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Dukes of Hazzard History, Used Mercedes, Diesel F250 · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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John Summers is the motoring historian.
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He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept
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sports bike rider hailing from California.
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He collects cars and bikes built with plenty of cheap and
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fast and not much reliable.
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On his show, he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new
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and old cars driving motorbikes, motor racing, and motoring travel.
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Good day.
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Good morning, good afternoon.
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It is John Summers the motoring historian with Mark Gamy.
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I'm back.
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You are back?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Like you never I'm I'm not even sure if you have been away.
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Yeah, I'm not aware of the audio you're putting these out in so it could have
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been a listener might get confused.
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That's what I worry about.
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The poor blight probably is super confused.
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I'm in my new spirit of coming straight to the point.
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Um, have you heard of or seen a movie called Moon Runners?
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No.
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If I told you it was produced, written and produced by Guy Waldron, does
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that name name mean anything to you?
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I've had the name, I'm not a hundred percent sure.
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What I would tie it to this movie was the prototype for the Dukes of Hazard.
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Okay.
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It features moonshine running.
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Old man named Uncle Jesse who is looking after three worly
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teenager, 20 something types.
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They can drive really well.
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They make moonshine one's a girl, the other's a, but it is a sort of
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grittier version of, of the story.
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So the pub is called The Balls Nest.
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Um, the sheriff is called Roscoe.
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Boss Hog owns a whorehouse as well.
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He's not called Boss Hog.
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The Daisy character has run away from Mississippi because her stepdaddy sold her
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to the richest man in town into marriage.
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This is set in the 1970s before the Dukes of Hazard, like 70, mid seventies.
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I would say Judging by the the cars, the cars do not take.
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Center stage.
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Right.
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It's very, I was thinking, I watched some of the movie one night and then
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I watched some last night and fell asleep, and then I was watching a bit
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more of it this morning before the, before the school run, I realized that
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clearly one of the changes between Moon Runners and the Dukes of Hazard was a
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decision to make the car a character.
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Well, was the film successful?
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I, I, I don't know.
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I should have done that before springing it on you as a topic was I, we discussed
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an agenda before we came on air, and then I thought of this topic as well.
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It's 'cause when I looked at my pc, the movie was still, was still on and it
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made me, uh, it made me, I mean maybe that it would make sense that they
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were the sort of changes it had to make commercially to be more successful.
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If you've had a dry run, you're always gonna edit for better success on you.
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Oh, well it, it softened the edges, right?
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The, the Luke character.
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Is much more interesting in the movie.
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The Harder Core, uncle Jesse is interesting as well.
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Roscoe and Boss are both much better in the Dukes.
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Boss particularly, he has the white Cadillac and he's a fat bastard,
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but he's not charismatic and funny.
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And I actually, it's funny, I watched another movie with Sorel book, the
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guy that played Boss Hog, and was struck by how I, it was at the end
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of the movie before I was like, oh, that's the dude that plays Boss Hog
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because he's not actually that fat.
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He's like padded himself to be Boss Hog.
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The fatness is the acting and then the cigar and the white suit and all of that.
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The white Cadillac was there in Moon runners.
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Duke is a bad guy, but in later episodes of the Dukes he, he's almost is really
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too much Loki study here, but he's a quasi-religious figure because you
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can come to him with your problems.
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And he will fix them miraculously.
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'cause you have to agree that in numerous episodes the fixes he performs
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are nothing short of miraculous.
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James Best made the Roscoe character come alive.
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The Roscoe character in the movie is quite thin.
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The other cops are more interesting characters than Roscoe.
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There's a tobacco chewing cop in the opening scene where
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it dribbles down his chin.
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The Duke farm, they don't make a big deal out of the Duke farm
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and the way that in the Duke's a hazard before you go in the farm.
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There's always like the shot of the farm itself in the nature with the white
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pickup truck and the Dodge Charger.
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They don't make a big play on that.
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So I think visually, the Dukes, visually it was far more complete.
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It makes you, I guess, as a storyteller, it's interesting because you see
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how Waldron crafted what he had.
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To go to the big studios, you know, by having Baris do the car.
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So you have the beauty shot, so it walks and talks a little bit like Starsky and
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Hutch, which was the biggest show in the world when they were making the Dukes.
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I'm sure the car idea came from, you know, Baris did the
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Starsky and Hutch car, didn't he?
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Unless I'm mistaken, I edit myself out if I'm, but Barris did the General
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Lee and James Best brought the comedy element, the crashing into the water.
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That was the same, the car chase scenes, like on dirt roads where they're bashing
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panels, that was was there as well, which is was of course how the film
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cropped up in my feed in the first place.
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And I was like, oh.
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Oh, I never watched this before.
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The brothers race a 55 Chevy, which barely features in, in the movie,
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although there is a scene of the racing and that car is named Traveler,
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which was General Lee's horse.
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That's how the car is positioned, but it is not the car,
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which is used all the time.
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There's a, like a fifties Chevy that's used and clearly a bunch of beater cars,
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which the production team were able to like buy cheap in LA at that time.
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So, you know, the kind of thing that you could, you know, four door rear wheel
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drive, big sedans that they then abuse and clearly paint different colors and
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fit different body panels to, and all of the stuff that they would subsequently
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do to make the episodes of the Dukes with the rapid cadence that they could.
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You know that you'd buy as many Plymouth Furies, as many
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Dodge Chargers as you could.
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So actually, this is interesting, and I don't know if this is true, but Dave
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Fryberger, the hot rod editor guy that did road Kill, who's now doing his own
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YouTube channel, which I, which I watch.
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Pretty avidly.
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I've, I've gotta say fryer reckons, when he did a review a couple of videos ago,
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he did a review of all the cars that he'd owned and in doing, talked about the
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muscle car scene and the hot rod scene in Los Angeles in the eighties and nineties.
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He's maybe three or four years older than you were, you or I. So almost
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the same age, but little bit older than, uh, than than Mark Newton.
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And.
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He reckons the.
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He, he says, as, as I look through these, it's noticeable.
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You know, he's a Mopar guy to the core, so there were a lot of dusters.
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He has roadrunners, he's had a roadrunner, an orange roadrunner that
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he bought when he was 17 that he's had, so he's had B body cars, he's had
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road, he's had sea body cars as well as the little a, the little a body stuff.
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What he never seemed to have was charges, and he addressed that
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about halfway through the video.
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And he says he thinks it was because the production company, Warner
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Brothers were buying up all of the charges that were used, charges that
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were for sale, and he goes on sale.
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And again, who knows if this is true.
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He had a neighbor.
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Who was the guy who used to go and the line was, and tell the old ladies
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that their car wasn't gonna be painted orange and trashed in next week's
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show, which really was gonna be,
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uh, I'd certainly heard that that con, that that show contributed
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to a death of those particular cars on the secondhand market.
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329 cars is my understanding.
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That's how many Dodge General leads there were.
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I, I mean, you can go to a website and check that now, can't you?
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I was idly specking.
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I was bored last night, so I was, I, after the Mrs had gone beds, I
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went onto the Honda website and I was specking up CB 1000 Hornet sps.
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And the truth is, there's not much to speck up about 'em.
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You either get the hornet or you get the Hornet sp with the Olin suspension
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and the, and you can have any color you want as long as it's black and
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it looks fucking mean as in black.
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Quite a fancy one, but I'm not sure I can justify 10 grand new, even though
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that is quite a bargain for that.
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Are they a parallel twin?
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It's the blade engine from a few years ago.
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Oh, so it's like 150 odd horsepower tuned for more torque, and it's in a naked, like
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super nosy, really sharp oing suspension.
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40 14th.
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Reviewed it.
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I went and watched a bunch of reviews, Neve Z reviewed it and a,
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a bunch of other people reviewed it and that all of them were like.
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Chef's kiss, it's fantastic.
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Honda should be saluted.
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But a lot of people are gonna say, oh well it's not this and it's not that.
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And it's not, it's not the latest that, and yeah, all of that's true.
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But what they've done is done a bargain basement, bits from the catalog
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and delivered a real belter of a, of a bike for not a lot of money.
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You had me, uh, it's got the old fire blade motor.
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So what's the latest with the, what else we got on here?
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What's the latest with the Mercedes?
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Well, I was gonna ask you.
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Oh this.
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Sorry.
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This is my own, this is my note.
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I mean, I can tell you the latest, I've just been to pick mine up from
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storage in Lodi where it sat for a year.
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Yeah.
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And it's been out and I've been driving it around again.
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But the weather has taken a toll on the roof.
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So now basically has a hole around one quarter of the.
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Sunroof.
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So the sunroof is there, and then there's a sort of hole around the front edge.
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So I was like, you know, it'll be no problem.
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I'll put rust cleaner on it.
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I'll put masking tape on it, you know, duct tape.
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I bought the best duct tape I could, and Dana agreed that
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it did look less terrible.
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Come across the street, right, which was my main goal in, in doing it, where
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the carbon fiber sort of look sticker on the, a pillar of the driver door
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where that had come off and had rusted underneath and it looked terrible.
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I held a piece of cardboard against the glass and I just hid it with
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the black rust inhibiting spray.
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That's how the pros do it.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Totally do.
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Totally, totally fixed, right?
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Fixed.
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I was, I was done in about 15 minutes.
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Right.
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It was masterly, masterly craftsmanship.
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So Ollie and I drive into K one go-karting, and he's
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like, what's that noise?
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And I'm like, Hmm, it could, could be.
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Could be my roof repair.
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Working its way loose and flapping around.
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That's definitely what it looks like.
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It's, uh, a any tape based repairs on like the, we, Angie's St.
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Went into the garage for a MOT.
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She'd had a little conant with a car park with a one of those orange,
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those yellow painted curbs in multi-story car parks, which you've
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gotta be a bit careful for against.
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She hadn't been to this particular multi-story and she was quite stressed.
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So she got a bit of an incident with one, a fra car, should we say.
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The, the left hand side, the, the near side curbside of affair, uh, was,
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has been a bit sort of pulled away on the side skirt, so I sort of bd it.
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Um, with some C tape, and that lasted a couple of journeys and then it went in
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for an MOT and the Ford dealership rang up and went, ah, we need to fix a couple
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of things on this before it goes through.
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I went, yeah, yeah.
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Okay.
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Expecting.
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And they said, well, the wing mirror like needs a, like a little glass in
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it or something for the indicator.
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I was like, yeah, yeah, fine, do that.
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So they fixed that.
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And then they said, oh, we need to reattach the side skirt.
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I, okay.
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And I'm thinking, well, how, how much is that?
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And they, oh, like 20 quid.
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I'm like, oh, whatever.
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No problem.
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Just do that.
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Then it arrived back and I walked around and looked at it.
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They lo and behold, they had gaffer taped it as well just with different
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color gaffer tape, and it was attached.
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It last did one day until the next day, and then came loose.
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So my gaffer taping is better than Ford original gaffer taping.
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Well, my ST was brand new.
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Ollie was a baby and was that age where you have to like nap.
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And I went with him to a hot rod show, but it was that age where he was so young that
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I hadn't like coordinated it properly.
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So by the time we got there, he needed to have his nap.
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But I was like, you know, no harm, no foul.
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It doesn't matter that we got here at noon and I'm not gonna
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be able to go in until three.
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You know, this is what it is.
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When you have a baby of that age, this is the life that you live.
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So, you know, he just like in that, well.
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I was feeling that as I backed the fiesta into a spot which had a high curve that
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I hadn't seen and broke the clips that hold the back bumper in place, I like,
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oh man, the, the plastic's like an egg.
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And once it's broken.
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Like you like hit it in the wrong way, it cracks, and once it's
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cracked, there's no fixing it.
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The best thing you should do is just not worry about it.
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Yeah.
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Well, I mean, what I found, I can get another one for 45 quid from a car
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that's had an impact on the other side.
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Then you have to paint it unless, no it comes in.
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Remember it's, remember it's Ford St. They only came in like three colors.
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Most of them were in that blue.
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So, you know, I can just get one on eBay.
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Pre-done.
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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To all those people.
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Like all these rover loving people on YouTube.
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This is why people love Ford.
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This is why people love Ford.
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'cause not only are they good to drive, but when things happen,
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the fix is easy and cheap.
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Relative to your experience with your BMW.
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Oh yeah, for sure.
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I mean, look, you might have to put in a little bit of effort on the basis that.
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When it needed a new exhaust, I rang up the dealership and said, right, I need
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a new rear is like midsection back.
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I think I said this before and it was 1300 quid.
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I was like, not with fitting bro.
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And he was like, that is with fitting.
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Sorry, that is without fitting.
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I was went fuck sake.
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So the whole new mill tech system was 500 quid.
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Okay.
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To just get, you know, different stuff, you know, as you upgrade, as you, as you,
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um, through the lifestyle of the car.
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But yeah, and absolutely it's always been a a, a benefit.
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I mean, mine only has 21 K on it and I'm, there's an air filter over
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there that I still need to fit to it.
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It's over in Lodi and I've juggled Lodi.
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Now the Mercedes is out, the fiesta's in, but I've also put a bunch of bikes
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in so the Mercedes can't go back in.
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How I get rid of a bunch of bikes.
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I'll tell you how Tetris it is.
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Last time I was in there, when I pulled the door down to close it,
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it caught on the bike's handlebar.
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And I had to do the door back up so I could go back outside so I could
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stand by the bike to pull the thing down so I could lean on the bike.
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So it went away from the handlebar and then when the door went down, I
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could then climb over the motorcycle.
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So yeah, so I dunno what I'm gonna do going forward 'cause it's sort
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of over there, but I couldn't bear it sitting around in the street.
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Like just getting toileted by the weather.
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Mm-hmm.
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You know, the Mercedes is hardly any better because it's with
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the best will in the world.
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You know, that spraying a bit of rust once they've started rusting it just
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living by the seaside and stuff, you know.
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Well, I dunno what I'm gonna do with it because, uh, for a hot minute there,
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it was worth quite a lot of money.
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Because I think we, we talked in the last pod about these people who believe
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that peak car was like the year 2000.
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You know, reason I love it is that it's a great car.
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It is great to drive and super affordable.
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And so as if you are looking for a starter classic that you
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could actually use every day.
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That kind of car is a terrific example of it.
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Only 70,000 of them made.
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But here's the thing, right?
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In the time since I've had it, the price shot, the prices on them shot up in the
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pandemic and really fell off quickly.
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I think at its peak, I think I maybe could have got like
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seven and a half grand for mine.
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I think now it's worth like under $2,000.
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I think it's a breaker because it's in such bad condition, superficially
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like bodily and gamy I know of in this neighborhood, four other cars of exactly
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the same age, two of which are in superb condition, and two other of which are
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in much better condition than mine.
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So you've literally, it is that beta Jaguar that I always wanted.
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And I just need to accept that it is perfect as it is.
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And just let it carry on.
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Just slow the decay.
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That's what I'm trying to do.
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That that is indeed what you're trying to do.
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Which is why I'm street parking it in saline air, right?
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I mean, yeah, it's gonna take money, isn't it?
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I mean, look, I'm just looking, you know, because the reason I hadn't,
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I wanted to ask about your Mercedes, which is why I had clicked, of course,
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Mercedes on our five point bullet list for the agenda was also talking about my.
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A, my sort of potential purchase of Mercedes, which is much more
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loose in terms of the, the budget.
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You know, 10 grand, not a million miles 'cause it's gonna get used.
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But automatic obviously, which is part of the reason I just
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want something to waft around in.
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But again, it's the difficulty because I thought whilst we're
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chatting, I'll check on Autotrader, how many E 50 fives there are.
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And there's a eight grand one with eight, 6,000 miles and a 99 plate
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because they changed them in my jet.
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Mine was current 98 to 2002.
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Yeah, this is a 99 plate.
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Looks like yours.
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Okay.
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Yeah, there, you're right.
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There are later ones.
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The sort of oh oh 3, 0 4 ones.
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Well, those, those later ones, uh, are supercharged.
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Yeah, they're like 507 horsepower instead of 355.
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It's like a, a meaningful increase in horsepower and decrease in reliability.
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I mean, what I will say is there's an, this is why I like
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the idea of getting a Mercedes.
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There's an oh four plate E 55, so the later one with 220,000 miles.
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For five and half.
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Yeah, I've seen ones like, this is what I was gonna say.
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You limiting it to 60,000 miles.
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I, I understand why you did that.
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I'd rather take a hundred thousand mile car that's been owned by one or two dudes
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that's got a service history this thick.
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And when you meet the dude, he reminds you of my dad.
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I'd take that car with a hundred thousand miles on it before I
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took a 50,000 mile one from a dealer where there was no history.
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Yeah, no, I hear you.
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I mean, what the thing is like, I like, I mean, I'm just
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looking at this E 55 in black.
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I like it.
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Eight grand for 86,000 miles on 99 plate six miles.
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Um, I understand why you won 60 because my whole challenge, and this is, that's the
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thing, this is why I bought another truck.
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I've had that tundra a year and I put 20,000 miles on it in addition to whatever
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other miles I've put on other stuff.
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That's the challenge.
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Yeah, it's gonna have to wear daily use.
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So like not loads of nodes in a world of video conferencing calls and
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stuff, and you know, I'm gonna get in the train to some appointments,
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no doubt if they're in London.
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But at the end of the day, you know, I'm gonna have to toot up em down
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the highways and highways a bit.
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Now look, this, I don't wanna have millions of cars, but moving to the
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new place, there is a room for about.
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Five or six, so I could certainly have an extra one.
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And I like the idea of buying something like that E 55, that I
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actually sort of wouldn't mind.
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It can just stay, you know, it can just find a place and where 10,000 miles a
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year, not 20,000 miles a year, but on the other end, realistically with your head,
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you should just buy a middleweight, three liter boo ring, whatever box Mercedes
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with all toys so you can have a massage butt crack and not care about killing it.
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That's what I really should do.
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And ventilated.
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But the other, the other thing to think about is, is, is, uh, you know, Wayne
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had, uh, E three 50 and it was maybe a 20 11, 20 12, something like that, when
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they had that E-Class, when they had that sort of squared off, like fender line
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and square, little square headlights.
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At the time, I was a bit like, why'd you buy that way?
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And didn't really understand why he, why he bought it.
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In sport mode.
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It was incredible.
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It was absolutely incredible and I think that's what you have to understand
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is that like a 2012 E three 50 in sport mode is better than a 2005 A
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MG in sport mode is, if that's your.
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You know, I, I don't know.
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It might well be, it's just that the generation of, you know, the newer
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cars are really great in sport mode.
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Is, is I guess what I'm saying.
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The other thing is, is that i, I, that you can do, that I envy you for is diesel.
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Yeah.
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But like, I can't.
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Yeah, I mean, I, I won't let me, I, I, I un I understand why you, you,
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I think it's attractive to me 'cause it's like if there were 3, 3, 5 i's,
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and 3, 3 5 D's both available here.
22:05
I would want the 3, 3, 5.
22:07
I, and I understand why you would want the three.
22:09
It's just the D appeals 'cause you can't get 'em.
22:13
Yeah, no, I understand.
22:14
Forbidden and all that sort of thing, but I fucking hate diesel.
22:18
Yeah.
22:18
Um, I was telling Ollie I shall share with you as well, the moment I
22:23
had that I hate Diesel moment group and I took a vacation together.
22:30
It was like a weekend break to.
22:33
Monaco, or I can't remember where we flew to, but either way, we ended up
22:38
renting a car and driving from somewhere to somewhere to Monaco or something.
22:45
Either way, I went to Monaco with Greek.
22:46
I walked the Monaco Grand Prix circuit with Greek.
22:50
We had this Lancia Libra rental car, which, uh, of course you did.
22:55
And, and on the drive there was a climb and an overtake, and I went
23:01
to do the overtake and, you know, got alongside right at that moment
23:06
where a gas powered car finds a bit more power to complete the overtake.
23:10
And this thing just bounced off the rev limiter.
23:13
And add nothing.
23:14
And then I 500 revs.
23:17
About 4,000 revs.
23:18
Yeah.
23:18
Yeah, yeah.
23:19
And, and so now I'm fighting for another gear and now it's out of Turbo
23:22
Boost and now I'm about to get head on and, and that was the moment where
23:27
I was like, I fucking hate diesel.
23:30
Right.
23:30
That was the, that's the standout moment to me with, with people
23:35
that is perfectly acceptable.
23:36
Like they, they're not reving like, it's like, yeah, like talk, talk, whatever.
23:41
But like, you know, the, the talk, it just, it just runs outta puff
23:45
in a really disappointing way.
23:47
The running out of puff in a really disappointing way.
23:50
Is it the oomph when you first come in, the gas is lovely.
23:53
Oh, that's nice.
23:54
The running out of puff in a really disappointed way.
23:57
Harley's are a little like that.
23:59
Yeah.
24:00
Yeah, I can see that.
24:01
I mean, I love it.
24:02
I, I love it.
24:03
And I, and you know, I just bought this diesel truck.
24:05
I'm enjoying both, I really enjoyed the Virin bikes and the torque.
24:09
I love, I love the torque and for an American environment, I, I
24:13
absolutely, I absolutely get it.
24:16
Everything has its place.
24:17
So a lot of talk.
24:18
What I really love is a high revving, naturally aspirated gas motor.
24:24
And here I am eulogizing the one in the BMW.
24:28
Um, but before that area, there's an area where you can really red line
24:32
the BMW in like a couple of gears.
24:34
He can, like any, you know, he's got 180 horse.
24:37
He's not a fast car, so, you know, out of the turn, second and
24:41
third, you know, and then into the, you know, it sounds awesome.
24:45
That rush to the red line, that rush to the six grand,
24:49
six and a half grand red line.
24:50
It sounds awesome.
24:52
It's everything that makes cars fun and, and great.
24:56
And, and if you don't believe it, that's what's missing with
25:00
electric cars, that the zing is not.
25:04
Accompanied by the same sense of of theater, it's the
25:08
rock show without a sound.
25:11
I wanna say something else as well, and I wonder what your thoughts are on this.
25:15
I feel like the whole way electric vehicles, uh.
25:20
Launch that whole like launch experience and the building up
25:25
of speed that feels completely different in electric vehicles to me.
25:31
And, and for a long time.
25:32
Well, for a long time, but I spent a while, I had a ride in Rivian fairly
25:36
recently and I had that thought and I said as much to the owner and he was
25:41
like, oh, there is fully a difference.
25:44
You know, there is fully a difference.
25:45
This is a less organic power delivery.
25:49
It's u Well, it's, but it's uniform.
25:50
It doesn't build it, it's, there's no sort of like a appreciable feel
25:54
of the rev range in the same way.
25:56
You know, there's no power band.
25:58
It's all power band.
25:59
It's just sort of a uniform shove.
26:02
It's a shit ton of shove.
26:03
And an exciting shove and thrilling in its way.
26:06
Absolutely.
26:07
And faster, you know, most of the time in a straight line.
26:11
Yeah.
26:11
But it comes with a shit ton of weight.
26:14
You need to drive the fucking things for about 20 years before
26:16
you really pay for the, the actual environmental cost of buying them.
26:20
So I'll stick with the old cars and not ever need a new car.
26:22
Yeah, that's the greenest thing I can do.
26:27
Speaking of which, one of the things that came up on the list was like
26:30
SL 60 and stuff, which is extremely green in me to get like a V 12 Cabrio.
26:37
Okay, so I would urge with Mercedes, the A MG products because they do have that
26:42
sort of muscle carry kind of edge to them, which is super, super appealing.
26:49
The, the V twelves, I do feel like a, some of it was everyone at the golf
26:57
club as an SL 500, so I'll get a 600.
27:00
They did offer extra horsepower and I did drive one.
27:05
A long time ago when I did the smogging, I got to be friends with a guy who did
27:09
work on car, on my cars for me, and he was doing some work on an SL 600, and
27:18
he said it's, it's like, it's basically like a really complicated Corvette.
27:22
And
27:25
that, I mean, sort of, yeah, because the thrust was kind of similar and
27:30
it was a two-seater and it was an automatic, and it wasn't floppy,
27:34
but it also wasn't your Nissan three 50 in terms of, of how it felt.
27:40
Um, the thing with the, the SL 60 fives and stuff is
27:42
they're just way too expensive.
27:44
But on the other hand, if you look at SL 50 fives.
27:47
There's loads of 'em.
27:48
Yes.
27:49
And, and I think the, uh, the important thing is the a m genus.
27:53
Yeah.
27:54
The, the other, the other one that I like that's a bit of a, not on
27:57
the radar, but there's a lot of them are, there's, there's a few of them
28:00
around are the cls, the coupe ones.
28:05
Mm-hmm.
28:05
They do a CL 65, and I think because of that, the CL 60 threes.
28:13
From the era where they were doing that.
28:16
M1 60 legendary 6.28 grand red line guy.
28:22
Mm-hmm.
28:22
That motor, you could get that in a CL and the CL 63, I guess because you
28:30
know, most sort of collector types would rather do the 65, the CL 60 threes.
28:34
They always seem pretty good.
28:35
Value to, to me, I can't recall.
28:38
Yeah.
28:38
I'm just looking at one here.
28:39
There's a nice black one, an oh eight.
28:42
With 67,000 miles on the clock for 15 grand.
28:46
Yeah, I like the no C pillar, B pillar as well.
28:49
See if you look at, that's nice.
28:51
If you look at like a C 63 or an E 63 that's been owned by somebody who's
28:56
actually like driven it, anybody who bought the CL 63, that strikes me
29:00
as like an older person and somebody who bought that as like a second car.
29:05
It just, I just feel like a CL is likely to have been more used in a gentler way
29:11
than E class or certainly a C class.
29:15
I I'm feeling it.
29:17
I'm feeling it.
29:18
This person's taken panes to take all the pictures outside of a country pub,
29:28
which is, and let me just tell you, it's a thatched pub.
29:31
I was thinking as I, as I was dealing with the purchase of this, this F two 50
29:37
that I've bought recently, that's a really nice, I I, I was thinking about how.
29:42
You do judge on the ad, right?
29:44
This truck was quite a long way away because I sort of, normally
29:48
I like have a short list and I, but I didn't do that this time.
29:51
I just was like, I'm just gonna call about that particular, I
29:54
had two that I was gonna look at.
29:56
One of them, the ad wasn't working properly, the phone number
29:58
didn't seem to be working, so I was just like, fuck that one.
30:01
It's in fucking Las Vegas anyway, which is.
30:03
Seven hours away from San Francisco.
30:06
So that's a massive logistical operation to look at the, yeah, buy
30:10
the truck and get the truck home.
30:12
This one, um, was in Modesto only.
30:16
Two hours away.
30:17
So a, a much more, uh, realistic kind of prospect.
30:21
In the pictures, you could tell how straight the panels were.
30:24
The ad was really well written, and if you just compare that with it's,
30:28
it's like, it was only after I'd like negotiated with the people and bought
30:32
the truck that I was like, you know, part of the reason why I bought this was
30:35
because the ad was actually well written.
30:37
So I knew that I was gonna be able to have a proper conversation with somebody,
30:40
the kind of person who photographs.
30:44
A car half covered by a tar paulin and then says, five grand.
30:50
No negotiation.
30:51
Don't waste my time.
30:53
Is that really somebody you wanna be doing business with?
30:57
I'm gonna give money to that person when you've not you.
30:59
You know what I mean?
31:00
It just becomes when, when you are just on the shitter surfing, you're like,
31:03
Ooh, you know, I'll, I'll like that one.
31:06
When you're actually.
31:08
Got your hand on the dollars and you're about to place the call, suddenly at
31:13
that point you begin to think much more clearly about what you were, yeah, yeah.
31:19
No, that's a fair comment.
31:20
So there's F two 50 is a Powerstroke Diesel seven three Powerstroke diesel.
31:25
It is currently wearing 465,800 miles.
31:30
Original transmission, original wheels.
31:34
Two owners, dude, like trucks are held to a different standard
31:37
when we first got in it, right?
31:39
Firstly, Ollie loves it, loves, loves, loves it, right?
31:44
It's so totally the truck that he wanted.
31:49
Um, you know, he was like, you know, I didn't wanna say, but the Toyota
31:52
really wasn't doing it for me.
31:53
But this, this is like.
31:56
It really is as far as I can make out a pretty straight old truck.
32:01
Um, I've not done a lot of miles in it yet.
32:04
It leaks from the front hub and of course the rebuild on that, which I,
32:09
you know, budgeted a certain amount in for it's costing, you know, there's a
32:13
massive Bay Area tax on that being done and the Ford guy doesn't want to touch
32:18
it 'cause it's like four wheel drive.
32:20
And so the way I led up to this was.
32:23
Earlier in the year, I bought a rampage motorcycle lift.
32:29
We may have even talked about it on the pot.
32:31
You are nodding.
32:32
That means you remember the video of the, the way that it works, where you, you
32:37
sort of, yeah, there's a chalky part and you put the front wheel in the chalky
32:41
part and you strap the bike down as if it was in the bed of the truck already.
32:45
And then you connect the winch.
32:49
The winch motor to the battery of the truck.
32:53
And then you use the winch and the winch winches the thing up in a
33:00
sort of quite magical motion into the other part of the ramp, which
33:05
is fixed in the bed of the truck.
33:07
And you know, then you, and the original thought was, was this is
33:12
gonna go in the bed of the tundra.
33:14
But the Tandra's such a nice example, and I didn't want to drill the bed and
33:18
it means taking the tailgate off because the rampage will fit in an eight foot
33:24
bed, but it sticks out of six foot bed.
33:29
You, what people do is just take the tailgate off, which is fine, right?
33:33
But it means that all the time I'd have the thing sticking out as well.
33:37
It like sticks out a foot.
33:39
So you've sort of got this like it's about a foot wide.
33:43
And, you know, a couple of inches, half, that'd be fucking annoying.
33:47
It would be.
33:48
'cause you bash into stuff all the time and people will bash into it and you
33:51
know, so I was just like, well, so then I caught myself surfing like the cheapest
33:56
$2,000 trucks that I could, that were low.
34:00
So like, you know, like Mazda, Mitsubishi, mighty Maxes and Mazda B 22 hundreds,
34:08
you know, those kind of, but two wheel drive ones, so they're super low.
34:11
'cause the name of the game for me, I should have backed up and, and, and
34:14
said this was, uh, you were aware that earlier in the year I was loading a
34:20
CB 900 with John and it fell on me.
34:23
It was the one with the Yura pipe.
34:27
And as we were going up onto the trailer, if you imagine where it goes up the ramp,
34:32
so where it comes off the ramp and into the bed of the truck, there's a sort
34:36
of low point, isn't that kinda light?
34:38
And the exhaust grazed at that point it was this aftermarket yoshimura
34:42
and basically it rocked up on the exhaust and fell towards me.
34:47
And John was just like, I can't hold it.
34:49
So like, let it go.
34:50
So anyway, so E either way it twisted up my back.
34:52
So this led to, we were talking earlier before we came on air about
34:56
my hip being like all janked up.
34:59
That's what was the beginning of, you know, me being an additional
35:03
level of junkiness of my, uh.
35:06
Of my back.
35:06
So I was like, I'm not fucking up my back moving these fucking
35:11
crappy motorcycles anymore, right?
35:13
I'm just gonna solve this once and for, so hence the rampage where, you know, you
35:18
push a button and it's, and it's done.
35:20
But you know, as I say, the truck, which the tundra was meant to
35:23
cover too many bases, and I'm just like, ah, that's not gonna work.
35:27
So, uh, I need a truck with an eight foot bed.
35:30
So I was looking for a two wheel drive truck 'cause it was gonna be low, but then
35:33
it was like, you know what, if the rampage is going in, it could be four wheel drive.
35:36
I just get a decent, decent truck.
35:38
Then you're like, well you could do like the Mitsubishi Mighty
35:41
Max or something like that.
35:42
Like something little and sensible.
35:44
But what you could do is, is do the like million mile capable turbo
35:50
diesel and do the turbo diesel thing, which you've never really done.
35:53
You know, don't have any diesel vehicles here.
35:56
We were just talking about how I'm quite attracted to diesel partly.
35:59
'cause you know you can't get the turbo diesel cars here.
36:02
I'd love a turbo diesel jaguar or a turbo diesel Audi that I would definitely,
36:06
I know you're wrinkling in your nose.
36:08
It's 'cause you get 'em, we can't get 'em here.
36:11
So it's quite, it's, it's quite a piece.
36:12
So this is lurking at the end of the street there.
36:15
It is enormous 'cause it's a crew cab.
36:17
It really is huge When you fire it up, when it's in like
36:22
open cycle, it smells the way.
36:25
Do you remember the buses used to smell in Plymouth, that
36:28
diesel smell, that like absolute hardcore, unfiltered diesel smell?
36:36
It's, it's that, it's, it's, it's really that.
36:39
There's a lot of stuff online about how legendary the power stroke is.
36:43
If you Google it, there's all sorts of, you know, user groups
36:46
and, and all this sort of thing.
36:47
It really is, uh, uh, and part of the following is like the mileage, right?
36:52
But part of the following is around the fact that there is a very distinctive
36:56
exhaust note, and I can't believe I'd missed it before I bought the truck.
37:02
You know what?
37:02
It's in that moment where you start it and when you've bought a very high mile.
37:08
Fucking cheap old truck every time you put the key in it for the first.
37:14
15 or 20 times, you're not really sure whether it's gonna start, are you?
37:17
You're a bit worried.
37:18
So when it fires up, there's always a feeling of joy when it fires
37:23
up with the way these power, this power stroke, seven, three fires
37:27
up and it's absolutely unmodified.
37:29
It's not, you know, because you can turbot charge the crap out of them.
37:32
Like Marx has about 800 horsepower.
37:35
And that's with like a reliable kind of a, a tune on it.
37:40
Obviously not a California smog legal tune.
37:42
And that's another thing about it.
37:43
This thing just passed smog.
37:45
Unbelievable.
37:46
So awesome, awesome, uh, piece of kit.
37:49
Not tested the four wheel drive yet.
37:51
He told me.
37:51
That works.
37:53
The windows all work, central lock.
37:55
It doesn't, I made my payment to, I think the company was called, well,
38:01
I modify it for privacy and, and, and all of that, but it was something
38:06
similar to Circle M Hog callers.
38:10
That was the, uh, so that's what it's, it's, it has a gooseneck in the bed.
38:15
Gooseneck hitch in the bed.
38:16
So it was probably hauling, you know, those kind of of, but
38:20
like for that sort of thing, you don't want a high rev engine.
38:23
You want grunt low reving, just reliable, you know?
38:27
Yeah.
38:28
F yeah.
38:29
Sort of movement.
38:30
And that's what they are great at that shit.
38:32
They absolutely are.
38:32
Yeah.
38:33
Well that's why, that's why I wanted this, this deep Yeah, yeah.
38:35
For this kind of thing.
38:36
And, and the idea is now the, the ramp can stay in it all the time.
38:40
And when I do a trip like the Oregon one that I just did, I can always take a bike
38:44
with me and it could just sit in the ramp.
38:47
And anytime I want to get out and ride, I can just get out and ride.
38:50
And the.
38:51
Tundra can still be used as a sort of luxury car way that
38:56
we have been using it for.
38:57
Now, you might say, well, why don't you just buy an SUV?
38:59
And that's probably what we should have done, but you know, yeah.
39:03
Fuck SUVs.
39:03
I probably didn't want an SUV, so we didn't buy an SUV.
39:06
I'd have done an S suv.
39:08
I was looking at Escalades.
39:09
I was looking at 6.2 liter Escalades before, oh, of course you were 6.2 liter.
39:14
Of course you were.
39:14
Like, well, why would you have the five three when you're, could
39:17
have the six two for God's sake?
39:19
Why put up with 300 in change horsepower?
39:22
And you could have 400, but that motor un reliable.
39:24
Apparently.
39:25
That's why I was often, 'cause Daniel was quite into the idea of an
39:28
Escalade, but then I read that the motors blow up, so I was like, no.
39:31
Yeah, I, I mean, I don't like the SUVs.
39:35
I just, you know, for England, for England, it it, I mean for here
39:40
it's a totally different thing.
39:42
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:42
So they still suck.
39:45
It depends, which they still can suck compared to a proper car is my point.
39:51
You know, it's a better format if they're too high, they're
39:54
too big, they're too bulky.
39:56
They're compromises.
39:58
Yes, yes.
39:59
I, I, I feel all of that, but the whole like commanding driving position
40:04
overrides all of that, doesn't it?
40:06
I guess.
40:07
I mean the minority.
40:10
I, I resisted the SUV thing for many, many years and then when I got that
40:15
Durango, I was like, oh, I kind of get it.
40:18
I kind of get why people like, oh no, I mean, I'm sure I would be disarmed
40:21
by and, and would enjoy driving them.
40:23
I tend to enjoy driving everything.
40:24
So, I mean, you know, so I'm gonna make a confession now, mark.
40:28
I'm gonna confess something, which you might find appall.
40:32
We may not even be able to be friends after I say this.
40:34
I might, I'm hovering over the hangup button.
40:36
Yeah.
40:37
Yeah.
40:37
It's gonna change the friendship of, of many decades, but I, I've kind of got a
40:42
hankering for Range Rovers all the time.
40:44
They knew I've no fucking interest.
40:47
Right.
40:48
A knackered one.
40:49
Oh, well, okay.
40:50
So Harry.
40:51
Harry on Harry's garage, Harry Metcalf of Evo Fame and Fortune did an interview
40:57
where if you watch one of his, his, his re his last couple of years, they, he did
41:01
an, uh, a 20 or 30 minute video with him and Clarkson of all people sitting on the
41:08
back of their range rovers talking to each other about why they bought the best one.
41:12
And they talk about all the different ones and why the ones that they've got are the
41:16
best ones and that you should get that.
41:17
So if you are interested, that's what you, that's the video for you.
41:21
Alright.
41:21
Because literally, I'm, I'm in that place where I've said before, after I bought
41:27
that Tundra, I, I was over sensible.
41:30
It was no more sensible, it was full stupid from there.
41:33
Hence, the crew cab half a million mile diesel pickup to
41:39
simply to move motorcycles.
41:40
Like that really was pretty, uh, intense.
41:43
Like, I mean, this is the problem.
41:44
Yeah, we, I've, you and I have never been able to stay on Target.
41:47
You know, we start with a perfectly reasonable agenda of 10 grand
41:50
and like 60,000 miles of Mercedes to just wear boring miles.
41:54
And then I ended up looking at this 15 grand, CLS 55, and then thinking, well,
42:00
you know, you know, I like the no B pillow and it's got a massive sunroof.
42:04
So the whole thing had been feeling like a Cabrio the whole time.
42:07
Like, you know, sort of that would be quality.
42:10
So, yeah.
42:11
And, and that occasional backseat counts for so much.
42:15
And the other thing about 'em is in terms of the cls, particularly the
42:19
carpark presence, they're like ageless.
42:22
They're completely, I like the side swoop.
42:25
I definitely do.
42:29
But you know, these awesome search engines where you can just put in V 10 and Audi.
42:36
And then just stack rank, then V 10 Audi sedan and stack rank cheap to
42:42
expensive because that V 10 motor, those Audis had, it was Lamborghini derives.
42:47
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:48
Same one with the guy.
42:49
So ab Well, okay, Eric's like if they break down all the time.
42:54
'cause the price is on them.
42:55
Dude, if you, the price is on, uh, uh, uh, on like Audi V 10, like an SA or an S six.
43:02
That was the, the models that they went into versus, uh, E 60 BMW.
43:09
M five V 10, the M five is worth way more.
43:12
And any E 63 is worth way more as well.
43:15
'cause the E 63 and the M five, both gun classic cars, the Lamborghini
43:19
motor Audis are cheap now.
43:21
Eric's like, oh, we had one in the club.
43:23
We had one, like a guy brought one to a track day or something in it.
43:27
It like blew up and was broken all the time.
43:29
And I'm like, well.
43:29
You took it to the track, but yeah, just people seem underwhelmed by them,
43:34
but I'm like, how bad could it be?
43:35
Could you not put the Lamborghini like exhaust kind of on the Audi,
43:40
like, I'm, I'm fascinated by that.
43:42
I kind of want one.
43:43
There was one I Googled, one up, I, I Googled on Auto Tempest, which is
43:49
like a, you know, search aggregation engine for, for, for cars, which
43:54
is kind of useful for America.
43:55
Not com no, it's not thorough, I wouldn't say, but it's, it's pretty good.
43:59
It found me, uh, like an eight grand S six in Kansas City.
44:05
Right.
44:06
This is like 120,000 mile cars and there's no like consumer law here.
44:11
It's, you know, you drive off the forecourt, whatever
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happens, it's your problem.
44:16
Good luck.
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Yeah.
44:17
Yeah.
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Sold as seed as they say.
44:20
You know, there's, there's that to contend with, to say nothing
44:23
of the logistics of, a lot of 'em are on the east coast as well, and
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I, I don't want an east coast car.
44:28
I'd rather have like a. Non rusts carve.
44:30
But yeah, I've thought about those as well.
44:32
It's just when it, who would I get to fix it?
44:35
The difficulty I have with them is, again, in my sort of view of Audis, there are
44:41
only a handful that were worth having.
44:44
You know, objectively there's the RS four, there was R eights, there's
44:50
the TT RS 3.2, and that's about it.
44:53
Because most of the other ones were too nose heavy and like under steer
44:58
and I fucking hate under steer.
45:00
Yeah.
45:00
Well, that's my objection to them.
45:02
I think now as I'm looking at the e sixties being like 15, 20, well
45:07
my, my old boss, um, well, my, my sales director at Fastnet had the,
45:12
the TT RS 3.2 and loved it, and then he swapped that out for an RS six.
45:17
He said he wished after about six months, he rec, he said he reckoned the tt.
45:22
RS 3.2 was a better car and more fun.
45:24
What year?
45:25
RS six?
45:26
Yeah, it would've been about oh five to 10, something like that.
45:31
Oh, okay.
45:32
Because Eric's thing is the, the producer, Eric the, instead of talking about the
45:37
V 10, he was like that first generation.
45:40
Was it the RS six?
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Yes.
45:42
Yes, it was, um, the first generation RS six because I remember that car
45:48
launching because I was at, it was the end of my time in tech in Britain.
45:53
I was working in London and we.
45:56
Rented.
45:57
I don't remember if we did it or if a partner company did it or whatever.
46:01
There was some fucking shindig at Jack Barclay's Bentley
46:05
dealership in fucking Mayfair.
46:08
Literally, you were the dealership overlooks Sir James's Park with Buckhouse.
46:14
Just up there, just just up the road kind of thing.
46:17
And it was the launch of that, um, RS six Audi, and that was the first time I looked
46:23
at an Audi and thought, bloody hell, I might want one of those more than a BMW.
46:28
You know, it, it really, I felt like that and in some ways.
46:32
Styling wise, you can argue that was peak Audi.
46:35
'cause the car they had was the sedan.
46:37
And you remember the way the tail lights were on that era of really,
46:42
uh, distinctive great looking car.
46:48
I don't know.
46:49
'cause 'cause I'm, I, I've an, I've an Audi one that got away
46:52
story 'cause I was offered.
46:55
Remember when?
46:56
Same era as as this probably same, same time I worked with a guy in
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the city who did historic group sea racing of all things he did
47:05
like this bar 24 and and so on.
47:08
And I guess I always felt like I should have made an effort to get close to
47:11
him, but he was a bit of an asshole.
47:13
So that was, you know, as so many successful salespeople are.
47:16
So that impeded me, you know, his general need.
47:19
To show off to me constantly, uh, you know, kind of impeded my bill.
47:25
Dick Measuring gets tiring.
47:26
Dick measuring, got real tiring with, with this dude where wherever you are,
47:30
your life was cool, but you sadly weren't.
47:32
He offered me, he had an RS two.
47:35
Do you remember those?
47:36
They were only wagons and they were built by.
47:39
Porsche wasn't there?
47:40
Some shtick like, like Porsche brake calibers.
47:43
He had one of those, and I remember he offered it to me for 10 grand.
47:47
It was under 10 grand.
47:48
It was like 9, 9, 9 5 or what?
47:50
That was what he, what he wanted for it.
47:53
And I remember saying to him at the time, you know, that's reasonable.
47:55
I just don't have that money to give you for it.
47:58
And looking back, that was.
48:00
Absolute steal of a deal.
48:01
Not that I'd have the car now, 'cause I'd have had it when I left England
48:05
and it would've gone at that time.
48:07
And then I'd been more sad to have let it go.
48:10
I probably would've had to let it go for less than I paid him for it.
48:14
'cause I'd have probably cured up the wheels and driven the shit out of it
48:17
and it not be worth What was That is true before I uh, are they the ones that
48:21
had the little plaque inside the cabin telling you what number it was and stuff?
48:25
Dunno.
48:26
I never looked at the ones that were built by Porsche.
48:28
Some of them did have that.
48:29
I never looked at the car.
48:30
Oh.
48:31
Probably was never looked at the car.
48:33
Can't believe we talked so much about Howdy.
48:35
Given that you and I are generally like, fuck those
48:37
things 'cause of the Understood.
48:39
Yeah.
48:39
Generally speaking, I mean, producer Eric will say that producer,
48:43
Eric's very disappointed by the Ur Quatro, like the original Quatro.
48:48
He reckons that's a like a don't meet your heroes.
48:51
Kind of a thing.
48:52
I mean, I don't know.
48:53
Yeah, I mean, I just, I just think if I, if you think about the Ur Quatro,
48:56
like an early Audi Quatro and you compare it with Sierra Cosworth,
49:01
there's just no comparison in my mind between what I'd wanna drive and, and,
49:06
and I should say, you and I don't need to have this conversation, but, but
49:09
dear listeners, not the three door.
49:12
Guy with the big wing that you are thinking of.
49:14
Mark and I are thinking of the four door sapphire cosworth, which is Sapphire cozy.
49:19
Yeah.
49:20
Yeah.
49:20
But actually did pack a little bit more horse, but in the early years
49:24
people didn't know what they were looking at with the sapphires.
49:27
So you really did have something that was, looked like it was, they were, they
49:33
weren't really very Q car when you look back at 'em, but they were more, way more
49:37
Q car than the whale tail two door one.
49:40
Yeah, way more.
49:42
Yeah.
49:42
And then, but of course by the era that the Escort Cosworth launched.
49:47
By that era.
49:48
That was the era that they were being used by robbery for robberies
49:52
and in ram raids and Yeah.
49:55
And all that.
49:55
Uh, and the cache just grew in their coolness.
49:58
Yeah.
49:58
Yeah.
49:58
And, and you couldn't get insurance could you, by the, like the escort Cosworth.
50:02
If you were like 25 years old and living in London, you could not insure
50:07
an escort Cosmo looking, looking back, it's not hard to see why, because.
50:11
Every OIC under the sun.
50:13
Mm-hmm.
50:14
Knew how to hot wire a Ford Esco and fundamentally.
50:19
That part of an escort Cosworth was exactly the same as, you
50:23
know, every other bit of it.
50:25
There was no, yeah, yeah.
50:26
The door locks that you could screwdriver on your mom's 1.3.
50:30
You could still do the same door locks on the escort cosworth, couldn't you?
50:35
So, you know, it's uh oh on, on that kind of theme, right the other day.
50:41
This is a while ago now, but this is a story worth sharing.
50:44
It was in the area where I was struggling with my, uh, with my hip.
50:48
So, uh, I booked this like, you know, massage downtown.
50:52
I don't wanna use the buses 'cause there's always like homeless people.
50:56
Pissing and puking and, you know, just, I just don't want
50:59
to interact with that shit.
51:01
I'd like, that was like, that was years ago.
51:03
That's not how I'm going to interact now.
51:06
So, but at the same time, to do like a Waymo backwards and forwards for 30 bucks.
51:10
I'll do it the first time, but the second time I'm just like,
51:13
you know, I'm gonna do it myself.
51:15
So I zoomed down there on the moped, of course, as, as you, as you would.
51:20
And then, uh, whilst.
51:22
At some point during the massage process, lost the fucking key, didn't I?
51:27
So that really fucking ruled.
51:30
But it was all right 'cause uh, I, I came home and, uh, got the truck and a
51:34
ramp and just went and got the moped and loaded it in the back of the truck and
51:38
brought it home and was like, whatever.
51:40
And I priced up and I bought another lock barrel with a key, but it was gonna be
51:45
really fucking annoying to have to change the lock barrel and, and all of that.
51:49
And then I noticed on my keyboard just over there in the corner of
51:53
the room hanging up, there was some spare keys that had a fob on that.
51:58
You know, it seemed like they'd come with the zoomer.
52:01
So although I had lost the original key, there was another
52:04
couple of keys that were cut.
52:06
Lo and behold, I put them in the, and and they worked perfectly.
52:10
So who knew I had the spare keys all along.
52:13
I could have just way mowed home, got the spare key and way mowed back and
52:17
fired the, uh, fired the thing up.
52:20
So that was lucky.
52:21
'cause uh, they didn't look like they were exactly the same, but
52:25
they obviously came with it.
52:26
And that was enough to, they won't open the seat, but I'd already disabled that
52:31
the seat lock had already like, jammed up, so I just put some cardboard in it.
52:35
And so just.
52:35
It goes up and down rather.
52:37
That rather nice.
52:38
Well, actually, well that's one of the things actually I'm
52:40
looking forward to on the side.
52:41
'cause I've, I was looking at a few different mopeds in the last few weeks,
52:44
just as sort of additional thing.
52:46
One of the things about the little village we're moving to is
52:48
it's, it's about a mile or two.
52:49
Outside of like the nearest town, and it's not a very big town, but
52:52
it's a proper little English village with like, you know, 50 or so
52:55
houses in it, something like that.
52:56
And it, the town nearby is a few, you know, couple of thousand
52:59
people, but like not big, but the Tesco is right at the top.
53:03
The Maori story is right at the top, multi, um, sort of,
53:06
um, thing is right there.
53:07
So nipping out to get like a few beers or a bottle of wine or something on a Sunday
53:12
is just a little five minute moped away.
53:14
So I was, I quite out the idea of just having a little moped
53:17
to just zip and zip back?
53:19
Yeah, I can.
53:20
Our back garden will have enough room for me to have the gazebo up.
53:25
Next to the garage.
53:26
So I can have that up a lot of the time, especially in the winter.
53:30
So I can bring stuff outta the garage and work on it in the daylight.
53:32
But with the gazebo keeping me dry, dude, I, I love the sound of this new place.
53:37
Yeah, I love the, uh, so the other thing I'm gonna buy, I decided, you
53:40
know, those big ass metals dishes that you can buy to burn wood.
53:45
In the garden.
53:46
Yeah.
53:46
We've seen those big, those copper things that Goodwood always
53:49
have 'em at the outside events.
53:50
Right.
53:50
Whether it's warm or cold.
53:51
Anyway, there's always wood burning and you are always like, oh, bit of
53:54
an air fieldy kind of place, isn't it?
53:55
And yeah, it's a bit chilly in the wind, so you're always quite glad of them.
53:58
But I was scoping one of those for exactly that sort of outdoor,
54:00
working on the bikes and stuff.
54:02
I don't like those chimney things.
54:04
'cause like you.
54:05
I don't wanna burn outdoor heater stuff.
54:07
I'm not trying to take the, you know, the planet's burning down fast enough without
54:09
me getting behind it and giving it aho, you know, but a bit of wood burning is, is
54:14
like, you know, it's quite a nice thing.
54:15
Anyway.
54:16
You can get like reclaimed wood and shit from nearby and stuff.
54:19
It doesn't need to be a prime mahogany or anything.
54:23
I'm not flying it in from South America, so I'm, yeah, the, the,
54:26
the facility for me to fettle with additional unrequired machinery
54:30
outside is, uh, enticing me into, into cruising bike trader for more things.
54:36
And of course, bikes have the advantage that you can fit more things in.
54:39
Yeah, they really do have that event.
54:41
Mm-hmm.
54:41
And there's a proper side gate, like a sort of full on sort of farm gate style
54:45
five bar sort of thing on the side.
54:46
Wooden one that you, I can, you know, that you can get through to get down
54:50
to the side of the house by the garage.
54:51
So yeah, my brain is already filling up the spare space with vehicles.
54:55
I don't yet own good news, mark.
54:58
Mm-hmm.
55:00
Well that note.
55:01
Thank you for your time, mark.
55:02
Pleasure.
55:03
Thank you.
55:03
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