Speaker 1: Maruns here, let's give him a clap. We do this now, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: You don't have to clap yourself, no one else will.
Speaker 1: I'll clamp myself just when the waiter brings me pancakes.
Speaker 1: That's sort of fun. That's where I'm at. You're a
Speaker 1: really interesting character, man. I'm really excited that you're in
Speaker 1: because I wanted to hear a little bit about your backstory.
Speaker 1: You growing up, how you got into cars. Obviously you're
Speaker 1: the owner of Street Effects and you've been pretty much
Speaker 1: fronting the biggest car club in Australia as well, amongst
Speaker 1: other things. Tell us a little bit about you man,
Speaker 1: growing up and getting into the car scene as a
Speaker 1: as a kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think it pretty much came down to
Speaker 3: the fact that my parents didn't like cars, and I
Speaker 3: you know, when I was seventeen eighteen, first I got
Speaker 3: p plates.
Speaker 2: In Victoria right, Warren Dite that is the sticks Well,
Speaker 2: not wrong with Warren dar I'm looking at Warrendar right
Speaker 2: to buy a lot of that.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
Speaker 3: I love it. It's beautiful there. So yeah, if my
Speaker 3: parents went away, so I had like a toy t
Speaker 3: E and Corolla and my idea of automotive excellence back
Speaker 3: then was probably not quite all there. So my idea
Speaker 3: of modifications was, I mean, the car had drum brakes,
Speaker 3: and I would take the break drums off and painted
Speaker 3: them yellow because I was proud of my I didn't
Speaker 3: realize that that wasn't a cool thing, so I had
Speaker 3: I painted my my wheels black and bought chrome like caps.
Speaker 3: The outer rims, you know, the clippin out of it
Speaker 3: had those and yellow drum brakes.
Speaker 1: Can I just tell you it's so funny because I
Speaker 1: feel like we're from the same era because I remember
Speaker 1: when Fast and Furious came out, the amount of mates
Speaker 1: that did just terrible things to like Hyundai Excel, whether
Speaker 1: it be like stabbing the bloody muffler with like a
Speaker 1: show driver so it sounds like it's going to turn
Speaker 1: out or whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really had no idea. I just didn't. I mean,
Speaker 3: fifteen inch weeks, I got to set fifteen's and I
Speaker 3: sat back and looked at the CaCO. Man, they are huge.
Speaker 3: They looked big on the car, but I remember thinking
Speaker 3: that is impressive and now, yeah, and I'd sit there
Speaker 3: with like my parents, like super eight video camera and
Speaker 3: strap it to the seat to try and work out
Speaker 3: what the zero one hundred time was. So I'd use
Speaker 3: it to video the dashboard because phone cameras didn't have
Speaker 3: they weren't a thing, yes, so and go pros went
Speaker 3: any thing. So I had like this this tape camera
Speaker 3: strapped to the seat and like like like zooming in
Speaker 3: on the speedo. And then I'd go home and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: I did like fourteen eight zero one hundred. So that
Speaker 3: was that was my idea of a quick car. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that the reason I got into it is
Speaker 3: because my parents were really not a fan of it,
Speaker 3: and so I'd wait until they go away and then
Speaker 3: I'd just go buy wheels or something and hope they
Speaker 3: didn't notice. And it got to the point where my
Speaker 3: old man, I think his favorite story and like it
Speaker 3: was kind of legendary and warrendtyed at the time. So
Speaker 3: I had three Toyter t dns because I didn't learn
Speaker 3: with the first one being in a shipbox. I had
Speaker 3: three Toweter Ti dans and two Starions in the.
Speaker 2: Front yard studions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and one of them had one of that someone
Speaker 3: had put the previous owner had a I think it
Speaker 3: must have been a thing in like the eighties and
Speaker 3: nineties to like put canvas roofs over metal. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: so they'd put a canvas roof on top of the
Speaker 3: stadion's metal roof to make it look like it was
Speaker 3: a convertible, and so of course that causes rust.
Speaker 4: Oh god.
Speaker 3: So I had this gold starion with a black canvas roof,
Speaker 3: two red Ta dans, a half cut of a Toyter
Speaker 3: Truno a eighty six, and a white toward t ning
Speaker 3: as well, all in the front yard. And my dad
Speaker 3: came home one day and I wasn't home, and he
Speaker 3: just cracked it. And I didn't know that he'd had enough,
Speaker 3: Like apparently there's so many times that he can tell
Speaker 3: you to get your shit out of the yard before
Speaker 3: this is the front yard just scattered everywhere. And I
Speaker 3: came home.
Speaker 1: You made hisse looked like like the house of Nelson
Speaker 1: Mutts from the Simpsons.
Speaker 3: Oh it was. Yeah, I can now in retrospect, I
Speaker 3: could see where the frustration came. But at the time
Speaker 3: I thought, what's wrong, Like this is perfectly normal. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I came home and I remember just sitting down, I
Speaker 3: started eating chips or something, and I remember thinking, what
Speaker 3: was that weird red thing near the bin? And I
Speaker 3: went back outside and it was a half of an
Speaker 3: A eighty six bonnet I cut up, and then I
Speaker 3: looked around the corner. The rest of the A eighty
Speaker 3: six half cut was gone. I'd only just bought. It
Speaker 3: was like a four thousand dollar hard cut, which now
Speaker 3: would be worth an absolute mint because I had to
Speaker 3: pop up headlights and everything, and like the engine, the gearbox,
Speaker 3: the whole lot all gone. And then I've come back
Speaker 3: to the house to go, why is there half a
Speaker 3: body near the bin? My dad goes, because I ran
Speaker 3: out of angle grinder bits and or discs, and he'd
Speaker 3: sat there cutting it all up, and he just because
Speaker 3: I think the warre and I had been put on
Speaker 3: town water, so they got the sewage a bit of
Speaker 3: the septic tanks, so that was all cracked open, and
Speaker 3: he'd started pushing all my cas st up into the
Speaker 3: septic tank and then buried over it. And so I've
Speaker 3: got like a four a G motor, half of a
Speaker 3: eighty six, bits of thad and rear end like Sileika stuff.
Speaker 3: And yeah, the only reason that more stuff didn't go
Speaker 3: in the binner is because some the septic tank was
Speaker 3: full and the bin was hit that he couldn't cut
Speaker 3: up any more pieces to fit in the.
Speaker 1: Rubbish, so he Jeffrey damage your car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was probably why I got into cars,
Speaker 3: because I was trying to rebel.
Speaker 2: Yeah right.
Speaker 3: My parents were always into the Toyota full drives. That's
Speaker 3: where my Twitter roots came from.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, so you've always been into jdm's Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the twiter thing was just because my parents
Speaker 3: told me that was the best car in the world. Yep,
Speaker 3: and then gladly they got rid of their Volvo. Before
Speaker 3: that part of my life, before that part my brain developed.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and when did when did street well what is
Speaker 4: street effects and when did it officially start to become
Speaker 4: you know where it is today, which is like ten
Speaker 4: million followers on Facebook and other social platforms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that started because I was kind of living
Speaker 3: halfway between Melbourne and Brisbane and I had a drift car,
Speaker 3: just one Ady SX with the SR twenty six speed,
Speaker 3: and I was doing the super cheap Auto drift competition
Speaker 3: and I on the practice laps, I hit the wall,
Speaker 3: rolled the car on the roof, skipped along on the roof,
Speaker 3: because at the track they had put the tires on
Speaker 3: a forty five degree angle and made it like a ramp.
Speaker 3: And I mean, obviously talent came into it as well,
Speaker 3: just a bit, you know how, like everyone likes to
Speaker 3: run the wall. That dragged the rear corder along, and
Speaker 3: I didn't care about the car, so I try and
Speaker 3: tap the wall, and I hit the wall just a
Speaker 3: little bit too hard and it flicked the car right
Speaker 3: back around. Because I was on full lock left, it
Speaker 3: ended up driving up the wall and then ended up
Speaker 3: on the roof, skitting along on the ground, which was
Speaker 3: actually it didn't feel as impressive as it sounds like.
Speaker 3: It just was like kind of like a slow oh dear,
Speaker 3: that was not ideal, And I pushed the car out
Speaker 3: onto the street. I had no money at the time,
Speaker 3: so I pushed the car out onto the street little
Speaker 3: bit away from the drift track and called RACQ and said,
Speaker 3: my car won't start because like when you started, it
Speaker 3: like oil would like it was full of oil because
Speaker 3: down and I couldn't drive it in the condition it
Speaker 3: was in. It wasn't actually even registered. I think I
Speaker 3: was driving it there on temporary permit. And yeah, I
Speaker 3: pushed it like one hundred meters away from Archfield drift
Speaker 3: Track and caught RCQ. They came out and they're like,
Speaker 3: has this been an accident?
Speaker 2: I'm like, nah, no, what makes you think that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's like the windscreens cap and it had a rollcage,
Speaker 3: so it wasn't too bad. And then they put it
Speaker 3: on the truck and took it home and all that,
Speaker 3: and then I'm like, what am I going to do
Speaker 3: with this car? I got like this car, so I
Speaker 3: rewind just a little bit. They'd said in order to
Speaker 3: take it into the super cheap drift comp the car
Speaker 3: had to be presentable because of the shipbox. They said
Speaker 3: that wasn't acceptable, and I had to put some to
Speaker 3: get some money together, I had to put some stickers
Speaker 3: on it, and everyone was charging a fortune for stickers,
Speaker 3: so I bought a sticker printer. It was like twenty
Speaker 3: eight hundred bucks for a roll and stick a printer
Speaker 3: that could print and cut. It was a very basic
Speaker 3: thing for the time. And then that was cheaper then
Speaker 3: because it was going to cost four grand to get
Speaker 3: the car stick it up. So I'm like, well, I've
Speaker 3: paid to spend twenty eight hundred bucks and then so
Speaker 3: I just bought this cheap sticker printer, and that's where
Speaker 3: after I buggered the car up, I'm like, I got
Speaker 3: to make some money because I got I got to
Speaker 3: fix the car. And then I'm like, well, I got
Speaker 3: this printer, what can I do with it? And I
Speaker 3: started making like little break tail light decals that stuck
Speaker 3: over the top of the third brake line, so if
Speaker 3: you hit the brakes, it would show the make of
Speaker 3: the car. So you'd put like one eighty sex and
Speaker 3: you'd put it over the one out your sex third
Speaker 3: brake lin and so you'd hit the brakes and then
Speaker 3: that would glow that color. And then I just posted
Speaker 3: them all eBay and they was selling for like twenty
Speaker 3: bucks each and they were costing like sense, so literally
Speaker 3: I was making I was printing twenty dollar notes with
Speaker 3: this thing. So within probably three months I paid the
Speaker 3: printer off. Also I had enough money to repair the car.
Speaker 3: I then went I bought I didn't. I didn't end
Speaker 3: up reheading the car that time. I ended up buying
Speaker 3: bigger printer YEP, that was like like a twenty thousand
Speaker 3: dollars printer instead. And then that's just where they come
Speaker 3: and he started from just from that.
Speaker 2: On eBay basically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was kind of like a little spark like
Speaker 1: that and it just started everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was all just because I had a printer
Speaker 3: and I rolled the car and I needed to do
Speaker 3: something to try.
Speaker 1: And get some time and an empty bank account.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean my bank acount is still empty,
Speaker 3: but now I've got more cars.
Speaker 4: So because this is the thing a lot of people,
Speaker 4: they kind of don't really understand I guess the quantum
Speaker 4: of what you can earn online. So you kind of
Speaker 4: went from selling stickers with street effects. You then started
Speaker 4: a Facebook page and it sort of grew from there.
Speaker 4: Ye without sort of talking exact numbers, if you were
Speaker 4: to put a number on how much you were able
Speaker 4: to earn off the internet that is stickers, Facebook and
Speaker 4: doing all that sort of stuff. For some of the
Speaker 4: people that are listening, I think they will be blown
Speaker 4: away with like the amount of money involved in all this.
Speaker 2: What kind of number would you put on it.
Speaker 3: Well, we've moved from stickers now we're more doing car parts,
Speaker 3: so we can be doing anything from supercharger kits, wheels, exhausts,
Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff on body kits and everything.
Speaker 3: But in e commerce you'd be I mean the company
Speaker 3: I'll be speaking on the spot seen years or so.
Speaker 3: It's got to be close to one hundred mil by now.
Speaker 3: In turnover, I.
Speaker 2: Mean that that all right, I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 1: Later.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it, just an EPSOM forty one six. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the thing.
Speaker 4: A lot of people don't understand that that the Internet.
Speaker 4: It's a little different today because today it's much harder
Speaker 4: to monetize stuff. We're seeing on YouTube as well that
Speaker 4: they just take so much money. But back in the day,
Speaker 4: you could earn money off selling things off online. You
Speaker 4: could earn money off content, you could earn money off
Speaker 4: buying page.
Speaker 2: Any money off that.
Speaker 1: If anybody knows about e commerce, it's friend Paul here.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you're familiar with his
Speaker 1: only fans, but it's it's basically called pavlanismeal dot com.
Speaker 3: And his meal.
Speaker 1: Oh wait till he gives him a sugar cube. Wow.
Speaker 4: But yeah, online is absolutely huge. So you've got an
Speaker 4: audience now of ten million followers on street effects, you're
Speaker 4: still selling parts out of Brisbane here. Yeah, you've obviously
Speaker 4: blown most of that money on useless things.
Speaker 3: But yes, I mean yeah, well, I mean that none
Speaker 3: of the things that I've bought work anyway, so they're
Speaker 3: all just pretty much in garagees Bustard.
Speaker 4: Well tell me you you also have have had relationships
Speaker 4: and still obviously do have relationships with a lot of
Speaker 4: the big YouTubers overseas, And I think the big difference
Speaker 4: between Autralia and overseas is you hit a cap in
Speaker 4: Australia pretty quickly on what you can do and what
Speaker 4: you can achieve, but overseas it's a different story. You're
Speaker 4: friends with Cletus McFarland. Can you run everyone through his backstory?
Speaker 4: And if you don't know who he is, he's a
Speaker 4: massive YouTuber that but hopefully he's currently alive because there
Speaker 4: was the hurricane was like running through the Freedom Factory
Speaker 4: and who knows where there's his third time that's gone
Speaker 4: under water last year. Yeah, can you run us through
Speaker 4: his background as well? Hanging you him because he he
Speaker 4: kind of has a character.
Speaker 2: Right, it's a bit of a persona.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well I met him through Kyle from thirteen twenty video.
Speaker 3: They've come over to Australia and hung out with us
Speaker 3: and we've done some videos together. He was the one
Speaker 3: that shot the video of the lambeo versus GJ. I
Speaker 3: think I'm not getting it. I'm burying myself for getting
Speaker 3: back to that. So, yeah, he was one of their
Speaker 3: staff members. I think, just help. I don't know if
Speaker 3: he did videos. I know that he worked for thirteen
Speaker 3: twenty and then they kind of just I remember one
Speaker 3: day Kyle said, Hayking, you promote this clean to sect.
Speaker 3: I watched the mate. I didn't get it, Like, what
Speaker 3: is he talking about? I didn't really understand what, Like
Speaker 3: it was a whole persona from the start. They had
Speaker 3: a plan right in place, and honestly, I just didn't
Speaker 3: get it because like it must have been American thing,
Speaker 3: but it was a bit of cultural difference. So I
Speaker 3: shared this. I still didn't understand what their point of
Speaker 3: this guy was. But yeah, it just grew from that,
Speaker 3: and then he went out on his own and now
Speaker 3: he's got he owns a racetrack. I think he's bought
Speaker 3: a helicopter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got like a pilot's license.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because there's a lot of those YouTubers over there
Speaker 4: that and we've seen that blow up recently with everyone
Speaker 4: leaving Donut Media, everyone leaving all the other established sort
Speaker 4: of companies at all going out on their own. And
Speaker 4: it seems to me like they have different degrees of
Speaker 4: success with it. A lot of them who relied just
Speaker 4: on YouTube revenue or realizing that it sucks and you don't.
Speaker 3: I think the most I've ever made on YouTube is
Speaker 3: maybe six grand US a month, Like it's not enough
Speaker 3: to I mean, I spent them more than our camera gear. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a career.
Speaker 3: It might be worth it if you're getting endorsements, but
Speaker 3: it's not worth it from the views.
Speaker 2: That's where it all comes from.
Speaker 4: And I can see with him, he's he's earned enough
Speaker 4: through endorsements and doing other stuff to.
Speaker 3: Be out with guy fan base and he can do
Speaker 3: merch and that's where merches, good bank comes from.
Speaker 2: That sort of yea, yeah, merch. Merch is absolutely huge.
Speaker 4: Some of the other characters overseas that you may have
Speaker 4: met early on that have made it big now, any
Speaker 4: others that you sort of popped to mind?
Speaker 3: Oh, Like, like I said, Kyle, he's had a great
Speaker 3: business model doing his thirty and twenty video stuff, probably
Speaker 3: a little bit more professional than the cleadest thing it's
Speaker 3: more like that they've got their core. It's not like
Speaker 3: fun as such. And then there's like Rob Duhmond Robbed built.
Speaker 4: Was he the one that built that that crazy rota
Speaker 4: that was it like a.
Speaker 3: Ten hours old drive he put the oil drive road.
Speaker 3: Oh no, there was that one that you're talking about,
Speaker 3: the twenty six Leader that was built. But that was
Speaker 3: one of the biggest stories that we did back in the.
Speaker 4: Old car all those days that one's been through the
Speaker 4: ringer off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the golden the gold.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The funny background here is that that I've known Mark
Speaker 4: for a while and I think we're probably exceeded the the.
Speaker 2: Statute of them.
Speaker 4: But we used to to kind of in months where
Speaker 4: we needed extra traffic to the site, we would come
Speaker 4: to Mark for any viral stories he had, and there
Speaker 4: was that gold gtr was like a source of almost
Speaker 4: infinite gold rows of traffic for us, closely followed by
Speaker 4: Old Mat with the twenty six Roader.
Speaker 3: The twenty six liter Rotary and yeah, the twelve Roader. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's it's crazy because you could basically write the story,
Speaker 4: share it on social and like on Reddit, and you
Speaker 4: would get.
Speaker 3: Go nuts again every time you recited. We just had
Speaker 3: like that, they just were part of the rotation. We
Speaker 3: just just it just refreshed and then you just change
Speaker 3: the words a little bit, like you'd never guess what
Speaker 3: she did this time.
Speaker 2: That's probably a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speak of speaking of YouTubers, I love there's a
Speaker 1: guy in the UK, mattter Armstrong, who I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: familiar with, the guy who would take like ridden off
Speaker 1: like Lambeau's roles. He's done a really impressive thing with
Speaker 1: their roles lately. He's been getting a lot of influencers
Speaker 1: like ridden off cars and fixing those.
Speaker 3: But like that cock head the other day, mcclar, that guy,
Speaker 3: he's such an idiot. He's the one that picks fights
Speaker 3: with people. Think it's security a step in.
Speaker 4: Did you see that Gordy He was driving he's McLaren
Speaker 4: something like streaming and he was it was like seventy
Speaker 4: miles an hour in the sopping wet and he aquaplane,
Speaker 4: hit a wall, continued live streaming while someone extracted him
Speaker 4: from the car, but then he shut off. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: is in the car with his head bleeding and he's like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, my car, my car, my car, His
Speaker 4: mate gets out, He's like, oh you okay, it's like.
Speaker 3: Hands in the camera. He goes, hey, keep video.
Speaker 2: He has just absolutely copped it online.
Speaker 3: And he lives off the hate. Like I don't understand
Speaker 3: he makes money because nobody likes that clown. Everything I've
Speaker 3: watched of him, I just want to punch him in
Speaker 3: the face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I bet you'd go back and watch it again,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Like people love watching
Speaker 1: that shit.
Speaker 3: It's especially people love watching negative stuff. Yes, it's just
Speaker 3: I mean back when we used to have to make
Speaker 3: up articles before those fact checking stites came in. Do
Speaker 3: you remember that Ty Lopez guy that was always going
Speaker 3: on about like here in my garage, you got my Lamborghini.
Speaker 3: Knowledge is more important than Lamborghinis that if you ever
Speaker 3: want to spend a little bit of time looking through
Speaker 3: look up Ty Lopez crashes Lamborghini.
Speaker 4: Oh this is so interesting because he's coming up in
Speaker 4: my feed recently for his podcast or something.
Speaker 3: So I unded a company previous to a lot of
Speaker 3: this stuff called Epic Media, and we used to just
Speaker 3: just the whole thing was just to get viral traffic
Speaker 3: in order to make ad clicks, right, and then ninety
Speaker 3: percent of what you see on the net is all
Speaker 3: fake stuff, like, so we just make up news articles
Speaker 3: that looked like they could be realistic that everyone wanted
Speaker 3: to click on, like man gets Dick stuck in ATM
Speaker 3: for the fourth time, just start following me, all right.
Speaker 3: And then there was this picture of my mate Scottie
Speaker 3: South and I put him on all of them. He
Speaker 3: was always the guy getting his junk stuff in something.
Speaker 3: He also he started a flab in the bow and
Speaker 3: mango like when it got when it disappeared, like there
Speaker 3: was just all these news articles had his face on them.
Speaker 3: So anyway, we made these ones where because tyler Pez
Speaker 3: was spending mad bank on YouTube, it's like I think
Speaker 3: he just dumped millions of dollars to be the intro
Speaker 3: to every car or lifestyle video in that period of time.
Speaker 3: Would have been probably when was this shit, Probably circa
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen something like that, And so we just made
Speaker 3: articles that were bouncing off other popular keywords. So at
Speaker 3: the time tyler Pez was was popular, and so we
Speaker 3: we just sort of said tyler Pez crashes car while
Speaker 3: reading a book on in the Beverly Hills, because that's
Speaker 3: what he'd always says, he goes here in Beverly Hills
Speaker 3: in my Lamborghini, and so we goes he crashed while
Speaker 3: reading a book, and then, like his interview, we made
Speaker 3: a fake interview. It was just like, yeah, but I
Speaker 3: absorbed the knowledge. Look, so we made this article. And
Speaker 3: then nine day I woke up and I see him
Speaker 3: doing a podcast going I didn't crash my way again.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yes, he had to do a media release.
Speaker 3: It wasn't him. And then we did one justin Bieber
Speaker 3: crashes Bagatti Veyron and we just found random pictures whatever
Speaker 3: stuff like this. Yeah, there's great times. That's so good.
Speaker 1: I don't wish his celebrity to crash a car at all.
Speaker 1: But me, I mean, I hear.
Speaker 3: He's really nice, but I just don't like his voice.
Speaker 1: He's nice in a kind of well. I graduated off
Speaker 1: the university and then I owned a medical waste company.
Speaker 1: Now I earn a this rare Bagati. Anyway, the museum.
Speaker 1: He's my impression of SMI. I've got the half zip.
Speaker 1: This is great for an audio format. Anyway, shut out
Speaker 1: to all our Here you go, got my jumper rolled up.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the museum. Please don't look into my finances
Speaker 1: on the Camon Island. Shout out to Smid please come
Speaker 1: into the podcast. That'd be great.
Speaker 2: So tell us modern day Mark, what are you driving
Speaker 2: at the moment?
Speaker 4: What's in the garage? So you rock up in a
Speaker 4: nice sounding Mercedes down there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the Daily's the S sixty three probably the
Speaker 3: I'd have to say it's one of the best cause
Speaker 3: I've ever bought. Yeah, I love that thing.
Speaker 4: Well, you know what's funny those cars that were like
Speaker 4: half a million dollars when they were in.
Speaker 3: Year twenty or four thirty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're now so cheap. Yeah that it's almost like,
Speaker 4: you know, you could donate them to the homeless.
Speaker 2: There's they're that cheap.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to wait for these text messes come in.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's yeah, they're they're they're calling what have
Speaker 4: you done to it?
Speaker 3: Down? Pipes tune and I think that's it. It's got
Speaker 3: a lowering module as well, and twenty two's but I
Speaker 3: broke the busted for like all four wheels when I
Speaker 3: went and did Bathurst.
Speaker 4: That'll do it. Yeah, what else is in the garage.
Speaker 3: I've got the thirty five g DR that's pushing around
Speaker 3: fifteen hundredheel horsepower nice, which is broken. I got a
Speaker 3: toy A eighty six with the pop ups yep with
Speaker 3: a Panda initial d paint scheme with a SR twenty six,
Speaker 3: also broken. I had a thirty four g DR baside
Speaker 3: blue vispect to broken, but it's actually not broken. It
Speaker 3: just got a busted exhaust manifold gasket and that bought Simples.
Speaker 3: That one's an easy fix. But I bought sight unseen.
Speaker 3: It came up. I think some Lebo owned it in Sydney.
Speaker 3: It's so good, yeah, and it turned up. It was
Speaker 3: because like that. I bought it when they were expensive
Speaker 3: during COVID too, and so I felt sick when it
Speaker 3: turned up because it looked good because they'd done an
Speaker 3: engine out paint job right, because like I mean, the
Speaker 3: base side is such a pretty color, and I saw
Speaker 3: the photos of it. I'm like, I got it for
Speaker 3: a reasonable price because I knew it would have had
Speaker 3: Is it real? Do you know?
Speaker 2: It's real?
Speaker 3: It's got some history behind it, like back in Japan,
Speaker 3: but it's for my purposes. I didn't want to be
Speaker 3: paying six hundred thousand dollars, which is what the going
Speaker 3: rate was at the time, so I got it for
Speaker 3: a good price and then it's still I think it still.
Speaker 2: Cost me more than my merk.
Speaker 3: But when it turned up I felt physically ill because
Speaker 3: like the interior, whoever had put the car back together
Speaker 3: had just slapped it. All the clips were snapped, the
Speaker 3: TV didn't work like, it was all lines through the screen,
Speaker 3: the steering wheels all rady, and so it just yeah
Speaker 3: for an old Dat's and I just thankfully it's the
Speaker 3: cost has been forgotten now and then I stand probably
Speaker 3: sixty grand on buying just the interior, trims and everything
Speaker 3: to redo.
Speaker 2: So you fixed it all.
Speaker 3: I fixed it. Now it's mint, but it still makes
Speaker 3: me feel pained. I remember that feeling of turning up
Speaker 3: and like they put like stuff in backwards at the
Speaker 3: gearship and it's one wrong and yeah, it was just
Speaker 3: all half after that didn't have like the accelerated pedal
Speaker 3: was zip tight on and like all particular stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 3: like that that's that's now it's all beautiful and mint.
Speaker 3: Now it just sits in the garage, So what not
Speaker 3: the point of buying that thing was? And now of
Speaker 3: course they've dropped like one hundred grand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cars have just yeah, yeah, great, that's gone. That
Speaker 1: that honeymoon period's done. I'm going to ask you what's
Speaker 1: your favorite Japanese kutter to modify. I mean, it seems
Speaker 1: like the Toyota eighty six is a brilliant blank canvas
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, as.
Speaker 3: Long as you don't do what I did, Like it's
Speaker 3: just a waste of money. Yeah, I'd never start with
Speaker 3: anything like the open the box of motor. It just
Speaker 3: can't get the power. You just know, whether it's a
Speaker 3: Soubreu or a Toyter with that box of motor. I
Speaker 3: don't think that you're going to ever get reliable power
Speaker 3: out of a boxer. Just in my personal experience, it's
Speaker 3: like dicing with when you get an R seven, you
Speaker 3: know it's going to make you upset one day.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. RX seven's a beautiful look.
Speaker 3: At just terrible like the engines will make you cry.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I had a friend of mine that had one
Speaker 4: that he started off stock and then he gradually did
Speaker 4: more and more work to it to the point where
Speaker 4: it was it was using so much or every time
Speaker 4: you drove in it you smelt like oil and petrol,
Speaker 4: no matter how much money he put into it. You
Speaker 4: always stank it sounded unreal though, like that wrote of
Speaker 4: sound is so cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love like I want to buy a triple Beer,
Speaker 3: a triple Roader twenty big one a mate Scott that
Speaker 3: I've got Marne, which I'll do one day. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't go down that path of the road or
Speaker 3: again unless it's that specific one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Aside from that that supers got a bit of
Speaker 3: a super collection. I had the Mark five have sold
Speaker 3: that now. That remark FI is probably my favorite modifiable
Speaker 3: modern car yep like that on the track was blisteringly fast.
Speaker 4: But they stopped being modifiable, didn't they because we bought
Speaker 4: ours at the same time. Then they did the slight
Speaker 4: update and they changed the ECU didn't know.
Speaker 3: I think that's fixable now. I think ECU to the States,
Speaker 3: I don't know enough about it. I got out of
Speaker 3: it after so I got one of the ones that
Speaker 3: was modify and then but Tyta, they don't sponsor you,
Speaker 3: do they No? Okay, So I got the first one
Speaker 3: available in Australia. I was very lucky to get that,
Speaker 3: and then I had a brilliant track season in it
Speaker 3: like I did two three, seasons in it car only
Speaker 3: had fifteen thousand k's on the It was all very
Speaker 3: basic mods like just exhaust, intake, suspension, brake pads basically
Speaker 3: is all I did. And I thing out of tune
Speaker 3: and run a eighty five or not even flirty five
Speaker 3: like e fifty because the injector aren't big enough to
Speaker 3: run flirty five. And then that it just started misfirring
Speaker 3: at the track one day and wouldn't run, and the
Speaker 3: the variable cam timing it snapped the thing that holds
Speaker 3: the rockers on YEP, and then it lost all pressure
Speaker 3: to the very cam timing, and that went into like
Speaker 3: Toya basically said, we don't know what's wrong with it,
Speaker 3: but you'll have to per hour to figure it out,
Speaker 3: because they didn't have a book to say what was
Speaker 3: the issue, and so they expected me to pay an
Speaker 3: open check book, and I said, well, do you want
Speaker 3: to learn what's wrong. You've never even looked at one
Speaker 3: of these motors before, and effectively ended up going to
Speaker 3: a BMW specialist SSCC. They popped it apart. It turned
Speaker 3: out that it was just this one bearing cap had
Speaker 3: actually cracked, and it had cracked because the bolts weren't
Speaker 3: done up tight from factory. Oh wow, so they were
Speaker 3: all loose finger tight.
Speaker 2: Wow, the whole row of them. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: And then Toyota just said, nah, bad luck, it's been
Speaker 3: on the track. I'm like, you literally flew me to
Speaker 3: Melbourne to drive one of these on the track.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 4: That's the shit thing with Toyota. They burned customers in
Speaker 4: the States recently with gr Corollas because they were claiming
Speaker 4: that they were overdriven track all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: Actually had one or two of them burned to the
Speaker 4: ground because they just spontaneously combusted while people were driving them,
Speaker 4: and they just denied all those warranty claims. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: just think they need to be more like Yeah Day, where.
Speaker 3: They have such a great company to work with as
Speaker 3: well foundays like yep, if you take it to the track,
Speaker 3: can and they'll do a day two for you. It's
Speaker 3: like a free track day with hyn Day. And if
Speaker 3: something goes wrong then they will still warrant it.
Speaker 2: That's proper confidence in the car.
Speaker 3: But I remember back when the thirty five GDR came out,
Speaker 3: there was the track day that they ran on saying
Speaker 3: it might be in Melbourne, and then they denied warranties
Speaker 3: for any of the cars that turned up for the
Speaker 3: track day and they said, now your brakes aren't covered.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable, a peculiar thing to like offer to the market
Speaker 1: a track car or a car that's effectively like a
Speaker 1: track car and then not honor the warranty because you've
Speaker 1: taken it to the fucking track.
Speaker 3: So that's what they wiped their hands of it and
Speaker 3: said it's been on the track and in their terms.
Speaker 3: Because I remember you were at that track day at
Speaker 3: Philip Island, someone specifically asked I don't know if it
Speaker 3: was somebody asked, what is the track warranty on? This
Speaker 3: guy was really very dicey about it.
Speaker 2: It was something like we always support our customers.
Speaker 3: It was like he wouldn't. And then eventually he got
Speaker 3: cornered because I've got it on video of him saying
Speaker 3: we do have a track warranty for non competitive track events.
Speaker 3: And then I think you were asking what does competitive mean?
Speaker 3: And then I think it came down to that you
Speaker 3: don't get a monetary prize or something like that, which
Speaker 3: I can't understand. Hind day is similar. You have something
Speaker 3: that be you're not something. Yeah, but I mean if
Speaker 3: you want any of these places, if they want to,
Speaker 3: they could say it's time by who is it, by
Speaker 3: the natsoft software, by your own motive off phone like that.
Speaker 3: They've got plenty of ways out of it. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember him being really cagy about the response, and
Speaker 3: I brought that response up when I had my letter
Speaker 3: to TWITIS, saying can you come to the party with
Speaker 3: this repair? And then in the end they just said, well,
Speaker 3: it's modified anyway, and so they fell back on that,
Speaker 3: even though it was not the modifications that caused it.
Speaker 3: I understand that it was going to be a battle,
Speaker 3: but I was hoping at least they would want to
Speaker 3: come to the party and maybe helping to see what
Speaker 3: the problem was, because I thought that would be invaluable
Speaker 3: experienced for them to say. Anyway, a couple of there'd
Speaker 3: been fifteen, twenty of them, these other cases the exact
Speaker 3: same thing. Yeah, right, so I'm isolated case. I know
Speaker 3: of another one at least at the garage that does
Speaker 3: my worker's had the exact same thing, which is how
Speaker 3: they knew what to look for, because it took six
Speaker 3: months to find someone that knew how to fix the problem.
Speaker 2: So it's safe to say that you won't be buying
Speaker 2: it toider again.
Speaker 3: Man, it turned me off it, Like, that's why I
Speaker 3: didn't buy. I bought the j I RS, but I
Speaker 3: sold it for in Australia because the driving position and.
Speaker 2: It was it's weird, ye horrific.
Speaker 3: I'm looking I'm not even that at all. I'm looking
Speaker 3: down at the revision on like a plinth. It just
Speaker 3: feels so uncomfortable drive. And I knew that I was
Speaker 3: planning on putting that making an off road car. I
Speaker 3: was going to jacket up something stupid, and I just
Speaker 3: wanted to take it to Fraser Island or something, just
Speaker 3: because I had such good overhangs, Like it had no
Speaker 3: overhang so you could actually take it off road. But
Speaker 3: that was my plan for that. I wanted to jack
Speaker 3: it up, put you know, two inch left and thirty
Speaker 3: one inch tires something. But then I just saw myself.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I got it when it was a thirty
Speaker 3: nine thousand dollars carp and then I sold it for
Speaker 3: I think forty eight Yep.
Speaker 2: People did that, the only car I've ever.
Speaker 4: Made money on.
Speaker 3: But yeah, then they offered the gr Corolla, which I
Speaker 3: was considering, but I think in my defiance, I ended
Speaker 3: up saying I'm not buying another car on too, because
Speaker 3: you scream me on that. But then all I did
Speaker 3: is just probably tear up ten ground bym not buying
Speaker 3: and selling. But yeah, no, look, I don't have a
Speaker 3: problem with the titter thing. I just it was a
Speaker 3: bit upsetting that they the way that they dealt with
Speaker 3: that that case, Yeah, don't makes sense, but yeah, that
Speaker 3: that's probably my pick of the I suppose you could
Speaker 3: argue it's not a Japanese car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, it's sort of Japanese badge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's that's honestly, like we were beating GD
Speaker 3: three Arres's around the track with mild mods.
Speaker 4: Yep, it's a highly capable card like it's very and
Speaker 4: I heard they're about to do one with the is
Speaker 4: it the s uh which BMW engine, the one out
Speaker 4: of the M three, So they're actually going to have
Speaker 4: like some proper meat under the bonnet as well, So
Speaker 4: it could.
Speaker 3: Be interesting going to do the S fifty eight or associate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so that that.
Speaker 3: Been rumored, that's been rumored for a couple of years.
Speaker 3: I'd be interested to see it. Although that rumor of
Speaker 3: the six speed, no one said.
Speaker 2: Never going to happen, and again it happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was I was honestly surprised because at that thing,
Speaker 3: the guy I said not going to happen, he specifically
Speaker 3: we had an interview with him where he said auto
Speaker 3: only and it's because not just from a monetary.
Speaker 4: Set, but it's a better box, which definitely it's like
Speaker 4: it is, but you'll still do a manual anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I didn't expect it to ever happen. Then
Speaker 3: yeah they did.
Speaker 1: Wow. So what's a what would be historical or fairly modern?
Speaker 1: What would be a Japanese style sports car that you
Speaker 1: would be quite happy to leave alone or maybe just
Speaker 1: do a few sort of things for modern convenience to it.
Speaker 1: Like I A. I had a two sixties Z once
Speaker 1: upon a time, and I kept it like so original,
Speaker 1: like it was my thing. Everything that went wrong with it,
Speaker 1: I'd fucking spend as much money as I could to
Speaker 1: keep it o G. And the guy who ended up
Speaker 1: buying off it buying the car from me was my mechanic.
Speaker 1: He was a young dude, and he ended up just
Speaker 1: modifying the crap out of it, like really putting flares
Speaker 1: and all sorts of things on a different engine and stuff.
Speaker 1: And I remember at the time I was like really
Speaker 1: sad and horrified, but I can looking back on it,
Speaker 1: I can kind of see why. But yeah, would there
Speaker 1: be any sort of would there be a Japanese car
Speaker 1: that you would quite proudly like leave fairly og?
Speaker 3: I mean, does an LFA count?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's probably my favorite car in all history,
Speaker 3: the sound of that. I've been lucky enough to drive one.
Speaker 3: I would, I would, Yeah, I would do some terrible
Speaker 3: things to do in one of those. But from a realistic perspective,
Speaker 3: that's probably not one i'd say. I mean, even like
Speaker 3: supers and GDRs are not a very good looking car,
Speaker 3: completely standard. They're cool, but they're not a great looking car.
Speaker 3: They look nice when they're done up, I think, but yeah, look,
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's a tough one. I think probably
Speaker 3: one of the better looking cars. I love that nineties era.
Speaker 3: I like the GTO or the three thousand GTS a
Speaker 3: great looking car, and I don't think you need to
Speaker 3: do it because they're a terrible car on the track.
Speaker 3: They're just too heavy. They're not that fast, but they
Speaker 3: look fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Are they reliable though?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Yes, no, it just goes well with anything I buy it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: well there you you should definitely look at getting one.
Speaker 3: If I wanted saying reliable and be decent, I'll probably go.
Speaker 4: The super Yeah okay.
Speaker 3: But then I want to do a body kit and
Speaker 3: then we then lower it and then maybe more power,
Speaker 3: and then it's just so you it's gone completely a
Speaker 3: throused from what you asked.
Speaker 1: I'd like to drink out like a like a like
Speaker 1: a Toyota Century or something like that. It could be
Speaker 1: fun just to kind of the modern age would be good.
Speaker 4: V twelve Yeah, but V twelve is reliable. I think
Speaker 4: they were pretty solid.
Speaker 3: They were way underpower, like they were deliberately just made
Speaker 3: to like last forever. Yeah, I like the one you said,
Speaker 3: great engine.
Speaker 4: Gordy, you've put a call out for questions on social
Speaker 4: what if we got from Mark.
Speaker 1: Let's do it, Let's have a little let's a deep dive.
Speaker 4: I'll ask you one more. Well, Gordy's look craziest car
Speaker 4: experience you've ever had.
Speaker 3: There's one this weekend that I can't talk about yet.
Speaker 3: Oh in relation to Bathurst?
Speaker 4: Interesting? Okay, So well, can you not talk about it
Speaker 4: because it's this weekend?
Speaker 3: Depending on who wins? Ah, this one team. If one
Speaker 3: manufacturer does not win, I don't think it can never
Speaker 3: be talked about.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, please get back in touch with us if you.
Speaker 2: Can talk about it later.
Speaker 3: That's a story.
Speaker 4: Interesting, okay, Okay that one.
Speaker 3: Crazy car stories. Come back to me on that.
Speaker 1: I think, Gordy, this is from Intrigued Coop. So the
Speaker 1: secondhand market is settling, but not for commodols or falcons.
Speaker 2: Story of your life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not for commodols or falcons. Will they settle or
Speaker 1: do you think dealers are trying to get their money back?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Can I just offer it my two cents here?
Speaker 4: I think that people confuse what they see on car
Speaker 4: sales with what is actually happening in the real world.
Speaker 4: You can ask for whatever price you want on car sales.
Speaker 4: But if you go look at some of the GTSRW
Speaker 4: ones that are listed for sale on car sales, car
Speaker 4: sales now lets you see price insights, and it lets
Speaker 4: you see revisions on pricing.
Speaker 2: Some of the pricing has changed like twenty.
Speaker 4: Times over the past three years, and some of these
Speaker 4: cars have been listed for three years. So I think
Speaker 4: that that that type of market really is driven by
Speaker 4: the buyers at the moment as opposed to the sellers.
Speaker 4: And if there was a car there that you really wanted,
Speaker 4: it really is a buyers market. You just need to
Speaker 4: find a seller that is desperate enough to want to sell.
Speaker 4: I don't think you're paying sticker price in any of
Speaker 4: that stuff. Is that your experience mark with some of
Speaker 4: that classic stuff?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I haven't really bought anything new and cars since the
Speaker 3: COVID craps.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My only experience recently has been like that thirty four GDR.
Speaker 4: YEP, which you're overpaid on well to the Lebanese man, yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I look it's settled, that's for sure. But I
Speaker 3: don't really know much about the hold and reformed. I've
Speaker 3: never looked at any of that ever.
Speaker 4: It's because you don't have any fucking class.
Speaker 1: Actually, this is one from Sean Launder. Did he get
Speaker 1: the blood off his floor after someone tried to break
Speaker 1: into his garage?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's been cleaned up, okay, thankfully, Yes, and then
Speaker 3: we never found No. No, there's another one.
Speaker 1: I don't know why we've got this one. This is
Speaker 1: from Top Good Bakery. Oh hey, guys, what's next? Does
Speaker 1: Gordy provide the guess? Well, I'm sorry, there's no socks today.
Speaker 1: We had to stop after Trevor pizzas. That is actually
Speaker 1: a true story.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, hey, Trevor was going to go grab
Speaker 4: a piece of pepperoni, and then the fucking boxes.
Speaker 2: Were just all empty and just strewn all over the place.
Speaker 1: We had to put it into context. Mark, we had
Speaker 1: three pizzas. Trevor took two of those pizzas and put
Speaker 1: the other pizza in the middle and ate it like
Speaker 1: a pizza sandwich.
Speaker 3: What like a whole pizza as a sandwich.
Speaker 4: If you saw him, you'd understand he's a tech review.
Speaker 1: I don't worry, we don't expect he's on the.
Speaker 3: So now I'm now, I'm like, I'm envisaging the guy
Speaker 3: from Simpson's the comic book Guy.
Speaker 1: Very similar. I don't know if you I don't know
Speaker 1: if you ever read Rolldale's Twits when you're a kid,
Speaker 1: But the big, fat, hairy bastard, that's pretty much Trevor Long.
Speaker 1: I could not join an episode without a Trevor Long joke.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, and now I'm getting into the
Speaker 2: minutes terrible. It's so insulting.
Speaker 3: Well, he's never.
Speaker 1: Coming back here again. I literally can't afford the fucking
Speaker 1: shopping bill for his rider.
Speaker 4: Between that question, No, there are no snacks. Gordy does
Speaker 4: sometimes provide snacks. We're in the kub I s studios
Speaker 4: where Gordon works, and they have quite a healthy stock
Speaker 4: of free.
Speaker 3: Things, bottles of champagne.
Speaker 5: At the end of this desk, there's pens, pencils with
Speaker 5: the bloody stationary fucking car experts, running lows with someone else's.
Speaker 2: Sober buck.
Speaker 1: Wherever you can, We'll have to send you a couple
Speaker 1: of like where the real merch is a couple of
Speaker 1: drivers shows stickers baby and yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4: Put one of those on the R thirty four. Sort
Speaker 4: of a bit of a question on social media. So
Speaker 4: you obviously earned a lot of money off social media
Speaker 4: and all of that stuff in the background, what do
Speaker 4: you reckon social media is hitting I look at Facebook
Speaker 4: and they've really clamped down on everything.
Speaker 2: How do you think it's going to play?
Speaker 3: If it was the way it is now, I would
Speaker 3: have made no money every on social It's just I
Speaker 3: guess unless you are like those girls doing do stuff,
Speaker 3: it seems to be the only content that throws them
Speaker 3: in my feet. Me.
Speaker 2: No, it's just it's it's the China.
Speaker 3: We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with Facebook,
Speaker 3: and I can't even get a call to somebody to
Speaker 3: find out why my accounts get blocked. So it's I
Speaker 3: basically do not spend any time with trying to make
Speaker 3: money on social anymore. Just too odd. I don't know
Speaker 3: why they've done what they've done, but I mean, back
Speaker 3: when we had fifty thousand followers, we made more sales
Speaker 3: from Facebook than we do now with ten million. And
Speaker 3: I'm not even slightly exaggerating. We used to do so
Speaker 3: back when we were doing like small trinks like it's
Speaker 3: great for selling products that don't require so instant purchases
Speaker 3: where people aren't thinking about them. So we would post
Speaker 3: up say a sticker or like just viral products like
Speaker 3: cool key rings. It had like a turbo yeah, so
Speaker 3: we had that yeah, And they're like toys that are
Speaker 3: stuffed turbo charges and stuff. So those were like a
Speaker 3: cool little things. I would go, I'd leave my office
Speaker 3: and then I'd post it and my little game would
Speaker 3: be between the time I'd leave my office and the
Speaker 3: time I get home, see how many we'd sell. And
Speaker 3: we'd sometimes have had thirty or three hundred individual sales
Speaker 3: in an hour, and we only I had fifty thousand followers.
Speaker 3: And now I could post something up there, we might
Speaker 3: get three likes and zero sales. With ten million followers,
Speaker 3: it's just impossible to break through without paying and even
Speaker 3: and now I can't even physically pay because they won't
Speaker 3: take my money. So I don't know what Zuck and
Speaker 3: the crew are doing.
Speaker 2: Suck's making Did you see the stretched kN.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I saw that today, the minivan.
Speaker 4: It's like what I think he's He's changing his Personah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw he hired a marketing company change. Did
Speaker 3: you see that that video had the audio taken away?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Really? The audio got beat the irony fucking.
Speaker 3: And it was like really poor quality video as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I really just don't get what's going on there. And
Speaker 4: they take so much money from advertising and they just
Speaker 4: do not care.
Speaker 3: The more difficult part about it is they have a
Speaker 3: monopoly over it. So at least we used to do
Speaker 3: all sorts of marketing back before Facebook. Was even really
Speaker 3: a big player in the marketing side of things. We
Speaker 3: would say we used to see a lot of things
Speaker 3: like hid conversions for cars, and so the staff would
Speaker 3: spend some time looking for who uses the H three bulb.
Speaker 3: And then what we do is we go to different forums.
Speaker 3: So there's like Corvette Forum and a super forum or whatever,
Speaker 3: and then we'd go on there. And because we were
Speaker 3: too cheap, we didn't want to be paying for sponsorship
Speaker 3: with the forum. So we just create a profile, sit
Speaker 3: on it for a couple of weeks and go, hey, guys,
Speaker 3: I've bought these headlights from the Street Effects Company. Does
Speaker 3: anyone know what they're like? Right? And so we're just
Speaker 3: like Gorilla marketing Techtics, And that way we'd get the
Speaker 3: word out, we get our site, and we'd get a
Speaker 3: bunch of sales, and then we'd eventually get banned. We'd
Speaker 3: moved on to the next forum. Right, can't do that.
Speaker 3: You get banned on Facebook, your life's over. As far
Speaker 3: as marketing goes, there's literally no competitors. So if you're
Speaker 3: hind your business on Facebook, which happens with like whether
Speaker 3: it be YouTube, Facebook, Google, any of these things, at
Speaker 3: least some of those Google ones are a little bit
Speaker 3: more fair because you've got ability to complain to somebody
Speaker 3: and try and get unbanned as long as you're not
Speaker 3: doing anything illegal, whereas with Facebook, the judge, jury, and executioner,
Speaker 3: there is no way judged.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's she's a crazy bitch.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I've just found that that's to be like,
Speaker 3: at least previously you just skip between platforms, and now
Speaker 3: what you go to Instagram, you can't even do that.
Speaker 3: You can't you can't go to anywhere.
Speaker 2: So it's it's it's grim.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at Zack's stupid little Porscha minivan right now,
Speaker 1: the Porsche Coyne Turbo GT miniv that looks ridiculously.
Speaker 2: But have look at his clothes.
Speaker 4: He's got like gold chain and mate wakeboarding and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. Even when he was going to American What
Speaker 4: happened to that, to that fight he was going to
Speaker 4: have with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was meant to be with Elon, that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what happened to that?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think Zack's superpower, if you like, was judo or
Speaker 1: some some martial arts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was like karate or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and everyone was saying like Elon's built like a
Speaker 3: re refrigerator.
Speaker 4: It's just the weirdest ship. Two billionaires just slap each other.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'd pay to watch that, should watch that,
Speaker 4: but you would be disturbing.
Speaker 1: Shit, who's Tyson about to fight again? That's Joe Logan,
Speaker 1: Paul No, Jake Paul yep Jake Jake Paul. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought they called that off as well because he
Speaker 3: was sick.
Speaker 2: But I think they postponed back on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's happening in November. That'd be wild. I don't
Speaker 1: even know why they called that. They should really just
Speaker 1: call that. I'm not even a boxing match.
Speaker 2: I guess it's an elder abuse.
Speaker 4: All right. So Mark's gonna let us know what this
Speaker 4: Bathurst story is for the next episode. But if you
Speaker 4: have any questions that he can also answer for the
Speaker 4: next episode, because we put these up too late for
Speaker 4: people to ask answer question on social contact at the
Speaker 4: Drivers Show dot Com, todau where can they go to
Speaker 4: find you? On socials?
Speaker 3: Mark like just Mark Truno on Insta has a lot
Speaker 3: of my just sort of personal adventures and stuff. Otherwise
Speaker 3: for the company just Street Effects on Facebook, Insta, and
Speaker 3: I think I'm banned on TikTok. I've got my personal
Speaker 3: one on teaktok at that company one got banned.
Speaker 1: I think you're gott to put your tits away. Man,
Speaker 1: you're really going to stop doing that.
Speaker 3: I mean he pays me touch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. I mean he's only fan.
Speaker 4: And yeah, if you're listening to this and you do
Speaker 4: have any other sort of standard car questions, contact at
Speaker 4: the Drivers Show dot com today you and if you
Speaker 4: haven't done so already, leave us a rating on whichever
Speaker 4: podcast platform you're listening to this on so that we
Speaker 4: can we can get the ratings up.
Speaker 2: Anything else, Gordy, No.
Speaker 1: Not really. We'll have a chat in a sack. We've
Speaker 1: got to finish the episode properly. By the way. I
Speaker 1: did see. I did see that awesome footage of the
Speaker 1: Was it the foot plate that came out of her?
Speaker 1: Was it your GTA ah.
Speaker 3: The GDR on the on the track?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. That was a very fast and furious moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Like, I'm glad that it didn't hit anybody because
Speaker 3: that I mean, they were already that's like I think
Speaker 3: it's I've had to spend fifteen grand to fix that
Speaker 3: little debique. That's incredible, and it's I'm not going to
Speaker 3: have the past fixed until next month November. I don't
Speaker 3: fly them in. I went to go get a car
Speaker 3: yesterday and I hope that I can at least drive
Speaker 3: it without that part. But it's all in pieces.
Speaker 2: That is a no.
Speaker 1: I do have one quick question, actually, just before you
Speaker 1: walk out the door. Is there something coming out coming
Speaker 1: to Australia that you're kind of intrigued by or you're
Speaker 1: excited by. Pablo's got his hands on it already, probably,
Speaker 1: but I'm looking forward to the Mustang dark Horse for instance, Like,
Speaker 1: is there something that you're looking forward to see.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true or not. Paul
Speaker 3: mon't be able to tell me the the hind Day
Speaker 3: concept thing. Apparently that's actually been.
Speaker 2: Envision seventy four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they keep coming in and going with the green
Speaker 4: light like it's it's a fault to drive if that
Speaker 4: was the same. Yeah, because it's an awesome car, but
Speaker 4: I don't know whether it's Yeah, really I drive it.
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's basically an electric car.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's it's it's the electricity power train, or
Speaker 4: at least similar power train to what the what is
Speaker 4: the Ionic five end?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of different.
Speaker 4: It's got two electric motors on the rear instead of
Speaker 4: a single motor drive yep. And then it's got two
Speaker 4: hydrogen tanks and then something like a ninety kilo with
Speaker 4: our battery. So hydrogen tanks have a like a stack,
Speaker 4: and then they supply energy to the battery system. Battery
Speaker 4: system is what's driving the rear wheels the battery.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So it's a fascinating thing and it goes like shit
Speaker 4: off a shovel. But yeah, being real driver wouldn't probably
Speaker 4: hold a candle to the Ironic five.
Speaker 2: Then it doesn't.
Speaker 4: But there's so much weight over the rear, Like all
Speaker 4: the tanks are right at the back, so you've got
Speaker 4: a lot of weight holding it down.
Speaker 3: It's like the Mr twos were great off the line.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you just had a lot of Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I think it'd be cool. It'd just be
Speaker 4: expensive like that.
Speaker 3: That stuff is over two hundred.
Speaker 2: I reckon it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wow, I reckon it'd be worth every set bloody Earth.
Speaker 2: It's so cool. Yeah, I love it and its looks
Speaker 2: of amazing.
Speaker 1: It has a sound to it too, doesn't It actually
Speaker 1: has a sound. I remembery watching the videos. It does
Speaker 1: make like a turbine sound.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's there's a lot of cooling and then
Speaker 4: stuff because it's I don't know if it was just
Speaker 4: very much a prototype that we were driving, but yeah,
Speaker 4: there was a lot of calling and.
Speaker 3: They made more than one or is it just I
Speaker 3: think they.
Speaker 4: Have but I think officially there's not not like a
Speaker 4: production line of them. They're all handbuilt sort of prototypes.
Speaker 4: But yeah, he was good.
Speaker 1: Hey, my search continues for a family car under eighty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, so I've been scouring the second hand market.
Speaker 4: That's wrong with the Genesis?
Speaker 1: Oh, the Genesis is great. The Gen's so supple. That
Speaker 1: leather leather. I like to feel the little quilted leather
Speaker 1: just as I hopy in and think this is supple,
Speaker 1: and then I make my way to the salon.
Speaker 3: My own Genesis.
Speaker 1: Actually, you know what, I'll give you a bit of
Speaker 1: an update on the Genesis, because you do get asked
Speaker 1: for that. Two things that I wanted to bring out
Speaker 1: that I remember were criticisms that you had and that
Speaker 1: I had I guess as well going in this. The
Speaker 1: first one was and the big one was the mirrors.
Speaker 1: So the mirrors cameras, what else are they in? They're
Speaker 1: in there. You get camera mirrors in.
Speaker 2: The e Tron, E Tron five nine, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, not as shit as we first discussed.
Speaker 1: I mean, going into it, A had limited knowledge and.
Speaker 4: You won't convince me.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, like you don't need to
Speaker 1: be convinced.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: Fact is, there's two big things that make this make
Speaker 1: these things shine through for me, and the first one
Speaker 1: is visibility in the wet and the second one is
Speaker 1: visibility at night. So when you're driving in the wet,
Speaker 1: you're going to get rain on the side of your windows,
Speaker 1: You're gonna get rain on the actual mirrors itself. You've
Speaker 1: got to admit, Like fact is, you can't see anything.
Speaker 1: The thing is, what these mirrors do so well is
Speaker 1: effectively there's nothing that imped your vision at all with them.
Speaker 1: The lighting is really good and also at nighttime, I
Speaker 1: find they're fantastic at night time. I think you get
Speaker 1: a lot of glare from traffic lights and other cars
Speaker 1: and reflections of buildings and stuff like that. I find
Speaker 1: that this illuminates really well. And I think it soaks
Speaker 1: up a lot of light. So I think these things
Speaker 1: do have a place. I think the cameras as a
Speaker 1: side mirror do have a place because I think they
Speaker 1: do improve vision like this, there's no argument with that. Yes,
Speaker 1: is this early days in this sort of technology. It
Speaker 1: is there are I get it. It's a clunky looking
Speaker 1: thing and then you've got to worry about the screen
Speaker 1: and if somebody knocks it when you're parking at a supermarket.
Speaker 1: I get the cons, but I also get the pros
Speaker 1: on these things too, so I don't think they're all bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was the other criticism we had? Other gear stick,
Speaker 1: the Crystal in the middle crystal and the Genesis. For me,
Speaker 1: it's neither here or there. I mean they could go
Speaker 1: to a stalk like they do on a lot of
Speaker 1: Yan day products, which I think works really well. And
Speaker 1: to be honest, I mean, I think I've been driving
Speaker 1: this thing for about four months now. I reckon, I'm
Speaker 1: about halfway through my tender. It's fine. I think it works.
Speaker 1: It's honestly, it works fine. And they do have that
Speaker 1: sort of thing on a what is it on a
Speaker 1: land range? Don't they have a circular thing on a
Speaker 1: range rover.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't spin like a crystal.
Speaker 1: That's right, it doesn't spin like a crystal. Mine spins
Speaker 1: like a crystal. Look, you're our two big gribes. I
Speaker 1: feel were a little bit bit hard out, and I
Speaker 1: think they're not as bad as I will say. On
Speaker 1: the looks, I can't get over the look of it.
Speaker 1: And I look and I will stand by. I think
Speaker 1: this car is not designed for people like me and you.
Speaker 1: This car is designed for somebody who has got a
Speaker 1: lot of coin. No, not someone who's on their way
Speaker 1: to the salon. They might want to go to the
Speaker 1: nails done. This is that this is this is a
Speaker 1: car designed for a classy person. Perhaps an old lady.
Speaker 1: Tell you one thing I'm not loving. I'm not loving
Speaker 1: at the moment. On this is the parking is. It's
Speaker 1: got some work to do. It's got some work to do.
Speaker 1: It's quite a wide cart and a shortcut. It's a
Speaker 1: bit of a chod. It's a bit like you, and
Speaker 1: it's the parking really is and its big plus. I'll
Speaker 1: say that it's let itself down to that. But I
Speaker 1: think the other gripes I had I've been wrong about anyway,
Speaker 1: family car under eighty thousand dollars. I texted you the
Speaker 1: other day, so what do you think about the X
Speaker 1: three M forty I, Because I think I was looking
Speaker 1: at a twenty twenty model. I'm not on Marrick money,
Speaker 1: can't afford a brand NEWI.
Speaker 4: But yeah, well it was a resounding yes for mine
Speaker 4: because it is it is a weapon of a thing,
Speaker 4: and it's not anywhere near as firm as an X
Speaker 4: three M because that is just bone shattering, whereas an
Speaker 4: M forty I is just a good balance between performance
Speaker 4: and comfort as well.
Speaker 1: What do you reckon the difference with that? And say
Speaker 1: the three Series like the Sedan, like the room.
Speaker 4: The three Series is very small, whereas the X three
Speaker 4: feels much more spacious inside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but both great cars.
Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, yeah, I really enjoyed it. Watch this space
Speaker 1: on that Dealers aren't really willing to budge too much,
Speaker 1: which is a bit of a shame, but I thought
Speaker 1: that was pretty good. Oh my god, do you know what.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I should say this publicly because
Speaker 6: I'm going to cop a lot of crap at home,
Speaker 6: but I think I've bought I think I finally bought
Speaker 6: a Toyota Century.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, what's why?
Speaker 1: Quite cheap? Because it's a classy Japanese gangster car and
Speaker 1: it's a V twelve that's why.
Speaker 4: Ah, but quite cheap and a V twelve is sounds
Speaker 4: like a bad combination.
Speaker 1: Well, I sort of did a bit of research and
Speaker 1: when we were talking to Mark earlier, those Toyota V
Speaker 1: twelves are solid, like they really are. And when I
Speaker 1: took this thing for a drive, I mean it's a
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. Actually, I think it's a bit late.
Speaker 1: I think it's a nineteen ninety eight. It feels really good.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it feels good to tech in it. I'd
Speaker 1: probably update a little bit, but yeah, damn it.
Speaker 2: They are known for being super reliable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, watch this space.
Speaker 2: Interesting, watch this space.
Speaker 1: That could be a DILF very soon on the scene.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: It's weird because I've been because I've been looking into
Speaker 1: the Toyota Century. I've been doing like a little bit
Speaker 1: of research, and I ran into this company. It admits
Speaker 1: to I don't know too much about them, so I
Speaker 1: contacted them and they're going to send us some product.
Speaker 1: They're a Japanese motor oil company.
Speaker 2: Oh watch out. Yeah, a bit of lubricant, A little
Speaker 2: bit of lubricant, bit of I like it.
Speaker 1: Japanese nanotailored oil coming our way.
Speaker 2: I'm really looking for lubricant. Interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't know too much about this product, but from
Speaker 1: what I know, it's it's oil tailored especially for Japanese
Speaker 1: high precision engines. So look out, we're gonna get some
Speaker 1: some oil coming our way to test you.
Speaker 2: That'd be nice, sounds I like it.
Speaker 1: I called you last night to tell you we're recording
Speaker 1: and thinking he's probably staying in bloody elbows spare bedroom,
Speaker 1: but you're in your cheap hotel room covered in red
Speaker 1: roosterh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that wasn't even the worst part.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know, actually I do, but yes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're still listening to this by some bizarre chans,
Speaker 4: oh my.
Speaker 1: God, please put it away. Put it away.
Speaker 2: Grim.
Speaker 4: If you're still listening to this, contact at the Driver's
Speaker 4: Show dot com today, you shoot us a note. I
Speaker 4: spoke to Mark on the way out. He has promised. Well,
Speaker 4: he told me the thing that he wasn't allowed to say.
Speaker 2: And it is huge. Wow, So it is crazy.
Speaker 1: Wait till barthest is over.
Speaker 4: Yes, because it depends on who wins. If this and wins,
Speaker 4: he's going to be able to talk about it because
Speaker 4: the story is just, yeah, some crazy stuff I've never
Speaker 4: heard before, So I can't say anything else.
Speaker 1: Could this change if this particular car brand wins, could
Speaker 1: this change the outcome of Bathurst or perhaps no, no.
Speaker 4: No, let's just say that if he didn't do what
Speaker 4: he did, this very big brand would not be able
Speaker 4: to do anything on the weekend, as in their cars
Speaker 4: wouldn't work. It is huge.
Speaker 2: So yeah, watch this space, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: But yeah, my plans for Bathurst Day Each year, I
Speaker 4: catch up with mates, sink a few tins, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Lads, lads, lads.
Speaker 3: Send a few tins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, slap a Donnor on the barbie.
Speaker 1: On the barbie, yes you did? She feeding everybody this year.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: Couch, that's not a couch, A gigantic woman, said Dylan.
Speaker 2: Fring with chicken.
Speaker 1: Put your feet on the douvet. That's not a duvet, madam.
Speaker 1: If you've got some sort of feet to you, Darlan
Speaker 1: puts put your feet up on the puff.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: I'm sinking at this couch. I can't get out. I'm sinking,
Speaker 1: getting me down.
Speaker 7: That's oh my god, fucking it all right.
Speaker 1: Thank you everyone.
Speaker 4: We will chat to you, you will hear us next time.
Speaker 4: So