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Mighty Car Mods (Part 2) · Rusty's Garage

• 0:02
  A listener production.
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  G'day, it's Rusty here, all set for part two of my podcast with Marty and Blair, who's better known as Moog, from Mighty Car Mods.
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  They don't use words like YouTube sensation, but they really are.
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  A couple of self-taught Aussies doing cool car projects and telling those stories to a huge worldwide audience.
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  We actually teed this chat up while at a racetrack in South Australia recently, where they turned up with some hot hatches.
• 0:47
  Hey, everybody.
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  I've got a Mark 8 Golf R. And I have a GR Yaris.
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  These are two of the most exciting all-wheel drive turbocharged hatchbacks on the market today.
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  Absolutely.
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  And wouldn't it be awesome if you could take them for a bit of a thrash?
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  Yes!
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  You can actually see that full vid by going to MightyCarMods.com or just search for them on YouTube.
• 1:14
  Now, if you've arrived at this point of the chat and you haven't heard part one, jump back to the Rusty's Garage Library and give it a listen.
• 1:21
  You'll learn about a shared love of music and the serious talent they have there, making voice-on-hold messages to pay for tyres in the early days and starting to make videos on...
• 1:32
  modifying and building project cars on the family driveway before the internet really even clicked up a gear.
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  We begin part two with that moment of realisation that obsession is about to become occupation.
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  I remember the moment so clearly like it was yesterday for me.
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  It was probably different for each of us.
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  I'll tell you what my moment was, is that we had, through whatever social media we must have had around that time, the show was still not monetized.
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  We said, if you really like the show, let's do a meetup.
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  So fan meetups on YouTube and Instagram and TikTok and whatever is a popular thing now.
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  But we said, we were aware that those numbers...
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  were real people.
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  Each of those numbers was a human and we were kind of like, we want to try and connect with those people.
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  And so I think it was, was it Homebush, Marty or Silverwater?
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  We basically organized a meet and we said, you know, if you like the show and you want to come along, come along at this place, two o'clock or something.
• 2:35
  I remember we parked the car and we walked along and this is this weird, I mean, I'm just, I'm getting the feeling now just remembering it of parking the car and walking along and seeing a small group of people over there and then going to Marty, what?
• 2:48
  Oh, my God.
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  Like, there's... How many people are there, Marty?
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  12 people, maybe?
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  Or 15?
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  Maybe 20.
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  Maybe 20 people?
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  Yeah, it's decent.
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  And we're like, wow, these people have come out.
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  And I remember walking along, and I stopped as we're walking towards them, and I was saying to Marty, like, what do I do?
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  Like, what do I say to them?
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  They're strangers, yeah.
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  Am I like, hi, Blair, I do music, and we do some YouTube on the weekend?
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  Or...
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  Or, hey, it's Moog, we're here to do a thing or whatever.
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  And Marty says, I mean, just be yourself.
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  And I was like, well, I guess that makes sense.
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  And so then a kid got...
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  The first person that I met, the first fan, was someone who brought a child, a kid to them, and who was maybe like seven or eight years old.
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  And he came up and he goes, hi, Moog, I love the show.
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  And I was like, thanks, man, that's awesome.
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  And I was like, they're not here to go, oh, hey, guys, it's just something we do on the side.
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  And we're not really...
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  It's like they're really excited about it, enthusiastic.
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  And I went, well, I'm enthusiastic excited.
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  So that's just...
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  That's how I'm going to approach it.
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  And so going and meeting these people and shaking their hands and them saying, we love your videos.
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  There's nothing else like it.
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  And they really saw us as champions of the cheap.
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  So at that time, you know, you've got Top Gear and supercars driving all around the place.
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  We're playing around with Daihatsus, Nissan Pulsars.
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  And they were like, someone's finally celebrating the stuff that we're into.
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  Because even V8 supercars and things like that and...
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  they might be seen Formula One as out of reach for a lot of people.
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  When you see a couple of people who are genuinely excited about Daihatsus, Nissans, Silvias, cheaper Golfs and stuff like that, people are like, this is our people.
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  This is our thing.
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  And so for a lot of people, they took us really, really seriously and they went, these are the guys who are championing normal cars and normal people.
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  And certainly my intention was to celebrate –
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  normal stuff and normally people go oh no you don't do that it has to be special it has to be this i didn't think it was because again like marty was saying the car was a ticket to the adventure it wasn't about the car it was about where it could take you and certainly when i got my license i remember saying to my mum or maybe it was before i got my l's when i get my license where am i allowed to drive and she said you're allowed to go anywhere you could go free to it
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  You can just get in a car and go.
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  I couldn't believe it.
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  And so I realised for a lot of people, particularly those that didn't have their licences, they were looking at us as people who were showing them that when you got your licence, you don't need to get a WRX or a Turbo Commodore or anything like that.
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  You can get a normal car and have some fun.
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  And that's what I think they were excited about.
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  And that's what I was excited about.
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  But that's when I was like, it's real.
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  Yeah.
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  And in terms of coming back maybe to the platform, which doesn't sound like a broken record, but...
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  We've mentioned the word monetized a few times.
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  The truth was, even up to that point, it was costing us quite a bit of money to make the thing.
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  We started thinking about, like you would with a band, do we make some shirts or some stickers?
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  In the very, very early days, people would send us an email and then I'd just send them a free sticker and they'd stick it on their car and it was like advertising.
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  But then there was a point where it shifted and we're like, okay, maybe we should ask people for five bucks for the sticker.
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  People were really receptive to it.
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  And I'll also come back to the thing I said about being on dial-up modem.
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  Back then, if you wanted to watch the entire series of season one of Mighty Carmel's or season two, which is about the time we're talking about, you'd probably burn your entire year worth of internet download quota.
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  So we would be burning DVDs.
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  I'd burn them in the downstairs room of my mum's house.
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  you know, print them on the printer and package them up and send them away.
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  And, you know, we're sending a couple of them out a week, whatever it was, but that did, because at one point we needed a new camera and they're about two grand and we managed to buy the second camera.
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  So, you know, the first one was bought with your own budget.
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  And then the second one, we did manage to put the money together to do it.
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  And there was a point where YouTube had the option of, you know, we can run ads on the front of the video.
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  And we thought maybe there'd be some huge pushback and
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  We said no for a long, long time.
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  Yeah, we sort of resisted that and went, no, let's try not to do that in case people sort of get really turned off by it.
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  But in the end, people were really receptive, and I think there was an understanding, and still is to a point that, you know, this stuff costs money, cars cost money, making the show costs money, and that needs to be paid for.
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  So it was never about, oh, let's try and, you know, get as much margin as we can.
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  It was like, let's just cover the cost so we can do this and not have to, you know, work to do it, basically.
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  Do you think, though, Marty, that when you're kind of burning the DVDs and sending them off...
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  Did you get a sense of like, it's a thing now?
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  Because certainly when you get a piece of merchandise, a sticker, a t-shirt if you're in a band, or you're making some stuff on Etsy and you're sending it out, I think that sending that first thing out to someone that you don't know is so exciting and is definitely an indication of maybe you're doing something right.
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  Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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  It's a good feeling.
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  But also, yeah, coming back to the meets, we did a couple more.
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  And it's just, there's always the enthusiasm.
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  And so that's what the surroundings were for me anyway, that there's just really a lot of people really enthusiastic about it.
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  It was a fun amount of stuff for how to do.
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  We were capable of doing it.
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  It wasn't ruining it.
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  our lives with too much workload or anything.
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  It was just at a really nice point.
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  And we've tried to keep it that way even through the years where it's not all-consuming because the appetite is endless.
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  That thirst can never be quenched for the general internet's want for content.
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  So people are like, make more videos.
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  You can make three videos in a week and you'll get hundreds of people going, make more.
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  It's like it's physically impossible.
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  So the whole time trying to keep that balance has been a good reason why we're still here and still doing it and still enjoying it because I think too many people burn out.
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  Marty, that kind of leads me to, I mean, that word you used there a moment ago, balance, right?
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  I would imagine when it gets to the stage where it is now, you need extra hands to help make things happen from merchandise to video creation to even just coming up with ideas and concepts, right?
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  But what's integral to this is you two.
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  So is there an element of keeping that simplicity so it stays that way as well, even though you need help around the edges?
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  For sure.
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  Well, at the end of the day, it is mostly us two.
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  Not to discount the help that we do have.
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  We've got a couple of really good mates.
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  I've got a nice circle of mates that always offer to help.
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  Some guys are good at cameras.
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  Some guys are good at electronics.
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  Some guys are good at various things.
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  A really good mate of ours, Gav, has done our motion graphics since the beginning.
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  And he just always does it.
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  And he's really into his cars too.
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  But the core of those videos, the videos go through Marty and I only...
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  as their final stage, regardless of if Marty does the rough edit or I do it or whatever, it will go from us on our own personal edit machine to watch through.
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  I'll do the music for it.
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  Marty will check it.
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  We'll upload it.
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  We make the thumbnail.
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  That aspect is us.
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  So in terms of the video creation, we've had people that have helped come and film stuff because we used to do a race on the racetrack and there's no one to film it.
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  So now we have some camera people that we can call in to help us film that and help assemble and wrangle the data.
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  But in terms of...
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  No one else then gets it, edits it all, writes the script.
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  We go, on this episode, whatever, and then we just have a look at it.
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  The videos themselves are going up.
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  Where we've needed help is logistics, for example.
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  So, like, we need to get to a racetrack and we need to get cars there.
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  So, there's a towing company that we use that can help us with that.
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  Quite often, if a movie, we've worked on franchises like Fast and Furious Transformers, um...
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  Mad Max, Fury Road, things like that.
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  They say, we want you to do something to help us, and we go, great.
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  And we say, yeah, of course we'll do it.
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  That sounds fun.
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  And then they send you a contract that's really... And it's beyond...
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  I did one semester of Arts Law, but it's beyond what we can do.
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  And so a lot of the time is actually being spent with trying to work out how we can be as creative as possible, have all of the creative control.
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  But then also when a film company comes and says, hey, can you come to LA and build a car and you want to do it, also do that.
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  And so I would say...
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  For me anyway, because originally I was trying to handle the sponsorship stuff while Marty was handling all of the data wrangling, it was a huge bit of the time was just doing the legal stuff because when you're working with big companies, any big companies really, you want to make sure that you're doing it right and that you're serving their needs and your own.
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  Yeah.
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  We did an event together very recently at the Bend in South Australia, and I could see some joy on both your faces on some cars that you brought there.
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  As all this intense hard work goes into, and very passionately, into building this huge thing, what was the moment where you both treated yourself to a car, the car, along the way, that you went, I've earned that?
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  I'll go first.
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  I'll go first.
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  My favourite vehicle...
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  like of all time, any vehicle, one, two, three, four or more wheels, is a Honda CT110 posty bike.
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  I think that is the ultimate utilitarian vehicle for the money that can get you around.
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  You can carry stuff.
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  You can have adventures.
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  You can get places.
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  They're cheap.
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  You can fix them yourself.
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  If the carby goes, you can get a rebuild kit for $9 or a whole new carby for $29.
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  And so when I felt like I'd really made it, which I think was last year...
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  Honda released a Honda 125, so the same car but with an upgraded engine, the big engine, and I said to Marty, I'm going to do something I've never done before.
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  I'm going to buy one brand new, $7,000.
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  And I was like, I'm just going to do it.
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  I'm just going to go.
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  I've talked about it for so long.
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  Should I do it?
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  Should I not do it?
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  I'm so sorry.
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  And I bought it, and it's just brand new, and I was just like –
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  This thing is the best and it felt so opulent.
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  We weren't off like buying Lambos, doing whatever.
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  I bought a postie bike and to me that was a representation of a lot of hard work and I'm buying a brand new thing and I'm just going to enjoy it and I still have it and I'll never sell it.
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  I just think it's the best.
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  So my story is a little bit different.
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  My story's a bit different and I did sell it and it is the most fanciest, ballerest car I've ever owned.
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  And I'm really glad I did it and it definitely fine-tuned where all my interests are in cars.
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  Oh no, you're going for it.
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  You're exposing it.
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  Have we ever spoken about this car before?
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  I don't know, we have.
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  This is a scoop, mate.
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  Maybe.
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  It's time.
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  No, but this is good because I had... What did I have at the time?
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  So, I had my couple of nuggets that I'll never sell.
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  So, I got a little Dahatsu Mira 4WD thing.
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  We drove it around.
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  We brought it in Japan as scrap, brought it back to Australia, re-shelled this car, did this massive thing.
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  Fans will know what I'm talking about.
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  Then we also... You asked a question earlier about, was there a car you regret selling?
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  One of the early cars we did in Season 1 was a Nissan March Super Turbo, a little white hatchback with a 1.0-litre 4-cylinder turbo and supercharged engine.
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  Really unique.
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  At the time, I needed a wagon for my band, so I sold that Super Turbo.
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  and bought a Subaru.
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  I did regret it.
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  12 years later or more, this guy finds one in Japan and doesn't tell me and then we go to Japan and he actually, he bought another one, which was amazing.
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  I bought him one.
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  It's the one that got away.
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  The one that got away.
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  And I found one in Japan and I just bought it for him because I'm a nice bloke.
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  That's pretty awesome.
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  It costs more than my postie bike.
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  It did.
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  A little bit more than your posty bike.
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  So, anyway, that's another one I'll never sell.
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  So, I've got these crappy cars.
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  But in a real world, you also need a thing.
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  We spoke about dual cabs, utes being really useful.
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  And that's what I had.
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  I had a Ford Ranger.
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  And I was doing some Renaults and whatever, and it sort of just didn't need it anymore.
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  And I had that feeling like, what's a car I've always just dreamed of owning something really cool, really awesome, really nice.
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  What am I going to do?
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  And I'm like, RS4.
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  Everyone talks about them.
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  I love station wagons.
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  Let's go there.
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  It's V8.
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  It's all drive.
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  There's nothing better than that.
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  It revs like crazy.
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  I'm not really into Euro cars, but I'm like, let's just do it.
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  Let's go there.
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  So I actually traded my Ranger, and the RS4 was pretty much equivalent to the value.
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  So it was a secondhand one.
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  It was like- But a V8 wagon- Ten years old.
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  That's pretty cool.
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  And I was like, I'm like this.
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  And as I'm driving, I'm like, well, this is the fanciest thing ever.
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  Like this is really cool.
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  And it was a great experience.
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  I enjoyed it.
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  I realized pretty quickly there's not much you can do to modify it, which for us is a big thing.
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  If you can't modify them or explore that area more, it's like it's a good thing.
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  And I appreciate why people like buying them and driving them.
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  But I was like, okay, I'm done.
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  And I have no interest whatsoever in ever buying anything like that ever again anymore.
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  Not an RS6, not a Lamborghini, nothing.
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  Like, I don't need a supercar.
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  I feel like I got close with a, you know, European, you know, high-revving V8 thing with lots of power, and I really enjoyed the experience.
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  But, like, I'll be back in nuggets I can modify and really get to where I want them.
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  So I only owned it for probably six months, and I think I sold it for more than I paid.
• 14:38
  Rusty, what are you driving around in at the moment?
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  Or what is in your fleet, if I can use the word fleet?
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  I am a terrible family man at the moment.
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  We have a little bit of, not too much, a couple of acres of space.
• 14:48
  I have a Navara STX for running around.
• 14:50
  My wife has a GLA 254 Matic.
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  A couple of years old.
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  Cool.
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  And my youngest daughter has just started driving.
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  So she's in a 116i Sport BMW.
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  So I'm going through all that stuff at the moment.
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  But I need to come back to Moog's point about Honda CT110.
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  I've said on the podcast a number of times, I don't believe in regret.
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  But if there was one regret, I had one.
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  I had it all.
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  Mint CT110, I think it was 2007 model, and I sold it before we moved.
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  So that would be regret.
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  And she was a beauty too, mate.
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  Just bulletproof.
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  Luckily, they're plentiful and you can...
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  You can always get one, mate.
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  You jump on Marketplace or whatever or Gumtree.
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  They're always there.
• 15:34
  They're not going anywhere.
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  We actually pulled one apart back in like 2000 and I want to say 2009 or 10 because we were going to like do a big block conversion.
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  The 140cc.
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  The parts we got didn't fit, whatever.
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  So that thing stayed in parts in my mum's garage for like a decade.
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  And then I reckon it would have been 2020 or 2021.
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  So yeah, nearly 10 years later, we put it back together and it started first kick.
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  It's amazing.
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  From pieces.
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  From parts.
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  Yeah.
• 15:58
  I am being, to your point, harassed by my buddy Greg Murphy, who's a four-time Bathurst winner, to get a project car.
• 16:04
  He's at me at the moment to do something, and he's a neighbour not too far from me.
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  He has a Datsun 1200 and a Mark II Ford Escort, and I very occasionally sneak around there and steal the keys, boys, for they've both been restored.
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  Well, you don't need your own then.
• 16:21
  You don't need your own project car if your mate's got one.
• 16:34
  Okay.
• 16:35
  I must admit, I never thought I would enjoy listening about a turd in the back of a car.
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  But here we are.
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  Stay with us as we head around the world and then back to the super garage with the boys from Mighty Car Mods.
• 16:48
  Hey, can we talk crazy overseas adventures and the one that stands out for you?
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  I looked very fondly when you got to drive that rare JDM 240Z, for example.
• 16:59
  I mean, there must have been some very cool ones that stick in your mind.
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  Yeah, look, we've had lots of adventures in Japan buying really cheap cars.
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  We bought the cheapest Golf GTI in Germany and drove that over the place.
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  But the adventure that stands out to me the most was when we went to Cuba as part of the Fast and Furious franchise.
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  So we were basically there to shoot a documentary about Havana.
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  which I believe was going to be enclosed on the DVD as like a bonus or a special or something like that.
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  And we had some budget to go there.
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  And what I loved about that is there was very much this sensibility of you just make your car work and you get to where you need to get to no matter what.
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  And so there's people swapping in water pumps as engines for their cars.
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  Toyota Hi-Ace van engines in classic American Bel Airs and stuff.
• 17:46
  People pulling engines out by putting a rope over a branch in a tree and pulling it down.
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  And do you know why they had those engines?
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  Because Russia bought a lot of them and they could import from Russia but not anywhere else.
• 17:55
  Yeah.
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  And then they have these Frankenstein cars where the front half of the car is useless because maybe it's had an accident so that goes.
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  The back half of that one, they weld these things together but the panels don't even match.
• 18:05
  They just kind of make it work.
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  And that to me was just mind-blowing because we can go, I'm going to modify a car, I'll put an air filter on it and put some lowered springs on it.
• 18:14
  They're modifying a car.
• 18:15
  Let's get a van and a hatchback, cut them in half, weld them together, put a water pump engine in the back to run it and take the kids to school.
• 18:23
  It was amazing.
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  And remember they were dangling out, like, Coke bottles full of petrol, like, holding it up outside the window so that they could get enough gravity to push it through the car when you get it to go.
• 18:32
  You drive along holding your fuel in your hand.
• 18:34
  I mean, that was an amazing, amazing adventure.
• 18:36
  You can, I think the video is called The Cars of Cuba, Mighty Car Mods.
• 18:39
  You can find that.
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  And to me, that was the most eye-opening.
• 18:42
  Because of course we can say, oh, we went to the UAE and drove a supercar.
• 18:46
  We did.
• 18:46
  Or we drove these classic cars and those things.
• 18:48
  But I think seeing just that sheer ingenuity and passion for cars was beyond anything I'd ever experienced.
• 18:55
  Up till 2019, when COVID hit, obviously, that changed everything in terms of travel.
• 19:00
  We've been to Japan a couple of times, partly because we have so many Japanese cars in the market here in Australia, and also their bargains, and also there's no jet lag, and also it's only eight hours away, and also there's a total massive culture flip.
• 19:10
  Like, you know, if you go from here to the UK, you look around and go, okay, there's the same products on the shelf.
• 19:14
  You go to Japan, it's completely different, and they're quite receptive to having guests there, which is really cool.
• 19:19
  So some of the adventures we've had in Japan have been great, mostly because we go there only having a rough idea of what might happen.
• 19:25
  And that's where some of the joy and some of the most fun stuff we've done and some of the best results is just going, we don't know what's going to happen.
• 19:33
  And, you know, we, we spoke to a guy who'd contact us and he said, I know a car dealer and he might have something out the back.
• 19:39
  And then we go there and there's like this little daihatsu sitting in a pile of rubbish for 300 bucks.
• 19:44
  And we bought it and had an adventure with it, and eventually now I drive it around.
• 19:47
  Some of those adventures have been very memorable, and people seem to really like those films too.
• 19:52
  Most of them go for over an hour, and they've got millions of views on them.
• 19:55
  And there is no script and no plan.
• 19:57
  When we do our overseas, we take one person as a camera person to help us shoot, and sometimes we'll have a local there who's a driver or who can speak Japanese to help us, and we will fly into the place, pick up whatever car we bought off the internet, and we'll say, why don't we drive it to Tokyo?
• 20:13
  That is it.
• 20:14
  Oh, and on the way, we'll stop here and here and here.
• 20:17
  We drive along, see interesting things, we stop.
• 20:19
  Most of them make it to the edit, some don't, but there are no story points or script.
• 20:23
  Now we pretend to break down.
• 20:25
  Now we're going to pretend we don't know this guy.
• 20:27
  Now we're going to pretend we modify it.
• 20:29
  Like, none of that.
• 20:29
  It just is real.
• 20:30
  And I think, again, people just really like it because it's just...
• 20:34
  Maybe it's not as exciting as a Top Gear special where they might turn a car into a tank or do something, and they say, I did this last night, and it's pretty clear it didn't happen last night.
• 20:45
  But yeah, anyway, overseas travel's good.
• 20:48
  Opens the brain.
• 20:50
  Super garage.
• 20:52
  tell people a bit more about this.
• 20:53
  I mean, this is kind of the culmination, the realisation of all this incredible hard work and to think you can have it, you know, all these years later, just tremendous.
• 21:06
  This story doesn't start there.
• 21:07
  It starts at my chiropractor.
• 21:09
  No, we...
• 21:11
  Anyone knows who's crawled around under cars on concrete floors for long enough, and in my case, yeah, more than 20 years.
• 21:17
  It just, ergonomically, it's not great.
• 21:19
  And it also limits what you can do because, you know, every mechanic workshop you ever see has a hoist so that you can access things and lift things and do bigger projects.
• 21:27
  And so for a long time we wanted to get a hoist, but our space is pretty small and it's got like a suspended slide or something.
• 21:34
  There's some reason that we couldn't put a hoist there.
• 21:36
  It can fit two cars in.
• 21:37
  A lot of people, when they visit the space here, they say, I can't believe it's so small.
• 21:41
  You can have one car with enough room to walk around and work on it, or two cars with not enough room to work around it.
• 21:47
  And we'd always thought, imagine having some more space, because we have to shoot our videos in series.
• 21:53
  And by in series, I mean this car, you have to keep working on it until it's done, and then move it out.
• 21:58
  And so if Marty's saying, I want to pull a car apart, and it's going to take three weeks, we say, well, that means there's no videos for three weeks.
• 22:04
  So we've got to put it on Gojax.
• 22:07
  way of making videos.
• 22:08
  And so, yeah, obviously anyone who's worked on cars loves the idea of a workshop space where you've got a bit more room and some space became available.
• 22:16
  So we jumped at it because it meant there was a spot for a hoist.
• 22:20
  There's room for probably eight or nine cars if you really squashed them in.
• 22:23
  But in terms of just working on stuff, it really opens up what we're able to do.
• 22:26
  So design that space, tooled it up and went for it.
• 22:30
  The floor is way more grotty than it was when we got there.
• 22:33
  That's what I know.
• 22:33
  So it's been very productive and yeah, love having that area to do it.
• 22:36
  And the walls are painted in the colours of some of our favourite vehicles.
• 22:41
  So the walls are 240Z white.
• 22:44
  We've had that matched.
• 22:45
  And there's two racing stripes.
• 22:46
  And one of the racing stripes is blue, which is Subaru blue.
• 22:51
  And there's a red stripe, which, of course, Rusty,
• 22:55
  It's Honda CT110.
• 22:55
  Couldn't be anything else.
• 22:56
  So that's a stripe that goes around the whole thing.
• 22:58
  And so it just got nice.
• 22:59
  And so really what Super Garage was for is there's a car in there at the moment that we've been working on for maybe six months.
• 23:06
  Our audience hasn't seen that yet.
• 23:07
  But it means that we can go and pick a way out and get people to come and help us.
• 23:12
  And then we can come back to Mighty Car Mods and kind of do our quicker turnaround videos.
• 23:16
  Tomorrow night.
• 23:17
  There's 10 of our mates coming over to help us blow apart a car we need some parts from.
• 23:20
  It's the right space to do that kind of thing.
• 23:22
  It's really good.
• 23:23
  Excellent.
• 23:23
  So fast forward from a couple of blokes going to their first meet with fans in Homebush there to now the millions of followers that you have, the blue chip auto organisations that you have as partners, getting phone calls from the likes of Mad Max and more.
• 23:43
  Pretty wild, boys.
• 23:43
  Yeah.
• 23:44
  Isn't it?
• 23:44
  How do you go when some of those first phone calls came through?
• 23:46
  Or, g'day, Fast and Furious here.
• 23:49
  We've got an idea.
• 23:51
  Universal Studios, it wasn't, wasn't it?
• 23:53
  Well, a lot of the time we would go, how big can we make it?
• 23:56
  How awesome can we make it?
• 23:57
  Because I think if you're an influencer whose job is to turn up somewhere, go to the red carpet and we'll give you – I guess you can buy a nice dress or do whatever.
• 24:05
  But what we kind of went is that Hollywood companies have got budget.
• 24:09
  We're like, what can we do that's bigger than what we could normally do?
• 24:12
  And so the excitement was –
• 24:15
  I understood why people were contacting us.
• 24:17
  You know, if you're getting 3, 4, 5 million views a week and 25% of them are Australian, you go, oh, there's 700,000 Australians or a million Australians or whatever.
• 24:27
  I understand they're going, how can we access that?
• 24:29
  And so a lot of the people that were contacting us in the early days, of course, was alcohol and gambling, which is a huge...
• 24:36
  there's a huge advertising push to try and get Australian males and we're a 98.5% male audience.
• 24:41
  And so Marty and I had to sit down in the very early days.
• 24:44
  We didn't want to have to sit down and discuss every time, what happens if Fast and Furious call?
• 24:48
  What happens if Foster's call?
• 24:50
  What happens if this?
• 24:51
  And so we kind of went, let's just make some blanket rules.
• 24:55
  We won't do alcohol and gambling.
• 24:56
  So we both agreed on that, done.
• 24:58
  We've never spoken about it ever since.
• 25:00
  And in terms of sponsors and brands, we go,
• 25:04
  we should be working with brands that we believe are the best at what it is that they do.
• 25:08
  So if someone comes along and it's Johnny's Car Wash and you use it and it's not that good, and he goes, I'll sponsor you.
• 25:13
  If we don't use it, we don't have a history and we don't think it's that good, we just won't do it.
• 25:17
  And we get contact from lots of companies that want to do a sponsorship and we don't do it because what we do know is that when we use the product and we know the product is good, we know that the audience will trust us and we know that they'll go and buy it and try it
• 25:34
  Terrible.
• 25:35
  That naturally leads me because I think that kind of synergy, that right connection, a lot of good stuff that you're doing as reach out ambassadors, right?
• 25:45
  Because mental health is a big thing.
• 25:48
  And I think being around cars for people, not just blokes, to have that thing, that project, that whatever.
• 25:58
  I mean, it's so important, guys, isn't it?
• 26:01
  It really is.
• 26:02
  I think we're wired for that, just to touch on your project thing.
• 26:04
  I think a lot of people connect with it on that level because having no project, people talk about purpose, right?
• 26:12
  Like, what's the purpose?
• 26:13
  And it sounds silly in some ways.
• 26:15
  It's just a car.
• 26:15
  It doesn't mean anything.
• 26:16
  It's like, it can, you know, like the experiences you have with it.
• 26:18
  You know, it's a good excuse to get your mates around.
• 26:20
  As you know, you can sit there in a room and what do you talk about, but suddenly there's a broken car there and...
• 26:24
  you know, use your mind and your skills and your abilities and try and help each other out.
• 26:28
  And I think that has quite a powerful effect for people, especially if they're struggling.
• 26:32
  And so we do hear from a lot of people that will say that.
• 26:34
  It's like, oh, you know, it was really inspirational to see what you guys did, and it got me inspired to work on my thing, which I hadn't worked on for a while.
• 26:40
  I got some mates over, and, you know, it's been a really good experience.
• 26:42
  And we probably will hear from people all the time saying that kind of thing.
• 26:45
  Good stories, bad stories, but generally, like, a lot of, yeah, a lot of positivity.
• 26:48
  I think when you work in a space with other people and you work on a project...
• 26:53
  That can become a little bit of a microcosm, really, of life.
• 26:56
  And anything that you can achieve, something positive and something of value, I think will spread out to other parts of your life as well.
• 27:03
  I think when you're having a really rough time, maybe you lose your job, then you paint your house and then it rains.
• 27:09
  Oh, of course it's raining because I just painted.
• 27:11
  It can feel like the world's against you.
• 27:13
  It can feel like there's an actual...
• 27:14
  program that is set up to make life difficult for you and when you can start having some wins you and and for me sometimes it's trying to undo a bolt that's in a really hard to reach place and one of our friends you know who's a mechanic that'll help us sometimes will just say do you want me to grab it for you and i'll go no even if it takes me 15 minutes and i cut myself up you know on my knuckles by reaching around and doing whatever anyone that's played with cars knows that i want to do it as well because i just want that experience of going it was really difficult
• 27:41
  Sometimes it hurts, but I'm going to try and achieve it.
• 27:43
  And when you do that, then you go outside and instead of going, it's raining on my new house, you go, oh, it's actually raining on the lawn.
• 27:49
  That's a good... You can start to see the world in a better way when you have little moments of positivity and success.
• 27:54
  And sometimes, though, you've got to make... You've got to actively make those situations yourself because it is easy, particularly if you're not feeling great, to sit down and just go, the world's a horrible place.
• 28:04
  There's lots of horrible people.
• 28:05
  I'm safer if I just stay here.
• 28:07
  But actually going out and going for a walk, fixing your bike, doing...
• 28:11
  Starting a project, I think, can help you realise that you can have wins still.
• 28:15
  Boys, couple to finish.
• 28:15
  You've been super good with your time, which we really appreciate.
• 28:19
  If you don't mind, one or two from some listeners.
• 28:21
  So here's one from Andrew.
• 28:23
  Hello, Marty and Moog.
• 28:24
  It's Andrew here.
• 28:25
  I know you guys love all different sorts of cars, but I'm just wondering, is there one or many cars that you guys just would never put your hands on?
• 28:35
  Oh, that's a good one.
• 28:36
  We've got to be careful.
• 28:37
  Mainly I've got to be careful because a few years ago when I said some not wonderful things about a Nissan Micra, I believe it was the South Australian Nissan Micra Association got in touch and they were not very happy.
• 28:49
  And it's funny because some people talk about this thing called an MCM tax.
• 28:54
  And sometimes we actually do see it, and it is a thing, it's turned out, that when we work on a car on the show, the values of those cars seem to go up.
• 29:02
  And when we say cars are rubbish, it seems their values go down.
• 29:06
  It's almost like the interest does something to the values.
• 29:09
  Yes.
• 29:10
  So, a car that we wouldn't touch.
• 29:14
  We've got to say something, Martin.
• 29:15
  Actually, you know what?
• 29:16
  I'm going to say something that I wouldn't touch because I know Marty will thoroughly and 100% disagree with what I'm about to say.
• 29:22
  Yeah.
• 29:23
  He will disagree 100%, which I think makes it interesting.
• 29:26
  Go.
• 29:27
  The vehicle that I will not touch nor have anything to do with is a boat.
• 29:30
  Oh.
• 29:34
  I don't understand it.
• 29:36
  I don't get it.
• 29:36
  I like sailboats.
• 29:37
  I used to have a Hobie Cat, a little catamaran.
• 29:39
  I'd go out and whatever.
• 29:40
  Boats and boat engines and the whole boaty community.
• 29:44
  And I say that to trigger Martin because Marty's current project is a boat.
• 29:48
  You don't want to bring out another thousand.
• 29:50
  What's wrong with you?
• 29:51
  Blow another thousand.
• 29:53
  Oh, I don't know if I should say something really controversial.
• 29:56
  Yeah.
• 29:57
  Nah, should I?
• 29:58
  Of course.
• 29:58
  All right.
• 29:59
  Here's the thing.
• 30:00
  Don't...
• 30:01
  I'm not that interested.
• 30:02
  Is it about one of the cars that I own though?
• 30:04
  No.
• 30:04
  Okay, we'll go for it then.
• 30:05
  I'm just... People have been watching for a long time and we get asked this a lot.
• 30:08
  It's like, why don't you work on a Falcon?
• 30:10
  Why don't you work on a Commodore?
• 30:11
  Mm-hmm.
• 30:12
  And you know what?
• 30:13
  That's a really good question.
• 30:15
  But there's something about them that don't grab me.
• 30:16
  They're made in Australia up to, you know, whenever recently.
• 30:19
  Like, that's great.
• 30:20
  And they're always a thing.
• 30:21
  When I was growing up, they were all taxis.
• 30:23
  So I'm not that excited about taxis.
• 30:26
  Marty's looking at me with a scared look in his eye.
• 30:28
  I'm a bit scared to say it, but it's the truth.
• 30:30
  Because we know what's going to happen to the inbox after this.
• 30:32
  But what I can tell you is that I think based on this conversation now, Rusty...
• 30:36
  I reckon we're going to have to do it.
• 30:38
  Oh, we wouldn't have done it.
• 30:39
  Whatever I resist, I run too.
• 30:41
  I try to, like, seriously, whenever I resist, I realise I need to go too.
• 30:45
  And so there's been a lot of resistance about doing this.
• 30:47
  Look, we did the HQ.
• 30:49
  Like, that was interesting.
• 30:50
  We've got an LS-powered Sylvia.
• 30:52
  I'm all for the Holdens and I'm all for the Fords.
• 30:54
  Just the Commodore and Falcon thing.
• 30:55
  I can't get taxi out of my head.
• 30:56
  That's all it is.
• 30:58
  I just can't get taxi out of my head.
• 30:59
  And I know there's some amazing ones.
• 31:00
  Rusty, you've got us in so much trouble.
• 31:01
  I know, he's just like, mate, what are you saying?
• 31:03
  He's just going to delete this one.
• 31:04
  That's Andrew.
• 31:05
  Check out Rusty's new podcast where the guys reveal the one kind of car they'll never work on, which is probably the most loved kind of car in the whole country.
• 31:14
  P.S.
• 31:14
  Moog hates boats.
• 31:16
  All good.
• 31:18
  One from Richard here.
• 31:19
  Boys, if you could be any one other YouTuber, it could be Cletus McFarland, who would it be?
• 31:25
  I know who I'd be.
• 31:26
  I'm going to be completely honest with you.
• 31:28
  I know who I'd be.
• 31:29
  I'm not even joking.
• 31:30
  Strap yourselves in.
• 31:32
  I'd be Marty.
• 31:33
  Because he's got the video skills I've got, the music skills, I'll just be honest.
• 31:37
  I reckon he's almost there, I'm just going to say.
• 31:42
  He's got solid music skills.
• 31:44
  But his mechanical skills are far superior to mine.
• 31:48
  And so a few times when I'm stuck and I need help, I call him and go, can you help me?
• 31:53
  I wouldn't need to call him.
• 31:54
  I would just be muddy, fix my own stuff, and I'd be fine.
• 31:58
  But then you wouldn't be able to hang out with you because you'd be me.
• 32:02
  I know, mate.
• 32:02
  And that'd be boring.
• 32:04
  And you'd just go and buy a farm or something.
• 32:06
  When I was mechanically stuck, I would be Marty.
• 32:09
  Because there's no one else on YouTube that would be able to help me with anything that I actually cared about.
• 32:14
  I love you, Martin.
• 32:15
  You're all right, mate.
• 32:16
  Yeah, that's good.
• 32:17
  I mean, I was just going to say I'd like to be Uncle Roger, but, you know.
• 32:21
  Do you know Uncle Roger?
• 32:21
  No.
• 32:22
  So he's a chef that reviews other chefs.
• 32:25
  And it's very funny.
• 32:28
  Honestly, I wish I had more time in the day to watch more YouTube.
• 32:31
  There's so much good stuff out there.
• 32:32
  I mean, we've been around for a while now and we've seen lots of trends come and go.
• 32:36
  The stuff that seems to stick is when people have those really strong personalities.
• 32:39
  They've got their idea.
• 32:40
  They do it really well.
• 32:41
  They don't have to stir the pot and say that Commodore's a shit or do anything like that.
• 32:45
  They just sort of get on with it.
• 32:46
  And yeah, there's some really good stuff out there.
• 32:47
  I don't know what YouTube are on.
• 32:49
  Yeah.
• 32:50
  keep in mind greg the term youtuber didn't exist for most of the time we were doing this neither did the term influencer this is all new stuff that's been labeled on us afterwards and i've kind of gone oh so whenever anyone says youtuber influence i'm like a what marty have you ever referred to yourself as either an influencer or a youtuber i never have i very rarely even say if i meet someone new that i'm i do youtube because even then you get confused what do you say martin i usually say i'm like a dolphin waxer or something
• 33:15
  Boys, can we end with the future?
• 33:19
  And that's kind of a two-part question.
• 33:21
  And I think we sort of went there in the early part of the podcast discussion.
• 33:23
  The future of automotive generally, be it electric cars, be it automation, people have this great fear of a white fridge turning up at the front door to pick you up and having no personality, no modifications, et cetera.
• 33:38
  That's called a Volkswagen Golf.
• 33:43
  But they're really good at what they do.
• 33:45
  The future is now.
• 33:47
  I just can't see that, right?
• 33:48
  Because people are going to always want to personalise, aren't they?
• 33:52
  Well, you know what?
• 33:53
  I think about this all the time.
• 33:54
  I'm really interested in this side of things.
• 33:55
  So I'm going to limit my...
• 33:57
  I'm going to set a timer for like a minute.
• 33:58
  Otherwise, I'll talk for all day about it.
• 34:00
  I think it doesn't really...
• 34:01
  But we talk about Jeeps, Daihatsus, Commodores, like all these... Teslas.
• 34:06
  All these different cars.
• 34:07
  We've already mentioned them in this episode.
• 34:09
  And I think also sometimes people get so attached to what powers it
• 34:13
  And this fantasy, again, comes back to what I said about the memories they have of that car, not the car itself.
• 34:18
  If you thought back 20 years ago, that was a really good time, and the car didn't make much noise, and you plugged it into a power socket, it's not going to really change your feelings about it.
• 34:25
  And I think people get really tribal about going, well, I only like...
• 34:28
  petrol, I don't even like diesel, I don't even have a ute.
• 34:32
  Technology marches on, technology changes, you're not riding a horse, you're not driving something with a carby anymore, most people aren't.
• 34:37
  And I think it also will push it in more into the fringes and more into the niche of you are going to have your methanol-powered drag car that's only allowed to go to racetracks anyway, and then you might drive to work in your electric ute.
• 34:47
  Because guess what?
• 34:48
  It gets more range, it costs less to run, you don't have to breathe in the tailpipe emissions, blah blah blah, you've got solar on your house.
• 34:54
  Like,
• 34:54
  We're very much in this flexy stage of working it all out, and it's all very new, and this early adoption of people trumpeting, I love Teslas, and I don't even drive this.
• 35:04
  I don't really care about that, but I am interested and always have been interested in where the technology takes us, and I think it's going somewhere good.
• 35:12
  I think the cars are fast.
• 35:13
  I think they're fun.
• 35:15
  I don't have a problem with it.
• 35:16
  Whether it's powered with a petrol engine or electric engine, if it's really fast, I'm probably going to like it.
• 35:20
  And I think more people will start to understand that the more they drive.
• 35:23
  I have driven quite a few electric cars, fast ones, home-built ones, Teslas, all that stuff.
• 35:28
  And I really, I just think it's cool.
• 35:29
  I'm not at all bothered by any of it.
• 35:31
  There was a lot of resistance to shoes when shoes came out.
• 35:37
  There was.
• 35:38
  There was a huge amount of resistance to shoes.
• 35:39
  It was incredibly controversial.
• 35:41
  Shit.
• 35:42
  Where the shoes were from, where they were made, because there was a pure form of transport.
• 35:46
  You've broken, you've broken.
• 35:47
  Rusty's done.
• 35:47
  Oh, fantastic.
• 35:49
  There was a very pure form of transport, which is that you walk around and you get hard feet, you harden up your soles and you walk.
• 35:58
  And then people started going, let's strap a bit of something to our foot.
• 36:01
  Actually, let's get some technology that can make people run faster.
• 36:04
  I haven't read kind of any of the stories of Nike or how these kind of shoe brands came about.
• 36:08
  a lot of controversy about how shoes should be made, the technology that's involved in them.
• 36:12
  And a lot of people kind of went back and go, I'm just going to do pure transport, barefoot.
• 36:17
  A couple of years ago, it was a huge thing.
• 36:19
  They'd run on rocks and then they'd get a hole in their foot and they'd go, ah, now I can't run for a week because they didn't use the technology that was available to them, which was a shoe.
• 36:27
  So I think that shoes...
• 36:30
  Posty bikes and cars, EVs or not, still, I'll go back to what I said before, I think it's about what they can do for you and where they can take you and the community that comes around that.
• 36:40
  I understand that people think that they're boring.
• 36:42
  At the same time, my grandma was one of the first people in Launceston to get a washing machine.
• 36:48
  And everyone from all around came over.
• 36:50
  And a lot of people, they weren't happy about it because they're like, you do it by hand.
• 36:53
  You need to do it.
• 36:54
  You need to.
• 36:54
  And she's just like, well, I've got a machine and I throw it in.
• 36:56
  Now, it's interesting that you chose the kind of the white good analogy because in a way, I think cars eventually are going to be a thing that takes you to a place to have the adventure and maybe...
• 37:06
  The car itself will be less of the adventure.
• 37:08
  Because what is an adventure in a car?
• 37:10
  I'll tell you what it is.
• 37:11
  It's driving through a couple of states in a Holden Camara.
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  Because what happens?
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  A wheel falls off.
• 37:15
  You stop.
• 37:16
  You meet people.
• 37:17
  You run out of petrol.
• 37:18
  You've got to get help.
• 37:19
  You've got your roadside assistance or whatever that is.
• 37:22
  The most exciting things that happen...
• 37:24
  are normally the things that can go wrong on an adventure.
• 37:26
  And I think as we get more connected, more controlled, more range, more EV, less of those adventures are going to happen.
• 37:33
  But you're also just going to get to where you need to get to safely and then run without shoes on and tread on a piece of it.
• 37:39
  That's really great.
• 37:39
  If I can just add as well, so I did a road trip in a Tesla, and you do have to stop and charge it, and everyone's like, oh, that sucks.
• 37:44
  I can fill up my diesel heat in three minutes, not 30 minutes like you have to do in that Tesla thing.
• 37:49
  But then some of the best memories I have from that trip is like where we stopped and who we spoke to and where we went.
• 37:53
  We went and got food and went and hung out and did this and did that and drove around, and then looking at the total cost to get where we went was zero.
• 38:00
  Like, yes, it had to come from somewhere, and when I look at a big charger and it says 80 kilowatts has gone straight into a car from the sun, you're like...
• 38:07
  That's kind of cool.
• 38:08
  I want to conclude all of this by saying everybody should right now go and buy a car, turbocharge it, go to the track and do a massive skid.
• 38:15
  Because that is also... That's right.
• 38:18
  Let's just be honest, Martin.
• 38:19
  We can talk about the efficiency of EVs all day.
• 38:22
  There is nothing like doing a big skid and hearing your turbo whistle and just dropping rubber all the way down.
• 38:27
  It's like, let's be honest.
• 38:29
  Because on one hand, you're driving the fridge and on the other hand, we need to drop skids.
• 38:32
  Yeah.
• 38:32
  Yeah.
• 38:33
  See, I'm all about somewhere in between.
• 38:34
  I'll drive my quiet thing that's solar-powered to the track, and then I'll smash that car all day and then drive it back and charge it up again.
• 38:41
  Anyway, yeah, like I said, a good talk all day about this.
• 38:43
  But I think it's a very interesting space, so we'll wait and see what happens.
• 38:46
  It's changing whether we like it or not because the government's going to make the change.
• 38:49
  EPA emissions, all of it's going to change.
• 38:53
  Live in the new world or die in the old world.
• 38:54
  Eventually, it's going to be clamped down so much, I reckon it's just going to be like...
• 38:58
  Australia's wonderland.
• 38:59
  You can take your old car to a special little town that looks like a town, drive around, someone comes out and gives you a flat tyre so you can change it and have that experience of what it used to be like in the olden days.
• 39:09
  Soon cars aren't going to break down, there aren't going to be flat tyres, this stuff is not going to be a thing.
• 39:14
  It'll be sad but only for those people that were alive at it.
• 39:16
  Anyone that grows up natively with this won't even know what they're missing out on just like we don't know what it's like to ride a horse to school.
• 39:21
  Best example I can give you, and I'll finish with this, is I went to a car meet.
• 39:25
  There was all these awesome cars.
• 39:26
  There was new stuff, old stuff, classic stuff.
• 39:28
  It was amazing.
• 39:29
  And then in the back corner, there was a bunch of dudes standing around, all had white hair, in front of their stationary engines.
• 39:35
  Oh, like tractor engines?
• 39:36
  No, it's a stationary engine.
• 39:37
  Like, it's an engine you build to run a pump in your farm or something, and it was a big deal.
• 39:41
  Stationary engines.
• 39:41
  Oh, from back in the day?
• 39:42
  Yeah, from, like, the 20s or earlier.
• 39:44
  And did no one care, Martin?
• 39:45
  Is that what you're saying?
• 39:46
  Well, this is the thing.
• 39:47
  This is what I found interesting.
• 39:48
  The bunch of old dudes who built them, they loved them, and you could see the craftsmanship, and that was amazing.
• 39:52
  There was a couple of younger people sort of interested, but they got back in their cars and drove home and didn't think about it again.
• 39:56
  It's like, it's important.
• 39:58
  It's part of our history, and it's exciting at the time.
• 40:00
  But, yes, as you say, now people plug in a freaking 8-
• 40:05
  I think things have moved on, but yeah, there's still so much exciting stuff to do, and you should just get in and actually do it.
• 40:10
  Start a project.
• 40:11
  All right.
• 40:11
  Do some stuff.
• 40:12
  We've had the Commodore revelation, which I think is fantastic.
• 40:14
  Very funny.
• 40:16
  Can we get from you?
• 40:17
  You've worked on Grail cars.
• 40:18
  More recently, you've been doing some very cool stuff with little utes and so on.
• 40:23
  Is there a car that each of you in the future would like to get into Super Garage and work on?
• 40:29
  Maybe you haven't had the chance to do that yet.
• 40:34
  I would like to get a classic car, a well-known, universally accepted classic car, and do an electric conversion.
• 40:41
  Cool.
• 40:42
  That's what I would like to do.
• 40:44
  Call it whatever you want.
• 40:45
  That's all I'll say about that because it's already in the works.
• 40:48
  Good job.
• 40:48
  Marty.
• 40:50
  I feel like I'm not done with sports cars yet because I've got a couple of little Toyota Yaris, G.A.
• 40:56
  Yaris, who's great for track days.
• 40:57
  I really like my Subaru wagons.
• 40:59
  Dual cab utes are handy.
• 41:00
  I've got my little funny, weird, sort of nuggety mirrors and super turbos.
• 41:04
  And, yeah, I'm still pretty keen to do a really cool two-door coupe of some description.
• 41:09
  I haven't quite worked it out yet.
• 41:11
  Your machete.
• 41:12
  Yeah, like a machete car.
• 41:13
  And the big one that's no second that people know is coming up is I've got a two-door STI, which I bought just pre-COVID before the prices went nuts.
• 41:22
  But, of course, it blew an engine because it's a Subaru.
• 41:24
  And I'm really excited about getting that working again and just having that sort of hero car because I really like those.
• 41:29
  Boys, thank you so much.
• 41:31
  We've shot the breeze for nearly an hour and a half about all kinds of things.
• 41:34
  I'm sure we could do a lot more of that.
• 41:36
  Great stuff on some of the crazy mods you've done along the way.
• 41:39
  Awesome to think...
• 41:41
  that you've more or less touched all corners of the globe with a pure love of adventure and modifying cars.
• 41:48
  I know there's lots of great stuff in the pipeline to come.
• 41:50
  Congratulations and well done.
• 41:52
  Rusty, thank you so much for having us on your podcast.
• 41:55
  And again, thank you so much for being super knowledgeable about the kind of the car scene in general, but also just doing your research about what we're doing as well.
• 42:02
  It actually really means a lot to us because normally... What's your favourite car?
• 42:07
  Okay, thanks.
• 42:08
  That's it.
• 42:08
  So it was really cool to be involved in your podcast.
• 42:11
  So thank you so much.
• 42:11
  Thanks for coming on.
• 42:13
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• 42:19
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• 42:21
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• 42:25
  Rusty, thank you very much.
• 42:26
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• 42:33
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