Martin "Chuff" Wall: My Dad's Cars just had to make it through another MOT. Ford Cortinas, Tiny Caravans, Camping, BMX and old Volkswagens S3E5
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Martin "Chuff" Wall: My Dad's Cars just had to make it through another MOT. Ford Cortinas, Tiny Caravans, Camping, BMX and old Volkswagens S3E5

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Andy and Jon are joined by Chuff, from Well Chuffed Media. He's an automotive photographer by trade, and Andy's had the pleasure of his professional company (that sounds a bit sordid) on a number of photoshoots with work. 
Talk starts with Chuff's cousin's Mk2 Golf GTI, then moves into a string of Ford Cortina's, takes in a full list, made in conjunction with his Mum, and rounds up with mention of VW campers, and Volkswagen Jettas too. 
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    [00:00:00] Welcome to my Dads Car, Andy Gregory Welcome to My Dads Car, a podcast discussing our personal relationship with all the modes of your staff. And you know what? It doesn't even have to be about your Dads

    [00:00:21] car. You can be your mum's, your grand's, your parents, gardens or even a neighbours. If it made an impression, let's talk about it. Hello, how you doing, mum? Hello. All right, how are you? Yeah, I can't see either of you. But that's fine.

    [00:00:41] I'm assuming now. First time I ever get to the thing early Andy in the video doesn't work or it goes. So yeah, quick, right. Martin or Chaff, we happy with Chaff. Yeah, everyone's got a nice to meet you, Chaff. Hi, I'm A. How's it going, all right?

    [00:00:56] Yeah, not too bad. So welcome along then and thank you for, yeah, a support in the podcast and be, uh, sparing a little bit of time to chat with us really. So um, for the benefit that

    [00:01:07] I met you through Volkswagen's and um, you're doing some photos for us at work when you're for Photoshop. I think probably we'll or at Volkswagen or one of those. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And yeah, let's jump into it. What's your, what's your earliest maturing memory?

    [00:01:22] Um, no, that was going to have a chat with you guys there to look at getting a list of cars from my mum of my Dads cars. Okay. I don't, and obviously that's where my earliest memories are.

    [00:01:33] I probably, so I'm from a list of my Dads cars that you'll really love a bit. The earliest memories that I've got in terms of big impact on me when I was maybe six or seven

    [00:01:44] and my cousin had a mark to go off GTI and every night again, he would take me out for the day and yeah, he drove that car. I felt like he was driving the doors off it and maybe now it wasn't quite so bad.

    [00:02:02] But at the time when I was little, it felt like he was driving the doors off it. And you know, football full of empty McDonald's rappers and that was a drink and stuff

    [00:02:11] and being a sort of 18, 19 year old, ladder where he was at the time with me, quite a lot younger. Were you setting the front or in the back or? Yeah, yeah, I signed the front and he was living in a like a gated block of flats

    [00:02:24] and he wheels at this kind of trick thing where he pulled up to the gates and he would say we had to say a special pass with for the gates to open and obviously he had a keyfold just down the side

    [00:02:34] and he could do it, you know, and you got to say catch up otherwise the gates were open and all this thing. I remember that really vividly and that's where my VW obsession started. Okay.

    [00:02:45] Then obviously, memories of my Dad and cars, although with my Dad it wasn't so much real passion for cars it was more a necessity thing. I don't think they really get my passion for cars as such from my Dad

    [00:02:58] but he had lots of cars, we didn't have a lot of money, he was self-employed carpenter and worked in various other roles but he had various little vans and cars. From what I remember, it was always a case again something that could get through at least one

    [00:03:12] I moved to maybe two. It was never a lot of money to buy something really fancy. There's always what can I get for 3, 4, 500 quid. They could get me through at least 12 months to enter the next one kind of thing. Yeah, yeah.

    [00:03:26] But I managed to get a list of some of them off my mum which is quite interesting because I was looking some of them up myself. Yeah, yeah. What's on the list then? What we got? Two seconds I will grab the list.

    [00:03:36] I thought it'd be quite a funny talking point for some of them. So, Mark 1, 4, Cortina. Nice. Hillman Avenger. Okay. That's in 100. Austin, 1300 estate. A white Mark 3, Cortina with a black roof. Nice. A yellow Mark 4, Cortina. A rusty red Mark 5, Cortina.

    [00:03:57] So, Pat and I have to quite a lot of hard stuff there to be fair. Bedford Van. Mini Van. Scoda Van. Attachy Van. Transit Van times 2. Good stuff. Voxel Astra State. Some funny shaped Renault. It's all my fucking on the Renault.

    [00:04:18] I'm not entirely sure which model that was. It's a Renault. Yeah, and a Rover 200 and then a Ford Orion which was probably the last one that he drove before he passed when I was like 11. So, yeah, the Ford, the Ford onion is be called it.

    [00:04:37] A two-tone dark blue on the top and like a grey on the bottom with a red strike pathway out of there. Yeah, I don't know if that was the standard or what. Yeah, I think it was. I think they did the min Mark 4 escort shape.

    [00:04:52] I'm Mark 5, I think in like a two-tone. Right. Yeah. The plushier ones, like the gear maybe. Mm. I think they did a quick or something like that. I think they called it. I think that was that Orion was a gear. Mm.

    [00:05:04] That was probably one of the most plush ones. Yeah. These in collection isn't it? Yeah. I had to look at the Datsom 100 if I'm honest. That's a bit before my time and you definitely don't see any of those about in the moment. Yeah.

    [00:05:19] We got any colours for those? For those cars? Yeah. Yeah. So, the one I remember the most actually is the rusty red 14 and about 5. Okay. So, the big square bodies almost like the Granada of the time was the similar shape. Yeah. But the big square headlights on it.

    [00:05:35] And I remember many, many holidays camping because we didn't really have any money to go abroad and stuff. And we would load that car up to the point where the back of it was almost touching

    [00:05:45] the ground and every frack and stuff just, you know, suitcases tied on and everything going camping away for a week and way must have caught more looks and where. And I really remember that car. I've got a funny story with a caravan relating to that car. Okay.

    [00:06:02] At some point, owning that car, I don't know how we came about it but my dad acquired a caravan to go with that car. And I want to say, caravan that sounds a lot more grand than it is. It was the name the Pop-I-Van.

    [00:06:14] It was literally big enough for two people to lie down in pretty much. Yeah. And there wasn't really anywhere for us kids to sleep. So my dad being the carer to be, he was gutted half of it and built some custom bunk beds in there for us kids.

    [00:06:31] Okay. And he spent a lot of his own time at materials and effort on doing so trying to keep cost down and trying to do things a tight, trying to build it all himself and made it.

    [00:06:43] And his real sort of pride and joy a bit like I've done that with my camp of Anna and we'll get on to that. Yeah. But it was his real baby and put a lot of effort into it and mum hated it. London mines the caravan.

    [00:06:57] She didn't like the toe in because it was before the days where caravans actually had any kind of stableisation technology of any kind. And if the caravan decided to start bouncing around, it would almost change lanes for you by pulling the back of the car left and right.

    [00:07:12] And like a dog wagging its tail kind of thing. So she just really hated it being towed and felt really unsafe when it was on the back of that Cortina. Yeah. I remember it being one of the biggest arguments that my mother dad had.

    [00:07:26] Because he came home from work one day and she sold it all Steve is out. So the caravan came out. You know, all my family joke that we talked about obviously.

    [00:07:37] But yeah, the gas bottle and the chain that was used to sort of secure the jockey wheel and stuff was all left on the front lawn and a builder driven off into the sunset with this caravan for like no money 20 quid or something because mum just wanted gone.

    [00:07:52] And this builder wanted to use it on his build inside as a tea caddy. But it could all sit in the war but have a cup of tea. It's in a block. And yeah, that haven't put all that effort and time into building it.

    [00:08:02] Yeah, there was a rail at day. Oh no. Being any sort of eight years old or whatever I was on nine years old or something. I remember that well. So you mentioned family. Have you got brothers and sisters as well? Yeah, yeah.

    [00:08:15] So I've got my sister and two step brothers actually now. Okay. How many of you in the Cortina? We'll talk back in the day. And so that would have been my mom with my dad and my sister. And I, okay.

    [00:08:26] The four of us in the Cortina all loaded up with a week's worth of camping gear and stuff. And that's back in the days when it was a metal framed tent with a really heavy canvas. Come on. Goes over the top. Yeah.

    [00:08:40] Not least kind of more modern lighting. Or where is your dad driving? Would you mum do some of the driving? Yeah, yeah. My mum's the driver has always been a driver but just that kind of classic.

    [00:08:48] If we're going on a big trip, it's the dad that does the driving and the mum's home pilot kind of thing really. Yeah, yeah. Where is your dad getting these cars? Chaftain. Back in the day. Yeah. Just through contacts or trade it. Yeah.

    [00:09:01] Well, at the local rag kind of thing, nowhere in particular, just drive it until you It's going to cost way too much together through another emergency and then scrap it and find another one that can last you these a few months if not, you know, one MOT's worth.

    [00:09:15] It's funny like looking back to that era. If you were in that situation there'd be such a vast number of options to go in. There in terms of a lot buying a banner, where is now you couldn't do it. Could you have done anything?

    [00:09:24] Like if you're looking for under a grand, it's struggling. It is really difficult now to get decent little second hand runabouts. Yeah.

    [00:09:33] The way things are going is even more difficult with different clean air zones popping up and all these other things because those cars aren't on the road anymore. Just to pick up an old banner for 500 quid that will last you a year.

    [00:09:45] Just tied you over until you get something else. It's just pretty much on her, but it was really difficult. Yeah, shame. It is. If you're in the car, they have the radio on or did your parents smoke?

    [00:09:56] What sort of, I don't know, always have music on quite big on music. Yeah, grew up listening to lots of different music in the take-back in the court team. Any favourites?

    [00:10:06] My dad had to back in the day he used to do a little bit of DJ in today. So it was all a good mixture, but it was always like Michael Jackson and you know, thriller, the whole album.

    [00:10:19] I remember because it came up on my phone on her iTunes other day which was just random Jimmy Neh, crocodile shoes. I remember that being played in the car. I was completely random. But I remember that being played on the take-back at some point.

    [00:10:37] I think that Jimmy Neh, I forget what his main song is. That's obviously one of them there's another one but it still gets paid on radio quite regularly. Yeah. And I'll feed his impact on that period as well, which is a big thing for me.

    [00:10:49] Yeah, I'll give him a quick go. Jimmy Neh starred in a, yeah, I think it's probably like 80s, 90s, crime drama called Spender. Yeah, yeah. He famously had a Sierra Sapphire Cosworth in that programme. Okay.

    [00:11:03] I think it was one of those sort of one season shows and then it disappeared from the face of the... Ain't no doubt? That's it. Yeah, that's it. There we go. Yeah.

    [00:11:14] Number one by all accounts, I'm fairly good with music but I couldn't hum me that tune if you paid me. I think if you heard it, he'd be surprised. Yeah. I won't attempt it now.

    [00:11:23] But all play it in the background because when I end up with a court case on my hands. Yeah. Big, big Jordi coming after us. So the courtespoir of when? What was after the courtespoir of when? What was after the caravan as well? More importantly.

    [00:11:37] Oh, did he get another one? What was a solution? No, no. So that was the end of our caravan experience as a family. That never really happened again. I remember Caravan, one of those is a kid actually and the whole kind of...

    [00:11:49] They used to call it, it's smoking where the cold thing kind of moves around and we had like this extra stabilizer bar yet to put on. Yeah, yeah.

    [00:11:56] We went through a kind of a spate of caravan and tow cars and it went from sort of sensible things like Montigo estate. We had a Sierra estate. Then I think, well, at one point we had a 1300 Astral.

    [00:12:06] We were pulling a caravan with like, you're four up in a 1300 Astral. It probably got like 60 horsepower and you've got a caravan full of all your stuff and a load of bikes and everything else. Yeah, no wonder you were getting to hills and everyone's shaking in the car.

    [00:12:20] Just try to help yourself get up and... Dad must have been like, do you know what? Let's just put up here. Yeah, this is fine. Yeah, country lanes in a caravan. Yeah, we'd know, I wouldn't want to do that.

    [00:12:32] But it's a business before you had to have done any extra lessons or anything to be able to tow something like that. You know, it's literally okay on and off you go. Well, they've gone back again. So now you don't need it. Yeah.

    [00:12:44] But yeah, for a period of time, it was a case that kind of a 30 something competent person couldn't tow anything. But like an 80 year old old lady could kind of just hop in her micro and hook up a caravan off the ghost.

    [00:12:55] Is it up to certain weight now or something? I think that was certain weight. You don't know, maybe. I may be. But just mental, like say the car is not powered enough to be able to handle that weight.

    [00:13:05] No, if it's all this gone, you know that old race. Yeah, it was horrible. I think when you're in the car, it's all getting buffeted around and... Yeah, absolutely. I don't think I've ever been involved with a caravan.

    [00:13:17] Obviously, I've never towed one, but I've never been in a car with one or any sort of dealings. Never slept in one. We had some good holidays, so I could see the attraction. But yeah, I wouldn't want to be kind of responsible for telling anything almost.

    [00:13:29] I think I'd want to listen, actually, if I was going to do it and tell anything about it. Mmm. Because the chances of getting it wrong, it's pretty odd. And it's storing it as well, isn't it? Yeah, it's really...

    [00:13:40] There's been several times where I thought I could do with a car trader to go pick up another car. Mmm. But it's storing it, you know, and it's almost easier and more efficient to just run one for the weekend to go collect something. Mmm. Yeah.

    [00:13:53] I'm going to do it, because you need space to put the trader otherwise. And it's keeping it safe without someone else making it and all of those things. Just that extra hassle, isn't it? Mmm. Indeed.

    [00:14:04] So next car on the list, are we still doing camping holidays and things even months of the caravan went? So even months, the caravan went camping has always been a big thing.

    [00:14:12] And it's kind of led onto what I've got my family, you know, my kids and my wife hated camping. The idea of camping when she met me and now she actually quite enjoys it. We enjoy it as a family.

    [00:14:23] We've always done it, but since the kids are a little and we've tried to not let that be in a little put us off and just keep going. Mmm.

    [00:14:31] And then what a dog and stuff now, and it's just even better, you know, on the open I love it. So was your dad taking those vans? And were you kind of sleeping in the vans, sort of like a camper?

    [00:14:41] No pretty much using them just as a van. Okay. And staying at that orange and brown canvas tent with the metal frame.

    [00:14:51] And of course back in these days separate footprint material, you know, they weren't all sewn in together like they are now and it was if you didn't get it,

    [00:14:59] I think down just right, you'd get a massive breeze coming up underneath and the rain would get in and pretty waterproof to be fair. But because they were so thick and heavy, but yeah, quite an odd deal to set up all of those good things can be miserable.

    [00:15:13] Can't it if you do it wrong camping? Yeah, if there's a lot of big things in this country weren't going to happen for that pretty much.

    [00:15:20] Eight years at the time, obviously yeah, we back then remember several holidays being a complete wash out and several since I've been going with my little family.

    [00:15:29] Yeah, I would just hold on for tomorrow because it might be dry and then tomorrow turns up and you kind of hard all around and you're soaked through and yeah.

    [00:15:38] I've been camping once in my life and it was like year five in primary school until a place called stood and camp. Okay, I remember it vividly as well as in 1994 and I remember the USA World Cup football Cup was on at the same time.

    [00:15:51] I share an attempt with her that and I was really ill and ended up throwing up in the tent at night. No, and he ended up wet in the tent as well.

    [00:16:00] I can't say what else. So yeah, so obviously we got pulled out of the tent and then just kind of and we're going set with the teachers one of the teachers have one of those mini TV, you know, with a long metal aerial.

    [00:16:13] Oh yeah, yeah, look at Game Boy type thing or much. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, and he had the football on I think it's Sweden V. Brazil. And I'm going to not watching that with a hot cocoa. I was thinking, I actually worked out quite nicely.

    [00:16:27] But then we did have to go back to that rancid tent. Yeah, I haven't been back since. So sorry, let's get back to these, these older lobbies. Sorry about that. We've been through some cool teeners.

    [00:16:41] I think there was an asterion there wasn't there in a bedford rascal or something and. Yeah, so an asteriset state which would be the self-employed car happen to and stuff.

    [00:16:50] I put about the ladders on the roof and you fill it with carpentry gear and pain and debris and instead was that the family car as well. Or did your mum have kind of a run around at the same time? Quite often we wouldn't afford to have to.

    [00:17:02] So, but after it was the one vehicle from what I remember. Yeah, I think later on we did have for a period there was two. I remember my dad also have a one which isn't on there actually an escort van, the classic white escort van for a while.

    [00:17:16] Yeah, and none had a car at the same time. The old swirly thing on the top. You don't want to know as well. No, black. Yeah, I know you mean. It was probably like one that'd been the right colour but an express telecom kind of thing.

    [00:17:29] Yeah, yeah, they'd finished with it as a fleet and it was being sold off cheap somewhere as an option. And it would get us through another 12 months or whatever. It was a lot of that wasn't there kind of almost you catch it in the right light.

    [00:17:40] You can see the stickers that used to be on the side. You know, the sun of bleached the thing on the paint and the other items still there. Yeah, you can see the British gas fans doing the rounds. Can't you with all their stuff removed?

    [00:17:53] Yes, they're really sort of stand out vehicles that were singled out as being, I don't know, that once it stuck around a bit longer than the others got through maybe two or three moties.

    [00:18:03] So really that one, the rusty red, called see there's the one I remember the most. I do remember the mini van and I said to my memory yesterday when she gave me that list. So do you know how much they're worth now?

    [00:18:14] Many vans now. I mean, it would have been a couple of liquid, you weren't fan to make do but now a mini van having worked quite a bit with mini magazine. No, worth quite a few for it.

    [00:18:25] I remember the rover 200 because my mother and I were in it when it was written off. So I remember that accident. So that was fun. What happened? We were waiting in the middle of the road to turn into a side street, essentially,

    [00:18:39] and the car behind us didn't see that we were stopped indicated, waiting to go into a side street and just went straight into the back of us and just wrote it off. Yeah, it was a rover 200 so it didn't take a lot.

    [00:18:49] So I remember that one really well. And I remember the Orion, the onion quite well. It was blue and gray. But they're all, I think they said, like pretty much means to an end. Like they weren't really the passion side of having anything too sporey.

    [00:19:04] Or you're entering too fancy. It was just trying to make ends meet and keep a vehicle on the road to get into where we needed.

    [00:19:11] Unfortunately, passed away before we got to a point where we could really enjoy a bit later on in my furry had some spare cash to actually buy something really fancy to such.

    [00:19:21] So they were all quite not mundane but you know, they were all the what can I pick up next. Do you think you had something in mind at all that was considered to be like a nice thing that if you could get something a bit better?

    [00:19:32] So from my history and from what my mum says, you always quite liked the early Ford stuff. My mum's dad's and my grandmother on that side had like a Mark 1S score and stuff.

    [00:19:43] So I kind of it my head of Bill out there if he were around there, you would have gone back to that early Ford stuff. A lot of his early history is Ford stuff. Nice. It's tricky being only 11 when he passed.

    [00:19:57] He might be into now as it was obviously I've gone off on a big tangent down the whole VW route. I've had lots of other stuff as well but I'm a big V-dub man and that's how I'm doing I met.

    [00:20:07] So your cousin, so he's kind of the the influence or I guess with regards to the Gulf. Yeah, what colour was the Gulf? Remember was it at month one and a month too. Yeah, so he had several. The one I remember most is of white mark two GTI.

    [00:20:20] Okay, and obviously that was when he was quite young. Lad at the time and they were fairly newish but he was fully qualified plumber at like 20 years old. He was earning good money and he had you know what was quite a sport he car at the time.

    [00:20:32] And I do remember him driving the door as often. Yeah. But yeah, when I was younger that was what really made me into VWs. Did you go to any events with him? Oh, not really. I wasn't so much into being in Vomet.

    [00:20:47] I get my love of 80's BMX from him. Okay, just restored a BMX which was replica of my first BMX when I was five and that was all based off the back of him getting me into BMX

    [00:20:59] And him tweaking the BMX for me and he used the race that was back in the day. Oh, cool. And it was like E.T. where everyone had a BMX in that area. But yeah, it's BMX isn't old VWs.

    [00:21:12] It was the thing then it's kind of comfortable so cool. It's the thing now again in my life as a woman. Yeah, I had a rally super burn, a gold one. My dad got me for a birthday I think it was.

    [00:21:22] So my dad had this workshop which was probably yeah, eight cars big something like that and he lived in a flat above it. And kind of for birthdays and Christmas is enough.

    [00:21:32] I'd go up there and see him like it a weekend and he'd hide things all around the workshop as like a treasure hunt. Okay, um he'd kind of give me a clue enough I'd go and kind of try and find these bits.

    [00:21:42] I found two wheels and I was sure I was getting a go cart. And then we got a founder handlebars like oh maybe I'm not.

    [00:21:48] And then yeah, transpires I've got this kind of what would have been second hand then he must have just pulled it out of paper for that he could or whatever kind of gold rally super burn or all the black padding and everything.

    [00:21:58] And say that's black and they were black and all right, they're super. Yeah, the frame was gold. I think the wheels were gold and they had the padding and one of those really uncomfortable plastics. Yeah, I don't know whether they were ever a company for anyone but.

    [00:22:10] Yeah, I had that for a few years. I used to have a static caravan. They got kept there for quite a while and I'd ride it around all the same. And then yeah, kind of disappeared later in life. I don't know where it ever went ended up.

    [00:22:21] But yeah, they're kind of a thousand pounds if you got a good one now. Yeah, yeah, and the rest. Yeah, yeah, fully restored ones and the rest. So what's the BMX you've built complete tangent? Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's a failed and free style pro.

    [00:22:35] Okay. And I remember my dad taking me in the red to call Tina to go and get it on my birthday from John's Bikes. Or when it was called, we were in Bath where I live.

    [00:22:46] Yeah. And I remember going into pick it up and add a big bow on it and all that sort of stuff. So I've bought it all in bits and rebuilt it and it's all done.

    [00:22:54] I'm going to strip it down and get it painted exactly the same color scheme. So it's literally like a sort of a full sized add-al replica of what I had. And then I'll just use it, show you some stuff to get from me to be even. Okay.

    [00:23:06] Stick it on the roof rack on the bus or whatever. Just stick it in the back and take it with me. A bit of a nostalgia build kind of thing, you know. But yeah, my kids are dying to get their hands on it.

    [00:23:17] And it's got like skyways, plastic, white wheels. Are the mac wheels? Yeah. Yeah. And my kids are desperate to get on their lunch, think, no, they're going to scuff those and next the new time at all. Let me have it, you know, chuck it down somewhere.

    [00:23:31] So yeah, they haven't got a hands-on adjust yet, but I'm sure they're willing to summer. I remember one Christmas going around to my nan's house. My nan lived in kind of a really nice area actually. It's a fair bit of money around.

    [00:23:42] And the kid next door had this brand new mountain bike, which had like the disc wheels on it. Oh, yeah. It was like either like Fido, Dida or seven up or something. I remember that was in up and down and he let me have a go on it.

    [00:23:52] It was like, that just felt so cool. Giers, at disc wheels. Oh man. Matthew, envy. Brilliant. Probably terrible and cross with. You know, definitely knocking you off. You were doing well. I weren't knew if you had to disc wheels.

    [00:24:06] There was definitely one of those things that you looked at and thought that would be nice. Yeah, for a couple of years they were the one you were the kiddie as they would call it. This way. Yeah.

    [00:24:15] We were making do with the Spoky Doki set of boxes of cornflakes, whatever it was. There you go. So they even like cornflakes. But another family friend who had a big stereo in their bedroom, which was a Coca-Cola can. Okay. Yeah.

    [00:24:28] And then he had a dancing Coca-Cola can, which was like normal size, but it just moved to the music. I remember one of those flower pot things that you used to and that used to wiggle. Okay. Remember those complete waste of time? Probably worth a few quicker. Yeah.

    [00:24:43] There's definitely all those things are back in on me there. We need to work out what it is now that's going to be worth something in 30 years. 30 years top. Yeah. Yeah indeed.

    [00:24:53] There's been a few things that really didn't see those coming back out as being a big deal. And they have done. But I see a lot of them, certain shows that I go to. Yeah. Retry rights gathering and retro rides weekend.

    [00:25:04] There is a big show for me and my mates and when we really enjoy going there you get all sorts of random cars. You didn't know still existed and then all the accessories to go with them come out of wood.

    [00:25:15] Where I can people just milling about on old BMXs and different choppers and all the stuff. And so I get to see a lot of those things that those type of events always who's going to bring the rarest thing that you didn't think of.

    [00:25:29] The woodwork next year kind of deal, you know. Yeah. So when my nan and granddad moved from that place actually my grandmother died actually by then but we have our nanomester about. And there was loads of kind of just little bits and cupboards like motoring accessories.

    [00:25:43] So I've got some green see through plastic like some visor extenders. So you spin them on your sun visor and you fold them down. And my nan was like five foot nothing so he's pretty looked through the gap between the dashboard and the steering wheel.

    [00:25:55] Yeah, they kind of just fit on. I was going to put them on my old pilot years ago but I think they're still in the garage somewhere. So do they clip on or do they like strap onto the clip or they've got like a velcro type thing.

    [00:26:07] So yeah, you put them onto your sun visor and then there's like a hinge in the middle and then they fold down it like even further. So they come that almost halfway across your wind screen.

    [00:26:15] And I've got quite a few sort of old school warning triangles as well. They seem to have collected those. Is that good or bad side for you? I don't have a lot of warning tables.

    [00:26:25] I've got two or three of those kind of in like their cases and everything. I can't just bring myself to throw them away. But yeah, they're not really worth anything. Yeah, I put my dad's castacron. I mean, like give it a year or so then what would be.

    [00:26:37] They go see that. Absolutely. So do you think I guess it's your cousin's influence who's kind of stage you into Volkswagen's really not kind of. Would you want to get into old Ford? I would.

    [00:26:51] I think I'm a V-deve man as I've mentioned, but I think there's always if your petrol head which I am there's always the odd car or two that you would have if you had the choice and had the space and let me.

    [00:27:03] I'd love a Mark one escort mexico. You know, if I had the space it would then that's part of a you know a 50 car garage of cars. I would love to have it like if I could kind of think I am being the V-deve man.

    [00:27:16] My cousin was a big influence when I was younger in the V-deve staff and then getting onto my baby in the which I've got now. I've always wanted a baby in those since I was 14 because my step brother actually will be brother. Okay.

    [00:27:29] So when we first started to kind of act as a new family of the two that you know, the step family all together we weren't living together at that point, but my mom was dating my step dad and things were getting more serious.

    [00:27:43] And I spent a lot of time with my step brothers one being what's the year or so older than me in the other one being three or four years older than me.

    [00:27:50] And when I was 14 he just got his first car and he was a mechanic so he was into cars at that point. And many hours spent out on the dry, very helping in fit to many six by nine into the rear parts of shelf for this program.

    [00:28:04] Yes, the 1.1 I popular that was his first car lovely you know XR 2 I pepper pop wheels on it and absolutely no guts whatsoever in the engine but a wheel you know a wheel spin at every junction.

    [00:28:19] And he had a baby window coming at work that would fail to empty and he offered the guys and cash for it couple under great cash.

    [00:28:29] And because it had so much weld in the need to do in as they do and he ended up taking it home and he put it on the step dad's drive.

    [00:28:36] We spent many hours sat in that talking about all his wonderful plans for it and he was going to be a surfer and go off. So then living it and all these wonderful things until my step dad got sick a bit a few weeks later.

    [00:28:48] There's nothing that's been done with it and it was still sat there looking like the real rusty old van that was not that appealing to the eye and made and get rid of it, you know,

    [00:28:58] Made and move it on and my step brother to this day still says that's the biggest regret of his life.

    [00:29:04] Oh no, things these that are you doing how much that they were for now and all these things, you know, at the time he didn't have the extra funds to do what needed to be done.

    [00:29:12] I don't know if he didn't have the time and his fire's my step dad was concerned since that incant to with the bus. I always wanted one. So that's why now ended up with one after however many extra years that is.

    [00:29:24] Took me a long time to get one and then two years ago I was in a position to get one and thought if I don't get one now the prices are just going on where it's going to be even further out of reach if I don't do it while I can.

    [00:29:35] So I sold my pride and joy the jitter which is a mark to jitter that I had, which was a direct influence from my cousins like to go.

    [00:29:43] Yeah, I actually looked for a golf when I bought the jitter and then I went and looked at a couple of and test drove a couple. Okay, and just couldn't find the one that really felt like the one for me.

    [00:29:57] Friend of a friend had the jitter for sale and so I was going looking at it. I'm not really wanted to hatch back really didn't really want the jitter but when I drove it it drove so well.

    [00:30:07] And it was so nice, I got got got to take it. So even though broke down on the test drive. I had a lot of fun story.

    [00:30:17] I had a Mark 2 jitter, red one. It's better in a jitter and I made a sign for the back window. You know you get baby on board signs like the yellow ones.

    [00:30:27] I made one on the computer which said body in boot and I stuck it in my back window so I kind of drove around and I got pulled over by the police one day.

    [00:30:37] I had the Rick 3 quarter panel just having a chat with this guy because it had dragged up as no insurance. I had insurance. I don't know why but yeah, it's packed up in this shoe but yeah, I was conscious I had this side saying.

    [00:30:49] Well you used to kind of talk about like the size of boots almost like birth as you do with carabans like I get that boots kind of this big and obviously the boot on the the jettos mohosev really decent.

    [00:31:01] You don't have the classic kind of eighties with the fake finger stick in other. Why did you wrap it up? Is that would have been perfect for the body of boot sign? Yeah, I think they are trotter-ed dies on his, this could prey didn't he?

    [00:31:15] Yeah, I thought you were going to say that the police pulled you over because of the sign not because of the insurance. No, no, it was be familiar, you know, are we sir?

    [00:31:25] But I had bought a boot as a forum using them actually, it was on the jettos on his club. Four of days, like yeah, those are the days. Yeah, yeah, they'll come back. You're at Facebook melts probably not. Indeed. Well thank you very much, Jeff.

    [00:31:45] Let's be good fun. Anything else we needed to have asked you? Any cars we should have touched on? I don't know, I've obviously got quite a lot of probably three times longer of less than my dad had. Ha ha ha ha.

    [00:31:58] At the same age that my dad was with. Yeah, about the same age now, but he was running past and my list of cars is three times longer than that at least. Um, some to it a time when I've got a show car on a daily.

    [00:32:10] Yeah. And yeah, other cars that I've bought and sold and you know bought them, tied them up and sold them on just to make a few quid towards something else. And got the the baby and do now, as you know, which is my pride and joy.

    [00:32:21] The slug, which has been a lot of time and money on. Um, it's nice. I've got a T5 as the daily.

    [00:32:29] I could go camping we take the slug, take the T5 and as a family, you've got a van each to sleep in and we've got an all in normally in between us. So we've got a bit of room sitting if the weather is not great enough.

    [00:32:40] And then so we're still doing not not so much in a caravan obviously, but we're still doing the camping thing. As a seller, you can do them as a family.

    [00:32:49] If you get it right and you get the right sight in the right location and the right weather, we thoroughly enjoy it. It's a good fun. And we do a lot of that.

    [00:32:58] Nice indeed. Great for sunshine. Thank you very much for your support and yeah following along what we got to absolutely. It's been a big little good. Good to meet you, chef. And you, yeah, and you see you later. There you go. Is it a slow start that one?

    [00:33:13] Yeah, it was a bit of a slow one. Yeah, that's basically just to go to show everyone's got a different kind of history, isn't they? Hmm. That's basically actually get over the fact that the podcast isn't specifically about my dad's car is.

    [00:33:25] Well as you can see it kind of goes off on one doesn't it into different directions.

    [00:33:29] Yeah, I've tried to keep few more tangents in the most recent ones and I guess maybe they differentiate it from some of the earlier ones where we sort of kept fairly on a straight and narrow. It's quite fun to kind of go off and explore other things.

    [00:33:41] And I think it is quite nice to hear like that kind of story obviously wasn't sort of swimming in cash.

    [00:33:47] So in terms of the vehicles that they were getting, it was stuff that we just sort of can make do for a year or so and then onto the next. Yeah, which is quite nice. It makes it interesting, doesn't it?

    [00:33:57] Especially like the caravan story, you know, building that and quite an effort, isn't it? Yeah, definitely. I think yeah, even when we kind of think actually, yeah, have we got more memories to kind of bring to the table with this podcast?

    [00:34:09] Yeah, we're still unlocking like these little sort nuggets and things which you kind of, yeah, you don't remember but actually when someone does start talking about caravans or whatever. Oh yeah, I'll remember that and BMX is or whatever.

    [00:34:23] Yeah, I can play if we're going on about chondering in a tent and I was 10 to 9 or something. Oh, it was. So yeah, another good one I think we've now got a website and we've got a blog. Yeah, the blog that's most recently gone out.

    [00:34:39] It probably won't be relevant at all but on this podcast goes out with you. But yeah, if you're in the vicinity of my dad's card. Okay, okay, you all are fine.

    [00:34:49] Our new website was some photos of us, some of the people we've had on his guests of centres and hopefully a growing live, a library of nostalgia on the blog. Yeah, it's just a good hub, isn't it? Of all the stuff that we're churning out indeed.

    [00:35:07] So yeah, that's really good. Well, so we got to thank you for some nice reviews, maybe? Yeah, we have had a review from Steve Holden. Thank you very much, Steve.

    [00:35:15] And we've actually, we've lined him up for coming on in the new year as well for a bit of a natter as a reward slash punishment. Yeah, we can't promise to do that for everyone but yeah, he posted a photo in the online of

    [00:35:27] ex-R3I cabaret kind of floating around in the air and in some sort of factories. That's it. Him and his dad had rigged up at the weekend to change an exhaust.

    [00:35:36] Yeah, so yeah, hopefully there's a few more images like that from where that one came from and plenty of stories. Sure, there will be. Yeah, that should be a good one. I don't know whether we discussed my dad's bar on the podcast or not. That's another website here.

    [00:35:50] I'm discussing the local pubs that our parents may have frequented. I like that. Her dad not being a driver but being a fairly seasoned drinker. You give us a good guide to the pubs of the East End.

    [00:36:02] Yeah, yeah, no, no my dad would have been that would have been ideal for my dad. Yeah, the George would have been front runner. What was this tip of choice? Do you know? Cullsburg, I think. Yeah, I'll just regular. Yeah, just Larga.

    [00:36:17] I think that's always Larga from memory. Yeah, and it's safe. Nothing too strong. Just kind of think one of those ones you could just sort of stay on and, you know, if it was stellar then yeah. It might be a bit of a different story.

    [00:36:30] Come on, I'm afraid you're not about it. Hopefully that didn't happen. It didn't happen now. Okay. Could I unlock some sort of traumatic childhood memory? Can we can we cut this please? If you've been affected by issues in this podcast,

    [00:36:50] we'll play a little number off on the screen and yeah. Let's put this out late. I'm late and I'm Holly Oaks. So yeah, okay, we'll wrap this up. Thank you very much, John. Thanks, Eddie. And, rather credits. Thank you for listening to my doubts card.

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