Danny James: 4 in the back of a Capri, Collecting new cars at midnight, My Dad's Land Rovers. S4E6

[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 style.

[00:00:18] And you know what? It doesn't even have to be about your Dads car. You can be your mum's, your grans, your parents, gardens, or even a neighbours. If it made an impression, let's talk about it. Hello, how are you? How's things?

[00:00:37] Not too bad, yeah. I'm all the benefits of the season. Hey, Fever. I was going to raise that early on actually. The renders isn't it? Oh, it's not nice. Do you get it? I think I've been getting it progressively worse every year, even before I start a gardener.

[00:00:54] But yeah, this season, like last week or so, my eyes have just been, I wanted to remove them and just scratch and scratch and scratch. But you've had it for years, haven't you? Yeah, yeah. Since I was really little.

[00:01:07] Something like I found Fever Eyes actually and I don't know whether it's just me or not. But if I eat blueberries, that helps my eyes. Interesting. So if I've got it, you guys, I'll keep kind of a packet of blueberries in the fridge.

[00:01:20] Yeah, just kind of a handful of those. Chop them in a couple of minutes later. Eyes feel better. Oh, I'm really keen. I think we got some in the freezer.

[00:01:28] There are empty oxidants on blueberries and berries anyway, but I don't know whether it worked with work for anyone else. But it might be worth a pump. Definitely worth a go. If you're suffering, yeah. Bit of a privacy commodity, aren't there, blueberries?

[00:01:40] Yeah, yeah, small-ish kind of punnets a couple of quid, but yeah, worth a go. Try that. So yeah, we're going to get it today because we're just doing a bit of a wrap up and an introduction for our episode with Danny James.

[00:01:55] So I guess it would make sense to start with the introduction. Yeah. It's some sort of chronological on it. So yeah, coming up shortly, we've got a nice little chat with my friend Danny James. And this is the first one we've done in person as an adult.

[00:02:10] It is. Yeah. And I wouldn't say it was a smooth recording. Let's go ahead and take a quick, a quick issues. But I mean, it's come to get right, isn't it? Kind of a couple of speed bumps, I guess. We could have done some on topic metaphors.

[00:02:24] But yeah, it has come together quite nicely. There will be a video version of this, which obviously, yeah, we will allude to there were some speed bumps, including the podcast and machine stopping recording partway through. And us then having to start recording all over again.

[00:02:43] And the video cameras running out of batteries mid record as well. Other than that, plain sighting, listen if you do shoot in on YouTube. You won't be listening to this waffle. I'm not going to the extent of putting this on to YouTube as well.

[00:02:57] I'm not that skilled, but yeah, if you do shoot in on YouTube, there you last 20 minutes or so will be kind of a bit like the, yeah, the gold drawing on the paintboard that you took out channel for it. How are you the clown?

[00:03:09] Yeah, I think so. Yeah, we should hold in a clown, draw a clown. She was a clown. I'm sure she was holding some sort of stuff toy. But no, it's a really good place to start with. It doesn't it. Daddy was a really great guest and interesting guy.

[00:03:23] A lot of sort of fingers in pies and the Porsche world and the toy world. Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, here it is. We're here with Danny James, who's a friend of mine for the benefit of tape we'd like to do. Meet you three pushes.

[00:03:37] Many better fit than tape. That would be cool. I think the benefit of the audience and the jury. I think the recall as a child, they used to say that in the bill. Yeah, they did the interview. Yeah, and then it was a French holler. Yeah. Present. Present.

[00:03:53] Patti de Haines. I don't know what Instagram real are. Pete walking up the drive in a minute. Yeah. So yeah, we met three pushes. Turns out we probably kind of bumped into each other and Volkswagen's before that.

[00:04:05] Yeah, you messed around on a journey of Max Pardais and you know, with BMW's. Yeah, I started as a V-diver with down the whole Max Pardais and then BMW. Fee, many because they had more money to spend. That's why I didn't be.

[00:04:16] The Volkswagen goes, you know what they're like. So it's something to do for nothing. So yeah, and then it evolved into Porsche as it does. Yeah, it would be things some reason. So yeah, here we are in person with our podcast.

[00:04:31] We're just down here. I'm not going to move it. Just think that's something I think breaks. Some microphones. Yeah. The most expensive table we've ever used. Yeah, this is a bespoke made Porsche stroke matchbox. That's my whole life in that day. So it adds put drinks on.

[00:04:46] It's not as good as the car. It's a bit more oily. So yeah, on in your spare time, we won't get ticker away. But you do a bit toy-dating. Yeah, it's a car. Yeah, a buying cell, grill cars and toys, Matchbox vintage toys from the 70s and 80s.

[00:05:02] 90s now as well as coming on strong. Even naughty, believe it or not. Not like the stuff that 70 20 years old now is just in to become on the eyesight of collectors because it's more affordable. Yeah. Hakey, Dakey. We will then. Let's just try this. Let's keep this off.

[00:05:22] Danny, what's your own ass? Come in, my earliest car memory at my own car. Now, if you're home, yeah, you're growing up. My earliest car memory is in the back of Dad's Capri probably. Yeah, totally up. Mark II.

[00:05:37] And ironically in like a purple colour which is a colour-ended up spray in a goldfish. And it goes wheels, the hell that's... I've got this gold wheel obsession. That's Capri at Gold Wheels at some point. And I sort of just remember like,

[00:05:51] I was young, I'm talking four, five. And I remember those trips down to Devon when it took a day to get to Devon. And I've looked in the back of Capri now.

[00:06:04] There's not a lot of room, but I can tell you there was four of us in there. With blankets, pillows, my friend, me, my sister and her friend. And there's only two stuff. I'll pause here the back. Yeah.

[00:06:18] And if you think of Capri now, if you look at it as a growing man, we wouldn't fit. They only have them little pop seats smaller than an unlovered in the back of that. Yeah, for all right, all the way to Devon.

[00:06:29] Getting up at two o'clock in the morning, get the blanket, simply read stars album in and the cassette. And drive in Devon. Yeah. So yeah, that's probably the earliest car I remember. Awesome. And was that just dad's daily driver? Yeah, yeah. No, dad's daily driver was another Ford.

[00:06:48] Was a Ford Transit van. Oh, he was a gas man. Yeah. So he drove a Ford Transit every day. Big one, pita, long wheel, basic presser on the back. Yeah. Below a big blue and white thing, we've British gas like the side of it.

[00:07:03] So that was his daily driver. And the Capri I suppose was his toy. Could mum and had a car as well. So I think the Capri was with the sweet spot. That was your little wanted to sell it and maybe tune the car. But something called Sunday.

[00:07:17] Was he a Ford man? Yeah. I think, you know, he comes from a come from West London. And he lived in Stains, and he did that. And a big dealership there, which is still there to this day. He's a crumble of Stains, he's a Ford dealership.

[00:07:33] And that was quite well-fued by on stake as a young age. So he comes from a poor family, one of 11. Well, so a big family. They aged gap, that when he was 18, the twins were newborn babies. So he tells me stories about them.

[00:07:51] And then they have them in Chester Drolls and the bedroom. At the end of the bed, you have two droels with a twin. One goes in the top droel, one's in the bottom drog. That's where they slacked because every other room was pre-occupied with two to three kids.

[00:08:05] Which would be a drool as I'm f-type and I don't know. Oh, I can tell you probably if they get a bit noisy. She's just going to push him shut. Cook us off for pills. Yeah. And that talks about that. And he talks about, where he was?

[00:08:18] So he worked from a young age 14, 15 on green rooms on quarry sites. Okay. And mechanically fixing diggers and tractors and stuff like that. And lamb rovers. Yeah. And he used to drive a lamb rover around when he was a teenager.

[00:08:34] Which is where his love of those come from. Yeah. And he had been distracted and some shrapnel and stuff from a machine. And that, I protection flew into his own severed design. And they paid him out. I sort of substantial about a money when he was 18.

[00:08:52] Which probably wasn't a wise thing in 1968 or whatever because he could have bought his mum and dad's house for 15, 104 pounds. That's how much a house was. And that's a four bedroom house in what's left. Yeah. Instead he bought a three-year-old zodiac from Crimble of Stays.

[00:09:12] A record player for £50. Wow. And the car was £400 from a Ford-made agent. And then just spent a list on Teddy Boy out, Fitsuits and cars. And there's a picture outside his house. Where this is the day is where if you looked outside of street,

[00:09:31] there's probably during the day there'd be no cars. Because the cars are cars. And there were mum's digging drive. Outside that house is six cars. Bit like mum now. And the rule is, they're all here. Here at a rock and roll, birdford farm. A mini club, a mistake.

[00:09:51] Once you've ever given up to his sister, he had a crest up. He had a zodiac. And he has a zephyp on the sleeves. It's a beach buggy. Which is how we met my mum? Oh, they're what beach buggy, which is how we met my mum.

[00:10:06] And this is really man. Because she wanted to ride in his beach buggy. So, obviously you didn't give her a ride in the beach buggy. And so now... That's how we hear my sister come about. So that must be the V-Dum connection. Yeah, yeah.

[00:10:21] It's been there since birth. Yeah, literally. It's a shame, obviously, seeing all these cars and your dad's getting hands on all the time of them. That obviously got you. Yeah, I think so. Because I think dad's all worked.

[00:10:33] It was always having garbage at the bottom of the garden. And they could pretty used to be in there when I was really young. So I remember that. And then I remember a lambrow coming when I was probably the eight or nine. Yeah.

[00:10:46] So I bought much more lambrow by way to then. And I remember going down the garden and the litschie, down at the bottom of the garden with a pond into the pees. And working on this lambrow, the underneath like a shed type cover.

[00:10:57] I remember they took the garries down, and it spiced us root. And they turned up in Ohio by a half a suit since that took it away. I remember you told me the movie. They were going to be covering the ambulance. It was literally a fire.

[00:11:09] It was a fire. It was a fire. Yeah, it didn't. It was a real little. It was all breathing on the head. Just a wood bottom. Yeah, just a smoke. And I remember that. So I remember that.

[00:11:20] I remember that working on cars down the bottom of the garden. And I would always go down there as a kid. Simulta, I read you comes out here and out to watch me. And it was all watching that. It wasn't it.

[00:11:30] It was all, you know, as a Lego child. So you'd get ideas when you're in trying to build it in Lego and recreate it. And that collected the little cars as well like. Yeah.

[00:11:42] So he got me into those, paint them up, put in wheels on them and all that sort of thing. So yeah, early seed was so indefinitely. And like I said, that's why the lambrow ever loved coming from as well. So what was your mum driving?

[00:11:55] So mum's earliest car, I remember of mums would have been a mark for escort. Okay. So that would be a bit late today. Yeah. So dad would've, I got feeling they bought that like all most new because I think

[00:12:09] Ford came out with like that options thing which was like the PCP today. Yeah. Because again, I remember going to the show rooms at midnight to get the new rent. Because that's how you got the rent.

[00:12:23] And I don't remember collecting the escort and the escort was an A-rage. So I would have been Mark Freed by do remember the Orion which was a D-rage. Okay. So I got 87, so I've been seven then and I remember going to the show room. Pacific in our jamas.

[00:12:38] And it could be night. Yeah. Because it was, I remember new people didn't know that. I remember if the date was like all ghosts or whatever. It was first September when it was a straight.

[00:12:48] And it was a letter and of course it was a massive thing in those days. If you had a new letter and I think it might have been our first new car. I think maybe the escort wasn't new but this one was our first new one. Yeah.

[00:13:01] And yeah, we got this Orion. We went to the show room and as kids and yeah, it was a brand new car. And it was down your street and no one else had a D-rage and you're like, yeah.

[00:13:13] People must have been having their car and singing, that's not the thing. Yeah, I think that's it. But I do remember as well the next thing. Just instantly remember going to Ask Scott wins a great park. So I'm like, no, I'm going to sunny day.

[00:13:26] So yes, September would make sense and looking on the roads and flashing and beeping if there was another D-rage. Yeah. We got one too. Well, I was a four and a half year old Jaguar. It's definitely like that.

[00:13:41] Obviously it was a council estate so to have a new car was quite a big thing. And you know, now I make sense. It would have only became because of finance. Otherwise I guess we wouldn't have got here. I don't know what they cost there. 67,000 or something.

[00:13:56] Yeah, maybe. Yeah, everyone was driving around in Mark 3 S.C. or something. Yeah, yeah. The Mark 3 was an A. I'm sure it was an A. It might have been older with the number at the end.

[00:14:08] I don't remember when it was blue and the Iran was blue as well. Okay. So to remember those, but yeah, that was Mum's first one I remember. But the escort and then the Iran. Seek helps in the back.

[00:14:20] Um, they're pretty didn't have to see, but I don't ever have a call point. No, we didn't need him, just to ask for a question. Yeah. I think the Iran might have done that. I don't call put it wrong. Yeah, it's optional. Yeah.

[00:14:34] Don't think you did notice, does he? Well, lamb river over at no belts. They're actually in stool. I lap belt because they don't have any belts. No belts in the front. No, none in the front, none in the back. Nothing.

[00:14:47] That actually put one thing because you used to drive it with no doors. You've certainly got to move. So like a Willy's Jeep. Yeah, yeah. The wind's green flat on there. There's no door on the side. There's nothing on the back. And these are seven seat.

[00:14:58] It's legally by the way. And you can be free up in the front. Four of you in the back and just... And you've thought that at any corner. Any corner, full out. I've fallen out the back of the head, right before.

[00:15:11] And we pulled one, two great jerk to have the back tailgate. And I've heard it back. And that's normal. That's normal, I don't know, over the line. To a quick body shape when you get there. Yeah, yeah. So we're just the two day.

[00:15:23] There was a lot of people were suffering those days. They never took a fit. No one got a fit in the head on and no one died. That's what I was trying to ankle. Yeah. Now, do keep them in.

[00:15:35] So I do remember him fitting like a big green army type clip belt in the front, like a lap belt. An error plane on the air. Yeah, two of them in the front. You didn't do it for anybody else, but just for him.

[00:15:49] Because we're two women at corner. You did it. So I straighted yourself out a little bit. I'm sure he didn't roll out the side. As if you haven't got the steering on the passenger side. You did it. Yeah, nothing. Hold on to you. I guess he had that.

[00:16:03] You got nothing. I guess when he had the doors, he just took off the front. Yeah, you should do it in some way. Just do the laminated thing. Show off. It's less dry for him. It was a little one as possible. I'm going to most envy you.

[00:16:17] It's that arm he looks isn't it? Yeah. He was in to military. Did he do the old camos, but clothes and all. Yeah, he used to work quite a lot of. I used to shop in those ex, you know, a lot of military shop. Yeah.

[00:16:29] And if he knew like in gray. Yeah. And he would walk around with a bag with a water bottle. Like my dad. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He had the bag where we always say if there was a world war, whatever's just found my dad.

[00:16:42] Because any bag you can survive. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I literally had. He used it really randomly, but after his passing, we obviously went through his bag and you would believe what we found. There were army military torches, extra batteries for this. There was like sewing kits.

[00:16:59] There was literally everything to survive the holocaust. But what was the most random thing? There was a knife in there quite big. Which was like, hello dad. That's a ninja star in there. Wow. Actual ninja star.

[00:17:12] I mean, when are you ever going to need a ninja star in your life? So that's some proper force out. Yeah. I guess you know you're in the middle of the world. You need to hunt. There's a rabbit. Oh, there's ninja star across the field. That's your rabbit.

[00:17:30] I think you got any military background to tilt, right? No, I think it was all in his head. He watched the counter films. Yeah, yeah. Both Greg and that's been in the army. His dad had been in a horrible part of the army. He'd worked in the maltry.

[00:17:46] Well, Kruse. Yeah, matching bits up and stuff. Obviously that's not a certain ice-up aside of the army. And then got promoted to the kitchen side of the home straight out. The one side of me into another. Yeah. So he'd seen some action.

[00:18:02] And again, Greg and I, Greg had was very much into heavy haulage. So he used to drive really big things like antiles. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So man, Charles is tank transport. Oh, wow. Something that can tow light. I don't know. Fifty-tongue. Maybe more. Yeah.

[00:18:23] And a hundred-tongue. And it takes massive tanks on the back. And I've a top speed of about 20 miles an hour. And Dad's job. Dad would go with him sometimes in these trucks. And his job would be to put the blocks, chocks out under the wheels and stuff

[00:18:38] to stop it rolling back. Particularly on the hillcrumbs. And he was up here. It was, shoot Dad's sitting plants six, seven miles per hour or something up a hill. Wow. And he remembers going up Box Hill, leaf hill in Surrey. And it was struggling.

[00:18:52] And now the steam roller on the back. A full blown steam roller. And Greg and I'd unloaded the steam roller. Go ahead. I'd drove it up and pumped the truck up. He'd've had a little bit of a... So he took the head of the steam roller.

[00:19:06] Probably I would imagine that very slow pain. Yeah. He said it took him all day to get up this hill. You know, they just kind of lost it at the bottom. Lost the gear in or whatever.

[00:19:16] And then had to work all day to get this very upper hill. I'm loading the goods. We lose the goods to tell it up. So yeah, you know, I never saw military sort of action. Then I suppose in like the vehicles that we drive in.

[00:19:30] That's probably where Dad got that from. And in the Land Rover there's the most sensible military vehicle. Out of all of them who actually you can own one and drive one. Yeah. There you can do it with a tank. Did he go through a few Land Rover's things?

[00:19:46] Hmm. Each favourite was the series one. That was his baby. So the first one I recalled him buying was a series one when I was about eight or nine. That was why he drove around. Blocked up no doors. And then he got... He got some other ones.

[00:20:05] One of the ones he had the longest was like a 110 diesel one. And it looked like the one off Emma D'Alphan. I think it was, you know, Emma D'Alphan who used to have this

[00:20:16] Green and Green Land Rover love and wheelbase coming to shop in the beginning of the music. Okay. And I'm sure it was that actual vehicle. And he bought it from up in Yorkshire, from like a Land Rover dealer up there. And he kept that for.

[00:20:31] He drove that daily right into. Went into his 50s and had no power steering. And I was, oh, I remember being like, you know, 30 and struggling to steer it. And this guy's like 50 odd. And he was driving a daily. And the windows had to slide them. Yeah.

[00:20:50] He had like little catch. And then you slipped them along with a passback from the last few days. The doors always opened when you're dropping in the loaves. Well, it's just dropping along the car. That one did never see now.

[00:21:02] I was like, don't just take it from the bottom. Just take it on your toes. Yeah, yeah. I was going to say, but just to remind you of what they're like. We know doors. And then yeah, and getting it started sometimes in the window.

[00:21:14] It'd be out there with a kind of like easy style 20 minutes. You could do, do, do, do, do, do. And then it fell the entire neighborhood was smart. That was the right. She was running. I never paid anybody. After everyone actually had one a good word.

[00:21:29] And then there's me last year. They had kind of a sort of a, a silk horse I suppose. It's called, yeah. Yes, series one or series two. They used them. Yeah, yeah. And you could drive around.

[00:21:40] You have to go up this sort of ramp and down the other side. Which is sort of a bit daunting. And then yes, sort of do a slalom. And does there a sea saw or can't remember? But yeah, I was just the first time I driven one.

[00:21:53] Yeah, very, very kind of agricultural. It seems to be a bit of a marmite car from, why haven't people. I think it's, I think it's probably the closest cars to a tractor. It's just, they're just nuts and bolts. There is nothing to them.

[00:22:05] I mean, it is literally just like if a kid draw the chassis. That's the chassis. Yeah, yeah. There's a steering wheel. There's a go-up head and we're going to maybe stop pedal. And that's it. And that's it. And that's what it feels like to drive.

[00:22:18] It just feels like you've made it in your shed. Yeah, it's kind of a car, no. Yeah, big mechanic. Big mechanic. I think that's what the love and fun is about because those Lego, Macano kids just love

[00:22:32] that simplicity of will, will, will chassis, will exterior and will that bit. Right, okay, what about some doors? If you put a couple then on maybe if you need them. Fine, the next week you're Pokemoning. Yeah. And then like that wind scream, yeah.

[00:22:47] No intervention required from the dealer even. No, sort of do it in your own garage. Yeah, yeah. I'm way about catering without the technology. It's a little too much. Bit more ground clearance. Yeah. But yeah, they're a chain train to drive. They're very hard to drive.

[00:23:01] I remember that teaching me to drive is from a very young age. And yeah, they're not easy. And to act and you know when we did pass the way, we took it one of the modern them over.

[00:23:13] We went in the back of a modern, modern, defending, to our eyes. And I followed him in the 62 series one. That was awful. It was, it was great. Yeah, they were very pretty. But the breaking and everything. It was so difficult.

[00:23:29] You know, you say like you've got these modern cars in front of you, breaking. You're all trying to keep in come way. And it was actually really hard work. And I had full seven passengers as well. Can you know, see, Bell's nobody.

[00:23:41] Could you didn't, you know, that's how they come. Yeah, it was a good send off. But it was a, it was nerve rankings and get it. I think I did 50 miles in it for the miles.

[00:23:52] Because we did, I did a little pretty run out just to warm her up for you. For you arrive. And then, then from there into the place, you know, the crematorium was sort of six miles, five, six miles.

[00:24:05] And then afterwards the wake was miles awake because it was where we used to work. So it's got them, couldn't got the motor wake. And then you did not 50 miles an hour. And it's just too tricky.

[00:24:16] So I took all the B-Rot, all the way there and ended up getting up to about 50 miles an hour and B-Rot. And it was like, but the faster you went, the better it drove. Yeah. And it broke better as well when you went faster.

[00:24:28] The food pounds and that it was ridiculous. But when you got upon a blind pass, other than the fact that the skipping around and never was on the number of deer like, the actually felt alright. Oh, let's go. Well now.

[00:24:40] So yeah, I just found the faster it went, the better it went. So was the land driver kind of a Capri replaced? Yeah, I don't really know why the, I guess the Capri was probably his last pinch at

[00:24:53] Sporty car because the Zodiac was freely or only put bigger wheels on it and he don't all these models to it. And so I guess the Capri was that last, last bit of like him being like,

[00:25:06] you know, race teddy boy being a bit cool, you know, gel back hair and then lifting the mirror, he'd pulled him for it. As we get a land Rover now. Yeah. So yeah, I think after the Capri, I just remember the land Rover's coming.

[00:25:20] So then every car after that with Mum's cars. Is that? Yeah, yeah. But it was Mum's car, Mum drove them. Did you have any involvement, Danny, and picking the car with car? No, nothing like that. No, nothing like that.

[00:25:32] So you could say what you like Mum would have took out. Adam, I've been all of Mum, I don't even have Dad really made me involved. No really. You might have signed the paper. I don't think he would have had any involvement.

[00:25:43] No, other than the Capri, I think, you know, we, like in those days, people bought British. So Dad would be very much like, oh, you got over British car and how dad, brand out obviously, X Navy would have been, I am Rover's forwards.

[00:25:59] Got what people were issue, so yeah, Mum might have had dreams of looking in there and then be a W Showroom. And I think there was a big gap in the prices in them, they sort of saw cars as well.

[00:26:11] I think, you know, a Ford was probably for it, 4,000 new and a BMW's probably 12,000. Yeah. And if you're not borrowing the money, that's a massive amount of money to find. You know, those days cost the living was fairly reasonable, not right now.

[00:26:28] And it's not just like, oh, it's 50 quid more a month and you can have a design a brand. No, it's days it would have been no double the price. If you've got enough for Ford, or brand, no. So now, yeah, we got no input in it.

[00:26:41] Just happy to be in the back of them on the way to Devon. I think if there's anything that you sort of stick to in terms of, I'm going to buy a British still now, not just cars, but anything in general.

[00:26:52] I think I think it was modern salt. I sometimes still have a reason for all that. I guess, I guess in the time I feel like patriotic like that is just by me from the butcher. Yeah. You know, you buy local, do you buy your local?

[00:27:08] Like whether it's local produce or not, I don't know if it is these days. I'd like to hope it. You'd like to think if I'm going to the butcher in Rose Green, that that meat hasn't come from further than 3 miles. Yeah, I'm not sure.

[00:27:21] So I'm directly funding the butcher which is directly funding the farmer. And I'm cutting out test goes and the big quarter of it. So I feel like a lot of people around here do that. And look after your community and stuff.

[00:27:37] I think if you did buy a packet and it's a meat impotent, I think you'd care. And if it tastes good, and it's price work, I don't think you're not really that bothered these days. I don't know what else you'd go for.

[00:27:52] That's what you've got sort of saddle roads such suits or whatever. Yeah, I think if you're in that sort of realm. I think if you're a billionaire and you're in that sort of realm, then you're shopping in Harry. You're probably buying more into that patriotism.

[00:28:10] I know a lot of foreigners do. Not Russian and Chinese. They buy properties in England because they want to live near the queen or live near Windsor Castle, and they're probably walking to the shops and they're probably like, I'll only buy British mustard, British jam.

[00:28:27] Oh, where's this made? I don't know. I can't possibly have that. But they can afford to the choice. Yeah, yeah. Everyone else just take what you get given. 75% of that are doing. They don't know where it was made and they really made it. Thank you.

[00:28:42] So what came after the Iran? So after the Iran mum changed, she went up market and she went road up. The whole of Granddad's suit. And the first one I remember is one you never seen now. It's like a 216 but it's the shape you don't see.

[00:28:59] It's really ugly. And a really flat squat back in and a bit of a ball nose, in front of it. And this was the one before the Wajji Japanese Honda Civic looking one. Yeah, or one that shared the whole thing.

[00:29:13] Yeah, before the point to you, I'm this one with the real ugly one. Pretty drool with a set square. Yeah, yeah. You turn around all the way yet. And you don't see them so I don't think the classic car world are even into them. I would imagine that.

[00:29:27] That's our tank. I would imagine that I guess I bet I'll go up. Austin Princess if you won't want one. There's someone out there who's got one and it's, you know, they love it. And yeah, you know, the beige floor, the wood.

[00:29:40] This is when wood came about then this was a little bit of fun sight. You know, we'd go up market definitely for a council or state. I remember going to school we're actually in his pet. I think his face is parents I want to him.

[00:29:52] And his mum was kind of into pigs and she had our parcel shop was just for the company pigs. Like Teddy's. Yeah, do you have to do that? I do remember a neighbor's called Tina, the whole back parcel shop being full of like cutletedies.

[00:30:05] And then there was another one on her own called Tina as well. He's was a speakers. That's him. Yeah, but I thought he was. I don't know how speakers I literally have your record for that. Yeah, just wanted into your car.

[00:30:18] But yeah, no, mum didn't cover it in Teddy's. Yeah, definitely was a posture car when a little bit up market. That one went right back. I think the first time I remember going in cars and discovering they got a central armrest in the back.

[00:30:32] That was like you've made it. Yeah, I think the road for that. You know, the wife, yeah, I do remember that. But just being such a latching windows. I mean, that was like, wow, hey, look at me. You could just up and down the windows.

[00:30:44] I don't even sit at all that. I mean, all the forwards before all the cars before, you know, I can pray. I don't mean as opening the window. That probably not. All the other smoking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[00:30:57] I mean, mum used to smoking out into our doors. Yeah, so yeah. This is one of my lungs alive. It's now. Mum's just, I thought we'd be in a day today. Oh, my aim is to see me. Oh, yeah. Passive of choice. Yeah, my choice.

[00:31:14] Yeah, mum would have been in a chair and then you know, dad didn't make a mum certainly get for a few packets of day. But it only probably a quick day, mum. Yeah, yeah. My dad is just chucking about with a nickel wrap. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[00:31:28] I'm actually on the other side. We're all retraining. Just come. Let me know those days everywhere you went was smoking in shops in certainly social clubs. Yeah, yeah. That was a big social club going. So we'd get social clubs every weekend in the Iran or the Rover.

[00:31:46] And then, yeah, the old boys were to pipes. Yeah. And then just the shareins of the flag hanging out. Massive actual, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Just wipe it off a lot. I don't want to do that. It's like a magazine.

[00:31:59] Yeah, the posh lady, the back of it would extend your head. Yeah, no, gloves on one. Or do you want to do that in the car? Or do you want to do that in the car? Oh, what do you want to do? Yeah, yeah.

[00:32:09] So yeah, I guess in those days smoking in the car would have come to his totally fine. Those cigarette liars were purpose. Yeah, yeah. They would use an ash tray as well. Or I wouldn't put now they would have been ash tray cars.

[00:32:22] I think my mum was a fact out of the window lady. We're classed. Yeah, so yeah, I think he said a route. Yeah, flick it on there. But if there's not flick it on the kids, I don't recall that building there.

[00:32:33] I should try to open to the road. And I might have died because I came in an ash builder. Two teams. Get it right up there before I move right out. I have seen that in cars, even in modern times. Oh, really? Yeah.

[00:32:46] So it becomes an ash tray becomes the handbrake area. Yeah, it becomes the key lever area. So it's like the base and a barbeque. Yeah, basically you just have a barbeque. My volcano is under the carpet. Yeah, all pouring out down the side of the sea.

[00:33:00] Can't you ever see what that sort of place? It's not. But I'm just a little bit more comfortable than you. Fantastic. Any music you remember to come from? As yeah, mum had won cassette. And it was the key cassette that was in the car.

[00:33:16] And it was simply red stars. So I remember that from at least the Orion, Yeah, that mid late 80s, which I think was when the album came out around 87 a year. Okay. That was the cassette for choice. That was shared out for cassettes.

[00:33:32] But if it was a long journey, it was simply red stars all the way to Devon. Both sides. Yeah. As again, you probably do like 27 rotations and both sides of the stuff. And all the words. Dad had a neat track in one of his land-rovers.

[00:33:47] Okay, no, I'll need track things. He said he kept it from his zodiac days. He had it in his zodiac and his bedford rock and roll. Yeah. And then he put it in one of his land-rovers and let you house on speakers In the back, why that?

[00:34:01] And then you just like, just rock and roll. Like, you know, Elvis or whatever. Yeah, most of the time he didn't have any audio in his cars Because you wouldn't have been out of here. It would've wrapped us in shakes and shakes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[00:34:16] You're fair of holding on not falling out the side Because he's got no doors on it. So yeah, the mum's cars always had simply red. And then I think some other stuff came late up. But, you know, why this isn't so good in those days Where are they?

[00:34:31] The red years. They were getting an outcrackily. So a cassette was all you need. Just a cassette. From the opposite holders, not a sprung loaded thing. Yeah. The gentleman cars are demilocks. I think in those days it was a glove box.

[00:34:45] It was just all in the glove box. And they all in there and then a little plastic case is used to be in. Did the late cassette players even have to turn a tape over? Can it just be all of us? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[00:34:55] That would've been like game change. Because I do remember I'm sure the red, the red, I think the red that. I'm sure the red was push it. Just put it physically to it. So that's all you press two buttons. You're fucked up. Fast forward, everyone. Together.

[00:35:12] And I did the eject. Yeah, I think he was a cheat. Yeah. And then you've come out and then you put it back in. Hopefully not not with a try to take you. Yeah. Yeah, that would happen quite often with your home ones wouldn't it?

[00:35:25] But yeah, no, I do remember the right red bar. That was next gen. So that was like, or I flip. That just did it all the way. It didn't need to press that. We don't need to eject. I can see one of them up for the red bar.

[00:35:37] Yeah, well that had let you win those then. Then you got wood veneer. You know, we started to get a little bit swankier on the way. I don't know if I had air conditioning or anything like that. I don't have a sun-rush maybe. Did ever sun-rush? Yeah.

[00:35:51] I think the red on the sun-rush as well. They both did. I remember the red and I say the red on was just like, wow. Because it was so like new car felt like we were in new family. Did the Capri go for the ride?

[00:36:07] I don't know why the Capri win. I never really asked that. I think the Capri win just because it was obviously that would have been a much older car. And I guess, you know, and then to tinker around with that and not say modify it.

[00:36:21] But you would have put the stripes on the back windows and the fairy dice. You would have to bon it up on the sun day and be down there and sum it to the car baroys. And I don't know if they didn't air feel or anything like that.

[00:36:32] They were crowing like the moon ones that go on top and then revenit you mean, all room cherry pop example. Yeah. And all that. So, yeah, they did mess around with that.

[00:36:42] So, I guess we've having not four of us, but if you had to have other kids come with you, not friends or cousins, those did that journey to Devin with the four of the back over. The back over, the month, the Vince, the scottogona.

[00:36:55] And the two doors, you can't open the rear windows. It's got to go in these something more family. I think we're right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You remember the Ryan being really thin, but they're not are they.

[00:37:10] So, I guess it was just very big in the back for us because we had our own seats. You know, and you could have free time. They're pretty long. They're pretty big. Yeah, do remember it being a big car. I felt like a big car.

[00:37:22] And I guess coming from the green to that, although there was the S going between it, it did feel long, grown bigger. So, yeah, I guess that Dad's could pre-was just letting go of his childhood, sporty young man, muscles, bald fat, by Lamberl, that get greasy.

[00:37:43] Oh, you got my funny. Was the Ryan for brand news? I think so. I think once should then go into that sort of, I guess, car finance world where you changed the car every two or three years, although they changed from food to roe for because then

[00:38:01] after the roe was another roe, right? Yeah. She just returns forward, I think, at one point, at a fiesta. But after that point, then you're on finance, I mean, so you're paying your monthly. Yeah, yeah. You go in and you come out for another new one.

[00:38:16] So, I think she got used for that and you don't want to drop that then, be it your ridges because it used to be a number of let's out. Yeah. Can't go backwards, can you? Well, now people don't care. Yeah, they should go up the scale. Yeah.

[00:38:31] Oh, we were a, you know, we did. You know, can't possibly go back to a D, where there is, I don't think people care as much now because it's all lost in translation now. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:38:47] Seven, you two, I couldn't even, well, we seven, you four now or 20, I guess so. So, 74 later in the year, so I thought maybe we would be a nice computer now. And seeing a new car done right now is just nothing because it's just a new car.

[00:39:00] Like you said, go and do phone, go and do a bottle per train. Oh, what dreams to get? Yeah, more interesting than that. I don't want it. Just a different car. There's just a means to it. That sort of, I think cars are quite important in those days.

[00:39:15] Well, yeah, I guess after your house, that was kind of a real sort of purchase and it's, like, for some people, it is still a very considered purchase but for others, it is just a case of, like,

[00:39:26] buying a washing machine, I just think the next one, I'm going to get a key or whatever it is. Just kind of an emotional impact up this week and the lights are on the car again. Oh, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God.

[00:39:39] It's just that if I, oh, I've got to go get a new washing machine. Yeah, is exactly like that, isn't it? So then they walk into a show and the husband's like, roll in his eyes.

[00:39:48] And why don't even want to be there, or even, but she needs to know what color it is and that's about it, isn't it? And they just want to be in and out, you know, just want to know, so where do we sell anything here?

[00:39:58] How much have I got sent you and what is the month, please? And yeah, and then she says, Oh, shall I have them? What was this? One, two, right. That's it, lovely. So they decide for an android, right? Lamrover, it's people's to me.

[00:40:18] Dad, I love for tractors as well. I don't know what got to be about tractors. But by Paul's tractor, yeah, wouldn't have been dead to Joyce because my love of Paul, she's an tractor. I can combine both loves into one.

[00:40:32] Lamrover's do a people's, I always look at a lamb roe, but more than an old. There's something about them. Obviously, because of the reputation of Lamrover, which was actually a dead stick. So yeah, there is a rule that's the only connection.

[00:40:49] My son's obsessed with Lamrover as well, Reggie, it's one of his favourite cars. So yeah, he has it, don't even know, Paul, she's now, he's talking about soup, prison lamb roe, he's just soup prison lamb roe, is that, yeah? So yeah, that's about it.

[00:41:03] I think my dad's dream garage would be a zodiac marre, free and that era of car doesn't really appeal to me. Yeah, I can see the shape being quite cool as a hot rod. Maybe he tempted his hot rod one.

[00:41:17] And then all the forwards he had, like a pre in that, no, that's not really a pill with me. I look at a couple of people, I'm going to appreciate it. And I look at it like my dad's car.

[00:41:29] Yeah, I'll probably mark two on my dad and one of them, you know? And I remember the memories have been in them and same with an Orion, but absolutely zero appeals to one or only one, you know, give me a mark two golf GTI, anyway.

[00:41:45] We've got six people there. Yeah, yeah. The majority of Capriine has must be from that, my dad and my dad. Yeah, yeah, I think so. And I think a majority, when you see those two guys at Classic Car show, they are off that age, they're on that year.

[00:42:03] And I think we find the same with the toys. Everything goes around, doesn't it, in like patterns? And I think some, so I know driving the cars that I desire to drive when I was a young man. So yeah, I've got my Porsche 97, 98, 99.

[00:42:19] That's what I've passed my test. So they were brand new cars on the right year. They were on top gear, they were in the magazine, you know, Evo, Carl E, Mum, the 996, 911, you know, wow, S aspiration or isn't it? Looking at the window, that's all Capriine.

[00:42:39] Or I won. So, you know, Jeremy, saying it's great, that's the Carl R1. So yeah, I guess what we've done is it kind of full circle of going to the point that getting the cars we could afford. Yeah, yeah, half rather than the cars we could.

[00:42:55] And not be a funerable, you know, more than a 911. You know, the right one could probably cost you that sort of money, especially if it was on a turbo techniques or something special.

[00:43:07] So yeah, I think I just want the cars that I wanted when I was young about. Yeah, but I wouldn't say no to alarm over. Just didn't go any further. It's a nice thing with track to those, like, it becomes a whole new sort of storage issues.

[00:43:21] Yeah, and although you can drive them on the road and they're road legal, I think alarm road is probably the closest thing to a tractor that would be a bit easier to store. Could you park it outside and get where they don't mind?

[00:43:34] I think if you put a track to outside, we'd be in a rust or way. You're probably only carrying one person at you. Yeah, not like you could tell the layout for a ride, can you know the track to the trailer? Yeah, kind of bucket on the front.

[00:43:45] Hey, like, hey, baron on the back and just have the entire family on it sort of thing. Yeah, now I think if you're going to own a track to go to live a bit in the sticks and you've got to live down a little country low,

[00:43:56] even in the meadow, the farmhouse or the back, and you've never as many tractors as you like. So circumstances sometimes are strict what you can and can't have. But yeah, I could see an hammering the popping into my life. I'd probably buy like $2,056 or something defend our V8.

[00:44:16] Yeah, that'd be cool. Some exciting moments. You'll refine maybe past here and he... Yeah, that was very, very good. You're a spirit, so. We're just being in the woods, my wife's school. The author's in detective, he's on a Sunday program right now.

[00:44:32] Oh, that sounds like sort of a big, high-dad and mom and dad will watch it. There's still room to check. You're on the big land, Rho was no one. Oh, yeah, Jose is there. She's a funny, in more frosts footsteps. That's what I think is.

[00:44:42] Yeah, there is a follow-in forum and they are making a real surgeon says that young girl on the over in the road rather enjoyed my poor. Yeah, yeah. She's an interesting case because she comes from no mechanical background, no car interesting background.

[00:45:00] And she's quite posh and she's just obsessed with all of those. I'm not modern night, the latest, a 73-blade gangster wagon. She drives 19 1991 car, which is that a lot of sort of thing like Dad would a daily driven

[00:45:19] 20 years ago, being able to record a pet to engine first years howling today's well. I think she's stopped on petal station every four miles. No power steering, no central locking, no electric wing loads and she drives it daily.

[00:45:35] The university, and she drives all over the country, she's even been to Europe on road trips in a minute, at that never-one. She doesn't come from a background alone, Rho was just got this kind of, this sort of tomboy in this inner half. Yeah, yeah.

[00:45:51] She's a big, nice and simple place to do if that raw metal. She worked on it herself. Yeah, she's a blogger. I don't actually know YouTube, she has Instagram TikTok. She's got a massive following, massive, and you know, most of her reals now pulling in minimum 150 KBU.

[00:46:07] So there is a following for her and what she tells us as well. So yeah, Lamar has got a massive, massive following still. So yeah, I might get one. One of the few people, for something that kind of attracts people of all ages. Yeah, classless.

[00:46:25] Yeah, they are because redgilikes, I mean, it's nine and yeah, and no, and Europe, man would like them because maybe he drove one in the army during the war or whatever. And I will see, you know, there was the whole military background to it.

[00:46:39] But then the Royal Stranger, like, kind of people would move, it's a pan to the drone. I mean, all I know is now, very sort of about Chelsea Traktorie now. And I mean, people buy these modern ones now, not for their afroat or towing capability.

[00:46:52] They buy them because they're fashionable to draw here. Yeah, and a high street in a pent out black one with all the loggies boxes. You see all the loggies boxes on the side and on the roof, which cost thousands extra.

[00:47:06] But they look cool, man, because they're a bit rugged. And then they go out and they got Louis Vuitton shoes on them. Snakes, skin trousers or something, because it's like really? You haven't seen a puddle. No, no, no, no, no, they're all detailed in P.P.F.

[00:47:20] And ceramic coated underneath. They have no idea, a bit of Louis did. No. They look good. Oh, one that smells of mignon. But hey, over it. Yeah, so you know, I think if you go to your library to type me,

[00:47:35] and I think you'll meet every type of person from every type of background. And the age group would be, you know, you start Volkswagen. It's a massive, big as that, I'd say. And that's very similar isn't it?

[00:47:48] The older generation are air cold guys and then the younger generations are into the air. But what we're very similar is the Porsche's very much to say. Cool. Let's see, right now. Yeah. Thank you very much, Johnny. It was been good fun. It took us two guys.

[00:48:05] Thanks for having us. It was going to be third time lucky. You done it, it took me five years. I didn't hate a schedule. Yeah, I didn't think we could go for a time lucky. Yeah. Nice, it's been good fun. I don't think you're much more having this.

[00:48:19] A debut outing for the machine, which is performed. I'm not sure if it's like, hopefully it's performed. It's performed, yeah, yeah. We see how it all comes out and every chop and changes there are in there. Good, nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going. That was some, yeah, alright.

[00:48:36] I'll chat with Danny James. It is garage with an expensive table. Yeah, keep your tea's off the table. Yeah, no rings. No, no, definitely not. Yeah, that was good fun. And we should add some sort of continuity.

[00:48:49] We are recording this wrap up a month or two after I guess once we've sorted all the audio up, it should go out soon. But yeah, there were some nice stories. Definitely. I never realized that one of them would kind of really stuck in my mind.

[00:49:02] I never realized that people got up at midnight to go and get a new car. No, me either. First off heard of it. I remember kind of as a kid.

[00:49:09] I guess children at school would go queue up for the latest whatever game it was that was coming out. Yeah, I seem to become a thing. But I do remember when it was new car day, I'd be sort of milling around.

[00:49:22] I guess it'd be before school and milling around that front of the shop. My mom and dad owned and they'd always be like a new car that would drift by at some point.

[00:49:31] So they must have been sort of readily available pretty early on if they were sort of driving around between not a looser than eight. So I guess it would be a sense. Yeah, I guess that's probably just a case that my family would never in that situation.

[00:49:44] They weren't buying new cars. So we never had to worry about. We'd always spot them if we went on kind of a long journey around that kind of time. It would be a bit of a kind of a game to see if you can see.

[00:49:55] I would have as an at-range or whatever it would be that year. But yeah, I wasn't aware that it would be that bigger thing but I suppose. Yeah, why wouldn't it be like yeah people need new cars but equally.

[00:50:07] I think there was a little bit of a status thing that he was alluding to say yeah, yeah, why wouldn't you want your new car kind of on in? Yeah. So yeah, we go off on a tangent but some redlander,

[00:50:18] recently we had his dad had a whole bunch of cars. I think before he was born from some sort of industrial accident that he bought kind of a fleet of vehicles. That's it. And then yeah, kind of calm down a bit.

[00:50:30] I had a beach buggy which is how he met his mum. And then yeah, they had I think some forwards. Did they fall to Ryan? Paul Escort I think. There's there's some Rover action wasn't there so I guess.

[00:50:41] That's right. I think the Rover's came a little bit after. Hmm. Still sort of fitting around the British car wasn't it? Yeah. Rather than, you obviously he's in the German stuff. So yeah, forwards and rovers. Hmm. One of those, I think the square rovers. That's it. Yeah.

[00:50:57] I think it was a pretty interesting, but all these ladies. But yeah, particularly ugly not wanting to offend any Rover owners. I think higher synth bouquet had one in keeping up appearances for... Oh, you might be right actually. I was been rich and I was at it.

[00:51:10] Was it the driver? That's it. Yeah, I think it was a blue one maybe. Might be round that. A bit of product placement from Boston Rover at the time. This will make you look up a class. That's what I was saying.

[00:51:21] Yeah, I did always used to get that impression with drivers of those particular models I thought there was sort of very regal and then reality. It was not a great car for memory, not great to look at anyway.

[00:51:32] Yeah, I don't think they were particularly fantastic, but I think they were very well-specked What they did follow on. We were talking about kind of armrests and I think to record a material being quite nice and then possibly a kind of electric windows and stuff.

[00:51:45] Quite spongy seats, I think. That's sort of. Quite yummy. Nice cloth. So yeah, I think they were well-specked. They were just sort of lacking a little bit on the style stakes. Which is arguably why maybe you don't see them at many of these days.

[00:51:57] And yeah, the paint was dreadful. There's a slightly new one. I think he mentioned those as well like the sort of Honda pointy shape ones. That's it. Yeah. 400 down the road from the owner. I think obviously it's on a J-Play or a G-Play.

[00:52:11] And it should be dark green, but kind of his dark green, but all the lacquer is gone from it. Yeah. I did a red check on it a while, actually. I think it's probably around the year. And it has failed its MOT on a lot of stuff.

[00:52:24] And the guy seems to have sheld out, he must have spent a grab at least fixing that car back up again. Really? Wow. Fair play. He's probably a guy in, I don't know, it is 50s maybe, in his 60s.

[00:52:36] Perhaps so it's not like he's a pensioner like 90s. Yeah. And he's had it. But you might still have it since you. But maybe inherited it from Aaron. Yeah, possibly. I think Rover, that crossover from the sort of the SD1, SD1 isn't it? Is that the bottom? Yeah.

[00:52:54] That was kind of the 80s. Yeah. It's quite a sudden sort of cosmetic really. Quite a big change, isn't it? Like 80s and 90s and the crossover. Yeah. But yeah, I guess they'd always had that loyal following back then, didn't they?

[00:53:06] People were just going to keep buying it. I think so. I don't think what else you've had in there. Oh, talking about land drovers. He had some sort of Batman utility belt thing in there, you were to carry it everywhere, which had an ingest to our in it.

[00:53:19] Then just start, yeah. Yeah. I'll do sure why that was being carried. No. So yeah, there we go. Well, I'm, yeah, big thanks to Danny for joining us. Yeah. Yeah, really enjoyed that. Hopefully you will enjoy it too. We will try and do some more video stuff.

[00:53:35] We've just got a pick the right time and place. Yeah, the right guests have enough batteries for it all to work. Yeah. I'll enjoy that pleasure. No, it's pretty good. You wrap up, roll the credits. Back to you for listening to my doubts card.

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