the movie, especially like, you know, just
being around in those different scenes in the showroom and
stuff. It was just like wow.
And and then the other the otherthree.
So the first one is I think I've.
Whatever. Probably foolish reasons.
I've always been attracted to luxury British cars and for a
while I was quite into humbers and things.

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I was going to say I'm the Supersnipe Jim.
Yeah, I'd love them, but. You're also sending me a lot at
the moment, Jim, the and I'm like, you sent me one the other
day and I was like, wow, that's a bit of you, Jim.
That's that's a lot of you. Yes, but I think yeah, really
into those. But then and briefly, my uncle

(01:18:11):
had a couple of super Snipes in the backyard.
But one time I went to a historic race meeting and then I
saw what I'm about to say and I just went, Oh my God, which was
Riley RMB in red with the with the black roof.
And I walked around. The 1.5 or the 2.5?

(01:18:32):
02.52.5 I am I am. One of those not that long ago.
Oh. OK, I got to.
See you but. That was maybe.
Before I knew you. Yes, probably.
And I just remember when I approached it, I thought, oh,
when I get around it at some point I'll probably be
disappointed with the styling because I'm quite considered

(01:18:53):
with my styling choices. And I walked around it and I
just couldn't stop doing laps. And I think, I think I suddenly
realised that there was nobody around and they'd left the
window sort of open. It was a hot day and I took a
big breath in and went Oh my gosh, little bit intoxicated
with all the Warden leather and all sorts of other cells and

(01:19:13):
stuff. So spoiled.
And mildew. Yeah, all the all the rotting
spells as well with that, that frame, yes and recently true.
I think they had a drive day down to fill a piling which I
missed most of, but I saw one parked somewhere and almost
scared to hope to steer in a bitanyway.

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The good news with those is they're not that expensive.
So I was having a look here. They're not that, as he said,
they're not that expensive. No, they don't.
Even need to go you could park it in your garage and look at it
and. Exactly.
The olfactory sensors are very strong.
Very they are. Very.

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And I think and then the the next one is not very logical.
I think it's more definitely an emotional thing I am quite
emotionally attached to. My highest I think again that
sort of came to me through work.So when I first got my last but
I was very, very happy there. There was some people I worked
very closely with and we were going excursions and stuff

(01:20:21):
together. And then they later for
different reasons, passed away. And then when I finally got a
chance to drive the bus, even though I should be honest, at
highway speed is a bit scary, especially when it's windy.
It's kind of like being in a sailboat in a store really.
But it's really, really engagingto drive.
And I think because of that sortof having that personal

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connection sort of brings a bit more to it.
But also remembering like, you know, sometimes it's like going
into reverse because one of my friends tried putting introverts
at 100 kilometres an hour and itdidn't work and things like
that. So yeah, So I've been quite
simply. And then also when I was helping
some close relatives, they were sort of homeless, but they had

(01:21:07):
some possessions with them and Iwas helping them move.
And I had just bought that from a school.
When school become, I just basically get rid of it.
And I just bought it from work. And I that instead of trying to
figure out how to move things insix or seven car loads, it was
basically just one. And so that was really key, I
think with that too. And then the last car, as boring

(01:21:30):
as it is now. The other thing is my Ek, I
think one of the early memories I have with it that I really
sort of cherish for some strangereason, was I think I'd had it
for about a month. And I was driving home from work
on a Friday, of course. And there was a really bad Bush
fire, which meant taking a well bat from where I live, and which

(01:21:55):
meant taking a long detour. And there was some, I think that
Felton Commodore land crews in front of me and they all stormed
up off this sort of windy Rd until they hit corners.
And then I was sort of like veering going hello, like,
please move, like get out of my way.
And yeah, it's a bit odd, but I talked it all the time and I've

(01:22:19):
had, yeah, many good memories inthat car and hope to make many,
many more. And also I think I like the fact
that it's been with the Honda Club for so long now.
So it's been the Honda Club now for 22 years.
And I think it's sort of nice asI'm trying to continue that part
too. I.
Think yeah, absolutely. And Jim, that's the car, if I'm

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not mistaken, where you had the service book rebound, you know,
like a new service book. Was that that one?
That's right, yes. So I filled up the original
service book and then, you know,I, when I was born, I think
during COVID, I've looked up high mileage cars on YouTube and
people were using exercise booksand it's horrible.

(01:23:00):
And I think it's sort of tied back a little bit to, you know,
again, liking sort of the old English cars and stuff like
that. And I thought, well, if I'm
going to hang on to this car, I want to sort of, you know,
again, enjoy that aspect of looking after including its
history. And so that's when I went down
the route of having a new service book made, which was

(01:23:23):
quite a process, especially during COVID, but I'm very happy
with as a result. And yeah, when it gets to a
million KS in about 11-12 years time, it'll also add to it I
think. Yeah.
Did the what does the garage youtake it to, you know, strictly

(01:23:43):
stamp the book every time? Do they know of the book?
Yeah. So when I yeah, they do.
So it was quite funny because the previous one to now I did
sort of show them and then I think they forgot.
So I had to go and and they'd say, oh, you pay books.
Well, we can't stamp it. And so I go.
You mean? Oh, no, no.

(01:24:05):
That's. Really annoying, but then.
But then with this one, well, actually another time before I
got the new book, which I thought was pretty impressive at
a Honda dealer that is no longera Honda.
Dealer. I thought, oh, I'll save them
some time and I'll put the service book on the front
passenger seat, right? Yes, I do the same.

(01:24:26):
Thing, yes, yeah. Got got the car service and then
I got home and I went, they didn't stand it and then I rang
them and I said oh you couldn't find it and I said it was on the
passenger seat in the front. Yes, right.
And so, yeah, it was just, it was ridiculous.
But the new place, no, they're, they're, they're very particular
about doing that. And when I went in the other day

(01:24:48):
for the, the spark plugs, I don't know his name because he's
usually Internet for, I can't even ask, but he, he he's a bit
like they got HD, I think. Anyway, he, he, he popped in and
he said, oh, I say all cars. Well, I got so excited that
you're cutting in today and I'm like, OK, just relax.
So, yeah, it's better than beinglike, oh, not you again.
So well, yeah, they say that, but they appear to be pleased

(01:25:11):
when they say that. So I'm guessing it's good thing.
It's got to be Jake. You're.
Probably. Probably so, yeah.
But as I as I said, my my hope is that it'll be at half million
KS by Classic Japan. And when it was quite funny too,
because when I read that they were moving the location to
Cruden Farm. This was it's.

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True. This true?
Yes, it is. It's.
December classic Japan's Cruden.Farm.
Yes, November, it's the last. September.
Last November, yeah. So when I when I read that, I
got quite exciting because I hadonly been to Cruden Farm earlier
this year and I fell in love with Cruden Farm.
So I was sort of, if I can get to half a million by then, it's

(01:25:53):
going to feel quite special, I think to me.
So nice. Yes.
Cruden Farm. It is a nice property, isn't it
Jim? Yes, because I went there for
the, what's it called, like the festival?
Yeah, IOM. CIOMC.
That one yeah. And just and I went with a
friend from from work and I was kind of because I hadn't looked

(01:26:15):
into it, I was kind of expectinga bit of the Commodore Falcon
Festival. But then when I realised that it
had everything and so much sort of like pre 1960 stuff that I
usually miss when I go to eventsis I was very much taken aback.
So I am looking forward to beingthere.
Plus, I'm sorry, Manny J, that'smuch further for you, but it's
significantly closer for me. So much easier for you.

(01:26:39):
Yes. I.
Better put that in my calendar right now then so.
It's last Sunday in November. I already boycotted it guys on
my goal so. Yeah, not fair.
Fair. As I said to you, As I said to
me too, next year we've got to have someone driving a Festiva
and someone driving a TK Arena Ithink too.
Absolutely. Tis is correct.

(01:27:00):
Absolutely. To to boycott and say this is
this is for that, for that poor one guy you didn't want to let
in last year. Yeah, well, I like your choice
of cars. I think.
I think the Civic that Ek of yours is is such a it's it's
it's special now because you've had it for so long and you put
so many KS on it. And I think that, you know, that

(01:27:23):
connection with that car. I think that's, you know,
personifies you every. Well, I think of Jim Barlow.
I think of this million mile Honda Civic.
So that's, that's, that's quite literally the first car that
comes to mind. And I know you've got a whole
bunch of other toys, but but that one in particular is, is,
is, is the, is the workhorse. And, and it's funny how
workhorses get on, get under your skin like that.

(01:27:43):
You know, the, you know, my, youknow, my laser was only meant to
be like a like a little car justjust to get to get me around for
a while because I actually wanted to buy.
Yeah, it's going to sound like athis is my burger.
So I wanted to buy an XR6 when Iwas when I was that in 18 and 19
and couldn't quite stretch to that.
And mom was like, why don't you buy, you know, something that's

(01:28:03):
like, you've got a laser, why don't you get another laser?
And I was like, oh, that's a good idea.
And you end up falling in love with cars and they become, they
become quite a part of the family.
And as you were saying, Edward earlier, you know, the things
you do with them and the memories they make and, and look
with you, with you, David, you know, you're getting your first
civic because of you sold it to,to, to be debt free.
And then you build all memories and, and, and the same, the same

(01:28:25):
thing with, with YouTube boys aswell.
It's cars that there's nothing, and we've discussed it before on
this on this show. There's there's nothing that can
do that like a car like there. There's no other object that.
Oh, yeah, yeah. During that time, we, we did
this. I, we took the Gemini.
Oh, you know, Oh yeah. The wrong with the Gemini.
You know, it's things, things like that.
You don't, you don't talk about that with, with your, with your

(01:28:47):
washing machine. Oh, remember that time I I, I
watched? Oh, that Simpson twin.
Simpson. That LG direct drive that what a
machine yeah you don't you don'tget that like it's the the cars
are the only kind of mechanical like like your object or or
product that you get memories like that.

(01:29:07):
You don't you don't get them with anything.
I'm like, I mean, I'm probably wrong.
I mean, a house is you build, your house is a home, you build
memories there. But like in terms of like
another product, I, I just thinkthere's you don't really get
them locked up like yeah, yeah, unless it's a car.
There's definitely other products that do it, but cars do
it better because you you move, you know, you're not the one

(01:29:29):
place. Yeah, you're not static.
Like, you know, these things that I own that I've had forever
and probably will own forever. And I'm like white, like silly
story. My, my grandmother had an
octagonal chopping board, you know, and mum sort of said,
well, that that was their all ofher childhood, you know, and she

(01:29:50):
was born in 1947. So, you know, that's been around
a while. And my grandmother had it the
whole time, you know, right through to the 90s or 2000s when
when her house got cleared out, it ended up at our house and
it's been there ever since. And a few months back, it
snapped in half. Finally, this big, thick wooden

(01:30:10):
chopping board sort of just succumbed to decades of being
chopped on and, yeah, sort of split in half or started to
split in half. You know, I thought, oh, that's
the end of the chopping board here.
One of my parents friends, he's really handy with woodwork and
he repairs all sorts of things and he's down in Geelong so I
was down there doing something with the car, Mum said oh can

(01:30:30):
you take the chopping board and drop?
It off. To get.
Repaired. So I did, and he's put this sort
of reinforcement disc in the middle of it and resurrected it.
But I'm fully on board with things like that.
Like this is just a wooden chopping board.
This is not, but it's sort of what it represents, You know,
the fact that my mother's known it her whole life.
Her mother used it for the wholetime.

(01:30:52):
And I just think it's wasteful just to just to we live in such
a wasteful Society of throwing things out.
You know, this commercial just Kleenex attitude of use it and
piff it. I don't like that, you know,
it's not sustainable. So a little bit of effort on an
old quality item like that and it's it's good for another 60
years. And I just think, well, I like

(01:31:15):
that, that, that that sits well with me, you know, rather than
just going piff and going buyingone from Kmart I.
Think I'll I'll add to that too.The other thing with cars, apart
from them being sort of like thewrapping paper and ribbon
wrapped around a precious memory, is that each while the
time that it happens when the dent to a panel is upsetting,

(01:31:38):
later on you sort of don't want to remove that dent because you
know how it got there. Exactly.
My Tarago My Tarago has a few dents around the body and my
uncle was able to accurately tell me where.
All of them occurred. The one on the front left lower
panel, he said that happened when it was a week old in the

(01:31:59):
shopping centre car park. So he was not happy because it
was only a week old. That trolley ran into it from
someone else. The one on the back left panel
is he never got a straight answer, but it wasn't there when
it went into the mechanic and itwas there when it came back.
And he thinks the big handle of the long Jack has gone dunk
because it's sort of out on the panel and there's one on the

(01:32:21):
front passenger door. And he said, oh, your
grandmother did that when we took, when we're down in
Melbourne, This is the chopping board grandmother when we're.
At Melbourne. With the chopping board, she.
Did her and hit That's outrageous and hit the bloody
Tarrago. He said he said we took her to
vote. You know, it was an election
time and she she just reefed open the door and banged it into

(01:32:42):
the car next and that's how thatwent dead happened.
So exactly, Jim, like they're there, haven't had them dent
repaired because they've kind ofall got a story.
Part of the tapestry of its life.
That's right, David. Well.
Seeking books, Books and things do as well.
If you still kept any magazines or books and it's not 100% car

(01:33:05):
related, this one. Neither is a talking board,
Scott. Yeah, but I just went over to
Mum's. I was trying to find a certain
book that I left there but I couldn't find and I found my
uncle gave me these when I was young.
Woah. Take off, take off magazines.
Wow. And they came in a in a binder

(01:33:27):
and I got a bunch of the others and I just started flicking
through and I remember that's all I used to read and going
back through it, I remember everything.
I go, Oh, I remember that. Oh, I remember this picture.
I remember reading this. They used to sit there and just
go over it and finish it and then they go.
Back and start. Again, yeah.
And go over it and read it and look at it all again.

(01:33:48):
I was like, oh, that's cool. That's so much cool stuff.
And I was like, yes, that was. I walked past a mix of Taronga
village today and there was a big poster in the window. 25th
anniversary of Harry Potter. Well.
Wow. Which made me feel even older
than I actually am because I canremember queuing at Chadstone

(01:34:11):
waiting for it to come out with my.
Daughter. I don't have it.
Every. Edition I was in primary school
when the first movie came out and as a primary school they
sent the whole they booked the whole of Epperware Shopping
Centre, Village Cinemas and eachlike class went into one of the

(01:34:31):
one of the things to watch HarryPotter.
Wow. That's pretty good.
That was amazing. That was a really cool day that
was. Never got that at my school.
I. Remember, I remember that
happening and yeah, it was, I can't believe it's that long
ago. It's it's this.
Is the book being different? But yeah, all right.
There you go. But yeah, we'll have to revisit

(01:34:55):
this topic at another point because I think it is time for
the car quiz, Which David. Prince has finally written.
Is is it the? Colours one David.
Is it colours? It's the colours 1.
It was a. Popular request and ties in
nicely with Pride month, I thought.
All the colours of the rainbow we've got tonight.
Fantastic. Yes, so.

(01:35:16):
Matt, are you going to score forus?
Mattie, I've. Already got it all ready to go
for you Mattie of. Course you have.
I'm impressed. OK Car Talk quiz Jew I put the
wrong date because it was. The last week.
Question number one, it's 1984. You.
None of you were alive. Oh no, that's not true, some of
you were. It's 1984, you're buying a small
Australian produced sedan. You have 9 colours to choose

(01:35:38):
from, but your favourites to choose between a Tumut Blue,
Centre Red, Golden Wattle or BigBad Orange.
What are you buying? Orange.
That's olden Gemini. That's throwing me of big bad
orange. What the hell?
Dave, was that did you say, Jim?I said Holden Gemini.

(01:36:00):
Oh no, I like what you're thinking, but no, I don't think
they're oh, actually, they had some good colours too, the
Marinelli red in there. I.
Did so you? Said 8082, correct. 84. 84 Sorry
84. 80. 4 sedan. A small.
Australian produced sedan 9 colours but the favourites that

(01:36:23):
you wanted to choose from. This is talking from real life
experience. I've got to say Tumit Blue,
Centre red, Golden bottle or BigBad Orange.
Head. I think I heard.
Golden Chimaera. Incorrect.
Matthew. Matthew is.
It the Ford Meteor. No, no, You were just trying to

(01:36:46):
use a bit of insider knowledge there because you know that I
did look at a Ford. Media, I know you did look at a
Ford media, but I was thinking too like the meteor came in some
bright colours so. And interestingly, reading the
question now, the colour has been mentioned on the show
tonight. The.
Car. And the colour which I didn't
realise so I read the question. So Scotty think.

(01:37:09):
Australian produced. That's throwing me right off.
In 84. We manufactured lots of cars in
Australia in 84. Small too.
It's small. That's also, yeah.
Small now. The colour quiz isn't going so
well. All going really well depending
which way you look at it I suppose.
Off to a flying start. Scotty, any idea?

(01:37:31):
Did we produce any? Were any Corollas made here at
the time in 84? Yeah.
Can I Can I lock in Corolla? You can get the point.
There we go now. Done.
Well, that's. Good.
The Toyota Corolla, the double Xto be precise, because the
double XI mean big, bad, orange,orange, but I would have had the

(01:37:54):
tumour blue with the blue interior.
Yeah, blue on blue. That's nice.
Sort of smooth. Nice, nice, that is.
It's Smurf on Smurf that colour.Smurf on Smurf.
That's correct. That's correct.
OK, Question 2. What do Volvo's Marina Blue,
Volkswagen's Flipper Blue and Essence?
Oh. They're all the same colour,

(01:38:17):
correct? Well done.
They're all dual axe shade number 13979 and they all were
big tubs of paint that motor producers in Clayton would dip
the cars that they were producing in.
So yes, they called them different names for the
different cars. I.

(01:38:37):
Was called Marina Blue till the other day when I looked it up.
Good question. Yeah.
Did they with that? Were they?
Was Australia their only countrythat sold them in those colours?
Well, it was a Dulux colour, so I'm pretty sure it was.
And I think Nick Wheeler said the other day about the honey
brown, that was it. Oh no, it was.
It was a bunting track. Yellow was a Dulux colour and

(01:39:00):
that was specific to Australian market, wasn't it?
I believe so. And it was on the Peugeot 5-O
fours and the Renault Sixteens and Renault 12's I think.
But it's, yeah, it was only on the Australian assembled ones as
far as I'm aware. Yeah, well.
I mean old English sheepdogs do you know, do swim so they could
have gone from. Country.

(01:39:21):
To country, true, true, but these were definitely, it was
they're definitely Australian paint that was part of the way
to get their content up. So yeah, they're all Dulux,
Dulux colour code and the V number would the the the plate
would be on the car finished in Dulux auto acrylic or auto
something or other. But yeah, they were the name.

(01:39:41):
Different manufacturer called them different things, but it
was the same colour, yeah. Cool.
So the baby blue we're basicallytalking about, if you think of
it, yeah. I know the colour, yeah, it's
called. Combi or a Beetle baby blue
Volvo. The locally assembled two 40s
came in the same colour. Question three If you walk into
Zagami Ferrari at the moment, you can order the option of a

(01:40:02):
specialty paint called Giallo Tripolo Storato.
Nice. Pronunciation Use the the Ed Ed.
It's grey incorrect and that andyou jumped in too early because
that wasn't what the question was about.
Well, you know, I'm allowed to jump in whenever I like.

(01:40:24):
You are you are Ferrari offered this option?
How much is it to tick that box?Is it grey by the way?
Matthew. No, it's no, it's actually
yellow. Oh, OK, Matthew.
Is this when they actually just for some context, is this when
they paint the the the badge on the car?

(01:40:45):
No. No, the please choose that
colour to choose that colour. OK, I'm going to say.
Special order colour. Matthew, I'm going to say we'll
do. We'll do closest too.
I'm going to say $25,000. OK.
Yeah, this is closest too. You're quite quite correct.
That's not the price. I think that sounds, I think
that sounds a bit too cheap, Ferrari.
Now thinking about it, I'm goingto say it's probably more like
58. 58 for Scotty Jim. Pick a Pick a price.

(01:41:13):
I'll say what? Would you pay?
I wouldn't buy a Ferrari so I'llI'll pay 46,721. 46,721.
OK. Ed, I think you're last.
I think I know, but I buzzed in early on now.
Oh. That's right.
You're out. You're out.

(01:41:33):
You're out. Right.
OK. Be how honest I was there, Alan.
Yeah, the shenanigans. There's no.
Shenanigans. I've been.
Here to witness no shenanigans, are you Jim?
You get the. .0. Jim.
Here's the point. How much was it?
The word giallo tripolo storata,so that is a 3.
It's the please in the name. Giallo is yellow, tripolo is 3.

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Strato is layer, so it's the three layer yellow Pearl.
How much was it? $43,000 plus GST.
Which brings. $47,300 option. Quite a bit.
Quite a bit. That's more than my bloody
Fiesta. Correct for the the paint.
For the paint, yeah. School check.

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Edward, Scotty and Jimmer on one, myself on 00.
Anyone's game? Anyone's game?
Bonus question actually with this one here.
So you can, might, might be adding one in what small sport
imported. I'll give you this time what
small imported sporting sedan from the 70s was only imported

(01:42:39):
in Mimosa. Yellow.
Ed. Ed.
The Triumph Dolomite Sprint. Yeah.
Correct, correct. I always wanted to drive a
Dolly. Have you any of you guys been in
one? No.
They were cracking car. I've worked on a few.
I've never driven one, but people that had them back in the

(01:42:59):
days. Yeah.
I do know someone that had one more recently and hated it.
Never. Never.
Why did? They hate it.
Because they spent a lot of money on it, or a lot of money.
They were quite a quite a they were 4 valve per cylinder, I
think one of the first. 4 valves, yeah, they're sort of

(01:43:20):
complex in a. Very complex to get right and
when they when they were good and new they were great.
And they were. Good, yeah.
However, as they aged and this person spent a lot of money and
never didn't end well. Question 4.
What was the first Japanese car available in red?
Oh yeah, after the exact model or just brand?

(01:43:42):
Oh. No, it was specific to a model.
Ed. Ed.
The Honda S600. I'll give you give you half a
mark. M.
Scott Scott, Honda Civic. No.
Jim. You saw Jim.

(01:44:03):
Honda S800. Incorrect.
Well, actually, that's tricky. Can they?
It's 100 didn't. You.
You have half a. Point.
I'll give them half the point. I'll give them half.
The point? Well, you've got to get
something too, because half of it try.
So what's been said? It's a Honda.
Yeah. So you said S 800 and you've

(01:44:24):
said S600. I've seen both 6 hundreds and
eight hundreds in red. Yeah.
And 600 was earlier, so that's why I went with that.
OK, but they also had the S Was it a 500 or 400?
They did a small like a smaller engine version which was like

(01:44:45):
super. That's true.
They did. That's true.
And I'm assuming it's that one, but I don't know.
I. Got in, not quite in.
Do you? S500 correct?
Is that a .5 or is that a? That's that's a one.
The others get .5 because they got 100.

(01:45:07):
Sounds good. And we got the air bonus.
Question. 75 Really. Bonus question why was it the
first Japanese car sold in red? Why?
Why had no other cars been sold in red previously?
Ed are. You.
Ed. Why are you all so disappointed
when I buzz in? Because it's very.
Close. It's very, very close.
And and I I. Sensed pause.

(01:45:29):
The Japanese emergency vehicles were in red and they didn't want
to get confused. 100% correct. And your.
Ramblings and. OK, then go moving on, Edward
Bouncing. The.

(01:45:51):
So Ichiro. Actually went to the government
and said I want to all the best sports cars in the world are
red. I want to build my S my Honda S
cars in red too. That's why they change.
Not an unreasonable request I think.
Not an unreasonable request at all, and.
Luckily he did, because every other, you know, Japanese.
Manufacturing they. Can now sell red cars.

(01:46:13):
They all followed. Suit didn't they they?
Sure I I wouldn't have a red MX5.
It'd have to be white or or mariner blue, true.
Who wouldn't even have an MX5? Just kidding.
Maybe you'll create memories with it, Scott.
Maybe it's what you'd need. Maybe it's your lifelong
partner. Hey, I was just, I was just

(01:46:36):
poking fun to fix my own wounds.Don't project your lack of a
love life. Yeah, that's what I was doing.
Question five, Question 5. We're actually, Yep, your
classic magazine. Which was a really good, a
really good classic car. Magazine.
In the UK in the 90s, didn't look, didn't it hasn't survived

(01:46:58):
I don't think, but it went for some years.
It was really good. Agreed.
They once did a road test comparing the Bond bug and the
Honda Z600 for no other reason than what Matthew Matthew the
colour because they. Because they were you could get.
Them in like a. Similar.
Colours I'm assuming because. Like, is that that orange, that

(01:47:19):
vitamin orange? Yeah, the the the the slice of
cheese which the Bond bug was. Yeah, correct.
It looked like a wedge of cheese, didn't they?
That's right. Correct.
So who gets the point? There because.
Ed got the colour. And you got the reason.
Yeah, why do you get to finish the question?
Ed said. Oh, that's.
Half a. Point H you're.

(01:47:41):
That no, that's shenanigans. I think point.
Five to HR point. Five to H There you go, Edward.
Question number. 6 Which Aussie company withdrew a.
Colour on one of their cars due to the high number of accidents
that it was involved in. Oh, that's a good question.
Aussie company. Aussie company.
It's true. A.

(01:48:01):
Colour, Matthew. Matthew I.
Want to say Chrysler like? Chrysler, Chrysler, Valiant,
Chrysler. No, it wasn't.
And I'm, I've got to say, Matthew, I'm.
Disappointed. OK.
Hey, that's fair. That's fair.
Oh, did you say Jim? Jim got in.

(01:48:22):
Yeah, Ford. Correct.
That's why I was going to. Say good.
So in 8680. 7 the KC and then the KE laser was.
Well, obviously they it survivedthrough two generations, but it
was withdrawn from market because it was over in the IT
was over represented one colour.Colour or bonus point.

(01:48:45):
Is there any idea it was cold. Oh, I got in there, David.
Notice what did you hear, David?David, what did you hear?
I I. I.
Didn't. Hear I I didn't hear who that
was. Was it Jim?
All right, Jim, I'll let you as a less frequent.
Guess I'll let you have your. Ceiling dress.
I'll say black. Incorrect Ed.

(01:49:12):
Ed. I'm going to say it was.
Grey correct it was. Toledo Grey, 358. 60 it.
Was. Basically the colour of a wet
road and people couldn't see them.
Oh OK interesting. So what did they do with them?
Do they just paint? Them again or like no, no, they
just. Withdrew.
It as a make it anymore OK they just stopped.

(01:49:33):
Cancel culture your car doesn't get.
Crushed. No.
No, no. But yeah, these days.
Yeah, if you see one now. If you see it, they take it off.
Here they take. It off here and they just crush
it. They wouldn't even.
Give you another. Rest in peace Toyota starlets
with airbags, correct? Question 7.

(01:49:53):
Race tracks around the world. Have long been.
Used to lend. Their names to car.
Colours, yes, BMW individual were famous for it, isn't it?
Oh yes, oh, Oh yes. Scott, I I think, oh, OK, I
haven't finished the question, but go for it.
I should have let you finish thequestion Scott.

(01:50:15):
I'm going to say the BMWA. 40. 6M3.
Incorrect. Keep going with the question,
David. Should have let the question get
going. BMW.
Individual were famous for it. Two other examples include
Nurburgring Silver and L Magno, 2 points.

(01:50:42):
Here on offer what? Cars were these featured on Only
know the Silver? Only know the Silver, not the
other one. Nurburgring silver rings a bell.
Green hell magno. I'd never heard of that.
Which is also a corner. Well, the.
The name that Nurburgring is often.
Referred to Nurburgring silver. Ed.

(01:51:05):
Was Nurburgring. Silver.
Audi incorrect. Then I don't know no one else.
Could you please read the colourthe second?
Colour. Let's say the second.
Colour again, please. Yes.
Green hell magno. Don't Google.
It Jim, I'm not giggling it. I.

(01:51:28):
Find. Out I was going to.
Actually. Well, I'll say.
Jim. I was.
Going to guess Nurba green silver for Porsche.
Incorrect. Matthew.
Matthew. Now.

(01:51:49):
Now I know. Vauxhall and Opal, they did a
Nurburgering Wise edition on theAstra, but they might, but they
might have done, they might havedone something for that as well.
So I'm going. To go Opal.
Incorrect. Yeah.
And for the? And Scotty, do you?

(01:52:11):
Know what it actually is? Yeah, the silver.
Yeah. OK, I know the green 1 though.
But I know the silver. Well, hang on, why aren't you
saying it? Cause 'cause you're out, you're
out, yeah. I'm out.
OK, No good. For either of them.
OK. All right.

(01:52:31):
Nurburgring silver is a Ferrari colour.
A good friend of the. Show David Day has a 550
maradillo in Nurburgring. Where is that car that's sitting
in the UK still? Yes, I bet that looks.
And green. Hell magno.
Is that? Vibrant green on the Mercedes AM

(01:52:51):
GGT Oh right yeah cool green hell magno how would.
Wolfgang say that. Grown is green I think.
Hell is still hell. And I don't know what Magna is.
Question 8. Talking of Magna.

(01:53:12):
See already there. Does anyone know the name of
the? Rally Art Magna.
Hero colour Matthew. Matthew.
Oh God, show myself. On the foot now and.
I know it's red, but it's. It's.
Not is it? Geez, is it rally Art Red?

(01:53:33):
Oh, no, it's not, Ed. Good guess though, Ed.
Is it? Lava red.
No good. Another good guess.
Because lava. Because also red with.
Bits of orange and buttock? No, no, I think Andrew.
Andrew Eaglesworth. Would be screaming at.
The. Radio every week.
We say that, don't we? He's always.

(01:53:53):
Screaming. Poor Andrew.
Do you have any idea? Any idea?
I'm. I'm Jim.
I'm. Just going to guess and say.
Demon red OH. No, no.
Good guess though. No, it's flame red.
Flame. OK, Red.
Nearly there. It's been a long.

(01:54:14):
Haul hasn't. It that's been great.
What Aussie company famously hadcolours in the?
70s. Bondi Bleach white, Vashi Blue
and Vitamin C. Matthew.
Matthew. That'll be valiant, correct?
That's what I was gonna say. Chrysler in their.

(01:54:36):
Valiant. Range in their charger.
Range Vitamin C Vitamin C is a cool colour.
Limelight Awesome colour. That's some, really.
Cool colours. I always I always thought Bashy
Blue was a good a good name. For a colour question 10 What
about am I blue, hairy lime and peel me a grape?

(01:54:59):
Oh, Matthew. This is another Australian
manufacturer. In the 70s.
Matthew, it's. A Ford Incorrect.
Ed. I think.
It's Holden incorrect. Now I know.
Disappointing. Disappointing, disappointing.
But. Incorrect as well.

(01:55:20):
Know it now, I know it now. Jim and.
Scotty The. Ball is in yours.
Yours. Courts am I blue hairy lime peel
me a grape. That's I'm not asking a question
here. That's no good, no.

(01:55:41):
I missed the first answer so I. Don't want you to repeat.
Them all and give me an easy answer.
Yeah, it's it's, it's the only other one that.
We haven't mentioned really the.Of the pretty much, yeah.
It was Leyland. Leyland, yeah.
Yeah, a 76 colour, I think it. Was right.
I think they're available. In various cars.

(01:56:03):
Marinas you could get yeah, yeah, Marine that green and
there was a pill mere grape in the.
TC I think the coop. Am I blue?
I think was a mini colour as. Well, for a while.
Colour. Anyway, there you go.
Maybe a club in colour? 10.
Colour questions, they were great.
We should do that again. Who's the?

(01:56:24):
Winner out of that match. Scotty won.
Jim and myself are on 2.5 and. Tonight's winner on a grand
total of 5 is Edward. Oh, Edward Bunting weren't he?
Didn't think I'd win that. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Thank you all. Thank you all.
Anyone you want to thank Edwards?
Just Harry Lime. Harry Lime Done.
Very. Very.

(01:56:45):
Good. I'd like another colour question
that's. A fun.
I like that topic. That's good, that.
Was great. That was that was awesome.
Do that again. I'm a fan.
Excellent. I think.
That's a quiz. Quiz and I.
Think that's AI? Think that's a podcast,
certainly. One, thank you all.
Let's do some plugs, Jim. Anything you want to plug?
I'm just getting out and drivingyour cars before the price.

(01:57:07):
Of fuel goes up with all the international.
Conflict, yes, correct. Yeah, very good advice, cars
look. Top tip, fill your cars up.
Trump said that there's a ceasefire.
Now. Well man, I don't even know what
to believe. Anymore.
Trump knows everything it does I.
Believe everything that he says.Scotty the golf tip of the week.
Oh, golf. Tip of the week I am.

(01:57:30):
Going to go with, oh, did I do this or no, maybe I didn't do
this one. No, I don't think I did.
So I went to the driving range because I've been hitting the
driver really, really badly. And.
What I figured it out is becausewith the driver, you're not kind

(01:57:50):
of hitting down on the ball. You want to hit up to hit up on
the ball with the driver. And so now what I do is I have
the T and the ball and then I have my driver not right behind.
It it's probably about. 5 inchesaway from it.
So now that changes the swing and obviously.

(01:58:11):
With the driver I'm. Kind of tilted a bit because I
want to be on the swing of goingupwards, so now with that I'm
actually hitting more up on the ball.
So I'm getting more high. And I'm not topping it anymore
so it fixed fixed me. So maybe if.
You're topping it a bit. Give that a go.
Don't have your club so close behind the ball?

(01:58:32):
Have it a bit further back and it might help with your swing
instead of getting where you're constantly hitting down on the
ball. Might.
Fix the swing. For you to go yeah nice in the
end part of your swing and not in your down part.
Of your swing. Is what I'm trying to get at.
Yeah, great tip. Works for me.
So give it a wheel Ed Bunting's got.

(01:58:53):
Cars for sale. Oh I do.
Who wants a? Dual cab Triton with the Pajero.
4M41. Motor and an amazing new leather
cover on the steering wheel. Because he did.
That's currently at 8600. Drive away, we have a Mazda. 2.
Manual O9 with one O 8 KS on it.Beautiful little car and we have

(01:59:14):
a Ford Focus Sr auto hatch with 33,000 KS on.
Price to be determined pending roadworthy inspection.
Oh, any fire on the Triton at all?
No. Not yet and the E3. 50 is.
Just getting that rear bar painted and then that'll be on
at 8 1/2 and that's your O 6 update with the seven speed auto

(01:59:36):
and 119 on the clock. Lovely.
There you go, there's a nice array, something for everyone
there drive. Away.
No more to pay. Thanks, Gordon Farkas.
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We gotta do it. Tell me a night I'm on holiday

(02:00:17):
soon. So all right, do you start
holidays? Next Friday.
OK. When do you?
Start finish Friday. Are you kidding?
What? Damn it.
Now I'm pissed off. I've.
Still got to go in for a couple of days of professional.

(02:00:39):
Learning, but you know. Still, I get an extra like 2
days of two or three days being at home.
Professional Learning. Scotty.
Yeah, I'm not. Going to talk to you for the
rest of the day. Scotty.
Join me, come join me, we got. A.
When is it? Next Monday we're having a a

(02:00:59):
night for people that might wantto come and teach at our school.
If you want to come down, swing by, I'm going to be there and
I'll be talking to people that were in the public sector and
joining over and why it's a goodmove.
Some details, please, after the show.
Scooty. Yeah, no worries.
I think that's pretty much, I think that's a podcast.

(02:01:20):
Gentlemen, good work. Love your work.
Gents, and I'll see you next time.
Thank you again, Jim, for coming.
On. No worries.
Thank you for. Having me it was great fun.
I'm just I was a bit. Disappointed that you didn't ask
any more questions about Sorry Iever white David, because last
time I heard that I was screaming in the car and I got
it. I'll keep that in my file.

(02:01:44):
General honour as always. Thank you guys for coming.
On the show. Thanks to our listeners and I'll
see you next time. Take it easy.
Goodbye. See you.

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