Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Last week on the show, was said, I want to
Speaker 1: buy an old hold and I want to do it up.
Speaker 1: I want to restore it. I want to give it away.
Speaker 1: It's not really giving it away to passing it on
Speaker 1: to the next generation. Who were sad and like a
Speaker 1: lot of you. A couple of weeks ago and we
Speaker 1: found out that it's actually Australia's oldest museum, the Wholder
Speaker 1: Museum is closing in a couple of weeks time. These
Speaker 1: aren't his cars. They're a living piece of Australian history.
Speaker 1: It's living history, those cars. So we want to get
Speaker 1: one and restore it to its dignity and give it away.
Speaker 1: On Monday Show, Brad Cordin said, you can have this thing,
Speaker 1: just have it for free if you do a donation
Speaker 1: for the Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital, which is a great idea,
Speaker 1: an amazing place full of amazing people. So we're going
Speaker 1: to donate five thousand dollars to them. And we get
Speaker 1: this beautiful car and it's about to arrive now. It's
Speaker 1: a Commodore two thousand and two Commodore outside the front
Speaker 1: of the building, ready to receive it, see it for
Speaker 1: the first time with his own eyes, seeing history. It's
Speaker 1: Jack Post Any baby, Christian, I can hear you. So
Speaker 1: you're out the front Enrichmond.
Speaker 2: I'm standing in the driveway of the radio station. We
Speaker 2: have time this perfectly. We just spoke to the tow
Speaker 2: truck driver. He is around the corner from the radio station.
Speaker 2: We're going to get our first eyes on our new Holden,
Speaker 2: our new baby.
Speaker 1: Where is Rio? Is he dancing out there on the streets.
Speaker 2: He's next to me. Can you can dance to keep warm?
Speaker 1: OLLI?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm actually doing a little bit of a jig
Speaker 3: because it is freezing out here.
Speaker 1: Oh what do you mean? Is this is it? What
Speaker 1: can you see? Guys?
Speaker 2: The tow truck is coming down the street, but somebody's
Speaker 2: reversing out of their driveway, so he's just paused so
Speaker 2: we can't see it. Give us a second.
Speaker 3: It's approaching. We're about fifty meters from the Holden.
Speaker 2: I've got my first eyes on it, as promised. It
Speaker 2: is a Holden Commodore in a delicious rusty gold in.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's still got the air freshener dangling
Speaker 2: from the reb school. But there's duct tape on it.
Speaker 2: The tars are one a piece of grasp.
Speaker 1: Now I wonder we said you're gonna have it for free.
Speaker 1: It's very dusty.
Speaker 2: It's got an inch thick of You couldn't even put
Speaker 2: a cloth over it.
Speaker 1: Brad, shame on you. We got this two days ago.
Speaker 3: Man, it kind of looked like the looks like the
Speaker 3: windows are like not falling off.
Speaker 2: But there's a big white looking something about it coming
Speaker 2: on the back of the tow truck. With the tow truck,
Speaker 2: it looks like something from a crime scene. They've drenched
Speaker 2: it from a lage.
Speaker 1: We put a listener in that we're losing a listener.
Speaker 1: That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of work to do, but what
Speaker 2: it has is plenty of potential.
Speaker 1: I will say.
Speaker 3: We're having a lot of trouble with the tow truck
Speaker 3: trying to get through our very narrow suburban boomgate.
Speaker 2: You know, we're stuck in the trip.
Speaker 1: We have stopped, you know earlier when you said we've
Speaker 1: tying this to perfection. The only bit we haven't turned
Speaker 1: is how to get it into the actual station in
Speaker 1: the car parking spot out the front. He's reversing out.
Speaker 1: Are you giving are you giving up? Or you're gonna
Speaker 1: give it another? Go another go through the through the exit. Wait,
Speaker 1: he's reversing a tow truck. Listeners, you need to understand
Speaker 1: it is a very very narrow entrance against this radio
Speaker 1: station with a boomgate as well. It's I have a
Speaker 1: needle to get that in. I mean, I was about
Speaker 1: to say he's going to direct the young to hold him,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. I don't think you could do
Speaker 1: any more damage to it.
Speaker 2: No, the more I look at it, scratches on the
Speaker 2: bumper barb. There's a dint above the driver's side wheel.
Speaker 1: None of this we were made aware of on Monday,
Speaker 1: where we're not by aware. Brad, if you're listening right now.
Speaker 2: Trust went the last time you saw spider webs on
Speaker 2: a car? Come on, you're kidding the spider worbs on it?
Speaker 1: Jack, give me an estimate how much would he actually
Speaker 1: be happy to pay for such a thing?
Speaker 2: Ah? I mean, if he drives and you're in a
Speaker 2: desperate situation, I guess you could pay like a thousand bucks.
Speaker 1: Wow, And this is our big Star Prize of the
Speaker 1: next couplees. Watch out Carl and JACKIEO, because when you
Speaker 1: come to Melbourne you can be dealing with shows like
Speaker 1: this giving away a knack at old dusty with cobwebs,
Speaker 1: holding commodore that's barely roadworthy.
Speaker 2: We are through the boom gate, all right, we're in.
Speaker 2: It's here, our car is here.
Speaker 1: What's from the back? What can you see from the mark?
Speaker 1: Yet more rust?
Speaker 2: The tobar is rusted. I mean that's just straight up
Speaker 2: rust that's going to fall off any minute. That toba
Speaker 2: the number plate is good. Maybe we're trying to look
Speaker 2: for positives like.
Speaker 1: That's I'm not hearing any positives at the moment. Guys.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should try and get a red shro for it, actually,
Speaker 1: some kind of personalized plate or something we can add
Speaker 1: to it and give it away.
Speaker 2: So I want to shame that we're going to change
Speaker 2: the number plate because that is the newest part on
Speaker 2: the cars.
Speaker 3: One of the side mirrors isn't taped in with duct tape,
Speaker 3: so that's a positive.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, yeah, all right, so a lot of work,
Speaker 1: some work at lots of work.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, yeah, this isn't ready to be given
Speaker 2: away as a prize if for at least three weeks.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope that guy the GM of ACM Autobots
Speaker 1: is still listening. That offer feels like we're going to
Speaker 1: need an entirely new car on every single component.
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