Helen Stanley: James Bond, Noel Gallagher, 405 Mi16, BMW E36, and the latest online car buying experience S3E9

[00:00:00] Welcome to my Dads Car, Enjoy!

[00:00:12] Welcome to my Dads Car, a podcast discussing our personal relationship with automotive

[00:00:17] nostalgia.

[00:00:18] And you know what?

[00:00:19] It doesn't even have to be about your Dads Car.

[00:00:21] It can be your mum's, your grand, your parents, guardians or even her neighbours.

[00:00:26] If it made an impression, let's talk about it.

[00:00:28] Oh are you alright?

[00:00:35] Yeah, not too bad, yeah, yourself?

[00:00:37] Yeah, not too bad, yeah.

[00:00:38] Hi Helen, hello Helen.

[00:00:40] Hello!

[00:00:41] How you doing?

[00:00:42] I'm good, how are you?

[00:00:43] Yeah, we're good, thank you.

[00:00:44] I'm Andy and this is Jon.

[00:00:45] Nice to meet you.

[00:00:46] Nice to kind of meet you.

[00:00:47] I feel like we need a new word for this, don't we?

[00:00:50] That way you're not actually meeting someone, it's just technology but yeah, nice to meet

[00:00:54] you over Zoom.

[00:00:55] Sometimes people say, e-me, don't they own emails which I find quite a nasty term actually.

[00:01:00] Yeah, it's a bit annoying because we'll come up with something better.

[00:01:03] Yeah, I was wondering about blending the word Zoom and Meet but I'm not sure kind of how

[00:01:07] that zed.

[00:01:08] Zed?

[00:01:09] I think that's a hair removal crane isn't it?

[00:01:10] Sounds a bit like it or moon.

[00:01:13] Meet, moon.

[00:01:14] Don't know.

[00:01:15] It needs a bit of work doesn't it?

[00:01:18] Yeah, I think so.

[00:01:19] I'm back to that.

[00:01:21] So yeah, thank you very much for joining us.

[00:01:23] Oh, thank you for inviting me.

[00:01:25] It's really nice to be to invite me on.

[00:01:27] Yeah, for the benefit of the tape really I reached out to you about coming on to the podcast.

[00:01:32] Turns out your friends were the friend of mine Kelly who's involved in the Max Power reunion scene.

[00:01:37] Yes, she built kind of show cars and stuff back in the day and I thought I would send you a

[00:01:42] little message and see what your story was and it turns out you've kind of blamed your dad for it all.

[00:01:46] Yeah, exactly funny that.

[00:01:48] So yeah, Kelly's wonderful.

[00:01:49] I love her to bits.

[00:01:50] I've met her kind of, yeah, through Max Power really and through social media and yeah she's

[00:01:55] she's fab.

[00:01:56] And yeah, my dad is responsible for my petrol headness and although I think I was born with it but

[00:02:02] I think he kind of made it worse or better.

[00:02:05] You know?

[00:02:06] And I guess yeah, a quick background for those who kind of aren't aware of what you get

[00:02:10] up to these days you got a podcast haven't you?

[00:02:13] Yes.

[00:02:14] Cars of the Macarb is it called?

[00:02:15] That's correct.

[00:02:16] Yeah, well done for that time.

[00:02:17] Yeah, so I do that with my cousin Alison and it's a true crime and paranormal podcast

[00:02:23] and then the link throughout is cars.

[00:02:26] Yeah.

[00:02:27] So it's a bit it's kind of a very sort of I wouldn't say a weak link, that's the wrong word but it doesn't govern the stories.

[00:02:34] It's just you know for example one of our episodes was about the Waco siege and David Kuresh's

[00:02:41] Camero which used to be a museum in Vegas so that's quite good link and haunted roads, spooky roads,

[00:02:48] things like that.

[00:02:49] It's generally is paranormal and true crime and then the fact that it's just got cars to link it all together.

[00:02:54] Nice.

[00:02:55] And then in your spare time I guess in inverteccomers you've done some TV stuff and you do a bit of art as well?

[00:03:00] Yeah, so I do art full-time now and I've done quite a few TV series.

[00:03:06] I did Goblin Works Garage which was on Discovery and Quest.

[00:03:11] Yeah.

[00:03:12] And I also did a series called I'm not driving that so BBC Eye Player,

[00:03:17] which was loosely I can describe it as a custom car show.

[00:03:21] So customizing cars for first time drivers and I also did motor pickers.

[00:03:26] Yeah, yeah.

[00:03:27] A show with Paul Cowland which was basically helping people buy cars because there's so much choice out there they don't know where to start

[00:03:34] and then also I did a series called Welles Graces Cars.

[00:03:39] So we basically argued with each other about what were the Welles Graces cars so it was good really just told to argue which was fast.

[00:03:48] So if we jump into things, what's your earliest car memory or earliest motoring memory?

[00:03:54] So as I mentioned my dad loves cars and so it's probably one of the first things I can remember is playing with cars playing with toy cars.

[00:04:03] And also James Bond his cars.

[00:04:07] So I used to watch James Bond with my dad and the thing I was most kind of drawn to was you know the amazing Bond cars so that's probably playing with toy cars

[00:04:18] and watching Bond films with Dad, that's probably what started it.

[00:04:23] We're talking Roger Moore or Connery or all of them.

[00:04:27] All of them?

[00:04:28] Yeah.

[00:04:29] I love James Bond films so I mean I specifically quite vividly remember the Lotus that went underwater.

[00:04:36] Yeah.

[00:04:37] And I used to try and recreate that in the bath with a Lotus.

[00:04:41] Some reason that Lotus really kind of stuck with me and yeah, I remember it like it was yesterday.

[00:04:46] They did some nice toys didn't they?

[00:04:47] Like the Bond ones seem to remember that white Lotus where the sides kind of popped out and everything.

[00:04:52] Yeah and I did have the Aston Martin where you press the buttons from guns popped out and then a screen popped up at the back which was kind of like bullet proof and yeah that was great.

[00:05:02] I mean, I had Barbies as well but Barbie always had a Ferrari so it always revolved around cars.

[00:05:07] Massively jumping ahead because the James Bond thing influenced your interest in custom cars.

[00:05:12] Possibly because you know I mean look at like we said the Lotus and the Aston Martin they own customised weren't they?

[00:05:19] So maybe subconsciously it did.

[00:05:21] Yeah, yeah.

[00:05:22] Generally feel I love films.

[00:05:24] I love comics and computer games so all that kind of amazing pop culture definitely has had and still does have a massive influence.

[00:05:33] What do you remember as the first vehicle kind of travelling in what would your parents drive in back in the day?

[00:05:38] So my dad used to be a builder he had his own building company and so we used to go around in the van quite a lot.

[00:05:44] He said love going in the van.

[00:05:46] The first one I remember was like a feet of van and then he had a Volkswagen transporter van after that as well.

[00:05:54] And then I remember him buying which was the first car he let me drive so this is when I was 17 so that's moving forward a bit.

[00:06:02] It was a three series BMW E30 no not E30 E36 sorry and while I was learning to drive he let me drive that and that gave me the bug for BMW use.

[00:06:13] So he's always had a cool work van and then he's always had like an ice car on the side to enjoy so that's a nice place to start.

[00:06:21] Yeah, it is isn't it E36 isn't it yeah oh yeah definitely and you know I was used to going my fiesta my mark through fiesta which you know you put your foot right to the floor and then about five minutes later it would go somewhere.

[00:06:33] And then all of a sudden I'm in this E36 and you know you put your foot down a little bit in comparison and it was like to me it was like a rocket ship and I was like right yeah okay.

[00:06:43] Got to set was like on this for the future so was it a mark two Fiesta you save your first car then it was mark three fiesta not three okay yeah limited edition sunray okay the only thing I can think of is limited edition about it really was it had kind of a spoiler on the back had fog lamps on the front that didn't work

[00:07:01] and it had some stickers on it that said sunray so that was the special edition of the car but it was very cool for first car though.

[00:07:07] What color was the sunray yellow no it wasn't it was this really cool metallic dark gray British special edition yeah yeah it should have been no so a really nice metallic blue color okay yeah the deal of special edition it's sort of a license to print money wasn't it really they just kind of come up with a name like that yeah yeah

[00:07:25] here's a packet of stickers and a new air freshener we've got to get rid of this.

[00:07:29] Yeah.

[00:07:31] Call it the sunray yeah that's there we go sunray yeah I was brilliant I love that car and you know it's like when you first start driving it's sure it's the first sense of proper freedom because

[00:07:43] you know you've obviously got your you room at your home and everything but now got your car which is all yours and you can go anywhere in it so very fun memories that car.

[00:07:51] So live a long life didn't do too badly I had it for how long did I have I had it for like two three years and then after that I had one of the new beetles when they were the new

[00:08:03] beetle okay with the flowers in the dash flower in the dash yeah second hand one but it was a don't you done seven thousand miles it was quite an

[00:08:11] upgrade from the fiesta which I think when I got rid of it the start of motion gone and as if you know it's like I'm going to need to

[00:08:19] move doing so ended up upgrading to that which was very nice.

[00:08:22] Did your mom drive as well yeah mom drives as well but she's not really in the cars not like me and my dad.

[00:08:29] What did she have growing up if your dad was in a van and a BM yeah don't worry about kind of cool points here we sort of

[00:08:35] we enjoy kind of the weird the wonderful she's had pick up trucks as well so you still living.

[00:08:39] Sussex and we had horses and animals and things like that so they were kind of you know utility because she had I remember oh god

[00:08:47] I don't know what the model would have been called but it was a diacy four by four that was pretty cool yeah yeah and then she's driven pick up trucks and things I mean they split up when I was quite young so okay it's yeah they

[00:09:01] have set up cars but yeah she's had a few pick up trucks and she's got a really nice Volvo XC 60 in a minute so yeah she doesn't do a bad deal on cars doesn't care as much but she you know she still has driven some cool cars remember

[00:09:14] friends with parents with kind of interest in vehicles growing up anything kind of envious on the school run I don't

[00:09:21] remember being envious of anything I remember like six we had we had horses and things so I used to go to pony club and we used to go to points point and horse racing

[00:09:31] things like that my mom and dad actually come from a horse racing background okay and I remember lots of people having rain drivers with a spit tailgate you know you

[00:09:39] know you arrive at these various places and you pull one pot down sit on it they'll be a picnic in the back and that was really cool I always liked the idea of that yeah yeah but now I

[00:09:49] always liked my dad's cars so before he had the BMW he had I don't know if you remember this it was a perjot MI 16 405 wasn't it yeah that was in like a dark grey color

[00:10:01] before everyone's cars are dark grey and yeah he had that before the Bimmer and that was really cool so no I didn't didn't

[00:10:09] really have any car envy because you know my dad's always been super cool so there are any cars from his past that you sort of really like

[00:10:17] or sort of thought I want to get where I'm at I'm old enough or in the future so he learned to drive in the mini proper mini like lots

[00:10:25] of our parents this I'd I'd love to have an old school mini one day just to have as a little toy because there's so much fun to drive so yeah definitely I remember he had a

[00:10:36] hillman imp as well which he said was dreadful and he regrets buying it every day because you know there's so many things that went wrong with it

[00:10:43] but what else did he have that was again like the 36 I'd have that back

[00:10:50] dream board engine it had in it I think how many exhausts I don't remember that I wouldn't pay an attention to

[00:10:58] that element of it it was all about the way it looked yeah what color was it it was like a mid grey color

[00:11:04] metallic it was really nice I think it was a 325 nice is it okay but we're a fordor it was a fordor I think

[00:11:13] yeah my memory is pretty bad I've actually got a photo of it somewhere I should have double

[00:11:19] checks in my see in my head it was a 2 door because that's way cooler but I think it may have been

[00:11:23] slightly more practical and it may have been a fordor but yeah don't quite be on that to come remember

[00:11:28] any any music which your dad would listen to while you're kind of out and about in the car yeah so

[00:11:33] dad's also responsible for my absolute obsession with music I love music the not minute goes by in

[00:11:39] the day where I've not got music playing he's a big rolling stones fan oh cool and when I think

[00:11:45] I was 23 he got us a ticket and we went sorry my dogs are barking in the back yeah we went see the

[00:11:53] rolling stones at Millennium Stadium in Cove which is awesome oh well really cool we have

[00:11:58] matching t-shirts and everything so yeah a lot of rolling stones rock and roll like rock and roll

[00:12:05] quite a lot of 60s 70s a little bit 50s sometimes and so you know I've grown up with a really

[00:12:12] broad sort of start with music because he listens to sort of lots and really really good stuff

[00:12:19] I mean I've got so many playlists so I used to make him mix CDs and mix tapes and then when

[00:12:25] technology that violence and that wasn't as easy to do anymore my sister and I got him his own

[00:12:31] Spotify and so now we can make him playlists and we send them to the people who still do that and

[00:12:36] yeah there'll be anything on those playlists from sort of 90s indeed to David Bowie to the King's

[00:12:45] the Beatles obviously rolling stones but yeah really good stuff you know more than stuff as well he'll

[00:12:51] be like oh have you heard this band and you know he listens to stuff I haven't heard of so yeah

[00:12:55] it's a lot of music and lots of cars throughout my life so it's pretty cool it's funny how I can kind

[00:13:01] of funny enough I found a mix cassette that I made from my dad years ago and it was a racist on one

[00:13:07] side and I can't remember where the other side was but he obviously liked like what your dad like

[00:13:11] you know stones Beatles all that sort of stuff and then by the time it sort of evolves into a racist

[00:13:16] and stuff that's kind of when the young pass it onto them isn't it and yeah let's just funny how

[00:13:22] it kind of goes full circle yeah I think probably one of the best memories of my life actually is

[00:13:28] not last year before took my dad my stepmom and my partner we went to go and see no

[00:13:34] and his high-flying birds in in Wales because my dad is back in Wales and I'm lucky enough to know

[00:13:40] attacker and grandfather and feeder and they were supporting Null and so we had artist passes which

[00:13:47] was brilliant because I always buy tickets or we support them but if they can get me a pass that

[00:13:52] is just you know added bonus and we actually met Null you know he was really really kind to my dad

[00:13:59] and it was just so nice to meet your heroes and you know they're actually better than you thought

[00:14:04] they were going to be and we watched from the side of the stage we watched Null play live that

[00:14:08] I was just like oh that's a good moment to be able to take my dad back to stage at an old

[00:14:12] Gallagher gig yeah you know paying back for all the cool stuff he's done for me fantastic any road trips

[00:14:19] you remember as kind of as a kid did you go on sort of car-based holidays or were

[00:14:22] yeah we used to drive down to I'm from Sussex and we used to drive down to Cornwall quite a lot

[00:14:28] and I remember always putting cars on the way yeah yeah you know with dads and it was in the car just

[00:14:34] you and your sister and your dad I guess or maybe you said my sister's quite a bit younger than

[00:14:39] me she's my heart sister so when we used to go down to Cornwall that was really back in the day

[00:14:44] when my mum and dad were still together so it would have been my dad my mum and me driving down to

[00:14:48] Cornwall and then we used to also drive to Wales because that's where my dad's family are from

[00:14:53] and again always spot in cars um we're in Sussex where you that's where I am oh yeah that's where I was

[00:14:59] so yeah I went to school it's standing you know standing okay I'm in Worthing oh okay yeah so

[00:15:05] Brighton was our place to play and yeah I was at went to school in standing and lived in kind of

[00:15:10] like Sturrington Washington fake and go area yeah cool we're about to you I'm in Worthing

[00:15:16] I could see the 827 and my window oh amazing so and I'm probably 10 minutes from standing by pass

[00:15:22] and that makes sense obviously Kelly's dance episode is she yeah yeah it's interesting always

[00:15:26] nice we have in someone's from around this way yeah I was down there last week actually

[00:15:31] with my friend and we went down to Sussex I had um this really cool a Genesis GV80 okay I borrowed

[00:15:40] it from Genesis and I was just you know I'm a bit anti not anti new cars but I'm just so used to

[00:15:46] driving older cars you know my daily's 25 years old now who are Genesis obviously apart from Phil

[00:15:53] Colin yeah who are Genesis are they kind of the side project of Mitsubishi or something like that

[00:16:00] are they standard loan no no there's a standard loan Korean manufacturer I've never heard of them

[00:16:04] until a few years ago and I met somebody who worked for them at the Max Power Show okay yeah

[00:16:09] Regis randomly and so I borrowed a GV70 and then I've just had a GV80 and they're big four by fours

[00:16:17] but you know I was just like oh not gonna love it it's not gonna have any personality but absolutely

[00:16:22] loved it so yeah we went on a road trip down south in one of their cars which was awesome are we

[00:16:26] talking like electric yeah I was gonna say electric hybrid or no petrol okay keeping it real with

[00:16:32] petrol yeah could you publicly give your opinion on the EV oh yeah I always do yeah I don't

[00:16:37] think it's the future I think it's an alternative in the fact that you know it's a different type of

[00:16:43] vehicle so you can get a diesel vehicle you can get a petrol vehicle you can get an electric vehicle

[00:16:48] and it performs differently but it's definitely not the answer with regards to environmental factors

[00:16:54] and I don't think the you know setups not there the setup will never be there no for what their sort

[00:17:01] of predicting electric cars should do I actually think hydrogen and sort of alternative fuels are

[00:17:06] about a way to go and I've always said that I'm not an EV fan it's a bit of an ongoing theme isn't

[00:17:11] it Andy among a good handful of people we've had on have said a similar sort of thing I was

[00:17:15] so mentioned hydrogen as well as an alternative option yeah I think a lot of people early on were

[00:17:20] too scared to say but I know I'm a bit of a gob-shite so I just say what I think I wouldn't want to

[00:17:25] drive an EV at all that's far enough oh yeah respect your honesty obviously some people would have

[00:17:30] to kind of protect their career and motorism or whatever wouldn't then sit on a fence yeah no

[00:17:36] I'm an artist so I can get away with more I just seems to me I've never been involved personally in

[00:17:42] an EV but like the infrastructure to run it and like say you were doing a Cornwall Devon trip from

[00:17:47] Sussex that would be a major headache on paper to me I don't know maybe you can do it quite

[00:17:52] smoothly but to me it seems like it could go badly wrong you know with charging points and

[00:17:58] range and all that sort of stuff I don't know yeah I think it is achievable but you have to

[00:18:03] completely change the way you drive and the way to approach journeys because you plan and things

[00:18:09] like that I think you know from people I've spoken to sort of the shorter journeys commuting in

[00:18:14] the city things like that they're pretty good where they go charge and point to charge and point

[00:18:19] but you know people I've spoken to who have gone on long journeys it's not the most efficient way

[00:18:24] to doing a thing it's a bit like yeah going camping with a mobile phone isn't it really like you

[00:18:28] know you're gonna get a day out of it yeah but actually if you're going to Glastonbury for the weekend

[00:18:33] somewhere you're gonna have to charge your phone and similar with that isn't it like if you're

[00:18:37] going on a long journey somewhere you're gonna have to stop for a big lunch yeah exactly what if the

[00:18:43] charge is broken as well when you get there and yeah then it out pedals as an override yeah

[00:18:49] Flintstone a Flintstone flat but I opposite to the James Bond sort of opening roof wouldn't

[00:18:53] you have it on the floor instead stick your feet there I imagine that in like your toy shops all the

[00:18:59] kids playing with those I've got this EV and it's got a Flintstone for them just put your fingers

[00:19:04] through so I want to then finger skateboards you'll be onto something there now yeah we'll add

[00:19:09] that to the list on my dad's car franchise yeah yeah every grown list and any smells of note from

[00:19:16] your parents vehicles oh my god so yes I get migraines quite easily and do you remember those

[00:19:23] god awful air fresheners that look like traffic lights a plastic gem in the middle of them and they

[00:19:31] just smell horrendous I think if I smell one now I've been taken back to being Catholic when I was

[00:19:38] a child but yeah it's just giving me into the migraine I think they're quite sought after now aren't

[00:19:41] they Andy they're quite sort of genuine like vintage thing we had a guest and we on that had an

[00:19:47] old man and he saw swan yeah it was close to 40 quid oh my god exactly yeah I think the trick is

[00:19:54] is when you pierce it you don't cut it open fully don't you know you suppose to sort of prize

[00:19:59] that open quite carefully probably like a magic tree yeah yeah yeah they work quite overpowering

[00:20:05] though aren't they sort of oh the old freshener freshener always try and tuck one under a calm out

[00:20:08] something so dilute the smell rather than yeah oh no I get Catholic if I'm not sitting in the front

[00:20:17] and I can see out at the front window I get really classic and just for some reason that smell

[00:20:22] as soon as like that smell it's just start to get motion sickness leave it there for I'm not even

[00:20:26] in a car yeah yeah think someone said before about sometimes some of the plastics in the older cars

[00:20:32] when they used to heat up there's a smell with those that used to kind of trigger a vomit incident

[00:20:38] yeah and I remember being driven sort of in relatives or friends of the family who would smoke my

[00:20:44] parents didn't smoke but there was people who did they'd smoke in the car but the windows

[00:20:50] would be up and they just have like the air on the side I mean I don't know what they thought I

[00:20:54] was going to do but that was awful yeah I sampled that it's amazing that I'm six foot four to be

[00:21:00] surprised I didn't sort of stop growing it or something and do you recall your dad selling cars

[00:21:08] you know what sort of became of like the MI 16 or the BMW where was he buying them was he a free

[00:21:14] ads man or a good question postcard in a shop window dealership I think he I remember him

[00:21:22] auto trader was always thinking he'd look at and I'm pretty sure that's where he used to advertise

[00:21:27] any cars that he sold as well yeah I think he he would have thought some stuff from the dealership

[00:21:33] because he drives a Mercedes now I cannot remember I'm not regular modern cars so I don't know

[00:21:37] what model it is but he got that from the dealership and he had a Mitsubishi L200 as a work vehicle

[00:21:46] and that was from a dealership so he's kind of done a bit of both yeah the auto trader thing

[00:21:52] that she takes me back I remember my dad was in the trade he was an upholstera a coach trimmer but

[00:21:57] he'd sort of dabbled in classic bikes and cars and stuff on the side I remember he used to have

[00:22:01] the auto trader guy come round like on a Friday so it intake the photos so like if he had some ads

[00:22:06] to place this guy would turn up with a camera to take the pictures that must have been kind of

[00:22:10] really mid-90s probably yeah well is it completely gone now the physical edition of auto trader

[00:22:17] I assume it must be isn't it yes so I don't know whether you can still buy a copy of it I don't

[00:22:21] know I wonder I feel like I should Google that because it's kind of a shame isn't it I know like

[00:22:26] all magazines and everything are sort of fading out but it is a shame that that's happening

[00:22:31] I'm assuming it has gone because the nature of the modern ways of everything's digitalized

[00:22:36] things just go quick don't know it's out of date as soon as you print yeah you phone up was

[00:22:40] it still there no it's gone three days ago yeah oh god yeah it's funny isn't it

[00:22:46] that's so nice though wasn't there about flicking through and I'll copy of auto trader back in the day

[00:22:50] and like you know what everyone used to do it didn't they set a budget of whatever it was and find

[00:22:55] stuff that's you know with or just outside it yeah definitely it's like you know going back in time

[00:23:02] to it like we were saying about making mixtape and things like that there's something yeah

[00:23:06] it was quite nice that you did actually have to take time to look for a car and go see it and

[00:23:12] you know do all the things and and the same with mixtape should take the time to do stuff and I

[00:23:17] think everything now is very instantaneous and yeah lose a little bit kind of I guess there's still

[00:23:23] those kind of magazines for older vehicles isn't there but like say modern vehicles the people

[00:23:29] that are buying them they're probably just not they're not going to entertain that sort of entry into

[00:23:33] looking for a car now are they yeah true I think if you're peddling like a traction engine or something

[00:23:39] that you probably put it in that kind of monthly publication and so we've come up with this

[00:23:46] concept the other day and sort of taking influence from Twitter and going back to sort of how things

[00:23:52] were that we thought maybe we should have a digital version of like the old classified ads where

[00:23:57] you only have like 30 words and you have to use all the kind of the FSH full service history you

[00:24:03] can only have a black and white picture one picture we were thinking we might call it part X as

[00:24:08] a nod towards X now being Twitter I like that so much and it's kind of almost nothing against them

[00:24:13] but kind of the sort of polar opposite of the collecting cars which is like the shiny polished

[00:24:18] sort of hypercar walk around video narrated by Chris Harris type thing and on the other end you've

[00:24:24] got this sort of really gritty website which is made up of acronyms in order to get in your 30 word

[00:24:33] live it yeah and you have to phone yeah you have to phone and you have to sit there for a minute

[00:24:37] workout what some of the acronyms actually mean preferably a landline phone number as well so

[00:24:43] yeah it would be nice and you can only call after six but not after eight

[00:24:51] the dimmer time window that's it yeah otherwise it's too late like casualties on or heartbeat or

[00:24:56] something yeah and that's a brilliant idea I remember hey I met an old friend of my dad's ages

[00:25:02] guy this was he's still in New York my auntie or something and he said that when they used to

[00:25:06] want to go and arrange to go down the pub because of the price of phone calls they used to do like a two

[00:25:11] or three ring thing so one of them would call each other not answer it but he'd hang up after three

[00:25:17] rings and then they had no to go to the pub that night basically it's a very clever system isn't it

[00:25:23] yeah we used to have that as the got home safe like if you've done a long journey from a relative

[00:25:27] that was like oh yeah just give us three rings when you get home yeah yeah

[00:25:31] nice and but yeah I'm not going to be referred to trips to the pub far more resourceful

[00:25:37] any excuse well that's it you just you arrange with your friends to be somewhere you would

[00:25:42] just be there wouldn't you you know there's no if you were late everyone had already gone or you know

[00:25:48] you were just late that's kind of I guess timekeeping was a bit more important then

[00:25:52] so mad concept isn't it to explain to a kid you know we didn't have the means to communicate with

[00:25:58] each other we just had to turn up and actually hope that that friend would keep their word and be

[00:26:04] that exactly yeah anything else we needed to ask you with regards to cars from your childhood

[00:26:10] teachers perhaps have got vehicles of interest this is the time to get it off your chest head

[00:26:15] and if you've got anything this sort of no no teachers um it's just I mean it really is you know

[00:26:23] it was dad dad had the cool cars and dad is where I got all my love for cars and my love for

[00:26:28] music from so yeah did you get a car shows with him you could kind of get that far into it

[00:26:34] yeah yeah we did we used to um we'd go to like local ones and then since I sort of got into

[00:26:39] customizing cars before Goblin started and then when Goblin's on yeah we go to you know lots

[00:26:44] of cars show together yeah yeah yeah yeah it's nice it's nice going to cars show to dad but then

[00:26:49] also do live music with dad as well so if there's a car show with live music that's even better

[00:26:54] I think he had a particular influence with regards to cars at all do you have any idea why he was

[00:26:59] kind of into it and I think his dad liked cars a lot my granddad he was into cars and motorbikes

[00:27:09] as well my dad had my twice when he was a lot younger so yeah that was definitely from granddad

[00:27:15] so it just seems to be passed down it's definitely in the blood I was going to ask actually is um

[00:27:20] see given the things you've done anyone in particular you think we ought to speak to who's got

[00:27:25] really interesting story along this lines Paul Kowland have you spoken to him before? I've

[00:27:30] messaged him yeah I have spoken to him with regards to coming on I think his dad owned a car

[00:27:34] dealership is that right? Yeah Paul has got so many good stories relating to cars so I definitely

[00:27:41] recommend talking to him and and also his car history is quite unusual and he likes quite unusual

[00:27:45] things so yeah Paul Kowland definitely cool I'll chase him up and try and make it happen or say

[00:27:51] Helen says yeah Helen well thank you very much for yeah sparing a bit of time for us and sharing

[00:27:59] your memories thanks Helen thanks guys thank you for inviting me on it's love he's talked to you

[00:28:04] yeah nice to meet you you too yeah later cool that was good fun wasn't it yeah short and sweet

[00:28:11] yeah not really sort of in debt but yes some nice memories there with obviously your dad's cars

[00:28:17] I guess the E36 sounds like that's sort of the pivotal vehicle yeah and um especially back then

[00:28:22] I guess it would have been near to new wouldn't it so yeah a bit special and nice music memories as well

[00:28:27] I guess and yeah similar ages I suppose that our father's been into stones that kind of rock stuff

[00:28:34] yeah yeah I'd like to have seen the stones like obviously they're still going but some yeah you kind

[00:28:39] of think they get to a point where like they just sort of roll in them out just for when to see the

[00:28:44] who in probably not mid to late 2000s okay similar sort of thing aren't they but yeah that was

[00:28:50] kind of one to tick off back in the day and you good very good yeah is it beauty funnily enough keeping

[00:28:55] the the car link nice um yeah it's very loud I remember it being very loud that was good all these

[00:29:02] old people were there allowed music yeah funnily enough is friend of mine as his dad that took us

[00:29:08] I guess it's one of those things he probably wanted to go to yeah um thought ah I'll take the kids

[00:29:13] along as well why not that's sort of an educational type thing though isn't it like in a similar way

[00:29:18] that if you have the opportunity to buy tickets for a racist or the verbal whatever you might go

[00:29:24] actually yeah I might tell the kids along yeah yeah like and just give them an experience of the

[00:29:28] music from your your youth yeah yeah not a back gig no it's good um yeah it makes you wonder how

[00:29:34] much longer you're gonna have left to see the stones isn't it really I can't keep going on can

[00:29:39] it no they're all the define the laws of whatever it might be three piece now as well aren't they actually

[00:29:45] yes thanks well I assume there is a standing drum otherwise it's going to be very

[00:29:49] it's all very acoustic very quiet yeah but yeah back onto Helen stuff I've listened to a few of her

[00:29:57] podcasts actually they've been quite interesting they did one all done on the Essex Boys murders

[00:30:02] which there was a film and a documentary and stuff made about it about the Range Rover

[00:30:06] and yeah quite interested to hear about it from that sort of side I think the car has been restored

[00:30:11] yeah I think it went into auction not that long ago and different insane amount yeah I don't know

[00:30:19] whether you would you want that car well the thing isn't it I think there's loads of different films

[00:30:25] isn't there and documentaries on the subject but I believe in one of the films or the franchises

[00:30:30] I think they actually use the exact car in one scene okay um film stuff in it which I'm sure was

[00:30:37] very sort of strange to sit in yeah a lot in character of the people that met a sad demise yeah

[00:30:45] just climb into these seats they've got holes in the headrest yeah exactly just stop breathing for

[00:30:51] a minute we're just going to put some catch up on your face yeah is that red wine on the seat there

[00:30:54] nice yeah I wouldn't fancy getting in there to be honest no not even with it being restored but

[00:31:01] each to their own yeah exactly but no definitely go and check out Helen's artwork as well that's

[00:31:06] really special stuff yeah it's cool isn't it yeah really good I'm good to get Helen's endorsement on

[00:31:11] the part X classified yeah yeah I show me you've copyrighted that have you and she might run

[00:31:19] off for that and I haven't yeah I looked up the domains the other day I think someone understandably

[00:31:27] has got part X dot com dot credit UK and I've got too many things on to be creating a

[00:31:32] classified website but I think it's a fun talking point isn't it thanks sir yeah yeah it gets off

[00:31:38] the ground yeah and yeah just I suppose a memory of how those things used to be done but yeah good

[00:31:44] to get Helen on and yeah nice speak to her you see on kind of Instagram liking stuff that we've put

[00:31:49] up so she is kind of actually following what we're doing rather than just sort of agreeing to come

[00:31:53] on and having nothing to do with it so yeah no that's really kind massive help isn't it this

[00:31:58] well for the lights of us at this stage of where things are things like that do do go a long way

[00:32:03] yeah absolutely so yeah very grateful for that yeah um oh we should we should do us thanks to Steve

[00:32:10] who bought us some coffees didn't he after we had him on he was on the last episode which will go

[00:32:14] out so yeah thank you very much Steve thanks Steve okay don't keep with that in mind then we'll wrap

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