Podcast 54 show notes
Added 2021-04-25 19:01:01 +0000 UTCA load of pics for you this week, starting with the brown Audi A2 that Jonny was perilously close to bidding upon. We recorded the show at the end of last week and there's always a chance some of the cars we talked about have sold by now so we haven't bothered to include direct links to them but here are screen grabs of four of the best. Or worst, depending on your point of view. Finally, here's the Applejack early Metro mentioned by Richard. Yes, it is missing its wheel centre caps. Yes, that is a bit annoying. Very tidy otherwise.
By the way, thanks ever so much to everyone who took the time to reply to our 'Are you happy?' thread from Friday. We were overwhelmed by your lovely feedback and relieved to hear that, by and large, we're on the right track. Oh, and we will address the merchandise thing at some point soon.
Many thanking yous.
Jonny and Richard
Comments
i was given a really nice low mile 93 F150 by my uncle. his wife had used it to tow her 1st gen Honda Civic race car all over the NW US in the 90"s
david marden
2021-05-03 13:01:49 +0000 UTCJust replaced the wifes KA with a deceased spec 8008 mile 208. 14 plate so probably a bit new to qualify but the sales assistant confirmed "one elderly lady owner who recently passed away, brought it in every year for service and mot." Should DSC be a filter on autotrader or does that take away the fun of finding them?
Michael Lyth
2021-05-02 14:37:10 +0000 UTCAnother tip for dead spec cars, on autotrader search for all cars, max price 1500, and sort oldest first and enjoy
Lewis Dunmore
2021-05-01 17:38:51 +0000 UTChttps://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1362974964086763/ I found the polar opposite of a death spec Toyota IQ, rat look with 180k miles! Only £450 with an mot until October though...
Daniel Hadnum
2021-04-29 14:59:47 +0000 UTCImmaculate looking deceased persons Fiat Stilo came with a house purchase. Bought a new battery but the electrics were playing up. Had it towed to a garage for an MOT. Failed on seatbelt mount corrosion. Cost so far £200. Estimate to fix; £600. Scrapped for £85. Shame..
Neil Reed
2021-04-29 11:51:12 +0000 UTCOff to autotrader I went and came across a 9000 mile 1 owner KA, now that's propper deceased spec http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202104231703383?atmobcid=soc3
Benjamin Lawrence
2021-04-29 11:39:56 +0000 UTCThe sultan of Brunei has the power to not bother with the clocks. A quick Google search spat this "Brunei currently observes Brunei Darussalam Time (BNT) all year. Daylight Saving Time has never been used here. Clocks do not change in Brunei. There is no previous DST change in Brunei."
Vítor Hugo Silva
2021-04-28 09:01:18 +0000 UTCHad two dead car specs; an honest first gen 1.8 Mondeo and more recently first gen, optioned nicely Jag XFS (Portfolio, which has a Spauggght ring to it) which was awesome and would still have now if it wasn't for a motorway shunt. Considered converting it to leccy but threat of rust aways bothered me.
Phil Tordoff
2021-04-28 06:01:01 +0000 UTCJust a thought guys..... Plenty of fun to be had with howmanyleft.co.uk example.... Montego. Horrid things. Had one as my first company car. 234000 on the roads in 1995 Now...... 35 licensed. https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/family/austin_montego I can go down all sorts of rabbit warrens with this sort of shit.
Nick Davies
2021-04-28 05:36:24 +0000 UTCWould very much want to to spend any money i've given to you on a a deceased spec shitter
James Collins
2021-04-27 21:01:49 +0000 UTCGreat episode chaps as always - but you really missed a trick, as highly skilled wheel-wordmen I would have been certain your vernacular would include the ‘Shed from the dead’ to frame the deceased spec shitters.
Marc Young
2021-04-27 19:31:19 +0000 UTCThanks for adding another set of filters to my fantasy Auto Trader collection.
Book of the Future
2021-04-27 18:32:32 +0000 UTCThe Applejack Metro belongs to my pal, who has just lavished an inordinate amount of money on having it restored. He’ll be wanking himself into a coma over your recognition! To be fair we both have a dirty secret of really liking BL/Rover products too much.
Iain Turner
2021-04-27 15:24:30 +0000 UTCTwo (possibly interesting) points about this weeks podcast: Jonny’s assertion that there are no red castles; I mostly agree apart from Castell Coch in South Wales, which literally translates to ‘Red Castle’, although it is mostly brown 😂 Secondly, you guys joked about the clock changer in Brunei; there is actually a Westminster Clockmaker who has a team to help him change the 2,000 clocks in Parliament. Possibly something for HM Government to look at if they want to save a few pennies! https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-parliament-british-summer-time-house-of-commons-palace-of-westminster-mps-b926679.html
Tom Simes
2021-04-27 12:39:25 +0000 UTCGuys, guys, listen, look, guys... I think we all agree that buying a £700 shitter would be one of the best use of the Patreon money. Understood? al' right meeting is over.
Kristof Kiraly
2021-04-27 10:23:39 +0000 UTCIf you'll indulge me and go down the wormhole in re to the Sultans garage situation.- In my imagination i have convinced myself that the sultan and his staff use a more advanced key system. It started out with a modified automatic neck tie rack from a catalog circa 1999... as the collection grew so it did and currently the set up is similar to the large automatic racks used at a Laundramat facilities to move and sort dress shirts. Seems like a good system but is prone to malfunction and requires servicing often. That, combined with the fact that the Sultan is not the most organized man nowadays and keys do not always go back where they belong, often causes pandemonium amongst the staff as they try to move and maintain nearly 7000 cars.
JimmyCocks
2021-04-27 01:02:35 +0000 UTCI never bought a car whose previous owner had passed away, but when my mom died in 2012, my dad offered me their 2004 Honda Accord. They owned two Accords, but he figured he could get me to take the less of the two off his hands. He also thought it was on its last legs and could not possibly stay in running order much longer. I managed to keep it running with minimal maintenance until this past December and still got $400 from a salvage company who came and picked it up. I know my dad regretted it every time he would ask how the car was running.
Chris Moncado
2021-04-26 22:13:01 +0000 UTCLoved mine. Had a 1.1s (red seat belts, spoiler for that notorious light tail, slightly higher compression ration). Was my first car and it brilliant. Fully loaded with dive kit or racing down closed roads. Reliable as anything. Only repair was when I bent the sump on a farm lane giving it the beans.
Robin White
2021-04-26 17:59:38 +0000 UTCReally great episode gents. Definitely got legs this. Oh and red castles... Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire. More salmon pink than red but reddish nonetheless
Robin White
2021-04-26 17:55:16 +0000 UTCUnrelated: I've been offered a 2018 BMW i3S REX, 28k miles, fsh from BMW (just done) and 1 owner. Registered June so first MOT coming up. £12,000 ish. I don't need it, I've got a decent A4 avant, but I've always liked the interior. I've convinced myself that my dog will fit in the back and I can get rid of the A4. I've also convinced myself I can try it for 6months and pretty much get my money back. Talk me out of it!
Martin Stephenson
2021-04-26 16:05:55 +0000 UTCGot up early to tidy the kitchen while kids slept. Vicious Badger MOT made me laugh so hard I woke one of them up. Further, re: Princess Di, she was bought an Escort by Charles early on, in a effort to appear more down to earth. She later had a factory black-painted Escort RS Turbo, one of two such factory-black cars. This is my favourite riposte to the Princess Anne Scimitar.
Brendan McAleer
2021-04-26 14:23:53 +0000 UTCIn 1991/2 I purchased a B reg Caviler. Sadly then it got totalled and needed a car quickly and cheaply. So I got a 1977 Marina coupe. Dead lady spec. 14k miles. Drove it for over a year and enjoyed it. I recall it cost me £450 and I sold it for £400 after doing around 20k miles. Selling it with 34k if my memory is still working. I would love to share the photos I have of it. But sadly can’t put photos on this platform. Keep up the great work. Loving the content.
John Lancaster-Lennox
2021-04-26 13:19:03 +0000 UTCThere's another Castle Red A2 up on eBay with 80K miles and a new cambelt and water pump, 11 months MOT, cream interior that only has worn buttons starting at £1500. Item 254955829089. Will be interesting see what it goes for, looking at the MOT it will probably need quite a bit of suspension work next year.
Matt Tester
2021-04-26 11:55:53 +0000 UTCMy old backstreet mechanic in Sheffield kept a fleet of old Primeras which looked ratty but drove brilliantly. He had a few Almeras too but they left no lasting impression whatsoever. They are probably still going 15 years later
andreas photiou
2021-04-26 10:45:50 +0000 UTCMust some form of weird Google operating glitch. No dramas.
George Wade
2021-04-26 09:33:58 +0000 UTCI'm fully behind the suggestion of the buying of a pool car👍
simon herbert
2021-04-26 09:17:07 +0000 UTCMay I suggest the Kia Magentis as an excellent dead person's car? Especially the first gen 2.5 V6.
Ronnie Whelan
2021-04-26 09:13:45 +0000 UTCSame. I had to get my chromebook out mid-podcast so that I could watch-along.
Ronnie Whelan
2021-04-26 09:07:59 +0000 UTCLoved this week's podcast, it felt like I was listening to my internal monologue flicking through the classifieds. Funnily enough I bought a car last month with the same criteria. A poverty spec 51,000 mile, 1996 Citroen Xantia. 1 previous owner who has given up driving and asked her local garage to sell it. Needs a small amount of work but it was only £510, only my second ever and I love it. Seemed a much better prospect than my friends all leasing £300 a month cars. Anyway, keep up the great work and I would thoroughly love to see you use the Patreon money to buy a deceased spec car! All the best
Ollie Rix
2021-04-26 08:34:06 +0000 UTCThought this A2 was Shiraz but edited to say probably Castle Red. Rare colour for obvious reasons. Having had 2 A2s, one from new that we ran for 9 years they are very underrated and a packaging triumph. Just very crashy suspension and noisy 1.6 engine. A2 was replaced by an A1 which seemed so much more refined to the extent that I had to leave the dash on digital speedo to remind my wife she was going much faster than she thought she was.
Dave Smith
2021-04-26 08:04:40 +0000 UTCChris Jarrett
2021-04-26 07:05:33 +0000 UTCWeirdly my mate sent me this the day before the podcast dropped, and it fits all the requirements so here you go. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/287616019750506/
John Taylor
2021-04-26 06:56:30 +0000 UTCI failed my test in a Metro in 1989. I moved just before I was due to take it and went from lessons in a Micra to the Metro, the gearchange was night and day, the later being truely awful! Never drove one again, passed my test in a 205.
Mark Elliott
2021-04-25 22:23:11 +0000 UTCI hate the Metro. Dispicable thing. I had my driving lessons in one. The pedals and steering wheel weren't directly in front of me and the seat was right against the door like some BL militant had fitted the sliding mechanism sideways. But actually hadn't.
Firstdan2000
2021-04-25 21:53:46 +0000 UTCAre you iOS or Google? I've got a Pixel 3.
George Wade
2021-04-25 21:47:14 +0000 UTCI've owned two Ford Kas in my life. The second one was a bit of a nightmare as the heater control valve kept failing. This resulted in the car constantly pumping hot air into the cabin. Imagine driving on the M11 in the middle of summer, when it's 36°c outside and at least - to my reckoning - 440,000°c inside the Ka. Great cars, though.
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2021-04-25 21:39:37 +0000 UTCSame, can't individually look at pictures 😕
Chris Jarrett
2021-04-25 21:25:28 +0000 UTCFine for me.
Daniel Achterhuis
2021-04-25 20:31:20 +0000 UTCI had an interesting moment with an A2 once upon a time. Lifted the bonnet in order to jump start it and it nearly blew away. The bonnet was a flimsy piece of plastic that was easily removed entirely. Not sure how I would've explained the bonnet of one car impaling another :-p
MedicalFlyer
2021-04-25 20:03:58 +0000 UTCGents it seems as though I can't individually look at the pictures? Is this a phone issue or has anyone had the same trouble?
George Wade
2021-04-25 19:36:24 +0000 UTCWill there be a Sniff and Smith satin bomber jacket
Scott Boulter
2021-04-25 19:36:11 +0000 UTCJonny really missed out on that A2, someone down the road had a first gen. TT in that colour and it looked superb.
Matt Tester
2021-04-25 19:30:39 +0000 UTCI am clueless following on from last week’s double bill. Well, fact less. Hopefully this not a sign of a long-term deterioration of standards. Also — anyone know of any books that I could buy?
Andrew Baynes
2021-04-25 19:27:19 +0000 UTCLooking forward to my usual monday pre work walk with the podder. I love the A2s. Shows that the car buying public cannot be told anymore. Fn brilliant car from top to bottom. About as popular as shit on a wedding dress. Bring out the totally conventional and yawn inducing A1 - sells like hotcakes. See also Merc A Class. Sigh
Cy Turner
2021-04-25 19:04:36 +0000 UTCLoving the podcast & like a proper geek have started to listen from the beginning again.
Jonathan Higginson
2021-04-25 19:03:07 +0000 UTC
