Dan Rees: "Sorry I'm the worst person you could get on.." Minis, VW Polos, Comedy car names and minibus driving S3 E3

[00:00:00] Welcome to my Dads Car, enjoy! Welcome to My Dads Car, a podcast discussing our personal relationship with all the modes of your staff.

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[00:00:29] Welcome to My Dads Car, and that's me my good friend Jon. Hello Dan, how you doing? Hello Mike. Good stuff. This is sort of got a slightly more evolution beard than I have, isn't it? Next step. I've got those Arabian jeans with that bro.

[00:00:49] Yeah, I think I probably have secret liars where. So yeah for the benefit of the tape, yeah I'm at Dan's room or brother.

[00:00:56] We bet it's probably our mic stacked, didn't we? I think, and I was thinking last night kind of how much of the story we did regal about obviously kidnapping him from Tesco's and I'm doing a parachute jump in a ladies swimming costume. Oh yeah, and all of that?

[00:01:09] What he broke is no was doing the worm in the club. That's probably enough, enough embarrassing for him. Sounds like a proper stack dude. Did he make it to the wedding? Yeah, he was there and yeah, still happy him, aren't so. He worked out in the end.

[00:01:27] Very good. So yeah, Matt down doing that. And you produced jewelry and stuff. Didn't you? It's kind of a, it's a day job. Amazing things made out of wood and all the rest of it. Yeah, yeah, very interesting stuff.

[00:01:39] So yeah, thought we'd invite you along and yeah, ask you about she dad's car or mum's car or whatever. Thanks guys. I will preface this by saying that I'm perhaps the worst person you could have brought on to this podcast. Sorry for any one listening.

[00:01:54] Or let's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up. I've listened to a couple of other episodes. And I think there was like some lady who had like, she had about 20 cars or something and all these interesting stories. And I can't be honest.

[00:02:11] So I'll let you know right my grandfather. He didn't have a car. He literally rode around like a horse and cart. Like I am that level of passenger. So let's jump into it. What's your earliest motoring memory? Something with wheels at an engine maybe.

[00:02:28] That's something. Oh, that's an engine. You got two horse power car. He did. Could be a boat could be a horse. Anything you've got? Well, I think my earliest, this thing. So my older brother, he's like nine years old than me. He had a mini Cooper.

[00:02:52] Okay, you know, purple mini. Remember? Yes. One of the front panels was like smashed off of it. So it was all purple. This one panel which was like blue. We used to live in quite a rough place in south Wales. And I just remember the one night.

[00:03:09] It was like light and bad. The other day my brother like shouted at the window because there was like a couple of boys like trying to break into his nanny in the middle of the night. And he sort of like chased them off with a screwdriver.

[00:03:20] So the chosen weapon in south Wales. Yeah, pretty much. We're going to flathead or a philipsing. I think the flatheads are always better and for that sort of. I don't know if I was like you boys got a lot of experience with shank and people with screwdrivers.

[00:03:36] That's the other podcast we do. This is covered in the vintage car scene. That's why I moved to southeast London. Oh, my camera little bit. You'll notice John is actually wearing an orange boiler suit. That's a may or may not be your aim to his car arrest.

[00:03:53] This is his weekly phone call for the sound. So yeah, but basically I grew up in a town called Trudyga and yeah, it's quite like a deprived place in south Wales. So none of my family really had very nice things.

[00:04:12] So I don't really know that's a more question. Did you parents drive or were they just walking people or horses? No, I'm well my mum drove and so did my stepdad and my older brother Garraf. So what did you want to do your mom drive?

[00:04:33] If you don't know the model we can kind of just describe it colours, smells. It was like rectangle red. The tidy wheels. No, I think it was like a Volkswagen Polo. Okay. Is it old one? Yeah, yeah. It was a Polo.

[00:04:47] I don't even know if it was even one liter engine, tiny. Sounds a bit like a square about to me and the thing. Yeah, yeah. So she used to drive what are those? So who would be in it? Are you in your brother in the back possibly?

[00:05:03] No, my brother's quite a lot older than me. So he was always driving around in his little clip or midi. Yeah, yeah. Well, he later going to motorbike so I don't know nothing about.

[00:05:12] And yeah, like my mum would just like as she'd come to work in a little red polo. I remember the one day was snowing and she tried to drive down quite a steep hill

[00:05:24] down a country lane and just sort of like split all the way down there with tree. Topoggin. Yeah, she took boggin down there down a hill. But thankfully she said like a couple of rugby lads pulled up and sort of like pulled the car out

[00:05:39] with a ditch for her and she went on her way. The ballies, man. It doesn't get much more Welsh than that. Does it? Yeah. And your stepfather, did you was he behind the wheel as well? Yeah, I remember he had a like a racing green Nissan micro.

[00:05:53] Oh, sounds fast. Yeah. But do you know what? Now nowadays is funny because I live in my girlfriend Georgia and she now has a Nissan micro. But she's got like a limited edition one is orange with a color shift paint.

[00:06:11] So it goes for a orange to put what? And she calls it charm and a literally wherever we go with old people always give her compliments on there. And they're like, oh, especially with little kids. Look at that car. It's so cool.

[00:06:25] That's like those rulers used to get in a party bag in there from her. Yeah. The kids birthday party. Yeah. She's got the color shift in micro charm and how old is the micro? Oh, I've got those. I think it was made this century. Yeah.

[00:06:38] Early naughty is probably a thing. Yeah. I think I know the one. I think I know actually. And that theme of racing green look. I now drive like an old Toyota Yaris and it's racing green. I'm like, call it green lightened. Nice.

[00:06:53] You've got like a drive way of Marvel characters. Yeah. Yeah. Green lighten the chick magnet. No? Quite the charmer. You're a who? Is that how you blew your girlfriend? I can't tell you what now. That's not that bad. Wonderful. So, um, any musical memories from your parents' vehicles?

[00:07:15] cassette tapes stuck in the recorder? Breakdowns? Uh, well, I remember my older brother. He's the one who got me into heavy metal. You know, always your old. It's always your older brothers having that one. And so yeah, we're always. If you ever gave me a lift anyway,

[00:07:32] be thrashing around in this purple many. Listen to Metallica on tape. And then he later became an undertaker. He was like an undertaker for like over 10 years. Okay. So he driver her. So like, you know, we'd have to bring the her son for the weekend.

[00:07:46] We're on call and stuff. So if you ever need to lift anyway, you'd like to turn up to a house party and drop off at the house. Let's not be a bit of blur and outside of it. Is he still involved in that industry?

[00:07:59] No, he, um, they were dying, trading it now. So, funny story though, he, um, this is a complete, a complete tangent. Perfect. So my brother, Gareth, he ended up shacking up with, well, he's now wife Sarah. And she was like an undertaker as well.

[00:08:18] But they both sort of like quit the trade and they moved to Cornwall. And they ended up moving into a place called Rose Cottage. And like in the funeral trade, apparently like rose cottage is like the, um,

[00:08:32] is like the cold word that they all use for like the mortuary. And actually like the, the closest building to those, they live like down some lane in Cornwall. Like the closest building was actually the cramatorium. So literally.

[00:08:48] They tried to escape from the death rates and it seemed to have followed them around. That's a head of a coincidence, isn't it? Yeah. Or is it? I don't know, they're just, this spooky, this, yeah. It probably snowed under at the moment. They've had a wane and stuff.

[00:09:03] It sounds like it'd be well involved with those sort of things this time year. Rose Cottage apparently was, uh, a little bit haunted. Yeah. Yeah. The Tommy's was some spooky stories. But I did not, I didn't realize this was going to be a Halloween special.

[00:09:17] You've got the orange cup. I've got the orange jump off of the minute at the table. Woo! That was a close for the benefit of the tape. So, um, yeah, heavy metal in a purse. Yeah.

[00:09:34] We have kind of, yeah, just made a few references in which the funeral industry. And whether or not my dad's car podcast could kind of play a role in funerals with kind of you'd or jeez and things along those lines definitely worth exploring, isn't it? I think. Yeah.

[00:09:48] I think we're just so balanced, Stomp. Yeah. Yeah. I can imagine you in front of the congregation orange jumper, green shorts, what gathered to you. You know, I've got those on. So, um, take us back to the polo and stuff like that.

[00:10:05] Were you going away on holiday anywhere? In vehicles or visited relatives or was everyone in Wales? I don't think I knew where a holiday was until I was in my 20s. We were that poor.

[00:10:16] No, I remember when I was like quite young, I'm also, I must have been like seven or eight. And my mum got a job working at the crash in the DVLA. I thought you were going to say crematorium then. No, no.

[00:10:30] I think she did work in the funeral tree for a little bit which he quit because it was awful. But yeah, she worked in the, like, you know, the DVLA? Yeah, it's one Z. Yeah.

[00:10:40] So she worked at the DVLA just sort of in the, I think it must have been the summer school or something. The crash of a DVLA. And so we went there three times for holidays. I think they process you change your address.

[00:10:54] That's why it takes a long time because it's all done by three or Oads. I think they've got some very archaic systems on there. I was finding it, half-fling actually up and you send stuff over there because it's really short address isn't it from memory?

[00:11:07] And you just kind of like DVLA Swansea postcard. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, some ones. No roads. Yeah. It always gets said isn't it? There's only one of them. Yeah. So next door to roast cottage. Yeah. So yeah, we went there. I don't remember anything about the drive.

[00:11:25] I was seven. So nothing really to report. She did have a friend there, a friend. I don't know if there was no one reflection on that. And my theory is like, oh yeah, friend was in that. Yeah, there was this, there.

[00:11:38] This is called Gary and he had a, you know, a Citron dolly. Oh nice. Yeah. I like the back of it was like me don't it would be it. I was always very confused about that man on his car. This wooden car.

[00:11:52] I wonder if that's still going who knows? Yeah. Is the dolly the two CVs. That just the name. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So what's that? Yeah. They'd like a rollback roof and that's it. Yeah. Yeah. I think my grandfather's horse and car could run faster than that though. Sorry.

[00:12:09] What did your grandfather do? Just out of interest. All right. Did you know much about his trade? I think, uh, mug rollies. It's a back of sister. Yeah. I don't know. What did he do? I have no idea. I really don't know. He died well. He's quite young.

[00:12:29] So I don't know. I don't know much about grandchildren. I don't know much about their trade. They've got a lot of cart and grew vegetables. So are there any sort of memorable journeys from? Well, doesn't have to be a youth from anytime, really. That potentially took.

[00:12:43] And I said they weren't any holidays but, uh, it was like school runs or anything like that. Or I went to school with a town called Ponty Pool. So I went to a Welsh speaking school. They're not very common in South Wales. Especially when I was growing up.

[00:12:54] So you go like kind of like one Welsh school per county kind of thing. Okay. So I have to sort of go on the bus every day and the bus would go around all the different

[00:13:05] old towns to pick up all the kids on the way to Ponty Pool. Then what you get there is like all the other buses and all the other places, like new port and the other valleys they'd all come together. Yeah, it was bus journeys basically.

[00:13:17] As I remember, most from my time as a youngster. Well, you were back at the bus so far. Oh, well, you started on a year, seven down the front. Yeah. Like as you progressed through the years, you finally, that the year 11, even then your crew

[00:13:32] gets to go and sit at the back. That's your time. Yeah. Walkments on. Wow. See the CD walk. But a bit of a size of your head. If you pick a juicy fruit. Yeah, if you pick a CDs, brilliant. I don't know. They're born now. Do they?

[00:13:49] Did you tell the devices? I don't know. Remember tapes? God. You never. They're like rewind them and everything. I don't know, I want to listen to that song again. I'm going to be like, listen to the rewind. Oh, yeah, listen to that again now.

[00:14:06] Did you ever take stuff off the radio? Are you really a little bit younger than me? I think so. You might have missed out on that. The taping off radio. Yeah. And I remember like making mixed tapes off my brothers tapes and records.

[00:14:17] And they don't touch my busy by his record on beat's up. Any vehicles of note from your neighborhood? Do you remember anyone down the road with a noisy motorbike? Yeah, car that broke down. We had an old lady used to live opposite us actually.

[00:14:32] She was to be 90 at least. She took her mini clubmen and she's still around. I don't think so now. Yeah, she took her mini clubmen in the town and then got the bus home. Like the day later, the police turned up.

[00:14:44] This is kind of going to see her. She left it in the car park. She forgot and she driven. Oh my God. I found a vine lost her car a couple of years ago in London. I really, well, just forgot what street it was in. Yeah.

[00:14:56] She drove to work, parked her car and then just forgot where it was. And like, just never saw it again. It's got. That's an expensive game, isn't it? Like 20 something quit a day or whatever. It is in London at least.

[00:15:08] Yeah, don't I think I think it must have just got either stolen or towed away or something? I don't know. I think that's what people are doing now. They're just driving to London just leaving the car there.

[00:15:17] It's a lot easier and cheaper than final congestion charges and you lose everything. Just leaving there by anyone. See, I like I said, I probably the worst person you've got to go on this podcast because Like I've, my family have never had any nice cars.

[00:15:31] I've, like, really bad history with cars. Do you tell us what makes it a bad history? Well, basically, I passed my drive and test on my fifth time. Wow. But so I don't think it's a good reflection. Yeah, I know. How do we allow it on the road?

[00:15:48] It should be well practiced though. If anything, I might make you sort of a more solid driver in sort of failed four times previously. Yeah. Well, I did eventually pass. I only had two minors which I think is pretty good. And then I went away to Australia.

[00:16:01] So like the first thing I drove after passing my drive and test. Like I became like a mini bus driver for a hostel. I've only been driving a matter of weeks. Yeah, perfect. Yeah. So I had the baby bus so you can drive people around.

[00:16:16] So I do like somehow I just survived that. And then it was a few years later when I got my first car. I'm like, I got a, it was like a little silver for your chunk of chenzo. Nice lovely. Like the in between us. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:16:32] It's a lot of small hatchbacks. This isn't their front and around in your history. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you'd be surprised. Yeah. So yeah. I called back our Jeff. I was great. I loved Jeff. It was so good.

[00:16:44] Like a little tiny, like the wheels look like a rich tea biscuits. It's something. And I like the front bumpers hanging off. So we kind of look like you have like a crooked grin. It was great. What happened to Jeff? Been in a fight.

[00:16:58] And he had a bag in some system. I mean, I remember a road trip. Me and my friend Jamie Lada driving from where then to Newport. And yeah, by the time he got there, like Lada was deaf because I just been like play and like

[00:17:11] play or a metallic little away there. That was brilliant. So Jeff, eventually at a scrap Jeff, which was pretty disappointed. And then what did I get? Then I got that I got a Ford K A for a little bit.

[00:17:26] So I bought off like gum tree or something and sort of turned up to this person's place. And they sold me this K A. And the the MOT was up like three months later. So I took it the MOT center.

[00:17:39] And they were like, yeah, I come back in a couple of hours. Whatever. And so he came back and I was like, oh, how did like K A do? And the guy was like, this is the best piece of welding we found underneath your car.

[00:17:52] And just under the desk, he just pulled up like a lump of like oxy resin. That was like, okay, I'll just drive that on straight to the scrap yard. Then I got some yellow Suzuki something. It was like a box.

[00:18:07] It just looked like a like a shoe box. I kind of want that was a wagon, maybe they did a wagon. Swift. I don't know. I got yeah might have been. Auto. I can't remember. I called it barrel yellow barrel. Yeah, of course. So I just jumped back.

[00:18:23] Did the K I ever name? No, the K A didn't last that long. Okay. Maybe I can't remember. It was like a one by stand. Okay, it was like a one by stand. We don't even know what that. And so yeah, I barrel.

[00:18:36] I had over a few months and then my girlfriend at the time was like down in Dorset and she was driving it and she caught me up because like the engine Seeds up. I'm in which was a disaster because then I was down in Dorset as well.

[00:18:51] Like I think she'd gone out with a man or something and assist there. And I'd stayed at the cottage with her stepdad. But then they called us and said, oh yeah, the engine seized up. So then I had to go out to the car.

[00:19:03] Like I lived the way they were and then I had to call like the A a and I had like that like a relay or something where they'll take you wherever you want. And so this poya drive, I turns out but he's like,

[00:19:15] Oh yeah, where do you want to go? And I'm like the only place I could take this is like, you know, my locals. My regular scrap yard. Someone first made basis with fighters. Big, ain't it? He's back and worried.

[00:19:30] So this poor guy, and he told me all the way back from like exeter to worth it. Wow. Just described it. Yeah, but he was like, I think he'd like he'd come back from like a rack.

[00:19:40] He was like in the army, and he had like quite severe PTSD. So I was like, quick, a scary ride always like. And he said, it was like a loud noise. Like jumping. It's telling me all these like really traumatic stories. It was pretty harrowing to be honest.

[00:19:55] So yeah, we scrap barrel. And then what happened? Then I got, oh yeah, then I got a Reynolds Cleo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What over do we spawn? The biorenal clear off this guy. And this guy, like just literally, you're like no teeth.

[00:20:11] Like his fingers will like yellow from all the fags he'd been smoking. Like some leather jacket that looked like it never been like, you know, never been out of the sun for like 80 years or something. And he's like, yeah, yeah, it's fine.

[00:20:26] So I bought the board that's red on Cleo. And to be fair, it turned out pretty good the red on Cleo. I had that for what? That passed two elbow teeth. That is. Wow, nice. We'll see it private seller.

[00:20:38] I was a, he was, he was a very private seller. Or Taylor. Yeah. So I got a still alive. I'd be surprised. It was like, he was like a male version of dark cotton. I didn't declare I have a name or so. Yeah, I called it blade.

[00:20:56] It's strong. Yeah, blade. But when it was misbehaving called it Wesley. So I had blades actually. Oh, God. This is so much. This is so much. This is so much. This is so much. It honestly, it honestly.

[00:21:10] Like I've come on this podcast just to make my automotive shame. So basically, I used to, I was, what I had blades therapy. Yeah, it isn't the way. I used to work, like, do in 10 work, like going working on bars and places, 10 Barrelie.

[00:21:26] And so I was working up a good wood. And I was just on the bar there. And the recruitment agent was like, Oh, if anyone was driving, can you give some people a lift back? We'll pay you extra.

[00:21:37] So I said, yeah, cool blades go plenty of room under the one day. I was driving back along the A27 from good wood back to where then, with like me by making Joey and three people in the back. And like the exhaust fell off on the eight.

[00:21:55] So I was so bad to drive along all of a sudden. There's just this huge clunking sound. I just like the sound of just met or been scraped along the road like 60 mile an hour. It's good job. Yeah, I'm almost on poverty.

[00:22:08] Well, I had to, what did I do? I came off the A27. And I think I went and popped up with the fox and patching like a pub. And I just left me in the car park. Yeah, yeah.

[00:22:19] And then like a couple of days later, I think I got a towed done to some garage. I'm going to do exhaust put on there. And then it was good there for another year. And I eventually scrapped blade. Okay. And then Dan, your mechanical know how,

[00:22:35] where would you rate yourself on a scale at one to 10 with the Spanish? Zero. Zero. Okay. Zero, mate. I was like, what sort of era we talking with the clay I'd done? What sort of year was that that it got, and cold, should we say?

[00:22:50] I must have been like 20, 20, 13, 2014. Okay. Yeah. Maybe bit late, 2015, probably. Got. And then I had another car with a common memory of was some kind of fear something. Ernest Ernest was a good boy. I had him for about three years. Nothing crazy to report there.

[00:23:11] I just eventually scrapped that one as well. Fair enough. And then I inherited green like them. I know a green like them, bless them. Bless her. Then two MOTs on green like them. So it's going strong. So. You could be the face of quick fair.

[00:23:30] I think you'd be. Yeah. It's getting like club card points. I knew this was something like that. Shout out Davis, Matt Maurice likely, then Lanza. You've got six bonnets now on your, on your stem card. I think you get the next one free.

[00:23:44] You turn up and they give you one back. Yeah. It's just embarrassing. Like I've never been one of these people was like a flashy car and never really be able to afford one. So, you know. The car's interest you are too.

[00:23:59] If you came upon a fictitious lottery win or maybe a real one. Would you bother to spend any money on a car or not really? You know, I don't know. I kind of like driving around the bangers. I kind of like, you know. I don't get that.

[00:24:09] I do think there's something in there. Like, you know, just literally using your car as the vehicle. Nothing else. Yeah. And then you don't get any sort of. You don't have to worry about it. If you scrape it, you don't, you know, you just drive it around and.

[00:24:22] Yeah. Blows up. You buy another one. Exactly. Yeah. Like I'm not a great driver. I don't think there's like the comfortable driving around and like, you know, you don't have to be at W or something. So I know I probably like reverse it into a lamp post and.

[00:24:34] That's not scratch all the alloy wheels or something. So yeah, but I just to jump. I was just going to jump back to your time in Australia during the. The bus drive. Yeah. Were there any sort of interesting tales from that? Where abouts in Australia was it?

[00:24:49] That was in Byron Bay, the middle of the East Coast. Okay. It's just like a little tiny safer a town. Yeah. So, you know, I mean, I say bus driver, like the job was like. Every day that'd be like a much like national express coaches coming into town.

[00:25:05] Yeah. And they obviously bring in backpacks in regular intervals throughout the day. And so like my job would be to drive the many bus based they around the corner up the street. I think of some people then bring them back down.

[00:25:18] It was like literally like a two week three minute drive. So yeah, you're going to be on call to do that like multiple times. But the day. But you get free accommodation. Free food. And I think it was like seven drinks a week in the bar.

[00:25:32] It was great. I think it's similar thing. I wasn't a bus driver when I was in Sydney, stayed at Hostone and worked in the kitchen and got a similar sort of package we say. Yeah. But there wasn't any sort of seven drinks thing with some reason. That's hi.

[00:25:50] You just save up all your seven drinks until the weekend. And then you know, you get a free Friday night or something. Exactly. It was good. But it was pretty good deal actually because like every hostel in town,

[00:26:02] I'd like a little like a bus driver, like a bus tout. Because like sometimes it'd be like people who would just come off the bus without the book in. And like all of the bus drivers would sort of have to like tout for their business.

[00:26:13] Like come to our hostel. We've got a pool or we do jelly wrestling competitions or you know. We've got quiet rooms, whatever. So yeah, like the bus tout. So I think there was probably, there must be about 10 host stores and probably about four or five

[00:26:31] bus tickets per hostel. So you're in kind of like an exclusive club kind of thing. And then so like all the clubs and bars around town as well. They'd like treat you like royalty because obviously like your first person with the backpack as meat when you come in.

[00:26:46] And then you know, then like you end up like taking people out on night's out and stuff. Like the all the clubs in town would be like, we used to get a free meal every night to cheeky monkeys.

[00:26:56] And every Thursday there was a club called Coco Mangas, a cocktail bar. They do every second Thursday they do like a pizza and cocktail like for free for all the bus touts. So you just turn up and you go free pizza free cocktails.

[00:27:14] And yeah, then you kind of go like free drinks and cheeky monkeys and stuff. So it was like every single night. We're like free dinner at the hostel, free drink and then go up to cheeky monkeys another free dinner and another free drink.

[00:27:27] And then by that point you know you met a bunch of people who come off the bus and you had a party with them or mates and then you got a wake up at six o'clock and then wanted to drive the bus again.

[00:27:36] Yeah, it was actually the day I asked about potential pressurizer incident. Okay. And hopefully not no instance to report there. It was pretty good gig and I did it for one three months. It was quite fun.

[00:27:51] You know, you just stayed in the hostel for free, get in free food and free beers every night. Well, there are a lot of shifts of tests to ensure you could do the job before they gave you the keys as it were.

[00:28:02] Or is it just like, you know, here's the job. I think end of day one if you brought some people back and they were alive. Yeah, and they were alive. Yeah. You pass the probation. Pretty much. Yeah. Good times. But things have progressed.

[00:28:14] I've got a little bit of things then. So now, now I've got like my own jewelry business. My work as a jewelry designer. I've got this is my workshop in, in burden. And I do actually, I've actually has them quite like interest in automotive themed

[00:28:30] like commissions in the past. Okay. Cool. The most recent one which I thought was very cool is a lady contact me through Instagram. I can't say her name or anything because there's meant to be like a surprise for a husband. Yeah, that's not ruin it. Just killed her.

[00:28:47] Doris for the benefit of the tape. Yeah. Doris. She took green peril or something like that was, I think, like, wake up with that. Catwoman. No. Now she's commissioned me to make a ring for a husband using pieces of carbon fiber off of like a

[00:29:05] 4 million pound formula one car. Wow. It's yummy. That's pretty cool. So I've got that sitting over there in the workshop. Stop working on that next week. I've made a steering wheel inserts for a friend of mine who was like a very old astronaut in. Okay.

[00:29:23] So yeah, they're going to ash steering wheel. I'm like the middle bit something happened to the middle bit and you wanted like replace there. So he can't actually, you know, set up all the measurements and stuff like I made him like a central piece for the steering wheel.

[00:29:38] It's pretty cool. And I also got requests as well, like I've got some material here called four dites. You have a year to that? No. Well, four dites is where they like spray paint the cars in the Ford factory and then you get like the over spray.

[00:29:55] They kind of stick the walls of like the spray booth or whatever. And then like every few years they like go in and they like chunk it off. Okay. So I've got like this, like a strike machine. Yeah, yeah. Like all the individual layers or different colored paints.

[00:30:09] So yeah, I'm just in the process of like making up a few like pendants and few cool bits with the four dites as well. So I do get some like interesting commissions for like automotive based bits. Where can people find you, Dan? Where do they need to look?

[00:30:24] You can find me. Well, I'm in the process of rebranding. The best place to go is my website, DanReastGewalary.com. Cool. Well, send people there. Yeah. Fantastic. And you'll pick them up from the station in a mini baths. Take them. Oh, pick them up.

[00:30:40] Only for seven of red drinks. Straight down paints are expressed. You're a seven on me. Yeah. How does you get into this, Dan? This line of work. Ah, well, what I first moved the wording, a friend of mine. He, I don't know how we got into it.

[00:30:57] I guess we just started to like mess it around with like, using like reclaimed wood, like smashing apart pallets and then making things out of it like coffee tables and mirrors and picture frames. And so we kind of start out this like the old woodworking

[00:31:14] kind of side hustle. And then I just gradually kept on getting requests from people sort of all over the world, like America. Can you send me a coffee table? Oh, it might be a bit much on the postage. And so this kept happening.

[00:31:30] And so I just sort of thought like, walk and I make and sell, which is like small, which I can kind of sell anywhere. And that's why I found wood and jewelry started making wooden rings. And then it sort of progressed from there basically.

[00:31:44] Like my workshop got bigger. Because I acquired more and more tools. Yeah, so my skills at and now I've got, like you see, if you're going to go my battle ways or machining, but to titanium and Damascus feel, I'm a registered goldsmith, so working with precious metals.

[00:32:06] And then I work with all sorts of strange materials like carbon fiber and mammoth tasks. And you name it. I've done some amazing. It must be quite a niche industry. It can't be many of you guys about certainly in the UK or in the sort of other?

[00:32:22] Yeah, it's kind of like a cottage industry, I guess, or kind of like small scale makers of, I don't know, unique rings, I guess? Yeah, so it's cool. It's a little ring-making community. So yeah, I've got a bit of a YouTube channel and stuff

[00:32:40] and Instagram and I do TikTok now with my 30s, like TikTok. Oh, yeah. It's a slippery slope down, isn't it? Yeah. But after come to you for some tips and then just dance. So I think. I think, well, the main way I think

[00:33:01] to gain a lot of traction on there is to have very sizable breasts. That seems to work. Just make a note of that. Beaded well, gentle and with sizable breasts. Yeah, yeah, I think you do great. Plus a hundred case of scribers need to breast guaranteed.

[00:33:25] Well, yeah, thank you very much for spending some time with this damn. And yeah, it was good fun. It wasn't completely on top of a good old times, but yeah, it was a good laugh and nice to chat with you. I'm really sorry that I couldn't give you

[00:33:39] some insight on some cool vintage cars or anything. Think of any use. I don't need to approach. I think sometimes it's kind of more enjoyable in a way to speak someone that hasn't got the sort of petal head interest. Because you do sort of go off on tangent,

[00:33:56] stay in here and it can be fine. You think that's what we've proved today? Yeah, well, I hope you've had a laugh at you. I hope you'll, if you're a listeners enjoy it. Now, if anyone wants any crazy commissions done, then no, yeah, come check out my website

[00:34:09] DanReestualre.com. If you want to follow me on Instagram or YouTube, it's a Zebrano wood craft. Well, we'll tag you in the stuff when it goes out. Yeah, but yeah, thank you very much for joining us, Dave. Thanks, Dan. And I'm sorry, thank you guys.

[00:34:25] I'm a good one. There we go. That was Dan. Nice. Yeah, that was a good one. You're going to enjoy anything that one. You're going to keep it, thank you on topic. I think Gary probably would keep a lot of it in kind of laughter and silliness.

[00:34:37] So yeah, he's a pretty good storyteller. Yeah, 100%. Even if the story is aren't particularly on topic. So yeah, quite a car history, isn't it? That he's had. Yeah, yeah. So fairly dreadful cars with comical names. Yeah, I just guys to show you

[00:34:54] don't have to have had particularly outstanding vehicles in terms of like name and everything. But there's a story isn't there behind most cars that can be quite interesting. Yeah, definitely. And I think yeah, the story is obviously not only for the car as it is, as a person

[00:35:08] and all those other experiences which have gone with them and I guess, yeah, not everyone is influenced by their parents' car choice or they may be sort of below the surface. He has deliberately gone with smaller vehicles because that's what he's focused on. Yeah.

[00:35:22] OK, don't get I think we probably, if we've not done it already, we've had a few coffees purchased recently. Yeah, it's like sitting in a costor or Starbucks at the moment is no. So yeah, thank you very much. But yeah, don't stop obviously.

[00:35:34] We're on a caffeine withdrawal at the moment. And always thirsty. Yeah, keep them covered. So yeah, thank you to all those who did their hand and donated a few pounds to the cause. Most appreciated. And yeah, we're working towards buying some gear

[00:35:48] so we can get out on the road and do more of these in person. Yeah, definitely. No, I have massive thanks for everyone that's throwing us a few quid because it really does help us in there and we're looking to sort of get out on the road.

[00:36:00] Maybe once or twice and do something a bit different and see what happens. Yeah, aspirations more of that and probably trying to do some more events as well. Yeah, maybe approach some event organizers and see if we can how our ways

[00:36:14] and get on the line up for some places get a t-shirt there. Vlog a bit of merch and maybe get on stage and chat to a few people. Yeah, do this to our live audience. Yes, that's good. Cool, cool. We'll wrap it up, shall we? And well, credit.

[00:36:26] Thank you, John. Cheers, Andy.